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1,762,646 | In-line probing does not involve treatment with any type of chemical or reagent to modify RNA structures. This type of probing assay uses the structure dependent cleavage of RNA; single stranded regions are more flexible and unstable and will degrade over time. The process of in-line probing is often used to determine ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22217265 | 1,761,653 |
1,483,013 | After receiving his PhD, Caves continued at Caltech as a Research Fellow in Physics (1979–81) and then as Senior Research Fellow in Theoretical Physics (1982–87). During 1987–92 he was Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering (and Physics from 1989) at the University of Southern California. He moved to Albuquerque... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18416907 | 1,482,177 |
1,832,055 | For the pH of drinking water, the threshold value is 6.5–9.5. pH values outside the neutral range (pH 6.5–7.5) are principally critical, since they provide an indication of the corrosion behaviour of water. Slightly acidic water (pH 4–6.5) usually corrodes galvanized iron pipes, but also copper and asbestos cement pipe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38603345 | 1,831,008 |
1,860,741 | As detailed by David Potts in his history of Wesleyan, the last decades of the nineteenth century were crucial for Wesleyan. In 1875, Cyrus Foss was able to restore short-term financial stability to the school with many donors from the Methodist Church. To do this, he implemented Christianizing disciplinary measures ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22260574 | 1,859,673 |
292,935 | A platelet function assay may give an abnormal collagen/epinephrine closure time, and in most cases, a normal collagen/ADP time. Type 2N may be considered if factor VIII levels are disproportionately low, but confirmation requires a "factor VIII binding" assay. Additional laboratory tests that help classify sub-types o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=311436 | 292,777 |
2,214,184 | Dextran hydrogels and dextran conjugate hydrogels are heavily cross-linked polymeric networks that have a strong affinity for water. These gels have soft, elastic physical properties and are biocompatible and biodegradable. Dextran hydrogels have also been shown to be stable and safe "in vivo". Glucose-based polymeric ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70644950 | 2,212,924 |
1,159,319 | During the war, all the uranium from the Congo had gone to the United States, as had that captured in Europe by the Alsos Mission, even though some of it passed through British hands. The entire output of the Shinkolobwe mine was contracted to the Combined Development Trust until 1956, but in March 1946 there were fear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52573493 | 1,158,704 |
1,339,139 | On his way home from Germany, he showed symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis and was sent to the Adirondack Mountains in northeastern Upstate New York for recovery. After his return in 1908, Warthin informed him of a Rockefeller Scholarship for cancer research at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4980244 | 1,338,406 |
1,384,800 | During her youth, there were few educational opportunities for African-Americans, and her family moved many times to seek the best education they could find for their children. This fact would best explain the move to Yoakum in 1900 as that year would be the same year Inez and her older brother Leon would have started ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13646566 | 1,384,033 |
668,166 | Artist Rudolph Zallinger depicted "Edaphosaurus" in a more scientifically updated form (with a long tail) alongside "Dimetrodon" and "Sphenacodon" to represent the Permian period in his famous "The Age of Reptiles" mural (1943-1947) at the Yale Peabody Museum. The mural was based on a smaller model version of the paint... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2607200 | 667,817 |
391,308 | Later, as hydraulic technology improved, hydrostatic transmissions were introduced by Versatile Mfg for use on swathers but later this technology was applied to combines as well. This drive retained the 4 speed manual transmission as before, but this time used a system of hydraulic pumps and motors to drive the input s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=247388 | 391,113 |
1,783,242 | Special facilities within Silliman include Yale's only undergraduate art gallery, called Maya's Room (named for Maya Tanaka Hanway, '83), a big-screen movie theater (Silliflicks), a dance studio, a half-court basketball facility called the Sillidome, computing facilities, a student kitchen, multiple music practice room... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1300598 | 1,782,238 |
2,162,771 | Fixed geometry wings are optimized for a single design point, identified through altitude, Mach number, weight, etc. Their development is always a compromise between design and off-design points, referred to a typical mission. This is emphasised for civil aircraft where flight profiles are almost standard. Nevertheless... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37292180 | 2,161,536 |
1,571,944 | The possibility of transforming the Demidov judicial lyceum into a university began to be discussed in 1906. This initiative came from the Lyceum's Council and was supported by the larger community of Yaroslavl, the town's authorities and the Ministry of Public Education. Yaroslavl also found support in neighbouring pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7024061 | 1,571,056 |
269,348 | The next generation design for French reactors is the EPR, which is also intended for foreign markets. The EPR was originally developed as a German-French joint project to incorporate the advantages of the highly reliable German design as well as French experience at mass construction of relatively "standardized" nucle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4131857 | 269,201 |
711,112 | ABC transporters utilize the energy of ATP binding and hydrolysis to transport various substrates across cellular membranes. They are divided into three main functional categories. In prokaryotes, "importers" mediate the uptake of nutrients into the cell. The substrates that can be transported include ions, amino acids... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1551873 | 710,741 |
583,631 | The cause of cholangiocarcinoma has not been defined. A number of pathologic conditions, however, resulting in either acute or chronic biliary tract epithelial injury may predispose to malignant change. Primary sclerosing cholangitis, an idiopathic inflammatory condition of the biliary tree, has been associated with th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=732628 | 583,332 |
1,936,310 | Distributed GIS refers to GI Systems that do not have all of the system components in the same physical location. This could be the processing, the database, the rendering or the user interface. It represents a special case of distributed computing, with examples of distributed systems including web-based GIS and Mobil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14449501 | 1,935,202 |
2,151,564 | Montanez is the lead author of an article about what the ancient record may mean for future climate change. Montanez says "we show that climate change not only impacts plants but that plants' responses to climate can in turn impact climate change itself, making for amplified and in many cases unpredictable outcomes," e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42068331 | 2,150,333 |
1,933,775 | TBS has initiated a river turtle nest project in which locals collect turtle eggs on the river banks by the Tiputini station and rear them in captivity. Their populations have been decimated in recent years due to collecting of turtle eggs for sale at market. "Podocnemis unifilis" has shown improvements in recent years... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5647369 | 1,932,667 |
419,924 | In March 2013, the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health reported the death of a 39-year-old man, the 15th case and 9th death reported to WHO. On 2 May 2013, the Saudi Ministry of Health announced five people died and two other people were in critical condition with confirmed cases of a SARS-like virus. The delays in obtaini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41681699 | 419,719 |
756,072 | Monochromatic infrared photo energy treatment (MIRE) has been shown to be an effective therapy in reducing and often eliminating pain associated with diabetic neuropathy. The studied wavelength of 890 nm is able to penetrate into the subcutaneous tissue where it acts upon a specialized part of the cell called the cytoc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=515064 | 755,669 |
486,072 | Second-order cybernetics took shape during the late 1960s and mid 1970s. The 1967 keynote address to the inaugural meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) by Margaret Mead, who had been a participant at the Macy Conferences, is a defining moment in its development. Mead characterised "cybernetics as a way... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2073462 | 485,823 |
1,837,446 | Brown moved to London in 1876 and spent the rest of his life writing, earning his living as a journalist. In addition to botany, he also wrote prolifically on zoology, geology, and geography, for both learned and popular audiences. One example of this ability to write for generalists and specialists is the extensive co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10145008 | 1,836,397 |
309,541 | Before the invention of the proximity fuze, detonation was induced by direct contact, a timer set at launch or an altimeter. All of these earlier methods have disadvantages. The probability of a direct hit on a small moving target is low; a shell that just misses the target will not explode. A time- or height-triggered... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=225127 | 309,376 |
846,500 | After graduating from college, Igarashi began working at Konami. His first project was working as a programmer for a simulation game for the Educational Software department. The game would be a business simulation, and the team took inspiration from the "Fire Emblem" series, but after 12 months the game was cancelled. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2951711 | 846,050 |
1,078,680 | Quality assurance techniques extend the use of probability and loss to include uncertainty bounds in each quantity and possible interactions between uncertainty in probability and impact for two purposes. First, to more accurately model customer acceptance and process reliability to produce wanted outcomes. Second, to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1072573 | 1,078,125 |
1,775,178 | Moving to heavier particles has some advantage in terms of lowering velocity, as energy = mv, but the mass is linear with energy while velocity is a square, so the reduction in velocity is not great. The key advantage is the way that the particles slow within a target. As they pass the atoms in the target, their electr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67203348 | 1,774,181 |
271,026 | The pituitary was known to the ancients, such as Galen, and various theories were proposed about its role in the body, but major clues as to the actual function of the gland were not advanced until the late 19th century, when acromegaly due to pituitary tumors was described. The first known report of hypopituitarism wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=754658 | 270,878 |
109,575 | The earliest operational circular accelerators were cyclotrons, invented in 1929 by Ernest Lawrence at the University of California, Berkeley. Cyclotrons have a single pair of hollow "D"-shaped plates to accelerate the particles and a single large dipole magnet to bend their path into a circular orbit. It is a characte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18589032 | 109,530 |
1,990,846 | A 2009 study examined intracerebral volumetric relationships in twins. Making use of high resolution MRI data, they found strong genetic connections correlations between cerebral structures. Specifically, the study suggests that a strong correlation exists between the tissue type or spatial proximity and genes. By exam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37689507 | 1,989,703 |
671,738 | In March 2012, "Wired" magazine published "The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)" talking about a vast new NSA facility in Utah and said, "For the first time, a former NSA official has gone on the record to describe the program, codenamed Stellarwind, in detail", naming the official ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20859249 | 671,386 |
74,536 | Electromagnetic induction was discovered independently by Michael Faraday in 1831 and Joseph Henry in 1832. Faraday was the first to publish the results of his experiments. In Faraday's first experimental demonstration of electromagnetic induction (August 29, 1831), he wrapped two wires around opposite sides of an iron... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=742288 | 74,509 |
350,322 | Grissom has been noted and remembered in many film and television productions. Before he became widely known as an astronaut, the film "Air Cadet" (1951) starring Richard Long and Rock Hudson briefly featured Grissom early in the movie as a U.S. Air Force candidate for flight school at Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36592 | 350,139 |
211,149 | MD was originally developed in the early 1950s, following the earlier successes with Monte Carlo simulations, which themselves date back to the eighteenth century, in the Buffon's needle problem for example, but was popularized for statistical mechanics at Los Alamos National Laboratory by Rosenbluth and Metropolis in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=198608 | 211,042 |
2,095,540 | The colonies of "B. piluliferum" are fast-growing. They can spread from 2.0 to 4.3 cm in diameter in one week when grown at . The colonies start off as white aerial mycelium which can become a yellowish-beige colour by the subsequent production of brown, rough-walled sterile setae. These brown setae are about 250 x 2-5... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58517372 | 2,094,332 |
596,997 | An unpublished typescript exists in the archives of the National Motor Museum, written by the son of one of Bowden's employees that attempts to claim the invention of the cable for his father to the point of suggesting that it was never applied to bicycles before 1902. Although this is easily disproved by reference to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=295477 | 596,692 |
190,895 | During the Cretaceous, the late Paleozoic-early Mesozoic supercontinent of Pangaea completed its breakup into present day continents, although their positions were substantially different at the time. As the Atlantic Ocean widened, the convergent-margin orogenies that had begun during the Jurassic continued in the Nort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11603215 | 190,796 |
1,522,112 | Although Crum Brown apparently never contemplated the practice of medicine, his training as a medical student gave him an interest in physiology and pharmacology. This led him to collaborate during 1867–8 with T. R. Fraser, a distinguished medical graduate, in a pioneering investigation of fundamental importance into t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3720032 | 1,521,251 |
569,157 | Cadmium telluride (CdTe) and cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) detectors have been developed for use in X-ray spectroscopy and gamma spectroscopy. The high density of these materials mean they can effectively attenuate X-rays and gamma-rays with energies of greater than 20 keV that traditional silicon-based sensors are unab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=802913 | 568,867 |
730,787 | OCD is a relatively rare disorder, with an estimated incidence of 15 to 30 cases per 100,000 persons per year. Widuchowski W "et al." found OCD to be the cause of articular cartilage defects in 2% of cases in a study of 25,124 knee arthroscopies. Although rare, OCD is noted as an important cause of joint pain in active... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3762029 | 730,402 |
301,844 | The question of the relative technical merits of COFDM versus 8VSB for terrestrial digital television has been a subject of some controversy, especially between European and North American technologists and regulators. The United States has rejected several proposals to adopt the COFDM-based DVB-T system for its digita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22691 | 301,683 |
1,769,324 | Some bacteria can use 1,2-propanediol as a carbon source. They use a BMC to encapsulate several enzymes used in this pathway (Sampson and Bobik, 2008). The PDU BMC is typically encoded by a 21 gene locus. These genes are sufficient for assembly of the BMC since they can be transplanted from one type of bacterium to ano... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16999078 | 1,768,330 |
1,491,395 | Prior to the establishment of Eskom the provision of electricity was dominated by municipalities and private companies. The city of Kimberley was the first user of public electricity in South Africa when it installed electric streetlights run off a coal fired power plant in 1882 to reduce crime at night. The first cent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40589785 | 1,490,556 |
2,163,033 | Elliott specialises in developing analytical approaches to yield novel isotopic means to reconstruct planetary histories. He has investigated production of melt from the Earth's interior and the chemical consequences of the return of solidified melts to depth via the plate tectonic cycle. In particular, he has assessed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54869297 | 2,161,797 |
726,439 | Histone-like protein from "E. coli" strain U93 (HU) is an evolutionarily conserved protein in bacteria. HU exists in "E. coli" as homo- and heterodimers of two subunits HUα and HUβ sharing 69% amino acid identity. Although it is referred to as a histone-like protein, close functional relatives of HU in eukaryotes are h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=805665 | 726,057 |
1,201,756 | It is feared that the stealth F-35C could be targeted by low-frequency radar-guided missiles, like during the 1999 downing of an F-117 Nighthawk. In that incident, the F-117 Nighthawk became the first stealth plane to be shot down when it was hit by an SA-3 Goa. The low-frequency VHF acquisition radar detected it some ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41509737 | 1,201,115 |
590,013 | The "Britannia" Class design was based on best practice from the pre-nationalisation railway companies in terms of operating efficiency and lower maintenance costs; various weight-saving measures also increased the route availability of a "Pacific"-type locomotive on the British Railways network. The "Britannias" recei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1223046 | 589,711 |
1,932,633 | In 2004, the academic staff founded the Technology Research Centre of East Macedonia and Thrace (Presidential Decree 36/ΦΕΚ 30/06-02-04). This is a legal entity of private law focused on innovation in the areas of radiation, fuels, marbles, new products design, marketing, informatics, and environment. The centre has ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29398109 | 1,931,525 |
2,074,919 | "Meesia triqueta" grows in small tufts or cushions. The plants, often large, are acrocarpous and dioicous. In color they are dark-green to grass-green above, occasionally red-brown below due to dense rhizoids. The plant's stems are not branched or little branched, pale-brown to yellow-brown, closely foliate, and 2–14 c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10738759 | 2,073,722 |
837,205 | Silicon nitride has long been used in high-temperature applications. In particular, it was identified as one of the few monolithic ceramic materials capable of surviving the severe thermal shock and thermal gradients generated in hydrogen/oxygen rocket engines. To demonstrate this capability in a complex configuration,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3328072 | 836,756 |
361,705 | The Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System is operated by the European GNSS Agency and European Space Agency. Galileo started offering global Early Operational Capability (EOC) on 15 December 2016, providing the third, and first non-military operated, global navigation satellite system. Galileo System Time (GST) is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25453985 | 361,515 |
855,929 | Plant species representing all major land plant groups have been shown to be capable of producing callus in tissue culture. A callus cell culture is usually sustained on gel medium. Callus induction medium consists of agar and a mixture of macronutrients and micronutrients for the given cell type. There are several typ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1009199 | 855,474 |
21,693 | The space segment (SS) is composed of 24 to 32 satellites, or Space Vehicles (SV), in medium Earth orbit, and also includes the payload adapters to the boosters required to launch them into orbit. The GPS design originally called for 24 SVs, eight each in three approximately circular orbits, but this was modified to si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11866 | 21,684 |
1,200,490 | The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the fibroblast growth factor receptor family, where amino acid sequence is highly conserved between members and throughout evolution. FGFR family members differ from one another in their ligand affinities and tissue distribution. A full-length representative protein would... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11598742 | 1,199,849 |
1,556,900 | Starting the second day, Warner's 13.63 hurdles put him back in third, with Freimuth and Mayer close behind to take the top two positions. Both Hardee and Shkurenev disappeared from the leader board after crashing over the fourth hurdle. With a discus throw, Freimuth gained over 4 metres on Mayer and pulled to within 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54729283 | 1,556,015 |
2,059,647 | The laboratory was originally conceived as a replacement for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Fuel Research Station in Greenwich. However, it was deliberately given a much less specific name, based on the area in Stevenage where it was built, to reflect a wider brief than simply researching fuel. It... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70001357 | 2,058,461 |
276,508 | For this more pitchblende was required. Meitner went to Vienna, where she met with Stefan Meyer. The export of uranium from Austria was forbidden due to wartime restrictions, but Meyer was able to offer her a kilogram of uranium residue, pitchblende from which the uranium had been removed, which was actually better for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18070 | 276,358 |
1,466,083 | Absence seizures are more found in children than in adults. Absence seizures involve Unexpected intervals of awareness, it almost looks like the person who is having the seizure only looking at blankly. it is also known as petit mal seizures. It is common pediatric epilepsy disorder accounting for 10% of all pediatric ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8430223 | 1,465,260 |
1,572,334 | University-industry partnerships can take on a variety of forms. On the smallest scale, individual research labs or researchers can partner with industry sources for funding. The details of such partnerships can differ substantially with any number of motives ranging from the academic lab testing of previously develope... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55285257 | 1,571,446 |
870,386 | Acorn's strategy ostensibly evolved to follow the lead of Torch Computers - the subject of an uncompleted acquisition by Acorn - who had already combined BBC Micro hardware with second processors (and modems) to produce their Communicator product line and derivatives. In 1984, Acorn presented the Acorn Business Compute... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 869,926 |
1,060,034 | Until the founding of the Ulm HfG in 1953, there was no systematic approach of design education. HfG pioneered the integration of science and art, thereby creating a teaching of design based on a structured problem-solving approach: reflections on the problems of use by people, knowledge of materials and production pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9744550 | 1,059,483 |
575,408 | Gradually, the pre-production P.24s were modified to closely represent successive production variants of the type; this work included the installation of alternative engines, including the Gnome-Rhône 14N01, the Gnome-Rhône 14N21, the Renault 14T, and the Fiat A.80, which were freely provided by their respective manufa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1139061 | 575,114 |
2,116,880 | Manganese(III) acetate is a one-electron oxidizing agent that is particularly effective for the oxidation of enolizable carbonyl compounds to α-oxoalkyl or α,α'-dioxoalkyl radicals. Radicals generated in this manner may then undergo inter- or intramolecular addition to carbon-carbon multiple bonds. Pathways available t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27959040 | 2,115,663 |
501,434 | Josef Kammhuber returned to Germany and joined the German Air Force while it was being formed. He was promoted to "Inspekteur der Luftwaffe", serving in that role between 1956 and 1962. Following the 1961 F-84 Thunderstreak incident, when two West German Republic F-84F Thunderstreaks strayed into East German airspace a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=312991 | 501,177 |
470,998 | Some have promoted particular types of evidence as 'best' for policymakers to consider, including scientifically rigorous evaluation studies such as randomized controlled trials to identify programs and practices capable of improving policy-relevant outcomes. However, some areas of policy-relevant knowledge may not be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2837919 | 470,762 |
440,515 | On February 27, 2020, the Terra flight operations team conducted Terra's last inclination adjust maneuver due to the satellite's limited remaining fuel. With no more such maneuvers, Terra's mean local time has begun to drift starting in April 2021 and with it, its data quality. In October 2022, Terra is expected to rea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=470910 | 440,301 |
1,416,418 | STELLA (short for Systems Thinking, Experimental Learning Laboratory with Animation; also marketed as iThink) is a visual programming language for system dynamics modeling introduced by Barry Richmond in 1985. The program, distributed by isee systems (formerly High Performance Systems) allows users to run models create... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49465983 | 1,415,620 |
889,519 | As of 2020, METU has approximately 27,000 students, of which 19,700 are enrolled in undergraduate programs, 4,700 in masters, and 3,000 in doctorate programs. A further 1,500 students are attending programs in the new Northern Cyprus Campus. Over 40% of METU's students go on to graduate school. Each academic year, METU... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=515839 | 889,050 |
941,764 | Laptops present a difficult mechanical airflow design, power dissipation, and cooling challenge. Constraints specific to laptops include: the device as a whole has to be as light as possible; the form factor has to be built around the standard keyboard layout; users are very close, so noise must be kept to a minimum, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=798370 | 941,262 |
370,814 | The high value of the computer recycling subset of electronic waste (working and reusable laptops, desktops, and components like RAM) can help pay the cost of transportation for a larger number of worthless pieces than what can be achieved with display devices, which have less (or negative) scrap value. A 2011 report, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3887690 | 370,620 |
947,928 | Following a February 2019 spaceflight, VSS "Unity" began to undergo modifications in preparation for commercial service; this includes an upgrading the flight deck and installing a passenger cabin. It was later revealed in 2021 that VSS "Unity" had actually suffered a large crack in its structure during its 2019 spacef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1311283 | 947,424 |
2,154,307 | New weapons, however, such as Germany's giant cannons, the "Paris Gun" (Encyclopedia Astronautica) and "Big Bertha," and the V-2 rocket, meant that projectiles would travel hundreds of miles in distance and dozens of miles in height, in all weathers. As a result, variables such as diminished wind resistance in thin atm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11551989 | 2,153,076 |
1,675,091 | A more specific term than bioadhesion is mucoadhesion. Most mucosal surfaces such as in the gut or nose are covered by a layer of mucus. Adhesion of a matter to this layer is hence called mucoadhesion. Mucoadhesive agents are usually polymers containing hydrogen bonding groups that can be used in wet formulations or in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12577562 | 1,674,149 |
1,391,478 | The Harvard College Observatory was becoming a premiere observatory in the world and with it came the demand for more assistants. These assistants were critical for taking notes, running calculations and performing analytics. College educated women from around the country offered to work for the Harvard Observatory unp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=459404 | 1,390,707 |
742,006 | Lee has lectured widely, written hundreds of articles published in professional journals, and authored or co-authored more than 40 books on forensic science, crime scene investigation and crime scene reconstruction. He has acted as an advisor or consultant to many law enforcement agencies. He hosted a show on the truTV... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=574840 | 741,614 |
2,008,302 | Depending on the country the cash cycle is regulated and structured differently. Some central banks (e.g., the Bank of England or the Reserve Bank of Australia) delegate their tasks for maintaining the fitness and checking the authenticity to the financial institutions and accept only unfit banknotes to be deposited (r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70277682 | 2,007,150 |
318,101 | The Austrian Grand Prix, held at the Österreichring at Zeltweg near Graz since 1970, played host to the 15th Austrian Grand Prix and the 400th Formula One Grand Prix. The Österreichring was the fastest circuit of the year (this was the case when Silverstone was not on the calendar). Pole-sitter Piquet took the lead and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1140073 | 317,931 |
1,094,540 | In late Precambrian time, extension from a large tectonic plate or smaller plates moving away from Laurentia thinned its continental crust, forming large rift basins that would ultimately fail to split the continent. Eventually, this sunken region of Laurentia was flooded with a shallow seaway that extended from at lea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=621004 | 1,093,980 |
1,362,423 | On December 8, 1995, the reactor suffered an accident rated level 1 on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES). Intense vibration caused a thermowell inside a pipe carrying sodium coolant to break, possibly at a defective weld point, allowing several hundred kilograms of sodium to leak out onto the floor below the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=548718 | 1,361,670 |
1,020,559 | Asepsis is the state of being free from disease-causing micro-organisms (such as pathogenic bacteria, viruses, pathogenic fungi, and parasites). There are two categories of asepsis: medical and surgical. The modern day notion of asepsis is derived from the older antiseptic techniques, a shift initiated by different ind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2302400 | 1,020,030 |
1,700,604 | Synthetic ikaite was discovered in the nineteenth century in a study by Pelouze. Ikaite is only thermodynamically stable at moderate pressures, so when found near the Earth's surface is always metastable. Nevertheless, as it appears to be at least moderately common in nature, it is clear that the conditions for metasta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8813912 | 1,699,650 |
1,608,713 | After brief teaching stints at several New England colleges and universities, he abruptly left academia, claiming it made him ill. He then became an independent researcher with a grants-dependent research appointment in the Department of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine. From 2000 to about 2018 he won ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44499100 | 1,607,808 |
1,333,604 | Chant then turned to the local business community to fund the project. Similar collaborations had been very successful in the United States, but Chant found an entirely different reception in Canada and nothing seemed forthcoming. His fortunes changed in 1921 when Chant delivered a public lecture on Comet 7P/Pons-Winne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=725242 | 1,332,875 |
2,045,964 | Chapter 1 includes basic material on number theory, including the fundamental theorem of arithmetic on unique factorization into primes, the binomial theorem, the Euclidean algorithm for greatest common divisors, and the sieve of Eratosthenes for generating the sequence of prime numbers. Chapter 2 begins the study of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66154359 | 2,044,783 |
1,284,297 | The telescopes amateur telescope makers build range from backyard variety to sophisticated instruments that make meaningful contributions to the field of astronomy. Instruments built by amateurs have been employed in planetary study, astrometry, photometry, comet and asteroid discovery to name just a few. Even the “hob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63557 | 1,283,598 |
1,477,929 | Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology has on its campus, men's and women's hostels, 100-bed general hospital, ladies amenities center, staff quarters, guest house, cafeteria, outdoor sports facility spread over and an indoor games complex. Apart from the Engineering College, there's a M.B.A department, Sir M V Sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8113937 | 1,477,097 |
290,321 | No matter how sustainable a building may have been in its design and construction, it can only remain so if it is operated responsibly and maintained properly. Ensuring operations and maintenance(O&M) personnel are part of the project's planning and development process will help retain the green criteria designed at th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1344439 | 290,164 |
1,164,299 | The human factor category includes arrangement and density of housing. Density correlates with wildfire risk for two reasons. First, people cause fires; from 2001 to 2011, people caused 85% of wildfires recorded by the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC). Second, housing intensifies wildfires because they contain f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23607308 | 1,163,682 |
595,925 | In 2009, scientists from several European countries and Israel developed a robotic prosthetic hand, called SmartHand, which functions like a real one, allowing patients to write with it, type on a keyboard, play piano and perform other fine movements. The prosthesis has sensors which enable the patient to sense real fe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=397525 | 595,620 |
1,695,352 | Most of the fossils discovered in the Mussentuchit are scattered and disarticulated, with intact skeletons being relatively rare. Although the lakes did not actively destroy bones, it was not particularly conducive to good preservation either due to the long duration of the burial process. Before burial, scavengers cou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3534822 | 1,694,400 |
367,796 | Other research has focused on treating high-risk individuals with immunosuppressive agents to prevent beta cell destruction. Large trials of cyclosporine treatment suggested that cyclosporine could improve insulin secretion in those recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes; however, people who stopped taking cyclosporin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2812725 | 367,603 |
360,775 | Earlier societies utilized elaborate methods of lie detection which mainly involved torture. For instance, in the Middle Ages, boiling water was used to detect liars, as it was believed honest men would withstand it better than liars. Early devices for lie detection include an 1895 invention of Cesare Lombroso used to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71734 | 360,587 |
2,096,573 | The pressure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate climate change and the increasing demand for natural resources is compelling the wastewater sector to develop innovative and more efficient practices to operate. Wastewater contains energy, nutrients and other organic and inorganic resources that can be succes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55657441 | 2,095,365 |
941,249 | Most mining draglines are not diesel-powered like most other mining equipment. Their power consumption on order of several megawatts is so great that they have a direct connection to the high-voltage grid at voltages of between 6.6 and 22 kV. A typical dragline weighing 4000 to 6000 tons, with a 55-cubic-metre bucket, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=571674 | 940,747 |
1,275,441 | One explanation for this is that humans follow conventions. A study by Clegg and Legare tested this by demonstrating a method of making a necklace to young children. In demonstrations, the model added a step which was not necessary for the achievement of the final goal of completing the necklace. In one demonstration, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40723520 | 1,274,749 |
1,268,217 | The "Last Alert" part of the ATLAS name acknowledges that the system will find smaller asteroids years too late for potential deflection but would provide the days or weeks of warning needed to evacuate and otherwise prepare a target area. According to ATLAS project lead John Tonry, "that's enough time to evacuate the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38623877 | 1,267,527 |
604,306 | The Air Service replaced its wartime structure with the formation of six permanent groups in 1919, four of which were based in the United States and two overseas. The first of the new groups, the Army Surveillance Group, was organized in July to direct the operations of three squadrons patrolling the border with Mexico... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=662917 | 603,996 |
1,643,924 | DRDC's Technology Demonstration Program (TDP) approved CDN$6.5M of funding for NEOSSat in 2003. By mid-2004 CSA had approved the remaining funding needed to initiate the NEOSSat procurement, and with DRDC formed a Joint Program Office to manage the mission development. At this point the spacecraft's name was changed fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17231430 | 1,642,997 |
1,423,743 | The trend today is toward replaceable memory cards for recording, or internal hard-drives built into the camera. This provides maximum versatility, high recording time options, and few mechanical breakdown possibilities, not to mention minimizing problems with condensation affecting the recording (tape) media of previo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=297297 | 1,422,941 |
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