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1,473,291 | The cultural continuity on the Ob continued in the first millennium BC, as the Iron Age began in Siberia; the local ceramic style continues there even in this period. A much larger break occurred in the central Asian steppe: the sedentary, predominantly pastoralist society of the late Bronze Age is replaced by the mobi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14836781 | 1,472,460 |
1,991,038 | The Egyptians used to have a whole list of Gods who were worshipped during this period of time. These Gods were always represented in the form of humans or animals or as animal-headed humans. Some of these gods were specific to certain places or cities for example while others were more general and were worshipped on a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44625317 | 1,989,895 |
495,951 | Microbes are ideally suited for biochemical and genetics studies and have made huge contributions to these fields of science such as the demonstration that DNA is the genetic material, that the gene has a simple linear structure, that the genetic code is a triplet code, and that gene expression is regulated by specific... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5762008 | 495,695 |
604,331 | Despite the emphasis in the press on speed, the Air Service also established a number of altitude, distance, and endurance records. The Packard-Le Peré LUSAC-11 biplane set world altitude records over McCook Field of on February 27, 1920, by Maj. Rudolph W. Schroeder; and on September 28, 1921, by Lt. John A. Macready.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=662917 | 604,021 |
875,105 | In the Far East the Soviet Union had been subject of a BW attack in 1939 during the battles of Khalkin Gol (Nomonhan) by Japan's Unit 731 under Shirō Ishii. Further attacks were initiated against the Soviet Union by Unit 100 in the summer of 1942, and at a later unspecified date, again by Unit 731. On the 9 August 1945... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11564525 | 874,643 |
1,591,694 | Consulting & Advisory. Since leaving the British Army, Stankovic has worked in over eighty countries on five continents as a risk management consultant, and has specialised in business intelligence and new market entry in the Russian Federation. He has been honoured three times by the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles for his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13845488 | 1,590,798 |
307,951 | LSD was evidently in limited recreational use in Australia in the early 1960s, but is believed to have been initially restricted to those with connections to the scientific and the medical communities. LSD overdose was suggested as a possible cause of the January 2, 1962 deaths of CSIRO scientists Dr. Gilbert Bogle and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1119225 | 307,786 |
512,537 | FIA race director Charlie Whiting did not stop the race and abort the first start to allow those who were involved in the accident to return to the pit lane and get into their spare cars. Whiting decided to deploy the safety car at the first lap's conclusion to enable marshals to remove strands of carbon fibre on the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1123405 | 512,271 |
1,415,692 | The winning novel is selected by a panel of science fiction experts, intended to be "small enough to discuss among its members all of the nominated novels". Among members of the panel have been Gregory Benford, Paul A. Carter, James Gunn, Elizabeth Anne Hull, Christopher McKitterick, Farah Mendlesohn, Pamela Sargent, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=192402 | 1,414,895 |
228,632 | In September 1944, Wu was contacted by the Manhattan District Engineer, Colonel Kenneth Nichols. Wu was frustrated with her lack of professorships and volunteered to help out in the project. In the beginning, Wu was assigned to check the radiation effect of the reactor by building her own instruments; later, however, s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=252131 | 228,515 |
798,414 | Despite the pioneering work of some designers, video games are still considered biased towards men. A 2013 survey by the International Game Developers Association revealed only 22% of game designers are women, although this is substantially higher than figures in previous decades. Working to bring inclusion to the worl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2279544 | 797,989 |
1,333,312 | The initial contact from DDT is on vegetation and soil. From here, the DDT can travel many routes; for instance, when plants and vegetation are exposed to the chemical to protect from insects, the plants may absorb it. Then these plants may either be consumed by humans or other animals. These consumers ingest the chemi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36650542 | 1,332,583 |
1,203,908 | Wheels are of the normal road racing type fitted with knobby tires (a variety of tread designs in both tubular and clincher types are available), although deeper rim profiles may be preferred for their advantages in thick mud. There are slight geometry differences between road and cyclocross bicycles; cyclo-cross bikes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=857305 | 1,203,263 |
570,109 | SARAS had its maiden flight on 29 May 2004. The aircraft took off at 08:15 and flew for about 25 minutes. SARAS is the first civilian aircraft designed and developed in India. Two prototypes have been built and flown (176 flights) by ASTE (IAF) flight crew. The third prototype aircraft (production standard) is under pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1088844 | 569,819 |
636,734 | Most radio control systems traditionally on low-VHF-band frequencies before the 21st century have traditionally used crystals to set the operating channel in the receiver and transmitter. It is important that each aircraft uses a different channel, otherwise interference could result. For example, if a person is flying... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1466438 | 636,395 |
566,937 | The whistling of the Seraphites was a long-discussed element of the game; production began in early 2018 in preparation for an upcoming demonstration. The team originally referenced whistled languages such as Sfryria and Silbo Gomero but found that they were more sophisticated than necessary. They also worked with a pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64504979 | 566,647 |
284,466 | MOP drew the attention of the United States Congress, where the program was ridiculed and canceled one year after its start. SETI advocates continued without government funding, and in 1995 the nonprofit SETI Institute of Mountain View, California resurrected the MOP program under the name of Project "Phoenix", backed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28153 | 284,312 |
1,159,312 | An early debate among the scientists was whether the fissile material for an atomic bomb should be uranium-235 or plutonium. Tube Alloys had performed much of the pioneering research on gaseous diffusion for uranium enrichment, and Oliphant's team in Berkeley were well-acquainted with the electromagnetic process. The s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52573493 | 1,158,697 |
1,082,149 | The Department of Plant Biology began as a desert laboratory in 1903 to study plants in their natural habitats. Over time the research evolved to the study of photosynthesis. Presently, using molecular genetics and related methods, these biologists study the genes responsible for plant responses to light and the geneti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14383299 | 1,081,593 |
493,872 | The heart is the first organ formed during mammalian development. A properly sized and functional heart is vital throughout the entire lifespan. Loss of cardiomyocytes because of injury or diseases leads to heart failure, which is a major cause of human morbidity and mortality. Unfortunately, regenerative potential of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22108748 | 493,617 |
353,677 | From the second year onwards, the students take courses offered by their departments that are known as "depth" courses. In addition to these, the students take inter-disciplinary courses known as "breadth" courses. Separate courses from the humanities and social sciences (HSS) department, and management and information... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=294901 | 353,494 |
1,657,987 | Miniscopes are head-mounted, miniature microscopes that allow imaging of large populations of neural activity in freely-behaving mice and rats. This is possible due to their small size, as they are light enough for a mouse or rat to easily carry without interfering greatly with behavior. Researchers couple miniscopes w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68824274 | 1,657,054 |
313,155 | In the United Kingdom application of Chobham armour was delayed by the failure of several advanced tank projects: first that of a joint German-British main battle tank; then the purely British MBT-80 programme. A first directive to prepare Chobham armour technology for application in 1975 was already given in 1969. It ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=200127 | 312,987 |
974,776 | In October 2015, the MPEG and VCEG formed the Joint Video Exploration Team (JVET) to evaluate available compression technologies and study the requirements for a next-generation video compression standard. The new standard has about 50% better compression rate for the same perceptual quality, with support for lossless ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57686906 | 974,265 |
1,380,327 | "Nepenthes rafflesiana" is very popular in cultivation; it is a lowland "Nepenthes" (enjoying hot, humid conditions most of the time, as found in tropical jungle lowlands) but can be grown as an intermediate, with cooler nights and less humidity. It is a comparatively hardy "Nepenthes" that is commonly recommended as a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3788564 | 1,379,565 |
1,206,755 | In continuous wave (CW) radio transmission, also called radiotelegraphy, or wireless telegraphy (W/T) or on-off keying and designated by the International Telecommunication Union as emission type A1A, information is transmitted by pulses of unmodulated radio carrier wave which spell out text messages in Morse code. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=509950 | 1,206,110 |
158,423 | Smart grid technologies emerged from earlier attempts at using electronic control, metering, and monitoring. In the 1980s, automatic meter reading was used for monitoring loads from large customers and evolved into the Advanced Metering Infrastructure of the 1990s, whose meters could store how electricity was used at d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13201685 | 158,342 |
303,814 | Suppression of the Iraqi IADS played a prominent role in Operation Instant Thunder, the preliminary air campaign plan against Iraq which served as the basis for Operation Desert Storm's air campaign. In its initial limited form, Instant Thunder called for three dedicated SEAD squadrons which would significantly degrade... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573491 | 303,652 |
1,060,680 | At the behest of the Paris Observatory under le Verrier, Marie Alfred Cornu repeated Fizeau's 1848 toothed wheel measurement in a series of experiments in 1872–76. The goal was to obtain a value for the speed of light accurate to one part in a thousand. Cornu's equipment allowed him to monitor high orders of extinction... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=148819 | 1,060,128 |
841,855 | It is this distinctive growth form that is so valued in the open-grown American elms of street plantings, lawns, and parks; along most narrower streets, elms planted on opposite sides arch and blend together into a leafy canopy over the pavement. However, elms can assume many different sizes and forms depending on the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=74223 | 841,405 |
1,064,398 | In June 2000, work began on the fitting of flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) equipment at the station. FLS Miljo installed the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries wet limestone systems, while Arup Energy and Mowlem took up a design–build partnership to undertake the civil works and construction of infrastructure. The work was com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19273099 | 1,063,844 |
1,076,869 | Potential applicants apply to the Knight-Hennessy scholars program and also apply separately to a graduate degree program at one of Stanford's seven schools. The inaugural class of 51 scholars from 21 countries, pursuing degrees in 31 academic departments at all seven of Stanford's schools, was announced on February 15... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51335252 | 1,076,314 |
237,456 | In 387 BC, the Gauls invaded Italy, inflicted a crushing defeat on the Roman Republican army, and sacked Rome. After this defeat, the Romans undertook a comprehensive reform of their army and changed the basic tactical formation from the Greek-style phalanx armed with the "hasta" spear and the "clipeus" round shield to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8700358 | 237,337 |
1,543,716 | Many domains contain multiple displays, and require more than a simple discrete yes/no response time measurement. A critical question for these situations may be "How much time will operators spend looking at X relative to Y?" or "What is the likelihood that the operator will completely miss seeing a critical event?" V... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47152350 | 1,542,843 |
436,485 | In 1934, the School began offering graduate-level and professional programs in engineering. During World War II, Harvard participated in the V-12 Navy College Training Program to provide training for commissioned officers. In 1942, the undergraduate Department of Engineering Sciences changed to the Department of Engine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10306321 | 436,271 |
103,234 | The first prototype (44-83020) was nicknamed "Lulu-Belle" (also known as "the Green Hornet" because of its paint scheme). Powered by the replacement Halford H1 taken from the prototype de Havilland Vampire jet fighter, it first flew on 8 January 1944, with Lockheed test pilot Milo Burcham at the controls. Following thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=78035 | 103,189 |
1,916,549 | So far, only the structure of human PLC has been elucidated using single-particle electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM). The structural organization consists of tapasin, calreticulin, ERp57, and MHC-I molecules that are centered around TAP, bearing a pseudo-symmetric orientation. PLC size is 150 Å by 150 Å with a total he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59204782 | 1,915,450 |
1,931,861 | In March 1951, squadron operators in Japan began picking up voice communications in Russian between ground controllers and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 fighters. By April, the squadron had established a mobile van in central Korea, which passed information on MiGs to the Fifth Air Force tactical air control center, which pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24994604 | 1,930,753 |
141,473 | In a "Point of Inquiry" interview, Tyson discussed their goal of capturing the "spirit of the original "Cosmos"", which he describes as "uplifting themes that called people to action". Druyan describes the themes of wonder and skepticism they are infusing into the scripts, in an interview with "Skepticality", "In order... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35777337 | 141,415 |
755,780 | The IOTV is designed to take the weight of the vest off the shoulders and move it to the lower torso. The vest is also equipped with a mesh inner cover that is designed to improve airflow inside of the armor. There is also a back pad in the lower back area of the vest, which is designed to defeat fragmentation impacts ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13640325 | 755,377 |
1,947,124 | Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease characterized by system wide excessive collagen deposits. It causes the patient’s skin and connective tissues to tighten and harden due to the uncontrolled accumulation of extracellular matrix proteins on the joints and various internal organ system which can lead to pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70058191 | 1,946,011 |
351,144 | On 21 June 2018, the "world's smallest computer" was announced by the University of Michigan. The device is a " wireless and batteryless sensor system with integrated Cortex-M0+ processor and optical communication for cellular temperature measurement." It "measures just to a side—dwarfed by a grain of rice. [...] In ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21017 | 350,961 |
619,036 | This section bears the title of Townsend Hoopes' best-known book. In 2004, of a seminar that brought a group of Muslim students to the US, he observed "A vital point here is that the realities of modernity (technical, social, political) are inexorable. They cannot be wished away, which means that traditional societies ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14355446 | 618,722 |
1,780,570 | The Zags then travelled to play San Francisco at War Memorial Gymnasium, which is a place where they had not won for three consecutive years. Gonzaga's defense forced San Francisco to stay on the perimeter for a majority of their shots, as the Bulldogs limited the Dons to 36.8% from the field. Olynyk led the team with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36171940 | 1,779,566 |
86,887 | In contrast to the complex, failure-prone fuselage-mounted main gear legs of the earlier Fw 159, one of the main features of the Fw 190 was its wide-tracked, inwards-retracting landing gear. They were designed to withstand a sink rate of , double the strength factor usually required. Hydraulic wheel brakes were used. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241214 | 86,852 |
843,051 | After the overthrow of the Yuan Dynasty, China became suspicious of Mongol-favored knowledge. The court turned away from math and physics in favor of botany and pharmacology. Imperial examinations included little mathematics, and what little they included ignored recent developments. Martzloff writes:At the end of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1524543 | 842,601 |
70,059 | On May 24, 2018, two workers were killed, another seriously injured, and 14 others hospitalized by hydrogen sulfide inhalation at a Norske Skog paper mill in Albury, New South Wales. An investigation by SafeWork NSW found that the gas was released from a tank used to hold process water. The workers were exposed at the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=154738 | 70,032 |
696,485 | Pulmonary function testing in patients with LAM may be normal or may reveal obstructive, restrictive or mixed patterns. Obstructive physiology is the most common abnormality. Quality-controlled lung function data were collected prospectively by the NHLBI Registry, a 5-year study of patients with LAM in centers around t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1721174 | 696,121 |
13,241 | Wind tunnel testing had revealed lateral instability, requiring the addition of 5° dihedral to the wings. To avoid redesigning the titanium central section of the aircraft, McDonnell engineers angled up only the outer portions of the wings by 12°, which averaged to the required 5° over the entire wingspan. The wings al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11759 | 13,236 |
366,377 | Originally 300 F.1s were ordered, but the total produced was reduced to 20 aircraft as the follow-on orders had been converted to the more advanced models. Some of the last major refinements to the Meteor's early design were trialled using this first production batch, and what was to become the long-term design of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42702 | 366,185 |
2,069,840 | A non-radioactive assay method has been developed by the company Dia-Sorin. In this technique 3'-azido-2',3'-deoxythymidine (Zidovudine, AZT) is first phosphorylated to AZT 5'-monophosphate (AZTMP) by the TK1 in the sample. AZTMP is measured in an immunoassay with anti-AZTMP antibodies and AZTMP-labeled peroxidase. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49547293 | 2,068,649 |
1,931,253 | Sir Philip Cohen (born 22 July 1945) is a British researcher, academic and Royal Medal winner based at the Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee. During the 1990s he was the world's third most cited professor (and the second most ci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11354163 | 1,930,145 |
1,823,389 | His paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, and his murals can be seen in the Denver Museum of Natural History, the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts, and Whaleworld, a museum in Albany, Western Australia. He is the author of more than 100 magazine articles, which have appeare... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2011946 | 1,822,351 |
1,519,066 | The 325th began operations with Fifteenth Air Force in December 1943, and primarily engaged in bomber escort operations. It received a second DUC for a mission on 30 January 1944 when the group flew more than 300 miles at very low altitude to surprise the enemy fighters that were defending German airfields near Villaor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23172593 | 1,518,208 |
491,491 | Maunsell's replacement Oliver Bulleid believed that there was little need to improve draughting on this series. However, reports of poor steaming with No. 792 "Sir Hervis de Revel" gave him an opportunity to trial a Lemaître multiple-jet blastpipe and wide-diameter chimney on a Maunsell Arthur in 1940. This did not enh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1326400 | 491,237 |
1,662,793 | The counter measure to radio navigation was jamming. R. V. Jones was the MI6 science advisor and TRE staff worked closely with him, in countering the Luftwaffe's navigational beam technology to hamper the enemy's ability to do pinpoint night bombing raids in what has become known as the "battle of the beams". Robert Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1444212 | 1,661,858 |
62,221 | The practice, which began in the prehistoric era, has been used as a way of expressing culture for civilizations on all seven continents. For this reason, architecture is considered to be a form of art. Texts on architecture have been written since ancient times. The earliest surviving text on architectural theories is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21296224 | 62,196 |
348,265 | The cell was first discovered by Robert Hooke in 1665, which can be found to be described in his book "Micrographia". In this book, he gave 60 'observations' in detail of various objects under a coarse, compound microscope. One observation was from very thin slices of bottle cork. Hooke discovered a multitude of tiny p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=102858 | 348,083 |
239,774 | Moog developed a prototype with two VCOs and a VCA. As the VCOs themselves could output voltage, one could be used to modulate the output of another, creating effects such as vibrato and tremolo. According to Moog, when Deutsch saw this, he "went through the roof" and immediately began making music with the prototype, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1871226 | 239,654 |
355,881 | Such work was presented by Raffaele Di Giacomo, Bruno Maresca, and others, at the Materials Research Society's spring conference on 3 April 2013. The cyborg obtained was inexpensive, light and had unique mechanical properties. It could also be shaped in the desired forms. Cells combined with multi-walled carbon nanotub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20756967 | 355,698 |
559,721 | An early example of science emanating from the official institutions into the public realm was the British coffeehouse. With the establishment of coffeehouses, a new public forum for political, philosophical and scientific discourse was created. In the mid-16th century, coffeehouses popped up around Oxford, where the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17912788 | 559,432 |
265,414 | Early studies include Project Daedalus, performed by the British Interplanetary Society in 1973–1978, and Project Longshot, a student project sponsored by NASA and the US Naval Academy, completed in 1988. Another fairly detailed vehicle system, "Discovery II", designed and optimized for crewed Solar System exploration,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14843 | 265,271 |
590,180 | With IBM was under significant pressure by the consent decree and the legal situation tilting in favor of repair, other manufacturers across industries took different turns and to interfere with unauthorized repairs electronically. Apple, which rose quickly to become one of the largest computer manufacturers, sold the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68312817 | 589,878 |
1,119,831 | The observatory burned down in a fire that started between midnight and 1:00 AM on August 30, 1856 in a cooper's shop located at 49 West 43rd Street. The fire spread rapidly and attracted spectators from around the city, with flames that were visible for miles around. Though the fire destroyed more than twelve building... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22849273 | 1,119,258 |
2,184,465 | RCBR technology is an entirely water biological treatment system, able to make more compact and efficient the biology of any wastewaters treatment plant. For the depuration of urban wastewaters it is placed downline of primary treatments (screening, oil separation, degritting, primary settling) and upline of water phys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47066950 | 2,183,217 |
356,570 | John Snow is famous for his investigations into the causes of the 19th-century cholera epidemics, and is also known as the father of (modern) epidemiology. He began with noticing the significantly higher death rates in two areas supplied by Southwark Company. His identification of the Broad Street pump as the cause of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66997 | 356,385 |
1,076,086 | A second, more complete specimen, UMNH VP 16420, was discovered from the Tropic Shale Formation (dating to the early Turonian stage) of southern Utah in 2000 by Merle Graffam, a resident of Big Water, Utah. The area around Big Water had been subject to several expeditions by teams from the Museum of Northern Arizona (M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1861279 | 1,075,531 |
1,346,824 | Electronic questionnaires can also be created in the Form Designer module. Individual questions can be placed anywhere on a page and each form may contain multiple pages. The user is given a high degree of control over the form's appearance and function. The user defines both the question's prompt and the format of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6244450 | 1,346,083 |
772,254 | While the time before World War II was filled with issues regarding price, the post-war era had increasing oil imports partly due to the price support established between the 1920s and '30s. The artificially high domestic prices caused a surge of imports from lower priced foreign producers. In 1955, a clause was added ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19086358 | 771,840 |
246,354 | The most direct method for measuring atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations for periods before instrumental sampling is to measure bubbles of air (fluid or gas inclusions) trapped in the Antarctic or Greenland ice sheets. The most widely accepted of such studies come from a variety of Antarctic cores and indicate th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11251601 | 246,227 |
2,009,382 | Before its opening, L.J. Henderson was doing some research on the physiology of daily work, which Mayo was interested in academically. Mayo was discouraged by his current academic path, and wrote to Donham that there wasn't a “competent investigation of the physiological changes induced in the human organism by the con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60811216 | 2,008,230 |
1,202,951 | Ranger 7 reached the Moon on July 31. The F-channel began its one-minute warm-up 18 minutes before impact. The first image was taken at 13:08:45 UT at an altitude of 2110 km. Transmission of 4,308 photographs of excellent quality occurred over the final 17 minutes of flight. The final image taken before impact has a re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=623993 | 1,202,307 |
1,069,407 | The scientists had various assignments. Schmitt, the only geologist in the group, spent most of his time on lunar landing site selection. By 1967, it looked as if many fewer missions would be flown than originally planned, and the astronauts were risking their careers. Provision was made to allow the pilot astronauts t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3144242 | 1,068,853 |
243,430 | World War II (1939–1945) devastated the country's economy, but the high levels of economic growth that followed from 1950 to 1980 have been called the Greek economic miracle. From 2000 Greece saw high levels of GDP growth above the Eurozone average, peaking at 5.8% in 2003 and 5.7% in 2006. The subsequent Great Recessi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12113 | 243,303 |
1,570,366 | This particular species is of special scientific interest because a patented strain, called "C-Fern", was developed as a scientific aid and teaching tool in biology in 1995. The use of "C-Fern" is facilitated by the fact that it grows readily in a cell-culture dish on agar media, reaching sexual maturity within 2–3 wee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25805284 | 1,569,478 |
977,525 | Heisenberg formulated an early version of the uncertainty principle in 1927, analyzing a thought experiment where one attempts to measure an electron's position and momentum simultaneously. However, Heisenberg did not give precise mathematical definitions of what the "uncertainty" in these measurements meant, a step th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9067941 | 977,014 |
84,843 | China set about to engineer the aircraft for local production; in doing so, they successfully solved 249 major issues and reproduced eight major technical documents that were not provided by the Soviet Union. One of the major flaws was with the hydraulic systems, which grounded up to 70% of some squadron's aircraft unt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=377543 | 84,809 |
1,071,651 | Epigenetics is the study of heritable phenotype changes, caused by modification of gene expression and does not entail a change in the genetic code. These epigenetic factors may also be sex-limited. Genomic imprinting for example, silencing of one parental allele by DNA methylation, for which sex-limited imprinting has... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12664042 | 1,071,097 |
1,469,181 | Protein kinase-R is activated by double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), introduced to the cells by a viral infection. PKR can also be activated by the protein PACT or by heparin. PKR contains an N-terminal dsRNA binding domain (dsRBD) and a C-terminal kinase domain, that gives it pro-apoptotic (cell-killing) functions. The dsRBD... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6846786 | 1,468,357 |
465,338 | LONGI Silicon Materials is engaged in the research, manufacture and distribution of monocrystalline ingots. It is the world's largest monocrystalline silicon manufacturer, and has rapidly broken world solar efficiency records three times within five months. "Fast Company" listed Xi'an LONGi Silicon Materials one among ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52638116 | 465,108 |
842,696 | The original design, introduced at the World Fair as the Model 1900, allowed the development of either service or sport versions depending on market response. While small sporting outlets, such as William Evans of London, purchased actions for their rifles, only the Greek Army expressed interest in the design for milit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1656479 | 842,246 |
706,034 | Milgram's experiment was conceived in an era when a number of independent threads were converging on the idea that the world is becoming increasingly interconnected. Michael Gurevich had conducted seminal work in his empirical study of the structure of social networks in his MIT doctoral dissertation under Pool. Mathem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=636799 | 705,665 |
1,529,111 | On April 8, 15, and 22, 2015, a three-part series titled 'Animal Homes' hosted and narrated by Morgan aired on PBS 'NATURE.' 'Animal Homes' examines the various structures, building methods, and social networks utilized by animals in the wild to protect themselves and their young from predators, invaders, and the natur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39193813 | 1,528,247 |
70,892 | The amygdala appears to play a role in binge drinking, being damaged by repeated episodes of intoxication and withdrawal. Protein kinase C-epsilon in the amygdala is important for regulating behavioral responses to morphine, ethanol, and controlling anxiety-like behavior. The protein is involved in controlling the func... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146000 | 70,865 |
285,598 | Bueckers was cleared to return against St. John's on February 25, 2022. She came off the bench for the first time in her career and scored eight points, playing only 13 minutes due to a minutes restriction, in a 93–38 victory. Bueckers continued to receive limited playing time until the NCAA tournament, and UConn won t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61733357 | 285,444 |
1,282,151 | Ionization of charged groups has been neglected in continuum electrostatic models of implicit solvation, as well as in standard molecular mechanics and molecular dynamics. The transfer of an ion from water to a nonpolar medium with dielectric constant of ~3 (lipid bilayer) or 4 to 10 (interior of proteins) costs signif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7479239 | 1,281,455 |
1,765,426 | The concept of FAI was first described by Smith-Petersen. However, modern diagnosis and treatment of FAI was pioneered by Ganz in 2003, who initially advocated the use of an open surgical dislocation technique for treatment of intra-articular pathology. This involved the use of the 'trochanteric flip' approach to gain ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31963181 | 1,764,433 |
1,399,259 | But even before ENIAC was operational, BRL had already started to plan for the development of a stored-program computer known as the Electronic Discrete Variable Computer, or EDVAC. In 1944, in the middle of ENIAC's development, Mauchley and Eckert proposed the creation of EDVAC to make up for ENIAC's shortcomings. Unl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30865936 | 1,398,484 |
1,659,741 | The techniques and manufacturing processes have changed over the years from those described in the first papers, journal articles and patents that were published. There are a number of techniques available depending on what type of species is required. An ion may be formed which can be an anion thus forming an anionic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58217500 | 1,658,808 |
1,402,367 | Up to the 1980s, most NLP systems were based on complex sets of hand-written rules. Starting in the late 1980s, however, there was a revolution in NLP with the introduction of machine learning algorithms for language processing. This was due both to the steady increase in computational power resulting from Moore's Law ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27837170 | 1,401,580 |
532,227 | In 1955, Easley read a story in a local newspaper about twin sisters who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) as "computers". She applied for a job the next day, and was hired two weeks later - one of four African Americans out of about 2500 employees. She began her career as computer at th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1551099 | 531,953 |
200,178 | In 1942, actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received for their "Secret Communications System", an early version of frequency hopping using a piano-roll to switch among 88 frequencies to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or jam. The U.S. Navy rejected the idea, then seized it as "alie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46890 | 200,075 |
833,070 | In early 1935, the Luchtvaartafdeling signed a contract for a single prototype of the proposed fighter to be constructed for an evaluation to be performed by the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army. This prototype, designated "FD-322", which was powered by a single Bristol Mercury VI-S radial engine which drove a three-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2271915 | 832,621 |
139,117 | Since each element in an AESA is a powerful radio receiver, active arrays have many roles besides traditional radar. One use is to dedicate several of the elements to reception of common radar signals, eliminating the need for a separate radar warning receiver. The same basic concept can be used to provide traditional ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=839259 | 139,061 |
588,943 | Management by exception gives employees the responsibility to make decisions and fulfill their work or projects by themselves. It consists of focus and analysis of statistically relevant anomalies in the data. If an unusual situation or deviation in the recorded data appears, which could cause difficulties for the busi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20647618 | 588,641 |
1,693,295 | Gauss wrote of the heliotrope's potential as a celestial signaling device in a March 25, 1822, letter to Heinrich Olbers, by which he reveals a belief and interest in finding a method to contact extraterrestrial life: "With 100 separate mirrors, each of 16 square feet, used conjointly, one would be able to send good he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34802284 | 1,692,344 |
900,042 | During brain ischemia, the brain cannot perform aerobic metabolism due to the loss of oxygen and substrate. The brain is not able to switch to anaerobic metabolism and, because it does not have any long term energy stored, the levels of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) drop rapidly, approaching zero within 4 minutes. In th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4219434 | 899,567 |
1,210,003 | There are many possible transfer effects from working memory training. An increase in working memory capacity could make individuals more likely to take on tasks that have a higher working memory load, such as math and other challenging academics. Holmes et al. reported an improvement in mathematical reasoning, even si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23690864 | 1,209,356 |
109,421 | In the 14th century, Jean Buridan rejected the notion that a motion-generating property, which he named "impetus", dissipated spontaneously. Buridan's position was that a moving object would be arrested by the resistance of the air and the weight of the body which would oppose its impetus. Buridan also maintained that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14909 | 109,376 |
1,044,406 | Similar to MRI, MRS uses pulse sequences to acquire signal from several different molecules to generate a spectra instead of an image. In MRS, STEAM (Stimulated Echo Acquisition Method) and PRESS (Point Resolved Spectroscopy) are the two primary pulse sequence techniques used. In terms of advantages, STEAM is best for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14357725 | 1,043,862 |
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