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1,007,077 | Microwave gun-laying system development had already started in Great Britain, and it was included with high priority at the Rad Lab due to its urgent need. The project, with Ivan Getting leading, started with the same 10-cm breadboard used in the AI project. Development of the GL system was challenging. A new, complex ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27693223 | 1,006,558 |
1,161,974 | On October 22, 2012, Dominion Resources announced they would shut down and decommission the plant in mid-2013. Dominion's chairman and CEO said "the decision was based purely on economics. Dominion was not able to move forward with our plan to grow our nuclear fleet in the Midwest to take advantage of economies of scal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1835512 | 1,161,357 |
582,855 | The strongest impacts of intraseasonal variability on the United States occur during the winter months over the western U.S. During the winter this region receives the bulk of its annual precipitation. Storms in this region can last for several days or more and are often accompanied by persistent atmospheric circulatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1666522 | 582,556 |
1,559,189 | The third discussion covered the aspects of producing people who act environmentally friendly. Collectively, any activities that support sustainability, either by reducing harmful behaviors or by adopting helpful ones, can be called conservation behaviors. Achieving more sustainable relationships with nature will basic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14768005 | 1,558,303 |
2,012,722 | Pang and Cheng, 1998 distinguished "Tianzhenosaurus" from all other ankylosaurids based on the following traits: A flat, low, medium-sized, isosceles triangle shaped skull; skull roof covered with irregular bony tubercles; a relatively long premaxilla; a small orbit surrounded by a bony ring; horizontally elongates nar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4354088 | 2,011,565 |
866,887 | On 26 August 2017, astronomers using data from the Green Bank Telescope detected 15 additional repeating FRBs coming from FRB 121102 at 5 to 8 GHz. The researchers also noted that FRB 121102 is presently in a ""heightened activity state, and follow-on observations are encouraged, particularly at higher radio frequencie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40408388 | 866,427 |
162,151 | In 1919–1920 there was a short-lived boom in the British economy, caused by a rush of investment pent-up during the war years and another rush of orders for new shipping to replace the millions of tons lost. However, with the end of war orders, a serious depression hit the economy by 1921–22. Exports fell to half of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,066 |
1,482,176 | Atomics International was a division of a private company which engaged in the commercial enterprise of selling products and services to other companies, Universities and foreign governments. Atomics International also conducted research and development for the United States Government. Operating both as a contractor t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23746101 | 1,481,341 |
556,467 | In 1940, the U.S. Army Air Corps issued Request for Proposal R-40C, requesting designs for a high-speed, long-range, high-altitude interceptor intended to destroy enemy bombers. The specifications were very bold, encouraging manufacturers to produce radical aircraft that would outperform any existing fighter in the wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2186955 | 556,178 |
1,350,958 | He lived for some time at the court of Seleucus I Nicator, where he acquired great reputation by discovering the disease of Antiochus I Soter, the king's eldest son, probably 294 BC. Seleucus in his old age had lately married Stratonice, the young and beautiful daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes, and she had already bor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=262935 | 1,350,212 |
1,457,121 | While there are many obstacles that will hinder a company's ability to become geocentric, there are also a handful of forces which will drive them towards this. For instance, there is the loss of national sovereignty when one nation is dominated by another – this can lead to a loss in economic and political nationalism... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26992335 | 1,456,301 |
621,172 | After the success of his 2002 documentary "Spellbound", Jeffrey Blitz was encouraged by his agents to write fiction because of the larger revenue brought in by fiction films. Blitz began to piece together a story that had come to him while he had been filming "Spellbound": "I kept thinking, what if we met a kid that wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8987889 | 620,840 |
1,477,686 | An antagonistically pleiotropic gene can be selected for if it has beneficial effects in early life while having its negative effects in later life because genes tend to have larger impacts on fitness in an organism's prime than in their old age. An example of this is testosterone levels in male humans. Higher levels o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17204799 | 1,476,854 |
394,303 | To supplement the Red Army's shortage of machine guns, an SVT version capable of full-automatic fire (designated the "AVT-40") was ordered into production on 20 May 1942; the first batches reached the troops in July. It was externally similar to the SVT, but its modified safety also acted as a fire selector allowing fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=444048 | 394,108 |
2,116,158 | Eva Vertes George (born 1985) is a Canadian Alzheimer's and cancer researcher and a resident physician in pathology at the University of Florida College of Medicine, where she earned an M.D. degree after attending Princeton University as an undergraduate. She was recognized for her research when she was still a teenage... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9567603 | 2,114,941 |
1,970,524 | The force measurement system is an important part of the Lorentz force velocimetry. With high resolution force measurement system makes the measurement of even lower conductivity possible. Up to date has the force measurement system continually being developed. At first the pendulum-like setups was used (Figure 5). One... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35408416 | 1,969,390 |
592,880 | Plastics were introduced to the rotational molding process in the early 1950s. One of the first applications was to manufacture doll heads. The machinery was made of an E Blue box-oven machine, inspired by a General Motors rear axle, powered by an external electric motor and heated by floor-mounted gas burners. The mol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2326697 | 592,576 |
188,348 | Geomorphology was started to be put on a solid quantitative footing in the middle of the 20th century. Following the early work of Grove Karl Gilbert around the turn of the 20th century, a group of mainly American natural scientists, geologists and hydraulic engineers including William Walden Rubey, Ralph Alger Bagnold... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=78534 | 188,251 |
852,451 | The Army bought 5,480 mortar guidance kits in response to an operational needs statement in Afghanistan, sometimes hitting as close as 2.2 meters from the target. With the success of the XM395, the Army is seeking a guided 120 mm mortar Program of Record with comparable accuracy through the High Explosive Guided Mortar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6805466 | 851,997 |
746,781 | Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the star's large irregular changes in brightness as measured by its light curve, but none to date fully explain all aspects of the curve. One explanation is that an "uneven ring of dust" orbits Tabby's Star. In another explanation, the star's luminosity is modulated by c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48217770 | 746,386 |
1,887,036 | According to recent research, there is no neural evidence of statistical language learning in children with autism spectrum disorders. When exposed to a continuous stream of artificial speech, neurotypical children displayed less cortical activity in the dorsolateral frontal cortices (specifically the middle frontal gy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35676775 | 1,885,954 |
192,026 | After a lengthy search over the summer of 1773, Mason reported that the best candidate was Schiehallion, a peak in the central Scottish Highlands. The mountain stood in isolation from any nearby hills, which would reduce their gravitational influence, and its symmetrical east–west ridge would simplify the calculations.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9951602 | 191,927 |
643,975 | After 1910, bibliometrics approach increasingly became the main focus in several study of scientific performance rather than one quantitative method among others. In 1917, Francis Joseph Cole and Nellie B. Eales argued in favor of the primary statistical value of publications as a publication "is an isolated and defini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1223245 | 643,635 |
1,261,003 | Instead of attending Brown University, Peck moved to Saginaw, Michigan, intending to live on her own and support herself. Peck found work as a preceptress and teacher of languages and mathematics at Saginaw High School, where she remained until 1874. While teaching in Saginaw, Peck decided to further her education by e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2525237 | 1,260,316 |
914,319 | Information problems have always affected the lives of humans, yet it was not studied with any seriousness until near the 1970s when three economists fleshed out models which revolutionized the way we think about information and its interaction with the market. George Akerlof's paper "The Market for Lemons" introduced ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=309801 | 913,840 |
1,968,181 | Highly charged ions (HCI) are ions in very high charge states due to the loss of many or most of their bound electrons by energetic collisions or high-energy photon absorption. Examples are 13-fold ionized iron, or Fe XIV in spectroscopic notation, found in the Sun's corona, or "naked" uranium, (U XCIII in spectroscopi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15725860 | 1,967,051 |
1,382,313 | Caseid fossils have been found in the southern and central United States (Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas), France, Germany, Poland, Sardinia, and European Russia. This geographical distribution corresponds to the paleoequatorial belt of Pangaea during the Carboniferous and the Permian, with the exception of the Russian locali... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4962651 | 1,381,548 |
76,015 | Each trace consists of a flat, narrow part of the copper foil that remains after etching. Its resistance, determined by its width, thickness, and length, must be sufficiently low for the current the conductor will carry. Power and ground traces may need to be wider than signal traces. In a multi-layer board one entire ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65910 | 75,986 |
1,878,392 | Pratylenchus penetrans is a species of nematode in the genus "Pratylenchus", the lesion nematodes. It occurs in temperate regions worldwide, regions between the subtropics and the polar circles. It is an animal that inhabits the roots of a wide variety of plants and results in necrotic lesions on the roots. Symptoms of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11874473 | 1,877,312 |
969,365 | In modern machines, the gantry-type superstructure has two legs and is often called a bridge. This moves freely along the granite table with one leg (often referred to as the inside leg) following a guide rail attached to one side of the granite table. The opposite leg (often outside leg) simply rests on the granite ta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2619011 | 968,855 |
1,393,653 | "Keichousaurus hui" was found in 1958 in Guizhou, China by palaeontologist Hu Chengzhi. This fossil is distinguished by its broad ulna which makes it unlike other European genera. The broad ulna increased the surface area of the forelimbs, making it more effective in locomotion. "Keichousaurus" shows many characteristi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9214310 | 1,392,882 |
1,592,404 | With a renewed focus on conventional warfare following the 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine the unit has been involved in a number of multinational exercises. In 2014 soldiers of the 107th Engineer Battalion deployed to Latvia as part of US Army Europe's Operation Atlantic Resolve. The soldiers assisted in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43453030 | 1,591,507 |
1,692,808 | Following negotiations with the IMF, a package of $4.6 billion was agreed on 19 November, with the IMF loaning $2.1 billion and another $2.3 billion in loans and currency swaps from Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. In addition, Poland has offered to lend $200 million and the Faroe Islands have offered 300 million D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25618370 | 1,691,857 |
75,768 | While Brodie had arguably made the most progress in the pursuit of a poliovirus vaccine, he suffered the most significant career repercussions due to his status as a less widely known researcher. Modern researchers recognize that Brodie may well have developed an effective polio vaccine, however the basic science and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=192198 | 75,739 |
328,246 | In August 1947, Chadwick was killed in the crash of the Avro Tudor 2 prototype, and was succeeded by Sir William Farren. Reductions in wing thickness made incorporating the split bomb bays and stacked engines impossible, thus the engines were placed side by side in pairs on either side of a single bomb bay, with the fu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44070 | 328,072 |
679,933 | Damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) are molecules within cells that are a component of the innate immune response released from damaged or dying cells due to trauma or an infection by a pathogen. They are also known as danger-associated molecular patterns, danger signals, and alarmin because they serve as a wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17544970 | 679,579 |
426,263 | The STS-66 Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science-3 (ATLAS-3) mission was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on November 3, 1994, and returned to land at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on November 14, 1994. ATLAS-3 was part of an ongoing program to determine the Earth's energy balance and at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=635284 | 426,054 |
1,670,567 | "Imperator Nikolai I" sailed in June 1892 for New York City to participate in the celebration honoring the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America. She was assigned to the Mediterranean Squadron upon her return and visited Toulon in October 1893. Sailing for the Pacific Ocean during the First Sino-Japanese War an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5507897 | 1,669,627 |
626,736 | At one veterinary teaching hospital, between 50 and 80% of cats had one or more medical complications post-surgery; 19.8% developed complications after release. Other studies have reported medical post-op complication rates as 24% (Jankowski 1998), 53% (Martinez 1993), 1.4% (Pollari 1996), 82.5% for blade and 51.5% for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1491754 | 626,403 |
1,535,051 | Pins and needles/burning sensation, nausea and temporary discomfort are possible sensations during CO angiography, mainly because the transient ischemia caused by the CO bubbles flowing in the bloodstream. CO is also neurotoxic, so brain injections should be avoided. The most feared complication for intravascular use i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64449141 | 1,534,183 |
1,441,723 | The printhead must have heating capability to print any material influenced by viscosity changes. Oil-based inks are sensitive to temperature. Waxes and hot-melt materials are solids at room temperature. Water-based inks may not need heat. It is also possible to print with metallic alloys such as lead, tin, indium, zin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46964830 | 1,440,911 |
1,049,690 | The disease cycle begins in early spring, when cool temperatures and abundant moisture promote the release of sexual spores (ascospores) from overwintering structures (pseudothecia) found in the debris at the base of previously-infected trees. Moisture is a critical factor in the development of the disease as rainfall ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1461638 | 1,049,144 |
347,666 | William Porter Payne, who played football at UGA and was Vice Chairman of Bank of America became president and chief executive officer of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games and later chairman of Augusta National Golf Club. Payne was largely responsible for bringing the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta and the U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378232 | 347,485 |
2,133,742 | During his early tenure at the University of Colorado Boulder, Jimenez contributed to the establishment of the Aerodyne Aerosol Mass Spectrometer, an instrument for real-time analysis of aerosol size and composition. In 2008, he and Rainer Volkamer were co-lead authors on a study showing a link between human activities... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67599140 | 2,132,517 |
1,111,708 | On August 14, 2007, the General Contractor released the Certificate of Occupancy for the Health and Sciences Center (HSC). The HSC serves as the home for the Mark and Huldah Buntain School of nursing as well as the University Science Department's chemistry, biology, environmental studies, and physics labs. The Northwes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=422926 | 1,111,142 |
1,349,445 | Models of neural computation are attempts to elucidate, in an abstract and mathematical fashion, the core principles that underlie information processing in biological nervous systems, or functional components thereof. Due to the complexity of nervous system behavior, the associated experimental error bounds are ill-de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3062721 | 1,348,699 |
1,099,135 | The early 1980s would also see Intelligent Computer-Assisted Instruction (ICAI) and ITS goals diverge from their roots in CAI. As CAI became increasingly focused on deeper interactions with content created for a specific area of interest, ITS sought to create systems that focused on knowledge of the task and the abilit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3765637 | 1,098,575 |
1,015,616 | The F-35 program has experienced a number of cost overruns and developmental delays. The program's delays have come under fire from the U.S. Congress and some U.S. Department of Defense officials. The program has undergone a number of reassessments and changes since 2006. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) warn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54719700 | 1,015,095 |
1,980,148 | Randal A. Koene is a Dutch neuroscientist, neuroengineer, and co-founder of carboncopies.org, an outreach and roadmapping organization for advancing Substrate-Independent Minds (SIM). Between 2008 and 2010, Koene was Director of the Department of Neuroengineering at the Fatronik-Tecnalia Institute in Spain, the third l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23932137 | 1,979,010 |
1,540,237 | BeppoSAX detected its first gamma-ray burst GRB960720 on July 20, 1996 from an X-ray burst in one of the two Wide Field Cameras (WFCs), but it was only discovered in the data six weeks later, by a Dutch duty scientist systematically checking WFC-bursts coinciding in time with BATSE-triggers from the same direction. Fol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22308958 | 1,539,364 |
53,875 | In Austria, medical studies (medicine or dentistry) take 6 years full-time. In medicine, the first two years comprise basic fields of medicine such as anatomy, biology, chemistry, physics, physiology, etc., the next three years consist of all medical fields in the narrower sense with frequent bedside training and medic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=428966 | 53,855 |
767,902 | Bhargava was born to an Indian family in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, but grew up and attended school primarily in Long Island, New York. His mother Mira Bhargava, a mathematician at Hofstra University, was his first mathematics teacher. He completed all of his high school math and computer science courses by age 14. He ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5102088 | 767,490 |
1,960,704 | All members of "Laricobius" feed on members of Adelgidae, and "Laricobius nigrinus" is specialized on the hemlock woolly adelgid. The predatory life history of "Laricobius" is unique among the family as most derodontids are fungal feeders. "L. nigrinus" is native to hemlock forests in the Pacific Northwest. It can be f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57249517 | 1,959,577 |
1,990,033 | In electron beam lithography (EBL), an electron-sensitive resist is exposed to a beam of high-energy electrons. There is the choice of a positive or negative type resist; however, lower feature resolution can be obtained with negative resists. Patterns are created by programming the beam of electrons for the exact path... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11088829 | 1,988,890 |
1,171,476 | In the middle of the 20th century, the idea of aesthetics was deployed in scientific contexts. Charles E. Osgood developed his semantic differential method in which he quantified the peoples' perceptions of artifacts. Some years later, in 1960, Professors Shigeru Mizuno and Yoji Akao developed an engineering approach i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1508678 | 1,170,857 |
1,411,487 | The urgency to take immediate measures for underground water protection in Chernobyl and Pripyat region was caused by perceived danger of transportation of radionuclides to the Dnieper River, thus contaminating Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, and 9 million other water users downstream. In this regard, on May 30, 1986 the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59803219 | 1,410,694 |
955,379 | Through the 19th century, urban planning became a focal point and central issue in cities. The combination of the tradition of landscape gardening and the emerging field of urban planning offered landscape architecture an opportunity to serve these needs. In the second half of the century, Frederick Law Olmsted complet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75286 | 954,874 |
513,450 | Gestation length in humans is believed to be shorter than most other primates of comparable size. The gestation length for humans is 266 days, or eight days short of nine months, which is counted from the first day of the woman's last menstrual period. During gestation, mothers must support the metabolic cost of tissue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2368360 | 513,184 |
1,326,398 | During prolonged periods of fasting, ketone bodies serve as the primary energy source for the brain. In 2006, Henderson et al. showed that there is a therapeutic effect of maintaining a ketogenic diet – a diet consisting of high fat/low carbohydrate meals – in children with epilepsy. Ketogenic diets have also been show... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5407179 | 1,325,671 |
375,572 | Following a study, contrasting the proposed Learstar against rivals such as the Lockheed Jetstar, Dassault Falcon 50, and Grumman Gulfstream II, Canadair decided to give its backing to the idea near the end of 1975. According to aerospace industry publication "Flight International", the programme was viewed by many Can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=937178 | 375,377 |
1,285,708 | During the late 1920s and early 1930s the available power from aero engines increased significantly, making possible the adoption of the fast cantilever-wing monoplane, originally pioneered as far back as late 1915. The ability to handle the high mechanical stresses imposed by this advanced form of airframe design phil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5887363 | 1,285,007 |
761,652 | In these vessels, the nuclear reactor heats water to create steam to drive the turbines. When first developed, very low prices of diesel oil limited nuclear propulsion's commercial attraction. The advantages of its fuel-price security, greater safety and low emissions were unable to overcome the higher initial costs of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8379893 | 761,244 |
2,116,326 | The 1913 botanical illustration of this bladderwort species depicts a delicate 2 to 12-inch stem growing along or just below the surface in very shallow water on a slender root or basal system; leaves are tiny or absent, often buried in the sand or mud; the showy blue to purple flower blooms from August to September wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12594368 | 2,115,109 |
358,237 | Tycho also worked in medicine and alchemy. He was strongly influenced by Paracelsus, who considered the human body to be directly influenced by celestial bodies. The paracelsian view of man as a microcosm, and astrology as the science tying together the celestial and bodily universes was also shared by Philip Melanchth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30027 | 358,051 |
515,658 | The 2004–05 season was the first full season for the league, and was seen by some to be the inaugural season. Before the season began, there was already interest by the National Hockey League (NHL) in China's hockey program. In addition to the five teams which took part in the tournament the year before, the league add... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2209949 | 515,391 |
2,064,384 | TALEs are the first identified, best-studied and largest group within the TALE-likes. TALEs are found throughout the bacterial genus "Xanthomonas", comprising mostly plant pathogens. Those TALEs which have been studied have all been shown to be secreted as part of the Type III secretion system into host plant cells. On... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49021319 | 2,063,193 |
646 | The United States is the primary customer and financial backer, with planned procurement of 1,763 F-35As for the USAF, 353 F-35Bs and 67 F-35Cs for the USMC, and 273 F-35Cs for the USN. Additionally, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, Australia, Norway, Denmark and Canada have agreed to contribute US$4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11812 | 646 |
1,066,838 | It has since been argued that shooting down three aircraft in one mission was a feat repeated several times by later pilots, and whether Hawker deserved his Victoria Cross has been questioned. However, in the context of the air war of mid-1915 it was unusual to shoot down even one aircraft, and the VC was awarded on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=535536 | 1,066,284 |
1,605,139 | At the turn of the 17th-18th centuries, the country's need for metal was exacerbated by the outbreak of wars for access to the Black and Baltic Seas. Olonets and Kashiro-Tula plants in the central and northwestern parts of Russia had already depleted forest and ore bases and did not meet the growing demand for weapons-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66141214 | 1,604,236 |
1,177,081 | , Balmorel has been the subject of some 22publications. A 2008 study uses Balmorel to explore the Nordic energy system in 2050. The focus is on renewable energy supply and the deployment of hydrogen as the main transport fuel. Given certain assumptions about the future price of oil and carbon and the uptake of hydrogen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38803848 | 1,176,458 |
357,106 | Threads of cybernetics began in the late 1800s that led toward the publishing of seminal works (such as Wiener's "" in 1948 and Bertalanffy's "General Systems Theory" in 1968). Cybernetics arose more from engineering fields and GST from biology. If anything, it appears that although the two probably mutually influenced... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29238 | 356,920 |
664,984 | During World War II, U-boats threatened the ability of the Allies to transport troops and war materiel to Europe, spurring the development of very long range Maritime patrol aircraft, whose capability of independently detecting and destroying submerged submarines was greatly increased with new detection systems, includ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=972784 | 664,637 |
43,802 | A NASA study that was not publicly released and another from the Georgia Institute of Technology showed this option to be possibly cheaper. In 2012, the United Launch Alliance also suggested using existing rockets with on-orbit assembly and propellant depots as needed. The lack of competition in the SLS design was high... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31368179 | 43,785 |
513,263 | The university's Honour School of Natural Science started in 1850, but the facilities for teaching were scattered around the city of Oxford in the various colleges. The university's collection of anatomical and natural history specimens were similarly spread around the city. Regius Professor of Medicine, Sir Henry Acla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=692093 | 512,997 |
1,429,352 | The publication of his book "Neuronal Man: The Biology of The Mind" in 1985 brought Changeux celebrity status to the wider public. Since then, he authored or co-authored several other books inspired by his teaching at the College de France: notably, "Conversations on Mind Matter and Mathematics" with the mathematician ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1798741 | 1,428,548 |
33,661 | Shortly after the incident, CERN reported that the most likely cause of the problem was a faulty electrical connection between two magnets, and that – owing to the time needed to warm up the affected sectors and then cool them back down to operating temperature – it would take at least two months to fix. CERN released ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=357353 | 33,649 |
157,540 | Phylactolaemates can also reproduce asexually by a method that enables a colony's lineage to survive the variable and uncertain conditions of freshwater environments. Throughout summer and autumn they produce disc-shaped statoblasts, masses of cells that function as "survival pods" rather like the gemmules of sponges. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3416 | 157,468 |
62,146 | The alternate purpose is "look-down/shoot-down" capability required to improve military air combat survivability. Pulse-Doppler is also used for ground based surveillance radar required to defend personnel and vehicles. Pulse-doppler signal processing increases the maximum detection distance using less radiation close ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25676 | 62,121 |
1,945,425 | The original method for genomic phylostratigraphy involves the use of a BLAST sequence similarity search with a 10 E-value cut off. The genes deemed similar enough in sequence are gathered and the clade englobing all the taxa represented by those genes is determined. This clade then becomes the phylostratum of these ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13106733 | 1,944,313 |
243,559 | Some argue that the main reason these arrhythmias arise is due to abnormally slow electrical conduction in areas of the heart, specifically the right ventricle. The genetic variants associated with BrS support the concept as SCN5A, the gene most commonly associated with the condition, along with SCN10A, SCN1B, SCN2B an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155623 | 243,432 |
461,908 | Camptothecin (CPT) was first derived from the tree "Camptotheca acuminata", native to southern China. It was isolated in a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) led search for cortisone precursors in the late 1950s and its anticancer activity explored in the early 1960s by Dr. John Hartwell and his team at the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6688255 | 461,679 |
33,028 | In 1946, surplus B-17s were chosen as drone aircraft for atmospheric sampling during the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests, being able to fly close to or even through the mushroom clouds without endangering a crew. This led to more widespread conversion of B-17s as drones and drone control aircraft, both for furth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4997 | 33,016 |
1,298,762 | In Europe, the stream method was tested at Bois-la-Dame, Belgium, in 1948 and in Jerada, Morocco, in 1949. The borehole method was tested at Newman Spinney and Bayton, United Kingdom, in 1949–1950. A few years later, a first attempt was made to develop a commercial pilot plan, the P5 Trial, at Newman Spinney Derbyshire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3553423 | 1,298,049 |
1,549,367 | In 1853 he was awarded the Drury Travelling Fellowship of Magdalene College, but he took it up only in 1855, when the grant became available. Between 1855 and 1864 he visited many parts of the world, including Lapland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, the West Indies and North America. In 1858 he made a trip to Iceland with John ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=370257 | 1,548,486 |
1,942,996 | The men's long jump event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, had an entry list of 33 competitors from 25 nations, with two qualifying groups (33 jumpers) before the final (12) took place on Thursday July 29, 1976. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31834832 | 1,941,885 |
970,934 | Homologous recombination is conserved across all three domains of life as well as DNA and RNA viruses, suggesting that it is a nearly universal biological mechanism. The discovery of genes for homologous recombination in protists—a diverse group of eukaryotic microorganisms—has been interpreted as evidence that meiosis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2631477 | 970,424 |
605,057 | As late as the 1962–1963 edition (3604 pages) the "Handbook" contained myriad information for every branch of science and engineering. Sections in that edition include: Mathematics, Properties and Physical Constants, Chemical Tables, Properties of Matter, Heat, Hygrometric and Barometric Tables, Sound, Quantities and U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8126530 | 604,747 |
2,183,714 | The molecule destabilizes the structure of the outer membrane and cytoplasmic membrane in multi-drug resistant gram-negative bacteria with no resistance observed by the researchers through multiple bacterial generations. While no human trials have been approved yet, the molecule has been tested "in vivo" with the mouse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52070497 | 2,182,466 |
890,400 | DMR is used on the amateur radio VHF and UHF bands, started by DMR-MARC around 2010. The FCC officially approved the use of DMR by amateurs in 2014. In amateur spaces, Coordinated DMR Identification Numbers are assigned and managed by RadioID Inc. Their coordinated database can be uploaded to DMR radios in order to dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23505271 | 889,931 |
498,530 | In the midst of other labours, Jowett had been quietly exerting his influence so as to conciliate all shades of liberal opinion, and bring them to bear upon the abolition of the theological test, which was still required for the M.A. and other degrees, as well as for university and college offices. He spoke upon this q... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231263 | 498,273 |
771,400 | The reason for the peak period for tornado formation in North America being skewed toward spring has much to do with temperature patterns in the U.S. Tornadoes often form when cool, polar air traveling southeastward from the Rockie Mountains overrides warm, moist, unstable Gulf of Mexico air in the eastern states. Torn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8293375 | 770,986 |
1,420,877 | The LS3 was used by Marines in July 2014 during Exercise RIMPAC 2014. After five years of development, the system had reached a level of maturity for it to operate with Marines from the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment in a realistic combat exercise. One company nicknamed the machine "Cujo" and used it to resupply va... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21076368 | 1,420,077 |
230,773 | Closed-loop: Motor-return is connected directly to the pump-inlet. To keep up pressure on the low pressure side, the circuits have a charge pump (a small gear pump) that supplies cooled and filtered oil to the low pressure side. Closed-loop circuits are generally used for hydrostatic transmissions in mobile application... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1372353 | 230,655 |
826,215 | Third, and most controversially, funding may come from charging students. From WW2 tuition fees in the UK were effectively abolished and local authorities paid maintenance grants. The Education Act 1962 formally required this position for all UK residents, and this continued through the expansion of university places r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=81513 | 825,771 |
856,449 | The Himalayas and other mountain chains of central Asia support large glaciated regions. An estimated 15,000 glaciers can be found in the greater Himalayas, with double that number in the Hindu Kush and Karakoram and Tien Shan ranges, and comprise the largest glaciated region outside the poles. These glaciers provide c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4804597 | 855,994 |
1,133,169 | Phosphoryl transfer only occurs on closing of the 'open lid'. This causes an exclusion of water molecules that brings the substrates in proximity to each other, lowering the energy barrier for the nucleophilic attack by the α-phosphoryl of AMP on the γ-phosphoryl group of ATP resulting in formation of ADP by transfer o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1375635 | 1,132,576 |
751,446 | The plasmodium is typically diploid and propagates via growth and nuclear division without cytokinesis, resulting in the macroscopic multinucleate syncytium; in other words, a large single cell with multiple nuclei. While nutrients are available, the network-shaped plasmodium can grow to a foot or more in diameter. Lik... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7567709 | 751,048 |
1,444,713 | Primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) is classified as a diffuse large B cell lymphoma. It is a rare malignancy of plasmablastic cells that occurs in individuals that are infected with the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (i.e. KSHV/HHV8). Plasmablasts are immature plasma cells, i.e. lymphocytes of the B-cell type tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3628299 | 1,443,900 |
1,564,284 | In 1949 Moniz shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine because of his "discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses". He had already been nominated three times for his work on radiology. A further nomination in 1943, this time by Walter Freeman for psychosurgery, had led to an evaluation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38574601 | 1,563,397 |
112,706 | Irrigated land in the United States increased from 300,000 acres in 1880 to 4.1 million in 1890, then to 7.3 million in 1900. Two thirds of this irrigation sources from groundwater or small ponds and reservoirs, while the other one third comes from large dams. One of the main attractions of irrigation in the West was i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42261 | 112,661 |
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