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738,925 | Regulus was designed to be long, in wingspan, in diameter, and would weigh between . The missile resembled an F-84 fighter aircraft, but without a cockpit, and test versions were equipped with landing gear so that they could be recovered and re-used. After launch, Regulus would be guided toward its target by control st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67019 | 738,533 |
892,588 | Forensic techniques and expert knowledge are used to explain the current state of a "digital artifact", such as a computer system, storage medium (e.g. hard disk or CD-ROM), or an electronic document (e.g. an email message or JPEG image). The scope of a forensic analysis can vary from simple information retrieval to re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=615799 | 892,119 |
128,220 | Despite various publications of results where hand-washing reduced mortality to below 1%, Semmelweis's observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community. He could offer no theoretical explanation for his findings of reduced mort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75319 | 128,168 |
2,076,803 | Јеlisaveta Načić, the author of the design for the elementary school "King Petar I" was the first woman to graduate in architecture in Serbia, and she belonged to the first generation of the architects educated in Serbia at the newly founded Department of Architecture at the Technical Faculty of the Great School. She g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51601941 | 2,075,604 |
754,741 | Unlike optical telescopes which possess simple aluminized parabolic surfaces (mirrors), X-ray telescopes generally use a Wolter telescope consisting of nested cylindrical paraboloid and hyperboloid surfaces coated with iridium or gold. X-ray photons would be absorbed by normal mirror surfaces, so mirrors with a low gra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217873 | 754,338 |
2,085,540 | From the beginning the stated aims of ICAF are to encourage contacts between people actively engaged in aircraft structural integrity problems and to exchange information, experience, opinions and ideas concerning aeronautical fatigue and fatigue-related subjects. To this end a conference and a symposium are organised ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38186067 | 2,084,339 |
1,389,339 | Clovis artifacts dated to 13,000 years ago were found at the Paleo Crossing site in Medina County provides evidence of Paleo-Indians in northern Ohio and may be the area's oldest residents and archaeologist Dr. David Brose believes that they may be "some of the oldest certain examples of human activity in the New World... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23142823 | 1,388,568 |
92,275 | The project that produced the 4004 originated in 1969, when Busicom, a Japanese calculator manufacturer, asked Intel to build a chipset for high-performance desktop calculators. Busicom's original design called for a programmable chip set consisting of seven different chips. Three of the chips were to make a special-pu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19553 | 92,234 |
1,249,165 | The taphonomic processes that affected the mummy after its burial are difficult to reconstruct as samples from the surrounding sedimentary rocks do not exist. Probably a slow bacterial decay of the carcass was initiated first. Carpenter emphasized that the excellent preservation of the fossil was made possible only by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9726532 | 1,248,489 |
198,055 | Ariane 6 was initially conceived in the early 2010s to be a replacement launch vehicle for Ariane 5, and a number of concepts and high-level designs were suggested and proposed during 2012–2015. Development funding from several European governments was initially secured by early 2016, and contracts were signed to begin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37730432 | 197,953 |
1,490,701 | To date, studies of r-EPO use in premature infants have had mixed results. Ohls et al. examined the use of early r-EPO plus iron and found no short-term benefits in two groups of infants (172 infants less than 1000 g and 118 infants 1000–1250 g). All r-EPO treated infants received 400 U/g three times a week until they ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9704676 | 1,489,862 |
670,196 | Modern philologists do not admit the alleged connection of "Ayish" with "na 'ash", nor is any funereal association apparent in Book of Job. On the other hand, Professor Schiaparelli draws attention to the fact that ash denotes "moth" in the Old Testament, and that the folded wings of the insect are closely imitated in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47321321 | 669,846 |
931,625 | Using molecular biological techniques, it is possible to characterize the mutations, epimutations or chromosomal aberrations within a tumor, and rapid progress is being made in the field of predicting certain cancer patients' prognosis based on the spectrum of mutations. For example, up to half of all tumors have a def... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2332422 | 931,133 |
1,337,129 | Clinical content is specified in terms of two types of artefact which exist outside the information model. The first, known as "archetypes" provides a place to formally define re-usable data point and data group definitions, i.e. content items that will be re-used in numerous contexts. Typical examples include "systemi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2241254 | 1,336,398 |
997,115 | Zimri-Lim, king of the nearby polity of Mari, plays a significant role for modern historians. He contributed immense amounts of historical writing that describe the history and diplomacy of the first Babylonian dynasty during Hammurabi's reign. The archives of Hammurabi at the site of Babylon cannot be recovered, since... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=154847 | 996,597 |
1,637,799 | The creation of the College of Engineering first began with the appointment of a Professor of Civil Engineering in 1874 and the organization of a Department of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. Established as a college of the university in 1900, the College of Engineering's first dean was Harry Thomas Cory. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14194676 | 1,636,874 |
1,776,263 | In rats, a dosage of CPA of 25 mg/kg/day results in complete regression of prostate gland growth in gonadally intact males. The equivalent dosage in humans, on the basis of body surface (conversion factor from rat to human of 6), was estimated to be approximately 4 mg/kg/day, or around 300 mg/day CPA for a 75 kg (165 l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59460499 | 1,775,264 |
656,233 | Around 1907 crystal detectors replaced the coherer and electrolytic detector to become the most widely used form of radio detector. Until the triode vacuum tube began to be used during World War I, crystals were the best radio reception technology, used in sophisticated receivers in wireless telegraphy stations, as wel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3678714 | 655,889 |
1,034,051 | Although large quantities of supplies were hauled overland, both parties were also equipped with light aircraft and made extensive use of air support for reconnaissance and supplies. Additional logistical help was provided by U.S. personnel who were working in Antarctica at that time. Both parties also took dog teams w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1126339 | 1,033,514 |
382,886 | In 2000, the Joint Economic Committee of Congress reported NIH research, which was funded at $16 billion a year in 2000, that some econometric studies had given a rate of return of 25 to 40 percent per year by reducing the economic cost of illness in the US. It found that of the 21 drugs with the highest therapeutic im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46174 | 382,691 |
167,867 | In 1909 he presented the Demoiselle No. 20, improved and considered "the first ultralight in history". This aeroplane was designed for sports competitions and 300 were built in several European countries and in the United States. His schemes were published in the June–July 1910 issues of "Popular Mechanics". This plane... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152687 | 167,777 |
230,546 | The Kirby Hall of Civil Rights was constructed in the late 1920s between the First World War and the Great Depression. The cost of the building was donated by Kirby. The design was "rumored to be per square foot the most expensive building of its day." Lafayette selected the architectural firm Warren and Wetmore, known... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573763 | 230,428 |
1,158,025 | One issue with a majority of current research is that it occurs over a short time span such as a few hours to a couple of days; however, teachers and professors are more interested in ensuring the material they teach remains long term. Through the study of people's recollection of high school Spanish words, Harry Bahri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50213367 | 1,157,412 |
146,022 | A case study was published in 2019 of a catheter-related bloodstream infection of "B. cereus" in a 91-year-old male previously being treated with hemodialysis via PermCath for end-stage renal disease. He presented with chills, tachypnea, and high-grade fever, his white blood cell count and high-sensitivity C-reactive p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40133 | 145,964 |
596,786 | Directed evolution will likely not be replaced as the method of choice for protein engineering, although computational protein design has fundamentally changed the way protein engineering can manipulate bio-macromolecules. Smaller, more focused and functionally-rich libraries may be generated by using in methods which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216104 | 596,481 |
969,204 | Wireless sensor networks are composed of low-energy, small-size, and low-range unattended sensor nodes. Recently, it has been observed that by periodically turning on and off the sensing and communication capabilities of sensor nodes, we can significantly reduce the active time and thus prolong network lifetime. Howeve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1076662 | 968,694 |
8,827 | The concept of energy became a key part of Newtonian mechanics in the post-Newton period. Huygens' solution of the collision of hard spheres showed that in that case, not only is momentum conserved, but kinetic energy is as well (or, rather, a quantity that in retrospect we can identify as one-half the total kinetic en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55212 | 8,823 |
1,037,213 | Recent (2008) discoveries by Xu Xing, a Chinese paleontologist, include fossilized feathers in rock formations dating from the Jurassic period (200 to 150 million years ago) to the late Paleogene and Neogene periods (66 to 2 million years ago). The feathers contain preserved residues of carbon that were previously thou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=969598 | 1,036,672 |
675,148 | Near-fatal accidents of JJ Lehto and Jean Alesi during pre-season and in season testing were both to prove Senna right. This was climaxed by the catastrophic 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, with Brazilian Rubens Barrichello being severely injured during a heavy crash in a Friday practice session. This set the stage for the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20796228 | 674,795 |
1,558,660 | GeneMark is a generic name for a family of ab initio gene prediction programs developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Developed in 1993, original GeneMark was used in 1995 as a primary gene prediction tool for annotation of the first completely sequenced bacterial genome of "Haemophilus influenzae"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14771927 | 1,557,775 |
1,615,595 | The Flysch Belt was named after a characteristic alteration of sandstone and claystone, so called flysch, occurring in the Cretaceous to Paleogene (possibly Miocene) age in the area. The belt is the accretionary wedge of the Carpathians. The Flysch Belt also contains a small volume of Cenozoic volcanic rocks. The zone ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23861663 | 1,614,688 |
439,944 | After reading Edward Bellamy's "Equality", Pannekoek became a convinced socialist and started studying the philosophies of Karl Marx and Joseph Dietzgen. Soon Pannekoek became a well-known Marxist writer, writing for both Dutch and German socialist magazines, like "Die Neue Zeit". His astronomical and socialist careers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=312856 | 439,730 |
912,331 | Algae can be used to produce 'green diesel' (also known as renewable diesel, hydrotreating vegetable oil or hydrogen-derived renewable diesel) through a hydrotreating refinery process that breaks molecules down into shorter hydrocarbon chains used in diesel engines. It has the same chemical properties as petroleum-base... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14205946 | 911,852 |
675,479 | Improving the surrounding home and school environment can improve the behavior of children with ADHD. Parents of children with ADHD often show similar deficits themselves, and thus may not be able to sufficiently help the child with his or her difficulties. Improving the parents' understanding of the child's behavior a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10671710 | 675,126 |
1,576,605 | A typical myzostomid has a flattened, rounded shape, with a thin edge drawn out into delicate radiating hairs called cirri. The dorsal surface is smooth, with five pairs of parapodia on the bottom surface. These parapodia are armed with supporting and hooked setae, by means of which the worm adheres to its host. Beyond... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4004114 | 1,575,716 |
683,252 | ST Kinetics is one of the few producers of both 40 mm munition and weapon systems. The range of 40 mm rounds include low velocity, high velocity, less-than-lethal, camera, self-destruct, airburst and enhanced blast insensitive explosive rounds. There are currently 3 weapon systems available, namely the 40 mm Grenade La... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6309961 | 682,896 |
436,191 | Not all of Bosworth's design was built. His plan for future expansion, which extended the neo-classical corridors in a grid fashion further north, was followed for Building 7 but not for later additions. Interior pedestrian circulation follows parts of the grid pattern, but thru access is not possible on all floors. No... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8071866 | 435,977 |
1,522,359 | Farquharson Hall, the main dining hall used for commencement and other ceremonies, was renamed in ceremony thanking John and Clara Farquharson in November 2002. The chapel, built in 1906 and dedicated November 1907 as St. Andrew's main chapel, has vaulted ceilings, stained glass windows, and murals, and seats 330. John... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52318792 | 1,521,498 |
1,406,948 | Greenpeace campaigner Ameer Shahul led the public affairs groups and workers collaboration in forcing the Company to collect 290 tonnes of dumped mercury waste from the shola forest and send back to the United States for recycling in 2003. This was widely hailed by the media as ‘reverse dumping’. Later Greenpeace campa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41848782 | 1,406,158 |
844,234 | However, later measurements proved that in fact most of the lanthanides and the actinides have the configuration fs, with only a few (La, Ce, Gd, Lu; Ac, Pa, U, Np, Cm) having the old configuration. In particular, the 4f subshell actually finishes filling at ytterbium ([Xe]4f6s) and so lutetium ([Xe]4f5d6s) appears as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=306609 | 843,784 |
17,735 | In March 1979, following North Yemen's defeat in the Yemenite War of 1979, the United States gave Saudi Arabia the permission to transfer four Northrop F-5B trainers to North Yemen. Additionally, Saudi Arabia financed the procurement of twelve F-5E fighters. By the end of the year, all 16 aircraft had arrived. This did... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11142 | 17,729 |
1,678,776 | Another common technique typically used in NanoSIMS analysis is stable isotope probing. This method involves the introduction of stable isotopically labelled biologically-relevant compounds to organisms for consumption and integration into organic matter. When analyzed via NanoSIMS, the technique is referred to as nano... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45048969 | 1,677,833 |
893,035 | Nearly all materials could be seen as hierarchically structured, since the changes in spatial scale bring about different mechanisms of deformation and damage. However, in biological materials, this hierarchical organization is inherent to the microstructure. One of the first examples of this, in the history of structu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6259941 | 892,565 |
525,692 | Since the start of the programme, the capabilities of the UDTs (based on 700 MHz Pentium processors) have evolved, their original 256 MB RAMs and 20 GB drives having been superseded by 512 MB RAMs and 40 GB drives. The contractor for supply of Portable User Data Terminal (PUDTs), based on a 266 MHz Intel StrongARM proc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2493890 | 525,419 |
1,694,785 | This species is quite variable in morphology. It is a shrub usually growing up to 1.5 meters (60 inches or 5 feet) tall, but reaching up to 3 meters (10 feet) at times. It has multiple twisted trunks covered in peeling reddish bark and is highly branched, tapering into thin twigs, some just a millimeter wide. It is dec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17187566 | 1,693,834 |
1,672,407 | In the late 1960s, a government study concluded that more medical colleges were needed in Pakistan to improve medical education, research, and healthcare in the country. In particular, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was in dire need of health reforms - a decision was thus made in 1972 to construct another medical college outside o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2294351 | 1,671,465 |
623,028 | A randomized, placebo controlled, 10-week phase 2 clinical trial of orally administered ganaxolone in adults with partial onset seizure demonstrated that the treatment is safe, well tolerated and efficacious. The drug continued to demonstrate efficacy in a 104-week open label extension. Data from non-clinical studies s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2404301 | 622,696 |
1,516,784 | Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe (Maracaibo, Zulia State, 1942) is a Venezuelan hydrologist. Graduated from the University of Zulia as a civil engineer studied at Caltech, earning his PhD at Colorado State University in 1967. Rodríguez-Iturbe has taught at many universities, including the University of Zulia, Simon Bolivar Uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,932 |
273,111 | The EM algorithm proceeds from the observation that there is a way to solve these two sets of equations numerically. One can simply pick arbitrary values for one of the two sets of unknowns, use them to estimate the second set, then use these new values to find a better estimate of the first set, and then keep alternat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=470752 | 272,963 |
95,649 | France committed military assets to the Gulf War coalition; in October 1990, eight Jaguar A aircraft along with several Mirage F1CR reconnaissance aircraft were sent to the Middle East. The Mirages, which had more advanced avionics, acted as guides for the Jaguars. Owing to obsolete navigational systems being unable to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=176232 | 95,608 |
627,987 | From the start of the modern biathlon in 1958 until 1965, international competitions were held exclusively using high power centerfire cartridges (such as the .30-06 and 7.62 NATO). Fullbore biathlon was part of the Winter Olympic Games in 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976. Fullbore World Championships were held from Saa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56656728 | 627,652 |
513,839 | There are numerous factors as to why some raw materials would be chosen over others and can result in the use of low quality materials. A few examples of such factors include the availability of materials, the proximity to materials, and the quality of materials. To help understand this, archaeologists have applied mod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3346545 | 513,573 |
1,575,701 | The machines utilise the principles of a centrifuge to enhance the gravitational force experienced by feed particles to effect separation based on particle density. The key components of the unit are a cone shaped "concentrate" bowl, rotated at high speed by an electric motor and a pressurized water jacket encompassing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16693100 | 1,574,812 |
1,754,368 | When Thomas started to develop neural networks, only a few academics were doing so, and she was concerned that there was a lack of sharing of practical advice. Whilst there is a considerable recruitment demand for artificial intelligence researchers, Thomas has argued that even though these careers have traditionally r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62616717 | 1,753,378 |
157,897 | A severe risk in ultra-deep air diving is deep water blackout, or depth blackout, a loss of consciousness at depths below 50 m with no clear primary cause, associated with nitrogen narcosis, a neurological impairment with anaesthetic effects caused by high partial pressure of nitrogen dissolved in nerve tissue, and pos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=291245 | 157,825 |
1,997,251 | The fruit bodies of "Cortinarius camphoratus" have a cap that is initially convex before flattening out, sometimes developing a broad umbo; the diameter ranges from . Initially curled inwards, the cap margin uncurls as the mushroom matures. The cap, which is covered with minute fibers matted on the surface, is buff wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36893339 | 1,996,108 |
1,795,509 | The Laboratory has testing facilities and analytical instruments such as GC, GCMS, GLC, HPLC, Nanodrop spectrophotometer, Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer, Lovibond Tintometer, etc. Animal house enables nutritional and safety evaluation of a variety of foods. Some of the recent additions to the processing equipments... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15680535 | 1,794,500 |
231,984 | In 2011, Charpentier met Jennifer Doudna at a research conference and they began a collaboration. Working with Doudna's laboratory, Charpentier's laboratory showed that Cas9 could be used to make cuts in any DNA sequence desired. The method they developed involved the combination of Cas9 with easily created synthetic "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47056521 | 231,865 |
1,993,776 | The secondary structure of ACO2 consists of numerous alternating alpha helices and beta sheets (SCOP classification: α/β alternating). The tertiary structure reveals that the active site is buried in the middle of the enzyme, and, since there is only one subunit, there is no quaternary structure. Aconitase consists of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46715816 | 1,992,633 |
1,238,862 | Whispering-gallery waves exist for light waves. They have been produced in microscopic glass spheres or tori, for example, with applications in lasing, optomechanical cooling, frequency comb generation and sensing. The light waves are almost perfectly guided round by optical total internal reflection, leading to Q fact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34556315 | 1,238,195 |
1,958,363 | GPR126 has been identified in genomic regions associated with adult height, more specially trunk height, pulmonary function and adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. In the vertebrate nervous system, many axons are surrounded by a myelin sheath to conduct action potentials rapidly and efficiently. Applying a genetic screen ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14440090 | 1,957,236 |
1,944,451 | Despite the attention it has received, business process interoperability has not been applied outside of limited information system environments. A possible reason is that BPI requires universal conformance to standards so that a business process can start and finish at any point worldwide. The standards themselves are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3543438 | 1,943,339 |
709,801 | TESS is designed to carry out the first spaceborne all-sky transiting exoplanet survey. It is equipped with four wide-angle telescopes and associated charge-coupled device (CCD) detectors. Science data are transmitted to Earth every two weeks. Full-frame images with an effective exposure time of two hours are transmitt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20024409 | 709,430 |
1,395,615 | A protein phosphatase is a phosphatase enzyme that removes a phosphate group from the phosphorylated amino acid residue of its substrate protein. Protein phosphorylation is one of the most common forms of reversible protein posttranslational modification (PTM), with up to 30% of all proteins being phosphorylated at any... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24667 | 1,394,844 |
211,768 | Following contemporary American design philosophy, the M103 was built with a two-piece, cast elliptic armor scheme, similar to the M48's design. It featured seven road wheels per side, mounted with long-arm independent torsion bars. The track was shoed in steel backed rubber chevron tracks, allowing for a ground pressu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1712676 | 211,660 |
937,137 | On 26 June 2009, it was reported by AvWeb that Cirrus Aircraft co-founder and former CEO Alan Klapmeier intended to buy the Vision SF50 project from Cirrus and its major shareholder Arcapita and produce the aircraft under a new company. The new venture had been receiving financial advice from Merrill Lynch. Klapmeier i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1035941 | 936,640 |
637,474 | Precision fermentation is an approach to manufacturing specific functional products which intends to minimise the production of unwanted by-products through the application of synthetic biology, particularly by generating synthetic "cell factories" with engineered genomes and metabolic pathways optimised to produce the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2723752 | 637,135 |
773,762 | In 1963, Botvinnik founded his own school within the Soviet coaching system, and its graduates include world champions Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik, and other top-class players such as Alexei Shirov, Vladimir Akopian and Jaan Ehlvest. Botvinnik was not an infallible spotter of chess talent: altho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242416 | 773,346 |
65,298 | During the Korean War, the Soviets were searching for an intact U.S. F-86 Sabre for evaluation/study purposes. Their search was frustrated, largely due to the U.S. military's policy of destroying their weapons and equipment once they had been disabled or abandoned; in the case of U.S. aircraft, USAF pilots destroyed mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=359331 | 65,273 |
137,439 | Excess estrogen, such as from birth control pills, appears to increase cholesterol levels in bile and decrease gallbladder movement, which can lead to gallstones. Progestins found in certain formulations of oral contraceptive pills can limit the effectiveness of weight training to increase muscle mass. This effect is c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22623 | 137,383 |
298,467 | Although americium was likely produced in previous nuclear experiments, it was first intentionally synthesized, isolated and identified in late autumn 1944, at the University of California, Berkeley, by Glenn T. Seaborg, Leon O. Morgan, Ralph A. James, and Albert Ghiorso. They used a 60-inch cyclotron at the University... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=900 | 298,307 |
87,881 | CPR is used on people in cardiac arrest in order to oxygenate the blood and maintain a cardiac output to keep vital organs alive. Blood circulation and oxygenation are required to transport oxygen to the tissues. The physiology of CPR involves generating a pressure gradient between the arterial and venous vascular beds... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66392 | 87,846 |
314,593 | At around CDT on Thursday, September 18, 1980, two airmen from a Propellant Transfer System (PTS) team were checking the pressure on the oxidizer tank of a USAF Titan II missile at Little Rock AFB's Launch Complex 374-7. One of the workers, Airman David P. Powell, had brought a ratchet wrench – long weighing – into the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41626636 | 314,424 |
973,232 | In keeping with its cost-cutting philosophy, Canon designed the AE-1 to use a significant amount of structural plastic for a lighter and cheaper camera at the expense of being less impact resistant. Canon went to great effort to disguise the use of plastic - the injection-molded acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1904816 | 972,722 |
257,140 | One successful example of a (partially) web-based policy Delphi is the five-round Delphi exercise (with 1,454 contributions) for the creation of the eLAC Action Plans in Latin America. It is believed to be the most extensive online participatory policy-making foresight exercise in the history of intergovernmental proce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337523 | 257,006 |
1,418,929 | Various phylogenetic trees for vertebrates have been constructed using comparative proteomics, genetics, genomics as well as the geochemical and fossil record. These estimations tell us that humans and chimpanzees last shared a common ancestor about 6 million years ago (mya). As our closest relatives, chimpanzees have ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1133707 | 1,418,130 |
926,184 | On hearing of the Paris results, neither Rutherford nor James Chadwick at the Cavendish Laboratory believed the gamma ray hypothesis. Assisted by Norman Feather, Chadwick quickly performed a series of experiments showing that the gamma ray hypothesis was untenable. The previous year, Chadwick, J.E.R. Constable, and E.C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46190717 | 925,698 |
1,518,336 | The basic AT course is 9 months in duration, the first part of which is spent at The Royal Military College of Science. The instruction within the Defence College of Management and Technology forms the first phase of the 9-month course. The aim of the first part is to provide the scientific and technical basis for furt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4256071 | 1,517,478 |
939,154 | The synod of Hieria was followed by a campaign to remove images from the walls of churches and to purge the court and bureaucracy of iconodules. Since monasteries tended to be strongholds of iconophile sentiment and contributed little or nothing towards the secular needs of the state, Constantine specifically targeted ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=253026 | 938,653 |
2,170,717 | Young detrital zircon fission track dating (240 °C ± 40 °C) and apatite fission track and uranium -thorium/ helium (110 °C ± 10 °C) cooling ages of sediments in glacial catchment areas support the theory of erosive influence on the St. Elias tectonic system. Rates of exhumation were inferred by calculating the differen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33737566 | 2,169,479 |
289,781 | During WWII and immediately thereafter, a number of claims were made that the sound barrier had been broken in a dive. The majority of these purported events can be dismissed as instrumentation errors. The typical airspeed indicator (ASI) uses air pressure differences between two or more points on the aircraft, typical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166072 | 289,624 |
795,913 | Small specimens necessarily require intense illumination, especially at high magnifications, and this is usually provided by a fibre-optic light source. Fiber optics utilize halogen lamps which provide high light output for a given power input. The lamps are small enough to be fitted easily near the microscope, althoug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19202502 | 795,488 |
1,764,176 | In 1972 the Portuguese electrical company Companhia Portuguesa de Electricidade (CPE) foresees 1979 as the year in which the first Portuguese reactor would start its activity. The plan was to build four reactors at different times between 1981 and 1989, with an investment of about 30 million contos, at 1972 prices (abo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31196181 | 1,763,183 |
2,176,787 | Forster, of whose life little is known, stated in 1632 that he owed his initiation and whole progress in the mathematical sciences to his worthy friend and teacher, Mr. William Oughtred. Oughtred himself described how he had trained Forster in precepts before letting him become familiar with instruments:"As I did to De... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53238274 | 2,175,543 |
2,064,705 | The holotype specimen preserves the right side of "Humboldtichthys" with a 5.5 cm long axis, including impressions of the opercle and preopercle as well as the anterior portion of the body. The surface of opercle and preopercle are lamellar with multiple deep radial striations. Although such striations are also present... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69626074 | 2,063,514 |
1,911,074 | Cochliobolus carbonum (anamorph: "Helminthosporium carbonum") is one of more than 40 species of filamentous ascomycetes belonging to the genus "Cochliobolus" (anamorph: "Bipolaris/Curvularia"). This pathogen has a worldwide distribution, with reports from Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Congo, Denmark, Egyp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11460093 | 1,909,975 |
829,386 | Report mining is the extraction of data from human-readable computer reports. Conventional data extraction requires a connection to a working source system, suitable connectivity standards or an API, and usually complex querying. By using the source system's standard reporting options, and directing the output to a spo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46471245 | 828,940 |
1,257,625 | Molecular distillation is a type of short-path vacuum distillation, characterized by an extremely low vacuum pressure, 0.01 torr or below, which is performed using a molecular still. It is a process of separation, purification and concentration of natural products, complex and thermally sensitive molecules for example ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5349944 | 1,256,939 |
866,425 | By the 15th century the reach and influence of the Burgundian princes meant that the Low Countries' merchant and banker classes were in the ascendancy. The early to mid-century saw great rises in international trade and domestic wealth, leading to an enormous increase in the demand for art. Artists from the area attrac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=799881 | 865,965 |
2,012,080 | Natural genetic engineering (NGE) is a class of process proposed by molecular biologist James A. Shapiro to account for novelty created in the course of biological evolution. Shapiro developed this work in several peer-reviewed publications from 1992 onwards, and later in his 2011 book Evolution: A View from the 21st C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36726853 | 2,010,927 |
1,580,262 | At age 13 he sued the University of Connecticut for age discrimination, as he was not able to take a course requiring field study abroad in Africa. The New York Times reported that his case "underscores a larger point, the struggle of the many gifted youngsters in this country who try to maneuver in a system that large... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55949180 | 1,579,372 |
33,341 | In the first images of Titan's surface taken by Earth-based telescopes in the early 2000s, large regions of dark terrain were revealed straddling Titan's equator. Prior to the arrival of "Cassini", these regions were thought to be seas of liquid hydrocarbons. Radar images captured by the "Cassini" spacecraft have inste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47402 | 33,329 |
506,290 | There are several global advocacy groups working closely to educate newly affected families on care guidelines. The Joshua Frase Foundation is a comprehensive resource for care guidelines for Centronuclear myopathies. In the United States, children with congenital myopathies often receive therapy services through Early... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4960443 | 506,027 |
1,640,909 | IEDM brings together managers, engineers, and scientists from industry, academia, and government around the world to discuss nanometer-scale CMOS transistor technology, advanced memory, displays, sensors, MEMS devices, novel quantum and nanoscale devices using emerging phenomena, optoelectronics, power, energy harvesti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39219444 | 1,639,982 |
2,240,921 | The program trains directors and producers who are familiar with all parts of the movie-making process. Students in the SNHF Program produce works that range from documentary to experimental. Many of these student films have received festival awards, while others have been broadcast in many major venues such as PBS, Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20938646 | 2,239,650 |
782,024 | The growth of robotic capabilities during the decade happened in tandem with the centralization of economic power into the hands of large multinational tech companies, which has prompted concerns that the capabilities of these robots could be abused by the companies that make them available to consumers. The acquisitio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13946920 | 781,605 |
1,928,734 | Use of molecular genetic techniques to identify species can be useful for a number of reasons. Species identification in the wild can be used to detect changes in population ranges or site occupancy, rates of hybridization and the emergence and spread of pathogens and invasive species. Changes in population ranges have... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22237707 | 1,927,629 |
1,187,912 | Further research found support for the entire Five-Factor Model in Chinese, Dutch, Italian, Hungarian, German, Australian, South African, Canadian, Finnish, Polish, Portuguese, Israeli, Korean, Japanese, and Filipino samples, in addition to other samples. Across multiple studies, factor analyses of translations of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34997829 | 1,187,281 |
51,116 | Most terrestrial caecilians that lay eggs do so in burrows or moist places on land near bodies of water. The development of the young of "Ichthyophis glutinosus", a species from Sri Lanka, has been much studied. The eel-like larvae hatch out of the eggs and make their way to water. They have three pairs of external red... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=621 | 51,096 |
1,082,412 | After the publication of the "Guide", Evans concentrated on his work as a milling supply merchant and gaining financial security through licensing his patented designs. With enough millers now using Evans's machinery, adoption began to accelerate rapidly after 1800, as did his considerable wealth from the license fees.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=389929 | 1,081,856 |
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