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240,082 | Other sources propose alternate hypotheses: ""To our knowledge, the earliest proposal of ancient hominin impacts in Africa can be traced to J. Desmond Clark's (1959) overview of southern African prehistory. Referring to a handful of large herbivores whose last appearances in southern Africa are now known to range in ag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1128035 | 239,962 |
1,565,568 | Weisner in March 1942 first noted the production of an antibiotic by strains of "A. clavatus", and the active substance was known as "clavatin." Later the antibiotic was named "clavacin" in August 1942 by Waksman, Horning and Spencer. Clavacin is also known as patulin. Patulin is receiving significant attention in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51666001 | 1,564,681 |
235,516 | There are numerous different microhabitat types in a wood; coniferous forest, broad-leafed forest, open woodland, scattered trees, woodland verges, clearings, and glades; tree trunk, branch, twig, bud, leaf, flower, and fruit; rough bark, smooth bark, damaged bark, rotten wood, hollow, groove, and hole; canopy, shrub l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1596317 | 235,397 |
421,859 | The creation of defects such as voids or bubbles, precipitates, dislocation loops or lines, and defect clusters can strengthen a material because they block dislocation motion. The movement of dislocations is what leads to plastic deformation. While this hardens the material, the downside is that there is a loss of duc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2904516 | 421,653 |
236,760 | The molecular basis of dominance was unknown to Mendel. It is now understood that a gene locus includes a long series (hundreds to thousands) of bases or nucleotides of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) at a particular point on a chromosome. The central dogma of molecular biology states that ""DNA makes RNA makes protein"", ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68300 | 236,641 |
457,898 | Protection motivation theory conventionally has been applied in the personal health contexts. A meta-analysis study on protection motivation theory categorized major six topics: cancer prevention (17%), exercise/diet/healthy lifestyle (17%), smoking (9%), AIDS prevention (9%), alcohol consumption (8%), and adherence to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22415694 | 457,675 |
1,746,136 | Early in 2008, DirecTV agreed to distribute the MountainWest Sports Network (The mtn.) nationally on its satellite system beginning August 27, 2008 on channel 616. National satellite distribution was the MWC's primary media goal for the previous two years. The mtn. was the first regional sports network dedicated solely... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14893080 | 1,745,150 |
401,227 | The Air Corps Mockup Board met at Northrop on 2 April 1941, to inspect the XP-61 mock-up. They recommended several changes following this review. Most prominently, the four 20 mm (.79 in) M2 cannon were relocated from the outer wings to the belly of the aircraft, clustered tightly with the forward-facing ventral "step"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=458868 | 401,028 |
866,927 | In the Smithsonian Channel TV program, "Da Vinci Detective," Seracini conjectures that, upon seeing the preliminary drawings for the altarpiece they had commissioned, the monks of San Donato rejected it due to the sensational scenario presented to them. Fully expecting a traditional interpretation including the three w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1843479 | 866,467 |
1,317,138 | "B. bacteriovorus" appears to be ubiquitous in nature and manmade habitats. They have been found in soil samples, rhizosphere of plant roots, rivers, oceans, sewage, intestines and feces of birds and mammals, and even in oyster shells and the gills of crabs. "B. bacteriovorus" are able to thrive in almost any habitat, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40139 | 1,316,413 |
1,312,743 | The ecological analysis of language draws on a wide range of linguistic tools including critical discourse analysis, framing theory, cognitive linguistics, identity theory, rhetoric and systemic functional grammar to reveal underlying worldviews or the 'stories we live by'. The stories we live by are cognitive structur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3560440 | 1,312,023 |
1,360,254 | In 1998 Porsche designed a Le Mans Prototype for the following season, assigning it the codename 9R3. It was initially to use a modified version of the turbocharged flat-six engine found in the Porsche 911 road car, but, although the design was completed in November 1998, Porsche opted against building the car. Due to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12033317 | 1,359,502 |
788,493 | The process of pit nucleation is initiated by the depassivation of the protective oxide layer isolating the metal substrate from the aggressive solution. The depassivation of the protective oxide layer is the less properly understood step in pitting corrosion and its very local and random appearance probably its most e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1895068 | 788,069 |
537,641 | The Wilks formula comes into play when comparing and determining overall champions across the different categories. The formula can also be used in team and handicap competitions where the team includes lifters of significantly varying bodyweights. The Wilks formula, like its predecessors (the O'Carroll and Schwartz fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4168063 | 537,362 |
13,262 | Although the F-4C was essentially identical to the Navy/Marine Corps F-4B in-flight performance and carried the AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles, USAF-tailored F-4Ds initially arrived in June 1967 equipped with AIM-4 Falcons. However, the Falcon, like its predecessors, was designed to shoot down heavy bombers flying straight ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11759 | 13,257 |
2,021,080 | The Grainyhead-like ("Grhl") gene family is a group of highly conserved transcription factors, which work to regulate the expression of specific target genes. "Grainyhead" ("Grh") was originally identified in "Drosophila" as being implicated within development through its role of regulating numerous genetic pathways. W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63194019 | 2,019,917 |
1,998,295 | Bradman's dominant cricketing stature was also a key platform of his team's popularity with the public. The leading English writer R. C. Robertson-Glasgow said "we want him to do well. We feel we have a share in him. He is more than Australian. He is a world batsman." Haigh opined that "perhaps no touring cricketer ...... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21051201 | 1,997,152 |
1,290,289 | The University CanSat Challenge by ARDL – CanSat comes to India is a design-build-fly competition that provides teams with an opportunity to experience the design life-cycle of an aerospace system. The University CanSat Challenge is designed to reflect a typical aerospace program on a small scale. The mission and its r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33410235 | 1,289,579 |
2,198,551 | Driving factors in the modification of PNPs stem from their surface properties (surface charge, hydrophobicity, functional groups, etc.). Functional groups can bind to tissue-specific ligands for targeted drug delivery. Functional ligands may include protein receptors, antibodies, and smaller peptides. The purpose of l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70704600 | 2,197,300 |
797,216 | In the simplest case formula_27, the selected single eigenvector formula_10, called the Fiedler vector, corresponds to the second smallest eigenvalue. Using the components of formula_29 one can place all points whose component in formula_10 is positive in the set formula_31 and the rest in formula_32, thus bi-partition... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13651683 | 796,791 |
630,570 | The Gunn diode is based on the Gunn effect, and both are named for physicist J. B. Gunn. At IBM in 1962, he discovered the effect because he refused to accept inconsistent experimental results in gallium arsenide as "noise", and determined the cause. Alan Chynoweth, of Bell Telephone Laboratories, showed in June 1965 t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1290862 | 630,232 |
480,245 | Schultes' botanical field-work among aboriginal American communities led him to be one of the first to alert the world about destruction of the Amazon rain-forest and the disappearance of its native people. He collected over thirty thousand herbarium specimens (including three hundred species new to Western science) an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=864885 | 480,001 |
22,596 | At the Vietnam war's peak the US Army had 21 Chinook companies in Vietnam. Pilots discovered the CH-47A's transmission system could not handle the two gas turbines running at full power, and high humidity and heat reduced the maximum lift by more than 20% in the low lands and 30% in mountain areas. More powerful, impro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38005 | 22,587 |
158,008 | After his Ph.D., he worked at the University of Sussex and, (after difficulty finding funding in Britain), the University of California, San Diego and Carnegie Mellon University. He was the founding director of the Gatsby Charitable Foundation Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London and a professor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=507174 | 157,927 |
308,048 | The "Reichsmarine" held a conference to evaluate the designs in May 1925, though the results were inconclusive. Of particular importance was the continued French occupation of the Ruhr industrial area, which prevented Germany from quickly building large-caliber artillery. Nevertheless, the design staff prepared another... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3010318 | 307,883 |
576,132 | Using the seminal publication by Eaborn in 1976, which forms arylstannanes from arylhalides and distannanes, T. Ross Kelly applied this process to the intramolecular coupling of arylhalides. This tandem stannylation/aryl halide coupling was used for the syntheses of a variety of dihydrophenanthrenes. Most of the intern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1224067 | 575,838 |
423,877 | The primary difference between the two paradigms was in the degree that encapsulation was considered a major requirement. For the object-oriented paradigm encapsulation was one of, if not the most, critical requirement. The desire to reduce the potential interactions between software components and hence manage large c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9924067 | 423,670 |
171,857 | From 09:00:00 to 19:30:00, a sleep period was scheduled. The astronauts slept well, but complained of being woken by non-English transmissions. Scott theorized that they were possibly in Chinese. The highlight of the second day in orbit (March 4) was three SPS burns. The initial burn, at 22:12:04.1, lasted 110 seconds,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1774 | 171,766 |
1,929,052 | James T. Shotwell represented the first generation of genuinely cosmopolitan American policy intellectuals. His obituary in the New York Times observed that he was "among the most respected and dedicated protagonists of internationalism in the United States," a man who saw "the world as a whole." In many respects, this... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3041553 | 1,927,947 |
1,814,511 | The FAST mission uses a unique (not a SAMPEX derivative), lightweight, orbit-normal spinner spacecraft developed by the SMEX project. The spacecraft has body-mounted solar arrays, and is spin-stabilized, rotating at 12 rpm with the spin axis normal to the orbit plane ("cartwheel"). The four FAST experiments are: (1) th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6300866 | 1,813,477 |
1,096,418 | In 2000, Niwa et al. used conditional expression and repression in murine embryonic stem cells to determine requirements for Oct-4 in the maintenance of developmental potency. Although transcriptional determination has often been considered as a binary on-off control system, they found that the precise level of Oct-4 g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1210030 | 1,095,858 |
580,944 | Based on these data sources, scientists think that the most abundant chemical elements in the Martian crust are silicon, oxygen, iron, magnesium, aluminium, calcium, and potassium. These elements are major components of the minerals comprising igneous rocks. The elements titanium, chromium, manganese, sulfur, phosphoru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34298804 | 580,647 |
739,028 | The vast majority (≈80%) of corn ethanol in the United States is produced by dry milling. In the dry milling process, the entire corn kernel is ground into flour, or "mash," which is then slurried by adding water. Enzymes are added to the mash to hydrolyze the starch into simple sugars. Ammonia is added to control the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9625817 | 738,636 |
998,027 | Later that night, "Tennessee" and "Idaho" came under submarine attack, but they narrowly evaded the torpedoes in the darkness. The evacuation transport took off "Tennessee"s wounded, and the dead were buried at sea the next day. After completing emergency repairs, the ship returned to the firing line on 14 April, remai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196975 | 997,509 |
1,838,102 | The Tufts OpenCourseWare (OCW) project, was a web-based publication of educational material from a number of Tufts University courses, providing open sharing of free, searchable, high-quality course content to educators, students, and self-learners throughout the global community. The Tufts OCW initiative encouraged th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19425510 | 1,837,053 |
715,572 | The composition of thermoelectric devices can dramatically vary depending on the temperature of the heat they must harvest; considering the fact that more than eighty percent of industry waste falls within a range of 373-575 K, chalcogenides and antimonides are better suited for thermoelectric conversion because they c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=476993 | 715,198 |
765,371 | "E. electricus" has an elongated, cylindrical body, typically growing to about in length, and in weight, making them the largest of the Gymnotiformes. Their coloration is dark gray-brown on the back and yellow or orange on the belly. Mature females have a darker abdomen. They have no scales. The mouth is square and pos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=225268 | 764,961 |
249,774 | Physicist Joseph Polchinski argued that one could avoid questions of free will by considering a potentially paradoxical situation involving a billiard ball sent back in time. In this situation, the ball is fired into a wormhole at an angle such that, if it continues along its course, it will exit in the past at just th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48402268 | 249,642 |
1,941,907 | Microbial symbiosis in marine animals was not discovered until 1981. In the time following, symbiotic relationships between marine invertebrates and chemoautotrophic bacteria have been found in a variety of ecosystems, ranging from shallow coastal waters to deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Symbiosis is a way for marine org... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46861405 | 1,940,796 |
1,351,326 | As Body Farm research continues to evolve, the researchers at the Anthropological Research Facility continue to identify new methods to calculate the postmortem interval, body identification, and any other variables that might aid criminal investigations. Time of death in a homicide case can make the difference between... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16471345 | 1,350,580 |
660,704 | Yellow 2P+E, blue P+N+E, yellow 3P+E, red 3P+E, and red 3P+N+E are by far the most common arrangements. Blue P+N+E sockets (generally 16 A, although 32 A is becoming more common) are used as standard by British and Danish campsites and yacht marinas to provide 240 V domestic mains power to frame-tents, trailer-tents, c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=976663 | 660,359 |
755,077 | As agreed at Cherchell, starting at midnight and continuing through the early hours of 8 November, as the invasion troops were approaching the shore, a group of 400 French resistance under the command of Henri d'Astier de la Vigerie and José Aboulker staged a coup in the city of Algiers. They seized key targets, includ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=376965 | 754,674 |
1,571,939 | Pavel Grigoryevich Demidov established the Demidov Law School by private means in 1803. On June 18, 1803, Alexander the First, signed an Edict to the Senate about opening a higher educational institution in Yaroslavl. At first Demidov has been in contact with the Imperial authorities regarding the foundation of a unive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7024061 | 1,571,051 |
521,128 | Recent studies with SynVivo Synthetic microvascular network (SMN) made it possible to study anti-inflammatory therapeutics to treat pathologies caused by neutrophil dysfunction. The SMN enables the thorough analysis of each stage of leukocyte extravasation, thereby providing a methodology to quantify the effect of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11115752 | 520,857 |
281,579 | Combat feedback enabled Boeing engineers to improve the aircraft; when the first model B-17E began operating from English airfields in July 1942, it had many more defensive gun positions including a vitally important tail gunner. Eventually, U.S. heavy bomber designs, optimized for formation flying, had 10 or more mach... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=343960 | 281,426 |
467,794 | "Lunokhod 2" continues to be detected by lunar laser ranging experiments and its position is known to sub-metre accuracy. Ownership of "Lunokhod 2" and the "Luna 21" lander was sold by the Lavochkin Association for in December 1993 at a Sotheby's auction in New York (although the catalogue incorrectly lists lot 68A as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45114 | 467,559 |
104,745 | Observations indicate that the rate at which material is ejected from the supermassive black hole is variable. These variations produce pressure waves in the hot gas surrounding M87. The Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected loops and rings in the gas. Their distribution suggests that minor eruptions occur every few m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=214077 | 104,700 |
1,479,870 | The RadLab team, overseen by Lee Davenport, had a prototype radar system running in April 1941. To test the automatic aiming system, they attached the outputs from the radar to a gun turret taken from a Boeing B-29 bomber, removing the guns and replacing them with a camera. A friend then flew his light plane around the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3972623 | 1,479,036 |
522,548 | In 1957, the Russian flight of Sputnik 1 prompted the United States to accelerate its fledgling space program. On July 29, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which established NASA and subsumed NACA within this newly created organization. Langley Research Center became a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=969608 | 522,276 |
1,387,375 | A ground dipole functions as an enormous vertically oriented loop antenna ("see drawing, right"). It consists of two widely separated electrodes buried in the ground, connected by overhead transmission cables to a transmitter located between them. The alternating current from the transmitter travels in a loop through o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9920139 | 1,386,608 |
565,469 | In an economic context, this approach could relay and connect data regarding how best to manage resources, production processes, distribution, consumption, recycling, waste disposal behavior, consumer demand and so on. Such a process of networked economic feedback would work on the same principle as modern systems of i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44379754 | 565,179 |
1,284,827 | To repair and regenerate damaged tissue, nanogels have been explored to not only encapsulate drugs and growth factors for local administration, but also to serve as porous scaffolds at a tissue implantation site. Boron-containing temperature-responsive nanogels formed a solid scaffold upon injection into a critical bon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21729741 | 1,284,128 |
497,506 | Currently, researchers are examining the correlations between maternal diet during pregnancy and its effect on the offspring's susceptibility for chronic diseases later in life. The fetal programming hypothesis highlights the idea that environmental stimuli during critical periods of fetal development can have lifelong... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=343457 | 497,249 |
854,831 | Though more prevalent in the first half of the 20th century, many contemporary songs show similarity to the form, such as "Memory", from "Cats", which features expanded form through the B and A sections repeated in new keys. Songwriters such as Lennon–McCartney and those working in the Brill Building also used modified... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1162573 | 854,376 |
663,154 | In exposed systems, wind can create turbulent, spiral-formed surface currents called Langmuir circulations. Exactly how these currents become established is still not well understood, but it is evident that it involves some interaction between horizontal surface currents and surface gravity waves. The visible result of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4479734 | 662,809 |
44,403 | On 28 February 1928, they obtained spectra of the modified scattering separate from the incident light. Due to difficulty in measuring the wavelengths of light, they had been relying on visual observation of the colour produced from sunlight through prism. Raman had invented a type of spectrograph for detecting and mea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276727 | 44,386 |
1,944,506 | Michele Pagano is an Italian-American biochemist and cancer biologist best known for his work on cell cycle control and the ubiquitin-proteasome system. He is currently the chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, and the Ellen and Gerald Ritter Professor of Oncology at the New York Univer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61524566 | 1,943,394 |
1,086,300 | NASA management was concerned about losing the 400,000 workers involved in Apollo after landing on the Moon in 1969. A reason Wernher von Braun, head of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center during the 1960s, advocated for a smaller station after his large one was not built was that he wished to provide his employees wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1126794 | 1,085,742 |
116,048 | Photovoltaic systems have long been used in specialized applications as stand-alone installations and grid-connected PV systems have been in use since the 1990s. Photovoltaic modules were first mass-produced in 2000, when the German government funded a one hundred thousand roof program. Decreasing costs has allowed PV ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=652531 | 116,003 |
703,062 | Hermer and Spelke (1994) determined that when toddlers begin to walk, around eighteen months, they navigate by their sense of the world's layout. McNamara, Hardy and Hirtle identified region membership as a major building block of anyone's cognitive map (1989). Specifically, region membership is defined by any kind of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=858937 | 702,694 |
1,270,349 | The fourth flight on 26 October 2019, 17:42 UTC, ended in failure. The flight suffered multiple failures: first, the rocket lost control of attitude seconds after launch. Second, the rocket appears to have disintegrated to some degree as several pieces of debris fell back to the ground. Third, the launch vehicle separa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48475148 | 1,269,658 |
323,376 | Cycloaliphatic epoxides contain one or more aliphatic rings in the molecule on which the oxirane ring is contained (e.g. 3,4-epoxycyclohexylmethyl-3',4'-epoxycyclohexane carboxylate). They are produced by the reaction of a cyclic alkene with a peracid (see above). Cycloaliphatic epoxides are characterised by their alip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211724 | 323,204 |
254,847 | In October 2020, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services published its report on the 'era of pandemics' by 22 experts in a variety of fields, and concluded that anthropogenic destruction of biodiversity is paving the way to the pandemic era, and could result in as many as 85... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34439 | 254,714 |
957,979 | Richard Dawkins is harshly critical of intelligent design in his book "The God Delusion." In this book, he contends that an appeal to intelligent design can provide no explanation for biology because it not only begs the question of the designer's own origin but raises additional questions: an intelligent designer must... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30731 | 957,473 |
2,171,000 | This gene encodes a member of a family of small membrane proteins that share a 35-amino acid signature sequence domain, beginning with the sequence PFXYD and containing 7 invariant and 6 highly conserved amino acids. The approved human gene nomenclature for the family is FXYD-domain containing ion transport regulator. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14818496 | 2,169,762 |
1,573,131 | Neuron shape and structure, such as dendritic/axonal arborization, axonal geometry, synaptic contacts and soma location, is used for neuronal type classification. In acute slice preparations or "in vivo" the laminar position is noted as it has important functional consequences as well. The staining by biotin is perform... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66692692 | 1,572,242 |
1,470,725 | A phenomenon closely related to segregation distortion is homing endonucleases. These are enzymes that cut DNA in a sequence-specific way, and those cuts, generally double-strand breaks, are then "healed" by the regular DNA repair machinery. Homing endonucleases insert themselves into the genome at the site homologous ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44353 | 1,469,899 |
2,004,133 | The main theme of Bennett's philosophical work is that brain scientists have misused language in attributing our psychological capacities as in thinking, remembering, perceiving etc. to the brain. Rather it is the person whose brain it is that possesses these attributes, the brain being necessary for us to express thes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42104162 | 2,002,984 |
903,772 | In 2006 and 2007, a further development of the HSD drivetrain, under the Lexus Hybrid Drive name, was applied on the Lexus GS 450h / LS 600h sedans. This system uses two clutches (or brakes) to switch the second motor's gear ratio to the wheels between a ratio of 3.9 and 1.9, for low and high speed driving regimes resp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1277811 | 903,296 |
410,719 | Therefore, Kant proposes a new basis for a science of metaphysics, posing the question: how is a science of metaphysics possible, if at all? According to Kant, only practical reason, the faculty of moral consciousness, the moral law of which everyone is immediately aware, makes it possible to know things as they are. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=347543 | 410,517 |
1,119,732 | Ptychography can be used with visible light, X-rays, extreme ultraviolet (EUV) or electrons. Unlike conventional lens imaging, ptychography is unaffected by lens-induced aberrations or diffraction effects caused by limited numerical aperture. This is particularly important for atomic-scale wavelength imaging, where it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19397346 | 1,119,159 |
1,740,610 | The Wankel had so far proven more reliable than four, six, and eight-cylinder engines – GM-rotary engines were run up to showing only minimal wear, and the engine's fewer moving parts assured its reliability. The final design General Motors Rotary Combustion Engine (GMRCE) was fixed when responsibility for the power pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30550426 | 1,739,629 |
502,168 | The construction of the experimental research device and most of its early operations were funded by the US Department of Energy. The recent studies —Phase I and Phase II— are funded by the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. A series of articles on the concept were published between 2001 and 2008; the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57934418 | 501,910 |
892,120 | The so-called "Naked Series", which began in 1883, were nude photos of students and professional models which were taken to show real human anatomy from several specific angles, and were often hung and displayed for study at the school. Later, less regimented poses were taken indoors and out, of men, women, and childre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=102300 | 891,651 |
556,221 | There were two important schools of Spanish sculpture in the early 16th century, that of Castile and that of Andalusia. The emphasis in the Castile school was more on sacrifice and martyrdom, with an abundance vivid suffering. The school of Andalusia generally used greater ornament, and less violence; the infant Christ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8608509 | 555,932 |
774,572 | Various power transmission methods were available before power take-offs became common, but there were applications which would benefit more from some of the attributes that PTOs would provide. Flat belts were generally only useful for applications where the engine was stationary, such as factory steam engines, portabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=416007 | 774,156 |
298,218 | Norman Lodge, an Associated Press correspondent in the South Pacific, had found out what had happened and had filed a detailed story about the mission on May 11 which said the United States had been tracking Yamamoto for five days before the shoot-down, but U.S. military censors prevented the story from going out. At t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4274699 | 298,058 |
1,602,616 | Kaw was born on 15 January 1948 in Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir), India. He matriculated from Punjab University (1958) and completed his M.Sc. from Agra University in 1964. He received PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1966 under Supervision of Prof. M. S. Sodha, and was the first Ph.D. from the Indian I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1287350 | 1,601,715 |
1,600,263 | Sarcophaga bullata, or the grey flesh fly, is a species of fly belonging to the family Sarcophagidae. It varies in size from small to large, 8 to 17 millimeters in length and is very similar in appearance and behavior to a closely related species, "Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis". "S. bullata" is a common scavenger species... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22051352 | 1,599,362 |
758,410 | The realism of the viewing experience in a planetarium depends significantly on the dynamic range of the image, i.e., the contrast between dark and light. This can be a challenge in any domed projection environment, because a bright image projected on one side of the dome will tend to reflect light across to the opposi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60548 | 758,004 |
748,994 | The modern widespread use of the FDR is believed to stem from, and be motivated by, the development in technologies that allowed the collection and analysis of a large number of distinct variables in several individuals (e.g., the expression level of each of 10,000 different genes in 100 different persons). By the late... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4574271 | 748,596 |
112,251 | In order to function at all the colony would need the basic utilities to support human civilization. These would need to be designed to handle the harsh Martian environment and would either have to be serviceable while wearing an EVA suit or housed inside a human habitable environment. For example, if electricity gener... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1744360 | 112,206 |
1,384,449 | BASE was first developed by researchers at the Ford Motor Company, in the search for a storage device for electric vehicles while developing the sodium–sulfur battery. The compound β-alumina was already discovered in 1916 and the structure was quite well known by the end of the 1930s. The term "beta-alumina" is a misno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5173509 | 1,383,682 |
1,251,886 | In 1979, two hikers discovered a series of gigantic articulated vertebrae fossils near San Ysidro. They reported the remains to David Gilette of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History. Gillette led an expedition into the region and used cutting edge technology to locate the remains while they were still entombed in s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799149 | 1,251,208 |
1,636,107 | In October 2011, the President issued a Presidential Memorandum "Accelerating Technology Transfer and Commercialization of Federal Research in Support of High-Growth Businesses" that directs federal agencies to "Facilitate Commercialization through Local and Regional Partnerships. Agencies must take steps to enhance su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18493301 | 1,635,182 |
1,280,852 | Illness prompted Darwin to take a break from the pressure of work: on 15 June he told his cousin William Darwin Fox; "I have not been very well of late, which has suddenly determined me to leave London earlier than I had anticipated. I go by the steam-packet to Edinburgh. – take a solitary walk on Salisbury crags & cal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1632764 | 1,280,157 |
2,136,434 | A review in the "Journal of Psychoactive Drugs" stated "There are many strongly held beliefs – here mostly exposed as myths – about marijuana, and such beliefs cover the gamut of scientific, clinical, psychological, social, criminological and other issues. The book's chapters thus address issues of marijuana's real or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63761424 | 2,135,206 |
1,288,574 | SDMs provide a linear, local function approximation scheme, designed to work when a very large/high-dimensional input (address) space has to be mapped into a much smaller physical memory. In general, local architectures, SDMs included, can be subject to the curse of dimensionality, as some target functions may require,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33547203 | 1,287,865 |
2,075,709 | Bounded rationality is the idea that rationality is limited when individuals make decisions. Limitations include the difficulty of the decision problem, the cognitive capability of the mind, and the time available to make the decision. This idea can be applied in any field that involves decision making, such as behavio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67467374 | 2,074,512 |
1,950,128 | Researchers established a colony in the laboratory by placing two adult females and some eggs in a container with large flakes of bark behind which they could hide. The insects were supplied with dry goldfish food. Silken tubes were woven by the females after they had settled down, but the insects remained largely hidd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54985470 | 1,949,007 |
922,436 | American Motors' president, George W. Mason, had negotiated a verbal agreement with Packard that the two companies would supply parts for each other when practical. This was a prelude to a possible merger of the two companies at a later date, but that never occurred. With the industry-wide acceptance of V8 engine desig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1431152 | 921,950 |
1,844,244 | The traditional view of the cost of reproduction says that a cost is caused by differential allocation of limited internal resources. This view is seen in the Y model of the cost of reproduction, where resources may be allocated to either reproduction or soma. Evidence for this can be seen in "G. firmus", where short-w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59916033 | 1,843,190 |
366,735 | In 1958, the U.S. sought to explore whether airbursting nuclear weapons might be used to ward off ICBMs. It conducted several test explosions of low-yield nuclear weapons – 1.7kt boosted fission W25 warheads – launched from ships to very high altitudes over the southern Atlantic Ocean. Such an explosion releases a burs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1791 | 366,543 |
955,150 | The DF-3 (CSS-2) is often considered China's first "domestic" intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM). The common ICBM design was greatly influenced by the Soviet R-14 Chusovaya missile and the first stage engine itself was a direct copy of the С.2.1100/С.2.1150 La-350 booster engine developed by Aleksei Isaev at O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55126 | 954,645 |
346,910 | The NH90 can be equipped with various mission-specific systems, including modular armor plating around the cabin area for undertaking high-risk missions and an ice protection system for operations within cold climates. It can also make use of the In-Hover Flight Refuelling System (HIFR) as well as additional internal a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=513911 | 346,729 |
827,363 | Oberon is the second-darkest large moon of Uranus after Umbriel. Its surface shows a strong opposition surge: its reflectivity decreases from 31% at a phase angle of 0° (geometrical albedo) to 22% at an angle of about 1°. Oberon has a low Bond albedo of about 14%. Its surface is generally red in color, except for fresh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66781 | 826,919 |
82,991 | In May 2010 the National Nuclear Security Administration asked Congress for $40 million to redesign the bomb to enable the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II to carry the weapon internally by 2017. This version is designated Mod 12. The four hundred Mod 12 bombs will be used by both tactical aircraft (such as the F-35) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1045781 | 82,957 |
1,479,593 | The calls are a whistling "titiweesi...titiweesi... witsi-seesee" or other variants repeated three of four times followed by a break. The calling is particularly persistent during the breeding season. In playback experiments, the "churring" alarm calls of the European "Parus major" and Asian species are responded to by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23214369 | 1,478,760 |
711,408 | The Industrial Training and Technology Centre (ITTC) opened in September 2018 at a cost of $30 million. The 5,344-square-metre building positions the School of Trades and Technology and Faculty of Science to meet student and labour-market demand. There is space designed for new programs on campus, including industrial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1024505 | 711,036 |
550,698 | Using that information, Goodman and Gilman reasoned that this agent could be used to treat lymphoma, a tumor of lymphoid cells. They first set up an animal model by establishing lymphomas in mice and demonstrated they could treat them with mustard agents. Next, in collaboration with a thoracic surgeon, Gustaf Lindskog,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1914242 | 550,410 |
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