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2,138,626 | The three-day event in 2009 included college students participating from Iowa, Arkansas, New York, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. Ohio Northern University contributed an automated Ice Cream Sundae machine, which made over 1,000 sundaes for those present. That year saw the largest field of entries to date, and the addition... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5098988 | 2,137,396 |
1,686,134 | Pablo Morillo finally captured Santafé on May 6, 1816. Like the other leaders of the Independence movement, Caldas escaped the city, originally with the goal of getting to Buenaventura to escape abroad. On the way, however, future viceroy Sámano is victorious over the republican troops in the Battle of la Cuchilla de E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9282456 | 1,685,188 |
284,491 | The SETI League pioneered the conversion of backyard satellite TV dishes in diameter into research-grade radio telescopes of modest sensitivity. The organization concentrates on coordinating a global network of small, amateur-built radio telescopes under Project Argus, an all-sky survey seeking to achieve real-time cov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28153 | 284,337 |
644,407 | The key processing step in a passive radar is cross-correlation. This step acts as the matched filter and also provides the estimates of the bistatic range and bistatic Doppler shift of each target echo. Most analogue and digital broadcast signals are noise-like in nature, and as a consequence, they tend to only correl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1766338 | 644,067 |
343,514 | By the late 1940s, newer materials were superseding Bakelite in many areas. Phenolics are less frequently used in general consumer products today due to their cost and complexity of production and their brittle nature. They still appear in some applications where their specific properties are required, such as small pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4485 | 343,333 |
1,643,863 | The U.S. Coast Guard uses a systematic approach for search and rescue operations. There are five SAR stages for any case: Awareness, Initial Actions, Planning, Operations and Conclusions. Upon becoming aware of a case from a "MAYDAY" call or other form of communication, SAR controllers work to gather data about the cas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20296660 | 1,642,936 |
634,402 | The main building which was inaugurated in 1921. It houses the administrative offices, and departments of Chemical Engineering, Chemical Technology (four out of five branches), Biochemical Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Humanities. Five buildings which house the departments of Computer Science & IT, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6973986 | 634,064 |
167,618 | Safety became a major issue in Formula One and the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa did not take place as the drivers boycotted the circuit after safety upgrades were not installed as demanded. Stewart won the 1969 title easily with the new Matra MS80, a spectacular achievement from a constructor and a team that had only ente... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=640098 | 167,531 |
1,889,057 | Wisconsin Fast Plants enable researchers to grow large populations of plants quickly in a relatively small space and without need for a greenhouse. As a result, Wisconsin Fast Plants are frequently used as a model organism in a wide variety of investigations. To demonstrate the breadth of this usage, in May 2022 a Goog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71282476 | 1,887,974 |
1,737 | During the Vietnam War, North Vietnam used border areas of Cambodia as military bases, which Cambodian head of state Norodom Sihanouk tolerated in an attempt to preserve Cambodia's neutrality. Following Sihanouk's March 1970 deposition by pro-American general Lon Nol, who ordered the North Vietnamese to leave Cambodia,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=325329 | 1,737 |
1,034,651 | John McCarthy and Patrick J. Hayes defined this problem in their 1969 article, "Some Philosophical Problems from the Standpoint of Artificial Intelligence". In this paper, and many that came after, the formal mathematical problem was a starting point for more general discussions of the difficulty of knowledge represent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11306 | 1,034,114 |
1,625,264 | Ground cover must be evaluated for temperature differentials (i.e., anomalies such as high grass or surface debris), as to how it may affect the surface condition of the test area. Of the three methods of energy transfer, radiation is the method that has the most profound effect upon the ability of the surface to trans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18463064 | 1,624,348 |
1,367,766 | The first step towards the university was taken on 23 February 1959 with the decision of the city council to launch a university project, which was followed in 1970 with the "Memorandum establishing the University of Oldenburg" from the Minister of Culture of Lower Saxony. The university was finally founded in 1973. En... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1613556 | 1,367,010 |
2,163,883 | Win or lose, Canada East's fortunes rested on the play of goaltender Jordan Ruby. Ruby's goaltending was phenomenal in the quarter- and semi-final of the tournament stopping 74 of 79 shots. The two-time defending United States had steamrolled all competition in their three tournament games, outscoring their opponents 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27641463 | 2,162,647 |
446,720 | Kraftwerk's self-titled 1970 debut album employs organ clusters to add variety to its repeated tape sequences. In 1971, critic Ed Ward lauded the "tone-cluster vocal harmonies" created by Jefferson Airplane's three lead singers, Grace Slick, Marty Balin, and Paul Kantner. Tangerine Dream's 1972 double album "Zeit" is r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=343054 | 446,504 |
1,244,254 | Mutations in the epigenetic machinery itself may occur as well, potentially responsible for the changing epigenetic profiles of cancerous cells. The histone variants of the H2A family are highly conserved in mammals, playing critical roles in regulating many nuclear processes by altering chromatin structure. One of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35746225 | 1,243,581 |
32,105 | Herman Goldstine once described how he felt that even in comparison to all his technical achievements in computer science, it was the fact that he was held in such high esteem, had such a reputation, that the digital computer was accepted so quickly and worked on by others. As an example, he talked about Tom Watson, Jr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15942 | 32,094 |
224,897 | GRACE, have enabled the study of time-variable geoid signals. The first products based on GOCE satellite data became available online in June 2010, through the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Earth observation user services tools. ESA launched the satellite in March 2009 on a mission to map Earth's gravity with unprecede... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=176244 | 224,782 |
1,132,020 | Positioning theory provides a framework to comprehend why individuals choose to act with one specific behavior or a narrowed set of behaviors out of the many possible behaviors before them. "Positions" are a collection of specific beliefs that individuals have in context of rights, duties and obligations. They are open... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65810863 | 1,131,428 |
197,074 | For isotropic materials, the presence of fractures affects the Young and the shear moduli perpendicular to the planes of the cracks, which decrease (Young's modulus faster than the shear modulus) as the fracture density increases, indicating that the presence of cracks makes bodies brittler. Microscopically, the stress... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=268923 | 196,973 |
386,464 | The predominant enzyme responsible for metabolism of tacrolimus is CYP3A5. Genetic variations within "CYP3A5" that result in changes to the activity of the CYP3A5 protein can affect concentrations of tacrolimus within the body. In particular, individuals who are homozygous for the G allele at the single nucleotide poly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=159010 | 386,269 |
469,366 | Murphy, et al. 2003 analyzed 106 peer reviewed studies published between January 1994 and December 2001 to examine the evidence for regional specialization of discrete emotions (fear, disgust, anger, happiness and sadness) across a larger set of studies. Studies included in the meta-analysis measured activity in the wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2640086 | 469,130 |
80,340 | The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers is a body that covers the essential Service (systems architecture) that allow buildings to operate. It includes the electrotechnical, heating, ventilating, air conditioning, refrigeration and plumbing industries. To train as a building services engineer, the acad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57169 | 80,307 |
1,401,185 | Oblate spheroidal coordinates are often useful in solving partial differential equations when the boundary conditions are defined on an oblate spheroid or a hyperboloid of revolution. For example, they played an important role in the calculation of the Perrin friction factors, which contributed to the awarding of the 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5007562 | 1,400,398 |
52,933 | Inspired by colonies of insects such as ants and bees, researchers are modeling the behavior of swarms of thousands of tiny robots which together perform a useful task, such as finding something hidden, cleaning, or spying. Each robot is quite simple, but the emergent behavior of the swarm is more complex. The whole se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25781 | 52,913 |
1,153,397 | Polymer networks are able to facilitate dynamic healing processes through hydrogen bonds or dynamic covalent chemistry. However, the incorporation of inorganic particles can greatly expand the functionality of polymer-based materials for electronic skin applications. The incorporation of micro-structured nickel particl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40054681 | 1,152,787 |
1,801,777 | "A project team from the Air Force Operational Test Center left Eglin Air Force Base Sunday [15 January] for Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska to conduct the Arctic Testing Phase of the testing of the North American F-100C 'Super Sabre'. Major John J. Innis, project officer, and Captain Roscoe B. Tanner, assistant project... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,768 |
30,322 | Immunity (or, more accurately, tolerance) to "P. falciparum" malaria does occur naturally, but only in response to years of repeated infection. An individual can be protected from a "P. falciparum" infection if they receive about a thousand bites from mosquitoes that carry a version of the parasite rendered non-infecti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20423 | 30,312 |
734,643 | In physics, complementarity is a conceptual aspect of quantum mechanics that Niels Bohr regarded as an essential feature of the theory. The complementarity principle holds that objects have certain pairs of complementary properties which cannot all be observed or measured simultaneously. An example of such a pair is po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1530689 | 734,256 |
65,216 | The stance in table tennis is also known as the 'ready position'. It is the position every player initially adopts when receiving and returns to after playing a shot in order to be prepared to make the next shot. It involves the feet being spaced wider than shoulder width and a partial crouch being adopted; the crouch ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30589 | 65,191 |
1,178,096 | The thalamic loss of input or gated activity allows the frequency of the thalamo-cortical column to slow into the theta or delta band, and this defeats the lateral inhibition, so faster Gamma band activity appears surrounding the area of slower alpha seen in the theta band, with the theta associated with negative sympt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4249436 | 1,177,472 |
278,456 | With TPB as a theoretical framework, certain steps can be followed in efforts to increase the chances of behavior change. The team implementing an intervention should specify the action, target, context, and time. For example, a goal might be to "consume at least one serving of whole grains during breakfast each day in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1744068 | 278,306 |
275,666 | While some of the energetic beta particles followed the Earth's magnetic field and illuminated the sky, other high-energy electrons became trapped and formed radiation belts around the Earth. There was much uncertainty and debate about the composition, magnitude and potential adverse effects from the trapped radiation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2173797 | 275,516 |
1,155,197 | The materials codices are made with are their support, and include papyrus, parchment (sometimes referred to as membrane or vellum), and paper. They are written and drawn on with metals, pigments and ink. The quality, size, and choice of support determine the status of a codex. Papyrus is found only in late antiquity a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1592240 | 1,154,587 |
1,240,670 | Surface engineering techniques are being used in the automotive, aerospace, missile, power, electronic, biomedical, textile, petroleum, petrochemical, chemical, steel, power, cement, machine tools, construction industries. Surface engineering techniques can be used to develop a wide range of functional properties, incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=486525 | 1,239,999 |
1,197,824 | Bioaugmentation is favorable in contaminated soils that have undergone bioremediation, but still pose an environmental risk. This is because microorganisms that were originally in the environment did not accomplish their task during bioremediation when it came to breaking down chemicals in the contaminated soil. The fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1269039 | 1,197,183 |
161,239 | Low-latency traders depend on ultra-low latency networks. They profit by providing information, such as competing bids and offers, to their algorithms microseconds faster than their competitors. The revolutionary advance in speed has led to the need for firms to have a real-time, colocated trading platform to benefit f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2484768 | 161,154 |
376,272 | ZnO has wide direct band gap (3.37 eV or 375 nm at room temperature). Therefore, its most common potential applications are in laser diodes and light emitting diodes (LEDs). Moreover, ultrafast nonlinearities and photoconductive functions have been reported in ZnO. Some optoelectronic applications of ZnO overlap with t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=515339 | 376,077 |
1,508,289 | Before a pesticide can be distributed, sold, and used in the United States it must first go through a registration process with EPA. When a pesticide enters the registration process, the EPA considers the "ingredients of the pesticide; the particular site or crop on which it is to be used; the amount, frequency, and ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31728658 | 1,507,441 |
2,034,992 | ICSH Review and Recommendations For The Use Of Digital Microscopy In Laboratory Hematology，Introduction The morphological evaluation of blood smears has been carried out through traditional manual microscopy for decades. Digital image analyser also allows remote network laboratories to quickly transmit images to the ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60779324 | 2,033,819 |
1,986,446 | The Mills committee found that the establishment of a Department of Political Economy would be the best solution, given that the professors in the Economics department were unwilling to accept the changes to course content suggested by staff and students. The Faculty of Economics resolved to endorse the Mills committee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32100260 | 1,985,304 |
1,184,036 | The best approach to computer creep analysis of sensitive structures is to convert the creep law to an incremental elastic stress–strain relation with an eigenstrain. Eq. (1) can be used but in that form the variations of humidity and temperature with time cannot be introduced and the need to store the entire stress hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37709269 | 1,183,409 |
346,489 | Some researchers have suggested the toxicity effects of pesticides on amphibians may be different from those of other aquatic fauna because of their lifestyle; amphibians may be more susceptible to the toxic effects of pesticides because they often prefer to breed in shallow, lentic, or ephemeral pools. These habitats ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=294295 | 346,308 |
358,195 | Towards the end of 1571, Tycho fell in love with Kirsten, daughter of Jørgen Hansen, the Lutheran minister in Knudstrup. As she was a commoner, Tycho never formally married her, since if he did he would lose his noble privileges. However, Danish law permitted morganatic marriage, which meant that a nobleman and a commo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30027 | 358,009 |
907,381 | These refugees, moving at foot-speed, carried the disease with them, and when it arrived it hit the Upper Nile with a force comparable to smallpox hitting the American Indians. The isolated people of the Upper Nile had no access to medicine or education about the new disease among them. Worse, their immune systems were... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2930584 | 906,903 |
1,348,980 | That early colonizers of North America interacted with, followed, as well as possibly hunted large ground sloths is indicated by footprints from White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. Here, several hundred footprints of larger sloths are associated with those of humans on the shore of a former lake. In some cases... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16886646 | 1,348,235 |
1,157,462 | Oxoguanine glycosylase (OGG1) catalyses the first step in base excision repair of the oxidatively damaged base 8-OHdG. OGG1 finds 8-OHdG by sliding along the linear DNA at 1,000 base pairs of DNA in 0.1 seconds. OGG1 very rapidly finds 8-OHdG. OGG1 proteins bind to oxidatively damaged DNA with a half maximum time of ab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21227807 | 1,156,849 |
446,679 | Tone clusters have generally been thought of as dissonant musical textures, and even defined as such. As noted by Alan Belkin, however, instrumental timbre can have a significant impact on their effect: "Clusters are quite aggressive on the organ, but soften enormously when played by strings (possibly because slight, c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=343054 | 446,463 |
680,733 | Long after the original Faraday disc had been abandoned as a practical generator, a modified version combining the magnet and disc in a single rotating part (the "rotor") was developed. Sometimes the name "homopolar generator" is reserved for this configuration. One of the earliest patents on the general type of homopo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3707609 | 680,378 |
2,052,170 | Icon supports Special Interest Groups and Networks which are the engine of professional engagement, offering programmes of conferences, workshops and other networking events. The special interest groups are Archaeology, Books and Paper, Care of Collections, Ceramics and Glass, Ethnography, Furniture and Wooden Objects,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2960321 | 2,050,989 |
1,795,193 | Mesozoic deposition changed from primarily marine to a mix of marine, transitional, and continental that varied over time as crustal conditions altered the region. By the close of this era, 10,000 to 15,000 feet (3,000 to 4,500 m) of sediment accumulated in 15 recognized formations. The most extensive non-marine format... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=768815 | 1,794,184 |
840,314 | On a large scale Graviton could exert his gravitational control over a maximum distance of from his body. Thus, the maximum volume of matter he could influence at once is . He once exercised this control by lifting into the air an inverted conic frustum-shaped land mass whose uppermost area was across, and causing it t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1510811 | 839,864 |
2,043,986 | This enzyme is a tetramer which forms as a dimer of dimers. Sequence alignments of the Thermus thermophilus and "E. coli" hpaB enzymes show structural similarity to each other and to the oxygenase components of other bacterial two-component monooxygenases for compounds such as phenol and chlorophenol. Each monomer of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14044631 | 2,042,806 |
1,370,839 | Another experiment with gifted children took place in 1936. Children with educational problems from the Speyer School were used in the study. The population was similar to her first study, yet special attention was paid to the racial mixture of the group. It was modeled after typical New York public school demographics... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14276414 | 1,370,083 |
762,296 | Seaborg spent most of his career as an educator and research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, serving as a professor, and, between 1958 and 1961, as the university's second chancellor. He advised ten US Presidents—from Harry S. Truman to Bill Clinton—on nuclear policy and was Chairman of the United ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13120 | 761,888 |
1,533,400 | The first 10 years of OCST were marked by major challenges—and most of these challenges fell into either the policy or regulatory arena. Accordingly, the Office of Commercial Space Transportation was divided into two major functions, policy formulation and shuttle pricing strategy, headed by Donald Trilling, and regula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1800820 | 1,532,532 |
37,263 | Duke's teams have won 17 NCAA team national championships—the women's golf team has won seven (1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2014 and 2019), the men's basketball team has won five (1991, 1992, 2001, 2010, and 2015), the men's lacrosse team has won three (2010, 2013, and 2014), and the men's soccer (1986) and women's te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53273 | 37,250 |
926,092 | Banded iron formation was first discovered in northern Michigan in 1844, and mining of these deposits prompted the earliest studies of BIFs, such as those of Charles R. Van Hise and Charles Kenneth Leith. Iron mining operations on the Mesabi and Cuyuna Ranges evolved into enormous open pit mines, where steam shovels an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55406 | 925,606 |
1,491,349 | The hardware component of the X2-2 appliance consisted of: a group of 1-unit Intel Xeon servers, each equipped with two six-core 2.93 GHz processors and two solid-state drives for operating system and swap space; a common storage area network; and a set of InfiniBand and Ethernet switches. A full rack contains 30 serve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29594639 | 1,490,510 |
1,258,761 | During previous investigations, researchers dismissed formic acid as a practical fuel because of the high overpotential shown by experiments: this meant the reaction appeared to be too difficult to be practical. However, in 2005 - 2006, other researchers (in particular Richard Masel's group at the University of Illinoi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3337860 | 1,258,074 |
1,794,547 | The "Karp" class were a class of submarines built by Krupp Germaniawerft for the Imperial Russian Navy. The class, composed of three boats (, , ) were ordered in the 1904 emergency programme as a result of the Russo-Japanese War. The design was a twin hull type powered by a kerosene-electric power plant with a diving l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19232507 | 1,793,538 |
103,836 | The infrared light used in telecommunications cannot be seen, so there is a potential laser safety hazard to technicians. The eye's natural defense against sudden exposure to bright light is the blink reflex, which is not triggered by infrared sources. In some cases the power levels are high enough to damage eyes, part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11234274 | 103,791 |
665,245 | In 1870, fire broke out in one of the caissons; from within the caisson, Roebling directed the efforts to extinguish the flames. Working in compressed air in these caissons under the river caused him to get decompression sickness ("the bends") shattering his health and rendering him unable to visit the site, yet he con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=918110 | 664,898 |
242,513 | Various optional equipment can be installed upon the Gazelle, such as fittings for engine noise suppression, 53 gallon ferry tanks, a rescue winch capable of lifting up to 390 pounds, emergency flotation gear, particle filter, high landing skids, cabin heater, adjustable landing lights, and engine anti-icing systems. W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=356188 | 242,386 |
25,970 | By 1960 U-2 pilots were aware, Knutson recalled, that Soviet surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) had improved and that overflights had become much riskier, but did not worry because "dumb fighter pilots always think it's the other guy that's going to get hit". By this time the CIA had also concluded internally that Soviet S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32310 | 25,961 |
1,492,470 | Populations residing in altitudes above 2,500 meters have adapted to their hypoxic environments. Chronic HVR is set of adaptations found among most human populations historically native to high-altitude regions, including the Tibetan Plateau, the Andean Altiplano, and the Simian Plateau. Up to 140 million people in tot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20565525 | 1,491,631 |
1,883,810 | In recent team research, functional leadership theory has been presented as especially appropriate for conceptualizing the role of the team leader. This theory addresses the leader’s broad relationship to the team in that the core duty of the leader is "to do, or get done, whatever is not being adequately handled for g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29370813 | 1,882,729 |
480,096 | The biennial International Research Conference on Innovations in Engineering, Science, and Technology (IRCIEST) is hosted by the university, most recent of which was held on 04-6 December 2019. It was the fourth IRCIEST and centered on topics relative to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, hence it was called IRCIEST 4.0... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18965074 | 479,852 |
1,325,306 | The half-life of is long enough that labelling synthesis of the radiopharmaceutical and scintigraphic measurements can be performed without significant loss of radioactivity. The energy emitted from is 140 keV, which allows for the study of deep body organs. Radiopharmaceuticals have no intended pharmacologic effect an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2277570 | 1,324,579 |
1,881,439 | Since the properties of gels depend on the type of non-covalent interactions involved, the metal-ligand interaction provide not only thermodynamic stability, but also kinetic liability. The general method for synthesizing gels is to heat the solution, which contains the metal ion being used and investigated, along with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49290419 | 1,880,358 |
1,457,777 | Many researchers in thinking and reasoning have provided evidence for a dual-process cognitive approach to reasoning, judgment and decision making. They argue that these two mental processes (system 1 and system 2) engage in a constant battle for control over our brain to reason and make decisions. System 1 can be desc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2274780 | 1,456,957 |
354,197 | The box-shaped JD-3 (also known as ZM87) active laser self-defense weapon (LSDW) is installed on the rotating platform behind the tank commander hatch for all Type 99 variants. First seen on the Type 98 prototype, consecutive improvements are introduced over the years. Type 99A features a smaller, more compact LSDW. Af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1694242 | 354,014 |
1,071,241 | Fatio met Newton, probably for the first time, at a meeting of the Royal Society on 12 June 1689. Newton and Fatio soon became friends and Newton even suggested that the two share rooms in London while Newton attended the post-Revolutionary session of Parliament, to which he had been elected as member for the Universit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=936885 | 1,070,687 |
866,118 | On the clothing side, after toiling endlessly, Kass managed to create a system which could emulate/simulate the movement of cloth, at which point the team realized that the suit jacket they had modeled didn't fit with Geri's movement outside of a default T-pose. According to Pinkava, Steve Jobs, upon a hearing about th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1211596 | 865,658 |
31,508 | Smelted iron appears sporadically in the archeological record from the middle Bronze Age. Whilst terrestrial iron is naturally abundant, temperatures above are required to smelt it, placing it out of reach of commonly available technology until the end of the second millennium BC. In contrast, the components of bronze ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14711 | 31,497 |
763,786 | Axion-like bosons could have a signature in astrophysical settings. In particular, several recent works have proposed axion-like particles as a solution to the apparent transparency of the Universe to TeV photons. It has also been demonstrated in a few recent works that, in the large magnetic fields threading the atmos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=335054 | 763,377 |
1,901,159 | ADEPs bind in the cavities formed by two ClpP monomers. Their binding site is composed of hydrophobic residues and corresponds to the binding sites of ClpP ATPases. Upon binding, a series of secondary structures shifts occur from the outer region to the center of ClpP. This puts the flexible N-terminal β-loop, into a d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42911578 | 1,900,070 |
1,271,585 | Today Air-to Ground communication has evolved to the point where pilots no longer need to be in the plane to fly it. These planes are known as unmanned aerial vehicles or more commonly UAVs. The US military uses several types of UAVs, these include the Predator, Reaper and Global Hawk drones. These drones are used for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33659697 | 1,270,894 |
1,137,555 | The hypothesis was based on the idea that a star passed close enough to the sun early in its life to cause tidal bulges to form on its surface, which along with the internal process that leads to solar prominences, caused material to be ejected repeatedly from the sun. Due to the gravitational effects of the passing st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23034400 | 1,136,962 |
1,131,103 | Environmental epidemiology research can inform government policy change, risk management activities, and development of environmental standards. Vulnerability is the summation of all risk and protective factors that ultimately determine whether an individual or subpopulation experiences adverse health outcomes when an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13924093 | 1,130,514 |
1,278,742 | After receiving his doctorate in 1934, he dealt with a variety of issues with physical chemistry. This having to do with the kinetics and mechanisms of polymeric substances. Having to do with the distribution of molar mass, solution of thermodynamics and hydrodynamics. In addition, during 1934, he also was able to disc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1178722 | 1,278,049 |
1,856,772 | A new chapter on "Quantum Optics of Solids" summarized the research work at Pohl's Göttingen Institute. The electrical properties of solids were treated in the volume on ""Electromagnetism"" as well, from the 15th edition (1955) on, including the results of Pohl's work in Göttingen. After his death in 1976, the three v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5620523 | 1,855,704 |
2,025,099 | Christopher Dede earned a B.S. in chemistry and English from the California Institute of Technology in 1969 and a doctorate in science education from the University of Massachusetts in 1972, where he became an assistant professor after graduation. In 1974, he moved to the University of Houston-Clear Lake, being promote... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61357843 | 2,023,934 |
20,345 | There is a large crossover between the lifestyle and activity recommendations to prevent a myocardial infarction, and those that may be adopted as secondary prevention after an initial myocardial infarct. Recommendations include stopping smoking, a gradual return to exercise, eating a healthy diet, low in saturated fat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20556798 | 20,336 |
697,115 | The use of fNIRS as a functional neuroimaging method relies on the principle of neuro-vascular coupling also known as the haemodynamic response or blood-oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) response. This principle also forms the core of fMRI techniques. Through neuro-vascular coupling, neuronal activity is linked to related ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3048061 | 696,751 |
1,523,548 | The UConn team opened their season on the road, playing in the Countdown to Columbus doubleheader against 10th-ranked Stanford. The Huskies had the good fortune to return three first-team All-American's (the only team in Division I women's basketball to do so this year). The fourth starter for the team, Nurse, was the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54727394 | 1,522,687 |
108,306 | Vitamin B and folate status during pregnancy is associated with the increasing risk of low birth weight, preterm birth, insulin resistance and obesity in the offspring. In addition it has been associated with adverse foetal and neonatal outcomes including neural tube defects (NTDs) and delayed myelination or demyelinat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12742560 | 108,261 |
1,022,991 | The term "unglazed air collector" refers to a solar air heating system that consists of a metal absorber without any glass or glazing over top. The most common type of unglazed collector on the market is the transpired solar collector. The technology has been extensively monitored by these government agencies, and Natu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=772868 | 1,022,459 |
1,890,036 | Following the completion of the 2010 conservation treatment, the Philadelphia Museum of Art opened the exhibition "An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing "The Gross Clinic" Anew", which ran from July 3, 2010, to January 9, 2011. The theme of the exhibition was "Then and Now", an homage to the famed and nearly two-hour-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56561427 | 1,888,953 |
19,230 | The Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) ushered in a new era of taxonomy. With his major works "Systema Naturae" 1st Edition in 1735, "Species Plantarum" in 1753, and "Systema Naturae" 10th Edition, he revolutionized modern taxonomy. His works implemented a standardized binomial naming system for animal and plan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30463 | 19,222 |
342,653 | In 2004, scientists analysing a detailed CT scan of the braincase of the London "Archaeopteryx" concluded that its brain was significantly larger than that of most dinosaurs, indicating that it possessed the brain size necessary for flying. The overall brain anatomy was reconstructed using the scan. The reconstruction ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2995 | 342,472 |
909,273 | Ehrlich became well known for the controversial 1968 book "The Population Bomb" which he co-authored with his wife Anne, in which they famously stated that "[i]n the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now." Among the solutions suggested in that book wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=359542 | 908,794 |
181,556 | A technology demonstration sail craft, dubbed "Sunjammer", was in development with the intent to prove the viability and value of sailing technology. "Sunjammer" had a square sail, 124 feet (38 meters) wide on each side (total area 13,000 sq ft or 1,208 sq m). It would have traveled from the Sun-Earth Lagrangian point ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29420 | 181,461 |
1,058,948 | DNMT1 is the most abundant DNA methyltransferase in mammalian cells, and considered to be the key maintenance methyltransferase in mammals. It predominantly methylates hemimethylated CpG di-nucleotides in the mammalian genome. The recognition motif for the human enzyme involves only three of the bases in the CpG dinucl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=270990 | 1,058,398 |
946,888 | Several theories have been suggested to explain why certain individuals develop allergic sensitization instead of oral tolerance to food allergens. One such theory is the dual allergen hypothesis, which states that ingesting food allergens early on promotes oral tolerance while skin exposure leads to sensitization. Ins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=679350 | 946,385 |
364,224 | The deposition of silica by diatoms may also prove to be of utility to nanotechnology. Diatom cells repeatedly and reliably manufacture valves of various shapes and sizes, potentially allowing diatoms to manufacture micro- or nano-scale structures which may be of use in a range of devices, including: optical systems; s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46374 | 364,034 |
291,071 | Symptoms are not specific, and diagnosis can be difficult unless patients present with clear indications for arterial blood gas sampling. Symptoms may include palpitations, headache, altered mental status such as severe anxiety due to hypoxia, decreased visual acuity, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, altered appetite ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1333992 | 290,913 |
890,871 | Complex Networks is an American media and entertainment company for youth culture, based in New York City. It was founded as a bi-monthly magazine, "Complex", by fashion designer Marc (Ecko) Milecofsky. Complex Networks reports on popular and emerging trends in style, sneakers, food, music, sports and pop culture. Comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6852896 | 890,402 |
309,680 | In 2003, Wade Exum, the United States Olympic Committee's director of drug control administration from 1991 to 2000, gave copies of documents to "Sports Illustrated" that revealed that some 100 American athletes failed drug tests from 1988 to 2000, arguing that they should have been prevented from competing in the Olym... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2112059 | 309,513 |
95,464 | In metapopulation terminology, migrating individuals are classed as emigrants (when they leave a region) or immigrants (when they enter a region), and sites are classed either as sources or sinks. A site is a generic term that refers to places where ecologists sample populations, such as ponds or defined sampling areas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9630 | 95,423 |
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