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32,130 | However, this was not enough. In order to have the ICBM program run at full throttle they needed direct action by the President. On July 28, 1955, Schriever, Gardner, and von Neumann had managed to arrange a direct meeting with President Eisenhower at the White House in order to relay their concerns. While the other tw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15942 | 32,118 |
546,226 | Traditionally the Australian Army had relied on its major allies to provide logistic support, primarily raising combat units rather than support arms during times of conflict. Consequently, these services were relatively underdeveloped, and they remained so during the first years of the war. While British units provide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22738876 | 545,940 |
972,930 | On October 28, 2014, the attempted launch of an Antares carrying a Cygnus cargo spacecraft on the Orb-3 resupply mission failed catastrophically six seconds after liftoff from Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia. An explosion occurred in the thrust section just as the vehicle cleared th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13491108 | 972,420 |
162,379 | Global change is, therefore, affecting key processes including primary productivity, CO and N fixation, organic matter respiration/remineralization, and the sinking and burial deposition of fixed CO. In addition to this, oceans are experiencing an acidification process, with a change of ~0.1 pH units between the pre-in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=398638 | 162,294 |
1,295,975 | Natural selection is a process that allows organisms to better adapt to the environment, it is the survival of the fittest which are predicted to produce more offsprings. Natural selection acts on life history traits in order to optimize reproductive success and lifetime fitness. Fitness in this context refers to how l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5914541 | 1,295,264 |
2,195,612 | In 1937, in no small measure due to the concern of the expansion of Japan in Korea & China, a report of a Secondary Industries Testing Committee of which JPVM was a member led to the setting up of a National Standards Laboratory within CSIR consisting of sections of Metrology, Physics & Electrotechnology. Sydney Univer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52676648 | 2,194,361 |
536,278 | Abstraction of notation is an ongoing process and the historical development of many mathematical topics exhibits a progression from the concrete to the abstract. Various set notations would be developed for fundamental object sets. Around 1924, David Hilbert and Richard Courant published "Methods of mathematical physi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6134187 | 535,999 |
1,740,172 | The storage and recall method of memory occurs when a plant, in response to a stimuli, reduces or increases the concentration of a chemical in certain tissues, and maintains this concentration for a certain period of time. The plant then uses this concentration of chemical as a signal for a recall response. Stimuli kno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64145846 | 1,739,191 |
1,509,920 | A critical set of phenomena that ties together various aspects of health interventions, such as drug sensitivity screening, cancer or autoimmune susceptibility screening, infectious disease prevalence and application of pharmacologic or nutrition therapies, is the systems biology of the immune response. For example, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8767449 | 1,509,070 |
1,212,817 | Suspected anthropogenic threats that can significantly affect "Nothomyrmecia" include habitat destruction and fragmentation by railway lines, roads and wheat fields. In the town of Ceduna, west of Poochera, local populations of the ant were almost eliminated after the area was bulldozed and burned during the installati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9372569 | 1,212,165 |
1,247,233 | On February 1, 1982, Charles J. Austin was named the next president of ETSU. He was formerly the vice president for academic affairs at Georgia Southern College, and had previously worked for Trinity University, the University of Colorado Medical Center, and the federal Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. He ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49751816 | 1,246,558 |
1,175,910 | Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery is a minimally-invasive technique to resect lung nodules that saves the patient the trauma of a thoracotomy. Thereby, small ports are used to access the pulmonary lobes and introduce a camera on a thoracoscope, along with the necessary instruments. While this procedure speeds up rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34076003 | 1,175,288 |
281,498 | On 1 August 1859, Lister wrote to his father to inform him of the ill-health of James A. Lawrie, Regius Professor of Surgery at the University of Glasgow, believing he was close to death. The anatomist Allen Thomson had written to Syme to inform him of Lawrie's condition and that it was his opinion that Lister was the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16535 | 281,345 |
807,313 | Despite the amassing body of scholarly work related to technoethics beginning in the 1970s, only recently has it become institutionalized and recognized as an important interdisciplinary research area and field of study. In 1998, the Epson Foundation founded the Instituto de Tecnoética in Spain under the direction of J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=699052 | 806,883 |
1,505,869 | Phytotrons unified and extended earlier piecemeal efforts to claim total control of the whole environment. In both walk-in rooms and smaller reach-in cabinets, phytotrons produced and reproduced whole complex climates of many variables. In the first phytotrons each individual room was held at a constant unique temperat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1441521 | 1,505,023 |
1,315,843 | In 1983 a paper was published describing the use of fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry (FAB-MS) to analyze isotopes of calcium. Glycerol was not used; samples in aqueous solution were deposited on the sample target and dried prior to analysis. The technique was effectively secondary ion mass spectrometry using a n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2484592 | 1,315,118 |
329,901 | Modern pathology began to develop as a distinct field of inquiry during the 19th Century through natural philosophers and physicians that studied disease and the informal study of what they termed "pathological anatomy" or "morbid anatomy". However, pathology as a formal area of specialty was not fully developed until ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48791 | 329,726 |
2,148,881 | The Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences (RARAN) is a non-profit scientific organization of the Russian Federation. RARAN coordinates the activities of scientists who carry out complex research and development (R & D) on the creation, operation and use of modern weapons, military technology and special equi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66016383 | 2,147,650 |
2,085,054 | Punit Boolchand is a materials scientist, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computing Systems (EECS) in the College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) at the University of Cincinnati (UC), where he is director of the Solid State Physics and Electronic Materials Laboratory He discovered ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43839862 | 2,083,853 |
1,740,900 | Work on the Orion began in 2006, when the U.S. Army funded it as a hydrogen-fuelled “high-altitude, long-loiter” (HALL) UAV. Originally, it was conceived as a single-engine, hydrogen-fueled, high-altitude unmanned aircraft intended to carry a payload to having a gross weight; similar aircraft included the AeroVironment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49014171 | 1,739,919 |
899,685 | The group met with companies such as Lavochkin and ISC Kosmotras. However, according to Cantrell, Musk was seen as a novice and was consequently spat on by one of the Russian chief designers, and the group returned to the US empty-handed. In February 2002, the group returned to Russia to look for three ICBMs, bringing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53357431 | 899,210 |
441,629 | Several factors make this effort timely and essential. First, the public's expectations for higher student achievement are leading to dramatic increases in accountability, standards, rigor and relevance throughout education. Especially critical is the need to raise math and science proficiency. Second, the industry of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2604065 | 441,414 |
2,187,565 | The slogan "Together on the road to knowledge" was the motto of the German-Chinese Year of Science and Education 2009/10, which took place from March 2009 to June 2010. German and Chinese players in science, education, politics and society came together at more than 200 events, workshops and delegation visits, which in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40565294 | 2,186,317 |
318,091 | The Formula One circus moved some south to a whole new location in the United States (to which it would never return), for the Dallas Grand Prix at the Fair Park circuit in Dallas, Texas. This race effectively replaced the United States Grand Prix West in Long Beach, California, which was held in April and was taken ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1140073 | 317,921 |
1,132,645 | The pyrolytic release (PR) experiment (PI: Norman Horowitz, Caltech) consisted of the use of light, water, and a carbon-containing atmosphere of carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide (CO), simulating that on Mars. The carbon-bearing gases were made with carbon-14 (C), a heavy, radioactive isotope of carbon. If there ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1072959 | 1,132,053 |
991,002 | Eysenck was accused of being a supporter of political causes on the extreme right. Connecting arguments were that Eysenck had articles published in the German newspaper "National-Zeitung", which called him a contributor, and in "Nation und Europa", and that he wrote the preface to a book by a far-right French writer na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177650 | 990,485 |
1,560,870 | The traditional technique of titanium production is via the Kroll process which involves chlorination of TiO ore in the presence of carbon and reacting the resulting TiCl with magnesium to produce titanium sponge. These processes take place at temperatures as high as 1040 °C. The sponge particle range in size from 45 t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4635657 | 1,559,984 |
922,317 | Research using animal models has been central to many of the achievements of modern medicine. It has contributed most of the basic knowledge in fields such as human physiology and biochemistry, and has played significant roles in fields such as neuroscience and infectious disease. For example, the results have included... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19374 | 921,831 |
319,323 | WISC has been translated or adapted to many languages, and norms have been established for a number of countries, including Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Arabic, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Czech, Croatian, French (France and Canada), German (Germany, Austria and Switzerland), English (United S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2274616 | 319,152 |
1,237,591 | Five of these missions (photographic reconnaissance, electronic reconnaissance, infrared reconnaissance, mapping and charting, and space environmental forecasting and observing) had received approval as Air Force General Operational Requirements and represented missions previously identified and analyzed by RAND. The A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66185637 | 1,236,927 |
774,468 | Over the course of the 1980s it became clear that the CMEA area was "in crisis", although it remained viable economically and was not expected to collapse. The "extensive" growth model was retarding growth in the CMEA as a whole, with member countries dependent upon supplies of raw materials from the USSR and upon the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43069513 | 774,052 |
1,930,584 | In 1999, ASCE then organized the Task Committee for the First Professional Degree and instructed it to develop an implementation strategy for ASCE's new vision and policy. The new task committee reported back in 2001 that although the earlier recommendations and adopted policy had been focused on graduate education, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19038577 | 1,929,477 |
745,640 | The Hell Creek Formation, Lance Formation and Scollard Formation represent different sections of the western shore of the shallow sea that divided western and eastern North America during the Cretaceous. Swampy lowlands were the habitat of various animals, including dinosaurs. A broad coastal plain extended westward fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3551034 | 745,246 |
1,023,997 | The ICT has sanctioned positions of 108 faculty (29 Professors, 38 Associate Professors and 41 Assistant Professors) and a support staff of 240. There are 114 visiting faculties (who typically are industry researchers), 7 emeritus faculties, and 4 adjuncts. The ICT has a tradition of establishment of endowments with an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33571886 | 1,023,464 |
1,809,993 | It is not unusual to find "Cenococcum geophilum" mycelium and ectomycorrhizas in high relative frequency in soil where ectomycorrhizal tree hosts are present. Unlike many ectomycorrhizal fungi, "Cenococcum geophilum" readily colonizes the fine roots of most ectomycorrhizal hosts. It may be found in all forest successio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42309159 | 1,808,971 |
1,066,321 | The situation reached a breaking point in 1979 when, the reigning 500cc world champion Kenny Roberts and journalist Barry Coleman attempted to break the FIM hegemony by organizing many of the top racers to begin the process of establishing a rival motorcycle championship called the "World Series". Although the competin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2960742 | 1,065,767 |
1,430,990 | Harold Horace Hopkins FRS (6 December 1918 – 22 October 1994) was a British physicist. His Wave Theory of Aberrations, (published by Oxford University Press 1950), is central to all modern optical design and provides the mathematical analysis which enables the use of computers to create the wealth of high quality lense... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18770211 | 1,430,186 |
775,273 | In 1914, Dr J. H. L. Cumpston, director of the Australian Quarantine Service tentatively put forward the hypothesis that smallpox arrived with British settlers. Cumpston's theory was most forcefully reiterated by the economic historian Noel Butlin, in his book "Our Original Aggression" (1983). Likewise David Day, in "C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20790125 | 774,857 |
560,121 | The goal is to report the results within a short period of time. If screens are normal, a paper report is sent to the submitting hospital and parents rarely hear about it. If an abnormality is detected, employees of the agency, usually nurses, begin to try to reach the physician, hospital, and/or nursery by telephone. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=768605 | 559,832 |
1,997,579 | TMJ arthrocentesis refers to lavage (flushing out) of the upper joint space (where most of the translation movement takes place) with saline via the introduction of cannulae. It is theorized that the hydraulic pressure generated within the joint combined with external manipulation is capable of releasing adhesions or t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44940009 | 1,996,436 |
1,090,113 | For the final, USA brought in the big guns, all four were individual Olympic Gold Medalists but none had won the Olympic 400 m, only Allyson Felix had even entered it. Leading off on her 22nd birthday, newly crowned Olympic 400 hurdles champion and world record holder Sydney McLaughlin made up the 3 turn stagger distan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60376880 | 1,089,553 |
1,124,241 | Designer nuclease systems such as CRISPR-cas9 are becoming increasingly popular research tools as a result of their simplicity, scalability and affordability. With this being said, off-target genetic modifications are frequent and can alter the function of otherwise intact genes. Multiple studies using early CRISPR-cas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56710049 | 1,123,667 |
783,154 | In Korea the Joseon dynasty underwent a devastating war with newly unified Japan that lasted from 1592 to 1598. The shock of this encounter spurred the court to undergo a process of military strengthening. One of the core elements of military strengthening was to adopt the musket. According to reformers, "In recent tim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33076634 | 782,735 |
573,481 | By July 2014, a dozen RAF Tranche 2 Typhoons had been upgraded with Phase 1 Enhancement (P1E) capability to enable them to use the Paveway IV guided bomb; the Tranche 1 version had used the GBU-12 Paveway II in combat over Libya, but the Paveway IV can be set to explode above or beneath a target and to hit at a set ang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59468861 | 573,187 |
1,902,785 | There is much variation between osteoderms of dinosaurs. No two identical dinosaur osteoderms have been collected. There are two possible explanations for the variations found. The first being function, and the other stems from development. When small osteoderms are found, they include compact structures, low remodelin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51692420 | 1,901,694 |
283,714 | At Lindbergh's request, the large main and forward fuel tanks were placed in the forward section of the fuselage, in front of the pilot, with the oil tank acting as a firewall. This arrangement improved the center of gravity and reduced the risk of the pilot being crushed to death between the main tank and the engine i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=358988 | 283,561 |
1,961,573 | Iris Runge was the eldest of six children of mathematician Carl Runge. She started studying physics, mathematics, and geography at the University of Göttingen in 1907, with the aim of becoming a teacher. At that time, she only attended the lectures, since women were not allowed to formally study at Prussian universitie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41305556 | 1,960,446 |
1,511,229 | From 1983, Wilford Hall offered centralized outpatient care, a clinical investigation facility, the Air Force's largest dispensary system, and the only eye bank and organ transplant centers. The hospital accomplished important research work in neonatal medicine, surgical transplants, orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11277244 | 1,510,379 |
1,938,522 | South Africa has one of the largest and most successful introductions of computers to the residents in Africa with the Smart Cape Access Project initiated in 2000 in Cape Town winning the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award in 2003 (Valentine, 2004. The project piloted 36 computers in six public ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30256549 | 1,937,412 |
1,826,926 | The results of the original efforts of RLG/NARA task force and the nestor working group to develop criteria for audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories and the work that was led by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) were foremost within the considerations throughout the development of the DRAMB... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10161835 | 1,825,887 |
119,082 | The anterior median eyes (AMEs) have very good vision. This pair of eyes is built like a telescopic tube with a corneal lens in the front and a second lens in the back that focus images onto a four-layered retina, a narrow, boomerang-shaped strip oriented vertically. Physiological experiments have shown they may have u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276115 | 119,034 |
663,964 | Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar was born in the Bhera, Punjab region of British India, in a Hindu kayastha family. His father, Parmeshwari Sahai Bhatnagar, died when he was eight months old, and he spent his childhood in the house of his maternal grandfather, an engineer, who helped him develop a liking for science and engine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3945409 | 663,618 |
275,898 | "Separation of isotopes by laser excitation" is an Australian development that also uses UF. After a protracted development process involving U.S. enrichment company USEC acquiring and then relinquishing commercialization rights to the technology, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) signed a commercialization agreement wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37555 | 275,748 |
1,078,021 | When you have a function that deals with money either incoming or outgoing it is very important to make sure that duties are segregated to minimize and hopefully prevent fraud. One of the key ways to ensure proper segregation of duties (SoD) from a systems perspective is to review individuals’ access authorizations. Ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1997617 | 1,077,466 |
2,177,921 | On 31 October 1862 Scott resigned as astronomer giving the reason as ill health, also reported as failing eyesight. However, it seems likely that the reasons were the departure of his patron Governor Denison and public criticism of his refusal to produce 'showy results'. He found it difficult to adapt to colonial life ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22157100 | 2,176,676 |
2,030,543 | After graduating she joined a start-up company focusing on the genetics of diseases. In 2002, Taylor moved to the Oxford Genetics Knowledge Park. She was Director of the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre Genetics Theme, which is supported by the Department of Health and Social Care. In this capacity, she oversees partn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70492425 | 2,029,375 |
1,480,583 | Process heat accounts for approximately 30% of all the fuel use in the manufacturing sector, and is the target of significant efforts to introduce new forms of carbon neutral or at least lower carbon process heat supplies. Some wastes - including waste tires - are commonly used as replacement fuels or mixed into conven... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21576157 | 1,479,749 |
1,870,786 | The Division receives over £12 million per annum in research grants. The Division conducts research into a wide range of neurological diseases, including movement disorders, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, brain cancer, stroke and brain injury, muscle and nerve disorders, cognitive dysfunction and dementia. REF2014. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47910237 | 1,869,709 |
1,685,500 | Sanbonmatsu was born in Rochester, New York, the daughter of Joan Loveridge-Sanbonmatsu, and Akira Loveridge-Sanbonmatsu, who are both professors of speech communication in the State University of New York. She attended Oswego High School, and was valedictorian. She won the Pembroke College Stokes Society Scientific Le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60472907 | 1,684,554 |
817,481 | Nanopore sequencing took 25 years to fully materialize. It involved close collaboration between academia and industry. One of the first people to put forward the idea for nanopore sequencing was David Deamer. In 1989 he sketched out a plan to drive a single-strand of DNA through a protein nanopore embedded into a thin ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=733009 | 817,045 |
244,276 | PFOA contaminates every continent. Two of the most common types (PFOS and PFOA) were phased out of production in the United States (US) in 2002 and 2015 respectively, but are still present in some imported products. PFOA and PFOS are found in every American person's blood stream in the parts per billion range, though t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=824692 | 244,149 |
895,689 | There are two basic points of contention concerning the Cinmar biface. One is whether its association with the mastodon remains is meaningful, and the other relates to the statement by Stanford and Bradley that the biface is pre-Late Glacial Maximum (LGM) and could not be Late Prehistoric, stating that they rejected th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8413101 | 895,218 |
1,185,811 | Schön devoted a trilogy of books, which included "The Reflective Practitioner" (1983), to his argument for reflection and his notion of the reflective practice inquiry. This emerged out of a self-described inability to understand the process of planning, which included his failure to determine what his students learned... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1219295 | 1,185,182 |
9,644 | A cloud of hot dust, ash and steam would have spread from the crater, with as much as 25 trillion metric tons of excavated material being ejected into the atmosphere by the blast. Some of this material escaped orbit, dispersing throughout the Solar System, while some of it fell back to Earth, heated to incandescence up... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174609 | 9,640 |
1,359,864 | Maximum Parsimony recovers one or more optimal trees based on a matrix of discrete characters for a certain group of taxa and it does not require a model of evolutionary change. MP gives the most simple explanation for a given set of data, reconstructing a phylogenetic tree that includes as few changes across the seque... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7022979 | 1,359,112 |
1,011,287 | Mercury deviates from the precession predicted from these Newtonian effects. This anomalous rate of precession of the perihelion of Mercury's orbit was first recognized in 1859 as a problem in celestial mechanics, by Urbain Le Verrier. His re-analysis of available timed observations of transits of Mercury over the Sun'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1784313 | 1,010,766 |
1,672,902 | In November and December 1983, ESA made the first open call for mission proposals to the European scientific community, based on an idea for a community-driven programme presented by Bonnet to the SPC in late 1983. The call yielded 68 proposals – 30 in the field of astronomy and 34 in the field of solar physics, with 4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60457571 | 1,671,960 |
2,107,516 | WAKs may contribute to cell elongation since they have an active cytoplasmic protein kinase domain that span the plasma membrane, and contain an N terminus which binds the cell wall whether "WAK2" can regulate invertase at the transcriptional level. WAKs can also regulate cell expansion through a control of sugar conce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13415231 | 2,106,303 |
350,295 | Grissom's spacecraft was recovered in 1999, but no further evidence was found that could conclusively explain how the explosive hatch release had occurred. Later, Guenter Wendt, pad leader for the early American crewed space launches, wrote that he believed a small cover over the external release actuator was accidenta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36592 | 350,112 |
275,538 | While there are 200,000 - 350,000 different species of animals that help pollination, honeybees are responsible for majority of the pollination for consumed crops, providing between $235 and $577 US billion of benefits to global food production. Since the early 1900s, beekeepers in the United States started renting out... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=233609 | 275,389 |
1,278,241 | The mechanism by which expanded CAG repeat regions in ataxin 1 cause neuronal degeneration is unclear. It was historically believed to be caused by aggregation and deposition of the affected protein similar to other polyglutamine expansion diseases, however rodent model studies have shown significantly later formation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54421246 | 1,277,548 |
35,584 | Primary concept and development work takes place at the Billund headquarters, where the company employs approximately 120 designers. The company also has smaller design offices in the UK, Spain, Germany, and Japan which are tasked with developing products aimed specifically at these markets. The average development per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18362 | 35,572 |
1,020,486 | However, the book was not the research text that it appeared to be. In the view of the philosopher of science Michael Ruse, and in Huxley's own opinion, Huxley was "a generalist, a synthesizer of ideas, rather than a specialist". Ruse observes that Huxley wrote as if he were adding empirical evidence to the mathematica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=97536 | 1,019,959 |
1,600,837 | The School of Architecture is housed in the Walsh Family Hall of Architecture. Construction started on 31 October 2016 and was completed in January 2019, and the 110,000-square-foot building was designed by John Simpson, the structural engineering done by Thornton Tomasetti and built by the Walsh Group. It was named af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9110974 | 1,599,936 |
597,876 | The first commercially practical closed-circuit scuba was designed and built by the diving engineer Henry Fleuss in 1878, while working for Siebe Gorman in London. His apparatus consisted of a rubber mask connected by a tube to a bag, with (estimated) 50–60% O supplied from a copper pressure tank and CO chemically abso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51846703 | 597,571 |
2,025,722 | Balakrishnan was born and raised in India. His father was a chemistry graduate who worked for a paper company while his sister works in computer systems. He received a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from IIT Madras, receiving the President of India Gold Medal for academic exc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53802656 | 2,024,556 |
1,070,569 | At the Diamond League meet Prefontaine Classic in Stanford, CA in June, Klosterhalfen finished second in the 3000 m with a new national record of 8:20.07, a nearly 10-second improvement on her own German national record set about two years prior. Her time ranked her the sixth-fastest woman over the distance in history.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51218155 | 1,070,015 |
612,826 | Eventually Poincaré (independently of Einstein) finished a substantially extended work of his June paper (the so-called "Palermo paper", received July 23, printed December 14, published January 1906 ). He spoke literally of "the postulate of relativity". He showed that the transformations are a consequence of the princ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1790788 | 612,515 |
227,691 | Some serious discrepancies between Allied squadron records and German claims have caused some historians and Allied veterans to question the accuracy of Marseille's official victories, in addition to those of JG 27 as a whole. Attention is often focused on the 26 claims made by JG 27 on 1 September 1942, of which 17 we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1441176 | 227,574 |
1,472,757 | Some limited silvicultural control of the disease is possible. If bark blisters are found on branches over 10–15 cm from the trunk, those branches may be pruned off, which will stop the spread of the disease to the rest of that tree. If the main trunk is affected then no control is possible, and the tree will die once ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3168709 | 1,471,928 |
1,222,762 | The efficiency and efficacy of each method of remediation has limitations. The goal of remediation is to eliminate the environmental pollutant as quickly as possible; only inefficient processes require human intervention. Environmental factors such as requirements of reaction, mobility of substances, and physiological ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52828993 | 1,222,103 |
264,883 | Three months after her death, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City mounted a retrospective of her work that Lange had helped to curate. It was MoMA's first retrospective solo exhibition of the works of a female photographer. In February 2020, MoMA exhibited her work again, with the title "Dorothea Lange: Words and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152817 | 264,740 |
1,793,385 | Optical tracking entails the use of a camera to relay positional information of objects within its inherent coordinate system by means of a subset of the electromagnetic spectrum of wavelengths spanning ultra-violet, visible, and infrared light. Optical navigation has been in use for the last 10 years within image-guid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11308931 | 1,792,376 |
1,567,949 | Bioenvironmental Engineers serve as installation liaisons for federal, state, and local organizations regarding drinking water quality and assess for environmental contaminants on Air Force Bases, annually publishing a consumer confidence report to keep the base populace informed on the quality of their drinking water.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13390384 | 1,567,062 |
1,409,046 | Classroom use continued into the 1990s. A minority education program at the University of California, Berkeley employed "Mechanical Universe" episode segments (on LaserDisc) as part of group discussions. In a 1993 review of the series, a science historian stated that he had used episodes in his classes for several year... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4840666 | 1,408,254 |
742,912 | SolidFire storage system uses OS called NetApp Element Software (formally SolidFire Element OS) based on Linux and designed for SSDs and scale-out architecture with the ability to expand up to 100 nodes and provide access to data through SAN protocols iSCSI natively and Fiber Channel with two gateway nodes. Element OS ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=855623 | 742,518 |
244,215 | The bird in the hand may be examined and measurements can be made, including standard lengths and weights. Feather moult and skull ossification provide indications of age and health. Sex can be determined by examination of anatomy in some sexually nondimorphic species. Blood samples may be drawn to determine hormonal c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42967 | 244,088 |
1,414,132 | On March 5, 1948, Representative George MacKinnon (Rep-MN) stated: "Mr. Speaker, today's paper carries the story that the Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Harriman, has refused to respond to a congressional subpoena to supply information with respect to one Dr. Condon. I am not presuming to pass on the facts in that case, bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1907745 | 1,413,336 |
149,598 | Consequent to the promulgation of US Seafood Regulation on HACCP on 18th December 1995, it became mandatory that every processor exporting to USA to comply with HACCP with effect from 18.12.1997. The Marine Products Export Development Authority of India (MPEDA) constituted an HACCP Cell in early 1996 to assist the Indi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=316849 | 149,530 |
170,467 | An attractive feature of human iPS cells is the ability to derive them from adult patients to study the cellular basis of human disease. Since iPS cells are self-renewing and pluripotent, they represent a theoretically unlimited source of patient-derived cells which can be turned into any type of cell in the body. This... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12223532 | 170,377 |
343,145 | SCADA systems that tie together decentralized facilities such as power, oil, gas pipelines, water distribution and wastewater collection systems were designed to be open, robust, and easily operated and repaired, but not necessarily secure. The move from proprietary technologies to more standardized and open solutions ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62437 | 342,964 |
2,021,343 | Within the younger generations we have seen much grassroots organizing, such as at UC Berkeley's student-run food pantry, established as a non-profit in 2014. This pantry works with the Alameda Food Bank, with UC Berkeley's student farms, with local donations and some purchases to provide a range of nutritious food for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66067516 | 2,020,180 |
44,391 | Raman was chosen by the University of Calcutta to become the Palit Professor of Physics, a position established after the benefactor Sir Taraknath Palit, in 1913. The university senate made the appointment on 30 January 1914, as recorded in the meeting minutes:Prior to 1914, Ashutosh Mukherjee had invited Jagadish Chan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276727 | 44,374 |
666,797 | Bragg was commissioned early in World War I in the Royal Horse Artillery as a second lieutenant of the Leicestershire battery. In 1915 he was seconded to the Royal Engineers to develop a method to localise enemy artillery from the boom of their firing. On 2 September 1915 his brother was killed during the Gallipoli Cam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=303544 | 666,449 |
89,152 | In 1802, while serving as President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson wrote to artist Charles Willson Peale that his concept of the new university would be "on the most extensive and liberal scale that our circumstances would call for and our faculties meet," and it might even attract talented students from "other... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59801 | 89,115 |
1,161,657 | The WEAV uses a multitude of small electrodes covering the whole wetted area of the aircraft, in a multi-barrier plasma actuator (MBPA) arrangement, an enhancement over dual-electrode dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) systems using multiple layers of dielectric materials and powered electrodes. These electrodes are ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18688053 | 1,161,041 |
1,770,010 | In his 1994 proposal to Origin, he described the concept as ""Underworld"-style first-person action" in a real-world setting with "big-budget, nonstop action" starring an ex-cop "security specialist". He described the project as "high" risk for its "technological unknowns" as "probably the toughest project on his wish ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43210943 | 1,769,015 |
303,812 | Coalition forces made extensive use of SEAD during the Gulf War against Iraq in order to counter its – at least on paper – formidable IADS. By 1990 Iraq was protected by approximately 3,700 SAMs, organized into 105 firing batteries, and approximately 7,000 AAA pieces, supported by hundreds of overlapping early warning,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573491 | 303,650 |
1,739,341 | Several researchers proposed a solution to these problems by introducing space into the initial model either explicitly or in the form of a spatial segregation within compartments. Bresch et al. proposed a package model as a solution for the parasite problem. Later on, Szathmáry and Demeter proposed a stochastic correc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29491519 | 1,738,362 |
1,667,631 | However, this flight would prove that the Atlas was still far from a reliable, man-rated booster. The launch proceeded normally until about T+20 seconds when the pitch and roll sequence failed to initiate and the vehicle instead just continued flying straight upward. As Mercury Flight Director Gene Kranz recalled, "Sec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=728329 | 1,666,692 |
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