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301,677 | Although pesticides can normally be used to take care of insects on crops, in an aquaponic system the use of pesticides would threaten the fish ecosystem. On the other hand, if the fish acquire parasites or diseases, therapeutants cannot be used as the plants would absorb them. In order to maintain the symbiotic relati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=466801 | 301,516 |
1,120,141 | Khomskii suggested the term "type-I multiferroic" for materials in which the ferroelectricity and magnetism occur at different temperatures and arise from different mechanisms. Usually the structural distortion which gives rise to the ferroelectricity occurs at high temperature, and the magnetic ordering, which is usua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2522070 | 1,119,568 |
1,867,069 | Even with the subpar end, Quinnipiac earned their second consecutive regular season title. As they entered the postseason, Quinnipiac had already set the record for most shutouts by a team in one season with 16. They had broken the record held by 1999–2000 Niagara (12) with Perets just one behind Greg Gardner for the i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68590921 | 1,865,994 |
129,078 | Even though these complex polysaccharides are not very digestible, they provide important dietary elements for humans. Called dietary fiber, these carbohydrates enhance digestion among other benefits. The main action of dietary fiber is to change the nature of the contents of the gastrointestinal tract, and to change h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23978 | 129,026 |
694,499 | The AY-WB phytoplasma effector SAP54 was shown to induce virescence and phyllody when expressed in plants and homologs of this effector were found in at least three other phytoplasmas. Two SAP54 homologs, PHYL1 of the onion yellows phytoplasma and PHYL1 of the peanut witches' broom phytoplasma, also induce phyllody-lik... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1041312 | 694,136 |
409,242 | On 18 October 1963, France launched Félicette the cat aboard Veronique AGI sounding rocket No. 47. The launch was directed by the French Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherches de Médecine Aéronautique (CERMA). Félicette was recovered alive after a 15-minute flight and a descent by parachute. Félicette had electrodes im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=600624 | 409,040 |
411,408 | Huygens concluded quite early that Descartes's laws for the elastic collision of two bodies must be wrong, and he formulated the correct laws, including the conservation of the product of mass times the square of the speed for hard bodies, and the conservation of quantity of motion in one direction for all bodies. An i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42127 | 411,206 |
1,298,419 | In 1973, Dershowitz became associate rabbi at Sinai Temple. He would remain in that role for 25 years before becoming the synagogue's Rabbi Emeritus in 1998. He also served as the synagogue's interim head rabbi on many occasions, including the year before Rabbi David Wolpe was hired. In his tenure at Sinai, he helped I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44178873 | 1,297,706 |
698,147 | The ICC of the Rasch model for dichotomous data is shown in Figure 4. The grey line maps the probability of the discrete outcome formula_23 (that is, correctly answering the question) for persons with different locations on the latent continuum (that is, their level of abilities). The location of an item is, by definit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2161615 | 697,783 |
132,451 | Room 40 played an important role in several naval engagements during the war, notably in detecting major German sorties into the North Sea. The battle of Dogger Bank was won in no small part due to the intercepts that allowed the Navy to position its ships in the right place. It played a vital role in subsequent naval ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29122 | 132,398 |
1,650,084 | During the Second World War, many academic and administrative staff members, as well as students of the Institute went off to the front. When Leningrad was besieged, a group of scientists led by Prof. Sergei Rinkevich remained there. In April 1942, Rinkevich helped establish the Research Bureau affiliated to the People... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14861017 | 1,649,152 |
296,861 | Solar energy and wind power have the highest climate change mitigation potential at lowest cost compared to a range of other options. Variable availability of sunshine and wind is addressed by energy storage and improved electrical grids, including long-distance electricity transmission, demand management and diversifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2119179 | 296,701 |
1,819,948 | A recent resource paper (November 2014) attempts to provide a more comprehensive proteome level map of the human interactome. It found vast uncharted territory in the human interactome, and used diverse methods to build a new interactome map correcting for curation bias, including probing all pairwise combinations of 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45663583 | 1,818,912 |
1,484,237 | In order to control temporal activity of the excision reaction, forms of Cre which take advantage of various ligand binding domains have been developed. One successful strategy for inducing specific temporal Cre activity involves fusing the enzyme with a mutated ligand-binding domain for the human estrogen receptor (ER... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4385154 | 1,483,400 |
284,658 | "Functional elements in paralysis of the dorsiflexors" – if the dorsiflexors are weak, an orthosis should lift the forefoot during the swing phase in order to reduce the risk of the patient stumbling. An orthosis that has only one functional element for lifting the forefoot in order to compensate for a weakness in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26734587 | 284,504 |
1,263,774 | The 8th Army, which fought north of Lake Ladoga, had 125 T-26s in separate tank battalions (OTBs) of rifle divisions on 30 November 1939. Tank platoons suffered significant losses because of poor infantry reconnaissance of Finnish positions and ambushes, and absence of engineer support. For instance, on 19 December 193... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25627069 | 1,263,086 |
1,898,205 | The work is Neoclassical in outlook, and his approach reflects Martin's adoration of Bach. Martin's style draws elements from both the musical styles and traditions of France (such as the use of harmony to create local colour and the freer formal organisation) and Austro-Germany (such as the generally polyphonic style ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2176650 | 1,897,121 |
1,716,581 | Le Clos did not produce another striking effort to halt the most decorated Olympian from snatching the title, as he was shut out of the medals to fourth in 1:54.06. Sakai's teammate Daiya Seto finished fifth in 1:54.82, with Denmark's Viktor Bromer following him to pick up the sixth spot in 1:55.64. Hungarian swimmer, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45186796 | 1,715,612 |
1,622,827 | While there is no clearly defined data source for research done in computational politics, the most common sources are social networking websites and political debate transcripts. Various methods are used to computationally model the behavior of agents. Social network analysis is often used to model and analyze data fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61580753 | 1,621,911 |
650,490 | Ginkgophyta and Cycadophyta have a very ancient divergence dating to the early Carboniferous. The earliest representative of the group in the fossil record is probably "Trichopitys" from the Asselian (299-293 million years ago) of France. The earliest representatives of "Ginkgo", represented by reproductive organs simi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67965 | 650,149 |
472,425 | Zhu Zaiyu has been credited as the first person to solve the equal temperament problem mathematically. At least one researcher has proposed that Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit in China recorded this work in his personal journal and may have transmitted the work back to Europe. (Standard resources on the topic make no mention o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3350774 | 472,189 |
2,085,017 | The 1974–75 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team represented the University of Michigan in intercollegiate college basketball during the 1974–75 season. The team played its home games in the Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and was a member of the Big Ten Conference. Under the direction of head coach Johnny O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28707859 | 2,083,816 |
1,662,794 | The development of radar for defensive and offensive operations was of paramount concern during the war. Early work was on Airborne Interception radar (AI) able to be carried in night fighters and used for locating enemy aircraft in the dark, as Britain was soon facing The Blitz. The first tests had been carried out as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1444212 | 1,661,859 |
902,486 | The Qatar University 'Reform Project (2003-2007)' evaluated and restructured the university administration and direction to enhance the quality of instruction and place emphasis on research. The reform was initiated in 2003, led by Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, QU Former President Dr. Sheikha Al Misnad, and the newl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7225564 | 902,010 |
577,164 | The most common (DIY-friendly) method before the advent of computer-controlled measurement techniques is the classic free air constant current method, described by Thiele in 1961. This method uses a large resistance (e.g., formula_157 = 500 to 1000 ohms) in series with the driver and a signal generator is used to vary ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1311933 | 576,868 |
838,817 | Students are taken in for the undergraduate courses through the Joint Entrance Examination Main (JEE Main) conducted by National Testing Agency (NTA). Around 16 lakh students wrote this test in 2012 to gain admission to one of 20 NITs. This makes it one of the largest such examinations in the world. Admission to some o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=763499 | 838,368 |
1,210,177 | The disorder is often clinically categorized into groups with wide ranges of overlapping severity, from the most severe neonatal form which is incompatible with life, to a form so mild that it may not be diagnosed since the person appears to function at the lowest end of normal strength and breathing adequacy. Sporadic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1900228 | 1,209,530 |
671,034 | In 1978, the Simmons company was created to produce commercial electronic drums sets. Its most notable product was the SDS-5, released in 1981. With its characteristic hexagon-shaped pads, the SDS-5 was first used by Richard James Burgess on "From the Tea-rooms of Mars ...", "Chant No. 1" by Spandau Ballet, and "Angel ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1437688 | 670,682 |
104,571 | A Hall-effect thruster (HET) is a device that is used to propel some spacecraft, after it gets into orbit or farther out into space. In the HET, atoms are ionized and accelerated by an electric field. A radial magnetic field established by magnets on the thruster is used to trap electrons which then orbit and create an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14307 | 104,526 |
482,687 | In the fall of 1974 LeDoux began a PhD program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and completed his degree in 1977. In 1978, LeDoux joined the Department of Neurology at Cornell Medical School as a postdoctoral fellow and remained there through the rank of associate professor until 1989. During most of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4275189 | 482,443 |
40,611 | High blood pressure is the most common chronic medical problem prompting visits to primary health care providers in USA. The American Heart Association estimated the direct and indirect costs of high blood pressure in 2010 as $76.6 billion. In the US 80% of people with hypertension are aware of their condition, 71% tak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77432 | 40,596 |
1,273,651 | Calvatia craniiformis, commonly known as the brain puffball or the skull-shaped puffball, is a species of puffball fungus in the family Agaricaceae. It is found in Asia, Australia, and North America, where it grows on the ground in open woods. Its name, derived from the same Latin root as "cranium", alludes to its rese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9895808 | 1,272,959 |
380,066 | These mid-range stars ultimately reach the tip of the asymptotic-giant-branch and run out of fuel for shell burning. They are not sufficiently massive to start full-scale carbon fusion, so they contract again, going through a period of post-asymptotic-giant-branch superwind to produce a planetary nebula with an extreme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27980 | 379,871 |
1,991,375 | The men's Olympic trials were held at the newly built Randall's Island Stadium in New York City on July 11 and July 12, in the middle of the record-breaking 1936 North American heat wave. Official world records were set by Cornelius Johnson and Dave Albritton in the high jump. Jesse Owens won three events, equaling the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48496607 | 1,990,232 |
649,849 | Following World War II, most electronic home organs were built in a configuration usually called a spinet organ, which first appeared in 1949. These compact and relatively inexpensive instruments became the natural successors to reed organs. They were marketed as competitors of home pianos and often aimed at would-be h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=996250 | 649,508 |
184,196 | The residues from the decomposition process (frass) by the larvae comprise larval faeces, shed larval exoskeletons and undigested material. Frass is one of the main products from commercial black soldier fly rearing. The chemical profile of the frass varies with the substrate the larvae feed on. However in general it i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5373309 | 184,099 |
241,249 | Calculations have confirmed the accuracy of this simple extrapolation, although experimental verification of this is currently impossible as the half-lives of the known tennessine isotopes are too short. Significant differences between tennessine and the previous halogens are likely to arise, largely due to spin–orbit ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67611 | 241,129 |
513,439 | The obstetrical dilemma claims that this difference is due to the biological trade-off imposed by two opposing evolutionary pressures in the development of the human pelvis: smaller birth canals in the mothers, and larger brains, and therefore skulls in the babies. Proponents believe bipedal locomotion (the ability to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2368360 | 513,173 |
1,807,122 | These studies provided some details about which neuronal populations were contributing to the magnetic signals generated from the brain. However, the signals from single neurons were too weak to be detected. A group of over 10,000 dendrites is required as a group to generate a detectable MEG signal. At the time, the ab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30883500 | 1,806,103 |
598,066 | When the superpowers came close to nuclear conflict during both the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Able Archer/VRYAN Crisis, they developed the view of mutual assured destruction. Andropov was followed as Soviet leader by Konstantin Chernenko, who in turn was followed by Mikhail Gorbachev, and Gorbachev brought a far les... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45876 | 597,761 |
897,405 | In the 1940s the classical theory was completed, and the full field equations including the scalar field were obtained by three independent research groups: Thiry, working in France on his dissertation under Lichnerowicz; Jordan, Ludwig, and Müller in Germany, with critical input from Pauli and Fierz; and Scherrer work... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17070 | 896,932 |
1,544,281 | Selected by NASA in April 1996, Richards reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. Having completed two years of training and evaluation, he was qualified for flight assignment as a mission specialist. Richards was initially assigned to the Computer Branch working on software for the Space Shuttle and the In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=656291 | 1,543,408 |
1,260,344 | Genus and Coles outlined a number of criticisms against the analysis of technological transitions, in particular when using the MLP. Empirical research on technological transitions occurring now has been limited, with the focus on historic transitions. Depending on the perspective on transition case studies they could ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34066587 | 1,259,657 |
1,424,011 | Critics writing in the "American Journal of Psychology" had a generally negative review of the work. They objected to some inaccuracies and omissions in lead author Edward F. Kelly's representation of history of physicalism. They also objected to what they see as lack of specifications in Kelly's representation of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28650767 | 1,423,209 |
1,097,993 | Mutations in the human "Matp" gene result in several distinct forms of Oculocutaneous albinism, Type IV as well as normal variations in skin and hair color. Mice affected by a condition homologous to cream, called "underwhite", exhibit irregularly shaped melanosomes, which are the organelles within melanocytes that dir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1287346 | 1,097,433 |
2,083,953 | In this class it is worthwhile to highlight the small non-peptide molecules LM22A-24 and LM11A-31 developed by Longo and Massa. Through the modulation of p75NTR activity, these compounds downregulate degenerative and upregulate trophic signaling. In particular, LM11A-31 was found to inhibit several pathophysiological m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70852946 | 2,082,753 |
1,470,548 | A 300 kW, 2.5 MWh storage capacity pilot cryogenic energy system developed by researchers at the University of Leeds and Highview Power that uses liquid air (with the and water removed as they would turn solid at the storage temperature) as the energy store, and low-grade waste heat to boost the thermal re-expansion of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37192426 | 1,469,723 |
18,799 | Identifying cryptographic systems that may be secure against quantum algorithms is an actively researched topic under the field of "post-quantum cryptography". Some public-key algorithms are based on problems other than the integer factorization and discrete logarithm problems to which Shor's algorithm applies, like th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25220 | 18,791 |
1,787,963 | An almost complete skeleton of an ankylosaurid was excavated during the 2008, 2009, and 2010 field seasons from the Horse Mountain Gryposaur (HMG) Quarry in the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Kane County, Utah. The Horse Mountain Gryposaur Quarry represents a multitaxic and multidominant bonebed that has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57941007 | 1,786,958 |
485,677 | Tate was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His father, John Tate Sr., was a professor of physics at the University of Minnesota, and a longtime editor of "Physical Review". His mother, Lois Beatrice Fossler, was a high school English teacher. Tate Jr. received his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1946 from Harvard Uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=245933 | 485,428 |
297,937 | Alenia Aermacchi will be the second source supplier of the wing box. Under the terms of agreement Alenia Aeronautica is slated to produce more than 1,200 wings for the F-35 for the nine partners, United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Turkey, Australia, Canada, Denmark and Norway. Other participation in the progra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28702755 | 297,777 |
1,826,622 | Time resolved microwave conductivity (TRMC) is an experimental technique used to evaluate the electronic properties of semiconductors. Specifically, it is used to evaluate a proxy for charge carrier mobility and a representative carrier lifetime from light-induced changes in conductance. The technique works by photo-ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68252674 | 1,825,583 |
659,013 | The Song Dynasty (960–1279) forensic science book "Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified" published by court judge, physician, medical scientist and writer Song Ci in 1247 contains the oldest known case of forensic entomology. In a murder case of 1235, a villager was stabbed to death and authorities determined that hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61289 | 658,668 |
990,795 | Occupational therapy (OT) is a healthcare profession that specializes in maintaining or improving the quality of life for individuals that experience challenges when independently performing life's occupations. According to the "Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process" (3rd ed.; AOTA, 2014), occupat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=653 | 990,278 |
358,406 | Many impact events occur without being observed by anyone on the ground. Between 1975 and 1992, American missile early warning satellites picked up 136 major explosions in the upper atmosphere. In the November 21, 2002, edition of the journal "Nature", Peter Brown of the University of Western Ontario reported on his st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63794 | 358,220 |
1,204,680 | Plant physiology studies the role of signalling to integrate data obtained at the genetic, biochemical, cellular, and physiological levels, in order to understand plant development and behaviour. The neurobiological view sees plants as information-processing organisms with rather complex processes of communication occu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8651984 | 1,204,035 |
383,946 | After all this thought and preparation, the experiment became what has been called the most famous failed experiment in history. Instead of providing insight into the properties of the aether, Michelson and Morley's article in the "American Journal of Science" reported the measurement to be as small as one-fortieth of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=91100 | 383,751 |
56,058 | The initial NASAMS batteries for Ukraine arrived in early November 2022. The Pentagon stated that NASAMS had a 100% success rate during the Russian missile strikes on 15 November 2022, and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy disclosed that the system shot down 10 missiles out of 10 targeted. The US government has been trying... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1908655 | 56,034 |
1,814,952 | Johann Gottfried Tulla (20 March 1770, in Karlsruhe – 27 March 1828, in Paris) was a German engineer who accomplished the straightening of the Rhine, improving navigation and alleviating the effects of flooding. His measures gave the Upper Rhine a completely new appearance. The river was deepened and channelled between... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22213558 | 1,813,918 |
1,620,706 | Under suitably high pressures polyhydrides may become superconducting. Characteristics of substances that are predicted to have high superconducting temperatures are a high phonon frequency, which will happen for light elements, and strong bonds. Hydrogen is the lightest and so will have the highest frequency of vibrat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55512646 | 1,619,791 |
195,466 | Yagi–Uda antennas used for amateur radio are sometimes designed to operate on multiple bands. These elaborate designs create electrical breaks along each element (both sides) at which point a parallel LC (inductor and capacitor) circuit is inserted. This so-called "trap" has the effect of truncating the element at the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=296081 | 195,366 |
773,973 | Additional elements of the immune system are activated by the host toll-like receptors such as TLR2, TLR4, and TLR5 that recognize the conserved pieces of the bacteria such as LPS and flagella. This activation results in the production of cytokines such as Interleukin 1 beta (IL-1β) and Interleukin 18 (IL-18). IL-18 in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=471444 | 773,557 |
1,431,756 | Southern black bream are relatively easy to grow in captivity, with fish usually spawning during their natural season without needing the addition of hormones. Despite this, bream are not bred on a commercial basis due to a comparatively slow growth rate and a low fillet recovery. Studies by Sarre in 1999, however, sho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13661901 | 1,430,952 |
97,767 | The early 20th century saw the development of photozincography, which allowed maps to be split into layers, for example one layer for vegetation and another for water. This was particularly used for printing contours – drawing these was a labour-intensive task but having them on a separate layer meant they could be wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12398 | 97,726 |
1,158,197 | Some of this material has been assigned to "Hynerpeton," but in many cases, these assignments were reverted. For example, paleontologist Jenny Clack referred several addition fossils to the genus in her 1997 review of Devonian trackways. These fossils, which had not been previously noted in the scientific literature, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3584084 | 1,157,584 |
2,246,921 | Gray published work on penetrating wounds of the knee joint. He was an authority on infected gunshot wounds. He was experienced in the management of gunshot wounds of the head and spinal cord. He published work on gas gangrene. If all devitalised tissue was removed, and there was no dead tissue left behind, the patient... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52444505 | 2,245,649 |
1,968,994 | In June 2011, the Nevada Legislature passed a law to authorize the use of automated cars. Nevada thus became the first jurisdiction in the world where automated vehicles might be legally operated on public roads. According to the law, the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles is responsible for setting safety and perform... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71090084 | 1,967,860 |
141,964 | Teaching at the university began in the Chapter House of Glasgow Cathedral, subsequently moving to nearby Rottenrow, in a building known as the "Auld Pedagogy". The university was given of land belonging to the Black Friars (Dominicans) on High Street by Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1563. By the late 17th century its build... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39569 | 141,906 |
1,177,591 | The Tang dynasty also created military districts (藩鎮 "fānzhèn", meaning "buffer town") controlled by military commissioners known as jiedushi, charged with protecting frontier areas susceptible to foreign attack (similar to the European marches and marcher lords). Commanderies, (都督府, dūdū fǔ, literally "Office of the C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47026706 | 1,176,968 |
2,178,215 | Game 2: Butler. On December 17, 1951, the Wolverines lost their first home game of the season, falling to the Butler Bulldogs by a 63–53 score at Yost Field House. Butler jumped out to a 15–4 lead at the end of the first quarter. The Wolverines suffered from poor shooting, converting 20 of 73 field goal attempts (27%) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40365985 | 2,176,970 |
967,401 | The dirk-toothed machairodonts, including "Smilodon", "Megantereon", and "Paramachairodus", are defined by sturdiness and strength with the most primitive ("Paramachairodus") being smaller and more lithe than the more advanced "Smilodon"; the intermediate "Megantereon" falls in between. They were not stamina runners wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1223797 | 966,891 |
1,216,398 | The phenomenon of SRS was discovered by an accident by Woodbury and Ng in 1962. In their experiment, they introduced a Kerr cell containing nitrobenzene into a ruby laser cavity to study Q-switching processes. This resulted with a strong emission at a wavelength in the IR region that could not be associated with the ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55146253 | 1,215,746 |
2,021,711 | Depending on how strong the negative feedback is there can often be more than one solution for any set of diffraction data. Although a problem, it has been shown that many of these possible solutions stem from the fact that HIO allows for mirror images taken in any plane to arise as solutions. In crystallography, the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26606740 | 2,020,548 |
2,184,635 | After paring the team down to 24 men, Harvard began its first year as a major sport with a tune-up game against the Boston Athletic Association. Soft ice and early-season jitters contributed to a less-than-stellar effort from the Crimson and they lost the match 1–3 while cycling through many of their alternate players.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63461116 | 2,183,387 |
1,406,574 | Because slow slip events occur in subduction zones, their relationship to megathrust earthquakes is of economic, human, and scientific importance. The seismic hazard posed by ETS events is dependent on their focus. If the slow slip event extends into the seismogenic zone, accumulated stress would be released, decreasin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14897216 | 1,405,784 |
1,505,111 | The goal of the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration project is to prove the utility of bidirectional optical communications relay services between geosynchronous orbit and Earth. The project supports the advanced communications, navigation, and avionics exploration key focus areas. This effort will prove optical c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37006533 | 1,504,265 |
1,350,181 | While the delignification process is a successful method of production, it is limited to its laboratory and experimental production of a small, and low-thickness material that is unable to meet its practical application requirements. However, at Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Efficient Processing and Utilization of F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50561501 | 1,349,435 |
18,070 | On 7 April 2003, an F-15E, crewed by Captain Eric Das and Major William Watkins, performed a key interdiction mission in support of special forces; it was likely shot down by AA fire while bombing targets around Tikrit. Das and Watkins were posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Purple Heart. Durin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=495724 | 18,064 |
252,213 | Biodiversity hotspots host their diverse ecosystems on just 2.4% of the planet's surface. Ten hotspots were originally identified by Myer; the current 36 used to cover more than 15.7% of all the land but have lost around 85% of their area. This loss of habitat is why approximately 60% of the world's terrestrial life li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=567131 | 252,080 |
134,580 | Although experimental studies continued during the 18th century, a successful quantitative treatment of capillary action was not attained until 1805 by two investigators: Thomas Young of the United Kingdom and Pierre-Simon Laplace of France. They derived the Young–Laplace equation of capillary action. By 1830, the Germ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=219021 | 134,525 |
1,212,736 | "Drawing on a background in graphic design and computer science, Ben Fry pursues a long-held fascination with visualizing data. As Principal of Fathom Information Design in Boston, Fry develops software, printed works, installations, and books that depict and explain topics from the human genome to baseball salaries to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=546083 | 1,212,084 |
1,623,075 | Ross was known for constructing models of fundamental interactions and verifying them by experimentation. With others, while at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, he predicted that gluon radiation would generate collimated jets of particles in electron–positron annihilation, which subseque... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49590531 | 1,622,159 |
330,307 | When "Fall Gelb" (Case Yellow) began on 10 May 1940, the "Stuka" helped swiftly neutralise the fortress of Eben Emael, Belgium. The headquarters of the commander responsible for ordering the destruction of the Belgian Army-held bridges along the Albert Canal was stationed in the village of Lanaken (14 km/ mi to the nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16590 | 330,132 |
25,958 | The first U-2 overflight had already occurred, using the existing authorization of air force overflights over Eastern Europe. On 20 June 1956, a U-2 flew over Poland and East Germany, with more flights on 2 July. When Eisenhower refused to approve the U-2's flight over Soviet airspace, the CIA turned to a foreign power... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32310 | 25,949 |
1,848,528 | The convenience, low cost, and mobility of this method distinguish it from conventional testing and are the primary reasons for its growing popularity. The method is convenient because all required sound system, power generation and distribution and data acquisition and control equipment is brought to the test site. Eq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37083125 | 1,847,470 |
1,718,329 | Women were not afforded journeyman years during their apprenticeship, which left them dependent on those in their household for training. As a result, Gottfried Kirch gave his wife further instruction in astronomy, as he did for his sister and all his children starting from a young age. Due to societal norms and belief... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5190038 | 1,717,359 |
173,441 | Similar searches in nature were also unsuccessful, suggesting that if superheavy elements do exist in nature, their abundance is less than 10 moles of superheavy elements per mole of ore. Despite these unsuccessful attempts to observe long-lived superheavy nuclei, new superheavy elements were synthesized every few year... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66394 | 173,350 |
82,747 | Standard multiplicative hashing uses the formula formula_34 which produces a hash value in formula_35. The value formula_36 is an appropriately chosen value that should be relatively prime to formula_37; it should be large and its binary representation a random mix of 1's and 0's. An important practical special case oc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13790 | 82,713 |
1,288,411 | In 1939, when he was 15, he left home and began working as a butcher, but quit after a few weeks. He worked as a shipboy on barges on the Elbe and Oder. Here too, he operated smaller, illegal businesses. In the summer of 1939 he was hired as a machine boy on a merchant ship to South America. After the beginning of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42007193 | 1,287,702 |
2,191,309 | Kelly's research interests included the pharmacology of drugs used in cancer chemotherapy, carcinogenesis, and chemical protection against radiation and alkylating agents. She focused on what caused cancer and what drugs could be used to fight it, establishing a monkey colony which resulted in her being able to grow tu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66207636 | 2,190,060 |
25,290 | Few of the reforms planned in the early 1990s eventuated, for three reasons: Firstly, there was an absence of firm civilian political guidance, with President Yeltsin primarily interested in ensuring that the Armed Forces were controllable and loyal, rather than reformed. Secondly, declining funding worsened the progre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1094752 | 25,281 |
1,230,319 | The importance of rainfall as a trigger for landslides cannot be overestimated. A global survey of landslide occurrence in the 12 months to the end of September 2003 revealed that there were 210 damaging landslide events worldwide. Of these, over 90% were triggered by heavy rainfall. One rainfall event for example in S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9597934 | 1,229,657 |
1,661,793 | The sequence of events giving rise to this possible field defect are indicated below the photo. The schematic diagram shows a large area in yellow indicating a large patch of mutant or epigenetically altered cells that formed by clonal expansion of an initial cell based on a selective advantage. Within this first large... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18398577 | 1,660,858 |
1,856,886 | The trenchward migration of the spreading center is attributed to the subduction of the Phoenix Plate under the Antarctic Plate. Slab rollback and South Shetland Trench oceanward retreat have led to extensional forces acting on the leading edge of the overriding plate. The Bransfield Strait, the result of this extensio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33737008 | 1,855,818 |
1,977,479 | UMass' quest at the ACHA National Tournament - never in doubt, as the team was not ranked lower than fifth after the Liberty win and finished in fourth - got off to a catastrophic start when the Minutemen had to forfeit the first game of a best-of-three quarterfinal series against fifth-seeded Lindenwood–Belleville (un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54095645 | 1,976,341 |
2,200,220 | Evans was born in Wanganui in 1927. He received his secondary education at Wanganui Technical College and at Wanganui Collegiate School. He studied at the Canterbury Agricultural College in Lincoln from 1945 to 1950 and in 1947, he won the Hunter Brown Cup for that year's best dissertation on sheep husbandry. In 1948, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34058651 | 2,198,968 |
804,890 | CIA took on a more distinct MASINT responsibility in 1987. The National Security Archive commented, "In 1987, Deputy Director for Science and Technology Evan Hineman established ... a new Office for Special Projects, concerned not with satellites, but with emplaced sensors—sensors that could be placed in a fixed locati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=488880 | 804,461 |
719,101 | Human response times on simple reaction time tasks are usually on the order of 200 ms. The processes that occur during this brief time enable the brain to perceive the surrounding environment, identify an object of interest, decide an action in response to the object, and issue a motor command to execute the movement. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4778196 | 718,721 |
160,739 | Although the cost of acquiring hyperspectral images is typically high, for specific crops and in specific climates, hyperspectral remote sensing use is increasing for monitoring the development and health of crops. In Australia, work is under way to use imaging spectrometers to detect grape variety and develop an early... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3928494 | 160,654 |
878,351 | Since CO targets are becoming more and more important for the economic performance of vehicle manufacturers all over the world, WLTP also aims to harmonize test procedures on an international level, and set up an equal playing field in the global market. Besides EU countries, the WLTP is also the standard fuel economy ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36852132 | 877,889 |
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