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859,239 | The deficiencies in modes A and C were recognised quite early in the use of SSR and in 1967 Ullyatt published a paper and in 1969 an expanded paper, which proposed improvements to SSR to address the problems. The essence of the proposals was new interrogation and reply formats. Aircraft identity and altitude were to be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2056508 | 858,781 |
1,277,219 | In number theory, Vinogradov's theorem is a result which implies that any sufficiently large odd integer can be written as a sum of three prime numbers. It is a weaker form of Goldbach's weak conjecture, which would imply the existence of such a representation for all odd integers greater than five. It is named after I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4633030 | 1,276,526 |
874,889 | Aeronautical Engineering deals with aircraft design while Aerospace Engineering is a more modern term that expands the reach envelope of the discipline by including spacecraft design. Its origins can be traced back to the aviation pioneers around the turn of the 20th century although the work of Sir George Cayley has r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20734173 | 874,427 |
158,608 | Traditional marketing systems, whether in China or the rest of Asia, presently provide little motivation or incentive for individual farmers to make improvements to either quality or safety as their produce tends to get grouped together with standard products as it progresses through the marketing channel. Direct linka... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8053588 | 158,526 |
358,201 | The basement of Uraniborg included an alchemical laboratory with 16 furnaces for conducting distillations and other chemical experiments. Unusually for the time, Tycho established Uraniborg as a research centre, where almost 100 students and artisans worked from 1576 to 1597. Uraniborg also contained a printing press a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30027 | 358,015 |
668,445 | The largest subspecies are the Kodiak bear ("U. a. middendorffi") and the questionably-distinct peninsular giant bear or coastal brown bear ("U. a. gyas"). Also the extinct California grizzly bear ("U. a. californicus") was rather large. Once mature, the typical female Kodiak bear can range in body mass from and from s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62384924 | 668,096 |
1,478,117 | The real beginning of cognitive science of religion can be dated to the 1990s. During that decade a large number of highly influential books and articles were published which helped to lay the foundations of cognitive science of religion. These included "Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture" and "Bring... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14085792 | 1,477,284 |
2,205,858 | Composting is the process of taking organic solid waste, like food, paper and landscaping waste and allowing it to be broken down by microorganisms, creating a nutrient rich fertilizer to be used in food production or in landscaping. Once organic waste is placed in a pile, millions of microorganisms come from the soil ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49432636 | 2,204,601 |
310,554 | At the University of Manchester, a team under the leadership of Tom Kilburn designed and built a machine using the newly developed transistors instead of valves. Initially the only devices available were germanium point-contact transistors, less reliable than the valves they replaced but which consumed far less power. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13636 | 310,386 |
199,715 | The requirements were eventually made official in November 1956 with General Operational Requirement 339 (GOR.339), which was issued to various aircraft manufacturers in March 1957. This requirement was exceptionally ambitious for the technology of the day, requiring a supersonic all-weather aircraft that could deliver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=225702 | 199,612 |
1,405,639 | Like other sea urchins, "Heterocentrotus mammillatus" periodically develops gametes to be released into the water for fertilization and undergoes a rest period in order to resume the cycle again. However, the timing and duration of these cycles varies from urchin to urchin. "H. mammillatus" from a reef near where the G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24531090 | 1,404,849 |
417,291 | The gravity turn trajectory is most commonly used during early ascent. The guidance program is a precalculated lookup table of pitch vs time. Control is done with engine gimballing and/or aerodynamic control surfaces. The pitch program maintains a zero angle of attack (the definition of a gravity turn) until the vacuum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12718563 | 417,088 |
101,086 | In "Warframe", players control members of the Tenno, a race of ancient warriors who have awoken from centuries of suspended animation far into Earth's future to find themselves at war in the planetary system with different factions. The Tenno use their powered Warframes along with a variety of weapons and abilities to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38333096 | 101,041 |
1,447,051 | The problem was first implied in Immanuel Kant's discussion of a hand isolated in space, which would have no meaning as left or right by itself; Gardner posits that Kant would today explain his problem using the reversibility of objects through a higher dimension. A three-dimensional hand can be reversed in a mirror or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12987835 | 1,446,235 |
1,734,529 | Because many polymers are composed of primarily of hydrocarbon chains with at most slightly polar functional groups, they tend to have low surface energies and thus adsorb rather poorly. While this can be advantageous for some applications, modification of polymer surfaces is crucial for many other applications in whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32002781 | 1,733,552 |
544,585 | In 1968, Father James Gower, a Catholic priest and peace activist, and his former football teammate from Bar Harbor High School, businessman Les Brewer, conceived the idea for the College of the Atlantic. Brewer and Gower founded the school in 1969, when the school of human ecology was granted temporary approval on Jun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=419657 | 544,303 |
457,730 | The General Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB) is an IEEE-488 (a standard created by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) standard parallel interface used for attaching sensors and programmable instruments to a computer. GPIB is a digital 8-bit parallel communications interface capable of achieving data tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1430450 | 457,507 |
598,547 | The General Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB) is an IEEE-488 (a standard created by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) standard parallel interface used for attaching sensors and programmable instruments to a computer. GPIB is a digital 8-bit parallel communications interface capable of achieving data tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=273959 | 598,242 |
1,487,054 | Patrick Lucey McGeer (June 29, 1927 – August 29, 2022) was a Canadian physician, professor and medical researcher. He was regarded as a leading authority on the causes and prevention of Alzheimer's disease and was the principal author of the inflammatory hypothesis of the disease, which holds that Alzheimer's is an inf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11678956 | 1,486,216 |
421,971 | Rainer Weiss was born in Berlin, Germany, the son of Gertrude Loesner and Frederick A. Weiss. His father, a physician, neurologist, and psychoanalyst, was forced out of Germany by Nazis because he was Jewish and an active member of the Communist Party. His mother, an actress, was Christian. His aunt was the sociologist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=318878 | 421,765 |
972,078 | The M18 was long and high, held in a plastic case with three folding spike legs on the bottom. An electrical blasting cap for triggering the mine was inserted through a small hole in the side. Internally the mine consisted of a layer of of C-3 explosive (the forerunner of C-4 explosive) in front of which was laid an ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37352 | 971,568 |
1,357,729 | During OAT changes may be made to environmental parameters which the application uses to run smoothly. For example, with Microsoft Windows applications with a mixed or hybrid architecture, this may include: Windows services, configuration files, web services, XML files, COM+ components, web services, IIS, stored proced... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29343018 | 1,356,979 |
889,391 | After its discovery by Lewis Stadler at the University of Missouri, irradiation of seed and plant germplasm has resulted in creating many widely-grown cultivars of food crops worldwide. The process, which consists of striking plant seeds or germplasm with radiation in the form of X-rays, UV waves, heavy-ion beams, or g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1388785 | 888,922 |
90,012 | He then set about calculating the entire orbit of Mars, using the geometrical rate law and assuming an egg-shaped ovoid orbit. After approximately 40 failed attempts, in late 1604 he at last hit upon the idea of an ellipse, which he had previously assumed to be too simple a solution for earlier astronomers to have over... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15736 | 89,972 |
1,447,381 | The two avalanche pulser described below are both base triggered and have two outputs. Since the device used is an NPN transistor, formula_60 is a positive going output while formula_61 is a negative going output: using a PNP transistor reverses the polarities of outputs. The description of their simplified versions, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2773192 | 1,446,565 |
26,131 | The European Electronic Component Manufacturers Association (EECA) uses a numbering scheme that was inherited from Pro Electron when it merged with EECA in 1983. This scheme begins with two letters: the first gives the semiconductor type (A for germanium, B for silicon, and C for materials like GaAs); the second letter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30011 | 26,122 |
1,841,527 | Upper air observing systems are normally subject to latency based on the communication networks used and quality assurance protocol. TAMDAR observations are typically received, processed, quality controlled, and available for distribution or model assimilation in less than one minute from the sampling time. The sensor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7689095 | 1,840,475 |
1,112,799 | Plasma-assisted ferritic nitrocarburizing is also known as ion nitriding, plasma ion nitriding or glow-discharge nitriding. The process works to achieve the same result as the salt bath and gaseous process, except the reactivity of the media is not due to the temperature but to the gas ionized state. In this technique ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24381424 | 1,112,233 |
818,967 | Fingerprint recovery from the surface of firearms is done with cyanoacrylate (more commonly known as superglue) fuming. Firearms are placed in a specially designed fume hood designed to evenly distribute fumes instead of removing them. Liquid superglue is placed in a container and heated until it is in a gaseous state.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50103453 | 818,527 |
1,633,530 | The best choice for this algorithm (according to its theoretical analysis, if not in practice) is the sorting network of . This can be interpreted as a PRAM algorithm in which the number formula_30 of processors is proportional to the input length formula_40, and the number of parallel steps is logarithmic. Thus, simul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50716864 | 1,632,607 |
1,598,376 | Throughout high school, the percentage of males interested in STEM careers changed from 39.5 to 39.7, effectively staying constant. Contrastingly, the percentage of females interested changed from 15.7 to 12.7. Not only are the initial interest levels over twice as low for females, they also drop by nearly 20%. This da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53734826 | 1,597,477 |
1,962,185 | Junior forward and team co-captain Brandon Bowman started all 32 games – as he would all 127 games of his collegiate career. The Princeton offense suited him, and his scoring improved from his first two years with the team. Over the first four games of the season, he averaged 22 points, and he went on to lead the team ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41096183 | 1,961,057 |
716,904 | A geneticist is a biologist or physician who studies genetics, the science of genes, heredity, and variation of organisms. A geneticist can be employed as a scientist or a lecturer. Geneticists may perform general research on genetic processes or develop genetic technologies to aid in the pharmaceutical or and agricult... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30860403 | 716,527 |
1,496,545 | Jain is regarded as a pioneer in the area of tumor microenvironment and widely recognized for his seminal discoveries in tumor biology, drug delivery, in vivo imaging, bioengineering, and bench-to-bedside translation. These include uncovering the barriers to the delivery and efficacy of molecular and nano-medicines in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8976454 | 1,495,702 |
1,779,180 | By late 1939 it was realized that the rotation of the beam on the radar display could be accomplished using electronics. In December 1939, G.W.A Dummer began development of such a system, and in June 1940 a modified CHL radar was motorized to continually spin in bearing, and connected to one of these new displays. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43239543 | 1,778,178 |
1,187,057 | California, though, faces significant obstacles that preclude it from mounting the same kind of eradication effort. For one thing, the organism was too well established in forests in the Santa Cruz and San Francisco Bay areas by the time the cause of sudden oak death was discovered to enable any eradication effort to s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=589513 | 1,186,426 |
91,006 | In the 1950s, he began to trace individual behaviors like aggression and sexual arousal to their physiological sources. He analyzed the brain's center of emotions, the limbic system, and described an area that includes structures called the hippocampus and amygdala. Developing observations made by Papez, he determined ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=200405 | 90,966 |
978,613 | On June 3, 1953, Congress officially credited Cartwright with inventing the modern game of baseball. He was already a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 1938 for various other contributions to baseball. However, the role of Cartwright himself in the game's invention has been disputed. Accordin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=602676 | 978,102 |
966,591 | Louis requested and was given permission to build and move into a hut, Kikuyu style, at the end of the garden. It was home to his personal collection of natural objects, such as birds' eggs and skulls. All the children developed a keen interest in and appreciation of the pristine natural surroundings in which they foun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17965 | 966,081 |
760,919 | The first XP-51B flew on 30 November 1942. Flight tests confirmed the potential of the new fighter, with the service ceiling being raised by , with the top speed improving by at . American production was started in early 1943 with the P-51B (NA-102) being manufactured at Inglewood, California, and the P-51C (NA-103) at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18854620 | 760,513 |
846,299 | By December 1941, the M2A1, M2A2 and M2A3 were used for training only. The majority of M2A4s, which went to the US Army, were also used only for training between 1940 and 1942. The US Marine Corps ordered M3 Stuart tanks to outfit its armored units in 1940, but as the new tank was not yet in production, it received 36 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2585953 | 845,849 |
604,671 | Tau Beta Pi members gain access to a variety of benefits for life after initiation, including access to applying for $2000 scholarships for rising seniors (about 50% acceptance rate) and $10,000 fellowships for graduate students (about 10% acceptance rate), a private LinkedIn group of alumni, the opportunity to attend ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=554021 | 604,361 |
807,362 | Both TEA and TED rely on systems theory, a perspective that conceptualizes society in terms of events and occurrences resulting from investigating system operations. Systems theory assumes that complex ideas can be studied as systems with common designs and properties which can be further explained using systems method... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=699052 | 806,932 |
42,671 | Because supernovae are relatively rare events within a galaxy, occurring about three times a century in the Milky Way, obtaining a good sample of supernovae to study requires regular monitoring of many galaxies. Today, amateur and professional astronomers are finding several hundred every year, some when near maximum b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27680 | 42,656 |
1,600,584 | Xonotlite is an ino-silicate with double dreier chains, of which several polytypes are known. The known polytypes are Ma2bc, Ma2b2c and M2a2bc. It is a mineral related to the tobermorite group. It can be colorless, gray, light gray, lemon white, or pink. It is transparent with a vitreous to silky luster. It leaves a wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3509776 | 1,599,683 |
1,892,814 | On the night of 31 May - 1 June 1916 "Defender" took an active part in the Battle of Jutland, with the First Destroyer Flotilla operating in support of Beatty's battlecruiser force. At about 18:30 she was struck in the forward boiler room by a single 12 inch (305 mm) shell, killing one man and wounding two. Although th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14811788 | 1,891,731 |
538,312 | The yaw damper is typically disengaged at ground level and turned on shortly after takeoff; an active yaw damper during the takeoff run could potentially mask serious issues such as engine failure. Equally, the system is commonly disengaged prior to landing, as it could inhibit the available control authority to the pi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5572615 | 538,033 |
783,277 | As the host country, Turkey, led by coach Bogdan Tanjević, automatically qualified for the 2010 FIBA World Cup. Turkey topped their group, winning all of their games against the Ivory Coast, Russia, Greece, Puerto Rico and China. In the knockout stages Turkey managed to defeat France, Slovenia and Serbia in a thrilling... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3147234 | 782,858 |
1,055,593 | The coated superconductor tapes are known as second generation superconductor wires. These wires are in a form of a metal tape of about 10 mm width and about 100 micrometer thickness, coated with superconductor materials such as YBCO. A few years after the discovery of High-temperature superconductivity materials such ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24173395 | 1,055,045 |
2,043,088 | The college has a presence at two campuses: in the Parker Building on the Fort Lauderdale/Davie Campus, and the Oceanographic Center, located on a site on the ocean side of Port Everglades, adjacent to the port's entrance. The center has a boat basin and affords immediate access to the Gulf Stream, the Florida Straits,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9258706 | 2,041,908 |
99,279 | A logical scheme is to produce resistors in a range of values which increase in a geometric progression, so that each value is greater than its predecessor by a fixed multiplier or percentage, chosen to match the tolerance of the range. For example, for a tolerance of ±20% it makes sense to have each resistor about 1.5... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25754 | 99,236 |
495,646 | Complete trisomy 8 is usually an early lethal condition, whereas trisomy 8 mosaicism is less severe and individuals with a low proportion of affected cells may exhibit a comparatively mild range of physical abnormalities and developmental delay. Individuals with trisomy 8 mosaicism are more likely to survive into child... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2631856 | 495,390 |
682,170 | During April 2016, the first example of the Class, 88 001, was dispatched to the Velim Test Centre in the Czech Republic, which it was subject to a series of proving trials. The vehicle approvals process included the hauling of a 1,500-tonne train, along with repetitive tests under differing conditions to judge perform... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14042699 | 681,814 |
1,204,444 | The Baltimore City College football program began in the mid-1870s, and has won more than 20 MSA A-Conference and MPSSAA championships in its history. The Knights primarily competed against are colleges and universities throughout the 1880s and 1890s because few secondary schools existed at the time. The program began ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=713949 | 1,203,799 |
1,779,178 | On 24 November 1939, Hanbury Brown wrote a memo on "Suggestions for Fighter Control by RDF" calling for a new type of radar that would directly display both the target aircraft and the intercepting fighter, allowing ground controllers to directly control the fighter without need for interpretation. The solution was to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43239543 | 1,778,176 |
1,986,451 | Between 2004 and 2007, however, the future of studies in political economy at the university again became more uncertain. June Sinclair, a recently appointed Pro-Vice Chancellor, with responsibilities for both the Faculty of Economics and Business and for the Faculty of Arts, sought to shift the Discipline of Governmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32100260 | 1,985,309 |
1,783,324 | Barltrop and Schofield first demonstrated the use of a benzyl-based PPG, structural variations have focused on substitution to the benzene ring, as well as extension of the aromatic core. For example, insertion of a m,m’-dimethoxy substituent was shown to increase the chemical yield ~75% due to what has been termed the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53089397 | 1,782,320 |
800,513 | However, persistent, systematic, large and non-random disturbance caused by the niche-constructing behavior of human beings, including habitat conversion and land development, has pushed many of the Earth's ecosystems to the extent of their resilience thresholds. Three planetary thresholds have already been crossed, in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155899 | 800,087 |
649,850 | On spinet organs, the keyboards are typically at least an octave shorter than is normal for organs, with the upper manual (typically 44 notes, F3–C7 in scientific pitch notation) omitting the bass, and the lower manual (typically F2–C6) omitting the treble. The manuals are usually offset, inviting but not requiring the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=996250 | 649,509 |
1,762,420 | His research interests include the management of radical innovation, digital culture, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing and organizational learning. JSB is also the namesake of John Seely Brown Symposium on Technology and Society, held at the University of Michigan School of Information. The first JSB symposiu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4000292 | 1,761,427 |
1,687,575 | The 'doctrine of specific nervous energies' states that particular nervous pathway activation causes various sensory modalities. Sensory receptor classification with respect to function suggest that different sensory modalities are governed by separate receptor classes. Transient receptor potential channels (TRP channe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20519370 | 1,686,629 |
749,975 | The Australian Submarine Corporation construction facility was established on previously undeveloped land on the bank of the Port River, at Osborne, South Australia. Work on the site began on 29 June 1987, and it was opened in November 1989. South Australia was selected as the site of the construction facility based on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=810758 | 749,577 |
1,286,567 | Solid-state dewetting of the metal thin films describe the transformation of a thin film into an energetically favoured set of droplets or particles at temperatures well below the melting point. The driving force for dewetting is the minimization of the total energy of the free surfaces of the film and substrate as wel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1789624 | 1,285,866 |
433,207 | A digital command control system was developed (under contract by Lenz Elektronik GmbH of Germany) in the 1980s for two German model railway manufacturers, Märklin and Arnold. The first digital decoders that Lenz produced appeared on the market early 1989 for Arnold (N) and mid 1990 for Märklin (Z, H0 and 1; Digital=).... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=361804 | 432,994 |
142,521 | An array of improvements make the MKER's safety comparable to Western Generation III reactors: improved quality of parts, advanced computer controls, comprehensive passive emergency core cooling system, and very strong containment structure, along with a negative void coefficient and a fast-acting rapid shutdown system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162498 | 142,463 |
710,609 | The oral bioavailability of MGA is approximately 100%. After a single low oral dose of 4 mg MGA, peak serum concentrations of MGA were about 7 ng/dL (18 nmol/L) and occurred after 3 hours. Following a single high oral dose of 160 mg micronized MGA in men, peak circulating levels of MGA were 125 ng/mL (325 nmol/L) and o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6657950 | 710,238 |
969,013 | Traditionally, tribology research in the transport industry focused on reliability, ensuring the safe, continuous operation of machine components. Nowadays, due to an increased focus on energy consumption, efficiency has become increasingly important and thus lubricants have become progressively more complex and sophis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=489228 | 968,503 |
699,286 | FPV (first person view) flying means that pilots only see what the drone sees. This is accomplished by live streaming footage from a camera mounted on the nose of the drone. The image is transmitted as analog video (typically 2.4 GHz or 5.8 GHz frequency, 1.3 GHz for distant transmission) to goggles or monitor worn by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47096759 | 698,922 |
860,591 | The most common production technique is the Czochralski method, which dips a precisely oriented rod-mounted seed crystal into the molten silicon. The rod is then slowly pulled upwards and rotated simultaneously, allowing the pulled material to solidify into a monocrystalline cylindrical ingot up to 2 meters in length a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18526033 | 860,133 |
748,500 | Other properties, proposed by other reformers, used as replacements for the definition of parallel lines, did not fare much better. The main difficulty, as pointed out by Dodgson, was that to use them in this way required additional axioms to be added to the system. The equidistant line definition of Posidonius, expoun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=664497 | 748,102 |
455,408 | The settlement had five architectural levels. The excavated architectural remains were of long rectangular houses containing two to three parallel flights of rooms, interpreted as mezzanines. These are adjacent to a similarly rectangular ante-structure, subdivided by wall projections, which should be seen as a resident... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=517387 | 455,186 |
1,849,162 | Fiji has shown substantial growth in access to Internet and mobile phone services. This trend has been supported by its geographical location, service culture, pro-business policies, English-speaking population and well-connected e-society. Relative to many other South Pacific Islands, Fiji has a fairly reliable and ef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53513295 | 1,848,104 |
583,101 | RTLinux provides the ability to run special real-time tasks and interrupt handlers on the same machine as standard Linux. These tasks and handlers execute when they need to execute no matter what Linux is doing. The worst case time between the moment a hardware interrupt is detected by the processor and the moment an i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=419232 | 582,802 |
1,147,274 | In 1966, Robert W. Bower realized that if the gate electrode was defined first, it would be possible not only to minimize the parasitic capacitances between gate and source and drain, but it would also make them insensitive to misalignment. He proposed a method in which the aluminum gate electrode itself was used as a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7876376 | 1,146,669 |
916,433 | Energy conservation is broader than energy efficiency in including active efforts to decrease energy consumption, for example through behaviour change, in addition to using energy more efficiently. Examples of conservation without efficiency improvements are heating a room less in winter, using the car less, air-drying... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11944078 | 915,951 |
1,794,511 | In molecular biology, bacterial DNA binding proteins are a family of small, usually basic proteins of about 90 residues that bind DNA and are known as histone-like proteins. Since bacterial binding proteins have a diversity of functions, it has been difficult to develop a common function for all of them. They are commo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32150862 | 1,793,502 |
904,096 | The nEUROn development, originally planned by Dassault as "AVE Grand Duc", evolved into a European cooperation including Swedish Saab AB, Greek EAB, Swiss RUAG Aerospace, Spanish EADS CASA and Italian Alenia (today Leonardo-Finmeccanica's Aircraft Division), with Dassault as the lead contractor. As a "technology demons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=944461 | 903,620 |
787,027 | Mach, in his book, says that the bucket experiment only demonstrates that when the water is in rotation with respect to the bucket no centrifugal forces are produced, and that we cannot know how the water would behave if in the experiment the bucket's walls were increased in depth and width until they became leagues bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182727 | 786,604 |
1,967,301 | "What Engineers Know" was first published in 1990 when Mr. Vincenti was 73 years old after full careers in aerospace engineering, the history of technology, and instructing. The five case studies used for evidence in this book come from the first half of the 20th century, 1908-1953. During this period the author worked... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30603530 | 1,966,171 |
1,530,243 | Thousands of people applied to the IFIF in the hopes of joining the project in Zihuatanejo. Out of this pool of applicants, a small, select group of people were chosen. Amenities cost $200 a month per person, including food and lodging in bungalows near a secluded beach. Fishermen supplied a bounty of fresh fish from t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68146713 | 1,529,378 |
549,083 | Alterations occur in Lipid A. "Salmonella" species reduce the fluidity of their outer membrane by increasing hydrophobic interactions between an increased number of Lipid A acyl tails by adding myristate to Lipid A with 2-hydroxymyristate and forming hepta-acylated Lipid A by adding palmitate. The increased hydrophobic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2065768 | 548,795 |
1,809,341 | The "common position" reappeared on the agenda of the council's 7 March meeting as an "A-item" for adoption without discussion. At the Competitiveness meeting of the council, Denmark requested that this be removed. The President of the council, seemingly in breach of the council's procedures, opposed this, "for adminis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=351369 | 1,808,320 |
864,361 | Apart from the obvious hollowing out of the rocks below southern Johannesburg, causing unpredictable sinkholes, surface instabilities and earth tremors, the bringing to the surface of rocks that had been laid down in oxygen-free conditions had unforeseen effects. Iron pyrite (FeS), which is relatively plentiful in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=298680 | 863,901 |
2,034,191 | Her research group works on cell adhesion networks in cancer, with specific focus on the regulation and role of the adhesion-linked ‘nodal’ Tyrosine Kinases, and their extensive network of interacting partners. In particular Src and FAK kinases reside at sites of cell interaction with the environment or neighbouring ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56185573 | 2,033,018 |
1,407,130 | In 2018, deCODE broke new ground with a direct intervention in public health and the first national genetic screening program of its kind. The company launched a website that enables anyone in Iceland to ask the company - free of charge - to search their whole genome sequence data to determine whether they are likely c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1494572 | 1,406,340 |
2,029,531 | He was appointed Chief Engineer (Traction & Rolling Stock) in 1968. It was in this position that Miller was credited with instigating the development of the InterCity 125, known as the High Speed Train (HST). At the time, BR was focused on developing an electric Advanced Passenger Train (APT), but by 1969 the APT proje... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43930180 | 2,028,363 |
2,203,301 | Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections had its origins when Stanford's first faculty member and second President, John Casper Branner, began buying books as an 18-year-old student at Cornell. He continued to acquire books, maps, and reports while at the Pennsylvania and Arkansas Geological Surveys. When he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32789082 | 2,202,047 |
2,201,496 | At the end of the 19th century, the Austrian botanist Gottlieb Haberlandt (1854–1945) was well-known for his work regarding physiological plant anatomy. His interest for botany arose once he started university in Vienna at the age of nineteen. During his years at university he started his career by publishing papers. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66293900 | 2,200,243 |
1,453,086 | The classification of the Alba Mons volcano is uncertain. Some workers describe it as a shield volcano, others as a lowland patera (in contrast to highland paterae, which are low-lying ancient volcanoes with furrowed ash deposits located in the southern Martian highlands), and still others consider it a one-of-a-kind v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1110758 | 1,452,269 |
331,320 | Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) caused night blindness is a reversible difficulty for the eyes to adjust to dim light. It is common in young children who have a diet inadequate in retinol and beta-carotene. A process called dark adaptation typically causes an increase in photopigment amounts in response to low levels of ill... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54114 | 331,143 |
372,407 | The United States Navy sent a battleship group to Scapa Flow to join with the British Grand Fleet, destroyers to Queenstown, Ireland and submarines to help guard convoys. Several regiments of Marines were also dispatched to France. The British and French wanted U.S. units to be used to reinforce their troops already on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25604889 | 372,212 |
2,154,054 | He earned a Ph.D, with thesis advisor Donald H. Menzel, from Harvard University in 1937, having started there at age 16. Before leaving Harvard, Greenstein was involved in a project with Fred Lawrence Whipple to explain Karl Jansky's discovery of radio waves from the Milky Way and to propose a source. He began his prof... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=633559 | 2,152,823 |
1,822,414 | By the mid-2000s, the Fido explosives detector was deployed in both Afghanistan and Iraq as either a portable handheld device or an attachment to a robotic platform. The Fido explosives detector also saw use as a tool for vehicle inspection in an effort to combat vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs) used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10604784 | 1,821,376 |
248,303 | DB-7s began to be delivered from Douglas's El Segundo, California production line on 31 October 1939, and the passing of the "Cash and Carry" act on 4 November 1939 allowed the aircraft to be handed over in the United States to the French, who would then be responsible for delivering the aircraft. The DB-7s were shippe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=610414 | 248,175 |
246,965 | Some materials show induced magnetic behavior that follows a Curie type law but with exceptionally large values for the Curie constants. These materials are known as superparamagnets. They are characterized by a strong ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic type of coupling into domains of a limited size that behave independen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23750 | 246,837 |
1,378,535 | Beach was also interested in pneumatic tubes for the transport of letters and packages, another idea recently put into use in London. He refused to blackmail "Boss" Tweed to have his proposal approved. He set out a way to bypass the politician by building furtively his tunnel. With a franchise from the state he began c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=746256 | 1,377,773 |
1,304,281 | With the 2002 introduction of a new version, the BNC World Edition, BNC attempted to deal with this problem. Besides domain, there are now 70 categories for genre for both spoken and written data, and so researchers can now specifically retrieve texts by genre. Even after these additions, however, implementation is sti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6847449 | 1,303,565 |
493,376 | The DC field model requires a very large thundercloud charge to create sufficient fields at high altitudes (e.g. 50–90 km, where sprites form). Unlike the case of sprites, these large charges do not seem to be associated with TGF-generating lightning. Thus the DC field model requires the TGF to occur lower down, at the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1667261 | 493,121 |
831,379 | After deciding on a rail-based system, the construction of Phase I of the MRT system, which will be the North South line, was given priority as the line passes through areas having a higher demand for public transport, such as the densely populated housing estates of Toa Payoh and Ang Mo Kio and the Central Area. The l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=434533 | 830,930 |
982,752 | Philip Mannion and colleagues redescribed "Lusotitan" in 2013, creating a new analysis of 279 characters drawn from significant previous analyses by Upchurch and Wilson supplemented by other studies. 63 sauropods were included, focusing on non-titanosaurian sauropods, although 14 probable titanosaurs were included. Uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1139347 | 982,239 |
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