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1,832,147 | Eric-Jan Wagenmakers (born May 21, 1972) is a Dutch mathematical psychologist. He is a professor at the Methodology Unit in the Department of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Since 2012, he has also been Professor of Neurocognitive Modeling: Interdisciplinary Integration at UvA's Faculty of Social and B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57522461 | 1,831,100 |
1,543,852 | Textual criticism also produces a noteworthy observation concerning Leviticus 12. This brief chapter concerns the ritual of purification after childbirth, which is strikingly similar to the rituals for purification after menstruation, and other bodily discharges (bleeding, pus, vomit, etc.), at the end of Leviticus 15.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3027880 | 1,542,979 |
1,421,482 | NASA's Mars Science Orbiter (MSO) was originally envisioned in 2008 as an all-NASA endeavour aiming for a late 2013 launch. NASA and ESA officials agreed to pool resources and technical expertise and collaborate to launch only one orbiter. The agreement, called the Mars Exploration Joint Initiative, was signed in July ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18323478 | 1,420,681 |
918,491 | It is an open question in theoretical computer science how well Strassen's algorithm can be improved in terms of asymptotic complexity. The "matrix multiplication exponent", usually denoted formula_11, is the smallest real number for which any formula_12 matrix over a field can be multiplied together using formula_13 f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21450030 | 918,008 |
205,436 | Following the Second World War, the Bretton Woods system (1944–1973) replaced gold with the U.S. dollar as the official reserve asset. The regime intended to combine binding legal obligations with multilateral decision-making through the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The rules of this system were set forth in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21534875 | 205,330 |
301,243 | Extended models allow one or more of the "fixed" parameters above to vary, in addition to the basic six; so these models join smoothly to the basic six-parameter model in the limit that the additional parameter(s) approach the default values. For example, possible extensions of the simplest ΛCDM model allow for spatial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=985963 | 301,082 |
385,740 | Cyanoacrylate glue was in veterinary use for mending bone, hide, and tortoise shell by the early 1970s or before. Harry Coover said in 1966 that a cyanoacrylate spray was used in the Vietnam War to reduce bleeding in wounded soldiers until they could be taken to a hospital. "n"-Butyl cyanoacrylate has been used medical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28936 | 385,545 |
1,969,869 | The aerospace industry relies on thermography testing to help detect defects in the carbon fiber components. Ultrasonic testing of CFRP parts is the most popular form of NDT testing. Ultrasonic testing allows researchers to find any anomalies in the thin laminar composites. Ultrasonic testing only works with parts that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45428589 | 1,968,735 |
1,463,327 | Balancing the cost of care with the quality of care is a major issue in healthcare philosophy. In Canada and some parts of Europe, democratic governments play a major role in determining how much public money from taxation should be directed towards the healthcare process. In the United States and other parts of Europe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15475369 | 1,462,504 |
1,414,527 | Post-war assessments of the gun's performance are generally positive. The Australian official history acknowledged the QF 25-pounder Short's limitations, but argued that these were the result of it being developed to perform a specialised role for which some trade-offs in performance were needed, and that on balance it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23021326 | 1,413,730 |
571,856 | Whenever technically and economically feasible, equipment can be used to reduce and sometimes replace the need to manually handle material. Most existing material handling equipment is only "semi-automated" because a human operator is needed for tasks like loading/unloading and driving that are difficult and/or too cos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15230235 | 571,565 |
321,357 | Piriformis syndrome (PS) data is often confused with other conditions due to differences in definitions, survey methods and whether or not occupational groups or general population are surveyed. This causes a lack of group harmony about the diagnosis and treatment of PS, affecting its epidemiology. In a study, 0.33% of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1104401 | 321,185 |
1,157,104 | The primary purpose of these instruments is to monitor clouds and to measure the thermal emission of the Earth. These sensors have proven useful for a number of other applications, however, including the surveillance of land surfaces, ocean state, aerosols, etc. AVHRR data are particularly relevant to study climate cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5050389 | 1,156,492 |
726,187 | The Leonardo Helicopters AW249 is to be a modern attack helicopter. It is intended to be more survivable and have a greater offensive capability than the Mangusta, being provisioned for greater autonomy, as well as to use the latest available digital communications and battlefield management systems. Amongst other abil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55802012 | 725,806 |
1,878,667 | Indium is a metal softer than lead (hardness of 0.9 HB), permitting it to be scratched by a nail. It is also malleable, ductile and has a thermal conductivity value of 0.78 W/m°C (85 °C). It also has the capacity of wetting glass, quartz and other ceramic materials. It maintains the plasticity and ductility when expose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44621719 | 1,877,587 |
1,267,360 | In April 2005, a UCLA team headed by chemistry professor James K. Gimzewski and physics professor Seth Putterman utilized a tungsten probe attached to a pyroelectric crystal to increase the electric field strength. Brian Naranjo, a graduate student working under Putterman, conducted the experiment demonstrating the use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1820902 | 1,266,670 |
1,706,316 | One investigation found that "Variation in clinical practice is substantial and is associated with poorer health outcomes, increased costs, and disparities in care. Despite these efforts, practice variation has been difficult to overcome. Challenges to reducing variation include heterogeneity and gaps in clinicians’ kn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54194626 | 1,705,358 |
309,783 | While the open-circuit voltage of an arc welding machine may be only a few tens of volts up to about 120 volts, even these low voltages can present a hazard of electric shock for the operators. Locations such as ship's hulls, storage tanks, metal structural steel, or in wet areas are usually at earth ground potential a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=440996 | 309,616 |
893,605 | Cell attachment to the ECM is a basic requirement to build a multicellular organism. Integrins are not simply hooks, but give the cell critical signals about the nature of its surroundings. Together with signals arising from receptors for soluble growth factors like VEGF, EGF, and many others, they enforce a cellular d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15302 | 893,135 |
1,374,357 | "Military Policy" was a controversial work in which Upton outlined U.S. military history and argued that the armed forces were imprudent and weak and "that all the defects of the American military system rested upon a fundamental, underlying flaw, excessive civilian control of the military." He denigrated the influence... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=734736 | 1,373,598 |
192,573 | Common names for dengue fever include breakbone fever, vomiting and dandy fever; dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome are the severe forms. Dengue is found in tropical and subtropical climates worldwide, mostly in urban and semiurban areas. People of all ages who are exposed to infected mosquitoes are at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=927267 | 192,474 |
272,211 | While the aerospace industry is one of the primary users of gas tungsten arc welding, the process is used in a number of other areas. Many industries use GTAW for welding thin workpieces, especially nonferrous metals. It is used extensively in the manufacture of space vehicles and is also frequently employed to weld sm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1448709 | 272,063 |
34,050 | Many mushroom species produce secondary metabolites that can be toxic, mind-altering, antibiotic, antiviral, or bioluminescent. Although there are only a small number of deadly species, several others can cause particularly severe and unpleasant symptoms. Toxicity likely plays a role in protecting the function of the b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20264 | 34,038 |
431,880 | Even more vexing were rules of engagement (ROE) that did not even permit BVR firing of missiles. Radar-guided AIM-7 Sparrows experienced high failure rates, and the short-range Sidewinder was ineffective in many dogfighting maneuvering situations. Phantom training against other Phantoms did not reflect the reality of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5921677 | 431,668 |
1,844,502 | The National Science Foundation and the State of Wyoming through an appropriation to the University of Wyoming funded Cheyenne to provide the United States with a major new tool to advance understanding of the atmospheric and related Earth system sciences. High-performance computers such as Cheyenne allow researchers t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53547343 | 1,843,448 |
996,975 | The HBM DRAM is tightly coupled to the host compute die with a distributed interface. The interface is divided into independent channels. The channels are completely independent of one another and are not necessarily synchronous to each other. The HBM DRAM uses a wide-interface architecture to achieve high-speed, low-p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44636056 | 996,457 |
116,171 | Before game engines, games were typically written as singular entities: a game for the Atari 2600, for example, had to be designed from the bottom up to make optimal use of the display hardware—this core display routine is today called the kernel by developers of games for older systems. Other platforms had more leeway... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=170581 | 116,126 |
444,240 | Fraser began carving figures from pieces of limestone scavenged from a stone quarry close to his home near Mitchell, South Dakota in early life. He attended classes at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 1890 and studied at the École des Beaux Arts and the Académie Julian in Paris in the late 19th century. Ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1414775 | 444,025 |
151,454 | Several universities in Britain have used animal remains to understand human taphonomy but there are currently no facilities that use human remains. Pigs are commonly studied but they are only useful in this field to a certain extent since they don't carry the same illnesses or obtain the same injuries as humans that a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=740070 | 151,386 |
993,423 | Two types of analysis are used in the bioprospecting of metagenomic data: function-driven screening for an expressed trait, and sequence-driven screening for DNA sequences of interest. Function-driven analysis seeks to identify clones expressing a desired trait or useful activity, followed by biochemical characterizati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1408929 | 992,906 |
2,099,580 | The Nucleobase cation symporter-2 (NCS2) family, also called the Nucleobase ascorbate transporter (NAT) family, consists of over 1000 sequenced proteins derived from gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria, archaea, fungi, plants and animals. The NCS2/NAT family is a member of the APC Superfamily of secondary carriers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35039952 | 2,098,372 |
471,114 | Studies have demonstrated that the glucose-alanine cycle may play a direct role in regulation of hepatic (liver) mitochondrial oxidation, particularly during periods of extended fasting. Hepatic mitochondrial oxidation is a key process in the metabolism of glucose and fatty acids, involving the Citric Acid Cycle and ox... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3945314 | 470,878 |
1,805,686 | Without doubt, transport between the Earth and Mars as well as the return trip represent the greatest risks to humans encountered in the history of human spaceflight. Notwithstanding the risks of radiation exposure, deterioration of the musculoskeletal system must be prevented or a mission to Mars (and back) will not b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39377992 | 1,804,669 |
200,124 | Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes (natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth. It is also defined as the study of the history of life forms on Earth. Evolution is based on the theory that all species are related and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=418101 | 200,021 |
38,366 | In addition to its 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences, Dartmouth is home to three separate graduate schools. The Geisel School of Medicine is located in a complex on the north side of campus and includes laboratories, classrooms, offices, and a biomedical library. The Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center, loca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8418 | 38,352 |
2,120,267 | The species is known solely from the holotype specimen, number QVM:2000:GFV:154, the distal end of a right humerus, conserved in the collections housed by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania. The specimen was collected from Bullock Creek exposures of the Camfield Fossil Beds, located south... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29718698 | 2,119,048 |
2,007,409 | Publishers Weekly in their review said that "It's refreshing to read an alternate history where the problems of two people do amount to a hill of beans, which isn't surprising, since all the installments in this popular series to date have focused as much on ordinary people as on kings and generals. The closing chase s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5163298 | 2,006,258 |
27,475 | Implementation is not without its challenges. While mobile phone and internet use are increasing much more rapidly in Sub-Saharan Africa than in other developing countries, the progress is still slow compared to the rest of the developed world, with smartphone penetration only expected to reach 20% by 2017. Additionall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1197962 | 27,465 |
332,748 | Decentralized autonomous organizations are typified by the use of blockchain technology to provide a secure digital ledger to track digital interactions across the internet, hardened against forgery by trusted timestamping and dissemination of a distributed database. This approach eliminates the need to involve a mutua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42035548 | 332,571 |
62,040 | In 2017, in his book "On Human Nature", Roger Scruton criticises the usage of ethical dilemmas such as the trolley problem and their usage by philosophers such as Derek Parfit and Peter Singer as ways of illustrating their ethical views. Scruton writes, "These 'dilemmas' have the useful character of eliminating from th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=301658 | 62,015 |
36,919 | In the second half of the 18th century, Britain, and later continental Europe and the United States, experienced the Industrial Revolution. This was the first time during which lead production rates exceeded those of Rome. Britain was the leading producer, losing this status by the mid-19th century with the depletion o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17747 | 36,907 |
822,195 | The SMC is visible from the entire Southern Hemisphere, but can be fully glimpsed low above the southern horizon from latitudes south of about 15° north. The galaxy is located across both the constellations of Tucana and part of Hydrus, appearing as a faint hazy patch resembling a detached piece of the Milky Way. The S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=173493 | 821,754 |
2,027,874 | Microbial profiles differ significantly between dental plaque and dental calculus although calculus forms from plaque. The protein and metabolic profiles also have distinct taxonomic and metabolic functions between dental plaque and dental calculus. As the oral biofilm develops, taxonomic shifts take place due to the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67011367 | 2,026,707 |
426,309 | Although not strictly a transputer, the ST20 was heavily influenced by the T4 and T9 and formed the basis of the T450, which was arguably the last of the transputers. The mission of the ST20 was to be a reusable core in the then emerging SoC market. The original name of the ST20 was the Reusable Micro Core (RMC). The a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=87858 | 426,100 |
1,379,316 | The telephone switch project was canceled in 1975, but the team had made considerable progress on the concept and in October IBM decided to continue it as a general-purpose design. With no obvious project to attach it to, the team decided to call it the "801" after the building they worked in. For the general-purpose r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60671 | 1,378,554 |
1,911,553 | The siDNA family, led by "Dbait," consists of 32 base pairs deoxyribonucleotide forming an intramolecular double helix, which mimicks DNA double-strand break lesions. In the event of a double-stranded break in the genome, the cell most commonly repairs the damaged segment via non-homologous end joining (NHEJ). NHEJ inv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11119519 | 1,910,454 |
566,911 | Druckmann, who was promoted to Vice President of Naughty Dog in 2018, had less time to write on "Part II" than on "The Last of Us"; he wrote the majority of the latter, but less than half of the former. Halley Gross was approached to collaborate as a writer on the game shortly after she had completed her work on "Westw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64504979 | 566,621 |
1,463,769 | Due to several factors following World War II the state's social structure was in flux. The mill villages which had defined life for many South Carolinians were disappearing as textile companies consolidated, the civil rights movement threatened the state's culture of white supremacy, and the state underwent a populist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21927183 | 1,462,946 |
411,663 | The revisionist movement in Vygotsky Studies was termed a "revisionist revolution" to describe a relatively recent trend that emerged in the 1990s. This trend is typically associated with growing dissatisfaction with the quality and scholarly integrity of available texts of Vygotsky and members of Vygotsky Circle, incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=95176 | 411,461 |
267,298 | The table below shows comparative gravitational accelerations at the surface of the Sun, the Earth's moon, each of the planets in the Solar System and their major moons, Ceres, Pluto, and Eris. For gaseous bodies, the "surface" is taken to mean visible surface: the cloud tops of the gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3071186 | 267,154 |
1,607,677 | By the 1990s, disability sport had moved away from medical based classification systems and had started using functional based systems. This action coincided with the actions of 1992 that saw the International Paralympic Committee formally take over governance of a number of disability sports. At the same time, there w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51143273 | 1,606,772 |
1,891,935 | To implement non-degenerate two photon excitation microscopy, two photon pulses of differing energies must be synchronized to interact with a specimen at the sample plane near-simultaneously. Due to the enhanced absorption cross section and VSL, more time is possible for excitation to occur, and thus perfect synchroniz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66279104 | 1,890,852 |
1,801,779 | Two Douglas RB-66B Destroyers arrived at Eglin AFB the first week of March 1956 for operational suitability testing, flown in from Norton AFB, California, by Lt. Col. Henry J. Walsh and Capt. Edward A. Kayworth of the 3245th Test Group of APGC's Air Force Operational Test Center. "These new aircraft include modificatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,770 |
253,781 | Early in World War II, John Maynard Keynes of the British Treasury and Harry Dexter White of the United States Treasury Department independently began to develop ideas about the financial order of the postwar world. (See below for Keynes's proposal for an International Clearing Union.) After negotiation between officia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=193778 | 253,648 |
1,101,920 | The database was developed at the Australian National University with support of the US National Science Foundation, and sponsored by the American Type Culture Collection. It uses the Description Language for Taxonomy (DELTA) system, a world standard for taxonomic data exchange, developed at Australia's Commonwealth Sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4215591 | 1,101,359 |
1,439,239 | Traditional logging in the West coast of the United States included many practices which increased river incision. Timber removal and the associated road construction facilitate runoff and thus increased erosion and sediment delivery to streams. Increases in sediment increases the water's stream power, increasing the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49012757 | 1,438,429 |
1,894,550 | Though the Gophers were ranked #1 entering the year, that was due mostly to their being the defending champions. The Gophers suffered a setback when Team captain Grant Potulny was injured in the first game against Ohio State. What was initially thought to just be a fractured fibula that would keep him out for 4-6 weeks... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13920325 | 1,893,466 |
912,361 | Studies have determined that replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy sources, such as biofuels, have the capability of reducing emissions by up to 80%. An algae-based system could capture approximately 80% of the emitted from a power plant when sunlight is available. Although this will later be released into the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14205946 | 911,882 |
980,621 | H. E. Wimperis, Director of Scientific Research at the Air Ministry and a member of the Tizard Committee, had read about a German newspaper article claiming that the Germans had built a death ray using radio signals, accompanied by an image of a very large radio antenna. Both concerned and potentially excited by this p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1280053 | 980,109 |
1,484,230 | The founding member of the YR family is the lambda integrase, encoded by bacteriophage λ, enabling the integration of phage DNA into the bacterial genome. A common feature of this class is a conserved tyrosine nucleophile attacking the scissile DNA-phosphate to form a 3'-phosphotyrosine linkage. Early members of the SR... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4385154 | 1,483,393 |
1,559,772 | Within a short period, more advanced education in the area was needed, so in 1819 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania amended the school's 1787 charter to confer university status. The school took the name the Western University of Pennsylvania, or WUP, and was intended to be the western sister institution to the Universi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13999007 | 1,558,886 |
1,793,432 | Coherent Raman scattering (CRS) microscopy is a multi-photon microscopy technique based on Raman-active vibrational modes of molecules. The two major techniques in CRS microscopy are stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) and coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS). SRS and CARS were theoretically predicted and experim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61304144 | 1,792,423 |
2,052,054 | The CCL is a mailing list, portal, and community which brings together people interested in computational chemistry. It was formed in 1991 by initiative of Jan Labanowski, at the time a computational chemistry specialist in the Ohio Supercomputing Center, as a mailing list for the hundred persons who had participated i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2907947 | 2,050,873 |
926,558 | ETS-1 took longer for Aerojet to complete than expected, partly due to shrinking budgets, but also because of technical challenges. It was built from pure aluminum, which did not become radioactive when irradiated by neutrons, and there was a water spray to keep it cool. Rubber gaskets were a problem, as they tended to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=712716 | 926,072 |
1,613,699 | Live-action role playing appears to have been "invented" several times by different groups relying on local ideas and expertise. Sometimes such groups were inspired by reports of LARPs elsewhere. Such a multifarious process has led to an extremely diverse range of LARP practices and histories. By the 1980s, LARPs had s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4746249 | 1,612,794 |
1,881,302 | Ronald Elbert Mickens was born February 7, 1943 in Petersburg, Virginia, to Joseph P. Mickens, a general construction worker, and Daisy Brown Williamson Mickens who was a part-time domestic worker. The eldest of three children, Mickens was raised primarily by his maternal grandparents. It was through discussions with h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48987067 | 1,880,221 |
2,092,317 | Methane is an important greenhouse gas, and its atmospheric concentration has nearly tripled since pre-industrial times. It is responsible for about a quarter of current anthropogenic climate warming. Its relatively short atmospheric lifespan – 10 to 12 years – means that reducing methane emissions can yield near-term ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71645454 | 2,091,112 |
206,933 | The hierarchical ordering of the entire complex reaches its crescendo in the chamber. Mumtaz's cenotaph sits at the geometric centre of the building; Jahan was buried at a later date by her side to the west – an arrangement seen in other Mughal tombs of the period such as Itmad-Ud-Daulah. Marble is used exclusively as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13325558 | 206,826 |
1,530,285 | High energy density (HED) science includes the study of condensed matter at densities common to the deep interiors of giant planets, and hot plasmas typical of stellar interiors. This multidisciplinary field provides a foundation for understanding a wide variety of astrophysical observations and understanding and ultim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44277627 | 1,529,420 |
849,568 | Internationally, UPMC operates a transplant hospital in Italy (ISMETT), two hospitals and two cancer centers in Ireland, a cancer center in Rome and previously helped to establish an emergency medical system in Qatar. UPMC also implemented information technology solutions and assisting with the development of cancer ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2156973 | 849,116 |
1,248,849 | Rödl finally began to rise through the ranks following a transfer to Buchenwald, where he was deputy to commandant Karl-Otto Koch. In that role he was given a largely free hand to indulge his cruel side, with Koch placing no restrictions on his men's actions. An example of this occurred late on 1 January 1939, when Röd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29283048 | 1,248,173 |
1,561,763 | The P-10 shares many similarities with the earlier P-8; the P-10 was also mounted in two ZiL trucks. The P-10 used a single antenna accomplishing both transmission and reception, the antenna was composed of four Yagi antennas mounted in sets of two with one set above the other. The antenna mast was mounted directly to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20855253 | 1,560,877 |
785,829 | In July 1968, the arts journal "Studio International" published a special issue titled "Cybernetic Serendipity – The Computer and the Arts", which catalogued a comprehensive collection of items and examples of work being done in the field of computer art in organisations all over the world, and shown in exhibitions in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30797574 | 785,406 |
874,978 | In the 19th century, as the young discipline of organic chemistry began to grow in Europe, scientists attempted to isolate and purify alkaloids and other novel organic chemicals. After unsuccessful attempts by Italian chemists Brugnatelli and Fontana in 1826, Johann Buchner obtained relatively pure salicin crystals fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16283254 | 874,516 |
1,021,351 | While habitat fragmentation is often associated with its effects on large plant and animal populations and biodiversity, due to the interconnectedness of ecosystems there are also significant effects that it has on the microbiota of an environment. Increased fragmentation has been linked to reduced populations and dive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1259241 | 1,020,822 |
35,709 | As with other high data rate serial transmission protocols, the clock is embedded in the signal. At the physical level, PCI Express 2.0 utilizes the 8b/10b encoding scheme (line code) to ensure that strings of consecutive identical digits (zeros or ones) are limited in length. This coding was used to prevent the receiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=143320 | 35,697 |
709,038 | On 15 October 2021, at 09:02 UTC, during preparation of the ship's propulsion system for landing, the Soyuz MS-18 inadvertently fired its thrusters beyond its planned time, changing the orientation of the ISS by as much as 57°, at 09:13 UTC. The station's attitude control system counteracted that motion by activating t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=977414 | 708,669 |
1,126,402 | The project was given expedited priority. Due to this prioritization, construction of the site had to start before all the architectural drawings for the site were completed. The Oak Ridge operations of the AEC set up an organization designated “The Portsmouth Area” to direct construction and operation of the plant, se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12653614 | 1,125,825 |
417,899 | By then, the positions of the two countries had reversed from what they were in 1941. The Americans had become suspicious that the British were seeking commercial advantages after the war, and Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves, Jr., who took over command of the Manhattan Project on 23 September 1942, wanted to tighten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41957579 | 417,695 |
343,011 | Pavlov attended the Ryazan church school before entering the local theological seminary. In 1870, however, he left the seminary without graduating to attend the university at St. Petersburg. There he enrolled in the physics and math department and took natural science courses. In his fourth year, his first research pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52487 | 342,830 |
396,096 | The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is an engineer formation of the United States Army that has three primary mission areas: Engineer Regiment, military construction, and civil works. The day-to-day activities of the three mission areas are administered by a lieutenant general known as the commanding gene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=83180 | 395,901 |
580,036 | A Swiss project, called "Solartaxi", circumnavigated the world. This was the first time in history an electric vehicle (not self sufficient solar vehicle) had gone around the world, covering 50000 km in 18 months and crossing 40 countries. It was a road-worthy electric vehicle hauling a trailer with solar panels, carry... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1496902 | 579,739 |
328,735 | Telehealth (or telerehabilitation) is a developing form of physical therapy in response to the increasing demand for physical therapy treatment. Telehealth is online communication between the clinician and patient, either live or in pre-recorded sessions with mixed reviews when compared to usual, in-person care. The be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24022 | 328,561 |
94,499 | The hippocampus, including the dentate gyrus, has the shape of a curved tube, which has been compared to a seahorse, and to a horn of a ram, which after the ancient Egyptian god often portrayed as such takes the name "cornu Ammonis". Its abbreviation CA is used in naming the hippocampal subfields CA1, CA2, CA3, and CA4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53948 | 94,458 |
146,397 | "Agrobacterium tumefaciens-"mediated transformation is another common technique. Agrobacteria are natural plant parasites. Their natural ability to transfer genes provides another engineering method. To create a suitable environment for themselves, these Agrobacteria insert their genes into plant hosts, resulting in a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2291204 | 146,339 |
908,165 | Selective attention shows up across all ages. Starting with infancy, babies begin to turn their heads toward a sound that is familiar to them, such as their parents' voices. This shows that infants selectively attend to specific stimuli in their environment. Furthermore, reviews of selective attention indicate that inf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1781678 | 907,687 |
2,031,439 | Efforts to establish the Faculty of Natural Sciences in Slovakia during the interwar period were not successful. After split of the Czechoslovakia into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the Slovak Republic and disposal of Czech higher education, Slovak students had no more science colleges available. The Natu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8089530 | 2,030,270 |
1,845,887 | Hertz worked with the government to centralize an agency to handle the distribution of radioactive isotopes for use by private enterprises working on approved projects. He advocated for the Atomic Energy Commission to produce iodine-131 in the government’s atomic piles (nuclear reactors) at Oak Ridge National Laborator... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28969988 | 1,844,832 |
562,549 | The results of several subsequent head-to-head trials of the two anti-VEGF treatments were later published, and the overall results reinforced CATT's findings. The two therapies performed equally at restoring visual acuity according to a 2012 meta-analysis, and also in the IVAN trial, alone and in the investigators' me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6190706 | 562,260 |
2,236,659 | From the 1920s to the 1950s, there were a number of authors who discussed the concept of rate-limintg steps, also known as master reactions. Several authors have stated that the concept of the 'rate-limiting' step is incorrect. Burton (1936) was one of the first to point out that: "In the steady state of reaction chain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72505162 | 2,235,388 |
829,450 | Zingiberales are pantropical and occur predominantly in the wet tropical regions of Asia, Africa, and the Americas, occupying nearly all tropical wet lowlands or middle elevation forests as part of the understory flora. In addition five genera from three of the Zingiberineae families, including "Canna" extend into subt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34416 | 829,004 |
5,586 | In Darwin's second year at the university, he joined the Plinian Society, a student natural-history group featuring lively debates in which radical democratic students with materialistic views challenged orthodox religious concepts of science. He assisted Robert Edmond Grant's investigations of the anatomy and life cyc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8145410 | 5,583 |
601,791 | In the eighteenth century British aristocrats were able to outcompete even the agents for royal and princely collectors on the Continent, aided by connoisseur-dealers like Count Antonio Maria Zanetti and Philipp von Stosch. Zanetti travelled Europe in pursuit of gems hidden in private collections for the British aristo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21369171 | 601,482 |
84,322 | The Tibetan records are the second source of the events at Nalanda in the late 12th century and much of the 13th century. These were the decades of widespread systematic destruction of monasteries in this region, and historical records in Tibet affirm that monks from Nalanda and nearby monasteries such as the Vikramash... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=200282 | 84,288 |
1,542,127 | Uehling's corrections take into account that the electromagnetic field of a point charge does not act instantaneously at a distance, but rather it is an interaction that takes place via exchange particles, the photons. In quantum field theory, due to the uncertainty principle between energy and time, a single photon ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52670479 | 1,541,254 |
397,772 | In 1915, the Austrian Dagobert Müller von Thomamühl (1880–1956) built the world's first "air cushion" boat (). Shaped like a section of a large aerofoil (this creates a low-pressure area above the wing much like an aircraft), the craft was propelled by four aero engines driving two submerged marine propellers, with a f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152690 | 397,576 |
1,863,750 | Melon necrotic spot virus (MNSV) is a virus that belongs to the genus "Gammacarmovirus" (splitted from formerly "Carmovirus") of the family "Tombusviridae". It has been observed in several countries of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. It is considered to be an endemic virus in greenhouses and field productions o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44582142 | 1,862,678 |
795,403 | For a blunt body in subsonic external flow, for example the Apollo or Orion capsules during descent and landing, the wake is massively separated and behind the body is a reverse flow region where the flow is moving toward the body. This phenomenon is often observed in wind tunnel testing of aircraft, and is especially ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=223993 | 794,978 |
1,818,592 | With his team in the Ciulli laboratory, Ciulli's works aim to develop small molecules inducing targeted protein degradation and modulating protein-protein interactions. One example of this type of work is the discovery of proteolysis-targeting chimera or PROTAC and its therapeutic potential. Recruitment of an E3 ligase... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65464719 | 1,817,557 |
267,302 | "Factorio" is a construction and management simulation game focused on resource-gathering with real-time strategy and survival elements and influences from the "BuildCraft" and "IndustrialCraft" mods for the video game "Minecraft". The player survives by locating and harvesting resources to craft various tools and mach... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42774678 | 267,158 |
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