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904,078 | According to Accenture, "examples of companies that have successfully implemented ZBB...include a consumer goods company that was able to achieve 18 percent savings and a 20 percent increase in the share price. Another case was that of a prominent commercial bank, which unlocked a large sum of money and reinvested it i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4478338 | 903,602 |
771,189 | The United States Navy (USN) hoped to use the V-1710 in its rigid airships "Akron" and "Macon", but both were equipped with German-built Maybach VL-2 engines as the V-1710 was still in testing when the "Macon" was lost in February 1935 (the "Akron" having been lost in April 1933). The USAAC purchased its first V-1710 i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=76309 | 770,775 |
315,171 | Campus construction began in September 1869 when the cornerstone of University Hall was laid at the corner of 11th and S Streets. Though the building was very large, expensive, and ornate, it was made of low-quality materials and required a foundation repair before hosting a single class. By 1871, the university welcom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=323058 | 315,002 |
722,206 | In 1904, Hall published "Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relation to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion, and Education". In this 2-volume study, based on the idea that child development recapitulates human evolution, Hall took on a variety of issues and synthesized scholarship from a wide ran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=912656 | 721,826 |
398,687 | Once signal processing in each pixel is completed, a color spatial map of the parameter is displayed on a computer monitor, summarizing all vascular information of the tumor in a single image called a parametric image (see last figure of press article as clinical examples). This parametric image is interpreted by clini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=143357 | 398,491 |
1,959,447 | A full understanding of the mechanisms involved in vomocytosis is not currently known, yet advances in research have driven initial mechanistic descriptions and crucial steps involved in the process. Research has shown vomocytosis does not occur when pathogens are dead or when engulfed materials are non-living, indicat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47386145 | 1,958,320 |
1,243,262 | The X-chromosome is also a form of nuclear DNA. Since it is found as 1 copy in males and 2 non-identical chromosomes in females it has a ploidy of 1.5. However, in humans the effective ploidy is somewhat higher, ~1.7, as females in the breeding population have tended to outnumber males by 2:1 during a large portion of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3295330 | 1,242,589 |
775,172 | An independent evaluation of obstacles to polio eradication requested by the WHO and conducted in 2009 considered the major obstacles in detail by country. In Afghanistan and Pakistan, the researchers concluded that the most significant barrier was insecurity, but that managing human resources, political pressures, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9901652 | 774,756 |
906,352 | The jaw structure and estimated musculature hold numerous lines of evidence indicating that entelodonts could open their mouths unusually wide. This trait may have been useful in hunting or feeding on carrion, but similar adaptations have also been linked to competitive behaviors in herbivores. Hippos, a related group ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1609557 | 905,876 |
1,948,596 | One of the biggest challenges in bioinformatics is documenting and sharing scientific workflows in such a way that the computation and its results can be peer-reviewed or reliably reproduced. Bioinformatic pipelines typically use multiple pieces of software, each of which typically has multiple versions available, mult... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55614105 | 1,947,482 |
57,385 | Externally similar to the classic Hercules in general appearance, the J-model features considerably updated technology. These differences include new Rolls-Royce AE 2100 D3 turboprop engines, Dowty R391 six-bladed composite scimitar propellers that have blade tips swept by 35 degrees, digital avionics (including head-u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16172717 | 57,361 |
1,548,524 | Several enzyme functions have been reported for the PDE2. It has been shown that PDE2 lowers cAMP through increased cGMP caused by atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) resulting in decreased aldosterone secretion. It has also been suggested that PDE2 might play an important role in the regulation of elevated intracellular ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7906208 | 1,547,643 |
1,767,513 | While researching whether or not matter interacts with the magnetic component of light, Victor Veselago (1967) envisioned the possibility of refraction with a negative sign, according to Maxwell's equations. A refractive index with a negative sign is the result of permittivity, ε < 0 (less than zero) and magnetic perme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24706093 | 1,766,519 |
694,569 | The wide and large port heads with staggered valve placement give the 302 H.O. high power capabilities. Because of the pent-roof design of the heads, the Boss also had forged pop-up pistons to achieve the desired 10.5:1 compression ratio. Early units were typically characterized by very large intake and exhaust valves ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=859014 | 694,206 |
1,519,397 | Solusi Mission was the first Seventh-day Adventist mission station in Africa. It was founded in 1894 on 12,000 acres of land given by Cecil Rhodes, prime minister of Cape Colony, to Pieter Wessels and Asa T. Robinson. On October 31, 1956, the Board of Regents of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists approved... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2465765 | 1,518,539 |
1,734,158 | Following a design competition in 1900, supervised by Peabody, the Board of Trustees selected designs in the then-popular Beaux-arts architectural style by partner architects William Boring (1859-1937) and Edward Lippincott Tilton (1861-1933), co-designers of the U.S. immigration station at Ellis Island in New York har... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4570957 | 1,733,181 |
320,335 | The animus that had been building against Dissenters and supporters of the American and French Revolutions exploded in July 1791. Priestley and several other Dissenters had arranged to have a celebratory dinner on the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, a provocative action in a country where many disapproved ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40176 | 320,163 |
19,127 | In 1964, Pyotr Ufimtsev, a Soviet mathematician, published a seminal paper titled "Method of Edge Waves in the Physical Theory of Diffraction" in the journal of the Moscow Institute for Radio Engineering, in which he showed that the strength of the radar return from an object is related to its edge configuration, not i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11720 | 19,119 |
1,515,624 | Between 2007 and 2016, Project Ceibal was the most successful 1:1 program in the world. It included the right to internet connectivity in school as well as at home besides the right to have a computer "Since its implementation, every child who enters the public education system in any part of the country is given a com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6357454 | 1,514,772 |
1,810,825 | The tawny owl is a considerable predator itself of smaller owls. Data indicates that it is second deadliest owl to the smaller species of owl in Europe, behind only the eagle owl. Among their known owl prey species are Eurasian scops owls ("Otus scops"), Eurasian pygmy owls, little owls ("Athene noctua"), long-eared ow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68959881 | 1,809,792 |
1,500,977 | Modern interpretation of the message assumes objectivity and neutrality. Graphic design, processed through print technology, translates problems and experiences into a visual linear order. There is a single point of view. The designer believes that he/she should control what would be seen. This model of vision rejects ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24392212 | 1,500,131 |
1,140,507 | Of the many examples where the sea bed provides an extremely hostile environment for submerged evidence of history, one of the most notable, the "RMS Titanic", though a relatively young wreck and in deep water so calcium-starved that concretion does not occur, appears strong and relatively intact, though indications ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5720331 | 1,139,913 |
976,705 | Until the pioneering work of British surgeon Joseph Lister in the 1860s, most medical men in Europe believed that chemical damage from exposures to bad air (see "miasma") was responsible for infections in wounds, and facilities for washing hands or a patient's wounds were not available. Lister became aware of the work ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11848019 | 976,194 |
446,704 | Beginning in 1921, with an article serialized in "The Freeman", an Irish cultural journal, Cowell popularized the term "tone cluster". While he did not coin the phrase, as is often claimed, he appears to have been the first to use it with its current meaning. During the 1920s and 1930s, Cowell toured widely through Nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=343054 | 446,488 |
144,360 | Unlike diseases such as smallpox and polio, there is no vaccine or drug therapy for guinea worm. Eradication efforts have been based on making drinking water supplies safer (e.g. by provision of borehole wells, or through treating the water with larvicide), on containment of infection and on education for safe drinking... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14499186 | 144,302 |
946,169 | Recently, it was observed that adversarial attacks are harder to produce in the practical world due to the different environmental constraints that cancel out the effect of noises. For example, any small rotation or slight illumination on an adversarial image can destroy the adversariality. In addition, researchers suc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45049676 | 945,666 |
11,827 | The last problem to be solved was how to separate the lunar module a safe distance away from the command module just before reentry. The normal procedure, in lunar orbit, was to release the LM and then use the service module's RCS to pull the CSM away, but by this point, the SM had already been released. Grumman, manuf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1770 | 11,822 |
2,141,998 | Consequently, the effect of climate change on the Southern Ocean is an important research topic when trying to understand the global carbon budget. The most important mode that drives the climate in the extratropical Southern Hemisphere is the Southern Annular Mode (SAM) which has consistently been positive in the past... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70383490 | 2,140,767 |
1,748,596 | In addition, select NWHL players were invited to participate in the 2020 NHL All-Star Weekend in St. Louis. They participated in skill competitions and had a USA vs Canada three-on-three game. The NWHL star, Kendall Coyne Schofield competed in the fastest skater event alongside big names in the NHL such as Connor McDav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26790737 | 1,747,610 |
161,124 | Clinical neuropsychology is the application of neuropsychological knowledge to the assessment (see neuropsychological test and neuropsychological assessment), management, and rehabilitation of people who have experienced illness or injury (particularly to the brain) which has caused neurocognitive problems. In particul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288292 | 161,039 |
1,413,400 | This series of weapons was designed to provide a modern alternative to breech loading conversions of the Civil War-era 3-inch Ordnance rifle. It was constructed of steel and was of built-up construction with a central rifled tube, and reinforcing hoops from the trunnions to the breech. Its steel was stronger than the w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52293180 | 1,412,604 |
2,168,026 | In 1929 the Union of Technical Men - local 37 of the International Federation of Technical Engineers, Architects and Draftsmen's Union (IFTEADU), based in New York - was expelled from the international union due to 'excessive radicalism' following an unsuccessful strike at the Board of Transportation. In 1933 - at the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35215213 | 2,166,789 |
1,621,122 | The university continued its expansion through the first half of the 20th century; opening several new professional schools, expanding the residential life on the Evanston campus, and establishing a campus for the professional schools in downtown Chicago. Although the university's tax-exempt status came into dispute, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10414221 | 1,620,207 |
616,436 | The School of Instruction of the Revenue Cutter Service was established on 31 July 1876 near New Bedford, Massachusetts. It used for its training exercises. "Dobbin" was replaced in 1878 with , which was specially designed for the assignment as a training cutter. The School of Instruction moved to Curtis Bay, Maryland ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6204230 | 616,122 |
27,594 | Alexander Graham Bell used the light-sensitive property of selenium to transmit sound over a beam of light in 1880. A working solar cell, of low efficiency, was constructed by Charles Fritts in 1883, using a metal plate coated with selenium and a thin layer of gold; the device became commercially useful in photographic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27709 | 27,584 |
854,542 | The Context Camera (CTX) provides grayscale images (500 to 800 nm) with a pixel resolution up to about . CTX is designed to provide context maps for the targeted observations of HiRISE and CRISM, and is also used to mosaic large areas of Mars, monitor a number of locations for changes over time, and to acquire stereo (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=453326 | 854,087 |
1,106,679 | The Reverse Hierarchy Theory (RHT), proposed by Ahissar & Hochstein, aims to link between learning dynamics and specificity and the underlying neuronal sites. RHT proposes that naïve performance is based on responses at high-level cortical areas, where crude, categorical level representations of the environment are rep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25335695 | 1,106,115 |
592,807 | Most of the evidence suggests the increase of volcanic activity was the main cause of the extinction. As a result of the rifting of the super continent Pangea, there was an increase in widespread volcanic activity which released large amounts of carbon dioxide. At the end of the Triassic Period, massive eruptions occur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3029097 | 592,503 |
374,094 | Western honey bee populations face threats to their survival increasing interests into other pollinator species, like the common eastern bumblebee. North American and European populations were severely depleted by "Varroa" mite infestations during the early 1990s, and U.S. beekeepers were further affected by colony col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18214141 | 373,899 |
279,644 | While studying physics at WPI, ideas came to Goddard's mind that sometimes seemed impossible, but he was compelled to record them for future investigation. He wrote that "there was something inside which simply would not stop working." He purchased some cloth-covered notebooks and began filling them with a variety of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=210597 | 279,494 |
76,986 | The classical k-means algorithm and its variations are known to only converge to local minima of the minimum-sum-of-squares clustering problem defined as Many studies have attempted to improve the convergence behavior of the algorithm and maximize the chances of attaining the global optimum (or at least, local minima o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1860407 | 76,957 |
1,175,406 | Out of 10,000 candidates, France's space center selected only six men and one woman: Claudie Haigneré. She first qualified as an engineer and emergency pilot to the Space Shuttle. She first served as a back-up crew member for the 1993 Mir "Altaïr" mission in which her future husband Jean-Pierre Haigneré participated. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=429841 | 1,174,784 |
495,602 | In a patented method, Tetrahydrofuran was used in a solvent containing 50 g (0.205 mols) of uridine (or, presumably, any unprotected nucleoside), 112 ml (1.03 mols) of methyl orthoformate and 10 g (52.6 mmols) of paratoluenesulfonic acid at room temperature with stirring. After stirring at room temperature for 24 hours... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3291893 | 495,346 |
191,212 | Although monetary pricing continues with respect to the valuation of ecosystem services, the challenges in policy implementation and management are significant and considerable. The administration of common pool resources has been a subject of extensive academic pursuit. From defining the problems to finding solutions ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1855357 | 191,113 |
305,886 | The Plesiosauria have their origins within the Sauropterygia, a group of perhaps archelosaurian reptiles that returned to the sea. An advanced sauropterygian subgroup, the carnivorous Eusauropterygia with small heads and long necks, split into two branches during the Upper Triassic. One of these, the Nothosauroidea, ke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1398078 | 305,723 |
1,019,233 | Within this model, sensory store and short term memory or working memory has limited capacity. Sensory store is able to hold very limited amounts of information for very limited amounts of time. This phenomenon is very similar to having a picture taken with a flash. For a few brief moments after the flash goes off, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315578 | 1,018,706 |
2,200,468 | To elucidate the reaction mechanism, detailed investigations were carried out on the reactivity of [BBr] and [BCl] with methane in the gas phase. The molecular structures were investigated with the aid of IR spectroscopy. It was shown that the electrophilic boron atom reacts with the less polar C–H bond. The carbon rep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69976681 | 2,199,216 |
354,271 | On September 9, 1965, "The Wall Street Journal" reported that a manufacturer of the chemical warned that the death of an Irish woman after undergoing DMSO treatment for a sprained wrist may have been due to the treatment, although no autopsy was done, nor was a causal relationship established. Clinical research using D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=569213 | 354,088 |
1,815,672 | Namangan State University (NamSU) was established in 1942 as a pedagogical institute. It is in Namangan province which has almost 2.8 mln population with 7900 km2 area located in eastern part on Uzbekistan, considered one of the strategically important area. Nowadays NamSU has over 20,000 students in bachelor and maste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24840084 | 1,814,638 |
1,863,450 | As the previous Olympic final in Montreal had been in 1976, also this Olympic steeplechase final was quick from the start. In accordance with most pre-final expectations, Tanzania's Filbert Bayi sprinted to the lead soon after the start. With Ethiopia's Eshetu Tura and Spain's Francisco Sanchez following him, Bayi led ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21223341 | 1,862,380 |
351,589 | Although Kellogg praised hydropathy for its many uses, he did acknowledge its limits. "In nearly all cases, sunlight, pure air, rest, exercise, proper food, and other hygienic agencies are quite as important as water. Electricity, too, is a remedy which should not be ignored; and skillful surgery is absolutely indispen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=490269 | 351,406 |
334,846 | In the United States, the Games were once again broadcast by NBCUniversal properties under a long-term contract (this would be the only time that the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics will be held on NBC on the same year). On 28 March 2017, NBC announced that it would adopt a new format for its primetime coverage of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=961505 | 334,668 |
1,685,198 | Petsko's independent academic career has included stints at Wayne State University School of Medicine, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, and, from 1991 until 2012, Brandeis University, where he was Professor of Biochemistry and of Chemistry and direc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12592636 | 1,684,253 |
1,262,836 | The scientific literature shows very little progress toward an acoustic microscope following the Dunn and Fry experiments up until about 1970 when two groups of activity emerged, one headed by C.F. Quate (Stanford University) and the other by A. Korpel and L.W. Kessler (Zenith Radio Research Labs). The first efforts to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18395236 | 1,262,148 |
235,030 | US Defence officials told "The Wall Street Journal" that the core of the new anti-missile shield would be a powerful early-warning radar, known as an X-Band, sited on a southern Japanese island. Discussions between Japan and the United States are currently underway. The new X-Band would join an existing radar that was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=350551 | 234,911 |
1,313,896 | Practical and commercial use of KAP is limited by the unpredictability of the weather (notably wind, sun and rain) and the fact that not every site is suitable to flying a kite. Launching a kite near buildings or downwind of trees can be problematic, due to heavy turbulence. The main applications today are amateur phot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155264 | 1,313,176 |
1,173,295 | Farming practices and optimal environmental conditions for the propagation of "B. maydis" in the United States led to an epidemic in 1970. In the early 1960s, seed corn companies began to use male sterile cytoplasm so that they could eliminate the previous need for hand detasseling to save both money and time. This see... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37404930 | 1,172,676 |
241,924 | The Il-28 design was conventional in layout, with high, unswept wings and a swept horizontal tail and fin. The engines were carried in bulky nacelles slung directly under the wings. The nosewheel retracted rearwards, while the mainwheels retracted forwards into the engine nacelles. The crew of three were accommodated i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=514797 | 241,798 |
1,903,598 | It was during the year 1910 that Martin M. Foss, a traveling representative of the newly organized McGraw-Hill Book Company, in calling on the Department of Engineering Drawing, recognized in the group headed by Professor Thomas E. French one of the most successful and talented groups in its field in the United States.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53759626 | 1,902,504 |
1,689,162 | In Geneva, he became seriously depressed, ran out of money, and on 9 January 1921 he was found dead in his hotel room, having tied himself up in his bed with a mask which was supplied with an asphyxiating gas from a metal container. It appears that his suicide was connected to his utopian beliefs, reflected in his 1903... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1706639 | 1,688,216 |
128,740 | The disease associated with this increased secretion of cortisol was described by the American neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing in 1912 after he was presented with a unique case of the disease in 1910 a 23-year-old woman called Minnie G. whose symptoms included painful obesity, amenorrhea, hypertrichosis (abnormal hair grow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=343538 | 128,688 |
455,050 | A piece of calibrated equipment is required for these tests to detect and measure leakage of the 2.4 GHz microwave radiation, it is usually a hand-held device with a sensing antenna that can be scanned over the areas where the door meets the casing to find any radiation "hot-spots" whilst the unit is operating. As micr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9090858 | 454,828 |
1,815,878 | The 1911 census recorded no woman listing her profession as an engineer. However, at the start of the 20th century in the UK, there were greater opportunities for women to study at university and there were more instances of women studying for degrees in physics, mathematics, and engineering subjects. Nina Cameron Grah... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64174224 | 1,814,844 |
2,040,401 | He started playing professionally in college. He learned to play the harmonica and played around the local blues scene for years. He was a member of The Ed Burns Rhythm & Blues Revue for most of 2014. During that time he began using his middle name Charles going by Matt or Matthew Charles due to the difficulty some hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62212199 | 2,039,222 |
1,547,473 | A review published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2019 summarizes a proposed mechanism in which heat exposure leads to dehydration and volume depletion and/or an increase in core temperature, which may cause kidney injury directly through tissue dysfunction or indirectly through hyperosmolarity or rhabdomyol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40667078 | 1,546,596 |
1,361,248 | The second procedure is the dismantling of the site. The decommissioning project is for removing the radioactive materials. Thermal cutting and mechanical cutting are two technical ways to dismantle and demolish. Thermal cutting is used for the metals by burning with high energy in one concentration area. The mechanica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16510408 | 1,360,495 |
1,228,301 | Diplomacy provided very little space for the adjudication of the deep differences between Japan and the United States. The United States was firmly and almost unanimously committed to defending the integrity of China. The isolationism that characterized the strong opposition of many Americans toward war in Europe did n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54108025 | 1,227,639 |
1,963,547 | Multi-component gas analyzer systems are used for measuring the major components of volcanic gases. CO, SO, HS, and pressure-temperature-humidity sensors are typically included in a package. Other electrochemical sensors have been successfully incorporated as well, including for H and HCl. The instruments are packaged ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51682055 | 1,962,419 |
1,679,990 | Surface acoustic wave devices consists of a piezoelectric crystal-like lithium niobate on which transducers are made by single-metal-layer photolithographic technology. The transducers usually are Inter-Digital Transducers (IDT), which have a two-toothed comb-like structure. An antenna is attached to the IDT for recept... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40259268 | 1,679,047 |
589,031 | In March 2008, Levees.org announced that records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act revealed that as early October 2005, the Army Corps of Engineers had directed and later paid the ASCE more than $1.1 million for its peer review (Grant Number: W912HZ-06-1-0001). The grant also paid for a series of misleading... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=599261 | 588,729 |
582,587 | In 2001, Hugh et al. expressed the efficiency of the biological pump as the amount of carbon exported from the surface layer (export production) divided by the total amount produced by photosynthesis (overall production). Modelling studies by Buesseler and Boyd revealed that the overall transfer efficiency of the biolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240228 | 582,289 |
1,087,735 | The safe mode incidents on I24 and I25 left some gaps in the data, which I27 targeted. This time "Galileo" passed just over the surface of Io. At this time, the spacecraft was nearly at the maximum distance from Earth, and there was a solar conjunction, a period when the Sun blocked the line of sight between Earth and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13077 | 1,087,176 |
1,574,437 | Designed especially for operations in the shoal waters off the coast of Tripoli, "Vixen" joined Commodore Edward Preble's squadron for duty in the First Barbary War (1801–1805) immediately upon her commissioning. She sailed from Baltimore on 3 August 1803 under the command of Lieutenant John Smith and deployed with the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1451496 | 1,573,548 |
809,546 | Naturally occurring diamond is almost always found in the crystalline form with a purely cubic orientation of sp bonded carbon atoms. Sometimes there are lattice defects or inclusions of atoms of other elements that give color to the stone, but the lattice arrangement of the carbons remains cubic and bonding is purely ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1821411 | 809,116 |
1,493,300 | In the 1990s, several researchers at the University of Warwick created the first cross-reactive (non-selective) metal-oxide semiconductor sensor array integrated with pattern recognition software for sensing and distinguishing organic vapors, including acetone, ethanol, methanol, and xylene, in multianalyte mixtures. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66888952 | 1,492,460 |
250,740 | Although he was the man responsible for its technology, Farnsworth appeared only once on a television program. On July 3, 1957, he was a mystery guest ("Doctor X") on the CBS quiz show "I've Got A Secret". He fielded questions from the panel as they unsuccessfully tried to guess his secret ("I invented electronic telev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42890 | 250,607 |
1,678,929 | In 1932, Casagrande moved to Harvard University where he would later be promoted to a newly created chair of soil mechanics and foundation engineering in 1946. There he rapidly established a school of postgraduate teaching and research that would see the number of students steadily grow from 12 in 1932 to over 80 after... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12952852 | 1,677,986 |
750,341 | The Rockefeller Foundation offered an extension of Bethe's fellowship, allowing him to return to Italy in 1932. In the meantime, Bethe worked for Sommerfeld in Munich as a "privatdozent". Since Bethe was fluent in English, Sommerfeld had Bethe supervise all his English-speaking postdoctoral fellows, including Lloyd P. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=185853 | 749,943 |
488,775 | Pairs of tapered roller bearings are used in car and vehicle wheel bearings where they must cope simultaneously with large vertical (radial) and horizontal (axial) forces. Tapered roller bearings are commonly used for moderate speed, heavy duty applications where durability is required. Common real world applications a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3676872 | 488,524 |
1,100,881 | K. Eric Drexler was strongly influenced by ideas on limits to growth in the early 1970s. During his first year at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he sought out someone who was working on extraterrestrial resources. He found Gerard K. O'Neill of Princeton University, a physicist famous for his work on storage rin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16769 | 1,100,320 |
1,338,587 | In 1988 Waxman generalised the standard RGG by introducing a probabilistic connection function as opposed to the deterministic one suggested by Gilbert. The example introduced by Waxman was a stretched exponential where two nodes formula_55 and formula_56 connect with probability given by formula_57where formula_58 is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12106740 | 1,337,854 |
206,572 | Noyce grew up in Grinnell, Iowa. While in high school, he exhibited a talent for mathematics and science and took the Grinnell College freshman physics course in his senior year. He graduated from Grinnell High School in 1945 and entered Grinnell College in the fall of that year. He was the star diver on the 1947 Midwe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25808 | 206,465 |
882,471 | Land transport utilized the advanced system of Roman roads. The in-kind taxes paid by communities included the provision of personnel, animals, or vehicles for the "cursus publicus", the state mail and transport service established by Augustus. Relay stations were located along the roads every seven to twelve Roman mil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1965658 | 882,007 |
143,181 | Later in 1940, Dale R. Corson, Kenneth Ross MacKenzie, and Emilio Segrè isolated the element at the University of California, Berkeley. Instead of searching for the element in nature, the scientists created it by bombarding bismuth-209 with alpha particles in a cyclotron (particle accelerator) to produce, after emissio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=901 | 143,123 |
1,598,013 | Prior to the invention of the orthopedic plate, metal wiring was used to solve the issue of bone fractures until about 1850. It was debated when the first use of this technique was actually made. Supposedly, the first use of this metal wiring was by the ancient Greeks. The first recorded use of metal wiring was is 1755... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49706954 | 1,597,114 |
157,867 | In HPLC, typically 20 μl of the sample of interest are injected into the mobile phase stream delivered by a high pressure pump. The mobile phase containing the analytes permeates through the stationary phase bed in a definite direction. The components of the mixture are separated depending on their chemical affinity wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2378378 | 157,795 |
1,998,268 | On the second day, Bradman was involved in effecting a run out. Denis Compton hit a ball into the covers and Bradman and Loxton collided in an attempt to prevent a run. Compton called Bedser through for a run on the misfield, but Loxton recovered and threw the ball to the wicket-keeper's end with Bedser a long way shor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21051201 | 1,997,125 |
204,766 | In the late 1990s, and early 2000s, the issue of defense against cruise missiles became more prominent with the new Bush Administration. In 2002, President George W. Bush withdrew the US from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, allowing further development and testing of ABMs under the Missile Defense Agency, as well as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1099196 | 204,660 |
1,345,290 | The most ancient of the Sassanid buildings which admit of being measured and described are assigned to the century between 350 and 450 CE; and we are thus unable to trace the exact steps by which the Sassanid style was gradually elaborated. We come upon it when it is beyond the stage of infancy, when it has acquired a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2784178 | 1,344,552 |
975,791 | Europium is associated with the other rare-earth elements and is, therefore, mined together with them. Separation of the rare-earth elements occurs during later processing. Rare-earth elements are found in the minerals bastnäsite, loparite-(Ce), xenotime, and monazite in mineable quantities. Bastnäsite is a group of re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9477 | 975,280 |
326,338 | The third-generation appeared in June 1989 and was in production until June 1991. This engine has the silver cam covers with the words only written in red, hence the nickname "red top". Toyota increased the compression ratio from 9.4:1 to 10.3:1. To correct the air-speed problems of the earlier generations, the intake ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=903321 | 326,164 |
265,912 | Due to the ability of ionized atmospheric gases to refract high frequency (HF, or shortwave) radio waves, the ionosphere can reflect radio waves directed into the sky back toward the Earth. Radio waves directed at an angle into the sky can return to Earth beyond the horizon. This technique, called "skip" or "skywave" p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15097 | 265,768 |
21,492 | Sustainable development has its roots in ideas about sustainable forest management, which were developed in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. In response to a growing awareness of the depletion of timber resources in England, John Evelyn argued, in his 1662 essay "Sylva", that "sowing and planting of trees had... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29501 | 21,483 |
275,358 | The XP-82 was to be powered by two Packard-built Rolls-Royce V-1650 Merlin engines. Initially, the left engine was a V-1650-23 with an additional gear in the propeller reduction box to allow the left propeller to turn opposite to the right propeller, which was driven by the more conventional V-1650-25. In this arrangem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=671473 | 275,210 |
1,300,522 | Exercise triggers an increase in body temperature, and the post-exercise drop in temperature may promote falling asleep. Exercise may also reduce insomnia by decreasing arousal, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. Insomnia is commonly linked with elevated arousal, anxiety, and depression, and exercise has effects on redu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63967146 | 1,299,808 |
1,238,549 | According to Thomas G. Chondros of Patras University, a simple steelyard balance with a lever mechanism first appeared in the ancient Near East over 5,000 years ago. According to Mark Sky of Harvard University, the steelyard was in use among Greek craftsmen of the 5th and 4th centuries BC, even before Archimedes demons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7095838 | 1,237,882 |
1,620,201 | During embryonic development, the 21-kD protein FGF4 functions as a signaling molecule that is involved in many important processes. Studies using Fgf4 gene knockout mice showed developmental defects in embryos both in vivo and in vitro, revealing that FGF4 facilitates the survival and growth of the inner cell mass dur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14776330 | 1,619,286 |
641,864 | The wide range of instrumentation for forensic chemical analysis also began to be developed during this time period. The early 19th century saw the invention of the spectroscope by Joseph von Fraunhofer. In 1859, chemist Robert Bunsen and physicist Gustav Kirchhoff expanded on Fraunhofer's invention. Their experiments ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2275867 | 641,525 |
2,194,908 | According to Bevilacqua et al. (2008), "the entry level for the profession remains the baccalaureate degree. The undergraduate course in fonoaudiologia involves a double major with coursework in both speech-language pathology and audiology. Classes include the basic sciences, anatomy and physiology, human development, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49441551 | 2,193,658 |
1,025,079 | The best known algorithm for simulating an arbitrary random quantum circuit requires an amount of time that scales exponentially with the number of qubits, leading one group to estimate that around 50 qubits could be enough to demonstrate quantum supremacy. Bouland, Fefferman, Nirkhe and Vazirani gave, in 2018, theoret... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54452801 | 1,024,546 |
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