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575,412 | The "PZL P.24" was a gull wing all-metal fighter aircraft that drew extensively on the design of the earlier P.11, being essentially a more powerful and export-friendly version of it. It possessed a relatively conventional in layout, but incorporated more recent innovations such as its all-metal structure and exterior ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1139061 | 575,118 |
616,346 | The main weakness of the ampere balance method is that the result depends on the accuracy with which the dimensions of the coils are measured. The Kibble balance uses an extra calibration step to cancel the effect of the geometry of the coils, removing the main source of uncertainty. This extra step involves moving the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=692003 | 616,032 |
1,317,253 | Given that the maximal concentrations of oxygen, nitrate and sulfide are usually separated in depth profiles, many SOM cannot directly access their hydrogen or electron sources (reduced sulfur species) and energy sources (O or nitrate) at the same time. This limitation has led SOM to develop different morphological ada... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57166749 | 1,316,528 |
2,083,667 | GEM has been recognized in the academic literature as an instantiation of cyberinfrastructure for research standardization, a tool for dialogue and consensus building, a tool to facilitate use of linked data and interoperable data systems, and in case reports of expert panel measure categorizations. The GEM database, u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42631754 | 2,082,467 |
1,466,375 | The type of wave used in a model limits the resolution it can achieve. Longer wavelengths are able to penetrate deeper into the earth, but can only be used to resolve large features. Finer resolution can be achieved with surface waves, with the trade off that they cannot be used in models of the deep mantle. The dispar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=377931 | 1,465,552 |
764,087 | Sometimes referred to as "slave society", an alternative route out of neolithic self-sufficiency came in the form of the polis or city-state. Technological advances in the form of cheap iron tools, coinage, and the alphabet, and the division of labour between industry, trade and farming, enabled new and larger units to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39766826 | 763,677 |
922,953 | Other, non-probabilistic extensions to first-order logic to support were also tried. For example, non-monotonic reasoning could be used with truth maintenance systems. A truth maintenance system tracked assumptions and justifications for all inferences. It allowed inferences to be withdrawn when assumptions were found ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=339417 | 922,467 |
1,803,385 | Platinum nanoparticles of controlled shape and size have also been accessed through varying the ratio of polymer capping agent concentration to precursor concentration. Reductive colloidal syntheses as such have yielded tetrahedral, cubic, irregular-prismatic, icosahedral, and cubo-octahedral nanoparticles, whose dispe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19230109 | 1,802,371 |
1,378,062 | While this study had its shortcomings, it received significant attention both within scientific circles and a wider audience. A more thorough phylogeographic analysis that used ten different genes instead of a single mitochondrial marker indicates that at least two major expansions out of Africa after the initial range... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=297390 | 1,377,300 |
933,421 | Ammonium bicarbonate is used in the food industry as a leavening agent for flat baked goods, such as cookies and crackers. It was commonly used in the home before modern-day baking powder was made available. Many baking cookbooks, especially from Scandinavian countries, may still refer to it as hartshorn or hornsalt, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=402188 | 932,929 |
912,435 | Gardner's admirers included such diverse individuals as W. H. Auden, Arthur C. Clarke, Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, and the entire French literary group known as the Oulipo. Salvador Dalí once sought him out to discuss four-dimensional hypercubes. David Auerbach wrote: "A case can be ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20435 | 911,956 |
795,477 | Intelligence analysis is a way of reducing the ambiguity of highly ambiguous situations. Many analysts prefer the middle-of-the-road explanation, rejecting high or low probability explanations. Analysts may use their own standard of proportionality as to the risk acceptance of the opponent, rejecting that the opponent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4448253 | 795,052 |
1,044,849 | In 2012 Norway had a wind power electricity production of 1.6 TWh, a small fraction of its total production. The following year it approved spending NOK to triple its wind power capacity of ca. 700 MW to more than 2 GW by 2020. In August 2016 construction of the 1 GW Fosen Vind project began. New projects increased cap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20445709 | 1,044,305 |
1,166,488 | John Cornelius Houbolt (April 10, 1919 – April 15, 2014) was an aerospace engineer credited with leading the team behind the lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) mission mode, a concept that was used to successfully land humans on the Moon and return them to Earth. This flight path was chosen for the Apollo program in July 196... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5604505 | 1,165,871 |
492,097 | The Polish Air Force's procurement of the Iryda was formally cancelled in 1998, allegedly in response to the development difficulties experienced as well as the protracted shortage of funding that was common around this period; a key event that had reportedly contributed to its cancellation was the fatal crash in 1996.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4890583 | 491,843 |
724,021 | Salsify is grown similarly to other root vegetables like parsnip and carrots and thus require similar attention. Sowing can be done in late summer or early winter to foster an early growth. Planting can also be done in early spring about 100 days before the first frosts in a well prepared soil, preferably a loam or sil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=638106 | 723,641 |
12,649 | A PhD is also required in some positions outside academia, such as research jobs in major international agencies. In some cases, the Executive Directors of some types of foundations may be expected to hold a PhD. A PhD is sometimes felt to be a necessary qualification in certain areas of employment, such as in foreign ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21031297 | 12,644 |
453,382 | The H.261 standard actually only specifies how to decode the video. Encoder designers were left free to design their own encoding algorithms (such as their own motion estimation algorithms), as long as their output was constrained properly to allow it to be decoded by any decoder made according to the standard. Encoder... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314407 | 453,161 |
1,159,009 | All organisms, and apparently all cell types, sense and respond to mechanical stimuli. MSCs function as mechanotransducers capable of generating both electrical and ion flux signals as a response to external or internal stimuli. Under extreme turgor in bacteria, non selective MSCs such as MSCL and MSCS serve as safety ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22585641 | 1,158,395 |
3,878 | Proposed solutions vary. Large security companies like McAfee already design governance and compliance suites to meet post-9/11 regulations, and some, like Finjan have recommended active real-time inspection of programming code and all content regardless of its source. Some have argued that for enterprises to see Web s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33139 | 3,878 |
1,104,371 | Fried was exposed during his time at Harvard University to high fidelity audio reproduction, and later became an importer of audiophile items. Under the trademark "IMF" (his initials), from 1961, he eventually became involved with many advancements in audiophile equipment: cartridges (IMF – London, IMF – Goldring), ton... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44224558 | 1,103,808 |
967,498 | The progenitor for the IRBM was the A4b rocket winged for increased range and based on the famous V-2 (Vergeltung, or "Reprisal", officially called A4) rocket designed by Wernher von Braun; the V-2 was widely used by Nazi Germany at the end of World War II to bomb English and Belgian cities. The A4b was the prototype f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337326 | 966,988 |
1,997,491 | The repair of a defected mitral valve is a potential future hybrid procedure, that is still dependent on approval of the necessary devices by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Some of these devices also will most likely be used for procedures performed in regular cath labs. Further prostheses for mitral und tricus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33398362 | 1,996,348 |
1,418,917 | A major question of evolutionary biology is how genomes change to create new species. Speciation requires changes in behavior, morphology, physiology, or metabolism (or combinations thereof). The evolution of genomes during speciation has been studied only very recently with the availability of next-generation sequenci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30967636 | 1,418,118 |
1,632,060 | The Government of Canada began working towards the development of a national program after a 1962 meeting between Tomlinson and Lee Pratt, head of the Canada Land Inventory (CLI). Pratt was charged with creation of maps covering the entire region of Canada's commercially productive areas by showing agriculture, forestr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1256197 | 1,631,138 |
359,127 | Ostrom suggested that "Deinonychus" could kick with the sickle claw to cut and slash at its prey. Some researchers even suggested that the talon was used to disembowel large ceratopsian dinosaurs. Other studies have suggested that the sickle claws were not used to slash but rather to deliver small stabs to the victim. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=236856 | 358,940 |
488,139 | There is no readily available evidence on the route of administration and duration of antibiotics in patients with pleural empyema. Experts agree that all patients should be hospitalized and treated with antibiotics intravenously. The specific antimicrobial agent should be chosen based on Gram stain and culture, or on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=711597 | 487,889 |
1,838,874 | The Institute hosted visiting scholars working in subfields of economics, business, law, and related fields such as public policy and medicine. It hosted workshops, seminars, and lectures on fundamental questions across these fields. The Institute also supported advanced professional training for post-doctoral students... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18663315 | 1,837,825 |
638,661 | The method introduced by Bliss was carried forward in "Probit Analysis", an important text on toxicological applications by D. J. Finney. Values tabled by Finney can be derived from probits as defined here by adding a value of 5. This distinction is summarized by Collett (p. 55): "The original definition of a probit [w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1689101 | 638,322 |
939,218 | The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has organized a global assortment of scientists and research stations across the planet to monitor the changing state of nature in an effort to tackle the extinction crisis. The IUCN provides annual updates on the status of species conservation through its Red L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216216 | 938,717 |
328,253 | The second prototype, VX777, first flew on 3 September 1953. More representative of production aircraft, it was lengthened to accommodate a longer nose undercarriage leg to increase the angle of attack of the wing, shortening the take-off run. It featured a visual bomb-aiming blister under the cabin and was fitted with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44070 | 328,079 |
500,178 | Latest midrange systems are primarily mid-class multi-user local network servers that can handle the large-scale processing of many business applications. Although not as powerful and reliably as full-size mainframe computers, they are less costly to buy, operate, and maintain than mainframe systems and thus meet the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8877936 | 499,921 |
491,308 | The charge conjugation symmetry is interpreted as that of electrical charge, because in all three cases (classical, quantum and geometry), one can construct Noether currents that resemble those of classical electrodynamics. This arises because electrodynamics itself, via Maxwell's equations, can be interpreted as a str... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=151001 | 491,054 |
45,951 | In 2018, Gizmodo reported that Neuralink "remained highly secretive about its work", although public records showed that it had sought to open an animal testing facility in San Francisco; it subsequently started to carry out research at the University of California, Davis. In 2019, during a live presentation at the Cal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53615490 | 45,933 |
1,931,307 | The American Society for Clinical Investigation has its origins in a chance meeting in June 1907 on the Atlantic City boardwalk, in which Samuel James Meltzer, David Linn Edsall, Wilder Tileston, Warfield Theobald Longcope, and probably Joseph Hersey Pratt were present (). The parties to this meeting considered the nee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20796130 | 1,930,199 |
1,817,288 | Wilder's first informal articles and work on the topic began in 1922. At that time, he worked in the office of Dr. Wagner-Jauregg, the Nobel Prize–winning doctor, at the University of Vienna. Yet, because Wilder was Jewish, he did not have similar opportunities for full professorship as his career matured. His career w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17929958 | 1,816,253 |
1,412,778 | The "pure-capture" model focuses on stimulus salience. If certain properties of a stimulus stand out from its background, the stimulus has a higher chance of being selected for attentive processing. This is sometimes referred to as "bottom-up" processing, as it is the properties of the stimuli which affect selection. S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31329046 | 1,411,983 |
951,610 | General relativity predicts the smallest primordial black holes would have evaporated by now, but if there were a fourth spatial dimension – as predicted by string theory – it would affect how gravity acts on small scales and "slow down the evaporation quite substantially". In essence, the energy stored in the fourth s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23922614 | 951,105 |
244,818 | "Bayonetta 3" was unveiled by Nintendo during a Direct presentation in September 2021, revealing the first look at gameplay and its 2022 release window. The trailer additionally confirmed Yusuke Miyata as the game's director while Hideki Kamiya will be executive director. Miyata's involvement prompted speculation that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70079987 | 244,691 |
41,674 | Some nonerythroid cells (i.e., cells other than the red blood cell line) contain hemoglobin. In the brain, these include the A9 dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra, astrocytes in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus, and in all mature oligodendrocytes. It has been suggested that brain hemoglobin in these cells ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13483 | 41,659 |
986,987 | In early 2009, Al-Khalili presented the BBC Four three-part series "Science and Islam" about the leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries. He has contributed to programmes ranging from "Tomorrow's World", BBC Four's "Mind Games", "The South Bank Show" to BBC O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8634205 | 986,472 |
219,217 | Artificial Swarm Intelligence (ASI) is method of amplifying the collective intelligence of networked human groups using control algorithms modeled after natural swarms. Sometimes referred to as Human Swarming or Swarm AI, the technology connects groups of human participants into real-time systems that deliberate and co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=762988 | 219,108 |
251,811 | Warning coloration was one of Wallace's contributions to the evolutionary biology of animal coloration. In 1867, Darwin wrote to Wallace about a problem in explaining how some caterpillars could have evolved conspicuous colour schemes. Darwin had come to believe that many conspicuous animal colour schemes were due to s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1494 | 251,678 |
1,734,918 | Since samples taken from different natural sources can have subtly different isotopic ratios, the relevant properties can differ between samples. If the definition simply refers to a substance without addressing the isotopic composition, this can lead to some level of ambiguity in the definition and variation in practi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15366768 | 1,733,941 |
178,143 | In ".hack//Mutation", Kite and BlackRose encounter system administrator Lios, who declares Kite's bracelet to be an illegal hack. He tries to delete Kite's character data, but fails due to Kite's data being encrypted by the Book of Twilight. Helba intervenes, and convinces Lios to observe Kite for the time being. Lios ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240931 | 178,050 |
749,218 | A major, well-studied process and consequence of cognitive development is language acquisition. The traditional view was that this is the result of deterministic, human-specific genetic structures and processes. Other traditions, however, have emphasized the role of social experience in language learning. However, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1274232 | 748,820 |
141,488 | Knuth was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Ervin Henry Knuth and Louise Marie Bohning. He describes his heritage as "Midwestern Lutheran German". His father owned a small printing business and taught bookkeeping. Donald, a student at Milwaukee Lutheran High School, thought of ingenious ways to solve problems. For examp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8095 | 141,430 |
2,129,089 | In July 1859 the Armidale gaol was proclaimed, in the following year a tender was called for the construction and the facility received its first prisoners in 1863. The gaol served the northern tablelands as the major prison until it was disestablished in 1920. The gaol was allowed to fall into disrepair until the mid-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57539511 | 2,127,866 |
1,894,318 | Golden first became interested in sea ice in his senior year of high school while working on a project studying passive microwave images of Antarctic sea ice at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He enrolled in Dartmouth College so that he could work at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory with Stephen F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54077957 | 1,893,234 |
1,817,065 | A European collaboration between the Italian Comitato Nazionale per l'Energia Nucleare, the European Atomic Energy Community, and the Centre National de Recherches Polaires de Belgique sent an expedition to Princess Ragnhild Coast, in Antarctica in 1961, using a rotary rig with air circulation. The equipment performed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56017314 | 1,816,031 |
143,930 | The idea of a chemical chain reaction was first suggested in 1913 by the German chemist Max Bodenstein for a situation in which two molecules react to form not just the final reaction products, but also some unstable molecules that can further react with the original substances to cause more to react. The concept of a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1118396 | 143,872 |
644,493 | The attempts to explain the universe stem from observations of the objects found in the sky. Different cultures historically have various stories to provide an answer to the questions of what they are seeing. Norse mythology originates from northern Europe, around the geographical location of modern-day region of Scand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=659190 | 644,153 |
2,077,613 | The school offers an interdisciplinary PhD programme focussing generally on research on structural changes of atoms, molecules, condensed, biological, or warm dense matter at femtosecond time scales, with the ultimate goal of discovering the primary events governing these processes. Research areas include the theoretic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31123439 | 2,076,414 |
986,602 | The patent was published in the German aviation magazine "Flugsport" in 1914, meaning that the concept became public knowledge at an early stage. The linkage between the propeller and the gun is achieved with a spinning drive shaft, rather than a reciprocating rod. The impulses needed to operate the trigger, or in this... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174474 | 986,087 |
2,148,115 | Trofimova, who was doing her PhD in Rusalov's lab in the early 1990s suggested that the trait of impulsivity reflects the speed of initiation of immature (emotionality-based) behavioural response, whereas Tempo and Plasticity relate to the speed of more integrated behavioural response. She suggested therefore that all ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42903631 | 2,146,884 |
764,084 | The Asiatic mode of production is a controversial contribution to Marxist theory, first used to explain pre-slave and pre-feudal large earthwork constructions in India, the Euphrates and Nile river valleys (and named on this basis of the primary evidence coming from greater "Asia"). The Asiatic mode of production is sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39766826 | 763,674 |
1,116,276 | () is a type of modified gravity theory which generalizes Einstein's general relativity. () gravity is actually a family of theories, each one defined by a different function, , of the Ricci scalar, . The simplest case is just the function being equal to the scalar; this is general relativity. As a consequence of intro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19989435 | 1,115,704 |
157,862 | The direct liquid introduction (DLI) interface was developed in 1980. This interface was intended to solve the problem of evaporation of liquid inside the capillary inlet interface. In DLI, a small portion of the LC flow was forced through a small aperture or diaphragm (typically 10um in diameter) to form a liquid jet ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2378378 | 157,790 |
443,796 | Reaching that working point from an initial configuration in which the various mirrors are moving freely is a control system challenge. In a first step, each mirror is controlled locally to damp its residual motion; then, an automated sequence of steps, usually long and complex, allows one to make the transition betwee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6762618 | 443,581 |
1,087,021 | The first of the three planned newsletters, with the title "Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia, Running Light Without Overbyte", was published in January 1976. It starts with a note from Albrecht, under the penname "the dragon", suggesting that three editions would not be enough, and asked the re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=86894 | 1,086,463 |
364,823 | Despite numerous difficulties, including incomplete design drawings, the first boat, "Astute", was laid down on 31 January 2001. As planned, modular construction methods were used, with the boat being built in several ring-like modules, each up to several metres in length. These were welded together using specially des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186252 | 364,632 |
549,998 | Like composers before and after him, he would use the unusual layout of the San Marco church, with its two choir lofts facing each other, to create striking spatial effects. Most of his pieces are written so that a choir or instrumental group will first be heard on one side, followed by a response from the musicians on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=79949 | 549,710 |
181,853 | With the advent of industrial manufacturing, extrusion found application in food processing of instant foods and snacks, along with its already known uses in plastics and metal fabrication. The main role of extrusion was originally developed for conveying and shaping fluid forms of processed raw materials. Present day,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=855850 | 181,757 |
1,464,073 | The call for an ordinary professorship at the University of Bern at the age of 30 was the first big career step for Theodor Kocher. In the 45 years he served as professor at the university, he oversaw the re-building of the famous Bernese Inselspital, published 249 scholarly articles and books, trained numerous medical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10473 | 1,463,250 |
1,831,349 | In the later years of KMS Fusion's life they were known for being a tritium handling facility due to their focus on the development of laser fusion targets. When the company went under, it was not properly closed down in terms of radiation regulations. In 1995, the DoE selected LLNL to team up with the DoE's Oakland Op... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41376642 | 1,830,302 |
121,035 | Theoretical physics consists of several different approaches. In this regard, theoretical particle physics forms a good example. For instance: "phenomenologists" might employ (semi-) empirical formulas and heuristics to agree with experimental results, often without deep physical understanding. "Modelers" (also called ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19594028 | 120,986 |
944,245 | Some higher-end consoles use voltage-controlled amplifier (VCA) VCAs function somewhat like a submix but let the operator control the level of multiple input channels with a single fader. Unlike subgroups, no sub-mix is created. The audio signals from the assigned channels remain routed independently of VCA assignments... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=193299 | 943,743 |
662,351 | While Noguchi was influential during his lifetime, later research was not able to reproduce many of his claims, including having discovered the causes of polio, rabies, syphilis, trachoma, and yellow fever. His finding that "Noguchia granulosis" causes trachoma was questioned within a year of his death, and overturned ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=762320 | 662,006 |
1,182,371 | Miami moved to the newly formed NCHC in 2013 and returned to their winning ways in the second NCHC season, finishing the season 25-14-1 (.638) and taking the NCHC post-season tournament title. The Red and White entered the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament as a top-seed but drew the unfavorable position ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22191294 | 1,181,746 |
1,127,379 | In 2008, the Institut für Akademische Weiterbildung (Institute for Academic Continuing Education, "IAW") is founded as Bavaria's first faculty for further education. From this point on, the university has three operating areas: teaching, research and further education. The university's study center in the historic old ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65836710 | 1,126,802 |
39,909 | The university consists of nineteen colleges and offers degree programs at undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral levels in some 250 disciplines. Michigan has nine professional schools: the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ross School of Business, Medical School, Law School, Ford School of Public P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31740 | 39,894 |
625,169 | It is often not possible to join two metal components by welding, i.e. to melt part of both in the vicinity of the joint, if the two materials have very different properties from their alloy, due to the creation of brittle, inter-metallic compounds. This situation cannot be changed, even by electron-beam heating in vac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=758604 | 624,836 |
388,000 | Launched aboard a Titan IVB/Centaur on October 15, 1997, "Cassini" was active in space for nearly 20 years, with 13 years spent orbiting Saturn and studying the planet and its system after entering orbit on July 1, 2004. The voyage to Saturn included flybys of Venus (April 1998 and July 1999), Earth (August 1999), the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67941 | 387,805 |
72,138 | Scientists are now turning to nanotechnology in an attempt to develop diesel engines with cleaner exhaust fumes. Platinum is currently used as the diesel engine catalyst in these engines. The catalyst is what cleans the exhaust fume particles. First a reduction catalyst is employed to take nitrogen atoms from NOx molec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21488 | 72,111 |
391,549 | Astronauts flew Apollo spacecraft manually only during the lunar approach. The final landing phase began about uprange of the targeted landing site. At this point, manual control was enabled for the commander, who had enough propellant to hover for up to two minutes to survey where the computer was taking the craft and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=151932 | 391,354 |
1,183,091 | Endolymphatic hydrops may occur as a result of trauma such as a blow to the head, infection, degeneration of the inner ear, allergies, dehydration and loss of electrolytes or in extremely rare circumstances a benign tumor such as an endolymphatic sac tumor. In many cases, it is not clear what causes the disorder. Méniè... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13184239 | 1,182,465 |
2,114,291 | Just like the Exposure Action Value or Action Value for noise, safety administrations across the world are publishing values for vibrations. As of right now, The American Occupational Safety and Health Administration has not officially published a list of appropriate, time-weighted EAV guidelines for employers to follo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15865418 | 2,113,076 |
664,985 | Post World War II, the development of military aviation was spurred by the Cold War stand-off between the super-powers. The helicopter appeared late in World War II and matured into an indispensable part of military aviation, transporting troops and providing expanded anti-submarine capabilities to smaller warships, ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=972784 | 664,638 |
1,897,837 | A new definition of engineering geology was given, which reflected the experience collected during the previous 25 years and read as follows: "Engineering geology is a science devoted to the investigation, study and solution of engineering and environmental problems which may arise as the result of the interaction betw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22912834 | 1,896,753 |
1,139,597 | Cancers usually result from disruption of a tumor repressor or dysregulation of an oncogene. Knowing that B-cells experience DNA breaks during development can give insight to the genome of lymphomas. Many types of lymphoma are caused by chromosomal translocation, which can arise from breaks in DNA, leading to incorrect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32706791 | 1,139,004 |
1,751,990 | The U.S. men's team smashed both the seven-minute barrier and the world record to keep Michael Phelps' gold-medal streak alive and most importantly, to defend their Olympic title in the event. The American foursome of Phelps (1:43.31, the second fastest split in history), Ryan Lochte (1:44.28), Ricky Berens (1:46.29), ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18454179 | 1,751,003 |
1,830,613 | Early in the 20th century major finds continued, like the Ice Age mammals of the La Brea Tar Pits, which preserved hundreds of thousands fossils in central Los Angeles. The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology uncovered vast Oligocene bonebeds in the South Dakota badlands. Seven years later, another bonebed was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799182 | 1,829,567 |
1,356,369 | The first movement, in E minor, begins with a haunting passage in the cello, which plays exclusively harmonics. It is joined by the violin and then the piano, all three instruments playing in canon, with the violin entering a 13th below the cello and the piano a 13th below the violin. This slow first section of the mov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3685002 | 1,355,619 |
787,397 | The desire to establish an undergraduate liberal arts college in Sault Ste. Marie originated as a broad citizens' movement in the 1950s. In October 1964, the Algoma College Association was incorporated by letters patent of the Province of Ontario. One year later, on 17 December 1965, Algoma University College was estab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1370080 | 786,974 |
1,463,198 | Methodologies can be as simple as sending notifications designed to alter behavior to patients who are at risk of obesity or diabetes and as complex as administering an ingestible radio tag that communicates with an external sensor to monitor the efficacy of a given medication. Diabetes and obesity prevention and manag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51850608 | 1,462,375 |
428,969 | A fair coin is an idealized randomizing device with two states (usually named "heads" and "tails") which are equally likely to occur. It is based on the coin flip used widely in sports and other situations where it is required to give two parties the same chance of winning. Either a specially designed chip or more usua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1604994 | 428,759 |
356,949 | The World Health Organization, in conjunction with the Food and Agriculture Organization, published guidelines that can be effectively represented in a food pyramid relating to objectives in order to prevent obesity, improper nutrition, chronic diseases and dental caries based on meta-analysis though they represent it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=208092 | 356,763 |
141,717 | In 1917, the British physicist Lord Rayleigh (1842–1919) extended Besant's work, publishing a mathematical model of cavitation in an incompressible fluid (ignoring surface tension and viscosity), in which he also determined the pressure in the fluid. The mathematical models of cavitation which were developed by British... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7807 | 141,659 |
1,241,119 | The "Applied History" series, and related efforts, lost funding during the Great Depression, and "applied history" as an enterprise receded until the 1970s, when it re-emerged in new contexts and forms. In 1974, Harvard University historian Ernest R. May published "'Lessons of the Past': The Use and Abuse Of History in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13789512 | 1,240,448 |
1,347,594 | Having replicated Dynamit Nobel's ACR ammunition, the HITP (High Ignition Temperature Propellant—it is hexogen/octogen based to decrease heat sensitivity) based ammunition was modified to a 5.56 mm round. Tests proved the ammunition's usability, and development of the weapon was advanced using knowledge gained from the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14162502 | 1,346,853 |
1,101,019 | In haplorhines, the degree to which intrasexual and intersexual selection drive sexual dimorphism is dependent on the social organization and mating system of a particular species. Phylogenetic studies reveal polygynous systems among haplorhines show elevated levels of dimorphism.> This is expected because polygynous g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17622533 | 1,100,458 |
425,773 | He leads Calhoun to the unused part of the complex where two other scientists, Walter Bennett and Simmons, are already preparing the machine. Rosenberg instructs Calhoun that he must activate and align a relay device on Xen in order for them to be able to accurately set their destination. Calhoun travels to Xen and is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15033154 | 425,565 |
1,194,243 | A saccade is a fast movement of the eyes in a certain direction. In the most simplistic form, there are two types of saccade tests administered in which the only requirement is movement of the eye: the prosaccade and the antisaccade. In the prosaccade, participants are required to quickly look toward a point in respons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17690366 | 1,193,603 |
250,971 | The operation is prescribed to treat morbid obesity (defined as a body mass index greater than 40), type 2 diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea, and other comorbid conditions. "Bariatric surgery" is the term encompassing "all" of the surgical treatments for morbid obesity, not just gastric bypasses, which make up only o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=781984 | 250,838 |
1,464,296 | Garwin received the National Medal of Science, the United States' highest honor for the fields of science and engineering (award year 2002), for "his research and discoveries in physics and related fields, and of his longstanding service to the Nation by providing valuable scientific advice on important questions of na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5189415 | 1,463,473 |
1,826,350 | Traditional topic of YerPhI is the development of new particle detectors. Wide spark chambers and transition radiation detectors are examples of the experimental techniques developed and implemented in YerPhI. During the last years groups of scientists from Yerevan Physics Institute have actively participated in interm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4143115 | 1,825,311 |
159,126 | The 56 surviving missiles were pulled from silos and individual base stores and all transferred to the then-Norton Air Force Base, California, during the 1980s. They were stored under plastic coverings and had helium pumped into their engine components to prevent rust. Norton Air Force Base buildings 942 and 945 held t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=841594 | 159,044 |
1,363,967 | George Wald was born in New York City, the son of Ernestine (Rosenmann) and Isaac Wald, Jewish immigrant parents. He was a member of the first graduating class of the Brooklyn Technical High School in New York in 1923. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from New York University in 1927 and his PhD in zoology fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=861770 | 1,363,211 |
1,341,907 | Since 2019, Colzato's work at Leiden University was being investigated for various alleged breaches of academic integrity, including data manipulation, misattribution of authorship, and collection of blood samples without permission from the Medical Ethical board. The latter would turn out to be a criminal offense. Col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28538021 | 1,341,173 |
116,497 | Despite the extensive knowledge over Herculaneum, the city was long eclipsed by the better-known Pompeii. Although the cities are located a mere 13 km apart, Pompeii is often more popular in education systems than Herculaneum. Herculaneum was discovered in 1709, whereas Pompeii was not discovered until 39 years later, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21476679 | 116,452 |
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