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1,689,294 | The scientific origins of MBPM lie in academic literature on pain and the medical benefits of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs). In particular, MBPM grows out of new scientific understandings of pain that developed in the second half of the 20th century, which showed the complexity of the experience of pain and "t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64032094 | 1,688,348 |
261,376 | The Green Granite prototype, known as Short Granite, was tested in the first of the Operation Grapple test series, Grapple 1. The bomb was dropped from a height of by a Vickers Valiant piloted by Wing Commander Kenneth Hubbard, off the shore of Malden Island in the Pacific on 15 May 1957. It was Britain's second airdro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2095669 | 261,237 |
1,373,975 | Many different methods exist for measuring ESCR. However, the long testing time and high costs associated with these methods slow down the R&D activities for designing materials with higher resistance to stress cracking. To overcome these challenges, a new simpler and faster method was developed by SABIC to assess ESCR... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17075935 | 1,373,217 |
30,461 | Cognitive dissonance may also occur when people seek to explain or justify their beliefs, often without questioning the validity of their claims: After the earthquake of 1934, Bihar, India, irrational rumors based upon fear quickly reached the adjoining communities unaffected by the disaster because those people, altho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=169305 | 30,451 |
288,906 | Astra Mk-1 went through a series of ground tests from 2003 till 2012 in three different configurations to validate the airframe, propulsion system, control system, dual mode guidance and night firing capability. Carriage trials were carried out in 2009 and 2013 on Sukhoi Su-30MKI. In May 2014, it was fired for the firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1767887 | 288,749 |
1,324,284 | Some commercial search engines use OAI-PMH to acquire more resources. Google initially included support for OAI-PMH when launching sitemaps, however decided to support only the standard XML Sitemaps format in May 2008. In 2004, Yahoo! acquired content from OAIster (University of Michigan) that was obtained through meta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=905790 | 1,323,558 |
740,978 | Bicalutamide monotherapy seems to have minimal effect on testicular spermatogenesis, testicular ultrastructure, and certain aspects of male fertility. This seems to be because testosterone levels in the testes (where ≈95% of testosterone in males is produced) are extremely high (up to 200-fold higher than circulating l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1269496 | 740,586 |
1,385,214 | TIM barrel proteins possess an unusually high sequence plasticity, forming large families of orthologous and paralogous enzymes in widely divergent organisms. This plasticity suggests a sequence landscape that allows for protein adaptation to a variety of environmental conditions, largely independent of phylogenetic hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5208618 | 1,384,447 |
208,428 | The 509th's Scout Company was the first specialized Pathfinder group. In the U.S. Army, it started the training and experimentation necessary to develop the concept at Oujda. With fragments of practical knowledge from the British Airborne, company commander Captain Howland and his XO 1st Lt. Fred E. Perry worked hard t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17549821 | 208,321 |
2,108,181 | During the war period Birch constructed a marine engine for a Blenheim farmer, Thomas Davies, and garage owner, Edward Parker. Construction proved more difficult and expensive than originally assessed by Birch and resulted in litigation. In June 1918 Birch was ordered to pass the motor to Davies but either refused or c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32915915 | 2,106,967 |
864,899 | Although it is frequently labeled as a psychostimulant, bromantane is distinct in its pharmacology and effects relative to typical psychostimulants, such as the phenethylamines (e.g., amphetamine and its derivatives) and their structural analogues (e.g., methylphenidate, cocaine, mesocarb, etc.). Whereas the latter dir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21801602 | 864,439 |
1,844,040 | In addition to the sessions devoted to reports on the problem areas that had been assigned at Prague, the participants heard four invited lectures: by M. Françon (France); T. Smith (Great Britain); D.B. Judd (USA); and A.C.S. van Heel (Netherlands). On the first day of the meeting Prof van Heel hosted a reception at hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1495629 | 1,842,986 |
235,383 | Of the 45 students in the university's first cohort in 1908, seven were women. These original seven formed a type of sorority, called Seven Independent Spinsters, or S.I.S., with the intention of supporting the women's social and academic needs. In 1909, the group changed its name to the Wuaneita Club, and then to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242057 | 235,264 |
288,403 | In the infant, many fibrous components were seen to extend from the macula flava towards the Reinke's space. Fibronectin is very abundant in the Reinke's space of newborn and infant. Fibronectin is a glycoprotein that is believed to act as a template for the oriented deposition of the collagen fibers, stabilizing the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32807 | 288,247 |
220,812 | Some molecules or particles are too large or too hydrophilic to pass through a lipid bilayer. Other molecules could pass through the bilayer but must be transported rapidly in such large numbers that channel-type transport is impractical. In both cases, these types of cargo can be moved across the cell membrane through... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=158011 | 220,703 |
798,649 | Lucas experienced cash flow issues after his 1983 divorce, and in 1986 Pixar was spun off from Lucasfilm as a separate corporation with $10 million in capital from Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs. At that time, Pixar primarily developed computer animation hardware, but Lasseter helped the company make a name for i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=141959 | 798,224 |
49,336 | Glenn attended New Concord High School, where he played on the varsity football team as a center and linebacker. He also made the varsity basketball and tennis teams, and was involved with Hi-Y, a junior branch of the YMCA. After graduating in 1939, Glenn entered Muskingum College (now Muskingum University), where he s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58702 | 49,316 |
1,260,236 | Although the mechanisms of community and ecosystem perspectives are different, the empirical evidence required for documentation of alternative stable states is the same. In addition, state shifts are often a combination of internal processes and external forces (Scheffer et al. 2001). For example, consider a stream-fe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23737622 | 1,259,549 |
1,582,195 | The polyps spread their tentacles to feed, gathering plankton and other food particles from the water passing by. The colony grows by budding, and in favourable conditions, the clump can grow at the rate of one new polyp every three days. In colder conditions it may stop growing and the coenosarc (soft tissues) may die... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45341915 | 1,581,305 |
738,559 | The notion of a weak form of a disease causing immunity to the virulent version was not new; this had been known for a long time for smallpox. Inoculation with smallpox (variolation) was known to result in far less scarring, and greatly reduced mortality, in comparison with the naturally acquired disease. The English p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3330375 | 738,168 |
501,038 | Citalopram has the second most selectivity for SERT, no effects on NE or DA re-uptake and nor does it have affinity to other neuroreceptors. Citalopram is composed of two enantiomers, ("R")- and ("S")-, which are mirror images of each other (figure 7). Researches has shown that nearly all the activity resides in the ("... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44152139 | 500,781 |
189,225 | There is strong year-to-year (interannual) variability in MJO activity, with long periods of strong activity followed by periods in which the oscillation is weak or absent. This interannual variability of the MJO is partly linked to the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle. In the Pacific, strong MJO activity is o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=317311 | 189,128 |
169,842 | Bacteriophages have played and continue to play a key role in bacterial genetics and molecular biology. Historically, they were used to define gene structure and gene regulation. Also the first genome to be sequenced was a bacteriophage. However, bacteriophage research did not lead the genomics revolution, which is cle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55170 | 169,752 |
242,400 | Janaki, after much elapsed time, wonders why she has not heard from Ramanujan and eventually discovers that his mother has been intercepting his letters, and withholding hers to him. Hardy makes special efforts to get Ramanujan's now recognizably exceptional mathematical skills accepted by the university, by nominating... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43330547 | 242,273 |
47,943 | Mobile lidar (also "mobile laser scanning") is when two or more scanners are attached to a moving vehicle to collect data along a path. These scanners are almost always paired with other kinds of equipment, including GNSS receivers and IMUs. One example application is surveying streets, where power lines, exact bridge ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41958 | 47,923 |
2,222,111 | The apparent success led to plans for a much larger follow-on reactor known as ZETA II. The goal of ZETA had been to generate low levels of fusion reactions, the goal for ZETA II was to produce so many reactions that the energy they released would be greater than the energy fed into the system, a condition known as "br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52954530 | 2,220,849 |
1,695,734 | In 1997, Meyer Sound Laboratories produced the SB-1, a parabolic reflector loudspeaker intended for public address and as a supplement to conventional horn-loaded sound reinforcement systems, for "spotlight" long-throw applications. Its frequency response was 500–15,000 Hz; the region below 500 Hz was to be covered by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23982693 | 1,694,782 |
1,212,504 | Interest in subsurface life was renewed when the United States Department of Energy was looking for a safe way of burying nuclear waste, and Frank J. Wobber realized that microbes below the surface could either help by degrading the buried waste or hinder by breaching the sealed containers. He formed the Subsurface Sci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61218171 | 1,211,852 |
1,487,253 | If we set formula_6, then Lagrange's four-square theorem can be restated as formula_7. (Here the symbol formula_8 denotes the sumset of formula_9 and formula_10.) It is clear that formula_11. In fact, we still have formula_12, and one might ask at what point the sumset attains Schnirelmann density 1 and how does it inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=343156 | 1,486,415 |
2,046,211 | To use physical habitat models to analyze and predict ecosystem potential, compositions must also be determined of the native fish community and a subset of species must be selected for model development. The development of a Reference Fish Community (RFC) is based on the Target Fish Community approach, described by Ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20154847 | 2,045,030 |
1,811,737 | Upon taking office in 2001, the BC Liberal government initiated a "Core Services Review" designed to identify savings in support of a 10% cut in government expenditures. Almost immediately, incoming Advanced Education Minister Shirley Bond initiated a review of TechBC's future. While TechBC prepared a series of busines... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3132800 | 1,810,704 |
243,608 | In 2012, the first source of naturally occurring fluorine gas was found in fluorite mines in Bavaria, Germany. It was previously thought that fluorine gas did not occur naturally because it is so reactive, and would rapidly react with other chemicals. Fluorite is normally colorless, but some varied forms found nearby l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43589 | 243,481 |
983,113 | The use of various forms of subsidies has often been accepted as a solution to technological unemployment even by conservatives and by those who are optimistic about the long-term effect on jobs. Welfare programmes have historically tended to be more durable once established, compared with other solutions to unemployme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32040137 | 982,599 |
1,916,937 | The principles of lean manufacturing have been difficult at times to migrate to laboratories because they are quite different from manufacturing environments. In the hospital laboratory, for example, difficulties arise with the "staunch adherence to traditional laboratory practices, complexity of workflow, and marked v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16020608 | 1,915,838 |
492,673 | The transient climate response (TCR) is defined as "is the change in the global mean surface temperature, averaged over a 20-year period, centered at the time of atmospheric carbon dioxide doubling, in a climate model simulation" in which the atmospheric concentration increases at 1% per year. That estimate is generate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1765281 | 492,418 |
717,187 | Ionotropic glutamate receptors, by definition, are ligand-gated nonselective cation channels that allow the flow of K, Na and sometimes Ca in response to glutamate binding. (In "C. elegans" and "Drosophila", invertebrate-specific subunits enable the flow of negative chloride ions rather than cations.) Upon binding, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2860161 | 716,810 |
832,710 | Research directions to detect and remove misaligned emergent goals include red teaming, verification, anomaly detection, and interpretability. Progress on these techniques may help reduce two open problems. Firstly, emergent goals only become apparent when the system is deployed outside its training environment, but it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50785023 | 832,261 |
1,526,663 | Paleontology in Ohio refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Ohio. Ohio is well known for having a great quantity and diversity of fossils preserved in its rocks. The state's fossil record begins early in the Paleozoic era, during the Cambrian period. Ohio was g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37798918 | 1,525,799 |
684,067 | After the 16th century, the colonial period saw the influx of genetic influence from other populations. This is evidenced by the presence of a small percentage of the Y-DNA Haplogroup R1b present among the population of the Philippines. DNA studies vary as to how small these lineages are. A year 2001 study conducted by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57098667 | 683,710 |
2,141,677 | On 28 September 2015 NASA confirmed the seasonal existence of liquid water in Hale crater. The salts in the water (magnesium perchlorate, magnesium chlorate, sodium perchlorate...) lower its freezing and melting point to 203 K (−70 °C or −94 °F), which is near the average summer night temperature. Hale was created by a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14284299 | 2,140,446 |
2,031,027 | The 1 SPCS tracked and compiled positional data on thousands of man-made objects in space partly to prevent collisions between newly launched satellites and other objects already orbiting the earth. Additionally, the unit had the mission to task 30 space sensors within Space Surveillance Network to track satellites for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13308843 | 2,029,859 |
1,860,162 | Most diferulic acids are not commercially available and must be synthesised in lab. Synthetic routes have been published, but it is often simpler to extract them from plant material. They can be extracted from plant cell walls (often maize bran) by concentrated solutions of alkali, the resulting solution is then acidif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11537084 | 1,859,094 |
980,807 | Between 1980 and 2000, weather radar networks became the norm in North America, Europe, Japan and other developed countries. Conventional radars were replaced by Doppler radars, which in addition to position and intensity of could track the relative velocity of the particles in the air. In the United States, the constr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1280053 | 980,295 |
1,369,387 | Relatively high diversity levels are still observed despite the use of enrichment steps when working from environmental samples, likely due to the high functional redundancy observed in environmental microbial communities, being a key asset of their functional stability. This intrinsic diversity may stand as a bottlene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28164829 | 1,368,631 |
1,562,316 | There are several available options for enhancing heat transfer. The enhancement can be achieved by increasing the surface area for convection or/and increasing the convection coefficient. For example, the surface roughness can be used to increase formula_20 in order to enhance turbulence. This can be achieved through ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47641959 | 1,561,429 |
716,872 | A number of different versions of the basic CPU, known as the 6503 through 6507, were offered in 28-pin packages for lower cost. The various models removed signal or address pins. Far and away the most popular of these was the 6507, which was used in the Atari 2600 and Atari disk drives. The 6504 was sometimes used in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20703 | 716,495 |
657,542 | A commonly used computational method for a correlated subquery is to unnest it into an equivalent flat query. The algorithm development in this direction has an advantage of low complexity. Because this is a customized approach, existing database systems cannot unrest arbitrary correlated subqueries by following certai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20389371 | 657,198 |
1,350,083 | The was a group of three escort carriers used by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. Two of the ships were built as cargo liners in the late 1930s and subsequently taken over by the IJN and converted into escort carriers, while the third ship was converted while still under construction. The first shi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9275519 | 1,349,337 |
1,610,827 | The revelation that all mass-action law based dose-effect curves can be transformed into straight lines with the median-effect plot leads to the theory that the theoretical minimum of two data points are required to define the entire dose-effect curve. In conjunction with the median-effect principle of the mass-action ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40586690 | 1,609,922 |
1,995,621 | Norway sent a strong contingent with four jumpers able to win the event, including reigning Olympic and world champion Jacob Tullin Thams. Andersen had won all eight Norwegian qualification events. World record holder Nels Nelsen from Canada was not permitted to participate due to financial problems. Japan participated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5422780 | 1,994,478 |
1,464,665 | There is an argument that the underlying issues would be better addressed as a spectrum of conditions or as individual dimensions along which everyone varies rather than by a diagnostic category based on an arbitrary cut-off between normal and ill. This approach appears consistent with research on schizotypy, and with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30487688 | 1,463,842 |
1,536,066 | New advancements in biotechnological experimental methods such as the use of Bessel beam plane illumination microscopy and FRET-based sensor molecules can better demonstrate dynamic structures of gap junction plaques. For these experiments, different types of AB5 toxins can be used to induce the fast formation of tCDR ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9642130 | 1,535,198 |
308,139 | In the early-to-mid-1960s, Pete Townshend and John Entwistle of The Who were responsible for the creation and widespread use of stacked Marshall cabinets. Townshend later remarked that Entwistle started using Marshall Stacks to hear himself over Keith Moon's drums and Townshend himself also had to use them just to be h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1423388 | 307,974 |
38,804 | Five nitrogen fluorides are known. Nitrogen trifluoride (NF, first prepared in 1928) is a colourless and odourless gas that is thermodynamically stable, and most readily produced by the electrolysis of molten ammonium fluoride dissolved in anhydrous hydrogen fluoride. Like carbon tetrafluoride, it is not at all reactiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21175 | 38,790 |
2,021,875 | Five nitrogen fluorides are known. Nitrogen trifluoride (NF, first prepared in 1928) is a colourless and odourless gas that is thermodynamically stable, and most readily produced by the electrolysis of molten ammonium fluoride dissolved in anhydrous hydrogen fluoride. Like carbon tetrafluoride, it is not at all reactiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5704794 | 2,020,712 |
1,635,698 | On 1 September 1896, the railway administration cancelled the contract with the British company since it did not carry out the construction work in accordance with the contract. The work was now continued on its own initiative. At the same time "Nakhon Ratchasima Railway Company" was nationalized and converted into a S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54541400 | 1,634,775 |
216,107 | Measurement of distance is accomplished with a modulated infrared carrier signal, generated by a small solid-state emitter within the instrument's optical path, and reflected by a prism reflector or the object under survey. The modulation pattern in the returning signal is read and interpreted by the computer in the to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=683327 | 215,999 |
210,465 | In contrast to solar XUV radiation, magnetospheric disturbances, indicated on the ground by geomagnetic variations, show an unpredictable impulsive character, from short periodic disturbances of the order of hours to long-standing giant storms of several days' duration. The reaction of the thermosphere to a large magne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47463 | 210,358 |
150,642 | The conversion efficiency of energy from respiration into muscular (physical) power depends on the type of food and on the type of physical energy usage (e.g., which muscles are used, whether the muscle is used aerobically or anaerobically). In general, the efficiency of muscles is rather low: only 18 to 26% of the ene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182303 | 150,574 |
1,925,780 | MDA is realized in practice through the research strategy of nexus analysis which is suitable for studying complex, evolving processes in order to shed light on social action not only in situ but also as reaching across long-span timescales. Nexus analysis is used also in fields other than linguistic studies. Examples ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26410694 | 1,924,676 |
1,039,744 | Crutzen was also a leader in promoting the theory of nuclear winter. Together with John W. Birks he wrote the first publication introducing the subject: "The atmosphere after a nuclear war: Twilight at noon" (1982). They theorized the potential climatic effects of the large amounts of sooty smoke from fires in the fore... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1077414 | 1,039,203 |
2,112,959 | There is growing evidence describing how oceanic phytoplankton affect cloud albedo and climate through the biogeochemical cycle of sulfur, as originally proposed in the late 1980s. The CLAW hypothesis conceptualizes and tries to quantify the mechanisms by which phytoplankton can alter global cloud cover and provide pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62264747 | 2,111,744 |
1,851,117 | The parallel-plate flow chamber is a widely used piece of equipment for studying cellular mechanics on the benchtop. Many researchers used parallel-plate flow chambers to investigate the dynamic adhesion between leukocytes (white blood cells) and endothelial cells (blood vessel lining cells) under definite shear stress... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31395020 | 1,850,056 |
1,040,072 | The MMC5 is Nintendo's most advanced MMC. It was originally also the most expensive. Only Koei used this chip regularly. It is similar to Konami's VRC6, but interrupt handling works differently. The chip has 1KB of extra RAM, two extra square wave sound channels, one extra PCM sound channel, support for vertical split ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1342872 | 1,039,531 |
720,090 | The studies performed by the trio on fish, insects and birds laid the foundation for further studies on the importance of specific experiences during critical periods of normal development, as well as the effects of abnormal psychosocial situations in mammals. At the time, these discoveries were stated to have caused "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188094 | 719,710 |
1,837,615 | The JB-2 was used for development of missile guidance control and seeker systems, testing of telemetering and optical tracking facilities, and as a target for new surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles (ironically fulfilling the former V1's covername, "Flakzielgerät" — anti-aircraft target device). The JB-2 project use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32229182 | 1,836,566 |
446,037 | TDF is a member of the SOX (SRY-like box) gene family of DNA-binding proteins. When complexed with the SF1 protein, TDF acts as a transcription factor that causes upregulation of other transcription factors, most importantly SOX9. Its expression causes the development of primary sex cords, which later develop into semi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1475503 | 445,821 |
1,647,111 | In replication of the deflector loft experiments, similar findings were produced, though when anosmic pigeons where employed, they displayed the same degree of error in orientation as had previously been observed. Therefore, suggesting that the detection of odours may not have been associated with the defector loft eff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25147432 | 1,646,180 |
362,762 | The first working telegraphs were established in Britain by Wheatstone and Cooke in 1839, and in the US by Morse in 1844. It was quickly realised that the telegraph could be used to transmit a time signal for longitude determination. The method was soon in practical use for longitude determination, especially in North ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17617 | 362,572 |
2,144,929 | McKay has explained that when he joined Peter Barrett on the Antarctic Geological Drilling project (ANDRILL) in 2005, the original purpose of the work for his PhD was to focus on sedimentary petrology. However after finding evidence of "past cycles of ice sheet expansion and retraction... "[interpretation and documenta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69498152 | 2,143,698 |
827,361 | Oberon is the second-largest and second-most massive of the Uranian moons after Titania, and the ninth-most massive moon in the Solar System. It is the tenth-largest moon by size however, since Rhea, the second-largest moon of Saturn and the ninth-largest moon, is nearly the same size as Oberon although it is about 0.4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66781 | 826,917 |
1,218,644 | Mary Golda Ross (August 9, 1908 – April 29, 2008) was the first known Native American female engineer, and the first female engineer in the history of Lockheed. She was one of the 40 founding engineers of the renowned and highly secretive Skunk Works project at Lockheed Corporation. She worked at Lockheed from 1942 unt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38958770 | 1,217,990 |
887,384 | The sinking 14 April 1912 increased public appreciation for the role of radio, but the loss of life brought attention to the disorganized state of the new radio industry, and prompted regulation which corrected some abuses. Although the "Titanic" radio operator's "CQD" distress calls summoned the which rescued 705 surv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1105907 | 886,919 |
1,958,885 | Recent technological advances have now made it possible to measure the strength of a rider's signals. Thus, riding concepts such as ‘contact’ and ‘lightness’ can now be evaluated with calibrated rein tension gauges, or via spurs and riding boots made from pressure-sensitive material. Radiographic studies can give insig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18620792 | 1,957,758 |
2,086,578 | In 1938 Greisen graduated with a B.S. from Franklin & Marshall College. In 1942 Greisen earned his PhD in physics at Cornell University under Bruno Rossi with thesis "Intensity of cosmic rays at low altitude and the origin of the soft component". He worked on the Manhattan Project from 1943 to 1946 in Los Alamos, where... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38279543 | 2,085,376 |
722,374 | When negotiations began in the mid-1990s to develop a comprehensive test ban, the international community was reluctant to rely upon the detection capabilities of individual nuclear weapons states (especially the United States), and instead wanted an international detection system. The resulting International Monitorin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7459891 | 721,994 |
1,924,734 | In the fall of 1986, John Hopfield championed forming an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program to give birth to a scholarly community studying questions arising at the interface between neurobiology and electrical engineering, computer science and physics. It was called "Computation and Neural Systems" (CNS). The unifying th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33086911 | 1,923,630 |
1,677,622 | As radio stations' demand for transcriptions grew, companies specializing in transcriptions grew to meet those demands. In October 1933, 33 companies competed in producing transcriptions. Such companies included Langlois & Wentworth, Inc., RCA Thesaurus, SESAC, World Broadcasting System and Ziv Company. Associated Broa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44970384 | 1,676,680 |
366,655 | Instead, most NoSQL databases offer a concept of "eventual consistency", in which database changes are propagated to all nodes "eventually" (typically within milliseconds), so queries for data might not return updated data immediately or might result in reading data that is not accurate, a problem known as stale reads.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23968131 | 366,463 |
1,134,975 | Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens, the inventor of the pendulum clock, introduced the concept after he noticed, in 1666, that the pendulums of two clocks mounted on a common board had synchronized, and subsequent experiments duplicated this phenomenon. He described this effect as "odd sympathy". The two pendulum clock... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13623185 | 1,134,382 |
1,252,319 | The potential utility of EUS-FNA in restaging of the mediastinum in patients who have undergone chemotherapy and radiotherapy for N2 or N3 disease is under investigation. The underlying idea is that initially advanced cancers, previously too extensive for surgery, may have responded to chemotherapy and radiation so muc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15477610 | 1,251,641 |
1,604,192 | Due to the VFC program, the Federal government of the United States currently purchases between 52 and 55 percent of childhood vaccines administered in the United States. Such large-scale purchases by the federal government are not without economic consequences; the VFC program is one factor contributing to the current... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31287100 | 1,603,291 |
1,763,747 | One of the principal ideas of geometric mechanics is "reduction", which goes back to Jacobi's elimination of the node in the 3-body problem, but in its modern form is due to K. Meyer (1973) and independently J.E. Marsden and A. Weinstein (1974), both inspired by the work of Smale (1970). Symmetry of a Hamiltonian or La... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41499924 | 1,762,754 |
330,192 | The total population was estimated in 2009 to be at around 595,000 adult birds, in 46 known colonies spread around the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic; around 35% of the known population lives north of the Antarctic Circle. Major breeding colonies were located at Cape Washington, Coulman Island in Victoria Land, Halley Bay... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=223204 | 330,017 |
526,603 | By definition, all limb girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMD) cause progressive proximal weakness, meaning weakness of the muscles on or close to the torso that worsens over time. Explicitly, LGMD preferentially affects muscles of the hip girdle, thigh, shoulder girdle, and/or upper arm. The muscle weakness is generally s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=399452 | 526,330 |
779,207 | Conceived of as a test rig, the machine ran on an length of rail track which Maxim laid down for the purpose at his home, Baldwyn's Park Mansion, Baldwyn's Park in Bexley. The initial intention was to prevent the machine from lifting off by using heavy cast-iron wheels, but after initial trials, Maxim concluded that th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=302422 | 778,790 |
1,863,009 | In 1951, the architect (ETH) Fred Achammer opened an architecture office in Innsbruck which focused on building industrial and logistics buildings in the German-speaking Region. In 1976, Fred Achammer, the construction engineer Sigfrid Tritthart and the mechanical engineer Gunther Fröhlich formed a partnership whose ob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42786606 | 1,861,940 |
448,794 | Equipment was included in the spacecraft which provided valuable scientific information—notably that regarding liquid behavior in a weightless state, identification of the airglow layer observed by Glenn, and photography of terrestrial features and meteorological phenomena. An experiment which was to provide atmospheri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213240 | 448,576 |
853,693 | "Sarracenia" were known to Europeans as early as the 16th century, within a century of Christopher Columbus' discovery of the New World. L'Obel included an illustration of "S. minor" in his "Stirpium Adversaria Nova" in 1576. The first description and plate of a "Sarracenia" to show up in botanical literature was publi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=871268 | 853,238 |
197,031 | With "B. cetoides" measuring long and "B. isis" measuring long, "Basilosaurus" is one of the largest animals known to exist between the K–Pg extinction event 66 million years ago (mya) and around 15 million years ago when modern cetaceans began to reach enormous sizes. Body mass estimates for both species have been var... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1039305 | 196,930 |
402,148 | Gould's arguments towards progress in evolutionary biology did not extend towards a notion of progress in general or notions of cultural evolution. In "", Gould compares two notions of progress against one another. While the first concept of progress, evolutionary progress, is argued to be invalid for a number of biolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27875 | 401,949 |
1,458,514 | Medium-pressure mercury-vapor lamps have historically been the industry standard for curing products with ultraviolet light. The bulbs work by sending an electric discharge to excite a mixture of mercury and noble gases, generating a plasma. Once the mercury reaches a plasma state, it irradiates a high spectral output ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44121193 | 1,457,694 |
998,701 | The effect becomes stronger with each additional male pregnancy, with odds of the next son being gay increasing by 38–48%. This does not mean that all or most sons will be gay after several male pregnancies, but rather, the odds of having a gay son increase from approximately 2% for the first born son, to 3% for the se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2651610 | 998,183 |
1,267,208 | The goal of transformation-associated recombination (TAR) technology in synthetic genomics is to combine DNA contigs by means of homologous recombination performed by the yeast artificial chromosome (YAC). Of importance is the CEN element within the YAC vector, which corresponds to the yeast centromere. This sequence g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11330015 | 1,266,518 |
1,767,335 | In other words, with a probability formula_59 the particle formula_60 evolves to a new state formula_61 randomly chosen with the probability distribution formula_62; otherwise, formula_60 jumps to a new location formula_64 randomly chosen with a probability proportional to formula_65 and evolves to a new state formula_... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43677277 | 1,766,341 |
758,734 | The announcement by Mendez "et al." of the discovery of a previously unknown lineage, haplogroup A00, in 2013, resulted in another shift in the estimate for the age of Y-chromosomal Adam. The authors estimated the split from the other haplogroups at 338,000 years ago (kya) (95% confidence interval 237–581 kya), but lat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=247414 | 758,328 |
1,514,363 | The substitution of oil with other fossil fuels is theoretically relatively easy when static installations are concerned, as in the case for electricity generation. Reserves of coal are substantial, and the technology to use it is well established. Increasing the use of coal, however, would lead to higher carbon emissi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11882110 | 1,513,512 |
1,978,332 | The Beaufort Court at Hertfordshire, which hosts the RES and Inbuilt, is an example of a green building in the UK. It is a zero-emission structure built on the previous Ovaltine egg farm and features its own 225-kilowatt wind turbine and photovoltaic array, capable of 3,200 kilowatt-hours per year. There is also the ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25017870 | 1,977,194 |
1,019,398 | The Flash Media Server and other implementations uses the concept of an "app" to conceptually define a container for audio/video and other content, implemented as a folder on the server root which contains the media files to be streamed. The first variable contains the name of this app as "sample" which is the name pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2880574 | 1,018,871 |
1,071,448 | Spitzer, a professor of astronomy, had for many years been involved in the study of very hot rarefied gases in interstellar space. While leaving for a ski trip to Aspen in February 1951, his father called and told him to read the front page of the "New York Times". The paper had a story about claims released the day be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39825 | 1,070,894 |
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