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1,204,878 | Soil microbes play a major role in a multitude of biological and chemical activities that take place in soil. These microorganisms are said to make up around 1,000-10,000 kg of biomass per hectare in some soils (García-Sánchez, 2016). They are mostly recognized for their association with plants. The most well-known exa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4715070 | 1,204,233 |
1,227,358 | The University of Mississippi Medical Center's Helicopter Flight program began operations in 1996 with a single helicopter based in Jackson. The Jackson-based AirCare 1 helicopter was joined by the Meridian-based AirCare 2 helicopter in spring 2009, the Golden Triangle-based AirCare 3 in spring 2016, and Greenwood-base... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=289782 | 1,226,697 |
1,654,078 | Statistical models include linear and non-linear models, but also structural and black-box types of models. Structural models rely on the analyst's expertise on the phenomenon of interest while black-box models require little subject-matter knowledge and are constructed from data in a fairly mechanical way. Concerning ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8768560 | 1,653,146 |
98,779 | Ephedrine may be quantified in blood, plasma, or urine to monitor possible abuse by athletes, confirm a diagnosis of poisoning, or assist in a medicolegal death investigation. Many commercial immunoassay screening tests directed at the amphetamines cross-react appreciably with ephedrine, but chromatographic techniques ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182945 | 98,736 |
1,379,163 | Russian military doctrine refers to new physical principles weapons, while describing the main features of these weapons as comparable in effect to nuclear weapons but more acceptable in political terms. It was reported in October 2016 that Russia had tested a new electronic weapon, based on new physical principles, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52803334 | 1,378,401 |
2,199,052 | The Badgers opened against Michigan Tech and completely dominated both games. While the score was close in the second affair, Wisconsin outshot the Huskies 76–41 and controlled both games from start to finish. They met North Dakota in the semifinal and got off to a good start, scoring twice in the first 11 minutes. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72035440 | 2,197,800 |
1,399,824 | Larger and more dangerous mammalian prey is not infrequently tackled by Eurasian eagle-owl. Nearly thirty species of mammalian carnivores have been reported in their diet. Many of these are mustelids, which are the smallest type of carnivore but can defend themselves viciously, even the tiny least weasel ("Mustela niva... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45597481 | 1,399,044 |
824,136 | Countries with cross-country ski teams usually have a strategy for developing promising athletes and programs to encourage participation in the sport, starting at a young age. One example is Cross-Country Ski Canada's "Long-Term Athlete Development" program. The program encompasses youth development, training, introduc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44298710 | 823,693 |
1,998,347 | A group of 22 staff members were fired after making it onto the roof of the Beit building via a route which was deemed precarious following a leaving drinks event for one of the ex-staff members who had just left on the 7th of November 2021. The roof was accessible via a window which had a broken restrictor - neglected... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=994736 | 1,997,204 |
1,557,854 | Given that the subcommissural organ is not highly permeable and does not possess fenestrated capillaries like other subventricular organs, it has emerged as a major site of congenital hydrocephalus. It is suggested that this is related to immunological blockage of SCO secretions and Sylvian's aqueduct malformation and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10816088 | 1,556,969 |
615,882 | As a result of a November 1987 NSF award to the Merit Network, a networking consortium by public universities in Michigan, the original 56kbit/s network was expanded to include 13 nodes interconnected at 1.5Mbit/s (T-1) by July 1988. Additional links were added to form a multi-path network, and a node located in Atlant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=100247 | 615,568 |
2,230,604 | Southampton manager Jimmy McIntyre bought and sold several players before the start of the 1923–24 season. One of the first departures during the summer was inside-forward John Cooper, who returned to his former club Darlaston after having made just five league appearances with the Saints during two seasons. Also leavi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57060779 | 2,229,338 |
2,002,496 | In the 20 chapters of the first book, traditional mechanical devices are discussed such as the balance, the lever, the wheel or pulley and the block and tackle, the wedge, and the screw. The powers acting on them are compared to those acting in the human body. The book deals with the phrase attributed to Archimedes say... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34749877 | 2,001,348 |
941,359 | A thermoluminescent dosimeter measures ionizing radiation exposure by measuring the intensity of light emitted from a Dy or B doped crystal in the detector when heated. The intensity of light emitted is dependent upon the radiation exposure. These were once sold surplus and one format once used by submariners and nucle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40363 | 940,857 |
1,144,020 | The long-term effects of spacing have also been assessed in the context of learning a foreign language. Bahrick et al. examined the retention of newly learned foreign vocabulary words over a 9-year period, varying both the number of sessions and the space between them. Both the number of relearning sessions and the num... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34976279 | 1,143,420 |
1,898,692 | The program also provides students with the opportunity to get involved with internships and research, through the Honors Engineering Research course students take their senior year. For each half of the year, students can work on a research project or an individual supervised learning experience (SLE). For research pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4030729 | 1,897,608 |
1,886,552 | 16S ribosomal RNA is the most common housekeeping genetic marker for classifying and identifying bacterial species, as it is present in all bacterial species, has an identical function in most organisms, and is large enough (~1,500 bp) to capture sufficient variation to distinguish bacteria. The sequence of 16S rRNA co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53368771 | 1,885,470 |
1,627,814 | The S-37 was a two bay sesquiplane using parallel interplane struts and bracing wires. Based on the S-35 its construction was very similar, an all metal fuselage and main wing made of Duralumin and covered with fabric. The empennage featured a triple tail with the rudders placed in the slipstream of each engine and a c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47221838 | 1,626,896 |
1,646,840 | The switches maintain the orderly progression of the cell cycle and act as checkpoints to ensure that each phase has been properly completed before progression to the next phase. For example, Cdk, or cyclin dependent kinase, is a major control switch for the cell cycle and it allows the cell to move from G1 to S or G2 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25368725 | 1,645,909 |
12,715 | jury service. PhD work beyond this may be unfunded or funded from other sources. A very small number of scientific studentships are sometimes paid at a higher rate – for example, in London, Cancer Research UK, the ICR and the Wellcome Trust stipend rates start at around £19,000 and progress annually to around £23,000 a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21031297 | 12,710 |
1,234,863 | The "Design and Development of Light Tank on BMP-I" project approved in 1983 was intended to be completed in 1986. It never reached completion but continued in production and trials until 1996 at a total cost of Rs 4.53 crore (Rs 2.91 through foreign exchange), well beyond its estimated Rs 2.54 crore. The army, which h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25699019 | 1,234,200 |
1,243,061 | Women who are of fertile age may be infertile for a number of reasons. Various diagnostic tests are available to establish reasons. Several diagnostic procedures and clinical instruments are used for to evaluate anatomical causes of infertility. Some use a combination of imaging such as an X-ray or ultrasound with a co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30581376 | 1,242,388 |
1,571,886 | Doppler techniques can be used to visualize blood flow through the heart, great vessels, and umbilical vessels. Assessment of fetal arrhythmias is best accomplished by using a combination of M-mode and Doppler recordings. When these arrhythmias are present, a careful search for structural heart disease is mandatory. Wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17100051 | 1,570,998 |
1,540,225 | Gamma-ray bursts were discovered in the late 1960s by the U.S. Vela nuclear test detection satellites. The Velas were built to detect gamma radiation pulses emitted by nuclear weapon tests in space. The United States suspected that the USSR might attempt to conduct secret nuclear tests after signing the Nuclear Test Ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22308958 | 1,539,352 |
535,174 | The belligerents then became locked in static trench warfare akin to the First World War, in which men lived in tunnels, redoubts, and sandbagged forts behind barbed wire defences. From 1951 until the end of the war, 3 RAR held trenches on the eastern side of the division's positions in the hills northeast of the Imjin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,895 |
471,914 | Wastewater engineers perform these activities by combining their knowledge and skills to perform tasks. These tasks are to understand computer-aided design programs, and to conduct studies for the construction of facilities, water supply systems and collection systems. They may design systems for wastewater collection ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8416361 | 471,678 |
593,704 | xBR ("scale by rules"), created by Hyllian, works much the same way as HQx (based on pattern recognition), and would generate the same result as HQx when given the above pattern. However, it goes further than HQx by using a 2-stage set of interpolation rules, which better handle more complex patterns such as anti-alias... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1814357 | 593,400 |
1,305,842 | Herbs and other plants were used heavily in the delivery process, a practice also linked to religious belief. For example, a drink sprinkled with powdered sow’s dung was given to relieve labor pain, and fumigation with the fat from a hyena was thought to produce immediate delivery. Most of these practices had little to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20517149 | 1,305,126 |
1,038,683 | Starting in September, Ross and Pople outlined a language for machine control that was based on points and lines, developing this over several years into the APT programming language. In 1957 the Aircraft Industries Association (AIA) and Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base joined with MIT to standar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39469106 | 1,038,142 |
1,955,988 | In order to make MABEL functional for extended periods of time, the researchers focused on ways to optimize powertrain efficiency. Unlike the RABBIT, MABEL was designed to have all four motors in the midsection instead of the legs. This makes the legs lighter and more agile. Secondly, most of MABEL’s power is stored in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44390280 | 1,954,866 |
1,595,970 | In a paper entitled "Assumptions and the Cognitive Quality of Theorie", Karl Brunner argued that Milton Friedman (in his famous "Methodology of Positive Economics") had been right that "the cognitive quality of a theory cannot be judged by the realism of 'assumptions' but must be judged by the confrontation of its impl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10181653 | 1,595,071 |
1,311,199 | Following the release of "BioShock Infinite", two major pieces of downloadable content have been released by Irrational. The first piece, titled "Clash in the Clouds", was released on July 30, 2013. It is a non-story arena-based combat mode where the player is faced with increasingly difficult waves of enemies on vario... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38977195 | 1,310,480 |
973,359 | Because one of the main purposes for biomedical engineering is to mimic body parts to sustain normal body functions, due to their biocompatible properties, biopolymers are used vastly for tissue engineering, medical devices and the pharmaceutical industry. Many biopolymers can be used for regenerative medicine, tissue ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3974 | 972,849 |
1,882,531 | A recommendation from Burstall helped Baxter secure a research engineer position with Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) in Billingham, where a new chemical factory had been established to make sodium hydroxide. Here he met Lilian May Thatcher, who worked as a stenographer in nearby Stockton-on-Tees. The two became eng... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18243283 | 1,881,450 |
1,048,258 | A possible solution came in sight, when in 1889 Oliver Heaviside derived from Maxwell's equations that the magnetic vector potential field around a moving body is altered by a factor of formula_1. Based on that result, and to bring the hypothesis of an immobile aether into accordance with the Michelson–Morley experimen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2299454 | 1,047,713 |
363,020 | Niacin, also known as nicotinic acid, is an organic compound and a form of vitaminB, an essential human nutrient. It can be manufactured by plants and animals from the amino acid tryptophan. Niacin is obtained in the diet from a variety of whole and processed foods, with highest contents in fortified packaged foods, me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37996 | 362,830 |
400,073 | After 64 percent of Swiss voters accepted the NRLA project in a 1992 referendum; the first preparatory and exploratory work began in 1996. The official start of construction began on 4 November 1999 at Amsteg. Drilling operations in the eastern tunnel were completed on 15 October 2010 in a breakthrough ceremony broadca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=692624 | 399,874 |
742,268 | Meanwhile, Lechleider had proposed using ISDN's echo cancellation and 2B1Q encoding on existing T1 connections, allowing the distance between repeaters to be doubled to about . Another standards war broke out, but in 1991 Lechleider's 1.6 Mbit/s "High-Speed Digital Subscriber Line" eventually won this process as well, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15231 | 741,876 |
1,086,542 | New Zealand's car assembly industry has its roots in pre-car trades. In the early 20th century, coachbuilders and wheelwrights quickly moved into building bodies for imported motor vehicle chassis. In 1926 after the announcement that General Motors would begin local assembly a deputation of members of the New Zealand C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34570831 | 1,085,984 |
937,020 | This summary of the superior oblique muscle describes its most important functions. However, it is an oversimplification of the actual situation. For example, the tendon of the superior oblique inserts "behind" the equator of the eyeball in the frontal plane, so contraction of the muscle also tends to "abduct" the eyeb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=243323 | 936,524 |
1,695,406 | This summary of the superior oblique muscle describes its most important functions. However, it is an oversimplification of the actual situation. For example, the tendon of the superior oblique inserts "behind" the equator of the eyeball in the frontal plane, so contraction of the muscle also tends to "abduct" the eyeb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6900894 | 1,694,454 |
1,099,595 | First, as already seen, the concept of sustainable finance is directly linked with ESG. However, there are still no universally adopted standards for how companies and organisations can measure and report on their sustainability performance. Instead, we have a large number of NGOs working independently to develop stand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65789694 | 1,099,035 |
656,922 | For the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, which opened in 1991, Tange designed a large civic centre with a plaza dominated by two skyscrapers. These house the administration offices whilst a smaller seven-storey building contains assembly facilities. In his design of a high tech version of Kofu Communications Cen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53427 | 656,578 |
492,026 | Several types of astrophysical objects emit, fluoresce, or reflect X-rays, from galaxy clusters, through black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGN) to galactic objects such as supernova remnants, stars, and binary stars containing a white dwarf (cataclysmic variable stars and super soft X-ray sources), neutron star or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44062 | 491,772 |
1,754,432 | ISSL has previously developed two deep space probes: the PROCYON asteroid probe and the EQUULEUS CubeSat mission to Earth–Moon L Lagrangian point. NICT will put into use their experience developing the SMILES (Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder) instrument on board the ISS Kibo module, and SWI (Su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54028947 | 1,753,442 |
1,105,492 | Broadly defined, this subdiscipline endeavors to discover and prevent various adverse physiological responses to hostile biologic and physical stresses encountered in the aerospace environment. Problems range from life support measures for astronauts to recognizing an ear block in an infant traveling on an airliner wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=991893 | 1,104,929 |
471,729 | On July 17, representatives of crash victims' families, in testimony to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee – Aviation Subcommittee, called on regulators to re-certificate the MAX as a completely new aircraft. They also called for wider reforms to the certification process, and asked the committee to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63181427 | 471,493 |
544,329 | The majority of theoretical frameworks for the unified richness of phenomenal experience adhere to the intuitive idea that experience exists as a single copy, and draw on "functional" descriptions of distributed networks of cells. Baars has suggested that certain signals, encoding what we experience, enter a "Global Wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=941613 | 544,047 |
850,405 | Scott Gordon Jurek (born October 26, 1973) is an American ultramarathoner, author, and public speaker. Throughout his running career, Jurek was one of the most dominant ultramarathon runners in the world, winning the Hardrock Hundred (2007), the Badwater Ultramarathon (2005, 2006), the Spartathlon (2006, 2007, 2008), a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2108919 | 849,953 |
234,739 | The signaling process to contract or relax the sternocleidomastoid begins in Cranial Nerve XI, the accessory nerve. The accessory nerve nucleus is in the anterior horn of the spinal cord around C1-C3, where lower motor neuron fibers mark its origin. The fibers from the accessory nerve nucleus travel upward to enter the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=465415 | 234,620 |
130,180 | The concept of data warehousing dates back to the late 1980s when IBM researchers Barry Devlin and Paul Murphy developed the "business data warehouse". In essence, the data warehousing concept was intended to provide an architectural model for the flow of data from operational systems to decision support environments. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7990 | 130,128 |
839,301 | At age 14, Bassey stood and moved to the United States to continue his basketball career at St. Anthony Catholic High School, a private school in San Antonio, Texas. By then, recruiting analysts considered him one of the best prospects in his class. As a freshman, Bassey averaged 20.2 points, 17.1 rebounds and 5.9 bloc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57743699 | 838,852 |
1,432,152 | The applications of image-based VPH/Physiome models in basic and clinical domains are vast. Broadly speaking, they promise to become new "virtual imaging techniques". Effectively more, often non-observable, parameters will be imaged "in silico" based on the integration of observable but sometimes sparse and inconsisten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35201519 | 1,431,348 |
606,405 | With classical-model black holes, objects passing through the event horizon on their way to the singularity are thought to enter a realm of curved spacetime where the escape velocity exceeds the speed of light. It is a realm that is devoid of all structure. Further, at the singularity—the heart of a classic black hole—... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1415072 | 606,095 |
346,373 | In the case of degrees of temperature, three scientific and engineering standards bodies (the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, the International Organization for Standardization and the U.S. Government Printing Office) prescribe printing temperatures with a space between the number and the degree symbol, e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1198479 | 346,192 |
1,533,200 | The Hall of Champions opened March 31, 2000, ahead of the 2000 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game held in Indianapolis on April 3, 2000. The opening ceremony was presided over by Indiana Governor Frank O'Bannon and NCAA president Cedric Dempsey, with 3,000 dignitaries in attendance. NASA astronaut Steve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10746347 | 1,532,332 |
172,328 | In some parts of the world, such as sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, HCC is the most common cancer, generally affecting men more than women, and with an age of onset between the late teens and 30s. This variability is in part due to the different patterns of hepatitis B and hepatitis C transmission in different p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=237585 | 172,237 |
662,833 | Training artificial intelligence (AI) without datasets derived from human experts has significant implications for the development of AI with superhuman skills because expert data is "often expensive, unreliable or simply unavailable." Demis Hassabis, the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, said that AlphaGo Zero was so po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55572262 | 662,488 |
460,362 | By the 9th and 10th centuries, this resulted in collapse of the system of rulership based around the divine power of the ruling lord. In the northern Yucatán, individual rule was replaced by a ruling council formed from elite lineages. In the southern Yucatán and central Petén, kingdoms generally declined; in western P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46998769 | 460,136 |
487,360 | Widlar and Talbert were instrumental in the takeover of National Semiconductor by former Fairchild Semiconductor managers Charles Sporck and Pierre Lamond in February 1967. Sporck and Lamond turned National Semiconductor into a leading producer of electronic circuits, and Fairchild Semiconductor slipped into an irrever... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3483624 | 487,110 |
1,571,104 | Mechanical music technology is the use of any device, mechanism, machine or tool by a musician or composer to make or perform music; to compose, notate, play back or record songs or pieces; or to analyze or edit music. The earliest known applications of technology to music was prehistoric peoples' use of a tool to hand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49646776 | 1,570,216 |
404,875 | Alexandra started programming at the age of 12, making web pages in HTML and later writing in PHP, Delphi, and Assembly languages. She attempted to create a Tamagotchi powered by artificial intelligence. She performed her first computer hack at the age of 14; using SQL injection, she obtained access to all logins and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49416318 | 404,675 |
768,625 | They have evolved to have large nervous systems and brains. An individual has about 500 million neurons in its body, almost comparable to dogs. They are intelligent enough to distinguish brightness, navigate mazes, recognize individual people, learn how to unscrew a jar or raid lobster traps. They have also been observ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10129055 | 768,213 |
90,318 | Thailand started a rain-making project in the late-1950s, known today as the Royal Rainmaking Project. Its first efforts scattered sea salt in the air to catch the humidity and dry ice to condense the humidity to form clouds. The project took about ten years of experiments and refinement. The first field operations beg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=449660 | 90,278 |
229,762 | The school started its intercollegiate athletic program in 1978. The program was inaugurated with men's basketball by Gene Bartow, who was John Wooden's successor at UCLA. Bartow left UCLA after several exceptional seasons (52–9 over three seasons, including a berth in the Final Four in 1976) to head up the founding of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=510049 | 229,645 |
643,719 | During early 2011, IAE announced a commitment to developing a new generation of the V2500 engine, referred to as "SelectTwo", along with the provision of substantial support and continued investment in the family. The modifications were described by aerospace periodical Flight International as "unambitious", being main... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3109527 | 643,379 |
1,423,706 | Following the February 2000 encounter, "Galileo"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s mission at Jupiter was extended for a second and final time with the Galileo Millennium Mission. The focus of this extended mission was joint observation of the Jovian system by both "Galileo" and "Cassini", which performed a distant flyby of Jupiter e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26237277 | 1,422,904 |
600,413 | The orthokeratology website "ortho-k.net" explains in lay-terms that the mechanism behind ortho-k is that around 60% of the eye's focusing power is provided by the cornea, and this is extremely sensitive to very small changes: 6 µm flattening of corneal thickness (around 5% of the thickness of a human hair) results in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1048095 | 600,107 |
1,471,281 | After validation of ROAs, the attestations can be compared to BGP routing and aid network operators in their decision making process. This can be done manually, but the validated prefix origin data can also be sent to a supported router using the RPKI to Router Protocol (RFC 6810), Cisco Systems offers native support o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29554494 | 1,470,454 |
1,469,152 | Jay described the book as "extraordinarily valuable" and "powerfully written", "an awesome achievement of synthetic scholarship and critical analysis", and a "monument of committed learning". He praised Kołakowski's account of the "origins of dialectic", and his discussion of the philosophical aspects of Marx's theory,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34430017 | 1,468,328 |
1,258,503 | Various forms of therapy are available to people living with cerebral palsy as well as caregivers and parents. Treatment may include one or more of the following: physical therapy; occupational therapy; speech therapy; water therapy; drugs to control seizures, alleviate pain, or relax muscle spasms (e.g. benzodiazepine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27399297 | 1,257,816 |
568,192 | Daniels was born in Sunderland in 1926. His mother was unmarried so she fled London and travelled north. After Daniels was born he and his mother returned to London, where she married Daniels' father. In 1944, Daniels entered the British Army; he already had an interest in watches and did some repairs for army friends.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3586326 | 567,902 |
1,077,194 | The United States Marine Corps is considering replacing their Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler electronic attack aircraft with F-35s that have stealthy jammer pods attached. On 30 September 2008, the United States Navy outlined the basic requirements of the NGJ and stated that the design must be modular and open. The Nav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34499956 | 1,076,639 |
1,707,762 | NO leads to at least 200 fold increase in sGC activity. Because nitric oxide has a partially filled pi* orbital, back bonding prefers a bent geometry for the heme-NO complex. NO has a strong trans effect, in which the histidine-iron bond is weakened when NO binding delocalizes electrons to the dz2 orbital toward the ax... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10486989 | 1,706,804 |
1,486,846 | The French journal "L'Aérophile" later published photos of Esnault-Pelterie's glider with its inter-wing ailerons in June 1905, and ailerons were then copied by other aircraft designers, with the interwing ailerons showing up on the final-flown revision of Alberto Santos-Dumont's 14-bis canard biplane on 12 November 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39213072 | 1,486,008 |
1,551,374 | She has also studied the evolution of the color of mice coats and its significance for adaptation. In 2013, her team published an article in the journal "Science", describing how coat color in mice was controlled by nine separate mutations within a single gene, named "agouti." Speaking about this discovery, Hoekstra sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48913301 | 1,550,493 |
867,896 | Significant attention has been paid to the crystallography, morphology and macro mechanical effects of deformation twinning. Although the criterion for deformation twin growth is not entirely understood, it is a tip-controlled phenomenon linked to the interaction between the residual and mobile twin partials at the twi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1997989 | 867,436 |
1,983,307 | The Moog Theremini is a monophonic digital synthesizer manufactured by Moog Music and is a re-working on one of the oldest electronic instruments in history, the Theremin, created by Léon Theremin in 1929 and made popular as a source of atmospheric sound tracks for science fiction films. Similar to the Theremin, the Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57923288 | 1,982,168 |
424,835 | The impressment of slaves and conscription of freedmen into direct military labor initially came on the impetus of state legislatures, and by 1864, six states had regulated impressment (Florida, Virginia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina, in order of authorization). Slave labor was used in a wide var... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15799614 | 424,627 |
623,522 | Since radio circuits inherently possess a broadcast network topology (i.e., many or all nodes are connected to the network simultaneously), one of the first technical challenges faced in the implementation of packet radio networks was a means to control access to a shared communication channel to avoid collisions of si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25144 | 623,190 |
404,610 | The game provides support for the trading of in-game resources, including graphs of item price history, with Donchian Channel and daily average price. Some player characters operate primarily as traders, generating profits through buying, selling, and transporting goods. Others operate primarily as producers, obtaining... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=403307 | 404,410 |
340,701 | Contrary to the way theropods have often been reconstructed in art and the popular media, the range of motion of theropod forelimbs was severely limited, especially compared with the forelimb dexterity of humans and other primates. Most notably, theropods and other bipedal saurischian dinosaurs (including the bipedal p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=300664 | 340,520 |
1,808,937 | Born in Venezuela, Sánchez Alvarado attended the Colegio Emil Friedman for elementary and high school education, where he first cultivated his interest in biology. After receiving a BS in molecular biology and chemistry from Vanderbilt University in 1986, he attended the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52260286 | 1,807,916 |
1,616,916 | NMR spectroscopy is a technique that has been used over the years to study important dynamic aspects of base flipping. This technique allows researchers to determine the physical and chemical properties of atoms and other molecules by utilizing the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei. In addition, NMR can provide a va... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42177410 | 1,616,005 |
2,172,720 | Charvat grew up in the metro Detroit area, where he would take apart old televisions & radios. He built amateur radio equipment in high school, a radio telescope for which he won second place at the 1997 International Science and Engineering Fair in Louisville, KY, and developed many radar sensors in college. He earned... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40740455 | 2,171,478 |
402,799 | Flynn in his 2007 book "What Is Intelligence?" further expanded on this theory. Environmental changes resulting from modernization—such as more intellectually demanding work, greater use of technology, and smaller families—have meant that a much larger proportion of people are more accustomed to manipulating abstract c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11773 | 402,599 |
2,132,126 | The defined problem is called the boundary value problem (BVP). Hence, let formula_36 be a solution of the BVP. Since formula_37 depends nonlinearly on the deformation gradient, this solution is generally not unique, and it depends on geometrical and material parameters of the problem. So, one has to employ the method ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57687737 | 2,130,901 |
388,017 | "Cassini–Huygens"s origins date to 1982, when the European Science Foundation and the American National Academy of Sciences formed a working group to investigate future cooperative missions. Two European scientists suggested a paired Saturn Orbiter and Titan Probe as a possible joint mission. In 1983, NASA's Solar Syst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67941 | 387,822 |
1,408,511 | In response to the Muir Report, an objective was set to build an academic medical center to lure established doctors to Long Island and to train new physicians. In 1965, the planning for the new medical center began under the leadership of Dr. Edmund D. Pellegrino. In 1968, Pellegrino and Dr. Alfred Knudson, the school... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34155171 | 1,407,720 |
112,049 | In more recent analysis of the Scientific Revolution during this period, there has been criticism of not only the Eurocentric ideologies spread, but also of the dominance of male scientists of the time. Female scholars were not always given the opportunities that a male scholar would have had, and the incorporation of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29544 | 112,004 |
1,892,242 | The report concluded that the expected impacts of these climate effects on transportation are striking. A significant portion of the region's road, rail, and port network is at risk of permanent flooding if sea levels rise by four feet. This includes more than 2,400 miles (27%) of the major roads, 9% of the rail lines,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5004886 | 1,891,159 |
1,920,530 | Photonic crystal fibers are a variant of the microstructured fibers reported by Kaiser et al. They are an attempt to incorporate the bandgap ideas of Yeh et al. in a simple way by stacking periodically a regular array of channels and drawing into fiber form. The first such fibers did not propagate by such a bandgap but... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38070321 | 1,919,427 |
2,150,211 | After a year of increasing pressure from GET-UP and its allies failed to convince the University to drop its appeal and allow the NLRB to count the ballots cast in the certification election, the union members felt that a significant action was necessary to move the process forward. At the Spring 2004 GET-UP general me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30860187 | 2,148,980 |
951,319 | Sodium polyacrylate is a commonly used electronegative polyelectrolyte which could be used to construct self-healing hydrogels and super-absorbents. Novel chitosan/sodium polyacrylate polyelectrolyte complex hydrogels (CPG) have been fabricated successfully in a study by cross-linking chitosan and sodium polyacrylate w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2915728 | 950,815 |
1,641,684 | High population density is one of the environmental factors that can lead to reproductive suppression. When population density is high, subordinate individuals may experience reproductive suppression that they would not have experienced otherwise. For example, when high numbers of yellow baboon (Papio cynocephalus) fem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7801429 | 1,640,757 |
455,775 | The Bannari Amman Institute of Technology (Autonomous) is an engineering college located in Sathyamangalam, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India. It was founded by the Bannari Amman Group in 1996 and is affiliated to Anna University. The institute offers 21 undergraduate, 10 postgraduate programmes in Engineering, Technology and M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4363230 | 455,553 |
635,871 | The social communication difficulties which the ADOS and ADOS-2 seek to measure are not unique to ASD; there is a heightened risk of false positives in individuals with other psychological disorders. In particular, an increased level of false positives has been observed in adults with psychosis; while case reports indi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3107620 | 635,532 |
380,034 | Injuries can be caused by stretching, diseases, and wounds to the lateral cervical region (posterior triangle) of the neck or the axilla. Depending on the location of the injury, the signs and symptoms can range from complete paralysis to anesthesia. Testing the patient's ability to perform movements and comparing it t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231479 | 379,839 |
623,383 | In the mid-1990s a team of MIT researchers led by Steve Mann, Thad Starner, and Sandy Pentland began to develop what they termed wearable computers. These devices consisted of traditional computer hardware attached to and carried on the body. In response to technical, social, and design challenges faced by these resear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14206086 | 623,051 |
1,858,993 | The proposed attacks on the plethora of "lines" marked on staff maps were intended to reach good jumping off points for an attack by II, XIX and XVIII corps on 25 August. Attacking in different places, at different times, risked defeat in detail; if the artillery failed sufficiently to suppress German machine-gunners w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54640648 | 1,857,925 |
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