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963,021 | For many years, the Olmec culture was thought to be the 'mother culture' of Mesoamerica, because of the great influence that it exercised throughout the region. However, more recent perspectives consider this culture to be more of a process to which all the contemporary peoples contributed, and which eventually crystal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=399215 | 962,512 |
2,021,083 | The "Grhl" gene family is tightly conserved between species across an estimated millions of years of evolution, also maintaining the binding site (AACCGGTT) on the target genes of "Grhl". While the presence of the "Grhl" genes varies between species, the functions regulated remain largely analogous. The reason for the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63194019 | 2,019,920 |
136,779 | Other manufacturers took note and soon other V6 engines were designed. In 1959, the GMC V6 engine was introduced in the form of a 60-degree petrol engine used in pickup trucks and carryalls. The Buick V6 engine was introduced in 1962 and was based on the all-alloy Buick 215 V8, which shared its 90° bank angle, but unli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32695 | 136,724 |
1,063,590 | UCP1 is expressed in brown adipose tissue, which is functionally found only in eutherians. The UCP1, or thermogenin, gene likely arose in an ancestor of modern vertebrates, but did not initially allow for our vertebrate ancestor to use non-shivering thermogenesis for warmth. It wasn't until heat generation was adaptive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=509661 | 1,063,036 |
489,600 | ESF is classified as a "Carnegie R2 Doctoral Universities: High Research Activity" institution. The first research report published in 1913 by the College of Forestry was the result of the above noted USDA Forest Service supported study of the wood-using industries of New York State. Since that time, the research initi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=523198 | 489,347 |
507,472 | Multivariate analysis was a critical facet even in the earliest applications of chemometrics. Data from infrared and UV/visible spectroscopy are often counted in thousands of measurements per sample. Mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance, atomic emission/absorption and chromatography experiments are also all by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314204 | 507,208 |
262,240 | The Honors Program at the University of Kentucky began in 1961. It offers interdisciplinary, seminar-style classes of 15–20 students each as well as "H-section" classes that accelerate common course offerings such as chemistry, biology, and physics. The program is intended to supplement the individual interests of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=284368 | 262,101 |
196,754 | Niépce called his process heliography, which literally means "sun drawing". In 1822, he used it to create what is believed to have been the world's first permanent photographic image, a contact-exposed copy of an engraving of Pope Pius VII, but it was later destroyed when Niépce attempted to make prints from it. The ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=143000 | 196,654 |
42,244 | Miyamoto has occasionally been critical of the role-playing game (RPG) genre. In a 1992 interview, when asked whether "Zelda" is an RPG series, he declined but classified it as "a real-time adventure"; he said he was "not interested in [games] decided by stats and numbers [but in preserving] as much of that 'live' feel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=79982 | 42,229 |
1,568,059 | In mid-2009, a gradual deterioration in the bearings of the antenna's rotation mechanism was noticed. Friction caused by this deterioration slowed the rotation rate of the antenna, leading to gaps in data recorded by QuikSCAT. The antenna ultimately failed on November 23, 2009. Upon failing, it was announced that the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3465350 | 1,567,172 |
175,708 | The more than 2,000 Radio Shack franchise stores sold third-party hardware and software, but the more than 4,300 company-owned stores were at first prohibited from reselling or even mentioning products not sold by Radio Shack itself. Green stated in 1980 that although "there are more programs for the 80 than for all ot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30747 | 175,616 |
798,381 | Mary K. Hawes of Burroughs Corporation set up a meeting in 1959 to discuss the creation a computer language that would be shared between businesses. Six people, including Hopper, attended to discuss the philosophy of creating a common business language (CBL). Hopper became involved in developing COBOL (Common Business ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2279544 | 797,956 |
880,269 | Rafinesque had a common-law wife. After their son died in 1815, he left her and returned to the United States. When his ship "Union" foundered near the coast of Connecticut, he lost all his books (50 boxes) and all his specimens (including more than 60,000 shells). Settling in New York, Rafinesque became a founding mem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=648136 | 879,805 |
546,253 | Japanese forces first landed on the mainland of New Guinea on 8 March 1942 when they invaded Lae and Salamaua to secure bases for the defence of the important base they were developing at Rabaul. In response, Australian guerrillas from the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles established observation posts around the Japanese be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22738876 | 545,967 |
1,387,603 | The symptoms of a metabolic myopathy can be easily confused with the symptoms of another disease. In most cases, a Muscle biopsy is necessary for an accurate diagnosis of the cause of muscle weakness. A blood test can be done under normal circumstances to test for genetic differences and signs of tissue breakdown, or w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20398392 | 1,386,836 |
762,456 | Lawrence saw that such a particle accelerator would soon become too long and unwieldy for his university laboratory. In pondering a way to make the accelerator more compact, Lawrence decided to set a circular accelerating chamber between the poles of an electromagnet. The magnetic field would hold the charged protons i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39040 | 762,048 |
113,020 | Thallium is the heaviest stable element in group 13 of the periodic table. At the bottom of the periodic table, the inert pair effect is quite strong, because of the relativistic stabilisation of the 6s orbital and the decreasing bond energy as the atoms increase in size so that the amount of energy released in forming... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=666 | 112,975 |
2,211,486 | Professor Bill Harris (17 November 1944 – 2 June 2014) was a genetic scientist who specialised in antibody research. An author of about 70 scientific research papers, author, editor, and contributor to many books, and 15 patent applications, Bill was most notable for his work translating science from the lab in to indu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43057743 | 2,210,226 |
600,332 | Three American patients have received whole cultured bladders with the help of doctors who use nanobiology techniques in their practice. Also, it has been demonstrated in animal studies that a uterus can be grown outside the body and then placed in the body in order to produce a baby. Stem cell treatments have been use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2154572 | 600,026 |
1,261,251 | Genomic analysis suggests that the "NR1D1" gene was present in the most recent common ancestor of all animals, with orthologs present in 378 species tested, including chimpanzees, dogs, mice, rats, chickens, zebrafish, frogs, and fruit flies. Comparison to the rat ortholog, "Nr1d1", indicates high conservation in the D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13530834 | 1,260,564 |
135,545 | Due to the lack of a system for checking for copying errors, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has a more rapid rate of variation than nuclear DNA. This 20-fold higher mutation rate allows mtDNA to be used for more accurate tracing of maternal ancestry. Studies of mtDNA in populations have allowed ancient migration paths to be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42888 | 135,490 |
1,809,934 | Like other electronic engine management systems, MEMS reads data from a number of sensors and computes an appropriate fueling rate and ignition advance/retard. The ECU samples engine speed, manifold absolute pressure, coolant temperature, intake air temperature, throttle position, and battery voltage. Base values for t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41717729 | 1,808,913 |
1,609,087 | careful design of the shape of the piston head, the valves and cam profile/valve timing which creates a vacuum that pulls more exhaust gases (and some of the intake gasses) out of the engine. This is immediately followed by a reflected pressure wave timed to force the extra intake gasses back into the cylinder, thus ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12147762 | 1,608,182 |
1,410,876 | In March 2001 Tapio Schneider published his regularized expectation–maximization (RegEM) technique for analysis of incomplete climate data. The original MBH98 and MBH99 papers avoided undue representation of large numbers of tree ring proxies by using a principal component analysis step to summarise these proxy network... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5354105 | 1,410,084 |
1,905,765 | Prionotus searobins have a large, nearly square head, Bonny head which bears a number of spines and ridges with a wide inter orbital space. The mouth is either terminal or slightly inferior with simple teeth on the jaws and on the roof of the mouth. There are 2 separate dorsal fins, the first with normally 10, sometime... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27537827 | 1,904,669 |
234,596 | In 1952, iproniazid, an antimycobacterial agent, was discovered to have psychoactive properties while researched as a possible treatment for tuberculosis. Researchers noted that patients given iproniazid became cheerful, more optimistic, and more physically active. Soon after its development, iproniazid and related sub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=625632 | 234,477 |
1,441,706 | Exxon Office Systems(EOS), Brookfield, Ct plunged into the non-impact printer business in the late 1970s and invested as much as $2 billion. Patent records show a lengthy list of printing background employees at the EOS, Exxon Enterprises, Danbury Systems Division starting in 1978 including Ken Bower who was recruited ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46964830 | 1,440,894 |
2,079,419 | He was appointed the Assistant Engineer to the Singapore Municipality in 1877. Then Governor of the Straits Settlements Frederick Weld strongly supported his candidature for the post. He was made an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers on 6 April 1880. Due to the declining health and later death of fe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71993370 | 2,078,220 |
1,255,096 | ARES has deployed for a variety of other emergencies and disasters, including the 2003 North America blackout. The blackout covered a wide geographical area of North America. In the United States its scope included Cleveland, Detroit, and New York City. Landline telephones and cell phone systems were overloaded and ama... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=414182 | 1,254,415 |
432,736 | Given that students in dual education systems receive high quality vocational training and education, they are well prepared to enter the job market at a young age, and the firms that participate in their training are more willing to hire them when they graduate. As a consequence, Germany has the lowest rate of youth u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3899523 | 432,523 |
841,850 | The American elm's biology in some ways has helped to spare it from obliteration by DED, in contrast to what happened to the American chestnut with the chestnut blight. The elm's seeds are largely wind-dispersed, and the tree grows quickly and begins bearing seeds at a young age. It grows well along roads or railroad t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=74223 | 841,400 |
1,527,589 | Among human societies, groups often target foods that pose some level of difficulty in their acquisition. These activities generally require the cooperation of several individuals. Despite the fact that a number of individuals are involved in this acquisition, ownership of the acquired food often goes to a single indiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53855904 | 1,526,725 |
1,801,918 | The AU-24A Stallion had the same side-mounted gun, as well as five underwing and fuselage stations. In January 1972, the second test phase for the AU-24A began at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The initial aircraft used, "72-1319", was leased from Helio and retained its civilian configuration, but it allowed basic flight t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,907 |
1,590,322 | Construction commenced in March 1943 and immediately launched a massive and technically challenging construction project. Most of the construction workforce, which reached a peak of nearly 45,000 in June 1944, lived in a temporary construction camp near the old Hanford townsite. Administrators, engineers and operating ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72002318 | 1,589,428 |
96,172 | Apart from this, more modern codes in computational science generally use large program libraries, such as METIS for graph partitioning, PETSc or Trilinos for linear algebra capabilities, deal.II or FEniCS for mesh and finite element support, and other generic libraries. Since the early 2000s, many of the widely used s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11168 | 96,131 |
304,978 | In August 2000, version 1.0 of SQLite was released, with storage based on gdbm (GNU Database Manager). In September 2001, SQLite 2.0 replaced gdbm with a custom B-tree implementation, adding transaction capability. In June 2004, SQLite 3.0 added internationalization, manifest typing, and other major improvements, parti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=244884 | 304,816 |
90,412 | The process of rooting varies widely by manufacturer and device but sometimes includes exploiting one or more security bugs in the firmware of (i.e., in the version of the Android OS installed on) the device. Once an exploit is discovered, a custom recovery image that will skip the digital signature check of firmware u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27901292 | 90,372 |
1,687,511 | Metrology standards are objects or ideas that are designated as being authoritative for some accepted reason. Whatever value they possess is useful for comparison to unknowns for the purpose of establishing or confirming an assigned value based on the standard. The execution of measurement comparisons for the purpose o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11172708 | 1,686,565 |
40,855 | On 5 February 1952, a Spitfire 19 of 81 Squadron based at Kai Tak in Hong Kong reached probably the highest altitude ever achieved by a Spitfire. The pilot, Flight Lieutenant Edward "Ted" Powles, was on a routine flight to survey outside air temperature and report on other meteorological conditions at various altitudes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26027181 | 40,840 |
1,129,753 | Reliability-based optimization (RBO) is a growing area of interest in MDO. Like response surface methods and evolutionary algorithms, RBO benefits from parallel computation, because the numeric integration to calculate the probability of failure requires many function evaluations. One of the first approaches employed a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=547743 | 1,129,175 |
980,370 | Small air cylinders, acting on the rotating heads of the coupler, ensure the Schaku coupler engagement, making it unnecessary to use shock to get a good coupling. Joining portions of a passenger train can be done at very low speed (less than in the final approach), so that the passengers are not jostled about. Rail equ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1178603 | 979,858 |
416,828 | Hewlett-Packard made a series of large-screen X-Y (vector) displays, the first of which was the 20 MHz 8x10" model 1300. The CRT had an internal, specially contoured, very fine mesh operating at low potential, which was placed after the deflection plates at the gun exit. The 17KV electrostatic field between this mesh a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10734793 | 416,625 |
1,537,461 | JULIA stands for Jicamarca Unattended Long-term Investigations of the Ionosphere and Atmosphere, a descriptive name for a system designed to observe equatorial plasma irregularities and neutral atmospheric waves for extended periods of time. JULIA is an independent PC-based data acquisition system that makes use of som... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19065605 | 1,536,590 |
315,920 | Many cell signals are carried by molecules that are released by one cell and move to make contact with another cell. Signaling molecules can belong to several chemical classes: lipids, phospholipids, amino acids, monoamines, proteins, glycoproteins, or gases. Signaling molecules binding surface receptors are generally ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4109042 | 315,751 |
1,474,890 | Prior to the publication of the BFH paper, George Gamow advocated a theory of the Universe in which almost all chemical elements, or equivalently atomic nuclei, were synthesized during the Big Bang. Gamow's theory (which differs from present-day Big Bang nucleosynthesis theory) would imply that the abundance of the che... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12317945 | 1,474,058 |
1,289,807 | Thomas' autobiographical account, corroborated by the participants in the early tetralogy operations (Denton Cooley and the late William P. Longmire, Jr., intern and resident respectively during the surgery) has led to the recent conclusion that Thomas' contribution, both experimentally and clinically, was so critical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=981614 | 1,289,098 |
1,104,426 | According to this scenario the Kuiper belt was originally much denser and closer to the Sun: it contained millions of planetesimals, and had an outer edge at approximately 30 AU, the present distance of Neptune. After the formation of the Solar System, the orbits of all the giant planets continued to change slowly, inf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1434249 | 1,103,863 |
349,342 | Fritz Höger was another notable Expressionist architect of the period. His Chilehaus was built as the headquarters of a shipping company, and was modeled after a giant steamship, a triangular building with a sharply pointed bow. It was constructed of dark brick, and used external piers to express its vertical structure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315927 | 349,160 |
247,560 | It is likely that there are multiple factors at play that could include some amount of vasospasm and failure of the microvasculature. These factors can overlap and create the complex sequela leading to ischemia and left ventricle contraction abnormality. For instance, estrogen, which confers protection to women by impr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7710140 | 247,432 |
1,089,539 | REST/NRSF in conjunction with RE1/NRSE also acts outside the nervous system as regulators and repressors. Current research has linked RE1/NRSE activity with the regulation of the expression of the atrial natriuretic peptide ("ANP") gene. An NRSE regulatory region is present in the 3’ untranslated region of the "ANP" ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3190493 | 1,088,979 |
1,126,134 | "Ophiacodon" most likely lived on land, but paleontologists have sometimes thought that it was semi-aquatic. An aquatic habitat for "Ophiacodon" was first proposed by paleontologist E. C. Case in 1907, although he later dismissed the idea. Anatomical features suggesting that it spent much of its time in the water inclu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4984839 | 1,125,557 |
1,160,356 | The MHC is a non-mentalistic model of developmental stages. It specifies 16 orders of hierarchical complexity and their corresponding stages. It is different from previous proposals about developmental stage applied to humans; instead of attributing behavioral changes across a person's age to the development of mental ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11911464 | 1,159,741 |
578,193 | Testicular microlithiasis is an unusual condition diagnosed on testicular ultrasound. It is believed to be found in 0.1 - 0.6% of males globally, with frequency varying based on geographic location and is more often found in individuals with subfertility. It is a often an asymptomatic, non-progressive disease; though i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4693638 | 577,897 |
1,127,359 | The first reported cases of knocked-out teeth being replanted was by Pare in 1593. In 1706, Pierre Fauchard also reported replanting knocked out teeth. Wigoper in 1933 used a cast gold splint to hold reimplanted teeth in place. In 1959, Lenstrup and Skieller declared that the success rate of replanted knocked out teeth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32039834 | 1,126,782 |
1,172,612 | Closed bell design must allow for access by divers wearing bulky diving suits and bailout sets appropriate for the depth. The amount of gas in the bailout set is calculated for a return rate of 10 metres per minute from the reach of the excursion umbilical, At greater depths this may require twin sets of high pressure ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63557168 | 1,171,993 |
1,979,944 | Despite high hopes, UMass got off to a rocky start. After winning their opening weekend, the Minutemen were swept by Boston College in a battle of top-10 teams. While the Maroon offense scored in both games, it was their goalies, who were normally stout in net, that let them down. The losses, however, weren't too damag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67443386 | 1,978,806 |
1,600,365 | Each of the companies involved had their own reasons for joining the ACE effort. MIPS wanted to reverse the fragmentation seen with existing MIPS-based systems that had limited wider adoption of the architecture. Various semiconductor companies, particularly "giants" such as Toshiba and NEC, were perceived as embracing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=924635 | 1,599,464 |
336,445 | On 16 December 2021, Ashok Leyland signed partnership agreement with Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment (CVRDE) to develop 600 hp engine for Future Combat Vehicle Programme. Instruments Research and Development Establishment (IRDE) on 27 December 2021 transferred technologies for developing border s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=745675 | 336,267 |
1,690,825 | The early fusion-fission designs were not well developed and only schematic outlines of the concept were shown. These systems looked like a scaled down version of NIF, with beamlines about long on either side of a target chamber and power generation area. The laser produced 1.4 MJ of UV light 13 times a second. The fus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46293573 | 1,689,878 |
615,412 | A typical characteristic of many animals that utilize undulatory locomotion is that they have segmented muscles, or blocks of myomeres, running from their head to tails which are separated by connective tissue called myosepta. In addition, some segmented muscle groups, such the lateral hypaxial musculature in the salam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37930465 | 615,098 |
546,265 | In late 1944, the Australian Government committed twelve Australian Army brigades to replace six US Army divisions which were conducting defensive roles in Bougainville, New Britain and the Aitape–Wewak area in New Guinea in order to free up the American units for operations in the Philippines. While the US units had l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22738876 | 545,979 |
994,121 | The AV industry is growing exponentially, and according to a report by Market Research Future, the market is expected to hit over $65 billion by 2027. AV insurance and rising competition are expected to fuel that growth. Auto insurance for ADAS has directly affected the global economy, and many questions have arisen wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=984718 | 993,604 |
307,456 | In the late 19th Century and into the very early 20th Century, except for staple foods (sugar, rice, and beans) that needed no refrigeration, the available foods were affected heavily by the seasons and what could be grown locally. Refrigeration has removed these limitations. Refrigeration played a large part in the fe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46238 | 307,291 |
1,017,802 | The only major aesthetic difference of the Magna relative to its Japanese donor was the wider body, as the general styling and side profile were similar also thanks to shared tooling for doors, guards and pillars. While still smaller and lighter than its then current RWD rivals, the Ford Falcon and Holden Commodore, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=903910 | 1,017,278 |
1,869,929 | Iran possesses a large number of shore-, ship-based, and air-launched anti-ship missiles and anti-ship cruise missiles. These assets include shore batteries of anti-ship cruise missiles near the Strait, along its coast and on its islands in the Gulf, many of which are on mobile launchers. Many of Iran’s missiles can be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64013412 | 1,868,852 |
2,025,900 | The Eocene Okanagan Highlands hosted a diverse mix of temperate and tropical paleobiotic elements, with the forests having the first significant proportions of temperate plants in North America. The paleobotanical community was a mixture of plants found in subtropical evergreen and temperate deciduous forests. Included... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67779815 | 2,024,734 |
909,577 | Women were allowed to compete in the Olympic speed skating competition for the first time in 1960. Multiple nations had requested the inclusion of women's speed skating events in the program for the 1956 Games, but the request was rejected by the IOC. The issue was revisited for the 1960 Games, and since women had been... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=163231 | 909,098 |
1,068,843 | Deficiencies of various micronutrients, including vitamin A, zinc, and iron are common in low and middle-income countries and affect billions of people. These can lead to, amongst other symptoms, a higher incidence of blindness, a weaker immune system, stunted growth and impaired cognitive development. The poor, partic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18684057 | 1,068,289 |
1,032,776 | By mid-1941, officials in the War Office and the British Army had taken the decision that light tanks were no longer to be used by the British Army due to their inferior weapons and armour, as well as their poor performance during the conflict. Consequently, the Mk VIII was obsolete by the time that any significant num... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4601125 | 1,032,240 |
626,859 | Because minimally conscious state is a relatively new criterion for diagnosis, there are very few functional imaging studies of patients with this condition. Preliminary data has shown that overall cerebral metabolism is less than in those with conscious awareness (20–40% of normal) and is slightly higher but comparabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2213172 | 626,526 |
844,490 | Areas that include much of mechanical, aerospace and chemical engineering and may be specifically exempted from regulation under an "industrial exemption". The industrial exemption varies from state to state. An industrial exemption covers engineers who design products such as automobiles that are sold (or have the pot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=291251 | 844,040 |
1,588,330 | Almost all of the that makes up what is now called the "North Tract" (the Patuxent River bisects the refuge into the North and Central/South Tracts) were transferred in 1991 from the Defense Department's Fort Meade landholdings. It is here that the history of Patuxent Research Refuge is most apparent to the everyday vi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2349086 | 1,587,436 |
1,580,439 | Powell was known for his extensive work in numerical analysis, especially nonlinear optimisation and approximation. He was a founding member of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and a founding Managing Editor of the "Journal for Numerical Analysis". His mathematical contributions include quasi-Newton me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16082618 | 1,579,549 |
1,370,604 | Soviet rocketry commenced in 1921 with development of Solid-fuel rockets, which resulted in the development of the Katyusha rocket launcher. Rocket scientists and engineers, particularly Valentin Glushko and Sergei Korolev, contributed to the development of Liquid-fuel rockets, which were first used for fighter aircraf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49664317 | 1,369,848 |
798,738 | This was the beginning of their protracted parliamentary campaign, during which Wilberforce introduced a motion in favour of abolition almost every year. Clarkson, Wilberforce and the other members of the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade and their supporters, were responsible for generating and sustaining... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=444841 | 798,313 |
587,502 | Although it is very popular in tactile research labs, the GOT is admittedly less practical for clinical use, as it requires specialized pre-constructed stimulus objects, which span a fixed spatial range, rather than a single continuously adjustable calipers. The comparative simplicity and flexibility of the 2PD test ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15559508 | 587,201 |
1,198,190 | The WS3 system consists of a Weapons Storage Vault (WSV) and electronic monitoring and control systems. One vault can hold up to four nuclear weapons and in the lowered position provides ballistic protection through its hardened lid and reinforced sidewalls. The WS3 system allowed storage directly underneath the aircra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6994524 | 1,197,549 |
1,382,301 | Caseidae are an extinct family of basal synapsids that lived from the Late Carboniferous to Middle Permian between about 300 and 265 million years ago. Fossils of these animals come from the south-central part of the United States (Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas), from various parts of Europe (European Russia, France, Ger... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4962651 | 1,381,538 |
1,558,224 | The Mir 18 crew settled into their daily routine, collecting body fluid samples for the seven metabolic experiments to be performed during their mission. They also took air and water samples for four hygiene, sanitation and radiation experiments which would determine the role of the Mir environment in human health, saf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=851176 | 1,557,339 |
47,432 | These differences may give Cas12a some advantages over Cas9. For example, Cas12a's small crRNAs are ideal for multiplexed genome editing, as more of them can be packaged in one vector than can Cas9's sgRNAs. As well, the sticky 5′ overhangs left by Cas12a can be used for DNA assembly that is much more target-specific t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2146034 | 47,413 |
724,831 | The number of microtubules attached to one kinetochore is variable: in "Saccharomyces cerevisiae" only one MT binds each kinetochore, whereas in mammals there can be 15–35 MTs bound to each kinetochore. However, not all the MTs in the spindle attach to one kinetochore. There are MTs that extend from one centrosome to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=998893 | 724,450 |
1,464,461 | Treeline is the elevation above which trees cannot grow. It is controlled by a complex of environmental conditions, primarily soil temperatures and the length of the growing season—which becomes shorter with higher elevations. The elevation of treeline rises steadily at the rate of per degree of latitude from the north... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28457711 | 1,463,638 |
140,201 | There are currently two detectors focused on the higher end of the gravitational wave spectrum (10 to 10 Hz): one at University of Birmingham, England, and the other at INFN Genoa, Italy. A third is under development at Chongqing University, China. The Birmingham detector measures changes in the polarization state of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8111079 | 140,144 |
1,047,490 | Although Indonesia experiences very large, great, and giant thrust earthquakes offshore at the Sunda Trench, this was a large strike-slip event that occurred on the southern coast of Java near the city of Yogyakarta. Mount Merapi lies nearby, and during its many previous historical eruptions, large volume lahars and vo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5309730 | 1,046,945 |
71,923 | The Growler has more than 90% in common with the standard Super Hornet, sharing airframe, Raytheon AN/APG-79 AESA radar and weapon systems such as the AN/AYK-22 stores management system. Most of the dedicated airborne electronic attack equipment is mounted on a plate in the space that used to house the internal 20 mm c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=833647 | 71,896 |
274,434 | An alternative for the construction of RS-25 engines to be used in SLS missions is the use of advanced structural ceramics, such as thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) and ceramic-matrix composites (CMCs). These materials possess significantly lower thermal conductivities than metallic alloys, thus allowing more efficient ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=680000 | 274,286 |
452,952 | In 2012, "Ichthyovenator" describers established the unique derived traits of the genus: its dorsal and sacral sinusoidal sail; the thirteenth dorsal neural spine being 410% the length of the centrum, and its distinct, finger-shaped process on its front upper corner; the broad, expanded tips of the third and fourth sac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35587737 | 452,731 |
1,758,081 | PJTE and combined PJTE plus JTE effects in molecular structures. There is a practically unlimited number of molecular systems for which the origin of their structural properties was revealed and/or rationalized based on the PJTE, or a combination of the PJTE and JTE. The latter stems from the fact that in any system wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52837586 | 1,757,088 |
1,238,322 | Soon after a fly dies from infection with this pathogenic fungus, large primary conidia are produced at the apex of a conidiophore which emerge from the intersegmental membranes. When the spores are mature they are forcibly ejected and may fall onto flies resting nearby. If no hosts are available for infection, a small... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20944914 | 1,237,656 |
1,852,315 | Ceperley's pioneering work on the development and application of the path integral Monte Carlo method for quantum many-body systems, such as superfluid helium and hydrogen under extreme conditions has been recognised by several organisations including Fellow of the American Physical Society (1992), the Eugene Feenberg ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22495842 | 1,851,254 |
1,686,126 | During his many business trips to Santafé, Caldas was more concerned with scientific observation and devoted long hours to determine geographical coordinates and to make observations. He was particularly concerned with determining the geographical location and altitude of different places, so he was always using a baro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9282456 | 1,685,180 |
1,975,429 | The Engineering Division merged with the Supply Division in 1926 to form the Material Division. The new unit required more space than McCook Field offered, so in an effort to keep the Air Service presence at Dayton, Ohio a local interest group led by John H. Patterson and his son Frederick bought of land, including Wil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14559659 | 1,974,292 |
506,543 | "Phytophthora cinnamomi" is a soil-borne pathogen first reported in tropical and subtropical countries, but is now found to be able to survive and develop in cooler countries as well. "P. cinnamomi" is spread as zoospores and/or chlamydospores in soil and water are placed in favorable conditions, such as warm and moist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1527015 | 506,279 |
556,131 | The earliest known examples of architecture in England are the megalithic tombs of the Neolithic, such as those at Wayland's Smithy and the West Kennet Long Barrow. These "cromlechi" are common over much of Atlantic Europe: present day Spain; Brittany; Great Britain; and Ireland. Radiocarbon dating has shown them to be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1194886 | 555,842 |
1,641,308 | The study of immunotoxicology began in the 1970s. However, the idea that some substances have a negative effect on the immune system was not a novel concept as people have observed immune system alterations as a result of contact toxins since ancient Egypt. Immunotoxicology has become increasingly important when consid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6389879 | 1,640,381 |
1,032,242 | The SPA Delhi has a "Deemed University" status, while SPA Bhopal and SPA Vijayawada function autonomously, and their special status as "Institutes of National Importance" facilitates the smooth running of SPAs, virtually free from both regional as well as student politics. Such autonomy means that SPAs can create their... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14866369 | 1,031,706 |
967,677 | Germany started replacing some of its PZB and LZB systems in 2015. During 2014 it was planned to use a dual equipment for the four main freight corridors to comply with the EC 913/2010 regulation. Further testing showed that a full ETCS system can increase capacity by 5-10% leading into a new concept "Zukunft Bahn" to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2214121 | 967,167 |
891,896 | The uplift has taken place in two distinct stages. The initial uplift following deglaciation was almost immediate due to the elastic response of the crust as the ice load was removed. After this elastic phase, uplift proceeded by slow viscous flow at an exponentially decreasing rate. Today, typical uplift rates are of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=598434 | 891,427 |
614,092 | Mani Lal Bhaumik was born in a Bengali Mahishya family on March 30, 1931 in a small village in Tamluk, Medinipore, West Bengal, India and attended the Kola Union High School. His father Gunodhar Bhaumik was a notable freedom fighter. As a teenager, Bhaumik spent some time with Mahatma Gandhi in his Mahisadal camp. He r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4877968 | 613,780 |
495,184 | The biogeography and early evolutionary history of pachycephalosaurs is poorly understood, and can only be clarified by new discoveries. Pachycephalosaurs appear abruptly in the fossil record, and are present in both North America and Asia, so it is unknown when they first originated, and from which direction they disp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2274197 | 494,928 |
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