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26,013 | Bissell suggested bringing the British into the program to increase the number of overflights. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan agreed with the plan, and four RAF officers were sent to Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas for training in May 1958. On 8 July, the senior British pilot, Squadron Leader Christopher H. Walker, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32310 | 26,004 |
833,957 | The same year she was elected to the first London School Board, an office newly opened to women; Garrett's was the highest vote among all the candidates. Also in that year, she was made one of the visiting physicians of the East London Hospital for Children (later the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children), becoming th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9695 | 833,508 |
1,330,167 | In 1963, British journalist Kenneth Hudson published the first IA text, titled "Industrial archaeology: an introduction". Four years later in April 1967, Hudson spoke at a seminar at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., at what is considered the birth of the IA-movement in the United States. The seminar, wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=153392 | 1,329,438 |
1,968,901 | Stromules are usually 0.35–0.85 µm in diameter and of variable length, from short beak-like projections to linear or branched structures up to 220 µm long. They are enclosed by the inner and outer plastid envelope membranes and enable the transfer of molecules as large as RuBisCO (~560 kDa) between interconnected plast... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2661326 | 1,967,767 |
610,312 | This led to the prototype Fairey Rotodyne, which was developed to combine the efficiency of a fixed-wing aircraft at cruise with the VTOL capability of a helicopter to provide short haul airliner service from city centres to airports. It had short wings that carried two Napier Eland turboprop engines for forward propul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5204834 | 610,001 |
1,384,481 | Biostimulation involves the modification of the environment to stimulate existing bacteria capable of bioremediation. This can be done by addition of various forms of rate limiting nutrients and electron acceptors, such as phosphorus, nitrogen, oxygen, or carbon (e.g. in the form of molasses). Alternatively, remediatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1762628 | 1,383,714 |
2,085,833 | Major renovations and building projects were undertaken in the mid-1990s that resulted in a 30% increase in space and included the installation of numerous pieces of equipment and lab renovations. Among the projects was a new $81,000 administration building with a library and a $102,000 faculty housing unit that was co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22805340 | 2,084,632 |
196,756 | In 1829, Niépce entered into a partnership with Louis Daguerre, who was also seeking a means of creating permanent photographic images with a camera. Together, they developed the physautotype, an improved process that used lavender oil distillate as the photosensitive substance. The partnership lasted until Niépce's de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=143000 | 196,656 |
333,367 | The social implications of the theory of evolution by natural selection also became the source of continuing controversy. Friedrich Engels, a German political philosopher and co-originator of the ideology of communism, wrote in 1872 that "Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind, and especially on h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21147 | 333,189 |
750,712 | The "A. africanus" hand and arm exhibit a mosaic anatomy, with some aspects more similar to humans and others to non-human apes. It is unclear if this means australopiths were still arboreal to a degree, or if these traits were simply inherited from the human–chimpanzee last common ancestor. Nonetheless, "A. africanus"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1627000 | 750,314 |
950,685 | The Boltzmann constant and its related formulas describe the realm of particle kinetics and velocity vectors whereas ZPE (zero-point energy) is an energy field that jostles particles in ways described by the mathematics of quantum mechanics. In atomic and molecular collisions in gases, ZPE introduces a degree of "chaos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41789 | 950,181 |
911,606 | Along with the development of information technology since the 1990s, health care providers realized that the information could generate significant benefits to improve their services by computerized cases and data, for instance of gaining the information for directing patient care and assessing the best patient care f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=351581 | 911,127 |
1,082,426 | Although there are no records as to the designs of the early steam engines produced by the Mars Works, Evans's most famous engine design appeared around 1812. Called the "Columbian Engine" as a patriotic gesture, it would prove to be the most advanced and successful steam engine design created by Evans—he brought to be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=389929 | 1,081,869 |
1,131,628 | S1P is probably formed at the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane in response to TNFα and other receptor activity-altering compounds called agonists. S1P, being present in low nanomolar concentrations in the cell, has to interact with high-affinity receptors that are capable of sensing their low levels. So far, the on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5419130 | 1,131,037 |
1,604,146 | "Citrus sinesis" and "Chenopodium album" were the first plants from which the genes encoding chlorophyllase were isolated. These experiments revealed an uncharacteristic encoded sequence (21 amino acids in "Citrus sinensis" and 30 amino acids in "Chenopodium album") located on the N-terminal that was absent from the ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10978707 | 1,603,245 |
359,924 | That Catherine and Potemkin married is "almost certain", according to Simon Sebag Montefiore; though biographer Virginia Rounding expresses some doubt. In December 1784 Catherine first explicitly referred to Potemkin as her husband in correspondence, though 1775, 1784 and 1791 have all been suggested as possible nuptia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=475101 | 359,737 |
27,816 | Tolosani recognized that the "Ad Lectorem" preface to Copernicus's book was not actually by him. Its thesis that astronomy as a whole would never be able to make truth claims was rejected by Tolosani (though he still held that Copernicus's attempt to describe physical reality had been faulty); he found it ridiculous th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=323592 | 27,806 |
1,198,871 | Metal artifacts occur at interfaces of tissues with different magnetic susceptibilities, which cause local magnetic fields to distort the external magnetic field. This distortion changes the precession frequency in the tissue leading to spatial mismapping of information. The degree of distortion depends on the type of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56564310 | 1,198,230 |
987,496 | On the morning of 9 January 1932, "Akron" departed from Lakehurst to work with the Scouting Fleet on a search exercise. Proceeding to the coast of North Carolina, "Akron" headed out over the Atlantic where it was assigned to find a group of destroyers bound for Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Once these were located, the airship... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60944 | 986,980 |
228,021 | The first chancellor of the university was Piotr Wysz, and the first professors were Czechs, Germans and Poles, most of them trained at the Charles University in Prague. By 1520 Greek philology was introduced by Constanzo Claretti and Wenzel von Hirschberg; Hebrew was also taught. At this time, the "Collegium Maius" co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38078 | 227,904 |
1,298,253 | "O"-GlcNAcylation of the glycolytic enzyme PFK1 at S529 has been found to inhibit PFK1 enzymatic activity, reducing glycolytic flux and redirecting glucose towards the pentose phosphate pathway. Structural modeling and biochemical experiments suggested that "O"-GlcNAc at S529 would inhibit PFK1 allosteric activation by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44457563 | 1,297,540 |
1,758,046 | "Angraecum" Veitchii: a very rewarding orchid. In indirect light and watered/fed regularly this plant will produce blooms annually (usually in late Winter to Spring - for Australia this occurs in August). The flowers last a while if kept in a sheltered position and their strong heady fragrance is delightful. They only ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217615 | 1,757,053 |
474,659 | The spacecraft carried a single all-reflective, eccentric Schmidt telescope, with an aperture of . A special beam-combining mirror superimposed two fields of view, 58° apart, into the common focal plane. This complex mirror consisted of two mirrors tilted in opposite directions, each occupying half of the rectangular e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=207964 | 474,423 |
1,495,232 | The Great Valley Sequence contains a diverse and abundant assemblage of fossils that includes microfossils, plant remains, invertebrate marine creatures, and vertebrates. The microfossils are particularly important, as unique assemblages of microfossils, especially benthic (bottom-dwelling) and planktonic (free-floatin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39585686 | 1,494,391 |
52,913 | Teleoperated robots, or telerobots, are devices remotely operated from a distance by a human operator rather than following a predetermined sequence of movements, but which has semi-autonomous behaviour. They are used when a human cannot be present on site to perform a job because it is dangerous, far away, or inaccess... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25781 | 52,893 |
746,353 | An elastomer is a polymer with viscoelasticity (i.e. both viscosity and elasticity) and with weak intermolecular forces, generally low Young's modulus and high failure strain compared with other materials. The term, a portmanteau of "elastic polymer", is often used interchangeably with rubber, although the latter is pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=842224 | 745,958 |
828,607 | The buildings on the campus were designed by Modernist architect Paul Rudolph beginning in the early 1960s to distinguish the campus from the outside world and provide what might be considered a Social Utopian environment. The building architecture is similar to that of the Boston Government Service Center. Rudolph mad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=401971 | 828,161 |
147,602 | The course of study lasts 6 years or 12 semesters. During the first 3 years, students are engaged in pre-clinical courses (Anatomy, Histology, Chemistry, Physics, Cell Biology, Genetics, Physiology, Biochemistry, Immunology, Pathologic Physiology And Anatomy, Pharmacology, Microbiology, etc.). Contact with patients beg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=465584 | 147,543 |
947,749 | Once systems or parts are being produced, reliability engineering attempts to monitor, assess, and correct deficiencies. Monitoring includes electronic and visual surveillance of critical parameters identified during the fault tree analysis design stage. Data collection is highly dependent on the nature of the system. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1724836 | 947,246 |
856,490 | The rapid thinning, acceleration and retreat of Helheim, Jakobshavns and Kangerdlugssuaq glaciers in Greenland, all in close association with one another, suggests a common triggering mechanism, such as enhanced surface melting due to regional climate warming or a change in forces at the glacier front. The enhanced mel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4804597 | 856,035 |
1,641,415 | SU-8 is a 3 component UV-sensitive negative photoresist based on epoxy resin, gamma butyrolactone and triaryl sulfonium salt. The SU-8 polymerizes at approximately 100 °C and is temperature-stable up to 150 °C. This polymer adhesive is CMOS and bio-compatible and has excellent electrical, mechanical and fluidic propert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14570219 | 1,640,488 |
1,615,918 | Establishing world-class physics research institutes was proposed by a number of scientists. The roots of NCP institutes go back to when Nobel laureate professor Abdus Salam, after receiving his doctorate in physics, came back to Pakistan in 1951. Joining his alma mater, Government College University as Professor of Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23541193 | 1,615,009 |
2,159,701 | Scheduling MSE in an optimal way is a complex multi-faceted problem. Each "observing matrix" (one observation made at a single telescope pointing and suite of associated fibre positions) targets spectra from more than 4300 fibres pointing at objects selected from a few simultaneous surveys as well as calibration target... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57637484 | 2,158,469 |
39,095 | Sulfuric acid is a very important commodity chemical, and indeed, a nation's sulfuric acid production is a good indicator of its industrial strength. World production in the year 2004 was about 180 million tonnes, with the following geographic distribution: Asia 35%, North America (including Mexico) 24%, Africa 11%, We... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29247 | 39,080 |
1,851,744 | An early example of a routine clinical outcomes system was set up by Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War. The outcome under study was death. The context was the season and the cause of death– wounds, infections and any other cause. The interventions were nursing and administrative. She arrived just before the barra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23244650 | 1,850,683 |
2,011,148 | Mitral annular calcification (MAC) is a multifactorial chronic degenerative process in which calcium with lipid is deposited (calcified) in the annular fibrosa ring of the heart's mitral valve. MAC was first discovered and described in 1908 by M. Bonninger in the journal Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift. In the majo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69189878 | 2,009,995 |
403,509 | After the founding of the university college in 1876, government support began in 1889. Funding from mergers with the Bristol Medical School in 1893 and the Merchant Venturers' Technical College in 1909, allowed the opening of a new medical school and an engineering school — two subjects that remain among the universit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60991 | 403,309 |
471,307 | The AutoAnalyzer is an early example of an automated chemistry analyzer using a special flow technique named "continuous flow analysis (CFA)", invented in 1957 by Leonard Skeggs, PhD and first made by the Technicon Corporation. The first applications were for clinical (medical) analysis. The AutoAnalyzer profoundly cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=357027 | 471,071 |
18,471 | The ruling Swedish Social Democratic Party, however, had remained in favor of neutrality and non-alignment for many years, but following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the party debated the issue internally in April 2022, and announced on 15 May 2022 that they would now support an application to join the organizati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17046267 | 18,465 |
338,287 | In 2012, José Carballido and colleagues reported a nearly complete postcranial skeleton of a small juvenile approximately in length. This specimen, nicknamed "Toni" and cataloged as SMA 0009, stems from the Morrison Formation of the Bighorn Basin in north-central Wyoming. Although originally thought to belong to a dipl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20598015 | 338,107 |
1,380,722 | Some scholars have identified a new era of "post-normal science" (PNS) in which many scientific discoveries carry high stakes if risks are estimated incorrectly within a broader social context that has a high degree of uncertainty. This PNS era requires a new approach to public engagement efforts and requires a reevalu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1893089 | 1,379,959 |
1,633,447 | Susskind spent more than 10 years trying to help mediate the land claims of Bedouins living in Israel and to build a successful joint Israeli-Palestinian mediating organization. In Canada, he has worked with First Nations and the First Nations Tax Commission to build better relationships between First Nations and pipel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28082228 | 1,632,524 |
1,599,718 | Although Kinesin-5 is required in all cells during cell division, it does not appear to play a major role in the metabolism of most non-dividing cells. Among non-dividing cells, Kinesin-5 is most enriched within neurons, wherein it decorates the large microtubule bundles extending into axons and dendrites. It has been ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34520132 | 1,598,818 |
740,301 | Other possibilities to synthesize nuclei on the island of stability include quasifission (partial fusion followed by fission) of a massive nucleus. Such nuclei tend to fission, expelling doubly magic or nearly doubly magic fragments such as calcium-40, tin-132, lead-208, or bismuth-209. Recently it has been shown that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62198 | 739,909 |
97,380 | Other possibilities to synthesize nuclei on the island of stability include quasifission (partial fusion followed by fission) of a massive nucleus. Such nuclei tend to fission, expelling doubly magic or nearly doubly magic fragments such as calcium-40, tin-132, lead-208, or bismuth-209. Recently it has been shown that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67514 | 97,339 |
181,866 | Speaking in 2002, Terry Farrell said of playing Dax, "It was a character who had lived seven lifetimes, been a man and a woman. Before I walked in and actually met everybody, I felt a little bit intimidated about this, I thought 'Oh my God, I need to meet them so they're going to tell me what I need to know.' And when ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=205882 | 181,770 |
1,564,787 | The clock was designed in large part in a four-month period at the end of 2002, with some features that were originally intended for an outdoor installation. The clock keeps time through the use of a synchronous alternating current motor, which regulates its speed based on the frequency of the electricity that it is fe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3960557 | 1,563,900 |
2,001,184 | The first competition for cadet airmen was opened in May 1911, and in the following year the first class of Serbian pilots started their flying training in France from 21 May – 8 September 1912. They finished the course in the beginning of the First Balkan War with aircraft and the balloons that had already been obtain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48791069 | 2,000,039 |
1,271,067 | The United States Air Corps wanted the aircraft to perform high altitude research and to test the feasibility of a pressurized cabin. The Corps contracted with Lockheed Aircraft Corporation to produce the aircraft at a total cost of $112,197. The requirements called for an aircraft capable of flying at no less than 25,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20111443 | 1,270,376 |
1,683,964 | Arthur Tyndall, in his 1951 review, stated the book is "rich in experimental fact", with comparatively fewer mathematical sections, with notable exceptions such as those on Lorentz and Maxwell, saying that "this new volume is not a heavy treatise in theoretical physics, as perhaps its name might suggest". William McCre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65293114 | 1,683,020 |
1,483,385 | During World War II, Gross had some limited involvement in building a two-way air-to-ground communications system for the U.S. OSS (a forerunner to the CIA) for use in military operations, known as the Joan-Eleanor system. It comprised a hand-held SSTC-502 transceiver ("Joan") and a much larger aircraft-based SSTR-6 tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1668656 | 1,482,549 |
694,099 | Following up on the relative success of electric stimulation on non-permissive frog leg regeneration using an implanted bimetallic rod in the late 1960s, the bioelectric extracellular aspect of amphibian limb regeneration was extensively dissected in the next decades. Definitive descriptive and functional physiological... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55498066 | 693,736 |
1,160,893 | Prior to the use of computer hardware, cryptography could be performed through various mechanical or electro-mechanical means. An early example is the Scytale used by the Spartans. The Enigma machine was an electro-mechanical system cipher machine notably used by the Germans in World War II. After World War II, purely ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56358777 | 1,160,277 |
1,677,663 | She then began researching and writing articles on the history of vibrators, the first one for the newsletter of the Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life. According to Maines, the article caused her to lose her post as associate professor at Clarkson University in 1986 because the university was convinced that the natu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52691772 | 1,676,721 |
2,062,016 | The Experimental Farm Service grew dramatically in the early part of the new century. A large number of farms were created across the country at locations including, Summerland 1914, Vancouver 1925, Kamloops 1935, Creston 1940 and Prince George 1940, all in British Columbia, Lethbridge 1906, Lacombe 1907 and Fort Vermi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18401364 | 2,060,826 |
725,478 | Kyle Busch is largely responsible for a different type of bump drafting, which is now referred to as "two-car drafting" and "tandem drafting". At a 2007 test session in Talladega, he asked Ryan Newman to push him from behind, and was stunned to realize he was two seconds faster with Newman's help. At the newly paved Da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1080559 | 725,097 |
908,443 | Virgin Galactic—an offshoot of businessman and investor Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, and the parent company of Branson and Rutan's 2005 spacecraft manufacturing startup The Spaceship Company—announced that it would begin space tourism flights in 2008 using craft based on the designs of SpaceShipOne. Dubbed Space... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=422813 | 907,965 |
1,864,608 | Platensimycin was first isolated from a strain of "Streptomyces platensis" by workers at Merck. Screens of 250,000 natural product extracts (83,000 strains in three growth conditions) led to the identification of a potent and selective small molecule from a strain of Streptomyces platensis recovered from a soil sample ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5192329 | 1,863,536 |
2,203,402 | A degree of risk to exposure to swine diseases is observed in pasture swine systems. Especially in Europe, but not limited to the region, pasture or soil related parasites are important to consider, as several studies in northern temperate climate have indicated that outdoor production have resulted in heavier and more... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41194738 | 2,202,148 |
1,786,726 | Ajayan's present research interests include nanotechnology enabled energy storage devices (battery, supercapacitor and hybrid devices), nanocomposites, layered materials, 3D nanostructured materials, and smart material systems. Apart from leading a research group (~40 people, including post-docs, graduate and undergrad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1111018 | 1,785,721 |
212,322 | A theoretical study published in 2010 and conducted by Alexandrov et al at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico created mathematical models predicting how terahertz radiation would interact with double-stranded DNA, showing that, even though involved forces seem to be tiny, n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=362348 | 212,214 |
1,900,102 | In 1911 Robert Seyfarth designed and built a gambrel roofed Shingle Style house for his family on Sheridan Road in Highland Park, across the street from Frank Lloyd Wright's Ward Willets house (1901), and it marked a change in the direction of his design work - for the rest of his career his would design in an eclectic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24940492 | 1,899,014 |
972,651 | In 2011, several companies including distribution network operators (ERDF, Enexis), meter vendors (Sagemcom, Landis&Gyr) and chip vendors (Maxim Integrated, Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics, Renesas) founded the G3-PLC Alliance to promote G3-PLC technology. G3-PLC is the low layer protocol to enable large scale in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=238420 | 972,141 |
1,767,947 | Students who attend LSMSA live in dorms, away from their families, much like college students. For most of the school's history, students lived in Caddo Hall (girls) or Prudhomme Hall (boys), both long-term loans from Northwestern State University. On March 13, 2019, LSMSA hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for a residen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=588660 | 1,766,953 |
1,463,020 | Another mission for Shuttle-Centaur subsequently appeared in the form of the Venus Radar Mapper, later renamed "Magellan". The first mission integration panel meeting for this probe was held at the Lewis Research Center on 8 November 1983. Several Space Shuttle upper stages were considered, including the Orbital Scienc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65467235 | 1,462,197 |
1,581,942 | Perhaps the most widely known examples of this were his monographs on quantum solitons. A new non-perturbative approach to quantum field theory was being developed in the 1970s by quantizing fluctuations around exact classical (soliton) solutions, to get extended quantum particle states with remarkable topological prop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47861763 | 1,581,052 |
1,457,329 | Green Bank is in the National Radio Quiet Zone, which is coordinated by NRAO for protection of the Green Bank site as well as the Sugar Grove Station monitoring site operated by the NSA. The zone consists of a piece of land where fixed transmitters must coordinate their emissions before a license is granted. The land w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=318484 | 1,456,509 |
338,411 | The development of radiocarbon dating has had a profound impact on archaeologyoften described as the "radiocarbon revolution". In the words of anthropologist R. E. Taylor, " data made a "world" prehistory possible by contributing a time scale that transcends local, regional and continental boundaries". It provides more... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26197 | 338,231 |
61,221 | In the 1950s and 1960s, the problem became increasingly popular in scientific circles in Europe and the United States after the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica offered prizes for steps in solving the problem. Notable contributions were made by George Dantzig, Delbert Ray Fulkerson and Selmer M. Johnson from the RAND C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31248 | 61,196 |
1,213,536 | The beginning of the 20th century produced a new generation of intellectuals closely tied to the university who would make up the core of a revival in the cultural life of Galicia. At the same time, there was a wide acceptance and support to the modern currents of thought. This introduced key figures from different sci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3250703 | 1,212,884 |
366,406 | The F.8 also featured a fuselage stretch of , intended to shift the aircraft's centre of gravity and also eliminate the use of ballast formerly necessary in earlier marks due to the subsequent elimination from the design of two of the originally designed six installed cannon. The F.8 incorporated uprated engines, Derwe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42702 | 366,214 |
51,871 | Skepticism about the existence of eidetic memory was fueled around 1970 by Charles Stromeyer, who studied his future wife, Elizabeth, who claimed that she could recall poetry written in a foreign language that she did not understand years after she had first seen the poem. She also could seemingly recall random dot pat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21402573 | 51,851 |
1,983,146 | As a result of the results of Howell and collaborators, in the following years, extensive discussions took place on some conclusions related to human behavior, mainly those related to active hunting or the use of bone instruments. In order to establish a precise formation model of the deposits, the archaeologist Manuel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5090097 | 1,982,007 |
1,165,978 | A theory of attachment is a framework of ideas that attempt to explain attachment, the almost universal human tendency to prefer certain familiar companions over other people, especially when ill, injured, or distressed. Historically, certain social preferences, like those of parents for their children, were explained ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18756845 | 1,165,361 |
642,778 | In 2012, several peer reviewed independent studies were published showing that several neonicotinoids had previously undetected routes of exposure affecting bees including through dust, pollen, and nectar; that sub-nanogram toxicity resulted in failure to return to the hive without immediate lethality, the primary symp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29575354 | 642,439 |
850,214 | Tweaking simulations to make results conform with current political or military thinking is a recurring problem. In US Naval exercises in the 1980s, it was informally understood no high-value units such as aircraft carriers were allowed to be sunk, as naval policy at the time concentrated its tactical interest on such ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10280894 | 849,762 |
789,635 | Modern-day behavioural genetics began with Sir Francis Galton, a nineteenth-century intellectual and cousin of Charles Darwin. Galton was a polymath who studied many subjects, including the heritability of human abilities and mental characteristics. One of Galton's investigations involved a large pedigree study of soci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24235330 | 789,210 |
1,793,222 | Since the 1950s much of China's research and development effort has been channeled into military work. Military research facilities and factories are reported to have China's best-trained personnel, highest level of technology, and first priority for funding. Although the military sector has been shrouded in secrecy, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14246598 | 1,792,213 |
2,141,220 | Tomoelastography requires external driver systems, which can efficiently generate shear waves throughout the entire field of view including tissues deep within the body. Multiple drivers can be combined such that waves propagate from the surface into the body from different directions to enable full illumination of lar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67380412 | 2,139,990 |
905,899 | Front loading is taking top–down design to the next stage. The complete control structure and review structure, as well as downstream data such as drawings, tooling development, and CAM models, are constructed before the product has been defined or a project kick-off has been authorized. These assemblies of files const... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=597229 | 905,423 |
1,530,921 | After these early successes, Fox's paddling went into decline. He was determined to spend some time on his A-Level studies and avoid being thrown out of school and his kayaking performance was plagued by crashing into too many gates, causing him to miss out on selection for the British team in 1978. The underlying beli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6694612 | 1,530,055 |
612,374 | No firm commitment was made to the F-111 until the publication of the 1966 Defence White Paper, although it was the government's preferred option. Following the publication of the defence review, it was announced that up to 50 F-111s would be procured for the RAF; like the Australian version, these would be highly adap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39518516 | 612,063 |
750,579 | At the start of World War I, the Royal Navy had the world's largest submarine service by a considerable margin, with 74 boats of the B, C and D classes, of which 15 were oceangoing, with the rest capable of coastal patrols. The D-class, built 1907–1910, were designed to be propelled by diesel motors on the surface to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4551386 | 750,181 |
1,559,178 | What characterizes conservation psychology research is that in addition to descriptive and theoretical analyses, studies will explore how to cause the kinds of changes that lessen the impact of human behavior on the natural environment, and that lead to more sustainable and harmonious relationships. Some of the researc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14768005 | 1,558,292 |
2,054,854 | As the James M. Skinner Professor of Science, Yodh found that sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate (NaDDBS) disperses nanotubes in water with high efficiency. The result of this discovery improved scientists ability to manipulate single nanotubes. He also employed optical techniques, such as laser tweezers and confocal micr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69273403 | 2,053,671 |
923,046 | There was a change in media production in the nineteenth century. The invention of the steam-powered printing press enabled more pages to be printed per hour, which resulted in cheaper texts. Book prices gradually dropped, which gave the working classes the ability to purchase them. No longer reserved for the elite, af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13432082 | 922,560 |
296,486 | The Combat Talon was developed between December 1964 and January 1967 by Lockheed Air Services (LAS) at Ontario, California, as the result of a study by "Big Safari", the USAF's program office that modifies and sustains special mission aircraft. Two highly classified testbed aircraft (originally serial no. "64-0506" an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=600765 | 296,326 |
1,876,520 | Risks to crews on the ground was a paramount consideration and the tests were suspended but the idea was not altogether forgotten and trials resumed in 1961 and 1963. The result was a large heavy-duty cardboard container being developed in 1964 which employed fold-out wings and was called the “helibox”. It was suitable... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57882206 | 1,875,442 |
1,761,815 | PVFS version 1 was retired in 2005. PVFS version 2 is still supported by Clemson and Argonne. Carns completed his PhD in 2006 and joined Axicom, Inc. where PVFS was deployed on several thousand nodes for data mining. In 2008 Carns moved to Argonne and continues to work on PVFS along with Ross, Latham, and Sam Lang. Bra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5574878 | 1,760,822 |
1,371,943 | In discussions regarding Africa during the 34th G8 Summit, the G8 leaders set a five-year deadline to commit US$60 billion in funding to help fight disease in Africa and renewed a commitment made three years earlier to double aid for Africa to $25-billion by 2010 and to consider pledging further assistance after 2010. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7885581 | 1,371,186 |
1,126,159 | At the onset of World War II MCTI would be partially evacuated to Kokand (Uzbekistan) as part of the evacuation of essential industries conducted by the Soviet authorities in response to Operation Barbarossa the German military invasion of the Soviet Union. On March 23, 1943, the institute would be brought back from Ko... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20001197 | 1,125,582 |
1,564,413 | Grünbaum has also received criticism from some authors critical of psychoanalysis. Popper, responding to a description of Grünbaum's arguments provided to him by the journalist Daniel Goleman, denied that psychoanalysis can provide testable predictions. His comments were published in "Behavioral and Brain Sciences". Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34449875 | 1,563,526 |
534,288 | Another problem discovered by the jet fighters was unexpectedly dropping a wing at high speeds and high altitudes. This was traced to manufacturing defects in the wings that made no difference at low speeds and altitudes, but meant that each wing had a slightly different airfoil and, hence, a different amount of lift. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19945930 | 534,009 |
232,907 | In foreign affairs, Roosevelt sought to uphold the Monroe Doctrine and to establish the United States as a strong naval power, he took charge of building the Panama Canal, which greatly increased access to the Pacific and increased American security interests and trade opportunities. He inherited the colonial empire ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3520221 | 232,788 |
426,387 | In Heidegger's language that we are "thrown into the world" Jean-Paul Sartre's that "existence precedes essence." Both of these point out that who any individual is, is a matter of the social, historical, political, and economic situation into which he or she is born. This frees phenomenology from needing to find a uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1397910 | 426,178 |
1,781,407 | Sealed radioactive sources are routinely used in formation evaluation of both hydraulically fractured and non-fracked wells. The sources are lowered into the borehole as part of the well logging tools, and are removed from the borehole before any hydraulic fracturing takes place. Measurement of formation density is mad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36590968 | 1,780,403 |
1,109,466 | Local density approximations, as with GGAs are employed extensively by solid state physicists in ab-initio DFT studies to interpret electronic and magnetic interactions in semiconductor materials including semiconducting oxides and spintronics. The importance of these computational studies stems from the system complex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3146707 | 1,108,901 |
1,551,505 | Johann III Bernoulli served from 1764 to 1787 as Director of the Old Observatory and was succeeded by Johann Elert Bode. Lambert fetched Bode to Berlin in 1773, in order to publish an almanac; after Lambert' death, Bode became the sole editor. The first edition of the "Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch" (for 1776) had a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2512514 | 1,550,624 |
1,936,881 | In addition, the Games were utilised as a platform to showcase the culture of Indigenous Australian peoples to participants and audiences from different nations. The culture of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples was described to be "rich", and the SOCOG worked in close collaboration with their communitie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18272352 | 1,935,773 |
23,713 | Aspirin has been shown to have at least three additional modes of action. It uncouples oxidative phosphorylation in cartilaginous (and hepatic) mitochondria, by diffusing from the inner membrane space as a proton carrier back into the mitochondrial matrix, where it ionizes once again to release protons. Aspirin buffers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1525 | 23,704 |
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