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172,171 | Such observations led to a number of theoretical (mathematical) developments. The first of these was a simple model proposed by Bell which resolved an apparent paradox: clustering forms stable networks; i.e. binding is essentially irreversible, whereas the affinities of antibodies secreted by B cells increase as the im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28857 | 172,080 |
1,503,469 | Genome mining for biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) has become an integral part of natural product discovery. The >200,000 microbial genomes now publicly available hold information on abundant novel chemistry. One way to navigate this vast genomic diversity is through comparative analysis of homologous BGCs, which allo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56846949 | 1,502,623 |
1,216,542 | Genome mining for biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) has become an integral part of natural product discovery. The >200,000 microbial genomes now publicly available hold information on abundant novel chemistry. One way to navigate this vast genomic diversity is through comparative analysis of homologous BGCs, which allo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2571276 | 1,215,890 |
272,791 | On March 1, 1954, the U.S. detonated its first practical thermonuclear weapon (which used isotopes of lithium as its fusion fuel), known as the "Shrimp" device of the Castle Bravo test, at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. The device yielded 15 megatons, more than twice its expected yield, and became the worst radiologic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242883 | 272,643 |
1,544,827 | In 1863, Falconer authored a monograph "On the American Fossil elephant of the regions bordering the Gulf of Mexico". A year before he had privately sent the work to Darwin who was delighted to read it. In the work he observed long periods of evolutionary stasis in fossil mammals with short periods of rapid evolutionar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=661351 | 1,543,953 |
364,760 | In the past, prior to the advent of more advanced diagnostic techniques such as MRI some neurologists have considered psychiatry and neurologic to overlap. Although mental illnesses are believed by many to be neurological disorders affecting the central nervous system, traditionally they are classified separately, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21226 | 364,569 |
1,148,297 | The famous philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650) speculated that every activity of an animal was a necessary reaction to some external stimulus; the connection between the stimulus and the response was made through a definite nervous path. Luigi Galvani (1737–1798) demonstrated that electrical stimulation of nerve pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1536547 | 1,147,692 |
934,286 | From 1935 onwards, Ueshiba had been purchasing land in Iwama in Ibaraki Prefecture, and by the early 1940s had acquired around of farmland there. In 1942, disenchanted with the war-mongering and political manoeuvring in the capital, he left Tokyo and moved to Iwama permanently, settling in a small farmer's cottage. Her... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20069 | 933,794 |
1,690,851 | The increasing importance of genomic instability on cancer progression has been emphasized in recent years. There are many ways to cause aneuploidy, however the genomic predispositions for these events are less well understood. In regards to the merotelic kinetochore attachments associated with anaphase lag, several ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13471415 | 1,689,904 |
128,693 | Filters meeting the HEPA standard must satisfy certain levels of efficiency. Common standards require that a HEPA air filter must remove—from the air that passes through—at least 99.95% (ISO, European Standard) or 99.97% (ASME, U.S. DOE) of particles whose diameter is equal to 0.3 μm, with the filtration efficiency inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=683322 | 128,641 |
413,654 | When a type 1 diabetic suffers acute biological stress (infection, heart attack, or physical trauma) or fails to administer enough insulin, they may enter the pathological state of diabetic ketoacidosis. Under these circumstances, the low or absent insulin levels in the blood, combined with the inappropriately high glu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56556 | 413,451 |
50,439 | The fall of the Achaemenid Empire ( 334–330 BC), and its replacement with the newly created political order, imposed by Alexander the Great (d. 323 BC) and his Hellenistic successors, marked an important turning point in the history of Aramaic language. During the early stages of the post-Achaemenid era, public use of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2303 | 50,419 |
350,733 | An older review of dietary intake studies reported that higher consumption of vitamin E from foods lowered the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD) by 24%. A 2017 Cochrane review reported on vitamin E as a potential dietary benefit for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease. Based on evidence fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54104 | 350,550 |
1,433,527 | It is a multi-mission unit, for the Coast Guard's aviation and capabilities development center. Training is conducted to qualify pilots in the MH-60 Jayhawk, MH-65 Dolphin, and HC-144 Ocean Sentry. All pilots initially train at ATC, and will return once a year for a one-week proficiency course in their assigned airfram... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43506950 | 1,432,723 |
452,727 | Fodor and colleagues developed a unique fabrication process (later used by Affymetrix) in which a series of microlithography steps is used to combinatorially synthesize hundreds of thousands of unique, single-stranded DNA sensors on a substrate one nucleotide at a time. One lithography step is needed per base type; thu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=859981 | 452,508 |
492,574 | This book explains Kepler's cosmological theory, based on the Copernican system, in which the five Platonic solids dictate the structure of the universe and reflect God's plan through geometry. This was virtually the first attempt since Copernicus to say that the theory of heliocentrism is physically true. Thomas Digge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3194945 | 492,319 |
404,030 | The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the study suggested that human infection by the G4 virus is more common than it was thought to be. Both the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the US CDC stated that, like all flu viruses with pandemic potential, the variant is a co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2866555 | 403,830 |
413,816 | Bivalvia (), in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts. As a group, bivalves have no head and they lack some usual molluscan organs, like the radula and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=202240 | 413,613 |
61,310 | In 214 BC, Qin Shi Huang secured his boundaries to the north with a fraction (100,000 men) of his large army, and sent the majority (500,000 men) of his army south to conquer the territory of the southern tribes. Prior to the events leading to Qin dominance over China, they had gained possession of much of Sichuan to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43461 | 61,285 |
2,013,598 | Through collaboration with Javier de Mendoza in 1993, Rebek managed to create a self-assembling capsule. These form reversibly by completely surrounding small molecule targets and have become a versatile tool of modern physical organic chemistry. They exist in solution at equilibrium and under ambient conditions. They ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6919151 | 2,012,439 |
823,776 | Guerrilla operations typically include a variety of strong surprise attacks on transportation routes, individual groups of police or military, installations and structures, economic enterprises, and targeted civilians. Attacking in small groups, using camouflage and often captured weapons of that enemy, the guerrilla f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22634688 | 823,333 |
1,470,204 | Photodissociation is a chemical reaction in which a chemical compound is broken down by photons. It is defined as the interaction of one or more photons with one target molecule. Any photon with sufficient energy can affect the chemical bonds of a chemical compound, such as visible light, ultraviolet light, x-rays and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4136723 | 1,469,379 |
731,079 | To activate reporter genes, they can be expressed constitutively, where they are directly attached to the gene of interest to create a gene fusion. This method is an example of using "cis"-acting elements where the two genes are under the same promoter elements and are transcribed into a single messenger RNA molecule. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=341038 | 730,694 |
782,669 | Owing to its vastness and round-the-clock availability of animal medical care facilities, most of the rescued animals in the state, especially elephants, are brought to the park. With Chennai serving, unfortunately, as a transit point for wildlife smugglers in Southeast Asian countries, the zoo also receives many recov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30870670 | 782,250 |
803,964 | Thermopiles are used to provide an output in response to temperature as part of a temperature measuring device, such as the infrared thermometers widely used by medical professionals to measure body temperature, or in thermal accelerometers to measure the temperature profile inside the sealed cavity of the sensor. They... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=788567 | 803,535 |
1,236,089 | The life cycle analysis is an important green engineering tool, which provides a holistic view of the entirety of a product, process or activity, encompassing raw materials, manufacturing, transportation, distribution, use, maintenance, recycling, and final disposal. Assessing its life cycle should yield a complete pic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44818019 | 1,235,425 |
521,459 | Six ships carrying between 500 and 1,000 black Catholic refugees, some free and wealthy and others enslaved, arrived in Baltimore in July 1791 and/or June 1793 after unsuccessful stops in Charleston, South Carolina and Norfolk, Virginia. Successively led by Sulpician priests who were fleeing the French Revolution and l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=261191 | 521,188 |
1,829,164 | In 1819 Strutt designed and built the Derby Infirmary, which he worked on with his friend Charles Sylvester. Sylvester documented the new ways of heating hospitals that were included in the design and the healthier features such as self-cleaning and air refreshing toilets. Strutt incorporated many new features into the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6184270 | 1,828,123 |
1,833,056 | Her laboratory at Caltech is interested in the co-evolution of life and Earth. Specifically, they take an interdisciplinary approach to studying the molecular mechanisms that underlie ancient forms of metabolism. By understanding the way extant organisms function at the molecular level, they hope eventually to gain ins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51998771 | 1,832,008 |
66,472 | Botulinum toxin type-A is now a common treatment for muscles affected by the upper motor neuron syndrome (UMNS), such as cerebral palsy, for muscles with an impaired ability to effectively lengthen. Muscles affected by UMNS frequently are limited by weakness, loss of reciprocal inhibition, decreased movement control, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40172 | 66,447 |
533,330 | Modern linear accelerators are equipped with multileaf collimators (MLCs) which can move within the radiation field as the linac gantry rotates, blocking the field as necessary according to the gantry position. This technology allows radiotherapy treatment planners great flexibility in shielding organs-at-risk (OARSs),... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=273470 | 533,051 |
1,582,542 | The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) is a NASA-JPL instrument designed to measure carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere. The instrument is mounted on the Japanese Experiment Module-Exposed Facility on board the International Space Station (ISS). OCO-3 was scheduled to be transported to space by a SpaceX Dragon from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59987820 | 1,581,652 |
172,729 | In 1970-1980s, Japanese companies Nippon Kokan, Sumitomo Metal Industries and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries developed the NEDOL process. In this process, a mixture of coal and recycled solvent is heated in the presence of iron-based catalyst and H. The reaction takes place in tubular reactor at temperature between and at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2170613 | 172,638 |
1,596,619 | Paleoproteomics is a relatively young and rapidly growing field of molecular science in which proteomics-based sequencing technology is used to resolve species identification and evolutionary relationships of extinct taxa. While complementary to paleogenomics in application, the study of ancient proteins has the potent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56920215 | 1,595,720 |
1,470,155 | At Dolaucothi, a similar discovery was made in 1935 during mining operations, and it included part of a reverse overshot water wheel which is now in the National Museum of Wales. It was found with burnt timbers, suggesting that fire-setting was used to help break up the hard quartz in which the gold was trapped. A simi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1714630 | 1,469,330 |
1,130,160 | Complex regulatory processes induce excessive exploitation of regional administrative power. Before the revision of Chinese Pharmaceutical Law in 2001, the province drug administration was assigned with authority to streamline the process of registering a generic drug. Consequently, this regional authority power was ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2913045 | 1,129,582 |
1,157,840 | Generally speaking, inferring feeding adaptations in fossil hominins is not a simple task, and hence diet reconstructions have relied on diverse techniques (e.g. microwear, stable isotopes, functional morphology, etc.) that have provided different or even contradictory results. The direct predecessors to genus "Homo", ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53970984 | 1,157,227 |
1,187,989 | Housing affordability is also a concern with this measure, an area where California already struggles greatly. According to a 2017 survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, 37.8% of California homeowners with mortgages are "cost-burdened," with housing costs exceeding 30% of the household income, and 16.3% face housi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21761937 | 1,187,358 |
1,240,169 | High-frequency jet ventilation (HFJV) is provided by the Bunnell Life Pulse High-Frequency Ventilator. HFJV employs an endotracheal tube adaptor in place for the normal 15 mm ET tube adaptor. A high pressure "jet" of gas flows out of the adaptor and into the airway. This jet of gas occurs for a very brief duration, abo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5915493 | 1,239,500 |
1,999,108 | This species lives in the eastern Himalayas, and has been reported in several scattered sites across Southeast Asia, in the northwest of Vietnam and in central Laos. Its range stretches west into the northeast of India, where it was reported seen near Darjeeling in West Bengal, but not since 1933. It is present in Bhut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=385008 | 1,997,964 |
1,793,217 | In the late 1980s, the Chinese Academy of Sciences remained the most prestigious research agency in the natural sciences. It administered about 120 research institutes in various parts of China, with major concentrations in Beijing and Shanghai. In 1986 the academy employed 80,000 persons, over 40,000 of whom were scie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14246598 | 1,792,208 |
1,677,225 | A compromise in intestinal mucosal functions is associated with several chronic inflammatory diseases. Previous report suggested that obese humans have a reduced expression of intestinal Jak3 and a deficiency of Jak3 in mice led to predisposition to obesity-associated metabolic syndrome. Since meta-analyses show cognit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11849161 | 1,676,283 |
1,060,714 | Akeley left the Milwaukee Public Museum in 1892 and set up a private studio from which he continued to do contract work, including three mustangs for the Smithsonian Institution for exhibition at the World's Columbian Exposition. In 1896, he joined the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, where he developed his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=851109 | 1,060,162 |
395,505 | In particular, FRP rods are useful for structures where the presence of steel would not be acceptable. For example, MRI machines have huge magnets, and accordingly require non-magnetic buildings. Again, toll booths that read radio tags need reinforced concrete that is transparent to radio waves. Also, where the design ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54232 | 395,310 |
948,826 | One hypothesis behind fecal microbiota transplant rests on the concept of bacterial interference, i.e., using harmless bacteria to displace pathogenic organisms, such as by competitive niche exclusion. In the case of CDI, the "C. difficile" pathogen is identifiable. Recently, in a pilot study of five patients, sterile ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3762041 | 948,322 |
775,940 | Minicomputers, particularly in the 1970s onwards, when built into dedicated embedded systems such as DOG (Digital on-screen graphic) scanners, increased the need for low-latency priority-driven responses to important interactions with incoming data and so operating systems such as Data General's RDOS (Real-Time Disk Op... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25767 | 775,524 |
1,713,633 | By 1998 Karisoke’s expatriate staff had evacuated five times. The facility was destroyed three times, rebuilt twice, and eventually relocated to Musanze (formerly Ruhengeri). Despite the constant threat of war, Karisoke continued to upgrade its capacity for scientific research through new technology and new partnership... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4016218 | 1,712,667 |
1,668,467 | Allergic reactions are misdirected reactions of the immune system to substances commonly found in the environment. Allergens elicit a Th2 immune response, including the involvement of IgE, mast cells, Innate lymphoid cells 2 (ILC2), eosinophils, and basophils. Allergy symptoms are often related to the body's efforts to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6865131 | 1,667,527 |
1,202,776 | Many "Symbiodinium" species are known primarily for their role as mutualistic endosymbionts. In hosts, they usually occur in high densities, ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions per square centimeter. The successful culturing of swimming gymnodinioid cells from coral led to the discovery that "zooxanthellae" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11375187 | 1,202,133 |
1,574,057 | All methylotrophic yeasts share an identical methanol utilization pathway (Fig. 1). Growth on methanol is accompanied by a massive proliferation of cell organelles named peroxisomes in which the initial enzymatic steps of this pathway take place. "O. polymorpha" is model organism to study all aspects of peroxisomal fun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11017274 | 1,573,168 |
729,923 | Proponents of orthomolecular medicine counter that some vitamins and nutrients are now used in medicine as treatments for specific diseases, such as megadose niacin and fish oil for dyslipidemias, and megavitamin therapies for a group of rare inborn errors of metabolism. A review in the "Annals of Internal Medicine" co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=327995 | 729,539 |
335,598 | More recently, Cherenkov light has been used to image substances in the body. These discoveries have led to intense interest around the idea of using this light signal to quantify and/or detect radiation in the body, either from internal sources such as injected radiopharmaceuticals or from external beam radiotherapy i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24383048 | 335,420 |
1,194,838 | Sir C.V. Raman, A Palit Professor of Sc. College made this revolutionary discovery on the "Scattering of Light" which is known as The Raman Effect. He announced his discovery on February 28, 1928 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, the day widely celebrated as the National Science Day in India. Sir Jnan Chandra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62858858 | 1,194,198 |
1,585,742 | The evolutionary biologist John Endler, reviewing the topic of camouflage in "Proceedings of the Royal Society B" in 2006, cites Thayer's 1909 book three times: for disruption, with "conspicuous elements [which] distract the predator's attention and break up the body outline, making detection of the prey difficult"; fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37724748 | 1,584,851 |
1,435,795 | We impart significant meaning to things in order to create culture because of the prefrontal cortex. The prefrontal cortex does this by taking in information and categorizing it to then relate it to other pieces of information. Anthropologically, culture can be defined as the understanding of symbolic meaning shared be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7621043 | 1,434,988 |
2,004,705 | On August 12, 1985, Japan Air Lines Flight 123, a Boeing 747-SR100, experienced cabin decompression 12 minutes after takeoff from Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan, at 24,000 feet. The decompression was caused by failure of a previously repaired aft pressure bulkhead. Cabin air rushed into the unpressurized fuselage cavit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30943713 | 2,003,556 |
630,558 | After World War II, many surviving ISU-122s were rebuilt as rocket launchers, very large calibre gun chassis or supply vehicles. The small number of ISU-122s that kept their original armament were modernized in 1958. This modernization was not as complete as that of the ISU-152. Most ISU-122s did not receive a new engi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=329520 | 630,220 |
1,190,612 | For the first flight, designated as "L-O1" (Lancement [Launch] 01), the payload consisted of an Aeritalia-built test instrumentation system, known as CAT (Capsule Ariane Technologique), for the purpose of measuring all key stages of the ascent in great detail, such as noise, stress, acceleration, temperature, and press... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=227185 | 1,189,978 |
19,792 | The American Psychological Association's 1995 report "Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns" stated that the correlation between IQ and crime was −0.2. This association is generally regarded as small and prone to disappearance or a substantial reduction after controlling for the proper covariates, being much smaller than t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14892 | 19,784 |
1,924,202 | Dutch rising star Inge de Bruijn stormed home on the final lap to claim her second gold at these Games. She powered past her rivals in a star-studded field to touch the wall first in 53.83. Earlier in the semifinals, she delivered a time of 53.77 to erase her own world record by 0.03 of a second. Almost stealing the ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12382948 | 1,923,099 |
922,676 | To overcome the need to use organic solvents and solid porogens, a technique using gas as a porogen has been developed. First, disc-shaped structures made of the desired polymer are prepared by means of compression molding using a heated mold. The discs are then placed in a chamber where they are exposed to high pressu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=307065 | 922,190 |
283,284 | In cold climates, heating air and water is a major demand for household energy use. Significant energy reductions are possible by using different technologies. Heat pumps are a more efficient alternative to electrical resistance heaters for warming air or water. A variety of efficient clothes dryers are available, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=478933 | 283,131 |
725,965 | The use of Model Based Condition Monitoring for predictive maintenance programs is becoming increasingly popular over time. This method involves spectral analysis on the motor's current and voltage signals and then compares the measured parameters to a known and learned model of the motor to diagnose various electrical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3064522 | 725,584 |
1,163,554 | Updates to the building envelope section include revision to exceptions for air leakage requirements and SHGC , U-factor revisions for fenestrations. Under the lighting section the lighting power density allowance is modified for the Space-by-Space and Building Area methods. A new simplified lighting method is added fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30831537 | 1,162,937 |
1,108,814 | Mildred Koss, an early UNIVAC programmer, explains: "Writing machine code involved several tedious steps—breaking down a process into discrete instructions, assigning specific memory locations to all the commands, and managing the I/O buffers. After following these steps to implement mathematical routines, a sub-routin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1118035 | 1,108,249 |
703,350 | Transcription can also be studied at the level of individual cells by single-cell transcriptomics. Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is a recently developed technique that allows the analysis of the transcriptome of single cells. With single-cell transcriptomics, subpopulations of cell types that constitute the ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1075071 | 702,982 |
523,544 | This knowledge is acquired gradually, by traversing the facts of language and the syntactic mechanisms, going from simplest to the most complex. The exercises according to the program of the course must untiringly be practiced to allow the assimilation of the rules stated in the course. That supposes that the teacher c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29572509 | 523,272 |
1,500,106 | Maths schools are a type of free school, however they are unique in multiple ways. Free schools are legally barred from partaking in academic selection, however all maths schools are selective and therefore exempt from this rule. They are not required to follow both the School Admissions Code and the School Admission A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69742243 | 1,499,261 |
1,367,190 | At this point, Häberlein offered to sell the fossil to the British Museum of London through a letter addressed to Director of the Geology Department G. R. Waterhouse, who had negotiated with Häberlein's father for the first specimen. This time, however, Waterhouse delayed the potential transaction and sought to negotia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34483273 | 1,366,434 |
996,153 | Development of the Hurd has proceeded slowly. Despite an optimistic announcement by Stallman in 2002 predicting a release of GNU/Hurd later that year, the Hurd is still not considered suitable for production environments. Development in general has not met expectations, and there are still a significant number of bugs ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13236 | 995,635 |
1,245,992 | The Aerospace Museum of California is a private non-profit aviation museum located in North Highlands, California, outside of Sacramento, California, on the grounds of the former McClellan Air Force Base. The museum has a 4.5-acre outdoor Air Park, indoor exhibit space, a classroom, theater, conference room, and gift s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11611370 | 1,245,317 |
1,857,146 | Curto was born to Argentine parents and grew up in Iowa City. She attended Iowa City West High School. During her school years, she attended courses at University of Iowa, including advanced mathematics classes, physics, computer science, French literature, and more. In 1996, she began studying for an A.B. in Physics a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58042119 | 1,856,078 |
1,095,460 | The Altair 8800 was modeled after early 1970s minicomputers such as the Data General Nova. These machines contained a CPU board, memory boards, and I/O boards; the data storage and display terminal were external devices. The Teletype Model 33 ASR was a popular terminal because it provided printed output and data storag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=643230 | 1,094,900 |
1,543,256 | In the 1960s, a heliodon was invented by Gershon Fruhling in Israel, recorded by the United States Patent Office. This heliodon consists of a platform created to hold a model of the building whose isolation is to be evaluated. The horizontal platform can sway on a rotatable vertical shaft which can turn on its axis. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1382285 | 1,542,383 |
2,003,142 | Geochemical modeling is used in a variety of fields, including environmental protection and remediation, the petroleum industry, and economic geology. Models can be constructed, for example, to understand the composition of natural waters; the mobility and breakdown of contaminants in flowing groundwater or surface wat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34518735 | 2,001,994 |
719,541 | On the morning of July 17, 1959, Louis felt ill and stayed at camp while Mary went out to Bed I's Frida Leakey Gully. Sometime around 11:00 AM, she noticed what appeared to be a portion of a skull poking out of the ground, OH 5. The dig team created a pile of stones around the exposed portion to protect it from further... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2165275 | 719,161 |
38,368 | Dartmouth's original sports field was the Green, where students played cricket and old division football during the 19th century. Today, two of Dartmouth's athletic facilities are located in the southeast corner of campus. The center of athletic life is the Alumni Gymnasium, which includes the Karl Michael Competition ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8418 | 38,354 |
590,887 | In anticipation of Proto-Cubism the idea of form inherent in art since the Renaissance had been questioned. The romanticist Eugène Delacroix, the realist Gustave Courbet, and practically all the Impressionists had abandoned a significant portion of Classicism in favor of "immediate sensation". The "dynamic" expression ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38781217 | 590,585 |
4,912 | The LANTIRN pod did not require changes to the F-14's own system software, but the pod was designed to operate on a MIL-STD-1553B bus not present on the F-14A or B. Consequently, Martin Marietta specially developed an interface card for LANTIRN. The Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) would receive pod imagery on a 10-inch P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11719 | 4,910 |
1,352,899 | Adolf Meyer (September 13, 1866 – March 17, 1950) was a Swiss-born psychiatrist who rose to prominence as the first psychiatrist-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital (1910-1941). He was president of the American Psychiatric Association in 1927–28 and was one of the most influential figures in psychiatry in the first ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2452836 | 1,352,152 |
1,535,322 | In striving for a deeper understanding of the AIM, scholars have examined different types of behavior that can be expected when affect (mood and emotion) strongly influences information processing. This is by no means an exact science, as the behavioral consequences of affect are usually indirect and varied, but they h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16864467 | 1,534,454 |
758,964 | Schaffer Library: Schaffer Library, erected in 1961, was the first building constructed at Union for the sole purpose of housing the college library. Trustee Henry Schaffer donated the majority of funds needed for its construction as well as for a later expansion between 1973 and 1974. The original building was designe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=461702 | 758,558 |
1,229,558 | The first batch of the medical college started in 1999 with 100 students. The college was promoted by Sri Kamineni Suryanarayana - an engineer architect, builder and industrialist as a part of "Kamineni Education Society". Since 1999, college has gained popularity because of the successful board results and the increas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32418886 | 1,228,896 |
673,495 | Treatment for brachial plexus injuries includes orthosis/splinting, occupational or physical therapy and, in some cases, surgery. Some brachial plexus injuries may heal without treatment. Many infants improve or recover within 6 months, but those that do not, have a very poor outlook and will need further surgery to tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3117837 | 673,143 |
402,049 | Cognitive science has given rise to models of human cognitive bias and risk perception, and has been influential in the development of behavioral finance, part of economics. It has also given rise to a new theory of the philosophy of mathematics (related to denotational mathematics), and many theories of artificial int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5626 | 401,850 |
1,411,545 | Though Harrison had commercial success establishing a second ice company back in Sydney in 1860, he later entered the debate of how to compete against the American advantage of unrefrigerated beef sales to the United Kingdom. He wrote "Fresh Meat frozen and packed as if for a voyage, so that the refrigerating process m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=419580 | 1,410,751 |
1,277,092 | In July 1954, the AERE was reorganised into the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). Modifications to Harwell's Hangar 7 in order to house the machine began that year. Despite its advanced design, the price tag was modest: about US$1 million. By late 1956 it was clear that ZETA was going to come online in mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3083485 | 1,276,399 |
1,480,918 | Graphene oxide provides solutions to advance planar focusing devices. Giant refractive index modification (as large as 10^-1 or one order of magnitude larger than earlier materials), between graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) were demonstrated by manipulating its oxygen content using direct laser writ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29767475 | 1,480,084 |
2,122,207 | The cap is initially convex before flattening out in maturity, sometimes developing a shallow depression; it reaches a diameter of . The cap surface is dry, with a somewhat felt-like texture, and it often develops cracks in maturity. Its color is dark red to reddish chestnut, usually with a paler central portion in mat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37281077 | 2,120,988 |
71,660 | Over half of all living vertebrate species (about 32,000 species) are fish (non-tetrapod craniates), a diverse set of lineages that inhabit all the world's aquatic ecosystems, from snow minnows (Cypriniformes) in Himalayan lakes at elevations over to flatfishes (order Pleuronectiformes) in the Challenger Deep, the deep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36856 | 71,633 |
563,883 | The findings suggested that iron deficiency was limiting ocean productivity and offered an approach to mitigating climate change as well. Perhaps the most dramatic support for Martin's hypothesis came with the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. Environmental scientist Andrew Watson analyzed global data... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4145551 | 563,593 |
2,085,965 | In April 1995 Newman, Mielke, and Captain John Sherlock of the JTASC hosted a follow-up meeting of a delegation of Virginia political leaders and ODU administrators to explain the mission and the requirements of the JTASC. This meeting focused on the lack of formal training confounding JTASC members, and it addressed t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12580104 | 2,084,763 |
805,121 | Liskov has led many significant projects, including the Venus operating system, a small, low-cost timesharing system; the design and implementation of CLU; Argus, the first high-level language to support implementation of distributed programs and to demonstrate the technique of promise pipelining; and Thor, an object-o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1507538 | 804,692 |
250,652 | At the beginning of the 21st century, digital technology allowed subsonic military aviation to begin eliminating the pilot in favor of remotely operated or completely autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In April 2001 the unmanned aircraft Global Hawk flew from Edwards AFB in the US to Australia non-stop and unr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177680 | 250,519 |
246,617 | Genetic research has found two major factors predicting successful language acquisition and maintenance. These include inherited intelligence, and the lack of genetic anomalies that may cause speech pathologies, such as mutations in the FOXP2 gene which cause verbal dyspraxia. The role of inherited intelligence increas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18614 | 246,489 |
1,618,706 | Scientific glassblowing is a specialty field of lampworking used in industry, science, art and design used in research and production. Scientific glassblowing has been used in chemical, pharmaceutical, electronic and physics research including Galileo’s thermometer, Thomas Edison’s light bulb, and vacuum tubes used in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39712246 | 1,617,791 |
906,214 | The 2008 Corus Chess Tournament took place in the De Moriaan Community Centre in Wijk aan Zee. The format of each of the three Grandmaster groups remained a 14 player single round robin. The participants in group A included eight of the world's top ten players (country, October 2007 rating and rank in brackets): Viswan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=441263 | 905,738 |
1,138,731 | In Texas, the occurrence and distribution of FIB, in particular fecal coliforms and E. coli, were measured in streams that receive discharge from the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and the surrounding area. These streams receiving the waste are home to aquatic life, used for recreational purposes, and as fishi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14508339 | 1,138,138 |
1,197,923 | Schweizer grew up in Urbandale, Iowa and attended Dowling Catholic High School. She is the daughter of Mike and Kathy (Petricka) Schweizer, both of whom had successful collegiate track careers at Mankato State, with her father earning All-American honors. Karissa's grandfather, Frank Schweizer, was a NCAA Division II A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57528550 | 1,197,282 |
597,356 | Limited material availability during times of disaster relief reconstruction is a major concern and involves increased market prices. Paper tubing on the other hand, not being a typical building material, is comparatively inexpensive and very accessible. In a special case in Turkey in 1999, Ban was able to get paper tu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1749120 | 597,051 |
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