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146,788 | A major study into the airflow around radials using wind tunnels and other systems was carried out in the US, and demonstrated that ample airflow was available with careful design. This led to the R-4360, which has 28 cylinders arranged in a 4 row "corncob" configuration. The R-4360 saw service on large American aircra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146924 | 146,730 |
76,078 | Though there have been several attempts at remediation, no therapies have demonstrated lasting improvements across a group of prosopagnosics. Prosopagnosics often learn to use "piecemeal" or "feature-by-feature" recognition strategies. This may involve secondary clues such as clothing, gait, hair color, skin color, bod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=486429 | 76,049 |
1,270,363 | Bill Gates has called Sivaram's 2016 essay on clean energy innovation in "Foreign Affairs" magazine "One of the best arguments I've read for why the U.S. should invest in an energy revolution." The Financial Times called his book "Taming the Sun" "the best available overview of where the industry finds itself today, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52346169 | 1,269,672 |
1,232,590 | A second issue is whether Aristotelian universals are abstract: if they are, then the theory must deal with how to abstract the concept of redness from one or more red things. Aristotle argued that people form concepts and make generalizations in the manner of a young child, who is just on the verge of grasping a gener... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=179669 | 1,231,928 |
1,106,087 | The REACH classification procedure consists of two basic phases. In phase one the hazards intrinsic to the material are determined, without any consideration of how the material might be used or encountered in the work place or by a consumer. In phase two the risk of harmful exposure is considered along with procedures... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2141015 | 1,105,524 |
1,827,981 | When the intensive suburban service of 1920 was introduced reliance was still placed largely on these 0-6-0s to maintain the new split-second timings, and they were quite equal to the task. By then their numbers had been further reinforced by the twenty built in 1900 and 1901 with 160 lbf/in² (1.1 MPa) boilers, and by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6055736 | 1,826,942 |
209,639 | In 1941, to safeguard them during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Zhoukoudian human fossils—representing at least 40 different individuals—and artefacts were deposited into two wooden footlockers and were to be transported by the United States Marine Corps from the Peking Union Medical College to the "SS President Ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=253340 | 209,532 |
313,608 | Specialized equipment is required to meet OSHA 29 CFR 1910.1450 and EPA 40 CFR 264.173. standards of safety. Minimal recommended equipment include a fume hood and primary and secondary waste containers to capture potential overflow. Even beneath the fume hood, containers containing chemical contaminants should remain c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18626487 | 313,439 |
1,753,353 | Various parameters of welding are tested. The setting of the completely different parameters can obtain different weld for example the structure changes will not be the same width. It is possible to obtain a smaller heat-affected zone (HAZ) and a plastically affected zone (PAZ). The width of the weld is smaller. The re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66141540 | 1,752,363 |
1,192,001 | The next step in planning the city was the surveying of the area according to the architect's plans for the city. Every important public building had its specific place, starting with the temple of Jupiter as the sacred high point from which the street network would spread. The architect, who was responsible for execut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1211610 | 1,191,366 |
1,032,602 | Epitope spreading, also known as determinant spreading, is another common way in which autoimmunity can occur which uses the molecular mimicry mechanism. Autoreactive T cells are activated "de novo" by self epitopes released secondary to pathogen-specific T cell-mediated bystander damage. T cell responses to progressiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5795298 | 1,032,066 |
1,359,582 | One of the biggest uncertainties for climate change is the importance of aerosol direct and indirect effects. The uncertainties were stressed in the 4th Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). The large diversity of aerosol optical properties, including their sources and the meteorol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46736055 | 1,358,831 |
2,007,072 | The Institutes were launched in 2000 as an ambitious statewide initiative to support research in fields that were recognized as critical to the economic growth of the state—biomedicine, bioengineering, nanosystems, telecommunications and information technology. Moreover, the Cal ISIs were conceived as a catalytic partn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18618247 | 2,005,921 |
906,353 | The earliest entelodont fossils to be named were described within a short time frame in the 1840s. The first entelodont species known from good fossils was "Entelodon magnus", a European species which was named by French paleontologist Auguste Aymard. There is some debate over when Aymard's description was first publis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1609557 | 905,877 |
63,874 | A plasma railgun is a linear accelerator and a plasma energy weapon which, like a projectile railgun, uses two long parallel electrodes to accelerate a "sliding short" armature. However, in a plasma railgun, the armature and ejected projectile consists of plasma, or hot, ionized, gas-like particles, instead of a solid ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218930 | 63,849 |
1,945,749 | Price distinguished cross-disciplinarity – "between experts in different disciplines, transcending subject boundaries" – from "interdisciplinary generalism". The Times Higher Education article stated: "Cross-disciplinary collaboration did not necessarily happen "naturally", and this was where Professor Price's office j... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33972995 | 1,944,637 |
956,257 | In 1956, Haldane left University College London, and joined the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in Calcutta (later renamed Kolkata), India, where he worked in the biometry unit. Haldane gave many reasons for moving to India. Officially he stated that he left the UK because of the Suez Crisis, writing: "Finally, I am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62417 | 955,752 |
1,898,513 | In order to efficiently recover aDNA, DNA is generally isolated from tissues that contain a high quantity of aDNA, like bone and teeth, which are abundant in archaeological record. The preservation of pathogens across different anatomical elements is very variable according to the type of pathogen and its tissue tropis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62084336 | 1,897,429 |
1,954,032 | In the late 1920s, Cobb planned to create a Department of Ichthyology that would be "separate" from the applied courses in the College. Presumably this new department would engage in "scholarly research." In 1927, he began to search for a qualified ichthyologist to teach, conduct research, and to begin a systematic fis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2490732 | 1,952,911 |
2,197,912 | Depending on preservation conditions, a method of extraction for the fossil cuticle is required before the analysis can take place. One such method for separating cuticles from a rock matrix is acid maceration, which involves soaking the sample in agents such as dilute hydrogen peroxide or hydrochloric and hydrofluoric... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70546158 | 2,196,661 |
1,245,678 | The visual word form area (VWFA) is a functional region of the left fusiform gyrus and surrounding cortex (right-hand side being part of the fusiform face area) that is hypothesized to be involved in identifying words and letters from lower-level shape images, prior to association with phonology or semantics. Because t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35891793 | 1,245,003 |
1,893,689 | Wasserman worked extensively on pulmonary physiology. He was one of the first persons who used exercise testing for the interaction of cardiovascular, ventilatory and metabolic responses. He is the founder of the Wasserman 9-Panel Plot, named after himself. This Nine-Panel Plot is a standard layout for the graphical re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54864290 | 1,892,606 |
641,727 | Just before code generation, it may be desirable to allow an interactive editing of the IR, perhaps using some form of graphical user interface. This would allow the user to enter comments, and non-generic variable and function names. However, these are almost as easily entered in a post decompilation edit. The user ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18938636 | 641,388 |
947,821 | On 11 December, the stand beneath SN9 failed, causing the vehicle to tip and contact the walls inside the High Bay. SN9 then required a replacement forward flap. SN9 conducted 6 static fires in January 2021, including three separate static fires. Engines 44 and 46 had to be replaced. After struggling to gain FAA permis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55382641 | 947,318 |
2,178,095 | S has been positively correlated with the magnitude of carbon isotope fractionation (represented by ΔC), with larger values of S corresponding with a larger values of ΔC. It has been theorized that because increasing S means the transition state is more like the product, the OC---C-2 bond will be shorter, resulting in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57511265 | 2,176,850 |
2,184,135 | In molecular biology, the FEZ-like protein family is a family of eukaryotic proteins thought to be involved in axonal outgrowth and fasciculation. The N-terminal regions of these sequences are less conserved than the C-terminal regions, and are highly acidic. The "Caenorhabditis elegans" homologue, UNC-76, may play str... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32753428 | 2,182,887 |
306,285 | The earliest finds of roof tiles of the Archaic period in Greece are documented from a very restricted area around Corinth, where fired tiles began to replace thatched roofs at the temples of Apollo and Poseidon between 700 and 650 BC. Spreading rapidly, roof tiles were within fifty years in evidence for a large number... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52684 | 306,121 |
810,922 | Heath's was accepted as the authoritative interpretation of Book V for the entire 20th century, but the changing of the century brought with it a change of view. In 2001, Apollonius scholars Fried & Unguru, granting all due respect to other Heath chapters, balked at the historicity of Heath's analysis of Book V, assert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=257242 | 810,490 |
1,087,696 | Because Venus was much closer to the Sun than the spacecraft had been designed to operate, great care was taken to avoid thermal damage. In particular, the X-band high gain antenna (HGA) was not deployed, but was kept folded up like an umbrella and pointed away from the Sun to keep it shaded and cool. This meant that t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13077 | 1,087,137 |
1,675,716 | At the time of the nuclear clock proposal in 2003 the parameters of Th, in particular its energy, were not known to sufficient precision to allow for nuclear laser spectroscopy of individual thorium ions and thus the development of a nuclear clock. This fact triggered a multitude of experimental efforts to pin down the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15278157 | 1,674,774 |
2,246,625 | Finally, WISE provides a user-friendly interface to facilitate the authoring of new projects, with numerous technology-based components including online discussions, data collection, drawing, argument creation, resource sharing, concept mapping and other built-in tools. Developers can also include custom tools of their... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3662045 | 2,245,353 |
2,103,335 | The War Memorial on the site of the proposed road deviation on Lot 4 (its north-western corner) and built by the Friends of Grantham, is of recent construction and comprises a bolted "box" framework of recycled timber set into a mosaic-tiled concrete base. The structure was designed by Simon Cook of Design Rhetoric and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57714944 | 2,102,123 |
42,974 | Standards set by each country's accreditation society are intended to provide uniformity in fundamental subject material, promote competence among graduating engineers, and to maintain confidence in the engineering profession as a whole. Engineering programs in the U.S., for example, are required by ABET to show that t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19528 | 42,958 |
852,638 | In an industrial plant, such as a refinery or chemical plant, handling of large quantities of flammable liquids and gases creates a risk of exposure. Coal mines, grain mills, elevators, and similar facilities likewise present the risk of a clouds of dust. In some cases, the hazardous atmosphere is present all the time,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2542454 | 852,184 |
1,544,884 | With the onset of war in Europe the United States began mobilizing its forces in 1940 which resulted in an expansion of personnel and funding for the School. On January 20, 1942, a Research Department was formally established by the School Commandant Brig. Gen Eugen G. Reinartz MC with Maj. Harry G. Armstrong MC as the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49178570 | 1,544,010 |
851,435 | It is, however, not trivial to compare the power density produced by different fusion fuel cycles. The case most favorable to p–B relative to D-T fuel is a (hypothetical) confinement device that only works well at ion temperatures above about 400 keV, in which the reaction rate parameter <σ"v"> is equal for the two fue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1631015 | 850,982 |
1,634,964 | His team has continued advancing the terahertz electronics research and have designed the first terahertz voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), the first 2-dimensional terahertz phased array, the highest frequency active multiplier, the first fully integrated frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar operating ab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65821511 | 1,634,041 |
1,372,071 | Erik Erikson was a prominent developmental psychologist, who produced a psychoanalytical theory of psychosocial behaviour, showing 8 stages of development from infancy to adulthood. At each stage the individual is set with a potential conflict, and either success or failure at each point will go on to determine the out... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18685654 | 1,371,314 |
1,967,101 | Scientists have been measuring water vapor and carbon dioxide exchange between the Earth's surface and the atmosphere since the late 1950s. The relatively undeveloped computing capabilities and solid state measurement capabilities made it almost impossible to be able to get accurate measurements. Early scientists such ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9257264 | 1,965,971 |
1,491,481 | In addition, there have been some new types of nanolasers developed in recent years to approach the diffraction limit. Parity-time symmetry is related to a balance of optical gain and loss in a coupled cavity system. When the gain–loss contrast and coupling constant between two identical, closely located cavities are c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24465401 | 1,490,642 |
558,077 | Process IDs, in the first place, are usually allocated on a sequential basis, beginning at 0 and rising to a maximum value which varies from system to system. Once this limit is reached, allocation restarts at 300 and again increases. In macOS and HP-UX, allocation restarts at 100. However, for this and subsequent pass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=445770 | 557,788 |
547,447 | A body area network (BAN), also referred to as a "wireless body area network" (WBAN) or a "body sensor network" (BSN) or a "medical body area network" (MBAN), is a wireless network of wearable computing devices. BAN devices may be embedded inside the body as implants, may be surface-mounted on the body in a fixed posit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33989688 | 547,160 |
1,502,230 | The duality of HVS models and NSS implies that several aspects of the HVS have already been accounted for in the source model. Here, the HVS is additionally modeled based on the hypothesis that the uncertainty in the perception of visual signals limits the amount of information that can be extracted from the source and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53785121 | 1,501,384 |
1,793,642 | In the 30 years since its founding, NYMU enjoyed a robust growth. By the end of the 2005 academic year, NYMU became a medium-sized university with 5 schools - Medicine, Dentistry, Medical Technology and Biomedical Engineering, Life Sciences and Nursing, and a Center for General Education. Additionally, the Taipei Veter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30874523 | 1,792,633 |
528,713 | After completing certain stages, the player can call on Mega Man's faithful dog Rush to reach higher platforms or cross large gaps using his "Coil" and "Jet" transformations. These abilities require refills with the same weapon energy that Master Weapons use. Some of the level designs in "Mega Man 5" are different from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=692503 | 528,439 |
354,729 | Radiation therapy can be delivered either as external beam radiotherapy or as brachytherapy (mostly internal radiotherapy). Although radiotherapy is generally used in older patients who are not candidates for surgery, it is also used in cases where surgical excision will be disfiguring or difficult to reconstruct (espe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=696132 | 354,546 |
391,265 | A textbook example of reconnaissance-pull was documented during the Tinian landings of World War II, utilized by the United States Marine Corps's Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion, from V Amphibious Corps. Aerial photography and the confirmation by the amphibious reconnaissance platoons determined that the Japanese d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146911 | 391,070 |
1,527,030 | The spacecraft acquired photographic data from November 18 to 25, 1966, and readout occurred through December 7, 1966. A total of 609 high-resolution and 208 medium-resolution frames were returned, most of excellent quality with resolutions down to . These included a spectacular oblique picture of Copernicus crater, wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=885927 | 1,526,166 |
2,128,714 | John Volakis received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH in 1979 and 1982, respectively. He obtained his bachelor's degree from Youngstown State University in 1978 Summa Cum Laude. He started his career at Rockwell International-North American Aircraft Operations (1982–1984), now B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67062977 | 2,127,491 |
1,370,381 | The reporting criterion can shift along the continuum in the direction of more false hits, or more misses. The momentary memory strength of a test item is compared with the decision criteria and if the strength of the item falls within the judgment category, Jt, defined by the placement of the criteria, S makes judgmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21312318 | 1,369,625 |
1,866,123 | The spring pygmy sunfish and its habitat are currently facing the threats of both declining water quality and quantity. Possible excessive groundwater usage, and the resultant reduction of water quantity in the aquifer/recharge areas and decreased spring outflow in the Beaverdam Spring/Creek system, is believed to have... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52818138 | 1,865,049 |
1,184,882 | In 1917, Cattell and English professor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana (grandson of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Richard Henry Dana Jr.) were fired from Columbia University for opposing the United States’ conscription policy during World War I. He later sued the university and won an annuity. In 1921, he used the mon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=274714 | 1,184,254 |
1,817,254 | On the other hand, there is research that indicates that intensive teaching (including practice outside of therapy sessions) can improve young children's ability to use semantic compaction accurately. A case study of a 3-year-old girl with cerebral palsy revealed that intensive, systematic training involving the client... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27554959 | 1,816,219 |
546,281 | The Australian Army generally had a long-standing policy of using British-designed equipment, but equipment from Australia, the United States and some other countries was introduced into service in the war's later years. Pre-war defence policies favoured the RAN, which received the majority of defence spending in the i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22738876 | 545,995 |
161,031 | Descriptive and normative theorists usually employ different methodologies in their research. Descriptive issues are studied by empirical research. This can take the form of studies that present their participants with a cognitive problem. It is then observed how the participants solve the problem, possibly together wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61032 | 160,946 |
1,081,719 | Spontaneous symmetry breaking can be explained by amplification of stochastic fluctuations of molecules due to non-linear chemical kinetics. The mathematical basis for this biological phenomenon was established by Alan Turing in his 1953 paper 'The chemical basis of morphogenesis.' While Turing initially attempted to e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21942008 | 1,081,163 |
1,513,183 | In 2017, a book was published on patient involvement in HTA (Eds Facey KM, Hansen HP, Single ANV) bringing together research, approaches, methods and case studies prepared by 80 authors. It demonstrates that practices vary between HTA bodies, and patients can potentially contribute at every stage of an HTA from scoping... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23453324 | 1,512,332 |
1,359,323 | In February, as the ice bridge and snow road were carrying tracked vehicles north, Alyeska awarded a contract to design the construction and maintenance road, Michael Baker, Jr., Inc., a firm in Pennsylvania, was awarded the contract. For the road and pipeline to cross the Yukon River, the state of Alaska designed the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24084810 | 1,358,572 |
2,099,300 | Edward W. Price (1920 – June 11, 2012) was an engineer who worked in the field of solid rocket propellants, primarily at the Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS), where he made contributions to ignition, combustion instabilities, fuel components, and the "T-burner" method of testing. After 30 years at NOTS, he moved to G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41567093 | 2,098,092 |
2,121,423 | A reduction in wages brought about by the post railway mania crash of 1848-9, caused him to decide to emigrate to Australia at the age of 29 with his friend Edward Prowse, having considered America. He arrived in Adelaide on the "Bolton" on 29 November 1849, recording in his diary: "When I was 21 I calculated on making... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42255605 | 2,120,204 |
956,251 | He participated for the first time in scientific research as a volunteer subject for his father in 1906. John was the first to study the effects of decompression (relief from high pressure) in humans. He investigated the physiological condition called "bends," such as when goats lift and bend their legs if discomforted... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62417 | 955,746 |
1,503,884 | Most of the eicosanoid receptors are integral membrane protein G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) that bind and respond to eicosanoid signaling molecules. Eicosanoids are rapidly metabolized to inactive products and therefore are short-lived. Accordingly, the eicosanoid-receptor interaction is typically limited to a l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9819961 | 1,503,038 |
1,375,280 | The float has to match these densities if it is to reach 2000 metres depth and then rise to the surface. Since the density of the float is its mass divided by volume, it needs to change its volume by 0.0109 × 16,600 = 181 cm to drive that excursion; a small amount of that volume change is provided by the compressibilit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1245135 | 1,374,521 |
357,779 | Such a trend distinguishes Roman homoerotic art from that of the Greeks. With some exceptions, Greek vase painting attributes desire and pleasure only to the active partner of homosexual encounters, the "erastes", while the passive, or "eromenos", seems physically unaroused and, at times, emotionally distant. It is now... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5139910 | 357,593 |
982,016 | The mission will determine if there is any seismic activity, measure the rate of heat flow from the interior, estimate the size of Mars' core and whether the core is liquid or solid. This data would be the first of its kind for Mars. It is also expected that frequent meteor airbursts (10–200 detectable events per year ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33930663 | 981,504 |
240,963 | Numerous Los Angeles museums, including the Art Deco Building in Hollywood, were closed, as were numerous city shopping malls. Gazzarri's nightclub suffered irreparable damage and had to be torn down. The city of Santa Monica suffered significant damage. Many multifamily apartment buildings in Santa Monica were yellow-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=267024 | 240,843 |
579,329 | Her father remarried twice after Maria's mother died, and Maria Agnesi ended up the eldest of 21 children, including her half-siblings. Her father agreed with her that if she were to continue her research into mathematics, then she would be permitted to do all the charity work she wanted. In addition to her performance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42842830 | 579,032 |
1,126,685 | According to the "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy", the most influential argument against the indispensability argument comes from Field. It rejects the claim that mathematical objects are indispensable to science. Field tries to show this by reformulating or "nominalizing" scientific theories so that they do not r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58885745 | 1,126,108 |
304,554 | The cyclon is a spiral wound cell with thin lead foil electrodes. A number of manufacturers seized on the technology to implement it in cells with conventional flat plates. In the mid 1980s, two UK companies, Chloride and Tungstone, simultaneously introduced ten year life AGM batteries in capacities up to 400 Ah, stimu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5897558 | 304,392 |
125,500 | Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II. While at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Fuchs was responsible ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17317 | 125,448 |
1,610,650 | The islands are geologically principally composed of igneous rocks, with basic volcanics and pyroclastics comprising the majority of the total volume. The volcanic and plutonic rocks are distinctly basic in character. The archipelago is an example of a soda-alkaline petrographic province, with a petrologic succession w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27473635 | 1,609,745 |
15,068 | A January 1995 GAO report stated that the USAF originally planned to order 210 C-17s at a cost of $41.8 billion, and that the 120 aircraft on order were to cost $39.5 billion based on a 1992 estimate. In March 1994, the U.S. Army decided it did not need the low-altitude parachute-extraction system delivery with the C-1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6731 | 15,063 |
1,127,630 | Gesner likely began experimenting with hydrocarbons in the 1840s. Utilizing a sample of bitumen from Trinidad's Pitch Lake that he collected while shipping horses across the Atlantic, Gesner developed a method of extracting oils and gas from bituminous substances. Gesner found that the first product was not satisfactor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=256711 | 1,127,053 |
1,519,199 | Similar to other wasp species, colonies of "D. saxonica" build up during the summer time and decline during the winter. Queens are the only ones capable of surviving the winter due to their form of hibernation called overwintering, which occurs within sheds, hollow trees, or other similar cavities. The queens that do s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35101450 | 1,518,341 |
689,253 | With the Renaissance came an increase in experimental investigation, principally in the field of dissection and body examination, thus advancing our knowledge of human anatomy. The development of modern neurology began in the 16th century with Andreas Vesalius, who described the anatomy of the brain and other organs; h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4175709 | 688,891 |
28,618 | The interest in UAVs cyber security has been raised greatly after the Predator UAV video stream hijacking incident in 2009, where Islamic militants used cheap, off-the-shelf equipment to stream video feeds from a UAV. Another risk is the possibility of hijacking or jamming a UAV in flight. Several security researchers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58900 | 28,608 |
105,374 | At the end of 1974, with sales of D&D skyrocketing, the future looked bright for Gygax and Kaye, who were only 36. However, in January 1975, Kaye unexpectedly died of a heart attack. He had not made any specific provision in his will regarding his one-third share of the company, simply leaving his entire estate to his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12848 | 105,329 |
1,969,561 | While preparing to enter Maynooth College, Quarter was visited by a priest who had served as a missionary in the United States. The young man was moved by the priest's stories of the dreadful plight of Catholics in America (many of whom were without priests, churches, or the sacraments), and resolved to dedicate himsel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=728079 | 1,968,427 |
1,998,235 | Generally regarded as the greatest batsman in the history of cricket, the right-handed Bradman played in all five Tests as captain at No. 3. Bradman was more influential than other Australian captains because he was also one of the three selectors who had a hand in choosing the squad. He was also a member of the Austra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21051201 | 1,997,092 |
436,429 | Waitz enjoyed much success on the road at non-marathon distances as well, including a win at the Falmouth Road Race in 1980, four victories at the prestigious 10-km Peachtree Road Race in Atlanta, five wins at the L'eggs Mini-Marathon in New York, and world road records at 8 km (25:03), twice in the 10-km (31:16 in 197... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=460877 | 436,215 |
1,275,809 | Enemy action caused disruption to the British telegraph system both domestically and in the imperial network worldwide, but communication was largely maintained. A German bombing raid in December 1940 destroyed the Central Telegraph Office in Telegraph Street. Service was maintained by emergency centres in London set u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60245762 | 1,275,116 |
1,550,853 | Rose is among the physicians and epidemiologists who best conveyed the notion that "as citizens and societies we have shared, common responsibilities in front of threats to health is central to epidemiology, public health, even to clinical medicine". He also clearly showed that a preventive measure that brings large be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18695602 | 1,549,972 |
1,062,688 | Dr. Martin Fishbein is credited with developing the expectancy–value theory (EVT) in the early to mid-1970s. It is sometimes referred to as Fishbein's expectancy–value theory or simply expectancy–value model. The primary work typically cited by scholars referring to EVT is Martin Fishbein and Icek Ajzen's 1975 book cal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10575807 | 1,062,134 |
483,661 | The 509th was initially phased down for inactivation in late 1965 as a part of the retirement of the B-47, but instead was converted to a B-52D Stratofortress and KC-135 in March 1966. The 509th was taken off nuclear alert as its B-52Ds were designed to carry a large number of conventional bombs (84 500-lb Mk 82 or 42 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4563051 | 483,414 |
62,649 | Circadian rhythmicity is present in the sleeping and feeding patterns of animals, including human beings. There are also clear patterns of core body temperature, brain wave activity, hormone production, cell regeneration, and other biological activities. In addition, photoperiodism, the physiological reaction of organi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56565 | 62,624 |
632,066 | Langmuir's most famous publication is the 1919 article "The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules" in which, building on Gilbert N. Lewis's cubical atom theory and Walther Kossel's chemical bonding theory, he outlined his "concentric theory of atomic structure". Langmuir became embroiled in a priority dispute... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15362 | 631,728 |
279,091 | The flight test program was conducted using the pair of prototypes produced, which had been assigned the serial numbers "94-0327" and "95-0001". Following a demonstration of its ability to meet certain key criteria, on 1 June 2000, the RAH-66 entered the $3.1 billion engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=396698 | 278,941 |
392,789 | The term "cognition" refers to all processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used. It is concerned with these processes even when they operate in the absence of relevant stimulation, as in images and hallucinations. ... Given such a sweeping definition, it is appar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5961 | 392,594 |
144,665 | Both developing and developed countries have forged various policies to try to increase the safety and availability of organ transplants to their citizens. However, whilst potential recipients in developing countries may mirror their more developed counterparts in desperation, potential donors in developing countries d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167166 | 144,607 |
1,661,015 | Graphane is effectively made up of cyclohexane units, and, in parallel to cyclohexane, the most stable structural conformation is not planar, but an out-of-plane structure, including the chair and boat conformers, in order to minimize ring strain and allow for the ideal tetrahedral bond angle of 109.5° for sp-bonded at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21330156 | 1,660,081 |
739,631 | IgD has structural diversity throughout evolution of vertebrates because it is a structurally flexible locus to complement the function of IgM. One of the IgD importance is that can substitute the function of IgM in the case of IgM defects. B cells may express IgD by alternative RNA splicing and class switch recombinat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=490669 | 739,239 |
953,315 | The early Japanese tale of "Urashima Tarō" involves traveling forwards in time to a distant future, and was first described in the "Nihongi" (written in 720). It was about a young fisherman named Urashima Tarō who visits an undersea palace and stays there for three days. After returning home to his village, he finds hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3387802 | 952,810 |
1,579,067 | This alternative method to the standard stitching process was first introduced in the late 1980s and was commercially developed by the company Aztex as Z-Fiber technology. "This technology consists of embedding previously cured reinforcement fibers into a thermoplastic foam that is then placed on top of a prepreg, or d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26436816 | 1,578,177 |
867,173 | The 20-year global warming potential of methane is 84. That is, over a 20-year period, it traps 84 times more heat per mass unit than carbon dioxide (CO) and 105 times the effect when accounting for aerosol interactions. Global methane concentrations rose from 722 parts per billion (ppb) in pre-industrial times to 1895... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23092516 | 866,713 |
697,361 | Paleontologist Gregory S. Paul concluded in 1984 that segnosaurs did not possess any theropodan features, but were instead derived, late-surviving Cretaceous prosauropods with adaptations similar to those of ornithischians. He found segnosaurs similar to prosauropods in the morphology of their snout, mandible, and hind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1846673 | 696,997 |
1,534,827 | Now, paradigms are concerned with not only theory but also modes of behaviour within inquiry. One significant part of Beer's paradigm is the development of his Viable Systems Model (VSM) that addresses problem situations in terms of control and communication processes, seeking to ensure system viability within the obje... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51777886 | 1,533,959 |
688,224 | Photovoltaic research at NREL is performed under the National Center for Photovoltaics (NCPV). A primary mission of the NCPV is to support ongoing efforts of the DOE's SunShot Initiative, which wants to increase the availability of solar power at a cost competitive with other energy sources. The NCPV coordinates its re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1711590 | 687,866 |
1,487,721 | It is common for stroke patients to suffer from muscle weakness and loss of muscle function. Some natural recovery has been observed, however training based in advances in neuroscience have shown the most dramatic improvements. These investigational therapies focus on repetition of basic tasks with limited appendages. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29805136 | 1,486,883 |
974,132 | In April 2018, months after Ukraine banned deliveries of Progress D-436 aircraft engines to Russia, Safran and UEC Saturn agreed to re-engine the Be-200 with the PowerJet SaM146 from the Sukhoi Superjet. The hope was that the more-modern SaM146 engine, which passed international certification and complies with prospect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1890144 | 973,621 |
610,013 | In water, especially with air bubbles, the change in density due to a change in pressure is not exactly linearly proportional. As a consequence for a sinusoidal wave input additional harmonic and subharmonic frequencies are generated. When two sinusoidal waves are input, sum and difference frequencies are generated. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10567426 | 609,702 |
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