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1,642,680 | Open 7 days per week, the primary function of the observatory is outreach. It plays host to numerous public events, all of which are accessible to all members of the public no matter their experience or prior knowledge. Each event consists of a themed presentation, tour of the observatory and tuition on using the teles... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17074358 | 1,641,753 |
1,287,842 | One of the considerations detected in La Peyrère by Otto Zöckler was concern with the Antipodes and their people: were they pre-Adamites, or indeed had there been a second "Adam of the Antipodes"? In a 19th-century sequel, Alfred Russel Wallace in an 1867 book review pointed to the Pacific Islanders as posing a problem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33809974 | 1,287,141 |
1,162,264 | Surprising considering her small industrial base, Japan built very high-quality reconnaissance aircraft. These included several platforms such as the unarmed Mitsubishi Ki-46 "Dinah" known as the "Japanese Mosquito"(?); and the extreme-long-range Kawanishi H8K "Emily", widely considered the best flying boat of the war.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38534810 | 1,161,647 |
1,099,726 | Fifth, the appropriate techniques should be chosen for DNA sequencing. The classic Sanger chain‐termination method relies on the selective incorporation of chain‐elongating inhibitors of DNA polymerase during DNA replication. These four bases are separated by size using electrophoresis and later identified by laser det... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66619486 | 1,099,166 |
81,739 | Like the 8514, XGA offered fixed function hardware acceleration to offload processing of 2D drawing tasks. Both adapters allowed offloading of line-draw, bitmap-copy (BitBlt), and color-fill operations from the host CPU. XGA's acceleration was faster than 8514's, and more comprehensive, supporting more drawing primitiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28385304 | 81,706 |
1,192,759 | The 33-centimeter or 900 MHz band is a portion of the UHF radio spectrum internationally allocated to amateur radio on a secondary basis. It ranges from 902 to 928 MHz and is unique to ITU Region 2. It is primarily used for very local communications as opposed to bands lower in frequency. However, very high antennas wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1068013 | 1,192,123 |
407,248 | The francium atoms leave the gold target as ions, which are neutralized by collision with yttrium and then isolated in a magneto-optical trap (MOT) in a gaseous unconsolidated state. Although the atoms only remain in the trap for about 30 seconds before escaping or undergoing nuclear decay, the process supplies a conti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10821 | 407,047 |
623,954 | Establishing an IIT in Odisha was a long-standing demand for several decades. As the state ranked at the bottom in terms of centrally funded academic and research institutions, there were strong allegations of Congress led central government neglect. There were several incidents of protest, both locally in Odisha, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19941911 | 623,622 |
1,896,111 | Maud Wood Park was also one of the founders of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government (BESAGG) along with Pauline Agassiz Shaw and Mary Hutcheson Page. She and Page were in charge of decision making and public speaking. The BESAGG turned into The League of Women Voters after women got the right to vo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38467520 | 1,895,027 |
366,423 | Meteors were the first jet aircraft of the fledgling Syrian Air Force. It acquired 25 of them between 1952 and 1956. Although the British were willing to supply aircraft, they did not supply combat training or radar. As Syria became more aligned with Gamal Abdel Nasser and Egypt, British support for Meteor operations w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42702 | 366,231 |
758,794 | Neural oscillations in humans were observed by researchers as early as 1924 (by Hans Berger). More than 50 years later, intrinsic oscillatory behavior was encountered in vertebrate neurons, but its functional role is still not fully understood. The possible roles of neural oscillations include feature binding, informat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2860430 | 758,388 |
20,301 | Treatment of an MI is time-critical. Aspirin is an appropriate immediate treatment for a suspected MI. Nitroglycerin or opioids may be used to help with chest pain; however, they do not improve overall outcomes. Supplemental oxygen is recommended in those with low oxygen levels or shortness of breath. In a STEMI, treat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20556798 | 20,292 |
1,648,307 | Apart from helping grind the food to properly reduce the size of substrates for stomach enzymes, their minor role is in giving shape and definition to the animals' jaws. The shape of cheek teeth are directly related to their function, and morphological differences between species can be attributed to their dietary vari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44382398 | 1,647,375 |
1,565,350 | The origin of SICNU can be traced back to the National Northeastern University, which was exiled out of Northeast China after the Mukden Incident in 1931 and relocated to Santai in 1938 after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and the subsequent Japanese invasion of North China. After the War of Resistance Against Japan (1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7784550 | 1,564,463 |
2,105,904 | The Victorian College of Agriculture & Horticulture, abbreviated VCAH, was a grouping of the agricultural colleges of the State of Victoria in Australia. Formed in 1983, it was later incorporated as a company limited by guarantee in 1991. It provided a coordinated framework for the five colleges of Burnley (1891), Dook... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3738686 | 2,104,691 |
1,666,776 | Increasing global air temperatures take around 10,000 years to directly propagate through the ice before they influence bed temperatures, but may have an effect through increased surfacal melting, producing more supraglacial lakes, which may feed warm water to glacial bases and facilitate glacial motion. In areas of in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17288465 | 1,665,837 |
729,516 | Shotcrete (also known by the trade name "Gunite") uses compressed air to shoot concrete onto (or into) a frame or structure. The greatest advantage of the process is that shotcrete can be applied overhead or on vertical surfaces without formwork. It is often used for concrete repairs or placement on bridges, dams, pool... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24969173 | 729,132 |
867,394 | Marine mammals have also been seriously harmed, as over 50 percent of unusual marine mammal deaths are caused by harmful algal blooms. In 1999, over 65 bottlenose dolphins died during a coastal HAB in Florida. In 2013 a HAB in southwest Florida killed a record number of Manatee. Whales have also died in large numbers. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18348855 | 866,934 |
1,621,131 | The initial proposal was so secret that the investigatory committee was titled the "Special Committee on an Important Problem" but by November 1933 the proposal had become public knowledge and created a strong backlash among Northwestern students, faculty, and alumni as well as members of the Evanston community. Oppone... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10414221 | 1,620,216 |
1,418,950 | Ethical concerns, as well as the cost, maintenance and relative inefficiency of animal research has encouraged development of alternative methods for the study of disease. Cell culture and "in vitro" studies provide an alternative that preserves the physiology of the living cell, but does not require the sacrifice of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1133707 | 1,418,151 |
396,470 | In addition, polyvagal theory introduces the term "neuroception" for "a neural process that enables humans and other mammals to engage in social behaviors by distinguishing safe from dangerous contexts". It thus attempts to encompass several categories of psychological phenomena, each one of which constitutes a broad f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15376795 | 396,274 |
1,568,305 | Wide-field multiphoton microscopy refers to an optical non-linear imaging technique tailored for ultrafast imaging in which a large area of the object is illuminated and imaged without the need for scanning. High intensities are required to induce non-linear optical processes such as two-photon fluorescence or second h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49884868 | 1,567,418 |
1,213,944 | Lee was a mission specialist on his third flight, mission STS-64, running from September 9–20, 1994. During this flight, he logged 6 hours and 51 minutes of EVA to test a self-rescue jetpack, undertook the first untethered spacewalk in 10 years and deployed and retrieved a solar science satellite. Lee's final flight wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=614943 | 1,213,292 |
1,977,325 | With strong support from General Allison, a special Congressional appropriation of $250,000 was obtained. The frequency was increased to 200 MHz (1.5 m). The transmitter used 16 tubes in a ring oscillator circuit (developed at the NRL), producing about 75-kW peak power. Colton wanted lobe switching for the receiving an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25221820 | 1,976,187 |
700,288 | In the Lustre 2.10 release, the ability to specify "composite layouts" was added to allow files to have different layout parameters for different regions of the file. The Progressive File Layout (PFL) feature uses composite layouts to improve file IO performance over a wider range of workloads, as well as simplify usag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1778965 | 699,923 |
1,737,430 | According to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Bayer's work on the filter "helped pave the way for the development of the first working digital camera a year later." Steve Sasson, co-inventor of the first digital camera, told the Rochester newspaper "that Bayer's contributions were not only pioneering but prophetic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2898203 | 1,736,453 |
947,745 | Quality is a snapshot at the start of life through the warranty period and is related to the control of lower-level product specifications. This includes time-zero defects i.e. where manufacturing mistakes escaped final Quality Control. In theory the quality level might be described by a single fraction of defective pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1724836 | 947,242 |
1,671,500 | Documenting spaces for historical event, captured live or recreated will benefit the educational sector greatly. Virtual lectures depicting big events in history with an immersive component will help future generations imagine spaces and learn collaboratively about events. This can be abstracted and used to visualize m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56687142 | 1,670,560 |
1,882,517 | Modification of a task is about adjusting behaviors and actions that may contribute to the development or exacerbation of CTS. As part of the assessment, the PT or OT will conduct an activity analysis to identify areas where change may be needed. Once a task is analyzed, alternative methods can be negotiated or discuss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33466929 | 1,881,436 |
1,821,529 | The FLIC curves shift to the left as the distance of the fluorophore above the oxide increases. formula_51 is usually the parameter of interest, but several other free parameters are often included to optimize the fit. Normally an amplitude factor (a) and a constant additive term for the background (b) are included. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7901142 | 1,820,491 |
2,125,643 | After reaching the championship game for the first time in program history, St. Cloud entered this season hoping to return and complete the job. The Huskies returned most of the men from the year before and lost none of the principle players, giving them a leg-up in the teamwork department. They retained the high ranki... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68604024 | 2,124,422 |
635,941 | The bull trout is listed as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act throughout its range in the contiguous United States. It is used as a management indicator species for several national forests, including Boise National Forest and Sawtooth National Forest (Sawtooth National Recreation Area). They c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=878865 | 635,602 |
2,011,853 | In invertebrates, the proneural genes, particularly the members of the achaete-scute complex (AS-C) promote neurogenesis, while the neurogenic genes prevent neurogenesis and facilitate epidermal development. The formation of neuroblasts depends on the Achaete-scute complex genes – achaete (ac), scute (sc), lethal of sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42064066 | 2,010,700 |
1,326,015 | In September 1952, the Board of Regents requested an audit of EES's financial operation. Of primary concern was the reporting of overhead income, which the Board suspected was inadequate. The audit found discrepancies in the accounts receivable that were attributed to EES's practice of delaying reporting information on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4424567 | 1,325,288 |
660,876 | Capital works on both sides at the same time. If its accumulation on the one hand increases the demand for labour, it increases on the other the supply of labourers by the setting free of them whilst at the same time the pressure of the unemployed compels those that are employed to furnish more labour and therefore mak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8937649 | 660,531 |
393,872 | James Dodson's pioneering work on the long term insurance contracts under which the same premium is charged each year led to the formation of the Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorship (now commonly known as Equitable Life) in London in 1762. William Morgan is often considered the father of modern a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=189373 | 393,677 |
2,036,183 | The Commission serves as the principal advocate for an integrated system of higher education which provides a broad scope of higher education programs and services. The system includes both public and independent institutions and enrolls over 380,000 full-time and part-time credit-seeking students statewide. The 31 pub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5518089 | 2,035,009 |
1,542,798 | Following a period in Johannesburg and Welkom, working as a trainee graduate metallurgist working in gold and uranium in processing for Anglo American Corporation (1979/80), he later joined De Beers Industrial Diamonds Research Laboratory undertaking a PhD based in South Africa and Imperial College London (Royal School... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26669874 | 1,541,925 |
1,738,195 | Methods to encourage economics of participation are heavily reliant on the concept of economic democracy, and thereby advocate for the transfer of decision-making power from managers and directors to public stakeholders, among which are workers. In the first instance, the implementation of employee ownership can privat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24613993 | 1,737,218 |
385,900 | Other editors, commenting on this ban have noted: "Banning the reporting of "p"-values, as Basic and Applied Social Psychology recently did, is not going to solve the problem because it is merely treating a symptom of the problem. There is nothing wrong with hypothesis testing and "p"-values per se as long as authors, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160995 | 385,705 |
1,889,950 | The Leopold Street/West Street site was home to the city's education offices together with the Sheffield City Grammar School and the Central Technical School. It was quite compact. Consequently, the playing fields for the schools were located at two sites at Ringinglow. As the Central Technical School expanded, additio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9579330 | 1,888,867 |
1,736,300 | In 1997 Dartmouth hired Bob Gaudet away from Brown, giving the program the first Dartmouth alumnus to helm the team since Oakes in 1970. The first three years under the new bench boss were much of the same but in Gaudet's fourth season the Big Green finally posted a winning season and won an ECAC tournament game both f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26673818 | 1,735,323 |
617,386 | Electric guitar and bass players who perform concerts may use electronic tuners built into an effects pedal, often called a "stomp box". These tuners have a rugged metal or heavy-duty plastic housing and a foot-operated switch to toggle between the tuner and a bypass mode. Professional guitarists may use a more expensi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4385464 | 617,072 |
2,085,621 | The book uses knitting, crochet, sewing, and cross-stitch, but deliberately avoids weaving as a topic already well-covered in mathematical fiber arts publications. Projects in the book include a quilt in the form of a Möbius strip, a "bidirectional hat" connected to the theory of Diophantine equations, a shawl with a f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63833993 | 2,084,420 |
1,773,782 | The disaster on 1 February 2003 (during STS-107, a non-ISS mission) resulted in a two-and-a-half-year suspension of the US Space Shuttle program. Another one-year suspension following STS-114 (because of continued foam shedding on the external tank) led to some uncertainty about the future of the International Space St... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22885005 | 1,772,785 |
230,330 | Treatment of patients with absence seizures only is mainly with ethosuximide or valproic acid, which are of equal efficacy controlling absences in around 75% of patients. Lamotrigine monotherapy is less effective, controlling absences in around 50% of patients. This summary has been recently confirmed by Glauser et al.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=370309 | 230,212 |
238,331 | In "Star Trek: Picard", Data is seen in Picard's dreams, playing poker with him in Ten-Forward, and later painting in the middle of the vineyards of Chateau Picard. It is revealed that Dahj and Soji Asha are Data's daughters, created through fractal neuronic cloning, a procedure developed by Dr. Bruce Maddox. These neu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47676 | 238,211 |
4,910 | In the 1990s, with the pending retirement of the Grumman A-6 Intruder, the F-14 air-to-ground program was resurrected. Trials with live bombs had been carried out in the 1980s; the F-14 was cleared to use basic iron bombs in 1992. During Operation Desert Storm of the Gulf War, most air-to-ground missions were left to L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11719 | 4,908 |
800,080 | In March 2011, Defence Secretary Liam Fox said the PWR3 was the preferred option "because those reactors give us a better safety outlook". In May 2011, the Ministry of Defence announced that PWR3 had been selected for the Successor (later named the "Dreadnought"-class in 2016). The PWR3 cost about more per boat to purc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=584797 | 799,654 |
340,463 | Suśruta-saṃhitā, composed between 6th century BCE and 5th century CE speaks of 360 bones. Books on "Salya-Shastra" (surgical science) know of only 300. The text then lists the total of 300 as follows: 120 in the extremities (e.g. hands, legs), 117 in the pelvic area, sides, back, abdomen and breast, and 63 in the neck ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=168848 | 340,282 |
1,591,834 | In 1998, $9 million was set aside to fund the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI), an interdisciplinary research effort using the expertise of different scientific research institutions and universities from across the country, centrally linked to Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. Gerald Soffen former Pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1277228 | 1,590,938 |
90,765 | Fully autonomous robots only appeared in the second half of the 20th century. The first digitally operated and programmable robot, the Unimate, was installed in 1961 to lift hot pieces of metal from a die casting machine and stack them. Commercial and industrial robots are widespread today and used to perform jobs more... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20903754 | 90,725 |
956,234 | Many authors have either used a galaxy-spanning fictional empire as background or written about the growth and/or decline of such an empire. Said empire's capital is often a core world, such as a planet relatively close to a galaxy's supermassive black hole. Characterization can vary wildly from malevolent forces attac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=956982 | 955,729 |
786,397 | The rings are made of an extremely dark material. The geometric albedo of the ring particles does not exceed 5–6%, while the Bond albedo is even lower—about 2%. The rings particles demonstrate a steep opposition surge—an increase of the albedo when the phase angle is close to zero. This means that their albedo is much ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=979232 | 785,974 |
1,499,080 | An enzyme from "Thermococcus", Tpa-S DNA polymerase, has been found to be more efficient in long and rapid PCR than Taq-polymerase. Tk-SP, another enzyme from "T. kodakarensis", can degrade abnormal prion proteins (PrPSc); prions are misfolded proteins that can cause fatal diseases in all organisms. Tk-SP shows broad s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12816678 | 1,498,236 |
2,088,849 | The following season (2006/07) the 1st team was led by Guy Evans with Charles Daultry Chairman of the club. In the Medics cup, Birmingham won their group with easy wins over Warwick and Leicester although Nottingham had more resistance. This run of wins was ended in the quarter finals with a loss, by a point, to Leeds.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61217486 | 2,087,646 |
168,300 | Carl Linnaeus included the guinea worm in his 1758 edition of "Systema Naturae", naming it "Gordius medinensis". In Johann Friedrich Gmelin's 13th edition of "Systema Naturae" (1788), he renamed the worm "Filaria medinensis", leaving "Gordius" for free-living worms. Henry Bastian authored the first detailed description... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1041031 | 168,210 |
453,891 | East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania's colors are red and black, and the team nickname is the Warriors. For the 2008–09 academic year, the university's mascot was changed to Burgy the warrior bear. In 2017 a new mascot was unveiled, that of an ancient warrior. All teams compete in the NCAA Division II and within... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2991130 | 453,670 |
83,291 | The standard McLaren F1 road car features no fixed wing to produce downforce (compare the LM and GTR editions); however, the overall design of the underbody of the McLaren F1 in addition to a rear diffuser exploits ground effect to improve downforce which is increased through the use of two electric Kevlar fans to furt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=420183 | 83,257 |
333,266 | Though several stylistic details have survived since the earliest days—the use of the stars, pointing hand, and Greek letters on the obverse, for example—notable differences exist between older keys and current examples. The name of the recipient was not engraved on the earliest fobs or keys, and was not until the firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166504 | 333,088 |
727,708 | Typically, a virus enters the lungs through the inhalation of water droplets and invades the cells lining the airways and the alveoli. This leads to cell death; the cells are killed by the virus or they self-destruct. Further lung damage occurs when the immune system responds to the infection. White blood cells, partic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2913317 | 727,325 |
1,655,024 | Depression is a mood disorder that negatively impact peoples' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. According to the American Psychiatric Association "1 in 6 people will be diagnosed with depression in their lifetime". Considering its negative consequences and prevalence interventions to manage this condition are importan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37161190 | 1,654,092 |
1,314,681 | Flower urchins are also common hosts of the zebra crab, "Zebrida adamsii". These tiny crabs are obligate symbionts of sea urchins. They cling to the spines on the outer surface of the sea urchin test using their highly specialized walking legs. Because their ability to walk on substrates like sand is impaired, zebra cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29096764 | 1,313,960 |
523,627 | In late 1965, a new demand for trained Navy personnel to man additional ships and overseas billets, called into service by the Vietnam War, surged the onboard recruit population to an excess of 18,000. Concurrently, expansion plans and projects continued with the laying of a foundation for a new 8,000-man messing facil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25285370 | 523,355 |
1,314,748 | In the 1960s and 1970s his research alone and with students focused in journal publications and conference papers on models of high energy processes, radiative and resolution corrections for resonances in electron–positron annihilation, spin-flip synchrotron radiation and the polarization of electrons in a storage ring... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2697772 | 1,314,027 |
148,621 | Lewin was born to Walter Simon Lewin and Pieternella Johanna van der Tang in 1936 in The Hague, Netherlands. He was a child when Nazi Germany occupied The Netherlands during World War II. It is unclear if his paternal grandparents Gustav and Emma Lewin, who were Jewish, were killed in Auschwitz in 1942, or died of typh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1611852 | 148,560 |
386,892 | At the European Union level, personal protective equipment is governed by Directive 89/686/EEC on personal protective equipment (PPE). The Directive is designed to ensure that PPE meets common quality and safety standards by setting out basic safety requirements for personal protective equipment, as well as conditions ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55530 | 386,697 |
1,061,102 | Sexual reproduction is thought to be triggered by excessive population density. As a result, the animals absorb liquid, begin to swell, and separate from the substrate so that they float freely in the water. In the protected interior space, the ventral cells form an ovum surrounded by a special envelope, the fertilisat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=712760 | 1,060,550 |
1,102,938 | The female may lay up to 3,000 eggs in a single mass, placing them on vegetation overhanging water. Megaloptera undergo the most rudimentary form of complete metamorphosis among the insects. There are fewer differences between the larval and adult forms of Megaloptera than in any other order of holometabolous insects, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1476259 | 1,102,377 |
27,308 | Production difficulties delayed deliveries to the Army until September 1937. Machine production began at Springfield Armory that month at a rate of ten rifles per day, and reached an output of 100 per day within two years. Despite going into production status, design issues were not at an end. The barrel, gas cylinder,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=149051 | 27,298 |
251,777 | From 1854 to 1862, Wallace travelled around the islands of the Malay Archipelago or East Indies (now Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia). His main objective "was to obtain specimens of natural history, both for my private collection and to supply duplicates to museums and amateurs". In addition to Allen, he "generally e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1494 | 251,644 |
924,064 | After some years, Zhang managed to find a position as a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire, where he was hired by Kenneth Appel in 1999. Prior to getting back to academia, he worked for several years as an accountant and a delivery worker for a New York City restaurant. He also worked in a motel in Kentucky an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39441844 | 923,578 |
4,296 | "What a man can be, he must be." This quotation forms the basis of the perceived need for self-actualization. This level of need refers to the realization of one's full potential. Maslow describes this as the desire to accomplish everything that one can, to become the most that one can be. People may have a strong, par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=163131 | 4,294 |
297,018 | In 2020, carbon dioxide emissions fell by 6.4% or 2.3 billion tonnes globally. In April 2020, emissions fell by up to 30%. In China, lockdowns and other measures resulted in a 26% decrease in coal consumption, and a 50% reduction in nitrogen oxide emissions. Greenhouse gas emissions rebounded later in the pandemic as m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2119179 | 296,858 |
101,171 | Amateur licensing is a routine civil administrative matter in many countries. Amateurs therein must pass an examination to demonstrate technical knowledge, operating competence, and awareness of legal and regulatory requirements, in order to avoid interfering with other amateurs and other radio services. A series of ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23275402 | 101,126 |
535,145 | On 7 June 1917, the II Anzac Corps—along with two British corps—launched an operation in Flanders to eliminate a salient south of Ypres. The attack commenced with the detonation of a million pounds (454,545 kg) of explosives that had been placed underneath the Messines ridge, destroying the German trenches. The advance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,866 |
977,250 | An active Intramural sports program includes competition in basketball, billiards, bowling, disc golf, dodgeball, flag football, futsal, golf, racquetball, sand volleyball, soccer, softball, table tennis, tennis, track, ultimate, volleyball, and weight lifting. Two large intramural fields with artificial turf, electron... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187859 | 976,739 |
1,323,530 | The application of linguistic science to the analysis of speech and language disorders has always been necessary but understudied. Roman Jakobson, a Russian structural linguist, was one of the first to try to apply linguistic theory to the study of Speech-Language Pathology. Published in 1941, his book "Kindersprache, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7476274 | 1,322,804 |
1,316,592 | Troglitazone was developed by Daiichi Sankyo (Japan). In the United States, it was introduced and manufactured by Parke-Davis in the late 1990s but turned out to be associated with an idiosyncratic reaction leading to drug-induced hepatitis. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) medical officer assigned to evaluate tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=597793 | 1,315,867 |
1,306,416 | The presence of oxygen on Earth from its first production by cyanobacteria to the GOE and through today has drastically impacted the course of evolution of life and planet. It may have triggered the formation of oxidized minerals and the disappearance of oxidizable minerals like pyrite from ancient stream beds. The pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1962246 | 1,305,700 |
741,400 | Ramsay and colleagues further suggested that the whorl could have served as an effective mechanism for deshelling hard-shelled cephalopods such as ammonoids and nautiloids, which were abundant in Early Permian oceans. If a hard-shelled cephalopod was bitten head-on, it was possible that the whorl could have served to p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1856394 | 741,008 |
1,516,289 | Due to the idiosyncratic nature of mercury toxicity, the risk of severe disease and sudden death are unpredictable and frequently show no warning signs. Physicians during the 20th century believed that a fever/rash complex suggested the risk of severe side effects for the next upcoming doses if treatment was not halted... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=764719 | 1,515,437 |
2,029,668 | This family consists of various prokaryotic SecD and SecF protein export membrane proteins. The SecD and SecF equivalents of the Gram-positive bacterium "Bacillus subtilis" are jointly present in one polypeptide, denoted SecDF, that is required to maintain a high capacity for protein secretion. Unlike the SecD subunit ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35051717 | 2,028,500 |
178,213 | Although the production of "Chlorella" looked promising and involved creative technology, it has not to date been cultivated on the scale some had predicted. It has not been sold on the scale of "Spirulina", soybean products, or whole grains. Costs have remained high, and "Chlorella" has for the most part been sold as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=628811 | 178,120 |
378,241 | Performance measurement should not be reduced to the evaluation of fund returns alone, but must also integrate other fund elements that would be of interest to investors, such as the measure of risk taken. Several other aspects are also part of performance measurement: evaluating if managers have succeeded in reaching ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1557851 | 378,046 |
1,410,902 | As several studies had noted, regression-based reconstruction methods tended to underestimate low-frequency variability. Bo Christiansen designed a new method (LOC) to overcome this problem, and with Ljungqvist used LOC to produce a 1,000 year reconstruction published in 2011. This showed more low frequency variability... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5354105 | 1,410,110 |
150,873 | Throughout the 1950s an SST looked possible from a technical standpoint, but it was not clear if it could be made economically viable. Because of differences in lift generation, aircraft operating at supersonic speeds have approximately one-half the lift-to-drag ratio of subsonic aircraft. This implies that for any giv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=215930 | 150,805 |
2,142,834 | Spain entered the event as the reigning World Champions, whilst the Czech republic fielded a team including 2020 Olympic Champion Jiří Prskavec and 2021 overall World Cup Champion Vít Přindiš. The event was won by France in a clean run of 91.64 ahead of host nation Slovakia and Slovenia. The Czech Republic finished fou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68794803 | 2,141,603 |
76,076 | Prosopagnosia (from Greek "prósōpon", meaning "face", and "agnōsía", meaning "non-knowledge"), also called face blindness, is a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one's own face (self-recognition), is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing (e.g.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=486429 | 76,047 |
1,355,738 | In 2006, Fire and Craig Mello shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work first published in 1998 in the journal "Nature". Fire and Mello, along with colleagues SiQun Xu, Mary Montgomery, Stephen Kostas, and Sam Driver, reported that tiny snippets of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) effectively shut down speci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7252287 | 1,354,990 |
1,025,767 | These receptor proteins are typically composed of at least two different domains: a transmembrane domain which includes the ion pore, and an extracellular domain which includes the ligand binding location (an allosteric binding site). This modularity has enabled a 'divide and conquer' approach to finding the structure ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1351369 | 1,025,233 |
315,936 | These receptor proteins are typically composed of at least two different domains: a transmembrane domain which includes the ion pore, and an extracellular domain which includes the ligand binding location (an allosteric binding site). This modularity has enabled a 'divide and conquer' approach to finding the structure ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4109042 | 315,767 |
1,209,149 | The expected growth of future UAS movements in rural as well as urban areas indicates the need for traffic management solutions, ensuring a normal course of trouble free operations of manned as well as unmanned aviation. IMPETUS contributes by investigating potential microservices that serve the airspace user's needs i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3852887 | 1,208,502 |
1,799,538 | Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences is a 1966 textbook by mathematician Mary L. Boas intended to develop skills in mathematical problem solving needed for junior to senior-graduate courses in engineering, physics, and chemistry. The book provides a comprehensive survey of analytic techniques and provides care... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27606747 | 1,798,529 |
1,499,971 | Einstein was born in Berlin, the son of Josefa Spiero Einstein Warburg and Dr. Fritz Einstein. He spent his childhood in Hamburg, Germany as Nazism gradually took hold. His parents were Quakers, but of Jewish origin. A year after Hitler took power in 1934, his mother moved Einstein and his sister to the Netherlands, le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7089643 | 1,499,126 |
972,774 | The sac-like body built up in this way is attached usually to some firm object by its blind end, and bears at the upper end the mouth which is surrounded by a circle of tentacles which resemble glove fingers. The tentacles are organs which serve both for the tactile sense and for the capture of food. Polyps extend thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42563 | 972,264 |
360,833 | The Treaty of Versailles prevented Germany having AA weapons, and for example, the Krupps designers joined Bofors in Sweden. Some World War I guns were retained and some covert AA training started in the late 1920s. Germany introduced the 8.8 cm FlaK 18 in 1933, 36 and 37 models followed with various improvements, but ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146640 | 360,645 |
513,320 | A neural crest appears in the mammalian embryo as soon as the 20th day of development. It is during embryonic development that a neural tube appears and is folded into a hollow structure, as shown in . This process is also known as neurulation. The neural tube is where the central nervous system forms, which later on i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=993449 | 513,054 |
148,979 | A restored "Seiran" airplane is displayed at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center in suburban Washington, D.C. It is the only surviving example of this aircraft, and was found at the Aichi Aircraft Factory following the end of the war in August 1945. Shipped to Naval Air Station Alameda, it was left on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=497953 | 148,918 |
426,235 | After his retirement, Báez occasionally delivered physics lectures and was the president of Vivamos Mejor/USA in 1986, an organization founded in 1988 to help impoverished villages in Mexico. Its projects include preschool education, environmental projects, and community and educational activities. In 1991, the Interna... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2891853 | 426,027 |
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