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1,955,356 | The Bob Moog Foundation's projects include Dr. Bob's SoundSchool, which teaches the science of sound through the magic of music, the Bob Moog Foundation Archives, an effort to preserve and protect Dr. Moog's extensive and historic archive and a museum named the "Moogseum," an innovative educational, historic, and cultu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2518431 | 1,954,234 |
313,108 | Leahy was involved in the preparation of two speeches that marked the onset of the Cold War: Truman's Navy Day address on October 27, 1945, and Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech on March 5, 1946. The former was written by Leahy and Rosenman, and reflected Leahy's ideas about the fundamental goals of U.S. foreign policy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=448716 | 312,940 |
82,611 | Lenard observed the variation in electron energy with light frequency using a powerful electric arc lamp which enabled him to investigate large changes in intensity, and that had sufficient power to enable him to investigate the variation of the electrode's potential with light frequency. He found the electron energy b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23579 | 82,577 |
1,804,793 | Some hand drills have been designed to retrieve cores without using auger flights to transport the cuttings up the hole. These drills typically have a core barrel with teeth at the lower end, and are rotated by a brace or T-handle, or by a small engine. The barrel itself can be omitted, so that the drill consists only ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55125362 | 1,803,778 |
904,632 | Both basilosaurids have skeletons that are immediately recognizable as cetaceans. A basilosaurid was as big as the larger modern whales, with genera like "Basilosaurus" reaching lengths of up to long; dorudontines were smaller, with genera like "Dorudon" reaching about long. The large size of basilosaurids is due to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=875148 | 904,156 |
356,322 | The authors note that the extent of the environmental impact "[...] varies considerably between different biomass energy options." For impact mitigation, they recommend "[...] adopting environmentally-friendly bioenergy production practices, for instance limiting the expansion of monoculture plantations, adopting wildl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7906908 | 356,137 |
310,149 | Metal marshalling cabinet panels can allow surge protection device (SPD) failures to be contained remotely from digital devices and electrical controllers. Direct flashes of lightning and lightning surge on secondary systems can cause catastrophic failures of SPDs. Catastrophic failures of SPDs can release fireballs of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=414738 | 309,982 |
1,285,658 | Egyptian cotton was first grown commercially by African smallholders in the upper Shire valley in 1903 and spread to the lower Shire valley and the shores of Lake Nyasa. By 1905 American Upland cotton was grown on estates in the Shire Highlands. African-grown cotton was bought by The British Central Africa Company Ltd ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14543243 | 1,284,958 |
555,001 | A continuous laser beam focused in a flowing stream of gas creates a stable laser sustained plasma which heats the gas; the hot gas is then expanded through a conventional nozzle to produce thrust. Because the plasma does not touch the walls of the engine, very high gas temperatures are possible, as in gas core nuclear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=504833 | 554,712 |
1,159,239 | The concept of science diplomacy in academic discourse is of relatively recent origin. The intensification of research, including attempts to define and classify practices that can be included in the science diplomacy category, date from the beginning of the 21st century. The attempts to conceptualise science diplomacy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31816142 | 1,158,624 |
1,237,578 | Despite the Air Force's sweeping cuts to research and development, in 1949, General Hoyt Vandenberg, the second chief of staff of the Air Force, commissioned two reports on which came to the conclusion that abdicating its missile and space activities could result in the Army and Navy taking over those responsibilities.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66185637 | 1,236,914 |
850,753 | Beginning in 1962 during the Vietnam War, the Chemical Corps operated a program that would become known as Operation Ranch Hand. Ranch Hand was a herbicidal warfare program which used herbicides and defoliants such as Agent Orange. The chemicals were color-coded based on what compound they contained. The U.S. and its a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9047249 | 850,300 |
306,488 | Many APCs and IFVs currently under development are intended for rapid deployment by aircraft. New technologies that promise reduction in weight, such as electric drive, may be incorporated. However, facing a similar threat in post-invasion Iraq to that which prompted the Russians to convert tanks to APCs, the occupying... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20282 | 306,324 |
1,720,657 | LRBA deficiency presents as a syndrome of autoimmunity, lymphoproliferation, and humoral immune deficiency. Predominant clinical problems include idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA), and an autoimmune enteropathy. Before the discovery of these gene mutations, patients were diag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47838669 | 1,719,687 |
329,010 | Coproduction of the Su-27s reportedly ended in 2004 because China was developing the J-11B - a variant with domestic subsystems - in violation of the coproduction agreement. At the time, Russia refused to comment on the manufacturing of J-11B. At MAKS 2009, Rosoboronexport's General Manager Anatoli Isaykin said Russia ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3032800 | 328,836 |
7,745 | Biologists or philosophers of biology use Occam's razor in either of two contexts both in evolutionary biology: the units of selection controversy and systematics. George C. Williams in his book "Adaptation and Natural Selection" (1966) argues that the best way to explain altruism among animals is based on low-level (i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36797 | 7,742 |
356,475 | In September 1834, Paganini put an end to his concert career and returned to Genoa. Contrary to popular beliefs involving his wishing to keep his music and techniques secret, Paganini devoted his time to the publication of his compositions and violin methods. He accepted students, of whom two enjoyed moderate success: ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21511 | 356,290 |
1,877,103 | The boundary organization provides a strategic website for studying the process of transferring information and provides a system to combine knowledge from various communities for single research. The existence of boundary organizations can facilitate collaboration between scientists and politicians, and as a result, g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60897027 | 1,876,025 |
435,436 | "Warp drive" is one of the fundamental features of the "Star Trek" franchise; in the first pilot episode of "", "The Cage", it is referred to as a "hyperdrive", with Captain Pike stating the speed to reach planet TalosIV as "time warp, factor 7". When beginning to explain travel times to the illusion survivors (before ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24583 | 435,222 |
367,480 | Because atoms and molecules are three-dimensional, it is difficult to use a single method to indicate orbitals and bonds. In molecular formulas the chemical bonds (binding orbitals) between atoms are indicated in different ways depending on the type of discussion. Sometimes, some details are neglected. For example, in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5993 | 367,287 |
523,021 | A detailed family history should be obtained from at least three generations, particularly if there have been any neonatal and childhood deaths. A family history may also indicate if any family members exhibit features of the multi-system disease, specifically if there has been maternal inheritance. This would show tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5788696 | 522,749 |
1,278,410 | Many different routes lead to PASA. In the simplest and the oldest approach aspartic acid is heated to induce dehydration. In a subsequent step the resulting polysuccinimide is treated with aqueous sodium hydroxide, which yields partial opening of the succinimide rings. In this process sodium--(α,β)-poly(aspartate) wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37997484 | 1,277,717 |
536,311 | During the final year of medical school, students complete part 1 of the Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Examination (MCCQE), which is administered by the Medical Council of Canada and organized as a part-multiple choice, part-short answer computer-adaptive test. Upon completion of the final year of medical school... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11982022 | 536,032 |
291,326 | The key advantage of the four-rail system is that neither running rail carries any current. This scheme was introduced because of the problems of return currents, intended to be carried by the earthed (grounded) running rail, flowing through the iron tunnel linings instead. This can cause electrolytic damage and even a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=558959 | 291,168 |
1,010,609 | It is claimed by the companies selling it that DDMRP has been successfully applied to a variety of environments including CTO (configure to order), MTS (make to stock), MTO (make to order) and ETO (engineer to order) although detailed studies are rare. The methodology is applied differently in each environments but the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=141906 | 1,010,088 |
1,116,415 | The vertebral column is fairly short, with a total of 24 vertebrae in front of the hip. The vertebrae are gastrocentrous, meaning that each vertebra has a larger, somewhat spool-shaped component known as a pleurocentrum, and a smaller, wedge-shaped (or crescent-shaped from the front) component known as an intercentrum.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4675301 | 1,115,842 |
1,167,546 | Arterial surgery is only indicated once there is positive confirmation that the arteries are indeed the source of pain. Some migraine sufferers have a visibly distended artery on the temple during an attack, which confirms that the arteries are involved. The distention usually subsides as the pain is controlled by vaso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36984150 | 1,166,928 |
63,809 | The railgun in its simplest form differs from a traditional electric motor in that no use is made of additional field windings (or permanent magnets). This basic configuration is formed by a single loop of current and thus requires high currents (e.g., of order one million amperes) to produce sufficient accelerations (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218930 | 63,784 |
459,034 | Christianity was introduced into the country by Frumentius, who was consecrated first bishop of Axum by Saint Athanasius of Alexandria about 330. Frumentius converted Ezana, who left several inscriptions detailing his reign both before and after his conversion. One inscription found at Axum, states that he conquered th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4560948 | 458,810 |
270,382 | Since modern thyristors can switch power on the scale of megawatts, thyristor valves have become the heart of high-voltage direct current (HVDC) conversion either to or from alternating current. In the realm of this and other very high-power applications, both electrically triggered (ETT) and light-triggered (LTT) thyr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181174 | 270,235 |
1,259,732 | Many facilitative interactions directly affect the distribution of species. As discussed above, transport of plant propagules by animal dispersers can increase colonization rates of more distant sites, which may impact the distribution and population dynamics of the plant species. Facilitation most often affects distri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4329538 | 1,259,045 |
274,668 | By convention, the cerebellar tonsil position is measured relative to the basion-opisthion line, using sagittal T1 MRI images or sagittal CT images. The selected cutoff distance for abnormal tonsil position is somewhat arbitrary, as not every person will be symptomatic at a certain amount of tonsil displacement, and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=208893 | 274,520 |
89,208 | In the field of astrophysics, the university is a member of a consortium engaged in the construction and operation of the Large Binocular Telescope in the Mount Graham International Observatory of the Pinaleno Mountains of southeastern Arizona. It is also a member of both the Astrophysical Research Consortium, which op... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59801 | 89,171 |
1,435,358 | Furthermore, applications increasingly needed techniques from more than one of these fields concurrently. To generate very detailed models of complex objects you need image recognition, 3D sensors and reconstruction algorithms, and to display these models believably you need realistic rendering techniques with complex ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45350085 | 1,434,552 |
79,474 | A 2014 study suggests that bromine (in the form of bromide ion) is a necessary cofactor in the biosynthesis of collagen IV, making the element essential to basement membrane architecture and tissue development in animals. Nevertheless, no clear deprivation symptoms or syndromes have been documented. In other biological... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3756 | 79,441 |
302,228 | Tyche was a hypothetical gas giant proposed to be located in the Solar System's Oort cloud. It was first proposed in 1999 by astrophysicists John Matese, Patrick Whitman and Daniel Whitmire of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. They argued that evidence of Tyche's existence could be seen in a supposed bias in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23842 | 302,067 |
789,561 | The majority of the progressive and innovative British physicists of Tyndall's generation were conservative and orthodox on matters of religion. That includes for example James Joule, Balfour Stewart, James Clerk Maxwell, George Gabriel Stokes and William Thomson – all names investigating heat or light contemporaneousl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=256310 | 789,136 |
672,805 | Jamison moved to California during adolescence, and soon thereafter began to struggle with bipolar disorder. She continued to struggle in college at UCLA. At first she wanted to become a doctor, but because of her increasing manic episodes she decided she could not maintain the rigorous discipline needed for medical sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17079 | 672,453 |
674,480 | The appearance of the V-1 flying bomb, jet fighters such as the Messerschmitt Me 262, and rocket fighters such as the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet led Republic to begin development of a high-speed variant of the Thunderbolt. Four P-47D-27-RE were modified with a 2,800 hp R-2800-57C engine with a CH-5 supercharger and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64143599 | 674,127 |
1,472,813 | To preserve the expedition's predominantly Australasian character, Mawson recruited his science staff from the universities of Australia and New Zealand. In key positions were Eric Webb, a 22-year-old New Zealander who became chief magnetician, and Cecil Madigan, also 22, who was appointed as the main base's meteorolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3433767 | 1,471,984 |
1,926,211 | In adults, fecundity is determined by the biological processes of reproduction. Female fecundity is heavily influenced by reproduction and energetics. The ovarian cycle limits the potential of conception to a brief period of fertility roughly once a month. Successful egg maturation, fertilization, and implantation must... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58645929 | 1,925,107 |
139,351 | This is a common PCT approach, which makes use of the fact that most conductive objects are able to hold a charge if they are very close together. In mutual capacitive sensors, a capacitor is inherently formed by the row trace and column trace at each intersection of the grid. A 16×14 array, for example, would have 224... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=667206 | 139,294 |
609,611 | If an insect wing is rigid, for example, a "Drosophila" wing is approximately so, its motion relative to a fixed body can be described by three variables: the position of the tip in spherical coordinates, (Θ(t),Φ(t)), and the pitching angle ψ(t), about the axis connecting the root and the tip. To estimate the aerodynam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3409272 | 609,300 |
697,143 | Newborn dusky sharks measure long; pup size increases with female size, and decreases with litter size. There is evidence that females can determine the size at which their pups are born, so as to improve their chances of survival across better or worse environmental conditions. Females also provision their young with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4283435 | 696,779 |
1,132,637 | Experiments conducted in 2008 by the "Phoenix" lander discovered the presence of perchlorate in Martian soil. The 2011 astrobiology textbook discusses the importance of this finding with respect to the results obtained by "Viking" as "while perchlorate is too poor an oxidizer to reproduce the LR results (under the cond... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1072959 | 1,132,045 |
1,029,180 | The ERD process is structured to use demonstrated functionality rather than paper products as a way for stakeholders to communicate their needs and expectations. Central to this goal of rapid delivery is the use of the "timebox" method. Timeboxes are fixed periods of time in which specific tasks (e.g., developing a set... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1090852 | 1,028,646 |
265,287 | On 2 October 2013, the U.S. Army awarded technology investment agreements (IIA) to AVX Aircraft, Bell Helicopters, Karem Aircraft and Sikorsky Aircraft under the Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator Phase I program. There are two general types of proposals: tiltrotors with rotors that serve as both rotors and conve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29347958 | 265,144 |
1,774,063 | Until the mid-1940s, the school required students to be able to create a simple electric motor regardless of their major. During World War II, as an engineering school with strong military ties through its ROTC program, Georgia Tech was swiftly enlisted for the war effort. In early 1942 the traditional nine-month semes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8753550 | 1,773,066 |
501,516 | PFK is about 300 amino acids in length, and structural studies of the bacterial enzyme have shown it comprises two similar (alpha/beta) lobes: one involved in ATP binding and the other housing both the substrate-binding site and the allosteric site (a regulatory binding site distinct from the active site, but that affe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10751922 | 501,259 |
743,878 | The lightest chemical elements, primarily hydrogen and helium, were created during the Big Bang through the process of nucleosynthesis. In a sequence of stellar nucleosynthesis reactions, smaller atomic nuclei are then combined into larger atomic nuclei, ultimately forming stable iron group elements such as iron and ni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5378 | 743,484 |
1,731,593 | NAE 20:4 related THC treatment have shown to increase culture protein content and reduced methyl-(3)H-thymidine incorporation, and cells treated with THC underwent adipogenesis shown by the expression of PPARγ and had increased lipid accumulation. Basal and IP-stimulated lipolyses were also inhibited by THC, and the ef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20853174 | 1,730,617 |
1,114,488 | The top 35 students, based solely on their INPhO scores are selected to attend the Orientation cum Selection camp (OCSC), a 14-day long camp held at HBCSE, Mumbai. However, in 2014-15, HBCSE being busy in the organisation of IPhO 2015, India, OCSC was organised by IAPT, and held in New Delhi.Dates are usually from the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6040494 | 1,113,920 |
1,744,782 | Fishery-independent data is obtained in the absence of any fishing activity. The majority of this data is collected by state and federal agencies. A wide variety of methods and gear types are used to acquire fishery-independent data. Sampling equipment can include trawls, seines, acoustic and/or video surveys. The stud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22069015 | 1,743,798 |
839,377 | The Nazis' decision to avoid the use of chemical weapons on the battlefield has been variously attributed to a lack of technical ability in the German chemical weapons program and fears that the Allies would retaliate with their own chemical weapons. It also has been speculated to have arisen from the personal experien... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60215761 | 838,928 |
730,073 | The freshwater pearl mussel grows extremely slowly, inhaling water through exposed siphons, and filtering out tiny organic particles on which it feeds. It is thought that in areas where this species was once abundant, this filter feeding acted to clarify the water, benefiting other species which inhabited the rivers an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8905895 | 729,689 |
1,239,448 | The following year, 1989, the Japanese Ministry of Transport revised the standards for kei cars. This resulted in the new 660 cc class series of four-cylinder engines, and the EN05 had its stroke increased to produce the EN07. The bore pitch remained to help keep the changes to a minimum. The increased stroke helped ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23068789 | 1,238,781 |
1,615,947 | Cross was born in Nansemond County, Virginia, to Virginia planter Thomas Hardy Cross and his wife Eleanor Elizabeth Wright. He had an elder brother, Tom Peete Cross, who would later become a Celtic studies scholar. Both studied at Norfolk Academy. Then he attended Hampden-Sydney College where he earned both B.A. and B.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=899063 | 1,615,038 |
454,485 | At Siemens's U.S. manufacturing facilities (in Sacramento, California), only model S700 remains in production, the last S70s having been built in 2017, for Minneapolis–Saint Paul's Metro Transit light rail system. The model number "S700" was adopted by Siemens Mobility in 2019 as a rebranding of a "version" of the S70 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2447806 | 454,263 |
442,090 | Since reporting is not mandatory in many regions of the world, snakebites often go unreported. Consequently, no accurate study has ever been conducted to determine the frequency of snakebites on the international level. However, some estimates put the number at 1.2 to 5.5 million snakebites, 421,000 envenomings, result... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34397403 | 441,875 |
2,138,237 | "Flaveria trinervia" grows easily in many types of wet habitats, including saline and alkaline soils and highly disturbed habitat. This is an annual herb growing erect and known to exceed two meters (7 feet) in height. The lance-shaped to oval leaves are each up to 15 centimeters (8 inches) long and arranged oppositely... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23222060 | 2,137,007 |
509,344 | Strontium-90 has been used in radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) in the past because of its relatively high power density (0.95 W/g for the metal, 0.46 W/g for the commonly used inert perovskite form Strontium titanate) and because it is easily extracted from spent fuel (both native Strontium metal and Stron... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4364523 | 509,080 |
1,191,275 | After Joseph Black realized that carbon dioxide was in fact a different sort of gas altogether from atmospheric air, other gases were identified, including hydrogen by Henry Cavendish in 1766. Alessandro Volta expanded the list with his discovery of methane in 1776. It had also been known for a long time that inflammab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16593931 | 1,190,641 |
1,395,456 | The 2018–19 Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball team represented Purdue University in the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Their head coach was Matt Painter in his 14th season with the Boilers. The team played their home games at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Indiana as members of the Big Ten Confere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57096657 | 1,394,685 |
917,684 | The classic observation on the semantics of reduplication is Edward Sapir's: "generally employed, with self-evident symbolism, to indicate such concepts as distribution, plurality, repetition, customary activity, increase of size, added intensity, continuance." Reduplication is used in inflections to convey a grammatic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=171408 | 917,201 |
154,440 | Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), also known as dibutylhydroxytoluene, is a lipophilic organic compound, chemically a derivative of phenol, that is useful for its antioxidant properties. BHT is widely used to prevent free radical-mediated oxidation in fluids (e.g. fuels, oils) and other materials, and the regulations ove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84808 | 154,370 |
754,166 | The innatist perspective began in 1959 with Noam Chomsky's highly critical review of B.F. Skinner's "Verbal Behavior" (1957). This review helped start what has been called the "cognitive revolution" in psychology. Chomsky posited that humans possess a special, innate ability for language, and that complex syntactic fea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160538 | 753,763 |
2,091,490 | Applied Food Technologies maintains an internal DNA database generated from a collection of economically important seafood specimens, which were taxonomically identified by third-party institutions, such as the Smithsonian and the Florida Museum. These taxonomically validated specimens were sequenced in multiple region... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33327095 | 2,090,286 |
577,702 | Owing to its physiological function in food absorption, the mucosal surface is thin and acts as a permeable barrier to the interior of the body. Equally, its fragility and permeability creates vulnerability to infection and, in fact, the vast majority of the infectious agents invading the human body use this route. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2999783 | 577,406 |
773,712 | In 1933, Botvinnik repeated his Soviet Championship win, in his home city of Leningrad, with 14/19, describing the results as evidence that Krylenko's plan to develop a new generation of Soviet masters had borne fruit. He and other young masters successfully requested the support of a senior Leningrad Communist Party o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242416 | 773,296 |
97,895 | There was a clear difference between early pterosaurs and advanced species regarding the form of the fifth digit. Originally, the fifth metatarsal was robust and not very shortened. It was connected to the ankle in a higher position than the other metatarsals. It bore a long, and often curved, mobile clawless fifth toe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24824 | 97,854 |
847,672 | In the Mk I PR Type B (also known as "Medium Range" ["MR"]) conversions which followed, the F24 camera lenses were upgraded to an eight-inch (203 mm) focal length, giving images up to a third larger in scale. An extra 29 gal (132 L) fuel tank was installed in the rear fuselage. It had been envisaged that much larger ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16070159 | 847,222 |
1,541,277 | Design is getting more and more complex for a number of reasons, for example due to globalization, need for sustainability, and the introduction of new technology and increased use of automation. Many of the challenges designers meet today can be considered wicked problems. The characteristics of a wicked problem inclu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33914237 | 1,540,404 |
752,934 | The helmet easily outstrips all other known examples in terms of richness. It is uniquely from a presumed royal burial, at a time when the monarchy was defined by the helmet and the sword. Helmets, perhaps because they were worn by rulers so frequently, may have come to be identified as crowns. Though many intermediate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22706403 | 752,532 |
2,186,820 | In mid-November Penn State began to find their form and began a nearly 2-month unbeaten streak. They jumped back into the top-20 after a 4–0 shoutout against Ohio State that saw Jones seize his primary job in the crease and by mid-January the team had nearly returned to their preseason ranking. Immediately following th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67771490 | 2,185,572 |
29,843 | A number of UCLA alumni are notable politicians. In the State of Hawaii, Ben Cayetano ('68), became the first Filipino American to be elected Governor of a U.S. state. In the U.S. House of Representatives, Henry Waxman ('61, '64) represented California's 30th congressional district and was Chairman of the House Energy ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37765 | 29,833 |
1,029,433 | Highwall mining is another form of mining sometimes conducted to recover additional coal adjacent to a surface-mined area. The method evolved from auger mining but does not meet the definition of surface mining since it does not involve the removal of overburden to expose the coal seam. CERB final report No. 2014-004 "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1702997 | 1,028,899 |
607,769 | Searchlight signal's use became widespread mostly due to their relatively low maintenance, high visibility, low power-consumption, and after 1932 using a compound lens with a 4 watt, 3 volt bulb, that worked quite well in territory with battery powered signaling. Also of significance was the single lens giving the indi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14849714 | 607,458 |
70,419 | In 1956, Franklin visited the University of California, Berkeley, where colleagues suggested her group research the polio virus. In 1957 she applied for a grant from the United States Public Health Service of the National Institutes of Health, which approved £10,000 (equivalent to £ in ) for three years, the largest fu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=90472 | 70,392 |
41,016 | However, many traits that appear to be simple adaptations are in fact exaptations: structures originally adapted for one function, but which coincidentally became somewhat useful for some other function in the process. One example is the African lizard "Holaspis guentheri", which developed an extremely flat head for hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9236 | 41,001 |
1,637,210 | "Nero" was once again placed in full service on 29 April 1914 and, three days later, resumed her logistic operations, cruising from Bremerton to La Paz. Assigned to the Pacific Fleet on 5 June 1915, the collier continued her operations on into 1917. On 19 July, she departed San Francisco for New York, to meet the deman... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19401901 | 1,636,285 |
2,226,336 | The Women's 100 metres B1 was a sprinting event in athletics at the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul, for blind athletes. Six athletes took part, representing six nations. They included defending champion Purificacion Santamarta, of Spain, who retained her title, improving on her 1984 time by close to a second. Kim Ban... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29166475 | 2,225,072 |
2,112,749 | The men's pole vault event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Nineteen athletes from 10 nations competed. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The competition was held on July 31 and August 2. During the final, a rains... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28006664 | 2,111,534 |
172,384 | The company was founded in 1976 by venture capitalist Robert A. Swanson and biochemist Herbert Boyer. Boyer is considered to be a pioneer in the field of recombinant DNA technology. In 1973, Boyer and his colleague Stanley Norman Cohen demonstrated that restriction enzymes could be used as "scissors" to cut DNA fragmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=362464 | 172,293 |
162,213 | However, with the continuing relative decline of Britain's economy during the 1960s, management-labour relations deteriorated towards the end of the Wilson government and this worker discontent led to a dramatic breakdown of the industrial environment under the Conservative Government of Edward Heath (1970–1974). In th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,128 |
2,066,315 | She was born in a village in Chittagong, British India, the daughter of lawyer Kiron Bikash Mutsuddy and his wife Shaila Bala Mutsuddy; she was one of nine children. Mutsuddi studied at Mahamuni Anglo Pali Institution. Having received her early education in local schools, she went on to Dr. Khastagir Government Girls' ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50801646 | 2,065,124 |
1,526,265 | Mayer's first important astronomical work was a careful investigation of the libration of the Moon ("Kosmographische Nachrichten", Nuremberg, 1750), and his chart of the full moon (published in 1775) was unsurpassed for half a century. But his fame rests chiefly on his lunar tables, communicated in 1752, with new solar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1329314 | 1,525,402 |
239,366 | By scientific convention, the term lysosome is applied to these vesicular organelles only in animals, and the term vacuole is applied to those in plants, fungi and algae (some animal cells also have vacuoles). Discoveries in plant cells since the 1970s started to challenge this definition. Plant vacuoles are found to b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18120 | 239,246 |
357,941 | One of the key ideas in bioinformatics is the notion of homology. In the genomic branch of bioinformatics, homology is used to predict the function of a gene: if the sequence of gene "A", whose function is known, is homologous to the sequence of gene "B," whose function is unknown, one could infer that B may share A's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4214 | 357,755 |
124,401 | The idea that all matter is fundamentally composed of elementary particles dates from at least the 6th century BC. In the 19th century, John Dalton, through his work on stoichiometry, concluded that each element of nature was composed of a single, unique type of particle. The word "atom", after the Greek word "atomos" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23259 | 124,350 |
485,205 | According to most other accounts, the source of the wing failures lay not in the design, but in shoddy and rushed construction. Fokker had subcontracted construction of the E.V wings to the Gebrüder Perzina Pianoforte Fabrik factory. Due to poor quality control, inferior timber had been used and the spar caps, forming ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=317543 | 484,956 |
694,446 | Another element of the "hidden curriculum" Clarricoates identifies is linguistic sexism. She defines this term as the consistent and unconscious use of words and grammatical forms by teachers that denigrate women and emphasize the assumed superiority of men, not only in lesson content but also in situations of discipli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16973246 | 694,083 |
1,676,356 | On the contrary, the second class of bimetric gravity theories does not rely on massive gravitons and does not modify Newton's law, but instead describes the universe as a manifold having two coupled Riemannian metrics, where matter populating the two sectors interact through gravitation (and antigravitation if the top... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43590607 | 1,675,414 |
1,286,869 | Under the production-based system a country is punished for having a pollution intensive resource base. If this country has pollution intensive exports, such as Norway where 69% of its CO emissions are the result of production for export, a simple way to meet its emissions reductions set out under Kyoto would be to red... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6905345 | 1,286,168 |
1,316,509 | Carbon nanotubes have gained much attention for its use as wastewater and water filter. Carbon nanotube’s mechanical, electrical and chemical properties made it unique and an ideal candidate for research since 1990. Carbon nanotube combined with electrochemistry proved to be the best method for water and wastewater pur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55566398 | 1,315,784 |
2,125,975 | Stewart served as a surgeon-lieutenant in the Royal Navy from 1943 to 1946. He then held several hospital appointments, including senior registrar and tutor at the Wright-Fleming Institute at St Mary's Hospital, London from 1948 to 1952, where he worked alongside Alexander Fleming. He became professor of pathology and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57263213 | 2,124,754 |
484,974 | Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) from 2010 pointed to certain brain areas which were especially active when false memories were retrieved. Participants studied photos during an fMRI. Later, they viewed sentences describing the photographs, some of which contained information conflicting with the photographs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33106911 | 484,725 |
454,192 | Scholars have noted difficulty in attempting to delimit the scope, meaning, and applications of language ideology. Paul Kroskrity, a linguistic anthropologist, describes language ideology as a "cluster concept, consisting of a number of converging dimensions" with several "partially overlapping but analytically disting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5496724 | 453,971 |
165,460 | The young university has been characterized by rapid growth in research output and its competitive undergraduate admissions policies since its inception. Less than 47 years after its founding, the Carnegie Foundation had classified the university as a doctoral research university with "Highest Research Activity"—faster... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=537010 | 165,375 |
15,031 | Technology writer Glyn Moody described the project in May 2011 as a "potential ", not by replacing machines but by supplementing them. In March 2012 Stephen Pritchard echoed the BBC Micro successor sentiment in "ITPRO". Alex Hope, co-author of the Next Gen report, is hopeful that the computer will engage children with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31692117 | 15,026 |
853,325 | Linked to marginal integrity, placement of the finish line can directly affect the ease of manufacturing the crown and health of the periodontium. Best results are achieved where the finish line is above the gum line as this is fully cleanable. They should also be placed on enamel as this creates a better seal. Where c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1340551 | 852,870 |
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