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861,514 | In naming Graves as a recipient of its national design award for lifetime achievement, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum explained that Graves broadened "the role of the architect in society" and raised "public interest in good design as essential to the quality of everyday life." Graves and his firm designe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53408 | 861,055 |
1,074,788 | As implied by its name, myelin basic protein is significantly basic, with an isoelectric point of 10. It is thought to associate with the cell membrane through electrostatic interactions between its positive charges and negatively charged phospholipid heads of the plasma membrane. It can undergo a large variety of post... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2862913 | 1,074,234 |
1,631,352 | The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) is an official participant of the OSHA Alliance Program. Through the AIHA-OSHA Alliance, AIHA helps OSHA provide AIHA members and the general public information on OSHA's rule making and employer compliance laws, in order to fulfill the mutual mission of ensuring safe ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50263768 | 1,630,430 |
1,592,283 | Activist, advocacy, action research is conducted by applied anthropologists by identifying, addressing, and critiquing imbalances in the division of power within society. This includes economic resources, social status, material goods, and any other good desired socially or economically within a society, community, or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65980939 | 1,591,387 |
578,711 | Many antidepressant drugs acutely increase synaptic levels of the monoamine neurotransmitter, serotonin, but they may also enhance the levels of norepinephrine and dopamine. The observation of this efficacy led to the "monoamine hypothesis of depression", which postulates that the deficit of certain neurotransmitters i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19477293 | 578,415 |
1,015,269 | In a special "What If" by David Hine and Mico Suayan, the Annihilation Wave reaches Earth in the climactic battle of the "Civil War" between Iron Man's Pro-Superhuman Registration Act side and Captain America's Anti-Superhuman Registration Act side. Nova is outraged the heroes are fighting over secret identities when s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3625904 | 1,014,748 |
733,689 | Stars close to the upper mass limit to still qualify as AGB stars show some peculiar properties and have been dubbed super-AGB stars. They have masses above and up to 9 or (or more). They represent a transition to the more massive supergiant stars that undergo full fusion of elements heavier than helium. During the tri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1118042 | 733,302 |
734,816 | National Malleable Castings in 1891 absorbed the Chicago Malleable Iron which was founded in 1873 by Alfred A. Pope and John C. Coonley, who operated similar companies in Ohio and Indiana. By the late 1880s, the company employed nearly 1,000 men at its 26th and Western Chicago works, which manufactured various railroad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29347893 | 734,429 |
1,423,861 | Starting sophomore year, students may choose one out of seven programs (vessel operations, ocean engineering, marine systems technology, professional/scientific diving, Marine Biology Research Program, marine policy and advocacy, and aquaculture) to focus on for the rest of their high school career. Depending on their ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7946884 | 1,423,059 |
2,246,708 | The tibiotarsus is long and slender, growing more slender as it moves away from the proximal end before widening again at the epiphysis at the distal end of the bone. The preserved portion of the bone is long, but taking into account the missing proximal end it may have reached a total length of . The front (cranial) s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70949675 | 2,245,436 |
516,247 | Development for current post-combustion technologies has not been entirely done due to several problems. One of the major concerns using this technology to capture carbon dioxide is the parasitic energy consumption. If the capacity of the unit is designed to be small, the heat loss to the surrounding is great enough to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21782795 | 515,978 |
109,881 | Stewart measured radiated power with a thermo-pile and sensitive galvanometer read with a microscope. He was concerned with selective thermal radiation, which he investigated with plates of substances that radiated and absorbed selectively for different qualities of radiation rather than maximally for all qualities of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191123 | 109,836 |
1,875,249 | MASPEX is a next generation spectrometer with significantly improved performance over existing instruments, that was developed over 10 years by the Southwest Research Institute. Development of the MASPEX was born out of the need to separate and analyze the unexpectedly rich volatile mixtures discovered by the "Cassini"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55618137 | 1,874,172 |
848,664 | Another possible exploitation of PRRs in human medicine is also related to tumor malignancies of the intestines. "Helicobacter pylori" has been shown by studies to significantly correlate with the development of a gastrointestinal tumors. In a healthy individual "Helicobacter pylori" infection is targeted by the combin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1903231 | 848,214 |
222,120 | Boyd was born on January 23, 1927, in Erie, Pennsylvania. He enlisted in the Army Air Forces on October 30, 1944, while he was still a junior in high school. After graduation, he completed his basic training and skill training as an aircraft turret mechanic during the waning months of World War II. From January 1946 to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=163161 | 222,011 |
1,406,543 | Recent studies combining odor conditioning and cellular imaging have identified six memory traces that coincide with molecular changes in the "Drosophila" olfactory system. Three of these traces are associated with early forming behavioral memory. One such trace was visualized in the antennal lobe (AL) by synapto-pHluo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=530801 | 1,405,753 |
838,422 | The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has not been able to decide how to regulate VoIP (Internet Telephony) because the convergent technology is still growing and changing. In addition to its growth, FCC is tentative to set regulation on VoIP in order to promote competition in the telecommunication industry.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=206586 | 837,973 |
1,723,618 | These committees release new reports about every 10 years on cancer risks that are applicable to low-LET radiation exposures. Overall, the estimates of cancer risks among the different reports of these panels will agree within a factor of two or less. There is continued controversy for doses that are below 5 mSv, howev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35819785 | 1,722,648 |
645,786 | His family was not wealthy, so Worden sought a scholarship to enable his studies. He was able to secure one to the University of Michigan, but it was good for only one year. Seeing the U.S. service academies as his road to an education, Worden took an entrance examination and was offered appointments both to the United... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=677187 | 645,446 |
363,149 | Unlike spoken languages, words in sign languages are perceived with the eyes instead of the ears. Signs are articulated with the hands, upper body and head. The main articulators are the hands and arms. Relative parts of the arm are described with the terms proximal and distal. Proximal refers to a part closer to the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23194 | 362,959 |
99,378 | The Carthaginians continued their march through Etruria, then Umbria, to the Adriatic coast, then turned south into Apulia, hoping to win over some of the ethnic Greek and Italic cities of southern Italy. News of the defeat again caused a panic in Rome. Quintus Fabius Maximus was elected dictator by the Roman Assembly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28563 | 99,335 |
1,996,848 | His early education was at private boarding schools. Beginning at age 7 he attended St. Christopher's School in Victoria, British Columbia for two years, followed by what Stanier described as "five long and hellish years" at Shawnigan Lake School. His father removed him from Shawnigan after he contracted pneumonia, upo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33811818 | 1,995,705 |
544,316 | Defoulzi et al. Investigated feature binding through two feature dimensions, to disambiguate whether a specific combination of color and motion direction is perceived as bound or unbound. Two behaviorally relevant features, including color and motion belonging to the same object, are defined as the "bound" condition. W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=941613 | 544,034 |
686,471 | The general function of G is to activate intracellular signaling pathways in response to activation of cell surface G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). GPCRs function as part of a three-component system of receptor-transducer-effector. The transducer in this system is a heterotrimeric G protein, composed of three subu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11891750 | 686,114 |
1,180,763 | In 1905, in an article entitled "Radiation through a foggy atmosphere", Arthur Schuster published a solution to the equation of radiative transfer, which describes the propagation of radiation through a medium, affected by absorption, emission, and scattering processes. His mathematics used a two flux approximation; i.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5827181 | 1,180,139 |
2,117,876 | Poretsky has been vocal in the media about how health care policy can affect patient care. In the 1990s he wrote a letter to the editor of "New York Times" concerning how Medicaid payment caps can limit physicians' availability to patients. In July 2012 he wrote an op-ed for "Forbes" which drew comparisons between the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39447343 | 2,116,658 |
819,538 | It has been proposed several times that mass loss from the faint young Sun in the form of stronger solar winds could have compensated for the low temperatures from greenhouse gas forcing. In this framework, the early Sun underwent an extended period of higher solar wind output. Based on exoplanetary data, this caused a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2202381 | 819,097 |
1,220,440 | Moreover, the reliance on foreign components can also restrict South Korea's export since the country that developed the imported parts can prevent the export of the whole weapon system. In the past, the US Arms Export Control Act and International Traffic in Arms Regulations has hindered South Korea's arms export to T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66301957 | 1,219,785 |
356,508 | The flight-test programme was ended on 19 December 2002, when the aircraft's port horizontal tail broke off during a high-g manoeuvre, leading to its crash at Shatura, near Moscow. The structural failure was caused by repeated exceeding of the aircraft's design load during six years of testing. The pilot Yuri Vashuk ej... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=724871 | 356,323 |
286,871 | The style of the Bengal Sultanate mostly used brick, with characteristic features being indigenous Bengali elements, such as curved roofs, corner towers and complex terracotta ornamentation. which were with blended . One feature in the sultanate was the relative absence of minarets. Many small and medium-sized medieval... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276879 | 286,716 |
1,145,171 | Genetic correlations can be used in GWASes by using polygenic scores or genome-wide hits for one (often more easily measured) trait to increase the prior probability of variants for a second trait; for example, since intelligence and years of education are highly genetically correlated, a GWAS for education will inhere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18690851 | 1,144,570 |
200,853 | In recent years, a different type of EDS detector, based upon a superconducting microcalorimeter, has also become commercially available. This new technology combines the simultaneous detection capabilities of EDS with the high spectral resolution of WDS. The EDS microcalorimeter consists of two components: an absorber... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=682642 | 200,750 |
1,952,425 | It was postulated that the capsid protein binds to the origin of assembly located at the 5' end of the viral RNA, thereby suppressing viral replicase translation. It is also possible that it inhibits cell-to-cell movement of PVX, as the capsid protein is an essential cofactor of systemic virus translocation. "Phytolacc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71590913 | 1,951,304 |
1,651,553 | Some scientists propose using brain imaging to help decide which soon-to-be-released offenders are at greater risk for reoffending. The brain imaging data would be used along with common factors like age, prior arrests, and marital status. To support this idea, in a 2013 study, Professor Kent Kiehl from the University ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32379480 | 1,650,621 |
116,631 | Paul Erdős was born on 26 March 1913, in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, the only surviving child of Anna (née Wilhelm) and Lajos Erdős (né Engländer). His two sisters, aged three and five, both died of scarlet fever a few days before he was born. His parents, both Jewish, were high school mathematics teachers. His fascinat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=601284 | 116,586 |
80,010 | Acupuncture began to spread to Europe in the second half of the 17th century. Around this time the surgeon-general of the Dutch East India Company met Japanese and Chinese acupuncture practitioners and later encouraged Europeans to further investigate it. He published the first in-depth description of acupuncture for t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1537 | 79,977 |
1,216,225 | Answering a question posed to Nirenberg by Shiing-Shen Chern and André Weil, Nirenberg and his doctoral student August Newlander proved what is now known as the Newlander-Nirenberg theorem, which provides the precise algebraic condition under which an almost complex structure arises from a holomorphic coordinate atlas.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1814725 | 1,215,573 |
1,081,548 | The term was first used in a real-world scientific context by C. Casagrande "et al." in 1988 to describe spherical glass particles with one of the hemispheres hydrophilic and the other hydrophobic. In that work, the amphiphilic beads were synthesized by protecting one hemisphere with varnish and chemically treating the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16037610 | 1,080,992 |
1,667,460 | From the time of the ancient world, at least, plants have been classified in two ways. On the one hand there is the detached academic, philosophical or scientific interest in plants themselves: this groups plants by their relationship to one another according to their similarities and differences in structure and funct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17883200 | 1,666,521 |
274,337 | Later in "Optimal adaptive policies for Markov decision processes" Burnetas and Katehakis studied the much larger model of Markov Decision Processes under partial information, where the transition law and/or the expected one period rewards may depend on unknown parameters. In this work, the authors constructed an expli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2854828 | 274,189 |
12,384 | In 1969, the Soviet Union learned of the U.S. Air Force's "F-X" program, which resulted in the F-15 Eagle. The Soviet leadership soon realized that the new American fighter would represent a serious technological advantage over existing Soviet fighters. "What was needed was a better-balanced fighter with both good agil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65580 | 12,379 |
1,940,796 | This rapid, dramatic climate change has affected and will continue to affect species ranges. A study by Camille Parmesan and Gary Yohe published in 2003 illustrates this point well. 434 of the species analysed were characterized as having changed their ranges. 80% of observed range changes were made polewards or upward... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11371222 | 1,939,685 |
1,409,651 | Space inside the nest may also be divided as a result of dominance interactions. For example, in paper wasp colonies, a single inseminated queen may found (initiate) a colony after waking up from hibernation (overwintering). However, it is common in many species that multiple inseminated females join these foundresses ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17297866 | 1,408,859 |
200,090 | Initially, the cost of these chronometers was quite high (roughly 30% of a ship's cost). However, over time, the costs dropped to between £25 and £100 (half a year's to two years' salary for a skilled worker) in the early 19th century. Many historians point to relatively low production volumes over time as evidence tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16440 | 199,987 |
1,220,369 | 13-93 porous glass scaffolds were synthesized using a polyurethane foam replication method in the report by Fu et al. The stress-strain relationship was examined in obtained from the compressive test using eight samples with 85 ± 2% porosity. The resultant curve demonstrated a progressive breaking down of the scaffold ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2238741 | 1,219,715 |
1,303,318 | Differential forms are mathematical objects constructed via tangent spaces and multilinear forms that behave, in many ways, like differentials in the classical sense. Though conceptually and computationally useful, differentials are founded on ill-defined notions of infinitesimal quantities developed early in the histo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=832212 | 1,302,602 |
880,210 | Kwolek is best known for her work during the 1950s and 1960s with aramids, or "aromatic polyamides", a type of polymer that can be made into strong, stiff, and flame-resistant fibres. Her laboratory work in aramids was conducted under the supervision of research fellow Paul W. Morgan, who calculated that the aramids wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=703722 | 879,746 |
89,598 | The musical selection is also varied, featuring works by composers such as J.S. Bach (interpreted by Glenn Gould), Mozart, Beethoven (played by the Budapest String Quartet), and Stravinsky. The disc also includes music by Guan Pinghu, Blind Willie Johnson, Chuck Berry, Kesarbai Kerkar, Valya Balkanska, and electronic c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=144386 | 89,561 |
3,876 | A web cache is a server computer located either on the public Internet or within an enterprise that stores recently accessed web pages to improve response time for users when the same content is requested within a certain time after the original request. Most web browsers also implement a browser cache by writing recen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33139 | 3,876 |
1,162,451 | Transurethral microwave thermotherapy (TUMT) was originally approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1996, with the first generation system by EDAP Technomed. Since 1996, other companies have received FDA approval for TUMT devices, including Urologix, Dornier, Thermatrix, Celsion, and Prostal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50551295 | 1,161,834 |
1,832,079 | Endowed in 1992, the Dr. R.G.N. Laidlaw Research Centre is aimed at understanding children and innovative programs to support their education and development. An overarching theme for investigation is how to promote the movement of research into practice, or in some cases, how research emerges from practice through act... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16066853 | 1,831,032 |
235,555 | Despite considerable progress during the course of the past decade, it remains a controversial question how an optimal path should be defined and identified in stochastic road networks. In other words, there is no unique definition of an optimal path under uncertainty. One possible and common answer to this question is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41985 | 235,436 |
1,946,142 | ESR Technology was formerly the engineering, safety and risk business of AEA Technology, which was formed from the commercial arm of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. It specializes in the provision of technical expertise, products, and services to help customers ensure asset integrity, improve machine reliab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8954995 | 1,945,030 |
1,377,579 | Foxtail barley is distinguished from cultivated barley ("Hordeum vulgare L.") and Meadow barley ("Hordeum brachyantherum") by lemma awn length. "H. brachyantherum" has awn lengths of ; Foxtail barley has lengths of ; and cultivated barley of in length. Once foxtail barley is established, it becomes extremely difficult ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7745780 | 1,376,817 |
1,103,072 | National institutes of excellence have been established recently in Bhubaneswar, while several more are planned, such as AIIMS, NISER, IIT, IIIT and a National university. There are several prominent private universities, such as XIMB and ICFAI University. Institutions dedicated to research such as the Institute of Phy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11608671 | 1,102,510 |
110,274 | There have been many claims about the capabilities of helium-3 power plants. According to proponents, fusion power plants operating on deuterium and helium-3 would offer lower capital and operating costs than their competitors due to less technical complexity, higher conversion efficiency, smaller size, the absence of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14380 | 110,229 |
2,104,412 | The victory was Andreoli's first individual medal triumph at a senior competition, while Boari's silver was her second medal of the Games after winning gold with Mauro Nespoli in the mixed team recurve three days earlier. Erik Nicolaysen of "OA Sports" considered the gold and silver medal successes for the Italian pair... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61097736 | 2,103,199 |
805,066 | Believers within the chiropractic tradition assert that spinal health and function are directly related to general health and well-being, including visceral disorders, but the efficacy and validity of spinal manipulation to address visceral disorders systems remains a source of controversy within the chiropractic profe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213788 | 804,637 |
1,826,382 | Working independently, John Walkup and Ben Jones of The Standards Company LLC developed an identical matrix in 2007 and used it to measure the cognitive rigor of completed student work collected from two large-scale studies of the enacted curriculum in Oklahoma and Nevada. In 2009, Hess, et al. published a paper defini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38673806 | 1,825,343 |
1,345,962 | Other factors included new experimental techniques and the discovery of 'fixed air' (carbon dioxide) by Joseph Black in the middle of the 18th century. This discovery was particularly important because it empirically proved that 'air' did not consist of only one substance and because it established 'gas' as an importan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3543408 | 1,345,221 |
1,381,752 | The common octopus, "Octopus vulgaris", appears to be the most serious candidate for aquaculture in terms of its biological and market potential. It has a worldwide distribution in tropical, subtropical and temperate waters. It is a benthic species occurring from the coastal line to the outer edge of the continental sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33246392 | 1,380,989 |
121,776 | On 28 October 2008, the Pentagon narrowed the field of vendors to Lockheed Martin, General Tactical Vehicles and BAE Systems/Navistar. Each team was awarded contracts worth between $35.9 million and $45 million to begin the next phase of the program, which at the time was stated to be worth $20 billion or more. The Nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9398801 | 121,727 |
228,596 | The Lead Plane function directs the activities of the airtankers by both verbal target descriptions and by physically leading the airtankers on the drop run. The leadplane is typically referred to as a "Bird Dog" in Canada or "Supervision" aircraft in Australia. The O-2 Skymaster, Cessna 310 and OV-10 Bronco have been ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1143974 | 228,479 |
1,487,716 | By 2025, it is estimated that 34 million people in the United States will have dementia. It is extremely important, then, that we establish an effective treatment for people with such symptoms to either reduce, or diminish dementia altogether. In modern-day treatment not involving pharmacological treatment, psychosocia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29805136 | 1,486,878 |
423,565 | Biotechnology may be used alongside microbial ecology to address a number of environmental and economic challenges. For example, molecular techniques such as community fingerprinting or metagenomics can be used to track changes in microbial communities over time or assess their biodiversity. Managing the carbon cycle t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1057083 | 423,358 |
1,993,621 | "Vachellia flava" is native to the central and southern Sahara and the northern part of the Sahel but is uncommon in the western Sahara. It also occurs in East Africa and Arabia. It is a very drought-tolerant species and can survive in areas with a rainfall range of between per annum. It is typically found growing in s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38908776 | 1,992,478 |
1,712,271 | Arc discharges at atmospheric pressure are self-sustained DC electric discharges with large electric currents, typically higher than 1 A, in some cases reaching up to 100.000 A, and relatively low voltages, typically of the order of 10 – 100 V. Due to high collision frequencies of plasma species, atmospheric pressure a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8198899 | 1,711,306 |
894,817 | The above considerations apply to model a quantum experiment. Consider two parties conducting local polarization measurements on a bipartite photonic state. The measurement result for the polarization of a photon can take one of two values (informally, whether the photon is polarized in that direction, or in the orthog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8978774 | 894,347 |
327,818 | Shortly after the Second World War, the Soviet Union reactivated its plans to replace the TT pistols and Nagant M1895 revolvers. The adoption of the future AK assault rifle relegated the pistol to a light, handy self-defense weapon. The TT was unsuited for such a role, as it was heavy and bulky. Also, the Tokarev pisto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=565883 | 327,644 |
439,506 | EUSO, which was scheduled to fly on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2009, was designed to use the atmospheric-fluorescence technique to monitor a huge area and boost the statistics of UHECRs considerably. EUSO is to make a deep survey of UHECR-induced extensive air showers (EASs) from space, extending the meas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=180236 | 439,292 |
698,337 | Christakis' early work was on physician decision-making and end-of-life care. He first began to study interpersonal social network effects in this setting in the late 1990s, with a series of studies of the widowhood effect, whereby the death of one person might increase the risk of death of their spouse. He developed a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21566523 | 697,973 |
103,814 | For use in more strenuous environments, a much more robust cable construction is required. In "loose-tube construction" the fiber is laid helically into semi-rigid tubes, allowing the cable to stretch without stretching the fiber itself. This protects the fiber from tension during laying and due to temperature changes.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11234274 | 103,769 |
148,957 | Although this was the typical mode of operation, in cases where fast launching and recovery was essential for escape (see below), the floatplanes could be launched without their floats, and ditched upon landing, saving the time spent recovering and re-hangaring the aircraft, which was a complex and lengthy procedure. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=497953 | 148,896 |
2,175,085 | The SB-8 V2 had shown that glass-fibre wings could be made stiff enough to avoid aeroelastic flutter problems and that the higher aspect ratio produced the expected improvement in glide angle. It was natural for the next Akaflieg Braunschweig design to have a wing of greater span, replacing the wing of the SB-8 V2 airf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36480662 | 2,173,843 |
830,065 | The first of Béchereau's designs to fly with the new, gear-reduction HS.8B engine design series was the S.XII in its HS.8BeC (or "HS-38") version, which was armed with an unusual cannon that fired through the propeller shaft. However, this aircraft only saw limited use, having been rapidly followed into production by t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=969076 | 829,618 |
752,479 | For over a year from October 1861, Lincoln hoped to found a black colony in the Chiriquí district of what is now Panama, then an outlying part of Colombia. The settlers would mine coal to supply the U.S. Navy, and might even secure isthmian transit from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The president appointed the U.S. sena... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1345874 | 752,077 |
231,885 | In more derived varieties of fish (the physoclisti) the connection to the digestive tract is lost. In early life stages, these fish must rise to the surface to fill up their swim bladders; in later stages, the pneumatic duct disappears, and the gas gland has to introduce gas (usually oxygen) to the bladder to increase ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=184828 | 231,766 |
671,608 | During each orbit, the space probe captured radar data while the spacecraft was closest to the surface, and then transmit it back to Earth as it moved away from Venus. This maneuver required extensive use of the reaction wheels to rotate the spacecraft as it imaged the surface for 37-minutes and as it pointed toward Ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=256567 | 671,256 |
101,718 | A "legal" ohm, a reproducible standard, was defined by the international conference of electricians at Paris in 1884 as the resistance of a mercury column of specified weight and 106 cm long; this was a compromise value between the B. A. unit (equivalent to 104.7 cm), the Siemens unit (100 cm by definition), and the CG... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4462484 | 101,673 |
1,791,588 | Along with Enrique Figuerola asking for a pause, the proceedings to start this 10 second race took 20 minutes. Hary's incredible reaction to the gun and sprint form through the acceleration phase has been studied for generations, needless to say it put him in the lead, on the outside of the track in lane 6, putting nea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24029217 | 1,790,581 |
705,013 | Kramnik won games 2 and 3 by "conventional" anti-computer tactics—play conservatively for a long-term advantage the computer is not able to see in its game tree search. Fritz, however, won game 5 after a severe blunder by Kramnik. Game 6 was described by the tournament commentators as "spectacular." Kramnik, in a bette... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16606350 | 704,645 |
2,134,222 | In his description of "N. suratensis", Catalano also noted a number of other vegetative and floral features that separate this species from "N. andamana". The male flowers of "N. andamana" have red tepals and the androphore reaches only 1 mm in length, whereas those of "N. suratensis" have green tepals with red margins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26329011 | 2,132,997 |
1,906,175 | Dating back to as early as the 1990s, the electronics industry recognized that design validation, test and debug would be seriously impeded in the near future. Initially, the impetus behind this recognition and the subsequent development of solutions was the emergence of new semiconductor chip packages such as the ball... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37752399 | 1,905,079 |
746,402 | Passive optical networks do not use electrically powered components to split the signal. Instead, the signal is distributed using beam splitters. Each splitter typically splits the signal from a single fiber into 16, 32, or up to 256 fibers, depending on the manufacturer, and several splitters can be aggregated in a si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1738259 | 746,007 |
542,483 | Part of the ISS year long mission is to determine the health impacts of cosmic ray exposure over the course of one year spent aboard the International Space Station. However, sample sizes for accurately estimating health risks directly from crew observations for the risks of concern (cancer, cataracts, cognitive and me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14415787 | 542,203 |
2,086,918 | In addition to academic libraries' interests in providing support for their researchers engaging in e-Science, the health sciences library community also emerged as a major proponent for creating librarian positions for supporting the information needs of large-scale, networked, research collaborations on their campuse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24955215 | 2,085,716 |
1,155,849 | Both these cases concerned the validity of Federal legislation. But two years later, the Court extended the implied guarantee into the area of private law, by holding that it also applied to limit the statutory and common law of defamation. A former chairman of a Commonwealth Parliamentary Committee on Migration claime... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1098034 | 1,155,239 |
1,360,240 | As with most successful arbitrage strategies, convertible arbitrage has attracted a large number of market participants, creating intense competition and reducing the effectiveness of the strategy. For example, many convertible arbitrageurs suffered losses in early 2005 when the credit of General Motors was downgraded ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1491847 | 1,359,488 |
1,965,740 | Introduced species are often seen as a negative thing now, but it has diversified diets, improved human health, domesticated landscapes, and sometimes increased biodiversity. Biological globalization is not only a phenomenon of recent times, the big considerations are for the Columbian exchange, but there have been pur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51525128 | 1,964,611 |
144,340 | Not all contemporaries of Caesar believed the account to have been accurate. Gaius Asinius Pollio, who served under Caesar, noted that the account had been put together without much care or regard for the truth. Still, Pollio attributed this to mistakes by Caesar's lieutenants, or even that Caesar intended to rewrite t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47016 | 144,282 |
762,199 | Many wild plant and animal species have become extinct on a regional or national scale, and the functioning of agro-ecosystems has been profoundly altered. Agricultural intensification includes a variety of factors, including the loss of landscape elements, increased farm and field sizes, and increase usage of insectic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152772 | 761,791 |
2,130,453 | Andersen, an author of over 200 scientific publications, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies as well as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, AAAS and the Neuroscience Research Program in La Jolla, California, and he holds several pate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28354637 | 2,129,229 |
1,662,159 | Previous procedures to isolate phosphorylated proteins included radioactive labeling with P-labeled ATP followed by SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis or thin layer chromatography. These traditional methods are inefficient because it is impossible to obtain large amounts of proteins required for phosphorylation ana... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8715575 | 1,661,224 |
69,357 | In 1910, Bohr met Margrethe Nørlund, the sister of the mathematician Niels Erik Nørlund. Bohr resigned his membership in the Church of Denmark on 16 April 1912, and he and Margrethe were married in a civil ceremony at the town hall in Slagelse on 1 August. Years later, his brother Harald similarly left the church befor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21210 | 69,330 |
906,455 | By the late 1990s, the top engines had become so strong that few players stood a chance of winning a game against them. To give players more of a chance, engines began to include settings to adjust or limit their strength. In 2000, when Stefan Meyer-Kahlen and Franz Huber released the Universal Chess Interface protocol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=527617 | 905,979 |
1,232,758 | Kilcullen's paper "Twenty-Eight Articles" is a practical guide for junior officers and non-commissioned officers engaged in counter-insurgency operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. The paper's publication history is an illustration of new methods of knowledge propagation in the military-professional community. It first a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9327221 | 1,232,096 |
1,525,142 | Junior Andrew Smith led four players in double-figures with 19 points in 17 minutes and Butler pulled away to a 91–53 victory over visiting Franklin in an exhibition game at Hinkle Fieldhouse on Saturday, Nov. 5. The game was Butler's final preseason test. Smith, who also led Butler with 19 points in a 53–50 loss to No... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29627686 | 1,524,281 |
1,427,360 | Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) is a committee at a hospital or a health insurance plan that decides which drugs will appear on that entity's drug formulary. The committee usually consists of healthcare providers involved in prescribing, dispensing, and administering medications, as well as administrators who evaluate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3442784 | 1,426,557 |
1,761,152 | The book's title was Svirsky's, chosen as a deliberate homage to George Bernard Shaw's "The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism" (1928). Asimov feared the title would be seen as elitist and condescending, and he suggested "Everyone's Guide to Science" as an alternative, but Svirsky refused. Years late... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7004633 | 1,760,159 |
1,362,915 | Chromobacterium violaceum is a Gram-negative, facultative anaerobic, non-sporing coccobacillus. It is motile with the help of a single flagellum which is located at the pole of the coccobacillus. Usually, there are one or two more lateral flagella as well. It is part of the normal flora of water and soil of tropical an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6979271 | 1,362,162 |
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