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883,988 | Following the publication of the original version of CSP, Hoare, Stephen Brookes, and A. W. Roscoe developed and refined the "theory" of CSP into its modern, process algebraic form. The approach taken in developing CSP into a process algebra was influenced by Robin Milner's work on the Calculus of Communicating Systems... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=247370 | 883,524 |
943,336 | The first LAI antipsychotics (often referred to as simply "LAIs") were the typical antipsychotics fluphenazine and haloperidol. Both fluphenazile and haloperidol are formulated as decanoates, referring to the attachment of a decanoic acid group to the antipsychotic molecule. These are then dissolved in an organic oil. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=185268 | 942,834 |
1,356,726 | The oldest cranial drilling instrument was found in France, and subsequent use evidenced by the Ancient Romans, Egyptians, and in Trepanation in Mesoamerica. The practice of trepanning is also evidenced from Ancient Greece, North and South America, Africa, Polynesia and the Far East. The conceivable reasons why ancient... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58591721 | 1,355,976 |
788,605 | Another method for improving vertical jump height is the use of an isometric preload jump (IPJ). This is similar to a CMJ with the difference being that the crouched position is not rapidly assumed in order to maximise the influence of the SSC. An IPJ involves a crouched position being assumed for a longer period of ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4987177 | 788,181 |
401,322 | Unlike the American space program, which had NASA as a single coordinating structure directed by its administrator, James Webb through most of the 1960s, the USSR's program was split between several competing design groups. Despite the remarkable successes of the Sputniks between 1957 and 1961 and Vostoks between 1961 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=723059 | 401,123 |
238,838 | Boeing and the FAA decided that the AoA display and an AoA disagree light, which signals if the sensors give different readings, were not critical features for safe operation. Boeing charged extra for the addition of the AoA indicator to the primary display. In November 2017, Boeing engineers discovered that the standa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60203108 | 238,718 |
636,856 | For the 2021 season of the International Swimming League (ISL), Murphy was retained by the LA Current. He took a break from competition during the regular season of competition and remained on the roster heading into playoffs season. For his first race after the 2020 Olympic Games, Murphy swam a 1:48.43 in the 200-mete... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36047730 | 636,517 |
2,164,713 | The seismometers were deployed on February 5, 1971, and operated at reduced gain while the astronauts were on the lunar surface and turned to maximum sensitivity for most of the time after that. The ALSEP central station was located at . The passive seismic experiment was deployed 3 meters north of the central station.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49384392 | 2,163,476 |
2,135,729 | The broadband anti-Stokes white emission is observed from many different materials. However, to date, there is no unambiguous model that should be used for its interpretation. Some scientists assume that LIWE is a thermal process. In this case, it is natural to use the black body radiation (BBR) model to describe this ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66529313 | 2,134,502 |
1,506,571 | Vladimir Obruchev coined the term "neotectonics" in his 1948 article, defining the field as "recent tectonic movements occurred in the upper part of Tertiary (Neogene) and in the Quaternary, which played an essential role in the origin of the contemporary topography". Since then geologists have disagreed as to how far ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13425027 | 1,505,725 |
1,507,014 | Stratigraphic, faunal, and isotope analyses from the very Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) indicate some major events. In the South Atlantic, planktic foraminiferal fauna and stable carbonate and oxygen isotopes from paleosol carbonate reveal two major events: late Cretaceous diversification and mass extinction at the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37864028 | 1,506,168 |
719,321 | The first prototype was fitted with the thrust W2/500 and was flown to , but level speed at altitude was not attempted due to fuel shortage. The pilot commented in his report on a need for cockpit heating and a larger fuel tank. The aircraft continued flight tests until 1944. By that time, more advanced turbojet-powere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=364147 | 718,941 |
1,521,877 | Erythropoietin stimulating agents (ESAs): During normal kidney function in those with SCD, in response to anemia and hypoxia, erythropoietin synthesis is induced, causing increased erythropoietin compared to baseline. Once GFR falls below 60 mL/min, erythropoietin production also declines and it is recommended to add o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21751036 | 1,521,016 |
1,860,265 | Together with Robert Moszyński and her students, Zelevinsky settled a long-standing question about the role of quantum interference in the angular patterns of molecular photofragments. At a temperature of tens of millikelvin, the work constitutes one of the first clear demonstrations of quantum photochemistry. Addition... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63543419 | 1,859,197 |
495,724 | Of the 33 surviving RAN vessels, twelve were formed into the 20th Minesweeping Flotilla and tasked with clearing minefields deployed during the war in the waters of Australia, New Guinea, and the Solomons. was sunk by an Australian mine in the Great Barrier Reef in September 1947. Several ships were also used to transp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=464266 | 495,468 |
1,161,389 | To place this problem in more common terms, imagine you are talking to someone 6 meters away. If the two of you are in a quiet, empty room then a conversation is quite easy to hold at normal voice levels. In a loud, crowded bar, it would be impossible to hear the same voice level, and the only solution (for that distan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1257591 | 1,160,773 |
1,138,340 | Physical examination to assess motor function, reflexes, gait and balance, and sensation also plays a key role in the diagnosis of CIPN. First, motor testing involves assessment of muscle tone and bulk, which may be decreased in patients with CIPN due to atrophy and hypotonia. Commonly affected muscle groups to look ou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32843140 | 1,137,747 |
1,026,411 | "Majungasaurus" was the largest predator in its environment, while the only known large herbivores at the time were sauropods like "Rapetosaurus". Scientists have suggested that "Majungasaurus", and perhaps other abelisaurids, specialized on hunting sauropods. Adaptations to strengthen the head and neck for a bite-and-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4590393 | 1,025,877 |
450,472 | The record runs took place on a 140 km section of track 1 on the LGV Est, usually heading west, between kilometer posts 264 (town of Prény) and 120 (near the Champagne-Ardenne TGV station). This section of the LGV was chosen for its vertical profile and gentle curves, with favorable downhill segments leading to the hig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3753241 | 450,253 |
2,172,772 | Jim never gave up his fight for the military benefits denied him. He was interviewed many times, including a 1994 in-depth interview. This article, entitled "The Legal Fallout" was featured (front cover) in an "ABA Law Journal", and caused controversy between the American Bar Association and the government. Jim also jo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2760834 | 2,171,530 |
1,652,334 | The C-terminal glucase enzymatic unit contains extra binding sites, which allows for it to bind to larger substrates for catalytic digestion. It was originally understood that maltase-glucoamylase's crystalline structure was inherently similar throughout the N and C-termini. Further studies have found that the C-termin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17086867 | 1,651,402 |
1,849,620 | Irinotecan is a prodrug used in the treatment of many solid tumours, including colorectal, pancreatic, and lung cancer. Irinotecan is metabolized into its active compound SN-38, which inhibits the enzyme topoisomerase-1, involved in DNA replication. This active metabolite is inactivated after glucoronidation, mainly pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63219240 | 1,848,562 |
335,581 | The effect can be intuitively described in the following way. From classical physics, it is known that accelerating charged particles emit EM waves and via Huygens' principle these waves will form spherical wavefronts which propagate with the phase velocity of that medium (i.e. the speed of light in that medium given b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24383048 | 335,403 |
514,504 | A Geissler tube is an early gas discharge tube used to demonstrate the principles of electrical glow discharge, similar to modern neon lighting. The tube was invented by the German physicist and glassblower Heinrich Geissler in 1857. It consists of a sealed, partially evacuated glass cylinder of various shapes with a m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=949096 | 514,238 |
445,720 | Machine learning has seen research for use in content recommendation and generation. Procedural content generation is the process of creating data algorithmically rather than manually. This type of content is used to add replayability to games without relying on constant additions by human developers. PCG has been used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60951296 | 445,504 |
711,562 | Kahn was also responsible for designing many of the buildings and houses built under direction of the Hiram Walker family in Walkerville, Ontario, including Willistead Manor. Kahn's interest in historically styled buildings is also seen in his houses in Detroit's Indian Village, the Cranbrook House, the Edsel & Eleanor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=394770 | 711,190 |
1,004,623 | According to an official report that was submitted to the U.S. Congress in 2004, it may be that with a payload of 1,000 kg the Jericho III gives Israel nuclear strike capabilities within the entire Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia and almost all parts of North America, as well as large parts of South America and North... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216096 | 1,004,105 |
2,055,522 | Government departments routinely use digital spatial platforms to plan and model proposed changes to road networks, building design, greenbelt land, utility provision, crime prevention, energy production, waste management and security. Non-profit organizations also incorporate geospatial and web-mapping approaches into... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31783151 | 2,054,339 |
495,397 | "Cornwallis" participated in the Dardanelles campaign beginning in early 1915, and most of the other members of the class joined her there over the course of the year. "Duncan" instead served in the Atlantic and later in the Adriatic Sea and "Albemarle" remained with the Grand Fleet and later went to Murmansk, Russia, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=435189 | 495,141 |
111,917 | Halogens are highly reactive, and as such can be harmful or lethal to biological organisms in sufficient quantities. This high reactivity is due to the high electronegativity of the atoms due to their high effective nuclear charge. Because the halogens have seven valence electrons in their outermost energy level, they ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13258 | 111,872 |
1,887,926 | The complex containing the first four houses, now known as the South Houses, were constructed in 1931 to enable the goal of housing as many students as possible on campus. A committee of nine students was appointed to tour the United States, Canada, and Europe to report on student housing and recommend an organization ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60342294 | 1,886,843 |
1,374,112 | Examples of the top-down effects of entomopathogenic nematodes are not restricted to agricultural systems. Researchers at the Bodega Marine Laboratory examined the strong top-down effects that naturally occurring EPNs can have on their ecosystem (Strong "et al." 1996). In a coastal shrubland food chain the native EPN, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4200196 | 1,373,354 |
582,272 | Milnor was born on February 20, 1931, in Orange, New Jersey. His father was J. Willard Milnor and his mother was Emily Cox Milnor. As an undergraduate at Princeton University he was named a Putnam Fellow in 1949 and 1950 and also proved the Fáry–Milnor theorem when he was only 19 years old. Milnor graduated with an A.B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61632 | 581,974 |
1,075,923 | The traditional root-filling material is gutta-percha, whereas a new material, Biocalex, drew initial optimism even in alternative dentistry, but Biocalex-filled teeth were later reported by Boyd Haley to likewise seep toxic byproducts of anaerobic bacterial metabolism. Seeking to sterilize the tooth interior, some den... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9510615 | 1,075,368 |
457,130 | However in some electronic circuits such as radio receivers, telecommunications, sensors, instrumentation and signal processing circuits, the AC signals are "small" compared to the DC voltages and currents in the circuit. In these, perturbation theory can be used to derive an approximate AC equivalent circuit which is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1731760 | 456,907 |
1,173,600 | Another approach to information storage with SMM Fe involves the application of a gate voltage for a state transition from neutral to anionic. Using electrically gated molecular magnets offers the advantage of control over the cluster of spins during a shortened time scale. The electric field can be applied to the SMM ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1943694 | 1,172,980 |
1,436,325 | (PEDOT:PSS) is often used in organic electrons and have strong NIR absorption. In 2012, Liu’s group first reported PEGylated PEDOT:PSS polymeric nanoparticle (PEDOT:PSS-PEG) for near-infrared photothermal therapy of cancer. PEDOT:PSS-PEG nanoparticles have high stability in vivo and long blood circulation half-life of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11693664 | 1,435,516 |
2,121,670 | However, when the long term after effects began to appear, it was obvious that the social and legal climate was inadequate since there was little experience in dealing with a major environmental disaster. Scientific and medical personnel needed access to accident-related and toxicologic information to understand the ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9253629 | 2,120,451 |
1,087,513 | In order to secure a position as a teacher, erudite in the capital, or government official, a student could choose one of several paths to become well educated. Perhaps the most prestigious path was enrollment in the Imperial University. Students had to be above the age of eighteen to enroll, and were selected by the M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21786810 | 1,086,954 |
1,333,702 | Each bank of equipment was divided into “racks” of standard size that could be installed on orbit in order to repair, upgrade or extend the station's capability. Racks holding related equipment could be integrated and Tested on the ground before launch. This approach to integration facilitated a higher level of verific... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7362461 | 1,332,973 |
1,550,326 | Many polymers are attacked by UV radiation at vulnerable points in their chain structures. Thus, polypropylene suffers severe cracking in sunlight unless anti-oxidants are added. The point of attack occurs at the tertiary carbon atom present in every repeat unit, causing oxidation and finally chain breakage. Polyethyle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8199558 | 1,549,445 |
2,205,211 | Beginning with this season the undergraduates at Princeton were limited to just two sports during one school year. As a result, several players who had tried out for the team in recent years were ineligible to play for the ice hockey team. Despite this setback the team was well represented with many returning members f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63076914 | 2,203,956 |
147,835 | Persistent heavy rain and landslides in Wenchuan County and the nearby area badly affected rescue efforts. At the start of rescue operations on May 12, 20 helicopters were deployed for the delivery of food, water, and emergency aid, and also the evacuation of the injured and reconnaissance of quake-stricken areas. By 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17901805 | 147,776 |
1,867,033 | The course languages are English and German. openHPI offers around six to ten courses per year. All courses follow the same educational format: The subject domain is split into two to six weekly units. Each week, video lectures, reading materials and quizzes are presented in a learning sequence. Learners can ask their ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38991326 | 1,865,958 |
1,542,838 | In 1919 after his discharge from the Canadian Army Medical Corps, he went to China to work at Peking Union Medical College. Starting as Professor of Neurology and Embryology, he would be promoted to head of the anatomy department in 1924. He planned to search for human fossils in 1926, though the College encouraged him... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181879 | 1,541,965 |
70,113 | A number of molecules exist in interstellar space, as can tiny 0.1 μm dust particles. The tally of molecules discovered through radio astronomy is steadily increasing at the rate of about four new species per year. Large regions of higher density matter known as molecular clouds allow chemical reactions to occur, inclu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177602 | 70,086 |
1,035,985 | Inkjets are flexible and versatile, and can be set up with relatively low effort. However, inkjets offer lower throughput of around 100 m/h and lower resolution (ca. 50 µm). It is well suited for low-viscosity, soluble materials like organic semiconductors. With high-viscosity materials, like organic dielectrics, and d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8054686 | 1,035,445 |
1,713,432 | The HSE-49 emulator of 1979 was a stand-alone development tool with on-board 33-key keypad, 8-character display, two 8039 microcontrollers, 2K bytes of user-program RAM, a serial port and cable, and a ROM-based monitor which supervises the emulator operation and user interface. The emulator provides a means for executi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23066617 | 1,712,466 |
2,135,790 | Tretyakov made important contributions to research of bianisotropic media. Together with co-authors, he developed the general theory of electromagnetic waves interactions with bianisotropic materials and layers. Moreover, Tretyakov proposed and experimentally characterized first non-reciprocal bianisotropic scatterers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56747102 | 2,134,563 |
1,157,470 | LuAG is a dopable scintillating crystal that will demonstrate luminescence after excitation. Scintillating crystals are selected for high structural perfection, high density and high effective atomic number. LuAG is particularly favored over other crystals for its high density and thermal conductivity. LuAG has a relat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4997881 | 1,156,857 |
587,978 | Sperati's foundation was built upon by Weston Noble '43, himself a student of Sperati. Following three years of U.S. Army enlistment in World War II, Noble returned to his alma mater to conduct the Concert Band and the Nordic Choir, direct Christmastime performances of George Frederic Handel's "Messiah", and teach in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=709802 | 587,676 |
691,375 | Lang and Rice's assessment noted that while Behe rightfully acknowledges that organisms have common ancestry, it is posited that a designer is required for more distant relationships like at the family level, and that the presentation of degradative processes is exaggerated with evidence of beneficial adaptations dodge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186205 | 691,012 |
181,937 | The supply of high-temperature heat first drives a gas or steam turbine-powered generator. The resulting low-temperature waste heat is then used for water or space heating. At smaller scales (typically below 1 MW), a gas engine or diesel engine may be used. Cogeneration is also common with geothermal power plants as th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=763555 | 181,841 |
1,264,259 | Biogenic ACP has been found in the inner ear of embryonic sharks, mammalian milk and dental enamel. However, whilst its unequivocal presence in bones and teeth is debated, there is evidence that transient amorphous precursors are involved in the development of bone and teeth. The ACP in bovine milk (CPP-ACP) is believe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15861718 | 1,263,571 |
397,721 | Unlike the United States and Russia, where strategic nuclear forces are enumerated by treaty limits and subject to verification, China—a nuclear power since 1964—is not subject to these requirements. Instead, China currently has a triad structure smaller than those of Russia and the United States. China's nuclear force... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6118105 | 397,525 |
1,509,685 | The longitudinal position of the centre of buoyancy depends on two major factors: The volume distribution of the diver, and volume distribution of the equipment worn and carried by the diver. The male human body, on average, has a centroid of volume closer to the head than the female, though this is quite variable, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39499982 | 1,508,835 |
1,216,361 | One example is the work done by Jefferson Han on multi-touch interfaces. In a demonstration at TED in 2006, he showed a variety of means of interacting with on-screen content using both direct manipulations and gestures. For example, to shape an on-screen glutinous mass, Jeff literally 'pinches' and prods and pokes it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22549276 | 1,215,709 |
415,860 | The continuous wave (CW) chemical HF laser was first demonstrated in 1969, and patented in 1972, by D. J. Spencer, T. A. Jacobs, H. Mirels and R. W. F. Gross at The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California. This device used the mixing of adjacent streams of H and F, within an optical cavity, to create vibrationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3100090 | 415,657 |
762,200 | Intensive farming creates conditions for parasite growth and transmission that are vastly different from what parasites encounter in natural host populations, potentially altering selection on a variety of traits such as life-history traits and virulence. Some recent epidemic outbreaks have highlighted the association ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152772 | 761,792 |
1,394,497 | Johns Hopkins professor Richard David Semba has written extensively on vitaminA. His 2012 paper "The Discovery of the Vitamins" explicitly accuses McCollum of scientific misconduct, a theme Semba explores again in his 2012 book "The Vitamin A Story". He believes that McCollum transferred from the University of Wisconsi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6000868 | 1,393,726 |
237,537 | According to the ethologist Alan Grafen, acceptance of adaptionist theories is hampered by a lack of a mathematical unifying theory and a belief that anything in words alone must be suspect. According to Grafen, these difficulties along with an initial conflict with population genetics models at the time of its introdu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44190 | 237,418 |
414,209 | Graduate prospects are projected to be excellent with the amount of software engineers in the industry estimated to rise by roughly 38% from 2006 to 2016, with total real wage in the industry increasing by an estimated 38.2%. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Job Outlook for Software engineers an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4759005 | 414,006 |
872,058 | The "Dawn" spacecraft was propelled by three xenon ion thrusters derived from NSTAR technology used by the "Deep Space 1" spacecraft, using one at a time. They have a specific impulse of 3,100 s and produce a thrust of 90 mN. The whole spacecraft, including the ion propulsion thrusters, was powered by a 10 kW (at 1 AU)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=532434 | 871,598 |
1,320,285 | By the spring of 1862, Kane had partially recovered from his wound and returned to the Bucktails. They served as part of Brig. Gen. George Dashiell Bayard's cavalry in the Shenandoah Valley, fighting against Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. At Harrisonburg, he and 104 picked riflemen were sent to the rescue of an a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4809391 | 1,319,559 |
741,839 | All countries of the United Kingdom were affected by domestic travel restrictions in reaction to the increased spread of the virus—at least partly attributed to Alpha—effective from 20 December 2020. During December 2020, an increasing number of countries around the world either announced temporary bans on, or were con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66147797 | 741,447 |
1,200,473 | In May 1997, American Career College bought the name and the responsibility to provide transcripts for ten years, from the bankruptcy trustee. WCU was reorganized under the leadership of its current Chairman, David Pyle. The new leadership team was committed to refocusing the institution's offering of programs to those... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27634009 | 1,199,832 |
1,529,291 | He was a naturalized American citizen who came from Hong Kong to America to start graduate studies at Yale University. There he received both his master’s and PhD degrees. His family was originally from Shanghai, but Chang was born in Hong Kong as a result of his family’s deportation in 1937. They left to escape the Ja... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=655230 | 1,528,427 |
234,494 | Around the same time as "Galaxy Game"s prototype installation, "Computer Space" was released. It was the first coin-operated video game to be commercially sold and the first widely available video game of any kind. While it did well in its initial locations near college campuses, it performed very poorly in bars and ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19992532 | 234,375 |
2,034,142 | The squadron was occasionally diverted from its strategic bombing mission to fly interdiction and close air support missions. It bombed V-weapon launch sites, airfields and transportation facilities to support Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy, and on D-Day attacked coastal defenses and choke points on Germa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27257034 | 2,032,969 |
1,517,589 | A brain endocast is the imprintation of the inner features of a cranium that captures the details created from pressure exerted on the skull by the brain itself. Endocasts can be formed naturally by sedimentation through the cranial foramina which becomes rock-hard due to calcium deposition over time, or artificially b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27043983 | 1,516,737 |
1,235,533 | MSU returned to the road to face No. 20 Wisconsin looking to continue their winning ways. The game remained tight throughout as the teams exchanged baskets. Kenny Goins, who missed most of the previous game against Minnesota started and played well for the Spartans, scoring 12 points including three three-pointers as M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56903804 | 1,234,870 |
1,327,731 | On March 6, 1889, the day before he died, Isaiah Williamson approved the purchase of 220 acres of land to be used for the school's campus in Middletown Township, near Elwyn, Pennsylvania. The site was selected from over 200 prospective locations, and the trustees acted quickly to secure the property and carry out Willi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4776707 | 1,327,004 |
492,758 | On-farm, precision agriculture technologies can minimize inputs required for a given yield. For example, variable-rate application (VRA) technologies can apply precise amounts of water, fertilizer, pesticide, herbicide, etc. A number of empirical studies find that VRA improves input use efficiency. Using VRA alongside ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59238166 | 492,503 |
935,674 | The pressurized 414 was developed to appeal to owners of unpressurized, twin-engined aircraft, and was based on the fuselage of the Cessna 421 and used the wing design of the Cessna 401. The 414 is a low-wing cantilever monoplane with a conventional tail unit and a retractable tricycle landing gear. It is powered by tw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3097817 | 935,180 |
971,876 | Publication of the 1980 paper brought criticism from the geologic community, and an often acrimonious scientific debate ensued. Ten years later, and after Alvarez's death, evidence of a large impact crater called Chicxulub was found off the coast of Mexico, providing support for the theory. Other researchers later foun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=320445 | 971,366 |
157,152 | The United States Department of War sponsored the development of interchangeable parts for guns produced at the arsenals at Springfield, Massachusetts and Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia) in the early decades of the 19th century, finally achieving reliable interchangeability by about 1850. This period coinci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63137 | 157,080 |
225,470 | Merton was heavily influenced by Talcott Parsons and to a much lesser degree of Pitirim Sorokin. Indeed, Merton's choice of dissertation topic reflect profoundly the interest from Parsons and was not of Sorokin's liking. Hence, Sorokin was strongly opposed to the emphasis of the creativity of Puritanism, which was a ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230600 | 225,354 |
46,040 | By the 1860s, astronomers widely accepted that a fundamental difference existed between the major planets and asteroids such as Ceres, though the word "planet" had yet to be precisely defined. In the 1950s, scientists generally stopped considering most asteroids as planets, but Ceres sometimes retained its status after... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5595163 | 46,022 |
914,377 | In 1790, Thomas Jefferson submitted a report to the United States Congress in which he proposed the adoption of a decimal system of coinage and of weights and measures. He proposed calling his base unit of length a "foot" which he suggested should be either or of the length of a pendulum that had a period of one second... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2752651 | 913,898 |
305,182 | The initial success of the Russian Revolution inspired other revolutionary parties to attempt the same thing unleashing the Revolutions of 1917–1923. In the chaotic circumstances of postwar Europe, with the socialist parties divided and discredited, Communist revolutions across Europe seemed a possibility. Communist pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 305,020 |
1,797,234 | However it was not until 2013 that a specimen with retrievable DNA was found, in a ~400,000 year old femur found in the Sima de los Huesos Cave in Spain. The femur was found to contain both mtDNA and nuclear DNA. Improvements in DNA extraction and library preparation techniques allowed for mtDNA to be successfully isol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41825123 | 1,796,225 |
1,171,572 | For example, in the case of anthrax, it is likely that by 24–36 hours after an attack, some small percentage of individuals (those with compromised immune system or who had received a large dose of the organism due to proximity to the release point) will become ill with classical symptoms and signs (including a virtual... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45584 | 1,170,953 |
214,720 | The higher the value of the higher the sensitivity of the spectrometer. The energy dissipated is the energy lost in one microwave period. Energy may be lost to the side walls of the cavity as microwaves may generate currents which in turn generate heat. A consequence of resonance is the creation of a standing wave insi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1926015 | 214,612 |
1,775,646 | Cannabis plants are broadly covered with sessile glands, and other hairs throughout above-ground portions of the plant. There is a particularly high concentration of glands on the bracts of the female plant. After flower formation begins, some of the glands, especially on bracts near the flowers, develop stalks project... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31259172 | 1,774,649 |
1,927,484 | In the theory of capillarity, Bosanquet equation is an improved modification of the simpler Lucas–Washburn theory for the motion of a liquid in a thin capillary tube or a porous material that can be approximated as a large collection of capillaries. In the Lucas–Washburn model, the inertia of the fluid is ignored, lead... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53413559 | 1,926,380 |
1,711,022 | Siblicide, the death of an individual due to the actions of members of its own clutch, is seen in several avian orders including egrets and kingfishers, some raptors, and grackles. In most of these examples, siblicide is facultative (i.e. not obligate) and only occurs when there is a shortage of food. However, in some ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30722380 | 1,710,059 |
1,245,613 | In a 2006 study, Renesto and Binelli found that when pterosaur "Eudimorphodon" was added to Senter's original matrix, it was found to be a member of Avicephala. The authors also conducted a second analysis, this time based on a character set and matrix updated by scoring additional characters previously reported as unk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10333756 | 1,244,938 |
853,327 | In dentistry, the ferrule effect is, as defined by Sorensen and Engelman (1990), a ""360° metal collar of the crown surrounding the parallel walls of the dentine extending coronal to the shoulder of the preparation"". Like the ferrule of a pencil which encircles the junction between the rubber and the pencil shaft, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1340551 | 852,872 |
982,583 | It was found that 472 nucleotides from the 3' end and 731 nucleotides from the 5' end are sufficient for replication of a viral "minigenome", though not sufficient for infection. Virus sequencing from 78 patients with confirmed Ebola virus disease, representing more than 70% of cases diagnosed in Sierra Leone from late... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40817806 | 982,071 |
854,602 | Most heliographs of the 19th and 20th century were completely manual. The steps of aligning the heliograph on the target, co-aligning the reflected sunbeam with the heliograph, maintaining the sunbeam alignment as the sun moved, transcribing the message into flashes, modulating the sunbeam into those flashes, detecting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=712727 | 854,147 |
145,174 | Michael Rice wrote in his "Egypt's Legacy", "Whether or not the ancients knew of the mechanics of the Precession before its definition by Hipparchos the Bithynian in the second century BC is uncertain, but as dedicated watchers of the night sky they could not fail to be aware of its effects." (p. 128) Rice believes tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72576 | 145,116 |
899,613 | Following Babbage, although at first unaware of his earlier work, was Percy Ludgate, a clerk to a corn merchant in Dublin, Ireland. He independently designed a programmable mechanical computer, which he described in a work that was published in 1909. Two other inventors, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo and Vannevar Bush, als... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3271413 | 899,138 |
936,452 | In the eleventh century Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen, 965–1040) rejected the Greek ideas about vision, whether the Aristotelian tradition that held that the form of the perceived object entered the eye (but not its matter), or that of Euclid and Ptolemy which held that the eye emitted a ray. Al-Haytham proposed in his "Book... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=267542 | 935,957 |
767,363 | The order Asparagales as currently circumscribed has only recently been recognized in classification systems, through the advent of phylogenetics. The 1990s saw considerable progress in plant phylogeny and phylogenetic theory, enabling a phylogenetic tree to be constructed for all of the flowering plants. The establish... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=786 | 766,951 |
1,017,820 | All models were facelifted in March 1994, with the arrival of the new TS and KS series. Their respective engines were further upgraded and, apart from revised wheel trims, the revised Magna sedans were also identifiable by a new colour-keyed boot garnish around the licence plate, instead of the previous grey. The revis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=903910 | 1,017,296 |
755,283 | The cannon comes in a basic GSh-23 variant, and the more popular GSh-23L (), differing mostly in adding a muzzle brake, lowering recoil force. This cannon was standard fit on late-model MiG-21 fighters (M, SM, MF, SMT, PFM, bis), all variants of the MiG-23, the SOKO J-22 Orao, the JF-17 Thunder, the HAL Tejas and IAR 9... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1062649 | 754,880 |
1,014,464 | By the end of the 19th century, viruses were defined in terms of their infectivity, their ability to be filtered, and their requirement for living hosts. Up until this time, viruses had only been grown in plants and animals, but in 1906, Ross Granville Harrison (1870–1959) invented a method for growing tissue in lymph,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16234480 | 1,013,943 |
262,968 | Two years later, Intel launched the 8080, employing the new 40-pin DIL packages originally developed for calculator ICs to enable a separate address bus. It has an extended instruction set that is source-compatible (not binary compatible) with the 8008 and also includes some 16-bit instructions to make programming easi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15063 | 262,829 |
186,635 | Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District monitored airborne levels of hexavalent chromium at an elementary school and fire department, as well as the point-source. They concluded that there were high levels of hexavalent chromium in the air, originating from a local cement plant, called Cemex. The levels of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2468967 | 186,538 |
1,932,591 | The school didn't remain in Shenyang for long. In December 1954, the Ministry of Light Industry decided to move the whole institution to Qingdao, where more expertise was needed to further the development of the local rubber-industry. Thus, in September 1956 the "Qingdao Rubber Industry School" () opened its gates, hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1479349 | 1,931,483 |
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