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1,014,009 | Waray guerrillas under a former schoolteacher named Captain Nieves Fernandez fought the Japanese in Tacloban. Nieves extensively trained her men in combat skills and making of improvised weaponry, as well as leading her men in the front. With only 110 men, Nieves managed to take out over 200 Japanese soldiers during th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36873070 | 1,013,488 |
903,555 | The IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager integrates the System z and zBX resources as a single virtualized system and provides unified and integrated management across the zEnterprise System. It can identify system bottlenecks or failures among disparate systems and if a failure occurs it can dynamically reallocate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3968088 | 903,079 |
1,548,269 | By cross-breeding together IR8 with 13 parent varieties from six nations, Dr. Khush developed IR36, a semi-dwarf variety that proved highly resistant to a number of the major insect pests and diseases that raised farmers' rice yields and drove down prices of the staple food for Asian families. IR36 matures rapidly – 10... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7038640 | 1,547,388 |
1,145,717 | "Torreya taxifolia" is a member of an ancient genus at least 160 million years old. Fossil evidence indicates genus "Torreya" was widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere beginning in the Jurassic period and as recently as the Pliocene. Like other globally disjunct genera of the Arcto-Tertiary Geoflora, "Torre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2680498 | 1,145,116 |
1,898,550 | In 2000, Stanford researchers led by Ash Alizadeh and colleagues published results in "Nature", utilizing expression profiling techniques to stratify DLBCL to two subtypes: germinal center B-like DLBCL and activated B-like DLBCL. The authors developed custom microarrays termed "lymphochips" that were used to query expr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25304632 | 1,897,466 |
1,130,659 | Rocket sled launch helps a vehicle gain altitude, and proposals commonly involve the track curving up a mountain. Advantages to any launch system that starts from high altitudes include reduce gravity drag (the cost of lifting fuel in a gravity well). The thinner air will reduce air resistance and allow more efficient ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23441092 | 1,130,070 |
126,965 | Distinctive features of the D-30 include its low mobile mounting and above-barrel recoil system. The three-legged mobile mount is unusual for field artillery, with stabilizers that are clamped together for towing and deployed when in action. A large tow linkage is fixed to the muzzle; in transport the barrel serves as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5271656 | 126,913 |
1,236,657 | Classified as a metalloexopeptidase, carboxypeptidase A consists of a single polypeptide chain bound to a zinc ion. This characteristic metal ion is located within the active site of the enzyme, along with five amino acid residues that are involved in substrate binding: Arg-71, Arg-127, Asn-144, Arg-145, Tyr-248, and G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11213645 | 1,235,993 |
910,406 | Micropiles are small diameter, generally less than 300mm diameter, elements that are drilled and grouted in place. They typically get their capacity from skin friction along the sides of the element, but can be end bearing in hard rock as well. Micropiles are usually heavily reinforced with steel comprising more than ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8243345 | 909,927 |
1,766,260 | The bulk of the book was fine, though of no interest to anthropologists. But the tenth chapter, "Retardation and Neoteny in Human Evolution", would "mislead a great many people" who would be unable to make an informed judgement about its conclusions. Gould "turns out to be just as much of a teleologist and progressivis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7608175 | 1,765,266 |
623,943 | This method was developed by German physicist Johann Wilhelm Hittorf in 1853., and is based on observations of the changes in concentration of an electrolyte solution in the vicinity of the electrodes. In the Hittorf method, electrolysis is carried out in a cell with three compartments: anode, central, and cathode. Mea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32239521 | 623,611 |
157,344 | Time-symmetric interpretations of quantum mechanics were first suggested by Walter Schottky in 1921. Several theories have been proposed which modify the equations of quantum mechanics to be symmetric with respect to time reversal. (See Wheeler–Feynman time-symmetric theory.) This creates retrocausality: events in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54738 | 157,272 |
2,230,589 | Due to being unable to gain financial independence, many of ASAP's ongoing projects were merged with other works of the Melbourne Office. Although major transformations were inevitable, they still kept their original goal to retain historical data and research of Australian science. Hence, the ASAP was officially renam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11681272 | 2,229,323 |
1,634,160 | The principle of electro-osmosis or electroosmotic flow creates a flow of an electrolyte through a very small tube in the nano-meter range. To achieve this flow there is a cathode and an anode at the ends of the tube over which a voltage is applied. Due to this voltage the ions in the electrolyte stored in a reservoir ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66912937 | 1,633,237 |
1,586,632 | The principle of electro-osmosis or electroosmotic flow creates a flow of an electrolyte through a very small tube in the nano-meter range. To achieve this flow there is a cathode and an anode at the ends of the tube over which a voltage is applied. Due to this voltage the ions in the electrolyte stored in a reservoir ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44765252 | 1,585,738 |
1,558,986 | In the Mondulkiri Province of Cambodia, hunters believe that lorises can heal their own broken bones immediately after falling from a branch in order to climb back up the tree, and that slow lorises have medicinal powers because they require more than one hit with a stick to die. The hunters also believe that seeing a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30980405 | 1,558,101 |
1,545,108 | Elements of vector calculus: divergence and curl; Gauss' and Stokes' theorems, Maxwell's equations: differential and integral forms. Wave equation, Poynting vector. Plane waves: propagation through various media; reflection and refraction; phase and group velocity; skin depth. Transmission lines: characteristic impedan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3575593 | 1,544,234 |
1,032,419 | Silphidae are one of several families of forensic importance in the order Coleoptera. They are a very important tool in determining a post-mortem interval by collecting Silphid progeny from the carcass, and determining the developmental rate. Based on the number of instars and the larval development stage, a time of de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=85896 | 1,031,883 |
1,657,753 | He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986. In 2005 Alpher was awarded the National Medal of Science. The citation for the award reads "For his unprecedented work in the areas of nucleosynthesis, for the prediction that universe expansion leaves behind background radiation, and for pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1273628 | 1,656,820 |
1,904,127 | Research included the integration of Neoloy Geocells in existing road design methodologies. Standard ISO/TR18228-5: Design Using Geosynthetics: Part 5: Stabilisation utilizes the concepts of serviceability and ultimate limit states to effectively withstand service loading, control deformation within service requirement... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61335868 | 1,903,033 |
1,752,301 | "Rocky and Bullwinkle" has long been held in high esteem for its witty, even sophisticated writing. But in contrast, the visual portion of the show is a prime example of limited animation, and as such it has been called "a well-written radio program with pictures". Some elements, such as the almost childlike quality of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12571363 | 1,751,314 |
1,242,641 | When LDR prostate brachytherapy (seed or polymer source implantation) is carried out, an ultrasound probe is inserted into the rectum (back passage), and images from this probe are used to assess the size and shape of the prostate gland. This is done so that the doctor can identify how to best deliver the right radiati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17769499 | 1,241,969 |
117,141 | 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 was named the Western University of Pennsylvania, or WUP, and was intended to be the western sister institution to the University o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239870 | 117,096 |
1,607,846 | The invention of dry plate photography by Richard Leach Maddox made Gill realise that the process could be used to create images of the stars and to more easily determine their relative positions and brightness. This led to a massive project in collaboration with the Dutch astronomer J.C. Kapteyn, and the compiling of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=589386 | 1,606,941 |
1,998,253 | On the third morning, amid sunshine, Bradman resumed on 130, before progressing to 132 and becoming the first player to pass 1,000 runs for the English season. The Australian captain was not aware of the reason for the spontaneous crowd applause until notified by wicket-keeper Evans. Bedser was bowling and soon impleme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21051201 | 1,997,110 |
1,691,247 | EP receptors are highly expressed in the small intestine and colon. Mice lacking this receptor or treated with a selective EP antagonist proved to be far more susceptible to the development of dextran sodium sulphate (DSS)-induced colitis and to be protected from developing the colitis by pre-treatment with EP-selectiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14162110 | 1,690,297 |
112,393 | While the previous situation’s implicit cost may have been somewhat negligible at a government level, this is not true for all scenarios. Using hijacking prevention methods following the September 11 attacks as an example, the additional burden of implicit costs is evident. To implement more sophisticated airport secur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45528 | 112,348 |
1,699,046 | Several networks based on different data sources can be combined into a composite network, which can then be used by a prediction algorithm to annotate candidate genes or proteins. For example, the developers of the bioPIXIE system used a wide variety of "Saccharomyces cerevisiae" (yeast) genomic data to produce a comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29467449 | 1,698,092 |
449,073 | In an article entitled "What should we be worried about?" Miller talked about eugenics in China and how Deng Xiaoping instigated the one-child policy, "partly to curtail China's population explosion, but also to reduce dysgenic fertility". He argued that if China is successful, and given what he calls the lottery of Me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2807080 | 448,855 |
1,794,357 | Two of Dusapin's earlier works composed in the same year, "Musique captive" (1980) and "Musique fugitive" (1980), might be studied together in that they are both unstable and aim to avoid any sort of repetition. At the same time, however, the pieces go about achieving these goals in two very different ways. "Musique ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=392994 | 1,793,348 |
360,493 | In sensory neurons, an external signal such as pressure, temperature, light, or sound is coupled with the opening and closing of ion channels, which in turn alter the ionic permeabilities of the membrane and its voltage. These voltage changes can again be excitatory (depolarizing) or inhibitory (hyperpolarizing) and, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=156998 | 360,305 |
236,593 | Accurate calibration of the thermometers used is fundamental to precise humidity determination by the wet-dry method. The thermometers must be protected from radiant heat and must have a sufficiently high flow of air over the wet bulb for the most accurate results. One of the most precise types of wet-dry bulb psychrom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=282350 | 236,474 |
198,137 | Haas notes the absence of any suggestion of physical bases of power, that is, defensive construction, at Caral-Supe. There is no evidence of warfare "of any kind or at any level during the Preceramic Period". Mutilated bodies, burned buildings, and other tell-tale signs of violence are absent and settlement patterns ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9225497 | 198,035 |
1,909,893 | Michigan won, 19–0, in a game that "The New York Times" wrote had "crowned the greatest day in mid Western football history." Harry Kipke and Paul Goebel were the stars of the game, scoring all 19 points for Michigan – two touchdowns and a field goal by Kipke and a field goal and an extra point by Goebel. Both also pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25642546 | 1,908,795 |
2,150,975 | The crystal structure of OmpX from E. coli reveals that OmpX consists of an eight-stranded antiparallel all-next-neighbour beta barrel. The structure shows two girdles of aromatic amino acid residues and a ribbon of nonpolar residues that attach to the membrane interior. The core of the barrel consists of an extended h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14610619 | 2,149,744 |
1,729,571 | Peranema is a genus of free-living phagotrophic euglenids (Euglenida; Euglenozoa; Excavata). There are more than 20 nominal species, varying in size between 8 and 200 micrometers. Peranema cells are gliding flagellates found in freshwater lakes, ponds and ditches, and are often abundant at the bottom of stagnant pools ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33703365 | 1,728,597 |
591,091 | The mouth opens into a muscular pharynx, which contains glands to lubricate the passage of food. From here, a straight intestine runs the length of the trunk to an anus just forward of the tail. The intestine is the primary site of digestion and includes a pair of diverticula near the anterior end. Materials are moved ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43171 | 590,789 |
1,335,456 | In 1988 the act was extended for 15 years up to August 2002. Individual insurance for each generator was increased to $200 million, and the total fund to $9.5 billion. For each reactor owned, the reactor company was liable to contribute up to $63 million towards compensation for any claim against any company, though th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3009092 | 1,334,726 |
1,508,680 | The system most commonly used to fully document and describe scaling was devised by Johann Gottlob Töpfer. Since varying the diameter of a pipe in direct proportion to its length (which means it varies by a factor of 1:2 per octave) caused the pipes to narrow too rapidly, and keeping the diameter constant (a factor of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1056981 | 1,507,832 |
351,453 | Historically, a person had little control regarding how their body was treated after death as religion held jurisdiction over the ultimate fate of their body. However, secular courts began to exercise jurisdiction over the body and use discretion in carrying out of the wishes of the deceased person. Most countries lega... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6760 | 351,270 |
506,226 | For example, Halon 1301 total flooding systems are typically used at concentrations no higher than 7% by volume in air, and can suppress many fires at 2.9% v/v. By contrast, carbon dioxide fire suppression flood systems operate from 34% concentration by volume (surface-only combustion of liquid fuels) up to 75% (dust t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=825514 | 505,963 |
1,015,164 | The most commonly described case, sometimes called the Aharonov–Bohm solenoid effect, takes place when the wave function of a charged particle passing around a long solenoid experiences a phase shift as a result of the enclosed magnetic field, despite the magnetic field being negligible in the region through which the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277664 | 1,014,643 |
1,441,080 | There was a concern that traditional high school physics had devolved to a hodge-podge of Newtonian mechanics and other topics that was poorly integrated, with increasing emphasis on the peculiarities of current technology. In contrast, the PSSC approach emphasized the unity of physical inquiry, organized around broad ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24165862 | 1,440,270 |
1,462,593 | The Electro-Magnetic Laboratory Rail Gun is a long-range naval weapon that fires projectiles using electricity instead of chemical propellants. Magnetic fields created by high electrical currents accelerate a sliding metal conductor, or armature, between two rails to launch projectiles at 4,500 mph to 5,600 mph. Electr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14682671 | 1,461,770 |
252,628 | Mixing layers involve transporting the denser and colder deep ocean water to the surface mixed layer. As the ocean temperature decreases with depth, more carbon dioxide and other compounds are able to dissolve in the deeper layers. This can be induced by reversing the oceanic carbon cycle through the use of large verti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4535852 | 252,495 |
2,140,645 | In "The Avengers", Thor uses the hammer in combat throughout. He battles Tony Stark in his Iron Man armor, and Stark's arc reactor is able to absorb the lightning conjured by Mjolnir to increase his armor's power. It clashes with Steve Rogers' vibranium shield, creating a massive shockwave that knocks both parties down... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67181096 | 2,139,415 |
555,835 | Reich's 2009 paper "Reconstructing Indian population history" was a landmark study in the research on India's genepool and the origins of its population. Reich et al. (2009), in a collaborative effort between the Harvard Medical School and the Indian Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), examined the entire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6133800 | 555,546 |
1,838,533 | Thermal fluctuations continuously affect the shape of polymers in liquid solutions, and modeling their effect requires using principles from statistical mechanics and dynamics. The path integral approach falls in line with this basic premise and its afforded results are unvaryingly statistical averages. The path integr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43265702 | 1,837,484 |
402,512 | A space elevator, also referred to as a space bridge, star ladder, and orbital lift, is a proposed type of planet-to-space transportation system, often depicted in science fiction. The main component would be a cable (also called a tether) anchored to the surface and extending into space. The design would permit vehicl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29192 | 402,313 |
1,812,291 | The College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin offers 10 Bachelor of Arts majors, 42 Bachelor of Science majors, and 20 graduate programs to more than 11,000 undergraduates and 1,400 graduate students. The college employs over 370 faculty. Many of the programs are consistently ranked in the top te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6996608 | 1,811,258 |
1,849,757 | PGD2, PGJ2, Δ12-PGJ2, and 15-deoxy-Δ12,14-PGJ2 activate the transcription factor, PPARγ, with 15-deoxy-Δ12,14-PGJ2 being the most potent of the four PGs. Accordingly, further studies have focused on 15-deoxy-Δ12,14-PGJ2. This PG directly binds with and activates PPARγ thereby inducing the transcription of genes contain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11925565 | 1,848,699 |
1,775,037 | In commercial operations, it is important for the counter to be automatic and accurate. For example, one commercial counter is capable of measuring the hundredth/thousandth grain weight for seeds, tablets, pearls, and small components. It adopts far-infrared area sensor, and a large enough photosensitive area, "suitabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35127635 | 1,774,040 |
2,108,222 | The 2016–17 Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners men's basketball team represented California State University, Bakersfield during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Roadrunners, led by sixth-year head coach Rod Barnes, played their home games at the Icardo Center as members of the Western Athletic C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51601935 | 2,107,008 |
321,434 | The Alouette III served for over 44 years in the South African Air Force (SAAF); it is believed that 121 examples were acquired between 1962 and 1975 for the service from France. During 1966, by which point the SAAF had built up a fleet of around 50 Alouette IIIs already, it was decided to dispatch several of the type ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=508478 | 321,262 |
656,298 | In obesity chronically elevated levels of NPY can be seen, this has been seen in rats fed on a high fat diet for 22 weeks and resulted in a hormonal derangement that increased NPY release, due to a defective leptin signal compared to control rats. In humans increased levels of free NPY were found in obese women and not... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=984731 | 655,954 |
265,012 | In Bogotá the overcrowding was even worse; the average of TransMilenio was eight passengers per square meter (). Only 29% felt satisfied with the system. The data also showed that 23% of the citizens agreed with building more TransMilenio lines, in contrast of the 42% who considered that a rapid transit system should b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=333625 | 264,869 |
1,927,911 | To start off part one, Dawkins discusses the amazing capabilities of the human body and contrasts these with the limited capabilities of computers and other man-made machines. He uses a small totem pole (which is used in ancestor worship) to illustrate the importance of studying our ancestors to understand how we've ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11080148 | 1,926,807 |
1,221,855 | Unlike the First Funding Opportunity, the Second Funding Opportunity designated project submissions by category. Of the selected projects, 14 focused on IMPAACT, 13 focused on Electrofuels, and 10 focused on BEEST. For example, Harvard Medical School submitted a project under Electrofuels entitled "Engineering a Bacter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21687875 | 1,221,196 |
550,128 | A review of the learnings of neuroeconomics, published in 2016 by Arkady Konovalov, shared the sentiment that the field suffers from experimental shortcomings. Primary among them being a lack of analogous ties between specific brain regions and some psychological constructs such as "value". The review mentions that alt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=515094 | 549,840 |
2,174,037 | The Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD) is an office of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) established in 2011 to further the use of astronomy as a tool for development. The OAD is jointly funded by the International Astronomical Union and the National Research Foundation of South Africa. The office consi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54842078 | 2,172,795 |
1,895,664 | RCM is capable of generating autonomic wing beating from a chemical energy source. It can also be used to provide a small amount of electricity to the onboard control systems. It further helps in differential lift enhancement on the wings to achieve roll, pitch, and hence, steered flight. The RCM technique is particula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4288722 | 1,894,580 |
1,876,405 | Recent results have shown that using scale-dependent critical values for the scan statistic allows to attain asymptotically optimal detection simultaneously for all signal lengths, thereby improving on the traditional scan, but this procedure has been criticized for losing too much power for short signals. Walther and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41565937 | 1,875,327 |
1,348,975 | The mylodonts are the only known lineage of sloths whose representatives had bony platelets, so-called osteoderms, formed in the skin, analogous to today's armadillos. Unlike the latter, however, they did not form a solid bony armor in mylodonts, but were rather loosely scattered, as shown by finds of skin remains of "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16886646 | 1,348,230 |
1,867,450 | Grötschel was born in Schwelm, Germany, and earned a diploma in mathematics with minor in economics in 1973 from the University of Bochum. He completed a doctorate in 1977 at the University of Bonn under the supervision of Bernhard Korte, and obtained his habilitation at Bonn in the field operations research in 1981. O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55085835 | 1,866,374 |
1,202,669 | The downfall of NLS, and subsequently, of ARC in general, was the program's difficult learning curve. NLS was not designed to be easy to learn; it employed the heavy use of program modes, relied on a strict hierarchical structure, did not have a point-and-click interface, and forced the user to have to learn cryptic mn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1648576 | 1,202,026 |
1,978,796 | On May 17, 2010, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates directed an independent panel of corporate executives (known as the Defense Business Board) to make recommendations on options to materially reduce DoD overhead and increase efficiency in internal business operations. On July 22, the Defense Business Board offered a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4937528 | 1,977,658 |
912,622 | Barjot Polar Power Plants could be located on islands in the polar region or designed as swimming barges or platforms attached to the ice cap. The weather station Myggbuka at Greenlands east coast for example, which is only 2,100 km away from Glasgow, detects monthly mean temperatures below during 6 winter months in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68498 | 912,143 |
2,248,301 | The Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists (CSCC) is a non-profit national scientific and professional society that represents clinical chemists (also known as clinical biochemists) across Canada. Its purpose is to advance the practice of clinical chemistry in Canada through the promotion of excellence in education, res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41513000 | 2,247,029 |
60,009 | The holotype specimen MOR 485 was collected by Hostetter and Ray Rogers from the Landslide Butte Field Area about northwest of Cut Bank. In 1995 Sampson described it as the partial skull of an adult animal including the nasal and supraorbital (region above the eye socket) bosses (roundish protuberances instead of horns... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1792493 | 59,984 |
905,852 | The plantar fascia contributes to support of arch of the foot by acting as a tie-rod, where it undergoes tension when the foot bears weight. One biomechanical model estimated it carries as much as 14% of the total load of the foot. In an experiment using cadavers, it was found that failure of the plantar fascia average... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=873391 | 905,376 |
1,159,158 | Amateur radio came into being after radio waves (proved to exist by Heinrich Rudolf Hertz in 1888) were adapted into a communication system in the 1890s by the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi. In the late 19th century there had been amateur "wired" telegraphers setting up their own interconnected telegraphic systems... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8854194 | 1,158,544 |
472,278 | All parts of the plant have a strong garlic odour. The underground bulb is 1–2 cm diameter, with a fibrous outer layer. The main stem grows to 30–120 cm tall, bearing 2–4 leaves and an apical inflorescence 2–5 cm diameter comprising a number of small bulbils and none to a few flowers, subtended by a basal bract. The le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1338800 | 472,042 |
822,273 | The quarter-car math model replicates roughness measurements that were in use by highway agencies in the 1970s and 1980s. The IRI is statistically equivalent to the methods that were in use, in the sense that correlation of IRI with a typical instrumented vehicle (called a "response type road roughness measuring system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26458823 | 821,832 |
2,008,564 | Long ncRNA (lncRNA) are a second type of non-coding RNA that are key post-transcriptional modifiers of protein-coding gene expression. These also play a significant role in myasthenia gravis. Their aberrant regulation can cause differential expression in downstream genes. For instance, the differential expression of ln... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46685051 | 2,007,412 |
1,048,955 | The most useful and widely employed application of magnetism is in the production of electrical energy. The mechanical power needed to assist in this production is provided by a number of different sources. These sources are called prime movers, and include diesel, petrol and natural gas engines. Coal, oil, natural gas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50365786 | 1,048,410 |
196,597 | Michelson and Morley (1887) and other early experimentalists using interferometric techniques in an attempt to measure the properties of the luminiferous aether, used monochromatic light only for initially setting up their equipment, always switching to white light for the actual measurements. The reason is that measur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166689 | 196,497 |
751,657 | Reportedly, some Stoics claimed that most parts of the body formed at once during embryological development. Some Epicureans claimed that the fetus is nourished by either the amniotic fluid or the blood, and that both male and female supply material to the development of the fetus. According to the writings of Tertulli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162717 | 751,258 |
2,180,374 | Algeria fielded eight athletes in track and field events, all of them men. Mohamed Aissaoui competed in the 800m, 1,500m and 5,000m races in category T46, narrowly missing out on a medal in the 1,500 metres, where he finished fourth in 4:06.85 (2.09 seconds behind China's Wu Yanjian, who took bronze). Bachir Zergoune, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32743390 | 2,179,129 |
61,165 | A significant modification of Cubism between 1914 and 1916 was signaled by a shift towards a strong emphasis on large overlapping geometric planes and flat surface activity. This grouping of styles of painting and sculpture, especially significant between 1917 and 1920, was practiced by several artists; particularly th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37803 | 61,140 |
1,221,970 | The development of steam engines required engineers to develop concepts and formulas that would allow them to describe the mechanical and thermal efficiencies of their systems. Engineers such as Sadi Carnot, physicists such as James Prescott Joule, mathematicians such as Émile Clapeyron and Hermann von Helmholtz, and a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11470059 | 1,221,311 |
1,215,372 | Recently, the traditional "passive" view of the energy grid in UC has been challenged. In a "fixed" electrical network currents cannot be routed, their behavior being entirely dictated by nodal power injection: the only way to modify the network load is therefore to change nodal demand or production, for which there is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47290184 | 1,214,720 |
498,532 | Amongst his pupils at Balliol were men destined to high positions in the state, whose parents had thus shown their confidence in the supposed heretic, and gratitude on this account was added to other motives for his unsparing efforts in tuition. Robert Scott, Master of Balliol College, was promoted to the deanery of Ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231263 | 498,275 |
1,678,374 | In 1867, Elkins served as attorney general of the territory and later as U.S. district attorney from 1867 to 1870. He was elected territorial delegate to the U.S. Congress in 1872, and reelected in 1874, serving from March 4, 1873 to March 4, 1877. In 1875, he met and married his second wife, Hallie Davis, and continue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=779242 | 1,677,431 |
238,375 | The Nd ion is similar in size to the early lanthanides of the cerium group (those from lanthanum up to samarium and europium) that immediately follow in the periodic table, and hence it tends to occur along with them in phosphate, silicate and carbonate minerals, such as monazite (MPO) and bastnäsite (MCOF), where M re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21276 | 238,255 |
120,071 | Therefore, a critique of strategic management is that it can overly constrain managerial discretion in a dynamic environment. "How can individuals, organizations and societies cope as well as possible with ... issues too complex to be fully understood, given the fact that actions initiated on the basis of inadequate un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239450 | 120,022 |
1,298,522 | In August 1941, Oliphant was sent to the US to assist the Americans with microwave radar. He took the initiative to enlighten the scientific community there of the ground-breaking discoveries of the MAUD Committee. He travelled to Berkeley to meet with his friend Ernest Lawrence, who soon caught his enthusiasm. Oliphan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2548934 | 1,297,809 |
2,159,329 | Skeletochronology is a technique used to determine the individual, chronological ages of vertebrates by counting lines of arrested, annual growth, also known as LAGs, within Skeletal tissues. Within the annual bone growth specimens, there are broad and narrow lines. Broad lines represent the growth period and narrow li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9330285 | 2,158,097 |
725,355 | Clinical symptoms include pyrexia (recurring high fever which may be continuous or remittent), enlargement of spleen and liver, and heavy skin pigmentation which darkens the physical appearance (the reason for naming "black fever"). To a lesser extent, mucosa of the small intestine and lymph nodes are also invaded by t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20763865 | 724,974 |
1,523,227 | It was not until 1825 that the first official legislation was passed by the local assembly to foster higher education. "The Act for the Encouragement of Education in the Different Counties and Districts of the Island" was the first of a series of education acts developed to establish a Government-supported public unive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17662723 | 1,522,366 |
1,265,700 | When describing the full four-year UK BMus degree or its equivalent in Germany, the term is applied mostly to people who have graduated at bachelor's level in music and applied physics and who have gathered, under university supervision, at least a year of appropriate industrial experience in the music or recording bus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9333674 | 1,265,012 |
950,716 | As stated above, the thermal energy required for a phase transition is called "latent heat". In the specific cases of melting and freezing, it's called "enthalpy of fusion" or "heat of fusion". If the molecular bonds in a crystal lattice are strong, the heat of fusion can be relatively great, typically in the range of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41789 | 950,212 |
1,139,011 | Bedrock in this region is mainly Archean, with small areas of Lower Paleozoic and Upper Mesozoic sedimentary rocks along the western border. By late Wisconsinan times this bedrock had been covered by clayey glacial drift scoured and transported south from sedimentary rocks in Manitoba. The bottomland is undissected and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7093351 | 1,138,418 |
1,884,513 | Farm Square (1899-) (Bldg 8216) is a collection of structures containing stables, stalls, lofts and storage areas arranged around a large internal space - the square. The square has a bitumen floor and contains a horse-breaking ring and washing area. The buildings on the southern, eastern and western sides of the squar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44321024 | 1,883,432 |
1,993,651 | Doped ZnS/ZnSe QDs, graphene QDs and silicon QDs are novel CFQD types that have been demonstrated their low-toxicity and high colloidal and PL stability for in vitro and in vivo models. DNA/peptide-functionalized QDs have been widely used for targeted cell and tissue imaging and the monitoring of the drug delivery path... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52801156 | 1,992,508 |
342,201 | An electrical arc across relay contacts can be very hot — thousands of degrees Fahrenheit — causing the metal on the contact surfaces to melt, pool, and migrate with the current. The extremely high temperature of the arc splits the surrounding gas molecules, creating ozone, carbon monoxide, and other compounds. Over ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26590 | 342,020 |
1,328,712 | The principle is used on rudders, elevators and ailerons, with methods refined over the years. Two illustrations of aircraft rudders, published by "Flight" Magazine in 1920, illustrate early forms, both with curved leading and trailing edges. Both are mounted so that the area of the balancing surface ahead of the hinge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5441057 | 1,327,984 |
1,788,816 | ABINIT implements density functional theory by solving the Kohn–Sham equations describing the electrons in a material, expanded in a plane wave basis set and using a self-consistent conjugate gradient method to determine the energy minimum. Computational efficiency is achieved through the use of fast Fourier transforms... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2780729 | 1,787,810 |
276,892 | On July 23, 2009, "Logic Pro 9" was announced. A major new feature included "Flex Time", Apple's take on "elastic" audio, which allows audio to be quantized. A version of the pedalboard from GarageBand was included, together with a new virtual guitar amplifier where the modeled components could be combined in different... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1516685 | 276,742 |
349,269 | Polonium is a chemical element with the symbol Po and atomic number 84. Polonium is a chalcogen. A rare and highly radioactive metal with no stable isotopes, polonium is chemically similar to selenium and tellurium, though its metallic character resembles that of its horizontal neighbors in the periodic table: thallium... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23325 | 349,087 |
1,768,163 | Abelson considered the book's publication an important event in American philosophy. He credited Nagel with consolidating the rival insights of logical positivism and pragmatism, demonstrating how four different kinds of explanation function in different types of inquiry, refuting the view that science does nothing mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37426736 | 1,767,169 |
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