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490,903 | The first recorded Science Olympiad was held on Saturday, November 23, 1974 at St. Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, North Carolina. Dr. Barnes and Dr. David Wetmore were the originators of this event. Fifteen schools from North and South Carolina participated in this event. It was a day-long affair, with com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=665503 | 490,649 |
2,236,203 | NanoARPES allows to determine experimentally the relationship between the binding energies and wave momenta of the electrons of the occupied electronic states of the bands with energies close and approximately 10-15 eV below the Fermi level. These electrons are ejected from a solid when it is illuminated by monochromat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72420474 | 2,234,932 |
987,491 | During the design stage, in 1929, the navy requested an alteration to the fins. It was considered desirable for the bottom of the lower fin to be visible from the control car. Charles E. Rosendahl had witnessed, from the control room, "Graf Zeppelin" almost snagging her fin on high-tension power lines during her heavy ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60944 | 986,975 |
2,135,735 | Another approach presented for inorganic materials considers the creation of oxygen vacancies due to thermal effects caused by the increased sample temperature, as a result of irradiation with a concentrated IR laser beam. Then, excited electrons are captured from the excited levels of the host by oxygen vacancies thro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66529313 | 2,134,508 |
638,325 | 1990 – Fond du Lac, USA – (14–22 July) – Wisconsin's Marian College hosted the 5th World Youth Festival, which attracted 170 players from 44 nations. With federation officials and parental entourages, this number swelled to more than 300. It was the first time that the USA had hosted a chess event of this size and impo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=295488 | 637,986 |
1,051,780 | On 27 August 2017, the results of the CANTOS trial were announced at the European Society of Cardiology and published in "The Lancet" and "The New England Journal of Medicine". Those treated in CANTOS had a 15% reduction in deaths from heart attacks, stroke and cardiovascular disease combined. However, there were serio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12148828 | 1,051,234 |
584,968 | The technique was originally conceived by Adolf Goetzberger and Armin Zastrow in 1981, and the word "agrivoltaic" was coined in 2011. Today, agrivoltaic practices and the relevant law vary from one country to another. In Europe and Asia, where the concept was first pioneered, the term "agrivoltaics" is applied to dedic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48680511 | 584,668 |
2,144,762 | McKay attended Hutt Valley High School before beginning tertiary study at Victoria University of Wellington, where he had originally intended to study architecture but changed to science when he got "hooked on the geology course taken during the preliminary year". After graduating from Victoria University with a BSc in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69498152 | 2,143,531 |
534,948 | There are several VLBI arrays located in Europe, Canada, the United States, Chile, Russia, China, South Korea, Japan, Mexico, Australia and Thailand. The most sensitive VLBI array in the world is the European VLBI Network (EVN). This is a part-time array that brings together the largest European radiotelescopes and som... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=214144 | 534,669 |
1,367,881 | The first major expansion of hydroelectric facilities started in 1975 on the Wang Chhu between Thimphu and Phuntsholing. Known as the Chukha Hydel Project, it helped boost the nation's fledgling industrial development. The 336-megawatt Chukha Hydropower Station came on line in 1986 and was synchronized with the Indian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33920837 | 1,367,125 |
53,554 | On 25 August 1966, the German Defence Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel relieved the Chief Inspector of the Air Force "Generalleutnant" Werner Panitzki, and transferred Colonel Erich Hartmann, commanding officer of the 71st Fighter Squadron, as both had publicly criticized the acquisition of the Starfighter as a "purely poli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1030130 | 53,534 |
1,499,941 | In the early 1960s, newly formed computer science departments started university programs to teach computer programming languages. The Fortran language had been developed at IBM, but suffered from slow and error-prone three-stage batch processing workflow. In the first stage, the compiler started with source code and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1135659 | 1,499,096 |
843,019 | In the Han Dynasty, numbers were developed into a place value decimal system and used on a counting board with a set of counting rods called chousuan, consisting of only nine symbols with a blank space on the counting board representing zero. Negative numbers and fractions were also incorporated into solutions of the g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1524543 | 842,569 |
1,227,008 | A 2014 analysis asserts that "the window of opportunity to deal with pandemics as a global community is within the next 27 years. Pandemic prevention therefore should be a critical health policy issue for the current generation of scientists and policymakers to address. A 2007 study warns that "the presence of a large ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63478457 | 1,226,347 |
1,124,265 | On May 30, 2017, a two-page correspondence article was published in Nature Methods that reported an unusually high number of off-target SNVs and indels after sequencing mice that were previously involved in an "in vivo" gene repair experiment. The previous experiment, completed by the same group, successfully restored ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56710049 | 1,123,691 |
2,143,843 | The early lines of research and applications of the FPM to fluid flow problems are summarized in (Fischer, 1996). There, convective-diffusive problems were studied using LSQ and WLSQ polynomial approximations. The study focused on the effects of the cloud of points and weighting functions on the accuracy of the local a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50991882 | 2,142,612 |
1,130,793 | It is considered that the mutation causes a decrease in the "neutrophil production or excessive apoptosis (shorter half-life)" which results in a deficiency of mature neutrophils in the blood. The exact pathological mechanism is still researched, with the main hypotheses being mislocalization of "ELANE" or unfolded pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2317059 | 1,130,204 |
1,398,514 | In 1542, Rheticus on the recommendation of Joachim Camerarius in conjunction with Melanchthon was then appointed professor of higher mathematics at Leipzig. Rheticus ended up taking another leave of absence in 1545, departing for Italy although the specifics of his itinerary remain unknown. In 1546-7, he would suffer f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50392 | 1,397,741 |
2,168,815 | Shaw is the co-developer of the field of "insider econometrics," a research field within personnel economics in which researchers go within companies and use insider knowledge and data to identify the performance gains from management practices. In early work, she (and her co-authors) use production-level data from fir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49796591 | 2,167,578 |
854,794 | The acquisition of equipment for the newly formed "Bundeswehr" in its early years was driven by military, economical and political factors. The military requirements pointed to a vehicle like the French AMX-13 VTP, but its cost per unit was too high. The US M59 armored personnel carrier on the other hand was too heavy ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3338266 | 854,339 |
1,683,481 | WBAN supports a variety of real-time health monitoring and consumer electronics applications. The latest international standard for WBAN is the IEEE 802.15.6 standard which aims to provide an international standard for low power, short range, and extremely reliable wireless communication within the surrounding area of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34007513 | 1,682,538 |
414,551 | While teaching previsualization at the American Film Institute in 1993, Katz suggested to producer Ralph Singleton that a fully animated digital animatic of a seven-minute sequence for the Harrison Ford action movie "Clear and Present Danger" would solve a variety of production problems encountered when the location in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4668411 | 414,348 |
1,389,009 | How, then, does one define a concept as a system's total mass which is easily defined in classical mechanics? As it turns out, at least for spacetimes which are asymptotically flat (roughly speaking, which represent some isolated gravitating system in otherwise empty and gravity-free infinite space), the ADM 3+1 split ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6513985 | 1,388,239 |
1,839,218 | The JY-9F consists of an antenna assembly, an operations shelter, a trailer-installed shelter housing two diesel generators and an optional trailer-installed shelter. The antenna can be folded down or erected by a motor-driven mechanism and the assembling and disassembling of the system can be accomplished by a crew of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6548207 | 1,838,166 |
13,270 | Like the Navy, the Air Force has operated QF-4 target drones, serving with the 82d Aerial Targets Squadron at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, and Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. It was expected that the F-4 would remain in the target role with the 82d ATRS until at least 2015, when they would be replaced by early... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11759 | 13,265 |
223,063 | Arthropods similar to living cockroaches dominated the insect communities of the Carboniferous period. Modern cockroaches radiated from them by the middle of the Mesozoic. This group of insects are nocturnal, only foraging for food and water at night. They are not considered eusocial because their populations are not d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2467838 | 222,954 |
141,209 | Images taken by "Cassini" during the flyby on July 14, 2005, revealed a distinctive, tectonically deformed region surrounding Enceladus's south pole. This area, reaching as far north as 60° south latitude, is covered in tectonic fractures and ridges. The area has few sizable impact craters, suggesting that it is the yo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=208430 | 141,152 |
1,152,240 | Artificially generated microplasmas are found on the flat panel screen of a plasma display. The technology utilizes small cells and contains electrically charged ionized gases. Across this plasma display panel, there are a millions of tiny cells called pixels that are confined to form a visual image. In the plasma disp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18446530 | 1,151,631 |
1,718,123 | A noticeable effect of global climate change is the increase of temperature. In 1895, the record-keeping of temperature in the U.S. began and it has increased by 1.3 °F to 1.9 °F. This is because the concentrations of greenhouse gases increase. Based on this information the annual average U.S. temperatures are expected... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63453251 | 1,717,153 |
818,544 | When FOXP2 expression was altered in mice, it affected many different processes including the learning motor skills and the plasticity of synapses. Additionally, FOXP2 is found more in the sixth layer of the cortex than in the fifth, and this is consistent with it having greater roles in sensory integration. FOXP2 was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=184421 | 818,105 |
1,947,008 | In 2004, the Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute (ESSTI) established to create observatory in Entoto Mountains in 2014. It was formally established by cabinet of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn under regulation No. 916/2015. The institute provides various tasks relating to space science and aerospace t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71051950 | 1,945,895 |
975,059 | Sequencing of the "M. pneumoniae" genome in 1996 revealed it is 816,394 bp in size. The genome contains 687 genes that encode for proteins, of which about 56.6% code for essential metabolic enzymes; notably those involved in glycolysis and organic acid fermentation. "M. pneumoniae" is consequently very susceptible to l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=466746 | 974,548 |
1,057,993 | As an extension of his research in spatial economics, Hotelling realized that it would be possible and socially optimal to finance investment in public goods through a Georgist land value tax and then provide such goods and services to the public at marginal cost (in many cases for free). This is an early expression of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=935621 | 1,057,444 |
34,857 | Discovering the tertiary structure of a protein, or the quaternary structure of its complexes, can provide important clues about how the protein performs its function and how it can be affected, i.e. in drug design. As proteins are too small to be seen under a light microscope, other methods have to be employed to dete... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23634 | 34,845 |
597,768 | Frozen ground (permafrost and seasonally frozen ground) occupies approximately 54 million km of the exposed land areas of the Northern Hemisphere (Zhang et al., 2003) and therefore has the largest areal extent of any component of the cryosphere. Permafrost (perennially frozen ground) may occur where mean annual air tem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47527 | 597,463 |
1,679,093 | On March 28, 1979, equipment failures and operator error contributed to loss of coolant and a partial core meltdown at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania. The mechanical failures were compounded by the initial failure of plant operators to recognize the situation as a loss-of-coolant accident due... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10638591 | 1,678,150 |
1,670,157 | Identifying him as the person behind his return to power, Sturdza publicly thanked Ionescu during his investiture ceremony, to the enthusiasm of the Chamber. With 33 other politicians from both political camps (among them Carp, Constantin Stere, Gheorghe Gh. Mârzescu, Ion G. Duca, Alexandru Djuvara, Constantin Alimăniş... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=738484 | 1,669,217 |
679,425 | In 1958, PAEC Chairman Nazir Ahmad proposed to the Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation the building of a heavy water production facility with the capacity to produce 50 kg of heavy water per day at Multan, but this proposal was not acted on. In 1960, I. H. Usmani was elevated as PAEC's second chair with the tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4023092 | 679,071 |
1,937,932 | Public support for higher education in America was not new when Manasseh Cutler first decided to organize an expedition bound for the Ohio Country. Ohio University would become the first legislated public university due to passage of the Northwest Ordinance, which had explicitly included support in the form of land for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38411419 | 1,936,824 |
1,577,313 | In 1833 Mitscherlich made a series of careful determinations of the vapor densities of a large number of volatile substances, confirming the law of Gay-Lussac. In 1833–34, Mitscherlich investigated the synthesis of diethyl ether from ethanol and sulfuric acid. Through his careful studies, he realized that the acid was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2265662 | 1,576,424 |
90,381 | The Drug Enforcement Administration of the US Department of Justice considers off-label prescribing of HGH to be illegal, and to be a key path for illicit distribution of HGH. This section has also been interpreted by some doctors, most notably the authors of a commentary article published in the Journal of the America... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=173072 | 90,341 |
519,944 | The Enlightenment, also referred to as the Age of Enlightenment, was a philosophical movement that dominated the realm of ideas in 18th-century Europe. It was founded on the principle that reason is the fundamental source of power and legitimacy, and it promoted principles such as liberty, progress, tolerance, fraterni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=803178 | 519,675 |
1,601,563 | In the Southern Ocean in the Antarctic zone, nanophytoplankton are the most abundant type of plankton in terms of number, but not volume. Antarctic marine flora consists almost entirely of algae, with phytoplankton (and, therefore, nanophytoplankton as the most numerous type) having great importance. Nanophytoplankton ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14598810 | 1,600,662 |
791,086 | Originally the complexity of biological molecules led to requests for substantial efficacy and safety data for a biosimilar approval. This has been progressively replaced with a greater dependence on assays, from quality through to clinical, that show assay sensitivity sufficient to detect any significant difference in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12924448 | 790,661 |
1,196,198 | Basic concepts of biostratigraphic principles were introduced many centuries ago, going as far back as the early 1800s. A Danish scientist and bishop by the name of Nicolas Steno was one of the first geologists to recognize that rock layers correlate to the Law of Superposition. With advancements in science and technol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=670765 | 1,195,558 |
1,220,072 | Marion Blute, in "Contemporary Sociology", noted that it was rare for any book to be reviewed on the front page of the "New York Times", or to receive "the extremes of reaction" seen for "Sociobiology". She found that "the clarity, breadth and richness of accurately rendered detail in this monograph is really quite bre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1149054 | 1,219,418 |
416,491 | Due to imperfect manufacturing technologies of the time and poor separation between the analog and digital parts of the chip, the 6581's output (before the amplifier stage) was always slightly biased from the zero level. Each time the volume register was altered, an audible click was produced. By quickly adjusting the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=202115 | 416,288 |
339,893 | "Allosaurus" had nine vertebrae in the neck, 14 in the back, and five in the sacrum supporting the hips. The number of tail vertebrae is unknown and varied with individual size; James Madsen estimated about 50, while Gregory S. Paul considered that to be too many and suggested 45 or less. There were hollow spaces in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1347 | 339,713 |
1,590,972 | As far back as 1995, Frey co-invented one of the first deep learning methods, called the wake-sleep algorithm, the affinity propagation algorithm for clustering and data summarization, and the factor graph notation for probability models. In the late 1990s, Frey was a leading researcher in the areas of computer vision,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44778625 | 1,590,078 |
418,281 | Researchers interested in ethology across many taxa, from insects to primates, are starting to incorporate network analysis into their research. Researchers interested in social insects (e.g., ants and bees) have used network analyses better to understand the division of labor, task allocation, and foraging optimizatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22072718 | 418,076 |
593,095 | Ultimately, the reasons for breaching are unknown; however, there is evidence to support a range of hypotheses. Whales are more likely to breach when they are in groups, suggesting that it is a non-verbal signal to other group members during social behaviour. Scientists have called this theory "honest signalling". The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=755842 | 592,791 |
113,439 | Cultural anthropology and social anthropology were developed around ethnographic research and their canonical texts, which are mostly ethnographies: e.g. "Argonauts of the Western Pacific" (1922) by Bronisław Malinowski, "Ethnologische Excursion in Johore" (1875) by Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, "Coming of Age in Samoa" (1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152626 | 113,394 |
1,112,253 | The current leading hypothesis for the LLSVPs is the accumulation of subducted oceanic slabs. This corresponds with the locations of known slab graveyards surrounding the Pacific LLSVP. These graveyards are thought to be the reason for the high velocity zone anomalies surrounding the Pacific LLSVP and are thought to ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39541633 | 1,111,687 |
1,764,132 | Worms are found in many places, from the forest floor to mountains, and in many locations around the world. Though they are considered terrestrial animals, they are really semi-aquatic, like other annelids; they die quickly in air but survive for months in water. Though inactive during the day, they sometimes come out ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21460789 | 1,763,139 |
312,109 | During the late 1950s, Bull conducted preliminary launch experiments at the CARDE (now known as Defence Research and Development Canada – Valcartier, or DRDC Valcartier) using guns as small as 76mm. These experiments soon caught the attention of the U.S. Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory and the U.S. Army's Chief of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292089 | 311,941 |
1,722,736 | Wilson joined the UC Berkeley faculty of biochemistry in 1964, and was promoted to full professor in 1972. His first major scientific contribution was published as "Immunological Time-Scale For Hominid Evolution" in the journal "Science" in December 1967. With his student Vincent Sarich, he showed that evolutionary rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=874725 | 1,721,766 |
2,177,062 | They provide various educational programs, all of which are science-based, to help the individuals learn more about wildlife rehabilitation or help them to become certified professionals . They offer classes similar to a traditional classroom setting, which was the first of its kind, launched in 1984 . The Basic Wildli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13302631 | 2,175,818 |
279,115 | On the first day of the exercise, "Kursk" successfully launched a Granit missile armed with a dummy warhead. Two days later, on the morning of 12 August, "Kursk" prepared to fire dummy torpedoes at the "Pyotr Velikiy". These practice torpedoes had no explosive warheads and were manufactured and tested at a much lower q... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26347 | 278,965 |
832,176 | The Pygmy Hog Conservation Breeding Programme (PHCP) was formed in 1995 in order to aid the implementation of a broad conservation action for not only this critically endangered species, but for its endangered habitat as well. In an effort to increase the small numbers of pygmy hogs, one of the Programme’s main objecti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3829151 | 831,727 |
61,401 | In science, alumni include astronomers Carl Sagan, a prominent contributor to the scientific research of extraterrestrial life, and Edwin Hubble, known for "Hubble's Law", NASA astronaut John M. Grunsfeld, geneticist James Watson, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA, vaccinologist Maurice Hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32127 | 61,376 |
102,850 | Thermite's main ingredients were also utilized for their individual qualities, specifically reflectivity and heat insulation, in a paint coating or dope for the German zeppelin "Hindenburg", possibly contributing to its fiery destruction. This was a theory put forward by the former NASA scientist Addison Bain, and late... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52381 | 102,805 |
383,977 | Miller worked on increasingly larger interferometers, culminating in one with a (effective) arm length that he tried at various sites, including on top of a mountain at the Mount Wilson Observatory. To avoid the possibility of the aether wind being blocked by solid walls, his mountaintop observations used a special she... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=91100 | 383,782 |
1,168,426 | Individuals with PKS present prenatally or at birth with multiple birth defects. These defects include: brain atrophy, agenesis of the corpus callosum, polymicrogyria of the brain, and/or spot calcifications in the brain's lateral sulcus; deafness and/or blindness; autonomic nervous system dysfunctions such as anhidros... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5374045 | 1,167,808 |
1,159,208 | Quasispecies memory is a type of molecular memory dependent on the recent history of the evolutionary lineage and the integrity of the mutant spectrum. The search for memory was prompted by the complex adaptive system behavior of a viral quasispecies, suggested by the presence of core information (considered the one th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6962692 | 1,158,593 |
669,743 | The body temperature (as measured from the ) of the zebra finch may vary from , rising with increasing air temperatures. Body temperatures over can cause death within an hour. This finch first cools itself by covering its plumage with water, not moving, and holding its wings out to allow more thinly feathered regions t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=424730 | 669,393 |
2,101,307 | After the war, the department returned to obtain particular successes thanks to the return to Italy of many influential personalities. In 1949, lectures were given by the Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi, collected by the assistants of the universities of Rome and Milan, and were then published in 1950 by the Accademia Nazi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67431894 | 2,100,096 |
159,788 | Another similar literary theme, though different from either procedure described above, is the transplanting of a human brain into an artificial, usually robotic, body. Examples of this include: "Caprica"; "Ghost in the Shell"; "RoboCop"; the DC Comics superhero Robotman; the Cybermen from the "Doctor Who" television s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167132 | 159,703 |
290,983 | Standard TTL circuits operate with a 5-volt power supply. A TTL input signal is defined as "low" when between 0 V and 0.8 V with respect to the ground terminal, and "high" when between 2 V and V (5 V), and if a voltage signal ranging between 0.8 V and 2.0 V is sent into the input of a TTL gate, there is no certain resp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47769 | 290,825 |
1,521,150 | The integration of cooperative and communicative interactions appear to be extremely important to microbes; for example, 6–10% of all genes in the bacterium "Pseudomonas aeruginosa" are controlled by cell-cell signaling systems. One way that microbes communicate and organize with each other in order to partake in more ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31009191 | 1,520,289 |
1,636,396 | Compared to other older Antarctic bases, the station is rather small and stands out among the often overlarge buildings previously built in Antarctica by other countries. The design of the whole complex revolves around the Climate conditions in the area. The main building is a one-storey Wooden structure (, high) used ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49495570 | 1,635,471 |
509,602 | The name "Event Tree" was first introduced during the WASH-1400 nuclear power plant safety study (circa 1974), where the WASH-1400 team needed an alternate method to fault tree analysis due to the fault trees being too large. Though not using the name event tree, the UKAEA first introduced ETA in its design offices in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40679472 | 509,338 |
454,957 | For the game's character sculpting and rigging, the team introduced various new elements that were not used in their previous games. Lead character technical director Judd Simantov found that the creation of the faces was the most challenging, in terms of hardware. For the faces, the team used joint-based facial rigs, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45204814 | 454,735 |
910,128 | On the basis of tests of three logging systems in Alberta, Brace (1990) affirmed that significant amounts of understorey can be retained using any of those systems provided that sufficient effort is directed towards protection. Potential benefits would include increased short-term softwood timber supply, improved wildl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1031149 | 909,649 |
37,288 | A more fundamental objection to time travel schemes based on rotating cylinders or cosmic strings has been put forward by Stephen Hawking, who proved a theorem showing that according to general relativity it is impossible to build a time machine of a special type (a "time machine with the compactly generated Cauchy hor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31591 | 37,275 |
1,742,880 | After "On the Origin of Species" was published, Darwin became involved in producing revised editions as well as working on "Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication" as the first part of his planned "Big Book". By the spring of 1860 he had tired of the grind of writing, and needed something fresh and interes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21436165 | 1,741,896 |
1,280,247 | The third initiative was led by Gerald Midgley, and reflects concerns that developments in philosophy of language, philosophy of science and philosophy of sociology suggested that objectivity in modelling reality is an unattainable ideal, because human values condition what is included or excluded in any investigation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2108299 | 1,279,552 |
990,117 | Across the supply chain, IIOT can improve the maintenance process, the overall safety, and connectivity. Drones can be used to detect possible oil and gas leaks at an early stage and at locations that are difficult to reach (e.g. offshore). They can also be used to identify weak spots in complex networks of pipelines w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54014377 | 989,600 |
1,248,598 | Bracing is most effective when the patient has bone growth remaining (is skeletally immature) and should aim to both prevent progression of the curve (prevent progression to surgery), as well as reduce the scoliosis curve. Reduction of the curve is important as the natural history of idiopathic scoliosis suggests it ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51305509 | 1,247,922 |
724,055 | The "Alsace" class was a pair of fast battleships planned by the French Navy in the late 1930s in response to German plans to build two H-class battleships after the Second London Naval Treaty collapsed. The "Alsace" design was based on variants of the , and three proposals were submitted by the design staff. The propo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7712818 | 723,675 |
2,676 | After the war ended, Oppenheimer became chairman of the influential General Advisory Committee of the newly created United States Atomic Energy Commission. He used that position to lobby for international control of nuclear power to avert nuclear proliferation and a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. He opposed t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39034 | 2,676 |
1,434,661 | Mangoes are a commercial fruit crop of the cashew family (Anacardiaceae) which are an important crop in many countries including India, China, Pakistan, Mexico and Thailand. There are many species of mango, but the only one raised for commercial fruit production is "Mangifera indica", as the fruit it bears is the most ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11512337 | 1,433,857 |
857,169 | The renormalization group provides a formal way to derive the running of a coupling, yet the phenomenology underlying that running can be understood intuitively. As explained in the introduction, the coupling "constant" sets the magnitude of a force which behaves with distance as formula_32. The formula_32-dependence w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=681962 | 856,714 |
1,973,685 | From 2014 to 2019, Oerther was a Foreign Affairs Officer at the United States Department of State in the Secretary's Office of Global Food Security where he provided expert advice on agricultural policy. At State, he led the creation of COAST - the Caribbean Oceans and Aquaculture Sustainability faciliTy. Oerther repre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43396814 | 1,972,550 |
27,184 | Genetics is the scientific study of inheritance. Mendelian inheritance, specifically, is the process by which genes and traits are passed on from parents to offspring. It was formulated by Gregor Mendel, based on his work with pea plants in the mid-nineteenth century. Mendel established several principles of inheritanc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9127632 | 27,174 |
1,673,363 | The University of Chicago requires all undergraduates to fulfill the Common Core, which demands work across all areas of the liberal arts for both A.B. and B.S. concentrators, albeit in a form reduced from the Hutchins era. Currently, 15 courses are required in addition to tested foreign language proficiency (one year ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5580587 | 1,672,421 |
860,759 | Though Leonov was able to complete his spacewalk successfully, both that task and the overall mission were plagued with problems. Leonov's only tasks were to attach a camera to the end of the airlock to record his spacewalk and to photograph the spacecraft. He managed to attach the camera without any problem. However, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=195223 | 860,300 |
33,319 | The "Cassini" mission confirmed the former hypothesis. When the probe arrived in the Saturnian system in 2004, it was hoped that hydrocarbon lakes or oceans would be detected from the sunlight reflected off their surface, but no specular reflections were initially observed. Near Titan's south pole, an enigmatic dark fe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47402 | 33,307 |
1,455,323 | For the 1739–1740 season at the Lincoln's Inn Fields theatre, Handel composed "Twelve Grand Concertos" to be performed during intervals in these masques and oratorios, as a feature to attract audiences: forthcoming performances of the new concertos were advertised in the London daily papers. Following the success of hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25970315 | 1,454,503 |
538,676 | EF5 (T10–T11) damage represents the upper limit of tornado power, and destruction is almost always total. An EF5 tornado pulls well-built, well-anchored homes off their foundations and into the air before obliterating them, flinging the wreckage for miles, and sweeping the foundation clean. Large, steel-reinforced stru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8293530 | 538,397 |
1,393,374 | As they are photosynthetic, the ability of these algae to execute phototaxis is central to their life. Because the lineage spans from unicellular to large colonial forms, it can be used to study the evolution of multicellular coordination of motility. Motility and phototaxis of motile green algae have been the subjects... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67845153 | 1,392,603 |
1,082,410 | His early years in Philadelphia though were dominated by writing. Initially Evans intended to write a pamphlet to assist millers in the construction of milling machinery, as well as promoting his own automated designs. However, Evans became so engrossed in the project that he ultimately devoted several years to writing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=389929 | 1,081,854 |
740,681 | The Institutions discussed, refuted, and synthesized many ideas of prominent mathematicians and physicists of the time, including Newton, Descartes, and Leibniz. In chapter I, Du Châtelet included a description of her rules of reasoning, based largely on Descartes’s principle of contradiction and Leibniz’s principle of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1002045 | 740,289 |
1,652,427 | Shivers was born in 1920 in Marlton, New Jersey. He received his B.Sc., M.A. and Ph.D (in organic chemistry) from Duke University in the 1940s. During the course of the war, still as a student, he did work with the United States government to develop a drug to counter malaria for use by troops overseas. Shivers began w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4558048 | 1,651,495 |
1,296,368 | The detection of intruders using video surveillance has limitations based on economics and the nature of video cameras. Typically, cameras outdoors are set to a wide angle view and yet look out over a long distance. Frame rate per second and dynamic range to handle brightly lit areas and dimly lit ones further challeng... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48653319 | 1,295,657 |
1,513,778 | The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) is an organization for advancing the development, and safe and effective use of medical technology founded in 1965 by Robert D. Hall Jr. and Robert J. Allen, President and Vice President respectively of Tech/Reps, Inc. (a medical Instrumentation mark... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11833791 | 1,512,927 |
1,842,011 | The ZEPLIN (ZonEd Proportional scintillation in LIquid Noble gases) series of experiments was a progressive programme pursued by the UK Dark Matter Collaboration using liquid xenon. It evolved alongside the DRIFT programme which promoted the use of gas-filled TPCs to recover directional information on WIMP scattering. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34750362 | 1,840,959 |
1,591,470 | Újhelyi and his coworkers attributed the partial therapeutic effect to the bacterial residue in the "T. vaginalis" cultures used for the vaccine. They identified a Gram-positive "Lactobacillus" with a tendency to polymorphism commonly present in the accompanying flora of trichomoniasis patients. To test their assumptio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64530838 | 1,590,575 |
305,196 | In Minnesota, the General Drivers Local 574 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters struck, despite an attempt to block the vote by American Federation of Labor officials, demanding union recognition, increased wages, shorter hours, overtime rates, improved working conditions and job protection through seniority.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 305,034 |
764,298 | Archaeologists have found evidence of textile dyeing dating back to the Neolithic period. In China, dyeing with plants, barks and insects has been traced back more than 5,000 years. The essential process of dyeing changed little over time. Typically, the dye material is put in a pot of water and heated to extract the d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30378542 | 763,888 |
1,200,723 | Seascape ecology is the marine and coastal version of landscape ecology. It is currently emerging as an interdisciplinary and spatially explicit ecological science with relevance to marine management, biodiversity conservation, and restoration. Seascapes are complex ocean spaces, shaped by dynamic and interconnected pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65970498 | 1,200,082 |
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