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11,818 | The change would get Apollo 13 back to Earth in about four days' timethough with splashdown in the Indian Ocean, where NASA had few recovery forces. Jerry Bostick and other Flight Dynamics Officers (FIDOs) were anxious both to shorten the travel time and to move splashdown to the Pacific Ocean, where the main recovery ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1770 | 11,813 |
45,875 | In 2015, Notre Dame announced major environmental sustainability goals, including eliminating using coal by 2020 and reducing its carbon footprint by half by 2030. Both these goals were reached in early 2019. This was achieved by implementing energy conservation, energy efficiency strategies, temperature setpoints, low... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146269 | 45,857 |
1,000,723 | By the 1980s, radiation therapy was also becoming an attractive option for VS patients. At the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, Lars Leksell (1907–1986) pioneered Gamma Knife radiosurgery. In 1951, he published his landmark scientific paper, "The Stereotaxic Method and Radiosurgery of the Brain," defining rad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1002770 | 1,000,205 |
1,454,137 | Illegibility from handwritten prescriptions is eliminated, decreasing the risk of medication errors while simultaneously decreasing risks related to liability. Oral miscommunications regarding prescriptions can be reduced, as e-prescribing should decrease the need for phone calls between prescribers and dispensers. Cau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19686742 | 1,453,319 |
2,156,451 | To tackle the virus and get the majority of the population vaccinated, most nations have come up with a scheme. This mainly gives priority to those working in the healthcare field, coming down to those over the age of 65, as well as people with underlying health conditions, moving down the list to the general public us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63936969 | 2,155,220 |
1,308,252 | On a 1989 sabbatical he met virologist Jian Zhou, and the two considered the problem of developing a vaccine for HPV – a virus that cannot be cultured without living tissue. Frazer convinced Zhou to join him, and in 1990 they began to use molecular biology to synthesize particles in vitro that could mimic the virus. In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3839699 | 1,307,536 |
892,639 | In comparison, the Super-Jupiter design was based on off-the-shelf components, with the exception of the E-1 engines. Although it too relied on the Centaur for high-altitude missions, the rocket was usable for low-Earth orbit without Centaur, which offered some flexibility in case Centaur ran into problems. ARPA agreed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=387135 | 892,170 |
1,133,597 | Critics of the bill argued that the deadline for meeting the standards was unnecessarily delayed until 2006—a period of 12 years—to enforce better water quality. They also maintained that it did not force sugarcane farmers, who were the primary polluters, to pay enough of the costs, and increased the threshold of what ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17601646 | 1,133,004 |
1,849,308 | The Forest of Dean, situated between the rivers Severn and Wye, is formed of a raised basin of Palaeozoic rocks folded in the Variscan Orogeny, similar to the South Wales Coalfield to the west. Underlain by great thicknesses of the Old Red Sandstone, the basin is filled with Carboniferous limestones, sandstones and coa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10426101 | 1,848,250 |
1,724,344 | In yet another high-profile case involving a Director of an Indian technical institute, a web campaign, similar to the campaign started by physicists in India, reported plagiarism in papers published by Prof. Kalyan Kumar and colleagues at North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology, NERIST, India. Three... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13951842 | 1,723,374 |
736,215 | The NCAA, like the NFL, has been criticized for its handling of concussions, with numerous players having retired from football due to concussions, or have filed lawsuits against the association for failing to protect student-athletes from concussions. In 2011, former players Derek Owens and Alex Rucks filed lawsuits a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36082813 | 735,828 |
1,040,361 | In early detection of ankylosis, radiographic examination is not effective because it only produces 2-dimensional graphic. This means that the ankylosed site would not be apparent if it is not perpendicular to the x-ray beam. Therefore, it is impossible to identify ankylosis in some areas using x-ray, for instance, buc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47234919 | 1,039,818 |
1,307,936 | In December 2020, Balakrishnan received the Infosys Prize for Engineering and Computer Science, the most prestigious award that recognizes achievements in science and research in India, "for his broad contributions to computer networking, his seminal work on mobile and wireless systems, and for commercial use of mobile... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26591381 | 1,307,220 |
112,101 | As a result, the input current of such basic switched mode power supplies has high harmonic content and relatively low power factor. This creates extra load on utility lines, increases heating of building wiring, the utility transformers, and standard AC electric motors, and may cause stability problems in some applica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=223407 | 112,056 |
1,301,696 | As boiler design improved heat transfer efficiency, blast pipe diameters increased to reduce back pressure, and blastpipes became shorter, discharging below the chimney rather than within it. Ross Winans placed conical "petticoat pipes" above blastpipes about 1848 to form the convergent portion of a venturi tube, with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28536326 | 1,300,982 |
1,872,818 | On September 13, 2013, two recreational cavers, Rick Hunter and Steven Tucker, discovered a previously unknown, remote chamber within the well known Rising Star cave system. Discovering the floor of this chamber (now known as the Dinaledi Chamber or UW-101) littered with human-like bones, the pair reported their finds ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11288671 | 1,871,741 |
1,077,120 | Additional signs and symptoms in school-age children include bed wetting, episodes of vomiting, reduced sensitivity to temperature changes and pain, poor balance, abnormal curvature of the spine (scoliosis), poor bone quality and increased risk of bone fractures, and kidney and heart problems. Affected individuals also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17596014 | 1,076,565 |
284,150 | By far the most common and perhaps standard form of ionization is electron ionization (EI). The molecules enter into the MS (the source is a quadrupole or the ion trap itself in an ion trap MS) where they are bombarded with free electrons emitted from a filament, not unlike the filament one would find in a standard lig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=846892 | 283,997 |
56,259 | The 1905 patent by Alfred Büchi, a Swiss engineer working at Sulzer is often considered the birth of the turbocharger. This patent was for a compound radial engine with an exhaust-driven axial flow turbine and compressor mounted on a common shaft. The first prototype was finished in 1915 with the aim of overcoming the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30886 | 56,235 |
1,871,267 | More focus is being directed on interactions between humans and native pollinators, such as "M. campanulae". These relationships are complex, involving issues of habitat loss, pesticides and toxin exposures, climate change, and other effects on the environment. The species "M. campunulae" pollinates of a wide array of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42898392 | 1,870,190 |
250,346 | All phasmids possess compound eyes, but ocelli (light-sensitive organs) are only known from the five groups Lanceocercata, Necrosciinae, Pseudophasmatidae, Palophidae and Phylliidae. Of these only the first three groups have females with ocelli, which like the wings seems to have re-evolved from ancestors that had lost... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=341989 | 250,214 |
318,599 | This first-class method uses each galaxy in a catalog as its target and then uses the Nearest Neighbor Approximation to calculate the cosmic density in the region contained in a spherical radius determined by the distance to the third-closest galaxy. El Ad & Piran introduced this method in 1997 to allow a quick and eff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42644968 | 318,428 |
2,035,031 | Founded in 1978 as the Firestone Regional Chest and Allergy Unit (FRCAU), the institute was designated as the Regional Referral Center by the District Health Council. The institute has maintained this designation, and as of 2006, it services the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant Local Health Integration Network, a commu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21444573 | 2,033,858 |
1,332,516 | Geophysical methods used in archaeology are largely adapted from those used in mineral exploration, engineering, and geology. Archaeological mapping presents unique challenges, however, which have spurred a separate development of methods and equipment. In general, geological applications are concerned with detecting r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275496 | 1,331,787 |
628,764 | The Parchims were also provided with capable anti-submarine warfare weapons. The torpedo tubes were loaded with acoustical and/or wire guided torpedoes. This gave the Parchims a precision submarine strike capability. The two RBU-6000 depth charge rocket launchers created a barrier defense against submarines, incoming t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8758180 | 628,428 |
469,398 | Microreactor "Technology" (MRT), making part of "process intensification", is a relatively new tool that is being developed at several universities, as well as leading fine chemical companies, such as Bayer Technology Services, Germany; Clariant, Switzerland; Evonik-Degussa, Germany; DSM, The Netherlands; Lonza, Switze... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3694845 | 469,162 |
168,531 | Early examples of legal enactments designed to consciously preserve the environment, for its own sake or human enjoyment, are found throughout history. In the common law, the primary protection was found in the law of nuisance, but this only allowed for private actions for damages or injunctions if there was harm to la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10091 | 168,441 |
68,737 | When Celestials literally began "raining" down on Earth, the Avengers are forced to reunite again and just in time to see the arrival of the Final Host which is composed of Dark Celestials that are each physically unique and were the ones who easily took down their brethren. In an attempt to learn more about these new ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=705418 | 68,710 |
716,917 | "Maqāṣid" (aims or purposes) of sharia and "maṣlaḥa" (welfare or public interest) are two related classical doctrines which have come to play an increasingly prominent role in modern times. They were first clearly articulated by al-Ghazali (d. 1111 C.E/ 505 A.H), who argued that "maslaha" was God's general purpose in r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1311096 | 716,540 |
796,980 | An endless stream of technological waste accumulates in different spatial configurations across the planet and turns into a predator in our soils, our streams, and our oceans. This idea was similarly expressed in 1954 by ecologist Paul Sears: "We do not know whether to cherish the forest as a source of essential raw ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32086658 | 796,555 |
1,022,913 | One simple solution is to put a gap between the commutator plates which is wider than the ends of the brushes. This increases the zero-torque range of angular positions but eliminates the shorting problem; if the motor is started spinning by an outside force it will continue spinning. With this modification, it can als... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10004115 | 1,022,383 |
136,225 | During the early stages of design, the aircraft had grown from being roughly the same size as the Mosquito to being around double its weight. Although jet-powered, the Canberra design philosophy was very much in the Mosquito mould, providing room for a substantial bomb load, fitting two of the most powerful engines ava... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=201787 | 136,170 |
354,134 | On 11 February 1944, the acting commander of the 4th Indian Division, Brigadier Dimoline, requested a bombing raid. Tuker reiterated again his case from a hospital bed in Caserta, where he was suffering a severe attack of a recurrent tropical fever. Freyberg transmitted his request on 12 February. The request, however,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33088 | 353,951 |
822,739 | Clinical presentation of CBD usually does not occur until age 60, with the earliest recorded diagnosis and subsequent postmortem verification being age 28. Although men and women present with the disease, some analysis has shown a predominant appearance of CBD in women. Current calculations suggest that the prevalence ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2844680 | 822,298 |
1,941,323 | The first of Bachhawat's major research findings came when he was working with Minor J. Coon at the University of Michigan. Both the scientists together discovered HMG-CoA lyase, an intermediate in the mevalonate and ketogenesis pathway, thus broadening the understanding of the "formation of ketone bodies in mammals", ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50565963 | 1,940,212 |
1,243,260 | The Y chromosome is found in the nucleus of normal cells (nuclear DNA). Unlike mtDNA, it has mutations in the non-recombinant portion (NRY) of the chromosome spaced widely apart, so far apart that finding the mutations on new Y chromosomes is labor-intensive compared with mtDNA. Many studies rely on tandem repeats; how... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3295330 | 1,242,587 |
714,868 | One member of the USAF crew sent by the "Big Safari" office to retrieve the damaged RB-57 doubts that the aircraft was used in the role described as its sensors were tailored specifically for the telemetry mission and of no value in combat, and that it operated in an area away from Indian airspace. Peshawar is located ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33576652 | 714,495 |
1,446,402 | Radiological intervention is often necessary to confirm the presence of vertebral osteomyelitis in the body. Plain-film radiological orders are necessary for all patients displaying symptoms of the disease. This diagnostic approach is often preliminary to other radiological procedures, such as magnetic resonance imagin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34737722 | 1,445,586 |
866,926 | In 2002 Maurizio Seracini, an art diagnostician alumnus of the University of California, San Diego, and a native Florentine, was commissioned by the Uffizi to undertake a study of the paint surface to determine whether the painting could be restored without damaging it. Seracini, who heads Editech, a Florence-based com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1843479 | 866,466 |
1,696,516 | Mutation can be more accurately defined as any non-combinatorial change in phenotype that is able to be consistently inherited from parent to offspring over generations. Mutations can be attributed to many factors and come in numerous different forms, however they can mostly be attributed to mistakes that occur during ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=709360 | 1,695,563 |
545,537 | The species was discovered by Euro-Americans in the 1850s. The wood is light yet has great strength and rot resistance, even after long exposure to salt water. Its properties resemble those of yellow-cedar, but was historically more available in the region. On shores lacking docks, logs were transported via high-line c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=442546 | 545,251 |
985,786 | Nicknamed a “city in a garden”, Singapore has dedicated many resources to make a system of nature preserves, parks and connectors (ex. Southern Ridges), and tree-lined streets that promote the return of wildlife and reduce the heat island effect that is often seen in dense city centers; local governments agree with Kel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59271750 | 985,271 |
936,092 | Australia and South Africa adopted OBE policies from the 1990s to the mid 2000s, but were abandoned in the face of substantial community opposition. The United States has had an OBE program in place since 1994 that has been adapted over the years. In 2005, Hong Kong adopted an outcome-based approach for its universitie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22816 | 935,597 |
132,898 | Soon after entering service, pilots began to report that "during flights of the P-39 in certain maneuvers, it tumbled end over end." Most of these events happened after the aircraft was stalled in a nose high attitude with considerable power applied. Bell pilots made 86 separate efforts to reproduce the reported tumbli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=458867 | 132,845 |
119,376 | Computer graphics terminals during this decade became increasingly intelligent, semi-standalone and standalone workstations. Graphics and application processing were increasingly migrated to the intelligence in the workstation, rather than continuing to rely on central mainframe and mini-computers. Typical of the early... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18567210 | 119,327 |
1,891,342 | Similar to the writing style of "Becoming Good Ancestors: How we Balance Nature, Community, and Technology," the author employs a number of narratives to establish the main themes present throughout this novel. For example, in his chapter entitled "Rejecting Gifts," Ehrenfeld discusses how the values of modern society ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42365789 | 1,890,259 |
989,907 | Apart from (for example) the Mosquito, most World War II bombers were not as fast as fighters, although they were effective for aerial reconnaissance due to their long range, inherent stability in flight and capacity to carry large camera payloads. American bombers with top speeds of less than 300 mph used for reconnai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20338498 | 989,390 |
1,990,026 | Self-assembly of nanofibrous scaffolds is able to occur only when the fibers themselves are engineered for self-assembly. One common way to drive the self-assembly of scaffold fibers is to use amphiphilic peptides so that in water the hydrophobic moiety drives the self-assembly. Carefully calculated engineering of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11088829 | 1,988,884 |
909,334 | Fixed point digital signal processors often support specific word lengths in order to support specific signal resolutions. For example, the Motorola 56000 DSP chip uses 24-bit multipliers and 56-bit accumulators to perform multiply-accumulate operations on two 24-bit samples without overflow or truncation. On devices t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7310614 | 908,855 |
307,592 | As rock and roll bands started seeking to diversify their sound, timpani found their way into the studio. In 1959 Leiber and Stoller made the innovative use of timpani in their production of the Drifters' recording, "There Goes My Baby." Starting in the 1960s, drummers for high-profile rock acts like The Beatles, Cream... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=140758 | 307,427 |
1,491,369 | In 2003, she received the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences of the American Philosophical Society. In 2009, Dr. Rowley was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor, by then-President Barack Obama, and the Gruber Prize in Genetics. Then in 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1532097 | 1,490,530 |
787,875 | The history of numerical weather prediction began in the 1920s through the efforts of Lewis Fry Richardson, who used procedures originally developed by Vilhelm Bjerknes to produce by hand a six-hour forecast for the state of the atmosphere over two points in central Europe, taking at least six weeks to do so. It was no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1505381 | 787,451 |
232,817 | Improvements in computing technology keep increasing the rate at which guessed passwords can be tested. For example, in 2010, the Georgia Tech Research Institute developed a method of using GPGPU to crack passwords much faster. Elcomsoft invented the usage of common graphic cards for quicker password recovery in August... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4459886 | 232,698 |
56,877 | Aryabhata created a system of phonemic number notation in which numbers were represented by consonant-vowel monosyllables. Later commentators such as Brahmagupta divide his work into "Ganita ("Mathematics"), Kalakriya ("Calculations on Time") and Golapada ("Spherical Astronomy")". His pure mathematics discusses topics ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=297204 | 56,853 |
952,129 | On 15 September 1939 Menzies announced the formation of the Second Australian Imperial Force (AIF). This expeditionary force initially consisted of 20,000 men organised into an infantry division (the 6th Division) and auxiliary units. The AIF was institutionally separate from the CMF, which was legally restricted to se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4578255 | 951,624 |
1,614,722 | Designers pioneering the use of SPWs did not have much experience nor existing data to rely upon. Typically, web plate design failed to consider post-buckling behaviour under shear, thus ignoring the advantage of the tension field and its added benefits for drift control and shear resistance. Furthermore, the inelastic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15134330 | 1,613,816 |
175,198 | Studying the nature of X-ray radiation and discussing its properties with his brother Maurice, who considered these rays to be some kind of combination of waves and particles, contributed to Louis de Broglie's awareness of the need to build a theory linking particle and wave representations. In addition, he was familia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50165 | 175,107 |
420,554 | The benefit of polygenic scores is that they can be used to predict the future for crops, animal breeding, and humans alike. Although the same basic concepts underlie these areas of prediction, they face different challenges that require different methodologies. The ability to produce very large family size in nonhuman... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52142704 | 420,349 |
1,029,350 | Although cryptography has a long and complex history, it wasn't until the 19th century that it developed anything more than ad hoc approaches to either encryption or cryptanalysis (the science of finding weaknesses in crypto systems). Examples of the latter include Charles Babbage's Crimean War era work on mathematical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=520066 | 1,028,816 |
379,191 | This compound was originally created to work as an estrogen inhibitor, but instead was found to stimulate ovulation in participants of the drug testing trial. Walpole and his colleagues filed a UK patent covering this compound in 1962, but patent protection on this compound was repeatedly denied in the US until the 198... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1269557 | 378,996 |
134,154 | One of their own scientific consultants was earlier critical. Dr. Ghillean Prance, director of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew, designed the rainforest biome inside the Biosphere. Although he later changed his opinion, acknowledging the unique scope of this experiment and contributed to its success as a consultant, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216362 | 134,099 |
79,628 | Early Irish law, An Senchus Mor (The Great Tradition) mentions in a number of places "recht aicned" or natural law. This is a concept predating European legal theory, and reflects a type of law that is universal and may be determined by reason and observation of natural action. Neil McLeod identifies concepts that law ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22063 | 79,595 |
1,942,745 | The new school was praised by some; the Reverend Thomas Radcliffe stated in an 1833 letter: "Future generations will bless the memory of Sir John Colborne, who, to the many advantages derived from the equity and wisdom of his government, has added that of a magnificent foundation [in Upper Canada College] for the purpo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9633735 | 1,941,634 |
310,744 | Some of the reasons that artificial gravity remains unused today in spaceflight trace back to the problems inherent in implementation. One of the realistic methods of creating artificial gravity is the centrifugal effect caused by the centripetal force of the floor of a rotating structure pushing up on the person. In t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1137568 | 310,576 |
1,556,088 | A Python library HAPI (HITRAN Application Programming Interface) has been developed which serves as a tool for absorption and transmission calculations as well as comparisons of spectroscopic data sets. HAPI extends the functionality of the main site, in particular, for the calculation of spectra using several types of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10399056 | 1,555,204 |
491,126 | Penzias went on to work at Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, where, with Robert Woodrow Wilson, he worked on ultra-sensitive cryogenic microwave receivers, intended for radio astronomy observations. In 1964, on building their most sensitive antenna/receiver system, the pair encountered radio noise which they could not ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=318516 | 490,872 |
498,643 | Even before the passage of the Recommendation Paper at the OGC, Galdos had started work on an XML Schema version of GML, replacing the rdf:resource scheme for remote references with the use of xlink:href, and developing specific patterns (e.g. Barbarians at the Gate) for handling extensions for complex structures like ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=203653 | 498,386 |
62,106 | Short radio waves reflect from curves and corners in a way similar to glint from a rounded piece of glass. The most reflective targets for short wavelengths have 90° angles between the reflective surfaces. A corner reflector consists of three flat surfaces meeting like the inside corner of a cube. The structure will re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25676 | 62,081 |
1,855,919 | Originally, "PIG-A" assay was proposed as a method for monitoring humans for somatic mutation. The assay was developed as an extension of flow cytometric procedure for diagnosing human acquired genetic disorder, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH). "PIG-A" assays were developed for cells of peripheral blood, such... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60446482 | 1,854,851 |
95,495 | The ecological complexities human beings are facing through the technological transformation of the planetary biome has brought on the Anthropocene. The unique set of circumstances has generated the need for a new unifying science called coupled human and natural systems that builds upon, but moves beyond the field of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9630 | 95,454 |
644,322 | Badgers ("Meles meles") were first identified as carriers of "M. bovis" in 1971, but the report of an independent review committee in 1997 (the Krebs Report) concluded: "strong circumstantial evidence [exists] to suggest that badgers represent a significant source of "M. bovis" infection in cattle... [h]owever, the cau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=852703 | 643,982 |
934,578 | In 1927, George Herzog spent two months with the Pima tribe in Arizona, an amount of time that would be considered short by today's standards — where periods of fieldwork can often last longer than a year. But Herzog recorded several hundred songs during that time, establishing a precedent for increasingly long field s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80077 | 934,086 |
1,902,787 | Crocodiles have very vascularized osteoderms, that serve as protective features and for thermoregulation. Since crocodiles submerge completely underwater for long periods of time, the osteoderms release neutralizing ions into the bloodstream that buffer the accumulating carbon dioxide and prevent acidosis. Osteoderms o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51692420 | 1,901,696 |
933,240 | First they provided a highly efficient network for shipping freight and passengers across a large national market. The result was a transforming impact on most sectors of the economy including manufacturing, retail and wholesale, agriculture and finance. Supplemented with the Telegraph that added rapid communications, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=587997 | 932,748 |
915,419 | The above re-expression of a size-"N" DFT as two size-"N"/2 DFTs is sometimes called the Danielson–Lanczos lemma, since the identity was noted by those two authors in 1942 (influenced by Runge's 1903 work). They applied their lemma in a "backwards" recursive fashion, repeatedly "doubling" the DFT size until the transfo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=352702 | 914,938 |
1,301,193 | Because of the small size of individual nanocrystals, Fh is nanoporous yielding large surface areas of several hundred square meters per gram. In addition to having a high surface area to volume ratio, Fh also has a high density of local or point defects, such as dangling bonds and vacancies. These properties confer a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8712963 | 1,300,479 |
1,362,552 | A vast majority of PDCD patients (80-88%) have a mutation on their PDHA1 gene. PDHA1 was shown to be a good candidate for gene therapy using an adeno associated virus (AAV2) to express the protein "in vitro" nearly 15 years ago; however, research was discontinued. Since then, AAV technology, which is used as the delive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3962194 | 1,361,799 |
2,189,166 | Dr. Mercier was appointed deputy minister of agriculture in 1960 under premier Jean Lesage's government, a position which he held until 1966. There, he worked to plan and implement provincial and federal agrifood policies required in transforming the family farm into a viable and profitable enterprise in Quebec. He ena... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44775571 | 2,187,917 |
1,106,775 | Greenhouse gas emissions were not required to be analyzed as an impact to the environment when CEQA was originally adopted. Several scientists have since attributed greenhouse gases to climate change and resulting negative impacts to humans and the environment. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1833622 | 1,106,211 |
466,743 | The ground test engine hardware was fabricated over 18 months and underwent a four-month engine validation testing program in the ATK GASL freejet wind tunnel complex Leg 6, located in Ronkonkoma, New York. Ignition, fuel throttling, and engine operation were wrung out over a range of expected flight conditions. After ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4841481 | 466,510 |
9,221 | In March 2015, additional details of the improvement package were unveiled. The 777-300ER was to shed by replacing the fuselage crown with tie rods and composite integration panels, similar to those used on the 787. The new flight control software was to eliminate the need for the tail skid by keeping the tail off the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89260 | 9,217 |
1,220,697 | Despite a similar overall appearance, "A. hygrometricus" is not related to the true earthstars of genus "Geastrum", although historically, they have been taxonomically confused. The species was first described by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon in 1801 as "Geastrum hygrometricus". In 1885, Andrew P. Morgan proposed that dif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23316558 | 1,220,042 |
411,634 | Nearing the end of his life, Vygotsky's later work involved adolescent development. However, his most important and widely known contribution is his theory for the development of "higher psychological functions," which considers human psychological development as emerging through unification of interpersonal connection... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=95176 | 411,432 |
542,481 | Estimates are that humans unshielded in interplanetary space would receive annually roughly 400 to 900 mSv (compared to 2.4 mSv on Earth) and that a Mars mission (12 months in flight and 18 months on Mars) might expose shielded astronauts to roughly 500 to 1000 mSv. These doses approach the 1 to 4 Sv career limits advi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14415787 | 542,201 |
287,183 | The AR series uses a die-cast aluminium engine block and aluminium DOHC cylinder head. The engine series shares many of the technologies in the AZ engine, while incorporating new features such as variable valve timing on both intake and exhaust camshafts or dual VVT-i, low friction technologies including an offset cran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20303643 | 287,028 |
1,018,126 | Statements by Göring himself in August 1942 in response to "Oberst" Edgar Petersen's reports - in his capacity as the "Kommandeur der Erprobungstellen" (commander of all Luftwaffe test stations), themselves headquartered at "Erprobungsstelle Rechlin" - on solving the serious problems with the original Heinkel He 177A's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=455378 | 1,017,602 |
278,857 | The Agena target vehicle was launched on July 18, 1966, at 3:39 p.m. and successfully entered orbit. Gemini 10 launched as scheduled later that day at 5:20 p.m. from LC-19, within the 35-second launch window that maximized its chances of making the dual rendezvous. Once in orbit, the crew attempted to navigate to their... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=303563 | 278,707 |
1,865,250 | Stefano Pelinga (born May 1964) is an Italian professional pool (pocket billiards) player from Rome. He is best known as a multi-year international artistic pool champion, as both an individual and team captain. He has also served as an officer for the "Polizia di Stato" (Italy's national police) for 27 years, retiring... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32490964 | 1,864,177 |
1,224,981 | Furthermore, Kanas points out that during on-orbit or lunar missions a number of interventions have been implemented successfully to support crew member psychological well-being. These have included family conferences in real time (i.e., with no appreciable delays), frequent consultations with mission control, and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40399131 | 1,224,321 |
333,578 | The primary differences between complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs) and FPGAs are architectural. A CPLD has a comparatively restrictive structure consisting of one or more programmable sum-of-products logic arrays feeding a relatively small number of clocked registers. As a result, CPLDs are less flexible, but h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10969 | 333,400 |
1,182,277 | When the spring came the 8th Indian Division was switched in great secrecy (along with the bulk of the British Eighth Army, now commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese) 60 miles west across the Apennine Mountains to concentrate as part of Lieutenant-General Sidney C. Kirkmans British XIII Corps, serving alongs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3675637 | 1,181,652 |
869,901 | Picking up where Lilienthal left off, Octave Chanute took up aircraft design after an early retirement and funded the development of several gliders. In the summer of 1896, his team flew several of their designs many times at Miller Beach, Indiana, eventually deciding that the best was a biplane design. Like Lilienthal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1607990 | 869,441 |
866,300 | Currently, the world is facing a food crisis due to poor agricultural practices, unfavorable weather conditions for agriculture, and natural disasters, among other forces that are beyond human control. Agricultural practices in the current times majorly rely on innovation and technology, and agricultural researchers ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6907585 | 865,840 |
1,623,409 | Seismic tomography is a technique that uses seismic waves produced by earthquakes to gather information on the composition of the crust and mantle below a volcanic system. Different layers and structures in the Earth have different propagation speeds of seismic waves and attenuate them differently, resulting in differe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47603156 | 1,622,493 |
433,026 | The Home Office (UK) led the Inter-Departmental Group on Reduction, Refinement and Replacement, which aims to improve the application of the 3Rs and promote research into alternatives, reducing the need for toxicity testing through better sharing of data, and encouraging the validation and acceptance of alternatives. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40251468 | 432,813 |
820,385 | Hermann Staudinger studied the stereoisomerism in chain polymerization of vinyl monomers in the late 1920s, and it took another two decades for people to fully appreciate the idea that each of the propagation steps in the polymer growth could give rise to stereoisomerism. The major milestone in the stereochemistry was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1947467 | 819,944 |
1,504,113 | Watkins (2005) presents an overview of the gradual progress of the Indigenizing of archaeology worldwide, lauding the few accomplishments and trying to "interpret the relative quiet of the Indigenous voice" (40). In Australia and New Zealand, Aboriginal peoples are using archeology as part of their reclamation of herit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21924068 | 1,503,267 |
1,008,448 | When compared with Deep Blue or with Watson, AlphaGo's underlying algorithms are potentially more general-purpose, and may be evidence that the scientific community is making progress toward artificial general intelligence. Some commentators believe AlphaGo's victory makes for a good opportunity for society to start di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49693402 | 1,007,927 |
386,544 | The pyrometallurgical process involves burning the battery materials with slag, limestone, sand and coke to produce a metal alloy using a high-temperature furnace. The resulted materials are a metallic alloy, slag and gases. The gases comprise molecules that are evaporated from the electrolyte and binder components. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15452708 | 386,349 |
355,353 | Later, even lighter carbine variants of many of these short-barreled assault rifles came to be adopted as the standard infantry weapon. In much modern tactical thinking, only a certain number of soldiers need to retain longer-range weapons, serving as designated marksmen. The rest can carry lighter, shorter-ranged weap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6579 | 355,170 |
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