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2,171,765 | The men's coxed four competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics took place at Virgilio Uribe Rowing and Canoeing Course, Mexico City, Mexico. It was held from 13 to 19 October and was unexpectedly won by the team from New Zealand, which secured the country its first Olympic rowing gold medal. Thirteen teams (66 competitor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51909300 | 2,170,526 |
1,471,782 | The goal of the Soar project is to develop the fixed computational building blocks necessary for general intelligent agents – agents that can perform a wide range of tasks and encode, use, and learn all types of knowledge to realize the full range of cognitive capabilities found in humans, such as decision making, prob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=729751 | 1,470,953 |
1,180,057 | On July 1, 2009, the shuttle managers conducted a new series of tanking tests to confirm a hypothesis that a misaligned vent port housing was the root cause of the leaks. The existing rigid seal was replaced with a flexible one in the hope that it would maintain a tight fix even under the cryogenic conditions that seem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4292653 | 1,179,433 |
1,696,698 | Periglacial landscapes are frequent in the area; they include rounded landforms, smooth surfaces, solifluction terrain and striated terrain. This extensiveness is the result of the relatively dry climate in the region, which limits the development of glaciers. On Parinacota, landforms of this type are found starting fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1336739 | 1,695,745 |
925,720 | The new API features shader tracing and HLSL compiler enhancements, support for minimum precision HLSL scalar data types, UAVs (Unordered Access Views) at every pipeline stage, target-independent rasterization (TIR), option to map SRVs of dynamic buffers with NO_OVERWRITE, shader processing of video resources, option t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=97025 | 925,234 |
493,503 | It is acknowledged that some of the smaller M-type asteroids (<100 km) may have formed in this way, but that interpretation was challenged for 16 Psyche, the largest of the M-type asteroids. There are three arguments against Psyche forming in this way. First, it must have started as a Vesta-sized (~500 km) protoplanet;... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=532254 | 493,248 |
887,625 | However, Clark allowed that presupposing axioms (or "first principles") themselves do not make a philosophical system true, including his own; the fact that all worldviews he examined other than Christianity had internal contradictions only made Christianity highly more probable as truth, but not necessarily so. Noneth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=703994 | 887,158 |
141,044 | Cantilever wings require much stronger and heavier spars than would otherwise be needed in a wire-braced design. However, as the speed of the aircraft increases, the drag of the bracing increases sharply, while the wing structure must be strengthened, typically by increasing the strength of the spars and the thickness ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160663 | 140,987 |
889,661 | The continuum explanation of stalk formation suggests that membrane fusion begins with an infinitesimal radius until it radially expands into a stalk-like structure. However, such a description fails to take into account the molecular dynamics of membrane lipids. Recent molecular simulations show that the close proximi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2318393 | 889,192 |
109,903 | Gustav Kirchhoff was Max Planck's teacher and surmised that there was a universal law for blackbody radiation and this was called "Kirchhoff's challenge". Planck, a theorist, believed that Wilhelm Wien had discovered this law and Planck expanded on Wien's work presenting it in 1899 to the meeting of the German Physical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191123 | 109,858 |
190,665 | Radiometric dating has been carried out since 1905 when it was invented by Ernest Rutherford as a method by which one might determine the age of the Earth. In the century since then the techniques have been greatly improved and expanded. Dating can now be performed on samples as small as a nanogram using a mass spectro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26298 | 190,566 |
838,408 | Communication networks were designed to carry different types of information independently. The older media, such as television and radio, are broadcasting networks with passive audiences. Convergence of telecommunication technology permits the manipulation of all forms of information, voice, data, and video. Telecommu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=206586 | 837,959 |
1,359,047 | NETL helps advance development of technologies supporting efficient, environmentally benign unconventional domestic oil and gas resources. The Lab's research projects help catalyze the development of these new technologies, provide objective data to help quantify the environmental and safety risks of oil and gas develo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1711574 | 1,358,296 |
855,885 | In a 2007 paper, Hansen discussed the potential danger of "fast-feedback" effects causing ice sheet disintegration, based on paleoclimate data. George Monbiot reports "The IPCC predicts that sea levels could rise by as much as this century. Hansen's paper argues that the slow melting of ice sheets the panel expects doe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=890916 | 855,430 |
673,098 | A celebrated pioneer in the United States, Quimby was adventurous and encouraged more women to join the aviation industry. Through her weekly articles in various magazines, she challenged women, and through her visions of airlines to ferry people and scheduled air routes, she made a huge contribution towards the growth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47210395 | 672,746 |
1,790,893 | The Crow people also believed in water monsters. These were said to be alligator-like creatures living in the Little Bighorn, Rosebud, and Tongue Rivers. These myths may have been based on discoveries of marine reptile fossils such as crocodilians and mosasaurs eroding out of the river banks. The Crow also believe ther... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799135 | 1,789,887 |
550,616 | The Shaper is a task-focused individual who pursues objectives with vigour and who is driven by tremendous energy and the need to achieve. For the Shaper, winning is the name of the game. The Shaper provides the necessary drive to ensure that the team is kept moving and does not lose focus or momentum. Shapers are peop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5885946 | 550,328 |
1,269,492 | "Escherichia coli", a Gram-negative proteobacterium, is a common model in biological research, for which comprehensive data on various aspects of its life-history is available. It has been used extensively for evolution experiments, including those related to coevolution with phages. These studies revealed – among othe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27828644 | 1,268,801 |
192,285 | The acquisition of new genes has the potential to disorganize the other genetic elements and hinder the function of the bacterial cell, thus affecting the competitiveness of bacteria. Consequently, bacterial adaptation lies in a conflict between the advantages of acquiring beneficial genes, and the need to maintain the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=205624 | 192,186 |
309,604 | In February 2005, VMGR-252 made the first operational combat deployment of the KC-130J when six aircraft were deployed to Al Asad, Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. During this time VMGR-252 experienced many "firsts" with the new J model conducting aerial refueling, delivery of cargo and passengers, the first... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29029388 | 309,439 |
2,002,080 | In 1948, Hudson applied for the position of chairman of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electricity Authority (SMHEA), which managed the Snowy Mountains Scheme. When the Cabinet met to consider the top three candidates, the minister responsible for the scheme, Nelson Lemmon, handed the Prime Minister Ben Chifley a note that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23545113 | 2,000,932 |
2,001,880 | The required procedure differs based on the aircraft type, so the Pilots Operating Handbook (POH) should be consulted for the specific aircraft type. In general, the technique is to utilize maximum flaps for this type of landing. The approach is made with engine power commensurate with maintaining the approach airspeed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22945332 | 2,000,733 |
1,536,203 | In 1950, Boris Olshansky, a defector to the United States and a former Soviet Army officer who claimed to be a former associated professor at the Voronezh State University and Burdenko's friend, published an article and in 1952 — testified in court that in April 1946 Burdenko had revealed to him that he knew about the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3942571 | 1,535,335 |
550,834 | The reaction mechanism can be subdivided into two partial reactions (see figure to the right). In the first reaction, ATP is carboxylated to produce carbonic phosphoric anhydride [O(O)P(=O)O–C(=O)O] which in turn carboxylates a biotin cofactor that is covalently attached to a lysine residue of the BCCP domain. Carbonic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2047712 | 550,546 |
102,998 | The term 'micro' gravity refers to a gravitational state that is 'low' (i.e., 'micro' in the sense of 'small' and not necessarily a millionth of Earth's normal gravity) such that the influence of buoyancy on physical processes may be considered small relative to other flow processes that would be present at normal grav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5638 | 102,953 |
767,332 | In contrast to, and motivated by, Taylor's time study methods, the Gilbreths proposed a technical language, allowing for the analysis of the labor process in a scientific context. The Gilbreths made use of scientific insights to develop a study method based upon the analysis of "work motions", consisting in part of fil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1682021 | 766,921 |
677,627 | The researchers found that people tended to believe that research that supported their original views had been better conducted and was more convincing than research that didn't. Whichever position they held initially, people tended to hold that position more strongly after reading research that supported it. Lord "et ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=511676 | 677,273 |
274,582 | Once clots have formed, other drugs can be used to promote thrombolysis or clot breakdown. Streptokinase, an enzyme produced by streptococcal bacteria, is one of the oldest thrombolytic drugs. This drug can be administered intravenously to dissolve blood clots in coronary vessels. However, streptokinase causes systemic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=183058 | 274,434 |
859,218 | The rapid wartime development of radar had obvious applications for air traffic control (ATC) as a means of providing continuous surveillance of air traffic disposition. Precise knowledge of the positions of aircraft would permit a reduction in the normal procedural separation standards, which in turn promised consider... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2056508 | 858,760 |
1,986,464 | With a lecturing career at the University of Sydney spanning more than 40 years, many of Frank Stilwell's students have come to occupy prominent positions in Australian public life. In politics and public life more broadly, these include the following: Mark Latham, Anthony Albanese, Greg Combet, Carmel Tebbutt, Michael... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32100260 | 1,985,322 |
1,204,291 | "Quatermass II" received positive newspaper reviews in the "Daily Mail" and the "Daily Express", although the BBC's "Radio Times" listings magazine published letters of both praise and criticism for the serial. The serial was also criticised internally at the BBC by Cecil McGivern, who felt it to be not as good as the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=869155 | 1,203,646 |
759,339 | Introgression involves the crossing of closely related plant relatives, and results in the transfer of 'blocks' of genes, i.e. larger segments of chromosomes compared to single genes. R-genes are generally introduced within such blocks, which are usually incorporated/translocated/introgressed into the distal (extreme) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65085 | 758,933 |
2,054,799 | Toxic metals like lead are environmental and health hazards and can enter biological systems upon exposure. Lead is a persistent metal and can accumulate in human body over time due to its frequent usage in industries and presence in our environment. Inhalation of lead can have effects that can be range from subtle sym... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11290659 | 2,053,616 |
2,015,066 | The need for genomic counseling is currently driven by personal genomics companies, including 23andMe, Helix, and Pathway Genomics. Given the wealth and complexity of information obtained by personal genomics tests, genomic counseling can require expertise from a wide range of experts, including physicians, geneticists... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25569540 | 2,013,907 |
162,119 | The American "invasion" of some sections of the British home market for manufactured goods prompted a commercial response. Tariffs, despite sustained political campaign for Protection in the first decade of the twentieth century, were only imposed generally after the collapse of the world trade in 1930. In this competi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,034 |
16,184 | In 1957, while a cadet in flight school, Gagarin met Valentina Goryacheva at the May Day celebrations at the Red Square in Moscow. She was a medical technician who had graduated from Orenburg Medical School. They were married on 7 November of the same year, the same day Gagarin graduated from his flight school, and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34226 | 16,179 |
748,131 | At its missile range near Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Soviet Union tested and deployed the R-36O. A testing station and a horizontal assembly facility were constructed for the missile's development initially. Over most of 1965, two R-36 test pads were modified to work with the R-36O for its early test flights. In additio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=894303 | 747,735 |
1,020,682 | In the journal "Microbiology and Biology Education" a study was published by Shah and Martinez (2015) called "Current Approaches in Implementing Citizen Science in the Classroom". They begin by writing in the abstract that CS is a partnership between inexperienced amateurs and trained scientists. The authors continue: ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2155752 | 1,020,153 |
1,171,873 | In the 1960s, Alchian told Eastern Bloc economists that they had to "introduce more private property rights to make markets work the way you think they should work" or else the market allocation will seem to be "perverse or deficient." David Riesman noted that Alchian, like Friedman and Hayek, was "confident about the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1479817 | 1,171,254 |
2,137,197 | The expressions for the T-matrix resulting from both methods can be related to certain class of variational principles. In the case of first iteration of MCFV method we get the same result as from Schwinger variational principle with trial function formula_25. The higher iterations with "N"-terms in the continuous frac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45347901 | 2,135,968 |
1,211,464 | The encounters between the ice giant and Jupiter in the jumping-Jupiter scenario often lead to the ejection of the ice giant. For this ice giant to be retained its eccentricity must be damped by dynamical friction with the planetesimal disk, raising its perihelion beyond Saturn's orbit. The planetesimal disk masses typ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33358913 | 1,210,812 |
1,806,518 | Springs for energy storage can be made of SWCNTs or MWCNTs arranged in dense bundles of long, aligned tubes called "forests" of CNTs that are grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The "forests" can grow to heights of up to 6 millimeters. A deformed CNT requires a support structure to carry the load of the spring pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29723676 | 1,805,501 |
1,166,006 | Some of Bowlby's interpretations of the data reported by James Robertson were eventually rejected by the researcher, who reported data from 13 young children who were cared for in ideal circumstances during separation from their mothers. Robertson noted, "...Bowlby acknowledges that he draws mainly upon James Robertson... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18756845 | 1,165,389 |
651,386 | Of these changes, Craven stated that "it's in our Paralympic DNA to see obstacles as an opportunity to do things differently and that's what we are doing here. We are problem solvers by nature and fight for what we believe in", and iterated that he was "fully confident Rio 2016 will be the best Games ever in terms of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12090066 | 651,044 |
470,096 | The format of the Super Quiz differs from that of the other subject areas. Added in 1969, it offers a culminating championship event. The Super Quiz consisted of a forty-question multiple choice test as well as a relay around until 2013. In 2013, the multiple-choice portion was eliminated and the relay portion expanded... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=562034 | 469,860 |
69,010 | Urban heat islands (UHI) are metropolitan areas with higher temperatures than that of the surrounding environment. The higher temperatures result from increased absorption of solar energy by urban materials such as asphalt and concrete, which have lower albedos and higher heat capacities than those in the natural envir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27743 | 68,983 |
1,237,522 | This approach is aiming to eliminate or at least significantly reduce the pathogens in the submucosal biofilm. An antibiotic targeting gram-negative anaerobic bacteria – e.g. metronidazole or ornidazole is administered during the last ten days of antiseptic treatment, allowing peri-implant infection to be treated succe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26216271 | 1,236,858 |
536,226 | Written mathematics began with numbers expressed as tally marks, with each tally representing a single unit. The numerical symbols consisted probably of strokes or notches cut in wood or stone, and intelligible alike to all nations. For example, one notch in a bone represented one animal, or person, or anything else. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6134187 | 535,947 |
1,513,059 | Roeder was born in Boonville, Indiana, USA in 1942. He received his B.A. "summa cum laude" in chemistry from Wabash College and his M.S. in chemistry from the University of Illinois. He received his Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1969 from the University of Washington, Seattle, where he worked with William J. Rutter. He did ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1568691 | 1,512,208 |
1,495,369 | Gustav Ferdinand Joseph Wenzel Herglotz was born in Volary num. 28 to a public notary Gustav Herglotz (also a Doctor of Law) and his wife Maria née Wachtel. The family were Sudeten Germans. He studied mathematics and astronomy at the University of Vienna in 1899, and attended lectures by Ludwig Boltzmann. In this time ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9049338 | 1,494,528 |
863,880 | On-line sodium measurement in ultrapure water most commonly uses a glass membrane sodium ion-selective electrode and a reference electrode in an analyzer measuring a small continuously flowing side-stream sample. The voltage measured between the electrodes is proportional to the logarithm of the sodium ion activity or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31050418 | 863,420 |
987,300 | Kinetic energy recovery systems (KERS) were used for the motor sport Formula One's 2009 season, and are under development for road vehicles. KERS was abandoned for the 2010 Formula One season, but re-introduced for the 2011 season. By 2013, all teams were using KERS with Marussia F1 starting use for the 2013 season. On... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=305992 | 986,784 |
253,071 | Fritz von Opel was instrumental in popularizing rockets as means of propulsion. In the 1920s, he initiated together with Max Valier, co-founder of the "Verein für Raumschiffahrt", the world's first rocket program, Opel-RAK, leading to speed records for automobiles, rail vehicles and the first manned rocket-powered flig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=262135 | 252,938 |
643,525 | Although researchers do not agree on a specific threshold for the number of tandem repeats that constitute a microsatellite, there is a consensus around their relative size. Longer sequences are called minisatellite, and even longer sequences are called satellite DNA sites. Some scientists distinguish among the three c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7413343 | 643,185 |
33,038 | Many pilots who flew both the B-17 and the B-24 preferred the B-17 for its greater stability and ease in formation flying. The electrical systems were less vulnerable to damage than the B-24's hydraulics, and the B-17 was easier to fly than a B-24 when missing an engine. During the war, the largest offensive bombing fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4997 | 33,026 |
2,010,238 | SBPase is a homodimeric protein, meaning that it is made up of two identical subunits. The size of this protein varies between species, but is about 92,000 Da (two 46,000 Da subunits) in cucumber plant leaves. The key functional domain controlling SBPase function involves a disulfide bond between two cysteine residues.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14457671 | 2,009,086 |
1,891,578 | Born in Brăila, he graduated from the law faculty of the University of Bucharest and worked as a lawyer. Initially a communist sympathizer, he later embraced the far right and joined the Iron Guard. In the press, he contributed ideological articles as well as commentary on foreign events. Together with Petru Comarnescu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48162821 | 1,890,495 |
1,026,595 | The concept of a policy rule emerged as part of the discussion on whether monetary policy should be based on intuition/discretion. The discourse began at the beginning of the 19th century. The first formal debate forum was launched in the 1920s by the US House Committee on Banking and Currency. In the hearing on the so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=607593 | 1,026,061 |
1,322,854 | Bruce Michael Alberts (born April 14, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American biochemist and the Chancellor’s Leadership Chair in Biochemistry and Biophysics for Science and Education, Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco. He has done important work studying the protein complexes which enable chro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2067987 | 1,322,128 |
857,829 | Lakatos' model provides for the possibility of a research programme that is not only continued in the presence of troublesome anomalies but that remains progressive despite them. For Lakatos, it is essentially necessary to continue on with a theory that we basically know cannot be completely true, and it is even possib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38455 | 857,374 |
346,133 | The Orion crew module (CM) is a reusable transportation capsule that provides a habitat for the crew, provides storage for consumables and research instruments, and contains the docking port for crew transfers. The crew module is the only part of the spacecraft that returns to Earth after each mission and is a 57.5° fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33190128 | 345,952 |
146,275 | The basic operation of the CANDU design is similar to other nuclear reactors. Fission reactions in the reactor core heat pressurized water in a "primary cooling loop". A heat exchanger, also known as a steam generator, transfers the heat to a "secondary cooling loop", which powers a steam turbine with an electric gener... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7475 | 146,217 |
218,917 | In 2018, researchers at Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine in San Diego, CA determined that rapid whole-genome sequencing (rWGS) can diagnose genetic disorders in time to change acute medical or surgical management (clinical utility) and improve outcomes in acutely ill infants. The researchers reported a re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21647820 | 218,809 |
1,249,146 | In his 1911 description, Osborn coined the term "dinosaur mummy" for the specimen. This term was later used by some authors to refer to a handful of similar hadrosaurid ("duck-billed dinosaurs") specimens with extensive skin impressions, all of which have been discovered in North America. The second such mummy, now in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9726532 | 1,248,470 |
2,230,725 | The Terriers then began a 3-game homestand at the Pope, where they lost their first 2 to Albany and Norfolk State. In their final game of the homestand the Terriers won their first home game against Brown. The Terriers then went on the road against Army where they faltered ending the non-conference portion of the sched... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33369836 | 2,229,459 |
224,328 | With the latest phase-detect autofocus available on some mirrorless cameras, the autofocus speed and accuracy of some models has been shown to be as good as DSLRs. But mirrorless cameras have shorter battery life than DSLRs due to prolonged use of LCD and/or OLED viewfinder displays, and often smaller buffers (to save ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27317016 | 224,214 |
900,419 | The most cogent example of how the different theories treat similar assets is tropical rainforest ecosystems, most obviously the Yasuni region of Ecuador. While this area has substantial deposits of bitumen it is also one of the most diverse ecosystems on Earth and some estimates establish it has over 200 undiscovered ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177694 | 899,944 |
192,446 | Prior to the development of RBAC, the Bell-LaPadula (BLP) model was synonymous with MAC and file system permissions were synonymous with DAC. These were considered to be the only known models for access control: if a model was not BLP, it was considered to be a DAC model, and vice versa. Research in the late 1990s demo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66181 | 192,347 |
1,008,992 | The Siemens–Martin process complemented rather than replaced the Bessemer process. It is slower and thus easier to control, allowing production of better product. It also permits the melting and refining of large amounts of scrap steel, further lowering steel production costs and recycling an otherwise troublesome wast... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1143044 | 1,008,471 |
100,950 | American industrialists recognized the threat of cheap offshore labor to American workers during the 1910s, and explicitly stated the goal of what is now called lean manufacturing as a countermeasure. Henry Towne, past President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, wrote in the foreword to Frederick Winslow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218445 | 100,905 |
1,042,694 | The university is organized into six principal academic units—five research schools consisting of twenty faculties and the doctoral school—with campuses throughout the historic Old Town and Morasko. The university employs roughly 4,000 academics, and has more than 40,000 students who study in some 80 disciplines. More ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=626585 | 1,042,151 |
1,676,098 | The prolonged consequence that erupts from consistent gendered stereotypes relating to women's inability to become successful in the field of STEM is developing a fixed mindset that they are not equipped enough to think critically or contribute valuable ideas in careers that are predominantly male workers. Stepping int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55234564 | 1,675,156 |
738,592 | Originally all the surveys were clustered together in a relatively small part of the Northern Hemisphere. This meant that around 15% of the sky at extreme Southern declination was never monitored, and that the rest of the Southern sky was observed over a shorter season than the Northern sky. Moreover, as the hours of d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58017976 | 738,201 |
69,963 | More recently, weapons used by some Royal Marines, Infantry, RAF Regiment, Ministry of Defence Police and soldiers with a dismounted close combat role in operations in Afghanistan have had the SUSAT replaced with the Trijicon Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight (ACOG). In 2011, the Ministry of Defence began issuing ELCAN ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84350 | 69,936 |
525,732 | The major criticism against UEB is that it fails to handle mathematics or computer science as compactly as codes designed to be optimal for those disciplines. Besides requiring more space to represent and more time to read and write, the verbosity of UEB can make learning mathematics more difficult. Nemeth Braille, off... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1845709 | 525,459 |
1,572,733 | Risk communication in food safety went through an evolutionary path and became highly specialised, developed to be a distinguishable and well-grounded area. Consumer science played a crucial role in the evolutionary procedure. Based on literature of the last 40 years, 5 + 1 stages in the evolution of food safety risk c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27486969 | 1,571,845 |
740,590 | There is no clear association between water fluoridation and cancer or deaths due to cancer, both for cancer in general and also specifically for bone cancer and osteosarcoma. Series of research concluded that concentration of fluoride in water doesn't associate with osteosarcoma. The beliefs regarding association of f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=763637 | 740,198 |
442,154 | Many new ETCS lines in Europe are being created and then it may often be preferred to implement ETCS Level 1 or Level 2 only. With this implementation strategy the wayside signalling cost is kept to a minimum, but the vehicle fleet that operates on these lines will need to all be equipped with ETCS on board to allow op... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8286932 | 441,939 |
678,237 | Free histones produced by the cell during S-phase are rapidly incorporated into new nucleosomes. This process is closely tied to the replication fork, occurring immediately in “front” and “behind” the replication complex. Translocation of MCM helicase along the leading strand disrupts parental nucleosome octamers, resu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1215494 | 677,883 |
965,937 | The DS30M Mark 2 system consists of a 30mm Mark 44 Bushmaster II on a fully automated mount or via manual control with an off-mount electro-optical director (EOD). The gun and the EOD can be controlled from a remote operator console elsewhere on the ship. The weapon is a gyro-stabilized, electrically operated, self-con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23208728 | 965,428 |
1,938,307 | To produce a desired shape, the RNA origami method uses double-crossovers (DX) to arrange the RNA helices in parallel to each other to form a building block. While DNA origami requires the construction of DNA molecules from multiple strands, researchers were able to devise a method in making DX molecules from only one ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55481097 | 1,937,197 |
1,328,916 | The years immediately following World War II saw the widespread design and introduction of military jets. Early types, such as the Gloster Meteor and Saab J 21R, were little more than WWII technology adapted for the jet engine. However the higher speeds achieved by jet-powered aircraft led to many progressive advances ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42008609 | 1,328,188 |
1,041,046 | Building on these discoveries, the Ratcliffe group, along with joint studies with William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza, helped to uncover a detailed molecular chain of events that cells use to sense oxygen. A specific step identified was the binding of proteins expressed by the Von Hippel–Lindau tumor suppressor gene (VHL)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37630676 | 1,040,503 |
205,565 | The separation between stars in a binary may range from less than one astronomical unit (AU, the average Earth–Sun distance) to several hundred. In latter instances, the gravitational effects will be negligible on a planet orbiting an otherwise suitable star and habitability potential will not be disrupted unless the o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2592906 | 205,459 |
1,221,271 | Part 2 of the text identifies Haskell County, Kansas to be the origin site of the influenza strain based on epidemiological evidence derived from a local doctor to the site, Loring Miner and details the distribution across the US through army camps. Furthermore, Barry addresses the difficulty of explaining the origin o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25214934 | 1,220,613 |
1,565,868 | LGC, Biosearch Technologies, is a biotechnology company headquartered in Hoddesdon, UK. Formerly known as LGC Genomics, which acquired Biosearch Technologies, Inc. - located in Petaluma, CA in 2015 (a vertically integrated company that specializes in custom synthesized oligonucleotides for qPCR, cGMP oligos for molecul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15987733 | 1,564,981 |
751,100 | Walter Chrysler's father, Henry (Hank) Chrysler, was a Canadian-American of German and Dutch ancestry. He was an American Civil War veteran who was a locomotive engineer for the Kansas Pacific Railway and its successor, the Union Pacific Railroad. Walter's mother was born in Rocheport, Missouri, and was also of German ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=86648 | 750,702 |
1,852,498 | Parameters taken from the spectrum, mainly NOESY cross-peaks and coupling constants, can be used to determine local structural features such as glycosidic bond angles, dihedral angles (using the Karplus equation), and sugar pucker conformations. The presence or absence of imino proton resonances, or of coupling between... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32458543 | 1,851,436 |
1,206,674 | The action of "Sangamon" swinging through the wind caused the flames and smoke to change direction, spreading the fires. By 20:15, however, steering control had been established, and the ship was brought back to a course which helped the crew fight the many fires. But water pressure was low, as the firemain and risers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=464474 | 1,206,029 |
141,974 | More buildings were built to the west of the Main Building, developing the land between University Avenue and the River Kelvin with natural science buildings and the faculty of medicine. The medical school spread into neighboring Partick and joined with the Western Infirmary. At the eastern flank of the Main Building, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39569 | 141,916 |
472,202 | Bethesda Softworks has developed RPGs since 1994, in its epic fantasy "The Elder Scrolls" series. "" (1996) is notable as an early 3D first-person RPG with an expansive world. The series drew attention to sandbox gameplay, which gives the player wide choices of free-roaming activities unrelated to the game's main story... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32408640 | 471,966 |
1,730,723 | Tymshare renamed the software "Augment" and offered it as a commercial service via its new Office Automation Division. At Tymshare, Engelbart soon found himself marginalized and relegated to obscurity. Operational concerns at Tymshare overrode Engelbart's desire to do further research. Various executives, first at Tyms... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1159513 | 1,729,748 |
1,528,365 | In 2020, Armstrong and his frequent collaborators Joseph Mills (now of Baylor College of Medicine) and Michael Conte of UCSF worked to develop an interdisciplinary society with the goal of advancing science and clinical care in association with limb preservation and to develop the next generation of clinicians, scienti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19840767 | 1,527,501 |
448,631 | As enemy aliens, Frisch and Peierls were initially excluded from the MAUD Committee, but the absurdity of this was soon recognised, and they were made members of its Technical Subcommittee. This did not mean that they were cleared for radar work. When Oliphant made the services of his secretary available for typing up ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1024759 | 448,413 |
411,313 | About 550 million residents have been enrolled and assigned 480 million Aadhaar national identification numbers as of 7 November 2013. It aims to cover the entire population of 1.2 billion in a few years. However, it is being challenged by critics over privacy concerns and possible transformation of the state into a su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=290622 | 411,111 |
1,477,080 | The internal low- to medium-level variant of RPL, called System RPL (or SysRPL) is used on some earlier HP calculators as well as the aforementioned ones, as part of their operating system implementation language. In the HP 48 series this variant of RPL is not accessible to the calculator user without the use of extern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=512681 | 1,476,248 |
616,476 | The Coast Guard was active in the Vietnam War beginning 27 May 1965 with the formation of Coast Guard Squadron One consisting of Divisions 11 and 12. Squadron One assisted in Operation Market Time by interdicting resupply by sea of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces. The Coast Guard developed a "piggyback" weapon th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6204230 | 616,162 |
724,445 | Since self-regulation by all state and non-state actors seems hard to achieve, measures to mitigate war-related risks have mainly been proposed in the area of international cooperation. International infrastructure may be expanded giving more sovereignty to the international level. This could help coordinate efforts fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19637 | 724,065 |
687,500 | "Painting album mechanism" is an anti-shoulder surfing mechanism, which has characteristics of both recall and recognition graphical techniques. Rather than using a regular PIN or password involving alphanumeric characters, users select a sequence of colors or pictures to unlock the system. The order of the colors and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3982609 | 687,142 |
2,148,160 | Compared to drug therapy laser ablation has the advantages of immediacy and efficacy in single nodules and especially when they have already reached a certain volume. In these cases, the percutaneous laser ablation not only prevents the growth of the nodules but it induces a reduction in short times and without having ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35470521 | 2,146,929 |
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