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346,911 | The NH90 features a range of customizable avionics systems, dependent on customer selection and purpose. On some models, French firm Thales Group provides various parts of the avionics, such as the glass cockpit, full-colour multifunction displays, tactical mission and encrypted communication systems, the TopOwl helmet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=513911 | 346,730 |
1,693,955 | The instrument creates extremely cold conditions in the microgravity environment of the ISS, leading to the formation of Bose Einstein Condensates (BECs) that are a magnitude colder than those that are created in laboratories on Earth. In a space-based laboratory, up to 10 seconds interaction times and as low as 1 pico... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45502648 | 1,693,004 |
653,798 | Some scientists have criticized the brain image-based claims made in scientific journals and the popular press, like the discovery of "the part of the brain responsible" things like love or musical abilities or a specific memory. Many mapping techniques have a relatively low resolution, including hundreds of thousands ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4173255 | 653,454 |
2,113,440 | The university decided that it was time to increase the size of the department and hired Dr. George C. McVittie as the next director. After his arrival in the fall of 1952, McVittie began the refurbishment of the Observatory's major instruments. The 12-inch refractor and the 3-inch transit telescope were restored in 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7524908 | 2,112,225 |
1,308,273 | The ridge is the slowest known spreading ridge on earth, with a rate of less than one centimeter per year. Until 1999, it was believed to be non-volcanic; that year, scientists operating from a nuclear submarine discovered active volcanoes along it. The largest, the Gakkel Ridge Caldera, is a supervolcano that erupted ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=271269 | 1,307,557 |
1,262,107 | In February, Ramseyer's Harvard colleagues in History and East Asian Studies Professors Andrew Gordon and Carter Eckert submitted a statement critical of Ramseyer's article to the International Review of Law and Economics asking that the journal delay formal publication until it had been approved by further expert peer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3070786 | 1,261,420 |
1,117,079 | Due to the periodicity assumption implicit in Ewald summation, applications of the PME method to physical systems require the imposition of periodic symmetry. Thus, the method is best suited to systems that can be simulated as infinite in spatial extent. In molecular dynamics simulations this is normally accomplished b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4813235 | 1,116,506 |
1,559,774 | WUP moved to two former theological seminary buildings on North Avenue in Allegheny City (present-day North Side), remaining there for eight years, then moving to a site on the North Side Observatory Hill at the location of its Allegheny Observatory. Two buildings (Science Hall and Main Hall) were erected there, being ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13999007 | 1,558,888 |
563,836 | Assuming the ideal conditions, the upper estimates for possible effects of iron fertilization in slowing down global warming is about 0.3W/m of averaged negative forcing which can offset roughly 15–20% of the current anthropogenic emissions. However, although this approach could be looked upon as an alternative, easy r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4145551 | 563,546 |
99,374 | Meanwhile, Hannibal assembled a Carthaginian army in New Carthage (modern Cartagena) and led it northwards along the Iberian coast in May or June. It entered Gaul and took an inland route, to avoid the Roman allies to the south. At the battle of Rhone Crossing, Hannibal defeated a force of local Gauls which sought to b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28563 | 99,331 |
844,087 | Like many civilizations in the past, the ancient Egyptians amply discovered the medicinal properties of plant life around them. The Edwin Smith Papyrus contains many recipes to help heal different ailments. One short section of the papyrus lays out five recipes: one dealing with problems women may have had, three on te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2584146 | 843,637 |
987,149 | Or it can be more narrowly understood as an emergent property between people and ways of processing information. This notion of collective intelligence is referred to as "symbiotic intelligence" by Norman Lee Johnson. The concept is used in sociology, business, computer science and mass communications: it also appears ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20756850 | 986,633 |
1,419,042 | The privacy threat posed by the interoperability of a national network is a key concern. One of the most vocal critics of EMRs, New York University Professor Jacob M. Appel, has claimed that the number of people who will need to have access to such a truly interoperable national system, which he estimates to be 12 mill... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58751479 | 1,418,243 |
1,950,179 | Initial ideas for OBIS were developed at a CoML meeting on benthic (bottom-dwelling) ocean life in October 1997. Recommendations from this workshop led to a web site (http://marine.rutgers.edu/OBIS) at Rutgers in 1998 to demonstrate the initial OBIS concept. An inaugural OBIS International Workshop was held on November... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64159451 | 1,949,058 |
951,313 | Super-absorbent polymers are an innovative class of hydrogel products that can be used in many applications including hygiene products, drug delivery systems, agriculture, biomedicine, and wastewater treatment. A method called electrospinning is used to fabricate super-absorbent nanofibers (SANs) because of their advan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2915728 | 950,809 |
2,110,917 | On April 22, 1859, James Hutton was appointed as topographer at a salary of $120 a month with the Raynolds Expedition led by Captain William F. Raynolds of the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers to explore the northern Rocky Mountains from Fort Pierre in the soon-to-be Dakota Territory to the headwaters of the Yello... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22563524 | 2,109,702 |
1,595,483 | After completing her doctorate, Kewley moved to the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian in Boston on a CfA fellowship, working on the formation and evolution of stars. Her mentors there included American astrophysicist Margaret Geller. Awarded a Hubble postdoctoral fellowship in 2004, she then continued her... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9163444 | 1,594,584 |
1,101,850 | Most foods are subjected to variations in their temperature during production, transport, storage, preparation and consumption, e.g., pasteurization, sterilization, evaporation, cooking, freezing, chilling, etc. Temperature changes cause alterations in the physical and chemical properties of food components which influ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=258833 | 1,101,289 |
89,028 | Tempest will be modular, both to be easily role-adapted to fit the particular mission as well as have easily upgradeable components during its lifetime. It has delta-wings and a pair of outwards-pointing vertical stabilisers. It will incorporate stealth technology, be able to fly unmanned, and use swarming technology t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57915153 | 88,992 |
80,366 | North Campus features some of UW's most recognized landscapes as well as landmarks, stretching from the signature University of Washington Quad directly north of Red Square to N.E. 45th Street, and encompasses a number of the university's most historical academic, research, housing, parking, recreational and administra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31776 | 80,333 |
1,770,661 | The vanilloid TRP subfamily (TRPV) named after the vanilloid receptor 1 consist of six members, four of them (TRPV1-TRPV4) have been related to thermal sensation. TRPV2 shares 50% of its homology with TRPV1. Compared to TRPV1 channels, TRPV2 channels do not open in response to vanilloids like capsaicin or thermal stimu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13530864 | 1,769,664 |
2,132,086 | A predictive adaptive response (PAR) is a developmental trajectory taken by an organism during a period of developmental plasticity in response to perceived environmental cues. This PAR does not confer an immediate advantage to the developing organism; however, if the PAR correctly anticipates the postnatal environment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38828265 | 2,130,861 |
290,128 | Jerome Bruner is notable for integrating Piaget's cognitive approaches into educational psychology. He advocated for discovery learning where teachers create a problem solving environment that allows the student to question, explore and experiment. In his book "The Process of Education" Bruner stated that the structure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10332 | 289,971 |
1,444,555 | The geology of the dwarf planet, Ceres, was largely unknown until Dawn spacecraft explored it in early 2015. However, certain surface features such as "Piazzi", named after the dwarf planets' discoverer, had been resolved.[a] Ceres's oblateness is consistent with a differentiated body, a rocky core overlain with an icy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12607134 | 1,443,742 |
1,106,791 | The California state legislature has, on occasion, abrogated CEQA such that specific projects or types of projects could proceed without an EIR. One such abrogation occurred in October 2009, with the passage of a union-backed law exempting the proposed construction of Los Angeles Stadium from CEQA's requirements. The a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1833622 | 1,106,227 |
1,529,523 | By 1905 it could be stated that the national government were supportive of the idea of setting up a university in Bristol. Here, two piece of fortune occurred. The Blind Asylum on Queen's Rd at the top of Park Street, where the Wills Memorial Building now stands, came up for sale. Travers picked up a telephone line whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1340505 | 1,528,659 |
778,628 | When Sanger was around five years old the family moved to the small village of Tanworth-in-Arden in Warwickshire. The family was reasonably wealthy and employed a governess to teach the children. In 1927, at the age of nine, he was sent to the Downs School, a residential preparatory school run by Quakers near Malvern. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63349 | 778,211 |
921,346 | Many NEC requirements refer to "listed" or "labeled" devices and appliances, and this means that the item has been designed, manufactured, tested or inspected, and marked in accordance with requirements of the listing agency. To be listed, the device must meet testing and other requirements set by a listing agency such... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=537422 | 920,860 |
532,259 | Underneath an anole's toes are pads that have several to a dozen flaps of skin (adhesive lamellae) going horizontally and covered in microscopic hairlike protrusions (setae) that allow them to cling to many different surfaces, similar to but not quite as efficient as a gecko. Despite this similarity, they are very dist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322654 | 531,985 |
379,414 | Due to their lagging performance (1.6 MB/s maximum 8-bit transfer capability at 5 MHz, but no more than 0.9 MB/s in the PC/XT and 1.6 MB/s for 16-bit transfers in the AT due to ISA bus overheads and other interference such as memory refresh interruptions) and unavailability of any speed grades that would allow installa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57717 | 379,219 |
1,766,515 | A thermosonic bond falls in the category of a solid state metallic bond which is formed by mating two metal surfaces well below their respective melting points. Coucoulas introduced Thermosonic bonding which significantly improved upon the bond-reliability produced by available commercial solid-state bonding machines w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26109619 | 1,765,521 |
1,417,760 | One of Dayhoff's most important contributions to bioinformatics was her "Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure", a book reporting all known protein sequences (totaling 65) that she published in 1965. This book published a degenerate encoding of amino acids. It was subsequently republished in several editions. This le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1645612 | 1,416,961 |
18,193 | Aside from fiction, Crichton wrote several other books based on medical or scientific themes, often based upon his own observations in his field of expertise. In 1970, he published "Five Patients", which recounts his experiences of hospital practices in the late 1960s at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20762 | 18,187 |
154,537 | Originally intended to be named simply "the Union", the Cooper Union began with adult education in night classes on the subjects of applied sciences and architectural drawing, as well as day classes primarily intended for women on the subjects of photography, telegraphy, typewriting and shorthand in what was called the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275339 | 154,467 |
1,837,637 | During his career, Dr. Lineweaver was the author or co-author of nearly 100 technical publications and six patents, over half of which concern aspects of poultry and eggs, such as effects of processing on tenderness, and the remainder with enzymology or other aspects of biochemistry, including, for example, a review of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18150250 | 1,836,588 |
1,104,795 | The Autonomous EVA Robotic Camera/Sprint (AERCam/Sprint) was a small, unobtrusive, free-flying camera platform for use outside a spacecraft. The free-flyer had a self-contained cold gas propulsion system giving it the capability to be propelled with 6 degrees of the freedom control system. Onboard the free-flyer were r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=557153 | 1,104,232 |
666,856 | For the major freight railroads and Amtrak the answer seems to be that one frequency band is sufficient. These rail operations measure on-time performance on a much more coarse scale than commuters do so their tolerance for delay is greater and has less impact on train schedules. In addition, the PTC implementations de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11562996 | 666,508 |
218,115 | PMS was originally seen as an imagined disease. Women who reported its symptoms were often told it was "all in their head". Woman's reproductive organs were thought to have complete control over them. Women were warned not to divert needed energy away from the uterus and ovaries. This view of limited energy very quickl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217947 | 218,007 |
215,273 | The Lassiter Board, a group of General Staff officers, recommended in 1923 that the Air Service be augmented by an offensive force of bombardment and pursuit units under the command of Army general headquarters in time of war, and many of its recommendations became Army regulations. The War Department desired to implem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23869026 | 215,165 |
1,831,005 | Thirty years ago there was neither real predictability nor qualitative understanding of the dominant mechanisms in emulsion polymerisation. Mechanisms had been ‘proved’ by comparing model predictions with experimental data. The data field was limited and the models had many adjustable parameters, or else fitting parame... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4384325 | 1,829,959 |
92,405 | The picture is further complicated if the UAV can initiate an attack autonomously, without direct human involvement. Such UAVs could possibly react more quickly and without bias, but would lack human sensibility. Heather Roff replies that lethal autonomous robots (LARs) may not be appropriate for complex conflicts and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337755 | 92,364 |
1,826,394 | Nicolai Vladimirovich Krylov (; born 5 June 1941) is a Russian mathematician specializing in partial differential equations, particularly stochastic partial differential equations and diffusion processes. Krylov studied at Lomonosov University, where he in 1966 under E. B. Dynkin attained a doctoral candidate title (si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35252798 | 1,825,355 |
1,031,065 | There are historical accounts of extremely tall and large trees. In the northeastern United States, for example, there are frequent stories published in newspapers and magazines dating from the 1800s telling of extremely tall white pines ("Pinus strobus"). One extraordinary account in the Weekly Transcript, North Adams... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39003927 | 1,030,529 |
2,039,148 | North Dakota headed to the eastern time zone for the first time all season to take on Tri-State League champion St. Lawrence. The Saints battled the Fighting Sioux to a 3-3 tie after regulation and were hoping to head to their first National Title in their fourth appearance but a goal by UND's Guy LaFrance sent the Fig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59678199 | 2,037,969 |
1,785,579 | The Arab geographer, Muhammad al-Idrisi, produced his medieval atlas, "Tabula Rogeriana" or "The Recreation for Him Who Wishes to Travel Through the Countries", in 1154. He incorporated the knowledge of Africa, the Indian Ocean and the Far East gathered by Arab merchants and explorers with the information inherited fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12868203 | 1,784,575 |
1,795,967 | The observatory, also called OVSQ, supports sustainable development, an important goal for UVSQ. It is located on Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines campus, and emphasizes observing, teaching, and supporting the environment. OVSQ researches environmental changes, including its sanitary and socioeconomic impacts, and is involved... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13889493 | 1,794,958 |
7,749 | It is among the cladists that Occam's razor is applied, through the method of "cladistic parsimony". Cladistic parsimony (or maximum parsimony) is a method of phylogenetic inference that yields phylogenetic trees (more specifically, cladograms). Cladograms are branching, diagrams used to represent hypotheses of relativ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36797 | 7,746 |
37,244 | "Times Higher Education" ranked the mathematics department tenth in the world in 2011. Duke's graduate-level specialties that are ranked among the top ten in the nation include areas in the following departments: biological sciences, medicine, nursing, engineering, law, business, English, history, physics, statistics, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53273 | 37,231 |
934,595 | In "The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-One Issues and Concepts", Nettl discusses personal and global issues pertaining to field researchers, particularly those from a Western academic background. In a chapter that recounts his field recordings among Native Americans of the northern plains, for instance, he attempts t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80077 | 934,102 |
1,156,592 | In January 1958, Max Faget and Paul Purser had worked out in considerable detail on paper how to cluster four of the solid-fuel Sergeant rockets, in standard use at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, to boost a crewed nose cone above the stratosphere. Faget's short-lived "High Ride" proposal had suffered from com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=846333 | 1,155,982 |
162,183 | The major economic priority of post-war Britain was to raise exports to fund the UK's dollar deficit. This required the extension of rationing, as British goods and produce were prioritized for export markets. Unlike Continental European countries, where rationing was abandoned within a few years of the wars' end, Brit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,098 |
42,330 | By 1960, SAC had begun moving to low-level penetration, which greatly reduced radar detection distances. At the time, SAMs were ineffective against low-flying aircraft, and interceptor aircraft had less of a speed advantage at low altitudes. The Air Force's Tactical Air Command (TAC) was largely concerned with the figh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=202894 | 42,315 |
1,275,800 | Starting in 1896, the International Telegraph Union (ITU) attempted to control the use of codes in international telegrams to protect telegraph incomes and avoid messages difficult for operators to transmit. In 1875 they reduced the maximum length of a word (telegrams were charged by the word) from seven syllables to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60245762 | 1,275,107 |
376,535 | Imaging systems in a TEM consist of a phosphor screen, which may be made of fine (10–100 μm) particulate zinc sulfide, for direct observation by the operator, and, optionally, an image recording system such as photographic film, doped YAG screen coupled CCDs, or other digital detector. Typically these devices can be re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=214513 | 376,340 |
679,957 | "The Tao of Physics" was completed in December 1974, and the implications of the November Revolution one month earlier that led to the dramatic confirmations of the standard-model quantum field theory clearly had not sunk in for Capra (like many others at that time). What is harder to understand is that the book has no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1081291 | 679,603 |
1,977,044 | Wild's team now needed a site for a new, better engineered and more powerful radiospectrograph and a large swept-frequency interferometer with which to observe the radio source. In September 1950, he and three colleagues borrowed a decrepit ex-military ambulance and with a spectrum analyser assessed potential sites on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=610478 | 1,975,906 |
1,667,396 | By late 1945, the RAAF had received or ordered about 500 P-51 Mustangs, for fighter/ground attack purposes. The Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation initially assembled US-made Mustangs, but later manufactured most of those used. The RAAF's main operational formation, the First Tactical Air Force, comprised more than 18,0... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3630911 | 1,666,457 |
996,071 | In order to allow the use of a G1 ballistic coefficient rather than velocity data Dr. Pejsa provided two reference drag curves. The first reference drag curve is based purely on the Siacci/Mayevski retardation rate function. The second reference drag curve is adjusted to equal the Siacci/Mayevski retardation rate funct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=584911 | 995,553 |
1,814,953 | Tulla began his training in 1792 with Karl Christian von Langsdorf. From 1794 to 1796 he traveled across Central Europe and to Scandinavia, studying hydraulic projects. During his travels, in 1795 he studied chemistry and mineralogy at the Mining Academy in Freiberg, Saxony. Subsequently, he was transferred to governme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22213558 | 1,813,919 |
977,934 | Halsted held the belief that cancers spread through the bloodstream, which led him to think that sufficient local removal of the tumor would cure the cancer. This belief led him to perform the first radical mastectomy for breast cancer in the U.S. at Roosevelt Hospital in New York in 1882; an operation first performed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2394191 | 977,423 |
1,421,802 | The most important classes of CPP are isolated from viruses, such as TAT (transactivated-transcription) derived from HIV-1, penetratin, and transportan. The most widely used CPPs are based on TAT derivatives. TAT is an arginine-rich CPP. Several improvements for this substrate includes the usage of unnatural β or γ ami... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9470331 | 1,421,001 |
1,799,138 | Also known as cobalamin, B is important for the maintenance of neurological function and psychiatric health. B deficiency, also known as hypocobalaminemia, often results from complications involving absorption into the body. An assortment of neurological effects can be observed in 75–90% of individuals of any age with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34730803 | 1,798,129 |
2,191,877 | The Bearcats extended their advantage at the beginning of the second half. Behind a streak of three consecutive field goals by Bonham, Cincinnati made five of six attempts at one point. Just over six minutes into the second half, the Bearcats held a 15-point advantage, 45–30. However, they were required to make a subst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54644076 | 2,190,628 |
1,227,763 | Although TARPS was originally planned to be an interim solution, combat experience with VF-32 over Lebanon in 1983 resulted in upgrades to the TARPS camera suite and to the aircraft survivability. Since the KA-99 camera was designed for low-medium altitude missions, the Tomcats were forced to fly as low as over active ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4219048 | 1,227,101 |
909,585 | Blyth Memorial Arena was the centerpiece of the Games. It hosted the opening and closing ceremonies jointly with Squaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink, and also hosted the figure skating competition, a few of the speed skating events, as well as most of the games in the hockey tournament. All three of the sports were held ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=163231 | 909,106 |
1,786,838 | The only other group besides Woods' to report successful seven-day storage of kidneys was Liu and Humphries in 1973. They had three out of seven dogs surviving, after their kidneys had been stored for seven days followed by reimplantation and immediate contralateral nephrectomy. Their best dog had a peak post reimplant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3626600 | 1,785,833 |
1,052,554 | Seagate stated that they overcame the issue of heating focus by developing nano-scale surface plasmons instead of direct laser-based heating. Based on the idea of a waveguide, the laser "travels" along the surface of a guiding material, which is shaped and positioned in order to lead the beam to the area to be heated (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2882199 | 1,052,008 |
681,344 | The first important painter of this time was the Amasis Painter (560–525 BC), named after the famous potter Amasis, with whom he primarily worked. Many researchers regard them as the same person. He began his painting career at about the same time as Lydos but was active over a period almost twice as long. Whereas Lydo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1076046 | 680,989 |
192,076 | The tick follows the normal developmental stages of egg, larva, nymph, and adult. It is known as a three-host tick, meaning that it feeds from a different host during each of the larval, nymphal, and adult stages. The lone star tick attaches itself to a host by way of questing. The eggs are laid on the ground, hatch, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12573760 | 191,977 |
1,154,477 | In 2004, the school received $104 million in extramural grants supporting basic, clinical and translational research. New Jersey Medical School is also home to the Global Tuberculosis Institute, The Institute for Ophthalmology and Visual Science, and the Center for Emerging and Reemerging Pathogens. New Jersey Medical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10655897 | 1,153,867 |
2,129,533 | The main driver of software based orthopedic templating was the introduction of computed radiography (CR) and digital radiography (DR) systems on a mass scale, which in essence eliminated film from the hospital environment, creating the need for digital templating. Unfortunately, eliminating film creates a major flaw w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38699819 | 2,128,309 |
1,557,083 | Muons are short-lived particles with a lifetime of 2.2 μs in their rest frame. This fact poses a serious challenge for the accelerator complex: Muons have to be accelerated to a high energy before they decay and the accelerator needs a continuous source of new muons. It also impacts the experiment design: A high flux o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34317146 | 1,556,198 |
1,270,692 | In 2019, the company in partnership with researchers at the University of Toronto, used AI to design potential new drugs. One has shown promising initial results when tested in mice. To demonstrate the capacity of their proprietary AI platforms, the company has published two projects on identifying therapeutic targets ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55063733 | 1,270,001 |
1,259,377 | Ogunjimi et al. looked at the effect of manufacturing and design process variables on the fatigue life of microvias, including trace (conductor) thickness, layer or layers of the dielectric around the trace and in the microvia, via geometry, via wall angle, ductility coefficient of the conductor material, and strain co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19888524 | 1,258,690 |
771,200 | Comparisons between the Allison V-1710 and the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine "families" are inevitable. What can be said for the Allison is that it made more power at less boost, with a longer time between overhauls, and with a parts-count that was nearly half that of the Merlin engine, which greatly facilitated mass produ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=76309 | 770,786 |
895,690 | Arthur J. Jelinek, an anthropologist who took note of similarities between Solutrean and Clovis styles in a 1971 study, observed that the great geographical and temporal separation of the two cultures made a direct connection unlikely, since the dates of the proposed transitional sites and the Solutrean period in Europ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8413101 | 895,219 |
668,648 | Cone credits his parents as being his most important early influences. His father had only a sixth-grade education but filed a lawsuit against the Bearden, Arkansas, school board despite threats on his life. White professors of religion and philosophy, James and Alice Boyack at Philander Smith College aided his belief ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1887690 | 668,299 |
940,391 | Each plant continues to produce flowers for a full growing season, and they have co-evolved a mutualistic relationship with a species of scarab beetle of the genus "Cyclocephala" as a pollinator. All the buds in a single patch will begin to open at the same time and as they do, they give off a fruity smell. At this poi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1031639 | 939,890 |
2,100,549 | Australia has swung between those two divisions during Tihema's and Coonan's national team careers. In 2016, Australia won promotion to Division IIA through winning Division IIB. The victory came in dramatic fashion, as Australia dropped its opener to Mexico in a shootout, then recovered to win four straight, edging ou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54162731 | 2,099,339 |
2,050,757 | Project BisQue originally started in 2004 as part of the US National Science Foundation (NSF) supported Center for Bio-Image Informatics at UCSB, to facilitate integration of database and image analysis methods, specifically in the context of microscopy images. Given the diversity of imaging equipment and image formats... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47489445 | 2,049,576 |
385,306 | The 19th century saw many developments of theories, and counter-theories on how electrical energy might be transmitted. In 1826, André-Marie Ampère discovered a connection between current and magnets. Michael Faraday described in 1831 with his law of induction the electromotive force driving a current in a conductor lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=570662 | 385,111 |
928,652 | Johnson argues that the whole of Webern's music takes on the nature of such dramatic and visual tableaux, if in a more abstract and formal manner in some of the late works. Melodies frequently begin and end on weak beats, settle into or arise out of ostinati, or otherwise dynamically and texturally emerge or fade away.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65676 | 928,163 |
404,017 | On 26 April 2011, an H1N1 pandemic preparedness alert was issued by the World Health Organization for the Americas. In August 2011, according to the U.S. Geological Survey and the CDC, northern sea otters off the coast of Washington state were infected with the same version of the H1N1 flu virus that caused the 2009 pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2866555 | 403,817 |
451,082 | In the first consensus taxonomic classification, the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG 1998), these proposals were recognised by including Primulaceae within Ericales, as Eudicots, forming one of three clades in the Asterids (Asteridae). Maesa was formally segregated in 2000. Further changes came from analysis of DNA seq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=473046 | 450,863 |
853,261 | A palaeobiogeographic assessment was conducted by Phil Bell, Steve Salisbury et al., which accompanied the description of an unnamed megaraptorid (referred to by the public media as "Lightning Claw," and possibly synonymous with "Rapator") from opal fields southwest of Lightning Ridge, Australia. This supports an Asian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24759003 | 852,807 |
522,773 | Through the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), researchers are studying the performance of base isolation systems. The project, a collaboration among researchers at University of Nevada, Reno; University of California, Berkeley; University of Wisconsin, Green Bay; and the Univers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14627460 | 522,501 |
1,979,801 | Alexander N. Chumakov was born in 1950 to a fisherman's family of Severnoe village, Caspian District, Astrakhan region, USSR. In 1972, he graduated from an industrial, technical college in the city of Khadyzhensk in Krasnodar Krai. Between 1972 and 1975, he worked as a bore-hole drilling master in the nuclear testing a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40153145 | 1,978,663 |
44,555 | A household's solar panels, and batteries if they have them, can often either be used for just that household or if connected to an electrical grid can be aggregated with millions of others. Over 44 million households use biogas made in household-scale digesters for lighting and/or cooking, and more than 166 million ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25784 | 44,538 |
1,111,959 | Since the 1990s early-onset sepsis has declined because of screening of group B streptococcus. The cause of early-onset neonatal sepsis are pathogens that contaminate the placenta, vaginal canal, cervix, or amniotic fluid, and these pathogens can affect the baby either in the womb or during labor. Early-onset neonatal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25662965 | 1,111,393 |
230,155 | An initial stop-gap solution was provided in the RBR S4 helmet (introduced in 1994), which is difficult to find information on but appears to be derived from the French SPECTRA helmet; it particularly resembles the Canadian CG634, which is a derivative. Meanwhile, development was under way of a purpose-built helmet und... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3137272 | 230,038 |
762,721 | According to W. Warren Wagar, the founder of future studies was H. G. Wells. His "Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought: An Experiment in Prophecy", was first serially published in "The Fortnightly Review" in 1901. Anticipating what the world would be like in 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1508301 | 762,313 |
813,004 | Bronowski's family moved from Congress Poland to Germany and then to England while he was a child. He won a scholarship to study mathematics at the University of Cambridge. His interests have been described as ranging "widely, from biology to poetry and from chess to Humanism". He taught mathematics at the University C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241528 | 812,571 |
10,009 | The discovery of nuclear fission by German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in 1938, and its theoretical explanation by Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch, made the development of an atomic bomb a theoretical possibility. There were fears that a German atomic bomb project would develop one first, especially among scie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19603 | 10,005 |
1,595,323 | Venkitaraman has developed technologies that help to identify and validate new targets for next-generation medicines against cancer and other diseases. Work in his laboratory laid the scientific foundations for the development of “protein interference” at PhoreMost, which he co-founded with Chris Torrance and Grahame M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42427751 | 1,594,425 |
55,813 | In the 2009 type description Head and colleagues correlate the gigantism observed in "Titanoboa" with the climate conditions of its environment. As a poikilothermic ectotherm, "Titanoboa"s internal temperature and metabolism were heavily dependent on the ambient temparture, which would in turn affect the animal's size.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21396352 | 55,789 |
2,175,153 | Aging: Several studies indicated that de novo appearance of NUMT pseudogenes in the genome of somatic cells may be of etiological importance for carcinogenesis and aging. To show the relation between aging and NUMT in the nuclear genome, Cheng and Ivessa used "yme1-1" mutant strains of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae that hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8564084 | 2,173,909 |
148,608 | Various changes had raised the weight over the original 2,000 kg (4,410 lb) limit, but even at 2,800 kg (6,170 lb), the He 162 was still among the fastest aircraft in the air with a maximum airspeed of at sea level and at , but could reach at sea level and at using short burst extra thrust. The short flight duration of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=153227 | 148,547 |
151,014 | The above discussion on explicit measures assumed that contracts would create the linear incentive structures summarised in the model above. But while the combination of normal errors and the absence of income effects yields linear contracts, many observed contracts are nonlinear. To some extent this is due to income e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=730742 | 150,946 |
369,644 | Although bovine colostrum has been consumed by humans for centuries, only in recent decades have we seen an increase in randomized clinical trials to support assertions of health benefits. It is probable that little absorption of intact growth factors and antibodies into the bloodstream occurs, due to digestion in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=525722 | 369,451 |
753,554 | BZ was invented by the Swiss pharmaceutical company Hoffman-LaRoche in 1951. The company was investigating anti-spasmodic agents, similar to tropine, for treating gastrointestinal ailments when the chemical was discovered. It was then investigated for possible use in ulcer treatment, but was found unsuitable. At this t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=141141 | 753,152 |
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