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2,112,837 | This process can also be extended to explore single wing-body aircraft designs. Wing-body styled aircraft can scale up their cargo much easier than the traditional ‘tube and plank’ design. Airbus utilized this approach to explore design choices in future large aircraft in 2002. Their objectives, however, were slightly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10636639 | 2,111,622 |
509,405 | Taussig ended up taking classes at Boston University in histology, bacteriology, and anatomy, without expecting to receive a degree. She had to sit apart from her male colleagues at the back of lecture theatres and was not supposed to speak to them. As an anatomy student at Boston University in 1925, she published her ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1266115 | 509,141 |
1,314,239 | Diabetes rates in the United States, like across North America and around the world, have been increasing substantially.The diagnosis of diabetes has quadrupled in the last 30 years in America, increasing from 5.5 million in 1980 to 21.1 million in 2010. From 1988-1994, about 25% of American adults, aged 40–74 years ol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39550875 | 1,313,518 |
1,905,558 | Fleetwood is the Olin H. Landreth Chair of Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His research work focuses on the effects of ionizing radiation on microelectronic devices and materials, origins of 1/f noise in semiconductors and radiation hardness assurance. In 1997 he received R&D 10... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41774898 | 1,904,463 |
1,585,404 | Designed by architects from Silver Thomas Hanley, DesignInc and McBride Charles Ryan, the building project was delivered as a public-private partnership, costing 1.2 billion. Approximately $40 million in new medical and research equipment was bought prior to the opening of the new building. The project was delivered by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47241828 | 1,584,513 |
1,972,751 | Logic models are used to model the life cycles of cells, immune synapse, pathogen recognition and viral entries on a microscopic and mesoscopic level. Unlike the ODE models, details about the kinetics and concentrations of interacting species isn't required in logistic models. Each biochemical species is represented as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7497569 | 1,971,616 |
782,428 | The Apple IIe keyboard differed depending on what region of the world it was sold in. Sometimes the differences were very minor, such as extra local language characters and symbols printed on certain keycaps (e.g. French accented characters on the Canadian IIe such as "à", "é", "ç", etc., or the British Pound "£" symbo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=73262 | 782,009 |
687,250 | At court Shen was a political favorite of the Chancellor Wang Anshi (1021–1086), who was the leader of the political faction of Reformers, also known as the New Policies Group (, Xin Fa). Shen Kuo had a previous history with Wang Anshi, since it was Wang who had composed the funerary epitaph for Shen's father, Zhou. Sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1102000 | 686,893 |
71,965 | The North American and European releases of the "Director's Cut" were marketed as featuring the original, uncensored footage from the Japanese releases. However, the full motion video (FMV) sequences were still censored, and Capcom claimed the omission was the result of a localization mistake made by the developers. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1789064 | 71,938 |
258,043 | As the Kennedy administration took power, the new Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, was given the seemingly impossible task of making the US military the most powerful in the world while at the same time reducing its expenditures. He ultimately solved this problem by greatly reducing reliance on the bomber and pas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=201975 | 257,909 |
1,268,308 | Last but not least prof. E.J.Zoqui has summarized in his work the approach proposed by several researchers in the criteria for semi-solid processing, which involves the stability of the solid phase fs with the temperature; to process semisolid alloys the sensitivity to variation of solid fraction with temperature shoul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6396576 | 1,267,618 |
414,575 | Although solving consensus maximization exactly is hard, there exist efficient heuristics that perform quite well in practice. One of the most popular heuristics is the Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC) scheme. RANSAC is an iterative hypothesize-and-verify method. At each iteration, the method first randomly samples 3 o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40374554 | 414,372 |
1,700,324 | The traditional automobile industry is subject to changes driven by technology and market demands. These changes include breakthrough technological advances and when the market demands and adopts new technology quickly. In the rapid advance of both factors, the end of the era of incremental change was recognized. When ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69239975 | 1,699,370 |
1,571,111 | Among the wind instruments used in the biblical period were the cornet, wood flute, horn, organ, pipe, and early trumpet. There were also silver trumpets and the double oboe. Werner concludes that from the measurements taken of the trumpets on the Arch of Titus in Rome and from coins, that "the trumpets were very high ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49646776 | 1,570,223 |
816,083 | Since 1915, Robert Watson-Watt had been working for the Met Office in a lab that was colocated at the National Physical Laboratory's (NPL) Radio Research Section (RRS) at Ditton Park in Slough. Watt became interested in using the fleeting radio signals given off by lightning as a way to track thunderstorms. Existing RD... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=382754 | 815,647 |
1,040,177 | The configuration of the skin ossifications, or osteoderms, of the body is partly known: no single specimen conserves a complete set. Additional information can be gleaned from the larger specimen MPC 100/1305, a possible "Pinacosaurus" exemplar. The neck is protected by two cervical halfrings, consisting of keeled rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3552833 | 1,039,636 |
634,470 | When comparing the pharmacokinetic properties of spironolactone and eplerenone, it is clear that the two drugs differ. Spironolactone has shorter half-life (t1/2 = 1.3-1.4 hours) than eplerenone (t1/2 = 4-6 hours). Eplerenone goes through rapid metabolism by the liver to inactive metabolites (t1/2 = 4-6 hours). However... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4025161 | 634,132 |
926,849 | A recent article from the Wall Street Journal states "from 2016 to 2018, women's games generated about $50.8 million in revenue compared with $49.9 million for the men, according to U.S. soccer's audited financial statements" (Bachman, 2019). These numbers contrasts the idea that women's sports are not entertaining eno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=265901 | 926,362 |
153,896 | Head-mounted or wearable glasses may be used to view a see-through image imposed upon the real world view, creating what is called augmented reality. This is done by reflecting the video images through partially reflective mirrors. The real world view is seen through the mirrors' reflective surface. Experimental system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=201460 | 153,826 |
904,648 | Researchers in a 2014 study in Shark Bay found the fatty acid analyses between the West and East Gulf populations to differ, which is due to the two areas having different food sources. However, when comparing data from within the West Gulf, the spongers vs. the nonspongers in the deep channels had very different fatty... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=875148 | 904,172 |
532,374 | Much of today's knowledge of chemical synaptic transmission was gleaned from experiments analyzing the effects of acetylcholine release at neuromuscular junctions, also called "end plates". The pioneers in this area included Bernard Katz and Alan Hodgkin, who used the squid giant axon as an experimental model for the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20705108 | 532,095 |
1,299,720 | Initial attempts to provide M/LWD date back to the 1920s, and attempts were made prior to WW2 with Mud Pulse, Wired Pipe, Acoustic and Electromagnetics. JJ Arps produced a working directional and resistivity system in the 1960s. Competing work supported by Mobil, Standard Oil and others in the late 1960s and early 1970... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3457131 | 1,299,006 |
1,326,841 | Sharipov conducted his first career spacewalk on 26 January 2005. He and NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao ventured outside the ISS at 7:43 GMT from the "Pirs" airlock. The spacewalk was conducted in Russian Orlan spacesuits with red stripes. The two spacewalkers worked swiftly to complete their spacewalk goals that included ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=656387 | 1,326,114 |
722,433 | Though not commonly known outside of Russia and the former Soviet satellite countries, long arc xenon lamps were used for general illumination of large areas such as rail stations, sports arenas, mining operations, and nuclear power plant high bay spaces. These lamps, , literally "lamp xenon DKST" were characterized by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1798343 | 722,053 |
1,622,005 | MSM actuator elements can be used where fast and precise motion is required. They are of interest due to the faster actuation using magnetic field as compared to the heating/cooling cycles required for conventional shape memory alloys, which also promises higher fatigue lifetime. Possible application fields are robotic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=665738 | 1,621,089 |
1,325,953 | At this time, the first serious student revolts started to emerge, motivated by the local and global changes of the decade, like the Vietnam war, the European student movement, the presence of the Peace Corps in Latin-America and specially in Colombia, the rejection of the IDB loan and the presence of the foreign found... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14257781 | 1,325,226 |
937,666 | Medical treatment is attempted first in many cases. In some cases, emergency surgery is necessary upon presentation. A six-week trial of medical treatment is recommended in pediatric cases. The goal of medical treatment for SMA syndrome is resolution of underlying conditions and weight gain. Medical treatment may invol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16740653 | 937,166 |
723,165 | JMP 8 was released in 2009 with new drag-and-drop features and a 64-bit version to take advantage of advances in the Mac operating system. It also added a new user interface for building graphs, tools for choice experiments and support for Life Distributions. According to "Scientific Computing", the software had improv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1979375 | 722,785 |
157,863 | A related device was the particle beam interface (PBI), developed by Willoughby and Browner in 1984. Particle beam interfaces took over the wide applications of MBI for LC-MS in 1988. The PBI operated by using a helium gas nebulizer to spray the eluant into the vacuum, drying the droplets and pumping away the solvent v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2378378 | 157,791 |
743,177 | In 1656 in Paris, a Mr. Jaquin extracted from the scales of the fish "Alburnus alburnus" so-called "pearl essence", which is crystalline guanine. In the cosmetics industry, crystalline guanine is used as an additive to various products (e.g., shampoos), where it provides a pearly iridescent effect. It is also used in m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12439 | 742,783 |
1,122,905 | Laboratory and field testing shows that clothianidin is persistent and mobile in the environment, stable to hydrolysis, and has potential to leach to ground water and be transported via runoff to surface water bodies. Worst-case scenario estimates indicate that if applied at the maximum rate repeatedly over years, clot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17462962 | 1,122,331 |
405,889 | "Columbium" (symbol Cb) was the name originally given by Hatchett upon his discovery of the metal in 1801. The name reflected that the type specimen of the ore came from America (Columbia). This name remained in use in American journals—the last paper published by American Chemical Society with "columbium" in its title... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21275 | 405,689 |
49,305 | Influenced by Keynes, economics texts in the immediate post-war period put a significant emphasis on balance in trade. For example, the second edition of the popular introductory textbook, "An Outline of Money", devoted the last three of its ten chapters to questions of foreign exchange management and in particular the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37973 | 49,285 |
650,531 | The spacecraft passed Venus on 5 February 1974, the closest approach being at 17:01 UTC. It was the twelfth spacecraft to reach Venus and the eighth to return data from the planet, as well as the first mission to succeed in broadcasting images of Venus back to Earth. "Mariner 10" built upon observations made by "Marine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38785 | 650,190 |
1,445,328 | The DBR laser structure is fabricated with surface features that define a monolithic, single mode ridge waveguide that runs the entire length of the device. A resonant cavity is defined by a highly reflective DBR mirror on one end, and a low reflectivity cleaved exit facet on the other end. Within the cavity is a gain ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43673809 | 1,444,512 |
315,940 | G protein-coupled receptors are an important drug target and approximately 34% of all Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved drugs target 108 members of this family. The global sales volume for these drugs is estimated to be 180 billion US dollars . It is estimated that GPCRs are targets for about 50% of drugs cur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4109042 | 315,771 |
653,030 | During Newton's attendance, the assistant principal of the seminary was Willard's sister Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, who prepared the school's curricula and wrote textbooks for the students. Students were allowed to challenge their marks prior to the weekly meeting evaluating their moral gaps. Rather than the typical f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49280323 | 652,687 |
1,993,961 | The advent of synchrotron X-ray sources has been beneficial to X-ray topography techniques. Several of the properties of synchrotron radiation are advantageous also for topography applications: The high collimation (more precisely the small angular source size) allows to reach higher geometrical resolution in topograph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8551999 | 1,992,818 |
1,790,580 | Recent steps forward in material science have led to at least one method for developing large (>10 mm) GRIN lenses with 3-dimensional gradient indexes. There is a possibility of adding expanded deformation capabilities to the GRIN lenses. This translates into controlled expansion, contraction, and shear (for variable f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27470863 | 1,789,574 |
2,246,059 | Modifications generate conditional effects on proteins, whereby their covalent attachment to amino acids will cause perturbation of a particular protein resulting in an impact on the potential interactions of its newly modified form. Methylation is one of the most recognised post-translational modifications in histones... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26760334 | 2,244,787 |
623,026 | Several synthetic neurosteroids have been used as sedatives for the purpose of general anaesthesia for carrying out surgical procedures. The best known of these are alphaxolone, alphadolone, hydroxydione, and minaxolone. The first of these to be introduced was hydroxydione, which is the esterified 21-hydroxy derivative... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2404301 | 622,694 |
1,415,417 | Cerebral atherosclerosis is a type of atherosclerosis where build-up of plaque in the blood vessels of the brain occurs. Some of the main components of the plaques are connective tissue, extracellular matrix, including collagen, proteoglycans, fibronectin, and elastic fibers; crystalline cholesterol, cholesteryl esters... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40633744 | 1,414,620 |
765,745 | From July 1987 to September 1988, F-14s performed combat air patrols and escort missions in support of Operation Earnest Will during the "Tanker War". On 8 August 1987, the first shots by the U.S. at Iranian forces took place when two VF-21 F-14As from opened fire on two Iranian F-4s that flew toward an American P-3C r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5827657 | 765,335 |
1,512,769 | Because of the potential for microbes to cause infection in the astronauts and to be able to degrade various components that may be vital for the functioning of the spacecraft, the risks must be assessed and, where appropriate, manage the levels of microbial growth controlled by the use of good astronautical hygiene. F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12987773 | 1,511,918 |
2,209,946 | After studying in Strasbourg and Paris, and graduating as an engineer from the École polytechnique in 1980, Fratzl received his doctorate in physics from the University of Vienna (1983). After that, he received his habilitation in the field of solid-state physics (1991) and worked as an assistant and associate professo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72039117 | 2,208,686 |
92,266 | In 1968, Garrett AiResearch (who employed designers Ray Holt and Steve Geller) was invited to produce a digital computer to compete with electromechanical systems then under development for the main flight control computer in the US Navy's new F-14 Tomcat fighter. The design was complete by 1970, and used a MOS-based c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19553 | 92,225 |
1,869,911 | Historically, A2/AD strategies have been employed by several different actors over time but they are particularly attractive when geography and/or political circumstances support them. Most often, the force implementing A2/AD strategies is the strategically weaker force. That is, when implementing this strategy, one do... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64013412 | 1,868,834 |
108,664 | At Caltech, Pauling struck up a close friendship with theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer at the University of California, Berkeley, who spent part of his research and teaching schedule as a visitor at Caltech each year. Pauling was also affiliated with Berkeley, serving as a Visiting Lecturer in Physics and Chemi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37342 | 108,619 |
958,141 | Researchers noticed early on that the shape of intensity-sensitivity curves could be explained by assuming that an intrinsic source of noise in the retina produces random events indistinguishable from those triggered by real photons. Later experiments on rod cells of cane toads ("Rhinella marina") showed that the frequ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5723937 | 957,635 |
721,207 | The considerable variation in control systems between makes and in some cases models, of electronically controlled rebreathers makes it unrealistic to expect to be able to maintain reflexive familiarity with several units, and also have sufficient capacity to perform the scientific task effectively on top of managing t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39194607 | 720,827 |
477,567 | The following year, when Congress established the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Newton was appointed the USDA's first commissioner. The appointment was controversial; at least one agricultural publication wrote a sarcastic and almost certainly unfair editorial headlined "Who is Isaac Newton?" alleging... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45200449 | 477,327 |
1,540,238 | Success for the BeppoSAX team came in February 1997, less than one year after it had been launched. A BeppoSAX WFC detected a gamma-ray burst (GRB 970228), and when the X-ray camera onboard BeppoSAX was pointed towards the direction from which the burst had originated, it detected a fading X-ray emission. Ground-based ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22308958 | 1,539,365 |
1,658,640 | The modified Wurtz coupling of dichlorosilanes remains a viable and general route to high molecular weight, linear polysilane derivatives. This reaction is conducted at elevated temperature in an inert solvent using a dispersion of the alkali metal. The polymerization stops with the addition of an alcohol. The major li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33795015 | 1,657,707 |
913,472 | There was a good deal of interest in the 2004 transit as scientists attempted to measure the pattern of light dimming as Venus blocked out some of the Sun's light, in order to refine techniques that they hope to use in searching for extrasolar planets. Current methods of looking for planets orbiting other stars only wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=632331 | 912,993 |
407,393 | The Texas Tech Lady Raiders, led by player Sheryl Swoopes and head coach Marsha Sharp, won the 1993 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship. The men's basketball team has made 14 appearances in the NCAA Men's Division I Tournament. Bob Knight served as men's basketball coach from the beginning of the 2001 seaso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=272980 | 407,192 |
496,895 | In December 1998, an INES Level 2 incident occurred after severe winds and sea spray disabled all four power lines to the site during the Boxing Day Storm of 1998. After multiple grid failures in a short period of time, emergency diesel generators failed to start. Normally, in the absence of power for the reactor cooli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5165874 | 496,639 |
984,667 | The Burgess Shale was discovered by palaeontologist Charles Walcott on 30 August 1909, towards the end of the season's fieldwork. He returned in 1910 with his sons, daughter, and wife, establishing a quarry on the flanks of Fossil Ridge. The significance of soft-bodied preservation, and the range of organisms he recogn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3422 | 984,153 |
851,184 | The first man-portable rocket launcher to be mass-produced was the american 60 mm M1 rocket launcher, more commonly known as the Bazooka. It was a man-portable, tube launched, recoilless rocket anti-tank weapon, widely fielded by the United States Army during World War II and into the Cold War. Also referred to as the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36624250 | 850,731 |
1,190,183 | The erythrocytes have as main function the O delivery to the tissues, and this transfer occurs by diffusion and is determined by the O tension (PO). The erythrocyte is able to feel the tissue need for O and cause a change in vascular caliber, through the pathway of ATP release, which requires an increase in cAMP, and a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1872854 | 1,189,551 |
83,809 | The 2009 film "Agora", directed by Alejandro Amenábar and starring Rachel Weisz as Hypatia, is a heavily fictionalized dramatization of Hypatia's final years. The film, which was intended to criticize contemporary Christian fundamentalism, has had wide-ranging impact on the popular conception of Hypatia. It emphasizes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38375 | 83,775 |
1,665,001 | Wilderness medicine is a rapidly evolving field and is of increasing importance as more people engage in hiking, climbing, kayaking, and other potentially hazardous activities in the backcountry. The modern definition of wilderness medicine is "medical care delivered in those areas where fixed or transient geographic c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32512185 | 1,664,064 |
2,124,350 | Novel polymeric alloy was developed for a high-modulus geosynthetics, including geocells, geogrids and geomembranes, which require higher strength, stiffness and durability. In a geocell application, the high modulus of Novel Polymeric Alloy means stiff and strong cell walls, which provide a very high elastic response ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35746106 | 2,123,129 |
1,024,473 | The Micro Bit was designed to encourage children to get actively involved in writing software for computers and building new things, rather than being consumers of media. It was designed to work alongside other systems, such as the Raspberry Pi, building on BBC's legacy with the BBC Micro for computing in education. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45653634 | 1,023,940 |
885,248 | While steric effects are a consideration, the major rationalization of electron-donating and electron-withdrawing groups is their perturbation of the electronic distribution of the aromatic ring, mostly via mesomeric effects which extend through the entire conjugated system, to create regions of excessive or deficient ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=841752 | 884,784 |
989,222 | Polygenism came into mainstream scientific thought in America in the mid 19th century with the work of several corresponding natural scientists such as Samuel George Morton and Charles Pickering as well as Egyptologist George Gliddon, the surgeon Josiah Clark Nott and more prominently the paleontologist and geologist L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2076198 | 988,706 |
676,065 | Food chemistry is the study of chemical processes and interactions of all biological and non-biological components of foods. The biological substances include such items as meat, poultry, lettuce, beer, milk as examples. It is similar to biochemistry in its main components such as carbohydrates, lipids, and protein, bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7888444 | 675,712 |
217,507 | The amplitude of other components (non-radiative/non-dipole) of the electromagnetic field close to the antenna may be quite powerful, but, because of more rapid fall-off with distance than formula_1 behavior, they do not radiate energy to infinite distances. Instead, their energies remain trapped in the region near the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=271708 | 217,399 |
820,316 | In C++, although individual codice_3s typically occupy the same space as a byte or an integer, the STL type codice_4 is a partial template specialization in which bits are packed as a space efficiency optimization. Since bytes (and not bits) are the smallest addressable unit in C++, the [] operator does "not" return a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1189937 | 819,875 |
2,078,363 | Some authors have argued that variability in the timing of onset and the symptom expression of menopause may represent intragenomic conflict. Human female reproductive capacity ends around age 50, which is around two decades earlier than women's expected lifespans, including in communities without access to medical car... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57329591 | 2,077,164 |
31,155 | While carbon is understood to strongly prefer formation of four covalent bonds, other exotic bonding schemes are also known. Carboranes are highly stable dodecahedral derivatives of the [BH] unit, with one BH replaced with a CH. Thus, the carbon is bonded to five boron atoms and one hydrogen atom. The cation [(PhPAu)C]... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5299 | 31,145 |
39,124 | The main occupational risks posed by this acid are skin contact leading to burns (see above) and the inhalation of aerosols. Exposure to aerosols at high concentrations leads to immediate and severe irritation of the eyes, respiratory tract and mucous membranes: this ceases rapidly after exposure, although there is a r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29247 | 39,109 |
1,056,104 | This family was designed as a replacement for the HI6R but enlarged to better accommodate variable valve timing and Active Fuel Management while still generating good performance. "HI7R-HI11R"'s capacity reverted to 3.5-liters respectively since 2007 season. HI7R-HI11R engine was developed and assembled by Honda in San... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42571313 | 1,055,556 |
2,106,965 | Grant was born in upstate New York. Her father taught music and her mother taught science, and she grew up doing science experiments in her home and garden. Grant took part in the Program to Increase Minority Engineering Graduates (PIMEG) at General Electric, which first introduced her to careers in technology. She ear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66634245 | 2,105,752 |
1,774,106 | Peterson's presidency was marred by several major ethics scandals. In 2018, four high-ranking Georgia Tech officials were fired following serious ethical violations. One of the individuals used his position as a board-member for RIB Software to ensure no-bid contracts between the company and GTRI. The other three were ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8753550 | 1,773,109 |
978,701 | By the 1990s researchers also began studying whether it is possible to meaningfully extract the non-hand-coded rules being generated by opaque trained neural networks. Researchers in clinical expert systems creating neural network-powered decision support for clinicians have sought to develop dynamic explanations that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54575571 | 978,190 |
1,160,262 | In the original version of the printing process, carbon tissue (a temporary support sheet coated with a layer of gelatin mixed with a pigment—originally carbon black, from which the name derives) is bathed in a potassium dichromate sensitizing solution, dried, then exposed to strong ultraviolet light through a photogra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1986325 | 1,159,647 |
326,737 | Modern parasitology developed in the 19th century with accurate observations and experiments by many researchers and clinicians; the term was first used in 1870. In 1828, James Annersley described amoebiasis, protozoal infections of the intestines and the liver, though the pathogen, "Entamoeba histolytica", was not dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43937 | 326,563 |
210,785 | The Ross rifle was a straight-pull bolt-action .303 calibre rifle produced in Canada from 1903 until the middle of the First World War, when it was withdrawn from service in Europe due to its unreliability under wartime conditions, and its widespread unpopularity among the soldiers. Since the Ross .303 was a superior m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4312006 | 210,678 |
131,521 | Research into the next generation of commercial jet engines, high-bypass ratio turbofans in the "10-ton" (20,000 lbf; 89 kN) thrust class, began in the late 1960s. Snecma (now Safran), who had mostly built military engines previously, was the first company to seek entrance into the market by searching for a partner wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=437326 | 131,469 |
1,590,950 | In Japan, "peucedanum japonicum" is also known as the longevity herb and long known to have medicinal properties. "P." "japonicum" called "chyou-mei-gusa", which translates to grass for longevity and is served in traditional Japanese dishes during "shirayoi", the naming ceremony for a newborn, and "yahnuyoi", celebrati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52587359 | 1,590,056 |
133,626 | When he was 15, Dalton joined his older brother Jonathan in running a Quaker school in Kendal, Westmorland, about from his home. Around the age of 23, Dalton may have considered studying law or medicine, but his relatives did not encourage him, perhaps because being a Dissenter, he was barred from attending English uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44112 | 133,573 |
1,498,014 | The Darwins went up to the Great Exhibition in 1851, staying with "Uncle Ras", but while the children enjoyed their several visits, Darwin's ailments returned with the excitement. The slog of describing barnacles continued. Family life was rewarding but also brought pressures. The worst of his bugbears was a fear of in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1588456 | 1,497,170 |
164,926 | The birth of new online media, such as social media, has complicated the idea of informed consent. In an online environment people pay little attention to Terms of Use agreements and can subject themselves to research without thorough knowledge. This issue came to the public light following a study conducted by Faceboo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50355 | 164,841 |
350,207 | Glaciers are a valuable resource for tracking climate change over long periods of time because they can be hundreds of thousands of years old. To study the patterns over time through glaciers, ice cores are taken, providing continuous information including evidence for climate change, trapped in the ice for scientists ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12463 | 350,024 |
1,806,541 | The virion interacts with its host and manipulates its cell machinery in various ways. It enters using the cell's own receptors, which were not originally designed for viral entry. Specifically, the receptors CD150 and PVRL4 are used for viral entry into their respective bodily regions. CD150 can be found on many immun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55667699 | 1,805,524 |
825,119 | Beebe and Barton resumed their dives in 1932, this time launching the Bathysphere from a single ship called the "Freedom" instead of the "Ready" and the "Gladisfen". They had arranged a plan with NBC whereby their observations relayed up the phone line would be broadcast nationally over the radio. Barton also hoped to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4928504 | 824,676 |
392,285 | Carthaginian written records were destroyed along with their capital, Carthage, in 146 BC and so Polybius's account of the First Punic War is based on several, now-lost, Greek and Latin sources. Polybius was an analytical historian and wherever possible personally interviewed participants in the events he wrote about. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11427 | 392,090 |
1,532,118 | Originally intended as a high-level hardware description language (HDL), Atom was created in early 2007 and released as free and open-source software (FOSS) of April of that year. Inspired by TRS and Bluespec, Atom compiled circuit descriptions, that were based on guarded atomic operations, or conditional term rewritin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25291178 | 1,531,251 |
1,004,414 | Since the motions of the atoms in a molecule are determined by quantum mechanics, "motion" must be defined in a quantum mechanical way. The overall (external) quantum mechanical motions translation and rotation hardly change the geometry of the molecule. (To some extent rotation influences the geometry via Coriolis for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=996278 | 1,003,896 |
1,172,514 | Wetsuits rely on a good fit to work effectively. The insulation relies on the low heat conductivity of the gas bubbles in the neoprene foam of the suit slowing heat loss from the water inside the suit to the water outside. If the water inside the suit can be flushed out and replaced by cold water, this insulating funct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63557168 | 1,171,895 |
1,539,469 | For an individual to be diagnosed with HCV, they must first take the hepatitis C antibody (HCV Ab) screening test. This test is used to determine the presence of HCV antibodies in the blood. It can take anywhere from 3–12 weeks after the time of initial exposure for antibodies to appear in the blood. Therefore, even if... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5806819 | 1,538,596 |
1,499,511 | The algebra of throws by Karl von Staudt (1847) is an approach to geometry that is independent of metric. The idea was to use the relation of projective harmonic conjugates and cross-ratios as fundamental to the measure on a line. Another important insight was the Laguerre formula by Edmond Laguerre (1853), who showed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30794512 | 1,498,666 |
1,090,829 | Space Shuttle "Discovery" docked on 10 March 2001, bringing to the ISS the new long-duration three-person crew of Expedition 2, as well as four short-term crew members of STS-102. A few hours after docking, the hatch opened, and all ten astronauts greeted each other, setting a new record for the number of people simult... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=881135 | 1,090,269 |
1,647 | In early 1947, France, Britain and the United States unsuccessfully attempted to reach an agreement with the Soviet Union for a plan envisioning an economically self-sufficient Germany, including a detailed accounting of the industrial plants, goods and infrastructure already removed by the Soviets. In June 1947, in ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=325329 | 1,647 |
37,413 | A peripheral is "a device connected to a computer to provide communication (such as input and output) or auxiliary functions (such as additional storage)". Peripherals generally connect to the computer through the use of USB ports or inputs located on the I/O panel. USB flash drives provide portable storage using flash... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18457137 | 37,400 |
1,594,766 | Lipidated peptides also have applications in other areas, such as use in the cosmetic industry. A commercially available lipidated peptide, Matrixyl, is used in anti-wrinkle creams. Matrixyl is a pentapeptide and has the sequence KTTKS, with an attached palmitoyl lipid chain, that is able to stimulate collagen and fibr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61309152 | 1,593,868 |
432,620 | The basic idea of this approach is to apply the Maxwell equations in integral form to a set of staggered grids. This method stands out due to high flexibility in geometric modeling and boundary handling as well as incorporation of arbitrary material distributions and material properties such as anisotropy, non-linearit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3849994 | 432,407 |
1,500,295 | Electricity may be transmitted to an aircraft's electric motors through batteries, ground power cables, solar cells, ultra-capacitors, fuel cells and power beaming. Electrically powered engines are currently only suitable for light aircraft and UAV's (unmanned aerial vehicles). Electrical engines are praised for being ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60323001 | 1,499,450 |
1,425,138 | Two more species that would come to be included with "Edmontosaurus regalis" were named from Canadian remains in the 1920s, but both would initially be assigned to the genus "Thespesius". Gilmore named the first, "Thespesius edmontoni", in 1924. "T. edmontoni" also came from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation. It was based... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13055695 | 1,424,336 |
1,618,931 | Construction of a new building enabled the pharmacy programme to gradually increase its student intake to 240 new students per year in September 2006, doubling its previous capacity; between 2000 and 2008, the total enrollment in the pharmacy program (all 4 years) increased from 499 to 1,011 students. Other programs ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24378969 | 1,618,016 |
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