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2,078,663 | Climate change may alter the development of organisms. As a type of developmental plasticity, the sex determination of particular animals can be influenced by the temperature of the environment. Some Reptiles and ray-finned fish rely on temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD). The determination takes place during... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68801278 | 2,077,464 |
1,317,467 | Immediate hospitalization is required, as such injuries may result in varying degrees of spinal cord injury with possible paralysis. X-rays and MRIs are taken to determine whether the burst fracture can be managed with or without surgery. Surgical management is required when the burst fracture is unstable. Predicting s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3161336 | 1,316,742 |
762,249 | American audio engineer John T. Mullin served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps and was posted to Paris in the final months of World War II. His unit was assigned to find out everything they could about German radio and electronics, including the investigation of claims that the Germans had been experimenting with high-ene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4556078 | 761,841 |
977,714 | On 21 August 2014, the U.S. Air Force released an official request for information (RFI) for a replacement for the RD-180. The RFI seeks information on "booster propulsion and/or launch system material options that could deliver cost-effective, commercially-viable solutions for current and future National Security Spac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2445019 | 977,203 |
1,411,919 | Headquartered in Paris, the founding members of the ELDO were Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands and West Germany; while Australia, Spain, Switzerland, Norway, and Sweden had chosen to decline participation. The ELDO not only served the purpose of harnessing Blue Streak, but also fulfilled ambi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82373 | 1,411,124 |
681,785 | The most commonly used grid truncation techniques for open-region FDTD modeling problems are the Mur absorbing boundary condition (ABC), the Liao ABC, and various perfectly matched layer (PML) formulations. The Mur and Liao techniques are simpler than PML. However, PML (which is technically an absorbing region rather t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1908142 | 681,429 |
1,241,118 | The term "applied history" was coined in 1909 by political scientist and historian Benjamin Shambaugh (1871-1940). A founding member of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association (today the Organization of American Historians), Shambaugh edited its proceedings from 1909 to 1914 and served as its president in 1909-19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13789512 | 1,240,447 |
1,453,968 | On December 20, the team became the second in school in history (1985–86 went 16–0) to reach 12–0 when it beat Eastern Michigan. After recording his first career double-double in the game with only 18 minutes of play, McGary was recognized as Big Ten Freshman of the Week. Hardaway suffered an ankle injury that caused h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33786844 | 1,453,150 |
165,082 | A stimulus to the development of the theory of nucleosynthesis was the discovery of variations in the abundances of elements found in the universe. The need for a physical description was already inspired by the relative abundances of the chemical elements in the solar system. Those abundances, when plotted on a graph ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152440 | 164,997 |
30,111 | In 2009, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality said 20 percent patients incurred 80 percent of health-care expenses due to chronic conditions. A 2021 analysis showed unequal distribution of healthcare costs, with older patients and those with poorer health incurring more costs. A New Zealand Dunedin Study that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24562 | 30,101 |
1,441,324 | The "TRPV4" gene encodes TRPV4, initially named "vanilloid-receptor related osmotically activated channel" (VR-OAC) and "OSM9-like transient receptor potential channel, member 4 (OTRPC4)", a member of the vanilloid subfamily in the transient receptor potential (TRP) superfamily of ion channels. The encoded protein is a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13530922 | 1,440,514 |
2,101,057 | An exact timeline for Susan Brown's career has been difficult to pin down, but a newsletter published by Department of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at UCL shortly after her death offers a framework for her career achievements and highlights the esteem in which she was held by colleagues and students. Her undergra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47863111 | 2,099,847 |
1,392,639 | Following Planck (1914), a radiative field is often described in terms of specific radiative intensity, which is a function of each geometrical point in a space region, at an instant of time. This is slightly different from Prevost's mode of definition, which was for regions of space. It is also slightly conceptually d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23988436 | 1,391,868 |
403,675 | One drawback of 32-bit instructions is reduced code density, which is more adverse a characteristic in embedded computing than it is in the workstation and server markets RISC architectures were originally designed to serve. To address this problem, several architectures, such as ARM, Power ISA, MIPS, RISC-V, and the A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26201 | 403,475 |
984,579 | Methylmercury is formed from inorganic mercury by the action of microbes that live in aquatic systems including lakes, rivers, wetlands, sediments, soils and the open ocean. This methylmercury production has been primarily attributed to anaerobic bacteria in the sediment. Significant concentrations of methylmercury in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1370244 | 984,065 |
1,285,431 | On 7 April 1956, the existence of the Skylark rocket was publicly revealed under the early name of "Gassiot vehicle". Even before this announcement, it had been decided that Skylark would be fired from the Woomera rocket range in Australia. While work did proceed at a fast pace on the project, an ignition problem encou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1414851 | 1,284,732 |
2,222,668 | Tom Rendall opened the scoring less than three minutes into the game and after exchanging the lead the Wolverines ended the first up 2-1. The CC offense started to ratchet itself up in the second, outshooting Michigan 15–6 but the second frame ended with the same score as the first. The Tigers increased their pace even... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40605570 | 2,221,406 |
744,452 | Derecho offers both a classic Paxos, with data durability across full shutdown/restart sequences, and vertical Paxos (atomic multicast), for in-memory replication and state-machine synchronization. The Paxos protocols employed by Derecho needed to be adapted to maximize asynchronous data streaming and remove other sour... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5722488 | 744,058 |
1,884,851 | Fang et al. proposed that ADSCs are the most widely used due to the following three characteristics: their pluripotent differentiation potentials, paracrine activity and immunomodulatory function. ADSCs are one type of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), and they exhibit high similarities with BM-MSCs. Hence, they are capab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67266086 | 1,883,770 |
1,010,807 | Appropriate technology was also increasingly applied in developed countries. For example, the energy crisis of the mid-1970s led to the creation of the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) in 1977 with an initial appropriation of 3 million dollars from the U.S. Congress. The Center sponsored appropriate te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=190450 | 1,010,286 |
591,383 | Compared to other panarthropod stem-groups, suggestion on the lobopodian members of arthropod stem-group is relatively consistent — siberiid like "Megadictyon" and "Jianshanopodia" occupied the basalmost position, gilled lobopodians "Pambdelurion" and "Kerygmachela" branch next, and finally lead to a clade compose of "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43184 | 591,081 |
884,141 | A new advance of NDIR technology is static pressurized concentration (SPC). The exit valve of the NDIR is closed to allow the detector to become pressurized. Once the gases in the detector have reached equilibrium, the concentration of the CO is analyzed. This pressurization of the sample gas stream in the NDIR, a pate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1940140 | 883,677 |
1,049,308 | The Hkamti site is located ca. 90 km southwest of the Angbamo site and predominantly consists of limestone, interbedded with mudstone and tuff, the amber is found within the unconsolidated mudstone/tuff layers. A crinoid was found attached to one amber specimen, alongside marine plant remains in the surrounding sedimen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48679019 | 1,048,762 |
362,504 | On the basis of structural homology it has been proposed that the product of RHD gene, the RhD protein, is a membrane transport protein of uncertain specificity (CO or NH) and unknown physiological role. The three-dimensional structure of the related RHCG protein and biochemical analysis of the RhD protein complex indi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5622894 | 362,314 |
399,633 | Injection moulding (U.S. spelling: injection molding) is a manufacturing process for producing parts by injecting molten material into a mould, or mold. Injection moulding can be performed with a host of materials mainly including metals (for which the process is called die-casting), glasses, elastomers, confections, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=325831 | 399,435 |
1,508,162 | A recent review of 182 cases reported that spiradenocarcinomas were diagnosed in individuals 8–89 years old (mean 57.4 years). These SAC tumors developed in SA tumors that had existed for 0–720 months (mean 168.5 months); 14.4% of individuals were diagnosed with multiple carcinoma lesions. (Multiple SAC lesions may app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23150082 | 1,507,314 |
2,158,828 | The regiment remained in its positions through the remainder of 1943 and into 1944. Some men were posted away to mobile units and replaced by men of lower medical category, while a larger number of men considered untrainable in LAA duties were posted away and replaced by male personnel from 173 (Mixed) HAA Rgt. Between... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48306284 | 2,157,596 |
379,333 | The Research Foundation for the State University of New York is a private, nonprofit educational corporation that administers externally funded contracts and grants for and on behalf of SUNY. The foundation carries out its responsibilities pursuant to a 1977 agreement with the university. It is separate from the univer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275474 | 379,138 |
363,521 | The QS World University Ranking for 2021 included 1002 research universities. The region with the highest number was Europe, with 39.8%, followed by Asia Pacific with 26.7%, the US and Canada with 15.6%, Latin America with 10.8% and the Middle East and Africa with 7%. All regions except the Middle East and Africa were ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1148604 | 363,331 |
781,424 | The demoscene is mainly a European phenomenon. It is a competition-oriented subculture, with groups and individual artists competing against each other in technical and artistic excellence. Those who achieve excellence are dubbed "elite", while those who do not follow the demoscene's implicit rules are called "lamers";... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=172959 | 781,006 |
238,865 | The software depended on the presence of the visual indicator software, a paid option that was not selected by most airlines. For example, Air Canada, American Airlines and Westjet had purchased the disagree alert, while Air Canada and American Airlines also purchased, in addition, the AoA value indicator, and Lion Air... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60203108 | 238,745 |
2,243,417 | The MacLean Center Library, started by generous donations from Drs. Edmund Pellegrino, Leon Kass, and James J. Smith, as well as by Dr. Sulmasy and Dr. Siegler, exists as a non-lending resource for faculty, fellows, and students working in the field of clinical medical ethics. The library currently houses an interdisci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32336815 | 2,242,146 |
1,990,034 | X-ray lithography is another method for forming ordered patterns that can be used to investigate the role that topography plays in promoting neuritogenesis. The mask parameters determine the pattern periodicity, but ridge width and depth are determined by the etching conditions. In a study, ridges were created with per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11088829 | 1,988,891 |
1,648,581 | Going into the 1992 Summer Paralympics, there was a push to move more towards a functional classification system by the International Coordinating Committee and the Technical Committee of the International Paralympic Committee. This came to a head at the November 1989 meeting of the Barcelona Olympics Organising Commit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36583540 | 1,647,649 |
1,083,415 | In 1856, Scottish chemist Archibald Couper began research on the bromination of benzene at the laboratory of Charles Wurtz in Paris. One month after Kekulé's second paper appeared, Couper's independent and largely identical theory of molecular structure was published. He offered a very concrete idea of molecular struct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7071490 | 1,082,858 |
1,147,696 | The airship was to be given a curtailed series of tests before being handed over to the U.S. Navy, who would fly it across the Atlantic. J. E. M. Pritchard, the officer in charge of flight testing, proposed to carry out 100 hours of flight testing, including flights in rough weather, followed by 50 more flown by an Ame... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=588348 | 1,147,091 |
2,043,517 | In 2004, by support from the citizens of Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, a project to improve healthcare in the province was proposed to the cabinet. On 11 March 2006, the Walailak University Council, along with the Collaborative Project to Increase Production of Rural Doctor (CPIRD), the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57449924 | 2,042,337 |
1,114,085 | The C-class is a 64-bit controller class of processor, aimed at mid-range embedded application. The core is highly optimized, 6-stage in-order design with MMU support and the capability to run operating systems like Linux and Sel4. It is extremely configurable with the support of the standard RV64GC ISA extensions. It ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63621486 | 1,113,518 |
89,795 | His first study of mathematics began with papers by George Pólya and by the crystallographer Friedrich Haag on plane symmetry groups, sent to him by his brother Berend, a geologist. He carefully studied the 17 canonical wallpaper groups and created periodic tilings with 43 drawings of different types of symmetry. From ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20127 | 89,758 |
47,561 | As is true of all materials, regions of graphene are subject to thermal and quantum fluctuations in relative displacement. Although the amplitude of these fluctuations is bounded in 3D structures (even in the limit of infinite size), the Mermin–Wagner theorem shows that the amplitude of long-wavelength fluctuations gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=911833 | 47,542 |
906,818 | In such a primary season, however, many primaries will fall on the same day, forcing candidates to choose where to spend their time and resources. Indeed, Super Tuesday was created deliberately to increase the influence of the South. When states cannot agree to coordinate primaries, however, attention flows to larger s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=185311 | 906,341 |
1,730,476 | Because of the agreement made by the former Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta government with North West Redwater Partnership (NWRP) in 2009, the current United Conservative Party (UCP) provincial government is responsible for continuing the debt-servicing costs that have been paid since June 2018, as wel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65313388 | 1,729,501 |
1,605,130 | In the absence of their own specialists in mining and metallurgy, craftsmen were invited from abroad, but they worked mainly in the central regions of the country. In 1618-1622, the Englishman John Water, and in 1626 Fritsch, Gerold and Bulmerr, together with Russian attendants, carried out fruitless expeditions to sea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66141214 | 1,604,228 |
590,547 | As its American "cousin" the T-6 (both types having been derived from the NA-16) did for many Allied Air Forces during the Second World War, the Wirraway served as one of the RAAF's main trainer types from 1939. Beside serving as a trainer aircraft they were also operated in combat roles, including as an emergency figh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3943778 | 590,245 |
183,063 | Wheeler earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University under the supervision of Karl Herzfeld, and studied under Breit and Bohr on a National Research Council fellowship. During 1939 he collaborated with Bohr to write a series of papers using the liquid drop model to explain the mechanism of fission. During World War... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=327127 | 182,967 |
1,782,767 | Whenever a disaster occurs within Europe which causes the emission of toxic gases or radioactive material into the atmosphere, it is of utmost importance to quickly determine where the atmospheric plume of toxic material is being transported by the prevailing winds and other meteorological factors. At such times, KNMI ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4179425 | 1,781,763 |
69,140 | This presented a serious problem for the Air Force. They were still pressing for the development of newer bombers, like the supersonic B-70, for attacks against military targets, but this role seemed increasingly unlikely in a nuclear war scenario. A February 1960 memo by RAND, entitled "The Puzzle of Polaris", was pas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49365 | 69,113 |
71,850 | In some areas, systematic attacks against tribespeople in or near mining districts occurred. Various conflicts were fought between natives and settlers. Miners often saw Native Americans as impediments to their mining activities. Ed Allen, interpretive lead for Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park, reported that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58296 | 71,823 |
1,948,284 | During the 1960s and 1970s, ISMGF classification cheating occurred in both swimming and wheelchair basketball. Some of the medical classifications for many sportspeople appeared arbitrary, with people of different functional levels being put into the same class. This made the results for many games and swimming races a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51191622 | 1,947,171 |
1,876,247 | As of , Cerro Pabellón is the only geothermal power plant in the country, the first in South America, and the highest-altitude plant of its kind in the world, at 4,500 metres above sea level. The facility, inaugurated in September 2017, is located in the Atacama Desert, in the Ollagüe district of Antofagasta Region. It... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24790713 | 1,875,169 |
1,828,227 | Large amounts of intravenous fluids are needed to counter the severe dehydration, and electrolyte replacement is often necessary. Flunixin meglumine (Banamine) may help block the effects of toxemia. Mortality rate has been theorized to fall to 75% if treatment is prompt and aggressive, including administration of not o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25762914 | 1,827,188 |
483,164 | Because brain activity is intrinsic, present even in the absence of an externally prompted task, any brain region will have spontaneous fluctuations in BOLD signal. The resting state approach is useful to explore the brain's functional organization and to examine if it is altered in neurological or mental disorders. Be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37689664 | 482,920 |
23,503 | A similar concept appears in Buddhist philosophy, expressed by the Sanskrit term "Citta-saṃtāna", which is usually translated as mindstream or "mental continuum". Buddhist teachings describe that consciousness manifests moment to moment as sense impressions and mental phenomena that are continuously changing. The teach... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5664 | 23,494 |
884,282 | Ebbinghaus was determined to show that higher mental processes could actually be studied using experimentation, which was in opposition to the popularly held thought of the time. To control for most potentially confounding variables, Ebbinghaus wanted to use simple acoustic encoding and maintenance rehearsal for which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13647 | 883,818 |
1,112,965 | The practical construction of a von Neumann computer depended on the availability of a suitable memory device. The University of Manchester's Baby, the world's first electronic stored-program computer, had successfully demonstrated the practicality of the stored-program approach and of the Williams tube, an early form ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23957383 | 1,112,399 |
65,391 | As proponents of self-improvement and body modification, transhumanists tend to use existing technologies and techniques that supposedly improve cognitive and physical performance, while engaging in routines and lifestyles designed to improve health and longevity. Depending on their age, some transhumanists express con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30299 | 65,366 |
412,063 | The stem of sea lilies is composed of a column of highly porous ossicles which are connected by ligamentary tissue. It attaches to the substrate with a flattened holdfast or with whorls of jointed, root-like structures known as cirri. Further cirri may occur higher up the stem. In crinoids that attach to hard surfaces,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62175 | 411,861 |
2,062,059 | University chemistry underwent explosive growth in the post-war years, especially in the sixties. The fifties saw the creation of six new universities each with a chemistry department, including, Le College Militaire Royal, 1952, Assumption, 1953, Sherbrooke, 1954, Carleton, 1957, York, 1959 and Waterloo, 1959. But dur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18401364 | 2,060,869 |
151,575 | Putnam strongly rejected the term "Platonist" as implying an over-specific ontology that was not necessary to mathematical practice in any real sense. He advocated a form of "pure realism" that rejected mystical notions of truth and accepted much quasi-empiricism in mathematics. This grew from the increasingly popular ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46439 | 151,507 |
332,377 | Another occurrence of this number is in combinatorics, where it gives the number of ways, disregarding order, that "k" objects can be chosen from among "n" objects; more formally, the number of "k"-element subsets (or "k"-combinations) of an "n"-element set. This number can be seen as equal to the one of the first defi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4668 | 332,200 |
1,067,787 | Sauropods, widely speaking, have been associated with both coastal and inland environments. It is believed that macronarians such as titanosaurs were strictly terrestrial and associated with inland environments such as lacustrine systems. These findings are based on ‘wide-gauged’ trackways produced by titanosaurs which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3535047 | 1,067,233 |
84,067 | To move forward with this unified design, Valve sought a game designer but found no one suitable. Instead, Valve created the "cabal", initially a group of six individuals from across all departments that worked primarily for six months straight in six-hour meetings four days a week. The cabal was responsible for all el... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52816 | 84,033 |
1,441,251 | In addition to flying five space missions, Blaha has served as the Chairman, NASA Space Flight Safety Panel; Weather Manager, Mission Management Team; lead spacecraft communicator; member, NASA Space Shuttle Improvement Panel. Blaha also led the design, development, and integration of the Orbiter Head Up Display system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=561482 | 1,440,441 |
812,232 | In cycloalkanes, the carbon atoms are "sp" hybridized, which would imply an ideal tetrahedral bond angle of 109° 28′ whenever possible. Owing to evident geometrical reasons, rings with 3, 4, and (to a small extent) also 5 atoms can only afford narrower angles; the consequent deviation from the ideal tetrahedral bond an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=223986 | 811,799 |
24,675 | The NES was released two years after the video game crash of 1983, when many retailers and adult consumers regarded electronic games as a passing fad, so many believed at first that the NES would soon fade. Before the NES and Famicom, Nintendo was known as a moderately successful Japanese toy and playing card manufactu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18944028 | 24,666 |
660,758 | Beta-thalassemia (β-thalassemia) is an inherited mutation of the β-globulin gene which causes the reduced synthesis of the β-globin chain of hemoglobin. The majority of the mutations are point mutations that affect translation, transcriptional control, and splicing of the hemoglobin β gene and gene product. Individuals... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1701330 | 660,413 |
855,001 | He travelled overland with an interpreter and a servant to Bogotá, the capital of Gran Colombia, arriving on 19 January 1825. Travelling onward, Robert found the heavier equipment at Honda on the Magdalena River; there was no way to get it to the mines as the only route was a narrow and steep path. The mines were anoth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=252957 | 854,546 |
172,698 | GH treatment is not recommended for children who are not growing despite having normal levels of growth hormone, and in the UK it is not licensed for this use. Children requiring treatment usually receive daily injections of growth hormone. Most pediatric endocrinologists monitor growth and adjust dose every 3–6 months... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=620879 | 172,607 |
733,378 | The DIN 1451 typeface family includes both a medium () and a condensed () version; an older extended version () has not been used since the early 1980s, but may still be encountered on older road signs in Germany. DIN 1451 is the typeface used on road signage in Germany and a number of other countries. It was also used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5993264 | 732,991 |
1,705,032 | Telomeres maintain the integrity of the ends of linear chromosomes during replication and protect them from being recognized as double-strand breaks by the DNA repair machinery. MRN participates in telomere maintenance primarily via association with the TERF2 protein of the shelterin complex. Additional studies have su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17269927 | 1,704,076 |
1,374,943 | If they fall under federal legislation they are exempt (excluded) from specific requirements of "29 CFR Part 1910, Subpart T, Commercial Diving Operations", only during diving activities incidental to police and public-safety functions the purpose of which is to provide search, rescue, or public-safety diving services.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20809599 | 1,374,184 |
359,009 | UTC acquired [[Schweizer Aircraft|Schweizer Aircraft Corp.]] in 2004, after which it operated as a subsidiary of Sikorsky. The product lines of the two firms were complementary, and had little overlap, as Sikorsky primarily concentrates on medium and large helicopters, while Schweizer produces small helicopters, [[unma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=265871 | 358,823 |
357,543 | Greek numerals were used by Archimedes, Diophantus and others in a positional notation not very different from the modern notation. The ancient Greeks lacked a symbol for zero until the Hellenistic period, and they used three separate sets of symbols as digits: one set for the units place, one for the tens place, and o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3118 | 357,357 |
705,936 | Workers in general industry who are exposed to noise levels above 85 dBA are required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to be in a hearing conservation program (HCP), which includes noise measurement, noise control, periodic audiometric testing, hearing protection, worker education, and record... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6894544 | 705,567 |
151,445 | CFAR is a unit within the Department of Anthropology (College of Liberal Arts) at SIU. It is approximately 0.33 acres of grassland surrounded by privacy fencing with razor wire. Outdoor cameras are used to monitor access for security purposes and record research events. Current research focuses on establishing the base... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=740070 | 151,377 |
1,038,514 | The large air-filled cavities provide a low-resistance internal pathway for the exchange of gases between the plant organs above the water and the submerged tissues. This allows plants to grow without incurring the metabolic costs of anaerobic respiration. Moreover, the degradation of cortical cells during aerenchyma f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4839237 | 1,037,973 |
222,967 | Whether logic is defined as the study of valid inference or of logical truth leaves open their exact criteria. There are two important ways of specifying these criteria: the syntactic and the semantic approach, sometimes also called the deductive-theoretic and the model-theoretic approach. In this sense, a logic can be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21368888 | 222,858 |
1,814,179 | During the conference, an appeal to Reb Avraham-Shaye to adjudicate gets rejected, but Reb Avraham-Shaye personally visits Rav Simkha, asking about Chaikl. Upon learning of Tsemakh's return as the penitent, he tells Rav Simkha that by ignoring his wife, he is not a penitent, and wants Rav Simkha to tell Tsemakh to retu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5673389 | 1,813,145 |
1,047,336 | where the eigenfunction "ψ" is the electron wave function, and eigenvalue "E"(κ), is the electron energy (κ: electron wavevector). The relation between wavevector, κ and energy "E" provides the electronic band structure. In practice, a lattice as many-body systems includes interactions between electrons and nuclei in p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37376713 | 1,046,791 |
708,806 | Here, the Q-switch is an externally controlled variable attenuator. This may be a mechanical device such as a shutter, chopper wheel, or spinning mirror/prism placed inside the cavity, or (more commonly) it may be some form of modulator such as an acousto–optic device, a magneto-optic effect device or an electro-optic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=158778 | 708,437 |
1,216,686 | In cancer, DNA can become both overly methylated, termed hypermethylation, and under-methylated, termed hypomethylation. CpG islands overlapping gene promoters are "de novo" methylated resulting in aberrant inactivation of genes normally associated with growth inhibition of tumors (an example of hypermethylation). Comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89232 | 1,216,034 |
2,124,253 | Early research into the use of lasers included the development of techniques for the manipulation of structures within a living cell. What Bern terms "Laser scissors" use short pulses of high irradiance to create targeted effects. Optoporation has been used to create tiny openings into the interior of a cell, enabling ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48290265 | 2,123,032 |
306,598 | In flight, the Puma was designed to be capable of high speeds, exhibit great maneuverability, and have good hot-and-high performance; the engines have an intentionally high level of reserve power to enable a Puma to effectively fly at maximum weight with only one functioning engine and proceed with its mission if circu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=493615 | 306,434 |
518,261 | The Catholic Cistercian order used its own numbering system, which could express numbers from 0 to 9999 in a single sign. According to one modern Cistercian, "enterprise and entrepreneurial spirit" have always been a part of the order's identity, and the Cistercians "were catalysts for development of a market economy" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42657576 | 517,992 |
715,525 | UMW has many unique and interesting traditions on campus. Honor Convocation is held at the start of each academic year for incoming freshman, where they first sign the school's Honor Pledge. Similarly, Eagle Gathering is a candlelit celebration on Ball Circle that marks the start of the year and officially welcomes the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315174 | 715,151 |
2,143,924 | Levinson proposes that citizenship education can provide the "cultural coherence" that may be missing from a "detached" school—which would be a diverse community that prioritizes "critical thinking, tolerance, and reflectiveness". She argues for a constitutional mandate to establish the "autonomy-promoting aim of educa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43753427 | 2,142,693 |
1,198,628 | In 2020, NASA physicist Slava Turyshev presented his idea of direct multi-pixel imaging and spectroscopy of an exoplanet with a solar gravitational lens mission. The lens could reconstruct the exoplanet image with ~25 km-scale surface resolution in 6 months of integration time, enough to see surface features and signs ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64755932 | 1,197,987 |
2,008,330 | With the success of the Suzy II experiments, attention turned to the liquid liner. This was built on Suzy II using a plastic liner inside a steel drum, filled with sodium-potassium alloy (NaK) at its eutectic ratio (22% Na, 78% K) which is a liquid at room temperature. By firing the implosion bank at different powers, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56052525 | 2,007,178 |
1,019,572 | With the first green roof industry boom in Germany there were quality issues recorded. The FLL formed a committee that is focused on modern green roof technology. FLL stands for Forschungsgesellschaft Landschaftsentwicklung Landschaftsbau e.V. (German Landscape Research, Development and Construction Society). The FLL i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=192025 | 1,019,045 |
2,131,013 | Drosera darwinensis is a perennial carnivorous plant in the genus "Drosera" that is endemic to the Northern Territory. Its leaves are arranged in a rosette with one rosette emerging from the root stock. It produces pink or white flowers from December to April. "Drosera darwinensis" grows in clayey sand from Palmerston ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26000441 | 2,129,788 |
2,164,866 | Sweeping jet actuators are a type of active flow control technology based on fluidic oscillators used to produce sweeping jets. The first use of fluidic oscillators in the form of sweeping jets for flow control was demonstrated by Raman et al., 1999.<Cavity Resonance Suppression Using Miniature Fluidic Oscillators, G. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45173684 | 2,163,629 |
1,150,069 | Neurogenesis in the adult brain is often associated with diseases that deteriorate the CNS, like Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease. While adult neurogenesis is up-regulated in the hippocampus in patients with these diseases, whether its effects are regenerative or inconclusive remains t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4537268 | 1,149,462 |
872,034 | Though cell reproduction that uses mitosis can reproduce eukaryotic cells, eukaryotes bother with the more complicated process of meiosis because sexual reproduction such as meiosis confers a selective advantage. Notice that when meiosis starts, the two copies of sister chromatids number 2 are adjacent to each other. D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564779 | 871,574 |
724,517 | Applications which need a deterministic network that behaves in a predictable fashion include audio and video, initially defined in Audio Video Bridging (AVB); control networks that accept inputs from sensors, perform control loop processing, and initiate actions; safety-critical networks that implement packet and link... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42906494 | 724,136 |
1,158,931 | Ward & Bonavi (2001) reexamined the teeth of "I. hastalis" and noted a strong morphological similarity between it and the extant great white shark. The study concluded that "I. hastalis" is a direct ancestor of the great white and is more related to it than other makos. They moved the species into the genus "Cosmopolit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47180706 | 1,158,317 |
150,762 | CFLs are extremely cost-effective in commercial buildings when used to replace incandescent lamps. Using average U.S. commercial electricity and gas rates for 2006, a 2008 article found that replacing each 75 W incandescent lamp with a CFL resulted in yearly savings of $22 in energy usage, reduced HVAC cost, and reduce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1201545 | 150,694 |
1,283,994 | He devised the solar compass so that garbled readings caused by the Earth's magnetic field would be cleared up and true north–south survey lines could be found. The solar compass eventually became the standard tool and was adopted by the General Land office to be used on all federal surveys, noted for its usefulness in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2399453 | 1,283,295 |
1,838,952 | After receiving an independent study award in 1989, DeLong spent some time at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and would later on become Associate Professor in the Biology and Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology Departments at the University of California, Santa Barbara. DeLong's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30734524 | 1,837,903 |
841,612 | The Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV), a project initiated by ESA in 2009, is Europe's first lifting body reentry vehicle. Developed by Thales Alenia Space, the IXV is scheduled to make its first flight in 2014 on the fourth Vega mission (VV04) over the Gulf of Guinea. More than 40 European companies contributed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22727349 | 841,162 |
394,817 | Many public places in China are implemented with facial recognition equipment, including railway stations, airports, tourist attractions, expos, and office buildings. In October 2019, a professor at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University sued the Hangzhou Safari Park for abusing private biometric information of customers. The sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=602401 | 394,622 |
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