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903,184 | According to an IAU draft resolution, the roundness condition generally results in the need for a mass of at least 5 kg, or diameter of at least 800 km. However, Mike Brown claimed that these numbers are only right for rocky bodies like asteroids, and that icy bodies like Kuiper Belt objects reach hydrostatic equilibri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6502961 | 902,708 |
826,998 | The first performance based interlocks were developed by Borg-Warner Corp. (now BorgWarner, Inc.), in 1969. In 1981, Jeffrey Feit, a student in New Jersey, placed in a statewide innovation contest with a primitive schematic of a breathalyzer based interlock device. In 1983, Hans Doran, a student in Limerick, presented ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=827481 | 826,554 |
439,042 | The term "through-silicon via" (TSV) was coined by Tru-Si Technologies researchers Sergey Savastiouk, O. Siniaguine, and E. Korczynski, who proposed a TSV method for a 3D wafer-level packaging (WLP) solution in 2000. Savastiouk later became the co-founder and CEO of ALLVIA Inc. From the beginning, his vision of the bus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14350137 | 438,828 |
658,274 | Performance testing technology employs one or more PCs or Unix servers to act as injectors, each emulating the presence of numbers of users and each running an automated sequence of interactions (recorded as a script, or as a series of scripts to emulate different types of user interaction) with the host whose performa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39294 | 657,929 |
1,194,833 | In August 1913, Sir Rashbehari Ghosh, an eminent jurist and scholar, in a letter to Asutosh Mookerjee placed in the hands of the University "a sum of ten lakh rupees" as per the conditions of his gift, there were to be established four chairs - one each for Applied Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Botany, with speci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62858858 | 1,194,193 |
870,439 | The limitations of RISC OS became steadily more apparent, particularly with the appearance of the Risc PC and the demands made on applications taking advantage of its improved hardware capabilities (although merely highlighting issues that were always present), and when contrasted with the gradually evolving Windows an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 869,979 |
864,910 | With the knowledge of the dopaminergic psychostimulant effects of the adamantane derivatives, bromantane, which is 2-(4-bromophenylamino)adamantane, was developed in the 1980s at the Zakusov State Institute of Pharmacology, USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (now the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences) in Moscow as "a d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21801602 | 864,450 |
637,734 | Clumped distribution in species acts as a mechanism against predation as well as an efficient mechanism to trap or corner prey. African wild dogs, "Lycaon pictus", use the technique of communal hunting to increase their success rate at catching prey. Studies have shown that larger packs of African wild dogs tend to hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5509703 | 637,395 |
1,653,543 | The Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering is headed by Dean Yannis Yortsos. Its research centers have played a major role in development of multiple technologies, including early development of the Internet when USC researcher Jonathan Postel was an editor of communications-protocol for the fledgling internet, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17943590 | 1,652,611 |
1,274,223 | A major recurring theme in Gilovich's work in behavioral economics is the importance of experience over ownership of material things. For instance, a paper he co-authored with Leaf Van Boven found that people overwhelmingly preferred "experiential purchases" to "material purchases." Writing for "The Atlantic", James Ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=881902 | 1,273,531 |
165,257 | Research into high-pressure sodium lamps occurred in both the UK and the US. Increasing the pressure of the sodium vapor broadened the sodium emission spectrum so that the light produced had more energy emitted at wavelengths above and below the 589 nm region. The quartz material used in mercury discharge lamps was cor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=641334 | 165,172 |
122,585 | Their inherent focus on "practical" implementation of technology has tended to keep them oriented more towards "incremental"-level redesigns and reconfigurations, as opposed to revolutionary research & development or ideas that would be many years from clinical adoption; however, there is a growing effort to expand thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4827 | 122,536 |
1,616,447 | Red Storm is intended for capability computing. That is, a single application can be run on the entire system. This is in contrast to cluster-style capacity computing, in which portions of a cluster are assigned to run different applications. The performance of the memory subsystem, the processor, and the network must ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6016318 | 1,615,536 |
702,064 | During the 1920s, the first Ordinary and Higher Certificates and Diplomas were awarded, and by the 1930s Robert Gordon's Technical College was made up of Schools of Engineering, Chemistry, Maths & Physics, Pharmacy, Art (including architecture), Domestic Science, and Navigation. Around this time the first students bega... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=381864 | 701,699 |
1,413,132 | TSP-1 is antiangiogenic, inhibiting the proliferation and migration of endothelial cells by interactions with CD36 expressed on their surface of these cells. Inhibitory peptides and fragments of TSP1 bind to CD36, leading to the expression of FAS ligand (FasL), which activates its specific, ubiquitous receptor, Fas. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2097931 | 1,412,336 |
849,997 | During the 2005 off-season, after Nomar Garciaparra left the Cubs via free agency, Prior was mentioned by Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports as part of a possible deal for Baltimore Orioles's shortstop Miguel Tejada, but this trade did not come to pass. As in 2005, Prior started the 2006 season on the disabled list. This time... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=297465 | 849,545 |
327,240 | Natural languages such as English have words for several Boolean operations, in particular conjunction ("and"), disjunction ("or"), negation ("not"), and implication ("implies"). "But not" is synonymous with "and not". When used to combine situational assertions such as "the block is on the table" and "cats drink milk,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54476844 | 327,066 |
1,059,271 | After his medical internship, US Army service (1945–48), and working at the military hospital of Nancy, France, he became a researcher at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (1948–50). He performed research in Paris (1950–56), relocated to New York University (1956–68), moved to the National Institut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1432150 | 1,058,721 |
86,130 | Controversial results from one study suggested that traumatic experiences might produce an epigenetic signal that is capable of being passed to future generations. Mice were trained, using foot shocks, to fear a cherry blossom odor. The investigators reported that the mouse offspring had an increased aversion to this s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49033 | 86,096 |
1,148,981 | From the start, Cheptegei went to the front to control the race. He was marked by Luis Grijalva, Jacob Krop and Grant Fisher through three 62 second laps. Then Cheptegei let off the gas, the Kenyans decided to move forward, Krop taking the point, Nicholas Kipkorir dropped in behind him, Daniel Ebenyo came along the out... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71264150 | 1,148,374 |
1,839,537 | Sallan uses big data analytics to study macroevolution, with a particular focus on palaeoichthyology. She uses data mining to identify why some species of fish persist whilst others die off. She joined the University of Pennsylvania in 2014. She leads a large research lab, which includes undergraduate and graduate stud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59777257 | 1,838,485 |
815,781 | The 1880s proved disastrous for Cope. Marsh's close association with the Geological Survey gave him the resources to employ 54 staff members over the course of ten years. His teaching position at Yale meant he had guaranteed access to the "American Journal of Science" for publication. Cope had his interest in the "Natu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=415000 | 815,347 |
927,330 | The U.S. Navy funded most of the early ROV technology development in the 1960s into what was then named a "Cable-Controlled Underwater Recovery Vehicle" (CURV). This created the capability to perform deep-sea rescue operation and recover objects from the ocean floor, such as a nuclear bomb lost in the Mediterranean Sea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=299462 | 926,843 |
442,555 | Fluorescent properties in nanodiamonds arise from the presence of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers, nitrogen atoms next to a vacancy. Fluorescent nanodiamond (FND) was invented in 2005 and has since been used in various fields of study. The invention received a US patent in 2008 , and a subsequent patent in 2012 . NV cent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4653948 | 442,340 |
748,593 | The organisms of the Ediacaran Period first appeared around and flourished until the cusp of the Cambrian , when the characteristic communities of fossils vanished. A diverse Ediacaran community was discovered in 1995 in Sonora, Mexico, and is approximately 555 million years in age, roughly coeval with Ediacaran fossil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10608031 | 748,195 |
259,743 | On 9 July 2021, Public Health England issued Technical Briefing 18 on SARS-CoV-2 variants, documenting 112 deaths among 45,136 UK cases of SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant with 28 days follow-up with a fatality rate of 0.2%. Briefing 16 notes that "[M]ortality is a lagged indicator, which means that the number of cases who hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67445633 | 259,609 |
535,195 | Since the late 1980s, the Australian government had increasingly called upon the ADF to contribute forces to peacekeeping missions around the world. While most of these deployments involved only small numbers of specialists, several led to the deployment of hundreds of personnel. Large peacekeeping deployments were mad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,916 |
1,635,968 | As an active suffragist, Mary Agnes Chase took part in a series of demonstrations lead by the Silent Sentinels, members of the National Woman's Party (NWP) who wanted President Wilson to listen to what women had to say about the vote. These “Silent Sentinels” attempted to infiltrate the White House in every way possibl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31328401 | 1,635,043 |
241,097 | Thorne's work has dealt with the prediction of gravitational wave strengths and their temporal signatures as observed on Earth. These "signatures" are of great relevance to LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory), a multi-institution gravitational wave experiment for which Thorne has been a leading p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=238517 | 240,977 |
1,675,638 | Medical doctor Peter Wilmshurst has used the term to describe "poor people in developing countries...being exploited in research for the benefit of patients in the developed world", and advised that "the scientific community has a responsibility to ensure that all scientific research is conducted ethically". Others con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9719407 | 1,674,696 |
2,132,778 | Sharma began his academic career as a research and teaching assistant while still a graduate student at Buffalo, and was a research assistant for a year at the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware (1989-1990) prior to completing his Ph.D. Shortly after his doctorate degree, he was a P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68035752 | 2,131,553 |
1,043,023 | In an article in "Nature" (2011), Whitesides and John M. Deutch challenged the scientific and chemical communities to become more relevant to current social and environmental issues. They criticized academic chemistry for an "increasingly incurious and risk-averse attitude" and for focusing on "familiar questions of fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5573528 | 1,042,479 |
5,581 | Puzzled by the geographical distribution of wildlife and fossils he collected on the voyage, Darwin began detailed investigations and, in 1838, devised his theory of natural selection. Although he discussed his ideas with several naturalists, he needed time for extensive research and his geological work had priority. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8145410 | 5,578 |
792,656 | Root exudates come in the form of chemicals released into the rhizosphere by cells in the roots and cell waste referred to as "rhizodeposition." This rhizodeposition comes in various forms of organic carbon and nitrogen that provide for the communities around plant roots and dramatically affect the chemistry surroundin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2915538 | 792,231 |
736,302 | Ultimately, the versatility of the Thury system was hampered by the fragility of series distribution, and the lack of a reliable DC conversion technology that would not show up until the 1940s with improvements in mercury arc valves. The AC "universal system" won by force of numbers, proliferating systems with transfor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18179220 | 735,914 |
861,913 | A basic Post Keynesian presumption, which Modern Monetary Theory proponents share, and which is central to Keynesian analysis, is that the future is unknowable and so, at best, we can make guesses about it that would be based broadly on habit, custom, gut-feeling, etc. In DSGE modeling, the central equation for consump... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12052214 | 861,454 |
449,084 | Due to the fact that they believe archaeology to be inherently subjective, post-processualists argue that "all archaeologists... whether they overtly admit it or not", always impose their own views and biases into their interpretations of the archaeological data. In many cases, they hold that this bias is political in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160139 | 448,866 |
1,849,979 | Born in Bijnor in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Singh completed his schooling at Dev Nagri Inter College, Meerut in 1951 and passed the intermediate course from Meerut College of Agra University in 1953. After earning a BSc in physics, chemistry and mathematics in 1955 and an MSc in physics in 1957 from the same i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53741227 | 1,848,921 |
26,375 | The spacecraft separated from its service module at around 17:00 UTC on December 11, 2022 and then reentered Earth's atmosphere at 17:20 UTC travelling near . It was the first United States use of a "skip entry", a form of non-ballistic atmospheric entry into the atmosphere, pioneered by Zond 7, in which two phases of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36641570 | 26,365 |
2,023,118 | The expression of preimplantation factor in the embryo is strongly correlated with the likelihood of a live birth. This observed viability is not solely due to PIF's ability to mediate the implantation and allografting process but also due to its ability to promote the upregulation and integrity of certain intracellula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60620623 | 2,021,954 |
681,080 | In 1928, before leaving for Göttingen, Curry married Mary Virginia Wheatley. The couple lived in Germany while Curry completed his dissertation, then, in 1929, moved to State College, Pennsylvania where Curry accepted a position at Pennsylvania State College. They had two children, Anne Wright Curry (July 27, 1930) and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42182 | 680,725 |
423,928 | The Jet Propulsion Laboratory traces its history from the 1930s, when Caltech professor Theodore von Karman conducted pioneering work in rocket propulsion. Funded by Army Ordnance in 1942, JPL's early efforts would eventually involve technologies beyond those of aerodynamics and propellant chemistry. The result of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=319341 | 423,721 |
785,102 | In some European countries a common form of set square combines a 90-45-45 triangle, a ruler and a protractor into a single tool made of stiff or slightly flexible transparent plastic. Being a mandatory tool used by pupils in middle school and higher in German-speaking and neighbouring countries, this specific design i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2075882 | 784,681 |
1,618,227 | While some species-typical behavior is learned from parents, it's also sometimes the product of a fixed action pattern, also known as an innate releasing mechanism (IRM). In these instances, a neural network is 'programmed' to create a hard-wired, instinctive behavior in response to an external stimulus. When a blind c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17394950 | 1,617,314 |
164,388 | San Lorenzo Colossal Head 2 (also known as San Lorenzo Monument 2) was reworked from a monumental throne. The head stands high and measures wide by deep; it weighs 20 tons. Colossal Head 2 was discovered in 1945 when Matthew Stirling's guide cleared away some of the vegetation and mud that covered it. The monument was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35721801 | 164,303 |
97,391 | The "second era" (personal computers) began in 1965 as microprocessors started to compete with mainframes and minicomputers and accelerated the process of decentralizing computing power from large data centers to smaller offices. In the late 1970s, minicomputer technology gave way to personal computers and relatively l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=237494 | 97,350 |
433,515 | Trivers studied evolutionary theory with Ernst Mayr and William Drury at Harvard from 1968 to 1972, when he earned his PhD in biology. At Harvard he published a series of some of the most influential and highly cited papers in evolutionary biology. His first major paper as a graduate student was "The evolution of recip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2089648 | 433,301 |
273,269 | Members of the United States armed forces are exposed to CS during initial training, and during training refresher courses or equipment maintenance exercises, using CS tablets that are melted on a hotplate. This is to demonstrate the importance of properly wearing a military gas mask or protective mask, as the agent's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=172147 | 273,121 |
826,991 | The notion of entropy as disorder has been transferred from thermodynamics to psychology by Polish psychiatrist Antoni Kępiński, who admitted being inspired by Erwin Schrödinger. In his theoretical framework devised to explain mental disorders (the information metabolism theory), the difference between living organisms... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7815174 | 826,547 |
192,352 | On 30 December 2012, the Navy issued an urgent order to install RDR-1700 maritime surveillance radars on nine MQ-8Bs. The RDR-1700 is an X-band synthetic aperture radar housed in a modified radome mounted on the helicopter's underside for 360-degree coverage, interfaced with the UAV and its control station. Detailed ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3774679 | 192,253 |
433,460 | By the late Devonian, land plants had stabilized freshwater habitats, allowing the first wetland ecosystems to develop, with increasingly complex food webs that afforded new opportunities. The early labyrinthodonts were wholly aquatic, hunting in shallow water along tidal shores or weed filled tidal channels. From thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1227129 | 433,246 |
1,994,327 | Originally opened in 1916 as a shipping and recreational facility, Navy Pier in Chicago extended 3,300 feet into Lake Michigan. In August 1941, Navy Pier was taken over and converted to a major Naval Training School. It was renovated to accommodate a large number of service personnel, primarily for mechanical ratings. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36494078 | 1,993,184 |
549,061 | In addition to killing bacteria directly they have been demonstrated to have a number of immunomodulatory functions that may be involved in the clearance of infection, including the ability to alter host gene expression, act as chemokines and/or induce chemokine production, inhibiting lipopolysaccharide induced pro-inf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2065768 | 548,773 |
1,006,283 | Early speculation about nuclear weapons assumed that an "atom bomb" would be a large amount of fissile material, moderated by a neutron moderator, similar in structure to a nuclear reactor or "pile". Only the Manhattan project embraced the idea of a chain reaction of fast neutrons in pure metallic uranium or plutonium.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188896 | 1,005,764 |
1,065,622 | The Laboratory for Conservation of Endangered Species is an annexe with the aim to conserve the Indian wildlife by using modern biological techniques and assisted reproductive technologies. It has worked extensively with various departments of the Government of India to curb wildlife crime. They have helped identify th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5867888 | 1,065,068 |
1,408,783 | QTAIM rests on the fact that the dominant topological property of the vast majority of electron density distributions is the presence of strong maxima that occur exclusively at the nuclei, certain pairs of which are linked together by ridges of electron density. In terms of an electron density distribution's gradient v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2843479 | 1,407,992 |
1,335,676 | However, this is not the only technique available: the original EMI scanner solved the tomographic reconstruction problem by linear algebra, but this approach was limited by its high computational complexity, especially given the computer technology available at the time. More recently, manufacturers have developed ite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53857907 | 1,334,946 |
730,295 | For hundreds of years, humans have made use of the chemical reactions of biological organisms in order to create goods. In the mid-1800s, Louis Pasteur was one of the first people to look into the role of these organisms when he researched fermentation. His work also contributed to the use of pasteurization, which is s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=616670 | 729,910 |
353,483 | 20th century developments in plant biochemistry have been driven by modern techniques of organic chemical analysis, such as spectroscopy, chromatography and electrophoresis. With the rise of the related molecular-scale biological approaches of molecular biology, genomics, proteomics and metabolomics, the relationship b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4183 | 353,300 |
1,375,647 | Dessler and Edward Parson co-authored, "The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate" in 2006 (2nd ed. 2009). It was described as, "a fascinating hybrid of science and policy directed at a broad or nonspecialist audience" by Wendy Gordon in a 2008 review in "Eos". Gordon's review was positiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13725293 | 1,374,886 |
1,516,161 | As Richardson developed the ribbon diagram to illustrate her findings over the course of her taxonomic research, her iconic images first appeared in the review journal "Advances in Protein Chemistry" in an article titled "The anatomy and taxonomy of protein structure" 1981, an early hallmark publication in structural b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11502437 | 1,515,309 |
1,638,366 | The Wheeler–Kenyon method is a method of archaeological excavation. The technique originates from the work of Mortimer Wheeler and Tessa Wheeler at Verulamium (1930–35), and was later refined by Kathleen Kenyon during her excavations at Jericho (1952–58). The Wheeler–Kenyon system involves digging within a series of sq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7450620 | 1,637,441 |
1,406,559 | Recently, MNase-seq has also been implemented in determining where transcription factors bind on the DNA. Classical ChIP-seq displays issues with resolution quality, stringency in experimental protocol, and DNA fragmentation. Classical ChIP-seq typically uses sonication to fragment chromatin, which biases heterochromat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63210872 | 1,405,769 |
566,927 | Originally in development, Lev was not transgender. An early pitch was for Yara (portrayed by Victoria Grace) to be transgender, but Druckmann preferred to keep her a more traditional follower of the Seraphites. Queer and transgender employees of Naughty Dog gave input on the character, and the team consulted with an L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64504979 | 566,637 |
1,205,007 | LOFAR offers a unique possibility in particle physics for studying the origin of high-energy and ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (HECRs and UHECRs) at energies between eV. Both the sites and processes for accelerating particles are unknown. Possible candidate sources of these HECRs are shocks in radio lobes of powerful r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1524766 | 1,204,362 |
1,347,238 | The first phase, completed 1926, built the wing that forms the west face of the triangle. Its façade dominates the eastern side of the university's Central Plaza, better known as Red Square. The south wing, the second phase of construction, was completed in 1935. Part of this second phase added a floor between the firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=872655 | 1,346,497 |
1,227,043 | Pandemic prevention seeks to prevent pandemics while mitigation of pandemics seeks to reduce their severity and negative impacts. Some have called for a shift from a treatment-oriented society to a prevention-oriented one. Authors of a 2010 study write that contemporary "global disease control focuses almost exclusivel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63478457 | 1,226,382 |
1,456,438 | Another place that FTICR-MS is useful is in dealing with complex mixtures, such as biomass or waste liquefaction products, since the resolution (narrow peak width) allows the signals of two ions with similar mass-to-charge ratios ("m"/"z") to be detected as distinct ions. This high resolution is also useful in studying... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2182716 | 1,455,618 |
1,517,585 | Ottilie "Tilly" Edinger was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1897. Her father Ludwig Edinger, himself a pioneer in comparative neurology, provided Tilly with invaluable exposure to his field and the scientific community at large. Tilly had many private tutors before attending Schiller-Schule, the only secondary school fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27043983 | 1,516,733 |
130,886 | Proof of improved survival benefit from either of these two techniques over conventional radiation therapy (2DXRT) is growing for many tumor sites, but the ability to reduce toxicity is generally accepted. This is particularly the case for head and neck cancers in a series of pivotal trials performed by Professor Chris... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26350 | 130,834 |
1,509,314 | He did much work on a monorail locomotive which was kept upright by a gyrostat. In 1903 he patented a gyroscopically-balanced monorail system that he designed for military use; he successfully demonstrated the full sized system on 10 November 1909, at Gillingham, England. At the Japan–British Exhibition of 1910 at Whit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1054501 | 1,508,465 |
1,818,052 | Recent fMRI studies have begun to elucidate the cognitive and affective neural correlates associated with humor processing. But these correlates, corresponding to the stages of humor detection and humor appreciation respectively, fail to distinguish between these different logical mechanisms. A medley of studies have s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41122131 | 1,817,017 |
209,645 | During the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, all intellectuals, including scientists, came under much persecution, and among other things were conscripted into manual labour as part of a campaign to turn "intellectuals into labourers and labourers into intellectuals", which impeded research. Though palaeoanthropol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=253340 | 209,538 |
771,695 | The International Radiotelegraph Union was unofficially established at the first International Radiotelegraph Convention in 1906, and was merged into the International Telecommunication Union in 1932. When the United States entered World War I, private radiotelegraphy stations were prohibited, which put an end to sever... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33131 | 771,281 |
1,949,597 | Suspension array technology (or SAT) is a high throughput, large-scale, and multiplexed screening platform used in molecular biology. SAT has been widely applied to genomic and proteomic research, such as single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping, genetic disease screening, gene expression profiling, screening dr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30990996 | 1,948,476 |
1,627,403 | Although the first known reference to a snapshot hyperspectral imaging device—the Bowen "image slicer"—dates from 1938, the concept was not successful until a larger amount of spatial resolution was available. With the arrival of large-format detector arrays in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a series of new snapshot h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31560201 | 1,626,485 |
1,348,985 | In general, a quadrupedal locomotion is assumed for the ground-dwelling sloths. However, due to the body's center of gravity being shifted far to the rear, it was obviously also possible for them to change to a bipedal position, while being able to support themselves with the powerful - in contrast to today's tree slot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16886646 | 1,348,240 |
150,875 | In the early 1960s, various executives of US aerospace companies were telling the US public and Congress that there were no technical reasons an SST could not be produced. In April 1960, Burt C Monesmith, a vice president with Lockheed, stated to various magazines that an SST constructed of steel weighing could be deve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=215930 | 150,807 |
2,080,692 | The Visible Embryo Project (VEP) is a multi-institutional, multidisciplinary research project originally created in the early 1990s as a collaboration between the Developmental Anatomy Center at the National Museum of Health and Medicine and the Biomedical Visualization Laboratory (BVL) at the University of Illinois at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70238111 | 2,079,492 |
1,656,570 | As cancer treatments are not cancer cell-specific and are often gonadotoxic (toxic to the ovaries and the testes), children usually face infertility as a consequence of treatment as there is no established way to preserve their fertility yet, especially in prepubertal boys. Infertility after cancer treatment depends on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51778204 | 1,655,637 |
479,297 | By not requiring "a priori" specification of a model, symbolic regression isn't affected by human bias, or unknown gaps in domain knowledge. It attempts to uncover the intrinsic relationships of the dataset, by letting the patterns in the data itself reveal the appropriate models, rather than imposing a model structure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42922637 | 479,057 |
928,644 | Webern's works are concise, distilled, and select; when Boulez, for a second time, recorded all of his then published compositions, including some of those without opus numbers, the results fit on just six CDs. Not all of his works were or could be published in his lifetime, especially after 1934. His music is often co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65676 | 928,155 |
418,688 | In 2004, the Elektron unit shut down due to (initially) unknown causes. Two weeks of troubleshooting resulted in the unit starting up again, then immediately shutting down. The cause was eventually traced to gas bubbles in the unit, which remained non-functional until a Progress resupply mission in October 2004. In 200... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25850552 | 418,483 |
1,695,063 | In 1999, a new model regarding KIF1A motility, contrary to the widely accepted dimeric, two-headed “walking model,” depicted that KIF1A can move processively on microtubules as a monomer in single molecule experiments. As the debate on whether KIF1A functioned as a monomer or dimer ensued, further research in the cryo-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31656267 | 1,694,112 |
29,520 | In the 14th century, alchemy became more accessible to Europeans outside the confines of Latin speaking churchmen and scholars. Alchemical discourse shifted from scholarly philosophical debate to an exposed social commentary on the alchemists themselves. Dante, Piers Plowman, and Chaucer all painted unflattering pictur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573 | 29,510 |
1,982,368 | Many traditional chemical conversions used in various industries suffer from inherent drawbacks from both an economic and environmental viewpoint. Non-specific reactions can afford low product yields, copious amounts of waste and impure products. The need for elevated temperatures and pressures leads to high energy con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12477587 | 1,981,229 |
1,441,084 | In 1960, the textbook and course materials were first published by D. C. Heath and Company (which became a division of Raytheon during 1966–1995), and a series of coordinating laboratory equipment and an experimental handbook was also released. The otherwise-unrelated Heathkit company marketed a series of its standard ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24165862 | 1,440,274 |
590,544 | The Wirraway was powered by a single 600 hp Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp radial engine, licence-built by CAC and allowing the aircraft to reach speeds of up to 191 knots. The engine drove a three-bladed variable-pitch propeller developed by de Havilland Propellers. Fuel was stored within a pair of 45 gallon tanks. The t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3943778 | 590,242 |
845,326 | Microwaves propagate solely by line of sight; because of the small refraction due to their short wavelength, the groundwave and ionospheric reflection (skywave or "skip" propagation) seen with lower frequency radio waves do not occur. Although in some cases they can penetrate building walls enough for useful reception,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=385748 | 844,876 |
475,741 | On March 31, 2013, an industrial accident at the facility killed one person and injured eight other workers, including four seriously. The accident took place "in a non-radiation area, and there was no risk to public health and safety." According to Entergy, the old stator of Unit One's generator fell during an operati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1753613 | 475,504 |
395,964 | In 2003, the U.S. Army contended that the lack of lethality of the 5.56×45mm was more a matter of perception than fact. With good shot placement to the head and chest, the target was usually defeated without issue. The majority of failures were the result of hitting the target in non-vital areas such as extremities. Ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2471637 | 395,769 |
196,505 | A study by Natural Resources Canada found that cold climate air source heat pumps (CC-ASHPs) work in Canadian winters, based on testing in Ottawa (Ontario) in late December 2012 to early January 2013 using a ducted CC-ASHP. (The report does not explicitly state whether backup heat sources should be considered for tempe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6453717 | 196,405 |
1,677,268 | As the 19th century came to a close, the familiar modern battleship began to emerge; a steel-armoured ship, entirely dependent on steam and carrying a relatively small number of large guns mounted in turrets, typically arranged along the centreline of the main deck. The revolutionary "Dreadnought" of 1906 was the first... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3690996 | 1,676,326 |
353,231 | In 1907, the Board of Trustees selected the head of the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy at Princeton University, Edgar Odell Lovett, to head the institute, which was still in the planning stages. He came recommended by Princeton's president, Woodrow Wilson. In 1908, Lovett accepted the challenge, and was formal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25813 | 353,048 |
1,411,481 | At the same time, both natural and artificial factors of migration have specific prioritization for different contaminants. The primary way of Strontium-90 transportation to the groundwater is its infiltration from contaminated soils and subsequent transition through the porous surfaces of unconfined aquifer. The schol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59803219 | 1,410,688 |
955,032 | Alfred Russel Wallace studied the distribution of flora and fauna in the Amazon Basin and the Malay Archipelago in the mid-19th century. His research was essential to the further development of biogeography, and he was later nicknamed the "father of Biogeography". Wallace conducted fieldwork researching the habits, bre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99358 | 954,527 |
1,468,487 | Although the destructive effects of gunpowder were described in the earlier Tang dynasty by a Daoist alchemist, the earliest-known existent written formulas for gunpowder come from the "Wujing Zongyao" text of 1044, which described explosive bombs hurled from catapults. The earliest developments of the gun barrel and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10444102 | 1,467,663 |
1,630,127 | Despite the implementation of the Gallion plan, the growing population could not adequately be contained. Accordingly, in 1960, President Norman Topping commissioned William L. Pereira to design another masterplan with an express focus on accommodating growth in enrollment and increase in research activity. Specificall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17943835 | 1,629,207 |
1,667,515 | VIL can be used to estimate the potential for downburst, too. A convective downdraft is linked to three forces in the vertical, namely perturbation pressure gradient force, buoyancy force and precipitation loading. The pressure gradient force was neglected as it has significant effect only on the updraft in supercells.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12253521 | 1,666,576 |
338,277 | The holotype skeleton consists of the right humerus (upper arm bone), the right femur (thigh bone), the right ilium (a hip bone), the right coracoid (a shoulder bone), the sacrum (fused vertebrae of the hip), the last seven thoracic (trunk) and two caudal (tail) vertebrae, and several ribs. Riggs described the coracoid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20598015 | 338,097 |
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