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1,951,643 | While both road bikes and time-trial originate from the old bikes used in the Grand Tours, these two classes of bikes have evolved in such a way as to cheat the wind and the clock and retained very few similarities. When the first time-trials were introduced into the Tour de France, little consideration was given to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31261293 | 1,950,522 |
242,897 | Jung had studied such phenomena with the physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Wolfgang Pauli, who did not always agree with Jung, and with whom he carried on an extensive correspondence, enriched by the contributions of both specialists in their own fields. Pauli had given a series of lectures to the C. G. Jung Institute,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=448370 | 242,770 |
2,811 | There is some evidence that children with AS may see a lessening of symptoms; up to 20% of children may no longer meet the diagnostic criteria as adults, although social and communication difficulties may persist. , no studies addressing the long-term outcome of individuals with Asperger syndrome are available and ther... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37556 | 2,811 |
2,056,248 | Svoboda arrived in the US in 1941, settling in New York City after almost a year of trials and tribulations. Svoboda participated in experiments in the Radiation Laboratory at MIT in Boston, and worked to develop a new auto-aiming targeting scope for warship anti-aircraft cannons. This was eventually developed fully as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17258410 | 2,055,064 |
1,019,351 | The "Arafura" class is a class of offshore patrol vessels being built for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Initially proposed in the and marked as procurement project SEA 1180, it was originally planned that 20 Offshore Combatant Vessels (OCV) would replace 26 vessels across four separate ship classes: the s, the s, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26856251 | 1,018,824 |
960,835 | Soon after Darwin's return, he was at a party hosted by Fanny and Hensleigh Wedgwood for their relatives on 4 December 1836. They agreed to review his journal. The physician and travel writer Henry Holland looked at some pages and "thought that it would not be worth while to publish it alone, as it would be partly goin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=291973 | 960,326 |
1,022,561 | Since the light would be slowed down by gravitational time dilation (as seen by outside observer), the regions with lower gravitational potential would act like a medium with higher refractive index causing light to deflect. This reasoning allowed Einstein in 1911 to reproduce the incorrect Newtonian value for the defl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10346 | 1,022,032 |
1,517,956 | In planetary science a streaming instability is a hypothetical mechanism for the formation of planetesimals in which the drag felt by solid particles orbiting in a gas disk leads to their spontaneous concentration into clumps which can gravitationally collapse. Small initial clumps increase the orbital velocity of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48840652 | 1,517,099 |
657,862 | The term "ophiolite" originated from publications of Alexandre Brongniart in 1813 and 1821. In the first, he used "ophiolite" for serpentinite rocks found in large-scale breccias called mélanges. In the second publication, he expanded the definition to encompass a variety of igneous rocks as well such as gabbro, diabas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239406 | 657,518 |
670,328 | Peer review became a touchstone of the scientific method, but until the end of the 19th century was often performed directly by an editor-in-chief or editorial committee. Editors of scientific journals at that time made publication decisions without seeking outside input, i.e. an external panel of reviewers, giving est... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33158412 | 669,977 |
910,459 | Using a left lead leg on the bends allows the hurdler to run closer to the inside of the lane and cover a shorter distance. Additionally, if the left leg is used for the lead, then the athlete's upper body can be leaned to the left, making it easier to bring the trail leg through. Additionally, an athlete hurdling with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=707859 | 909,980 |
518,731 | Construction work on the reactor had to wait until DuPont had completed the design. Excavation commenced on April 27, 1943. A large pocket of soft clay was soon discovered, necessitating additional foundations. Further delays occurred due to wartime difficulties in procuring building materials. There was an acute short... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4110093 | 518,462 |
1,533,276 | Psychiatrist and scientific researcher Daniel Langleben was inspired to test lie detection while he was at Stanford University studying the effects of a drug on children with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). He found that these children have a more difficult time inhibiting the truth. He postulated that lying requires... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68534966 | 1,532,408 |
476,440 | On 20 September 1940 at about 2 pm Genevieve Grotjan, carrying a set of work sheets walked up to a group of men engrossed in conversation and politely attempted to get Frank Rowlett's attention. She had found evidence of cycles in the twenties cipher. Celebration ensued at this first break in the 20s cipher and it soon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50373 | 476,200 |
230,234 | The Canny algorithm is adaptable to various environments. Its parameters allow it to be tailored to recognition of edges of differing characteristics depending on the particular requirements of a given implementation. In Canny's original paper, the derivation of the optimal filter led to a Finite Impulse Response filte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=476817 | 230,117 |
1,089,198 | In August 2022, archaeologists from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw announced the discovery of a 4,500-year-old temple dedicated to the Egyptian sun god Ra. The recently discovered sun temple was made from mud bricks and was about 60 meters long by 20 m wide. According to Massimiliano Nuzzolo, co-director of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66889361 | 1,088,639 |
904,930 | In August 2022, archaeologists from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw announced the discovery of a 4,500-year-old temple dedicated to the Egyptian sun god Ra. The recently discovered sun temple was made from mud bricks and was about 60 meters long by 20 m wide. According to Massimiliano Nuzzolo, co-director of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=78689 | 904,454 |
679,019 | The additional thrust from the new engines allowed supersonic penetration to be delayed until up to 45,000 ft (13,716 m) under virtually all conditions. Since at this point the possibility of supersonic overland flight was still considered to be an option, Lockheed also considered larger, shorter-ranged versions of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=265811 | 678,665 |
267,007 | During the design process, the A318 encountered several problems. The first one was the decline in demand for new aircraft following the September 11 attacks. Another was the new Pratt & Whitney turbofan engines, which burned more fuel than expected. By the time CFM International (CFM) had a more efficient engine ready... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=340516 | 266,863 |
155,040 | The engine features common rail Direct injection and a variable nozzle turbocharger. The injection system operates at , while the compression ratio is 18.0:1. The engine features a counter-rotating balance shaft mounted between the cylinder banks to cancel the vibrations inherent to the 72 degree V6 design, and the cra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18183107 | 154,970 |
1,967,420 | The otoliths begin to form shortly after the fish hatches. Otoliths are composed of a crystalline calcium carbonate structure, in the form of aragonite, on a protein matrix. Calcium carbonate is diffused through the endolymph cell membrane and the aragonite layers are permanently deposited in discrete increments. These... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31657652 | 1,966,290 |
339,364 | The period marked a steep change in the diversity and composition of Earth's biosphere. The Ediacaran biota suffered a mass extinction at the start of the Cambrian Period, which corresponded with an increase in the abundance and complexity of burrowing behaviour. This behaviour had a profound and irreversible effect on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5367 | 339,184 |
1,404,207 | The "checklist" of symptoms that is currently used is often criticized for a lack of empirical support and its inability to recognize personality-related issues that do not fit within the current personality disorder constructs or DSM criteria. It has also been criticized for leading to diagnoses that are not stable ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35350504 | 1,403,417 |
166,561 | In the arts alumni include the actors Matt Smith (Drama, 2005), John Rhys-Davies, Jack Davenport (English & American Literature, 1995), James Frain (Drama, 1990), and Roger Ashton-Griffiths (PhD, 2015); comedians Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson (English & American Literature), Simon Day (Drama, 1989), Arthur Smith (Com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=197027 | 166,475 |
1,807,544 | The student must satisfy eligibility criteria and maintain a minimum academic standard of an "A−" or 80% average over the preceding two years of study in order to qualify for the scholarship. Final decisions on the candidacy of each individual is made by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, which has ag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26872738 | 1,806,525 |
2,001,875 | Extraordinary magnetoresistance (EMR) is a geometrical magnetoresistance effect discovered in 2000, where the change in electrical resistance upon the application of a large magnetic field can be greater than 1,000,000% at room temperature (orders of magnitude greater than other magnetoresistance effects such as GMR an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43471605 | 2,000,728 |
1,900,414 | Glucocorticosteroids (GCS) are anti-inflammatory steroids that inhibit both central and peripheral cytokine synthesis and action. In a study conducted by Kalipada Pahan from the Department of Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina, both lovastatin and sodium phenylacetate were found to inhibit TNF-α, IL... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55439935 | 1,899,326 |
1,358,146 | Due to advances in MRI, this neurological disorder has been characterized more successfully in more recent years. MRI can aid in the detection of injured brain tissue; however, the severity and extent of the damage demonstrated by imaging does not always reflect patient clinical status. Toxic leukoencephalopathy encomp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8684798 | 1,357,396 |
1,156,864 | Vita-More was born in Bronxville, New York. Vita-More studied at Accademia di Belle Arti in Ravenna, Italy (1977) after graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Art (1973). Returning to the United States, she started a commercial design firm in Telluride, Colorado (1972-1980). She completed Paralegal Certification from Black... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3627924 | 1,156,253 |
323,490 | The Arctic Ocean includes the North Pole region in the middle of the Northern Hemisphere and extends south to about 60°N. The Arctic Ocean is surrounded by Eurasia and North America, and the borders follow topographic features: the Bering Strait on the Pacific side and the Greenland Scotland Ridge on the Atlantic side.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18951556 | 323,318 |
1,243,412 | In July 2014 Baroness Kramer, Minister of State for Transport, announced that all of the UK government's fleets would be supplied with funding to introduce electric vehicles. The "Ultra Low Emission Vehicle Readiness Project", funded with , is the first step towards making all government vehicles electrically powered. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38487739 | 1,242,739 |
1,252,386 | In a 2001 paper, Sunstein addressed the question of how the law should respond to the neglect of probability. He emphasized that it is important for government to "create institutions designed to ensure that genuine risks, rather than tiny ones, receive the most concern". While government policies in regard to potentia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4724667 | 1,251,708 |
1,615,373 | Surface features relatable to map features occurred so frequently in the images that the edges of all image swaths could be traced nearly continuously on the maps. Besides boldly map-identified large features such as urban development, highway patterns, canals, bridges, and airports, the images showed other viewer-iden... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27644336 | 1,614,467 |
1,984,560 | Botball is an educational robotics program that focuses on engaging middle and high school aged students in team-oriented robotics competitions. Thousands of children and young adults participate in the Botball program. It has been active since 1998 and features a robotics curriculum which focuses on designing, buildin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14867798 | 1,983,421 |
1,698,144 | One goal of Starlight is to send terrestrial organisms along with the spacecraft, and observe how the interstellar environment and extreme acceleration affects them. This effort is known as "Terrestrial Biomes in Space", and the lead candidate is "Caenorhabditis elegans", a minuscule nematode. The organism will spend m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56127644 | 1,697,190 |
1,470,743 | Perhaps one of the clearest ways to see that the process of natural selection does not always have organismal fitness as the sole driver is when selfish genetic elements have their way without restriction. In such cases, selfish elements can, in principle, result in species extinction. This possibility was pointed out ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44353 | 1,469,917 |
649,010 | SNOMED CT is a clinical terminology designed to capture and represent patient data for clinical purposes. The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) is an internationally used medical classification system; which is used to assign diagnostic and, in some national modifica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3161236 | 648,669 |
1,292,149 | "This model of brain function can explain a wide range of anatomical and physiological aspects of brain systems; for example, the hierarchical deployment of cortical areas, recurrent architectures using forward and backward connections and functional asymmetries in these connections. In terms of synaptic physiology, it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21107290 | 1,291,439 |
469,119 | Class 0 objects are only a few thousand years old; so young that they are not yet undergoing nuclear fusion reactions at their centres. Instead, they are powered only by the gravitational potential energy released as material falls onto them. They mostly contain molecular outflows with low velocities (less than a hundr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1123615 | 468,883 |
2,144,907 | FA-DLBCL-CI and (FA-DLBCL) are B-cell lymphomas. Both diseases appear driven by EBV-infected (latency stage III), large, activated B-cells and develop in spaces known or thought to be sequestered from the immune system. Unlike DLBCL-CI, FA-DLBCL is discovered as an incidental infiltrate that develops in or around sites... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63408853 | 2,143,676 |
803,246 | Management of those with trauma often requires the help of many healthcare specialists including physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and social workers. Cooperation allows many actions to be completed at once. Generally, the first step of managing trauma is to perform a primary survey that evaluates a person's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=788093 | 802,817 |
1,111,917 | The VIC-II has a 14-bit address bus and can use any of the four 16k segments of the C64's memory space for video data. To manage this, two additional address bits are contributed by port bits of CIA. - is the power-on default. The second segment (–) is typically the best choice for programming from BASIC as it is the o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=440680 | 1,111,351 |
95,613 | To do this, Moseley measured the wavelengths of the innermost photon transitions (K and L lines) produced by the elements from aluminum ("Z" = 13) to gold ("Z" = 79) used as a series of movable anodic targets inside an x-ray tube. The square root of the frequency of these photons increased from one target to the next i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=673 | 95,572 |
2,137,467 | In 2004, while web surfing at his home, Macmillan learned for the first time that the papers he had published a half-century before had been cited hundreds of times in the decades past and elements of them were now being referred to as the "Macmillan Correction" in scientific publications. Upon learning this, Macmillan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59448768 | 2,136,237 |
775,521 | The aim was always to be able to deploy a craft from the continental United States, which could reach anywhere on the planet within one to two hours. The X-20 Dyna-Soar in 1957 was the first publicly acknowledged program—although this would have been launched vertically on a rocket and then glided back to Earth, as the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3928108 | 775,105 |
866,476 | The northern masters were greatly admired in Italy. According to Friedländer they exercised a strong influence over 15th-century Italian artists, a view Panofsky agrees with. However, Italian painters began to move beyond Netherlandish influences by the 1460s, as they concentrated on composition with a greater emphasis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=799881 | 866,016 |
31,903 | Several new types of "non-volatile" RAM, which preserve data while powered down, are under development. The technologies used include carbon nanotubes and approaches utilizing Tunnel magnetoresistance. Amongst the 1st generation MRAM, a 128 kbit ( bytes) chip was manufactured with 0.18 µm technology in the summer of 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21306150 | 31,892 |
1,945,341 | Shepherd joined the British Interplanetary Society, a space advocacy organisation, in 1935, but had little involvement with it before the war. However, he was present at its first meeting after the war ended in 1945, and became a member of its governing council and its technical director in 1946. In 1950, he helped fou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63998147 | 1,944,229 |
1,887,553 | However, due to the political turmoil in China at the time, the diesel engine was never completed even after the program was terminated, despite the fact that the development of such engine was already started before the construction of the prototype. The silver-zinc battery suffered even greater in that the poor quali... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48600955 | 1,886,471 |
1,594,018 | Biomonitoring of aquatic ecosystems is required by national and international legislation (e.g. the Water Framework Directive and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive). Traditional methods are time-consuming and include destructive practices that can harm individuals of rare or protected species. DNA barcoding is a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60361757 | 1,593,121 |
142,544 | The system design of the nuclear power plants built in the late 1960s raised questions of operational safety, and raised the concern that a severe reactor accident could release large quantities of radioactive materials into the atmosphere and environment. By 1970, there were doubts about the ability of the emergency c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162498 | 142,486 |
1,257,994 | The Royal College of Ophthalmologists remains very skeptical about claims of efficacy in cataract reversal. It issued the following public statement about NAC in August 2008:The evidence for the effectiveness of N-acetyl carnosine eye drops is based on experience on a small number of cases carried out by a Russian rese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20164015 | 1,257,308 |
763,717 | So far some success has been achieved in using string theory methods to describe the transition of a superfluid to an insulator. A superfluid is a system of electrically neutral atoms that flows without any friction. Such systems are often produced in the laboratory using liquid helium, but recently experimentalists ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=644443 | 763,308 |
29,912 | So far some success has been achieved in using string theory methods to describe the transition of a superfluid to an insulator. A superfluid is a system of electrically neutral atoms that flows without any friction. Such systems are often produced in the laboratory using liquid helium, but recently experimentalists ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28305 | 29,902 |
1,866,094 | So far some success has been achieved in using string theory methods to describe the transition of a superfluid to an insulator. A superfluid is a system of electrically neutral atoms that flows without any friction. Such systems are often produced in the laboratory using liquid helium, but recently experimentalists ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40300017 | 1,865,020 |
1,721,983 | Other offerings included: Legal Time and Billing, Medical Time and Billing, and "TTY" an early terminal emulation program using the 6551 USART. Through partnerships with their value-added resellers (VARs) other software product offerings included a solid-waste management system with automated truck routing and a countr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1302953 | 1,721,013 |
1,065,613 | Both Mapother and then deputy Aubrey Lewis supported involuntary eugenic sterilisation, unequivocally recommending it to the Brock Committee in 1932. Lewis was a member of the Eugenics Society and a 1934 chapter he authored is "remarkable for its total admiration for the German work and workers". With the spread of Nat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2289772 | 1,065,059 |
367,773 | Autonomic inputs to alpha cells are much more important for glucagon stimulation in the moderate to severe ranges of hypoglycemia, yet the autonomic response is blunted in a number of ways. Recurrent hypoglycemia leads to metabolic adjustments in the glucose sensing areas of the brain, shifting the threshold for counte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2812725 | 367,580 |
112,906 | Electronic devices such as cell phones and computers facilitate rapid access to a stream of sources, each of which may receive cursory attention. Michel Rich, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and executive director of the center on Media and Child Health in Boston, said of the digital generation, "Their... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1944675 | 112,861 |
1,257,651 | Microfungi can be harmful, causing diseases of plants, animals and humans with varying degrees of severity and economic impact. The irritating human skin disease known as athlete's foot or tinea pedis is caused by species of the microfungal genus "Trichophyton". Microfungi may cause diseases of crops and trees which ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10362025 | 1,256,965 |
1,820,918 | Virtual diffraction imaging is a method developed to generate real space images from diffraction patterns. This technique has been used in characterizing material structures since the 90s but more recently has been applied in 4D STEM applications. This technique is often referred to as scanning electron nano diffractio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70302410 | 1,819,881 |
48,344 | In a highly publicized experiment in 2012, researchers claimed to have identified the path each particle had taken without any adverse effects at all on the interference pattern generated by the particles. In order to do this, they used a setup such that particles coming to the screen were not from a point-like source,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8667 | 48,324 |
622,583 | To address fill factor limitations within SPAD arrays formed of circular SPADs, other shapes are utilised as these are known to have higher maximum area values within a typically square pixel area and have higher packing ratios. A square SPAD within a square pixel achieves the highest fill factor, however the sharp cor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=972711 | 622,251 |
1,663,767 | Crucial in effective CPV implementation is an appropriate data collection procedure. Data must allow for statistical analytics and trend analysis of process consistency and capability. A correctly implemented procedure will minimize overreactions to individual production outlier events and guarantee genuine process inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44287236 | 1,662,830 |
1,873,323 | The most common design uses two different basins: one catering to the autotrophic bacteria and the second to the heterotrophic bacteria. However, SNdN accommodates to both in one basin with strict control of DO. This has been done in two common approaches. One is to develop an oxygen gradient by adding oxygen in one lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9801876 | 1,872,246 |
765,750 | Political reasons have also been attributed to limiting aerial engagements involving F-14s during the Gulf War. According to accounts from Navy pilots, Navy fighters were called off from Iraqi aircraft so that other coalition fighters could engage them. One event used to support this notion occurred on 24 January 1991,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5827657 | 765,340 |
1,425,070 | Dominic Cavendish of "The Daily Telegraph" gave the play four out of five stars, writing that "...Kidman brilliantly suggests an intelligent woman compacted of porcelain and steel. Being no-nonsense, she's often funny. An early put-down – 'I don't joke' – gets a laugh but lays bare her peculiarity too." and "Although t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47937289 | 1,424,268 |
1,022,914 | Even for fans and flywheels, the clear weaknesses remaining in this design—especially that it is not self-starting from all positions—make it impractical for working use, especially considering the better alternatives that exist. Unlike the demonstration motor above, DC motors are commonly designed with more than two p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10004115 | 1,022,384 |
1,437,362 | Playboating, also known as Playboating or Rodeo, is a more gymnastic and artistic kind of canoeing. While the other varieties of canoeing generally involve going from Point A to Point B, playboaters often stay in one spot in the river (usually in a hole, pourover or on a wave) where they work with and against the dynam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19085388 | 1,436,553 |
1,691,036 | The subject has been described as significant and different from sociological and psychological approaches to the study of organizational behavior and human resource management in various ways. It analyzes labor use, which accounts for the largest part of production costs for most firms, by formulation of relatively si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1645942 | 1,690,086 |
1,522,807 | The 19th Reconnaissance Group met the German attack divided into three groups, each composed of a Carrier troop, a troop of the Group's Light Company, and three motorcycles with sidecars. Unable to resist the German attack, after a brief struggle, in which they reported two enemy tanks destroyed, the Greek forces defen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46884538 | 1,521,946 |
1,465,025 | The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) created under comprises the seven members of the board of governors and five representatives selected from the regional Federal Reserve Banks. The FOMC is charged under law with overseeing open market operations, the principal tool of national monetary policy. These operations a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26692249 | 1,464,202 |
383,612 | According to Max Schaefer, Blizzard's initial sales estimates for "Diablo" were modest. He remarked, "We were thinking that if everything went well, we would sell 100,000 copies." Following the game's positive press coverage before its release, estimates by the team were increased to roughly 500,000 copies, David Brevi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18985454 | 383,417 |
6,632 | In April 2016, [[Standards Australia]] submitted a proposal to the [[International Organization for Standardization]] to consider developing standards to support blockchain technology. This proposal resulted in the creation of ISO Technical Committee 307, Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies. The technical co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44065971 | 6,629 |
367,894 | Ashton Carter, then a board member at MIT, assessed SDI for Congress in 1984, saying there were a number of difficulties in creating an adequate missile defense shield, with or without lasers. Carter said X-rays have a limited scope because they become diffused through the atmosphere, much like the beam of a flashlight... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29186 | 367,701 |
677,335 | In October 1970 President Richard Nixon stated U.S. policy for Antarctica to be:[T]o maintain the Antarctic Treaty and ensure that this continent will continue to be used only for peaceful purposes and shall not become an area or object of international discord; to foster cooperative scientific research for the solutio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1253269 | 676,982 |
252,156 | The most recognizable external change was the use of the three-panel "Erla-Haube" clear-view canopy, which filled the entire canopy length behind the four-panel windscreen unit, which eliminated the older, rear fixed canopy section. Internal changes included inheriting the new 2,000 W generator and the DB 605 D-2 engin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24983642 | 252,023 |
129,758 | These events are at the tail end of the long GRB duration distribution, lasting more than 10,000 seconds. They have been proposed to form a separate class, caused by the collapse of a blue supergiant star, a tidal disruption event or a new-born magnetar. Only a small number have been identified to date, their primary c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48803 | 129,706 |
115,404 | VEP testing of acuity is somewhat similar to preferential looking in using a series of black and white stripes (sine wave gratings) or checkerboard patterns (which produce larger responses than stripes). Behavioral responses are not required and brain waves created by the presentation of the patterns are recorded inste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=648954 | 115,359 |
1,705,190 | Trump stressed the need for a COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible, and said one is being developed at "warp speed" (see Operation Warp Speed). He repeatedly suggested that a COVID-19 vaccine would be available before the end of 2020, possibly before the November 3 election. In mid-September 2020, Trump's chief of staf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65365100 | 1,704,234 |
330,635 | During the 20th century, neuroscience began to be recognized as a distinct academic discipline in its own right, rather than as studies of the nervous system within other disciplines. Eric Kandel and collaborators have cited David Rioch, Francis O. Schmitt, and Stephen Kuffler as having played critical roles in establi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21245 | 330,460 |
1,456,891 | Vollum and Murdock went on to found Tektronix, the first manufacturer of calibrated oscilloscopes (which included a graticule on the screen and produced plots with calibrated scales on the axes of the screen). Later developments by Tektronix included the development of multiple-trace oscilloscopes for comparing signals... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27598561 | 1,456,071 |
676,764 | While the origins of iron smelting are difficult to date by radiocarbon, there are fewer problems with using it to track the spread of ironworking after 400 BCE. In the 1960s it was suggested that iron working was spread by speakers of Bantu languages, whose original homeland has been located by linguists in the Benue ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20255436 | 676,411 |
1,326,585 | In order to account for the wide range of antigens the immune system can recognize, Paul Ehrlich in 1900 had hypothesized that preexisting ""side chain receptors"" bind a given pathogen, and that this interaction induces the cell exhibiting the receptor to multiply and produce more copies of the same receptor. This the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9335254 | 1,325,858 |
249,831 | Solar-power plants equipped with battery storage systems where net energy metering is used can feed stored electricity into the power grid when its frequency is below the rated parameter (50 Hz) and draw excess power from the grid when its frequency is above the rated parameter. Excursions above and below the rated gri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11291159 | 249,699 |
386,852 | Range was almost tripled from to more than , which could have been extended by external fuel tanks. This placed the aircraft in the category of a regional bomber, comparable to that of the F-111, as it was intended to replace the F-15E Strike Eagle and take over some of the missions of the B-1 and B-2. According to "Ai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=866934 | 386,657 |
459,830 | Males’ reproductive successes are often limited by access to mates, whereas females’ reproductive successes are more often limited by access to resources. Thus, for a given sexual encounter, it benefits the male to mate, but benefits the female to be choosy and resist. For example, male small tortoiseshell butterfly co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292265 | 459,605 |
501,908 | According to theories of the time, Shockley's field effect transistor, a cylinder coated thinly with silicon and mounted close to a metal plate, should have worked. He ordered Brattain and Bardeen to find out why it wouldn't. During November and December the two men carried out a variety of experiments, attempting to d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33133 | 501,650 |
456,502 | The fourth species detected in Mercury's exosphere was sodium (Na). It was discovered in 1985 by Drew Potter and Tom Morgan, who observed its Fraunhofer emission lines at 589 and 589.6 nm. The average column density of this element is about 1 cm. Sodium is observed to concentrate near the poles, forming bright spots. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13069246 | 456,279 |
1,921,249 | The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) opened in 1923. After E.O. Hulburt (1890-1982) arrived there in 1924 he studied physical optics. The NRL was conducting research on the properties of the ionosphere ("Earth's reflecting layer") because of interest in short wave radio communications. Hubert (Hulburt ?) produced a seri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25119101 | 1,920,146 |
1,463,472 | There is accumulating research concerning the negative effects of nicotine on prenatal brain development. Vaping during pregnancy can be harmful to the fetus. There is no supporting evidence demonstrating that vaping is safe for use in pregnant women. Nicotine accumulates in the fetus because it goes through the placen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61711836 | 1,462,649 |
1,409,528 | Three general properties of complex networks are heterogeneous degree distribution, short average path length and high clustering. Having the opportunity to define any arbitrary degree sequence, the first condition can be satisfied by design, but as shown above, the global clustering coefficient is an inverse function ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55924548 | 1,408,736 |
1,157,551 | Glass solders are available as frit powder with grain size below 60 micrometers. They can be mixed with water or alcohol to form a paste for easy application, or with dissolved nitrocellulose or other suitable binder for adhering to the surfaces until being melted. The eventual binder has to be burned off before meltin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31336130 | 1,156,938 |
797,406 | Unlike in an inorganic crystalline PV cell material, with its band structure and delocalized electrons, excitons in organic photovoltaics are strongly bound with an energy between 0.1 and 1.4 eV. This strong binding occurs because electronic wave functions in organic molecules are more localized, and electrostatic attr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18397250 | 796,981 |
19,631 | Imagery found on prehistoric murals and rock paintings of modern-day Spain and Algeria suggests that human usage of psilocybin mushrooms predates recorded history. In Mesoamerica, the mushrooms had long been consumed in spiritual and divinatory ceremonies before Spanish chroniclers first documented their use in the six... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38468 | 19,623 |
469,401 | Industrial biotechnology, also called "white biotechnology", is increasingly impacting the chemical industry, enabling both the conversion of renewable resources, such as sugar or vegetable oils, and the more efficient transformation of conventional raw materials into a wide range of commodities (e.g., cellulose, ethan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3694845 | 469,165 |
1,731,390 | Many materials, both manufactured and naturally occurring, derive their functionality from the spatial distribution of sample components. For example, extended release pharmaceutical formulations can be achieved by using a coating that acts as a barrier layer. The release of active ingredient is controlled by the prese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8288266 | 1,730,414 |
2,108,846 | With Tom Maas and Ron Johnson returning as seniors in 1963, expectations were high that UMD could repeat its 1962 MIAC and NAIA performances. However, at a meet against conference rival Saint John's University on the eve of the MIAC tournament, Maas suffered a corneal scratch when a piece of dirt deflected off of his c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50172482 | 2,107,632 |
2,007,427 | Christian creationism (Martin Luther) was popular until the 19th century, and the age of the Earth was thought to have been created circa 4,000 BC. There were stacks of calcareous rocks of maritime origin above sea level, and up and down motions were allowed (geosyncline hypothesis, James Hall and James D. Dana). Later... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28064738 | 2,006,276 |
339,902 | The discovery of a juvenile specimen with a nearly complete hindlimb shows that the legs were relatively longer in juveniles, and the lower segments of the leg (shin and foot) were relatively longer than the thigh. These differences suggest that younger "Allosaurus" were faster and had different hunting strategies than... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1347 | 339,722 |
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