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2,161,045 | From 1930 to 1940 N. G. Chetaev was a professor of Kazan University where he created a scientific school of the mathematical theory of stability of motion. The school consisted of thirty one of his doctoral students, direct followers and collaborators, among whom there are such prominent mathematicians as Nikolay Kraso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56252989 | 2,159,811 |
770,116 | The steel was produced in specialised workshops called 'crucible furnaces', which consisted of a workshop at ground level and a subterranean cellar. The furnace buildings varied in size and architectural style, growing in size towards the latter part of the 19th century as technological developments enabled multiple po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=339125 | 769,702 |
1,695,286 | Paper-based microfluidics are microfluidic devices that consist of a series of hydrophilic cellulose or nitrocellulose fibers that transport fluid from an inlet through the porous medium to a desired outlet or region of the device, by means of capillary action. This technology builds on the conventional lateral flow te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56210030 | 1,694,335 |
1,158,669 | A small sample of flue gas is extracted, by means of a pump, into the CEM system via a sample probe. Facilities that combust fossil fuels often use a dilution-extractive probe to dilute the sample with clean, dry air to a ratio typically between 50:1 to 200:1, but usually 100:1. Dilution is used because pure flue gas c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18860788 | 1,158,055 |
521,381 | The general character of anholonomic systems is that of implicitly dependent parameters. If the implicit dependency can be removed, for example by raising the dimension of the space, thereby adding at least one additional parameter, the system is not truly nonholonomic, but is simply incompletely modeled by the lower-d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=554248 | 521,110 |
321,062 | Thermal imaging cameras are excellent tools for night vision. They detect thermal radiation and do not need a source of illumination. They produce an image in the darkest of nights and can see through light fog, rain, and smoke (to a certain extent). Thermal imaging cameras make small temperature differences visible. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181887 | 320,890 |
1,783,650 | In September 1795, Beatty was posted to the 38-gun frigate , but on 29 December, after barely three months, "Amethyst" was wrecked, having run aground near Guernsey in a heavy gale at night. The ship was forced to beach at Alderney. Beatty was more fortunate in his next posting, the 32-gun frigate , which he joined on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2570793 | 1,782,646 |
759,336 | Triticale is useful as an animal feed grain. However, it is necessary to improve its milling and bread-making quality aspects to increase its potential for human consumption. The relationship between the constituent wheat and rye genomes were noted to produce meiotic irregularities, and genome instability and incompati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65085 | 758,930 |
1,894,271 | The second module follows the epidemiology of individual diseases, including their global background and status in each of 205 countries and regions. All past and current outbreaks of all diseases, in all countries, are described in detail. The user may also access a list of diseases compatible with any combination of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1648607 | 1,893,187 |
1,791,649 | Ultrasonic spray nozzle technology has been used to create films of indium tin oxide (ITO) in the formation of transparent conductive films (TCF). ITO has excellent transparency and low sheet resistance, however it is a scarce material and prone to cracking, which does not make it a good candidate for the new flexible ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17484717 | 1,790,642 |
1,562,951 | The TRAQSIM model was developed in 2004 as part of a Ph.D dissertation with support by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Volpe National Transportation Systems Center Air Quality Facility. The model incorporates dynamic vehicle behavior with a non-steady state Gaussian puff algorithm. Unlike HYROAD, TRAQSIM combin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4386085 | 1,562,064 |
593,317 | Plant sRNA pathways are understood to be important components of pathogen-associated molecular pattern (PAMP)-triggered immunity (PTI) and effector-triggered immunity (ETI). Bacteria‐induced microRNAs (miRNAs) in "Arabidopsis" have been shown to influence hormonal signalling including auxin, abscisic acid (ABA), jasmon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22590461 | 593,013 |
569,026 | In January 2017, Lawrence Tech announced that it would resume intercollegiate football competition, after a hiatus of more than 70 years dating back to just after World War II. The university has admitted two recruiting classes of about 90 student-athletes for a team that competed as an independent squad in the fall of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=717813 | 568,736 |
75,278 | Research has been done exploring the feasibility of partial body shielding, a radiation protection strategy that provides adequate attenuation to only the most radio-sensitive organs and tissues inside the body. Irreversible stem cell damage in the bone marrow is the first life-threatening effect of intense radiation e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=151196 | 75,250 |
127,370 | Additional changes include the Garrett TPE331-10 engines, which have been optimized to work with the redesigned five-bladed fibre-composite propellers now used by the type, which are more efficient, quick to start, and produces substantially less vibration and noise than the original metal four-bladed predecessor. Thro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1244920 | 127,318 |
560,156 | Inscriptions on Shang bronzes are of a fairly uniform style, making it possible to discuss a "Shang bronze script", although great differences still exist between typical characters and certain instances of clan names or emblems. Like early period oracle bone script, the structures and orientations of individual graphs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=486965 | 559,867 |
751,560 | As the PC market became more prevalent, fewer SBCs were being used in computers. The main components were assembled on a motherboard, and peripheral components such as hard disk drive controllers and graphics processors were located on daughterboards. The recent availability of advanced chipsets providing most of the I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=194424 | 751,162 |
1,345,555 | Classical Armenian is notable to this discussion because, as mentioned above in "Direct and indirect evidence", it has been argued to be influence from the other Caucasian languages that accounts for dialects of Armenian also showing glottalization, having inherited it from Classical Armenian. But if a part of the Cauc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1423250 | 1,344,815 |
1,392,751 | For many years, the college offered a five-year undergraduate degree program. However, in the 1960s, the course was shortened to four years for a B.S. degree with an optional fifth year leading to a masters of engineering degree. From the 1950s to the 1970s, Cornell offered a Master of Nuclear Engineering program, with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1552559 | 1,391,980 |
2,232,161 | In the late seventeenth century, English polymath Robert Hooke and Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked into ciliate Vorticella with extreme fluid and cellular motion using a simple optical microscope. In 1702 on Christmas day, van Leeuwenhoek described his observations, “In structure these little animals wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71916621 | 2,230,894 |
506,509 | An example of one such hypothesis is the greater intensity of predation and more specialized predators in the tropics has contributed to the increase of diversity in the tropics (Pianka 1966). This intense predation could reduce the importance of competition (see competitive exclusion) and permit greater niche overlap ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4304658 | 506,245 |
176,642 | On July 15, 1961, to meet the burgeoning educational demands of South Florida, the state legislature passed an act authorizing the establishment of a new university in the city of Boca Raton. Florida Atlantic University was built on Boca Raton Army Airfield, a 1940s-era army airbase. During World War II, the airfield s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=880200 | 176,550 |
211,150 | As early as 1941, integration of the many-body equations of motion was carried out with analog computers. Some undertook the labor-intensive work of modeling atomic motion by constructing physical models, e.g., using macroscopic spheres. The aim was to arrange them in such a way as to replicate the structure of a liqui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=198608 | 211,043 |
967,478 | Design with transistor opto-isolators requires generous allowances for wide fluctuations of parameters found in commercially available devices. Such fluctuations may be destructive, for example, when an opto-isolator in the feedback loop of a DC-to-DC converter changes its transfer function and causes spurious oscillat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=465393 | 966,968 |
401,582 | In 2017, Chi Phi and Theta Chi at Rensselaer co-hosted an event called "Brave A Shave For Kids With Cancer," along with several other Greek organizations - raising over $22,000 for pediatric cancer research with dozens of participants shaving their heads to spread awareness of pediatric cancers. Many fraternities and s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=194026 | 401,383 |
410,493 | Red and blue pictures of Jupiter were being generated by the imaging photopolarimeter as the rotation of the spacecraft carried the instrument's field of view past the planet. These red and blue colors were combined to produce a synthetic green image, allowing a three-color combination to produce the rendered image. On... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38198 | 410,291 |
1,411,815 | The upstream promoter in the human "ALOX5" gene commonly possess five GGGCCGG repeats which bind the Sp1 transcription factor and thereby increase the gene's transcription of ALOX5. Homozygous variants for this five repeat promoter region in a study of 624 asthmatic children in Ankara, Turkey were much more likely to h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10995185 | 1,411,020 |
954,461 | Some vendors are now selling collimated diode blue laser pointers with measured powers exceeding 1,500 mW. However, since the claimed power of "laser pointer" products also includes the IR power (in DPSS technology only) still present in the beam (for reasons discussed below), comparisons on the basis of strictly visua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1442115 | 953,956 |
2,016,186 | A wide range of superficial deposits have been laid down across the county in the last couple of million years. Lincolnshire was over-ridden by glacial ice on at least one occasion, that of the Anglian glaciation which left glacial till across much of the county. In the course of the more recent end-Devensian ice age, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39961707 | 2,015,024 |
1,026,877 | In January 1897 Beach played, with Franz Kneisel, in the premiere of her Sonata for Piano and Violin, Op. 34, which she had composed in the spring of 1896. Franz Kneisel was a leading violinist in Boston and beyond, having been hired at about age 20 by Wilhelm Gericke, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=410203 | 1,026,343 |
287,533 | In summer 1985, Ballard was aboard the French research ship "Le Suroît", which was using the side scan sonar "SAR" to search for the "Titanic" wreck. When the French ship was recalled, he transferred onto a ship from Woods Hole, the R/V "Knorr". Unbeknownst to some, this trip was financed by the U.S. Navy for secret re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=158701 | 287,377 |
112,839 | Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) uses instructional methods designed to encourage or require students to work together on learning tasks, allowing social learning. CSCL is similar in concept to the terminology, "e-learning 2.0" and "networked collaborative learning" (NCL). With Web 2.0 advances, sharing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1944675 | 112,794 |
698,820 | Encoding is still relatively new and unexplored but origins of encoding date back to age old philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato. A major figure in the history of encoding is Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909). Ebbinghaus was a pioneer in the field of memory research. Using himself as a subject he studied how we learn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5128182 | 698,456 |
2,025,730 | McLachlan joined Massey University in Palmerston North in 1994, and began a collaboration with Reinout Quispel at La Trobe University that resulted in over 26 publications on geometric integration. In 2002 he became Professor of Applied Mathematics at Massey, and spent a year's sabbatical at the University of Geneva, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63659166 | 2,024,564 |
2,047,337 | Albinus was orphaned at a young age, and taken in by an uncle, who was a monk, and who acted as both father and mother, instructing him in religious piety, as long as he lived. At some point he became a Canon Regular at Santa Maria de Crescenzago in the diocese of Milan. He then left his homeland, "in gente alia". He t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13969803 | 2,046,156 |
1,795,234 | RpiA in human beings is encoded on the second chromosome on the short arm (p arm) at position 11.2. Its encoding sequence is nearly 60,000 base pairs long. The only known naturally occurring genetic mutation results in ribose-5-phosphate isomerase deficiency, discussed below. The enzyme is thought to have been present ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14217493 | 1,794,225 |
1,144,080 | The application of technology in today's laboratories is required to achieve timely progress and remain competitive. Laboratories devoted to activities such as high-throughput screening, combinatorial chemistry, automated clinical and analytical testing, diagnostics, large-scale biorepositories, and many others, would ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5670694 | 1,143,479 |
931,687 | The pilot for MR-3 had been chosen several months in advance, in early January, by the head of the program, Robert R. Gilruth. He had selected Alan Shepard (Navy) as the primary pilot, with John Glenn (Marine) and Gus Grissom (Air Force) as his backups; the other members of the Mercury Seven continued to train for late... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213233 | 931,195 |
1,961,624 | From August 20, 2010, to April 13, 2011, McKinley was suspended from practicing medicine by an executive committee with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. During this period McKinley, who was experiencing problems with alcohol, received treatment at the Homewood Health Centre in Guelph, Ontario, which s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32753945 | 1,960,497 |
252,375 | For all intents and purposes, each enantiomer in a pair has the same energy. However, theoretical physics predicts that due to parity violation of the weak nuclear force (the only force in nature that can "tell left from right"), there is actually a "minute" difference in energy between enantiomers (on the order of 10 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=176304 | 252,242 |
1,691,386 | There have been several periods of high interest in HAWP before the contemporary activity. The first period had a high focus on pulling carriages over the lands and capturing atmospheric electricity and lightning for human use. The second period was in the 1970s and 1980s when research and investment flourished; a drop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5315193 | 1,690,436 |
1,779,293 | Undersea commercial activities need precise inputs on the availability of resources for exploitation providing the best possible results for economic gains. The regulators, on the other hand, need to know the pattern of exploitation to manage a sustainable plan. The many activities, commercial and military, have create... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60878831 | 1,778,291 |
35,872 | The last portion of the EM spectrum to be discovered was associated with radioactivity. Henri Becquerel found that uranium salts caused fogging of an unexposed photographic plate through a covering paper in a manner similar to X-rays, and Marie Curie discovered that only certain elements gave off these rays of energy, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9426 | 35,860 |
364,830 | The boats of the "Astute" class are powered by a Rolls-Royce PWR2 (Core H) (a pressurised water reactor) and fitted with a pump-jet propulsor. The PWR2 reactor was developed for the "Vanguard"-class ballistic missile submarines and has a 25-year lifespan without the need for refuelling. As a result, the new submarines ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186252 | 364,639 |
384,259 | Animal fats are a by-product of meat production and cooking. Although it would not be efficient to raise animals (or catch fish) simply for their fat, use of the by-product adds value to the livestock industry (hogs, cattle, poultry). Today, multi-feedstock biodiesel facilities are producing high quality animal-fat bas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188551 | 384,064 |
1,386,311 | Though worldwide in scope, the collection contains approximately 2,300 species from the Neotropics, 600 from Asia, 390 from the Nearctic, 350 from Africa, 275 from the Palearctic, and 220 from Australia/Oceania. Large holdings of land tortoises and varanid lizards resulted from Walter Auffenberg's research, and his wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1143787 | 1,385,544 |
1,294,959 | The major driver behind the development of the IN was the need for a more flexible way of adding sophisticated services to the existing network. Before the IN was developed, all new features and/or services had to be implemented directly in the core switch systems. This made for long release cycles as the software test... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41268 | 1,294,248 |
1,976,840 | To obtain simplified descriptions and efficient numerical methods, approximations in various limiting physical regimes have been considered to remove dynamics on small time-scales or inertial degrees of freedom. In different limiting regimes, the SELM framework can be related to the immersed boundary method, accelerate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37914029 | 1,975,702 |
119,277 | John the Deacon, biographer (c. 872) of Pope Gregory I, modestly claimed that the saint "compiled a patchwork antiphonary", unsurprisingly, given his considerable work with liturgical development. He reorganized the Schola Cantorum and established a more uniform standard in church services, gathering chants from among ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155469 | 119,228 |
86,707 | Established in 1984 by the Arizona legislature, the West campus sits on in a suburban area of northwest Phoenix. The West campus lies about northwest of Downtown Phoenix, and about northwest of the Tempe campus. The West campus is designated as a Phoenix Point of Pride and is nearly completely powered by a solar array.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1859 | 86,673 |
723 | Hawking achieved commercial success with several works of popular science in which he discussed his theories and cosmology in general. His book "A Brief History of Time" appeared on the "Sunday Times" bestseller list for a record-breaking 237 weeks. Hawking was a Fellow of the Royal Society, a lifetime member of the Po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19376148 | 723 |
841,528 | A number of evolutionary game theory models have been produced to encompass coevolutionary situations. A key factor applicable in these coevolutionary systems is the continuous adaptation of strategy in such arms races. Coevolutionary modelling therefore often includes genetic algorithms to reflect mutational effects, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=774572 | 841,078 |
44,201 | Internationally, the Access to COVID19 Tools Accelerator is a G20 and World Health Organization (WHO) initiative announced in April 2020. It is a cross-discipline support structure to enable partners to share resources and knowledge. It comprises four pillars, each managed by two to three collaborating partners: Vaccin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63319438 | 44,184 |
272,835 | In December 1979, NATO decided to deploy cruise and Pershing II missiles in Western Europe in response to Soviet deployment of intermediate range mobile missiles, and in the early 1980s, a "dangerous Soviet-US nuclear confrontation" arose. In New York on June 12, 1982, one million people gathered to protest about nucle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242883 | 272,687 |
1,260,698 | Indications are based on symptoms and signs of decompression illness where expected benefits are likely to outweigh risk. There is a tension between conditions serious enough to justify the risks and clinical states which indicate excessive risk. Risk may not be considered justified for cases where the symptoms suggest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=508346 | 1,260,011 |
373,086 | By 2021, three major types of NAS solutions are offered (all with hybrid cloud models where data can be stored both on-premise on the NAS and off site on a separate NAS or through a public cloud service provider). The first type of NAS is focused on consumer needs with lower-cost options that typically support 1–5 hot ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=451995 | 372,891 |
1,594,858 | Rotello then describes how HIV entered this system and began to spread. He cites data from a large study of Hepatitis B transmission among gay men that was enrolled in 1978, testing thousands of gay men in several American cities at 6-month intervals, a study which included collecting and freezing their blood samples f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6047998 | 1,593,960 |
1,043,449 | Computational neuroscience began in the 1930s and 1940s with two groups of researchers. The first group consisted of Alan Turing, Alonzo Church and John von Neumann, who were working to develop computing machines and the mathematical underpinnings of computer science. This work culminated in the theoretical development... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2208074 | 1,042,905 |
1,690,832 | MEP was not intended to be a production design, and would be able to export only small amounts of electricity. It would, however, serve as the basis for the first production model, LIFE.2. LIFE.2 would produce 2.2 GW of fusion energy and convert that to 1 GW of electrical at 48% efficiency. Over a year, LIFE would prod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46293573 | 1,689,885 |
1,328,324 | Structure detection forms the most fundamental part of NARMAX. For example, a NARMAX model which consists of one lagged input and one lagged output term, three lagged noise terms, expanded as a cubic polynomial would consist of eighty two possible candidate terms. This number of candidate terms arises because the expan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40158142 | 1,327,596 |
1,959,299 | It is well-known that Lewis acids and bases can influence carbonyl activity by either protonation of the oxygen or de-protonation of a beta-site to influence electrophilicity at the carbon. In the former case, there is a stabilization effect and priming for a potential leaving group by providing an equilibrium between ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69092297 | 1,958,172 |
1,379,244 | When Bailey began studying palms, about 700 species had been identified. The number reached thousand by 1946, the rise due in large part to his intensive study of the family. Ill health finally forced Bailey to discontinue collecting abroad in 1949, at the age of 91. He continued to study, compare, and write about his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160679 | 1,378,482 |
1,141,536 | Planar transmission lines can be used for constructing components as well as interconnecting them. At microwave frequencies it is often the case that individual components in a circuit are themselves larger than a significant fraction of a wavelength. This means they can no longer be treated as lumped components, that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39288501 | 1,140,942 |
21,264 | In 2016, Greenpeace assessed major tech companies—including cloud services providers like AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, Google, IBM, Salesforce.com and Rackspace—based on their level of "clean energy" usage. Greenpeace evaluated companies on their mix of renewable-energy sources; transparency; renewable-energy commitment and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1691376 | 21,255 |
75,101 | Significant changes happened in 1816. Schober, a student and of good family and some means, invited Schubert to lodge with him at his mother's house. The proposal was particularly opportune, for Schubert had just made the unsuccessful application for the post of kapellmeister at Laibach, and he had also decided not to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44888 | 75,074 |
2,024,772 | The new technology for sCMOS (scientific CMOS) image sensors was launched in 2009 during the "Laser World of Photonics fair" in Munich as Joint Venture from PCO with the companies Andor Technology and Fairchild Camera and Instrument. In general, CCD-based cameras offer high sensitivity but slow sampling speeds. Convent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57664986 | 2,023,608 |
1,983,120 | Once a diagnosis is made, the treatment is based on an individual’s clinical condition and may include standard management for autoimmunity. One patient with severe autoimmune hemolytic anemia responded well to rituximab. Blocking IL-6 activation with tocilizumab in one patient resulted in a dramatic improvement of art... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47824513 | 1,981,981 |
1,707,006 | The training methods may be specified, but more often the result is considered more important than the methods, and instructors may be free to adapt their methodology to suit circumstances, particularly for theoretical knowledge. The reliable performance of critical motor skills under stress is often easiest to achieve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60600229 | 1,706,048 |
1,594,706 | After the 1911 Championship, Atkins retired completely from tournament chess for the next 11 years. He later remarked, "I really can't say why I didn't play after 1911 for so many years." He had agreed to play in the 1919 Hastings Victory Congress, but withdrew at the last moment "by doctor's orders". In 1922, a major ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=305961 | 1,593,809 |
1,368,567 | Blizzard's initial idea for competitive mode were to limit play to six-on-six matches where players had formed their own teams outside of normal matchmaking, with rankings based on team rather than individual performance; Kaplan stated that this would avoid issues relating to matchmaking and players dropping out mid-ga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55762533 | 1,367,811 |
225,658 | One common use of open reading frames (ORFs) is as one piece of evidence to assist in gene prediction. Long ORFs are often used, along with other evidence, to initially identify candidate protein-coding regions or functional RNA-coding regions in a DNA sequence. The presence of an ORF does not necessarily mean that the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1174560 | 225,542 |
1,146,292 | Gyeongsang National University has twelve colleges such as arts, social science, natural science, engineering, agriculture and life science, management, veterinary, education, nursing, and medicine and eight graduate schools such as medicine and public health, business administration, education, aerospace, industry etc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2359649 | 1,145,688 |
80,351 | In 1854, territorial governor Isaac Stevens recommended the establishment of a university in the Washington Territory. Prominent Seattle-area residents, including Methodist preacher Daniel Bagley, saw this as a chance to add to the city's potential and prestige. Bagley learned of a law that allowed United States territ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31776 | 80,318 |
2,111,535 | The International Mouse Phenotyping Resource of Standardised Screens (IMPReSS) coordinates and presents standardized protocols that are used by mouse research clinics to assess biological characteristics of mutant mouse strains. IMPReSS was launched in 2011 to help the IMPC achieve its goal of characterizing a knockout... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38950795 | 2,110,320 |
605,588 | The relatively free flow of information transcends borders and induced a sharp rise in Renaissance literacy, learning and education; the circulation of (revolutionary) ideas among the rising middle classes, but also the peasants, threatens the traditional power monopoly of the ruling nobility and is a key factor in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9240851 | 605,278 |
1,056,602 | The eventual winner, the 14th Institute, was experienced in developing phased array radar, and the final radar equipped Chinese destroyers is based on experience gained in the two previous phased array radars. Near the end of Iran–Iraq War, both countries asked China to develop a large early warning phased array radar ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51215241 | 1,056,054 |
1,706,025 | The AN/FPS-20 was a widely used L band early warning and ground-controlled interception radar system employed by the United States Air Force Air Defense Command, the NORAD Pinetree Line in Canada, the USAF CONAD in the continental United States, and a variety of other users. The design started life as the Bendix AN/FPS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30215822 | 1,705,067 |
936,229 | Charig and Milner had proposed a piscivorous (fish-eating) diet for the closely related "Baryonyx" in 1986. This was later confirmed in 1997 with the discovery of partially digested fish scales found in the "Baryonyx" holotype. In 1998 Sereno and colleagues suggested the same dietary preference for "Suchomimus", based ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1317491 | 935,734 |
2,112,083 | FAJE is maintained by the civil nonprofit and philanthropic Jesuit Education Association and Social Assistance (AJEAS) based in Belo Horizonte, through its subsidiary, the Vocational Technical Institute of St. Ignatius. It grew out of the Faculty of Philosophy created in 1941 in Nova Friburgo and was transferred to São... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38000661 | 2,110,868 |
1,725,184 | In architecture, an Isovist is largely represented as a polygon traced on a floor plan when represented in two dimensions (Ostwald, Dawes 2018) and utilised to analyse architectural and urban spaces. The concept of an Isovist has more frequently been used to analyse the experience of buildings and the properties of cer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2286288 | 1,724,213 |
605,647 | Plasma stealth technology also faces various technical problems. For example, the plasma itself emits EM radiation, although it is usually weak and noise-like in spectrum. Also, it takes some time for plasma to be re-absorbed by the atmosphere and a trail of ionized air would be created behind the moving aircraft, but ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1391009 | 605,337 |
1,781,463 | The Operational Analysis Element supports all the divisions of the AWC. It conducts studies and provides scientific and technical advice on any issue which affects the conduct of air operations. It plans, directs and manages activities to meet the scientific studies and advice requirements of Air Command. The work incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17479947 | 1,780,459 |
1,571,769 | Smooth adhesive pads are an example of convergent evolution between amphibians (geckos and frogs), arthropods and mammals (possum). The mechanisms involved even appear to be similar. This could indicate that this method of locomotion has found its optimal form in many species of animals. Hairy attachment systems of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46344435 | 1,570,881 |
2,134,778 | MacCallum discovered the existence of two forms (now known to be male gamete or microgametocyte and female gamete or macrogametocyte) of malarial parasite in birds in 1897. In 1899 he and T.W. Hastings discovered a new species of pathogenic Gram-positive bacteria called "Micrococcus zymogenes". He was the first to desc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42753296 | 2,133,553 |
1,343,600 | Tracking an animal by radio telemetry involves two devices. Telemetry, in general, involves the use of a transmitter that is attached to an animal and sends out a signal in the form of radio waves, just as a radio station does. A scientist might place the transmitter around an animal's ankle, neck, wing, carapace, or d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6643829 | 1,342,864 |
1,506,735 | In 1999 the 68th conducted two deployments to Al Jaber Air Base Kuwait in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. During the two deployments the Lancers flew 460 combat sorties dropping their first bombs in combat since the Vietnam War. The 68th was credited with the destruction of numerous 57 and 100 MM AAA guns, radar/c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17291277 | 1,505,889 |
448,901 | The reactions to "Sidereus Nuncius", ranging from appraisal and hostility to disbelief, soon spread throughout Italy and England. Many poems and texts were published expressing love for the new form of astronomical science. Three works of art were even created in response to Galileo's book: Adam Elsheimer's "The Flight... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=183601 | 448,683 |
730,213 | In Cuvier's landmark 1796 paper on living and fossil elephants, he referred to a single catastrophe that destroyed life to be replaced by the current forms. As a result of his studies of extinct mammals, he realized that animals such as "Palaeotherium" had lived before the time of the mammoths, which led him to write i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7991116 | 729,828 |
791,072 | Drug-related authorities such as the European Medicines Agency (EMA) of the European Union, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Health Products and Food Branch of Health Canada hold their own guidance on requirements for demonstration of the similar nature of two biological products in terms o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12924448 | 790,647 |
722,210 | Hall is listed in the "Cambridge Companion to Atheism" as having been an atheist. Hall was a pioneer in the school of religious psychology. He was exposed to Christianity by his pious mother as a child. While he attended Williston Seminary School, he joined the college church and instructed adult bible classes. He is q... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=912656 | 721,830 |
1,834,118 | The study found that when people assessed a real website's credibility, they did not use rigorous criteria, a contrast to earlier national survey findings by "Consumer Reports" WebWatch, "A Matter of Trust: What Users Want From Web Sites" (April 16, 2002). The data showed that the average consumer paid far more attenti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5847044 | 1,833,069 |
113,380 | The addition of new rock units, both depositionally and intrusively, often occurs during deformation. Faulting and other deformational processes result in the creation of topographic gradients, causing material on the rock unit that is increasing in elevation to be eroded by hillslopes and channels. These sediments are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12207 | 113,335 |
1,627,622 | The first sketch plans for the proposed Medical School were prepared by Nowland in February 1936. A modest, three-storey, brick and concrete building ""in an adaption of the Romanesque style"" accommodating teaching spaces for an envisioned 150 students was sited on the northern part of the site adjacent to the Brisban... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44463368 | 1,626,704 |
658,151 | Oedogonium is a genus of filamentous, free-living green algae. It was first discovered in the fresh waters of Poland 1860 by W. Hilse and later named by German scientist K. E. Hirn. The morphology of "Oedogonium" is unique, with an interior and exterior that function very differently from one another and change through... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2470464 | 657,807 |
281,518 | Lister left Glasgow University in 1869 and was succeeded by George Husband Baird MacLeod. Lister then returned to Edinburgh as successor to Syme as Professor of Surgery at the University of Edinburgh and continued to develop improved methods of antisepsis and asepsis. Amongst those he worked with there, who helped him ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16535 | 281,365 |
787,543 | Research by Glenn Edwards and colleagues at Vanderbilt University's FEL Center in 1994 found that soft tissues including skin, cornea, and brain tissue could be cut, or ablated, using infrared FEL wavelengths around 6.45 micrometres with minimal collateral damage to adjacent tissue. This led to surgeries on humans, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=945656 | 787,120 |
1,441,513 | On July 18, 1961 the Bratsk Reservoir started filling (level raised up to 100 m so that it became the largest artificial lake of that time). First stationary 225 MW generator (No. 18) became operational on November 28, 1961 at 10:15 local time. After 7 days on December 5 the second unit No. 17 started to operate and on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7333849 | 1,440,702 |
583,825 | As radical new technology impacts the materials and minerals world more and more powerfully, the materials used are more and more likely to have perpetual resources. There are already more and more materials that have perpetual resources and less and less materials that have nonrenewable resources or are strategic and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19080286 | 583,526 |
411,476 | Liners have been made from many materials, including various metals and glass. The deepest penetrations are achieved with a dense, ductile metal, and a very common choice has been copper. For some modern anti-armor weapons, molybdenum and pseudo-alloys of tungsten filler and copper binder (9:1, thus density is ≈18 Mg/m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37515 | 411,274 |
751,848 | "Archelon", like other marine turtles, probably would have had to have come onshore to nest; like other turtles, it probably dug out a hollow in the sand, laid several dozens of eggs, and took no part in child rearing. The right lower flipper of the holotype is missing, and stunted growth of remaining flipper bone indi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=933173 | 751,446 |
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