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952,203 | The third and final stage of the Borneo Campaign was the capture of Balikpapan on the central east coast of the island. This operation had been opposed by General Blamey, who believed that it was unnecessary, but went ahead on the orders of Macarthur. After a preliminary air and naval bombardment the 7th Division lande... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4578255 | 951,698 |
1,200,392 | One measuring device is placed on the body of the craft. The identical second of the pair is placed the necessary distance away from the body by unfolding a 1 m long boom (carbon composite tube). Two redundant pyrotechnical cutters cut one loop of thin rope to free the power of metal springs. The driven knee lever rota... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=839260 | 1,199,751 |
1,536,478 | The equestrian events at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich included show jumping, dressage and eventing. All three disciplines had both individual and team competitions. The equestrian competitions were held at 3 sites: an existing equestrian facility at Riem for the individual show jumping and eventing competitions, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2382860 | 1,535,610 |
367,469 | In a simplified view of an "ionic" bond, the bonding electron is not shared at all, but transferred. In this type of bond, the outer atomic orbital of one atom has a vacancy which allows the addition of one or more electrons. These newly added electrons potentially occupy a lower energy-state (effectively closer to mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5993 | 367,276 |
725,638 | An evolutionary tree (of Amniota, for example, the last common ancestor of mammals and reptiles, and all its descendants) illustrates the initial conditions causing evolutionary patterns of similarity (e.g., all Amniotes produce an egg that possesses the amnios) and the patterns of divergence amongst lineages (e.g., ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2339577 | 725,257 |
359,720 | The following describes the operation of a spectrometer mass analyzer, which is of the sector type. (Other analyzer types are treated below.) Consider a sample of sodium chloride (table salt). In the ion source, the sample is vaporized (turned into gas) and ionized (transformed into electrically charged particles) into... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=283810 | 359,533 |
1,694,073 | The types of homes that were built in that time and area, usually one story rubble masonry with heavy flat roofs that were often already damaged, were not resistant to even a small amount of shaking. Public structures like bridges and walls fared better, as they were usually constructed with higher standards. The heavy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23063479 | 1,693,122 |
9,404 | DNA can be damaged by many sorts of mutagens, which change the DNA sequence. Mutagens include oxidizing agents, alkylating agents and also high-energy electromagnetic radiation such as ultraviolet light and X-rays. The type of DNA damage produced depends on the type of mutagen. For example, UV light can damage DNA by p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7955 | 9,400 |
559,723 | The importance of the lectures was not in teaching complex mathematics or physics, but rather in demonstrating to the wider public the principles of physics and encouraging discussion and debate. Generally, individuals presenting the lectures did not adhere to any particular brand of physics, but rather demonstrated a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17912788 | 559,434 |
1,175,607 | "Sarahsaurus" was first described by Timothy B. Rowe, Hans-Dieter Sues and Robert R. Reisz in 2011; the type species is "Sarahsaurus aurifontanalis". The generic name honours Sarah (Mrs. Ernest) Butler, an Austin philanthropist. She helped fund the "Dino Pit" exhibit at the Austin Nature and Science Center, which Rowe ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29082859 | 1,174,985 |
444,092 | In a study made in 2018, antimonene modified screen-printed electrodes (SPE’s) were subjected to a galvanostatic charge/discharge test using a two-electrode approach to characterize their supercapacitive properties. The best configuration observed, which contained 36 nanograms of antimonene in the SPE, showed a specifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43589512 | 443,877 |
904,074 | The concept of ZBB was first introduced to China at the beginning of the 1990s and was primarily focused on the Hubei Province area of China. Just as the United States encountered many problems and failures with ZBB, China ran into them as well. But even with the numerous problems and failures along the way, they have ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4478338 | 903,598 |
273,286 | The first systematic or rigorous treatment of geometry using the theory of infinitesimals and notions from calculus began around the 1600s when calculus was first developed by Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton. At this time, the recent work of René Descartes introducing analytic coordinates to geometry allowed geometr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8625 | 273,138 |
443,889 | which falls off rapidly for times greater than formula_19 in the future. Therefore, signals from an interval approximately formula_19 into the future affect the acceleration in the present. For an electron, this time is approximately formula_21 sec, which is the time it takes for a light wave to travel across the "size... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3209246 | 443,674 |
1,277,803 | Most of the drug manufacturing companies are using Web-based systems for capturing, managing and reporting clinical data. This not only helps them in faster and more efficient data capture, but also speeds up the process of drug development. In such systems, studies can be set up for each drug trial. In-built edit chec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7393379 | 1,277,110 |
335,152 | Steam engines have considerably less thermal efficiency than modern diesels, requiring constant maintenance and labour to keep them operational. Water is required at many points throughout a rail network, making it a major problem in desert areas, as are found in some regions of the United States, Australia and South A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196788 | 334,974 |
2,126,818 | Also leading by example, Yale aims to achieve reducing a 43 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2020, with already achieving the reduction of 7 percent since 2005. “Yale University has established a fifteen-year action plan to take responsibility for its emissions and will focus on increasing effi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33630916 | 2,125,597 |
541,332 | The remainder of the division that evaded the German pincer movement was reinforced by the 112th Infantry Regiment of the 28th Infantry Division and withdrew over the Our River and joined other units at Saint Vith. Along with the city of Bastogne to the south, St. Vith was a road and rail junction city considered vital... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=912223 | 541,052 |
1,108,582 | The simple existence of a pumped population inversion is not sufficient for the observation of a maser. For example, there must be velocity coherence (light) along the line of sight so that Doppler shifting does not prevent inverted states in different parts of the gain medium from radiatively coupling. While polarisat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3618030 | 1,108,017 |
4,968 | The player controls the character Kratos in combo-based combat and puzzle game elements. The gameplay is vastly different from previous games, as it was completely rebuilt. A major change is that Kratos no longer uses his signature double-chained blades, the Blades of Chaos, as his default weapon. Instead, he uses a ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50810460 | 4,966 |
1,903,723 | Stuart was the first pioneer to study the interference phenomenon of closely spaced surface strip footing. He examined the effect of footing interference on ultimate bearing capacity of strip footings by theoretical analysis using limit equilibrium method, assuming a non-linear failure surface wherein the cross-section... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43947283 | 1,902,629 |
275,393 | On 5 July, the 339th Squadron was pulled out of combat and returned to Johnson AB. Shortly afterwards, the 4th Squadron returned to Okinawa, with the 347th Provisional Group being inactivated and control of the 68th Squadron being turned over to the 8th Fighter Group. The 339th had been in combat a total of 10 days (26... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=671473 | 275,244 |
620,069 | In October 2011 the federal government of Canada sold the commercial CANDU design and marketing business of AECL to Candu Energy for million (including 15 years worth of royalties, the government could get back as much as million). The sale entered the exclusive negotiation stage in February, a month after the other bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=888866 | 619,754 |
821,183 | The brain is small and simple in some species, such as the nematode worm, where the body plan is quite simple: a tube with a hollow gut cavity running from the mouth to the anus, and a nerve cord with an enlargement (a ganglion) for each body segment, with an especially large ganglion at the front, called the brain. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337196 | 820,742 |
2,055,101 | In his early career, he worked on problems in statistical physics, dynamical system and complex systems. In 1987, along with Per Bak and Kurt Wiesenfeld, he proposed the concept and developed the theory for self-organized criticality, which had and continues to have broad applications in complex systems with scale inva... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2968953 | 2,053,918 |
720,551 | In 2013, the university released the 2013–2018 Strategic Plan named "Crossing The Horizon", shaping the future actions of the university nationally and internationally. As part of the plan, the university committed to differentiate itself as Australia's University of Enterprise and to focus its activities on end-user n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=335415 | 720,171 |
1,467,217 | In 1820 he was ordered to the Cape Colony and was sent to Grahamstown to supervise the medical care of European soldiers and soldiers of the Cape Corps. He was appointed the Albany district surgeon in 1822 and started the first free dispensary for indigent patients in South Africa. He led a scientific expedition into t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=606463 | 1,466,394 |
1,158,000 | Shortly before the Games opened it was realised that the Royal Entrance could not be used as the marathon entrance—it was raised to permit easy descent by the royal party from their carriages, and did not open onto the track—so an alternative entrance was chosen, diagonally opposite the Royal Box. A special path was ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4562378 | 1,157,387 |
54,788 | Hume was derailed in his attempts to start a university career by protests over his alleged "atheism", also lamenting that his literary debut, "A Treatise of Human Nature", "fell dead-born from the press." However, he found literary success in his lifetime as an essayist, and a career as a librarian at the University o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7925 | 54,765 |
1,535,692 | Specialization is a growing trend, with each nation focusing specializations on its own needs and goals. Also, communication within these specializations is being facilitated through the World Wide Web and the emergence and growth of specialized international organizations and journals in subfields of psychology. Altho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12691183 | 1,534,824 |
1,421,565 | There was high agreement and much evidence that stabilization could be achieved by 2050 using currently available technologies, provided appropriate and effective incentives were put in place for their development, acquisition, deployment and diffusion, and that barriers were removed. For stabilization at lower levels ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4243210 | 1,420,764 |
1,446,810 | But there are other explanations for the missing rations. The inexperienced New Guinea Force staff assumed that the supplies they despatched would arrive, but this was far from the case with air dropping, the techniques for which had yet to be properly developed. Kienzle picked what he thought were good drop zones, but... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51118476 | 1,445,994 |
743,018 | Potential applications of metamaterials are diverse and include optical filters, medical devices, remote aerospace applications, sensor detection and infrastructure monitoring, smart solar power management, Lasers, crowd control, radomes, high-frequency battlefield communication and lenses for high-gain antennas, impro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=906878 | 742,624 |
1,381,749 | Octopus aquaculture describes the captive-raising of octopuses and commercial sale of their meat. A complex and labor-intensive form of farming, octopus aquaculture is being driven by strong market demand in the Mediterranean and in South American and Asian countries. Annual global demand for octopus more than doubled ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33246392 | 1,380,986 |
833,549 | Unlike Röntgen's discovery, which was the object of widespread curiosity from scientists and lay people alike for the ability of X-rays to make visible the bones within the human body, Becquerel's discovery made little impact at the time, and Becquerel himself soon moved on to other research. Marie Curie tested samples... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64011351 | 833,100 |
479,060 | Proponents of plasma cosmology claim electrodynamics is as important as gravity in explaining the structure of the universe, and speculate that it provides an alternative explanation for the evolution of galaxies and the initial collapse of interstellar clouds. In particular plasma cosmology is claimed to provide an al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=261407 | 478,820 |
174,316 | In their discovery of the elements 99 and 100, the American teams had competed with a group at the Nobel Institute for Physics, Stockholm, Sweden. In late 1953 – early 1954, the Swedish group succeeded in the synthesis of light isotopes of element 100, in particular Fm, by bombarding uranium with oxygen nuclei. These r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9479 | 174,225 |
1,328,974 | Once the platform can be electrically charged by one of the above means, some source of positive ions is placed on the platform at the end of the beam line, which is why it's called the terminal. However, as the ion source is kept at a high potential, one cannot access the ion source for control or maintenance directly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26877140 | 1,328,246 |
1,745,583 | "S. intercalatum" is at risk of endangerment in large part due to the introduction of invasive species into its native habitat. Since 1973, both "S. mansoni" and "S. haematobium" have been found in places that have been traditionally inhabited by "S. intercalatum". This is thought to be because of the increase in trans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2196955 | 1,744,599 |
1,431,914 | The impact nutritional epidemiology had in the past has led to social, physical and economic changes. Nutritional epidemiological findings guide dietary recommendations including the prevention of certain disease and cancers. They play a role in policies on diet and health given the works are published based on groundi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29718054 | 1,431,110 |
282,694 | Students maintain a variety of organized and independent service events. The Community Service Leadership Council involves students to oversee a Project of the Week every Saturday. The projects have included work with Good Earth Farms, Last Chance Corral, Cadillac Ranch, Habitat for Humanity, Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Phi ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=483329 | 282,541 |
2,008,774 | Various genetic sequences can be targeted for epigenetic modification. A transcriptome-wide analysis in mice found that a protein-restricted (PR) diet during gestation resulted in differential gene expression in approximately 1% of the fetal genes analyzed (235/22,690). Specifically, increased expression was seen in ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30932051 | 2,007,622 |
184,081 | While the affinity of dioxins and related industrial toxicants to the Ah receptor may not fully explain all their toxic effects including immunotoxicity, endocrine effects and tumor promotion, toxic responses appear to be typically dose-dependent within certain concentration ranges. A multiphasic dose–response relation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20663724 | 183,984 |
1,390,843 | The basic setup in electrosynthesis is a galvanic cell, a potentiostat and two electrodes. Typical solvent and electrolyte combinations minimizes electrical resistance. Protic conditions often use alcohol-water or dioxane-water solvent mixtures with an electrolyte such as a soluble salt, acid or base. Aprotic condition... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6160807 | 1,390,072 |
1,403,015 | Former President Barack Obama publicly praised Georgia Tech's online master's program on two occasions, as providing a model to both address the STEM worker shortage and control the costs of higher education. The program was the recipient of University Professional and Continuing Education Association’s Outstanding Pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55339410 | 1,402,228 |
1,910,423 | NCSES is the second smallest of the thirteen U.S. Federal statistical agencies in terms of staff (56 permanent full-time employees as of 2020), but ranks 9th in terms of budget ($58 million for fiscal year 2020). Despite its relatively small size, NCSES is composed of seven different programs. The Administrative and Pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68863308 | 1,909,325 |
2,029,544 | Following her PhD, DeWitte became an assistant professor at the University at Albany, SUNY. She eventually left the institution in 2011 to join the University of South Carolina (U of SC). Upon joining the faculty, DeWitte, Kirsten Bos, and Verena Schuenemann analyzed skeletal remains from Black Death victims to draft a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70161939 | 2,028,376 |
1,916,780 | The Harvard "Six Cities" study was a major epidemiological study of over 8,000 adults in six American cities that helped to establish the connection between fine-particulate air pollution (such as diesel engine soot) and reduced life expectancy ("excess mortality"). Widely acknowledged as a landmark piece of public hea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69081496 | 1,915,681 |
747,658 | Young again took manual control for the remainder of the flight as they went subsonic approaching the Heading Alignment Circle (HAC). A wide left turn was flown to line up with lake bed runway23, whilst T-38 "Chase1", crewed by astronauts Jon McBride and "Pinky" Nelson joined formation. Main gear touch down occurred on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177543 | 747,262 |
890,049 | Friedrich Engels, also a Young Hegelian originally, was a friend and associate of Marx, together with whom he developed the theory of scientific socialism (communism) and the doctrines of dialectical and historical materialism. His major works include "The Holy Family" (together with Marx, 1844) criticizing the Young H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=176051 | 889,580 |
1,652,313 | Whether the mesonet is temporary or semi-permanent, each weather station is typically independent, drawing power from a battery and solar panels. An on-board computer records readings from several instruments measuring temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and atmospheric pressure, as well as soil temperatur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10919869 | 1,651,381 |
1,642,798 | Lisanti completed her bachelor's degree in condensed matter physics at Harvard University and earned a Ph.D. in high-energy physics at Stanford University. In 2010, she joined the Princeton University Center for Theoretical Science as an associate research scholar and became an Assistant Professor in 2013. Her best-kno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48516112 | 1,641,871 |
264,269 | Rockwell adopted variable geometry for the much larger Advanced Manned Strategic Bomber (AMSA) program that produced the B-1 Lancer bomber, intended to provide an optimum combination of high-speed cruising efficiency and fast, supersonic penetration speeds at extremely low level. The B-1's variable-sweep wings provide ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349470 | 264,126 |
2,232,378 | Spin exchange is a process that begins when a mixture of 1% Xe, 89% He and 10% N is directed to flow through an optical cell that contains optically pumped Rubidium (Rb) atoms. The buffer gases, helium and nitrogen, serve to broaden the Rb absorption cross section, allowing a large fraction of laser light to be absorbe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72408552 | 2,231,111 |
1,140,760 | Before the death of its primary author in 2005, a new (third) edition of the book was released, with the collaboration of Charles P. Poole and John L. Safko from the University of South Carolina. In the third edition, the book discusses at length various mathematically sophisticated reformations of Newtonian mechanics,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16795124 | 1,140,166 |
104,010 | Indonesia was the only South East Asian member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) until its suspension in 2009. The country currently remains a net oil importer despite its large petroleum production industry. In 1999, crude and condensate output averaged per day, and in 1998, the oil and gas s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14647 | 103,965 |
305,176 | In 1896, Eduard Bernstein argued that once full democracy had been achieved, a transition to socialism by gradual means was both possible and more desirable than revolutionary change. Bernstein and his supporters came to be identified as "revisionists", because they sought to revise the classic tenets of Marxism. Altho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 305,014 |
429,352 | Multidrug resistance is the main factor considered when treating disease caused by "Corynebacterium striatum". Treatment with a mix of broad-spectrum antibiotics may thus be necessary. The selection of further antibiotic resistance is a serious consideration that must be made when selecting patient treatment. A study i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60749159 | 429,142 |
956,012 | Starting with Duryea in 1895, at least 1900 different companies were formed, producing over 3,000 makes of American automobiles. World War I (1917–1918) and the Great Depression in the United States (1929–1939) combined to drastically reduce the number of both major and minor producers. During World War II, all the aut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23576520 | 955,507 |
1,810,961 | In 2010, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) introduced a new liquidity regulation known as the Individual Liquidity Guidance (ILG). In 2013, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision agreed on a Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR), which is similar in design to the ILG but plays a role in an international playing fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55922118 | 1,809,928 |
1,515,078 | A survey published in 2017 systematically compares and discusses progress and findings towards automated plant species identification within the last decade (2005–2015). 120 primary studies have been published in high-quality venues within this time, mainly by authors with computer science background. These studies pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9788270 | 1,514,227 |
1,368,651 | Compared to PCR, the guidelines for primer and probe design for RPA are less established, and may take a certain degree of trial and error, although recent results indicate that standard PCR primers can work as well. The general principle of a discrete amplicon bounded by a forward and reverse primer with an (optional)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40427167 | 1,367,895 |
722,990 | In his presidential address to the British Association in 1871, Lord Kelvin stated his belief that the application of the prismatic analysis of light to solar and stellar chemistry had never been suggested directly or indirectly by anyone else when Stokes taught it to him at Cambridge University some time prior to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=212838 | 722,610 |
1,511,073 | Preventive care can protect bone, antler, horn, and ivory objects from damaging elements, but objects on display are put at risk and therefore need to be carefully prepared as well as monitored. The adoption of protective enclosures such as exhibit cases with appropriate temperature control can aid in “Minimizing relat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50186956 | 1,510,223 |
472,166 | The earliest role-playing video games were created in the mid-to-late 1970s, as offshoots of early university mainframe text-based RPGs that were played on PDP-10, PLATO and Unix-based systems. These included "m199h", created in 1974, "Dungeon", written in 1975 or 1976, "pedit5", created in 1975, and "dnd", also from 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32408640 | 471,930 |
1,083,382 | The University of Providence has a rolling admission policy. Applications are considered without regard to race, gender, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, financial status, physical or mental disabilities, or national origin. Applicants may apply for admission at any time; however, they are strongly ur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2273119 | 1,082,825 |
1,116,208 | Presenting symptoms of primary bladder lymphoma include weight loss, fatigue, hematuria, dysuria, nocturia, urinary frequency, and pain in the abdomen and/or suprapubic area. However, this lymphoma commonly occurs as a disseminated disease involving other organs and tissues. Radiological and cystoscopy examinations rev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21339698 | 1,115,636 |
687,924 | SAME had its beginnings in the early 1980s when NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) began experimenting with system using analog tones in a dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) format to transmit data with radio broadcasts. In 1985, the NWS forecast offices began experimenting with placing special digital codes at the be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=296102 | 687,566 |
2,135,805 | Gillespie's research program is aimed at understanding what drives biological diversification, particularly at the level of populations and species. She uses islands of known age and isolation to assess the combined temporal and spatial dimension of biogeography and determine patterns of diversification, adaptive radia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46404611 | 2,134,578 |
966,566 | Sunfire loses his powers before M-Day and his X-gene during that moment. It is revealed that Sunfire is rescued by a mysterious ninja group and taken to a hospital in Aspen. After being revived from his coma, the world's leading specialist in prosthetic limbs, Masanori Kuzuya, offers him his services. Before the reason... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=728634 | 966,056 |
1,210,899 | The phylogeny of Anurognathidae is disputed. Both Alexander Kellner and David Unwin in 2003 defined the group as a node clade: the last common ancestor of "Anurognathus" and "Batrachognathus" and all its descendants. Some analyses, such as that of Kellner (2003), place them as the most basal group in the pterosaur tree... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5377010 | 1,210,251 |
1,099,193 | A growing body of work is considering the role of affect on learning, with the objective of developing intelligent tutoring systems that can interpret and adapt to the different emotional states. Humans do not just use cognitive processes in learning but the affective processes they go through also plays an important r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3765637 | 1,098,633 |
140,913 | On 10 April 2014, the X-47B performed its first night flight. On 17 August 2014, it took off and landed on "Theodore Roosevelt" alongside an F/A-18 Hornet, marking the first time a UAV operated in conjunction with manned aircraft aboard an aircraft carrier. The Hornet launched from the carrier, followed by the X-47B. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4908033 | 140,856 |
1,962,307 | In January 2002, Cameron Shingleton, Jon Roffe, Matt Sharpe and David Rathbone ran a summer school with four courses (on Nietzsche, on Deleuze, on Zizek and on Hegel, respectively) in the 1888 Building at the University of Melbourne. Sharpe had just finished his PhD on Zizek with Marion Tapper and John Rundell at Melbo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11691219 | 1,961,179 |
776,262 | In September 1812, now 23 years old, Cauchy returned to Paris after becoming ill from overwork. Another reason for his return to the capital was that he was losing interest in his engineering job, being more and more attracted to the abstract beauty of mathematics; in Paris, he would have a much better chance to find a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1842 | 775,846 |
1,073,165 | The band contacted local Toronto artist Oli Goldsmith who happened to be reading the same book, to create the artwork for the upcoming album. In total, he made around 200 paintings relating to the project, many of which were used for the album art, promotional singles and the band's website. Based on the success of tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1941326 | 1,072,611 |
34,289 | Edward Lorenz was an early pioneer of the theory. His interest in chaos came about accidentally through his work on weather prediction in 1961. Lorenz and his collaborator Ellen Fetter were using a simple digital computer, a Royal McBee LGP-30, to run weather simulations. They wanted to see a sequence of data again, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6295 | 34,277 |
972,671 | Some of the earliest forms of astronomy can be dated to the period of Indus Valley civilisation, or earlier. Some cosmological concepts are present in the Vedas, as are notions of the movement of heavenly bodies and the course of the year. The Rig Veda is one of the oldest pieces of Indian literature. Rig Veda 1-64-11 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2781944 | 972,161 |
1,685,249 | The development of these systems was in large part based upon a process was conducted using RAND's Delphi process. The results allowed for a collective recognition of the disparity and inconsistency in definitions and terminology a circumstance that was a surprise to many. The result of this process was a near unanimou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51070599 | 1,684,304 |
71,294 | In 1955, W. Thomas Grubb, a chemist working for the General Electric Company (GE), further modified the original fuel cell design by using a sulphonated polystyrene ion-exchange membrane as the electrolyte. Three years later another GE chemist, Leonard Niedrach, devised a way of depositing platinum onto the membrane, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11729 | 71,267 |
1,175,734 | Marine deposition occurred 1200 to 800 Ma, creating thick sequences of conglomerate, mudstone, and carbonate rock topped by stromatolites, and possibly glacial deposits from the hypothesized Snowball Earth event. Rifting thinned huge roughly linear parts of the supercontinent Rodinia enough to allow sea water to invade... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1134149 | 1,175,112 |
288,450 | During the 1950s, Britain's nuclear deterrent was based around the V-bombers of the Royal Air Force (RAF), but developments in radar and surface-to-air missiles made it clear that bombers were becoming increasingly vulnerable, and would be unlikely to penetrate Soviet airspace by the mid-1970s. To address this problem,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9095461 | 288,293 |
1,478,103 | Practically all of the armoured vehicles were worn out, especially the chassis. They were particularly affected by the complete lack of spare parts, which could only be purchased overseas. In view of this the decision was taken in 1923 to completely change the chassis of the vehicles to ones suitable for use on train t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26354934 | 1,477,271 |
814,071 | One method to use the temperature difference across different levels of the thermocline in the ocean is by using a thermal energy harvester that is equipped with a material that changes phase while in different temperatures regions. This is typically a polymer-based material that can handle reversible heat treatments. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1406812 | 813,638 |
2,154,271 | Jim Yong Kim, formerly of Partners in Health and the WHO HIV/AIDS program, was originally a candidate for director of the department, but was not selected. A controversial second selection process involving three new candidates took place in late 2005 and early 2006. The process was criticized for not being open, and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4212753 | 2,153,040 |
1,988,837 | Following strong growth in 1990 and 1991, the company posted its first quarterly loss in Q4 1992, following fierce competition in the low-end computer market and the then-ongoing recession in the United States leading to relatively high unemployment in California. Its stock price reached a then-all-time low of $4 per s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69737291 | 1,987,695 |
1,035,052 | Flow cytometry cell sorting yields very high specificity according to one or several surface markers, but one limitation is constituted by the number of cells that can be processed during a work-day. For this reason pre-enrichment of the population of interest by immunomagnetic cell sorting is often considered, especia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22327978 | 1,034,512 |
1,147,851 | He portrayed Commander Mark in "The Secret City Adventures", a fictional space-themed series where he taught child viewers skills and vocabulary to become better artists. Each episode included a segment where Mark would add to a large 12-foot mural that was added to each episode using a technique or several techniques ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7211964 | 1,147,246 |
1,562,900 | Wrestlers such as Abraham Lincoln did not settle for the collar-and-elbow as much as in a free-for-all style of wrestling that was widespread on the frontier. Since "catch-as-catch-can" wrestling was very similar, it gained great popularity in fairs and festivals in the United States during the 19th century. The collar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13129334 | 1,562,013 |
1,684,634 | The relationship between gene age and the amount of predicted intrinsic structural disorder (ISD) in the encoded proteins has been subject to considerable debate. It has been claimed that ISD is also a lineage-dependent feature, exemplified by the fact that in organisms with relatively high GC content, ranging from "D.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60852153 | 1,683,689 |
1,045,757 | Another frequent objection is that type identity theories fail to account for phenomenal mental states (or qualia), such as having a pain, feeling sad, experiencing nausea. (Qualia are merely the subjective qualities of conscious experience. An example is the way the pain of jarring one's elbow "feels" to the individua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3980175 | 1,045,212 |
201,972 | Like it was mentioned before, Markovnikov was essential in the works of stereochemistry and regioselectivity. His rules are important in the chemical industry as alkenes or double bonds are present between many molecules that we use today for various products. Molecules that go against his rule or Anti-Markovnikov prod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1416046 | 201,869 |
1,953,465 | The X-ray monitor of Solwind, designated NRL-608 or XMON, was a collaboration between the Naval Research Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory. The monitor consisted of 2 collimated argon proportional counters. The instrument bandwidth of 3-10 keV was defined by the detector window absorption (the window was 0.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25101083 | 1,952,344 |
1,840,019 | ICON was founded in 2004 as an extension of the US National Science Foundation Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN) at Rice University in Houston, Texas. CBEN was founded in 2001 as one of the first six federally funded Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers. There are now 16 of these NSECs.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13779708 | 1,838,967 |
195,248 | Furnace brazing is a semi-automatic process used widely in industrial brazing operations due to its adaptability to mass production and use of unskilled labor. There are many advantages of furnace brazing over other heating methods that make it ideal for mass production. One main advantage is the ease with which it can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=331936 | 195,148 |
780,679 | In August 2013, UK-based Bristow Helicopters began promoting the AW189 to their offshore clients; Bristow intends to replace their Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma fleet with the AW189. On 21 July 2014, Bristow, who served as the launch customer for the AW189, performed their first commercial flight of the type. Bristow is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32199250 | 780,261 |
864,358 | A final event that had a major impact on the geology of the Witwatersrand Basin and its exposure in the Johannesburg region, was a massive meteor impact 110 km to the south-west of Johannesburg 2020 million years ago. The impact was close to the present village of Vredefort, which has given its name to the geological r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=298680 | 863,898 |
1,019,799 | A common feature of all HBOCs is their resistance to dissociate when dissolved in media, which contrasts hemoglobin of natural dissociation under non-physiological conditions. HBOCs may hypothetically supply greater benefits to athletes than those provided by the equivalent hemoglobin in traditional RBC infusion. Recen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2087922 | 1,019,272 |
613,341 | Undifferentiated E-V12* lineages (not E-V32 or E-M224, so therefore named "E-V12*") peak in frequency among Southern Egyptians (up to 74.5%). The subclades are also scattered widely in small amounts in both Northern Africa and Europe, but with very little sign in Western Asia, apart from Turkey. These E-V12* lineages w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23615177 | 613,030 |
1,441,454 | Undifferentiated E-V12* lineages (not E-V32 or E-M224, so therefore named "E-V12*") peak in frequency among Southern Egyptians (up to 74.5%). The subclades are also scattered widely in small amounts in both Northern Africa and Europe, but with very little sign in Western Asia, apart from Turkey. These E-V12* lineages w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59318520 | 1,440,644 |
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