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913,460 | That Venus might have an atmosphere was widely expected (because of the plurality of worlds belief) even before the transit of 1761. However, few if any seem to have predicted that it might be possible to actually detect it during the transit. The actual discovery of the atmosphere on Venus has long been attributed to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=632331 | 912,981 |
296,503 | In 1974 the Combat Talon program was nearly dismantled as the Air Force sought to reverse its Vietnam emphasis on special operations. The 1st Special Operations Wing was redesignated the 834th Tactical Composite Wing and its Combat Talons of the 8th SOS became a TAC asset. However the use of 1st SOS "Yank" Talons in a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=600765 | 296,343 |
981,361 | Anti-spyware applications are able to detect many keyloggers and remove them. Responsible vendors of monitoring software support detection by anti-spyware programs, thus preventing abuse of the software. Enabling a firewall does not stop keyloggers per se, but can possibly prevent transmission of the logged material ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16830 | 980,849 |
2,019,791 | In 1985, Samuel and co-worker K.J.M. Moriarty were among the first to obtain a reasonably accurate computation of the hadron mass spectrum using computer simulations of lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD). They overcame the difficulties that other theorists were encountering at the time by making an approximation: The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41308125 | 2,018,628 |
1,092,517 | In computer science, software transactional memory (STM) is a concurrency control mechanism analogous to database transactions for controlling access to shared memory in concurrent computing. It is an alternative to lock-based synchronization. STM is a strategy implemented in software, rather than as a hardware compone... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1478707 | 1,091,957 |
2,148,889 | They are primarily located in North America and Europe in cooler environments with adequate moisture since they cannot move without the presence of water films in the soil. They can also be found in both cultivated and non-cultivated soil types, predominantly in the soil surrounding the roots of fig tree. They tend to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11910881 | 2,147,658 |
974,129 | Irkut and EADS signed a memorandum of understanding in May 2002 to jointly carry out a market study and to define the conditions and costs of international certification and the logistics of setting up a worldwide after-sales service. The study was completed in July 2003, revealing a potential market for up to 320 airc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1890144 | 973,618 |
147,167 | Due to their fast and short life cycles and relatively large clutch sizes, "D. rerio" or zebrafish are a useful model for genetic studies. A common reverse genetics technique is to reduce gene expression or modify splicing using Morpholino antisense technology. Morpholino oligonucleotides (MO) are stable, synthetic mac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5009 | 147,109 |
367,654 | In the Early and Middle Devonian, the west coast of Laurussia was a passive margin with broad coastal waters, deep silty embayments, river deltas and estuaries, found today in Idaho and Nevada. In the Late Devonian, an approaching volcanic island arc reached the steep slope of the continental shelf and began to uplift ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7992 | 367,461 |
52,133 | Ethologists expressed concern about the adequacy of some research on which attachment theory was based, particularly the generalization to humans from animal studies. Schur, discussing Bowlby's use of ethological concepts (pre-1960) commented that concepts used in attachment theory had not kept up with changes in ethol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=884589 | 52,113 |
1,479,862 | In 1937, America's first fire-control radar, the SCR-268 radar, had proven to be insufficiently accurate due in part to its long wavelength. In 1940, Vannevar Bush, heading the National Defense Research Committee, established the "Microwave Committee" (section D-1) and the "Fire Control" division (D-2) to develop a mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3972623 | 1,479,028 |
1,739,107 | Speckle tracking echocardiography is based on grey scale echocardiography (B-mode), and the fact that the reflected echo from the myocardium shows a speckle pattern that is a mixture of small scatters and interference patterns. The pattern being random, each region of the myocardium (called a "kernel"), has a unique sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47429141 | 1,738,130 |
1,688,516 | As a college in NCAA Division III, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) does not award athletic scholarships. While known for its high quality of faculty and research, it is small by comparison with other colleges, with just 2,200 total students and fewer than 900 undergraduates (the NCAA generally restrict... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18287805 | 1,687,570 |
781,181 | In 1913, paleontologist Charles H. Sternberg recovered another tyrannosaurid skeleton from the slightly older Dinosaur Park Formation in Alberta. Lawrence Lambe named this dinosaur "Gorgosaurus libratus" in 1914. Other specimens were later found in Alberta and the US state of Montana. Finding—largely due to a lack of g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1367 | 780,763 |
1,813,508 | After receiving his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Manchester in 1962 and 1964, respectively, he moved to Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. There, Johnston obtained a PhD degree, and came in contact with what has become known as the quantitative revolution of geography. He also wrote hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26296115 | 1,812,474 |
205,846 | Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is an immune disorder characterized by recurrent infections and low antibody levels, specifically in immunoglobulin (Ig) types IgG, IgM and IgA. Symptoms generally include high susceptibility to foreign invaders, chronic lung disease, and inflammation and infection of the gastroi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3011148 | 205,740 |
1,434,067 | More generally speaking, muon spin spectroscopy includes any study of the interactions of the muon's magnetic moment with its surroundings when implanted into any kind of matter. Its two most notable features are its ability to study local environments, due to the short effective range of muon interactions with matter,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2458954 | 1,433,263 |
1,016,615 | Helmut Gernsheim, after seeing photographs that Cameron had donated to a railway station in Hampshire hanging in the waiting room of the station, published a book on her work that helped establish her reputation. Gernsheim's review of Cameron's work echoed the earlier sentiments of George Bernard Shaw and Roger Fry, cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=85737 | 1,016,091 |
1,110,552 | D&T has been taught in many countries around the world such as India, United States, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Malta, China, South Africa, France and Finland. Many international schools teach design and technology. As a school subject it involves students in designing in a practical context using a range or mate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2035838 | 1,109,986 |
726,875 | Most of the scientific concepts in bionanotechnology are derived from other fields. Biochemical principles that are used to understand the material properties of biological systems are central in bionanotechnology because those same principles are to be used to create new technologies. Material properties and applicati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=202584 | 726,493 |
1,956,452 | Mutations that change the amino acid sequence of the exostosin glycosyltransferase-2 protein can lead to it becoming unfunctional. When this protein is unfunctional it causes the heparan sulfate chains to become shorter. The chains are still formed and extended by the other proteins encoded by the EXT family genes, alt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14755536 | 1,955,330 |
1,581,813 | A gun emplacement was built in 1801 on Middle Head (north of Obelisk Bay) during the Napoleonic wars, as well as another one at Georges Head. Fort Phillip was also built to protect from a potential French invasion in 1804, as well as following the Castle Hill convict rebellion the same year. More permanent fortificatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8007282 | 1,580,923 |
1,546,516 | The majority of Accum's publications were written in English. They were executed in a style that made them quite accessible. Many scientific contributions were brought forth through his writings, which were influential in the popularization of chemistry during this era. In 1820, Accum published "Treatise on Adulteratio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=287779 | 1,545,640 |
1,801,508 | SIM's new technology was meant to lead to the development of telescopes powerful enough to take images of Earth-like extrasolar planets orbiting distant stars and to determine whether those planets are able to sustain life. NASA has already started developing future missions that will build on SIM's technological legac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=570274 | 1,800,499 |
800,991 | In 1973, the APA sponsored the Conference on Levels and Patterns of Training in Vail, Colorado. Conference members concluded that psychological knowledge had matured sufficiently to warrant creating distinct practice-oriented programs. Members also concluded that if the education and training for practice differs from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=482388 | 800,563 |
960,780 | Payne was able to accurately relate the spectral classes of stars to their actual temperatures by applying the ionization theory developed by Indian physicist Meghnad Saha. She showed that the great variation in stellar absorption lines was due to differing amounts of ionization at different temperatures, not to differ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=476366 | 960,271 |
1,648,980 | Groves hoped a new, permanent agency would be created to take over the responsibilities of the wartime Manhattan Project in 1945, but passage of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 through Congress took much longer than expected, and involved considerable debate about the proper role of the military with respect to the devel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29079065 | 1,648,048 |
543,339 | During July and August 2007, a number of StatArb (and other Quant type) hedge funds experienced significant losses at the same time, which is difficult to explain unless there was a common risk factor. While the reasons are not yet fully understood, several published accounts blame the emergency liquidation of a fund t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1137949 | 543,059 |
932,022 | Named Gorgonea Tertia, Rho Persei varies in brightness like Algol, but is a pulsating rather than eclipsing star. At an advanced stage of stellar evolution, it is a red giant that has expanded for the second time to have a radius around 150 times that of our Sun. Its helium has been fused into heavier elements and its ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209441 | 931,530 |
2,094,402 | Supercritical angle fluorescence microscopy (SAF) is a technique to detect and characterize fluorescent species (proteins, biomolecules, pharmaceuticals, etc.) and their behaviour close or even adsorbed or linked at surfaces. The method is able to observe molecules in a distance of less than 100 to 0 nanometer from the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17382620 | 2,093,194 |
245,863 | The goal of an Epley maneuver is to restore the equilibrium of the vestibular system, more specifically, to the semicircular canals, in order to treat the symptoms associated with BPPV. There is compelling evidence that free-floating otoconia, probably displaced from the otolithic membrane in the utricle are the main c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16450891 | 245,736 |
743,265 | Verrocchio was born in Florence in around 1435. His father, Michele di Francesco Cioni, initially worked as a tile and brick maker, then later as a tax collector. Verrocchio never married, and had to provide financial support for some members of his family. He was at first apprenticed to a goldsmith. It has been sugges... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=214865 | 742,871 |
980,705 | Even before the demise of efforts in Leningrad, the NIIIS-KA had contracted with the UIPT in Kharkov to investigate a pulsed radio-location system for anti-aircraft applications. This led the LEMO, in March 1937, to start an internally funded project with the code name "Zenit" (a popular football team at the time). The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1280053 | 980,193 |
413,987 | The Emergency Simulation Program (ESP) at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada is another example of an organization that uses simulation to train for emergency situations. ESP uses simulation to train on the following situations: forest fire fighting, oil or chemical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43444 | 413,784 |
1,059,598 | The most significant drawback of ATRP is the high concentrations of catalyst required for the reaction. This catalyst standardly consists of a copper halide and an amine-based ligand. The removal of the copper from the polymer after polymerization is often tedious and expensive, limiting ATRP's use in the commercial se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2918518 | 1,059,047 |
1,558,038 | Rakesh Agrawal is a computer scientist who until recently was a Technical Fellow at the Microsoft Search Labs. Rakesh is well known for developing fundamental data mining concepts and technologies and pioneering key concepts in data privacy, including Hippocratic Database, Sovereign Information Sharing, and Privacy-Pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33283283 | 1,557,153 |
1,256,465 | Anderson was arrested on July 30, 2004, on allegations of sexual abuse of a minor girl. He was convicted and jailed on July 19, 2006, of three counts of lewd acts upon a child under the age of 14, and one count of continuous sexual abuse. On February 2, 2007, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison and ordered to pay $6... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=769598 | 1,255,781 |
402,025 | Cognitive science is a large field, and covers a wide array of topics on cognition. However, it should be recognized that cognitive science has not always been equally concerned with every topic that might bear relevance to the nature and operation of minds. Classical cognitivists have largely de-emphasized or avoided ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5626 | 401,826 |
1,478,533 | The two most common clinical conditions where ECG findings may mimic pericarditis are acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and generalized early repolarization. As opposed to pericarditis, AMI usually causes localized convex ST-elevation usually associated with reciprocal ST-depression which may also be frequently accompa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4573741 | 1,477,700 |
1,605,512 | The 1970s saw a second technological breakthrough in the form of the skin suit, though that came only into general use by 1976. The 1970s saw a faster improvement than the decades before, beginning with Soviet skater Lyudmila Titova, who was the first woman below 1:30.0 with her 1:29.5 on 9 January 1970 on the Medeo ri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13109438 | 1,604,608 |
771,612 | The success of the races in the Parc de St-Cloud inspired the Compagnie Parisienne and the magazine "Le Vélocipède Illustré" to run a race from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to the cathedral in Rouen on 7 November 1869. It was the world's first long-distance road race and also won by Moore, who took 10 hours and 25 minu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1755460 | 771,198 |
1,344,685 | With increasing awareness of the effects of the chemical herbicides and pesticides, bioherbicides can be adopted as an alternative especially for integrated weed management. The market share of bioherbicides is merely 10% of all biopesticides. On the other hand, the research spanning over two decades since 1980s has al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1132329 | 1,343,947 |
1,387,769 | As of 2022, current evidence shows a possible positive correlation between BPA levels, lower sperm quality, decreased motility and an increase in sperm immaturity. There is tentative evidence to support the idea that BPA exposure has negative effects on human fertility. Few studies have investigated whether recurrent m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57552333 | 1,387,002 |
904,296 | In April 2011, Forrester recalled, "the Wang use of cores did not have any influence on my development of random-access memory. The Wang memory was expensive and complicated. As I recall, which may not be entirely correct, it used two cores per binary bit and was essentially a delay line that moved a bit forward. To th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=78029 | 903,820 |
1,928,733 | At the individual level, genetic identification can enable estimation of population abundance and population increase rates within the framework of mark-recapture models. The abundance of cryptic or elusive species that are difficult to monitor can be estimated by collecting non-invasive biological samples in the field... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22237707 | 1,927,628 |
254,215 | In PiCCO, transpulmonary thermodilution, which uses the Stewart-Hamilton principle but measures temperatures changes from central venous line to a central arterial line, i.e., the femoral or axillary arterial line, is used as the calibrating technique. The "Q" value derived from cold-saline thermodilution is used to ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242110 | 254,082 |
295,246 | Following Lippmann's 1922 book, Bernard Cohen observed (in 1963) that the press "may not be successful much of the time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling its readers what to think about. The world will look different to different people," Cohen continues, "depending on the map ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=473279 | 295,086 |
1,551,090 | To provide a system able to make such an accurate measurement, and do so continually, Pollard developed a system that used the entire CRT display to provide a measurement showing only ranges a short distance on either side of a pre-selected range setting. The system worked by charging a capacitor at a known rate until ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44378239 | 1,550,209 |
1,781,159 | In "line-by-line" methods, the change in spectral intensity ("dI", W/sr/m/μm) is numerically integrated using a wavelength increment small enough (less than 1 nm) to accurately describe the shape of each absorption line. The HITRAN database contains the parameters needed to describe 7.4 million absorption lines for 47 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58519634 | 1,780,155 |
1,293,799 | The history of anime in the United States is traced back to 1961, when "Magic Boy" and "The Tale of the White Serpent" became the first and second Japanese animations to receive documented releases in the region. Anime has since found success with a growing audience in the region, with "Astro Boy" often being noted as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=279609 | 1,293,088 |
42,936 | Prior to 2010, the company was headquartered in Century City, Los Angeles, but announced plans on January 4, 2010 to move to the Washington Metropolitan Area by 2011 to be closer to government customers. CEO Wesley Bush stated that the company needed to be located close to Capitol Hill lawmakers and officials from inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216886 | 42,920 |
939,795 | Houseplants together with the medium in which they are grown can reduce components of indoor air pollution, particularly volatile organic compounds (VOC) such as benzene, toluene, and xylene. Plants remove CO and release oxygen and water, although the quantitative impact for house plants is small. The interest in using... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=219736 | 939,294 |
1,282,426 | CNT-FEDs use carbon nanotubes doped with nitrogen and/or boron as emitters. Samsung has previously worked on the development of this kind of display, however, Samsung has never released any products using this technology. CNT-FED places the carbon nanotube emitters at the bottom center of cavities called gate holes, wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=919057 | 1,281,730 |
774,118 | The quadral number, if it existed, would denote four items together. No known natural language has it, nor is there any proof that any natural language ever did. It was once thought to exist in the pronoun systems of Marshallese, spoken in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and in Sursurunga, in Tangga, and in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42296 | 773,702 |
1,386,915 | Oracle RAC uses a different model to achieve scalability, based on a "shared-everything" architecture. This approach incorporates the shared disk approach that allows multiple computers to access any disk in the cluster. Network-attached storage (NAS) and Storage area networks (SANs) coupled with local area networks an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59632289 | 1,386,148 |
1,321,214 | The Department of Electrical Engineering was established in 1961 with an initial intake capacity of 30 students, later increased to 60. It added instrumentation engineering in 1992, with an intake capacity of 20 students, to meet demand in northeastern India's oil, paper, tea and fertilizer industries. JEC was the firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1444122 | 1,320,488 |
1,741,596 | Almost all of the organic hydrogen is exchangeable to some extent. Isotopic exchange of organic hydrogen will reorder the distribution of deuterium and often incorporate external hydrogen. Generally, more mature materials are more substantially exchanged. With effective exchange, aliphatic hydrogen can finally reach is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50525886 | 1,740,612 |
1,876,380 | Dcp2, as the main catalyst of the decapping process, relies on a specific pattern of amino acids called a nudix domain to align itself with the 5' cap in order to hydrolyze it. A nudix domain is made by packing two beta sheets between multiple alpha helices, can be various lengths and sizes, and is generally used by pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21360297 | 1,875,302 |
1,569,380 | Perhaps the best comment on Margaret's initiative in embarking on language processing research, and specifically on machine translation work, comes from a somewhat unexpected source. Machine translation, after an initial period of high hopes, and some large claims, was cast into outer darkness in 1966 by funding agenci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25850319 | 1,568,493 |
1,496,082 | Passive Underwater Fire Control Feasibility System (or Study) (PUFFS) was a passive sonar system for submarines. It was designated AN/BQG-4 and was primarily installed on United States Navy conventional submarines built in the 1950s beginning with the , and also those converted to GUPPY III or otherwise modernized in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9056526 | 1,495,239 |
1,315,543 | Where C is the sum of C) and C, and k for supersonic flow is a function of the Mach number. The skin-friction component is derived from the presence of a viscous boundary layer which is infinitely close to the surface of the aircraft body. At the boundary wall, the normal component of velocity is zero; therefore an inf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25082219 | 1,314,818 |
1,802,019 | Eglin's east-west runway 12/30 was closed on 1 May 2015 to allow upgrading of aircraft arresting systems from obsolete BAK-9 systems to MB-100 textile brake systems. The BAK-9s were the last systems in operational USAF service. All flight operations used the north-south runway 1/19. The runway work was completed in Aug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,801,007 |
1,719,938 | The current Upgrade model features a solid basswood body finished in solid Olympic Pearl, or with a flame design in Red Paisley or Blue Paisley on a black background. This model is based on a 1969 Paisley Red model Telecaster (popularly called Pink Paisley) that Burton played while touring with Elvis Presley from 1969 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13642238 | 1,718,968 |
1,579,333 | The central brain structure through which fear-associated responses are mediated has been determined to be the amygdala, which is located in the brain's temporal lobe. When the central nucleus of the amygdala is stimulated - what is popularly referred to as the "fight-or-flight" response is activated - the organism in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33321597 | 1,578,443 |
1,103,864 | To prevent infections, limiting the introduction of the bacteria is key. Some resistant cultivars of certain plant species are available as this may be the most economical means for controlling this disease. For chemical control, preventative applications are best to reduce the potential for bacterial development. Copp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10857383 | 1,103,302 |
802,346 | Having the ability to look at a patient on an individual basis will allow for a more accurate diagnosis and specific treatment plan. Genotyping is the process of obtaining an individual's DNA sequence by using biological assays. By having a detailed account of an individual's DNA sequence, their genome can then be comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2652481 | 801,917 |
2,032,115 | Founded in 1946, the SkyBroncos compete in the NIFA (National Intercollegiate Flying Association) professional organization series of competitions as a forum of competing and learning for aviation students from colleges all around the United States. As of 2016, the SkyBroncos have won the NIFA National Championship awa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49191292 | 2,030,945 |
1,600,343 | The EUVE Spectrometer was a three-fold symmetric slitless objective design based on variable line space grazing incidence reflection gratings. Photon images are accumulated simultaneously in three bandpasses with effective spectral resolutions of 200–400 in 3 bandpasses from 70 to 760 Å. The Spectrometer and Deep Surve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8984536 | 1,599,442 |
737,599 | Research done using Zebrafish "dackel (dak)" have shown that in "EXT2-/-" Zebrafish, chondrocytes fail to undergo terminal differentiation and bone formation fails to progress from pre-osteoblasts stage to osteoblasts. Instead, abnormal lipid deposition and premature adipocyte differentiation takes place. The expressio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2477198 | 737,209 |
1,756,204 | Before his inauguration Dixon spent an extensive amount of time preparing for his term. He met with Bibb Graves, public administration experts and Franklin Roosevelt to get advice and expertise on his plans for changing Alabama's government. As governor, Dixon strove to streamline the state government. He eliminated tw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=841066 | 1,755,213 |
1,085,887 | For two years in 1922 and 1923 Thomas Brown attended Doane Academy, a preparatory school associated with Granville, Ohio's Denison University, graduating in June 1923. In the fall of 1923 he entered the California Institute of Technology. He struggled with the required curriculum of a freshman student and to help Thoma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188656 | 1,085,329 |
341,786 | Before the 18th century, chemists generally believed that compounds obtained from living organisms were endowed with a vital force that distinguished them from inorganic compounds. According to the concept of vitalism (vital force theory), organic matter was endowed with a "vital force". During the first half of the ni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22208 | 341,605 |
339,356 | This formal designation allowed radiometric dates to be obtained from samples across the globe that corresponded to the base of the Cambrian. Early dates of quickly gained favour, though the methods used to obtain this number are now considered to be unsuitable and inaccurate. A more precise date using modern radiometr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5367 | 339,176 |
347,885 | Mantas move through the water by the wing-like movements of their pectoral fins. Their large mouths are rectangular, and face forward. The spiracles typical of rays are vestigial and concealed by small flaps of skin, and mantas must keep swimming with their mouths open to keep oxygenated water passing over their gills.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50838 | 347,703 |
605,612 | Detmers originally attended Nokomis High School. He made the varsity baseball team as a freshman and was named All-Prairie State Conference all three years he was on the team. He committed to attend the University of Louisville going into his junior season over offers from Vanderbilt, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, and M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63105154 | 605,302 |
1,552,393 | They observed the same spontaneous fission activities as those observed in the reaction between bismuth-209 and chromium-54 and again assigned them to Bh and Db. Later evidence indicated that these should be reassigned to Db and Rf (see above). In 1983, they repeated the experiment using a new technique: measurement of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2527235 | 1,551,512 |
1,823,523 | An example of a multi-function LAEME tool is the Concordance. Users begin by selecting a tag type (suffixes, grammatical words, inflection, lexis), entering a search string, and then a position limiter (initial, medial, final). This search is followed by a filter set allowing users to specify counties, number of words ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53064903 | 1,822,485 |
787,154 | The area rule was discovered by when comparing a swept wing with a w-wing with extreme high wave drag while working on a transonic wind tunnel at Junkers works in Germany between 1943 and 1945. He wrote a description on 17 December 1943, with the title "Anordnung von Verdrängungskörpern beim Hochgeschwindigkeitsflug" (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34036 | 786,731 |
1,644,335 | Jack W. Szostak suggested that geothermal activity provides greater opportunities for the origination of life in open lakes where there is a buildup of minerals. In 2010, based on spectral analysis of sea and hot mineral water, Ignat Ignatov and Oleg Mosin demonstrated that life may have predominantly originated in hot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70660540 | 1,643,408 |
1,430,788 | Alan Nourse was born August 11, 1928, to Benjamin and Grace (Ogg) Nourse in Des Moines, Iowa. He attended high school in Long Island, New York. He served in the U.S. Navy after World War II. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1951 from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He married Ann Morton on Jun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=950853 | 1,429,984 |
537,300 | Human intelligence can be measured according to an extensive number of tests and criteria, ranging from academic, social, and emotional fields. While there is no clear consensus on a definition of human intelligence, there are common themes among those that exist, summarized generally as "Intelligence measures an agent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7220748 | 537,021 |
1,482,976 | The CCGC core training program revolves around a 4-year Officer Cadet program that prepares navigation and engineering officers for service on Canadian Coast Guard ships. These cadets receive a Bachelor of Technology (Nautical Science) that is granted in collaboration with Cape Breton University. Other training program... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=533960 | 1,482,140 |
204,190 | The most notable human infection is diphtheria, caused by "C. diphtheriae". It is an acute, contagious infection characterized by pseudomembranes of dead epithelial cells, white blood cells, red blood cells, and fibrin that form around the tonsils and back of the throat. In developed countries, it is an uncommon illnes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1285813 | 204,085 |
915,392 | Expected utility theory is a theory about how to make optimal decisions under a given probability of risk. It has a normative interpretation which economists used to think applies in all situations to rational agents but now tend to regard as a useful and insightful first order approximation. In empirical applications,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=736803 | 914,911 |
142,445 | The incident exposed 37 nearby personnel to trace amounts of radiation in what the government's Science and Technology Agency declared the country’s worst-yet nuclear accident, which was rated a 3 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. A week after the event, meteorological officials detected unusually high levels o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12034210 | 142,387 |
1,626,621 | The sea returned during the Triassic, while exposed areas were a richly vegetated coastal plain that was home to dinosaurs. Colorado was again submerged by a sea during the Cretaceous period that was home to plesiosaurs up to 70 feet long. During the early part of the Cenozoic era, rainforests grew in Colorado. Later, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799146 | 1,625,703 |
1,284,526 | Their decision was also about party politics. Democrats in the legislature hoped that once these women came to Wyoming, they would continue to vote for the party that had given them the vote in the first place. Democrats in the Legislature wanted to make John Campbell, the Republican governor, look bad. As a man who pu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60959180 | 1,283,827 |
1,516,038 | For the 2019 season, the sandstorm period is the first 15 seconds of the match and replaces the autonomous period, which had been used in many previous FRC games. Robots start the match at their respective HAB platforms, fully supported by HAB platform level one or two. The Sandstorm is a black curtain that begins down... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57569056 | 1,515,186 |
579,891 | Tables containing common logarithms (base-10) were extensively used in computations prior to the advent of electronic calculators and computers because logarithms convert problems of multiplication and division into much easier addition and subtraction problems. Base-10 logarithms have an additional property that is un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239112 | 579,594 |
1,698 | Many emerging nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America rejected the pressure to choose sides in the East–West competition. In 1955, at the Bandung Conference in Indonesia, dozens of Third World governments resolved to stay out of the Cold War. The consensus reached at Bandung culminated with the creation of the Belgr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=325329 | 1,698 |
377,513 | AWS, the heart of Aegis, comprises the AN/SPY-1 Radar, MK 99 Fire Control System, Weapon Control System (WCS), the Command and Decision Suite, and Standard Missile family of weapons; these include the basic RIM-66 Standard, the RIM-67 Standard ER extended range missile, and the newer RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 designed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=198995 | 377,318 |
770,103 | A series of excavations at Samanalawewa indicated the unexpected and previously unknown technology of west-facing smelting sites, which are different types of steel production. These furnaces were used for direct smelting to steel. These are named "west facing" because they were located on the western sides of hilltops... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=339125 | 769,689 |
730,904 | Following the sack of Constantinople by Western crusaders in 1204, the manuscript was taken to an isolated Greek monastery in Palestine, possibly to protect it from occupying crusaders, who often equated Greek script with heresy against their Latin church and either burned or looted many such texts (including at least ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167417 | 730,519 |
2,109,305 | Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects dopaminergic cells, predominantly in the substantia nigra, a region of the midbrain. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter implicated in motivation, memory and in the initiation and fluidity of movement. It is the death of dopaminergic cells wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69123797 | 2,108,091 |
1,714,278 | MG graduate Diploma alone is treated as "Associate Degree" in named field, be it nuclear engineering, mathematics and IT, laser physics, or any other of 20 or so fields present in MG during its 40 years existence. However, due to old legal regulations in Serbia, graduates of MG are still obliged to start their universi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8358106 | 1,713,312 |
586,794 | Oblique shocks are often preferable in engineering applications when compared to normal shocks. This can be attributed to the fact that using one or a combination of oblique shock waves results in more favourable post-shock conditions (smaller increase in entropy, less stagnation pressure loss, etc.) when compared to u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2786041 | 586,494 |
1,851,573 | Being part of the Max Planck Society, the institute examines nano- and microstructures specifically colloids in which many are found in nature. With discoveries, scientists create tiny apatite crystals in bones, vesicles formed out of membranes, pores in membranes for fuel cells and microcapsules as vehicles for medica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6866309 | 1,850,512 |
504,446 | Nonketotic hyperosmolar coma (HNS) is an acute complication sharing many symptoms with DKA, but an entirely different origin and different treatment. A person with very high (usually considered to be above 300 mg/dl (16 mmol/L)) blood glucose levels, water is osmotically drawn out of cells into the blood and the kidney... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25370267 | 504,184 |
254,511 | The organismic dialectical perspective sees all humans as active organisms interacting with their environment. People are actively growing, striving to overcome challenges, and creating new experiences. While endeavoring to become unified from within, individuals also become part of social structures. SDT also suggests... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2679667 | 254,378 |
949,799 | In addition to salvinorin A, other psychoactives may also be applied sublingually. LSD, MDMA, morphine, alprazolam, clonazepam, diazepam, and many other substances including the psychedelic tryptamines and phenethylamines, and even recreational cannabis edibles (THC) are all viable candidates for administration via thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3170885 | 949,295 |
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