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1,774,033 | The first class of students at the Georgia School of Technology was small and homogeneous, and educational options were limited. Eighty-five students signed up on the first registration day, October 7, 1888, and the enrollment for the first year climbed to a total of 129 by January 7, 1889. The first student to registe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8753550 | 1,773,036 |
181,206 | OoC systems mimic and control the microenvironment of the cells by growing tissues in microfluidics. Combining tissue engineering, biomaterials fabrication, and cell biology, it offers the possibility of establishing a biomimetic model for studying human diseases in the laboratory. In recent years, 3D cell culture scie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1106830 | 181,112 |
170,019 | As a standard intended to satisfy needs of next-generation data networks (4G), WiMAX is distinguished by its dynamic burst algorithm modulation adaptive to the physical environment the RF signal travels through. Modulation is chosen to be more spectrally efficient (more bits per OFDM/SOFDMA symbol). That is, when the b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=471844 | 169,929 |
1,657,768 | Another way to extend half-life do is to bind serum albumin to the peptide. Human serum albumin is the most abundant plasma protein with a molecular weight of 66.4 kDa, and it is involved in many essential bodily functions to maintain homeostasis. As a result, albumin binding would significantly increase the molecular ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67051842 | 1,656,835 |
896,911 | Unable to find a passage, Drake turned south in the lone "Golden Hind" and in July 1579 sailed west across the Pacific. His travels took him to the Moluccas, Celebes, Java, and then round the Cape of Good Hope and finally the western tip of Africa. Drake arrived back in England in September 1580 with a rich cargo of sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64312042 | 896,439 |
392,093 | B cell activation occurs in the secondary lymphoid organs (SLOs), such as the spleen and lymph nodes. After B cells mature in the bone marrow, they migrate through the blood to SLOs, which receive a constant supply of antigen through circulating lymph. At the SLO, B cell activation begins when the B cell binds to an an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211941 | 391,898 |
2,132,130 | The West China Hospital of Stomatology has long been ranked as one of the nation's top hospitals. The hospital functions as the clinical treatment center for oral diseases and maxillofacial surgery in the Western-China area because of its abilities to provide full range of sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic treat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29916018 | 2,130,905 |
501,407 | Investigation of the respiratory response to Acute intermittent hypoxia (AIH), repeated episodes of hypoxia, reveals connection to various breathing disorders, such as Rett syndrome and obstructive sleep apnea. AIH leads to persistent increases in respiratory frequency and amplitude of integrated motor neuronal bursts ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9045995 | 501,150 |
385,547 | According to a 2007 World Health Organization (WHO) report, 1.1 billion people lack access to an improved drinking water supply; 88% of the 4 billion annual cases of diarrheal disease are attributed to unsafe water and inadequate sanitation and hygiene, while 1.8 million people die from diarrhoeal disease each year. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=214701 | 385,352 |
1,351,951 | During the following four weeks, while the ship was dry-docked, Bruce negotiated with the Argentine government over the future of the weather station. He was assisted by the British resident minister, the British Consul, and Dr W. G. Davis who was director of the Argentine Meteorological Office. When contacted by cable... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4286037 | 1,351,205 |
697,382 | Thermal spraying can provide thick coatings (approx. thickness range is 20 microns to several mm, depending on the process and feedstock), over a large area at high deposition rate as compared to other coating processes such as electroplating, physical and chemical vapor deposition. Coating materials available for ther... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6434629 | 697,018 |
1,859,474 | In 2012, one year after the creation of the $35 million dollar CCAR fund, no money had been released to scientists. In February 2012, with no funding to continue station operations, CANDAC announced PEARL's impending closure. At the same time, the government announced final plans to build a new $204 million federal gov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62610276 | 1,858,406 |
613,590 | The nodal points were first described by Johann Listing in 1845 to evaluate the eye, where the image is formed in fluid. Over time it was found that if a line was drawn through the posterior apex of the crystalline lens at the visual angle of a distant object, then it would point to the image location on the retina, ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4268332 | 613,278 |
385,397 | These students were selected from over 3,400 applicants for admission to the first year undergraduate engineering programmes of Aerospace, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical, Engineering Physics, Energy, Mechanical, Metallurgical Engineering, and MSc Chemistry. One of the main objectives of establishing the institut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167354 | 385,202 |
1,821,992 | Phosphoglycolate phosphatase exhibits electrophoretically distinctive variant forms. Found in all human tissues, including red cells, lymphocytes, and cultured fibroblasts, the highest enzymatic activity was noted within skeletal and cardiac muscle. Research into the genetic polymorphism indicates that PGP is likely de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14457357 | 1,820,954 |
719,435 | Built as a one-third-size scale prototype, the DC-X was never designed to achieve orbital altitudes or velocity, but instead to demonstrate the concept of vertical take off and landing. The vertical take off and landing concept was popular in science fiction films from the 1950s ("Rocketship X-M", "Destination Moon", a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=585987 | 719,055 |
1,035,402 | The use of weather charts in a modern sense began in the middle portion of the 19th century in order to devise a theory on storm systems. The development of a telegraph network by 1845 made it possible to gather weather information from multiple distant locations quickly enough to preserve its value for real-time appli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=73218 | 1,034,862 |
2,002,294 | Khatyrkite ( ) is a rare mineral which is mostly composed of copper and aluminium, but may contain up to about 15% of zinc or iron. Its chemical structure is described by an approximate formula or . It was discovered in 1985 in a placer in association with another rare mineral cupalite (). These two minerals have only ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23910190 | 2,001,146 |
1,741,630 | Kohn anomalies arise together with Friedel oscillations when one considers the Lindhard theory instead of the Thomas–Fermi approximation in order to find an expression for the dielectric function of a homogeneous electron gas. The expression for the real part formula_2 of the reciprocal space dielectric function obtain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9585894 | 1,740,646 |
1,038,652 | The application of hydraulics to cam-based automation resulted in tracing machines that used a stylus to trace a template, such as the enormous Pratt & Whitney "Keller Machine", which could copy templates several feet across. Another approach was "record and playback", pioneered at General Motors (GM) in the 1950s, whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39469106 | 1,038,111 |
133,635 | From 1814 to 1819, Irish chemist William Higgins claimed that Dalton had plagiarised his ideas, but Higgins' theory did not address relative atomic mass. Recent evidence suggests that Dalton's development of thought may have been influenced by the ideas of another Irish chemist Bryan Higgins, who was William's uncle. B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44112 | 133,582 |
1,042,958 | An alternative is to reduce the plasma injection velocity and density to result in formula_355 to achieve a plasma in equilibrium with the inflated magnetic field and therefore induce an equatorial diamagnetic current in the same direction as the coil current as shown in the figure, thereby increasing the magnetic mome... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37845 | 1,042,414 |
859,472 | By 1917, a thin white outline was usually added to the roundel, to make the blue of the outer circle easier to distinguish from the dark PC.10 and PC.12 protective doping. On squadrons operating at night there was not the same need to make the marking more conspicuous, in fact it became customary to overpaint the white... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6968060 | 859,014 |
1,159,609 | So far, China has created the Gaoligongshan and Tongbiguan National Nature Reserves that currently house small populations of the eastern hoolock gibbon, and the Mahamyaing Sanctuary in Myanmar also acts as a gibbon shelter, as does the Hukaung Valley Tiger Reserve, which has noted that some gibbons live within its bou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16225919 | 1,158,994 |
2,184,269 | Lin was born in Tonghua, Jilin, in July 1954. After the resumption of National College Entrance Examination, he matriculated at Changchun Institute of Geology (now Jilin University), where he received his bachelor's degree in 1982 and his master's degree in 1987 both in exploration geophysics. After graduation, he taug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63002257 | 2,183,021 |
1,372,640 | As a C. L. E. Moore instructor, Rudin taught the real analysis course at MIT in the 1951–1952 academic year. After he commented to W. T. Martin, who served as a consulting editor for McGraw Hill, that there were no textbooks covering the course material in a satisfactory manner, Martin suggested Rudin write one himself... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70241079 | 1,371,883 |
1,174,748 | HMS "Rose" was built in Hull, England in 1757, as a 20 gun sixth-rate post ship for the British Royal Navy. In the Seven Years' War, "Rose" was in service in the Channel and in the Caribbean. She was briefly considered for service as Captain James Cook's vessel on his first exploration of the Pacific, but was rejected ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2652856 | 1,174,126 |
403,148 | Lazarsfeld and Merton first called attention to the principles of homophily and its opposite, heterophily. Using their definition, Rogers defines homophily as "the degree to which pairs of individuals who interact are similar in certain attributes, such as beliefs, education, social status, and the like". When given th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1123434 | 402,948 |
1,102,411 | At the same time, India was trying to launch its national space program under the leadership of Vikram Sarabhai. India was interested in the role of satellites for the purpose of communication and asked UNESCO to undertake a feasibility study for a project in that field. Between 18 November 1967 and 8 December 1967, UN... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8248653 | 1,101,850 |
1,957,358 | It stores 1,200 China-based academic publications which in aggregate have 2million entries. According to Jingfeng Xia, CSCD is "the earliest database in China" and "is widely recognized as one of the best databases for Chinese scientific literature". In a 2005 article in the "Journal of the Association for Information ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47180611 | 1,956,234 |
874,555 | "Tremella fuciformis" has been cultivated in China since at least the nineteenth century. Initially, suitable wooden poles were prepared and then treated in various ways in the hope that they would be colonized by the fungus. This haphazard method of cultivation was improved when poles were inoculated with spores or my... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1140453 | 874,093 |
1,295,065 | Gadavist was approved in the United States in 2011 after presenting findings from 43 clinical studies that had primarily taken place in Asia and the European Union, in addition to one phase 2 and two phase 3 clinical trials conducted in the United States. The multi-center, randomized, double-blind phase 3 clinical tria... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15535663 | 1,294,354 |
1,135,835 | Prismane is a colourless liquid at room temperature. The deviation of the carbon-carbon bond angle from 109° to 60° in a triangle leads to a high ring strain, reminiscent of that of cyclopropane but greater. The compound is explosive, which is unusual for a hydrocarbon. Due to this ring strain, the bonds have a low bon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2563306 | 1,135,242 |
1,987,682 | The "Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion" was first suggested by Surgeon General Hammond in a circular to medical officers inviting cooperation in the collection of material. In 1865 there was issued by the Surgeon General a report upon the extent and nature of the material available for its prepar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12596950 | 1,986,540 |
833,162 | When it was first developed by Empress Dowager Cixi, the Beiyang Fleet was said to be the strongest navy in East Asia. Before her adopted son, Emperor Guangxu, took over the throne in 1889, Cixi wrote out explicit orders that the navy should continue to develop and expand gradually. However, after Cixi went into retire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=407942 | 832,713 |
936,686 | In November 2017, scientists led by Davide Massari of the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, Netherlands released a paper describing the characterization of proper motion (3D) within the Sculptor dwarf galaxy, and of that galaxy's trajectory through space and with respect to the Milky Way, using d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=801330 | 936,190 |
810,897 | There is something of a gap between Prefaces I and II. Apollonius has sent his son, also Apollonius, to deliver II. He speaks with more confidence, suggesting that Eudemus use the book in special study groups, which implies that Eudemus was a senior figure, if not the headmaster, in the research center. Research in suc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=257242 | 810,465 |
1,375,543 | Birkhoff, a friend of John von Neumann, took a close interest in the rise of the electronic computer. Birkhoff supervised the Ph.D. thesis of David M. Young on the numerical solution of the partial differential equation of Poisson, in which Young proposed the successive over-relaxation (SOR) method. Birkhoff then worke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1180916 | 1,374,782 |
221,710 | Modern competition gliders carry jettisonable water ballast (in the wings and sometimes in the vertical stabilizer). The extra weight provided by the water ballast is advantageous if the lift is likely to be strong, and may also be used to adjust the glider's center of mass. Moving the center of mass toward the rear by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25856119 | 221,601 |
131,155 | Switching and all-by-sea routing commonly increases the distance and thus the round trip latency by more than 50%. For example, the round trip delay (RTD) or latency of the fastest transatlantic connections is under 60 ms, close to the theoretical optimum for an all-sea route. While in theory, a great circle route (GCP... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45206 | 131,103 |
1,282,168 | He was born to missionary parents (Jesse and Evelyn "Granny" Brand) and grew up in the Kolli Hills of Tamil Nadu, India, until he was sent to the United Kingdom in 1923 for education. In his books he gives vivid descriptions of his time as a boy in India with regular bouts of dysentery and malaria in the area known as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1545657 | 1,281,472 |
1,703,595 | The USPHS recruiting campaign was aimed at reaching the maximum number of potential applicants in the shortest period of time. The primary target was the high-school graduate but college women were also recruited. The selling point was free education in a proud profession while providing an essential service to the cou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3685821 | 1,702,639 |
1,860,890 | However, MTag's best-studied functions center on its interaction with host cell proteins to activate cellular signaling pathways. Like STag, MTag can bind protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) through the same physical mechanism, interacting with the A subunit in a way that occludes binding of PP2A B subunits and thus inactiva... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53277567 | 1,859,822 |
1,442,644 | ALAD enzymatic activity is inhibited by lead, beginning at blood lead levels that were once considered to be safe (<10 μg/dL) and continuing to correlate negatively across the range from 5 to 95 μg/dL. Inhibition of ALAD by lead leads to anemia primarily because it both inhibits heme synthesis and shortens the lifespan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14167645 | 1,441,831 |
1,638,698 | The 1000 genomes project was able to successfully produce the DNA sequence of the human genome. They provided much sequencing data from many populations to analyze as well as a reference human genome for comparison and future studies. One study took advantage of this resource to question the structural variation differ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50518079 | 1,637,773 |
2,092,994 | Understanding how these troughs formed in the young Raditladi basin could provide an important indicator of processes that acted relatively recently in Mercury's geologic history. There are two main theories of graben formation. The first is that they represent a surface manifestation of ring dikes or cone sheets. Both... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23212267 | 2,091,789 |
1,784,601 | The MGI resource was first published online in 1994 and is a collection of data, tools, and analyses created and tailored for use in the laboratory mouse, a widely used model organism. It is "the authoritative source of official names for mouse genes, alleles, and strains", which follow the guidelines established by th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10432703 | 1,783,597 |
951,312 | Another method tested in a study to produce sodium polyacrylate as an alternative to current methods began with Butyl acrylate-acrylic acid copolymer and poly (butyl acrylate). They were synthesized via suspension polymerization by using butyl acrylate as the main monomer and acrylic acid as a secondary monomer. Suspen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2915728 | 950,808 |
55,929 | Following the Operation Crossbow bombing, initial plans for launching from the massive underground Watten, Wizernes and Sottevast bunkers or from fixed pads such as near the Château du Molay were dropped in favour of mobile launching. Eight main storage dumps were planned and four had been completed by July 1944 (the o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32786 | 55,905 |
92,026 | In radio-frequency applications up to a few gigahertz, the wave propagates primarily in the transverse electric magnetic (TEM) mode, which means that the electric and magnetic fields are both perpendicular to the direction of propagation. However, above a certain cutoff frequency, transverse electric (TE) or transverse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46380 | 91,986 |
225,417 | FirstLook is a small reconnaissance robot weighing with a top speed of and line-of-sight control range of . It has visible and thermal cameras and infrared sensors to gather and transmit images of buildings, caves, or other locations. It can participate in explosive ordnance disposal by carrying of C4 explosive to an I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1006355 | 225,301 |
2,240,650 | The university was the first public higher-education institution in Texas; it opened for classes on October 4, 1876, as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (A.M.C.) under the provisions of the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Act. In the following decades, the college grew in size and scope, expanding to its larges... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29927 | 2,239,379 |
1,158,328 | Measurement of aortic PWV provides some of the strongest evidence concerning the prognostic significance of large artery stiffening. Increased aortic PWV has been shown to predict cardiovascular, and in some cases all cause, mortality in individuals with end stage kidney disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus and in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8498126 | 1,157,714 |
1,081,190 | In humans, CXCL12 has been implicated in a wide variety of biomedical conditions involving several organ systems. Furthermore, CXCL12 signaling in conjunction with CXCR7 signaling has been implicated in the progression of pancreatic cancer. In the urinary tract system, methylation of the CXCL12 promoter and expression ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=960559 | 1,080,634 |
346,922 | The French government had initially ordered a total of 34 NH90 TTHs for the French Army Light Aviation and 27 NFH for the Navy. Both versions will be named "Caïman" and final assembly will be carried out by Airbus Helicopters. The French Army had intended to buy 68 NH90; however, the April 2013 defence review could hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=513911 | 346,741 |
686,884 | Conservative treatment of isolated medial knee injuries (grades I-III) begins with controlling swelling and protecting the knee. Swelling is managed well with rest, ice, elevation, and compression wraps. Protection can be performed using a hinged brace that stabilizes against varus and valgus stress but allows full fle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36131822 | 686,527 |
1,626,431 | At the time, microprocessor design was plateauing at the 100,000 transistor level because the tools available to the designers were simply unable to deal with more complex designs. 16-bit and 16/32-bit designs were coming to market, but beyond that seemed too difficult and expensive to contemplate. Mead and Conway felt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3548726 | 1,625,513 |
1,299,878 | Far more important is that he was one of the first to postulate the existence of substances, now known as hormones, secreted into the bloodstream to affect distant organs. In particular, he demonstrated (in 1856) that removal of the adrenal glands resulted in death, due to lack of essential hormones. At age 72, at a me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1311821 | 1,299,164 |
1,620,324 | Laboratory investigations of the stability of multiple-machine systems were constrained by the use of direct-operated indicating instruments (voltmeters, ammeters, and wattmeters). To ensure that the instruments negligibly loaded the model system, the machine power level used was substantial. Some workers in the 1920s ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38433617 | 1,619,409 |
15,961 | After leaving NASA, Aldrin continued to advocate for space exploration. In 1985 he joined the University of North Dakota (UND)'s College of Aerospace Sciences at the invitation of John D. Odegard, the dean of the college. Aldrin helped to develop UND's Space Studies program and brought Dr. David Webb from NASA to serve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65777 | 15,956 |
910,221 | In 1849, Louis Pasteur resolved a problem concerning the nature of tartaric acid. A solution of this compound derived from living things (to be specific, wine lees) rotates the plane of polarization of light passing through it, but tartaric acid derived by chemical synthesis has no such effect, even though its reaction... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39774 | 909,742 |
1,409,901 | Kimura worked on a wide spectrum of theoretical population genetics problems, many of them in collaboration with Takeo Maruyama. He introduced the "infinite alleles", "infinite sites", and "stepwise" models of mutation, all of which would be used widely as the field of molecular evolution grew alongside the number of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=645327 | 1,409,109 |
1,366,819 | In the early 1960s, when Europe and America were establishing geostationary communication satellites, the Russians found these orbits unsuitable. They were limited in the amount of rocket power available and it is extremely energy intensive to both launch a satellite to 40,000 km, and change its inclination to be over ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=616348 | 1,366,063 |
2,002,040 | A leading pioneer in long-term multidisciplinary ecological studies, Likens examines energy flow and biogeochemical flux models in the ecosystems of forests, streams and lakes. Likens is best known for leading the team of scientists that discovered acid rain in North America, and connected fossil fuels with increasing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3782916 | 2,000,892 |
794,320 | From the late-1960s to the mid-1980s, under the leadership of M. Maceo Nance, the campus experienced unprecedented growth in the form of new academic buildings, such as Nance Hall (1974) and Belcher Hall (1986), new residence halls, such as Sojourner Truth Hall (1972), which, at 14 stories, is the tallest building in O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=574357 | 793,895 |
1,801,584 | Angiopoietins are proteins with important roles in vascular development and angiogenesis. All angiopoietins bind with similar affinity to an endothelial cell-specific tyrosine-protein kinase receptor. The protein encoded by this gene is a secreted glycoprotein that activates the receptor by inducing its tyrosine phosph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10345384 | 1,800,575 |
698,499 | While the H11 was popular with hard-core hobbyists, Heath engineers realized that DEC's low-end PDP-11 microprocessors would not be able to get Heath up the road to more powerful systems at an affordable price. Heath/Zenith then designed a dual Intel 8085/8088-based system dubbed the H100 (or Z-100, in preassembled for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=618552 | 698,135 |
250,054 | A Crookes tube is a sealed glass container in which two electrodes are separated by a vacuum. When a voltage is applied across the electrodes, cathode rays are generated, creating a glowing patch where they strike the glass at the opposite end of the tube. Through experimentation, Thomson discovered that the rays could... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2844 | 249,922 |
1,568,557 | CAncer Personalized Profiling by deep Sequencing (CAPP-Seq) is a next-generation sequencing based method used to quantify circulating DNA in cancer (ctDNA). The method was introduced in 2014 by Ash Alizadeh and Maximilian Diehn’s laboratories at Stanford, as a tool for measuring Cell-free tumor DNA which is released fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49541612 | 1,567,670 |
1,066,840 | Promoted to major early in 1916. Hawker was placed in command of the RFC's first (single seater) fighter squadron, Number 24 based at Hounslow Heath Aerodrome and flying the Airco DH.2 pusher. After two fatalities in recent flying accidents, the new fighter, which featured a forward-mounted Lewis machine gun, soon earn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=535536 | 1,066,286 |
201,836 | The syntheses of elements 107 to 112 were conducted at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany, from 1981 to 1996. These elements were made by cold fusion reactions, in which targets made of thallium, lead, and bismuth, which are around the stable configuration of 82 protons, are bombarded... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77474 | 201,733 |
1,054,926 | Modern science arose against Aristotelian physics. Geocentric were both Aristotelian physics and Ptolemaic astronomy, which latter was a basis of astrology, a basis of medicine. Nicolaus Copernicus proposed heliocentrism, perhaps to better fit astronomy to Aristotelian physics' fifth element—the universal essence, or q... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6727771 | 1,054,379 |
1,148,050 | The squadron was activated at RAF Bentwaters, England in October 1978 as the 81st Tactical Fighter Wing changed its mission to close air support and air interdiction, equipped with Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt IIs, and expanded from three to six operational squadrons. The squadron participated in joint and combi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17892971 | 1,147,445 |
1,563,192 | On 13 February 1904 was born in Heiterthal, not far from Kollbrunn in Tösstal. He attended the Industrial School in Winterthur and in 1923 began his studies at the Department of Agriculture of the ETH. In 1926 he graduated with a diploma as an engineer-agronomist. After a stay in France, he went to Canada where he acqu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24746200 | 1,562,305 |
2,093,432 | The underlying purpose of the survey was to improve understanding of the phenomenon of "dark energy", proposed as the mechanism for the observed increasing rate of expansion of the universe, contradicting the traditional theories of gravitational attraction. The survey results can be used in conjunction with measuremen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52648154 | 2,092,227 |
1,201,523 | Apart from the layers in immediate vicinity of the surface most of the bulk of the ocean is stably stratified. In a few narrow, sporadic regions at high latitudes surface water becomes unstable enough to sink deeply and constitute the deep, southward branch of the overturning circulation (see e.g. AMOC). Eddy diffusion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7747984 | 1,200,882 |
1,479,697 | The shale is made of alternating fine-grained layers of siliceous mudstone (compressed, hardened mud originally made of ground-up silicate rock) and calcisiltite originally animal shells. The calcisiltite layers contain relatively unremarkable shells and occasional non-biomineralized fossils (such as priapulid tubes). ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22547077 | 1,478,864 |
1,418,445 | Pteranodontids are primarily known from the Coniacian to Campanian stages of the Cretaceous in North America and Japan. However, potential Maastrichtian remains have been identified from several other locations, being actually rather common in the Maastrichtian of the Tethys Sea. Beginning in 2016, Nicholas Longrich, D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7120097 | 1,417,646 |
1,420,902 | The political turmoil of the 1960s worked to the field's advantage because mass media scholars began to explore the influence that media had on culture and society. “Growing recognition of the importance of the media by both industry and the public, as well as increasing respect for the field at the university leveled ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35040464 | 1,420,102 |
2,087,280 | An explosion of new knowledge, accumulated mainly over the last 20 years, has proved that lung cancers should be considered an extremely heterogeneous family of neoplasms with widely varying genetic, biological, and clinical characteristics, particularly their responsiveness to the large number of newer treatment proto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31095138 | 2,086,078 |
258,518 | This potential future inability to feed the world's population has been a concern since the English political economist Thomas Malthus in the early 1800s, but has become increasingly important recently. Starting at the very end of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, this issue became widely discussed in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216143 | 258,384 |
2,144,115 | Type 343 radar is the first generation Chinese fire control radar for large caliber guns, with development begun in 1968, with 720th Research Institute assigned as the develop in October of the same year. Sea trials begun in July 1970 and design completed in 1976, with state certification received in 1979. A total of 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51044661 | 2,142,884 |
167,610 | As soon as the car and the engine became reliable, the era of the Lotus and of Jim Clark began. Clark won the title twice in three years, and , the latter being the only occasion to date of a driver winning both the Championship and the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race in the same year. For 1964 Lotus introduced the new Lotu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=640098 | 167,523 |
599,349 | The applications lab was an essential sales tool. When the spectrograph was introduced as a quick and accurate analytical chemistry device, it was met with widespread skepticism. All research facilities had a chemistry department and analytical analysis was done by “wet chemistry” methods. The idea of doing this analys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1063456 | 599,043 |
441,901 | APP undergoes extensive post-translational modification including glycosylation, phosphorylation, sialylation, and tyrosine sulfation, as well as many types of proteolytic processing to generate peptide fragments. It is commonly cleaved by proteases in the secretase family; alpha secretase and beta secretase both remov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1961275 | 441,686 |
964,289 | The main sequence mechanism was unidirectional. This meant that complex programs had to be physically lengthy. A program loop was accomplished by loop unrolling or by joining the end of the paper tape containing the program back to the beginning of the tape (literally creating a loop). At first, conditional branching i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=173857 | 963,780 |
156,683 | The work of Jewish philosopher Jacques Derrida, and in particular his critical method called deconstruction, has frequently been compared to negative theology, and led to renewed interest in apophaticism in the late 20th century, even among continental philosophers and literary scholars who may not have otherwise have ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66975 | 156,611 |
424,818 | On June 7, 1863, a garrison consisting mostly of black troops assigned to guard a supply depot during the Vicksburg Campaign found themselves under attack by a larger Confederate force. Recently recruited, minimally trained, and poorly armed, the black soldiers still managed to successfully repulse the attack in the en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15799614 | 424,610 |
2,199,410 | "Leymus multicaulis" is a relatively easy plant to grow. In northern regions, it is highly recommended to plant "Leymus multicaulis" seeds during the fall season. This allows the seed coat to become more active. If planted during the spring, the seed coat stays inactive and must be mechanically broken. One to two years... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36306956 | 2,198,158 |
286,860 | Islamic buildings initially adapted the skills of a workforce trained in earlier Indian traditions to their own designs. Unlike most of the Islamic world, where brick tended to predominate, India had highly skilled builders well used to producing stone masonry of extremely high quality. Alongside the architecture devel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276879 | 286,705 |
312,091 | Marine VHF mostly uses half-duplex non-relayed transmission. Ship to ship communication is over a single radio frequency, while ship to shore uses two frequencies, but typically only one of the parties can transmit at a time. (Not to be confused with simplex communication, for example radio broadcasting, where one part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=508181 | 311,923 |
926,262 | The 122 mm howitzer M1938 (M-30) (GRAU index: 52-G-463) was a Soviet 121.92 mm (4.8 inch) howitzer. The weapon was developed by the design bureau of Motovilikha Plants, headed by F. F. Petrov, in the late 1930s, and was in production from 1939 to 1955. The M-30 saw action in World War II, mainly as a divisional artille... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4109186 | 925,776 |
884,797 | In late August 2009, the government of Chile discovered that the human H1N1/09 virus had jumped, unmutated, to birds, "opening a new chapter in the global epidemic". Top flu and animal-health experts with the WHO and the CDC were monitoring the situation closely. They said the infected turkeys had suffered only mild ef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22817589 | 884,333 |
1,025,628 | After independence, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, initiated reforms to promote higher education and science and technology in India. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)—conceived by a 22-member committee of scholars and entrepreneurs in order to promote technical education—was inaugurated on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13141438 | 1,025,094 |
929,516 | While waiting for NSF to make the decommissioning plans, steps had been taken to try to reduce the load that each of the towers were carrying, including reducing the strain on the backstay support cables for the individual towers. Other plans, such as having helicopters hoisting part of the load while hovering above th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9013135 | 929,025 |
676,668 | Sometime during the night of January 31February 1, 1954, Armstrong jumped to his death from a window in his 12-room apartment on the 13th floor of River House in Manhattan, New York City. The "New York Times" described the contents of his two-page suicide note to his wife: "he was heartbroken at being unable to see her... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10315 | 676,315 |
1,116,805 | Two clades (groups consisting of all taxa that share a common ancestor) of ceratopsid dinosaurs—Centrosaurinae and Chasmosaurinae—are recognized based mainly on the elaborate ornamentation of their skull roofs. In 2010, Sampson and colleagues placed "Kosmoceratops" in the latter group due to the premaxilla having a nar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28916285 | 1,116,232 |
197,382 | Critical social theory in communication, while sharing some traditions with rhetoric, is explicitly oriented toward "articulating, questioning, and transcending presuppositions that are judged to be untrue, dishonest, or unjust."(p. 147) Some work bridges this distinction to form critical rhetoric. Critical theories ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=248810 | 197,281 |
1,084,616 | In 1993 teams of a collaborative Mongolian-North American expedition (supported by the Mongolian Academy of Sciences and American Museum of Natural History) discovered a new fossil locality of the Djadochta Formation called Ukhaa Tolgod (meaning "Brown Hills"). Like previous localities, Ukhaa Tolgod has yielded a promi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5676432 | 1,084,059 |
362,065 | This brain region has been implicated in executive functions, such as planning, decision making, short-term memory, personality expression, moderating social behavior and controlling certain aspects of speech and language. Executive function relates to abilities to differentiate among conflicting thoughts, determine go... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1967493 | 361,875 |
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