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663,609 | "S. bovis" has long been associated with colorectal cancer; however, not all genospecies are associated equally. A 2011 meta-analysis on the association between "S. bovis" biotypes and colonic adenomas/carcinomas revealed that patients with "S. bovis" biotype I infection had a strongly increased risk of having colorect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3188889 | 663,264 |
1,007,337 | A dam which impounds a large reservoir can store and release a correspondingly large amount of energy, by controlling river outflow and raising or lowering its reservoir level a few meters. Limitations do apply to dam operation, their releases are commonly subject to government regulated water rights to limit downstrea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1646838 | 1,006,817 |
307,857 | When Apple changed the expansion slot architecture of the Mac G5 to PCI Express, Digidesign launched a line of PCIe DSP cards that both adopted the new card slot format and slightly changed the combination of chips. HD Process cards were replaced with HD Accel, each mounting nine Motorola 56321 chips running at 200 MHz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=420787 | 307,692 |
1,723,678 | The early interests in artificial ligaments led to the implementation of non-human tissue, such as Proplast ligaments made of Teflon and carbon fibers and Polyflex made of polypropylene. The results demonstrated poor resistance to torsion forces. Approved by FDA in 1986 and adopted in clinics later, Gore-Tex cruciate l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63290738 | 1,722,708 |
1,827,982 | The Decapod developed mainly under Chief Draughtsman Frederick Vernon Russell was an extraordinary endeavour to develop a steam locomotive which could perform at the level of electric traction. It was built in 1902 to forestall an imminent scheme for an electrified railway out of London to suburbs served by the GER. Si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6055736 | 1,826,943 |
1,410,763 | While accelerators have confirmed most aspects of the Standard Model by detecting expected particle interactions at various collision energies, no theory reconciling general relativity with the Standard Model has yet been found, although supersymmetry and string theory were believed by many theorists to be a promising ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41555255 | 1,409,971 |
170,899 | Techniques to deal with RFI range from filters in hardware to advanced algorithms in software. One way to deal with strong transmitters is to filter out the frequency of the source completely. This is for example the case for the LOFAR observatory, which filters out the FM radio stations between 90 and 110 MHz. It is i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1072324 | 170,809 |
1,445,021 | Formation of zirconium hydrides is an important factor in the operation of several types of nuclear reactors, such as boiling water reactors Fukushima I and II, which suffered from a series of explosions caused by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Their uranium fuel pellets are enclosed in metal rods made from Zi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3112767 | 1,444,205 |
51,304 | Mathematically, spacetime is a "manifold", which is to say, it appears locally "flat" near each point in the same way that, at small enough scales, a globe appears flat. A scale factor, formula_1 (conventionally called the "speed-of-light") relates distances measured in space with distances measured in time. The magnit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28758 | 51,284 |
1,964,179 | High-bit-rate digital subscriber line 2 (HDSL2) is a standard developed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Committee T1E1.4 and published in 2000 as ANSI T1.418-2000. Like its predecessor HDSL, HDSL2 provides a symmetric data rate of 1,544 kbit/s in both the upstream and downstream directions at a nois... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5533133 | 1,963,051 |
1,759,833 | Some programmes are in place to preserve or maintain species which are challenged in their natural environment by raising them in a protected environment. One such example in the United Kingdom is the freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera) which can live for over 100 years, but have seen a loss of their ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60176914 | 1,758,840 |
1,212,861 | The next chapter aims at giving a precise account of the way in which this process operates with respect to a single scientific fact: the peptide TRF(H). This historical account, which Latour and Woolgar admit is, like all histories, a "necessarily literary fiction" (107), has the ostensible purpose of qualifying the i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14004644 | 1,212,209 |
1,351,323 | In another case in 1981, a man named Alan Gell was granted an appeal to his earlier conviction for the murder of another man, Allen Ray Jenkins. Gell's attorney, Mary Pollard, needed assistance finding the postmortem interval on the victim in order to clear her client. With this, she turned to Murray Marks, one of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16471345 | 1,350,577 |
241,533 | Portal is a series of first-person puzzle-platform video games developed by Valve. Set in the "Half-Life" universe, the two main games in the series, "Portal" (2007) and "Portal 2" (2011), center on a woman, Chell, forced to undergo a series of tests within the Aperture Science Enrichment Center by a malicious artifici... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31697773 | 241,407 |
1,948,286 | Big changes to classification that differed from the system created in the 1950s really began to take place in the 1980s with a move away from medical classification to functional classification. ISMWSF was one of the organizations driving this change on the wheelchair sport side. In 1982, wheelchair basketball finally... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51191622 | 1,947,173 |
1,638,873 | Avid built on research done by William Klunk and Chester Mathis who had developed a substance called Pittsburgh compound B as a means of detecting amyloid plaque, after analyzing 400 prospective compounds and developing 300 variations of the substance that they had discovered might work. In 2002, a study performed in S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27824553 | 1,637,948 |
1,244,447 | Interferon-γ signaling mediates transcriptional repression of the perlecan gene. This was first shown in colon cancer cell lines, and subsequently in cell lines of other tissue origins, but in each case intact STAT1 transcription factor was required for the signal to take effect. This led the investigators to believe t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4328716 | 1,243,774 |
1,864,543 | Born in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Hall grew up in Tiverton, Devon. He attended Tiverton Comprehensive School (now Tiverton High School), where he played rhythm guitar in the band of future 3 Colours Red frontman Pete Vuckovic. On leaving school, he worked for Reuters Ltd. as a stocks and bonds pricing analyst, simultaneousl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66086777 | 1,863,471 |
2,112,227 | APA Division 40 rose from the fields of medicine, study of individual variance, and clinical and physiological psychology. Its main goal is the study and practice of brain-behavior relationships. In the 1960s, professionals interested in training issues for the field of brain-behavior relationships formed the Internati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36192906 | 2,111,012 |
801,341 | Some thinkers like neuroscientist and philosopher Adina Roskies think that these studies can still only show, unsurprisingly, that physical factors in the brain are involved before decision making. In contrast, Haggard believes that "We feel we choose, but we don't". Researcher John-Dylan Haynes adds: "How can I call a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26565579 | 800,913 |
95,703 | In 2005, the United States' Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council issued guidance for financial institutions recommending financial institutions conduct risk-based assessments, evaluate customer awareness programs, and develop security measures to reliably authenticate customers remotely accessing online f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22772421 | 95,662 |
785,892 | In television, a virtual studio, or virtual set, is a studio that allows the real-time combination of people or other real objects and computer generated environments and objects in a seamless manner. It requires that the 3D CGI environment is automatically locked to follow any movements of the live camera and lens pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30797574 | 785,469 |
1,814,622 | Hybridization can have many different outcomes. Hybrid speciation results in reproductive isolation against both parent species and genomes that evolve independently from those of the parent species. Introgressive hybridization can transfer important novel variants into genomes of a species that remains distinct from t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62451338 | 1,813,588 |
327,018 | Rutherford moved in 1907 to the Victoria University of Manchester (today University of Manchester) in the UK, where he and Thomas Royds proved that alpha radiation is helium nuclei. Rutherford performed his most famous work after he became a Nobel laureate. In 1911, although he could not prove that it was positive or n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9603 | 326,844 |
617,855 | British ethologist Richard Dawkins wrote about autocatalysis as a potential explanation for abiogenesis in his 2004 book "The Ancestor's Tale". He cites experiments performed by Julius Rebek and his colleagues at the Scripps Research Institute in California in which they combined amino adenosine and pentafluorophenyl e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=286870 | 617,541 |
1,067,765 | Another thing to consider is that the motion of the Moon is not a perfect circle. Its orbit is distinctly elliptic, so the lunar distance from Earth varies throughout the lunar cycle. This varying distance changes the apparent diameter of the Moon, and therefore influences the chances, duration, and type (partial, annu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66109 | 1,067,211 |
148,657 | The majority of this spread took place several years after the initial development of the game; while there are early anecdotes of players and game variants at a handful of locations, primarily near MIT and Stanford, it was only after 1967 that computers hooked up to monitors or terminals capable of playing "Spacewar!"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5482854 | 148,596 |
395,832 | Oklahoma Republican Senator Jim Inhofe, then-chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, didn't plan to see the film (which he appears in), and compared it to Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf". "If you say the same lie over and over again, and particularly if you have the media's support, people will ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4097799 | 395,637 |
74,482 | The advent and rising popularity of online courses have prompted some to ask if computer-mediated communication (CMC) promotes, hinders, or has no effect on the amount and quality of critical thinking in a course (relative to face-to-face communication). There is some evidence to suggest a fourth, more nuanced possibil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276872 | 74,455 |
752,072 | In the wake of the January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle "Challenger" disaster, President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan traveled to JSC on January 31 to speak at a memorial service honoring the astronauts. It was attended by 6,000 NASA employees and 4,000 guests, as well as by the families of the crew. During the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177571 | 751,670 |
1,302,002 | In 1973 the Barcelona 24-hour race was won by Canellas and Grau on a round case Ducati 750 SS converted into an 860 by the use of the Ducati 450 single-cylinder engine's sleeves and pistons. In 1974, the 860 GT went into production. The crankcases had been redesigned by Giugiaro, along with the rest of the bike, with a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6913139 | 1,301,288 |
1,610,544 | Poincaré states that mathematics (analysis) and physics are in the same spirit, that the two disciplines share a common aesthetic goal and that both can liberate humanity from its simple state. In a more pragmatic way, the interdependence of physics and mathematics is similar to his proposed relationship between intuit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3884961 | 1,609,639 |
318,289 | It is usually important in figure drawing to draw the human figure in proportion. Though there are subtle differences between individuals, human proportions fit within a fairly standard range though artists have historically tried to create idealised standards that have varied considerably over time, according to era a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=934991 | 318,118 |
1,884,471 | Professor Shelton was appointed as the first principal and the Queensland Agricultural College was officially opened by the Governor, Lord Lamington, on 9 July 1897. The College had an initial intake of twenty-three students and a staff of six men. The buildings were an administration and teaching block, two dormitorie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44321024 | 1,883,390 |
778,820 | The Blue Qur'an (Arabic: المصحف الأزرق "al-Muṣḥaf al-′Azraq") is a late 9th to early 10th-century Tunisian Qur'an manuscript in Kufic calligraphy, probably created in North Africa for the Great Mosque of Kairouan. It is among the most famous works of Islamic calligraphy, and has been called "one of the most extraordina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47323795 | 778,403 |
1,173,018 | Squyres has participated in many of NASA's planetary exploration missions. From 1978 to 1981 he was an associate of the Voyager mission to Jupiter and Saturn, participating in analysis of imaging data. He subsequently worked as a radar investigator on the Magellan mission to Venus, and with the Near Earth Asteroid Rend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=463965 | 1,172,399 |
1,038,666 | Parson's worries soon came true, and Lockheed's protests that they could fix the problem eventually rang hollow. In 1949 the Air Force arranged funding for Parsons to build his machines on his own. Early work with Snyder Machine & Tool Corp proved the system of directly driving the controls from motors failed to give t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39469106 | 1,038,125 |
1,140,289 | In 1984, Nikaidoh introduced a surgical approach for the management of TGA, VSD, and pulmonary stenosis (PS), which he called "aortic translocation and biventricular outflow tract reconstruction". The repair consisted of harvesting the aortic root from the right ventricle, with or without the coronary arteries attached... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=642396 | 1,139,695 |
114,601 | The school was founded as the Georgia School of Technology as part of Reconstruction plans to build an industrial economy in the post-Civil War Southern United States. Initially, it offered only a degree in mechanical engineering. By 1901, its curriculum had expanded to include electrical, civil, and chemical engineeri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28486339 | 114,556 |
255,247 | Elements of vector calculus: divergence and curl; Gauss' and Stokes' theorems, Maxwell's equations: differential and integral forms. Wave equation, Poynting vector. Plane waves: propagation through various media; reflection and refraction; phase and group velocity; skin depth. Transmission lines: characteristic impedan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28923910 | 255,113 |
1,032,600 | Despite dissimilar sequence homology between self and foreign peptide, weak electrostatic interactions between foreign peptide and the MHC can also mimic self peptide to elicit an autoimmune response within the host. For example, charged residues can explain the enhanced on-rate and reduced off-rate of a particular ant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5795298 | 1,032,064 |
1,625 | The Soviet Union sought to dominate the internal affairs of countries in its border regions. During the war, Stalin had created special training centers for communists from different countries so that they could set up secret police forces loyal to Moscow as soon as the Red Army took control. Soviet agents took control... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=325329 | 1,625 |
2,059,453 | Weisskopf is the recipient of numerous awards, including NASA Medals for Exceptional Service in 1992 and for Scientific Achievement in 1999. He was elected in 1994 as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, which cited his "pioneering work in X-ray polarimetry and time variability studies of cosmic X-ray sources, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49399572 | 2,058,267 |
1,856,769 | Photoelectric observations – however not from surfaces, as in Berlin, but rather in bulk insulators – were started by Pohl together with his assistant Bernhard Gudden in 1919. (The research work from this period was described in detail in .) They discovered that diamond crystals become electrically conducting after irr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5620523 | 1,855,701 |
10,453 | During the Contact period, it is known that certain military positions were held by members of the aristocracy, and were passed on by patrilineal succession. It is likely that the specialised knowledge inherent in the particular military role was taught to the successor, including strategy, ritual, and war dances. Maya... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18449273 | 10,448 |
115,228 | General Motors engineers explained, in 1959, reasons behind the combustion-in-block setup. Anticipating varied future compression ratios in future auto and truck use: "It was obvious that with the combustion chamber placed within the cylinder head, the foundry must retool every time a compression change is in order. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=878027 | 115,183 |
756,499 | On 25 May 2020, the L-39NG commenced static fatigue testing, one reported aim of which is to validate the new airframe's operating life of 5,000 flight hours. By September 2020, roughly 300 test flights has been performed by the two flying prototypes, while additional ground-based testing using a pair of static airfram... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46999159 | 756,096 |
698,740 | This was the first time Russia had not been the top-ranked team before the start of a Chess Olympiad since their first entry in 1992 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, conceding the top spot to the United States, who were defending the title won at the previous Olympiad. The United States were playing with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51473085 | 698,376 |
412,062 | The basic body form of a crinoid is a stem (not present in adult feather stars) and a crown consisting of a cup-like central body known as the theca, and a set of five rays or arms, usually branched and feathery. The mouth and anus are both located on the upper side of the theca, making the dorsal (upper) surface the o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62175 | 411,860 |
721,821 | The acronym 3D-QSAR or 3-D QSAR refers to the application of force field calculations requiring three-dimensional structures of a given set of small molecules with known activities (training set). The training set needs to be superimposed (aligned) by either experimental data (e.g. based on ligand-protein crystallograp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=826669 | 721,441 |
756,498 | The full prototype L-39NG conducted its maiden flight, as per schedule, on 22 December 2018. In 2019, it was announced that Aero Vodochody was changing the L-39NG's certification schedule, this was reportedly in response to customer demands for increased capability; the move was to facilitate the clearance of deliverie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46999159 | 756,095 |
193,226 | Having the beam connected to the piston shaft by a means that applied force alternately in both directions also meant that it was possible to use the motion of the beam to turn a wheel. The simplest solution to transforming the action of the beam into a rotating motion was to connect the beam to a wheel by a crank, but... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=165067 | 193,126 |
1,820,154 | Held every two years, IAHR World Congresses are one of the most important activities of the association and attract participants from all over the world. The Congresses provide scientists, engineers, organisations, authorities, companies, and early career professionals with a stimulating opportunity to meet, share and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5477631 | 1,819,118 |
1,096,670 | CRO duties and responsibilities include planning missions and leading CSAR assets, pararescue and Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape operations, including aerospace interface in the recovery objective area. Supporting joint and combined forces engaged in conventional and special operations air, ground, and/or mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18612359 | 1,096,110 |
23,576 | The options for living on North Campus for upperclassmen are the program houses and co-op houses. Program houses include Risley Residential College, Just About Music, the Ecology House, Holland International Living Center, the Multicultural Living Learning Unit, the Latino Living Center, , and Ujamaa. The co-op houses ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 | 23,567 |
918,892 | Since the 1970s, the branch and bound methodology has been applied to the problem. In the case of Euclidean space, this approach encompasses spatial index or spatial access methods. Several space-partitioning methods have been developed for solving the NNS problem. Perhaps the simplest is the k-d tree, which iterativel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7309022 | 918,409 |
13,312 | NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center acquired an F-4A on 3 December 1965. It made 55 flights in support of short programs, chase on X-15 missions and lifting body flights. The F-4 also supported a biomedical monitoring program involving 1,000 flights by NASA Flight Research Center aerospace research pilots and students... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11759 | 13,307 |
130,377 | The A310 was furnished with a two-crew glass cockpit configuration as standard, removing the requirement for a flight engineer; Airbus referred to this concept as the "Forward-Facing Crew Cockpit". The company had developed the cockpit to significantly enhance the aircraft's man-machine interface, thereby improving ope... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162896 | 130,325 |
1,044,847 | Norway is Europe's largest producer of hydropower and the 6th largest in the world. 90% of capacity is publicly owned. The largest producer is the Norwegian government, through the state-owned Statkraft which in turn, owns nine of the largest hydroelectric plants and is also a major player in the international energy m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20445709 | 1,044,303 |
1,166,530 | The first pallet comes to rest against a stop which holds it in the correct position so that when the pendulum is reaching the end of its travel, pushed by the second pallet, the first pallet swings down into the path of the wheel again. It makes contact with the wheel and, driven by the momentum of the pendulum, pushe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=597105 | 1,165,913 |
1,532,658 | Some scholars claim that the breadth of definitions through which OEP are described impairs researchers' ability to measure the impact of OEP. Others, however, have undertaken projects exploring and documenting OEP which demonstrate potential areas of impact. For instance, adopting OEP can lead to opportunities for col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35660273 | 1,531,790 |
1,457,661 | The campus is located at Farmagudi, Ponda approximately 29 km southeast of Panaji, the capital of Goa and it is a temporary campus. The state of Goa is well connected by roadways, railways and airways with various parts of the country. At present NIT Goa is temporarily accommodated and functioning in the Goa Engineerin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31692936 | 1,456,841 |
499,905 | Since the fraction of a radioisotope's atoms decaying per unit of time is inversely proportional to its half-life, the relative radioactivity of a quantity of buried human radioactive waste would diminish over time compared to natural radioisotopes; such as the decay chains of of thorium and of uranium which are at rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20825543 | 499,648 |
740,866 | The study of biomechanics ranges from the inner workings of a cell to the movement and development of limbs, to the mechanical properties of soft tissue, and bones. Some simple examples of biomechanics research include the investigation of the forces that act on limbs, the aerodynamics of bird and insect flight, the hy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=105355 | 740,474 |
1,094,693 | Little is known about this civilization, often called Harappan, partly because it disappeared about 1700 BC for reasons unknown, its language remains undeciphered, its existence was revealed only in the 1920s, and excavations have been limited. Surviving evidences indicate a sophisticated civilization. Cities like Hara... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15684890 | 1,094,133 |
580,153 | A recently described method by Ehrich et al. further takes advantage of bisulfite-conversions by adding a base-specific cleavage step to enhance the information gained from the nucleotide changes. By first using in vitro transcription of the region of interest into RNA (by adding an RNA polymerase promoter site to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9773858 | 579,856 |
522,676 | Clustered standard errors are often useful when treatment is assigned at the level of a "cluster" instead of at the individual level. For example, suppose that an educational researcher wants to discover whether a new teaching technique improves student test scores. She therefore assigns teachers in "treated" classroom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64472158 | 522,404 |
380,974 | Mycoplasma is a genus of bacteria that, like the other members of the class "Mollicutes", lack a cell wall around their cell membranes. Peptidoglycan (murein) is absent. This characteristic makes them naturally resistant to antibiotics that target cell wall synthesis (like the beta-lactam antibiotics). They can be para... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=219939 | 380,779 |
1,652,215 | GATA4 expression during cardiac development has been shown to be essential to proper atrioventricular (AV) formation and function. Endocardial cells undergo epithelial to mesenchymal transitions (EMT) into the AV cushions during development. Their proliferation and fusion leads to division of the ventricular inlet into... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14133729 | 1,651,283 |
26,921 | Alumni authors take their degrees across the spectrum of degree concentrations, but a gauge of the strength of writing at Brown is the number of major national writing prizes won. To note only winners since the year 2000: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winners Jeffrey Eugenides '82 (2003), Marilynne Robinson '66 (2005), an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4157 | 26,911 |
1,007,208 | When magnetrons were being developed in Japan, the initial primary application was intended to be power transmission, not radar. As these devices increased in output energy, their application for a weapon became apparent. For research in special weapons, a large facility was built in Shimada. In 1943, a project in deve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27693223 | 1,006,688 |
1,564,401 | The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique is a 1984 book by the philosopher Adolf Grünbaum, in which the author offers a philosophical critique of the work of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. The book was first published in the United States by the University of California Press. Grünbaum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34449875 | 1,563,514 |
518,770 | John Keegan and Andrew Wheatcroft, in their 1986 book "Zones of Conflict: An Atlas of Future Wars", make the point that strategic interests in Antarctica derive from two causes: economic and strategic. Antarctica has great potential economic value, in terms of mineral and oil resources. Strategically, there was continu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9010547 | 518,501 |
1,889,631 | West was collecting and exchanging plants via the publication, Hardwicke's "Science-Gossip", by 1877. In June 1878 he published an article in the magazine, giving advice on "maintaining aquaria for microorganisms". By 1879 he had made microscope slides for exchange. The microscopist Jean Claudius Tempère (1847–1926), w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25778405 | 1,888,548 |
1,222,723 | In January 1951, the new government nationalized PUMC, and the institution was accused of being an agent of American cultural imperialism. The Ministry of Health changed its name to China Union Medical College but did not radically alter the curriculum except to switch the language of instruction from English to Chines... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=919947 | 1,222,064 |
601,568 | The SNAPSHOT test included a cesium ion thruster as a secondary payload, the first test of an electrically powered spacecraft propulsion system to operate in orbit (following the SERT-1 suborbital test in 1964). The ion-beam power supply was operated at 4500 V and 80 mA to produce a thrust of about 8.5 mN. The ion engi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2168920 | 601,259 |
882,464 | Emperors of the Antonine and the Severan dynasties overall debased the currency, particularly the "denarius", under the pressures of meeting military payrolls. Sudden inflation during the reign of Commodus damaged the credit market. In the mid-200s, the supply of specie contracted sharply. Conditions during the Crisis ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1965658 | 882,000 |
448,386 | The German Junkers J.I armoured fuselage ground-attack sesquiplane of 1917 used a Hugo Junkers-designed multi-tube network of several tubular wing spars, placed just under the corrugated duralumin wing covering and with each tubular spar connected to the adjacent one with a space frame of triangulated duralumin strips ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4345237 | 448,168 |
1,644,630 | Analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) is a method for analyzing population variation using molecular data, e.g. Y-STR haplotypes. With AMOVA it is possible to evaluate and quantify the extent of differentiation between two or more population samples. AMOVA is implemented as an online tool in the YHRD and provides a wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40626744 | 1,643,703 |
1,063,138 | The World Wide Web has become a major delivery platform for a variety of complex and sophisticated enterprise applications in several domains. In addition to their inherent multifaceted functionality, these Web applications exhibit complex behaviour and place some unique demands on their usability, performance, securit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1252448 | 1,062,584 |
581,942 | In 1960, 1963, and 1978, W. H. McCrea proposed the protoplanet hypothesis, in which the Sun and planets individually coalesced from matter within the same cloud, with the smaller planets later captured by the Sun's larger gravity. It includes fission in a protoplanetary nebula and excludes a solar nebula. Agglomeration... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17052696 | 581,644 |
34,919 | White LEDs can also be made by coating near-ultraviolet (NUV) LEDs with a mixture of high-efficiency europium-based phosphors that emit red and blue, plus copper and aluminium-doped zinc sulfide (ZnS:Cu, Al) that emits green. This is a method analogous to the way fluorescent lamps work. This method is less efficient th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18290 | 34,907 |
723,376 | DoD policies and directives protect the policy of civilian control by establishing strict limitations on military members' political activities. For example, DoD Directive 1344.10 prohibits active-duty members of the military from running for office or making political appearances in uniform. However, enforcing this st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34010678 | 722,996 |
2,075,140 | In 1971, Ron Konopka, a geneticist at the California Institute of Technology, discovered the Period gene, which he found to be involved in the circadian clock of "Drosophila". In 1999, Paul Hardin discovered that "per" mRNA underwent strong circadian oscillations by exposing isolated wild-type "per" mRNA to a series of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53761781 | 2,073,943 |
1,970,240 | Indeno(1,2,3-cd)pyrene are among other PAHs considered as possible carcinogens to humans. The PAH family consists of similar molecules and therefore they have a similar mechanism of causing cancer in vivo. The molecule is metabolized in the body by the cytochrome P450 system, resulting in metabolites containing nitro, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70339998 | 1,969,106 |
921,985 | Gagnon would be the principal architect of the university's attempt to create a Great Books program called the "Coordinated Freshman Year English-History Program", which prompted criticism and opposition from younger faculty members in the English and History Departments (who wanted their students to have reading assig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99867 | 921,499 |
1,448,604 | Work on microbial phylogeny also brought molecular evolution closer to cell biology and origin of life research. The differences between archaea pointed to the importance of RNA in the early history of life. In his work with the genetic code, Woese had suggested RNA-based life had preceded the current forms of DNA-base... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11863361 | 1,447,788 |
872,071 | In May 2012, the "Dawn" team published preliminary results of their study of Vesta, including estimates of the size of Vesta's metal-rich core, which is theorized to be across. The scientists stated that they think that Vesta is the "last of its kind" – the only remaining example of the large planetoids that came toget... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=532434 | 871,611 |
1,342,997 | Ingber's contributions in translational medicine include discovery of one of the first angiogenesis inhibitor compounds (TNP-470) to enter clinical trials for cancer, creation of tissue engineering scaffolds that led to clinical products, development of a dialysis-like blood cleansing device for treatment of blood stre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29057341 | 1,342,261 |
824,921 | All these works show great originality of form and content, a very interesting blend of highly sophisticated mastery of the western European style of music, including classical, late-romantic, impressionistic and modernist traditions, and on the other hand a profound knowledge and respect for the folk music of Hungary ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=172840 | 824,478 |
2,163,508 | Ordinarily that would have been the end of the Wisconsin's season but in the summer of 1980 the NCAA changed its tournament format. With the success of the CCHA and the increasing number of programs at the Division I level the NCAA tournament was expanded to 8 teams, 4 for eastern schools and 4 for western squads. As t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58098318 | 2,162,272 |
2,026,098 | Mitio Nagumo graduated from the Department of Mathematics at the Imperial University of Tokyo in March 1928. In March 1931 he was appointed Lecturer in the Faculty of Technology at the Imperial University of Kyushu. In February 1932 he left Japan for an academic visit to Göttingen, where he remained for two years. Upon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50491692 | 2,024,932 |
1,311,522 | Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things is a 2002 non-fiction book by German chemist Michael Braungart and US architect William McDonough. It is a manifesto detailing how to achieve their Cradle to Cradle Design model. It calls for a radical change in industry: a switch from a cradle-to-grave pattern to a cra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4263285 | 1,310,803 |
313,988 | Class B transceivers are smaller, simpler and lower cost than Class A transceivers. Each consists of one VHF transmitter, two VHF Carrier Sense Time Division Multiple Access (CSTDMA) receivers, both alternating as the VHF Digital Selective Calling (DSC) receiver, and a GPS active antenna. Although the data output forma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1825702 | 313,819 |
236,402 | The university has 9 men's and 11 women's varsity teams. Athletic teams include men's baseball, basketball, football, golf, hockey, lacrosse, skiing, swimming/diving, and tennis and women's basketball, cross country, gymnastics, skiing, soccer, softball, swimming/diving, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. The sch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32097 | 236,283 |
789,958 | With the majority of the public now exposed to it since childhood, the metric system became the sole legal measurement system in most fields of Japanese life on 1 January 1959. Redrafting of laws to use metric equivalents had already been accomplished, but conversion of the land registries required until 31 March 1966 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2985420 | 789,533 |
1,925,140 | The TOTEM experiment (TOTal Elastic and diffractive cross section Measurement) is one of the nine detector experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The other eight are: ATLAS, ALICE, CMS, LHCb, LHCf, MoEDAL, FASER and SND@LHC. It shares an interaction point with CMS. The detector aims at measurement of total cross ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2601903 | 1,924,036 |
857,094 | The Apollo Applications Program (AAP) involved science-based crewed space missions using surplus Apollo equipment. The lack of interest by Congress resulted in most of the proposed activities being abandoned, but an orbital workshop remained of interest. In December 1965, MSFC was authorized to begin the Orbital Worksh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=113053 | 856,639 |
1,949,010 | Prieto received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry and Philosophy from Williams College in 1996. There, she undertook an honors thesis entitled "The Synthesis and Characterization of Precursors to Zirconium-Containing Liquid Crystals" under the mentorship of Lee Young Park. Before beginning her doctoral work, she... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63332077 | 1,947,892 |
285,630 | On 16 October 2017, Bombardier and Airbus announced a partnership on the CSeries program to expand in an estimated market of more than 6,000 new 100-150 seat aircraft over 20 years; in July 2018, Airbus acquired a 50.01% majority stake, Bombardier keeping 31% and Investissement Québec 19%. Under this deal, the CSeries ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=81581 | 285,476 |
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