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1,597,951 | Zuk et al. argue that biomedical research should focus on interacting molecular mechanisms of genetic variants already discovered. They argue that genetic interactions are common. Widely used estimates of narrow-sense heritability, the ratio of additive genetic variance (calculated from measured effects of known varian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50619245 | 1,597,052 |
299,695 | Hardware is also an expression used within the computer engineering industry to explicitly distinguish the (electronic computer) hardware from the software that runs on it. But hardware, within the automation and software engineering disciplines, need not simply be a computer of some sort. A modern automobile runs vast... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=154505 | 299,534 |
163,147 | Vertebrates are the only chordate group to exhibit a proper brain. A slight swelling of the anterior end of the dorsal nerve cord is found in the lancelet, though it lacks the eyes and other complex sense organs comparable to those of vertebrates. Other chordates do not show any trends towards cephalisation. The centra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=331951 | 163,062 |
1,207,306 | "Eagle" was used for trials throughout 1920. As the concept of aircraft carriers was still very new, the lessons learned were incorporated in a 1921–23 refit. Its official sea trials were conducted in September 1923, and it was commissioned on 26 February 1924. The new ship was sent to the Mediterranean Fleet in June, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29390357 | 1,206,660 |
1,459,347 | Yuan Chang and Patrick S. Moore discovered Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus by a physical subtraction method in 1994. A virtual subtraction method was developed by Huichen Feng in the lab as a novel high-throughput sequencing technique of digital transcriptome subtraction (DTS)New Pathogen Discovery to search fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16814276 | 1,458,526 |
2,062,614 | Increasing the diameter of a cylindrical optical fiber amplifiers generally increases the level of non-linear effects such as stimulated Brillouin scattering. The result of forming a tapered geometry double-clad fiber is that the light introduced into the thin end propagates in a wide core without changing the mode con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62853989 | 2,061,424 |
1,415,454 | On 8 June the final elements of I. "Gruppe" arrived in Montdidier, making the unit complete. In the evening Weissenberger again claimed two P-47s shot down, his 181st and 182nd aerial victories. The airfield at Montdidier came under heavy fighter bomber attack on 11 June followed by another attack on 12 June resulting ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10301408 | 1,414,657 |
1,091,730 | Zinc chromate's main use is in industrial painting as a coating over iron or aluminum materials. It was used extensively on aircraft by the US military, especially during the 1930s and 1940s. It is also used in a variety of paint coatings for the aerospace and automotive industries. Its use as a corrosion-resistant age... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4931808 | 1,091,170 |
828,760 | The severity of the symptoms produced by pathogenic variants in the "WAS" gene generally correlates with their effects on WASp. Missense variants generally are associated with less severe disease than truncating variants that produce no protein due to nonsense-mediated decay. However, this correlation is not perfect, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1211445 | 828,314 |
822,927 | The CCNP validates the ability to plan, implement, verify, and troubleshoot local and wide-area enterprise networks and work collaboratively with specialists on advanced security, voice, wireless, and video solutions. In addition to CCNA Exams, professionals must pass three separate professional-level exams. The certif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3696371 | 822,486 |
1,416,749 | If the findings had proven to be valid, stimulus-triggered pluripotency cells could have been generated more easily and efficiently than by existing iPS techniques. And adapted to human tissue, the technique could have led to cheap and simple procedures to create patient-specific stem cells. Stem-cell researcher Dusko ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41787889 | 1,415,951 |
1,778,450 | This bird is described as critically endangered, due to clearance of its forest habitat and persecution by local farmers, who claim that the species preys upon their domestic fowl. Conservationists have countered that poultry is nothing more than a minor element of their diet, and that the Ridgway's hawk has a highly v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=654077 | 1,777,448 |
1,408,489 | Models of Jurassic air flow indicate that coastal areas probably never dropped much below freezing, although more extreme conditions existed inland. "Glacialisaurus" was found about from the South Pole, which was about or so farther north at the time. This formation has yielded the remains of the large theropod "Cryolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14540387 | 1,407,698 |
1,176,223 | The Vindhyan Basin is located on the southeastern side of the Aravalli Mountain Range where its formation is believed to be associated to the large downwarp of the crust after Delhi Orogeny. It spans an area of about 104,000 km in the northwestern part of India overlying on the Archean Bhilwara Gneissic Basement. The V... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51688276 | 1,175,601 |
487,430 | Cultivation of tepary beans is possible under the most extreme conditions. The Sand Papago (Hia C-eḍ O'odham) were mainly hunter-gatherers but cultivated tepary beans and other crops when moisture made it possible for them to do so. In 1912, ethnographer Carl Lumholtz found small cultivated fields primarily of tepary b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=427763 | 487,180 |
1,007,473 | New Urbanism is an approach that began in the 1980s as a place-making initiative to combat suburban sprawl. Its goal is to increase density by creating compact and complete towns and neighborhoods. The 10 principles of new urbanism are walkability, connectivity, mixed-use and diversity, mixed housing, quality architect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50345 | 1,006,953 |
86,240 | Many psychoanalytic training centers in the United States have been accredited by special committees of the APsaA or the IPA. Because of theoretical differences, there are independent institutes, usually founded by psychologists, who until 1987 were not permitted access to psychoanalytic training institutes of the APsa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23585 | 86,206 |
760,566 | In 2009, Ramakrishnan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath. He received India's second highest civilian honor, the Padma Vibhushan, in 2010. Ramakrishnan was knighted in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to Molecular Biology, but does not generally use the title "Sir"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3421751 | 760,160 |
500,724 | Artificial neural networks are computational models that excel at machine learning and pattern recognition. Neural networks must be trained with example data before being able to generalise for experimental data, and tested against benchmark data. Neural networks are able to come up with approximate solutions to proble... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=579390 | 500,467 |
1,095,512 | Advancements in technology, has given rise to newer, more efficient methods of diagnosis, most prominent being in the domain of neuroimaging. The high spatial resolution from fMRI has implications on certain brain regions contributing to memory. The usage of task fMRI for examination of memory or other higher cognitive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3344294 | 1,094,952 |
87,440 | Early calculations suggested that there might be white dwarfs whose luminosity varied with a period of around 10 seconds, but searches in the 1960s failed to observe this. The first variable white dwarf found was HL Tau 76; in 1965 and 1966, and was observed to vary with a period of approximately 12.5 minutes. The reas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33501 | 87,405 |
157,385 | Historically efforts have been primarily aimed to improve survival and health of preterm infants (tertiary intervention). Such efforts, however, have not reduced the incidence of preterm birth. Increasingly primary interventions that are directed at all women, and secondary intervention that reduce existing risks are l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=429542 | 157,313 |
2,181,716 | With the late Professor Sir Nicholas Shackleton in charge, the focus of research shifted to marine isotope records, which document changes in the size of polar ice sheets and temperature changes. This research helped to establish the Milankovitch Theory as the most plausible explanation of glacial/interglacial changes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13246451 | 2,180,469 |
722,003 | A conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) aircraft, the Pelican requires a takeoff runway length of at MTOW, which is shorter than the listed distance required for the much-lighter Boeing 747-400F. For Pelican landings, a satisfactory airfield meets the desired runway length and width of , respectively, and has a load ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1879209 | 721,623 |
1,881,347 | Dembski appeals to cryptographic practice in support of the concept of the universal probability bound, noting that cryptographers have sometimes compared the security of encryption algorithms against brute force attacks by the likelihood of success of an adversary utilizing computational resources bounded by very larg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2418461 | 1,880,266 |
784,113 | The AW50F is a folding stock variant of the AW50, which fires the multi-purpose Raufoss Mk 211 cartridge and other rounds. It has a fully adjustable bipod and buttstock heel rest. Four sling loops allow shoulder and hand carrying of the rifle. Weighing 15 kilograms (33 pounds), the AW50F rifle is approximately four tim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7352241 | 783,694 |
376,324 | Qualifying for the next race in France was disrupted by rain, and it resulted in Rubens Barrichello taking pole ahead of Jean Alesi's Sauber and Olivier Panis's Prost. Coulthard was fourth, Schumacher sixth and Häkkinen way down in 14th. The race was no drier, and the entire race was run in wet conditions. Barrichello ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1137692 | 376,129 |
1,135,221 | Radioisotope thermoelectric generators could be used as backup and emergency power sources for solar powered facilities. The needed radioisotopes could either be imported from earth as they are relatively energy-dense, or produced "in situ" by neutron irradiation of suitable materials (e.g. - an unavoidably produced mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6386475 | 1,134,628 |
261,828 | Type III restriction enzymes (e.g., EcoP15) recognize two separate non-palindromic sequences that are inversely oriented. They cut DNA about 20–30 base pairs after the recognition site. These enzymes contain more than one subunit and require AdoMet and ATP cofactors for their roles in DNA methylation and restriction di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26194 | 261,689 |
764,090 | The fall of the Western Roman Empire returned most of Western Europe to subsistence agriculture, dotted with ghost towns and obsolete trade-routes Authority too was localised, in a world of poor roads and difficult farming conditions. The new social form which, by the ninth century, had emerged in place of the ties of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39766826 | 763,680 |
1,563,822 | The North Sea basin is located in northern Europe and lies between the United Kingdom, and Norway just north of The Netherlands and can be divided into many sub-basins. The Southern North Sea basin is the largest gas producing basin in the UK continental shelf, with production coming from the lower Permian sandstones w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45343728 | 1,562,935 |
1,706,646 | Mehrabian holds eight U.S. and more than 40 foreign patents. He has authored 139 technical papers and edited six books in the field of materials science and engineering. His awards include Fellow and distinguished Life Member of the American Society of Metals International (ASM), the Henry Marion Howe Medal of the ASM,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11485570 | 1,705,688 |
1,192,149 | NASA took possession of one YO-3A, 69-18010. Following service with the U.S. Army this aircraft was transferred to an airframe and powerplant mechanics school. NASA's Ames Research Center located at Moffett Federal Airfield in California acquired the YO-3A from the school in 1977. NASA equipped the aircraft with wing-t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3164120 | 1,191,513 |
2,170,589 | Multi-mission Modular Spacecraft, also known as the MMS, was originally designed by NASA to serve the largest array of functions for the space program possible to decrease the cost of space missions. It was designed to operate in four distinct areas of missions. The MMS began development about a decade before it becam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54053902 | 2,169,351 |
664,937 | The first logo bug appeared in the 1970s on cable networks and local TV stations. It was often displayed on the bottom of the screen for 5 to 10 seconds. It was usually displayed once per hour, or every 10 or 15 minutes during a program. One of the popular title generator machines during that time was made by Chyron, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=974664 | 664,590 |
60,942 | In 1886, Frank Julian Sprague invented the first practical DC motor, a non-sparking device that maintained relatively constant speed under variable loads. Other Sprague electric inventions about this time greatly improved grid electric distribution (prior work done while employed by Thomas Edison), allowed power from e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=76086 | 60,917 |
612,572 | Restoration ecology is the name given to an attempt to reverse or mitigate some of the changes that humans have caused to an ecosystem. Controlled burning is one tool that is currently receiving considerable attention as a means of restoration and management. Applying fire to an ecosystem may create habitats for specie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1924100 | 612,261 |
32,322 | The newly established Human Space Flight Centre (HSFC) will coordinate the IHSF campaign. ISRO will set up an astronaut training centre in Bangalore to prepare personnel for flights in the crewed vehicle. It will use simulation facilities to train the selected astronauts in rescue and recovery operations and survival i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1019722 | 32,310 |
91 | Before installing an application, the Google Play store displays a list of the requirements an app needs to function. After reviewing these permissions, the user can choose to accept or refuse them, installing the application only if they accept. In Android 6.0 "Marshmallow", the permissions system was changed; apps ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12610483 | 91 |
1,871,035 | By increasing the effectiveness of power-management features in computers as well as implementing these features and aggressive power-management policies, the average business desktop can save 60% of the electricity consumed, with no compromise to productivity. These results combat climate change and cut costs. With in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12696673 | 1,869,958 |
1,555,109 | Upon release into the cytoplasm, primary transcription begins with an endonuclease domain on L protein engaging in a process known as "cap-snatching." During cap-snatching, 10-18 nucleotides of 5' 7-methylguanylate primers are cleaved from host mRNAs and attached to prime the 5' end of the viral RNAs. Like all negative... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11700379 | 1,554,226 |
1,745,908 | The British Official Historian, Stanley Kirby, wrote that the best-trained and most-experienced British division had been broken up to reinforce Special Force, which eventually absorbed one-sixth of the infantry in South East Asia Command. He judged that had the division been retained, it could have reinforced the Four... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4468060 | 1,744,923 |
1,980,025 | When Erpetosuchidae was first defined to include "Erpetosuchus" and "Parringtonia", three synapomorphies or shared characteristics were identified for the family: teeth restricted to the anterior half of the maxilla, a posterior half of the maxilla that is thicker than it is tall, and no tooth serrations (although "Tar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34936915 | 1,978,887 |
1,846,340 | The principle has been applied to analysis of behaviour and choices made regarding safety and risk. There are competing activities requiring time, which is a limited resource. In order to make time available for desirable activities, less time can be spent on preparation and planning, which affects safety. Most of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36881492 | 1,845,285 |
859,362 | Von Neummann's goal for his self-reproducing automata theory, as specified in his lectures at the University of Illinois in 1949, was to design a machine whose complexity could grow automatically akin to biological organisms under natural selection. He asked what is the "threshold of complexity" that must be crossed fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1600053 | 858,904 |
1,110,759 | Topographical disorientation is usually diagnosed with the use of a comprehensive battery of neuropsychological tests combined with a variety of orientation tasks performed by the participants in both virtual and real surroundings. Performance on certain tests can identify underlying neurological disorders and verify t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29805215 | 1,110,193 |
325,803 | Classifying minerals ranges from simple to difficult. A mineral can be identified by several physical properties, some of them being sufficient for full identification without equivocation. In other cases, minerals can only be classified by more complex optical, chemical or X-ray diffraction analysis; these methods, ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19053 | 325,630 |
434,820 | In Roman Egypt during the 2nd century CE, Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) attempted to address the problem of the orbital motion of Mars. Observations of Mars had shown that the planet appeared to move 40% faster on one side of its orbit than the other, in conflict with the Aristotelian model of uniform motion. Ptolemy m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25998318 | 434,606 |
664,398 | The IETF is the standards making organization concentrate on the generation of "standard" stipulations of expertise and their envisioned usage. The IETF concentrates on matters associated with the progress of current Internet and TCP/IP know-how. It is alienated into numerous working groups (WGs), every one of which is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14742 | 664,051 |
347,640 | "Pandora" is the yearbook of the university of Georgia. Beginning publication in 1886, "Pandora" has combined facts, photography, cartooning and humor to provide an annual record of university activities. Its serious and satirical articles both provide interesting historical details about student life on campus and in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378232 | 347,459 |
2,078,127 | Disruption of extrusion not only leads to rapid formation of masses, a number of oncogenic mutations that drive aggressive cancers can hijack extrusion signaling in various ways to cause mass formation, disrupted barrier function, and aberrant Basal Cell Extrusion (BCE). While most cells extrude apically out of the epi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71510397 | 2,076,928 |
1,043,662 | Studies of gene conversion have contributed to our understanding of the adaptive function of meiotic recombination. The ordinary segregation pattern of an allele pair (Aa) among the 4 products of meiosis is 2A:2a. Detection of infrequent gene conversion events (e.g. 3:1 or 1:3 segregation patterns during individual mei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1695344 | 1,043,118 |
1,232,624 | Heusler compounds are magnetic intermetallics with face-centered cubic crystal structure and a composition of XYZ (half-Heuslers) or XYZ (full-Heuslers), where X and Y are transition metals and Z is in the p-block. The term derives from the name of German mining engineer and chemist Friedrich Heusler, who studied such ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2655717 | 1,231,962 |
94,570 | Amphibians are a class of animals comprising frogs, salamanders and caecilians. They are tetrapods, but the caecilians and a few species of salamander have either no limbs or their limbs are much reduced in size. Their main bones are hollow and lightweight and are fully ossified and the vertebrae interlock with each ot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=674 | 94,529 |
326,595 | Regarding the precision of the conversion from the toise to the metre, both units of measurement were then defined by primary standards, and unique artifacts made of different alloys with distinct coefficients of expansion were the legal basis of units of length. A wrought iron ruler, the Toise of Peru, also called "To... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18947 | 326,421 |
864,203 | The deployment of Multics into secure computing environments also spurred the development of innovative supporting applications. In 1975, Morrie Gasser of MITRE Corporation developed a pronounceable random word generator to address password requirements of installations such as the Air Force Data Services Center (AFDSC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18847 | 863,743 |
1,504,090 | The modern science of archaeology involves the collection and study of material objects like human remains and culturally or historically significant items. This practice has its origins in European colonial policies. Many historical items obtained throughout the 18th and 19th centuries were acquired from colonized thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21924068 | 1,503,244 |
485,155 | At many medical schools, physician-scientist faculty are expected to obtain significant fractions of their nominal salary in the form of competitive research grants, which are also requirements for the award of tenure. This "up or out" system has been described as developed for a primarily male workforce with homemaker... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48177158 | 484,906 |
869,920 | The Wrights continued developing their flying machines and flying at Huffman Prairie near Dayton, Ohio, in 1904–05. After a crash in 1905, they rebuilt the Flyer III and made important design changes. They almost doubled the size of the elevator and rudder and moved them about twice the distance from the wings. They ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1607990 | 869,460 |
1,916,592 | Beachy received his bachelor's degree in natural sciences at Goshen College. Beachy first envisioned himself as a doctor, but after his first year of college, he decided against pursuing that career. He then decided to focus on biological research. He became interested in this field after reading a serialized form of H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8742839 | 1,915,493 |
1,588,237 | The identification of an object’s component materials is the most basic of conservation science tasks. This is typically accomplished using non-destructive examination techniques or, if necessary, destructive analytical techniques designed for small samples (see Instruments and uses). The information yielded about the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42559245 | 1,587,343 |
1,346,121 | Enhanced access to VBAC has been recommended based on the most recent scientific data on the safety of VBAC as compared to repeat caesarean section, including the following recommendation emerging from the NIH VBAC conference panel in March 2010, "We recommend that hospitals, maternity care providers, health care and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5592849 | 1,345,380 |
410,381 | In 1997, four new levels were released in an expansion pack for the Windows version, known under the title "Tomb Raider: Unfinished Business". The expansion pack also came with promotional materials for the game's sequel "Tomb Raider II". In 1998, the levels were made available as downloadable content for the Windows r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3926606 | 410,179 |
645,334 | Clones of memory T cells expressing a specific T cell receptor can persist for decades in our body. Since memory T cells have shorter half-lives than naïve T cells do, continuous replication and replacement of old cells is likely involved in the maintenance process. Currently, the mechanism behind memory T cell mainten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4641203 | 644,994 |
1,480,634 | Eduard Christian Lindeman was born in St. Clair, Michigan, one of ten children of German immigrant parents, Frederick and Frederika (von Piper) Lindemann. Orphaned at an early age, Lindeman gained work experience through jobs as stable cleaner, nurseryman, gravedigger, brickyard worker, and deliverer of groceries while... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4677042 | 1,479,800 |
1,506,184 | Self-healing hydrogels are a specialized type of polymer hydrogel. A hydrogel is a macromolecular polymer gel constructed of a network of crosslinked polymer chains. Hydrogels are synthesized from hydrophilic monomers by either chain or step growth, along with a functional crosslinker to promote network formation. A ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39638268 | 1,505,338 |
1,229,344 | The Surmet Corporation has acquired Raytheon's ALON business and is currently building a market for this technology in the area of Transparent Armor, Sensor windows, Reconnaissance windows and IR Optics such as Lenses and Domes and as an alternative to quartz and sapphire in the semiconductor market. The AlON based tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=905803 | 1,228,682 |
561,054 | Use of radiation therapy after lumpectomy provides equivalent survival rates to mastectomy, although there is a slightly higher risk of recurrent disease in the same breast in the form of further DCIS or invasive breast cancer. Systematic reviews (including a Cochrane review) indicate that the addition of radiation the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6904851 | 560,765 |
38,032 | An engraved Pseudodon shell DUB1006-fL with geometric markings could possibly be evidence of the earliest art-making, dating back to 546–436 kya. Art-making capabilities could be considered evidence of symbolic thinking, which is associated with modern cognition and behavior. In 1976, American archeologist Alexander Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19554533 | 38,019 |
1,583,448 | Outside of his specialty, McKay is best known for his collaborative work with a group of Israeli mathematicians such as Dror Bar-Natan and Gil Kalai, together with Maya Bar-Hillel, who rebutted a Bible code theory which maintained that the Hebrew text of the Bible enciphered predictive details of future historical even... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3889922 | 1,582,558 |
1,226,081 | Water is the most common heat transfer fluid because of its economy, high heat capacity and favorable transport properties. However, the useful temperature range is restricted by freezing below 0 °C and boiling at elevated temperatures depending on the system pressure. Antifreeze additives can alleviate the freezing pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40394203 | 1,225,421 |
842,373 | A pantograph on each end of the locomotive body was used to collect the 11,000 V, 25 Hz alternating current (AC) from the overhead catenary wires. In operation, the leading pantograph was usually kept lowered and the trailing one raised to collect current, since if the rear pantograph failed it would not strike the for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=964436 | 841,923 |
1,672,899 | The Science Programme is managed by the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Directorate of Science, and its goals include the proliferation of Europe's scientific presence in space, fostering technological innovation, and maintaining European space infrastructure such as launch services and spacecraft operations. It is one o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60457571 | 1,671,957 |
850,205 | Political-military simulations remain in widespread use today: modern simulations are concerned not with a potential war between superpowers, but more with international cooperation, the rise of global terrorism and smaller brushfire conflicts such as those in Kosovo, Bosnia, Sierra Leone and the Sudan. An example is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10280894 | 849,753 |
134,000 | The purpose of the ACL is to resist the motions of anterior tibial translation and internal tibial rotation; this is important to have rotational stability. This function prevents anterior tibial subluxation of the lateral and medial tibiofemoral joints, which is important for the pivot-shift phenomenon. The ACL has me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=578923 | 133,946 |
983,224 | The term honesty in animal communication is controversial because in non-technical usage it implies intent, to discriminate deception from honesty in human interactions. However, biologists use the phrase "honest signals" in a direct, statistical sense. Biological signals, like warning calls or resplendent tail feather... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1318175 | 982,710 |
587,653 | The new technique had the primary advantage of permitting a far better execution of internal detail. In black-figure vase painting such details had to be scratched into the painted surfaces, which was always less accurate than the direct application of detail with a brush. Red-figure depictions were generally more live... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1457406 | 587,352 |
516,153 | The Portland cement industry reacted strongly by lobbying the legal institutions to deliver CO emission numbers that did not include the part related to calcium carbonate decomposition, focusing only on combustion emission. An article written in the scientific magazine "New Scientist" in 1997 stated that: "...estimates... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28068460 | 515,884 |
446,172 | An oxygen mask consists of a yellow, soft, silicone facial cup with white elastic bands for securing the mask to the passenger's face. This band is adjustable by pulling two ends looped through the facial cup. The mask may also have a concentrator or re-breather bag that may or may not inflate depending on the cabin al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10039375 | 445,956 |
1,412,342 | There are differences between filters and matching networks in which parameters are important. Unless the network has a dual function, the designer is not too concerned over the behaviour of the impedance matching network outside the passband. It does not matter if the transition band is not very narrow, or that the st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59441761 | 1,411,547 |
538,025 | Vical had been awarded grant funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases division of the NIH to develop a plasmid DNA-based vaccine to inhibit recurring lesions in patients latently infected with herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2). The plasmid DNA encoding the HSV-2 antigens was formulated w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35349626 | 537,746 |
174,580 | An open event, visitors to Imagine RIT have an opportunity to tour the RIT campus and view new ideas for products and services, admire fine art, explore faculty and student research, examine engineering design projects, and interact with hundreds of hands-on exhibits. Theatrical and musical performances take place at s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=81756 | 174,489 |
1,178,562 | The NCAA Tournament tipped off on March 14, 2006 with the opening round game in Dayton, Ohio, and concluded on April 3 at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis, Indiana. A total of 65 teams entered the tournament. Thirty of the teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. The automatic bid of the Ivy Lea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21167019 | 1,177,938 |
1,291,418 | The motivation for considering completeness properties derives from the great importance of suprema (least upper bounds, joins, "formula_1") and infima (greatest lower bounds, meets, "formula_2") to the theory of partial orders. Finding a supremum means to single out one distinguished least element from the set of uppe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=549445 | 1,290,708 |
1,912,156 | The biggest implication that we get from this theory is that if we want people to get the most out of an experience, but not necessarily be an expert in any one particular field of study or work area, they should have a good balance between the number of people working and the number of people that the environment prov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37871911 | 1,911,057 |
1,008,996 | In 1885 Wilhelm Roux removed a section of the medullary plate of an embryonic chicken and maintained it in a warm saline solution for several days, establishing the basic principle of tissue culture. In 1907 the zoologist Ross Granville Harrison demonstrated the growth of frog embryonic cells that would give rise to ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=404741 | 1,008,475 |
752,094 | Agilent Technologies was created in 1999 as a spin-off of several business units of Hewlett-Packard including test & measurement, optics, instrumentation and chemical analysis, electronic components, and medical equipment product lines. The split was predicated on the difficulty of growing HP's revenue stream and on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162468 | 751,692 |
889,905 | The reform called for by the minister Giovanni Gentile in 1923, further confirmed the university's prominent position at national level when it was placed among the ten universities totally funded by the state. Notwithstanding the aim to make Pisa a great “centre of university fascist culture” antifascist unrest was st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=453158 | 889,436 |
379,639 | Professional audio and the telecommunication industry use a diameter plug, associated with trademarked names including Bantam, TT, Tini-Telephone, and Tini-Tel. They are not compatible with standard EIA RS-453/IEC 60603-11 1/4-inch jacks. In addition to a slightly smaller diameter, they have a slightly different geomet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=258959 | 379,444 |
1,235,037 | The Rocas Verdes basin was filled with turbidites derived from the volcanic arc on its Pacific margin and partly from its continental margin. The Weddell Sea continued to expand which led to the extension between the Patagonian Andes and the Antarctic Peninsula. In the Mid-Cretaceous (100 Ma) the spreading rate in Sout... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1424877 | 1,234,374 |
982,428 | The AP1000 design is considerably more compact in land usage than most existing PWRs, and uses under a fifth of the concrete and rebar reinforcing of older designs. Probabilistic risk assessment was used in the design of the plants. This enabled minimization of risks, and calculation of the overall safety of the plant.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3111140 | 981,916 |
737,338 | Long-term ecological research (LTER) sites are research sites funded by the government that have collected reliable long-term data over an extended period of time in order to identify long-term climatic or ecological trends. These sites provide long-term temporal and spatial data such as average temperature, rainfall a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=295670 | 736,949 |
113,416 | Ethnographers mainly use qualitative methods, though they may also employ quantitative data. The typical ethnography is a holistic study and so includes a brief history, and an analysis of the terrain, the climate, and the habitat. A wide range of groups and organisations have been studied by this method, including tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152626 | 113,371 |
76,828 | In 1917, prior to America's entry to the war, John Browning personally brought to Washington, D.C. two types of automatic weapons for the purposes of demonstration: a water-cooled machine gun (later adopted as the M1917 Browning machine gun) and a shoulder-fired automatic rifle known then as the "Browning Machine Rifle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378838 | 76,799 |
1,342,590 | In 2009, Chapman formed the Solar High Study Group, "a team of senior managers and technologists with directly relevant experience who believe that space-based solar power can solve the problem of bringing clean, affordable energy to people anywhere on Earth or in space." In July 2010, Chapman presented slides to the U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337199 | 1,341,856 |
934,959 | Other effects of point mutations, or single nucleotide polymorphisms in DNA, depend on the location of the mutation within the gene. For example, if the mutation occurs in the region of the gene responsible for coding, the amino acid sequence of the encoded protein may be altered, causing a change in the function, prot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=611074 | 934,465 |
1,333,599 | The DDO is the site of a number of important scientific studies, including pioneering measurements of the distance to globular clusters, providing the first direct evidence that Cygnus X-1 was a black hole, and the discovery that Polaris was stabilizing and appeared to be "falling out" of the Cepheid variable category.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=725242 | 1,332,870 |
826,334 | Murray Raney graduated as a mechanical engineer from the University of Kentucky in 1909. In 1915 he joined the Lookout Oil and Refining Company in Tennessee and was responsible for the installation of electrolytic cells for the production of hydrogen which was used in the hydrogenation of vegetable oils. During that ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1706275 | 825,890 |
451,000 | After Hitler's rise to power and the establishment of the Third Reich, Prandtl continued his role as director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. During this period the Nazi air ministry, led by Hermann Göring, often used Prandtl's international reputation as a scientist to promote Germany's scientific agenda. Prandtl appea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=769148 | 450,781 |
241,793 | A number of mechanisms cause carbapenem resistance in the Enterobacteriaceae. These include hyperproduction of ampC beta-lactamase with an outer membrane porin mutation, CTX-M extended-spectrum beta-lactamase with a porin mutation or drug efflux, and carbapenemase production. The most important mechanism of resistance ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=544934 | 241,667 |
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