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1,512,298 | The K-1 Grand Prix '97 Final was held for the first time at the Tokyo Dome, gathering 54,500 spectators. Filho continued his victorious first year in K-1 with an amazing 15 second knock out over Sam Greco in the first round. In a rematch from last year Ernesto Hoost was able to get revenge by knocking out Jerome Le Ban... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6633778 | 1,511,448 |
378,384 | A panel of the Heart Rhythm Society, a specialist organization based in Washington, DC, found that it was legal and ethical to honor requests by patients, or by those with legal authority to make decisions for patients, to deactivate implanted cardiac devices. Lawyers say that the legal situation is similar to removing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80732 | 378,189 |
323,398 | The applications for epoxy-based materials are extensive and they are considered very versatile. The applications include coatings, adhesives and composite materials such as those using carbon fiber and fiberglass reinforcements (although polyester, vinyl ester, and other thermosetting resins are also used for glass-re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211724 | 323,226 |
808,425 | In November 1938, Walther von Brauchitsch ordered construction of an A-4 production plant at Peenemünde, and in January 1939, Walter Dornberger created a subsection of Wa Pruf 11 for planning the Peenemünde Production Plant project, headed by G. Schubert, a senior Army civil servant. By midsummer 1943, the first trial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25134 | 807,995 |
2,015,194 | The statistician George E. P. Box once said, "All models are wrong; however, some of them are useful." Along the same lines, the DeGroot model is a fairly simple model but it can provide us with useful insights about the learning process in social networks. Indeed, the simplicity of this model makes it tractable for th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56775942 | 2,014,035 |
298,268 | After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the strong promotion of Mandarin in the Wu-speaking region yet again influenced the development of Wu Chinese. Wu was gradually excluded from most modern media and schools. Public organizations were required to use Mandarin. With the influx of a migrant non-Wu-speak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=486970 | 298,108 |
655,741 | The Exploratorium Explainer program, which has been operating since the museum opened, hires and trains high school students and young educators each year. The program tripled its capacity, hiring 300 Explainers, following the relocation to Pier 15 in 2013. The Explainers function essentially as docents. There are two ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22990622 | 655,397 |
922,684 | In a 2012 study, Koch et al. focused on whether Laser-assisted BioPrinting (LaBP) can be used to build multicellular 3D patterns in natural matrix, and whether the generated constructs are functioning and forming tissue. LaBP arranges small volumes of living cell suspensions in set high-resolution patterns. The investi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=307065 | 922,198 |
86,895 | One of the first purpose built units to use Fw 190s in this role was "Stab/Versuchskommando Herrmann", a unit specifically set up in April 1943 by Major Hajo Herrmann. Herrmann's unit used standard A-4s and A-5s borrowed from day fighter units to intercept bombers over or near the targeted city, using searchlights and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241214 | 86,860 |
1,285,026 | Discussions continue. The occurrence of a worldwide helium shortage in 2006-7 made such concerns more pressing. This shortage caused price spikes and a complete cut-off of supply for some prospective buyers. Some equipment can become useless or permanently damaged without an adequate helium supply. For example, an unin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54001918 | 1,284,327 |
1,655,722 | The crystal structure of the type III enzyme from "Escherichia coli" with chloramphenicol bound has been determined. CAT is a trimer of identical subunits (monomer Mr 25,000) and the trimeric structure is stabilised by a number of hydrogen bonds, some of which result in the extension of a beta-sheet across the subunit ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2440667 | 1,654,789 |
54,315 | During April 1939, initial plans were drawn up and, following their submission in June 1939, the original design was very different from the aircraft that eventually entered service. Specifically, it featured wing-root-mounted engines, rather than podded ones. The progression of the original design was delayed greatly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20488 | 54,295 |
2,160,381 | Emma Wade was 19 years old at the time of the Sydney Olympics, was making her Olympic debut, and would later go on to represent Belize at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. On 23 September, she was drawn into the third heat of the women's 100 meters. She finished the race in 12.25 seconds, which was seventh out of eig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3313199 | 2,159,148 |
338,337 | Other dinosaurs known from the Morrison Formation include the predatory theropods "Koparion", "Stokesosaurus", "Ornitholestes", "Ceratosaurus", "Allosaurus", "Torvosaurus", and "Saurophaganax", as well as the herbivorous ornithischians "Camptosaurus", "Dryosaurus", "Othnielia", "Gargoyleosaurus" and "Stegosaurus". "All... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20598015 | 338,157 |
255,859 | One of Germany's first attempts at developing an amphibious tank, the "Schwimmkörper" was a device built by Gebr Sachsenberg that consisted of two large pontoons, with one attached to each side of a Panzer II tank. The tanks were specially sealed, some modifications to the engine exhaust and cooling were needed, as was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216033 | 255,725 |
740,300 | The synthesis of the heavy isotopes Lv and Lv could be accomplished by fusing the heavy curium isotope curium-250 with calcium-48. The cross section of this nuclear reaction would be about 1 picobarn, though it is not yet possible to produce Cm in the quantities needed for target manufacture. After a few alpha decays, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62198 | 739,908 |
1,421,463 | Acid sulfate baths contain cupric sulfate as the source of copper(II) ions; sulfuric acid to increase bath conductivity, ensure copper salt solubility, decrease anode and cathode polarization, and increase throwing power; and a source of chloride ions such as hydrochloric acid or sodium chloride, which helps reduce ano... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1287829 | 1,420,662 |
1,396,240 | Intestine transplantation dates back to 1959, when a team of surgeons at the University of Minnesota led by Richard C. Lillehei reported successful transplantation of the small intestine in dogs. Five years later in 1964, Ralph Deterling in Boston attempted the first human intestinal transplant, albeit unsuccessfully. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46300441 | 1,395,469 |
1,511,662 | Prieto-Márquez would return to the issue in 2009 along with Jonathan R. Wagner. They once again turned to the articulation between the maxilla and the jugal, finding this to link "Pararhabdodon" to the Asian lambeosaurine, "Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus". In the 2006 phylogenetic analysis, "P. isonenis" had been scored as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4317487 | 1,510,812 |
649,368 | The mixing of levels of discourse within OO application code presents problems, but there are some common mechanisms used to compensate. The biggest challenge is to provide framework support, automation of data manipulation and presentation patterns, within the level of discourse in which the domain data is being model... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2063278 | 649,027 |
1,348,042 | The use of water as a coolant raised the problem of corrosion and oxidation of the aluminum tubing. The Metallurgical Laboratory tested various additives to the water to determine their effect. It was found that corrosion was minimized when the water was slightly acidic, so dilute sulfuric acid was added to the water t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1951235 | 1,347,301 |
1,027,394 | Unlike other Dutch naturalists, Merian was not employed by a commercial enterprise or corporation. The preface of her Suriname book does not acknowledge any patrons or sponsors of her trip. Some believe her journey may have been financed by the directors of the Dutch West India Company. In her subsequent publication on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3101059 | 1,026,860 |
1,661,228 | A further significant finding of Preston's study was that the curve has shifted upwards during the 20th century. This means that life expectancy has increased in most countries, independently of changes in income. Preston credited education, better technology, vaccinations, improved provision of public health services,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8027403 | 1,660,294 |
1,326,818 | Nanotechnology designed for advanced communication is expected to equip soldiers and vehicles with micro antenna rays, tags for remote identification, acoustic arrays, micro GPS receivers and wireless communication. Nanotech facilitates easier defence related communications due to lower energy consumption, light weight... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60786392 | 1,326,091 |
1,591,684 | He joined the Parachute Regiment in 1981, went to Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1982 and was sent to University by the Army to study Russian at Manchester University and at the Minsk State Pedagogical Institute for Foreign Languages in the Soviet Union. He was the only serving British Army officer to have been pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13845488 | 1,590,788 |
896,760 | The figure of Lycurgus, bound by the vine and naked apart from boots, is flanked on the left by a crouching Ambrosia, at a considerably smaller scale. Behind her one of Dionysus's satyrs (shown with a normal human form) stands on one foot as he prepares to hurl a large rock at Lycurgus. In his other hand he holds a "pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11209942 | 896,289 |
782,644 | The park has tree-lined paved paths for long treks inside the campus, enabling the visitors to walk during a visit. Battery-operated vehicles with a range of up to are available for rent. There are about 9 such vehicles in addition to the 4 battery-operated vans used for the lion safari and 4 diesel-run road rails used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30870670 | 782,225 |
1,220,707 | Although "A. hygrometricus" bears a superficial resemblance to members of the "true earthstars" "Geastrum", it may be readily differentiated from most by the hygroscopic nature of its rays. Hygroscopic earthstars include "G. arenarium", "G. corollinum", "G. floriforme", "G. recolligens", and "G. kotlabae". Unlike "Geas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23316558 | 1,220,051 |
1,308,771 | The fact that the plants are used to produce drugs alarms activists. They worry that once production begins, the altered plants might find their way into the food supply or cross-pollinate with conventional, non-GM crops. These concerns have historical validation from the ProdiGene incident, and from the StarLink incid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1749134 | 1,308,055 |
2,146,025 | Ed Anderson attended Magdalen College, Oxford, and graduated from the university with Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry in 1997, having completed his research project on gold nanoparticles under the supervision of Harry Anderson. Between 1997 and 2001, he completed a doctorate at Gonville and Caius College in the Un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52942666 | 2,144,794 |
827,530 | Approximately 1800 of the world's 10,000 bird species are long-distance migrants. The primary motivation for migration appears to be food; for example, some hummingbirds choose not to migrate if fed through the winter. Also, the longer days of the northern summer provide extended time for breeding birds to feed their y... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=207874 | 827,086 |
606,319 | Meiji University is one of Japan's leading private universities. It has highly selective admissions, with an acceptance rate averaging around 15%. It is known to be Japan's most popular university with applications exceeding 100,000 annually, and in 2020, was named the top institution for attractive courses and subject... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1605989 | 606,009 |
738,497 | Biolistics has proven to be a versatile method of genetic modification and it is generally preferred to engineer transformation-resistant crops, such as cereals. Notably, "Bt" maize is a product of biolistics. Plastid transformation has also seen great success with particle bombardment when compared to other current te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=961961 | 738,106 |
235,735 | In 2007, the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) proposed a new standard defining V1.0 of the Smart Card Web Server (SCWS), an HTTP server embedded in a SIM card intended for a smartphone user. The non-profit trade association SIMalliance has been promoting the development and adoption of SCWS. SIMalliance states that SCWS offe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59957 | 235,616 |
338,918 | The American Revolution led to the creation of a new Constitution of the United States in 1787, with a national legislature based partly on direct elections of representatives every two years, and thus responsible to the electorate for continuance in office. Senators were not directly elected by the people until the ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52318 | 338,738 |
692,361 | ICG is a fluorescent dye which is used in medicine as an indicator substance (e.g. for photometric hepatic function diagnostics and fluorescence angiography) in cardiac, circulatory, hepatic and ophthalmic conditions. It is administered intravenously and, depending on liver performance, is eliminated from the body with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23002394 | 691,998 |
1,805,821 | The Korean War started with the North Korean army's surprise attack on Sunday, June 25, 1950. The infant ROK Navy confronted threats from the stronger North Korean navy: "Perhaps the most aggressive and effective, if smallest, member of the South Korean armed services during the first year of the Korean War was the Rep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14821179 | 1,804,804 |
1,367,254 | The quarryman honestly informed the director of the quarry, who legally owned any finds by worker, and the next day Wellnhofer was called on to come examine the fossil and was asked to take over the scientific study of the new specimen. It was prepared in Munich by Wellnhofer's skilled preparator, Ernst Schmieja, in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34483273 | 1,366,498 |
1,262,335 | In the latter part of 1970s and into the early 1980s serious under funding lead to difficulties in basic financial planning due to the uncertainty in funding policies; therefore, priorities for programs leading to careers and professions and for research and development in the emerging sectors of information technologi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17662107 | 1,261,648 |
1,455,639 | Studies have shown that pure alexia may be a result of a disconnection syndrome. Analysis of diffusion images showed that the visual word form area (VWFA) is connected to the occipital lobe via the inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF), a projection that runs between the temporal and occipital lobe. functional magneti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11630765 | 1,454,819 |
25,870 | The invention of a geographic coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene, who composed his now-lost "Geography" at the Library of Alexandria in the 3rd century BC. A century later, Hipparchus of Nicaea improved on this system by determining latitude from stellar measurements rather than solar alt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48361 | 25,861 |
62,098 | Meteorologists use radar to monitor precipitation and wind. It has become the primary tool for short-term weather forecasting and watching for severe weather such as thunderstorms, tornadoes, winter storms, precipitation types, etc. Geologists use specialized ground-penetrating radars to map the composition of Earth's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25676 | 62,073 |
563,897 | The National Academies attempt to obtain authoritative, objective, and scientifically balanced answers to difficult questions of national importance. The work is conducted by committees of volunteer scientists—leading national and international experts—who serve without compensation. Committees are chosen to assure the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=431259 | 563,607 |
301,413 | Starting from the principle of "conservative design", the engineer typically considers two worst-case trajectories, the undershoot and overshoot trajectories. The overshoot trajectory is typically defined as the shallowest-allowable entry velocity angle prior to atmospheric skip-off. The overshoot trajectory has the hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45294 | 301,252 |
519,465 | Culturalism can be criticized from various perspectives. Marxists argue that culturalists are too idealistic in their notion of the social construction of reality and too weak in their analysis of external (i.e. material) constraints on individuals that affect their livelihood choices. If, as Gudeman argues, local mode... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=418436 | 519,196 |
1,522,809 | The latter, however, would not arrive. Moving from Myriofyto towards Akritas, it was attacked by a German column near Amaranta anad forced to withdraw towards Myriofyto. Further east, another German tank column surprised and took prisoner the two companies of the 1st Security Battalion marching to take over the Metamor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46884538 | 1,521,948 |
922,640 | While most definitions of tissue engineering cover a broad range of applications, in practice the term is closely associated with applications that repair or replace portions of or whole tissues (i.e. bone, cartilage, blood vessels, bladder, skin, muscle etc.). Often, the tissues involved require certain mechanical and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=307065 | 922,154 |
224,916 | Pedro Paulet wrote a letter to "El Comercio" in Lima in 1927, claiming he had experimented with a liquid rocket engine while he was a student in Paris three decades earlier. Historians of early rocketry experiments, among them Max Valier, Willy Ley, and John D. Clark, have given differing amounts of credence to Paulet'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=520402 | 224,801 |
2,129,507 | Dartmouth BASIC was introduced in May 1964 at Dartmouth College as a cleaned up, interactive language inspired by FORTRAN. The system brought together several concepts which were hot topics in the computer industry at the time, notably timesharing to allow multiple users to access a single machine, and direct interacti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70630441 | 2,128,283 |
1,929,065 | At only 17 years of age, U.S. teenage sensation Missy Franklin, billed as "Missy the Missile" by her fans, stormed home on the final stretch to pick up her first ever Olympic gold medal in swimming. Trailing behind at the halfway turn, she pulled away from a tightly packed field with a more destructive force to hit the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34236414 | 1,927,960 |
164,995 | With the fragility problems solved, a remaining problem was purity. Making germanium of the required purity was proving to be a serious problem, and limited the yield of transistors that actually worked from a given batch of material. Germanium's sensitivity to temperature also limited its usefulness. Scientists theori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40344 | 164,910 |
991,022 | After analysis and controversy, geologists now believe that there were 40 or more separate floods, although the exact source of the water is still being debated. The peak flow of the floods is estimated to be 27 cubic kilometers per hour (6.5 cubic miles per hour). The maximum flow speed approached 36 meters/second (13... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=441572 | 990,505 |
577,018 | Secondary-ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) is a technique used to analyze the composition of solid surfaces and thin films by sputtering the surface of the specimen with a focused primary ion beam and collecting and analyzing ejected secondary ions. The mass/charge ratios of these secondary ions are measured with a mass sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=651485 | 576,722 |
1,003,368 | In microelectronics, a dual in-line package (DIP or DIL), is an electronic component package with a rectangular housing and two parallel rows of electrical connecting pins. The package may be through-hole mounted to a printed circuit board (PCB) or inserted in a socket. The dual-inline format was invented by Don Forbes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41073 | 1,002,850 |
1,535,992 | On February 21, 2003, a new era was ushered in by the unanimous election of the Second College President, Dr. Serafin L. Ngohayon. Dr. Ngohayon recognized the urgent need for a comprehensive development plan and worked for the immediate crafting, approval and implementation of the ISCAF 8- Year Development Plan 2003–20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25109807 | 1,535,124 |
1,451,534 | The PES was further developed by David W. Turner, a physical chemist at Imperial College in London and then at Oxford University, in a series of publications from 1962 to 1967. As a photon source, he used a helium discharge lamp which emits a wavelength of 58.4 nm (corresponding to an energy of 21.2 eV) in the vacuum u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8696119 | 1,450,717 |
1,959,740 | The men's discus throw was one of four men's throwing events on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 15 October 1964. 29 athletes from 21 nations entered, with 1 additional athlete not starting in the qualification round. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3674182 | 1,958,613 |
748,304 | Plant breeders' rights is also a major and controversial issue. Today, production of new varieties is dominated by commercial plant breeders, who seek to protect their work and collect royalties through national and international agreements based in intellectual property rights. The range of related issues is complex. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30876044 | 747,906 |
1,281,090 | Going into the event, Phelps' compatriot Ian Crocker was seen as the swimmer with the best chance of beating Phelps. Crocker beat Phelps' 100 metre butterfly world record in 2003, and had since lowered it twice: once at the 2004 United States Olympic trials, and then at the 2005 World Championships in Montreal. Before ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18624808 | 1,280,394 |
372,221 | The HDFS file system includes a so-called "secondary namenode", a misleading term that some might incorrectly interpret as a backup namenode when the primary namenode goes offline. In fact, the secondary namenode regularly connects with the primary namenode and builds snapshots of the primary namenode's directory infor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5919308 | 372,026 |
612,974 | Following the success of its MSc in Surgical Sciences, the University of Edinburgh Medical School re-established the ChM award in 2011, as an online distance learning degree, in collaboration with the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh. The focus of the ChM was to prepare advanced surgical trainees for their FRCS exam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5564920 | 612,663 |
1,445,815 | ICA uses the principles of sociocultural anthropology to investigate such diverse things as material symbols, the use of space, political power, and religion. For example, Huffman uses oral history sources from Zimbabwe and Portuguese documents to attempt to explain symbols discovered in the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1326648 | 1,444,999 |
465,500 | There are primarily two ways that networks can evolve, both of which can occur simultaneously. The first is that network topology can be changed by the addition or subtraction of nodes (genes) or parts of the network (modules) may be expressed in different contexts. The" Drosophila" Hippo signaling pathway provides a g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=356382 | 465,270 |
1,469,101 | During his tenure as Chief Scientific Adviser, he raised public awareness for climate change and initiated several foresight studies. As director of the government's Foresight Programme, he created an in-depth horizon scanning process which advised government on a wide range of long-term issues, from flooding to obesit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1065128 | 1,468,277 |
931,694 | Just after retrofire, Shepard switched into the "fly-by-wire" control mode, where the pilot's motions of the three-axis control stick electrically triggered the control jets of the automatic system to fire for the desired positioning, rather than proportionally opening the manual system's control jets. Soon afterward, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213233 | 931,202 |
118,365 | A modern oboe with the "full conservatoire" ("conservatory" in the US) or Gillet key system has 45 pieces of keywork, with the possible additions of a third-octave key and alternate (left little finger) F- or C-key. The keys are usually made of nickel silver, and are silver- or occasionally gold-plated. Besides the ful... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22206 | 118,320 |
709,357 | Self-modifying code is quite straightforward to implement when using assembly language. Instructions can be dynamically created in memory (or else overlaid over existing code in non-protected program storage), in a sequence equivalent to the ones that a standard compiler may generate as the object code. With modern pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217647 | 708,987 |
494,621 | "L. mesenteroides" is typically found on the skin of a large variety of fleshy fruits and vegetables, and can be cultured using MRS agar, tomato juice agar, MRS broth, and skim milk. These common medias are not ideal for growth and specialized medias are needed to grow to a high cell density. This microbe is commonly u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6880603 | 494,365 |
709,323 | Although the formalisation of logic was much advanced by the work of such figures as Gottlob Frege, Giuseppe Peano, Bertrand Russell, and Richard Dedekind, the story of modern proof theory is often seen as being established by David Hilbert, who initiated what is called Hilbert's program in the "Foundations of Mathemat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=183478 | 708,953 |
2,007,832 | The Automated Planet Finder (APF) Telescope a.k.a. Rocky Planet Finder, is a fully robotic 2.4-meter optical telescope at Lick Observatory, situated on the summit of Mount Hamilton, east of San Jose, California, USA. It is designed to search for extrasolar planets in the range of five to twenty times the mass of the Ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6143326 | 2,006,681 |
630,145 | During 2000, the rail freight haulage company GB Railfreight (GBRf) obtained its first Class 66 diesel locomotive; determining the type's performance to be ideal to its purposes, procured it in large numbers; by 2021, GBRf's fleet of roughly 130 locomotives was dominated by 99 Class 66s. According to Bob Tiller, GBRf’s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60015502 | 629,807 |
1,885,880 | "Orthosuchus" has similar pectoral girdles and pelvic girdles compare to living crocodiles, with a long scapula and a shorter coracoid. The interclavicle is hypothesized to be cartilaginous. As for the forelimb, the fossil records showed that "Orthosuchus" has similar humerus, but the distal and proximal expansions doe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5749495 | 1,884,798 |
705,556 | Research has attempted to extend the basis for the traditional chromostereoptic theory, including work done by Stiles and Crawford. In 1933, Stiles and Crawford accidentally discovered that the light sensitivity differed for rays entering through center versus those entering from peripheral regions of the eye. The effi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18499558 | 705,187 |
1,031,273 | A typical experiment designed to study the N400 will usually involve the visual presentation of words, either in sentence or list contexts. In a typical visual N400 experiment, for example, subjects will be seated in front of a computer monitor while words are presented one-by-one at a central screen location. Stimuli ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2229041 | 1,030,737 |
113,748 | E2s was to account for 10% of Embraer airliner deliveries in 2018 before a planned rise in 2019. Embraer thought Airbus would not be able to lower the A220 supply chain costs enough to make it profitable and viewed the A220 as a heavy, expensive and long-range aircraft. Embraer hoped the E2's operational capabilities w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39718589 | 113,703 |
1,626,483 | In 1961 Misha Black was appointed head of industrial design at the Royal College of Art and asked him to lead a research project called Studies in the function and design of non-surgical hospital equipment, being funded by the Nuffield Foundation. Archer returned in the summer of 1962 and, with a small multi-disciplina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4108991 | 1,625,565 |
1,740,050 | Several researchers (including Peters, 1991) have found that the prices of many financial instruments (such as currency exchange rates, stock values, etc.) also have H > 1/2. This means that they have a behavior that is distinct from a random walk, and therefore the time series is not generated by a stochastic process ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10625394 | 1,739,069 |
285,910 | In 1839, the German apothecary Eduard Simon isolated a volatile liquid from the resin (called "storax" or "styrax" (Latin)) of the American sweetgum tree ("Liquidambar styraciflua"). He called the liquid "styrol" (now styrene). He also noticed that when styrol was exposed to air, light, or heat, it gradually transforme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=168394 | 285,756 |
1,413,385 | As aircraft began to travel faster, aerodynamicists realized that the density of air began to change as it came into contact with an object, leading to a division of fluid flow into the incompressible and compressible regimes. In compressible aerodynamics, density and pressure both change, which is the basis for calcul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40119871 | 1,412,589 |
40,348 | "Dennard scaling" – This posits that power usage would decrease in proportion to area (both voltage and current being proportional to length) of transistors. Combined with Moore's law, performance per watt would grow at roughly the same rate as transistor density, doubling every 1–2 years. According to Dennard scaling ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39418 | 40,333 |
840,869 | If the transaction is a recurring or lengthy one, re-negotiation may be necessary as a continual power struggle takes place concerning the gains from trade, further increasing the transaction costs. Moreover, there are likely to be situations where a purchaser may require a particular, firm-specific investment of a sup... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1337683 | 840,419 |
2,198,861 | The necessity for personalized medicine becomes particularly evident with the reduction in the therapeutic effectiveness of existing medicine. In a BBC news interview with Allen D. Roses, a former senior vice president at GlaxoSmithKline claimed that 90% of drugs have a therapeutic effect on only 30-50% of patients. Pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70423831 | 2,197,609 |
1,683,099 | Amos was born in Pennsauken, New Jersey to Howard R. Amos Sr., a Philadelphia postman, and Iola Johnson. Iola Johnson was adopted and educated by a Philadelphia Quaker family. Due to the close relationship between Iola and the Quaker family, the Amos family received a lot of books, including a biography of Louis Pasteu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30797508 | 1,682,156 |
1,403,132 | The earliest known caenagnathid is "Microvenator celer", from the Early Cretaceous Cloverly Formation. Caenagnathids likely dispersed to Asia from North America with some caenagnathids later reappearing in western North America, during the Campanian. Caenagnathids showed considerable variation in form. The tiny jaws of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6510422 | 1,402,345 |
1,868,222 | The men's parallel bars competition was one of eight events for male competitors of the artistic gymnastics discipline contested in the gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. The qualification and final rounds took place on August 14 and August 23 at the Olympic Indoor Hall. There were 81 competitors from 31... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11505382 | 1,867,146 |
1,217,576 | On September 22, 2005, Jones presented his views on the collapse of the World Trade Center towers and World Trade Center 7 during the September 11 attacks in 2001 at a BYU seminar attended by around 60 people. Jones claimed that a variety of evidence defies the mainstream collapse theory and favors controlled demolitio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3171735 | 1,216,923 |
525,577 | The reduction/melt method and reduction/diffusion method are used to manufacture samarium–cobalt magnets. The reduction/melt method will be described since it is used for both SmCo and SmCo production. The raw materials are melted in an induction furnace filled with argon gas. The mixture is cast into a mold and cooled... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1714439 | 525,304 |
2,103,785 | Venkatesh Kumar R Kodur is a scientist and university professor, currently at Michigan State University. He was born in Kodur village in Karnataka India, received his bachelor's degree in Civil engineering from the University Visveswaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore, India, in 1984. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54449177 | 2,102,573 |
1,052,758 | During practice for the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, Nakajima collided heavily with the back of Oliver Jarvis's No. 8 Audi on the Kemmel Straight due to spray-impaired visibility and broke his back. He was not replaced by Kobayashi because the latter was unavailable, and Buemi and Davidson drove the No. 1 TS040 as a t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41475424 | 1,052,212 |
187,417 | At the time of construction, the main weapon for the "Anzac"s was a United Defense 5-inch 54 calibre Mark 45 Mod 2 dual purpose gun. The forward-mounted gun is capable of firing shells at a rate of 20 rounds per minute, to a distance of . The barrel can elevate to 65 degrees. This was supplemented by an eight-cell Lock... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=897679 | 187,320 |
312,902 | The technique of printing his more popular lectures in periodicals which were sold to the general public was extremely effective. A good example was "The Physical Basis of Life", a lecture given in Edinburgh on 8 November 1868. Its theme—that vital action is nothing more than "the result of the molecular forces of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30038 | 312,734 |
993,656 | The military history of Japan covers a vast time-period of over three millennia - from the Jōmon ( 1000 BC) to the present day. After a long period of clan warfare until the 12th century, there followed feudal wars that culminated in military governments known as the Shogunate. Japanese history records that a military ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166614 | 993,139 |
1,632,489 | The sucrose gap technique allows ion currents to be measured in multicellular tissues. Although voltage clamp and patch clamp methods are also effective in studying the functions of neurons, the sucrose gap technique is easier to perform and less expensive. Furthermore, the sucrose gap technique can provide stable reco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2267418 | 1,631,567 |
206,562 | Electrode coatings can consist of a number of different compounds, including rutile, calcium fluoride, cellulose, and iron powder. Rutile electrodes, coated with 25%–45% TiO, are characterized by ease of use and good appearance of the resulting weld. However, they create welds with high hydrogen content, encouraging em... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239076 | 206,455 |
1,449,827 | "Divine Proportions" is divided into four parts. Part I presents an overview of the use of quadrance and spread to replace distance and angle, and makes the argument for their advantages. Part II formalizes the claims made in part I, and proves them rigorously. Rather than defining lines as infinite sets of points, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2696396 | 1,449,011 |
770,076 | Many waterfowl and some other birds, such as the ostrich and turkey, possess a phallus. This appears to be the ancestral condition among birds; most birds have lost the phallus. The length is thought to be related to sperm competition in species that usually mate many times in a breeding season; sperm deposited closer ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5579717 | 769,662 |
676,546 | In 1854, the Spanish authorities captured the steamer "Black Warrior" on a technicality. War appeared to threaten, and Southerners in Congress were aggressively pushing President Pierce for it. Since the European powers were distracted with the Crimean War, there was also nobody that could come to Madrid's assistance. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=752072 | 676,193 |
121,040 | The great push toward the modern concept of explanation started with Galileo, one of the few physicists who was both a consummate theoretician and a great experimentalist. The analytic geometry and mechanics of Descartes were incorporated into the calculus and mechanics of Isaac Newton, another theoretician/experimenta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19594028 | 120,991 |
1,346,969 | Flatt won a silver medal at the 2011 U.S. Championships. She was sent to the 2011 World Championships. A week before the event, Flatt was diagnosed with a stress fracture in her right tibia (her landing leg). Nevertheless, her coach Tom Zakrajsek stated that he felt that Flatt could complete her elements despite the st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4709878 | 1,346,228 |
736,253 | Small and colleagues performed a controlled experiment on retired NFL players and an equal number of control participants. Unfortunately the sample size was very small as only 5 players of the 19 contacted were eligible for the study. Though the sample size was small, a good range of positions were represented (linebac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36082813 | 735,865 |
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