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1,183,300 | In China, the hybrid system involving limits on certain characteristics has prevented researchers from finding a way to cure poor resistance against disease and pests. Moreover, hybrid rice has more frequency on having "incidence of stem borer, whitebacked planthopper, leaf roller, bacterial blight, sheath blight, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11371265 | 1,182,674 |
1,754,051 | As speeds increased, the high-speed engine evolved towards its developed form of the multi-cylinder vertical engine with an enclosed crankcase. There was also a tendency to use single-acting pistons. This had two advantages, the lubrication could be provided by a generous 'splash' system within the crankcase that also ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35183841 | 1,753,061 |
316,466 | For example, if an IMU installed in an aeroplane moving along a certain direction vector were to measure a plane's acceleration as 5 m/s for 1 second, then after that 1 second the guidance computer would deduce that the plane must be traveling at 5 m/s and must be 2.5 m from its initial position (assuming v=0 and known... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30873515 | 316,297 |
852,058 | The research went further and also focused on social models of psychopathology, analyzing new religious movements and charismatic cult leaders such as David Koresh, leader of the Branch Davidians, and Marshall Applewhite, founder of the Heaven's Gate cult. The researchers concluded that "If David Koresh and Marshall Ap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=507197 | 851,604 |
1,121,650 | In his publications, Walsh showed through multiple examples that the geometry adopted by a molecule in its ground state primarily depends on the number of its valence electrons. He himself acknowledged that this general concept was not novel, but explained that the new data available to him allowed the previous general... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25420967 | 1,121,076 |
4,466 | When Armstrong applied at a local Methodist church to lead a Boy Scout troop in the late 1950s, he gave his religious affiliation as "deist". His mother later said that his religious views caused her grief and distress in later life, as she was more religious. Upon his return from the Moon, Armstrong gave a speech in f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21247 | 4,464 |
1,883,994 | The Wheatstone receiver converted the signal on the telegraph line to an inked pattern on a paper strip. An electromagnet electrically connected to the telegraph line moved an inking wheel to press against the paper. A clockwork mechanism advanced the paper tape, and turned the inking wheel, and an ink supply wheel. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56950018 | 1,882,913 |
486,231 | Reverse factoring is an effective cash flow optimization tool for companies outsourcing a large volume of services (e.g. clinical research activities by Pharmaceutical companies). The benefit to both parties is that the company providing the services can get the outstanding value of their invoices paid in 10 days or le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35636945 | 485,982 |
1,974,439 | One of the most vulnerable stretches is that between Blakeney Point and Weybourne, which included the Cley and Salthouse Marsh reserves. The coast here is protected by a shingle ridge, but the sea attacks the ridge and spit through tidal and storm action, with a single storm sometimes moving a "spectacular" amount of s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34525509 | 1,973,304 |
983,220 | When animals choose mating partners, traits such as signalling are subject to evolutionary pressure. For example, the male gray tree frog, "Hyla versicolor", produces a call to attract females. Once a female chooses a mate, this selects for a specific style of male calling, thus propagating a specific signalling abilit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1318175 | 982,706 |
1,519,635 | In 1951, Stewart was reassigned to the Marine Hospital in Baltimore where she finally was able to work in the field of cancer. Stewart is credited with discovering the polyomavirus in 1953. In 1956, Stewart approached Bernice Eddy for assistance growing the agent causing parotid tumors in mice. Eddy readily agreed and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18122072 | 1,518,777 |
1,327,421 | Before the invention of triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) by Wang in 2011, the mechanical energy harvesting mainly relies on the electromagnetic generator (EMG) invented by Faraday in 1831. The EMG is most efficient for high-frequency mechanical motions, such as more than 10–60 Hz, because at a low frequency, the ou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69655959 | 1,326,694 |
319,364 | The CSM was developed and built for NASA by North American Aviation starting in November 1961. It was initially designed to land on the Moon atop a landing rocket stage and return all three astronauts on a direct-ascent mission, which would not use a separate lunar module, and thus had no provisions for docking with an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=718111 | 319,193 |
1,204,416 | In the wake of an 1865 recommendation from the Baltimore City Public Schools Board of Commissioners, the City College began offering a five-year academic track, in an effort to elevate the school to the status of a baccalaureate degree-conferring college. On October 9, 1866, the City Council renamed the school Baltimor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=713949 | 1,203,771 |
883,424 | In December 2020, NPS leadership officially commissioned the Wayne P. Hughes, Jr. Naval Warfare Studies Institute (NWSI) NWSI’s mission is to expedite the DON’s access to the university’s intellect and resources for solving warfighting issues. NWSI consists of NPS’ Senior Service Representatives and Warfare Chairs, as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=827618 | 882,960 |
1,695,620 | Though there is an innate initial negative response while viewing other-race faces, the brain regions that control this response are malleable. The ACC and DLPFC both regulate the amygdala’s initial negative response. Many studies show that the initial racial bias can be changed through different situational contexts a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37691351 | 1,694,668 |
246,264 | In particular, it is well known that any discontinuities in a function reduce the rate of convergence of the Fourier series, so that more sinusoids are needed to represent the function with a given accuracy. The same principle governs the usefulness of the DFT and other transforms for signal compression; the smoother a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59962 | 246,137 |
949,129 | In 100BASE-T2, standardized in IEEE 802.3y, the data is transmitted over two copper pairs, but these pairs are only required to be category 3 rather than the category 5 required by 100BASE-TX. Data is transmitted and received on both pairs simultaneously thus allowing full-duplex operation. Transmission uses 4 bits per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64506 | 948,625 |
1,503,182 | This section gives an example for an experiment carried out by Strick, Allemand, Croquette with the help of magnetic tweezers. A double-stranded DNA molecule is fixed with multiple binding sites on one end to a glass surface and on the other to a magnetic micro bead, which can be manipulated in a magnetic tweezers appa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9368062 | 1,502,336 |
747,625 | Under the 2015 standard, for the first time, storage water heaters with capacities of 55 US gallons or larger now face stricter efficiency requirements than those of 50 US gallons or less. Under the pre-2015 standard, a gas storage water heater with a nominal input of or less was able to have an energy factor as low as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=521801 | 747,229 |
243,457 | According to "Der Spiegel", credits given to European governments were disguised as "swaps" and consequently did not get registered as debt because Eurostat at the time ignored statistics involving financial derivatives. A German derivatives dealer had commented to "Der Spiegel" that "The Maastricht rules can be circum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12113 | 243,330 |
2,181,271 | After completing his PhD Clark joined the Cement & Concrete Association (C&CA) (the Mineral Products Association since 2009). He worked as a researcher, consultant and lecturer mainly on concrete bridges and was involved with the development of the bridge design code BS 5400:Part 4. He was a visiting lecturer at the Un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60228597 | 2,180,025 |
405,838 | By August 1967, Baer and Harrison completed a more focused prototype machine with fewer components, but found that to even come near to Baer's initial price target of the console would require so much to be excluded that the resulting product would not be very enjoyable. Baer additionally felt that he was not proving s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77262 | 405,638 |
961,525 | Forms of locomotion on land include walking, running, hopping or jumping, dragging and crawling or slithering. Here friction and buoyancy are no longer an issue, but a strong skeletal and muscular framework are required in most terrestrial animals for structural support. Each step also requires much energy to overcome ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1132756 | 961,016 |
2,085,688 | In 1760 Waddington was appointed by the Royal Society to accompany Nevil Maskelyne on a voyage to Saint Helena as one of two expeditions being organised by the Society, and paid for by George II, to observe the 1761 Transit of Venus. The expedition's equipment was ordered by Maskelyne and the Society arranged transport... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46589850 | 2,084,487 |
358,191 | Jørgen Thygesen Brahe, however, wanted Tycho to educate himself in order to become a civil servant, and sent him on a study tour of Europe in early 1562. 15-year old Tycho was given as mentor the 19-year-old Anders Sørensen Vedel, whom he eventually talked into allowing the pursuit of astronomy during the tour. Vedel a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30027 | 358,005 |
1,340,908 | Sphenoid wing meningiomas are diagnosed by the combination of suggestive symptoms from the history and physical and neuroimaging by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computer averaged tomography (CT). Tumors growing in the inner wing (clinoidal) most often cause direct damage to the optic nerve leading especially to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5138392 | 1,340,175 |
430,755 | The social navigation or niche change hypothesis proposes that depression is a social navigation adaptation of last resort, designed especially to help individuals overcome costly, complex contractual constraints on their social niche. The hypothesis combines the analytical rumination and bargaining hypotheses and sugg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13190302 | 430,543 |
959,972 | In transition regions, where this pressure dependent dissociation is incomplete, both beta (the volume/pressure differential ratio) and the differential, constant pressure heat capacity greatly increases. For moderate pressures, above 10,000 K the gas further dissociates into free electrons and ions. for the resulting ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166084 | 959,464 |
380,082 | If the white dwarf's mass increases above the Chandrasekhar limit, which is for a white dwarf composed chiefly of carbon, oxygen, neon, and/or magnesium, then electron degeneracy pressure fails due to electron capture and the star collapses. Depending upon the chemical composition and pre-collapse temperature in the ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27980 | 379,887 |
648,459 | Although the term is used tongue-in-cheek, its implications are serious: in modern cryptosystems, the weakest link is often the human user. A direct attack on a cipher algorithm, or the cryptographic protocols used, is likely to be much more expensive and difficult than targeting the people who use or manage the system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=235585 | 648,118 |
543,039 | 19th century economists John Stuart Mill and Henry Sidgwick are credited with founding the early concepts related to spillover effects. These ideas extend upon Adam Smith's famous ‘Invisible Hand’ theory which is a price that suggests prices can be naturally determined by the forces of supply and demand to form a marke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16720480 | 542,759 |
293,851 | On April 16, 2012, THX announced that they would be hosting an online photo contest called Where in the World is Tex. Running from April 23 to May 13, this event challenged fans from around the world to capture and upload their best photo of Tex in and around local THX certified cinemas or well-known city landmarks nea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=171001 | 293,692 |
1,815,365 | Voltage-gated potassium (K) channels represent the most complex class of voltage-gated ion channels from both functional and structural standpoints. Delayed rectifier potassium channels’ most prevalent role is in the falling phase of physiological action potentials. KCNB1 rectifiers are also important in forming the ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14773966 | 1,814,331 |
680,515 | In trying to assess the legacy of colonization, some researchers have focused on the type of political and economic institutions that existed before the arrival of Europeans. Heldring and Robinson conclude that while colonization in Africa had overall negative consequences for political and economic development in area... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5090455 | 680,160 |
1,628,703 | This was the 23rd appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The returning finalists from the 1992 Games were gold medalist Javier Sotomayor of Cuba, bronze medalists Artur Partyka of Poland and Tim Forsyth of Australia, seventh-place finisher Troy Kemp of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10757122 | 1,627,784 |
283,707 | The "Spirit" was designed and built in San Diego to compete for the $25,000 Orteig Prize for the first nonstop flight between New York and Paris. Hall and Ryan Airlines staff worked closely with Lindbergh to design and build the "Spirit" in just 60 days. Although what was actually paid to Ryan Airlines for the project ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=358988 | 283,554 |
1,139,797 | It has been shown that the PVY has different isolates according to the symptoms they induce in various potato plant species. Extensive biological, serological and molecular variability of PVY isolates makes the classification of isolates as particular strains particularly difficult. Occurrence of a variety of symptoms ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12386405 | 1,139,204 |
230,852 | Sabina Nikolayevna Spielrein (; 7 November 25 October 1885 OS – 11 August 1942) was a Russian physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts. She was in succession the patient, then student, then colleague of Carl Gustav Jung, with whom she had an intimate relationship during 1908–1910, as is documented in their ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2425513 | 230,734 |
483,539 | Project engineering includes all parts of the design of manufacturing or processing facilities, either new or modifications to and expansions of existing facilities. A "project" consists of a coordinated series of activities or tasks performed by engineers, designers, drafters and others from one or more engineering di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13324782 | 483,292 |
470,842 | Various forms of μops have long been the basis for traditional microcode routines used to simplify the implementation of a particular CPU design or perhaps just the sequencing of certain multi-step operations or addressing modes. More recently, μops have also been employed in a different way in order to let modern CISC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5007818 | 470,606 |
53,738 | After moving to Stanford in 2016, Huberman discovered and published the use of non-invasive methods such as visual stimulation can enhance regeneration of damaged retinal neurons, leading to partial recovery from blindness, especially when the stimulation is paired with specific forms of gene therapy. The work was cove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51277767 | 53,718 |
1,994,323 | The ARM secondary school began with a brief review of electronic components, circuits, and basic laboratory instruments. As the courses evolved, they eventually included the following topics: high-frequency and ultra-high-frequency receiver and transmitter principles; coaxial cable, waveguides, antenna arrays, and beam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36494078 | 1,993,180 |
454,934 | The development of "The Last of Us", an action-adventure game, began after "" release in October 2009. Sony Computer Entertainment published "The Last of Us" for PlayStation 3 on June 14, 2013. The three-year development, led by studio Naughty Dog, was kept secret for the majority of development. In the game, players a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45204814 | 454,712 |
243,603 | In the laboratory, calcium fluoride is commonly used as a window material for both infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths, since it is transparent in these regions (about 0.15 µm to 9 µm) and exhibits an extremely low change in refractive index with wavelength. Furthermore, the material is attacked by few reagents. At wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43589 | 243,476 |
767,058 | "École normale supérieure" is a "Grande école", a French institution of higher education that is separate from, but parallel and connected to the main framework of the French public university system. Similar to the Ivy League in the United States, Oxbridge in the UK, and C9 League in China, "Grandes Écoles" are elite ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=317478 | 766,647 |
129,525 | Unaided plant roots may be unable to take up nutrients that are chemically or physically immobilised; examples include phosphate ions and micronutrients such as iron. One form of such immobilization occurs in soil with high clay content, or soils with a strongly basic pH. The mycelium of the mycorrhizal fungus can, how... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59358 | 129,473 |
425,481 | The initiative to found the Institution was taken in 1818 by eight young engineers, Henry Robinson Palmer (23), William Maudslay (23), Thomas Maudslay (26), James Jones (28), Charles Collinge (26), John Lethbridge, James Ashwell (19) and Joshua Field (32), who held an inaugural meeting on 2 January 1818, at the Kendal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=354320 | 425,273 |
1,473,639 | The KS theorem is an important step in the debate on the (in)completeness of quantum mechanics, boosted in 1935 by the criticism of the Copenhagen assumption of completeness in the article by Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen, creating the so-called EPR paradox. This paradox is derived from the assumption that a quantum-mec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3790812 | 1,472,808 |
1,745,843 | Death by collisions with man-made structures and objects can be a serious local issue. Electrocution or collision with power lines has become an increasingly significant cause of mortality since the early 20th century. Juveniles birds are more susceptible than adults, being generally less cautious and physically adept.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50585577 | 1,744,859 |
1,626,811 | RTX toxins in "Vibrio" bacteria represent an early discovery in RTX toxin research, but were only recently discovered to belong to a separate class of RTX toxins called MARTX toxins. In "Vibrio cholerae" the "martx" gene encodes six proteins: the MARTX toxin (RtxA), an acyltransferase (RtxC), a membrane fusion protein ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26522611 | 1,625,893 |
1,854,674 | In 1987, he undertook the challenge of becoming the first director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, and in a relatively short period of time that Center emerged as a "premier" cancer research institute." He became director emeritus in 2003. For almost 30 years, (1966-1995) he served as chairman of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43699173 | 1,853,608 |
84,519 | Unlike the US and Canada, Denmark had a centralized population register, allowing participants to be tracked over the course of several years. U.S. psychologist Zarnoff Mednick teamed up with Danish professor Fini Schulsinger to study schizophrenia progression in Danish orphans. The project grew out of QKHilltop and wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42043 | 84,485 |
266,444 | These systems may be economical because they flatten out load variations on the power grid, permitting thermal power stations such as coal-fired plants and nuclear power plants that provide base-load electricity to continue operating at peak efficiency, while reducing the need for "peaking" power plants that use the sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277237 | 266,300 |
728,079 | More recent research, published in September 2017 and based on a more complete skeleton of a Neanderthal juvenile (7.7 years old) found in a 49,000-year-old site in Northern Spain, indicates that Neanderthal children actually grew at a similar rate to modern humans. Researchers were able to examine dental, cranial, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28066528 | 727,695 |
1,488,659 | 2006 was the first year of the competition. It was announced on May 5, 2006, giving teams only a few months to prepare for the late-October competition. Although four teams officially registered for the competition, only one was able to receive the required permit from the FAA before the event. Armadillo Aerospace arri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5062264 | 1,487,820 |
1,191,047 | All readers—no matter how skilled—occasionally reach cognitive failure when reading texts that are challenging, unfamiliar, or "inconsiderate"—i.e. structured or written in an unusual manner (Garner, 1992; Wade, 2001). Poor readers, on the other hand, do not demonstrate the same reaction when comprehension failure occu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11876633 | 1,190,413 |
145,917 | This coincides with the reign of Wu Zetian, under which the Longer Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra, which advocates the practice of printing apotropaic and merit making texts and images, was translated by Chinese monks. The oldest extant evidence of woodblock prints created for the purpose of reading are portions of the Lotus Sut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1619933 | 145,859 |
82,796 | After James Prescott Joule had determined the mechanical equivalent of heat, Lord Kelvin approached the question from an entirely different point of view, and in 1848 devised a scale of absolute temperature that was independent of the properties of any particular substance and was based on Carnot's theory of the Motive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1418 | 82,762 |
795,574 | The Kuroshio Current has significant effects on both physical and biological processes of the North Pacific Ocean, including nutrient and sediment transport, major pacific storm tracks and regional climate, and Pacific mode water formation. Additionally, the current's significant nutrient transport results in a biologi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=952514 | 795,149 |
528,554 | Originally it was planned to arm the Skink with four 20 mm Hispano-Suiza cannons as used on aircraft and the first prototypes were so armed. In January 1944, the 21st Army Group in Europe decided that only British 20 mm Polsten guns would be used (the Polsten was a simplified version of the Oerlikon cannon) by its unit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7528322 | 528,280 |
1,215,814 | Born in Houston, Texas, US, Gast graduated as valedictorian from the University of Southern California in 1980 with a BSc in chemical engineering. She completed her postgraduate work at Princeton University, receiving an MA (1981) and PhD (1984) in chemical engineering, with thesis titled "A Study of Polymer-Induced Ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6165776 | 1,215,162 |
843,052 | Instead, mathematical progress became focused on computational tools. In 15 century, abacus came into its "suan pan" form. Easy to use and carry, both fast and accurate, it rapidly overtook rod calculus as the preferred form of computation. "Zhusuan", the arithmetic calculation through abacus, inspired multiple new wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1524543 | 842,602 |
1,127,306 | The plant was originally a collaborative effort of General Electric and Pacific Gas and Electric Company, with Bechtel Corporation serving as engineering contractor. Samuel Untermyer II, the General Electric engineer responsible for the initial design of the VBWR, had performed much of the conceptual research at Argonn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1806558 | 1,126,729 |
595,492 | It can be difficult to compare cost impacts between conventional impervious surfaces and permeable surfaces given the variables such as lifespan, geographic location, type of permeable paving system and site specific factors. Some estimates put the cost of permeable paving at about one third more expensive than that of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=555750 | 595,187 |
1,895,763 | The B1H system has significant advantages over other methods that investigate protein–DNA interactions. Microarray-based readout of chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP-chip) for high-throughput binding-site determination relies on specific antibodies which may not always be available. Methods that rely on protein-bindi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21673918 | 1,894,679 |
262,238 | Students are divided into 16 colleges, a graduate school, 93 undergraduate programs, 99 master programs, 66 doctoral programs, and four professional programs. The University of Kentucky has fifteen libraries on campus. The largest is William T. Young Library, a federal depository, hosting subjects related to social sci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=284368 | 262,099 |
2,159,786 | During Dr. Esselen tenure the department experienced tremendous growth and national recognition. For example, faculty member Irving Fagerson began working with the Consumers Union to establish the nutritive value and quality of a number of processed foods such as frozen broccoli (a relatively unknown crop at that time)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31559482 | 2,158,554 |
200,038 | With increased accessibility to and elaboration upon advanced analytical techniques in the 19th century, physics was defined as much, if not more, by those techniques than by the search for universal principles of motion and energy, and the fundamental nature of matter. Fields such as acoustics, geophysics, astrophysic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13758 | 199,935 |
751,947 | Vrba had been thinking of escaping for two years but, he wrote, he was now determined, hoping to "undermine one of the principle foundations—the secrecy of the operation". A Russian captain, Dmitri Volkkov, told him he would need Russian tobacco soaked in petrol, then dried, to fool the dogs; a watch to use as a compas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5043162 | 751,545 |
1,817,003 | In 1900 C. Bernard began drilling at the Tête Rousse Glacier, at the behest of the French Department of Water and Forests. He began by using the percussion approach, with a sharp bevel at the end of an iron tube. 226 m of drilling was done spread across 25 holes, none more than 18 m deep. The following year the same to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56017314 | 1,815,969 |
277,736 | To deal with these more capable submarines new ASW weapons were essential. This new generation of diesel electric submarine, like the Type XXI before it, had no deck gun and a streamlined hull tower for greater underwater speed, as well as more storage battery capacity than a comparable WW2 submarine; in addition, they... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3480866 | 277,586 |
1,980,153 | HRS started doing research in the tidal Thames Estuary in 1947. At this time HRO (Hydraulic Research Organisation) was based at the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington and had links with a large physical model set up by the Port of London Authority (PLA) in one of their disused warehouses on the Surrey Docks. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24897936 | 1,979,015 |
384,441 | Use of groundwater has related environmental issues. For example, polluted groundwater is less visible and more difficult to clean up than pollution in rivers and lakes. Groundwater pollution most often results from improper disposal of wastes on land. Major sources include industrial and household chemicals and garbag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=262927 | 384,246 |
423,929 | In the early 1950s, the US government wanted to insulate itself against over dependency on the German team for military applications. Among the areas that were domestically "developed" was missile guidance. In the early 1950s the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory (later to become the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=319341 | 423,722 |
434,825 | In 1644, the Italian Jesuit Daniello Bartoli reported seeing two darker patches on Mars. During the oppositions of 1651, 1653 and 1655, when the planet made its closest approaches to the Earth, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli and his student Francesco Maria Grimaldi noted patches of differing reflecti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25998318 | 434,611 |
1,594,917 | to provide post-secondary non-university education throughout the Province. The opportunity to train students on emerging occupations near their homes was also recognized. In 1980, its corporate structure would be replaced by a governmental one with the creation of the Department of Continuing Education, later renamed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17662787 | 1,594,019 |
336,986 | In a tumbling pass, dismount, or vault, landing is the final phase, following take-off and flight This is a critical skill in terms of execution in competition scores, general performance, and injury occurrence. Without the necessary magnitude of energy dissipation during impact, the risk of sustaining injuries during ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12551 | 336,807 |
198,689 | Following the trend of "Final Fantasy" video games on PlayStation systems, "The War of the Lions" features full motion video during certain scenes. These videos are rendered using cel-shading, a technique giving the illusion of hand drawn animation. These cutscenes were collaboratively animated by Japanese animation st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8600103 | 198,587 |
130,514 | Criteria for claiming brainstem death in the UK have developed in order to make the decision of when to stop ventilation of somebody who could not otherwise sustain life. These determining factors are that the patient is irreversibly unconscious and incapable of breathing unaided. All other possible causes must be rule... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=233528 | 130,462 |
10,036 | Initially known as the Kingston Demolition Range, the site was officially renamed the Clinton Engineer Works (CEW) in early 1943. While Stone & Webster concentrated on the production facilities, the architectural and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed and built a residential community for 13,000. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19603 | 10,032 |
119,406 | Virtual entities may contain and be controlled by assorted attributes, such as transform values (location, orientation, and scale) stored in an object's transformation matrix. Animation is the change of an attribute over time. Multiple methods of achieving animation exist; the rudimentary form is based on the creation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18567210 | 119,357 |
680,543 | The theory was introduced in the 1950s by Raul Prebisch, Director of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America after observing that economic growth in wealthy countries did not translate into economic growth in poor countries. Dependency theorists believe this is due to the import-export relationship bet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5090455 | 680,188 |
14,273 | During the early and moderate stages, modifications to the living environment and lifestyle can increase safety and reduce caretaker burden. Examples of such modifications are the adherence to simplified routines, the placing of safety locks, the labeling of household items to cue the person with the disease or the use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18914017 | 14,268 |
1,322,154 | In September 2009, Lam Shiu-kum was sentenced to 25 months in jail after pleading guilty to misconduct in public office. The misconduct involved inducing 12 patients who were treated at Queen Mary Hospital, to pay what appeared to be medical bills issued by the university and the hospital between 2003 and 2007 but were... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38273030 | 1,321,428 |
746,022 | Capital costs may be offset by government subsidies; for example, Ontario offered $7000 for residential systems installed in the 2009 fiscal year. Some electric companies offer special rates to customers who install a ground-source heat pump for heating or cooling their building. Where electrical plants have larger loa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7096967 | 745,627 |
2,111,977 | In addition to the Museum and its teaching involvement at the Institute for Pre- and Early History at Mainz University, Monrepos has also developed other formats of public outreach. The Rudolf Virchow lecture is one of the most longstanding public archaeological lectures in Germany. This annual event honours the accomp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39333054 | 2,110,762 |
1,197,529 | The challenge has always been how to deliver the siRNA using a topical method or retroviral vectors and ex vivo gene transfer. In 2011/12 a team at Northwestern University claim to have solved the topical delivery of siRNA dilemma. Personalized siRNA can be delivered in a commercial moisturizer or phosphate-buffered sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=617568 | 1,196,888 |
1,063,860 | Based on his experiments, he published "An Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat which is Excited by Friction", (1798), "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" p. 102. This scientific paper provided a substantial challenge to established theories of heat and began the 19th century revolution ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2239159 | 1,063,306 |
649,686 | Shellcode cannot be executed directly. In order to analyze what a shellcode attempts to do it must be loaded into another process. One common analysis technique is to write a small C program which holds the shellcode as a byte buffer, and then use a function pointer or use inline assembler to transfer execution to it. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218067 | 649,345 |
436,647 | Some older low-cost structures are elevated on tapered concrete pylons set into shallow pits, a method frequently used to attach outdoor decks to existing buildings. This is seen in conditions of damp soil, especially in tropical conditions, as it leaves a dry ventilated space under the house, and in far northern condi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=923301 | 436,433 |
1,075,582 | "The New England Journal of Medicine" reported on March 30, 2006, on one of dozens of vaccine studies being conducted. The Treanor et al. study was on vaccine produced from the human isolate (A/Vietnam/1203/2004 H5N1) of a virulent clade 1 influenza A (H5N1) virus with the use of a plasmid rescue system, with only the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36131848 | 1,075,028 |
597,595 | Cellular mechanisms may allow for co-transmission of some epigenetic marks. During replication, DNA polymerases working on the leading and lagging strands are coupled by the DNA processivity factor proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), which has also been implicated in patterning and strand crosstalk that allows f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31182307 | 597,290 |
1,395,212 | Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs) have gained a lot of attention because they are much less susceptible to development of microbial resistance. Other antibiotics may be susceptible to bacterial resistance, like multi-resistant "staphylococcus aureus" (MRSA) which is known as a common relic in the healthcare industry while ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32006269 | 1,394,441 |
1,057,845 | After the Velvet revolution in 1990 the Czechoslovakian government decided to cease construction of the third and fourth reactors. Work continued on the first two reactors; in the 1990s alterations to the original design were made by Westinghouse in conjunction with SUJB and the IAEA to bring reliability and safety lev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7651976 | 1,057,296 |
1,743,889 | Biological photovoltaics, also called biophotovoltaics or BPV, is an energy-generating technology which uses oxygenic photoautotrophic organisms, or fractions thereof, to harvest light energy and produce electrical power. Biological photovoltaic devices are a type of biological electrochemical system, or microbial fuel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41207008 | 1,742,905 |
2,147,544 | While doing research on the Jewish National Fund (which was charged with buying and developing land in Ottoman Palestine (later the British Mandate for Palestine), Katz accidentally run into the issue of the Holocaust survivor assets held in Israel. His 1997 article on the subject, "Forgotten Property. The Fate of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69304568 | 2,146,313 |
597,782 | Calculus is a genius, who demonstrates himself throughout the series to be an expert in many fields of science, holding three PhDs in nuclear and theoretical physics, and planetary astronomy. He is also an experienced engineer, archaeologist, biologist and chemist. Many of his inventions precede or mirror similar techn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=859356 | 597,477 |
949,176 | Lutetium was independently discovered in 1907 by French scientist Georges Urbain, Austrian mineralogist Baron Carl Auer von Welsbach, and American chemist Charles James. All of these researchers found lutetium as an impurity in the mineral ytterbia, which was previously thought to consist entirely of ytterbium. The dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17745 | 948,672 |
316,048 | Patton began delivering speeches to his troops in the United Kingdom in February 1944. The extent of his giving the particular speech that became famous is unclear, with different sources saying it had taken this form by March, or around early May, or in late May. The number of speeches given is also not clear, with on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5013710 | 315,879 |
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