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134,713 | White mustard ("Sinapis alba") grows wild in North Africa, West Asia, and Mediterranean Europe, and has spread farther by long cultivation; brown mustard ("Brassica juncea"), originally from the foothills of the Himalayas, is grown commercially in India, Canada, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Bangladesh and the United St... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2028368 | 134,658 |
375,494 | The most ambitious peaceful application of nuclear explosions was pursued by the USSR with the aim of creating a 112 km long canal between the Pechora river basin and the Kama river basin, about half of which was to be constructed through a series of underground nuclear explosions. It was reported that about 250 nuclea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=172911 | 375,299 |
1,747,895 | In late August 1914, with war declared the Japanese had wasted no time in deploying their powerful naval assets in support of allied efforts against German commerce raiders in the Asia-Pacific. The battlecruiser was immediately dispatched to patrol the sealanes and three days later on August 26, at the request of the B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56104666 | 1,746,909 |
1,309,839 | Element collecting presents many challenges: some elements, such as mercury, beryllium, thallium, plutonium, and arsenic are toxic and so are difficult to find or their sale is restricted. Others are extremely rare in commercial use, such as scandium, lutetium, and thulium, and are therefore hard to source or are compa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22379986 | 1,309,123 |
836,640 | The implication of this is that hence "one might ... imagine two kinds of creature, one whose essence it was to create and the other not, undergoing similarly toilsome histories because of similarly adverse circumstances. In one case, but not the other, the toil would be a self-alienating exercise of essential powers" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5317064 | 836,191 |
447,334 | The success of gene therapy depends on the efficient insertion of therapeutic genes at an appropriate chromosomal target site within the human genome, without causing cell injury, oncogenic mutations, or an immune response. The construction of plasmid vectors is simple and straightforward. Custom-designed ZFNs that com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6476735 | 447,117 |
1,900,087 | Despite the fact that it was 17 miles away, Seyfarth enjoyed the advantage of the school's convenient location. The railway depot that marked the beginning of his trip was a two-block walk from his home at Grove Street and Western Avenue, with the end of the ride being at the Illinois Central's Twelfth Street Station, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24940492 | 1,899,001 |
1,991,040 | Early in his reign, Akhenaten used art in order to emphasize his intentions of doing things very differently unlike his precedents. Colossi and wall-reliefs from the Karnak Aten Temple are highly exaggerated and almost grotesque when compared to the Egyptian royal and elite art during the millennium preceding Akhenaten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44625317 | 1,989,897 |
996,051 | For hitting a distant target an appropriate positive elevation angle is required that is achieved by angling the line of sight from the shooter's eye through the centerline of the sighting system downward toward the line of departure. This can be accomplished by simply adjusting the sights down mechanically, or by secu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=584911 | 995,534 |
659,057 | Although physical characteristics and sizes at various instars have been used to estimate fly age, a more recent study has been conducted to determine the age of an egg based on the expression of particular genes. This is particularly useful in determining developmental stages that are not evidenced by change in size; ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61289 | 658,712 |
753,677 | After the new specimens were announced, it was rumoured that a looted skull had found its way to a European museum through the black market. The poached elements were spotted in a private European collection by the French fossil trader François Escuillé, who notified Belgian palaeontologist Pascal Godefroit about them ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1952495 | 753,275 |
858,099 | At the moment of a large enough meteor or comet impact, bolide detonation, a nuclear fission, thermonuclear fusion, or theoretical antimatter weapon detonation, a flux of so many gamma ray, x-ray, ultraviolet, visual light and heat photons strikes matter in a such brief amount of time (a great number of high-energy pho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=204762 | 857,644 |
1,573,166 | There are four main themes that underline the complex systems within biogeomorphology. The first of which is multiple casualty. Multiple casualty is the way in which biota is deposited. More specifically, multiple casualty is caused by various processes. That is, processes such as fires, floods and hillslope instabilit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3964562 | 1,572,277 |
1,152,951 | A pivotal moment in UCSF history was the deal between Vice-Chancellor Bruce Spaulding and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown for the development of the Mission Bay campus in 1999. Renowned scientist J. Michael Bishop, recipient of both the Lasker Award and Nobel Prize in Medicine (together with UCSF professor Harold Varm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46793698 | 1,152,341 |
551,170 | The RPG-43 externally was shaped like an oversized stick grenade with a 95 mm HEAT warhead on the end. It weighed of which was high explosive. When thrown, a cylindrical metal cone was released from the rear of the grenade and held by fabric strips to stabilise flight and increase the likelihood of a 90 degree hit. Its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6539389 | 550,882 |
675,400 | They are found in the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. "Psychrolutes phrictus" have been reported near the Mexican Pacific coast, which extends the southern range by 1,733 km. "Myoxocephalus thompsonii," deepwater sculpin, have even been reported in Lake Ontario which were once thought to be extirpated. Psychrolutidae speci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2455979 | 675,047 |
98,694 | In 1974 Frank Sherwood Rowland, Chemistry Professor at the University of California at Irvine, and his postdoctoral associate Mario J. Molina suggested that long-lived organic halogen compounds, such as CFCs, might behave in a similar fashion as Crutzen had proposed for nitrous oxide. James Lovelock had recently discov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44183 | 98,651 |
273,698 | The idea of using chaff developed independently in the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States and Japan. In 1937, British researcher Gerald Touch, while working with Robert Watson-Watt on radar, suggested that lengths of wire suspended from balloons or parachutes might overwhelm a radar system with false echoes and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1550386 | 273,550 |
2,084,289 | "A. carneus" contributes to both medicine and industry, often simultaneously. The fungus produces a unique alkaline lipase ("Aspergillus carneus" lipase) with high pH and temperature tolerance, 1,3-regioselectivity, stability in organic solvents and esterification and transesterification properties. The lipase hydrolyz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61751564 | 2,083,089 |
1,878,940 | Combining his expertise in sedimentology and geobiology, Grotzinger's research on stromatolites shows that they are vital tools in understanding the interactions between ancient microorganisms and their environment. Stromatolites are attached, lithified sedimentary growth structures, accretionary away from a point or l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26158825 | 1,877,860 |
2,201,477 | Shkel was educated at the Moscow State University where in 1991 he got his diploma in applied mechanics. In 1997, he got his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and from 1997 to 1999 served as a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2000, Shkel is a faculty member... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53755740 | 2,200,224 |
1,463,771 | In the early 1950s, the federal government built the Savannah River Plant (SRP) to create materials for hydrogen bombs. The plant, located on 306 miles of land, was the largest construction project in the history of the country at the time. During construction, up to 40,000 workers were employed by the SRP resulting in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21927183 | 1,462,948 |
1,577,902 | With Land-grant colleges being required to provide military training as part of its core curriculum. The Junior Unit of Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (R.O.T.C.) was inaugurated in 1919. This two-year program continued until the Senior Division R.O.T.C. was established in 1942, followed by the senior Air Force u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42220009 | 1,577,013 |
1,317,791 | In the mid 2010s several techniques combined with Next Generation Sequencing were developed that employ the "tag" principle for "digital gene expression profiling" but without the use of the tagging enzyme. The "MACE" approach, (=Massive Analysis of cDNA Ends) generates tags somewhere in the last 1500 bps of a transcri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1743649 | 1,317,066 |
911,562 | Telehealth is the distribution of health-related services and information via electronic information and telecommunication technologies. It allows long-distance patient and clinician contact, care, advice, reminders, education, intervention, monitoring, and remote admissions. Telemedicine is sometimes used as a synonym... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=351581 | 911,083 |
1,515,176 | One of Stupp’s major discoveries occurred soon after his arrival at Northwestern. In 2001, Stupp and postdoctoral fellow Jeffrey Hartgerink discovered a new class of peptide amphiphiles with the ability to self-assemble into nanoscale filaments that mimic components of the extracellular matrix. Consisting of a hydropho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34210292 | 1,514,325 |
127,038 | The university also offers a continuing and public education program through UC San Diego Extension. Approximately 50,000 enrollees per year are educated in this branch of the university, which offers over 100 professional and specialized certificate programs. Courses are offered at Extension facilities, located both o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31927 | 126,986 |
1,934,833 | The onset of the Depression in the 1930s caused the matter to be raised once again, since it was felt that the project would provide much-needed work for the depressed building industry. Professor Sampson, Astronomer Royal for Scotland, was brought in as consultant. After examining several sites he came down strongly i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9898493 | 1,933,725 |
370,044 | Holst composed few large-scale works in his final years. "A Choral Fantasia" of 1930 was written for the Three Choirs Festival at Gloucester; beginning and ending with a soprano soloist, the work, also involving chorus, strings, brass and percussion, includes a substantial organ solo which, says Imogen Holst, "knows so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49241 | 369,850 |
728,195 | PAR draws on a wide range of influences, both among those with professional training and those who draw on their life experience and those of their ancestors. Many draw on the work of Paulo Freire, new thinking on adult education research, the Civil Rights Movement, South Asian social movements such as the Bhumi Sena, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2819542 | 727,811 |
653,875 | Another category of plant defenses are those features that indirectly protect the plant by enhancing the probability of attracting the natural enemies of herbivores. Such an arrangement is known as mutualism, in this case of the "enemy of my enemy" variety. One such feature are semiochemicals, given off by plants. Semi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4189740 | 653,531 |
252,245 | Poliovirus is a positive-stranded RNA virus. Thus, the genome enclosed within the viral particle can be used as messenger RNA and immediately translated by the host cell. On entry, the virus hijacks the cell's translation machinery, causing inhibition of cellular protein synthesis in favor of virus-specific protein pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=357756 | 252,112 |
368,301 | Whorf's most elaborate argument for linguistic relativity regarded what he believed to be a fundamental difference in the understanding of time as a conceptual category among the Hopi. He argued that in contrast to English and other SAE languages, Hopi does not treat the flow of time as a sequence of distinct, countabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26915 | 368,108 |
2,177,382 | The mathematical model for the Santos skeleton was developed based on the Denavit-Hartenberg method for kinematic and dynamic analysis. Optimization is used to determine postures and motions that are governed by various human performance measures (objective functions) and constrained by the restrictions imposed by the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50798140 | 2,176,138 |
644,006 | Until the 2010s, the impact of open science movement was largely limited to scientific publications: it "has tended to overlook the importance of social structures and systemic constraints in the design of new forms of knowledge infrastructures." In 1997, Robert D. Cameron called for the development of an open database... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1223245 | 643,666 |
1,916,972 | One prominent iatrophysicist was Giovanni Borelli, who modeled the human body, various animals, and their motions using mechanical principles. A colleague of Marcello Malphigi, Borelli was a mathematician who made connections between what he observed in living things and inanimate but relatively simple systems. He diss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10512779 | 1,915,873 |
772,103 | Healy was selected in the Australian squad for the Rose Bowl series against New Zealand in February 2010 due to an injury to the incumbent wicketkeeper and captain Jodie Fields. The selection committee released a statement saying "Alyssa has been identified for higher honours for a number of years and now gets the chan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18501459 | 771,689 |
273,643 | Video sampling tends to work on a completely different scale altogether thanks to the highly nonlinear response both of cathode ray tubes (for which the vast majority of digital video foundation work was targeted) and the human eye, using a "gamma curve" to provide an appearance of evenly distributed brightness steps a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=92943 | 273,495 |
456,160 | The human body can briefly survive the hard vacuum of space unprotected, despite contrary depictions in much popular science fiction. Human flesh expands to about twice its size in such conditions, giving the visual effect of a body builder rather than an overfilled balloon. Consciousness is retained for up to 15 secon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1810164 | 455,937 |
588,734 | An objection to the practicality of building a Tipler cylinder was discovered by Stephen Hawking, who argued that according to general relativity it is impossible to build a time machine in any finite region that satisfies the weak energy condition, meaning that the region contains no exotic matter with negative energy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=661465 | 588,432 |
98,321 | On October 8, 1976, Bryant and Scott delivered a 20-page treatment, "", which executives Barry Diller, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Michael Eisner liked. In it, Kirk and his crew encounter beings they believe to be the mythical Titans and travel back millions of years in time, accidentally teaching early man to make fire. "P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277006 | 98,279 |
1,718,269 | Carotenoids are essential for animal life, but animals cannot produce them. Indeed, animals obtain carotenoids from diet, with herbivores sourcing them from plants or algae, and carnivores, in turn, sourcing them from herbivores. However, there is a general consensus that "meso"-zeaxanthin is not present in plants, exc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49287862 | 1,717,299 |
1,920,725 | The general preexisting consensus on hadrosaurid paleobiology was challenged in 1964 by John Ostrom, who found little evidence to support either a diet of aquatic plants or an amphibious lifestyle. Unlike previous depictions, he interpreted hadrosaurids as terrestrial foragers that browsed on land plants, not aquatic p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23481302 | 1,919,622 |
406,760 | The name "Erlang", attributed to Bjarne Däcker, has been presumed by those working on the telephony switches (for whom the language was designed) to be a reference to Danish mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang and a syllabic abbreviation of "Ericsson Language". Erlang was designed with the aim of improving t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9646 | 406,559 |
648,091 | There is an alternate strategy for identifying fit mates which does not rely on one gender having exaggerated sexual ornaments or other handicaps, but is generally applicable to most, if not all sexual creatures. It derives from the concept that the change in appearance and functionality caused by a non-silent mutation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2021591 | 647,750 |
23,521 | The university has embarked on numerous 'green' initiatives. In 2009, a new gas-fired combined heat and power facility replaced a coal-fired steam plant, resulting in a reduction in carbon emissions to 7% below 1990 levels, and projected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 75,000 tons per year. This facility satisfie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 | 23,512 |
149,483 | The big news at the Hungarian Grand Prix at the Hungaroring in Mogyoród was that Ayrton Senna had informed Lotus that he would not be staying with the team in 1988. Team boss Peter Warr moved quickly and signed Nelson Piquet, who was unhappy that Frank Williams would not give him clear number one status at Williams. Se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1139093 | 149,418 |
1,051,349 | But in the 1980s and in subsequent decades, women's athletics were becoming more prominent. Marshall's first competition was the qualifying meet for the 1979 Empire State Games in White Plains, New York. She won her first national championship in 1981. During the 1980s, Marshall won her weight class six times out of se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21905958 | 1,050,803 |
1,273,769 | Since transistor technology was still in its infancy, these machines used vacuum tubes, cold-cathode tubes, and Dekatrons in their circuits, and cold-cathode Nixie tubes for their displays. This technology was fairly robust and cost effective; the Dekatron counter tube being the equivalent of an integrated circuit coun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211929 | 1,273,077 |
728,376 | The Garden city movement was founded by Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928). His ideas were expressed in the book Garden Cities of To-morrow (1898). His influences included Benjamin Walter Richardson, who had published a pamphlet in 1876 calling for low population density, good housing, wide roads, an underground railway and f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45346 | 727,992 |
873,255 | Value chain based on product processing involves such operations as actual mining (or extraction), vertical transport, storing, offloading, transport, metallurgical processing for final products. Unlike the exploration phase, the value increases after each operation on processed material eventually delivered to the met... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10431114 | 872,795 |
61,171 | In "Du "Cubisme"" Metzinger and Gleizes explicitly related the sense of time to multiple perspective, giving symbolic expression to the notion of ‘duration’ proposed by the philosopher Henri Bergson according to which life is subjectively experienced as a continuum, with the past flowing into the present and the presen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37803 | 61,146 |
1,285,686 | Smallholders were discouraged from growing tobacco in favour of maize. Growing maize as a cash crop requires reasonable sale prices, low input costs (particularly fertilizer) and farmers having some financial reserves. Farm incomes were declining by 1976 and, from 1981 to 1986, the real value of Malawi maize producer p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14543243 | 1,284,985 |
462,037 | During the course of composition, the work passed through different forms. In 1854 it began as a sonata for two pianos. By July 27 of that year it was being transformed into a four-movement symphony. Brahms sought advice from his close friend Julius Otto Grimm. "Brahms was in the habit of showing his orchestrations to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=365141 | 461,808 |
366,600 | Historically, a common criticism of neural networks, particularly in robotics, was that they require a large diversity of training samples for real-world operation. This is not surprising, since any learning machine needs sufficient representative examples in order to capture the underlying structure that allows it to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1729542 | 366,408 |
1,386,754 | Carbonyl cyanide "m"-chlorophenyl hydrazone (CCCP; also known as [(3-chlorophenyl)hydrazono]malononitrile) is a chemical inhibitor of oxidative phosphorylation. It is a nitrile, hydrazone and protonophore. In general, CCCP causes the gradual destruction of living cells and death of the organism, although mild doses ind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10324249 | 1,385,987 |
1,859,352 | Lateral movement of nutrients and energy from the stream to the surrounding riparian zone and terrestrial environment beyond serve an important role in food webs. Flooding of a stream and the movement of organisms both act to transfer nutrients and energy sources to the terrestrial environment. Algae and fine organic m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41384413 | 1,858,284 |
964,197 | Traditional neuropsychological research widely acknowledged that when an internal representation of the outside world is activated somewhere in the brain, it leads to a perceptual experience. Embodied cognition challenges this claim by stating that the existence of cortical maps in the brain fails to explain and accoun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33034640 | 963,688 |
965,111 | Shocked by how close the world had come to thermonuclear war, Khrushchev proposed easing of tensions with the US. In a letter to President Kennedy dated 30 October 1962, Kurshchev outlined a range of bold initiatives to forestall the possibility of nuclear war, including proposing a non-aggression treaty between the No... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30592 | 964,602 |
155,908 | For signal processing, the Wiener filter is a filter proposed by Wiener during the 1940s and published in 1942 as a classified document. Its purpose is to reduce the amount of noise present in a signal by comparison with an estimate of the desired noiseless signal. Wiener developed the filter at the Radiation Laborator... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63185 | 155,837 |
1,378,268 | Selection cutting or systems are generally considered to be more challenging to implement and maintain than even-aged management, due to the difficulty of managing multiple age classes in a shared space, but there are significant ecological benefits associated with it. Uneven-aged stands generally exhibit higher levels... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6646417 | 1,377,506 |
32,046 | In a number of von Neumann's papers, the methods of argument he employed are considered even more significant than the results. In anticipation of his later study of dimension theory in algebras of operators, von Neumann used results on equivalence by finite decomposition, and reformulated the problem of measure in ter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15942 | 32,035 |
1,233,886 | The MMN is a response to a deviant within a sequence of otherwise regular stimuli; thus, in an experimental setting, it is produced when stimuli are presented in a many-to-one ratio; for example, in a sequence of sounds "s s s s s s s d s s s s d s s s...", the "d" is the deviant or oddball stimulus, and will elicit an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6240439 | 1,233,223 |
823,498 | Jeff LaVell joined Motorola in 1966 and worked in the computer industry marketing organization. LaVell had previously worked for Collins Radio on their C8500 computer that was built with small scale ECL ICs. In 1971, he led a group that examined the needs of their existing customers such as Hewlett-Packard, National Ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20301 | 823,055 |
1,502,225 | Images and videos of the three-dimensional visual environments come from a common class: the class of natural scenes. Natural scenes from a tiny subspace in the space of all possible signals, and researchers have developed sophisticated models to characterize these statistics. Most real-world distortion processes distu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53785121 | 1,501,379 |
648,090 | There are striking parallels between altruistic acts and exaggerated sexual ornaments displayed by some animals, particularly certain bird species, such as, amongst others, the peacock. Both are costly in fitness terms, and both are generally conspicuous to other members of the population or species. This led Amotz Zah... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2021591 | 647,749 |
1,605,174 | In 1910, an industrial boom began, which continued until the First World War. From 1910 to 1913, the production of iron increased to 55.3 million poods (by 29.9%), finished metal products - up to 40.8 million poods (by 9.6%). But the share of the Ural factories in the all-Russian iron smelting fell to 21.6%. Commercial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66141214 | 1,604,271 |
700,349 | However, its modeling of real behavior is not sufficient for many applications, and by 1949, had fallen out of favor, with the Beattie–Bridgeman and Benedict–Webb–Rubin equations of state being used preferentially, both of which contain more parameters than the Van der Waals equation. The Redlich–Kwong equation was dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19851252 | 699,984 |
25,949 | After AQUATONE was funded and security handled by the CIA, the agency referred to all its high altitude aircraft as "articles". This was intended to reduce the chances of a security breach as part of a compartmented security system. These three-digit "article" numbers were factory assigned. Article 341 was the original... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32310 | 25,940 |
393,222 | The Clinton administration initiated the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV) program on 29 September 1993, that involved Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, USCAR, the DoE, and other various governmental agencies to engineer the next efficient and clean vehicle. The United States National Research Council (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8166749 | 393,027 |
1,897,434 | Mark's specialty was in the field of Geographic Information Science (GIScience). He authored or coauthored more than 230 scholarly papers which have been cited over 10,000 times. He researched cognitive and linguistic foundations of how geographic information is conceptualized and used. In the 1970s and 1980s, he pione... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38978809 | 1,896,350 |
1,367,887 | In practice, ice XI is most easily prepared from a dilute (10 mM) KOH solution kept just below 72 K for about a week (for DO a temperature just below 76 K will suffice). The hydroxide ions create defects in the hexagonal ice, allowing protons to jump more freely between the oxygen atoms (and so this structure of ice XI... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10293534 | 1,367,131 |
1,408,592 | As-synthesized UCNPs are usually capped with organic ligands that aid in size and shape control during preparation. These ligands make their surface hydrophobic and hence are not dispersible in aqueous solution, preventing their biological applications. One simple method to increase solubility in aqueous solvents is di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52499698 | 1,407,801 |
1,801,930 | From January to March 1973, the Armament Development and Test Center conducted a competitive evaluation of the two prototype GAU-8/A 30mm cannon designs by Philco-Ford, Newport Beach, California, and General Electric, Burlington, Virginia. On 2 April 1973, The Armament Development and Test Center selected the General E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,919 |
235,071 | "Pipeline and Gas Journal"'s worldwide survey figures indicate that of pipelines are planned and under construction. Of these, represent projects in the planning and design phase; reflect pipelines in various stages of construction. Liquids and gases are transported in pipelines, and any chemically stable substance can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51111 | 234,952 |
1,009,747 | At the climax of the game, we discover that the hooded figure is Andreas, who did not die in the events of Act II due to his apprentice Caspar's sacrifice. Living with the guilt of not only Caspar's death, but the deaths which he decided in Acts I and II, deaths founded on incomplete and inconclusive evidence, he has b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70997952 | 1,009,226 |
217,888 | Russian sources have claimed that the electronic warfare systems of Su-30MKK utilizes the latest technologies available in Russia and the radar warning receivers are so effective that the information provided by RWR alone would be enough to provide targeting information for Kh-31P anti-radiation missile without using o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7541645 | 217,780 |
375,100 | Later in 2017, the university released its 2030 vision which will see an exponential growth of its main campus in order to remain "world-class" and cope with the growing number of applications it receives each year, especially from non-UK students (41% of the student population). This growth will include a new £33 mill... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61115 | 374,905 |
433,497 | SUMO attachment to its target is similar to that of ubiquitin (as it is for the other ubiquitin-like proteins such as NEDD 8). The SUMO precursor has some extra amino acids that need to be removed, therefore a C-terminal peptide is cleaved from the SUMO precursor by a protease (in human these are the SENP proteases or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4411416 | 433,283 |
383,942 | Michelson and Morley and other early experimentalists using interferometric techniques in an attempt to measure the properties of the luminiferous aether, used (partially) monochromatic light only for initially setting up their equipment, always switching to white light for the actual measurements. The reason is that m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=91100 | 383,747 |
242,790 | Considering the hypothesis that Broca's area may be most involved in articulation, its activation in all of these tasks may be due to subjects' covert articulation while formulating a response. Despite this caveat, a consensus seems to be forming that whatever role Broca's area may play, it may relate to known working ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40166 | 242,663 |
463,100 | Ira Pastan, who discovered mesothelin, said that Andraka's method "makes no scientific sense. I don't know anybody in the scientific community who believes his findings." George M. Church, professor of genetics at Harvard University, also raised concerns about the cost, speed, and sensitivity claims. The novelty of And... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35973708 | 462,871 |
177,885 | Seeking to replace the highly simplified classical approach to economic modeling, Simon became best known for his theory of corporate decision in his book "Administrative Behavior". In this book he based his concepts with an approach that recognized multiple factors that contribute to decision making. His organization ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14205 | 177,792 |
825,374 | By discovering many geological forms that are typically formed from large amounts of water, the images from the orbiters caused a revolution in our ideas about water on Mars. Huge river valleys were found in many areas. They showed that floods of water broke through dams, carved deep valleys, eroded grooves into bedroc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38082 | 824,931 |
316,365 | At the start of World War I strategy was dominated by the offensive thinking that had been in vogue since 1870, despite the more recent experiences of the Second Boer War (1899–1902) and Russo-Japanese War (1904–05), where the machine gun demonstrated its defensive capabilities. By the end of 1914, the Western Front wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=91515 | 316,196 |
18,044 | The F-15E prototype was a modification of the two-seat F-15B. Despite its origins, it includes significant structural changes as well as more powerful engines. The aft fuselage was designed to incorporate the more powerful engines with advanced engine bay structures and doors, which incorporate Superplastic forming and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=495724 | 18,038 |
387,458 | In 1812, Laplace issued his "Théorie analytique des probabilités" in which he laid down many fundamental results in statistics. The first half of this treatise was concerned with probability methods and problems, the second half with statistical methods and applications. Laplace's proofs are not always rigorous accordi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=344783 | 387,263 |
2,148,622 | In 1999 August Schick, Maria Klatte and Markus Meis presented conclusions on research related to classroom acoustics, which have been significant for the construction of schools. Hearing and noise researcher Schick led nine symposia on the psychology of acoustics at the University of Oldenburg in which he brought toget... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39119819 | 2,147,391 |
3,002 | Air Force F-X proponents remained hostile to the concept because they perceived it as a threat to the F-15 program, but the USAF's leadership understood that its budget would not allow it to purchase enough F-15 aircraft to satisfy all of its missions. The Advanced Day Fighter concept, renamed "F-XX", gained civilian p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11642 | 3,002 |
85,842 | In late 1945, Stravinsky received a commission from Europe, his first since "Perséphone", in the form of a string piece for the 20th anniversary for Paul Sacher's Basle Chamber Orchestra. The "Concerto in D" premiered in 1947. In January 1946, Stravinsky conducted the premiere of his "Symphony in Three Movements" at Ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38172 | 85,808 |
1,489,760 | The epigenome is governed by both genetic and environmental factors, causing it to be highly dynamic and complex. Epigenetic information exists in the cell as DNA and histone marks, as well as non-coding RNAs. DNA methylation (DNAm) patterns change over time, and vary between developmental stage and tissue type. The ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53362498 | 1,488,921 |
1,922,361 | The earliest strand of Brown's research was on the physiology of plant parasitism by fungi and the host–parasite interaction. He used "Botrytis cinerea" as a model system, which causes grey mould, a type of fungal soft rot, in many different plants; he chose lettuce and broad bean for hosts. Anton de Bary and H. Marsha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66719750 | 1,921,258 |
860,771 | Given that the capsule landed in a rural area with a tracking system that had an accuracy between 50 and 70 kilometers, the landing site was not immediately known. It was even admitted by General Nikolai Kamanin that officials were unaware of the successful landing for multiple hours after touch down. Approximately 4 h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=195223 | 860,312 |
1,262,103 | In 2019, a book chapter written by Ramseyer titled "Privatizing Police: Japanese Police, the Korean Massacre, and Private Security Firms" was accepted for publication in the forthcoming "Cambridge Handbook on Privatization". In the original draft of the chapter, Ramseyer relied on contemporary Japanese-language newspap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3070786 | 1,261,416 |
15,727 | Wilhelm Schickard designed and constructed the first working mechanical calculator in 1623. In 1673, Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated a digital mechanical calculator, called the Stepped Reckoner. Leibniz may be considered the first computer scientist and information theorist, because of various reasons, including the fac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 | 15,722 |
653,893 | The variation of plant susceptibility to pests was probably known even in the early stages of agriculture in humans. In historic times, the observation of such variations in susceptibility have provided solutions for major socio-economic problems. The hemipteran pest insect phylloxera was introduced from North America ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4189740 | 653,549 |
453,481 | CCPs "mutualize" (share among their members) counterparty credit risk in the markets in which they operate. A CCP reduces the settlement risks by netting offsetting transactions between multiple counterparties, by requiring collateral deposits (also called "margin deposits"), by providing independent valuation of trade... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13973130 | 453,260 |
1,835,505 | the condition of self-consistency between bond length and π-electron density distribution. He justified this assumption by finding agreement between measured and theoretically predicted absorption spectra. Later this assumption was theoretically verified. This effect is often called Peierls instability: starting from a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21444263 | 1,834,456 |
390,599 | The limited engagement of private actors slows down the process of addressing space debris to some degree. Ties existing between dissimilar stakeholders in the governance network offer access to diverse resources. Different competence among stakeholders can help allocate the tasks more reasonably. In that case, the exp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=266344 | 390,404 |
1,420,901 | In the early 1960s Communication Studies began to move towards becoming a more independent field, and move out of the departments of sociology, political science, psychology, and English. The changes in the department are considered a result of the historical events taking place at the time. “Despite the different inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35040464 | 1,420,101 |
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