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1,447,273 | Dangers of a tool or sponge left behind range anywhere from harmless to life-threatening. Surgical tools left in the body can puncture vital organs and blood vessels, causing internal bleeding. Sponges can fester inside a body, growing increasingly dangerous over time. Additional operations may be necessary, which can ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25184288 | 1,446,457 |
684,484 | On 28 March 1918, Rawlinson took over Fifth Army from Hubert Gough, sacked in the wake of the German March offensive, Operation Michael; his Fourth Army Staff joined him and Fifth Army became Fourth Army on 2 April. By this time the German Army's offensive had been checked, and the Allies were preparing a counter-offen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=889184 | 684,127 |
1,458,283 | Garnaut recommends the use of algal biosequestration (see algae bioreactor) to absorb the constant stream of carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired electricity generation and metal smelting until renewable forms of energy, such as solar and wind power, become more established contributors to the grid. Garnaut, for ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24603722 | 1,457,463 |
180,305 | The CBS weekly drama series "Criminal Minds" and its spinoff, "" both feature the BAU. Thomas Harris' Hannibal Lecter novels and the corresponding films ("Manhunter", "The Silence of the Lambs", "Hannibal", and "Red Dragon") featured the Behavioral Science Unit (BSU), which later created and developed what eventually b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1042327 | 180,211 |
1,749,957 | Growing interest from commercial companies and other academic research groups, notably Prof. John de Laeter of Curtin University (Perth, Western Australia), led to the project in 1989 to build a commercial version of the instrument, the SHRIMP-II, in association with ANUTECH, the Australian National University's commer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1357593 | 1,748,971 |
1,339,421 | In the dry season, this frog lives in shallow streams and hides under tree roots, under flat stones, or in holes in the riverbank. It feeds primarily on earthworms, insect larvae and tadpoles. When the rainy season starts it migrates across the forest floor at night to find temporary pools. Spawning may take place in l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14654434 | 1,338,688 |
1,738,267 | The VSC 501 was a vehicle-mounted tactical military satellite terminal, initially operated by 249 Signal Squadron (AMF(L)) (disbanded) and then by 30th Signal Regiment, the Royal Air Force Tactical Communications Wing (now 90 SU), and the Royal Marines. It operated in the military SHF SATCOM frequency band of 7.25 to 8... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18312776 | 1,737,290 |
765,621 | The WS-10 is derived from the CFM56 with the experience gained from the Woshan WS-6 turbofan project, which was abandoned at the start of the 1980s. The WS-10 project was reportedly started by Deng Xiaoping in 1986 to produce an engine comparable to the Saturn AL-31. The work was given to the Shenyang Aeroengine Resear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9585450 | 765,211 |
1,838,667 | According to both the WHO and CDC, BMI growth charts for children and teens are sensitive to both age-and sex-specific groups, justified by the differences in body fat between sexes and among different age groups. The CDC BMI-for-age growth charts use age-and-gender specific percentiles to define where the child or tee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34081870 | 1,837,618 |
2,040,419 | Coates was born in London, England on 14 May 1917 to chemists Joseph E. and Ada Coates. He and his younger brother John F. Coates, attended school at Clifton College, Bristol, while his father taught chemistry as a Professor at Swansea University. During this time, Coates attended lectures by J. J. Thomson and James Ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38620917 | 2,039,240 |
1,425,995 | In the event of a combat or emergency situation, the mixture control may be moved to the "auto rich" position, providing extra fuel to the engine, or in military aircraft, into "military" position, if the aircraft is so equipped. When in the military position, the "Anti-Detonation Injection" (ADI) system is activated, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32587664 | 1,425,193 |
1,246,081 | Most of the class Polychaeta are benthic sexual reproductive animals and lack external reproductive organs. When mating, female polychaetes produce a pheromone that induces a mutual release of male sperm and female eggs. This process of synchronous reproduction in the form of a swarm is known as epitoky. During this pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7329785 | 1,245,406 |
454,847 | Several enormous, circular impact basins are present on Mars. The largest one that is readily visible is the Hellas basin located in the southern hemisphere. It is the second largest confirmed impact structure on the planet, centered at about 64°E longitude and 40°S latitude. The central part of the basin (Hellas Plani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8867758 | 454,625 |
2,191,256 | As noted above, the AbgT family of transporters has been thought to contribute to bacterial folate biosynthesis by importing the catabolite "p"-aminobenzoyl-glutamate for producing folate. Approximately 13,000 putative family members were identified in 2015. The X-ray structures of the full-length "Alcanivorax borkumen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49633163 | 2,190,007 |
915,762 | In the beginning of the 21st century, subsonic military aviation focused on eliminating the pilot in favor of remotely operated or completely autonomous vehicles. Several unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs have been developed. In April 2001, the unmanned aircraft Global Hawk flew from Edwards AFB in the US to Australia n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1203727 | 915,281 |
743,909 | Before the QF 6-pounder had entered service, the British predicted that it would soon be inadequate given the increasing armour of German tanks. In late 1940, the design of a replacement began, and was largely completed by the end of 1941. A prototype production line was set up in spring 1942, and with the appearance o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=675982 | 743,515 |
1,007,081 | The most ambitious, long-term effort of the Rad Lab was "Project Cadillac", the first airborne early-warning radar system. Led by Jerome Wiesner, about 20 percent of Rad Lab staff would ultimately be involved. Designated "AN/APS-20", this 20 cm (1.5 GHz), 1 MW radar weighed 2,300 pounds including an 8-foot radome enclo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27693223 | 1,006,562 |
830,625 | Excimer laser was proposed in 1960 by Fritz Houtermans. The excimer laser development started with the observation of a nascent spectral line narrowing at 176 nm reported in 1971 by Nikolai Basov, V. A. Danilychev and Yu. M. Popov, at the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, using liquid xenon dimer (Xe) excited by a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=581704 | 830,178 |
353,630 | The world's first turboprop was designed by the Hungarian mechanical engineer György Jendrassik. Jendrassik published a turboprop idea in 1928, and on 12 March 1929 he patented his invention. In 1938, he built a small-scale (100 Hp; 74.6 kW) experimental gas turbine. The larger Jendrassik Cs-1, with a predicted output ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31039 | 353,447 |
644,418 | Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and Georgia Institute of Technology, with the support of DARPA and NATO C3 Agency, have shown that it is possible to build a synthetic aperture image of an aircraft target using passive multistatic radar. Using multiple transmitters at different frequencies ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1766338 | 644,078 |
1,515,516 | Classical excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters are concentrated and released from neurovesicles located in enteric nerve terminals or varicose regions of motor nerves, whereas nitric oxide is probably synthesized de novo as calcium concentration increases in nerve terminals upon membrane depolarization. Enteric ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=563258 | 1,514,664 |
197,815 | Suppose that the universe were not expanding, and always had the same stellar density; then the temperature of the universe would continually increase as the stars put out more radiation. Eventually, it would reach 3000 K (corresponding to a typical photon energy of 0.3 eV and so a frequency of 7.5×10 Hz), and the phot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22486 | 197,713 |
676,241 | neurovascular diseases respectively. Department is equipped with a 256 slice CT scanner along with advanced workstation for image reconstruction and functional analysis such as perfusion studies. High resolution images generated by CT angiography has largely replaced non-invasive angiograms and together with perfusion ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5614178 | 675,888 |
2,071,375 | Expanding upon the initial characterization, Balachander "et al." (2020) optimized their ribose-seq protocol and used it in conjunction with a bioinformatics tool (Ribose-Map,<ref name="doi10.1093/nar/gky874"> </ref> available at https://github.com/agombolay/ribose-map) to map rNMPs throughout the mitochondrial and nuc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70168863 | 2,070,184 |
1,410,741 | These discoveries shed a light to the nature of radioactive decay and other forms of transmutation of elements, as well as of elements themselves. It appeared that atomic number is nothing else than (positive) electric charge of the atomic nucleus of a particular atom. Chemical transformations, governed by electromagne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41555255 | 1,409,949 |
983,075 | After the Glorious Revolution, authorities became less sympathetic to workers concerns about losing their jobs due to innovation. An increasingly influential strand of Mercantilist thought held that introducing labour saving technology would actually reduce unemployment, as it would allow British firms to increase thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32040137 | 982,562 |
935,891 | The addition of triiodothyronine to existing treatments such as SSRIs is one of the most widely studied augmentation strategies for refractory depression, however success may depend on the dosage of T. A long-term case series study by Kelly and Lieberman of 17 patients with major refractory unipolar depression found th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=467048 | 935,397 |
1,551,152 | Routines amongst the members and the leader are likely to occur in the final stage. In order to continue to be perceived as excellent team members by the leader, the in-group individuals display admiration, reliance and perseverance. Furthermore, "mutual and high quality leader and subordinate exchanges" (Ngo, D. 2012.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26292020 | 1,550,271 |
1,626,630 | After the Felch brothers ended their field work, the so-called Marsh-Felch quarry lay unworked for twelve years. However, in 1900 William Utterback began fieldwork in the area under John Bell Hatcher for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. In the two ensuing years of field work Utterback found many skeletons of pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799146 | 1,625,712 |
911,560 | A pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare was American biomedical informatician Edward H. Shortliffe. This field deals with utilisation of machine-learning algorithms and artificial intelligence, to emulate human cognition in the analysis, interpretation, and comprehension of complicated medical and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=351581 | 911,081 |
482,679 | LeDoux's work on amygdala processing of threats has helped understand exaggerated responses to threats in anxiety disorders in humans. For example, studies with Maria Morgan in the 1990s implicated the medial prefrontal cortex in the extinction of responses to threats and paved the way for understanding how exposure th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4275189 | 482,435 |
134,514 | The development of thyroid cancer among residents in the North Pacific from radioactive fallout following the United States' nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s (on islands nearly 200 miles downwind of the tests) were instrumental in the 1978 decision by the FDA to issue a request for the availability of KI for thyroi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1014366 | 134,459 |
1,902,774 | The military involvement also provided the country's first taste of relative prosperity. In addition to the wages paid its forces, Chad received economic benefits from three years of use as a major route for Allied supply convoys and flights to North Africa and Egypt. By 1948 about 15,000 men in French Equatorial Afric... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16012046 | 1,901,683 |
1,590,380 | Compton, Fermi, Greenewalt, Matthias, Williams and personnel from Wilmington and the Metallurgical Laboratory were on hand for the startup of B Reactor on 13 September 1944. That day the Operations Department accepted responsibility for the 100-B area from the Construction Department, including some minor work that was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72002318 | 1,589,486 |
2,201,750 | At this time, funds for JERFSA field work are largely provided by parents, student fund raising and assistance from the Partnership for Environmental Education, Inc. The Academy currently provides over 75 field activities per year that include cooperative field work with a variety of agencies such as: the Loxahatchee R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8392727 | 2,200,497 |
196,698 | Documentalists emphasized the utilitarian integration of technology and technique toward specific social goals. According to Ronald Day, "As an organized system of techniques and technologies, documentation was understood as a player in the historical development of global organization in modernity – indeed, a major pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=149354 | 196,598 |
1,657,677 | Yang is well known for his work in nanostructure synthesis and characterization, having co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles. One of his most notable papers, "Room-Temperature Ultraviolet Nanowire Nanolasers", was published in "Science" in 2001 and has received over 5000 citations. In 2010, Yang was rank... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32428938 | 1,656,744 |
311,159 | In a briefing to the Board of Governors on this report in early September 2012, IAEA Deputy Director General Herman Nackaerts and Assistant Director General Rafael Grossi displayed satellite images for its member states which allegedly demonstrate Iranian efforts to remove incriminating evidence from its facility at Pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=721807 | 310,991 |
290,201 | 3D printing (additive manufacturing) can be used to reduce the mass of hard-shell space suits while retaining the high mobility they provide. This fabrication method also allows for the potential for in-situ fabrication and repair of suits, a capability which is not currently available, but will likely be necessary for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39375 | 290,044 |
1,697,110 | Thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS) is also known as surface ionization and is a highly sensitive isotope mass spectrometry characterization technique. The isotopic ratios of radionuclides are used to get an accurate measurement for the elemental analysis of a sample. Singly charged ions of the sample are forme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35258762 | 1,696,156 |
1,303,663 | The most dangerous aspects of narcosis are the impairment of judgement, multi-tasking and coordination, and the loss of decision-making ability and focus. Other effects include vertigo and visual or auditory disturbances. The syndrome may cause exhilaration, giddiness, extreme anxiety, depression, or paranoia, dependin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54637386 | 1,302,947 |
147,394 | The most dangerous aspects of narcosis are the impairment of judgement, multi-tasking and coordination, and the loss of decision-making ability and focus. Other effects include vertigo and visual or auditory disturbances. The syndrome may cause exhilaration, giddiness, extreme anxiety, depression, or paranoia, dependin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21937 | 147,336 |
1,957,634 | The tunnel was used for research for over 20 years, up to the 1940s. The VDT was mainly used to test airfoils as wing design was the most pressing problem in early aeronautics. Notably, the VDT produced the data for 78 classical airfoil shapes that were published in 1933 in "The Characteristics of 78 Related Airfoil Se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16893985 | 1,956,510 |
82,068 | By April 7, the combined crater was and deep. A USGS team determined in the last week of April that a section of St. Helens' north face was displaced outward by at least . For the rest of April and early May, this bulge grew by per day, and by mid-May, it extended more than north. As the bulge moved northward, the summ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=673671 | 82,034 |
689,014 | It is initially tempting to regard immediate, dynamic, and final interpretants as forming a temporal succession in an actual process of semiosis, especially since their conceptions refer to beginning, midstages, and end of a semiotic process. But instead their distinctions from each other are modal or categorial. The i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13281443 | 688,652 |
1,747,369 | Carl Adolph Agardh was one of the most prominent algologists of all time, he was born in Sweden on 23 January 1785 and died on 28 January 1859. He was Professor of Botany at the University of Lund and later Bishop of Karlstad Diocese (Papenfuss, 1976). Many species still show his name as the authority of the scientific... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7587938 | 1,746,383 |
908,062 | The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) (IAST: "Paramāṇu Ūrjā Vibhāga") is a department with headquarters in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. DAE was established in 1954 by a Presidential Order. DAE has been engaged in the development of nuclear power technology, applications of radiation technologies in the fields of agricul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4749849 | 907,584 |
496,619 | During the episode, Gloria reads "The Planet Wyh". The novel, depicted to the audience via animation with Gloria as narrator, tells the story of Unit MNSKY, a small robot programmed to observe and record, and who only says the phrase "I can help!". After his spaceship crashed on Earth millions of years ago and his scie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53977445 | 496,363 |
1,974,543 | The light and dark bottle method uses the same concept as the free-water method to estimate rates of metabolism - GPP only occurs during the day with solar energy while ER occurs in both the presence and absence of light. This method incubates lake water in two separate bottles, one that is clear and exposed to natural... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59168336 | 1,973,408 |
928,972 | As of May 2010 it was unknown why the blowout preventer failed. Chief surveyor John David Forsyth of the American Bureau of Shipping testified in hearings before the Joint Investigation of the Minerals Management Service and the U.S. Coast Guard investigating the causes of the explosion that his agency last inspected t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5239446 | 928,481 |
1,752,088 | For several years, the young Donders studied at the Royal Dutch Hospital for Military Medicine in Utrecht, then earning his M.D. in 1840 from the University of Leiden. Following a stint as a medical officer in the Hague, in 1842 he was appointed as a lecturer in physiology and anatomy at the Utrecht military medical sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5100047 | 1,751,101 |
1,909,228 | Artifact replication plays an important role in comparing artifact use. Often objects are made not just to prove a manufacturing process or to sit in a display case, but to show that a given object will show signs of wear that are similar to those present in the archaeological record. Roberts and Ottaway conducted such... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25941862 | 1,908,130 |
132,475 | For example, if a certain type of radio is known to be used only by tank units, even if the position is not precisely determined by direction finding, it may be assumed that a tank unit is in the general area of the signal. The owner of the transmitter can assume someone is listening, so might set up tank radios in an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29122 | 132,422 |
2,112,095 | Satellite measurements have the advantage of being able to sample meteorological variables in regions that have little measurement systems. Many instruments have been created to help observe the atmosphere for both research and weather prediction. One of the first successful satellite missions for weather radar observa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43076961 | 2,110,880 |
169,320 | Most modern stenotype keyboards have more in common with computers than they do with typewriters or QWERTY computer keyboards. Most contain microprocessors, and many allow sensitivity adjustments for each individual key. They translate stenotype to the target language internally using user-specific dictionaries, and mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=513332 | 169,230 |
359,960 | Resistance movements were active from the very beginning of occupation in several other countries defeated in open warfare (Poland, Yugoslavia, and Greece), but the subjugated Czech lands remained relatively calm and produced significant amounts of materiel for Nazi Germany. The exiled government felt that it had to do... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=577774 | 359,773 |
1,790,394 | The general idea of value added modeling has also been extended to consider principals and school leaders. While there has been considerable anecdotal discussion about the importance of school leaders, there has been very little systematic research into the impact of them on student outcomes. Recent analysis in Texas h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28661419 | 1,789,388 |
320,462 | ArcGIS 9 was released in May 2004, which included ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Engine for developers. The ArcGIS 9 release includes a "geoprocessing" environment that allows execution of traditional GIS processing tools (such as clipping, overlay, and spatial analysis) interactively or from any scripting language that supp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2783580 | 320,290 |
969,197 | So the cross-layer can be used to make the optimal modulation to improve the transmission performance, such as data rate, energy efficiency, quality of service (QoS), etc. Sensor nodes can be imagined as small computers which are extremely basic in terms of their interfaces and their components. They usually consist of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1076662 | 968,687 |
329,561 | One factor reducing the funding needed to place a human presence on Mars may be space tourism. As the space tourism market grows and technological developments are made, the cost of sending humans to other planets will likely decrease accordingly. A similar concept can be examined in the history of personal computers: ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11589297 | 329,386 |
364,208 | When diatoms die their shells (frustules) can settle on the seafloor and become microfossils. Over time, these microfossils become buried as opal deposits in the marine sediment. Paleoclimatology is the study of past climates. Proxy data is used in order to relate elements collected in modern-day sedimentary samples to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46374 | 364,018 |
24,407 | The 20 canonical amino acids can be classified according to their properties. Important factors are charge, hydrophilicity or hydrophobicity, size, and functional groups. These properties influence protein structure and protein–protein interactions. The water-soluble proteins tend to have their hydrophobic residues (Le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1207 | 24,398 |
458,061 | It was clear that light waves could have much higher bit rates without crosstalk. In 1957, Gordon Gould first described the design of the optical amplifier and the laser that was demonstrated in 1960 by Theodore Maiman. The laser is a source for light waves, but a medium was needed to carry the light through a network.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3843580 | 457,838 |
1,914,147 | It was initially a General Electric Materials Test Reactor with plate-type fuel bundles, but was upgraded in 1967 to a 1MW General Atomics TRIGA (Teaching Research Isotopes General Atomics) reactor. Standard TRIGA fuel rods are cylindrical rods, clad in stainless steel utilizing Uranium-235 dispersed in a ceramic zirco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25062587 | 1,913,048 |
1,842,054 | Explosives have important applications in the military and in both mining and construction work. In fact, the manufacture of explosives comprises a large amount of the chemical industry. In the course of their production, handling, loading, and disposal, explosives are released into the environment. It is there that th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44676516 | 1,841,002 |
1,253,095 | In an alternate model of object recognition by Carbonnel et al. episodic and semantic memory arise from the same memory traces, and no semantic representations are stored permanently in memory. By this view, the meaning of any stimulus emerges momentarily from reactivation of one's previous experiences with that entity... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2195324 | 1,252,416 |
1,133,432 | A 2008 study published in the journal "Psychophysiology" found faster reaction time to deviant stimuli in women. The study also analyzed past literature and found higher female performance in withholding social behavior such as aggressive responses and improper sexual arousal. Furthermore, they found evidence that wome... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49026556 | 1,132,839 |
1,945,455 | The inflorescence is a spike or raceme with a few to many non-resupinate flowers breaking through a thin part of the leaf. The dorsal sepal is wider than two lateral sepals which are often joined. The petals are often curved, shorter and narrower than the sepals. As is usual in orchids, one petal is highly modified as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4230188 | 1,944,343 |
833,356 | TI was able to make samples of the 1201 based on Intel drawings, but these proved to be buggy and were rejected. Intel's own versions were delayed. CTC decided to re-implement the new version of the terminal using discrete TTL instead of waiting for a single-chip CPU. The new system was released as the Datapoint 2200 i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66039 | 832,907 |
1,303,463 | The S1W was a pressurized water reactor that utilized water as the coolant and neutron moderator in its primary system, and enriched Uranium-235 in its fuel elements. The S1W reactor reached criticality on March 30, 1953. In May of that year, it began power operations, performing a 100-hour run that simulated a submerg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=701295 | 1,302,747 |
425,944 | A limitation of high-concentrator (i.e. HCPV and HCPVT) systems is that they maintain their long-term advantages over conventional c-Si/mc-Si collectors only in regions that remain consistently free of atmospheric aerosol contaminants (e.g. light clouds, smog, etc.). Power production is rapidly degraded because 1) radi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21595073 | 425,736 |
1,703,313 | On June 1, 2007, Gregory Geoffroy, president of Iowa State University, rejected Gonzalez's appeal and upheld the denial of tenure. In making this decision, Geoffroy states that he "specifically considered refereed publications, [Gonzalez's] level of success in attracting research funding and grants, the amount of teles... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4140198 | 1,702,357 |
1,350,094 | After "Taiyō"s repairs were completed in November 1943, she was transferred to the Grand Escort Command and began a refit that lasted until April 1944. "Un'yō" was also transferred to the Grand Escort Command in December 1943, but she continued her ferry missions to Truk. While returning from one, the ship was torpedoe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9275519 | 1,349,348 |
436,185 | A site in Cambridge, recovered from the Charles River and set amongst dirty factories and tenement housing, was ultimately selected for the construction of a new campus. Thomas Coleman du Pont, a graduate of MIT's Chemistry department, donated $500,000 to be used towards the purchase of the land under a promise from Pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8071866 | 435,971 |
440,155 | Squeezed light is used to reduce the photon counting noise (shot noise) in optical high-precision measurements, most notably in laser interferometers. There are a large number of proof-of-principle experiments. Laser interferometers split a laser beam in two paths and overlap them again afterwards. If the relative opti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56495427 | 439,941 |
1,493,729 | Biological vulnerability and HPA axis alterations may be observed after maternal epigenetic programing during pregnancy, leading to similar modifications in future generations. Child abuse exposure, for example, is associated with lower baseline infant cortisol levels as well as modified HPA axis function. Human studie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52449973 | 1,492,889 |
828,209 | Probability amplitudes have special significance because they act in quantum mechanics as the equivalent of conventional probabilities, with many analogous laws, as described above. For example, in the classic double-slit experiment, electrons are fired randomly at two slits, and the probability distribution of detecti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=429425 | 827,765 |
566,924 | When auditioning actors for Abby, Druckmann specifically wanted to avoid casting Laura Bailey due to her proliferation of roles; he had originally considered Bailey to play Dina. When reviewing her audition tape, however, Druckmann was impressed by how Bailey had played into Abby's vulnerability, whereas other actors e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64504979 | 566,634 |
1,140,559 | Following Alabama's 1926 Rose Bowl victory over Washington, a contest was held by "The Rammer-Jammer", a student newspaper, for the composition of a fight song. Several entries were submitted to a panel overseen by the Music Department, and the winning entry, "Yea Alabama", was adopted. The composer, Ethelred Lundy (Ep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2176312 | 1,139,965 |
1,494,663 | Oscar II of Sweden, and was scheduled to be published in "Acta Mathematica" on the king's birthday, until Lars Edvard Phragmén and Poincaré determined that there were serious errors in the paper. Poincaré called for the paper to be withdrawn, spending more than the prize money to do so. In 1890 it was finally published... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63094759 | 1,493,822 |
928,878 | Artificial interbreeding seems possible among all citrus plants, though there are certain limitations to natural interbreeding due to plant physiology and differences in natural breeding seasons. This ability to cross-pollinate extends to some related species that some classifications place in distinct genera. The abil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44603802 | 928,387 |
2,014,729 | Doolittle suggested that the universal common ancestor cannot have been one particular organism, but must have been a loose, diverse conglomeration of primitive cells that evolved together. These early cells, each with relatively few genes, differed in many ways, and swapped their genes freely. Eventually, from these e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23564885 | 2,013,570 |
124,916 | Henry-Russell Hitchcock, the architectural historian, noted the spread of the Gothic Revival in the 19th and early 20th centuries, "wherever English culture extended – as far as the West Coast of the United States and to the remotest Antipodes". The British Empire, almost at its geographic peak at the height of the Got... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=311821 | 124,864 |
854,564 | In order to determine the spacecraft's orbit and facilitate maneuvers, sixteen Sun sensors – eight primaries and eight backups – are placed around the spacecraft to calibrate solar direction relative to the orbiter's frame. Two star trackers, digital cameras used to map the position of catalogued stars, provide NASA wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=453326 | 854,109 |
1,725,080 | The recent spurt in information on various plant-related processes has largely been a result of the revolution in molecular biology. Powerful techniques like mutagenesis and complementation were made possible in "Arabidopsis thaliana" via generation of T-DNA containing mutant lines, recombinant plasmids, techniques lik... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13571938 | 1,724,109 |
1,259,312 | During the division of the fertilized oocyte, cells aggregate and the compactness between cells increases with the help of actomyosin-dependent cytoskeletal traction forces and their application to adhesive receptors in neighboring cells, thereby leading to formation of solid balls called Morula. The spindle positionin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29462590 | 1,258,625 |
1,998,247 | Australia headed into the First Test at Trent Bridge starting on 10 June with ten wins and two draws from twelve tour matches, with eight innings victories. It was thought that Bradman would play a specialist leg spinner, but he changed his mind on the first morning when rain was forecast. Bill Johnston, a left-arm pac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21051201 | 1,997,104 |
1,120,058 | The Brazilian Space Agency is the institutional successor of Brazil's space program, which had been managed by the Brazilian military until its transfer to civilian control on 10 February 1994. It suffered a major setback in 2003, when a rocket explosion killed 21 technicians. Brazil successfully launched its first roc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=304253 | 1,119,485 |
1,439,505 | Chemoproteomic strategies have been used to expand the scope of druggable targets. While historically successful drugs target well-defined binding pockets of druggable proteins, these define only about 15% of the annotated proteome. To continue growing our pharmacopoeia, bold approaches to ligand discovery are required... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48999251 | 1,438,695 |
343,119 | This is the core of the SCADA system, gathering data on the process and sending control commands to the field connected devices. It refers to the computer and software responsible for communicating with the field connection controllers, which are RTUs and PLCs, and includes the HMI software running on operator workstat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62437 | 342,938 |
719,546 | Soon after, Louis presented ""Z."" "boisei" to the 4th Pan-African Congress on Prehistory in Léopoldville, Belgian Congo (now Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo). Dart made his now famous joke, "... what would have happened if [the "A. africanus" specimen] Mrs. Ples had met Dear Boy one dark night." At the time... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2165275 | 719,166 |
1,788,170 | The Cuban rebellion 1868–1878 against Spanish rule, called by historians the Ten Years' War, gained wide sympathy in the U.S. Juntas based in New York raised money, and smuggled men and munitions to Cuba, while energetically spreading propaganda in American newspapers. The Grant administration turned a blind eye to thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61305749 | 1,787,164 |
1,832,527 | Terahertz technology allows high resolution 3D imaging of semiconductor packages and integrated circuit devices. THz time-domain reflectometry (TDR) offers significant advantages in imaging resolution compared to existing fault isolation techniques and conventional millimetre wave systems. Working with Intel on the app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38505581 | 1,831,479 |
620,311 | In 1961, Col. Dan Crozier assumed command of the AMU. Modern principles of biosafety and biocontainment were pioneered at Fort Detrick throughout the 1960s by a number of scientists led by Arnold G. Wedum. Crozier oversaw the planning and construction of the present USAMRIID laboratory and office building (Building 142... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2727969 | 619,996 |
2,246,259 | Howard was born in the Fort George garrison, near Inverness, in 1753. He was the son of Ralph Howard, a private in the British Army, and he was brought up by relations in Carlisle. After being apprenticed to an uncle as a cork-cutter at the age of thirteen, he worked as a sailor, carpenter and flax-dresser. After devel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27316858 | 2,244,987 |
1,830,745 | Her work has earned her multiple awards, including the Grand Prix de Physique "Cécile-DeWitt Morette/École de Physique des Houches" from the French Academy of Sciences (2019), the Junior BEC Award (2019), the Feltrinelli Prize (2017) and the Erwin Schrödinger Prize (2017), the highest award of the Austrian Academy of S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67503829 | 1,829,699 |
1,718,032 | Following US forces inserting into Grenada October 25, 1983, large quantities of foreign military equipment were discovered requiring TECHINT support. Two elements of the 203rd MI Battalion, 513th MI Group, were deployed to Grenada. Five days after Operation Urgent Fury began, five soldiers from the 203rd participated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67447284 | 1,717,062 |
633,385 | Bridges can either be provisional (temporary / interim) or permanent. The provisional bridge is a transitional restoration that protects the teeth that are weakened by the preparation, and stabilises the dental tissues until the fabrication of the final restoration, moreover, it can pave the way to the aesthetics of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1031150 | 633,047 |
1,127,144 | Analysis of trace materials most often begins with a visual examination of the evidence usually involving macrophotography. This is then usually followed by microscopic analysis, of which a number of different types are available depending on the type of material to be analyzed, such as a stereomicroscope, scanning ele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1723051 | 1,126,567 |
307,866 | In October 2011, Avid introduced Pro Tools 10 and a new series of DSP PCIe cards named HDX. Each card mounted 18 DSP processors, manufactured by Texas Instruments, allowing an increased computational precision (32-bit floating-point resolution for audio processing and 64-bit floating-point summing, versus the previous ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=420787 | 307,701 |
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