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1,354,127 | The result of the formerly mentioned development on the WZ-1224 is the WZ-1226, a more conservative design with a round cast turret and more domestically produced parts. There are two tanks in this prototype stage: the WZ-1226 and the WZ-1226F2; the two tanks have no visible difference, the only significant difference ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43410769 | 1,353,379 |
1,676,441 | The ZBD patents included two other major interrelated innovations: one concerning the use of parallel connected, instead of series connected, utilization loads, the other concerning the ability to have high turns ratio transformers such that the supply network voltage could be much higher (initially 1,400 to 2,000 V) t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35639573 | 1,675,499 |
1,463,746 | In antebellum South Carolina trade was considered secondary to agriculture. Towns were reliant on nearby plantations and farms for business while planters could mostly rely on themselves for food and clothing if needed. In some districts, every farm was recorded as self-sufficient. But, in many areas of South Carolina,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21927183 | 1,462,923 |
1,400,594 | Biogerontology is the sub-field of gerontology concerned with the biological aging process, its evolutionary origins, and potential means to intervene in the process. The term "biogerontology" was coined by S. Rattan, and came in regular use with the start of the journal BIOGERONTOLOGY in 2000. It involves interdiscipl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=748539 | 1,399,807 |
264,081 | The specialisation and concentration of the workers on their single subtasks often leads to greater skill and greater productivity on their particular subtasks than would be achieved by the same number of workers each carrying out the original broad task, in part due to increased quality of production, but more importa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8824 | 263,938 |
585,274 | Towards the end of August 1942, the Luftwaffe began launching high-level bombing raids against England. A unit called the "Höhenkampfkommando der Versuchsstelle für Höhenflüge", equipped with a small number of Junkers Ju 86R bombers, was able to bomb England from above without impediment from RAF fighters, or from anti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15630676 | 584,974 |
1,466,243 | The building was officially and solemnly opened on 24 February 1952, when the Academy finally and permanently moved in into the building. In 1967, Samojlov did the design for the adaptation of the gallery on the corner of Knez Mihailova and Vuka Karadžića Street. Perfectly composed interior left room for additional imp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4705234 | 1,465,420 |
1,458,563 | Apart from his contributions to magazines and newspapers in the US and abroad, Gleiser writes a weekly science column for the Brazilian "Folha de S.Paulo" newspaper. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and currently serves as General Councilor. He has been awarded the Presidential Faculty Fellows Award fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2406519 | 1,457,743 |
611,803 | On flight day 10, the third spacewalk of the STS-134 mission was conducted. The spacewalk made use of a new spacewalk pre-breathe protocol, called In-Suit Light Exercise (ISLE), instead of the normal campout pre-breathe protocol. The new pre-breathe protocol had the astronauts breathe pure oxygen for 60 minutes in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18089765 | 611,492 |
1,555,373 | UIUC and its alumni are particularly well known for their contributions to engineering, including inventions such as the LED, plasma screen, and the integrated circuit. The library is notable both for being the largest public academic library in the country, with over forty departmental libraries, and for possessing ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=148541 | 1,554,490 |
1,740,814 | When a carbohydrate-rich food has been eaten before AMP has been eliminated from muscle cells, when bulk absorption starts, plenty of glucose becomes available in the blood, is taken up by muscle cells, is added to the glycogen store, but then immediately becomes liberated by the still up-regulated myophosphorylase. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=159670 | 1,739,833 |
762,222 | Although infringement remains a significant issue for copyright owners, the development of digital audio has had considerable benefits for consumers and labels. In addition to facilitating the high-volume, low-cost transfer and storage of digital audio files, this new technology has also powered an explosion in the ava... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4556078 | 761,814 |
810,220 | Past supernovae might be detectable on Earth in the form of metal isotope signatures in rock strata. Subsequently, iron-60 enrichment has been reported in deep-sea rock of the Pacific Ocean by researchers from the Technical University of Munich. Twenty-three atoms of this iron isotope were found in the top 2 cm of crus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1870708 | 809,788 |
1,572,542 | In 2004, Symyx Technologies acquired Intellichem, a software manufacturer for electronic laboratory notebooks and, in 2007 Symyx Technologies acquired MDL Information Systems (originally Molecular Design Limited, Inc.), a provider of R&D informatics in the chemistry and life sciences industries, which had been launched... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275883 | 1,571,654 |
345,059 | In 2012, physicist Harold White and collaborators announced that modifying the geometry of exotic matter could reduce the mass–energy requirements for a macroscopic space ship from the equivalent of the planet Jupiter to that of the Voyager 1 spacecraft (c. 700 kg) or less, and stated their intent to perform small-scal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37856 | 344,878 |
1,479,692 | Similar fossils were reported in 1902 from nearby Mount Field, another part of the Stephen formation. These may have been why Charles Doolittle Walcott visited Mount Field in 1909. While taking photographs there Walcott found a slab of fossils that he described as "Phyllopod crustaceans". From late August to early Sept... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22547077 | 1,478,859 |
323,981 | The transition from aerobic to anaerobic metabolism during intense work requires that several systems are rapidly activated to ensure a constant supply of ATP for the working muscles. These include a switch from fat-based to carbohydrate-based fuels, a redistribution of blood flow from nonworking to exercising muscles,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=380541 | 323,809 |
345,128 | The use of phages has continued since the end of the Cold War in Russia, Georgia, and elsewhere in Central and Eastern Europe. The first regulated, randomized, double-blind clinical trial was reported in the "Journal of Wound Care" in June 2009, which evaluated the safety and efficacy of a bacteriophage cocktail to tre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4185 | 344,947 |
738,793 | The other key steps in the recent MBR development were the acceptance of modest fluxes (25 percent or less of those in the first generation), and the idea to use two-phase bubbly flow to control fouling. The lower operating cost obtained with the submerged configuration along with the steady decrease in the membrane co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16743975 | 738,402 |
1,191,621 | Within the first two weeks, the IAF had carried out more than 4,000 sorties in East Pakistan and provided successful air cover for the advancing Indian army in East Pakistan. IAF also assisted the Indian Navy in sinking several Pakistani naval vessels in the Bay of Bengal. In the west, the airforce demolished scores of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9196710 | 1,190,986 |
1,215,028 | According to the Oxford dictionary, deviance can be defined as "departing from usual or accepted standards, especially in social or sexual behavior." The power to label behavior as "deviant" arises partly from the unequal distribution of power within the state, and because the judgment carries the authority of the stat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3849813 | 1,214,376 |
1,258,582 | The astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini, who made many important discoveries about the Solar System; the physicist Alessandro Volta, who invented the electric battery, thus providing for the first time a sustained source of current electricity; the mathematicians Giuseppe Peano, Lagrange, Fibonacci, and Gerolamo Carda... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23296431 | 1,257,895 |
41,048 | The crucial break from the concept of constant typological classes or types in biology came with the theory of evolution through natural selection, which was formulated by Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace in terms of variable populations. Darwin used the expression "descent with modification" rather than "evolution". ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9236 | 41,033 |
95,186 | In 1928, Popper earned a doctorate in psychology, under the supervision of Karl Bühler—with Moritz Schlick being the second chair of the thesis committee. His dissertation was titled "Zur Methodenfrage der Denkpsychologie" ("On Questions of Method in the Psychology of Thinking"). In 1929, he obtained an authorisation t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16623 | 95,145 |
1,637,480 | While crater counting has been refined in past years to be an accurate method of determining surface age of a planet despite a lack of isotopic samples, there is dissension in the planetary scientific community concerning the acceptance of crater counting as a precise and accurate form of geochronology. This method is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7985592 | 1,636,555 |
601,858 | By mid-2014, the Navy had shifted the concept of the UCLASS for a third time. In 2006, it was envisioned to extend the inland reach of carriers beyond manned aircraft. In 2011, that was altered to a cheaper design that would act as a carrier ISR asset without the rest of the air wing that could also be used to hunt dow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39092723 | 601,549 |
1,838,806 | However, the Hadley cell is weak during the summer months when the anticyclones still exist and dryness often reaches its peak in the deserts, and the latitudes of the Sahara coincide with these of wet climates. Mark J. Rodwell and Brian J. Hoskins in 1996 proposed that instead, a Gill-type response to the Asian monsoo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68737496 | 1,837,757 |
37,878 | Appreciation of the JSDF continued to grow in the 1980s, with over half of the respondents in a 1988 survey voicing an interest in the JSDF and over 76% indicating that they were favourably impressed. Although the majority (63.5%) of respondents were aware that the primary purpose of the JSDF was maintenance of nationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2785204 | 37,865 |
2,213,436 | On 24 July 1896, Reynolds and Branson attended the Photographic Convention of the United Kingdom at Leeds. The firm was represented in various sessions. During the session on Orthochromatic Photography, Branson gave a presentation on X-ray apparatus that included a well received demonstration and repeated as follows:“.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49400566 | 2,212,176 |
1,280,064 | The entire western portion of North America was being deformed from the Laramide orogeny starting around 70 million years ago. Gradually during millions of years, crustal rocks were folded and fractured and the seas driven away. This same bending and breaking of rocks relieved pressure on the hot material beneath the E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=345245 | 1,279,369 |
1,613,943 | Junior year students attend classes from 7:45 a.m. until 2:45 p.m, followed by extracurricular activities until 4 PM. Mandatory classes include Mathematical Modeling, Physics, Humanities, Computer Science, STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math), Science and Technical Writing, and Foreign Language. STEM I is a c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1950200 | 1,613,038 |
276,081 | The first year of Atari VCS sales were modest and limited by Atari's own supply. While many of initial games were arcade conversions of Atari arcade games, the second wave of games in 1983 were more abstract and difficult to promote. Warner placed Ray Kassar, a former vice president of Burlington Industries, to help wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77245 | 275,931 |
1,472,896 | Bone loss is best treated by correction of the underlying cause. Patients should undergo evaluation of bone marrow density using a DEXA scan and started on Vitamin D and calcium supplementation. If menstruation does not resume after 6 months with reasonable trial of non-pharmaceutical management, loss of bone mass beco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15738568 | 1,472,065 |
564,550 | Irwin moved on to landscape projects after developing a stylistic move towards experiential space, projecting what he learned about line, color, and most of all, light onto the built environment. Since 1975 Irwin has conceived of fifty-five site projects. "9 Spaces 9 Trees" (1980–3) originally was commissioned in 1980 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=645174 | 564,260 |
933,245 | After a serious accident, the Western Railroad of Massachusetts put in place a system of responsibility for district managers and dispatchers to keep track of all train movements. Discipline was essential—everyone had to follow the rules exactly to prevent accidents. Decision-making powers had to be distributed to ensu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=587997 | 932,753 |
1,007,881 | McDonnell test pilot Edwin Foresman Schoch was assigned to the project, riding in the XF-85 while it was stowed aboard the EB-29B, before attempting a "free" flight on 23 August 1948. After Schoch was released from the bomber at a height of 20,000 ft (6,000 m), he completed a 10-minute proving flight at speeds between ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=307179 | 1,007,361 |
851,105 | As IUA frequently reform after surgery, techniques have been developed to prevent recurrence of adhesions. Methods to prevent adhesion reformation include the use of mechanical barriers (Foley catheter, saline-filled balloon uterine stents, gel barriers (Seprafilm, Spraygel, autocrosslinked hyaluronic acid gel Hyalobar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1402675 | 850,652 |
2,020,984 | In 1928, Alwin Walther was appointed professor of mathematics at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt. Walther established the Institute for Practical Mathematics (IPM) there, which was part of the Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. In Germany, the beginnings of computer science go back to this institute. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62391933 | 2,019,821 |
33,021 | During World War II approximately 40 B-17s were captured and refurbished by Germany after crash-landing or being forced down, with about a dozen put back into the air. Given German "Balkenkreuz" national markings on their wings and fuselage sides, and ""Hakenkreuz"" swastika tail fin-flashes, the captured B-17s were us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4997 | 33,009 |
777,634 | From the late 1970s, the popularity of modern digital circuitry rapidly grew. As the technology developed, with ever-faster switching speeds (increasing emissions) and lower circuit voltages (increasing susceptibility), EMC increasingly became a source of concern. Many more nations became aware of EMC as a growing prob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41093 | 777,217 |
1,165,683 | The 2005–06 season was UNO's most successful to date. The team used a ten-game unbeaten streak in January and February to finish 20–12–6 to earn their first ever berth in the NCAA Tournament. Parse set team records with 41 assists and 61 points and was UNO's first Hobey Baker Award finalist. Following the season, Parse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22283832 | 1,165,066 |
361,564 | Multiplayer online battle arena games (MOBA) have originated as a subgenre of real-time strategy games, however this fusion of real-time strategy, role-playing, and action games has lost many traditional RTS elements. These type of games moved away from constructing additional structures, base management, army building... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77251 | 361,374 |
368,360 | The original method of diagnosing rheumatic heart disease was through heart auscultation, specifically listening for the sound of blood regurgitation from possibly dysfunctional valves. However, studies have shown that echocardiography is much more efficient in detecting RHD due to its high sensitivity. An echocardiogr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=412735 | 368,167 |
1,398,795 | The function and importance of sound in the environment may not be fully appreciated unless one adopts an organismal perspective on sound perception, and, in this way, soundscape ecology is also informed by sensory ecology. Sensory ecology focuses on understanding the sensory systems of organisms and the biological fun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31352483 | 1,398,022 |
247,902 | In August 1949, the company finally proposed to cut 10% of wages and cut retirement pay in half. As a result, the company promised not to dismiss employees, instead of accepting a 10% wage reduction. Under this circumstance, the other car companies laid down their workforce. For example, at Nihon Denso (currently Denso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4670679 | 247,774 |
823,811 | The fullest expression of the Indonesian army's founding doctrines is found in Abdul Haris Nasution's 1953 "Fundamentals of Guerrilla Warfare". The work is a mix of reproduced strategic directives from 1947 to 1948, Nasution's theories of guerrilla warfare, his reflections on the period just past (post-Japanese occupat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22634688 | 823,368 |
352,254 | The ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and pterosaur she found, along with the first dinosaur fossils which were discovered by Gideon Mantell and William Buckland during the same period, showed that during previous eras the Earth was inhabited by creatures different from those living today, and provided important support for a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38334 | 352,071 |
450,164 | In the early 2000s, scholars noted a lack of theory and conceptual frameworks to inform and guide research and teacher preparation in technology integration. The classic definition of PCK proposed by Shulman included one dynamic and complex relationship between two different knowledge bodies: content knowledge and peda... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52738128 | 449,945 |
581,951 | The Tom Van Flandern model was first proposed in 1993 in the first edition of his book. In the revised version from 1999 and later, the original Solar System had six pairs of twin planets, and each fissioned off from the equatorial bulges of an overspinning Sun, where outward centrifugal forces exceeded the inward grav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17052696 | 581,653 |
1,011,486 | It is commonly believed that good information management is crucial to the smooth working of organisations, and although there is no commonly accepted theory of information management "per se", behavioural and organisational theories help. Following the behavioural science theory of management, mainly developed at Carn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=464877 | 1,010,965 |
1,902,888 | The growth seen under the Rogers administration was curtailed by the United States' involvement in World War II following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Throughout 1943 enrollment dropped and the school's military program was halved. In spite of the declining enrollment and economic hardship Rogers worked... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38647111 | 1,901,797 |
1,477,475 | There are many things to be considered prior to surgical treatment in order to decide which technique will have the best outcome. When determining an approach for surgical approaches, clinicians must establish the correct diagnosis of the lesion to make sure there isn’t treatment being done on healthy (vital) teeth. It... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59666991 | 1,476,643 |
1,958,209 | Many dinosaur species in North America during the Late Cretaceous had "remarkably small geographic ranges" despite their large body size and high mobility. Large herbivores like ceratopsians and hadrosaurs exhibited the most obvious endemism, which strongly contrasts with modern mammalian faunas whose large herbivores'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31430681 | 1,957,085 |
778,202 | Let us imagine that an absolutely unbiased investigator on another planet, perhaps on Mars, is examining human behavior on earth, with the aid of a telescope whose magnification is too small to enable him to discern individuals and follow their separate behavior, but large enough for him to observe occurrences such as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17077 | 777,785 |
577,152 | Progress on loudspeaker enclosure design and analysis using acoustic analogous circuits by academic acousticians like Harry F. Olson continued until 1954 when Leo L. Beranek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published "Acoustics", a book summarizing and extending the electroacoustics of the era. J. F. Novak ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1311933 | 576,856 |
411,732 | Others have suggested that Tyrsenian languages may yet be distantly related to early Indo-European languages, such as those of the Anatolian branch. More recently, Robert S. P. Beekes argued in 2002 that the people later known as the Lydians and Etruscans had originally lived in northwest Anatolia, with a coastline to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9455 | 411,530 |
264,382 | In 1984, a Beaker period copper dagger blade was recovered from the Sillees River near Ross Lough, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. The flat, triangular-shaped copper blade was long, with bevelled edges and a pointed tip, and featured an integral tang that accepted a riveted handle. Flint arrow-heads and copper-blad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=263746 | 264,239 |
2,177,602 | The rapid technological advances of the U.S. rocket industry during World War II, accomplished primarily through the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) and its cadre of leading scientists, produced a substantial foundation of technical reports and data on solid rockets, propellants, and ballis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15381860 | 2,176,357 |
1,061,389 | "Blastomyces dermatitidis" is one of the most ecologically mysterious organisms causing human and animal disease. Prediction of disease risk and prevention of disease are both made extraordinarily difficult by our very poor understanding of where and how this organism normally grows in nature. Despite decades of attemp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12618169 | 1,060,836 |
869,492 | Increasingly, exosomes are being recognized as potential therapeutics as they have the ability to elicit potent cellular responses "in vitro" and "in vivo". Exosomes mediate regenerative outcomes in injury and disease that recapitulate observed bioactivity of stem cell populations. Mesenchymal stem cell exosomes were f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9577488 | 869,032 |
2,005,699 | Discovery and validation of protein biomarkers are crucial for diseases diagnosis. Coupling of SPRM with MALDI-mass spectrometer (SUPRA-MS) enables the multiplex quantification of binding and molecular characterization on the basis of different masses. SUPRA-MS is used to detect, identify and characterize the potential... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47482842 | 2,004,550 |
329,222 | LCDs are used in a wide range of applications, including LCD televisions, computer monitors, instrument panels, aircraft cockpit displays, and indoor and outdoor signage. Small LCD screens are common in LCD projectors and portable consumer devices such as digital cameras, watches, digital clocks, calculators, and mobil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17932 | 329,047 |
1,498,583 | Since 80 to 90% of newborns with transient myeloproliferative disease recover within ~3 months (organ enlargement make take longer to resolve), treatment is generally restricted to cases with life-threatening complications. These complications include severe: a) hydrops fetalis; b) increases in circulating white blood ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68511227 | 1,497,739 |
988,295 | Breuer was awarded the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects at their 100th annual convention in 1968 at Portland, Oregon. In an ironic timing of events, it coincided with general criticism of one of America's favorite architects for his willingness to design a multi-story office building on top of Grand C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1174550 | 987,779 |
977,390 | Speculation about animal intelligence gradually yielded to scientific study after Darwin placed humans and animals on a continuum, although Darwin's largely anecdotal approach to the cognition topic would not pass scientific muster later on. This method would be expanded by his protégé George J. Romanes, who played a k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=425938 | 976,879 |
958,222 | The idea of ethnobotany was first proposed by the early 20th century botanist John William Harshberger. While Harshberger did perform ethnobotanical research extensively, including in areas such as North Africa, Mexico, Scandinavia, and Pennsylvania, it was not until Richard Evans Schultes began his trips into the Amaz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=571941 | 957,716 |
95,504 | Diffusion of carbon dioxide and oxygen is approximately 10,000 times slower in water than in air. When soils are flooded, they quickly lose oxygen, becoming hypoxic (an environment with O concentration below 2 mg/liter) and eventually completely anoxic where anaerobic bacteria thrive among the roots. Water also influen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9630 | 95,463 |
739,979 | The 1900 NW Rennzweier was one of the first race cars with mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout. Other known historical examples include the 1923 Benz Tropfenwagen. It was based on an earlier design named the Rumpler Tropfenwagen in 1921 made by Edmund von Rumpler, an Austrian engineer working at Daimler. The Benz Tropf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=816369 | 739,587 |
2,023,192 | Rather infamously, from a Penn State perspective, the former Lady Icers team struggled mightily with perennial contender Rhode Island while both were ECWHL members from 2003–12, with the Rams owning a 34–2–1 record against PSU during that time. Early in the Women's Ice Hockey Club's first ACHA Division 1 season, the ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51386378 | 2,022,028 |
483,752 | Musgrave's and Hoffman's first task was to replace the solar array drive electronics and they began the SADE(?) operation while ground controllers initiated the first step in solar array deployment by commanding the Primary Drive Mechanism (PDM). "Endeavour" was placed in free drift to disable any RCS firings that coul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=504305 | 483,505 |
779,186 | For example, a skater could successfully complete a jump by making small changes to their arm position partway through the rotation, and a small bend in the hips and knees allows a skater "to land with a lower center of mass than they started with, perhaps seeking out a few precious degrees of rotation and a better bod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39685 | 778,769 |
1,906,509 | Based on a model at the University of Notre Dame, QuarkNet has offered a summer student research program since 2004. Typically, teams of four high school students supervised by one teacher spend six weeks involved in various physics research projects. Some centers choose to modify this model, involving more students an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9208413 | 1,905,413 |
1,176,697 | The global biomass of gelatinous zooplankton (sometimes referred to as "jelly‐C") within the upper 200 m of the ocean amounts to 0.038 Pg C. Calculations for mesozooplankton (200 μm to 2 cm) suggest about 0.20 Pg C. The short life span of most gelatinous zooplankton, from weeks up to 2 to 12 months, suggests biomass‐pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14562495 | 1,176,075 |
751,629 | Some researchers have misinterpreted ecological footprint accounting as a social theory or a policy guideline, while in reality it is merely a metric that adds up human demands that compete for the planet's regenerative capacity. Examples of such confusions include Grazi "et al." (2007) who performed a systematic compa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=301500 | 751,231 |
1,992,165 | AutoTutor is an intelligent tutoring system developed by researchers at the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis, including Arthur C. Graesser that helps students learn Newtonian physics, computer literacy, and critical thinking topics through tutorial dialogue in natural language. AutoTutor d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17397954 | 1,991,022 |
2,018,685 | The research mission of the institute is to design and investigate technologies that enhance social compatibility and long-term market success. The social compatibility of IT systems references the ability of IT systems to support basic human values and rights. These values and rights include privacy, security, autonom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36167150 | 2,017,522 |
797,707 | Zoltán Kodály (1882–1967) was a prominent Hungarian music educator, philosopher, and composer who highlighted the benefits of sensory perception, physical instruction, and response to music. In reality it is not an educational method, it is an innovative system of literacy and musical training, which proposes that musi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2025792 | 797,282 |
740,743 | The control chart was invented by Walter A. Shewhart working for Bell Labs in the 1920s. The company's engineers had been seeking to improve the reliability of their telephony transmission systems. Because amplifiers and other equipment had to be buried underground, there was a stronger business need to reduce the freq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=435754 | 740,351 |
422,080 | In August 1914 on the outbreak of World War I Blackett was assigned to active service as a midshipman. He was transferred to the Cape Verde Islands on HMS "Carnarvon" and was present at the Battle of the Falkland Islands. He was then transferred to HMS "Barham" and saw much action at the Battle of Jutland. While on HMS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=326834 | 421,874 |
432,719 | YACs are significantly less stable than BACs, producing "chimeric effects": artifacts where the sequence of the cloned DNA actually corresponds not to a single genomic region but to multiple regions. Chimerism may be due to either co-ligation of multiple genomic segments into a single YAC, or recombination of two or mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=394765 | 432,506 |
867,728 | Blizzard Entertainment developed the remaster over a year. The game's original artist returned to assist with development. Professional "StarCraft" players from South Korea, including Flash, Bisu, and Jaedong, gave the company feedback during several playtests . Blizzard's president publicly announced the remaster in l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53599061 | 867,268 |
1,732,195 | Historian Tonio Andrade supports the gun transmission theory, noting that while records of gunpowder weapons and their evolution into the gun exist in China, "there are no records of any such developments in Europe," and that the arrival of the gun in Europe was such that it "appears fully formed around 1326." This is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61793153 | 1,731,219 |
1,099,715 | By 2019 methods in eDNA research had been expanded to be able to assess whole communities from a single sample. This process involves metabarcoding, which can be precisely defined as the use of general or universal polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers on mixed DNA samples from any origin followed by high-throughput ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66619486 | 1,099,155 |
1,086,651 | For centuries hashish and marijuana from the Indian hemp "Cannabis sativa" L. have been used for medicinal and recreational purposes. In 1840, Schlesinger S. was apparently the first investigator to obtain an active extract from the leaves and flowers of hemp. A few years later, in 1848, Decourtive E. described the pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20207596 | 1,086,093 |
1,817,083 | In 1977 JARE approached Yosio Suzuki, who had been involved with JARE drilling in the early 1970s, and asked him to design a method of placing 1.5m of dynamite below 50 m in the Antarctic ice sheet, in order to perform some seismic surveys. Suzuki designed two drills, ID-140 and ID-140A, to drill holes with 140 mm diam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56017314 | 1,816,048 |
4,941 | The sole foreign customer for the Tomcat was the Imperial Iranian Air Force, during the reign of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In the early 1970s, the Imperial Iranian Air Force (IIAF) was searching for an advanced fighter, specifically one capable of intercepting Soviet MiG-25 reconnaissance flights. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11719 | 4,939 |
705,959 | In the United States hearing is one of the health outcomes measure by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a survey research program conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. It examines health and nutritional status of adults and children in the United States. While there is no ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6894544 | 705,590 |
908,783 | Early in the development of DTI based tractography, a number of researchers pointed out a flaw in the diffusion tensor model. The tensor analysis assumes that there is a single ellipsoid in each imaging voxel— as if all of the axons traveling through a voxel traveled in exactly the same direction. This is often true, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2574377 | 908,304 |
1,592,682 | "Xanthomonas arboricola" has an extraordinarily destructive potential when infecting crops. It is the most devastating blight on walnut, and can cause up to 100% yield loss if not properly managed. Its host range threatens stone fruits and other nuts. Epidemics have been reported in countries such as The United States,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11291959 | 1,591,785 |
631,855 | The "thought variant" policy may have been introduced for publicity, rather than as a real attempt to define the sort of fiction Tremaine was looking for; the early "thought variant" stories were not always very original or well executed. Ashley describes the first, Nat Schachner's "Ancestral Voices", as "not amongst S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18932608 | 631,517 |
1,194,887 | Vibrational spectroscopy, or infrared (IR) spectroscopy, allows for the identification of functional groups and, due to its low expense and robustness, is often used in teaching labs and the real-time monitoring of reaction progress in difficult to reach environments (high pressure, high temperature, gas phase, phase b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11304514 | 1,194,247 |
1,104,361 | The TL is the theoretical ideal, and one of the most complex constructions, with which to load a moving-coil drive unit. The most common and practical implementation is to fit a drive unit to the end of a long duct that is usually open at the far end. In practice, the duct is folded inside a conventional shaped cabinet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44224558 | 1,103,798 |
1,316,507 | Nanocellulose based renewable material has a combination of high surface area with high material strength. It is chemically inert and possesses versatile hydrophilic surface chemistry. These properties make them a most promising nanomaterial for usage as a membrane and filter in water purification systems to remove bac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55566398 | 1,315,782 |
1,432,785 | Dr. Gill Pratt, Program Manager DARPA Robotics Challenge described DARPA and its goals with the Robotics Challenge:DARPA's role is to spur innovation. And we do it by focused, short term efforts. We pick things that are not impossible, but also not very low risk. So we take very high risk gambles, and those risks have ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37423155 | 1,431,981 |
19,642 | In the 1962 Marsh Chapel Experiment, which was run by Pahnke at the Harvard Divinity School under the supervision of Timothy Leary, almost all of the graduate degree divinity student volunteers who received psilocybin reported profound religious experiences. One of the participants was religious scholar Huston Smith, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38468 | 19,634 |
1,092,831 | Barabási is one of the founders of network medicine, a term he coined in a scientific article entitled "Network Medicine – From Obesity to the "Diseasome", published in The New England Journal of Medicine, in 2007. His work introduced the concept of diseasome, or disease network, showing how diseases are connected thro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1554371 | 1,092,271 |
305,234 | In 1965, Wenyuan wrote a thinly veiled attack on the deputy mayor of Beijing, Wu Han. Over the six months that followed, on behalf of ideological purity, Mao and his supporters purged many public figures, Liu Shao-chi among them. By the middle of 1966, Mao had not only put himself back into the centre of things, he had... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 305,071 |
551,824 | The driving force in designing new polymers is the prospect of replacing other materials of construction, especially metals, by using lightweight and heat-resistant polymers. The advantages of lightweight polymers include: high strength, solvent and chemical resistance, contributing to a variety of potential uses, such... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1786719 | 551,536 |
934,545 | Perhaps the first of these objective systems was the development of the cent as a definitive unit of pitch by phonetician and mathematician Alexander J. Ellis (1885). Ellis made notable contributions to the foundations of comparative musicology and ultimately ethnomusicology with the creation of the cents system; in fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80077 | 934,053 |
1,122,463 | The oral ingestion of live bacterial cell colonies has been proposed and is currently in therapy for the modulation of intestinal microflora, prevention of diarrheal diseases, treatment of "H. Pylori" infections, atopic inflammations, lactose intolerance and immune modulation, amongst others. The proposed mechanism of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4630125 | 1,121,889 |
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