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1,636,516 | In October 2014, a post was made on the game's Facebook page that stated "Eight years ago, we first announced "Edge of Twilight"... When we first generated the idea for "Edge of Twilight", the video game industry was in a time of transition from the existing generation (PlayStation 2 and Xbox) consoles to the so-called... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38054782 | 1,635,591 |
1,248,618 | Implants that aim to delay spinal fusion and to allow more spinal growth in young children is the gold standard for surgical treatment of early onset scoliosis. Surgery without fusion can be divided into three principles: distraction of the entire spine, compression of the short segment of spine, and guided-growth tech... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51305509 | 1,247,942 |
169,907 | The threat of the Soviet Navy building hundreds of Type XXI-derived submarines (eventually the 215-strong and dozens of others) in the Atlantic led the U.S. Navy to adapt submarines to specifically hunt other submarines, a radically new role for the 1950s. Concluding that this role did not require a fast or deep-diving... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=170579 | 169,817 |
385,317 | The development of microwave technology during World War II, such as the klystron and magnetron tubes and parabolic antennas, made radiative (far-field) methods practical for the first time, and the first long-distance wireless power transmission was achieved in the 1960s by William C. Brown. In 1964, Brown invented th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=570662 | 385,122 |
1,583,231 | Astrocytes form gap junctions and are closely associated with the vasculature and its basal lamina in the adult SVZ and subsequently in the RMS. They may serve as an interface to modulate influences of endothelial and circulation-derived factors as well as the availability of cytokines and growth factors in this system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2904663 | 1,582,341 |
850,212 | Many of the criticisms directed towards military simulations derive from an incorrect application of them as a predictive and analytical tool. The outcome supplied by a model relies to a greater or lesser extent on human interpretation and therefore should not be regarded as providing a 'gospel' truth. However, whilst ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10280894 | 849,760 |
470,086 | More than just the events were changed during the 1998–99 season—the style of study required of students changed. Prior to that season, students had performed their own research for each event, and test writers did not have to base their questions on material USAD published. However, after a policy change at the beginn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=562034 | 469,850 |
721,182 | The first commercially practical scuba rebreather was designed and built by the diving engineer Henry Fleuss in 1878, while working for Siebe Gorman in London. His self contained breathing apparatus consisted of a rubber mask connected to a breathing bag, with an estimated 50–60% oxygen supplied from a copper tank and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39194607 | 720,802 |
2,147,850 | The existence (or potential existence) of such large numbers of molecular species is a combinatorial phenomenon: It arises from a relatively small set of features or modifications (such as post-translational modification or complex formation) that combine to dictate the state of the entire molecule or complex, in the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43966823 | 2,146,619 |
162,110 | By 1850 Britain had a well integrated, well engineered system that provided fast, on-time, inexpensive movement of freight and people to every city and most rural districts. Freight rates had plunged to a penny a ton mile for coal. The system directly or indirectly employed tens of thousands of engineers, conductors, m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,025 |
54,576 | When designing the Mercury spacecraft, NASA had considered using a nitrogen/oxygen mixture to reduce the fire risk near launch, but rejected it based on a number of considerations. First, a pure oxygen atmosphere is comfortably breathable by humans at , greatly reducing the pressure load on the spacecraft in the vacuum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1965 | 54,553 |
1,583,681 | The plan to set up a medical school on the Gold Coast was drawn up after the establishment of the Korle Bu Hospital in 1919 at the time, Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg. The idea was abandoned after Guggisberg left office. There was renewed interest in this venture in 1951. At the behest of the Gold Coast colonial admi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44117210 | 1,582,791 |
744,611 | When multiple assays measure the same target their results and utility may or may not be comparable depending on the natures of the assay and their methodology, reliability etc. Such comparisons are possible through study of general quality attributes of the assays e.g. principles of measurement (including identificati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=496309 | 744,217 |
117,147 | In 1966, Pitt was designated by Pennsylvania as a state-related university. As such, Pitt receives public funds ($154.3 million in fiscal year 2016) covering about 7% of its operating budget, and offers reduced tuition to Pennsylvania residents. Pitt retains independent control, but is typically categorized as a public... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239870 | 117,102 |
467,510 | Telemetry indicated that Agena staging had taken place on schedule at T+300 seconds. The Agena continued transmitting signals until T+436 seconds, when all telemetry ceased. Hidden behind clouds, the Atlas's B-2 engine gimbaled hard to right starting at T+120 seconds and remained fixed in that position, flipping the la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=299033 | 467,275 |
1,825,519 | The campaign began in 1990 with a donation of $50,000 by Vector Magnetics, Inc., an Ithaca technology firm. In October 1990, the board, under chair Bruce Thompson, hired registered professional engineer and geologist, Dr. Charles Trautmann, as executive director. The project was announced in February 1991 at a party at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17460553 | 1,824,481 |
2,196,089 | Observations of the solar eclipse of September 21, 1941, in Kazakhstan were carried out by seven expeditions, which included astronomers, physicists and geophysicists from Moscow and Leningrad. In light of the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, it was decided to stay in Kazakhstan and join the evacuated scientists in A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68777865 | 2,194,838 |
11,902 | In the future, the Internet of things may be a non-deterministic and open network in which auto-organized or intelligent entities (web services, SOA components) and virtual objects (avatars) will be interoperable and able to act independently (pursuing their own objectives or shared ones) depending on the context, circ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12057519 | 11,897 |
533,898 | The idea for an automated external defibrillator was first advanced in the 1970s by Archibald Diack (1907 – 1993), a surgeon in Portland, Oregon. Diack and his team developed a portable unit that could diagnose an abnormal heart rhythm and deliver either a defibrillatory current or a pacing pulse, as indicated by the i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9543863 | 533,619 |
791,005 | In 2008, Peyer "et al.", described a new species of "Postosuchus", "P. alisonae" that was discovered by two UNC undergrad students, Brian Coffey and Marco Brewer in 1992 in Triangle Brick Co. Quarry, Durham County, North Carolina. The remains were prepared and reconstructed between 1994 and 1998 by the Department of Ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2322181 | 790,580 |
875,104 | In his history of the Soviet Union in the Second World War, Christopher Bellamy argues that if either side was going to break the 1925 Geneva Protocol prohibiting the use of gas and bacteriological warfare, then 1942 was the most likely year. This conclusion is not surprising, since it was precisely at this moment, tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11564525 | 874,642 |
1,287,191 | Potential injuries to the brain include but are not limited to stroke, oxygen deprivation, blunt force trauma, and surgical injuries. When patients have lesions on their brain that develop as a result of injury or illness, such as multiple sclerosis or epilepsy, it is possible that they may have impaired object recogni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32197396 | 1,286,490 |
836,972 | Other groups began requesting subleases on the newly accessible mountaintop. By 1970, two telescopes had been constructed by the United States Air Force and Lowell Observatory. In 1973, Canada and France agreed to build the 3.6 m CFHT on Mauna Kea. However, local organizations started to raise concerns about the enviro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=267376 | 836,523 |
230,270 | Most dust in the Solar System is highly processed dust, recycled from the material out of which the Solar System formed and subsequently collected in the planetesimals, and leftover solid material such as comets and asteroids, and reformed in each of those bodies' collisional lifetimes. During the Solar System's format... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2178570 | 230,153 |
310,502 | An important advance in analog computing was the development of the first fire-control systems for long range ship gunlaying. When gunnery ranges increased dramatically in the late 19th century it was no longer a simple matter of calculating the proper aim point, given the flight times of the shells. Various spotters o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13636 | 310,334 |
958,983 | In general after any CNS insult, gliosis begins after the blood brain barrier is disrupted, allowing non-CNS molecules, such as blood and serum components, to enter the brain. These components, along with activated macrophages they carry, are known to have a role in beginning the formation of the glial scar by inducing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4694311 | 958,477 |
554,178 | Blade element momentum theory is widely used due to its simplicity and overall accuracy, but its originating assumptions limit its use when the rotor disk is yawed, or when other non-axisymmetric effects (like the rotor wake) influence the flow. Limited success at improving predictive accuracy has been made using compu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20876989 | 553,889 |
1,662,411 | The font Kepatihan was developed by Carter Scholz. The font KepatihanPro , now the most widely used computer font for gamelan notation, evolved in two stages: it was designed by Matthew Arciniega around 1994 taking inspiration from Scholz' work, and later spread as PostScript font to be used on the Mac. Around the year... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4828753 | 1,661,476 |
305,193 | After embracing anarchism, Albert Parsons turned his activity to the growing movement to establish the 8-hour day. In January 1880, the Eight-Hour League of Chicago sent Parsons to a national conference in Washington, D.C., a gathering which launched a national lobbying movement aimed at coordinating efforts of labour ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 305,031 |
1,327,575 | The goals of CCN are to provide a more secure, flexible, and scalable network, thereby addressing the Internet's modern-day requirements for secure content distribution on a massive scale to a diverse set of end devices. CCN embodies a security model that explicitly secures individual pieces of content rather than secu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31590539 | 1,326,848 |
1,855,648 | The last important criteria for a particular material is its safety. Engineers have a responsibility to ensure the safety of those who handle equipment or utilize a building or road for example, by minimizing the risks of injuries or casualties. Other considerations include strength, resistance to sudden failure from e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50759262 | 1,854,581 |
101,792 | With effect from 1 June 1948, the Advisory Board for Research in Atomic Energy, together with its parent organisation the CSIR, was folded into the new Department of Scientific Research and placed directly under the Prime Minister. On 3 August 1948, the Atomic Energy Commission of India (AEC) was established and made s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12902516 | 101,747 |
1,159,333 | Key staff recruited to work at Fort Halstead included John Challens, who commenced on 1 January 1948. By mid-1948, it became clear that Penney's initial estimate that he would require 220 staff was wide of the mark, and that he would need nearly 500. This meant not only taking personnel from other projects, but scrappi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52573493 | 1,158,718 |
666,385 | Environmental effects have been suggested to trigger conditions under which a transport of larger molecules, such as DNA and RNA, across the membranes of protocells is possible. For example, it has been proposed that electroporation resulting from lightning strikes could enable such transport. Electroporation is the ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19179678 | 666,037 |
1,786,210 | After earning her master's she chaired the Mathematics department at Paul Quinn College for seven years and then at Bishop College for one year before deciding to take further graduate mathematics course. She was refused admission at Baylor University due to segregation and instead attend summer courses at the Universi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40351523 | 1,785,205 |
852,043 | Prayer appears to have health implications. Empirical studies suggest that mindfully reading and reciting the Psalms (from scripture) can help a person calm down and focus. Prayer is also positively correlated with happiness and religious satisfaction. A study conducted by Francis, Robbins, Lewis, and Barnes investigat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=507197 | 851,589 |
1,834,357 | Rothenberg describes her upbringing as "sex-blind". She credits her parents with giving her "this heroic sense of one's potential" and says her father "taught [her] advanced math and logic to the point that [she] got in trouble with [her] teachers". As a child, Rothenberg originally wanted to become a physicist, but he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67606361 | 1,833,308 |
655,009 | Strepsipterans are a unique group of insects with major sexual dimorphism. The females spend their entire lives in a grub-like state, parasitizing larger insects. The only time they ever come out of their host insect is to extend their fused heads and thoraces for males to notice. The males are also parasites, but they... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46080 | 654,665 |
2,024,927 | This section was established in 1970 with the aim to conduct basic research on physiology and nutrition of cotton crop. Since its establishment, the main focus of research scientists has been on the screening of cotton strains/varieties for thermal and water stress tolerance, integrated nutrient management, fertilizer ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14192720 | 2,023,762 |
547,586 | Oxford Nanopore Technologies' MinION sequencer is based on evolving nanopore sequencing technology to nucleic acid analyses. The device is four inches long and gets power from a USB port. MinION decodes DNA directly as the molecule is drawn at the rate of 450 bases/second through a nanopore suspended in a membrane. Cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=127511 | 547,299 |
49,441 | Migratory patterns and behaviors also influence sexual dimorphisms. This aspect also stems back to the size dimorphism in species. It has been shown that the larger males are better at coping with the difficulties of migration and thus are more successful in reproducing when reaching the breeding destination. When view... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=197179 | 49,421 |
1,932,181 | Diseases of abnormal polymerization are said to undergo “replication”, or rather that the number of proteins that are polymerized is shown to generally increase much like in a natural course of infection. Since the functional “pathogens” of DAPs are protein units the diseases are almost entirely independent from the us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53510000 | 1,931,073 |
20,123 | New software update known as PDB 5 (PDB standing for "Post Deployment Build") was released in 1999 with initial support for Configuration-3 ground units and PAC-3 missiles. The system itself saw another upgrade of its WCC and the communication setup was given a complete overhaul. Due to this upgrade, PAC-3 operators ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52024 | 20,115 |
489,267 | Roth is one of the early pioneers of experimental economics and has made several fundamental contributions to the field starting from the early 1970s. Roth's approach to experiments expanded the possibilities of economic experiments could be and ushered in an approach open to influence by other social sciences as well ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18166140 | 489,014 |
1,610,801 | The last of the historical studies to appear in Willis's lifetime was the work on the monastic buildings at Canterbury. It was published in 1868, although based on examination of the buildings 20 years earlier. Christ Church Canterbury was the largest monastery in England, with around 150 monks. Monastic buildings rais... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11572848 | 1,609,896 |
702,161 | In 1991, Nihon Falcom's "Brandish" was an early overhead action RPG to use mouse controls, where the player could move forward, backward, turn, strafe and attack by clicking on boxes surrounding the player character. The 1991 "Dragon Slayer" title "Lord Monarch" departed from the action RPG gameplay of its predecessors... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32408675 | 701,796 |
153,035 | The extracellular fluid is constantly "stirred" by the circulatory system, which ensures that the watery environment which bathes the body's cells is virtually identical throughout the body. This means that nutrients can be secreted into the ECF in one place (e.g. the gut, liver, or fat cells) and will, within about a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=479385 | 152,965 |
1,859,371 | For flies and other metamorphosing insects, high burdens of Se, PCB, metals, synthetic nanoparticles, and other contaminants can decrease body and reproductive fitness, leading to reduced amounts of larvae metamorphosing and emerging from the water column as terrestrial adults. When contaminant exposure does not impact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41384413 | 1,858,303 |
957,482 | Conquered Greece was divided into three zones of control by the occupying powers, Germany, Italy and Bulgaria. The Germans controlled Athens, Central Macedonia, Western Crete, Milos, Amorgos and the islands of the Northern Aegean. Bulgaria annexed Western Thrace and Eastern Macedonia, while Italy occupied approximately... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2150988 | 956,976 |
2,205,002 | The Sustainable Technology Optimization Research Center (STORC) is a research facility located on the California State University Sacramento campus. There are several players included in operations at the STORC including Sacramento State's Risk Management, the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS), and two ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49432636 | 2,203,747 |
1,900,098 | Toward the end of his life, when he was chairman of the Municipal Arts and Town Planning Committee of the Illinois Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, Maher became the driving force behind the restoration of the former Palace of Fine Arts, then a crumbling ruin which was by then the only major building tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24940492 | 1,899,010 |
1,930,985 | Besides CAD/CAM/CAE and PLM sector, DesignTech also offers services for the Healthcare IT segment. The Asclepius Clinic, a hospital information management software produced by the company helps in workflow management and configurations in hospitals. It is widely used by medical practitioners and doctors, helping them d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34932586 | 1,929,877 |
51,879 | There are a number of individuals whose extraordinary memory has been labeled "eidetic", but it is not established conclusively whether they use mnemonics and other, non-eidetic memory-enhancement. 'Nadia', who began drawing realistically at the age of three, is autistic and has been closely studied. During her childho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21402573 | 51,859 |
870,387 | The demise of the Acorn Business Computer left Acorn purely with a range of 8-bit microcomputer products, leaving the company vulnerable to competitors introducing 16-bit and 32-bit machines. The increasing dominance of MS-DOS in the business market and advocacy for the use of such software in the education sector left... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 869,927 |
1,683,947 | The book was originally written in the period immediately following the publication of Einstein's Annus Mirabilis papers and several years following the early work of Max Planck; it was a transitional period for physics, where special relativity and old quantum theory were gaining traction. The book serves to document ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65293114 | 1,683,004 |
208,445 | As a result of the Iran hostage crisis, US President Jimmy Carter ordered a rescue mission, code named Operation Eagle Claw, to retrieve the 52 diplomats held captive at the embassy of the United States, Tehran. Three weeks prior to the operation, Air Force CCT Major John T. Carney Jr. was flown in by Twin Otter to Des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17549821 | 208,338 |
37,816 | Japan was deprived of any military capability after being defeated by the Allies in World War II and was forced to sign a surrender agreement presented by General Douglas MacArthur in 1945. It was occupied by U.S. forces and only had a minor domestic police force on which to rely for domestic security and crime. Rising... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2785204 | 37,803 |
593,115 | The Project, funded by the US National Science Foundation, has produced one standard chronology for oxygen isotope records, although there are others. This high resolution chronology was derived from several isotopic records, the composite curve was then smoothed, filtered and tuned to the known cycles of the astronomi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2289787 | 592,811 |
1,804,023 | Nonetheless, progress on the second type of machine, one that would more fully automate the law, remained relatively inert. Research into machines that could answer questions in the way that Mehl's consultation machine would picked up somewhat in the late 1970s and 1980s. A 1979 convention in Swansea, Wales marked the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38358886 | 1,803,009 |
973,944 | The St. Lawrence University Saints are a member of the Liberty League Athletic Conference, has ECACHL Division I Hockey teams and fields 32 varsity teams (15 for men, 17 for women) and includes over 40% of the student body. The Skating Saints men's team has twice played for Division I national championships (1961, 1988... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=561696 | 973,433 |
140,646 | The relationship between animals, humans, and disease is part of our globalized economic and social condition. Statistically higher probabilities of zoonosis (infectious disease that cross from non-human animals to humans) occur in human-modified areas; particularly agricultural lands. Human and animal relationships ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21438755 | 140,589 |
1,210,649 | The Expedition reached the Princess Martha Coast on January 19, 1939, and was active along the Queen Maud Land coast from 19 January to 15 February 1939. In seven survey flights between January 20 and February 5, 1939, an area of approx. was photogrammetrically mapped. Previously unknown ice-free mountain ranges, sever... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67163228 | 1,210,002 |
444,685 | This book consists of the arguments used against the art and Agricola's counter arguments. He explains that mining and prospecting are not just a matter of luck and hard work; there is specialized knowledge that must be learned. A miner should have knowledge of philosophy, medicine, astronomy, surveying, arithmetic, ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4484806 | 444,470 |
85,521 | On 24 April 1972, the U.S. "1st Combat Aerial TOW Team" arrived in South Vietnam; the team's mission was to test the new anti-armor missile under combat conditions. The team consisted of three crews, technical representatives from Bell Helicopter and Hughes Aircraft, members of the United States Army Aviation and Missi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=338060 | 85,487 |
155,702 | The fight sequence between Asuka's Eva-02 and the nine Eva Series present in "End" was an inspiration for animators such as Yoshimichi Kameda and Yokota Takumi, character designers of "Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club". The design of the Digimon Argomon bears similarities to Eva-01, particularly its color sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=577372 | 155,631 |
68,475 | Mearsheimer presented a fuller statement of his views on China's rise in his 2014 updated edition of "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics", arguing that "if China continues its striking economic growth over the next few decades, it is likely to act in accordance with the logic of offensive realism... Specifically, it w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=980934 | 68,448 |
78,758 | Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) produced 140 KF-16C/D Block 52 fighters under license from Lockheed Martin in the 1990s. The F/A-18 Hornet had originally won the Korea Fighter Program (KFP) competition, but disputes over costs and accusations of bribery led the Korean government to withdraw the award and select the F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18895385 | 78,725 |
1,554,614 | The G-BOSS provides the command operations center with a round-the-clock display and tracking of items of interest through the use of high resolution night and day cameras. The cameras are integrated with enhanced target recognition and radar systems used to increase the ability to detect moving targets. The G-BOSS all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42226989 | 1,553,733 |
976,129 | The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) is a centimeter-wavelength radio astronomy observatory located in central New Mexico on the Plains of San Agustin, between the towns of Magdalena and Datil, ~ west of Socorro. The VLA comprises twenty-eight 25-meter radio telescopes (twenty-seven of which are operational while ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=227969 | 975,618 |
795,075 | In earlier astronaut groups, the senior astronaut had assumed the role of command module pilot (CMP) while the more junior was the lunar module pilot (LMP), but the Nineteen were divided into Command/Service Module (CSM) and Lunar Module (LM) specialists. Slayton asked each of the Nineteen which speciality he preferred... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=598426 | 794,650 |
1,730,433 | After Wilson's death in 1860, there was a contest between Monier Williams and Max Müller to succeed him. Williams was an Oxford-educated Englishman who had spent 14 years teaching Sanskrit to those preparing to work in British India for the East India Company. Müller was a German-born lecturer at Oxford specialising in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35743477 | 1,729,458 |
383,009 | Current estimates predict that upwards of 40% of all pheochromocytomas are related to an inherited germline susceptibility mutation. Of the remaining 60% of tumors, more than 30% are associated with a somatic mutation. Given the high association with genetic inheritance, the United States Endocrine Society recommends t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277088 | 382,814 |
2,101,354 | Under the activity of Ugo Amaldi, in the 2000s the first National Center for Oncological Hadrotherapy was created in Italy and fourth in the world, which houses a synchrotron of 25 meters in diameter, capable of accelerating both protons and ions of carbon. In 1995 Marco Bersanelli, who returned to Italy from the Berke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67431894 | 2,100,142 |
784,866 | The original telesurgery robotic system that the da Vinci was based on was developed at Stanford Research Institute International in Menlo Park with grant support from DARPA and NASA. A demonstration of an open bowel anastomosis was given to the Association of Military Surgeons of the US. Although the telesurgical robo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2629669 | 784,446 |
1,916,309 | In 1996, John Scholes of Dyalog Limited invented direct functions (dfns). The ideas originated in 1989 when he read a special issue of "The Computer Journal" on functional programming. He then proceeded to study functional programming and became strongly motivated ("sick with desire", like Yeats) to bring these ideas t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61949595 | 1,915,210 |
1,104,074 | Experimental techniques such as direct electrophysiological recording, fluorescence imaging using calcium indicators and optogenetic techniques have shed light on the nature and function of these early bursts of activity. They have distinct spatial and temporal patterns during development and their ablation during deve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=189701 | 1,103,511 |
423,221 | The ultrashort pulses generated by Ti:sapphire lasers in the time domain corresponds to mode-locked optical frequency combs in the spectral domain. Both the temporal and spectral properties of these lasers make them highly desirable for frequency metrology, spectroscopy, or for pumping nonlinear optical processes. One ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=495725 | 423,014 |
91,306 | Babylonian mathematics were written using a sexagesimal (base-60) numeral system. From this derives the modern-day usage of 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 360 (60 × 6) degrees in a circle, as well as the use of seconds and minutes of arc to denote fractions of a degree. It is likely the sexagesimal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14220 | 91,266 |
985,954 | The resulting annual competition is now known as the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC). The ILSVRC uses a "trimmed" list of only 1000 image categories or "classes", including 90 of the 120 dog breeds classified by the full ImageNet schema. The 2010s saw dramatic progress in image processing. Ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50896194 | 985,439 |
1,551,849 | Beginning at the end of 1945, a search began for a location for a secret facility, which would later be named KB-11. According to the memoirs of the academician Yulii Khariton, the place for the future institute was researched carefully: it had to be located at a distance from the cities, since it was required to test ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54619545 | 1,550,968 |
1,971,670 | Cornell University had built a series of synchrotrons since the 1940s. The 10 GeV synchrotron in operation during the 1970s had conducted a number of experiments, but it ran at much lower energy than the 20 GeV linear accelerator at SLAC. As late as October 1974, Cornell planned to upgrade the synchrotron to reach ener... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5478160 | 1,970,536 |
863,886 | Particles in UPW have always presented a major problem for semiconductor manufacture, as any particle landing on a silicon wafer can bridge the gap between the electrical pathways in the semiconductor circuitry. When a pathway is short-circuited the semiconductor device will not work properly; such a failure is called ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31050418 | 863,426 |
1,419,516 | In October 2016, The European Space Agency (ESA) selected PLD Space as the prime contractor for the "Liquid Propulsion Stage Recovery" project (LPSR) as part of the agency's Future Launchers Preparatory Programme (FLPP). The goal of this project is to study a strategy to recover the first stage of a launcher, making it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50238586 | 1,418,717 |
1,604,898 | Today, CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute (CSIR-4PI) is a young and vibrant organization committed to promoting mathematical modelling and data-driven research culture across CSIR and accelerating the pace of discovery in the areas of interest to CSIR. CSIR-4PI played a pivotal role in shaping up the computational research... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32288518 | 1,603,997 |
970,800 | The precursor sol can be either deposited on a substrate to form a film (e.g., by dip-coating or spin coating), cast into a suitable container with the desired shape (e.g., to obtain monolithic ceramics, glasses, fibers, membranes, aerogels), or used to synthesize powders (e.g., microspheres, nanospheres). The sol–gel ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1701055 | 970,290 |
1,812,663 | The record-breaking attempt was scheduled for the morning of 9 December 1931 on the Bucharest-Fetesti-Bucharest route. With the Capitan aviator Romeo Popescu at its controls, the C.V. 11 took off from Pipera-Bucharest military airfield at 11.30 a.m. The first 370 km were flown without any trouble at an encouraging aver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18631734 | 1,811,630 |
1,622,746 | The cycle was first patented by Vuilleumier in 1918 with patent US1275507, and again in Leiden by KW Taconis in 1951. In March 2014, the Vuilleumier Cycle was tested in application with updating conventional HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning) systems by utilizing the cycle's proposed thermodynamic proces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28465562 | 1,621,830 |
598,074 | Looking Glass, Nightwatch, and TACAMO are US airborne nuclear command posts and represent survivable communication links with US nuclear forces. In the event of significant political-military tensions between the nuclear powers, they would take to the skies and provide survivable communications in the event of enemy at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45876 | 597,769 |
1,801,688 | The success of the Royal Air Force using Barnes Wallace's bouncing bombs in the dam busting missions of Operation Chastise on 16–17 May 1943, led the USAAF to investigate using similar tactics. After initial testing with a modified A-26 in January 1945 which was adapted at the Vickers experimental facility at Foxwarren... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,679 |
1,488,454 | Natural selection in an environment produces reproductive success, which benefits the species. Speciation is a process of evolution through which new biological species are formed. Dobzhansky studied the specifics of sexual, physiological, and behavioral isolating mechanisms in "Drosophila pseudoobscura" and "Drosophil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1111991 | 1,487,615 |
605,088 | The first announcement of a planet around the star was Gliese 581b discovered by astronomers at the Observatory of Geneva in Switzerland and Grenoble University in France. Detected in August 2005 and using extensive data from the ESO/HARPS spectrometer it was the fifth planet to be discovered around a red dwarf. Furthe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2758531 | 604,778 |
1,379,103 | The emergence of ultramicroelectrodes (UMEs) around 1980 was pivotal to the development of sensitive electroanalytical techniques like SECM. UMEs employed as probes enabled the study of quick or localized electrochemical reactions. The first SECM-like experiment was performed in 1986 by Engstrom to yield direct observa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33179399 | 1,378,341 |
1,627,688 | Proteogenomics emerged as an independent field in 2004, based on the integration of technological advancements in next-generation sequencing genomics, and mass spectrometry proteomics. The term itself came into use that year, with the publication of a paper by George Church’s research group describing their discovery o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28722065 | 1,626,770 |
957,526 | The aircraft was given the service designation of MiG-9 (internal OKB designations of I-301 and "izdeliye" FS) and a small batch of ten aircraft, equipped with original German engines, was ordered during 1946 from Factory No. 1 in Kazan before flight testing was completed. They were intended to be used in the parade, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=304224 | 957,020 |
918,383 | With speakers, the opposite is true. A flat low-frequency response is hard to obtain—except in free space high above ground, or in a very large and anechoic chamber that is free from reflections down to 20 Hz. Until recently, it was not possible to achieve high levels at frequencies down to 20 Hz without high levels of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1046687 | 917,900 |
167,145 | When the undescended testis is in the inguinal canal, hormonal therapy is sometimes attempted and very occasionally successful. The most commonly used hormone therapy is human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). A series of hCG injections (10 injections over five weeks is common) is given and the status of the testis/testes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=415293 | 167,058 |
654,833 | There is a natural soundscape to the ocean that organisms have evolved around for tens of thousands of years. However, human activity has disrupted this soundscape, largely drowning out sounds organisms depend on for mating, warding off predators, and travel. Ship and boat propellers and engines, industrial fishing, co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61622385 | 654,489 |
2,064,312 | The ICME cyberinfrastructure provides storage, access, and computational capabilities for an extensive network of manufacturing, design, and life-cycle simulation software. Within this software framework, data is archived, searchable and interactive, offering engineers and scientists a vast database of materials-relate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31541804 | 2,063,121 |
1,356,808 | Climbing is an especially difficult task because mistakes made by the climber may cause the climber to lose its grip and fall. Most robots have been built around a single functionality observed in their biological counterparts. Geckobots typically use van der waals forces that work only on smooth surfaces. Being inspir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35439884 | 1,356,058 |
1,240,746 | One way in which cephalograms can be utilized is for accurate age estimation but not for sex estimation. One study confirmed that the mandibular ramus length is strongly related to chronological age and can be utilized to predict whether an individual is older than 18 years or older with a highly significant degree of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11131663 | 1,240,075 |
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