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40,374 | From 1953 to 1958, Johnson worked as a computer, analyzing topics such as gust alleviation for aircraft. Originally assigned to the West Area Computers section supervised by mathematician Dorothy Vaughan, Johnson was reassigned to the Guidance and Control Division of Langley's Flight Research Division. It was staffed b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25568315 | 40,359 |
1,685,645 | The dynamics of the particles in complex fluids are an area of current research. Energy lost due to friction may be a nonlinear function of the velocity and normal forces. The topological inhibition to flow by the crowding of constituent particles is a key element in these systems. Under certain conditions, including h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1799157 | 1,684,699 |
626,703 | Rudimentary naval fire control systems were first developed around the time of World War I. Arthur Pollen and Frederic Charles Dreyer independently developed the first such systems. Pollen began working on the problem after noting the poor accuracy of naval artillery at a gunnery practice near Malta in 1900. Lord Kelvi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2616001 | 626,370 |
135,380 | The ability to learn temporal patterns in sequenced actions was investigated in elementary-school-age children. Temporal learning depends upon a process of integrating timing patterns with action sequences. Children ages 6–13 and young adults performed a serial response time task in which a response and a timing sequen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9627698 | 135,325 |
255,047 | E1 is produced when gamma radiation from the nuclear detonation ionizes (strips electrons from) atoms in the upper atmosphere. This is known as the Compton effect and the resulting current is called the "Compton current". The electrons travel in a generally downward direction at relativistic speeds (more than 90 per ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41097 | 254,914 |
412,076 | The fertilised eggs hatch to release free-swimming vitellaria larvae. The bilaterally symmetrical larva is barrel-shaped with rings of cilia running round the body, and a tuft of sensory hairs at the upper pole. While both feeding (planktotrophic) and non-feeding (lecithotrophic) larvae exist among the four other extan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62175 | 411,874 |
2,065,241 | The Bears won their third consecutive game on January 16 with a shootout victory over the Worcester Sharks. Grubauer stopped four of five shootout attempts by the Sharks, while Mitchell and Potulny scored on the shootout for the win. But that game was followed by a season-high four-game losing streak, which included a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38828912 | 2,064,050 |
858,444 | "Agincourt" mounted fourteen BL 12-inch Mk XIII 45-calibre guns in seven twin hydraulically powered turrets, unofficially named after the days of the week, starting from Sunday, forward to aft. This was the largest number of turrets and heavy guns ever mounted on a dreadnought battleship. The guns could be depressed to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=872892 | 857,986 |
2,082,076 | The satellite was to be built by the partnership between NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and UAH with the primary objective of testing a newly developed small expendable deployer system developed for NASA's Space Shuttle, while allowing the students to add instrumentation to complete secondary missions after the pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63079512 | 2,080,876 |
1,039,478 | The South Korean version, designated K-LOGIR, is used on the ROK Marine Corps "Bigung" (Poniard) mobile coastal defense system. Bigung is a 6×6 truck fitted with 2×18-round containers for 36 rockets to counter North Korean Fast Inshore Attack Craft (FIAC), landing craft and landing vehicles. The rockets are equipped wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12019974 | 1,038,937 |
1,556,178 | Critics of the insurance, say that such insurance places the bulk of the economic burden on communities responsible for the least amount of carbon emissions. For low-income countries, these insurance programmes can be expensive due to the high start-up costs and infrastructure requirements for the data collection. It i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65791683 | 1,555,294 |
971,653 | The British entered the war with the long-handled impact detonating "Grenade, Hand No 1". This was replaced by the No. 15 "Ball Grenade" to partially overcome some of its inadequacies. An improvised hand grenade was developed in Australia for use by ANZAC troops called the Double Cylinder "jam tin" which consisted of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=326213 | 971,143 |
500,710 | In empirical (similarity, homology or evidence-based) gene finding systems, the target genome is searched for sequences that are similar to extrinsic evidence in the form of the known expressed sequence tags, messenger RNA (mRNA), protein products, and homologous or orthologous sequences. Given an mRNA sequence, it is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=579390 | 500,453 |
1,520,256 | The fruit bodies (technically called apothecia) typically grow in groups, or sometimes crowded closely together, with small stems or missing them entirely. Initially, the fruit bodies are closed and roughly spherical, but as they develop they expand to become cup-shaped, or almost flat. The inner surface of the cups be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24551515 | 1,519,395 |
1,851,414 | Like many competitions modeled after the X prize, competitors have to meet a minimum baseline, and then prizes are awarded to the best entry that exceed that target. In 2005, there was only a climbing challenge, and none of the entrants met the minimum speed requirement of 1 m/s. Starting in 2006, , sponsored by spacew... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40533764 | 1,850,353 |
2,201,766 | In 1898 and 1899, Halliday studied ophthalmology in England before returning to Sydney and establishing a general practice at Rockdale, New South Wales. He commenced special practice in Macquarie Street, Sydney in 1901 and was appointed as Clinical Assistant in Ophthalmology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPA). Five ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36116664 | 2,200,513 |
1,563,995 | Bates has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and other sources; been a Carnegie Scholar, an Olin Fellow at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and Moore Fellow at the California Institute of Technology; and received the Riker Prize from the Unive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3062984 | 1,563,108 |
1,183,911 | Built by NEC, ES was based on their SX-6 architecture. It consisted of 640 nodes with eight vector processors and 16 gigabytes of computer memory at each node, for a total of 5120 processors and 10 terabytes of memory. Two nodes were installed per 1 metre × 1.4 metre × 2 metre cabinet. Each cabinet consumed 20 kW of po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=83971 | 1,183,284 |
168,427 | Nd:YAG lasers are used in manufacturing for engraving, etching, or marking a variety of metals and plastics, or for metal surface enhancement processes like laser peening. They are extensively used in manufacturing for cutting and welding steel, semiconductors and various alloys. For automotive applications (cutting an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=489658 | 168,337 |
586,535 | In 1972 Paul Berg used restriction enzymes and DNA ligases to create the first recombinant DNA molecules. He combined DNA from the monkey virus SV40 with that of the lambda virus. Herbert Boyer and Stanley Norman Cohen took Berg's work a step further and introduced recombinant DNA into a bacterial cell. Cohen was resea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37214939 | 586,235 |
36,604 | The lack of distinct biomarkers is the reason CTE cannot typically be diagnosed while a person is alive. Concussions are non-structural injuries and do not result in brain bleeding, which is why most concussions cannot be seen on routine neuroimaging tests such as CT or MRI. Acute concussion symptoms (those that occur ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7251223 | 36,592 |
739,383 | The transmission coefficient formula_4 is often assumed to be equal to one as it reflects what fraction of the flux through the transition state proceeds to the product without recrossing the transition state. So, a transmission coefficient equal to one means that the fundamental no-recrossing assumption of transition ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3766499 | 738,991 |
1,832,028 | Changsha University (CCSU; ) is located in Changsha, Hunan, central south of China. Changsha University, or Changsha college, is authorized by the Ministry of Education May 2004. Reconstruction and update based on Changsha University status (specialized subject) that is an ordinary undergraduate course in colleges and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37272729 | 1,830,981 |
1,386,667 | The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) was set up by resolution of the United Nations General Assembly in 1955. 21 states are designated to provide scientists to serve as members of the committee which holds formal meetings (sessions) annually and submits a report to the Ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9668094 | 1,385,900 |
777,445 | The conversion of iron or steel into sheet, wire or rods requires hot and cold mechanical transformation stages frequently employing water as a lubricant and coolant. Contaminants include hydraulic oils, tallow and particulate solids. Final treatment of iron and steel products before onward sale into manufacturing incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1558218 | 777,028 |
1,810,202 | The Kepler Project was created in 2002 by members of the Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK) project and the Scientific Data Management (SDM) project. The project was founded by researchers at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) at the University of California, Santa Barbar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16265386 | 1,809,180 |
1,443,773 | A fine regulation of axonal and dendritic growth is required in the adult CNS to preserve important connections while still allowing for structural plasticity. This function has been recognized to be mediated by several myelin-associated proteins and CSPGs. In order to assess the physiological role of PNNs in the undam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14676304 | 1,442,960 |
82,614 | Albert Einstein's mathematical description of how the photoelectric effect was caused by absorption of quanta of light was in one of his Annus Mirabilis papers, named "On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light". The paper proposed a simple description of "light quanta", or photons, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23579 | 82,580 |
1,564,183 | Crataegus persimilis is a species of hawthorn, known by the common names plumleaf hawthorn and broad-leaved cockspur thorn, native to southern Ontario, Canada, and the US states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia. It is widely cultivated, particularly in Europe, as an ornamental. Its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61821236 | 1,563,296 |
1,843,956 | The original Porsche-designed V16 was modified as a V12 when in 1938 the Grand Prix regulations set a limit of 3 litres on supercharged engines. Originally designed as a 6-litre, the first Auto Union engines displaced 4,360 cc and developed . They had two cylinder blocks, inclined at an angle of 45 degrees, with a sing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69025657 | 1,842,902 |
821,855 | There has been a significant amount of work experimentally to observe both the structure and measure the properties of grain boundaries but the five dimensional degrees of freedom of grain boundaries within complex polycrystalline networks has not yet been fully understood and thus there is currently no method to contr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1996536 | 821,414 |
143,780 | Research has focused on changing the mixture of keratins produced in the skin. There are 54 known keratin genes—of which 28 belong to the type I intermediate filament genes and 26 to type II—which work as heterodimers. Many of these genes share substantial structural and functional similarity, but they are specialized ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=663200 | 143,722 |
1,759,149 | Cranial bone thickness has been widely qualified for "Homo erectus" but rarely quantified. It’s quite often that throughout craniums found, the thickness varies between those different hominids. Yet in OH 9, compared to other "H. erectus", it had the biggest cranial capacity standing at 1,067 cc and one of the largest ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45649760 | 1,758,156 |
1,203,318 | The term includes both the circulation of the well-known, high-temperature vent waters near the ridge crests, and the much-lower-temperature, diffuse flow of water through sediments and buried basalts further from the ridge crests. The former circulation type is sometimes termed "active", and the latter "passive". In b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=286466 | 1,202,674 |
1,679,207 | 1.Stanford Mobile Inquiry-based Learning Environment (SMILE): The SMILE server software is designed to create a highly interactive learning environment that promotes higher-order learning opportunities (e.g., creation of inquiries, presentation of questions, analysis of peer-generated questions, evaluation of individua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32113370 | 1,678,264 |
375,692 | Following the 2011 Japanese nuclear accidents, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced it would launch a comprehensive safety review of the 104 nuclear power reactors across the United States, at the request of President Obama. A total of 45 groups and individuals had formally asked the NRC to suspend all lice... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4131402 | 375,497 |
617,396 | Strobe units can often be calibrated for many tunings and preset temperaments and allow for custom temperament programming, stretched tuning, "sweetened" temperament tunings and Buzz Feiten tuning modifications. Due to their accuracy and ability to display partials even on instruments with a very short "voice" (e.g., n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4385464 | 617,082 |
1,232,387 | ZrB/60%SiC composites have been used as novel conducting ceramic heaters which display high oxidation resistance and melting points, and do not display the negative temperature coefficient resistance property of pure silicon carbide. The metal-like conductance of ZrB allows for its conductivity to decrease with increas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38050893 | 1,231,725 |
1,940,581 | Alam acknowledges that neither Girard nor Horowitz relied upon scientific evidence in the construct of their revitalization proposals. However, she contends that these transgressions may be forgiven when the preservation structures rest in the balance and concludes that, "In their attempts to restore and save the histo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14104519 | 1,939,470 |
366,181 | Paracelsus believed that true anatomy could only be understood once the nourishment for each part of the body was discovered. He believed that one must therefore know the influence of the stars on these particular body parts. Diseases were caused by poisons brought from the stars. However, 'poisons' were not necessaril... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152487 | 365,989 |
1,987,125 | In order to establish learning in a cultured network, researchers have attempted to re-embody the dissociated neuronal networks in either simulated or real environments (see MEART and animat). Through this method the networks are able to interact with their environment and, therefore, have the opportunity to learn in a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10839226 | 1,985,983 |
332,482 | While the underlying mathematical model is publicly known, the dataset which is used to calculate the JIF is not publicly available. This prompted criticism: "Just as scientists would not accept the findings in a scientific paper without seeing the primary data, so should they not rely on Thomson Scientific's impact fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1036865 | 332,305 |
1,084,797 | Genetic use restriction technology (GURT), also known as terminator technology or suicide seeds, is the name given to proposed methods for restricting the use of genetically modified crops by activating (or deactivating) some genes only in response to certain stimuli, especially to cause second generation seeds to be i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2854670 | 1,084,239 |
1,444,660 | One of Moser's longest endeavors was his work on Lorenzo's oil. It began with his relationship with Augusto and Michaela Odone, the parents of Lorenzo Odone, the namesake for "Lorenzo's oil". Moser had diagnosed their son with the plasma assay. With the boy's subsequent decline, Moser had suggested dietary therapy and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22237363 | 1,443,847 |
1,567,312 | The origins of science and technology and Vietnam can be traced back to as early as 20,000 BC to the Sơn Vi culture, a late Paleolithic Age in Vietnam characterized by stone tools. Pebble tools similar to ones found around the world dating to this period have been found by archeologists in the Son La and Phu Tho provin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56111640 | 1,566,425 |
2,122,345 | A compassionate bodhisattva who rescues sentient beings from descending into hell or purgatory, Kshitigarbha became enormously popular during the Koryo period. A key figure in Pure Land Buddhism, Kshitigarbha was often depicted singly and in the guise of a monk—with a shaved head, or wearing a headscarf. He is clad in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68487731 | 2,121,125 |
368,991 | For a long time, it was normal procedure for a decommissioned blast furnace to be demolished and either be replaced with a newer, improved one, or to have the entire site demolished to make room for follow-up use of the area. In recent decades, several countries have realized the value of blast furnaces as a part of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=297203 | 368,798 |
1,256,398 | Studies reveal that positioning of male and female progeny in the nest is strategic and that cell size plays a major role in the size of progeny, independent of the mother's size. Females have been observed to lay female eggs in the inner cells and male eggs in the outer cells. With respect to sex ratios, larger cell p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=331444 | 1,255,714 |
590,884 | Proto-Cubism (also referred to as Protocubism, Early Cubism, and Pre-Cubism or Précubisme) is an intermediary transition phase in the history of art chronologically extending from 1906 to 1910. Evidence suggests that the production of proto-Cubist paintings resulted from a wide-ranging series of experiments, circumstan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38781217 | 590,582 |
407,035 | Both Germany and the United States have developed several other rounds. These include the German DM12 multi-purpose anti-tank projectile (MPAT), based on the technology in a high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) warhead. However, it has been found that the DM12's armour-killing abilities are limited by the lack of blast and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2482363 | 406,834 |
541,802 | This contrasts to CSP and other CHP systems which may be designed to function at temperatures in excess of several hundred degrees. More specifically, the cells are fabricated from a layering of thin-film having intrinsic lifetimes during operation that rapidly decrease with an Arrhenius-type temperature dependence. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28250168 | 541,522 |
1,562,942 | The ESL model received endorsement from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the form of a major grant to validate the model using actual roadway tests of tracer gas sulfur hexafluoride dispersion. That gas was chosen since it does not occur naturally or in vehicular emissions and provides a unique tracer ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4386085 | 1,562,055 |
316,634 | QB50 is a proposed international network of 50 CubeSats for multi-point, "in-situ" measurements in the lower thermosphere (90–350 km) and re-entry research. QB50 is an initiative of the Von Karman Institute and is funded by the European Commission as part of the 7th Framework Programme (FP7). Double-unit (2U) CubeSats ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=641656 | 316,465 |
2,048,718 | "Acropora dendrum" is found over a large area but is not common; the East China Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Indo-Pacific, Southeast Asia, Australia, Japan, Vanuatu, Samoa, and Tonga. It is found at temperatures of around , at a silicate concentration of 2.74 micromoles per litre, a nitrate concentration of 0.35 micromol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46953787 | 2,047,537 |
1,302,352 | The range of applicability of Helmholtz's work grew to encompass atmospheric and oceanographic flows, to all branches of engineering and applied science and, ultimately, to superfluids (today including Bose–Einstein condensates). In modern fluid mechanics the role of vortex dynamics in explaining flow phenomena is firm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2206712 | 1,301,638 |
2,218,584 | Until the middle of the twentieth century, ten universities existed in the region, including the American University of Beirut (then called Syrian Protestant College), Université Saint Joseph in Beirut, Cairo University (then called the Egyptian University), University of Algeria, and University of Damascus (then calle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42281988 | 2,217,322 |
585,580 | The Dowding system was developed after tests demonstrated problems relaying information to the fighters before it was out of date. Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command, solved the problem through the use of hierarchical reporting chains. Information was sent to Fighter Command Headquarters (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29382758 | 585,280 |
1,226,718 | As you can see from the rocking curve above, as specimen thickness moves into the 10 nanometre and smaller range (e.g. for 300 keV electrons and lattice spacings near 0.23 nm) the angular range of tilts that give rise to diffraction and/or lattice-fringe contrast becomes inversely proportional to specimen thickness. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17086606 | 1,226,057 |
67,963 | From November 1951 to January 1952, both sides tried to achieve air superiority over the Yalu, or at least tried to deny it to the enemy, and in consequence, the intensity of the aerial combat reached peaks not seen before between MiG-15 and F-86 pilots. During the period from November 1950 to January 1952, no fewer th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182690 | 67,937 |
2,142,444 | Chapter Four emphasizes on major issues raised by nuclear power. The reason why chapter two and chapter three are so detailed in the effects of radioactivity and the principles of nuclear power along with the nuclear fuel cycle is so that there could be a better understanding on the problems that could cause environmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23275384 | 2,141,213 |
1,387,344 | Thomson's student Francis William Aston continued the research at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, building the first full functional mass spectrometer that was reported in 1919. He was able to identify isotopes of chlorine (35 and 37), bromine (79 and 81), and krypton (78, 80, 82, 83, 84 and 86), proving that th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4906534 | 1,386,577 |
660,183 | The reduced-dimensional representations of data are often referred to as "intrinsic variables". This description implies that these are the values from which the data was produced. For example, consider a dataset that contains images of a letter 'A', which has been scaled and rotated by varying amounts. Each image has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=309261 | 659,838 |
600,634 | The ceremonial groundbreaking of the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health occurred on February 9, 2007. Dignitaries who attended the groundbreaking ceremonies for the $70 million project included founder Larry Ruvo, Frank Gehry, U.S. Senator Harry Reid and John Ensign; U.S. Representative Shelley Berkley, Jon Porter and De... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3717915 | 600,328 |
956,645 | where formula_37 is the diagonal matrix with elements formula_38 on the diagonal, formula_39 are based on the memristors physical parameters. The vector formula_40 is the vector of voltage generators in series to the memristors. The circuit topology enters only in the projector operator formula_41, defined in terms of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14246162 | 956,140 |
761,553 | RNA probes can be designed for any gene or any sequence within a gene for visualization of mRNA, lncRNA and miRNA in tissues and cells. FISH is used by examining the cellular reproduction cycle, specifically interphase of the nuclei for any chromosomal abnormalities. FISH allows the analysis of a large series of archiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1690338 | 761,146 |
1,713,479 | Microsoft Holoportation is a project from Microsoft Research that demonstrates real-time holographic communications with the Microsoft Hololens. Holoportation is described as ""a new type of 3D capture technology that allows high-quality 3D models of people to be reconstructed, compressed and transmitted anywhere in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66251789 | 1,712,513 |
1,036,736 | Here we have omitted the details of the matter sector ψ and left the form of the Ward operator on it unspecified; these are unimportant so long as the representation of the gauge algebra on the matter fields is consistent with their coupling to δ"A". The properties of the other fields we have added are fundamentally an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6769980 | 1,036,196 |
214,463 | Possibly related to the oddball effect, research suggests that time seems to slow down for a person during dangerous events (such as a car accident, a robbery, or when a person perceives a potential predator or mate), or when a person skydives or bungee jumps, where they're capable of complex thoughts in what would nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6069126 | 214,355 |
1,365,185 | Prof. Grainne de Burca has therefore argued that the general principle in European Union law of proportionality entails a three-part test: 1) is the measure suitable to achieve a legitimate aim, 2) is the measure necessary to achieve that aim or are less restrictive means available, and 3) does the measure have an exce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31924273 | 1,364,429 |
734,148 | The Farm Information and Communication Service of the Directorate provides audio-visual and mass media support to the various wings, sections and departments of the university. Publication Unit: Like other units, publication unit including Press and Photography is also one of the important units. Monthly magazine Harya... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9297834 | 733,761 |
342,990 | Ingersoll-Rand built the largest-ever rotary engine, with two rotors, which was available between 1975 and 1985, producing . A one-rotor version was available producing . The displacement per rotor was 41 liters, with each rotor being approximately one meter in diameter. The engine was derived from a previous, unsucces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33303 | 342,809 |
1,167,268 | Avalanche sustenance requires a reservoir of charge to sustain the applied voltage, as well as a continual source of triggering events. A number of mechanisms can sustain this process, creating avalanche after avalanche, to create a corona current. A secondary source of plasma electrons is required as the electrons are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2576261 | 1,166,650 |
2,049,716 | TES was a high-resolution infrared Fourier Transform spectrometer and provided key data for studying tropospheric chemistry, troposphere-biosphere interaction, and troposphere-stratosphere exchanges. It was built for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. It w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=883683 | 2,048,535 |
1,171,886 | In order to be effective, a layer of porous, absorbent material has to be of the order of a quarter-wavelength thick if placed on a wall, which at low frequencies with their long wavelengths requires very thick absorbers. Absorption occurs through friction of the air motion against individual fibres, with kinetic energ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4569244 | 1,171,267 |
656,220 | The crystal detector evolved from an earlier device, the first primitive radio wave detector, called a "coherer", developed in 1890 by Édouard Branly and used in the first radio receivers in 1894–96 by Marconi and Oliver Lodge. Made in many forms, the coherer consisted of a high resistance electrical contact, composed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3678714 | 655,876 |
1,679,504 | The term “estrus” refers to the phase of the estrous cycle in which a sexually mature, non-pregnant female is receptive to sexual advances from the male³. Ovulation occurs at approximately this time. Estrous synchronisation is the process of targeting female mammals to come to heat within a short time frame (36 to 96 h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40989858 | 1,678,561 |
794,789 | David Wheeler, who earned the world's first Computer Science PhD working on the project, is credited with inventing the concept of a subroutine. Users wrote programs that called a routine by jumping to the start of the subroutine with the return address (i.e. the location-plus-one of the jump itself) in the accumulator... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10251 | 794,364 |
1,498,826 | In 2007 Marin Soljačić and his assistants successfully made the first efficient non-radiative power transfer at a distance of 2 meters turning on a 60 W light bulb. Energy transfer was 40% efficient. Professor Soljačić's experiments and work in wireless energy transfer are related in spirit to the work of Nikola Tesla ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11894551 | 1,497,982 |
1,222,370 | "Ceratophyllum" grows completely submerged, usually, though not always, floating on the surface, and does not tolerate drought. The plant stems can reach 1–3 m in length. At intervals along nodes of the stem they produce rings of bright green leaves, which are narrow and often much-branched. The forked leaves are britt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=247123 | 1,221,711 |
1,817,739 | The MEISTeR (German for master) is a twin-armed four-tracked robot. It is based on the Rabot robot and the experimental MARS-D robot, designed as a nuclear plant inspector. It stands , is wide, long, and weights in at . Its robotic arms have seven degrees of freedom(=seven axes) just like a human arm and can lift each.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37901692 | 1,816,704 |
1,982,067 | In contrast, evidence that properties of an un-fixated word feed back and directly affect processing time on a currently-fixated word would be seriously damaging to the serial position. Kennedy published the first study demonstrating such "parafoveal-on-foveal" effects in 1998. This was followed by a number of further ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21438616 | 1,980,928 |
1,215,743 | Immunophenotyping is a technique used to study the protein expressed by cells. This technique is commonly used in basic science research and laboratory diagnostic purpose. This can be done on tissue section (fresh or fixed tissue), cell suspension, etc. An example is the detection of tumor markers, such as in the diagn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2045699 | 1,215,091 |
2,201,648 | Robinson was awarded the 2010 Geological Society of London President's Award for her contributions to geosciences. In 2011 Robinson moved back to the United Kingdom, where she was appointed to the faculty of the University of Bristol. She was awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant studying changes in chemis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68339389 | 2,200,395 |
1,204,995 | LOFAR combines aspects of many of these earlier telescopes; in particular, it uses omnidirectional dipole antennas as elements of a phased array at individual stations, and combines those phased arrays using the aperture synthesis technique developed in the 1950s. Like the earlier Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Tele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1524766 | 1,204,350 |
519,875 | There is no current uranium production from Nevada. The largest past-producer was the Apex mine (also called Rundberg or Early Day mine), three miles south of Austin, in Lander County. Discovered in September 1953, it was first mined as a silver deposit and produced 45 metric tons of UO (80% of Nevada's historical prod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11508283 | 519,606 |
1,625,544 | CoMET services applied to evaluate constructor's attainment of specified conditions take the form of quality-assurance (QA) or quality-control (QC) services. QA services are performed directly or indirectly for the owner. The owner specifies the nature and extent of QA services that the owner believes is appropriate. S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31071816 | 1,624,626 |
952,407 | Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) theory aims to explain the physical adsorption of gas molecules on a solid surface and serves as the basis for an important analysis technique for the measurement of the specific surface area of materials. The observations are very often referred to as physical adsorption or physisorption. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2065886 | 951,902 |
477,244 | The first stage in the program planning phase deals with identifying and evaluating the social problems that affect the quality of life of a population of interest. Social assessment is the "application, through broad participation, of multiple sources of information, both objective and subjective, designed to expand t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31057260 | 477,004 |
1,523,714 | The term "network medicine" was coined and popularized in a scientific article by Albert-László Barabási called "Network Medicine – From Obesity to the "Diseasome", published in The New England Journal of Medicine, in 2007. Barabási states that biological systems, similarly to social and technological systems, contain ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44450362 | 1,522,853 |
1,723,643 | When radiocarbon dating started being used in the 1950s, it appeared to support the idea of early settlement, though the "Great Fleet" itself fell out of favour when scholars showed that there were inconsistencies in the genealogies that Smith had based his theory on. This was replaced by the idea of gradual settlement... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59411606 | 1,722,673 |
134,144 | On April 1, 1994, a severe dispute within the management team led to the ousting of the on-site management by federal marshals serving a restraining order, and financier Ed Bass hired Steve Bannon, then-manager of the Bannon & Co. investment banking team from Beverly Hills, California, to run Space Biospheres Ventures.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216362 | 134,089 |
214,878 | Certification is achieved by taking the CEH examination after having either attended training at an Accredited Training Center (ATC), or completed through EC-Council’s learning portal, iClass. If a candidate opts to self-study, an application must be filled out and proof submitted of two years of relevant information s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3802153 | 214,770 |
857,888 | The first major large settlement was the lawsuit between NTT and the University of Texas-Austin (UT). In October 2008, NTT announced that they would settle the case in the Japan Supreme Civil Court for $30 million. As part of the agreement, UT agreed that NTT did not steal the information and that NTT would share its L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13079232 | 857,433 |
197,123 | In 2000, NASA reduced from 1,000–2,000 to 500–1,000 its estimate of the number of existing near-Earth asteroids over one kilometer in diameter, or more exactly brighter than an absolute magnitude of 17.75. Shortly thereafter, the LINEAR survey provided an alternative estimate of . In 2011, on the basis of NEOWISE obser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21626 | 197,022 |
585,960 | The species is native to Western Europe from Spain and Portugal east to Germany and north to England and Wales. It is commonly grown in gardens and populations have become established in the Balkans, Australia, New Zealand, the Caucasus, Madeira, British Columbia, Ontario, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Oregon, Washington ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4710419 | 585,660 |
1,994,784 | During the 16th century, in the Age of Discovery, a more mathematical educational approach flourished in this university with the creation of specialized courses and classes in the field. This included the appointment of Pedro Nunes as mathematics teacher, in 1537, when the Portuguese university located in Lisbon was r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12057264 | 1,993,641 |
959,445 | Near-infrared spectroscopy is used in astronomy for studying the atmospheres of cool stars where molecules can form. The vibrational and rotational signatures of molecules such as titanium oxide, cyanide, and carbon monoxide can be seen in this wavelength range and can give a clue towards the star's spectral type. It i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=979564 | 958,937 |
2,062,107 | Arguably, Canada's most significant theoretical physics research organization is the newly created Perimeter Institute (PI), associated with the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. Founded in 1999 by Mike Lazaridis, inventor of the BlackBerry, and under the leadership of Founding Executive Director Howard Burt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18401364 | 2,060,917 |
30,919 | The evidence on which scientific accounts of human evolution are based comes from many fields of natural science. The main source of knowledge about the evolutionary process has traditionally been the fossil record, but since the development of genetics beginning in the 1970s, DNA analysis has come to occupy a place of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10326 | 30,909 |
740,023 | The gills are crowded together closely, and have an adnexed (narrow) attachment to the stipe. Initially white, they change color to dark brown then eventually black as the spores mature. Expansion of the cap causes the gills to split open down their median planes, tearing the cap margin into rays. The process of spore ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22449893 | 739,631 |
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