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54,381 | Manufacture of YP-38s fell behind schedule, at least partly because of changes to meet the need for mass production, making them substantially different in construction from the prototype. Another factor was the sudden required expansion of Lockheed's facility in Burbank, taking it from a specialized civilian firm deal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25041 | 54,361 |
420,426 | This family of algorithms is computationally expensive and thus many modifications and adaptations exist, including the next reaction method (Gibson & Bruck), tau-leaping, as well as hybrid techniques where abundant reactants are modeled with deterministic behavior. Adapted techniques generally compromise the exactitud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4438763 | 420,221 |
1,852,081 | By June 24, they encountered the pack ice again and slowly made their way towards Upernavik. Hunting and visiting with the local Inuit passed the time until they harbored at a Danish settlement in early July. Setting out as the ice cleared, they encountered British whalers, exchanging news, mail, and fresh provisions b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26501694 | 1,851,020 |
997,478 | The idea that oxidation of ammonia to nitrate is in fact biological process was first given by Louis Pasteur in 1862. Later in 1875, Alexander Müller during quality assessment of water from wells in Berlin noted that ammonium was stable in sterilized solutions but nitrified in natural waters. A. Müller put forward, tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=361028 | 996,960 |
58,411 | Some operators lost a large proportion of their aircraft through accidents, although the accident rate varied widely depending on the user and operating conditions. The German Air Force and Federal German Navy, the largest combined user of the F-104 and operator of over 35% of all airframes built, lost approximately 32... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82439 | 58,386 |
340,163 | Within the conceptual frame of the scientific method, an investigator sets up several distinct and contrasting temporally transient material processes that have the structure of experiments, and records candidate material responses, normally intending to determine causality in the physical world. For instance, one may ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37196 | 339,982 |
1,525,387 | Best's vitelliform macular dystrophy (BVMD) is one of the most common Best1-associated diseases. BVMD typically becomes noticeable in children and is represented by the buildup of lipofuscin (lipid residuals) lesions in the eye. Diagnosis normally follows an abnormal electrooculogram in which decreased activation of ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14754119 | 1,524,526 |
136,187 | Carcinogens, as mentioned, are agents in the environment capable of contributing to cancer growth. Carcinogens can be categorized into two different types: activation-dependent and activation-independent, and each nature impacts their level and type of influence when it comes to promoting cancer growth. These can rang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6445 | 136,132 |
983,118 | To better address both the funding concerns and concerns about government control, one alternative model is that the cost and control would be distributed across the private sector instead of the public sector. Companies across the economy would be required to employ humans, but the job descriptions would be left to pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32040137 | 982,604 |
264,259 | Despite this lack of backing, the Swallow attracted international attention for some time. During late 1958, research efforts were temporarily revived through cooperation with the Mutual Weapons Development Programme of NATO, under which all of Wallis' variable geometry research was shared with the Americans. According... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349470 | 264,116 |
710,328 | 15-28% of governmental R&D expenditures may go to military research according to some unofficial estimates. The Chinese defense sector remains almost completely state-owned but military equipment production has been reorganized into corporate bodies allowing limited competition and the defense patent system has been re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277914 | 709,957 |
1,718,036 | During the conflict, US forces ability to detect biological weapons in the field was extremely limited, consisting only of experimental sampling systems and laboratory testing undertaken by a small group responsible for the whole theater of operation. Compared to the sophisticated chemical weapons detection regime in p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67447284 | 1,717,066 |
1,460,409 | On 6 February 2012, SwissMicros (previously known as RPN-Calc) introduced a miniature clone named "DM-15CC" approximating the size of an ID-1 credit card (88 mm × 59 mm × 7 mm). It closely emulates the functionality of the original HP-15C by running the original ROM image in an emulator on an ARM Cortex-M0-based NXP LP... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4650504 | 1,459,587 |
1,759,585 | The preserving of an even keel is accomplished in the Curtiss machine by small planes hinged between the main planes at the outer ends. They serve to prevent the machine from tipping over sideways. They are operated by arms, projecting from the back of the aviator's seat, which embrace his shoulders on each side, and a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14977215 | 1,758,592 |
1,731,632 | With a spike on a graph, an entourage effect and retrograde signaling, by the motto “Science for Peace", and, also in the spirit of Niels Bohr, the Danish physicist with the first relatively correct model of how an atom looks like, - an international group of about 6000 researchers connected at CERN, by a particle acce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20853174 | 1,730,656 |
1,232,777 | YPVS Yamaha engines, Yamaha Power Valve System: Yamaha engineers realized that by altering the height of the exhaust port they could effectively change the engine power delivery thereby having optimal power and torque across the entire rev range, so it was that the YPVS was born. The valve is of a cylindrical "cotton r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2238101 | 1,232,115 |
1,968,215 | However, a study conducted on the tobacco plant in 2007 has disproved this theory. Led by Ralph Bock from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Germany, researchers studied genetically modified tobacco in which the transgene was integrated in chloroplasts. A transplastomic tobacco plant generated th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12007423 | 1,967,085 |
1,004,644 | Dehydration refers both to hypohydration (dehydration induced prior to exercise) and to exercise-induced dehydration (dehydration that develops during exercise). The latter reduces aerobic endurance performance and results in increased body temperature, heart rate, perceived exertion, and possibly increased reliance on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=395477 | 1,004,126 |
379,890 | Two unique semiconductors, one n-type and one p-type, are used because they need to have different electron densities. The alternating p & n-type semiconductor pillars are placed thermally in parallel to each other and electrically in series and then joined with a thermally conducting plate on each side, usually cerami... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=310597 | 379,695 |
1,235,803 | When the first proteins were rationally designed during the 1970s and 1980s, the sequence for these was optimized manually based on analyses of other known proteins, the sequence composition, amino acid charges, and the geometry of the desired structure. The first designed proteins are attributed to Bernd Gutte, who de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1581752 | 1,235,140 |
204,010 | Rolls-Royce was also working on a series of triple-spool designs as replacements for the Conway, which promised to deliver higher efficiency. In this configuration, three groups of turbines spin three separate concentric shafts to power three sections of the compressor area running at different speeds. In addition to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=387227 | 203,905 |
1,232,505 | The quality of the data found on dbSNP has been questioned by many research groups, which suspect high false positive rates due to genotyping and base-calling errors. These mistakes can easily be entered into dbSNP if the submitter uses (1) uncritical bioinformatic alignments of highly similar but distinct DNA sequence... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16569621 | 1,231,843 |
310,151 | These devices are not rated in joules because they operate differently from the earlier suppressors, and they do not depend on materials that inherently wear out during repeated surges. SM suppressors are primarily used to control transient voltage surges on electrical power feeds to protected devices. They are essenti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=414738 | 309,984 |
803,306 | Quantum wells have been proposed to increase the efficiency of solar cells. The theoretical maximum efficiency of traditional single-junction cells is about 34%, due in large part to their inability to capture many different wavelengths of light. Multi-junction solar cells, which consist of multiple p-n junctions of di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=642886 | 802,877 |
364,149 | Diatoms are unicellular organisms: they occur either as solitary cells or in colonies, which can take the shape of ribbons, fans, zigzags, or stars. Individual cells range in size from 2 to 200 micrometers. In the presence of adequate nutrients and sunlight, an assemblage of living diatoms doubles approximately every 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46374 | 363,959 |
763,576 | The UCMJ, the Rules for Courts-Martial (the military analogue to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure), and the Military Rules of Evidence (the analogue to the Federal Rules of Evidence) have evolved since their implementation, often paralleling the development of the federal civilian criminal justice system. In som... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=487397 | 763,167 |
927,352 | Another innovative use of ROV technology was during the "Mardi Gras" Shipwreck Project. The "Mardi Gras Shipwreck" sank some 200 years ago about 35 miles off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico in 4,000 feet (1220 meters) of water. The shipwreck, whose real identity remains a mystery, lay forgotten at the bott... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=299462 | 926,865 |
1,409,433 | Shahid Rahman (Lille) and collaborators developed dialogical logic into a general framework for the study of logical and philosophical issues related to logical pluralism. Beginning 1994 this triggered a kind of renaissance with lasting consequences. This new philosophical impulse experienced a parallel renewal in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=617121 | 1,408,641 |
1,200,828 | Energy homeostasis, which relies on a balance of glucose and lipids, is essential for organism survival. Diseases involving impaired metabolic activity include obesity, Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). In the context equilibrium, over nutrition promotes lipogenesis (lipid synthesis) i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9927027 | 1,200,187 |
349,363 | Shortly after the War, the French architect Le Corbusier, who was nearly sixty years old and had not constructed a building in ten years, was commissioned by the French government to construct a new apartment block in Marseille. He called it Unité d'Habitation in Marseille, but it more popularly took the name of the Ci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315927 | 349,180 |
2,168,505 | In the finite element method, the behavior (stresses, strains and displacements resulting from load conditions) of large-scale structures is approximated by a FE model consisting of structural elements (members) connected at structural node points. Calculations on traditional computers are performed at each node point ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12501094 | 2,167,268 |
790,725 | With the use of in vivo Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and tissue sampling, different cortical samples from members of each hominoid species were analyzed. In each species, specific areas were either relatively enlarged or shrunken, which can detail neural organizations. Different sizes in the cortical areas can show... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17682224 | 790,300 |
1,037,765 | In a later interview, Jennifer elaborated, "I'd like to mention that I've always been an incredibly inconsistent player. If my worst tournaments and my best ones were put side by side and compared, it wouldn't look like I was the same player." As an example to further her point, she shared, "My situation in the hunt fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60375025 | 1,037,224 |
2,029,906 | Common issues arising from the use of 3D cultures is the lack of vasculature within the organoid, leading to cell death and dysfunction at inner layers. Current efforts are focusing on introducing endothelial cells into guided formation cultures in order to create vascular systems and provide nutrient distribution to d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67639494 | 2,028,738 |
568,440 | The process of creating the charge well is used as the write operation in a computer memory, storing a single binary digit, or bit. A positively charged dot is erased (filling the charge well) by drawing a second dot immediately adjacent to the one to be erased (most systems did this by drawing a short dash starting at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33571 | 568,150 |
499,796 | Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) are advanced materials systems usually applied to metallic surfaces operating at elevated temperatures, such as gas turbine or aero-engine parts, as a form of exhaust heat management. These 100 μm to 2 mm thick coatings of thermally insulating materials serve to insulate components from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7068038 | 499,539 |
1,359,695 | Genetic modification used to address concerns outside of medical necessities such as eye color, athletic abilities, intelligence, etc. is one example that has brought into question the ethicality of its purpose. Eugenics, which places a group of desirable human characteristics over another has led to fears of potential... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29071957 | 1,358,944 |
731,518 | Conceived in 1992 by the Pakistan Air Force, the program started in 1995 on main considerations of retiring the A–5 Fantan from active service. The Pakistan Air Force, which already was operating Dassalt Mirage IIIs and Dassalt Mirage 5s, began its procurement of second-hand Mirage fighters from Australia, Lebanon, Lib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4760570 | 731,132 |
175,866 | Before his relationship with his later wife Gertrud "Trude" Weiss, Leo Szilard's life partner in the period 1927–1934 was the kindergarten teacher and opera singer Gerda Philipsborn, who also worked as a volunteer in a Berlin asylum organization for refugee children and in 1932 moved to India to continue this work. Szi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56359 | 175,774 |
1,567,799 | For GEVI development, its future direction is highly coupled with the target applications. With newer generations of GEVIs overcome the poor performance of the first generation ones, we will see more routes open up for GEVIs to be used in more challenging and versatile applications. Like many other protein biosensors a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53995681 | 1,566,912 |
435,217 | In 1976, Lyle challenged his landscape architecture graduate students at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona to "envision a community in which daily activities were based on the value of living within the limits of available renewable resources without environmental degradation." Over the next few decades a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14967273 | 435,003 |
2,051,715 | EPI designs and directs research and evaluation studies for organizations, schools and government agencies to answer questions that contribute to a better understanding of K-12 and postsecondary education and how to improve student outcomes. EPI designs and conducts research experiments, engages in evaluation research ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25804822 | 2,050,534 |
327,784 | While the book was readable enough to sell, its dryness ensured that it was seen as aimed at specialist scientists and could not be dismissed as mere journalism or imaginative fiction. Unlike the still-popular "Vestiges", it avoided the narrative style of the historical novel and cosmological speculation, though the cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29932 | 327,610 |
1,619,664 | The first versions of an abstract Plancherel formula for the Fourier transform on a unimodular locally compact group "G" were due to Segal and Mautner. At around the same time, Harish-Chandra and Gelfand & Naimark derived an explicit formula for SL(2,R) and complex semisimple Lie groups, so in particular the Lorentz gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18298785 | 1,618,749 |
611,303 | Mahidol University Kanchanaburi Campus in western Thailand has been announced since 2002 with the main objective of expanding higher education in the upcountry region, in order to increase local incomes, create occupational opportunities and improve the quality of life of rural people. An Administration Building, 2 lec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1585772 | 610,992 |
912,901 | Cope had planned to write a monograph about the group Ornithopoda, but never made much progress towards it before his death. This unrealized endeavor would come to be the inspiration for Richard Swann Lull and Nelda Wright to work on a similar project decades later. Eventually they realized the whole of Ornithopoda was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1091928 | 912,422 |
870,638 | Available in oral and injectable form, theophylline is a long-acting bronchodilator that prevents asthma episodes. It belongs to the chemical class methylxanthines (along with caffeine). It is prescribed in severe cases of asthma or those that are difficult to control. It must be taken 1–4 times daily, and doses cannot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66388 | 870,178 |
372,886 | While a single GluN2 subunit is found in invertebrate organisms, four distinct isoforms of the GluN2 subunit are expressed in vertebrates and are referred to with the nomenclature GluN2A through GluN2D (encoded by GRIN2A, GRIN2B, GRIN2C, GRIN2D). Strong evidence shows that the genes encoding the GluN2 subunits in verte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=374338 | 372,691 |
2,204,686 | He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1909. His candidature read: "Professor of Mineralogy in the University of Cambridge since 1881. Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, since 1872. First Class in Mathematical Moderations and Finals. First Class in the School of Natural Science. Senior University Mathematical Sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18546309 | 2,203,431 |
1,526,934 | Smagorinsky was among the earliest researchers who sought to exploit new methods of numerical weather prediction (NWP) to extend forecasting past one or two days. Smagorinsky published a seminal paper in 1963 on his research using primitive equations of atmospheric dynamics to simulate the atmosphere's circulation. Thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5194620 | 1,526,070 |
2,033,813 | The "University Times" was first published in December 1968 under its own charter, making it an independent newspaper for the university's faculty and staff. Initially published quarterly, it was released in the months of December, March, June, and September. The newspaper was intended to replace a myriad of newsletter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34798327 | 2,032,640 |
352,660 | In 1823, when he was 10, Verdi's parents arranged for the boy to attend school in Busseto, enrolling him in a "Ginnasio"—an upper school for boys—run by Don Pietro Seletti, while they continued to run their inn at Le Roncole. Verdi returned to Busseto regularly to play the organ on Sundays, covering the distance of sev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12958 | 352,477 |
1,448,444 | Kineticists have historically relied on linearization of rate data to extrapolate rate constants, perhaps best demonstrated by the widespread use of the standard Lineweaver–Burke linearization of the Michaelis–Menten equation. Linearization techniques were of particular importance before the advent of computing techniq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33482057 | 1,447,628 |
2,012,703 | The Hoyas had improved to No. 9 in the AP Poll by the time they hosted No. 20 Marquette in their first game at home against a ranked opponent all season. During the first half and well into the second, it looked as though the Golden Eagles would blow out the Hoyas; Marquette led 43–29 at halftime and extended its lead ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33673923 | 2,011,548 |
1,286,497 | BNNT production route has been a significant issue due to low yield and poor quality in comparison with CNT, thus limiting its practical uses. However, many great successes in BNNT synthesis have been achieved in recent years, enabling access to this material and paving the way for the development of promising applicat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48540155 | 1,285,796 |
1,131,143 | Evidence of phenotypic saltation has been found in the centipede and some scientists have suggested there is evidence for independent instances of saltational evolution in sphinx moths. Saltational changes have occurred in the buccal cavity of the roundworm "Caenorhabditis elegans". Some processes of epigenetic inherit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4131939 | 1,130,554 |
411,282 | An early cataloguing of fingerprints dates back to 1885 when Juan Vucetich started a collection of fingerprints of criminals in Argentina. Josh Ellenbogen and Nitzan Lebovic argued that Biometrics originated in the identification systems of criminal activity developed by Alphonse Bertillon (1853–1914) and by Francis Ga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=290622 | 411,080 |
1,561,421 | Keeping up with the times, the university staff is sensitive to all the requirements of reforms and transformations that are taking place in the field of education and health care in the Republic of Uzbekistan. Since 2005, a new milestone has begun in the history of the university. To date, decent conditions have been ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66858162 | 1,560,535 |
114,933 | Large scale CCS plays a crucial role in reaching climate change stabilization. According to the IPCC, the carbon emission patterns can greatly vary based on the uncertainty of human power consumption. A file regarding the fluctuations of greenhouse gas emissions is shown to the right. However, CCS' primarily role is to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3679268 | 114,888 |
85,946 | Maxwell left the Academy in 1847 at age 16 and began attending classes at the University of Edinburgh. He had the opportunity to attend the University of Cambridge, but decided, after his first term, to complete the full course of his undergraduate studies at Edinburgh. The academic staff of the university included som... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28989696 | 85,912 |
270,605 | The seventh-generation RR (SC57), the Honda CBR1000RR, was the successor to the 2002 CBR954RR. While evolving the CBR954RR design, few parts were carried over to the CBR1000RR. The compact in-line four was a new design, with different bore and stroke dimensions, race-inspired cassette-type six-speed gearbox, all-new EC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4396372 | 270,458 |
1,389,303 | Due to a major advancement in industrial and commercial construction, in conjunction with a highly increased emphasis on energy efficiency, it is not uncommon for colleges and universities to have courses and degrees specifically allocated to facilities engineering. For example, in the late 1990s Purdue University crea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=551409 | 1,388,532 |
703,333 | The word "transcriptome" is a portmanteau of the words "transcript" and "genome". It appeared along with other neologisms formed using the suffixes "-ome" and "-omics" to denote all studies conducted on a genome-wide scale in the fields of life sciences and technology. As such, transcriptome and transcriptomics were on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1075071 | 702,965 |
1,648,551 | Childhood experiences shaped Graves' interest in race and racism: "My parents were poor. They didn't know how to read. I had to teach myself how to read," he says. "The school system of my home was racially biased. When I was in kindergarten teachers wanted to declare me mentally retarded so that I could be placed in a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9978479 | 1,647,619 |
1,498,187 | In plants, cellulose is synthesized by large cellulose synthase complexes (CSCs), which consist of synthase protein isoforms (CesA) that are arranged into a unique hexagonal structure known as a “particle rosette” 50 nm wide and 30–35 nm tall. There are more than 20 of these full-length integral membrane proteins, each... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14650763 | 1,497,343 |
346,039 | His homemade neutron source was often incorrectly referred to as a reactor, but it did emit measurable levels of radiation, likely exceeding 1,000 times normal background radiation. Alarmed, Hahn began to dismantle his experiments, but in a chance encounter, police discovered his activities, which triggered a Federal R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1024843 | 345,858 |
965,953 | 1969 studies on the element showed that lawrencium reacts with chlorine to form a product that was most likely the trichloride, . Its volatility was found to be similar to the chlorides of curium, fermium, and nobelium and much less than that of rutherfordium chloride. In 1970, chemical studies were performed on 1500 a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17746 | 965,444 |
870,443 | Having considerably improved graphical capabilities compared to those provided with Acorn's 8-bit machines, a number of art packages were released for the Archimedes to exploit this particular area of opportunity, albeit rather cautiously at first. One of the first available packages, Clares' Artisan, supported image e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 869,983 |
313,079 | From September 1939 to November 1940, Leahy served as Governor of Puerto Rico after Roosevelt removed Blanton Winship for his role in the Ponce massacre. Winship had aligned himself with the Coalición, a pro-American electoral alliance that represented the interests of the island's wealthy elite and American sugar corp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=448716 | 312,911 |
1,036,819 | Region-wide accreditation has also been planned for vocational skills. Currently local training agencies award National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ) or national Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) certification, which are not valid across Member States. However, in 2003, the Caribbean Association ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3233460 | 1,036,279 |
56,866 | Film composer and editor John Ottman, a big "Star Trek" fan, directed the fourth episode of the season. Ottman helped Kurtzman oversee the editing of the third season in return for getting to direct in the fourth. On April 22, 2021, production on the season was paused after a "Zone A" individual (referring to key cast ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63388083 | 56,842 |
2,041,756 | Such a conceptual perspective raises fundamental questions not only regarding the interaction between the different components of holobionts and processes governing their dynamics, but also of the relevant units of selection and the role of coevolution. For instance, plant and animal evolution involves new functions co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68504105 | 2,040,576 |
1,256,114 | In the 1960s and 1970s, a number of plant biologists, ecologists, and entomologists expanded this line of research on the ecological roles of plant secondary metabolites. During this period, Thomas Eisner and his close collaborator Jerrold Meinwald published a series seminal papers on chemical defenses in plants and in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=619320 | 1,255,430 |
154,457 | "With the adoption of the M14 service rifle no provision was made for an M14 sniper rifle, [and] the designation of a sniper in the rifle squad was discontinued. "The conflict in Vietnam revived the need for snipers." Snipers became "optional" and no table of organization and equipment (TOE) authorized sniper organizat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=375761 | 154,387 |
1,614,515 | L. S. Shashidhara, born on 23 March 1963 in the south Indian state of Karnataka, graduated in science from University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (UAS) in 1985 and obtained a master's degree in Genetics and Plant breeding in 1987 from the same university. After a brief stint (1987–88) at UAS as a teaching associa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52156468 | 1,613,609 |
1,538,873 | The locomotive was to be a 4-8-4, but wartime restrictions on light steel alloys increased weight until six-wheel leading and trailing trucks were needed; its construction was also delayed by World War II. Construction of the locomotive took place at the Baldwin plant in Eddystone. Two turbines were fitted, one for for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1283811 | 1,538,000 |
153,730 | Modern x86 CPUs contain SIMD instructions, which largely perform the same operation in parallel on many values encoded in a wide SIMD register. Various instruction technologies support different operations on different register sets, but taken as complete whole (from MMX to SSE4.2) they include general computations on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=214948 | 153,660 |
1,032,075 | The British engine manufacturer Cosworth, founded in 1958 by Keith Duckworth and Mike Costin, was represented in the Formula 1 World Championship for 17 years from 1967 with the 3.0-liter naturally aspirated DFV engine. Funded by Ford, the DFV was freely available and dominated Formula 1 in the 1970s. With 155 world ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68931039 | 1,031,539 |
2,241,943 | On 22 June 2014, it was reported that Germany's defense ministry had temporarily halted new orders worth €34 million ($ million) over accuracy concerns for the rifle. The Bundeswehr consulted the Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics (Ernst Mach Institut) and the Federal Criminal Police Office. On 30 March 2015,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=698999 | 2,240,672 |
1,182,162 | As had been planned previously, in September 1818 Charles joined his older brother Erasmus Alvey Darwin (nicknamed "Eras") in staying as a boarder at the Shrewsbury School, where he loathed the required rote learning, and would try to visit home when he could, but also made many friends and developed interests. Years l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2087722 | 1,181,537 |
1,484,228 | Common genetic engineering strategies require a permanent modification of the target genome. To this end great sophistication has to be invested in the design of routes applied for the delivery of transgenes. Although for biotechnological purposes random integration is still common, it may result in unpredictable gene ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4385154 | 1,483,391 |
417,891 | In August 1943, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill, and the President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, signed the Quebec Agreement, which provided for cooperation between the two countries. The Quebec Agreement established the Combined Policy Committee and the Combined Development T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41957579 | 417,687 |
1,515,290 | Measurements of redshifted energy serve as a means of detecting the presence of rare solitons. Additionally, peak intensity and redshifted energy are well correlated variables in supercontinuum generation with low soliton number; thus, redshifted energy serves as an indicator of peak intensity in this regime. This may ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42450197 | 1,514,439 |
671,940 | In an EI ion source, electrons are produced through thermionic emission by heating a wire filament that has electric current running through it. The kinetic energy of the bombarding electrons should have higher energy than the ionization energy of the sample molecule. The electrons are accelerated to 70 eV in the regio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=340284 | 671,588 |
722,083 | Langley Research Center (LaRC), founded in 1917, is the oldest of NASA's field centers, located in Hampton, Virginia. LaRC focuses primarily on aeronautical research, though the Apollo lunar lander was flight-tested at the facility and a number of high-profile space missions have been planned and designed on-site. Esta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33208799 | 721,703 |
372,177 | Because it is a fixed resource, the "practical" limits and basic physical considerations of the radio spectrum, the frequencies which are useful for radio communication, are determined by technological limitations which are impossible to overcome. So although the radio spectrum is becoming increasingly congested, there... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=634183 | 371,982 |
1,424,232 | The 1992–93 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team represented the University of Michigan in intercollegiate college basketball during the 1992–93 season. The team played its home games in the Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and was a member of the Big Ten Conference. Under the direction of head coach Steve Fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22460119 | 1,423,430 |
1,924,173 | ORCTL3 is a 90 kDa protein composed of 351 amino acids. It is suggested that the protein spans the cell membrane several times, based on computational methods. Overexpressed ORCTL3 is localized to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), Golgi and the plasma membrane but not to mitochondria. ORCTL3 was identified as the first h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34556489 | 1,923,070 |
733,242 | In normal circumstances after injury HIF1A is degraded by prolyl hydroxylases (PHDs). In June 2015, scientists found that the continued up-regulation of HIF1A via PHD inhibitors regenerates lost or damaged tissue in mammals that have a repair response; and the continued down-regulation of HIF1A results in healing with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12744173 | 732,855 |
662,521 | Although some early computers such as EDSAC, inspired by the design of EDVAC, later made successful use of mercury delay-line memory, the technology had several drawbacks: it was heavy, it was expensive, and it did not allow data to be accessed randomly. In addition, because data was stored as a sequence of acoustic wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=531686 | 662,176 |
1,099,156 | All this is a substantial amount of work, even if authoring tools have become available to ease the task. This means that building an ITS is an option only in situations in which they, in spite of their relatively high development costs, still reduce the overall costs through reducing the need for human instructors or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3765637 | 1,098,596 |
1,966,527 | Dissorophids are most readily recognized for their distinctive osteoderms, although these are not unique to either dissorophids among temnospondyls or to temnospondyls among early tetrapods. It is also debated whether "Platyhystrix" has true osteoderms or simply ornamented neural spines with similar morphology to the o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2917704 | 1,965,397 |
693,648 | Wharton's family had long roots in Newport, Rhode Island and he summered there with his extended family at the family house on Washington Street for many decades. When his children were young, Wharton enjoyed taking them rowing and sailing about the harbor. Often they would sail across the bay to Conanicut Island to pi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=383305 | 693,285 |
1,554,917 | EnvisionTEC is a privately held global company that develops, manufactures and sells more than 40 configurations of desktop and production 3D printers based on seven several distinct process technologies that build objects from digital design files. Founded in 2002, the company now has a corporate headquarters for Nort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44314961 | 1,554,034 |
545,479 | In 1919, Rutherford had succeeded in disintegrating nitrogen atoms with alpha particles emitted from decaying radium atoms. This and subsequent experiments hinted at the structure of atomic nuclei. To explore it further, he needed an artificial means of creating particles with a velocity high enough to overcome the cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=352564 | 545,193 |
577,022 | Three types of ion guns are employed. In one, ions of gaseous elements are usually generated with duoplasmatrons or by electron ionization, for instance noble gases (Ar, Xe), oxygen (O, O, O), or even ionized molecules such as SF (generated from SF) or C (fullerene). This type of ion gun is easy to operate and generate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=651485 | 576,726 |
1,040,960 | In 1975 the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) conservatively identified a 0.7% reduction in traffic fatalities during DST, and estimated the real reduction at 1.5% to 2.0%, but the 1976 NBS review of the DOT study found no differences in traffic fatalities. In 1995 the Insurance Institute for Highway Saf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65801630 | 1,040,417 |
320,288 | In his "Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life" (1765), "Lectures on History and General Policy" (1788), and other works, Priestley argued that the education of the young should anticipate their future practical needs. This principle of utility guided his unconventional curricular choices for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40176 | 320,116 |
539,134 | In 1971, the Italian Navy began an ingenious program to develop ballistic missiles called Alfa. Officially the project was termed as a development effort for a study on efficient solid-propellant rockets for civil and military applications. It was planned as a two-stage rocket and could be carried on submarines or ship... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54884675 | 538,854 |
1,417,503 | Surfaces and interfaces are critical zones where major physical, chemical, and biological exchanges occur. As the ocean covers 362 million km, about 71% of the Earth's surface, the ocean-atmosphere interface is plausibly one of the largest and most important interfaces on the planet. Every substance entering or leaving... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12264442 | 1,416,704 |
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