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1,977,915 | Metal powders have been considered as alternative fuels for air-breathing engines because of their large energy content per unit mass and per unit volume in comparison to liquid hydrocarbon fuels. Although hydrogen has a larger energy content per unit mass than metal fuels, hydrogen fuel needs to be stored at very high... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43208165 | 1,976,777 |
1,204,013 | Another widely publicized feat was the Moscow–San Jacinto non-stop flight in a backup aircraft just three weeks after Chkalov's. , via the North Pole, covered and ended in a dairy pasture outside of San Jacinto, California, after they had encountered fog conditions in San Diego and as far inland as March Air Force base... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12729045 | 1,203,368 |
200,451 | Robertson reported that DBS had been used on 55 adults by 2011, remained an experimental treatment at that time, and recommended that the procedure "should only be conducted by experienced functional neurosurgeons operating in centres which also have a dedicated Tourette syndrome clinic". According to Malone "et al." (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=370268 | 200,348 |
96,760 | This theory is false. RF current does tend to flow on the surface of conductors due to skin effect, but the depth to which it penetrates, called "skin depth", depends on the resistivity and permeability of the material as well as the frequency. Although skin effect limits currents of Tesla coil frequencies to the outer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39113 | 96,719 |
987,171 | Group members' social sensitivity was measured via the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RME) and correlated .26 with "c". Hereby, participants are asked to detect thinking or feeling expressed in other peoples' eyes presented on pictures and assessed in a multiple choice format. The test aims to measure peoples' theo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20756850 | 986,655 |
1,629,948 | The book argues that the "g" factor shows considerable practical validity. It is related to a large number of economically, educationally, and socially valued attributes. It is a particularly good predictor of academic and job-related outcomes. It stresses the difference between "g" and what it calls "vehicles" of "g".... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2177480 | 1,629,029 |
170,158 | The mat can be no thicker than four inches nor thinner than a mat with the shock-absorbing qualities of a hair-felt mat. Inside the outer circle is usually an inner circle about 10 feet in diameter, designated by the use of contrasting colors or a line, although this is no longer specified by the "NCAA Wrestling Rules ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=622572 | 170,068 |
712,766 | Diagnosis is firstly clinical through history and examination usually with a Slit-lamp. If characteristic features are found the investigations undertaken will depend on locally available equipment and may include Scanning laser ophthalmoscopy which highlights areas of autofluorescence which are associated with retinal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5574218 | 712,394 |
670,984 | While several ships bombarded secondary targets and others were deployed to the south to screen for Italian ships that could be steaming north from Taranto, the core of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, spearheaded by the ships of the "Tegetthoff" class, made their way to Ancona. The bombardment across the province of Ancona ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1089216 | 670,632 |
1,352,087 | The fuel consists of uranium rods 5 millimeters in diameter and 33 cm (13 inches) long . Enriched to 67% uranium-235 when fresh, the concentration dropped to approximately 65% upon removal. The rods also contained 10% zirconium. Each fuel element is placed inside a thin-walled stainless steel tube along with a small am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2966756 | 1,351,341 |
1,662,635 | The TOD clock's internal circuitry is designed to be driven by either a 50 or 60 Hz sine wave signal. As used in the C-64 and C-128(D), the computer's power supply supplied such a signal from the mains, resulting in a stable timekeeper with little long-term drift. The ability to work with both power line frequencies al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3391484 | 1,661,700 |
435,901 | Particularly controversial was Calhoun College, named for John C. Calhoun, a leading slavery apologist and secessionist in Congress before the American Civil War. Calhoun represented the slave-holding state of South Carolina in Congress for slightly over three decades. Arguments for renaming Calhoun College in particul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22767677 | 435,687 |
355,535 | Pulse-width modulation (PWM), or pulse-duration modulation (PDM), is a method of reducing the average power delivered by an electrical signal, by effectively chopping it up into discrete parts. The average value of voltage (and current) fed to the load is controlled by turning the switch between supply and load on and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=81242 | 355,352 |
1,837,126 | The installation features or illustrates mathematical concepts at many different levels. All of the participants regard "recreational mathematics"—especially when it has a strong visual component—as having an important role in education and in culture in general. Jessica Sklar maintains that "mathematics is, at heart, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70985345 | 1,836,077 |
162,145 | A major goal of the Tariff Reform League was the foundation of an Imperial Customs Union, which would create a closed trade bloc in the British Empire and, it was hoped, fully integrate the economies of Britain and her overseas possessions. Under such an arrangement, Britain would maintain a reciprocal relationship whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,060 |
1,135,222 | The Japanese spacecraft Kaguya confirmed the existence of both Uranium and Thorium near the lunar surface, which might in the future allow for the local production of nuclear fission fuel from lunar resources. However, concentrations are relatively low and unless the thorium fuel cycle is used, uranium would likely hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6386475 | 1,134,629 |
1,155,364 | Any formula_2-adic integer (an element of formula_71, not to be confused with formula_72) can be written as a power series formula_73, where the formula_74 are usually taken from the integer interval formula_75. It is hard to provide an algebraic expression for addition and multiplication using this representation, as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5573710 | 1,154,754 |
933,438 | According to Tarnow's theory, long-term memories are stored in dream format (reminiscent of Penfield & Rasmussen's findings that electrical excitations of the cortex give rise to experiences similar to dreams). During waking life an executive function interprets long-term memory consistent with reality checking . It is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17995 | 932,946 |
2,100,287 | In 1951 he was made Emeritus Professor when he resigned to become Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and of the Museum of Practical Geology (1951–60). He commenced the task of producing a geological map of the country and was also responsible for the Water Department and the Atomic Energy Division. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46579179 | 2,099,077 |
541,423 | Additionally, Militarev identified a Cushitic substratum in Modern South Arabian, which he proposes is evidence that Cushitic speakers originally inhabited the Arabian Peninsula alongside Semitic speakers (Militarev 1984, 18-19; cf. also Belova 2003). According to Václav Blažek, this suggests that Semitic peoples assim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2376350 | 541,143 |
2,033,608 | It is one of the largest lectin families with more than 70 lectins reported in a review in 1990. Leguminous lectins consist of two or four subunits, each containing one carbohydrate-binding site. The interaction with sugars requires tightly bound calcium and manganese ions. The structural similarities of these lectins ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34587934 | 2,032,435 |
500,249 | Instead of the M42 screw mount used by Pentax and other camera manufacturers, Nikon had introduced the three-claw F-mount bayonet lens mount system, which is still current in a modified form today. The focal plane shutter, unlike other SLRs of the period which used a cloth material for the focal plane shutter design (N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3193137 | 499,992 |
1,563,800 | Virtual surgery as a means to simulate procedures and train surgeons grew out of the video game industry. Video games for entertainment has been one of the largest industries in the world for some time. However, as early as the 1980s, companies such as Atari began working on ideas of how to use these video environments... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39338825 | 1,562,913 |
616,287 | Having criticized the idea that semantic evaluation concerns only the internal relations between the units of a symbolic system, Fodor can adopt an externalist position with respect to mental content and meaning. For Fodor, in recent years, the problem of naturalization of the mental is tied to the possibility of givin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=427994 | 615,973 |
12,619 | A PhD candidate must submit a project, thesis, or dissertation often consisting of a body of original academic research, which is in principle worthy of publication in a peer-reviewed journal. In many countries, a candidate must defend this work before a panel of expert examiners appointed by the university. Universiti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21031297 | 12,614 |
1,164,443 | Conventional construction was employed throughout the majority of the P.1121; using a thick lightweight alloy skin placed on top of tightly spaced frames and stringers, while steel was used for some highly stressed components. The fuselage was split into three major sections; the front fuselage contained the radome, co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26733365 | 1,163,826 |
1,984,488 | Science Gallery Dublin hosts a number of exhibitions, of varying duration, every year. The gallery's opening show, from 2–11 February 2008, was "Lightwave", billed as a "festival with installations ... by leading engineers, scientists, lighting designers and artists". This event featured work by astrophysicist Peter Ga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21526576 | 1,983,349 |
181,191 | Biological products produced by recombinant DNA (rDNA) technology in animal cell cultures include enzymes, synthetic hormones, immunobiologicals (monoclonal antibodies, interleukins, lymphokines), and anticancer agents. Although many simpler proteins can be produced using rDNA in bacterial cultures, more complex protei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1106830 | 181,097 |
1,099,183 | Despite the inherent complexities, numerous studies have attempted to measure the overall effectiveness of ITS, often by comparisons of ITS to human tutors. Reviews of early ITS systems (1995) showed an effect size of "d" = 1.0 in comparison to no tutoring, where as human tutors were given an effect size of "d" = 2.0. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3765637 | 1,098,623 |
1,640,735 | Chapter 17, “Work and Labor,” begins by stating the book's basic take on the topic: “Roughly speaking, the reduction of work in technology to a mere means has resulted in the degradation of most work to what I usually will call labor” (114). The primary reason for this “reduction” and “degradation,” according to Borgma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29772724 | 1,639,808 |
203,692 | One heuristic approach to constructing the reciprocal lattice in three dimensions is to write the position vector of a vertex of the direct lattice as formula_37, where the formula_38 are integers defining the vertex and the formula_39 are linearly independent primitive translation vectors (or shortly called primitive ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=664488 | 203,587 |
322,693 | In the summer of 1893, Dvořák moved from New York City to Spillville, Iowa, following the advice of his secretary, J.J. Kovarík. Dvořák had originally planned to come back to Bohemia, but Spillville was made up of mostly Czech immigrants, and thus he felt less homesick; Dvořák referred to it as his "summer Vysoka." Thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=76572 | 322,521 |
1,820,067 | Hexaphosphabenzene is a valence isoelectronic analogue of benzene and is expected to have a similar planar structure due to resonance stabilization. Although several other allotropes of phosphorus are stable, no evidence for the existence of has been reported. Preliminary ab initio calculations on the trimerisation of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65214425 | 1,819,031 |
1,697,777 | The first colleges in the United States were intended to train members of the clergy. The libraries associated with these institutions largely consisted of donated books on the subjects of theology and the classics. In 1766, Yale had approximately 4,000 volumes, second only to Harvard. Access to these libraries was res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27083838 | 1,696,823 |
57,398 | The Indian Air Force purchased six C-130J-30s in early 2008 at a cost of up to US$1.059 billion for its special operations forces in a package deal with the US government under its Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program. India has options to buy six more aircraft. The Indian government decided not to sign the Communicati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16172717 | 57,374 |
251,008 | Vitamins are normally contained in foods and supplements. The amount of food eaten after GBP is severely reduced, and vitamin content is correspondingly lowered. Supplements should therefore be taken to complete minimum daily requirements of all vitamins and minerals. Pre-natal vitamins are sometimes suggested by docto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=781984 | 250,875 |
1,576,761 | Let formula_1 be a semisimple algebraic group, formula_2 be a non-Archimedean local field and formula_3 be its ring of integers. It's easy to see that formula_4 is grassmannian. For simplicity, we can think that formula_5 and formula_6, formula_7 a prime number; in this case, formula_8 is a infinite dimensional algebra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32319857 | 1,575,872 |
319,752 | In soft ground, the three main types of TBMs are: Earth Pressure Balance Machines (EPB), Slurry Shield (SS) and open-face. Both types of closed machines operate like Single Shield TBMs, using thrust cylinders to advance by pushing off against concrete segments. EPB machines are used in soft ground with less than 7 bar ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=577307 | 319,580 |
971,194 | The appropriate amounts of precursor powders, usually oxides and carbonates, are mixed thoroughly using a Ball mill. Solution chemistry processes such as coprecipitation, freeze-drying and sol–gel methods are alternative ways for preparing a homogeneous mixture. These powders are calcined in the temperature range from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=101336 | 970,684 |
2,134,709 | Wilson attended the Aspatria Agricultural College between the years 1891–93 under the tutorship of Henry J. Webb. In 1891 the Science and Art Department, South Kensington awarded him a Second Class Advanced Certificate in botany, mechanics, physiology, advanced chemistry model drawing and mathematics. In 1892 at the ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37303150 | 2,133,484 |
1,387,043 | The normalizer formula_65 of formula_45 in formula_67 has been investigated; one result from the 1970s, due to Jean-Pierre Serre, Andrew Ogg and John G. Thompson is that the corresponding modular curve (the Riemann surface resulting from taking the quotient of the hyperbolic plane by formula_65) has genus zero (i.e., t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=382694 | 1,386,276 |
1,861,485 | At the end of the nineteenth century, Canadian women were barred from participation in, let alone any influence on or control over, the legal system–women could not become lawyers, magistrates, judges, jurors, voters or legislators. Clara Brett Martin (1874 – 1923) became the first female lawyer in the British Empire i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48731938 | 1,860,416 |
1,966,247 | On September 1, 1986 Delft Institute of Technology officially changed its name to Delft University of Technology, underlining the quality of the education and research provided by the institution. In the course of further expansion, in 1987 Delft Top Tech institute was established, which provided a professional master ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27603212 | 1,965,118 |
1,986,116 | Earthscope was an National Science Foundation (NSF) funded earth science program that, from 2003-2018, used geological and geophysical techniques to explore the structure and evolution of the North American continent and to understand the processes controlling earthquakes and volcanoes. The project had three components... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3463982 | 1,984,975 |
40,849 | That Southeast Asia was a lower-priority area also did not help, and it was allocated few Spitfires and other modern fighters compared to Europe, which allowed the Japanese to easily achieve air superiority by 1942. Over the Northern Territory of Australia, Royal Australian Air Force and RAF Spitfires assigned to No. 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26027181 | 40,834 |
1,154,125 | The next day she brought a group of workmen to collect the specimen, and found another piece of sandstone that contained the rest of the fossil as well as impressions of those in the first slab. The specimen appeared to have been exposed for years with no one noticing it, the boulder having been broken open by people o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3610052 | 1,153,515 |
907,482 | The most complex RPR synthesized by that point was called 24-3, which was newly capable of polymerizing the sequences of a substantial variety of nucleotide sequences and navigating through complex secondary structures of RNA substrates inaccessible to previous ribozymes. In fact, this experiment was the first to use a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=237132 | 907,004 |
1,946,680 | Currently, Denmark is striving to create an energy system by 2050 that is free of all fossil energy, and bioenergy will likely play a key role. In order to achieve this goal, Denmark has, since 1993, been increasing its development of large-scale combined heat and power plants (CHP) that combust biomass, where continuo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51089813 | 1,945,567 |
395,518 | Further applications of the western blot technique include its use by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Blood doping is the misuse of certain techniques and/or substances to increase one's red blood cell mass, which allows the body to transport more oxygen to muscles and therefore increase stamina and performance. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174030 | 395,323 |
1,179,347 | Carnegie Mellon is in the process of renovating and expanding the Heinz College's Pittsburgh facilities through a four-phased process across Forbes Avenue from the 2013-announced Tepper Quadrangle. The ultimate plan for Hamburg Hall is to capture new space – approximately 20,000 square feet – by enclosing the courtyard... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=286578 | 1,178,723 |
338,454 | In 1997, the World Rally Car specification was introduced to ease the development of new cars and bring new makes to the competition. An extension of Group A, the WRC cars were used in the manufacturer's championship, although Mitsubishi received special dispensation to run their Group A models into 1999, and won three... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234243 | 338,274 |
1,244,311 | His research in the 21st century has been on the "Planck Aether Hypothesis", a theory that claims to "explain both quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity as asymptotic low energy approximations, and gives a spectrum of particles greatly resembling the standard model. Einstein's gravitational and Maxwell's elect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4088563 | 1,243,638 |
1,711,580 | Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) is a decommissioned NASA Earth observation satellite created to develop and validate a number of instrument and spacecraft bus breakthrough technologies. It was intended to enable the development of future Earth imaging observatories that will have a significant increase in performance while al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22497743 | 1,710,617 |
953,063 | The productive use of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) provided another impetus for the development of metropolitan area networks in the 2000s. Long haul DWDM, with ranges from 0 to 3000+ km, had been developed so that companies that stored large amounts of data on different sites, could exchange data or e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43326 | 952,558 |
1,783,439 | The linguist Roman Jakobson (Jakobson 1965, 23-4) remarks that Whitney exerted a deep influence on European linguistic thought by promoting the thesis of language as a social institution. In his fundamental books of the 1860s and 1870s, language was defined as a system of arbitrary and conventional signs. This doctrine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1118221 | 1,782,435 |
1,767,798 | The effectiveness of SVE, that is, the rate and degree of mass removal, depends on a number of factors that influence the transfer of contaminant mass into the gas phase. The effectiveness of SVE is a function of the contaminant properties (e.g., Henry’s Law constant, vapor pressure, boiling point, adsorption coefficie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11484716 | 1,766,804 |
93,677 | The regulation of genetic engineering concerns the approaches taken by governments to assess and manage the risks associated with the development and release of GMOs. The development of a regulatory framework began in 1975, at Asilomar, California. The Asilomar meeting recommended a set of voluntary guidelines regardin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12383 | 93,636 |
455,261 | According to research published in the 30 May 2014 issue of "Science," most known species have small ranges, and the numbers of small-ranged species are increasing quickly. They are geographically concentrated and are disproportionately likely to be threatened or already extinct. According to the research, current rate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9068275 | 455,039 |
1,135,453 | In the mid-1980s, faster CMOS variants, using similar HMOS process technology, such as Intel's CHMOS I, II, III, IV, etc. started to supplant n-channel HMOS for applications such as the Intel 80386 and certain microcontrollers. A few years later, in the late 1980s, BiCMOS was introduced for high-performance microproces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2855453 | 1,134,860 |
670,399 | The peer review process may sometimes impede progress and may be biased against novelty. A linguistic analysis of review reports suggests that reviewers focus on rejecting the applications by searching for weak points, and not on finding the high-risk/high-gain groundbreaking ideas that may be in the proposal. Reviewer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33158412 | 670,048 |
1,132,405 | The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has conducted successful experiments with the S–I cycle in the Helium cooled High Temperature Test Reactor, a reactor which reached first criticality in 1998, JAEA have the aspiration of using further nuclear very high-temperature generation IV reactors (VHTR) to produce industrial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2086689 | 1,131,813 |
521,625 | In 1982, Perle described a third specimen of the therizinosaurids "Therizinosaurus". He referred this material to the genus based on the striking similarities with the specimens of "Segnosaurus". Additionally, Perle acompared the forelimbs in these two taxa and concluded that they were characterized by elongated arms, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3812410 | 521,353 |
598,421 | The simplest way to implement a CAS system is to have all of the files stored within a typical database to which clients connect to add, query and retrieve files. However, the unique properties of content addressability means that the paradigm is well suited for computer systems in which multiple hosts collaboratively ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4062863 | 598,116 |
45,618 | As constructed popularly through the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, relativists believe that the structure of a particular language is capable of influencing the cognitive patterns through which a person shapes his or her world view. Universalists believe that there are commonalities between human perception as there is in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22760983 | 45,600 |
2,041,805 | Perturbations in the transmission or the recruitment of the microbiota can lead to dysbiosis, and eventually microbial infections. Dysbiotic microbial communities are frequently determined by stochastic processes and thus display higher variability in their composition than those of healthy individuals. This observatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68504105 | 2,040,625 |
1,109,892 | As mentioned earlier, the location site of this distinctive microbe's discovery was in the transcontinental country of Egypt within the Sinai peninsula. However, with this discovery also came an extended period that consisted of intensive trial and error attempts to achieve complete isolation of "H. walsbyi." Because o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41584636 | 1,109,327 |
2,054,640 | In September 1838 John Bidwill arrived in Sydney, Australia, and while waiting for the survey of land that he had been allotted, he joined a commercial firm. He was sent in a schooner to New Zealand, arriving at the Bay of Islands on 5 February 1839. Over the next two months he took a journey into the interior of the N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8947279 | 2,053,457 |
1,741,983 | From 1994 to 1998, Matyjaszewski served as head of the Department of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon and assisted in recruiting additional faculty with strengths in polymer chemistry. At the same time, he formed a research consortium with various industrial corporations to expand the understanding of controlled radical po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14709851 | 1,740,999 |
1,936,252 | The cognitive underpinnings of organisational behaviour of the Carnegie School were underpinned by the aspects of emotion and habit. To this end, Nelson and Winter's book entitled “"An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change"”, dated 1982, is considered as the top influential work dedicated to routines and reveals the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44981032 | 1,935,144 |
1,414,514 | In September 1942, the Army's Director of Artillery, Brigadier John O'Brien, suggested that a variant of the 25-pounder be developed to meet this requirement. This proposal was approved, and all development work was conducted in Australia by the Army, the Ordnance Production Directorate and Charles Ruwolt Pty Ltd. O'Br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23021326 | 1,413,717 |
379,225 | In April 1980, as part of a formal research project at the French pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf for the development of glucocorticoid receptor antagonists, endocrinologist Étienne-Émile Baulieu and chemist Georges Teutsch synthesized mifepristone (RU-38486, the 38,486th compound synthesized by Roussel-Uclaf from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181415 | 379,030 |
473,933 | A cranker or power player is a bowler who strives to generate revolutions using a cupped wrist or excessive wrist action. They have revolution rates over 370 rpm. Crankers who rely on wrist action may have a high backswing and open their shoulders to generate ball speed. These bowlers often cup the wrist, but open the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9901859 | 473,697 |
1,453,885 | The total synthesis of quinine, a naturally-occurring antimalarial drug, was developed over a 150-year period. The development of synthetic quinine is considered a milestone in organic chemistry although it has never been produced industrially as a substitute for natural occurring quinine. The subject has also been att... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9561423 | 1,453,067 |
2,662 | On 22 September 2014, F-22s performed the type's first combat sorties by conducting some of the opening strikes of Operation Inherent Resolve, the American-led intervention in Syria; aircraft dropped 1,000-pound GPS-guided bombs on Islamic State targets near Tishrin Dam. Between September 2014 and July 2015, F-22s flew... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66299 | 2,662 |
159,190 | Eight months after the "Secret Wars" storyline, Cho becomes the Hulk by removing the Hulk from Bruce Banner and placing it into his body. With the help of his sister Maddy, he starts hunting down dangerous monsters that are loose on Earth, but is criticized for his irresponsible approach. He encounters She-Hulk and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9945333 | 159,108 |
612,288 | China is a significant supporter of the Iranian petroleum industry. In 2017, 64% of an export total $16.9 billion with China was labelled "crude oil". Because the National Iranian Tanker Company cannot defend the product on the oceans, it most often leaves port under the flag of another nation which is able to defend i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28205267 | 611,977 |
57,887 | Some methods melt or soften the material to produce the layers. In fused filament fabrication, also known as fused deposition modeling (FDM), the model or part is produced by extruding small beads or streams of material which harden immediately to form layers. A filament of thermoplastic, metal wire, or other material ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1305947 | 57,863 |
2,008,716 | The "#HimToo", being an extraction from the Me Too movement, was one of the hashtags that was heavily circulated on social media by the feminism digital activists in October 2018. The tagline, initially created in 2015 gained momentum when a mother professed her concern towards her son regarding being falsely accused o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38824009 | 2,007,564 |
1,592,948 | It is also possible to compute interval bounds on the conjunction or disjunction under other assumptions about the dependence between A and B. For instance, one might assume they are positively dependent, in which case the resulting interval is not as tight as the answer assuming independence but tighter than the answe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34450103 | 1,592,051 |
64,806 | Scientists including Paul R. Ehrlich and Eileen Crist have argued that population size and growth, along with overconsumption, are significant factors in biodiversity loss and soil degradation, The 2019 IPBES "Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services", and biologists including Ehrlich and Stuart ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45086 | 64,781 |
1,264,124 | Traditional mathematics focuses on teaching algorithms that will lead to the correct answer of a particular problem. Because of this focus on application of algorithms, the student of traditional math must apply the specific method that is being taught. Reform mathematics de-emphasizes this algorithmic dependence. Inst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9902256 | 1,263,436 |
1,274,901 | In Oxford, Percival set out to do research in distributed computing, building on his experience with PiHex. When a serious illness in 2003 interrupted this work for months, he turned his attention to the problem of building a software update system for the FreeBSD operating system. At the time, FreeBSD updates were dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53367454 | 1,274,209 |
20,113 | During the 1980s, Patriot was upgraded in relatively minor ways, mostly to its software. Most significant of these was a special upgrade to discriminate and intercept artillery rockets in the vein of the multiple rocket launcher, which was seen as a significant threat from North Korea. This feature has not been used in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52024 | 20,105 |
14,911 | They have been found in diverse regions of Earth's biospheremountaintops, the deep sea, tropical rainforests, and the Antarctic. Tardigrades are among the most resilient animals known, with individual species able to survive extreme conditions – such as exposure to extreme temperatures, extreme pressures (both high and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19817681 | 14,906 |
1,438,864 | Jensen was born in Nakskov, Denmark, but spent much of his childhood in northern Sweden, because his father obtained a job there as the manager of an estate. Their family returned to Denmark before 1876, when Jensen enrolled to the College of Advanced Technology. Although he studied mathematics among various subjects a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1430666 | 1,438,054 |
1,897,216 | As there has not been one unique mechanism identified to be behind weight regulation, it is likely that there are multiple factors reaching a shared equilibrium that result in a stable bodyweight. Leptin is known to play a key role in appetite and thus weight regulation, and may be important in regulating the set point... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65004286 | 1,896,132 |
1,753,622 | Limitations of PSAT technology are that it is subject to loss by malfunction of the power source, environmental effects such as biofouling, ingestion by a predator, its depth limitation and cost. Most PSATS have internal software designed to detect damaging or sub-optimal conditions that will trigger an early release a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24370288 | 1,752,632 |
1,466,571 | The regiment fought in the Battle of Rhode Island in August 1778 under the command of Major Samuel Ward Jr., as Colonel Greene had been assigned as a brigade commander for the campaign. It played an important role by defending a redoubt on West Main Road where it successfully repelled three charges by the Hessians. Rep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3597603 | 1,465,748 |
1,778,671 | Bansiddhi & Dunand pioneered the use of NaCl as a permanent space-holder for the fabrication of NiTi foams. The resulting foams consisted of 32-36% porosity with more complete densification than they observed when producing NiTi foams using a sodium fluoride (NaF) space-holder. However, processing parameters resulted i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57445960 | 1,777,669 |
1,949,707 | Apart from their medals and distinctions, the Federation has a series of Excellence Awards to recognize PhD thesis and publications of young researchers published in preceding years which demonstrate the most outstanding contribution to research and/or practice in the scientific fields of the EFCE Working Parties and S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12499214 | 1,948,586 |
1,871,559 | Diazotrophic cyanobacteria have evolved a number of mechanisms to ensure that oxygen doesn't interfere with the oxygen-sensitive enzyme complex responsible for nitrogen fixation, since these enzymes are sensitive to oxygen. Oxygen is especially toxic to nitrogenase. One way in which nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria, such ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53060758 | 1,870,482 |
1,651,390 | The NIOSH Nanomaterial Exposure Assessment Technique (NEAT 2.0) is a sampling strategy to determine exposure potential for engineered nanomaterials. It includes filter-based and area samples, as well as a comprehensive assessment of emissions at processes and job tasks to better understand peak emission periods. Evalua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53376859 | 1,650,458 |
1,270,452 | On 28 February 1963, a Thor launch vehicle carrying a spy satellite into orbit was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The rocket went off course and mission control detonated the rocket at an altitude of before it could reach orbit. The rocket detonation produced a large circular cloud that appeared over the sout... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21468835 | 1,269,761 |
1,365,350 | Bringing science into the public eye also coincided with the rapid rate at which recombinant DNA technology entered the industrial world. Because of the practical applications of the technology, funding for research using it started coming more from the private sector and less from the public sector. In addition, many ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8239144 | 1,364,594 |
702,209 | In 2012 and onwards, a surge in new JRPGs such as "Xenoblade Chronicles", "Persona 4 Golden", "Fire Emblem Awakening", "Shin Megami Tensei 4", "Tales of Graces", "", "", "" and "Tales of Xillia" are generally well received by fans of the genre and some critics while a number of popular WRPGs such as "Mass Effect 3" and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32408675 | 701,841 |
1,016,260 | The program was initially called the Earth Resources Technology Satellites Program, which was used from 1966 to 1975. In 1975, the name was changed to Landsat. In 1979, President of the United States Jimmy Carter's Presidential Directive 54 transferred Landsat operations from NASA to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=387175 | 1,015,737 |
1,554,718 | The history of paleontology in the United States refers to the developments and discoveries regarding fossils found within or by people from the United States of America. Local paleontology began informally with Native Americans, who have been familiar with fossils for thousands of years. They both told myths about the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799200 | 1,553,837 |
1,600,820 | The glider flying programme was an instant hit with the students of IIT Kanpur. Due to the massive response, membership was restricted to a number of selected students. You could see them beeline for the Center immediately after their classes. The intense heat of summer or the extreme cold of winter could not deter the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26847047 | 1,599,919 |
468,444 | "Most children around school age ... progress to the next stage, conformity." Individuals begin to view themselves and others as conforming to socially-approved codes or norms. Loevinger describes this stage as having "the greatest cognitive simplicity. There is a right way and a wrong way and it is the same for everyo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2929771 | 468,209 |
21,509 | As global population and affluence have increased, so has the use of various materials increased in volume, diversity, and distance transported. Included here are raw materials, minerals, synthetic chemicals (including hazardous substances), manufactured products, food, living organisms, and waste. By 2050, humanity co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29501 | 21,500 |
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