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631,858 | Street & Smith hired Campbell in October 1937. Although he did not gain full editorial control of "Astounding" until the March 1938 issue, Campbell was able to introduce some new features before then. In January 1938, he began to include a short description of stories in the next issue, titled "In Times To Come"; and i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18932608 | 631,520 |
813,786 | One of the early computer networking designs, development of the ALOHA network was begun in September 1968 at the University of Hawaii under the leadership of Norman Abramson along with Thomas Gaarder, Franklin Kuo, Shu Lin, Wesley Peterson and Edward ("Ned") Weldon. The goal was to use low-cost commercial radio equipm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=101848 | 813,353 |
1,501,017 | Technology developments that support the current Digital Earth technological framework can be traced to U.S. computing advances derived from the Cold War competition, the space race, and commercial innovations. Therefore, many innovations can be tracked to corporations working for the Department of Defense or NASA. How... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7297180 | 1,500,171 |
1,201,952 | It was not until the third installment of the TimeSplitters franchise, "", that the Temporal Uplink was given the ability to manipulate the physics in the game. In "Future Perfect", the Temporal Uplink played a much larger role than that of its previous, map and mini-game oriented functionality, which the device was or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14062993 | 1,201,310 |
2,114,487 | The NASA mission of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is to use infrared light to scan the entire sky for millions of hidden objects, including asteroids, failed stars and powerful galaxies . Launched on December 14, 2009, the data from WISE will serve as a navigation tool for other probes in space mission... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25776254 | 2,113,272 |
834,034 | In 1939 Polikarpov fighters were extensively used during the Battles of Khalkhin Gol fought around the Khalkha River in Dornod Province. The battles were fought during 11 May–16 September 1939, and involved more than 600 planes. When hostilities commenced, the only I-15bis in the area were 14 aircraft of 70th IAP. Thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1516392 | 833,585 |
422,150 | To facilitate efficient sterilization by steam and pressure, there are several methods of verification and indication used; these include color-changing indicator tapes and biological indicators. When using biological indicators, samples containing spores of heat-resistant microbes such as Geobacillus stearothermophili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17199306 | 421,944 |
1,549,998 | The Lingiliformea brachiopods have apatite shells, which contrasts with the calcitic exoskeleta of the other two brachiopod subphyla. This split occurred very early – the earliest brachiopod assemblages, from the Tommotian, already contain both apatite- and calcite-secreting organisms. Since the minerals used to form e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22241037 | 1,549,117 |
367,892 | Historians from the Missile Defense Agency attribute the term "Star Wars" to a "Washington Post" article published March 24, 1983, the day after the speech, which quoted Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy describing the proposal as "reckless "Star Wars" schemes", a reference to the fantasy franchise "Star Wars". Some criti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29186 | 367,699 |
988,884 | Physical symptoms generally include coarse or rough facial features (including a flat nasal bridge, thick lips, and enlarged mouth and tongue), short stature with disproportionately short trunk (dwarfism), dysplasia (abnormal bone size and/or shape) and other skeletal irregularities, thickened skin, enlarged organs suc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=544505 | 988,368 |
859,251 | A mode S interrogation comprises two 0.8 µs wide pulses, which are interpreted by a mode A & C transponder as coming from an antenna sidelobe and therefore a reply is not required. The following long P6 pulse is phase modulated with the first phase reversal, after 1.25 µs, synchronising the transponder's phase detector... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2056508 | 858,793 |
9,035 | The station can be seen from the Earth with the naked eye and, as of 2022, is the largest artificial satellite in Earth orbit with a mass and volume greater than that of any previous space station. The Russian Soyuz and American Dragon spacecraft are used to send astronauts to and from the ISS. Several uncrewed cargo s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426568 | 9,031 |
254,031 | The Browning is a water-cooled heavy machine gun, though some experimental versions were made that did not use a water jacket; the air-cooled M1919 was later developed as a medium machine gun. Unlike many other early machine guns, the M1917 had nothing to do with Maxim's toggle lock design. At , it was much lighter tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1205661 | 253,898 |
1,303,995 | In December 2014, the Polish government will vote on a bill which calls for microgeneration, as well as large scale wind farms in the Baltic Sea as a solution to cut back on emissions from the country's coal plants as well as to reduce Polish dependence on Russian gas. Under the terms of the new bill, individuals and s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3263679 | 1,303,279 |
1,281,433 | Some satellites in polar orbits lost control for several hours. GOES weather satellite communications were interrupted causing weather images to be lost. NASA's TDRS-1 communication satellite recorded over 250 anomalies caused by the increased particles flowing into its sensitive electronics. The Space Shuttle Discover... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28336769 | 1,280,737 |
851,761 | Widely regarded for his work on supertall buildings, Baker also worked on the Broadgate-Exchange House (London, 1990) and the GM Renaissance Center Entry Pavilion (Detroit, 2005). He is further known for his work on long-span roof structures, such as the McCormick Place North Building Expansion (Chicago, 1986), the Kor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19793017 | 851,308 |
425,440 | On <time datetime="2007-02-09">9 February 2007</time>, it was announced that a number of unexpected signals had been received and that these would need to be separated out before final results could be released. In <time datetime="2007-04">April</time> it was announced that the spin axes of the gyroscopes were affected... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=531104 | 425,232 |
1,875,783 | After World War II, residential overcrowding and an influx of married students prompted Yale to build temporary quonset huts on undeveloped areas of Pierson-Sage Square. The advent of the "atomic age" prompted a second period of laboratory building. University president A. Whitney Griswold relied on modernist architect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42104930 | 1,874,706 |
862,073 | Rhenium diboride exhibits metallic conductivity which increases as temperature decreases and can be explained by a nonzero density of states due to the d and p overlap of rhenium and boron respectively. At this point, it is the only superhard material with metallic behavior. The material also exhibits relatively high t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1196186 | 861,613 |
285,588 | As a junior on February 1, 2019, Bueckers scored a career-high 43 points in a 69–66 win over Wayzata High School and surpassed 2,000 career points. On March 16, despite having an illness that had caused her to vomit earlier in the day, she recorded 13 points, seven assists, five rebounds and five steals as her team won... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61733357 | 285,434 |
1,031,817 | An additional philosophical issue raised by computer-aided proofs is whether they make mathematics into a quasi-empirical science, where the scientific method becomes more important than the application of pure reason in the area of abstract mathematical concepts. This directly relates to the argument within mathematic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2840305 | 1,031,281 |
2,165,176 | The original version of the book, published in 1973 with several reprints thereafter, was reviewed by Stephen Toulmin, Gary Gutting, and James L. Park in 1974, Thomas F. Gieryn in 1976, and several others. In his review of the book, Gutting wrote that the "essays are of high quality" before analyzing the contents and g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65995743 | 2,163,939 |
1,835,329 | A safe and low-cost training environment has recently been created, using pig eyes mounted on a model head. This allows trainee surgeons to track their progress objectively. The pig eyes are infused with diluted fluorescein to trace outflow. Fluorescein can diffuse through the trabecular meshwork, which allows flow spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32637418 | 1,834,280 |
402,156 | Although a self-described Darwinist, Gould's emphasis was less gradualist and reductionist than most neo-Darwinists. He fiercely opposed many aspects of sociobiology and its intellectual descendant evolutionary psychology. He devoted considerable time to fighting against creationism, creation science, and intelligent d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27875 | 401,957 |
1,815,817 | In 2008, Pashler (along with Vul, Harris, and Winkielman) published a paper initially entitled “Voodoo Correlations in Social Neuroscience” arguing that many of the most prominent research articles in cognitive and social neuroscience had made statistical errors resulting in gross over-estimation of brain-behavior corr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52428052 | 1,814,783 |
2,015,113 | Construction began in 1905, and was completed in 1908. Originally the books were stored in College Hall, now Ballou Hall where students were allowed to access the collection for one hour a week. Later on, it was stored in Middle Hall, now Packard Hall. When the collection moved to Eaton, the collection was split up int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4180305 | 2,013,954 |
1,769,967 | Polymerization is likely to take place through either ionic and/or radical processes which are initiated by plasma formed from the glow discharge. The classic view presented by Yasuda based upon thermal initiation of Parylene polymerization is that there are many propagating species present at any given time as shown i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30747793 | 1,768,972 |
169,574 | Boeing and Lockheed Martin announced their intent to form a 50-50 joint venture on 2 May 2005 aiming to consolidate the manufacture and deployment of US government expendable launch vehicles and launch services. The United Launch Alliance name was announced at the same time. Prior to the creation of the United Launch A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4164089 | 169,484 |
447,180 | One experiment sought to determine the amount of hydrogen stored in CNTs by utilizing elastic recoil detection analysis (ERDA). CNTs (primarily SWNTs) were synthesized via chemical vapor disposition (CVD) and subjected to a two-stage purification process including air oxidation and acid treatment, then formed into flat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7452926 | 446,963 |
301,928 | "Battlefield 5" In 2019 the popular video game franchise battlefield featured the commando raids of the plant and the ferry bombing in "Battlefield V". However it features no British or Norwegian team of commandos. Instead a young Norwegian girl named Solveig (player character) operates a solo mission into the facility... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=879501 | 301,767 |
1,938,835 | Alan Kay, a student of Evans, developed object-oriented programming technology, a foundation of current programming systems. At Utah, Kay learned to think of computers as dynamic, interactive personal devices to support creative thought - the founding principle of his work. Kay's Ph.D. thesis (1969) described the desig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48000226 | 1,937,725 |
183,192 | The Navy used two modified F9F-7s to conduct experiments landing on British-inspired flexible decks which did not require the use of landing gear. The reasoning was that since an airplane's landing gear comprises some 33% of the total weight, a plane without landing gear would gain a greater range and would be able to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=553469 | 183,096 |
811,761 | The Shoemakers had three children: two daughters and one son. Carolyn saw her work as keeping house and raising the children especially after they settled in Flagstaff in the 1960s. She had tried teaching school before they married, but found the work unsatisfying. She also traveled sometimes with Gene, but stopped aft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=247727 | 811,329 |
2,153,084 | There appears to be no provision in the legislation authorising the Board or Registrar to offer to registered persons as such any service, whether for the purpose of claiming a commercially competitive advantage or otherwise. But a communication of May 2012 (issue 34 of ebulletin ) addressed to registered persons annou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11464998 | 2,151,853 |
1,450,173 | Between 1778 and 1780, Polish engineer and military hero Tadeusz Kościuszko oversaw the construction of the garrison's defenses. Kościuszko's small garden retreat still stands today as Kosciuszko's Garden. The Great Chain and high ground above the narrow "S" curve in the Hudson River enabled the Continental Army to pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20793344 | 1,449,357 |
1,376,734 | In 1988, Zeeman became Principal of Hertford College, Oxford. The following year he was appointed an honorary fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. He received a knighthood in the 1991 Birthday Honours for "mathematical excellence and service to British mathematics and mathematics education". He was invited to become ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=871415 | 1,375,972 |
439,012 | Gamma Cassiopeiae is the prototype of a small group of stellar sources of X-ray radiation that is about 10 times stronger than emitted from other B or Be stars. The character of the X-ray spectrum is "Be thermal", possibly emitted from plasmas of temperatures up to least ten million kelvins, and shows very short term a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3117240 | 438,798 |
565,817 | In smaller hindgut fermenters of the order Lagomorpha (rabbits, hares, and pikas), cecotropes formed in the cecum are passed through the large intestine and subsequently reingested to allow another opportunity to absorb nutrients. Cecotropes are surrounded by a layer of mucus which protects them from stomach acid but w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33807629 | 565,527 |
1,715,146 | After World War I, the NER experienced an increase in both freight and passenger traffic. The North Eastern Railway's express goods services were being handled by the S Class (LNER B13), S1 Class (LNER B14), and S2 Class (LNER B15) 4-6-0s, which were difficult to operate and had a high coal consumption. After superheat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2955168 | 1,714,179 |
1,523,552 | The Huskies headed north on the next step in their West Coast trip to Matthew Knight Arena in Eugene, Oregon to take place part in the Nike PK80 invitational. They took on Michigan State, their first unranked opponent of the season, but a team with a 4 and 1 record. Stevens, who felt she had not performed well against ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54727394 | 1,522,691 |
517,145 | There are two geochemical classes of komatiite; aluminium undepleted komatiite (AUDK) (also known as Group I komatiites) and aluminium depleted komatiite (ADK) (also known as Group II komatiites), defined by their AlO/TiO ratios. These two classes of komatiite are often assumed to represent a real petrological source d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2309752 | 516,876 |
1,941,853 | Israelachvili has developed numerous techniques for the static and dynamic measurement of material and molecular properties of vapors, liquids, and surfaces. In particular, he pioneered a sensitive interfacial force-sensing technique known as the surface forces apparatus (SFA). This instrument involves carefully approa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30864881 | 1,940,742 |
848,755 | Synergism between temperature and hormones has also been identified in these systems. Administering estradiol at male-producing temperatures generates females that are physiologically identical to temperature-produced females. The reverse experiment, males produced at female temperatures, only occurs when a nonaromatiz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9975050 | 848,305 |
275,078 | In 1989, David Hamilton Wright modified the Lotka–Volterra equations by adding a new term, "βM"/"K", to represent a mutualistic relationship. Wright also considered the concept of saturation, which means that with higher densities, there are decreasing benefits of further increases of the mutualist population. Without ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51483 | 274,930 |
544,547 | Sparassodonts were carnivorous, and with the exception of some basal members of all members of this group were hypercarnivorous (having diets composed of more than 70% meat). Only "Hondadelphys" and "Stylocynus" appear to have exhibited adaptations for omnivory, and even then "Stylocynus" may have had a more mesocarniv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2552745 | 544,265 |
865,056 | Later, as specialized arcade hardware and home systems became more powerful, game developers could develop deeper storylines and could include such features as high-resolution and full color graphics, physics, advanced artificial intelligence and digital sound. Technology has advanced to such a great degree that contem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=311632 | 864,596 |
847,397 | The industry has recognized that in many circumstances it may be impractical to design and build building assemblies which never get wet. Good design and practice involve controlling the wetting of building assemblies from both the exterior and interior. So, the use of vapor barrier should be taken into consideration. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3330370 | 846,947 |
1,076,013 | Gerald Edelman was born in 1929 in Ozone Park, Queens, New York, to Jewish parents, physician Edward Edelman, and Anna (née Freedman) Edelman, who worked in the insurance industry. He studied violin for years, but eventually realized that he did not have the inner drive needed to pursue a career as a concert violinist,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=192746 | 1,075,458 |
1,009,580 | In 2011, The New 52 rebooted the continuity of the DC Universe. Al was reintroduced in the "Earth 2" ongoing series as a U.S. Sergeant. He was in charge of a squad carrying an atomic bomb meant to neutralize an Apokoliptian tower responsible for transporting Parademons to Earth. His squad however is attacked while en r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4978976 | 1,009,059 |
352,303 | On 8 May 1954, after a top secret reconnaissance mission near the Kola Peninsula, a 4th Air Division / 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Wing RB-47E, flown by then-Capt (later Col) Harold "Hal" Austin, overflew the Soviet Union at high altitude, out of reach of MiG-15s. Unknown to USAF intelligence, MiG-17s capable of inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=193885 | 352,120 |
1,949,454 | After his Ph.D., Jacques Neefjes did two post-doctoral visits. First, from 1991 to 1992, he visited the laboratory of Drs Benoit and Mathis at the Institut de Chimie Biologique, Strasbourg (France). Then, he obtained a 2-year fellowship from the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) to visit the laboratory of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62729120 | 1,948,333 |
1,774,133 | For millions of years in the past, these types of vegetation present in the island, covered much of the tropics of Earth. The species of Tasmania are relicts of a type of vegetation disappeared, which originally covered much of the mainland of Australia, South America, Antarctica, South Africa, North America and other ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31546066 | 1,773,136 |
1,439,494 | The Drug Affinity Responsive Target Stability assay follows a similar basic assumption to TPP – that protein stability is increased by ligand binding. In DARTS, however, protein stability is assessed in response to digestion by a protease. Briefly, a sample of cell lysate is incubated with a small molecule of interest,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48999251 | 1,438,684 |
1,906,072 | Finally, having established a good income stream, he began collecting works of Polish art and art connected with Poland, in the hope that they would ultimately reach his homeland. He was also the co-organiser of three major exhibitions including: "Treasures of a Polish King" at the Dulwich Gallery in London in 1992. Ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28810330 | 1,904,976 |
674,428 | Laws of fluid dynamics do not provide good approximations for the behavior of individual, highly separated, non-interacting gas molecules, like those found in high vacuum environments. The maximum compression varies linearly with circumferential rotor speed. In order to obtain extremely low pressures down to 1 micropas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30494 | 674,075 |
1,354,835 | Because of the beneficial uses of KLH, the Giant Keyhole Limpet, from which KLH is derived, has been a subject of growing concern among fisheries biologists in the state of California due to the possibility of overharvest of the species for commercial purposes. Giant Keyhole Limpets are not an abundant species to begin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17310564 | 1,354,087 |
246,717 | The busiest part of campus is the Glenn Terrell Friendship Mall, referred to as "the mall" by students. This walkway, which prior to the 1970s was a road with parking available along the sides, was named after Terrell, WSU's president from 1967 to 1985. His secretary was known to set meetings ten minutes behind schedul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=228600 | 246,589 |
11,086 | Radar systems measure the distance to a target by the time it takes a radio-wave pulse to return to the radar antenna after being reflected by the target: the distance to the target is half the round-trip transit time multiplied by the speed of light. A Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver measures its distance to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28736 | 11,081 |
143,968 | Today the site of the old Stagg Field is occupied by the university's Regenstein Library, which was opened in 1970, and the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, which was opened in 2011. A Henry Moore sculpture, "Nuclear Energy", stands in a small quadrangle outside the Regenstein Library on the former site of the west viewi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1118396 | 143,910 |
1,045,508 | Theories of social and cultural evolution are common in modern European thought. Prior to the 18th century, Europeans predominantly believed that societies on Earth were in a state of decline. European society held up the world of antiquity as a standard to aspire to, and ancient Greece and ancient Rome produced levels... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2267847 | 1,044,963 |
528,822 | The overall design concept for the international collaborative program, 3 shafts and a bypass ratio (BPR) of about 1.2, was decided by Rolls-Royce. The bypass ratio was chosen for long-range, low fuel consumption particularly when throttled back. The selected BPR also gave a higher reheat boost than with smaller values... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=574519 | 528,548 |
698,139 | Thus, congruent with the perspective articulated by Thomas Kuhn in his 1961 paper "The function of measurement in modern physical science", measurement was regarded both as being founded in theory, and as being instrumental to detecting quantitative anomalies incongruent with hypotheses related to a broader theoretical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2161615 | 697,775 |
224,518 | NERVA NRX (Nuclear Rocket Experimental), started testing in September 1964. The final engine in this series was the XE, designed with flight representative hardware and fired into a low-pressure chamber to simulate a vacuum. SNPO fired NERVA NRX/XE twenty-eight times in March 1968. The series all generated 1100 MW, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37842 | 224,404 |
2,056,402 | The mantle of these oval nudibranchs is flattened dorsoventrally and its dorsal surface is covered with hard, colored tubercles. This mantle is decorated with contrasting colors and patterns as warning signals to predators. The lamellate rhinophores can be retracted. Like other dorid nudibranchs, all species have a dor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20545925 | 2,055,218 |
781,841 | It might be thought that a sufficiently massive neutron star could exist within its Schwarzschild radius (1.0 SR) and appear like a black hole without having all the mass compressed to a singularity at the center; however, this is probably incorrect. Within the event horizon, the matter would have to move outward faste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=619926 | 781,423 |
50,568 | Major air combat during the war in the Pacific began with the entry of the Western Allies following Japan's attack against Pearl Harbor. The Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service primarily operated the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, and the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service flew the Nakajima Ki-27 and the Nakajima Ki-43, initially... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10929 | 50,548 |
939,580 | IIT Hyderabad offers BTech and MTech degrees in ten disciplines of Engineering, B Des and M Des degree in design and MSc degrees in science. In 2019, the institute started offering M. A. in Development Studies. The institute also offers PhD across all disciplines of engineering, sciences and liberal arts. At the instit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27833441 | 939,079 |
1,991,342 | Following post-mission analysis of the ARD's performance, it was announced that all of the demonstration and system requirements of the programme had been successfully achieved. The test flight itself was described as having been "nearly nominal", particularly the trajectory and flight control aspects; additionally, ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2459800 | 1,990,199 |
717,157 | Ammonium perchlorate composite propellant is typically for aerospace rocket propulsion where simplicity and reliability are desired and specific impulses (depending on the composition and operating pressure) of are adequate. Because of these performance attributes, APCP has been used in the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9946905 | 716,780 |
1,092,325 | In August 2014, Sue Borrego began as chancellor. On October 15, 2015, University Board of Regents approved the purchase of the 160,000-square-foot, 10-story north tower building of the Citizens Banking Buildings from FirstMerit Bank for $6 million expected to close in March 2016. In mid-December 2015, the Uptown Reinve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=450827 | 1,091,765 |
1,638,167 | NSM Science Square @ AstroPark, Chiang Mai, located at Princess Sirindhorn AstroPark, National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (Public Organization), NARIT, Chiang Mai. This is a scientific, technology, and innovation learning center that provides the Thai youth with hands-on experience and inspiration for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1749349 | 1,637,242 |
825,614 | In 1986 Faggin co-founded and was CEO of Synaptics until 1999, becoming chairman from 1999 to 2009. Synaptics was initially dedicated to R&D in artificial neural networks for pattern-recognition applications using analog VLSI. Synaptics introduced the I1000, the world's first single-chip optical character recognizer in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378171 | 825,171 |
1,348,919 | With the start of World War II in the Pacific, the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff realized that the Type 95 design was vulnerable to .50 caliber machine gun fire and attempted to develop a light tank with the same weight as the Type 95, but with thicker armor. A production contract for the Type 98 was awarded to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3834355 | 1,348,177 |
263,966 | In the mid 1750s, the steam engine was applied to the water power-constrained iron, copper and lead industries for powering blast bellows. These industries were located near the mines, some of which were using steam engines for mine pumping. Steam engines were too powerful for leather bellows, so cast iron blowing cyli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=803661 | 263,823 |
1,859,393 | Bresnahan began working at Stanford University as an assistant professor in 1979. In 1986 he was promoted to associate professor; he held various outside positions in the next several years. From 1986 to 1987 he was the Marvin Bower Fellow and visiting associate professor at Harvard University. From 1989 to 1990 he was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66519789 | 1,858,325 |
702,082 | The former Administration Building has a frontage directly onto the public street of Schoolhill and was completed in 1885. It is a significantly larger building than the street frontage suggests. On completion, it housed Gray's School of Art and was designed by the prominent Aberdeen architect Alexander Marshall Macken... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=381864 | 701,717 |
397,112 | The U.S. has 18 "Ohio"-class submarines, of which 14 are Trident II SSBNs (Ship, Submersible, Ballistic, Nuclear), each capable of carrying 24 SLBMs. The first four which were all equipped with the older Trident I missiles have been converted to SSGN's each capable of carrying 154 Tomahawk guided missiles and have been... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1281366 | 396,916 |
1,011,316 | The blueshift of a falling photon can be found by assuming it has an equivalent mass based on its frequency formula_4 (where "h" is Planck's constant) along with formula_5, a result of special relativity. Such simple derivations ignore the fact that in general relativity the experiment compares clock rates, rather than... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1784313 | 1,010,795 |
147,051 | In a statistical mechanical account of an ideal gas, in which the molecules move independently between instantaneous collisions, the internal energy is the sum total of the gas's independent particles' kinetic energies, and it is this kinetic motion that is the source and the effect of the transfer of heat across a sys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=467047 | 146,993 |
1,770,864 | In February 2008, the University announced that a new $105 million five-story building was to be erected as part of a renovation plan for the southeast corner of the campus. Construction began in June 2012. The new building, named after donors Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan, opened in Fall 2015. The building unites all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4174423 | 1,769,867 |
1,776,669 | For example, Pliny devoted five entire volumes of his work Naturalis Historia (77 AD) to the classification of "earths, metals, stones, and gems". He not only describes many minerals not known to Theophrastus, but discusses their applications and properties. He is the first to correctly recognise the origin of amber fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23602070 | 1,775,670 |
729,344 | Similar work continued in the 1970s, delivering the second-stage motor for the MX missile, the Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) for the Space Shuttle, and the first US-designed cluster bombs. A contract for 30-mm ammunition for the A-10 Thunderbolt II was so extensive that new branch plants were set up in Downey and Ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1398923 | 728,960 |
1,538,194 | Ludwig researchers in Melbourne discovered and cloned the granulocyte-monocyte colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) through a collaboration with Australian immunologist Donald Metcalf. The factor is essential to the maturation of key white blood cells, and has been used extensively over the past few decades to help rebui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2185288 | 1,537,321 |
1,288,468 | In the 1966 Carroll's International at Royal Dublin, O'Connor finished 2-3-3 (eagle-birdie-eagle) to win the tournament by 2 strokes. At the par-4 16th he drove the green and holed a 20-foot putt. He then holed a 12-foot putt at the 17th and, at the par-5 18th, hit a 3-iron to 8 feet and holed the putt. A plaque by the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7138964 | 1,287,759 |
866,958 | Coulomb (1776) first studied the problem of lateral earth pressures on retaining structures. He used limit equilibrium theory, which considers the failing soil block as a free body in order to determine the limiting horizontal earth pressure. The limiting horizontal pressures at failure in extension or compression are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8343463 | 866,498 |
1,837,738 | Several methods have been employed to help reduce both mechanical and acoustic vibrations within the system. Mechanical vibrations are mainly attributed to traffic in and out of a building Other sources of mechanical vibrations have often been seen in the higher stories of a building due to reduced damping from buildin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31698140 | 1,836,689 |
399,850 | Pliny the Elder also recorded the tale of a Roman general, Marcus Sergius, whose right hand was cut off while campaigning and had an iron hand made to hold his shield so that he could return to battle. A famous and quite refined historical prosthetic arm was that of Götz von Berlichingen, made at the beginning of the 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72750 | 399,651 |
282,237 | At 05:30 Moscow time, on the morning of April 12, 1961, both Gagarin and his backup Titov were woken. They were given breakfast, assisted into their spacesuits, and then were transported to the launch pad. Gagarin entered the "Vostok 1" spacecraft, and at 07:10 local time (04:10 UTC), the radio communication system was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32363 | 282,084 |
1,452,890 | Modern archaeological expeditions in Erebus Bay started in 1982 and identified five major sites (NhLi-1, NgLj-1, NgLj-2, NgLj-3, and NgLj-39) consisting of over five hundred bones representing at least twenty-one Franklin expedition men. Gregory's skull was rediscovered by amateur historian Barry Ranford in 1993, who h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69599997 | 1,452,073 |
385,315 | In 2008 the team of Greg Leyh and Mike Kennan of Nevada Lightning Lab used a grounded dual resonance transmitter with a 57 cm diameter secondary tuned to 60 kHz and a similar grounded dual resonance receiver to transfer power through coupled electric fields with an earth current return circuit over a distance of . In 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=570662 | 385,120 |
264,702 | The long-term effects of HRT on most organ systems vary by age and time since the last physiological exposure to hormones, and there can be large differences in individual regimens, factors which have made analyzing effects difficult. The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) is an ongoing study of over 27,000 women that beg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19526030 | 264,559 |
636,618 | Stevin left Bruges in 1571 apparently without a particular destination. Stevin was most likely a Calvinist since a Catholic would likely not have risen to the position of trust he later occupied with Maurice, Prince of Orange. It is assumed that he left Bruges to escape the religious persecution of Protestants by the S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72586 | 636,279 |
1,713,851 | It is thought that almost every organism shows some kind of ontogenetic niche shift. The ONS, which is responsible for causing a noticeable phenotypic variation among individuals of the same species, plays important role in structuring communities and influencing their inside dynamics. In some cases individuals undergo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68484730 | 1,712,885 |
102,171 | Spring leafout and fall leaf drop are triggered by a combination of daylight and air temperatures. The exact conditions required will vary with the species, but generally more cold-tolerant genera such as "Salix" will leave out earlier and lose their leaves later, while genera such as "Fraxinus" and "Juglans" can only ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66722 | 102,126 |
1,435,090 | Cells containing oncogenic mutations in-vivo often responded by activating the INK4A/ARF/INK4B locus that encodes the INK4 tumor suppressor proteins. The unusual genomic arrangement of the INK4a/ARF/INK4b locus functions as a weakness in our anti-cancer defenses. This is due to the fact that three crucial regulators of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9622068 | 1,434,284 |
1,330,924 | Simulation of astrophysical flows is of particular importance as many objects and processes of astronomical interest such as stars and nebulae involve gases. Fluid computer models are often coupled with radiative transfer, (Newtonian) gravity, nuclear physics and (general) relativity to study highly energetic phenomena... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34240222 | 1,330,195 |
13,229 | Fukushima "cannot be regarded as a natural disaster," the NAIIC panel's chairman, Tokyo University professor emeritus Kiyoshi Kurokawa, wrote in the inquiry report. "It was a profoundly man-made disaster – that could and should have been foreseen and prevented. And its effects could have been mitigated by a more effect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31162817 | 13,224 |
1,782,338 | "Drosera regia" was originally described by South African botanist Edith Layard Stephens in 1926. The binomial name "Drosera regia" is derived from the Greek word "droseros", meaning "dew-covered" and the specific epithet "regia" comes from the Latin for "royal", a reference to what Stephens described as its "striking ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2361104 | 1,781,334 |
816,081 | Through the early period of radio development it was widely known that certain materials, especially metal, reflected radio signals. This led to the possibility of determining the location of objects by broadcasting a signal and then using RDF to measure the bearing of any reflections. Such a system saw patents issued ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=382754 | 815,645 |
746,815 | In 2016, a Kickstarter fund-raising campaign was led by Tabetha Boyajian, the lead author of the initial study on the star's anomalous light curve. The project proposed to use the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network for continuous monitoring of the star. The campaign raised over , enough for one year of te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48217770 | 746,420 |
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