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1,910,333 | Preservation of skin clothing, even in a museum, is difficult, because the organic materials used to make the garments are subject to decay, hair loss, and insect infestation if not preserved with enormous care. Historically, garments were often displayed in museums without any protection whatsoever. Storage areas were... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67335138 | 1,909,235 |
1,147,586 | The reliance on untreated well water in the rural regions of the Marcellus leaves communities at a strong disadvantage if aquifer contamination would occur. It has been found that methane concentrations in well water within one kilometer from an active gas well were 17 times higher than in those outside of active gas p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40594547 | 1,146,981 |
456,601 | There are about 188,000 people around the world who have received cochlear implants. In the United States alone, there are about 30,000 adults and over 30,000 children who are recipients of cochlear implants. This number continues to grow as cochlear implantation is becoming more and more accepted. In 1961, Dr. William... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6259764 | 456,378 |
63,927 | MBT main guns are generally between 100 and 125 mm caliber, and can fire both anti-armour and, more recently, anti-personnel rounds. The cannon serves a dual role, able to engage other armoured targets such as tanks and fortifications, and soft targets such as light vehicles and infantry. It is fixed to the turret, alo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26595097 | 63,902 |
925,239 | The Skylon is a fully reusable SSTO vehicle, able to achieve orbit without staging, which is intended to be used principally as a reusable launch system. Proponents of the SSTO approach have often claimed that staging involves a number of inherent complications and problems due to complexity, such as being difficult or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=550928 | 924,753 |
398,964 | The tests were initially developed for research purposes. Because of their independence of language and reading and writing skills, and the simplicity of their use and interpretation, they quickly found widespread practical application. For example, all entrants to the British armed forces from 1942 onwards took a twen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2389210 | 398,766 |
958,434 | In the early 1970s, Stephen Wiesner, then at Columbia University in New York, introduced the concept of quantum conjugate coding. His seminal paper titled "Conjugate Coding" was rejected by the IEEE Information Theory Society, but was eventually published in 1983 in "SIGACT News". In this paper he showed how to store o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28676005 | 957,928 |
1,236,000 | Born in Lehe, near Bremerhaven, he started his studies at the University of Marburg. For his PhD he joined the working group of the Nobel laureate Adolf Windaus at the University of Göttingen and he finished his studies with a PhD in chemistry in 1927. His doctoral research was on the chemistry of the insecticidal toxi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=728231 | 1,235,336 |
1,910,971 | Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been used in recent years to image and probe the physical properties of lipid bilayers. AFM is a promising technique because it has the potential to image with nanometer resolution at room temperature and even underwater, conditions necessary for natural bilayer behavior. These capabil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21453848 | 1,909,872 |
797,484 | A challenge facing the development of organic solar cells utilizing non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) is the selection of a solvent that has a high boiling point and is environmentally friendly, whereas conventional solvents such as chloroform (CF) tend to exhibit low boiling points and toxicity. Such a solvent is require... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18397250 | 797,059 |
1,529,642 | One major finding is that survival processing has been shown to yield better retention than imagery, self-reference and pleasantness, which are all considered to be among the best conditions for remembering learned information. Otgaar, Smeets and van Bergen hypothesized that since visual processing developed earlier th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31058472 | 1,528,778 |
1,607,029 | The concept serves to explain how natural selection can perpetuate altruism. If there is an "altruism gene" (or complex of genes or heritable factors) that influence an organism's behavior in such a way that is helpful and protective of relatives and their offspring, this behavior can also increase the proportion of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50797822 | 1,606,124 |
1,790,823 | An example of the close integration between agriculture and the raising of livestock occurs in the Kano Close-Settled Zone of Nigeria. This account is significant due to the scale and length of time over which the region has carried out intensive farming. With a population of approximately five (5) million in the regio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26203387 | 1,789,817 |
378,780 | Earth remains the only place in the universe known to harbor life. The origin of life on Earth was at least 3.77 billion years ago, possibly as early as 4.28 billion years ago. The Earth's biosphere extends down to at least below the surface, and up to at least into the atmosphere, and includes soil, hydrothermal vents... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53365898 | 378,585 |
20,730 | Bell was a supporter of aerospace engineering research through the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA), officially formed at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, in October 1907 at the suggestion of his wife Mabel and with her financial support after the sale of some of her real estate. The AEA was headed by Bell and the founding mem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=852 | 20,721 |
417,923 | Nuclear physicists knew about fission, but not the hydrodynamics of conventional explosions. As a result, there were two additions to the team that made significant contributions in this area of physics. First was James Tuck whose field of expertise was in shaped charges used in anti tank weapons for armour piercing. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41957579 | 417,719 |
566,594 | The cylinder heads were made of RR50 aluminium alloy due to that material's high rate of heat conduction and light weight, the latter estimated by William Heynes to give a weight saving of some compared with a similar head made of cast iron. Special attention was paid to the gas flow, with Harry Weslake and Heynes desi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=881983 | 566,304 |
757,388 | In addition to its traditional cultivation as a bio-fertilizer for wetland paddies, "Azolla" is finding increasing use for sustainable production of livestock feed. "Azolla" is rich in protein, essential amino acids, vitamins, and minerals. Studies describe feeding "Azolla" to dairy cattle, pigs, ducks, and chickens, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=507709 | 756,984 |
454,926 | Florensky, often read for his contributions to the religious renaissance of his time or scientific thinking, came to be studied in a broader perspective in the 1960s, a change associated with the revival of interest in neglected aspects of his oeuvre shown by the Tartu school of semiotics, which evaluated his works in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2848919 | 454,704 |
929,029 | Heritability estimates' prominent critics, such as Steven Rose, Jay Joseph, and Richard Bentall, focus largely on heritability estimates in behavioral sciences and social sciences. Bentall has claimed that such heritability scores are typically calculated counterintuitively to derive numerically high scores, that herit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155624 | 928,538 |
1,099,130 | Alan Turing, a mathematician, logician and computer scientist, linked computing systems to thinking. One of his most notable papers outlined a hypothetical test to assess the intelligence of a machine which came to be known as the Turing test. Essentially, the test would have a person communicate with two other agents,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3765637 | 1,098,570 |
1,693,008 | In addition to the more powerful engine, the aircraft now had an ejection seat, additional cockpit armor, and a revised canopy. More importantly, it was fitted with new wings with a greater span and more surface area; they also had a new airfoil designed to delay Mach tuck. The area of the tailplane and the vertical st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22476055 | 1,692,057 |
1,210,961 | In 1911, he set out to build his first airplane, an airplane he named "Silverwing". His first design was a monoplane, constructed of spruce and linen and which took the form of an American version of the Bleriot XI. The engine was a modified Elbridge motorboat motor, dubbed the "aero special", which was a 2-stroke, 4-c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1915525 | 1,210,313 |
1,244,620 | As of 2011, research is focused on the two-way communication between neurons and glial cells. Communication between these two types of cells allows for axonal conduction, synaptic transmission, as well as the processing of information to regulate and better control the processes of the central nervous system. The vario... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6547308 | 1,243,947 |
1,689,317 | Indirect detection efforts typically focus on locations where WIMP dark matter is thought to accumulate the most: in the centers of galaxies and galaxy clusters, as well as in the smaller satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. These are particularly useful since they tend to contain very little baryonic matter, reducing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33721 | 1,688,371 |
2,144,950 | For his contributions to developing an understanding of the implications of historical environmental change in the Antarctica for ongoing global warming, McKay received the New Zealand Prime Minister's MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize 2011. Tim Naish, described McKay as an "articulate communicator and a talented eme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69498152 | 2,143,719 |
1,255,871 | In 1911, 22-year-old Capablanca won the San Sebastián chess tournament ahead of most of the world's leading players apart from Lasker. Later that year he challenged Lasker to a match for the world title. Lasker was unwilling to play the traditional first-to-win-ten-games-type of match in the semi-tropical conditions of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15671155 | 1,255,187 |
957,527 | The two-seat trainer had the internal OKB designations of I-301T and "izdeliye" FT and the first prototype was converted from one of the "parade" aircraft during 1946. Its fuel capacity had to be reduced by one third to make room for the second tandem cockpit. Dual controls were fitted along with an intercom to allow t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=304224 | 957,021 |
167,619 | For 1970 Tyrrell was asked by Matra to use their V12, but decided to retain the Cosworth instead. As Matra was now a Chrysler affiliate and Tyrrell derived much of its income from Ford and Elf (associated with Renault) the partnership ended. Ken Tyrrell bought March 701 chassis as an interim solution while developing h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=640098 | 167,532 |
987,587 | A PICC line is an invasive medical procedure, and may require local or general anesthesia during the placement. The basilic vein is an appropriate size, but is not preferred in children due to its depth and surrounding tissue. On the other hand, the cephalic vein may be used, though in some people it will not be possib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1551811 | 987,071 |
827,041 | For reflecting telescopes, which use a curved mirror in place of the objective lens, theory preceded practice. The theoretical basis for curved mirrors behaving similar to lenses was probably established by Alhazen, whose theories had been widely disseminated in Latin translations of his work. Soon after the invention ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=266611 | 826,597 |
1,718,090 | Tssui was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the child of Chinese immigrants, and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Despite the encouragement of his friends and family to pursue medicine, and a wide variety of interests in his youth (including piano and drum playing, martial arts, and flamenco dance), Tssui decided to pursue arc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11578437 | 1,717,120 |
1,242,274 | It was not determined at the time of transfer of ownership how much the Sheahan family would receive in just compensation for the government acquisition of Groom Mine; the USAF in 2015 estimated the land to be worth $1.2 million. In November 2015, the Sheahan family suggested the mine be protected as a national histori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56836491 | 1,241,602 |
256,254 | 5-HTP's short half-life (<2h) may inherently limit its therapeutic potential, as systemic 5-HTP exposure levels will fluctuate substantially even with relatively frequent dosing. Such exposure fluctuations are usually associated with increased adverse event burdens resulting from C (time to maximal systemic concentrati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=822579 | 256,120 |
711,870 | Le Corbusier deemed the house as "the true cubic house" (French: "le vrai maison cubique"), as its constructional plan originated from a square, rendering its cubic form. Round pilotis elevate the main building from the ground, allowing for a driveway leading to the enclosed garage; correspondingly, the main entrance i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38574765 | 711,498 |
663,186 | Eutrophic systems contain a high concentration of phosphorus (~30 µg/L), nitrogen (~1500 µg/L), or both. Phosphorus enters lentic waters from sewage treatment effluents, discharge from raw sewage, or from runoff of farmland. Nitrogen mostly comes from agricultural fertilizers from runoff or leaching and subsequent grou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4479734 | 662,841 |
152,654 | During the last 60,000 years, including the end of the last glacial period, approximately 51 genera of large mammals have become extinct in North America. Of these, many genera extinctions can be reliably attributed to a brief interval of 11,500 to 10,000 radiocarbon years before present, shortly following the arrival ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18783051 | 152,586 |
2,099,502 | Method development in theoretical biophysics plays an increasingly important role in the study of macromolecular complexes and has made essential contributions to many studies in the other research areas of CEF. Bridging between fundamental physics, chemistry and biology, CEF scientists studied biomolecular processes o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63334526 | 2,098,294 |
93,491 | As the USMC wanted a substantially improved Harrier without the development of a new engine, the plan for Harrier II development was authorized by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) in 1976. The United States Navy (USN), which had traditionally procured military aircraft for the USMC, insisted that the new d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18940560 | 93,450 |
205,195 | In 1971, Don Rawitsch, a history major and senior at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, taught an 8th-grade history class at Jordan Junior High School in Minneapolis as a student teacher. His supervising teacher assigned him to prepare a unit on "The Western Expansion of the Mid-19th Century", and Rawitsch deci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=354015 | 205,089 |
873,265 | Among the impacts of deep sea mining, sediment plumes could have the greatest impact. Plumes are caused when the tailings from mining (usually fine particles) are dumped back into the ocean, creating a cloud of particles floating in the water. Two types of plumes occur: near bottom plumes and surface plumes. Near botto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10431114 | 872,805 |
1,907,210 | In December 1986, Arnold Arboretum of the Harvard University in Massachusetts, requested permission from government of Sarawak to collaborate with Sarawak forest department to collect plants from Sarawak for phytochemical analysis. Permission was granted in May 1987. The plants collection project was part of the many e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14562897 | 1,906,114 |
54,383 | By November 1941, many of the initial assembly-line challenges had been met, which freed up time for the engineering team to tackle the problem of frozen controls in a dive. Lockheed had a few ideas for tests that would help them find an answer. The first solution tried was the fitting of spring-loaded servo tabs on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25041 | 54,363 |
985,764 | The term has been used since by many scientists, and philosophers overall being adapted to several different areas of study. Some notable mentions of biophilia include Edward O. Wilson’s book "Biophilia" (1984) where he took a biologist’s approach and first coined the “Biophilia hypothesis” and popularized the notion. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59271750 | 985,249 |
1,772,595 | The motto: Drauf Und Dran was established in 1960 by Cdr. Robert P. Foreman, Commanding Officer during a visit to the ship by officers of the German Navy whose ships were visiting the Charleston, SC Naval Base. In October, 1960, she departed for a goodwill trip with four other ships to South America and Africa called S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=545459 | 1,771,598 |
645,800 | Scott, Worden, and Irwin were publicly named as the crew of Apollo15 on March 26, 1970. Apollo15 was originally scheduled to be an H mission, with a limited stay of 33 hours on the Moon and two moonwalks, but the cancellation of two Apollo missions in mid-1970 meant the flight would be a Jmission, with three moonwalks ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=677187 | 645,460 |
1,092,215 | At Yale, an embarrassing situation occurred: he had been hired as a postdoctoral fellow, but it was discovered that he had never received a Ph.D. While he had submitted an outline of his work in reciprocal relations to the Norwegian Institute of Technology, they had decided it was too incomplete to qualify as a doctora... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37175 | 1,091,655 |
133,264 | After the death of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius in 180 CE, the favorable conditions for scholarship and learning in the Roman Empire were upended by political unrest, civil war, urban decay, and looming economic crisis. In around 250 CE, barbarians began attacking and invading the Roman frontiers. These combined e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400 | 133,211 |
206,447 | The boom of Ion exchange chromatography primarily began between 1935–1950 during World War II and it was through the "Manhattan project" that applications and IC were significantly extended. Ion chromatography was originally introduced by two English researchers, agricultural Sir Thompson and chemist J T Way. The works... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1787246 | 206,341 |
283,611 | However, the upper atmosphere of Venus has much more Earthlike conditions and has been suggested as a plausible colonization location since at least 1971 by Soviet scientists. At just over 50 km altitude (the cloud tops), atmospheric pressure is roughly equal to that on Earth's surface, and temperatures range from 0–50... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29248 | 283,458 |
556,346 | Kalecki went to París for a while, then moved to Montreal, where he stayed for fifteen months working at the International Labour Office. In July 1946 he accepted the Polish government's invitation to head the Central Planning Office of the Ministry of Economics, but he left some months later. By the end of 1946, he as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2205338 | 556,057 |
1,939,123 | Bradley has written or edited thirteen books on climatic change including "Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary" (3rd edition, 2014) [Elsevier/Academic Press, San Diego; , which won a 2015 Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association. Other books include, "The Hadley Circulation, Present,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4242197 | 1,938,013 |
1,388,982 | The origin of the term "balance of performance" dates back to the creation of Group GT3 in 2005 for the 2006 racing season, using experience learned from homologation special phenomenon in previous GT classes, although other series such as British Touring Car Championship and Japanese Super GT series had applied differ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65161567 | 1,388,212 |
266,374 | This idea that Bacon was a modern experimental scientist reflected two views of the period: that the principal form of scientific activity is experimentation and that 13th-century Europe still represented the "Dark Ages". This view, which is still reflected in some 21st-century popular science books, portrays Bacon as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25879 | 266,230 |
14,952 | The series features a cyberpunk story of the technological fall of humanity, in which the creation of artificial intelligence led the way to a race of self-aware machines that imprisoned mankind in a virtual reality system—the Matrix—to be farmed as a power source. Occasionally, some of the prisoners manage to break fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=376228 | 14,947 |
28,126 | Various other specialized tests may be used to distinguish between different types of meningitis. A latex agglutination test may be positive in meningitis caused by "Streptococcus pneumoniae", "Neisseria meningitidis", "Haemophilus influenzae", "Escherichia coli" and "group B streptococci"; its routine use is not encou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21009963 | 28,116 |
643,951 | Most of the design criticisms these days are built on crashworthiness. Even with the greatest attention to airworthiness, accidents still occur. Crashworthiness is the qualitative evaluation of how aircraft survive an accident. The main objective is to protect the passengers or valuable cargo from the damage caused by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29564581 | 643,611 |
1,322,170 | The rich dinosaur fauna of Niger was brought to scientific attention through French and Italian excavations in the 1960s and 1970s. This led to the description of new genera from Lower Cretaceous rocks, most prominently the iguanodontian "Ouranosaurus". An older succession of rocks, the Tiourarén Formation, was explore... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24361405 | 1,321,444 |
1,377,290 | Currently there are many methods used to determine the zygosity status of a gene at a particular locus. These methods include the use of PCR with specifically designed probes to detect the variants of the genes (SNP typing is the simplest case). In cases where longer stretches of variation is implicated, post PCR analy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21003747 | 1,376,528 |
2,097,261 | The life cycle of "Plasmodiophora bicaudata" is complex. It includes resting spores which can lie dormant, awaiting suitable conditions to infect a new plant. Its other forms include two types of plasmodia, the feeding stage that derive their energy from the host cells, and two types of zoospores. The motile zoospores ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39502217 | 2,096,053 |
1,024,831 | While there is no present licensed vaccine, there are many factors which make a vaccine against HTLV-1 feasible. The virus displays relatively low antigenic variability, natural immunity does occur in humans, and experimental vaccination using envelope antigens has been shown to be successful in animal models. Plasmid ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21354427 | 1,024,298 |
2,083,987 | 25th HAG was attached to X Corps in Fourth Army, which was preparing for that summer's 'Big Push' (the Battle of the Somme), with the group preparing new observation posts (OPs) and gun positions. X Corps' task was to advance astride the River Ancre to capture the high ground in front, with 36th (Ulster) Division attac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69464934 | 2,082,787 |
956,742 | The worm has a hydrostatic skeleton and moves by longitudinal and circular muscular contractions. Setae – tiny hair-like projections – provide leverage against the surrounding soil. Surface movements on moist, flat terrain were reported at a speed of 20 m/h and, based on measurements of the length of the trail, nocturn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=199798 | 956,237 |
1,832,743 | Several Chinese immigrants to the United States have also been awarded the Nobel Prize, including:, Samuel C. C. Ting, Chen Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee, Daniel C. Tsui, and Gao Xingjian. Other overseas ethnic Chinese that have achieved success in sciences include Fields Medal recipient Shing-Tung Yau and Terence Tao, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12082329 | 1,831,695 |
1,967,560 | To achieve this, Diesel now wanted to raise point 3 in his diagram instead of increasing the length of the admission period 2–3 by reducing injection time. Diesel, who had obtained a patent (DRP 67 207) for a combustion process without significant changes in either pressure or temperature, thought that this patent woul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59706535 | 1,966,430 |
1,672,145 | Despite the concerns of Hippocrates, Galen of Pergamon (129–199) and Aretaeus of Cappadocia (both of whom lived in Rome in the 2nd century AD) credit Asclepiades of Bithynia (–40 BC) as being the first physician to perform a non-emergency tracheotomy. However, Aretaeus warned against the performance of tracheotomy beca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28862297 | 1,671,204 |
11,548 | In 1903 the brothers built the powered "Wright Flyer", using their preferred material for construction, spruce, a strong and lightweight wood, and Pride of the West muslin for surface coverings. They also designed and carved their own wooden propellers, and had a purpose-built gasoline engine fabricated in their bicycl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58410 | 11,543 |
1,984,866 | Matt Jarvis, for the UK print magazine "Tabletop Gaming", wrote, "Magic: The Gathering’s Archenemy format is a fantastic idea [...]. Unfortunately, the original 2010 release was far from approachable for those not already well versed in the complexities of building a custom Magic deck, offering four separate decks of n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27710709 | 1,983,727 |
45,086 | Given the universality of free fall, there is no observable distinction between inertial motion and motion under the influence of the gravitational force. This suggests the definition of a new class of inertial motion, namely that of objects in free fall under the influence of gravity. This new class of preferred motio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12024 | 45,069 |
981,271 | The Peirce–Jastrow experiments were conducted as part of Peirce's application of his pragmaticism program to human perception; other studies considered the perception of light, etc. Jastrow wrote the following summary: "Mr. Peirce’s courses in logic gave me my first real experience of intellectual muscle. Though I prom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=438004 | 980,759 |
746,545 | The "King George V" design had four 0.5-inch quadruple machine gun mounts, but in 1939 these were replaced by two Mark VI pom-pom mounts. In 1940, to combat air attack, four Unrotated Projectile mountings were fitted, on "B" turret, two on "Y" turret, one replaced a pom-pom mount added in 1939 at the stern. The pom-pom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=485616 | 746,150 |
66,197 | Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Haas terminated its contract with their driver Nikita Mazepin. Magnussen returned to the team as his replacement on a multi-year deal, partnering existing driver Mick Schumacher for the 2022 season. In his return for Haas at Bahrain, Magnussen managed to start 7th and finish 5... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25418449 | 66,172 |
1,159,328 | With the need for a remote site obviated, it was decided to build the facility on the coast of Cumberland at a former Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF Drigg. This was soon switched to a more suitable site at the nearby former ROF Sellafield. To avoid any confusion with Springfields, the name was changed to Windscale. Constr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52573493 | 1,158,713 |
351,277 | Melanins have very diverse roles and functions in various organisms. A form of melanin makes up the ink used by many cephalopods (see cephalopod ink) as a defense mechanism against predators. Melanins also protect microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi, against stresses that involve cell damage such as UV radiation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50513 | 351,094 |
492,058 | New X-ray observations by the Chandra X-ray Observatory show three distinct structures: an outer, horseshoe-shaped ring about 2 light years in diameter, a hot inner core about 3 light-months in diameter, and a hot central source less than 1 light-month in diameter which may contain the superstar that drives the whole s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44062 | 491,804 |
1,110,974 | "Nereus" was sent to complete the first systematic study of a deep-ocean trench as part of the NSF-sponsored Hadal Ecosystems Study (HADES) project under chief scientist Timothy Shank, a WHOI biologist who also helped conceive the vehicle. It was being controlled from the Research Vessel "Thomas G. Thompson". Thirty da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13767482 | 1,110,408 |
597,770 | Only a fraction of the permafrost zone consists of actual ground ice. The remainder (dry permafrost) is simply soil or rock at subfreezing temperatures. The ice volume is generally greatest in the uppermost permafrost layers and mainly comprises pore and segregated ice in Earth material. Measurements of bore-hole tempe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47527 | 597,465 |
2,116,362 | At the beginning of the following decade, Olson was the recipient of the 1992 Genetics Society of America Medal for his genetic achievements. During the same year, he returned to UW and joined their Department of Molecular Biotechnology. In 1994, Olson was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences. At t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12198794 | 2,115,145 |
1,522,047 | The NYIT School of Management offers graduate degrees, including Master of Business Administration degree (M.B.A.) and Master of Science degree in Risk Management (M.S.R.M), among others. The school also offers many undergraduate degrees, including in business administration, finance, management, and marketing at its o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6559051 | 1,521,186 |
1,474,399 | As is the standard for all evolutionary adaptations, the human muscle system evolved in its efforts to increase survivability. Since muscles and the accompanying ligaments and tendons are present all throughout the body aiding in many functions, it is apparent that our behavior and decisions are based upon what we are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32156908 | 1,473,568 |
2,020,995 | The history of artificial intelligence goes hand in hand with the appointment of Wolfgang Bibel, who had been rejected by professors at the Technical University of Munich because they did not believe in the future of artificial intelligence. In the winter semester 1985/1986 Bible represented the chair at the Technische... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62391933 | 2,019,832 |
869,909 | After a distinguished career in astronomy and shortly before becoming Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Samuel Pierpont Langley started a serious investigation into aerodynamics at what is today the University of Pittsburgh. In 1891, he published "Experiments in Aerodynamics" detailing his research, and then tu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1607990 | 869,449 |
250,592 | After a distinguished career in astronomy and shortly before becoming Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Samuel Pierpont Langley started a serious investigation into aerodynamics at what is today the University of Pittsburgh. In 1891, he published "Experiments in Aerodynamics" detailing his research, and then tu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177680 | 250,459 |
221,269 | Midway through his undergraduate years at Oregon State University, he served two years in the United States Navy as a radio and radar technician in the Philippines. It was there, on the remote island of Leyte in a small traditional hut on stilts, that he read Vannevar Bush's article "As We May Think", which would have ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8081 | 221,160 |
728,038 | Stanley Porter has also questioned Nongbri's assertion that valid comparisons can be made between 𝔓 and documentary papyri of the later second and early third centuries; noting the warning from Eric Turner that, "Comparison of book hands with dated documentary hands will be less reliable, the intention of the scribe i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=848618 | 727,655 |
405,962 | In 1790, Adair Crawford, a physician engaged in the preparation of barium, and his colleague William Cruickshank, recognised that the Strontian ores exhibited properties that differed from those in other "heavy spars" sources. This allowed Crawford to conclude on page 355 "... it is probable indeed, that the scotch min... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27118 | 405,762 |
2,085,901 | The need for local expertise incited a handful of knowledgeable, intuitive, and earnest individuals to develop an academic-based venue to train members of the JTASC and members of the contract team right here in the region. That fall semester (1994) Eugene Newman, coordinator of Technical/Business Development for JTASC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12580104 | 2,084,699 |
1,828,512 | The Section was also in charge of distributing the introduced plant material for evaluation and potential incorporation into U.S. agricultural production. Initially, the introduced material went to State Agricultural Experiment Stations or other reliable cooperators for testing. The need for facilities to test lesser k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31519537 | 1,827,473 |
1,559,441 | This was a race between three strong teams with many athletes at their peak. From the gun, Alice Brown was out fastest for the US in lane 6, almost making up the stagger on Zvetanka Ilieva leading off for Bulgaria on her outside. Meanwhile, East German star, 1987 World Champion Silke Möller was losing ground in lane 5 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14575205 | 1,558,555 |
7,071 | In 2005, the entire fleet of 356 A-10 and OA-10 aircraft began receiving the Precision Engagement upgrades including an improved fire control system (FCS), electronic countermeasures (ECM), and smart bomb targeting. The aircraft receiving this upgrade were redesignated A-10C. The Government Accountability Office in 200... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12502446 | 7,068 |
1,208,488 | The algorithm used is intended to inform the diver of a decompression profile that will keep the risk of decompression sickness (DCS) to an acceptable level. Researchers use experimental diving programmes or data that has been recorded from previous dives to validate an algorithm. The dive computer measures depth and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=302027 | 1,207,842 |
1,032,829 | In September 2005, Microsoft introduced the "Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000" at a retail price of . This keyboard provides a significantly changed ergonomic design, including an integrated leatherette wrist rest, noticeably concave key banks, and a removable front stand to generate negative slope, which helps to strai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=520254 | 1,032,293 |
2,141,679 | The spacecraft approximated a short polygon in diameter and high. The antennas in the X-Y plane measured tip-to-tip, and on the Z-axis are tip-to-tip. Two booms are provided for remote measurements. Power is supplied by a solar cell array, mounted on the side and end panels. The spacecraft is spin-stabilized, with the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10537022 | 2,140,448 |
1,464,188 | Thirsk was in the family medicine residency program at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Montreal when he was selected in December 1983 by the National Research Council of Canada to join the Canadian astronaut program. He began astronaut training in February 1984 and served as backup payload specialist to Marc Garneau fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=402554 | 1,463,365 |
870,514 | Acorn's video solution for its own computers was the Replay system, introducing compression formats and associated software for playback and authoring. However, laserdisc technology, which had been used several years earlier by Acorn for interactive video applications, notably in the BBC Domesday Project, was still see... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 870,054 |
1,316,266 | Newly synthesized LC3's C-terminus is hydrolyzed by a cysteine protease called ATG4B exposing Gly120, termed LC3-I. LC3-I, through a series of ubiquitin-like reactions involving enzymes ATG7, ATG3, and ATG12-ATG5-ATG16, becomes conjugated to the head group of the lipid phosphatidylethanolamine. The lipid modified form ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14778310 | 1,315,541 |
183,892 | The circulation in Venus's troposphere follows the so-called cyclostrophic flow. Its windspeeds are roughly determined by the balance of the pressure gradient and centrifugal forces in almost purely zonal flow. In contrast, the circulation in the Earth's atmosphere is governed by the geostrophic balance. Venus's windsp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6410946 | 183,795 |
1,105,393 | For simple model systems, modern computers are powerful enough to calculate exact nucleation rates numerically. An example is the nucleation of the crystal phase in a system of hard spheres, which is a simple model of colloids consisting of perfectly hard spheres in thermal motion. The agreement of CNT with the simulat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44846612 | 1,104,830 |
1,083,063 | Most vibration analysis instruments today utilize a fast Fourier transform (FFT) which is a special case of the generalized discrete Fourier transform and converts the vibration signal from its time domain representation to its equivalent frequency domain representation. However, frequency analysis (sometimes called Sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2890021 | 1,082,506 |
250,559 | The first published paper on aviation was "Sketch of a Machine for Flying in the Air" by Emanuel Swedenborg published in 1716. This flying machine consisted of a light frame covered with strong canvas and provided with two large oars or wings moving on a horizontal axis, arranged so that the upstroke met with no resist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177680 | 250,426 |
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