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1,437,360 | Creeking is perhaps best thought of as a subcategory of river running, involving very technical and difficult rapids, typically in the Grade/Class IV to VI range. While people will differ on the definition, creeking generally involves higher gradient, approaching or in excess of 100 ft per mi (19 m per km), and is like... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19085388 | 1,436,551 |
142,504 | Other types of highly advanced gas cooled reactors, generally known as high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs) such as the Japanese High Temperature Test Reactor and the United States' Very High Temperature Reactor, are inherently safe, meaning that meltdown or other forms of core damage are physically impossible,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162498 | 142,446 |
1,183,032 | The distinction between related languages and dialects is notoriously vague in Mesoamerica. The dominant Mesoamerican socio-cultural pattern through millennia has been centered around the town or city as the highest level community rather than the nation, realm or people. This has meant that within Mesoamerica each cit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=874736 | 1,182,407 |
1,071,644 | The genetic study of sexual dimorphism, published in "Evolution", hypothesizes two methods which leads to different ornamental characteristics in male and female birds. The alleles (different versions of the same gene) responsible for sexual dimorphism can be limited to expression in only one sex when they first appear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12664042 | 1,071,090 |
163,750 | Semiotics is the study of the transmission, reception and meaning of signs and symbols in general. In this field, human language (both natural and artificial) is just one among many ways that humans (and other conscious beings) are able to communicate. It allows them to take advantage of and effectively manipulate the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6880370 | 163,665 |
180,262 | The material effects of these missions may be regarded as minor, but the psychological effect on German troops was noticeable. They typically attacked by surprise in the middle of the night, denying German troops sleep and keeping them on their guard, contributing to the already high stress of combat on the Eastern fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1351230 | 180,168 |
542,990 | The ship had two compound steam engines manufactured by John Elder and company. Each had one high-pressure and two low-pressure cylinders connected to a crankshaft. The connecting rods were in diameter attached to bearings on the crankshaft. A hollow steel shaft drove each of the two screws at a maximum 75 rpm. There w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5817501 | 542,710 |
353,933 | As demands for safety and mobility have grown and technological possibilities have multiplied, interest in automation has grown. Seeking to accelerate the development and introduction of fully automated vehicles and highways, the U.S. Congress authorized more than $650 million over six years for intelligent transport s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=173354 | 353,750 |
1,105,801 | In December 1992,five months after the 1992 Summer Olympics, the IOC publicly released the first part of documents related to applicant cities for the 2000 Summer Olympics. And of the 7 applicants,6 were clarifying that the Paralympic Games were included in their proposals. Of these 6, all would organize and finance th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=333674 | 1,105,238 |
1,392,585 | The principal method for synthesizing the starting amino alcohols is through the addition of cyanide anion to a cyclic ketone. The resulting hydroxynitrile is then reduced, forming the desired amino alcohol. This method forms diastereomers, possibly affecting the regioselectivity of the reaction. For nearly all asymmet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4109643 | 1,391,814 |
571,413 | A greater understanding of human cognition and behaviour has led to the integration of biological and social sciences: Neuromarketing, a recent method utilized to understand consumers. The concept of neuromarketing combines marketing, psychology and neuroscience. Research is conducted around the implicit motivations to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2663218 | 571,122 |
2,058,331 | Humaid Al-Derei was 21 years old at the time of the Games. He was making his Olympic debut and was the second Emirati Olympic judoka. Al-Derei received a wild card entry to the London Summer Olympics by participating in the 2011 World Judo Championships in Paris, but this was upgraded to a direct entry through earning ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34456801 | 2,057,146 |
296,468 | The spin from standard rifling decreases the performance of these rounds (rifling diverts some of the linear kinetic energy to rotational kinetic energy, thus decreasing the round's velocity and impact energy), and very high rotation on a fin-stabilized projectile can dramatically increase aerodynamic drag, further red... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8458792 | 296,308 |
1,941,498 | As a professor at Washington State University (WSU), Bose began conducting nanoscale bone implant material research with the goal of better adapting implants to body tissue. As a result of her “innovative and multidisciplinary research on bioactive bone implants," she was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62891616 | 1,940,387 |
1,722,839 | Dallas initiated the Dallas Comprehensive Environmental and Climate Action Plan on May 27, 2020 with the goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 43% by 2030 and be carbon neutral by 2050. The plan outlines eight focus areas to reach its goals: renewable energy, energy efficient building construction, access to susta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67018346 | 1,721,869 |
2,133,735 | Troppo Architects was founded in 1980 by Harris and Welke, whose early careers had taken them to Darwin. The practice commenced with the aid of an NT Government history grant to research (and eventually define and publicise) the History of Tropical Housing in Australia's Top End. The practice had a slow start, but gain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15271580 | 2,132,510 |
102,644 | A minimum viable product has just enough core features to effectively deploy the product, and no more. Developers typically deploy the product to a subset of possible customers, such as early adopters who are thought to be more forgiving, more likely to give feedback, and able to grasp a product vision from an early pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23853677 | 102,599 |
513,611 | There is much uncertainty and confusion in the classification of the many of species of this genus. Particularly, one extreme view of diversity recognises just two main species in Northern and Central Europe, the common whitefish "C. lavaretus" and the vendace "C. albula", whereas others would divide these into numerou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33282 | 513,345 |
2,093,422 | Barber's research was focused on the "staphylococcus" bacterium as well as various aspects of antibiotics, especially development of penicillin-resistant bacteria. Her first scientific paper was published in 1937 and concerned meningitis caused by the Listeria bacterium. In 1947, she published her best-known work, on p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37627534 | 2,092,217 |
139,105 | Starting in the 1960s new solid-state devices capable of delaying the transmitter signal in a controlled way were introduced. That led to the first practical large-scale passive electronically scanned array (PESA), or simply phased array radar. PESAs took a signal from a single source, split it into hundreds of paths, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=839259 | 139,049 |
1,329,651 | The effects of REM sleep deprivation (RSD) on neurotrophic factors, specifically nerve growth factor (NGF) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), were assessed in 2000 by Sie et al. Neurotrophins are proteins found in the brain and periphery that aid in the survival, functioning and generation of neurons; this i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26685741 | 1,328,922 |
640,260 | Predators of waders breeding in wet grasslands include birds such as large gulls, common raven, carrion and hooded crows, and great and Arctic skuas; foxes occasionally take waders, and the impact of feral cats and stoats is unknown. Overgrazing can increase predation by making nests easier to find. In captivity, the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=350073 | 639,921 |
1,396,250 | A major challenge facing the intestinal transplant enterprise is meeting the need for transplantable intestines, particularly in the United States where the majority of intestinal transplants take place. There exists a narrow timeslot between procurement and transplantation that any organ remains viable, and logistical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46300441 | 1,395,479 |
1,678,905 | Esau worked at the University of California, Davis and eventually became a full professor of botany. While teaching, she continued her research on viruses and specifically phloem, the food conducting tissue in plants. In the 1950s, she collaborated with botanist Vernon Cheadle on more phloem research. Her treatise "The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2164542 | 1,677,962 |
1,936,007 | Nancy Johnson grew up in Downers Grove, Illinois, and was introduced to shooting at a young age. Her desire for shooting came from hunting deer with her father Ben Napolski. At age 15 she was initially interested in archery, but there were no establishments that supported it, so she joined the rifle club three blocks f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15202769 | 1,934,899 |
868,469 | Claims for priority of invention are difficult to resolve due to subsequent historic interpretations, secrecy, espionage, and international commercial interest. Shaped-charge warheads were promoted internationally by the Swiss inventor Henry Mohaupt, who exhibited the weapon before World War II. Before 1939, Mohaupt de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=79266 | 868,009 |
1,819,868 | An Algorithmic complexity Attack (ACA) is a form of attack in which the system is attacked by an exhaustion resource to take advantage of worst-case performance. Worst-case performance through a back-end algorithm results in the exhaustion of the server, this creates algorithmic complexity vulnerabilities. According t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27733786 | 1,818,833 |
1,375,272 | Argo is an international program that uses profiling floats to observe temperature, salinity, currents, and, recently, bio-optical properties in the Earth's oceans; it has been operational since the early 2000s. The real-time data it provides is used in climate and oceanographic research. A special research interest is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1245135 | 1,374,513 |
984,133 | As first reported by "Wired" on October 17, 2007, an interesting application of using PlayStation 3 in a cluster configuration was implemented by Astrophysicist Gaurav Khanna, from the Physics department of University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, who replaced time used on supercomputers with a cluster of eight PlayStati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=803950 | 983,619 |
1,168,059 | "Sculpin" arrived at Pearl Harbor on 8 January 1943, and sailed east to San Francisco, California, spending three months in overhaul at Mare Island. Returning to Pearl Harbor on 9 May, she departed Hawaii for her seventh war patrol on 24 May and operated off the northwest coast of Honshū. Around midnight on 9 June, thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=440487 | 1,167,441 |
101,122 | "Warframe"s third open-world update was announced via the game's official YouTube channel on July 20, 2020 and was released on August 25, 2020 for PC, PS4, and Xbox One, and on August 27, 2020 for Nintendo Switch. It is the game's first expansion to receive a simultaneous release across multiple platforms. The update a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38333096 | 101,077 |
169,890 | The class of boats had numerous crew comforts including air conditioning, refrigerated storage for food, generous freshwater distilling units, clothes washers, and bunks for nearly every crew member; these were luxuries virtually unheard of in other navies. The bureau designers felt that if a crew of 60–80 men were to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=170579 | 169,800 |
226,510 | The leading producers of "S. bicolor" in 2022 were Nigeria (12%), USA (10%), Sudan (8%), and Mexico (8%). It is also successfully cultivated in Europe: The most important producer in terms of cultivated area is France, followed by Italy, Spain and some south-eastern European countries with cultivation areas of several ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6647231 | 226,394 |
711,665 | Severe vitamin B deficiency in the diet causes the disease pellagra, characterized by diarrhea, sun-sensitive dermatitis involving hyperpigmentation and thickening of the skin (see image), inflammation of the mouth and tongue, delirium, dementia, and if left untreated, death. Common psychiatric symptoms include irritab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53735803 | 711,293 |
186,799 | About 35-50% of humans possess "C. albicans" as part of their normal oral microbiota. With more sensitive detection techniques, this figure is reported to rise to 90%. This candidal carrier state is not considered a disease, since there are no lesions or symptoms of any kind. Oral carriage of "Candida" is pre-requisite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=878898 | 186,702 |
2,181,437 | Nevertheless, the STEP portfolio has become more diversified, with projects on the economics of K-12 education reform, impact of technology on jobs and wages, supply of IT workers, quality of innovation-related statistics, functioning of the patent system, impact of intellectual property on research, shifts in the fede... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12911652 | 2,180,191 |
89,153 | In 1817, three presidents (Jefferson, James Monroe, and James Madison) and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court John Marshall joined 24 other dignitaries at a meeting held in the Mountain Top Tavern at Rockfish Gap. After some deliberation, they selected nearby Charlottesville as the site of the new Univers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59801 | 89,116 |
788,025 | Some specific symptoms vary from one type of leukodystrophy to the next, but the vast majority of symptoms are shared as the causes for the disease generally have the same effects. Symptoms are dependent on the age of onset, which is predominantly in infancy and early childhood, although the exact time of onset may be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1997086 | 787,601 |
49,125 | In the storyline "Point of Origin", the Fantastic Four entrust Alicia, H.E.R.B.I.E., Franklin and Valeria to protect Earth while they begin their mission to learn a further origin of the cosmic radiation that granted them their powers in the first place, piloting a new space ship called Marvel-2. While in the middle of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11664 | 49,105 |
1,885,024 | The idea to create a Pacific version of ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) was first discussed by scientists from Canada, Japan, the Soviet Union, and the United States who were attending a conference, sponsored by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, in Vancouver, British Colu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43692331 | 1,883,943 |
1,953,911 | Computational methods such as QTAIM (Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules) and EDA-NOCV (Energy Decomposition Analysis- Natural Orbitals of Chemical Valence) analyses as well as simple electron counting support a complex that abides by the 18-electron rule. As depicted in the molecular orbital diagram above, the comput... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69229528 | 1,952,790 |
508,465 | Aluminium was widely used in the speaker industry due to its low cost, ease of bonding, and structural strength. When higher power amplifiers emerged, especially in professional sound, the limitations of aluminium were exposed. It rather efficiently but inconveniently transfers heat from the voice coil into the adhesiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1273734 | 508,201 |
741,779 | On 18 December 2020—early on in the risk assessment of the variant—the UK scientific advisory body New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) concluded that they had moderate confidence that VOC-202012/01 was substantially more transmissible than other variants, but that there were insufficient... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66147797 | 741,387 |
244,267 | In the fall of 2000, lawyer Robert Bilott, a partner at Taft Stettinius & Hollister, won a court order forcing DuPont to share all documentation related to PFOA. This included 110,000 files, consisting of confidential studies and reports conducted by DuPont scientists over decades. By 1993, DuPont understood that "PFOA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=824692 | 244,140 |
90,928 | On a motorcycle, an anti-lock brake system prevents the wheels of a powered two wheeler from locking during braking situations. Based on information from wheel speed sensors the ABS unit adjusts the pressure of the brake fluid in order to keep traction during deceleration to avoid accidents. Motorcycle ABS helps the ri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59587 | 90,888 |
1,084,456 | Zanno and colleagues stated in 2016 that therizinosaurs were generally accepted to fall within the spectrum of omnivory and herbivory, with a trend towards intensified herbivory. While various anatomical features have been used to support this idea, tooth morphology had been considered relatively simplistic and with fe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=636977 | 1,083,899 |
1,738,965 | In 1877 an English physiologist Edward Schäfer described the absence of connections between the nerve elements in the mantles of the jellyfish. The Norwegian zoologist Fridtjof Nansen also reported in 1887 that he found no connections between the processes of the ganglion cells of aquatic animals in his doctoral resear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40329294 | 1,737,988 |
369,680 | Hardware virtualization can be viewed as part of an overall trend in enterprise IT that includes autonomic computing, a scenario in which the IT environment will be able to manage itself based on perceived activity, and utility computing, in which computer processing power is seen as a utility that clients can pay for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18311356 | 369,487 |
595,844 | Israel has offered virtually universal access to its universities and academic colleges since the wave of Jewish immigration from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s prompted the establishment of numerous tertiary institutions to absorb the additional demand. However, the Arab and ultra-orthodox minorities still atten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=397525 | 595,539 |
69,612 | Radiation from quasars is partially "nonthermal" (i.e., not due to black-body radiation), and approximately 10% are observed to also have jets and lobes like those of radio galaxies that also carry significant (but poorly understood) amounts of energy in the form of particles moving at relativistic speeds. Extremely hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25239 | 69,585 |
139,319 | In the early 1980s, General Motors tasked its Delco Electronics division with a project aimed at replacing an automobile's non-essential functions (i.e. other than throttle, transmission, braking, and steering) from mechanical or electro-mechanical systems with solid state alternatives wherever possible. The finished d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=667206 | 139,262 |
1,472,874 | Exercise-related factors generally affect athletes who participate in sports that require intensive training and a low body weight, causing a net energy deficiency. FHA due to excessive exercise has been defined as an at least 6-month absence of menses in otherwise healthy females lacking chronic severe illness who exe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15738568 | 1,472,044 |
665,951 | The role of the hippocampus in learning and memory has been studied for many decades particularly since the late 1950s, following the results of surgery, in an American male, to remove most of the hippocampus. It remains unclear how the hippocampus enables new memory formation, but one process, called long term potenti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=372271 | 665,603 |
1,407,723 | There are some cases in which women's education has less of an effect on development. Economically, the benefits of investing in women are much smaller in areas facing high levels of poverty. Also, in some cases the education women receive is of much lower quality than what men receive, lowering its effectiveness. This... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40860039 | 1,406,933 |
1,726,492 | As early as 10,000 years ago, the Tahltan First Nations people, who now live in Dease Lake, Telegraph Creek and the Iskut, used obsidian from the Mount Edziza volcanic complex to make tools and weapons for trading material. Most of the obsidian occurs at relatively high elevations at about . This is the main source of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19294556 | 1,725,521 |
1,802,594 | Outside of the context of development, in adult mice ablation of Sp7 led to a lack of new bone formation, highly irregular cartilage accumulation beneath the growth plate and defects in osteocyte maturation and functionality. Other studies observed that a conditional knockout of Sp7 in adult mice osteoblasts resulted i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15183374 | 1,801,581 |
745,812 | In 2010, a team from New York described detection of PrP even when initially present at only one part in a hundred billion (10) in brain tissue. The method combines amplification with a novel technology called Surround Optical Fiber Immunoassay (SOFIA) and some specific antibodies against PrP. After amplifying and then... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=235248 | 745,418 |
2,220,737 | As a general definition, paradata are usage data about learning resources that include not just quantitative metrics (e.g., how many times a piece of content was accessed), but also pedagogic context, as inferred through the actions of educators and learners. Paradata may be operationalized as a specific type of metada... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33835479 | 2,219,475 |
330,848 | However, due to legal disputes with former writer Ken Penders, Archie Comics eventually cancelled the comic and ended their partnership with Sega. Sega later announced a partnership with IDW Publishing, intending to launch a brand new comic book, separate from the Archie comic. The IDW comic is depicted taking place af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16350481 | 330,671 |
1,962,429 | Sargon II ruled the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 722 to 705 BC as one of its most successful kings. In his final military campaign, Sargon was killed in battle in the south-eastern Anatolian region Tabal and the Assyrian army was unable to retrieve his body, which meant that he could not undergo the traditional royal Assyr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70245846 | 1,961,301 |
1,835,042 | Werner Hartmann (30 January 1912 – 8 March 1988) was a German physicist who introduced microelectronics into East Germany. He studied physics at the "Technische Hochschule Berlin" and worked at Siemens before joining "Fernseh GmbH". At the end of World War II, he and his research staff were flown to the Soviet Union to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15281946 | 1,833,993 |
310,577 | Systems as complicated as computers require very high reliability. ENIAC remained on, in continuous operation from 1947 to 1955, for eight years before being shut down. Although a vacuum tube might fail, it would be replaced without bringing down the system. By the simple strategy of never shutting down ENIAC, the fail... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13636 | 310,409 |
1,105,419 | The fundamental phenomenon underlying XANES is the absorption of an x-ray photon by condensed matter with the formation of many body excited states characterized by a core hole in a selected atomic core level (refer to the first Figure). In the single-particle theory approximation, the system is separated into one elec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4842312 | 1,104,856 |
1,066,359 | In 1580, Brahe created the Great Globe, a hollow, wooden sphere layered with brass plates to document the stars and planets he observed. By the year 1595, over 1,000 stars had been etched onto the globe; 777 of these were placed over the majority of Brahe's time at Uraniborg, and the last 223 just before he left. He an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=243449 | 1,065,805 |
2,074,931 | Pavel Pototsky was born in 1879 in St. Petersburg to a noble family. His father, Nikolai Pototsky, was a general and taught at the Mikhailovsky Military Academy in St. Petersburg. He appoints his son Paul to military service - he sends him to the Pajes Corps. But the young Paul wanted to be an engineer. Pavel Pototsky ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66794242 | 2,073,734 |
771,143 | About 21 million people were infected with this parasite in 2017; about 1.2 million of those had vision loss. As of 2017, about 99% of onchocerciasis cases occurred in Africa. Onchocerciasis is currently relatively common in 31 African countries, Yemen, and isolated regions of South America. Over 85 million people live... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276846 | 770,729 |
819,357 | An emergency in the port-side reactor took place on 24 May 1968 in the Barents Sea during trials of submerged K-27 at full speed (AR-1 automatic control rod raised up spontaneously and the reactor power decreased from 83% to 7% during 60–90 sec). The responsible officers informed the command before trials that port-sid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=527929 | 818,916 |
69,585 | British-Australian astronomer John Bolton made many early observations of quasars, including a breakthrough in 1962. Another radio source, 3C 273, was predicted to undergo five occultations by the Moon. Measurements taken by Cyril Hazard and John Bolton during one of the occultations using the Parkes Radio Telescope al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25239 | 69,558 |
197,694 | Despite the increase in tank numbers, in all countries financial constraints prohibited a full mechanisation of the entire armed ground forces. Necessarily, most of the divisions still consisted of infantry that was not even motorised. As a result, tanks tended to be allotted to special armoured units, where the limite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1559537 | 197,592 |
1,996,375 | Trade secrets are a type of intellectual property that consists of certain information, expertise or knowhow that has been developed or acquired by firms. This knowledge frequently gives firms their competitive edge in the market and it has to be kept as a secret. In Canada any information that a firm or its employees ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33783783 | 1,995,232 |
1,277,970 | NHK announced a seven-episode live-action television drama adaptation on March 30, 2009, produced in cooperation with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the country's national aerospace agency. Sixteen-year-old actress Nanami Sakuraba was cast for the role of Asumi Kamogawa, and filming for the series began on Apr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4551091 | 1,277,277 |
1,138,040 | Point cloud mapping is a process being developed by Michael Taylor using optical parallax scanning technology whereby thousands of measurements are made around the trunk of a tree. These can be used to recreate a three-dimensional model of the trunk and volume data is among the values that can be calculated. There are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39007810 | 1,137,447 |
608,059 | It had been expected that the introduction of current account convertibility and foreign trade liberalization would force a currency devaluation that would support export-led growth. However, when prices were de-controlled enterprises and retailers raised their prices to match those prevailing in the black market or to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1489819 | 607,748 |
1,540,921 | We provide a few examples of the utility of the Redheffer matrices interpreted as a (0,1) matrix whose parity corresponds to inclusion in an increasing sequence of index sets. These examples should serve to freshen up some of the at times dated historical perspective of these matrices, and their being footnote-worthy b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22113019 | 1,540,048 |
2,113,669 | X-ray mammography is widely spread for breast screening, thanks to its high spatial resolution and the short measurement time. However, it is not sensitive to the breast physiology, it is characterized by a limited efficiency in investigating dense breasts and it is harmful due to the use of ionizing radiation. Ultraso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64345807 | 2,112,454 |
90,299 | Dry ice and silver iodide agents are effective in changing the physical chemistry of super-cooled clouds, thus useful in augmentation of winter snowfall over mountains and under certain conditions, in lightning and hail suppression. While not a new technique, hygroscopic seeding for enhancement of rainfall in warm clou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=449660 | 90,259 |
318,087 | The Monaco Grand Prix was the only Grand Prix in 1984 to be run in wet conditions. Qualifying saw Briton Martin Brundle crashing his Tyrrell at the Tabac corner, as his car overturned and landed on its left side. Brundle was uninjured, and took the spare car to qualify. In the race day, the circuit was flooded by rain,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1140073 | 317,917 |
108,729 | Kurzweil attended Martin Van Buren High School. During class, he often held onto his class textbooks to seemingly participate, but instead, focused on his own projects which were hidden behind the book. His uncle, an engineer at Bell Labs, taught young Kurzweil the basics of computer science. In 1963, at age 15, he wro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25984 | 108,684 |
1,112,140 | In 1669, the Kangxi Emperor managed to take power by having the remaining (corrupt) regent, Oboi, arrested. In the same year, the emperor was informed that serious errors had been found in the calendar for 1670, which had been drawn up by Yang Guangxian. Kangxi commanded a public test to compare the merits of European ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1716078 | 1,111,574 |
1,530,815 | The Geary County Campus (GCC) is located in Junction City. Hosting primarily a non-traditional and diverse student population, the campus offers several career and transfer programs. Since the college is near Fort Riley, it serves military veterans, active duty military members, and their families. With a variety of da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7323788 | 1,529,949 |
61,937 | During the 1830s, Danish naturalist Peter Wilhelm Lund and his assistants collected fossils in the calcareous caves near the small town of Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Among the thousands of fossils found, he recognized a few isolated cheek teeth as belonging to a hyena, which he named "Hyaena neogaea" in 1839. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=169071 | 61,912 |
69,546 | "Neuromancer" was commissioned by Terry Carr for the second series of Ace Science Fiction Specials, which was intended to feature debut novels exclusively. Given a year to complete the work, Gibson undertook the actual writing out of "blind animal panic" at the obligation to write an entire novel—a feat which he felt h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21725 | 69,519 |
653,981 | The right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) is involved in the processing of information in terms of the ability of an individual to orient attention to new stimuli. Evidence from neuroimaging studies as well as lesion studies revealed that the rTPJ plays a pivotal role in analyzing signals from self-produced actions as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14158261 | 653,637 |
265,668 | Aqueous minerals can also form in the subsurface by hydrothermal fluids migrating through pores and fissures. The heat source driving a hydrothermal system may be nearby magma bodies or residual heat from large impacts. One important type of hydrothermal alteration in the Earth's oceanic crust is serpentinization, whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21857752 | 265,524 |
1,032,779 | Vickers-Armstrong submitted the Mk VIII design to the War Office in September 1941, and in that same month the Tank Board of the War Office ordered 1,000 tanks, increased in November to 2,410. The Board hoped that production could commence in June 1942 at a rate of approximately 100 per month, to be produced by Metro-C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4601125 | 1,032,243 |
1,129,369 | The university is well established in different fields of research, especially when it comes to aeronautical engineering (e.g. participation in the GALILEO satellite program and development of different parts of space probes), computer-driven cars and information security. Bundeswehr University has the largest aviation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13695991 | 1,128,791 |
1,779,308 | The post-Cold War period saw two major developments as far as UDA is concerned. The first is the shift in the underwater security activities (that has been the major driver for technology development) towards the littoral waters more popularly called littoral anti-submarine warfare (ASW). The second is the less aggress... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60878831 | 1,778,305 |
386,338 | After the mainstream success of the genre, stealth elements became increasingly incorporated into a wide range of video games, with numerous action games using stealth elements in some way or another. In 2002, the first installment of the Tom Clancy licensed "Splinter Cell" series was released, which attempted to add m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=245390 | 386,143 |
100,697 | The European Union and Germany classify synthetic vitreous fibers as possibly or probably carcinogenic, but fibers can be exempt from this classification if they pass specific tests. Evidence for these classifications is primarily from studies on experimental animals and mechanisms of carcinogenesis. The glass wool epi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174431 | 100,652 |
1,778,293 | The Cirque and Tarn (lake) were two of the heads of smaller outwashes through the Allegheny Plateau. Some of these backed waters cut through, leaving higher flatland or terraces among ridge tops above the major river bottoms from which runoff sheds. Higher in the state is Cranberry Glades which lay between Mountain rid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17254851 | 1,777,291 |
4,904 | Upon winning the contract for the F-14, Grumman greatly expanded its Calverton, Long Island, New York facility for evaluating the aircraft. Much of the testing, including the first of many compressor stalls and multiple ejections, took place over Long Island Sound. To save time and avoid cancellation by the new preside... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11719 | 4,902 |
1,763,137 | The TLS facility interrogates the transponders of all aircraft within . After receiving a response, TLS determines the aircraft's location using three sets of antenna arrays: one for horizontal position using monopulse techniques, the other for vertical monopulse and a third for trilateration. TLS then calculates the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3466305 | 1,762,144 |
773,756 | Reuben Fine, writing in 1976, observed that Botvinnik was at or near the top of the chess world for thirty years—from 1933, when he drew a match against Flohr, to 1963, when he lost the world championship for the final time, to Petrosian—"a feat equaled historically only by Emanuel Lasker and Wilhelm Steinitz". The sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242416 | 773,340 |
1,084,447 | By the early 21st century, many more therizinosaur taxa had been discovered—including some outside Asia—the first being "Nothronychus" from North America in 2001. Basal taxa that helped illuminate the early evolution of the group, such as "Falcarius" in 2005, had also been discovered. Therizinosaurs were no longer cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=636977 | 1,083,890 |
1,774,267 | The increasing demand led to the formation of seven schools within Penn State. The Second Morrill Act (1890) gave each land-grant institution $15,000, which increased at a rate of $1,000 per year (to a maximum of $25,000), to be invested in instruction in agriculture, mechanic arts, etc. with “specific reference to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31430357 | 1,773,270 |
1,026,878 | The premiere was quickly followed by several other recital performances of the piece in various New York cities, where critical reception was mixed; some reviewers described the piece as immature and lacking in substance, although they acknowledged her skillful use of contrapuntal movement and affective principal theme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=410203 | 1,026,344 |
656,593 | The Jackrabbits were an NCAA Division II program in the North Central Conference until moving to the Football Championship Subdivision in 2004. The current head coach is John Stiegelmeier. In March 2007, SDSU initially began their Division I FCS era by being a charter member of the now-defunct Great West Football Confe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13335222 | 656,249 |
32,329 | Chandrayaan-1 was India's first mission to the Moon. The robotic lunar exploration mission included a lunar orbiter and an impactor called the Moon Impact Probe. ISRO launched it using a modified version of the PSLV on 22 October 2008 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre. It entered lunar orbit on 8 November 2008, carrying ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1019722 | 32,317 |
246,059 | Nuclear medicine encompasses both diagnostic imaging and treatment of disease, and may also be referred to as molecular medicine or molecular imaging and therapeutics. Nuclear medicine uses certain properties of isotopes and the energetic particles emitted from radioactive material to diagnose or treat various patholog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234714 | 245,932 |
576,856 | Protons may also be used in radiosurgery in a procedure called Proton Beam Therapy (PBT) or proton therapy. Protons are extracted from proton donor materials by a medical synchrotron or cyclotron, and accelerated in successive transits through a circular, evacuated conduit or cavity, using powerful magnets to shape the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1172094 | 576,560 |
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