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274,948 | George Dantzig worked on planning methods for the US Army Air Force during World War II using a desk calculator. During 1946 his colleague challenged him to mechanize the planning process to distract him from taking another job. Dantzig formulated the problem as linear inequalities inspired by the work of Wassily Leont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349458 | 274,800 |
1,590,345 | Since DuPont and the Metallurgical Laboratory had yet to make much progress on the design of the reactors or the processing plants, it was not known how many construction workers would be required to build them. Town planning proceeded on the assumption that construction would require 25,000 to 28,000 workers, half of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72002318 | 1,589,451 |
1,698,457 | Eurybia macrophylla, commonly known as the bigleaf aster, large-leaved aster, largeleaf aster or bigleaf wood aster, is an herbaceous perennial in the family Asteraceae that was formerly treated in the genus "Aster". It is native to eastern North America, with a range extending from eastern and central Canada (from Nov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6620549 | 1,697,503 |
927,334 | Work-class ROVs are built with a large flotation pack on top of an aluminium chassis to provide the necessary buoyancy to perform a variety of tasks. The sophistication of construction of the aluminum frame varies depending on the manufacturer's design. Syntactic foam is often used for the flotation material. A tooling... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=299462 | 926,847 |
1,840,147 | John Scott Newman (b. 17 Nov 1938) is a retired University of California professor and renowned battery and electrochemical engineer researcher in the Department of Chemical Engineering. The Newman Research Group was established with the goal of identifying "efficient and economical methods for electrochemical energy c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46920297 | 1,839,095 |
2,077,786 | The book was illustrated in color, presenting charts, images from scientific instruments and photographs of scientists and engineers at work in the field and inside laboratories. Some of the pictures were unusual for a publication of the time, including pictures of an African-American researcher at work in a chemistry ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43948048 | 2,076,587 |
437,939 | S3 Texture Compression (S3TC) (sometimes also called DXTn, DXTC, or BCn) is a group of related lossy texture compression algorithms originally developed by Iourcha et al. of S3 Graphics, Ltd. for use in their Savage 3D computer graphics accelerator. The method of compression is strikingly similar to the previously publ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1356994 | 437,725 |
1,657,483 | Ridley describes the relationship between the development of Indo-European and other ancient root languages and the classical polymorphisms which map genetic frequencies in Eurasia. The interplay between the breast cancer genes BRCA2 on chromosome 13 and BRCA1 on chromosome 17 help to illustrate these larger concepts. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=521805 | 1,656,550 |
1,702,789 | This family has been estimated to be anywhere from 105 to at least 35 million years ago. Being one of few angiosperms forming persistent tetrads with prominent sculpturing, pollen of Winteraceae is rare but easy to identify in the fossil record. Pollen samples found in Gabon may indicate that the family is at least 120... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=597538 | 1,701,833 |
1,377,529 | The nuclear shaped charge concept was also studied extensively in the 1980s as part of Project Prometheus, along with bomb-pumped lasers. Using a combination of explosive wave-shaping and "gun-barrel" design, up to 5% of a small nuclear bomb could reportedly be converted into kinetic energy driving a beam of particles ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56570847 | 1,376,767 |
359,938 | In July 1790 the Russian Baltic Fleet was defeated by the Swedish at the Battle of Svensksund. Despite the damage, the silver lining for the Russians was that the Swedes now felt able to negotiate on an even footing and a peace was soon signed (Treaty of Värälä on 14 August 1790) based on the "status quo ante bellum", ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=475101 | 359,751 |
246,416 | During the mid-1950s, to deliver France's independent nuclear deterrent, work commenced on what would become the Dassault Mirage IV supersonic bomber. The dimensions of this bomber was greatly determined by the viability of aerial refuelling, with work on an enlarged variant of the Mirage IV ultimately being aborted in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=237949 | 246,289 |
233,109 | To protect telecommunication lines, transient suppression devices such as 3 mil carbon blocks (IEEE C62.32), ultra-low capacitance varistors, and avalanche diodes are used. For higher frequencies, such as radio communication equipment, a gas discharge tube (GDT) may be utilized. A typical surge protector power strip is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=142257 | 232,990 |
1,758,401 | An apparent attempt to harmonize future development with the Regents' Plan can be seen in the university's most recent construction, including the 1990 Kenneth Allen wing of the central library and a new generation of medical, science and engineering buildings. Significant funding came from Microsoft co-founders Paul A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34586232 | 1,757,408 |
1,809,347 | The European Information and Communication Technology Association (EICTA) stated that the directive "is extremely important for the future of innovation in Europe as it concerns two-thirds of all inventions in the European hi-tech industry". This position was characterised by opponents of software patents as "dominated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=351369 | 1,808,326 |
466,026 | In Austin, Button was surprisingly knocked out in Q1 since he could not find clear track and was delayed by Jolyon Palmer's Renault on the final corner which caught him off-guard, while Alonso was knocked out in Q2 and managed to qualify 12th, despite the car seemingly returning to competitiveness. McLaren nonetheless ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49417263 | 465,793 |
1,309,083 | In 1935, McMillan, Lawrence and Robert Thornton carried out cyclotron experiments with deuteron beams that produced a series of unexpected results. Deuterons fused with a target nuclei, transmuting the target to a heavier isotope while ejecting a proton. Their experiments indicated a nuclear interaction at lower energi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157241 | 1,308,367 |
1,616,811 | The human thromboxane A (TXA) synthase is a 60 kDa cytochrome P450 protein with 533 amino acids and a heme prosthetic group. This enzyme, anchored to the endoplasmic reticulum, is found in platelets, monocytes, and several other cell types. The NH2 terminus contains two hydrophobic segments whose secondary structure is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3461046 | 1,615,900 |
189,799 | Gylippus did not arrive alone at Syracuse. Collecting a significant force from Sicily and Spartan hoplites serving overseas he took command of the defense. The initial Athenian force under Nicias had sailed boldly into the Great Harbor of Syracuse to set up camp at the foot of the city, which was on a headland. Gylippu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19375990 | 189,702 |
1,315,969 | The STS movement has a long history in science education reform, and embraces a wide range of theories about the intersection between science, technology and society (Solomon and Aikenhead, 1994; Pedretti 1997). Over the last twenty years, the work of Peter Fensham, the noted Australian science educator, is considered ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7895944 | 1,315,244 |
1,302,819 | A person experiencing a TEA episode has very little short-term memory, so that there is profound difficulty remembering events in the past few minutes (anterograde amnesia), or of events in the hours before the onset of the attack, and even memories of important events in recent years may not be accessible during the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18716068 | 1,302,105 |
433,392 | The auditory brainstem response (ABR) test gives information about the inner ear (cochlea) and nerve pathways for hearing via ongoing electrical activity in the brain measured by electrodes placed on the scalp. Five different waves (I to V) are measured for each ear. Each waveform represents specific anatomical points ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16352778 | 433,178 |
1,395,223 | Clinical trials are currently being conducted on microbial strains unique to individual healthcare facilities around the world to evaluate to what extent copper alloys can reduce the incidence of infection in hospital environments. Early results disclosed in 2011 from clinical studies funded by the U.S. Department of D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32006269 | 1,394,452 |
964,179 | Connectionism also put forth a critique to the computationalist commitments yet granting the possibility of some sort of non-symbolic computational processes to take place. According to the connectionist thesis, cognition as a biological phenomenon can be explained and understood through the interaction and dynamics of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33034640 | 963,670 |
758,175 | The college also holds an annual "Harvest Dinner" during Thanksgiving that features a school-wide dining experience including a New England buffet and live musical performances. Martin Luther King Day at Bates is celebrated annually with classes being canceled, and performances, events, keynote talks are held in observ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=319763 | 757,769 |
282,867 | Nintendo was able to capitalize on its success in the previous, third generation, and managed to win the largest worldwide market share in the fourth generation as well. Sega, however, was extremely successful in this generation and began a new franchise, Sonic the Hedgehog, to compete with Nintendo's Super Mario serie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=437385 | 282,714 |
2,087,026 | Atmospheric Correction for Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technique is a set of different methods to remove artifact displacement from an Interferogram caused by the effect of weather variables such as humidity, temperature, and pressure. An interferogram is generated by processing two synthetic-apert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71698021 | 2,085,824 |
1,427,201 | There was a lot of debate on whether NM23 gene is responsible for suppressing or activating metastasis. The two contradicting sides on this subject remained ambiguous and undefined throughout the course of NDPK studies. However, recent experiments began to show evidence for NM23 being a suppressor of metastasis. Nme2 w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2281317 | 1,426,398 |
473,403 | Working as a mechanic, Kondratyuk completed the manuscript of a book titled "The Conquest of Interplanetary Spaces", dealing with rocket motion and issues concerning the colonization of space. He also suggested using a gravitational slingshot trajectory to accelerate a spacecraft. In 1925, Kondratyuk made contact with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=446133 | 473,167 |
1,784,378 | In November 2008, it was confirmed that work would begin on a new emergency department and medical wards at the hospital, of about 6,600 square metres. Construction began in January 2009, at a cost of approximately €22 million, and was expected to be completed in late 2010. The new facility was to provide three medical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7880177 | 1,783,374 |
69,326 | The AUG has a 1.5× telescopic sight that is integrated with the receiver casting and is made by Swarovski Optik. It contains a simple black ring reticle with a basic rangefinder that is designed so that at a 180 cm (5 ft 11in) tall man-size target will completely fill it, giving the shooter an accurate method of estima... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=249896 | 69,299 |
1,017,864 | Due to budget constraints, however, the Ralliart (codenamed "TJ0R42") was brought to market in February 2002 still as an individually numbered vehicle, but only with a FWD platform and with less third party-sourced fittings. In fact, the front seats ended up being the standard Mitsubishi-designed Magna seats, but with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=903910 | 1,017,340 |
1,328,686 | Heisenberg originally devised this equation to enable himself to multiply two measurements of the same kind (amplitudes), so it happened not to matter in which order they were multiplied. Heisenberg noticed, however that if he tried to use the same schema to multiply two variables, such as momentum, p, and displacement... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24009146 | 1,327,958 |
1,403,529 | The physiological mechanism by which exudates are released is not entirely understood and varies depending on the stimulus as well as the contents of the secreted exudate. Various types of root cells have been suggested to sense microbes or compounds in the soil and secrete exudates accordingly. One example of root exu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57090582 | 1,402,739 |
670,317 | It is typically assumed that early hominins were using stone tools to cut meat in addition to other organic materials. Wild chimpanzees and black-striped capuchins have been observed to make flakes by accident while using hammerstones to crack nuts on anvils, but the Lomekwi knappers were producing multiple flakes from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16745 | 669,966 |
480,282 | A less positive case is that of the small Pacific nation of Nauru. A substantial phosphate deposit was found on the island in 1900, and now approximately 80% of the island has been rendered uninhabitable after over 100 years of mining. Concurrent with this extraction, Nauru's inhabitants, over the last few decades of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33653197 | 480,038 |
1,800,444 | The creation of the Department was responding to a new socio-economic situation in Poland in connection with health care reform and the new labor market. These changes necessitated the establishment of priorities in education. A new look for the training of health workers was the result of several factors: a new manage... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17972473 | 1,799,435 |
535,558 | Ferrari's first flat-12 engine design was the 1.5-liter "Tipo 207", used in the 1964-65 Ferrari 1512 Formula One car (also known as the 512 F1). The "Tipo 207" flat-12 engine was designed by Mauro Forghieri and displaced with a bore and stroke of and a compression ratio of 9.8:1. The crankcase was cast from aluminum al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46971755 | 535,279 |
323,557 | The E-2 is a high-wing airplane, with one Allison T56 turboprop engine (5250 shp rating) on each wing and retractable tricycle landing gear. As with all carrier-borne airplanes, the E-2 is equipped with a tail hook for recovery (landing) and the nose gear can attach to a shuttle of the aircraft carrier's catapults for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56075 | 323,385 |
2,016,522 | The bars were formed by electroplating a 97% iron/3% nickel plate onto beryllium-copper wire 10 thousandth of an inch in diameter (10 mils), coating it in polyurethane, and curing it in an oven. The long length of coated wire is then wound with thin copper ribbon, 10 mil wide and 2.5 mil thick, coated in urethane again... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47965712 | 2,015,360 |
153,116 | I-131 will be eliminated from the body over the next several weeks after it is given. The majority of I-131 will be eliminated from the human body in 3–5 days, through natural decay, and through excretion in sweat and urine. Smaller amounts will continue to be released over the next several weeks, as the body processes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1884846 | 153,046 |
165,508 | The Natural Science and Engineering Research Laboratory (NSERL), a four-story, research facility, was completed in December 2006 after two years of construction. Including ISO 7 cleanroom facilities, the $85 million building provides open floor plans that allows chemists, biologists, nanotechnologists, materials scient... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=537010 | 165,423 |
1,821,348 | In 2015, Knizia and Klein introduced the analysis of electron flow in reactions with IBO as a non-empirical and straight-forward method of evaluating curly arrow mechanisms. Since IBOs are exact representations of Kohn-Sham wavefunctions, they can provide physical conformation for curly arrows mechanisms based on first... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69199096 | 1,820,310 |
1,254,261 | Originally from Japan, it is thought to have gained worldwide distribution through being transported with Japanese oysters ("Crassostrea gigas"). "Sargassum muticum" was introduced to the Californian coast in the 1940s and in Europe in the 1970s (The species was first found in the British Isles in the Isle of Wight in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24529847 | 1,253,581 |
1,295,819 | Sequence stratigraphy is a branch of geology, specifically a branch of stratigraphy, that attempts to discern and understand historic geology through time by subdividing and linking sedimentary deposits into unconformity bounded units on a variety of scales. The essence of the method is mapping of strata based on ident... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1450081 | 1,295,108 |
1,551,487 | The class A laboratories, buildings for the HIE-ISOLDE and MEDICIS projects, and building 508 which serves as a home for THE ISOLDE control rooms as well as other operations can be seen on the sketch. The 1.4 GeV proton beam from the PS Booster, coming from the right on the sketch, is being directed to one of the separ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2050029 | 1,550,606 |
354,205 | In 1951, a patient named Henrietta Lacks was admitted to the Johns Hopkins Hospital with symptoms of irregular vaginal bleeding, and was subsequently treated for cervical cancer. Her first treatment was performed by Lawrence Wharton Jr., who at this time collected tissue samples from her cervix without her consent. Her... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=324834 | 354,022 |
2,084,423 | The Struve–Sahade effect was first reported by Otto Struve in 1937. It became important because the effect called into question the values of parameters such as mass and luminosity ratios in massive spectroscopic binary systems. In 1950, Struve attempted to explain the effect as the result of streams of gas trailing be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30642120 | 2,083,222 |
1,224,017 | During the battle against "Bismarck" a close-range hit from a 14-inch shell fired by "King George V" penetrated the -thick armour of the barbette of "Bismarck's" 'B' turret, causing an internal explosion which blew the rear face of the turret away. Underwater survey also shows that the vertical armour of the conning to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8455400 | 1,223,357 |
929,925 | Birch proposed that solar shades could be used to not merely cool the planet but to also reduce atmospheric pressure as well, by the process of freezing of the carbon dioxide. This requires Venus's temperature to be reduced, first to the liquefaction point, requiring a temperature less than ( or ) and partial pressures... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4923982 | 929,434 |
590,715 | Fermi reported that its GBM instrument detected a weak gamma-ray burst above 50 keV, starting 0.4 seconds after the LIGO event and with a positional uncertainty region overlapping that of the LIGO observation. The Fermi team calculated the odds of such an event being the result of a coincidence or noise at 0.22%. Howev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=399678 | 590,413 |
1,232,352 | Beginning in the early 1960s, demand for high-temperature materials by the nascent aerospace industry prompted the US Air Force Materials Laboratory to begin funding the development of a new class of materials that could withstand the environment of proposed hypersonic vehicles such as the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38050893 | 1,231,690 |
1,605,086 | The term has most been used by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), but it also shows up within other agencies. At the National Institutes of Health (NIH) the phrase is sometimes rendered as 'translational research' or 'high-risk, high-reward', which is defined as "research with an inherent high degree of uncert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12990852 | 1,604,184 |
1,577,770 | The Burnham laboratory was established in 1953 as the Ministry's first-ever purpose-built fisheries laboratory. The role of the laboratory was expanded in 1957 to cover work on pollution, and by the mid-60s began to take the lead in the investigation of environmental protection problems, with the exception of those ari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3625975 | 1,576,881 |
533,430 | The EPA's assessment of the state of the country meeting the target NAAQS goals by 1975 was poor, having identified numerous nonattainment areas in the country. With the 1977 Amendment to the CAA, a new deadline of December 31, 1982 for meeting the NAAQS was fixed with no allowance for extending the deadline unless spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13304113 | 533,151 |
420,535 | Although polygenic risk scores gained increased attention within humans, the basic idea was first introduced for selective plant and animal breeding. Similar to the modern approaches of constructing a polygenic risk score, an individual's breeding value was the sum of single nucleotide polymorphism weight by their effe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52142704 | 420,330 |
67,151 | The Gadget was hoisted to the top of a steel tower. The height would give a better indication of how the weapon would behave when dropped from a bomber, as detonation in the air would maximize the amount of energy applied directly to the target (as the explosion expanded in a spherical shape) and would generate less nu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60033 | 67,126 |
462,662 | On the left (in the sense that the sequence is usually drawn) lie the ellipticals. Elliptical galaxies have relatively smooth, featureless light distributions and appear as ellipses in photographic images. They are denoted by the letter E, followed by an integer "n" representing their degree of ellipticity in the sky. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45145 | 462,433 |
1,432,149 | According to the STEP research roadmap, the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) is a methodological and technological framework that, once established, will enable the investigation of the human body as a single complex system. Underlying the VPH concept, the International Union for Physiological Sciences (IUPS) has been... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35201519 | 1,431,345 |
1,045,149 | The NextGen Advisory Committee (NAC), established in 2010 to address the task force recommendation to continue industry collaboration, is a federal advisory group comprising aviation stakeholders formed to provide advice on policy-level NextGen implementation issues facing the aviation community. The FAA and NAC in 201... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12942905 | 1,044,604 |
45,932 | The team plays in the newly renovated Purcell Pavilion (within the Edmund P. Joyce Center), which reopened for the 2009–2010 season. The team is coached by Mike Brey, who, as of the 2020–21 season, his 22nd at Notre Dame, has achieved a 449–248 record. In 2009, Notre Dame was invited to the NIT, where they reached the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146269 | 45,914 |
85,500 | A number of problems emerged with the initial design, notably the early versions of the rocket motors which sometimes ejected bits of fuel still on fire and presented a hazard to the gunners. MICOM suggested a new motor using "head end suspended double base" fuel from the M72 LAW which solved this issue. The IR source ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=338060 | 85,466 |
322 | Atomic radii (the size of atoms) are dependent on the sizes of their outermost orbitals. They generally decrease going left to right along the main-group elements, because the nuclear charge increases but the outer electrons are still in the same shell. However, going down a column, the radii generally increase, becaus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23053 | 322 |
2,068,409 | While Bloede received a number of medals for his various useful and economic inventions, he also proved himself a benefactor to society in general. On November 10, 1908, he presented the Hospital for Consumptives of Maryland (a tuberculosis sanitorium), with a new building. The institution, which came to be known as th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14490922 | 2,067,218 |
2,060,725 | In 2012, he formed The Ross Mintzer Band. According to the band website, they have released two singles and one music video, and have performed in Chicago, St. Louis, Boulder, Madison, Los Angeles, and New York City. In February 2014, Mintzer was interviewed and played his song "Open Happiness" on NHK's program "World ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40061618 | 2,059,538 |
1,139,644 | Both CIMT and modified CIMT may be applicable to up to 20–25 percent of stroke patients, and the amount of improvement produced by either regimen appears to diminish as the initial motor ability of the patient decreases. Both CIMT and modified CI therapy has been shown to be an effective means of stroke rehabilitation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14083433 | 1,139,051 |
224,626 | The view of cognitive ability has evolved over the years, and it is no longer viewed as a fixed property held by an individual. Instead, the current perspective describes it as a general capacity, comprising not only cognitive, but motivational, social and behavioural aspects as well. These facets work together to perf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=168191 | 224,512 |
737,694 | Diffusion within the firn layer causes other changes that can be measured. Gravity causes heavier molecules to be enriched at the bottom of a gas column, with the amount of enrichment depending on the difference in mass between the molecules. Colder temperatures cause heavier molecules to be more enriched at the bottom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=426456 | 737,304 |
849,167 | During the 1933 British Mount Everest expedition, Percy Wyn-Harris found the ice axe of Irvine some 250 yards (230 metres) east of the First Step and 60 feet (20 metres) below the ridge. This location raises additional questions. The area is a 30-degree slab of rock with loose pebbles, according to Wyn-Harris. Expediti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20562313 | 848,717 |
1,218,708 | The application proposed by Louat in his patent claims is to provide a less-expensive alternative to a physical solar updraft tower. In this application, the heat is provided by a large area of ground heated by the sun and covered by a transparent surface that traps hot air, in the manner of a greenhouse. A vortex is c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2988035 | 1,218,054 |
14,033 | In 2007, there were about 806 million cars and light trucks on the road, consuming over of gasoline and diesel fuel yearly. The automobile is a primary mode of transportation for many developed economies. The Detroit branch of Boston Consulting Group predicted that, by 2014, one-third of world demand would be in the fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=163778 | 14,028 |
273,427 | Further advances also took place in medieval Islamic mathematics. While earlier Greek proofs were largely geometric demonstrations, the development of arithmetic and algebra by Islamic mathematicians allowed more general proofs with no dependence on geometric intuition. In the 10th century CE, the Iraqi mathematician A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82285 | 273,279 |
934,350 | In addition to Wabash College and Morehouse College, Hampden–Sydney is one of only three remaining traditional all-male colleges in the United States and is noted as a highly regarded all-male institution of higher education in North America. The school's mission is to "form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1046291 | 933,858 |
779,759 | During the Great Purge in 1936, Kolmogorov's doctoral advisor Nikolai Luzin became a high-profile target of Stalin's regime, in what is now called the "Luzin Affair". Kolmogorov and several other students of Luzin testified against Luzin, accusing him of plagiarism, nepotism, and other forms of misconduct; the hearings... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=91161 | 779,342 |
1,219,360 | In most cases, "[i]ncentives undermine ethical motives" as they "may frame a decision problem and thereby suggest self-interest as appropriate behavior". Simply using market terminology offers justifications for actions that would otherwise be unjustifiable. Economic structures of societies produce people with differen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6488533 | 1,218,706 |
1,533,486 | The Hypomania Checklist (HCL-32) is a questionnaire developed by Dr. Jules Angst to identify hypomanic features in patients with major depressive disorder in order to help recognize bipolar II disorder and other bipolar spectrum disorders when people seek help in primary care and other general medical settings. It asks... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47624085 | 1,532,618 |
1,854,365 | "Sulfurimonas" "hongkongensis" is a newly discovered species within the genus of "Sulfurimonas." It was found in Hong Kong, near the coastal sediment at the Kai Tak Approach Channel connecting Victoria Harbour . It produces energy under anoxic conditions. Its electron donor is thiosulfate, sulfide or hydrogen, and its ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38607749 | 1,853,302 |
138,234 | On 15 May 1960 an uncrewed prototype performed 64 orbits of the Earth, but the reentry maneuver failed. On 28 July 1960, two dogs by the names of Chaika and Lishichka were launched into space, but the mission was unsuccessful when an explosion killed the dogs. However, on 19 August, the Soviet Union became the first to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=86655 | 138,178 |
1,328,211 | Reequipped with Consolidated B-24D Liberators the 9th was reassigned back to Tenth Air Force in India, where for the balance of the war, it carried out long distance heavy bomb raids over Japanese targets primarily in Burma, Thailand and French Indochina; although it also attacked Japanese targets in southeastern China... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15948763 | 1,327,483 |
391,204 | The development of guided missiles was thought to render cannons unnecessary and a full generation of western fighter aircraft was built without them. In contrast, all Eastern Bloc aircraft kept their guns. During the Vietnam War, however, the United States Air Force realized that cannons were useful for firing warning... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275006 | 391,009 |
2,166,701 | Nonhuman primates such as rhesus macaques serve as the "gold standard" approach for animal models for many BSL4 pathogens when the biological phenomenon cannot be studied in other species. As many infectious diseases are zoonotic in nature, modeling these diseases in these macaque species which have some biological sim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68831707 | 2,165,464 |
593,828 | After being commissioned, "Liscome Bay" proceeded southwards towards San Diego, California, picking up and ferrying 60 aircraft from San Francisco on the way, arriving on 22 September 1943. For the next month, she engaged in training operations off the Southern California coast. On 11 October, she was designated as the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=421353 | 593,524 |
708,892 | Daedalus would be constructed in Earth orbit and have an initial mass of 54,000 tonnes including 50,000 tonnes of fuel and 500 tonnes of scientific payload. Daedalus was to be a two-stage spacecraft. The first stage would operate for two years, taking the spacecraft to 7.1% of light speed (0.071 "c"), and then after it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=603351 | 708,523 |
215,865 | The first company to launch a WAP site was Dutch mobile phone operator Telfort BV in October 1999. The site was developed as a side project by Christopher Bee and Euan McLeod and launched with the debut of the Nokia 7110. Marketers hyped WAP at the time of its introduction, leading users to expect WAP to have the perfo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10174473 | 215,757 |
1,538,809 | The number of companies in the regiment was reduced to eight on 1 November 1777. John Neville took command of the 8th Virginia on 10 December. At the Battle of Monmouth, the 4th, 8th, and 12th Virginia Regiments fought as a converged battle group under the command of James Wood. The Virginians were part of William Gray... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3679077 | 1,537,936 |
46,678 | All species are omnivorous, but chimpanzees and orangutans primarily eat fruit. When gorillas run short of fruit at certain times of the year or in certain regions, they resort to eating shoots and leaves, often of bamboo, a type of grass. Gorillas have extreme adaptations for chewing and digesting such low-quality for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19773811 | 46,660 |
758,988 | Before 2004, in an effort to provide an alternative social environment to that offered by the Greek organizations, the Union College administration began recovering occupancy of the independent fraternity houses. This initiative was, and remains, a controversial step by the college. A non-residential "house system" was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=461702 | 758,582 |
1,001,736 | Champollion-Figeac published his brother's grammar of Egyptian and an accompanying dictionary in instalments from 1836 to 1843. Both were incomplete, especially the dictionary, which was confusingly organised and contained many conjectural translations. These works' deficiencies reflected the incomplete state of unders... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6184367 | 1,001,218 |
1,676 | The US initially seemed to follow containment when it first entered the war. This directed the US's action to only push back North Korea across the 38th Parallel and restore South Korea's sovereignty while allowing North Korea's survival as a state. However, the success of the Inchon landing inspired the US/UN forces t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=325329 | 1,676 |
83,861 | The first powerful sources of microwaves were invented at the beginning of World War II: the klystron tube by Russell and Sigurd Varian at Stanford University in 1937, and the cavity magnetron tube by John Randall and Harry Boot at Birmingham University, UK in 1940. Ten centimeter (3 GHz) microwave radar was in use on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20097 | 83,827 |
1,285,853 | Determination of somatic cells is controlled by the transcription factor regA. The regA geneencodes a single 80 amino acid-long DNA-binding SAND domain that is expressed in somatic cells after embryonic development. regA acts to prevent division by inhibiting cell growth via downregulation of chloroplast biosynthesis, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29507782 | 1,285,152 |
272,759 | After D-Day, General Groves ordered a team of scientists to follow eastward-moving victorious Allied troops into Europe to assess the status of the German nuclear program (and to prevent the westward-moving Soviets from gaining any materials or scientific manpower). They concluded that, while Germany had an atomic bomb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242883 | 272,611 |
88,564 | In addition, they found that this cooling caused a weakening of the global hydrological cycle, reducing global precipitation by about 45%. As for the 50 Tg case involving one third of current nuclear arsenals, they said that the simulation "produced climate responses very similar to those for the 150 Tg case, but with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22171 | 88,529 |
2,110,262 | In response to the success of The Natural Science Pages prototype and with support of the NSF, Carpi developed the Visionlearning project, which brought on a group of scientists and educators to create content and became a website open to students and educators worldwide. In the last decade, Visionlearning has evolved ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27140072 | 2,109,048 |
394,867 | In 2010, Peru passed the Law for Personal Data Protection, which defines biometric information that can be used to identify an individual as sensitive data. In 2012, Colombia passed a comprehensive Data Protection Law which defines biometric data as senstivite information. According to Article 9(1) of the EU's 2016 Gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=602401 | 394,672 |
366,382 | As radar technology developed, a new Meteor night fighter was developed to use the improved US-built APS-21 system. The "NF.12" first flew on 21 April 1953. It was similar to the NF 11 but had a nose section longer; the fin was enlarged to compensate for the greater keel area of the enlarged nose and to counter the air... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42702 | 366,190 |
319,891 | Yet another theory, known as the nystagmus hypothesis, has been proposed based on stimulation of the vagus nerve resulting from the stretching or traction of extra-ocular muscles co-occurring with eye movements caused by vestibular stimulation. There are three critical aspects to the theory: first is the close linkage ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62580 | 319,719 |
1,094,600 | The surface of the finished part that was in intimate contact with the mandrel is replicated in fine detail with respect to the original, and is not subject to the shrinkage that would normally be experienced in a foundry cast metal object, or the tool marks of a milled part. The solution side of the part is less well ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3003010 | 1,094,040 |
198,373 | The most extensively modified Otter was RCAF Otter "3682". After initial service as a standard Search and Rescue aircraft it was used to explore the aerodynamic aspects of STOL. In 1958 it was fitted with flaps so outsized that, with their 45 degree droop, it became known as the Batwing Otter. In addition, its tail-whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=718797 | 198,271 |
1,519,182 | In realizing Green Growth, forest is the key resource. Notably enough, forest is recognized as a sole carbon sink under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Korean forests sequestered 41 million tons of carbon dioxide as of 2007, which accounted for 66% of the total carbon emissions in Korea. Fore... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4384343 | 1,518,324 |
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