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227,820 | By August, it was time for "Constellation" to return to Vietnam for a fifth combat deployment, again with CVW-14. Following an initial 20-day period of supporting strikes in South Vietnam as well as Laos, "Constellation" sailed to Defender Station in the Sea of Japan, which had been created as a result of increased ten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=204536 | 227,703 |
683,426 | Some of the supermassive black holes in AGN are known to be rotating, as in the Seyfert galaxy MCG 6-30-15 with time-variability in their inner accretion disks. Black hole spin is a potentially effective agent to drive UHECR production, provided ions are suitably launched to circumvent limiting factors deep within the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=474589 | 683,070 |
929,514 | The facility had recently reopened following the passing of Tropical Storm Isaias. It was unclear if the cable failure was caused by Isaias. Former Arecibo Observatory director Robert Kerr stated that prior to the 1997 installation of the Gregorian dome, the main support cables and support towers had been engineered wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9013135 | 929,023 |
1,297,819 | Collaborations with a number of research and academic organizations inside and outside the country have included the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK; Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre (NERC), Norway; Michigan State University, United States; Rhodes University, South Africa and Commonwealth Scientific and In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5116330 | 1,297,107 |
983,111 | Proponents of this brand of policy assert higher level, more specialized learning is a way to capitalize from the growing technology industry. Leading technology research university MIT published an open letter to policymakers advocating for the "reinvention of education", namely a shift "away from rote learning" and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32040137 | 982,597 |
1,153,213 | The Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery (LNNB) is a standardized test that identifies neuropsychological deficiencies by measuring functioning on fourteen scales. It evaluates learning, experience, and cognitive skills. The test was created by Charles Golden in 1981 and based on previous work by Alexander Luria t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32081140 | 1,152,603 |
1,725,757 | One unexpected aspect of phase locking in the auditory cortex has been observed in the responses elicited by complex acoustic stimuli with spectrograms that exhibit relatively slow envelopes (< 20 Hz), but that are carried by fast modulations that are as high as hundreds of Hertz. Speech and music, as well as various m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56439577 | 1,724,786 |
1,342,669 | The minimal genome is a concept which can be defined as the set of genes sufficient for life to exist and propagate under nutrient-rich and stress-free conditions. Alternatively, it can also be defined as the gene set supporting life on an axenic cell culture in rich media, and it is thought what makes up the minimal g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37388686 | 1,341,934 |
438,444 | Hermes was envisaged to be launched using the Ariane 5, replacing the upper stage of the latter during such missions, and would have detached from the launcher towards the latter part of the ascent. Prior to the 1986 redesign, "Hermes" was a single spaceplane containing (from front to back) a crew compartment for six, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=272950 | 438,230 |
574,090 | Many of Woodward's syntheses were described as spectacular by his colleagues and before he did them, it was thought by some that it would be impossible to create these substances in the lab. Woodward's syntheses were also described as having an element of art in them, and since then, synthetic chemists have always look... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=261625 | 573,796 |
471,235 | Until October 2006, 80 flight tests were already completed and DRDO was in dialogue with the IAF for user trials and induction. In 2006, Minister of Defence Pranab Mukherjee granted one year extension to Trishul project. Due to project delays, and modification of GSQRs and operational requirements over time, Trishul no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1248899 | 470,999 |
460,888 | In the United States, SIPs tend to come in sizes from 4 feet (1.22 m) to 24 feet (7.32 m) in width. Elsewhere, typical product dimensions are 300, 600, or 1,200 mm wide and 2.4, 2.7, and 3 m long, with roof SIPs up to 6 m long. Smaller sections ease transportation and handling, but the use of the largest panel possible... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=699437 | 460,662 |
364,899 | Monitoring player behavior to assist with detecting the card counters falls into the hands of the on-floor casino personnel ("pit bosses") and casino-surveillance personnel, who may use video surveillance ("the eye in the sky") as well as computer analysis, to try to spot playing behavior indicative of card counting. E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=438494 | 364,708 |
1,000,639 | Researchers from the company Colossal confirmed that their primary goal when trying to revive the woolly mammoth is to better the environment and climate change itself. However, some people are skeptical of climate change being reversed due to the comeback of the woolly mammoth or an animal that is scientifically repro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32479098 | 1,000,121 |
117,356 | During the final stages of the war, the U.S. military initiated Operation Paperclip, an effort to capture advanced German weapons research, and keep it out of the hands of advancing Soviet forces. In April 1945, a Horten glider and the Ho 229 V3, which was undergoing final assembly, were captured and subsequently trans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=176778 | 117,311 |
346,067 | Other than Von Hornick, there were no mercantilist writers presenting an overarching scheme for the ideal economy, as Adam Smith would later do for classical economics. Rather, each mercantilist writer tended to focus on a single area of the economy. Only later did non-mercantilist scholars integrate these "diverse" id... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19708 | 345,886 |
1,909,313 | Learning and memory go hand-in-hand, as one cannot occur without the other. Learning involves experiences and how they alter the brain, while memory focuses on how those changes in the brain are stored and recalled. Lower socioeconomic status environments yield lower cognitive and intellectual development in children. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44390130 | 1,908,215 |
2,138,907 | Critics of an expansionist policy consider the EU ETS to be too late and to price carbon too low to adequately mitigate the climate change effects of aviation emissions. Instead they advocate addressing these effects by constraining demand for air travel. The study "Predict and Decide – Aviation, climate change and UK ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14120583 | 2,137,677 |
1,364,358 | Effective teaching methods have to enable the student to move from a lower to a higher level of understanding or abandon less efficient skills for more efficient ones. Therefore, knowledge of change mechanisms can be used as a basis for designing instructional interventions that will be both subject- and age-appropriat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25076961 | 1,363,602 |
1,325,952 | In 1962, the Office of University Planning was established with the objective of developing a general plan for the university, which included the construction of a new campus, and the development of the regional university system by the creation of satellite campuses in the intermediate cities of the department. The ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14257781 | 1,325,225 |
909,059 | The scientists use this apparent myth, along with recent discoveries in gravitational research, to develop a theory about the repeated collapse of society. A mathematical analysis of Lagash's orbit around its primary sun reveals irregularities caused by the presence of a previously undiscovered moon that cannot be seen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=677813 | 908,580 |
1,094,458 | Steelhead are raised in many countries throughout the world. Since the 1950s, production has grown exponentially, particularly in Europe and recently in Chile. Worldwide, in 2007, 604,695 tonnes of farmed steelhead were harvested, with a value of $2.59 billion. The largest producer is Chile. In Chile and Norway, the oc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22726521 | 1,093,898 |
1,348,983 | Like numerous other animal groups, "Paramylodon" underwent a marked increase in body size in the course of its phylogeny. The weight of members of the Lower Pleistocene is given as about 915 kg, the late representatives from the Upper Pleistocene, however, probably reached up to 1.39 t body weight. Basis for the respec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16886646 | 1,348,238 |
843,528 | The extended FAST (eFAST) allows for the examination of both lungs by adding bilateral anterior thoracic sonography to the FAST exam. This allows for the detection of a pneumothorax with the absence of normal ‘lung-sliding’ and ‘comet-tail’ artifact (seen on the ultrasound screen). Compared with supine chest radiograph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6545812 | 843,078 |
377,382 | Wireless charging is making an impact in the medical sector by means of being able to charge implants and sensors long-term that is located beneath the skin. Multiple companies offer rechargeable medical implant (e.g. implantable neurostimulators) which use inductive charging. Researchers have been able to print wirele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6349042 | 377,187 |
965,950 | Lawrencium is the last actinide. Among those who study the matter, it is generally considered a group 3 element, along with scandium, yttrium, and lutetium, as its filled f-shell is expected to make it resemble the 7th-period transition metals; though there has been some dispute on this point. In the periodic table, it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17746 | 965,441 |
1,341,879 | "Mymoorapelta," like its relatives, was a low browsing herbivore in its ecosystem that likely fed on the cycads and conifers of the time due to the lack of complex grasses in the Jurassic. Nodosaurids like "Mymoorapelta" had narrow snouts, an adaptation seen today in animals that are selective browsers as opposed to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4347315 | 1,341,145 |
1,286,241 | Frank J. Malina began part-time work at the GALCIT ten-foot wind tunnel, the Southern California Cooperative Wind Tunnel. In 1935 he became a Graduate Assistant in the lab. In early 1936, with the aid of a graduate assistant to von Kármán, William Bollay, Malina and two rocket enthusiasts -- Jack Parsons and Edward S. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10441596 | 1,285,540 |
1,060,425 | The Sentinel Mission program was the cornerstone of the B612 Foundation's earlier efforts, with its preliminary design and system architecture level reviews planned for 2014, and its critical design review to be conducted in 2015. The infrared telescope would be launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, to be placed into... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=333633 | 1,059,874 |
529,226 | OpenGL is a portable API specification. Code written with OpenGL is easily ported between platforms with a compatible implementation. For example, "Quake II", which uses OpenGL, was ported from Windows to Linux by a fan of the game. OpenGL is a standard maintained by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board (ARB). The ARB ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=773853 | 528,952 |
1,806,796 | Apprehensive in case his ideas should again be stolen, he designed and built the machine single-handed from wood in the workshop attached to his printing business. To compensate for the limited precision achievable using wooden components, he constructed the machine on a large scale; it was 6 feet long by 3 feet deep a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2744215 | 1,805,777 |
1,574,208 | Fronts are important in many aspects. Some frontal types, such as upwelling and convergence fronts, are sites of pronounced exchange between deep and surface ocean and can catalyse the generation of mesoscale eddies and submesoscale filaments. Upwelling fronts can bring nutrients to the surface and lead to phytoplankto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34989901 | 1,573,319 |
91,837 | After Shepard left NASA, he served on the boards of many corporations. He also served as president of his umbrella company for several business enterprises, Seven Fourteen Enterprises, Inc. (named for his two flights, "Freedom 7" and Apollo 14). He made a fortune in banking and real estate. He was a fellow of the Ameri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63727 | 91,797 |
1,513,020 | The satellite navigation system GLONASS was conceived in the late 1960s, and formal requirements were completed in 1970. The government of the Soviet Union made a decision to develop the system in 1976. Design work was carried out by specialists led by Vladimir Cheremisin at NPO PM in Krasnoyarsk-26. The first launch t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30958981 | 1,512,169 |
755,082 | The success of the raid was tempered by the loss of d'Ornano and a T patrol member. Leclerc assumed overall command and marshalled his forces to take Kufra. A diversionary raid by mounted Meharistes colonial cavalry failed after it was betrayed by local guides, so Leclerc to relegated these men to recon duties only. In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=376965 | 754,679 |
1,080,984 | In June 1835 Airy was appointed Astronomer Royal in succession to John Pond, and began his long career at the national observatory which constitutes his chief title to fame. The condition of the observatory at the time of his appointment was such that Lord Auckland, the first Lord of the Admiralty, considered that "it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=205497 | 1,080,428 |
731,499 | In 1920, Sukhoi was finally demobilized from the army because of his health-related problems, and the government of the Russian Soviet Republic issued a resolution to reopen institutions of higher education in Russia. Sukhoi returned to his studies at BMSTU and graduated in 1925 with his thesis titles "Single-engined P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67286 | 731,113 |
789,417 | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or motor neuron disease (MND) is a progressive condition which leads to weakness and eventual paralysis. Approximately 75% of people with ALS are unable to speak by the time of their death. In a procedure known as voice banking, people with ALS may digitally record words and phrases ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2106968 | 788,993 |
2,116,865 | Metal ions are essential to virtually all biological systems and hence studying their concentrations with effective probes is highly advantageous. Since metal ions are key to the causes of cancer, diabetes, and other diseases, monitoring them with probes that can provide insight into their concentrations with spatial a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45232441 | 2,115,648 |
1,089,461 | Other students such as Joseph Fitzmyer, Frank Moore Cross, Raymond E. Brown, and David Noel Freedman, became international leaders in the study of the Bible and the ancient Near East, including Northwest Semitic epigraphy and paleography. John Bright, Cyrus H. McCormick Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Interpretat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=210162 | 1,088,901 |
1,297,508 | There is an alternate strategy for identifying fit mates which does not rely on one gender having exaggerated sexual ornaments or other handicaps, but is probably generally applicable to most, if not all sexual creatures. It derives from the concept that the change in appearance and functionality caused by a non-silent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4839105 | 1,296,796 |
632,342 | A 0.02–0.2 M solution of nucleoside phosphoramidite (or a mixture of several phosphoramidites) in acetonitrile is activated by a 0.2–0.7 M solution of an acidic azole catalyst, 1"H"-tetrazole, 5-ethylthio-1H-tetrazole, 2-benzylthiotetrazole, 4,5-dicyanoimidazole, or a number of similar compounds. A more extensive infor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10663351 | 632,004 |
951,661 | Human craniotomy is usually performed under general anesthesia but can be also done with the patient awake using a local anaesthetic; the procedure, typically, does not involve significant discomfort for the patient. In general, a craniotomy will be preceded by an MRI scan which provides an image of the brain that the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1214710 | 951,156 |
1,585,110 | After official trials, the "Regia Aeronautica" rejected the Ca.114 in favour of the Fiat CR.32. Nevertheless, Caproni found a buyer in the Peruvian Aviation Corps, which ordered 12 examples in April 1934. These aircraft were delivered in two batches, the first in late November 1934, and the second in January 1935. Thes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14529053 | 1,584,219 |
593,108 | Whale watching is carried out on every continent, with an estimated 13 million people participating in 2008. This, when combined with the sustained increase in boat vessel traffic, has likely affected the surface activity of cetaceans. When boats and other whale watching vessels approach, most cetaceans will either avo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=755842 | 592,804 |
785,091 | According to the psychologist Donald W. MacKinnon and his co-author William F. Dukes, American psychologists began to attempt to study repression in the experimental laboratory around 1930. These psychologists were influenced by an exposition of the concept of repression published by the psychoanalyst Ernest Jones in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1674710 | 784,670 |
356,854 | Although there is no cure, most cases of OI do not have a major effect on life expectancy, death during childhood from it is rare, and many adults with OI can achieve a significant degree of autonomy despite disability. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle by exercising, eating a balanced diet sufficient in vitamin D and ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=891521 | 356,668 |
1,447,678 | Multidrug resistance is the most important limitation in anticancer therapy. It can develop in many chemically distinct compounds. Until now, several mechanisms are known to develop the resistance. The most common is production of so-called "efflux pumps". The pumps remove drugs from tumor cells which lead to low drug ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33071344 | 1,446,862 |
1,805,601 | The studies completed during Apollo, although less than optimal, left no doubt that a decrement in exercise tolerance occurred in the period immediately after landing, although it is believed that such decrements were not present during surface EVA. It seems likely that multiple factors are responsible for the observed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39377992 | 1,804,586 |
865,651 | "Doom" was first shown to the public during QuakeCon 2014, where it was confirmed it was running on an early version of id Tech 6. The developers' goals when creating the engine were described as being able to drive good looking games running at 1080p on 60 fps but also reintroduce real-time dynamic lighting which was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25666237 | 865,191 |
691,349 | The 1987 "Edwards v. Aguillard" U.S. Supreme Court decision barred the required teaching of creation science from public schools but allowed evolutionary theory on the grounds of scientific validity. After the decision, a later draft of the textbook "Of Pandas and People" (1989) systematically replaced each and every c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186205 | 690,986 |
794,814 | During the year 1976, a new x-y capacitive screen, based on the capacitance touch screens developed in 1972 by Danish electronics engineer Bent Stumpe, was developed at CERN. This technology, allowing an exact location of the different touch points, was used to develop a new type of human machine interface (HMI) for th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8859863 | 794,389 |
434,828 | At the start of the 19th century, improvements in the size and quality of telescope optics proved a significant advance in observation capability. Most notable among these enhancements was the two-component achromatic lens of the German optician Joseph von Fraunhofer that essentially eliminated coma—an optical effect t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25998318 | 434,614 |
2,056,034 | Rhoads and Germano (1982) developed a list of parameters taken from SPI in an effort to reduce and quantify specific environmental attributes and make them amenable to traditional statistical analysis. Their list has been modified and qualified throughout the literature, but is summarised in Table 1. A few of these par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14917968 | 2,054,851 |
620,551 | Velodyne's experience with laser distance measurement started in 2005, when David Hall and his brother Bruce (then president of Velodyne) entered a vehicle in a driverless car race called DARPA Grand Challenge sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The experience led them to realize shortco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20227238 | 620,236 |
241,187 | In 1948, Arne Tiselius was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of the principle of electrophoresis as the migration of charged and dissolved atoms or molecules in an electric field. The use of a solid matrix (initially paper discs) in a zone electrophoresis improved the separation. The discontinuous ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56067306 | 241,067 |
976,229 | By 1943 the ultimate development of the new bomber program, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, was flying. The engines remained temperamental, and showed an alarming tendency for the rear cylinders to overheat, partially due to minimal clearance between the cylinder baffles and the cowl. A number of changes were introduced... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=406689 | 975,718 |
4,969 | As in the earlier games, there is a "Rage" ability, this one called Spartan Rage. Like the previous versions, the Rage ability has a meter that gradually fills during combat. With this ability, Kratos uses powerful bare-handed attacks, as opposed to weapons, to greatly damage enemies. The game also features role-playin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50810460 | 4,967 |
641,865 | Modern forensic chemists rely on numerous instruments to identify unknown materials found at a crime scene. The 20th century saw many advancements in technology that allowed chemists to detect smaller amounts of material more accurately. The first major advancement in this century came during the 1930s with the inventi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2275867 | 641,526 |
557,651 | During the stalking phase of their attack, a sniper will, if time allows, try to identify high-value targets, such as senior officers or senior NCOs. They will do this by closely observing the behavior of the people in front of them. The intention is to identify who is in charge and then prepare to fire at them. It nat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3809960 | 557,362 |
1,667,580 | For instance, one author summarized the accepted scientific view of the time with the words: "Stereopsis will never be obtained unless amblyopia is treated, the eyes are aligned, and binocular fusion and function are achieved before the critical period for stereopsis ends. Clinical data suggest that this occurs before ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40018674 | 1,666,641 |
645,664 | Through this process, society would be able to focus and evolve past the existing knowledge rather than looping through infinite calculations. We should be able to pass the tedious work of numbers to machines and work on the intricate theory which puts them best to use. If humanity were able to obtain the "privilege of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18915928 | 645,324 |
732,011 | Data and projections indicate an increasing relevance of buildings that are both low-cost and sustainable, notably that, according to a 2020 UN report, building and construction are responsible for ~38% of all energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, that, partly due to global warming, migration crises are expected to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38673321 | 731,624 |
309,671 | The 1980 Summer Olympics marked another first for the United States, as the nation led by far the largest and most significant boycott in the Olympic history. The boycott was motivated by the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, as well as by flagrant human rights violations in the USSR, and the regime's anti-Semitic p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2112059 | 309,504 |
143,862 | The metallic state has historically been an important building block for studying properties of solids. The first theoretical description of metals was given by Paul Drude in 1900 with the Drude model, which explained electrical and thermal properties by describing a metal as an ideal gas of then-newly discovered elect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5387 | 143,804 |
57,156 | Tao has won numerous mathematician honours and awards over the years. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Australian Academy of Science (Corresponding Member), the National Academy of Sciences (Foreign member), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Mathemat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1118498 | 57,132 |
1,015,107 | The typical composition of commercial HTS catalyst has been reported as 74.2% FeO, 10.0% CrO, 0.2% MgO (remaining percentage attributed to volatile components). The chromium acts to stabilize the iron oxide and prevents sintering. The operation of HTS catalysts occurs within the temperature range of 310 °C to 450 °C. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1715834 | 1,014,586 |
270,687 | In 1935, American Eastman Kodak introduced the first modern "integral tripack" color film and called it Kodachrome, a name recycled from an earlier and completely different two-color process. Its development was led by the improbable team of Leopold Mannes and Leopold Godowsky Jr. (nicknamed "Man" and "God"), two highl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=444758 | 270,540 |
248,187 | Inulin received no-objection status as generally recognized as safe (GRAS) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), including long-chain inulin as GRAS. In the early 21st century, the use of inulin in processed foods was due in part to its adaptable characteristics for manufacturing. It is approved by the FDA as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=476393 | 248,059 |
1,858,330 | Born on the New Year's Day of 1952 in the Indian state of West Bengal, Arup Kumar Raychaudhuri completed his BSc from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 1973 and MSc from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1975 before proceeding to Cornell University from where he secured a PhD in 1980, working under... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55548869 | 1,857,262 |
1,952,052 | Since X-rays are not easily reflected or refracted, imaging in X-rays is difficult. One solution to this problem is to selectively block the X-rays. If the X-rays are blocked in a way that depends on the direction of the incoming photons, then it may be possible to reconstruct an image. The imaging capability of RHESSI... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1190663 | 1,950,931 |
474,753 | The 208 applicants were divided into ten groups of about twenty, and called in to the JSC for interviews and medical tests. The latter were conducted under the supervision of Sam L. Pool, the chief of the Medical services Division at JSC. On April 1, 1977, twenty volunteers were run through the medical selection to wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17881165 | 474,517 |
1,528,160 | When referring to the emancipatory nature of research, CTS is referring not only to the emancipation of previously marginalized peoples' voices in the field of OTS, but the emancipation of ideas, questions and theories that have been marginalized, overlooked, or seen as non-issues in orthodox studies. A simple way to u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19455353 | 1,527,296 |
1,348,978 | Of outstanding global importance, however, are the finds from the tar pits of Rancho La Brea in southern California. From here comes an extensive fossil fauna ranging in age from 45,000 to 14,000 years before present. The first finds were discovered as early as the second half of the 19th century, but the far more sign... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16886646 | 1,348,233 |
138,207 | In 1923 he joined the Society of Aviation and Aerial Navigation of Ukraine and the Crimea (OAVUK). He had his first flying lesson after joining the Odessa hydroplane squadron and had many opportunities to fly as a passenger. In 1924 he personally designed an OAVUK construction project glider called the K-5. He briefly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=86655 | 138,151 |
2,064,190 | Due to its short history of 15 years, the rarity of occurrence, and a lack of sufficient clinical trials, AG remains elusive on understanding symptoms, treatments, and long-term follow-up. Till now, scientists and researchers have not found the exact etiology, definitive pathological tests for identification, and the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67269147 | 2,062,999 |
1,304,453 | Patients in coma, vegetative, or minimally conscious state pose ethical challenges. The patients are unable to respond, therefore the assessment of their needs can only be approached by adopting a third person perspective. They are unable to communicate their pain levels, quality of life, or end of life preferences. Ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=703002 | 1,303,737 |
704,319 | DEHP, along with other phthalates, is believed to cause endocrine disruption in males, through its action as an androgen antagonist, and may have lasting effects on reproductive function, for both childhood and adult exposures. Prenatal phthalate exposure has been shown to be associated with lower levels of reproductiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3003614 | 703,951 |
698,338 | Beginning in 2004, Christakis began to study hyper-dyadic network effects, whereby processes of social contagion moved beyond pairs of people. Initially using observational studies with his colleague James H. Fowler, he documented that a variety of phenomena like obesity, smoking, and happiness, rather than being solel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21566523 | 697,974 |
1,620,619 | Capacity building of individual researchers and institutions in Africa is an integral part of all its research and development activities. icipe's Capacity Building Programme aims to promote the development and use of sustainable arthropod management technologies by enhancing the research and training capabilities of c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2775833 | 1,619,704 |
502,622 | An annotated and illustrated version of the book, edited by Alex Gann and Jan Witkowski, was published in November 2012 by Simon & Schuster in association with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. The new edition coincided with the fiftieth anniversary of the award of the 1962 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=922489 | 502,364 |
1,817,656 | Dr. Anderson's projects are often broad in scope and typically grapple with evolving or novel environmental challenges. Examples of his wide-ranging work include: wetland restoration in Turkey and New Orleans, Cook Islands coral reef monitoring, ecotoxicological and socioeconomic impact of major oil spills such as the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40784200 | 1,816,621 |
7,834 | In October 1961, the world's first "all-electronic desktop" calculator, the British Bell Punch/Sumlock Comptometer ANITA (A New Inspiration To Arithmetic/Accounting) was announced. This machine used vacuum tubes, cold-cathode tubes and Dekatrons in its circuits, with 12 cold-cathode "Nixie" tubes for its display. Two m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7593 | 7,831 |
708,766 | A fractured cribriform plate (anterior skull trauma) can result in leaking of cerebrospinal fluid into the nose and loss of sense of smell. The tiny apertures of the plate transmitting the olfactory nerve become the route of ascent for a pathogen, "Naegleria fowleri". This amoeba tends to destroy the olfactory bulb and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1643145 | 708,397 |
327,724 | Darwin's barnacle studies convinced him that variation arose constantly and not just in response to changed circumstances. In 1854, he completed the last part of his "Beagle"-related writing and began working full-time on evolution. He now realised that the branching pattern of evolutionary divergence was explained by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29932 | 327,550 |
1,380,346 | Advances in molecular biology techniques and the species-wide genome project have made it possible to map out an individual's entire genome. Whether genetic or environmental factors are primarily responsible for an individual's personality has long been a topic of debate. Thanks to the advances being made in the field ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18143331 | 1,379,584 |
113,293 | The basics of continuous backpropagation were derived in the context of control theory by Henry J. Kelley in 1960, and by Arthur E. Bryson in 1961. They used principles of dynamic programming. In 1962, Stuart Dreyfus published a simpler derivation based only on the chain rule. Bryson and Ho described it as a multi-stag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1360091 | 113,248 |
1,235,542 | On Selection Sunday, the Spartans squared off with Michigan for the third time in only two weeks, this time for the tournament championship. MSU, who won the previous two games against the Wolverines, started well, jumping out to a 17–11 lead halfway through the first half. However, Spartan guard Kyle Ahrens went down ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56903804 | 1,234,879 |
582,439 | and "Acmopyle" examining evolutionary trends and geographical distributions. His ability to apply theory to observations and make hypotheses based on observations were especially influential on his students. When examining wood remains from Harappa, he noted that they were of conifers and inferred that the people there... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1844265 | 582,141 |
1,498,480 | It was on 14 August 1980 that Conconi submitted a proposal to the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) proposing that selected Italian athletes be assisted by the staff of the University to improve their performance. Conconi proposed that he help athletes in the sports of cycling, canoeing, rowing, long-distance s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11188121 | 1,497,636 |
1,831,201 | In January 1953, the 581st lost one of its B-29s and its entire fourteen-man crew while flying a leaflet drop mission over North Korea near the Chinese border. The aircraft had already dropped leaflets over five North Korean towns and was beginning its last run over the village of Cholson. Some of the leaflets carried ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18495171 | 1,830,154 |
1,186,327 | The system was invented in the U.S., but development was carried out by Decca in the UK. It was first deployed by the Royal Navy during World War II for the vital task of clearing the minefields to enable the D-Day landings. The Allied forces needed an accurate system not known to the Germans and thus free of jamming. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8949 | 1,185,698 |
574,161 | When Muller returned to the United States in 1940, he took an untenured research position at Amherst College, in the department of Otto C. Glaser. After the U.S. entry into World War II, his position was extended indefinitely and expanded to include teaching. His "Drosophila" work in this period focused on measuring th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240846 | 573,867 |
154,064 | Because of negative factors during the late 1920s and 1930s—a depressed economy, reduced war budgets under the Popular Front led by Leon Blum, and neglect at high military levels, the French Army was slow to modernize its infantry weapons. For instance, production of the bolt-action MAS-36 rifle began much too late (in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=427222 | 153,994 |
150,876 | The SST was seen as particularly offensive due to its sonic boom and the potential for its engine exhaust to damage the ozone layer. Both problems impacted the thinking of lawmakers, and eventually Congress dropped funding for the US SST program in and all overland commercial supersonic flight was banned over the US. P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=215930 | 150,808 |
487,858 | A site discovered during road construction near the town of Kupferzell in southern Germany in 1977 provided researchers with important new fossils of "Mastodonsaurus" that included well preserved skulls and disarticulated bones from all parts of the body. Thousands of individual fossils were recovered during a three-mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5659359 | 487,608 |
294,536 | Transduction is the process through which energy from environmental stimuli is converted to neural activity. The retina contains three different cell layers: photoreceptor layer, bipolar cell layer and ganglion cell layer. The photoreceptor layer where transduction occurs is farthest from the lens. It contains photorec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21280496 | 294,376 |
250,629 | Meanwhile, Germany, which was restricted by the Treaty of Versailles in its development of powered aircraft, developed gliding as a sport, especially at the Wasserkuppe, during the 1920s. In its various forms, in the 21st-century sailplane aviation now has over 400,000 participants. Fritz von Opel was instrumental in p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177680 | 250,496 |
327,812 | Even though the book did not explicitly spell out Darwin's beliefs about human origins, it had dropped a number of hints about human's animal ancestry and quickly became central to the debate, as mental and moral qualities were seen as spiritual aspects of the immaterial soul, and it was believed that animals did not h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29932 | 327,638 |
2,124,591 | David Hays graduated from Harvard College in 1951 and received his Ph.D. in 1956 from Harvard's Department of Social Relations. In 1954-1955 he held a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and took a job at the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica in 1955, where he remained thou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27772536 | 2,123,370 |
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