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1,516,162 | The Richardsons' more recent work has diversified beyond classification and crystallography. In the 1980s they stretched into the fields of synthetic biochemistry and computational biology as pioneers in the de novo design of proteins, a reverse engineering approach to make and test theoretical predictions about protei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11502437 | 1,515,310 |
719,955 | Prevention comes in the form of access to obstetrical care, support from trained health care professionals throughout pregnancy, providing access to family planning, promoting the practice of spacing between births, supporting women in education, and postponing early marriage. Fistula prevention also involves many stra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231286 | 719,575 |
530,001 | Major General Carl A. Spaatz took command of the Eighth Air Force in London in 1942; with Brigadier General Ira Eaker as second in command, he supervised the strategic bombing campaign. In late 1943, Spaatz was made commander of the new U.S. Strategic Air Forces, reporting directly to the Combined Chiefs of Staff. Spaa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9895061 | 529,727 |
1,669,066 | The main task for these vessels is to provide maritime security and fisheries enforcement off Canada's Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Secondary tasks are marine search and rescue and marine pollution control. Four of the vessels are providing security on the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The first vessel, "P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21832999 | 1,668,126 |
1,133,591 | In the 1960s, the C&SF came under increased scrutiny from government overseers and conservation groups. Critics maintained its size was comparable to the Tennessee Valley Authority's dam-building projects during the Great Depression, and that the construction had run into the billions of dollars without any apparent re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17601646 | 1,132,998 |
1,136,128 | The MoD reported, in 2008, that the proposed UKMFTS would deliver a coherent, flexible and integrated flying training capability catering for the needs of the Royal Navy, RAF and AAC. The system was judged, at the time, to be at risk of being unable to deliver the required quantity and quality of aircrew to meet the in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44092692 | 1,135,535 |
1,056,884 | The University of Pittsburgh first established a presence in the area prior to World War I, when the Johnstown School Board asked the university to offer continuing education courses at extension class sites in local teachers' institutions. By 1926, a more permanent relationship was sought by the school board, and UPJ ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4020323 | 1,056,335 |
1,784,841 | "Streptomyces scabies" is a streptomycete bacteria which means it forms a mycelium made of hyphae, a growth form more usually associated with fungi. The hyphae of "Streptomyces", are much smaller than those of fungi (0.5–2.0 μm) and form a heavily branched mycelium. They are Gram-positive and have a high proportion of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30981835 | 1,783,837 |
871,193 | The "Kronshtadt"-class battlecruisers had their origin in a mid-1930s requirement for a large cruiser () capable of destroying cruisers built to the limits imposed by the Washington Naval Treaty, of which the Soviets were not a signatory. Several designs were submitted by the end of 1935, but the Navy was not satisfied... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5168695 | 870,733 |
259,978 | The ES-3A operated primarily with carrier battle groups, providing organic 'Indications and Warning' support to the group and joint theater commanders. In addition to their warning and reconnaissance roles, and their extraordinarily stable handling characteristics and range, Shadows were a preferred recovery tanker (ai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29475 | 259,844 |
1,395,027 | Within robotics, inverse dynamics algorithms are used to calculate the torques that a robot's motors must deliver to make the robot's end-point move in the way prescribed by its current task. The "inverse dynamics problem" in Robotics Engineering was solved by Eduardo Bayo in 1987. This solution calculates how each of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2129591 | 1,394,256 |
838,414 | Furthermore, although consumers primarily use a specialized media device for their needs, other "black box" devices that perform the same task can be used to suit their current situation. As a 2002 Cheskin Research report explained: "...Your email needs and expectations are different whether you're at home, work, schoo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=206586 | 837,965 |
246,222 | The European Union looked into developing a €400 billion (US$774 billion) network of solar power plants based in the Sahara region using CSP technology to be known as Desertec, to create "a new carbon-free network linking Europe, the Middle East and North Africa". The plan was backed mainly by German industrialists and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17805223 | 246,095 |
1,570,814 | A notable example of Spanish scientific aspirations at the time was in 1598, when Felipe III launched an open competition for a method of determining longitude at sea. In 1616 Galileo Galilei himself made an attempt at the attractive prize (with a method based on observing the movements of the moons of Jupiter). The am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40134198 | 1,569,926 |
416,496 | The 6581 and 8580 differ from each other in several ways. The original 6581 was manufactured using the older NMOS process, which used 12V DC to operate. The 6581 is very sensitive to static discharge and if they weren't handled properly the filters would stop working, explaining the reason of the great quantity of dead... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=202115 | 416,293 |
211,053 | All four vessels were decommissioned as part of the early 1990s "peace dividend" after the Cold War ended, considered by naval standards an early retirement given their designed service life of 38 years. Despite being of a modern design with a recent refit, what really doomed the "Virginia" nuclear-powered cruisers was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=763730 | 210,946 |
567,924 | Despite the promises of asRNAs as drug targets or drug candidates, there are some challenges remained to be addressed. First of all, asRNAs and antagoNATs can be easily degraded by RNase or other degrading enzymes. To prevent degradation of the therapeutic oliogoneucleotides, chemical modification is usually required. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1158788 | 567,634 |
2,012,714 | Two days later, Georgetown met the Midwest Region's 11th seed, North Carolina State, in the Round of 32, termed the "Third Round" that year. The Wolfpack had upset the region's sixth seed, San Diego State, to advance to meet the Hoyas. North Carolina State mounted a strong defensive effort and, down by eight points in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33673923 | 2,011,557 |
1,085,271 | Mowat–Wilson syndrome (MWS) can be diagnosed clinically on the basis of moderate to severe intellectual disability in the presence of characteristic facial features (widely spaced eyes, broad eyebrows with a medial flare, low-hanging columella, prominent or pointed chin, open-mouth expression, and uplifted earlobes wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5821650 | 1,084,713 |
1,751,320 | Amid reports that the Pakistan team had been prevented from leaving their country due to internal politics, all the teams except Pakistan were paired for the second round. On the top board, the top-seeded team from the United States struggled against Georgia's number three team, who were rated on average over 300 Elo l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58563619 | 1,750,334 |
830,810 | Icing and other topical anesthetics may decrease the reflexive activity for short period of time in order to facilitate motor function. Inhibitory pressure (applying firm pressure over muscle tendon) and promoting body heat retention and rhythmic rotation (slow repeated rotation of affected body part to stimulate relax... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3277044 | 830,362 |
1,449,793 | While cognitive science endeavors to explain human thought and the conscious mind, the work of cognitive biology is focused on the most fundamental process of cognition for any organism. In the past several decades, biologists have investigated cognition in organisms large and small, both plant and animal. “Mounting ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42985608 | 1,448,977 |
34,481 | The Marines nevertheless found ways to prevail under the circumstances. It was observed that during bombardments, the Japanese would hide their guns and themselves in the caves only to reappear when the troops would advance and lay devastating fire on them. The Japanese had over time learned basic American tactics, whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60027 | 34,469 |
1,022,613 | This is quite opposite to the view of some economists and anthropologists, who postulate the differences between humans and other animals. However, recent work on prosocial tendencies in apes and monkeys supports de Waal's position. See, for example, the research of Felix Warneken, a psychologist at the Max Planck Inst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=377076 | 1,022,083 |
216,701 | In 1950 Harry S. Truman signed Public Law 507, or 42 U.S.C. 16 creating the National Science Foundation. which provided for a National Science Board of twenty-four part-time members. In 1951 Truman nominated Alan T. Waterman, chief scientist at the Office of Naval Research, to become the first Director. With the Korean... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157427 | 216,593 |
548,240 | Excavations in Sepphoris, in the central Galilee region, six kilometers north-northwest of Nazareth, have uncovered a rich and diverse historical and architectural legacy that includes Assyrian, Hellenistic, Judean, Babylonian, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, Crusader, Arabic and Ottoman influences. The site is especially r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=673123 | 547,952 |
1,937,751 | Volker Heine's research essentially covered three areas: (a) Understanding the behavior of materials from the calculation of their electronic structure; (b) Understanding the origin of incommensurately modulated materials; (c) Understanding the structure and properties of minerals from an atomic point of view. His main... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8632927 | 1,936,643 |
1,178,133 | Franklin argues that the end of the Cold War brought two main changes. First, the threat of war between the United States and Soviet Union was replaced by regional wars among smaller states. Second, war was transposed to what Franklin calls "another key"—the struggle for global commercial and economic dominance. She as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1094203 | 1,177,509 |
2,181,480 | "A Patent System for the 21st Century" (2004). In April 2004 a STEP committee chaired by Yale President Richard Levin and former Xerox CTO Mark Myers issued a final report of a broad study of how well the U.S. patent system is fulfilling its purpose of encouraging research, innovation, and the dissemination of knowledg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12911652 | 2,180,233 |
162,234 | In the Labour Party's second term in office, beginning in 2001, when it achieved another landslide victory, the party increased taxes and borrowing. The government wanted the money to increase spending on public services, notably the National Health Service, which they claimed was suffering from chronic under-funding. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,149 |
1,367,157 | The first skeleton, known as the London Specimen (BMNH 37001), was unearthed in 1861 near Langenaltheim, Germany and perhaps given to a local physician Karl Häberlein in return for medical services. He then sold it for £700 to the Natural History Museum in London, where it remains. Missing most of its head and neck, it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34483273 | 1,366,401 |
2,028,439 | On 10 June 1948, Tamm headed a new group of theorists which included Andrei Sakharov, Vitaly Ginzburg, S.Z. Belenky and Romanov. They followed up Sakharov's ideas for a new thermonuclear weapon and went to KB-11 (now the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics) in the closed city of Sarov, Niz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58901579 | 2,027,272 |
535,200 | Shortly after the Islamist inspired terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on 11 September 2001, Australian forces were committed to the American-led international coalition against terrorism. The ADF's most visible contribution—codenamed Operation Slipper—has been a special forces task group operating in Afghani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,921 |
360,180 | The founders of id Software – John Carmack, John Romero, and Tom Hall – met in the offices of Softdisk developing multiple games for Softdisk's monthly publishing, including "Dangerous Dave". Along with another Softdisk employee, Lane Roathe, they had formed a small group they called Ideas from the Deep (IFD), a name t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15526 | 359,993 |
13,890 | Existential risk researchers analyze risks that could lead to human extinction or civilizational collapse, and look for ways to build resilience against them. Relevant research centers include the Cambridge Center for the Study of Existential Risk, and the Stanford Existential Risk Initiative. Future technologies may c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29816 | 13,885 |
1,300,579 | Moreover, studies in Lake Mendota have shown good correlation between "Daphnia pulex" concentration and the appearance of foam lines. Similarly, significant differences were observed in catches of "Daphnia" "hyaline" when sampling in and out of foamlines in South Wales lake, with greater number appearing in divergent z... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14242868 | 1,299,865 |
1,166,528 | John Harrison used the grasshopper escapement in his regulator clocks, and also for the first three of his marine timekeepers, H1 - H3. Determining longitudinal position was a major problem in marine navigation; Newton argued that astronomical positioning could be used, but an easier theoretical possibility was to use ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=597105 | 1,165,911 |
1,322,175 | The two "Spinophorosaurus" specimens were provisionally housed in the Spanish and German museums. By contract with the Republic of the Niger, they were to be returned to the country in the future, managed by the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle in Niamey as well as by a smaller, newly built local museum. The future ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24361405 | 1,321,449 |
882,391 | Sputtering sources often employ magnetrons that utilize strong electric and magnetic fields to confine charged plasma particles close to the surface of the sputter target. In a magnetic field, electrons follow helical paths around magnetic field lines, undergoing more ionizing collisions with gaseous neutrals near the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9084531 | 881,927 |
324,986 | ENIAC was a one-of-a-kind design and was never repeated. The freeze on design in 1943 meant that the computer design would lack some innovations that soon became well-developed, notably the ability to store a program. Eckert and Mauchly started work on a new design, to be later called the EDVAC, which would be both sim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66572 | 324,813 |
397,177 | By far the largest class of tunicates is the Ascidiacea. The body of an ascidiacean is surrounded by a test or tunic, from which the subphylum derives its name. This varies in thickness between species but may be tough, resembling cartilage, thin and delicate, or transparent and gelatinous. The tunic is composed of pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378598 | 396,981 |
1,051,271 | It is unclear what to make of these apomorphies supposedly uniting Anseriformes and bony-toothed birds, for on the other hand, the sternum, distal humerus, leg and foot bones of pelagornithids seem to show apomorphies typical of "higher waterbirds". While details of the braincase bones are held to be very informative p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9205088 | 1,050,725 |
534,407 | In 1890, Congress funded all-black land grant colleges, which were dedicated primarily to teacher training. These colleges made important contributions to rural development, including the establishment of a traveling school program by the Tuskegee Institute in 1906. Rural conferences sponsored by Tuskegee focused on im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44440652 | 534,128 |
1,435,727 | There are many factors that can affect obesity, including environment, diet, life-style (sedentary vs. active), genetic predisposition—and even within only the genetic component it is rarely ever just one single gene that is the main cause for obesity or increase in obesity risks. There are numerous genes (over a hundr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11503558 | 1,434,920 |
481,044 | Typically presented within the context of Muhammad, the historical development of female nursing and surgery in Arabia from the Islamic Period to the modern times boasts a tumultuous history laden with cultural barriers and public pressures. Though very sparse documentation exists about the history of nursing in the Pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26499076 | 480,800 |
1,122,751 | In the UK, this type of lock was introduced by Josiah Parkes & Sons of Willenhall in 1929, who supplied them initially to the Wilmot Breeden company. Early units were stamped with a patent number on the keys, although it is not clear whether this referred to a U.S. patent or one taken out by JPS themselves. Wilmot Bree... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6865242 | 1,122,177 |
1,357,938 | Under the "External Services" module of the SSR, the rating offers commitment to use or demonstration of use of end-of-life removal services. Space debris mitigation measures are found to be inadequate to stabilize debris environments with an actual current compliance of approximately sixty percent. Moreover, a low com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67129473 | 1,357,188 |
2,047,152 | UMass-Lowell was heavily impacted by COVID-19 early in the season. After a delayed start, the team played just 4 games in the first two months of the campaign. Entering their game with UMass on the 29th of January, Lowell had played just 4 games while the Minutemen had competed in 17. The lack of playing time appeared ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67220017 | 2,045,971 |
937,005 | Contributing to the debating is that there is no consensus on what constitutes a "functional" element in the genome since geneticists, evolutionary biologists, and molecular biologists employ different approaches and definitions of "function", often with a lack of clarity of what they mean in the literature. Furthermor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44284 | 936,509 |
1,746,073 | With middle-income professionals replacing immigrant populations in the North End, and other publicly funded organizations in place to serve the poor, NBSIS became known primarily as a center for training in fine crafts. In the 1980s, North Bennet Street Industrial School began transferring responsibilities for the ope... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34218923 | 1,745,087 |
1,579,495 | The host defense antimicrobial peptide protegrin I (PG-1), exhibits broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity and good activity against multi-drug resistant Gram-negative pathogens, with a mechanism consistent with membrane disruption via pore formation. However, PG-1 exhibits unfavorable drug properties and also exhibits ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57413297 | 1,578,605 |
1,399,636 | In 1956 most production amplifiers in North America followed the "Ultralinear Williamson" template, but in the next few years it was retired, too. The new three-stage reference design combined phase splitter and driver functions in one valve, and thus cost proportionally less than four-stage amplifiers. Hafler's Dynaco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1019188 | 1,398,861 |
1,718,751 | Checking formally or informally specified properties against executing systems or programs is an old topic (notable examples are dynamic typing in software, or fail-safe devices or watchdog timers in hardware), whose precise roots are hard to identify. The terminology "runtime verification" was formally introduced as t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3098816 | 1,717,781 |
2,243,231 | The classic traditional forms were emanating from and could be described by using Euclidean geometry for instance in relation to the cartesian triedre (one perpendicular axe for three "dimensions"). These forms can have material realisations (cubes, balls..). Many natural objects however cannot be satisfactorily descri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5463771 | 2,241,960 |
41,047 | Other naturalists of this time speculated on the evolutionary change of species over time according to natural laws. In 1751, Pierre Louis Maupertuis wrote of natural modifications occurring during reproduction and accumulating over many generations to produce new species. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, sugges... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9236 | 41,032 |
1,327,413 | Adult mosquitoes sometimes gather in great numbers in various hiding places, under tree roots and holes, and in general they are the most common insects in our forests. However, due to their small size and inconspicuous coloration, they are rarely known or noticed. On the other hand, the larvae of mushroom eaters are k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6041748 | 1,326,686 |
1,265,398 | Due to political pressure, the Bauhaus Dessau closed in 1932 and Mies van der Rohe set up a privately funded Bauhaus in Berlin, although this also closed after less than a year. The Bauhaus building in Dessau was used as a school for teaching women cooking and sewing, and just before the beginning of World War II in 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59524982 | 1,264,710 |
334,988 | Earth's orbit around the Sun is an ellipse. The semi-major axis of this elliptic orbit is defined to be half of the straight line segment that joins the perihelion and aphelion. The centre of the Sun lies on this straight line segment, but not at its midpoint. Because ellipses are well-understood shapes, measuring the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1210 | 334,810 |
2,230,259 | Lister soon came to understand the urgent need for growing exotic timbers which would reduce the pressure on indigenous species, and started by establishing at Worcester in 1876 a plantation of fast-growing Eucalypts to supply fuel for the railways. De Beers bought the Worcester plantation in 1892, and this sale result... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38665197 | 2,228,994 |
400,762 | Since being brought to London "Belfast" has twice been drydocked as part of the ship's long-term preservation. In 1982 she was docked at Tilbury, and in June 1999 "Belfast" was towed to Portsmouth. This was the first time she had been to sea in 28 years and thus required a Certificate of Seaworthiness from the Maritime... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209815 | 400,563 |
1,727,698 | In terms of tumor metrics, natural history studies clearly demonstrate that Gleason score is a powerful predictor of the risk of disease progression and dissemination. It is therefore essential that the diagnosis reflect an accurate grade. For this, MRI-guided targeted biopsies may be superior to conventional TRUS-guid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31548306 | 1,726,724 |
989,278 | The natures of the polymer and the additives used to increase tackiness (called "tackifiers") influence the nature of mutual molecular interaction and interaction with the substrate. In one common system, EVA is used as the main polymer, with terpene-phenol resin (TPR) as the tackifier. The two components display acid-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3155923 | 988,762 |
14,897 | According to the "New York Times", one origin of the 5G health controversy was an erroneous unpublished study that physicist Bill P. Curry did for the Broward County School Board in 2000 which indicated that the absorption of external microwaves by brain tissue increased with frequency. According to experts this was wr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23475353 | 14,892 |
705,575 | Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, one of seven children, was born in Hobart, Tasmania, on 26 November 1948 to parents who were both family physicians. Her family moved to the city of Launceston when she was four, where she attended the Broadland House Church of England Girls' Grammar School (later amalgamated with Launceston ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=989870 | 705,206 |
881,376 | Adults of this species can reach a total length of up to , with the tail accounting for more than half. Some sexual dimorphism is present: males can be distinguished from females by a wider cloacal opening, a wider base of the tail, a larger head and beard, and the possession of hemipenes. Males also have more pronounc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349483 | 880,912 |
2,061,537 | There is a gap in the exchange of letters from 1738 to 1740, which is filled by legal documents in the National Archive rediscovered in 2015. It seems that Joseph's father-in-law, Thomas Jones II, became Sheriff of Brecon for the year 1722, and during that notoriously expensive period of office he overspent disastrousl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30866164 | 2,060,349 |
1,406,601 | Analytical techniques such as Auger electron spectroscopy (AES), low-energy electron diffraction (LEED), and reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED), have been extensively used to monitor SK growth. AES data obtained "in situ" during film growth in a number model systems, such as Pd/W(100), Pb/Cu(110), Ag/W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14552970 | 1,405,811 |
1,232,378 | Diboride-based UHTCs often require high-temperature and -pressure processing to produce dense, durable materials. The high melting points and strong covalent interactions present in UHTCs make it difficult to achieve uniform densification in these materials. Densification is only achieved at temperatures above 1800 °C ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38050893 | 1,231,716 |
7,934 | The 2021 Department of Defense Budget requests $1.6 billion for three National Security Space Launch vehicles. Of this budget $1.05 billion will fund three launches: AFSPC-36, AFSPC-87 and AFSPC-112. The United States Space Force is reported to be working closely with commercial leaders in the space domain, such as Elo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54465810 | 7,931 |
551,227 | Scientists started to notice the extraordinary physical performance of Tibetans since the beginning of Himalayan climbing era in the early 20th century. The hypothesis of a possible evolutionary genetic adaptation makes sense. The Tibetan plateau has an average elevation of above sea level, and covering more than 2.5 m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39127332 | 550,939 |
1,578,896 | </math>|}}where formula_34 V/m is the Schwinger field. In scientific literature, formula_35 is also called formula_36. The Schwinger field formula_37, appearing in this definition, is a critical field capable of performing on electrons a work of formula_38 over a reduced Compton length formula_39, where formula_40 is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67944697 | 1,578,006 |
1,211,029 | This branch of engineering emerged gradually from chemical engineering as electrical power sources became available in the mid 19th century. Michael Faraday described his laws of electrolysis in 1833, relating for the first time the amount of electrical charge and converted mass. In 1886 Charles Martin Hall developed a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30129507 | 1,210,381 |
1,014,397 | , and a 650MW natural gas plant located in Wawayanda, New York. There was also a 1,000 MW merchant HVDC transmission line proposed in 2013 to the public service commission that would have interconnected at Athens, New York and Buchanan, New York; however, this project was indefinitely stalled when its proposed southern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1632712 | 1,013,876 |
1,346,419 | Despite the long development time, the ERGM never worked as reliably as the older but significantly less expensive laser-guided M712 Copperhead. During development, the ERGM failed several tests in which the tail fins failed to deploy at launch, rocket motors did not ignite, or the electronic components did not survive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12035446 | 1,345,678 |
1,650,790 | The forests of India were some of the richest resources in the British colonies. The value of forests was realised very early and forest management was introduced early on the sub-continent. The links between water, climate and forest cover were noted particularly early and warnings on deforestation were sounded as ear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1186505 | 1,649,858 |
825,782 | Proteins are classified into the chemokine family based on their structural characteristics, not just their ability to attract cells. All chemokines are small, with a molecular mass of between 8 and 10 kDa. They are approximately 20-50% identical to each other; that is, they share gene sequence and amino acid sequence ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1031816 | 825,339 |
747,655 | The crew awoke from their second sleep period earlier than planned. Preparations for return to Earth began with breakfast. Stowing of cabin items, flight control system checkout, data processing system reconfigurations, and then ejection suit donning followed. In Houston, the Crimson team headed by their Flight Directo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177543 | 747,259 |
341,287 | "Dilophosaurus" has been considered a member of the family Dilophosauridae along with "Dracovenator", a group placed between the Coelophysidae and later theropods, but some researchers have not found support for this grouping. "Dilophosaurus" would have been active and bipedal, and may have hunted large animals; it cou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=444541 | 341,106 |
38,020 | "H. erectus" is credited as the first human ancestor to have used fire, though the timing of this invention is debated mainly because campfires very rarely and very poorly preserve over long periods of time, let alone thousands or millions of years. The earliest claimed fire sites are in Kenya, FxJj20 at Koobi Fora and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19554533 | 38,007 |
2,071,164 | Wöhlerite shows pleochroic attributes, which is an optical phenomenon. Depending on which axis the mineral is being viewed, it would appear as if it is changing colors. Looking at the mineral from the x and y axis, it appears as a nearly colorless to pale yellow one, while viewing it on the z axis, it takes up a wine-y... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68881073 | 2,069,973 |
1,483,603 | Milne was born in Hull, Yorkshire, England. He attended Hymers College and from there he won an open scholarship in mathematics and natural science to study at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1914, gaining the largest number of marks which had ever been awarded in the examination. In 1916 he joined a group of mathematici... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=422645 | 1,482,767 |
19,643 | A group of researchers from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine led by Roland Griffiths conducted a study to assess the immediate and long-term psychological effects of the psilocybin experience, using a modified version of the mystical experience questionnaire and a rigorous double-blind procedure. When asked in an inter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38468 | 19,635 |
1,612,570 | The research conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization covers a broad spectrum, mainly in the physics of complex systems. Recently, the physics of complex systems has become a topic of increasing interest and includes open systems, which are characterized by dissipation of energy and entr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6867078 | 1,611,665 |
2,108,669 | For the 1950 season, the Bulldog golfers got their second coach in five years: Lew Rickert. Rickert would coach the team for the next 25 years. In what would become a nearly annual tradition, poor weather delayed the start of team qualifying causing coach Rickert to assemble a team of only returning lettermen for its f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50172482 | 2,107,455 |
1,694,741 | Colgate's ice hockey team began as a four-game experiment in 1916 and 1917. The program was put on ice during World War I but returned in 1920 with a coach leading the Red Raiders. James Ballantine stayed with Colgate for eight years despite the program being mothballed in 1923 and remaining fallow until 1928. After en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28794663 | 1,693,790 |
50,632 | Post war 20-30 mm revolver cannon and rotary cannon were introduced. The modern M61 Vulcan 20 mm rotary cannon that is standard on current American fighters fires a projectile weight of about 10 kg/s (22 lb/s), nearly three times that of six 0.50-cal machine guns, with higher velocity of 1,052 m/s (3450 ft/s) supportin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10929 | 50,612 |
1,821,277 | By April 1950, Gutowsky and Charles J. Hoffman were able to observe proton resonance shifts for compounds containing fluorine nuclei, using both inorganic and organic samples. Gutowsky reported the discovery of resonance shifts of nuclei within a covalently bonded molecule, an effect observed by others in nitrogen comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12954620 | 1,820,239 |
1,278,002 | In response to starvation, myxobacteria develop species-specific multicellular fruiting bodies. Starting from a uniform swarm of cells, some aggregate into fruiting bodies, while other cells remain in a vegetative state. Those cells that participate in formation of the fruiting body transform from rods into spherical, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4280975 | 1,277,309 |
1,920,777 | In 2004, Melnyk left the University of Rochester to accept a deanship position at Arizona State University's (ASU) College of Nursing, replacing Barbara Durand. Prior to accepting the position, Melnyk told the hiring committee that she would "infuse evidence-based practice throughout all our programs, to work with hosp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65371945 | 1,919,674 |
2,197,893 | In 2004, extracellular electron uptake (EEU) from cathodes to microbes (Geobacter spp.) was established with attached biofilm, where fumarate was reduced to succinate. This reverse reaction for electron transport generated the research field of MES. In 2010, Nevin et al. discovered that the acetogenic microorganism "Sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71759039 | 2,196,642 |
502,185 | Argon ionises at 15.76 eV, which is higher than hydrogen, but lower than helium, neon or fluorine. Molecules containing argon can be van der Waals molecules held together very weakly by London dispersion forces. Ionic molecules can be bound by charge induced dipole interactions. With gold atoms there can be some covale... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51721949 | 501,927 |
912,900 | Further discoveries such as ""Hadrosaurus minor"" and ""Ornithotarsus immanis"" would come from the East, and Edward Drinker Cope led an expedition to the Judith River Formation where "Trachodon" was found. Upon the fragments discovered he named seven new species in two genera, as well as assigning material to "Hadrosa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1091928 | 912,421 |
2,072,471 | Some reviewers discussed the coverage of certain topics in the book. Irvine felt that "If there is a weakness with the book, it is that the traditional debates over logicism, formalism, and intuitionism are covered in less than half a dozen pages, leaving readers wondering what all the fuss was about." He said that if ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58883860 | 2,071,280 |
2,054,462 | The advent of the sodium-iodide scintillator in 1948 and other detectors to follow became useful for spectroscopy. The photon detector and the Multichannel Pulse-Height Analyzer (MCA) become the primary tools needed to produce a pulse-height spectrum of one or more radionuclides. It is first necessary to derive a di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47497328 | 2,053,279 |
1,229,306 | One Japanese/East Indian consortium has focused specifically on the spectroscopic and stimulated emission characteristics of Nd in transparent YAG nanomaterials for laser applications. Their materials were synthesized using vacuum sintering techniques. The spectroscopic studies suggest overall improvement in absorption... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=905803 | 1,228,644 |
213,450 | The device was designed in the early 1980s by American scientist and researcher Dr. Robert Hubbard (1943–2019), a professor of biomechanical engineering at Michigan State University. After talking to his brother-in-law, accomplished American road-racer Jim Downing, following the death of Patrick Jacquemart, a mutual fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1423593 | 213,342 |
201,990 | In 1840, Germain Hess proposed Hess's law, an early statement of the law of conservation of energy, which establishes that energy changes in a chemical process depend only on the states of the starting and product materials and not on the specific pathway taken between the two states. In 1847, Hermann Kolbe obtained ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1416046 | 201,887 |
581,296 | Tyres, sometimes called riding rings, usually consist of a single annular steel casting, machined to a smooth cylindrical surface, which attach loosely to the kiln shell through a variety of "chair" arrangements. These require some ingenuity of design, since the tyre must fit the shell snugly, but also allow thermal mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6632266 | 580,998 |
246,710 | Budgetary woes hit WSC in the Great Depression years starting in the 1930s. The budget, faculty, salaries, and enrollment slumped dramatically. Enrollment didn't reach pre-Depression levels until 1936 and salaries until 1937 in nominal terms. With the start of World War II, the Washington State College was contracted b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=228600 | 246,582 |
2,021,868 | Industrially, ammonia (NH) is the most important compound of nitrogen and is prepared in larger amounts than any other compound, because it contributes significantly to the nutritional needs of terrestrial organisms by serving as a precursor to food and fertilisers. It is a colourless alkaline gas with a characteristic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5704794 | 2,020,705 |
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