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862,710 | To perform computing tasks more quickly (or better in some other way), generally one can invest time and money in improving the software, improving the hardware, or both. There are various approaches with advantages and disadvantages in terms of decreased latency, increased throughput and reduced energy consumption. Ty... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2031045 | 862,250 |
403,734 | The Canadian Shield is a collage of Archean plates and accreted juvenile arc terranes and sedimentary basins of the Proterozoic Eon that were progressively amalgamated during the interval 2.45–1.24 Ga, with the most substantial growth period occurring during the Trans-Hudson orogeny, between c. 1.90–1.80 Ga. The Canadi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6230 | 403,534 |
1,792,460 | The main problem of the CAFM is that the probes are more expensive and wear out faster than those used in topographic AFM maps, mainly due to the high current densities flowing through the tip/sample nanojunction, but also due to lateral friction. The premature degradation of a CAFM tip not only increases the cost of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24580913 | 1,791,453 |
1,442,551 | On April 14, 2011, Mochizuki defeated Masato Yoshino to win the Open the Dream Gate Championship for the second time. On April 24 Mochizuki agreed to form a new alliance with former World-1 members Masato Yoshino, BxB Hulk, PAC and Susumu Yokosuka to battle the promotion's new top heel stable, Blood Warriors. On June 8... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9144587 | 1,441,738 |
1,158,675 | Roe was born in Patricroft, Eccles, Lancashire, the son of Edwin Roe, a doctor, and Annie Verdon. He was the elder brother of Humphrey Verdon Roe. Roe left home when he was 14 to go to Canada where he had been offered training as a surveyor. When he arrived in British Columbia he discovered that a slump in the silver m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3357299 | 1,158,061 |
1,479,809 | The study completed by Vaishnaw et al. sought to identify the key region and factors related to the efforts of gene expression of the C4 gene. Their research concluded with the fact that the Sp1 binding site (positioned at -59 to -49) plays an important role in accurately starting basal transcription of C4. Utilization... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9693587 | 1,478,975 |
605,269 | The United Kingdom (UK) criteria were first published by the Conference of Medical Royal Colleges (with advice from the Transplant Advisory Panel) in 1976, as prognostic guidelines. They were drafted in response to a perceived need for guidance in the management of deeply comatose patients with severe brain damage who ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26700042 | 604,959 |
154,470 | Dogfish sharks experience one of the longest gestation periods of any organism, which can last from around 18 to 24 months. During spawning season, which occurs during the colder months of winter, females can lay anywhere from 2 to 12 eggs, which develop ovoviviparously and the pups are birthed as live young, with abou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1425524 | 154,400 |
2,136,356 | His research interests directed towards combining different types of chemical information tools for solving structural, mechanistic and stereochemical problems in organic, bioorganic, organometallic chemistry and catalysis, using techniques such as semiempirical molecular orbital methods (the MNDO family), Nuclear Magn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4916053 | 2,135,128 |
495,113 | Later a second, smaller specimen was found, probably of a subadult individual. Its slab and counterslab are separated and both were sold to private collections; neither has an official registration. It was described by S. Christopher Bennet in 2007. This second exemplar is much more complete and better articulated. It ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3361076 | 494,857 |
893,075 | Recent advancements in modified porous nanocrystalline films have enabled the creation of electrochromic display. The single substrate display structure consists of several stacked porous layers printed on top of each other on a substrate modified with a transparent conductor (such as ITO or ). Each printed layer has a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=917126 | 892,605 |
1,484,406 | KZFT filter is design for a reconstruction of periodic signals or seasonality covered by heavy noise. Seasonality is one of the key forms of nonstationarity that is often seen in time series. It is usually defined as the periodic components within the time series. Spectral analysis is a powerful tool to analyze time se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32683147 | 1,483,569 |
1,845,116 | Equity and inclusion in education refers to the principle or policy that provides equal access for all learners to curriculum and programming within an educational setting. Some school boards have policy that includes the terms inclusion and diversity. Equity is a term sometimes confused with equality. Equity and incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69261982 | 1,844,061 |
366,526 | A preliminary estimate of the explosive energy by astronomer Boris Shustov, director of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Astronomy, was , another using empirical period-yield scaling relations and the infrasound records, by Peter Brown of the University of Western Ontario gave a value of and represents a be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38528850 | 366,334 |
1,826,784 | Artificial micro and nanoswimmers are small scale devices that convert energy into movement. Since the first demonstration of their performance in 2002, the field has developed rapidly in terms of new preparation methodologies, propulsion strategies, motion control, and envisioned functionality. The field holds promise... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68657567 | 1,825,745 |
699,953 | Unhealthy methods of food consumption and dieting has persisted within the training regimen of wrestlers. A study including 243 collegiate wrestling programs in Divisions I, II, and III observed that these tendencies are ingrained within them. The results of the study showed that most of these kids began wrestling betw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1893219 | 699,589 |
1,086,353 | In cars, carburetor heat may be controlled automatically (e.g. by a wax-pellet driven flap in the air intake) or manually (often by rotating the air cleaner cover between 'summer' and 'winter' settings), with use both of "heat stove" type systems, and electric-filament booster elements directly attached to the carb or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2643755 | 1,085,795 |
2,198,158 | The process of creating these structures is typically a hassle, requiring multiple step processes in order to synthesis a foam of desired properties. However, polystyrene solid foams have been created through simpler methods such as extrusion from a blowing agent or polystyrene bead expansion. While these methods are t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70690897 | 2,196,907 |
1,564,249 | Prominent in his DARPA research portfolio are Preventing Violent Explosive Neuro Trauma (PREVENT), prevention of explosive blast traumatic brain injury, Revolutionizing Prostheses (RP), development of responsive, brain-controlled, artificial arms, Predicting Health and Disease (PHD), combination of biomarkers and advan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39561500 | 1,563,362 |
1,294,099 | Aspects of the relationship between the physical body and socio-cultural conditions and practices can be recognized through the study of human remains. This is most often emphasized in a "biocultural bioarchaeology" model. It has often been the case that bioarchaeology has been regarded as a positivist, science-based d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1923764 | 1,293,388 |
1,653,467 | In September 1994, Richard Jefferson coined the term hologenome when he introduced the hologenome theory of evolution at a presentation at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. At the CSH Symposium and earlier, the unsettling number and diversity of microbes that were being discovered through the powerful tool of PCR-amplific... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34920670 | 1,652,535 |
1,791,324 | The parasite has a large cellular repertoire of antigenically distinct VSGs (~1500/2000 complete and partial (pseudogenes)) located in telomeric and subtelomeric arrays (on megabase chromosomes or minichromosomes). VSGs are expressed from a bloodstream expression site (BES, ES) in a polycistron by RNA polymerase I (rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40081998 | 1,790,317 |
1,034,568 | Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents have a history of use as blood doping agents in endurance sports, such as horseracing, boxing, cycling, rowing, distance running, race walking, snowshoeing, cross country skiing, biathlon, mixed martial arts, and triathlon. The overall oxygen delivery system (blood oxygen levels, as we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13768757 | 1,034,031 |
1,215,000 | The introduction of the CCD revolutionized high-speed photography in the 1980s. The "staring array" configuration of the sensor eliminated the scanning artifacts. Precise control of the integration time replaced the use of the mechanical shutter. However, the CCD architecture limited the rate at which images could be r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3582572 | 1,214,348 |
1,521,474 | During the last 10 million years, volcanic activity shifted to bimodal volcanism with basalt lava flows alternating with rhyolite domes. Dark gray to black basalt and pink or brown rhyolite are particularly common in Elko, Washoe and Humboldt counties. Some small cinder cones formed as recently as the Pleistocene and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58635068 | 1,520,613 |
277,592 | As computers and global computer networks continued to advance and emulator developers grew more skilled in their work, the length of time between the commercial release of a console and its successful emulation began to shrink. Fifth generation consoles such as Nintendo 64, PlayStation and sixth generation handhelds, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18943937 | 277,442 |
1,150,152 | Biological methods isolate cells based on highly specific antigen binding, most commonly by monoclonal antibodies for positive selection. Antibodies against tumor specific biomarkers including EpCAM, HER2 and PSA have been used. The most common technique is magnetic nanoparticle-based separation (immunomagnetic assay) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16806609 | 1,149,545 |
859,824 | The cause of the glaciation is heavily debated. The appearance and development of terrestrial plants and microphytoplankton, which consumed atmospheric carbon dioxide, may have diminished the greenhouse effect and promoting the transition of the climatic system to the glacial mode. Though more commonly associated with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=425753 | 859,366 |
869,894 | Sir Hiram Maxim was an American who moved to England and adopted English nationality. He chose to largely ignore his contemporaries and built his own whirling arm rig and wind tunnel. In 1889, he built a hangar and workshop in the grounds of Baldwyn's Manor at Bexley, Kent, and made many experiments. He developed a bip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1607990 | 869,434 |
152,576 | The XP-89 had a thin, straight, mid-mounted wing and a crew of two, seated in tandem. The slim rear fuselage and the high-mounted horizontal stabilizer led Northrop employees calling it the Scorpion—a name later formally adopted by the Air Force. The intended armament of four 20-millimeter M24 cannon in a small nose tu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=458875 | 152,508 |
22,135 | Caffeine has both positive and negative health effects. It can treat and prevent the premature infant breathing disorders bronchopulmonary dysplasia of prematurity and apnea of prematurity. Caffeine citrate is on the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines. It may confer a modest protective effect against some diseases, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6868 | 22,126 |
1,068,754 | After a long history of war and exploration in space, during which no intelligent life was found, humans had returned to planet Earth in an attempt to seek peace and stability in a post-scarcity society guided by AI. A signal is detected from the distant planet Ecosystem 9 in the outer Crux Arm, and the starship "LSV D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45032290 | 1,068,200 |
184,114 | In sugarcane cultivation, the remaining bagasse after extraction of sugar is used in large amounts for energy production (both process heat and electric energy for use both in the sugar factory itself and for other consumers), and locally it has been thought to be a remarkable source of dioxins. This basically indicate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20663724 | 184,017 |
465,494 | In multicellular animals the same principle has been put in the service of gene cascades that control body-shape. Each time a cell divides, two cells result which, although they contain the same genome in full, can differ in which genes are turned on and making proteins. Sometimes a 'self-sustaining feedback loop' ensu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=356382 | 465,264 |
487,378 | In 1981, Simulaser Corporation was founded by two entrepreneur engineers and began operations near Los Angeles to develop "Advanced MILES" training systems. Under initial contracts from Sandia National Labs, Simulaser produced standard MILES replacement laser transmitters and man-worn detector systems as well as "Advan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=894176 | 487,128 |
685,931 | By 2000, virtually all major airlines, hotel firms, cruise lines and rental car firms had implemented revenue management systems to predict customer demand and optimize available price. These revenue management systems had limited "optimize" to imply managing the availability of pre-defined prices in pre-established pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8976534 | 685,574 |
2,136,110 | Harris joined University College London where she worked on condensed matter physics. She joined the faculty at the University of Leeds in 2004, where she holds a joint position at the Astbury Centre for Structural and Molecular Biology. Her research considers the development of theoretical and computational biophysica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69320759 | 2,134,883 |
913,066 | From spectra with rotational resolution, moments of inertia and hence bond lengths and angles can be determined "directly" (at least in principle). From less well-resolved spectra one can still determine important quantities like JT stabilization energies and energy barriers (e.g. to pseudorotation). However, in the wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1964288 | 912,587 |
1,516,824 | Luis Alberto Machado (Caracas, January 21, 1932 – Caracas, February 23, 2016) Venezuelan lawyer, author and politician. He was best known for his ideas about the malleability of intelligence. He asserted, in his books and writings on the subject, that perceived limits on intelligence are false and are primarily tied to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,972 |
758,027 | First-generation microkernels typically supported synchronous as well as asynchronous IPC, and suffered from poor IPC performance. Jochen Liedtke assumed the design and implementation of the IPC mechanisms to be the underlying reason for this poor performance. In his L4 microkernel he pioneered methods that lowered IPC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20023 | 757,622 |
1,035,139 | Saturday evening's qualifying session was divided into three parts. The first part lasted twenty minutes and eliminated the cars that finished eighteenth or lower. The second session lasting fifteen minutes eliminated cars from eleventh to seventeenth. The final ten-minute session set pole position to tenth. Cars which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24511010 | 1,034,599 |
1,256,481 | In late October 2015, Smith adapted the “Dinner with 12 Strangers” program (originally developed at UCLA), which, according to the "Swarthmore Daily", "brings members of the campus community together for a meal at the Courtney Smith House." In March 2016, she penned an opinion editorial in the college's newspaper regar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45467234 | 1,255,797 |
1,806,006 | While mobile robots had been in existence since the 1960s, (e.g. Shakey), progress in creating robots that could navigate on their own, outdoors, off-road, on irregular, obstacle-rich terrain had been slow. In fact no clear metrics were in place to measure progress. A baseline understanding of off-road capabilities beg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34529351 | 1,804,989 |
1,255,795 | After Chernobyl, with popular fear and distrust of nuclear power, and most energy companies preferring coal-fired plants, the U.S. nuclear industry went dormant for many years, although legislation continued until 1992. Although nuclear plants were still quite active and even improving production and safety practices, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31284652 | 1,255,111 |
77,120 | Various authors have suggested that extinction events occurred periodically, every 26 to 30 million years, or that diversity fluctuates episodically about every 62 million years. Various ideas, mostly regarding astronomical influences, attempt to explain the supposed pattern, including the presence of a hypothetical co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9813 | 77,091 |
1,387,843 | In 2012, the FDA concluded an assessment of scientific research on the effects of BPA and stated in the March 2012 Consumer Update that "the scientific evidence at this time does not suggest that the very low levels of human exposure to BPA through the diet are unsafe" although recognizing "potential uncertainties in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57552333 | 1,387,076 |
1,220,103 | This cellular automata paradigm gave rise to a third wave of social simulation emphasizing agent-based modeling. Like micro-simulations, these models emphasized bottom-up designs but adopted four key assumptions that diverged from microsimulation: autonomy, interdependency, simple rules, and adaptive behavior. Agent-ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=984692 | 1,219,449 |
727,239 | Taking the example of a current high definition (HD) video system, with 1920 by 1080 pixels, the Nyquist theorem states that it should be possible, in a perfect system, to resolve fully (with true black to white transitions) a total of 1920 black and white alternating lines combined, otherwise referred to as a spatial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4079673 | 726,857 |
922,123 | The first attempts to explain Jovian atmospheric dynamics date back to the 1960s. They were partly based on terrestrial meteorology, which had become well developed by that time. Those shallow models assumed that the jets on Jupiter are driven by small scale turbulence, which is in turn maintained by moist convection i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30873277 | 921,637 |
1,651,126 | Though Blakie and Brookfield acknowledge the problematic aspects of defining land degradation, with definitional variation depending in large part on the scholar or stakeholder in question, they do outline a general idea of reduced soil fertility and reduced ability of a given area of land to provide for people's subsi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17200325 | 1,650,194 |
2,143,640 | Similar to other meshfree methods for PDEs, the finite point method (FPM) has its origins in techniques developed for scattered data fitting and interpolation, basically in the line of weighted least-squares methods (WLSQ). The latter can be regarded as particular forms of the moving least-squares method (MLS) proposed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50991882 | 2,142,409 |
1,148,749 | "Simple Math" received positive reviews from music critics upon release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received a weighted average of 73, based on sixteen reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Adam Pfleider of AbsolutePunk cal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30136844 | 1,148,142 |
72,204 | In Europe, take home naloxone pilots were launched in the Channel Islands and in Berlin in the late 1990s. In 2008 the Welsh Assembly government announced its intention to establish demonstration sites for take-home naloxone, and in 2010 Scotland instituted a national naloxone program. Inspired by North American and Eu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=142818 | 72,177 |
2,145,053 | The coordination method can best be seen as a conceptual framework that prescribes a certain workflow when working with multiple languages. The three successive steps that constitute this workflow are not supported by an integrated workbench or development environment. The focus is rather on extending the developer's e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21468960 | 2,143,822 |
1,566,457 | Years later, in 2002, the Professional Windsurfing Association (PWA) upon inducting both Drake and Schweitzer into the inaugural class of the Windsurfing Hall of Fame, called Drake "The father of windsurfing" and Schweitzer "The man who brought windsurfing to the masses." Windsurfing's origin story has long and often b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23117343 | 1,565,570 |
1,066,845 | On 23 November 1916, while flying an Airco DH.2 (Serial No. 5964), Hawker left Bertangles Aerodrome at 1300 hours as part of 'A' Flight, led by Captain (later Air Vice Marshal) J. O. Andrews and including Lieutenant (later Air Marshal) R.H.M.S Saundby. Andrews led the flight in an attack on two German aircraft over Ach... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=535536 | 1,066,291 |
57,851 | One place that AM is making a significant inroad is in the aviation industry. With nearly 3.8 billion air travelers in 2016, the demand for fuel efficient and easily produced jet engines has never been higher. For large OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) like Pratt and Whitney (PW) and General Electric (GE) this m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1305947 | 57,827 |
617,084 | A wearable artificial kidney is a wearable dialysis machine that a person with end-stage kidney disease could use daily or even continuously. A wearable artificial kidney (WAK) is not available, but research teams are in the process of developing such a device. The goal is to develop a portable device that will be able... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2400647 | 616,770 |
995,828 | Another excellent and long-term example of this principle being put into practice is the braking system: whilst the actual brake mechanisms are critical, they are not particularly prone to sudden (rather than progressive) failure, and are in any case necessarily duplicated to allow even and balanced application of brak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2091393 | 995,311 |
450,929 | Robert G. Kramer Sr. became the company's president and CEO April 1, 2019. Prior to that, he was the president and chief operating officer. He has also served as Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and other management positions within the corporation. He received his BA from Clemson University and an MBA ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6262709 | 450,710 |
101,120 | "Warframe"s planned nemesis system was launched October 31, 2019 as the second phase of "Empyrean", with the Nintendo Switch launch delayed to November 19, 2019. This update revealed the nemesis as a "Kuva Lich" - A once-ordinary Grineer grunt, turned super-soldier through infusion with a mystical resource named Kuva. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38333096 | 101,075 |
761,307 | The TMT Observatory Corporation board of directors narrowed the list to two sites, one in each hemisphere, for further consideration: Cerro Armazones in Chile's Atacama Desert and Mauna Kea on Hawaii Island. On July 21, 2009, the TMT board announced Mauna Kea as the preferred site. The final TMT site selection decision... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4266335 | 760,900 |
1,515,383 | In contrast, harmless bacteria do not cause the translocation of NF-κB into the nucleus thus preventing the inflammation although they can express the same microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs). One possible mechanism explaining this effect was suggested by Neish showing that non-pathogenic "S. typhimurium" Pho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33032376 | 1,514,531 |
1,894,145 | He wrote a paper in England in 1802 supporting French Neologist-inspired changes to chemical nomenclature. During a year in Germany, he published criticisms of the work of ground-breaking scientists: Danish chemist and physicist Hans Christian Ørsted and the German physicist, chemist and mineralogist Christian Samuel W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5407138 | 1,893,061 |
238,950 | Two critiques of Bem's theory in the journal "Psychological Review" concluded that "studies cited by Bem and additional research show that [the] Exotic Becomes Erotic theory is not supported by scientific evidence." Bem was criticized for relying on a non-random sample of gay men from the 1970s (rather than collecting ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51614 | 238,830 |
2,044,759 | The study group Walla showed, that deep (i.e. semantic) encoding of a word is associated with more brain activity than a shallow (letter by letter) encoding. Gender-specifically, in women both hemispheres were equally involved, while men were left-lateralized. Smell and memory are closely related, which was studied for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49596807 | 2,043,578 |
825,449 | In 1974, both the 253 and 308 engines (now called 4.2L and 5.0L) were added to the Torana range for the first time in the LH series (after an aborted attempt by Holden Dealer Team boss Harry Firth to introduce the V8 to the smaller LJ in 1972 which was stopped by the "supercar scare"). The engines were also offered on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20323291 | 825,006 |
571,411 | The term "neuromarketing" was first published in 2002 in the Master Thesis of Associate Professor Philippe Morel, then a student at the Ecole Nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-Belleville. The chapter "Capitalism II : Infocapitalism (experience)" contains a development with sub-chapter "Hyper-rational Anticip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2663218 | 571,120 |
949,874 | While applied research helped develop Lewin into a practical theorist, what further defined him as an academic and a forerunner was his "action research" – a term he invented himself. Lewin was increasingly interested in the concepts of Jewish migration and identity. He was confused by the concept of how while an indiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1976138 | 949,370 |
199,726 | Carriage of the existing Red Beard tactical nuclear bomb had been specified at the beginning of the TSR-2 project, but it was quickly realised that Red Beard was unsuited to external carriage at supersonic speeds, had safety and handling limitations, and its 15 kt yield was considered inadequate for the targets assigne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=225702 | 199,623 |
761,303 | Scientists have been considering ELTs since the mid 1980s. In 2000, astronomers considered the possibility of a telescope with a light-gathering mirror larger than 20 meters (65') in diameter. The technology to build a mirror larger than 8.4 meters (28') does not exist; instead scientists considered using either small ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4266335 | 760,896 |
653,027 | Foote died in 1888 and for almost a hundred years her contributions were unknown, before being rediscovered by women academics in the twentieth century. In the twenty-first century, new interest in Foote arose when it was realized that her work predated discoveries made by John Tyndall, who had been recognized by scien... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49280323 | 652,684 |
520,671 | Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) performance is limited by the rate at which the charge stored in the cells can be drained (for reading) or stored (for writing). MRAM operation is based on measuring voltages rather than charges or currents, so there is less "settling time" needed. IBM researchers have demonstrated M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315008 | 520,400 |
161,117 | Towards the late 19th century, the belief that the size of ones skull could determine their level of intelligence was discarded as science and medicine moved forward. A physician by the name of Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud expanded upon the ideas of Gall and took a closer look at the idea of distinct cortical regions of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288292 | 161,032 |
1,567,894 | The first SCIEX product, introduced in 1979, was the TAGA (Trace Atmospheric Gas Analyzer) quadrupole mass spectrometer system which used atmospheric-pressure chemical ionization (APCI) for direct air analysis. Use of a cryopumped vacuum system run by a liquid helium compressor allowed the instrument to be mounted in a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70628444 | 1,567,007 |
1,692,160 | Born on 7 January 1948, Sopory secured his graduate degree (BSc) in 1966 and postgraduate degree (MSc) in 1968 from Sri Pratap College, Sri Nagar of the University of Kashmir. Subsequently, he moved to Delhi to start his career by joining University of Delhi as a member of faculty and pursued his doctoral studies there... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49086703 | 1,691,209 |
829,408 | Because the first forty official copies are made of the same alloy as the IPK and are stored under similar conditions, periodic verifications using a large number of replicas—especially the national primary standards, which are rarely used—can convincingly demonstrate the stability of the IPK. What has become clear aft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23837739 | 828,962 |
1,530,286 | The HED domain is often defined by an energy density (units of pressure) above 1 Mbar = 100 GPa ~ 1 Million of Atmosphere. This is comparable to the energy density of a chemical bond such as in a water molecule. Thus at 1 Mbar, chemistry as we know it changes. Experiments at NIF now routinely probe matter at 100 Mbar. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44277627 | 1,529,421 |
1,471,703 | Though it was not commissioned by any Soviet authority and never mentioned the science by name, Agapov's article was taken as a signal of an official critical attitude towards cybernetics; editions of Norbert Wiener's "" were removed from library circulation, and several other periodicals followed suit, denouncing cybe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54974049 | 1,470,874 |
639,920 | The order has a few unifying characteristics, starting with their tubular nasal passage which is used for olfaction. Procellariiformes that nest in burrows have a strong sense of smell, being able to detect dimethyl sulfide released from plankton in the ocean. This ability to smell helps to locate patchily distributed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53560 | 639,581 |
593,188 | After the 1980s, detailed genetic evidence analysed by phylogenetic methods became available and while confirming or clarifying some relationships in existing classification systems, it radically changed others. This genetic evidence created a rapid increase in knowledge that led to many proposed changes; stability was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=631671 | 592,884 |
1,723,469 | During the late 1980s, and strongly influenced by the thinking on integration but also by a focus on vocational training through a competency approach, the notion of a National Qualification Frameworks (NQF) emerged in the United Kingdom. Its roots lay in the competence approach to vocational education which was broade... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53715889 | 1,722,499 |
58,318 | Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, vice president of engineering and research at Lockheed's Skunk Works, visited USAF air bases across South Korea in November 1951 to speak with fighter pilots about what they wanted and needed in a fighter aircraft. At the time, the American pilots were confronting the MiG-15 with North Amer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82439 | 58,293 |
1,693,293 | The specificity of the proposal's details as it appears in most later sources—even its attribution to Gauss—is called into question in University of Notre Dame Professor Michael J. Crowe's 1986 book, "The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750–1900", in which he surveys the origins of the Gauss proposal and observes that:T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34802284 | 1,692,342 |
86,785 | In 2011, Professor Matthew C. Whitaker was accused of plagiarizing material in six books he had written, as well as in a speech he made to local high school students. After watching a video of the speech, a plagiarism analyst said he could read along from a newspaper article as Whitaker spoke. To the consternation of A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1859 | 86,750 |
773,297 | In 1997, scintillation properties of cerium doped lutetium aluminum perovskite (LuAP:Ce) single crystals were reported. The main property of those crystals is a large mass density of 8.4 g/cm, which gives short X- and gamma-ray absorption length. The scintillation light yield and the decay time with Cs radiation source... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=184306 | 772,881 |
355,129 | In 1929, Teller transferred to the University of Leipzig where in 1930, he received his PhD in physics under Heisenberg. Teller's dissertation dealt with one of the first accurate quantum mechanical treatments of the hydrogen molecular ion. That year, he befriended Russian physicists George Gamow and Lev Landau. Teller... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37782 | 354,946 |
256,178 | In 1951, Ralph Baer conceived the idea of an interactive television while building a television set from scratch for Loral in the Bronx, New York. Baer did not pursue the idea, but it returned to him in August 1966 when he was the Chief Engineer and manager of the Equipment Design Division at Sanders Associates. By Dec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3921614 | 256,044 |
557,362 | Early neuroanatomists, including Santiago Ramón y Cajal, considered the nervous system fixed and incapable of regeneration. The first evidence of adult mammalian neurogenesis in the cerebral cortex was presented by Joseph Altman in 1962, followed by a demonstration of adult neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of the hipp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=740746 | 557,073 |
2,150,526 | At Durham he finished, but did not yet publish, his ‘Doctrine of the Sphere,’ begun in Edinburgh. With the signature P.M.D. (presbyterian minister, Durham) he contributed to the "Ladies' Diary", then edited by Thomas Simpson. He left Durham at the beginning of 1762 to become minister at Filby, Norfolk, and assistant to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25746123 | 2,149,295 |
1,159,314 | Penney had joined the Los Alamos Laboratory in 1944, and had served on the Target Committee that had selected cities to be attacked. He had been in the observation plane "Big Stink" during the bombing of Nagasaki, and had done damage assessment on the ground following Japan's surrender. He had returned to England in No... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52573493 | 1,158,699 |
16,867 | It may be that non-colonizing technologically capable alien civilizations exist, but that they are simply too far apart for meaningful two-way communication. Sebastian von Hoerner estimated the average duration of civilization at 6,500 years and the average distance between civilizations in the Milky Way at 1,000 light... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11579 | 16,862 |
239,600 | Herbert A. Simon proposed bounded rationality as an alternative basis for the mathematical modeling of decision-making. It complements "rationality as optimization", which views decision-making as a fully rational process of finding an optimal choice given the information available. Simon used the analogy of a pair of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177698 | 239,480 |
637,390 | Regarding resource adequacy, the US market at the start of restructuring had excess generating capacity, confirming the expectation that regulated prices provide an incentive for the generators to overinvest. Initial hope that the revenue stream would be sufficient to continue building up the capacity did not materiali... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=215909 | 637,051 |
701,127 | Kat Anderson wrote a descriptive, historically based background book, "A Tended Wilderness", about the indigenous peoples of the California coast and their intimate interactions with the environment. California Indians have a rigid and complex harvesting, management and production practice. The practices observed leane... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1790574 | 700,762 |
521,772 | The calendar featured eleven significant changes from the 2015–16 season. The first two were the introduction of the Hong Kong and Marrakesh races, with the latter taking the championship to its first African city. The third was the return of the Monaco ePrix, held for the first time since the 2014–15 season. The fourt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45532368 | 521,500 |
2,007,888 | The Rasa doctrine of literature is based on two premises – i) that literary works, as verbal compositions, express emotive meanings and ii) that all literature is typically emotive discourse or discourse that has to do with the portrayal of feelings and attitudes rather than with ideas, concepts, statements of universa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43584148 | 2,006,737 |
1,937,371 | MISSE-FF is a continuation of the l MISSE 1 through MISSE 8 flight payloads, but is a completely new design that eliminates the need for Extravehicular Activities (EVA) for MISSE operations. MISSE-FF is a cooperative endeavor between Alpha Space and the ISS Program, and is designed with a base-structure and avionics th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15701481 | 1,936,263 |
1,527,157 | The "Allegro de concert" includes certain devices which reflect a more virtuosic technique than that required by most of his other works. Technical difficulties include dense musical textures, complex and light finger work, massive leaps of left hand chords, trills and scales in double notes and difficult octaves. For ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19913639 | 1,526,293 |
307,931 | At Stanford in 1959, Kesey volunteered to take part in a CIA-financed study named Project MKULTRA at the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital. The project studied the effects on the patients of psychoactive drugs, particularly LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, cocaine, AMT, and DMT. Kesey wrote many detailed accounts of his experien... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1119225 | 307,766 |
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