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995,943 | Inorganic semiconductor microLED (µLED) technology was first invented in 2000 by the research group of Hongxing Jiang and Jingyu Lin of Texas Tech University while they were at Kansas State University. Following their first report of electrical injection microLEDs based on indium gallium nitride (InGaN) semiconductors,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47562547 | 995,426 |
1,034,517 | An early example of a coal-based plant using (oxy-fuel) carbon-capture technology is Swedish company Vattenfall’s Schwarze Pumpe power station located in Spremberg, Germany, built by German firm Siemens, which went on-line in September 2008. The facility captures and acid rain producing pollutants, separates them, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2423894 | 1,033,980 |
971,708 | Wigner accepted a position as the Director of Research and Development at the Clinton Laboratory (now the Oak Ridge National Laboratory) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee in early 1946. Because he did not want to be involved in administrative duties, he became co-director of the laboratory, with James Lum handling the administra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10101 | 971,198 |
376,405 | Molecular fingerprints started in the late 1940s as way to search for chemical structures searched on punched cards. However, it wasn't until around 1990 that Daylight Chemical Information Systems, Inc. introduced a hash-based method to generate the bits, rather than use a precomputed table. Unlike the dictionary appro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=602211 | 376,210 |
435,602 | Around 1924 the patents and rights were transferred to General Optical Company of Mount Vernon, NY, which had been making a much larger, heavier and more solidly encased instrument, called the Genothalmic Refractor, since around 1920, using Woolf's 1917 patent number, and with a user's manual dated 1921. This instrumen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2482259 | 435,388 |
746,692 | Born to Armenian parents in Istanbul, Acemoglu completed his MSc and then PhD at the London School of Economics (LSE) at 25. He lectured at LSE for a year before joining the MIT. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005. Acemoglu is best known for his work on political economy. He has authored hundreds of pape... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1803497 | 746,297 |
132,792 | Women with an inherited mutation in the DNA repair gene BRCA1 undergo menopause prematurely, suggesting that naturally occurring DNA damages in oocytes are repaired less efficiently in these women, and this inefficiency leads to early reproductive failure. The BRCA1 protein plays a key role in a type of DNA repair term... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22710 | 132,739 |
867,895 | Kannan "et al." found, using in-situ ultra-high-speed optical imaging, that twin nucleation in single-crystal magnesium is stress-driven accompanied by instantaneous propagation at a speed of 1 km/s (initially) that prioritises volume lateral thickening over forward propagation, past a critical width where growth is th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1997989 | 867,435 |
655,019 | The general structure of halteres are well recognized, but much variability exists between species. The more ancient families, such as tipulidae (crane flies), possess halteres with rather long stalks. This causes the haltere bulbs to be much further from the body and easily visible to the naked eye. More derived famil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46080 | 654,675 |
2,041,381 | From 1905 to 1906, and again in 1909, Shreve studied the mountain vegetation of Jamaica. In 1906, he became an associate professor of botany at Goucher College, and remained there until 1908, when he moved to Tucson, Arizona, to work at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Desert Library. From 1911 to 1919, Shreve ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42155517 | 2,040,201 |
1,691,337 | Matheron (1969) originally termed the technique "Le krigeage universel", however, the technique was intended as a generalized case of kriging where the trend is modelled as a function of coordinates. Thus, many authors reserve the term "universal kriging" (UK) for the case when only the coordinates are used as predicto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36213065 | 1,690,387 |
1,969,883 | Harry Eagle (July 13, 1905 – June 21, 1992) was an American physician and pathologist. He was born in New York City then studied, and later worked, at Johns Hopkins University before moving on to the National Institutes of Health. From 1961 to 1988 he worked at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is best known ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16891520 | 1,968,749 |
370,430 | The start of the season saw Sauber become involved in legal action commenced by their 2014 reserve driver, Giedo van der Garde. On 5 March 2015, van der Garde received a partial award under international arbitration by the Swiss Chambers' Arbitration Institution, upholding the driver's contract for a race seat in . Sau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3158734 | 370,236 |
170,632 | Russell's view is initially purely scientific but in time comes to blend with the views of Hiroko Ai, the chief of the Agricultural Team who assembles a new belief system (the "Areophany") devoted to the appreciation and furthering of life ("viriditas"); these views are collectively known as the "Green" position, while... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89970 | 170,542 |
743,814 | As the virus spread worldwide, the institute continued its investigation. In February 2020, a team led by Shi Zhengli at the institute were the first to identify, analyze and name the genetic sequence of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), upload it to public databases for scientists around the world to understand, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62933148 | 743,420 |
1,227,673 | Some researchers suggest that sweet potatoes might have been present in Polynesia thousands of years before humans arrived there, arriving through avian dispersal or natural rafts. A 2018 genetic analysis of sweet potato collected from the Society Islands by Joseph Banks during the first voyage of James Cook in 1769 fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67494898 | 1,227,011 |
1,525,121 | The intramolecular reductive Heck cyclization of tethered alkenes has seen extensive use in total synthesis [56–63]. One such illustrative example is seen in the synthesis of ambiguine H and hapalindole U. Baran and coworkers observed preferential formation of the undesired 7-"endo"-trig product and debromination when ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60828102 | 1,524,260 |
1,611,510 | This animal model has been said to be more similar to humans than birds. It has been shown that humans demonstrate 15–30 Hz (Beta) oscillations in the cortex while performing muscle coordination exercises. This was also seen in macaque monkey cortices. The cortical local field potentials (LFPs) of conscious monkeys wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37689509 | 1,610,605 |
45,356 | In November 2015, Northrop Grumman selected the Garmin International GSX 70 weather radar to be installed on Air Force Global Hawks. The GSX 70 is designed to provide operators with real-time weather information, offering horizontal scan angles of up to 120 degrees for better visibility into the strength and intensity ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37375 | 45,339 |
1,885,811 | Genetic studies agree with the biosynthetic routes established in the precursor-feeding experiments. AFLP-based studies using crosses between strains of the endophyte, "Epichloë festucae", that differ in the capacity to produce lolines, show that loline production and protection of the grass, "Lolium giganteum", from f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22802306 | 1,884,729 |
144,708 | Although the sequence of atomic weights suggested that inert gases should be located between halogens and alkali metals, and there were suggestions to put them into group VIII coming from as early as 1895, such placement contradicted one of Mendeleev's basic considerations, that of the highest oxides. Inert gases did n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=619795 | 144,650 |
339,777 | Lieutenant Colonel Smith, concerned about the safety of his men, sent flankers to follow a ridge and protect his forces from the roughly 1,000 colonials now in the field as the British marched east out of Concord. This ridge ended near Meriam's Corner, a crossroads about a mile (2 km) outside the village of Concord, wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4321886 | 339,597 |
1,533,671 | In 1991, he accepted a tenure-track position at the University of California, Berkeley in the chemistry department with a joint appointment in neurobiology. His initial research as an assistant professor focused on structural neurobiology and immunology, combining chemistry, structural biology and protein chemistry wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13916707 | 1,532,803 |
2,221,778 | As they had done over the previous four seasons, the Big Red played in the Lake Placid Invitational Tournament early in the year. Due to the United States entry in World War II over a year earlier, several schools suspended their ice hockey programs beginning with this season. As a result, the normally 8-team bracket w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68419035 | 2,220,516 |
649,906 | In 2006 the first version of KNIME was released and several pharmaceutical companies started using KNIME and a number of life science software vendors began integrating their tools into KNIME. Later that year, after an article in the German magazine "c't", users from a number of other areas joined ship. As of 2012, KNI... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24960689 | 649,565 |
31,943 | The first attempts to perform a Moon landing took place in 1962 during the Rangers 3, 4 and 5 missions flown by the United States. All three Block II missions basic vehicles were 3.1 m high and consisted of a lunar capsule covered with a balsa wood impact-limiter, 650 mm in diameter, a mono-propellant mid-course motor,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1558077 | 31,932 |
2,164,384 | In 1910 after significant developments in the astronomic field Bickerton believed he had another chance to get his Partial impact theory recognised. He went to London the same year, leaving his wife and five sons and two daughters in charge of the Wainoni home. Bickerton hoped he could get support from his most famous ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19957570 | 2,163,148 |
1,155,011 | The cultivar is often grown as a novelty plant due to its unusual form. It prefers a situation in sun or partial shade and acidic soil. Plants require permanent water, ideally between 5 and 10 cm deep, or continual irrigation. In-ground containers are sometimes used to contain spread. The cultivar is relatively free of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8964655 | 1,154,401 |
530,614 | All radon isotopes are hazardous owing to their radioactivity, gaseous nature, chemical inertness, and radioactivity of their decay products (progeny). Radon-222 is especially dangerous because its longer half-life allows it to permeate soil and rocks, where it is produced in trace quantities from decays of uranium-238... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16851420 | 530,340 |
1,498,994 | On May 9, 2013, NHK and Mitsubishi Electric announced that they had jointly developed the first HEVC encoder for 8K Ultra HD TV, which is also called Super Hi-Vision (SHV). The HEVC encoder supports the Main 10 profile at Level 6.1 allowing it to encode 10-bit video with a resolution of 7680x4320 at 60 fps. The HEVC en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42531991 | 1,498,150 |
1,120,041 | Systems that don't have a trusted computing base as part of their design do not provide security of their own: they are only secure insofar as security is provided to them by external means (e.g. a computer sitting in a locked room without a network connection may be considered secure depending on the policy, regardles... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41826 | 1,119,468 |
1,070,022 | On the outbreak of the First World War, "Inflexible" was flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet. Accompanied by , under the command of Admiral Sir Archibald Berkeley Milne she encountered the German battlecruiser and the light cruiser on the morning of 4 August 1914 headed east after a cursory bombardment of the French Al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=382984 | 1,069,468 |
708,894 | Daedalus would be propelled by a fusion rocket using pellets of a deuterium/helium-3 mix that would be ignited in the reaction chamber by inertial confinement using electron beams. The electron beam system would be powered by a set of induction coils trapping energy from the plasma exhaust stream. 250 pellets would be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=603351 | 708,525 |
779,449 | In the Cassegrain and Gregorian antennas, the presence of two reflecting surfaces in the signal path offers additional possibilities for improving performance. When the highest performance is required, a technique called "dual reflector shaping" may be used. This involves changing the shape of the sub-reflector to dire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=208264 | 779,032 |
4,928 | The aircraft's large nose contains a two-person crew and several bulky avionics systems. The main element is the Hughes AN/AWG-9 X band radar; the antenna is a -wide planar array, and has integrated Identification friend or foe antennas. The AWG-9 has several search and tracking modes, such as Track while scan (TWS), R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11719 | 4,926 |
126,947 | Most automotive applications use DC. An automotive battery provides power for engine starting, lighting, the ignition system, the climate controls, and the infotainment system among others. The alternator is an AC device which uses a rectifier to produce DC for battery charging. Most highway passenger vehicles use nomi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47713 | 126,895 |
259,620 | Transpiration is the process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts, such as leaves, stems and flowers. Water is necessary for plants but only a small amount of water taken up by the roots is used for growth and metabolism. The remaining 97–99.5% is lost by transpiration and guttation. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18952860 | 259,486 |
1,069,910 | Functional studies of TAg proteins bearing mutations within this segment (amino acid positions 106 to 114, inclusive) demonstrate that certain deleterious mutations abolish malignant transforming activity. For example, mutation of the invariant Glu at position 107 to Lys-107 completely abolishes transforming activity. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3676783 | 1,069,356 |
1,947,347 | The algebraic stress model arises in computational fluid dynamics. Two main approaches can be undertaken. In the first, the transport of the turbulent stresses is assumed proportional to the turbulent kinetic energy; while in the second, convective and diffusive effects are assumed to be negligible. Algebraic stress mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41033059 | 1,946,234 |
677,850 | In practice, the segmentation approach relies on adequate fences between consumers so that everyone doesn't buy at the lowest price offered. The airlines use time of purchase to create this segmentation, with later booking customers paying the higher fares. The fashion industry uses time in the opposite direction, disc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1053994 | 677,496 |
253,230 | In December 1979, in the wake of the industrial disputes of the Winter of Discontent and the 1979 oil crisis, the new Thatcher government announced a new long-term nuclear power programme. The existing state National Nuclear Corporation would complete its existing planned second generation AGR builds, and would develop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4144635 | 253,097 |
1,116,843 | The Structural Test Article was built as a test vehicle intended for use in initial vibration testing to simulate entire flights. The STA was built as essentially a complete orbiter airframe, but with a mockup of the crew compartment installed, and the thermal insulation only fitted to the forward fuselage. The simulat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5752529 | 1,116,270 |
1,193,203 | Stress inoculation training was developed to reduce anxiety in doctors during times of intense stress by Donald Meichenbaum in 1985. It is a combination of techniques including relaxation, negative thought suppression, and real-life exposure to feared situations used in PTSD treatment. The therapy is divided into four ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33410103 | 1,192,567 |
929,838 | The introduction of the thou as a base unit for machining work required the dissemination of vernier calipers and screw micrometers throughout the trade, as the unit is too small to be measured with practical repeatability using rules alone. (Most rule markings were far too wide to mark a single mil, and even if such d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5978127 | 929,347 |
1,453,020 | Adult newts begin moving to their breeding sites in spring when temperatures stay above . This usually occurs in March for most species, but can be much earlier in the southern parts of the distribution range. Southern marbled newts mainly breed from January to early March and may already enter ponds in autumn. The tim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2978345 | 1,452,203 |
112,638 | Graeme Mitchison and Francis Crick proposed in 1983 that by virtue of its inherent spontaneous activity, the function of REM sleep "is to remove certain undesirable modes of interaction in networks of cells in the cerebral cortex"—a process they characterize as "unlearning". As a result, those memories which are releva... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167184 | 112,593 |
834,247 | At certain locations such as the final signal on approach to a terminus station or at a diverging route requiring a large speed reduction, approach release may be used. The driver will be "checked down" with a normal signalling sequence (green, double yellow, yellow for a four-aspect area) and the red signal clears whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2997491 | 833,798 |
298,228 | The controversy did not subside after the war because of the testimony of the surviving Japanese escort pilot who witnessed the mission. Zero pilot Kenji Yanagiya, who had been in Yamamoto's fighter escort, told John Mitchell he might have been responsible for the loss of Lieutenant Raymond Hine because he had heavily ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4274699 | 298,068 |
982,183 | Missouri S&T Stonehenge is a partial reconstruction of the original Stonehenge monument located on Salisbury Plain, in southern England. Missouri S&T's version of the ancient structure is located on the northwest corner of campus, and was dedicated on June 20, 1984, during the summer solstice. It features a diameter ri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23962352 | 981,671 |
1,989,645 | The company has raised a total of $22 million through two rounds of equity funding from Lux Capital and Data Collective, joined by Dolby Family Ventures, OS Fund, Comet Labs, and Breakout Ventures. They have also raised $390,000 in non-dilutive grant money from institutions such as Breakout Labs and Start-Up Chile. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55163423 | 1,988,503 |
2,246,481 | The application of DC electric fields is known to reduce the flow stress of metals and metal alloys while increasing the fracture strain. Several mechanisms have been put forth to explain this effect including Joule heating, electron wind force, dissolution of metallic bonds, and unpinning of dislocations due the induc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70831420 | 2,245,209 |
1,994,281 | A major topic of discussion was the type of technicians needed. As the hardware became more and more complex, the maintenance technicians needed broad as well as in-depth knowledge. Navy technicians would also be required to make rapid repairs on combat-critical equipment in locations where assistance from the outside ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36494078 | 1,993,138 |
2,051,196 | One of Hershkovitz's first papers was on rodents, describing two new Ecuadorean squirrels in 1938, and he continued to publish about the group, including reviews of "Nectomys", "Oecomys", Phyllotini, "Holochilus", and scapteromyines between 1944 and 1966. He played an important role in formalizing and defining the trib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26670939 | 2,050,015 |
582,586 | Passow and Carlson defined sedimentation out of the surface layer (at approximately 100 m depth) as the "export flux" and that out of the mesopelagic zone (at approximately 1000 m depth) as the "sequestration flux". Once carbon is transported below the mesopelagic zone, it remains in the deep sea for 100 years or longe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240228 | 582,288 |
731,706 | Nuclear pore complexes allow the transport of molecules across the nuclear envelope. This transport includes RNA and ribosomal proteins moving from nucleus to the cytoplasm and proteins (such as DNA polymerase and lamins), carbohydrates, signaling molecules and lipids moving into the nucleus. It is notable that the "nu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21957 | 731,320 |
1,612,666 | Substantial contributions were made by Craig Shelley and Morton Munk, who published a large number of CASE papers in this field. The first of these papers reported a structure generator, ASSEMBLE. The algorithm is considered one of the earliest assembly methods in the field. As the name indicates, the algorithm assembl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66452088 | 1,611,761 |
1,525,384 | The structure of Best1 consists of five identical subunits that each span the membrane four times and form a continuous, funnel-shaped pore via the second transmembrane domain containing a high content of aromatic residues, including an invariant arg-phe-pro (RFP) motif. The pore is lined with various nonpolar, hydroph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14754119 | 1,524,523 |
1,491,623 | In spreading the Eden Alternative philosophy nationwide, Thomas said he saw that America's nursing home buildings were “aging faster than the people living inside them.” This led him to imagine a new approach to long-term that became known as the Green House. Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Dr. Thomas ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9595600 | 1,490,784 |
451,500 | In the late 1970s, a Swedish pharmaceutical company, Kabi, contracted with a number of hospitals in Europe to buy pituitary glands for the first commercial GH product, Crescormon. Although an additional source of GH was welcomed, Crescormon was greeted with ambivalence by pediatric endocrinologists in the United States... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=622411 | 451,281 |
597,381 | Agricultural biotechnology regulation in the US falls under three main government agencies: The Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The USDA must approve the release of any new GMOs, EPA controls the regulation of insecticide, and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=93829 | 597,076 |
582,591 | The fecal pellets of zooplankton can be important vehicles for the transfer of particulate organic carbon (POC) to the deep ocean, often making large contributions to the carbon sequestration. The size distribution of the copepod community indicates high numbers of small fecal pellets are produced in the epipelagic. Ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240228 | 582,292 |
679,907 | Virginia Apgar (June 7, 1909August 7, 1974) was an American physician, obstetrical anesthesiologist and medical researcher, best known as the inventor of the Apgar Score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child immediately after birth in order to combat infant mortality. In 1952, she developed the 10-poin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=250256 | 679,553 |
449,099 | Post-processual archaeology developed largely independently among the archaeological community in the United States. As such its primary influence was critical theory, as opposed to the French Marxist anthropology which had been the primary influence upon their British counterparts. Many American archaeologists had beg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160139 | 448,881 |
1,759,734 | After his retirement from Yale, he was called upon several times as an advisor to the U.S. government and his organisational skills were of paramount importance in establishing links between scientists, the government, and the media. He was Chairman of the National Research Council from 1938-1946 and worked to help peo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5504356 | 1,758,741 |
960,960 | The pathogenesis of this myopathy is very varied. Many mutations occur in the region of actin's indentation near to its nucleotide binding sites, while others occur in Domain 2, or in the areas where interaction occurs with associated proteins. This goes some way to explain the great variety of clumps that form in thes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=438944 | 960,451 |
422,108 | The "naginata" originates from development of the Japanese spear called "hoko yari" of the later 1st millennium AD. It has been suggested that it developed along the same lines as Okinawan kobudō weapons as a modified farming tool. Others say that creative samurai in need of a longer weapon attached a sword to a pole. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=325643 | 421,902 |
607,764 | Semaphore signals have been almost completely replaced by light signals in North America, but they contain several important design elements. The overwhelming majority of semaphore type signals used in North America, and the only type surviving in service as of 2009 are of the three position, upper quadrant variety. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14849714 | 607,453 |
340,766 | Being distant from the Sun and major planets, Kuiper belt objects are thought to be relatively unaffected by the processes that have shaped and altered other Solar System objects; thus, determining their composition would provide substantial information on the makeup of the earliest Solar System. Due to their small siz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16796 | 340,585 |
15,085 | In 2015, as part of a missile-defense test at Wake Island, simulated medium-range ballistic missiles were launched from C-17s against THAAD missile defense systems and the USS "John Paul Jones" (DDG-53). In early 2020, palletized munitions–"Combat Expendable Platforms"– were tested from C-17s and C-130Js with results t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6731 | 15,080 |
759,544 | In 1954, de Havilland Canada (DHC) entered into a contract to build Trackers under license to replace the outmoded Grumman TBM-3E Avengers being used by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). 99 Trackers were built by DHC, with the first Canadian-built aircraft flying on 31 May 1956. From 1957 onwards, these aircraft operated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218313 | 759,138 |
927,349 | Science ROVs take many shapes and sizes. Since good video footage is a core component of most deep-sea scientific research, research ROVs tend to be outfitted with high-output lighting systems and broadcast quality cameras. Depending on the research being conducted, a science ROV will be equipped with various sampling ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=299462 | 926,862 |
406,267 | The distribution of power that a black body emits with varying frequency is described by Planck's law. At any given temperature, there is a frequency "f" at which the power emitted is a maximum. Wien's displacement law, and the fact that the frequency is inversely proportional to the wavelength, indicates that the peak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=185239 | 406,067 |
1,804,206 | While deacidification has been adopted by major research libraries such as the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library, it is not clear whether many archives, particularly those in the United States, have followed suit. Some European national archives have tested deacidification techniques. The United State... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19157 | 1,803,191 |
1,342,766 | In 1918 the American neurosurgeon Walter Dandy introduced the technique of ventriculography whereby images of the ventricular system within the brain were obtained by injection of filtered air directly into one or both lateral ventricles of the brain via one or more small trephine holes drilled in the skull under local... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=907554 | 1,342,030 |
532,384 | When EPSPs and IPSPs are generated simultaneously in the same cell, the output response will be determined by the relative strengths of the excitatory and inhibitory inputs. Output instructions are thus determined by this algebraic processing of information. Because the discharge threshold across a synapse is a functio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20705108 | 532,105 |
664,590 | The critical importance of the "M Notebook" has often been viewed in relation to Darwin's conception of "natural selection" as the central mechanism of evolutionary development, which he fully grasped towards the end of September 1838, after encountering the sixth edition of Thomas Malthus' "Essay on Population" (1826)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1704268 | 664,243 |
96,607 | This rule, a relatively recent addition to curling, was added in response to a strategy by teams of gaining a lead in the game and then "peeling" all of the opponents' stones (knocking them out of play at an angle that caused the shooter's stone to also roll out of play, leaving no stones on the ice). By knocking all s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6644 | 96,566 |
1,651,338 | On May 8, 2007, Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello said that the release of Spore is "right on the bubble with Q4 [January–March 2008], if not, for Q1 fiscal 09 [April–June 2008]". CFO Warren Jenson stated that the game will not be included in the company's financial plan for its current fiscal year, which ends March... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13252995 | 1,650,406 |
444,402 | This topic represents a specialized area of cross-cultural psychology and can be viewed as the study of cultural similarities and differences in developmental processes and their outcomes as expressed by behavior and mental processes in individuals and groups. As presented by Bornstein (2010), Gielen and Roopnarine (20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11507939 | 444,187 |
2,821 | Some researchers have argued that AS can be viewed as a different cognitive style, not a disorder, and that it should be removed from the standard "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual", much as homosexuality was removed. In a 2002 paper, Simon Baron-Cohen wrote of those with AS: "In the social world, there is no great be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37556 | 2,821 |
2,082,984 | The founding President was the botanist Werner Rothmaler. In his opening address he referred the long-established and valuable traditions of the popularization of science and technology and mentioned as forerunners Ernst Moritz Arndt, the brothers Grimm, Ernst Haeckel, Alexander von Humboldt, Robert Koch, Karl Marx and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31940578 | 2,081,784 |
788,952 | There was no fuel leak; the sensor was faulty. The launch was rescheduled for two days later. It then had to be postponed a further day due to bad weather. On the third launch attempt, there was a seven-minute delay due to a communications problem, but "Columbia" lifted off at last on 23 July. One of the main engine co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=336966 | 788,528 |
1,721,878 | Warming was raised in a Christian Protestant home and he continued to be religious throughout his life. He accepted the evolution by descent of living beings, but believed that laws governing planets’ orbits and other laws governing organic evolution were God-given. In his popular book "Nedstamningslæren" (translated t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1555014 | 1,720,908 |
105,945 | The negative feedback into the difference amplifier allows the amplifier to compare the input to the actual output. The amplified signal from Q1 is directly fed to the second stage, Q3, which is a common emitter stage that provides further amplification of the signal and the DC bias for the output stages, Q4 and Q5. R6... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9931 | 105,900 |
719,229 | The phage group was an informal network of biologists centered on Max Delbrück that contributed substantially to molecular genetics and the origins of molecular biology during the period from about 1945 to 1970. The phage group took its name from bacteriophages, the bacteria-infecting viruses that the group used as exp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=339838 | 718,849 |
95,650 | On 17 January 1991, 12 French Jaguars bombed Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base, Kuwait; three were damaged in the attack but all returned to base. On 26 January, RAF Jaguars and Tornados raided several Silkworm missile batteries in Kuwait to encourage the perception of an imminent amphibious invasion to liberate the country. On ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=176232 | 95,609 |
544,630 | In 1969, the company was founded as Energy Research Corporation (ERC) by early fuel cell pioneers Bernard Baker and Martin Klein, who are both chemical engineers with professional knowledge in advanced battery technologies. From the 1970s to 1990s, with sponsorship from U.S. military and other utility companies, the co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42044114 | 544,348 |
1,291,686 | Computer models have been constructed to model human metabolism, to study plaque build-up and cardiovascular risk, and to evaluate toxicity of drugs, tasks for which animals are also used. In 2007, US researchers using the world's fastest computer at the time, BlueGene L, modelled half a mouse brain for just 10 seconds... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8077127 | 1,290,976 |
1,718,044 | On 11 and 12 May, B Company and Headquarters Company moved to Tallil Air Base to establish the C/JCMEC. Its mission was to pack and ship the captured materials concentrated there by British and US Navy TECHINT units that had already moved forward to Baghdad International Airport. B Company, 3d Platoon (responsible for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67447284 | 1,717,074 |
1,216,697 | During 2008-2013 he was a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Manchester's Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI). He was also an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large from 2007 until 2013 at Cornell University and from 2010 until 2011 President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Econ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2075439 | 1,216,045 |
1,354,249 | Measurements based on psychoacoustics, such as the measurement of noise, often use a weighting filter. It is well established that human hearing is more sensitive to some frequencies than others, as demonstrated by equal-loudness contours, but it is not well appreciated that these contours vary depending on the type of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=302052 | 1,353,501 |
451,531 | Lutetium was independently discovered in 1907 by French scientist Georges Urbain, Austrian mineralogist Baron Carl Auer von Welsbach, and American chemist Charles James. All of these men found lutetium as an impurity in the mineral ytterbia, which was previously thought to consist entirely of ytterbium. The dispute on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181556 | 451,312 |
400,326 | From the European Space Agency's Cluster mission, a new study has taken place that proposes that it is easier for the solar wind to infiltrate the magnetosphere than previously believed. A group of scientists directly observed the existence of certain waves in the solar wind that were not expected. A recent study shows... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28538 | 400,127 |
1,071,895 | As a result of the LTFT, water loss was eliminated as a major concern in HDR operations. Over the period of the LTFT, water consumption fell to just 7% of the quantity of water injected; and data indicated it would have continued to decline under steady-state circulation conditions. Dissolved solids and gases in the pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12951705 | 1,071,341 |
950,743 | 1744: Coincident with the death of Anders Celsius, the famous botanist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) effectively reversed Celsius's scale upon receipt of his first thermometer featuring a scale where zero represented the melting point of ice and 100 represented water's boiling point. The custom-made "linnaeus-thermometer",... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41789 | 950,239 |
360,543 | Mathematical and computational models are essential for understanding the action potential, and offer predictions that may be tested against experimental data, providing a stringent test of a theory. The most important and accurate of the early neural models is the Hodgkin–Huxley model, which describes the action poten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=156998 | 360,355 |
1,114,154 | Noting the sources of error previously addressed that are introduced by environmental factors and observer uncertainties, several digital test sources offer software installations that analyze the information garnered from the test. Data generated from X-Rite’s online test offer several types of information, most notab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41312608 | 1,113,587 |
1,910,332 | Despite the existence of these extensive collections, throughout the 20th century, many museums rarely displayed Inuit clothing and artifacts. In North America, this only began to change in the 1980s, with the debut of several notable exhibitions. In 1980, the Winnipeg Art Gallery presented "The lnuit Amautik: I like m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67335138 | 1,909,234 |
135,398 | By three years the child begins to use complex sentences, including relative clauses, although still perfecting various linguistic systems. By five years of age the child's use of language is very similar to that of an adult. From the age of about three children can indicate fantasy or make-believe linguistics, produce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9627698 | 135,343 |
1,376,247 | For long limbs with changing curvature determining the limb length into smaller segments with each segment measured independently will almost always be required if acceptable accuracy is to be achieved. The length can be calculated based on a bivariate curvilinear regression model using multiple measurement points. Thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39006393 | 1,375,485 |
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