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918,005 | Agriculture, the cultivation of soil to grow crops and animals to provide food as well as products, was first developed about 12,000 years ago. This switch, also called the Neolithic Revolution, was the beginning of favoring permanent settlements and altering the land to grow crops and farm animals. This can be thought... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=224985 | 917,522 |
1,403,181 | Currently, there is no scientific data obtained using modern detection methods that would identify SeV as an infectious - disease causing agent for humans or domestic animals. Modern methods for the identification of pathogenic microorganisms have never detected SeV in pigs or other domestic animals, despite the isolat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6070061 | 1,402,393 |
937,858 | The squadron was transferred to the division with which it would spend the rest of the war; the 6th Airborne Division, raised in April 1943. The squadron continued to train as an air-portable unit and participated in a number of exercises intended to familiarize it with the duties it would perform, including reconnaiss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=335693 | 937,358 |
1,941,563 | Levels of sociality across the class Insecta range from eusocial species (with cooperative brood care, overlapping generations within a colony of adults and a division of labour into reproductive and non-reproductive castes) to solitary living, with many intermediate systems in between which despite lacking full eusoci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51046084 | 1,940,452 |
352,719 | Another factor was the changed political situation; the failure of the 1848 revolutions led both to some diminution of the Risorgimento ethos (at least initially) and a significant increase in theatre censorship. This is reflected both in Verdi's choices of plots dealing more with personal relationships than political ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12958 | 352,536 |
1,770,017 | The team had many disagreements, and Spector's original staff setup crumbled. When two experienced designers vied for the lead designer position, Spector chose both and made two design teams: the "Looking Glass design team" or "immersive simulation group" led by Harvey Smith ("System Shock", "") and the ""Ultima" rolep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43210943 | 1,769,022 |
1,604,228 | The Grainger Engineering Library was dedicated on the 59th anniversary of the University of Illinois Foundation, October 14, 1994. The proceedings, entitled a "Gateway to a New Era", established the largest engineering library in the country, with over holding more than 300,000 volumes. In keeping with the building's c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5773362 | 1,603,327 |
93,100 | The Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC) was built between July 1943 and Fall 1945. It was a Turing complete, general-purpose computer that used 17,468 vacuum tubes to create the circuits. At its core, it was a series of Pascalines wired together. Its 40 units weighed 30 tons, occupied , and consumed $6... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5783 | 93,059 |
275,566 | In 1955, the NCI in the United States set up the Cancer Chemotherapy National Service Center (CCNSC) to act as a public screening center for anticancer activity in compounds submitted by external institutions and companies. Although the majority of compounds screened were of synthetic origin, one chemist, Jonathan Hart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36796 | 275,416 |
299,040 | Some scholars see a gap between the existing mythical and the new rational way of thought which is the main characteristic of the archaic period (8th to 6th century BC) in the Greek city-states. This has given rise to the phrase "Greek miracle". But if we follow carefully the course of Anaximander's ideas, we will noti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1168 | 298,880 |
232,366 | The FDA drafted a guidance for low risk devices advises that personal health wearables are general wellness products if they only collect data on weight management, physical fitness, relaxation or stress management, mental acuity, self-esteem, sleep management, or sexual function. This was due to the privacy risks that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23770249 | 232,247 |
1,489,484 | One of the first large scale Google Earth Engine projects was a study of global forest change. Researcher Matthew Hansen had been mapping global land cover since the mid-1990s, first at South Dakota State University, then at the University of Maryland, but lacked sufficient high-resolution data. The data came in 2008, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50587818 | 1,488,645 |
1,117,126 | Lazarsfeld was noted for his ability to forge productive collaborations with a wide range of thinkers. One of his most celebrated collaborations was with Robert K. Merton. Both Merton and Lazarsfeld were new faculty members in Columbia University's Department of Sociology appointed in 1941. Merton was seen as a budding... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=427665 | 1,116,553 |
549,986 | Narrowband RF (radio frequency) channels with low power and long wavelengths (i.e., low frequency) are affected primarily by flat fading, and PPM is better suited than M-FSK to be used in these scenarios. One common application with these channel characteristics, first used in the early 1960s with top-end HF (as low as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166439 | 549,698 |
1,414,396 | He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on January 11, 1923 and graduated from the Baltimore City College high school in 1939. He received his B.A. in 1943 and his Ph.D. in 1949, both in physics from Johns Hopkins University. From 1949 to 1956, he was a member of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, where he first ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8190913 | 1,413,599 |
1,169,787 | Until the fifteenth century, those who wished to attend university had to travel to England or the continent, and just over a 1,000 have been identified as doing so between the twelfth century and 1410. Among these the most important intellectual figure was John Duns Scotus, who studied at Oxford, Cambridge and Paris a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18943753 | 1,169,168 |
700,885 | The "Gridley"-class destroyers were a class of four 1500-ton destroyers in the United States Navy. They were part of a series of USN destroyers limited to 1,500 tons standard displacement by the London Naval Treaty and built in the 1930s. The first two ships were laid down on 3 June 1935 and commissioned in 1937. The s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2840535 | 700,520 |
633,472 | A model put forward by Lee Kump, Alexander Pavlov and Michael Arthur in 2005 suggests that oceanic anoxic events may have been characterized by upwelling of water rich in highly toxic hydrogen sulfide gas, which was then released into the atmosphere. This phenomenon would probably have poisoned plants and animals and c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1632974 | 633,134 |
817,381 | Early neurophysiologists suggest that retinal and inertial signals were selected for about 450 million years ago by primitive brainstem-cerebellar circuitry because of their relationship with the environment. Microscopically, it is evident that Purkinje cell precursors arose from granule cells, first forming in irregul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1562606 | 816,945 |
870,425 | Following on from the release of Arthur 1.2, Acorn itself offered a "basic word processor", ArcWriter, intended for "personal correspondence, notices and short articles" and to demonstrate the window, menu and pointer features of the system, employing built-in printer fonts for rapid printed output. The software was is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 869,965 |
1,967,036 | The complete party area of the Riem airport now moved to the "Kunstpark Ost", a former factory site of 90.000 m² close to the Ostbahnhof train station in Munich's Berg am Laim district. Ultraschall was re-opened there by and colleagues in the former potato drying facility of the Pfanni factory on 13 September 1996. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59645545 | 1,965,906 |
1,926,388 | Hardy felt that the increase in class sizes and the "watered-down lessons" led to students being less interested in their studies. He criticized the system for being designed to make it easier to pass, as a result of parents not wanting to see their child fail when others succeeded. He was critical of group projects ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39683375 | 1,925,284 |
1,172,483 | A large variety of multicomponent fluoride glasses have been fabricated but few can be drawn into optical fiber. The fiber fabrication is similar to any glass-fiber drawing technology. All methods involve fabrication from the melt, which creates inherent problems such as the formation of bubbles, core-clad interface ir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2358446 | 1,171,864 |
1,275,409 | In 1911, he had accepted a commission as a First Lieutenant in the United States Army Medical reserve Corps. This eventually led to his taking a leave of absence from the university in February 1915 to serve at the American Ambulance Hospital outside Paris. Sutton and others from his days at Columbia and Roosevelt arri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1250693 | 1,274,717 |
577,882 | STS-3 was planned as a 7-day flight. The landing was moved to Northrop Strip (later renamed White Sands Space Harbor) at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico since the planned landing site at Edwards Air Force Base had flooded. Lousma and Fullerton chose to land at White Sands instead of the new Shuttle Landing Facili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181031 | 577,586 |
949,284 | The crated prototype had been built on the second floor of a disused Pierce-Arrow factory, but its components were too big to fit through any elevator and required a hole to be broken in the brick outer wall to remove the first XP-59A. It was shipped to Muroc Army Air Field (today, Edwards Air Force Base) in California... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=364859 | 948,780 |
1,211,393 | In the late nineteenth century, electric arc lighting was in wide use for public lighting. The tendency of electric arcs to flicker and hiss was a major problem. In 1895, Hertha Ayrton wrote a series of articles for "the Electrician", explaining that these phenomena were the result of oxygen coming into contact with th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1805181 | 1,210,741 |
732,725 | The degree by which calcification can adapt to ocean acidification is presently unknown. Cell physiological examinations found the essential H+ efflux (stemming from the use of HCO− for intra-cellular calcification) to become more costly with ongoing ocean acidification as the electrochemical H+ inside-out gradient is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47520 | 732,338 |
345,841 | The writers originally conceived several premature joke game endings if the player performed certain actions, but these required too much development effort for little payback and were scrapped. One of these joke endings was triggered by shooting a portal onto the moon's surface, after which the player's character woul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15888290 | 345,660 |
350,324 | Oliver Wolf Sacks, (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. Born in Britain, Sacks received his medical degree in 1958 from The Queen's College, Oxford, before moving to the United States, where he spent most of his career. He interned at Mount Zion Hospita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=169494 | 350,141 |
560,989 | According to Nicolescu, transdisciplinarity is nevertheless radically distinct from multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity because of its goal, the understanding of the present world, which cannot be accomplished in the framework of disciplinary research. The goal of multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity alw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2905982 | 560,700 |
2,083,554 | Cooper was born in September 1780. His father, who had made a fortune in the West Indies, died when his three sons were still young. The eldest, George, became a judge of the supreme court in Madras, and was knighted. The second, Samuel, was educated by Dr. Charles Burney at Greenwich, and in 1800 entered St. Bartholom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35429683 | 2,082,354 |
340,146 | When experimental interventions are infeasible or illegal, the derivation of a cause-and-effect relationship from observational studies must rest on some qualitative theoretical assumptions, for example, that symptoms do not cause diseases, usually expressed in the form of missing arrows in causal graphs such as Bayesi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37196 | 339,965 |
1,301,040 | There are a number of reasons why these high-risk elements of the procedure are necessary. CPB is needed to divert blood from the heart and lungs and supply the body with oxygen and blood while the pulmonary vasculature is operated on. Cardioplegia is initiated as the approach to the pulmonary arteries is performed thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4231209 | 1,300,326 |
479,381 | Szostak grew up in Montreal and Ottawa. Although Szostak does not speak Polish, he stated in an interview with Wprost weekly that he remembers his Polish roots. He attended Riverdale High School (Quebec) and graduated at the age of 15 with the scholars prize. He graduated with a B.Sc in cell biology from McGill Univers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14031366 | 479,141 |
821,674 | On the recommendation of the Columbia team, the TMI Public Health Fund followed up its work with a longitudinal study. The 2000-3 University of Pittsburgh study compared post-TMI death rates in different parts of the local area, again using the wind direction on the morning of 28 March to assign fallout impact, In cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23167546 | 821,233 |
1,567,179 | On a high level representation, the neurons can be viewed as connected to other neurons to form a neural network in one of three ways. A specific network can be represented as a physiologically (or anatomically) connected network and modeled that way. There are several approaches to this (see Ascoli, G.A. (2002) Sporns... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33818014 | 1,566,292 |
38,336 | Dartmouth emerged onto the national academic stage at the turn of the 20th century. Prior to this period, the college had clung to traditional methods of instruction and was relatively poorly funded. Under President William Jewett Tucker (1893–1909), Dartmouth underwent a major revitalization of facilities, faculty, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8418 | 38,322 |
831,851 | The development of the single-chip microprocessor was an enormous catalyst to the popularization of cheap, easy to use, and truly personal computers. The Altair 8800, introduced in a "Popular Electronics" magazine article in the January 1975 issue, at the time set a new low price point for a computer, bringing computer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=264051 | 831,402 |
310,478 | Devices have been used to aid computation for thousands of years, mostly using one-to-one correspondence with fingers. The earliest counting device was probably a form of tally stick. The Lebombo bone from the mountains between Eswatini and South Africa may be the oldest known mathematical artifact. It dates from 35,00... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13636 | 310,310 |
1,507,265 | The dextrorotatory stereoisomer of the compound is an active metabolite of dextromethorphan, dextrorphan, and 3-methoxymorphinan, and similarly to them has potent neuroprotective and neurotrophic effects on LTS- and MPTP-treated dopaminergic neurons of the nigrostriatal pathway, but notably without producing any neurop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33911157 | 1,506,419 |
100,233 | In contrast, Japanese manufacturers shared their information, quickly overcoming technical and manufacturing challenges and creating new markets. In Japan, a temperature stable crystal cut was developed by Issac Koga. Japanese efforts in materials research created piezoceramic materials competitive to the United States... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24975 | 100,188 |
2,156,674 | Day's career encompassed positions in academia, with private corporations, and at government agencies. Her teaching work began in 1921, as an instructor at Hood College. She also taught and researched at the University of Wisconsin; Mills College; Smith College for twelve years, where she held the title of associate pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50825620 | 2,155,443 |
1,427,431 | Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is a term used by the European Union's Framework Programmes to describe scientific research and technological development processes that take into account effects and potential impacts on the environment and society. It gained visibility around the year 2010, arising from prede... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43007354 | 1,426,628 |
1,687,857 | On 3 February 1916, "83 F", "87 F" and "88 F" were involved in another shore bombardment operation against targets near San Vito Chietino and the railway line between Ortona and Tollo, this time led by the armoured cruiser accompanied by "Helgoland" and the . This bombardment was conducted as part of the transfer of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46387997 | 1,686,911 |
1,768,534 | The SUE process begins with a work plan that outlines the scope of work, project schedule, levels of service vs. risk allocation and desired delivery method. Non-destructive surface geophysical methods are then leveraged to determine the presence of subsurface utilities and to mark their horizontal position on the grou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41259155 | 1,767,540 |
2,246,604 | The club became inactive in the 1970s. Activity resumed a few years later when the club founder Robert Blake returned to the area as a temporary replacement for the Pensacola Junior College astronomy instructor. He got together such of the old membership as were still in the area in late 1977 and planned a reactivation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7291031 | 2,245,332 |
395,987 | M16 type rifles are made by dozens of manufactures around the world, to the highest standards "the goal of which is to ensure that products designed for military use meet the necessary requirements with regard to quality, durability, ruggedness, commonality, interchangeability, total cost of ownership, logistics and ot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2471637 | 395,792 |
2,060,139 | The idea of a campus apiary was first conceived for the sole purpose of pollinating the campus orchard. However, by the time the facilities had been built, President Kenyon L. Butterfield and his administration had seen and realized a much greater purpose and potential in it than was previously considered. Around this ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31274932 | 2,058,953 |
157,664 | Donald E. Ingber has developed a theory of tensegrity to describe numerous phenomena observed in molecular biology. For instance, the expressed shapes of cells, whether it be their reactions to applied pressure, interactions with substrates, etc., all can be mathematically modeled by representing the cell's cytoskeleto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=92981 | 157,592 |
213,496 | A dedicated voltage comparator chip such as LM339 is designed to interface with a digital logic interface (to a TTL or a CMOS). The output is a binary state often used to interface real world signals to digital circuitry (see analog-to-digital converter). If there is a fixed voltage source from, for example, a DC adjus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40929 | 213,388 |
2,057,327 | The Semmelweis Museum of Medical History played an important part in the career of József Antall, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary after the end of communism. As a historian he wrote biographies of 80 doctors for the Lexicon of Hungarian Biographies in 1963, and became interested in the histor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71667750 | 2,056,143 |
578,773 | In June 2011, "The New York Times" reported that "not everyone in the Energy Information Administration agrees" with the optimistic projections of reserves, and questioned the impartiality of some of the reports issued by the agency. Two of the primary contractors, Intek and Advanced Resources International, which prov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24807719 | 578,476 |
1,062,540 | There are also several biological responses to implantation of a microelectrode array, particularly in regards to chronic implantation. Most notable among these effects are neuronal cell loss, glial scarring, and a drop in the number of functioning electrodes. The tissue response to implantation is dependent among many... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20511935 | 1,061,986 |
2,027,422 | In 2014, it was claimed that the species had been discovered for the first time in Scotland in the grounds of Napier University's Craiglockhart Campus, which Napier acquired in 1986. During the First World War the property served as a military hospital and was used to treat shell-shocked officers. The poets Wilfred Owe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37403327 | 2,026,255 |
2,172,812 | Therefore, to combat that sort of brain surgery by transmission mechanics, I feel I should present my credentials. ... So, aside from having coined the term "Old Network Boy" — and being one — and indeed probably being the only person in the world who knew, worked with, and was even on friendly terms with Vint Cerf, Jo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33067032 | 2,171,570 |
1,020,502 | Biologists, alongside scholars of the history and philosophy of biology, have continued to debate the need for, and possible nature of, a replacement synthesis. For example, in 2017 Philippe Huneman and Denis M. Walsh stated in their book "Challenging the Modern Synthesis" that numerous theorists had pointed out that t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=97536 | 1,019,975 |
167,766 | In 1913 the Seguin brothers introduced the new Monosoupape ("single valve") series, which replaced inlet valves in the pistons by using a single valve in each cylinder head, which doubled as inlet and exhaust valve. The engine speed was controlled by varying the opening time and extent of the exhaust valves using lever... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26103 | 167,676 |
664,559 | Initially conceptualized with the intention of being a horror game, "Mega Man Battle Network" was developed by Capcom Production Studio 2 amidst the success of Nintendo's portable RPG franchise "Pokémon". Rather than extend upon the traditional action-platform formula for the "Mega Man" series as they had done with the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2175391 | 664,212 |
1,495,931 | During the 1920s NYU decided to grow by offering admission to almost all applicants. By 1929 it became the largest urban university in the United States with more than 40,000 students. Due in part to the G.I. Bill, enrollment after World War II was greater than 70,000. Most students failed to graduate, however, as they... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11141122 | 1,495,089 |
653,655 | In addition to the quantum optical applications, luminescence from the NV centers can be applied for imaging biological processes, such as fluid flow in living cells. This application relies on good compatibility of diamond nano-particles with the living cells and on favorable properties of photoluminescence from the N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14461309 | 653,311 |
1,436,313 | PTT utilizes photothermal transduction agents (PTAs) which can transform light energy to heat through photothermal effect to raise the temperature of tumor area and thus cause the ablation of tumor cells. Specifically, ideal PTAs should have high photothermal conversion efficiency (PCE), excellent optical stability and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11693664 | 1,435,505 |
1,977,179 | Sadik studies surface chemistry, with particular emphasis on the development of biosensors for use in environmental chemistry. She has found that conducting polymers are especially promising for use in sensing applications. She has developed microelectrode biosensors sensitive to trace amounts of organic materials, tec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48543805 | 1,976,041 |
483,424 | Another source of error present in most interferograms is caused by the propagation of the waves through the atmosphere. If the wave travelled through a vacuum it should theoretically be possible (subject to sufficient accuracy of timing) to use the two-way travel-time of the wave in combination with the phase to calcu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7321060 | 483,177 |
2,206,807 | He was U.S. Navy officer, 2nd Deck Division on the USS Storm King, AP 171. He was a professor and department head of foundry engineering at Tennessee State University from 1950 to 1952. He held research positions with Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute from 1952 to 1966. He worked for Lockheed Missiles... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69613500 | 2,205,549 |
79,648 | Nobel Prize winning Austrian economist and social theorist F. A. Hayek said that, originally, "the term 'natural' was used to describe an orderliness or regularity that was not the product of deliberate human will. Together with 'organism' it was one of the two terms generally understood to refer to the spontaneously g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22063 | 79,615 |
162,063 | While the other major powers were primarily motivated toward territorial gains, and protection of their dynasties (such as the Habsburg and Bourbon dynasties, and Prussia's House of Hohenzollern), Britain had a different set of primary interests. Its main diplomatic goal (besides protecting the homeland from invasion) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 161,978 |
979,958 | Pyrethroids were introduced by a team of Rothamsted Research scientists in the 1960s and 1970s following the elucidation of the structures of pyrethrin I and II by Hermann Staudinger and Leopold Ružička in the 1920s. The pyrethroids represented a major advancement in the chemistry that would synthesize the analog of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=627468 | 979,446 |
417,005 | Roman was very involved with the early planning and specifically, the setting up of the program structure. According to Robert Zimmerman, "Roman had been the driving force for an LST from its earliest days" and that she, along with astronomer Charles Robert O'Dell, hired in 1972 to be the Project Scientist under Roman ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4370870 | 416,802 |
1,223,387 | From early youth, Hale had been internationally oriented, travelling widely throughout Europe in his younger years. Having long realized the value of an international organization to coordinate scientific research, he pursued, as chairman of a committee of the National Academy of Sciences of the US, the formation of an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=623538 | 1,222,727 |
574,027 | Placed at the focus of a parabolic mirror, a Stirling engine can convert solar energy to electricity with an efficiency better than non-concentrated photovoltaic cells, and comparable to concentrated photovoltaics. On August 11, 2005, Southern California Edison announced an agreement with Stirling Energy Systems (SES) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31224455 | 573,733 |
611,795 | The STS-134 crew installed the AMS-2 on flight day 4. AMS-2 was lifted out of "Endeavour"s payload bay using the Canadarm, operated by Drew Feustel and Roberto Vittori. It was handed off to Canadarm2, which was operated by Greg Chamitoff and Greg Johnson, and was installed in its final location on the S3 truss segment ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18089765 | 611,484 |
2,026,119 | In 1992, Soriano and Paruelo proposed the concept of Biozones to identify vegetation units that share ecosystem functional characteristics using time-series of satellite images of spectral vegetation indices. Biozones were later renamed to EFTs by Paruelo et al. (2001), using an equivalent definition and methodology. w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47057320 | 2,024,953 |
117,286 | In a 2013 book-length evaluation of the Gaia hypothesis considering modern evidence from across the various relevant disciplines, Toby Tyrrell concluded that: "I believe Gaia is a dead end. Its study has, however, generated many new and thought provoking questions. While rejecting Gaia, we can at the same time apprecia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=248189 | 117,241 |
1,187,043 | Besides the quick and significant loss of symbiotic host species, since sudden oak death is classified as a stem-girdling disease, which is proven to cause a massive reduction in mycorrhizae soil biomass, the amount of phosphorus and micronutrients that mycorrhizae are able to absorb is greatly reduced in soils occupie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=589513 | 1,186,412 |
1,742,176 | The use of lasers in treating periodontal disease has been seen by some dental professionals as controversial. The American Academy of Periodontology stated in 1999 that it was "not aware of any randomized blinded controlled longitudinal clinical trials, cohort or longitudinal studies, or case-controlled studies indica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15276386 | 1,741,192 |
367,094 | In August 2003, the U.S. Secretary of Energy, Spencer Abraham, ordered the DOE to organize a second review of the field. This was thanks to an April 2003 letter sent by MIT's Peter L. Hagelstein, and the publication of many new papers, including the Italian ENEA and other researchers in the 2003 International Cold Fusi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7463 | 366,902 |
490,565 | One of the oldest records of technological studies in Spain is the Royal Academy of Mathematics in Madrid, leaving aside the Quatrivium of arithmetics, geometry, astronomy and music, the four liberal arts, that form the base of the technical disciplines, which were studied in the monastic and cathedral schools and late... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1933854 | 490,311 |
850,217 | Issues of enemy technical capability and military philosophy will also affect any model used. Whilst a modeller with sufficiently high security clearance and access to the relevant data can expect to create a reasonably accurate picture of his own nation's military capacity, creating a similarly detailed picture for a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10280894 | 849,765 |
1,435,183 | For more than four decades, cultures of gram negative microbes revealed the presence of nanoscale membrane vesicles. A role for membrane vesicles in pathogenic processes has been suspected since the 1970s, when they were observed in gingival plaque by electron microscopy. These vesicles were suspected to promote bacter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42396644 | 1,434,377 |
1,989,753 | Calder also co-ordinated various collaborative research studies aimed at assessing risks and dispelling myths surrounding COVID-19 transmission in sports and the culture sectors. A joint study between Imperial College London and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine using live COVID-19 virus demonstrated that the risk ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51786667 | 1,988,611 |
819,818 | In 2007, the Israeli military deployed the Sentry Tech system, dubbed as the Roeh-Yoreh (Sees-Fires) by the IDF along the Gaza border fence with pillboxes placed at intervals of some hundreds of meters. The 4-million USD (3.35 million Euro) system was completed in late spring of 2008. The weapon system mounts a .50BMG ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3352539 | 819,377 |
75,003 | The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, provided the resolution needed to perform more refined observations of galactic nuclei. In 1994 the Faint Object Spectrograph on the Hubble was used to observe Messier 87, finding that ionized gas was orbiting the central part of the nucleus at a velocity of ±500 km/s. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=215706 | 74,976 |
1,562,285 | The spin polarized scanning tunneling microscope is a versatile instrument which has gained tremendous attention due to its enhanced surface sensitivity and lateral resolution up to atomic scale, and can be used as an important tool to study ferromagnetic materials, such as dysprosium (Dy), quasi-2D thin films, nano is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8434642 | 1,561,398 |
1,018,789 | The facility was originally Set up in 1944 by Lt. Colonel Darshan Singh Vohra to provide artificial limb, appliances and deliver rehabilitative care to the gallant soldiers of the Indian Army, who lost their limbs in combat. Post independence the AFMC was expanded further in 1948 in the immediate post-world war period.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186156 | 1,018,262 |
773,693 | "Castanea sativa" is considered as having very interesting nutritional characteristics. The fruit contains significant amounts of a wide range of valuable nutrients. In the past, its characteristic and nutritional components gave sweet chestnut an important role in human nutrition due to its beneficial health effects. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=437956 | 773,277 |
2,198,934 | The medical community follows an increasing trend of translating traditional medicine into personalized medicine, and long-held regulatory policies are obstacles to be resolved for its public usage. The United States took action via the enactment of the 21st Century Cures Act in 2016. This enforcement provided financia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70423831 | 2,197,682 |
1,497,418 | In terms of financial technology research, ASTRI launched the Cybersecurity Fortification Initiative with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority in 2016, which led to the establishment of a cyber resilience framework and cyber intelligence sharing platform. In 2017, it launched the HSBC-ASTRI Research and Development Innovat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24207795 | 1,496,575 |
405,720 | Meningococcus can cause meningitis and other forms of meningococcal disease. It initially produces general symptoms like fatigue, fever, and headache and can rapidly progress to neck stiffness, coma and death in 10% of cases. Petechiae occur in about 50% of cases. Chance of survival is highly correlated with blood cort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1966840 | 405,520 |
33,886 | On September 30, 2010, Léo Apotheker was named HP's new CEO and president. His appointment sparked a strong reaction from Ellison, who complained that Apotheker had been in charge of SAP when one of its subsidiaries was systematically stealing software from Oracle. SAP accepted that its subsidiary, which has now closed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21347024 | 33,874 |
2,087,672 | ICES'14 witnessed countless creative and state-of-the-art ideas. In order to take these ideas on another level, ASCE-VIT planned to conduct conference in ICES 15. The goal of this conference was to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of civil engineering to a common forum, promote re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49531115 | 2,086,470 |
1,279,829 | The archaeological site was defined by 4 distinct mounds and excavated by researchers from Deccan College. Mounds I, II, and III were partially excavated in 1957-1958. Mound IV was completely excavated over two seasons between 1957 and 1959. Numerous rectangular and circular structures were uncovered; These contained m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56785258 | 1,279,134 |
1,096,370 | The Imaging Compton Telescope (COMPTEL) by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, the University of New Hampshire, Netherlands Institute for Space Research, and ESA's Astrophysics Division was tuned to the 0.75-30 MeV energy range and determined the angle of arrival of photons to within a degree and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=543428 | 1,095,810 |
383,056 | In 1800, an Irish physician (Charles Sugrue) penned a case report to the London Medical and Physical Journal describing the peculiar case of an 8-year-old male patient who had had seemingly random fits of pain concentrated in the abdomen accompanied by "a hectic flush distinctly marked on each cheek" with a "constant p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277088 | 382,861 |
46,893 | RA reduces lifespan on average from three to twelve years. Young age at onset, long disease duration, the presence of other health problems, and characteristics of severe RAsuch as poor functional ability or overall health status, a lot of joint damage on x-rays, the need for hospitalisation or involvement of organs ot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25875 | 46,875 |
358,768 | At 3:20 p.m., the screwdriver slipped and the upper beryllium hemisphere fell, causing a "prompt critical" reaction and a burst of hard radiation. At the time, the scientists in the room observed the blue glow of air ionization and felt a heat wave. Slotin experienced a sour taste in his mouth and an intense burning se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=507859 | 358,582 |
566,929 | "The Last of Us Part II" was originally planned as an open world game with hub worlds in Jackson and Seattle—the player would initially complete missions in the former as Abby before she revealed her true intentions, and later in the former as Ellie while she tracks down Abby—but the game transferred to a more linear s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64504979 | 566,639 |
630,134 | As early as 1936, it was realized that the "Luftwaffe" would turn to night bombing if the day campaign did not go well. Watson-Watt had put another of the staff from the Radio Research Station, Edward Bowen, in charge of developing a radar that could be carried by a fighter. Night-time visual detection of a bomber was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37206 | 629,796 |
479,996 | In 1960, Taiwan was a recipient of foreign aid and had a GDP per capita and human development index comparable among the least developed countries such as Zaire and Congo in the world at that time. Taiwan's rapid prewar development of agriculture and industry induced its rapid postwar economic takeoff. U.S. influence o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16234875 | 479,753 |
279,259 | Shortly after the first geomagnetic polarity time scales were produced, scientists began exploring the possibility that reversals could be linked to extinctions. Most such proposals rest on the assumption that the Earth's magnetic field would be much weaker during reversals. Possibly the first such hypothesis was that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2203131 | 279,109 |
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