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1,490,847 | Ceramography is the art and science of preparation, examination and evaluation of ceramic microstructures. Ceramography can be thought of as the metallography of ceramics. The microstructure is the structure level of approximately 0.1 to 100 µm, between the minimum wavelength of visible light and the resolution limit o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14695652 | 1,490,008 |
70,770 | Mulkidjanian and co-authors think that marine environments did not provide the ionic balance and composition universally found in cells, or the ions required by essential proteins and ribozymes, especially with respect to high K/Na ratio, Mn, Zn and phosphate concentrations. They argue that the only environments that m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19179706 | 70,743 |
335,971 | As a shield volcano, Olympus Mons resembles the shape of the large volcanoes making up the Hawaiian Islands. The edifice is about wide. Because the mountain is so large, with complex structure at its edges, allocating a height to it is difficult. Olympus Mons stands above the Mars global datum, and its local relief, fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22818 | 335,793 |
1,755,342 | Bradner's job at Berkeley required him to do a number of underwater dives. He had previously talked to United States Navy frogmen during World War II concerning the problems of staying in cold water for long periods of time, which causes the diver to lose large amounts of body heat quickly. He worked on developing a ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17583550 | 1,754,352 |
569,939 | Recording for "Calculating Infinity" took place in March, April and June 1999 at Trax East Recording Studio in South River, New Jersey, with production led by Steve Evetts alongside the band's lead guitarist Ben Weinman and drummer Chris Pennie. The recording process has been described by Weinman as "extremely difficul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=846067 | 569,649 |
1,295,193 | The 9th Armored Division landed in Normandy late in September 1944, and first went into the line, 23 October 1944, on patrol duty in a quiet sector along the Luxembourg-German frontier. When the Germans launched their winter offensive on 16 December 1944, the 9th, with no real combat experience, suddenly found itself e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30741117 | 1,294,482 |
728,379 | Patrick Geddes (1864-1932) was the founder of regional planning. His main influences were the geographers Élisée Reclus and Paul Vidal de La Blache, as well as the sociologist Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play. From these he received the idea of the natural region. According to Geddes, planning must start by surveying ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45346 | 727,995 |
452,724 | Figure 1 shows the make up of a typical biochip platform. The actual sensing component (or "chip") is just one piece of a complete analysis system. Transduction must be done to translate the actual sensing event (DNA binding, oxidation/reduction, "etc.") into a format understandable by a computer (voltage, light intens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=859981 | 452,505 |
252,797 | The Me 163B had very docile landing characteristics, mostly due to its integrated leading edge slots, located directly forward of the elevon control surfaces, and just behind and at the same angle as the wing's leading edge. It would neither stall nor spin. One could fly the "Komet" with the stick full back, and have i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20486 | 252,664 |
101,156 | Radiotelegraphy using Morse code, also known as "CW" from "continuous wave", is the wireless extension of landline (wired) telegraphy developed by Samuel Morse and dates to the earliest days of radio. Although computer-based (digital) modes and methods have largely replaced CW for commercial and military applications, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23275402 | 101,111 |
1,248,724 | In 1924, Cobham won the King's Cup Race air race in G-EBFN averaging 106 mph (171 km/h). Cobham made several long-range flights with the prototype until he replaced it with the second aircraft. The second aircraft (registered G-EBFO) was re-engined with the Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar engine and was designated the DH.50J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9597044 | 1,248,048 |
12,219 | Finally, von Braun and his remaining Peenemünde staff (see List of German rocket scientists in the United States) were transferred to their new home at Fort Bliss, a large Army installation just north of El Paso, Texas. Von Braun later wrote that he found it hard to develop a "genuine emotional attachment" to his new s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33783 | 12,214 |
244,644 | One important aspect of the study of Lie groups is their representations, that is, the way they can act (linearly) on vector spaces. In physics, Lie groups often encode the symmetries of a physical system. The way one makes use of this symmetry to help analyze the system is often through representation theory. Consider... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17945 | 244,517 |
287,340 | Between 1943 and 1945, 118 boats were assembled by Blohm & Voss of Hamburg, AG Weser of Bremen and Schichau-Werke of Danzig. Each hull was constructed from nine prefabricated sections with final assembly at the shipyards. This new method allowed for a hypothetical construction time of less than six months per vessel, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38441 | 287,185 |
1,374,168 | In the ESA December 2016 Science Budget funding was approved by the Ministerial Council for the next IXV flight in the form of the commercialised Space Rider orbital vehicle. Following design reviews in 2018 and 2019, a full size mockup was to be dropped from a balloon in 2019 and will have a first flight atop a Vega-C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4410085 | 1,373,410 |
253,513 | Fluorosurfactants such as PFOS, PFOA, and PFNA have caught the attention of regulatory agencies because of their persistence, toxicity, and widespread occurrence in the blood of general populations and wildlife. In 2009, PFOS, its salts and perfluorooctanesulfonyl fluoride were listed as persistent organic pollutants u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20471890 | 253,380 |
250,164 | Bariatric surgery can have significant health benefits in addition to weight loss, including improvement in cardiovascular risk factors, fatty liver disease, diabetes management, and reduction in mortality. Long-term studies from 2009 show the procedures result in significant long-term loss of weight, recovery from dia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11249433 | 250,032 |
910,939 | Louis de Broglie presented his pilot wave theory at the 1927 Solvay Conference, after close collaboration with Schrödinger, who developed his wave equation for de Broglie's theory. At the end of the presentation, Wolfgang Pauli pointed out that it was not compatible with a semi-classical technique Fermi had previously ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54717 | 910,460 |
1,068,752 | In "Grey Goo" players can choose one of four playable factions, the Humans, the Beta, the Goo, or the Shroud and use them to complete a single-player campaign or play in a competitive multiplayer mode versus other players. Each faction features a unique set of units, structures, and play style as well as its own segmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45032290 | 1,068,198 |
185,819 | Some bacteria are naturally resistant to certain antibiotics; for example, gram-negative bacteria are resistant to most β-lactam antibiotics due to the presence of β-lactamase. Antibiotic resistance can also be acquired as a result of either genetic mutation or horizontal gene transfer. Although mutations are rare, wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1914 | 185,722 |
1,745,550 | Following the Russian Sputnik launch, in July 1960 he moved with other von Braun rocket scientists from the Army Ballistic Missile Agency to the newly founded NASA. There, as part of the Apollo moon-landing program, he made major contributions working on the Saturn V booster rocket, on aerothermodynamics, and on liquid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22824006 | 1,744,566 |
752,617 | In response to a series of earthquakes near Comrie in Scotland in 1839, a committee was formed in the United Kingdom in order to produce better detection devices for earthquakes. The outcome of this was an inverted pendulum seismometer constructed by James David Forbes, first presented in a report by David Milne-Home i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231826 | 752,215 |
2,034,785 | To support this hypothesis, Reuben Lasker cited the disconnect between spawning stock biomass and the recruitment of numerous fish species. One explanation of this disconnect suggests larval recruitment is influenced by spatial and temporal patterns of their food, like phytoplankton or zooplankton, which can be greatly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31661941 | 2,033,612 |
1,821,612 | Palmer was born on 15 October 1847 at Jalandhar in the province of Punjab in north-west India. He was the son of General Henry Palmer of the 48th Native Infantry. The family were based at Lucknow when the siege began on 30 June 1857 and Palmer, then just nine years old, was a pupil at La Martinière College. In the Resi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12004820 | 1,820,574 |
1,175,569 | The problem of defining a radius for the atomic nucleus has some similarity to that of defining a radius for the entire atom; neither have well defined boundaries. However, basic liquid drop models of the nucleus imagine a fairly uniform density of nucleons, theoretically giving a more recognizable surface to a nucleus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28048752 | 1,174,947 |
1,855,912 | Since opening in 1953, W.F. Kaynor Technical High School has undergone three expansion projects that have reflected the changing complexion of the community and have kept pace with technology. When the school was initially opened, ten trades were offered. In 1968, one of the trades, "Watch, Clock, and Instrument Making... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20058494 | 1,854,844 |
851,932 | Instructional scaffolding can be thought of as the strategies that a teacher uses to help learners bridge a cognitive gap or progress in their learning to a level they were previously unable to accomplish. These strategies evolve as the teachers evaluate the learners initial level of ability and then through continued ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=263104 | 851,478 |
1,253,298 | At the last minute, late in the evening of 30 June, Lyell and Hooker forwarded the Wallace and Darwin papers to the Secretary John Joseph Bennett, to be read at the meeting the next day. Mrs. Hooker had spent the afternoon copying out extracts from the handwritten documents Darwin had sent with his letter of the previo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1616231 | 1,252,619 |
964,397 | The Cyclone is operational with the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) as of 2018 and is to conduct anti-submarine warfare (ASW), surveillance, and search and rescue missions from Royal Canadian Navy warships. The helicopter is also to provide tactical transport for operations supporting national and international securit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1026733 | 963,888 |
617,458 | Resuming with a 94 run lead Clarke and North extended their partnership to 152 runs before it was broken by Graham Onions. After the lunch break, North continued with good support from the Australian tail and reached his century with a six. Clark was the best of the others with three sixes in his score of 32 (22 delive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8708994 | 617,144 |
1,338,320 | Plant Simulation is a Material flow simulation Software (Discrete Event Simulation; DES Software). Using simulation, complex and dynamic enterprise workflows are evaluated to arrive at mathematically safeguarded entrepreneurial decisions. The Computer model allows the user to execute experiments and to run through 'wha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24223730 | 1,337,589 |
1,690,849 | There are two notable mechanisms that cause Anaphase Lag, each of which are characterized by merotelic attachments of kinetochores to the microtubules responsible for chromatid separation. Merotelic attachments occur when a single centromere kinetochore attaches to microtubules originating from both spindle poles of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13471415 | 1,689,902 |
224,644 | Intelligence tests are widely used in educational, business, and military settings because of their efficacy in predicting behavior. IQ and "g" (discussed in the next section) are correlated with many important social outcomes—individuals with low IQs are more likely to be divorced, have a child out of marriage, be inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=168191 | 224,530 |
211,905 | When one stands on a balance-beam-type scale at a doctor’s office, they are having their mass measured directly. This is because balances ("dual-pan" mass comparators) compare the gravitational force exerted on the person on the platform with that on the sliding counterweights on the beams; gravity is the force-generat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14476384 | 211,797 |
89,185 | Today the University of Virginia Library System consists of a dozen libraries and holds over 5 million volumes. Its Electronic Text Center, established in 1992, has put 70,000 books online as well as 350,000 images that go with them. These e-texts are open to anyone and, , were receiving 37,000 daily visits (compared t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59801 | 89,148 |
2,108,957 | The 1990-91 season would be the last for the UMD golf program. A young squad with only three returning players, two being sophomores, the team played inconsistently and could never string together consecutive competitive rounds. This was evident at the NIC conference championship that October at which the team finished... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50172482 | 2,107,743 |
202,012 | Pierre and Marie further explored radioactivity by working to separate the substances in uranium ores and then using the electrometer to make radiation measurements to ‘trace’ the minute amount of unknown radioactive element among the fractions that resulted. Working with the mineral pitchblende, the pair discovered a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1416046 | 201,909 |
1,448,961 | Neuroscientists, often studying the same cognitive functions of the brain as psychoanalysts, do so in quantitative methods such as dissection post mortem, small lesions administered to create certain curative effects, or with the visual and objective aid of brain imaging, all of which enable researchers to trace neuroc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6660329 | 1,448,145 |
575,415 | The Royal Hellenic Air Force (EVA) was the only air force during the Second World War to operate the PZL.24 as its main fighter type. Two different subtypes, consisting of 30 P.24F and six P.24G, were ordered and delivered between 1937 and 1938. Upon arrival, these were split between three Mirae Dioxeos (Fighter Squadr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1139061 | 575,121 |
145,221 | Theoretical models may calculate the constants (coefficients) corresponding to the higher powers of "T", but since it is impossible for a polynomial to match a periodic function over all numbers, the difference in all such approximations will grow without bound as "T" increases. Sufficient accuracy can be obtained over... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72576 | 145,163 |
788,622 | The school was established as the West Virginia Colored Institute in 1891 under the second Morrill Act, which provided for land-grant institutions for Black students in the 17 states that had segregated schools. The school opened its doors in May 1892 and had an enrollment of over 40 students. The faculty consisted of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1245250 | 788,198 |
1,506,818 | This production of Vitamin D2, or calciferol (see image), was a complete cure to rachitis – 100,000 times more effective than fish liver oil – and Windaus and his group were able to determine its chemical properties. This included being isomeric with ergosterol with a hydroxyl group and three conjugated double bonds; t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=749670 | 1,505,972 |
2,034,220 | There are many alternate mobility options, positioning aids and other equipment that rehab therapists may prescribe. These include walkers or quad-canes, which can be used for individuals who are able ambulate to reduce the risk of falling. In addition, transfer boards, mechanical lifts and specific transferring educat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47148883 | 2,033,047 |
39,934 | During the 1960s, the university campus was the site of numerous protests against the Vietnam War and university administration. On March 24, 1965, a group of U-M faculty members and 3,000 students held the nation's first-ever faculty-led "teach-in" to protest against American policy in Southeast Asia. In response to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31740 | 39,919 |
1,660,081 | "P. parvum" grows in a salinity range of 0.5 - 30 psu (Practical Salinity Unit) with an optimum at 15 psu although strains collected in different places appear to have different salinity tolerances. A strain called LB 2797 (isolated from Colorado River in Texas) shows a biphasic growth pattern namely, maximum cell dens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4883891 | 1,659,148 |
8,261 | In 2008, Arnett pointed out that most articles in American Psychological Association journals were about U.S. populations when U.S. citizens are only 5% of the world's population. He complained that psychologists had no basis for assuming psychological processes to be universal and generalizing research findings to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22921 | 8,258 |
45,107 | Given the difficulty of finding exact solutions, Einstein's field equations are also solved frequently by numerical integration on a computer, or by considering small perturbations of exact solutions. In the field of numerical relativity, powerful computers are employed to simulate the geometry of spacetime and to solv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12024 | 45,090 |
311,501 | Leading causes of death in the United States and around the world are highly related to behavioral consequences over genetic or environmental factors. This leads some to believe true healthcare reform begins with cultural reform, habit and overall lifestyle. Lifestyle, then, becomes the cause of many illnesses and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=237248 | 311,333 |
498,009 | In 1801, he drew a rough sketch of what would become the first geological map of most of Great Britain. Smith travelled extensively across Great Britain working as a mineral surveyor allowing him to meet prominent people such as Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, and the Duke of Bedford. In 1815 he published this geol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=93553 | 497,752 |
1,791,198 | In November 2009, ICCAT's scientific advisors announced that a total ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna was justified, based on the decline in the bluefin fishery population to less than 15% of its original size. However, later in the same month, ICCAT recommended catch quotas of 13,500 tonnes per year... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1943983 | 1,790,191 |
366,395 | A total of 890 Meteors were lost in RAF service (145 of these crashes occurring in 1953 alone), resulting in the deaths of 450 pilots. Contributory factors in the number of crashes were the poor brakes, failure of the landing gear, the high fuel consumption and consequent short flight endurance (less than one hour) cau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42702 | 366,203 |
30,289 | In April 1894, a Scottish physician, Sir Ronald Ross, visited Sir Patrick Manson at his house on Queen Anne Street, London. This visit was the start of four years of collaboration and fervent research that culminated in 1897 when Ross, who was working in the Presidency General Hospital in Calcutta, proved the complete ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20423 | 30,279 |
399,553 | Complex regional pain syndrome is a multifactorial disorder with clinical features of neurogenic inflammation (swelling in the central nervous system), nociceptive sensitisation (which causes extreme sensitivity or allodynia), vasomotor dysfunction (blood flow problems which cause swelling and discolouration) and malad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56283 | 399,355 |
1,877,070 | In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Eckerle was one of several Swiss physicians who requested access to the Early Warning and Response System; the European Union's network that looks to track the spread of infectious diseases. She argued that better epidemiology, pathogenesis and treatment options were essentia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64008030 | 1,875,992 |
159,196 | During the 2017 "Secret Empire" storyline, Amadeus Cho's Hulk form was with the Champions when they joined up with the Underground following HYDRA's takeover of the United States. The Champions later followed Black Widow when she makes her own plans for Captain America. During their training, the Champions argue over B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9945333 | 159,114 |
1,648,089 | The holdings of the Rare Book & Texana Collections range in age from 4,000-year-old clay tablets to items produced less than a year ago. In addition to the traditional “book” format, the collections also include scrolls, palm-leaf books, posters, maps, original artworks, artifacts, games, toys, printing equipment, phot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25147374 | 1,647,157 |
871,589 | After two years of training the 5th ID landed in Normandy on Utah Beach, on 9 July 1944, over a month after the initial D-Day landings, and four days later took up defensive positions in the vicinity of Caumont-l'Éventé. Launching a successful attack at Vidouville 26 July, the division drove on southeast of Saint-Lô, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=446647 | 871,129 |
630,456 | Diagnosis and misdiagnosis in PGD using PCR have been mathematically modelled in the work of Navidi and Arnheim and of Lewis and collaborators. The most important conclusion of these publications is that for the efficient and accurate diagnosis of an embryo, two genotypes are required. This can be based on a linked mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=562180 | 630,118 |
1,244,408 | One application of machine learning is to perform regression from training data to build a correlation. In this example, deep learning generates a model from training data that is generated with the function formula_5. An artificial neural network with three layers is used for this example. The first layer is linear, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57256998 | 1,243,735 |
1,342,764 | The very first chapter of the history of neuroimaging traces back to the Italian physiologist Angelo Mosso who invented the "human circulation balance", which could non-invasively measure the redistribution of blood during emotional and intellectual activity. However, even if only briefly mentioned by William James in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=907554 | 1,342,028 |
411,871 | When Koch discovered tuberculin in 1890 as a medication for tuberculosis, he kept the experiment secret and avoided disclosing the source. It was only after a year under public pressure that he publicly announced the experiment and the source. Clinical trials with tuberculin were disastrous and complete failures. Rudol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13722 | 411,669 |
316,046 | By 1944, Patton had been established as a highly effective and successful leader, noted for his ability to inspire his men with charismatic speeches, which he delivered from memory because of a lifelong trouble with reading. Patton deliberately cultivated a flashy, distinctive image in the belief that this would inspir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5013710 | 315,877 |
392,268 | A drawback of the technique was that the DNA polymerase in the reaction was destroyed by the high heat used at the start of each replication cycle and had to be replaced. In 1986, Saiki started to use "Thermophilus aquaticus" (Taq) DNA polymerase to amplify segments of DNA. The Taq polymerase was heat resistant and onl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17095 | 392,073 |
908,721 | Among major trends in 2018 included the explosive growth of battle royale games such as Bluehole's "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" and Epic Games' "Fortnite Battle Royale", the resurgence of "Pokémon Go", ongoing governmental review of loot boxes in light of national gambling restrictions, Sony Interactive Entertainmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37531099 | 908,242 |
141,674 | In industry, cavitation is often used to homogenize, or mix and break down, suspended particles in a colloidal liquid compound such as paint mixtures or milk. Many industrial mixing machines are based upon this design principle. It is usually achieved through impeller design or by forcing the mixture through an annular... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7807 | 141,616 |
1,833,108 | In the finals, the first legs between Trinidad and Tobago (Renny Quow), Great Britain (Rabah Yousif) and USA (David Verburg) were relatively close, exchanging in that order. France, Belgium and Jamaica were all close in the mix. American Tony McQuay sped around the turn before the break and got enough of a lead to shut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47495073 | 1,832,060 |
1,127,632 | After arriving in New York, Gesner focused on finding financial backing for his kerosene venture. In March 1853, Gesner partnered with shipbroker Horatio Eagle, who issued an eight-page circular entitled, "Project for the Formation of a Company to Work the Combined Patent Rights of Dr. Abraham Gesner, Nova Scotia, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=256711 | 1,127,055 |
601,183 | The literature often presents Fowler–Nordheim work as a proof of the existence of electron tunneling, as predicted by wave-mechanics. Whilst this is correct, the validity of wave-mechanics was largely accepted by 1928. The more important role of the Fowler–Nordheim paper was that it was a convincing argument from exper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=293392 | 600,875 |
789,249 | In 1906, he joined the newly formed Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research in New York where he spent the rest of his career. There he did significant work on tissue cultures with pathologist Montrose Thomas Burrows. In the 1930s, Carrel and Charles Lindbergh became close friends not only because of the years they w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1051 | 788,825 |
999,017 | As "E. regnans" seeds are not stored in soil seedbanks, the regeneration of the forest depends on the presence of canopy-stored seed crops. With two or more frequent fires occurring in less than the time to stand reproductive viability, "E. regnans" can become locally extinct due to poor regeneration. As "E. regnans" i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=158181 | 998,499 |
184,364 | The Scott myth lasted until the final quarter of the 20th century, when it was replaced by one that characterised him as a "heroic bungler" whose failure was largely the result of his own mistakes. This portrayal, the cultural historian Stephanie Barczewski asserts, is as fallacious as the earlier one in which he was c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15021680 | 184,267 |
1,838,749 | MICRO runs under the Michigan Terminal System (MTS), the interactive time-sharing system developed at the University of Michigan that runs on IBM System/360 Model 67, System/370, and compatible mainframe computers. MICRO provides a query language, a database directory, and a data dictionary to create an interface betwe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7872666 | 1,837,700 |
799,357 | The 2013 comparative study on the complete mitochondrial DNA diversity in Iranians has indicated that Iranian Azerbaijanis are more related to the people of Georgia, than they are to other Iranians (Like Persians), while the Persians, Armenians and Qashqai on the other hand were more related to each other. It furthermo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16696142 | 798,932 |
1,256,827 | When a wing element in a kite system is designed to have flutter occur, then that fluttering may be harvested for energy to power various loads. In flutter, the wing element travels to crosswind and then reverses to travel to crosswind in a generally opposite direction; the frequency of cycles of reversed direction is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39562189 | 1,256,143 |
804,603 | The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in its Sixth Assessment Report:... SRM could offset some of the effects of increasing GHGs on global and regional climate, including the carbon and water cycles. However, there would be substantial residual or overcompensating climate change at the regional... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20694764 | 804,174 |
1,188,295 | Hofmann was apparently the first to introduce molecular models into organic chemistry, following August Kekule's introduction of the theory of chemical structure in 1858, and Alexander Crum Brown's introduction of printed structural formulas in 1861. At a Friday Evening Discourse at London's Royal Institution on April ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=940627 | 1,187,663 |
205,538 | "Low mass" is partly a relative label: the Earth is low mass when compared to the Solar System's gas giants, but it is the largest, by diameter and mass, and the densest of all terrestrial bodies. It is large enough to retain an atmosphere through gravity alone and large enough that its molten core remains a heat engin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2592906 | 205,432 |
2,086,926 | In 1899, university professors from around Canada came to St. Andrews over the summer months to do field research work at Canada's first marine biological station, which, at the time, was a floating scow. In 1908, permanent installations of the biological station were established with the main laboratory, a residence b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31477369 | 2,085,724 |
1,106,582 | It was believed that the leak was in the crossfeed flange area – a problem with associated seals. On 18 October 2010, after an afternoon review, engineers were asked to double-check the torque on six bolts around the suspected leaky flange fitting and tighten if necessary. Subsequent leak tests showed again signs of se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5829815 | 1,106,018 |
332,083 | First mass-produced in 1916, titanium dioxide is the most widely used white pigment because of its brightness and very high refractive index, in which it is surpassed only by a few other materials (see "list of indices of refraction"). Titanium dioxide crystal size is ideally around 220 nm (measured by electron microsc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=219713 | 331,906 |
646,828 | The cause and pathogenesis of the pathology is unclear and it is currently considered idiopathic. However, it does not appear to involve complement or immune complex deposition. Rather, an altered T cell-mediated immunologic response with abnormal secretion of lymphokines by T cells is thought to modify the glomerular ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2113705 | 646,488 |
379,718 | Humans have disturbed the biological carbon cycle for many centuries by modifying land use, and moreover with the recent industrial-scale mining of fossil carbon (coal, petroleum and gas extraction, and cement manufacture) from the geosphere. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere had increased nearly 52% over pre-industrial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47503 | 379,523 |
877,266 | As soon as high-thrust solid-fuel rockets became a reality in the mid-1950s, the USAF began to develop a new solid-fueled Bomarc variant, the IM-99B Bomarc B. It used a Thiokol XM51 booster, and also had improved Marquardt RJ43-MA-7 (and finally the RJ43-MA-11) ramjets. The first IM-99B was launched in May 1959, but pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4130 | 876,804 |
751,815 | Cetacean evolution consisted of three main radiations. Throughout the middle and late Eocene periods (49-31.5 million years ago), archaeocetes, primitive toothed Cetacea that arose from terrestrial mammals, were the only known cetaceans. These primitive aquatic mammals did not possess the ability to echolocate, althoug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69274 | 751,413 |
1,623,984 | In 2019, a transmitarray was fed by a planar phased array operating at 10 GHz, in order to achieve a high beam crossover gain level whilst maintaining an aperture efficiency of 57.5%. The scan loss was 3.13 dB at ±30°. Similarly, a lens-enhanced phased array antenna, similar to a transmitarray, has been demonstrated. B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62946879 | 1,623,068 |
339,360 | The Earth was generally very warm during the early Cambrian; its climate was comparable to the hot greenhouse of the Late Cretaceous and Early Palaeogene, as evidenced by a maximum in continental weathering rates over the last 900 million years and the presence of tropical, lateritic palaeosols at high palaeolatitudes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5367 | 339,180 |
590,174 | The notion that continuous changes to products creates continuous demand for substitution of a product's older generation was brought up on large scale by General Motors executive Alfred P. Sloan, who suggested that continuous changes to their models on a year over year base will fuel demand of customers to replace the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68312817 | 589,872 |
1,481,232 | While much of the current critical infrastructure is controlled by a web of interconnected control systems, either architecture termed as distributed control systems (DCS) or supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), the application of control is moving toward a more decentralized state. In moving to a smart gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22982978 | 1,480,398 |
672,006 | The final design embodied much of the experience and shared the intake and low-wing layout of the previous P-80 Shooting Star, but with 35° swept-back wings, a sharply-pointed nose, and two Westinghouse J34-WE-11 axial-flow turbojet engines, providing a total thrust of 6,200 lbf (27.6 kN), mounted side-by-side in the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1040508 | 671,654 |
1,010,337 | Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is an imaging technique used to measure the magnetic fields produced by electrical activity in the brain via extremely sensitive devices such as superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) or spin exchange relaxation-free (SERF) magnetometers. MEG offers a very direct measurement ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3557219 | 1,009,816 |
1,638,753 | Originally isolated by De Luca in 1978 from the solfatane fumaroles of Campi Flegrei (Naples, Italy), "C. merolae" can be grown in culture in the laboratory in Modified Allen's medium (MA) or a modified form with twice the concentration of some elements called MA2. Using MA medium, growth rates are not particularly fas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28934610 | 1,637,828 |
1,412,886 | Carle Illinois College of Medicine is one of few medical schools that have been built from the ground up to focus on the intersection of engineering and medicine. Every course in the college was designed by a team composed of a basic scientist, a clinician, and an engineer. The curriculum's four pillar approach infuses... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49112318 | 1,412,091 |
2,198,652 | During the dramatic transformations that occurred globally throughout the late Pleistocene, the area of Beringia experienced relatively minor changes in vegetation in comparison to other parts of the world as the tundra steppe persisted in spite of cold and dry conditions. This is likely a result of the extreme climati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58657379 | 2,197,401 |
169,845 | Next-generation genomic technologies allow clinicians and biomedical researchers to drastically increase the amount of genomic data collected on large study populations. When combined with new informatics approaches that integrate many kinds of data with genomic data in disease research, this allows researchers to bett... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55170 | 169,755 |
7,589 | In the following years, manga became increasingly popular, and new publishers entered the field while the established publishers greatly expanded their catalogues. The "Pokémon" manga "Electric Tale of Pikachu" issue #1 sold over 1million copies in the United States, making it the best-selling single comic book in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18985 | 7,586 |
76,039 | Subtractive methods remove copper from an entirely copper-coated board to leave only the desired copper pattern. The simplest method, used for small-scale production and often by hobbyists, is immersion etching, in which the board is submerged in etching solution such as ferric chloride. Compared with methods used for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65910 | 76,010 |
698,571 | In 1943, as the design of the Spiteful was developing, Supermarine presented a brochure to the Air Ministry describing a "High-Performance Aeroplane for the Royal Navy", also known as the Supermarine Type 391. This design was intended to be used as a carrier-borne fighter, with a secondary role as a strike aircraft, ab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4438009 | 698,207 |
1,864,226 | Thomas Preston (1860 in Kilmore, County Armagh – 1900) was an Irish scientist whose research was concerned with heat, magnetism, and spectroscopy. He established empirical rules for the analysis of spectral lines, which remain associated with his name. In 1897 he discovered the Anomalous Zeeman Effect, a phenomenon not... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4445697 | 1,863,154 |
1,503,101 | A heated cylindrical billet workpiece is fed between two convex-tapered rollers, which are rotating in the same direction. The rollers are usually 6° askew from parallel with the billet's axis. The rollers are on opposite sides of the billet, and the surface of their largest cross sections are separated by a distance s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426272 | 1,502,255 |
2,066,101 | At the end of the 1920s, Lissmann moved on to study Biology at the University of Hamburg. Next he worked under Jakob von Uexküll at the Hamburg Institute for Environmental Research. He received his doctorate in 1932 for work on the Siamese fighting fish. In 1933 he was sent with a travel bursary to the Hungarian Scient... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4421484 | 2,064,910 |
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