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134,785 | The Buffet system bassoon achieved its basic acoustical properties somewhat earlier than the Heckel. Thereafter, it continued to develop in a more conservative manner. While the early history of the Heckel bassoon included a complete overhaul of the instrument in both acoustics and key work, the development of the Buff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4207 | 134,730 |
1,473,445 | As research on the mental lexicon continues to expand into our modern world of abbreviations, researchers have begun to question whether the mental lexicon has the capacity to store acronyms as well as words. Using a lexical decision task with acronyms as priming words, researchers from Ghent University in 2009 saw tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33963629 | 1,472,614 |
1,554,486 | Although frequently encountered as a contaminant in clinical specimens, "P. variotii" is an uncommon causative agent of human and animal infections, but is considered to be an emerging agent of opportunistic disease, particularly in immunocompromised individuals. It has been suggested that the extremotolerant nature of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40820052 | 1,553,605 |
1,493,153 | For example, the EU blocked a proposed merger of General Electric and Honeywell on grounds of the possibility of "leverage" in other markets and "portfolio effects", even though United States regulators found that the merger would improve competition and reduce prices. Assistant Attorney General Charles James, along wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12070642 | 1,492,313 |
1,893,181 | Boredom and stress from piano playing triggered Prangcharoen's musical move in 1998. Kit Young suggested him to try composition as an alternative to cope with musical fatigue and introduced him to Narongrit Dhamabutra, a composition professor at Chulalongkorn University. After two years, Prangcharoen pursued a master's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55035927 | 1,892,098 |
233,599 | MPC is based on iterative, finite-horizon optimization of a plant model. At time formula_1 the current plant state is sampled and a cost minimizing control strategy is computed (via a numerical minimization algorithm) for a relatively short time horizon in the future: formula_2. Specifically, an online or on-the-fly ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1100516 | 233,480 |
2,065,549 | "Trimeroceras" had a restricted slit-like aperture which, on top of the hyponomic sinus acting as water-jet funnel, allowed only a small number of tentacles to exist which would have been much smaller than that of modern Nautilus. These tentacles were most importantly used for gathering food, but it is unlikely that th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43578550 | 2,064,358 |
917,958 | After the first flight of the YH-21 on 11 April 1952, the USAF ordered 32 H-21A SAR models and 163 of the more powerful H-21B assault transport variant. The H-21B was equipped with an uprated version of the Wright 103 engine, developing 1,425 shaft horsepower (1,063 kW) and featured rotor blades extended by 6 inches (1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1596180 | 917,475 |
699,472 | When the 12 GB RTX 4080 was announced, numerous outlets, prominent YouTubers, reviewers, and the community criticized Nvidia for calling it an RTX 4080 instead of RTX 4070, given previous Nvidia GPU generations and the large gap in specifications and performance compared to the 16 GB card. The names RTX 4080 12GB and R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71802991 | 699,108 |
1,621,752 | The most important technologies for indirect heat transfer use tubes (shell-and-tube exchangers) or flat surfaces (plate exchangers). Their goal is to exchange the maximum amount of heat per unit area by generating as much turbulence as possible below given pumping power limits. Typical approaches to achieve this consi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19232416 | 1,620,836 |
430,743 | One way depression increases the individual's focus on a problem is by inducing rumination. Depression activates the left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, which increases attention control and maintains problem-related information in an "active, accessible state" referred to as "working memory", or WM. As a result, dep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13190302 | 430,531 |
812,367 | The concept of relictualism is useful in understanding the ecology and conservation status of populations that have become insularized, meaning confined to one small area or multiple small areas with no chance of movement between populations. Insularization makes a population vulnerable to forces that can lead to extin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39324002 | 811,934 |
1,919,654 | Haygood declined an election as Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 1882; but he accepted another election in 1890. Rev. T. H. Tyson established a newspaper for African Americans in Oklahoma in 1890 called "Our Brother in Black", after one of Haygood's texts. Perhaps his most enduring legacy comes from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3796402 | 1,918,554 |
157,995 | Many of its operators, such as the Royal New Zealand Air Force, chose to procure the type during the 1980s and 1990s as a replacement for various aging jet-powered attack aircraft, such as the British-built BAC Strikemaster. Although uncommon amongst most export customers, some operators, such as the United Arab Emirat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=946381 | 157,914 |
958,975 | Changes in astrogliosis are regulated in a context-dependent fashion, and the signaling events which dictate these changes may modify both their nature and severity. It is these changes in astrogliosis which allow the process to be complex and multifaceted, involving both a gain or loss of function as well as both bene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4694311 | 958,469 |
834,101 | A partial explanation is that gas molecules hitting the warmer side of the vane will pick up some of the heat, bouncing off the vane with increased speed. Giving the molecule this extra boost effectively means that a minute pressure is exerted on the vane. The imbalance of this effect between the warmer black side and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7021 | 833,652 |
1,859,940 | The 1924 Chicago Bears season was their fifth regular season completed in the National Football League. The team was unable to improve on their 9–2–2 record from 1923 and finished with an 8–3–4 record under head coach George Halas earning them a second-place finish in the team standings, the fourth time in the last fiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8773551 | 1,858,872 |
946,966 | NuScale is expected to be the first SMR to market, because its cooling is similar to the systems used in conventional power plants. However, alternative cooling systems using molten metals are expected to operate at higher, more efficient temperatures once approved. The company estimates a twelve-unit NuScale plant wou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25635739 | 946,463 |
557,657 | The Space Shuttle program originated in the late 1960s as an attempt to reduce the cost of spaceflight by introducing a reusable spacecraft. The final agreed design would feature a reusable spaceplane, a disposable external tank and reusable solid-fuel rocket boosters. The contract to build the spaceplane, which eventu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16237630 | 557,368 |
9,850 | After its first six months of service, Rolls-Royce powered ANA aircraft were burning around 21% less fuel than the replaced 767-300ER on international flights, slightly better than the 20% originally expected, and 15–20% on domestic routes, while GE-powered Japan Airlines aircraft were potentially slightly better. Othe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=307133 | 9,846 |
1,608,716 | In his recent philosophical work, "Religion, Neuroscience, and the Self", McNamara uses contemporary neuroscientific research on religious experience, the Self, and personhood to explore the theological and philosophical set of ideas known as Personalism. He proposes a new eschatological form of personalism that is con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44499100 | 1,607,811 |
188,346 | During the age of New Imperialism in the late 19th century European explorers and scientists traveled across the globe bringing descriptions of landscapes and landforms. As geographical knowledge increased over time these observations were systematized in a search for regional patterns. Climate emerged thus as prime fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=78534 | 188,249 |
129,745 | For decades after the discovery of GRBs, astronomers searched for a counterpart at other wavelengths: i.e., any astronomical object in positional coincidence with a recently observed burst. Astronomers considered many distinct classes of objects, including white dwarfs, pulsars, supernovae, globular clusters, quasars, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48803 | 129,693 |
328,331 | Adding one further step of randomization yields "extremely randomized trees", or ExtraTrees. While similar to ordinary random forests in that they are an ensemble of individual trees, there are two main differences: first, each tree is trained using the whole learning sample (rather than a bootstrap sample), and second... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1363880 | 328,157 |
1,304,127 | In 1927 Lanczos married Maria Rupp. He was offered a one-year visiting professorship from Purdue University. For a dozen years (1927–39) Lanczos split his life between two continents. His wife Maria Rupp stayed with Lanczos' parents in Székesfehérvár year-around while Lanczos went to Purdue for half the year, teaching ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1657748 | 1,303,411 |
2,045,241 | Pyrenasaurus is an extinct genus of lizard that includes only one species, the type species Pyrenasaurus evansae, which lived around the Pyrenees mountains during the Late Eocene. "P. evansae" was named in 2014 on the basis of three dentaries (bones that form the lower jaw), one from the Phosphorites du Quercy in Querc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43010988 | 2,044,060 |
1,942,911 | Photonic crystals allow precise control of electromagnetic wave properties. These materials give rise to the photonic bandgap (PBG). In the spectral range of the PBG, electromagnetic waves cannot propagate. Engineering these materials allows some ability to tailor their emission and absorption properties, allowing for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2937772 | 1,941,800 |
1,257,728 | According to the crystal structures of full-length wild-type p97, six p97 subunits assemble into a barrel-like structure, in which the N-D1 and D2 domains form two concentric, stacked rings (Figure 2). The N-D1 ring is larger (162 Å in diameter) than the D2 ring (113 Å) due to the laterally attached N-domains. The D1 a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14700825 | 1,257,042 |
1,691,378 | The mechanical energy of the device may be converted to heat, sound, electricity, light, tension, pushes, pulls, laser, microwave, chemical changes, or compression of gases. Traction is a big direct use of the mechanical energy as in tugging cargo ships and kiteboarders. There are several methods of getting the mechani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5315193 | 1,690,428 |
1,770,313 | Figure 2 shows that in case of a p-type semiconductor/liquid junction photo generated electrons are available at the semiconductor/liquid interface under illumination. The reduction of redox species happens at less negative potential on illuminated p-type semiconductor compared to metal electrode due to the band bendin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30995376 | 1,769,318 |
1,480,291 | Stebbins started graduate studies at Harvard in 1928, initially working on flowering plant taxonomy and biogeography—particularly that of the flora of New England—with Merritt Lyndon Fernald. He completed his MA in 1929 and continued to work toward his Ph.D. He became interested in using chromosomes for taxonomic studi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1591079 | 1,479,457 |
698,219 | The Nemegt Formation is composed of mudstones and sandstones that were deposited by ancient lakes, streams, and flood plains. The Altan Uul locality was described by Michael Novacek as "a canyon carved out of a very rich series of sedimentary rocks" with "steep cliffs and narrow washes". The climate associated with it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5676344 | 697,855 |
1,957,244 | In February 2015, the South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill announced the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission to investigate the potential for an expanded role for the state in all aspects of the nuclear industry (mining, enrichment, reprocessing, waste management and nuclear electricity generation). Brook described ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25340711 | 1,956,120 |
544,285 | The history of hydrographic surveying dates almost as far back as that of sailing. For many centuries, a hydrographic survey required the use of lead lines – ropes or lines with depth markings attached to lead weights to make one end sink to the bottom when lowered over the side of a ship or boat – and sounding poles, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167741 | 544,003 |
31,371 | The Tejas Mark 1A, which has more than 40 improvements over the Mark 1 variant, is expected to begin production in 2023–24. Upgraded Mark 1A aircraft will retain basic Mark 1 airframe while featuring a new avionic suite centered on EL/M-2052 AESA Radar and Uttam AESA Radar, DARE Unified Electronic Warfare Suite (UEWS),... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=749967 | 31,361 |
1,848,300 | On October 29, 1931 Curt Stern married Evelyn Sommerfield, an American citizen, whom he had met 1925 at Columbia University. During 1932 he returned to the U.S. for a one-year fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation, spent at the California Institute of Technology. He was in the company of geneticists Thomas Morgan,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2859414 | 1,847,242 |
281,267 | The first heat-seeker built outside the US was the UK's de Havilland Firestreak. Development began as OR.1056 Red Hawk, but this was considered too advanced, and in 1951 an amended concept was released as OR.1117 and given the code name Blue Jay. Designed as an anti-bomber weapon, the Blue Jay was larger, much heavier ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1396771 | 281,114 |
104,962 | The band were initially enthusiastic about performing the suite. An early performance was taped for the San Francisco television station KQED, featuring just the band, on 28 April 1970. Two major performances were at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music on 27 June and the "Blackhills Garden Party" in Hyde P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=271068 | 104,917 |
799,346 | In a 2017 study published in Nature, three ancient Egyptian mummies were obtained spanning around 1,300 years of Egyptian history from the late New Kingdom to the Roman period. The study used 135 modern Egyptian samples. Two of the three ancient Egyptians were assigned to haplogroup J and one to haplogroup E1b1b1 both ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16696142 | 798,921 |
85,508 | When the target is sighted and the trigger is pulled, there is a 1.5-second firing delay while the missile spins up its internal gyroscope and the thermal battery reaches operating temperature. Once this concludes, the launch motor fires through the rear nozzle propelling the missile from the tube: this soft-launch mot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=338060 | 85,474 |
459,456 | As with launch vehicles, all pure spacecraft during the early decades of human capacity to achieve spaceflight were designed to be single-use items. This was true both for satellites and space probes intended to be left in space for a long time, as well as any object designed to return to Earth such as human-carrying s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=336014 | 459,231 |
112,810 | Online education originated from the University of Illinois in 1960. Although the internet would not be created for another decade, students were able to access class information with linked computer terminals. Online learning emerged in 1982 when the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute in La Jolla, California, opene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1944675 | 112,765 |
1,905,695 | The participation of oligopeptidases in a number of pathologies has long been reported. The ACE has benefited the most from a thorough knowledge on the enzyme structure and its mechanism of catalysis leading to the better understanding of its role in cardiovascular pathologies and therapeutics. Accordingly, for over 30... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31165479 | 1,904,599 |
2,141,648 | In late 2019, when reports of a novel coronavirus began circulating, Smith immediately began investigating causes, preventatives, and potential cures with colleagues in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health at UC San Diego. He currently leads or contributes to a number of COVID-19 studies at UC S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64007207 | 2,140,418 |
247,079 | It is difficult to solve this many-body problem explicitly in either classical or quantum mechanics. In order to simplify the task, two important approximations are usually imposed. First, the sum is only performed over neighboring atoms. Although the electric forces in real solids extend to infinity, this approximatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=85754 | 246,951 |
1,265,380 | In 1983, a Canadian–American collaborative expedition, named the Canadian American Seamount (CASM) expedition, visited the northwestern edge of Axial Seamount's summit caldera to investigate a persistent temperature anomaly in the region. In a series of eight dives conducted by "Pisces IV", the scientists discovered a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12730246 | 1,264,692 |
1,801,813 | On 1 December 1958, the 4135th Strategic Wing of the Second Air Force, Strategic Air Command, flying the B-52 Stratofortress and KC-135 Stratotanker, was assigned to Eglin as part of SAC's dispersal program. The wing was reassigned to the Eighth Air Force, 822nd Air Division on 1 January 1959. A five-pronged concrete C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,804 |
1,389,586 | Hastie began his professional career in 1977 with the South African Medical Research Council. After receiving his master's degree in 1979, he spent a year interning at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the Johnson Space Center in Houston, and the Biomath department at Oxford University. After receiving ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35425965 | 1,388,815 |
63,387 | Commenting in 2001 on the rising status of the LSE, the British magazine "The Economist" stated that "two decades ago the LSE was still the poor relation of the University of London's other colleges. Now... it regularly follows Oxford and Cambridge in league tables of research output and teaching quality and is at leas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67704 | 63,362 |
25,904 | The Michelson–Morley experiment was designed to detect second-order effects of the "aether wind"—the motion of the aether relative to the earth. Michelson designed an instrument called the Michelson interferometer to accomplish this. The apparatus was sufficiently accurate to detect the expected effects, but he obtaine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30001 | 25,895 |
568,739 | "Steins;Gate Elite" was developed by 5pb., and was planned by Chiyomaru Shikura and produced by Tatsuya Matsubara. The new animation was produced by White Fox, the studio that produced the "Steins;Gate" anime series. Shikura had for a long time thought about how to evolve the visual novel genre, as he felt it had been ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54164625 | 568,449 |
654,697 | Because it involves a moving balanced surface, a stabilator can allow the pilot to generate a given pitching moment with a lower control force. Due to the high forces involved in tail balancing loads, stabilators are designed to pivot about their aerodynamic center (near the tail's mean quarter-chord). This is the poin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=977206 | 654,353 |
1,446,053 | Starting in the 1930s, the university conducted a more successful experiment on the college. To make the university a preeminent undergraduate academic institution, administrators decided to implement President Hutchins' philosophy of secular perennialism. This led to the innovation of the common core, an educational s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23681870 | 1,445,237 |
232,566 | In December 2010, several groups, including the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, the American Petroleum Institute, the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers, the National Marine Manufacturers Association, the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute, and the Grocery Manufacturers Association, filed suit a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2155310 | 232,447 |
1,480,162 | Hollow cathodes emit a dense cloud of plasma by first ionizing a gas. This creates a high density plasma plume which makes contact with the surrounding plasma. The region between the high density plume and the surrounding plasma is termed a double sheath or double layer. This double layer is essentially two adjacent la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2860340 | 1,479,328 |
1,655,710 | Darwin’s teacher and mentor at Cambridge, John Stevens Henslow, had a clear understanding of the morphology of "Utricularia" (bladderwort) plants, but was not able to understand working mechanics of their traps. Darwin incorrectly concluded that animals entered the traps by forcing their heads through the slit-like ori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21149256 | 1,654,777 |
461,201 | To derive an energy equation, note that the advective acceleration term formula_37 may be decomposed as:formula_38where formula_39 is the vorticity of the flow and formula_40 is the Euclidean norm. This leads to a form of the momentum equation, ignoring the external forces term, given by:formula_41Taking the dot produc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2235244 | 460,975 |
1,862,467 | In order to accelerate identification of effective vaccine candidates, future studies will need to address the significance of latently infected resting T cells, immune responses induced by current vaccine candidates, and the impact of HIV and human leukocyte antigen diversity. In addition, the relevance of SIV/SHIV mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4666597 | 1,861,398 |
1,471,713 | His chronicle, a work written in Hebrew in 1161 under the title of "Sefer ha-Qabbalah" (; some manuscripts give the title as "Seder ha-Qabbalah", i.e. the "Order of Tradition"), in which he fiercely attacked the contentions of Karaism and justified Rabbinic Judaism by the establishment of a chain of traditions from Mos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231407 | 1,470,884 |
851,356 | The use of radioactive tracer elements in ion uptake assays allows the calculation of km, Ki and Vmax and determines the initial change in the ion content of the cells. Mg decays by the emission of a high-energy beta or gamma particle, which can be measured using a scintillation counter. However, the radioactive half-l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378938 | 850,903 |
252,820 | Eventually an elderly German woman came forward with Me 163 instruments that her late husband had collected after the war, and the engine was reproduced by a machine shop owned by Me 163 enthusiast Reinhold Opitz. The factory closed in the early 1990s and "Yellow 25" was moved to a small museum created on the site. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20486 | 252,687 |
1,859,096 | Eruption intensity of a volcano is not the only factor controlling the altitude of particles. The climate surrounding the volcano constrains the impact of the eruption. Models of eruptions that treat climatic variables as controls and hold eruption intensity constant predict particulate emissions, such as volcanic ash ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31670958 | 1,858,028 |
407,385 | The university also hosts the Museum of Texas Tech University, which was founded in 1929 and is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. The museum is home to over eight million objects and specimens and houses the Moody Planetarium, art galleries, a sculpture court, and a natural science research laboratory. It... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=272980 | 407,184 |
170,468 | A proof-of-concept of using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to generate human organ for transplantation was reported by researchers from Japan. Human 'liver buds' (iPSC-LBs) were grown from a mixture of three different kinds of stem cells: hepatocytes (for liver function) coaxed from iPSCs; endothelial stem cell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12223532 | 170,378 |
1,389,517 | His thesis, AM (Automated Mathematician) was one of the first computer programs that attempted to make discoveries, i.e., to be a theorem "proposer" rather than a theorem "prover". Experimenting with the program fueled a cycle of criticism and improvement, leading to a slightly deeper understanding of human creativity.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99991 | 1,388,746 |
1,607,758 | Under the 2014-2015 SSG administration (Yap, J.S., Mutiangpili, R.F., Santos, C.M., et al.), sub-committees were created. These include the creation of the Central Information System (CIS), a centralized system in information dissemination that ensures reliability and fast track sharing of threads. Also established the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42079037 | 1,606,853 |
1,509,895 | One of the many facets involved in public health genomics is that of bioethics. This has been highlighted in a study in 2005 by Cogent Research, that found when American citizens were asked what they thought the strongest drawback was in using genetic information, they listed "misuse of information/invasion of privacy"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8767449 | 1,509,045 |
751,411 | An alternative theory, proposed by Thomas Cavalier-Smith, was labeled the Neomuran revolution. The designation "Neomuran revolution" refers to the appearances of the common ancestors of eukaryotes and archaea. Cavalier-Smith proposes that the first neomurans emerged 850 million years ago. Other molecular biologists ass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=661661 | 751,013 |
758,193 | Bates alumni have included leaders in science, religion, politics, the Peace Corps, medicine, law, education, communications, and business; and acclaimed actors, architects, artists, astronauts, engineers, human rights activists, inventors, musicians, philanthropists, and writers. , there are 24,000 Bates College alumn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=319763 | 757,787 |
1,323,450 | Capillary electrophoresis (CE) and microcapillary gel electrophoresis (μCGE) are well-recognized microchip electrophoresis (MCE) methods that can provide numerous analytical advantages including high resolution, high sensitivity, and effective coupling to mass spectrometry (MS). Microchip electrophoresis can be applied... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54022162 | 1,322,724 |
409,863 | Von Ardenne, who had worked on isotope separation for the "Reichspostministerium" (Reich Postal Ministry), was also sent to the Soviet Union to work on their atomic bomb project, along with Gustav Hertz, Nobel laureate and director of Research Laboratory II at Siemens, Peter Adolf Thiessen, director of the "Kaiser-Wilh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1397318 | 409,661 |
1,033,681 | Roborace was a competition with autonomously driving, electrically powered vehicles. Founded in 2015 by Denis Sverdlov, it aimed to be the first global championship for autonomous cars. From 2017 to 2019, the official CEO was 2016–17 Formula E champion, Lucas Di Grassi, who later became a member of Roborace’s superviso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48760514 | 1,033,144 |
1,638,999 | Michael Gribskov, then at UCSD's San Diego Supercomputer department and now at the department of biological sciences at Purdue University, was elected president in 2003. That year ISMB took place in Brisbane, Australia, which was the first time the meeting was held outside North America or Europe. This phase brought ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20855686 | 1,638,074 |
432,610 | The partial element equivalent circuit (PEEC) is a 3D full-wave modeling method suitable for combined electromagnetic and circuit analysis. Unlike MoM, PEEC is a full spectrum method valid from dc to the maximum frequency determined by the meshing. In the PEEC method, the integral equation is interpreted as Kirchhoff's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3849994 | 432,397 |
1,341,873 | Most ankylosaurs bear homodonty (variation in tooth morphology), but not in "Gargoyleosaurus" in the premaxillary, maxillary, and dentary teeth, which show subtle morphological differences. Ankylosaur teeth are compressed labiolingually and phylliform, with an apical cusp and secondary cusps along the mesial and distal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4347315 | 1,341,139 |
1,439,498 | Affinity selection is followed by the removal of unbound small molecules via ultrafiltration or size-exclusion chromatography, making only protein-bound ligands available for downstream analysis. Several types of ultrafiltration have been reported with varying degrees of throughput, including pressure-based, centrifuga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48999251 | 1,438,688 |
1,997,507 | In 1999 the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions ruled that Purdue had violated laws involving recruiting, extra benefits, and ethical conduct, as well as several secondary violations in the women's basketball program. As a result, Purdue was to repay approximately $80,000 (reduced from around $900,000) in earnings... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67120605 | 1,996,364 |
746,554 | "King George V" was in Liverpool for an overhaul from March to June, 1944; it included the installation of additional radar gear, more anti-aircraft guns, improved accommodation, and ventilation. On 28 October 1944 "King George V" sailed from Scapa Flow under the command of Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser to join other Royal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=485616 | 746,159 |
10,540 | A second An-225 was partially built during the late 1980s for the Soviet space program, however, work on the airframe was suspended following the collapse of the Soviet Union. By 2000, the need for additional An-225 capacity had become apparent; during September 2006, it was decided that the second An-225 would be comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=406245 | 10,535 |
1,212,720 | ORs, which are located on the membranes of the cilia have been classified as a complex type of ligand-gated metabotropic channels. There are approximately 1000 different genes that code for the ORs, making them the largest gene family. An odorant will dissolve into the mucus of the olfactory epithelium and then bind to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=639660 | 1,212,068 |
1,360,712 | LIS1 was the first human neuronal migration gene to be cloned. It is responsible for encoding the alpha subunit of the intracellular Ib isoform of platelet-activating factor acetylhydrolase. It is located on chromosome 17p13.3 and has 11 exons with a coding region of 1233bp. LIS1 protein appears to interact with tubuli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3255214 | 1,359,960 |
216,216 | On the west side of Mies Campus are three red brick buildings that were original to Armour Institute, built between 1891 and 1901. In 1938 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe began his 20-year tenure as director of IIT's School of Architecture (1938–1959). The university was on the verge of building a brand new campus, to be one ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=73299 | 216,108 |
878,098 | Many species of bacteria, including "Escherichia coli", lack an end joining pathway and thus rely completely on homologous recombination to repair double-strand breaks. NHEJ proteins have been identified in a number of bacteria, including "Bacillus subtilis", "Mycobacterium tuberculosis", and "Mycobacterium smegmatis".... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1300341 | 877,636 |
707,875 | By the late Empire, enemy forces in both the East and West were "sufficiently mobile and sufficiently strong to pierce [the Roman] defensive perimeter on any selected axis of penetration"; from the 3rd century onwards, both Germanic tribes and Persian armies pierced the frontiers of the Roman Empire. In response, the R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7948631 | 707,506 |
1,160,735 | One of the first texts that systematically examined the impact of information technologies on the spatial and social evolution of cities is "Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places", by Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin. The relationship between cities and the internet was further expanded upon i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47639409 | 1,160,119 |
1,502,519 | The NNI has defined nanotechnology very broadly, to include a wide range of tiny structures, including those created by large and imprecise tools. However, nanomanufacturing is not defined in the NNI's recent report, "Instrumentation and Metrology for Nanotechnology". In contrast, another "priority area," nanofabricati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6736363 | 1,501,673 |
1,366,179 | Let formula_11 be a field, formula_12 its ring of integers, and formula_9 a genus formula_14 curve over formula_11 with a non-singular model formula_16, called an arithmetic surface. Also, we let formula_17 be an inclusion of fields (which is supposed to represent a place at infinity). Also, we will let formula_18 be t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16364229 | 1,365,423 |
190,736 | A short time later, prototypes of TCAS II were installed on two Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727 aircraft, and were flown on regularly scheduled flights. Although the displays were located outside the view of the flight crew and seen only by trained observers, these tests did provide valuable information on the frequency a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=760810 | 190,637 |
91,757 | The first-generation IMPs were built by BBN Technologies using a rugged computer version of the Honeywell DDP-516 computer, configured with of expandable magnetic-core memory, and a 16-channel Direct Multiplex Control (DMC) direct memory access unit. The DMC established custom interfaces with each of the host computers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=253111 | 91,717 |
1,750,492 | The Norinco JW-103 is part of Norinco's 'Jian Wei' () series of sporting rifles which began in 1955. The JW-103s development began in 1993 to create a rifle for the lucrative foreign hunting market. The design for this new rifle was finalized in June 1995 with mass production put underway by the end of the same year. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30242420 | 1,749,506 |
1,621,886 | In 2012, construction of the Garrett College Community Aquatic and Recreation Complex (CARC) was completed. The CARC is a 42,500 square-foot facility that houses a gymnasium, six-lane competition swimming pool, fully equipped fitness facility, locker and shower rooms, a wet classroom for instruction, multi use classroo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29547395 | 1,620,970 |
301,181 | The model includes a single originating event, the "Big Bang", which was not an explosion but the abrupt appearance of expanding spacetime containing radiation at temperatures of around 10 K. This was immediately (within 10 seconds) followed by an exponential expansion of space by a scale multiplier of 10 or more, know... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=985963 | 301,020 |
790,003 | Taken more seriously was the proposal to sabotage trains carrying Japanese troops which, the German General Staff and foreign office were convinced, would soon arrive in France through Canada. Despite German Ambassador to the United States Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff's disbelief in Japan sending troops to the Wester... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5567596 | 789,578 |
1,245,164 | While many traditional magnetic materials, such as magnetite, are also semiconductors (magnetite is a semimetal semiconductor with bandgap 0.14 eV), materials scientists generally predict that magnetic semiconductors will only find widespread use if they are similar to well-developed semiconductor materials. To that en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1667554 | 1,244,490 |
1,390,266 | The original intention was that the first 90 aircraft would be delivered to the RAF; in the event only six were delivered to that air arm, although 59 were assigned RAF serials in the "T95xx" and "T96xx" serial number blocks. The flight of the first Australian-built aircraft was the culmination of efforts by over 600 d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13273044 | 1,389,495 |
1,804,836 | Along with the water transport tubes, a heated wire ensures that the water stays liquid all the way to the surface, and power and telemetry is also carried from the surface. To keep the hole vertical the probe can sense when it is deviating, and the jets of hot water are adjusted to compensate. The drill is expected to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55125362 | 1,803,821 |
1,701,042 | ISI research spans artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, grid computing, cloud computing, quantum computing, microelectronics, supercomputing, nano-satellites and many other areas. AI expertise includes natural language processing, in which ISI has an international reputation, reconfigurable robotics, informatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15034 | 1,700,088 |
1,470,198 | Using the same principles pioneered by 2D-NMR experiments, multidimensional optical or infrared spectroscopy is possible using ultrafast pulses. Different frequencies can probe various dynamic molecular processes to differentiate between inhomogeneous and homogeneous line broadening as well as identify coupling between... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4136723 | 1,469,373 |
1,220,304 | The biological sciences department evolved rapidly from 1946 to 1972 as its research focus changed, due to the Cold War and other historically significant conditions external to academia. Stanford science went through three phases of experimental direction during that time. In the early 1950s the department remained fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50746458 | 1,219,650 |
1,875,653 | The 1980s and 1990s saw significant development in Anthropology of Technology, thanks in part to pioneering developments in the history and sociology of technology. In 1988, Bryan Pfaffenberger placed emphasis on the meanings of technologies in familiarizing anthropologists with the work of sociologists and historians ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71498816 | 1,874,576 |
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