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344,326 | The Triassic was generally dry, a trend that began in the late Carboniferous, and highly seasonal, especially in the interior of Pangaea. Low sea levels may have also exacerbated temperature extremes. With its high specific heat capacity, water acts as a temperature-stabilizing heat reservoir, and land areas near large... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19322 | 344,145 |
491,480 | In peacetime, the class was occasionally used on fast freights from Southampton Docks, although it was common to see them at the head of freight and troop trains during the Second World War. Ten "Urie Arthurs" were transferred to the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) in October 1942, and were based at Heaton shed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1326400 | 491,226 |
204,291 | Many historians of technology consider that true machine tools were born when the toolpath first became guided by the machine itself in some way, at least to some extent, so that direct, freehand human guidance of the toolpath (with hands, feet, or mouth) was no longer the only guidance used in the cutting or forming p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191490 | 204,186 |
223,369 | Certain medications, particularly contraceptive medications, can induce amenorrhoea in a healthy woman. The lack of menstruation usually begins shortly after beginning the medication and can take up to a year to resume after stopping its use. Hormonal contraceptives that contain only progestogen, like the oral contrace... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=235393 | 223,255 |
642,302 | The 704 at that time was thus regarded as "pretty much the only computer that could handle complex math". The 704 was a significant improvement over the earlier IBM 701 in terms of architecture and implementation. Like the 701, the 704 uses vacuum-tube logic circuitry, but increased the instruction size from 18-bit to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=76492 | 641,963 |
2,116,347 | There are substantial concerns over the conservation status of "Utricularia resupinata" throughout its geographical distribution, with the following list offered by the US Department of Agriculture’s source on “Threatened and Endangered Information:” “Of Special Concern” are Rhode Island and Tennessee; listed as “Threa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12594368 | 2,115,130 |
785,155 | Chondrites also contain refractory inclusions (including Ca–Al inclusions), which are among the oldest objects to form in the Solar System, particles rich in metallic Fe-Ni and sulfides, and isolated grains of silicate minerals. The remainder of chondrites consists of fine-grained (micrometre-sized or smaller) dust, wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=532261 | 784,734 |
1,907,643 | After the Dieter Sattler and his minister, Alois Hundhammer were both replaced in the government. This may in part have been connected with the fact that Sattler had served as what amounted to an "under-minister" despite never actually having been elected a member of the Bavarian regional parliament (""Landtag""), or i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54975038 | 1,906,547 |
1,160,734 | There were many precursors to this transdisciplinarity of "people, place, and technology." From an architecture, planning and design background, there is the work of the late William J. Mitchell, Dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, and author of the 1995 book "City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infoba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47639409 | 1,160,118 |
435,384 | In 1926, pioneering accelerator physicists Merle Tuve and Gregory Breit built a 5 million volt Tesla coil as a linear particle accelerator. The bipolar coil consisted of a pyrex tube a meter long wound with 8000 turns of fine wire, with round corona caps on each end, and a 5 turn spiral primary coil surrounding it at t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56714254 | 435,170 |
1,672,626 | R. H. Inglis Palgrave's "Dictionary of Political Economy" (1894–1899), 3 v., was the forerunner of "The New Palgrave". The initial contractual agreement between Palgrave and the publisher Macmillan & Co. is dated 1888. Serial installments in 1891–92 had disappointing sales. An appendix was added to Volume III in 1908, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13969948 | 1,671,684 |
59,374 | One of the next milestones came in 1904, when Helge von Koch, extending ideas of Poincaré and dissatisfied with Weierstrass's abstract and analytic definition, gave a more geometric definition including hand-drawn images of a similar function, which is now called the Koch snowflake. Another milestone came a decade late... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10913 | 59,349 |
58,403 | The engine was also known to suffer from afterburner blowout on takeoff, or even non-ignition, resulting in a major loss of thrust that could be detected by the pilot—the recommended action was to abandon the takeoff. The first fatal accident in German service was caused by this phenomenon. Some pilots experienced unco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82439 | 58,378 |
206,902 | Under the reign of Shah Jahan, the symbolic content of Mughal architecture reached a peak. The Taj Mahal complex was conceived as a replica on earth of the house of the departed in paradise (inspired by a verse by the imperial goldsmith and poet, Bibadal Khan). This theme, common in most Mughal funerary architecture, p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13325558 | 206,795 |
1,395,104 | To date the research infrastructure of IIT in Genoa has been completed. It consists of more than 500 staff from 30 countries, operating in a 25000 sqm facility equipped with laboratories distributed over three Robotics departments (Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Advanced Robotics; TeleRobotics and Applications... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19970839 | 1,394,333 |
975,089 | The prime contractor, MEADS International, is a multinational joint venture headquartered in Orlando, Florida. Its participating companies are MBDA Italia, MBDA Deutschland GmbH, and Lockheed Martin. The company initially won a competitive downselect to develop the MEADS system in 1999, but the program could not be sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1034730 | 974,578 |
1,831,185 | Extensive modifications were required for the B-29 Superfortress to enable it to perform the special operations mission. All turrets, except the tail turret, were removed from the aircraft, leaving the aircraft unarmed and incapable of self-defense. A parachutist's exit was made where the belly gun turret was originall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18495171 | 1,830,138 |
101,810 | On 16 April 2011, India and Kazakhstan signed an inter-governmental agreement for Cooperation in Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, that envisages a legal framework for supply of fuel, construction and operation of atomic power plants, exploration and joint mining of uranium, exchange of scientific and research informatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12902516 | 101,765 |
2,150,501 | He was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne in or around 1734. At ten years of age he was placed in the care of an uncle at Durham, Thomas Walker (died 10 November 1763), successively minister at Cockermouth, 1732, Durham, 1736, and Mill Hill Chapel at Leeds, 1748. He attended the Durham School, by then "a north-country public sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25746123 | 2,149,270 |
70,494 | PFOA persists indefinitely in the environment. PFOA has been detected in the blood of many individuals of the general US population in the low and sub-parts per billion range, and levels are higher in chemical plant employees and surrounding subpopulations. PFOA and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) have been estimat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30791 | 70,467 |
1,629,074 | The larvae of "O. richmondia" require relatively specialist environmental conditions for their survival and this is one reason why the species does not establish permanently in home gardens. Eggs are usually laid on the soft foliage of leaders extending into the canopy and emerge within about one week. The newly emerge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10046712 | 1,628,155 |
1,772,427 | The bond valence model is an extension of the electron counting rules and its strength lies in its simplicity and robustness. Unlike most models of chemical bonding, it does not require a prior knowledge of the atomic positions and so can be used to construct chemically plausible structures given only the composition. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5094808 | 1,771,430 |
622,470 | In February 1912, Baden-Powell returned to the United States and West accompanied him on tour. Baden-Powell remarked that the BSA needed better communications. After discussions with the Executive Board, Boyce offered to fund a magazine if it were published by his company in Chicago. Livingstone declined the offer, not... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6125637 | 622,138 |
2,178,060 | It was in an address "To the courteous and benevolent Reader", prefixed to the two volumes bound together, that Delamain took the bait of criticism, writing:"Too great and too loose an aspertion hath bin cast upon me about these things, which I never thought in the least title when I first writ upon this Invention, or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53238274 | 2,176,815 |
1,506,828 | One non-species C oncolytic adenovirus currently in development is ColoAd1. It was created using a process of “directed evolution”. This involves the creation of new viral variants or serotypes specifically directed against tumour cells via rounds of directed selection using large populations of randomly generated reco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39032553 | 1,505,982 |
288,412 | Hirano et al. previously found that the newborns did not have a true lamina propria, but instead had cellular regions called maculae flavae, located at the anterior and posterior ends of the loose vocal fold tissue. Boseley and Hartnick examined at the development and maturation of pediatric human vocal fold lamina pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32807 | 288,256 |
1,249,921 | When Jim Dunlop bought the MXR brand, production resumed. The Dunlop models have an LED to indicate the effect is engaged, and an optional AC power supply. There are several styles, including the standard block logo version, a reproduction of the script logo version, and an Eddie Van Halen signature model. Van Halen fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23931362 | 1,249,245 |
2,157,695 | The extracellular pigment produced by "C. cupreum" is influenced by environmental factors such as pH in which low pH causes the pigments to turn yellow and high pH restores the characteristic red colour. In a photoresponse study researchers investigated the effect of variable wavelengths of visible light on the product... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26824852 | 2,156,463 |
1,409,436 | More generally, game semantics may be applied to predicate logic; the new rules allow a dominant quantifier to be removed by its "owner" (the Verifier for existential quantifiers and the Falsifier for universal quantifiers) and its bound variable replaced at all occurrences by an object of the owner's choosing, drawn f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=617121 | 1,408,644 |
613,739 | In April 2013, Rogoff was at the center of worldwide attention with Carmen Reinhart (coauthor of the book "This Time is Different") when their widely cited study "Growth in a Time of Debt" was shown to contain computation errors which critics claim undermine its central thesis that too much debt causes recession. An an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1766473 | 613,427 |
1,946,454 | During expansion of the Republic of Singapore Navy's capabilities in the late 1970s, the need for a dedicated coastal patrol platform was identified in order to perform the coastal surveillance and patrol mission. This need was especially apparent in 1975 during Operation Thunderstorm, where RSN resorted to using the S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46738118 | 1,945,341 |
1,568,687 | LightSail was working on energy storage products based on compressed-air energy storage infused with water vapour in order to retain calorimetric energy and increase energy efficiency up to marketable levels. Classic compression process creates heat, and doing so lose energy. LightSail used water vapor to recapture thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50041865 | 1,567,800 |
478,767 | Hebb's parents were both medical doctors. Donald's mother was heavily influenced by the ideas of Maria Montessori, and she home-schooled him until the age of 8. He performed so well in elementary school that he was promoted to the 7th grade at 10 years of age but, as a result of failing and then repeating the 11th grad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=323121 | 478,527 |
844,776 | As a result, metal-halide lamps have high luminous efficacy of around 75–100 lumens per watt, which is about twice that of mercury vapor lights and 3 to 5 times that of incandescent lights and produce an intense white light. Lamp life is 6,000 to 15,000 hours. As one of the most efficient sources of high CRI white ligh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1289944 | 844,326 |
293,954 | The NRO's first photo reconnaissance satellite program was the Corona program, the existence of which was declassified February 24, 1995, and which existed from August 1960 to May 1972 (although the first test flight occurred on February 28, 1959). The Corona system used (sometimes multiple) film capsules dropped by sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=377048 | 293,795 |
1,016,115 | The integration of the transform and lighting hardware into the GPU itself set the GeForce 256 apart from older 3D accelerators that relied on the CPU to perform these calculations (also known as software transform and lighting). This reduction of 3D graphics solution complexity brought the cost of such hardware to a n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=148744 | 1,015,592 |
1,285,025 | As early as 1982 there were discussions from multiple points of view about the possibility of helium shortage. One such point of discussion was to examine the usefulness of helium storage in the United States from an economic perspective. The maximisation of welfare resulting from this finite natural resource was the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54001918 | 1,284,326 |
1,811,327 | To speed up segmentation of large images, the work could be divided among several CPUs. One means of accomplishing this involves splitting images into tiles that are processed independently. However, regions that straddle a tile border might be split up or lost if the fragments do not meet the segmentation algorithm's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24872872 | 1,810,294 |
992,523 | It's been found that people will visit their dentist more regularly than their primary physician for checkups, so the dentist's office becomes a very useful place for potentially checking for diabetes. For people who are unaware of their diabetes risk and fall into the non-White, obese, or ≥45 y old category, screening... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13226296 | 992,006 |
495,188 | Several explanations have historically been proposed for the variation seen in the skulls of "Stegoceras" and other pachycephalosaurs. Brown and Schlaikjer suggested that there was sexual dimorphism in the degree of doming, and hypothesized that flat-headed specimens such as AMNH 5450 ("Ornatotholus") represented the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2274197 | 494,932 |
394,540 | The formation of an ice sheet or ice cap requires both prolonged cold and precipitation (snow). Hence, despite having temperatures similar to those of glaciated areas in North America and Europe, East Asia remained unglaciated except at higher elevations. This difference was because the ice sheets in Europe produced ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1178938 | 394,345 |
1,645,463 | Youngs attended UCLA, where as a freshman she started on a team that went undefeated through the regular season. They reached the semi-finals of the NCAA tournament, where they lost to Texas. The following year the Bruins reached the semi finals again, where they lost to a powerful squad from Nebraska. A knee injury ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2449832 | 1,644,535 |
48,290 | Public-key algorithms are most often based on the computational complexity of "hard" problems, often from number theory. For example, the hardness of RSA is related to the integer factorization problem, while Diffie–Hellman and DSA are related to the discrete logarithm problem. The security of elliptic curve cryptograp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18934432 | 48,270 |
31,406 | Later that year, HAL signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with MMTC Ltd — a public sector firm, as a channelizing partner to facilitate the import of palm oil as a counter-trade to any potential sale of the HAL Tejas to the RMAF; this arrangement was initiated to fulfill a mandatory requirement of the RMAF — whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=749967 | 31,396 |
737,143 | Soft starters can be set up to the requirements of the individual application. Compared to variable-frequency drives, soft starters require very few user adjustments. Some soft starters also include a "learning" process to automatically adapt the drive settings to the characteristics of a motor load, to reduce the powe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8145633 | 736,754 |
1,954,598 | DTC is a two quarter-long interdisciplinary course for all undergraduate students at Northwestern Engineering. The courses are typically taken in the first year. Students learn that both design and communication are iterative, context-centered, problem-solving processes. DTC is co-taught by an instructor from Northwest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22261821 | 1,953,476 |
202,210 | Canonical Wnt pathway activity is involved in the development of benign and malignant breast tumors. The role of Wnt pathway in tumor chemoresistance has been also well documented, as well as its role in the maintenance of a distinct subpopulation of cancer-initiating cells. Its presence is revealed by elevated levels ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1209057 | 202,106 |
509,551 | North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) is a medical institute of India in Shillong, Meghalaya. It is located on the outskirts of the educational hub hills City of the Northeastern India, Shillong, the "Scotland of the East". The present full-fledged tertiary care hospi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12640121 | 509,287 |
822,503 | Proper value analysis finds its roots in the need for industrial engineers and managers to not only simplify and improve processes and systems, but also the logical simplification of the designs of those products and systems. Though not directly related to engineering economy, value analysis is nonetheless important, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7977203 | 822,062 |
1,919,795 | First year of cadets completed the faculty in a 3-year system while in following years a 4-year bachelor system was implemented. Candidates who applied were required to have completed 4 years of high school with an order of honoring seamen, naval N.C.Os and land units' officers first. The Deck Faculty consisted of foll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46546157 | 1,918,695 |
534,001 | A number of emotional factors have been implicated in schizophrenia, with some models putting them at the core of the disorder. It was thought that the appearance of blunted affect meant that they did not experience strong emotions, however, other studies have indicated that there is often a normal or even heightened l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11304934 | 533,722 |
1,993,171 | This equation relates the judgment of a stimulus to the context in which that judgment is made. Because a judgment is assumed to be a subjective experience that is available to the subject's introspection but not to the public, the range and frequency trade-off suggests that this internal judgment by the subject can be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40743605 | 1,992,028 |
222,150 | A group of scientists and engineers, led by Charles Dudley, formed ASTM in 1898 to address the frequent rail breaks affecting the fast-growing railroad industry. The group developed a standard for the steel used to fabricate rails. Originally called the "American Society for Testing Materials" in 1902, it became the "A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=852442 | 222,041 |
1,361,513 | From its beginning in 1942, this was a cooperative undertaking by federal, state and local health agencies. The CDC's first director, Justin M. Andrews, was also Georgia's chief malariologist. Its headquarters were in Atlanta, in part because malaria was locally endemic. Offices were located on the sixth floor of the V... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30993607 | 1,360,760 |
1,043,814 | Further testing revealed significant problems, however. To reach break-even, the system would have to meet several goals at the same time, a combination of temperature, density and the length of time the fuel is confined. In April 1986, TFTR experiments demonstrated the last two of these requirements when it produced a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1417600 | 1,043,270 |
1,927,217 | Hydrogeophysics is a cross-disciplinary area of research that uses geophysics to determine parameters (characteristics; measurements of limitations or boundaries) and monitor processes for hydrological studies of matters such as water resources, contamination, and ecological studies. The field uses knowledge and resear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44390249 | 1,926,113 |
1,349,300 | Detecting phosphorus deficiency can take multiple forms. A preliminary detection method is a visual inspection of plants. Darker green leaves and purplish or red pigment can indicate a deficiency in phosphorus. This method however can be an unclear diagnosis because other plant environment factors can result in similar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23797435 | 1,348,554 |
1,129,881 | Glover was asked to continue his work at the Public Health Service (later incorporated into the National Institutes of Health) completing his studies in 1929 and publishing his findings in 1930. He asserted that a vaccine or anti-serum manufactured from his bacterium could be used to treat cancer patients with varying ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12026220 | 1,129,303 |
1,886,070 | The Magnesian Limestone forms a broken west-facing scarp running from the western edge of Sunderland southwards through Houghton-le-Spring and Hetton-le-Hole to Coxhoe where its outcrop is offset to the west by the Butterknowle Fault. English Nature has defined this part of the county east of the scarp where the sequen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40130458 | 1,884,988 |
1,275,653 | Droplet precautions are intended to prevent transmission of certain pathogens spread through close respiratory or mucous membrane contact with respiratory secretions, namely respiratory droplets. Because certain pathogens do not remain infectious over long distances in a healthcare facility, special air handling and ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30321101 | 1,274,961 |
46,024 | From 2015 to November 2022, the FDA issued dozens of warning letters to American manufacturers of CBD products for false advertising and illegal interstate marketing of CBD as an unapproved drug to treat diseases, such as cancer, osteoarthritis, symptoms of opioid withdrawal, Alzheimer's disease, and pet disorders. Che... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1232085 | 46,006 |
871,391 | The cluster is sufficiently close to the Sun that its distance can be directly measured by observing the amount of parallax shift of the member stars as the Earth orbits the Sun. This measurement has been performed with great accuracy using the Hipparcos satellite and the "Hubble Space Telescope". An alternative method... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82490 | 870,931 |
61,127 | Historians have divided the history of Cubism into phases. In one scheme, the first phase of Cubism, known as "Analytic Cubism", a phrase coined by Juan Gris a posteriori, was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1910 and 1912 in France. A second phase, "Synthetic Cubism",... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37803 | 61,102 |
420,670 | Electrostatic speakers enjoy some popularity among do-it-yourself (DIY) loudspeaker builders. They are one of the few types of speakers in which the transducers themselves can be built from scratch by an amateur as basic hardware for complete ESL DIY projects can be found available online. Such supplies include resisto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196048 | 420,465 |
103,953 | Aggressive space activities without adequate safeguards could significantly shorten the time between collisions and produce an intolerable hazard to future spacecraft. Some of the most environmentally dangerous activities in space include large constellations such as those initially proposed by the Strategic Defense In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3099164 | 103,908 |
758,810 | Oscillations can often be described and analyzed using mathematics. Mathematicians have identified several dynamical mechanisms that generate rhythmicity. Among the most important are harmonic (linear) oscillators, limit cycle oscillators, and delayed-feedback oscillators. Harmonic oscillations appear very frequently i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2860430 | 758,404 |
1,090,271 | These cables use two parallel bus wires which carry electricity but do not create significant heat. They are encased in a semi-conductive polymer. This polymer is loaded with carbon; as the polymer element heats, it allows less current to flow so the cable is inherently power saving and only delivering heat and power w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2527535 | 1,089,711 |
535,143 | Five infantry divisions of the AIF saw action in France and Belgium, leaving Egypt in March 1916. I Anzac Corps subsequently took up positions in a quiet sector south of Armentières on 7 April 1916 and for the next two and a half years the AIF participated in most of the major battles on the Western Front, earning a fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,864 |
491,537 | Algorand uses VRFs to perform cryptographic sortition. In this platform, every block produces a new random selection seed, and a user secretly checks whether they were selected to participate in the consensus protocol by evaluating a VRF with their secret participation key and the selection seed. (This also produces a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2431999 | 491,283 |
210,902 | In a semi-solid flow cell, the positive and negative electrodes are composed of particles suspended in a carrier liquid. The positive and negative suspensions are stored in separate tanks and pumped through separate pipes into a stack of adjacent reaction chambers, where they are separated by a barrier such as a thin, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3133405 | 210,795 |
950,780 | As time went on, competing for axial turbines became dramatically more efficient and powerful, and the second stage of reduction gears was introduced in most cutting-edge U.S. naval ships of the 1930s. The improvement in steam technology gave the U.S. Navy aircraft carriers a clear advantage in speed over both Allied a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30869 | 950,276 |
433,578 | Advances in genomics have enabled a variety of new methods and gene targets to be identified for possible applications. DNA microarrays used in a variety of next-gen sequencing can identify thousands of genes simultaneously, with analytical software looking at gene expression patterns, and orthologous genes in model sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6599910 | 433,364 |
283,734 | Through the efforts of both staff and volunteers, the Experimental Aircraft Association in Oshkosh, Wisconsin produced two reproductions of the "Spirit of St. Louis", powered by Continental R-670-4 radial engines, the first in 1977 (of which was to be based on a conversion from a B-1 Brougham; the aircraft proved to be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=358988 | 283,581 |
1,941,722 | The first attempt as a marine weather program within the United States was initiated in New Orleans, Louisiana, by the United States Army Signal Corps. A January 23, 1873, memo directed the New Orleans Signal Observer to transcribe meteorological data from the ship logs of those arriving in port. Marine forecasting res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19163391 | 1,940,611 |
312,718 | Laura Minelli, a professor of pre-Columbian studies at the University of Bologna, has discovered something which she believed to be a seventeenth-century Jesuit manuscript that describes literary "quipus", titled . This manuscript consists of nine folios with Spanish, Latin, and ciphered Italian texts. Owned by the fam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=261479 | 312,550 |
1,392,447 | Thiel's Professor in Breslau recommended Thiel to the Research Institute of the German army ordnance office of under-secretary Prof. Karl Erich Schumann at the University of Berlin. Thiel's previous findings had technological applicability and therefore he was able to continue his fundamental research in a leading posi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=441173 | 1,391,676 |
1,290,740 | "Challenger" lifted off from Kennedy Space Center (KSC)'s launch pad 39A at 12:02:18 p.m. EDT on April 29, 1985. The crew members included Robert F. Overmyer, commander; Frederick D. Gregory, pilot; Don L. Lind, Norman E. Thagard and William E. Thornton, mission specialists; and Lodewijk van den Berg, of EG&G Energy Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=497600 | 1,290,030 |
1,725,229 | Hydroelectric power is power created from the energy of running water. This water is usually stored and controlled by dams. Its productivity changes in accordance to how much rainfall is produced annually. In 2018, California ranked second in the United States for conventional hydroelectric generation, however this is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58486577 | 1,724,258 |
1,154,124 | In 1910, the American geologist Mignon Talbot was walking with her sister Ellen to Holyoke, Massachusetts, in the eastern US, when they passed a farm and noticed a small hill nearby. It had a gravel pit at one side, and was formed by an accumulation of sand, gravel, and boulders left by a receding glacier. Talbot notic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3610052 | 1,153,514 |
975,161 | The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is a set of computer interface specifications for an autonomous computer subsystem that provides management and monitoring capabilities independently of the host system's CPU, firmware (BIOS or UEFI) and operating system. IPMI defines a set of interfaces used by syst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1928276 | 974,650 |
665,287 | Because population turnover rates of individual taxa are much less than net rates of sediment accumulation, the biological remains of successive, noncontemporaneous populations of organisms may be admixed within a single bed, known as time-averaging. Because of the slow and episodic nature of the geologic record, two a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188739 | 664,940 |
1,780,389 | Daniel Chamovitz was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. He began his undergraduate studies at Columbia University in New York City, NY, and then transferred to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he studied plant science. He received his Ph.D. in Genetics in 1992. From 1993 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43244529 | 1,779,385 |
1,577,009 | Effective schools showing outstanding gains in academic measures report that the wide and wise use of data has a positive effect on student achievement and progress. DDDM is suggested to be a main tool to move educational organizations towards school improvement and educator effectiveness. Data can be used to measure g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46235825 | 1,576,120 |
1,266,475 | By the late 1600s, Russian settlers started making the long trek to Siberia in greater numbers in order to find new opportunities and lands to claim, away from the densely populated tracts of European Russia. In fact, some peasants chose to move away from their western homes because of poor soil conditions in their nat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34407497 | 1,265,787 |
492,224 | CTSS used a modified IBM 7090 mainframe computer that had two 32,768 (32K) 36-bit-word banks of core memory instead of the default configuration which provides only one. One bank was reserved for the time-sharing supervisory program, the other for user programs. CTSS had a protected-mode kernel, the supervisor's functi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=254141 | 491,970 |
367,750 | Prolonged lack of insulin can also result in diabetic ketoacidosis, characterized by persistent fatigue, dry or flushed skin, abdominal pain, nausea or vomiting, confusion, trouble breathing, and a fruity breath odor. Blood and urine tests reveal unusually high glucose and ketones in the blood and urine. Untreated keto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2812725 | 367,557 |
399,393 | Lasers have been used to indirectly generate non-coherent extreme UV (EUV) light at 13.5 nm for extreme ultraviolet lithography. The EUV light is not emitted by the laser, but rather by a tin or xenon plasma which is excited by an excimer or laser. Fabrication of feature sizes of 10 nm has been demonstrated in producti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23748 | 399,195 |
774,395 | Values of "socialism" have roots in pre-capitalist institutions such as the religious communes, reciprocal obligations and communal charity of medieval Europe, the development of its economic theory primarily reflects and responds to the monumental changes brought about by the dissolution of feudalism and the emergence... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43069513 | 773,979 |
1,968,388 | Bikramjit Basu is currently a full professor at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, specializing in Engineering Ceramics and Biomaterials Science. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for science and technology, the highest science award in India, for the year 2013 in engineering science category. The p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41543680 | 1,967,255 |
2,248,027 | Identifying and proposing Important Bird Areas (IBAs) in Sri Lanka is one of the main activities of the group. This project has now entered its second phase, conducting studies to evaluate the biodiversity of proposed 70 IBAs. Conducting research on some selected endemic birds, the Sri Lanka blue magpie and spot-winged... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24770527 | 2,246,755 |
2,032,929 | The 2008 Summer Olympics marked 22 year old Marcon Bezzina's second appearance at the Olympic Games after she previously represented Malta at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She received an invitation from the International Judo Federation to compete in the women's light middleweight (−63 kg) tournament. Bezzina prepared for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17438648 | 2,031,757 |
779,412 | Such magnetic fields may be advected inward from the interstellar medium or generated by a magnetic dynamo within the disk. Magnetic fields strengths at least of order 100 Gauss seem necessary for the magneto-centrifugal mechanism to launch powerful jets. There are problems, however, in carrying external magnetic flux ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48400112 | 778,995 |
985,788 | Oslo is sandwiched between the Oslo Fjord and wooded areas. Woods serve as an important feature to this municipality. More than two-thirds of the city is protected forests; in recent surveys over 81% of Oslo residents said they have gone to these forests at least once in the last year. These forests are protected, as O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59271750 | 985,273 |
217,261 | On 19 June 2007, during the annual meeting of the Annapolis Group, members discussed a letter to college presidents asking them not to participate in the "reputation survey" section of the "U.S. News" survey (this section comprises 25% of the ranking). As a result, "a majority of the approximately 80 presidents at the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31604324 | 217,153 |
2,117,283 | There has been a growing research interest in the benefits of bilingualism against age-related cognitive decline. Klein & Viswanathan found that the normal decrease in attention control observed in older adults was reduced in bilinguals, suggesting that bilingualism may protect against age-related cognitive deficits. E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3289570 | 2,116,065 |
934,059 | Modern museum dioramas may be seen in most major natural history museums. Typically, these displays use a tilted plane to represent what would otherwise be a level surface, incorporate a painted background of distant objects, and often employ false perspective, carefully modifying the scale of objects placed on the pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=184072 | 933,567 |
561,854 | "Mesembryanthemum cordifolium" can be planted as a fast-growing, not hardy, groundcover in flower boxes and around traffic lights. The plant needs a sunny spot and well drained soil. This plant is also ideal for covering walls, rockeries and areas bare of grass. Due to its quick growth, it is useful to prevent the grow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19334954 | 561,565 |
805,115 | In 2018, a sheared-flow stabilized Z-pinch demonstrated neutron generation. It was built by a fusion company, Zap Energy, Inc., a spin-out from the University of Washington, and funded by strategic and financial investors and grants from the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA–E). Flow stabilized plasma re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1019222 | 804,686 |
762,704 | Unlike the physical sciences where a narrower, more specified system is studied, futurology concerns a much bigger and more complex world system. The methodology and knowledge are much less proven than in natural science and social sciences like sociology and economics. There is a debate as to whether this discipline i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1508301 | 762,296 |
186,002 | The ability to grow up functional adult tissues indefinitely in culture through Directed differentiation creates new opportunities for drug research. Researchers are able to grow up differentiated cell lines and then test new drugs on each cell type to examine possible interactions "in vitro" before performing "in vivo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3853380 | 185,905 |
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