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539,028 | A law passed by the Congress of the United States, under the pressure from cellular telephone interests, prohibited scanners sold after a certain date from receiving frequencies allocated to the Cellular Radio Service. The law was later amended to make it illegal to modify radios to receive those frequencies, and also ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1035562 | 538,749 |
384,161 | At a hearing in Washington D.C. on 28 July 2015, and a press release on the same day the NTSB cited inadequate design safeguards, poor pilot training, lack of rigorous FAA oversight and a potentially anxious co-pilot without recent flight experience as important factors in the 2014 crash. They determined that the co-pi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1021879 | 383,966 |
311,365 | Once the initial scrap charge has been melted down, another bucket of scrap can be charged into the furnace, although EAF development is moving towards single-charge designs. The scrap-charging and meltdown process can be repeated as many times as necessary to reach the required heat weight - the number of charges is d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1425422 | 311,197 |
1,134,759 | Prior to the development of the current Earth Observing System, the foundations for this program were laid in the early 1960s and 1970s. TIROS-1, the very first full scale, low orbit weather satellite. The primary objective of TIROS-1 was to explore television infrared observation as a method of monitoring and studying... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=471278 | 1,134,166 |
1,254,341 | From 1946 to 1948, Lattes launched on his main research line by studying cosmic rays. He travelled to England arriving in February 1946, to join his teacher Occhialini who had arrived the previous year, to work in the group directed by Cecil Powell at the H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory of the University of Bristol. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1586190 | 1,253,660 |
1,725,905 | Based on current evidence, the term of "endothelium-derived hyperpolarising factor" should represent a mechanism rather than a specific factor. The mechanism(s) of endothelium-dependent hyperpolarization (i.e., EDHF-mediated relaxation) seems to be heterogeneous depending on several factors (e.g., size and vascular bed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3225221 | 1,724,934 |
1,491,363 | Davison attended an academically challenging junior high school in New Jersey and became especially interested in science. In 1940, aged 15, she was granted a scholarship to study in an advanced placement program at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools where she finished high school and the first two years of c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1532097 | 1,490,524 |
820,720 | In May 2009, DTN was deployed to a payload on board the ISS. NASA and BioServe Space Technologies, a research group at the University of Colorado, have been continuously testing DTN on two Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (CGBA) payloads. CGBA-4 and CGBA-5 serve as computational and communications platforms w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1391825 | 820,279 |
312,123 | The 5-inch HARP guns were based on a modified 120 mm T123 service gun and used by the Ballistic Research Laboratory before the HARP program in order to fulfill the needs of the U.S. military's Meteorological Rocket Network, a program dedicated to collecting atmospheric wind and temperature data. They were designed to c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292089 | 311,955 |
1,248,627 | In 1962, Paul Harrington introduced a metal spinal system of instrumentation that assisted with straightening the spine, as well as holding it rigid while fusion took place. The original (now obsolete) Harrington rod operated on a ratchet system, attached by hooks to the spine at the top and bottom of the curvature tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51305509 | 1,247,951 |
2,630 | Additional modernization and enhancements are under development, with funding currently extending to 2031; upgrades currently being tested include new sensors and antennas, long range advanced infrared search and track (AIRST), and more durable stealth coatings. Other enhancements being developed include all-aspect IRS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66299 | 2,630 |
2,091,017 | Studies from India have identified a riboflavin carrier protein (RCP) present in bird (e.g., chicken) eggs, which is considered to be specific for riboflavin, and is essential for normal embryological development. If this protein is rendered ineffective (e.g., by immuno-neutralization) by treatment of the bird with a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6851731 | 2,089,814 |
1,744,994 | Remediation may occur through the creation of a national standardized data base where local governments and companies can report the quantity and chemical concentration of the road salts that are released for de-icing purposes. This would help regulate and monitor the ions being released into the environment so nearby ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63996171 | 1,744,010 |
45,586 | Layer silicates, such as the clay minerals and the micas, are very common, and often are formed by horizontal cross-linking of metasilicate chains or planar condensation of smaller units. An example is kaolinite []; in many of these minerals cation and anion replacement is common, so that for example tetrahedral Si may... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27114 | 45,568 |
1,613,555 | The inaugural Android Developer Day took place at Middle East Technical University's Cultural and Convention Center in Ankara, Turkey, as an extension of a similar event, Google Developer Day. The first ADD began on May 21, 2012 and ended the following day after approximately 30 presentations between two simultaneous s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39675788 | 1,612,650 |
116,207 | As is a very reactive alkaline earth metal and a so-called "bone seeker" that accumulates in bone-tissue due to its chemical similarity to calcium (once in the bones it can significantly damage the bone marrow, a rapidly dividing tissue), it is usually not employed in pure form in RTGs. The most common form is the pero... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211485 | 116,162 |
1,170,938 | Despite his Quaker upbringing, Hodgkin was eager to join the war effort as contact with the Nazis during his stay in Germany in 1932 had removed all his pacifist beliefs. His first post was at the Royal Aircraft Establishment where he worked on issues in Aviation Medicine, such as oxygen supply for pilots at high altit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=353862 | 1,170,319 |
483,753 | Flight Day 9 began on 9 December 1993, but concerns about one of HST's four onboard Data Interface Units (DIUs) delayed release. Each of the DIUs transfer data between the HST's main computer, solar arrays and other critical systems. A failure on Side A of DIU #2 experienced erratic current fluctuations and some data d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=504305 | 483,506 |
2,000,374 | To address the fundamental problem of scarcity of supply of organs, Tayur has collaborated with the New Jersey Sharing Network and Nevada Donor Network, among other organ procurement organizations (OPOs), to investigate behavioral approaches that will increase the consent rate from legal next of kin (NOK) of deceased i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36021710 | 1,999,229 |
354,672 | Webber replaced the Toyota-bound Ralf Schumacher at Williams, and was joined by Nick Heidfeld for most of the season and Pizzonia for the final five races following injury to Heidfeld. The Williams FW27 car was aerodynamically poor due to incorrectly calibrated wind tunnels, lacked race speed and was poor starting, see... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564161 | 354,489 |
8,215 | Following the Army Alpha and Army Beta tests, which was developed by psychologist Robert Yerkes in 1917 and then used in World War 1 by industrial and organizational psychologists for large-scale employee testing and selection of military personnel. Mental testing also became popular in the U.S., where it was applied t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22921 | 8,212 |
792,431 | All types of van der Waals forces are also strongly environment-dependent because these forces originate from interactions of induced and "instantaneous" dipoles (see Intermolecular force). The original Fritz London theory of these forces applies only in a vacuum. A more general theory of van der Waals forces in conden... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2916615 | 792,006 |
4,250 | To make the B-2 more effective than previous bombers, many advanced and modern avionics systems were integrated into its design; these have been modified and improved following a switch to conventional warfare missions. One system is the low probability of intercept AN/APQ-181 multi-mode radar, a fully digital navigati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4396 | 4,248 |
1,364,959 | Remek (then a Captain) joined the Interkosmos program in 1976; his backup was Oldřich Pelčák, the other Czechoslovak cosmonaut selected to participate with the program. During the flight, Remek experimented with the Kristall furnace on board the capsule. The mission, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the Soviet-b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=626707 | 1,364,203 |
914,970 | Typically found in young children and is the most common cause at this age. Generally occurs after a viral infection of adenovirus (types 3, 7, and 21), measles (rubeola), mycoplasma, CMV, influenza, and parainfluenza. Swyer-James syndrome is a rare complication of bronchiolitis obliterans caused by measles or adenovir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3935481 | 914,489 |
10,162 | MIT's involvement in military science surged during World War II. In 1941, Vannevar Bush was appointed head of the federal Office of Scientific Research and Development and directed funding to only a select group of universities, including MIT. Engineers and scientists from across the country gathered at MIT's Radiatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18879 | 10,158 |
1,025,066 | Google had announced plans to demonstrate quantum supremacy before the end of 2017 with an array of 49 superconducting qubits. In early January 2018, Intel announced a similar hardware program. In October 2017, IBM demonstrated the simulation of 56 qubits on a classical supercomputer, thereby increasing the computation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54452801 | 1,024,533 |
1,355,085 | Inspired by his work as an EV1 propulsion system engineer, Jeff Ronning began developing concepts for plug-in hybrids in the mid-1990s at then Delco Remy, Division of GM. EV1 prototypes were sometimes attached with "range-extender" trailers, developed by Alan Cocconi of AC Propulsion. These trailers were simply rolling... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11443610 | 1,354,337 |
1,782,196 | The Phlebovirus replicates in a 7 step process. First, the cellular attachment is driven through the glycoprotein interactions with host cells. Examples of this are Dendritic Cell-Specific Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-3-Grabbing Non-Integrin (DC-SIGN), heparan sulfate (HS), or Non-Muscle Myosin Heavy Chain (NMMHC-II... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4321583 | 1,781,192 |
814,967 | On the ninth and final day of action in the track and field stadium, Matthew Centrowitz Jr. secured a tactical win in the men's 1500 m while Caster Semenya used her sheer speed to win the women's 800 m. Behind her Francine Niyonsaba won only the second ever medal for Burundi at the Olympics. In the women's high jump, R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36721624 | 814,533 |
124,534 | Modern New Age and Neopagan approaches to ogham largely derive from the now-discredited theories of Robert Graves in his book "The White Goddess". In this work, Graves took his inspiration from the theories of the ogham scholar R. A. S. Macalister (see above) and elaborated on them much further. Graves proposed that th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=797150 | 124,483 |
884,034 | Proteins are an essential component to many biological functions and participate in virtually all processes within biological cells. They often act as enzymes, performing biochemical reactions including cell signaling, molecular transportation, and cellular regulation. As structural elements, some proteins act as a typ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=413102 | 883,570 |
325,374 | "Dreadnought" was the sixth ship of the RN to bear the name "Dreadnought", which means "fear nothing". To meet Admiral Fisher's goal of building the ship in a single year, material was stockpiled in advance and a great deal of prefabrication was done from May 1905 onwards with approximately 6,000 man weeks of work expe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=717448 | 325,201 |
1,888,865 | In July 1999, Jacoby was assigned as director for intelligence (J2) on the Joint Staff. His tenure began with leading the intelligence lessons learned effort to examine the operations in the Balkans and Kosovo. Operations Northern and Southern Watch continued to enforce No-Fly Zones and sanctions against Iraq. In addit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24098384 | 1,887,782 |
1,718,144 | Sociodemographic factors include, but are not limited to: patterns of human migration and travel, effectiveness of public health and medical infrastructure in controlling and treating disease, the extent of anti-malarial drug resistance and the underlying health status of the population at hand. Environmental factors i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63453251 | 1,717,174 |
1,317,542 | The aimed rover's design lifetime is 50 days. Given the extreme environmental conditions at the surface of Venus, all previous landers and atmospheric probes operated for a few hours at most, so the Glenn Research Center team plans to use materials and electronics developed to withstand not just the extreme pressure, c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59470764 | 1,316,817 |
168,303 | The campaign to eradicate dracunculiasis began at the urging of the CDC in 1980. Following smallpox eradication (last case in 1977; eradication certified in 1981), dracunculiasis was considered an achievable eradication target since it was relatively uncommon and preventable with only behavioral changes. In 1981, the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1041031 | 168,213 |
514,060 | The TPS was housed in an old weather-beaten wooden hangar along the flight line of what became known as South Base. Although the quarters were spartan, the weather was superb with only two flying days lost due to weather in the first seven months of operation. Taking advantage of the calm morning air, students started ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=610257 | 513,794 |
1,242,269 | In 1941, Groom Mine was visited by individuals who stayed at the mine with the Sheahan family while surveying the area for a gunnery and bombing range to be used during World War II. The outhouse and bunkhouse at the mine were accidentally strafed during the war by aircraft using the Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56836491 | 1,241,597 |
736,294 | When George Westinghouse became interested in electricity, he quickly and correctly concluded that Edison's low voltages were too inefficient to be scaled up for transmission needed for large systems. He further understood that long-distance transmission needed high voltage and that inexpensive conversion technology on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18179220 | 735,906 |
1,520,710 | In his report of finding of a new type of scattering, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman proposed that a similar effect should be found also in the X-ray regime. Around the same time, Bergen Davis and Dana Mitchell reported in 1928 on the fine-structure of the scattered radiation from graphite and noted that they had lin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18383939 | 1,519,849 |
1,951,325 | Dr. Michael Skinner is a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Washington State University. He did his B.S. in chemistry at Reed College in Portland Oregon, his Ph.D. in biochemistry / chemistry at Washington State University and his Postdoctoral Fellowship at the C.H. Best Institute at the University of To... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41256961 | 1,950,204 |
1,340,910 | Meningiomas have been divided into three types based on their patterns of growth. Histological factors that increase the grade include a high number of mitotic figures, necrosis and local invasion. Treatment of sphenoid wing meningiomas often depends on the location and size of the tumor. Gamma knife radiation and micr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5138392 | 1,340,177 |
1,315,466 | Brown bears will also commonly consume animal matter, which in summer and autumn may regularly be in the form of insects, larvae such as grubs and including beehives. Most insects eaten are of the highly social variety found in colonial nests, which provide a likely greater quantity of food, although they will also tea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63866123 | 1,314,745 |
3,310 | Ultraviolet light from the Sun has antiseptic properties and can be used to sanitize tools and water. It also causes sunburn, and has other biological effects such as the production of vitamin D and sun tanning. It is also the main cause of skin cancer. Ultraviolet light is strongly attenuated by Earth's ozone layer, s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26751 | 3,310 |
909,961 | With the fall of France, it was clear that the type was unsuitable for the coastal patrol and army co-operation role, being described by Air Marshal Arthur Barratt, commander-in-chief of the British Air Forces in France as "quite unsuited to the task; a faster, less vulnerable aircraft was required." The view of Army A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=559595 | 909,482 |
728,360 | The overly complex design of the reactor, which is contrary to the general concept of self moderated thorium reactors designed in the U.S., also suffered from the unplanned high destruction rate of pebbles during the test series at the start up, and the resulting higher contamination of the containment structure. Pebbl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=143354 | 727,976 |
761,374 | Attacks by special forces have been seen by some commanders as a way to level the playing field when faced by superior numbers or technology. Given the disparity in effectiveness between their own and South Korean and US fighters, North Korea maintains a large force of infiltration troops; in the event of a war, they w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=537478 | 760,967 |
1,023,601 | A significant challenge facing 19th-century organic chemists was the lack of instruments and methods of analysis to support accurate, replicable analyses of organic materials. Many chemists worked on the problem of organic analysis, including French Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Swedish Jöns Jacob Berzelius, before Liebi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16024 | 1,023,068 |
64,279 | Aristotle's works and other Greek natural philosophy did not reach the West until about the middle of the 12th century, when works were translated from Greek and Arabic into Latin. The development of European civilization later in the Middle Ages brought with it further advances in natural philosophy. European inventio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38890 | 64,254 |
1,088,696 | In the summer of 1951, the United Kingdom held the Festival of Britain, a national exhibition held throughout the UK to promote the British contribution to science, technology, industrial design, architecture, and the arts and to commemorate the centenary of the 1851 Great Exhibition. British engineering firm and nasce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5842363 | 1,088,137 |
108,765 | In media appearances, Kurzweil has stressed the extreme potential dangers of nanotechnology but argues that in practice, progress cannot be stopped because that would require a totalitarian system, and any attempt to do so would drive dangerous technologies underground and deprive responsible scientists of the tools ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25984 | 108,720 |
753,676 | In 2013, the discovery of two new "Deinocheirus" specimens was announced before the annual Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) conference by Lee, Barsbold, Currie, and colleagues. Housed at the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, these two headless individuals were given the specimen numbers MPC-D 100/127 and MPC-D 100... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1952495 | 753,274 |
873,349 | There are many different ways insects can be fossilized and preserved including compressions and impressions, concretions, mineral replication, charcoalified (fusainized) remains, and their trace remains. Compressions and impressions are the most extensive types of insect fossils, occurring in rocks from the Carbonifer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3969819 | 872,889 |
783,146 | The "Ming Shilu" goes on to mention another possible instance of volley fire, this time during the Yongle Emperor's campaigns against the Mongols. In 1414 "the commander-in-chief (都督) Zhu Chong led Lü Guang and others directly to the fore, where they assaulted the enemy by firing firearms and guns continuously and in s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33076634 | 782,727 |
1,027,433 | Distance, lack of access, and regulations meant that the formal theory of montage was not widely known until well after its explosion in the Soviet Union. It was only in 1928, for example, that Eisenstein's theories reached Britain in "Close Up". Additionally, filmmakers in Japan during the 1920s were "quite unaware of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8648013 | 1,026,899 |
236,270 | One of the frequent uses of the technique is to date organic remains from archaeological sites. Plants fix atmospheric carbon during photosynthesis, so the level of in plants and animals when they die approximately equals the level of in the atmosphere at that time. However, it decreases thereafter from radioactive dec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146250 | 236,151 |
1,259,586 | Wundt became interested in Völkerpsychologie very early in his career. He became so interested in the topic that he offered a course on social psychology at Heidelberg University in 1859. In his first book, "Beiträge zur Theorie der Sinneswahrnehmung (Natural History of Man)", which he wrote when he was at Heidelberg, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41358018 | 1,258,899 |
1,590,360 | The construction workforce reached a peak of 45,096 on 21 June 1944. About thirteen percent were women, and non-whites made up 16.45 percent. African-Americans lived in segregated quarters, and had their own messes and recreation areas. They were paid less than white workers. Although DuPont agreed to hire African-Amer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72002318 | 1,589,466 |
460,686 | The use of antibiotics to treat and prevent disease has followed a similar path to that used in human medicine in terms of therapeutic and metaphylactic applications to treat and manage disease and improve population health, and the application of case-by-case strategic preventative treatments when animals are deemed a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40364158 | 460,460 |
777,489 | The Lavi performed successfully in flight-tests, with its flight handling described as "excellent" by test pilots. The Lavi was planned to be the mainstay of the Israeli Air Force, and considerable export sales for the aircraft had been forecast. The uniqueness of its design was in the combination of a small, aerodynam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1254910 | 777,072 |
947,602 | He died at the age of 70, on December 29, 1919, in Oxford, during the Spanish influenza epidemic, most likely of complications from undiagnosed bronchiectasis. His wife, Grace, lived another nine years but succumbed to a series of strokes. Sir William and Lady Osler's ashes now rest in a niche in the Osler Library at M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146219 | 947,099 |
688,631 | Spectrophotometry in infrared light is mainly used to study structure of substances, as given groups give absorption at defined wavelengths. Measurement in aqueous solution is generally not possible, as water absorbs infrared light strongly in some wavelength ranges. Therefore, infrared spectroscopy is either performed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=862694 | 688,273 |
1,106,536 | A falconry bird is usually housed in a mew. Mews in the US have to be inspected for compliance with federal and state laws. These laws ensure that the facilities meet what is required to safely and humanely house a bird of prey. The mews (along with other perching equipment) are carefully designed to prevent bodily inj... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4047535 | 1,105,972 |
2,246,327 | Following the turn of the century the lack of athletic facilities prohibited students from participating in physical training and athletics. The Institute had little interest in this matter, so at the 1911 Alumni Council meeting, the Class of 1886 started the efforts to raise funds for new facilities. An initial goal o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58986944 | 2,245,055 |
644,912 | An alternative educational approach informed by cognitive flexibility is hypertext, which is frequently computer-supported instruction. Computers allow for complex data to be presented in a multidimensional and coherent format, allowing users to access that data as needed. The most widely used example of hypertext is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27016834 | 644,572 |
886,776 | Upon completing his B.S. degree from Columbia, Massimino worked for IBM as a systems engineer in New York City from 1984 until 1986. In 1986 he entered graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he conducted research on human operator control of space robotics systems in the MIT Mechanical Engin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=622277 | 886,312 |
1,560,105 | Schizophrenia is characterized by hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, and mood disorder symptoms with evidence showing that physical exercise can alleviate neuroinflammation that could be a root cause of this affective disorder. Although it is still uncertain what exactly causes this disorder, several explanations exi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42663845 | 1,559,219 |
2,148,918 | With J. R. Schwendeman as head, and three assistant professors, Harry K. Hutter and Guy N. Parmenter (also from Clark) and Thomas P. Field (from UNC-Chapel Hill) and an associate professor, Richard L. Tuthill (Columbia University), the new department had five full-time faculty and an enrollment of 354 students from 194... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47120039 | 2,147,687 |
1,471,709 | On 10 April 1959, Berg sent a report edited by Lyapunov to a presidium of the Academy of Sciences, recommending the establishment of an organisation dedicated to advancing cybernetics. The presidium determined that the Council on Cybernetics would be formed, with Berg as the chairman (due to his strong administrative c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54974049 | 1,470,880 |
96,466 | AMCA will be a single-seat, twin-engine aircraft. The AMCA Mark 1 will come equipped with 5.5 generation technologies and Mark 2 will have the incremental 6th generation technology upgrades. The AMCA which is intended to perform a multitude of missions including Air supremacy, Ground-Strike, Suppression of Enemy Air De... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3199026 | 96,425 |
679,638 | In November 2022, the Nordic Shooting Region issued an open letter to all ISSF member federations expressing deep concern regarding the development of the sport and calling for stability in the rule book and competition programme. This followed organisational difficulties at the 2022 Rifle & Pistol World Championships ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2528826 | 679,284 |
47,954 | Lidar can also help to create high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) of archaeological sites that can reveal micro-topography that is otherwise hidden by vegetation. The intensity of the returned lidar signal can be used to detect features buried under flat vegetated surfaces such as fields, especially when ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41958 | 47,934 |
660,881 | The British Agricultural Revolution (17th–19th centuries) not only caused many changes in the way people worked, but in social structure as well. When industrialisation provided the cheapest and most efficient tools for agricultural production, it caused a reduced need for the peasant farm workers which displaced most ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8937649 | 660,536 |
1,148,289 | Trepanation, similar to some techniques used today, is the oldest surgical procedure known and was practised in the Stone Age in many parts of the world, and in some areas may have been quite widespread. The main pieces of archaeological evidence are in the forms of cave paintings and human remains. One third of 120 sk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1536547 | 1,147,684 |
417,144 | In 1924, Oort returned to the Netherlands to work at Leiden University, where he served as a research assistant, becoming Conservator in 1926, Lecturer in 1930, and Professor Extraordinary in 1935. In 1926, he received his doctorate from Groningen with a thesis on the properties of high-velocity stars. The next year, S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=413430 | 416,941 |
935,620 | The Yak-1's armament would be considered too light by Western standards but was typical of Soviet aircraft, pilots preferring a few guns grouped on the centerline to improve accuracy and reduce weight. Wing guns were rarely used on Soviet fighters and when they were supplied, they were often removed (as they were from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1493765 | 935,126 |
2,068,344 | In 1868 Bloede secured a position at Chemical Works, a small chemical company in Brooklyn, New York, along the Gowanus creek canal. There he began to study chemical manufacturing and pharmaceutical preparations. In 1873 Bloede moved to Pomeroy, Ohio, the center of salt manufacturing along the Ohio River. He joined the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14490922 | 2,067,153 |
297,903 | In 2001 Lockheed Martin claimed a potential market of 5,179 aircraft, including exports beyond the partner countries. The size of the market was instrumental in determining many of the cost calculations and economies of scale. More recent critical analysis has seriously questioned the assumptions made in estimating the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28702755 | 297,743 |
665,133 | Chief designer of the Soviet space program, Sergei Korolev, decided that the cosmonauts must be male, between 25 and 30 years old, no taller than 1.75 meters, and weigh no more than 72 kilograms. The final specifications for cosmonauts were approved in June 1959. By September interviews with potential cosmonauts had be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=393892 | 664,786 |
789,375 | Augmentative and alternative communication is used by individuals to compensate for severe speech-language impairments in the expression or comprehension of spoken or written language. People making use of AAC include individuals with a variety of congenital conditions such as cerebral palsy, autism, intellectual disab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2106968 | 788,951 |
1,881,059 | As the professional body representing biologists, the IoB was frequently consulted on biological issues by Government, Parliament, industry and other organisations. Due to its widespread members and affiliated societies, it prided itself on producing a balanced response that reflected the views of the biological profes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1358822 | 1,879,978 |
93,856 | The widespread introduction of jet-powered interceptor aircraft upset this imbalance somewhat by reducing the effectiveness of the American bomber fleet. In 1949 Curtis LeMay was placed in command of the Strategic Air Command and instituted a program to update the bomber fleet to one that was all-jet. During the early ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36880 | 93,815 |
112,807 | Helping people and children learn in ways that are easier, faster, more accurate, or less expensive can be traced back to the emergence of very early tools, such as paintings on cave walls. Various types of abacus have been used. Writing slates and blackboards have been used for at least a millennium. From their introd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1944675 | 112,762 |
1,289,243 | An RAAF team headed by the Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Charles Read, was sent to the United States in May 1970 to negotiate the lease arrangements. After considering the proposed deal, Read recommended that it go ahead; according to RAAF historian Alan Stephens this decision "delighted RAAF senior o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36437816 | 1,288,534 |
48,315 | The United States Department of Justice and FBI have not enforced the DMCA as rigorously as had been feared by some, but the law, nonetheless, remains a controversial one. Niels Ferguson, a well-respected cryptography researcher, has publicly stated that he will not release some of his research into an Intel security d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18934432 | 48,295 |
1,208,815 | Following the initial run of 36 Scout C airframes, later Scout C production batches, consisting of 50 aircraft built for the RNAS and 75 for the RFC, changed the cowl to a flat-fronted shorter-depth version able to house either the Gnome Lambda rotary, or the alternate choice of a nine-cylinder 80 hp Le Rhône 9C rotary... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4115009 | 1,208,168 |
2,148,937 | In 1975 Karl Raitz was named chair. Student enrollment in the program approached 2500 students each semester in the 1970s. Between 1967 and 1980, the department awarded 53 MA and 23 PhD degrees. Graduates of the department were employed at universities in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas, Ohio, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Jordan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47120039 | 2,147,706 |
303,804 | Losses suffered by F-105 Wild Weasels spurred on the development of a new variant based on the F-4C Phantom II, the EF-4C Phantom Wild Weasel IV. The first thirty-six of these were delivered to Southeast Asia in 1969 and so missed taking part in Rolling Thunder. While carrying the same electronics as in the F-105G, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573491 | 303,642 |
1,604,587 | Early results from Dan Nocera, a researcher at Harvard University, gave insight on how his newly created bionic leaf can be used for fertilizer production. This new bionic leaf uses photovoltaic cells in conjunction with "Xanthobacter autotrophicus" bacteria to create a plastic called polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB). PHB sup... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60018379 | 1,603,686 |
765,999 | Most viruses have an outer capsule 20 to 300 nm in diameter. Virus capsules are remarkably robust and capable of withstanding temperatures as high as 60 °C; they are stable across the pH range 2-10. Viral capsules can be used to create nano device components such as nanowires, nanotubes, and quantum dots. Tubular virus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45784 | 765,589 |
204,868 | In 2022, Ioannidis authored a paper in "BMJ Open" arguing that signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration were shunned as a fringe minority by those in favor of the John Snow Memorandum. According to him, the latter used their large numbers of followers on Twitter and other social media and op-eds to shape a scien... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20900378 | 204,762 |
1,881,398 | This diversification in both plants and mycorrhizae brought about their second wave of evolution within the Cretaceous period, which introduced alongside arbuscular mycorrhizae three new types of mycorrhizae: orchid mycorrhizae, ericoid mycorrhizae, and ectomycorrhizae. The taxonomic diversification of all plants with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59393212 | 1,880,317 |
803,805 | The concept of the replicator as a genetic entity has proven very useful in the quest to identify replicator DNA sequences and initiator proteins in prokaryotes, and to some extent also in eukaryotes, although the organization and complexity of replicators differ considerably between the domains of life. While bacteria... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=619137 | 803,376 |
2,148,672 | In 1976 Fawcett resigned the chairmanship and became Senior Associate Dean for Preclinical Science, a position for which, by his own description, he was ill-suited. After spending some time annually in Africa as examiner in the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Nairobi, Kenya, where he indulged his pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27794457 | 2,147,441 |
849,991 | In his second start of the 2003 season, Prior pitched his first career shutout, striking out 12 and allowing four hits in a 3–0 win over the Montreal Expos. In six innings on May 12, he allowed four runs to the Milwaukee Brewers but struck out 11 and earned the victory in an 11–5 triumph. He struck out 16 Brewers on Ju... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=297465 | 849,539 |
2,073,071 | Professor Griffin has been awarded the John Smythe medal for excellence in research for his work on profiling literacy development and his work on profile reporting was identified in the annual 1996 yearbook of the American Society for Curriculum Development in Washington as world's best practice. He is a project team ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34060807 | 2,071,880 |
2,144,824 | Individuals with FA-DLBCL are typically males (~70% of cases) aged 25–96 years (~75% of cases are >50 years old). They present with abnormalities associated with a long-standing (1–20 years): a) cardiac myxoma (i.e. a myxoid tumor of primitive connective tissue in the heart's atrium); b) subdural hematoma (i.e. a colle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63408853 | 2,143,593 |
461,906 | In the 1940s, great strides were made in the field of antibiotic discovery by researchers like Albert Schatz, Selman A. Waksman, and H. Boyd Woodruff that inspired significant effort to be allocated to the search for novel antibiotics. Studies searching for antibiotic and anticancer agents in the mid to late 20th centu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6688255 | 461,677 |
819,628 | Platinum-containing chemotherapeutic agents, including cisplatin and carboplatin, are associated with cochleotoxicity characterized by progressive, high-frequency hearing loss with or without tinnitus (ringing in the ears). Ototoxicity is less frequently seen with the related compound oxaliplatin. The severity of cispl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=618910 | 819,187 |
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