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1,615,806 | 21st-century society is completely embedded within a technological context, which makes the understanding and evaluation of technological self efficacy critical. Indeed, nearly half of Americans own smartphones and this trend towards technology use is not limited to the United States; instead cell phone, computer, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35177195 | 1,614,897 |
924,908 | During the COVID-19 pandemic, Facebook announced it would "remove false or debunked claims about the novel coronavirus which created a global pandemic", based on its fact-checking partners, collectively known as the International Fact-Checking Network. In 2021, Facebook reversed its ban on posts speculating the COVID-1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=595273 | 924,422 |
241,414 | It is revealed that Hector actually died (while Cindy was being held in the bunker) when a neighbor attempted to summon a demon in his apartment block, resulting in him wandering the Material World and only able to manage tangibility when in combat. Cindy's colleagues Rafferty and Lola at Fact Channel News discover her... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44952377 | 241,292 |
1,598,768 | Azurest South is considered a rare example of the International Style in Virginia and displays her interest in "avant-garde" design. Meredith also used Azurest South as her own art studio. She was active in documenting her lifestyle and accomplishments at Azurest through photographs. The archived documentation and rema... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48314474 | 1,597,868 |
965,064 | On 14 June 1957, following Eisenhower's suggestion that existing detection measures were inadequate to ensure compliance, the Soviet Union put forth a plan for a two-to-three-year testing moratorium. The moratorium would be overseen by an international commission reliant on national monitoring stations, but, importantl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30592 | 964,555 |
1,858,735 | The building is built in Indiana limestone, three stories high with an intermediate mezzanine level, low pitched green tile roof. A very careful Renaissance building that marks an early response to the Renaissance revival of the early twentieth century associated with "Ecole de Beaux Arts Classicism." A serious buildin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51621719 | 1,857,667 |
758,190 | In 2009, the college was given its third $5,000 grant allocation by the Hobart Center for Foodservice Sustainability which cited Bates as "having the best sustainability program among numerous entrants nationwide". In 2010, the college was named one of 15 colleges in the United States to the "Green Honor Roll", by Prin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=319763 | 757,784 |
1,201,409 | The age of exploration, seen from the European point of view, introduced major economic changes. The Columbian exchange resulted in Europe adopting new crops, as well as shaking up traditional cultural ideas and practices. The commercial revolution continued, with Europeans developing mercantilism and European imports ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21992152 | 1,200,768 |
246,061 | Medical ultrasound uses high frequency broadband sound waves in the megahertz range that are reflected by tissue to varying degrees to produce (up to 3D) images. This is commonly associated with imaging the fetus in pregnant women. Uses of ultrasound are much broader, however. Other important uses include imaging the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234714 | 245,934 |
1,450,183 | The Interwar years saw the academy push to modernize to meet the demands of the emerging technologies in warfare. One of the academy's most distinguished graduates and a decorated WWI combat soldier and leader, Douglas MacArthur, became Superintendent in 1919. He instituted sweeping reforms to the academic process, int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20793344 | 1,449,367 |
732,550 | A plant species beset with anachronistic features whose range had already become so restricted that it warranted classification as a glacial relict is "Torreya taxifolia". For this species, Barlow and Martin advocated for assisted migration poleward in an article published in "Wild Earth" in 2004, titled "Bring "Torrey... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20690782 | 732,163 |
889,941 | The school has been affiliated with some major inventions and innovations including: the Panama Canal locks; lockmaking; the Brooklyn Bridge cables; cable-lift elevators; cordless phones; ATMs; bar codes; laser; radar; penicillin; polymers; elevator brakes; lightweight, ultra durable automotive brake rotor; light beer;... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=381909 | 889,472 |
118,671 | A good example of nonlinear electromagnetics is in high energy dense plasmas, where vortical phenomena occur which seemingly violate the second law of thermodynamics by increasing the energy gradient within the electromagnetic field and violate Maxwell's laws by creating ion currents which capture and concentrate their... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84400 | 118,625 |
64,284 | The titles of Galileo's work "Two New Sciences" and Johannes Kepler's "New Astronomy" underscored the atmosphere of change that took hold in the 17th century as Aristotle was dismissed in favor of novel methods of inquiry into the natural world. Bacon was instrumental in popularizing this change; he argued that people ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38890 | 64,259 |
1,980,863 | Murnane has co-authored more than 500 articles in peer reviewed journals, with her work receiving ~35000 cites. Margaret is a founder of the field of ultrafast x-ray science, having made transformational contributions to this area of research in every decade since the 1980s. She is also currently the most-accomplished ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14028886 | 1,979,725 |
535,186 | However, with the security situation in South Vietnam continuing to deteriorate, the US increased its involvement to 200,000 combat troops by early 1965. Australia also committed ground forces, dispatching the 1 RAR to serve with the US 173rd Airborne Brigade in Bien Hoa province in June 1965 and it subsequently fought... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,907 |
1,230,774 | Ghiorso invented numerous techniques and machines for isolating and identifying heavy elements atom-by-atom. He is generally credited with implementing the multichannel analyzer and the technique of recoil to isolate reaction products, although both of these were significant extensions of previously understood concepts... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=164644 | 1,230,112 |
1,750,118 | In January 2007 Caron, Scheltema, et al. published a vigorous reply to Butterfield's arguments – near the end they wrote, "Many of Butterfield’s misconceptions might well have been avoided had he taken the opportunity to examine all the new material that formed the basis of our study. …" They said they had found in bod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6105310 | 1,749,132 |
1,285,685 | No famines occurred for over forty years after 1949: from approximately 1950 to 1980 Malawi, like much of inter-tropical Africa, enjoyed adequate and reliable rains. Food security seemed assured: the only years when consumption exceeded production were in 1963, 1970, 1975, 1976 and 1980 and none were as serious as 1949... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14543243 | 1,284,984 |
521,634 | The group is also notable for adaptations to the structures of their ear. The structure of their inner-ear is almost avian, with bird-like semicircular canals and an extended cochlea. For birds, an extended cochlea allows them to hear across an increased range of frequencies, suggesting a similar function in the ponder... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3812410 | 521,362 |
1,299,662 | One obstacle to the deployment of MAARS, and armed unmanned ground vehicles in general, is the reluctance of military leaders to utilize remote-controlled weapon systems at ground level. One concern is collateral damage, as 7.62 NATO bullets fired by the machine gun can travel further than sensors mounted on the robot.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26710120 | 1,298,948 |
1,146,005 | The advantages were in the lower maintenance and fuel costs in ensuring that most engines were not worked to their limit, the permitting of standardised maintenance and inspection intervals (since individual locomotives did not have to be regularly assessed to ascertain their suitability for the work assigned to them) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564296 | 1,145,403 |
1,329,821 | After receiving her PhD, Bascom spent the next two years as an instructor and associate professor at Ohio State University teaching geology. Bascom then went on to Bryn Mawr College and founded the department of geology in 1895 which led to it becoming one of the best departments in the country. Bascom was appointed as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6925880 | 1,329,092 |
2,026,833 | In 1966, in a book entitled Reflectance Spectroscopy, Harry Hecht had pointed out that the formulation formula_9 led to formula_10, which enabled plotting formula_1 "against the wavelength or wave-number for a particular sample" giving a curve corresponding "to the real absorption determined by transmission measurement... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67525376 | 2,025,666 |
283,852 | The first Tu-114, registration СССР-Л5611, was first shown to the West in 1958 at the Brussels World Exhibition. It later carried Nikita Khrushchev on his first trip to the United States in September 1959, the first such visit by any Soviet leader. The Tu-114 was still in the testing phase and had completed its first l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=229847 | 283,699 |
535,539 | Quantitative PCR utilizes polymerase chain reaction chemistry to amplify viral DNA or RNA to produce high enough concentrations for detection and quantification by fluorescence. In general, quantification by qPCR relies on serial dilutions of standards of known concentration being analyzed in parallel with the unknown ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26069912 | 535,260 |
1,238,894 | The Xbox 360 was set as "Oblivion"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s base platform, being the "easiest to develop for", in the words of Pete Hines; the PC was considered more like a "random amalgamation of graphics cards and RAM and processors", and poorly "defined". As they had done with previous games in the series, Bethesda threw ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12164267 | 1,238,227 |
1,899,233 | Existing renewable energy cooperatives have acknowledged these barriers and work to overcome them. One commonly used strategy is to create internal and external networks of RE co-ops. Since participation, conflict, and trust are relatively low hanging fruits to running a successful RE co-op, an internal alliance networ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65691512 | 1,898,148 |
771,268 | On January 23, 2009, Phase I clinical trials for transplantation of oligodendrocytes (a cell type of the brain and spinal cord) derived from human ESCs into spinal cord-injured individuals received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), marking it the world's first human ESC human trial. The study l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1029022 | 770,854 |
1,029,790 | In 1948, Postgate obtained a Research Fellowship at the Chemical Research Laboratory (CRL) in Teddington, West London, to investigate the biochemistry of the sulphate-reducing bacteria. A small microbiology group, led by K R Butlin, was researching their role in iron corrosion and other civil and industrial nuisances. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42616525 | 1,029,256 |
774,061 | By analyzing genomic data of 60,000 individuals of Caucasian descent from Kaiser Permanente in Northern California, and of 150,000 people in the UK Biobank, evolutionary geneticist Joseph Pickrell and evolutionary biologist Molly Przeworski were able to identify signs of biological evolution among living human generati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54472601 | 773,645 |
1,792,459 | Apart from monitoring the electrical properties of a dielectric, the CAFM can be also used to alter its properties by applying an electrical field locally. In particular, the CAFM is especially useful to determine which locations of the samples lead to premature BD, which can provide essential information about the rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24580913 | 1,791,452 |
1,994,197 | On loan from MIT to NASA Headquarters as the Senior Scientist for the International Space Station since 2000; prior to that, on loan from MIT as the Senior Scientist for the Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences, NASA-HQ, 1998–2000; crew training, flight and post-flight activities 1996–1998; Lead Scientist of the Mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=597331 | 1,993,054 |
337,890 | By 1976, Steve Jobs had convinced product designer Jerry Manock (who had formerly worked at Hewlett Packard designing calculators) to create the "shell" for the Apple II—a smooth case inspired by kitchen appliances that concealed the internal mechanics. The earliest Apple II computers were assembled in Silicon Valley a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2275 | 337,710 |
1,871,339 | World War II produced a dramatic change in the world of neurological surgery. Deployed surgeons learned neurosurgery while on active duty in one of the armed services. Others experienced either abbreviated training, or had their program interrupted when called to active duty. After the war these surgeons returned to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22922572 | 1,870,262 |
1,030,789 | SFC with CO utilizes carbon dioxide pumps that require that the incoming CO and pump heads be kept cold in order to maintain the carbon dioxide at a temperature and pressure that keeps it in a liquid state where it can be effectively metered at some specified flow rate. The CO subsequently becomes supercritical post th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7702566 | 1,030,254 |
148,654 | The initial version of the game also did not include the central star gravity well or the hyperspace feature; they were written by MIT graduate student and TMRC member Dan Edwards and Graetz respectively to add elements of a strategy to what initially was a shooter game of pure reflexes. Russell had previously wanted t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5482854 | 148,593 |
1,038,696 | Many researchers have commented that the U.S. focus on high-end applications left them in an uncompetitive situation when the economic downturn in the early 1970s led to greatly increased demand for low-cost NC systems. Unlike the U.S. companies, who had focused on the highly profitable aerospace market, German and Jap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39469106 | 1,038,155 |
172,935 | A 1904 "British Medical Journal" paper by Karl Pearson collated data from several studies in the UK, India and South Africa of typhoid inoculation. He used a meta-analytic approach to aggregate the outcomes of multiple clinical studies. In 1972 Archie Cochrane wrote: 'It is surely a great criticism of our profession th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2994579 | 172,844 |
1,560,934 | Anurag Sharma, born on 7 May 1955, did his higher studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) from where he gained master's degrees in science (MSc) and engineering (MTech) and joined the institute as a member of faculty in 1978, simultaneously pursuing doctoral studies there under the guidance of Ajoy G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53000311 | 1,560,048 |
1,659,007 | By the mid-1990s, it was asserted that "Borna disease is a neurotropic negative-strand RNA virus that infects a wide range of vertebrate hosts," causing "an immune-mediated syndrome resulting in disturbances in movement and behavior." This led to several groups across the globe working to determine if there was a link ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20485252 | 1,658,074 |
383,855 | Proponents of Chinese invention and transmission point out the acute dearth of any significant evidence of evolution or experimentation with gunpowder or gunpowder weapons leading up to the gun outside of China. Gunpowder appeared in Europe primed for military usage as an explosive and propellant, bypassing a process w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12063194 | 383,660 |
1,824,757 | South Africa's SANAE IV station, the successor to three former stations, was completed in 1997. Research at SANAE IV include invasion biology/ecology, geology, geomorphology and atmospheric sciences. Its facilities include a small hospital and a two-helicopter hangar. SANAE IV consists of three linked modules, each dou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42735080 | 1,823,719 |
1,055,971 | In 2009 Hau and team laser-cooled clouds of one million rubidium atoms to just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero. They then launched this millimeter-long atomic cloud towards a suspended carbon nanotube, located some two centimeters away and charged to hundreds of volts. The results were published in 2010, her... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1300275 | 1,055,423 |
196,378 | Anaerobic bioremediation can in principle be employed to treat a range of oxidized contaminants including chlorinated ethylenes (PCE, TCE, DCE, VC), chlorinated ethanes (TCA, DCA), chloromethanes (CT, CF), chlorinated cyclic hydrocarbons, various energetics (e.g., perchlorate, RDX, TNT), and nitrate. This process invol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=434188 | 196,278 |
1,519,415 | The PTRC posted an extensive rebuttal of the Petro-Find report, stating that the isotopic signatures of the , claimed by Mr. Lafleur to be indicative of the manmade being injected into the reservoir, were in fact, according to studies of conducted by the British Geological Survey and two other European Union geological... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30426861 | 1,518,557 |
1,447,203 | He deliberately chose the `simplest' graphs and categories for his representations of Metabolism-Repair Systems in small categories of sets endowed only with the discrete "efficient" topology of sets, envisaging this choice as the most general and less restrictive. It turns out however that the efficient entailments of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275026 | 1,446,387 |
661,637 | Games of chance are not merely pure applications of probability calculus and gaming situations are not just isolated events whose numerical probability is well established through mathematical methods; they are also games whose progress is influenced by human action. In gambling, the human element has a striking charac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7804447 | 661,292 |
336,436 | Defence Research and Development Establishment (DRDE) which works in the field of chemical weapon, biological agent detection and research is helping Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in augmenting diagnostic capability for COVID–19 outbreak. It has created special hand sanitiser formulation and diagnostic kits... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=745675 | 336,258 |
1,040,789 | Electrogravitics had its origins in experiments started in 1921 by Thomas Townsend Brown (who coined the name) while he was in high school. He discovered an unusual effect while experimenting with a Coolidge tube, a type of X-ray vacuum tube where, if he placed on a balance scale with the tube’s positive electrode faci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3131342 | 1,040,246 |
1,476,215 | Progerin (UniProt# P02545-6) is a truncated version of the lamin A protein involved in the pathology of Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome. Progerin is most often generated by a sporadic single point nucleotide polymorphism c.1824 C>T (GGC -> GGT, p.Gly608Gly) in the gene that codes for matured Lamin A. This mutation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18437184 | 1,475,383 |
2,108,839 | UMD won the MIAC team title again in 1962 with an even more balanced performance than in 1961 with Jeff Peterson taking second and all five Bulldog golfers finishing in the top eight. Despite winning the MIAC title, a second straight year of poor weather had limited UMD to just two meets against Superior State and one ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50172482 | 2,107,625 |
286,918 | Madras and Calcutta were similarly bordered by water and division of Indian in the north and British in the south. An Englishwoman noted in 1750 "the banks of the river are as one may say absolutely studded with elegant mansions called here as at Madras, garden houses." Esplanade-row is fronts the fort with lined palac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276879 | 286,763 |
894,277 | WPCs do not corrode and are highly resistant to rot, decay, and marine borer attack, though they do absorb water into the wood fibers embedded within the material. Water absorption is more pronounced in WFCs with a hydrophilic matrix such as PLA and also leads to decreased mechanical stiffness and strength. The mechani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1301424 | 893,807 |
527,723 | The physician will perform an onychectomy in which the nail along the edge that is growing into the skin is cut away (ablated) and the offending piece of nail is pulled out. Any infection is surgically drained. This process is referred to as a "wedge resection" or simple surgical ablation and is not permanent (i.e., th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33171133 | 527,450 |
1,029,033 | A year since the death of Jochen Rindt at Monza, there were still some legal problems between Team Lotus and the Italian authorities which meant that Team Lotus did not officially enter the event, although a Lotus 56 did enter under the name World Wide Racing. This car was powered by an American Pratt & Whitney turbine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1140090 | 1,028,499 |
1,932,811 | The German Students Association exerted great influence, which was at first patriotic and later political. After Romanticism had eventually died out, Heidelberg became a center of Liberalism and the movement in favor of German national unity. The historians Friedrich Christoph Schlosser and Georg Gottfried Gervinus wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29278708 | 1,931,703 |
887,385 | The largest spark transmitters were powerful transoceanic radiotelegraphy stations with input power of 100 - 300 kW. Beginning about 1910, industrial countries built global networks of these stations to exchange commercial and diplomatic telegram traffic with other countries and communicate with their overseas colonies... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1105907 | 886,920 |
1,581,720 | The work attracted large financial support from private benefactors in Australia (Kenneth and Baillieu Myer, and Sir Ian Potter) and overseas, the Australian Government and Reserve Bank, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health (US). This founded and supported the Howard Florey Laboratories in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6869432 | 1,580,830 |
305,828 | Beginning in the 1930s, some of the most ancient hominin remains of the time dating to 3.8–2.9 million years ago were recovered from East Africa. Because "Australopithecus africanus" fossils were commonly being discovered throughout the 1920s and '40s in South Africa, these remains were often provisionally classified a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=443293 | 305,665 |
1,732,197 | Opponents of the transmission theory criticize the vagueness of Chinese records on the specific usage of gunpowder in weaponry, the existence of gunpowder or possibly lack thereof in incendiary weapons as described by Chinese documents, the weakness of Chinese firearms, the non-existent route of diffusion or evidence o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61793153 | 1,731,221 |
1,169,607 | Although the use of coefficients can significantly improve the reliability of colocalization detection, it depends on the number of factors, including the conditions of how samples with fluorescence were prepared and how images with colocalization were acquired and processed. Studies should be conducted with great caut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3505075 | 1,168,988 |
88,678 | In the Gaia hypothesis, James Lovelock stated that the entire mass of living matter on Earth (or any planet with life) functions as a vast homeostatic superorganism that actively modifies its planetary environment to produce the environmental conditions necessary for its own survival. In this view, the entire planet ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13980 | 88,642 |
1,092,807 | The first DC powerhouse was in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where the water turbine at the Wolverine Chair factory was attached to a dynamo using a mechanical belt drive to illuminate sixteen street lights. This occurred in 1880, the same year Thomas Edison produced the long-lasting incandescent filament light bulb, which w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24532465 | 1,092,247 |
2,021,088 | "Grhl2" is involved in lower jaw formation of mammals, among other craniofacial developmental processes. It is also evolutionarily closest to "Grhl1", compared to "Grhl3", while still exhibiting the highly conserved functions that all "Grhl" genes share. It also appears that "Grhl2" is involved in the fusion of the fac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63194019 | 2,019,925 |
1,370,743 | Burnet spoke and wrote widely on the topic of human biology after his retirement, aiming to reach all strata of society. He courted the media as well as the scientific community, often leading to sensationalist or scientifically unrigorous report of his outspoken views. This often angered colleagues, who viewed him as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=417493 | 1,369,987 |
106,582 | Democritus (5th century BC) argued that all things in the universe, including light, are composed of indivisible sub-components. Euclid (4th–3rd century BC) gives treatises on light propagation, states the principle of shortest trajectory of light, including multiple reflections on mirrors, including spherical, while P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33426 | 106,537 |
410,650 | Despite this, there is still interest in nuclear propulsion. In November 2010 British Maritime Technology and Lloyd's Register embarked upon a two-year study with U.S.-based Hyperion Power Generation (now Gen4 Energy), and the Greek ship operator Enterprises Shipping and Trading SA to investigate the practical maritime... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=916971 | 410,448 |
922,648 | In 1960, Wichterle and Lim were the first to publish experiments on hydrogels for biomedical applications by using them in contact lens construction. Work on the field developed slowly over the next two decades, but later found traction when hydrogels were repurposed for drug delivery. In 1984, Charles Hull developed b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=307065 | 922,162 |
339,266 | At the season finale held in Australia, Häkkinen's car suffered a tyre failure during the event's first qualifying session on Friday, which resulted in his car becoming airborne and crashing sideways into the crash barrier on the outside of Brewery corner, the fastest corner of the Adelaide Street Circuit, at an estima... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63073 | 339,086 |
168,011 | Thomas' surgical techniques included one he developed in 1946 for improving circulation in patients whose great vessels (the aorta and the pulmonary artery) were transposed. A complex operation called an atrial septectomy, the procedure was executed so flawlessly by Thomas that Blalock, upon examining the nearly undete... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=679723 | 167,921 |
893,047 | Biocompatibility is related to the behavior of biomaterials in various environments under various chemical and physical conditions. The term may refer to specific properties of a material without specifying where or how the material is to be used. For example, a material may elicit little or no immune response in a giv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6259941 | 892,577 |
1,560,099 | Studies have found that physical exercise is a viable, non-pharmaceutical approach to resisting and even undoing the harmful processes that cause sudden abnormal changes in brain cell activity resulting in seizures that characterize epilepsy. One area of focus looks to the effect on brain-derived neurotrophic factor (B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42663845 | 1,559,213 |
1,387,839 | In the same month, Rochelle Tyl, author of two studies used by FDA to assert BPA safety in August 2008, said those studies did not claim that BPA is safe, because they were not designed to cover all aspects of the chemical's effects. In May 2009, Minnesota and Chicago were the first U.S. jurisdictions to pass regulatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57552333 | 1,387,072 |
1,304,207 | The first-year curriculum consists of four blocks covering the basic medical sciences. Each block combines daily lectures by faculty from diverse fields, and therefore provides a highly integrated curriculum. The first block, titled "Principles of Medicine", includes cellular and molecular biology, biochemistry, microb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11446084 | 1,303,491 |
1,706,380 | Some of the differences in approach described above are easier to understand if the macroscope is interpreted as a particular instance of the "value chain of big data" (with a particular focus on earth and/or biosphere observations), which as stated in Chen "et al." (2014) can be divided into four phases, namely data g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64208794 | 1,705,422 |
1,513,986 | During the Cold War, the Canadian government began taking initiatives to secure the continent, and to assert territorial authority over northern Canada, including the Arctic, which at the time had a dominant American presence. The Canadian government demonstrated their desire for national dominance and security by requ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11180149 | 1,513,135 |
213,688 | Tracheids have perforated end walls, which impose a great deal of resistance on water flow, but may have had the advantage of isolating air embolisms caused by cavitation or freezing. Vessels first evolved during the dry, low periods of the Late Permian, in the horsetails, ferns and Selaginellales independently, and la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11008314 | 213,580 |
1,754,504 | At room temperature, the crystal structure of SnSe is "Pnma". However, at ~750 K, it undergoes a phase transition that results in a higher symmetry "Cmcm" structure. This phase transition preserves many of the advantageous transport properties of SnSe. The dynamic structural behavior of SnSe involving the reversible ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5302107 | 1,753,514 |
1,015,462 | Lawrence Kohlberg was born in Bronxville, New York. He was the youngest of four children of Alfred Kohlberg, a Jewish German entrepreneur, and of his second wife, Charlotte Albrecht, a Christian German chemist. His parents separated when he was four years old and divorced finally when he was fourteen. From 1933 to 1938... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167071 | 1,014,941 |
2,203,369 | A polymorphism interaction analysis (PIA) algorithm was used to obtain cooperating single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that contribute to RA disease. The acquired SNP pairs were used to construct a SNP-SNP network. Sub-networks defined by hub SNPs were then extracted and turned into gene modules by mapping SNPs to g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30894898 | 2,202,115 |
1,320,831 | This formula was used in 1999 for astrophysical applications in a paper published in "The Astrophysical Journal", published by Howard Cohl and Joel Tohline. The above-mentioned formula is also known in the engineering community. For instance, a paper written in the "Journal of Applied Physics" in volume 18, 1947 pages ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7556093 | 1,320,105 |
1,070,237 | He returned to Zwickau in 1527 and to Chemnitz in autumn of the same year, where he married Anna Meyner, a widow from Schneeberg. Upon his search for employment as town physician and pharmacist in the Ore Mountains, preferably a place, where he can satisfy his ardent longings for the studies on mining, he settled in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12475 | 1,069,683 |
78,728 | The initial YF-16 prototype was reconfigured in December 1975 to serve as the USAF Flight Dynamics Laboratory's Control-Configured Vehicle (CCV) testbed. The CCV concept entails "decoupling" the aircraft's flight control surfaces so that they can operate independently. This approach enables unusual maneuvers such as be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18895385 | 78,695 |
1,516,795 | Ignacio Layrisse (born in Caracas, 1952). Graduated as chemist at Simon Bolivar University. Engaged by INTEVEP in 1977 led the first investigative sketches referring to heavy oil emulsion-surfactant technology that conducted to the Orimulsion trade mark in 1983. In 1985 managed INTEVEP groups to study the feasibility o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,943 |
2,062,055 | Under the pressure of World War II the Survey redoubled efforts to find strategic mineral resources and map the territory of Canada. The exploration of western Canada received major attention with the discovery of oil at Leduc, Alberta in 1947 and Canada's world lead in atomic energy resulted in a successful search for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18401364 | 2,060,865 |
276,538 | In the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima, Meitner found that she had become a celebrity. She had a radio interview with Eleanor Roosevelt, and a few days later another one with a radio station in New York, during which she heard her sister Frida's voice for the first time in years. "I am of Jewish descent", she tol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18070 | 276,388 |
1,907,396 | "Halobacterium noricense" has many applications that can benefit humans and industries including drug delivery, UV protection, and the unique characteristic of bacteriorhodopsin to be able to be isolated outside of its environment. "H. noricense" produces a high concentration of menaquinones (fat soluble vitamin K2) th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42868405 | 1,906,300 |
577,883 | As on the previous day's wave off, strong westerly high level winds were in excess of system verification values. As a result, "Columbia" had to fly a less desirable high "right base" turn onto final approach instead of the more usual and forgiving overhead pattern. At this stage in the test program the Orbiter had sig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181031 | 577,587 |
531,951 | PV applications for buildings began appearing in the 1970s. Aluminum-framed photovoltaic modules were connected to, or mounted on, buildings that were usually in remote areas without access to an electric power grid. In the 1980s photovoltaic module add-ons to roofs began being demonstrated. These PV systems were usual... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9629917 | 531,677 |
187,408 | During the late 1970s, proposals for a modified "Hamilton"-class cutter with less range or the RN Type 21 frigate with similar anti-submarine capability to a "Leander" but with a smaller crew and with less AW, AA, and AD. Both these proposals and others for full combat Dutch and USS Oliver Hazard Perry frigates were re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=897679 | 187,311 |
12,230 | Later (in 1959) von Braun published a short booklet, condensed from episodes that had appeared in "This Week Magazine" before—describing his updated concept of the first crewed lunar landing. The scenario included only a single and relatively small spacecraft—a winged lander with a crew of only two experienced pilots w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33783 | 12,225 |
1,222,755 | Petroleum contamination of both terrestrial and marine environments results from prospection, extraction, refinement, transport, and storage of oil. Oil spills have been a global issue since the emergence of the oil industry in the early 1900s. The risk of unintentional and intentional spillage has increased as the ene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52828993 | 1,222,096 |
2,154,893 | At the beginning of the 15th century BC, after the last phase of the Wietenberg Culture, a sudden change in the development of the settlement appeared. The architecture, the funerary rite, the pottery and material culture in general changed. These changes resulted from the arrival of a new population from the Eurasian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41546643 | 2,153,662 |
730,219 | Charles Darwin's publication of the "On the Origin of Species" in 1859 was a watershed event in all the life sciences, especially paleontology. Fossils had played a role in the development of Darwin's theory. In particular he had been impressed by fossils he had collected in South America during the voyage of the Beagl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7991116 | 729,834 |
465,746 | According to 2013 autosomal IBD survey "of recent genealogical ancestry over the past 3,000 years at a continental scale", the speakers of Serbo-Croatian language share a very high number of common ancestors dating to the migration period approximately 1,500 years ago with Poland and Romania-Bulgaria cluster among othe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50378092 | 465,513 |
543,156 | South Africa's economy is heavily tied to its mining industry and has been greatly affected by low metal prices. Mining companies have had to cut costs by lowering production, closing mines, selling off projects, and reducing the work force. Miners are quite often on strike asking to get the minimum salary, and mines c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3154089 | 542,876 |
595,247 | The eruption of the Philippines volcano - Mount Pinatubo in June 1991 ejected roughly of magma and "17,000,000 metric tons"(17 teragrams) of sulfur dioxide SO into the air, introducing ten times as much total SO as the 1991 Kuwaiti fires, mostly during the explosive Plinian/Ultra-Plinian event of June 15, 1991, creatin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=212101 | 594,942 |
685,940 | The revenue management process begins with data collection. Relevant data is paramount to a revenue management system's capability to provide accurate, actionable information. A system must collect and store historical data for inventory, prices, demand, and other causal factors. Any data that reflects the details of p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8976534 | 685,583 |
1,706,366 | In science, the concept of a macroscope is the antithesis of the microscope, namely a method, technique or system appropriate to the study of very large objects or very complex processes, for example the Earth and its contents, or conceptually, the Universe. Obviously, a single system or instrument does not presently e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64208794 | 1,705,408 |
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