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1,021,301 | In 2005 a 30% reduction in the warm currents that carry water north from the Gulf Stream was observed from the last such measurement in 1992. The authors noted uncertainties in the measurements. Following media discussions, Detlef Quadfasel pointed out that the uncertainty of the estimates of Bryden "et al." is high, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5097491 | 1,020,772 |
285,653 | Once inside a host, the incubation period may be up to two weeks. Prodromal symptoms are flu-like, including fever, chills, and dry cough. Advanced stages of the disease cause problems with the gastrointestinal tract and the nervous system and lead to diarrhea and nausea. Other advanced symptoms of pneumonia may also p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=195768 | 285,499 |
5,895 | Prague-born Wilhelm Steinitz laid the foundations for a scientific approach to the game, the art of breaking a position down into components and preparing correct plans. In addition to his theoretical achievements, Steinitz founded an important tradition: his triumph over the leading German master Johannes Zukertort in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5134 | 5,892 |
1,689,265 | Congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB) is a rare non-progressive retinal disorder. People with CSNB often have difficulty adapting to low light situations due to impaired photoreceptor transmission. These patients may also have reduced visual acuity, myopia, nystagmus, and strabismus. CSNB has two forms -- comple... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8159922 | 1,688,319 |
1,566,107 | As it was already pointed out by Michelson in 1904, a positive result in such experiments contradicts the hypothesis of complete aether drag, as the spinning surface of the Earth experiences an aether wind. The Michelson-Morley experiment shows on the contrary that Earth fully drags the aether in its orbital motion, re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2369853 | 1,565,220 |
989,247 | The Kawasaki T-4 is a Japanese subsonic intermediate jet trainer aircraft. It is a twin-engined aircraft, being powered by pair of Ishikawajima-Harima-built F3-IHI-30 turbofan units. These engines, which were capable of generating up to of thrust, were indigenously-developed in conjunction with the T-4. Flight Internat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1553362 | 988,731 |
924,057 | A better representation, which handles the large number of variables and parameters, is a bifurcation diagram using bifurcation theory. The presence of these special steady-state points at certain values of a parameter (e.g. mass) is represented by a point and once the parameter passes a certain value, a qualitative ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=662088 | 923,571 |
1,967,103 | As digital technology advanced throughout the 1970s and 80s, so did advances in the sensors and digital hardware necessary to provide the means to make advanced measurements of fluxes with what became known as the eddy covariance technique. With this method as well as further advances in digital data storage, it became... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9257264 | 1,965,973 |
185,513 | This section reviews ergodicity in statistical mechanics. The above abstract definition of a volume is required as the appropriate setting for definitions of ergodicity in physics. Consider a container of liquid, or gas, or plasma, or other collection of atoms or particles. Each and every particle formula_86 has a 3D p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5456824 | 185,416 |
677,132 | The photograph has served a critical role in observational astronomy for over a century, but in the last 30 years it has been largely replaced for imaging applications by digital sensors such as CCDs and CMOS chips. Specialist areas of astronomy such as photometry and interferometry have utilised electronic detectors f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=507266 | 676,779 |
1,153,502 | Small in number, the colonists had to decide whether to concentrate their defences against either sea attack by the French and Spanish, or against possible assault from native tribes in the area. Archer's Hope would have been better for firing down on approaching Spanish ships (i.e. large targets), since it was higher ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2173289 | 1,152,892 |
1,125,112 | After the war ended, Foster was encouraged by Eric Malzkuhn, a professor at Gallaudet University, to continue his education by applying there. However, he was rejected several times on account of his race. In 1950, he received a diploma in accountancy and business administration from the Detroit Institute of Commerce, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3689658 | 1,124,537 |
369,760 | Fat cells have an important physiological role in maintaining triglyceride and free fatty acid levels, as well as determining insulin resistance. Abdominal fat has a different metabolic profile—being more prone to induce insulin resistance. This explains to a large degree why central obesity is a marker of impaired glu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=419094 | 369,567 |
1,616,801 | Iron is essential for the most important biological processes such as DNA and RNA synthesis, glycolysis, energy generation, nitrogen fixation and photosynthesis, therefore uptake of iron from the environment and transport into the organism are critical life processes for almost all organisms. The problem is when enviro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23484902 | 1,615,890 |
1,848,512 | An advantage of DFAT testing over reverberant testing is the portability of the DFAT system. This allows the test equipment to be transported to any location, setup, calibrated, used to perform a High Intensity Acoustic Test and then removed from the test site. The entire process from load-in to load-out can be accompl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37083125 | 1,847,454 |
1,225,575 | When NX is supported, it is enabled by default. Windows allows programs to control which pages disallow execution through its API as well as through the section headers in a PE file. In the API, runtime access to the NX bit is exposed through the Win32 API calls and . Each page may be individually flagged as executable... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3675382 | 1,224,915 |
1,826,001 | Binding of phosphorylated substrates to distinct regions of the C-lobe has previously been detected by binding of a tungstate derivative (as a phosphate analog). Instead of phospho-primed substrate also the C-terminal regulatory domain of CK1δ is able to bind to this position for the purpose of autoregulatory function.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13544333 | 1,824,963 |
1,507,945 | Living organisms, for their part, can collectively affect weather patterns. The rate of evapotranspiration of forests, or of any large vegetated area for that matter, contributes to the release of water vapor in the atmosphere. This local, relatively fast and continuous process may contribute significantly to the persi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11499338 | 1,507,097 |
1,910,187 | CNTs are being studied as a potential copper replacement owing to their excellent electrical properties in terms of conductivity, ampacity and high frequency characteristics. However, the performances of CNTs integrated into functional devices are so far systematically much lower than those of nearly perfect CNTs selec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51056408 | 1,909,089 |
43,652 | Defect-free NaCl crystals have an optical transmittance of about 90% for infrared light, specifically between 200 nm and 20 µm. They were therefore used in optical components (windows and prisms) operating in that spectral range, where few non-absorbing alternatives exist and where requirements for absence of microscop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80207 | 43,635 |
1,743,848 | SEGM clinical and academic advisor William Malone told "The Christian Post" in 2019 that "No child is born in the wrong body, but for a variety of reasons some children and adolescents become convinced that they were". He has also argued that "early social gender transition may cement a young person's transgender ident... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71573276 | 1,742,864 |
57,281 | The appointment, in May 2008, of two of the taskforce members, Kenneth Zucker and Ray Blanchard, led to an internet petition to remove them. According to MSNBC, "The petition accuses Zucker of having engaged in 'junk science' and promoting 'hurtful theories' during his career, especially advocating the idea that childr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11973479 | 57,257 |
1,785,647 | Computational archaeology may include the use of geographical information systems (GIS), especially when applied to spatial analyses such as viewshed analysis and least-cost path analysis as these approaches are sufficiently computationally complex that they are extremely difficult if not impossible to implement withou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=171644 | 1,784,643 |
866,043 | ICMR's Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratories (VRDL) for diagnosis of the viral and other infectious diseases is gradually evolving and is proposed to be the largest network of laboratories for timely identification of viruses and other agents causing morbidity significant at public health level and specific agents... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5880160 | 865,583 |
489,352 | On Day 2, humidity levels again proved to be unfavourable for players, with some saying that it was the worst they had ever played in. Play was only mildly interrupted by rain, with three scheduled matches failing to reach their conclusion. Defending champion Nicolás Massú defeated Steve Darcis (Belgium), and Rafael Na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9185980 | 489,099 |
590,186 | The first successful implementation of a right to repair came when Massachusetts passed the United States' first right to repair law for the automotive sector in 2012, which required automobile manufacturers to sell the same service materials and diagnostics directly to consumers or to independent mechanics as they use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68312817 | 589,884 |
113,687 | On 12 May the Chinese Foreign Ministry stated: "The Chinese government is seriously concerned about the nuclear tests conducted by India," and that the tests "run counter to the current international trend and are not conducive to peace and stability in South Asia.". The next day the Chinese Foreign Ministry issued the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2188274 | 113,642 |
2,017,627 | Many important industrial enzymes use cofactors to catalyze reactions. By using cofactors to manipulate metabolic pathways, it is possible to reduce material cost, eliminate steps in production, reduce production time, decrease pollution, and increase overall production efficiency. One case that demonstrates several of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31356226 | 2,016,464 |
791,040 | Glycosides resulting from glucuronidation are named β--glucuronides, its salts and esters are named glucuronates. The human body uses glucuronidation to make alcohols, phenols, carboxylic acids, mercaptans, primary and secondary aliphatic amines, and carbamates more water-soluble, and, in this way, allows for their sub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2355673 | 790,615 |
1,232,367 | While UHTCs have desirable thermal and mechanical properties, they are susceptible to oxidation at their elevated operating temperatures. The metal component oxidizes to a gas such as CO or NO, which is rapidly lost at the elevated temperatures UHTCs are most useful at; boron, for example, readily oxidizes to BO which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38050893 | 1,231,705 |
1,636,094 | Ames assisted in the development of Apollo, developed and operated the Pioneer Missions (the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belts, observe Jupiter and Saturn and Venus), and developed the tiltrotor aircraft. The diversity of accomplishments led to the focus in the 1990s on Ames becoming the high-tech c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18493301 | 1,635,169 |
2,126,736 | “The university has made great progress on climate action by completing an inventory of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and formalizing its commitment to reduce these emissions to 1990 levels by 2014. The campus will meet its 2014 target through a series of mitigation strategies including energy efficiency projects, ins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33630916 | 2,125,515 |
233,920 | In the 18th century, Euler introduced the notion of mathematical function. Real analysis began to emerge as an independent subject when Bernard Bolzano introduced the modern definition of continuity in 1816, but Bolzano's work did not become widely known until the 1870s. In 1821, Cauchy began to put calculus on a firm ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48396 | 233,801 |
1,689,770 | Detailed planning must be inculcated from the very beginning. It is recommended to include post-occupancy evaluation at each stage of implementation to deal with modifications required in future stages. Home performance should be tracked at each stage either using utility bills or feedback devices. This helps in achiev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27882571 | 1,688,824 |
1,421,761 | The 1990s was marked by a new phase at UA, with priorities redefined to position the university towards internationalization and cooperation, namely European programs, reinforcing relationships with Portuguese-speaking and Latin states, and building protocols between international institutes, organs and companies abroa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1165393 | 1,420,960 |
498,934 | In the top panel the path is such that the two beams reinforce each other after reassembly, leading to a strong light pattern (sun). The bottom panel shows a path that is made a half wavelength longer by moving the left-hand mirror a quarter wavelength further away, increasing the path difference by a half wavelength. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33904406 | 498,677 |
11,553 | In camp at Kill Devil Hills, the Wrights endured weeks of delays caused by broken propeller shafts during engine tests. After the shafts were replaced (requiring two trips back to Dayton), Wilbur won a coin toss and made a three-second flight attempt on December 14, 1903, stalling after takeoff and causing minor damage... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58410 | 11,548 |
582,584 | Marine phytoplankton perform half of all photosynthesis on Earth and directly influence global biogeochemical cycles and the climate, yet how they will respond to future global change is unknown. Carbon dioxide is one of the principal drivers of global change and has been identified as one of the major challenges in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240228 | 582,286 |
1,244,459 | In ovarian cancer as in other cancers, perlecan expression occurs differently throughout progression of the disease. Perlecan staining is lost in ovarian basement membrane that has been breached by an invasive adenocarcinoma, which is in contrast to perlecan staining in the basement membranes of normal ovaries and thos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4328716 | 1,243,786 |
1,732,562 | Beginning in 1783, Carroll convened meetings of area clergy, mostly ex-Jesuits, at Sacred Heart Church at White Marsh Manor, outside Annapolis, Maryland. This body, known as the General Chapters, resolved on November 13, 1786, that "a school be erected for the education of youth" and that the location for the school wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9623056 | 1,731,586 |
946,104 | After returning from Copenhagen, Abel applied for a government scholarship in order to visit top mathematicians in Germany and France, but he was instead granted 200 speciedaler yearly for two years, to stay in Christiania and study German and French. In the next two years, he was promised a scholarship of 600 specieda... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21573 | 945,601 |
1,235,650 | Untransformed human cells exhibit normal cellular behavior and mediate their growth and proliferation via interplay between environmental nutrients, growth factor signaling, and cell density. As cell density increases and the culture becomes confluent, they initiate cell cycle arrest and downregulate proliferation and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6020806 | 1,234,987 |
1,024,618 | Regardless of the precise dates used to define its beginning and end points, the early modern period is generally agreed to have comprised the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment. As such, historians have attributed a number of fundamental changes to the period, notably the in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=118582 | 1,024,085 |
832,173 | The pygmy hog is considered to be one of the most threatened mammalian species today, and has been listed as “critically endangered” by the International Union of Conservation (IUCN) since 2008. Unfortunately, humans have posed one of the greatest threats to pygmy hogs, as they have severely and negatively impacted the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3829151 | 831,724 |
1,559,004 | International trade usually results in a high mortality rate during transit, between 30% and 90%. Slow lorises also experience many health problems as a result of both local and international trade. To give the impression that the primates are tame and appropriate pets for children, to protect people from their potenti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30980405 | 1,558,118 |
2,077,121 | The goal of nuclear attribution is to pinpoint the source of nuclear material with a credible level of accuracy. This faces a number of practical difficulties. First is that the lab work relies on comparing gathered samples to samples that have already been analyzed. Until there is significant international cooperation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11115209 | 2,075,922 |
160,685 | SLAM will always use several different types of sensors, and the powers and limits of various sensor types have been a major driver of new algorithms. Statistical independence is the mandatory requirement to cope with metric bias and with noise in measurements. Different types of sensors give rise to different SLAM alg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=763951 | 160,600 |
625,944 | Current systems have gears incorporated in the crankset or bottom bracket. Patents for such systems appeared as early as 1890. The Schlumpf Mountain Drive and Speed Drive have been available since 2001. Some systems offer direct drive plus one of three variants (reduction 1:2.5, increase 1.65:1, and increase 2.5:1). Ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3225400 | 625,611 |
1,993,438 | In summary, current injection technique makes it possible to use devices with low forward voltage drop for high frequency applications. This also imply cheaper cost of devices as less processing steps are required during the manufacturing stages where the need of carrier lifetime control techniques are reduced. This re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22760945 | 1,992,295 |
2,024,895 | The main focus of the scientists of Breeding and Genetics Section, CCRI, Multan is to develop and commercialize Bt. and non-Bt. new cotton varieties with inbuilt resistance/tolerance against the biotic and abiotic stresses along with desirable fibre traits. Development of germplasm has a key role in the process of vari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14192720 | 2,023,730 |
615,470 | A good telepresence strategy puts the human factors first, focusing on visual collaboration configurations that closely replicate the brain's innate preferences for interpersonal communications, separating from the unnatural "talking heads" experience of traditional videoconferencing. These cues include life–size parti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=305083 | 615,156 |
1,977,902 | The goals of the DASS GN X and DASS GN1 engines are to provide efficient thrust from rest up to hypersonic speeds (M~5) and high altitudes (h~30 km) with a low specific fuel consumption along the entire flight path, and a small rocket stage to bring the vehicle into orbit. The engine will operate on multiple fuels (hyd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43208165 | 1,976,764 |
1,003,907 | Sudden cardiac death occurs in approximately one per 200,000 young athletes per year, usually triggered during competition or practice. The victim is usually male and associated with soccer, basketball, ice hockey, or American football, reflecting the large number of athletes participating in these sustained and strenu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37416497 | 1,003,389 |
809,622 | Scientific interest in paternal age effects is relevant because the average paternal age increased in countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia and Germany, and because birth rates for fathers aged 30–54 years have risen between 1980 and 2006 in the United States. Possible reasons for the increases in average pat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8610048 | 809,191 |
6,910 | Initially, the Super Hornet's avionics and software had a 90% commonality with that of the F/A-18C/D fleet at the time. Differences include an up-front touchscreen control display; a large multipurpose color liquid-crystal display; and a fuel display. The Super Hornet has a quadruplex digital fly-by-wire system, as wel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=845012 | 6,907 |
854,618 | The enzyme thiopurine "S"-methyltransferase (TPMT) is responsible, in part, for the inactivation of 6-mercaptopurine. TPMT catalyzes the methylation of 6-mercaptopurine into the inactive metabolite 6-methylmercaptopurine – this methylation prevents mercaptopurine from further conversion into active, cytotoxic thioguani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1814306 | 854,163 |
888,507 | An accumulation of literature across decades has lent strong support to the theory of phonological STS. In a 1971 study, Stephen Madigan demonstrated that a larger recency effect is seen during forward serial recall when people are presented a list auditorally as opposed to visually. (A smaller effect is seen in backwa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1008632 | 888,039 |
160,244 | The chip scene has become relevant thanks to "compos" being held, groups releasing music disks and with the cracktro/demo scene. New tracker tools are used for making chip sounds available to less techy musicians. The NES platform has the MidiNES, a cartridge that turns the system into a full blown hardware MIDI contro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=83463 | 160,159 |
537,988 | The Goldstone complex was created in 1958 by the JPL to support the Pioneer program of deep space exploration probes. Its location was determined by two criteria: a bowl-shaped environment was needed, and it needed to be distant from terrestrial sources of radio interference. This site, on the grounds of Fort Irwin in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=520739 | 537,709 |
1,938,629 | "Flavobacterium psychrophilum" is the causative agent of Bacterial coldwater disease (BCWD). Affected fish first display a whitish discoloration along the exterior side of the adipose fin then eventually progresses to invest the entire caudal peduncle.4 Infection can occur horizontally, between fish via waterborne and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44631664 | 1,937,519 |
726,855 | Ashton Hall, opened in 1965, is SPU's largest residence hall with more than 400 students on 6 floors. It was named in honor of Philip F. Ashton, PhD, a psychology professor (1929–1971). The hall is located on the highest point of SPU's campus. Many rooms have views of the campus and the Lake Washington Ship Canal. Annu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=205591 | 726,473 |
1,011,360 | Remote photoplethysmography can also be performed by digital holography, which is sensitive to the phase of light waves, and hence can reveal sub-micron out-of-plane motion. In particular, wide-field imaging of pulsatile motion induced by blood flow can be measured on the thumb by digital holography. The results are co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=684716 | 1,010,839 |
1,002,210 | Early studies of genomic DNA sequences from a wide range of organisms show that the intron-exon structure of homologous genes in different organisms can vary widely. More recent studies of entire eukaryotic genomes have now shown that the lengths and density (introns/gene) of introns varies considerably between related... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15343 | 1,001,692 |
572,502 | Due to this limited capacity, a selective filter is needed for information processing. Broadbent stated that all stimuli are processed initially for basic physical properties. These basic characteristics can include pitch, color, loudness, and direction. Unlike the physical properties, Broadbent believed semantic featu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34780199 | 572,209 |
167,683 | Red Bull Racing returned to have a great season in 2010, thanks to their hiring of designer Adrian Newey in 2007. They won the Constructors' Championship in the penultimate round in Brazil, and Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel won the championship in the final round of the 2010 season at Abu Dhabi. Mercedes GP (formerl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=640098 | 167,595 |
1,326,915 | The first unambiguous consequence of the existence of stardust within meteorites came from the laboratory of Edward Anders in Chicago, who found using traditional mass spectrometry that the xenon isotopic abundances contained within an acid-insoluble carbonaceous residue that remained after the meteorite bulk had been ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=248950 | 1,326,188 |
962,171 | Another innovative method to resolve the water recirculation problem is the 3D fine mesh flow field design used in the Toyota Mirai, 2014. Conventional design of FC stack recirculates water from the air outlet to the air inlet through a humidifier with a straight channel and porous metal flow fields.The flow field is a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1049596 | 961,662 |
965,210 | The idea of a global international sports competition between student-athletes pre-dates the 1949 formation of the International University Sports Federation (FISU), which now hosts the Universiade, and even the very first World University Games held in 1923. English peace campaigner Hodgson Pratt was an early advocate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1377362 | 964,701 |
483,915 | Normally, ice crystals grown in solution only exhibit the basal (0001) and prism faces (1010), and appear as round and flat discs. However, it appears the presence of AFPs exposes other faces. It now appears the ice surface 2021 is the preferred binding surface, at least for AFP type I. Through studies on type I AFP, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=423387 | 483,666 |
486,998 | Improved functional neuroimaging is paving the way for better understanding, assessment, and management of many neurologic and neuro-ophthalmologic conditions. As our understanding of neuroscience evolves, neuro-ophthalmologists are becoming increasingly better at treatment, rather than only diagnosis, and novel therap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1892898 | 486,748 |
883,079 | Rotational spectroscopy has primarily been used to investigate fundamental aspects of molecular physics. It is a uniquely precise tool for the determination of molecular structure in gas phase molecules. It can be used to establish barriers to internal rotation such as that associated with the rotation of the group rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=531239 | 882,615 |
141,332 | The sacrum is a complex structure providing support for the spine and accommodation for the spinal nerves. It also articulates with the hip bones. The sacrum has a base, an apex, and three surfaces – a pelvic, dorsal and a lateral surface. The base of the sacrum, which is broad and expanded, is directed upward and forw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=232244 | 141,274 |
55,910 | The turbopump, rotating at 4000 rpm, forced the alcohol and oxygen into the combustion chamber at 125 liters (33 US gallons) per second, where they were ignited by a spinning electrical igniter. Thrust increased from 8 tons during this preliminary stage whilst the fuel was gravity-fed, before increasing to 25 tons as t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32786 | 55,886 |
2,156,004 | Although policies are in place to give women equal rights and opportunities, these policies are underfunded and poorly understood by public employees at all levels of government. There is also little co-operation among the state, civil society and the business world when it comes to implementing the national gender pol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54245572 | 2,154,773 |
1,554,726 | Among the earliest major fossil discoveries in America occurred in Massachusetts during the spring of 1802. At that time a boy uncovered a piece of reddish sandstone with bird-like three toed footprints while ploughing on his father's farm in South Hadley. This was the first recorded dinosaur footprint discovery in Nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799200 | 1,553,845 |
1,990,208 | The early work in Tirrell's career focused on the behavior of macromolecules in physically confined spaces, in which both the structure and motion of the macromolecule are constrained and distorted by the confining boundaries. For example, the apparent viscosity of a macromolecular solution can be lower because the cen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50893381 | 1,989,065 |
356,353 | Researchers also discuss the use of roundwood vs. logging residues. Roundwood is defined by the EU's Joint Research Centre as all woody material removed from the forest, and logging residues is the parts that would most likely remain in the forest in the case of no demand from bioenergy. 20% of the felled biomass is cu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7906908 | 356,168 |
1,177,145 | Cannibalization usually occurs due to unavailability of spare parts, an emergency, long resupply times, physical distance, or insufficient planning/budget. Cannibalization can also be due to reusing surplus inventory. At the end of World War II a large quantity of high quality, but unusable war surplus equipment such a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33183990 | 1,176,522 |
865,188 | Much like its predecessors, Sea Venom is designed to attack surface targets, such as fast in-shore attack craft ranging in size of between 50–500 tonnes, as well as larger surface targets of up to corvette size. With its 30 kg warhead, the missile is also capable of inflicting significant damage to larger vessels throu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44153213 | 864,728 |
325,253 | An important aspect of decision making on the value of treatment is how to balance prognosis from prostate cancer with other causes of mortality and the morbidity of treatment. The PREDICT Prostate algorithm (https://prostate.predict.nhs.uk) is a multivariable prognostic model that provides individualised cancer-specif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=88078 | 325,080 |
2,009,887 | King was born in Entiat, Washington to Charles Clement King and Mary Jane Bookwalter. He entered Washington State University early, as his local one-room school did not have a twelfth grade. He was a Member of Lambda Chi Alpha. World War I interrupted his college studies, where he served in the 12th Infantry, a machine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2345925 | 2,008,735 |
803,809 | Archaeal replication origins share some but not all of the organizational features of bacterial "oriC". Unlike bacteria, Archaea often initiate replication from multiple origins per chromosome (one to four have been reported); yet, archaeal origins also bear specialized sequence regions that control origin function. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=619137 | 803,380 |
402,548 | For a space elevator on Earth, with its comparatively high gravity, the cable material would need to be stronger and lighter than currently available materials. For this reason, there has been a focus on the development of new materials that meet the demanding specific strength requirement. For high specific strength, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29192 | 402,349 |
759,817 | Without the protection of Earth's atmosphere and magnetosphere astronauts are exposed to high levels of radiation. High levels of radiation damage lymphocytes, cells heavily involved in maintaining the immune system; this damage contributes to the lowered immunity experienced by astronauts. Radiation has also recently ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1614102 | 759,411 |
1,394,937 | On photostimulable phosphor (PSP) plates, the phosphor layer is typically 0.1 to 0.3 mm thick. After the initial exposure by short-wavelength (typically, X-ray) electromagnetic radiation, excited electrons in the phosphor material remain 'trapped' in 'colour centres' ("F-centers") in the crystal lattice until stimulate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21291263 | 1,394,166 |
206,710 | In addition to their initial attempts in the molding of plywood into functional furniture, the Eames' developed a leg splint for wounded soldiers during WWII. This was in response to the war's medical officers in combat zones reporting the need for improved emergency transport splints. The Eames' created their splints ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14652786 | 206,603 |
1,007,674 | A seemingly paradoxical role of AMPK occurs when we take a closer look at the energy-sensing enzyme in relation to exercise and long-term training. Similar to short-term acute training scale, long-term endurance training studies also reveal increases in oxidative metabolic enzymes, GLUT-4, mitochondrial size and quanti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=537599 | 1,007,154 |
1,731,441 | The diamond follower was a natural development of the complementary emitter follower with diode biasing. In 1971 Harris Corporation used it in the output stage of the HA-2600 monolithic operational amplifier. American press of the 1970s analyzed the HA-2600 in detail, but did not give its output stage a specific name T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67830508 | 1,730,465 |
1,667,206 | During the 20th century, the NCAA had no playoff for the major college football teams in the University Division, later known as Division I-A and now known as Division I FBS. The NCAA did recognize a national champion based upon the final results of "wire service" (AP and UPI) polls. The extent of that recognition came... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18817340 | 1,666,267 |
417,524 | Engineering skills were in high demand after the Battle of Waterloo, which marked the end of the continental wars, as the focus turned toward improving the country's infrastructure. So Stevenson was kept busy. In addition to his work for the Northern Lighthouse Board, he served as a consulting engineer on many projects... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=375434 | 417,320 |
826,050 | In 1990 Scholes became more involved directly with the financial markets. He went to Salomon Brothers as a special consultant, then becoming a managing director and co-head of its fixed-income-derivative group. In 1994 Scholes joined several colleagues, including John Meriwether, the former vice-chairman and head of bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=113518 | 825,606 |
588,859 | The rise in the air temperature is one of the main reasons for the permafrost thawing at Janssonhaugen. Since all buildings, roads, bridges, airports and other infrastructure are built on permafrost in Svalbard there will be consequences. When warming and thawing of permafrost occurs buildings and infrastructure will b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18969725 | 588,557 |
638,567 | On 1 February 2021, Laurentian University President Robert Haché confirmed that the University had filed for creditor protection. Court filings revealed that the university's liabilities amounted to $321 million. As part of its restructuring, the university ended its relationships with the federated schools effective M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=342020 | 638,228 |
1,568,578 | Biopsy-free tumor genotyping, by way of CAPP-Seq and ctDNA, addresses many of these issues. A simple blood test is non-invasive and much safer and easier to subject cancer patients to multiple times through the course of treatment. Using ctDNA gives a better sample of tumor DNA compared to a single area of a tumor coll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49541612 | 1,567,691 |
1,494,642 | The protein encoded by this gene is a critical subunit of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors, members of the glutamate receptor channel superfamily which are heteromeric protein complexes with multiple subunits arranged to form a ligand-gated ion channel. These subunits play a key role in the plasticity of synapses, which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14722667 | 1,493,801 |
851,099 | In theory, the recently pregnant uterus is particularly soft under the influence of hormones and hence, easily injured. D&C (including dilation and curettage, dilation and evacuation/suction curettage and manual vacuum aspiration) is a blind, invasive procedure, making it difficult to avoid endometrial trauma. Medical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1402675 | 850,646 |
1,207,191 | Since the tradition in the Soviet era was to gradually and continuously improve engines in serviceability, engines went from Series 1 to 3A (depending on the application). The Series 1 (used on Yak-42D) did not feature any reverse thrust system however, series 1A to 3A were fitted with bucket-type thrust reversers (use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38136020 | 1,206,545 |
134,949 | In the diagram, a sine wave (red curve) is sampled and quantized for PCM. The sine wave is sampled at regular intervals, shown as vertical lines. For each sample, one of the available values (on the y-axis) is chosen. The PCM process is commonly implemented on a single integrated circuit called an analog-to-digital con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25513330 | 134,894 |
43,788 | While the first SLS for Artemis 1 is currently flying to the moon on a test flight in fall 2022, NASA and Boeing are constructing the next three, for Artemis 2, Artemis 3, and Artemis 4. Boeing stated in July 2021 that while the COVID-19 pandemic had affected their suppliers and schedules, such as delaying parts needed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31368179 | 43,771 |
95,749 | In mid-1944, Oppenheimer persuaded Fermi to join his Project Y at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Arriving in September, Fermi was appointed an associate director of the laboratory, with broad responsibility for nuclear and theoretical physics, and was placed in charge of F Division, which was named after him. F Division had f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10264 | 95,708 |
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