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1,531,272 | A minimal system was delivered in a single 19″ rack about 60″ high with the card cage in the bottom, the disk drive in the middle, the tape drive above it, then the 2 inch high control panel with a floppy disk drive and ignition key on the top. This was considered very compact at the time. At least one machine in Austr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=459227 | 1,530,406 |
1,910,153 | A light-acquisition problem exists for aquatic algae since submergence can reduce light intensity and dampen photosynthesis. For land plants, full-spectrum of sunlight, from blue to red light, is available for chlorophyll absorption. However, red light is absorbed in the few meters of water closest to the surface of an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31334548 | 1,909,055 |
884,093 | The PS3 client was developed in a collaborative effort between Sony and the Pande lab and was first released as a standalone client on March 23, 2007. Its release made Folding@home the first volunteer computing project to use PS3s. On September 18 of the following year, the PS3 client became a channel of Life with Play... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=413102 | 883,629 |
1,462,357 | In April 2008, the first batch of "1541 Ultimate" shipped, a project by the hobbyist VHDL-developer Gideon Zweijtzer. This is a cartridge that carries an Action Replay and Final Cartridge (whatever the user prefers) and a very compatible FPGA-emulated 1541 drive that is fed from a built-in SD-card slot (.d64, prg etc.)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3405797 | 1,461,535 |
927,840 | Spiral Dynamics describes how value systems and worldviews emerge from the interaction of "life conditions" and the mind's capacities. The emphasis on life conditions as essential to the progression through value systems is unusual among similar theories, and leads to the view that no level is inherently positive or ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47482811 | 927,352 |
1,245,724 | Most cervicals have relatively short neural arches, but in the dorsals they are more elongated. The axis is well preserved and has a length of with platycoelus (slightly concave at both ends) centra. Its odontoid process is fused with the anterior facet of centrum and has a blunt depression to the bottom area in order ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5283576 | 1,245,049 |
347,684 | The loss of the JSF contract to Lockheed Martin in 2001 was a major blow to Boeing, as it represented the most important international fighter aircraft project since the Lightweight Fighter program competition of the 1960s and 1970s, which had led to the F-16 Fighting Falcon and F/A-18 Hornet. At the time, the producti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=641441 | 347,503 |
1,202,675 | As a major component and field activity of the Naval Sea Systems Command, the Carderock Division provides cradle-to-grave support for its technical products over a wide range of scientific areas related to surface and undersea platforms. The Division addresses the full spectrum of applied maritime science and technolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3215583 | 1,202,032 |
792,596 | Dissolved oxygen is a requirement for aerobic respiration, and while the surface ocean is usually oxygen-rich due to atmospheric gas exchange and photosynthesis, the mesopelagic zone is not in direct contact with the atmosphere, due to stratification at the base of the surface mixed layer. Organic matter is exported to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=565530 | 792,171 |
259,241 | The assumption that the contents of short-term or working memory decay over time, unless decay is prevented by rehearsal, goes back to the early days of experimental research on short-term memory. It is also an important assumption in the multi-component theory of working memory. The most elaborate decay-based theory o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33912 | 259,107 |
701,497 | The optimal diet model also predicts that different types of animals should adopt different diets based on variations in search time. This idea is an extension of the model of prey choice that was discussed above. The equation, E/h > E/(h+S), can be rearranged to give: S > [(Eh)/E] – h. This rearranged form gives the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3237391 | 701,132 |
11,465 | The US Army developed a new CLU as an improvement over the Block I version. The new CLU is 70 percent smaller, 40 percent lighter, and has a 50 percent battery life increase. Features of the lightweight CLU are: a long-wave infrared (IR) thermographic camera; a high-definition display with improved resolution; integrat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315575 | 11,460 |
1,793,248 | The central provisions of the 1980s reform related to funding, the technology market and cooperative ventures, and the rights and potential job mobility of individual researchers. The intent of the reformers was to change the basic conditions of the economic system, so that the self-interest that had pushed managers of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14246598 | 1,792,239 |
1,533,009 | Later, still at Ames, Jones promoted the idea of an oblique wing. (The first known oblique wing design was Blohm & Voss P202, proposed by Richard Vogt in 1942.) Jones's wind tunnel studies indicated that such a wing design on a supersonic transport might achieve twice the fuel economy of an aircraft with conventional w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=774400 | 1,532,141 |
1,889,418 | Heck oversaw tests at Coast and Geodetic Survey headquarters in Washington, D.C., that demonstrated that shipboard recording of the time of an explosion could be performed accurately enough for his concept to work. He worked with Dr. E. A. Eckhardt, a physicist, and M. Keiser, an electrical engineer, of the National Bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52205564 | 1,888,335 |
254,135 | Bush soon became dissatisfied with the dilatory way the project was run, with its indecisiveness over the selection of sites for the pilot plants. He was particularly disturbed at the allocation of an AA-3 priority, which would delay completion of the pilot plants by three months. Bush complained about these problems t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32767 | 254,002 |
65,374 | While many transhumanist theorists and advocates seek to apply reason, science and technology for the purposes of reducing poverty, disease, disability and malnutrition around the globe, transhumanism is distinctive in its particular focus on the applications of technologies to the improvement of human bodies at the in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30299 | 65,349 |
609,303 | Inconel 625 was designed as a solid solution strengthened material with no significant microstructure. This holds true at low and high temperatures, but there is a region (923 to 1148 K) where precipitates form that are detrimental to the creep properties, and thus the strength, of the alloy. Under any creep conditions... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48216277 | 608,992 |
1,213,859 | A mature perithecium may contain as many as 300 asci, each derived from identical fusion diploid nuclei. Ordinarily, in nature, when the perithecia mature the ascospores are ejected rather violently into the air. These ascospores are heat resistant and, in the lab, require heating at 60 °C for 30 minutes to induce germ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1474988 | 1,213,207 |
1,150,870 | Currently, receptor modulators are categorized in the Agonist, Partial Agonist, Selective Tissue Modulators, Antagonist, and Inverse Agonist categories in terms of the affect they cause. They are further divided into Orthosteric or Allosteric Modulators according to how they effect said result. Typically, a chemical ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43345677 | 1,150,263 |
1,602,201 | The protein binding principles in EBA are the same as in classical column chromatography and the common ion-exchange, hydrophobic interaction and affinity chromatography ligands can be used. After the adsorption step is complete, the fluidized bed is washed to flush out any remaining particulates. Elution of the adsorb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7949248 | 1,601,300 |
1,176,145 | Since PAMAM dendrimers have shown penetration capability to a wide range of cell lines, simple PAMAM-drug complexes would affect a broad spectrum of cells upon introduction to a living system. Thus, additional targeting ligands are required for the selective penetration of cell types. For example, PAMAM derivatized wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41237117 | 1,175,523 |
2,111,626 | Since 1974 ISSP has conducted annually an international crisis simulation, called "Simulex", that spans over two days. The simulation puts real countries in hypothetical but realistic crisis situations. Students are teamed into the civil and military leadership of each country involved, need to react to sudden and moun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42183140 | 2,110,411 |
994,612 | Other systems for the measurement of dynamic quantities that used imperial and US customary units are the British Gravitational System (BG) proposed by Arthur Mason Worthington and the English Engineering System (EE). Both systems depend on the gravitational acceleration, and use the pound-force as the unit of force bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39913055 | 994,095 |
1,786,580 | For temperatures in the zero limit, the undamped Kelvin waves result in more kinks appearing in the shapes of the vortices. For large length scales the quantum turbulence manifests as a Kolmogorov energy cascade (numerical simulations using the Gross-Pitaevskii equation and the vortex-filament model confirmed this effe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=393139 | 1,785,575 |
1,142,049 | The crystallization of the exon junction complex has revealed the structural organization of its protein components. The core of the complex is elongated with an overall dimension of 99Å by 67Å by 54Å. It is organized around the eIF4AIII factor. The factor itself consists of two different types of conformations around ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22300778 | 1,141,455 |
1,693,292 | Carl Friedrich Gauss is credited with an 1820 proposal for a method to signal extraterrestrial beings in the form of drawing an immense right triangle and three squares on the surface of the Earth, intended as a symbolical representation of the Pythagorean theorem, large enough to be seen from the Moon or Mars. Details... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34802284 | 1,692,341 |
1,078,546 | In 1972, another referendum was passed adding Oak Park and River Forest, Riverside Brookfield, and Ridgewood high school districts to the original three, forming Community College District 504. This district was expanded to its current size in 1974 by the addition of Rosemont and Pennoyer school districts. By 1975, enr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1159738 | 1,077,991 |
727,940 | Toumey found that the published versions of Feynman's talk had a negligible influence in the twenty years after it was first published, as measured by citations in the scientific literature, and not much more influence in the decade after the Scanning Tunneling Microscope was invented in 1981. Interest in "Plenty of Ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23680 | 727,557 |
389,689 | Exelon Corporation was created in October 2000 by the merger of PECO Energy Company and Unicom, of Philadelphia and Chicago respectively. Unicom owned Commonwealth Edison. The PECO share in AmerGen was acquired by Exelon during late 2000. Exelon acquired British Energy's share in AmerGen in 2003, and transferred Unit 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1750486 | 389,494 |
1,062,308 | Click chemistry reactions are known to be high efficiency and have fast reaction rates, yet there is considerable variability in the overall reaction rate depending on the functionality of the alkene. To better understand the kinetics of thiol-ene reactions, calculations and experiments of transition-state and reaction... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46675255 | 1,061,754 |
1,617,303 | For these reasons, blue distinctions (involving colors on any tritan line,) are lost for small symbols. This is called small-field tritanopia, which is a color deficiency for blueness-differences among small visual fields, to which everyone is subject. Hence, "blueness differences should be discounted (or even eliminat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64400684 | 1,616,390 |
11,282 | This allows some flexibility in notation, and there has never been an official or universally accepted standard for Roman numerals. Usage in ancient Rome varied greatly and became thoroughly chaotic in medieval times. Even the post-renaissance restoration of a largely "classical" notation has failed to produce total co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25657 | 11,277 |
1,111,685 | In 1992 a company was formed by Brad Barker (a former insurance salesman), Joe Wright (a Houston-based businessman), and Larry Stanley (an engineer and owner of an oil well), after inviting professional inventor Doug Malewicki, with the goal of developing a new version of the rocket pack. By 1994 they had a working pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3584174 | 1,111,119 |
553,154 | Gamma radiation sources, most commonly iridium-192 and cobalt-60, are used to inspect a variety of materials. The vast majority of radiography concerns the testing and grading of welds on piping, pressure vessels, high-capacity storage containers, pipelines, and some structural welds. Other tested materials include con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6856520 | 552,865 |
1,392,932 | The oxidation potential (Eh, measured in volts) is, as in any reaction system, the thermodynamic driving force of anaerobic respiration, which takes place in oxygen depleted environments. Prokaryotes are among the cells that have anaerobic respiration as metabolic strategy for survival. The electron transport takes pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47746148 | 1,392,161 |
1,479,986 | "Lymnaea stagnalis" has a relatively simple central nervous system (CNS) consisting of a total of ~20,000 neurons, many of them individually identifiable, organized in a ring of interconnected ganglia. Most neurons of the "Lymnaea stagnalis" central nervous system are large in size (diameter: up to ~100 μm), thus allow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9859599 | 1,479,152 |
901,308 | The estimates of likelihood associated with the optimistic bias are based on how closely an event matches a person's overall idea of the specific event. Some researchers suggest that the representativeness heuristic is a reason for the optimistic bias: individuals tend to think in stereotypical categories rather than a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7224456 | 900,832 |
1,240,874 | A major reason single-use bioprocessing (SUS) is popular with pharmaceutical companies and contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) is because a process area/facility can quickly change from one process (drug product) to another. This is due to, as stated previously, reduced qualification and validation procedures. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31108393 | 1,240,203 |
2,118,174 | In 1996, a Master of Christian Studies (M.C.S.) program was added to the curriculum in response to the needs of those involved in lay and focused para-church ministries. In 1997, the Youth Ministry graduate programs began, another first for the Philippines and Asia. In response to the need to train church workers for m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21495180 | 2,116,956 |
1,885,831 | Although a prolific describer of species, his legacy to myriapod taxonomy has been mixed. Many of Chamberlin's descriptions of centipedes and millipedes were often brief and/or unillustrated, or illustrated in ways which hindered their use in identification by other researchers. He described some new species based sole... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3997448 | 1,884,749 |
731,262 | In St Vincent's Hospital, the Victor Chang Lowy Packer Building was established in 2008 with $35 million from the state government and $45 million in corporate and private donations. Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark officially opened the building and declared that Chang "was an original thinker and saw the need for rese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1028946 | 730,877 |
1,554,035 | In October 2017, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced funding for 38 projects related to the Human Cell Atlas. Among them was a grant of undisclosed value to the Zuckerman Institute of the Columbia University Medical Center at Columbia University. The grant, titled "A strategy for mapping the human spinal cord with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63798100 | 1,553,154 |
186,705 | Arachidonic acid supplementation in daily doses of 1,000–1,500 mg for 50 days has been well tolerated during several clinical studies, with no significant side effects reported. All common markers of health, including kidney and liver function, serum lipids, immunity, and platelet aggregation appear to be unaffected wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=267909 | 186,608 |
447,158 | Printed CNT thin-film transistors (TFTs) are attractive for driving organic light-emitting diode displays, showing higher mobility than amorphous silicon (~1 cm V s) and can be deposited by low-temperature, nonvacuum methods. Flexible CNT TFTs with a mobility of 35 cm V s and an on/off ratio of 6 were demonstrated. A v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7452926 | 446,941 |
434,054 | "Most recently, we have shown that BDNF appears to be a major player not only in central metabolic pathways but also as a regulator of metabolism in skeletal muscle. Hippocampal samples from Alzheimer’s disease donors show decreased BDNF expression and individuals with Alzheimer’s disease have low plasma levels of BDNF... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34368888 | 433,840 |
1,517,023 | 50 riders from 19 nations contested the eventing competition, but only 4 of the 14 nations fielding a team would finish, most with incredibly high scores. Germany won both individual and team gold medals, and there is some speculation as to whether, as the home nation, they knew some of the pitfalls of the cross-countr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2378596 | 1,516,171 |
613,763 | Diagnosis of MCC begins with a clinical examination of the skin and lymph nodes. Following clinical exam, definitive diagnosis of Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) requires examination of biopsy tissue to identify its histopathologic features. An ideal biopsy specimen is either a punch biopsy or a full-thickness incisional b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2554499 | 613,451 |
410,379 | "Tomb Raider" was first confirmed in 1995, although details were kept scarce by the developers. There was little attention from the press until a demo was run at the 1996 Electronic Entertainment Expo, causing the press and public to pay more attention. There was a huge amount of publicity, much of which did not involv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3926606 | 410,177 |
341,071 | "Hydras" undergo morphallaxis (tissue regeneration) when injured or severed. Typically, "Hydras" will reproduce by just budding off a whole new individual; the bud will occur around two-thirds of the way down the body axis. When a "Hydra" is cut in half, each half will regenerate and form into a small "Hydra"; the "hea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13767 | 340,890 |
1,517,970 | Icy particles are more likely to stick and to resist compression in collisions which may allow the growth of large porous bodies. If the growth of these bodies is fractal, with their porosity increasing as larger porous bodies collide, their radial drift timescales become long, allowing them to grow until they are comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48840652 | 1,517,112 |
289,419 | Another possibility is that the effects of early-life stress on HPA functioning are mediated by maternal care. Frequent human handling of the rat pups may cause their mother to exhibit more nurturant behavior, such as licking and grooming. Nurturant maternal care, in turn, may enhance HPA functioning in at least two wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191003 | 289,262 |
1,480,298 | Columbia University's Jesup Lectures were the starting point for many of the most important works of the modern evolutionary synthesis. The presenters introduced the connection between two important discoveries—the units of evolution (genes) with selection as the primary mechanism of evolution. In 1941, Edgar Anderson ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1591079 | 1,479,464 |
1,260,321 | Technological transitions (TT) can best be described as a collection of theories regarding how technological innovations occur, the driving forces behind them, and how they are incorporated into society. TT draws on a number of fields, including history of science, technology studies, and evolutionary economics. Alongs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34066587 | 1,259,634 |
2,234,818 | Gösta Pettersson is an emeritus professor in biochemistry at Lund University, Sweden. He was born in 1937 in Varberg, Sweden. He gained his Ph.D. in 1966 based on a thesis about natural products. He developed methods in enzyme kinetics based on mathematical modelling and proper statistical analysis, especially for the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55155964 | 2,233,549 |
450,940 | In 2012, concerned about inconsistency of dosage, along with the need for a responder having some specialized training in making the naloxone injection in a tense, highly- charged emergency environment, Phil Skolnick, then director of the Division of Therapeutics & Medical Consequences at the National Institute on Drug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6262709 | 450,721 |
1,007,050 | In 1938, John F. Coales began the development of 600-MHz (50-cm) equipment. The higher frequency allowed narrower beams (needed for air search) and antennas more suitable for shipboard use. The first 50-cm set was Type 282. With 25-kW output and a pair of Yagi antennas incorporating lobe switching, it was trialed in Ju... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27693223 | 1,006,531 |
487,941 | In February 2008, Intel and STMicroelectronics revealed the first multilevel (MLC) PRAM array prototype. The prototype stored two logical bits in each physical cell, in effect 256 Mb of memory stored in a 128 Mb physical array. This means that instead of the normal two states—fully amorphous and fully crystalline—an ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=850973 | 487,691 |
1,847,758 | Lake Zwemlust, a hypertrophic pond used as a swimming pool in The Netherlands with an area of 1.5 hectares and an average depth of 1.5 meters, was treated in March 1987. The initial Secchi disk transparency was only 0.3 meters, less than the 1 meter maximum permitted for swimming pools in The Netherlands. In the first ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35272703 | 1,846,701 |
1,244,482 | The man responsible for the Hull system was Edward B. Ellington, who had risen to become the managing director of the Hydraulic Engineering Company, based in Chester, since first joining it in 1869. At the time of its installation, such a scheme seemed like "a leap in the dark", according to R. H. Tweddell writing in 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4488634 | 1,243,809 |
107,164 | By the 1890s, suffrage leaders began to recognize the need to broaden their base of support to achieve success in passing suffrage legislation at the national, state, and local levels. While western women, state suffrage organizations, and the AWSA concentrated on securing women's voting rights for specific states, eff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31670 | 107,119 |
1,619,074 | The Public Affairs Office works with the PAAC to advocate for increased research budgets for the major governmental funding agencies, primarily the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. ASBMB has developed a set of recommendations for pre-medical course requirements consistent with the new ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13785670 | 1,618,159 |
339,274 | At the opening round in Australia, Häkkinen was forced into retiring as his car developed a throttle issue. However, he managed his first victory of the season in Brazil, despite his car developing a gearbox problem early in the race. Häkkinen retired from the race in San Marino when he collided with a barrier while le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63073 | 339,094 |
901,542 | At one time the cost of miniature technology limited the usage of UAVs to larger and better funded groups such as the US military, but due to falling costs of UAV technology, including vehicles and monitoring equipment in their simpler forms, it has become available to groups that before would not have had the funding ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3524423 | 901,066 |
949,286 | Over the following months, tests on the prototypes and pre-production P-59s revealed a multitude of problems including poor engine response and reliability (common shortcomings of all early turbojets), poor lateral and directional stability at speeds over , so that it tended to "snake" and was a poor gunnery platform. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=364859 | 948,782 |
108,895 | Information security threats come in many different forms. Some of the most common threats today are software attacks, theft of intellectual property, theft of identity, theft of equipment or information, sabotage, and information extortion. Viruses, worms, phishing attacks, and Trojan horses are a few common examples ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15036 | 108,850 |
1,658,793 | In circumstances where cancer patients have widespread and painful bony metastases, the administration of Sr results in the delivery of beta particles directly to the area of bony problem, where calcium turnover is greatest. Consequently intravenous or intracavity administration of Sr may be helpful in the palliation o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1123354 | 1,657,860 |
234,888 | Having already used another religious term of great importance, Zion (Jerusalem), to coin the name of their movement, being associated with the return to Zion. The term was considered appropriate for the secular Jewish political movement of Zionism to adopt at the turn of the 20th century; it was used to refer to their... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33610767 | 234,769 |
376,606 | Mechanical testing inside TEM columns might help understand phenomena that happen while straining samples, such as necking. Multiple methods of mechanical testing can be conducted inside a TEM. Current instruments have the ability to place samples under tension, compression, shearing and bending. One of the pioneers of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=214513 | 376,411 |
932,950 | Ashoka renounced war and conquest by violence and forbade the killing of many animals. Ashoka set an example of vegetarianism by almost stopping the consumption of meat in the royal household. Since he wanted to conquer the world through love and faith, he sent many missions to propagate Dhamma. Such missions were sent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40513032 | 932,458 |
1,619,528 | In 2014 the integrity of CIRM's grant review process was challenged, after CIRM awarded a Stanford-led consortium $40 million stem cell genomics award, making it the largest CIRM research grant. In February 2013, CIRM reviewers evaluated applications for genomics awards but, for the first time, declined to send any gra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1143774 | 1,618,613 |
252,415 | The final and most powerful variant of the Barra engine featured in the FG-X XR6 Sprint. This engine is the most powerful six cylinder produced in Australia and was built in very limited numbers, with only 500 for Australia and 50 for New Zealand (True production is 560, as 10 pre-production vehicles were built and auc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4409642 | 252,282 |
1,548,629 | On 9 September 1943, aboard a luxury yacht in the Sea of Marmara just outside of Istanbul, the British ambassador to Turkey, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen secretly signed an armistice with the Hungarian diplomat László Veress under which Hungarian forces would surrender to British and American forces the moment they ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65256855 | 1,547,748 |
1,967,382 | After completing his education Karplus worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he became interested in the developing, but yet untested, theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED). The magnetic moment of the electron had been determined very precisely by means of a variety of experiments, but the be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4390780 | 1,966,252 |
2,103,396 | SSETI Express was the first spacecraft to be designed and built by European students and was launched by the European Space Agency. SSETI Express (Student Space Exploration & Technology Initiative) is a small spacecraft, similar in size and shape to a washing machine. On board the student-built spacecraft were three Cu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25111087 | 2,102,184 |
1,777,425 | Macintosh Quadra, Centris, PowerBook 500, Duo Dock II (for PowerBook Duo) and early Power Macintoshes have AAUI ports, which require external transceivers. By the time AAUI was nearing the end of its life, an AAUI transceiver could cost even more than an inexpensive Ethernet card on a PC—a disproportionate amount—as ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60445 | 1,776,424 |
888,383 | Chunks in motor learning are identified by pauses between successive actions in Terrace (2001). It is also suggested that during the sequence performance stage (after learning), participants download list items as chunks during pauses. He also argued for an operational definition of chunks suggesting a distinction betw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=931802 | 887,915 |
1,812,348 | He was baptised on 8 January 1787. His father, Thomas Drummond, was a gardener at Fotheringham estate. Little is known of his early life, but he certainly followed the usual course of apprenticeship leading to his "qualification" as a gardener. In 1808, he was employed by Mr Dickson (most probably George Dickson of Lei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4575461 | 1,811,315 |
1,079,513 | Using extreme examples is useful as a means of demonstrating effects that occur in less extreme configurations but are much more difficult to spot and therefore to explain. The first observation is an easy one (top left in the image captioned "Reversed head in various…"). If the stick head is rotated onto the reverse (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7099893 | 1,078,958 |
1,356,877 | The United States of America Computing Olympiad (USACO) is an online computer programming competition, which serves as qualification for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) in the United States of America. Primarily for secondary school students in the United States, the USACO offers four competitions (Dece... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=938717 | 1,356,127 |
1,815,144 | Early examples of the antivirulence approach include mainly the inactivation of bacterial toxins with anti-toxin antibodies administered to post-exposure patients (serological therapy that induces artificially acquired passive immunization). Since inactivation of toxin during infection has proven to be an effective way... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49122994 | 1,814,110 |
750,937 | The method of triangulation was first developed by Muslim mathematicians, who applied it to practical uses such as surveying and Islamic geography, as described by Abu Rayhan Biruni in the early 11th century. Biruni himself introduced triangulation techniques to measure the size of the Earth and the distances between v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6785051 | 750,539 |
285,328 | The endocannabinoid system is by molecular phylogenetic distribution of apparently ancient lipids in the plant kingdom, indicative of biosynthetic plasticity and potential physiological roles of endocannabinoid-like lipids in plants, and detection of arachidonic acid (AA) indicates chemotaxonomic connections between mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4617112 | 285,174 |
188,656 | The environmental factors of the coal industry are not only impacting air pollution, water management and land use but also is causing severe health effects by the burning of the coal. Air pollution is increasing in numbers of toxins such as mercury, lead, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and other heavy metals. This is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23754906 | 188,559 |
717,566 | From June 18 to 27, 2017 Lindgren was Commander of the NEEMO 22 mission to the Aquarius Reef Base, located 19 meters underwater off the coast of Florida. The NEEMO 22 mission focused on both exploration spacewalks and objectives related to the International Space Station and deep space missions. As an analogue for futu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23437049 | 717,189 |
1,104,786 | The objective of the Shuttle Ozone Limb Sounding Experiment (SOLSE) was to determine the altitude distribution of ozone in an attempt to understand its behavior so that quantitative changes in the composition of the atmosphere can be predicted. SOLSE was intended to perform ozone distribution that a nadir instrument ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=557153 | 1,104,223 |
208,008 | Performance improvement was also seen as an important outcome of learning that needed to be considered during the design process. The World Wide Web emerged as an online learning tool with hypertext and hypermedia being recognized as good tools for learning. As technology advanced and constructivist theory gained popul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=91820 | 207,901 |
433,477 | The early reptile-like amphibians were mostly aquatic, the first highly terrestrially adapted groups being the Seymouriamorpha and the Diadectomorpha. The seymouriamorphs were small to medium-sized animals with stout limbs, their remains are sometimes found in what has been interpreted as dry environments, indicating t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1227129 | 433,263 |
1,808,335 | This 2013 case report by Malik, Saxena, and Kamath investigates the “large, fungating, and ulcerated growth”(Malik, Saxena, and Kamath, 2013) on the scalp of a sixty-one-year-old woman. The tumour was painless and developed gradually over nine months. An initial diagnosis determined the growth to be a squamous cell mal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23150180 | 1,807,314 |
911,897 | Passive solar building design allows buildings to harness the energy of the sun efficiently without the use of any active solar mechanisms such as photovoltaic cells or solar hot water panels. Typically passive solar building designs incorporate materials with high thermal mass that retain heat effectively and strong i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2704720 | 911,418 |
1,113,937 | Ecotoxicology emerged after pollution events that occurred after World War II heightened awareness on the impact of toxic chemical and wastewater discharges towards humankind and the environment. The term "Ecotoxicology" was uttered for the first time in 1969 by René Truhaut, a toxicologist, during an environmental con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2673813 | 1,113,371 |
175,178 | The history of the spirit level was discussed in brief in an 1887 article appearing in "Scientific American". Melchisédech Thévenot, a French scientist, invented the instrument some time before February 2, 1661. This date can be established from Thevenot's correspondence with scientist Christiaan Huygens. Within a year... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=352353 | 175,087 |
1,726,166 | In 2000 Robertson, Seymour, and Thomas were supported by the American Institute of Mathematics to work on the strong perfect graph conjecture, a famous open question that had been raised by Claude Berge in the early 1960s. Seymour's student Maria Chudnovsky joined them in 2001, and in 2002 the four jointly proved the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1575708 | 1,725,195 |
443,021 | Helmut R. Wagner described "Phenomenology of Perception" as an important contribution to phenomenology. Rhiannon Goldthorpe called the book Merleau-Ponty's major work, noting that its discussion of subjects such as the relationship of the body to spatial experience, and sexuality, went beyond "the nominal range of his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3091798 | 442,806 |
1,298,785 | Aquifer contamination is a potential environmental concern. Organic and often toxic materials (such as phenol) could remain in the underground chamber after gasification if the chamber is not decommissioned. Site decommissioning and rehabilitation are standard requirements in resources development approvals whether tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3553423 | 1,298,072 |
840,998 | A cylindrical-water channel model was also proposed based on simulations of small-angle X-ray scattering data and solid state nuclear magnetic resonance studies. In this model, the sulfonic acid functional groups self-organize into arrays of hydrophilic water channels, each ~ 2.5 nm in diameter, through which small ion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1041043 | 840,548 |
2,051,775 | The most abundant species of this genus, "Macroneuropteris scheuchzeri", has had a long taxonomic history since it was first recognized in fossils found near Oxford, England by Edward Lhuyd in 1669. He referred to these leaves as "Phyllites mineralis." It is illustrated and noted in Lhuyd's "Lythophylacii Britannici Ic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43272653 | 2,050,594 |
336,430 | DRDO started its first major project in surface-to-air missiles (SAM) known as Project Indigo in the 1960s. Indigo was discontinued in later years without achieving full success. Project Indigo led to Project Devil, along with Project Valiant, to develop short-range SAM and ICBM in the 1970s. Project Devil itself led t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=745675 | 336,252 |
1,048,741 | Deciding to build on its success with another engine, Rolls-Royce Turbomeca handled development and production of the RTM322 turboshaft engine. During 1995, it was announced that the Rolls-Royce Turbomeca RTM322 turboshaft engine had been selected to power the British Army's fleet of AgustaWestland Apache attack helico... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=571566 | 1,048,196 |
1,417,473 | Adult-AMKL may occur in individuals who have a prior diagnosis of and/or present with chronic myelogenous leukemia, polycythemia vera, essential thrombocytosis, primary myelofibrosis, or mediastinal germ cell tumor. AMKL associated with mediastinal germ cell tumors typically occurs in younger adults, i.e. ages 13–36 (a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16187658 | 1,416,674 |
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