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146,543 | For example, with a typical Leupold brand 16 minute of angle (MOA) duplex reticle (similar to image B) on a fixed-power telescopic sight, the distance from post to post (between the heavier lines of the reticle spanning the center of the sight picture) is approximately at , or, equivalently, approximately from the cent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1052795 | 146,485 |
2,112,426 | The ellestadites are nesosilicates, which are minerals with isolated SiO tetrahedra. They are members of the apatite group, but whereas phosphorus is one of the chief constituents of apatite, in ellestadite it is almost completely replaced by sulfur and silicon, without appreciably altering the structure. The crystal c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31899968 | 2,111,211 |
1,248,655 | Temperature influences development of eggs, and eggs only develop within the range 20-30 °C. The upper temperature limit for eggs to hatch is approximately 30-35 °C. This may explain the absence of the wharf borer in tropical climates. Relative humidity also influences egg development, with the lower threshold being 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14089766 | 1,247,979 |
291,411 | In the 1970s, many countries experienced high levels of both inflation and unemployment also known as stagflation. Theories based on the Phillips curve suggested that this could not happen, and the curve came under a concerted attack from a group of economists headed by Milton Friedman. Friedman argued that the Phillip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=153390 | 291,253 |
1,353,582 | RCI explains the creation of institutions as an attempt to reduce transaction costs of collective activity which would be significantly higher without such institutions. Institutions persist after their creation because they reduce uncertainty and allow gains from exchange. Rational Choice Institutionalism assumes that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30102676 | 1,352,835 |
595,729 | Laser Doppler velocimetry predates PIV as a laser-digital analysis system to become widespread for research and industrial use. Able to obtain all of a fluid's velocity measurements at a specific point, it can be considered the 2-dimensional PIV's immediate predecessor. PIV itself found its roots in laser speckle veloc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1058299 | 595,424 |
1,582,452 | Powered feeding devices allow individuals who are unable to self-feed using any other type of assistive eating technology, to eat independently. Typically, these devices operate using power from a rechargeable battery (for portability). The user controls the device by the use of adaptive switches to activate the variou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43998818 | 1,581,562 |
693,233 | As with other ornithomimids, they had small slender heads on long necks (which made up about 40% of the length of the body in front of the hips). Their eyes were large and their jaws were toothless. Their vertebral columns consisted of ten neck vertebrae, thirteen back vertebrae, six hip vertebrae, and about thirty-fiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1828515 | 692,870 |
1,158,668 | In the U.S., the EPA requires a data acquisition and handling system to collect and report the data. Measurements of concentration can be converted to mass/hour by including flow rate measurements. The types of gases being measured and the calculations required are dependent upon the source type and each source type ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18860788 | 1,158,054 |
1,790,883 | The fossil record in Montana stretches all the way back to the Precambrian. During the Late Precambrian, western Montana was covered by a warm, shallow sea. This sea was home to stromatolites and to bottom-dwelling marine life whose tracks on the benthic sediment would later fossilize. Montanan life of the time include... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799135 | 1,789,877 |
1,490,080 | bromine photochemistry. Due to the autocatalytic nature of the reaction mechanism, it has been called bromine explosion. It is still not fully understood how salts are transported from the ocean and oxidized to become reactive halogen species in the air. Other halogens (chlorine and iodine) are also activated through m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13248494 | 1,489,241 |
1,988,564 | Gilchrist's first short story collection, "The Stone Dragon and Other Tragic Romances" (1894) was a collection of weird and Decadent stories. "The Stone Dragon and Other Tragic Romances" failed to sell well, and while he occasionally published short stories all his life, the bulk of his output was a score of novels, tw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23024991 | 1,987,422 |
810,906 | Heath's work is indispensable. He taught throughout the early 20th century, passing away in 1940, but meanwhile another point of view was developing. St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe), which had been a military school since colonial times, preceding the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, to which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=257242 | 810,474 |
636,268 | The Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module (EDM) called "Schiaparelli", was intended to provide the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Roscosmos with the technology for landing on the surface of Mars. It was launched together with the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) on 14 March 2016, 09:31 UTC and was sch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1193669 | 635,929 |
1,728,946 | The goal of anytime algorithms are to give intelligent systems the ability to make results of better quality in return for turn-around time. They are also supposed to be flexible in time and resources. They are important because artificial intelligence or AI algorithms can take a long time to complete results. This alg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9025771 | 1,727,972 |
15,646 | Acceptance testing for the design began in June 1970, continuing for 18 months. Changes made in the design addressed structural strength, fatigue problems and vibration levels. Also, a 12-degree anhedral was introduced to the wings to address the aircraft's tendency to Dutch roll at speeds in excess of 200 km/h (124 mp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 | 15,641 |
867,775 | A voltage-gated sodium channel is present in members of the choanoflagellates, thought to be the closest living, unicellular relative of animals. This suggests that an ancestral form of the animal channel was among the many proteins that play central roles in animal life, but which are thought to have evolved before mu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2879958 | 867,315 |
1,407,378 | Today, about 25,000 students are studying in the university, including nearly 1,500 foreigners from 55 countries. NAU incorporates five institutes, ten faculties, military training department, six colleges, two lyceums, and the Flight Academy in Kropyvnytskyi. NAU trains bachelors, masters, candidates, and doctors of s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18580817 | 1,406,588 |
50,864 | Limited long-term follow-up data suggest that IVF may be associated with an increased incidence of hypertension, impaired fasting glucose, increase in total body fat composition, advancement of bone age, subclinical thyroid disorder, early adulthood clinical depression and binge drinking in the offspring. It is not kno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57880 | 50,844 |
998,015 | "Tennessee" began the voyage to the Philippines on 12 October as part of 7th Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Thomas Kinkaid. The fleet carried two Army corps that were to land on the eastern coast of Leyte. "Tennessee", "California", and "Pennsylvania" were assigned to support the corps that was to land at Dulag; they... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196975 | 997,497 |
411,726 | In 1998, Helmut Rix put forward the view that Etruscan is related to other members of what he called the "Tyrsenian language family". Rix's Tyrsenian family of languages—composed of Raetic, spoken in ancient times in the eastern Alps, and Lemnian, together with Etruscan—has gained acceptance among scholars. Rix's Tyrse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9455 | 411,524 |
1,412,532 | Despite the storm occurring in January, the weather at the time was mild which made the need for heat less than usual. District heating systems in urban areas did not suffer from long power cuts to cause problems. However, smaller areas did suffer from heating systems failures. Millions of trees were torn by the roots ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24684259 | 1,411,737 |
936,335 | The first precept is the abstaining from the taking of life, and the Buddha clearly stated that the taking of human or animal life would lead to negative karmic consequences and was non conductive to liberation. Right livelihood includes not trading in weapons or in hunting and butchering animals. Various suttas state ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4746907 | 935,840 |
2,184,871 | John Andrew Strain is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. His area of interest are Applied Mathematics, Algorithms, Numerical Analysis, and Materials Science. John Strain received his PhD in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988 working with his advisor Alexan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50219103 | 2,183,623 |
306,605 | As part of France's contribution to the 1990s NATO-led intervention in the Yugoslav Wars, a number of French Pumas operated in the region alongside other Puma operators such as Britain and the United Arab Emirates; one frequent mission for the type was the vital provision of humanitarian aid missions to refugees escapi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=493615 | 306,441 |
192,535 | The holotype and paratype (OMNH 10146 and OMNH 10147), discovered in the early 1940s and described at the same time in 1950, consist of two partial skeletons and a piece of skull material from the Antlers Formation in Oklahoma. Two much more complete specimens were described in the 1990s. The first (SMU 74646) is a par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1108139 | 192,436 |
912,126 | From 1776 to 1783, no state government had a passport requirement. The Articles of Confederation government (1783–1789) did not have a passport requirement. From 1789 through late 1941, the government established under the Constitution required United States passports of citizens only during the American Civil War (186... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26677627 | 911,647 |
679,940 | DAMPs can be used as biomarkers for inflammatory diseases and potential therapeutic targets. For example, increased S100A8/A9 is associated with osteophyte progression in early human osteoarthritis, suggesting that S100 proteins can be used as biomarkers for the diagnosis of the progressive grade of osteoarthritis. Fur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17544970 | 679,586 |
513,954 | During Gey's tenure at Johns Hopkins, he founded and was the first president of the Tissue Culture Association (TCA). The main object of the TCA was to introduce scientists to tissue, culture methodology, and train technical personnel. TCA is known today as the Society for In Vitro Biology, which currently embraces ove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4336748 | 513,688 |
1,648,987 | In March 1948, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General Carl Spaatz, proposed that the Air Force take over the AFSWP, on the grounds that the Key West Agreement had given it responsibility for strategic bombing. This would have simplified command of the AFSWP, as it would have been answerable to only one service ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29079065 | 1,648,055 |
367,821 | In 1979, Teller contributed to a Hoover Institution publication where he claimed that the US would be facing an emboldened USSR due to their work on civil defense. Two years later at a conference in Italy, he made the same claims about their ambitions, but with a subtle change; now he claimed that the reason for their ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29186 | 367,628 |
866,489 | In 1830 the Belgian Revolution split Belgium from the Netherlands of today; as the newly created state sought to establish a cultural identity, Memling's reputation came to equal that of van Eyck in the 19th century. Memling was seen as the older master's match technically, and as possessing a deeper emotional resonanc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=799881 | 866,029 |
250,199 | Basically, the procedure can best be understood as a version of the more popular gastric sleeve or gastrectomy surgery where a sleeve is created by suturing rather than removing stomach tissue thus preserving its natural nutrient absorption capabilities. Gastric plication significantly reduces the volume of the patient... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11249433 | 250,067 |
725,341 | With regard to permanent teeth, there is insufficient evidence to support the use of RMGIC as long term restorations in permanent teeth. Despite the low number of randomised control trials, a meta- analysis review by Bezerra et al. [2009] reported significantly fewer carious lesions on the margins of glass ionomer rest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7120484 | 724,960 |
1,889,776 | Zelen also achieved another level of fame in the early 1980s when he and his late colleague (died 2009) in the biostatistics department, Stephen Lagakos, launched a study of a possible connection between a cluster of childhood leukemia cases in Woburn and the town's water supply. Known as the Harvard Health Study, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44472568 | 1,888,693 |
1,259,396 | In June 1888, the firm of "J Monier constructeur" was declared bankrupt, and in April 1889 went into liquidation. However, in 1890 he formed a new firm: "L'Entreprise générale de travaux en ciment J Monier". In 1891 came yet another application for a patent: for conduits for telephone and electricity cables. About this... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10286525 | 1,258,709 |
364,302 | Upon returning to the United States after serving in the Peace Corps, Jemison settled in Los Angeles, California. In Los Angeles, she entered into private practice and took graduate level engineering courses. The flights of Sally Ride and Guion Bluford in 1983 inspired Jemison to apply to the astronaut program. Jemison... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=201525 | 364,112 |
629,045 | On 13 April 2017, NASA confirmed that the dive of the Cassini orbiter spacecraft on 28 October 2015 discovered an Enceladus plume which has all the ingredients for methanogenesis-based life forms to feed on. Previous results, published in March 2015, suggested hot water is interacting with rock beneath the sea of Encel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=579750 | 628,707 |
21,924 | The Standard Model hypothesises a field which is responsible for this effect, called the Higgs field (symbol: formula_1), which has the unusual property of a non-zero amplitude in its ground state; i.e., a non-zero vacuum expectation value. It can have this effect because of its unusual "Mexican hat" shaped potential w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20556903 | 21,915 |
179,248 | Pilates was a sickly child. He suffered from asthma, rickets, and rheumatic fever, and he dedicated his entire life to improving his physical strength. He was introduced by his father to gymnastics and body-building, and to martial arts like jiu-jitsu and boxing. By the age of 14, he was fit enough to pose for anatomic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1514297 | 179,155 |
1,375,721 | The latest version of the SEEA (Q3, 2012) has two other parts, aside from the Central Framework: SEEA Experimental Ecosystem Accounts and SEEA Extensions. The Experimental Ecosystem Accounts, specifically, introduces an accounting framework for ecosystems, despite the fact that many of its relevant stocks and flows are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39613895 | 1,374,960 |
2,236,670 | The comprehension of the electronic band structure of solids is applied in many fields of condensed matter physics, contributing to the microscopic understanding of many phenomenological trends and guiding the interpretation of experimental spectra in photoemission, optics, inelastic neutron scattering, specific heat, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72420474 | 2,235,399 |
1,003,996 | Expression of genes, including tumor suppressors, can be altered through biochemical alterations known as DNA methylation. Methylation is an example of epigenetic modifications, which commonly regulate expression in mammalian genes. The addition of a methyl group to either histone tails or directly on DNA causes the nu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31207 | 1,003,478 |
1,296,596 | The severe symptoms of DWV infections appear to be associated with "Varroa destructor" infestation of the bee hive and studies have shown that "Varroa destructor" harbors greater levels of the virus than are found even in severely infected bees. Thus "V. destructor" may not only be a concentrating vector of the virus b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9490319 | 1,295,885 |
2,025,697 | With these sites, GONG typically can observe the Sun 91% of the time, 24/7. GONG was constructed to provide observations for helioseismology, which aims to understand the solar interior by analyzing the sound waves that are trapped in it. In 2001, the original GONG detectors were upgraded to 1000 x 1000 pixels and cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1771002 | 2,024,531 |
1,140,762 | In the "Journal of the Franklin Institute", Rupen Eskergian noted that the first edition of "Classical Mechanics" offers a mature take on the subject using vector and tensor notations and with a welcome emphasis on variational methods. This book begins with a review of elementary concepts, then introduces the principle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16795124 | 1,140,168 |
1,610,840 | Beatrice Hicks was born in 1919 in Orange, New Jersey, to William Lux Hicks, a chemical engineer, and Florence Benedict. Hicks decided at an early age that she wished to be an engineer. While her parents neither supported nor opposed Hicks' desired career path, some of her teachers and classmates tried to discourage he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2821381 | 1,609,935 |
601,968 | The process of androgenesis allows a mature plant embryo to form from a reduced, or immature, pollen grain. Androgenesis usually occurs under stressful conditions. Embryos that result from this mechanism can germinate into fully functional plants. As mentioned, the embryo results from a single pollen grain. Pollen grai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1251821 | 601,659 |
6,430 | The feature of the axolotl that attracts most attention is its healing ability: the axolotl does not heal by scarring and is capable of the regeneration of entire lost appendages in a period of months, and, in certain cases, more vital structures, such as tail, limb, central nervous system, and tissues of the eye and h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=235589 | 6,427 |
1,623,691 | The most frequently used nonlinear estimators of connectivity are mutual information, transfer entropy, generalised synchronisation, the continuity measure, synchronization likelihood, and phase synchronization. Mutual information and transfer entropy rely on the construction of histograms for probability estimates. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36558703 | 1,622,775 |
7,330 | On the USOS, most of the food aboard is vacuum sealed in plastic bags; cans are rare because they are heavy and expensive to transport. Preserved food is not highly regarded by the crew and taste is reduced in microgravity, so efforts are taken to make the food more palatable, including using more spices than in regula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15043 | 7,327 |
140,289 | Following the success of the Boeing 737-200 Advanced, Boeing wanted to increase capacity and range, incorporating improvements to upgrade the plane to modern specifications, while also retaining commonality with previous 737 variants. Development began in 1979, and in 1980, preliminary aircraft specifications were rele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15103676 | 140,232 |
1,336,543 | In October 1859, the steam clipper "Royal Charter" was wrecked in a strong storm off Anglesey; 450 people lost their lives. Due to this loss, Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy introduced a warning service for shipping in February 1861, using telegraph communications. This remained the United Kingdom Met Office's primary resp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39067260 | 1,335,813 |
263,401 | A 2013 study by Doron M. Behar, Mait Metspalu, Yael Baran, Naama M. Kopelman, Bayazit Yunusbayev et al. using integration of genotypes on newly collected largest data set available to date (1,774 samples from 106 Jewish and non-Jewish populations) for assessment of Ashkenazi Jewish genetic origins from the regions of p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26118437 | 263,258 |
155,830 | In the U.S. Air Force, "WSO" also refers to a USAF combat systems officer (CSO, formerly USAF navigator) who is the aft crew member in the F-15E Strike Eagle. In the B-52, the CSO crew members on the lower deck of the aircraft who were previously designated as navigator and radar navigator (bombardier) are now known as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4072511 | 155,759 |
160,930 | Leader-focused approaches look to organizational leaders to determine the characteristics of effective leadership. According to the trait approach, more effective leaders possess certain traits that less effective leaders lack. More recently, this approach is being used to predict leader emergence. The following traits... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15450 | 160,845 |
2,172,527 | The probe is a sharp metal tip ending with a single or a few atoms. The sample is illuminated from far-field and the radiation is focused at the contact area between probe and sample. When this tip approaches the sample, usually within 10 nm, the incident electromagnetic field is enhanced due to the resonant surface pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31760032 | 2,171,286 |
246,595 | The relational frame theory (RFT) (Hayes, Barnes-Holmes, Roche, 2001), provides a wholly selectionist/learning account of the origin and development of language competence and complexity. Based upon the principles of Skinnerian behaviorism, RFT posits that children acquire language purely through interacting with the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18614 | 246,468 |
556,664 | The M-V rocket, a larger solid-propellant rocket, made an appearance in 1997. ISAS reported to the government that it would not be technically possible to increase the diameter of the rocket to more than 1.4m in the next 10 years. This was because NASDA had decided on this size and the National Assembly had imposed fur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30764115 | 556,375 |
666,232 | Lee University has a wide range of academic disciplines and extracurricular activities. Many activities, such as chapel attendance (offered twice per week; students are required to attend 70% of services a month), service requirements (10 hours per semester; 80 total hours to graduate), and the study abroad program, ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=807910 | 665,884 |
781,981 | In 1912, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo built the first truly autonomous machine capable of playing chess. As opposed to the human-operated The Turk and Ajeeb, "El Ajedrecista" (The Chessplayer) was an automaton which play chess without human guidance. It only played an endgame with three chess pieces, automatically moving ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13946920 | 781,562 |
607,738 | Further, the analytic method seems to rely on some sort of definitional structure of concepts, so that one can give necessary and sufficient conditions for the application of the concept. For example, the concept "bachelor" is often analyzed as having the concepts "unmarried" and "male" as its components. Thus, the def... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48398 | 607,427 |
1,014,005 | The Huks began their anti-Japanese campaign as five 100-man units. They obtained needed arms and ammunition from Philippine army stragglers, who were escapees from the Battle of Bataan and deserters from the Philippine Constabulary, in exchange of civilian clothes. The Huk recruitment campaign progressed more slowly th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36873070 | 1,013,484 |
1,488,436 | The book began as a series of lectures at Columbia University in October and November 1936. Dobzhansky decided to attend the summer 1936 meeting of the Genetics Society of America in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. When the geneticist Leslie Dunn learned of this, he invited Dobzhansky to give a series of lectures at Columbi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1111991 | 1,487,597 |
1,519,492 | The Weightless-W protocol operates in the TV channels band. The Weightless-W protocol divides the band into channels. A database is queried by a base station to determine which channels are in use by terrestrial television broadcast stations in the area, and which ones are free for use by white space devices (such as t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33312073 | 1,518,634 |
1,299,329 | Biodefense is a system of planned actions to counter and reduce the risk of biological threats and to prepare, respond to, and recover from them if they happen. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2016 required high-level officials across the federal government to create a national biodefense strategy toge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38421966 | 1,298,615 |
495,153 | It is similar in size to "Velociraptor", with "Balaur"'s recovered skeletal elements suggesting an overall length of around and a body mass of . "Balaur" had re-evolved a functional first toe used to support its weight, which bore a large claw that could be hyperextended. It had short and stocky feet and legs, and larg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28642445 | 494,897 |
665,620 | Due to battlefield and accidental losses and the lack of spare parts, by the mid-1980s there were just 20–30 Iranian Phantoms still flying. The quantity of weapons and spare parts was not enough to sustain the fleet, but Iran is believed to have benefited from foreign assistance with clandestine shipments of up to 23 n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13567676 | 665,273 |
1,223,219 | It is a medium-size to large deciduous coniferous tree reaching 20–50 m tall, with a trunk up to 1 m diameter. The crown is conic when young, becoming broad with age; the main branches are level to upswept, with the side branches often pendulous. The shoots are dimorphic, with growth divided into long shoots (typically... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3133200 | 1,222,559 |
1,473,478 | In 2001, Ayala was awarded the National Medal of Science. On April 13, 2007, he was awarded the first of 100 bicentennial medals at Mount Saint Mary's University for lecturing there as the first presenter for the Bicentennial Distinguished Lecture Series. His lecture was entitled "The Biological Foundations of Morality... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2282082 | 1,472,647 |
2,047,110 | The men's coxed pair competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics took place at Notre Dame Island Olympic Basin, Canada. It was held from 18 to 25 July. There were 13 boats (40 competitors, with West Germany making one substitution) from 13 nations, with each nation limited to a single boat in the event. The event was won b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52235210 | 2,045,929 |
2,008,052 | Boyd dramatically expanded the college during his tenure, both in terms of headcount and academic diversity. Enrolment grew from 1,089 students upon his arrival in 1961 to 5,503 students on his departure in 1971. In 1959, there were two degrees and five programs available; in 1969–70 there were seven degrees and 45 pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26697426 | 2,006,900 |
928,574 | A number of important developments were initiated by Stata's active user community. The "Stata Technical Bulletin", which often contains user-created commands, was introduced in 1991 and issued six times a year. It was relaunched in 2001 as the peer-reviewed "Stata Journal", a quarterly publication containing descripti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1809002 | 928,086 |
394,226 | It is inspired by the map and reduce functions commonly used in functional programming, although their purpose in the MapReduce framework is not the same as in their original forms. The key contributions of the MapReduce framework are not the actual map and reduce functions (which, for example, resemble the 1995 Messag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1702875 | 394,031 |
492,176 | The U.S. Army Ordnance California Institute Technology (ORDCIT) program that eventually produced the Corporal ballistic missile began in June 1944 with a contract to the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratories California Institute of Technology (GALCIT) to develop a ballistic guided missile. As the technology to build suc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1956534 | 491,922 |
208,860 | The classic surgical procedure entails entering two titanium rods, each roughly long (depending on the size of the kyphosis) into the back on either side of the spine. Eight titanium screws and hardware are drilled through the bone to secure the rods onto either side of the spine. On the internal-facing side of the spi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6090493 | 208,753 |
2,004,643 | As elsewhere in Britain, subdivision of the Carboniferous Limestone has undergone many changes over the years and reference is found in the literature to a confusing array of names. The first detailed descriptions of the limestone were provided by G.H.Morton between 1870 and 1901, just as the (British) Geological Surve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65949683 | 2,003,494 |
334,300 | The NCAA refers to UNC-Chapel Hill as the "University of North Carolina" for athletics. As of Fall 2011, the university had won 40 NCAA team championships in six different sports, eighth all-time. These include twenty one NCAA championships in women's soccer, six in women's field hockey, four in men's lacrosse, six in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89510 | 334,122 |
367,814 | This led to a series of projects including Nike Zeus, Nike-X, Sentinel and ultimately the Safeguard Program, all aimed at deploying a nationwide defensive system against attacks by Soviet ICBMs. The reason for so many programs was the rapidly changing strategic threat; the Soviets claimed to be producing missiles "like... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29186 | 367,621 |
2,051,299 | Utian is credited for describing menopause as a potential health-related issue in 1967. He has described the situation that led to his discovery as occurring when he was invited to visit a large pharmaceutical firm in West Berlin. He has stated that "A new female hormone was mentioned and thereby started my interest in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40300979 | 2,050,118 |
1,371,015 | Ideational apraxia (IA) is a neurological disorder which explains the loss of ability to conceptualize, plan, and execute the complex sequences of motor actions involved in the use of tools or otherwise interacting with objects in everyday life. Ideational apraxia is a condition in which an individual is unable to plan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20516722 | 1,370,258 |
473,964 | "Planetary Annihilation" received a mixed reception upon release. The game was praised for its ambitious concept, but criticized for playability and overall incompleteness. Rock, Paper, Shotgun's Brendan Caldwell writes: ""Planetary Annihilation" is a slick, modernised RTS, engineered from the ground up to appeal to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36773607 | 473,728 |
439,979 | Successful delivery of therapeutics to the intended target largely depends on the choice of the drug carrier. The criteria for an ideal drug carrier include maximum effect upon delivery of the drug to the target organ, evasion of the immune system of the body in the process of reaching the organ, retention of the thera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4406110 | 439,765 |
1,930,289 | The men's 200 metres was the second-shortest of the men's track races in the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. 63 athletes from 48 nations entered, with 6 not starting in the first round. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The first two rou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3641233 | 1,929,182 |
1,500,441 | Load-pull is the most common method globally for RF and MW power amplifier (PA) design, transistor characterization, semiconductor process development, and ruggedness analysis. A central theme of load-pull is management of nonlinearity versus analysis of nonlinearity, the latter being the domain of advanced mathematics... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13447186 | 1,499,596 |
1,646,480 | Early computer resident monitors and operating systems were relatively primitive and were not capable of sophisticated resource allocation. Typically such allocation decisions were made by the computer operator or the user who submitted a job. Batch processing was common, and interactive computer systems rare and expen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15277793 | 1,645,550 |
914,143 | Hydrogen storage can be accomplished by several existing methods of holding hydrogen for later use. These include mechanical approaches such as using high pressures and low temperatures, or employing chemical compounds that release H upon demand. While large amounts of hydrogen are produced by various industries, it is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5382986 | 913,664 |
1,721,548 | Desmosomes are intercellular junctions that tightly link adjacent cells. Desmoplakin is an obligate component of functional desmosomes that anchors intermediate filaments to desmosomal plaques. In cardiomyocytes, desmoplakin forms desmosomal plaques with the intermediate filament desmin, whereas in endothelial cells cy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7105107 | 1,720,578 |
528,320 | AI regulation could derive from basic principles. A 2020 Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society meta-review of existing sets of principles, such as the Asilomar Principles and the Beijing Principles, identified eights such basic principles: privacy, accountability, safety and security, transparency and explainabil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63451675 | 528,046 |
1,463,738 | According to historian Gavin Wright, fellow historians often try to explain the "rise, spread, and persistence of slavery in terms of advantages in productivity" which he believes is peripheral to understanding why the institution was central to the commerce of the southern region. According to Wright, the answer to sl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21927183 | 1,462,915 |
1,704,494 | The CM Division was responsible for the purification and fabrication of materials for the bomb, including the core, tamper and initiator. The chemistry and metallurgy of uranium was fairly well known, although it did yield a few surprises, but that of plutonium was almost completely unknown. The element had only been d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6095862 | 1,703,538 |
1,900,456 | As part of the Queens Campus, the Schanck Observatory was included on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It was last used by the faculty to teach astronomy in 1979. The building was renovated in 2016 through a joint project of The Cap & Skull Society, an hon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40709056 | 1,899,368 |
1,241,062 | Scientific studies from subseafloor instruments and IODP's core archives, which contain samples from this and previous ocean drilling programs, are also yielding insights into the Earth's climate and tectonic history. A study examining samples collected from around the world concluded that the rate of carbon release to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49288818 | 1,240,391 |
2,191,614 | The lunar penetrometer came in the form of a spherical omnidirectional penetrometer that did not have to account for the orientation of the penetrometer during impact, which was difficult to factor in an environment with little to no atmosphere like the lunar surface. The omnidirectional design packaged the acceleromet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63327266 | 2,190,365 |
19,731 | The British psychologist Charles Spearman in 1904 made the first formal factor analysis of correlations between the tests. He observed that children's school grades across seemingly unrelated school subjects were positively correlated, and reasoned that these correlations reflected the influence of an underlying genera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14892 | 19,723 |
57,901 | In March 2014, surgeons in Swansea used 3D printed parts to rebuild the face of a motorcyclist who had been seriously injured in a road accident. In May 2018, 3D printing has been used for the kidney transplant to save a three-year-old boy. , 3D bio-printing technology has been studied by biotechnology firms and academ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1305947 | 57,876 |
1,267,355 | Pyroelectric fusion refers to the technique of using pyroelectric crystals to generate high strength electrostatic fields to accelerate deuterium ions (tritium might also be used someday) into a metal hydride target also containing deuterium (or tritium) with sufficient kinetic energy to cause these ions to undergo nuc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1820902 | 1,266,665 |
974,742 | One of the biggest challenges faced by Japanese railway engineers in the 1970s to the 1980s was the ever increasing construction costs of subways. In response, the Japan Subway Association began studying on the feasibility of the "mini-metro" for meeting urban traffic demand in 1979. In 1981, the Japan Railway Engineer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44495 | 974,231 |
1,302,938 | The ADSS cable is suspended in the electrical field due to the phase conductors; this varies from a maximum at mid-span to zero at the grounded metal supports of the cable. In dry conditions, no current flows on the jacket of the cable, but moisture reduces the jacket insulation. Uneven distribution of moisture can res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37345851 | 1,302,223 |
79,638 | Hobbes's philosophy includes a frontal assault on the founding principles of the earlier natural legal tradition, disregarding the traditional association of virtue with happiness, and likewise re-defining "law" to remove any notion of the promotion of the common good. Hobbes has no use for Aristotle's association of n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22063 | 79,605 |
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