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1,790,704 | In 1925 Arber published her third book "The Monocotyledons". The Editors of the "Cambridge Botanical Handbooks series" had asked Ethel Sargant in 1910 to prepare a volume on the monocots for this series. However ill-health and advancing years made it almost impossible for Sargant to complete the book, and in 1918 she s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8134509 | 1,789,698 |
370,855 | Guiyu in the Guangdong region of China is a massive electronic waste processing community. It is often referred to as the "e-waste capital of the world." Traditionally, Guiyu was an agricultural community; however, in the mid-1990s it transformed into an e-waste recycling center involving over 75% of the local househol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3887690 | 370,661 |
270,062 | A 2012 review by a panel convened by the U.S. Department of Defense to study whether the military should ban methylhexanamine supplements from stores on its bases concluded that: "The existing evidence does not conclusively establish that DMAA-containing substances are causally-associated with adverse medical events. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19120269 | 269,915 |
1,796,497 | The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced in December 2008 the selection of six cost-shared research projects for the development and demonstration of alternative vehicle technology projects totaling a DOE investment of up to $14.55 million over three years, subject to annual appropriations. Private sector contribu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20181304 | 1,795,488 |
653,709 | Anguillid eels have a global distribution, and inhabit the waters of more than 150 countries. They are mainly found in tropical and temperate waters, except in the Eastern Pacific and South Atlantic. Conservation is difficult for this taxon because not much is known about their life history and behaviors. However, many... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2349109 | 653,365 |
685,923 | Before the emergence of revenue management, BOAC (now British Airways) experimented with differentiated fare products by offering capacity controlled "Earlybird" discounts to stimulate demand for seats that would otherwise fly empty. Taking it a step further, Robert Crandall, former Chairman and CEO of American Airline... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8976534 | 685,566 |
1,779,873 | Taking the size effect into account is essential for safe prediction of strength of large concrete bridges, nuclear containments, roof shells, tall buildings, tunnel linings, large load-bearing parts of aircraft, spacecraft and ships made of fiber-polymer composites, wind turbines, large geotechnical excavations, earth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33984856 | 1,778,870 |
315,174 | As the twentieth century began, the university attempted to balance its identity as both a pragmatic, frontier establishment and an academic, intellectual institution. In addition to its football team, several noteworthy campus organizations were founded around this time, including a debate team, the school's first fra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=323058 | 315,005 |
816,812 | The Parthenon frieze is the defining monument of the High Classical style of Attic sculpture. It stands between the gradual eclipse of the Severe style, as witnessed on the Parthenon metopes, and the evolution of the Late Classical Rich style, exemplified by the Nike balustrade. What sources the designer of the frieze ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2147375 | 816,376 |
526,511 | In the European Middle Ages of the 15th and 16th centuries the lives of European citizens were based around agriculture but when printing arrived, with movable type and woodcut illustrations, it was not treatises on agriculture that were published, but lists of medicinal plants with descriptions of their properties or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25007304 | 526,238 |
242,907 | Jungian Sandplay started as a therapeutic method in the 1950s. Although its origin has been credited to a Swiss Jungian analyst, Dora Kalff it was in fact, her mentor and trainer, Dr. Margaret Lowenfeld, a British paediatrician, who had developed the "Lowenfeld World Technique" inspired by the writer H. G. Wells in her... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=448370 | 242,780 |
1,368,577 | Kaplan credits artist Arnold Tsang from coming up with the preliminary designs of all the heroes in the game. The narrative and characters themselves were then developed through an iterative process between the gameplay developers, artists, and promotional media as they worked to bring the narrative together. In this r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55762533 | 1,367,821 |
651,513 | In 2019, a study employed a large eddy simulation model to estimate that equatorial stratocumulus clouds could break up and scatter when CO2 levels rise above 1,200 ppm (almost three times higher than the current levels, and over 4 times greater than the preindustrial levels). The study estimated that this would cause ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166736 | 651,171 |
139,386 | Touchscreens are often used with haptic response systems. A common example of this technology is the vibratory feedback provided when a button on the touchscreen is tapped. Haptics are used to improve the user's experience with touchscreens by providing simulated tactile feedback, and can be designed to react immediate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=667206 | 139,329 |
1,740,548 | In the anterior part of the ventral stream, various regions appear to be tuned selectively to identify body parts (extrastriate body area), faces (fusiform face area) (according to a recent paper by Adamson and Troiani (2018) regions of the fusiform face area respond equally to "food"), moving bodies (posterior superio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2920040 | 1,739,567 |
1,395,225 | This problem however was resolved with the use of so-called self-polishing paints, in which the biocide was released at a slower rate as the seawater reacted with the surface layer of the paint. More recently, copper-based anti-fouling paints have been used because they are less toxic than TBT in aquatic environment, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32006269 | 1,394,454 |
216,132 | Late in the Vietnam War, the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy became concerned about its pilots ejecting over hostile territory and those pilots either being captured or killed and the losses in men and aircraft in attempts to rescue them. Both services began a program titled "Air Crew Escape/Rescue Capability" or "Aerial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=388794 | 216,024 |
2,170,169 | According to ASTM D1002 The specimens tested will be configured as lap joints. They will need to be sectioned in a way that they can fit in the grips used for the tensile testing. The length of the overlap for the lap joint is determined by the thickness of the material, the yield point of the metal, and the value that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56316763 | 2,168,931 |
30,931 | The hypothesis of interbreeding, also known as hybridization, admixture or hybrid-origin theory, has been discussed ever since the discovery of Neanderthal remains in the 19th century. The linear view of human evolution began to be abandoned in the 1970s as different species of humans were discovered that made the line... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10326 | 30,921 |
1,887,093 | The sol–gel process has a long history of use for synthesis of silicate systems and other oxides and it has become a widely spread research field with high technological relevance, for example for the fabrication of thin films, coatings, nanoparticles and fibers. Sol-gel processing technology at low temperatures, an al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39585748 | 1,886,011 |
394,094 | Many smartwatch smartphone models manufactured in the 2010s are completely functional as standalone products. Some are used in sports, the GPS tracking unit being used to record historical data. For example, after a workout, data can be uploaded onto a computer or online to create a log of activities for analysis or sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28825877 | 393,899 |
776,920 | These tall trees required deep rooting systems to acquire water and nutrients, and provide anchorage. These systems broke up the upper layers of bedrock and stabilized a deep layer of soil, which would have been of the order of metres thick. In contrast, early Devonian plants bore only rhizoids and rhizomes that could ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1350609 | 776,504 |
803,372 | The FFA is underdeveloped in children and does not fully develop until adolescence. This calls into question the evolutionary purpose of the FFA, as children show the ability to differentiate faces. Three-day-old babies have been shown to prefer the face of their mother. Babies as early as three months old have shown t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7800961 | 802,943 |
116,223 | Many Beta-M RTGs produced by the Soviet Union to power lighthouses and beacons have become orphaned sources of radiation. Several of these units have been illegally dismantled for scrap metal (resulting in the complete exposure of the Sr-90 source), fallen into the ocean, or have defective shielding due to poor design ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211485 | 116,178 |
1,044,336 | Since Early Modern times, vitalism stood in contrast to the mechanistic explanation of biological systems started by Descartes. Nineteenth century chemists set out to disprove the claim that forming organic compounds required vitalist influence. In 1828, Friedrich Wöhler showed that urea could be made entirely from ino... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53955838 | 1,043,792 |
705,384 | At the beginning of American modernism, photography still struggled to be recognized as a form of art. The photographer Alfred Stieglitz described it as: "Artists who saw my earlier photographs began to tell me that they envied me; that they felt my photographs were superior to their paintings, but that, unfortunately,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3662104 | 705,015 |
1,789,846 | WMU Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine is housed in eight locations in Kalamazoo, Michigan including a medical education facility on Portage Street in downtown Kalamazoo, and clinical sites on Oakland Drive, the Family Health Center on Paterson Street, and on the Borgess Medical Center Campus on Shaffer Street. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40473374 | 1,788,840 |
1,485,505 | The company sponsors numerous triathlon, swimming, biking, running and outdoor athletes in order to promote its products, including the Brazilian team at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, USA Triathlon, TriGrandPrix, the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon Series, Western States Endurance Run, and the Leadville Race Series. In 2012, the com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37953670 | 1,484,668 |
1,920,732 | It was the first quantitative analysis of tooth microwear in dinosaurs. Purnell said the technique employed in the study was equally important as the findings themselves, and that the study proved analyzing microscopic scratch marks on teeth can provide reliable information about an animal's diet and chewing mechanism.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23481302 | 1,919,629 |
731,649 | In 1826 Niepce was the first to develop a photo which used lights to reproduce images, the advancement of photography has drastically increased over the years. Everyone is now a photographer in their own way, whereas during the early 1800s and 1900s the expense of lasting photos was highly valued and appreciated by con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275682 | 731,263 |
20,130 | In August 2013, Raytheon and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems began to seek funding for a fourth-generation Patriot intercepting system, called the Patriot Advanced Affordable Capability-4 (PAAC-4). The system aims to integrate the Stunner interceptor from the jointly-funded David's Sling program with Patriot PAC-3 rada... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52024 | 20,122 |
780,676 | Dependent on the configuration, the AW189's cabin can accommodate up to 19 passengers and two crew members on crashworthy seats. According to AgustaWestland, the AW189 possesses the largest cabin in its class, which is accessed via large sliding doors on either side of the fuselage; a separate externally accessed bagga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32199250 | 780,258 |
410,669 | If keratoconus is suspected, the ophthalmologist or optometrist will search for other characteristic findings of the disease by means of slit lamp examination of the cornea. An advanced case is usually readily apparent to the examiner, and can provide for an unambiguous diagnosis prior to more specialized testing. Unde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=252630 | 410,467 |
1,652,561 | The International Aerial Robotics Competition is a long-running event begun in 1991 to advance the state of the art in fully autonomous air vehicles. This competition is restricted to university teams (although industry and governmental sponsorship of teams is allowed). Key to this event is the creation of flying robot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15893225 | 1,651,629 |
308,404 | Preliminary studies and technological development of Gaganyaan started in 2006 under the generic name "Orbital Vehicle". The plan was to design a simple capsule with an endurance of about a week in space, a capacity of two astronauts, and a splashdown landing after re-entry. The project was commissioned in 2007 with ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20328936 | 308,239 |
1,203,828 | CSF1R signaling is involved in several diseases and disorders of the central nervous system. Research using animal models of epilepsy (kainic acid-induced seizures) suggests that CSF1 signaling during seizures protects neurons by activating neuronal CREB signaling. CSF1R agonism during seizures increases neuronal survi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14722972 | 1,203,183 |
2,214,182 | The objective of this project was the development of flight-path planning and aircraft guidance and control technology to suit the unique features of the consistent-sensing low-altitude trajectory-constrained aerial inspection problem. This problem is defined by the airborne collection of spatial information that is re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22742540 | 2,212,922 |
1,503,118 | Zuckerkandl was raised in Vienna, Austria in a household of intellectuals, but his family relocated in 1938 to Paris, and later Algiers, to escape the racial policy of Nazi Germany with respect to Jews. At the end of World War II, he spent one year at the University of Paris (Sorbonne), then came to the United States t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2160477 | 1,502,272 |
1,994,330 | The curriculum at Ward Island had many of the same topics at the three ARM secondary schools, but with a number of notable differences. The Navy's airborne equipment was physically much smaller than shipboard and land-based electronics, and had to use the power generated by the carrying vehicle. Also, it was often desi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36494078 | 1,993,187 |
393,710 | Philosopher of science Peter J. Lewis, a critic of the many-worlds interpretation, considers the whole thought experiment an example of the difficulty of accommodating probability within the many-worlds framework: "[s]tandard quantum mechanics yields probabilities for various future occurrences, and these probabilities... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48685 | 393,515 |
190,250 | It was the Nakajima firm's own-designed displacement, Ha-45 Homare ("Praise" or "Honor") air-cooled eighteen-cylinder radial engine, first accepted for military use in 1941, that gave the "Hayate" its high speed and prowess in combat. Derived from the Nakajima Homare engines common to many Japanese aircraft, the "Hayat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1091403 | 190,153 |
546,223 | This imbalance was slowly addressed after 1942 as the Army's size was reduced. Most of the units that were disbanded were Militia arms corps units, and by September 1943 the AIF outnumbered the Militia, having 265,000 members compared to just over 117,000. Further reductions came in October 1943 when the Army's strengt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22738876 | 545,937 |
617,621 | A back-illuminated sensor contains the same elements, but arranges the wiring behind the photocathode layer by flipping the silicon wafer during manufacturing and then thinning its reverse side so that light can strike the photocathode layer without passing through the wiring layer. This change can improve the chance o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27647265 | 617,307 |
1,566,453 | Drake earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering with an option in aeronautics from Stanford university in 1951. He began his aeronautical engineering career at North American Aviation in his hometown of Los Angeles, California. There he worked in the advanced design group as a principal engineer on a number ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23117343 | 1,565,566 |
1,162,616 | To this day, building materials are simple and reflective of resources at hand. The usage of stone guss, a lime mixture derived from seashells and a chalk and water paste is characteristic of more permanent inland houses. The structure of such houses is indicative of privacy and ventilation as central needs of the popu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60447339 | 1,161,999 |
1,551,740 | In the late 2000s RNC underwent significant restructuring as it responded to changes in the world of employment and therefore the courses that it offered its students. However, some of the college's changes provoked criticism from staff and students who argued these were not in RNC's best interest. There was some contr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5556351 | 1,550,859 |
159,195 | Following the "Civil War II" storyline, Cho, in his Hulk form, had finished some rescuing in Kentucky when he is approached by Ms. Marvel, Nova, and Spider-Man II into joining the Champions so that they can "put the world back together". Cho suggests that they also recruit Vision's daughter Viv, which they managed to d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9945333 | 159,113 |
1,633,077 | The Biotechnology Regulatory Services program of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) agency within the USDA is concerned with protecting agriculture and the environment from potential pests under the Plant Protection Act of 2000 (part of the Agriculture Risk Protection Act) and the National Environme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23135486 | 1,632,155 |
671,954 | The GC-EI-MS can be incorporated for the analysis of biological fluids for several applications. One example is the determination of thirteen synthetic pyrethroid insecticide molecules and their stereoisomers in whole blood. This investigation used a new rapid and sensitive electron ionization-gas chromatography–mass s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=340284 | 671,602 |
2,039,470 | William Baldwin (March 29, 1779 – September 1, 1819) was an American physician and botanist who is today remembered for his significant contributions to botanical studies, especially Cyperaceae. He lived in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Georgia, and served as a ship's surgeon on two voyages overseas. He published only tw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22869183 | 2,038,291 |
752,439 | Two diametrically opposed anti-slavery positions emerged regarding the United States Constitution. The Garrisonians emphasized that the document permitted and protected slavery, and was therefore "an agreement with hell" that had to be rejected in favor of immediate emancipation. Lincoln deeply supported the Constituti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1345874 | 752,037 |
1,038,335 | The Galicia-Trás-os-Montes Zone is a bean-shaped tectonic unit in the northwest corner of Spain and northeast Portugal (Trás-os-Montes). It has also been called the allochthonous complexes. The zone consists of a nappe stack which is highly metamorphosed. It was formed by the collision of the Iberian Plate with a thinn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13701070 | 1,037,794 |
1,064,440 | The AGH UST has more than 800 laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art apparatus, including the transmission electron microscope Titan Cubed G-2 60-300, devices requiring the so-called clean room conditions, nanotechnology and material nanodiagnostics equipment, a computed tomography scanner to study construction ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1098154 | 1,063,886 |
1,267,969 | Ye has received numerous awards in the field of science, particularly AMO physics. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. He won the Adolph Lomb Medal of OSA in 1999 and the Arthur S. Flemming Award for outstanding federal employees in 2005, the Friedric... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48647049 | 1,267,279 |
1,466,272 | The first edition of "The Merck Manual" was published in 1899 by Merck & Co., Inc. for physicians and pharmacists and was titled "Merck’s Manual of the Materia Medica". The 192 page book which sold for US $1.00, was divided into three sections, Part I (“Materia Medica”) was an alphabetical listing of all known compound... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1136647 | 1,465,449 |
672,446 | The 1986 SQL standard basically adopted Codd's proposal after an implementation prototype in IBM System R. Although Don Chamberlin recognized nulls (alongside duplicate rows) as one of the most controversial features of SQL, he defended the design of Nulls in SQL invoking the pragmatic arguments that it was the least e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2002540 | 672,094 |
135,871 | The HPV vaccination programme in Ireland is part of the national strategy to protect females from cervical cancer. Since 2009, the Health Service Executive has offered the HPV vaccine, free of charge, to all girls from first year onwards (ages 12–13). Secondary schools began implementing the vaccine program on an annua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3304705 | 135,816 |
369,197 | This is the second stage of team development, where the group starts to sort itself out and gain each others' trust. This stage often starts when they voice their opinions; conflict may arise between team members as power and status are assigned. When group members start to work with each other they start to learn abou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1455978 | 369,004 |
1,570,346 | Brinster has spent his entire academic career at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine; from 1956 to 1960 as a veterinary student, from 1960 to 1964 as a postdoctoral fellow and PhD Candidate, and then continuing as a faculty member. He was appointed associate professor in 1966, professor in 1970... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13365910 | 1,569,458 |
1,922,678 | Based on the GM type A vehicle, the Silver Volt was produced in two versions, a pure electric (2) and a hybrid (12). These were originally to be produced in Puerto Rico but eventually the new plant ended up in Freeport, Grand Bahama. Initially projected to sell for $14,500.00, the car was offered in November 1982 at ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18298017 | 1,921,575 |
1,797,782 | In 1967, V.G. Veselago from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology considered the theoretical model of medium that known now as a metamaterial. However, physical experimentation did not occur until 33 years after the paper's publication due to lack of available materials and lack of sufficient computing power. It w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26692522 | 1,796,773 |
1,788,159 | Not only did Grant believe that the island would be of strategic value to the Navy, particularly Samaná Bay, but also he sought to use it as a bargaining chip. By providing a safe haven for the freedmen, he believed that the exodus of black labor would force Southern whites to realize the necessity of such a significan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61305749 | 1,787,153 |
2,138,862 | Support for airport expansion is based on an economic case that regards the air transport industry not only as an important industry in its own right, but also as a facilitator of growth for the economy as a whole. One study predicts that the government's strategy will realise an additional £13 billion per annum in Gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14120583 | 2,137,632 |
2,019,824 | Calling patterns of mobile phone users can determine the socioeconomic standings of the populace which can be used to deduce "its access to housing, education, healthcare, and basic services such as water and electricity". Researchers from Columbia University and Karolinska Institute utilize information from mobile pho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49882988 | 2,018,661 |
236,394 | The University of Utah was one of the original four nodes of ARPANET, the world's first packet-switched network and embryo of the current worldwide Internet. The School of Computing produced many of the early pioneers in computer science and graphics, including Turing Award winner Alan Kay, Pixar founder Ed Catmull, At... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32097 | 236,275 |
2,237,311 | The #2-ranked Denver Pioneers, a team Pearson said "[has] more balance and ... experience than the three teams we've seen so far", visited Michigan Tech the last weekend of October. The teams traded goals in the opening minutes of the Friday game, then Huskies forwards Milos Gordic, who played in his first two games of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34618144 | 2,236,040 |
308,098 | The original idea was talked about late one Friday night in early 1963 in a Wimpy bar in Ealing in West London by three amateur radio enthusiasts after they had been to their weekly Greenford radio club meeting, Dudley Craven's call sign was G3PUN, Ken Bran's was G3UDC, and Ken Underwood's was G3SDW. As of Dudley's dea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1423388 | 307,933 |
80,642 | Gun-mortars are breech-loaded mortars usually equipped with a hydraulic recoil mechanism, and sometimes equipped with an autoloader. They are usually mounted on an armored vehicle and are capable of direct fire. The archetypes are the Brandt Mle CM60A1 and Brandt 60 mm LR, which combine features of modern infantry mort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=324499 | 80,609 |
1,898,603 | In this continuous challenge through the years, next to infective diseases and other illnesses afflicting modern human society, cancer recently represents one of the most enigmatical ailments. Scientists are investigating if neoplastic diseases are restricted to postindustrial human society or if their origins can be f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62084336 | 1,897,519 |
51,276 | In early 1994, the film was in pre-production with Christopher "Fangorn" Baker as concept artist, and Sara Maitland assisting on the story, which gave it "a feminist fairy-tale focus". Maitland said that Kubrick never referred to the film as "A.I.", but as "Pinocchio". Chris Cunningham became the new visual effects sup... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=142224 | 51,256 |
1,227,760 | Each of the camera bays was designed to carry different cameras for specific tasks on reconnaissance missions. The forward bay held a 150 mm (6") focal length serial frame camera (KS-87) on a two position rotating mount which could direct the camera's view straight down or be moved to a 45° angle for a forward oblique ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4219048 | 1,227,098 |
341,299 | "Dilophosaurus" bore a pair of high, thin, and arched (or plate-shaped) crests longitudinally on the skull roof. The crests (termed the nasolacrimal crests) began as low ridges on the premaxillae and were mainly formed by the upwards expanded and . These bones were coossified together (fusion during bone tissue formati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=444541 | 341,118 |
1,768,441 | It is primarily composed of an electronically commutated synchronous motor (ECM) with a permanent magnet rotor. The ECM is a motor that converts a direct current (DC) from an electrical source into an alternating current (AC) which is sent to the motor itself, allowing for increased efficiency over standard AC motors. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37215299 | 1,767,447 |
738,596 | The Kiso Observatory uses a 1.05m Schmidt telescope on Mt. Ontake near Tokyo in Japan. In late 2019 the Kiso Observatory added a new instrument to the telescope, "Tomo-e Gozen", designed to detect fast moving and rapidly changing objects. It has a wide field of view (20 square degrees) and scans the sky in just 2 hours... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58017976 | 738,205 |
1,302,346 | In 1738 Daniel Bernoulli published his "Hydrodynamica seu de viribus et motibus fluidorum commentarii". His theory of the motion of fluids, the germ of which was first published in his memoir entitled "Theoria nova de motu aquarum per canales quocunque fluentes", communicated to the academy of St Petersburg as early as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2206712 | 1,301,632 |
1,377,775 | Modern day atom probe tomography uses a position sensitive detector aka a FIM in a box to deduce the lateral location of atoms. The idea of the APT, inspired by J. A. Panitz's "Field Desorption Spectrometer" patent, was developed by Mike Miller starting in 1983 and culminated with the first prototype in 1986. Various r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3211 | 1,377,013 |
1,142,024 | Chemists can search databases using parts of structures, parts of their IUPAC names as well as based on constraints on properties. Chemical databases are particularly different from other general purpose databases in their support for sub-structure search. This kind of search is achieved by looking for subgraph isomorp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=553787 | 1,141,430 |
5,901 | Botvinnik started an era of Soviet dominance in the chess world, which mainly through the Soviet government's politically inspired efforts to demonstrate intellectual superiority over the West stood almost uninterrupted for more than a half-century. Until the dissolution of the Soviet Union, there was only one non-Sovi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5134 | 5,898 |
8,881 | Yale's secret society buildings (some of which are called "tombs") were built both to be private yet unmistakable. A diversity of architectural styles is represented: Berzelius, Donn Barber in an austere cube with classical detailing (erected in 1908 or 1910); Book and Snake, Louis R. Metcalfe in a Greek Ionic style (e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34273 | 8,877 |
1,057,134 | Heavy transportation airplanes may occasionally have to cross a thunderstorm line associated with a cold front or a squall. They may not be able to overfly the cumulonimbus, because at 36,000 feet, the aircraft may be in or near what is known as the coffin corner (stall speed is close to speed of sound), thus making it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51560627 | 1,056,585 |
1,269,811 | While it would be later shown that this assumption is not entirely correct, it in fact ends up being rather close to the correct expression for the orbital angular momentum operator's (eigenvalue) quantum number for large values of the quantum number formula_3, and indeed this was part of Bohr's own assumption. Regard ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4490255 | 1,269,120 |
645,273 | On July 18, 1996, the United States and Israel entered into an agreement to produce a cooperative THEL, called the Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrator, which would utilize deuterium fluoride chemical laser technologies. Primary among the four contractors awarded the project on September 30, 1996 was Northrop Grumm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=144755 | 644,933 |
1,398,813 | Type 1 episodic ataxia (EA1) is characterized by attacks of generalized ataxia induced by emotion or stress, with myokymia both during and between attacks. This disorder is also known as episodic ataxia with myokymia (EAM), hereditary paroxysmal ataxia with neuromyotonia and Isaacs-Mertens syndrome. Onset of EA1 occurs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8064365 | 1,398,039 |
662,715 | g:Profiler is a widely used toolset for finding biological categories enriched in gene lists, conversions between gene identifiers and mappings to their orthologs. Mission of g:Profiler is to provide a reliable service based on up to date high quality data in a convenient manner across many evidence types, identifier s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43780204 | 662,370 |
742,529 | In the late 1940s to early 1960s, the early days of making heavier and heavier transuranic elements, it was predicted that since such elements did not occur naturally, they would have shorter and shorter spontaneous fission half-lives, until they stopped existing altogether around element 108 (now called hassium). Init... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77473 | 742,136 |
2,195,518 | Iranian physicians were familiar with the human plague for a long time. Although there is little information about the situation of plague from earlier centuries, we have more documented evidence from the 19th and 20th centuries. During the Qajar dynasty (1895 to 1925), cholera and plague were the most frequently docum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49433785 | 2,194,268 |
614,099 | Code Name God is both an autobiography, chronicling significant events in its author's life in tandem with the revelations that accompanied them, and a contemplation on the astounding implications of quantum physics. In the author's words, "the surprising discovery of quantum physics that the primary source of everythi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4877968 | 613,787 |
2,012,699 | The Hoyas returned home for a convincing come-from-behind win against IUPUI in which Hollis Thompson had a double-double with 21 points and 10 rebounds, and Henry Sims and Markel Starks came off the bench to score 14 and 13 points, respectively. Averaging 82 points a game on the season, they then went on the road again... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33673923 | 2,011,545 |
1,348,973 | The extensive find material from Rancho La Brea allows a comprehensive reconstruction of the body skeleton. The spine was composed of 7 cervical, 16 thoracic 8 to 9 lumbar, sacral, and 21 caudal vertebrae. The humerus was massive, the length was 46 cm, and the head did not stand out particularly clearly. A prominent bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16886646 | 1,348,228 |
1,873,496 | Generally, manipulators (also called `robots' or `mechanisms') are mechanical devices that position and orientate objects. The position of an object in three-dimensional (3D) space can be specified by three numbers "X, Y, Z" known as 'coordinates.' In a Cartesian (named after René Descartes who introduced analytic geom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66105018 | 1,872,419 |
2,094,380 | He was born at Gowanbank in Darvel in Ayrshire on 23 March 1867 the second son of Alexander Morton (1844–1923) and his wife, Jane (Jeannie) Wiseman. His father founded the weaving company of Alexander Morton & Company, employing 600 persons in the late 19th century. He was educated at Darvel School then Ayr Academy. He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55510713 | 2,093,172 |
704,090 | Lowell was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1892. He moved back to the United States in 1893. He became determined to study Mars and astronomy as a full-time career after reading Camille Flammarion's "La planète Mars". He was particularly interested in the canals of Mars, as drawn by Ita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24033 | 703,722 |
1,242,897 | As a land-grant university subject to the Morrill Act of 1862, male undergraduates were required to serve two hours per week for four years being trained in tactics, dismounted drill, marksmanship, camp duty, military engineering, and fortifications. In exchange for California's share of , North Hall housed an armory. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20486122 | 1,242,224 |
69,355 | In 1905 a gold medal competition was sponsored by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters to investigate a method for measuring the surface tension of liquids that had been proposed by Lord Rayleigh in 1879. This involved measuring the frequency of oscillation of the radius of a water jet. Bohr conducted a ser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21210 | 69,328 |
1,811,159 | In the event, the industrial web theory failed to achieve its goals. Various targets were chosen and attacked serially, without evaluating the results in light of their interdependence. American bombing leaders maintained that precision attacks were being carried out, but in early 1944 poor weather over Europe prevente... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24980788 | 1,810,126 |
340,185 | Much of the historical debate about causes has focused on the relationship between communicative and other actions, between singular and repeated ones, and between actions, structures of action or group and institutional contexts and wider sets of conditions. John Gaddis has distinguished between exceptional and genera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37196 | 340,004 |
950,988 | Traditionally effective masses were measured using cyclotron resonance, a method in which microwave absorption of a semiconductor immersed in a magnetic field goes through a sharp peak when the microwave frequency equals the cyclotron frequency formula_17. In recent years effective masses have more commonly been determ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=156706 | 950,484 |
1,832,713 | Americans perceived their principal operating theater would be the Pacific, where immense distances between refueling bases placed a premium on carrier speed and range. Threats were likely to come from other warships, either as enemy aircraft or ship's guns, rather than from land-based planes or batteries. Carrier-laun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65456901 | 1,831,665 |
2,138,908 | Under the provisions of the Civil Aviation Act aircraft in flight are specifically exempted from trespass and nuisance controls, which denies any form of redress to those living near airports who are disturbed by noise. Government sanctioned measurements of noise near airports take an average sound level, measured in d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14120583 | 2,137,678 |
1,655,319 | An ectomycorrhizal species, "Lactarius sanguifluus" fruit bodies grow on the ground in association with pine trees on calcareous soils. "L. sanguifluus" is widely distributed in Himachal Pradesh in India, where it has been noted to grow in mixed coniferous forests, usually under the fern "Onychium contiguum". It is wid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26443112 | 1,654,387 |
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