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709,814 | The sole instrument on TESS is a package of four wide-field-of-view charge-coupled device (CCD) cameras. Each camera features four low-noise, low-power 4 megapixel CCDs created by MIT Lincoln Laboratory. The four CCDs are arranged in a 2 x 2 detector array for a total of 16 megapixels per camera and 16 CCDs for the ent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20024409 | 709,443 |
345,790 | Lavoisier is commonly cited as a central contributor to the chemical revolution. His precise measurements and meticulous keeping of balance sheets throughout his experiment were vital to the widespread acceptance of the law of conservation of mass. His introduction of new terminology, a binomial system modeled after th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1822 | 345,609 |
2,087,556 | The bulk total enthalpy output ranges from 4000 to 5800 kJ/kg, which is controlled by adjustments in the power supply output of current and the rate that gas is injected into the arc heater. The arc heater can be configured to produce a very peaked enthalpy distribution across the nozzle exit, which can give local tota... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12449857 | 2,086,354 |
1,039,866 | The African studies on which this information is based have been criticized for methodological flaws. Svoboda and Howe compare them to the "lowest common denominator", citing "selection bias, randomization bias, experimenter bias, inadequate blinding, participant expectation bias, lack of placebo control, inadequate eq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31330718 | 1,039,325 |
282,696 | University sports began in 1894 with an 8–0 loss to Marietta College in football. The university competes in the major National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level and is a charter member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC), established in 1946, and remains the sole charter member competing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=483329 | 282,543 |
997,695 | The Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) had a considerable interest in the C-1 programme. Beyond its primary purpose as a military-orientated airlifter, at one stage, MITI had decided to adopt the C-1's design as the basis for a next-generation commercial transport project. While some work was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4115268 | 997,177 |
739,718 | The 19th century saw a proliferation in chemical methods for the analysis of urine, but these techniques were labor-intensive and impractical; in one contemporary editorial a physician complained about the dangers of keeping nitric acid (used to detect albumin) in one's pocket. A search for more convenient techniques e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=568003 | 739,326 |
1,655,410 | The chemical composition of stars hosting small exoplanets (with radii less than four Earth radii) appears to be more diverse than that of gas-giant hosts, which tend to be metal-rich. This implies that small, including Earth-size, planets may have readily formed at earlier epochs in the Universe's history when metals ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45233394 | 1,654,478 |
1,165,685 | UNO joined the WCHA as a full-time member starting with the 2010–11 season. The Mavericks started the season on a positive note, as they stunned Minnesota with a two-game sweep at Mariucci Arena in their first ever conference battle. UNO continued its hot start through the beginning of November by winning seven of thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22283832 | 1,165,068 |
1,869,194 | Chena is the oldest cultivation method in Sri Lanka, it goes far back as more than 5,000 years. (Before the Anuradhapura Kingdom) This is an extreme level of forest destruction resulting in almost complete destruction of the natural plant diversity. it the dry zone, the recovery of a chenea plot proceeds through variou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67018514 | 1,868,118 |
967,471 | American guitar and organ manufacturers of the 1960s embraced the resistive opto-isolator as a convenient and cheap tremolo modulator. Fender's early tremolo effects used two vacuum tubes; after 1964 one of these tubes was replaced by an optocoupler made of a LDR and a neon lamp. To date, Vactrols activated by pressing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=465393 | 966,961 |
221,384 | To obtain the behavior of the Yang–Mills theory at high energies, and so to prove asymptotic freedom, one applies perturbation theory assuming a small coupling. This is verified a posteriori in the ultraviolet limit. In the opposite limit, the infrared limit, the situation is the opposite, as the coupling is too large ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=672202 | 221,275 |
667,868 | Researchers collected the data on many differences between women and men in science. Rossiter found that in 1966, thirty-eight percent of female scientists held master's degrees compared to twenty-six percent of male scientists; but large proportions of female scientists were in environmental and nonprofit organization... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3135183 | 667,519 |
472,762 | When multiple copies of a polypeptide encoded by a gene form a complex, this protein structure is referred to as a multimer. When a multimer is formed from polypeptides produced by two different mutant alleles of a particular gene, the mixed multimer may exhibit greater functional activity than the unmixed multimers fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542598 | 472,526 |
1,479,156 | Culture-historical archaeology was first introduced into British scholarship from continental Europe by an Australian prehistorian, V. Gordon Childe. A keen linguist, Childe was able to master a number of European languages, including German, and was well acquainted with the works on archaeological cultures written by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=642813 | 1,478,323 |
1,518,347 | The idea of a memorial was initiated by the senior Warrant Officers of the trade and supported by the Director of Land Service Ammunition and his staff. A RAOC EOD Memorial Working Party was set up and reported progress to the Director General of Ordnance Services. The memorial was funded by RAOC central funds, donatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4256071 | 1,517,489 |
51,081 | The order Gymnophiona (from the Greek "gymnos" meaning "naked" and "ophis" meaning "serpent") or Apoda comprises the caecilians. These are long, cylindrical, limbless animals with a snake- or worm-like form. The adults vary in length from 8 to 75 centimetres (3 to 30 inches) with the exception of Thomson's caecilian ("... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=621 | 51,061 |
398,563 | Toward the close of the decade, manufacturing issues began plaguing the AIM alliance in much the same way they did Motorola, which consistently pushed back deployments of new processors for Apple and other vendors: first from Motorola in the 1990s with the PowerPC 7xx and 74xx processors, and IBM with the 64-bit PowerP... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24281 | 398,367 |
988,065 | Udet's success attracted attention for his skill, earning him an invitation to join the "Flying Circus", "Jagdgeschwader" 1 (JG 1), an elite unit of German fighter aces under the command of Manfred von Richthofen, popularly known as the Red Baron. Richthofen drove up to Udet one day as he was trying to pitch a tent in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=370934 | 987,549 |
970,888 | ICF systems face some of the same secondary power extraction problems as magnetic systems in generating useful power. One of the primary concerns is how to successfully remove the heat generated from the reaction chamber without interfering with the targets and driver beams. Another concern is that the released neutron... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40323 | 970,378 |
911,732 | Mass casualties occurred in the Soviet Union in the 1930s and 1940s when "Fusarium"-contaminated wheat flour was baked into bread, causing alimentary toxic aleukia with a 60% mortality rate. Symptoms began with abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and prostration, and within days, fever, chills, myalgias and bone marrow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=935302 | 911,253 |
804,585 | It is a carrier which will contain Air Launched Flexible Asset Swarm (ALFA-S) loitering munition. The carrier is capable of gliding and can cover around distance after being launched from the mothership. After reaching the desired distance, the ALFA-S can automatically separate from CATS ALFA and fly using its own prop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66820762 | 804,156 |
390,977 | On 15 January 2013, South Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration announced the selection of the AW159 to fulfill a requirement of the Republic of Korea Navy for a maritime helicopter, winning out against the MH-60R Seahawk. The batch of eight aircraft were chosen to perform search-and-rescue missions, anti-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22589260 | 390,782 |
937,833 | The most obvious adaptation to flight is the wing, but because flight is so energetically demanding birds have evolved several other adaptations to improve efficiency when flying. Birds' bodies are streamlined to help overcome air-resistance. Also, the bird skeleton is hollow to reduce weight, and many unnecessary bone... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1837609 | 937,333 |
1,228,296 | The Army, however, was itself divided into cliques and factions with different strategic viewpoints. One faction saw The Soviet Union as the main enemy, the other sought to build a mighty empire based in Manchuria and northern China. The Navy, while smaller and less influential, was also factionalized. Large-scale warf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54108025 | 1,227,634 |
125,936 | Tranexamic acid within three hours of a head injury decreases the risk of death. Certain facilities are equipped to handle TBI better than others; initial measures include transporting patients to an appropriate treatment center. Both during transport and in hospital the primary concerns are ensuring proper oxygen supp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1057414 | 125,884 |
974,904 | Cases of deaf and feral children provide evidence for a biologically determined CP for L1. Feral children are those not exposed to language in infancy/childhood due to being brought up in the wild, in isolation and/or confinement. A classic example is 'Genie', a victim of child abuse who was deprived of social interact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8329918 | 974,393 |
281,010 | Professor A. W. B. Simpson, in an article entitled 'Quackery and Contract Law' gave the background of the case as part of the scare arising from the Russian influenza pandemic of 1889-90. He points out that nobody knew what the flu actually was yet, nor how to prevent or cure it. After it was patented, the Carbolic Smo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=806313 | 280,858 |
463,056 | Over the next few years, the Command expanded greatly and replaced its obsolete biplane squadrons – generally outfitted with Bristol Bulldog, Gloster Gauntlet and Hawker Fury biplane fighters leading up to, and through the period of its founding – with two of the most famous aircraft ever to fly with the RAF, the Hawke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=436392 | 462,827 |
240,947 | Sixteen people were killed as a result of the collapse of the Northridge Meadows apartment complex. The Northridge Fashion Center and California State University, Northridge also sustained very heavy damage – most notably the collapse of parking structures. The earthquake also gained worldwide attention because of dama... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=267024 | 240,827 |
1,436,857 | The virus attaches to host receptors through the SU glycoprotein, and the TM glycoprotein mediates fusion with the cell membrane. The entry receptor that triggers viral entry has not been identified, but the absence of heparan sulfate in one study resulted in a decrease of infection, acknowledging it as an attachment f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5205992 | 1,436,048 |
251,822 | Wallace's extensive work in biogeography made him aware of the impact of human activities on the natural world. In "Tropical Nature and Other Essays" (1878), he warned about the dangers of deforestation and soil erosion, especially in tropical climates prone to heavy rainfall. Noting the complex interactions between ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1494 | 251,689 |
2,101,477 | Jan Łopuszański was born on 21 October 1923 in Lwów, Poland. During 1945-50 he studied physics at the University of Wrocław. In 1950, he received his M.A. in Wrocław, in 1955 his Ph.D. at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Since 1947, he was part of regular staff member at the University of Wrocław. In 1968, he bec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16018591 | 2,100,265 |
1,440,842 | Stockhausen himself attributes a month spent walking among ruins in Mexico as his primary influence, "Stimmung" recreating that 'magic' space. On the other hand, he also describes the snow on frozen Long Island Sound in February and March 1968 (when he was composing "Stimmung" in Madison, Connecticut), as "the only lan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=802711 | 1,440,032 |
1,296,012 | Werner syndrome, also known as "adult progeria", is another single-gene genetic disease. it is caused by a mutation in the wrn gene. It affects about 1 in 200,000 people in the United States. This syndrome starts to affect individuals during the teenage years, preventing teens from growing at puberty. There are four co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5914541 | 1,295,301 |
1,070,488 | Universal Century technology debuted in Gundam Century, written by editors, academy and studios hired by "Out" magazine at that time, later part of the book was endorsed by Sunrise and Bandai, and some of the authors of the articles within "Gundam Century" became official editors and writers of Gundam mechanics. A main... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20587324 | 1,069,934 |
1,812,504 | Cybernetical physics is a scientific area on the border of cybernetics and physics which studies physical systems with cybernetical methods. Cybernetical methods are understood as methods developed within control theory, information theory, systems theory and related areas: control design, estimation, identification, o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26102963 | 1,811,471 |
482,678 | As explained in his 1996 book, "The Emotional Brain", LeDoux developed an interest in the topic of emotion through his doctoral work with Michael Gazzaniga on split-brain patients in the mid-1970s. Because techniques for studying the human brain were limited at the time, he turned to studies of rodents where the brain ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4275189 | 482,434 |
207,758 | The "F-94C Starfire" was extensively modified from the early F-94 variants. In fact, it was initially designated "F-97", but it was ultimately decided to treat it as a new version of the F-94. USAF interest was lukewarm, so Lockheed funded development themselves, converting two F-94B airframes to YF-94C prototypes for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=401013 | 207,651 |
1,835,865 | Telethonin forms a complex with muscle LIM protein (MLP) at sarcomere Z-discs, which constitutes part of the cardiomyocyte stretch sensory mechanism. It has also been shown that Telethonin binds to the beta-subunit of the slow activating component of the delayed rectifier potassium channel, MinK, in areas localized to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14759812 | 1,834,816 |
994,890 | Complex adaptive systems theory as applied to spatial analysis suggests that simple interactions among proximal entities can lead to intricate, persistent and functional spatial entities at aggregate levels. Two fundamentally spatial simulation methods are cellular automata and agent-based modeling. Cellular automata m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3190431 | 994,373 |
1,517,504 | The cytotoxicity was investigated on healthy alveolar macrophage cells obtained from adult guinea pigs for single-wall nanotubes (SWNTs), multi-wall nanotubes (with diameters ranging from 10 to 20 nm, MWNT10), and fullerene (C60) for comparison purposes. Profound cytotoxicity of SWNTs was observed in alveolar macrophag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22444556 | 1,516,652 |
2,040,234 | Molecular processors are currently in their infancy and currently only a few exist. At present a basic molecular processor is any biological or chemical system that uses a complementary DNA (cDNA) template to form a long chain amino acid molecule. A key factor that differentiates molecular processors is "the ability to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25444252 | 2,039,055 |
1,572,951 | In 2011, a large study by Dr. Lawrence Dacey et al. was published in "Circulation" supporting the use of endoscopic vessel harvesting in cardiac surgery. The study compared more than 8,500 propensity-adjusted patients and revealed that EVH significantly reduced wound complications without compromising long-term surviva... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26267102 | 1,572,063 |
3,031 | The AN/APG-68, an evolution of the APG-66, was introduced with the F-16C/D Block 25. The APG-68 has greater range and resolution, as well as 25 operating modes, including ground-mapping, Doppler beam-sharpening, ground moving target indication, sea target, and track while scan (TWS) for up to 10 targets. The Block 40/4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11642 | 3,031 |
2,120,224 | The first School of Naval Architecture opened in 1811 in Portsmouth. The school was principally established to offer a deeper study of the principles of ship design than had traditionally been retained through the apprenticeship model. To this end, students were taught mathematics, science, drawing, history, geography ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15515118 | 2,119,005 |
390,598 | With the commercialization of satellites and space, the private sector is getting more interested in space activities. For example, SpaceX is planning to create a network of around 12,000 small satellites that can transmit high-speed internet to any place in the world. The proportion of commercial spacecrafts has incre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=266344 | 390,403 |
1,072,502 | During the Classic period the dominant civilization was the Maya. Maya royalty commissioned artwork that commemorated their achievements and secured their place in time. Scenes depicting various rituals and historical events are embedded with hieroglyphic text to enable the viewer to identify the important figures, tim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2482420 | 1,071,948 |
2,114,709 | Almost all diseases are treated by combinatorial drugs. However, M drugs with N doses for each drug constitute a huge search space of N possible combinations. In addition, the interactions among drug molecules and omics mechanisms are an insurmountable maze. Around 2010, Ho applied the mechanism independent artificial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24373362 | 2,113,494 |
1,900,657 | Professor Runkle was born at Root, New York State. He worked on his father's farm until he was of age, and then studied and taught until he entered the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, where he graduated in 1851. His ability as a mathematician led in 1849 to his appointment as assistant in the preparat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=747646 | 1,899,568 |
255,206 | In the late 1910s, American bacteriologist Alice C. Evans was studying the Bang bacillus and gradually realized that it was virtually indistinguishable from the Bruce coccus. The short-rod versus oblong-round morphologic borderline explained the leveling of the erstwhile bacillus/coccus distinction (that is, these "two... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=425881 | 255,072 |
1,258,603 | Pier Giorgio Perotto in 1964 designed one of the first desktop programmable calculators, the Programma 101. In biology, Francesco Redi has been the first to challenge the theory of spontaneous generation by demonstrating that maggots come from eggs of flies and he described 180 parasites in details and Marcello Malpigh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23296431 | 1,257,916 |
1,739,019 | "Drosophila melanogaster" has been an experimental organism since the early 1900s, and has since been placed at the forefront of many areas of research. As this field of research spread and became global, researchers working on the same problems needed a way to communicate and monitor progress in the field. This niche ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8758178 | 1,738,042 |
8,988 | Twelve pilots were selected for the program from the Air Force, Navy, and NACA. A total of 199 flights were made between June 1959 and December 1968, resulting in the official world record for the highest speed ever reached by a crewed powered aircraft (current ), and a maximum speed of Mach 6.72, . The altitude record... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426568 | 8,984 |
183,277 | For example, GFP had been widely used in labelling the spermatozoa of various organisms for identification purposes as in "Drosophila melanogaster", where expression of GFP can be used as a marker for a particular characteristic. GFP can also be expressed in different structures enabling morphological distinction. In s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=143533 | 183,180 |
446,338 | In 1938, German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, along with Austrian physicist Lise Meitner and Meitner's nephew, Otto Robert Frisch, conducted experiments with the products of neutron-bombarded uranium, as a means of further investigating Fermi's claims. They determined that the relatively tiny neutron split t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36030827 | 446,122 |
278,170 | In the same ways that technology research and development drove the space race and nuclear arms race, a race for nanorobots is occurring. There is plenty of ground allowing nanorobots to be included among the emerging technologies. Some of the reasons are that large corporations, such as General Electric, Hewlett-Packa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1006597 | 278,020 |
656,914 | Tange's first placing in the design competition for the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park gained him recognition from Kunio Maekawa. The elder architect invited Tange to attend the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM). Founded in 1928, this organization of planners and architects had initially promoted archi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53427 | 656,570 |
466,845 | The process occurs in three main steps: initiation, elongation, and termination; and the end result is a strand of mRNA that is complementary to a single strand of DNA. Generally, the transcribed region accounts for more than one gene. In fact, many prokaryotic genes occur in operons, which are a series of genes that w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9955143 | 466,612 |
2,082,427 | Adult redtail chubs feed primarily on aquatic invertebrates, including small mollusks, insects, earthworms, and crustaceans. A potential predator of the redtail chub is the channel catfish, "Ictalurus punctatus", which has been found preying on related species in Pennsylvania. The river chub could be considered a poten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32183066 | 2,081,227 |
1,248,241 | Last year, Dr. Susan Sisley at the University of Arizona at Phoenix attempted to conduct clinical trials of marijuana treatments for American veterans suffering from extreme post-traumatic stress disorder. She won FDA approval for a placebo-controlled pilot study on 50 veterans. Winning FDA approval would be sufficient... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=646162 | 1,247,565 |
1,649,210 | In 1994, Jewitt was awarded the University of Hawaii's Regent's Medal for excellence in research. In 1996, the ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Foundation's Honolulu chapter named him the Hawaii Scientist of the Year, and NASA gave him their Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal. In 1998, he was mad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=693482 | 1,648,278 |
276,510 | In 1921, Meitner accepted an invitation from Manne Siegbahn to come to Sweden and give a series of lectures on radioactivity as a visiting professor at Lund University. She found that very little research had been done on radioactivity in Sweden, but she was eager to learn about X-ray spectroscopy, which was Siegbahn's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18070 | 276,360 |
1,750,917 | These experiments address various important questions in evolutionary biology: does evolution proceed in small steps or in large leaps; is evolution reversible; how does complexity evolve? It has been shown that slight mutations in the amino acid sequence of hormone receptors determine an important change in their pref... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39867144 | 1,749,931 |
203,855 | The field of emergency medicine encompasses care involving the acute care of internal medical and surgical conditions. In many modern emergency departments, emergency physicians see many patients, treating their illnesses and arranging for disposition—either admitting them to the hospital or releasing them after treatm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52974 | 203,750 |
1,581,427 | xDNA has many applications in chemical and biological research, including expanding upon applications of natural DNA, such as scaffolding. In order to create self-assembling nanostructures, a scaffold is needed as a sort of trellis to support the growth. DNA has been used as a means to this end in the past, but expande... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32499267 | 1,580,537 |
466,335 | Affective forecasting is an important component of studying human decision making. Research in affective forecasts and economic decision making include investigations of durability bias in consumers and predictions of public transit satisfaction. In relevance to the durability bias in consumers, a study was conducted b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2426547 | 466,102 |
1,102,399 | The I-180 was a single-engine, low-wing monoplane aircraft of mixed construction with a duraluminum frame covered in plywood and fabric. The pilot sat near the tailfin in an open cockpit with a windshield similar to the I-16. The landing gear was retracted pneumatically, including the tail wheel. The main visual differ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2363776 | 1,101,838 |
194,050 | The first of the modern age of construction in the King's campus began with the construction in 1913 of the New Building (now known as ""New King's""), largely in a similar architectural style to the old buildings. A large manse located on the lawn opposite King's College was removed before the First World War. New Kin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213135 | 193,950 |
1,920,782 | Melnyk's continued advocacy for evidence-based practices were further recognized in 2013 when her edited book "Intervention Research: Designing, Conducting, Analyzing, and Funding" received the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year award for nursing research. She also accepted an appointment to the editor of "Wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65371945 | 1,919,679 |
2,756 | Oppenheimer was a chain smoker who was diagnosed with throat cancer in late 1965. After inconclusive surgery, he underwent unsuccessful radiation treatment and chemotherapy late in 1966. He fell into a coma on February 15, 1967, and died at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, on February 18, aged 62. A memorial service ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39034 | 2,756 |
409,994 | Many displays around the Cadet Area commemorate heroes and air power pioneers, and serve as an inspiration to cadets. The "War Memorial", a black marble wall located just under the flagpole on the Terrazzo, is etched with the names of academy graduates who have been killed in combat. The "Honor Wall", overlooking the T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77587 | 409,792 |
326,153 | The degree awarded is "Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery". The minimum requirements for the MBBS course are 50% marks in physics, chemistry, biology and English in a student's secondary school examinations – usually, under the Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations, the Central Board of Secondary... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=910147 | 325,979 |
330,297 | On 1 September 1939, the Wehrmacht invaded Poland, beginning World War II. "Generalquartiermeister der Luftwaffe" records indicate a total force of 366 Ju 87 A and Bs were available for operations on 31 August 1939. The first Ju 87 operation was to destroy Polish demolition charges fixed to the rail bridges over the Vi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16590 | 330,122 |
1,758,384 | In 1899 a 40 year old manual laborer from the San Joaquin Valley, a native of the Azores, entered a San Francisco hospital with fungating lesions similar to those of Posadas' patient. Dr. Emmet Rixford, a surgeon at San Francisco's Cooper Medical College, in attempts to determine the cause, concluded it was not from in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15086544 | 1,757,391 |
411,068 | To develop a formalism for the statistical thermodynamics of non-uniform fluids functional differentiation was used extensively by Percus and Lebowitz (1961), which led to the Percus–Yevick equation linking the density distribution function and the direct correlation. Other closure relations were also proposed;the Clas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209874 | 410,866 |
1,521,176 | In the opening ritornello, the motifs in the first violin part involve a dramatic downward drop in register onto chromatic notes which break the harmony. The lilting rhythms of the first violin and the slower rhythms of the middle strings continue throughout the movement as a form of quasi-ostinato, repeating every two... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56974485 | 1,520,315 |
1,049,313 | Beginning in the 1980s experimenters started examining the conditions that cause divergence from rational choice. Ultimatum and bargaining games examined the effect of emotions on predictions of opponent behavior. One of the most well known examples of an ultimatum game is the television show Deal or No Deal in which p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45222866 | 1,048,767 |
831,678 | Usability is often associated with the functionalities of the product (cf. ISO definition, below), in addition to being solely a characteristic of the user interface (cf. framework of system acceptability, also below, which separates "usefulness" into "usability" and "utility"). For example, in the context of mainstrea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288276 | 831,229 |
718,844 | Daniel R. L. Brown's March 2006 paper on the security reduction of Dual_EC_DRBG mentions the need for more output truncation and a randomly chosen "Q", but mostly in passing, and does not mention his conclusions from his patent that these two defects in Dual_EC_DRBG together can be used as a backdoor. Brown writes in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14259066 | 718,464 |
961,032 | With the widespread use of the microscope in the 18th century, it was discovered that the 'cancer poison' eventually spreads from the primary tumor through the lymph nodes to other sites ("metastasis"). This view of the disease was first formulated by the English surgeon Campbell De Morgan between 1871 and 1874. The us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34249574 | 960,523 |
1,753,305 | The concept of DAMP (deficits in attention, motor control, and perception) has been in clinical use in Scandinavia for about 20 years. DAMP is diagnosed on the basis of concomitant attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and developmental coordination disorder in children who do not have a severe learning disability o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2219115 | 1,752,316 |
210,230 | Etienne Oehmichen experimented with rotorcraft designs in the 1920s. Among the designs he tried, his helicopter No.2 had four rotors and eight propellers, all driven by a single engine. The Oehmichen No.2 used a steel-tube frame, with two-bladed rotors at the ends of the four arms. The angle of these blades could be va... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4428365 | 210,123 |
1,688,530 | The principal mechanism of the epothilone class is inhibition of microtubule function. Microtubules are essential to cell division, and epothilones therefore stop cells from properly dividing. Epothilone B possess the same biological effects as paclitaxel both "in vitro" and in cultured cells. This is because they shar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5139511 | 1,687,584 |
2,089,518 | Earlier mechanistic proposals for the EPOC phenomenon with solid electrolytes mainly emphasized tuning of the local work function of the surface of conductive catalysts by spilled-over species, which are in-situ generated during electrochemical polarization processes. It has been proposed that the spilled-over species ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54063628 | 2,088,315 |
88,993 | In 1971, design work commenced on the project, which was initially referred to as "Izdeliye 400" ("Product #400"), at the Antonov Design Bureau in response to a shortage in heavy airlift capability within the Military Transport Aviation Command ("Komandovaniye voyenno-transportnoy aviatsii" or VTA) arm of the Soviet Ai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=435406 | 88,957 |
2,123,311 | Godfrey Michael Graham was born in Manchester on 22 February 1898, the son of the Quaker writer John William Graham (1859–1932) and Margaret Brockbank. As a boy he loved the Lake District and the wildlife he encountered on his relation's Cumberland farm. His outstanding interest at Bootham School in York was in natural... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58867925 | 2,122,091 |
85,814 | Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: "The Firebird" (1910), "Petrushka" (1911), and "The Rite of Spring" (1913). The l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38172 | 85,780 |
1,025,436 | Over the 18th and 19th centuries, biological sciences such as botany and zoology became increasingly professional scientific disciplines. Lavoisier and other physical scientists began to connect the animate and inanimate worlds through physics and chemistry. Explorer-naturalists such as Alexander von Humboldt investiga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322460 | 1,024,903 |
797,017 | Yakovlev was tasked with developing a high-speed nuclear bomber using the basic Yak-125 design, the Yak-125B, by a special joint directive of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Council of Ministers. The Yak-125B was intended to break through enemy air defenses and conduct a nuclear strike against stra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1045156 | 796,592 |
1,386,506 | Struve was born in 1897 in Kharkiv, the largest city of Sloboda Ukraine, then Russian Empire (now Ukraine), as the first child of Ludwig Struve and Elizaveta Khrystoforovna Struve (1874–1964). His father was a member of the extensive political and scientific Struve family of Baltic Germans who were prominent in 19th-ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=584584 | 1,385,739 |
1,745,238 | Around two and a half hours after the flooding began, a high-tide alarm for the estuary was triggered in the observation room of plant 4, although those in the other plants failed to activate. This should have caused the control room operators to launch a 'Level 2 Internal Emergency Plan', however this was not done as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31256193 | 1,744,254 |
1,024,923 | Though older studies suggested there may be an increased risk of coronary heart disease and heart attacks with rosiglitazone, pioglitazone treatment, in contrast, has shown significant protection from both micro- and macro-vascular cardiovascular events and plaque progression. These studies led to a period of Food and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=575620 | 1,024,390 |
1,053,600 | As a geologist in the mid-1820s he supported William Buckland's interpretation of certain superficial deposits, particularly loose rocks and gravel, as "diluvium" relating to worldwide floods, and in 1825 he published two papers identifying these as due to a "great irregular inundation" from the "waters of a general de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7575129 | 1,053,054 |
207,568 | A MOOC is a "massive open online course" aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. It became popular in 2010–14. In addition to traditional course materials such as filmed lectures, readings, and problem sets, many MOOCs provide interactive user forums to support community interactions between stude... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3189597 | 207,461 |
188,339 | The study of landforms and the evolution of the Earth's surface can be dated back to scholars of Classical Greece. In the 5th century BC, Greek historian Herodotus argued from observations of soils that the Nile delta was actively growing into the Mediterranean Sea, and estimated its age. In the 4th century BC, Greek p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=78534 | 188,242 |
919,220 | A 2014 systematic review and meta-analysis of 35 studies consisting of over 5,000 postmenopausal women with normal adrenal gland function found that testosterone therapy was associated with significant improvement in a variety of domains of sexual function. These domains included frequency of sexual activity, orgasm, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52251177 | 918,735 |
1,243,515 | In the 1980s a fierce interchange took place between Gardner and Colin Wilson. In "The Quest for Wilhelm Reich" Wilson wrote of this book(Gardner) writes about various kinds of cranks with the conscious superiority of the scientist, and in most cases one can share his sense of the victory of reason. But after half a do... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1878393 | 1,242,842 |
1,777,724 | Building on the success of the previous season, the Cavaliers had their best regular season in program history with a record of 28–2, their first undefeated non-conference regular season record since 2000–01, and their highest national ranking since 1982–83, ranking at number two on the AP Poll for a total of seven wee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43184613 | 1,776,722 |
35,586 | Since 1963, Lego pieces have been manufactured from a strong, resilient plastic known as acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS). , Lego engineers use the NX CAD/CAM/CAE PLM software suite to model the elements. The software allows the parts to be optimised by way of mould flow and stress analysis. Prototype moulds are s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18362 | 35,574 |
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