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30,221 | The risk of disease can be reduced by preventing mosquito bites through the use of mosquito nets and insect repellents or with mosquito-control measures such as spraying insecticides and draining standing water. Several medications are available to prevent malaria for travellers in areas where the disease is common. Oc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20423 | 30,211 |
317,909 | The Martian atmosphere is particularly prone to impact erosion owing to the low escape velocity of Mars. An early computer model suggested that Mars could have lost 99% of its initial atmosphere by the end of late heavy bombardment period based on a hypothetical bombardment flux estimated from lunar crater density. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4548379 | 317,739 |
1,290,284 | It is basically a scale replica of the design, creation and launch of a real satellite. The process required to develop a CanSat entails a learning process known as problem-based learning, a new teaching method in which the student is the main character and the one who must solve the problems. The main characteristic o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33410235 | 1,289,574 |
944,069 | The Hundred Schools of Thought were philosophers and schools that flourished from the 6th century to 221 BCE, an era of great cultural and intellectual expansion in China. Even though this period – known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period – in its latter part was fraught w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1167 | 943,567 |
200,758 | The environmental impact of agriculture involves impacts on a variety of different factors: the soil, water, the air, animal and soil variety, people, plants, and the food itself. Agriculture contributes to a number larger of environmental issues that cause environmental degradation including: climate change, deforesta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23534209 | 200,655 |
373,331 | As with all less-lethal weapons, use of the TASER system is never risk free. Sharp metal projectiles and electricity are in use, so misuse or abuse of the weapon increases the likelihood that serious injury or death may occur. In addition, the manufacturer has identified other risk factors that may increase the risks o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=237746 | 373,136 |
767,799 | In recent years, the technique of cloning whole organisms has been developed in mammals, allowing almost identical genetic clones of an animal to be produced. One method of doing this is called "somatic cell nuclear transfer" and involves removing the nucleus from a somatic cell, usually a skin cell. This nucleus conta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=207754 | 767,387 |
88,213 | Yeager made a cameo appearance in the movie "The Right Stuff" (1983). He played "Fred", a bartender at "Pancho's Place", which was most appropriate, as Yeager said, "if all the hours were ever totaled, I reckon I spent more time at her place than in a cockpit over those years". Sam Shepard portrayed Yeager in the film,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6185 | 88,178 |
2,067,043 | Deletion of murine ortholog Ube3b leads to severe developmental delay in mice. The conventional knockout of Ube3b leads to a growth retardation, decreased grip strength, and loss of vocalization associated with the metabolic disease with nucleotide metabolism and the tricarboxylic acid cycle being the most affected. Su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63869226 | 2,065,852 |
514,614 | Developed from a specification issued by the French Air Ministry during 1930, the D.500 was developed to be a more capable replacement to the Nieuport 62. Ordered by the French Air Force during November 1933 and introduced in its initial model during 1935, the design was developed into several variants, most notably th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=452355 | 514,348 |
903,799 | Bacterial contamination alone in absence of obstruction does not usually result in cholangitis. However increased pressure within the biliary system (above 20 cmHO) resulting from obstruction in the bile duct widens spaces between the cells lining the duct, bringing bacterially contaminated bile in contact with the blo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5544827 | 903,323 |
158,334 | Cryopreservation was applied to human materials beginning in 1954 with three pregnancies resulting from the insemination of previously frozen sperm. Fowl sperm was cryopreserved in 1957 by a team of scientists in the UK directed by Christopher Polge. During 1963, Peter Mazur, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the U.S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19349845 | 158,253 |
748,100 | Soil fertility is a complex process that involves the constant cycling of nutrients between organic and inorganic forms. As plant material and animal wastes are decomposed by micro-organisms, they release inorganic nutrients to the soil solution, a process referred to as mineralization. Those nutrients may then undergo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1251925 | 747,704 |
1,238,297 | Kean examines perfectionism at the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) and the BIPM (Bureau International des Poids et Measures). These people are responsible for defining the fundamental physical units and standards utilized throughout the world. Throughout this chapter, Kean discusses the prototype ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46736756 | 1,237,631 |
152,945 | Updates to existing devices vary by manufacturer and carrier, and driver support for the version by the manufacturer of a device's respective system-on-chip. Major manufacturers, including HTC, Sony, and Motorola announced intents to update a range of their recent devices to Nougat. Qualcomm stated that it would not su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49702054 | 152,876 |
1,672,857 | From these observations, it can be argued that MIB is an interhemispheric switching phenomenon, an unexpected member of the class of rhythmic, biphasic, perceptual rivalries such as binocular rivalry and plaid motion rivalry. In this formulation, the disappearance in MIB can be understood in terms of the cognitive styl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10751304 | 1,671,915 |
763,174 | Combined arms and quick advance in later eras. In the later Roman empire, cavalry forces played a larger role, with the infantry in support. The campaign of the Emperor Julian II against the Persians is instructive in this regard. On June 22, 363 a large-scale clash occurred near the town of Maranga. Facing an enemy th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30855309 | 762,765 |
23,094 | On July 22, 2010, Dell agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to pay $100M in penalties resulting from charges that Dell did not accurately disclose accounting information to investors. In particular, the SEC charged that from 2002 to 2006, Dell had an agreement with Intel to rece... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14617 | 23,085 |
897,175 | The enhancers determining early segmentation in "Drosophila melanogaster" embryos are among the best characterized developmental enhancers. In the early fly embryo, the gap gene transcription factors are responsible for activating and repressing a number of segmentation genes, such as the pair rule genes. The gap genes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=215038 | 896,703 |
143,947 | Fermi designed a new pile, which would be spherical to maximize "k", which was predicted to be around 1.04, thereby achieving criticality. Leona Woods was detailed to build boron trifluoride neutron detectors as soon as she completed her doctoral thesis. She also helped Anderson locate the required large number of timb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1118396 | 143,889 |
36,995 | Many different methods of connecting components have been used over the years. For instance, early electronics often used point to point wiring with components attached to wooden breadboards to construct circuits. Cordwood construction and wire wrap were other methods used. Most modern day electronics now use printed c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9663 | 36,983 |
381,665 | The structure of the N- and C-terminal tails of GPCRs may also serve important functions beyond ligand-binding. For example, The C-terminus of M muscarinic receptors is sufficient, and the six-amino-acid polybasic (KKKRRK) domain in the C-terminus is necessary for its preassembly with G proteins. In particular, the C-t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12832 | 381,470 |
303,797 | During the Battle of Britain, the German Luftwaffe attempted to destroy Great Britain's Chain Home radar stations in order to degrade the British air defense network. However, German High Command failed to realize the efficiency of not only the radar stations themselves but the command and control system directing Brit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573491 | 303,635 |
311,281 | On 30 April 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed thousands of files he said were copied from a "highly secret location" in Tehran which show an Iranian effort to develop nuclear weapons between 1999 and 2003. Many analysts said there was little new information in Netanyahu's presentation, which they... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=721807 | 311,113 |
1,387,997 | Wen introduced the notion of topological order (1989) and quantum order (2002), to describe a new class of matter states. This opens up a new research direction in condensed matter physics. He found that states with topological order contain non-trivial boundary excitations and developed chiral Luttinger theory for the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20464688 | 1,387,230 |
289,884 | By the early 20th century, the fossils of Permian synapsids from South Africa had become well known, allowing palaeontologists to trace synapsid evolution in much greater detail. The term Sauropsida was taken up by E.S. Goodrich in 1916 much like Huxley's, to include lizards, birds and their relatives. He distinguished... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=361814 | 289,727 |
356,939 | Classification of OI has also evolved as scientific understanding of it has improved. Before the advent of modern genetic testing, OI was classified in two broad groups: "osteogenesis imperfecta congenita", and "osteogenesis imperfecta tarda", a division first proposed by the German physician E. Looser in 1906. "Congen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=891521 | 356,753 |
34,365 | In 2017, there was significant pushback against this scenario, arguing that the eukaryotes did not emerge within the Archaea. Cunha "et al." produced analyses supporting the three domains (3D) or Woese hypothesis (2 in the table above) and rejecting the eocyte hypothesis (4 above). Harish and Kurland found strong suppo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24536543 | 34,353 |
1,806,949 | Cytoplasmic polyadenylation should be distinguished from nuclear polyadenlyation; cytoplasmic polyadenylation occurs in the cytoplasm in specific mRNAs as opposed to occurring in the nucleus and affecting almost all eukaryotic mRNAs. Among other functions, a prominent role for the CPE has been identified in oogenesis, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11969640 | 1,805,930 |
459,585 | Once these basic theoretical developments had been established, the methods of decision analysis were then further codified and popularized, becoming widely taught (e.g., in business schools and departments of industrial engineering). A brief and highly accessible introductory text was published in 1968 by decision the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1190842 | 459,360 |
231,907 | In 1796, Ampère met Julie Carron and, in 1799, they were married. Ampère took his first regular job in 1799 as a mathematics teacher, which gave him the financial security to marry Carron and father his first child, Jean-Jacques (named after his father), the next year. (Jean-Jacques Ampère eventually achieved his own f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1363 | 231,788 |
349,052 | Forms of read-only memory were employed as non-volatile storage for programs in most early stored-program computers, such as ENIAC after 1948. (Until then it was not a stored-program computer as every program had to be manually wired into the machine, which could take days to weeks.) Read-only memory was simpler to imp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18934934 | 348,870 |
995,446 | The Constitution grew out of efforts to reform the Articles of Confederation, an earlier constitution which provided for a loose alliance of states with a weak central government. From May 1787 through September 1787, delegates from twelve of the thirteen states convened in Philadelphia, where they wrote a new constitu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=497752 | 994,929 |
492,665 | Radiative forcings are generally quantified as Watts per square meter (W/m) and averaged over Earth's uppermost surface defined as the top of the atmosphere. The magnitude of a forcing is specific to the physical driver and is defined "relative to" an accompanying time span of interest for its application. In the conte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1765281 | 492,410 |
1,638,747 | The use of cold for pain relief and as an anti-inflammatory has been known since the time of Hippocrates (460-377 B.C). Since then there have been numerous accounts of ice used for pain relief including from the Ancient Egyptians and Avicenna of Persia (A.D.982–1070). In 1812 Napoleon's Surgeon General noted that half-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41121217 | 1,637,822 |
1,503,172 | The determination of the force that is exerted by the magnetic field on the magnetic beads can be calculated considering thermal fluctuations of the bead in the horizontal plane: The problem is rotational symmetric with respect to the vertical axis; hereafter one arbitrarily picked direction in the symmetry plane is ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9368062 | 1,502,326 |
1,058,015 | PBI has been used as the membranes for various separation purposes. Traditionally, PBI was used semi-permeable membranes for electrodialysis, reverse osmosis or ultrafiltration. PBI has also used for gas separations. due to its close chain packing since PBI has rigidity structure and strong hydrogen bonding. PBI membra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2035017 | 1,057,466 |
905,328 | Electronic publishing will likely continue to exist alongside paper publishing for the foreseeable future, since whilst output to a screen is important for browsing and searching, it is not well suited for extensive reading. Formats suitable both for reading on paper, and for manipulation by the reader's computer will ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37316 | 904,852 |
1,758,662 | Little is known about the life cycle of the virus infecting these flagellate-containing planktonic species, "Chrysochromulina brevifilum" and "C. strobilus". Suttle and Chan (1995) were the first to isolate viruses which infect Prymnesiophytes or haptophytes. In this study, ultrathin sections of viruses within "Chyrsoc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7903516 | 1,757,669 |
1,841,462 | The development of indirect sequencing methods has to some degree mitigated the lack of efficient DNA sequencing technologies. These techniques allowed researchers to increase scientific knowledge in fields like ecology and evolution. Several genetic markers, more or less well suited for the purpose, were developed hel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62084317 | 1,840,410 |
372,372 | The Preparedness movement had what political scientists call a "realism" philosophy of world affairs—they believed that economic strength and military muscle were more decisive than idealistic crusades focused on causes like democracy and national self-determination. Emphasizing over and over the weak state of national... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25604889 | 372,177 |
1,455,272 | The progressive reform movement began in the late 1870s with the work of Colonel Francis Parker, but is most identified with John Dewey, and also John Mayer Rice and Lester Frank Ward. Dewey's 1899 book The School and Society is often credited with starting the movement. These reformers felt that curriculum should be c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6130036 | 1,454,452 |
1,766,258 | The embryologist Søren Løvtrup, in "Systematic Zoology", noted that the book had two objectives, unexceptionably to gain practice, and "more dubious[ly]", to show that "in spite of the collapse of Haeckel's biogenetic law, the subject of parallels between ontogenesis and phylogenesis is still of importance to biology".... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7608175 | 1,765,264 |
232,222 | Potential 13Ls will first attend a two phase assessment and selection process before attending their initial skills training. Phase I involves completing an application and PAST that is submitted to a review board of TACP Officers. If the review board sees potential in a candidate, they will invite the candidate to Pha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32231624 | 232,103 |
1,130,126 | The pharmaceutical industry is one of the leading industries in the People's Republic of China, covering synthetic chemicals and drugs, prepared Chinese medicines, medical devices, apparatus and instruments, hygiene materials, packing materials, and pharmaceutical machinery. China has the second-largest pharmaceutical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2913045 | 1,129,548 |
2,195,564 | ISCI's Smartcities group sets the challenge of using the technological tools and information available to generate developments that allow it to contribute directly to the improvement of the quality of life in cities. One such line of work is the use of real-time information to deliver recommendations to users that all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56866126 | 2,194,314 |
520,241 | Uchimura was already considered by many in the sport to be the greatest gymnast of all time after his success at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, but he then extended his achievements even further when he followed up that performance there with additional and uninterrupted victories at every major competition throug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18787707 | 519,970 |
1,636,467 | In June 2013, ThetaRay raised its seed funding from Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) as part of their cyber security portfolio. Two months later, General Electric (GE) joined JVP as an investor and ThetaRay launched its Advanced Analytics Platform for big data. It was followed by operational risk solutions for financia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52112692 | 1,635,542 |
1,244,966 | In the late 1930s, he held a short-lived academic appointment at the University of Freiburg-in-Breisgau. Whether Christaller was a member of the Nazi Party is disputed. He moved into government service, for Himmler's SS-Planning and Soil Office, during the Second World War. Christaller's task was to draw up plans for r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1220097 | 1,244,293 |
1,434,837 | Hosting more than 850 scientists, engineers, and support staff, the CfA is among the largest astronomical research institutes in the world. Its projects have included Nobel Prize-winning advances in cosmology and high energy astrophysics, the discovery of many exoplanets, and the first image of a black hole. The CfA al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1505128 | 1,434,031 |
347,816 | Many innovations and technical refinements have been made in printing processes and presses over the years, including the development of presses with multiple units (each containing one printing plate) that can print multi-color images in one pass on both sides of the sheet, and presses that accommodate continuous roll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426 | 347,635 |
1,991,449 | In audio, a change in polarity refers to an equal phase shift of 180° at all frequencies, usually produced on one channel by reversing the connections of two wires. Some audiophiles claim that reversing the polarities of "all" the channels simultaneously makes a subtle perceptible difference in the reproduced sound, ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1493369 | 1,990,306 |
1,374,405 | The H–V curve is a diagram indicating the combinations of height above ground and airspeed that should be avoided due to safety concerns relating to emergency landings. It is dangerous to operate within the shaded regions of the diagram, because it may be impossible for the pilot to complete an emergency autorotation f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2239013 | 1,373,646 |
830,783 | Bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) are circular DNA molecules, usually about 7kb in length, that are capable of holding inserts up to 300kb in size. BAC vectors contain a replicon derived from E. coli F factor, which ensures they are maintained at one copy per cell. Once an insert is ligated into a BAC, the BAC is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4995479 | 830,335 |
1,307,721 | TMoA, or any other type of aphasia, is identified and diagnosed through the screening and assessment process. Screening can be conducted by a SLP or other professional when there is a suspected aphasia. The screening does not diagnose aphasia, rather it points to the need for a further comprehensive assessment. A scree... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2202100 | 1,307,005 |
1,675,087 | Organisms such as limpets and sea stars use suction and mucus-like slimes to create Stefan adhesion, which makes pull-off much harder than lateral drag; this allows both attachment and mobility. Spores, embryos and juvenile forms may use temporary adhesives (often glycoproteins) to secure their initial attachment to su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12577562 | 1,674,145 |
1,214,408 | Structural glazed facing tile is perhaps its most common and prolific form of clay tile block. Structural glazed facing tile has been extensively used in institutional settings where a durable, easily cleanable surface is desired. The material is commonly found in schools, correctional facilities, swimming pools and si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33988042 | 1,213,756 |
719,566 | Australopithecines are generally considered to have had a faster, apelike growth rate than modern humans largely due to dental development trends. Broadly speaking, the emergence of the first permanent molar in early hominins has been variously estimated anywhere from 2.5 to 4.5 years of age, which all contrast markedl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2165275 | 719,186 |
894,320 | The earliest experiments were conducted using the adiabatic D-Wave quantum computer, for instance, to detect cars in digital images using regularized boosting with a nonconvex objective function in a demonstration in 2009. Many experiments followed on the same architecture, and leading tech companies have shown interes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44108758 | 893,850 |
972,973 | On September 9, 2018, "System 001" (nicknamed "Wilson" in reference to the floating volleyball in the 2000 film "Cast Away)" deployed from San Francisco. The ship "Maersk Launcher" towed the system to a position 240 nautical miles off the coast, where it was put through a series of sea trials. It consisted of a long ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48396387 | 972,463 |
1,826,106 | Lake and marine environments on Earth are favorable for fossil preservation, especially where the sediments they left behind are rich in carbonates or clays. Hundreds of highland craters on Mars have horizontally layered, sedimentary rocks that may have formed in lakes. CRISM has taken many targeted observations of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5565460 | 1,825,067 |
2,069,583 | Work continued into the nationalised era, when a decision was made to concentrate various headquarters functions, particularly that of the Chief Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, in one national centre. This produced the Railway Technical Centre (RTC) on the opposite side of London Road, on a site which had formerly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2552438 | 2,068,392 |
496,298 | Officially registered teams can also be nominated by their region for the Global Innovation Award, where they could win a grant to make their innovative solution to the annual challenge theme's problem a reality. As of the "Animal Allies" Season, the First Place team wins $20,000 and two other Finalists each win $5,000... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=970161 | 496,042 |
48,271 | Different physical devices and aids have been used to assist with ciphers. One of the earliest may have been the scytale of ancient Greece, a rod supposedly used by the Spartans as an aid for a transposition cipher. In medieval times, other aids were invented such as the cipher grille, which was also used for a kind of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18934432 | 48,251 |
9,193 | By the late 1980s, DC-10 and L-1011 models were approaching retirement age, prompting manufacturers to develop replacement designs. McDonnell Douglas was working on the MD-11, a stretched and upgraded successor of the DC-10, while Airbus was developing its A330 and A340 series. In 1986, Boeing unveiled proposals for an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89260 | 9,189 |
1,706,080 | The XPS Print Path introduced in Windows Vista supports high quality 16-bit color printing. The XPS print path uses XML Paper Specification (XPS) as the print spooler file format, that serves as the page description language (PDL) for printers. The XPS spooler format is the intended replacement for the Enhanced Metafil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9705828 | 1,705,122 |
970,946 | In vertebrates the locations at which recombination occurs are determined by the binding locations of PRDM9, a protein which recognizes a specific sequence motif by its zinc finger array. At these sites, another protein, SPO11 catalyses recombination-initiating double strand breaks (DSBs), a subset of which are repaire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2631477 | 970,436 |
84,191 | The first stage of prophase I is the "leptotene" stage, also known as "leptonema", from Greek words meaning "thin threads". In this stage of prophase I, individual chromosomes—each consisting of two replicated sister chromatids—become "individualized" to form visible strands within the nucleus. The chromosomes each for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18976 | 84,157 |
422,005 | Rummel's version of the democratic peace theory has some distinctive features disputed by some other researchers who support the existence and explanatory power of the theory. Rummel's early research found that democracies are less warlike, even against non-democracies; other researchers hold only that democracies are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=356324 | 421,799 |
637,914 | Electric motors must be compact and lightweight. They should also deliver a higher output with less copper usage. A prerequisite for this is an appropriate design of the coil body and suitable wire dimensions. One parameter of importance for the developer of motors is the electrical fill factor. The fill factor measure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51118813 | 637,575 |
1,214,449 | There are five main types of agriculture that fungus-growing ants practice: Lower, coral fungi, yeast, generalized higher, and leafcutter agricultural systems. Lower agriculture is the most primitive system and is currently practiced by 80 species in 10 genera. This classification is given in regards to the morphology ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3374279 | 1,213,797 |
1,145,025 | The company was started in 1953 with a vision of re-creating the British countryside. Their style referred to the romantic image of English ladies tending roses at their country manors, and it resonated with many women in the 1970s. The business rapidly expanded from a single silk-screen press to a major retailer with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15033749 | 1,144,424 |
1,278,169 | FIRO-B would call the two dimensions Expressed Behavior and Wanted Behavior, and use three separate matrices for the respective areas of Inclusion (social skills) Control (leadership and responsibility-taking) and Affection (deep personal relationships). In 1977, "locator charts" were produced for each area by Dr. Leo ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11256021 | 1,277,476 |
122,669 | Immanuel Kant stated in "Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens" (1755) that a large star was at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, and that Sirius might be the star. Harlow Shapley stated in 1918 that the halo of globular clusters surrounding the Milky Way seemed to be centered on the star swarms in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=373352 | 122,620 |
1,731,513 | After a world-record breaking victory in the 400 m freestyle two days earlier, U.S. distance ace Katie Ledecky pulled away from the field to capture the Olympic mid-distance freestyle crown and her second individual gold at these Games. Hanging with the leaders at the 150-metre turn, Ledecky fended off Sweden's Sarah S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45186823 | 1,730,537 |
758,586 | Tax-supported schooling for girls began as early as 1767 in New England. It was optional and some towns proved reluctant to support this innovation. Moreover, statutes creating town schools for "children" often were interpreted in practice as encompassing only boys. Northampton, Massachusetts, for example, was a late a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9083795 | 758,180 |
819,333 | There was a serious accident on board K-3 on 8 September 1967. The submarine was performing a patrol mission in the Mediterranean Sea and a hydraulic system fire occurred in compartment one on the 56th day of the cruise at a depth of 49 m during the return home. This occurred north-east of the Faeroes and 39 sailors di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=527929 | 818,892 |
882,020 | Magnetoreception is a sense which allows an organism to detect the Earth's magnetic field. Animals with this sense include some arthropods, molluscs, and vertebrates (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, though not humans). The sense is mainly used for orientation and navigation, but it may help some animals... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1506351 | 881,556 |
1,444,677 | The length of the sarissa allowed to increase the number of file of hoplites that could fight. The sarissa consisted of a point at each extremity and was heavy (). At its base, a short iron point allowed it to be planted in the ground to stop the charge of enemy soldiers. This strategy was particularly effective in bre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71609273 | 1,443,864 |
1,604,041 | The tree has thick cone-shaped branches with a trunk of about 62–73 centimeters in diameter. Spruces on Sakhalin grow as high as 17 meters, while some specimens growing on Japanese mountains are even 30 meters tall. Old trees’ bark is scaly and placoid and is colored in chocolate brown (this is the feature that disting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12190173 | 1,603,140 |
1,033,328 | In the summer of 2007, a field school from the University of Oregon identified the oldest human DNA yet discovered in the Americas. This assertion is based on analysis of several coprolite samples found in the Paisley Caves complex. In total, workers have obtained over 280 radiocarbon dates and DNA analysis from more t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16756286 | 1,032,792 |
863,841 | Lyell was a key figure in establishing the classification of more recent geological deposits, long known as the Tertiary period. From May 1828, until February 1829, he travelled with Roderick Impey Murchison (1792–1871) to the south of France (Auvergne volcanic district) and to Italy. In these areas he concluded that t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7472 | 863,381 |
1,300,027 | Koelle's solution to reducing the development time was to use a cluster of fuel tanks from Redstone and Jupiter missiles, sit them on top of a single thrust plate, and then attach the required engines to the bottom of the plate. Calculations demonstrated that a total thrust of about 1 million pounds would be needed, gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=713334 | 1,299,313 |
2,237,317 | The methods of the survey expanded to reflect its increasingly interdisciplinary nature. The project secured the assistance of the Royal Hellenic Air Force to create aerial photographs of the region of Messenia, which were then interpreted by Fant (and later William Loy) to identify potential ancient sites: McDonald an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72483037 | 2,236,046 |
1,658,888 | The committee that put together the bracket in 1996 was criticized for placing what seemed to be the best two teams in college basketball Massachusetts and Kentucky on the same side of the bracket so that they faced each other in the national semifinal not the final game itself. Note that there are guidelines that the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4381202 | 1,657,955 |
1,482,408 | In October 2011 General Motors announced its decision to develop a second concept EN-V under the Chevrolet badge for use in field testing and demonstration programs in several cities around the world, beginning in Tianjin, China. The Chevrolet EN-V 2.0, as the vehicle is now called, will add new features such as climat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26709747 | 1,481,573 |
2,198,463 | Polystyrene nanoparticles are the model nanoparticle used for drug delivery applications because they are easy to synthesize in varying sizes. Size is an important factor in cellular uptake rates, which is important for specific pathways such as the endocytic pathway. In a study conducted by Rejman et al., researchers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70690897 | 2,197,212 |
285,886 | Hypovolemia is caused by a variety of events, but these can be simplified into two categories: those that are associated with kidney function and those that are not. The signs and symptoms of hypovolemia worsen as the amount of fluid lost increases. Immediately or shortly after mild fluid loss (from blood donation, dia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=500892 | 285,732 |
649,940 | Aviators use Satnav to navigate and to improve safety and the efficiency of the flight. This may allow pilots to be independent of ground-based navigational aids, enable more efficient routes and provide navigation into airports that lack ground-based navigation and surveillance equipment. There are now some GPS units ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17800413 | 649,599 |
916,310 | The difference in the concentration of dust in Earth's atmosphere and that of Mars stems from a key factor. On Earth, dust that leaves atmospheric suspension usually gets aggregated into larger particles through the action of soil moisture or gets suspended in oceanic waters. It helps that most of Earth's surface is co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21025499 | 915,828 |
1,175,123 | Clark showed that the electrode bundle had to be free-fitting, and the wires needed to be terminated with circumferential bands to reduce friction against the outer wall of the cochlea; as to make it easier to pass the required distance. The bands had to be wide enough to minimize the charge density of the electric cur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2912259 | 1,174,501 |
666,963 | Jacobellis was born in Danbury, Connecticut, and grew up in Danbury and in southern Vermont, where her family had a weekend home. Her parents, Ben and Anita Jacobellis, encouraged her and her older brother Ben to participate in many sports. She was competitive from a young age, constantly trying to keep up with Ben or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4115144 | 666,615 |
630,311 | Substitution, elimination and isomerization reactions differ from the outer sphere redox reaction not only in the structural changes outlined above, but also in the fact that the movements of the nuclei and the shift of charges (charge transfer, CT) on the reactions path take place in a continuous and concerted way: nu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3419165 | 629,973 |
303,834 | Loitering Munitions and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play an increasingly vital role in conducting SEAD missions. Due to the dangerous nature of attacking air defenses, the use of UAVs can provide a more cost-effective and less risky method of conducting SEAD. This is especially true since the pilot is not directly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573491 | 303,672 |
317,728 | In Eurasia, modern humans have adaptive sequences introgressed from archaic humans, which provided a source of advantageous genetic variants that are adapted to local environments and a reservoir for additional genetic variation. Adaptive introgression from Neanderthals has targeted genes involved with keratin filament... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30231169 | 317,558 |
1,014,527 | Saussure himself had actually used a modification of August Schleicher's Darwinian organic analogy in linguistics; his concept of "la langue" is the social organism or spirit. It needs to be noted that, despite certain similarities, structuralism and functionalism in humanistic linguistics are explicitly anti-Darwinian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18955141 | 1,014,006 |
1,451,882 | The NCAA Tournament tipped off on March 16, 2010, with the opening round game in Dayton, Ohio, and concluded on April 5 at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Of the 65 teams that were invited to participate, 31 were automatic bids while 34 were at-large bids. The 34 at-large teams came from 11 conferences, with the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22645714 | 1,451,065 |
462,539 | Typically, when encountering predators, animals tend to develop anti-predator traits in order to promote reproductive success. Consequently, these traits will be passed down throughout generations until the predator develops a new trait to counteract this measure thereby creating an arms race between the predator and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13010117 | 462,310 |
2,156,474 | From launch in 1997 until arrival at Saturn in 2004, Cassini–Huygens cruised interplanetary space from 0.7 to 10 AU. During this time there were long periods useful for observations of interplanetary and interstellar dust in the inner planetary system. Highlights were the detection of electrical charges of dust in inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70105459 | 2,155,243 |
61,061 | Carbon monoxide gained recognition as an invaluable reagent in the 1900s. Three industrial processes illustrate its evolution in industry. In the Fischer–Tropsch process, coal and related carbon-rich feedstocks are converted into liquid fuels via the intermediacy of CO. Originally developed as part of the German war ef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6136 | 61,036 |
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