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136,308 | In 1935, Chandrasekhar was invited by the Director of the Harvard Observatory, Harlow Shapley, to be a visiting lecturer in theoretical astrophysics for a three-month period. He travelled to the United States in December. During his visit to Harvard, Chandrasekhar greatly impressed Shapley, but declined his offer of a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145319 | 136,253 |
200,106 | 2,4-Dinitrophenol (2,4-DNP or simply DNP) is an organic compound with the formula HOCH(NO). It is a yellow, crystalline solid that has a sweet, musty odor. It sublimates, is volatile with steam, and is soluble in most organic solvents as well as aqueous alkaline solutions. When in a dry form, it is a high explosive and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=948020 | 200,003 |
590,894 | In his "Sources of Cubism and Futurism", art historian Daniel Robbins reviews the Symbolist roots of modern art, exploring the literary source of both Cubist painting in France and Futurism in Italy. The revolution of "free verse" with which Gustave Kahn was associated, was a principle example of the correspondence bet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38781217 | 590,592 |
2,062,057 | In the post-war years the Hydrographic Survey continued its work with an expanded mandate. The entry of Newfoundland and Labrador into Confederation in 1949 saw the Survey's charting activities extended to the new coasts. As the air defence of Canada became of paramount importance in the fifties the Survey extended its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18401364 | 2,060,867 |
1,843,903 | Finally, Rothstein indicated that studies revealed then, as they still do now, that student reading was on the decline while television-watching by American youth was on the increase. These dual social trends, when combined, could negatively impact student verbal scores at higher rates than their math scores. These beh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27515872 | 1,842,849 |
317,501 | In the centuries since his death, many stories arose about Albert as an alchemist and magician. "Much of the modern confusion results from the fact that later works, particularly the alchemical work known as the "Secreta Alberti" or the "Experimenta Alberti", were falsely attributed to Albertus by their authors to incr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1573 | 317,331 |
38,007 | It is largely unclear what function this could have served. All pathological inducers would leave scarring or some other indicator not normally exhibited in "H. erectus". Before more complete skeletons were discovered, Weidenreich suggested "H. erectus" was a gigantic species, thickened bone required to support the mas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19554533 | 37,994 |
1,193,685 | During 2018-2019, the Government of Pakistan has formed a number of Task Forces to strengthen science and technology, information technology and knowledge economy. The task force formed in 2018 on "Technology Driven Knowledge Economy" is chaired by the Prime Minister Mr. Imran Khan and has Atta-ur-Rahman as its Vice Ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20722416 | 1,193,046 |
656,647 | Another form of competitor derogation that is instrumental in making rivals appear less desirable is slut-shaming. In slut-shaming, females criticize and derogate same-sex rivals for engaging in sexual behaviors that are deemed "unacceptable" by society's standards, as it violates social expectations and norms with reg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49621623 | 656,303 |
849,990 | After nine starts in the minors, Prior was called-up to the big leagues in 2002 as a 21-year-old. He made his Major League debut on May 22 at Wrigley Field against the Pittsburgh Pirates and became one of 14 Cub pitchers since 1920 to win his first major league start by striking out 10 batters over six innings pitched ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=297465 | 849,538 |
347,681 | On 29 March 2001, the X-32B STOVL version made its first flight. The flight lasted 50 minutes as the aircraft flew from Palmdale to Edwards AFB. The flight had originally been scheduled for the third quarter of 2000. A modified version of the -614C engine, known as the F119-PW-614S, powered the STOVL aircraft. In norma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=641441 | 347,500 |
1,830,996 | Robert Goulston Gilbert (born 1946) is a polymer chemist whose most significant contributions have been in the field of emulsion polymerisation. In 1970, he gained his PhD from the Australian National University, and worked at the University of Sydney from then until 2006. In 1982, he was elected a fellow of the Royal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4384325 | 1,829,950 |
534,391 | By the 1820s there was a growing demand to replace Greek and Latin with modern languages, as had been proposed by Jeffersonians at the University of Virginia and the newly opened University of the City of New York. The Yale Report of 1828 was a defense of the Latin and Greek curriculum. It called to maintain traditions... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44440652 | 534,112 |
149,000 | Architectural styles evolve and change to suit the requirements of each individual client. When in 1746 the Duke of Bedford decided to rebuild Woburn Abbey, he chose the fashionable Palladian style, and selected the architect Henry Flitcroft, a protégé of Burlington. Flitcroft's designs, while Palladian in nature, had ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=592136 | 148,939 |
1,467,041 | There have been concerns about the seismic safety of the plant and, following the 2011 Fukushima I nuclear accidents, on March 21 the local Information and Oversight Commission for the plant called for the seismic risk to be re-evaluated based on a 7.2 magnitude earthquake; the plant was originally designed for a 6.7 m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31341190 | 1,466,218 |
648,085 | The existence of altruism in nature is at first sight puzzling, because altruistic behaviour reduces the likelihood that an individual will reproduce. The idea that "group selection" might explain the evolution of altruism was first broached by Darwin himself in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, (18... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2021591 | 647,744 |
628,826 | At 3 years of age, children enjoy simple movements, such as hopping, jumping, and running back and forth, just for the sheer delight of performing these activities. However, the findings in the article "The relationship between fine and gross motor ability, self-perceptions and self-worth in children and adolescents" i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4620141 | 628,490 |
37,250 | Duke athletics, particularly men's basketball, traditionally serves as a significant component of student life. Duke's students have been recognized as some of the most creative and original fans in all of collegiate athletics. Students, often referred to as Cameron Crazies, show their support of the men's basketball t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53273 | 37,237 |
230,966 | The "BattleTech" creators' goal of creating an immersive BattleMech simulation came about 1990 with the opening of the first BattleTech Center at the North Pier Mall in Chicago. The BattleTech Center featured 16 networked, full-sized cockpits or "pods" that resembled a BattleMech cockpit with over 80 separate controls.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=206330 | 230,847 |
305,189 | Once the world's most powerful nation, Britain avoided a revolution during the period of 1917–1923 but was significantly affected by revolt. The Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, had promised the troops in the 1918 United Kingdom general election that his Conservative-led coalition would make post-war Britain "a fit ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 305,027 |
612,839 | In 1911 Laue also discussed a situation where on a platform a beam of light is split and the two beams are made to follow a trajectory in opposite directions. On return to the point of entry the light is allowed to exit the platform in such a way that an interference pattern is obtained. Laue calculated a displacement ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1790788 | 612,528 |
154,478 | Once the most abundant shark species in the world, populations of "Squalus acanthias" have declined significantly. They are classified in the IUCN Red List of threatened species as Vulnerable globally and Critically endangered in the Northeast Atlantic, meaning stocks around Europe have decreased by at least 95%. This ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1425524 | 154,408 |
1,863,913 | One initial study analysed data from 1,360 downloads of the AIDA software. The intended goals of the survey were: (i) to establish the feasibility of using the Internet for auditing and surveying diabetes software users; (ii) to identify the proportion of people with diabetes and their relatives who are actually making... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8121243 | 1,862,841 |
761,389 | Airborne early warning and control flying radar aircraft as well as look down shoot down radar in fighter and interceptor aircraft allowed engaging low flying invaders again tipping the balance though this was partly ameliorated by succeeding generations of electronic countermeasures. Ultimately the US led the way in f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=537478 | 760,982 |
354,821 | In the Bohr model, an electron has a velocity given by formula_83, where is the atomic number, formula_84 is the fine-structure constant, and is the speed of light. In non-relativistic quantum mechanics, therefore, any atom with an atomic number greater than 137 would require its 1s electrons to be traveling faster th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1206 | 354,638 |
689,218 | Samvara is one of the principal yidam or meditational deities of the Sarma schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Samvara is typically depicted with a blue-coloured body, four faces, and twelve arms, and embracing his consort, the wisdom dakini Vajravārāhī (a.k.a. Vajrayoginī) in Yab-Yum (sexual union). Other forms of the deitie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1611823 | 688,856 |
763,626 | "Quake II Mission Pack: The Reckoning" is the first official expansion pack, released on May 30, 1998. It was developed by Xatrix Entertainment. First announced in January 1998, it features eighteen new single player levels, six new deathmatch levels, three new weapons (the Ion Ripper, Phalanx Particle Cannon, and Trap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25216 | 763,217 |
715,944 | The University's history is varied: its early phases began with the "Höhere Gewerbeschule" (Higher Trade School), which was founded in 1836 and received its own building near the 'Altes Pädagog' on Kapellplatz in 1844, followed by the "Technische Schule" (Technical School) in 1864 and the "Großherzoglich Hessische Poly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1664084 | 715,569 |
1,624,976 | A glandular odontogenic cyst (GOC) is a rare and usually benign odontogenic cyst developed at the odontogenic epithelium of the mandible or maxilla. Originally, the cyst was labeled as "sialo-odontogenic cyst" in 1987. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) decided to adopt the medical expression "glandular odont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7456840 | 1,624,060 |
60,022 | In 1992, the study by Horner "" tried to account for the fact that within a limited geological period of time (about half a million years) there had been a quick succession of animal communities in the upper Two Medicine Formation. Normally, this would be interpreted as a series of invasions, with the new animal types ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1792493 | 59,997 |
2,237,258 | The regular season opened on October 7 with a two-game series against visiting American International. Pearson sought to improve the team's defensive zone coverage in practices before the series, but starting goaltender Kevin Genoe gave up three goals in the first period while his Yellow Jackets counterpart, Ben Meisne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34618144 | 2,235,987 |
311,217 | On 2 February 2013, speaking at the Munich Security Conference, US Vice President Joseph Biden said that the Obama administration "would be prepared to meet bilaterally with the Iranian leadership. We would not make it a secret that we were doing that. We would let our partners know if that occasion presented itself. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=721807 | 311,049 |
2,024,915 | Plant protection strategy and activities have significant importance in the overall crop production programmes for sustainable agriculture. Variation of Bt gene expression in different cultivars over time and efficacy to bollworms are the main concern nowadays, studies undertaken on Earias spp proved the concerned. Sim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14192720 | 2,023,750 |
1,531,064 | The project stemmed from a close knowledge infrastructure, ENQUIRE. It was an information management software commissioned to Tim Berners-Lee by the CERN for the specific needs of high energy physics. The structure of ENQUIRE was closer to an internal web of data: it connected "nodes" that "could refer to a person, a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31915311 | 1,530,198 |
2,171,884 | The Hoyas entered the 1984–85 season as the defending national champion, having won the title in 1984. Coached by John Thompson, the Hoyas featured center Patrick Ewing, who was named to the 1985 All-American team. The Hoyas held the number one ranking in the Associated Press Poll at the start of the season, and won th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48665895 | 2,170,645 |
774,457 | The main tasks of the CMEA were plan coordination, production specialization and regional trade. In 1961 Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, put forward proposals for establishing an integrated, centrally-planned socialist commonwealth in which each geographic region would specialize production in line with its set o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43069513 | 774,041 |
415,663 | Starting in 1982, the Ballistic Missile Office assisted Strategic Air Command in deactivating the remaining Titan II missiles and placing them into storage for possible conversion into space launch vehicles. Under the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, both the United States and Soviet Union were limited in the number of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10179560 | 415,460 |
662,885 | Fritz V. was born in June 1933 in Austria and was sent to Hans Asperger in autumn of 1939. The school referred him as they considered him "uneducable" by his first day there. He had severe impairment in social integration. Hans Asperger gave a very detailed report of Fritz and his efforts to understand his problems in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13302907 | 662,540 |
894,145 | The diagnosis of FL depends on examining involved tissues for histological, immunological, and chromosomal abnormalities that are indicative of the disease. FL usually involves enlarged lymph nodes populated by abnormal follicles (see adjacent picture) that when examined histologically contain a mixture of centrocytes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3034995 | 893,675 |
89,888 | CRTs are evacuated or exhausted (a vacuum is formed) inside an oven at approx. 375–475 °C, in a process called baking or bake-out. The evacuation process also outgasses any materials inside the CRT, while decomposing others such as the polyvinyl alcohol used to apply the phosphors. The heating and cooling are done grad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6014 | 89,850 |
1,412,583 | Guiyu as an e-waste hub was first documented fully in December 2001 by the Basel Action Network, a non-profit organization which combats the practice of toxic waste export to developing countries in their report and documentary film entitled "Exporting Harm". The health and environmental issues exposed by this report a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22995310 | 1,411,788 |
628,479 | On 6 April 2007, the Gansu Dang River Hydropower Project was registered as a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project in accordance with the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The project consists of the construction and operation of eight run-of-river hydr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13556279 | 628,144 |
60,024 | Horner thought he had found the mechanism driving this evolution, elaborating on ideas he had developed even before he had investigated Landslide Butte. The animals were living on a narrow strip on the east-coast of Laramidia, bordering the Western Interior Seaway and constrained in the west by the high proto-Rocky Mou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1792493 | 59,999 |
142,422 | The simplest algorithm represents each chromosome as a bit string. Typically, numeric parameters can be represented by integers, though it is possible to use floating point representations. The floating point representation is natural to evolution strategies and evolutionary programming. The notion of real-valued genet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40254 | 142,364 |
1,776,682 | The medieval Chinese Song Dynasty statesman and scientist Shen Kuo (1031-1095 AD) wrote of his land formation theory involving concepts of mineralogy. In his "Meng Xi Bi Tan" (梦溪笔谈; "Dream Pool Essays", 1088), Shen formulated a hypothesis for the process of land formation (geomorphology); based on his observation of ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23602070 | 1,775,683 |
416,572 | Adam Smith is considered the first theorist of what we commonly refer to as capitalism. His 1776 work, "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations", theorized that within a given stable system of commerce and evaluation, individuals would respond to the incentive of earning more by specializing thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1375342 | 416,369 |
926,779 | In 1971, fewer than 295,000 girls participated in high school varsity athletics, accounting for just 7 percent of all varsity athletes; in 2001, that number leaped to 2.8 million, or 41.5 percent of all varsity athletes, according to the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education. In 1966, 16,000 females compe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=265901 | 926,293 |
982,948 | Supernova nucleosynthesis occurs in the energetic environment in supernovae, in which the elements between silicon and nickel are synthesized in quasiequilibrium established during fast fusion that attaches by reciprocating balanced nuclear reactions to Si. Quasiequilibrium can be thought of as "almost equilibrium" exc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48903 | 982,435 |
1,515,088 | During the preparation of Nicholas III's Bull "Exiit qui seminat", in the summer of 1279, Olivi accompanied his provincial minister to Italy, but was not himself part of the commission that worked on the Bull. He was asked to express briefly his opinion with regard to Franciscan poverty, but composed much longer questi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=251359 | 1,514,237 |
87,334 | The first industrially practical polyethylene synthesis (diazomethane is a notoriously unstable substance that is generally avoided in industrial application) was again accidentally discovered in 1933 by Eric Fawcett and Reginald Gibson at the Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) works in Northwich, England. Upon applyin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77385 | 87,299 |
1,586,813 | FET proteins are abundantly expressed in virtually all tissues examined. They are RNA-binding proteins. By binding to their RNA targets, they contribute to the regulation of: a) the transcription of genes into pre-messenger RNA, the splicing of pre-messenger RNA into mature messenger RNA, and the transport of these RNA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68816373 | 1,585,919 |
534,225 | In real estate economics, Hedonic regression is used to adjust for the issues associated with researching a good that is as heterogeneous, such as buildings. Because individual buildings are so different, it is difficult to estimate the demand for buildings generically. Instead, it is assumed that a house can be decomp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1446036 | 533,946 |
759,340 | Doubled haploid (DH) plants have the potential to save much time in the development of inbred lines. This is achieved in a single generation, as opposed to many, which would otherwise occupy much physical space/facilities. DHs also express deleterious recessive alleles otherwise masked by dominance effects in a genome ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65085 | 758,934 |
1,544,875 | The United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine began operations on January 19, 1918 at Hazelhurst Field, Mineola, Long Island as the "Air Service Medical Research Laboratory" under the leadership of Col. William H. Wilmer. The Hazelhurst Laboratory had a small decompression chamber and research was begun on h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49178570 | 1,544,001 |
356,283 | Holmgren studied climate effects from actual forestry practices in a whole country over a 40-year time period (Sweden 1980–2019), and found that at the national landscape level, no carbon debt accrued at any point in time during this period. The actual forestry practice was compared to two alternative forest protection... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7906908 | 356,100 |
719,706 | Of all brain-metastatic patients, those with a controlled extra-cranial tumor, age less than 65 years and a favorable general performance (Karnofsky performance status ≥70) fare best; older patients with a Karnofsky performance status below 70 do poorly. Effective treatments for brain metastases from breast cancer exis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23030139 | 719,326 |
135,215 | Studies published in 2017 and 2018 identified stalling patterns of Rossby waves in the northern hemisphere jet stream as the culprit behind other almost stationary extreme weather events, such as the 2018 European heatwave, the 2003 European heat wave, 2010 Russian heat wave or the 2010 Pakistan floods, and suggested t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16472 | 135,160 |
285,401 | While the Qingli Reforms failed, the ideal of a statewide education system was taken up by Wang Anshi (1021–1086), who proposed as part of his New Policies that examinations alone were not enough to select talent. His answer to the glut of graduates was to found new schools ("shuyuan") for the selection of officials, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=244479 | 285,247 |
313,504 | Three studies in 1992 were the first to explore using the BOLD contrast in humans. Kenneth Kwong and colleagues, using both gradient-echo and inversion recovery echo-planar imaging (EPI) sequence at a magnetic field strength of 1.5 T published studies showing clear activation of the human visual cortex. The Harvard tea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=226722 | 313,335 |
1,867,517 | Since 2002, Palem has been developing the thermodynamic foundations for radically new ways of approaching the challenge of lowering energy consumption by trading computational accuracy. The implementation of this principle in the context of CMOS devices lead to the invention of a widely known patented technology called... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15944955 | 1,866,441 |
1,562,954 | Recently, the Sierra Club of Nevada sued the Nevada Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration over its failure to assess the impact of the expansion of U.S. Route 95 in Las Vegas on neighborhood air quality. The Sierra Club asserted that a supplemental Environmental Impact Statement should be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4386085 | 1,562,067 |
11,966 | Kevin Lonergan at "Information Age", a business technology magazine, has referred to the terms surrounding the IoT as a "terminology zoo". The lack of clear terminology is not "useful from a practical point of view" and a "source of confusion for the end user". A company operating in the IoT space could be working in a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12057519 | 11,961 |
254,123 | With Bush as chairman, the NDRC was functioning even before the agency was officially established by order of the Council of National Defense on June 27, 1940. The organization operated financially on a hand-to-mouth basis with monetary support from the president's emergency fund. Bush appointed four leading scientists... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32767 | 253,990 |
869,745 | The "dual use" nature of the Magnox design leads to design compromises that limit its economic performance. As the Magnox design was being rolled out, work was already underway on the Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR) with the explicit intention of making the system more economical. Primary among the changes was the de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=394354 | 869,285 |
920,157 | A briefly popular theory held that a C-rich comet struck the earth and initiated the warming event. A cometary impact coincident with the P/E boundary can also help explain some enigmatic features associated with this event, such as the iridium anomaly at Zumaia, the abrupt appearance of kaolinitic clays with abundant ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=387369 | 919,671 |
876,287 | At the time of receiving a JIA diagnosis, children and their families often have many questions regarding prognosis. Recent therapeutic advances in the management of JIA have made inactive disease and clinical remission achievable goals for the majority of children with access to modern treatments. Clinical remission c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=619071 | 875,825 |
1,099,728 | Despite the obvious power of the approach, eDNA metabarcoding is affected by precision and accuracy challenges distributed throughout the workflow in the field, in the laboratory and at the keyboard. As set out in the diagram at the right, following the initial study design (hypothesis/question, targeted taxonomic grou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66619486 | 1,099,168 |
1,114,633 | It is more difficult to determine the climate of southeastern Australia when the dinosaur fossil beds were laid down , towards the end of the Early Cretaceous: these deposits contain evidence of permafrost, ice wedges, and hummocky ground formed by the movement of subterranean ice, which suggests mean annual temperatur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6040372 | 1,114,065 |
1,037,891 | However, the financial crisis of 2007–08 ended this period of stability, and, on 16 April 2007, the governor (at that time Mervyn King), was obliged to write the first MPC open letter to the chancellor (Gordon Brown), explaining why the inflation had deviated from the target of 2% per year by more than one percentage p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1234219 | 1,037,350 |
1,590,961 | Marx was born on 10 March 1796 in Karlsruhe, the son of a Jewish antiquarian, and attended the Karlsruhe Lyceum, where he was taught by Johann Peter Hebel and Karl Christian Gmelin. In 1813 he began studies in philosophy and medicine in Heidelberg, where, in 1817, he participated in the Old Heidelberg "Burschenschaft" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44278266 | 1,590,067 |
1,957,951 | Following his graduation in medicine, Paul Grof took his psychiatric training and became specialized in psychiatry in 1962. He worked as a research psychiatrist in the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague, and as a fellow in psychoendocrinology of affective disorders in West Germany. In the fall of 1968 Dr. Grof wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2051891 | 1,956,827 |
1,675,355 | Nanothreads are synthesized by compressing liquid benzene to extreme pressure of 20 GPa (around 200,000 times the air pressure at the surface of the Earth), and then slowly relieving that pressure. The mechanochemical synthesis reaction can be considered a form of organic solid state chemistry. The benzene chains form ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44111579 | 1,674,413 |
1,282,149 | Strictly speaking, ASA-based models should only be applied to describe "solvation", i.e., energetics of transfer between liquid or uniform media. It is possible to express van der Waals interaction energies in the solid state in the surface energy units. This was sometimes done for interpreting protein engineering and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7479239 | 1,281,453 |
2,048,297 | In 1954 he returned to Britain working on semi-conductor research at Marconi Research Laboratories in Chelmsford. In 1957 he moved to Texas Instruments in Bedford as senior product engineer, devising a way to create cheap germanium crystals. This brought him rapid promotion, rising to assistant managing director for No... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56304316 | 2,047,116 |
1,133,610 | Despite the successes of the Everglades Forever Act and the decreases in mercury levels, the focus intensified on the Everglades in the 1990s as quality of life in the South Florida metropolitan areas diminished. It was becoming clear that urban populations were consuming increasingly unsustainable levels of natural re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17601646 | 1,133,017 |
91,536 | China's Green Revolution came from its own fruition, and cannot necessarily be credited to practices popularized by Norman Borlaug. China's large and increasing population meant that increasing food production, principally rice, was a top priority for the Chinese government. When the People's Republic of China was esta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72727 | 91,496 |
412,524 | Captain Dwight Eisenhower had gone to Camp Meade, Maryland, in February 1918 with the 65th Engineer Regiment, which had been activated to provide the organizational basis for the creation of the Army's first heavy tank battalion. In March, the 1st Battalion, Heavy Tank Service (as it was then known) was ordered to prep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25658417 | 412,322 |
1,308,760 | Arabidopsis is often used as a model organism to study gene expression in plants, while actual production may be carried out in maize, rice, potatoes, tobacco, flax or safflower. Tobacco has been a highly popular choice of organism for the expression of transgenes, as it is easily transformed, produces abundant tissues... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1749134 | 1,308,044 |
1,093,163 | SMART is a canisterised hybrid system, made up of long-range missile carrier that can travel at supersonic speed and a lightweight torpedo as payload for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) role. The objective behind the project is to develop a quick reaction system that can launch torpedo from standoff distance. The missile ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69517435 | 1,092,603 |
274,892 | Treatment for drinking water production involves the removal of contaminants and/or inactivation of any potentially harmful microbes from raw water to produce water that is pure enough for human consumption without any short term or long term risk of any adverse health effect. In general terms, the greatest microbial r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239926 | 274,744 |
1,410,898 | A study of the changing climate of the Arctic over the last 2,000 years, by an international consortium led by Darrell Kaufman of Northern Arizona University, was published on 4 September 2009. They examined sediment core records from 14 Arctic lakes, supported by tree ring and ice core records. Their findings showed a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5354105 | 1,410,106 |
1,711,406 | The observatory was established in 1924 as The Commonwealth Solar Observatory. The Mount Stromlo site had already been used for observations in the previous decade, a small observatory being established there by Pietro Baracchi using the Oddie telescope located there in 1911. The dome built to house the Oddie telescope... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1035967 | 1,710,443 |
933,251 | As early as the 1830s, novelists and poets began fretting that the railroads would destroy the rustic attractions of the American landscape. By the 1840s concerns were rising about terrible accidents when speeding trains crashed into helpless wooden carriages. By the 1870s, railroads were vilified by Western farmers wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=587997 | 932,759 |
1,079,707 | With the emergence of cardiovascular disease as a major cause of death in the Western world in the middle of the 20th century, the lipid hypothesis received greater attention. In the 1940s, a University of Minnesota researcher, Ancel Keys, postulated that the apparent epidemic of heart attacks in middle-aged American m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6176410 | 1,079,152 |
1,830,236 | Immediately following the announcement of the Royal Commission, emeritus Prof. Ian Lowe from Griffith University (and previous President of the Australian Conservation Foundation) suggested that the current inquiry risks retreading old ground already covered by several previous public inquiries and proposals for nuclea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46689693 | 1,829,190 |
157,864 | The thermospray (TSP) interface was developed in 1980 by Marvin Vestal and co-workers at the University of Houston. It was commercialized by Vestec and several of the major mass spectrometer manufacurers. The interface resulted from a long term research project intended to find a LC-MS interface capable of handling hig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2378378 | 157,792 |
195,890 | On 22 September 1877, at the Fiftieth Conference of the German Association of Naturalists and Physician held in Munich, Haeckel pleaded for introducing evolution in the public school curricula, and tried to dissociate Darwinism from social Darwinism. His campaign was because of Herman Müller, a school teacher who was b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=140752 | 195,790 |
909,836 | The development of the modern optical mouse at Hewlett-Packard Co. was supported by a succession of related projects during the 1990s at HP Laboratories. In 1992 William Holland was awarded US Patent 5,089,712 and John Ertel, William Holland, Kent Vincent, Rueiming Jamp, and Richard Baldwin were awarded US Patent 5,149... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=171336 | 909,357 |
1,654,314 | The Gesell Developmental Schedule was first published in 1925. The original scale was based on the normative data that was collected from a carefully conducted longitudinal study of early human development. The study focused on the various stages of developing and how they unfolded over time. Throughout the years, it h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37836598 | 1,653,382 |
1,953,426 | Human changes to land surfaces have been documented for centuries as having significant impacts on both earth systems and human well-being. The reshaping of landscapes to serve human needs, such as the deforestation for farmland, can have long-term effects on earth systems and exacerbate the causes of climate change. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66693032 | 1,952,305 |
1,164,537 | The MPER is one region that has been studied as a potential target because of its ability to be recognized by broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs), but it hasn't been a very good target because the immune response it elicits isn't very strong and because it is the portion of gp41 that enters the cell membrane (and i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4641891 | 1,163,920 |
985,484 | The baleen whales (Mysticeti), one of two suborders of the Cetacea (whales, dolphins, and porpoises), are characterized by having baleen plates for filtering food from water, rather than teeth. This distinguishes them from the other suborder of cetaceans, the toothed whales (Odontoceti). The suborder contains four fami... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=377720 | 984,970 |
4,229 | The program was the subject of public controversy for its cost to American taxpayers. In 1996, the General Accounting Office (GAO) disclosed that the USAF's B-2 bombers "will be, by far, the most costly bombers to operate on a per aircraft basis", costing over three times as much as the B-1B (US$9.6 million annually) a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4396 | 4,227 |
680,530 | Migdal expands his theory of state-society relations by examining Sierra Leone. At the time of Migdal's publication (1988), the country's leader, President Joseph Saidu Momoh, was widely viewed as weak and ineffective. Just three years later, the country erupted into civil war, which continued for nearly 11 years. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5090455 | 680,175 |
346,725 | Cohen's engineering career began in 1952, when she worked as a junior engineer at North American Aviation. After graduation from USC Viterbi School of Engineering in 1957, she went on to work at Space Technology Laboratories. Space Technology Laboratories eventually became TRW (acquired by Northrop Grumman in 2002). Sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55009569 | 346,544 |
2,075,118 | Krylov was born in Ustyuzhna, Vologda Governorate, of the Russian Empire. He graduated in physics from the Leningrad University. He then was a doctoral student in the Leningrad University's theoretical physics group supervised by Vladimir Fock, and wrote thesis on the foundations of statistical mechanics entitled "Mixi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4439739 | 2,073,921 |
385,389 | Furthermore, others may have made observations on interferons before the 1957 publication of Isaacs and Lindenmann. For example, during research to produce a more efficient vaccine for smallpox, Yasu-ichi Nagano and Yasuhiko Kojima—two Japanese virologists working at the Institute for Infectious Diseases at the Univers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15120 | 385,194 |
603,837 | In 1989, the Commander of the Naval Special Warfare Command (NAVSPECWARCOM) established a research program to conduct studies on medical and physiologic issues. The research concluded that extremity hemorrhage was a leading cause of preventable death in the battlefield. At that time, proper care and treatment was not p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=381359 | 603,527 |
456,940 | During German reconstruction, the company turned its attention back to its established products and expanding new production facilities. The first steps towards expanding internationally and entering foreign markets had already been laid at the beginning of the 20th century by the company's founder. The company re-esta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2511162 | 456,717 |
1,661,205 | In 2014, Ramakrishnan joined the faculty of the University of Cambridge as a principal research fellow for the Wellcome Trust and Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases. Work in Seattle, and subsequently in Cambridge, led to the discovery of the molecular and cellular details of mycobacterial and host interact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50305566 | 1,660,271 |
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