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81,809 | Two developments in geometry in the 19th century changed the way it had been studied previously. These were the discovery of non-Euclidean geometries by Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, János Bolyai and Carl Friedrich Gauss and of the formulation of symmetry as the central consideration in the Erlangen Programme of Felix... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18973446 | 81,776 |
1,770,551 | Modern sequencing methods usually sequence both ends of a larger fragment, which provides linking information for "de novo" assembly and improved probabilities for alignment to reference sequence. Researchers generally believe that longer lengths of data (read lengths) enhance performance for very large DNA targets, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19287844 | 1,769,554 |
1,294,006 | The nine-storey Evolution House on West Port by Reiach and Hall Architects was completed 2003, adjacent to the main College building. Built as speculative offices, it now houses the art and design library, as well as providing design studios and office facilities for the School of Design. While the college remains main... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1228887 | 1,293,295 |
474,299 | Media used online also has been successfully proven to stimulate civic engagement. Leveraging the Internet to facilitate public deliberation has been proven to be a successful and cost-effective way to engage large volumes of citizens. Studies have shown that mixed modality media (both rich and lean) can be useful in c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2185671 | 474,063 |
2,131,629 | Kelly earned a Ph.D. in biophysics in 1968 and an M.D. in 1969. While a postdoctoral fellow with Hamilton O. Smith at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine during 1969-70, Kelly determined the DNA sequences recognized by type II restriction enzymes, which subsequently became major tools in recombinant DNA res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33488578 | 2,130,404 |
1,976,083 | This building has many features that helped it to achieve the Platinum level. The features dealing with water usage reduce the buildings indoor water use by 40 percent. Due to all of the facility’s energy saving features the building has exceeded the state and national energy requirements by 35 percent. Another interes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25102062 | 1,974,946 |
807,740 | Field measurements alone are usually not a reliable basis for generating residence times, mainly because they necessarily represent a small subset of locations and conditions. Therefore, the measurements are generally used as the input for numerical models. In theory it would be possible to integrate a system of hydrod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2227469 | 807,310 |
716,920 | The transformations of Islamic legal institutions in the modern era have had profound implications for the madhhab system. Legal practice in most of the Muslim world has come to be controlled by government policy and state law, so that the influence of the madhhabs beyond personal ritual practice depends on the status ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1311096 | 716,543 |
426,253 | Scott Edward Parazynski (born July 28, 1961 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. A veteran of five Space Shuttle flights and seven spacewalks, Parazynski's latest mission was STS-120 in October, 2007 – highlighted by a dramatic, unplanned EVA to repair a live solar array. In M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=635284 | 426,044 |
1,179,038 | SMA is available in a broad range of molecular weights and maleic anhydride (MA) contents. In a typical combination of those two properties, SMA is available as a crystal clear granule that can be used in a wide variety of applications. SMA polymers with a high molecular weight are widely used in engineering plastic ap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16454443 | 1,178,414 |
74,323 | The approximate age of the Moon, and hence the approximate phase, can be calculated for any date by calculating the number of days since a known new moon (such as January 1, 1900 or August 11, 1999) and reducing this modulo 29.53059 days (the mean length of a synodic month). The difference between two dates can be calc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20424 | 74,296 |
1,671,479 | As volumetric video developed into a commercially applicable approach to environment and performance capture, the ability to move about the results with six degrees of freedom and true stereoscopy necessitated a new type of display device. With the rise of consumer-facing VR in 2016 through devices such as the Oculus R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56687142 | 1,670,539 |
2,037,347 | TFB is a single polypeptide, around 280 to 300 amino acids in length and 34 kDa in mass, that is required for the recruitment of RNA polymerase (RNAP) to begin transcription, and it may also affect the transcription complex's structure during changes that occur before transcription, though specific mechanisms are unkno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38091286 | 2,036,172 |
2,138,369 | Harold L. Rakov was born in Syracuse, New York. Dr. Rakov attended Oswego Normal School and received his baccalaureate and doctoral degrees from Syracuse University. Prior to beginning his career at Brockport, he taught at both the junior high and collegiate levels in New York State. During his 33 years at the college,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=512315 | 2,137,139 |
572,134 | Not quite by the distinction between macroscopic and microscopic, classical and quantum mechanics are theories that are distinguished in a subtly different way. At first glance one might think of them as differing simply in the size of objects that they describe, classical objects being considered far larger as to mass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=382187 | 571,841 |
1,133,831 | In the case of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the protein that becomes compromised is dystrophin. The dystrophin protein has two essential functional domains that flank a central rod domain consisting of repetitive and partially dispensable segments. Dystrophin’s function is to maintain muscle fiber stability during cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28474959 | 1,133,238 |
391,731 | All HH-60Gs have an automatic flight control system, night vision goggles lighting and forward looking infrared system that greatly enhances night low-level operations. Additionally, some Pave Hawks have color weather radar and an engine/rotor blade anti-ice system that gives the HH-60G an all-weather capability. Pave ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38861 | 391,536 |
1,860,569 | Hyde was a researcher and professor, but also an inventor and innovator. She developed instruments for monitoring physiological parameters in a marine animal that could be used in seawater. Her most well-known invention was an intracellular micropipette electrode. Dr. Hyde had observed that electrolytes in high concent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17610070 | 1,859,501 |
2,015,132 | The earliest breccia pipe mined for uranium was the Orphan, a mineralized pipe exposed on the southern wall of the Grand Canyon within the Grand Canyon National Park. During the late 70s, Energy Fuels Nuclear, Inc. (founder Bob Adams and successor Oren Benton) began a concerted effort to locate and then mine further ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11341476 | 2,013,973 |
1,381,598 | The first animals sent into space were fruit flies aboard a U.S.-launched V-2 rocket on 20 February 1947 from White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The purpose of the experiment was to explore the effects of radiation exposure at high altitudes. The rocket reached 68 miles (109 km) in 3 minutes and 10 seconds, past bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39134574 | 1,380,835 |
1,360,673 | The geologic layers of the Lago Colhué Huapi Formation, where "Scernosaurus" hails from, have proved difficult to interpret historically, their assignment shifting around between several different geologic formations before finally being settled as its own unit of the Chubut Group, dating to the Maastrichtian. Addition... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4298220 | 1,359,921 |
810,250 | By mid-century the old étude tradition was largely abandoned. Olivier Messiaen's "Quatre études de rythme" ("Four studies in rhythm", 1949–50) were not didactic compositions, but experiments with scales of durations, as well as with dynamics, figurations, coloration, and pitches. John Cage's études—"Études Australes" (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=227915 | 809,818 |
1,145,750 | The Jim Woodruff Dam was one human alteration in the landscape for which quantitative data was available and could be assessed. Mark W. Schwartz would be the scientist to make that evaluation. But first, he would join with Rob Nicholson of Harvard's Arnold Arboretum, to undertake the "first objective" of the federal re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2680498 | 1,145,149 |
2,068,509 | The ARC Training Centre for Automated Manufacture of Advanced Composites (AMAC) established under the Industrial Transformation Research Program (ITRP) began its operations on 29 May 2017. With University of New South Wales as the administering node, AMAC operates across two other university nodes (Australian National ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57178148 | 2,067,318 |
1,080,514 | Pooley made a return to competitive cycling in October 2015 when she competed at the Chrono des Nations time trial, where she finished sixth. In December 2015 she announced that she would aim to compete for Team GB in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro after being approached by British Cycling's technical direc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17685876 | 1,079,958 |
1,586,939 | MPSS allows mRNA transcripts to be identified through the generation of a 17–20 bp (base pair) signature sequence adjacent to the 3'-end of the 3'-most site of the designated restriction enzyme (commonly Sau3A or DpnII). Each signature sequence is cloned onto one of a million microbeads. The technique ensures that only... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23929075 | 1,586,045 |
1,834,517 | In 1957, a new gas plant at Taylor, near Fort St. John, British Columbia, began supplying Westcoast Transmission Co. Ltd. This plant's practices differed from those used in Alberta in a number of ways. For example, although it generally required dehydration, sweetening and processing for liquid hydrocarbons, companies ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12051433 | 1,833,468 |
555,704 | In 1984 John T. Lis and David Gilmour, at the time a graduate student in the Lis lab, used UV irradiation, a zero-length protein-nucleic acid crosslinking agent, to covalently cross-link proteins bound to DNA in living bacterial cells. Following lysis of cross-linked cells and immunoprecipitation of bacterial RNA polym... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26419872 | 555,415 |
1,940,136 | Energy released into the environment by organisms is prone to detection by other organisms. The detection by predators and competing individuals of same species provides a strong evolutionary pressure. When active sensing is used, energy levels detected at the target are greater than those of the returning signal. Prey... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14309185 | 1,939,026 |
102,770 | The barrels used in the Minimi have an increased heat capacity for sustained fire, feature a chrome-lined rifled bore (six right-hand grooves) and are manufactured in two versions: with a 178 mm (1:7 in) twist rate used to stabilize the heavier Belgian 5.56×45mm SS109 projectile, or a 305 mm (1:12 in) twist for use wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=658041 | 102,725 |
1,778,357 | Blennerhassett phase of the Fort Ancient tradition appears by 1250 CE. These people extend from the Mouth of the Little Kanawha area and began a few centuries before the Orchard people appear. They no longer utilized small burial mounds. The graves are now found amongst the houses surrounding the central plaza. Houses ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17254851 | 1,777,355 |
938,295 | Coral reefs are some of the most biodiverse habitats on earth, supporting large numbers of species of corals, fish, molluscs, worms, arthropods, starfish, sea urchins, other invertebrates and algae. Because of the photosynthetic requirements of the corals, they are found in shallow waters, and many of these fringe land... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378653 | 937,794 |
908,117 | 1,3-Butadiene is also a suspected human teratogen. Prolonged and excessive exposure can affect many areas in the human body; blood, brain, eye, heart, kidney, lung, nose and throat have all been shown to react to the presence of excessive 1,3-butadiene. Animal data suggest that women have a higher sensitivity to possib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=464821 | 907,639 |
1,024,823 | HTLV-1 is an abbreviation for "human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1", also called human T-cell leukemia type 1, a virus that has been implicated in several kinds of diseases, including tropical spastic paraparesis, and as a virus cancer link for leukemia (see adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma). HTLV-1 has seven reported... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21354427 | 1,024,290 |
111,855 | Mies sought to establish his own particular architectural style that could represent modern times just as Classical and Gothic did for their own eras. The style he created made a statement with its extreme clarity and simplicity. His mature buildings made use of modern materials such as industrial steel and plate glass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17897 | 111,810 |
567,929 | On December 17, 1956, the Ford family gifted both land and capital development funds to the University of Michigan for the creation of a regional university offering upper-division undergraduate and master's level programs. In February 1957, the Regents of the University of Michigan officially accepted the gifts and co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=848086 | 567,639 |
161,160 | A broadcaster may opt to use a standard-definition (SDTV) digital signal instead of an HDTV signal, because current convention allows the bandwidth of a DTV channel (or "multiplex") to be subdivided into multiple digital subchannels, (similar to what most FM radio stations offer with HD Radio), providing multiple feeds... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8271 | 161,075 |
1,827,894 | Like OCT, the early implementations of a/LCI relied on physically changing the optical path length (OPL) to control the depth in the sample from which data are acquired. However, it has been demonstrated that it is possible to use a Fourier domain implementation to yield depth resolution in a single data acquisition. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21121933 | 1,826,855 |
1,104,357 | Inside a transmission line (TL) loudspeaker is a (usually folded) pathway into which the sound is directed. The pathway is often covered with varying types and depths of absorbent material, and it may vary in size or taper, and may be open or closed at its far end. Used correctly, such a design ensures that undesired r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44224558 | 1,103,794 |
446,708 | In the 1930s, Cowell's student Lou Harrison utilized keyboard clusters in several works such as his Prelude for Grandpiano (1937). At least as far back as 1942, John Cage, who also studied under Cowell, began writing piano pieces with cluster chords; "In the Name of the Holocaust", from December of that year, includes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=343054 | 446,492 |
1,980,149 | Koene has professional expertise in computational neuroscience, psychology, information theory, electrical engineering and physics. He organizes neural engineering efforts to obtain and replicate function and structure information that resides in the neural substrate for use in neuroprostheses and neural interfaces. Ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23932137 | 1,979,011 |
1,754,097 | While admitting that the suppression pool at the bottom of the containment vessel had been damaged in the explosion, causing a drop of pressure there, Japanese nuclear authorities emphasized that the containment had not been breached as a result of the explosion and contained no obvious holes. In a news conference on 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37832404 | 1,753,107 |
1,960,201 | LPO may damage hundreds to thousands of PUFA residues in PUFA-rich neuronal, mitochondrial and retinal membranes. The chain oxidation proceeds inexorably through multiple steps, destroying lipid membranes and generating highly reactive toxic secondary products that damage numerous biomolecules, such as proteins and DNA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66508692 | 1,959,074 |
999,003 | "Eucalyptus regnans" was first formally described in 1871 by Victorian botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in the "Annual Report of the Victorian Acclimatisation Society". He gave the specific epithet ("regnans") from the Latin word meaning "ruling". Mueller noted that "[t]his species or variety, which might be called "Euca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=158181 | 998,485 |
1,894,034 | Planting date refers to the date that the seed is sown. This concept is of prime importance in growing soybeans because yields are strongly correlated with planting date. Data from Iowa State University shows that earlier planted soybeans tend to have higher yields than soybeans planted later in the growing season. Pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15890020 | 1,892,950 |
2,141,994 | The circulation of the world's oceans is linked to the atmosphere in multiple ways. They are both, in essence, driven by the available solar energy and they are coupled by the friction at the sea surface. Because of the imbalance between the available solar energy at the poles and at the equator there is a meridional t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70383490 | 2,140,763 |
107,869 | The decline in death rate and birth rate that occurs during the demographic transition may transform the age structure. When the death rate declines during the second stage of the transition, the result is primarily an increase in the younger population. The reason being that when the death rate is high (stage one), th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231079 | 107,824 |
1,416,739 | Haruko Obokata claimed that STAP cells were produced by exposing CD45 murine spleen cells to certain stresses including an acidic medium with a pH of 5.7 for half an hour. Following this treatment, the cells were verified to be pluripotent by observing increasing levels of Oct-4 (a transcription factor expressed in emb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41787889 | 1,415,941 |
1,106,587 | After the day required to make the tank safe by purging remaining hydrogen gas with helium gas, NASA engineers prepared for the disconnection of the vent arm and the significant number of lines prior to taking their first look at the GUCP. On the night of 9 November, technicians began disconnecting the GUCP by unhookin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5829815 | 1,106,023 |
386,025 | A variety of retinal molecular pathway defects have been matched to multiple known RP gene mutations. Mutations in the rhodopsin gene (RHO), which is responsible for the majority of autosomal-dominantly inherited RP cases, disrupts the rhodopsin protein essential for translating light into decipherable electrical signa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=350926 | 385,830 |
582,611 | The second diagram on the right shows some possible effects of sea ice decline and permafrost thaw on Arctic carbon fluxes. On land, plants take up carbon while microorganisms in the soil produce methane and respire CO. Lakes are net emitters of methane, and organic and inorganic carbon (dissolved and particulate) flow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240228 | 582,312 |
2,640 | The F-22 has a glass cockpit with all-digital flight instruments. The monochrome head-up display offers a wide field of view and serves as a primary flight instrument; information is also displayed upon six color liquid-crystal display (LCD) panels. The primary flight controls are a force-sensitive side-stick controlle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66299 | 2,640 |
396,447 | The vagus, or tenth cranial nerve transmits parasympathetic signals to and from the heart, lungs, and digestive tract, a fact established before the middle of the 20th century. "Polyvagal theory" was introduced in 1994 by Stephen Porges, director of the Brain-Body Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. As has... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15376795 | 396,251 |
1,936,840 | Well known Australian team member and opening ceremony cauldron lighter Louise Sauvage was a participant in the 800 meters T54 event. The race was interrupted by a crash around the 200m mark, leaving three competitors unable to finish. Race leaders Sauvage and Canadian rival Chantal Petitclerc were uninterrupted by the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18272352 | 1,935,732 |
107,512 | In rotation-powered pulsars, the beam is the result of the rotational energy of the neutron star, which generates an electrical field from the movement of the very strong magnetic field, resulting in the acceleration of protons and electrons on the star surface and the creation of an electromagnetic beam emanating from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1227284 | 107,467 |
324,935 | In December 2013, reptile handler Scott Grant (age 40+), who was conducting a demonstration in front of 300 people at the annual building union's picnic in Portland, Victoria, had just finished showing the crowd an inland taipan and was trying to put it into a bag when it struck him. He got into his utility and tied a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1687186 | 324,762 |
1,527,337 | In 2019 it was announced that NASA Launch Services Program (LSP) investigators have determined the technical root cause for the Taurus XL launch failures of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) and Glory missions in 2009 and 2011, respectively: faulty materials provided by aluminium manufacturer, Sapa Profiles, Inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11292731 | 1,526,473 |
1,674,927 | Moonmilk is a white, creamy material found in caves. It is a non-hardening, fine crystalline precipitate from limestone and is composed mainly of calcium and/or magnesium carbonates. Microbes may be involved in its formation. It is difficult to infer microbial activities in moonmilk from standard static chemical and mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35215882 | 1,673,985 |
2,025,305 | "Romundina" were small Placoderms and therefore had to rely on heavily armored skull and anterior sections of their body to fend off larger fish present at the same time. Corals and other shallow water organisms were also found alongside "Romundina" in the same formation on Prince of Wales Island suggesting that they t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45082741 | 2,024,139 |
143,754 | As of mid-2021, the modified AIDA mission has been approved. The NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test ("DART") kinetic impactor spacecraft was launched in November 2021. The goal was to impact Dimorphos (nicknamed "Didymoon"), the minor-planet moon of near-Earth asteroid 65803 Didymos. The impact occurred in September... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174069 | 143,696 |
1,469,826 | The long-range goal of Sejnowski's research is to understand the computational resources of brains and to build linking principles from brain to behavior using computational models. This goal is being pursued with a combination of theoretical and experimental approaches at several levels of investigation ranging from t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1171552 | 1,469,001 |
1,212,812 | Age caste polyethism does not occur in "Nothomyrmecia", where the younger workers act as nurses and tend to the brood and the older workers go out and forage. The only ant known other than "Nothomyrmecia" which does not exhibit age caste polyethism is "Stigmatomma pallipes". Workers are strictly nocturnal, and only eme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9372569 | 1,212,160 |
2,011,806 | After the European Commission's efforts to encourage girls into science with their video "Science: It's a Girl Thing!", Williams recognised that there was a national need for scientists to contribute to the gender imbalance within their disciplines. In 2012 Williams established Science Grrl, a grassroots national netwo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55372806 | 2,010,653 |
2,038,143 | Despite the increased level of competition, now racing against mainly other 1st VIIIs, guided by the long-term planning and expert coaching of Sergej Using (also captain of Cambridge 99's Boat Club, Henley Masters medal-winner and ex-pro basketball player) the Men's 1st VIII progressed smoothly through Division 2 over ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3743994 | 2,036,968 |
1,212,548 | Passive margins (continental shelves and slopes) are under relatively shallow water. Upwelling brings nutrient-rich water to the surface, stimulating abundant growth of phytoplankton, which then settles to the bottom (a phenomenon known as the biological pump). Thus, there is a lot of organic material in the sediments,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61218171 | 1,211,896 |
1,025,046 | With the need for soldier health a growing concern, places for the sick to go in the army were starting to show up. Dates ranged from AD 9 to AD 50, but this is when the first evidence of hospitals was seen in archeological remains. These hospitals were specific places for only military members to go to if they were in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4921176 | 1,024,513 |
954,961 | When Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species" in 1859, many liberal Christians accepted evolution provided they could reconcile it with divine design. The clergymen Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) and Frederick Temple (1821–1902), both conservative Christians in the Church of England, promoted a theology of cre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=328815 | 954,456 |
536,249 | Al-Karaji, in his treatise "al-Fakhri", extends the methodology to incorporate integer powers and integer roots of unknown quantities. The historian of mathematics, F. Woepcke, praised Al-Karaji for being "the first who introduced the theory of algebraic calculus." Also in the 10th century, Abul Wafa translated the wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6134187 | 535,970 |
376,833 | Philosophies of the particular sciences range from questions about the nature of time raised by Einstein's general relativity, to the implications of economics for public policy. A central theme is whether the terms of one scientific theory can be intra- or intertheoretically reduced to the terms of another. That is, c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37010 | 376,638 |
1,808,960 | The cap is rounded to convex before flattening with age, and attains a diameter of . Its margin is curved inward when young, and usually has hanging remnants of the partial veil. The surface is dry and initially coated with fine particles, while later it develops fine hairs or small scales that are pressed down flat on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37281080 | 1,807,939 |
133,940 | By the 1950s many African students were studying in British universities, and they produced a demand for new scholarship, and started themselves to supply it as well. Oxford University became the main center for African studies, with activity as well at Cambridge University and the London School of Economics. The persp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14099 | 133,886 |
600,068 | Increasingly, this type of fingerprint work is shifting its emphasis. As noted, clear and compelling scientific evidence supports the case for a pronounced human influence on global climate. Much of the recent attention is now on climate changes at continental and regional scales, and on variables that can have large i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3201 | 599,762 |
149,001 | The villa tradition continued throughout the late 18th century, particularly in the suburbs around London. Sir William Chambers built many examples, such as Parkstead House. But the grander English Palladian houses were no longer the small but exquisite weekend retreats that their Italian counterparts were intended as.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=592136 | 148,940 |
681,513 | Concert tuning pitches tended to vary from group to group, and by the 17th century the pitches had been generally creeping upward (i.e. becoming "sharper"). The French acoustic physicist Joseph Sauveur, a non-musician, researched musical pitches and determined their frequencies. He found several frequency values for A ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27700512 | 681,157 |
828,175 | Probability amplitudes provide a relationship between the quantum state vector of a system and the results of observations of that system, a link was first proposed by Max Born, in 1926. Interpretation of values of a wave function as the probability amplitude is a pillar of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mech... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=429425 | 827,731 |
334,101 | During February 2006, Mitsui Bussan Aerospace signed a $100 million contract for 12 AW139s and an exclusive distribution agreement for the AW139 in Japan. In October 2006, the Japan Coast Guard announced its selection of the AW139 as the replacement for its Bell 212 search and rescue fleet; by early 2011, 18 AW139s wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6378164 | 333,923 |
405,349 | "" is the official sequel to "StarCraft" released for Windows and Mac OS X by Blizzard Entertainment on July 27, 2010. The game was announced at the Worldwide Invitational in South Korea on May 19, 2007 with a pre-rendered cinematic cut scene trailer and a gameplay demonstration of the Protoss. Further demonstrations r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14271726 | 405,149 |
225,112 | Assessment of a movement disorder featuring spasticity may involve several health professionals depending on the affected individual's situation, and the severity of their condition. This may include physical therapists, physicians (including neurologists and rehabilitation physicians), orthotists and occupational ther... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=98998 | 224,996 |
464,476 | On January 31, 2013, NewTek shipped LightWave 11.5 which debuted a new modular rigging system called Genoma. The flocking system was reworked, gaining predator and prey behaviors. The bullet dynamics system was improved to include soft body dynamics, wind forces and to react to bone deformations. Interlinks to After Ef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=474652 | 464,246 |
1,204,956 | It seems to have been this work that set the seal of Zariski's discontent with the approach of the Italians to birational geometry. He addressed the question of rigour by recourse to commutative algebra. The Zariski topology, as it was later known, is adequate for "biregular geometry", where varieties are mapped by pol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=359352 | 1,204,311 |
1,340,576 | PearPC currently lacks its own GUI — the 'Change CD' button found in early versions have been eliminated because it rarely functioned correctly. However, developers have made frontends for the program. Two of these are PearGUI, which looks like a Mac OS X application but is incompatible with current versions of PearPC,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=656612 | 1,339,843 |
215,814 | The Army Medical Service was in disarray, between the military casualties, extremely high losses from typhoid, yellow fever and other camp illnesses, political conflicts between Dr. John Morgan and Dr. William Shippen, Jr., and inadequate supplies and guidance from the medical committee. Nonetheless, Rush accepted an a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=260899 | 215,706 |
1,123,318 | Aldoxorubicin is a new pro-drug of doxorubicin. Doxorubicin is the standard of care for advanced or metastic epithelioid sarcoma, but has dose-limiting toxicities, namely acute and chronic cardiac toxicity. Doxorubicin has achieved response rates in the 12-23% range for patients with soft tissue sarcomas. Aldoxorubicin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15025638 | 1,122,744 |
1,292,627 | Current-imaging-tunneling spectroscopy (CITS) is an STS technique where an I-V curve is recorded at each pixel in the STM topograph. Either variable-spacing or constant-spacing spectroscopy may be used to record the I-V curves. The conductance, formula_1, can be obtained by numerical differentiation of I with respect t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1959732 | 1,291,916 |
2,178,226 | Systematic studies of cardiac rhythm disturbances have been performed during short-duration space flight. These studies were conducted in response to medical reports of arrhythmias occurring in 9 to 14 Space Shuttle EVA astronauts between 1983 and 1985. Rossum et al. used 24-hour Holter recordings acquired during and a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39685359 | 2,176,981 |
232,564 | The EPA waiver authorizes sale of E15 only from Sep 15 to May 31 out of a black hose and a yellow hose to flex fuel vehicles only from June 1 to Sep 14. Retailers have shunned building infrastructure due to the costly regulatory requirements which have created a practical barrier to the commercialization of the higher ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2155310 | 232,445 |
2,198,851 | The School of Mines stands next to the Court House on a government reserve. It is a single story building, timber framed and clad on concrete stumps with a corrugated iron roof. One of the stumps at the front of the building is the foundation stone laid by E.D. Miles. Its current position helps to demonstrate that the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50877738 | 2,197,599 |
52,148 | Authors considering attachment in non-Western cultures have noted the connection of attachment theory with Western family and child care patterns characteristic of Bowlby's time. As children's experience of care changes, so may attachment-related experiences. For example, changes in attitudes toward female sexuality ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=884589 | 52,128 |
443,771 | In the 2000s, the Virgo detector was built, commissioned and operated. The instrument reached its design sensitivity to gravitational wave signals. This initial endeavour was used to validate the Virgo technical design choices; and it also demonstrated that giant interferometers are promising devices to detect gravitat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6762618 | 443,556 |
836,478 | The problem of low sensitivity to light resulting in low electrical output from transmitting or camera tubes would be solved with the introduction of charge-storage technology by the Hungarian engineer Kálmán Tihanyi in the beginning of 1925. His solution was a camera tube that accumulated and stored electrical charges... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=516757 | 836,029 |
1,600,525 | In practice, this proved not to be. A problem seen in all fusion reactor designs of the era was that the plasma ions were drifting much faster than classical theory predicted, hundreds to thousands of times faster. Designs that suggested stability on the order of seconds turned into machines that were stable for micros... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4365725 | 1,599,624 |
1,176,888 | In dwarf models of mice, such Snell or Ames mice, mutations have arisen, either rendering them incapable of producing IGF-1 or unable to have adequate receptors for IGF-1 uptake. Furthermore, mice injected with growth hormone have been shown to have progressive weight loss, roughing of the coat, curvature of the spine,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55895027 | 1,176,265 |
171,847 | The Saturn V (AS-504) used on Apollo9 was the fourth to be flown, the second to carry astronauts to space, and the first to bear a lunar module. Although similar in configuration to the SaturnV used on Apollo 8, several changes were made. The inner core of the F-1 engine chamber in the first (S-IC) stage was removed, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1774 | 171,756 |
1,108,007 | Failing at ORNL, Peng began a worldwide effort to interest other teams in the concept and get a test machine built. One approach would be to convert a spheromak. Peng's advocacy caught the interest of Derek Robinson, of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Robinson gathered a team and secured on the order of 100... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67952883 | 1,107,443 |
84,857 | During the 1980s, Iran procured a number of F-7s, despite Chinese officials issuing denials of directly supplying military equipment to the country at that time. Despite its use as a frontline fighter, the type has not been involved in any known combat actions. By the 21st century, it was largely relegated to use as a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=377543 | 84,823 |
1,025,163 | Sex verification in sports began in the 1940s with "femininity certificates" provided by a physician. It subsequently evolved into visual inspections, physical examinations, chromosome testing, and later testosterone level testing. These tests were all designed to ensure that athletes were only allowed to compete as th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=844733 | 1,024,630 |
11,121 | Carl Edward Sagan (; ; November 9, 1934December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6824 | 11,116 |
828,568 | In 1992, Coffin and Eldholm initially defined the term "large igneous province" (LIP) as representing a variety of mafic igneous provinces with areal extent greater than 100,000 km that represented "massive crustal emplacements of predominantly mafic (magnesium- and iron-rich) extrusive and intrusive rock, and originat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1589341 | 828,122 |
2,040,574 | Another example of portable optical air sensors can involve fluorescence. One example of a fluorescence based sensor is an electronic nose, which can measure analytes in vapor or air. It operates so that an analyte is detected by different sensors in different ways to ensure what is being measured can be differentiated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47692245 | 2,039,394 |
1,012,529 | Many definitions of CT describe it only at skill level because the momentum behind its growth comes from its promise to boost STEM education. And, the latest movement in STEM education is based on suggestions (by learning theories) that we teach students experts' habits of mind. So, whether it is computational thinking... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19850468 | 1,012,008 |
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