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191,872 | Telephone systems also use matched impedances to minimise echo on long-distance lines. This is related to transmission-line theory. Matching also enables the telephone "hybrid coil" (2- to 4-wire conversion) to operate correctly. As the signals are sent and received on the same two-wire circuit to the central office (o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=320733 | 191,773 |
2,012,676 | In addition to botanical investigations, Rauwolff observed and recorded his impressions of the people, customs, and sights of the Levantine region. In 1582 he published these as a book in German, ""Aigentliche Beschreibung der Raiß inn die Morgenländerin"". The English translation, ""Dr. Leonhart Rauwolf's Travels into... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1186530 | 2,011,523 |
957,837 | In the 1980s the key concept of using menu costs in a framework of imperfect competition to explain price stickiness was developed. The concept of a lump-sum cost (menu cost) to changing the price was originally introduced by Sheshinski and Weiss (1977) in their paper looking at the effect of inflation on the frequency... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80327 | 957,331 |
345,430 | The basic operation of the gas turbine is a Brayton cycle with air as the working fluid: atmospheric air flows through the compressor that brings it to higher pressure; energy is then added by spraying fuel into the air and igniting it so that the combustion generates a high-temperature flow; this high-temperature pres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58664 | 345,249 |
2,028,878 | After a search for a suitable site for the observatory, the middle rise of the Cerro San Cristóbal was settled upon as the best location for meeting Campbell's general requirements. This ridge is located in the northeastern suburbs of Santiago, with a height of around above the city. This placed it above the dust and h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67773743 | 2,027,710 |
1,537,133 | Regardless of geographic location, "A. circinalis" are monophyletic, having evolved from a cyanobacterial ancestor approximately 1-2 billion years ago. Because PST-producing "A. circinalis" is morphologically similar to non-PST strains, attempts are being made to subdivide these populations further. Historically, PCR p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10292616 | 1,536,262 |
911,483 | The novel is set in various locations in the Milky Way. The galaxy is divided into four concentric volumes called the "Zones of Thought"; it is not clear to the novel's characters whether this is a natural phenomenon or an artificially produced one, but it seems to roughly correspond with galactic-scale stellar density... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2080 | 911,004 |
2,122,041 | Sceptre was an early fusion power device based on the Z-pinch concept of plasma confinement, built in the UK starting in 1957. They were the ultimate versions of a series of devices tracing their history to the original pinch machines, built at Imperial College London by Cousins and Ware in 1947. When the UK's fusion w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29985187 | 2,120,822 |
1,920,274 | In general, the presence or absence of sufficient water was a major determinant of where human settlement would occur in the pre-industrial Latin America. Large-scale irrigation projects were not undertaken in the colonial era. However, the major hydraulic project to drain the central lake system in the Basin of Mexico... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65056762 | 1,919,171 |
1,569,961 | "C. limacisporum" was first discovered and named in 1987 in coral reef lagoons of three Lakshadweep islands in the Arabian sea; Agatti, Kavaratti and Bangaram (Raghu-kumar, 1987). The organism was initially thought to be a new thraustochytrid protist, a group of protists that closely resemble fungi and produce filament... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21960187 | 1,569,073 |
1,652,357 | MTConnect is a protocol designed for the exchange of data between shop floor equipment and software applications used for monitoring and data analysis. MTConnect is referred to as a read-only standard, meaning that it only defines the extraction (reading) of data from control devices, not the writing of data to a contr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25477746 | 1,651,425 |
680,510 | Direct rule deliberately removed traditional power structures in order to implement uniformity across a region. The desire for regional homogeneity was the driving force behind the French colonial doctrine of Assimilation. The French style of colonialism stemmed from the idea that the French Republic was a symbol of un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5090455 | 680,155 |
286,167 | However, fuel-rich mixtures also have lower molecular weight exhaust species. The nozzle of the rocket converts the thermal energy of the propellants into directed kinetic energy. This conversion happens in the time it takes for the propellants to flow from the combustion chamber through the engine throat and out the n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30873089 | 286,013 |
1,051,179 | This whole concept might strike some readers as very odd. The code to handle codice_32 for a window isn't defined in codice_23? This might not make any sense until you consider how Dylan handles the call of the codice_32. In most languages when the program is compiled the codice_32 for codice_23 is looked up and replac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8741 | 1,050,633 |
1,302,193 | The AAS has its roots in the highly classified AN/APS-149 LSRS, which was designed to provide multi-function moving target detection and tracking and high resolution ground mapping at standoff ranges covering land, littoral, and water areas. The radar was deployed on a small number of P-3C Orions, with "game changing" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42952126 | 1,301,479 |
1,604,897 | The Council therefore established in 1988 the "CSIR Center for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation", briefly called C-MMACS (pronounced as seemax) in the Belur Campus of the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bengaluru. On February 21, 2013, CSIR-CMMACS was repositioned as the nucleus of CSIR-Fourth Para... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32288518 | 1,603,996 |
566,434 | On leaving school, Maynard Smith joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and started studying engineering at Trinity College, Cambridge. When the Second World War broke out in 1939, he defied his party's line and volunteered for service. He was rejected, however, because of poor eyesight and was told to finish his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16233 | 566,144 |
1,174,838 | "Ocean fertilisation options are only worthwhile if sustained on a millennial timescale and phosphorus addition may have greater long-term potential than iron or nitrogen fertilisation." Phytoplankton require a variety of nutrients. These include macronutrients such as nitrate and phosphate (in relatively high concentr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4797449 | 1,174,216 |
1,948,597 | EISs can be implemented, for example, using neural networks or fuzzy rule-based models. The first neural networks which consider an evolving structure were published in. These were later expanded by N. Kasabov and P. Angelov for the neuro-fuzzy models. P. Angelov introduced the evolving fuzzy rule-based systems (EFSs) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30667214 | 1,947,483 |
1,073,136 | The ICM is composed primarily of ordinary baryons, mainly ionised hydrogen and helium. This plasma is enriched with heavier elements, including iron. The average amount of heavier elements relative to hydrogen, known as metallicity in astronomy, ranges from a third to a half of the value in the sun. Studying the chemic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4217326 | 1,072,582 |
626,068 | Alpha particles are commonly produced in radioactive decays because mass of an alpha particle per nucleon is small enough to leave some energy for the alpha particle to be used as kinetic energy to leave the nucleus. Spontaneous fission is caused by electrostatic repulsion tearing the nucleus apart and produces various... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2231059 | 625,735 |
1,822,655 | Aaviksoo was born in Tartu. After graduating from Tartu Secondary School No. 2 (present-day Miina Härma Gymnasium) in 1971, he entered the Tartu State University physics department in the chemistry-physics faculty and graduated "cum laude" in the field of theoretical physics in 1976. From 1976 to 1992 he was first juni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10537645 | 1,821,617 |
2,026,066 | In 1910 the Army Balloon Factory was not actually authorised to design or build aircraft, but only to repair them. When the remains of a crashed Blériot XII monoplane (nicknamed "The Man-Killer" owing to its poor handling) belonging to the army were sent from Larkhill to Farnborough for repair, authorisation for a comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10370003 | 2,024,900 |
2,038,103 | Drea studied at the American University of Paris before moving to the United States. While there, she conducted research for the US Embassy and US Department of Agriculture. Christine Drea finished her Bachelors of Science in zoology at University of Maryland, College Park in 1984. She did this while studying bowerbird... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57138268 | 2,036,928 |
291,740 | The Federal Aviation Administration ADS-B implementation is broken into three segments each with a corresponding time line. Ground segment implementation and deployment is expected to begin in 2009 and be completed by 2013 throughout the National Airspace System (NAS). Airborne equipment is user-driven and is expected ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18949160 | 291,582 |
508,741 | Compared to other directions of structuralism in architecture, the following clarifications are noted: ""In the new architectural movement there is often a tendency to call everything Structuralist that resembles a woven texture and has a grid. This would be a superficial way of looking at things. By nature Structurali... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18411985 | 508,477 |
305,678 | Women conductors were almost unheard of in the ranks of leading orchestral conductors through most of the 19th and 20th centuries, but today, artists like , Marin Alsop and Simone Young are to be seen conducting leading orchestras. Alsop was appointed music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 2007 – the fir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=199162 | 305,515 |
1,540,586 | The colour of this plant is dark green to yellow, and they can be glossy as well when they are dry. They also have separate stem and branch leaves with different structure. The stem leaves appears to have an obtuse apex, flatter against the stem and broader then the branch leaves. They are not pleated and near insertio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52867358 | 1,539,713 |
1,872,759 | About 300 student inmates are enrolled in the College Program at San Quentin each semester. A high school diploma or its equivalent is required to participate, but most students nevertheless begin with the College Program's non-credit preparatory courses in Mathematics and English. Associate's degree course offerings h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17043273 | 1,871,682 |
761,315 | A secondary mirror is to produce an unobstructed field-of-view of 20 arcminutes in diameter with a focal ratio of 15. A 3.5 × 2.5 metre (12' x 8') flat tertiary mirror is to direct the light path to science instruments mounted on large Nasmyth platforms. The telescope is to have an alt-azimuth mount. Target acquisition... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4266335 | 760,908 |
1,436,769 | Fluorescence labeling of different cell lineages with differently coloured proteins allows visualizing cellular dynamics in a context of their microenvironment. If the image resolution is high enough (50 – 100 μm) it can be possible to use several images to generate 3D models of cellular interactions, including protrus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23843184 | 1,435,960 |
649,990 | The harsh climate of most desert regions is a major obstacle in conducting research into these ecosystems. In the environments requiring special adaptations to survive, it is often difficult or even impossible for researchers to spend extended periods of time investigating the ecology of such regions. To overcome the l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1843913 | 649,649 |
809,261 | The aggressive military and domestic policies of Senusret III, which re-subjugated Nubia and wrested power from the nomarchs, allowed Amenemhat III to inherit a stable and peaceful Egypt. He directed his efforts towards an extensive building program with particular focus on Faiyum. Here he dedicated a temple to Sobek, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211710 | 808,831 |
1,370,705 | Between 1932 and 1933, Burnet took leave of absence to undertake a fellowship at the National Institute for Medical Research in London. The Great Depression had resulted in Burnet's salary being cut from 1000 to 750 pounds, and the National Institute had been given a large grant from the Rockefeller Foundation that all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=417493 | 1,369,949 |
1,993,612 | September 18 [1870]. -- We broke camp at 9 o'clock, traveling along the slopes of the ridges, skirting the ravines through falling timber, and passing in many places over swampy terraces, for a distance of three miles, when we suddenly came upon a mountain torrent, 40 feet wide, and running through a gorge of trachyte ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20915225 | 1,992,469 |
1,505,822 | The hydrogeology and water resources of Maine are closely related to the state's surficial geology, soils, climate, land use and environment. The Maine Geological Survey began a continuing process of mapping sand and gravel aquifers beginning in 1978. Statewide, Maine receives an annual rainfall total of 42 inches or 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55271378 | 1,504,976 |
1,178,288 | The transforming growth factor ("TGF") family has provided multiple candidate genes linked with craniofacial development and malformation. "TGF" is involved in cell migration, differentiation, and proliferation, as well as regulating the extracellular matrix. Another gene that has been flagged as causal for craniofacia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29476907 | 1,177,664 |
2,171,480 | A major highlight of McGregor's work is on climatically‐driven coastal upwelling zones. Though representing less than one percent of the global ocean by area, coastal upwelling zones have extremely high biological productivity, and provide ~20% of the world's fisheries. Yet, despite their significance, there is intense... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43555405 | 2,170,242 |
444,031 | Townes' last major technological creation was the Infrared Spatial Interferometer with Walt Fitelson, Ed Wishnow and others. The project combined three mobile infrared detectors aligned by lasers that study the same star. If each telescope is 10 meters from the other, it creates an impression of a 30-meter lens. Observ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=396568 | 443,816 |
90,294 | Cloud seeding over Kosciuszko National Park—a biosphere reserve—is problematic in that several rapid changes of environmental legislation were made to enable the trial. Environmentalists are concerned about the uptake of elemental silver in a highly sensitive environment affecting the pygmy possum among other species a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=449660 | 90,254 |
1,643,892 | Sethian won the ICIAM Pioneer Prize in 2011 for pioneering work, introducing applied mathematical methods and scientific computing techniques to an industrial problem area and new scientific fields of applications. Sethian was elected member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for the development of efficien... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5693413 | 1,642,965 |
799,863 | Officials became keen advocates for the improvement of the SAAF's existing rotorcraft via domestic upgrade programmes. One such initiative was the development of a dedicated attack helicopter based upon the dynamic systems of the Puma, which became the Denel Rooivalk. Atlas recognised the value of, in parallel to the R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=487267 | 799,437 |
738,177 | On 19 October, YPG fighters advanced in the Kani Erban area, where they took over two ISIL positions, while ISIL managed to advance, west of the security quarter. The US-led coalition launched six airstrikes on ISIL positions between 18–19 October. Later, 3 U.S. transport aircraft dropped 27 bundles totaling 24 tons of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43904407 | 737,786 |
196,103 | In 1972, the formula was changed to increase power by permitting 2.0 L production-based engines—Cosworth BDs and BMW four-cylinder engines dominated the early years, with BMW-powered Marches gradually establishing dominance. For 1976, engines developed purely for racing were permitted to compete, with Renault developin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=550495 | 196,003 |
2,210,245 | REIsearch is a non-profit initiative co-funded by the European Commission Nokia, Elsevier, and other Atomium partners. The aim is to connect researchers and policy makers on topics linked to scientific research in order to promote evidence-based policy making. After the launch Jean-Claude Juncker declared: "Innovation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25838982 | 2,208,985 |
227,908 | In March 2012, the NRC forbade the plant to be reopened until the causes of its equipment problems were thoroughly understood and fixed. At the same time, Irvine Councilman Larry Agran called for the plant to be decommissioned safely and as soon as possible. Concerns included "nuclear waste stored at the plant, health ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1780952 | 227,791 |
1,430,556 | Loyal Park was hired as head coach prior to the start of the 1969 season. After finishing tied for 5th and tied for 2nd in the EIBL in his first two seasons, the program had its most successful four-year stretch from 1971 to 1974. Harvard won four consecutive EIBL titles and played in three College World Series. In 197... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21159112 | 1,429,752 |
1,845,446 | To understand and document this history, Williams conducted bilingual research, including translating four volumes of diaries written by a Buddhist priest incarcerated at a high-security camp in Santa Fe, New Mexico from 1941-45 and obtaining and declassifying FBI documents that show that nearly 300 priests were picked... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60505146 | 1,844,391 |
2,163,786 | SPMDs can be deployed within a wide range of water bodies, although flowing shallow water is preferable. These devices need to be secured to nearby structures to allow the SPMD to remain in a fixed position in its environment. To aid in the stability of SPMDs, various ways can be employed including attaching the device... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50610351 | 2,162,550 |
1,263,057 | Advances in automation technologies (e.g. fixed robots, collaborative and mobile robots, and exoskeletons) have the potential to improve work conditions but also to introduce workplace hazards in manufacturing workplaces.[1] Fifty-six percent of robot injuries are classified as pinch injuries and 44% of injuries are cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56830451 | 1,262,369 |
2,059,653 | If trade in two goods, X and Y, occurs between a single pair of traders, A and B, the potential outcomes of this trade can be shown in an Edgeworth box ("Figure 1"). In this diagram A and B initially possess the entire stock of X and Y respectively (point E). The lines U(a) and U(b) are the indifference curves of A and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1228848 | 2,058,467 |
2,063,454 | "The modified APS-2F at Texas A&M University, although not formally a part of the Texas Tornado Warning Network, was used at least once for warning purposes (Bigler 1956). On 5 April 1956, a tornado that produced damage in Bryan and College Station, Texas, was detected by the Texas A&M University radar. At noon that da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4957172 | 2,062,263 |
1,437,909 | Work by the Geophysics section of the School of Cosmic Physics on the formation of the North Atlantic demonstrated that the Irish continental shelf extended much further than previously thought, thereby more than doubling the area of the seabed over which Ireland can claim economic exploitation rights under the interna... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1222691 | 1,437,099 |
1,459,346 | Recent studies reveal that the survivin oncoprotein is activated by MCV large T protein targeting the cellular retinoblastoma protein and that survivin inhibitors can delay tumor progression in animal models. Clinical trials are now being organized to determine whether this has any benefit in humans. The importance of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16814276 | 1,458,525 |
1,367,180 | Three left and six right dorsal ribs are preserved in rough articulation with the vertebrae. A number of gastralia are preserved scattered all over the plate. The scapula, coracoid and furcula are all preserved on the main slab. The coracoid is about a third the length of the scapula, and is much less elongated than in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34483273 | 1,366,424 |
531,428 | Bergelson & Idsardi (2009) presented adults with words drawn from an artificial language. The words contained 3 CV syllables. If the last vowel was long, then it bore stress. Otherwise, stress fell on the first syllable. This pattern is consistent with two grammars. In one grammar, a long vowel bears stress if it is th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2691458 | 531,154 |
1,254,293 | In "Paradisi in Sole" Parkinson hinted that he hoped to add a fourth section, a garden of simples (medicinal herbs). He delivered the promise in his other great book, the monumental "Theatrum Botanicum" ("The Botanical Theatre" or "Theatre of Plants") which he published in 1640 at the age of 73 years. The release of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2574257 | 1,253,612 |
1,419,665 | Microvascular angina can be diagnosed using different tests and exams, but it is mainly a diagnosis of exclusion. However, sedentary and overweight individuals with a family history of type 2 diabetes should be tested regularly to determine whether they have irregular levels of glucose or lipids, or blood pressure abno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=669831 | 1,418,866 |
131,858 | The timer IC was designed in 1971 by Hans Camenzind under contract to Signetics. In 1968, he was hired by Signetics to develop a phase-locked loop (PLL) IC. He designed an oscillator for PLLs such that the frequency did not depend on the power supply voltage or temperature. Signetics subsequently laid off half of its e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=482208 | 131,806 |
901,016 | 2021 began with the first British women's world under-20 record for 36 years. Hodgkinson returned and won in Vienna for the second consecutive year in 1:59.03 – her first result under 2 minutes, making her the first junior woman in history to break this mark in the indoor 800 m. She lowered massively by exactly two sec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65234647 | 900,540 |
458,340 | The battle system of the original "Final Fantasy" was designed by Akitoshi Kawazu. When creating it, he closely followed the mechanics created in the Western tabletop game "Dungeons & Dragons", particularly the incorporation of enemy-specific weaknesses that were otherwise missing from Japanese games at the time. He al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50576117 | 458,116 |
261,222 | Castle Bravo was the worst U.S. nuclear accident, but many of its component problems—unpredictably large yields, changing weather patterns, unexpected fallout contamination of populations and the food supply—occurred during other atmospheric nuclear weapons tests by other countries as well. Concerns over worldwide fall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337775 | 261,085 |
808,465 | A combined conscript and volunteer force, the National Army, was formed by the United States War Department in 1917 to fight in World War I. During World War II, the Army of the United States was formed as a successor to the National Army. The end of World War II set the stage for the ideological confrontation known as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21001269 | 808,035 |
1,596,085 | Spiez Laboratory is an internationally recognized center of excellence and works with the United Nations (UN), the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Intern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39338836 | 1,595,186 |
1,712,884 | Launched in 2007, this antimalarial product is a fixed-dose combination of artesunate/amodiaquine (ASAQ). The result of a partnership between DND"i" and French pharmaceutical company Sanofi, ASAQ, which is produced in Morocco, is affordable (available for only $0.05 for children, $1 for adults), is administered in a si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5933900 | 1,711,919 |
1,790,731 | In 1964 in his Ph.D. thesis (Technical University of Munich), Dr. Hermann Dommel used Nodal analysis with the companion circuit model and the constant-parameter transmission line model, to simulate electromagnetic transients. The companion circuit model used the trapezoidal integration rule. At that time Bonneville Pow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16775799 | 1,789,725 |
401,955 | Since the 1990s, the number of institutes providing education and training in logotherapy continues to increase worldwide.VFI / Institutes worldwide (E) Numerous logotherapeutic concepts have been integrated and applied in different fields, such as cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=648543 | 401,756 |
665,521 | An alternate moral philosophy to the domestic American Practical Idealism, called variously Scottish Innate Sense moral philosophy (by Jefferson), Scottish Commonsense Philosophy, or Scottish common sense realism, was introduced into American Colleges in 1768 by John Witherspoon, a Scottish immigrant and educator who w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22943476 | 665,174 |
1,597,930 | Characterization of the metabolic disorder, phenylketonuria (PKU) represents a progression from an initial biochemical discovery that informed genetic studies and led to an understanding that genetic heterogeneity within a major locus, and in addition to it, was responsible for variation in clinical phenotypes. In 1953... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50619245 | 1,597,031 |
648,444 | Its novelty was its revolutionary modular, prefabricated design, and use of glass. Glazing was carried out from special trolleys, and was fast: one man managed to fix 108 panes in a single day. The Palace was long, wide and high. It required 4,500 tons of iron, of timber and needed over 293,000 panes of glass. Yet it t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=128695 | 648,103 |
2,141,369 | Kane has also studied the biomechanics of peacock courtship rituals. Specifically, her group focused on how feather biomechanics influence the performance of male peacocks as they court females by fanning out and vibrating their tail feathers, a display behavior known as "train-rattling." Kane initially discovered high... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59612144 | 2,140,139 |
795,456 | The Albacore, popularly known as the "Applecore", was conceived as a replacement for the Fairey Swordfish, an earlier biplane introduced during the mid 1930s. It was typically operated by a crew of three and was designed for spotting and reconnaissance as well as level, dive, and torpedo bombing. First flown on 12 Dece... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=523211 | 795,031 |
1,877,710 | Enzyme-catalyzed reactions can be performed at higher temperatures using enzyme-immobilized nanoparticles, in which the presence of multiple proteins at the nanoparticle surface facilitates the retention of water molecules limiting the denaturation of the attached proteins. After modification with poly(amide), protein ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63886215 | 1,876,632 |
777,192 | The idea of the Harvard Classics was presented in speeches by then President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard University. Several years prior to 1909, Eliot gave a speech in which he remarked that a three-foot shelf would be sufficient to hold enough books to give a liberal education to anyone who would read them with devot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=558277 | 776,776 |
1,941,809 | The equestrian program at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, included five medal events. There were individual competitions in dressage, eventing, and show jumping. Team scores were also gathered and medals awarded for teams in the eventing and jumping competitions. Equestrian had been absent from the Olympic progr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2363805 | 1,940,698 |
1,140,512 | The infamous shipwreck of the Titanic occurred on April 15, 1912. This ship was the largest and most luxurious ocean liner at the time of its launch. Following impact with an iceberg, the ship split in two and sank to a depth of more than 2 miles below the surface. Deep in the Atlantic, the bow of ship sank deep into t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5720331 | 1,139,918 |
1,729,430 | To commemorate its 10th Raising Day, MILIT conducted a seminar on 'Space Security: National Security Challenges and Strategic Implications' on January 19, 2022. The proceedings were held online due to the pandemic restrictions, and witnessed around 400 online participants. The speakers and delegates included Air Marsha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58950797 | 1,728,456 |
637,374 | Volume risk is often used to denote the phenomenon whereby electricity market participants have uncertain volumes or quantities of consumption or production. For example, a retailer is unable to accurately predict consumer demand for any particular hour more than a few days into the future and a producer is unable to p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=215909 | 637,035 |
464,735 | At the 2017 Crown Awards, President Lee Bollinger announced that the school would officially be renamed as the Columbia University Roy and Diana Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. This decision was made in response to a gift of $250 million from Dr. P. Roy and Diana Vagelos. $150 million of the gift, was dedic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1170596 | 464,505 |
895,398 | Sumitomo studied a battery using a salt that is molten at , far lower than sodium based batteries, and operational at . It offers energy densities as high as 290 Wh/L and 224 Wh/kg and charge/discharge rates of 1C with a lifetime of 100 - 1000 charge cycles. The battery employs only nonflammable materials and neither i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5054933 | 894,927 |
341,252 | Tube heaters may also fail without warning, especially if exposed to over voltage or as a result of manufacturing defects. Tube heaters do not normally fail by evaporation like lamp filaments since they operate at much lower temperature. The surge of inrush current when the heater is first energized causes stress in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32496 | 341,071 |
1,357,817 | He was the first scientist to explain mathematically the origin of aerodynamic lift, through his circulation hypothesis, the first to establish that the lift force generated by a body moving through an ideal fluid is proportional to the velocity and the circulation around the body. He used a conformal mathematical tran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=714407 | 1,357,067 |
1,186,860 | Kosovo Albanians tended to be more hostile towards foreigners, an attitude that the Professor Paul Mojzes attributes to the Albanian–Serbian conflict and persecution suffered at the hands of the Ottoman Empire. As a result, most Kosovo Albanians welcomed the defeat and partitioning of Yugoslavia, and were particularly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39141908 | 1,186,231 |
1,021,998 | In 1924, J.B.S. Haldane calculated, using a simple general selection model, the selective advantage necessary for the recorded natural evolution of peppered moths, based on the assumption that in 1848 the frequency of dark-coloured moths was 2%, and by 1895 it was 95%. The dark-coloured, or melanic, form would have had... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=628768 | 1,021,469 |
1,256,880 | In the introduction, Latour develops the methodological dictum that science and technology must be studied "in action", or "in the making". Because scientific discoveries turn esoteric and difficult to understand, it has to be studied where discoveries are made in practice. For example, Latour turns back time in the ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4121234 | 1,256,196 |
343,314 | French balloonist, professor and inventor Jacques Charles is believed to have captured fleeting negative photograms of silhouettes on light-sensitive paper at the start of the 19th century, prior to Wedgwood. Charles died in 1823 without having documented the process, but purportedly demonstrated it in his lectures at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2435889 | 343,133 |
248,848 | By 1943, with its change of role to ground attack, the Typhoon was constantly operating over enemy territory: inevitably some flyable examples fell into German hands. The first Typhoon to be flown by the "Luftwaffe" was "EJ956" SA-I of 486 (NZ) Sqn. On 23 March 1943, two aircraft flown by F/O Smith and F/S Mawson were ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63744 | 248,720 |
909,799 | Modeling helps coding. A goal of most modern software methodologies is to first address "what" questions and then address "how" questions, i.e. first determine the functionality the system is to provide without consideration of implementation constraints, and then consider how to make specific solutions to these abstra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2613984 | 909,320 |
784,491 | The two men became increasingly estranged. From a Freudian standpoint, "while Breuer, with his intelligent and amorous patient Anna O., had unwittingly laid the groundwork for psychoanalysis, it was Freud who drew the consequences from Breuer's case." However, Breger notes that Breuer, while he valued Freud's contribut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1466246 | 784,071 |
1,955,063 | This was the 19th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. Returning finalists from the 1976 Games were defending champion Udo Beyer of East Germany, bronze medalist Aleksandr Baryshnikov of the Soviet Union, sixth-place finisher Geoff Capes of Great Brita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21119403 | 1,953,941 |
24,836 | Another new method of access is the use of mobile app or smartphone applications to deliver self-help or guided CBT. Technology companies are developing mobile-based artificial intelligence chatbot applications in delivering CBT as an early intervention to support mental health, to build psychological resilience, and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5750 | 24,827 |
90,859 | The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) issues to regional Internet registries (RIRs) large, short-prefix CIDR blocks. However, a (with over sixteen million addresses) is the largest block IANA will allocate. For example, is administered by RIPE NCC, the European RIR. The RIRs, each responsible for a single, lar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38404 | 90,819 |
798,167 | Ferrocement is a relatively cheap method to produce a hull, although unsuitable for commercial mass production. A steel and iron "armature" is built to the exact shape of the hull, ultimately being covered in galvanised chicken netting. Then, on a single day, the cement is applied by a team of plasterers. The cement:sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=499365 | 797,742 |
1,337,747 | The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) is a part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). It conducts and funds research on brain and nervous system disorders and has a budget of just over US$2.03 billion. The mission of NINDS is "to reduce the burden of neurological disease—a burde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=237641 | 1,337,016 |
1,882,010 | The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway suffered problems with firebox stays, leading to a boiler explosion with an 0-8-0 'Class 30' near Knottingley in 1901 Their Chief Mechanical Engineer Henry Hoy, sought to avoid the problems of the stayed firebox altogether and so developed an alternative boiler and firebox. This used ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26190873 | 1,880,929 |
1,104,339 | The Observatory regularly organises visits for secondary school students. This outreach programme was extended to primary school students, the elderly and community groups in recent years. Talks are also organised in primary schools during the winter time, when officials are less busy in the severe climate issues and w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21292238 | 1,103,776 |
1,577,800 | The Anisotropic Network Model was introduced in 2000 (Atilgan et al., 2001; Doruker et al., 2000), inspired by the pioneering work of Tirion (1996), succeeded by the development of the Gaussian network model (GNM) (Bahar et al., 1997; Haliloglu et al., 1997), and by the work of Hinsen (1998) who first demonstrated the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27211693 | 1,576,911 |
917,657 | In the UK from 1947 onwards, the English Electric company's subsidiary English Electric diesel engines developed a V16 engine for rail and marine use based on its 10" bore x 12" stroke (254mm x 305mm) K series from the 1930s, notably used in British Railways class 40 and 50 locomotives with power output in the range 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=199965 | 917,174 |
566,863 | The composition of the solar system is similar to that of many other stars, and aside from small anomalies it can be assumed to have formed from a solar nebula that had a uniform composition, and the composition of the Sun's photosphere is similar to that of the rest of the Solar System. The composition of the photosph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39562 | 566,573 |
876,777 | Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is a species of krill found in the Antarctic waters of the Southern Ocean. It is a small, swimming crustacean that lives in large schools, called swarms, sometimes reaching densities of 10,000–30,000 individual animals per cubic metre. It feeds directly on minute phytoplankton, there... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43269 | 876,315 |
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