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495,940 | "Saccharomyces cerevisiae" is a yeast of the phylum "Ascomycota". During vegetative growth that ordinarily occurs when nutrients are abundant, "S. cerevisiae" reproduces by mitosis as diploid cells. However, when starved, these cells undergo meiosis to form haploid spores. Mating occurs when haploid cells of opposite m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5762008 | 495,684 |
1,587,747 | There were many predictions of hurricane risk in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina in August, 2005. In 2001, the "Houston Chronicle" published a story which predicted that a severe hurricane striking New Orleans, "would strand 250,000 people or more, and probably kill one of 10 left behind as the city drowned under ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2670675 | 1,586,853 |
1,527,086 | One of the few commercial articulatory speech synthesis systems is the NeXT-based system originally developed and marketed by Trillium Sound Research, a spin-off company of the University of Calgary, where much of the original research was conducted. Following the demise of the various incarnations of NeXT (started by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8285510 | 1,526,222 |
144,761 | The Boeing X-37B, a reusable uncrewed spacecraft operated by USSF, which is also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), has been successfully launched four times from Cape Canaveral. The first four X-37B missions have been launched with Atlas V rockets. Past launch dates for the X-37B spaceplane include April 22, 201... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=306778 | 144,703 |
404,971 | Nietzsche rejected fundamental components of Kant's ethics, particularly his argument that morality, God, and immorality, can be shown through reason. Nietzsche cast suspicion on the use of moral intuition, which Kant used as the foundation of his morality, arguing that it has no normative force in ethics. He further a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5515510 | 404,771 |
598,577 | Wilson and Liu suggested intergroup attitudes follow social structure and cultural beliefs, theories, and ideologies developed to make sense of group's place in the social structure and the nature of their relationships with other groups; from this view, SDO is a product rather than a cause of social life. They questio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8377605 | 598,272 |
951,369 | The original model of the SF.260 was powered by a single Lycoming O-540 engine, capable of providing 260 hp. The standard engine made use of a carburetor, while a fuel injected engine was available as an optional extra. The SF.260 has been described as having the power to be immune to the gyration-like effects of turbu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=931256 | 950,865 |
1,188,297 | Hofmann was multilingual and published extensively, particularly about his work on coal tar and its derivatives. In 1865 Hofmann published "An Introduction to Modern Chemistry", summarising type theory and emerging ideas about chemical structure. Type theory modelled four inorganic molecules, hydrogen, hydrogen chlorid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=940627 | 1,187,665 |
926,565 | In December 1970, the Office of Management and Budget recommended the cancellation of NERVA and Skylab, but Nixon was reluctant to do so, as their cancellation could cost up to 20,000 jobs, mostly in California, a state that Nixon felt he needed to carry in the 1972 election. He decided to keep it alive at a low fundin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=712716 | 926,079 |
1,050,849 | In order to combat some of the "in vivo" limitations of RNA aptamers, various modifications can be added to the nucleotides to aid in efficacy of the aptamer. For instance, a polyethylene glycol (PEG) moiety can be attached to increase the size of the aptamer, thereby preventing its removal from the bloodstream by the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65187964 | 1,050,303 |
1,229,404 | This type of system is significantly more expensive than a zone system. The basic system may start with maps from the US Census Bureau or a county assessor's office. The quality of these maps may be good but will not be ideal for dispatching. There would normally be one or more persons on staff who would deal with data... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=405911 | 1,228,742 |
493,689 | The activity of SINEs however has genetic vestiges which do not seem to play a significant role, positive or negative, and manifest themselves in the genome as pseudogenes. SINEs however should not be mistaken as RNA pseudogenes. In general, pseudogenes are generated when processed mRNAs of protein-coding genes are rev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49982814 | 493,434 |
31,037 | Gene therapy has been explored as a method to treat glioblastoma, and while animal models and early-phase clinical trials have been successful, as of 2017, all gene-therapy drugs that had been tested in phase-III clinical trials for glioblastoma had failed. Scientists have developed the core–shell nanostructured LPLNP-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1023575 | 31,027 |
209,129 | An HDF counterpart in the southern celestial hemisphere was created in 1998: the HDF-South (HDF-S). Created using a similar observing strategy, the HDF-S was very similar in appearance to the original HDF. This supports the cosmological principle that at its largest scale the Universe is homogeneous. The HDF-S survey u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216601 | 209,022 |
288,210 | Apollo 7 was launched on October 11, 1968, from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Florida, and splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean eleven days later. Extensive testing of the CSM took place, and also the first live television broadcast from an American spacecraft. Despite tension between the crew and ground controllers, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1773 | 288,054 |
1,124,263 | Engineered gene drives using CRISPR-cas9 are currently being tested and have been proposed as strategies to eliminate invasive species and disease vectors. By genetically modifying an organism to express an endogenous sequence-specific endonuclease, a target (such as a fertility gene) can be cleaved on the opposite chr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56710049 | 1,123,689 |
584,372 | Crumpler first practiced medicine in Boston. She primarily cared for poor African-American women and children. After the end of the American Civil War (1861–1865), she moved to Richmond, Virginia, believing it to be an ideal way to provide missionary service, as well as to gain more experience learning about diseases t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1559659 | 584,072 |
1,940,813 | Through testing with Arabidopsis thaliana (A plant considered a model organism for plant genetic studies) genes including MAX1 and MAX2 have been found to affect growth of lateral shoots. Gene knockouts of these genes cause abnormal proliferation of the plants affected, implying they are used for repressing said growth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14372314 | 1,939,702 |
1,960,349 | MUSE system mainly serves as a low-cost alternative to traditional histological analysis for cancer diagnostics with simpler and less time-consuming techniques. By integrating with microscopy and fresh tissue fluorescence staining into an automated optical system, the overall acquiring time needed for getting digital i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55976060 | 1,959,222 |
2,143,799 | The Eagles entered the 2015–16 season following a First round loss to Denver in the NCAA tournament, and a quarterfinals loss to Vermont in the Hockey East Tournament. The Eagles did capture one trophy during the 2014–15 season, winning the Ledyard Bank Classic with a 3–2 victory over Dartmouth, and finished with a str... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47201122 | 2,142,568 |
1,410,005 | Development of the spectrophotometer also had direct relevance to the war effort. For example, the role of vitamins in health was being studied, and scientists wanted to identify Vitamin A-rich foods to keep soldiers healthy. Previous methods involved feeding rats for several weeks, then performing a biopsy to estimate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315197 | 1,409,213 |
1,170,844 | Comparison of the crystal structures of the T and R forms of ATCase show that it swells in size during the allosteric transition, and that the catalytic subunits condense during this process. The two catalytic trimers move apart along the threefold axis by 12 Å, and they rotate about this axis by 5° each, ultimately le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=474354 | 1,170,225 |
394,548 | During the Last Glacial Maximum, much of the world was cold, dry, and inhospitable, with frequent storms and a dust-laden atmosphere. The dustiness of the atmosphere is a prominent feature in ice cores; dust levels were as much as 20 to 25 times greater than now. This was probably due to a number of factors: reduced ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1178938 | 394,353 |
292,608 | It had been suspected this system would be of little use in practice. When that turned out to be the case, the RAF turned to an entirely different system that was also being planned. This consisted of a set of tracking stations using HF/DF radio direction finders. Their aircraft radios were modified to send out a 1 kHz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=368327 | 292,450 |
114,887 | Constructing CCS units is capital intensive. The additional costs of a large-scale CCS demonstration project are estimated to be €0.5–1.1 billion per project over the project lifetime. Other applications are possible. CCS trials for coal-fired plants in the early 21st century were economically unviable in most countrie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3679268 | 114,842 |
946,659 | The feasibility of a plutonium bomb had been questioned in 1942. James Conant heard on 14 November from Wallace Akers, the director of the British Tube Alloys project, that James Chadwick had "concluded that plutonium might not be a practical fissionable material for weapons because of impurities." Conant consulted Ern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4656422 | 946,156 |
1,123,503 | Worst-case tolerance analysis is the traditional type of tolerance stackup calculation. The individual variables are placed at their tolerance limits in order to make the measurement as large or as small as possible. The worst-case model does not consider the distribution of the individual variables, but rather that th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21609404 | 1,122,929 |
9,718 | McClusky's decision to continue the search and his judgment, in the opinion of Admiral Chester Nimitz, "decided the fate of our carrier task force and our forces at Midway ..." All three American dive-bomber squadrons (VB-6, VS-6, and VB-3) arrived almost simultaneously at the perfect time, locations and altitudes to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60112 | 9,714 |
499,249 | The tectonic deformations on Venus occur on a variety of scales, the smallest of which are related to linear fractures or faults. In many areas these faults appear as networks of parallel lines. Small, discontinuous mountain crests are found which resemble those on the Moon and Mars. The effects of extensive tectonism ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2200368 | 498,992 |
980,640 | Pollard led the first project, a gun-laying RDF code-named Mobile Radio Unit (MRU). This truck-mounted system was designed as a small version of a CH station. It operated at 23 MHz (13 m) with a power of 300 kW. A single tower supported a transmitting antenna, as well as two receiving antennas set orthogonally for esti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1280053 | 980,128 |
101,767 | In a May 2013 essay called "Unlikely Events", which Card presented as an experiment in fiction-writing, Card described an alternative future in which President Barack Obama ruled as a "Hitler- or Stalin-style dictator" with his own national police force of young unemployed men; Obama and his wife Michelle would have am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6097209 | 101,722 |
1,959,333 | This skink has a snout to vent length of around 113mm as a maximum, however has an average SVL of 75mm. This skink is a medium-sized skink and the name corresponds well with the species for its ability to practically ‘swim’ over the sand to chase and catch its prey. The tail length varies but is up to 171% longer than ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64213077 | 1,958,206 |
1,197,094 | With a population of roughly 6 million, between 1914-1918 over 250,000 South Africans of all races voluntarily served their country. Thousands more served in the British Army directly, with over 3,000 joining the British Royal Flying Corps and over 100 volunteering for the Royal Navy. It is likely that near 50% of whit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66447390 | 1,196,454 |
383,472 | Since the 1970s, clinical psychology has continued growing into a robust profession and academic field of study. Although the exact number of practicing clinical psychologists is unknown, it is estimated that between 1974 and 1990, the number in the US grew from 20,000 to 63,000. Clinical psychologists continue to be e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=492271 | 383,277 |
7,948 | In mid-1988, Airbus engineers led by Jean Roeder began work in secret on the development of an ultra-high-capacity airliner (UHCA), both to complete its own range of products and to break the dominance that Boeing had enjoyed in this market segment since the early 1970s with its 747. McDonnell Douglas unsuccessfully of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181173 | 7,945 |
981,820 | Energy harvesting is most often more effective in regards to cost and resource utilization when done on a local but combined scale, for example a group of houses, cohousing, local district or village rather than an individual house basis. An energy benefit of such localized energy harvesting is the virtual elimination ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4211531 | 981,308 |
468,479 | Silicon oxide presents an interesting case of resistance switching. Two distinct modes of intrinsic switching have been reported - surface-based, in which conductive silicon filaments are generated at exposed edges (which may be internal—within pores—or external—on the surface of mesa structures), and bulk switching, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8768215 | 468,244 |
1,084,813 | The Mark II was constructed with high-speed electromagnetic relays instead of the electro-mechanical counters used in the Mark I, making it much faster than its predecessor. It weighed and occupied over of floor space. Its addition time was 0.125 seconds (8 Hz) and the multiplication time was 0.750 seconds. This was a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2202534 | 1,084,255 |
441,842 | The 2005 discovery by archaeologist Eilat Mazar of a Large Stone Structure, which she dated to the tenth century BCE, would be evidence of buildings in Jerusalem of a size appropriate to the capital of a centralized kingdom at that time. Others, most notably Israel Finkelstein of Tel Aviv University, argue that the str... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69661 | 441,627 |
972,212 | The works of Givental and of Lian−Liu−Yau confirm a prediction made by the more fundamental mirror symmetry conjecture of how three-dimensional Calabi−Yau manifolds can be paired off. However, their works do not logically depend on the conjecture itself, and so have no immediate bearing on its validity. With Andrew Str... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=303137 | 971,702 |
252,567 | Canadian aviation specialist Top Aces operates a fleet of Douglas A-4 Skyhawks and Alpha Jets as adversary aircraft in air combat training exercises; these are often operated under contract for various military clients. Multiple civil aerial display teams have procured Alpha Jets, such as the "Flying Bulls" and "Mustan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1162592 | 252,434 |
1,775,385 | Various cellular reactions to ultrasound indicate the mechanism of molecular uptake via endocytosis. These observed reactionary phenomena include ion exchange, hydrogen peroxide, and cell intracellular calcium concentration. Studies have used patch clamping techniques to monitor membrane potential ion exchange for the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20497041 | 1,774,388 |
2,105,000 | Webb has been a board member for the Nevin Scrimshaw International Nutrition Foundation, the Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, the Scientific Advisory Council of Biodiversity International, the Undernutrition steering committee of the Sackler Institute of Nutrition Science Research at the New York Academy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32900628 | 2,103,787 |
809,062 | Prion diseases, also called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), are neurodegenerative diseases of the brain thought to be caused by a protein that converts to an abnormal form called a prion. GSS is a very rare TSE, making its genetic origin nearly impossible to determine. It is also challenging to find a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1770635 | 808,632 |
1,578,813 | One hypothesis that contradicts the automaticity of AGL is the "mere exposure effect". The mere exposure effect is increased affect towards a stimulus that is the result of nonreinforced, repeated exposure to the stimulus. Results from over 200 experiments on this effect indicate that there is a positive relationship b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6352447 | 1,577,923 |
1,040,416 | AutoAnalyzers were used mainly for routine repetitive medical laboratory analyses, but they had been replaced during the last years more and more by discrete working systems which allow lower reagent consumption. These instruments typically determine levels of albumin, alkaline phosphatase, aspartate transaminase (AST)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2382486 | 1,039,873 |
1,105,389 | On the other hand, this derivation reveals the significant approximation in assuming spherical clusters with formula_120. In reality, the configuration integral formula_89 contains contributions from the full set of particle coordinates formula_122, thus including deviations from spherical shape as well as cluster degr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44846612 | 1,104,826 |
1,168,941 | At birth, boys outnumber girls with the ratio of 105 or 106 male to 100 female children. However, after conception, biology favors women. Research has shown that if men and women received similar nutrition, medical attention, and general health care, women would live longer than men. This is because women, on a whole, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38846583 | 1,168,323 |
1,443,405 | Both "Ureaplasma urealyticum" and "Ureaplasma parvum" have been identified as important human pathogens, causing infection in the urogenital tract and, rarely, at distal sites. Their role in neonatal disease and adverse pregnancy outcomes has been well established, and semantic classifications are changing to reflect t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1403548 | 1,442,592 |
1,501,000 | Nelson continues to publish papers on ecosystem research and engineering in journals such as "Advances in Space Research" and "Life Sciences in Space Research" and remains Chairman of the Institute of Ecotechnics. He resumed the post in 1982 after a seven-year period when it was run by Randall Gibson. Over the years, h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41075032 | 1,500,154 |
1,092,810 | Dam building peaked in the 1960s and few dams were built in the 1970s. The growing awareness of environmental issues with dams saw the removal of some older and smaller dams and the installation of fish ladders at others. The enormous Rampart Dam was canceled in 1967 due to environmental and economic concerns. Instead ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24532465 | 1,092,250 |
1,177,322 | Influenza viruses, like all viruses in the family Orthomyxoviridae, are enveloped RNA viruses with single stranded genomes. The antigens, matrix protein (M1) and nucleoprotein (NP), are used to determine if an influenza virus is type A, B, C, or D. The M1 protein is required for virus assembly and NP functions in trans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58596967 | 1,176,699 |
1,457,454 | Bay Path holds an annual Women's Leadership Conference in Springfield, MA. Over 800 people attended the inaugural event in 1996, with the keynote speaker Elizabeth Dole, former US Labor and Transportation Secretary. Since then, the Conference has featured speakers like PBS/ABC news correspondent Cokie Roberts (1997), N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4656273 | 1,456,634 |
21,283 | SN8 was the first fully complete Starship upper stage prototype. It underwent four preliminary static fire tests between October and November 2020. On 9 December 2020, SN8 flew, slowly turning off its three engines one by one, and reached an altitude of . The craft then performed the belly-flop maneuver and dove back t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59118602 | 21,274 |
20,215 | While not always able to avoid contact with the escorts, the threat of mass attacks and later the "company front" (eight abreast) assaults by armored "Sturmgruppe" Fw 190As brought an urgency to attacking the Luftwaffe wherever it could be found, either in the air or on the ground. Beginning in late February 1944, 8th ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24710 | 20,207 |
1,528,356 | Armstrong subsequently received an invitation from Dr. Brent P. Nixon to start his own research service at the Southern Arizona VA Healthcare System in Tucson Arizona. This program, is responsible for producing many key works in the area of diabetes care and amputation prevention. Some of the most notable were the abil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19840767 | 1,527,492 |
1,640,329 | Electrophoresis is the mass flux of charged particles under an electric field. Both processes work at the same time but in a counter current manner. The charged particles are driven by electrophoresis flow from the cathode to the anode while electrolytic solution flows from the anode to the cathode. Of the two main pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25296388 | 1,639,402 |
1,147,995 | It is awarded with ‘A’ grade certificate by the Maharashtra State Government in 2005. Three of its undergraduate programmers are accredited by National Board of Accreditation for the period of three years with effect from 01 July 2016, and are permanently affiliated to the University of Mumbai, since 2017. It is the re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16948951 | 1,147,390 |
864,921 | The correlation between low sunspot activity and cold winters in England has been analyzed using the longest existing surface temperature record, the Central England Temperature record. A potential explanation of this has been offered by observations by NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment, which suggest that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37053 | 864,461 |
7,483 | While the MiG-29's true capabilities could only be estimated from the time it first appeared In 1977 until the mid-1980s, a combination of persistent intelligence and increasing access afforded by the Soviet foreign sales effort allowed a true appreciation of its capabilities. Early MiG-29s were very agile aircraft, ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=185653 | 7,480 |
591,317 | Commercially produced devices typically consist of a transparent square glass slide, 2 inches or 50 mm in dimension. The slide is printed in metallic chromium by photolithography with the standard pattern, photographically reduced from a large master plot. Slides are available as photographic positive or negative print... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5253078 | 591,015 |
15,259 | During the 1995 Paris Air Show, Saab Military Aircraft and British Aerospace (BAe, now BAE Systems) announced the formation the joint-venture company Saab-BAe Gripen AB with the goal of adapting, manufacturing, marketing and supporting Gripen worldwide. The deal involved the conversion of the A and B series aircraft to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=87577 | 15,254 |
1,473,017 | In 2015, Krasznahorkay and his colleagues at ATOMKI, the Hungarian Institute for Nuclear Research, posited the existence of a new, light boson with a mass of about (i.e. 34 times heavier than the electron). In an effort to find a dark photon, the team fired protons at thin targets of lithium-7, which created unstable b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62396988 | 1,472,186 |
580,576 | On 3 July 1939, the college formally came into existence. The institution owes its foundation to the vision of the Maharajah of Travancore, Sree Chitra Tirunal Balarama Varma. It initially started functioning in the former office and bungalow of the Chief Engineer (which is now the office of the Postmaster General (PMG... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1678143 | 580,279 |
62,611 | With a nod to a local runner who was notorious for his demanding workouts, Collins said, "Whoever finishes first, we'll call "him" the Iron Man." Each of the racers had their own support crew to supply water, food and encouragement during the event. Of the fifteen men to start off in the early morning on February 18, 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=83318 | 62,586 |
372,021 | Schenkerian analysis is a method of musical analysis of tonal music based on the theories of Heinrich Schenker (1868–1935). The goal of a Schenkerian analysis is to interpret the underlying structure of a tonal work and to help reading the score according to that structure. The theory's basic tenets can be viewed as a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54783 | 371,826 |
1,022,514 | The early Oak Ridge's chemistry designs were not concerned with proliferation and aimed for fast breeding. They planned to separate and store protactinium-233, so it could decay to uranium-233 without being destroyed by neutron capture in the reactor. With a half-life of 27 days, 2 months of storage would assure that 7... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17113658 | 1,021,985 |
1,713,234 | Hundreds of solar water pumping stations in Sudan fulfill a similar role, involving various applications of different systems for pumping and storage. Over the past 10 years approximately. 250 photovoltaic water pumps have been installed in Sudan. Considerable progress has been made and the present generation of system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11492908 | 1,712,268 |
1,030,196 | The ISCC–NBS System of Color Designation is a system for naming colors based on a set of 13 basic color terms and a small set of adjective modifiers. It was first established in the 1930s by a joint effort of the Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC), made up of delegates from various American trade organizations, and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27973777 | 1,029,662 |
1,385,011 | Riazuddin had joined Punjab University in 1959 as an associate professor of Mathematics. Four years later, he travelled to the United States for a fellowship awarded by Norman March and Michael Duff. He became a research associate professor at the University of Rochester where he stayed until 1965. The same year, he jo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22233947 | 1,384,244 |
1,805,722 | In a 2010 review Steve Henkel wrote, the "Dovekie is basically a decked-over open boat. Bolger's design is unusual (some would say radical) with a dead-flat bottom (no rocker, no deadrise), leeboards, a tiny bow centerboard for working to weather in shallows, and oar ports so she can be used without resorting to outboa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65867020 | 1,804,705 |
984,668 | Excavations were resumed at the Walcott Quarry by the Geological Survey of Canada under the persuasion of trilobite expert Harry Blackmore Whittington, and a new quarry, the Raymond, was established about 20 metres higher up Fossil Ridge. Whittington, with the help of research students Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3422 | 984,154 |
934,279 | Three years later, in 1924, Deguchi led a small group of Ōmoto-kyō disciples, including Ueshiba, on a journey to Mongolia at the invitation of retired naval captain Yutaro Yano and his associates within the ultra-nationalist Black Dragon Society. Deguchi's intent was to establish a new religious kingdom in Mongolia, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20069 | 933,787 |
1,040,418 | The first industrial applications - mainly for water, soil extracts and fertilizer - used the same hardware and techniques as clinical methods, but from the mid-1970s special techniques and modules were developed so that by 1990 it was possible to perform solvent extraction, distillation, on-line filtration and UV dige... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2382486 | 1,039,875 |
135,709 | Dyson was born on 15 December 1923, in Crowthorne in Berkshire, England. He was the son of Mildred () and the composer George Dyson, who was later knighted. His mother had a law degree, and after Dyson was born she worked as a social worker. Dyson had one sibling, his older sister, Alice, who remembered him as a boy su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11397 | 135,654 |
511,124 | Researchers at TKK have achieved notability in, among other things, low temperature physics (holding the current world record for the lowest temperature achieved), the development of devices and methods for magnetoencephalography, mobile communications, wood processing, and neural networks, with professor Teuvo Kohonen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60816 | 510,858 |
611,528 | The physics of the propagation of the baryon waves in the early universe is fairly simple; as a result cosmologists can predict the size of the sound horizon at the time of recombination. In addition the CMB provides a measurement of this scale to high accuracy. However, in the time between recombination and present da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22719936 | 611,217 |
195,778 | The Richard J. Heckmann International Center for Entrepreneurial Management was founded in Palm Desert in 2001. After the Coachella Valley Agricultural Research Station, it is UCR's second institutional presence in the Coachella Valley. Initially by a $6 million gift from Richard J. Heckmann, a water treatment entrepre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230311 | 195,678 |
1,302,756 | New York State has an AEMT-CC (advanced EMT - critical care) certification, which is unique to New York, and is more advanced than a nationally recognized AEMT. In addition to the national scope of practice, New York also authorizes its AEMT-CCs to intubate patients and do three lead ecg monitoring as well as twelve le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15797779 | 1,302,042 |
1,129,525 | Attempts have been made to market violins with machine tuners, but they have not been generally adopted primarily because earlier designs required irreversible physical modification of the pegbox, making violinists reluctant to fit them to classical instruments, and they added weight at the scroll. Early examples inclu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3626270 | 1,128,947 |
772,310 | The Canadian Transportation Safety Board (CTSB) determined a failure of Crew Resource Management was largely responsible for the crash of First Air Flight 6560, a Boeing 737-200, in Resolute, Nunavut, on August 20, 2011. A malfunctioning compass gave the crew an incorrect heading, although the instrument landing system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1203002 | 771,896 |
1,076,663 | The American system of manufacturing was a set of manufacturing methods that evolved in the 19th century. The two notable features were the extensive use of interchangeable parts and mechanization for production, which resulted in more efficient use of labor compared to hand methods. The system was also known as armory... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=376998 | 1,076,108 |
1,441,497 | Acceptance and commitment therapy is probably the most well-researched of all the third-generation behavior therapy models. Its development co-occurred with that of relational frame theory, with several researchers such as Steven C Hayes being involved with both. ACT has been argued to be based on relational frame theo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27443988 | 1,440,686 |
1,451,667 | Skoltech began as a joint effort with a curriculum designed by MIT and financial backing from the Russian government. The school offers graduate degrees only, and teaching is in English. It serves as the centerpiece of a $2.7 billion innovation hub funded by the Russian Finance Ministry. By 2013, the university had hir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35959683 | 1,450,850 |
763,155 | The accounts of Polybius leading up to the Battle of Telamon, c. 225 BC mention chariot warfare, but it was ultimately unsuccessful. The Gauls met comprehensive defeat by the Roman legions under Papus and Regulus. Chariot forces also attacked the legions as they were disembarking from ships during Caesar's invasion of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30855309 | 762,746 |
510,724 | As a result of this incident, rather than bringing legal action against McDonald's, Mann teamed up with the IEEE (world's largest technical society), the ACLU, and some industry leaders such as the Pete Wassell, CEO of Augmate Corporation, to propose the Mann-Wassell law for presentation to the New York legislature, as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=88785 | 510,459 |
895,686 | A 2015 re-evaluation of the DNA evidence states that "X2a has not been found anywhere in Eurasia, and phylogeography gives us no compelling reason to think it is more likely to come from Europe than from Siberia. Furthermore, analysis of the complete genome of Kennewick Man, who belongs to the most basal lineage of X2a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8413101 | 895,215 |
599,687 | A fixed-aisle AS/R machine (stacker crane) is one of two main designs: single-masted or double masted. Most are supported on a track and ceiling guided at the top by guide rails or channels to ensure accurate vertical alignment, although some are suspended from the ceiling. The 'shuttles' that make up the system travel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4999945 | 599,381 |
7,362 | Ballistic panels, also called micrometeorite shielding, are incorporated into the station to protect pressurised sections and critical systems. The type and thickness of these panels depend on their predicted exposure to damage. The station's shields and structure have different designs on the ROS and the USOS. On the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15043 | 7,359 |
362,146 | In 1823 Jan Evangelista Purkyně identified nine fingerprint patterns. The nine patterns include the tented arch, the loop, and the whorl, which in modern-day forensics are considered ridge details. In 1840, following the murder of Lord William Russell, a provincial doctor, Robert Blake Overton, wrote to Scotland Yard s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84777 | 361,956 |
395,052 | The discovery of a hitherto unsuspected extinct group of large marine reptiles generated much publicity, capturing the imagination of both scientists and the public at large. People were fascinated by the strange build of the animals, especially the large scleral rings in the eye sockets, of which it was sometimes erro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314101 | 394,857 |
2,046,655 | In April 2015 a pilot project of UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education and BIONIC University “Entrepreneurship and innovations management” started. The program was developed for Ukrainian managers and entrepreneurs and consists of two educational modules: the first one takes place in Ukraine, the second in the U.S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46771985 | 2,045,474 |
6,862 | While Galileo's application of mathematics to experimental physics was innovative, his mathematical methods were the standard ones of the day, including dozens of examples of an inverse proportion square root method passed down from Fibonacci and Archimedes. The analysis and proofs relied heavily on the Eudoxian theory... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29688374 | 6,859 |
1,183,352 | The pseudopotential is an effective potential constructed to replace the atomic all-electron potential (full-potential) such that core states are eliminated "and" the valence electrons are described by pseudo-wavefunctions with significantly fewer nodes. This allows the pseudo-wavefunctions to be described with far few... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2099759 | 1,182,726 |
1,208,381 | The braincase is mostly hidden from view by overlying bones; only the (rear part) is exposed. The uppermost bone of the occipital region is the , which in "Bajadasaurus" was completely fused to the bone below and featured a distinct and narrow longitudinal ridge, the . The , a pair of openings between the parietal and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59855096 | 1,207,735 |
1,220,870 | A system of mensuration employing 60-degree vectorial coordination comprehensive to both physics and chemistry, and to both arithmetic and geometry, in rational whole numbers ... Synergetics explains much that has not been previously illuminated ... Synergetics follows the cosmic logic of the structural mathematics str... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22166774 | 1,220,214 |
2,103,750 | AMCs have also showed promise in craniofacial bone regeneration. In 2014, George K. Sándor performed a small size clinical trial (n = 13) on patients with craniomaxillofacial defects where AMCs were transplanted with scaffolds of either bioactive glass or β-tricalcium phosphate in an attempt to reconstruct the defect. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62547618 | 2,102,538 |
283,990 | Infectious disease has become a major concern in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies and organizations have issued guidance regarding workplace hazard controls for COVID-19. Some specific recommendations include modified call queries, sympt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75005 | 283,837 |
1,701,579 | It is found from the Mexican states of Nuevo León (25° N. Lat.) and Jalisco (22° n.l.) to the north and to Nicaragua (15° N. Lat.) to the south. It occurs on both mountain ranges of the Sierra Madre Oriental and Sierra Madre Occidental. It grows at altitudes from 2000–3200 m above sea level. It is found in areas betwee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12190253 | 1,700,624 |
701,913 | Headwater streams play a major role in the physicochemical quality of larger rivers and streams because of their close association to the surrounding landscape. They function to retain floodwaters, store nutrients and reduce sediment accumulation. VF processes limit these functions, negatively impacting surrounding riv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1685995 | 701,548 |
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