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138,950 | In Erikson's discussion of development, he rarely mentioned a stage of development by age. In fact he referred to it as a "prolonged adolescence" which has led to further investigation into a period of development between adolescence and young adulthood called "emerging adulthood". Erikson's theory of development inclu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=437099 | 138,894 |
1,038,669 | The MIT team was led by William Pease assisted by James McDonough. They quickly concluded that Parsons's design could be greatly improved; if the machine did not simply cut "at" points A and B, but instead moved smoothly "between" the points, then not only would it make a perfectly smooth cut, but could do so with many... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39469106 | 1,038,128 |
307,321 | A floating caliper (also called a "sliding caliper") moves with respect to the disc, along a line parallel to the axis of rotation of the disc; a piston on one side of the disc pushes the inner brake pad until it makes contact with the braking surface, then pulls the caliper body with the outer brake pad so the pressur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59597 | 307,157 |
779,485 | The second satellite launch attempt on April 24, 1970, was successful. A CZ-1 was used to launch the 173 kg "Dong Fang Hong I" (, meaning The East Is Red I), also known as "Mao-1". It was the heaviest first satellite placed into orbit by a nation, exceeding the combined masses of the first satellites of the other four ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=343674 | 779,068 |
1,737,261 | After this the paper trail for Agricola runs cold until the spring of 1500, when he took a position with Philip the Handsome, who was Duke of Burgundy and became King of Castile upon the death of his mother-in-law in 1504. Agricola accompanied Philip on his travels through his extensive lands, which included two trips ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=924406 | 1,736,284 |
206,704 | He met Ray Gayber at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1940. Charles arrived at the school on an industrial design fellowship as recommended by Eliel Saarinen, but soon became an instructor. Ray enrolled in various courses to expand upon her previous education in abstract painting in New York City under the guidance of Hans ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14652786 | 206,597 |
1,323,752 | The decisions made by OR management should have a clear and definitive purpose in order to maintain consistency. In order of priority, governing principles of OR managers are to: (1) ensure patient safety and the highest quality of care; (2) provide surgeons with appropriate access to the OR; (3) maximize the efficienc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13748138 | 1,323,026 |
725,246 | In this setting a change formula_20 in consumption level can be modelled as formula_21. The first term in the RHS describes short-run impact of change in formula_11 on formula_10, the second term explains long-run gravitation towards the equilibrium relationship between the variables, and the third term reflects random... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22309853 | 724,865 |
296,873 | Tools for mitigation vary in the timescales needed for them to have an impact on emissions. For example most countries can rapidly implement solar or wind power as they are mature technologies, which allows coal-fired powers plant to be retired or fewer gas-fired power plants to be built. The mitigation tools that can ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2119179 | 296,713 |
591,489 | Ear position, head height, and body language may change to reflect emotional status as well. For example, the clearest signal a horse sends is when both ears are flattened tightly back against the head, sometimes with eyes rolled so that the white of the eye shows, often indicative of pain or anger, frequently foreshad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5596641 | 591,187 |
551,430 | Their bodies are generally cylindrical with two wider regions separated by a narrower region. There is a large extendible, scoop-shaped proboscis in front of the mouth which gives the animals their common name. This proboscis resembles that of peanut worms but it cannot be retracted into the body. It houses a brain and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43144 | 551,142 |
1,566,029 | Mirroring these developments in the professional community, synesthetes and synesthesia researchers have come together to found several societies dedicated to research and education about synesthesia, its consequences and uses. In 1995, the American Synesthesia Association was founded, and has been having annual meetin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6462420 | 1,565,142 |
162,210 | The Labour Party under Harold Wilson from 1964 to 1970 was unable to provide a solution either, and eventually devalued the pound from US$2.80 to US$2.40 took effect on 18 November 1967. Economist Nicholas Crafts attributes Britain's relatively low growth in this period to a combination of a lack of competition in some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,125 |
462,585 | Ventriloquism has been used as the evidence for the modality appropriateness hypothesis. The ventriloquism effect is the situation in which auditory location perception is shifted toward a visual cue. The original study describing this phenomenon was conducted by Howard and Templeton, (1966) after which several studies... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1619306 | 462,356 |
246,794 | Among the 39 WSU alumni to receive the Regents' Distinguished Alumnus Award since 1962 are recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Irwin Rose, broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, journalist Ana Cabrera, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, astronaut John M. Fabian, cartoonist Gary Larson, action movie star Dolph Lundgren,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=228600 | 246,666 |
1,002,364 | The vehicle is armed with a 165mm M135 short-barreled demolition gun with 30 rounds of HEP (high explosive, plastic) ammunition. The M135 is a license-built copy of the 165 mm L9A1 gun that was used on the British Army's FV4003 Centurion Mk.5 AVRE (armoured vehicle Royal Engineers) tank. Depending on the usage, the gun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=559429 | 1,001,846 |
285,369 | In the Song dynasty (960–1279) the imperial examinations became the primary method of recruitment for official posts. More than a hundred palace examinations were held during the dynasty, resulting in a greater number of "jinshi" degrees rewarded. The examinations were opened to adult Chinese males, with some restricti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=244479 | 285,215 |
1,738,279 | Introduced in 1967, BRUIN was the Army's first area trunk network mounted in both wheeled and tracked vehicles, which connected formation headquarters and units using multi-channel UHF radios. BRUIN provided a partially secure and automatic system for the transmission of both voice and teleprinter traffic. It was the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18312776 | 1,737,302 |
1,215,458 | There were many successes for the departments, and they were to influence future design thinking. At the 1925 "Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes" in Paris, the Soviet pavilion by Konstantin Melnikov and its contents attracted both criticism and praise for its economic and working cla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3014315 | 1,214,806 |
1,254,024 | Especially in societies like the United States, where multilingualism and ethnic diversity are not particularly valued, language-minority children encounter powerful forces for language shift or assimilation when they enter the majority-speaking world of the classroom. Young children are extremely vulnerable to the soc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3289553 | 1,253,344 |
87,306 | Edward Jenner was born in Berkeley, England as an orphan. As a young child, Jenner was variolated with the other schoolboys through parish funds, but nearly died due to the seriousness of his infection. Fed purgative medicine and going through the bloodletting process, Jenner was put in one of the variolation stables u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61088 | 87,271 |
44,923 | Pasteur produced the first vaccine for rabies by growing the virus in rabbits, and then weakening it by drying the affected nerve tissue. The rabies vaccine was initially created by Emile Roux, a French doctor and a colleague of Pasteur, who had produced a killed vaccine using this method. The vaccine had been tested i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17740 | 44,906 |
2,245,628 | Electroplasticity, describes the enhanced plastic behavior of a solid material under the application of an electric field. This electric field could be internal, resulting in current flow in conducting materials, or external. The effect of electric field on mechanical properties ranges from simply enhancing existing pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70831420 | 2,244,356 |
1,386,158 | Along with Soldier Hollow and the Utah Olympic Park, the Utah Olympic Oval was built specifically for the 2002 Winter Olympics. On October 5, 1992, the Utah Sports Authority chose the Oquirrh Park Fitness Center in Kearns as the site for the 2002 Olympic Oval, beating out other locations in West Valley City, Sandy and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4248353 | 1,385,391 |
874,194 | Viking Therapeutics does not manufacture any pharmaceutical products, but is developing several products to treat metabolic and endocrine disorders. Thus, the company relies upon investments from stockholders and business partners. The company completed its initial public offering in the 2nd quarter of Fiscal Year 2015... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44486892 | 873,732 |
2,114,634 | Color HCFR is a freeware program developed by enthusiasts in France. It was released in 2006. ChromaPure is a commercial product that was released in 2009. It was developed by a partnership between an American ISF calibrator and a programmer. CalMAN is a commercial product that was originally released as a Microsoft Ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24982088 | 2,113,419 |
1,713,857 | The ONS similar to that among insects happens in amphibian taxa, the best known being frogs, which start as an egg and then hatch into a larval stage called the tadpole. Tadpoles exhibit many differences that distinguish them from an adult stage of a frog; most species' tadpoles are aquatic, they usually possess extern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68484730 | 1,712,891 |
1,323,473 | In October 2018, researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope published new observations of the star Kepler-1625 which revealed two independent lines of evidence indicative of a large exomoon Kepler-1625b I. These were a 20-minute Transit Timing Variation signature that indicated an approximately Neptune-mass moon, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54681026 | 1,322,747 |
1,551,088 | CH-type radar displays use a time base generator to produce a smoothly varying voltage that is fed to one of the inputs of a cathode ray tube (CRT). The time base is calibrated to move the CRT dot across the screen in the same time that echoes would be returned from objects at the radar's maximum range. The dot moves s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44378239 | 1,550,207 |
1,091,707 | When the collapse came, Rachmaninoff was left totally shattered. He had begun sketches for another symphony but now abandoned them and was unable to compose until 1900, when family members and friends convinced him to seek hypnotic therapy with Dr. Nikolai Dahl. The product of these meetings was the Second Piano Concer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2539421 | 1,091,147 |
1,210,011 | In 2012, a systematic meta-analytic review was undertaken. Stringent criteria for inclusion ensured that all studies were either randomized controlled trials or quasi-experiments. All studies had to have a treatment and a treated or untreated control group. By this time, some twenty-three studies met these criteria, in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23690864 | 1,209,364 |
1,578,870 | The Widom insertion method is a statistical thermodynamic approach to the calculation of material and mixture properties. It is named for Benjamin Widom, who derived it in 1963. In general, there are two theoretical approaches to determining the statistical mechanical properties of materials. The first is the direct ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21799732 | 1,577,980 |
1,010,756 | Interest in the proposed MB-326 led to the awarding of the development contract for three prototypes. The programme was subject to significant refinement around this stage, leading to several modifications being made. Amongst these changes was the elimination of the negative dihedral angle previously present on the hor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=184400 | 1,010,235 |
847,587 | The barrel for the MRSWS is a modified, heavy free floating Krieger made barrel. It comes in 660 mm (26 in) standard but a 737 mm (29 in) custom barrel is fitted to the civilian precision hunting rifle variant, however this can be used on the military version as well. The 338 Lapua Magnum barrels are supplied with a 25... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21254304 | 847,137 |
877,215 | The School of Health and Life Sciences is one of Scotland's largest research and teaching centres in health care and life sciences; Scotland's only provider of optometry training; and home to an eye clinic, based on campus. GCU is ranked in the Top 20 in the UK for allied health research at world-leading and internatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=712587 | 876,753 |
1,381,177 | Array processing metrics are often assessed noisy environments. The model for noise may be either one of spatially incoherent noise, or one with interfering signals following the same propagation physics. Estimation theory is an important and basic part of signal processing field, which used to deal with estimation pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1326926 | 1,380,414 |
1,745,917 | "A Word of Science" earned Nightmares on Wax a reputation among techno's forward-looking innovators, and is widely regarded as creating a blueprint for 1990s trip hop music in its combination of stark rhythms with funk and hip hop rhythms. The experimental-styled downtempo hip hop and electro funk of Mike Paradinas, Sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13410729 | 1,744,932 |
412,401 | Hydropower (from , "water"), also known as water power, is the use of falling or fast-running water to produce electricity or to power machines. This is achieved by converting the gravitational potential or kinetic energy of a water source to produce power. Hydropower is a method of sustainable energy production. Hydro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14073 | 412,199 |
282,447 | This kind of severely co-dependent symbiosis can be seen frequently, such as in the relationship between clown fish and Riterri sea anemones. In these cases, it is extremely doubtful whether either species would survive very long if the other became extinct. However, the problem with this theory is that it is still not... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=299472 | 282,294 |
1,138,127 | As Ac copy number increases, the expression of genes flanking the Ds promoter insertion are negatively regulated, which is called the negative dosage effect. Ds flanking gene expression is inhibited in the presence of the autonomous Ac element. As the Ac element copy number increases, transposition events that require ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41502227 | 1,137,534 |
394,802 | In an interview, the National Health Authority chief Dr. R.S. Sharma said that facial recognition technology would be used in conjunction with Aadhaar to authenticate the identity of people seeking vaccines. Ten human rights and digital rights organizations and more than 150 individuals signed a statement by the Intern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=602401 | 394,607 |
821,334 | The proportions of some pyramids may have also been based on the 3:4:5 triangle (face angle 53°8'), known from the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (c. 1650–1550 BC); this was first conjectured by historian Moritz Cantor in 1882. It is known that right angles were laid out accurately in ancient Egypt using knotted cords for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=279293 | 820,893 |
162,299 | The formation of initial cracks preceding fatigue failure is a separate process consisting of four discrete steps in metallic samples. The material will develop cell structures and harden in response to the applied load. This causes the amplitude of the applied stress to increase given the new restraints on strain. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348898 | 162,214 |
437,258 | It is traditionally applied to the contingency table of a pair of nominal variables where each cell contains either a count or a zero value. If more than two categorical variables are to be summarized, a variant called multiple correspondence analysis should be chosen instead. CA may also be applied to binary data give... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11594341 | 437,044 |
1,915,972 | The banded pygmy sunfish is a small fish that can live in rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, and even swamps. This species is historically found only in the continental United States, with relatively little change in distribution. One exception to this is minor decreases in species distribution due to habitat loss. They ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28777278 | 1,914,873 |
1,620,866 | The first cases were officially confirmed in July 2014. Between that month and the end of 2014, as reported by the Colombian Health Institute (Instituto Nacional de Salud - INS ), there were 82,977 clinically confirmed cases and 611 cases confirmed through laboratory tests, bringing the total of confirmed cases during ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7149912 | 1,619,951 |
2,127,180 | At postsynaptic sites, CaV1 channels (L-type currents) can couple membrane depolarization to activity-dependent gene expression. In 2001, Lipscombe’s lab demonstrated novel features of the neuronal CaV1.3 channels, with important implications for their contribution to control of neuronal function. In 2001, CaV1.2 chann... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63518947 | 2,125,959 |
1,326,356 | The LBP is located at 150 Tapscott Road. It is located across from Malvern Town Centre and can be easily accessed by various TTC bus routes. LBP is a school with a multicultural group of students coming from 56 different countries, speaking 42 languages, and practicing 17 different religions. The school attempts to pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5163667 | 1,325,629 |
881,772 | The dispersed nature of the Internet of things (IoT) presents a major operational challenge that is uncommon in the traditional Internet or enterprise networks. Devices that are managed together --- say a fleet of railcars --- are not physically colocated. Instead, they are widely geographically distributed. The operat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1014669 | 881,308 |
470,105 | Each of the ten events is worth 1,000 points, for a possible 10,000-point individual total. Only the top two scores from the Honors, Scholastic and Varsity divisions are counted for the team score. Until 2013, 60,000 was the maximum possible team score. In 2013, Super Quiz became a 10,000 point event that only counts f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=562034 | 469,869 |
1,727,836 | Additionally, the government created several programs to help support education such as the Committee of Public Information (CPI), the National Education Association (NEA), and the Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education, all of which promoted nationalist movements and changes to education. For example, as part of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26048493 | 1,726,862 |
790,372 | As a sophomore at MIT, Pasterski was part of the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. While a graduate student at Harvard, she worked with Andrew Strominger. Her early work resulted in discovery of the "spin memory effect" which may be used to detect or verify the net effects of gravitational ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49132107 | 789,947 |
992,917 | About 1835, Jerrard demonstrated that quintics can be solved by using ultraradicals (also known as Bring radicals), the unique real root of for real numbers . In 1858 Charles Hermite showed that the Bring radical could be characterized in terms of the Jacobi theta functions and their associated elliptic modular functio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=303368 | 992,400 |
1,141,587 | Stripline was initially preferred to its rival because of the dispersion issue. In the 1960s, the need to incorporate miniature solid-state components in MICs swung the balance to microstrip. Miniaturisation also leads to favouring microstrip because its disadvantages are not so severe in a miniaturised circuit. Stripl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39288501 | 1,140,993 |
571,872 | According to the South Korean Ministry for a Knowledge Economy, the APR-1400's fuel costs are 23 percent lower than France-based Areva's EPR, known to be the most advanced nuclear power plant in the world. The government is also planning development of a new nuclear plant design, which will have 10 percent higher capac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11128886 | 571,581 |
449,343 | Because the most-parsimonious tree is always the shortest possible tree, this means that—in comparison to a hypothetical "true" tree that actually describes the unknown evolutionary history of the organisms under study—the "best" tree according to the maximum-parsimony criterion will often underestimate the actual evol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1130020 | 449,125 |
2,059,857 | SR deficiency is currently being treated using a combination therapy of levodopa and carbidopa. These treatments are also used for individuals suffering from Parkinson's. The treatment is noninvasive and only requires the patient to take oral tablets 3 or 4 times a day, where the dosage of levodopa and carbidopa is det... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37691693 | 2,058,671 |
54,050 | Unix time by design does not require a specific size for the storage, but most common implementations of Unix time use a signed integer with the word size of the underlying computer. As the majority of modern computers are 32-bit or 64-bit, and a large number of programs are still written in 32-bit compatibility mode, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1006035 | 54,030 |
88,609 | This global "impact firestorms" hypothesis, initially supported by Wendy Wolbach, H. Jay Melosh and Owen Toon, suggests that as a result of massive impact events, the small sand-grain-sized ejecta fragments created can meteorically re-enter the atmosphere forming a hot blanket of global debris high in the air, potentia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22171 | 88,573 |
1,399,598 | The Williamson amplifier was sensitive to selection and matching of passive components and valves, and prone to unwanted oscillations at infrasonic and ultrasonic frequencies. Enclosing four valve stages and an output transformer in a negative feedback loop was a severe test of design, resulting in a very narrow phase ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1019188 | 1,398,823 |
653,049 | In 1902, Susan B. Anthony made a speech calling on younger feminists to take up the reins from founders of the movement like "Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Eunice Newton Foote, Mary Livermore, and Isabella Beecher Hooker". Institutionalized neglect of women's history and distortion of the historical record by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49280323 | 652,706 |
2,059,855 | The diagnosis of SR deficiency is based on the analysis of the pterins and biogenic amines found in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of the brain. The pterin compound functions as a cofactor in enzyme catalysis and biogenic amines which include adrenaline, dopamine, and serotonin have functions that vary from the control ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37691693 | 2,058,669 |
920,137 | The climate would also have become much wetter, with the increase in evaporation rates peaking in the tropics. Deuterium isotopes reveal that much more of this moisture was transported polewards than normal. Warm weather would have predominated as far north as the Polar basin. Finds of fossils of "Azolla" floating fern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=387369 | 919,651 |
212,519 | formula_77 is usually more stable over time assuming when the infectious person shows symptoms, she/he will seek medical attention or be self-isolated. So if we find formula_78 changes, most probably the behaviors of people in the community have changed from their normal patterns before the outbreak, or the disease has... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=958031 | 212,411 |
1,997,714 | TBX3 has domains which are important for its transcription factor function which include a DNA-binding domain (DBD) also called the T-box, a nuclear localization signal, two repression domains (R2 and R1) and an activation domain (A). The T-box recognizes a palindromic DNA sequence (T(G/C)ACACCT AGGTGTGAAATT) known as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14777889 | 1,996,571 |
792,492 | SpotPass is an "always on" background network connectivity system which can automatically seek and connect to wireless network nodes such as Wi-Fi hotspots, sending and downloading information in the background while in sleep mode or playing a game. SpotPass also makes uses of certified hotspots with partners such as A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31055925 | 792,067 |
330,204 | Although Emperor penguins can breed at around three years of age, they generally do not begin breeding for another one to three years. The yearly reproductive cycle begins at the start of the Antarctic winter, in March and April, when all mature emperor penguins travel to colonial nesting areas, often walking inland fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=223204 | 330,029 |
1,988,035 | The Higher Council for Science and Technology has identified five domains in which projects are to be implemented to operationalize the policy: the institutional framework; policies and legislation; science, technology and innovation infrastructure; human resources; and the science, technology and innovation environmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47911441 | 1,986,893 |
1,561,279 | The nose-mounted equipment included the magnetron transmitter and the soft Sutton tube switch. These were combined in a single box mounted on the mounting frame, near the top of the frame on the Mosquito and the bottom on the Beaufighter, where they could be easily accessed. The scanner system was centred on the frame,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43764346 | 1,560,393 |
1,578,303 | Albus co-invented the Real-Time Control System (RCS), a reference model architecture that has been used over the past 25 years for a number of intelligent systems including the NBS Automated Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF), the NASA telerobotic servicer, a DARPA Multiple Autonomous Undersea Vehicle project, a nu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=360926 | 1,577,413 |
2,013,948 | Lundstrom’s most important contribution is a conceptual model for nanoscale transistors backed up with rigorous numerical simulations, and elaborated in his books "Fundamentals of Nanotransistors" (World Scientific, 2017) and "Nanoscale Transistors - Device Physics, Modeling and Simulation" (Springer, 2006) as well as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38647083 | 2,012,789 |
1,703,586 | The survey results indicated 100,000 nurses were eligible for military service, and that most nursing schools were ill-equipped to enlarge their instructional or housing facilities. The council submitted its federal aid request for fiscal year 1 July 1941 to 30 June 1942 to the U.S. commissioner of education, who appro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3685821 | 1,702,630 |
1,978,240 | Unless the President commits an impeachable offense or dies, they are present in the White House for the entirety of the four years. Several American citizens are challenging the standards; they are fighting for a way to enable the United States to re-elect presidents when necessary - maybe after two years. Research ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2653890 | 1,977,102 |
58,282 | Recent investigation of production records at Norsk Hydro and analysis of an intact barrel that was salvaged in 2004 revealed that although the barrels in this shipment contained water of pH 14—indicative of the alkaline electrolytic refinement process—they did not contain high concentrations of DO. Despite the apparen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14283 | 58,257 |
943,214 | The first proposed catalytic cycle for the conversion of hydrogen into helium was initially called the carbon–nitrogen cycle (CN-cycle), also referred to as the Bethe–Weizsäcker cycle in honor of the independent work of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker in 1937–38 and Hans Bethe. Bethe's 1939 papers on the CN-cycle drew on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6061 | 942,712 |
1,589,809 | Ohta graduated from the Agriculture Department of the University of Tokyo in 1956. Shortly after graduating, she was hired at the Kihara Institute for Biological Research where she focused on the cytogenetics of wheat and sugar beets. In 1962 an opportunity provided by Hitoshi Kihara to study abroad in the U.S. became ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2094785 | 1,588,915 |
1,245,891 | Other methods through which proteins may moonlight are by changing their oligomeric state, altering concentrations of the protein's ligand or substrate, use of alternative binding sites, or finally through phosphorylation. An example of a protein that displays different function in different oligomeric states is pyruva... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30999216 | 1,245,216 |
1,844,427 | The son of Indologist Kamil Zvelebil, Zvelebil left his birth city of Prague with his family in 1968 following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. The family first lived in the United States before returning to Europe and settling in the Netherlands. Zvelebil however studied in Oxford, England, and went on to g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32875483 | 1,843,373 |
1,867,650 | He joined the National Bureau of Standards in 1927. Diamond headed up the research and development work of the Commerce Department’s newly organized Bureau of Air Commerce. Within two years he developed radio beacon system that permitted the first "blind" aircraft landing. Diamond and his team made the first visual-typ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38697881 | 1,866,574 |
2,035,006 | Utaherpeton is an extinct genus of lepospondyl amphibian from the Carboniferous of Utah. It is one of the oldest and possibly one of the most basal ("primitive") known lepospondyls. The genus is monotypic, including only the type species Utaherpeton franklini. "Utaherpeton" was named in 1991 from the Manning Canyon Sha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21577567 | 2,033,833 |
1,413,586 | One of the first antennas that used this design was the tubular mast erected in 1905 by Reginald Fessenden for his experimental spark gap transmitter at Brant Rock, Massachusetts with which he made the first two-way transatlantic transmission, communicating with an identical antenna in Machrihanish, Scotland. The wires... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7996832 | 1,412,790 |
1,213,932 | The development of a sense of smell is also thought to have arisen to function as an arousal system. Once an odor enters into conscious memory, it can signal the presence of a threat, like the smell of gas or smoke. However, odor memory can also be an implicit or unconscious process. This ability to respond automatical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21312304 | 1,213,280 |
1,205,368 | Acaba's parents, Ralph and Elsie Acabá, from Hatillo, Puerto Rico, moved in the mid-1960s to Inglewood, California, where he was born. They later moved to Anaheim, California. Since his childhood, Acaba enjoyed reading, especially science fiction. In school, he excelled in both science and math. As a child, his parents... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1018774 | 1,204,723 |
1,813,685 | Nanotransfer printing (nTP) (compare with microcontact printing) is a purely additive and high resolution metal printing technique. It mainly relies on the principle of surface chemistry - chemically modified surfaces act as interfacial "release" or "glue" layers to aid in transfer printing nano-structured metal ink fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38977332 | 1,812,651 |
520,546 | A host-based IDS is capable of monitoring all or parts of the dynamic behavior and the state of a computer system, based on how it is configured. Besides such activities as dynamically inspecting network packets targeted at this specific host (optional component with most software solutions commercially available), a H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1189224 | 520,275 |
1,249,395 | Phosphorus compounds are usually found as relatively insoluble phosphates in river water and, except in some exceptional circumstances, their origin is agriculture or human sewage. Phosphorus can encourage excessive growths of plants and algae and contribute to eutrophication. If a river discharges into a lake or reser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22166495 | 1,248,719 |
198,072 | In August 2016, Airbus Safran Launchers gave some more details about future development plans building on the Ariane 6 design. CEO Alain Charmeau revealed that Airbus Safran were now working along two main lines: first, continuing work (at the company's own expense) on the recoverable Adeline engine-and-avionics module... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37730432 | 197,970 |
1,598,230 | Experiments have observed this crystalline state in a pure beryllium ion plasma that was laser-cooled to the millikelvin temperature range. The mean inter-particle spacing in this pure ion crystal was on the order of 10-20 µm, much larger than in neutral crystalline matter. This spacing corresponds to a density on the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39152193 | 1,597,331 |
1,257,648 | Microfungi or micromycetes are fungi—eukaryotic organisms such as molds, mildews and rusts—which have microscopic spore-producing structures. They exhibit tube tip-growth and have cell walls composed of chitin, a polymer of "N"-acetylglucosamine. Microfungi are a paraphyletic group, distinguished from macrofungi only b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10362025 | 1,256,962 |
1,095,370 | Also known as "deadheads", partially submerged snags posed hazards to early riverboat navigation and commerce. If hit, snags punctured the wooden hulls used in the 19th century and early 20th century. Snags were, in fact, the most commonly encountered hazard, especially in the early years of steamboat travel. In the Un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2165732 | 1,094,810 |
1,056,537 | BNCT of patients with brain tumors was resumed in the United States in the mid-1990s by Chanana, Diaz, and Coderre and their co-workers at the Brookhaven National Laboratory using the Brookhaven Medical Research Reactor (BMRR) and at Harvard/Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) using the MIT Research Reactor (MI... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32637211 | 1,055,989 |
1,073,528 | Many head and neck cancers are able to escape immune responses in a variety of ways. One such example is through the production of pro-inflammatory and immunosuppressive cytokines. This can be achieved when the tumor recruits immunosuppressive cell subsets into the tumor's environment. Such cells include pro-tumor M2 m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11026468 | 1,072,974 |
1,868,430 | The United States tropical cyclone rainfall climatology concerns the amount of precipitation, primarily in the form of rain, which occurs during tropical cyclones and their extratropical cyclone remnants across the United States. Typically, five tropical cyclones and their remnants impact the country each year, contrib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10073395 | 1,867,354 |
1,346,792 | The forerunner to the Vaal University of Technology was named the Vaal Triangle College for Advanced Technical Education. Situated in Vanderbijlpark in South Africa's industrial heartland, it opened to 189 students (taught by 15 members of staff ) in 1966. Growth was rapid. In 1975, new buildings – including a library,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2659324 | 1,346,051 |
1,908,300 | The game between SEC foes Tennessee and LSU didn't win style points, and was described by the New York Times as "one of the ugliest games played this or any season". Tennessee led early opening up a ten-point lead at 37–27, but LSU responded with a 10–0 run to tie the game. With seconds left in the game LSU hit two fre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4452070 | 1,907,203 |
1,535,531 | After a generation of students had passed through these new public universities, professors of engineering began to question whether they should adopt a more rigorous approach to teaching the fundamentals of their field. Ultimately, they concluded that engineering curricula should stress fundamental scientific and math... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3122904 | 1,534,663 |
1,782,582 | Agriculture in Saskatchewan is the production of various food, feed, or fiber commodities to fulfill domestic and international human and animal sustenance needs. The newest agricultural economy to be developed in renewable biofuel production or agricultural biomass which is marketed as ethanol or biodiesel. Plant cult... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11332374 | 1,781,578 |
1,265,837 | Calculus Made Easy is a book on infinitesimal calculus originally published in 1910 by Silvanus P. Thompson, considered a classic and elegant introduction to the subject. The original text continues to be available as of 2008 from Macmillan and Co., but a 1998 update by Martin Gardner is available from St. Martin's Pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14020714 | 1,265,149 |
487,296 | The advantages of measuring vaccine efficacy is having the ability to control for selection bias, as well as prospective, active monitoring for disease attack rates, and careful tracking of vaccination status for a study population there is normally a subset as well; laboratory confirmation of the infectious outcome of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10022123 | 487,046 |
1,558,853 | Kazakhstan's steppe geography makes it suitable for wind energy applications and the estimated potential of wind energy that can be economically developed is about 760GW. About 50% of Kazakhstan's territory has average wind speeds suitable for energy generation (4–6 m/s) with the strongest potential in the Caspian Sea,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50433642 | 1,557,968 |
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