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1,656,543 | By the mid Empire the military's involvement in politics had increased to the degree such that 193 AD saw no less than five emperors as armies heralded their generals as emperors or even, as after the death of Pertinax, murdered the Emperor and then sold the empire at auction to the highest bidder. Likewise, from 211 t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7968922 | 1,655,610 |
893,015 | Further fuel was added to the controversy after a settlement with the carriers, worth around $229 million, was announced in March 2012. Encouraged in part by an announcement by the Australian Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills Science and Research, Senator Chris Evans, an article in Ars Technica portrayed CSIRO as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288262 | 892,545 |
959,011 | The Magister was typically outfitted with avionics such as very high frequency (VHF) radio systems, Lear radio compass, and intercom; all cockpit electronics conformed to NATO accessibility standards. It was not provided with ejector seats in standard, but the fitting of various units was considered to be available upo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2787106 | 958,505 |
1,229,919 | If a specimen must be observed at higher magnification, it can be examined with a scanning electron microscope (SEM), or a transmission electron microscope (TEM). When equipped with an energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS), the chemical composition of the microstructural features can be determined. The ability to detect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2322835 | 1,229,257 |
1,404,131 | The Imperial Iranian Air Force (IIAF) was a branch of the Imperial Iranian Armed Forces and was established by Reza Shah, the Shah of Iran, in 1920. It became operational with its first fully trained pilots on February 25, 1925. Iran's first attempt to procure aircraft from the United States in the 1920s failed due to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2163533 | 1,403,341 |
1,268,261 | The separation of matter wave packets from complete atoms was first observed by Esterman and Stern in 1930, when a Na beam was diffracted off a surface of NaCl. The first modern atom interferometer reported was a Young's-type double-slit experiment with metastable helium atoms and a microfabricated double slit by Carna... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1835170 | 1,267,571 |
2,001,353 | David S. Webster of Durham University Archaeological Services reviewed the work for the "European Journal of Archaeology" in which he highlighted its "popular tone and style" and use of the "contentious" three mode-model of trance states, a model he dismisses as a "myth". In "Archaeology", the publication of the Archae... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37688915 | 2,000,207 |
407,203 | Within the field of neurobiology, there are many subdisciplines that are concerned with the relations between mental and physical states and processes: Sensory neurophysiology investigates the relation between the processes of perception and stimulation. Cognitive neuroscience studies the correlations between mental pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6880483 | 407,002 |
403,984 | Originally, "martingale" referred to a class of betting strategies that was popular in 18th-century France. The simplest of these strategies was designed for a game in which the gambler wins their stake if a coin comes up heads and loses it if the coin comes up tails. The strategy had the gambler double their bet after... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=274536 | 403,784 |
670,396 | To test the hypothesis that filtering is indeed unnecessary to quality control, many of the traditional publication practices would need to be redesigned, editorial boards repurposed if not disbanded, and authors granted control over the peer review of their own work. Putting authors in charge of their own peer review ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33158412 | 670,045 |
909,719 | In February 2013, "The Guardian" published an article by a former political advisor to the Swedish Ministry of Education, Karin Svanborg-Sjövall, on the independent school system: "Sweden proves that private profit improves services and influences policy. Even education unions came on board when private provision was i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=343939 | 909,240 |
1,300,293 | Neuroethologists seek to understand the neural basis of a behavior as it would occur in an animal's natural environment but the techniques for neurophysiological analysis are lab-based, and cannot be performed in the field setting. This dichotomy between field and lab studies poses a challenge for neuroethology. From t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=645120 | 1,299,579 |
667,401 | Solids include complex crystalline materials with sometimes complicated behavior. By contrast, the behavior of compressible fluids, and especially gases, demonstrates the essence of elastic energy with negligible complication. The simple thermodynamic formula: formula_2 where dU is an infinitesimal change in recoverabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3617189 | 667,053 |
450,443 | The basic purpose of the test program was to push the envelope of the TGV system, and to characterize its behavior at very high speeds. With this in mind, it only made sense to start with a stock TGV trainset and to modify it as little as possible. Brand new TGV Atlantique trainset number 325 (25th of 105 in the Atlant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3753241 | 450,224 |
135,281 | After visiting his ancestral home in Suzhou, Pei created a design based on some simple but nuanced techniques he admired in traditional residential Chinese buildings. Among these were abundant gardens, integration with nature, and consideration of the relationship between enclosure and opening. Pei's design included a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15155 | 135,226 |
963,006 | The Postclassic is often viewed as a period of cultural decline. However, it was a time of technological advancement in architecture, engineering, and weaponry. Metallurgy (introduced c. 800) came into use for jewelry and some tools, with new alloys and techniques being developed in a few centuries. The Postclassic was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=399215 | 962,497 |
964,195 | Traditional artificial intelligence involves a computational approach. This primary computational paradigm evolved to the embodied perspective with embodied cognition studies and brought more interdisciplinary research topics to artificial intelligence. Embodied perspective brings a necessity of working with the physic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33034640 | 963,686 |
897,281 | One of the disadvantages of artificial systems for water-splitting catalysts is their general reliance on scarce, expensive elements, such as ruthenium or rhenium. During 2008, with the funding of the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research, MIT chemist and director of the Solar Revolution Project Daniel ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1430539 | 896,808 |
1,168,230 | The type material was collected from mudstone deposits in June 1973 and initially identified as a juvenile "Coelophysis bauri". The level of the Dockum group from which the "Protoavis" material was recovered, was most likely deposited in a deltaic river system. The bone bed excavated by Sankar Chatterjee and his studen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=672740 | 1,167,612 |
627,499 | The college's new social hub, known as the Marano Campus Center Complex, which opened in the fall of 2007, includes new construction and renovation of the existing Swetman/Poucher complex. The $25.5 million Marano Campus Center portion, the new construction, includes the Deborah. F. Stanley Arena and Convocation Hall, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=528002 | 627,165 |
774,025 | Early fossils of "Homo sapiens" suggest that members of this species had vastly different brains 300,000 years ago compared to today. In particular, they were elongated rather than globular in shape. Only fossils from 35,000 years ago or less share the same basic brain shape as that of current humans. Human brains appe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54472601 | 773,609 |
1,403,238 | Wild type, attenuated SeV has been used in clinical trials involving both adults and children to immunize against HPIV-1.The virus administration in the form of nasal drops in doses ranging from 5 × 10 50% embryo infectious dose (EID50) to 5 × 10 induced the production of neutralizing antibodies to the human virus with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6070061 | 1,402,450 |
1,528,266 | Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma (FDCS) is an extremely rare neoplasm. While the existence of FDC tumors was predicted by Lennert in 1978, the tumor wasn't fully recognized as its own cancer until 1986 after characterization by Monda et al. It accounts for only 0.4% of soft tissue sarcomas, but has significant recurre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21763101 | 1,527,402 |
807,922 | on the energy of the interface between the normal and superconducting states. The Meissner state breaks down when the applied magnetic field is too large. Superconductors can be divided into two classes according to how this breakdown occurs. In Type I superconductors, superconductivity is abruptly destroyed when the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=396286 | 807,492 |
435,186 | on the energy of the interface between the normal and superconducting states. The Meissner state breaks down when the applied magnetic field is too large. Superconductors can be divided into two classes according to how this breakdown occurs. In Type I superconductors, superconductivity is abruptly destroyed when the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35543722 | 434,972 |
640,781 | Sensors play a role in innovations in agriculture and the food industry in order to reduce wastage and detect diseases. Light sensing technology powered by PICs can measure variables beyond the range of the human eye, allowing the food supply chain to detect disease, ripeness and nutrients in fruit and plants. It can a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6424117 | 640,442 |
28,516 | The extremely slow elimination of fluoxetine and its active metabolite norfluoxetine from the body distinguishes it from other antidepressants. With time, fluoxetine and norfluoxetine inhibit their own metabolism, so fluoxetine elimination half-life increases from 1 to 3 days, after a single dose, to 4 to 6 days, after... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10153680 | 28,506 |
998,013 | Early on 12 September, the ships of the bombardment group—"Tennessee", "Pennsylvania", four cruisers, and five destroyers—began the preparatory bombardment of Anguar. She first opened fire with her main and secondary guns at 06:32 at a range of , but as Japanese defenses were destroyed through the morning, she closed t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196975 | 997,495 |
780,331 | With the recent focus on terrorism, the military sources in the United States have been investing significant amounts of money in natural language engineering. "In-Q-Tel" (a venture capital fund, largely funded by the US Intelligence Community, to stimulate new technologies through private sector entrepreneurs) brought... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19980 | 779,914 |
2,229,626 | He married Elizabeth Troy, the sister of Father Edward Troy, before coming to St. John's in 1831. Delaney was door-keeper for the House of Assembly from 1835 to 1843. In 1852, he was named keeper of the House of Assembly and, in 1853, surveyor of roads. He played an active role in the passing of the Postal Act in 1851.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24782923 | 2,228,362 |
815,919 | Although not formally recognized under the U.S. generation categories, Super Second Generation or SuperGen was developed in 1989 by Jacques Dupuy and Gerald Wolzak. This technology improved the tri-alkali photocathodes to more than double their sensitivity while also improving the microchannel plate by increasing the o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=584240 | 815,485 |
1,252,685 | Pääbo describes his early interest in Egyptology, and how his work in sequencing the DNA of a mummy led him into evolutionary anthropology. He touches upon his personal life, reflecting on his father, the chemist Sune Bergström, with whom he had a relatively distant relationship, and on his own marriage and son. He des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43232601 | 1,252,006 |
1,258,491 | The approximate counting algorithm allows the counting of a large number of events using a small amount of memory. Invented in 1977 by Robert Morris (cryptographer) of Bell Labs, it uses probabilistic techniques to increment the counter. It was fully analyzed in the early 1980s by Philippe Flajolet of INRIA Rocquencour... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20101191 | 1,257,804 |
750,878 | An EPROM (rarely EROM), or erasable programmable read-only memory, is a type of programmable read-only memory (PROM) chip that retains its data when its power supply is switched off. Computer memory that can retrieve stored data after a power supply has been turned off and back on is called non-volatile. It is an array... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=73333 | 750,480 |
2,002,497 | In the 15 chapters of the second book, various devices are examined which move independently of human interference like clocks and watches, water mills and wind mills. Wilkins explains devices being driven by the motion of air in a chimney or by pressurized air. A land yacht is proposed driven by two sails on two masts... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34749877 | 2,001,349 |
590,438 | A direct detection of electrons being emitted in the internal conversion decay channel of Th was achieved in 2016. However, at the time the isomer's transition energy could only be weakly constrained to between 6.3 and 18.3 eV. Finally, in 2019, non-optical electron spectroscopy of the internal conversion electrons emi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2526861 | 590,136 |
144,197 | In 1921 the Soviet research and development laboratory Gas Dynamics Laboratory began developing solid-propellant rockets, which resulted in the first launch in 1928, that flew for approximately 1,300 metres. These rockets were used in 1931 for the world's first successful use of rockets to assist take-off of aircraft. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37830 | 144,139 |
2,194,560 | Bill Curry joined BIOS in 2012 as President and Director. Prior to joining BIOS he was a Senior Scientist in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the Director of the WHOI Ocean and Climate Change Institute (OCCI). Curry has twice served as a Program Director at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18443331 | 2,193,310 |
1,829,627 | In July 2003 with the help of Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Lyle Vanclief who is also an accredited Bachelor of Agriculture and active farmer, the SRM feed ban was imposed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). This was the first regulatory change to bovine farm practice in Canada after and as a result of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67537844 | 1,828,586 |
274,581 | Anticoagulants are drugs used to prevent the formation of blood clots, reducing the risk of stroke, heart attack and pulmonary embolism. Heparin and warfarin are used to inhibit the formation and growth of existing thrombi, with the former used for acute anticoagulation while the latter is used for long-term anticoagul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=183058 | 274,433 |
85,564 | Gray's discoveries introduced an important shift in the historical development of knowledge about electric charge. The fact that electrical effluvia could be transferred from one object to another, opened the theoretical possibility that this property was not inseparably connected to the bodies that were electrified by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9804 | 85,530 |
501,905 | At the time, the telephone industry was heavily dependent on the use of vacuum tubes to control electron flow and amplify current. Vacuum tubes were neither reliable nor efficient, and Bell Laboratories wanted to develop an alternative technology. As early as the 1930s Brattain worked with William B. Shockley on the id... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33133 | 501,647 |
1,342,077 | When the infection occurs in an early stage of the tomato plant there may be wilting on leaves because "Clavibacter michiganensis" subsp. "michiganensis" enter the plant by wounds, including root wounds, and if the bacterium gets to the xylem then a systemic infection is likely that may plug the xylem vessels. The wilt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10893579 | 1,341,343 |
1,768,750 | However, if the object passes too close to the central supermassive black hole, it will make a direct plunge across the event horizon. This will produce a brief violent burst of gravitational radiation which would be hard to detect with currently planned observatories. Consequently, the creation of EMRI requires a fine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37749068 | 1,767,756 |
530,149 | In February 2004, Intel introduced Prescott, a more radical revision of the microarchitecture. The "Prescott" core was produced on a 90 nm process, and included several major design changes, including the addition of an even larger cache (from 512 KB in the "Northwood" to 1 MB, and 2 MB in Prescott 2M), a much deeper i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=643866 | 529,875 |
485,889 | To take another example, by the mid-third century BC, the Spartan citizen population had decreased to a tiny fraction of what it had been at the time of the Persian Wars (Cleomenes' army could only field about 5,000 men). The inchoate reforms of Agis IV in the 240s BC had failed after a reaction by those opposed to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9050031 | 485,640 |
1,187,882 | JAMA Network Open is a monthly open access medical journal published by the American Medical Association covering all aspects of the biomedical sciences. It was established in 2018 and the founding editor-in-chief is Fred Rivara (University of Washington). The journal is funded by article processing charges and most ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57886038 | 1,187,251 |
169,053 | Many patients may experience jaundice as a result of cholestasis. This is usually evident after physical examination as yellow pigment deposits on the skin, in the oral mucosa, or conjunctiva. Jaundice is an uncommon occurrence in intrahepatic (metabolic) cholestasis, but is common in obstructive cholestasis. The major... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2632843 | 168,963 |
2,026,224 | One of the first manifestations of distributed development is the open-source community, where developers are joined together not by an enterprise and its resources but by voluntarily participating in the same project, resulting in diverse teams from different geographical locations. In these projects there is a surgin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54305815 | 2,025,058 |
19,911 | Russell started the from the back of the grid due to engine component penalties. He made a pit stop for slick tyres before the track was dry, losing time and eventually finishing outside the points. He collided with pole-sitter Sainz at the first corner of the , receiving a time penalty and causing Sainz's retirement. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44641054 | 19,903 |
852,856 | This signaling molecule is key in regulating embryonic morphogenesis in all animals. SHH controls organogenesis and the organization of the central nervous system, limbs, digits and many other parts of the body. Sonic hedgehog is a morphogen that patterns the developing embryo using a concentration gradient characteriz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=353697 | 852,402 |
511,283 | Harry Thompson noted that "Explorers on the Moon" was widely regarded as Hergé's "greatest artistic achievement", describing the entire moon adventure as "a technical masterpiece" as a result of its "uncannily accurate" depiction of the Moon. Thompson expressed his opinion that "Explorers" could be compared to the work... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=547990 | 511,017 |
649,137 | Brain networks can be defined at different levels of scale, corresponding to levels of spatial resolution in brain imaging (Kötter, 2007, Sporns, 2010). These scales can be roughly categorized as macroscale, mesoscale and microscale. Ultimately, it may be possible to join connectomic maps obtained at different scales i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15978180 | 648,796 |
1,398,427 | Pathway is the term from molecular biology for a curated schematic representation of a well characterized segment of the molecular physiological machinery, such as a metabolic pathway describing an enzymatic process within a cell or tissue or a signaling pathway model representing a regulatory process that might, in it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46581687 | 1,397,654 |
2,066,729 | The men's vault competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The qualification and final rounds took place on July 20, 22 and 25th at the Luzhniki Palace of Sports. There were 65 competitors from 14 nations, with nations competing in the team eve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24082127 | 2,065,538 |
1,464,730 | Similar to WAAS, EGNOS is mostly designed for aviation users who enjoy unperturbed reception of direct signals from geostationary satellites up to very high latitudes. The use of EGNOS on the ground, especially in urban areas, is limited due to relatively low elevation of geostationary satellites: about 30° above horiz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=199645 | 1,463,907 |
1,848,804 | Some examples of how these visuals can be interpreted include bar graphs that show the radial position and chromatin compaction levels of nuclear profiles, they can be split into categories to give a generalization of how often nuclear profiles are detected within a genomic window. A radar chart is a circular graph tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57153310 | 1,847,746 |
704,232 | The International Energy Agency does not recognise shortages of resources but states that supply could struggle to keep pace with the world’s climate ambitions. Electric vehicles (EV) and battery storage are expected to cause the most demand. Wind farms and solar PV are less consuming. The extension of electrical grids... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39208945 | 703,864 |
1,153,519 | Up to the 1980s, Wingfield's reputation as a villain stems from his chief rival, John Smith, who was apparently prone to supreme exaggeration. Newly freed from arrest, Smith wrote of Wingfield's ""overweening jealousy"" i.e. supremely self-confident and suspicious of rivalry – which one could argue are two necessary qu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2173289 | 1,152,909 |
901,489 | The US Army Air Forces (USAAF) adopted the N2C-2 concept in 1939. Obsolescent aircraft were put into service as "A-series" anti-aircraft target drones. Since the "A" code would be also used for "Attack" aircraft, later "full-sized" targets would be given the "PQ" designation. USAAF acquired hundreds of Culver "PQ-8" ta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3524423 | 901,013 |
662,062 | The Solothurn S-18/100 20 mm anti-tank cannon was a German and Swiss anti-tank rifle used during the Second World War. It had a semi-automatic action in a bullpup configuration. As a result of its large, powerful ammunition, the gun had a tremendous recoil, and its size made portability difficult. The feed was either f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3556776 | 661,717 |
545,636 | As the members of the class entered service beginning in 1894, they were assigned to I Division of I Squadron, with becoming the squadron flagship. Throughout the rest of the 1890s, the ships conducted routine training exercises, visits to foreign countries, and training cruises. Maneuvers included tactical training, s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10865795 | 545,350 |
553,556 | Endophytes may have potential future applications in agriculture. Use of endophytes might potentially increase crop yields. Turfgrass seed of "Festuca" and "Lolium perenne" infected with fungal inoculants, "Acremonium coenophialum" and "A. lolii", is commercially available for use in growing lawns which might require l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=889890 | 553,267 |
258,034 | The snowball Earth hypothesis has been invoked to explain glacial deposits in the Huronian Supergroup of Canada, though the palaeomagnetic evidence that suggests ice sheets at low latitudes is contested, and stratigraphic evidence clearly shows only three distinct depositions of glacial material (the Ramsay, Bruce, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28982 | 257,900 |
1,791,683 | Shock hardening is a process used to strengthen metals and alloys, wherein a shock wave produces atomic-scale defects in the material's crystalline structure. As in cold work, these defects interfere with the normal processes by which metallic materials yield (plasticity), making materials stiffer, but more brittle. Wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1952861 | 1,790,676 |
763,157 | Superior Gallic mobility and numbers often troubled Roman arms, whether deployed in decades-long mobile or guerrilla warfare or in decisive field engagement. The near-defeat of Caesar in his Gallic campaign confirms this latter pattern but also shows the strengths of Roman tactical organization and discipline. At the B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30855309 | 762,748 |
586,259 | Small differences in graphical representation are also problematic when they affect legibility or belong to the wrong cultural tradition. Besides making some Unicode fonts unusable for texts involving multiple "Unihan languages", names or other orthographically sensitive terminology might be displayed incorrectly. (Pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187273 | 585,959 |
82,342 | The seeds of "Capsicum" plants are dispersed predominantly by birds. In birds, the TRPV1 channel does not respond to capsaicin or related chemicals (avian vs. mammalian TRPV1 show functional diversity and selective sensitivity). This is advantageous to the plant, as chili pepper seeds consumed by birds pass through the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57421 | 82,308 |
520,270 | On October 18–24, 2021, competing at home in Kitakyushu, Japan, Uchimura, oldest at 32 years, 9 months and 21 days old, was selected as part of the Japanese world championship team in artistic gymnastics (AG) as an apparatus individual to compete only on the individual horizontal bar event. He qualified in fifth place ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18787707 | 519,999 |
1,734,426 | Above these three layers is the Eype clay, which was probably deposited in deeper, calmer waters. Ammonites found in this layer had apparently been attacked by larger crustaceans. The fossilised remains of large numbers of brittle stars, found towards the end of this deposition, indicate that they were rapidly covered.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1121663 | 1,733,449 |
410,056 | In 2005, allegations surfaced that some evangelical Christian cadets and staff were effectively engaging in religious proselytizing at the Academy. These allegations, along with concerns over how the Air Force handles other religious issues, prompted Academy graduate Michael L. Weinstein to file a lawsuit against the A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77587 | 409,854 |
135,274 | Pei took to the project with vigor, and set to work with two young architects he had recently recruited to the firm, William Pedersen and Yann Weymouth. Their first obstacle was the unusual shape of the building site, a trapezoid of land at the intersection of Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues. Inspiration struck P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15155 | 135,219 |
2,177,444 | Although some familiarity with basic probability would be helpful to readers, the book is intended for a broad audience, and reviewer Ray Hill writes that its authors "have struck the right balance of providing enough mathematics for the specialist to check out the details, but not so much as to overwhelm the general r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72353740 | 2,176,200 |
1,658,114 | Starting around 1997, the MIT Museum featured an annual "Friday After Thanksgiving" (F.A.T.) chain reaction, which was emceed by kinetic artists Arthur Ganson and Jeff Lieberman, who also constructed the last contraption in the giant event. Teams of contestants constructed elaborate Rube Goldberg style chain-reaction m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5756234 | 1,657,181 |
1,114,632 | Studies of fossilized vegetation suggest that the Alaska North Slope had a maximum temperature of and a minimum temperature of to in the last 35 million years of the Cretaceous (slightly cooler than Portland, Oregon but slightly warmer than Calgary, Alberta). Even so, the Alaska North Slope has no fossils of large cold... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6040372 | 1,114,064 |
1,307,262 | For the next five days, about 100 hours in total, joint U.S.-Russian operations were conducted, including biomedical investigations, and transfer of equipment to and from "Mir". Fifteen separate biomedical and scientific investigations were conducted, using the Spacelab module installed in the aft portion of "Atlantis"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=526869 | 1,306,546 |
211,622 | In 2010, 7.6 million children died before reaching the age of 5. While this is a decrease from 9.6 million in 2000, it was still far from the fourth Millennium Development Goal to decrease child mortality by two-thirds by 2015. Of these deaths, about 64% were due to infection including diarrhea, pneumonia, and malaria.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1032780 | 211,514 |
681,278 | Since the 2015 Kickstarter update, no further updates have been posted on the platform. Many Kickstarter backers have expressed their frustration with the company and the continuous lack of communication about the project, inferring that it is/was suffering from a small number of personnel in its production team, along... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=664004 | 680,923 |
1,244,590 | Over an area corresponding to 1.65° diameter on the sky, the image plane has 16 arrays of infrared detectors, each array with 2048x2048 pixels of 20 μm size, corresponding on average to 0.34" on the sky. The focal length of 12.1 m combines with the baffled aperture of 3.7 m to a focal ratio of 3.26. The arrays are sepa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=749810 | 1,243,917 |
1,241,194 | Science Research Associates Inc. was founded in 1938 with a trade and occupational focus. In 1957, it moved into individualized classroom instruction with the iconic SRA Reading Laboratory Kit, a format that they translated to mathematics, science, and social studies commonly called SRA cards. The labs were large boxes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7706414 | 1,240,523 |
359,532 | Anatomically, the human cerebellum has the appearance of a separate structure attached to the bottom of the brain, tucked underneath the cerebral hemispheres. Its cortical surface is covered with finely spaced parallel grooves, in striking contrast to the broad irregular convolutions of the cerebral cortex. These paral... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50397 | 359,345 |
1,779,436 | In the years to come, Dausset continued his research on the Hu-1 complex. Through 1966-1967 he published several more papers on the subject, including a paper summarizing the relevance of Hu-1 antigens to oncogenesis and transplantation, development of the use of a platelet complementation fixation test to identify whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1700316 | 1,778,433 |
654,332 | Sampling is using a segment of another's musical recording as part of one's own recording. It has been integral to hip hop production since its inception. In hip-hop, the term describes a technique of splicing out or copying sections of other songs and rearranging or reworking these sections into cohesive musical patte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3555227 | 653,988 |
1,457,111 | There are many costs that ethnocentrism can incur on an international organization. Using the centralized approach can cause inefficient staffing problems in the organization, this is because the employed staff will incur high financial costs to the global business as they have to pay for the transfer costs of the staf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26992335 | 1,456,291 |
181,855 | In the extrusion process, raw materials are first ground to the correct particle size. The dry mix is passed through a pre-conditioner, in which other ingredients may be added, and steam is injected to start the cooking process. The preconditioned mix is then passed through an extruder, where it is forced through a die... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=855850 | 181,759 |
8,287 | At the start of 1914, the university housed about 3,000 undergraduates and about 100 postgraduate students. During the First World War, many undergraduates and fellows joined the armed forces. By 1918 virtually all fellows were in uniform, and the student population in residence was reduced to 12 per cent of the pre-wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31797 | 8,284 |
1,881,182 | Architect and educator Ashraf Salama observed: “This book is of great value to architectural educators. It helps them correct some of the misconceptions inherited in architectural education … Knowledge is usually presented to students in a retrospective way where abstract and symbolic generalizations used to describe r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11195188 | 1,880,101 |
758,426 | LCD projectors have fundamental limits on their ability to project true black as well as light, which has tended to limit their use in planetaria. LCOS and modified LCOS projectors have improved on LCD contrast ratios while also eliminating the “screen door” effect of small gaps between LCD pixels. “Dark chip” DLP proj... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60548 | 758,020 |
1,229,789 | Although some railroads still rely on older, simpler electronic lighted displays and manual controls, in modern implementations, dispatchers rely on computerized systems similar to supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems to view the location of trains and the aspect, or display, of absolute signals. Ty... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1308828 | 1,229,127 |
340,735 | The Kuiper belt was named after Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper, although he did not predict its existence. In 1992, minor planet (15760) Albion was discovered, the first Kuiper belt object (KBO) since Pluto (in 1930) and Charon (in 1978). Since its discovery, the number of known KBOs has increased to thousands, and mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16796 | 340,554 |
1,591,685 | Operating primarily as a Liaison Officer under the pseudonym 'Mike Stanley', he was the longest-serving British soldier with the United Nations Protection Force during the 1992-95 Bosnian War. In the latter part of his service, he worked directly for General Sir Michael Rose and General Sir Rupert Smith, successive com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13845488 | 1,590,789 |
1,780,647 | An action formula_66 of formula_67 by automorphisms of a compact metrizable abelian group may be associated via duality to any countable module formula_45 over the ring formula_69. The topological entropy (which is equal to the measure-theoretic entropy) of this action, formula_70, is given by a Mahler measure (or is i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1088425 | 1,779,643 |
1,467,124 | A period in which various early English colonies had a significant amount of self-rule prevailed from the time of the Plymouth colony's founding in 1620 through 1676, as the mother country was wracked by revolution and general instability. However, King William III decisively intervened in colonial affairs after 1688 a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9458703 | 1,466,301 |
4,971 | While the first seven games were loosely based on Greek mythology, this installment is loosely inspired by Norse mythology, taking place at least 150 years after "God of War III" (2010). Six of the nine realms of Norse mythology can be explored. Predating the Vikings, most of the game takes place in ancient Scandinavia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50810460 | 4,969 |
832,684 | Specification gaming has been observed in numerous AI systems. One system was trained to finish a simulated boat race by rewarding it for hitting targets along the track; instead it learned to loop and crash into the same targets indefinitely (see video). Chatbots often produce falsehoods because they are based on lang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50785023 | 832,235 |
375,734 | As of February 2009, the NRC requires that the design of new power plants ensures that the reactor containment would remain intact, cooling systems would continue to operate, and spent fuel pools would be protected, in the event of an aircraft crash. This is an issue that has gained attention since the September 11 att... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4131402 | 375,539 |
104,863 | In 1990, Watson was appointed as the Head of the Human Genome Project at the National Institutes of Health, a position he held until April 10, 1992. Watson left the Genome Project after conflicts with the new NIH Director, Bernadine Healy. Watson was opposed to Healy's attempts to acquire patents on gene sequences, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16289 | 104,818 |
140,115 | The previous edition of the regulations required use of RCDs for socket outlets that were liable to be used by outdoor appliances. Normal practice in domestic installations was to use a single RCD to cover all the circuits requiring RCD protection (typically sockets and showers) but to have some circuits (typically lig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=530715 | 140,058 |
775,214 | There were 22 reported WPV1 polio cases with onset of paralysis in 2017, down from 37 in 2016. Eight of the cases were in Pakistan and 14 in Afghanistan, where genetic typing showed repeated introduction from Pakistan as well as local transmission. In Pakistan, transmission of several genetic lineages of WPV1 seen in 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9901652 | 774,798 |
384,196 | On 11 July 2021 Virgin Galactic became the first spaceflight company to independently launch a founder of the company into space, using the 50 mile high definition of space, having flown founder Richard Branson above the 50 mile mark on flight Unity 22. This sub-orbital flight was accomplished using the twin-fuselage a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1021879 | 384,001 |
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