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5,279 | Various explanations have been proposed to account for the Dunning–Kruger effect. The initial and most common account is based on metacognitive abilities. It rests on the assumption that part of acquiring a skill consists in learning to distinguish between good and bad performances of this skill. Since people with low ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2288777 | 5,276 |
772,470 | Functional linkers can be also utilized as catalytic sites. A 3D MOF {[Cd(4- BTAPA)(NO)] • 6HO • 2DMF} (4-BTAPA=1,3,5-benzene tricarboxylic acid tris [N-(4-pyridyl)amide], DMF=N,N-dimethylformamide) constructed by tridentate amide linkers and cadmium salt catalyzes the Knoevenagel condensation reaction. The pyridine gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9821563 | 772,055 |
1,171,749 | Metal based nanoparticles (NPs) are a prominent class of NPs synthesized for their functions as semiconductors, electroluminescents, and thermoelectric materials. Biomedically, these antibacterial NPs have been utilized in drug delivery systems to access areas previously inaccessible to conventional medicine. With the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9497908 | 1,171,130 |
502,680 | One of the first major inquiries conducted by the newly formed Railway Inspectorate was conducted by Captain Simmons of the Royal Engineers, and his report suggested that repeated flexing of the girder weakened it substantially. He examined the broken parts of the main girder, and confirmed that the girder had broken i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69817 | 502,422 |
1,636,429 | A recent high-speed transportation option for rapid transit between populous city-pairs about apart, the Hyperloop, has the Kantrowitz limit as a fundamental design criterion. Attempting to pass a high-speed passenger-pod through a very low pressure tube runs squarely into the Kantrowitz fluid flow limit. Historically,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=412961 | 1,635,504 |
850,488 | Advanced trauma life support (ATLS) is a training program for medical providers in the management of acute trauma cases, developed by the American College of Surgeons. Similar programs exist for immediate care providers such as paramedics. The program has been adopted worldwide in over 60 countries, sometimes under the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2229013 | 850,036 |
1,949,922 | The HES7 protein is a transcription factor that functions as a transcriptional repressor. It is involved in somitogenesis, an important cycle in vertebrate development. Somitogenesis involves the early segmentation of vertebrates. HES7 is involved in segmenting the presomitic mesoderm into somites. Oscillating expressi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46413884 | 1,948,801 |
1,297,618 | A typical complete filter will consist of a number of Zobel sections for roll-off, frequency dips and temperature followed by a flat attenuator section to bring the level down to a standard attenuation. This is followed by a fixed gain amplifier to bring the signal back up to a usable level, typically . The gain of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10760797 | 1,296,906 |
1,383,561 | If a two-component scalar field switches from the isotropic and homogeneous high-temperature phase to the symmetry-broken stage during cooling and expansion of the very early universe (shortly after Big Bang), the order parameter necessarily cannot be the same in regions which are not connected by causality. Regions ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37941367 | 1,382,794 |
1,855,998 | Hallberg was born in Rosario, Argentina. Her father, Ronaldo Hallberg, worked in a mining company. She moved to San Salvador de Jujuy, where she attended the Colegio Nacional de Jujuy. She was known as “señorita por qué” ('Miss why'), and started an all-girls science club. As a teenager Hallberg was a competitive tenni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60320792 | 1,854,930 |
1,243,501 | Gardner says that cranks have "two" common characteristics. The first "and most important" is that they work in almost total isolation from the scientific community. Gardner defines the community as an efficient network of communication within scientific fields, together with a co-operative process of testing new theor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1878393 | 1,242,828 |
1,633,785 | Strategy 3 concerns itself with studying past material culture in order to answer questions about present human behaviour. Questions include how humans adapt to population changes, such as storage facilities and societal organisation. The past is often seen to be separate from the present, however, Michael Schiffer cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63035175 | 1,632,862 |
1,774,287 | Daggernose sharks are predators of small schooling fishes. Its reproduction is viviparous, with females give birth to 2–8 pups every other year during the rainy season; this species is capable of shifting the timing of its reproductive cycle by several months in response to the environment. Harmless to humans, the dagg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6783090 | 1,773,290 |
733,096 | An article published by a team of NASA astrobiologists in 2010 in "Science" reported a bacterium known as GFAJ-1 that could purportedly metabolize arsenic (unlike any previously known species of lifeform). This finding, along with NASA's claim that the paper "will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6277878 | 732,709 |
1,247,728 | Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic prokaryotes that have existed on Earth for an estimated 2.7 billion years. The ability of cyanobacteria to produce oxygen initiated the transition from a planet consisting of high levels of carbon dioxide and little oxygen, to what has been called the Great Oxygenation Event where large... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18878850 | 1,247,052 |
318,426 | It is sometimes suggested that human lethality is most common with alternating current at 100–250 volts; however, death has occurred below this range, with supplies as low as 42 volts. Assuming a steady current flow (as opposed to a shock from a capacitor or from static electricity), shocks above 2,700 volts are often ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211889 | 318,255 |
661,211 | Sociocultural theory was originally coined by Wertsch in 1985 and derived from the work of Lev Vygotsky and the Vygotsky Circle in Moscow from the 1920s onwards. Sociocultural theory is the notion that human mental function is from participating cultural mediation integrated into social activities. The central thread o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30858097 | 660,866 |
1,878,400 | The nematode is found in all temperate regions around the world, because of the wide host range. For normal nematode activity a moisture film is needed for movement of the nematode. Soil moisture, relative humidity, and related environmental factors directly affect nematode survival. Moisture is needed to the nematode ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11874473 | 1,877,320 |
551,628 | The model of a reticular network of directly interconnected cells was one of the early hypotheses for the organization of the nervous system at the beginning of the 20th century. This reticular hypothesis was considered to conflict directly with the now predominant "neuron doctrine", a model in which isolated, individu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=441228 | 551,340 |
646,929 | The phagocytosis theory is based on the notion that phagocytes are cells that have the power to englobe foreign bodies – and above all bacteria – introduced inside an organism. German biologists opposed to his doctrine the humoral theory: they claimed to have found in Roux's serum some substances able to reveal the pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=866902 | 646,589 |
889,737 | Dent corn ("Zea mays" var. "indentata") is a fast-growing, vertically erect, short-lived annual plant and similar to many other varieties of "Zea mays". More commonly grown to a height of 2–3 meters (6–9 feet), "Zea mays" typically grows with a single, hollow main stem often called a stalk (or culm) which exhibits inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22403176 | 889,268 |
1,476,488 | At the campus's Regional Fitness Center, locally manufactured solar thermal panels collect the sun's energy to heat swimming pool water. A solar photovoltaic system on the south side of the science building converts sunlight into electricity. On the glacial ridge overlooking the campus, two 1.65 megawatt wind turbines ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=624236 | 1,475,656 |
411,851 | During his time as the government advisor with the Imperial Health Agency in Berlin in the 1880s, Koch became interested in tuberculosis research. At the time, it was widely believed that tuberculosis was an inherited disease. However Koch was convinced that the disease was caused by a bacterium and was infectious. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13722 | 411,649 |
57,170 | In the 1950s, Eugene Wigner initiated the study of random matrices and their eigenvalues. Wigner studied the case of hermitian and symmetric matrices, proving a "semicircle law" for their eigenvalues. In 2010, Tao and Van Vu made a major contribution to the study of non-symmetric random matrices. They showed that if is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1118498 | 57,146 |
248,617 | In early 2018, Sue was dismantled and moved to its own gallery in the Evolving Planet exhibit hall. Opened on December 21, 2018, the reassembly is intended to reflect the newest scientific theories, as well include the proper furcula and attachment of the gastralia to the rest of the skeleton. The new, 5,100 square-foo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10633984 | 248,489 |
1,338,459 | Television receivers were first commercially sold in England in 1936 for the new 'Television Service' broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation. All pre World War II sets used mains transformers and consequently were AC only. In 1948 Pye released the first television receiver, the B18T, to employ the AC/DC desi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19064311 | 1,337,726 |
98,969 | Further expeditions in the Nemegt Formation unearthed more fossils of "Therizinosaurus". In 1968 prior to Rozhdestvensky, Osmólska and Roniewicz statements, the upper portion of a manual ungual was found in the Altan Uul locality and labeled as MPC-D 100/17 (formerly IGM or GIN). In 1972, another fragmented ungual (spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=851586 | 98,926 |
1,035,058 | Immunomagnetic cell sorting is also known as immunomagnetic cell separation, immunomagnetic cell enrichment, or magnetic-activated cell sorting, and commonly known by the acronym MACS which is a trademark of Miltenyi GmbH. Immunomagnetic cell sorting is based on separation of beads passing a magnetic field. A variety o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22327978 | 1,034,518 |
152,865 | Around January 1966 Pontiac took the next step and began offering as a factory option the XS-code engine. It included a new camshaft with duration increased from 288/302 (No. 068) to 301/313 (No. 744) and a new valve spring package with dampers to positively control valve action. Valve lift stayed at just over 0.400-in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=880258 | 152,797 |
456,536 | Research conducted on presence with HDTV and other higher resolution formats that use a wide field display, has revealed that sometimes the feeling of presence can be too real, producing physiological effect that some viewers may find undesirable. Subjects have reported experiencing an increase in symptoms that are com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22510110 | 456,313 |
1,607,700 | In the 1960s Subbarao began to study the congruence properties of the partition function, p(n), which became one of his favourite problems. For example, he conjectured that if A and B are integers with 0 ≤ B < A, there are infinitely many n for which p(An+B) is even and infinitely many n for which p(An+B) is odd. Ken O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15070351 | 1,606,795 |
1,244,458 | Cancer progression and pathogenesis is intimately linked to extracellular matrix composition and the role of perlecan and other ECM molecules in cancer is being studied by a large number of laboratories. Since the basement membrane is the first obstacle in the way of extravasating carcinoma cells, the functions of perl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4328716 | 1,243,785 |
816,907 | Objective quantification is complicated in higher vertebrates by the complex and diverse locomotor repertoire and neural system. However, the relative simplicity of a juvenile brain and simple nervous system of fishes with fundamental neuronal pathways allows zebrafish larvae to be an apt model to study the interconnec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1284761 | 816,471 |
621,013 | In civil engineering applications, one typically considers structures to be in static equilibrium: that is, are either unchanging with time, or are changing slowly enough for viscous stresses to be unimportant (quasi-static). In mechanical and aerospace engineering, however, stress analysis must often be performed on p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542396 | 620,681 |
1,633,614 | Charles Darwin gave new direction to morphology and physiology, by uniting them in a common biological theory: the theory of organic evolution. The result was a reconstruction of the classification of animals upon a genealogical basis, fresh investigation of the development of animals, and early attempts to determine t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30410498 | 1,632,691 |
300,529 | The cause of spondylolysis remains unknown, however many factors are thought to contribute to its development. The condition is present in up to 6% of the population, majority of which usually present asymptomatically. Research supports that there are hereditary and acquired risk factors that can make one more suscepti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4196437 | 300,368 |
278,547 | Soon after qualifying as a doctor, Barnard performed experiments on dogs while investigating intestinal atresia, a birth defect which allows life-threatening gaps to develop in the intestines. He followed a medical hunch that this was caused by inadequate blood flow to the fetus. After nine months and forty-three attem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7015 | 278,397 |
2,059,733 | A magnetically-controlled shunt reactor is a transformer-type device which additionally provides functions of semiconducting key apparatus; this is ensured by means of reactor magnetic system operation in the domain of deep saturation. The basing principle allowed optimal employment of existing designs both in transfor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43780534 | 2,058,547 |
501,977 | The correct operation of an SIS requires a series of equipment to function properly. It must have sensors capable of detecting abnormal operating conditions, such as high flow, low level, or incorrect valve positioning. A logic solver is required to receive the sensor input signal(s), make appropriate decisions based o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5844089 | 501,719 |
2,120,790 | She studied soil science and plant physiology in the Department of Agronomy at Virginia Tech and earned the Bachelor's degree in 1980. Under the advisement of J. Donald Rimstidt, she further earned the Master's degree in environmental geochemistry at Virginia Tech with investigations of scorodite solubility and the geo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60855500 | 2,119,571 |
1,543,747 | A sizable majority of explanations in psychology are not only qualitative but also vague. Concepts such as "attention", "processing capacity", "workload", and "situation awareness" (SA), both general and specific to human factors, are often difficult to quantify in applied domains. Researchers differ in their definitio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47152350 | 1,542,874 |
1,301,572 | Sir Anthony James Leggett (born 26 March 1938) is a British-American theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Leggett is widely recognised as a world leader in the theory of low-temperature physics, and his pioneering work on superfluidity was recognised by the 200... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=659002 | 1,300,858 |
595,835 | The annual government allocation to universities totalled about US$1.75 billion in 2015, providing 50–75% of their operating budgets. Much of the remainder of their operating budget (15–20%) comes from annual student tuition fees, which are uniform at about US$2,750 per year. The "Sixth Higher Education Plan" (2011–201... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=397525 | 595,530 |
1,969,284 | Amino acid analyzer studies reveal presence of residues of Asp, Thr, Ser, Glu, Pro, Gly, Ala, Val, Met, Ile, Leu, Tyr, Phe, Lys, His, Arg, Cys, and Trp in crystalline CCP. The enzyme shows an unusual amino acid pattern compared to other peroxidase. Plant peroxidase such as horseradish peroxidase and pineapple peroxidas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=323083 | 1,968,150 |
103,981 | Abnormal and cognitive psychologists have found a strong correlation between depression-like symptoms and learned helplessness in laboratory animals. Steven Maier, a professor from the University of Colorado, states that a model of depression could be caused by "impaired medial prefrontal cortical inhibitory control ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=471571 | 103,936 |
1,068,849 | Where this is the case, care must be taken to convince the local farmers and consumers that the crop in question is worth growing and consuming. This can be done through improving the cultivation qualities of the plant, for example making the orange sweet-potato mature earlier than its white-fleshed cousin so it can be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18684057 | 1,068,295 |
576,395 | White-nose syndrome (WNS) is a fungal disease in North American bats which has resulted in the dramatic decrease of the bat population in the United States and Canada, reportedly killing millions as of 2018. The condition is named for a distinctive fungal growth around the muzzles and on the wings of hibernating bats. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15761556 | 576,101 |
1,828,480 | However, CVS ran into the same difficulties as the many other PRT systems of the era. A combination of lowering gas prices, changes in attitudes toward major public projects of this size, and cost overruns in the demonstration system in Morgantown, and a lack of progress within the Urban Mass Transit Administration in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25502676 | 1,827,441 |
649,757 | Teachers College alumni and faculty have held prominent positions in academia, government, music, non-profit, healthcare, and social science research just to name a few. Overall, Teachers College has over 90,000 alumni in more than 30 countries. Notable alumni and former faculty include John Dewey, Art Garfunkel, Dr. R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=912396 | 649,416 |
1,182,791 | Shortly after this Surtees landed a job at MGM where he began his long tenure and produced his most notable work beginning with "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo", shot alongside Harold Rosson, ASC and nominated for an Oscar in the category of Black and White Cinematography in 1944. Robert Surtees went on to film nearly 100 m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2027663 | 1,182,166 |
49,409 | President Barack Obama said, "With John's passing, our nation has lost an icon and Michelle and I have lost a friend. John spent his life breaking barriers, from defending our freedom as a decorated Marine Corps fighter pilot in World War II and Korea, to setting a transcontinental speed record, to becoming, at age 77,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58702 | 49,389 |
2,072,241 | A glasses based optomyography device was patented for measuring facial expressions and emotional responses particularly for mental health monitoring . Generating proper control signals is the most important task to be able to control any kind of a prosthesis, computer game or any other system which contains a human-com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50364516 | 2,071,050 |
1,805,100 | The college's administration had laid out a plan for its physical development in 1913, with the eastern side dedicated to academic and administration buildings, and the western side used for agricultural research. The first permanent structure, the Administration Building, was constructed from 1915 to 1921, and became ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65713283 | 1,804,085 |
158,387 | SPAAG development continues, with many modern examples often combining both guns and short-range missiles. Examples include the Soviet/Russian Tunguska-M1, which supplanted the ZSU-23 in service, the newer versions of the Gepard, the Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, and the British Marksman turret, which can be used on a wide va... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2288 | 158,306 |
24,330 | In addition, supplemental material was continually published in "White Dwarf" magazine, which provided rules for new units and models. Eventually, "White Dwarf" provided proper "army lists" that could be used to create larger and more coherent forces than were possible in the main rulebook. These articles were from tim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89633 | 24,321 |
386,543 | Although battery life span can be extended by enabling a second-life application, ultimately EV batteries need to be recycled. Recyclability is not currently an important design consideration for battery manufacturers, and in 2019 only 5% of electric vehicle batteries were recycled. BEV technologies lack an established... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15452708 | 386,348 |
1,715,165 | It is thought that their large body size and large wings would have made kalligrammatids weak fliers. Wing color patterning on many species and the setae covering on "Makarkinia" are indications that the species were day-time fliers similar to butterflies. The prevalence of eye spots in many species, the presence of li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49325289 | 1,714,198 |
1,351,378 | Embrittlement is a series complex mechanism that is not completely understood. The mechanisms can be driven by temperature, stresses, grain boundaries, or material composition. However, by studying the embrittlement process, preventative measures can be put in place to mitigate the effects. There are several ways to st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4998099 | 1,350,632 |
312,115 | In 1964, the HARP gun on Barbados continued to primarily launch Martlet 2 missiles that carried a wide variety of payloads. Part of the reason was its low cost, since the firing of the Martlet 2 cost from $2500 to $3000 and took only half an hour to load. The new results from HARP convinced the U.S. Army to increase th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292089 | 311,947 |
1,550,475 | Progress in defining the morphology of nerve cells has been slow in its development. It took nearly a century after the acceptance of the cell as the basic unit of life before researchers could agree upon the shape of a neuron. It was originally thought to be an independent globular corpuscle suspended along nerve fibe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6880764 | 1,549,594 |
1,407,197 | The Loess Plateau is a fossil-rich area; the mammal assemblage indicates it has broadly remained a mild grassland throughout the Pleistocene. Gongwangling sits at the base of the Qinling Mountains, which today is a natural barrier separating northern and southern China, forming plains to the north and forest to the sou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4524914 | 1,406,407 |
10,200 | The university historically pioneered research and training collaborations between academia, industry and government. In 1946, President Compton, Harvard Business School professor Georges Doriot, and Massachusetts Investor Trust chairman Merrill Grisswold founded American Research and Development Corporation, the firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18879 | 10,196 |
836,920 | Another technical point is that, in the case of left folds using lazy evaluation, the new initial parameter is not being evaluated before the recursive call is made. This can lead to stack overflows when one reaches the end of the list and tries to evaluate the resulting potentially gigantic expression. For this reason... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6364389 | 836,471 |
470,179 | One suggestion for optimizing adaptations and maintaining performance is the live-high, train-low principle. This training idea involves living at higher altitudes in order to experience the physiological adaptations that occur, such as increased erythropoietin (EPO) levels, increased red blood cell levels, and higher ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1269618 | 469,943 |
896,213 | An adhesive, primary sealant (polyisobutylene) is applied to the face of the spacer on each side and the panes pressed against the spacer. If the unit is gas-filled, two holes are drilled into the spacer of the assembled unit, lines are attached to draw out the air out of the space and replacing it (or leaving just vac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30875702 | 895,742 |
375,663 | In the early afternoon of December 20, 1951, Argonne director Walter Zinn and fifteen other Argonne staff members witnessed a row of four light bulbs light up in a nondescript brick building in the eastern Idaho desert. Electricity from a generator connected to Experimental Breeder Reactor I (EBR-I) flowed through them... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4131402 | 375,468 |
451,136 | Titanium carbide has proved to be possible to use combined with sintered polycrystalline diamond surface (PCD), a superhard ceramic which promises to provide an improved, strong, long-wearing material for artificial joints. PCD is formed from polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) through a process involving high pressu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2867638 | 450,917 |
692,793 | After basic cell counting had been automated, the white blood cell differential remained a challenge. Research into automating the differential count began in the 1970s and took two main approaches: digital image processing and flow cytometry. Using technology developed in the 1950s and 60s to automate the reading of P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61239754 | 692,430 |
1,015,693 | This type of thruster has a number of advantages. The lack of high voltage grids of anodes removes a possible limiting element as a result of grid ion erosion. The plasma exhaust is 'quasi-neutral', which means that positive ions and electrons exist in equal number, which allows simple ion-electron recombination in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4707045 | 1,015,170 |
296,491 | Beginning in 1970, Texas Instruments and Lockheed Air Service worked to adapt the existing AN/APQ-122 Adverse Weather Aerial Delivery System (AWADS) with terrain following/terrain avoidance modes to replace the original APQ-115, which suffered throughout its life with an unacceptably adverse mean-time-between-failure (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=600765 | 296,331 |
2,058,560 | In 1959, a Univac 1105 located in the basement of Phillips Hall of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was one of three computers of its type. It was intended primarily for the United States Census Bureau, which had one of its own; Armour Institute of Technology had the other. The Chapel Hill unit cost $2.4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=206601 | 2,057,375 |
522,473 | Although the concept of consilience in Whewell's sense was widely discussed by philosophers of science, the term was unfamiliar to the broader public until the end of the 20th century, when it was revived in "Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge," a 1998 book by the author and biologist E. O. Wilson, as an attempt to br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7638 | 522,201 |
384,164 | Following the crash of VSS "Enterprise", the replacement SpaceShipTwo named VSS "Unity" was rolled out on 19 February 2016. Test flights were set to begin after ground tests completed in August 2016. VSS "Unity" completed its first flight, a successful glide test, in December 2016. The glide lasted ten minutes. By Janu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1021879 | 383,969 |
1,067,430 | From 2019 to 2020, the proportion of EU enterprises employing advanced digital technology in their operations expanded dramatically. From 2020 to 2021, this percentage remained relatively stable, reaching 61% in 2021, compared to 63% in 2020 and 58% in 2019. The pandemic has caused a huge strain on internet traffic, wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63478388 | 1,066,876 |
316,152 | Metrology is the scientific study of measurement. It establishes a common understanding of units, crucial in linking human activities. Modern metrology has its roots in the French Revolution's political motivation to standardise units in France when a length standard taken from a natural source was proposed. This led t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65637 | 315,983 |
934,269 | In 1903, Ueshiba was called up for military service. He failed the initial physical examination, being shorter than the regulation . To overcome this, he stretched his spine by attaching heavy weights to his legs and suspending himself from tree branches; when he re-took the physical exam he had increased his height by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20069 | 933,777 |
256,990 | String theory requires that, in addition to the three observable spatial dimensions, additional dimensions exist that are curled up or compactified (see also Kaluza–Klein theory). Extra dimensions appear as a frequent component of supergravity models and other approaches to quantum gravity. This raised the contingent q... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5382 | 256,856 |
874,148 | In June 1978, Princeton University engineering student Diane Hartley was writing her senior thesis about Citicorp Center's design at the suggestion of her professor, David Billington. As part of that work she analyzed the structural design and calculated stresses from quartering winds, finding them higher than the maxi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68289612 | 873,686 |
505,387 | Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück (; September 4, 1906 – March 9, 1981) was a German–American biophysicist who participated in launching the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s. He stimulated physical scientists' interest into biology, especially as to basic research to physically explain genes, mysterious a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=169382 | 505,125 |
1,320,268 | As a young man, he expressed interest in a political career and sought a position in the government of California at the conclusion of the Mexican–American War (1848), but was unsuccessful. He briefly clerked for his father, then obtained a position as a Clerk of the District Court in eastern Pennsylvania. An abolition... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4809391 | 1,319,542 |
1,184,709 | Potential applications for nanosensors include medicine, detection of contaminants and pathogens, and monitoring manufacturing processes and transportation systems. By measuring changes in physical properties (volume, concentration, displacement and velocity, gravitational, electrical, and magnetic forces, pressure, or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=603278 | 1,184,081 |
1,394,320 | The doctors who practice this type of medicine are called neurointensivists, and can have medical training in many fields, including neurology, anesthesiology, emergency medicine, internal medicine, or neurosurgery. Common diseases treated in neurointensive care units include strokes, ruptured aneurysms, brain and spin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13861615 | 1,393,549 |
969,293 | Endogenous retroviruses are remnants of ancient viral infections, found in the genomes of most, if not all, mammalian species. Integrated into the chromosomal DNA, they are vertically transferred through inheritance. Due to the many deletions and mutations they accumulate over time, they usually are not infectious in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=779111 | 968,783 |
227,701 | The first test missile flew in July 1985, and the first production missiles were delivered to the US Air Force in 1987. The development program experienced some hardware 'quality control' problems and testing mishaps. The flight test program took place during a period of high tension between the machinists' union and G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2121216 | 227,584 |
330,332 | The Ju 87 took a huge toll on Soviet ground forces, helping to break up counterattacks of Soviet armour, eliminating strongpoints and disrupting the enemy supply lines. A demonstration of the Stukas effectiveness occurred on 5 July, when StG 77 knocked out 18 trains and 500 vehicles. As the 1st and 2nd Panzer Groups fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16590 | 330,157 |
1,600,655 | The work will allow SWFO-L1 to provide continuity of solar wind and coronal mass ejection imagery data from the Lagrange-1 point to NOAA's National Weather Service Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado. These data are critical to support monitoring and timely forecasts of space weather events that have t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62073057 | 1,599,754 |
2,207,704 | Barrens dagger moths are nocturnal and are typically just over an inch (3.0–3.5 cm) long. The period in which adults emerge from cocoons extends over 2 months. Adult barrens dagger moths are typically active from June to August but have been documented from late May to September in New Jersey and Missouri . Dagger moth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25057071 | 2,206,446 |
91,827 | Shepard was designated Chief of the Astronaut Office in November 1963, receiving the title of Chief Astronaut. He thereby became responsible for NASA astronaut training. This involved the development of appropriate training programs for all astronauts and the scheduling of training of individual astronauts for specific... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63727 | 91,787 |
145,759 | NFV Network Function Virtualization is a concept that complements SDN. Thus, NFV is not dependent on SDN or SDN concepts. NFV disunites software from hardware to enable flexible network deployment and dynamic operation. NFV deployments typically use commodity servers to run network services software versions that previ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33520674 | 145,701 |
2,024,932 | Transfer of Technology Section played a significant role in the dissemination of latest research practices/findings for profitable cotton production technology to all private and public sectors. The research findings are disseminated with the usage of electronic and print media during the cropping season and also in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14192720 | 2,023,767 |
1,237,570 | In 1954, the Air Force created its first space organization, the Western Development Division, under the leadership of General Bernard Schriever. The Western Development Division and its successor organization, the Air Force Ballistic Missile Division, were instrumental in developing the first United States military la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66185637 | 1,236,906 |
185,075 | Large format SLR cameras were probably first marketed with the introduction of C.R. Smith's "Monocular Duplex" (U.S., 1884). SLRs for smaller exposure formats were launched in the 1920s by several camera makers. The first 35 mm SLR available to the mass market, Leica's PLOOT reflex housing along with a 200 mm f4.5 lens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29648 | 184,978 |
1,297,292 | Like most G-protein coupled receptors, NOP signals through canonical G proteins upon activation. G proteins are heterotrimeric complexes consisting of α, β, and γ subunits. NOP signals through a variety of Gα subtypes that trigger diverse downstream signaling cascades. NOP coupling to Gα or Gα subunits leads to an inhi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10059041 | 1,296,581 |
1,588,073 | AGEs are structures that form irreversibly when carbohydrates react non-enzymatically with proteins, lipids, or DNA. Many proteins, including structural proteins such as collagen and elastin, play an integral role in the architecture of tissues and organs and maintenance of cardiovascular elasticity and vascular wall i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3173350 | 1,587,179 |
1,183,728 | Mayor's work focused more on improving instrumentation for radial velocity measurements to improve detecting exoplanets and measuring their properties. Mayor led a team to further improve ELODIE to increase velocity measurement accuracy to 1 m/s via the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) installed on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=572654 | 1,183,102 |
916,199 | In 1979, Rainer Martens published an article entitled ""About Smocks and Jocks"", in which he contended that it was difficult to apply specific laboratory research to sporting situations. For instance, how can the pressure of shooting a foul shot in front of 12,000 screaming fans be duplicated in the lab? Martens conte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25688228 | 915,717 |
63,814 | The concept of the railgun was first introduced by French inventor André Louis Octave Fauchon-Villeplée, who created a small working model in 1917 with the help of the "Société anonyme des accumulateurs Tudor" (now Tudor Batteries). During World War I, the French Director of Inventions at the Ministry of Armaments, Jul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218930 | 63,789 |
1,279,483 | People who are stung by red imported fire ants may experience intense local burning or flare-ups, followed by reddening of the skin at the sting site. This area will swell into a bump, hive or vesicle within 20 minutes. White fluid-filled sterile pustules begin to form within hours or days after being stung. Pustules o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55137260 | 1,278,788 |
448,639 | Physicists were in demand after the war, and Peierls received offers from several universities. He seriously considered an offer of a position at Cambridge from William Lawrence Bragg, but decided to return to Birmingham. He worked on nuclear forces, scattering, quantum field theories, collective motion in nuclei, tran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1024759 | 448,421 |
643,286 | The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) came into force in 1993. It secured rights to control access to genetic resources for the countries in which those resources are located. One objective of the CBD is to enable lesser-developed countries to better benefit from their resources and traditional knowledge. Under ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82104 | 642,947 |
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