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606,685 | Nuclear plants were designed to withstand earthquakes, hurricanes, and other extreme natural events. But deliberate attacks involving large airliners loaded with fuel, such as those that crashed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, were not considered when design requirements for today's fleet of reactors were det... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40528380 | 606,375 |
215,959 | A factory must choose looms and shedding mechanisms to suit its commercial requirements. As a rule the more warp control required the greater the expense. So it is not economical to purchase Jacquard machines if one can make do with a dobby mechanism. As well as the capital expense, the Jacquard machines are more costl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16225 | 215,851 |
1,078,004 | Since the SCN is responsible for mediating the production of melatonin by the pineal gland, it creates a feedback loop that regulates the production of melatonin according to the master circadian clock. As was discussed previously, the MT receptor is largely thought of as the major player in sleep-promotion and the MT ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8258942 | 1,077,449 |
182 | In 1920, he became a Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1922, he was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect". While the general theory of relativity was still consider... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=736 | 182 |
320,537 | The diagnosis of neutropenia is done via the low neutrophil count detection on a complete blood count. Generally, other investigations are required to arrive at the right diagnosis. When the diagnosis is uncertain, or serious causes are suspected, bone marrow biopsy may be necessary. A bone marrow biopsy can identify a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=235419 | 320,365 |
1,234,401 | The institute also has a profound political history. Between 1964 and 1969, during the worst years of the military dictatorship, 33 professors were eliminated, as well as a good number of students. Many high-ranking officials, including three presidents - Getúlio Vargas and João Goulart - as well as the majority of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=889448 | 1,233,738 |
288,799 | Burroughs Corporation, a maker of adding machines and computers, developed the Panaplex display in the early 1970s. The Panaplex display, generically referred to as a gas-discharge or gas-plasma display, uses the same technology as later plasma video displays, but began life as a seven-segment display for use in adding... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=175859 | 288,642 |
1,810,224 | The common names for this insect in many languages follow the binomial name and mention that it has twenty-four spots, but in English there is great variation in how this is written, with little consensus over the use of words or numerals, capitalisation, placement of hyphens and whether to use "spot", "spotted", "poin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41621168 | 1,809,202 |
1,683,088 | Exposure therapy’s effectiveness in rodents is increased by the administration of Vorinostat, Entinostat, TSA, sodium butyrate, and VPA, all known histone deacetylase inhibitors. Several studies in the past two years have shown that in humans, Vorinostat and Entinostat increase the clinical effectiveness of exposure th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42647878 | 1,682,145 |
1,564,288 | In the United States in the 1960s up until the early 70s, Harvard Medical School, Neurosurgeon Vernon H. Mark at Boston City Hospital, and his associate, Professor of Psychiatry Dr Frank R. Ervin, carried out research on electroencephalographic recordings on the skull (EEG), cerebral surface, as well as deep structures... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38574601 | 1,563,401 |
1,762,854 | Hunting causes the room temperature to constantly fluctuate, creating a major cost to clients with poor environmental quality and increased maintenance. Over three-quarters of complaints to managers are of a thermal sensation nature. These complaints are rarely due to inter-individual differences in preferred temperatu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28596905 | 1,761,861 |
305,957 | During the Second World War, aerodynamic issues became sufficiently understood for work on a range of production-representative prototypes to commence. In Nazi Germany, the Horten brothers were keen proponents of the flying wing configuration, developing their own designs around it - uniquely for the time using Prandtl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191711 | 305,793 |
1,595,244 | The symptoms of isolated 17,20-lyase deficiency, in males, include pseudohermaphroditism (i.e., feminized, ambiguous, or mildly underdeveloped (e.g., micropenis, perineal hypospadias, and/or cryptorchidism (undescended testes)) external genitalia), female gender identity, and, in non-complete cases of deficiency where ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35934236 | 1,594,346 |
1,060,356 | Before the telecom market collapsed in the early 2000s, such companies represented 45% of Thorlabs' business. Due to a liberal return policy, at least one quarter during the market crash, Thorlabs actually received more product from returns than it shipped. However, the company was able to quickly adapt and survived it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45477128 | 1,059,805 |
1,715,443 | Reductive dechlorination has been investigated for bioremediation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) and chlorofluorocarbons (CFC). The reductive dechlorination of PCBs is performed by anaerobic microorganisms that utilize the PCB as an electron sink. The result of this is the reduction of the "meta" site, followed by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=971594 | 1,714,476 |
1,202,789 | The earliest genetic methods for assessing "Symbiodinium" diversity relied on low-resolution molecular markers that separated the genus into a few evolutionarily divergent lineages, referred to as "clades". Previous characterizations of geographic distribution and dominance have focused on the clade-level of genetic re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11375187 | 1,202,146 |
774,463 | Unemployment did not exist officially in the socialist planned economies, though there were people between jobs and a fraction of unemployable people as a result of illness, disability or other problems, such as alcoholism. The proportion of people changing jobs was between 6 and 13 percent of the labour force a year a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43069513 | 774,047 |
730,197 | As a result of a new emphasis on observing, classifying, and cataloging nature, 16th-century natural philosophers in Europe began to establish extensive collections of fossil objects (as well as collections of plant and animal specimens), which were often stored in specially built cabinets to help organize them. Conrad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7991116 | 729,813 |
710,606 | MGA is frequently used as an appetite stimulant to promote weight gain. The direct mechanism of appetite enhancement is unclear, but it is known that MGA induces a variety of downstream changes to cause the effect, including stimulation of the release of neuropeptide Y in the hypothalamus, neurosteroid-like modulation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6657950 | 710,235 |
1,057,722 | Between the 12 and 20 August 1944 the Allies launched an offensive to close the Falaise pocket at Chambois, from where remnants of the German army were attempting to escape. Vimoutiers was near the junction of Anglo-Canadian and Polish forces in the north and US and French forces in the south. On 21 August 1944, along ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38294328 | 1,057,173 |
1,860,961 | Brownell was an undergraduate student in biology at Cornell University. She moved to The Scripps Research Institute, where she worked toward a Master's degree. She joined Stanford University as a doctoral researcher, studying small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) as anti-inflammatory therapeutics. She found that certain sH... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70460840 | 1,859,892 |
899,118 | Measurement of annual parallax was the first reliable way to determine the distances to the closest stars. In the second quarter of the 19 century, technological progress reached to the level which provided sufficient accuracy and precision for stellar parallax measurements. The first successful stellar parallax measur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=202661 | 898,643 |
1,983,478 | SimuMCAT is a free Java application program that simulates a multidimensional computer adaptive test (MCAT). The user can select from five different MCAT item selection procedures (Volume, Kullback-Leibler information, Minimize the error variance of the linear combination, Minimum Angle, and Minimize the error variance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21073228 | 1,982,339 |
492,178 | Guidance for the Corporal consisted of a complex system of internal and ground guidance. During the initial launch phase, inertial guidance kept the missile in a vertical position and pre-set guidance steered it during its launch. The ground guidance system was a modified World War II SCR-584 radar which tracked the mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1956534 | 491,924 |
2,241,803 | The Museum was chartered under the laws of the state of Texas on June 2, 1967 and granted its tax exemption certificate in August of that year. On October 7, 1968, the Junior League Museum Board entered into a leaning agreement with the City of McAllen for a 5,000 square foot building. Shortly after, a Board of Trustee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12116813 | 2,240,532 |
1,346,095 | Automated chilled mirror devices provide significantly more repeatable results, but these measurements can be affected by contaminants that may compromise the mirror's surface. In many instances it is important to incorporate an effective filtration system that prepares the gas for analysis. On the other hand, filtrati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8892966 | 1,345,354 |
2,108,498 | Following the conclusion of the 1946-47 school year, the Minnesota state legislature approved a bill authorizing the transfer of the Duluth State Teachers College to the University of Minnesota system with the school to be known as the University of Minnesota, Duluth Branch or UMD. With an expanded schedule of meets ag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50172482 | 2,107,284 |
1,923,379 | The Electronic Systems Center served into five decades as the Air Force's organization for developing and acquiring Command and Control (C2) systems. As of December 2004, ESC managed approximately two hundred programs ranging from secure communications systems to mission planning systems. ESC had an annual budget of ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1250357 | 1,922,276 |
1,190,895 | A total of 15 out of 20 Indianapolis 500 winners praised the inaugural running of the United States Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. 1985 Indianapolis 500 winner Danny Sullivan heralded the race organisers for their efforts, "Tony George has done a phenomenal job of integrating it into (the schedule) and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1123406 | 1,190,261 |
2,130,654 | The majority of studies on the prognosis of patients treated for LGMS have focused on short-term (i.e. one-year) follow-up times. One study of 49 patients (age range: 29.5–64.5; average age: 46.2 years; median age: 51.0 years) treated for LGFS reported overall survival percentages at 3 and 5 years of 75.0% and 71.6%, r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69495466 | 2,129,429 |
1,355,723 | The most precious and most needed resource of all is water, and in some parts of the world, that is a very expensive resource to obtain. The most obvious areas that conflict may arise over disputes for water supplies would be in the desert, but at the moment oil is the most valuable liquid in the Middle East. However, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1794929 | 1,354,975 |
212,627 | Later, in February 2018, the "Yomiuri Shimbun" reported that Japan was planning to acquire 40 F-35Bs, the Short Take-off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) variant of the Lockheed Martin Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), which could be operated from the "Izumo" class with some modifications to the ships. It was estima... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25300829 | 212,519 |
1,522,334 | Within the field of limnology, there are more specific areas of study. One of those areas of study is ecology, particularly the ecology of water systems. The ecology of water systems focuses on the organisms that live in freshwater environments and how they are affected by changes in their habitat. For example, a limno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17622112 | 1,521,473 |
797,724 | Music has been a prominent subject in schools and other learning institutions in Europe for many centuries. Such early institutions as the Sistine Chapel Choir and the Vienna Boys Choir offered important early models of choral learning, while the Paris Conservatoire later became influential for training in wind band in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2025792 | 797,299 |
1,368,575 | "Overwatch"s diversity also extends to other character facets. Blizzard has said that some of the characters have LGBT identities; Metzen said that the inclusion of LGBT characters was not "to be a data point or feel contrived in any way", but instead to have these identities "play out organically". Tracer was the firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55762533 | 1,367,819 |
165,884 | Hemostasis can be achieved in various other ways if the body cannot do it naturally (or needs help) during surgery or medical treatment. When the body is under shock and stress, hemostasis is harder to achieve. Though natural hemostasis is most desired, having other means of achieving this is vital for survival in many... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=501973 | 165,799 |
1,162,609 | Early construction after the expansion of Dubai as a global city paid little attention to traditional Islamic architecture and concerns for the environment were not considered. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, glass towers became prominent in the city of Dubai, all of which required enormous amounts of electricity to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60447339 | 1,161,992 |
1,998,281 | Bradman was given another life at 108 when he advanced two metres down the pitch to Jim Laker and missed, but Evans fumbled the stumping opportunity. Australia reached tea at 1/292 having added 171 during the session. Morris was eventually dismissed for 182, having partnered Bradman in a stand of 301 in 217 minutes. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21051201 | 1,997,138 |
2,187,050 | In 1969-70, due to the proposed development of the Wilderness Road site, a new Meteorological Enclosure had to be found. Late in 1969 a site was found on land east of the Whiteknights Lakes and adjoining Bridges Hall. A quick changeover took place to the new enclosure for records to start, unbroken, on January 1, 1970... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18112383 | 2,185,802 |
1,627,178 | Saccadic suppression is responsible for maintaining a continuous, stable, visual world by reducing visual sensitivity to events occurring before, during and after a saccade. The more complex the background on which the stimulus is presented, the larger the suppression. The increase in saccadic suppression can lead to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31148473 | 1,626,260 |
1,274,213 | Gilovich's research in the alleged "hot hand" effect, or the belief that success in a particular endeavor, usually sports, will likely be followed by further success, has been particularly influential. A paper he wrote with Amos Tversky in 1985 became the benchmark on the subject for years. Some of the research from th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=881902 | 1,273,521 |
810,682 | While the College's geographic size has changed little since 1596, an additional range was added to the original E-shaped buildings in the early 17th century and the appearance of the whole College was changed significantly in the 1820s and 1830s, under the leadership of the Master at the time, William Chafy. By the ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=212179 | 810,250 |
1,194,885 | Physical organic chemistry often entails the identification of molecular structure, dynamics, and the concentration of reactants in the course of a reaction. The interaction of molecules with light can afford a wealth of data about such properties through nondestructive spectroscopic experiments, with light absorbed wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11304514 | 1,194,245 |
575,689 | In case a ship is underway, a fast rudder change will not only initiate a heading change, but it will also cause the ship to roll. For some ships such as frigates, this effect is so large that it can be used by a control algorithm to simultaneously steer the ship while reducing its roll motions. Such a system is usuall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10675964 | 575,395 |
1,497,197 | The F-4C Phantom II aircraft arrived on 18 November 1979, and the Tail Code "FW" (Fort Wayne) was adopted by the 122d TFW. The unit flew this new aircraft to Balikesir Air Base, Turkey in 1983 for exercise "Coronet Crown," and once again in 1986 for exercise "Coronet Cherokee". In 1986 the F-4Cs were replaced with more... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17261034 | 1,496,354 |
227,302 | North American distribution boards are generally housed in sheet metal enclosures, with the circuit breakers positioned in two columns operable from the front. Some panelboards are provided with a door covering the breaker switch handles, but all are constructed with a "dead front"; that is to say the front of the encl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=751771 | 227,186 |
599,506 | Two professors from Stanford University Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson successfully improved auction theory and invented several new auction formats, including Simultaneous Multiple Round Auctions (SMRA). This format combines the benefit of both English Auctions (open-outcry) and Sealed Bid auctions. SMRAs are deemed t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5827247 | 599,200 |
2,029,366 | DeWitte was born in New Hampshire and raised in New Mexico and California. As a youth, she had surgery to insert a metal rod to correct scoliosis of the spine. She graduated from Santa Rosa Junior College with her Associates Degree in 1996 and from Sonoma State University with her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1999 before... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70161939 | 2,028,198 |
1,911,734 | It is only known from flowering individual plants seen at a number of locations in southeastern Java, until 2017 all of them in the Jember Regency. The first place it was collected was in 1902 at the forestry research station ("boschproefstation") at low elevations on the eastern flanks of a hill called Puger Watangan,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20683449 | 1,910,635 |
504,311 | Cryoglobulins are proteins, principally immunoglobulins, that circulate in the blood, precipitate at temperatures <37 °C (98.6 °F), and re-solubilize upon restoring physiological blood temperatures. They are made and secreted into the blood as a result of underlying pathological conditions viz., inflammation, infection... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17475959 | 504,049 |
703,392 | It was in the late 19th and early 20th century, that phycology became a recognized field of its own. Men such as Friedrich Traugott Kützing continued the descriptive work. In Japan, beginning in 1889, Kintarô Okamura not only provided detailed descriptions of Japanese coastal algae, he also provided comprehensive analy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=90347 | 703,024 |
1,710,866 | On 4 May 1906, Koizumi arrived in Mostyn, North Wales, aboard the SS "Romsford". He then travelled to Liverpool, where he took up the post of instructor at the Kara Ashikaga School of Jujitsu. He then travelled south to London, where he collaborated with former Bartitsu Club instructor Sadakazu Uyenishi, who was operat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1690360 | 1,709,906 |
527,158 | The third named "Amphicoelias" species, "A. fragillimus", was known only from a single, incomplete tall neural arch, either last or second to last in the series of back vertebrae. Based only on an illustration published in 1878, this vertebra would have measured tall in life. However, it has been argued that the scale ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20597704 | 526,885 |
616,327 | The missile seeker can be slaved to the Helmet Mounted Display (HMD), allowing the pilot to track a target beyond the aircraft's radar scan envelope using the missile's high off-boresight capability, achieved by the pilot turning his head towards the target to lock-on, better known as "look and shoot". The missile can ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9891281 | 616,013 |
9,217 | In November 2013, with orders and commitments totaling 259 aircraft from Lufthansa, Emirates, Qatar Airways, and Etihad Airways, Boeing formally launched the 777X program, the third generation of the 777 (not to be confused with the 777-X variants, the -200LR and -300ER, which are the second generation of the aircraft)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89260 | 9,213 |
638,858 | In August 1964, Ontario Hydro decided to build the first large-scale nuclear power plant in Canada at Pickering on Lake Ontario, only 30 kilometres from downtown Toronto to save on transmission costs. To reduce cost the reactors share safety systems including containment and the emergency core cooling system. Pickering... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3778479 | 638,519 |
102,492 | Doctor's degrees normally take four additional years of full-time study to complete. Requirements for obtaining a doctor's degree include taking additional advanced courses, passing an oral qualifying exam and submitting a longer doctoral dissertation which must represent a significant original contribution to knowledg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167241 | 102,447 |
2,068,120 | Henry Sylvester Jacoby (born 1857, died 1955) was an American educator, born at Springtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, He was graduated from Lehigh University in 1877 and during the season of 1878 was connected with the topographical corps of the Pennsylvania Geological Survey. During 1879–85, he was chief draftsman i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9385173 | 2,066,929 |
235,363 | Meta-analyses show that high scores on the personality domain neuroticism are a strong predictor for the development of mood disorders. A number of authors have also suggested that mood disorders are an evolutionary adaptation ("see also evolutionary psychiatry"). A low or depressed mood can increase an individual's ab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52316 | 235,244 |
1,235,172 | Over time, neuroscience researchers have recognized that brain regions do not operate in isolation. In fact, the synchronization of firing rates of neurons across different brain regions helps mediate the integration and processing of information across the brain. Thus, studies relating neural activation in single regi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37691915 | 1,234,509 |
1,595,995 | Cognos initially attempted to move to the Intel platform in 1988 with the DOS-based "PowerHouse PC". While the product was used by numerous partners to build bespoke applications for small to medium-sized customers it was not entirely unsuccessful at that time. However, Cognos eventually produced Axiant (c.1995), which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4313670 | 1,595,096 |
442,075 | Disposable tags cost a matter of cents and may have been embedded during manufacture. More sophisticated systems are available, which are more difficult to circumvent. These solutions tend to be product category specific as in the case of high value added electronics and consumables; consequently they are more expensiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1802422 | 441,860 |
1,212,590 | The WMA, the Korean Medical Association, and the Chinese Medical Association reached an agreement in 1998 that these practices were undesirable and that they would jointly investigate them with a view to stopping them; however, in 2000, the Chinese withdrew their cooperation. Amnesty International claimed to have stron... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6497079 | 1,211,938 |
700,891 | From their completion through mid-World War II, the four "Gridley"s formed Destroyer Division 11 of Destroyer Squadron 6. Based at Pearl Harbor in 1941, the squadron was at sea escorting on 7 December 1941, then was dispersed among carrier task forces during the Marshalls-Gilberts raids of early 1942. While "Gridley" a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2840535 | 700,526 |
1,743,887 | The discoveries of americium and curium under the hypothesis that they resembled the lanthanides prompted Seaborg to propose the concept of an actinide series to his colleagues in 1944 – with the central premise being similarity to the lanthanides and filling of f orbitals. Despite its apparent correctness, they did no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6151908 | 1,742,903 |
1,124,604 | Under a small grant from the International Council on Clean Transportation (icct), Daniel K Carder of West Virginia University (WVU) uncovered on-board software "cheats" that VW had installed on some diesel passenger vehicles (Dieselgate scandal). The only way the discovery could have been made was by a non-programmed,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11108817 | 1,124,029 |
137,337 | In April 2012, Dark Horse began releasing a second eight-issue limited series entitled "Falling Skies: The Battle of Fitchburg", with Paul Tobin returning as writer and Juan Ferreyra returning as series artist. The digital comic was made available through both Dark Horse Comics and TNT via their respective websites. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30214103 | 137,281 |
411,365 | Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem, ( , , ; also spelled Huyghens; ; 14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor, who is regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time and a major figure in the Scientific Revolution. In physics, Huygens made groundbreak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42127 | 411,163 |
345,677 | In 1913, Niels Bohr introduced the Bohr model of atomic structure, wherein electrons within atoms can only take on a series of discrete, rather than continuous, energies. This is another example of quantization. The Bohr model successfully explained the discrete nature of atomic spectral lines. In 1924, Louis de Brogli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25267 | 345,496 |
1,878,045 | "Gammarus roeseli" are a successful invasive species due to their high reproductive rate, tolerance to changing environmental conditions and unique anti-predation characteristics. "G. roeseli's" mechanism of invasion is still unknown but it is most likely due to human activities such as aquaculture or fish repopulation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10390006 | 1,876,967 |
1,952,043 | The entire spacecraft rotated to provide the necessary signal modulation. The four, fixed solar panels were designed to provide enough gyroscopic moment to stabilize rotation about the solar vector. This largely eliminated the need for attitude control. The instrument detectors were nine high-purity germanium crystals.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1190663 | 1,950,922 |
1,870,125 | The Institute for Laboratory Animal Management (ILAM) is an AALAS educational program developed to provide instruction in management concepts that is applicable to the laboratory animal science industry and to enhance communication, team building, and networking among colleagues with mutual interests. Directors, manage... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10182721 | 1,869,048 |
1,681,719 | After the War, Herzfeld returned to the University of Vienna, however, the University was in such dire financial straits that he moved to Munich in 1919, with the intent of studying analytical chemistry and getting a job in the German chemical industry, which had a highly respected reputation. First, he was an assistan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5383886 | 1,680,776 |
884,556 | The cosmological principle is first clearly asserted in the "Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica" (1687) of Isaac Newton. In contrast to earlier classical or medieval cosmologies, in which Earth rested at the center of universe, Newton conceptualized the Earth as a sphere in orbital motion around the Sun within... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=173937 | 884,092 |
1,236,662 | It is quite clear that the structure of the enzyme, to be specific the active site, is very important in understanding the mechanism of reaction. For this reason, Rees and colleagues studied the enzyme-ligand complex to get a clear answer for the role of the zinc ion. These studies found that, in free enzyme, the zinc ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11213645 | 1,235,998 |
20,457 | Star charts of that period labeled it as the "Little Cloud". In 1612, the German astronomer Simon Marius gave an early description of the Andromeda Galaxy based on telescopic observations. Pierre Louis Maupertuis conjectured in 1745 that the blurry spot was an island universe. In 1764, Charles Messier cataloged Androme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=74331 | 20,448 |
1,581,126 | The formation of the Early Music Consort of London in the late 1960s has been credited with popularising the genre of Early music in UK and being main instigator of the British Early music revival of the late 20th century. Munrow was inspired by the "Alte Musik" movement that had already gained popularity in Germany, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11796930 | 1,580,236 |
809,804 | Simple schemes such as "send the message 3 times and use a best 2 out of 3 voting scheme if the copies differ" are inefficient error-correction methods, unable to asymptotically guarantee that a block of data can be communicated free of error. Advanced techniques such as Reed–Solomon codes and, more recently, low-densi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3474289 | 809,373 |
546,280 | Meanwhile, the return of the AIF divisions to Australia from the Middle East in 1942 coincided with the arrival of large numbers of American troops, including the US 32nd and 41st Infantry Divisions. From April 1942 MacArthur took over command of all US and Australian forces in the newly formed South West Pacific Area ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22738876 | 545,994 |
1,144,509 | Besides the Town Center skyscrapers, Southfield's modern towers include the 26-story American Center (1975) by the SmithGroup and One Towne Square (1992) by Rossetti with 21-stories. Other notable centers of commerce in the area are Dearborn, Troy, and Auburn Hills. Dearborn contains the world headquarters of the Ford ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8692117 | 1,143,908 |
1,654,891 | "Ramaria botrytis" is an edible species, and some rate it as choice. Its taste is "slight", or "fruity", and has been likened to sauerkraut, green peanuts (fresh harvested peanuts that have not been dehydrated), or pea pods. Older fruit bodies develop an acidic flavor. It is sold in food markets in Japan as "Nedzumi-ta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24661039 | 1,653,959 |
780,720 | Some strains of group A streptococci (GAS) cause severe infection. Severe infections are usually invasive, meaning that the bacteria has entered parts of the body where bacteria are not usually found, such as the blood, lungs, deep muscle or fat tissue. Those at greatest risk include children with chickenpox; persons w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58638 | 780,302 |
1,974,405 | The SSSI has a wide variety of habitats, with bare mud, sand and shingle characterising the intertidal zone along the whole of the coast, although higher areas may have algae or eelgrass that are grazed by ducks and geese in winter. The salt marshes which form on sheltered coasts, in the lee of islands, or behind spits... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34525509 | 1,973,270 |
531,648 | In 2010 journal articles were published by Yohannes Haile-Selassie and others describing the discovery of around 90 fossil specimens in the time period 3.6 to 3.8 million years ago (mya), in the Afar area of Ethiopia, filling in the time gap between "A. anamensis" and "Australopithecus afarensis" and showing a number o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1661402 | 531,374 |
1,940,939 | Russia recovered after their loss to Ukraine in the previous round to beat Egypt 3-1 and so did England who beat Vietnam with the same result after the heavy loss to the Netherlands. Sergey Karjakin and Ian Nepomniachtchi both won for Russia with the White pieces on board one and board three, respectively, while Gawain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51472590 | 1,939,828 |
1,194,883 | A complete electronic structure offers great predictive power for organic transformations and dynamics, especially in cases concerning aromatic molecules, extended π systems, bonds between metal ions and organic molecules, molecules containing nonstandard heteroatoms like selenium and boron, and the conformational dyna... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11304514 | 1,194,243 |
1,128,392 | These tactics were dictated by the forces on hand. The more well-off Crusader troops, such as the knights, were individually superior in a melee to any cavalry in the area at the time, and were relatively immune to arrows due to their armour. Nonetheless, they tended to be ill-disciplined in the face of arrow volleys. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17416992 | 1,127,814 |
95,467 | The underlying concept of an ecosystem can be traced back to 1864 in the published work of George Perkins Marsh ("Man and Nature"). Within an ecosystem, organisms are linked to the physical and biological components of their environment to which they are adapted. Ecosystems are complex adaptive systems where the intera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9630 | 95,426 |
55,944 | Pile continued studying the problem, and returned with a proposal to fire only 150 shells at a single rocket, with those shells using a new fuse that would greatly reduce the number that fell back to Earth unexploded. Some low-level analysis suggested that this would be successful against 1 in 50 rockets, provided that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32786 | 55,920 |
1,697,429 | formula_2Selection of an instruction set architecture affects formula_3, whereas formula_4 is largely determined by the manufacturing technology. Classic Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC) ISAs optimized formula_5 by providing a larger set of more complex CPU instructions. Generally speaking, however, complex inst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59843147 | 1,696,475 |
575,556 | It concludes that Debye's actions in 1933–45 were based on the nineteenth-century positivist view of science which saw research in physics as generating blessings for humankind. The report states that, by his contemporaries, Debye was considered an opportunist by some and as a man of highest character by others. The re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37067 | 575,262 |
1,370,749 | After his death, Australia's largest communicable diseases research institute—the Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research was renamed in his honour. The Burnet Clinical Research Unit of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute was also named in his honour in 1986. In 1975 his work on immunology was recognised by a 33-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=417493 | 1,369,993 |
224,933 | Liquid methane/LNG has several advantages over LH. Its performance (max. specific impulse) is lower than that of LH but higher than that of RP1 (kerosene) and solid propellants, and its higher density, similarly to other hydrocarbon fuels, provides higher thrust to volume ratios than LH, although its density is not as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=520402 | 224,817 |
736,258 | Researchers at UCLA used a brain-imaging tool to identify a certain protein found in five retired NFL players. The presence and accumulation of tau proteins found in the five living players, are associated with Alzheimer's disease. Previously, this type of exam could only be performed with an autopsy. Scientists at UCL... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36082813 | 735,870 |
1,907,896 | Since it is not clear that methotrexate therapy reduces the incidence of central nervous system relapse in PT-DLBCL, a phase II non-comparative clinical study to determine the feasibility and toxicity of the R-CHOP regimen plus intrathecal liposomal cytarabine and systemic intermediate-dose methotrexate followed by loc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63040871 | 1,906,799 |
626,284 | The university is placed in an Urban areas setting touching the boundaries of some green Rural areas. The eastern bank of the Ganges is only 2000 meters from the University and its serene background is only 50 km from Kolkata. It is close to Kalyani Ghoshpara railway station, 10 minutes walking distance to Administrati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11018035 | 625,951 |
1,356,244 | Micro-nutrient transfer is thought, for the most part, to occur by passive transport across cellular membranes, both during absorption, from soil by fungi, and transfer from fungi to host plants. This is not always the case though and although research on the topic is limited, there is evidence of active transport and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55484311 | 1,355,494 |
361,041 | Outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease receive significant media attention, but this disease usually occurs in single, isolated cases not associated with any recognized outbreak. When outbreaks do occur, they are usually in the summer and early autumn, though cases may occur at any time of year. Most infections occur in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41678169 | 360,852 |
69,336 | The Lithgow F90 was officially adopted by the Australian Defence Force in 2015, it was then designated as the Enhanced F88 (EF88) Austeyr. Its nominal cyclic rate of fire is 740 rounds per minute. The EF88 is part of the LAND 125 Soldier Combat System project and is a significant upgrade to the F88SA2. It was developed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=249896 | 69,309 |
2,155,326 | Laycock was a teleologist. He also held a fundamental belief in the "unity of nature", and saw nature as working through an unconsciously acting principle of organisation. Through his teleological approach, he argued that the origins of the nervous system were based on a natural force which he named the "Unconsciously ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13548310 | 2,154,095 |
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