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51,164 | The Embraer E-Jet family is composed of two main commercial families and a business jet variant. The smaller E170 and E175 make up the base model aircraft, while the E190 and E195 are stretched versions, being powered by different engines and furnished with larger wing, horizontal stabilizer and landing gear structures... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=879946 | 51,144 |
386,575 | As an example of a real time digital twin, an object being studied — for example, a wind turbine — may be outfitted with various sensors related to vital areas of functionality. These sensors produce data about different aspects of the physical twin’s performance, such as external weather conditions, RPM, and energy ou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47896295 | 386,380 |
84,406 | On 9 January 2020 it was reported by Newsweek that U.S. officials believed Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was shot down by an Iranian Tor-M1 missile, probably by accident. Later that day, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that there was credible allied and Canadian intelligence that an Iranian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1394799 | 84,372 |
1,965,083 | Patz was a family medicine clinician in Missoula, Montana, and Baltimore, Maryland from 1990 to 1994. In 1994, he became a full-time researcher at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences. Since then, Patz has published 188 research items; has 55,206 reads; and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50954852 | 1,963,954 |
107,495 | A pulsar (from "pulsating radio source") is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles. This radiation can be observed only when a beam of emission is pointing toward Earth (similar to the way a lighthouse can be seen only when the light is pointed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1227284 | 107,450 |
943,689 | "Shacknews" gave the game an eight out of ten, praising the atmosphere, exploration, crafting, base building, setting, casual survival elements, cooperative play, and pleasing aesthetics, while criticizing some minor technical issues. "USgamer" said that the game was "on the soft side of the survival spectrum", ultimat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52313289 | 943,187 |
974,608 | Other, more subtle quantum effects can lead to corrections to equipartition, such as identical particles and continuous symmetries. The effects of identical particles can be dominant at very high densities and low temperatures. For example, the valence electrons in a metal can have a mean kinetic energy of a few electr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=516133 | 974,097 |
1,136,850 | Born in Frankfurt, Anton de Bary was one of ten children born to physician August Theodor de Bary (1802–1873) and Emilie Meyer de Bary. His father encouraged him to join the excursions of the active group of naturalists who collected specimens in the nearby countryside. De Bary’s youthful interest in plants and in exam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51526 | 1,136,257 |
1,679,204 | Kim leads initiatives involving the design of learning technologies, educational research, and community development. Kim is also working with numerous international organizations to develop mobile empowerment solutions for extremely underserved communities in developing countries. In his recent expeditions to Latin Am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32113370 | 1,678,261 |
1,926,717 | The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the S100 family of proteins containing 2 EF-hand calcium-binding motifs. S100 proteins are localized in the cytoplasm and/or nucleus of a wide range of cells, and involved in the regulation of a number of cellular processes such as cell cycle progression and differentiati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14118522 | 1,925,613 |
408,132 | More recent results may question these conclusions. The University of Waterloo and University of Colorado conducted simulations in 2005 that indicated that the early atmosphere of Earth could have contained up to 40 percent hydrogen—implying a much more hospitable environment for the formation of prebiotic organic mole... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20821 | 407,931 |
1,382,948 | Following her conversion, "Tunny" began a test program, which saw the first Regulus launch from a submarine take place on 15 July 1953. At the time, "Tunny" had not had the missile guidance system installed, which meant she had to operate in conjunction with a ship or submarine capable of controlling the missile once i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59895854 | 1,382,182 |
894,703 | Directionality is related to, but different from, sense. Transcription of single-stranded RNA from a double-stranded DNA template requires the selection of one strand of the DNA template as the template strand that directly interacts with the nascent RNA due to complementary sequence. The other strand is not copied dir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5902060 | 894,233 |
1,889,429 | Initially, Heck and others involved in the development of radio acoustic ranging thought the technique would prove least effective along the coast of the Pacific Northwest, where they assumed that the sound of wave action along the coast and the difficulty of setting up shore stations and cables would reduce the succes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52205564 | 1,888,346 |
298,343 | LORAN is a terrestrial navigation system using low frequency radio transmitters that use the time interval between radio signals received from three or more stations to determine the position of a ship or aircraft. The current version of LORAN in common use is LORAN-C, which operates in the low frequency portion of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21854 | 298,183 |
1,620,586 | Although the quantitative ability of Q-FISH is most commonly used in telomere research, other fields that only require qualitative data have adopted the use of PNAs with FISH for both research and diagnostic purposes. PNA-FISH assays have been developed for identifying and diagnosing infectious diseases in a rapid mann... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26429271 | 1,619,671 |
1,333,683 | Release of the PCBM Element from the hard mated condition takes about 90 minutes. It begins with loosening of all 16 Powered Bolts by about 0.4 revolutions, taking less than five minutes. All 16 bolts are required to have a positive residual load after the step is complete. Sets of four bolts are then extracted complet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7362461 | 1,332,954 |
359,931 | Potemkin's Black Sea Fleet was a massive undertaking for its time. By 1787, the British ambassador reported twenty-seven ships of the line. It put Russia on a naval footing with Spain, though far behind the Royal Navy. The period represented the peak of Russia's naval power relative to other European states. Potemkin a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=475101 | 359,744 |
1,229,008 | At the beginning of 1969, two hospitals were functioning solely in the capacity of POW hospitals; the 74th Field Hospital in Long Binh for POWs generated in III and IV CTZ and the 311th Field Hospital in Qui Nhon for POWs generated in I and II CTZ. When these US Army Reserve units redeployed in Keystone Eagle, their mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8709111 | 1,228,346 |
1,023,671 | The effect is named from a story about ancient Greek polymath Archimedes. In the story, Archimedes was asked (c. 250 BC) by the local king to determine whether a crown was pure gold. During a subsequent trip to a public bath, Archimedes noted that water was displaced when his body sank into the bath, and particularly t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19218437 | 1,023,138 |
2,139,431 | A physician known as Mastre Gky (c1300), was probably Dr Guido de Pagnolo, an Italian living in Cyprus and personal friend of Petrarch. King Pier I of France sent Mastre Gky to Genoa as an emissary to mediate and try to find a compromise on several political issues between the Genoese and Franks. He was successful and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20289740 | 2,138,201 |
1,741,600 | Coals are from type III kerogen mostly derived from terrestrial plants, which should have a primary D/H signal sensitive to local meteoric water. Reddings et al. analyzed coals from various origins and found them randomly scatter across the range of −90‰ to −170‰. Rigby et al. found D contents decrease from -70‰ to -10... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50525886 | 1,740,616 |
1,601,841 | Research in 2014 led by Elena Semino, a professor of linguistics at Lancaster University, alongside palliative care specialists, based on 1.5 million words of discussion, led Semino to say, "We have enough evidence to suggest that battle metaphors are sufficiently negative for enough people that they shouldn't be impos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50251642 | 1,600,940 |
281,542 | On 24 June 1902, with a 10-day history of appendicitis with a distinct mass on the right lower quadrant, Edward was operated on by Sir Frederick Treves two days before his scheduled coronation. Like all internal surgery at the time, the appendectomy needed by the King still posed an extremely high risk of death by post... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16535 | 281,389 |
307,963 | Division III schools "shall not award financial aid to any student on the basis of athletics leadership, ability, participation or performance". Financial aid given to athletes must be awarded under the same procedures as for the general student body, and the proportion of total financial aid given to athletes "shall b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=874503 | 307,798 |
210,187 | In June 2007, Kawasaki rolled out the XP-1, a prototype for the P-X program. The rollout had been delayed for three months due to the discovery of defective rivets provided by a US supplier which required remedial repairs to be performed. On 28 September 2007, the XP-1 conducted its maiden flight from Gifu Air Field, K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10061467 | 210,080 |
1,260,463 | The geologic history of the state began with its assembly during the Yavapai and Mazatzal orogenies 1750 to 1650 million years ago (Mya). This was followed by 200 million years of tectonic quiescence that ended in the Picuris orogeny. This event transformed the New Mexico crust into mature continental crust. Over a tho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57858858 | 1,259,776 |
523,382 | At the following round in France, Norris and Sainz had equally strong qualifying sessions, qualifying in P5 and P6 respectively. Sainz's momentum would translate into the race, finishing in P6, only around 33 seconds behind Sebastian Vettel in a frontrunning Ferrari. As for Norris, he had a strong performance, running ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59939572 | 523,110 |
161,108 | It is both an experimental and clinical field of psychology, thus aiming to understand how behavior and cognition are influenced by brain function and concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of behavioral and cognitive effects of neurological disorders. Whereas classical neurology focuses on the pathology of the ner... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288292 | 161,023 |
1,341,887 | Fossils of "Mymoorapelta" and the theropod "Allosaurus" from the Mygatt-Moore Quarry preserving bite marks alongside other bones found with feeding traces were described by Drumheller "et al" (2020). Unlike the others, the fossils of "Mymoorapelta" and "Allosaurus" have left striations that, when measured to determine ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4347315 | 1,341,153 |
36,484 | On February 1, 2003, "Columbia" disintegrated during re-entry, killing all seven of the STS-107 crew, because of damage to the carbon-carbon leading edge of the wing caused during launch. Ground control engineers had made three separate requests for high-resolution images taken by the Department of Defense that would h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28189 | 36,472 |
105,439 | Glaser and Strauss, influential members of the qualitative research community, pioneered the idea that theoretically important categories and hypotheses can emerge "naturally" from the observations a qualitative researcher collects, provided that the researcher is not guided by preconceptions. The ethologist David Katz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=371299 | 105,394 |
1,481,635 | Bacillus safensis is a Gram-positive, spore-forming, and rod bacterium, originally isolated from a spacecraft in Florida and California. "B. safensis" could have possibly been transported to the planet Mars on spacecraft Opportunity and Spirit in 2004. There are several known strains of this bacterium, all of which bel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2262347 | 1,480,801 |
2,034,384 | Electron Direct Methods is a set of programs developed at Northwestern University by Professor Laurence Marks. First released in 2004, its most recent release was version 3.1 in 2010. Written in C++, C, and Fortran 77, EDM is capable of performing image processing of high resolution electron microscopy images and diffr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55166788 | 2,033,211 |
864,257 | In supersonic flight, the vertical tail becomes progressively less effective with increasing Mach number until the loss of stability may no longer be acceptable. The stability is reduced because the lift, or side force, generated by the tail reduces with speed for each degree of sideslip angle (lift-curve slope). This ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1941545 | 863,797 |
2,061,972 | North Carolina opened their season with a home game against the Durham Y.M.C.A. After teams traded baskets in the first half, Durham led by a single point going into the half, 11–10. The Tar Heels opened the second half scoring six points unanswered before a scoreless period. Durham managed to score eight points to Car... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62183290 | 2,060,782 |
53,781 | Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of blood disorders typically inherited from a person's parents. The most common type is known as sickle cell anaemia. It results in an abnormality in the oxygen-carrying protein haemoglobin found in red blood cells. This leads to a rigid, sickle-like shape under certain circumstance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21010263 | 53,761 |
1,276,631 | Novartis Gene Therapies, until 2020 known as AveXis, is a biotechnology company that develops treatments for rare neurological genetic disorders. It was founded in Dallas, Texas, United States in 2012 by John Carbona after reorganizing a company called BioLife Cell Bank founded by David Genecov and John Harkey. Work do... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58748441 | 1,275,938 |
636,243 | The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and a test stationary lander called "Schiaparelli" were launched on 14 March 2016. TGO entered Mars orbit on 19 October 2016 and proceeded to map the sources of methane () and other trace gases present in the Martian atmosphere that could be evidence for possible biological or geological act... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1193669 | 635,904 |
1,166,789 | Malaria has placed the strongest known selective pressure on the human genome since the origin of agriculture within the past 10,000 years. "Plasmodium falciparum" was probably not able to gain a foothold among African populations until larger sedentary communities emerged in association with the evolution of domestic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24973826 | 1,166,171 |
1,168,428 | One suggested mechanism for the development of the sSMC in PKS involves three sequential events: 1) chromosome 12 suffers a nondisjunction, i.e. a failure of its homologous chromosomes or sister chromatids to separate properly during the second meiosis cell division that forms maternal eggs; 2) while most of the eggs w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5374045 | 1,167,810 |
1,782,916 | One of 35 candidates selected by NASA in January 1978 for the new Space Shuttle program, Walker became an astronaut in August 1979. Among his technical assignments, he served as Astronaut Office Safety Officer; technical assistant to the Director of Flight Crew Operations in 1981; a chase pilot on STS-1; software verif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=563249 | 1,781,912 |
1,350,206 | He published his "Zoologie analytique" in 1806. This covered the whole of the animal kingdom and shows the relations between genera as then distinguished, but not among species. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia in 1813. In 1832, Gabriel Bibron (1806–1848), who became his ass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=906925 | 1,349,460 |
509,882 | As a result of their usage and exposure to radiation, the effects on metals and concrete are particular areas of study. For metals, exposure to radiation can result in radiation hardening which strengthens the material while subsequently embrittling it (lowers toughness, allowing brittle fracture to occur). This occurs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9934503 | 509,618 |
1,134,160 | Major-General Percy Hobart commanded the division and was in charge of the development of armoured vehicles that were solutions to problems of the amphibious landing on the defended French coastline; these unusual-looking tanks it developed and operated were known as "Hobart's Funnies". They included tanks that floated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1845063 | 1,133,567 |
1,734,088 | AVPR1B is found in different parts of the body and thus has several influences and regulatory actions. Arginine vasopressin influences several symptoms related to affective disorders including significant memory processes, pain sensitivity, synchronization of biological rhythms and the timing and quality of REM sleep. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4305411 | 1,733,111 |
53,787 | The vaso-occlusive crisis is caused by sickle-shaped red blood cells that obstruct capillaries and restrict blood flow to an organ, resulting in ischaemia, pain, necrosis, and often organ damage. The frequency, severity, and duration of these crises vary considerably. Painful crises are treated with hydration, analgesi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21010263 | 53,767 |
1,318,856 | Accordingly, the "flashlight analogy" is used to explain the inseparability of action and knowledge present in this theory. One should imagine he is in a dark field at night with only a flashlight. He can vaguely pick out objects around him, but can't really tell what they are. Is that lump in the distance a bush or a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33079593 | 1,318,131 |
1,103,084 | An example SiP can contain several chips—such as a specialized processor, DRAM, flash memory—combined with passive components—resistors and capacitors—all mounted on the same substrate. This means that a complete functional unit can be built in a multi-chip package, so that few external components need to be added to m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4093822 | 1,102,522 |
1,305,579 | Nirenberg was born in New York City to a Jewish family, the son of Minerva (Bykowsky) and Harry Edward Nirenberg, a shirtmaker. He developed rheumatic fever as a boy, so the family moved to Orlando, Florida to take advantage of the subtropical climate. He developed an early interest in biology. In 1948 he received his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=762368 | 1,304,863 |
895,440 | In finance, fat tails often occur but are considered undesirable because of the additional risk they imply. For example, an investment strategy may have an expected return, after one year, that is five times its standard deviation. Assuming a normal distribution, the likelihood of its failure (negative return) is less ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4357461 | 894,969 |
1,627,393 | Much of the recent work in LQG has been done in the covariant formulation of the theory, called "spin foam theory." The present version of the covariant dynamics is due to the convergent work of different groups, but it is commonly named after a paper by Jonathan Engle, Roberto Pereira and Carlo Rovelli in 2007–08. Heu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=856680 | 1,626,475 |
1,306,439 | Organic geochemistry is the study of organic molecules that appear in the fossil record in sedimentary rocks. Research in this field concerns molecular fossils that are often lipid biomarkers. Molecules like sterols and hopanoids, membrane lipids found in eukaryotes and bacteria, respectively, can be preserved in the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1962246 | 1,305,723 |
2,014,473 | In 1946, Dennis Gabor suggested the idea of using a granular system to produce sound. In his work, Gabor discussed the problems with Fourier analysis. Although he found the mathematics to be correct, it did not reflect the behaviour of sound in the world, because sounds, such as the sound of a siren, have variable freq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6765164 | 2,013,314 |
356,887 | People with OI are either born with defective connective tissue, born without the ability to make it in sufficient quantities, or, in the rarest genetic types, born with deficiencies in other aspects of bone formation such as chaperone proteins, the Wnt signaling pathway, the BRIL protein, et cetera. In type I the coll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=891521 | 356,701 |
347,737 | Despite the word "cognitive" itself dating back to the 15th century, attention to "cognitive processes" came about more than eighteen centuries earlier, beginning with Aristotle (384–322 BC) and his interest in the inner workings of the mind and how they affect the human experience. Aristotle focused on cognitive areas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=106238 | 347,556 |
442,477 | Wolfgang Helfrich, a physicist who joined RCA in 1967, became interested in Mauguin's twisted structure and thought it might be used to create an electronic display. However RCA showed little interest because they felt that any effect that used two polarizers would also have a large amount of light absorption, requirin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6047353 | 442,262 |
1,450,175 | During his presidency, George Washington realized a need for a national military academy to teach the art and science of war, but his Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson argued that there was no provision in the Constitution that allowed for the creation of a military academy. Many in the Congress also feared establish... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20793344 | 1,449,359 |
1,897,264 | Thanks to rapid advances in proteomics, genomics, and bioinformatics, protease research has been revolutionized. Degradomics emerged with the concept that proteolysis represents a specific mechanism for achieving cellular control over vital processes beyond control afforded by gene expression and translation and contin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49520826 | 1,896,180 |
2,122,472 | After 1856 Keith devoted himself to surgery and in particular to the then new and controversial procedure of ovariotomy. The first documented successful performance of this procedure was by Ephraim McDowell (1771–1830) in Kentucky in 1809. McDowell had studied surgery in Edinburgh under John Bell (1763–1820) who descri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26077049 | 2,121,252 |
358,021 | The concern about expanding bullets was brought up at the Hague Convention of 1899 by Swiss and Dutch representatives. The Swiss were concerned about small arms ammunition that "increased suffering", and the Dutch focused on the British Mark III .303 loading in response to their treatment of Boer settlers in South Afri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1036189 | 357,835 |
1,382,443 | Basic chemical safety practice includes wearing protective personal equipment such as safety goggles. Personal protective equipment is combination of safe work practices but alone does not provide sufficient protection from the risks posed by hazardous chemicals but it is an effective approach to minimize the risk of e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51080574 | 1,381,678 |
410,246 | Modern statistical meta-analysis does more than just combine the effect sizes of a set of studies using a weighted average. It can test if the outcomes of studies show more variation than the variation that is expected because of the sampling of different numbers of research participants. Additionally, study characteri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62329 | 410,044 |
486,782 | Most villages tradionally have a fertility goddess. This goddess is believed to arise from the natural world itself, and to be intrinsically linked to the ground of the village. She is a representation of the village itself, rather than simply a guardian figure. Sometimes her head is represented in a carving at the cen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10203939 | 486,533 |
1,490,795 | The first MBChB students graduated in 2004, the same year that the old Mathematics and Statistics building at Gibbet Hill was refurbished and renamed the Medical School Building. This building is now home to the Dean’s Office, the Warwick Clinical Trials Unit and HSRI. The Clinical Sciences Research Institute was opene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5103025 | 1,489,956 |
1,269,968 | The mudslide preserved several houses and their contents in a collapsed state until the 1970s when they were excavated by Makahs and archaeologists from Washington State University. More than 55,000 artifacts were recovered, spanning a period of occupation around 2,000 years, representing many activities of the Makahs,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19052915 | 1,269,277 |
25,962 | On 10 July, the Soviets protested what they described as overflights by a USAF "twin-engine medium bomber", apparently believing that it was a B-57 Canberra. The U.S. replied on 19 July that no American "military planes" had overflown the Soviet Union, but the fact that the Soviets' report showed that they could track ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32310 | 25,953 |
420,986 | In June 2012 a 6S paper was published in the "New England Journal of Medicine" raising concerns regarding the use of hydroxyethyl starch in sepsis. Specifically, the authors showed that resuscitation with hydroxyethyl starch (as opposed to Ringer's acetate) resulted in an increased risk of death or end stage renal fail... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10445002 | 420,780 |
156,888 | The Atari 8-bit family is a series of 8-bit home computers introduced by Atari, Inc. in 1979 as the Atari 400 and Atari 800. The series was successively upgraded to Atari 1200XL , Atari 600XL, Atari 800XL, Atari 65XE, Atari 130XE, Atari 800XE, and Atari XEGS, the last discontinued in 1992. They differ primarily in pack... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63429 | 156,816 |
990,238 | Between 1944 and 1954, the paper was cited at least 239 times (with citations spread evenly through those years), mostly in papers on microbiology, immunochemistry, and biochemistry. In addition to the follow-up work by McCarty and others at the Rockefeller Institute in response to Mirsky's criticisms, the experiment s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19517416 | 989,721 |
1,088,741 | The cultural change that ended the Nordic Bronze Age was influenced by the expansion of Hallstatt culture from the south and accompanied by a changing climate, which caused a dramatic change in the flora and fauna. In Scandinavia, this period is often called the "Findless Age", due to the lack of archaeological finds. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4533592 | 1,088,182 |
2,179,039 | Adult porina moths mate as soon as they emerge from the soil after completing the larval stage. The moths fly in spring, summer, and early autumn depending on location. The moths do not feed and only live a few days. During these few days, the female moth flies over pastures and releases around 3000 eggs. Her eggs will... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35315538 | 2,177,794 |
2,108,696 | In 1951, led by Bida and two-time Minnesota State High School champion and fellow Duluth Central classmate Bob Braff, UMD swept five meets against Michigan Tech (twice), Gustavus Adolphus College, Wisconsin Central State College at Steven Point and Virginia Junior College and won the first of eight MIAC team titles ove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50172482 | 2,107,482 |
1,793,328 | The C2 was followed by the C3 in 1991, being essentially similar to the C2 but with a faster clock and support for up to eight CPUs implemented with low-density GaAs FPGAs. Various configurations of the C3 were offered, with 50 to 240 MFLOPS per CPU. However, the C3 and the Convex business model were overtaken by chang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=78379 | 1,792,319 |
1,477,324 | In 2008, vascular surgeon Paolo Zamboni suggested that MS involves a vascular process he referred to as chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI), in which veins from the brain are constricted. He found CCSVI in all 65 patients with MS in his study. This theory received important attention in the media and amo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7663818 | 1,476,492 |
616,063 | School psychologists offer many types of services in order to be multiculturally competent. Multicultural competence extends to race, ethnicity, social class, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, and geographic region. Because the field of school psychology serves such a diverse range of students, mai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=466785 | 615,749 |
373,321 | Former TASER International CEO Patrick Smith testified in a TASER-related lawsuit that the catalyst for the development of the device was the "shooting death of two of his high school acquaintances" by a "guy with a legally licensed gun who lost his temper". In 1993, Rick Smith and his brother Thomas founded the origin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=237746 | 373,126 |
1,582,967 | For his efforts in public health practices and engineering skills on a local and global level, Wolman was granted multiple awards. In 1948, Wolman was awarded the Sedgwick Memorial Medal by the American Public Health Association for his contributions in the field of public health. In 1960, he was awarded the Albert Las... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11872672 | 1,582,077 |
165,539 | On-campus housing for the 2015–2016 academic year consisted of the University Commons five residential halls and 1,237 apartments. The apartment buildings 1–37, which make up 696 units and buildings 38–67, which make up 541 units, are owned by the university and privately managed by American Campus Communities under th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=537010 | 165,454 |
959,826 | Fault tree analysis (FTA) was originally developed in 1962 at Bell Laboratories by H.A. Watson, under a U.S. Air Force Ballistics Systems Division contract to evaluate the Minuteman I Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Launch Control System. The use of fault trees has since gained widespread support and is often... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70526 | 959,318 |
250,350 | The defense mechanism most readily identifiable with Phasmatodea is camouflage, in the form of a plant mimicry. Most phasmids are known for effectively replicating the forms of sticks and leaves, and the bodies of some species (such as "Pseudodiacantha macklotti" and "Bactrododema centaurum") are covered in mossy or li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=341989 | 250,218 |
1,721,047 | Drosera aliciae, the Alice sundew, is a carnivorous plant in the family Droseraceae. It is native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa, like "Drosera capensis", the cape sundew, and is one of the most common sundews in cultivation. The plant forms small, tight rosettes of wedge-shaped leaves, up to 5 cm in diameter. U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1924294 | 1,720,077 |
1,358,937 | Severe famines across the African Sahel in the 1970s and 1980s led to a global response, and stopping desertification became a top priority. Conventional methods of raising exotic and indigenous tree species in nurseries were used. Despite investing millions of dollars and thousands of hours of labour, there was little... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10432337 | 1,358,186 |
138,997 | The Luna moth pupates after spinning a silk cocoon, which is thin and single layered. Shortly before pupation, the final, fifth-instar caterpillar will engage in a "gut dump" where any excess water and intestinal contents are expelled. As pupae, this species is more physically active than most moths. When disturbed, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=345366 | 138,941 |
1,337,165 | Architect Paul Rudolph partnered with Twitchell in 1947. Rudolph said that he chose to reside in Sarasota because, "For me, there is something about modern architecture which makes it more sympathetic to warm climates than cool climates." Rudolph had recently graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, under ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9314726 | 1,336,434 |
1,390,396 | Based on the principles of human-centered computing, the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC) at Arizona State University develops assistive, rehabilitative and healthcare applications. Founded by Sethuraman Panchanathan in 2001, CUbiC research spans three main areas of multimedia computing: sensing and pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1487249 | 1,389,625 |
1,716,994 | Feder's 1990 book "" attempts to explore various archaeological myths and misunderstandings by comparing phenomena that might otherwise appear unexplainable to similar occurrences and events that are scientifically documented. Gordon Stein, writing for "The Skeptical Inquirer", said of Feder's analysis, "While some of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12733481 | 1,716,025 |
520,199 | These fish can still, however, find their way around by means of their lateral lines, which are highly sensitive to fluctuating water pressure. Blindness in A. "mexicanus" induces a disruption of early neuromast patterning, which further causes asymmetries in cranial bone structure. One such asymmetry is a bend in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3209 | 519,928 |
601,273 | For a metal emitter, the "β"−value for a given position will be constant (independent of voltage) under the following conditions: (1) the apparatus is a "diode" arrangement, where the only electrodes present are the emitter and a set of "surroundings", all parts of which are at the same voltage; (2) no significant fiel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=293392 | 600,965 |
980,543 | The most likely value of a desired parameter (the mode) could then simply be selected by choosing the sample value that occurs most commonly; this is essentially equivalent to maximum a posteriori estimation of a parameter. (Since the parameters are usually continuous, it is often necessary to "bin" the sampled values ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=509709 | 980,031 |
1,747,430 | Besicovitch moved to Cambridge University in 1927, and by 1950 he had been appointed to the Rouse Ball Chair of Mathematics, which he held until his retirement in 1958, he then toured the US for eight years before returning to Trinity College Cambridge until his death in 1970. He was appointed Lecturer in the Faculty o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=404566 | 1,746,444 |
139,438 | The reviews for "Annihilation" have been generally positive. Jason Sheehan of National Public Radio described the book as page-turning and suspenseful, saying, "about three hours later, I looked up again with half the book behind me and wondered how I'd gotten from there to here." Salon.com named it book of the week wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42008766 | 139,381 |
982,492 | The pupal cocoon is spun from silk, but like the larval case, often has other materials attached. When pupating, species that build portable cases attach them to some underwater object, seal the front and back apertures against predators while still allowing water to flow through, and pupate within it. Once fully devel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1529533 | 981,980 |
261,399 | Obtaining British permission was easy thanks to the wartime comradeship between the RAF and the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). Bypassing the politicians, General Carl Spaatz, the commander of the USAAF, came to an agreement with the Chief of the Air Staff, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Tedder, in June and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2095669 | 261,260 |
2,638 | The F-22's ability to operate close to the battlefield gives the aircraft threat detection and identification capability comparative with the RC-135 Rivet Joint, and the ability to function as a "mini-AWACS", though its radar is less powerful than those of dedicated platforms. This allows the F-22 to rapidly designate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66299 | 2,638 |
69,435 | The appendix has been identified as an important component of mammalian mucosal immune function, particularly B cell-mediated immune responses and extrathymically derived T cells. This structure helps in the proper movement and removal of waste matter in the digestive system, contains lymphatic vessels that regulate pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99611 | 69,408 |
150,157 | The School of Systems and Enterprises (SSE) features faculty with industry and government experience to provide real-world applications to its students. SSE offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, along with a combined bachelor's and master's program and graduate certificates. SSE offers flexibility in its gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292132 | 150,089 |
1,000,936 | Since the 1970s, the empirical study of networks has played a central role in social science, and many of the mathematical and statistical tools used for studying networks have been first developed in sociology. Amongst many other applications, social network analysis has been used to understand the diffusion of innova... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=766409 | 1,000,418 |
1,421,907 | On 23 August 2011, the SWICS time-of-flight electronics experienced an age- and radiation-induced hardware anomaly that increased the level of background in the composition data. To mitigate the effects of this background, the model for identifying ions in the data was adjusted to take advantage of only the ion energy-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1009525 | 1,421,106 |
1,505,293 | The birds in Calcariidae were formerly assigned to the family Emberizidae (typically known as buntings in the Old World and sparrows in the New World). A 2008 phylogenetic study by Alström and colleagues confirmed that the members of this family form a clade quite separated from the Emberizidae, with affinities instead... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33372510 | 1,504,447 |
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