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324,522 | In early 2011, Australian mining company Lynas was reported to be "hurrying to finish" a US$230 million rare-earth refinery on the eastern coast of Peninsular Malaysia's industrial port of Kuantan. The plant would refine ore — lanthanides concentrate from the Mount Weld mine in Australia. The ore would be trucked to Fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145440 | 324,349 |
19,639 | Through further anthropological studies regarding "personal insights" and the psycho-social effects of psilocybin, it can be seen in many traditional societies that powerful mind-active substances such as psilocybin are regularly "consumed ritually for therapeutic purposes or for transcending normal, everyday reality."... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38468 | 19,631 |
356,033 | Transcendental Meditation in education (also known as Consciousness-Based Education) is the application of the Transcendental Meditation technique in an educational setting or institution. These educational programs and institutions have been founded in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, India, Africa and Ja... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28677895 | 355,850 |
1,140,511 | Diver trails also called wreck trails can be used to allow scuba-divers to visit and understand archaeological sites that are suitable for scuba-diving One excellent example is the Florida Public Archaeology Network's (FPAN) "Florida Panhandle Shipwreck Trail." The Florida Panhandle Shipwreck Trail features 12 shipwrec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5720331 | 1,139,917 |
1,191,419 | When drugs are covered under patent protection, only the pharmaceutical company that holds the patent is allowed to manufacture, market, and eventually profit from them. The lifetime of the patent varies between countries and also between drugs; in the United States, most drug patents last about twenty years. Once the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23616040 | 1,190,785 |
1,177,056 | The competition is founded and orchestrated by Professors Wolfgang Ketter and John Collins and the platform software is developed collaboratively by researchers at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Centre for Future Energy Business, the Institute for Energy Economics at the University of Cologne, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38803848 | 1,176,433 |
674,748 | This area of study began for Broca with the dispute between the proponents of cerebral localization – whose views derived from the phrenology of Franz Joseph Gall – and their opponents led by Pierre Flourens. Phrenologists believed that the human mind has a set of various mental faculties, each one represented in a dif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145048 | 674,395 |
173,899 | Amphetamine was first synthesized in 1887 in Germany by Romanian chemist, Lazăr Edeleanu, who named the drug "phenylisopropylamine". This concoction was one of a series of compounds related to the plant derivative ephedrine, which had been isolated from the Chinese ephedra plant that same year by Nagai Nagayoshi. Short... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40542151 | 173,808 |
1,871,822 | Aseem Prakash is a professor of Political Science, the Walker Family Professor of the College of music and Sciences and the Founding Director of the UW Center for Environmental Politics. He serves as the General Editor of the Cambridge University Press Series on Business and Public Policy and the Associate Editor of Bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20784833 | 1,870,745 |
2,106,329 | The prize is one of the orders, decorations, and medals of Ukraine, which are described by the Government of Ukraine as "the highest form of recognition of citizens for outstanding services in the development of economy, science, culture, social sphere, defense of the Fatherland, protection of constitutional human righ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64562528 | 2,105,116 |
1,226,988 | In a 2012 study it is claimed that "new mathematical modelling, diagnostic, communications, and informatics technologies can identify and report hitherto unknown microbes in other species, and thus new risk assessment approaches are needed to identify microbes most likely to cause human disease". The study investigates... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63478457 | 1,226,327 |
1,668,874 | That same year in the physiology laboratory two floors above FitzGerald's Connaught Labs office, Frederick Banting and Charles Best (medical scientist) under the auspices of J.J.R. Macleod successfully extracted insulin from the pancreas of dogs, fetal calves, and adult cows. In particular, Banting's experimental work ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61019378 | 1,667,934 |
113,806 | His first teaching position in the United States was at the Malkin Conservatory (Boston University). He moved to Los Angeles, where he taught at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles, both of which later named a music building on their respective campuses Schoenberg Hall. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67025 | 113,761 |
1,148,043 | Toward the end of June, the squadron moved to Picauville Airfield, France, and for the rest of the war concentrated on providing close air support for ground forces. It supported Operation Cobra, the breakout at Saint Lo in July with attacks on military vehicles and artillery positions. The squadron engaged and destroy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17892971 | 1,147,438 |
206,481 | Since 1975 ion chromatography has been widely used in many branches of industry. The main beneficial advantages are reliability, very good accuracy and precision, high selectivity, high speed, high separation efficiency, and low cost of consumables. The most significant development related to ion chromatography are new... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1787246 | 206,374 |
1,008,699 | Psychoacoustics is applied within many fields of software development, where developers map proven and experimental mathematical patterns in digital signal processing. Many audio compression codecs such as MP3 and Opus use a psychoacoustic model to increase compression ratios. The success of conventional audio systems ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25663206 | 1,008,178 |
235,572 | The implications of psychological essentialism are numerous. Prejudiced individuals have been found to endorse exceptionally essential ways of thinking, suggesting that essentialism may perpetuate exclusion among social groups (Morton, Hornsey & Postmes, 2009). For example, essentialism of nationality has been linked t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48081 | 235,453 |
728,382 | In the United States, Frank Lloyd Wright similarly identified vehicular mobility as a principal planning metric. Car-based suburbs had already been developed in the Country Club District in 1907-1908 (including later the world's first car-based shopping centre of Country Club Plaza), as well as in Beverly Hills in 1914... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45346 | 727,998 |
1,774,262 | Despite the improvements to the civil engineering curriculum, Atherton knew that further evolution was needed. To that end, he challenged Louis Reber, a mathematics instructor, to attend MIT for graduate work in mechanical engineering – and to pay particular attention to the processes and procedures used for engineerin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31430357 | 1,773,265 |
1,264,835 | The popularization of woodblock printing during the Tang dynasty made the written word available to greater audiences. As a result of the much wider distribution and circulation of reading materials, the general populace were for the first time able to purchase affordable copies of texts, which correspondingly led to g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31641740 | 1,264,147 |
1,409,453 | Subsequent work in Ames' lab involved looking at an overview of what was mutagenic or carcinogenic, and to what degree. Previously, scientists tended to only look for positive or negative results without considering the magnitude of the effect, which meant that as more and more items were shown to be potentially mutage... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=850454 | 1,408,661 |
1,071,607 | The Stöber process is a chemical process used to prepare silica () particles of controllable and uniform size for applications in materials science. It was pioneering when it was reported by Werner Stöber and his team in 1968, and remains today the most widely used wet chemistry synthetic approach to silica nanoparticl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32297166 | 1,071,053 |
551,982 | The identification of structures with a high guanine association became apparent in the early 1960s, through the identification of gel-like substances associated with guanines. More specifically, this research detailed the four-stranded DNA structures with a high association of guanines, which was later identified in e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4238684 | 551,694 |
751,079 | The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke states that physical therapy can improve motor control and overall body strength in individuals with hypotonia. This is crucial to maintaining both static and dynamic postural stability, which is important since postural instability is a common problem in peop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=980745 | 750,681 |
679,017 | By 1964, the US Government issued new requirements regarding the SST Program which required Lockheed to modify their design, by now called the L-2000-2. The new design had numerous modifications to the wing; one change was rounding the front of the forward delta in order to eliminate the pitch-up tendency. To increase ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=265811 | 678,663 |
1,934,593 | On June 24, 1977, MPTA-098 was delivered by Rockwell International to the National Space Technology Laboratory (NSTL), in Hancock County, Mississippi, where it was mated with MPTA-ET, mounted in a launch orientation and used for static engine tests. On July 2, 1979, MPTA-098 suffered major structural damage due to a fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2227921 | 1,933,485 |
279,840 | By 15 January 1923, "Langley" had begun flight operations and tests in the Caribbean Sea for carrier landings. In June, she steamed to Washington, D.C., to give a demonstration at a flying exhibition before civil and military dignitaries. She arrived at Norfolk on 13 June, and commenced training along the Atlantic coas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=199421 | 279,690 |
1,192,067 | For over a century the casualties of war have provided valuable lessons that can be applied within the civilian sector. Specifically the past decade has seen a paradigm shift in early resuscitation of critically injured patients. Instead of replacing blood volume with high volumes of crystalloid and packed red blood ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36643113 | 1,191,431 |
1,723,468 | The first institutions of formal higher education were established at this time in the Islamic universities of Al-Azhar in Cairo and Sankore in Timbuktu. By the eleventh century, universities were developing in Europe, largely in reaction to the previous narrow religious doctrine. The establishment of the University of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53715889 | 1,722,498 |
522,703 | The glowing objects were also observed in various places in the Soviet Union, mostly in the northwest. The appearance of an unidentified object over Helsinki reportedly caused heavy radio traffic in Soviet territory. In the European part of the Soviet Union "bright, luminous bodies surrounded by extended shells and emi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36918866 | 522,431 |
1,227,611 | LCD shutters consist of an encapsulated liquid that changes its polarization in response to an applied electrical field. The response is fairly linear, so even a small amount of leaked power reaching the surrounding shutters causes the image to become blurry. To counteract this effect and improve switching speed, LCDs ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1530649 | 1,226,950 |
1,769,437 | Transportation, the postal system, and telecommunications employed over 12 million people in 1985. Long-distance transportation was carried primarily by railroads, inland waterways, and highways. The government-run railroad network was the backbone of the freight system, and rail lines extended to nearly all parts of C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14189344 | 1,768,443 |
2,161,898 | DoD is moving towards a performance-based strategy and contracting focus as the preferred weapon systems sustainment plan, streamlining contracting and financing mechanisms in order to buy availability and readiness measured by performance criteria. Performance Based Logistics (PBL) strategy is applied to achieve near-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6031226 | 2,160,663 |
1,540,127 | The cost of added physical complexity is a corresponding increase in computational cost, so much so that a full three-dimensional explicit treatment of combustion in wildland fuels by direct numerical simulation (DNS) at scales relevant for atmospheric modeling does not exist, is beyond current supercomputers, and does... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20115268 | 1,539,254 |
460,307 | The first prototype XP-84 was transferred to Muroc Army Air Field (present-day Edwards Air Force Base) where it flew for the first time on February 28, 1946, with Major William A. Lien at the controls. It was joined by the second prototype in August, both aircraft flying with J35-GE-7 engines producing 3,745 pound-forc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=442516 | 460,081 |
231,462 | Thus, the strong equivalence principle can be tested by searching for fifth forces (deviations from the gravitational force-law predicted by general relativity). These experiments typically look for failures of the inverse-square law (specifically Yukawa forces or failures of Birkhoff's theorem) behavior of gravity in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=857235 | 231,343 |
1,234,762 | ΜΑΘ is primarily a venue for mathematical competition. Different competitions have varying ways to test the students mathematical knowledge. Each student who chooses to participate in a competition takes an "individual" test that corresponds to his or her level of competition. All competitions include this feature. Mos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1392891 | 1,234,099 |
1,683,990 | In a 1988 Isis review of a combined reprint of the second edition, including both the first and second volumes bound together, published in New York by the American Institute of Physics and Tomash Publishers in 1981, science historian Bruce J. Hunt says that the books stand up "remarkably well" to time and that it is u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65293114 | 1,683,046 |
185,197 | X-rays were put to diagnostic use very early; for example, Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton opened a radiographic laboratory in the United Kingdom in 1896, before the dangers of ionizing radiation were discovered. Indeed, Marie Curie pushed for radiography to be used to treat wounded soldiers in World War I. Initially, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=95807 | 185,100 |
1,826,089 | Choir conductor Maria Gamborg Helbekkmo became Emeritus Professor in 2012. Torunn Bakken Hauge (rhythmic music pedagogue) retired in 2018. In 2019, a Full Professor, Njål Vindenes (guitarist), resigned in protest (with much media attention) as the music programs continued to be radically downsized, worsened by a merger... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2604551 | 1,825,050 |
1,296,754 | Edward S. Boyden is an American neuroscientist at MIT. He is the Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology, a faculty member in the MIT Media Lab and an associate member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. In 2018 he was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He is recognized for his work on opto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25202727 | 1,296,043 |
490,165 | Born in Budapest, Hungary, into a Jewish family, Kemeny attended the Rácz private primary school in Budapest and was a classmate of Nándor Balázs. In 1938 his father left for the United States alone. In 1940, he took the whole Kemeny family to the United States when the adoption of the second anti-Jewish law in Hungary... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=588721 | 489,911 |
1,215,363 | Stripline was initially preferred to its rival, microstrip, made by ITT. Transmission in stripline is purely TEM mode and consequently there is no dispersion (provided that the dielectric of substrate is not itself dispersive). Also, discontinuity elements on the line (gaps, stubs, posts etc) present a purely reactive ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4269572 | 1,214,711 |
1,500,230 | The biggest advantage of recombineering is that it obviates the need for conveniently positioned restriction sites, whereas in conventional genetic engineering, DNA modification is often compromised by the availability of unique restriction sites. In engineering large constructs of >100 kb, such as the Bacterial Artifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5117528 | 1,499,385 |
1,492,880 | Jameson's research showed that the kinetics of flotation of fine particles was a strong function of the bubble diameter and that the way to improve recoveries was to use small bubbles in the order of 300 microns (μm) in diameter. What was needed was a practical method of making such bubbles in large quantities, of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40142408 | 1,492,041 |
303,835 | , the main United States Air Force (USAF) SEAD aircraft is the F-16CJ Fighting Falcon following the retirement of the EF-111A Raven; while the United States Navy (USN) replaced the EA-6B Prowler with the Boeing EA-18G Growler. The Air Force and Navy in recent decades have emphasized multirole aircraft over dedicated si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573491 | 303,673 |
1,881,766 | The Sycamores were not ranked in the Associated Press (AP) or United Press International preseason polls, and coaches in their Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) did not pick them to win the league. The team, which had been coached by Bob King in was led by senior forward Larry Bird, who had averaged 30.0 points per game... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44630767 | 1,880,685 |
162,123 | As industrialisation took effect in the late 18th and early 19th century, the United Kingdom possessed a strong national government that provided a standard currency, an efficient legal system, efficient taxation, and effective support for overseas enterprise both within the British Empire and in independent nations. P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,038 |
1,303,133 | Sandage was one of the most influential astronomers of the 20th century. He was born in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1948. In 1953 he received a PhD from the California Institute of Technology; the German-born Wilson Observatory-based astronomer Walter Baade was his ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=726376 | 1,302,417 |
1,996,366 | At the early stage, Datta was associated as a lecturer in botany with Ramkrishna Mission, Vivekananda Centenary College, West Bengal, India from 1976 to 1979. Then he joined Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal as a lecturer and became Reader in Botany in 1985 and served there up to 1989. During the time... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50335448 | 1,995,223 |
1,861,764 | Similar to other nucleolytic ribozymes, the twister ribozyme selectively cleaves phopshodiester bonds, through an S2-related mechanism, into a 2',3'-cyclic phosphate and 5' hydroxyl product. Both experimental and modelling evidence have supported a concerted general-acid-base catalysis involving highly conserved adenin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41149453 | 1,860,695 |
127,984 | In June 2017, Julia Computing raised US$4.6million in seed funding from General Catalyst and Founder Collective, the same month was "granted $910,000 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support open-source Julia development, including $160,000 to promote diversity in the Julia community", and in December 2019 the comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38455554 | 127,932 |
172,676 | Studies using positron emission tomography scanning of adult humans have shown that brown adipose tissue is still present in most adults in the upper chest and neck (especially paravertebrally). The remaining deposits become more visible (increasing tracer uptake, meaning more metabolically active) with cold exposure, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315620 | 172,585 |
98,362 | The planet Vulcan setting was created using a mixture of on-location photography at Minerva Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park and set recreation. Yellowstone was selected after filming in Turkish ruins proved to be too expensive. Securing permission for filming the scenes was difficult in the middle of the summe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277006 | 98,320 |
657,848 | Several studies support the conclusion that ophiolites formed as oceanic lithosphere. Seismic velocity structure studies have provided most of the current knowledge of the oceanic crust's composition. For this reason, researchers carried out a seismic study on an ophiolite complex (Bay of Islands, Newfoundland) in orde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239406 | 657,504 |
2,115,644 | Since April 2005, at the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology in Montreal, Canada has the Sonia Landy Sheridan fonds, documentation, archives, texts, digital files and artwork, master videotapes of the program by John Mabey, sound tapes, early computer original Sheridan discs. In 2006, Kathryn Fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53694838 | 2,114,427 |
409,637 | German anatomist Otto Friedrich Karl Deiters is generally credited with the discovery of the axon by distinguishing it from the dendrites. Swiss Rüdolf Albert von Kölliker and German Robert Remak were the first to identify and characterize the axon initial segment. Kölliker named the axon in 1896. Louis-Antoine Ranvier... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=958 | 409,435 |
810,760 | Single-cell proteins (SCP) or microbial proteins refer to edible unicellular microorganisms. The biomass or protein extract from pure or mixed cultures of algae, yeasts, fungi or bacteria may be used as an ingredient or a substitute for protein-rich foods, and is suitable for human consumption or as animal feeds. Indus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14981166 | 810,328 |
1,508,596 | QTCs were discovered in 1996 by technician David Lussey while he was searching for a way to develop an electrically conductive adhesive. Lussey founded Peratech Ltd, a company devoted to research work and usage of QTCs. Peratech Ltd. and other companies are working on developing quantum tunneling composite to improve t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22981865 | 1,507,748 |
7,857 | The first Soviet pocket battery-powered programmable calculator, Elektronika "B3-21", was developed by the end of 1976 and released at the start of 1977. The successor of B3-21, the Elektronika B3-34 wasn't backward compatible with B3-21, even if it kept the reverse Polish notation (RPN). Thus B3-34 defined a new comma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7593 | 7,854 |
1,951,070 | Prof. Bauer has taught physics and astronomy classes on the undergraduate and graduate level since 1988. He is particularly interested in the introductory physics curriculum for engineering and science majors. For decades he has collaborated closely with his MSU colleagues Walter Benenson and Gary Westfall. They obtain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34288438 | 1,949,949 |
1,327,359 | Zeresenay "Zeray" Alemseged (born 4 June 1969) is an Ethiopian paleoanthropologist who was the Chair of the Anthropology Department at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, United States. He recently joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. He is best known for his discovery, on 10 December 2000,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7098772 | 1,326,632 |
2,159,039 | Weatherchem's standard line includes products with flap-style dispensing for one-handed use, as well as products with non-removable grinders. Weatherchem's original Flapper Dispensing Closure was introduced in 1983. That patented technology is used in the food industry by such companies as McCormick, as well as in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22222529 | 2,157,807 |
787,317 | Examples like the one above are not as common in real commerce as they conceivably could be, mostly because of separation of concerns, where each part of a complex system is expected to give performance that does not make any limiting assumptions about other parts of the system. In the car transmission example, the sep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=908518 | 786,894 |
307,940 | The CIA also created The Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, which was a CIA funding front which provided grants to social scientists and medical researchers investigating questions of interest related to the MKULTRA program. Between 1960 and 1963, the CIA gave $856,782 worth of grants to different organiza... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1119225 | 307,775 |
1,553,102 | In honor to the 276 KU men and women who died in World War II, the Memorial Carillon and Campanile were formally dedicated on May 27, 1951. On March 26, 1952 the KU men's basketball team won its first NCAA National Championship over St. John's, coached by Forrest Clare "Phog" Allen. Clyde Lovellette of Kansas was named... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30729405 | 1,552,221 |
628,031 | 19th century zoology thus converted embryology into an evolutionary science, connecting phylogeny with homologies between the germ layers of embryos. Zoologists including Fritz Müller proposed the use of embryology to discover phylogenetic relationships between taxa. Müller demonstrated that crustaceans shared the Naup... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57414 | 627,696 |
356,248 | Thermal upgrading produces solid, liquid or gaseous fuels, with heat as the dominant conversion driver. The basic alternatives are torrefaction, pyrolysis, and gasification, these are separated principally by how far the chemical reactions involved are allowed to proceed. The advancement of the chemical reactions is ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7906908 | 356,065 |
859,834 | The late Hirnantian experienced a dramatic increase in the abundance of black shales. Coinciding with the retreat of the Hirnantian glaciation, black shale expands out of isolated basins to become the dominant oceanic sediment at all latitudes and depths. The worldwide distribution of black shales in the late Hirnantia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=425753 | 859,376 |
948,862 | Since introduction of testing by the IAAF in the early-20th century, female sprinters may be subject to gender verification. This rule was first formally applied to the 100 m at the 1968 Mexico Olympics. No 100 m sprinter has been publicly barred at an Olympic competition. However, there have been historic cases involv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41811060 | 948,358 |
815,771 | During the period between 1866 and 1867, Cope went on trips to western parts of the country. He related to his father his scientific experiences; to his daughter he sent descriptions of animal life as part of her education. Cope found educating his students at Haverford "a pleasure", but wrote to his father that he "co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=415000 | 815,337 |
1,027,575 | The Gresley 3-cylinder drive arrangement continued to bring a number of practical problems, the root of which was probably the need for the inside cylinder to be steeply inclined in order to give space for the inside connecting rod to clear the leading coupled axle; at the same time, the inside valve spindle had to be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2534748 | 1,027,041 |
850,130 | In February 1991, in woodland near Medford, Oregon, USA, two hikers came across the burning body of a female adult, lying face down in fallen leaves. They alerted the officials and a local deputy sheriff soon arrived. She had been stabbed several times in the upper regions of the chest and back. Both arms were spread o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2220692 | 849,678 |
84,246 | Unbound bilirubin (Bf) levels can be used to predict the risk of neurodevelopmental handicaps within infants. Unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia in a newborn can lead to accumulation of bilirubin in certain brain regions (particularly the basal nuclei) with consequent irreversible damage to these areas manifesting as vari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68344 | 84,212 |
11,885 | Monitoring and controlling operations of sustainable urban and rural infrastructures like bridges, railway tracks and on- and offshore wind-farms is a key application of the IoT. The IoT infrastructure can be used for monitoring any events or changes in structural conditions that can compromise safety and increase risk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12057519 | 11,880 |
925,901 | Worldwide, 69–77% of baryte is used as a weighting agent for drilling fluids in oil and gas exploration to suppress high formation pressures and prevent blowouts. As a well is drilled, the bit passes through various formations, each with different characteristics. The deeper the hole, the more baryte is needed as a per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59442 | 925,415 |
2,061,518 | "Harris shares with certain other authors of navigational books, (though not the anonymous writers of The Admiralty Manual of Navigation Vols I to IV), an urgent desire to instruct and a certain amount of ill-hidden scorn for those who won't take his instruction on board, especially when he is advocating new methods. "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30866164 | 2,060,330 |
534,581 | The ancient Greeks have used the word "ethos" (ἔθος or ἦθος), in this context best rendered by "character" (in the sense of patterns of being and behaviour, but not necessarily with "moral" implications), to describe the ways music can convey, foster, and even generate emotional or mental states. Beyond this general de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25111124 | 534,302 |
208,432 | In 1944 the strategy decided upon by the allied forces for the Burma Campaign consisted of fortified compounds inside Japanese territory due to increasing large Japanese patrols along the border. This change was in part forced upon them by strengthened Japanese patrols along the Burmese frontier, making a repeat of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17549821 | 208,325 |
1,031,164 | A topic as emotional and involving as political preference is especially subject to the selective exposure phenomenon. In fact, Lazarsfeld, Berelson, and Gaudet (1948) found selective exposure early on to be a necessary link in their theory that campaigns primarily reinforce and activate preexisting political notions. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22330799 | 1,030,628 |
1,431,000 | Fibroscopes have proved extremely useful both medically and industrially (where the term borescope is usually employed). Other innovations included the use of additional fibres to channel light to the objective end from a powerful external source (typically a xenon arc lamp) thereby achieving the high level of full spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18770211 | 1,430,196 |
1,505,864 | As is the case for all current methods of reviewing epilepsy surgery outcomes, the Engel classification system has subjective components. A "disabling seizure" is subjective and can vary in definition from person to person. While one epileptic experiencing a seizure when driving a car may find the seizure "disabling", ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24299930 | 1,505,018 |
280,397 | In June 2015, the Smithsonian made public a report which documented the need for extensive renovations to the Air and Space Museum. Many of the building's mechanical and environmental systems were redesigned during its construction from 1972 to 1976, which left them inadequate to handle the environmental, visitor, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=221550 | 280,246 |
1,240,213 | As stated in the previous section, there were many busy suburban railroads in the Soviet Union which required a faster and more powerful replacement for the obsolete S units, but also one which was compatible with the low passenger platforms used on these lines (which the ER1 could not accommodate). Accordingly, it was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8412180 | 1,239,544 |
1,492,488 | The earliest custom hardware attack may have been the Bombe used to recover Enigma machine keys in World War II. In 1998, a custom hardware attack was mounted against the Data Encryption Standard cipher by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Their "Deep Crack" machine cost U.S. $250,000 to build and decrypted the DES C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2174032 | 1,491,649 |
2,114,538 | The Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park contains multiple man-made, fresh water habitats within a small area, resulting in high biodiversity and the presence of amphibians, fish, and insects. Two lakes, marshland, shingle beach, alder carr, shallow pools, willow beds and meadow are contained within the park. The two lakes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27540848 | 2,113,323 |
2,029,953 | Neuronal microphysiological systems, also referred to as a "brain-on-a-chip," are a combination of 3D cultures and a microfluidics platform, which circulates the media provided to the cultured cells. These devices are beneficial as they improve cell viability and better model physiological conditions as they improve ox... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67639494 | 2,028,785 |
313,545 | The GLM model does not take into account the contribution of relationships between multiple voxels. Whereas GLM analysis methods assess whether a voxel or region's signal amplitude is higher or lower for one condition than another, newer statistical models such as multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA), utilize the unique... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=226722 | 313,376 |
1,716,345 | Still much is not understood concerning remyelination. New pathways are being discovered constantly in the areas of gene regulation, antibody use as antagonists, and promotion of stem cells to differentiate. There are many regulation factors, such as Lingo-1, Olig-1, Id2, Id4, Hes5, and Sox6, that are not very well und... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7138424 | 1,715,376 |
1,382,954 | Following the constitution of Squadron 1, "Tunny" departed on the first operational deterrent patrol on 23 October 1959. "Halibut" meanwhile joined the Pacific Fleet in November 1960, becoming the fifth and final Regulus submarine to serve in the US Navy. The policy of keeping four missiles at sea at all times meant th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59895854 | 1,382,188 |
473,154 | NAA can perform non-destructive analyses on solids, liquids, suspensions, slurries, and gases with no or minimal preparation. Due to the penetrating nature of incident neutrons and resultant gamma rays, the technique provides a true bulk analysis. As different radioisotopes have different half-lives, counting can be de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21933 | 472,918 |
894,136 | FL commonly presents as an otherwise asymptomatic enlargement of lymph nodes in the neck, armpit, groin, femoral canal, or other sites in individuals (median age 65) without a known history of ISFL or abnormal numbers of circulating t(14:18)q32:q21-conatianing lymphocytes. These enlargements may have been present for m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3034995 | 893,666 |
763,571 | Any vacuum tube operating at several thousand volts or more can produce X-rays as an unwanted byproduct, raising safety issues. The higher the voltage, the more penetrating the resulting radiation and the more the hazard. CRT displays, once common in color televisions and computer displays, operate at depending on size... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=907899 | 763,162 |
1,881,397 | Mycorrhizae and their related symbioses have been around for millions of years – dating as far back as the Triassic Period (200–250 million years ago) and even older. While there are still many gaps in the timeline of mycorrhizae, the oldest known forms of the fungal group can be dated back as far as 450 million years ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59393212 | 1,880,316 |
1,177,107 | OSeMOSYS provides a framework for the analysis of energy systems over the medium (10–15 years) and long term (50–100 years). OSeMOSYS uses pure linear optimization, with the option of mixed integer programming for the treatment of, for instance, discrete power plant capacity expansions. It covers most energy sectors, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38803848 | 1,176,484 |
162,235 | By this stage, unemployment had increased slightly to 1.6 million although the economy continued to grow, the UK was continuing to lose large numbers of manufacturing jobs due to companies encountering financial problems or switching production overseas to save labour costs. This was particularly evident in the car ind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,150 |
2,634 | The F-22's high cruise speed and operating altitude over prior fighters improve the effectiveness of its sensors and weapon systems, and increase survivability against ground defenses such as surface-to-air missiles. The ability to supercruise, or sustain supersonic flight without using afterburners, allows it to inter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66299 | 2,634 |
1,596,006 | Born in Lukang, Changhua, Taiwan, in 1941, Wang received his BS (1964) degree from National Cheng Kung University and his MS (1966) and PhD (1970) degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1970 to 1972 he was the Assistant Professor at MIT. From 1972 to 1979, he worked at the General Electric Corporate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31184632 | 1,595,107 |
1,516,754 | William H. Phelps (New York, June 14, 1875 – Caracas, December 8, 1965) was an American ornithologist and businessman. He studied biology at Milton Academy and Harvard College. In the summer of 1896 he decided to go on an ornithological exploration to Venezuela following the advice of Wirt Robinson, who had visited Mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,902 |
1,917,446 | The Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences (PGSS) is now the only remaining part of the Pennsylvania Governor's Schools of Excellence, a group of five-week summer programs for gifted and highly intelligent high-school students in the state of Pennsylvania. Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh has hosted th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5053468 | 1,916,346 |
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