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810,450 | More than 70 fossil species of this genus have been recognized in India alone, with additional species from South America, Australia, Africa, Madagascar and Antarctica. Essentially, "Glossopteris" was restricted to the middle- and high-latitude parts of Gondwana during the Permian and was an important contributor to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1308662 | 810,018 |
983,965 | Stan Franklin (1995, 2003) defines an autonomous agent as possessing functional consciousness when it is capable of several of the functions of consciousness as identified by Bernard Baars' Global Workspace Theory . His brain child IDA (Intelligent Distribution Agent) is a software implementation of GWT, which makes it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=195552 | 983,451 |
815,090 | The cases of Joachim Boldt and Yoshitaka Fujii in anaesthesiology focussed attention on the role that journals play in perpetuating scientific fraud as well as how they can deal with it. In the Boldt case, the Editors-in-Chief of 18 specialist journals (generally anaesthesia and intensive care) made a joint statement r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29537 | 814,656 |
518,724 | This site was selected on the basis of several criteria. The plutonium pilot facilities needed to be from the site boundary and any other installation, in case radioactive fission products escaped. While security and safety concerns suggested a remote site, it still needed to be near sources of labor, and accessible by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4110093 | 518,455 |
223,338 | In other words, the 'limit' on what omnipotence 'can' do is not a "limit" on its actual agency, but an "epistemological boundary" without which omnipotence could not be "identified" (paradoxically or otherwise) in the first place. In fact, this process is merely a fancier form of the classic Liar Paradox: If I say, "I ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46025 | 223,224 |
1,943,462 | Laminins, a family of extracellular matrix glycoproteins, are the major noncollagenous constituent of basement membranes. They have been implicated in a wide variety of biological processes including cell adhesion, differentiation, migration, signaling, neurite outgrowth and metastasis. Laminins are composed of 3 non i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14777045 | 1,942,351 |
98,970 | Also during the year 1973, the specimen MPC-D 100/45 was discovered by the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition at the Hermiin Tsav locality. Unlike the previous findings, MPC-D 100/45 is represented by a right hindlimb composed of a very fragmented femur with the lower end of the tibia, astragalus, calcan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=851586 | 98,927 |
1,080,538 | eNOS expression and activity are carefully controlled by multiple interconnected mechanisms of regulation present at the transcriptional, posttranscriptional, and posttranslational levels. Binding of transcription factors such as Sp1, Sp3, Ets-1, Elf-1, and YY1 to the NOS3 promoter and DNA methylation represents an imp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13623162 | 1,079,982 |
482,834 | Gessner has been described as the father of modern scientific botany and zoology, and the father of modern bibliography. To his contemporaries he was best known as a botanist. Despite his traveling ways and the job of maintaining his own gardens, Gesner probably spent most of his time inside his own extensive library. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162270 | 482,590 |
1,995,580 | Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, coal mining in Georgia has led to many Carboniferous-aged fossil trackway discoveries. These discoveries frequently occur when the excavation of coal mines removes the rock underlying the trackway, leaving it exposed on the tunnel's ceiling. Several significant paleontologi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37798993 | 1,994,437 |
1,497,222 | Aluminum based nanogalvanic alloys are characterized by the size of their galvanic microstructure and consist of particles with a mesh size of -325, which is equivalent to a diameter of around 50 microns. Since the grain size of the powders is in the nanometer scale and the particle size is tens of microns similar to c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62763065 | 1,496,379 |
2,158,036 | The first EMACs with three metal atoms were synthesized in the early 1990s independently by the groups of Shie-Ming Peng (NTU) and F. Albert Cotton (Texas A&M), who coined the term "extended metal atom chains". The cobalt-containing molecule Co(dpa)Cl (dpa = 2,2'-dipyridylamide) was synthesized by both research groups,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17837667 | 2,156,804 |
965,077 | The Conference of Experts was characterized as "highly professional" and productive. By the end of August 1958, the experts devised an extensive control program, known as the "Geneva System," involving 160–170 land-based monitoring posts, plus 10 additional sea-based monitors and occasional flights over land following ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30592 | 964,568 |
1,746,623 | The maxilla of "Bathygnathus "was found around 1845 in a community in the north of Prince Edward Island called French River. The bone was uncovered by a landowner named Donald McLeod in a layer of shale at the bottom of his well. This layer was part of a red sandstone formation that bears similarities to younger Triass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4312346 | 1,745,637 |
1,528,515 | Jayant Udgaonkar, born on 22 March 1960 in the Indian state of Maharashtra, did his graduate studies in chemistry at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai during 1976–79 and secured his master's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai in 1981. Moving to Cornell University, he completed his doctoral studies under... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52009954 | 1,527,651 |
2,100,059 | Structural, mechanical, electronic, and transport properties of advanced materials such as diamond, silicon, organic thin films and single molecules, metal/oxide and metal/organic interfaces, and energetic molecular crystals are of particular interest. All the problems addressed have a tight connection with experimenta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14076809 | 2,098,851 |
1,474,403 | Compared to our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, Homo sapiens' skeletal muscle is on average about 1.35 to 1.5 times weaker when normalized for size. As little biomechanical difference was found between individual muscle fibers from the different species, this strength difference is likely the result ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32156908 | 1,473,572 |
684,151 | The Type 94 pistol is operated by a different mechanism than previous Japanese sidearms. Unlike previously designed Nambu pistols, the Type 94 operates with a concealed hammer and with a firing pin rather than a hammer. According to authors, Harry L. Derby and James D. Brown, the firing pin is inherently weak and is pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1898395 | 683,794 |
2,148,873 | The K10 had two major test runs published. One of them was in 2010 in Haughton Crater, Canada (one of the most lunar-like surfaces on Earth), and the other run was where the K10 was created at the Ames Research Center. The 2010 research concluded that "Robotic follow up" is possible for future missions on the Moon or M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33065811 | 2,147,642 |
179,395 | In October 1979, CODA was able to secure the Canadian Olympic Association's (COA) support as Canada's official bid for the 1988 Winter Olympics over a competing bid by Vancouver by a vote of 27–9. Calgary's bid was bold because no one infrastructure existed there and everything would have to be built from scratch. CODA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187504 | 179,302 |
1,571,733 | The exact mechanisms of arthropod adhesion are still unknown for some species but this topic is of great importance to biologists, physicists and engineers. These highly specialized structures are not restricted to one particular area of the leg. They may be located on different parts, such as claws, derivatives of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46344435 | 1,570,845 |
1,517,958 | A number of obstacles to this process have been identified: barriers to growth via collisions, the radial drift of larger solids, and the turbulent stirring of planetesimals. As a particle grows the time required for its motion to react to changes in the motion of the gas in turbulent eddies increases. The relative mot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48840652 | 1,517,101 |
949,069 | Transistors for logic, PLAs, and microcode are no longer scarce resources; only large high-speed cache memories are limited by the maximum number of transistors today. Although complex, the transistor count of CISC decoders do not grow exponentially like the total number of transistors per processor (the majority typic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7622 | 948,565 |
1,223,384 | In 1890, he began research at the Kenwood Astrophysical Observatory, which Hale's father had built for him; he was professor of astrophysics at Beloit College (1891–93); associate professor at the University of Chicago until 1897, and full professor (1897–1905). He was coeditor of "Astronomy and Astrophysics", 1892–95,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=623538 | 1,222,724 |
1,737,788 | The 2019–20 season featured Atalanta's Champions League debut; the club was drawn into Group C with Dinamo Zagreb, Ukrainian champion Shakhtar Donetsk, and English champion Manchester City. Following an agreement with both Milan clubs, Atalanta would play its home matches in the competition at San Siro, as the stadium ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66131596 | 1,736,811 |
788,631 | James Edwin Campbell was a poet, free-lance writer, and mathematician from Pomeroy, Ohio. Following Campbell was John H. Hill, who was a lawyer, teacher, administrator, and soldier, who oversaw the university's first commencement. He resigned to fight in the Spanish–American War and later returned as an instructor. Jam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1245250 | 788,207 |
1,971,645 | A wide range of techniques have been developed to investigate "C. teleta" developmental processes. In 2006, the first study using whole mount in situ hybridization was published. This technique allows investigation of the expression and localization of specific mRNAs within a fixed sample. Immunohistochemistry was late... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30545094 | 1,970,511 |
416,582 | New institutional economics, a field pioneered by Douglass North, stresses the need of a legal framework in order for capitalism to function optimally, and focuses on the relationship between the historical development of capitalism and the creation and maintenance of political and economic institutions. In new institu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1375342 | 416,379 |
1,851,896 | In the fall of 1854, the St. Johns' College Debating Society was organized, and the following year, on December 3, 1855, the first student stage production, "Henry IV", was presented, followed by "The Seven Clerks". The seminary was closed in 1859, and the property was sold to the Jesuits in 1860 for $40,000. A Congres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53885358 | 1,850,835 |
2,184,540 | PROSUB provides for the reinforcement of the Brazilian Navy with four modern conventional propulsion submarines. The four submarines, S "Riachuelo" (S-40), S "Humaitá" (S-41), S "Tonelero" (S-42) and S "Angostura" (S-43) will compose the "Riachuelo"-class, being derived from the French "Scorpène"-class. However, the Br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72168935 | 2,183,292 |
630,661 | Hotez has actively used his public profile on Twitter and other social media platforms to help combat misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic. He has also appeared as an invited expert in a number of cable news and radio shows. In an interview with the American Medical Association, Hotez noted that communicating cle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19730770 | 630,323 |
313,831 | When a continuum radiation source is used for AAS measurement it is indispensable to work with a high-resolution monochromator. The resolution has to be equal to or better than the half-width of an atomic absorption line (about 2 pm) in order to avoid losses of sensitivity and linearity of the calibration graph. The re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2637 | 313,662 |
973,672 | High-tech architecture attempts to embody a series of ideals that its practitioners felt were reflective of the "spirit of the age". Concerns over adaptability, sustainability, and the changing industrial world drove a shift in the way that many architects around the world approached the challenge of designing building... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4460840 | 973,162 |
1,324,798 | Insects play a large role in what is known about neurosecretion. In simpler organisms neurosecretion mechanisms regulate the heart, the process of metamorphosis, and directly influences the development of the gonadal function. In more advanced organisms the gonadal function is manipulated by the intermediary endocrine ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29477686 | 1,324,071 |
1,872,683 | The blades of wind turbine are complex structures that incorporate composite materials. As such, they have reportedly posed unique challenges for inspection challenges, possessing relatively thick spar cap structures and porous bond lines, varying core material, along with a multitude of possible manufacturing defects ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7792156 | 1,871,606 |
238,967 | The perceived causes of sexual orientation have a significant bearing on the status of sexual minorities in the eyes of social conservatives. The Family Research Council, a conservative Christian think tank in Washington, D.C., argues in the book "Getting It Straight" that finding people are born gay "would advance the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51614 | 238,847 |
220,556 | Generally speaking, in the case of nuclear energy the cost of fuel has the lowest share in total energy costs of all fuel consuming energy forms (i.e. Fossil fuels, biomass and nuclear). Furthermore, given the immense energy density of nuclear fuel (particularly in the form of enriched uranium or high grade plutonium),... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4913827 | 220,447 |
687,960 | Electrophysiological techniques take advantage of the fact that when a group of neurons in the brain fire together, they create an electric dipole or current. The technique of EEG measures this electric current using sensors on the scalp, while MEG measures the magnetic fields that are generated by these currents. In a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=179092 | 687,602 |
400,176 | On 23 January 1963, the carrier departed Hampton Roads for warfare exercises in the Caribbean. In late February, she interrupted these operations to join a sea hunt for the Venezuelan freighter "Anzoátegui", which had been hijacked by a group of pro-Castro mutineers led by the second mate. After the mutineers had surre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=245903 | 399,977 |
1,194,832 | In these circumstances, Calcutta University was pleasantly surprised to receive the princely gifts of Sir Taraknath Palit, an eminent barrister and advocate of national education during the Anti-Partition movement(1905). In June and October 1912, he donated total assets of fourteen and a half lakh rupees which included... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62858858 | 1,194,192 |
275,050 | While formaldehyde is an essential ingredient of cellular metabolism in mammals, studies have linked prolonged inhalation of formaldehyde gases to cancer. Engineered wood composites have been found to emit potentially harmful amounts of formaldehyde gas in two ways: unreacted free formaldehyde and the chemical decompos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276504 | 274,902 |
696,522 | Nicolas Evans and Stephen C. Levinson are two linguists who have written against the existence of linguistic universals, making a particular mention towards issues with Chomsky's proposal for a Universal Grammar. They argue that across the 6,000-8,000 languages spoken around the world today, there are merely strong ten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=893696 | 696,158 |
235,441 | The university has athletic facilities open to both their varsity teams as well as to their students. Opened in 2015, the Physical Activity and Wellness (PAW) Centre opened as a partnership between the Students' Union, Graduate Students Association, the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alber... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242057 | 235,322 |
894,180 | After a gestation period of 10–13 months, females give birth to litters of 1–6 (usually 2–3) pups. The number of offspring is not correlated with female size; each female produces an estimated average of 12 pups over her entire lifetime. Parturition occurs from May to August (autumn and winter) in French Polynesia, in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1011239 | 893,710 |
1,738,934 | Waring's mathematical style is highly analytical. In fact he criticised those British mathematicians who adhered too strictly to geometry. It is indicative that he was one of the subscribers of John Landen's "Residual Analysis" (1764), one of the works in which the tradition of the Newtonian fluxional calculus was more... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9723 | 1,737,957 |
246,408 | The USAF SR-71 Blackbird strategic reconnaissance aircraft made frequent use of air-to-air refueling. Indeed, design considerations of the aircraft made its mission impossible without aerial refueling. Based at Beale AFB in central California, SR-71s had to be forward-deployed to Europe and Japan prior to flying actual... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=237949 | 246,281 |
17,288 | In his 1803 paper, "Fundamental Principles of Equilibrium and Movement", the French mathematician Lazare Carnot proposed that in any machine, the accelerations and shocks of the moving parts represent losses of "moment of activity"; in any natural process there exists an inherent tendency towards the dissipation of use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9891 | 17,283 |
1,570,800 | The scope of Spain's history with science and technology generally overlaps with the history of science and the history of technology of human history, particularly in Europe. Classifying the degree of scientific, technical or technological notability of certain movements or inventions are established by the establishe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40134198 | 1,569,912 |
90,310 | The largest cloud seeding system is in the People's Republic of China. They believe that it increases the amount of rain over several increasingly arid regions, including its capital city, Beijing, by firing silver iodide rockets into the sky where rain is desired. There is even political strife caused by neighboring r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=449660 | 90,270 |
4,993 | Early in development, it was suggested that Atreus be cut, or his role significantly reduced because of the many developmental challenges and their costs. Barlog stated the game could have worked without Atreus, but it would have been completely different, likening it to the 2013 film "All Is Lost". Barlog said that wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50810460 | 4,990 |
1,967,349 | Among other rhomaleosaurids, the material of "Atychodracon" has been mainly referred to two genera prior to its separation, namely "Rhomaleosaurus" and "Eurycleidus". Recent studies find little kinship between "Atychodracon" and true "Rhomaleosaurus" spp., aside from traits that are shared between most rhomaleosaurids.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46526599 | 1,966,219 |
965,131 | The testimonies of the Joint Chiefs were seen as particularly effective in allaying concerns, as were the reassurances issued by Kennedy, who had acquired a reputation for resoluteness against the Soviet Union in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Additionally, a number of prominent Republicans came out in support o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30592 | 964,622 |
479,980 | Korea did not begin to use money until the Goryeo period when coins began to flow in during China's Song dynasty (960-1279 AD) were imported and began to circulate. Tribute was paid to Song China and China exported silk, books, spices, glasses, incense, precious stones and textiles, tea, medicine, and ceramics while Go... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16234875 | 479,738 |
922,021 | Eight months later on August 7, 2008, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed a higher education bond bill with $100 million directed towards the construction of a new integrated sciences complex at the Morrissey Boulevard entrance of the university's campus, a second $100 million directed towards constructing a ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99867 | 921,535 |
930,909 | The exploration of outer space started in earnest with the launch of Sputnik 1 by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957. This was the first man-made satellite orbiting the Earth. Subsequent successful launches, both in the Soviet Union (e.g., the Sputnik and Cosmos programs), and in the U.S. (e.g., the Explorer program), ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3773230 | 930,418 |
643,106 | Sullivan served as Payload Commander on STS-45, the first Spacelab mission dedicated to NASA's Mission to Planet Earth. It lifted off in the "Discovery" on March 24, 1992. During this nine-day mission, the crew operated the twelve experiments that constituted the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science carg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=498730 | 642,767 |
1,856,683 | Also, in the 1990s Insoll completed a series of smaller research projects to assess Islamic archaeological remains in varied parts of sub-Saharan Africa which contributed to a major monograph, "The Archaeology of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa" (2003). In 1994 whilst supporting Rachel MacLean in her PhD research in Rakai ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38891541 | 1,855,615 |
767,695 | Attention and concentration are assessed by several tests, commonly serial sevens test subtracting 7 from 100 and subtracting 7 from the difference 5 times. Alternatively: spelling a five-letter word backwards, saying the months or days of the week in reverse order, serial threes (subtract three from twenty five times)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1065357 | 767,283 |
973,824 | In 1840, the state of Maryland purchased the land that the university is located on today. At that time, it was known as the Stabler Estate, owned by the prominent Stabler family of Baltimore County. James P. Stabler, the chief engineer and superintendent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was connected to the estate. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=375259 | 973,314 |
2,162,857 | Another component of an "intelligent" aircraft structure is the ability to sense and diagnose potential threats to its structural integrity. This differs from conventional non-destructive testing (NDT) by the fact that Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) uses sensors that are permanently bonded or embedded in the struct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37292180 | 2,161,622 |
1,326,345 | Despite the fact that PPIs have revolutionized the treatment of GERD, there is still room for improvement in the speed of onset of acid suppression as well as mode of action that is independent of an acidic environment and also better inhibition of the proton pump. Therefore, a new class of PPIs, "potassium-competitive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29482459 | 1,325,618 |
1,087,437 | The formation of a bivalent occurs during the first division of meiosis (in the Zygotene stage of meiotic prophase 1). In most organisms, each replicated chromosome (composed of two identical sister chromatids) elicits formation of DNA double-strand breaks during the leptotene phase. These breaks are repaired by homolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6371716 | 1,086,878 |
832,714 | Hypothesized ways to gain options include AI systems trying to:“"... break out of a contained environment; hack; get access to financial resources, or additional computing resources; make backup copies of themselves; gain unauthorized capabilities, sources of information, or channels of influence; mislead/lie to humans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50785023 | 832,265 |
1,716,343 | Multiple sclerosis, or MS, is the most prominent of the demyelinating diseases, affecting at least 30 in 100000 people worldwide on average. The ratio is much higher than that in certain areas of the world. While the early stages of multiple sclerosis are less discernible, the chronic stages can greatly reduce an indiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7138424 | 1,715,374 |
958,362 | Conformal mappings are invaluable for solving problems in engineering and physics that can be expressed in terms of functions of a complex variable yet exhibit inconvenient geometries. By choosing an appropriate mapping, the analyst can transform the inconvenient geometry into a much more convenient one. For example, o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50627 | 957,856 |
1,401,680 | Of these water is the principal, and was formerly believed to have percolated downwards from the Earth's surface to the heated rocks below, but is now generally admitted to be an integral part of the magma. Many peculiarities of the structure of the plutonic rocks as contrasted with the lavas may reasonably be accounte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3864143 | 1,400,893 |
1,127,727 | Before 1930 the Canadian Army was a small cadre of professional soldiers augmented by civilian volunteers and, in the Second World War, conscripts. It was basically a colonial institution that closely followed the traditions, doctrine and training routines of the British Army. After 1945, Canada began breaking loose fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3110164 | 1,127,149 |
1,031,939 | In 1976, he suggested adapting CERN's Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) to collide protons and antiprotons in the same ring – the Proton-Antiproton Collider. Using Simon van der Meers technology of stochastic cooling, the Antiproton Accumulator was also built. The collider started running in 1981 and, in early 1983, an in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44932 | 1,031,403 |
840,565 | Particle accelerators are a well-developed technology used in scientific research. They use electromagnetic fields to accelerate and direct charged particles along a predetermined path, and electrostatic "lenses" to focus these streams for collisions. The cathode ray tube in many twentieth-century televisions and compu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2077685 | 840,115 |
1,773,941 | Clarke was a fellow of the ACM and the IEEE. He received a Technical Excellence Award from the Semiconductor Research Corporation in 1995 and an Allen Newell Award for Excellence in Research from the Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Department in 1999. He was a co-winner along with Randal Bryant, E. Allen Emerson, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15590926 | 1,772,944 |
369,359 | The 2ZZ-GE is a version built in Japan, in collaboration with Yamaha Motor Corporation. Bore x stroke is . It uses Multi-point Fuel Injection, VVTL-i, and features forged steel connecting rods. Compression ratio is 11.5:1, but necessitating "premium" gasoline (91 octane or above in the (R+M)/2 scale used in North Ameri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1332693 | 369,166 |
383,155 | The Barak 8 has a length of about 4.5 meters, a diameter of 0.225 meters at missile body, and 0.54 meters at the booster stage, a wingspan of 0.94 meters and weighs 275 kg including a 60 kg warhead which detonates at proximity. The missile has maximum speed of Mach 2 with a maximum operational range of 70 km, which was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34496251 | 382,960 |
1,138,538 | The understanding of iatrochemists helped to drive new knowledge of how drugs work and treat medical conditions. Specifically, one English iatrochemist, Thomas Willis (1621–1675), considered the effect of diaphoretics (sweat-promoting drugs) as resulting from the mechanisms of the drug entering the blood and associatin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2419633 | 1,137,945 |
16,478 | The MLRS was conceived as the General Support Rocket System (GSRS). In December 1975, the U.S. Army Missile Command issued a request for proposal to industry to assist in determining the best technical approach for the GSRS. In March 1976, the Army awarded contracts to Boeing, Emerson Electric, Martin Marietta, Northru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=932976 | 16,473 |
2,232,720 | Noll Glacier () is a glacier, nearly 20 nautical miles (37 km) long, draining northeast from Jones Nunatak in central Wilson Hills. The glacier turns northwest at Wegert Bluff and enters the lower part of Tomilin Glacier before the latter debouches into the sea. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from sur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29409487 | 2,231,453 |
694,958 | Holland continued to improve his designs and worked on several experimental boats that were not accepted by the US Navy, including the "USS Plunger". He was eventually successful with a privately built type initially named "Holland VI", launched on 17 May 1897. This was the first submarine having power to run submerged... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71762 | 694,595 |
305,914 | The interpretation by Frey & Riess became the dominant one, but was challenged in 2004 by Sanders, who showed experimentally that, whereas an alternate movement might have caused excessive pitching, a simultaneous movement would have caused only a slight pitch, which could have been easily controlled by the hind flippe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1398078 | 305,750 |
1,606,205 | Spray forming offers certain advantages over both conventional ingot metallurgy and more specialized techniques such as powder metallurgy. Firstly, it is a flexible process and can be used to manufacture a wide range of materials, some of which are difficult to produce by other methods, e.g. Al-5wt% Li alloys or Al-SiC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4927657 | 1,605,301 |
959,055 | A study by Facebook and researchers at Cornell University, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2014, collected data from hundreds of thousands of Facebook users after temporarily removing certain types of emotional content from their News Feed. Many considered this a violation of the req... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=447842 | 958,549 |
455,153 | Construction began on the Smolensk NPP in the late 1970s. The NPP was originally intended to be constructed in two phases with units 1 and 2 starting in 1975 and 1976. Followed by units 3 and 4 in the mid-late 1980s. Unit 3 began construction in 1984. However, the construction of the fourth reactor was interrupted by t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20003674 | 454,931 |
964,237 | In a survey from 2020, researchers analyzed several frameworks that bring embodied cognition theory into clever classroom practices for the teaching and learning of mathematics. The embodied design-based research program identifies and classifies at least two forms of embodied designs: perception and action-based desig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33034640 | 963,728 |
496,471 | Otto Rössler, a German chemistry professor at the University of Tübingen, argues that micro black holes created in the LHC could grow exponentially.<ref name="ORInterview2008/06/25">Patorski, Gregor (10 September 2008). "Grösstes Verbrechen der Menschheit" (in German). "20 Minuten".</ref> On 4 July 2008, Rössler met wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18079182 | 496,215 |
2,032,515 | During her tenure at UMD, Abshire has focused her research on CMOS biosensors; adaptive integrated circuits (ICs) and IC sensors; hybrid microsystems incorporating CMOS, MEMS, optoelectronics, microfluidics, and biological components; low power mixed-signal ICs for a variety of applications, including cell-based sensin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67579145 | 2,031,345 |
1,920,723 | The early study of hadrosaurid dietary adaptations and feeding behavior was summarized in a 1942 monograph by Richard Swann Lull and Nelda Wright. Unlike previous authors, they moved away from soft water plants as the major part of the diet, but retained the interpretation of an amphibious lifestyle. They drew attentio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23481302 | 1,919,620 |
1,463,474 | E-liquid exposure whether intentional or unintentional from ingestion, eye contact, or skin contact can cause adverse effects such as seizures and anoxic brain trauma. The nicotine in e-liquids readily absorbs into the bloodstream when a person uses an e-cigarette. Upon entering the blood, nicotine stimulates the adren... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61711836 | 1,462,651 |
1,626,197 | Understanding the pathology of these neurodegenerative diseases and establishment of therapeutic interventions require recognition of the processes of induction and inhibition of gliogenesis and the regulating mechanisms coordinating the intricate system established from both actions. Cell replacement strategies are no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25260360 | 1,625,279 |
955,089 | McClintock's breakthrough publications, and support from her colleagues, led to her being awarded several postdoctoral fellowships from the National Research Council. This funding allowed her to continue to study genetics at Cornell, the University of Missouri, and the California Institute of Technology, where she work... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55188 | 954,584 |
1,492,864 | The Cell was initially developed as a lower-cost alternative to conventional column flotation cells for recovering fine particles, and was first used in the Mount Isa lead–zinc concentrator in 1988. Since then, use of the technology has spread to include coal flotation, base and precious metal flotation, potash flotati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40142408 | 1,492,025 |
2,022,145 | The gunner's sight was modified over and over again and adapted to new kinds of ammunition. At first there were scales for the HEF shells (OF-412) with full and with reduced powder charge, for the APHE shell (BR-412) and for the coaxial machine gun. In 1964, Soviet designers started to work on an improved 3UBM6 hyper-v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29784708 | 2,020,982 |
1,065,085 | Physicist Igor Kurchatov asked Khariton to become part of the Soviet atomic project in 1943, in Laboratory No. 2 of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In May 1945, as part of a team of physicists sent to Berlin to investigate Nazi atomic bomb research, Khariton found 100 tonnes of uranium oxide, which was transported bac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=475218 | 1,064,531 |
490,417 | Like coma, chronic coma results mostly from cortical or white-matter damage after neuronal or axonal injury, or from focal brainstem lesions. Usually the metabolism in the grey matter decreases to 50-70% of the normal range. The patient lacks awareness and arousal. The patient lies with eyes closed and is not aware of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31315770 | 490,163 |
1,874,443 | It is agreed that the most important characteristic of opto-electronic systems is their noise robustness and insensitivity to electromagnetic fields. What is not considered, however, is that, in addition to the fiber optic line and the output actuator, such a system includes the source of light pulses on the transmitti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52626653 | 1,873,366 |
1,237,586 | The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was officially established on 7 February 1958, taking over service-control of space programs, with the intent to reduce interservice rivalry, raise the profile of space, and reduce unneeded redundancy. ARPA did not operate its own laboratories or personnel, but rather direct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66185637 | 1,236,922 |
21,835 | The United States Clean Air Act, passed in 1990, put mercury on a list of toxic pollutants that need to be controlled to the greatest possible extent. Thus, industries that release high concentrations of mercury into the environment agreed to install maximum achievable control technologies (MACT). In March 2005, the EP... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18617142 | 21,826 |
547,995 | Setting up a sequence of cameras to photograph the movement of a subject as it progresses in locomotion originally created chronophotographs. This could be done via tripwire or electrically timed shutter release attached to each individual camera. The photographer then paired together a sequence of twelve different wet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1425902 | 547,708 |
179,954 | Research continues into the best imaging method for detecting and staging endometrial cancer. As current diagnostic methods are invasive and inaccurate, researchers are looking into new ways to catch endometrial cancer, especially in its early stages. A study found that using a technique involving infrared light on sim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=412809 | 179,860 |
1,423,868 | Having Flammer syndrome does not necessarily mean that an individual is sick. Most of those affected are and remain healthy. Certain diseases such as arteriosclerosis and its consequences are probably even rarer. Best known is the higher risk of normal tension glaucoma, a disease with an impaired regulation of blood fl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44350580 | 1,423,066 |
98,343 | Most of the models in "The Motion Picture" were created by Magicam, a Paramount subsidiary. The main "Enterprise" model was eight feet long, to a scale of 1/120th scale size, or to . It took 14 months and $150,000 to build. Instead of standard fiberglass used for older models, the new "Enterprise" was constructed with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277006 | 98,301 |
2,159,345 | It is important to consider potential problems when selecting particular bones to study. If there is a weak optical contrast, it makes counting the arrested growth rings difficult and often inaccurate. There is also a possible presence of additional growth marks that are created to supplement weaker areas of growth. In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9330285 | 2,158,113 |
465,883 | Around this same time, genetic and plant breeding experiments in maize began. Maize that has been self-pollinated experiences a phenomenon called inbreeding depression. Researchers, like Nils Heribert-Nilsson, recognized that by crossing plants and forming hybrids, they were not only able to combine traits from two des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22346936 | 465,650 |
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