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2,051,831 | The facility uses a telescope called Challenger named after the Space Shuttle "Challenger". This is a 30-inch diameter primary mirror, "one of the largest telescopes available for public use" on an "English cross-axis equatorial mount" with a f/4.8 Newtonian lens. The telescope was made by Kevin and Denni Medlock from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3200153 | 2,050,650 |
1,683,970 | In a 1954 book review of the second volume, Max Born praised both volumes of the expanded and revised second edition, saying "[t]his second volume is a magnificent work, excellent not only through a brilliant style and clarity of expression, but also through an incredible scholarship and erudition" and that "this work ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65293114 | 1,683,026 |
1,013,762 | Neurological symptoms were the main presentation of COVID-19, which did not correlate with the severity of respiratory symptoms. The high incidence of ADEM with hemorrhage is striking. Brain inflammation is likely caused by an immune response to the disease rather than neurotropism. CSF analysis was not indicative of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=967 | 1,013,241 |
970,866 | Two theoretical advances advanced the field. One came from new simulations that considered the timing of the energy delivered in the pulse, known as "pulse shaping", leading to better implosion. The second was to make the shell much larger and thinner, forming a thin shell as opposed to an almost solid ball. These two ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40323 | 970,356 |
1,060,403 | In 2012, the foundation announced it would design and build a privately financed asteroid-finding space observatory, the Sentinel Space Telescope, to be launched in 2017–2018. Once stationed in a heliocentric orbit around the Sun similar to that of Venus, Sentinel's supercooled infrared detector would have helped ident... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=333633 | 1,059,852 |
1,636,808 | TR-2 was a heterogeneous, low pressure, low temperature, light water cooled and moderated, pressurized water reactor. The primary function of the reactor was to test reactor materials and components. Rather than incorporating an electrically-heated pressurizer vessel as is common in commercial PWRs designed since the 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66995964 | 1,635,883 |
606,413 | Classical black holes create a problem for physics known as the black hole information paradox, an issue first raised in 1972 by Jacob Bekenstein and later popularized by Stephen Hawking. The information paradox is born out of the realization that all the quantum nature (information) of the matter and energy that falls... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1415072 | 606,103 |
1,078,439 | French mathematician Alain Connes has been working for a number of years to reconcile general relativity with quantum mechanics using noncommutative geometry. Fractality also arises in this approach to quantum gravity. An article by Alexander Hellemans in the August 2006 issue of "Scientific American" quotes Connes as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15794238 | 1,077,884 |
188,534 | In wake of missile threats from China and Pakistan, the development of anti-ballistic missiles began in the late 1990s. The program consists of multiple phases and components. Phase-I of program is a double-tiered system consisting of two land and sea-based interceptor missiles, namely the Prithvi Air Defence (PAD) mis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35786896 | 188,437 |
889,003 | Hyperlinks may also be added to data files using most business software via the limited scripting and hyperlinking features built in. Documentation software, such as the Microsoft Office Suite and LibreOffice, allow for hypertext links to other content within the same file, other external files, and URL links to files ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=287801 | 888,535 |
1,159,194 | Quasispecies theory was developed in the 1970s by Manfred Eigen and Peter Schuster to explain self-organization and adaptability of primitive replicons (a term used to refer to any replicating entity), as an ingredient of hypercyclic organizations that link genotypic and phenotypic information, as an essential step in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6962692 | 1,158,580 |
1,406,280 | The composition of the human figure was based on the search for perfection in anatomy, about which many artists of this period acquired real knowledge through the practice of dissections for study. The first Renaissance free-standing sculpture that showed the harmony of the nude was "Donatello's David" during the Quatt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70869604 | 1,405,490 |
2,315 | After graduating from the Madras Institute of Technology in 1960, Kalam joined the Aeronautical Development Establishment of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (by Press Information Bureau, Government of India) as a scientist after becoming a member of the Defence Research & Development Service (DRDS). H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62682 | 2,315 |
598,113 | The phenomenon of electromigration has been known for over 100 years, having been discovered by the French scientist Gerardin. The topic first became of practical interest during the late 1960s when packaged ICs first appeared. The earliest commercially available ICs failed in a mere three weeks of use from runaway ele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=563847 | 597,808 |
1,060,665 | Chronic oral exposure to "o"-toluidine hydrochloride has induced increased incidences of tumors (benign and malignant) in rats and mice. In one study, rats were given doses of approximately 150 and 300 mg/kg bodyweight (low dose and high dose), a control-group was also present (NCI, 1979; Goodman et al., 1984). The exp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12310347 | 1,060,113 |
497,233 | In the 1990s. UMMS Professor of Medicine Shan Lu, leader of the UMMS DNA-based flu vaccine efforts, worked to advance the development of a potential avian-flu vaccine. Lu's team has also been recognized for its work in the creation of an HIV vaccine, which in Phase I testing was found to generate antibody and T-cell re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=902885 | 496,976 |
1,524,275 | The old hymn tune is in four lines, the last one equal to the first. The instrumental ritornello of the opening chorus already quotes this line, first in the continuo, then slightly different in meter in the oboes. Other than these quotes, the orchestra plays a free concerto with the oboes introducing a theme, the firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25153277 | 1,523,414 |
802,364 | Genetic data can be used to construct polygenic scores, which estimate traits such as disease risk by summing the estimated effects of individual variants discovered through a GWAS. These have been used for a wide variety of conditions, such as cancer, diabetes, and coronary artery disease. Many genetic variants are as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2652481 | 801,935 |
1,762,337 | The state of civil emergency continued until 18 August. Total damage was estimated at $NZ 10–13 million. Some houses survived the slide relatively intact and were moved to new locations. A Commission of Inquiry into the reasons for the slip sat for 58 days and produced its report in November 1980. The Commission conclu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24535697 | 1,761,344 |
751,822 | Toothed whales emit a focused beam of high-frequency clicks in the direction that their head is pointing. Sounds are generated by passing air from the bony nares through the phonic lips. These sounds are reflected by the dense concave bone of the cranium and an air sac at its base. The focused beam is modulated by a la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69274 | 751,420 |
2,120,880 | Science Translational Medicine reported success on long-term glucose monitoring with the sensor-telemetry system implanted in the tissues of pigs. Monitoring was carried out while the pigs were initially non-diabetic and continued for 6 months after the pigs had been made diabetic by administration of a laboratory drug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48223858 | 2,119,661 |
862,591 | Inspired by the success of Media 100, members of the Premiere development team left Adobe to start a project called "Keygrip" for Macromedia. Difficulty raising support and money for development led the team to take their non-linear editor to the NAB Show. After various companies made offers, Keygrip was purchased by A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70729 | 862,131 |
139,245 | Most electric vehicles on the world roads were low-speed, low-range neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs). Pike Research estimated there were almost 479,000 NEVs on the world roads in 2011. , there were between 60,000 and 76,000 low-speed battery-powered vehicles in use in the United States, up from about 56,000 in 200... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=951197 | 139,188 |
599,598 | Radar reflections off the moon were received and recognized as such in 1943 during German experiments with radio measurement equipment, as reported by Dr. Ing. W. Stepp in the "Der Seewart" magazine. Stepp noted a "perturbation", which "appeared, had a duration of several impulses, and larger impulse strength than the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1154951 | 599,292 |
1,616,277 | "Thielaviopsis basicola" is a soilborne fungus that belongs to the Ascomycota division of the "true fungi" and is a hemibiotrophic parasite. Fungi belonging to Ascomycota are known to produce asexual and sexual spores, however, a sexual stage has yet to be observed and validated in the "Thielaviopsis basicola" life cyc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11063377 | 1,615,368 |
410,425 | Olmsted was an important early leader of the conservation movement in the United States. An expert on California, he was likely one of the gentlemen "of fortune, of taste and of refinement" who proposed, through Senator John Conness, that Congress designate Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove as public reserves... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53321 | 410,223 |
581,900 | One more disadvantage is that, due to separating the lighting stage from the geometric stage, hardware anti-aliasing does not produce correct results anymore since interpolated subsamples would result in nonsensical position, normal, and tangent attributes. One of the usual techniques to overcome this limitation is usi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10328494 | 581,602 |
1,782,329 | "Drosera regia" plants are fairly large herbs that produce horizontal woody rhizomes and a crown of large, linear leaves up to long and wide. The leaves possess stalked glands (tentacles) on the upper surface of the lamina along nearly the entire length of the leaf. The leaves lack petioles and stipules, emerging by ci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2361104 | 1,781,325 |
1,353,380 | After repairs to the college were completed in mid-1656, the first admissions were made. The first headmaster, Richard Dutton, was appointed in 1655, and in 1665 the institution became an incorporated charity. The number of pupils grew, with admissions rising to 100 by the 1870s. Boys were admitted based on the parish ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=483941 | 1,352,633 |
1,725,764 | The most basic computer model of ENV processing is the "leaky integrator model". This model extracts the temporal envelope of the sound (ENV) via bandpass filtering, half-wave rectification (which may be followed by fast-acting amplitude compression), and lowpass filtering with a cutoff frequency between about 60 and 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56439577 | 1,724,793 |
1,999,447 | One of Sever's research goals is understanding the comparatively sudden decline of many Maya centers in the central Lowlands region by the end of the 1st millennium CE, a happenstance often referred to as the "(Classic) Maya collapse". Sever's research on communication and transportation systems points to an extensive ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19429088 | 1,998,303 |
2,083,574 | He joined West Chester University in 1997 as an adjunct professor. His first book, "The Contemporary Pennsylvania Legislature" was published in 1999. This follows his strong interest in statewide politics, which he acknowledges is stronger than the national scene. Kennedy created a Campaigns and Elections class in 2002... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57171419 | 2,082,374 |
1,300,405 | The Mazda FE-DOHC was the DOHC variant of the FE. The official Mazda engine codes are FE-DE and FE-ZE, depending on output level. It is still commonly called the FE3 because of its head castings. The FE-DOHC shares the same dimensions as the original FE-SOHC, including the square 86 mm bore × stroke and it has a 1.74 r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10974681 | 1,299,691 |
1,112,072 | A significant budget cut of US$300 million to NASA's planetary science division occurred in FY2013, which prompted the cancellation of the agency's participation in ESA's ExoMars program, as well as a reevaluation of the Mars Exploration Program as a whole. In February 2012, the Mars Program Planning Group (MPPG) was c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32506368 | 1,111,506 |
104,344 | The main exporter of rhodium is South Africa (approximately 80% in 2010) followed by Russia. The annual world production is 30 tonnes. The price of rhodium is highly variable. In 2007, rhodium cost approximately eight times more than gold, 450 times more than silver, and 27,250 times more than copper by weight. In 2008... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25601 | 104,299 |
1,086,839 | The intermediate egret stalks its prey methodically in shallow coastal or fresh water, including flooded fields. It eats fish, frogs, crustaceans and insects. It often nests in colonies with other herons, usually on platforms of sticks in trees or shrubs. The typical clutch size is 2 or 3 eggs but there can be as many ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=591533 | 1,086,281 |
830,397 | In August 2012 in an "International Herald Tribune" op-ed, Harvard University professor and director of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation Hal S. Scott called for a global response to the Euro-zone crisis. He wrote that two failures to address European problems around German power had led to world wars in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22024384 | 829,950 |
1,437,849 | Collected during 1995-1998, numerous and interesting historical documents, objects, and photographs needed a larger area for their placement and display to visitors. Therefore, in 1998, three halls with a total area of more than 300 square meters were allocated to accommodate the museum in student dormitory No. 5. In 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28179573 | 1,437,039 |
53,688 | To meet this demand, AAC developed the .300 AAC Blackout in cooperation with Remington Defense. The new cartridge was intended to negate many of the perceived drawbacks inherent to other large caliber cartridges used in the M4. Colt Firearms and other arms makers had previously chambered AR-pattern rifles and carbines ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28997320 | 53,668 |
1,920,092 | The hypothesis that chaperones can act as evolutionary capacitors is closely associated with the heat shock protein Hsp90. When Hsp90 is downregulated in the fruit fly "Drosophila melanogaster", a broad range of different phenotypes are seen, where the identity of the phenotype depends on the genetic background. Also, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2374688 | 1,918,990 |
420,873 | The LT6 is a naturally-aspirated engine. It debuted in the eighth-generation Corvette Z06, and was unveiled on October 26, 2021. It produces at 8,400 rpm and of torque at 6,300 RPM and has a redline of 8,600 RPM, surpassing the 6.2 L Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series "M159" engine, which produces at 7,400 RPM, to beco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70145567 | 420,667 |
947,636 | From 1957 to 1958, he transitioned to carrier-based jet aircraft and flew the A3D Skywarrior while assigned to Heavy Attack Squadron Two (VAH-2) deployed aboard the aircraft carriers USS "Bon Homme Richard" and USS "Ticonderoga". He qualified as a research pilot and flew with Air Development Squadron Five until 1959. F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=303600 | 947,133 |
840,990 | The molecular weight of Nafion is variable due to differences in processing and solution morphology. The structure of a Nafion unit illustrates the variability of the material; for example, the most basic monomer contains chain variation between the ether groups (the z subscript). Conventional methods of determining mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1041043 | 840,540 |
1,863,320 | "Nepenthes eymae" was formally described by Shigeo Kurata in a 1984 issue of "The Journal of Insectivorous Plant Society". The holotype, designated as "Kurata, Atsumi & Komatsu 102a", was collected on the northern spur of Mount Lumut in Central Sulawesi, at an altitude of 1850 m, on November 5, 1983. A series of isotyp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4851886 | 1,862,251 |
70,950 | Some components, which are often optional accessories on sports bicycles, are standard features on utility bicycles to enhance their usefulness, comfort, safety and visibility. Fenders with spoilers (mudflaps) protect the cyclist and moving parts from spray when riding through wet areas. In some countries (e.g. Germany... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3973 | 70,923 |
942,532 | The air pump, which in the 17th century was a complicated and expensive apparatus to build, also led to one of the first documented disputes over the reproducibility of a particular scientific phenomenon. In the 1660s, the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens built his own air pump in Amsterdam, the first one outside the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47651 | 942,030 |
506,845 | A pilot plant is a pre-commercial production system that employs new production technology and/or produces small volumes of new technology-based products, mainly for the purpose of learning about the new technology. The knowledge obtained is then used for design of full-scale production systems and commercial products,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3050976 | 506,581 |
2,010,812 | On May 14, 1894, one year after a fire destroyed the old Ruston College, the Lincoln Parish Police Jury held a special session to outline plans to establish an industrial institute for Lincoln Parish and to introduce the plans during the upcoming session of the Louisiana State Legislature. The police jury decided at th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32044878 | 2,009,659 |
169,841 | Metagenomics is the study of "metagenomes", genetic material recovered directly from environmental samples. The broad field may also be referred to as environmental genomics, ecogenomics or community genomics. While traditional microbiology and microbial genome sequencing rely upon cultivated clonal cultures, early env... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55170 | 169,751 |
983,046 | Technological change typically includes the introduction of labour-saving "mechanical-muscle" machines or more efficient "mechanical-mind" processes (automation), and humans' role in these processes are minimized. Just as horses were gradually made obsolete as transport by the automobile and as labourer by the tractor,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32040137 | 982,533 |
240,424 | The European Union Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive and Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive were adopted in early 2003 and came into effect on July 1, 2006, restricting the inclusion of lead in most consumer electronics sold in the EU, and having a broad effect on consumer electronics sold ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28942 | 240,304 |
1,329,878 | Medical devices are defined by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as any object or component used in diagnosis, treatment, prevention, or cure of medical conditions or diseases, or affects body structure or function through means other than chemical or metabolic reaction in humans or animals. This includes all m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60212212 | 1,329,149 |
1,506,454 | One year later the Tactical School came under the control of the Southeast Air Corps Training Center, headquartered at Maxwell, with the objective of re-opening the school immediately. After completion of a study, the center recommended in July 1941 that the Tactical School curriculum be modified into a ten-week basic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7705538 | 1,505,608 |
182,360 | Although in the following months the president of the IIHF René Fasel tried to convince NHL to change its decision, in September he stated that there was no chance for participation of NHL players in the Pyeongchang olympic tournament. "I can say that this is now gone. We can tick that off the list. We will have to loo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1855215 | 182,264 |
400,101 | The tunnel was officially inaugurated on 1 June 2016. At the northern entrance in Erstfeld, President of the Confederation Johann Schneider-Ammann spoke of a "giant step for Switzerland but equally for our neighbours and the rest of the continent", while a live relay carried a speech given by Transport Minister Doris L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=692624 | 399,902 |
1,479,481 | ISAR is used in maritime surveillance for the classification of ships and other objects. In these applications the motion of the object due to wave action often plays a greater role than object rotation. For instance a feature which extends far over the surface of a ship such as a mast will provide a high sinusoidal re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1779158 | 1,478,648 |
1,947,130 | Sjorgen's syndrome is a dermatological autoimmune disorder that attacks lacrimal and salivary glands causing a decrease in the secretion of tears and saliva. This results in inflammation, dry eyes, and dry mouth. Patients with this condition experience a buildup of white blood cells in the salivary glands known as lymp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70058191 | 1,946,017 |
1,447,209 | Rosen also questioned what he believed to be many aspects of mainstream interpretations of biochemistry and genetics. He objects to the idea that functional aspects in biological systems can be investigated via a material focus. One example: Rosen disputes that the functional capability of a biologically active protein... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275026 | 1,446,393 |
1,680,242 | The DAT-BAT program was strengthened when ASSCAT was one of the four identified institutions in Mindanao which availed the support and assistance from the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and Education Development Projects Implementing Task Force (EDPITAF). The project gained bilateral funding f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1843720 | 1,679,299 |
1,788,157 | By 1867, the Russian government saw its North American colony (today Alaska) as a financial liability, and feared eventually losing it if a war broke out with Britain. Russian minister Eduard de Stoeckl was instructed to sell Alaska to the United States, and did so deftly, convincing Seward to raise his initial offer f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61305749 | 1,787,151 |
1,560,410 | Retrograde autologous priming (RAP) is a means to effectively and safely restrict the hemodilution caused by the direct homologous blood transfusion and reduce the blood transfusion requirements during cardiac surgery. It is also generally considered a blood conservation method used in most patients during the cardiopu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60809217 | 1,559,524 |
328,786 | Braid made a rough distinction between different stages of hypnosis, which he termed the first and second conscious stage of hypnotism; he later replaced this with a distinction between "sub-hypnotic", "full hypnotic", and "hypnotic coma" stages. Jean-Martin Charcot made a similar distinction between stages which he na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14417 | 328,612 |
1,322,168 | The subadult holotype specimen is estimated to have been around in length, whereas the paratype was about long. The shoulder height reached by these individuals was estimated at around , and the weight at about . The braincase was short, deep, and broad, and the neuroanatomy was in some ways intermediate between that o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24361405 | 1,321,442 |
1,928,720 | The university has a graduate to higher education levels that from undergraduate to graduate, up to master and doctorate and teaching many sort of TCM courses. It also has Chinese medicine and the engineering, management, literature and agricultural courses, etc. It has short-term as well as long-term course including ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26860858 | 1,927,615 |
1,721,107 | It produces lengthened sleep in functional nervous insomnia, and is also useful in insanity, being given with mucilage of acacia or in hot liquids, owing to its insolubility, or in large capsules. Its hypnotic power is not equal to that of chloral, but as it is not a depressant to the heart or respiration it can be use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12805062 | 1,720,137 |
1,825,228 | Charon's volume and mass allow calculation of its density, , which is slightly lower than Pluto's and hence Charon has a slightly lower proportion of rock in its interior relative to Pluto. This difference is not as large as those of many other collisional satellites. Prior to "New Horizons", there were two conflicting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47257443 | 1,824,190 |
1,844,534 | From January 1999 to February 2000, Dr. Amit Kumar was the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of Signature BioSciences Inc. Dr. Kumar did his graduate studies at Stanford University and the California Institute of Technology and received his Ph.D. from Caltech in chemistry in 1991. Later, he did is post-doc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19722189 | 1,843,480 |
780,877 | Extraordinary evidence of internal fertilization in a placoderm was afforded by the discovery in the Gogo Formation, near Fitzroy Crossing, Kimberley, Western Australia, of a small female placoderm, about in length, which died in the process of giving birth to a 6 cm ( in) offspring and was fossilized with the umbilica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=949620 | 780,459 |
1,392,864 | An ISIS is designed to combine the functions of separate equivalent mechanical instruments that had previously been included as backup in such cockpits, including altimeter, airspeed indicator, and attitude indicator. Various aspects of ISIS are defined by its function of being a backup to conventional instrumentation.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36366491 | 1,392,093 |
558,583 | Recent advances in airborne particle DNA extraction and metagenomic library preparation have enabled low biomass environments to be subject to shotgun sequencing analysis. In 2020, Qin "et al." used shotgun sequencing analysis to reveal a great diversity of microbial species and antibiotic resistant genes in Beijing's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1676889 | 558,294 |
1,663,915 | A problem with solar cells is that the high energy photons that hit the surface are converted to heat. This is a loss for the cell because the incoming photons are not converted into usable energy. The idea behind the hot carrier cell is to utilize some of that incoming energy which is converted to heat. If the electro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25451813 | 1,662,978 |
1,831,294 | One form of Cannabis defense is the up-regulation of cannabinoids and specialized terpenes in response to differing biotic stressors in the environment such as pests and predation. In a study from 2019, tobacco hornworm larvae were fed on an artificial diet of wheat germ containing a cannabis agent. The results showed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70796522 | 1,830,247 |
1,768,387 | From 1950 until 1977 he was a professor of Astronomy at Harvard University, including being the Phillips Professor of Astronomy between 1968 and 1977. During these years (in the early 1950s), he wrote a series of influential papers entitled "A Comet Model", published in "Astrophysical Journal". In these papers, he prop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=584395 | 1,767,393 |
1,570,411 | They are widely distributed in coastal and oceanic environments. AAPB may constitute over 10% of the open ocean microbial community, being particularly abundant in oligotrophic conditions where they were found to make up around 24% of the microbes present. One study revealed that the surface water of the Indian Ocean r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27753121 | 1,569,523 |
1,005,130 | The Indian Military Nursing Service was formed in 1888 when India was a part of Britain. Many nurses served in World War I and II where 350 Indian Army nurses either died or were taken prisoner of war or declared missing in action, this includes nurses who died when SS Kuala was sunk by Japanese bombers in 1942. In 199... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26491558 | 1,004,612 |
779,971 | From the peak "Spirit" spotted a striking formation, which was dubbed "Home Plate". This was an interesting target, but "Spirit" would be driven later to the McCool Hill to tilt its solar panels towards the Sun in the coming winter. At the end of October the rover was driven downhill and to Home Plate. On the way down ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=421049 | 779,554 |
785,543 | Asian countries and former British colonies like India also developed their own traditions of studying anthropology. In India the Asiatic Society was established on 15 January 1784 in Kolkata by Sir William Jones, a philologist although, anthropology was not separately studied in this pioneering centre of learning in I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1676362 | 785,122 |
81,617 | "Columbia" splashed down in the Pacific east of Wake Island at 16:50 UTC (05:50 local time) on July 24. The total mission duration was eight days, three hours, 18 minutes, and thirty-five seconds. Divers passed biological isolation garments (BIGs) to the astronauts, and assisted them into the life raft. Though the chan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=97666 | 81,584 |
104,957 | The original album cover, designed by art collective Hipgnosis, shows a Holstein-Friesian cow standing in a pasture with no text nor any other clue as to what might be on the record. Some later editions have the title and artist name added to the cover. This concept was the group's reaction to the psychedelic space roc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=271068 | 104,912 |
222,714 | Like all infants, German infants go through a babbling stage in the early phases of phonological acquisition, during which they produce the sounds they will later use in their first words. Phoneme inventories begin with stops, nasals, and vowels; (contrasting) short vowels and liquids appear next, followed by fricative... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=467620 | 222,605 |
978,711 | For example, competitor firms could replicate aspects of the original AI system in their own product, thus reducing competitive advantage. An explainable AI system is also susceptible to different parties to “game” the system, or influence the output in a way that undermines the intended purpose. One study gives the ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54575571 | 978,200 |
1,365,873 | Cycloadditions and other pericyclic reactions are powerful transforms in organic synthesis because of their potential to rapidly generate complex molecular architectures and particularly because of their capacity to set multiple adjacent stereocenters in a highly controlled manner. However, only certain cycloadditions ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41278027 | 1,365,117 |
679,937 | DAMPs in plants have been found to stimulate a fast immune response, but without the inflammation that characterizes DAMPs in mammals. Just as with mammalian DAMPs, plant DAMPs are cytosolic in nature and are released into the extracellular space following damage to the cell caused by either trauma or pathogen. The maj... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17544970 | 679,583 |
1,326,009 | Examples of projects undertaken under Vaughan's directorship include Montgomery Knight's helicopter research, the Georgia Economic Survey, $6,000 (equivalent to $ in ) in aeronautical research for the Guggenheim Foundation, and textile research that created cotton roving and spinning processes that were three to five t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4424567 | 1,325,282 |
2,139,640 | In February 1943, upon the personal urging of Orson Welles, Stravinsky began work on a short-lived project composing music for 20th Century Fox's "Jane Eyre". He copied a number of melodies he had selected from an early 19th century American collection of British folk songs, and began to make notes on the film's scenar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14733983 | 2,138,410 |
1,477,866 | Finite groups in the 1870-1900 period saw such highlights as the Sylow theorems, Hölder's classification of groups of square-free order, and the early beginnings of the character theory of Frobenius. Already by 1860, the groups of automorphisms of the finite projective planes had been studied (by Mathieu), and in the 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16515493 | 1,477,034 |
309,578 | The device described in World War II patent works as follows: The shell contains a micro-transmitter which uses the shell body as an antenna and emits a continuous wave of roughly 180–220 MHz. As the shell approaches a reflecting object, an interference pattern is created. This pattern changes with shrinking distance: ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=225127 | 309,413 |
2,043,648 | The interoperable exchange of media requires common file formats, compression/encoding techniques, transport mechanisms, semantics, and a common means by which media can be discovered, located, accessed, and managed. The SMPTE ST 2071 suite of standards defines an open protocol for the control of objects within an Inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43088835 | 2,042,468 |
502,029 | When work was at a standstill, Mayne took a year off to earn his Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University. He graduated in 1978 and returned to work for Morphosis where he became the principal architect, lead designer and principal in charge for all of Morphosis' projects. The firm has grown into prominent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1241003 | 501,771 |
184,508 | The ancient origins of skiing can be traced back to prehistoric times in Russia, Finland, Sweden and Norway where varying sizes and shapes of wooden planks were preserved in peat bogs. The word "ski" is related to the Old Norse word , which means "split piece of wood or firewood." Skis were first invented to cross wetl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39576 | 184,411 |
43,838 | PCA is sensitive to the scaling of the variables. If we have just two variables and they have the same sample variance and are completely correlated, then the PCA will entail a rotation by 45° and the "weights" (they are the cosines of rotation) for the two variables with respect to the principal component will be equa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=76340 | 43,821 |
339,292 | In November 2008, it was announced that Häkkinen would start a new career in driver management and would work alongside Didier Coton in his firm Aces Associate Group. Häkkinen contested his fifth Arctic Rally event in January 2009 driving a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX alongside co-driver Ilkka Kivimaki and finished ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63073 | 339,112 |
466,348 | A perspective that overrides impact bias is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a skill that individuals can learn to help them prevent overestimating their feelings. Being mindful helps the individual understand that they may currently feel negative emotions, but the feelings are not permanent. The Five Factor Mindfulness Que... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2426547 | 466,115 |
623,347 | A Cospas-Sarsat distress beacon is a digital 406-MHz radio transmitter that can be activated in a life-threatening emergency to summon assistance from government authorities. Beacons are manufactured and sold by dozens of vendors. They are classified in three main types. The beacons designed for use in an aircraft is k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3043414 | 623,015 |
748,603 | The preservation of these fossils is one of their great fascinations to science. As soft-bodied organisms, they would normally not fossilize and, unlike later soft-bodied fossil biota such as the Burgess Shale or Solnhofen Limestone, the Ediacaran biota is not found in a restricted environment subject to unusual local ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10608031 | 748,205 |
307,711 | The AGM-154A was the first variant to be used in combat. The AGM-154A is usually used for Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses missions. Initial deployment testing occurred aboard and later aboard the USS "Dwight D. Eisenhower". The first combat deployment of the JSOW occurred over southern Iraq on December 17, 1998, when... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=666385 | 307,546 |
1,440,508 | While choline during development is important, adult levels of choline are also important. Choline has been shown to increase the synthesis and release of acetylcholine from neurons, which in turn increases memory. A double-blind study was conducted using normal college students (no neurological disorders). Results sho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27024757 | 1,439,698 |
130,885 | 3DCRT is still used extensively for many body sites but the use of IMRT is growing in more complicated body sites such as CNS, head and neck, prostate, breast, and lung. Unfortunately, IMRT is limited by its need for additional time from experienced medical personnel. This is because physicians must manually delineate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26350 | 130,833 |
823,794 | Whatever approach is used, the guerrilla holds the initiative and can prolong his survival though varying the intensity of combat. This means that attacks are spread out over quite a range of time, from weeks to years. During the interim periods, the guerrilla can rebuild, resupply and plan. In the Vietnam War, most co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22634688 | 823,351 |
1,357,472 | In underwater diving diagnosis is complicated by a significant overlap of symptoms between decompression sickness and NFCI. The symptoms of decompression sickness with a peripheral neuropathy (such as pain and numbness) may be similar to NFCI. Both conditions are caused by environmental exposure, and there are no high ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63625795 | 1,356,722 |
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