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370,413 | Although BMW Sauber targeted the season as the year they would challenge for the title, their start to the season was a disappointment. Kubica was in third place in the opening round, when he collided with Vettel while battling for second place and was forced to retire. Heidfeld then secured the team's first podium of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3158734 | 370,219 |
844,129 | John Stuart Mill introduced Millicent Fawcett to many other women's rights activists, including Henry Fawcett, a Liberal Member of Parliament who had intended to marry her sister Elizabeth before she decided to focus on her medical career. Millicent and Henry married on 23 April 1867. Henry had been blinded in a shooti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55664 | 843,679 |
289,178 | Cancer treatment used to be focused on killing or removing cancer cells and tumours, with chemotherapy or surgery or radiation. These treatments can be very effective and in many cases are still used. In 2018 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo "for their discovery... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=226533 | 289,021 |
20,094 | The Army is planning upgrades to the Patriot system's radar components, including a new digital processor that replaces the one used since the system's introduction. In 2017, the Patriot got a new AN/MPQ-65A active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar that has greater range and sharper discrimination. The main gal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52024 | 20,086 |
386,378 | Part of the contents originally planned for the first book was divided out into a second book, which largely concerns motion through resisting mediums. Just as Newton examined consequences of different conceivable laws of attraction in Book 1, here he examines different conceivable laws of resistance; thus discusses re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48781 | 386,183 |
1,048,043 | GROMACS is operated via the command-line interface, and can use files for input and output. It provides calculation progress and estimated time of arrival (ETA) feedback, a trajectory viewer, and an extensive library for trajectory analysis. In addition, support for different force fields makes GROMACS very flexible. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=306766 | 1,047,498 |
290,609 | To cope with life in the suffocating depths, vampire squids have developed several adaptations: Of all deep-sea cephalopods, their mass-specific metabolic rate is the lowest. Their blue blood's hemocyanin binds and transports oxygen more efficiently than in other cephalopods, aided by gills with an especially large sur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=420944 | 290,451 |
2,226,269 | microRNAs (miRNAs) are short (20-24 nt) non-coding RNAs that are involved in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in multicellular organisms by affecting both the stability and translation of mRNAs. miRNAs are transcribed by RNA polymerase II as part of capped and polyadenylated primary transcripts (pri-m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56907937 | 2,225,005 |
2,220,261 | microRNAs (miRNAs) are short (20-24 nt) non-coding RNAs that are involved in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in multicellular organisms by affecting both the stability and translation of mRNAs. miRNAs are transcribed by RNA polymerase II as part of capped and polyadenylated primary transcripts (pri-m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56238502 | 2,218,999 |
2,228,055 | MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short (20-24 nt) non-coding RNAs that are involved in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in multicellular organisms by affecting both the stability and translation of mRNAs. miRNAs are transcribed by RNA polymerase II as part of capped and polyadenylated primary transcripts (pri-m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57630088 | 2,226,791 |
2,228,997 | microRNAs (miRNAs) are short (20-24 nt) non-coding RNAs that are involved in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in multicellular organisms by affecting both the stability and translation of mRNAs. miRNAs are transcribed by RNA polymerase II as part of capped and polyadenylated primary transcripts (pri-m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55665005 | 2,227,733 |
958,984 | Gliosis is the universal response of the CNS to tissue injury and occurs as a result of many acute conditions such as trauma, ischemia, and stroke. Additionally, gliosis is present in a wide variety of CNS pathologies, including Alzheimer's disease, Korsakoff's syndrome, multiple system atrophy, prion disease, multiple... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4694311 | 958,478 |
1,672,801 | Given its function in facilitating lysosomal degradation or recycling of ligands in lipid metabolism and the neural system, sortilin likely plays an important role in the underlying mechanisms and pathophysiology of atherogenesis and coronary artery disease, as well as in neurological disorders. For example, sortilin h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14343235 | 1,671,859 |
438,811 | The longstanding rivalry between Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, and Wartburg College has produced colorful moments over several years. The origins of the rivalry are vague. Stories of pranks date back to the 1940s. The rivalry has, for the most part, been characterized by fun and good sportsmanship. The rivalry rose ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=757117 | 438,597 |
413,689 | Computer scientists use abstraction to make models that can be used and re-used without having to re-write all the program code for each new application on every different type of computer. They communicate their solutions with the computer by writing source code in some particular computer language which can be transl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2972 | 413,486 |
2,031,512 | Rosette, lower and intermediate pitchers remain unknown as they do not form part of the examined herbarium material. Upper pitchers are subcylindrical with an ellipsoid base. They measure 16.4 cm in height by 5.5 cm in width. They are broadest in the basal portion, becoming slightly constricted in the middle (4.1 cm wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41368397 | 2,030,343 |
563,806 | As culture growth occurs, carbon dioxide is produced and released through a vent at the top of the loop. A heat exchanger, located in the union between the towers at their base, allows excess heat generated by the culture to be removed. One tower contains a sparge bar near the tower's base, through which air and ammoni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2627094 | 563,516 |
195,867 | Unlike his German peers, Virchow had great faith in clinical observation, animal experimentation (to determine causes of diseases and the effects of drugs) and pathological anatomy, particularly at the microscopic level, as the basic principles of investigation in medical sciences. He went further and stated that the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=140752 | 195,767 |
797,303 | The main consequence of impaired ciliary function is reduced or absent mucus clearance from the lungs, and susceptibility to chronic recurrent respiratory infections, including sinusitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, and otitis media. Progressive damage to the respiratory system is common, including progressive bronchiectasi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=641177 | 796,878 |
1,177,084 | A 2015 study uses Calliope to compare the future roles of nuclear power and CSP in South Africa. It finds CSP could be competitive with nuclear by 2030 for baseload and more competitive when producing above baseload. CSP also offers less investment risk, less environmental risk, and other co-benefits. A second 2015 stu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38803848 | 1,176,461 |
1,038,660 | That development led Parsons to consider the possibility of using stamped metal stringers instead of wood. These would not only be much stronger, but far easier to make as well, as they would eliminate the complex layup and glue and screw fastening on the wood. Duplicating this in a metal punch would require the wooden... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39469106 | 1,038,119 |
880,332 | The major innovations since the 1990s have been the switch from friction to indexed shifting and the gradual increase in the number of gears. With friction shifting, a lever directly controls the continuously variable position of the derailleur. To shift gears, the rider first moves the lever enough for the chain to ju... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=195666 | 879,868 |
1,924,632 | In 2011, Escentual.com posted sales of more than £10million and won the Beauty, Perfume & Cosmetics category at the Online Retail Awards. By 2012, the business was being described as "the Amazon of online beauty" by Moneyweek. At that point, Escentual.com employed 16 full-timers as well as part-time picking and packing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37976836 | 1,923,528 |
1,990,052 | Polysialic acid (PSA) is a relatively new biocompatible and bioresorbable material for artificial nerve conduits. It is a homopolymer of α2,8-linked sialic acid residues and a dynamically regulated posttranslational modification of the neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM). Recent studies have demonstrated that polysial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11088829 | 1,988,909 |
1,073,075 | Two coils in an anti-Helmholtz configuration are used to generate a weak quadrupolar magnetic field; here, we will consider the coils as being separated along the formula_2-axis. In the proximity of the field zero, located halfway between the two coils along the formula_2-direction, the field gradient is uniform and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4336836 | 1,072,521 |
213,471 | The DF-21D re-entry vehicle appears to bear similarities to the American Pershing II missile's RV, which was withdrawn from service in 1988. The Pershing II's RV weighed and was fitted with four control fins to perform a 25-G pull-up after reentering the atmosphere, traveling at Mach 8 and then gliding to the target to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9066481 | 213,363 |
396,115 | In 1944, specially trained army combat engineers were assigned to blow up underwater obstacles and clear defended ports during the invasion of Normandy. During World War II, the Army Corps of Engineers in the European Theater of Operations was responsible for building numerous bridges, including the first and longest f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=83180 | 395,920 |
1,977,565 | Bolibrukh showed that for a given pole configuration certain monodromy groups can be realised by regular, but not by Fuchsian systems. (In 1990 he published the thorough study of the case of regular systems of size 3 exhibiting all situations when such counterexamples exists. In 1978 Dekkers had shown that for systems ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1965023 | 1,976,427 |
15,397 | Autistic people experience deficits in their ability to develop, maintain, and understand relationships, as well as difficulties adjusting behavior to fit social contexts. ASD presents with impairments in pragmatic communication skills, such as difficulty initiating a conversation or failure to consider the interests o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29113700 | 15,392 |
535,899 | The Columbia River Basalt Group flows exhibit essentially uniform chemical properties through the bulk of individual flows, suggesting rapid placement. Ho and Cashman (1997) characterized the -long Ginkgo flow of the Frenchman Springs Member, determining that it had been formed in roughly a week, based on the measured ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7458393 | 535,620 |
107,903 | In 1915, Hungarian inventor Albert Fonó devised a solution for increasing the range of artillery, comprising a gun-launched projectile which was to be united with a ramjet propulsion unit, thus giving a long range from relatively low muzzle velocities, allowing heavy shells to be fired from relatively lightweight guns.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26321 | 107,858 |
1,007,162 | Based on the operation of "Panorama", Siemens & Halske improved this system, and renamed it "Jagdschloss" (hunting lodge). They added a second switchable operation to 150 kW at 1.2 m (250 MHz), increasing the range to near 200 km. The information from the receivers was sent via co-axial cable or a 50-cm link from the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27693223 | 1,006,643 |
1,230,071 | Honda was also determined to focus its area of research in intelligence capabilities, particularly in developing a technology that uses brain signals to control a robot's movements. By 2009, Honda announced that it has developed a new system, the Brain Machine Interface, which allows human to send commands to ASIMO thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22895735 | 1,229,409 |
1,272,924 | The Training Within Industry (TWI) service was created by the United States Department of War, running from 1940 to 1945 within the War Manpower Commission. The purpose was to provide consulting services to war-related industries whose personnel were being conscripted into the US Army at the same time the War Departmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3746815 | 1,272,233 |
1,142,185 | Agrobiodiversity's contribution to provisioning services is mainly for providing food and nutrition. Food biodiversity is "the diversity of plants, animals and other organisms used for food, covering the genetic resources within species, between species and provided by ecosystems." Historically at least 6,000 plant spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1166525 | 1,141,590 |
650,661 | Researchers from The Aerospace Corporation confirmed that the most efficient means to generate the high-power M-code signal would entail a departure from full-Earth coverage, characteristic of all the user downlink signals up until that point. Instead, a high-gain antenna would be used to produce a directional spot bea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8778629 | 650,320 |
22,912 | Black Friday, a popular shopping holiday in the US, is when many retailers focus on optimal pricing strategies to capture the holiday shopping market. In the Black Friday scenario, retailers using game theory applications typically ask "what is the dominant competitor's reaction to me?" In such a scenario, the game has... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11924 | 22,903 |
2,004,674 | Covert graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1946 and received a Masters in Aeronautical Engineering in 1948. In 1958, he received a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Covert received a number of awards and citations, including the Exceptional Civilian Service Award from the United States... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9158171 | 2,003,525 |
1,159,709 | From the equation for the magnetic field interaction energy, it can also be seen that the energies of the |m=1,-1 states shift in opposite directions, changing the total energy difference between these two states. The |m=-1|m=1 transition frequency therefore experiences a Zeeman shift. With this in mind, the RF evapora... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1018020 | 1,159,094 |
1,754,484 | The Age of Reptiles earned Zallinger recognition from the Pulitzer Foundation in 1949 but remained unknown to most of America. It wasn't until New Haven's former mayor Richard C. Lee, at that time head of the Yale News Bureau, who brought it to the attention of the editors of Life magazine. Soon after, it was published... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8990816 | 1,753,494 |
1,354,371 | The biodiversity of New Zealand, a large island country located in the south-western Pacific Ocean, is varied and distinctive. The species of New Zealand accumulated over many millions of years as lineages evolved in the local circumstances. New Zealand's pre-human biodiversity exhibited high levels of species endemism... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1752449 | 1,353,623 |
1,823,315 | The competition was founded in 1945 in honour of the Hungarian violinist Carl Flesch (1873–1944), who was particularly noted as a violin teacher. It was founded in the form of the "Flesch Medal" by Max Rostal and Edric Cundell of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama; Rostal had been a pupil of Flesch. Flesch's son, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66453367 | 1,822,277 |
1,578,907 | Reilly and Thomas (1976) recorded and analysed the intensity and extent of discrete activities during match play in field soccer. With a combination of hand notation and the use of an audio tape recorder, they analysed in detail the movements of English first division soccer players. They were able to specify work-rate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2883565 | 1,578,017 |
2,201,367 | Robinson was an undergraduate student at the University of Cambridge, where she studied natural sciences. She moved to the University of Oxford for her graduate studies, where she investigated pleistocene climate chronology. After completing her doctorate, Robinson moved to California. She was appointed a postdoctoral ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68339389 | 2,200,114 |
1,366,611 | He was awarded the Dirac Medal of the ICTP in 2001 for his interdisciplinary contributions to understanding biology as a physical process, including the proofreading process in biomolecular synthesis and a description of collective dynamics and computing with attractors in neural networks, and the Oliver Buckley Prize ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=649572 | 1,365,855 |
109,503 | Having been known as Thomson-CSF since its foundation in 1968, the company was rebranded "Thales" (named after the Greek philosopher Thales and pronounced , reflecting its pronunciation in French) in December 2000. A communication audit, launched in spring that year, highlighted Thomson-CSF's image deficit, particularl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277311 | 109,458 |
1,402,889 | Glock's views are echoed in the work of , a Palestinian archaeologist at Bir Zeit and editor of the university's "Journal of Palestinian Archaeology", who writes that for too long the history of Palestine has been written by Christian and Israeli "biblical archaeologists", and that Palestinians must themselves re-write... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15703061 | 1,402,102 |
1,832,316 | MAF is capable of achieving roughness values ranging from 200 μm Ra down to 1 nm Ra with ease, demonstrating the degree of customization available to a MAF setup. The particle sizes for the magnetic particles in the brush dictate the finishing force which is governed by the magnetic force on a particle equation. howeve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31817651 | 1,831,269 |
1,816,583 | Consistent with traditions at other Canadian universities the EUS historically paid a woman (often a professional stripper) to ride naked on an animal or a chariot through campus. The practice was called the Lady Godiva Ride in reference to Lady Godiva, the 'patron saint of Engineers'. The ride drew vocal and diverse p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2771606 | 1,815,549 |
1,193,189 | Emotion focused therapy (EFT) was developed by Leslie S. Greenberg in the 1980s. It is a fairly new approach to therapy that advocates that emotional change is necessary for permanent or enduring change in clients' growth and well-being. EFT draws on knowledge about the effect of emotional expression and identifies the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33410103 | 1,192,553 |
1,540,821 | In Conway's Game of Life, the discovery of rakes was one of the key components needed to form the "breeder", the first known pattern in Life in which the number of live cells exhibits quadratic growth. A breeder is formed by arranging several rakes so that the "gliders"—the smallest possible spaceships—they generate in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7030851 | 1,539,948 |
57,890 | , additive manufacturing systems were on the market that ranged from $99 to $500,000 in price and were employed in industries including aerospace, architecture, automotive, defense, and medical replacements, among many others. For example, General Electric uses high-end 3D printers to build parts for turbines. Many of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1305947 | 57,865 |
382,656 | Copland did not consider himself a professional writer. He called his writing "a byproduct of my trade" as "a kind of salesman for contemporary music". As such, he wrote prolifically about music, including pieces on music criticism analysis, on musical trends, and on his own compositions. An avid lecturer and lecturer-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51298 | 382,461 |
1,539,884 | The late 1950s also saw a major expansion of the Royal College's campus onto the northern side of the original 1903 building, beginning with the new Mechanical Engineering building in 1958 on Montrose Street (subsequently named as the James Weir Building), and in 1962 a new Chemistry Building (later named for the Colle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1734858 | 1,539,011 |
403,791 | Under Paulson the Savannah work force grew to 2,500 by the spring of 1982. Also in this year, the company's name changed to Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation to reflect its worldwide scope, and a new plane, the Gulfstream IV, was conceived. The following year, Gulfstream offered 8.8 million shares of stock to the public... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=511793 | 403,591 |
1,250,939 | Game 8 was won by Euwe in 69 moves. Again, Alekhine went for the Slav, but opted to allow a transposition to the Semi-Slav with 4...e6 instead of 4...Bf5 as in Game 6. Alekhine's 10...Qb6?! has been superseded by 10...Bd7 in modern practice, most notably Ponomariov-Toplaov, Sofia (2006). One reason is that the natural ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18398938 | 1,250,261 |
33,975 | Other recording technologies are either under research or have been commercially implemented to increase areal density, including Seagate's heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR). HAMR requires a different architecture with redesigned media and read/write heads, new lasers, and new near-field optical transducers. HAMR... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13777 | 33,963 |
1,857,467 | The observatory was born from great controversy between French astronomer Hervé Faye (1814-1902), then director of the Observatory of Paris, and Peters, an astronomer at the Russian Observatory of Pulkova, on the parallax of the star of Argelander. The construction of the Lisbon observatory was due to a strong desire t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20081258 | 1,856,399 |
1,708,403 | The exploration of musical synthesizers in the 1960s was a step towards the modern keyboard. As technology became more developed, huge synthesizers evolved into portable instruments that could be used in live shows. The rapid accumulation of momentum began in 1964 when Bob Moog produced his Moog synthesizer. It used a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56945879 | 1,707,445 |
1,871,846 | In addition to his work on environmental issues, he is among the second wave scholars who suggest examining NGOs from a collective action perspective. The first ways scholars suggest that NGOs are somehow different from firms and governments because they are guided by principled concerns, not instrumental reasons. Nonp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20784833 | 1,870,769 |
593,836 | When "Liscome Bay" detonated, the rest of the task group immediately conducted evasive maneuvers, scattering from her wreck. At 05:40, the destroyers , and arrived at the oil slick to rescue survivors, but many of the men hauled up were dead or dying. At 06:10, the destroyer spotted two torpedo wakes, one just from the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=421353 | 593,532 |
426,211 | To enable such optimizations in a predictable manner, the ISO standard for the C programming language (including its newer C99 edition, see section 6.5, paragraph 7) specifies that it is illegal (with some exceptions) to access the same memory location using pointers of different types. A compiler may therefore assume ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=671841 | 426,003 |
69,443 | Charles Darwin suggested that the appendix was mainly used by earlier hominids for digesting fibrous vegetation, then evolved to take on a new purpose over time. The very long cecum of some herbivorous animals, such as in the horse or the koala, appears to support this hypothesis. The koala's cecum enables it to host b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99611 | 69,416 |
195,815 | In a solid, only those particles that are at the surface can be involved in a reaction. Crushing a solid into smaller parts means that more particles are present at the surface, and the frequency of collisions between these and reactant particles increases, and so reaction occurs more rapidly. For example, Sherbet (pow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=359135 | 195,715 |
427,844 | Mifune was born on April 21, 1883, in Kuji City, Iwate Prefecture, on Honshū Island in Japan, a year after the Kodokan was founded. He was reportedly incorrigible as a boy, always performing some mischief or organizing others in a similar pursuit. When Mifune was 13 years old, his father, a strict disciplinarian who fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5275977 | 427,634 |
2,019,370 | The PNLF method is unbiased by metallicity. This is because oxygen is a primary nebular coolant; any drop in its concentration raises the plasma's electron temperature and raises the amount of collisional excitations per ion. This compensates for having a smaller number of emitting ions in the PNe resulting in little c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13256745 | 2,018,207 |
10,948 | Exposure to benzodiazepines during pregnancy has been associated with a slightly increased (from 0.06 to 0.07%) risk of cleft palate in newborns, a controversial conclusion as some studies find no association between benzodiazepines and cleft palate. Their use by expectant mothers shortly before the delivery may result... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4781 | 10,943 |
1,945,710 | Mutations in this gene have been shown to cause combined malonic and methylmalonic aciduria (CMAMMA). CMAMMA is a condition characterized by high levels of malonic acid and methylmalonic acid, because deficiencies in this gene cause these metabolites to not be broken down. The disease is typically diagnosed by either g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34225326 | 1,944,598 |
1,789,807 | Neutral-beam injection (NBI) is one method used to heat plasma inside a fusion device consisting in a beam of high-energy neutral particles that can enter the magnetic confinement field. When these neutral particles are ionized by collision with the plasma particles, they are kept in the plasma by the confining magneti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5664494 | 1,788,801 |
1,652,925 | In 1839 bishop of Vincennes, Right Rev. Célestine Guynemer de la Hailandière, had contacted Rev. Basil Moreau, C.S.C., founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross, and expressed to him his concern over the lack of Catholic education in his diocese and pleaded for Moreau to send his a priest and four brothers to set up a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33791684 | 1,651,993 |
445,847 | Interest in primate studies has increased with the rise in studies of animal cognition. Other animals thought to be intelligent have also been increasingly studied. Examples include various species of corvid, parrots—especially the grey parrot—and dolphins. Alex (Avian Learning EXperiment) is a well known case study (1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=380406 | 445,631 |
76,839 | In 1932 a greatly shortened version designed for bush warfare was developed by USMC Maj. H.L. Smith and was the subject of an evaluative report by Capt. Merritt A. Edson, ordnance officer at the Quartermaster's Depot in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The barrel was shortened nine inches (229 mm) at the muzzle and the gas ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378838 | 76,810 |
259,032 | It provided the M1117 with an extremely potent form of firepower for its size and weight class, firing canister, high explosive, high explosive squash head, and high explosive anti-tank shells, as well as an armour-piercing discarding sabot round capable of destroying older main battle tanks. One advantage of the low-p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5820605 | 258,898 |
2,247,437 | On 25 May 1750, Jack received patent #656 for a "quadrant for taking the altitude of the sun or moon by refraction" and also "a refracting telescope with four spherical lenses" jointly with the successful London instrument maker George Adams. They claimed that their design offered 30 levels of magnification and elimina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72260649 | 2,246,165 |
2,042,353 | Cumming was said to lecture every day in the 1820s accompanied by three assistants so that he could cover a large amount of material in an hour's lecture. His students included George Stokes and Charles Darwin's elder brother, Erasmus. Erasmus Darwin commented on the entertainment value of Cumming's lectures where Cumm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26565137 | 2,041,173 |
1,351,851 | The Air Corps issued a circular (number 38-385) in March 1938 describing the performance they required from the next bombers — a payload of with a range of at more than . Several American aircraft companies responded with submissions: Bell Model 9 with two engines, Boeing-Stearman Model X-100 with Pratt & Whitney R-218... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27429714 | 1,351,105 |
419,899 | In principle, similar devices, scaled down to the proportions used in nanotechnology, can be used to convert light directly into electricity. This type of device is called an "optical rectenna" (or "nantenna"). Theoretically, high efficiencies can be maintained as the device shrinks, but to date efficiency has been lim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=427633 | 419,694 |
892,924 | In the literature, several HIL specific applications are reported and simplified HIL simulators were built according to some specific purpose. When testing a new ECU software release for example, experiments can be performed in open loop and therefore several engine dynamic models are no longer required. The strategy i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7824361 | 892,454 |
951,458 | All organisms metabolize food and other inputs, but some make better use of the output than others. Like all energy conversions, metabolism is rather inefficient, and around 60% of the available energy is converted to heat rather than to ATP. In most organisms, this heat is simply lost to the environment. However, endo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14387 | 950,953 |
673,963 | Remote sensing, as used in meteorology, is the concept of collecting data from remote weather events and subsequently producing weather information. Each remote sensing instrument collects data about the atmosphere from a remote location and, usually, stores the data where the instrument is located. The most common typ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11267993 | 673,611 |
1,914,735 | Hydroxy(mesyloxy)iodobenzene (3.16 g, 10 mmol) was added to a solution of the methyl trimethylsilyl phenylketene acetal derived from methyl phenylacetate (3.33 g, 15 mmol) in dry dichloromethane (50 mL). The mixture was stirred at room temperature for 2 hours and then washed with aqueous sodium bicarbonate solution (3 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27637144 | 1,913,636 |
852,357 | An Individual Address Block is an inactive registry activity which has been replaced by the MA-S registry product as of 1 January 2014. The IAB uses a MA-L (and OUI) belonging to the IEEE Registration Authority, concatenated with 12 additional IEEE-provided bits (for a total of 36 bits), leaving only 12 bits for the IA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=730796 | 851,903 |
1,220,127 | Studies have shown that diversity among nonsynonymous substitutions is significantly lower than among synonymous substitutions. This is due to the fact that nonsynonymous substitutions are subject to much higher selective pressures than synonymous mutations. Motoo Kimura (1968) determined that calculated mutation rates... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25664757 | 1,219,473 |
1,964,446 | Once a plant is infected with BaYMV, it is infected for the plant's lifetime. When the virus is in the soil, it remains there in the resting spores for years. It can also infect barley roots in autumn, remain there for the winter, and then infect the upper part of the plant in spring through the phloem. We currently do... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12264278 | 1,963,318 |
790,934 | Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are a type of universal function approximators that can embed the knowledge of any physical laws that govern a given data-set in the learning process, and can be described by partial differential equations (PDEs). They overcome the low data availability of some biological and en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67944516 | 790,509 |
1,026,338 | Ordinarily, the probability of the triple-alpha process is extremely small. However, the beryllium-8 ground state has almost exactly the energy of two alpha particles. In the second step, Be + He has almost exactly the energy of an excited state of C. This resonance greatly increases the probability that an incoming al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=93188 | 1,025,804 |
1,897,205 | Migraine is influenced on a polygenetic level (controlled by multiple genes). Therefore, researchers have theorized that migraine is a trade-off and that it exists as a spectrum of susceptibility, with the majority of the population falling in the "heterozygous" zone between the two extremes of experiencing no headache... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40748148 | 1,896,121 |
947,338 | The United States Department of Transportation, in conjunction with the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Railroad Administration and the National Geodetic Survey appointed the Coast Guard as the maintaining agency for the U.S. Nationwide DGPS network (NDGPS). The system is an expansion of the previous Mariti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1905405 | 946,835 |
818,177 | Late in the 19th century, the importance of dimensionless numbers and their relationship to turbulence was recognized, and dimensional analysis was born. In 1904 Ludwig Prandtl published a key paper, proposing that the flow fields of low-viscosity fluids be divided into two zones, namely a thin, viscosity-dominated bou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=521843 | 817,739 |
1,654,603 | On April 9, a magnitude 6.4 M earthquake with a maximum perceived intensity of MM VII hit the extreme eastern San Diego County area and created a surface break along the Coyote Creek Fault. California State Route 78 was damaged with cracks near Ocotillo Wells and large boulders blocked the Montezuma-Borrego Springs Hig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18519684 | 1,653,671 |
1,909,416 | Professor Balandin's work helped in the rebirth of the charge density wave (CDW) research field. The early work on CDW effects was performed with bulk samples, which have quasi-1D crystal structures of strongly-bound 1D atomic chains that are weakly bound together by van der Waals forces. The rebirth of the CDW field h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29318398 | 1,908,318 |
2,141,878 | Light sheet microscopy (LSM) was developed to allow for fine optical sectioning of thick biological samples without the need for physical sectioning or clearing, which are both time consuming and detrimental to in-vivo imaging. While most fluorescent imaging techniques use aligned illumination and detection axes, LSM u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70569824 | 2,140,647 |
2,038,116 | In 1963, as public funds came to the university and a larger budget became available, the newly appointment chairman, Edward Rosenthall, concentrated on building a balanced and well-qualified academic team, which could sustain a vigorous graduate program along with the demands made upon the department in a service capa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58930997 | 2,036,941 |
2,247,051 | In Edinburgh he again devoted himself to the interests of science. Over and above his connection to the Royal Society of Edinburgh it was in connection with the Royal Physical Society that he made his main influence. This society, one of the oldest scientific bodies in Edinburgh, had ‘fallen into one of its periodic fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31112373 | 2,245,779 |
453,221 | Multiple hypotheses have been offered to explain the small mass of Mars. A small Mars may have been a low probability event as it occurs in a small, but non-zero, fraction of simulations that begin with planetesimals distributed across the entire inner Solar System. A small Mars could be the result of its region having... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44815546 | 453,000 |
629,853 | As required by the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA), with the introduction of advanced-technology vehicles in the U.S. new information should be incorporated in the Monroney label of new cars and light-duty trucks sold in the country, such as ratings on fuel economy, greenhouse gas emissions, and other ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20549371 | 629,515 |
1,396,179 | Other issues are introduced by the relative material and logistical properties of LOx versus LH. LOx is quite cheap; LH is nearly two orders of magnitude more expensive. LOx is dense (1.141 kg/L), whereas LH has a very low density (0.0678 kg/L) and is therefore very bulky. (The extreme bulkiness of the LH2 tankage tend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=153219 | 1,395,408 |
828,814 | Of particular note are the extreme halophiles or haloarchaea (often known as halobacteria), a group of archaea, which require at least a 2 M salt concentration and are usually found in saturated solutions (about 36% w/v salts). These are the primary inhabitants of salt lakes, inland seas, and evaporating ponds of seawa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14204 | 828,368 |
1,683,117 | One of the largest difficulties in motor control is quantifying the exact number of DOFs in the complex neuromuscular system of the human body. In addition to having redundant muscles and joints, muscles may span multiple joints, further complicating the system. Properties of muscle change as the muscle length itself c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33820872 | 1,682,174 |
1,937,486 | Rare variant association studies (RVAS) have highlighted the role of "de novo" mutations in several congenital and early-childhood-onset disorders like autism. Several of these protein disrupting mutations have been able to be identified only with the aid of whole genome sequencing efforts, and validated with RNA-Seq. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24219329 | 1,936,378 |
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