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1,171,760 | The extremely small size of nanomaterials also means that they much more readily gain entry into the human body than larger sized particles. How these nanoparticles behave inside the body is still a major question that needs to be resolved. The behavior of nanoparticles is a function of their size, shape and surface re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9497908 | 1,171,141 |
2,116,980 | When Ray Bussard was hired in 1968 as head coach for the Vols swimming & diving team the team hadn't competed at the NCAA level since 1959 and had not ever won a team SEC championship. In only his second year as head coach Bussard won the school's first SEC title for men's swimming & diving and would go on to compete i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32573617 | 2,115,762 |
1,235,384 | The four items of official jewelry remain the member's badge, gear pin (called "sister pin" until 1994), pledge insignia, and official recognition button. Other insignia have been adopted over the years. The colony program sparked design of the simple colony pin, and colony pledge pin, and contributed to adoption of an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=362188 | 1,234,721 |
347,713 | As an example of how the social composition of a human population may produce unusual changes in sex ratios, in a study in several counties of California where declining sex ratios had been observed, Smith and Von Behren observe "In the raw data, the male birth proportion is indeed declining. However, during this perio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16933122 | 347,532 |
2,208,828 | Robinson was made the inaugural lecturer in plant physiology at the University of Wollongong in 1996, and became a Senior Professor in 2016. She is a plant ecophysiologist and climate change biologist. Her research examines how plants respond to climate change with an integrated systems approach using molecular to ecol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50838470 | 2,207,568 |
947,617 | Systemic mastocytosis involves the bone marrow in the majority of cases and in some cases other internal organs, usually in addition to involving the skin. Mast cells collect in various tissues and can affect organs where mast cells do not normally inhabit such as the liver, spleen and lymph nodes, and organs which hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146641 | 947,114 |
1,582,468 | The 4th-century mosaics in the churches of Rome have few contemporary equivalents elsewhere. There were mosaics in the Lateran Basilica built by Emperor Constantine I from 312. The earliest to survive are in Santa Costanza, built under Constantine and the mausoleum of his daughters Constantina and Helena. These mosaics... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22388714 | 1,581,578 |
447,369 | Ohio State, in what was widely described by television pundits afterwards as a “statement game,” trounced 13th-ranked Iowa 38–17 in Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City. It was the second win on the road in four weeks over a ranked team for the Buckeyes, who won their 12th game in a row to lead Division I-A in active win strea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6332534 | 447,152 |
1,785,801 | An intense recruiting effort saw the Capitals signing Kelly Wilson from Townsville, Kelsey Griffin from Bendigo, Kristy Wallace from the Baylor Lady Bears basketball, and Opals Marianna Tolo and Leilani Mitchell. Kia Nurse, a no. 10 draft pick in the WNBA and a two-time NCAA champion with the University of Connecticut ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4121869 | 1,784,797 |
157,326 | Features common to Copenhagen-type interpretations include the idea that quantum mechanics is intrinsically indeterministic, with probabilities calculated using the Born rule, and the principle of complementarity, which states that objects have certain pairs of complementary properties which cannot all be observed or m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54738 | 157,254 |
336,332 | On 10 April 1969, a few months after the decision to drop the RB207 had been announced, the British government announced that they would withdraw from the Airbus venture. In response, West Germany proposed to France that they would be willing to contribute up to 50% of the project's costs if France was prepared to do t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2524 | 336,154 |
85,408 | The manipulation of the gut microbiota is complex and may cause bacteria-host interactions. Though probiotics are considered safe, some have concerns about their safety in certain cases. Some people, such as those with immunodeficiency, short bowel syndrome, central venous catheters, and cardiac valve disease, and prem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=731740 | 85,374 |
1,693,294 | In the writings of astronomers Asaph Hall and of Norman Lockyer, each refer separately to a "German astronomer" who proposed the method of contact be by "fire signals" from Siberia. Writing in 1902, Simon Newcomb placed the origin of a Siberian triangle "several hundred miles in extent" not with Gauss, but at the feet ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34802284 | 1,692,343 |
1,041,264 | A distribution of the open-ocean oxygen minimum zones is controlled by the large-scale ocean circulation as well as local physical as well as biological processes. For example, wind blowing parallel to the coast causes Ekman transport that upwells nutrients from deep water. The increased nutrients support phytoplankton... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=997178 | 1,040,721 |
306,138 | Gadolinium is paramagnetic at room temperature, with a ferromagnetic Curie point of . Paramagnetic ions, such as gadolinium, enhance nuclear relaxation rates, making gadolinium useful for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Solutions of organic gadolinium complexes and gadolinium compounds are used as intravenous MRI con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12243 | 305,974 |
583,924 | In a 2002 review of "NKS", the Nobel laureate and elementary particle physicist Steven Weinberg wrote, "Wolfram himself is a lapsed elementary particle physicist, and I suppose he can't resist trying to apply his experience with digital computer programs to the laws of nature. This has led him to the view (also conside... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=93070 | 583,625 |
1,709,121 | Voltage clamp methods have demonstrated that Na1.8 is unique, among sodium channels, in exhibiting relatively depolarized steady-state inactivation. Thus, Na1.8 remains available to operate, when neurons are depolarized to levels that inactivate other sodium channels. Voltage clamp has been used to show how action pote... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18418966 | 1,708,162 |
803,286 | The simple infinite well model provides a good starting point for analyzing the physics of quantum well systems and the effects of quantum confinement. The model correctly predicts that the energies in the well are inversely proportional to the square of the length of the well. This means that precise control over the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=642886 | 802,857 |
689,867 | The development of computers and their capacities for analyzing large quantities of data enhanced this type of effort by orders of magnitude. The great capacity of computers for data analysis, however, did not guarantee good quality output. During the early 1960s, Rev. A. Q. Morton produced a computer analysis of the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2097760 | 689,504 |
42,221 | The successor to "The Legend of Zelda", "", bears little resemblance to the first game in the series. "The Adventure of Link" features side-scrolling areas within a larger world map rather than the bird's eye view of the previous title. The game incorporates a strategic combat system and more RPG elements, including an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=79982 | 42,206 |
15,950 | Bringing back pathogens from the lunar surface was considered a possibility, albeit remote, so divers passed biological isolation garments (BIGs) to the astronauts, and assisted them into the life raft. The astronauts were winched on board the recovery helicopter, and flown to the aircraft carrier , where they spent th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65777 | 15,945 |
1,781,529 | Mutations of the ACADS gene are associated with deficiency of the short-chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase protein (SCADD); this is also known as butyryl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency. Many mutations have been identified in specific populations, and large-scale studies have been performed to determine the allelic and g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5625954 | 1,780,525 |
1,399,272 | Around the end of World War II, BRL was assigned by the Office of the Chief of Ordnance to conduct vulnerability analysis of combat aircraft and munitions and to implement plans to reduce those vulnerabilities. Over time, BRL expanded this role to evaluate all types of weapon systems and vehicles and applied their find... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30865936 | 1,398,497 |
489,032 | On January 2, 2018, Michigan defeated Iowa 75–68. Simpson and Abdur-Rahkman led scoring with 15 points each, while Isaiah Livers added a career-high 13 points. On January 6, Michigan defeated Illinois 79–69 as six players reached double figures. Wagner led the way with 14 points and a season-high-tying three blocks in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53688572 | 488,780 |
1,771,265 | Simucube was one of the manufacturers who previously provided Open Sim Wheel kits, and is a brand name owned by the Finnish manufacturer Granite Devices, which also supplies driver electronics for controlling servomotors and stepper motors, both for sim racing and industrial use. Granite Devices started as a hobby proj... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68632404 | 1,770,268 |
1,614,532 | Spectral distortions are created by processes that drive matter and radiation out of equilibrium. One important scenario relates to spectral distortions from early energy injection, for instance, by decaying particles, primordial black hole evaporation or the dissipation of acoustic waves set up by inflation. In this p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67107896 | 1,613,626 |
1,577,311 | In 1818 Mitscherlich went to Berlin and worked in the laboratory of Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767–1851). There he studied phosphates, phosphites, arsenates and arsenites, and was able to confirm the conclusions of Jöns Jakob Berzelius as to their composition. His observation that corresponding phosphates and arsenates ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2265662 | 1,576,422 |
1,152,055 | The Neanderthal Museum Foundation, apart from its present exhibits, also supports research with an interdisciplinary academic approach with particular emphasis on research of the early history of humanity. International excavations and research projects are also actively pursued programmes. The museum encourages lay pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17550955 | 1,151,446 |
397,747 | The strategic bomber program for the United States still remains viable as well. B-2 and B-52H bombers still make up the entirety of the long range bomber force designed to deliver a nuclear payload. The Rockwell B-1 Lancer is also used for long range bombing missions. However, in 1997, it was modified to carry only co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6118105 | 397,551 |
460,718 | As with other countries in Europe, use of antibiotics for growth promotion was banned in 2006. Less than one third of all antibiotics sold in the UK are now estimated to be used to treat or prevent disease in farmed animals, following a revision to the 2017 sales data published by the UK Government's Veterinary Medicin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40364158 | 460,492 |
838,739 | Tarski lectured at University College, London (1950, 1966), the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris (1955), the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science in Berkeley (1958–60), the University of California at Los Angeles (1967), and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (1974–75). Among many distinctions garner... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59920 | 838,290 |
1,889,949 | In 1947, Herbert Willan Wadge, MBE (1956 Birthday Honours list) took up the appointment of headmaster of CTS following his move from headmaster of the Junior Technical School, Enfield (a department of Enfield Technical College). He imported the house system that existed at Enfield, naming the four houses "Bessemer", "F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9579330 | 1,888,866 |
2,110,149 | Like traditional control methodologies, adaptive collaborative control takes inputs into the system and regulates the output based on a predefined set of rules. The difference is that those rules or constraints only apply to the higher-level strategy (goals and tasks) set by humans. Lower tactical level decisions are m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33882236 | 2,108,935 |
752,599 | Partial skeletons and numerous fossil teeth indicate spinosaurids were widespread in Asia; three taxa—all spinosaurines—have been named: "Siamosaurus suteethorni" from Thailand, ""Sinopliosaurus"" "fusuiensis" from China, and "Ichthyovenator laosensis" from Laos. Spinosaurid teeth have been found in Malaysia; they were... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2899822 | 752,197 |
758,743 | The revision of Y-chromosomal phylogeny since 2011 has affected estimates for the likely geographical origin of Y-MRCA as well as estimates on time depth. By the same reasoning, future discovery of presently-unknown archaic haplogroups in living people would again lead to such revisions. In particular, the possible pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=247414 | 758,337 |
929,521 | An early plan developed by NSF scientists suggest one possible replacement called the Next Generation Arecibo Telescope, using 1000 closely-packed telescopes mounted on one or more flat plate(s) that would cover the width of the Arecibo sinkhole. While the telescopes themselves would be fixed, the plate(s) would be abl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9013135 | 929,030 |
143,848 | In 1823, Michael Faraday, then an assistant in Davy's lab, successfully liquefied chlorine and went on to liquefy all known gaseous elements, except for nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen. Shortly after, in 1869, Irish chemist Thomas Andrews studied the phase transition from a liquid to a gas and coined the term critical p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5387 | 143,790 |
1,138,850 | Pisces class submersibles are three person research deep-submergence vehicles designed and built by Hyco International Hydrodynamics of North Vancouver in British Columbia with a maximum operating depth of 2,000 m (6,560 ft). The vehicles have multiple view ports, sample collecting, environmental sensing, and instrumen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22286808 | 1,138,257 |
1,827,920 | On campus are two other gyms: Totman (adjacent to the North Apartments) and Boyden (near the Southwest residential area). Prior to 2009, both gyms held fitness centers which were then replaced by the Rec Center. Both buildings also hold basketball courts (although the Totman court remained closed in the fall 2009 semes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31716692 | 1,826,881 |
117,838 | The Galapagos Tortoise Movement Ecology Programme is a collaborative project coordinated by Dr Stephen Blake of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology. Its goal is to assist the Galapagos National Park to effectively conserve giant tortoises by conducting cutting-edge applied science, and developing an inspirational ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7934681 | 117,793 |
698,861 | When memorizing simple material such as lists of words, mnemonics may be the best strategy, while "material already in long-term store [will be] unaffected". Mnemonic Strategies are an example of how finding organization within a set of items helps these items to be remembered. In the absence of any apparent organizati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5128182 | 698,497 |
994,745 | Fc gamma receptors belong to the group of non-catalytic tyrosine-phosphorylated receptors which share a similar signalling pathway involving phosphorylation of tyrosine residues. The receptors generate signals within their cells through an important activation motif known as an immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3147145 | 994,228 |
329,117 | Steel casing is used in some plinking ammunition, as well as in some military ammunition (mainly from the former Soviet Union and China). Steel is less expensive to make than brass, but it is far less corrosion-resistant and not feasible to reuse and reload. Military forces typically consider service small arms cartrid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=79270 | 328,942 |
1,253,302 | Darwin was now working hard on an "abstract" trimmed from his "Natural Selection", writing much of it from memory. The chapters were sent to Hooker for correcting as they were completed, which led to a minor disaster when a large bundle was put by accident into the drawer Hooker's wife used to keep paper for the childr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1616231 | 1,252,623 |
1,080,957 | Photosynthesis in cyanobacteria and green algae splits water into hydrogen ions and electrons. The electrons are transported over ferredoxins. Fe-Fe-hydrogenases (enzymes) combine them into hydrogen gas. In "Chlamydomonas reinhardtii" Photosystem II produces in direct conversion of sunlight 80% of the electrons that en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5742067 | 1,080,401 |
1,135,855 | The first Philippine Science High School was established in Diliman, Quezon City under Republic Act No. 3661, known as the PSHS Charter which was signed into law in 1964 by President Diosdado Macapagal. This charter mandates the PSHS to a secondary course with emphasis on subjects pertaining to service offered on a fre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28797060 | 1,135,262 |
1,683,147 | By the 1990s, the U.S. Army had, for decades, provided several paths for officers to acquire an additional skill identifier which identified its holder with skills in the strategy arena. However, the resulting identifier did not equate to fully capable due to “the pressures of maintaining proficiency in traditional mil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69114268 | 1,682,204 |
2,124,961 | BIM (building information modeling) allows designers to work with many remote consultants on the same data file that represents all the decisions being made by the team. The same file is available to the climate and energy and environmental impact analysis and cost analysis tools and consultants, ... and of course to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15262886 | 2,123,740 |
428,898 | In 1998, two of Crowley's children, Megan and Patrick, were diagnosed with a severe neuromuscular disorder glycogen storage disease type II, also called Pompe disease. In the face of the children's deteriorating health, the family moved to Princeton, New Jersey to be close to doctors specializing in the disease. Crowle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16774914 | 428,688 |
1,828,870 | This species of ray migrates around November and December from the north (Menni 2000) to areas with a depth of about 20 meters, and then migrate again during May and June (Menni 2000) to areas with a depth of about 10 meters. This migration is mainly driven by reproductive opportunities or feeding opportunities (Vianna... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30891731 | 1,827,830 |
69,922 | In Birmingham, England, Frisch teamed up with Peierls, a fellow German-Jewish refugee. They had the idea of using a purified mass of the uranium isotope U, which had a cross section not yet determined, but which was believed to be much larger than that of U or natural uranium (which is 99.3% the latter isotope). Assumi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22054 | 69,895 |
1,504,865 | A significant development was the creation by Reading "et al". in 2001 of a custom interface that allowed measurements to be made while illuminating the sample from above; this interface focused the infrared beam to a spot of circa 500μm diameter, close to the theoretical maximum. The use of top-down or top-side illumi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44893854 | 1,504,019 |
1,104,875 | A critical step in improving the pace of updating and improving entries was to open up the functional annotation of Pfam domains to the Wikipedia community in release 26.0. For entries that already had a Wikipedia entry, this was linked into the Pfam page, and for those that did not, the community were invited to creat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3661251 | 1,104,312 |
967,166 | Immunotherapies as a group have off-target effects and toxicities common to them. Some of these include interstitial pneumonitis, colitis, hepatitis, thyroiditis, skin reactions, low levels of platelets and white blood cells, inflammation of the brain or spinal cord, neuromuscular adverse events including myositis, Gui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48748497 | 966,656 |
1,178,284 | Around one in 700 individuals are born with craniofacial clefts. There are multiple genetic and environmental factors which contribute to craniofacial development. Within craniofacial disorders and abnormalities, orofacial clefts, and specifically cleft lip (CL) and cleft palate (CP) are the most common in humans. Occu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29476907 | 1,177,660 |
2,094,265 | Should such rejuvenation be achievable the consequences for medicine would be profound. It would avoid the need to artificially pass through an embryonic stage – either by nuclear transfer or by the so-called iPS cells method - to rejuvenate cells. One would simply be able to take aged cells from a patient and then ret... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30992262 | 2,093,057 |
19,703 | Work on "Rocketry: The Nambi Effect" was first reported by Madhavan in the media during April 2017, when he announced that he was set to appear in a biopic featuring the "extraordinary story of an unsung hero", who was "neither an actor nor a sportsman". He called the project his "biggest film ever" and stated that he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58932491 | 19,695 |
448,311 | In DIT, the evolution of culture is dependent on the evolution of social learning. Analytic models show that social learning becomes evolutionarily beneficial when the environment changes with enough frequency that genetic inheritance can not track the changes, but not fast enough that individual learning is more effic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3869283 | 448,093 |
566,191 | The fact that organic semiconductors are, in principle, insulators but become semiconducting when charge carriers are injected from the electrode(s) was discovered by Kallmann and Pope. They found that a hole current can flow through an anthracene crystal contacted with a positively biased electrolyte containing iodine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1104369 | 565,901 |
111,134 | In the early 1980s, the Marine Corps sought a new navalized helicopter; accordingly, it evaluated the Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter over a two week period in September 1981, which included shipboard operation tests. Furthermore, various concepts were studied at this time. However, the service's require for fund... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=574557 | 111,089 |
1,623,325 | Analysis of sound and acoustics plays a role in such engineering tasks as product design, production test, machine performance, and process control. For instance, product design can require modification of sound level or noise for compliance with standards from ANSI, IEC, and ISO. The work might also involve design fin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7717088 | 1,622,409 |
805,931 | In France the lesson of World War I was translated into the Maginot Line which was supposed to hold a line at the border with Germany. The Maginot Line did achieve its political objective of ensuring that any German invasion had to go through Belgium ensuring that France would have Britain as a military ally. France an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=326225 | 805,502 |
2,037,947 | These coals are generally dominated by Vitrain macerals, with exceptions where there is a great percentage of Inertinite. This led to interpretation as a result of wildfire or peat fire activity, confirmed by the co-occurrence of charcoal fragments. Sesquiterpenoids and Diterpenoids were also recovered from the coal, c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64249358 | 2,036,772 |
2,008,645 | Studies carried out in the 1960s demonstrated that an alcoholic extract of the ground root of "Aniba megaphylla" inhibited, "in vitro", growth of cells derived from human carcinoma of the nasopharynx. In 1978, the active components of the extract were isolated using silica gel chromatography, characterized and named as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18704926 | 2,007,493 |
2,241,494 | The Hoosiers finished the regular season with an undefeated record, being the only program in the nation to achieve such an accomplishment. During the regular season, the Hoosiers finished 13-0-4 and 5-0-3 in conference play. They finished second in the Big Ten behind Michigan, and were seeded second in the 2017 Big Te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53241135 | 2,240,223 |
1,633,111 | Whiley distinguishes a codice_1 (which is pure) from a codice_2 (which may have side-effects). This distinction is necessary as it allows functions to be used in specifications. A familiar set of primitive data types is available including codice_3, codice_4, arrays (e.g. codice_5) and records (e.g. codice_6). However,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48747326 | 1,632,189 |
203,508 | A 2007 study reported the impact of the antibiotic minocycline on clinical and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) outcomes and serum immune molecules in 40 MS patients over 24 months of open-label minocycline treatment. Despite a moderately high pretreatment relapse rate in the patient group prior to treatment (1.3/year ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=249270 | 203,403 |
258,734 | As the QT prolonging effects of both genetic variants and acquired causes of LQTS are additive, those with inherited LQTS are more likely to experience TdP if given QT prolonging drugs or if they experience electrolyte problems such as low blood levels of low potassium (hypokalaemia). Similarly, those taking QT prolong... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=363747 | 258,600 |
407,310 | For Schramm, communication is based on the relation between a source and a destination and consists in sharing ideas or information. For this to happen, the source has to encode their idea in symbolic form as a message. This message is sent to the destination using a channel, such as sound waves or ink on paper. The de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33742208 | 407,109 |
167,557 | Late in the war, under the sponsorship of von Neumann, Frankel and Metropolis began to carry out calculations on the first general-purpose electronic computer, the ENIAC at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. Shortly after returning to Los Alamos, Ulam participated in a review of results from these calculations. E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41531 | 167,470 |
994,820 | A number of aircraft have been claimed to be the fastest propeller-driven aircraft. This article presents the current record holders for several sub-classes of propeller-driven aircraft that hold recognized, documented speed records in level flight. Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) records are the basis for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13086317 | 994,303 |
431,597 | Underwater diving can be described as a human activity – intentional, purposive, conscious and subjectively meaningful sequence of actions. Underwater diving is practiced as part of an occupation, or for recreation, where the practitioner submerges below the surface of the water or other liquid for a period which may r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36550208 | 431,385 |
1,004,613 | Jericho I was first publicly identified as an operational short-range ballistic missile system in late 1971. It was long, in diameter, weighing . It had a range of and a CEP of , and it could carry a payload estimated at . It was intended to carry a nuclear warhead. Due to Israel's ambiguity over its nuclear weapons pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216096 | 1,004,095 |
876,662 | The United States seriously researched the potential of entomological warfare (EW) during the Cold War. EW is a specific type of biological warfare which aims to use insects as weapon, either directly or through their potential to act as vectors. During the 1950s the United States conducted a series of field tests usin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10548751 | 876,200 |
1,483,864 | The third floor houses the academic offices of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, which provides a new base for the research activities in astronomy and astrophysics with the relocation of many staff and students from Jodrell Bank Observatory. The Observatory now forms part of the JBCA and provides leading obser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12260086 | 1,483,028 |
1,423,630 | On July 6, 1952, Steen hit it big but he didn't realize until three weeks later. He was drilling down through the layers of sandstone when his drill bit broke off at a depth of 197 feet, just 3 feet short of his goal. Finding this massive deposit of uranium ore only became apparent when he took a piece of the blackish ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1013828 | 1,422,829 |
611,906 | In early 2011, Koch became the chief scientist and the President of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, leading their ten-year project concerning high-throughput large-scale cortical coding. The mission is to understand the computations that lead from photons to behavior by observing and modeling the physical transf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1041998 | 611,595 |
1,604,824 | Micropeptides (also referred to as microproteins) are polypeptides with a length of less than 100-150 amino acids that are encoded by short open reading frames (sORFs). In this respect, they differ from many other active small polypeptides, which are produced through the posttranslational cleavage of larger polypeptide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59387611 | 1,603,923 |
1,210,932 | Early versions of Netscape's Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption protocol used pseudo-random quantities derived from a PRNG seeded with three variable values: the time of day, the process ID, and the parent process ID. These quantities are often relatively predictable, and so have little entropy and are less than ran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1250124 | 1,210,284 |
1,626,478 | Archer spent most of his working life in schools of art and design, including more than 25 years at the RCA. He promoted the use of systems-level analysis, evidence-based design, and evaluation through field testing within industrial design, and led a multi-disciplinary team which employed these methods in practice, in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4108991 | 1,625,560 |
385,624 | The spacecraft hit Dimorphos in the direction opposite to the asteroid's motion. Following the impact, the orbital speed of Dimorphos therefore dropped slightly, which reduced the radius of its orbit around Didymos. The trajectory of Didymos was also modified, but in inverse proportion to the ratio of its mass to the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54431373 | 385,429 |
330,109 | Until the age of space travel, objects in the asteroid belt could only be observed with large telescopes, their shapes and terrain remaining a mystery. The best modern ground-based telescopes and the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope can only resolve a small amount of detail on the surfaces of the largest asteroids... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=791 | 329,934 |
405,042 | A laminar flow wing has a maximum thickness in the middle camber line. Analyzing the Navier–Stokes equations in the linear regime shows that a negative pressure gradient along the flow has the same effect as reducing the speed. So with the maximum camber in the middle, maintaining a laminar flow over a larger percentag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=290053 | 404,842 |
699,276 | In more detail, the FRI/FRII division depends on host-galaxy environment in the sense that the FRI/FRII transition appears at higher luminosities in more massive galaxies. FRI jets are known to be decelerating in the regions in which their radio emission is brightest, and so it seems that the FRI/FRII transition reflec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211168 | 698,912 |
2,082,155 | The following is an excerpt from Hay’s acceptance speech for the Leakey Prize in 2001:“My acquaintance with Olduvai began in 1961 with a look at rock samples which my colleague Garniss Curtis brought back for K-Ar dating. At that time I was interested in the zeolites of desert lakes, and these samples were loaded with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14260451 | 2,080,955 |
737,704 | The International Geophysical Year (1957–1958) saw increased glaciology research around the world, with one of the high priority research targets being deep cores in polar regions. SIPRE conducted pilot drilling trials in 1956 (to 305 m) and 1957 (to 411 m) at Site 2 in Greenland; the second core, with the benefit of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=426456 | 737,314 |
546,959 | In 2013 the British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) coined the term "electroceutical" to broadly encompass medical devices that use electrical, mechanical, or light stimulation to affect electrical signaling in relevant tissue types. Clinical neural implants such as cochlear implants to restore hearing, re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29803004 | 546,673 |
1,778,368 | Madison arrowheads have a more of a straight base and are dated 1100–200 BP. Originally named Mississippi Triangular Point in 1951, Edward G. Scully renamed it to the Madison point after further advanced research. Varying by time and region, Railey types 1 through 6 are trans-regional. Madison Railey types 4,5, and 6 a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17254851 | 1,777,366 |
816,816 | The pediments, metopes, and shield of the Parthenos all illustrate the mythological past and as the deities are observing on the east frieze, it is natural to reach for a mythological explanation. Chrysoula Kardara, has ventured that the relief shows us the first Panathenaic procession instituted under the mythical Kin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2147375 | 816,380 |
1,055,622 | Agnew became director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1970, when it had 7,000 employees. He took over at a time of great change. His predecessor, Norris Bradbury, had rebuilt the laboratory from scratch after the war, and many of the people he had brought in were approaching retirement. Under his directorship,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34092731 | 1,055,074 |
1,701,363 | Wang has also introduced the use of body-worn flexible electrochemical sensors for non-invasive biomarker monitoring and epidermal biofuel cells harvesting sweat bioenergy including textile and epidermal-tattoo devices, microneedle-based electrochemical biosensors for real-time, pain-free quantification of circulating ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18147999 | 1,700,409 |
1,961,687 | Professor Ian Grant has made fundamental contributions to the development of the mathematical theory on relativistic effects in atomic physics, of importance for detailed studies of all atomic systems and particularly for heavy atoms and for highly ionised atoms in laboratory and astronomical plasmas. He has also been ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4388775 | 1,960,560 |
9,192 | In the early 1970s, the Boeing 747, McDonnell Douglas DC-10, and the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar became the first generation of wide-body passenger airliners to enter service. In 1978, Boeing unveiled three new models: the twin-engine Boeing 757 to replace its 727, the twin-engine 767 to challenge the Airbus A300, and a tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89260 | 9,188 |
152,538 | Musketeer Chess, a modern chess variant, has tried to give relatively accurate values of 10 fairy pieces: Hawk, Elephant, Unicorn, Fortress, Dragon, Spider, Leopard, Cannon, Archbishop, Chancellor. The method that led to these calculations has been based on computation, using a dedicated engine developed. Thousands of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=250667 | 152,470 |
1,783,051 | Assessment in just-in-time teaching connotes many ideas. JiTT assignments are themselves a type of formative assessment. They provide students frequent opportunities to consider their understanding of the material, and they provide faculty a regular sightline into their students' progress towards deeper learning. Succe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33453274 | 1,782,047 |
1,295,631 | The comet assay (single-cell gel electrophoresis) is a simple method for measuring deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) strand breaks in eukaryotic cells. Cells embedded in agarose on a microscope slide are lysed with detergent and high salt to form nucleoids containing supercoiled loops of DNA linked to the nuclear matrix. Ele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5712711 | 1,294,920 |
192,905 | The mainstream news media at the time exaggerated the warnings of the minority who expected imminent cooling. For example, in 1975, "Newsweek" magazine published a story titled "The Cooling World" that warned of "ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change". The article drew on studies document... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23423379 | 192,805 |
161,413 | The disease moyamoya, which is a Japanese mimetic word, gets its characteristic name due to the appearance of smoke on relevant angiographs resultant from the tangle of tiny vessels in response to stenosis. This makes the blood leak out of the arteries, causing pressure to the brain and subsequent headaches. Over the l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1502970 | 161,328 |
1,230,249 | "Scolosaurus" was named by Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás in 1928, based on holotype NHMUK R.5161, a nearly complete specimen that preserves the entire skeleton except for the distal end of the tail, the right forelimb, the right hindlimb, and the skull. The rare preservation of osteoderms and skin impression are also ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4298202 | 1,229,587 |
1,402,336 | The actual mission profile of the Rascal was quite restrained. The mission began the moment the carrier aircraft left the ramp and took off towards a predetermined launch point and assigned target. Guidance before launch was dependent upon the DB-47E’s MA-8 navigation system which determined the course to a preplanned ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14898217 | 1,401,549 |
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