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933,327 | Whether and when to perform which preventive surgeries is a complex personal decision. Current medical knowledge offers some guidance about the risks and benefits. Even carriers of the same mutation or from the same family may have substantially different risks for the kind and severity of cancer they are likely to get... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26799151 | 932,835 |
39,433 | The Bancroft copy of the Gettysburg Address was written out by President Lincoln in February 1864 at the request of George Bancroft, the famed historian and former Secretary of the Navy, whose comprehensive ten-volume "History of the United States" later led him to be known as the "father of American History". Bancroft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12384 | 39,418 |
1,530,683 | It was already known in the 1920s that a plasma has a limited capacity for current maintenance, Irving Langmuir characterized double layers in the laboratory and called these structures double-sheaths. In the 1950s a thorough study of double layers started in the laboratory. Many groups are still working on this topic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13651046 | 1,529,817 |
71,615 | The first RB-36D (44-92088) made its initial flight on 18 December 1949, only six months after the first B-36D had flown. It initially flew without the turbojets. The 28th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing based at Rapid City AFB (later renamed Ellsworth AFB), South Dakota, received its first RB-36D on 3 June 1950. Due to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=385077 | 71,588 |
1,952,215 | Orobanche cooperi is a species of broomrape known by the common name Cooper's broomrape desert broomrape, spike broomrape, and burroweed strangler. It is native to the desert regions of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it is a parasite growing attached to the roots of other plants, usually memb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25314994 | 1,951,094 |
1,516,173 | The first phase of the Industrial Revolution was introduced in America during the late 18th century and was modeled on the English system of textile manufacturing. In 1846, when the Armory was built, the second phase of the Industrial Revolution—the “American System”—was about to be launched. In the remote village of W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5762332 | 1,515,321 |
557,343 | Adult-born neurons appear to have a role in the regulation of stress. Studies have linked neurogenesis to the beneficial actions of specific antidepressants, suggesting a connection between decreased hippocampal neurogenesis and depression. In a pioneer study, scientists demonstrated that the behavioral benefits of ant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=740746 | 557,054 |
142,454 | Ouchi and Shinohara immediately experienced pain, nausea, and difficulty breathing; both workers went to the decontamination room where Ouchi vomited. Ouchi received the largest radiation exposure, resulting in rapid difficulties with mobility, coherence, and loss of consciousness. Upon the point of critical mass, larg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12034210 | 142,396 |
1,909,884 | The team left Ann Arbor for Nashville at midday on Thursday, October 12, accompanied by Coach Yost and the team's trainers Archie Hahn and Billy Fallon. Sam Greene, who became one of the leading sports writers in Detroit over the next 40 years, covered the trip. He reported that, shortly after arriving on Friday mornin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25642546 | 1,908,786 |
892,201 | The service module was unpressurized and contained a main service propulsion engine and hypergolic propellant to enter and leave lunar orbit, a reaction control system to provide attitude control and translational capability, fuel cells with hydrogen and oxygen reactants, radiators to dump waste heat into space, and a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=497916 | 891,732 |
2,129,074 | The layered protocol theory (LPT), which is a special version of perceptual control theory (PCT), brings these views together by suggesting that users interact with a system across several layers by sending messages. Users interact with components on high layers by sending messages, such as pressing keys, to components... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29346646 | 2,127,851 |
724,543 | SRP uses decentralized registration and reservation procedure, multiple requests can introduce delays for critical traffic. IEEE 802.1Qcc-2018 "Stream Reservation Protocol (SRP) Enhancements and Performance Improvements" amendment reduces the size of reservation messages and redefines timers so they trigger updates onl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42906494 | 724,162 |
1,368,249 | Apart from supporting the individual host cities' requests, the IRB did not focus its own efforts on returning the sport to the Olympics until the early 1990s, when efforts began to reunite the two movements with a series of informal meetings between the then IRB Secretary, Keith Rowlands, and the British Olympic Assoc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=771734 | 1,367,493 |
115,316 | The modern concept of electric and magnetic fields first arose in the theories of Michael Faraday, particularly his idea of lines of force, later to be given full mathematical description by Lord Kelvin and James Clerk Maxwell. From a modern perspective it is possible to identify in Maxwell's 1865 formulation of his fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18631 | 115,271 |
338,412 | The dating framework provided by radiocarbon led to a change in the prevailing view of how innovations spread through prehistoric Europe. Researchers had previously thought that many ideas spread by diffusion through the continent, or by invasions of peoples bringing new cultural ideas with them. As radiocarbon dates b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26197 | 338,232 |
158,434 | The improved flexibility of the smart grid permits greater penetration of highly variable renewable energy sources such as solar power and wind power, even without the addition of energy storage. Current network infrastructure is not built to allow for many distributed feed-in points, and typically even if some feed-in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13201685 | 158,353 |
1,756,386 | The minority carrier diffusion length is critical in determining the performance of devices such as photoconducting detectors and bipolar transistors. In both cases the ratio of the diffusion length to the device dimensions determines the gain. In photovoltaic devices, photodiodes and field-effect transistors, the drif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7800566 | 1,755,395 |
1,762,458 | The J40 program was plagued by delays and development problems. The most significant of these were the failure of the electronic control system and the need to replace it, development of the afterburner and the integration of the afterburner into the engine control system. The McDonnell F3H-1N Demon was the primary tar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30115064 | 1,761,465 |
2,207,297 | In the 1920s and 30s, Yale University and the French Academy held joint excavations of Dura-Europos, after the modern rediscovery of the site initiated with the widely published photos and findings of James Henry Breasted. The 8th excavation, in the winter months of 1934 and 1935, was under the directorship of Clark Ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72240819 | 2,206,039 |
1,060,537 | HATs are traditionally divided into two different classes based on their subcellular localization. Type A HATs are located in the nucleus and are involved in the regulation of gene expression through acetylation of nucleosomal histones in the context of chromatin. They contain a bromodomain, which helps them recognize ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=553612 | 1,059,986 |
959,000 | In 1948, development commenced at Fouga on a new primary trainer aircraft design that harnessed newly developed jet propulsion technology. The initial design was evaluated by the French Air Force ("Armée de l'Air", AdA) and, in response to its determination that the aircraft lacked sufficient power for its requirements... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2787106 | 958,494 |
1,424,996 | Neurexins are diffusely distributed in neurons and become concentrated at presynaptic terminals as neurons mature. There exists a trans-synaptic dialog between neurexin and neuroligin. This bi-directional trigger aids in the formation of synapses and is a key component to modifying the neuronal network. Over-expression... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12409041 | 1,424,194 |
751,194 | There have been efforts to develop propellers and propfans for aircraft at high subsonic speeds. The 'fix' is similar to that of transonic wing design. Thin blade sections are used and the blades are swept back in a scimitar shape (scimitar propeller) in a manner similar to wing sweepback, so as to delay the onset of s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7661871 | 750,796 |
1,035,408 | Low-pressure systems, also known as cyclones, are located in minima in the pressure field. Rotation is inward at the surface and counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere as opposed to inward and clockwise in the southern hemisphere due to the Coriolis force. Weather is normally unsettled in the vicinity of a cyclone... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=73218 | 1,034,868 |
944,004 | In the theory of decision making, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), also analytical hierarchy process, is a structured technique for organizing and analyzing complex decisions, based on mathematics and psychology. It was developed by Thomas L. Saaty in the 1970s; Saaty partnered with Ernest Forman to develop "Exper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1245372 | 943,502 |
572,978 | Obsessive-compulsive individuals have difficulty forgetting unwanted thoughts. When they encode this information into memory they encode it as a neutral or positive thought. This is inconsistent with what a person without OCD would think about this thought, leading the individual with OCD to continue displaying their s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31110904 | 572,684 |
135,288 | The heart of the new design included not only a renovation of the Cour Napoléon in the midst of the buildings, but also a transformation of the interiors. Pei proposed a central entrance, not unlike the lobby of the National Gallery East Building, which would link the three major wings around the central space. Below w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15155 | 135,233 |
1,242,830 | The first artillery panoramic field lenses, later adopted by all the armies of the world, were invented by the Romanian General Toma Ghenea. Ghenea patented his "sighting attachment for ordnance" on 13 December 1902. Beginning with 1902, the panoramic sight began to gain ground very rapidly. But by 1907, Ghenea's was s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62027085 | 1,242,158 |
12,933 | The Syrian first and second wave had in total numbered about six hundred tanks, half of which had been lost by the morning of October 7. By this time, the Israelis had committed about 250 tanks to battle. Of the initially arriving reserves, the 71 MIB was used to block an advance by the westernmost elements of the Syri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34276 | 12,928 |
632,333 | In the 1960s, groups led by R. Letsinger and C. Reese developed a phosphotriester approach. The defining difference from the phosphodiester approach was the protection of the phosphate moiety in the building block 1 (Scheme 4) and in the product 3 with 2-cyanoethyl group. This precluded the formation of oligonucleotide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10663351 | 631,995 |
1,148,750 | Ben Patashnik of "Rock Sound" magazine gave the album nine out of ten in his review. He claimed that, "they're always a breath away from total fucking chaos or lullaby-soft crooning. And throughout, the highs are tinged with a sadness and the lows with hope, making "Simple Math" a complex and rewarding album that soars... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30136844 | 1,148,143 |
655,932 | Continuing the stripped-down garage rock nature of the duo, "White Blood Cells" features less of the band's blues rock influences, instead displaying a more raw, basic, and primitive rock and roll sound. The album's lyrical themes, which were written by White over a period of four years, touch on themes relating to lov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65750909 | 655,588 |
934,660 | Particularly in Chicano music, the musicians in this culture were strongly encouraged to take on an identity separate from themselves, if they wanted to achieve success in the world. Success might look different depending on the artists. One form of success might be selling tons of record while another form of success ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80077 | 934,166 |
1,874,409 | In order to study the inelastic scattering of the helium atom beam due only to single-phonon contributions, an energy analysis needs to be made of the scattered atoms. The most popular way to do this is through the use of time-of-flight (TOF) analysis. The TOF analysis requires the beam to be pulsed through the mechani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13735033 | 1,873,332 |
847,307 | The Automotive Centre of Excellence (ACE) is a multi-level testing and research centre including a five-storey high wind tunnel that allows for climatic, durability, and life cycle testing. It was built by the university in partnership with General Motors (GM) Canada, the Government of Ontario, the Government of Canada... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=300275 | 846,857 |
592,125 | "Miscanthus × giganteus" is either moderately or highly tolerant of heat, drought, flooding, salinity (below 100 mM), and cool soil temperatures (down to −3.4 °C, or 25 °F). This robustness makes it possible to establish relatively high-yielding miscanthus fields on marginal land, for instance in coastal areas, damp ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8202316 | 591,823 |
1,046,746 | The NES was also released in other regions of Asia outside Japan (except for mainland China). In particular, South Korea received the NES via distributor Hyundai Electronics as the Hyundai Comboy in October 1989. Nintendo could not sell the NES directly in the country as Japanese cultural imports were banned by the gov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68630525 | 1,046,201 |
1,226,418 | The ADVISE study was a proof of concept study that demonstrated that the wave-free period, usually isolated using wave-intensity analysis, could be reliably determined using a pressure-only approach. This was shown across a variety of stenosis severities and demonstrated that over that specific period in diastole, micr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40636807 | 1,225,758 |
61,730 | According to a 19th-century correspondent in the London journal "Notes and Queries", Gothic was a derisive misnomer; the pointed arcs and architecture of the later Middle Ages was quite different from the rounded arches prevalent in late antiquity and the period of the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy:There can be no doubt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54044 | 61,705 |
743,081 | Three-dimensional composites of metal/non-metallic inclusions periodically/randomly embedded in a low permittivity matrix are usually modeled by analytical methods, including mixing formulas and scattering-matrix based methods. The particle is modeled by either an electric dipole parallel to the electric field or a pai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=906878 | 742,687 |
228,636 | Wu was also busy at this time due to the birth of her son, Vincent, in 1947.(). Vincent would later grow up to become a physicist like his parents and attend Columbia to follow Wu's footsteps. By the end of the civil war in 1949, Yuan joined the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the family bought another home in Long... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=252131 | 228,519 |
2,135,065 | Recent research has been able to build on previously developed models and methods to provide sufficiently efficient and realistic simulations. The promise for this technique can be as widespread as mimicking human facial expressions for perception of simulating a human actor in real-time or other cell organisms. Using ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6282756 | 2,133,838 |
1,918,017 | In September 2010 the institute entered into a three-year agreement with the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to collaborate on the identification of new treatments for diabetic retinopathy using the regenerative capacity of stem cells. In August 2011 the institute and Moorfields Eye Hospital were jointly awarded a B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28807801 | 1,916,917 |
639,564 | Inherent in most of the theories outlined above is the idea that a force is generated in the periodontal ligament beneath unerupted teeth, and that this force physically drives teeth out through the bone. This idea may have been superseded by a further recent theory. This new theory proposes firstly that areas of tensi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9046614 | 639,225 |
149,014 | The term "Palladian" is often misused in modern discourse and tends to be used to describe buildings with any classical pretensions. There was a revival of a more serious Palladian approach in the 20th century when Colin Rowe, an influential architectural theorist, published his essay, "The Mathematics of the Ideal Vil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=592136 | 148,953 |
1,570,167 | Dr Vikas Mishra was born in 1924. With the struggle for freedom on its peak and the country united in its fight for independence, Dr Mishra still studying in school formed a village revolutionary cell to fight for Indian Freedom. A small library was established in the remote village from where he belonged to motivate t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40302527 | 1,569,279 |
1,558,849 | Kazakhstan has areas with high insolation that could be suitable for solar power, particularly in the south of the country, receiving between 2200 and 3000h of sunlight per year, which equals 1200–1700 kW/m2 annually. Both concentrated solar thermal and solar photovoltaic (PV) have potential. There is a 2 MW solar PV p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50433642 | 1,557,964 |
1,767,296 | China's Sun Yang fell short of his attempt to a back-to-back gold in one of the program's long-distance freestyle races due to an upset performance from Australia's Mack Horton. Heading into the final lap with a narrow 0.14-second lead, Horton managed to hold off the fast-charging Sun towards the finish for his first i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45186779 | 1,766,302 |
1,202,936 | The full report as submitted to Congress came under criticism from several people at NASA, noting that, although the cameras lacked redundancy, any one of dozens of failure modes in the booster or spacecraft could also result in failure to return any TV images. In regards to the lack of adequate prelaunch testing, they... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=623993 | 1,202,292 |
756,675 | A software implementation of a related idea on ordinary hardware is included in CryptoLib, a cryptographic routine library. The algorithm is called "truerand". Most modern computers have two crystal oscillators, one for the real-time clock and one for the primary CPU clock; truerand exploits this fact. It uses an opera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160506 | 756,272 |
1,110,558 | The Diploma Programme of Design Technology is a two-year introduction to designing, a range of fundamentals of technology, and global technological issues. It provides students with the knowledge to be able to design and make in school workshops, and also to develop an informed literacy about technology in general. Bec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2035838 | 1,109,992 |
1,009,370 | A major redesign of the H engine came in 1990 in the form of the new B234 for the Saab 9000. The B234 featured an increase in stroke from to , increasing the displacement to 2.3 liters. With this increased stroke also came a new engine block with increased deck height to make sufficient room for the increased stroke le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1568105 | 1,008,849 |
1,272,955 | The policy statement references the AAUP's "1966 Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities." The basic principles evidently draw from the early AAUP statement on governance. Though the NEA makes no mention of students anywhere in the policy, the NEA like the AAUP does reflect the basic ideas and premise for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9177274 | 1,272,264 |
1,217,988 | Dormish Khan Shamlu, brother-in-law of Ismail, partially compensated for this lack of construction beginning in 1503. This governor of Isfahan, who lived more often at the court of Tabriz than in his city, left the reins to Mirza Shah Hussein Isfahani, the greatest architect of the period, who built there in particular... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9485636 | 1,217,334 |
611,920 | The first prototype was completed on 26 February 1945, although the VRDK was not yet ready. It was fitted with a new AV-10P-60 propeller before making its first flight on 4 April according to Gordon and Komissarov, although Belyakov and Marmain say 3 March. It was armed with three 20 mm Berezin B-20 cannon with 160 rou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=304230 | 611,609 |
338,651 | The first artiodactyls looked like today's chevrotains or pigs: small, short-legged creatures that ate leaves and the soft parts of plants. By the Late Eocene (46 million years ago), the three modern suborders had already developed: Suina (the pig group); Tylopoda (the camel group); and Ruminantia (the goat and cattle ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31744 | 338,471 |
1,418,402 | Heating in just one area, like the flat end of a center punch, will cause the grade to spread evenly down the length of the tool. Because having a continuous grade along the length of the entire tool is not always desired, methods of concentrating the change have been devised. A tool like a chisel may be heated quickly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182203 | 1,417,603 |
1,375,840 | The NRL authorized a pilot plant in July 1942, which commenced operation on 15 November. This time they used fourteen columns, with a separation of between them. The pilot plant ran without interruption from 3 to 17 December 1942. Colonel Leslie R. Groves, Jr., who had been designated to take charge of what would becom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3673785 | 1,375,079 |
1,914,685 | He is on the Scientific Advisory Board of Autism Speaks, the board of trustees of Genome Canada and the international Human Genome Organization, and is a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He won the $5 million Premier's Summit Award for Medical Research (2008) for his "seminal contributions in red... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29205072 | 1,913,586 |
1,092,205 | In some ways, the HeS 011 can be considered a combination of the two teams' designs, a three-stage axial compressor from Müller's team, combined with a single-stage centrifugal compressor from von Ohain's, the two driven by a single two-stage turbine. The engine operated at somewhat higher thrust levels, about , as opp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2732309 | 1,091,645 |
1,684,562 | There are three possible end results to uni-directionally freezing a suspension of particles. First, the ice-growth proceeds as a planar front, pushing particles in front like a bulldozer pushes a pile of rocks. This scenario usually occurs at very low solidification velocities (< 1 μm s) or with extremely fine particl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39211211 | 1,683,618 |
1,307,308 | To find a resolution to the slew of problems faced by airship engineers to dock dirigibles, Torres y Quevedo also drew up designs of a ‘docking station’ and made alterations to airship designs. In 1910, Torres y Quevedo proposed the idea of attaching an airships nose to a mooring mast and allowing the airship to weathe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182044 | 1,306,592 |
1,049,504 | Hall effect sensors are devices based on the Hall-effect, which was discovered by Edwin Hall in 1879 based on the physical principle of the Lorentz force. They are activated by an external magnetic field. In this generalized device, the Hall sensor senses the magnetic field produced by the magnetic system. This system ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50825027 | 1,048,958 |
1,520,992 | Founded by Abbott Lawrence Rotch in 1884, the observatory took a leading role in the newly emerging science of meteorology and was the scene of many of the first scientific measurements of upper atmosphere weather conditions, using kites to carry weather instruments aloft. Knowledge of wind velocities, air temperature ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4622055 | 1,520,131 |
1,613,258 | Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants of this gene encoding distinct isoforms have been reported, most of which are potentially secreted molecules. The alternative splicing of this gene in B and T cells encounters a programmed change upon T-cell activation, which predominantly produces full-length, membran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14772549 | 1,612,353 |
600,669 | A 1996 article in "The New York Times" included the comments of several other experts. Jerry D. Mahlman, director of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, did not accept Lindzen's assessment of the science, and said that Lindzen had "sacrificed his luminosity by taking a stand that most of us feel is scientificall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182075 | 600,363 |
534,390 | All the schools were small, with a limited undergraduate curriculum based on the liberal arts. Students were drilled in Greek, Latin, geometry, ancient history, logic, ethics and rhetoric, with few discussions and no lab sessions. Originality and creativity were not prized, but exact repetition was rewarded. The colleg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44440652 | 534,111 |
652,447 | The robotic arm was designed to extend from its base on the lander, and had the ability to dig down to below a sandy surface. It took samples of dirt and ice that were analyzed by other instruments on the lander. The arm was designed and built for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory by "Alliance Spacesystems, LLC" (now MDA U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=453566 | 652,105 |
697,401 | During the 1980s, a class of thermal spray processes called high velocity oxy-fuel spraying was developed. A mixture of gaseous or liquid fuel and oxygen is fed into a combustion chamber, where they are ignited and combusted continuously. The resultant hot gas at a pressure close to 1 MPa emanates through a converging–... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6434629 | 697,037 |
74,958 | Between 1805 and 1965, some versions of FFT were published by other authors. Frank Yates in 1932 published his version called "interaction algorithm", which provided efficient computation of Hadamard and Walsh transforms. Yates' algorithm is still used in the field of statistical design and analysis of experiments. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11512 | 74,931 |
1,964,138 | Bolnick earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College in 1996 and his PhD from the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) in 2003. He received a Fulbright grant upon graduating from Williams College but declined to participate, instead joining the Peace Corps. He taught high school biology and math for t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66147376 | 1,963,010 |
809,547 | There are several methods for producing DLC, which rely on the lower density of sp than sp carbon. So the application of pressure, impact, catalysis, or some combination of these at the atomic scale can force sp bonded carbon atoms closer together into sp bonds. This must be done vigorously enough that the atoms cannot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1821411 | 809,117 |
776,211 | A choropleth map shows statistical data aggregated over predefined regions, such as countries or states, by coloring or shading these regions. For example, countries with higher rates of infant mortality might appear darker on a choropleth map. The summary variable being mapped may be nominal or quantitative, but usual... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4746964 | 775,795 |
5,283 | Most researchers acknowledge that regression toward the mean is a relevant statistical effect that must be taken into account when interpreting the empirical findings. This can be achieved by various methods. But such adjustments do not eliminate the Dunning–Kruger effect, which is why the view that regression toward t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2288777 | 5,280 |
1,960,361 | The HEAT-H1 Test Unit is an advanced performance arc-heated facility providing high-pressure, high-enthalpy test conditions for qualification of thermal protection materials, nosetips, and electromagnetic apertures and structures for hypersonic missiles, space access systems, and re-entry vehicles. The test unit utiliz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42091718 | 1,959,234 |
65,606 | Time dilation by the Lorentz factor was predicted by several authors at the turn of the 20th century. Joseph Larmor (1897), at least for electrons orbiting a nucleus, wrote "... individual electrons describe corresponding parts of their orbits in times shorter for the [rest] system in the ratio: formula_1". Emil Cohn (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=297839 | 65,581 |
1,788,149 | Lincoln's foreign policy was deficient in 1861 in terms of appealing to European public opinion. The European aristocracy (the dominant factor in every major country) was "absolutely gleeful in pronouncing the American debacle as proof that the entire experiment in popular government had failed." Diplomats had to expla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61305749 | 1,787,143 |
557,311 | Black-capped chickadees are a well-known model species in the field of neuroscience for their neural mechanisms in song vocalization, plasticity, and memory. Black-capped chickadees are different from other species in the larger group of songbirds because they are characterized by food-caching behaviors. Due to this be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=740746 | 557,022 |
510,624 | The current interest in nontraditional methods for the generation of hydrogen has prompted a revisit of radiolytic splitting of water, where the interaction of various types of ionizing radiation (α, β, and γ) with water produces molecular hydrogen. This reevaluation was further prompted by the current availability of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2909744 | 510,359 |
949,742 | Being the first domesticated species has created a strong bond between dogs and humans and entwined their histories. There is an extensive list of genes that showed signatures of parallel evolution in dogs and humans. A suite of 311 genes under positive selection in dogs are related to a large number of overlapping loc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5141410 | 949,238 |
71,180 | As a part of this effort, the group investigated nitrogen mustard as a therapy for Hodgkin's lymphoma and other types of lymphoma and leukemia, and this compound was tried out on its first human patient in December 1942. The results of this study were not published until 1946, when they were declassified. In a parallel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46126 | 71,153 |
906,896 | In 1873, however, Steinitz's play suddenly changed, giving priority to what is now called the positional elements in chess: pawn structure, space, outposts for knights, the advantage of the two bishops, etc. Although Steinitz often accepted unnecessarily difficult defensive positions in order to demonstrate the superio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167866 | 906,419 |
402,211 | Cooling continued throughout the rest of the late Eocene into the Eocene-Oligocene transition. During the cooling period, benthic oxygen isotopes show the possibility of ice creation and ice increase during this later cooling. The end of the Eocene and beginning of the Oligocene is marked with the massive expansion of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9419 | 402,012 |
1,058,981 | In the early 1980s, Intergem Limited, which controlled most of the Yogo sapphire mining at the time, rocked the gem world by marketing Yogo sapphires as the world's only guaranteed "untreated" sapphire, exposing a practice of the time wherein 95 percent of all the world's sapphires were heat-treated to enhance their na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33521256 | 1,058,431 |
981,114 | "50 Let Pobedy" ("50 Years of Victory") is the final "Arktika" class ship. It was launched from the shipyard at Saint Petersburg on December 29, 1993, as "Ural", and delivered to Murmansk in 1994. It was later renamed and not actually completed and commissioned until 2006 due to funding delays. The crew is expected to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=483169 | 980,602 |
1,182,927 | Bruce McLaren drove for Cooper from 1958 until the end of 1965, winning three races for the team. He had his most successful season in 1960 when he finished second in the Drivers' Championship to teammate Jack Brabham, having stood on the podium six times out of the eight races. In 1964 he formed his own team, McLaren,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37540583 | 1,182,302 |
3,700 | The main armament of the original model M1 and M1IP was the M68A1 105 mm rifled tank gun firing a variety of armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot, high-explosive anti-tank, high explosive, white phosphorus rounds and an anti-personnel (multiple flechette) round. This gun used a license-made tube of the Britis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37744 | 3,700 |
2,038,247 | The DSSAM Model (Dynamic Stream Simulation and Assessment Model) is a computer simulation developed for the Truckee River to analyze water quality impacts from land use and wastewater management decisions in the Truckee River Basin. This area includes the cities of Reno and Sparks, Nevada as well as the Lake Tahoe Basi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5457285 | 2,037,071 |
113,235 | During 2003, the Fuerza Aérea Mexicana (FAM) acquired four surplus CH-53D Sea Stallions from Israel at a combined cost of $25 million. Prior to their delivery in 2005, all helicopters were upgraded to the Yasur 2000 standard. Due to restricted budgets, only two were actually operated by 104th Air Squadron, while the ot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=674186 | 113,190 |
1,359,455 | Estimating and Building Construction First introduced in the 1830s and included: building materials, sewerage, drainage, ventilation, gas and water supply, building design and architecture. Architecture was introduced in 1825 and by the 1840s onwards, this department was training men such as Lieutenant Colonel George B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3125065 | 1,358,704 |
1,284,396 | The first industry trials to test the feasibility of the method and refine its capability were conducted in 2002. Over the last three years a number of systematic industry trials on large-scale defence, transportation and enterprise systems have been conducted. This work has established that the method scales to system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21292928 | 1,283,697 |
1,423,809 | In the autumn of 1944, after the Moscow Armistice, 700 to 800 Finnish SIGINT staff fled to Sweden with 350 crates of cryptography equipment in operation Stella Polaris, led by colonels Aladár Paasonen and Reino Hallamaa. The goal of the operation was to escape Soviet retribution and the communist takeover of the Finnis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10631133 | 1,423,007 |
861,846 | In modern times, the surgical treatment of tuberculosis is confined to the management of multi-drug resistant TB. A patient with MDR-TB who remains culture positive after many months of treatment may be referred for lobectomy or pneumonectomy with the aim of cutting out the infected tissue. The optimal timing for surge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1330683 | 861,387 |
2,146,265 | Ground was broken on the new building on October 8, 1982, in a ceremony presided over by Vassar president Virginia B. Smith. Smith had previously selected engineer Fred Dubin to aid the school in constructing a more environmentally friendly chemistry building. As design progressed, she identified the need to hire archi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42057902 | 2,145,034 |
672,979 | Following Weber again, an increasing complexity arises from the structural and institutional differentiation of the lifeworld, which follows the closed logic of the systemic rationalisation of our communications. There is a transfer of action co-ordination from 'language' over to 'steering media', such as money and pow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5539728 | 672,627 |
1,922,251 | The project operates within the scope of the International Cancer Genome Consortium, working with the other participating organizations and countries to build a database of genomic changes present in different types of cancer. The somatic mutation information gathered by the project can be located in the COSMIC databas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8842207 | 1,921,148 |
688,304 | Typically, the largest fluctuations of the primordial CMB temperature occur on angular scales of about 1°. Thus a cold region as large as the "cold spot" appears very unlikely, given generally accepted theoretical models. Various alternative explanations exist, including a so-called Eridanus Supervoid or Great Void tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12981660 | 687,946 |
674,807 | Not all of Boulton's innovations proved successful. Together with painter Francis Eginton, he created a process for the mechanical reproduction of paintings for middle-class homes, but eventually abandoned the procedure. Boulton and James Keir produced an alloy called "Eldorado metal" that they claimed would not corrod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=250764 | 674,454 |
1,804,022 | By 1970, Mehl's first type of machine, one that would be able to retrieve information, had been accomplished but there seems to have been little consideration of further fruitful intersections between AI and legal research. There were, however, still hopes that computers could model the lawyer's thought processes throu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38358886 | 1,803,008 |
1,178,165 | Haller was born into an old Swiss family at Bern. Prevented by long-continued ill-health from taking part in boyish sports, he had more opportunity for the development of his precocious mind. At the age of four, it is said, he used to read and expound the Bible to his father's servants; before he was ten he had sketche... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=362359 | 1,177,541 |
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