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267,804 | In most situations, relativistic effects can be neglected, and Newton's laws give a sufficiently accurate description of motion. The acceleration of a body is equal to the sum of the forces acting on it, divided by its mass, and the gravitational force acting on a body is proportional to the product of the masses of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22498 | 267,660 |
224,849 | By early 1945, Chadwick was spending most of his time in Washington, D.C., and his family relocated from Los Alamos to a house on Washington's Dupont Circle in April 1945. He was present at the meeting of the Combined Policy Committee on 4 July when Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson gave Britain's agreement to us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174316 | 224,734 |
569,431 | "Philae" first contact with the comet occurred at 15:34:04 UTC SCET. The probe rebounded off the comet's surface at and rose to an altitude of approximately . For perspective, had the lander exceeded about , it would have escaped the comet's gravity. After detecting the touchdown, "Philae" reaction wheel was automatica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=524434 | 569,141 |
152,960 | Dieter Bohn of "The Verge" praised the new multitasking interface in Android Nougat, calling it "long overdue" for Android tablets. Although he initially found the implementation "confusing", he wrote that it worked well once he understood it properly, though he noted that "some apps don’t fully support split screen, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49702054 | 152,891 |
169,294 | About the time of his father's death, Cavendish began to work closely with Charles Blagden, an association that helped Blagden enter fully into London's scientific society. In return, Blagden helped to keep the world at a distance from Cavendish. Cavendish published no books and few papers, but he achieved much. Severa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=102338 | 169,204 |
1,467,618 | Though it has convened at various locations (including two years, 1990 and 2004, when the program was held concurrently on both coasts of the US, - at UC San Diego and The George Washington University in 1989-1991, and Caltech and MIT in 2004), the Institute is most often associated with MIT, where it has been held eve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1099545 | 1,466,795 |
1,869,720 | In 2004, early research on middleware that integrates GIS with high performance and distributed computing technologies laid the foundation for the subsequent research and development of cyberGIS. This middleware was called geo-middleware because it was tailored to solving geographic problems. Geo-middleware was aimed a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49858188 | 1,868,643 |
227,994 | In 1960, Kolmogorov organized a seminar on mathematical problems in cybernetics at the Moscow State University, where he stated the formula_5 conjecture and other problems in the complexity of computation. Within a week, Karatsuba, then a 23-year-old student, found an algorithm that multiplies two "n"-digit numbers in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6395589 | 227,877 |
66,536 | The idea of adding a fourth dimension began with Jean le Rond d'Alembert's "Dimensions" being published in 1754, was followed by Joseph-Louis Lagrange in the mid-1700s, and culminated in a precise formalization of the concept in 1854 by Bernhard Riemann. In 1880, Charles Howard Hinton popularized these insights in an e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1364622 | 66,511 |
141,787 | According to Adams, "Dwarf Fortress" is written in an "unsanctioned messy combination" of C and C++ using a free edition of Microsoft Visual Studio as the IDE. Adams did not use the 3D graphics which "Armok" had since its development was hampered because of it. He cited the ease in development of features like fluid si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7239234 | 141,729 |
873,160 | Neoteny is not a ubiquitous trait of the human phenotype. Human expression timing, compared to chimpanzee, has a completely different trajectory uncovering that there is no uniform shift in developmental timing. Humans undergo this neotenous shift once sexual maturity is reached. A question prompted by the Mehmet Somel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50773588 | 872,700 |
1,342,285 | Addiction psychiatry encompasses both medicine and psychotherapy, or professional therapeutic interaction, as the means of treating individuals. In a conventional addiction psychiatry session, addiction psychiatrists will gain a better understanding of their patient's lifestyle by gathering medical history and the pati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28734159 | 1,341,551 |
365,313 | In most ways, HEVC is an extension of the concepts in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. Both work by comparing different parts of a frame of video to find areas that are redundant, both within a single frame and between consecutive frames. These redundant areas are then replaced with a short description instead of the original pixels.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22163753 | 365,122 |
1,697,734 | Radiation therapy eliminates the microscopic cancer cells that may remain near the area where the tumor was surgically removed. The dose of radiation must be strong enough to ensure the elimination of cancer cells. However, radiation affects normal cells and cancer cells alike, causing some damage to the normal tissue ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13705018 | 1,696,780 |
602,699 | Osseointegration was first observed—albeit not explicitly stated—by Bothe, Beaton, and Davenport in 1940. Bothe et al. were the first researchers to implant titanium in an animal and remarked how it tended to fuse with bone. Bothe et al. reported that due to the elemental nature of the titanium, its strength, and its h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1176900 | 602,390 |
1,945,066 | Ocean acidification not only has impacts on aquatic life, but also on human communities and the overall livelihood of people living near these waters. For example, as a result of crustaceans being unable to produce their shells and skeletons due to reduced amounts of carbonate ions, populations such as crabs have signi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59096122 | 1,943,954 |
715,289 | Early Prussian reformers took major steps to abandon both serfdom and the line formation as early as 1807 and introduced mission-type tactics in the Prussian military in the same year. The latter enlarged freedom in execution of overall military strategies and had a major influence in the German and Prussian industrial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4206694 | 714,915 |
1,683,705 | It has been proven that a significant challenge of the twenty first century will be to establish effective links between urban morphologies, efficiency and resilience of urban place in the future. Urban resilience refers to the ability of an urban place to adapt, grow and evolve when it is placed under stress events. M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48914891 | 1,682,762 |
1,819,869 | Back-end Algorithms refers to the subjects that the user cannot interact with. In other words, it is the instructions for the computer: it is how everything works in the background. A recent study done by Seyed Alireza Fayazi and Ardalan Vahidi on the timing of pre-timed traffic signals in the presence of algorithmic q... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27733786 | 1,818,834 |
1,868,194 | "The Creative Gene" is an autobiographical book comprising a variety of short stories, essays and anecdotes encompassing Kojima's life, many of which focus on the various pop culture media Kojima developed an adoration for and how they have impacted him. One of the first essays in the book recounts Kojima's affinity fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72324805 | 1,867,118 |
30,187 | The U.S. National Comprehensive Cancer Network and American Society of Clinical Oncology provide guidelines for the follow-up of colon cancer. A medical history and physical examination are recommended every 3 to 6 months for 2 years, then every 6 months for 5 years. Carcinoembryonic antigen blood level measurements fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=206979 | 30,177 |
1,628,673 | Adopted from the early Christians in 30 AD, the term nurse was created from the Latin origin nutrire, which means to nurture or nourish. Establishing nursing as one of the oldest forms of healthcare and continues to be a growing field of medicine. Genetics, which is the study of inherited traits and their variation is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38429723 | 1,627,754 |
737,664 | Thermal drills, which cut ice by electrically heating the drill head, can also be used, but they have some disadvantages. Some have been designed for working in cold ice; they have high power consumption and the heat they produce can degrade the quality of the retrieved ice core. Early thermal drills, designed for use ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=426456 | 737,274 |
1,087,702 | In December 1992, during "Galileo" second gravity-assist planetary flyby of Earth, another groundbreaking experiment was performed. Optical communications in space were assessed by detecting light pulses from powerful lasers with "Galileo" CCD. The experiment, dubbed "Galileo" Optical Experiment or GOPEX, used two sepa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13077 | 1,087,143 |
528,989 | In most cases the mechanism of phototaxis is a biased random walk, analogous to bacterial chemotaxis. Halophilic archaea, such as "Halobacterium salinarum", use sensory rhodopsins (SRs) for phototaxis. Rhodopsins are 7 transmembrane proteins that bind retinal as a chromophore. Light triggers the isomerization of retina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17575156 | 528,715 |
1,274,599 | This framework makes it clear that there are at least two sources of variance that can influence observed scores on a measure: Not just the underlying trait (which is usually the goal of gathering the measurement in the first place), but also the method used to gather the measurement. The MTMM matrix uses two or more m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16082332 | 1,273,907 |
648,087 | In its original form the Prisoner's Dilemma Game (PDG) described two awaiting trial prisoners, A and B, each faced with the choice of betraying the other or remaining silent. The "game" has four possible outcomes: (a) they both betray each other, and are both sentenced to two years in prison; (b) A betrays B, which set... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2021591 | 647,746 |
1,370,738 | As in many of his previous pursuits, Burnet set an ambitious agenda for himself but ran into difficulties. He saw the Academy as the peak lobby group of the scientific community and their main liaison with government and industry. He tried to lift its profile and use it to persuade the political and industrial leadersh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=417493 | 1,369,982 |
2,142,739 | This approach to reduce variability incorporates covariates in the prediction model. The same predictive method may then be more generally applied, with covariates assuming different values for different levels of the factors shown to affect SD distribution (usually by affecting a location parameter, like the mean, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67412446 | 2,141,508 |
2,205,867 | Other DNA complexes being evaluated to enhance cytokine delivery include lipoplexes, polyplexes, and lipopolyplexes, which are complexes of lipids, polymers, and lipids with polymers, respectively. Polyehtyleneimine (PEI) is a highly cationic polymer that complexes with negatively charged DNA. PEI protects DNA from deg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70621516 | 2,204,610 |
2,108,911 | By late August two layers of fir beams had been laid down at right angles and attached to the foundations. This fir matrix was extended from the dock into the caisson lock. The immediate objective was to make a solid attachment between the heavy foundations of the dock, and those of the lock (Figure 3). The contractor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66553510 | 2,107,697 |
730,484 | After the arrival of Europeans to the Caribbean, the existence of both species of solenodon has been threatened by introduced species, like dogs, cats, rats, and mongooses, as well as more dense human settlement. These factors were possibly the catalyst for the relatively recent extinction of two species, the giant sol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=326193 | 730,099 |
905,040 | The term "echolocation" was coined by zoologist Donald Griffin in 1944; however, reports of blind humans being able to locate silent objects date back to 1749. Human echolocation has been known and formally studied since at least the 1950s. In earlier times, human echolocation was sometimes described as "facial vision"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=525667 | 904,564 |
1,630,990 | Malate synthases fall into two major families, isoforms A and G. Isoform G is monomeric with a size of about 80-kD and found exclusively in bacteria. Isoform A is about 65 kD per subunit and can form homomultimers in eukaryotes. This enzyme contains a central TIM barrel sandwiched between an N-terminal alpha-helical cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14543654 | 1,630,069 |
1,643,862 | Prior to SAROPS, SAR controllers in the U.S. Coast Guard used the Computer Assisted Search Planning (CASP) and Joint Automated Work Sheets (JAWS), which used dated search planning techniques and algorithms. More specifically, CASP was based on old computing technology and JAWS was taken directly from pen and pencil tec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20296660 | 1,642,935 |
1,876,452 | The Forests Commission also trialled an infra-red Pyro-vidicon tube system in a Bell Jetranger and Piper Seneca in early 1981 and then borrowed an Inframetrics Forward Looking Infra-Red (FLIR) from the US Forest Service in late 1981 for operations from a light helicopter. In 1982-83, there was an opportunity to test a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57882206 | 1,875,374 |
1,522,013 | The research group, headed by Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., tries to determine the role of information structure in explaining cross-linguistic differences in grammatical systems out of the idea that the interaction of pragmatics and grammar happens on several levels and differs from language to language. Another major tas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12749070 | 1,521,152 |
1,020,107 | When work on "Graf Zeppelin" was suspended in May 1940, the 12 completed Fi 167s were organized into "Erprobungsstaffel" 167 for the purpose of conducting further operational trials. By the time work on the carrier resumed two years later in May 1942, the Fi 167 was no longer considered adequate for its intended role a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12734316 | 1,019,580 |
989,091 | It was during the golden age of video arcade games that the idea of AI opponents was largely popularized, due to the success of "Space Invaders" (1978), which sported an increasing difficulty level, distinct movement patterns, and in-game events dependent on hash functions based on the player's input. "Galaxian" (1979)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1654769 | 988,575 |
681,718 | Repairs took two weeks, but the next flight attempt also ended in a crash, necessitating a further two weeks of repair work. On June 21 three flights without any breakages were achieved, but four days later the aircraft crashed again. These accidents were caused by the aircraft's pitch instability. Suspecting that this... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2812602 | 681,362 |
1,643,817 | The critics were divided over the merits of the concerto after the premiere. A reviewer in Boston wrote that the piece was "fine, warm and melodious", although more a rhapsody than a concerto. The critic thought the work superbly constructed, but old-fashioned: "what dissonance there is would not alarm an elderly aunt"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27425622 | 1,642,890 |
265,299 | Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator (JMR-TD) prototypes are to be built by two teams to replace Sikorsky UH-60 Blackhawks with Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA). The tilt-rotor FLRAA demonstrator by Bell is flying unmanned (October 2019); it logged 100 hours of flight testing by April 2019. Both Bell and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29347958 | 265,156 |
868,359 | On 15 May the "James Caird" made a run of about to a shingle beach near the head of the bay. Here the boat was beached and up-turned to provide a shelter. The location was christened "Peggotty Camp" (after Peggotty's boat-home in Charles Dickens's "David Copperfield"). Early on 18 May Shackleton, Worsley and Crean bega... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1048994 | 867,899 |
1,979,477 | In need of a complete change, he left Leipzig for Cincinnati, Ohio, where he taught at the College of Music of Cincinnati, and also organized a symphony orchestra. In 1889 he took up his old position at Hamburg, besides teaching at the Hamburg Conservatory. Subsequently he returned to America, becoming a teacher in New... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=530386 | 1,978,339 |
1,628,439 | Rodney S. "Rod" Ruoff is an American physical chemist and nanoscience researcher. He is one of the world experts on carbon materials including carbon nanostructures such as fullerenes, nanotubes, graphene, diamond, and has had pioneering discoveries on such materials and others. Ruoff received his B.S. in Chemistry fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26817130 | 1,627,520 |
1,768,680 | Due to the popularity of the book "The Way Things Work" by David Macaulay, Millimages pitched a concept for an educational television series with similar features to Schlessinger Media, who accepted the idea and agreed to distribute the programme to the BBC upon completion. Animation began in 1999, but the programme wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31523869 | 1,767,686 |
2,109,928 | From 1998 to 2000 he worked and researched at the John Innes Centre (JIC) in Norwich, UK, and dealt with drug resistance of fungi to antibiotics produced by plants and with natural fungicides from bacteria. He continued this work after moving to University College Cork in 2000, where he collaborated mainly with the Iri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60393080 | 2,108,714 |
410,685 | Patients with keratoconus typically present initially with mild astigmatism and myopia, commonly at the onset of puberty, and are diagnosed by the late teenage years or early 20s. The disease can, however, present or progress at any age; in rare cases, keratoconus can present in children or not until later adulthood. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=252630 | 410,483 |
366,448 | Helvetica is commonly used in transportation settings. New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) adopted Helvetica for use in signage in 1989. From 1970 to 1989, the standard font was Standard Medium, an American release of Akzidenz-Grotesk, as defined by Unimark's New York City Transit Authority Grap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=147375 | 366,256 |
17,252 | On 27 September 2006, the U.S. Congress was notified by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency that the United Kingdom was seeking to purchase a pair of MQ-9A Reapers. They were initially operated by No. 39 Squadron from Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, later moving to RAF Waddington. A third MQ-9A was in the process of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4769988 | 17,247 |
117,202 | "Greek Week" is a yearlong initiative for the Greek organizations on campus to raise money for different charitable organizations through different events. The two biggest events each year are the Pitt Dance Marathon and Greek Sing. Yearlong fundraising activities are also held to support such charitable organizations ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239870 | 117,157 |
698,349 | Christakis' third book, "Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society", was published by Little, Brown Spark in 2019 (). It made "The New York Times" Best Seller list in its debut week. It was widely and favorably reviewed. For instance, Bill Gates described the book as "optimistic and terrific." "Blueprint" e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21566523 | 697,985 |
330,653 | Nanoparticles in medicine are versatile in treating neurological disorders showing promising results in mediating drug transport across the blood brain barrier.<ref name="10.1016/j.lfs.2017.06.001"></ref> Implementing nanoparticles in antiepileptic drugs enhances their medical efficacy by increasing bioavailability in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21245 | 330,478 |
1,927,671 | Research during those early years was dominated by optical spectroscopy. In 1971 an IBM research group produced the first photoelectron spectra using Tantalus, a milestone in the development of photoemission spectroscopy as a research tool. The tunability of the radiation allowed researchers to disentangle a material's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10984862 | 1,926,567 |
7,200 | The ISS simplifies individual experiments by allowing groups of experiments to share the same launches and crew time. Research is conducted in a wide variety of fields, including astrobiology, astronomy, physical sciences, materials science, space weather, meteorology, and human research including space medicine and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15043 | 7,197 |
752,292 | On July 13, 2010, the South Korean Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs announced a pending partial-revision to the Korea Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (KMVSS), specifying that "TPMS shall be installed to passenger vehicles and vehicles of GVW 3.5 tons or less, ... [effective] on January 1, 2013 for new mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3684992 | 751,890 |
1,848,775 | In 2011, the government devoted just 10% of GDP to applied research, the bulk of funding going to experimental development (71%). The State Program for the Development of Intellectual Property and Innovation (2012−2016) sets out to foster advanced technologies, in order to modernize the economy. This program will be ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54244683 | 1,847,717 |
37,123 | The company paid a total of about $1.6 billion, around $800 million in each of the US and Germany. This was the largest bribery fine in history, at the time. The money paid to Germany included a $270 million fine paid the year before (related to bribes in Nigeria). The US payment included $450 million in fines and pena... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=168632 | 37,110 |
1,354,285 | Multifractal systems are common in nature. They include the length of coastlines, mountain topography, fully developed turbulence, real-world scenes, heartbeat dynamics, human gait and activity, human brain activity, and natural luminosity time series. Models have been proposed in various contexts ranging from turbulen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6498864 | 1,353,537 |
578,390 | Over their lifetimes, neither Cass nor Koopmans ever suggested that their results characterizing optimal growth in the one-sector, continuous-time growth model were anything other than "simultaneous and independent". That the issue of priority ever became a discussion point was due only to the fact that in the publishe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4701722 | 578,094 |
1,042,356 | Since free ion content determines tissue and fluid conductivity, muscle and blood will conduct the applied currents better than fat, bone or lung tissue. This property can be used to reconstruct static images by morphological or absolute EIT (a-EIT). However, in contrast to linear x-rays used in Computed Tomography, el... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=904056 | 1,041,813 |
1,032,923 | On the other hand, Kelly's fundamental view of people as naive scientists was incorporated into most later-developed forms of cognitive-behavioral therapy that blossomed in the late 70s and early 80s, and into intersubjective psychoanalysis which leaned heavily on Kelly's phenomenological perspective and his notion of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=434532 | 1,032,387 |
368,886 | Biogas which is mainly methane/natural gas can also be used for generating protein rich cattle, poultry and fish feed in villages economically by cultivating "Methylococcus capsulatus" bacteria culture with tiny land and water foot print. The carbon dioxide gas produced as by product from these plants can be put to use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54838 | 368,693 |
1,614,578 | Early implementations of the building block model in Australia in respect of electricity networks permitted the regulatory asset base to be periodically revalued, using a valuation methodology such as the depreciated optimised replacement cost (DORC). This approach does not in general ensure that the regulated firm wil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28391344 | 1,613,672 |
1,001,827 | Gibbs then extended his thermodynamic analysis to multi-phase chemical systems (i.e., to systems composed of more than one form of matter) and considered a variety of concrete applications. He described that research in a monograph titled "On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances", published by the Connecticut Ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37332 | 1,001,309 |
315,659 | The details of IETF operations have changed considerably as the organization has grown, but the basic mechanism remains publication of proposed specifications, development based on the proposals, review and independent testing by participants, and republication as a revised proposal, a draft proposal, or eventually as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15285 | 315,490 |
99,382 | Several of the city states in southern Italy allied with Hannibal, or were captured when pro-Carthaginian factions betrayed their defences. These included the large city of Capua and the major port city of Tarentum (modern Taranto). Two of the major Samnite tribes also joined the Carthaginian cause. By 214BC the bulk o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28563 | 99,339 |
2,024,614 | In addition, there are several other units operating at iDiv: In the sDiv Synthesis Centre, scientists from all over the world come together in so-called working groups in order to gain new insight from existing knowledge and data. The aim of the graduate school, yDiv (Young BioDiversity Research Training Group) is to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41336708 | 2,023,450 |
1,959,141 | The case of Aubrey Levin attracted international media attention, following the suspension of Levin's license by CPSA in March 2010. Levin, who has been identified as an alleged abuser of human rights for his role as Chief psychiatrist and team leader at South African Defence Force (SADF)'s drug rehabilitation program ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24149823 | 1,958,014 |
775,065 | However, in 2011 Lars Schmitz and Ryosuke Motani measured the dimensions of the sclerotic ring and eye socket in fossils specimens of dinosaurs and pterosaurs, as well as some living species. They noted that whereas photopic (diurnal) animals have smaller sclerotic rings, scotopic (nocturnal) animals tend to have more ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1064031 | 774,649 |
1,102,317 | Leyva won medals on several events at the Winter Cup, then won the American Cup in New York City. He placed 2nd in the all-around at the National Championships in Saint Louis, behind John Orozco. He defended his national titles on parallel bars and horizontal bar. He went on to compete in the Olympic Trials in San Jose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24717405 | 1,101,756 |
1,773,597 | Early meetings of scholars included a one-off meeting at Swansea, the series of conferences organized by IDG in Florence and the workshops organised by Charles Walter at the University of Houston in 1984 and 1985. In 1987 a biennial conference, the International Conference on AI and Law (ICAIL), was instituted. This co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1963923 | 1,772,600 |
2,156,831 | JADE was a particle detector at the PETRA particle accelerator at the German national laboratory DESY in Hamburg. It was operated from 1979 to 1986. JADE's most important scientific achievement was the discovery of the gluon in three-jet events. It also helped greatly in establishing quantum chromodynamics. JADE is an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4876951 | 2,155,600 |
323,064 | He met his wife, Katherine Anna Kang, at the 1997 QuakeCon when she visited id's offices. As a bet, Kang challenged Carmack to sponsor the first All Female Quake Tournament if she was able to produce a significant number of participants. Carmack predicted a maximum of 25 participants, but there were 1,500. Carmack and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38368 | 322,892 |
108,316 | Frailty is a geriatric condition which is characterized by diminished endurance, strength, and reduced physiological function that increases an individual's risk of mortality and impairs an individual from fulfilling an independent lifestyle. Frailty is associated with an increased vulnerability to fractures, falls fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12742560 | 108,271 |
747,603 | Invented in Brazil in the 1930s due to a lack of central gas distribution and used frequently since the 1940s, the electric shower is a home appliance often seen in South and Central American countries due to the higher costs of gas distribution, combined with households that in most cases do not support conventional w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=521801 | 747,207 |
1,939,309 | Since 2004, the Senseable City Lab has grown rapidly reaching 35 completed projects by 2009 with a turnover of 63 researchers from all over the world. Lab researchers have produced 166 scientific publications in high-impact academic journals such as "Eigenplaces: analysing cities using the space-time structure of the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25769718 | 1,938,199 |
1,757,397 | Several million years after "Orrorin tugenensis", australopithecines such as "Au. africanus" and "Au. afarensis" also practiced habitual bipedalism. These tree-dwellers were arboreal and inhabited the wooded areas of forest canopies. Some hominin in that time period still used knuckle walking, a practice common in othe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2728618 | 1,756,405 |
1,517,495 | Carbon nanotubes can be used as multifunctional biological transporters and near-infrared agents for selective cancer cell destruction. Biological systems are known to be highly transparent to 700- to 1,100-nm near-infrared (NIR) light. Researchers showed that the strong optical absorbance of single-walled carbon nanot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22444556 | 1,516,643 |
996,077 | Though 6 DoF modeling and software applications are used by professional well equipped organizations for decades, the computing power restrictions of mobile computing devices like (ruggedized) personal digital assistants, tablet computers or smartphones impaired field use as calculations generally have to be done on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=584911 | 995,559 |
383,226 | In the early years of the new millennium, three key technological advances transformed cartography: the removal of Selective Availability in the Global Positioning System (GPS) in May 2000, which improved locational accuracy for consumer-grade GPS receivers to within a few metres; the invention of OpenStreetMap in 2004... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7294 | 383,031 |
2,169,638 | Versteeg et al. also concluded that, contrary to Lerchers analysis, the transcription levels of many genes in RIDGEs (for example a cluster on chromosome 9) can vary strongly between different tissues. Lee et al. (2003) analyzed the trend of gene clustering between different species. They compared "Saccharomyces cerevi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21921749 | 2,168,400 |
1,943,556 | RNAIII is a stable 514 nt regulatory RNA transcribed by the P3 promoter of the "Staphylococcus aureus" quorum-sensing "agr" system ). It is the major effector of the "agr" regulon, which controls the expression of many "S. aureus" genes encoding exoproteins and cell wall associated proteins plus others encoding regulat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11421436 | 1,942,445 |
885,267 | This design relies on the evaporative process of water to cool the incoming air while simultaneously increasing the relative humidity. A saturated filter is placed at the supply inlet so the natural process of evaporation can cool the supply air. Apart from the energy to drive the fans, water is the only other resource... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6110795 | 884,803 |
1,423,839 | The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) was an American lunar science mission in NASA's Discovery Program which used high-quality gravitational field mapping of the Moon to determine its interior structure. The two small spacecraft GRAIL A (Ebb) and GRAIL B (Flow) were launched on 10 September 2011 aboard ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9274203 | 1,423,037 |
866,416 | By the 16th century the iconographic innovations and painterly techniques developed by van Eyck had become standard throughout northern Europe. Albrecht Dürer emulated van Eyck's precision. Painters enjoyed a new level of respect and status; patrons no longer simply commissioned works but courted the artists, sponsorin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=799881 | 865,956 |
1,475,359 | In its simplest form, a stopped-flow mixes two solutions. Small volumes of solutions are rapidly and continuously driven into a high-efficiency mixer. This mixing process then initiates an extremely fast reaction. The newly mixed solution travels to the observation cell and pushes out the contents of the cell (the solu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5679766 | 1,474,527 |
2,167,495 | Similarly, the fluid dynamic interaction of particles suspended in a flow were investigated. The drag forces exerted on the particles by the relative velocity by them and the flow were treated as additional forces acting on the particles. Therefore, these multiphase flow phenomena including a solid e.g.~particulate and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36079854 | 2,166,258 |
40,963 | The theory of evolution by natural selection was conceived independently by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in the mid-19th century and was set out in detail in Darwin's book "On the Origin of Species". Evolution by natural selection is established by observable facts about living organisms: (1) more offspring... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9236 | 40,948 |
12,893 | Israeli forces were by now pouring across the canal on two bridges, including one of Israeli design, and motorized rafts. Israeli engineers under Brigadier-General Dan Even had worked under heavy Egyptian fire to set up the bridges, and over 100 were killed and hundreds more wounded. The crossing was difficult because ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34276 | 12,888 |
877,161 | Schwinger had a mixed relationship with his colleagues, because he always pursued independent research, different from mainstream fashion. In particular, Schwinger developed the source theory, a phenomenological theory for the physics of elementary particles, which is a predecessor of the modern effective field theory.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=269980 | 876,699 |
69,129 | Building a computer with the required performance, size and weight demanded the use of transistors, which were at that time very expensive and not very reliable. Earlier efforts to use computers for guidance, BINAC and the system on the SM-64 Navaho, had failed and were abandoned. The Air Force and Autonetics spent mil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49365 | 69,102 |
513,493 | Included in this category of solenoids are the uniquely designed magnetic circuits that effect analog positioning of the solenoid plunger or armature as a function of coil current. These solenoids, whether axial or rotary, employ a flux carrying geometry that both produces a high starting force (torque), and has a sect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70037678 | 513,227 |
363,787 | The "Wright Flyer" was a canard biplane configuration, with a wingspan of , a camber of 1-20, a wing area of , and a length of . The right wing was longer because the engine was heavier than Orville or Wilbur. Unoccupied, the machine weighed . As with the gliders, the pilot flew lying on his stomach on the lower wing w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1045608 | 363,597 |
2,120,425 | Relations between East and West Pakistan had been tense since Partition. East Pakistan was plunged into turmoil on 12 November 1970 when Cylone Bhola struck Bengal with enormous loss of life and devastating impact on the community and economy. The Pakistani government, based in West Pakistan, was roundly condemned for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8370738 | 2,119,206 |
679,934 | Two papers appearing in 1994 presaged the deeper understanding of innate immune reactivity, dictating the subsequent nature of the adaptive immune response. The first came from transplant surgeons who conducted a prospective randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Administration of recombinant human superox... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17544970 | 679,580 |
135,253 | The conceptualization stages were important for Pei, presenting a need and an opportunity to break from the Bauhaus tradition. He later recalled the long periods of time he spent in the area: "I recalled the places I had seen with my mother when I was a little boy—the mountaintop Buddhist retreats. There in the Colorad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15155 | 135,198 |
1,649,241 | Hyman is currently studying the mechanisms by which cells compartmentalize their biochemistry. Of his many contributions to the field of molecular biology, he is best known for two discoveries in particular: In 2000, his team pioneered the use of RNA interference to define the “parts lists” for different cytoplasmic pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30011593 | 1,648,309 |
133,312 | In mathematics, the notion of complex numbers finally matured and led to a subsequent analytical theory; they also began the use of hypercomplex numbers. Karl Weierstrass and others carried out the arithmetization of analysis for functions of real and complex variables. It also saw rise to new progress in geometry beyo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400 | 133,259 |
895,430 | Recent experimental research has shown that kinesins, while moving along microtubules, interact with each other, the interactions being short range and weak attractive (1.6±0.5 KT). One model that has been developed takes into account these particle interactions, where the dynamic rates change accordingly with the ener... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=609808 | 894,959 |
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