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315,132 | When Martin Gardner retired from writing his "Mathematical Games" column for "Scientific American" magazine, Hofstadter succeeded him in 1981–83 with a column titled "Metamagical Themas" (an anagram of "Mathematical Games"). An idea he introduced in one of these columns was the concept of "Reviews of This Book", a book... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8758 | 314,963 |
2,165,730 | Installation Squadrons and Combat Communications Squadrons. While the organization was charged with providing, installing, operating, and maintaining communications equipment for deployed flying units, it did so from "scratch", with a greater variety of small components than today's relatively complete tactical capabil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23155251 | 2,164,493 |
1,040,460 | Deficiency in PAH activity due to mutations in "PAH" causes hyperphenylalaninemia (HPA), and when blood phenylalanine levels increase above 20 times the normal concentration, the metabolic disease phenylketonuria (PKU) results. PKU is both genotypically and phenotypically heterogeneous: Over 300 distinct pathogenic var... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213841 | 1,039,917 |
1,173,565 | There are reports that medical tricorders may emerge from "diagnostic medical apps" via Tablet Computers and smartphones. Some existing smartphones have been used as medical devices in the sense that text reminders have been sent to a patient about prescription renewals, and downloadable apps allow cameras in cell phon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37804721 | 1,172,945 |
367,713 | In 1998 Greece decided, in collaboration with the German Aerospace Industry (DASA) and the Hellenic Aerospace Industry (HAI/EAB), to upgrade 39 F-4E Phantom II fighters. The first aircraft was delivered at Andravida Air Base in December 2002. This aircraft, which was named ""Princess of Andravida"" (s/n 72-01523), was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=363254 | 367,520 |
1,568,616 | Utilization of HDC/ABMT for breast cancer decreased sharply after the negative reports revealed at the ASCO meeting in 1999. In addition, a mixture of wins and losses from litigation lawsuits over health insurance corporations' coverage of the treatment influenced the decline of the treatment, because technology assess... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38028125 | 1,567,729 |
1,169,090 | After retiring from the Air Force in 1978, Parkinson spent one year as a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University, Fort Collins. Soon after, he accepted a position as Vice President at the Space Systems Group of the Rockwell International (later absorbed into Boeing), where he was involved in st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2410578 | 1,168,472 |
204,061 | In 1902, the Hartley College became the Hartley University college, a degree awarding branch of the University of London. This was after inspection of the teaching and finances by the University College Grants Committee, and donations from Council members (including William Darwin the then Treasurer). An increase in st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=98078 | 203,956 |
310,336 | The German tanks were not up to the standards of Guderian's concept. The Panzer I was really a machine gun-armed tankette, derived from the British Carden-Loyd personnel carrier. The Panzer II did have a 20-mm cannon, but little armor protection. Germany, constrained by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, was not al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29073044 | 310,168 |
2,042,613 | "Nanotermes" is known from a single fossil, the holotype adult, which is an inclusion in a transparent chunk of Cambay amber. The amber specimen, "Tad-262", is currently housed in the fossil collection of the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany in Lucknow, India. The holotype is composed of a mostly complete adult o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37243386 | 2,041,433 |
586,202 | The Ståhl method implies positioning individual tissue samples on the arrays of spatially barcoded reverse transcription primers able to capture mRNA with the tails. Besides tail and spatial barcode, which indicates the x and y position on the arrayed slide, the probe contains a cleavage site, amplification and sequenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57313623 | 585,902 |
1,020,606 | In November 2006, after receiving FDA clearance, neurosurgeon Nathan Selden, pediatrician Bob Steiner, and colleagues at Doernbecher Children's Hospital at Oregon Health and Science University began a clinical study in which purified neural stem cells were injected into the brain of Daniel Kerner, a six-year-old child ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2154533 | 1,020,077 |
875,126 | A Soviet-era agricultural biowarfare programme was pursued from 1958 through to the collapse of the USSR in 1991. This program focused on anti-crop and anti-livestock biological weapons, with Soviet efforts starting with FMD virus, for which an institute was established on Gorodomlya Island. From the 1970s, it focused ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11564525 | 874,664 |
866,375 | While the length of the egg stage depends on the species and environmental conditions, aquatic eggs generally hatch within one week. Unlike salamanders and newts, frogs and toads never become sexually mature while still in their larval stage. The hatched eggs continue life as tadpoles, which typically have oval bodies ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19653966 | 865,915 |
1,925,937 | While exceptions exist, most flame-made particles are nano-sized (< 100 nm) and highly crystalline. Also, neither phase separation within each particle nor composition variance among particles is observed, as the entire process is so rapid that atomically mixed particles are formed. Their properties stem from the flame... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38220209 | 1,924,833 |
1,839,091 | "Eophona migratoria" breeds in temperate forests and winters in southern parts of China and Japan, Taiwan and northern Southeast Asia.The nest is cup-shaped and is built by the female among the trees, in the thickest vegetation: inside it usually lays 4 bluish eggs with brown spots, which it hatches alone (with the mal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12103808 | 1,838,039 |
1,661,433 | The IPC swimming class open to ID swimmers is S14. The sport was the first one to open up to ID sportspeople following the disability's reinclusion on the Paralympic level in November 2009 following their suspension as a result of cheating at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney. Swimmers on the international level ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51210627 | 1,660,499 |
403,378 | Though helicopters were initially armed merely as defensive measures to support the landing and extraction of troops, their value in this role led to the modification of early helicopters as dedicated gunship platforms. Though not as fast as fixed-wing aircraft and consequently more vulnerable to anti-aircraft weaponry... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=600792 | 403,178 |
318,507 | Brenner also chose it as it is easy to grow in bulk populations, and convenient for genetic analysis. It is a multicellular eukaryotic organism, yet simple enough to be studied in great detail. The transparency of "C. elegans" facilitates the study of cellular differentiation and other developmental processes in the in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57546 | 318,336 |
1,551,956 | Norman Levinson (August 11, 1912 in Lynn, Massachusetts – October 10, 1975 in Boston) was an American mathematician. Some of his major contributions were in the study of Fourier transforms, complex analysis, non-linear differential equations, number theory, and signal processing. He worked closely with Norbert Wiener i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1090122 | 1,551,075 |
1,730,568 | At Leeds Astbury studied the properties of fibrous substances such as keratin and collagen with funding from the textile industry. (Wool consists of keratin.) These substances did not produce sharp patterns of spots like crystals, but the patterns provided physical limits on any proposed structures. In the early 1930s,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2890145 | 1,729,593 |
153,360 | Randell's efforts started to bear fruit in the mid-1970s. The secrecy about Bletchley Park had been broken when Group Captain Winterbotham published his book "The Ultra Secret" in 1974. Randell was researching the history of computer science in Britain for a conference on the history of computing held at the Los Alamos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6229 | 153,290 |
1,841,084 | Plants display the most obvious examples of ecophenotypic variation. One example are trees growing in the woods developing long straight trunks, with branching crowns high in the canopy, while the same species growing alone in the open develops a spreading form, branching much lower to the ground. Genotypes often have ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33712524 | 1,840,032 |
124,858 | General Motors / Eastern Aircraft produced 5,280 FM variants of the Wildcat. Grumman's Wildcat production ceased in early 1943 to make way for the newer F6F Hellcat, but General Motors continued producing Wildcats for both U.S. Navy and Fleet Air Arm use. Late in the war, the Wildcat was obsolescent as a front line fig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=518897 | 124,806 |
1,104,537 | Royall and Marbury envisaged nuclear energy being controlled by experts, with a minimum of political interference. The commissioners would be appointed for indefinite terms, and the President's power to remove them would be limited. They would be supported by four advisory boards, for military applications, industrial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1791503 | 1,103,974 |
786,083 | Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) can be inefficient due to stresses placed on both the egg cell and the introduced nucleus. This can result in a low percentage of successfully reprogrammed cells. For example, in 1996 Dolly the sheep was born after 277 eggs were used for SCNT, which created 29 viable embryos, giving... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=168927 | 785,660 |
1,910,171 | Initial works have been focused on CNT vias connecting two metallic lines. Low temperature (400 °C) chemical vapor deposition growth of CNT on titanium nitride catalysed by cobalt particles has been optimized by the Fujitsu group. The catalyst particles obtained by laser ablation of a cobalt target sorted by size ultim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51056408 | 1,909,073 |
389,398 | The level of a fault's activity can be critical for (1) locating buildings, tanks, and pipelines and (2) assessing the seismic shaking and tsunami hazard to infrastructure and people in the vicinity. In California, for example, new building construction has been prohibited directly on or near faults that have moved wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182787 | 389,203 |
2,117,269 | According to the Singapore Management University (SMU) School of Social Sciences, research before the 1960s on bilingual individuals varied but commonly supported the idea that there were disadvantages to bilingualism. Researchers believed that bilinguals would have smaller vocabularies and stunted cognitive abilities.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3289570 | 2,116,051 |
945,483 | All this knowledge was transferred to the Greeks probably shortly after the conquest by Alexander the Great (331 BC). According to the late classical philosopher Simplicius (early 6th century), Alexander ordered the translation of the historical astronomical records under supervision of his chronicler Callisthenes of O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4536514 | 944,981 |
1,974,026 | Genes are the nodes and the edges are directed. A gene serves as the source of a direct regulatory edge to a target gene by producing an RNA or protein molecule that functions as a transcriptional activator or inhibitor of the target gene. If the gene is an activator, then it is the source of a positive regulatory conn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10571004 | 1,972,891 |
1,439,497 | A generalized AS-MS workflow begins with the pre-incubation of purified protein solutions (i.e. target proteins) with chemical libraries in microplates. Assays can be designed to contain sufficiently high protein concentrations to prevent competition for binding sites between structural analogs, ensuring that hits acro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48999251 | 1,438,687 |
878,488 | Allelopathy is not universally accepted among ecologists. Many have argued that its effects cannot be distinguished from the exploitation competition that occurs when two (or more) organisms attempt to use the same limited resource, to the detriment of one or both. In the 1970s, great effort went into distinguishing co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=632030 | 878,026 |
934,602 | Kingsbury, an American pianist and ethnomusicologist, decided to reverse the common paradigm of a Westerner performing fieldwork in a non-western context, and apply fieldwork techniques to a western subject. In 1988 he published Music, Talent, and Performance: A Conservatory Cultural System, which detailed his time stu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80077 | 934,109 |
1,025,733 | The Wang was not the first CRT-based machine nor were all of its innovations unique to Wang. In the early 1970s Linolex, Lexitron and Vydec introduced pioneering word-processing systems with CRT display editing. A Canadian electronics company, Automatic Electronic Systems, had introduced a product in 1972, but went int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33236 | 1,025,199 |
1,366,010 | From its roots in the sonic acoustic that refers to basically all the vibration that can be listened by the humans and the animals, but also what still very hard for us to be audible and heard. The radio art of Schafer and his colleague, has found expression in many different fields.While most have taken some inspirati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2890925 | 1,365,254 |
1,215,024 | Many criminologists agree that for a society to function efficiently, social order is necessary and that conformity is induced through a socialization process. "Law" is the label given to one of the means used to enforce the interests of the state. Hence, because each state is sovereign, the law can be used for any pur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3849813 | 1,214,372 |
1,831,300 | Ion balance is a key factor in plant development to produce yield. Too high salt concentration in soil lowers the water potential in root tissue which becomes toxic; stunting growth and inhibiting flowering by dehydrating the plant. Stomatal closure is also a response to high salinity, leading to lowered sugar producti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70796522 | 1,830,253 |
1,724,081 | Matei Basarab closely cooperated with the boyars throughout his reign. He regularly convoked their assembly and strengthened the boyars' control of the peasants who worked on their estates. Uppon his initiative, the copper mine at Baia de Aramă and the iron mine at Baia de Fier were reopened, and two paper mills and a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4745801 | 1,723,111 |
1,513,679 | Prior to Romer's tenure as MCZ director, the Museum sent an expedition to Australia in 1931–1932 to gather specimens and study live animals. Then-graduate student William E. Schevill, the team's fossil enthusiast, remained in Australia afterward and, in the winter of 1932, was told by the rancher R.W.H. Thomas of rocks... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=519648 | 1,512,828 |
1,102,912 | While gene knock-in technology has proven to be a powerful technique for the generation of models of human disease and insight into proteins "in vivo", numerous limitations still exist. Many of these are shared with the limitations of knockout technology. First, combinations of knock-in genes lead to growing complexity... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15620079 | 1,102,351 |
776,871 | Scientists once believed paddlefish used their rostrums to excavate bottom substrate, but have since determined with the aid of electron microscopy that paddlefish rostrums are covered in electroreceptors called ampullae. These ampullae are densely packed within star-shaped bone projections that branch out from the ros... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=237945 | 776,455 |
247,894 | Kiichiro is said to have opened the path for the Japanese automobile industry, and he is credited for creating from scratch domestic cars that were superior to foreign cars. The differences between Japan and the United States in the automobile industry during World War II were quite large. In the early 1930s, Kiichiro ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4670679 | 247,766 |
1,882,110 | The current affairs programme 'Dragon's Eye' broadcast 1 May 2012, reported on work published by Chris Taylor and colleagues at Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD) based at Cardiff University. Taylor's work suggested that the performance of Welsh Bac qualified students did not match t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2484699 | 1,881,029 |
1,570,406 | Aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria (AAPBs) are Alphaproteobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria that are obligate aerobes that capture energy from light by anoxygenic photosynthesis. Anoxygenic photosynthesis is the phototrophic process where light energy is captured and stored as ATP. The production of oxygen is non-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27753121 | 1,569,518 |
2,015,872 | Exclusive processes provide a window into the bound-state structure of hadrons in QCD as well as the fundamental processes which control hadron dynamics at the amplitude level. The natural calculus for describing the bound-state structure of relativistic composite systems, needed for describing exclusive amplitudes, is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43699175 | 2,014,712 |
1,581,899 | A "transcript crisis" arose during the later half of the twentieth century due to the increasing volume of lawsuits. There were not enough number of court reporters to match the increasing number of trials. Not only were court reporters unavailable to attend many court proceedings, court transcripts were constantly lat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9031121 | 1,581,009 |
469,840 | Djerassi's first play, "An Immaculate Misconception" (1998), dealing with the in vitro fertilization procedure ICSI, was followed by two plays about priority struggles in the history of science, "Oxygen" (co-authored with Roald Hoffmann, 1999) and "Calculus" (2002), and a drama at the intersection of chemistry and art ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=574479 | 469,604 |
2,076,950 | The flights offered a convenient means to study the stratification of the troposphere. Simultaneous measurements of temperature, pressure, and humidity could be combined with observations on horizontal and vertical wind movements and cloud formations and layering. However, the stratosphere was not discovered during thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55432762 | 2,075,751 |
928,653 | For Webern especially, text-setting became a means of composing more than atonal aphorisms, but Schoenberg sought other means, "long ... yearning for a style for large forms ... to give personal things an objective, general form." From as early as 1906 Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern indulged a shared interest in esoteric... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65676 | 928,164 |
1,178,145 | Ursula Franklin rejects the idea that powerful technologies automatically determine the ways in which people live and work. She maintains that the uses of technology are not preordained, but are the result of conscious choices. The dominant prescriptive technologies establish structures of power and control that follow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1094203 | 1,177,521 |
1,602,242 | Disequilibrium syndrome (DES) was first described in the 1970s as a non-progressive, neurological disorder. In a 2005 study, DES was renamed as VLDLR-associated cerebellar hypoplasia (VLDLRCH) after its cause was linked to a disruption in the "VLDLR" gene. At least six mutations affecting the homozygous recessive allel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5402846 | 1,601,341 |
1,359,959 | Ephemerides are precise measurements of the GNSS satellites' orbits, made by the geodetic community (the International GNSS Service and other public and private organizations) with global networks of ground stations. Satellite navigation works on the principle that the satellites' positions at any given time are known,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32110355 | 1,359,207 |
1,869,914 | A decisive factor in A2/AD strategies is geography. However, a specific geography is not a necessary component of an A2/AD strategy, it can prove helpful for particular operations on land and sea as geographical chokepoints and difficult terrain provide favorable opportunities for A2/AD operations.maritime chokepoints ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64013412 | 1,868,837 |
1,901,025 | Traumatic pneumorrhachis is very rare phenomenon. Only eight cases with pneumorrhachis extending to more than one spinal region had been reported in the literature. Gordon had initially described the phenomenon of intraspinal air. The term "pneumorrhachis" was used for the first time by Newbold et al. The two subtypes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42681400 | 1,899,936 |
1,563,618 | Other contemporaries of Komitas, Ellis, and Adler included Erich von Hornbostel, and Carl Stumpf, who are typically credited with establishing comparative musicology as an official field separate from musicology itself. Von Hornbostel, who once stated that Ellis was the "true founder of comparative scientific musicolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65721530 | 1,562,731 |
1,670,185 | Eventually, in 1919, Ionescu's group formed an alliance with the newly created People's League, headed by General Alexandru Averescu. Averescu, who was celebrated for his wartime command of the Romanian Army, shared several viewpoints with the PCD and, according to Argetoianu's ironic version of events, "a great, albei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=738484 | 1,669,245 |
102,526 | It is currently unknown exactly when mammalian characteristics such as body hair and mammary glands first appeared, as the fossils only rarely provide direct evidence for soft tissues. An exceptionally well-preserved skull of "Estemmenosuchus", a therapsid from the Upper Permian, preserves smooth skin with what appear ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=201968 | 102,481 |
1,159,345 | High Explosive Research achieved its objective with remarkable economy and efficiency, but the price was still high. Between 1946 and 1953, Risley spent £72 million, Harwell almost £27 million and the weapons establishment over £9.5 million. By comparison, British defence expenditure in 1948 was £600 million. HER accou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52573493 | 1,158,730 |
1,679,123 | The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUV) of the IMAGE mission observes the distribution of He+ in Earth's plasmasphere by detecting its resonantly-scattered emission at 30.4-nm. It records the structure and dynamics of the cold plasma in Earth's plasmasphere on a global scale. The 30.4-nm feature is relatively easy to meas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1090498 | 1,678,180 |
362,264 | Varied use and interpretation of the terms mean that written reports of albinistic animals can be difficult to verify. Albinism can reduce the survivability of an animal; for example, it has been suggested that albino alligators have an average survival span of only 24 hours due to the lack of protection from UV radiat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45105839 | 362,074 |
2,094,337 | James Moeser was named Spanier's replacement in 1996. He pioneered the development of NU's Honors Program and secured several of the largest grants in school history. Under his watch, Nebraska's football program won another national title. Despite repeatedly stating he "wasn't looking to leave [Nebraska]," Moeser inter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70529288 | 2,093,129 |
1,616,314 | There are many regions in which there is a population of cats and dogs that freely roam on the streets. The most conventional approach to controlling reproductive rates in companion animals is through surgical means. However, surgical intervention poses ethical concerns. Through the formulation of a non-surgical castra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3143285 | 1,615,403 |
44,561 | In 2011, the International Energy Agency said that "the development of affordable, inexhaustible and clean solar energy technologies will have huge longer-term benefits. It will increase countries' energy security through reliance on an indigenous, inexhaustible and mostly import-independent resource, enhance sustainab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25784 | 44,544 |
1,968,265 | At the urging of his SMU professors, he applied as a physics research student to California Institute of Technology (Caltech), which he attended bearing a National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship. In the 1957 nuclear physics course at Caltech Clayton learned from William Alfred Fowler about a new theory that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36061850 | 1,967,135 |
1,402,740 | 2D nanomaterials also have a few challenges. There are some side effects of modifying the properties of the materials, such as activity and structural stability, which can be compromised when they are engineered. For example, creating some defects can increase the number of active sites for higher catalytic performance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10209776 | 1,401,953 |
285,591 | Bueckers was a five-star recruit and ranked the number one player in the 2020 class by ESPN. By eighth grade and age 14, she had received scholarship offers from NCAA Division I basketball programs at Minnesota, Iowa State and Illinois. On April 1, 2019, Bueckers announced her commitment to University of Connecticut. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61733357 | 285,437 |
978,607 | The final report, published on December 30, 1907, included three sections: a summary of the panel's findings written by Mills, a letter by John Montgomery Ward supporting the panel, and a dissenting opinion by Henry Chadwick. The research methods were, at best, dubious. Mills was a close friend of Doubleday, and upon D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=602676 | 978,096 |
1,421,760 | A period of consolidation occurred at the university in the 1980s, resulting in internal regulation and the creation of fundamental bodies (during the mandate of the second rector Dr. José Mesquita Rodrigues) as well as the conclusion of the purchase of lands for the campus, later completed during the mandate of Dr. Re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1165393 | 1,420,959 |
1,172,395 | The HL-20 Crew Rescue Vehicle was based on the Personnel Launch System (PLS) concept being developed by NASA as an outgrowth of earlier lifting body research. In October 1989, Rockwell International (Space Systems Division) began a year-long contracted effort managed by Langley Research Center to perform an in-depth st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7051471 | 1,171,776 |
1,466,920 | De Candolle also made contributions to the field of chronobiology. Building upon earlier work on plant circadian leaf movements contributed by such scientists as Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan and Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, de Candolle observed in 1832 that the plant "Mimosa pudica" had a free-running period of l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=404399 | 1,466,097 |
1,159,298 | The discovery of fission raised the possibility that an extremely powerful atomic bomb could be created. The term was already familiar to the British public through the writings of H. G. Wells, in his 1913 novel "The World Set Free". George Paget Thomson, at Imperial College London, and Mark Oliphant, an Australian phy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52573493 | 1,158,683 |
589,676 | The Lancer WRC05 saw no significant changes, but the car's width was increased by due to a change in the WRC regulations. The engine remained the same, but the ECU and the turbo wastegate were updated. Aerodynamic alterations to the bodywork were introduced to improve stability and to accommodate the new, wider track, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30876895 | 589,374 |
531,273 | HeForShe projects and activities include weekly meetings to discuss gender-related topics, film screenings, guest speaking events with experts in their fields (such as domestic violence victim support, health, politics, and so on) (2018-), a Sexual Harassment Awareness Workshop funded by the GRL library with a lecture ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1340264 | 530,999 |
1,425,119 | Two-photon absorption is a third-order with respect to the third-order optical susceptibility formula_1 and a second-order process with respect to light intensity. For this reason it is a non-linear process several orders of magnitude weaker than linear absorption, thus very high light intensities are required to incre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22124835 | 1,424,317 |
1,364,351 | Pascual-Leone, Case, and Halford attempt to explain development along the sequence of Piagetian stages and substages. Pascual-Leone aligned this sequence with a single line of development of mental power that goes from one to seven mental units. Case suggested that each of four main stages involves different kinds of m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25076961 | 1,363,595 |
540,523 | At a global level, the implementation of digital health solutions depends on large data sets, ranging from simple statistics that record every birth and death to more sophisticated metrics that track diseases, outbreaks, and chronic conditions. These systems record data such as patient records, blood test results, EKGs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37451236 | 540,243 |
1,428,136 | Cognitive neuroscience research demonstrates that some movies can exert considerable control over brain activity and eye movements. Studying the neuroscience of film is based on the hypothesis that some films, or film segments, lead viewers through a similar sequence of perceptual, emotional and cognitive states. Using... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37527148 | 1,427,332 |
853,276 | The removal of pollutants from the waste water stream involves both absorption and adsorption of organic compounds and some inorganic species (such as nitrite and nitrate ions) by the layer of microbial biofilm. The filter media is typically chosen to provide a very high surface-to-volume ratio. Typical materials are o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12915657 | 852,822 |
546,955 | Implantable pacemakers were proposed for the first time in 1959 and became more sophisticated since then. The therapeutic application of pacemakers consists of numerous rhythm disturbances including some forms of tachycardia (too fast a heart beat), heart failure, and even stroke. Early implantable pacemakers worked on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29803004 | 546,669 |
50,623 | The AESA radar offers unique capabilities for fighters (and it is also quickly becoming essential for Generation 4.5 aircraft designs, as well as being retrofitted onto some fourth-generation aircraft). In addition to its high resistance to ECM and LPI features, it enables the fighter to function as a sort of "mini-AWA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10929 | 50,603 |
869,537 | The Xeelee Sequence (; ) is a series of hard science fiction space opera novels, novellas, and short stories written by British science fiction author Stephen Baxter. The series spans billions of years of fictional history, centering on humanity's future expansion into the universe, its intergalactic war with an enigma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3688299 | 869,077 |
617,860 | While the effects of high and acute doses of ionising radiation are easily observed and understood in humans ("e.g." Japanese atomic bomb survivors), the effects of low-level radiation are very difficult to observe and highly controversial. This is because the baseline cancer rate is already very high and the risk of d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1106101 | 617,546 |
616,639 | Another molecular phylogenetic analysis technique has been described by Pevsner and shall be summarized in the sentences to follow (Pevsner, 2015). A phylogenetic analysis typically consists of five major steps. The first stage comprises sequence acquisition. The following step consists of performing a multiple sequenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=149544 | 616,325 |
104,917 | In 2017, ETH Zurich board approved the creation of a "Student Project House" to encourage student projects and foster innovation. A test consisting of a "makerspace" and co-working space was established on the Hönggerberg campus, followed by a 6-story space near the ETH Zurich main building. Both locations function as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=210910 | 104,872 |
1,518,464 | Shifman is known for a number of basic contributions to quantum chromodynamics, the theory of strong interactions, and to understanding of supersymmetric gauge dynamics. The most important results due to M. Shifman are diverse and include (i) the discovery of the penguin mechanism in the flavor-changing weak decays (19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19029045 | 1,517,606 |
1,790,915 | Soviet-American physicist George Gamow was the first to come up with a coherent scheme for protein synthesis from DNA. Based on the Watson-Crick model, he envisaged that the DNA itself is a direct template for protein synthesis. Assuming that the four bases of DNA could produce 20 different combinations as triplets, he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11521413 | 1,789,909 |
911,922 | Sustainable architecture often incorporates the use of recycled or second hand materials, such as reclaimed lumber and recycled copper. The reduction in use of new materials creates a corresponding reduction in embodied energy (energy used in the production of materials). Often sustainable architects attempt to retrofi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2704720 | 911,443 |
325,378 | "Dreadnought" sailed for the Mediterranean Sea for extensive trials in December 1906 calling in at Arosa Bay, Gibraltar and Golfo d'Aranci before crossing the Atlantic to Port of Spain, Trinidad in January 1907, returning to Portsmouth on 23 March 1907. During this cruise, her engines and guns were given a thorough wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=717448 | 325,205 |
1,560,919 | Organohalogen compounds, such as dioxins, are commonly found in pesticides or created as by-products of pesticide manufacture or degradation. These compounds can have a significant impact on the neurobiology of exposed organisms. Some observed effects of exposure to dioxins are altered astroglial intracellular calcium ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29807255 | 1,560,033 |
1,282,171 | During his career, Brand received many awards and honors. He was awarded the Hunterian professorship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1952, and the Lasker Award in 1960. Queen Elizabeth honored him with a title of the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1961. He served as President of The Leprosy Mission... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1545657 | 1,281,475 |
2,001,352 | Chris Scarre of Durham University writing in "Antiquity" noted the controversial nature of the "three stages of trance" model, proclaiming that those already unconvinced by the Lewis-Williams' theory will get little from the new book. Scarre noted that there was "much to question and to applaud" in the work, before hig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37688915 | 2,000,206 |
1,388,215 | The diagnosis of Loeffler endocarditis should be considered in individuals exhibiting signs and symptoms of poor heart contractility and/or valve disease in the presence of significant increases in blood eosinophil counts. Ancillary tests may help in the diagnosis. Echocardiography typically gives non-specific and only... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5061302 | 1,387,447 |
762,803 | Futurists are practitioners of the foresight profession, which seeks to provide organizations and individuals with images of the future to help them prepare for contingencies and to maximize opportunities. A foresight project begins with a question that ponders the future of any given subject area, including technology... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1508301 | 762,395 |
815,799 | Cope's views on human races would today be considered racist. In his essays on evolution, he assessed the physiognomies of three sub-species of human — termed the Negro, the Mongolian, and the Indo-European — in comparison to those of apes and human embryos, and drew the following conclusion:The Indo-European race is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=415000 | 815,365 |
1,793,187 | Individual Chinese students had no great difficulty mastering Western science, but the growth in their numbers and potential influence posed a challenge to the Confucian scholar-officials who dominated the imperial government and Chinese society. Such officials were reluctant to grant foreign-trained scientists and eng... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14246598 | 1,792,178 |
581,944 | In American astronomer Alastair G. W. Cameron's hypothesis from 1962 and 1963, the protosun, with a mass of about 1–2 Suns and a diameter of around 100,000 AU, was gravitationally unstable, collapsed, and broke into smaller subunits. The magnetic field was around 1/100,000 gauss. During the collapse, the magnetic lines... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17052696 | 581,646 |
467,282 | Aperiodic tilings were considered as mathematical artefacts until 1984, when physicist Dan Shechtman announced the discovery of a phase of an aluminium-manganese alloy which produced a sharp diffractogram with an unambiguous fivefold symmetry – so it had to be a crystalline substance with icosahedral symmetry. In 1975 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=868145 | 467,047 |
343,336 | Autochrome plates had an integral mosaic filter layer with roughly five million previously dyed potato grains per square inch added to the surface. Then through the use of a rolling press, five tons of pressure were used to flatten the grains, enabling every one of them to capture and absorb color and their microscopic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2435889 | 343,155 |
850,602 | The first fossils classified as "Sauroposeidon" were four neck vertebrae discovered in rural Oklahoma, not far from the Texas border, in a claystone outcrop that dates the fossils to about 110 million years ago (mya). This falls within the Early Cretaceous Period, specifically between the Aptian and Albian epochs. Thes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1096641 | 850,150 |
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