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520,119 | On the other hand, according to the 2014 NIST Special Publication 800-88 Rev. 1 (p. 7): “For storage devices containing "magnetic" media, a single overwrite pass with a fixed pattern such as binary zeros typically hinders recovery of data even if state of the art laboratory techniques are applied to attempt to retrieve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1230415 | 519,848 |
610,662 | Multiple cloning sites are a feature that allows for the insertion of foreign DNA without disrupting the rest of the plasmid which makes it extremely useful in biotechnology, bioengineering, and molecular genetics. MCS can aid in making transgenic organisms, more commonly known as a genetically modified organism (GMO) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1877510 | 610,351 |
3,756 | A child prodigy by age 11, he had exhausted the mathematical knowledge of two college students who were lodgers at his home. He was later lent a book written by S. L. Loney on advanced trigonometry. He mastered this by the age of 13 while discovering sophisticated theorems on his own. By 14, he received merit certifica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47717 | 3,756 |
1,085,895 | In 1921 while experimenting in the lab his parents had set up for him while he was still in high school, Brown discovered an unusual effect while experimenting with a Coolidge tube, a type of X-ray vacuum tube with two asymmetrical electrodes. Placing it on a balance scale with the tube's positive electrode facing up, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188656 | 1,085,337 |
874,293 | In July 2012, Virgin Galactic announced LauncherOne, an orbital launch vehicle designed to launch "smallsat" primary payloads of into low Earth orbit, with launches projected to begin in 2016. Several commercial customers have already contracted for launches, including GeoOptics, Skybox Imaging, Spaceflight Industries,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1313703 | 873,831 |
405,300 | Stage two (self-interest driven) expresses the "what's in it for me" position, in which right behavior is defined by whatever the individual believes to be in their best interest, or whatever is "convenient," but understood in a narrow way which does not consider one's reputation or relationships to groups of people. S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1058693 | 405,100 |
1,334,669 | The fact that the project involved the co-operation of sixteen countries working together created engineering challenges that had to be overcome: most notably the differences in language, culture and politics, but also engineering processes, management, measuring standards and communication; to ensure that all elements... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60562746 | 1,333,939 |
1,314,480 | The demonstration of the unified carrier concept for the space vehicle-to-Earth link was limited to transmitting a ranging code and wideband telemetry signal on a 47.5-mc carrier by hard wire via a noisy and attenuating medium. The simulated ground receiver used a phase-locked loop. The carrier reference generated by t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26270139 | 1,313,759 |
148,597 | As Heinkel had a head start on its design, some officials believed that the outcome was a largely foregone conclusion. Neverthless, many companies opted to produce responses; some of these competing designs were technically superior (in particular to the Blohm & Voss P 211 proposal). Messerschmitt did not submit any de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=153227 | 148,536 |
1,180,622 | Since his laboratory had its own funding, he was immediately able to start work on a small practical machine, EDSAC (for "Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator"), once back at Cambridge. He decided that his mandate was not to invent a better computer, but simply to make one available to the university. Therefor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=472463 | 1,179,998 |
1,871,033 | Members of "Mycobacteroides" are rapidly growing bacteria, forming colonies in less than seven days. Some characteristics of this genus include: negative for nitrate reductase, iron uptake and demonstrating resistance to polymyxin B. The optimal growth temperature is at 30 °C, although growth can occur at 35 °C. Member... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67907429 | 1,869,956 |
387,199 | Kåre Bremer, using rbcL sequences and the mean path length method for estimating divergence times, estimated the age of the monocot crown group (i.e. the time at which the ancestor of today's "Acorus" diverged from the rest of the group) as 134 million years. Similarly, Wikström "et al.", using Sanderson's non-parametr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55625 | 387,004 |
1,002,062 | Weaver ant colonies are founded by one or more mated females (queens). A queen lays her first clutch of eggs on a leaf and protects and feeds the larvae until they develop into mature workers. The workers then construct leaf nests and help rear new brood laid by the queen. As the number of workers increases, more nests... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1742892 | 1,001,544 |
1,924,357 | With a fresh name and new independence, the AIAS leadership takes to the task of developing the organization. 1985 president Scott Norberg (University of Nebraska) and vice president Whitney Powers (Mississippi State University) dedicate themselves to examining issues that are critical to the architectural scene. Durin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=607666 | 1,923,254 |
1,301,311 | Given this complexity, early games using the system tended to be simple in layout, using the TIA to create symmetric playfields with players on top. This was the original intention of the system: to run the handful of arcade games Atari had already produced like "Tank" and "Pong". In these cases the playfield data was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=719274 | 1,300,597 |
1,130,620 | Fish have not been mentioned as prey in Eurasia in dietary studies of nesting golden eagles. However, they have been reported in nests in North America. The two largest known reports are from coastal California and along the Porcupine River in Alaska, with fish making up 3.6% and 3.5% of the diets, respectively. Most r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41302685 | 1,130,036 |
1,099,735 | Recent research studies have clearly benefited from network concepts and tools to study the interaction patterns in large species assemblages. They showed that plant-pollinator networks were highly structured, deviating significantly from random associations. Commonly, networks have (1) a low connectance (the realized ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66619486 | 1,099,175 |
822,015 | The HGD enzyme is involved in the metabolism (chemical processing) of the aromatic amino acids phenylalanine and tyrosine. Normally, these enter the bloodstream through protein-containing food and the natural turnover of protein in the body. Tyrosine is specifically required for a number of functions, such as hormones ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=148249 | 821,574 |
774,745 | A magnitude 6.2 M aftershock struck the coast of Biobío, Chile at a shallow depth of 15.1 km (9.4 mi) on 1 June 2011 at 08:55 local time (12:55 UTC). It was centered just offshore Arauco Province near a moderately populated area, with most structures in its vicinity reported to be resistant to earthquake shaking. Stro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26357457 | 774,329 |
484,979 | The Myers Briggs Type Indicator is one type of test used to assess participant personalities. Individuals were presented with the same misinformation procedure as that used in the original Loftus "et al." study in 1978 (see above). The results were evaluated in regards to their personality type. Introvert-intuitive par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33106911 | 484,730 |
2,242,716 | "In 1990 the Center's editorial team, under the direction of Dr. Jo Ann Boydston, completed the monumental thirty-seven-volume critical edition of Dewey's writings. "The Collected Works of John Dewey" was published by Southern Illinois University Press in three series: "The Early Works, 1882-1989" (five volumes); "The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21106443 | 2,241,445 |
1,713,447 | In a two-way time transfer system, the two peers will both transmit, and will also receive each other's messages, thus performing two one-way time transfers to determine the difference between the remote clock and the local clock. The sum of these time differences is the round-trip delay between the two nodes. It is of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=144485 | 1,712,481 |
2,146,798 | Of no relation to Sir Andrew F. Huxley (the English physiologist and biophysicist), Huxley is known in the field of condensed matter physics. While at the CEA laboratory in Grenoble, Huxley was involved in the revolutionary discovery of superconductivity in the ferromagnet UGe under applied pressure, in collaboration w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13298396 | 2,145,567 |
1,460,268 | There is also a subplot revolving around the issue of what it means to be a good soldier. Discouraged by the intellectual demands of his Patrol training, and attracted to the glamor and esprit de corps of the Marines, Matt requests a transfer, but is dissuaded by his mentor. The mentor, dividing human motivations into ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45912 | 1,459,446 |
645,409 | The term "biosecurity" has been defined differently by various disciplines. The term was first used by the agricultural and environmental communities to describe preventative measures against threats from naturally occurring diseases and pests, later expanded to introduced species. Australia and New Zealand, among othe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45262 | 645,069 |
2,156,001 | Conscious of these problems, the government intends to reform the science sector. In 2015, there were plans to conduct an inventory and analysis of research topics at scientific institutions in order to enhance their relevance. Targeted programmes are to be adopted for basic and applied research in critical areas for s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54245572 | 2,154,770 |
1,643,382 | Hackett was a member of the 1981 American Medical Research Expedition led by John B. West. He was slated to try for the summit as the second of two groups on October 24, 1981; around noon, Chris Pizzo and Young Tenzing had reached the summit, with Pizzo doing various measurements and taking samples of his own breath fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69626633 | 1,642,455 |
327,349 | Vascular bubbles formed in the systemic capillaries may be trapped in the lung capillaries, temporarily blocking them. If this is severe, the symptom called "chokes" may occur. If the diver has a patent foramen ovale (or a shunt in the pulmonary circulation), bubbles may pass through it and bypass the pulmonary circula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61048 | 327,175 |
1,493,727 | Early life experiences and environmental factors may lead to epigenetic modification at specific gene loci, leading to altered neuronal plasticity, function, and subsequent behavior. Chromatin remodeling in rodent offspring and altered gene expression within the limbic brain regions that may contribute to depression, s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52449973 | 1,492,887 |
1,185,166 | In 2010 Green Goods and Services survey found there are 3.1 million Green Goods and Services (GGS) jobs in the United States which accounts for 2.4 per cent of all United States salary and wage employment. The private sector had 2.3 million GGS jobs, and the public sector had 860,000 GGS jobs. From 2010 the data indica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14300289 | 1,184,537 |
1,567,922 | On 28 August 1946, Young gave a speech on radio outlines further details of the preliminary reform proposal. The main idea of the Young Plan was to set up a super municipal council which was given even greater power than its counterpart in England at that time. Young intended to make this proposed municipal council int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43298350 | 1,567,035 |
212,054 | Trapezia are usually very young, unstable systems. These are thought to form in stellar nurseries, and quickly fragment into stable multiple stars, which in the process may eject components as galactic high-velocity stars. They are named after the multiple star system known as the Trapezium Cluster in the heart of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240963 | 211,946 |
1,683,102 | Harold Amos research was mostly recognized on the work about his bacterial metabolism, nutrition, animal cell culture, virology, and the effects of hormones. During his time at Harvard University he began working on a thesis on virology that was affecting herpes virus that was experimented on chick's chorioallantoic me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30797508 | 1,682,159 |
2,092,695 | By a grant of the privy council of Scotland in 1616, confirmed by James I of England, he obtained leave to search for gold and silver in Crawford Muir, on paying the king one-tenth of the metals found. His brother William was included in a second lease for 21 years. It appears that he was unsuccessful in his mining ope... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30326385 | 2,091,490 |
147,649 | In Portugal, the medical course is a postgraduate degree, so a prior graduation from an undergraduate course (3 to 4 years) in areas involving health such as biology, nursing and pharmaceutical sciences, among others, is necessary for applying for the Master's in Medicine (3 years). Most students (~80%) enter Medical S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=465584 | 147,590 |
1,338,410 | Major engineering challenges were associated with the deposition of salts and chemical corrosion in these supercritical water reactors. Anthony Lajeunesse led the team investigating these issues. To address these issues Lajeunesse designed a transpiring wall reactor which introduced a pressure differential through the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=265064 | 1,337,677 |
2,070,966 | NABR reports to provide the unified voice for the scientific community on legislative and regulatory matters affecting laboratory animal research over its 30-year history. NABR has worked to ensure that biomedical research using animals remains possible, acting on behalf of approximately 300 public and private universi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21958222 | 2,069,775 |
1,770,000 | By the late 1990s, it became obvious that the old Ibycus technology was outdated. Under the direction of Professor Maria Pantelia, a number of new projects were undertaken, including the massive migration out of Ibycus, the development of a new system to digitize, proofread, and manage the textual collection, a new CD-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1187277 | 1,769,005 |
509,270 | There is less than 50 published English literature on this condition, therefore, the available research can often be limited in providing thorough information on the syndrome. Therefore, some aspects of the illness are not adequately researched due to the lack of case reports. Authors have established a focus research ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25812466 | 509,006 |
1,264,031 | Plastics have been the main material used in single use devices since the 1960s, where raw materials, such as glass, rubber, metal and woven textiles were in practice before. The modern production of poly-vinyls, polycarbonates and polystyrenes have substituted these previously used materials and have dominated the dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60888520 | 1,263,343 |
1,418,744 | "Umbelopsis isabellina", which used to be mis-classified as "Mortierella isabellina", produces γ-linolenic acid, an important poly-unsaturated fatty acid. It was re-classified as belonging to the genus "Umbelopsis" in part based on its fatty acid profile, in addition to classical ribosomal DNA sequencing. Various poly-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7459755 | 1,417,945 |
76,739 | Atropine, a tropane alkaloid, is an enantiomeric mixture of "d"-hyoscyamine and "l"-hyoscyamine, with most of its physiological effects due to "l"-hyoscyamine. Its pharmacological effects are due to binding to muscarinic acetylcholine receptors. It is an antimuscarinic agent. Significant levels are achieved in the CNS ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145159 | 76,710 |
920,562 | A first series of two prototypes of the Type 90 were developed, both armed with a Japanese 120 mm smoothbore gun (produced by Japan Steel Works Limited) firing Japanese ammunition (produced by Daikin Industries Limited). The first prototype (TK-X-0001) was completed by 1982, and underwent testing shortly after. Followi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=676090 | 920,076 |
197,377 | Theories of computer-mediated communication or CMC emerged as a direct response to the rapid emergence of novel mediating communication technologies in the form of computers. CMC scholars inquire as to what may be lost and what may be gained when we shift many of our formerly unmediated and entrained practices (that is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=248810 | 197,276 |
702,454 | Molecular diagnostics uses "in vitro" biological assays such as PCR-ELISA or Fluorescence in situ hybridization. The assay detects a molecule, often in low concentrations, that is a marker of disease or risk in a sample taken from a patient. Preservation of the sample before analysis is critical. Manual handling should... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40439442 | 702,086 |
985,240 | In 2009, another study about the effects of consumer skepticism on online shopping was conducted by Sher and Lee. Data on young customers' attitudes about a product were acquired through an online experiment with 278 college students, and two findings emerged after analysis. First, highly skeptical consumers tend to st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2176826 | 984,726 |
697,913 | Mount Union's football is currently led by head coach Geoff Dartt. Mount Union has won a record 13 Division III national championships—all since 1993. Mount Union holds the all-division record for consecutive victories at 55 from 2000 to 2003, which ended with their loss to St. John's University (Collegeville, MN) in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=648534 | 697,549 |
386,832 | According to Lt. Col. Joe Hitt and the US Marine Corps's program manager "The vision for LS3 is to combine the capabilities of a pack mule with the intelligence of a trained animal". LS3 is capable of reacting to visual or oral commands and uses an on board GPS system, along with computer vision (LIDAR and IR), to guid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12087254 | 386,637 |
2,010,598 | It was the combination of a receptive natural philosophy and science in Germany towards the end of the 1700s and the deep crisis in German medicine that provided fertile ground for the reception and dissemination of Brown's excitation theory. Röschlaub's main work on the Brunonian system, the "Untersuchungen", setting ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2283118 | 2,009,445 |
1,537,014 | Although the sequence length of U2 snRNAs can vary by up to an order of magnitude across all eukaryotic organisms, all U2 snRNAs contain many phylogenetically constant regions particularly within the first 80 nucleotides downstream of the 5´ end where 85% of the positions are conserved. Moreover, several secondary stru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11422377 | 1,536,143 |
1,560,889 | Laser engineered net shaping (LENS) is an additive manufacturing technique for rapidly fabricating, enhancing and repairing metal components directly from CAD data. The processes use a high power solid state laser focused onto a metal substrate to create a ~1 mm diameter melt pool. Metal powder is then injected into th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4635657 | 1,560,003 |
1,007,038 | The cavity magnetron was perhaps the single most important invention in the history of radar. In the Tizard Mission during September 1940, it was given free to the U.S., along with other inventions, such as jet technology, in exchange for American R&D and production facilities; the British urgently needed to produce th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27693223 | 1,006,519 |
1,033,389 | One of Col. Bernelle's first actions as commander of the Legion was to reorganize the Foreign Legion, abolishing the previous system of battalions organized around the nationality of the enlisted men. The extant battalions of the Foreign Legion at the time were replaced with five newly consolidated battalions composed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8868718 | 1,032,853 |
1,244,240 | Lithoautotrophs participate in many geological processes, such as the weathering of parent material (bedrock) to form soil, as well as biogeochemical cycling of sulfur, potassium, and other elements. The existence of undiscovered strains of microbial lithoautotrophs is theorized based on some of these cycles, as they a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5353951 | 1,243,567 |
1,159,020 | The different families of stretch-activated ion channels are responsible for different functions around the body. The DEG/ENaC family consists of two subgroups: the ENaC subfamily regulates Na+ reabsorption in kidney and lung epithelia; the ASIC subfamily is involved in fear conditioning, memory formation, and pain sen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22585641 | 1,158,406 |
438,298 | Some of the results of algorithmic information theory, such as Chaitin's incompleteness theorem, appear to challenge common mathematical and philosophical intuitions. Most notable among these is the construction of Chaitin's constant Ω, a real number that expresses the probability that a self-delimiting universal Turin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2829647 | 438,084 |
27,499 | Hypermobile EDS (hEDS, formerly categorized as type 3) is mainly characterized by hypermobility that affects both large and small joints. It may lead to frequent joint subluxations (partial dislocations) and dislocations. In general, people with this variant have skin that is soft, smooth, and velvety and bruises easil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=156668 | 27,489 |
403,350 | The British used air power to great effect in various colonial hotspots in the Middle East and North Africa during the immediate postwar period. The newly formed Royal Air force (RAF) contributed to the defeat of the Afghan military during the Third Anglo-Afghan War by harassing Afghani troops and breaking up their for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=600792 | 403,150 |
314,912 | UVM's Lane Performing Arts Series and Music Department sponsor instrumental and choral performances featuring national and international performers throughout the year. The Royall Tyler Theatre presents theater productions on its mainstage, often featuring Equity actors along with student talent. In addition to the Dep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=287800 | 314,743 |
57,650 | Spending most of his life as an academic with positions at various universities, Schrödinger along with Paul Dirac won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 for his work on quantum mechanics, the same year he left Germany due to his opposition to Nazism. In his personal life, he lived with both his wife and his mistress w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9942 | 57,626 |
9,081 | The "NASA X-57 Maxwell" is an experimental aircraft being developed by NASA to demonstrate the technologies required to deliver a highly efficient all-electric aircraft. The primary goal of the program is to develop and deliver all-electric technology solutions that can also achieve airworthiness certification with reg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426568 | 9,077 |
237,923 | The McMaster Nuclear Reactor (MNR) has been the largest university reactor in the Commonwealth since it began operation and is the second largest research reactor in North America. It is a "pool-type" reactor with a core of enriched uranium fuel moderated and cooled by distilled water. While the MNR's primary purpose i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=342555 | 237,804 |
1,972,483 | Communication strategies are used in language with both adults and children in situations with different degrees of formality. Two common strategies are connecting-explaining and chaining. Chaining is a technique to connect texts such as a sign, a print, a written word, or a fingerspelled word. Explaining by examples i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37797396 | 1,971,349 |
766,202 | A montage sequence consists of a series of short shots that are edited into a sequence to condense narrative. It is usually used to advance the story as a whole (often to suggest the passage of time), rather than to create symbolic meaning. In many cases, a song plays in the background to enhance the mood or reinforce ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10775 | 765,792 |
852,227 | Pinhole leaks with pitting initiating on the exterior surface of the pipe can occur if copper piping is improperly grounded or bonded. The phenomenon is known technically as "stray current corrosion" or "electrolytic pitting". Pin-holing due to poor grounding or poor bonding occurs typically in homes where the original... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30421363 | 851,773 |
1,430,486 | Abandoned airfields can yield much information of historic information about aviation and related industries. From civilian airfields to military airfields, aviation archaeologists can find, uncover, and recover a variety of artifacts, just to name a few: aircraft parts with serial numbers, equipment parts, asphalt or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2984169 | 1,429,682 |
760,064 | Simple rows or clusters of sharpened sticks (also known as punji sticks), and the use of small caltrops have been a feature of anti-infantry warfare for centuries. They are known to have been in use since Roman times and may have been used earlier: the concept was familiar to the 4th century BC Greeks, who used rocks, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146808 | 759,658 |
928,343 | The demand for water for irrigation is projected to rise in a warmer climate, bringing increased competition between agriculture—already the largest consumer of water resources in semi-arid regions—and urban as well as industrial users. Falling water tables and the resulting increase in the energy needed to pump water ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4607152 | 927,855 |
1,426,137 | It is important for doctors to make meaningful connections and relationships with their patients, instead of simply having interactions with them, which often occurs in a system that relies heavily on specialist care. For this reason, behavioral medicine emphasizes honest and clear communication between the doctor and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3127042 | 1,425,335 |
11,912 | As a practical approach, not all elements on the Internet of things run in a global, public space. Subsystems are often implemented to mitigate the risks of privacy, control and reliability. For example, domestic robotics (domotics) running inside a smart home might only share data within and be available via a local n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12057519 | 11,907 |
1,324,300 | Two 6.5-hour spacewalks were conducted by three astronauts to test hardware and tools to be used in the assembly of the International Space Station starting in late 1998. EVA-1 on flight day five consisted of Crewmembers Leroy Chiao (EV1) and Dan Barry (EV2). After taking a few minutes to acclimate themselves in the pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=526878 | 1,323,574 |
255,635 | In 1978, he created a Task Force on the formulation of a national action program on science and technology to assess policies and programs of science and technology. (Executive Order No. 512, s. 1978) In his Fourteenth State of the Nation Address on July 23, 1979, he said that the government invested funds and time in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9629399 | 255,501 |
1,902,892 | Following Hoag's retirement in 1970, former UGA professor John H. Owen became the president of North Georgia College. The ambitious building achievements of the previous Rogers and Hoag administrations allowed Owen to focus on issues other than a need to expand facilities. Upon assuming the presidency, Owen made increa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38647111 | 1,901,800 |
364,818 | However, by 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the Cold War came to an end. Project SSN20 was promptly cancelled and a new set of design studies were started, this time, with "cost control" as a key objective. The "Trafalgar" class had been an evolved derivative of the preceding "Swiftsure" class, and in order to redu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186252 | 364,627 |
504,683 | Nitrogen isotopes indicate the trophic level position of organisms (reflective of the time the tissue samples were taken). There is a larger enrichment component with δN because its retention is higher than that of N. This can be seen by analyzing the waste of organisms. Cattle urine has shown that there is a depletion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174238 | 504,421 |
1,217,920 | Because the bones of the skull block most of the transmission of ultrasound, regions with thinner walls (called insonation windows), which offer the least distortion to the sound waves, must be used for analyzing. For this reason, recording is performed in the temporal region above the cheekbone/zygomatic arch, through... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3147406 | 1,217,267 |
734,792 | Double gloving is the practice of wearing two layers of medical gloves to reduce the danger of infection from glove failure or penetration of the gloves by sharp objects during medical procedures. Surgeons double glove when operating on individuals bearing infectious agents such as HIV and hepatitis, and to better prot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1009912 | 734,405 |
762,562 | With methodology from ANT, feminist STS theorists built upon SCOT's theory of co-construction to explore the relationship between gender and technology, proposing one cannot exist separately from the other. This approach suggests the material and social are not separate, reality being produced through interactions and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=411590 | 762,154 |
1,959,512 | The Azores consists of an extensive marine and terrestrial system of hundreds of active submarine mounts and volcanoes that extend from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The islands of the Azores are the visible representation of the complex ridge of undersea mountains that extend from Iceland to Antarctic. Below the waters of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25735077 | 1,958,385 |
359,922 | Potemkin returned to court in January 1774 expecting to walk into Catherine's arms. The political situation, however, had become complex. Yemelyan Pugachev had just arisen as a pretender to the throne, and commanded a rebel army thirty thousand strong. In addition, Catherine's son Paul turned eighteen and began to gain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=475101 | 359,735 |
1,654,004 | Hutchinson has received various honors, including the Timoshenko Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers awarded in 2002. In 2015 the science society, Sigma Xi, awarded Hutchinson the Ferst Award in recognition of his contributions to mentoring students. Many of his former Ph.D. students were present at a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4605312 | 1,653,072 |
371,057 | The Kh-101 has been used extensively in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. US Department of Defense sources said that they experienced a not-insignificant failure rate: "either they're failing to launch, or they're failing to hit the target, or they're failing to explode on contact.". "Ukraine at War: Paving the Roa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1109032 | 370,863 |
1,051,975 | There is disagreement over the origin of the tank. While many sources claim it is of Chinese manufacture, it may be a single Vietnamese improvised vehicle. It was crudely made, with basic materials which is common of improvised fighting vehicles, and little information on the vehicle exists in Chinese military archives... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11405333 | 1,051,429 |
482,717 | He was promoted to colonel on 7 July 1946, and left the Army on 31 August. After studying at Ohio State University he joined the Foreign Service in 1947. He served as an executive officer in the Department of the Army in 1950-54, acting as joint political adviser to the commanding general United Nations forces and UN a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4757920 | 482,473 |
1,131,870 | While Britain enabled free capital flow from old to new world, the success of the American enterprise after the American Revolution is a good example of the role of institutional and legal frameworks for facilitating a continued flow of capital. The American Constitution’s commitment to private property rights, rights ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17975655 | 1,131,279 |
1,884,547 | In the absence of CPG, control by brain as it happens in complete spinal cord injury, sensory feedback is very important in generating rhythmic locomotion. Firstly, locomotor movements can be initiated or blocked by some proprioceptive afferent inputs. Other work confirmed the importance of hip afferents for locomotor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27083516 | 1,883,466 |
1,924,846 | The annual Observer's Handbook (2021: ) can be found in observatory control rooms and astronomers' reference shelves worldwide. Published in the autumn of the year, the 352-page Handbook contains detailed information on astronomical events in the upcoming year and is an in-depth reference of significant astronomical da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4107063 | 1,923,742 |
1,363,642 | The regular appearance of rock layers suggests that regular changes in climate may be the root cause. Regular changes in climate may be due to variations of a planet's tilt (called obliquity). The tilt of the Earth's axis changes by only a little more than 2 degrees since the Moon is relatively large. In contrast Mars'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6206796 | 1,362,889 |
1,507,917 | The consolidation of the Iranian basement by metamorphism, partial granitization and partly by intense folding took place in the Late Precambrian. This event has been attributed to the 'Baikalian' or Pan–African orogeny by various authors. Isotopic data of Iranian basement rocks give ages between 600 and 900 Ma. A simi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44255536 | 1,507,070 |
864,947 | "Opposing Force" is set in the same location and timeframe as that of "Half-Life", taking place at a remote New Mexico laboratory called the Black Mesa Research Facility. In "Half-Life", the player takes on the role of Gordon Freeman, a scientist involved in an accident that opens an inter-dimensional portal to the bor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=488916 | 864,487 |
302,585 | The first suggestion for a larger Infantry Tank was made in 1936, with specification A12. The design was produced by the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, and Vulcan Foundry was selected as the manufacturer. A12 used a number of design elements of the A7, a medium tank that was built in limited numbers in the early 1930s whose ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=206191 | 302,424 |
1,080,062 | According to the Sunday Times article "Climate change study was 'misused'", the Stern report 'misused' disaster analysts research by Robert Muir-Wood, head of research at Risk Management Solutions, a US-based consultancy. The Stern report, citing Muir-Wood, said: "New analysis based on insurance industry data has shown... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7694290 | 1,079,507 |
400,155 | As of 2019, standalone varicella vaccines are available in all 27 European Union member countries, and 16 countries also offer a combined measles, mumps, rubella and varicella vaccine (MMRV). Twelve European countries (Austria, Andorra, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Luxembour... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8649736 | 399,956 |
1,154,911 | FDCA is a very stable compound. Its physical properties, such as insolubility in most of common solvents and a very high melting point (it melts at 342 °C) seem to indicate intermolecular hydrogen bonding. Despite its chemical stability, FDCA undergoes reactions typical for carboxylic acids, such as halogen substitutio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20480829 | 1,154,301 |
122,544 | Each launch system carries three missiles on rails. This allows a single aircraft to carry large numbers of missiles; for example, a Typhoon fighter could carry up to six launch systems, which gives a maximum payload of eighteen Brimstone missiles, in addition to a useful air-to-air payload. The missile was carried by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780295 | 122,495 |
928,355 | An extensive research literature assesses options for responses to global warming. Much of this literature addresses the potential economic costs associated with different strategies, and studies generally focus on adaptation in developing countries or within a sector. This means that for many specific adaptation optio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4607152 | 927,867 |
172,532 | In the 19th century, Henry Darcy developed what is now known as Darcy's Law, describing the flow of fluids in a porous media. Joseph Boussinesq (a mathematician and physicist) developed theories of stress distribution in elastic solids that proved useful for estimating stresses at depth in the ground; William Rankine, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12306 | 172,441 |
1,552,037 | The RAF decided that UK-built aircraft would be fitted with their Mk. III, while any US aircraft in British service would use US sets. Initially, they planned on using the Consolidated B-24 Liberator, which had the range to operate over the Mid-Atlantic Gap, and an example of this aircraft with the DMS-1000 was sent to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60172896 | 1,551,156 |
363,550 | Serious muscle problems such as rhabdomyolysis (destruction of muscle cells) and statin-associated autoimmune myopathy occur in less than 0.1% of treated people. Rhabdomyolysis can in turn result in life-threatening kidney injury. The risk of statin-induced rhabdomyolysis increases with older age, use of interacting me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=178197 | 363,360 |
1,888,674 | John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, the original designers of BASIC and members of the ANSI group, were critical of the process. In a 1982 article, Kurtz wrote about how even seemingly small issues had turned into major controversies. He used the example of the statement. When arrays were first added to BASIC, they sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70767363 | 1,887,591 |
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