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1,177,586 | An example of this can be seen in the work of Sir Arthur Evans at the ancient city Knossos, an archaeological site on the Greek island of Crete. Evans, a British archaeologist, excavated the site beginning in 1901 and was able to preserve and restore much of the original architecture. The restorations, carried out by t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46590527 | 1,176,963 |
1,593,080 | Determining a nuclear material's age is critical to nuclear forensic investigations. Dating techniques can be utilized to identify a material's source as well as procedures performed on the material. This can aid in determining the information about the potential participant in the "age" of the material of interest. Nu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36022927 | 1,592,183 |
474,601 | On 7 May 1895, Popov presented the paper ""On the Relation of Metallic Powders to Electric Oscillations"", which described his lightning detector, to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society in St. Petersburg. Most Eastern sources regard Popov's lightning detector as the first radio receiver, and 7 May has been celebr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=679865 | 474,365 |
699,415 | Small ceramic sculptures were very common, mostly in the same earthenware (known as terracotta when used in sculpture) as Minoan pottery, but also in the heated crushed quartz material known as Egyptian faience, evidently a more expensive material. This was used for the unique snake goddess figurines from the "Temple D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20435731 | 699,051 |
509,729 | The weakness of final , frequently before a stop consonant, is attested in Egypt in both Hellenistic and Roman times, seen directly in graphic omission and hypercorrect insertion, though its complete loss would not be carried through until the medieval period and excluding the South-Italian, south-eastern and Asia Mino... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7549774 | 509,465 |
1,899,176 | Like other cooperatives, RE co-ops follow the basic principles set by the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA): voluntary and open membership, democratic member control, economic participation by members, autonomy and independence, education and training, cooperation among cooperatives, and concern for the communit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65691512 | 1,898,092 |
466,703 | Notably, while the loss of sea ice cover in September would be a historic event with significant implications for Arctic wildlife like polar bears, its impact on the ice-albedo feedback is relatively limited, as the total amount of solar energy received by the Arctic in September is already very low. On the other hand,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21435575 | 466,470 |
759,496 | There were two competing bids for the commercial use of the launch complex. SpaceX submitted a bid for exclusive use of the launch complex, while Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin submitted a bid for shared non-exclusive use of the complex, so that the launchpad would handle multiple vehicles, and costs could be shared over the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1874251 | 759,090 |
341,255 | Overheating of internal parts, such as control grids or mica spacer insulators, can result in trapped gas escaping into the tube; this can reduce performance. A getter is used to absorb gases evolved during tube operation but has only a limited ability to combine with gas. Control of the envelope temperature prevents s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32496 | 341,074 |
1,019,704 | In response to the impact of DFTD on Tasmanian devil populations, 47 devils have been shipped to mainland Australian wildlife parks to attempt to preserve the genetic diversity of the species. The largest of these efforts is the Devil Ark project in Barrington Tops, New South Wales; an initiative of the Australian Rept... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1973998 | 1,019,177 |
1,548,029 | The type of edge damage also varies among different tools. But a distinction is necessary between the intended use, what the tool maker designed the tool for, and actual use. This is an important distinction to note as tools can be used for more than its intended function or designed for several purposes. An often note... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3649722 | 1,547,148 |
737,839 | Scientists involved with Mohole had differing and irreconcilable views as to the scientific goals of Mohole. Part of this disagreement resulted from a long tradition of competition between the four main oceanographic institutions: Lamont Geological Observatory in New York, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3278857 | 737,449 |
1,614,951 | In 2006, Mitchell represented Australia at the Commonwealth Games, where she made the finals in the javelin, finishing sixth overall. She finished first at the 2008 National Championships in Melbourne, Australia. In 2010, she set a Victorian state record in the javelin. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, she finished fift... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36330680 | 1,614,045 |
367,084 | The United States Department of Energy organized a special panel to review cold fusion theory and research. The panel issued its report in November 1989, concluding that results as of that date did not present convincing evidence that useful sources of energy would result from the phenomena attributed to cold fusion. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7463 | 366,892 |
469,451 | Generics play a bigger role in the agro than in the pharma industry. They represent some 70% of the global market. China National Chemical Corp, a.k.a. ChemChina Group, is the world's largest supplier of generic farm chemicals. Mahkteshim Agan, Israel, and Cheminova, Denmark follow on the ranks 2 and 3. Apart from thes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3694845 | 469,215 |
1,789,848 | With a commitment of collaboration from Western Michigan University, Ascension Borgess, and Bronson Healthcare, the medical school moved from merely an idea to a planned approach for the development of Western Michigan University School of Medicine (WMed). In November 2009, an anonymous donation of $1.8 million was mad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40473374 | 1,788,842 |
1,129,198 | Magnetotactic crystals range anywhere in size from 30 nanometers to 120 nanometers. This size allows them to be magnetically stable and to help optimize the MTB ability toward magnetotaxis. The single domain crystals have the maximum possible magnetic moment per unit volume for a given composition. A smaller size would... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1717189 | 1,128,620 |
311,154 | The February IAEA report also described progress in Iran's enrichment and fuel fabrication efforts, including a tripling of the number of cascades enriching uranium to nearly 20 percent and testing of fuel elements for the Tehran Research Reactor and the still incomplete IR-40 heavy water research reactor. Though Iran ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=721807 | 310,986 |
411,430 | The challenge at the time was to explain geometrical optics, as most physical optics phenomena (such as diffraction) had not been observed or appreciated as issues. Huygens had experimented in 1672 with double refraction (birefringence) in the Iceland spar (a calcite), a phenomenon discovered in 1669 by Rasmus Bartholi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42127 | 411,228 |
1,017,886 | In June 2004, VR models were discontinued, leaving the VR-X 2WD as the sporty model in the Magna range. A new VR-X AWD model was also announced at this time, going on sale 1 August (with the update for both models labelled MY04) but only offering 16-inch wheels as opposed to the 17-inch version fitted to the 2WD. VR-Xs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=903910 | 1,017,362 |
782,736 | Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth (; May 24, 1878 – January 2, 1972) was an American psychologist, industrial engineer, consultant, and educator who was an early pioneer in applying psychology to time-and-motion studies. She was described in the 1940s as "a genius in the art of living." Gilbreth, one of the first female engineer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39481 | 782,317 |
588,838 | The Germans developed a series of stand-off weapons, e.g., the guided bomb Fritz X, which scored some early successes. On 9 September 1943, the Germans managed to sink the Italian battleship and severely damage her sister ship, the "Italia", while they were underway to surrender. The first one hit "Roma" amidship betwe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17641150 | 588,536 |
846,805 | Breaking the water surface reduces the speed in swimming. The swimmers Daichi Suzuki (Japan) and David Berkoff (America) used this for the 100 meter backstroke at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Berkoff swam 33 meters of the first lane completely underwater using only a dolphin kick, far ahead of his competition. A ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24942694 | 846,355 |
739,977 | The RMR layout generally has a lower tendency to understeer. However, since there is less weight over the front wheels, under acceleration the front of the car can be prone to lift and still have understeer. Most rear-engine layouts have historically been used in smaller vehicles, because the weight of the engine at th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=816369 | 739,585 |
265,340 | But during the Cenozoic Era, the large North American and South American continental plates drifted westward from the Eurasian plate. This interlocked with the development of the Atlantic Ocean, running north–south, with the North Pole in the small, nearly landlocked basin of the Arctic Ocean. The Drake passage opened ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3720257 | 265,197 |
575,399 | During the early 1930s, PZL had developed a series of innovative gull wing all-metal fighters, headed by Polish aeronautical engineer Zygmunt Puławski. The P.1, the P.7, and the P.11, each more refined than its preceding aircraft, were capable of outstanding performance for their time and were widely displayed at inter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1139061 | 575,105 |
20,380 | At common law, in general, a myocardial infarction is a disease, but may sometimes be an injury. This can create coverage issues in the administration of no-fault insurance schemes such as workers' compensation. In general, a heart attack is not covered; however, it may be a work-related injury if it results, for examp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20556798 | 20,371 |
1,469,158 | Adler described the book as an unprecedented and "largely unsurpassed" critical study of Marxism. Although he concluded that Kołakowski's personal history largely explains his stance took towards Marxism, he found "Main Currents of Marxism" generally intellectually honest. However, while he considered Kołakowski's crit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34430017 | 1,468,334 |
1,932,425 | In 2009, average annual tuition at a public university (for residents of the state) was $7,020. Tuition for public school students from outside the state is generally comparable to private school prices, although students can often qualify for state residency after their first year. Private schools are typically much h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61029894 | 1,931,317 |
761,938 | In addition to varsity athletics, the university offers many club sports through the Department of Campus Recreation, including aikido, archery, baseball, crew, cycling, dance, fencing, figure skating, golf, men's lacrosse, Nordic skiing, rugby, sailing, softball, tennis, taekwondo, men and women's ultimate Frisbee, wr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=498538 | 761,530 |
1,014,450 | The notion that viruses were particles was not considered unnatural and fitted in nicely with the germ theory. It is assumed that Dr. J. Buist of Edinburgh was the first person to see virus particles in 1886, when he reported seeing "micrococci" in vaccine lymph, though he had probably observed clumps of vaccinia. In t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16234480 | 1,013,929 |
1,373,459 | Another aspect that distinguishes sortases in general is that they have a very specific targeting for their substrate, as sortases have generally two functions, the first is the fusing of proteins to the cell wall of the bacteria and the second is the polymerization of pilin. For the process of localization of proteins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7590298 | 1,372,702 |
1,228,954 | The starring guide utilized by Headquarters, USARV for the hiring of local Vietnamese National (LVN) personnel as mess attendants in the field ration messes in RVN presented a hardship to hospitals. The formula, allowing one LVN for the first 40 persons served and one employee for each 40 thereafter, was applied theate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8709111 | 1,228,292 |
1,786,662 | The primary hazard of working with 2,4,6-trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid is the risk of instantaneous explosion. 2,4,6-Trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid is an extremely sensitive compound especially when mixed with other compounds, exposed to heat, or exposed to rapid temperature or pressure changes. The toxicological properti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26535760 | 1,785,657 |
1,116,185 | Primary small intestinal MZL, also termed primary small intestinal MALT lymphoma, commonly presents with colicky abdominal pain, diarrhea, and in cases of advanced disease signs and symptoms of malabsorption (e.g. weight loss, malnutrition, and anemia), small bowel obstruction, ascites (i.e. fluid in the abdominal cavi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21339698 | 1,115,615 |
856,473 | Almost all Africa is in tropical and subtropical climate zones. Its glaciers are found only in two isolated ranges and the Ruwenzori Range. Kilimanjaro, at , is the highest peak on the continent. From 1912 to 2006 the glacier cover on the summit of Kilimanjaro apparently retreated 75%, and the volume of glacial ice dec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4804597 | 856,018 |
2,202,040 | Members of the America section benefited from the activities of the parent society, which held scientific conferences and published "The Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry" to inform chemists throughout the world about development in the field. From the beginning, the America Section's focus was networking, en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51342950 | 2,200,787 |
1,446,307 | Mohapatra, whose research interests covered the fields of molecular genetics and genomics, is known to have worked on the bacterial sequencing of rice and tomato and is credited with the development of a high-yielding basmati rice which is resistant to bacterial leaf blight which was accomplished using "molecular marke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56021875 | 1,445,491 |
1,725,781 | Early studies highlighted the importance of envelope-based temporal patterning in perception of environmental events. For instance, Warren & Verbrugge, demonstrated that constructed sounds of a glass bottle dropped on the floor were perceived as bouncing when high-energy regions in four different frequency bands were t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56439577 | 1,724,810 |
1,375,931 | Several mountains, such as the Sharah mountains which rises to 1,550 m on the western part of the city, have several water sources such as - "Aïn Musa, Aïn Debdebeh, Aïn Umm Sar'ab, Aïn Ammon, Aïn Beidha, Aïn Bebdbeh" and "Aïn Braq" - whose waters are channeled to Petra. "..."The solutions adopted, the methods and tech... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42585943 | 1,375,170 |
1,950,568 | Thomas was educated at the Graig Comprehensive School, Llanelli, before undergraduate study at King's College, Cambridge. Following a year at Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar, Thomas returned to Oxford University to complete his doctorate under the supervision of Bernard Williams. Thomas began his career at King... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60485682 | 1,949,447 |
692,910 | Commonly, N-body simulations will be systems based of some type of equations of motion; of these, most will be dependent on some initial configuration to "seed" the simulation. In systems such as those dependent on some gravitational or electric potential, the force on a simulation entity is independent on its velocity... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4917686 | 692,547 |
1,275,818 | The Michener Institute was founded by Diana Michener Schatz under the name the Toronto Institute of Medical Technology. In 1958 the value of combining learning in an educational environment with clinical education in a teaching hospital was demonstrated by pilot program developed by hospital-based physicians and medica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3525386 | 1,275,125 |
1,696,924 | A common criticism of Schramm's model focuses on the fact that it describes communication as a turn-based exchange of information. This means that there is no simultaneous messaging: first one participant sends a message, then the other conveys their own message as a form of feedback, later the first participant respon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72106078 | 1,695,971 |
522,795 | One benefit of the Structural paradigm is that test generation can focus on testing a limited number of relatively simple circuit elements rather than having to deal with an exponentially exploding multiplicity of functional states and state transitions. While the task of testing a single logic gate at a time sounds si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2634162 | 522,523 |
390,361 | Sikorsky's first aircraft of his own design, the S-1 used a 15 hp Anzani 3-cylinder fan engine in a pusher configuration, that could not lift the aircraft. His second design called the S-2 was powered by a 25 hp Anzani engine in a tractor configuration and first flew on June 3, 1910 at a height of a few feet. On June 3... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=199513 | 390,166 |
275,386 | With the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950, the F-82 was pressed into combat duty. On 25 June 1950, 68th Fighter Squadron F-82 aircrews on alert at Itazuke Air Base were told that North Korea had crossed the 38th Parallel. They were ordered to fly to the area and report any activity on the main roads and railroad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=671473 | 275,238 |
766,395 | In 1892 and 1895, Lorentz worked on describing electromagnetic phenomena (the propagation of light) in reference frames that move relative to the postulated luminiferous aether. He discovered that the transition from one to another reference frame could be simplified by using a new time variable that he called "local t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=88183 | 765,985 |
2,011,805 | Williams is an advocate for science communication to non-expert audiences. She regularly gives public lectures and contributes to panel discussions at schools, universities, conferences and festivals, and has judged a number of high-profile competitions including The Big Bang Fair North West and STEM for Britain. She h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55372806 | 2,010,652 |
1,868,175 | Observations over the past few years support a model in which currently active gully formation is driven mainly by seasonal CO frost. Simulations described in a 2015 conference, show that high pressure CO gas trapping in the subsurface can cause debris flows. The conditions that can lead to this are found in latitudes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33025892 | 1,867,099 |
1,940,483 | The human body produces polySia naturally and attaches it to a various number of proteins. This is done by linking polySia on the α2,3- or α2,6- terminal of the glycoprotein. "O"-linked glycosylation through threonine or "N"-linked glycosylation through asparagine is employed. This polySia linkage is found in proteins ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16618335 | 1,939,373 |
1,017,229 | The concept of the item response function was around before 1950. The pioneering work of IRT as a theory occurred during the 1950s and 1960s. Three of the pioneers were the Educational Testing Service psychometrician Frederic M. Lord, the Danish mathematician Georg Rasch, and Austrian sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld, who p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=420159 | 1,016,705 |
1,657,723 | The S.E.4 was a tractor biplane powered by a closely cowled 14-cylinder, two-row Gnome rotary engine. The aircraft's fuselage was of wooden construction, and was carefully streamlined to reduce drag. Although it has been sometimes claimed to be of monocoque construction, the fuselage was in fact built around a wooden b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24621021 | 1,656,790 |
1,866,305 | The college has led multiple major renovations of its buildings in recent years: Lincoln Hall underwent a $60 million renovation, reopening to the community in 2012. The entire exterior of the building was restored, including 30 terracotta panels depicting quotes and portraits from Abraham Lincoln’s life. The theater w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1694863 | 1,865,231 |
1,003,712 | Tanis is a site of paleontological interest in southwestern North Dakota, United States. Tanis is part of the heavily studied Hell Creek Formation, a group of rocks spanning four states in North America renowned for many significant fossil discoveries from the Upper Cretaceous and lower Paleocene. Tanis is a significan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60404595 | 1,003,194 |
407,323 | Trombiculidae live in forests and grasslands and are also found in the vegetation of low, damp areas such as woodlands, berry bushes, orchards, along lakes and streams, and even in drier places where vegetation is low, such as lawns, golf courses, and parks. They are most numerous in early summer when grass, weeds, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21784348 | 407,122 |
1,366,346 | Enhancer RNAs (eRNAs) represent a class of relatively long non-coding RNA molecules (50-2000 nucleotides) transcribed from the DNA sequence of enhancer regions. They were first detected in 2010 through the use of genome-wide techniques such as RNA-seq and ChIP-seq. eRNAs can be subdivided into two main classes: 1D eRNA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38674471 | 1,365,590 |
1,652,942 | The presidency of Thomas E. Walsh (1881–1893) was focused on improving Notre Dame's scholastic reputation and standards. At the time, many students came to Notre Dame for its business courses only, and did not graduate. He started a "Belles Lettres" program, invited many notable lay intellectuals such as Maurice Franci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33791684 | 1,652,010 |
1,561,730 | In a study completed by Anna Dornhaus, Jo-Anne Holley, and Nigel R. Franks, the communal responsibilities within the colonies of "Temnothorax" were observed to determine if the size of a colony influences the division of labor among workers. By studying 11 colonies of both large and small population sizes (a small colo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40589379 | 1,560,844 |
1,516,474 | The program Balint proposed that General Practitioners should follow is that a person's psyche is best discovered when communicating directly with the person concerned. These potential mental health issues needed to be explored with the cooperation of patient and physician. He also argued that if health care profession... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60912367 | 1,515,622 |
554,467 | Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is emerging as an effective therapeutic target for female mutation carriers. In one recent case study where the affected female converted following cessation of HRT, idebenone, and HRT were given together. Visual acuity improved much faster than is typically expected. The patient's vis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1892610 | 554,178 |
1,837,231 | For a laser in a nanocavity, spontaneous emission (SE) from the gain medium is enhanced by the Purcell effect, equal to the quality factor or formula_1-factor of the cavity divided by the effective mode field volume, formula_2. Therefore, reducing the volume of an optical cavity can dramatically increase this factor, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44594133 | 1,836,182 |
47,541 | Multi-Parametric Surface Plasmon Resonance was used to characterize both thickness and refractive index of chemical-vapor-deposition (CVD)-grown graphene films. The measured refractive index and extinction coefficient values at wavelength are 3.135 and 0.897, respectively. The thickness was determined as 3.7Å from a 0.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=911833 | 47,522 |
704,032 | Biofouling occurs because water is a favorable environment for many life forms. Flow characteristics of recirculating cooling water systems encourage colonization by sessile organisms to use the circulating supply of food, oxygen and nutrients. Temperatures may become high enough to support thermophilic populations. Bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=531184 | 703,664 |
339,782 | The light infantry cleared two additional hills as the column continued east—"The Bluff" and "Fiske Hill"— and took still more casualties from ambushes set by fresh militia companies joining the battle. In one of the musket volleys from the colonial soldiers, Major Pitcairn's horse bolted in fright, throwing Pitcairn t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4321886 | 339,602 |
1,383,371 | In November 1989 the Legion continuity jumps ahead five years; during this "Five Year Gap" following the Magic Wars, Earth had fallen under the covert control of the Dominators, and had withdrawn from the United Planets. In a storyline written by Tom and Mary Bierbaum, it is revealed in "Legion of Super-Heroes" (vol. 4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1469478 | 1,382,604 |
982,063 | The Mars Cube One (MarCO) spacecraft are a pair of 6U CubeSats that piggybacked with the "InSight" mission to test CubeSat navigation and endurance in deep space, and to help relay real-time communications (with an eight-minute lightspeed delay) during the probe's entry, descent and landing (EDL) phase. The two 6U Cube... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33930663 | 981,551 |
857,222 | The control and mechanics of rapid pigment translocation has been well studied in a number of different species, in particular amphibians and teleost fish. It has been demonstrated that the process can be under hormonal or neuronal control or both and for many species of bony fishes it is known that chromatophores can ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=190770 | 856,767 |
1,725,755 | The neural representation of stimulus envelope, ENV, has typically been studied using well-controlled ENV modulations, that is sinusoidally amplitude-modulated (AM) sounds. Cochlear filtering limits the range of AM rates encoded in individual auditory-nerve fibers. In the auditory nerve, the strength of the neural repr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56439577 | 1,724,784 |
1,366,869 | Stern has extensive experience in instrument development, with a strong concentration in ultraviolet technologies. Stern is a principal investigator (PI) in NASA's UV sounding rocket program, and was the project scientist on a Shuttle-deployable SPARTAN astronomical satellite. He was the PI of the advanced, miniaturize... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3946940 | 1,366,113 |
522,511 | The first attempt to launch the 6A mission (second attempt for Gemini spacecraft No. 6) was on December 12, 1965, at 9:54 a.m. EST. All went well right up to ignition; the engines ignited, but after about 1.5 seconds they abruptly shut down. Since the lift-off clock had started in the spacecraft, mission rules dictated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=364099 | 522,239 |
267,249 | In early experiments on cell-mediated cytotoxicity against tumor target cells, both in cancer patients and animal models, investigators consistently observed what was termed a "natural" reactivity; that is, a certain population of cells seemed to be able to lyse tumor cells without having been previously sensitized to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211955 | 267,105 |
2,146,979 | The course rolled off from Henrico County at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, originally the Lakeside Wheel Club, founded in 1895 as a gathering spot for turn-of-the-century cyclists. The opening kilometers raced through Richmond's historic Northside neighborhoods leading into downtown. The course continued east of Richm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47689601 | 2,145,748 |
1,831,804 | In 2003, work from Fisher's lab provided one of the first demonstrations in a mammalian model of the link between defects in retrograde transport and neurodegeneration. In a paper published in "Science", Fisher found that two spontaneous mouse mutants generated from an ENU (N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea) screen harbored missen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62335509 | 1,830,757 |
84,485 | MKUltra was preceded by two drug-related experiments, Project Bluebird and Project Artichoke. It was organized through the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence and coordinated with the United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories. The program engaged in illegal activities, including the use of U.S. and Canadia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42043 | 84,451 |
1,401,368 | The National Championship game was between Butler, a mid-major university team that was a surprise finalist in the 2010 tournament, and Connecticut, a basketball powerhouse which had previously won the tournament twice under coach Jim Calhoun but had an average regular season finishing 9th in the Big East Conference be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5865138 | 1,400,581 |
473,454 | "Antichamber" started as early as 2006 as Bruce's idea for an arena combat game based on expanding the mechanics of the game "Snake" into a multiplayer experience. Full development of the game, initially called "Hazard", did not start until 2009 and continued into 2010. Bruce developed the game using UnrealScript with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4964468 | 473,218 |
143,909 | OST provided many practical uses and was the most important link in the chain of international legal arrangements for space from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s. OST was at the heart of a 'network' of inter-state treaties and strategic power negotiations to achieve the best available conditions for nuclear weapons worl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=232117 | 143,851 |
1,950,427 | While uncommon among most eukaryotes, biparental inheritance of mtDNA occurs regularly in bivalves. Paternal mtDNA leakage has been documented in sheep, mice, and "Drosophila". In 2018, Luo et al. documented evidence of biparental inheritance of mitochondrial DNA in humans, which was thought to be only transmitted mate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67251604 | 1,949,306 |
964,959 | To be able to transfer heat well, the tube material should have good thermal conductivity. Because heat is transferred from a hot to a cold side through the tubes, there is a temperature difference through the width of the tubes. Because of the tendency of the tube material to thermally expand differently at various te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2289171 | 964,450 |
1,527,577 | W. D. Hamilton was among the first to propose an explanation for natural selection of altruistic behaviors among related individuals. According to his model, natural selection will favor altruistic behavior towards kin when the benefit (as a contributing factor to reproductive fitness) towards the recipient (scaled bas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53855904 | 1,526,713 |
1,086,545 | While Dominion Motors of Wellington was the distributor for Hudson and Essex motor vehicles for North Island from 1912, distributorship for South Island, went to W.G. Vining Limited of Nelson, also beginning in 1912. Vining had built a 31,500 square feet (2,926.5 square meters) garage in 1908 which was the largest gara... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34570831 | 1,085,987 |
408,233 | In the late 19th century, beriberi was studied by Takaki Kanehiro, a British-trained Japanese medical doctor of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Beriberi was a serious problem in the Japanese navy; sailors fell ill an average of four times a year in the period 1878 to 1881, and 35% were cases of beriberi. In 1883, Takaki le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5759935 | 408,032 |
1,456,709 | Noble earned an undergraduate degree in sociology from California State University, Fresno in the 1990s, then worked in advertising and marketing for fifteen years before going to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for a Master of Library and Information Science degree in the early 2000s. The book's first insp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56463048 | 1,455,889 |
395,787 | When Bender first saw Gore's visual presentation he had concerns about connection with viewers, citing a "need to find a personal way in." In the string of interviews with Gore that followed, Gore himself felt like they "were making "Kill Al Vol. 3"". Bender had other issues including a time frame that was "grueling" a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4097799 | 395,592 |
1,484,243 | Contrary to the above Tyr recombinases, PhiC31-INT as such acts in a unidirectional manner, firmly locking in the donor vector at a genomically anchored target. An obvious advantage of this system is that it can rely on unmodified, native "att"P (acceptor) and "att"B donor sites. Additional benefits (together with cert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4385154 | 1,483,406 |
370,093 | SNMP is available in different versions, each has its own security issues. SNMP v1 sends passwords in clear-text over the network. Therefore, passwords can be read with packet sniffing. SNMP v2 allows password hashing with MD5, but this has to be configured. Virtually all network management software support SNMP v1, bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41710 | 369,899 |
25,989 | CIA overflights of Asian targets began in spring 1958 when Detachment C moved from Japan to Naval Air Station Cubi Point in the Philippines to overfly Indonesia during an uprising against Sukarno's "Guided Democracy" government. The CIA's Civil Air Transport, aiding the rebels, so badly needed pilots that it borrowed t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32310 | 25,980 |
1,751,348 | Algoma Central ordered two Equinox 650 self-unloaders, named for their length, from Uljanik in April 2015. They are identical in most other characteristics to Equinox 740 vessels, particularly the Croatian-built ones with which they share the unloading boom-forward design, although the shorter length gives them a lower... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56875721 | 1,750,362 |
870,552 | The most common side-effects include bleeding, which could be severe or even fatal, allergic reactions, injection site reactions, and increases in liver enzyme tests, usually without symptoms. The use of heparin and LMWHs can sometimes be complicated by a decrease in platelet count, a complication known as Heparin Indu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=574326 | 870,092 |
1,526,011 | Researchers have been looking for a material that can mimic tissue properties to make the tissue engineering process more effective and less invasive to the human body. The porous, interconnecting network of nanocomposite hydrogels, created through cross-link, enable wastes and nutrients to easily enter and exit the st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45160933 | 1,525,148 |
1,993,969 | The use of electronic detectors such as X-ray CCD cameras, replacing traditional X-ray film, facilitates topography in many ways. CCDs achieve online readout in (almost) real-time, dispensing experimentalists of the need to develop films in a dark room. Drawbacks with respect to films are the limited dynamic range and,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8551999 | 1,992,826 |
661,205 | Thinkers have produced several theories concerning how learners use their internal L2 knowledge structures to comprehend L2 input and produce L2 output. One idea is that learners acquire proficiency in an L2 in the same way that people acquire other complex cognitive skills. Automaticity is the performance of a skill w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30858097 | 660,860 |
862,153 | Much more sophisticated and the first to introduce optimizing compiler technologies into the source translation process was Digital Research's XLT86 1.0 in September 1981. XLT86 1.1 was available by April 1982. The program was written by Gary Kildall and translated source code for the Intel 8080 processor (in a format ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4270426 | 861,693 |
673,598 | Although previous sci-fi writers had speculated about the development of "replicating" or "duplicating" technology, the term "replicator" was not itself used until "". In simple terms, it was described as a 24th century advancement from the 23rd century "food synthesizer" seen in "". In Star Trek: The Original Series, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=324741 | 673,246 |
107,635 | Van Leeuwenhoek maintained throughout his life that there are aspects of microscope construction "which I only keep for myself", in particular his most critical secret of how he made the lenses. For many years no one was able to reconstruct van Leeuwenhoek's design techniques, but in 1957, C. L. Stong used thin glass t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42001 | 107,590 |
1,252,689 | There were many genera, and some of these are very well known (e.g., "Rodhocetus"). Known protocetids had large fore- and hindlimbs that could support the body on land, and it is likely that they lived amphibiously: in the sea and on land. It is unclear at present whether protocetids had flukes (the horizontal tail fin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25961971 | 1,252,010 |
1,614,817 | Crucibulum is a genus in the Nidulariaceae, a family of fungi whose fruiting bodies resemble tiny egg-filled bird's nests. Often called "splash cups", the fruiting bodies are adapted for spore dispersal by using the kinetic energy of falling drops of rain. The "eggs" inside the bird's nests (technically known as peridi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20942959 | 1,613,911 |
1,172,021 | In June 2014, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Evancic took command of the squadron, replacing Colonel Thad Allen. Between 14 and 15 July it participated in exercises with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. Combat Controller Technical Sergeant Matthew McKenna was awarded the Silver Star on 18 August for coordina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55331679 | 1,171,402 |
1,311,590 | The transatlantic capability of the NC-4 was the result of developments in aviation that began before World War I. In 1908, Glenn Curtiss had experimented unsuccessfully with floats on the airframe of an early "June Bug" craft, but his first successful takeoff from water was not carried out until 1911, with an "A-1" ai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=393143 | 1,310,871 |
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