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403,625 | To cope with the demand, CFM is duplicating supply sources on 80% of parts and even subdivide assembly sites, already shared between GE and Safran. GE assembles its production in Lafayette, Indiana, US in addition to its previous Durham, North Carolina, US facility. As more than 75% of the engine comes from suppliers, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18435626 | 403,425 |
4,452 | Shortly after Apollo 11, Armstrong stated that he did not plan to fly in space again. He was appointed Deputy Associate Administrator for Aeronautics for the Office of Advanced Research and Technology at ARPA, served in the position for a year, then resigned from it and NASA in 1971. He accepted a teaching position in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21247 | 4,450 |
1,289,246 | Aircrew training using the F-4Es began three days after the aircraft first arrived at Amberley. The aircraft were initially operated as a pool controlled by No. 82 Wing (the parent headquarters for No. 1 and No. 6 Squadrons) and were allocated between the two squadrons only after all the Phantoms, aircrew and ground cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36437816 | 1,288,537 |
1,590,329 | The most important of these criteria was the availability of electric power. The needs of war industries had created power shortages in many parts of the country, and using the Tennessee Valley Authority was ruled out because the Clinton Engineer Works was expected to use up all of its surplus power. This led to consid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72002318 | 1,589,435 |
1,153,343 | Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and Jacob Clay reinvestigated Dewar's earlier experiments on the reduction of resistance at low temperatures. Onnes began the investigations with platinum and gold, replacing these later with mercury (a more readily refinable material). Onnes's research into the resistivity of solid mercury at cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1929545 | 1,152,733 |
1,344,682 | Quantum imaging is expected to have a lot of potential to expand. In the future, it could be used to store patterns of data in quantum computers and allow communication through highly encrypted information . Quantum imaging techniques can allow improvement in detection of faint objects, amplified images, and accurate p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14967282 | 1,343,944 |
1,710,449 | LCoS-based WSS also permit dynamic control of channel centre frequency and bandwidth through on-the-fly modification of the pixel arrays via embedded software. The degree of control of channel parameters can be very fine-grained, with independent control of the centre frequency and either upper- or lower-band-edge of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18424177 | 1,709,489 |
586 | The Warriors entered the playoffs as the first seed in the Western Conference with a 57–25 record. In Game 1 of the Warriors' first-round playoff series against the Clippers, Curry scored 38 points and made 8 three-pointers to give him the most in postseason history, passing Ray Allen (385). He also had a postseason ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5608488 | 586 |
528,175 | In general, the total energy change of the reactants on approach of the transition state is described by the Klopman-Salem equation, derived from perturbational MO theory. The first and second observations correspond to taking into consideration the filled-filled interaction and Coulombic interaction terms of the equat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22629003 | 527,901 |
354,908 | The next day, Ledecky anchored for Team USA in the women's 4x200 freestyle relay, winning a silver medal alongside teammates Allison Schmitt, Paige Madden, and Katie McLaughlin behind China. Before she entered the pool, the United States was trailing both Australia and China, but she swam a time of 1:53.76 to finish th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36301418 | 354,725 |
772,243 | Except for one, every US recession since World War II experienced a sharp increase in the price of oil. This correlation strongly signifies the US dependency of oil for the economy and oil's importance in US development for most of the time since the war. Many of the key cases of crude oil price increases in the post-w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19086358 | 771,829 |
488,500 | In the opening words of the story told by Hyginus, 'the ancients had no midwives'; however, at the end of the story, freeborn women are permitted to learn 'medicine'. This leaves open the question of whether Agnodice is supposed to be the first midwife or the first female physician. Nancy Demand argued that, in the Hip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=462243 | 488,250 |
1,386,271 | The entrance to the hall showcases six fossil shark jaws, ranging in height from 2–9 feet. The exhibition begins with five extinction events described in dioramas that lead visitors onto the Florida Platform at about 66 million years ago, also known as the Dawn of the Age of Mammals. Displays include a primitive-toothe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1143787 | 1,385,504 |
379,388 | Of all the orbital cycles, Milankovitch believed that obliquity had the greatest effect on climate, and that it did so by varying the summer insolation in northern high latitudes. Therefore, he deduced a 41,000-year period for ice ages. However, subsequent research has shown that ice age cycles of the Quaternary glacia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=372608 | 379,193 |
1,015,426 | The Savoy, a state-of-the-art theatre in the City of Westminster, London, was the first public building in the world lit entirely by electricity. Swan supplied about 1,200 incandescent lamps, powered by an generator on open land near the theatre. The builder of the Savoy, Richard D'Oyly Carte, explained why he had intr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=136688 | 1,014,905 |
199,088 | In 1942, Stuart C. Dodd published a major work, "Dimensions of Society", which attempted to build a general theory of society on the foundation of a mathematical and quantitative systematization of social sciences. Dodd advanced a particular approach, known as an "S-theory". Parsons discussed Dodd's theoretical outline... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54041 | 198,985 |
398,808 | Optimal stocking density is often defined by the carrying capacity of the stocked environment and the amount of individual space needed by the fish, which is very species specific. Although behavioural interactions such as shoaling may mean that high stocking densities are beneficial to some species, in many cultured s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1634 | 398,612 |
50,985 | Chemical bonds between atoms were explained by Gilbert Newton Lewis, who in 1916 proposed that a covalent bond between two atoms is maintained by a pair of electrons shared between them. Later, in 1927, Walter Heitler and Fritz London gave the full explanation of the electron-pair formation and chemical bonding in term... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9476 | 50,965 |
496,036 | Clean cleaved surfaces of such materials form paired electron localized states on alternate sites resulting in a very weak to no EPR signal. Not well-cleaved surfaces and microcracks obtained from crushing, cleaving, abrading, neutron or high-energy ion irradiation or heating and rapid cooling in vacuum give a measurab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1191172 | 495,780 |
105,047 | There are three main aims to agricultural advancement; increased production, improved conditions for agricultural workers and sustainability. GM crops contribute by improving harvests through reducing insect pressure, increasing nutrient value and tolerating different abiotic stresses. Despite this potential, as of 201... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12339 | 105,002 |
907,009 | Along with a growing understanding of the extent and impact of micronutrient malnutrition, several interventions have demonstrated the feasibility and benefits of correction and prevention. Distributing inexpensive capsules, diversifying to include more micronutrient-rich foods, or fortifying commonly consumed foods ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1148672 | 906,531 |
1,176,746 | ITE Procedures estimate the number of trips entering and exiting a site at a given time. ITE Rates are functions of type of development based on independent variables such as square footage of the gross leasable area, number of gas pumps, number of dwelling units, or other standard measurable things, usually produced i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1095208 | 1,176,123 |
1,190,570 | As of 2005, sexual dimorphisms in the brain and behavior among vertebrates were accounted for by the influence of gonadal steroidal androgens as demonstrated in animal models over the prior few decades. The prenatal androgen model of homosexuality describes the neuro-developmental effects of fetal exposure to these hor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20515023 | 1,189,936 |
1,772,916 | The Supermarine S.4 was designed by R. J. Mitchell to compete in the 1925 Schneider Trophy race and was the first Schneider Trophy entrant to be supported by the British government, who agreed to buy the aircraft if Supermarine and Napier covered the initial costs of development and construction. Built by Supermarine a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9152035 | 1,771,919 |
163,560 | GMAW's basic technique is uncomplicated, with most individuals able to achieve reasonable proficiency in a few weeks, assuming proper training and sufficient practice. As much of the process is automated, GMAW relieves the weldor (operator) of the burden of maintaining a precise arc length, as well as feeding filler me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33731132 | 163,475 |
740,097 | This mechanism has been working for 4.5 billion years, since oceans first formed on Earth, but less so at times when much or most of the water was ice. There is geological and paleontological evidence that Earth rotated faster and that the Moon was closer to Earth in the remote past. "Tidal rhythmites" are alternating ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30647 | 739,705 |
1,129,391 | RPG Maker VX received a generally positive reception. Cheat Code Central scored it 4 out of 5. It has been praised for being much more user friendly than previous RPG Makers and for including a variety of features that otherwise had to be coded manually in previous RPG Maker installments. The addition of RGSS2 has also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13960293 | 1,128,813 |
598,426 | CAS was not originally associated with peer-to-peer applications until the 2000s, when rapidly proliferating Internet access in homes and businesses led to a large amount of computer users who wanted to swap files, originally doing so on centrally managed services like Napster. However, an injunction against Napster pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4062863 | 598,121 |
21,285 | In March 2021, the company disclosed a public construction plan for two sub-orbital launch pads, two orbital launch pads, two landing pads, two test stands, and a large propellant tank farm. The company soon proposed developing the surrounding Boca Chica village into a company town named Starbase; locals raised concern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59118602 | 21,276 |
2,172,007 | Georgetown received the top seed in the East regional bracket of the 1985 NCAA Tournament, the first with 64 teams in the field, and faced Lehigh in the first round. A 68–43 victory set up a second-round matchup with eighth-seeded Temple, which the Hoyas won 63–46 to advance to the regional semifinals. There, Georgetow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48665895 | 2,170,768 |
1,658,879 | Self-complementary adeno-associated virus (scAAV) is a viral vector engineered from the naturally occurring adeno-associated virus (AAV) to be used as a tool for gene therapy. Use of recombinant AAV (rAAV) has been successful in clinical trials addressing a variety of diseases. This lab-made progeny of rAAV is termed "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38798999 | 1,657,946 |
525,447 | Visual communication as the name suggests is communication through visual aid. It is the conveyance of ideas and information in forms that can be read or looked upon. Primarily associated with two dimensional images, it includes: signs, typography, drawing, graphic design, illustration, colour and electronic resources.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13156564 | 525,174 |
2,168,599 | In late 1969 an amendment to the Military Authorization Act, sponsored by Senator Mike Mansfield, placed restrictions on the funding of long-term basic research by agencies of the Department of Defense, including ARPA/DARPA. (ARPA was changed to DARPA in 1972). Consequently, a decision was made in 1970 to transfer the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30862721 | 2,167,362 |
1,699,663 | Richard James Burgess and John L. Walters from the band Landscape were also among the first major commercial users of the MC-8. They began experimenting with computer-programmed music and Burgess's co-designed SDS5 electronic drums in the late 1970s making records in the emerging New Romantic, electronic dance music an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=697245 | 1,698,709 |
1,068,801 | The book is a travelogue and biological record, but also reveals the two men's philosophies: it dwells on the place of humans in the environment, the interconnection between single organisms and the larger ecosystem, and the themes of leaving and returning home. A number of ecological concerns, rare in 1940, are voiced... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5553778 | 1,068,247 |
381,053 | Weblogs, or blogs, are another significant platform for open-source culture. Blogs consist of periodic, reverse chronologically ordered posts, using a technology that makes webpages easily updatable with no understanding of design, code, or file transfer required. While corporations, political campaigns and other forma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59126142 | 380,858 |
609,932 | Linear motifs are short disordered segments of proteins that mediate functional interactions with other proteins or other biomolecules (RNA, DNA, sugars etc.). Many roles of linear motifs are associated with cell regulation, for instance in control of cell shape, subcellular localisation of individual proteins and regu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2867718 | 609,621 |
1,311,971 | This basic snRNA-seq methodology is capable of profiling RNA from tissues that are preserved or cannot be dissociated, but it does not have high throughput capability due to its reliance on nuclei sorting by FACS. This technique cannot be scaled easily to profiling large numbers of nuclei or samples. Massively parallel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63223403 | 1,311,252 |
2,025,440 | Berkeley Optometry operates its teaching clinics on a twelve-month basis. Students begin their training full-time in the first year with vision science and optometry courses. They are also enrolled in preclinical laboratories in years 1–2, beginning their training on the first day of the first year. Students have their... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16653205 | 2,024,274 |
1,605,178 | After the February Revolution, power passed into the hands of provincial commissars appointed by the Provisional Government. Ural miners supported the Provisional Government and its bodies. On March 4, 1917, the Council of Miners' Congresses asked the government to appoint a commissar to control the work of the Ural fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66141214 | 1,604,275 |
50,978 | The German-born British physicist Arthur Schuster expanded upon Crookes's experiments by placing metal plates parallel to the cathode rays and applying an electric potential between the plates. The field deflected the rays toward the positively charged plate, providing further evidence that the rays carried negative ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9476 | 50,958 |
1,741,471 | In boosted-fission nuclear weapons a mixture of deuterium and tritium are heated until there is thermonuclear fission to produce helium and release free neutrons. The flurry of fast neutron particles would then excite further fission reactions with uranium, creating a "boosted" nuclear bomb. In 1951, during Operation G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50525886 | 1,740,489 |
1,368,740 | Charles van Commenee was made national head coach, a newly created role, in September 2008. Shortly afterwards Peter Eriksson was appointed head coach of the Paralympic Programme. Van Commenee stepped down after the London 2012 Olympics due to the team's failure to meet the medal target he had set. This was despite a r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1452898 | 1,367,984 |
1,503,725 | Reese et al. (2007) proposed a model of planet resurfacing, whereby lithosphere thinning and widespread melting follows a shift from mobile lid to stagnant lid convection. These parameterized convection models suggest that a cessation of magmatic resurfacing can occur in several ways: (1) the mantle temperature drops s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42070435 | 1,502,879 |
18,921 | The Terman longitudinal study in California eventually provided historical evidence on how genius is related to IQ scores. Many California pupils were recommended for the study by schoolteachers. Two pupils who were tested but rejected for inclusion in the study because of IQ scores too low for the study grew up to be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12940960 | 18,913 |
1,933,950 | A period of erosion occurred in South Dakota during the Pliocene. Particularly in western South Dakota, the mobilization of coarse sediments formed the Ogallala aquifer. In the Pleistocene ice ages, South Dakota experienced multiple sequences of glaciation. The oldest glacial drift deposits are in the southeast, at Sio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57844838 | 1,932,842 |
1,570,881 | Despite his criticisms about Michael Phelps during training camp before apologizing for the remarks, U.S. swimmer Tyler Clary put aside all the drama to capture an Olympic title in the event. Trailing behind at the 150-metre turn, he made a late charge on the final lap to edge out Japan's Ryosuke Irie and defending cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34236408 | 1,569,993 |
545,921 | Nouveau is based almost entirely on information gained through reverse engineering. This project aims to produce 3D acceleration for X.Org/Wayland using Gallium3D. On March 26, 2012, Nouveau's DRM component was marked stable and promoted from the staging area of the Linux kernel. Nouveau supports Tesla- (and earlier), ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2226118 | 545,635 |
1,555,565 | In the presence of a cross-wind, as the aircraft flies forward the wind will push it sideways, away from the drop point. The solution is to calculate the angle that the aircraft should fly in order to cancel out this drift, the difference between the "course" and the "heading". Calculating the proper drift angle is a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33460093 | 1,554,682 |
1,719,297 | The review was subsequently picked up by the journalist Robert Matthews, who wrote an article for "The Sunday Telegraph", 14 March 1999, claiming that "the rise and fall of the peppered moth, is based on a series of scientific blunders. Experiments using the moth in the Fifties and long believed to prove the truth of n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3890535 | 1,718,327 |
538,233 | In 1987 Tandem introduced the NonStop CLX, a low-cost less-expandable minicomputer system. Its role was for growing the low end of the fault-tolerant market, and for deploying on the remote edges of large Tandem networks. Its initial performance was roughly similar to the TXP; later versions were about 20% slower than ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=201353 | 537,954 |
1,121,718 | There had been nothing quite like this in medical literature since the Hippocratic treatise, "On Airs, Waters and Places"; and there are probably some germs of truth in it still undeveloped, although the modern science of epidemiology has introduced a whole new set of considerations. Among other things Sydenham is cred... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564669 | 1,121,144 |
1,790,952 | Nitrendipine is given to hypertensive individuals in 20 mg oral tablets every day. This amount is effective in reducing blood pressure by 15–20% within 1–2 hours of administration. With long-term treatments, the dosage may rise to as much as 40 mg/day; in elderly individuals, a lower dosage of up to 5 mg/day may be equ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6833883 | 1,789,945 |
338,178 | Large incisor size in "H. habilis" compared to "Australopithecus" predecessors implies this species relied on incisors more. The bodies of the mandibles of "H. habilis" and other early "Homo" are thicker than those of modern humans and all living apes, more comparable to "Australopithecus". The mandibular body resists ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14348 | 337,998 |
45,889 | In 2019, Notre Dame announced plans to rename the Center for Ethics and Culture, an organization focused on spreading Catholic moral and intellectual traditions. The new A $10 million gift from Anthony and Christie funded the Center for Ethics and Culture. The university is also home to the McGrath Institute for Church... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146269 | 45,871 |
2,172,524 | As seasonal successions of phytoplankton populations follow a consistent recurring pattern, bacterial dynamics and phytoplankton succession can be correlated. In general, seasonal changes in bacterial composition follow changes in temperature and chlorophyll a, while nutrient availability limits bacterioplankton growth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56297178 | 2,171,283 |
1,710,117 | In 2016 the United States Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched the "Engineered Living Materials" (ELM) program. The goal of this program is to "develop design tools and methods that enable the engineering of structural features into cellular systems that function as living ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62859875 | 1,709,158 |
1,845,719 | As the nation’s baby boomers grow older, there exists a growing demand for a good support system that can ease their burden. Technology is ubiquitous in most social contexts in the United States and other industrialized countries and has become an important part of everyday life as an integral component of most activit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33937822 | 1,844,664 |
1,312,731 | Petroleum oil contains aromatic compounds that are toxic to most life forms. Episodic and chronic pollution of the environment by oil causes major disruption to the local ecological environment. Marine environments in particular are especially vulnerable, as oil spills near coastal regions and in the open sea are diffi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13475684 | 1,312,011 |
1,571,105 | During the Renaissance music era, the printing press was invented, which made it much easier to mass-produce music (which had previously been hand-copied). This helped to spread musical styles more quickly and across a larger area. During the Baroque era (1600–1750), technologies for keyboard instruments developed, whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49646776 | 1,570,217 |
1,469,148 | "Main Currents of Marxism" has been praised by authors such as the philosophers A. J. Ayer, Roger Scruton, and John Gray, the conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr., and the political scientists Charles R. Kesler and David McLellan. Scruton credited Kołakowski with lucidly describing the main tendencies of Mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34430017 | 1,468,324 |
1,542,282 | Further, set theory imports concepts from other branches of mathematics (in intention, "all" branches of mathematics). In some cases, there are different ways to import the concepts into ZFC and NFU. For example, the usual definition of the first infinite ordinal formula_15 in ZFC is not suitable for NFU because the ob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3486002 | 1,541,409 |
1,560,368 | Without Haile Gebrselassie, Paul Tergat would have won everything since the previous Olympics. He was the silver medalist in the previous Olympics and the ensuing two world championships. He was the World Cross Country Champion five times in a row in Gebrselassie's absence. The final broke down to a team race, with thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19343585 | 1,559,482 |
1,017,877 | Despite its competitive pricing relative to the key rival products from Holden, Ford, and Toyota, ongoing speculation of the Adelaide plant's closure forced MMAL to launch extensive marketing campaigns and promotions, such as free servicing and cash-back offers. Another initiative included the TJ Magna, spearheaded by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=903910 | 1,017,353 |
1,791,262 | KLF/Sps are a family of transcription factors that contain three carboxyl-terminal (C-terminal) C2H2-type zinc finger structural motifs that bind to the GC-rich regions in DNA and regulate various cellular functions, such as proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis, as well as the development and homeostasis of se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5170699 | 1,790,255 |
334,510 | Mumps historically has been a highly prevalent disease, commonly occurring in outbreaks in densely crowded spaces. In the absence of vaccination, infection normally occurs in childhood, most frequently at the ages of 5–9. Symptoms and complications are more common in males and more severe in adolescents and adults. Inf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59171 | 334,332 |
908,452 | Mycoplasma genitalium (MG, commonly known as Mgen) is a sexually transmitted, small and pathogenic bacterium that lives on the mucous epithelial cells of the urinary and genital tracts in humans. Medical reports published in 2007 and 2015 state that Mgen is becoming increasingly common. Resistance to multiple antibioti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20219 | 907,974 |
1,090,973 | A day working in one of Bo Bardi's multiple studios was anything but typical. After the completion of her Glass House project, Bo Bardi and her four staff members met around the open fireplace in lieu of a dedicated office and collaborated there. In 1977, Bo Bardi moved her studio into a shipping container unit on the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=650199 | 1,090,413 |
851,807 | ASTOR can be traced back to the British Army's "Corps Airborne Stand-Off Radar" (CASTOR) programme, a Cold War-era initiative which sought to bring about an improved surveillance capabilities for monitoring hostile ground forces, with a particular focus on Warsaw Pact forces in East Germany. In 1984, a single Britten-N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=600022 | 851,354 |
937,853 | The T9 had a crew of three and weighed . It was armed with a main gun and a coaxial .30-06 Browning M1919A4 machine-gun, as well as two further machine-guns on the right-hand side of the bow. The main gun and coaxial machine-gun were mounted in a powered turret, which also had a gun stabilizer installed to allow the gu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=335693 | 937,353 |
1,163,370 | While individual solutions have helped to automate or streamline particular application areas, maintaining multiple systems containing overlapping data and functionality brought significant inefficiencies. The industry found that eliminating data discrepancies between systems has reduced data reconciliation activities ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7393456 | 1,162,753 |
557,404 | Flannery's prominence in raising awareness around the subject, and efforts to oppose climate change scepticism, have occasionally attracted hostility from the media. Some of Flannery's academic peers were also initially critical of Flannery for speaking outside of his primary area of expertise. When discussing this in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1903368 | 557,115 |
1,375,924 | The inner room has painted decoration in a completely different style than the larger outer room. Instead of architectural embellishment, the walls and vaulted ceiling of this room exhibit a complex program of intertwining vines, flowers, figures, several varieties of local birds, and insects. Several erotes—small wing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42585943 | 1,375,163 |
2,181,422 | In this fluctuating environment, STEP’s focus has not shifted away from the U.S. position in the global economy. Investing for Productivity and Prosperity was followed by a series of projects examining development of international technical standards and testing certification, technology policy as a source of trade fri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12911652 | 2,180,176 |
528,941 | Other types of movement occurring on solid surfaces include twitching, gliding and sliding, which are all independent of flagella. Twitching depends on the extension, attachment to a surface, and retraction of type IV pili which pull the cell forwards in a manner similar to the action of a grappling hook, providing ene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17575156 | 528,667 |
251,655 | Geometric anomalies in higher dimensions lead to the well-known curse of dimensionality. Nevertheless, proper utilization of concentration of measure phenomena can make computation easier. An important case of these "blessing of dimensionality" phenomena was highlighted by Donoho and Tanner: if a sample is essentially ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1470657 | 251,522 |
1,078,942 | Garriott devoted time to several charitable activities in his hometown, including the Enid Arts and Sciences Foundation of which he was a co-founder in 1992. Later, he accepted a position as adjunct professor in the Laboratory for Structural Biology at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and participated in researc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=529634 | 1,078,387 |
683,839 | The study of such sums, found in the works of Diophantus, may have prompted Viète to lay down the principle that quantities occurring in an equation ought to be homogeneous, all of them lines, or surfaces, or solids, or supersolids — an equation between mere numbers being inadmissible. During the centuries that have el... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=310238 | 683,483 |
1,798,218 | In 1986, Imanishi-Kari co-authored a scientific paper on immunology with David Baltimore. The paper, published in the scientific journal "Cell", showed unexpected results on how the immune system rearranges its genes to produce antibodies against antigens it encounters for the first time. Margot O'Toole, a researcher i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3029772 | 1,797,209 |
266,159 | Baryonyx () is a genus of theropod dinosaur which lived in the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous period, about 130–125 million years ago. The first skeleton was discovered in 1983 in the Smokejack Clay Pit, of Surrey, England, in sediments of the Weald Clay Formation, and became the holotype specimen of Baryonyx ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1091918 | 266,015 |
65,831 | There has long been debate about whether the qualities of mind, personality, and intelligence can be attributed to heredity or to upbringing—this is the nature and nurture controversy. Although many details remain to be settled, neuroscience research has clearly shown that both factors are important. Genes determine th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3717 | 65,806 |
113,403 | Abu al-Rayhan al-Biruni (973–1048 CE) was one of the earliest Persian geologists, whose works included the earliest writings on the geology of India, hypothesizing that the Indian subcontinent was once a sea. Drawing from Greek and Indian scientific literature that were not destroyed by the Muslim conquests, the Persia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12207 | 113,358 |
1,595,932 | The current proposed mechanism for the Davis–Beirut reaction in base was first published in 2005 by Kurth, Olmstead, and Haddadin. The reaction occurs when a "N"-substituted 2-nitrobenzylamine is heated in the presence of base, such as NaOH and KOH, and an alcohol and includes the formation of a carbanion The reaction ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40706733 | 1,595,033 |
15,468 | Although popularly used as an alternative treatment for autistic people, there is no good evidence to recommend a gluten- and casein-free diet as a standard treatment. A 2018 review concluded that it may be a therapeutic option for specific groups of children with autism, such as those with known food intolerances or a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29113700 | 15,463 |
608,847 | Co-Cr alloys are most commonly used to make artificial joints including knee and hip joints due to high wear-resistance and biocompatibility. Co-Cr alloys tend to be corrosion resistant, which reduces complication with the surrounding tissues when implanted, and chemically inert that they minimize the possibility of ir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29453694 | 608,536 |
258,481 | Sustainability may also involve crop rotation. Crop rotation and cover crops prevent soil erosion, by protecting topsoil from wind and water. Effective crop rotation can reduce pest pressure on crops, provides weed control, reduces disease build up, and improves the efficiency of soil nutrients and nutrient cycling. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216143 | 258,347 |
497,443 | The name "thin plate spline" refers to a physical analogy involving the bending of a thin sheet of metal. Just as the metal has rigidity, the TPS fit resists bending also, implying a penalty involving the smoothness of the fitted surface. In the physical setting, the deflection is in the formula_1 direction, orthogonal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8136546 | 497,186 |
1,878,070 | On November 28, 1918, the War of Independence began. A large part of the people and most of the soldiers, who were tired of the world war, lacked faith in the meaning of the war of independence and the possibility of preserving independence. The shortage of men and low combat morale forced the military leadership to ta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66858079 | 1,876,992 |
907,180 | Hodgkin's mentor Professor John Desmond Bernal greatly influenced her life: scientifically, politically, and personally. Bernal was a key scientific adviser to the UK government during the Second World War. He was also an open and vocal member of the Communist Party and a faithful supporter of the Soviet regime until i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=105825 | 906,702 |
1,598,583 | Several nations selected experienced Olympians. Great Britain's Naomi Folkard and Georgia's Khatuna Narimanidze and Kristine Esebua were all chosen to compete in their fourth Games, while Greece's selection of Evangelia Psarra made her the most experienced Olympian in the field, Psarra contesting her fifth consecutive ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45521589 | 1,597,683 |
1,375,842 | James B. Conant, the chairman of the NDRC and the S-1 Executive Committee, was concerned that the navy was running its own nuclear project, but Bush felt that it did no harm. He met with Gunn at Anacostia on 14 January 1943, and explained the situation to him. Gunn responded that the navy was interested in nuclear mari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3673785 | 1,375,081 |
1,083,245 | The fuel-injected DB 601 proved most useful against the British Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane, as the British fighters used gravity-fed carburetted engines, which would cut out under negative "g"-forces whereas the DB 601 did not. The Bf 109s thus had the initial advantage in dives, either during attack or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24239523 | 1,082,688 |
717,369 | In addition to mycorrhizal endosymbionts, the endophytic fungi are also catching the interest of scientist by showing so much potential not only in its mutualistic relation where it is benefiting host plant and taking advantages as well but also showing promising results in other domains like helping plant to grow in p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9677 | 716,992 |
494,427 | In 1955, Hughes Tool Company's Aircraft Division carried out a market survey which showed that there was a demand for a low-cost, lightweight two-seat helicopter. The division began building the Model 269 in September 1955. It was initially designed with a fully glazed cockpit with seating for two pilots, or a pilot an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3796758 | 494,172 |
13,254 | "Speed is life" was F-4 pilots' slogan, as the Phantom's greatest advantage in air combat was acceleration and thrust, which permitted a skilled pilot to engage and disengage from the fight at will. MiGs usually could outturn the F-4 because of the high drag on the Phantoms airframe; as a massive fighter aircraft desig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11759 | 13,249 |
2,134,786 | Aeroecology has relied upon traditional ecological field studies such as direct observation or detection of organisms flying overhead (e.g., moon watching, thermal cameras, or bioacoustics). However, the field has been greatly advanced by the inclusion of remotely sensed data, in particular Doppler weather radar or NEX... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31950486 | 2,133,561 |
548,660 | The spacecraft circled Mars once every 117.65 minutes at an average altitude of . The nearly polar orbit (inclination = 93°) which is almost perfectly circular, moved from the south pole to the north pole in just under an hour. The altitude was chosen to make the orbit Sun-synchronous, so that all images that were take... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=233899 | 548,372 |
555,831 | Reich grew up as part of a Jewish family in Washington, D.C. His parents are novelist Tova Reich (sister of Rabbi Avi Weiss) and Walter Reich, a professor at George Washington University, who served as the first director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. David Reich started out as a sociology major as an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6133800 | 555,542 |
1,724,057 | In accordance with the Byzantine political traditions, the princes of Wallachia and Moldavia were autocrats who ruled with absolute power. Any male member of the royal families could be elected prince, which caused internal strives, giving pretext to the neighboring powers for intervention. Most princes of Wallachia ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4745801 | 1,723,087 |
1,058,363 | The MWIR band is preferred when inspecting high temperature objects and the LWIR band when working with near room temperature objects. Other important criteria for band selection are: the operating distance, indoor-outdoor operation, temperature and emissivity of the bodies of interest. For instance, long wavelengths (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16979130 | 1,057,814 |
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