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1,527,135 | The third Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO 3) was launched on March 8, 1967, into a nearly circular orbit of mean altitude 550 km, inclined at 33° to the equatorial plane, deactivated on June 28, 1968, followed by reentry on April 4, 1982. Its XRT consisted of a continuously spinning wheel (1.7 s period) in which the ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25100839 | 1,526,271 |
355,281 | Most of the work by the three was done among other assigned projects starting near the end of 1994. Within four months and with input from several hardware manufacturers, the team had developed the first set of application programming interfaces (APIs) which they presented at the 1995 Game Developers Conference. The SD... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8506 | 355,098 |
358,481 | The process of identifying the boundaries between genes and other features in a raw DNA sequence is called genome annotation and is in the domain of bioinformatics. While expert biologists make the best annotators, their work proceeds slowly, and computer programs are increasingly used to meet the high-throughput deman... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5219699 | 358,295 |
1,463,131 | In 2010, the U.S. National Research Council (NRC) conducted its sixth decadal survey in astronomy and astrophysics to recommend key science questions and new initiatives for the current decade. Since both the NRC recommendations and current programs could not be accommodated within subsequent budget projections, the Na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=527639 | 1,462,308 |
63,464 | In the political arena notable alumni and staff include 53 past or present heads of state, 20 members of the current British House of Commons and 46 members of the current House of Lords. Former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee taught at the school from 1912 to 1923. In recent British politics, former LSE students... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67704 | 63,439 |
424,287 | As a white-rot fungus, "Panellus stipticus" contains enzymes that are able to break down lignin, a complex aromatic polymer in wood that is highly resistant to degradation by conventional enzyme systems. The major enzyme that initiates the cleavage of hydrocarbon rings is laccase, which catalyzes the addition of a hydr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25648059 | 424,080 |
157,147 | The Navy was in a state of expansion that required 100,000 pulley blocks to be manufactured a year. Bentham had already achieved remarkable efficiency at the docks by introducing power-driven machinery and reorganising the dockyard system. Brunel, a pioneering engineer, and Maudslay, a pioneer of machine tool technolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63137 | 157,075 |
387,353 | The ion thruster is not the most promising type of electrically powered spacecraft propulsion, but it is the most successful in practice to date. An ion drive would require two days to accelerate a car to highway speed in vacuum. The technical characteristics, especially thrust, are considerably inferior to the prototy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37839 | 387,158 |
1,544,421 | For a climate data record (CDR) mission like CERES, accuracy is of high importance and achieved for pure infrared nighttime measurements by use of a ground laboratory SI traceable blackbody to determine total and WN channel radiometric gains. This however was not the case for CERES solar channels such as SW and solar p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=471126 | 1,543,547 |
1,228,309 | The Americans under General Douglas MacArthur were in ultimate command of Japanese affairs 1945–51. The other allies and former colonial possessions of Japan demanded revenge, but MacArthur operated a highly favorable system in which harsh measures were limited to war criminals, who were tried and executed. Japan lacke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54108025 | 1,227,647 |
491,315 | A second interesting thing one can do is to construct a spin structure. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this is that it is a very recognizable generalization to a formula_23-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian manifold of the conventional physics concept of spinors living on a (1,3)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=151001 | 491,061 |
134,116 | Biosphere 2 was only used twice for its original intended purposes as a closed-system experiment: once from 1991 to 1993, and the second time from March to September 1994. Both attempts ran into problems including low amounts of food and oxygen, die-offs of many animals and plants included in the experiment (though thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216362 | 134,061 |
1,721,313 | Once a regulatory agency has determined the clinical benefit and safety of a product and pricing has been confirmed (if necessary), a drug manufacturer will typically submit it for evaluation by a payer of some sort. Payers may be private insurance plans, governments (through the provision of benefits plans to insured ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10338164 | 1,720,343 |
1,564,427 | Ruttenberg considered the book carefully argued, and wrote that Grünbaum made a brilliant case that psychoanalytic hypotheses should be tested by normal scientific procedures. However, he believed Grünbaum overstated the case against psychoanalysis. Kline, writing in the "British Journal for the Philosophy of Science",... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34449875 | 1,563,540 |
2,056,020 | Their device returned images such as that shown in Figure 2. At first glance SP images may appear unremarkable, but analysis of dozens of images allows the breadth of information they contain to become apparent. In Figure 2 the gross texture and water content of the sediment is immediately apparent. Since resolution al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14917968 | 2,054,837 |
1,687,991 | Rosch of "PC Magazine" called the Model 30 286's case trim and its internals "elegantly spare", with impeccable cable management owing to IBM's use of shorter cables for its floppy and hard drives, which are tucked and folded mostly out of sight. Rosch also appreciated the computer's redesigned PSU power connector, min... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70578771 | 1,687,045 |
491,674 | The term was used by the United States Navy to distinguish submarines suitable for long range patrols in the Pacific Ocean from earlier classes such as the United States S-class submarines. The initial goal, pursued with frequent interruptions since the "AA-1"-class (aka "T"-class) launched 1918–19, was to produce a su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=663925 | 491,420 |
983,766 | As "Huygens" was primarily an atmospheric mission, the DISR instrument was optimized to study the radiation balance inside Titan's atmosphere. Its visible and infrared spectrometers and violet photometers measured the up- and downward radiant flux from an altitude of down to the surface. Solar aureole cameras measured ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=185083 | 983,252 |
1,406,428 | In 2009, Jean-Luc Margot (who proposed a mathematical criterion for clearing the neighborhood) and Levison suggested that "roundness" should refer to bodies whose gravitational forces exceed their material strength, and that round bodies could be called "worlds". They noted that such a geophysical classification was so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61891609 | 1,405,638 |
233,014 | Because prostaglandin E2 is responsible for keeping the DA open, NSAIDs (which can inhibit prostaglandin synthesis) such as indomethacin or a special form of ibuprofen have been used to initiate PDA closure. Findings from a 2015 systematic review concluded that, for closure of a PDA in preterm and/or low birth weight i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=567589 | 232,895 |
1,462,368 | Jules A. Hoffmann (; born 2 August 1941) is a Luxembourg-born French biologist. During his youth, growing up in Luxembourg, he developed a strong interest in insects under the influence of his father, Jos Hoffmann. This eventually resulted in the younger Hoffmann's dedication to the field of biology using insects as mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14449397 | 1,461,546 |
1,122,470 | The European Commission sponsored the development of the Programmable Artificial Cell Evolution (PACE) program from 2004 to 2008 whose goal was to lay the foundation for the creation of "microscopic self-organizing, self-replicating, and evolvable autonomous entities built from simple organic and inorganic substances t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4630125 | 1,121,896 |
325,545 | All that seems to me to explain itself very clearly if we compare the imagination of children to a "tabula rasa" on which our ideas, which resemble portraits of each object taken from nature, should depict themselves. The senses, the inclinations, our masters and our intelligence, are the various painters who have the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31212 | 325,372 |
965,325 | Richardson et al. surveyed a sample of 259 students from Greek organizations at university in the Southwestern United States. The survey questions measured the different aspects of the TRA model: behavioral beliefs, outcome evaluations, attitude toward the behavior, normative beliefs, motivation to comply, subjective n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3224522 | 964,816 |
1,305,147 | The first HI-SEAS mission lasted for four months from mid-April to 13 November 2013 with culinary and psychological aspects. Many related aspects were also explored, including temperatures in artificial habitats. It was orchestrated primarily by NASA, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, and Cornell University. The 2013 stud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40011280 | 1,304,431 |
17,677 | The F-5 was also adopted as an opposing forces (OPFOR) "aggressor" for dissimilar training role because of its small size and performance similarities to the Soviet MiG-21. In realistic trials at Nellis AFB in 1977, called ACEVAL/AIMVAL, the F-14 reportedly scored slightly better than a 2:1 kill ratio against the simpl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11142 | 17,671 |
623,369 | Each of the four founding Party States took responsibility for one of the major tasks in the project. The United States (with project leadership from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, USA) directed Datron Systems in Chatsworth, CA, USA to design and build LUT ground stations to receive the downlink f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3043414 | 623,037 |
67,487 | The so-called "long-duration" gamma-ray bursts produce a total energy output of about 10 joules (as much energy as our Sun will produce in its entire life-time) but in a period of only 20 to 40 seconds. Gamma rays are approximately 50% of the total energy output. The leading hypotheses for the mechanism of production o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18616290 | 67,461 |
784,642 | The wet plate collodion process has undergone a revival as a historical technique in the twenty-first century. There are several practicing ambrotypes and tintypes who regularly set up and make images, for example at Civil War re-enactments and arts festivals. Fine art photographers use the process and its handcrafted ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=194113 | 784,222 |
2,160,451 | In additional to having high potential for success in combatting the infections listed above, AFP does not inhibit the viability of yeast, bacteria, mammalian, or plant cells. Because there are many filamentous fungal species that do not respond to AFP, it is likely that the protein's detrimental effects are species-sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58540557 | 2,159,218 |
542,270 | Franck assisted Frederick Lindemann in helping dismissed Jewish scientists find work overseas, before he left Germany in November 1933. After a brief visit to the United States, where he measured the absorption of light in heavy water with Wood at Johns Hopkins University, he took up a position at the Niels Bohr Instit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=381797 | 541,990 |
1,547,072 | Endoscopic Ear Surgery was first described in 1992 by Professor Ahmed El-Guindy and pioneered by Dr Muaaz Tarabichi in Dubai during the late 90s. His contributions to the field have led to him being recognized globally as the father of endoscopic ear surgery. He now lectures extensively on the topic worldwide. Similar ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44466901 | 1,546,195 |
1,288,721 | Structural stability of the system provides a justification for applying the qualitative theory of dynamical systems to analysis of concrete physical systems. The idea of such qualitative analysis goes back to the work of Henri Poincaré on the three-body problem in celestial mechanics. Around the same time, Aleksandr L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2515807 | 1,288,012 |
1,515,729 | Two researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Vitaliy Fadeyev and Carl Haber have been experimenting with an audio restoration method that involves taking a very high definition digital photographic image of the vintage recording medium. They use a precision optical metrology system (designed to scan silico... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4039099 | 1,514,877 |
1,437,522 | In 2020 ASACUSA in collaboration with the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) reported the experimental verification of long lived pionic helium by spectroscopic measurements; the first time in an atom containing a lepton. Its existence had been predicted in 1964 by George Condo at University of Tennessee to explain some anom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2032832 | 1,436,713 |
1,295,754 | Associations have been reported between TMB and patient outcome in a variety of cancers. In one study, scientists observed differences in survival rates, with high TMB individuals having a median progression-free survival of 12.8 months and a median overall survival not reached by the time of publication, compared to 3... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66880796 | 1,295,043 |
2,246,363 | WISE projects can also incorporate Java applets, flash models, forums to facilitate online discussions, data collection, drawing, argument creation, resource sharing, branching, concept mapping and other built-in components. WISE is entirely browser-based, meaning that students only need access to a computer with an In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3662045 | 2,245,091 |
595,896 | Ilan Ramon was Israel's first astronaut. Ramon was the Space Shuttle payload specialist on board the fatal STS-107 mission of Space Shuttle "Columbia", in which he and the six other crew members were killed in a re-entry accident over the southern United States. Ramon had been selected as a payload specialist in 1997 a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=397525 | 595,591 |
1,976,051 | Green buildings on college campuses provide benefits to the campus in several different ways. Campuses can benefit from the short and long term economic benefits. Initially, federal and state governments will sometimes provide tax incentives for buildings constructed that surpass the standards set by the government. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25102062 | 1,974,914 |
2,162,006 | The most common ligands employed so far in the synthesis of nucleophilic aluminyl anions are diamido dianions. The first aluminyl anion to be isolated by Aldridge, Goicoechea and coworkers is supported by a xanthene-based diamido ligand, referred to as NON by the authors. In its synthesis, the xanthene-dianiline HNON w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65276116 | 2,160,771 |
586,380 | Transient Earth Voltages (TEVs) are induced voltage spikes on the surface of the surrounding metalwork. TEVs were first discovered in 1974 by Dr John Reeves of EA Technology. TEVs occur because the partial discharge creates current spikes in the conductor and hence also in the earthed metal surrounding the conductor. D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=467804 | 586,080 |
1,644,100 | In Britain, the various railway companies appointed and employed an engineer or chief engineer, who was usually a civil engineer by profession. This was a permanent management role in the company in contrast to that of contractors, for instance, who were only hired to perform specific tasks such as construction of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1164657 | 1,643,173 |
1,478,631 | The first step in ω-oxidation, i.e. addition of a hydroxy residue to the omega carbon of short, intermediate, and long chain unsaturated or saturated fatty acids, can serve to produce or inactivate signaling molecules. In humans, a subset of Cytochrome P450 (CYP450) microsome-bound ω-hydroxylases (termed Cytochrome P45... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4812837 | 1,477,798 |
518,580 | In a series of papers co-authored with fellow university physicist Douglas Torr and published between 1991 and 1993, she claimed a practical way to produce anti-gravity effects. She claimed that an anti-gravity effect could be produced by rotating ions creating a gravitomagnetic field perpendicular to their spin axis. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4538803 | 518,311 |
1,523,283 | In December 1954 Rich transferred to the Skunk Works, the secret research and development section run by Lockheed's Chief Engineer, Clarence "Kelly" Johnson. There he designed the inlet ducts for the U-2, then led the effort to design and build a large-scale hydrogen liquefaction plant for project "Suntan", a proposed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1262268 | 1,522,422 |
504,927 | Rapid Dragon is a palletized and disposable weapons module which is airdropped and deploys flying munitions, typically cruise missiles, from unmodified cargo planes. Developed by the United States Air Force and Lockheed, the airdrop-rigged pallets, called "deployment boxes," provide a low cost method allowing unmodifie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71379304 | 504,665 |
752,566 | The genus "Spinosaurus", from which the family, their subfamily (Spinosaurinae), and their tribe (Spinosaurini) borrow their names, is the longest known terrestrial predator from the fossil record, with an estimated length of up to and body mass of up to . The closely related genus "Sigilmassasaurus" may have reached a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2899822 | 752,164 |
1,559,168 | The strangeness production and its diagnostic potential as a signature of quark–gluon plasma has been discussed for nearly 30 years. The theoretical work in this field today focuses on the interpretation of the overall particle production data and the derivation of the resulting properties of the bulk of quark–gluon pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23984205 | 1,558,282 |
1,148,460 | Jacobson's "100% renewable world" approach is supported by publications among at least 17 international research groups that find 100% renewables possible at low cost throughout the world. It is also supported by the Global 100RE Strategy Group, a coalition of 47 scientists supporting 100% renewable energy to solve the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21130805 | 1,147,853 |
1,903,446 | The structural part is a naturally occurring gene, which is used as a skeleton to encode the input and the transitions of the automaton (Fig. 1A). The conserved features of a structural gene (e.g., DNA polymerase binding site, start and stop codons, and splicing sites) serve as constants of the computational gene, whil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15368504 | 1,902,352 |
1,504,867 | Nanoscale spatial resolution AFM-IR imaging using a pulsed laser was first demonstrated by Dazzi "et al" at the University of Paris-Sud, France. Dazzi and his colleagues used a wavelength-tuneable, free electron laser at the CLIO facility in Orsay, France to provide an infrared source with short pulses. Like earlier wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44893854 | 1,504,021 |
1,008,300 | This aberration is quite distinct from that of the sharpness of reproduction; in unsharp, reproduction, the question of distortion arises if only parts of the object can be recognized in the figure. If, in an unsharp image, a patch of light corresponds to an object point, the "center of gravity" of the patch may be reg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2704 | 1,007,780 |
1,762,930 | In 1986, she joined the faculty of University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, where she directs the Composite Materials Research Laboratory and was named Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation Endowed Chair Professor in 1991. In 1991, she became Fellow of the American Carbon Society. In 1998, she became Fellow ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18481293 | 1,761,937 |
236,268 | As usual with beta decay, almost all the decay energy is carried away by the beta particle and the neutrino. The emitted beta particles have a maximum energy of about 156 keV, while their weighted mean energy is 49 keV. These are relatively low energies; the maximum distance traveled is estimated to be 22 cm in air and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146250 | 236,149 |
610,275 | Many models of the perceptual system assume indirect perception, or the notion that the world that gets perceived is not identical to the actual environment. Environmental information must go through several stages before being perceived, and the transitions between these stages introduce ambiguity. What actually gets ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2843988 | 609,964 |
598,499 | As Roman imperial power effectively ended in the West during the 5th century, Western Europe entered the Middle Ages with great difficulties that affected the continent's intellectual production dramatically. Most classical scientific treatises of classical antiquity written in Greek were unavailable, leaving only simp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30864628 | 598,194 |
879,238 | In 2004–05, researchers from Dubna and Livermore identified a new dubnium isotope, Db, as a fivefold alpha decay product of the newly created element 115. This new isotope proved to be long-lived enough to allow further chemical experimentation, with a half-life of over a day. In the 2004 experiment, a thin layer with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8463 | 878,775 |
1,360,603 | In 2012, a group of American scientists led by Floyd Romesberg, a chemical biologist at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, published that his team designed an unnatural base pair (UBP). The two new artificial nucleotides or "Unnatural Base Pair" (UBP) were named "d5SICS" and "dNaM." More technical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16153022 | 1,359,851 |
565,361 | In 2012, a group of American scientists led by Floyd Romesberg, a chemical biologist at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, published that his team designed an unnatural base pair (UBP). The two new artificial nucleotides or "Unnatural Base Pair" (UBP) were named d5SICS and dNaM. More technically, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11913227 | 565,071 |
1,244,411 | Automatic indexing is the computerized process of scanning large volumes of documents against a controlled vocabulary, taxonomy, thesaurus or ontology and using those controlled terms to quickly and effectively index large electronic document depositories. These keywords or language are applied by training a system on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28204669 | 1,243,738 |
811,098 | Nimzowitsch supplemented many of the earlier simplistic assumptions about chess strategy by enunciating in his turn a further number of general concepts of defensive play aimed at achieving one's own goals by preventing realization of the opponent's plans. Notable in his "system" were concepts such as overprotection of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2812 | 810,666 |
63,078 | Modern GPUs use most of their transistors to do calculations related to 3D computer graphics. In addition to the 3D hardware, today's GPUs include basic 2D acceleration and framebuffer capabilities (usually with a VGA compatibility mode). Newer cards such as AMD/ATI HD5000-HD7000 even lack dedicated 2D acceleration; it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=390214 | 63,053 |
1,413,561 | Nanoclusters potentially have many areas of application as they have unique optical, electrical, magnetic and reactivity properties. Nanoclusters are biocompatible, ultrasmall, and exhibit bright emission, hence promising candidates for fluorescence bio imaging or cellular labeling. Nanoclusters along with fluorophores... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44466572 | 1,412,765 |
269,777 | A variant of teleportation called "open-destination" teleportation, with receivers located at multiple locations, was demonstrated in 2004 using five-photon entanglement. Teleportation of a composite state of two single qubits has also been realized. In April 2011, experimenters reported that they had demonstrated tele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25280 | 269,630 |
1,563,189 | Hermann Müller was born in Tägerwilen on Lake Constance. He studied natural sciences at ETH Zurich. In 1874 he was awarded a Ph.D. in Würzburg, Germany, and later became director of the Institute for Plant Physiology at the Geisenheim Research Station, Germany. In 1890 he became the first director of Wädenswil, the pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24746200 | 1,562,302 |
246,422 | The Israeli Air Force has a fleet of Boeing 707s equipped with a boom refueling system similar to the KC-135, this system has the Israeli name "Ram", used to refuel and extend the range of fighter bombers such as the F-15I and F-16I for deterrent and strike missions, they are nearing 60 years old and Israel does not di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=237949 | 246,295 |
1,283,819 | Allegedly, Withering first learned of the use of digitalis in treating "dropsy" (œdema) from "Mother Hutton", an old woman who practised as a folk herbalist in Shropshire, who used the plant as part of a polyherbal formulation containing over 20 different ingredients to successfully treat this condition. Withering dedu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33065 | 1,283,121 |
1,026,403 | The postcranial skeleton of "Majungasaurus" closely resembles those of "Carnotaurus" and "Aucasaurus", the only other abelisaurid genera for which complete skeletal material is known. "Majungasaurus" was bipedal, with a long tail to balance out the head and torso, putting the center of gravity over the hips. Although t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4590393 | 1,025,869 |
492,431 | The Miller experiment appeared in his technical paper in the 15 May 1953 issue of "Science", which transformed the concept of scientific ideas on the origin of life into a respectable realm of empirical inquiry. His study has become a classic textbook definition of the scientific basis of origin of life, or more specif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=92419 | 492,176 |
493,145 | Under the new measure all services that the 1928 deposited prayer book that had been in use for nearly 40 years on the say so of individual bishops lost all legal authority. They would then have to authorised as alternate services. The Liturgical Commission would not assist in this process so it was left to the House o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4994857 | 492,890 |
1,024,617 | The modern period was characterized by profound changes in many realms of human endeavor. Among the most important include the development of science as a formalized practice, increasingly rapid technological progress, and the establishment of secularized civic politics, law courts and the nation state. Capitalist econ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=118582 | 1,024,084 |
1,206,542 | In 1982, Arthur M. Lesk and co-workers first enabled automatic generation of ribbon diagrams through a computational implementation that uses Protein Data Bank files as input. This conceptually simple algorithm fit cubic polynomial B-spline curves to the peptide planes. Most modern graphics systems provide either B-spl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11502909 | 1,205,897 |
1,080,835 | The study contributed much to survey methods and confirmed larger studies that reported earlier on the predictive value for heart attack of several characteristics, the now-traditional risk factors of blood pressure and blood cholesterol level and cigarette smoking. Keys traveled widely with his wife Margaret who teste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30472972 | 1,080,279 |
44,551 | Many nations around the world already have renewable energy contributing more than 20% of their total energy supply, with some generating over half their electricity from renewables. A few countries generate all their electricity using renewable energy. National renewable energy markets are projected to continue to gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25784 | 44,534 |
1,234,213 | In late 2009, the Mupen64Plus project undertook a major re-design of the emulator's architecture. Like many N64 emulators (including Sixtyforce, 1964, and Project64), Mupen64Plus uses four modular plug-ins (dynamic libraries) which adhere to a specification written by Project64 developer Zilmar. This specification was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33849638 | 1,233,550 |
154,554 | A new classroom, laboratory, and studio facility designed by Thom Mayne of Morphosis Architecture with associate architect Gruzen Samton completed construction in Summer 2009, replacing the aging Hewitt Academic Building at 41 Cooper Square. In contrast to the Foundation Building, 41 Cooper Square is of modern, environ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275339 | 154,484 |
364,226 | The first illustrations of diatoms are found in an article from 1703 in Transactions of the Royal Society showing unmistakable drawings of "Tabellaria". Although the publication was authored by an unnamed English gentleman, there is recent evidence that he was Charles King of Staffordshire. It is only 80 years later th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46374 | 364,036 |
1,420,563 | In December 1969 and early January 1970, Rodbell was working with a laboratory team that studied the effect of the hormone glucagon on a rat liver membrane receptor—the cellular discriminator that receives outside signals. Rodbell discovered that ATP (adenosine triphosphate) could reverse the binding action of glucagon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1127279 | 1,419,763 |
1,906,888 | UCI's graduate programs also receive top-50 rankings from U.S. News & World Report, earning distinction in literary criticism and theory (1), criminology (4), behavioral neuroscience (5), creative writing (6), health care management (9), organic chemistry (9), information systems (11), drama and theater (12), third-wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14631230 | 1,905,792 |
1,695,319 | In 1979 Peter Galton and James A. Jensen described a fragmentary right femur, BYU 2000, belonging to a hadrosaurian dinosaur discovered in sediments belonging to the Cedar Mountain Formation in Arches National Park, Utah. Though poor material, it was important for it (alongside a second North American femur described i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3534822 | 1,694,367 |
1,127,745 | In October 1970, during the October Crisis, the army was called out as an aid to civil power with the Royal 22 Régiment being deployed to guard government buildings in Montreal on 15 October 1970. The deployment was not popular with the senior leaders of the Canadian Forces, who feared correctly that Trudeau would use ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3110164 | 1,127,167 |
776,957 | In a typical graded-"Z" shield, the high-"Z" layer effectively scatters protons and electrons. It also absorbs gamma rays, which produces X-ray fluorescence. Each subsequent layer absorbs the X-ray fluorescence of the previous material, eventually reducing the energy to a suitable level. Each decrease in energy produce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=333692 | 776,541 |
472,449 | Historically, multiple tuning systems have been used that can be seen as slight variations of 12-TEDO, with twelve notes per octave but with some variation among interval sizes so that the notes are not quite equally-spaced. One example of this a three-limit scale where equally-tempered perfect fifths of 700 cents are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3350774 | 472,213 |
167,954 | The use of infinitesimals by Leibniz relied upon heuristic principles, such as the law of continuity: what succeeds for the finite numbers succeeds also for the infinite numbers and vice versa; and the transcendental law of homogeneity that specifies procedures for replacing expressions involving unassignable quantitie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160990 | 167,864 |
1,298,271 | Rydberg matter consists of usually hexagonal planar clusters; these cannot be very big because of the retardation effect caused by the finite velocity of the speed of light. Hence, they are not gases or plasmas; nor are they solids or liquids; they are most similar to dusty plasmas with small clusters in a gas. Though ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13662732 | 1,297,558 |
170,631 | "Red Mars" starts in 2026 with the first colonial voyage to Mars aboard the "Ares", the largest interplanetary spacecraft ever built and home to a crew who are to be the first hundred Martian colonists. The ship was built from clustered space shuttle external fuel tanks which, instead of reentering Earth's atmosphere, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89970 | 170,541 |
1,415,858 | With applications requiring measurement of pressures between formula_3 and formula_7 Torr, the problem of ambient and process gases can be significantly reduced by replacing the OIS configuration with a CIS sampling system. Such an ionizer sits on top of the quadrupole mass filter and consists of a short, gas-tight tub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2431954 | 1,415,061 |
1,209,048 | In Dresden, where he had done much composing in the past, Rachmaninoff began to think specifically about composing again. He wrote his friend and fellow exile Nikolai Medtner, "I've already started to work. Am moving slowly." After eight years of touring, he took a sabbatical at the end of 1925, working on the Fourth C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2770760 | 1,208,401 |
1,913,551 | During the 2000s, Frieman led the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's (SDSS) Supernova Survey, which discovered over 500 type Ia supernovae, aiding the study of cosmic expansion. He also served as chair of the SDSS's Collaboration Council and co-chair of its Large-Scale Structure Working Group. In these roles, he led measuremen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65658494 | 1,912,452 |
325,566 | The serpent and the staff appear to have been separate symbols that were combined at some point in the development of the Asclepian cult. The significance of the serpent has been interpreted in many ways; sometimes the shedding of skin and renewal is emphasized as symbolizing rejuvenation, while other assessments cente... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=169650 | 325,393 |
1,511,853 | In 1833 Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Eduard Weber set up an experimental needle telegraph between their laboratory in the University of Göttingen and the university astronomical observatory about a mile and a half away where they were studying the Earth's magnetic field. The line consisted of a pair of copper wires... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55063141 | 1,511,003 |
857,217 | Melanophores contain eumelanin, a type of melanin, that appears black or dark-brown because of its light absorbing qualities. It is packaged in vesicles called melanosomes and distributed throughout the cell. Eumelanin is generated from tyrosine in a series of catalysed chemical reactions. It is a complex chemical cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=190770 | 856,762 |
1,404,484 | During the First World War the Aerial Targets and subsequent DCBs were developed as ripostes to the Central Powers aerial bombing and naval blockade of Britain. The ATs involved the industrial efforts of at least three of the countries major aircraft companies along with the novel engine development of the "Gnat" engin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67154389 | 1,403,694 |
1,073,159 | During a 2001 interview with Gary Graff from "Wall of Sound Magazine", Maida recounted the inspiration for the lyrics of "Are You Sad". He was in New York recording "In Repair" at the old Hit Factory studio, which was later known as Avatar Studios. Following those sessions, Maida attempted to call his younger brother f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1941326 | 1,072,605 |
1,137,270 | John "Pop" O' Farley was one of the most well-known and beloved Notre Dame figures at the time. A native of Paterson, in 1897 he came to Notre Dame to study for the priesthood. A gifted athlete, he earned nine varsity monograms: four in football, four in baseball, and one in track. As a senior, he was the captain of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15873547 | 1,136,677 |
629,772 | Large-scale questions in science, such as real world evidence, global warming, invasive species spread, and resource depletion, are increasingly requiring the collection of disparate data sets for meta-analysis. This type of data integration is especially challenging for ecological and environmental data because metada... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4780372 | 629,434 |
1,409,038 | In order to present detailed mathematical equation derivations, the show employed a technique its creators called the "algebraic ballet". Computer animation presented derivations in step-by-step detail, but rapidly and with touches of whimsy, such as algebraic terms being canceled by a Monty Python-esque stomping foot ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4840666 | 1,408,247 |
179,592 | A number of countries adopted Bertillon's system, which was based on the principle of distinguishing between general diseases and those localized to a particular organ or anatomical site, as used by the City of Paris for classifying deaths. Subsequent revisions represented a synthesis of English, German, and Swiss clas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15459 | 179,499 |
916,361 | The advance party consists of the battery commander, his driver, first sergeant, gunnery sergeant, FDC guide, gun guides, and communications representatives. Initially the Party looks to find suitable positions for an artillery unit to perform fire missions from. Then they perform what is known as route reconnaissance.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2146148 | 915,879 |
796,213 | On 25 August 2010 investigators from Canada and Sweden reported results from the first 10 people in the world treated with the biosynthetic corneas. Two years after having the corneas implanted, six of the 10 patients had improved vision. Nine of the 10 experienced cell and nerve regeneration, meaning that corneal cell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1425134 | 795,788 |
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