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1,587,375 | There are extensive tracts of 'blown sand' along the coast, particularly forming Morfa Harlech and Morfa Dyffryn. Occurrences of lesser extent are found at Barmouth, immediately north and south of Tywyn and west of Aberdovey. There are also extensive marine deposits inland of the sand dune systems around Tywyn and surr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64129073 | 1,586,481 |
88,194 | Stationed in the United Kingdom at RAF Leiston, Yeager flew P-51 Mustangs in combat with the 363d Fighter Squadron. He named his aircraft "Glamorous Glen" after his girlfriend, Glennis Faye Dickhouse, who became his wife in February 1945. Yeager had gained one victory before he was shot down over France in his first ai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6185 | 88,159 |
480,090 | Two of Batangas State University's research projects received the National Gawad KALASAG (KAlamidad at Sakuna LAbanan, SAriling Galing ang Kaligtasan) award from the Office of Civil Defense – National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council or NDRRMC. The amphibious vehicle known as the Tactical Operative Amphib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18965074 | 479,846 |
2,180,494 | Robert Newton (February 7, 1889 – November 22, 1985) was a Canadian biochemist and academic administrator. Newton attended McGill University (BSc 1912), the University of Manitoba (1921 MSc, 1923 PhD), and University of Alberta (DSc). He was a veteran of World War I. In 1919, he became professor of field husbandry at t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46440452 | 2,179,249 |
1,280,006 | The name was introduced by Harms et al. in 1975. Before this time, these structures were recognized under many different names. When hummocky cross-stratification was founded, it was originally given the name “truncated wave-ripple laminae,” by Campbell (1966, 1971). The main features were listed by Bourgeois (1980), H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17177420 | 1,279,311 |
38,951 | In early March 2016, a report by "Stuff" magazine revealed that a test performed by VICOM, Ltd on behalf of Singapore's Land Transport Authority had found a 2014 Tesla Model S to be consuming , which was greater than the reported by EPA and the reported by Tesla. As a result, a carbon surcharge was imposed on the Model... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18215937 | 38,937 |
1,573,594 | In 2009 Department of Physics, Stanford University set a new world record for smallest writing. The previous record was set in 1989 by IBM scientists who used a scanning tunneling microscope to arrange 35 individual xenon atoms to spell out the company initials. Stanford team also used scanning tunneling microscope, ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21353391 | 1,572,705 |
601,210 | As already indicated, it is now thought that the earliest manifestations of field electron emission were the electrical discharges it caused. After Fowler–Nordheim work, it was understood that CFE was one of the possible primary underlying causes of vacuum breakdown and electrical discharge phenomena. (The detailed mec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=293392 | 600,902 |
1,810,501 | The ultraviolet communication system has two roles, a sender and a receiver. Butterflies send ultraviolet signals using UV reflectance or UV absorption. The former is accomplished through the use of structural color, the reflection of certain frequencies of light via constructive interference. The production of this st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25473322 | 1,809,478 |
1,002,471 | Murray Bowen invented the concept of the genogram as part of his family systems model in the 1970s. Genograms were later developed and popularized in clinical settings by Monica McGoldrick and Randy Gerson through the publication of a book titled "Genograms: Assessment and Intervention" in 1985. Genograms are now used ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4033017 | 1,001,953 |
248,872 | Notes for the management of the fuel system stated that indicated airspeeds (IAS) in excess of were not advisable when fitted with auxiliary drop tanks. Tanks were jettisoned at about , but in an emergency, a release at was permitted. Tanks were to be ejected in straight and level flight only. General flying ability wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63744 | 248,744 |
2,143,351 | He received his undergraduate degree from MIT in electrical engineering (1960), and his Ph.D. in 1968 from Carnegie Mellon's Graduate School of Industrial Administration ("GSIA", now the Tepper School of Business) in Organizations and Social Behavior. From 1966 to 1969, he was an assistant professor at the University o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24250177 | 2,142,120 |
1,652,943 | Rev. John Zahm was the Holy Cross Provincial for the United States from 1898 to 1906, with overall supervision of the university. He sought to modernize and expand Notre Dame by erecting buildings and adding to the campus art gallery and library, amassing what became a famous Dante collection, and pushing Notre Dame to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33791684 | 1,652,011 |
45,850 | John Zahm was the Holy Cross Provincial for the United States from 1898 to 1906, with overall supervision of the university. He sought to modernize and expand Notre Dame by erecting buildings and adding to the campus art gallery and library, amassing what became a famous Dante collection, and pushing Notre Dame towards... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146269 | 45,832 |
945,075 | These mesoscale eddies have shown to be beneficial in further creating ecosystem-based management for food web models to better understand the utilization of these eddies by both the apex predators and their prey. Gaube et al. (2018), used “Smart” Position or Temperature Transmitting tags (SPOT) and Pop-Up Satellite Ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4318651 | 944,573 |
791,424 | The target, 17 by 17 cm (6.7 by 6.7 in), is traditionally made of light-coloured cardboard upon which scoring lines, and a black aiming mark consisting of the score zones 7 through 10, are printed. There is also an inner ten ring, but the amount of inner tens is only used for tie-breaking. The changing of these traditi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2452537 | 790,999 |
1,895,436 | Sushil Kumar, born on 14 December 1940 in the Indian capital of Delhi, did his schooling at Municipal Primary School and Dayanand Anglo-Vedic Public School, both Delhi-based schools, and graduated in science from Hansraj College, Delhi in 1960. He joined the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) for his post gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51779501 | 1,894,352 |
1,840,251 | While archaeoastronomical studies have traditionally discussed these kinds of monument as observatories, fieldwork conducted in the 1990s at Balnuaran of Clava by Ronnie Scott and Tim Phillips suggests the midwinter sunset would have cast images inside two passage tombs. By temporarily reconstructing the collapsed roof... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49823773 | 1,839,199 |
313,973 | AIS is a technology which has been developed under the auspices of the IMO by its technical committees. The technical committees have developed and published a series of AIS product specifications. Each specification defines a specific AIS product which has been carefully created to work in a precise way with all the o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1825702 | 313,804 |
1,395,103 | The Scientific Plan 2009–2011 is the evolution of the 2005–2008 plan, which was dealing with a large scale program on Humanoid Robotics. According to the 2005–2008 strategic plan, the Humanoid Robotics program had a strong interdisciplinary character, merging human and humanoid technologies through the development of 3... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19970839 | 1,394,332 |
1,618,160 | The phospholipase C family consists of 13 isoenzymes split between six subfamilies, PLC-δ (1,3 & 4), -β(1-4), -γ(1,2), -ε, -ζ, and the recently discovered -η(1,2) isoform. Depending on the specific subfamily in question, activation can be highly variable. Activation by either G or G G-protein subunits (making it part o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3233543 | 1,617,247 |
608,748 | Since the number of collisions an ion experiences with electrons is large, and since the charge state of the ion while traversing the medium may change frequently, it is very difficult to describe all possible interactions for all possible ion charge states. Instead, the electronic stopping power is often given as a si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5051282 | 608,437 |
954,172 | However, in the absence of specific structural data, other strategies must be applied. Antibodies and artificial families of AgBPs are constituted by a set of hypervariable (or randomized) residue positions, located in a unique sub-region of the protein, and supported by a constant polypeptide scaffold. The residues th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=480700 | 953,667 |
1,753,768 | There are a large number of verification methodologies, (e.g. POEs, CRE-FM), and all of these need to refer back to explicit statements of requirements to be able to compare with expected performance. To evaluate the result of a building asset against the expected performance requirements it is necessary to fix some to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25153936 | 1,752,778 |
928,213 | In the Cold War, the initial motivation of developing nuclear power for Beijing was largely due to security purposes. Between 1950 and 1958, Chinese nuclear power construction heavily relied on cooperation with the USSR. The first initiative was launched with the establishment of the China-Soviet Union Nonferrous Metal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12899377 | 927,725 |
1,351,021 | The Luna 10 orbiter was the first artificial object to orbit the Moon, and it returned tracking data indicating that the lunar gravitational field caused larger than expected perturbations, presumably due to "roughness" of the lunar gravitational field. The Lunar mascons were discovered by Paul M. Muller and William L.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=577296 | 1,350,275 |
2,060,829 | Bloomfield left Australia in 1960 on a Fulbright Scholarship to undertake post graduate studies at the University of Oregon. In 1967, he was awarded a PhD at the University of Oregon and was appointed to The University of Western Australia(UWA) in 1968 to head up its new Physical Education program. In 1974, he became t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38455879 | 2,059,642 |
2,170,866 | Short Course Immune Induction Therapy or SCIIT, is a therapeutic strategy employing rapid, specific, short term-modulation of the immune system using a therapeutic agent to induce T-cell non-responsiveness, also known as operational tolerance. As an alternative strategy to immunosuppression and antigen-specific toleran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28353188 | 2,169,628 |
2,102,377 | The mission of ISDE is to contribute to the design and analysis of radiation-hardened electronics, the development of test methods and plans for assuring radiation hardness, and the development of solutions to system-specific problems related to radiation effects. ISDE was launched with initial support from the US Navy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23369161 | 2,101,165 |
1,600,079 | The Electronics Technicians Association, International (doing business as ETA International) is a US-based not-for-profit 501(c)(6) trade association founded in 1978. The association provides certifications in industries such as basic electronics, fiber optics and data cabling, renewable energy, information technology,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4459250 | 1,599,178 |
1,189,752 | Brine concentration using forward osmosis may be achieved using a high osmotic pressure draw solution with a means to recover and regenerate it. One such process uses the ammonia-carbon dioxide (NH/CO) forward osmosis process invented at Yale University by Rob McGinnis, who subsequently founded Oasys Water to commercia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=855056 | 1,189,120 |
602,010 | Since 1973, Canada has had a national body representing cooperative education and work integrated learning. This national body used to be called CAFCE (Canadian Association for Co-op Education) and was renamed CEWIL Canada (Cooperative Education and Work Integrated Learning Canada) in 2017. This organization has repres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=445944 | 601,701 |
1,764,486 | The next attack, one that would later be described as "audacious" and "brave", came from Christian Pfannberger (Austria), who went free of the main field toward the end of the sixth lap. His maximum advantage never grew to more than a minute, but he did stay away until well into the seventh and final lap, being caught ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18664179 | 1,763,493 |
67,784 | North Korea acceded to the treaty on 12 December 1985 in order to obtain assistance from the Soviet Union in the construction of four light-water reactors, but was ruled be in noncompliance with its IAEA safeguards agreement after a series of inspections in 1992-93 which determined that North Korean had not fully decla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22107 | 67,758 |
1,614,347 | As a result of underlying heart disease, this cardiac conductive tissue can become damaged from ischemia (a deprivation of oxygenated blood). This damage results in the inability of this neural-like tissue to conduct electrical signals and control the heart as efficiently as before, resulting in the cardiac abnormality... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38977528 | 1,613,441 |
1,871,710 | CIVICUS is a two-year living and learning undergraduate program in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, which links academic coursework together with participation in internships and community service to provide an experience of civil service engagement for participants (known as CIVICUS Associates). CIVICUS ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27704981 | 1,870,633 |
80,087 | Humans have hunted seals since the Stone Age. Originally, seals were hit with clubs during haul-out. Eventually, seal hunters used harpoons to spear the animals from boats out at sea, and hooks for killing pups on ice or land. They were also trapped in nets. The use of firearms in seal hunting during the modern era dra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60261 | 80,054 |
5,626 | In eight years of work on barnacles, Darwin's theory helped him to find "homologies" showing that slightly changed body parts served different functions to meet new conditions, and in some genera he found minute males parasitic on hermaphrodites, showing an intermediate stage in evolution of distinct sexes. In 1853, it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8145410 | 5,623 |
1,905,590 | In 1911, he married Marion Ethel Young at Bristol, and in the same year, he was appointed professor of botany at the University of Leeds. He served in the British Army during World War I, receiving a commission as a captain. In August 1914, he was sent to France with the British Expeditionary Force, and for the remaind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69233525 | 1,904,495 |
462,911 | Autosomal genetic analyses found that the Sámi people cluster together with other Europeans, but also carry a significant amount of genome originating from an Siberian source population, best represented by the Khanty people. The specific Siberian like ancestry is proposed to have arrived to Northeast Europe during the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8951090 | 462,682 |
347,424 | In North America, the highly competitive Bachelor of Arts International Honours program, run in conjunction with The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, allows students studying Classical Studies, Film Studies, International Relations, English, History, or Economics to spend two years at each institu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181348 | 347,243 |
1,605,401 | Many professional societies exist for weed scientists to publish research findings and support future research. The Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) is a non-profit professional society that hosts annual conferences and regional conferences in the United States as well as provides guidance on the use of herbicide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53497560 | 1,604,497 |
721,100 | Some rebreather diving safety issues can be addressed by training, others may require a change in technical diver safety culture. A major safety issue is that many divers become complacent as they become more familiar with the equipment, and begin to neglect predive checklists while assembling and preparing the equipme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39194607 | 720,720 |
488,915 | The use of investigative genetic genealogy has been central in numerous high-profile cases, namely in the identification and ultimate arrest of Joseph DeAngelo, the Golden State Killer. Despite its apparent success, the growing use of genetic genealogy databases by law enforcement agencies has not avoided serious scrut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54349569 | 488,664 |
183,411 | Lithium polymer (LiPo), a type of lithium-ion batteries (LIB), have long been applied in unmanned flight for their light weight and rechargeability. However, their energy density limits their application mostly to being drone batteries. Increasing maximum time of flight by simply designing larger aircraft using larger ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6358896 | 183,314 |
1,877,342 | The conservation status of several species in this genus is listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as "vulnerable". Like other corals, the main threats they face are climate change and ocean acidification. Rising sea water temperatures causes stress to the corals resulting in bleaching events and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46446303 | 1,876,264 |
1,576,891 | In 1899, Edgar Stanton donated the carillon's first ten bells in memory of his late wife. Each of the original bells is inscribed with a different quotation selected by Edgar Stanton. After Edgar died in 1920, the bulk of his estate was given to the university. In 1929, a portion of this money was used to purchase an a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12045569 | 1,576,002 |
2,098,453 | The main goals of the program are the following: (1) to develop an equip aqua laboratory where threatened and endangered native or endemic freshwater fishes can be provided with safe refuge until such time that adequate and protected natural habitat can be established; (2) to establish a self-sustaining captive breedin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21745622 | 2,097,245 |
579,624 | It is possible to produce a humanized antibody without creating a chimeric intermediate. "Direct" creation of a humanized antibody can be accomplished by inserting the appropriate CDR coding segments (so-called 'donor', responsible for the desired binding properties) into a human antibody "scaffold" (so-called 'accepto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4414916 | 579,327 |
1,282,962 | One of the simplest ways to motivate the formula is by assuming the next item will behave similarly to the previous item. The overall idea of the estimator is that currently we are seeing never-seen items at a certain frequency, seen-once items at a certain frequency, seen-twice items at a certain frequency, and so on.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6997954 | 1,282,266 |
87,091 | Vitaly Petrov was out-qualified and out-raced by Robert Kubica at almost every race. However, Petrov did find considerable form at the when he out-qualified Kubica for the first time and finished the race 5th. However, in Belgium, Petrov made a mistake that ended with a crash in the first session of qualifying when he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240378 | 87,056 |
2,195,647 | In August 1939 at a meeting in Canberra with Prime Minister R G Menzies , David Rivett, JPVM, D F Martyn & senior Defence Staff, approval was given to build a Radiophysics Laboratory (RPL) in the Sydney University grounds as an extension of the NSL building then under construction so as to not draw attention to the nat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52676648 | 2,194,396 |
1,102,409 | The experiment ran for one year from 1 August 1975 to 31 July 1976, covering more than 2400 villages in 20 districts of six Indian states and territories (Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan). The television programs were produced by All India Radio and broadcast by NASA's ATS-6 satellit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8248653 | 1,101,848 |
690,377 | First created in 1820, the "United States Pharmacopeia" (USP) established, and has delineated since that date, the standards for manufacturing drugs across America. For the first decade, it was written by medical practitioners. However, according to the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, "at the 1830 [... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=284987 | 690,014 |
355,735 | Substantial ultrasonic intensity and high ultrasonic vibration amplitudes are required for many processing applications, such as nano-crystallization, nano-emulsification, deagglomeration, extraction, cell disruption, as well as many others. Commonly, a process is first tested on a laboratory scale to prove feasibility... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31780 | 355,552 |
1,390,354 | NML also has Containment Level 3 (CL3) laboratories (8.6% of lab space). Risk Group 3 pathogens may be transmitted by the airborne route, often need only a low infectious dose to produce effects, and can cause serious or life-threatening disease. CL3 emphasizes additional primary and secondary barriers to minimize the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1772649 | 1,389,583 |
1,990,041 | Microdispensing was used to create micropatterns on polystyrene culture dishes by dispensing droplets of adhesive laminin and non-adhesive bovine serum albumin (BSA) solutions. The microdispenser is a piezoelectric element attached to a push-bar on top of a channel etched in silicon, which has one inlet at each end and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11088829 | 1,988,898 |
1,756,332 | The structure of KcsA is that of an inverted cone, with a central pore running down the center made up of two transmembrane helices (the outer-helix M1 and the inner-helix M2), which span the lipid bilayer. The channel itself is a tetramer composed of four identical, single-domain subunits (each with two α-helices) arr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36080526 | 1,755,341 |
565,268 | Biogas which is mainly methane/natural gas can also be used for generating protein-rich cattle, poultry and fish feed in villages economically by cultivating Methylococcus capsulatus bacteria culture with tiny land and water foot print. The carbon dioxide gas produced as by product from these plants can be put to use i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14048996 | 564,978 |
719,081 | Sir Francis Galton is typically credited as the founder of differential psychology, which seeks to determine and explain the mental differences between individuals. He was the first to use rigorous RT tests with the express intention of determining averages and ranges of individual differences in mental and behavioral ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4778196 | 718,701 |
1,642,470 | In Fig. 3, some typical time-courses of visual masking effects are shown as a function of the prime-target SOA, in a response-priming experiment where the target itself serves as a masking stimulus (Fig. 1a, c). Here, the measure of prime visibility could be the discrimination performance of a participant trying to gue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30601657 | 1,641,543 |
402,616 | Bertrand's Model can be used to explain oligopoly. Bertrand's Model thinks competition as two firms compete in the market, such as firm one and your competitors(=the rest of the market as another firm). The model assumes that firms are selling homogeneous products and therefore have the same marginal production costs, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22204 | 402,416 |
80,030 | The German naturalist Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger was the first to recognize the pinnipeds as a distinct taxonomic unit; in 1811 he gave the name Pinnipedia to both a family and an order. American zoologist Joel Asaph Allen reviewed the world's pinnipeds in an 1880 monograph, "History of North American pinnipeds, a mon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60261 | 79,997 |
1,778,381 | He describes it, near the Big Falls, about one hundred yards from the top of the mountain at Loup Creek, "When I first saw it, fifty-eight years ago, it was in a much better state of preservation than it now is. At that time a large portion of it was standing fully six or seven feet high, and was well built. Its thickn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17254851 | 1,777,379 |
1,618,337 | General systems of non-linear differential equations can have many complicated behaviors that can depend on the choice of the non-linearities and the initial conditions. For Hopfield networks, however, this is not the case - the dynamical trajectories always converge to a fixed point attractor state. This property is a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68440670 | 1,617,424 |
1,020,554 | General systems of non-linear differential equations can have many complicated behaviors that can depend on the choice of the non-linearities and the initial conditions. For Hopfield Networks, however, this is not the case - the dynamical trajectories always converge to a fixed point attractor state. This property is a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1170097 | 1,020,027 |
45,329 | Development cost overruns placed the Global Hawk at risk of cancellation. In mid-2006, per-unit costs were 25% over baseline estimates, caused by both the need to correct design deficiencies as well as to increase its capabilities. This caused concern over a possible congressional termination of the program if its nati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37375 | 45,312 |
1,930,331 | Specifically, QCRI’s customers include the petroleum industry, the telecommunications industry, the healthcare industry, and the media industry. The petroleum industry needs advanced computer modeling to assist in the extraction and movement of petroleum products. The telecommunications and datacenter industries need t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33230341 | 1,929,224 |
1,906,527 | As with most left-eye flounders they can change the color and pattern of their dark side to match the surrounding bottom, and are also capable of rapidly burrowing into muddy or sandy bottoms. The back, which may vary in overall color from light brown to dark gray, is marked with four large and quite conspicuous black ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23517236 | 1,905,431 |
403,852 | Georg Cantor, born in 1845 in the western merchant colony of Saint Petersburg, Russia, was brought up in that city until the age of eleven. The oldest of six children, he was regarded as an outstanding violinist. His grandfather Franz Böhm (1788–1846) (the violinist Joseph Böhm's brother) was a well-known musician and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12216 | 403,652 |
339,969 | The largest currently-functioning trebuchet in the world is the 22-tonne machine at Warwick Castle, England, constructed in 2005. Based on historical designs, it stands tall and throws missiles typically 36 kg (80 lbs) up to . The trebuchet gained significant interest from numerous news sources when in 2015 a burning m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43380 | 339,788 |
337,088 | Dyson was one of the most prominent UK business leaders to publicly support Brexit before the referendum in June 2016. Since the referendum, Dyson has stated that Britain should leave the EU Single Market and that this would "liberate" the economy and allow Britain to strike its own trade deals around the world. During... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=369661 | 336,909 |
1,507,260 | After the publication of the first volume of "Experiments and Observations", Priestley undertook another set of experiments. In August 1774 he isolated an "air" that appeared to be completely new, but he did not have an opportunity to pursue the matter because he was about to tour Europe with Shelburne. While in Paris,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13414217 | 1,506,414 |
603,134 | While the "pug" mutation deals with the pre-maturation of chondrocytes, multiple other mutations alter chondrocyte proliferation. One such example, the point mutation G380R located on the fibroblast growth factor receptor 3(FGFR-3) gene leads to achondroplasia, a type of dwarfism. Achondroplasia is either caused throug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1309267 | 602,824 |
1,085,929 | Google began testing FLoC in the Chrome 89 released in March 2021 as a replacement for third-party cookies, which Google plans to stop supporting in Chrome by mid-2023. (Initially Google announced plans to remove third-party cookies by late 2021, then postponed it to early 2022, and then to 2023 due to delay of FLoC te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67355175 | 1,085,371 |
925,088 | Administration of lactoferrin through drinking water to mice with weakened immune systems and symptoms of aphthous ulcer reduced the number of "Candida albicans" strains in the mouth and the size of the damaged areas in the tongue. Oral administration of lactoferrin to animals also reduced the number of pathogenic orga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=658700 | 924,602 |
383,163 | An ER (extended range) variant of the Barak 8 is under development, which will see the missiles maximum range increased to 150 km. Designed to engage multiple beyond visual range threats, the low launch signature Barak-8ER is understood to retain the same autopilot/inertial navigation system and active radar seeker gui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34496251 | 382,968 |
2,230,518 | In 1877, Lister turned his attention to driftsand reclamation at Bellville near Cape Town, where sand was threatening both the road and railway line to the north. He arranged for the town refuse to be spread over the dunes and then planted "Acacia cyclops" and "Acacia cyanophylla" between - this stopped movement of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38665197 | 2,229,252 |
1,237,609 | The Space Systems Division provided close support to NASA's Project Mercury, providing three of the Mercury Seven astronauts, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 5 and Launch Complex 14, RM-90 Blue Scout II and Atlas LV-3B launch vehicles, and United States Air Force Pararescue recovery forces. The Space Sy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66185637 | 1,236,944 |
1,587,299 | The steps to convert the sample to the appropriate form for testing can be long and complex. To create lamp black, Libby began with acid washes if necessary to remove carbonate, and then converted the carbon in the sample to by either combustion (for organic samples) or the addition of hydrochloric acid (for shell mate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43194778 | 1,586,405 |
1,043,118 | Soon after two-dimensional electron gases (2DEG) had become commonly available for experiments, research groups attempted to create structures that could be called 2D artificial crystals. The idea is to subject the electrons confined to an interface between two semiconductors (i.e. along "z"-direction) to an additional... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1381368 | 1,042,574 |
1,280,877 | The algorithm involves computing values at internal nodes as an intermediate step, but they are generally not used for inferences by themselves. An exception occurs for the basal (root) node, which can be interpreted as an estimate of the ancestral value for the entire tree (assuming that no directional evolutionary tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9738540 | 1,280,182 |
1,969,255 | As the sport flourished during the 1930s, the council reviewed its constitution in 1937, opening membership to all clubs and changing its name to the Road Time Trials Council, RTTC. Its first recorded meeting was at the Devereau hotel in The Strand, London, on 16 November 1937. The first committee was Maurice Draisey (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2218102 | 1,968,121 |
1,338,156 | Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness characterized by a range of behaviors, including hallucinations and delusions. Hallucinations refer to disorders involving the sensory systems, and are most often manifested as seeing or hearing things (e.g., voices) that do not exist. Delusions include odd or unusual beliefs su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36338215 | 1,337,425 |
1,424,600 | Toll-like receptor 9 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the "TLR9" gene. TLR9 has also been designated as CD289 (cluster of differentiation 289). It is a member of the toll-like receptor (TLR) family. TLR9 is an important receptor expressed in immune system cells including dendritic cells, macrophages, natural k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13977381 | 1,423,798 |
116,307 | In 1996, Microsoft released Direct3D, which eventually became the main competitor of OpenGL. Over 50 game developers signed an open letter to Microsoft, released on June 12, 1997, calling on the company to actively support OpenGL. On December 17, 1997, Microsoft and SGI initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22497 | 116,262 |
895,315 | On 15 May 2015 it was announced that 2015 would be XH558's last flying season, due to the fact the three companies assisting the project with technical expertise (BAE Systems, Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group and Rolls-Royce) were unwilling to support the aircraft beyond that, meaning it would no longer have the ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17183511 | 894,844 |
1,814,611 | When rare hybrids backcross with parent species, alleles coding for traits that are beneficial for both parental species can be transferred across species boundaries, even if parent species remain distinct taxa. This process is referred to as adaptive introgression (a somewhat misleading term because backcrossing itsel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62451338 | 1,813,577 |
307,431 | The first practical vapour-compression refrigeration system was built by James Harrison, a British journalist who had emigrated to Australia. His 1856 patent was for a vapour-compression system using ether, alcohol, or ammonia. He built a mechanical ice-making machine in 1851 on the banks of the Barwon River at Rocky P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46238 | 307,267 |
2,085,977 | Mousavi also writes that, although the book covers a broad selection of topics, it "suffers from lack of necessary depth" and that it is confusingly structured. Sang-Il Lee points to a lack of depth as the book's principal weakness. Stein notes that its reliance on a specific version of ArcGIS makes it difficult to rep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68356929 | 2,084,775 |
2,054,472 | The Archive, which is based in the cellars contains documents and pictures of all kinds relating to Highgate, its environs and its residents since the early seventeenth century. It houses the HLSI's own archive of its activities dating back to its foundation in 1839, as well as material relating to several well-known l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66305584 | 2,053,289 |
19,133 | The F-117 was secret for much of the 1980s. Many news articles discussed what they called a "F-19" stealth fighter, and the Testor Corporation produced a very inaccurate scale model. When an F-117 crashed in Sequoia National Forest in July 1986, killing the pilot and starting a fire, the Air Force established restricte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11720 | 19,125 |
1,829,408 | More recently, Gill was the president of the American Ornithologists' Union from 1998 to 2000. Besides his acclaimed textbook, Gill's published works include over 150 scientific and popular articles. His worldwide research programs included field studies of island birds, hybridization by blue-winged and golden-winged w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8058619 | 1,828,367 |
133,409 | The L67 is the supercharged version of the 3800 Series II L36 and appeared in 1996, one year after the normally aspirated version. It uses the Eaton Generation III M90 supercharger with a pulley, a larger throttle body, and different fuel injectors, different cylinder heads, as well as different lower intake manifold a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=895662 | 133,356 |
380,602 | First-generation DRAM ICs (those with capacities of 1 Kbit), of which the first was the Intel 1103, used a three-transistor, one-capacitor (3T1C) DRAM cell. By the second-generation, the requirement to increase density by fitting more bits in a given area, or the requirement to reduce cost by fitting the same amount of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=74567 | 380,407 |
1,503,771 | TAK1 is an evolutionarily conserved kinase in the MAP3 K family and clusters with the tyrosine-like and sterile kinase families. The protein structure of TAK1 contains an N (residues 1–104)- and C (residues 111–303)-terminus connected through the hinge region (Met 104-Ser 111). The ATP binding pocket is located in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14117845 | 1,502,925 |
1,600,371 | Meanwhile, the accelerated delivery and anticipated performance improvements of Intel's upcoming Pentium processor, combined with more competitive pricing, made the "20 to 30 percent premium" of MIPS-based systems less attractive to vendors such as Compaq and their customers. Although ACE originally supported the x86 a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=924635 | 1,599,470 |
2,191,276 | GSW has maintained a single meeting time, location and format throughout its entire history. Meetings are held at 8:00 pm on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month, except during warm-weather months when most geological field work would normally be done. Almost all meetings have been held at the Cosmos Club in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21426089 | 2,190,027 |
1,689,032 | Fish are exposed to large oxygen fluctuations in their aquatic environment since the inherent properties of water can result in marked spatial and temporal differences in the concentration of oxygen (see oxygenation and underwater). Fish respond to hypoxia with varied behavioral, physiological, and cellular responses t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33949413 | 1,688,086 |
1,481,217 | In our modern society, computerized or digital control systems have been used to reliably automate many of the industrial operations that we take for granted, from the power plant to the automobiles we drive. However, the complexity of these systems and how the designers integrate them, the roles and responsibilities o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22982978 | 1,480,383 |
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