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990,743 | Arnim Zola appeared in "Ultimates" Annual #2, written by Charlie Huston. Just like his Earth-616 incarnation he was also a Nazi biochemist. His role in World War II was to make a cadre of special master race troops to serve as Adolf Hitler's bodyguards. Captain America was able to infiltrate Arnim Zola's facility and k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5544662 | 990,226 |
49,223 | An innovation from Keynes was the concept of price stickinessthe recognition that in reality workers often refuse to lower their wage demands even in cases where a classical economist might argue that it is rational for them to do so. Due in part to price stickiness, it was established that the interaction of "aggregat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37973 | 49,203 |
621,087 | A series of high-profile medical scandals including the Bristol heart scandal and The Shipman Inquiry have influenced the proposals of revalidation, that is, the relicensing of doctors. The process was put on hold in 2005, when Dame Janet Smith criticised the plans as inadequate for identifying dangerous doctors. Reval... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56502149 | 620,755 |
1,868,197 | Various publications noted that the book chronicles the connections between Kojima's favorite works of media and the events surrounding his life. Through its interwoven reflections of Kojima's life and his sentiments towards various media, "The Creative Gene" explores how media consumption frames humanity's perception ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72324805 | 1,867,121 |
1,008,387 | Baer is considered to have been the inventor of video games, specifically of the concept of the home video game console. In 1966, while an employee at Sanders Associates, Baer started to explore the possibility of playing games on television screens. He first got the idea while working at Loral in 1951, another electro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292874 | 1,007,866 |
1,012,705 | In later years, the AEC began providing increased research opportunities to scientists by approving funding for ecological studies at various nuclear testing sites, most notably at Eniwetok, which was part of the Marshall Islands. Through their support of nuclear testing, the AEC gave ecologists a unique opportunity to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51718 | 1,012,184 |
53,835 | The number of people with the disease in the United States is about 100,000 (one in 3,300), mostly affecting Americans of sub-Saharan African descent. In the United States, about one out of 365 African-American children and one in every 16,300 Hispanic-American children have sickle cell anaemia. The life expectancy for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21010263 | 53,815 |
223,534 | Endocrine disrupting compounds encompass a variety of chemical classes, including drugs, pesticides, compounds used in the plastics industry and in consumer products, industrial by-products and pollutants, and even some naturally produced botanical chemicals. Some are pervasive and widely dispersed in the environment a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=903152 | 223,420 |
2,101,812 | Avalanche Skills Training is a standardized form of avalanche training in Canada. Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines an avalanche as a large mass of snow, ice, earth, rock, or other material in swift motion down a mountainside or over a precipice. Although Avalanche Skills Training (AST) is typically learned by backcou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15650400 | 2,100,600 |
1,410,766 | On July 4, 2012, physicists working at CERN's Large Hadron Collider announced that they had discovered a new subatomic particle greatly resembling the Higgs boson, a potential key to an understanding of why elementary particles have masses and indeed to the existence of diversity and life in the universe. Rolf-Dieter H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41555255 | 1,409,974 |
1,740,180 | While there are many hormones that dictate major plant processes and eventual changes in physiology, auxin remains the most prevalent hormone. Auxin serves to increase cell length, stimulated by light or gravity in processes known as phototropism and gravitropism, respectively. In terms of plant memory, Auxin may act a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64145846 | 1,739,199 |
2,166,706 | Vaccines are therapeutics that are preventative measure to infectious diseases. These therapeutics offer the body adaptive immunity to a specific pathogen. Fundamentally, vaccines provide patients protection by eliciting an immune response so that they develop antibodies that will help protect against the invading path... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68831707 | 2,165,469 |
2,123,011 | The existing literature describing KCNJ15 and K4.2 is sparse. In spite of some initial channel nomenclature confusion, in which the gene was referred to as Kir1.3 the channel was first cloned from human kidney by Shuck and coworkers in 1997. Shortly thereafter it was shown that mutation of an extracellular lysine resid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14817974 | 2,121,791 |
1,489,212 | TRPV1 is primarily expressed on, small myelinated and unmyelinated medium size, sensory neurons in dorsal root and trigeminal ganglia, where sensory neurons cluster. TRPV1 receptors are also found in muscles, joints, the urinary bladder and kidneys. The functional activity of TRPV1 has been demonstrated, within the cen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24763498 | 1,488,373 |
965,065 | In the spring of 1957, the US National Security Council had explored including a one-year test moratorium and a "cut-off" of fissionable-material production in a "partial" disarmament plan. The British government, then led by Macmillan, had yet to fully endorse a test ban. Accordingly, it pushed the US to demand that t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30592 | 964,556 |
1,758,823 | Following the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, several Congressmen voiced their concern about the reliability of the ICBM arsenal and whether it would actually work if called upon. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara thus decided to carry out a test launch of an Atlas missile to verify its operability. The serial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20877313 | 1,757,830 |
1,416,980 | Threatening much of the East Coast of the United States, hurricane warnings were issued from Georgia to Maine. An estimated 500,000 people evacuated coastal areas accordingly. Five people lost their lives in a car accident on a rain-slicked highway near the North Carolina–Virginia state line; another person died due to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=791513 | 1,416,182 |
721,984 | The Pelican was formally introduced to the public at the 2002 Farnborough International Airshow in July, but with few specifics. As described in its physical form, the aircraft mostly resembled future versions of the Pelican, except that the winglets were reverted to upward-pointing to maximize lift. Boeing announced t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1879209 | 721,604 |
1,508,610 | The first stage of the "2050 Strategy" focuses on making a ‘modernization leap’ by 2030. The aim is to develop traditional industries and create a processing industrial sector. Singapore and the Republic of Korea are cited as models. The second stage to 2050 will focus on achieving sustainable development via a shift t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54181703 | 1,507,762 |
928,931 | NPC is uncommon in the United States and most other nations, representing less than 1 case per 100,000 in most populations. but is extremely common in southern regions of China, particularly in Guangdong, accounting for 18% of all cancers in China. It is sometimes referred to as "Cantonese cancer" (廣東癌) because it occu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8263081 | 928,440 |
1,498,481 | Conconi together with his assistants including Michele Ferrari prepared Francesco Moser in his attempt to break the World Hour Record in January 1984. Conconi theorized that heart rate could be correlated with perceived exertion in order to allow Moser to cycle at the absolute maximum of his capability. Conconi found a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11188121 | 1,497,637 |
1,521,606 | In 2005, Xu et al. at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute used the 3D VIP-Man phantom to simulate respiratory motions by adopting the gated respiratory motion data of the NCAT phantom. The 4D VIP-Man Chest phantom was used to study external-beam treatment planning for a lung cancer patient. In 2007, Xu's research group re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31787413 | 1,520,745 |
357,267 | In the mid-19th century, French archaeologist Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes began excavation at St. Acheul, Amiens, France, (the area where the Acheulian was defined), and, in addition to hand axes, reported perforated sponge fossils ("Porosphaera globularis") which he considered to have been decorative beads... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=442638 | 357,081 |
2,177,384 | Since the separation of biological molecules such as proteins would be better served by isocratic elution with an aqueous solvent, resolution of HPLC analysis should be tweaked in the area of stationary phases to elute such analytes that may be sensitive to organic solvents. Kanazawa et al. recognized the possibility o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37850414 | 2,176,140 |
1,965,863 | "Unalga"'s schedule of summers in Alaska and winter assignments with the Northern Division continued unchanged after the Treasury Department resumed control of the Coast Guard. Duties performed included search and rescue, fisheries patrols, treaty enforcement, delivery of supplies and mail to remote areas, transport of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42183952 | 1,964,734 |
2,084,000 | At 06.25 on Z Day (1 July) the final bombardment began. When the infantry launched their assault at 07.30, 36th (Ulster) Division captured most of the German front and support positions without difficulty, and advanced nearly a mile onto the ridge in the first hour, including the front part of the Schwaben Redoubt. How... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69464934 | 2,082,800 |
1,203,124 | A second perspective is defined by a self-identified group of "chemical educators", faculty members and instructors who, as opposed to declaring their primary interest in a typical area of laboratory research (organic, inorganic, biochemistry, etc.), take on an interest in contributing suggestions, essays, observations... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4133285 | 1,202,480 |
698,677 | Degradation of eDNA in the environment limits the scope of eDNA studies, as often only small segments of genetic material remain, particularly in warm, tropical regions. Additionally, the varying lengths of time to degradation based on environmental conditions and the potential of DNA to travel throughout media such as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46925036 | 698,313 |
535,172 | By the time 3 RAR arrived in Pusan on 28 September, the North Koreans were in retreat following the Inchon landings. As a part of the invasion force under the UN Supreme Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, the battalion moved north and was involved in its first major action at Battle of Yongju near Pyongyang on 22 Oc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,893 |
281,543 | Lord Lister died on 10 February 1912 at his country home at the age of 84. The first part of Lister's funeral was a large public service held at Westminster Abbey, which took place at 1.30pm on 16 February 1912. His body was moved from his house and taken to "The Chapel of St. Faith" and a wreath of orchids and lilies ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16535 | 281,390 |
231,126 | The first concerted Mongol invasion of Jin occurred in 1211 and total conquest was not accomplished until 1234. In 1232 the Mongols besieged the Jin capital of Kaifeng and deployed gunpowder weapons along with other more conventional siege techniques such as building stockades, watchtowers, trenches, guardhouses, and f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1909414 | 231,007 |
1,402,191 | Basophilia can be attributed to many causes and is typically not sufficient evidence alone to signify a specific condition when isolated as a finding under microscopic examination. Coupled with other findings, such as abnormal levels of neutrophils, it may suggest the need for additional workup. As an example, addition... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15375808 | 1,401,404 |
125,738 | Contemporary philosophers and scientists are still in debate as to whether teleological axioms are useful or accurate in proposing modern philosophies and scientific theories. An example of the reintroduction of teleology into modern language is the notion of an "attractor". Another instance is when Thomas Nagel (2012)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80757 | 125,686 |
797,010 | The Yak-25s were built at Factory No. 292 in Saratov, with the first aircraft completed in September 1954. Due to slight modifications, the radar of these aircraft was known as the RP-1D. However, very few aircraft were built to the original standards, due to the fact that the RP-6 had been fully developed by the end o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1045156 | 796,585 |
462,321 | CMR examinations in children typically last 15 to 60 minutes. In order to avoid blurry images the child must remain very still during the examination. Different institutions have different protocols for pediatric CMR, but most children 7 years of age and older can cooperate sufficiently for a good quality examination. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13791336 | 462,092 |
1,062,927 | Wernher von Braun was the first to come up with a technically comprehensive proposal for a crewed Mars expedition. Rather than a minimal mission profile like Apollo, von Braun envisioned a crew of 70 astronauts aboard a fleet of ten massive spacecraft. Each vessel would be constructed in low Earth orbit, requiring near... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23516569 | 1,062,373 |
275,357 | In October 1943, the North American Aircraft design team began work on a fighter design that could travel over without refueling. It consisted of a twin-fuselage design, parallel to the experimental German Messerschmitt Bf 109Z "Zwilling." Although based on the lightweight experimental XP-51F, which would later become ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=671473 | 275,209 |
900,776 | More recent historians have questioned political and cultural explanations and have put greater focus on economic causes. Mark Elvin's high level equilibrium trap is one well-known example of this line of thought. It argues that the Chinese population was large enough, workers cheap enough, and agrarian productivity hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9311753 | 900,300 |
1,784,559 | Bertin was a cartographer at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) in Paris, where he created maps and graphics for faculty from various disciplines using a wide variety of data. Seeing recurring patterns, he created a system for symbolizing qualitative and quantitative information, apparently inspired by the sci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64829941 | 1,783,555 |
1,339,757 | "Microtus arvalis," a small-sized mouse with short dispersal ranges that achieves relatively high richness, has been used as a model to investigate the effects of roads on genetic diversity and organization in fragmented and competitive habitats. The species' remarkable colonization potential has been observed in recen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16831246 | 1,339,024 |
1,154,451 | Starting in 1878, Cornell's Ithaca campus offered a pre-medical school curriculum, although most medical students enrolled in medical school directly after high school. In 1896, three New York City institutions, the University Medical College, the Loomis Laboratory and the Bellevue Hospital Medical College united with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3601339 | 1,153,841 |
2,078,040 | IIT was created on March 6, 1984. As indicated in the minutes of the meeting of the Governing Board, the core initial investigators formed the group dedicated to the area of energy in the late Technological Institute for Postgraduates (ITP). The ITP project emerged in 1974 to bring to Spain the academic-business collab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20848041 | 2,076,841 |
132,737 | In 2000, Su was given a year-long assignment as the technical assistant for Lou Gerstner, IBM's CEO. She subsequently took on the role of director of emerging projects, stating that "I was basically director of myself – there was no one else in the group". As head and founder of IBM's Emerging Products division, she ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44063188 | 132,684 |
167,842 | On 19 October 1901, with the 622-cubic-metre No. 6 balloon powered by a 20 hp engine, he executed the test in 29 minutes and 30 seconds, but it took about a minute to land, which caused the committee to initially deny the award. This became a , as the public and Deutsch believed that the aviator had won. After some tim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152687 | 167,752 |
1,574,397 | Arieti is convinced that each schizophrenia case is representative of those human situations in which something went extremely wrong. "If we ignore it, we become deaf to a profound message that the patient may try to convey". As described in the book, in case of two brothers, Peter and Gabriel, of whom Gabriel later su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4919310 | 1,573,508 |
698,840 | Encoding is achieved using a combination of chemicals and electricity. Neurotransmitters are released when an electrical pulse crosses the synapse which serves as a connection from nerve cells to other cells. The dendrites receive these impulses with their feathery extensions. A phenomenon called long-term potentiation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5128182 | 698,476 |
1,086,599 | In the four years leading up to the outbreak of war the national car fleet had bounced back by 42% from its depression-starved level and New Zealand was second only to the United States in cars per head. Petrol rationing came into force on 5 September 1939 and lasted until 31 May 1950 with just 17 months respite in 194... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34570831 | 1,086,041 |
1,663,967 | The January–February 2004 issue of "Field Artillery" magazine featured a report on the implementation of Effects-Based Operations in Afghanistan "to help shape an environment that enables the reconstruction of the country as a whole." United States policy objectives are to create a "government of Afghanistan committed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9203715 | 1,663,030 |
830,603 | In mathematical physics, a closed timelike curve (CTC) is a world line in a Lorentzian manifold, of a material particle in spacetime, that is "closed", returning to its starting point. This possibility was first discovered by Willem Jacob van Stockum in 1937 and later confirmed by Kurt Gödel in 1949, who discovered a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=287091 | 830,156 |
1,117,458 | The scintillating glass fibers work by incorporating Li and Ce into the glass bulk composition. The Li has a high cross-section for thermal neutron absorption through the Li(n,α) reaction. Neutron absorption produces a tritium ion, an alpha particle, and kinetic energy. The alpha particle and triton interact with the g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3391741 | 1,116,885 |
566,586 | The initial aim was to produce a series of engines of higher than normal output that would be able to stay ahead of the competition without revision for many years and which Sir William insisted also had to "look good". In 1942-43, a range of configurations was considered and it was concluded that, for good breathing a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=881983 | 566,296 |
585,002 | Japan was the first country to develop of open field agrivoltaics when in 2004 Akira Nagashima developed a demountable structure that he tested on several crops. Removable structures allow farmers to remove or move facilities based on crop rotations and their needs. A number of larger facilities with permanent structur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48680511 | 584,702 |
2,010,460 | Reconciliation methods can rely on a parsimonious or a probabilistic framework to infer the most likely scenario(s), where the relative cost/probability of D, T, L events can be fixed a priori or estimated from the data. The space of DTL reconciliations and their parsimony costs—which can be extremely vast for large mu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46968364 | 2,009,308 |
629,689 | The commissioning of "George Washington" on 30 December 1959, the first submarine Polaris launch on 20 July 1960, and her first deterrent patrol November 1960 – January 1961 were the culmination of four years of intense effort. The Navy initially worked on a sea-based variant of the US Army Jupiter intermediate-range b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231819 | 629,351 |
359,934 | Potemkin remained in the south, gradually sinking into depression. His inactivity was problematic, given that he was now Russia's commander-in-chief and, in August 1787, another Russo-Turkish war broke out (the second of Potemkin's lifetime). His opponents were anxious to reclaim the lands they had lost in the last war... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=475101 | 359,747 |
1,256,837 | Enthusiasm seems to be at a high level among over a thousand workers in the crosswind kite power realm that includes scales from toy scale to utility-grid. Speculation for traveling and moving goods without fuel around the world by use of CWKPS is envisioned both by systems staying connected to the ground and some syst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39562189 | 1,256,153 |
1,048,256 | This theory, which was developed mainly between 1892 and 1906 by Lorentz and Poincaré, was based on the aether theory of Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Maxwell's equations and the electron theory of Rudolf Clausius. Lorentz introduced a strict separation between matter (electrons) and aether, whereby in his model the aether is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2299454 | 1,047,711 |
204,204 | The long-tailed pair was very successfully used in early British computing, most notably the Pilot ACE model and descendants, Maurice Wilkes’ EDSAC, and probably others designed by people who worked with Blumlein or his peers. The long-tailed pair has many favorable attributes if used as a switch: largely immune to tub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=326647 | 204,099 |
1,295,755 | There is a large variation in TMB values across different cancer types as the number of somatic mutations can span from 0.01 to 400 mutations per megabase of genome. It has been shown that melanoma, NSCLC and other squamous carcinomas have the highest levels of TMB in this order, while leukemias and pediatric tumors ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66880796 | 1,295,044 |
492,845 | From 1949 onwards, Swiss paleontologist began to restudy the known material. In 1954, 1955, 1956 and 1958 he claimed "Oreopithecus" were a true hominin—based on its premolars, short jaws and reduced canines, at the time considered diagnostic of the hominin family. This hypothesis was immediately hotly discussed by his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=465046 | 492,590 |
1,533,868 | The AC power generated (about 4,020 horse power or 3 MW) at the Folsom hydroelectric facility was converted to 11,000 volts at the power plant by twelve new (in 1895) air cooled transformers invented by William Stanley, Jr. and transmitted to Sacramento on twelve bare #1 AVG copper wires held by ceramic insulators that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4242811 | 1,533,000 |
1,828,517 | The NPGS currently is composed of genebanks and support units at 20 locations around the U.S. Each genebank is responsible for a collection of a unique set of crops. Several other collections that are not formally part of the NPGS also make material available for distribution through GRIN. The number of living, active ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31519537 | 1,827,478 |
1,605,183 | In the 1920s-1930s, the concentration of production and specialization of factories, which began at the beginning of the 20th century, continued in the metallurgy of the Urals. The Nadezhdinsky Plant focused on rolling of all Ural rails, the Nizhny Salda Plant switched to the production of shaped rolled products, the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66141214 | 1,604,280 |
1,683,458 | In ancient Rome saws could be used to amputate limbs for surgical purposes. Osteotomes were used to cut away at bone and remove membranes. Thigh tourniquets would stop bleeding and prevent the venom from spreading. Another common tool was bronze or iron cross-bladed scissors. During surgeries spatulas could also be use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70734376 | 1,682,515 |
930,892 | In the late 19th century, Charles Sanders Peirce proposed a schema that would turn out to have considerable influence in the further development of scientific method generally. Peirce's work quickly accelerated the progress on several fronts. Firstly, speaking in broader context in "How to Make Our Ideas Clear" (1878),... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3143150 | 930,401 |
559,735 | However, much astronomical work of the period becomes shadowed by one of the most dramatic scientific discoveries of the 18th century. On 13 March 1781, amateur astronomer William Herschel spotted a new planet with his powerful reflecting telescope. Initially identified as a comet, the celestial body later came to be a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17912788 | 559,446 |
2,212,702 | The CASL mission is to develop advanced modeling and simulation (M&S) tools to improve tools available to nuclear industry in power plant design/operation/assessment; but, also designed to leverage industry and leadership-class supercomputers, such as ORNL's Titan, that will help drive increase the compute capability o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38735426 | 2,211,442 |
1,726,287 | Community education, engagement and consultation tend to occur "downstream": once there is at least a moderate level of awareness, and often during the process of disseminating and adapting technologies. "Upstream" engagement, by contrast, occurs much earlier in the innovation cycle and involves: "dialogue and debate a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18069384 | 1,725,316 |
1,228,302 | Decisions in Tokyo were controlled by the Army, and then rubber-stamped by Emperor Hirohito; the Navy also had a voice. However, the civilian government and diplomats were largely ignored. The Army saw the conquest of China as its primary mission, but operations in Manchuria had created a long border with the Soviet Un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54108025 | 1,227,640 |
1,945,756 | The strategy sets out a number of objectives in support of an overall aspiration: "We want to stimulate disruptive thinking across and beyond our university to transform knowledge and understanding, and to tackle complex societal problems. We wish to help to enable society not only to survive to the next century – an u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33972995 | 1,944,644 |
1,490,340 | One model dubbed DINOMIT (Disjunction, Initiation, Natural selection, Overgrowth, Metastasis, Involution, Transition), proposed by researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, has vitamin D and calcium in adequate levels playing a crucial role in potentially preventing the onset o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35714179 | 1,489,501 |
605,618 | During spring training in 2022, Angels manager Joe Maddon announced that Detmers had beat out Jaime Barría for the team's sixth starting rotation spot. His turn in the rotation was moved up to the Angels' second game on April 8 against the Houston Astros when Patrick Sandoval missed his scheduled start. On May 10, 2022... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63105154 | 605,308 |
246,609 | Prosody is the property of speech that conveys an emotional state of the utterance, as well as the intended form of speech, for example, question, statement or command. Some researchers in the field of developmental neuroscience argue that fetal auditory learning mechanisms result solely from discrimination of prosodic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18614 | 246,481 |
664,565 | A Nintendo DS port of the game entitled "Rockman.EXE: Operate Shooting Star" was revealed at the 2009 World Hobby Fair in Japan, and released there on November 12, 2009. Christian Svensson, Capcom's then Vice President of Strategic Planning & Business Development, stated that the company had no plans to localize the ga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2175391 | 664,218 |
1,604,751 | He authored close to 200 scientific papers and abstracts in clinical and molecular medicine, genetics, forensic science, population genetics, genetic legacy of Homo sapiens and education, science and technology policy. Currently, he has a particular interest in metabolic bone and cartilage disorders, sports medicine as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5830574 | 1,603,850 |
195,780 | UCR is organized into three academic colleges, two professional schools, and two graduate schools. UCR's liberal arts college, the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, was founded in 1954, and began accepting graduate students in 1960. The College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, founded in 1960, incor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230311 | 195,680 |
1,610,713 | To minimise the risks in constructing IFMIF, the IFMIF/EVEDA project has constructed or is constructing prototypes of those systems which face the main technological challenges that have been identified throughout the years of international cooperation in establishing a fusion relevant neutron source, namely 1) the Acc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3555270 | 1,609,808 |
88,520 | The implications for civil defense of numerous surface bursts of high yield hydrogen bomb explosions on Pacific Proving Ground islands such as those of Ivy Mike in 1952 and Castle Bravo (15 Mt) in 1954 were described in a 1957 report on "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons", edited by Samuel Glasstone. A section in that boo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22171 | 88,485 |
1,386,636 | Linamarin is a cyanogenic glucoside found in the leaves and roots of plants such as cassava, lima beans, and flax. It is a glucoside of acetone cyanohydrin. Upon exposure to enzymes and gut flora in the human intestine, linamarin and its methylated relative lotaustralin can decompose to the toxic chemical hydrogen cyan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9435679 | 1,385,869 |
1,003,713 | The site was originally discovered in 2008 by University of North Georgia Professor Steve Nicklas and field paleontologist Rob Sula. Their team successfully removed fossil field jackets that contained articulated sturgeons, paddlefish, and bowfins. These fossils were delivered for research to the Field Museum of Natura... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60404595 | 1,003,195 |
734,333 | The species of calculation—counting, addition/subtraction, multiplication/division, powers/roots—are the different modes of bringing Numbers into relation with each other. Although the progress through these modes displays the same sort of dialectical evolution as does the Logic proper, they are nonetheless entirely ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=644374 | 733,946 |
1,241,257 | As the aircraft flies, the magnetometer measures and records the total intensity of the magnetic field at the sensor, which is a combination of the desired magnetic field generated in the Earth as well as tiny variations due to the temporal effects of the constantly varying solar wind and the magnetic field of the surv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8655400 | 1,240,586 |
2,179,958 | In October 2005, a group of students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology carried out an experiment with 127 one-foot (30 cm) square mirror tiles, focused on a wooden ship at a range of around 100 feet (30 m). Flames broke out on a patch of the ship, but only after the sky had been cloudless and the ship had ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72501248 | 2,178,713 |
911,756 | Structural-change theory deals with policies focused on changing the economic structures of developing countries from being composed primarily of subsistence agricultural practices to being a "more modern, more urbanized, and more industrially diverse manufacturing and service economy." There are two major forms of str... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=210183 | 911,277 |
1,937,481 | The nervous system in vertebrates is made up of two major types of cells – neuroglial cells and neurons. Hundreds of different types of neurons exist in humans, with varying functions – some of them process external stimuli; others generate a response to stimuli; others organize in centralized structures (brain, spinal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24219329 | 1,936,373 |
349,330 | In Germany, a modernist industrial movement, Deutscher Werkbund (German Work Federation) had been created in Munich in 1907 by Hermann Muthesius, a prominent architectural commentator. Its goal was to bring together designers and industrialists, to turn out well-designed, high-quality products, and in the process to in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315927 | 349,148 |
1,905,134 | Research featured at the TERC website states that students who use "Investigations", among other things, 'do as well or better than students using other curricula.' To support the assertion that children do better when they are not taught traditional arithmetic, Anne Goodrow, in her PhD thesis at Tufts University, comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6877531 | 1,904,039 |
2,167,390 | In 1979 Potts joined the academic staff at the Department of Civil Engineering at Imperial College and was responsible for research and teaching in the field of numerical and analytical methods in geomechanics. At Imperial College, Potts worked with and was influenced by Professors Peter Rolfe Vaughan and John Burland.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39468524 | 2,166,153 |
1,561,649 | In 2005, the National Academies commissioned a report titled “Rising Above the Gathering Storm” which asserts that student achievement in the subjects of math and science has declined in the United States, while other countries have increased their student achievement scores in the same subject areas. The report recomm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26123534 | 1,560,763 |
1,273,235 | Long-term silicate weathering is a major mechanism through which CO is removed from the atmosphere, converting it into bicarbonate which is stored in marine sediments. This has often been linked to the Taconic Orogeny, a mountain-building event on the east coast of Laurentia (present-day North America). In more recent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2830096 | 1,272,543 |
1,404,477 | The Final Report of the Post-War Questions Committee, dated 27 March 1920, stated: "We have heard evidence that aircraft carrying high explosive charges are capable of being controlled by wireless as are the Distant Control Boats, but we do not consider that they will be a real menace to Capital Ships." The Questions C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67154389 | 1,403,687 |
1,448,603 | While early work in molecular evolution focused on readily sequenced proteins and relatively recent evolutionary history, by the late 1960s some molecular biologists were pushing further toward the base of the tree of life by studying highly conserved nucleic acid sequences. Carl Woese, a molecular biologist whose earl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11863361 | 1,447,787 |
1,885,492 | Former Senator and Vice President Al Gore issued a statement on July 29, 2015 eulogizing Dr. Gibbons, which reads, in part: "I am deeply saddened by the news that my good friend, former colleague and fellow Tennessean, Jack Gibbons, recently passed away. I first worked with Jack while serving in the House of Representa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6339609 | 1,884,411 |
2,207,331 | As studies of the consequences of ocean acidification for marine organisms and ecosystems expanded rapidly over the past decade, the methods employed to evaluate the effects of expected future changes in ocean chemistry have become more sophisticated. Initial studies frequently involved measurements of the survival or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41597458 | 2,206,073 |
730,335 | Georges Cuvier, working with Alexandre Brongniart, examined tertiary strata in the region around Paris. Cuvier found that fossils identified rock formations as alternating between marine and terrestrial deposits, indicating "repeated irruptions and retreats of the sea" which he identified with a long series of sudden c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=543667 | 729,950 |
1,250,739 | All medically used are weak partial agonists of the rather than silent antagonists, and for this reason, possess inherent androgenicity in addition to their predominantly antiandrogenic actions. In accordance, although produces feminization of and ambiguous genitalia in male fetuses when administered to pregnant animal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55841187 | 1,250,063 |
1,385,958 | In 2008, he enrolled in Yale College as part of the Eli Whitney Students Program and obtained a BS with distinction in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 2011. From 2011 to 2012, he was an Open Society Foundations Fellow comparing social movements on AIDS, tuberculosis and maternal health in South Africa, Brazil and U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17921910 | 1,385,191 |
1,727,523 | Two-point discrimination (2PD) is a neurological examination in which two sharp points are applied to the surface of a part of the body in order to see if the patient recognizes them as two discrete sensations. The two-point threshold is the smallest distance between the two points that the patient can recognize. By co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15559385 | 1,726,549 |
1,895,462 | David Banks obtained an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Virginia Tech in 1982, followed by a Ph.D. in Statistics in 1984. He won an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Mathematical Sciences, which he took at Berkeley. In 1986 he was a visiting assistant lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and then joined ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48820835 | 1,894,378 |
1,297,804 | Marine fisheries policies for the state of Kerala & Lakshadweep Islands, Karnataka, Goa and Andhra Pradesh are formulated with the reassert and policy inputs from CMFRI scientific expert teams. The institute has also prepared a document entitled Indian Marine Fisheries Code which guides the establishment of a sustainab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5116330 | 1,297,092 |
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