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2,076,036 | The Eagles entered the 2013–14 season following a first round loss to Union College in the NCAA tournament, and a semifinals loss to Boston University in the Hockey East Tournament. Their postseason woes do not accurately reflect the success of the season, as the Eagles finished with a strong 22–12–4 record and 15–9–3 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39883248 | 2,074,839 |
236,915 | The first "Apatosaurus" fossils were discovered by Arthur Lakes, a local miner, and his friend Henry C. Beckwith in the spring of 1877 in Morrison, a town in the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Gunnison County, Colorado. Arthur Lakes wrote to Othniel Charles Marsh, Professor of Paleontology at Yale Universi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1346 | 236,796 |
1,047,173 | Neutrons are intensively used for materials research at PSI because they enable unique and non-destructive access to the interior of materials on a scale ranging from the size of atoms to objects a centimetre long. They therefore serve as ideal probes for investigating fundamental and applied research topics, such as q... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1053016 | 1,046,628 |
1,461,496 | The most direct of related disorders, deafferentation occurs when sensory input from the body is reduced or absent, without affecting efferent, or motor, neurons. The most famous case of this disorder is "IW", who lost all sensory input from below the neck, resulting in temporary paralysis. He was forced to learn to co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14782003 | 1,460,674 |
683,456 | During the 1990s, Hamilton became increasingly interested in the controversial argument that the origin of HIV lay in oral polio vaccines trials conducted by Hilary Koprowski in Africa during the 1950s. A letter by Hamilton on the topic to the major peer-reviewed journal "Science" was rejected in 1996. Despite this rej... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=151959 | 683,100 |
710,630 | In a 1971 paper in the journal "Science", SUNY Downstate Medical Center professor Damadian reported that tumors can be detected in vivo by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) because of much longer relaxation times than normal tissue. He suggested that these differences could be used to detect cancer, even in the early st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1041011 | 710,259 |
982,953 | The merger of binary neutron stars (BNSs) is now believed to be the main source of r-process elements. Being neutron-rich by definition, collisions of this type had been suspected of being a source of such elements, but definitive evidence was difficult to obtain. In 2017 strong evidence emerged, when LIGO, VIRGO, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48903 | 982,440 |
1,088,016 | For quantitative cell cycle analysis, cells are usually fixed with ethanol and stained with DNA-binding dyes like propidium iodide, Hoechst 33342, DAPI, 7-Aminoactinomysin D, Mithramycin, DRAQ5, or TO-PRO-3, allowing for determination of phase by DNA quantity. However, if these cells have been fixed, they are dead and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13092651 | 1,087,457 |
1,825,614 | The Government medical college and hospital Sundargarh was initiated to provide optimum health facilities to improve the doctor population ratio to the population of the district. Which is the mostly tribal. The foundation stone was laid by Honourable Chief Minister Sri Naveen Patnaik on Dt.22.01.2014. The college and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71946149 | 1,824,576 |
2,205,358 | Orange carotenoid-binding proteins (OCP) were first identified in cyanobacterial species, where they occur associated with phycobilisome in the cellular thylakoid membrane. These proteins function in photoprotection, and are essential for non-photochemical quenching (NPQ). In full-length OCP, the NPQ activity is regula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32190524 | 2,204,102 |
806,922 | Raymond has claimed that "Gays experimented with unfettered promiscuity in the 1970s and got AIDS as a consequence", and that "Police who react to a random black male behaving suspiciously who might be in the critical age range as though he is an near-imminent lethal threat, are being rational, not racist." A progressi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9469 | 806,492 |
1,809,124 | Phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE-5) inhibitors are the first-line drugs indicated for erectile dysfunction (ED), implying the sustained impairment of erectile functioning, which may lead to unsatisfactory sexual performance. Specific PDE-5 inhibitors are also approved for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia, pulmonar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70560168 | 1,808,103 |
763,841 | The University School of Government and Public Policy has a long tradition of interacting with national and global media organizations, governments, parliaments and international organizations such as the EU and OECD. Political science therefore takes 1st place in Scotland in the terms of research intensity. According ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=224318 | 763,432 |
623,770 | The work of Ali Qushji (d. 1474), who worked at Samarkand and then Istanbul, is seen as a late example of innovation in Islamic theoretical astronomy and it is believed he may have possibly had some influence on Nicolaus Copernicus due to similar arguments concerning the Earth's rotation. Before Qushji, the only astron... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012554 | 623,438 |
23,102 | Carbon dioxide (chemical formula ) is a chemical compound made up of molecules that each have one carbon atom covalently double bonded to two oxygen atoms. It is found in the gas state at room temperature. In the air, carbon dioxide is transparent to visible light but absorbs infrared radiation, acting as a greenhouse ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5906 | 23,093 |
1,909,113 | The Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO), informally named the "Olympics of the Mind," is a youth program of the NAACP that is "designed to recruit, stimulate, improve and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among African American high school students." The year-long prog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21345724 | 1,908,015 |
737,013 | Most individuals with variant angina have a favorable prognosis provided they are maintained on calcium channel blockers and/or long-acting nitrates; five-year survival rates in this group are estimated as over 90%. The Japanese Coronary Spasm Association established a clinical risk scoring system to predict outcomes f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3213678 | 736,624 |
1,554,606 | This was the 16th appearance of the event, previously held in 1896 and then at every Summer Olympics since 1936. It replaced the individual time trial event that had been held from 1912 to 1932; the time trial had been re-introduced in 1996 alongside the road race. The change to including professionals in 1996 meant th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11007942 | 1,553,725 |
1,439,754 | From the perspective of the theory, sonata form engages two principal levels of compositional design: tonal and rhetorical. The tonal layout of sonata form has frequently been described by theorists, and involves a motion from the tonic to a secondary key in the exposition, answered by a return and solidification of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20877890 | 1,438,944 |
695,186 | The early part of the 19th century from 1815 to 1848 saw a long period of peace in Europe, accompanied by extraordinary industrial expansion. The industrial age brought about various technological advancements, each with their own implication. Land warfare moved from visual-range and semi person-to-person combat of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3238121 | 694,822 |
965,962 | Both Lr and Lr have half-lives too short to allow a complete chemical purification process. Early experiments with Lr therefore used rapid solvent extraction, with the chelating agent thenoyltrifluoroacetone (TTA) dissolved in methyl isobutyl ketone (MIBK) as the organic phase, and with the aqueous phase being buffered... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17746 | 965,453 |
840,902 | In the early IBM PC market (1981–1983) the major programming tool vendors all made compilers that worked in a similar fashion. For example, the Microsoft Pascal system consisted of two compiler passes and a final linking pass (which could take minutes on systems with only floppy disks for secondary storage, although pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38273 | 840,452 |
1,799,784 | There is no standardized evaluation of the symptoms of UAB, in part due to the historic terminologic confusion. A thorough history aimed at detecting underlying disease or prior pelvic surgeries is certainly necessary. As a perception of volume mishandling, a voiding diary (to assess voided volumes and frequency of voi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32499609 | 1,798,775 |
1,983,340 | In the 1960s and 1970s, a number of structures were hypothesised that would give a net-zero helical twist over the length of the DNA, either by being fully straight throughout or by alternating right-handed and left-handed helical twists. For example, in 1969, a linear tetramer structure was hypothesised, and in 1976, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35224853 | 1,982,201 |
904,970 | CNG, or compressed natural gas, is stored at high pressure, . The required tank is more massive and costly than a conventional fuel tank. Commercial on-demand refueling stations are more expensive to operate than LNG stations because of the energy required for compression; the compressor requires 100 times more electri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1038887 | 904,494 |
5,761 | Socrates (; ; –399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous accounts of classical writers, particular... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25664190 | 5,758 |
1,404,811 | Small photophores, which are glandular, light-producing organs, are found in high concentrations along the entire body of "H. heteropsis". The photophores are more dense near the anterior head region of the squid and become smaller and farther apart near the posterior end. Apart from "H. meleagroteuthis", "H. heterops... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43161944 | 1,404,021 |
116,728 | That October, Wallace built a counter to demonstrate the principle. Owing to financial constraints, the aperture was made by burning a hole through a piece of cellophane from a cigarette package. Wallace filed a patent for the technique in 1949, and in 1951 applied to the Office of Naval Research to fund the developmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241565 | 116,683 |
2,055,176 | Rose's designs incorporate energy-efficient features, such as geothermal, planted roofs, and louver systems that increase natural lighting. Its most energy-efficient building – a brick-and-copper-clad 25,000-square-foot transit center in Greenfield, Ma. – is designed to produce as much energy as it uses by drawing on g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33250458 | 2,053,993 |
200,004 | The prediction that light represented a transmission of energy in wave form through a "luminiferous ether", and the seeming confirmation of that prediction with Helmholtz student Heinrich Hertz's 1888 detection of electromagnetic radiation, was a major triumph for physical theory and raised the possibility that even mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13758 | 199,901 |
884,110 | There are many substances that are purported to have promise in augmenting human cognition by various means. These substances are called nootropics and can potentially benefit individuals with cognitive decline and many different disorders, but may also be capable of yielding results in cognitively healthy persons. Gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3877892 | 883,646 |
75,246 | In 2017, NASA conducted a study to determine the feasibility of preventing the volcano from erupting. The results suggested that cooling the magma chamber by 35 percent would be enough to forestall such an incident. NASA proposed introducing water at high pressure 10 kilometers underground. The circulating water would ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=379647 | 75,218 |
1,890,674 | Microsomal epoxide hydrolase is a single polypeptide chain composed of 455 amino acids with a molecular weight of 52.96 kilodaltons. It is known that the N-terminal region of the enzyme is responsible for anchoring the protein to the cell membrane, while the C-terminal region of the enzyme contains catalytic residues. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14220706 | 1,889,591 |
2,137,031 | John Woollam was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. His interest in physics, engineering, and business was stimulated by his father, Arthur E. Woollam, who ran a water pump company in Kalamazoo. As a teenager John was not interested very much in school classes, but he spent hours at his father's company studying and building... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39377871 | 2,135,802 |
1,852,166 | A slowly pulsating B-type star (SPB), formerly known as a 53 Persei variable, is a type of pulsating variable star. They may also be termed a long-period pulsating B star (LPB). As the name implies, they are main-sequence stars of spectral type B2 to B9 (3 to 9 times as massive as the Sun) that pulsate with periods bet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43194253 | 1,851,105 |
1,010,743 | Amiga ports received lower ratings than the PC original (which holds an average score of 93.60% at GameRankings), according to Amiga HOL database having averaged scores of 79% on the ECS/OCS Amigas, 82% on the AGA Amigas and 73% for the Amiga CD32 version. A common point of criticism for the floppy disk version was the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=668164 | 1,010,222 |
164,871 | In the early 1960s, before the types of histones were known and before histones were known to be highly conserved across taxonomically diverse organisms, James F. Bonner and his collaborators began a study of these proteins that were known to be tightly associated with the DNA in the nucleus of higher organisms. Bonner... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14029 | 164,786 |
1,209,667 | The practical performances of polycrystalline materials are strongly affected by the formed microstructure inside, which is mostly dominated by grain growth behaviors. For example, most materials exhibit the Hall–Petch effect at room-temperature and so display a higher yield stress when the grain size is reduced (assum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4301763 | 1,209,020 |
78,133 | The kilogram was originally defined as the mass of one cubic decimetre of water at 4 °C, standardized as the mass of a man-made artefact of platinum–iridium held in a laboratory in France, which was used until a new definition was introduced in May 2019. Replicas made in 1879 at the time of the artefact's fabrication a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44142 | 78,104 |
496,696 | In the above formulae formula_14 and formula_15 denote the creation and annihilation operators respectively, while "i", "j" stand for occupied (hole) and "a", "b" for unoccupied (particle) orbitals (states). The creation and annihilation operators in the coupled-cluster terms above are written in canonical form, where ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=429789 | 496,440 |
1,782,347 | Ovotransferrin is folded in a way that forms two lobes (N- and C- terminals) and each lobe consists of a binding site. Each lobe is then divided into two domains of 160 amino acid residues. Its structure also consists of fifteen disulfide crosslinks and no free sulfhydryl groups. Disulfide groups stabilize the tertiary... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10775911 | 1,781,343 |
586,749 | By 1871, the strategy of a railway connection was being used to bring British Columbia into federation and Fleming was offered the chief engineer post on the Canadian Pacific Railway. Although he hesitated because of the amount of work he had, in 1872 he set off with a small party to survey the route, particularly thro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155588 | 586,449 |
1,186,368 | The main advantage of Dectra compared to other systems being proposed for the RTCA solution was that it could be used for both medium-range navigation over land, as well as long-range navigation over the Atlantic. In comparison, the VOR/DME system that ultimately won the competition offered navigation over perhaps a 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8949 | 1,185,739 |
751,833 | In 1900, Wieland described a second species, "A. marshii", from remains collected in 1898 by American paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh, to whom the species name refers, on the basis that the shell underside (plastron) was thicker and the humeri were straighter. However, in 1909, Wieland reclassified it as "Protoste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=933173 | 751,431 |
541,074 | The estimation of the extrapolation to ATE from the LATE requires certain key assumptions, which may vary from one approach to another. While some may assume homogeneity within covariates, and thus extrapolate based on strata, others may instead assume monotonicity. All will assume the absence of defiers within the exp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59434042 | 540,794 |
1,041,228 | The sugar residues in the tetrasaccaride and the fatty acid residues in the phosphatidylinositol group vary depending on the protein. This great diversity is what allows the GPI proteins to have a wide range of functions including acting as hydrolytic enzymes, adhesion molecule, receptors, protease inhibitor and comple... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=169250 | 1,040,685 |
1,007,489 | The field of urban design holds enormous potential for helping us address today's biggest challenges: an expanding population, mass urbanization, rising inequality, and climate change. In its practice as well as its theories, urban design attempts to tackle these pressing issues. As climate change progresses, urban des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50345 | 1,006,969 |
224,639 | A 2008 research paper claimed that practicing a dual n-back task can increase fluid intelligence (Gf), as measured in several different standard tests. This finding received some attention from popular media, including an article in "Wired". However, a subsequent criticism of the paper's methodology questioned the expe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=168191 | 224,525 |
85,096 | The physics of radioactive decay also affects neutron populations in a reactor. One such process is delayed neutron emission by a number of neutron-rich fission isotopes. These delayed neutrons account for about 0.65% of the total neutrons produced in fission, with the remainder (termed "prompt neutrons") released imme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22151 | 85,062 |
819,534 | The exact amount of carbon dioxide levels is still under debate, however. In 2001, Sleep and Zahnle suggested that increased weathering on the seafloor on a young, tectonically active Earth could have reduced carbon dioxide levels. Then in 2010, Rosing et al. analyzed marine sediments called banded iron formations (BIF... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2202381 | 819,093 |
1,973,037 | The phylogeny generated by Fiore-Donna supported the close relationship between Trichiales and Liceales as well as other taxonomy predicted by morphology. In more recent research, it has been the delineation between Trichiales and Liceales that has come into discussion. Liceales is a complex order that is not likely mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23388130 | 1,971,902 |
241,882 | Physicists had believed that there were four fundamental forces of nature: the gravitational force, the strong and weak nuclear forces, and the electromagnetic force. Salam had worked on the unification of these forces from 1959 with Glashow and Weinberg. While at Imperial College London, Salam successfully showed that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=304427 | 241,756 |
1,704,768 | While British composers may have led the way in writing for euphonium in an ensemble setting, it was Americans who wrote the first of the "new school" of serious, artistic solo works written specifically for euphonium. The first two examples are Warner Hutchison's "Sonatina" (1966) and Donald White's "Lyric Suite" (197... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11795070 | 1,703,812 |
236,944 | The Morrison Formation is a sequence of shallow marine and alluvial sediments which, according to radiometric dating, dates from between 156.3mya at its base, and 146.8mya at the top, placing it in the late Oxfordian, Kimmeridgian, and early Tithonian stages of the Late Jurassic period. This formation is interpreted as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1346 | 236,825 |
890,682 | Sequencing and epitope prediction algorithms identified neoantigens in mouse tumors that functioned as tumor-specific T cell targets. Neoantigens were recognized by T cells in melanoma patients and were likely the major contributor to positive clinical effects of adoptive cell transfer. Mouse models established that ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9132492 | 890,213 |
1,725,882 | Some cortical implants have been designed to improve cognitive function. These implants are placed in the prefrontal cortex or the hippocampus. Implants in the prefrontal cortex help restore attention, decision-making and movement selection by duplicating the minicolumnar organization of neural firings. A hippocampal p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49706798 | 1,724,911 |
1,391,107 | Generally, the motor(s) fed a single axle, with other wheels linked by connecting rods, as the induction motor is sensitive to speed variations and with non-linked motors on several axles the motors on worn wheels would do little or even no work as they would rotate faster. This motor characteristic led to a mishap in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27328585 | 1,390,336 |
291,511 | A common way "around" Arrow's paradox is limiting the alternative set to two alternatives. Thus, whenever more than two alternatives should be put to the test, it seems very tempting to use a mechanism that pairs them and votes by pairs. As tempting as this mechanism seems at first glance, it is generally far from sati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89425 | 291,353 |
338,939 | Like conventional photography, holography requires an appropriate exposure time to correctly affect the recording medium. Unlike conventional photography, during the exposure the light source, the optical elements, the recording medium, and the subject must all remain motionless relative to each other, to within about ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66338 | 338,759 |
509,731 | Turok was born on 16 November 1958 in Johannesburg, South Africa, to Mary (Butcher) and Byelorussian-born Ben Turok, who were activists in the anti-apartheid movement and the African National Congress. After graduating from Churchill College, Cambridge, Turok gained his doctorate from Imperial College, London, under th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=733002 | 509,467 |
612,429 | In a typical hemp system, a "line set" consists of multiple hemp lines running from a batten above the stage up to the grid, through loft blocks to a headblock and then down to the fly floor, where they are tied off in a group to a belaying pin on the pin rail. The lift lines and hand (operating) lines are one and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2570216 | 612,118 |
754,628 | In the early 1970s American Chicago School economist Robert E. Lucas, Jr. (1937–) founded New Classical Macroeconomics based on Milton Friedman's monetarist critique of Keynesian macroeconomics, and the idea of rational expectations, first proposed in 1961 by John F. Muth, opposing the idea that government intervention... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7881361 | 754,225 |
568,469 | Soft materials are important in a wide range of technological applications. They may appear as structural and packaging materials, foams and adhesives, detergents and cosmetics, paints, food additives, lubricants and fuel additives, rubber in tires, etc. In addition, a number of biological materials (blood, muscle, mil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=616293 | 568,179 |
1,383,221 | Some vertebroplasty practitioners and some health care professional organizations continue to advocate for the procedure. In 2010, the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons released a statement recommending strongly against use of vertebroplasty for osteoporotic spinal compression fractures... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=508146 | 1,382,454 |
577,346 | Stereoscopic acuity, the ability to judge relative distances of different objects, is considerably reduced underwater, and this is affected by the field of vision. A narrow field of vision caused by a small viewport in a helmet results in greatly reduced stereoacuity, and associated loss of hand-eye coordination. At ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6752609 | 577,050 |
1,842,766 | The CASP14 gene encodes a member of the cysteine-aspartic acid protease (caspase) family. Sequential activation of caspases plays a central role in the execution-phase of cell apoptosis. Caspases exist as inactive proenzymes which undergo proteolytic processing at conserved aspartic residues to produce two subunits, la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14794876 | 1,841,713 |
1,779,142 | By September, several Blenheims were equipped with what was now officially known as AI Mk. I and training of the crews began with No. 25 Squadron at RAF Northolt. Robert Hanbury Brown, a physicist who would later work on radar in the US, and Keith Wood joined them in August 1939, helping fitters keep the systems operat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43239543 | 1,778,140 |
789,829 | "TAU mission" (Thousand Astronomical Units) was a proposed nuclear electric rocket craft that used a 1 MW fission reactor and an ion drive with a burn time of about 10 years to reach a speed of 106 km/s (about 20 AU/year) to achieve a distance of 1000 AU in 50 years. The primary goal of the mission was to improve paral... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1944758 | 789,404 |
1,946,188 | The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) was established in 1954 as a UK government research organization responsible for the development of nuclear fusion power. The National Non-Destructive Testing Centre (NNDTC) was created at UKAEA's Harwell research establishment in 1967. The center's formation created a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8954995 | 1,945,076 |
1,123,555 | Grignard was drafted into the French military as part of obligatory military service in 1892. Within the two years of his first session of service he rose to the rank of corporal. He was demobilized in 1894 and returned to Lyon to pursue his education. He was awarded a medal of the Legion of Honour and made a Chevalier... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=900383 | 1,122,981 |
726,182 | Development of the AW249 formally started upon receipt of a €487 million contract from the Italian Army as a replacement for the Agusta A129 Mangusta. It is to be larger, more survivable, and have greater autonomy than the Mangusta, incorporating stealth technologies and mission systems to control unmanned aerial vehic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55802012 | 725,801 |
50,609 | Another revolution came in the form of a stronger reliance on ease of maintenance, which led to standardization of parts, reductions in the numbers of access panels and lubrication points, and overall parts reduction in more complicated equipment like the engines. Some early jet fighters required 50 man-hours of work b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10929 | 50,589 |
1,076,686 | Machinery's Handbook "for machine shop and drafting-room; a reference book on machine design and shop practice for the mechanical engineer, draftsman, toolmaker, and machinist" (the full title of the 1st edition) is a classic reference work in mechanical engineering and practical workshop mechanics in one volume publis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1414078 | 1,076,131 |
2,060,455 | All extracurricular groups were student-led. Clubs included the Philosophy Club (held weekly at Meiklejohn's house), the Law Group, the Forum, and the Experimental College Players (a theater troupe). The Philosophy Club discussed topics such as the self and the relation between philosophy and science, for which Meiklej... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41013618 | 2,059,268 |
9,781 | In 2003, a recent addition to the Boeing board of directors, James McNerney (who would become Boeing's Chairman and CEO in 2005), supported the need for a new aircraft to regain market share from Airbus. The directors on Boeing's board, Harry Stonecipher (Boeing's President and CEO) and John McDonnell issued an ultimat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=307133 | 9,777 |
1,036,768 | Early studies of quasi-1-D conductors were motivated by a proposal, in 1964, that certain types of polymer chain compounds could exhibit superconductivity with a high critical temperature "T". The theory was based on the idea that pairing of electrons in the BCS theory of superconductivity could be mediated by interact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9504117 | 1,036,228 |
341,597 | In 1935, the National Association of Basketball Coaches (founded by Naismith's pupil Phog Allen) collected money so the 74-year-old Naismith could witness the introduction of basketball into the official Olympic sports program of the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin. There, Naismith handed out the medals to three No... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=86346 | 341,416 |
1,818,527 | Joanne Weaver of Fort Wayne won her third consecutive batting title in a row, this time clearing the .400 batting average barrier with a .429 mark. Not since Ted Williams in the majors in 1941 (.406) and minor leaguer Artie Wilson in 1948 (.402) had someone broken the .400 barrier, and nobody has done it since. Weaver ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34739573 | 1,817,492 |
1,420,176 | Solar power is 2,339 MW grid connected by mid-2022, a relatively recent arrival in Denmark. Significant generation first occurred in 2012 with 104 GWh of electricity generation. By 2014 this had risen to 597 GWh. The large increase in solar deployment in 2012 was aided by incentives including tax credits and net settle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49842447 | 1,419,377 |
174,913 | Other important advances occurred in the technical field. The first navigation aid, GEE, was introduced to help pilots to find their targets. Window, small metal strips dropped from aircraft, was introduced to help confuse the German radars. Planes also got their own radar, the H2S radar system. It provided a radar map... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=202102 | 174,822 |
1,991,630 | The first two cases detected in the US were two children living in San Diego County and Imperial County who became ill on March 28 and 30 respectively. A CDC alert concerning these two isolated cases was reported in the media on April 21. As of April 24 eight human cases were known in the US, including six in Southern ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23392449 | 1,990,487 |
1,277,965 | "Twin Spica" and its prequel stories make various references to historical figures and events in space exploration. Throughout the manga and the anime, Mr. Lion carries with him a harmonica, one of the first musical instruments to be played in space. A harmonica and bell set was carried aboard the Gemini 6A spaceflight... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4551091 | 1,277,272 |
190,397 | Oil was first discovered in Prudhoe Bay in 1968 and the 800 miles of 48" steel pipe was ordered from Japan in 1969 (US steel manufacturers did not have the capacity at that time) however, construction was delayed for nearly 5 years due to legal and environmental issues. The eight oil companies that owned the rights to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=197732 | 190,300 |
2,070,524 | The seven courtyard bas reliefs were designed in an Iowa City workshop, and the terra cotta panels were created using a kiln designed by Paul E. Cox, a professor of ceramic engineering at what was then Iowa State College. The use of terra cotta for the panels was rare by the 1930s. The central panel depicts three Jerse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53223865 | 2,069,333 |
615,771 | "F. oxysporum" is a common soil pathogen and saprophyte that feeds on dead and decaying organic matter. It survives in the soil debris as a mycelium and all spore types, but is most commonly recovered from the soil as chlamydospores. This pathogen spreads in two basic ways: it spreads short distances by water splash, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=770092 | 615,457 |
1,902,415 | In the UK, the regulatory framework is largely being shaped by a report commissioned by the UK Government in 2012, whose purpose was to identify the problems around hydraulic fracturing and to advise the country's regulatory agencies. Jointly published by the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering, under th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35494376 | 1,901,325 |
1,788,755 | The main management tools for avoiding yield reduction and severe damage of plants are preventive methods. The use of certified virus-free seeds and timing of planting are crucial to avoid high vector populations when plants are still young. Infected seeds are the most important way that SMV is transmitted and serve as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12458135 | 1,787,749 |
460,203 | During the Late Cretaceous period (around 95 million years ago), the Western Interior Seaway isolated western North America (Laramidia) from eastern North America (Appalachia), and occasionally isolated depositional basins from each other. This led to the development of highly endemic ecosystems in Laramidia; these eco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40996456 | 459,977 |
385,924 | Rhesus macaques interact using a variety of facial expressions, vocalizations, body postures, and gestures. Perhaps the most common facial expression the macaque makes is the "silent bared teeth" face. This is made between individuals of different social ranks, with the lower-ranking one giving the expression to its su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=423943 | 385,729 |
23,732 | The status of the use of aspirin for the primary prevention in cardiovascular disease is conflicting and inconsistent, with recent changes from previously recommending it widely decades ago, and that some referenced newer trials in clinical guidelines show less of benefit of adding aspirin alongside other anti-hyperten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1525 | 23,723 |
723,375 | Historically, there have been challenges to civilian control. Most notably, during the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur ignored civilian instructions regarding advancing troops toward the Yalu River, which triggered an introduction of massive forces from China. Also, on April 5, 1950, Representative Joseph William... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34010678 | 722,995 |
251,263 | German audio engineers working on magnetic tape developed stereo recording by 1941. Of 250 stereophonic recordings made during WW2, only three survive: Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto with Walter Gieseking and Arthur Rother, a Brahms Serenade, and the last movement of Bruckner's 8th Symphony with Von Karajan. Other earl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2417230 | 251,130 |
88,352 | In January 2001, the Chinese signed an agreement with Transrapid to build an EMS high-speed maglev line to link Pudong International Airport with Longyang Road Metro station on the southeastern edge of Shanghai. This Shanghai Maglev Train demonstration line, or Initial Operating Segment (IOS), has been in commercial op... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=822307 | 88,317 |
195,684 | After 2016, as the counterinsurgency operations in CENTCOM were drawing down, the US Department of Defense began to prepare for large scale combat operations (LSCO) against near-peer adversaries. These adversaries are expected to be capable of integrated, coordinated, near-simultaneous operation in multiple domains (MD... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2726726 | 195,584 |
720,220 | Mary and Louis Leakey had three sons: Jonathan, born in 1940, Richard in 1944, and Philip in 1949. Their fourth child, a daughter, died as a baby. The three boys received much of their early childhood care at various anthropological sites and, whenever possible, the Leakeys excavated and explored as a family. The child... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=677297 | 719,840 |
1,581,921 | Ramamurti Rajaraman (born 11 March 1939) is an Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at the School of Physical Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He was also the co-Chairman of the International Panel on Fissile Materials and a member of the "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists'" Science and Security Board. He ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47861763 | 1,581,031 |
1,633,373 | The boundary used for the region included Iceland, but not Greenland; all of Macaronesia (islands off Portugal and North Africa); North Africa; the northern parts of the Arabian peninsula; Iraq and Kuwait, but not Iran; and Russia west of the Urals. A number of subsequent papers have questioned the appropriateness of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15102145 | 1,632,451 |
378,347 | Transcutaneous pacing (TCP), also called external pacing, is recommended for the initial stabilization of hemodynamically significant bradycardias of all types. The procedure is performed by placing two pacing pads on the patient's chest, either in the anterior/lateral position or the anterior/posterior position. The r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80732 | 378,152 |
855,600 | In 1994, Ebright was awarded the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Schering-Plough Award for his research on transcription activation. In 1995, he received the Academic Press Walter J. Johnson Prize. In 2013, he received a National Institutes of Health MERIT Award. He was elected as a Fellow of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33325298 | 855,145 |
1,825,601 | In 1999, Elkana began his tenure as President and Rector of the Central European University, succeeding Josef Jarab. The third rector of the university in nine years, Elkana held the post until being replaced in August 2009 by John Shattuck. Early in his tenure, Elkana came under fire for his handling of the dismissal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27297924 | 1,824,563 |
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