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130,731 | The early two-seater prototype proved to be too heavy for the limited power of the early Mikulin AM-35 engine. A redesigned single-seat version was soon developed and saw combat, particularly in the early phase of the war in the Soviet Union. While the Il-2 proved to be a deadly air-to-ground weapon, heavy losses were ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=183726 | 130,679 |
1,042,969 | The plasma magnet (PM) sail design introduced a different approach to generate a static magnetic dipole as illustrated in the figure. As shown in the detailed view on the right the field source is two relatively small crossed perpendicularly oriented antenna coils each of radius formula_116 (m), each carrying a sinusoi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37845 | 1,042,425 |
2,188,924 | Charles Anderson was the youngest son of John Anderson of Moa, Stenness, Orkney Islands, Scotland. He had eight siblings (two brothers, six sisters). After finishing school in Stennes and Kirkwall he was matriculated at the University of Edinburgh to study chemistry, crystallography, geology, mineralogy, physics, and z... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36788943 | 2,187,675 |
252,802 | The biggest concern about the design was the short flight time, which never met the projections made by Walter. Being capable of a maximum of seven and a half minutes of powered flight - which was only roughly 25% of the 30-minute combat time that the "light-class" Heinkel He 162A "Spatz" single-BMW 003 jet fighter pos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20486 | 252,669 |
954,186 | There are many potential applications of biosensors of various types. The main requirements for a biosensor approach to be valuable in terms of research and commercial applications are the identification of a target molecule, availability of a suitable biological recognition element, and the potential for disposable po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=480700 | 953,681 |
2,035,804 | Thorp's innovative design for celluloid diffraction grating replicas won him the Wilde Premium for Original Research in 1901, principally in recognition of his paper of 1899 entitled "Grating Films and their application to Colour Photography". He was also recognised by awards from other bodies, including international ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34417396 | 2,034,631 |
691,099 | The belief that the needs of an industrial society could be met by fermenting agricultural waste was an important ingredient of the "chemurgic movement." Fermentation-based processes generated products of ever-growing utility. In the 1940s, penicillin was the most dramatic. While it was discovered in England, it was pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012335 | 690,736 |
1,866,387 | Hudspeth's research is focused on sensorineural hearing loss, and the deterioration of the hair cells, the sensory cells of the cochlea. Hudspeth's bold interpretation of the data obtained in his careful experimental research combined with biophysical modelling lead him to propose for the first time that the sense of h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57495489 | 1,865,313 |
1,532,280 | Clinically, the most serious and immediate complication is acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which usually occurs within 24 h. Those with significant lower airway involvement may develop bacterial infection. Importantly, victims suffering body surface burn and smoke inhalation are the most susceptible. Therma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36597555 | 1,531,413 |
1,938,418 | A traumatic brain injury is defined as a blunt non-missile penetrating or missile injury to the head. It has been shown that the extent of the damage incurred after a head trauma correlates more directly with the amount of deformation incurred by the brain than the amount of stress per area applied to the head. There a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1903496 | 1,937,308 |
1,928,310 | Another theory debating the sexual selection model of schizophrenia differentiates between the sexual selection rates of schizophrenia between genders, alluding that the disorder presents differently in the male and female brains, and thus, generates diversity in hemispheric growth and explains the presence of psychosi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57342942 | 1,927,206 |
2,197,887 | Allebach is known for his contributions to digital halftoning, which is the process of rendering continuous-tone images with printing or display devices that can only directly represent a relatively small number of different output levels. Digital halftoning uses algorithms to generate a pattern of textures that have t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61403543 | 2,196,636 |
1,299,654 | Formal excavations are first recorded at Earl's Knoll on Papa Stronsay in the Statistical Account of Scotland in 1795. As with the Dwarfie Stane, the mound was assumed to be a giant's grave at the time. Following soon after this, work on the "Picts-house" (i.e. chambered tomb) at Quanterness commenced, but little else ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19163052 | 1,298,940 |
90,541 | The College of Letters (COL) is an interdisciplinary humanities program offering a three-year B.A. major for the integrative study of European literature, history, and philosophy, from antiquity to the present. During their time in the major, students explore the evolution of ideas, languages, narratives, beliefs, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241865 | 90,501 |
1,910,976 | Both X-rays and high-energy neutrons are used to probe the structure and periodicity of biological structures including bilayers because they can be tuned to interact with matter at the relevant (angstrom-nm) length scales. Often, these two classes of experiment provide complementary information because each has differ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21453848 | 1,909,877 |
693,652 | Wharton was a scientist interested in the natural world, and wrote scientific papers on a variety of topics including astronomy and metallurgy, presenting several to the American Philosophical Society. He has been elected to the Society in 1869. In the winter of 1883–1884 there was a period of several months when sunse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=383305 | 693,289 |
688,418 | The Mark I containment was used in those reactors at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant which were involved in the Fukushima I nuclear accidents. The site suffered from a combination of two beyond design-basis events, a powerful earthquake, which may have damaged reactor plumbing and structures, and 15 meter tsunami, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2102860 | 688,060 |
884,144 | A non-profit research and testing organization, the Instrumentation Testing Association (ITA) can provide results of field testing online TOC analysers in an industrial wastewater application. Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority (GCWDA), Bayport Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant in Pasadena, Texas sponsored and con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1940140 | 883,680 |
1,004,628 | The missiles were to be based on the RSA-3 and RSA-4 launchers that had already been built and tested for the South African space programme. According to Al J Venter, author of "How South Africa built six atom bombs", these missiles were incompatible with the available large South African nuclear warheads, he claims th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216096 | 1,004,110 |
674,742 | Broca is known for making contributions towards anthropometry—the scientific approach to measurements of human physical features. He developed numerous instruments and data points that were the basis of current methods of medical and archeological craniometry. Specifically, cranial points like glabella and inion and in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145048 | 674,389 |
204,497 | Project Plowshare "was named directly from the Bible itself, specifically Micah 4:3, which states that God will beat swords into ploughshares, and spears into pruning hooks, so that no country could lift up weapons against another". Proposed uses included widening the Panama Canal, constructing a new sea-level waterway... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209584 | 204,392 |
183,193 | Work on the F9F-8 began in April, 1953 with three goals: lower the airplane's stall speed, improve aircraft control at high angles of attack, and increase range. It featured an 8 in (20 cm) stretch in the fuselage and modified wings with a greater chord, an increased area (from ), and a dogtooth. The airframe changes i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=553469 | 183,097 |
626,195 | When Moriarty took over, he decided to start again from scratch. This version of the production was more similar to the released game. However, it contained one extra character: a Japanese business tycoon and science-hobbyist named Toshi Olema, who uses his money to buy his way onto the Attila project crew. Toshi would... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80928 | 625,862 |
685,588 | Protection against air attack was slow to evolve. Existing batteries were camouflaged, but if detected, they remained vulnerable to air attack. The first batteries of heavy guns constructed after World War I were, somewhat inexplicably, completely open except for camouflage, but mounted long-range weapons set back from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13422946 | 685,231 |
95,507 | Turbulent forces in air and water affect the environment and ecosystem distribution, form, and dynamics. On a planetary scale, ecosystems are affected by circulation patterns in the global trade winds. Wind power and the turbulent forces it creates can influence heat, nutrient, and biochemical profiles of ecosystems. F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9630 | 95,466 |
2,028,629 | Mackenzie was born May 25, 1844, in Potosi, Wisconsin and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1864. Commissioned in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, he served with the Union Army in Arkansas in 1864-65. Mackenzie spent six years commanding a company of engineer troops at Willets Point, New Yo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15602838 | 2,027,461 |
1,227,003 | Monitoring people who are exposed to animals in viral hotspots – including via virus monitoring stations – can register viruses at the moment they enter human populations - this might enable prevention of pandemics. The most important transmission pathways often vary per underlying driver of emerging infectious disease... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63478457 | 1,226,342 |
658,281 | Bell Telephone’s engineers had been working to improve the reliability of their transmission systems. In order to impress government regulators of this natural monopoly with the high quality of their service, Shewhart's first assignment was to improve the voice clarity of the carbon transmitters in the company's teleph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=433679 | 657,936 |
609,000 | Halon 1301 was developed in a joint venture between the U.S. Army and DuPont in 1954, and introduced as an effective gaseous fire suppression fixed systems agent in the 1960s, and was used around valuable materials, such as aircraft, mainframe computers, and telecommunication switching centers, usually in total floodin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=294523 | 608,689 |
1,828,513 | The other elements of the NPGS were established gradually over many decades.The U.S. National Arboretum began operation in Washington, D.C. in 1927. The National Small Grains Collection was officially organized in 1948 in Beltsville, Maryland (later moved to Aberdeen, Idaho). Creation of other components of the system ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31519537 | 1,827,474 |
2,041,328 | Prior to arriving at Carnegie Mellon, Murphy was a Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Charles R. Cantor at Columbia University from 1979 through 1983. Murphy earned an A. B. in Biochemistry from Columbia College in 1974 and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the California Institute of Techn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34226786 | 2,040,148 |
1,982,528 | Glass was born in Lincoln, Nebraska and educated in the Lincoln Public School system, graduating from Lincoln, Northeast High School in 1958. He attended Nebraska Wesleyan University from 1958 to 1960 and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1960 to January, 1962, earning a bachelor's degree with a joint major in ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1353184 | 1,981,389 |
17,742 | In comparison to later fighters, the improved F-5E had some weaknesses; these included marginal acceleration, rearward visibility, and fuel fraction, and a lack of Beyond Visual Range (BVR) weapons once such radar–guided missiles became reliable during the 1980s. The F-5G, later renamed the F-20 Tigershark, aimed to co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11142 | 17,736 |
1,508,733 | Barrier Analysis (BA) was developed in 1990 by Tom Davis, MPH, winner of the 2012 APHA Gordon-Wyon Award for Community-Oriented Public Health, Epidemiology, and Practice. BA was popularized by both Bonnie Kittle MPH and Davis, both of whom were awarded the Dory Storm Child Survival Recognition Award in part due to thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37937138 | 1,507,885 |
129,613 | Statistics is the most widely used branch of mathematics in quantitative research outside of the physical sciences, and also finds applications within the physical sciences, such as in statistical mechanics. Statistical methods are used extensively within fields such as economics, social sciences and biology. Quantitat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=389564 | 129,561 |
1,056,538 | Shin-ichi Miyatake and Shinji Kawabata at Osaka Medical College in Japan have carried out extensive clinical studies employing BPA (500 mg/kg) either alone or in combination with BSH (100 mg/kg), infused intravenously (i.v.) over 2 h, followed by neutron irradiation at Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute (KURRI... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32637211 | 1,055,990 |
751,653 | Many pre-Socratic philosophers are recorded as having opinions on different aspects of embryology, although there is some bias in the description of their views in later authors such as Aristotle. According to Empedocles (whose views are described by Plutarch in the 1st century AD), who lived in the 5th century BC, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162717 | 751,255 |
47,099 | Nuclear power is comparable to, and in some cases lower, than many renewable energy sources in terms of lives lost in the past per unit of electricity delivered. Depending on recycling of renewable energy technologies, nuclear reactors may produce a much smaller volume of waste, although much more toxic, expensive to m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22153 | 47,081 |
495,721 | The poor working and living conditions aboard the ships, combined with the heavy and often difficult workloads, led to mutinous acts aboard four ships during the war: , , , and . The incidents in "Geraldton" and "Lithgow" were minor and resolved without disciplinary charges, while the 'mutiny' aboard "Toowoomba" was ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=464266 | 495,465 |
183,253 | In the 1960s and 1970s, GFP, along with the separate luminescent protein aequorin (an enzyme that catalyzes the breakdown of luciferin, releasing light), was first purified from the jellyfish "Aequorea victoria" and its properties studied by Osamu Shimomura. In "A. victoria", GFP fluorescence occurs when aequorin inter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=143533 | 183,157 |
912,316 | Interest in the application of algae for biofuels was rekindled during the oil embargo and oil price surges of the 1970s, leading the US Department of Energy to initiate the Aquatic Species Program in 1978. The Aquatic Species Program spent $25 million over 18 years with the goal of developing liquid transportation fue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14205946 | 911,837 |
2,032,112 | In 2011, the WBG launched the “Education Sector Strategy 2020: Learning for All”, with the aim to “Invest early, invest smartly, and invest for all.” The strategy “holds that investments in education should achieve Learning for All because growth, development, and poverty reduction depend on the knowledge and skills th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54556042 | 2,030,942 |
53,320 | GM engineered the LS as a pushrod motor which was a controversial choice at the time. It was seen as an old-style, low-tech decision that could not compete with the higher technology dual overhead cam strategy (DOHC) that Ford had adopted. However, GM had its justification for it and it turned out to be an unprecedente... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=877441 | 53,300 |
1,554,361 | Noonan was born October 28, 1928 in Burlington, Vermont, United States the daughter of Francis and Eugenia Noonan. She had three sisters, Beverly, Joan, and Joyce. She studied chemistry at Albertus Magnus College, medicine at the University of Vermont, and became certified in her field in Boston in 1956. She subsequent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13705461 | 1,553,480 |
1,936,125 | In 2010 she became the founding Director of the NSF Center for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment (CAICE). CAICE became a National Science Foundation Phase II Center for Chemical Innovation in 2013. In this role, Prather develops new analytical techniques for studying aerosol chemistry. Her group demonstrat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59545995 | 1,935,017 |
862,027 | Tupolev headed the B-4 project, as it was initially designated, to reverse engineer the American Boeing B-29 Superfortress strategic bomber, which had been the first aircraft to deliver a nuclear weapon. The Soviet Union had repeatedly asked for B-29s through the World War II Lend Lease program but these requests were ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=163504 | 861,568 |
1,999,014 | Assistive devices such as wheelchairs have a substantial effect on the quality of life of the patient, and careful selection is important. Teaching the patient how to transfer from different positions, such as from a wheelchair into bed, is an important part of therapy, and devices such as sliding transfer boards and g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35738438 | 1,997,870 |
303,147 | Some of the roots of algebraic geometry date back to the work of the Hellenistic Greeks from the 5th century BC. The Delian problem, for instance, was to construct a length "x" so that the cube of side "x" contained the same volume as the rectangular box "a""b" for given sides "a" and "b". Menaechmus () considered the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1997 | 302,985 |
1,520,881 | The general methodology of estimation of DEB parameters from data is described in van der Meer 2006; Kooijman et al 2008 shows which particular compound parameters can be estimated from a few simple observations at a single food density and how an increasing number of parameters can be estimated if more quantities are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3368580 | 1,520,020 |
141,971 | In 1870, the university moved to a (then greenfield) site on Gilmorehill in the West End of the city, around west of its previous location, enclosed by a large meander of the River Kelvin. The original site on the High Street was sold to the City of Glasgow Union Railway and replaced by the college goods yard. The new-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39569 | 141,913 |
307,447 | The widespread use of refrigeration allowed for a vast amount of new agricultural opportunities to open up in the United States. New markets emerged throughout the United States in areas that were previously uninhabited and far-removed from heavily populated areas. New agricultural opportunity presented itself in areas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46238 | 307,282 |
761,329 | On July 15, 2019, renewed protests blocked the access road, again preventing construction from commencing. On July 17, 38 protestors were arrested, all of whom were kupuna (elders) as the blockage of the access road continued. The blockade lasted 4 weeks and shut down all 12 observatories on Mauna Kea, the longest shut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4266335 | 760,922 |
1,410,862 | The Mann, Bradley and Hughes reconstruction covering 1,000 years (MBH99) was submitted in October 1998 to "Geophysical Research Letters" which published it in March 1999 with the cautious title "Northern Hemisphere temperatures during the past millennium: inferences, uncertainties, and limitations" to emphasise the inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5354105 | 1,410,070 |
976,457 | Some of these usages will also be geographically specific. This is especially true of periodizing labels derived from individuals or ruling dynasties, such as the Jacksonian Era in America, the Meiji Era in Japan, or the Merovingian Period in France. Cultural terms may also have a limited reach. Thus the concept of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23733 | 975,946 |
1,804,901 | Pasachoff observed with a wide variety of ground-based telescopes and spacecraft, and reported on those activities in writing his texts. Pasachoff carried out extensive scientific work at total solar eclipses, and championed the continued contemporary scientific value of solar eclipse research. His research was sponsor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3248113 | 1,803,886 |
490,694 | In practice, the Lippmann process was not easy to use. Extremely fine-grained high-resolution photographic emulsions are inherently much less light-sensitive than ordinary emulsions, so long exposure times were required. With a lens of large aperture and a very brightly sunlit subject, a camera exposure of less than on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2352712 | 490,440 |
565,114 | In 1876 Sampson Moore in England designed and supplied the first ever electric overhead crane, which was used to hoist guns at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, London. Since that time Alliance Machine, now defunct, holds an AISE citation for one of the earliest cranes in the USA market. This crane was in service until ap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4809015 | 564,824 |
1,560,729 | The area is located on the north-eastern side of Black Mountain and consists of steep to gently sloping hillsides cut by several gullies. The setting is within dry sclerophyll woodland dominated by "Eucalyptus Rossii", "E. Mannifera ssp Maculosa" and "E. Macrorhyncha". Soils in the area are predominantly red/yellow ear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1104902 | 1,559,843 |
1,472,010 | There are actually no studies devoted to the investigation of the mechanisms underlying the mesenchymal- epithelial transition. However, the possibility of such a phenomenon is recognized. In this case, it is said that often, e.g. in breast and prostate cancer, the tissue structure in distant metastatic foci is similar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58886026 | 1,471,181 |
1,957,343 | In the naturally occurring variation in the segment number of Strigamia maritima, it is clear that the developmental process, as described above, is being influenced either by genetic or environmental factors, or possibly by both. The difference in segment number distributions between males and females within populatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55912643 | 1,956,219 |
456,937 | Further experimentation in the platinum smelters’ laboratories resulted in a variety of inventions and revolutionary new production processes. These included the production of pharmaceutical iron compounds, chemically pure hydrofluoric acid, rubidium and caesium. Most production at this time still involved platinum, wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2511162 | 456,714 |
338,823 | The Carboniferous trees made extensive use of lignin. They had bark to wood ratios of 8 to 1, and even as high as 20 to 1. This compares to modern values less than 1 to 4. This bark, which must have been used as support as well as protection, probably had 38% to 58% lignin. Lignin is insoluble, too large to pass throug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5401 | 338,643 |
1,075,896 | Abdominal surgery's pioneer, Sir Arbuthnot Lane, based in London, drew from Metchnikoff and clinical observation to identify "chronic intestinal stasis"—in lay terms, intractable constipation—presumably, "flooding of the circulation with filthy material". Reporting surgical treatment in 1908, Lane eventually offered to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9510615 | 1,075,341 |
2,080,058 | In 1945 he moved to become head physicist at the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. The hospital at that time had Marconi deep therapy X-Ray machines installed, with which Farmer was closely familiar from his time working at Marconi, and as a result the hospital was able to keep these machines in cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8873476 | 2,078,858 |
82,674 | At a hearing on 25 July 2013, the House Armed Services Committee's seapower subcommittee argued with Vice Admiral Richard W. Hunt on how the LCS would be employed if tensions with North Korea or China led to a confrontation in the Western Pacific. Hunt said the ships are designed in accordance with the Navy's survivabi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=460005 | 82,640 |
277,473 | Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a poison produced by organisms belonging to the Tetraodontiformes order, which includes the puffer fish, ocean sunfish, and porcupine fish. Within the puffer fish, TTX is found in the liver, gonads, intestines, and skin. TTX can be fatal if consumed, and has become a common form of poisoning in ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=326357 | 277,323 |
1,131,159 | As a number of manufacturers spend a large sums of money to prepare their teams to ensure a win, as a result a number of those enforce secrecy to protect their prototypes from view. In one notable example, Team Associated, who was the only brand to field a prototype, refused to allow it to be photographed, covering the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44260396 | 1,130,570 |
1,222,754 | Bioremediation of petroleum contaminated environments is a process in which the biological pathways within microorganisms or plants are used to degrade or sequester toxic hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and other volatile organic compounds found within fossil fuels. Oil spills happen frequently at varying degrees along wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52828993 | 1,222,095 |
1,903,498 | Light was first captured in its flight by N. Abramson in 1978, who used a holographic technique to record the wavefront of a pulse propagating and being scattered by a white-painted screen placed in its path. This high-speed recording technique allowed the dynamic observation of light phenomena like reflection, interfe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45247334 | 1,902,404 |
1,651,624 | Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe (27 September 1818 – 25 November 1884) was a major contributor to the birth of modern organic chemistry. He was a professor at Marburg and Leipzig. Kolbe was the first to apply the term synthesis in a chemical context, and contributed to the philosophical demise of vitalism through synthesi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1825 | 1,650,692 |
50,622 | A key attribute of fifth-generation fighters is a small radar cross-section. Great care has been taken in designing its layout and internal structure to minimize RCS over a broad bandwidth of detection and tracking radar frequencies; furthermore, to maintain its VLO signature during combat operations, primary weapons a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10929 | 50,602 |
1,205,626 | Most of the basic tenets of phylogenetic nomenclature (lack of obligatory ranks, and something close to phylogenetic definitions) can, however, be traced to 1916, when Edwin Goodrich interpreted the name Sauropsida, erected 40 years earlier by T. H. Huxley, to include the birds (Aves) as well as part of Reptilia, and c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10678543 | 1,204,981 |
154,013 | Newer Bangalore variants include the Alford Technologies Bangalore Blade and the Chemring Advanced Performance Bangalore Torpedo (APBT), with both of these having been developed in the United Kingdom. The Bangalore Blade is made from lightweight aluminium and is configured as a linear explosively formed projectile (EFP... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277784 | 153,943 |
1,043,664 | In the discussions of genetic diseases in humans, pseudogene mediated gene conversions that introduce pathogenic mutations into functional genes is a well known mechanism of mutation. In contrast, it is possible that pseudogenes could serve as templates. During the course of evolution, functional source genes which are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1695344 | 1,043,120 |
1,133,618 | Despite the bipartisan goodwill and declarations of the importance of the Everglades, the region still remains in danger. Political maneuvering continues to impede CERP: sugar lobbyists promoted a bill in the Florida legislature in 2003 that increased the acceptable amount of phosphorus in Everglades waterways from 10 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17601646 | 1,133,025 |
746,021 | Capital costs and system lifespan have received much less study until recently, and the return on investment is highly variable. The most recent data from an analysis of 2011–2012 incentive payments in the state of Maryland showed an average cost of residential systems of $1.90 per watt, or about $26,700 for a typical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7096967 | 745,626 |
700,338 | The surface emission from a bulk semiconductor at ultra-low temperature and magnetic carrier confinement was reported by Ivars Melngailis in 1965. The first proposal of short cavity VCSEL was done by Kenichi Iga of Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1977. A simple drawing of his idea is shown in his research note. Contra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=436714 | 699,973 |
1,517,048 | For the first time pyruvate kinase M2 enzyme was reported with two missense mutations, H391Y and K422R, found in cells from Bloom syndrome patients, prone to develop cancer. Results show that despite the presence of mutations in the inter-subunit contact domain, the K422R and H391Y mutant proteins maintained their homo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6054823 | 1,516,196 |
1,529,526 | On 14 January 1908 at the annual College Colston society dinner George Alfred Wills rose to his feet and dramatically announced the news that his father, Henry Overton, was to donate £100,000 to the cause promoting the creation of the university providing that a royal charter was obtained within two years. Records note... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1340505 | 1,528,662 |
1,574,651 | Gunther is an Australian of German and Scots ancestry, born in Melbourne on 15 August 1950. He attended Preston East Primary School from 1955 to 1956, and Balwyn North Primary School from 1956 until 1962. For his tenth birthday, Gunther received a copy of the now famous book entitled "The Golden Book of Chemistry Exper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12829834 | 1,573,762 |
1,557,237 | Depth maps, on the other hand, contain z axis information encoded in a grayscale image. Each level of gray represents a different slice of the z space. The "thickness" of each slice is determined at time of render, allowing for more or less depth fidelity depending on how deep the scene is. Depth maps have been a boon ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27953271 | 1,556,352 |
941,294 | The skin is a barrier protecting marine mammals from the outside world. The epidermal microbiome on the skin is an indicator of how healthy the animal is, and is also an ecological indicator of the state of the surrounding environment. Knowing what the microbiome of the skin of marine mammals looks like under typical c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45515504 | 940,792 |
652,536 | In any case, much of the armor was made up of small ossicles, bony round scutes with a diameter of less than five millimetres, of which often hundreds have been found with a single specimen. If the armor was configured in an identical way to that of "Scolosaurus", many of these small ossicles had fused into a kind of p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1230089 | 652,194 |
2,153,293 | Mineral processing operations are needed firstly to concentrate the mineral phases of interest and reject the unwanted material physical or chemically associated to a defined raw material. The process, however, demand about 30 GJ/tonne of metal, which accounts about 29% of the total energy spent on mining in the USA. M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68797857 | 2,152,062 |
424,663 | Mineral processing operations are needed firstly to concentrate the mineral phases of interest and reject the unwanted material physical or chemically associated to a defined raw material. The process, however, demand about 30 GJ/tonne of metal, which accounts about 29% of the total energy spent on mining in the USA. M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145066 | 424,455 |
1,911,084 | Fungi are capable of showing different interactions with their host and different lifestyles depending upon the interaction. Different species of "Cochliobolus" and its anamorphs are associated with different host species as ephiphytes, endophytes, saprophytes and pathogens. Infected seed is the major source of inoculu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11460093 | 1,909,985 |
1,410,830 | A version of the MBH99 graph was featured prominently in the 2001 IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR), which also drew on Jones et al. 1998 and three other reconstructions to support the conclusion that, in the Northern Hemisphere, the 1990s was likely to have been the warmest decade and 1998 the warmest year during the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5354105 | 1,410,038 |
1,705,506 | Following the oil crisis, multiple programs (Europe, Japan, United States) were created to design, test and qualify such processes for purposes such as energy independence. High-temperature (around operating temperature) nuclear reactors were still considered as the likely heat sources. However, optimistic expectations... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27636080 | 1,704,548 |
746,178 | Usually MSUD patients are monitored by a dietitian. Liver transplantation is a treatment option that can completely and permanently normalise metabolic function, enabling discontinuation of nutritional supplements and strict monitoring of biochemistry and caloric intake, relaxation of MSUD-related lifestyle precautions... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1793178 | 745,783 |
2,056,228 | The academy comprises approximately 6,500m² of accommodation over 3 floors (excluding basements). Unusually, due to changes in ground level from front to back of the site, the main entrance is at first floor level, with the reception area opening out into a triple-height atrium and staircase at the heart of the buildin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35984016 | 2,055,044 |
1,681,252 | The worldwide countries during Nixon's presidency that the plaques were given to were Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burma, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Chad, Chi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37521312 | 1,680,309 |
1,185,083 | Boswell stated to have used several stock audio on Spitfire Audio, Komplete, 8dio, and Omnisphere as well rather than solely original soundtrack composed using Ableton Live; synths played using the Yamaha CS-80 and Moog Sub 37. Piano tunes were played by a Gulbransen upright, an instrument he repeatedly uses. He consid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64523088 | 1,184,455 |
466,540 | Pancolitis is a kind of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that affects the entire internal lining of the colon. The precise causes of this inflammatory disorder are unclear, although physicians currently believe that autoimmune diseases and genetic predispositions might play a role in its progress. Genes that are known ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13542119 | 466,307 |
100,957 | Just-in-time/TPS implementations may be found in many case-study articles from the 1980s and beyond. An article in a 1984 issue of "Inc". magazine relates how Omark Industries (chain saws, ammunition, log loaders, etc.) emerged as an extensive just-in-time implementer under its US home-grown name ZIPS (zero inventory p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218445 | 100,912 |
1,686,798 | In the early 1950s, Edward Hulburt was conducting research on the sky at dusk, to verify theoretical predictions on the temperature and density of the upper atmosphere on the basis of scattered light measured at the Earth's surface. The basic idea was that after the Sun passes under the horizon, it continues to illumin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55164426 | 1,685,852 |
378,425 | As a decision tool, it is simple to understand. The simplicity of the formula allows users to freely choose variables, e.g., length of the calculation time, whether overhead cost is included, or which factors are used to calculate income or cost components. The use of ROI as an indicator for prioritizing investment pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21531549 | 378,230 |
1,044,186 | The technique of listing case types by potential variable combinations assists with case selection by making investigators aware of all possible case types that would need to be investigated, at a minimum, if they exist, in order to test a certain hypothesis or to derive new inferences from an existing data set. In sit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18134289 | 1,043,642 |
1,146,163 | Like DQ2.5, DQ8 might have been under selection for maritime, coastal foraging peoples and in particular for peoples adapted to the climate/habitat situation on the northern end of the habitable west pacific rim at the Last Glacial Maximum. Triticeae cultivation may apply negative selection on DQ8. While there were num... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7649285 | 1,145,559 |
1,917,710 | Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences was inaugurated as the Nursing High School in 1968, and became a medical college in 1975. After the Islamic Revolution, it was further developed into the Medical University in 1985. The University has 521 academic staff and 5500 students studying at all levels of medical fields... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27982411 | 1,916,610 |
231,379 | Interventions aimed at pregnant women, infants, and children take a behavioral and program-based approach. Behavioral intervention objectives include promoting proper breast-feeding, the immediate initiation of breastfeeding, and its continuation through 2 years and beyond. UNICEF recognizes that to promote these behav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=93827 | 231,260 |
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