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983,818 | A pressure vessel [6] containing air cushions the hydraulic pressure shock when the waste valve closes, and it also improves the pumping efficiency by allowing a more constant flow through the delivery pipe. Although the pump could in theory work without it, the efficiency would drop drastically and the pump would be s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14340 | 983,304 |
298,465 | Americium was first produced in 1944 by the group of Glenn T. Seaborg from Berkeley, California, at the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago, as part of the Manhattan Project. Although it is the third element in the transuranic series, it was discovered fourth, after the heavier curium. The discovery w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=900 | 298,305 |
369,439 | Countries may support renewables to create jobs. The International Labour Organization estimates that efforts to limit global warming to 2 °C would result in net job creation in most sectors of the economy. It predicts that 24 million new jobs would be created by 2030 in areas such as renewable electricity generation, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1055890 | 369,246 |
88,499 | On the fundamental level, since the advent of photographic evidence of tall clouds were captured, it was known that firestorms could inject soot smoke/aerosols into the stratosphere, but the longevity of this slew of aerosols was a major unknown. Independent of the team that continue to publish theoretical models on nu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22171 | 88,464 |
795,984 | A landmark in aeronautical design, the world's first jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet, first flew in 1949. Early models suffered from catastrophic airframe metal fatigue, causing a series of widely publicised accidents. The Royal Aircraft Establishment investigation at Farnborough Airport founded the science of air... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=463408 | 795,559 |
1,807,361 | The University of Southern California was founded following the efforts of Judge Robert M. Widney, who helped secure donations from several key figures in early Los Angeles history - a Protestant nurseryman, Ozro Childs, an Irish Catholic former governor, John Gately Downey, and a German Jewish banker, Isaias W. Hellma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69891500 | 1,806,342 |
1,933,732 | While serving on the faculty at University of Maryland’s College of Life Sciences, Tishkoff received the Junior Faculty Excellence Award in 2003. At her time at University of Pennsylvania, Tishkoff became an Integrates Knowledge Professor in 2008 for her work in African ancestry, lactase persistence, and taste sensitiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58971746 | 1,932,624 |
72,404 | Brain activity is made possible by the interconnections of neurons that are linked together to reach their targets. A neuron consists of a cell body, axon, and dendrites. Dendrites are often extensive branches that receive information in the form of signals from the axon terminals of other neurons. The signals received... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=490620 | 72,377 |
2,231,461 | Hartshorne played for Moxley White Star and Wolverhampton Wanderers, before joining Port Vale in June 1902. He was a regular throughout the 1902–03 season, scoring three goals in 28 Second Division appearances. He was sold to local rivals Stoke in April 1903 to ease Vale's financial troubles. At the Victoria Ground, Ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21977594 | 2,230,194 |
71 | Android's source code is released by Google under an open source license, and its open nature has encouraged a large community of developers and enthusiasts to use the open-source code as a foundation for community-driven projects, which deliver updates to older devices, add new features for advanced users or bring And... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12610483 | 71 |
1,795,196 | As the Triassic gave way to the Jurassic, wind spread salmon-red colored sand across the red beds of the Chugwater Formation to form the Nugget Sandstone. The Nugget in turn was buried by the deposits of thin red shale and thick gypsum of the Gypsum Springs Formation. Later, a warm, muddy, shallow sea with abundant mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=768815 | 1,794,187 |
1,278,262 | In the depression era United States, the Schut family in Minnesota was one family known to carry a hereditary ataxia. Several members of the family actively participated in research and the family consented to post mortem examinations of the brains of several deceased relatives. The disease in the Schut family was foun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54421246 | 1,277,569 |
2,099,935 | Transcranial direct-current stimulation is a modification of the traditionally available direct current applied with 2 saline soaked electrodes (active and reference: 5-35 cm2) with active placed at the area to be stimulated and reference electrode placed at the contralateral supraorbital region in the forehead. Focali... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53864524 | 2,098,727 |
242,592 | A large failure in one part of the grid — unless quickly compensated for — can cause current to re-route itself to flow from the remaining generators to consumers over transmission lines of insufficient capacity, causing further failures. One downside to a widely connected grid is thus the possibility of cascading fail... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20344155 | 242,465 |
1,465,467 | Cooper was born in 1985 in Southern New Jersey to a Korean mother and African-American father, and World War II veteran. She received a B.A. in Physics from Hampton University in 2006, followed by a Masters and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in thermal fluid sciences from Drexel University College... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64232339 | 1,464,644 |
484,571 | "Juniperus scopulorum" is a small evergreen conifer reaching , rarely to 20 m, tall, with a trunk up to , rarely 2 m, in diameter. The shoots are slender, diameter. The leaves are arranged in opposite decussate pairs, or occasionally in whorls of three; the adult leaves are scale-like, 1–3 mm long (to 5 mm on lead shoo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3054910 | 484,322 |
1,322,191 | As one of the most completely known basal sauropods, "Spinophorosaurus" has helped to shed light on the early evolution and palaeobiogeography of the group. This has been unclear due to a sparsity of Early and Middle Jurassic remains, particularly outside Asia. Remes and colleagues found that "Spinophorosaurus" shares ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24361405 | 1,321,465 |
1,390,670 | The characteristics of REM sleep consistently contain a similar set of features. While dreaming people regularly falsely believe that they are awake unless they implement lucidity. Dreams contain multimodal pseudo-perceptions; sometimes any or all sensory modalities are present, but most often visual and motoric. Dream... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25196457 | 1,389,899 |
2,053,253 | "P. sacrimontis" was first described in the monthly journal of the German Cichlid Association (DCG-Info) by Joachim Paulo in 1977 as part of an article on "Pelvicachromis kribensis". As this description referenced an iconotype the taxon lacked a type specimen. Although this publication did not present a complete diagno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44673311 | 2,052,071 |
1,366,257 | The lens consists of a network of fluid-filled cavities called Helmholtz resonators that oscillate at certain frequencies. Similar to a network of inductors and capacitors in an electromagnetic metamaterial, the arrangement of Helmholtz cavities designed by Zhang "et al." have a negative dynamic modulus for ultrasound ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24476128 | 1,365,501 |
142,001 | At the university's foundation in 1451, there were four original faculties: Arts, Divinity, Law, and Medicine. The Faculty of Divinity became a constituent school of the Faculty of Arts in 2002, while the Faculty of Law was changed in 1984 into the Faculty of Law and Financial Studies, and in 2005 became the Faculty of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39569 | 141,943 |
459,859 | Kin can also be recognized a genetically determined odor, as studied in the primitively social sweat bee, "Lasioglossum zephyrus". These bees can even recognize relatives they have never met and roughly determine relatedness. The Brazilian stingless bee "Schwarziana quadripunctata" uses a distinct combination of chemic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292265 | 459,633 |
1,902,743 | As well as its buildings the EUS engaged in a range of education and outreach initiatives. The EUS founded Scotland's first school of art therapy, one of the first-ever 'thrift shops', an early computer skills training initiative, adult learning courses, women's education and training and community volunteering. It als... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45419083 | 1,901,652 |
972,204 | William Meeks and Yau produced some foundational results on minimal surfaces in three-dimensional manifolds, revisiting points left open by older work of Jesse Douglas and Charles Morrey. Following these foundations, Meeks, Leon Simon, and Yau gave a number of fundamental results on surfaces in three-dimensional Rieman... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=303137 | 971,694 |
1,343,185 | Outbreeding depression is the reduced biological fitness in the offspring of distantly related parents. The decline in fitness due to outbreeding is attributed to a breakup of coadapted gene complexes or favorable epistatic relationships. Unlike inbreeding depression, outbreeding depression emphasizes interactions betw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1720640 | 1,342,449 |
1,218,539 | NETRA can analyse voice traffic passing through software such as Skype and Google Talk, and intercept messages with keywords such as 'attack', 'bomb', 'blast' or 'kill' in real-time from the enormous number of tweets, status updates, emails, instant messaging transcripts, internet calls, blogs, forums and even images g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36745104 | 1,217,885 |
1,489,273 | The artistic method truly prescribed by the aesthete, on the other hand, says to instead focus on changing the ways of conceiving, following the quote by Antoninus: "You can begin a new life. Only see things afresh as you used to see them. In this consists the new life". In contrast to the ordinary method, the artistic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23276306 | 1,488,434 |
2,140,293 | As a Dean, Breslauer reorganized the life sciences into an administratively and programmatically integrated structure, the Division of Life Sciences (DLS). This entity encompasses three departments (Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Genetics, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry); two sections (Biological Chemistry, Behavio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20330339 | 2,139,063 |
1,882,049 | The dental morphology of herbivorous lizards has been studied in greater detail. One of the first studies was published in 1955 and investigated the correlation between diet and tooth morphology. Hotton (1955) found that the tooth morphology did vary with diet, and that herbivorous taxa tended to possess laterally comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42517908 | 1,880,968 |
537,033 | The Atlas booster used for MA-9 sported several technical improvements, most notably an enhanced propulsion system with a hypergolic igniter that would eliminate the need for hold-down time at launch to prevent rough combustion. With seven successful Mercury launches in a row, the failures of the early days seemed like... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213243 | 536,754 |
95,657 | Following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, on 9 August 1990 the British government assigned an initial 12 Jaguar GR1A and 12 Tornado F3 aircraft to the Middle East in Operation Granby, these aircraft operated from bases in Oman and Bahrain. On 23 August 1990, a squadron of Tornado GR1 interdictors were dispatched to the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=176232 | 95,616 |
1,106,669 | Since the mid-1980s, there has been a new wave of interest in perceptual learning due to findings of cortical plasticity at the lowest sensory levels of sensory systems. Our increased understanding of the physiology and anatomy of our cortical systems has been used to connect the behavioral improvement to the underlyin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25335695 | 1,106,105 |
1,580,186 | A page on the Absoft web site, lists over 180 corporate and Government license users. Among these are Apple computer, C.E.R.N Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, NASA Lewis Research Center, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Naval Research Laboratory, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Raytheon Systems Compa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42580266 | 1,579,296 |
1,104,216 | Evidence indicates that "Archaeopteris" preferred wet soils, growing close to river systems and in floodplain woodlands. It would have formed a significant part of the canopy vegetation of early forests. Speaking of the first appearance of "Archaeopteris" on the world-scene, Stephen Scheckler, a professor of biology an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1495085 | 1,103,653 |
1,672,307 | "Darwinopterus" is distinguished from its close relatives by the greater relative length of the back portion of the skull compared to its jaws, thin nasal bone, and elongated hip bone (ilium). The teeth in all species were spaced widely with the longest teeth at the jaw tips. The teeth were spike-like in form, and set ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24685547 | 1,671,365 |
992,661 | Perkin-Elmer's Danbury Optical System unit was commissioned to build the optical components of the Hubble Space Telescope. The construction of the main mirror began in 1979 and completed in 1981. The polishing process ran over budget and behind schedule, producing significant friction with NASA. Due to a miscalibrated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2113111 | 992,144 |
1,705,383 | The downstream target of Elk1 is the serum response element (SRE) of the "c-fos" proto-oncogene. To produce "c-fos", a protein encoded by the "Fos" gene, Elk1 needs to be phosphorylated by MAPKs at its C-terminus. MAPKs are the final effectors of signal transduction pathways that begin at the plasma membrane. Phosphory... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14120062 | 1,704,427 |
1,593,059 | The choroidal blood vessels can be divided into two categories: the choriocapillaris, and the larger caliber arteries and veins that lie just posterior to the choriocapillaris (these can easily be seen in an albino fundus because there is minimal pigment obscuring the vessels). The choriocapillaris forms a single layer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3801019 | 1,592,162 |
1,127,404 | The THI is home to CARISSMA (Center of Automotive Research on Integrated Safety Systems and Measurement Area), Germany's first research facility at a university of applied sciences. The more than 120-metre-long building has been in use since 2016 and accommodates a total of ten testing facilities, including an indoor t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65836710 | 1,126,827 |
103,245 | The P-80C began production in 1948; on 11 June, now part of the USAF, the P-80C was officially redesignated the F-80C. The USAF Strategic Air Command had F-80 Shooting Stars in service from 1946 through 1948 with the 1st and 56th Fighter Groups. The first P-80s to serve in Europe joined the 55th Fighter Group (later re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=78035 | 103,200 |
688,687 | From 1976 to 1998, the Institute of Technology enjoyed a relationship with the University of Dublin, the degree-awarding body for Trinity College Dublin, for the sharing of facilities, equipment and staff, joint research seed funding, research partnerships, and for the University of Dublin to award Dublin Institute of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57923060 | 688,325 |
1,011,124 | When the designs were considered in May 1936, there was concern that on the one hand a two engine design would be less manoeuvrable than a single-engined design and on the other that uneven recoil from cannon set in the wings would give less accurate fire. The conference favoured two engines with the cannon set in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=91979 | 1,010,603 |
10,637 | At the time when Göbekli Tepe was occupied, the climate of the area was warmer and wetter than it is today. It was surrounded by an open steppe grassland, with abundant wild cereals, including einkorn, wheat, and barley, and herds of grazing animals such as wild sheep, wild goat, gazelle, and equids. Large herds of goi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=515395 | 10,632 |
1,531,062 | Christine Borgman does not recall any significant policy debates over the meaning, the production and the circulation of scientific data save for a few specific fields (like climatology) after 1966. The insulated scientific infrastructures could hardly be connected before the advent of the web. Projects, and communitie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31915311 | 1,530,196 |
181,241 | Battery recycling of automotive batteries reduces the need for resources required for the manufacture of new batteries, diverts toxic lead from landfills, and prevents the risk of improper disposal. Once a lead–acid battery ceases to hold a charge, it is deemed a used lead-acid battery (ULAB), which is classified as ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1164345 | 181,147 |
823,556 | Up until the end of the 1990s, numerical simulations of halo formation revealed little substructure. With increasing computing power and better algorithms, it became possible to use greater numbers of particles and obtain better resolution. Substantial amounts of substructure are now expected. When a small halo merges ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1539785 | 823,113 |
1,518,303 | A solution was already under development in early 1939, similar to the MarkI but employing tuned circuits sensitive to many radar sets. It used a "complicated system of cams and cogs and Geneva mechanisms" to switch among the bands by connecting to oscillators covering a band and then used a motorised tuning capacitor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55998544 | 1,517,445 |
873,179 | As a separation technique, GPC has many advantages. First of all, it has a well-defined separation time due to the fact that there is a final elution volume for all unretained analytes. Additionally, GPC can provide narrow bands, although this aspect of GPC is more difficult for polymer samples that have broad ranges o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=345286 | 872,719 |
312,524 | Fan fiction is the online equivalent of romance novels. During the first two decades of the 21st century, writing and reading fan fiction became a prevalent activity worldwide. Demographic data from various depositories revealed that those who read and wrote fan fiction were overwhelmingly young, in their teens and twe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41162624 | 312,356 |
272,469 | Selective breeding programs for the Common carp ("Cyprinus carpio") include improvement in growth, shape and resistance to disease. Experiments carried out in the USSR used crossings of broodstocks to increase genetic diversity and then selected the species for traits like growth rate, exterior traits and viability, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=200646 | 272,321 |
1,127,323 | The next NPR of 2002 was the second of these reviews of US nuclear forces undertaken by the US Department of Defense. The final report is National Security Classified and submitted to the Congress of the United States. The 2002 Nuclear Posture Review also included components requiring the "Pentagon to draft contingency... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1834815 | 1,126,746 |
8,244 | Observational studies are commonly conducted in psychology. In cross-sectional observational studies, psychologists collect data at a single point in time. The goal of many cross-sectional studies is the assess the extent factors are correlated with each other. By contrast, in longitudinal studies psychologists collect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22921 | 8,241 |
609,512 | Hydraulic mining developed from ancient Roman techniques that used water to excavate soft underground deposits. Its modern form, using pressurized water jets produced by a nozzle called a "monitor", came about in the 1850s during the California Gold Rush in the United States. Though successful in extracting gold-rich m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=353849 | 609,201 |
639,285 | Based on a mixed force of foreign tanks and imported prototypes, the Soviets developed an impressive domestic design and production capability. The T-26 light tank was based on the Vickers E (as were many other tanks of the period), chosen after it beat a Soviet FT derivative in trials. The Soviets purchased some U.S. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2995889 | 638,946 |
1,463,523 | It was noted that "Zhenyuanlong" did not necessarily form its own group or clade with "Tianyuraptor", despite uniquely sharing short arms among the Liaoning dromaeosaurids, and nor did the Liaoning dromaeosaurids form their own clade. Instead, they resolved into a broad group that included eudromaeosaurs, which in turn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47254284 | 1,462,700 |
1,746,069 | In 1915, Dodd left the school to join the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education as its business manager, leaving George C. Greener, the former ceramics instructor, as the new director of the school. Drawing inspiration from John Ruskin and William Morris, two leaders of the Arts and Crafts Movement... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34218923 | 1,745,083 |
538,006 | Professor Ian Frazer developed an experimental vaccine with his team at Coridon, a biotechnology company he founded in 2000. The company, now known under the name Admedus Vaccines, is researching DNA technology for vaccines with prophylactic and therapeutic potential. What's different about this vaccine is the way that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35349626 | 537,727 |
1,306,756 | The number of breeding cycles in a year is under genetic control in many species and they are evolved in response to the environment. Many phytophagous species that are dependent on seasonal plant resources are univoltine. Some such species have the ability to diapause for a large part of the year, typically during a c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4964392 | 1,306,040 |
1,687,156 | A form of treatment for many mental disorders is psychotherapy. Psychotherapy is an interpersonal intervention, usually provided by a mental health professional such as a clinical psychologist, that employs any of a range of specific psychological techniques. There are several main types. Cognitive behavioral therapy (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4786873 | 1,686,210 |
535,799 | Atmospheric dispersion modeling is the mathematical simulation of how air pollutants disperse in the ambient atmosphere. It is performed with computer programs that include algorithms to solve the mathematical equations that govern the pollutant dispersion. The dispersion models are used to estimate the downwind ambien... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3747894 | 535,520 |
785,436 | Multiple disk machines and "triplex" electrostatic machines (generators with three disks) were also developed extensively around the turn of the 20th century. In 1900, F. Tudsbury discovered that enclosing a generator in a metallic chamber containing compressed air, or better, carbon dioxide, the insulating properties ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1573430 | 785,015 |
1,063,847 | Monoculture is the practice of growing a single crop in a given area, where polyculture involves growing multiple crops in an area. Monocropping (or continuous monoculture) is a system in which the same crop is grown in the same area for a number of growing seasons. Many modern farms are made up of a number of fields, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23599498 | 1,063,293 |
67,187 | The diesel engine has the highest thermal efficiency (engine efficiency) of any practical internal or external combustion engine due to its very high expansion ratio and inherent lean burn which enables heat dissipation by the excess air. A small efficiency loss is also avoided compared with non-direct-injection gasoli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8540 | 67,162 |
224,590 | The iconoclastic period has drastically reduced the number of survivals of Byzantine art from before the period, especially large religious mosaics, which are now almost exclusively found in Italy and Saint Catherine's Monastery in Egypt. Important works in Thessaloniki were lost in the Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9790552 | 224,476 |
1,287,786 | MTE has profound implications for the interpretation of population growth and community diversity. Classically, species are thought of as being either "r" selected (where populations tend to grow exponentially, and are ultimately limited by extrinsic factors) or "K" selected (where population size is limited by density... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=662349 | 1,287,085 |
1,863,401 | Karl Rawer, the first chairman of the "URSI/COSPAR Task group on the IRI" (1968–84) specified as goal of the IRI to establish a (monthly) average model of the terrestrial ionosphere based on reliably-measured data obtained with ground- and space-based methods. Contradictions between these had to be resolved in critical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25753036 | 1,862,331 |
1,102,301 | In Jeff Cheeger's fundamental compactness theory for Riemannian manifolds, a key step in constructing coordinates on the limiting space is an injectivity radius estimate for closed manifolds. Cheeger, Gromov, and Michael Taylor localized Cheeger's estimate, showing how to use Bishop−Gromov volume comparison to control ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=771562 | 1,101,740 |
462,486 | A chest radiograph and routine blood tests may indicate complications or precipitating causes and are often performed upon arrival to an emergency department. New regional wall motion abnormalities on an echocardiogram are also suggestive of a myocardial infarction. Echo may be performed in equivocal cases by the on-ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29089664 | 462,257 |
1,093,769 | One can incoherently add the magnitudes of a time series of "N" independent pulses to obtain a improvement in the signal to noise on the amplitude, but at the expense of losing the phase information. Instead coherent addition (adding the complex magnitude and phase) of multiple pulse waveforms would improve the signal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18515482 | 1,093,209 |
1,275,790 | Some London newspaper proprietors, notably Lord Rothermere, proprietor of the "Daily Mirror" and cofounder of the "Daily Mail", supported increased charges, which could discourage new rivals. In 1926 Rothermere tried to persuade the chancellor of the exchequer, Winston Churchill, but the postmaster general, William Mit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60245762 | 1,275,097 |
2,144,081 | The species was originally collected for science purposes by the American botanist Charles Wright during the North Pacific Exploring and Surveying Expedition of 1853–56. The single collection was found growing on fallen oak leaves at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, in Solano County, California in January 1856. The specimen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27129223 | 2,142,850 |
1,294,843 | Ellipsoidal reflector spot (abbreviated to ERS, or colloquially ellipsoidal or ellipse) is the name for a type of stage lighting instrument, named for the ellipsoidal reflector used to collect and direct the light through a barrel that contains a lens or lens train. The optics of an ERS instrument are roughly similar t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1596991 | 1,294,132 |
1,705,531 | According to equation (10), the minimum required entropy change (right term) for the summation of the positive entropy changes decreases when T increases. As an example, performing the same numerical application but with T equals to 2000K would give a twice lower value (around 140 kJ/mol), which allows thermochemical c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27636080 | 1,704,573 |
1,356,762 | Transportation forecasting is the attempt of estimating the number of vehicles or people that will use a specific transportation facility in the future. For instance, a forecast may estimate the number of vehicles on a planned road or bridge, the ridership on a railway line, the number of passengers visiting an airport... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6661282 | 1,356,012 |
540,236 | Practically important extensions of multigrid methods include techniques where no partial differential equation nor geometrical problem background is used to construct the multilevel hierarchy. Such algebraic multigrid methods (AMG) construct their hierarchy of operators directly from the system matrix. In classical AM... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1747763 | 539,956 |
988,864 | Nevertheless, A-weighting would be a better match to the loudness curve if it fell much more steeply above 10 kHz, and it is likely that this compromise came about because steep filters were difficult to construct in the early days of electronics. Nowadays, no such limitation need exist, as demonstrated by the ITU-R 46... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11217018 | 988,348 |
672,188 | DEA is a potential skin irritant in workers sensitized by exposure to water-based metalworking fluids. One study showed that DEA inhibits in baby mice the absorption of choline, which is necessary for brain development and maintenance; however, a study in humans determined that dermal treatment for 1 month with a comme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2959101 | 671,836 |
612,067 | CDC's first products were based on the machines designed at ERA, which Seymour Cray had been asked to update after moving to CDC. After an experimental machine known as the "Little Character", in 1960 they delivered the CDC 1604, one of the first commercial transistor-based computers, and one of the fastest machines on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58661 | 611,756 |
1,389,054 | Solar radiation affects the oceans: warm water from the Equator tends to circulate toward the poles, while cold polar water heads towards the Equator. The surface currents are initially dictated by surface wind conditions. The trade winds blow westward in the tropics, and the westerlies blow eastward at mid-latitudes. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53377604 | 1,388,284 |
407,996 | Solar radiation affects the oceans: warm water from the Equator tends to circulate toward the poles, while cold polar water heads towards the Equator. The surface currents are initially dictated by surface wind conditions. The trade winds blow westward in the tropics, and the westerlies blow eastward at mid-latitudes. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47526 | 407,795 |
696,096 | The advent of flight simulators as home video game entertainment has prompted many users to become "airplane designers" for these systems. As such, they may create both military or commercial airline airplanes, and they may even use names of real life airlines, as long as they don't make profits out of their designs. M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26012217 | 695,732 |
1,237,574 | Early American military space activities began immediately after the conclusion of the Second World War. On 20 June 1944, MW 18014, a German "Heer" A-4 ballistic missile launched from the Peenemünde Army Research Center became the first artificial object to cross the Kármán line, the boundary between air and space. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66185637 | 1,236,910 |
215,321 | Procurement of aircraft remained a significant problem for the Air Corps until the eve of war, because of diversion of production to the Allies. On 16 May 1940, with the fall of France imminent, President Roosevelt delivered an address to Congress calling for a supplemental appropriation of nearly a billion dollars and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23869026 | 215,213 |
487,863 | Owen noted that the teat-like appearance was not a real diagnostic feature and also objected to the term "saurus" for a "batrachian" (amphibian). He proposed what he thought was the more fitting replacement name "Labyrinthodon" or "labyrinth tooth" to refer to the complex maze-like appearance of the inner tooth structu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5659359 | 487,613 |
1,469,917 | The settlement consisted of rectangular houses arranged in a circle 140 m in diameter and surrounded by a timber-reinforced earthen wall with gate towers and a deep ditch on its exterior. The fortifications at Sintashta and similar settlements such as Arkaim were of unprecedented scale for the steppe region. There is e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2496707 | 1,469,092 |
1,595,482 | Kewley was raised in South Australia. Her parents encouraged engagement with the sciences and she was influenced by a high school physics teacher, and participation at a school stargazing camp, to become interested in astronomy. After school, she enrolled in a Bachelor of Science at the Adelaide University, graduating ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9163444 | 1,594,583 |
2,036,477 | The SMODIM maintains a dynamic position database through player-to-player network communications. The onboard telemetry radio supports simultaneous distribution to multiple locations. The radio acts as a message repeater to overcome line of sight (LOS) interruptions. The SMODIM interfaces with distributed interactive s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42141799 | 2,035,303 |
566,910 | The development, according to a report by "Kotaku"s Jason Schreier, included a crunch schedule of 12-hour work days owing to the studio culture; after the game's delay, developers continued under this schedule for the additional months. Schreier suggested that development was affected and slowed due to the enormous tur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64504979 | 566,620 |
1,657,943 | Tewari's research interests revolve around the diagnosis and treatment of patients with urological cancers, with a focus on prostate cancer. His research ranges from the study of patient outcomes, robotic techniques, molecular markers for cancer aggressiveness, racial disparity in cancer biology, quality of life studie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18733675 | 1,657,010 |
2,095,757 | The rapid development in the multidisciplinary field of tissue engineering has resulted in a variety of new and innovative medicinal products, often carrying living cells, intended to repair, regenerate or replace damaged human tissue. Tissue engineered medicinal products (TEMPs) vary in terms of the type and origin of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49010273 | 2,094,549 |
340,482 | The 392 raised-deck engine released in 1957 had a bore and stroke. The actual displacement is . The deck height, at , was taller than that of the previous blocks. Because its deck was taller, the heads were cast with wider intake ports so that earlier manifolds could be used with the new heads on the new taller block. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1971714 | 340,301 |
2,038,110 | In 1945, department members Lloyd Williams and Gordon Pall founded the Canadian Mathematical Congress, which took the lead in persuading the National Research Council to make funds available for the support of pure mathematics. Meanwhile, as chairman of the department, A. H. S. Gillon initiated in 1945 an Applied Mathe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58930997 | 2,036,935 |
117,183 | Pitt's study abroad program, under the auspices of UCIS, helps to facilitate student study in over a hundred different countries, and oversees a variety of programs including the Panther Programs, which are course taught abroad that have been developed and are accompanied by faculty of the university; two-way exchange ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239870 | 117,138 |
2,144,556 | Efficient detection of formula_14 in images is possible by image processing for a pair formula_42, formula_43. Complex convolutions (or the corresponding matrix operations) and point-wise non-linear mappings are the basic computational elements of GST implementations. A total least square error estimation of formula_44... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48914950 | 2,143,325 |
858,412 | Gunpowder and gunpowder weapons were transmitted to India through the Mongol invasions of India. The Mongols were defeated by Alauddin Khalji of the Delhi Sultanate, and some of the Mongol soldiers remained in northern India after their conversion to Islam. It was written in the "Tarikh-i Firishta" (1606–1607) that the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1770300 | 857,954 |
914,268 | Ketone bodies are produced mainly in the mitochondria of liver cells, and synthesis can occur in response to an unavailability of blood glucose, such as during fasting. Other cells, e.g. human astrocytes, are capable of carrying out ketogenesis, but they are not as effective at doing so. Ketogenesis occurs constantly i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=299619 | 913,789 |
529,047 | Titchener's parents, Alice Field Habin and John Titchener, eloped to marry in 1866 and his mother was disowned by her prominent Sussex family. His father held a series of posts as a clerk or in accountancy before dying of tuberculosis in 1879. The family, of five surviving children (4 girls, 1 boy), moved at least 10 t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=518927 | 528,773 |
1,397,990 | In 1988, Goldwasser et al. created an even more powerful interactive proof system based on IP called MIP in which there are "two" independent provers. The two provers cannot communicate once the verifier has begun sending messages to them. Just as it's easier to tell if a criminal is lying if he and his partner are int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2197070 | 1,397,217 |
1,119,496 | Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is one of the most common, life-threatening inherited human disorders and the most common hereditary kidney disease. It is associated with large interfamilial and intrafamilial variability, which can be explained to a large extent by its genetic heterogeneity and mod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24595 | 1,118,923 |
921,987 | In February 1966, the 164th Massachusetts General Court appropriated funds for the university to purchase the building at 100 Arlington Street. Over the next three years, the university also leased the Sawyer Building on Stuart Street, the Salada Buildings on Columbus Avenue, a part of the Boston Statler Hotel for facu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99867 | 921,501 |
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