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997,993 | The ship's weapons suite was also overhauled. She received air-search radar and fire-control radars for her main and secondary batteries, the latter seeing the mixed battery of 51-caliber and 25-caliber 5-inch guns replaced by a uniform battery of sixteen 5-inch/38 caliber guns in eight twin mounts. These were controll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196975 | 997,475 |
874,784 | In 1962, Westinghouse cancelled the project, but the effort was restarted at the University of Illinois as the ILLIAC IV. Their version of the design originally called for a 1 GFLOPS machine with 256 ALUs, but, when it was finally delivered in 1972, it had only 64 ALUs and could reach only 100 to 150 MFLOPS. Neverthele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58205 | 874,322 |
2,178,199 | The LCHC has a tradition of using modern communication and computer technologies in its research work. This tradition stemmed from a focus on the cultural tools (mediational means) that are central to all culturally organized human activity, and from efforts to extend the scholarly community that pursued issues of mutu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29122882 | 2,176,954 |
2,018,411 | In the summer of 1850 Crichton received a letter from the Finnish engineering company Cowie and Eriksson offering him a position as supervisor on a three-year contract. It is not known how the company found him. 23-year-old Crichton jumped at the opportunity since he had planned for a long time to move to Russia, where... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48740213 | 2,017,248 |
820,787 | Most of Lewis’ lasting interests originated during his Harvard years. The most important was thermodynamics, a subject in which Richards was very active at that time. Although most of the important thermodynamic relations were known by 1895, they were seen as isolated equations, and had not yet been rationalized as a l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13017 | 820,346 |
434,956 | Capnocytophaga canimorsus is a fastidious, slow-growing, Gram-negative rod of the genus "Capnocytophaga". It is a commensal bacterium in the normal gingival flora of canine and feline species, but can cause illness in humans. Transmission may occur through bites, licks, or even close proximity with animals. "C. canimor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8770962 | 434,742 |
792,590 | The mesopelagic zone has some unique acoustic features. The Sound Fixing and Ranging (SOFAR) channel, where sound travels the slowest due to salinity and temperature variations, is located at the base of the mesopelagic zone at about 600-1,200m. It is a wave-guided zone where sound waves refract within the layer and pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=565530 | 792,165 |
1,843,228 | After leaving The Weather Channel, Cullen became the chief climatologist for the not-for-profit organization, Climate Central, where she issues reports on climate topics. In addition to her responsibilities at Climate Central, she lectures at nearby Princeton University, and is a senior research fellow at the Penn's Wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7248788 | 1,842,175 |
375,322 | Thawing permafrost represents a threat to industrial infrastructure. In May 2020 thawing permafrost at Norilsk-Taimyr Energy's Thermal Power Plant No. 3 caused an oil storage tank to collapse, spilling 6,000 tonnes of diesel into the land, 15,000 into the water. The rivers Ambarnaya, Daldykan and many smaller rivers we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157774 | 375,127 |
1,167,928 | Frequencies of the order of megahertz (MHz) are above the usual range for mechanical filters. The components start to become very small, or alternatively the components are large compared to the signal wavelength. The lumped-element model described above starts to break down and the components must be considered as dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25154546 | 1,167,310 |
1,798,324 | In June 2017, Daniel M. Gerstein, senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation and former acting Under Secretary and Deputy Under Secretary of the DHS's Science and Technology Directorate, said, "In the last 40 to 60 years, hundreds of new diseases have cropped up across the world ... The country and the world have... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8888314 | 1,797,315 |
1,364,482 | The "Caulobacter" CB15 genome has 4,016,942 base pairs in a single circular chromosome encoding 3,767 genes. The genome contains multiple clusters of genes encoding proteins essential for survival in a nutrient-poor habitat. Included are those involved in chemotaxis, outer membrane channel function, degradation of arom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=839361 | 1,363,726 |
759,497 | On April 14, 2014, the privately owned launch service provider SpaceX signed a 20-year lease for Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A). The pad was modified to support launches of both Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles, modifications that included the construction of a large Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) similar ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1874251 | 759,091 |
1,838,526 | mGRs have been implicated in the rapid effects of glucocorticoids in the early central stress response via modulating neuronal activity in the hypothalamus, hippocampus, amygdala, and prefrontal cortex, among other areas. In accordance, glucocorticoids are known to affect cognition, stress-adaptive behavior, and neuroe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47503517 | 1,837,477 |
342,410 | The initial enablers for DRM in HTML5 were Google and Microsoft. Supporters also include Adobe. On 14 May 2014, Mozilla announced plans to support EME in Firefox, the last major browser to avoid DRM. Calling it "a difficult and uncomfortable step", Andreas Gal of Mozilla explained that future versions of Firefox would ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7966125 | 342,229 |
239,338 | The Turk has also inspired works of literary fiction. In 1849, just a few years before the Turk was destroyed, Edgar Allan Poe published a tale "Von Kempelen and His Discovery". Ambrose Bierce's short story "Moxon's Master", published in 1909, is a morbid tale about a chess-playing automaton that resembles the Turk. In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=418820 | 239,218 |
1,521,677 | Five-membered carbon rings are ubiquitous structural motifs in natural products. In contrast to the larger, fully "consonant" cyclohexane scaffold cyclopentanes and their derivatives are "dissonant" according to the Lapworth-Evans model of alternating polarities. The dissonance in polarity clearly limits the ways by wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17926212 | 1,520,816 |
631,845 | In 1936 the magazine switched from untrimmed to trimmed edges; Brian Stableford comments that this was "an important symbolic" step, as the other sf pulps were still untrimmed, making "Astounding" smarter-looking than its competitors. Tremaine was promoted to assistant editorial director in 1937. His replacement as edi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18932608 | 631,507 |
426,200 | Recent findings indicate that "E. multilocularis" is likely expanding its range in the central region of the United States and Canada and that invasions of European strains might have occurred; the endemic presence of the parasite in urban areas and a total of 16 human cases in Alberta, Canada have been reported. The f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1700949 | 425,992 |
51,940 | Reflecting Messerschmitt's belief in low-weight, low-drag, simple monoplanes, the armament was placed in the fuselage. This kept the wings very thin and light. Two synchronized machine guns were mounted in the cowling, firing over the top of the engine and through the propeller arc. An alternative arrangement was also ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186739 | 51,920 |
626,408 | There were five main criteria for the design. The ships had to be built in Canada, they had to be inexpensive to build, they had to be operable by naval reservists, the design had to have role flexibility included, and they had to be inexpensive to operate. This was exemplified by the Royal Navy's which was operated by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1186543 | 626,075 |
446,229 | Intrinsic transcription terminators or Rho-independent terminators require the formation of a self-annealing hairpin structure on the elongating transcript, which results in the disruption of the mRNA-DNA-RNA polymerase ternary complex. The terminator sequence in DNA contains a 20 basepair GC-rich region of dyad symmet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=497747 | 446,013 |
419,893 | The invention of the rectenna in the 1960s made long distance wireless power transmission feasible. The rectenna was invented in 1964 and patented in 1969 by US electrical engineer William C. Brown, who demonstrated it with a model helicopter powered by microwaves transmitted from the ground, received by an attached re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=427633 | 419,688 |
566,663 | The Byzantine-Arab Wars reduced the territory of the Empire to a third in the 7th century and the economy slumped; in 780 the Byzantine Empire's revenues were reduced to only "nomismata". From the 8th century onward the Empire's economy improved dramatically. This was a blessing for Byzantium in more than one way; the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11418423 | 566,373 |
2,142,486 | At the pre-race press conference the IAAF General Secretary, Pierre Weiss, lamented the relative lack of interest in the competition, vocalising the IAAF's dissatisfaction with the number of competing athletes and federations. He acknowledged that the competition's prize money was not at parity with other top level mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16737580 | 2,141,255 |
1,702,290 | The primary purpose of zoning is to segregate uses that are thought to be incompatible. In practice, zoning is used to prevent new development from interfering with existing residents or businesses and to preserve the "character" of a community. Zoning is commonly controlled by local governments such as counties or mun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46187159 | 1,701,335 |
1,763,334 | The main evidence for dating the vessel comes from 504 copper coins found inside the hull. Seventy of them date to the Song dynasty, with the most recent dating to 1272. Based on this, the archaeologists concluded that the ship must have sunk within a few years after 1272 - that is, during the very last years of the So... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26810565 | 1,762,341 |
1,023,940 | Lasofoxifene is among the most potent SERMs reported in protection against bone loss and cholesterol reduction. The excellent oral potency of lasofoxifene has been attributed to reduced intestinal glucuronidation of the phenol. Unlike raloxifene, lasofoxifene satisfies the requirement of a pharmacophore model that pred... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1088710 | 1,023,407 |
495,633 | CQDs can be used for bioimaging due to their fluorescence emissions and biocompatibility. By injecting solvents containing CQDs into a living body, images in vivo can be obtained for detection or diagnosis purposes. One example is that organic dye-conjugated CQDs could be used as an effective fluorescent probes for HS.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48534860 | 495,377 |
933,007 | Bluford's first mission was STS-8, which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 30, 1983. This was the third flight for the Orbiter "Challenger" and the first mission with a night launch and night landing. During the mission, the STS-8 crew deployed the Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1B); tested the C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=425058 | 932,515 |
9,735 | Meanwhile, salvage efforts on "Yorktown" were encouraging, and she was taken in tow by fleet tug . In the late afternoon of 6 June, the , which had managed to slip through the cordon of destroyers (possibly because of the large amount of debris in the water), fired a salvo of torpedoes, two of which struck "Yorktown". ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60112 | 9,731 |
1,329,406 | Diagnosis is dependent on microscopic examination of the ventricular (midgut) content and/or fecal matter or on PCR analysis of infected tissue. No specific outward sign of disease may be present, although in dissections, the ventriculus often appears whitish and swollen in late stages of infection. The disease is easi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1386469 | 1,328,678 |
1,184,111 | Morane-Saulnier's first commercially successful design was the Morane-Saulnier G, a wire-braced shoulder-wing monoplane with wing warping. This led to the development of a series of aircraft and was very successful in racing and setting records. The Type G was a 2-seater, and was reduced slightly in size to produce the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=459625 | 1,183,484 |
346,100 | Jean-Baptiste Colbert's work in 17th-century France came to exemplify classical mercantilism. In the English-speaking world, its ideas were criticized by Adam Smith with the publication of "The Wealth of Nations" in 1776 and later by David Ricardo with his explanation of comparative advantage. Mercantilism was rejected... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19708 | 345,919 |
584,377 | It may be well to state here that, having been reared by a kind aunt in Pennsylvania, whose usefulness with the sick was continually sought, I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others. Later in life I devoted my time, when best I could, to nursing as a business, ser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1559659 | 584,077 |
133,038 | Coal-fired power stations are the single largest emitter, with over 20% of global GhG in 2018. Although much less polluting than coal plants, natural gas-fired power plants are also major emitters, taking electricity generation as a whole over 25% in 2018. Notably, just 5% of the world's power plants account for almost... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9528025 | 132,985 |
913,362 | Peter Hegemann, studying the light response of green algae at the University of Regensburg, had discovered photocurrents that were too fast to be explained by the classic g-protein-coupled animal rhodopsins. Teaming up with the electrophysiologist Georg Nagel at the Max Planck Institute in Frankfurt, they could demonst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14958673 | 912,883 |
1,516,609 | The Baroda College of Science was established in 1881 by the Maharaja, and developed into a full-fledged degree institution in 1889. The idea of establishing a separate university for Baroda was first advanced as early as 1927 by Sir Sayajirao himself. It came into existence on 30 April 1949, at the time of the merger ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12204396 | 1,515,757 |
296,540 | The first of 12 MC-130Ws, AF Ser. No. 87-9286, was presented to Air Force Special Operations Command on 28 June 2006. The aircraft was developed to supplement the MC-130 Combat Talon and Combat Shadow forces as an interim measure after several training accidents and contingency losses in supporting the Global War on Te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=600765 | 296,380 |
524,499 | Whewell made extensive use of graphical methods, and these became not just ways of displaying results, but tools in the analysis of data. He published a number of maps showing cotidal lines (a term coined by Lubbock) - lines joining points where high tide occurred at the same time. These allowed a graphical representat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=205488 | 524,227 |
1,989,911 | Paleontology in Nebraska refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Nebraska. Nebraska is world-famous as a source of fossils. During the early Paleozoic, Nebraska was covered by a shallow sea that was probably home to creatures like brachiopods, corals, and trilob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799119 | 1,988,769 |
2,118,816 | Although experimental nuclear acoustic resonance techniques on objects such as metals can achieve acoustic resonance, it is not a viable option for medical imaging, although it may be useful for spectroscopy in non-organic compounds. Hence the concept of harmonic correlation is introduced. This allows a new method of o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60785404 | 2,117,598 |
1,726,450 | Rather than inferring the ancestral DNA sequence, one may be interested in the larger-scale molecular structure and content of an ancestral genome. This problem is often approached in a combinatorial framework, by modelling genomes as permutations of genes or homologous regions. Various operations are allowed on these ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6383817 | 1,725,479 |
313,244 | Stockhausen was born in Burg Mödrath, the "castle" of the village of Mödrath. The village, located near Kerpen in the Cologne region, was displaced in 1956 to make way for lignite strip mining, but the castle itself still stands. Despite its name, the building is more a manor house than a castle. Built in 1830 by a loc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17268 | 313,076 |
1,974,566 | Light attenuation occurring throughout the water column, in combination with thermal and chemical stratification and wind- or convective-driven turbulence, contribute to the vertical distribution of nutrients and organisms in the water column. In stratified lakes, organic matter and nutrients tend to be more concentrat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59168336 | 1,973,431 |
185,388 | Calcareous fossil foraminifera are formed from elements found in the ancient seas where they lived. Thus, they are very useful in paleoclimatology and paleoceanography. They can be used, as a climate proxy, to reconstruct past climate by examining the stable isotope ratios and trace element content of the shells (tests... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=477903 | 185,291 |
1,517,586 | While still in Germany, Edinger began studying extant species from a paleoneurobiological perspective by making inferences about evolutionary brain development in seacows using stratigraphic and comparative anatomical evidence. Edinger continued her research in Nazi Germany until the night of November 9, 1938, when tho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27043983 | 1,516,734 |
1,230,771 | After the war, Seaborg and Ghiorso returned to Berkeley, where they and colleagues used the 60" Crocker cyclotron to produce elements of increasing atomic number by bombarding exotic targets with helium ions. In experiments during 1949-1950, they produced and identified elements 97 (berkelium) and 98 (californium). In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=164644 | 1,230,109 |
1,125,197 | Many families of lizards, including Agamidae, Teiidae, Crotaphytidae, Iguanidae, and Phrynosomatidae, have been observed to engage in facultative bipedalism. In lizards, rapid acceleration of the hind legs induces a friction force with the ground, which produces a ground reaction force on the rear legs. When the hind l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5157838 | 1,124,622 |
1,158,791 | He discovered the Czochralski method in 1916, when he accidentally dipped his pen into a crucible of molten tin rather than his inkwell. He immediately pulled his pen out to discover that a thin thread of solidified metal was hanging from the nib. The nib was replaced by a capillary, and Czochralski verified that the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=380437 | 1,158,177 |
844,985 | Enough of the air has been removed from the tube that most of the electrons can travel the length of the tube without striking a gas molecule. The high voltage accelerates these low-mass particles to a high velocity (about 37,000 miles per second, or 59,000 km/s, about 20 percent of the speed of light, for a typical tu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1930784 | 844,535 |
1,654,172 | The next year Baldwin built his first commissioned steam locomotive for the fledgling Philadelphia, Germantown & Norristown Railroad. This engine, nicknamed "Old Ironsides," traveled at the rate of only in initial trials made on November 23, 1832, but the machine was later refined and improved so that a peak speed of w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1370966 | 1,653,240 |
1,597,083 | In 2011, Jackson co-authored an article in "The New Zealand Medical Journal" that challenged the manner in which New Zealand district health boards (DHBs) had managed the health needs of patients with long-term conditions. While the article acknowledged that some chronic diseases were preventable by "addressing shared ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69753744 | 1,596,184 |
1,257,430 | While Averroes's works have very limited influence in the Islamic world, the Latin translation of his works enjoyed a wide audience in Western Europe. The unity of the intellect thesis, in particular, generated an intellectual controversy in Latin Christendom. Many, especially the Averroists, saw appeal in the theory b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57332275 | 1,256,744 |
1,084,000 | Recently, research studies have been conducted to seek new medical advances in relation to gastrinoma and Zollinger–Ellison syndrome. The recent studies have shown improved understanding of pathogenesis of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors, classifications of those tumors, new treatments/preventions to control the gastr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3109674 | 1,083,443 |
908,403 | Rutan has designed 46 aircraft throughout his career, been included in the "Time" 100 Most Influential People in the World list for the year 2004, been the co-recipient of both the Collier and National Air and Space Museum trophies on two occasions (each for his accomplishments with Voyager in 1986 and SpaceShipOne in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=422813 | 907,925 |
1,446,788 | Owers' Corner was named after Lieutenant Noel Owers, who was given the task of surveying a new route from Ilolo to Nauro. The project of constructing a jeep track to Nauro was pushed aggressively by the Chief Engineer at New Guinea Force, Brigadier John Main. Lieutenant Colonel Sidney Bleechmore was placed in charge, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51118476 | 1,445,972 |
166,527 | In November 2009, computer servers at the university's Climatic Research Unit were hacked and the stolen information made public. Over 1,000 emails, 2,000 documents, and source code were released. Because the Climate Research Unit is a major repository for data regarding man-made global warming, the release, which occu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=197027 | 166,441 |
1,676,815 | Surface roughness and texture has an undeniable influence on protein adsorption on all materials, but with the ubiquity of metal machining processes, it is useful to address how these impact protein behavior. The initial adsorption is important, as well as maintained adhesion and integrity. Research has shown that surf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32002467 | 1,675,873 |
1,440,895 | Kammerer and Masyutin noted that while "Viatkogorgon" and "Nochnitsa" added to gorgonopsian diversity of the Kotelnich fauna, the group remained less rich in species than the therocephalians there. The low diversity and small size of the gorgonopsians there indicated that the assemblage of therapids was similar to that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16984249 | 1,440,085 |
661,152 | Other experiments have used numerical procedures to better understand the flow-field of the RDE. In 2020 a study from the University of Washington explored an experimental device that allowed control of parameters such as the size of the cylinder gap. Using a high-speed camera researchers were able to view it operating... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48223695 | 660,807 |
722,356 | The test became an international incident. In a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) interview, the historian Martha Smith argued: "In Japan, it becomes a huge issue in terms of not just the government and its protest against the United States, but all different groups and all different peoples in Japan start to protest. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7459891 | 721,976 |
272,456 | Purebred breeding aims to establish and maintain stable traits, that animals will pass to the next generation. By "breeding the best to the best," employing a certain degree of inbreeding, considerable culling, and selection for "superior" qualities, one could develop a bloodline superior in certain respects to the ori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=200646 | 272,308 |
2,076,125 | Social bonding is mediated several brain areas which respond to OT, AVP, and DA. Studies using fMRI have been used in research to assess associated brain areas in human attachment based on auditory and visual stimuli responses of the brain to attachment target. These studies found that the ventral tegmental area (VTA) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55490095 | 2,074,928 |
1,255,627 | In brief, the fire control system in use from about 1900 through WW2 involved observers, often situated in base end stations or other fire control towers, using optical instruments (like azimuth telescopes or depression position finders) to measure bearings and/or ranges to targets (usually moving ships). Both horizont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27451808 | 1,254,944 |
467,816 | The UN has also organized single peacekeeping missions aimed at ending civil wars in a number of countries. In Central African Republic, MINURCA (1998) was created to oversee the disarmament of several mutinous groups of former CAR military personnel and militias as well as to assist with the training of a new national... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12029262 | 467,581 |
468,103 | Cheminformatics (also known as chemoinformatics) refers to use of physical chemistry theory with computer and information science techniques—so called ""in silico"" techniques—in application to a range of descriptive and prescriptive problems in the field of chemistry, including in its applications to biology and relat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=575697 | 467,868 |
539,126 | Italian physicists, like the Via Panisperna boys led by Enrico Fermi, had been at the forefront of the development of nuclear physics. Indeed, some, like Fermi, took part in the Manhattan Project and the creation of the first nuclear weapon during the Second World War. At the end of the war, the Italian Armed Forces wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54884675 | 538,846 |
747,722 | Examples given by Aarseth include a diverse group of texts: wall inscriptions of the temples in ancient Egypt that are connected two-dimensionally (on one wall) or three dimensionally (from wall to wall or room to room); the "I Ching"; Apollinaire's "Calligrammes" in which the words of the poem "are spread out in sever... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=739147 | 747,326 |
87,250 | Most T-38s built were of the T-38A variant, but the USAF also had a small number of aircraft converted for weapons training (designated AT-38B), which were fitted with a gunsight and could carry a gun pod, rockets, or bombs on a centerline pylon. As of September 30, 2017, 503 T-38s were still operational with the USAF,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=357874 | 87,215 |
1,537,183 | Bers received his Ph.D. in 1938 from the University of Prague. He had begun his studies in Prague with Rudolf Carnap, but when Carnap moved to the US he switched to Charles Loewner, who would eventually become his thesis advisor. In Prague, he lived with an aunt, and married his wife Mary (née Kagan) whom he had met in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9335972 | 1,536,312 |
386,851 | One primary objective of the internal studies was to exploit the F-22's air-to-ground capability while keeping costs to a minimum. To this end, the company devised several concepts that saw significant structural redesigns with respect to the fuselage and wings, while retaining much of the F-22's avionics. With an earl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=866934 | 386,656 |
1,072,404 | The social cost of carbon (SCC) is the marginal cost of the impacts caused by emitting one extra tonne of greenhouse gas (carbon dioxide equivalent) at any point in time, inclusive of 'non-market' impacts on the environment and human health. The purpose of putting a price on a ton of emitted is to aid policymakers or o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10708511 | 1,071,850 |
980,696 | While work by Shembel and Bonch-Bruyevich on continuous-wave systems was taking place at NII-9, Oshehepkov at the SKB and V. V. Tsimbalin of Ioffe's LPTI were pursuing a pulsed system. In 1936, they built a radio-location set operating at 4 m (75 MHz) with a peak-power of about 500 W and a 10-μs pulse duration. Before ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1280053 | 980,184 |
349,323 | The revolution in materials came first, with the use of cast iron, drywall, plate glass, and reinforced concrete, to build structures that were stronger, lighter, and taller. The cast plate glass process was invented in 1848, allowing the manufacture of very large windows. The Crystal Palace by Joseph Paxton at the Gre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315927 | 349,141 |
1,933,972 | Ellis Horowitz is an American computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). Horowitz is best known for his computer science textbooks on data structures and algorithms, co-authored with Sartaj Sahni. At USC, Horowitz was chairman of the C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43965881 | 1,932,864 |
586,538 | The development of genetic engineering technology led to concerns in the scientific community about potential risks. The development of a regulatory framework concerning genetic engineering began in 1975, at Asilomar, California. The Asilomar meeting recommended a set of guidelines regarding the cautious use of recombi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37214939 | 586,238 |
1,177,110 | In 2016, work started on a browser-based interface to OSeMOSYS, known as the Model Management Infrastructure (MoManI). Lead by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), MoManI is being trialled in selected countries. The interface can be used to construct models, visualize results, and develop better sce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38803848 | 1,176,487 |
1,784,386 | Taoiseach Enda Kenny remarked that the floods had "destroyed a first class medical facility" and called the damage "very substantial – records lost, MRI machine, diagnostics laboratory, walls to be stripped and decontaminated. It means, effectively, that Letterkenny General Hospital will be out of operation for a consi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7880177 | 1,783,382 |
1,806,449 | The mine lease is located in the Far North of South Australia, north-west of Adelaide within the Woomera Prohibited Area on the Jumbuck Pastoral Company lease. The site is either accessed by a nine-hour drive along sealed and unsealed roads or by Air which takes approximately 1.5 hours by plane from Adelaide. The main ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6881505 | 1,805,432 |
262,411 | The University of Rochester has more than 120,000 alumni. Individuals affiliated with the university have earned prestigious honors in multiple disciplines. Thirteen graduates or faculty members have earned a Nobel Prize, and 13 have earned a Pulitzer Prize, while others have earned the highest honors awarded to Americ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31918 | 262,272 |
903,996 | Western military doctrine relies heavily on technology, the use of a well-trained and empowered NCO cadre, and superior information processing and dissemination to provide a level of battlefield awareness that opponents cannot match. Its advantages are extreme flexibility, extreme lethality, and a focus on removing an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=86586 | 903,520 |
1,651,626 | In 1842, he became an assistant to Robert Bunsen at the Philipps-Universität Marburg. He took his doctoral degree in 1843 at the same university. A new opportunity arose in 1845, when he became assistant to Lyon Playfair at the new "Museum of Economic Geology" in London and a close friend of Edward Frankland. From 1847... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1825 | 1,650,694 |
185,147 | To calculate formula_41, the first step is to linearise around the disease-free equilibrium (DFE), but for the infected subsystem of non-linear ODEs which describe the production of new infections and changes in state among infected individuals. Epidemiologically, the linearisation reflects that formula_41 characterize... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=917273 | 185,050 |
2,134,710 | Years later the French Revolution broke out, spanning from 1789 to 1799. During the period, in June 1793, the revolutionaries who were ruling France transformed the "Jardin royal des plantes médicinales" into the still existing "Muséum national d'histoire naturelle", but at this point in time the mineralogical and geol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12200470 | 2,133,485 |
480,635 | The lack of clear international regulation has led to researchers across the globe attempting to create an international framework of ethical guidelines. Current framework lacks the requisite treaties among nations to create a mechanism for international enforcement. At the first International Summit on Human Gene Edit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53827714 | 480,391 |
2,116,090 | Professor Kjær received his MD degree from the University of Copenhagen in 1989 and the same year he received the United States ECFMG license as MD. In 1994 he obtained the PhD degree, in 1996 the DMSc degree and in 2000 he was board certified as specialist in Nuclear Medicine. He was appointed full professor and chief... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53725478 | 2,114,873 |
1,627,916 | Scandium trifluoride exhibits the unusual property of negative thermal expansion, meaning it shrinks when heated. This phenomenon is explained by the quartic oscillation of the fluoride ions. The energy stored in the bending strain of the fluoride ion is proportional to the fourth power of the displacement angle, unlik... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3976372 | 1,626,998 |
2,160,058 | Images take a rather prominent place in contemporary life in the western societies. Together with language, they have been connected to human culture from the very beginning. For about one century – after several millennia of written word's dominance – their part is increasing again remarkably. Steps toward a general s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5491838 | 2,158,826 |
376,537 | To increase the mean free path of the electron gas interaction, a standard TEM is evacuated to low pressures, typically on the order of 10 Pa. The need for this is twofold: first the allowance for the voltage difference between the cathode and the ground without generating an arc, and secondly to reduce the collision f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=214513 | 376,342 |
296,632 | New and unusual species are constantly being discovered in the neighborhood of black smokers. The Pompeii worm "Alvinella pompejana", which is capable of withstanding temperatures up to , was found in the 1980s, and a scaly-foot gastropod "Chrysomallon squamiferum" in 2001 during an expedition to the Indian Ocean's Kai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=354588 | 296,472 |
183,178 | TRILL (TRansparent Interconnection of Lots of Links) facilitates an Ethernet to have an arbitrary topology, and enables per flow pair-wise load splitting by way of Dijkstra's algorithm, without configuration and user intervention. The catalyst for TRILL was an event at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center which began o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61118 | 183,082 |
773,656 | The rigorous proof of the solution can be found in references of their work. The summary of the results is that the three-dimensional homogeneous convex (mono-monostatic) body, which has one stable and one unstable equilibrium point, does exist and is not unique. Such bodies are hard to visualize, describe or identify.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9493560 | 773,240 |
45,142 | In 1962 Hermann Bondi, M. G. van der Burg, A. W. Metzner and Rainer K. Sachs addressed this asymptotic symmetry problem in order to investigate the flow of energy at infinity due to propagating gravitational waves. Their first step was to decide on some physically sensible boundary conditions to place on the gravitatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12024 | 45,125 |
231,182 | The silver birch typically reaches tall (exceptionally up to ), with a slender trunk usually under diameter. The bark on the trunk and branches is golden-brown at first, but later this turns to white as a result of papery tissue developing on the surface and peeling off in flakes, in a similar manner to the closely rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=446844 | 231,063 |
420,638 | Although most Campanulaceae are perennial herbs (sometimes climbing, as in "Codonopsis"), there is also a large number of annuals e.g. species of "Legousia". "Isotoma hypocrateriformis" is a succulent annual from Australia's dry interior. There are also biennials, e.g. the commonly cultivated ornamental "Campanula medi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=852063 | 420,433 |
166,013 | Sexuality is related to family structure and partly shapes it. The involvement of fathers in education is quite unique to humans, at least when compared to other Homininae. Concealed ovulation and menopause in women both also occur in a few other primates however, but are uncommon in other species. Testis and penis siz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14347 | 165,928 |
1,780,194 | Geodesign is a set of concepts and methods used to involve all stakeholders and various professions in collaboratively designing and realizing the optimal solution for spatial challenges in the built and natural environments, utilizing all available techniques and data in an integrated process. Originally, geodesign wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25724950 | 1,779,190 |
1,777,277 | TROPICS will consist of six 3U size CubeSats, each about and weighing just , that use scanning microwave radiometers to measure temperature, humidity, precipitation and cloud properties. The CubeSats will be launched into three separate orbital planes to enable the overall constellation to monitor changes in tropical c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58739433 | 1,776,276 |
1,199,103 | In the 1970s, he guaranteed a business loan for a friend, which subsequently failed, leaving him with a $100,000 debt. This was the motivation he needed to compete for the £50,000 Kremer prize for human-powered flight, which had been on offer for 18 years. With Dr. Peter B.S. Lissaman, he created a human-powered aircra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1781509 | 1,198,462 |
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