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128,338 | The use of pulses of different durations, frequencies, or shapes in specifically designed patterns or "pulse sequences" allows production of a spectrum that contains many different types of information about the molecules in the sample. In multi-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, there are at least tw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25110709 | 128,286 |
1,428,011 | VANTA interfaces are more thermally conductive than conventional thermal interface materials at the same temperatures because phonons propagate easily along the highly thermally conductive CNTs and thus heat is transported in one direction along the alignment of the CNTs. The distribution and alignment of the thermally... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51417988 | 1,427,207 |
1,146,243 | Dembski's critics note that specified complexity, as originally defined by Leslie Orgel, is precisely what Darwinian evolution is supposed to create. Critics maintain that Dembski uses "complex" as most people would use "absurdly improbable". They also claim that his argument is circular: CSI cannot occur naturally bec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1271019 | 1,145,639 |
1,351,317 | In 1966, while teaching at the University of Kansas, Dr. Bass got the first idea for what would eventually become the Body Farm when he was asked if it was possible to determine the time of death of a decomposed cow. He determined that additional research was needed to accomplish this, and suggested that such knowledge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16471345 | 1,350,571 |
889,967 | The TrueCrypt documentation lists many ways in which TrueCrypt's hidden volume deniability features may be compromised (e.g. by third-party software which may leak information through temporary files, thumbnails, etc., to unencrypted disks) and possible ways to avoid this. In a paper published in 2008 and focused on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=905962 | 889,498 |
1,195,886 | Later, French social thinker Henri de Saint-Simon’s first book, the 1803 "Lettres d’un Habitant de Geneve", introduced the idea of describing society using laws similar to those of the physical and biological sciences. His student and collaborator was Auguste Comte, a French philosopher widely regarded as the founder o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52054307 | 1,195,246 |
624,163 | During the late 1970s and early 1980s, GIS was emerging in many large government agencies that were responsible for managing land and facilities. Particularly, federal agencies of the United States government developed software that was by definition in the public domain because of the Freedom of Information Act, and w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1877442 | 623,830 |
961,457 | Grant Morrison's approach to writing this series was to make the reading as universal as possible. They stated that they were not interested in "re-doing origin stories or unpacking classic narratives" but instead wanted to do "a total update, rehaul and refit". However, rather than just creating a "fresh and relevant"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2395299 | 960,948 |
582,583 | For most areas of the ocean, the highest rates of carbon remineralisation occur at depths between in the water column, decreasing down to about 1,200 m where remineralisation rates remain pretty constant at 0.1 μmol kg yr. This provides the most nutrients available for primary producers within the photic zone, though i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240228 | 582,285 |
1,925,997 | Finland's Koivuranta, who finished 44th in the ski jumping part of this event, did not start in the cross-county portion of this event. Defending Olympic champion Gottwald had the fastest cross-country skiing part of the event to move from 40th to 17th. Meanwhile, Spillane and defending World champion Demong caught ski... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24960307 | 1,924,893 |
1,887,895 | The Hale Solar Laboratory is located in a residential area on private property south of the campus of the California Institute of Technology, on the east side of Holladay Road between Lombardy and Orlando Roads. It is set well back from the street, down a narrow tree-lined lane. It is a roughly T-shaped concrete struct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13024005 | 1,886,812 |
125,109 | CRISPR-Cas technology has been proposed as a treatment for multiple human diseases, especially those with a genetic cause. Its ability to modify specific DNA sequences makes it a tool with potential to fix disease-causing mutations. Early research in animal models suggest that therapies based on CRISPR technology have ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59990826 | 125,057 |
1,694,535 | Before an awake craniotomy begins for tumor or epilepsy surgery, the patient is given anxiolytic medications. The patient is then positioned in a neurosurgical head restraint that holds the head completely still and given general anesthesia. The anesthesiologist will then use local anesthetics like lidocaine or bupivac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48986838 | 1,693,584 |
1,229,335 | Prior to the work done at Raytheon, optical properties in nanocomposite ceramic materials had received little attention. Their studies clearly demonstrated near theoretical transmission in nanocomposite optical ceramics for the first time. The yttria/magnesia binary system is an ideal model system for nanocomposite for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=905803 | 1,228,673 |
532,131 | Nick Holonyak Jr. was born in Zeigler, Illinois, on November 3, 1928. His parents were Rusyn immigrants. His father worked in a coal mine. Holonyak was the first member of his family to receive any type of formal schooling. He once worked 30 straight hours on the Illinois Central Railroad before realizing that a life o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=420351 | 531,857 |
557,424 | In October 2006 Flannery quoted a US Navy study stating that, there may be, "no Arctic icecap in Summer in the next five to 15 years. He also quoted NASA's Professor James Hansen, "arguably the world authority on climate change" who said, "we have just a decade to avert a 25-metre rise of the sea". In February 2007, as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1903368 | 557,135 |
1,243,046 | A trion is a localized excitation which consists of three charged particles. A negative trion consists of two electrons and one hole and a positive trion consists of two holes and one electron. The trion itself is a quasiparticle and is somewhat similar to an exciton, which is a complex of one electron and one hole. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26964158 | 1,242,373 |
2,096,373 | The habit of this shrub is low-lying and sprawling, at 0.1 metres tall, or erect to a height of 2 metres. It has spiky branchlets, small leaves in an alternate arrangement, and small flowers that are clustered on relatively long stalks. The leaves are entire, or with a toothed margin, are linear in outline or broader a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22207397 | 2,095,165 |
1,984,915 | Due to the required distance of the acting/break points in one level, transformers which are equipped with micro-switches have a control hysteresis in the working point which has the consequence of a restricted reproducible accuracy. Electric displacement of the working point is not possible. The other, above-mentioned... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37686388 | 1,983,776 |
1,451,846 | In 1986 Tom Flanagan became the historical consultant and primary expert witness for the Federal Department of Justice in the Manitoba Métis Federation v Canada case (Flanagan, Metis Lands vii). He criticized the recognition of the Indian title of the Métis (1885 Reconsidered) and of the "Métis as an Aboriginal people ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1725890 | 1,451,029 |
520,038 | Spiegelhalter was born on 16 August 1953: his name means "Mirror holder" in German. He was educated at Barnstaple Grammar School, a state grammar school in Barnstaple, Devon, from 1963 to 1970. He then studied mathematics at Keble College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1974. He moved to Univ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2803355 | 519,767 |
1,233,709 | Isaac Asimov considered the issue in the 1950s in I, Robot. At the insistence of his editor John W. Campbell Jr., he proposed the Three Laws of Robotics to govern artificially intelligent systems. Much of his work was then spent testing the boundaries of his three laws to see where they would break down, or where they ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32237314 | 1,233,046 |
504,378 | Dirichlet boundary conditions and D-branes had a long "pre-history" before their full significance was recognized. A series of 1975-76 papers by Bardeen, Bars, Hanson and Peccei dealt with an early concrete proposal of interacting particles at the ends of strings (quarks interacting with QCD flux tubes), with dynamical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=529418 | 504,116 |
183,901 | Venus has an extended ionosphere located at altitudes 120–300 km. The ionosphere almost coincides with the thermosphere. The high levels of the ionization are maintained only over the dayside of the planet. Over the nightside the concentration of the electrons is almost zero. The ionosphere of Venus consists of three l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6410946 | 183,804 |
2,107,737 | Gleichenia polypodioides (L.) Sm., commonly known as coral fern, kystervaring ('kyster' meaning 'coastal' and of possible Scandinavian derivation) or ystervaring (meaning 'iron fern' in Afrikaans) due to its glabrous, brown, wiry stipes. The species is widespread in south- and east tropical Africa, southern Africa and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37919861 | 2,106,524 |
883,512 | During the 1960s, the United Kingdom's Transport and Road Research Laboratory tested a driverless Citroen DS that interacted with magnetic cables that were embedded in the road. It went through a test track at without deviation of speed or direction in any weather conditions, and in a far more effective way than by hum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44787757 | 883,048 |
1,437,375 | The launch was originally scheduled 18 August 1994, but there was an RSLS abort at T-1.9 s after all three main engines ignited – the fifth (and final) time in the shuttle program where an RSLS abort occurred after main engine ignition. Previous aborts occurred on STS-41-D, STS-51-F, STS-55 and STS-51. The automatic ab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7089180 | 1,436,566 |
341,627 | On June 11, 2007, Boeing announced that it had been awarded a $28 million contract by the U.S. Air Force to deliver 600 laser seekers (400 to the Air Force and 200 to the Navy) by June 2009. According to the Boeing Corporation, in tests at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons and F-15E Strike ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=201690 | 341,446 |
501,889 | For the set cover problem, Lovász proved that the integrality gap for an instance with "n" elements is "H", the "n"th harmonic number. One can turn the linear programming relaxation for this problem into an approximate solution of the original unrelaxed set cover instance via the technique of randomized rounding . Give... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6368430 | 501,631 |
1,177,063 | SIREN stands for SEN Integrated Renewable Energy Network Toolkit. The project is run by Sustainable Energy Now, an NGO based in Perth, Australia. The project maintains a website. SIREN runs on Windows and the source code is hosted on SourceForge. The software is written in Python and uses the SAM model (System Advisor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38803848 | 1,176,440 |
1,695,813 | Secondary payloads: (1) Canadian experiment (CANEX-2), located in both the orbiter's cargo bay and middeck and which consisted of Space Vision System (SVS); Materials Exposure in Low-Earth Orbit (MELEO); Queen's University Experiment in Liquid-Metal Diffusion (QUELD); Phase Partitioning in Liquids (PARLIQ); Sun Photosp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=502167 | 1,694,860 |
67,582 | The Hippocratic school of medicine described well the ailments of the human rectum and the treatment thereof, despite the school's poor theory of medicine. Hemorrhoids, for instance, though believed to be caused by an excess of bile and phlegm, were treated by Hippocratic physicians in relatively advanced ways. Cautery... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13486 | 67,556 |
98,146 | The atmosphere of Earth is composed of nitrogen (78%), oxygen (21%), argon (0.9%), carbon dioxide (0.04%) and trace gases. Most organisms use oxygen for respiration; lightning and bacteria perform nitrogen fixation to produce ammonia that is used to make nucleotides and amino acids; plants, algae, and cyanobacteria use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=202899 | 98,105 |
708,789 | While these earlier attacks were fixed by most TLS implementors following its public announcement, a new variant, the Lucky Thirteen attack, published in 2013, used a timing side-channel to re-open the vulnerability even in implementations that had previously been fixed. As of early 2014, the attack is no longer consid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29157021 | 708,420 |
1,288,894 | The immune system extends this response to its treatments of self-antigens, softening reactions against allergens, the body, and digestive microorganisms. As the worms developed ways of triggering a beneficial immune response, humans came to rely on parasitic interaction to help regulate their immune systems. As develo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29940688 | 1,288,185 |
2,009,120 | Familial ALS is the most studied; however, a new technique that was recently introduced is the use of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC). In this study the researcher can isolate skin fibroblast from a patient with familial or sporadic ALS and reprogram them into motor neuron to study ALS. The main advantage of iPSC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55680252 | 2,007,968 |
1,615,224 | His father was professor of mathematics Andrejs Dunkels. His mother was professor Kerstin Vännman. His work is mainly focused on computer networking technology and distributed communication for small embedded systems and devices and wireless sensor networks on the Internet. He attended the Swedish Institute of Computer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5930520 | 1,614,318 |
198,189 | Pleistocene horse fossils have been assigned to a multitude of species, with over 50 species of equines described from the Pleistocene of North America alone, although the taxonomic validity of most of these has been called into question. Recent genetic work on fossils has found evidence for only three genetically dive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10490785 | 198,087 |
1,699,912 | In 2015, a bonebed designated as Z183 was discovered within of the approximate location described by Parrington. This bonebed contained at least three individuals of different sizes, represented by 27 bones, all of which were mixed in with the remains of an allokotosaurian; new elements not known previously included th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5181094 | 1,698,958 |
2,131,448 | Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf was born in Bremen, Germany on February 15, 1922, to Adolph Friedrich and Elsa Kuhlmann. She attended the University of Göttingen from 1942 where she received her doctorate in materials science in 1947. Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf continued her research under Sir Nevill Francis Mott at the University of B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42430964 | 2,130,223 |
1,099,741 | The spread of non-indigenous species (NIS) represents significant and increasing risks to ecosystems. In marine systems, NIS that survive the transport and adapt to new locations can have significant adverse effects on local biodiversity, including the displacement of native species, and shifts in biological communitie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66619486 | 1,099,181 |
1,650,892 | Weinberg coined the term "homophobia". He began contemplating it after remembering having witnessed abhorrence towards a lesbian friend while preparing to deliver a speech in 1965. The word was first printed in "Screw" on May 5, 1969, followed by "Time" a few months later. "Gay Times" stated after his death in 2017 tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=215943 | 1,649,960 |
785,682 | While these considerations may be directed toward any building, achieving an ideal optimized cost/performance solution requires careful, holistic, system integration engineering of these scientific principles. Modern refinements through computer modeling (such as the comprehensive U.S. Department of Energy "Energy Plus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67029 | 785,259 |
1,085,884 | Thomas Townsend Brown (March 18, 1905 – October 27, 1985) was an American inventor whose research into odd electrical effects led him to believe he had discovered a connection between strong electric fields and gravity, a type of antigravity effect. Instead of being an antigravity force, what Brown observed has general... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188656 | 1,085,326 |
370,479 | After the successful first three flights, the objective was changed from technology demonstration to operational demonstration. Ingenuity flew through a transitional phase of two flights, flight 4 and 5 before transitioning to its operations demonstration phase. In the operations demonstration phase that started from t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56300556 | 370,285 |
1,335,223 | The core consists of a graphite cylinder with a radius of and a height of which includes axial reflectors at top and bottom. The cylinder allocates three or four concentric rings, each of 36 hexagonal blocks with an interstitial gap of . Each hexagonal block contains 108 helium coolant channels and 216 fuel pins. Each ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3122365 | 1,334,493 |
1,280,108 | The ocular dominance columns look like Turing patterns, which can be formed by modified Hebbian mechanisms. In a normal Hebbian model, if two neurons are connected to a neuron and fire together, they increase the strength of the synapses, "moving" the axon terminals closer together. The model must be modified to incorp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3749608 | 1,279,413 |
972,415 | Improvement beyond this standard while still using standard .416 Barrett brass seems possible, but the bullets have to be specially designed. An example of such a special .416 Barrett very low drag extreme range bullet is the German CNC manufactured mono-metal 27.5 gram (424 gr) .416 Barrett MSG (G1 BC ≈ 1.103 – this b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10452583 | 971,905 |
1,134,607 | Hughes was born in 1830, the son of a musically talented family hailing originally from Y Bala (the place of birth was either London or Corwen, Denbighshire), and emigrated to the United States at the age of seven. At only six years old, he is known to have played the harp and english concertina to a very high standard... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=862429 | 1,134,014 |
1,244,650 | Developmental systems theory (DST) is an overarching theoretical perspective on biological development, heredity, and evolution. It emphasizes the shared contributions of genes, environment, and epigenetic factors on developmental processes. DST, unlike conventional scientific theories, is not directly used to help mak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8355930 | 1,243,977 |
85,845 | By early 1964, the long periods of travel had started to affect Stravinsky's health. His case of polycythemia had worsened and his friends had noticed that his movements and speech had slowed. In 1965, Stravinsky agreed to have David Oppenheim produce a documentary film about himself for the CBS network. It involved a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38172 | 85,811 |
2,171,315 | Sir Charles Langbridge Morgan CBE (1 January 1855 – 9 November 1940) was a British civil engineer. A railway engineer, he spent his early career on several railway construction projects before joining the Great Eastern Railway where his responsibilities included construction of Liverpool Street station. Morgan became c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21207515 | 2,170,077 |
1,747,201 | This erect plant can grow to a height of . Its sharply-toothed fernlike leaves are located low on the stout stem. The stem is topped with a large inflorescence of bright pink to purple or white flowers. Each flower has a long, pointed beak which curves upward, superficially resembling the trunk of an elephant, and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14296786 | 1,746,215 |
1,609,368 | On the microscale (nanometer to micrometer), network analysis is performed on individual neurons and synapses. Due to the incredible number of neurons in a brain network, it is extremely difficult to construct a complete network at the microscale. Specifically, data collection is too slow to resolve all of the billions... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63336797 | 1,608,463 |
58,871 | The second-generation ("Gen2") Formula E car was introduced in the 2018–19 season and features significant technological advances over the previous Spark-Renault SRT 01E car – its 54 kWh battery and power output rising from 200 kW to 250 kW and top speed rising to around 280 km/h (174 mph). The arrival of the Gen2 car ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36882104 | 58,846 |
1,837,329 | The tracheostomy procedure is an ancient medical procedure which dates back to 2000 BC. There are some records of physicians performing tracheostomy to save the lives of children and sick people from choking. However, several complications were also common after the procedure was performed due to the severity of the in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25256797 | 1,836,280 |
644,882 | The first line of treatment for calcific tendinitis is typically nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs to relieve pain, rest for the affected joint, and sometimes physical therapy to avoid joint stiffness. For those with severe pain direct injections of steroids to the affected site are often effective for pain relief, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8351343 | 644,542 |
2,151,928 | There was no set format to the out of town meetings, which were originally held over a single day, but during the 1960s some lasted three days. They were often limited in topical scope. Ken Pounds, the President of the RAS from 1990-2, proposed expanding their remit into a more general meeting, inspired by the large me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37260700 | 2,150,697 |
169,286 | The spinal cord of Turkana Boy would have been narrower than that of modern humans, which means that the nervous system of "H. ergaster", and their respiratory muscles, may not have been developed enough to produce or control speech. In 2001, anthropologists Bruce Latimer and James Ohman concluded that Turkana Boy was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276745 | 169,196 |
1,040,955 | DST's potential to save energy comes primarily from its effects on residential lighting, which consumes about 3.5% of electricity in the United States and Canada. (For comparison, air conditioning uses 16.5% of energy in the United States.) Delaying the nominal time of sunset and sunrise reduces the use of artificial l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65801630 | 1,040,412 |
2,102,348 | One major way in which cells respond to stimuli is through signal transduction pathways, whereby a ligand binds to a receptor, causing conformational changes that lead to a cascade of events in intracellular signalling molecules. This ultimately ends up in the translocation of transcription factors to the nucleus alter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22826856 | 2,101,136 |
1,277,096 | Kurchatov's speech made it apparent that the three countries were all working on the same basic concepts and had all encountered the same sorts of problems. Cockcroft missed Kurchatov's visit because he had left for the US to press for declassification of the fusion work to avoid this duplication of effort. There was a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3083485 | 1,276,403 |
557,812 | The implementation of array CGH, whereby DNA microarrays are used instead of the traditional metaphase chromosome preparation, was pioneered by Solinas-Tolodo et al. in 1997 using tumor cells and Pinkel et al. in 1998 by use of breast cancer cells. This was made possible by the Human Genome Project which generated a li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=983601 | 557,523 |
710,421 | Mendez et al. (2013) announced the discovery of a previously unknown haplogroup, for which they proposed the designator "A00". "Genotyping of a DNA sample that was submitted to a commercial genetic-testing facility demonstrated that the Y chromosome of this African American individual carried the ancestral state of all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4148032 | 710,050 |
59,787 | During World War II, efforts were started to develop surface-to-air missiles as it was generally considered that flak was of little use against bombers of ever-increasing performance. The lethal radius of a flak shell is fairly small, and the chance of delivering a "hit" is essentially a fixed percentage per round. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182664 | 59,762 |
820,488 | Australian and New Zealand pipes are sized to an independent specification, AS/NZS 2280, that is not compatible with European pipes even though the same nomenclature is used. Australia adopted at an early point the imperial British cast iron pipe standard BS 78, and when this was retired on British adoption of ISO 2531... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23107410 | 820,047 |
1,521,142 | In the bacteria "Escherichia coli", a Prisoner Dilemma situation can be observed when mutants exhibiting a Grow Advantage in Stationary Phase (GASP) phenotype compete with a wild type (WT) strain in batch culture. In such batch culture settings, where the growth environment is homogenized by shaking the cultures, WT ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31009191 | 1,520,281 |
1,363,130 | The Goldman model differs from the Kidd-Stubbs series decompression model in that the Goldman model assumes linear kinetics, where the K-S model includes a quadratic component, and the Goldman model considers only the central well-perfused compartment to contribute explicitly to risk, while the K-S model assumes all co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38814223 | 1,362,377 |
1,555,610 | LIM-domain containing proteins have been shown to play roles in cytoskeletal organization, organ development, regulation of plant cell development, cell lineage specification, and regulation of gene transcription. LIM proteins are also implicated in a variety of heart and muscle conditions, oncogenesis, neurological di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9053177 | 1,554,727 |
1,940,775 | A sobrado typically consists of two or more floors and with a relatively large built area. At the time of the colony Brazil the houses were the residences of the masters in the cities and marked the beginning of a timid urbanization of Brazil. In the previous period, the antagonism existed between the big house and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53086521 | 1,939,664 |
771,390 | For example, the tornado frequency of Southwestern Ontario is about half that of the most tornado-prone areas of the central US plains. The last multiple tornado-related deaths in Canada were caused by a tornado in Ear Falls, Ontario on 9 July 2009, where 3 died, and the last killer tornado was on 3 August 2018 in Alon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8293375 | 770,976 |
1,088,634 | Moses Hooper moved to Oshkosh in 1863, and started construction of the house in 1882. It was located at the north edge of the Wisconsin State Normal School at Oshkosh. It cost approximately $20,000 to build. Hooper moved into his new residence on October 31, 1883. The structure had modern amenities including hot water,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=496761 | 1,088,075 |
1,137,231 | Notre Dame has an undergraduate hall system which blends the residential college system and the house system. All first-year students are placed in one of the 32 halls upon enrollment, and students rarely switch halls. Each hall has its own spirit, tradition, mascot, sport teams, events, dances and reputation. Approxim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15873547 | 1,136,638 |
1,054,638 | Cox was very successful at Cornell. Important to him was a young instructor, William Lloyd Garrison Williams, a co-founder of the Canadian Mathematical Congress who became chair of Cox's "special committee" in March 1923, and was his supervisor. Cox received the Erastus Brooks fellowship in Mathematics ($400 per year) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2814552 | 1,054,091 |
1,916,020 | Instead of SATIN IV, a restructured plan deployed the Strategic Air Command Digital Information Network to replace SACCS "Data Transmission Subsystem and part of the Data Display Subsystem", e.g., on November 5, 1986, "Martin Marietta Corporation technicians began installing SAC Digital Network (SACDIN) equipment in 91... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42793025 | 1,914,921 |
394,716 | Fire also played a major role in changing food habits. Cooking allowed a significant increase in meat consumption and calorie intake. It was soon discovered that meat could also be dried and smoked by fire, preserving it for lean seasons. Fire was even used in manufacturing tools for hunting and butchering. Hominids al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14205251 | 394,521 |
1,485,903 | In April 1988, IBM introduced a System/370 workstation that had been shipping to some customers since August 1987. Officially called the IBM 7437 VM/SP Technical Workstation (and later also known as the Personal System/370), it was a freestanding tower that connected to a MCA card installed in a PS/2 Model 60, 70, or 8... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3781117 | 1,485,065 |
313,060 | Rear Admiral William H. H. Southerland succeeded Thomas as commander of the Pacific Fleet on April 21, 1912. The "California" sailed to Manila and then to Japan before returning to San Francisco on August 15. A few weeks later, Southerland received orders to proceed to Nicaragua and be prepared to deploy a landing forc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=448716 | 312,892 |
70,731 | Oceans may have appeared as soon as 200 million years after the Earth formed, in a near-boiling (100 C) reducing environment, as the pH of 5.8 rose rapidly towards neutral. This scenario has found support from the dating of 4.404 Gya zircon crystals from metamorphosed quartzite of Mount Narryer in Western Australia. De... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19179706 | 70,704 |
103,058 | Tim Cain began working on "Fallout" in 1994. It began as a game engine based on Steve Jackson Games's tabletop role-playing game "GURPS". Interplay dropped the license after Steve Jackson Games objected to "Fallout" violence, and Cain and designer Christopher Taylor created a new character customization scheme, SPECIAL... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4508917 | 103,013 |
2,199,294 | The scientific activities of professor Andrzej Górak are focused on the computer aided simulation and experimental validation of integrated reaction and separation processes, like reactive distillation and reactive absorption as well as on the analysis of hybrid separation processes. Professor Górak is an editor of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30927138 | 2,198,042 |
1,020,922 | The neoplastic cells in both DDL and ALT/WDL carry similar small supernumerary marker chromosomes (sSMCs) and/or giant marker chromosomes that contain extra parts of chromosome 12's q arm at bands 13 through 15. This chromosomal area includes two genes associated with tumor development, the "MDM2" and "CDK4" genes. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1386912 | 1,020,393 |
15,128 | The second Karpov–Kasparov match in 1985 was organized in Moscow as the best of 24 games where the first player to win 12½ points would claim the World Champion title. The scores from the terminated match would not carry over; however, in the event of a 12–12 draw, the title would remain with Karpov. On 9 November 1985... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12810 | 15,123 |
61,372 | The university runs a number of academic institutions and programs apart from its undergraduate and postgraduate schools. It operates the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools (a private day school for K-12 students and day care), and a public charter school with four campuses on the South Side of Chicago administer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32127 | 61,347 |
1,286,870 | In addition to reducing emissions directly this system may also alleviate competitiveness concerns in twofold ways: firstly, domestic and foreign producers are exposed to the same carbon tax; and secondly, if multiple countries are competing for the same export market they can promote environmental performance as a mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6905345 | 1,286,169 |
545,522 | A large evergreen tree, specimens mature up to tall or more, with trunks in diameter, exceptionally . The bark is silver-brown, vertically furrowed, and thick near the base. The foliage is arranged in lacy, flat sprays with a feathery appearance, usually somewhat glaucous (i.e. blue-green) in color. The leaves are scal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=442546 | 545,236 |
1,457,110 | Organizations that are designed with an ethnocentric focus will portray certain tendencies. These include an organizations headquarters that's decision-making authority is relatively high. Home standards are applied to the evaluation and control of the organization. These standards are to ensure performance and product... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26992335 | 1,456,290 |
1,711,234 | Broadly speaking, there are two sets of challenges in MWSNs; hardware and environment. The main hardware constraints are limited battery power and low cost requirements. The limited power means that it's important for the nodes to be energy efficient. Price limitations often demand low complexity algorithms for simpler... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39138317 | 1,710,271 |
1,028,753 | The history of what today is called the Heine–Borel theorem starts in the 19th century, with the search for solid foundations of real analysis. Central to the theory was the concept of uniform continuity and the theorem stating that every continuous function on a closed interval is uniformly continuous. Peter Gustav Le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59595 | 1,028,219 |
725,818 | Estrone was the first steroid hormone to be discovered. It was discovered in 1929 independently by the American scientists Edward Doisy and Edgar Allen and the German biochemist Adolf Butenandt, although Doisy and Allen isolated it two months before Butenandt. They isolated and purified estrone in crystalline form from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=470095 | 725,437 |
545,840 | Fleming retired from University College London in 1927 at the age of 77. He remained active, becoming a committed advocate of the new technology of Television which included serving as the second president of the Television Society. He was knighted in 1929, and died at his home in Sidmouth, Devon in 1945. His contribut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16291 | 545,554 |
1,351,009 | The Boston Naming Test (BNT), introduced in 1983 by Edith Kaplan, Harold Goodglass and Sandra Weintraub, is a widely used neuropsychological assessment tool to measure confrontational word retrieval in individuals with aphasia or other language disturbance caused by stroke, Alzheimer's disease, or other dementing disor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34076030 | 1,350,263 |
83,855 | Beginning in 1894 Indian physicist Jagadish Chandra Bose performed the first experiments with microwaves. He was the first person to produce millimeter waves, generating frequencies up to 60 GHz (5 millimeter) using a 3 mm metal ball spark oscillator. Bose also invented waveguide, horn antennas, and semiconductor cryst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20097 | 83,821 |
1,088,515 | Insular biogeography or island biogeography is a field within biogeography that examines the factors that affect the species richness and diversification of isolated natural communities. The theory was originally developed to explain the pattern of the species–area relationship occurring in oceanic islands. Under eithe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1294453 | 1,087,956 |
150,335 | Carbon dioxide affects the curve in two ways. First, CO accumulation causes carbamino compounds to be generated through chemical interactions, which bind to hemoglobin forming carbaminohemoglobin . CO is considered an Allosteric regulation as the inhibition happens not at the binding site of hemoglobin. Second, it infl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3551251 | 150,267 |
1,217,124 | Once the Romans had adopted the Liburnian, they proceeded to make a few adaptations to improve the ships’ use within the navy. The benefits gained from the addition of rams and protection from missiles more than made-up for the slight loss of speed. Besides the construction, the ships required that the regular Roman mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16052796 | 1,216,471 |
456,786 | A shift in legal options for developers to challenge clones arose from the 2012 federal New Jersey district court decision in "Tetris Holding, LLC v. Xio Interactive, Inc." that ruled in favor of The Tetris Company, the licensees of the "Tetris" copyright, over the clone "Mino", developed by Xio Interactive, which used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53955866 | 456,563 |
13,200 | , Japan planned to build a pilot offshore floating wind farm, with six 2 MW turbines, off the Fukushima coast. The first became operational in November 2013. After the evaluation phase is complete in 2016, "Japan plans to build as many as 80 floating wind turbines off Fukushima by 2020." In 2012, Prime Minister Kan sai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31162817 | 13,195 |
1,322,547 | Often expected to involve low costs compared to the other hypothesized costly signals of need, the potential costs of adult crying have been proposed to come from diverse areas. For example, crying has been shown to reduce one’s reputation and potentially lead to avoidance in Western societies. It may also be connected... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60654095 | 1,321,821 |
1,955,777 | Pseudouridine, or Ψ, the overall most abundant post-translational RNA modification, is created when a uridine base is isomerised. In eukaryotes, this can occur by either of two distinct mechanisms; it is sometimes referred to as the ‘fifth RNA nucleotide’. It is incorporated into stable non-coding RNAs such as tRNA, rR... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53236762 | 1,954,655 |
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