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816,805 | The marble was quarried from Mount Pentelicus and transported 19 km to the acropolis of Athens. A persistent question has been whether it was carved "in situ". Just below the moulding and above the tenia there is a channel 17 mm high that would have served to give access to the sculptor's chisel when finishing the head... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2147375 | 816,369 |
1,515,116 | In 1965, the benefits of the National College of Education partnership were less evident and the Administrative Board purchased Avery Coonley from the NCE. Under Malach's leadership, ACS continued to experiment and innovate. Despite widespread skepticism among contemporary educators that kindergartners were ready to re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8052357 | 1,514,265 |
224,439 | It took centuries for other scientists and physicians to reach conclusions that were similar to and then more accurate than those of al-Nafis and ibn Luqa. This later progress, constituting the gap between medieval and modern understanding, occurred throughout Europe. Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519 CE)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=598465 | 224,325 |
238,883 | The LVTP-7 was first introduced in 1972 as a replacement for the LVTP-5. In 1982, FMC was contracted to conduct the LVTP-7 Service Life Extension Program (SLEP), which converted the LVT-7 vehicles to the improved AAV-7A1 vehicle by adding an improved engine, transmission, and weapons system and improving the overall ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=901698 | 238,763 |
237,204 | The foundation of the university is ascribed to fray Miguel de Benavides, the third archbishop of Manila. He came to the Philippines with the first Dominican mission in 1587. He went on to become bishop of Nueva Segovia and was promoted archbishop of Manila in 1601. Upon his death in July 1605, Benavides bequeathed his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=731199 | 237,085 |
1,995,655 | One of the primary arguments for colonizing asteroids is to ensure the long-term survival of the human species. In the event of an existential threat on Earth, such as nuclear holocaust and the subsequent nuclear winter, or supervolcano eruption, a colony on an asteroid would allow the human species to continue on. Mic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4081360 | 1,994,512 |
27,736 | Global Internet traffic continues to grow at a rapid rate, rising 23% from 2020 to 2021 when the number of active Internet users reached 4.66 billion people, representing half of the global population. Further demand for data, and the capacity to satisfy this demand, are forecast to increase to 717 terabits per second ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13692 | 27,726 |
380,815 | In most cases, mecha are depicted as fighting machines, whose appeal comes from the combination of potent weaponry with a more stylish combat technique than a mere vehicle. Often, they are the primary means of combat, with conflicts sometimes being decided through gladiatorial matches. Other works represent mecha as on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20559 | 380,620 |
2,093,473 | After the war Friedrich Jung worked briefly in Tübingen, before taking a post, in 1946, at Würzburg University, as Acting Director of the Pharmacology Institute there. During this period, in 1946/47 Jung participated as an expert witness in the "Nuremberg Doctors' trial". He appeared as a defence witness on behalf of A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46996260 | 2,092,268 |
1,066,792 | Objects coming from outside the Solar System can also affect it. Though they are not technically part of the solar system for the purposes of studying the system's intrinsic stability, they nevertheless can change it. Unfortunately, predicting the potential influences of these extrasolar objects is even more difficult ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18412841 | 1,066,238 |
397,594 | On 11 August 2014, the Army informed the Bell-Lockheed team that they had chosen the V-280 Valor to continue with the JMR demonstration program. The Boeing-Sikorsky team offering the SB-1 Defiant was also chosen. Announcement of the selections was officially made on 3 October 2014, and the teams began building technolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39167147 | 397,398 |
440,333 | Edmontosaurus annectens (meaning "connected lizard from Edmonton") is a species of flat-headed and duck-billed (hadrosaurid) dinosaur from the very end of the Cretaceous Period, in what is now North America. Remains of "E. annectens" have been preserved in the Frenchman, Hell Creek, and Lance Formations. All of these f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13078611 | 440,119 |
1,399,275 | Although later research has shown that Oswald had much more time than originally thought, as computed by counting the frames of the original Zapruder Film as opposed to the time line originally published in LIFE Magazine and used in the Warren Commission Report, which had the numbers confused, thus giving a much shorte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30865936 | 1,398,500 |
1,166,128 | Her team uses standard whole brain and high resolution structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging in conjunction with behavioural testing and neuropsychological examination of amnesic patients to pursue their aims. They mainly employ ecologically valid or 'real life' experimental paradigms to examine brain-be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37399719 | 1,165,511 |
1,242,549 | Without FD models, recovery estimates and oil rates can also be calculated using numerous analytical techniques which include material balance equations (including Havlena–Odeh and Tarner method), fractional flow curve methods (such as the Buckley–Leverett one-dimensional displacement method, the Deitz method for incli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6711015 | 1,241,877 |
1,898,542 | In a particular type of cell or tissue, only a small subset of an organism's genomic DNA will be expressed as mRNAs at any given time. The unique pattern of gene expression for a given cell or tissue is referred to as its molecular signature. For example, the expression of genes in skin cells would be very different co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25304632 | 1,897,458 |
348,782 | It was once generally believed that life and its materials had some essential property or substance (often referred to as the "vital principle") distinct from any found in non-living matter, and it was thought that only living beings could produce the molecules of life. In 1828, Friedrich Wöhler published a paper on hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3954 | 348,600 |
2,132,304 | When the Huskies began postseason play they did so knowing that the only guarantee of making the NCAA tournament was a conference championship. With anything less, they would have to hope that other conferences would not be won by underdog teams. Boston College was the first opponent for Northeastern and everything see... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68569212 | 2,131,079 |
478,038 | Since use of strong cryptography makes the job of intelligence agencies more difficult, many countries have enacted laws or regulations restricting or simply banning the non-official use of strong cryptography. For instance, the United States previously defined cryptographic products as munitions since World War II and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2223940 | 477,798 |
408,578 | Environmental science was brought to the forefront of society in 1962 when Rachel Carson published an influential piece of environmental literature, "Silent Spring". Carson’s writing led the American public to pursue environmental safeguards, such as bans on harmful chemicals like the insecticide DDT. Another important... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64919 | 408,377 |
1,020,666 | Studies that are simple in execution are where CS excels in, particularly in the field of conservation biology and ecology. For example, in 2019, Sumner et al. compared the data of vespid wasp distributions collected by citizen scientists with the 4-decade, long-term dataset established by the BWARS. They set up the Bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2155752 | 1,020,137 |
14,614 | The red dye cochineal, produced from a Central American species of insect, was economically important to the Aztecs and Mayans. While the region was under Spanish control, it became Mexico's second most-lucrative export, and is now regaining some of the ground it lost to synthetic competitors. Shellac, a resin secreted... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19827221 | 14,609 |
1,741,620 | An important goal of environmental chemistry is tracing the source and degradation of pollutants. Various methods have been employed for fingerprinting pools of environmental pollutants such as the bulk chemical composition of a spill, isotope ratios of the bulk chemical mixture, or isotope ratios of individual constit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50525886 | 1,740,636 |
878,774 | At first, Gamow believed that all the elements might be produced in the very high temperature and density early stage of the universe. Later, he revised this opinion on the strength of compelling evidence advanced by Fred Hoyle and others, that elements heavier than lithium are largely produced in thermonuclear reactio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=74641 | 878,311 |
395,624 | The court will have little difficulty in establishing "mens rea" if there is actual evidencefor instance, if the accused made an admissible admission. This would satisfy a "subjective" test. But a significant proportion of those accused of crimes makes no such admission. Hence, some degree of objectivity must be brough... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51634 | 395,429 |
1,648,780 | Defending champion Great Britain was back with two members of their winning team, taking the qualifying heats with a world leading time. South Africa set the African continental record as they qualified winning the other heat. In a familiar situation, despite having the gold and silver medalists on their team, USA stru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61921943 | 1,647,848 |
310,341 | The PzKpfw III as the first German tank capable of firing armour-piercing rounds, although the 37 mm gun was considered underpowered but was used in the interests of standardisation with the infantry. The official German designation was "Panzerkampfwagen III" (abbreviated PzKpfw III) translating as "armoured battle veh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29073044 | 310,173 |
1,822,410 | In 2001, researchers from Nomadics conducted field tests at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona to test the Fido explosive detector sensors’ ability to perform soil particle and vapor-only sampling. The testing site at Yuma Proving Ground was situated in a harsh desert environment with extremely dry soil, which reduced the tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10604784 | 1,821,372 |
1,360,553 | Viewed as a whole, the Kayenta is readily distinguished from the geologic formations above and below it. It is unlike them in composition, color, manner of bedding, and sedimentary history. Obviously the conditions of sedimentation changed in passing from the Wingate Sandstone formation to the Kayenta and from the Kaye... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5049785 | 1,359,801 |
1,940,948 | The attention in the eighth round was centred on the match between the top two seeds and tournament leaders after seven rounds Russia and the United States that ended 2–2. After about an hour of play, it was clear that the game between Hikaru Nakamura and Vladimir Kramnik on the second board was heading to a draw as Na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51472590 | 1,939,837 |
1,445,809 | East of the Atlantic, the British ECA school also began in the mid-1970s with the work of archaeologists Colin Renfrew and John Gowlett and evolutionary primatologist William McGrew. Renfrew's work in particular, as well as that of his student, Lambros Malafouris, has taken a philosophical approach to the study of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1326648 | 1,444,993 |
228,078 | One motivation for the development of the Lagrangian formalism on fields, and more generally, for classical field theory, is to provide a clean mathematical foundation for quantum field theory, which is infamously beset by formal difficulties that make it unacceptable as a mathematical theory. The Lagrangians presented... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40752010 | 227,961 |
851,810 | The "Sentinel R1" is a modified Bombardier Global Express powered by two Rolls-Royce BR700 turbofan engines. The cockpit features a centrally positioned pull-down screen capable of displaying a moving map, along with Link 16 datalink information and defensive aids subsystem (DASS) data. The DASS comprises a towed radar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=600022 | 851,357 |
188,758 | In 1676, Flamsteed helped Halley publish his first paper, titled "A Direct and Geometrical Method of Finding the Aphelia, Eccentricities, and Proportions of the Primary Planets, Without Supposing Equality in Angular Motion", about planetary orbits, in "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society". Influenced by Fla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36858805 | 188,661 |
1,630,415 | In May 1960, plans for an isotope separator were published in Vienna. This isotope separator was built by CERN's Nuclear Chemistry Group (NCG) and used in measurements of production rates of radionuclides produced in the Synchrocyclotron. High production rates observed during these measurements proved that the SC was t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47506008 | 1,629,495 |
1,342,175 | Children with autism have an impaired capability to solve problems, engage in thoughtful and appropriate behaviours, sustain relevant tasks and self-monitor. They lack mentalization or Theory of Mind (ToM) and have sensory, perceptual, cognitive, and intellectual deficits. This suggests that children with autism have g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34820690 | 1,341,441 |
48,137 | Advances in IC technology, primarily smaller features and larger chips, have allowed the number of MOS transistors in an integrated circuit to double every two years, a trend known as Moore's law. Moore originally stated it would double every year, but he went on to change the claim to every two years in 1975. This inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15150 | 48,117 |
1,014,329 | As wind turbine usage has increased, so have companies that assist in the planning and construction of wind turbines. Most often, turbine parts are shipped via sea or rail, and then via truck to the installation site. Due to the massive size of the components involved, companies usually need to obtain transportation pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8309537 | 1,013,808 |
1,768,897 | Computer-aided drug design (CADD) was introduced in the 1980s in order to screen for novel drugs. The underlying premise is that by parsing an extremely large data set for chemical compounds which may be viable to make a certain pharmaceutical, researchers were able to minimize the amount of novel without testing them ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5702698 | 1,767,903 |
469,437 | "Bench-scale Laboratory, kg-lab and Pilot Plant Development". Depending on the volume requirements, three different types of equipment are used for process research, development and optimization, namely bench-scale laboratories for gram to 100 gram, kilo-labs for kg to 10 kg and pilot plants for 100 kg to ton quantitie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3694845 | 469,201 |
936,721 | In 1991, Microsoft introduced Visual Basic Extensions (VBX) with Visual Basic 1.0. A VBX is a packaged extension in the form of a dynamic-link library (DLL) that allows objects to be graphically placed in a form and manipulated by properties and methods. These were later adapted for use by other languages such as Visua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17058007 | 936,225 |
2,091,703 | Miniaturization of modern integrated circuits has led to hugely increased current densities and therefore, self-heating. In particular, vias, or vertical interconnects, experience extreme local temperature fluctuations, which can strongly influence the electrical performance of multi-level interconnect structures. In a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29427548 | 2,090,498 |
1,503,424 | At North Carolina State University Dunn runs the yourwildlife.org program which aims to understand, while working with the public, the species that live around us in our daily lives. He is now also the leader of the Students Discover project which aims to bring real science experiences to classrooms around the world. D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36615609 | 1,502,578 |
11,180 | Sagan believed that the Drake equation, on substitution of reasonable estimates, suggested that a large number of extraterrestrial civilizations would form, but that the lack of evidence of such civilizations highlighted by the Fermi paradox suggests technological civilizations tend to self-destruct. This stimulated hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6824 | 11,175 |
694,100 | Recent molecular work has identified proton and sodium flux as being important for tail regeneration in Xenopus tadpoles, and shown that regeneration of the entire tail (with spinal cord, muscle, etc.) could be triggered in a range of normally non-regenerative conditions by either molecular-genetic, pharmacological, or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55498066 | 693,737 |
332,139 | The Navy's FY 2016 budget included funding for an extended range AARGM-ER that uses the existing guidance system and warhead of the AGM-88E with a solid integrated rocket-ramjet to double the range. In September 2016, Orbital ATK unveiled its extended-range AARGM-ER, which incorporates a redesigned control section and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3149 | 331,962 |
604,284 | The United States recognized that French skilled labor was severely limited by war casualties, and promised to train and deploy 7,000 automobile mechanics to aid the French Motor Transport Corps. In December 1917 the Aviation Section developed a maintenance organization of four large units termed "Motor Mechanics Regim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=662917 | 603,974 |
1,599,026 | In 1998, the private Celera Corporation started a parallel sequencing project that was able to proceed more quickly and at a lower cost than the public project because it made use of the data that the academic consortium had made openly available. Researchers in the consortium became nervous that if Celera was able to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4189701 | 1,598,126 |
757,550 | In people with alcoholic hepatitis, the serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST) to alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ratio is greater than 2:1. AST and ALT levels are almost always less than 500. The elevated AST to ALT ratio is due to deficiency of pyridoxal phosphate, which is required in the ALT enzyme synthetic pathway... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=307039 | 757,146 |
1,637,787 | The latest and so far largest IPTi study was an effectiveness study conducted in the South East of Tanzania. A study area of approximately 250x180km2 with a population of about 900,000 people was subdivided into 24 similar clusters. Half of the 23,400 infants, those residing in 12 of 24 randomly selected clusters were ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23497821 | 1,636,862 |
332,144 | Clarke and his engineers studied engine designs from major European and Japanese automakers and sought to develop a V8 that was technologically advanced and power-dense, yet also dependable with no major service required before 100,000 miles of use. The initial engine design would implement a 90° vee-angle with a bore ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=867439 | 331,967 |
1,156,598 | The first of only two booster systems designed specifically and solely for crewed capsule qualifications, Little Joe was also one of the pioneer operational launch vehicles using the rocket cluster principle. Since the four modified Sergeants (called either Castor or Pollux rockets, depending upon modification) and fou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=846333 | 1,155,988 |
1,059,752 | The idea of autonomous building types arose in part from the general Enlightenment predilection for categorization, a prelude to scientific discovery. At first types were intended as ideal models, which could be variously copied. In this sense types were commonly used forms (a basilica, for example), that were adapted ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51512448 | 1,059,201 |
1,361,258 | The Chernobyl disaster is one of the worst nuclear disasters. The initial containment building, commonly known as the sarcophagus, did not classify as a proper entombment device. It was difficult or impossible to repair and maintain because of extremely high levels of radiation. A new structure was structurally complet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16510408 | 1,360,505 |
962,838 | Both physical and chemical recommendations are made for control of the ivy gourd. It is very difficult to control this plant physically except by bagging fruits. Hand-harvesting normally does not kill the plant, but rather breaks the vine blankets into smaller pieces and the plant is able to re-establish when it touche... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1811654 | 962,329 |
1,608,158 | The logic circuits of the KDF9 were entirely solid-state. The KDF9 used transformer-coupled diode–transistor logic, built from germanium diodes, about 20,000 transistors, and about 2,000 toroid pulse transformers. They ran on a 1 MHz clock that delivered two pulses of 250 ns separated by 500 ns, in each clock cycle. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1111421 | 1,607,253 |
1,010,613 | Jeffreys was born into a middle-class family in Oxford, where he spent the first six years of his life until 1956 when the family moved to Luton, Bedfordshire. He attributes his curiosity and inventiveness to having been gained from his father, as well as his paternal grandfather, who held a number of patents. When he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44292 | 1,010,092 |
84,396 | The Tor-M2KM is a self-contained fighting module version of the system that can be mounted in various locations. In October 2016, it was loaded onto the helipad of the "Admiral Grigorovich" frigate by means of an ordinary wharf crane and fixed in position with steel chains to fire at simulated cruise missiles while the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1394799 | 84,362 |
470,019 | The species came to the attention of the scientific community when explorer Sir Thomas Mitchell observed the trees on his expedition through Queensland in 1848 and published an account in "Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia" in the same year. He came across them as he ascended Mount Abunda... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6693638 | 469,783 |
90,027 | As Kepler slowly continued analyzing Tycho's Mars observations—now available to him in their entirety—and began the slow process of tabulating the "Rudolphine Tables", Kepler also picked up the investigation of the laws of optics from his lunar essay of 1600. Both lunar and solar eclipses presented unexplained phenomen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15736 | 89,987 |
1,072,054 | Freedman was born in Los Angeles, California, in the United States. His father, Benedict Freedman, was an American Jewish aeronautical engineer, musician, writer, and mathematician. His mother, Nancy Mars Freedman, performed as an actress and also trained as an artist. His parents cowrote a series of novels together. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=658970 | 1,071,500 |
1,156,638 | Issues with the pointing precision of the IPS and the sequential overheating failures of both data display units (used for pointing telescopes and operating experiments) during the mission impacted crew-aiming procedures and forced ground teams at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) to aim the telescopes with fine-tuni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=497746 | 1,156,028 |
1,849,987 | On the academic front, he was instrumental in organizing a school of research on theoretical physics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, along with Bhalchandra Udgaonkar. He has been a member of the editorial boards of "Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics" (1974–76 & 1989–91), "Indian Journal of Pure and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53741227 | 1,848,929 |
1,339,755 | In most situations, highly specialized species are constrained to a small portion of the accessible environment, characterized by extremely isolated populations. This ecological specialization and consequently geographical constraint of indigenous populations is frequently accompanied by a reduction in gene flow, resul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16831246 | 1,339,022 |
995,830 | On motorcycles, a similar level of fail-safety is provided by simpler methods; firstly the front and rear brake systems being entirely separate, regardless of their method of activation (that can be cable, rod or hydraulic), allowing one to fail entirely whilst leaving the other unaffected. Secondly, the rear brake is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2091393 | 995,313 |
1,788,574 | The 3-D particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) belongs to the class of whole-field velocimetry techniques used in the study of turbulent flows, allowing the determination of instantaneous velocity and vorticity distributions over two or three spatial dimensions. 3-D PTV yields a time series of instantaneous 3-component ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4541666 | 1,787,568 |
43,787 | The first core stage left Michoud Assembly Facility for comprehensive testing at Stennis Space Center in January 2020. The static firing test program at Stennis Space Center, known as the Green Run, operated all the core stage systems simultaneously for the first time. Test 7 (of 8), the wet dress rehearsal, was carrie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31368179 | 43,770 |
1,214,400 | The first recorded use of structural clay tile in the United States was in 1853. Frederick A. Peterson designed hand-shaped clay ovals that he placed between I-beams and covered with cement to create flooring. Peterson debuted his method in the Cooper Union Building in New York City. However, Peterson's method was not ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33988042 | 1,213,748 |
503,900 | The structure of the mammalian voltage-gated K channel has been used to explain its ability to respond to the voltage across the membrane. Upon opening of the channel, conformational changes in the voltage-sensor domains (VSD) result in the transfer of 12-13 elementary charges across the membrane electric field. This c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6959429 | 503,641 |
724,136 | Identifying the atomic structures of the different phases of molecular solid hydrogen is extremely challenging, because hydrogen atoms interact with X-rays very weakly and only small samples of solid hydrogen can be achieved in diamond anvil cells, so that X-ray diffraction provides very limited information about the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19137315 | 723,756 |
55,715 | Due to the evolution of threats and computer technology, the Phalanx system has been developed through several configurations. The basic (original) style is the Block 0, equipped with first-generation, solid-state electronics and with marginal capability against surface targets. The Block 1 (1988) upgrade offered vario... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89872 | 55,692 |
1,759,612 | In 1966 John Ostrom postulated that the diet of late Cretaceous chasmosaurs such as "Triceratops" and "Torosaurus" fed on very resistant and fibrous materials like the fronds of cycad or palm plants. By extension, all Ceratopsids had a shearing dentition and efficient, powerful jaw mechanics that allowed them to feed o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31193874 | 1,758,619 |
1,835,238 | Swanson published four books of verse between 1942 and 1953, and also a book of logging stories, "Whistle Punks and Widow-Makers", which appeared in 1993. Known as the "bard of the woods", he wrote ballads of logging on the British Columbia coast, taking the advice of Robert Service, who noted that Swanson had traveled... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3858884 | 1,834,189 |
1,268,218 | The ATLAS project was developed at the University of Hawaii with US$5 million initial funding from NASA, and its first element was deployed in 2015. This first telescope became fully operational at the end of 2015, and the second one in March 2017. Replacement of the initially substandard Schmidt corrector plates of bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38623877 | 1,267,528 |
433,225 | His father, Herbert Best, was a doctor in a small Maine town with a limited economy based mostly on sardine-packing. His mother, Lulu Newcomb, later Lulu Best, who sang soprano, accompanying herself on organ and piano, was in demand as a performer at funerals and weddings. By the time Charles had reached college age an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75078 | 433,012 |
424,264 | The fungus normally exists unseen, in the form of a mass of threadlike vegetative cells called a mycelium, inhabiting rotting wood; only when suitable environmental conditions of temperature, moisture, and nutrient availability are achieved does the fungus produce the reproductive structures known as fruit bodies, or m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25648059 | 424,057 |
1,918,226 | This bacterium is a freshwater cyanobacterium often found in tropical regions but can be also found in more temperate locations such as the Great Lakes located in North America. The bacterium has the ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen as well as absorb and store phosphorus. These abilities are advantageous to its surv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32638490 | 1,917,126 |
421,333 | "Teredo navalis" is found in temperate and tropical seas and oceans worldwide. It may have originated in the northeast Atlantic Ocean, but it is difficult to establish where it originally came from because it has spread so efficiently around the world on debris and hulls of ships. It is found in the littoral zone, livi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3712841 | 421,127 |
1,269,883 | At this point the choirs and soloists strike in unaccompanied with the opening stanza of the "Te Deum", followed immediately by a fanfare for the enlarged orchestra for Part Two (which is supposed to be about 150-strong, besides the extra 40 or so players comprising the four extra brass orchestras). The eclecticism of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=734003 | 1,269,192 |
330,111 | Mid- to thermal-infrared observations, along with polarimetry measurements, are probably the only data that give some indication of actual physical properties. Measuring the heat flux of an asteroid at a single wavelength gives an estimate of the dimensions of the object; these measurements have lower uncertainty than ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=791 | 329,936 |
546,211 | Prior to the outbreak of war the Australian Army consisted of the small full-time Permanent Military Forces (PMF) and the larger part-time Militia. Throughout the inter-war years, a combination of complacency and economic austerity had resulted in limited defence spending. In 1929, following the election of the Scullin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22738876 | 545,925 |
1,933,697 | With the release of the Polaris 80 core processor in 2007, people questioned the need of tens or hundreds of cores. Intel responded with a category of software called Recognition, Mining, and Synthesis (RMS) applications which require the computational power of tens or hundreds of cores. Recognition applications create... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11997021 | 1,932,589 |
846,225 | Using data from the Spitzer Photometry and Accurate Rotation Curves (SPARC) database, a group has found that the radial acceleration traced by rotation curves could be predicted just from the observed baryon distribution (that is, including stars and gas but not dark matter). The same relation provided a good fit for 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=183083 | 845,775 |
1,028,604 | In later times, this effect was often imitated by partially mixing various metals like copper together with the steel, forming "mokume" (wood-eye) patterns, although this was unsuitable for the blade. After the 14th century, the Japanese technology had reached a pinnacle, and little more could be done to improve the me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7528817 | 1,028,070 |
1,863,100 | PCFT is located on chromosome 17q11.2 and consists of 459 amino acids, with five exons, and a MW of approximately 50kDa. The secondary structure has been established and consists of twelve transmembrane domains with the N- and C- termini directed into the cytoplasm. The properties of this transporter and its physiologi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47625870 | 1,862,031 |
2,061,453 | The advantages of silicon as a detector material include high charge-collection efficiency, ready availability of high-quality high-purity material, and established methods for test and assembly driven by the semiconductor industry. The main challenge is the relatively low detection efficiency of silicon, which in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66026557 | 2,060,266 |
1,114,345 | A typical nanofactory would fit in a desktop box, in the vision of K. Eric Drexler published in "Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing and Computation" (1992), a notable work of "exploratory engineering". During the 1990s, others have extended the nanofactory concept, including an analysis of nanofactory conv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=294218 | 1,113,777 |
1,961,843 | In 1788–1792 was built edifice observatory (rebuilt in 1858–1859). The observatory has worked Jan Śniadecki, famous Kraków mathematician and astronomer, and astronomer Tadeusz Banachiewicz . Today, the building known as the Collegium Śniadeckiego houses the Institute of Botany. In 1792, a garden was one of the oldest m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12607771 | 1,960,716 |
372,507 | Front-line recoilless weapons in the armies of modern industrialized nations are mostly man-portable devices such as the Carl Gustav, an 84 mm weapon. First introduced in 1948 and exported extensively since 1964, it is still in widespread use throughout the world today: a huge selection of special-purpose rounds are av... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=236060 | 372,312 |
1,015,316 | In March 1771 Mendelssohn's health deteriorated so badly that Marcus Elieser Bloch, his doctor, decided his patient had to give up philosophy, at least temporarily. After a short and restless sleep one evening, Mendelssohn found himself incapable of moving and had the feeling of something lashing his neck with fiery ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44893 | 1,014,795 |
1,420,876 | In early December 2012, the LS3 performed walks through woods in Fort Pickett, Virginia. These tests were with a human controller giving voice commands to the robot to give it orders. Giving voice commands was seen as a more efficient way of controlling the LS3, because a soldier would be too preoccupied with a joystic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21076368 | 1,420,076 |
1,374,087 | Developed in 1935 by Rheinmetall-Borsig as a commercial venture as the MG-101 (later designated MK 101, with the "MK" abbreviating the term "Maschinenkanone", as an autocannon), the MK 101 cannon was a 30 mm (1.18 in), long-barreled automatic cannon capable of firing nine different types of 30x184B mm ammunition (rangi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5737349 | 1,373,329 |
579,531 | In fact, cultural psychologists utilized multiple measurements and resources no different from other scientific researches – observation, experiment, data analysis etc. For example, Nisbett & Cohen (1996) investigated the relation between historical cultural background and regional aggression difference in the U.S.A. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2700105 | 579,234 |
1,599,079 | Joint Biology, Diseases, and Orthopedics. The programs comprising Joint Biology, Diseases, and Orthopedics focus on understanding the fundamental biology of joints and their component tissues, and on translating this knowledge to a variety of diseases and conditions. Research includes the study of the causes and treatm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=539902 | 1,598,179 |
1,945,463 | "P. yonahlossee" is a large Southern Appalachian woodland salamander typically differentiated by its large size and its distinctive rust-colored dorsum. As with all other members of the genus, "Plethodon yonahlossee" is lungless and a direct developer, meaning no larval stage is seen; instead, the young hatch into mini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12403981 | 1,944,351 |
844,975 | The sensor consists of an induction loop or detector coil. Most often this is physically a number of turns of insulated magnet wire wound around a high magnetic permeability core, such as a ferrite ceramic rod or coil form, and the winding may or may not have a feedback tap some number of turns from one end of the tota... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6153416 | 844,525 |
252,098 | After a 1999 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" story claimed that asbestos-related disease was common in the town, the EPA, in response to political pressure, made cleanup of the site a priority and called Libby the worst case of community-wide exposure to a toxic substance in U.S. history. The EPA has spent $120 million in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=226985 | 251,965 |
403,357 | These preparations did not prove fruitful in the invasion of Poland, where the Luftwaffe focused on interdiction and dedicated few assets to close air support. But the value of CAS was demonstrated at the crossing of the Meuse River during the Invasion of France in 1940. General Heinz Guderian, one of the creators of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=600792 | 403,157 |
922,924 | Researchers in the 1960s and the 1970s were convinced that symbolic approaches would eventually succeed in creating a machine with artificial general intelligence and considered this the ultimate goal of their field. An early boom, with early successes such as the Logic Theorist and Samuel's Checker's Playing Program l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=339417 | 922,438 |
2,043,089 | The climbing sculptures were designed by Peter Jon Pearce who also designed the Biosphere 2 complex in Arizona, worked for Charles and Ray Eames, and was an assistant to Buckminster Fuller. In addition to playground installations, Curved Spaced Diamond Structures were installed at the 1975 Aspen Design Conference, The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41136428 | 2,041,909 |
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