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1,983,542 | Product knowledge has been fairly studied and a number of modeling techniques have been developed. Most of them are tailored to specific products or specific aspects of the design activities. For example, geometric modeling is used mainly for supporting detailed design, while knowledge modeling is working for supportin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21438345 | 1,982,403 |
1,217,418 | This concept was used on the UGM-96 Trident I and is estimated to have increased the range by 550 km. The Trident aerospike consists of a flat circular plate mounted on an extensible boom which is deployed shortly after the missile breaks through the surface of the water after launch from the submarine. The use of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1810909 | 1,216,765 |
401,838 | Carrageenans or carrageenins ( ; ) are a family of natural linear sulfated polysaccharides that are extracted from red edible seaweeds. The most well-known and still most important red seaweed used for manufacturing the hydrophilic colloids to produce carrageenan is "Chondrus crispus" (Irish moss) which is a dark red p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=235950 | 401,639 |
1,075,719 | The company gained media attention in April 2012 with the announcement of a press conference, scheduled for April 24, 2012. The initial press release provided limited information; as of April 20, 2012, only a list of major investors and advisors was known. Included in the list were many people notable for their entrepr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35554525 | 1,075,164 |
1,121,603 | An approach to studying this rare disease would be performing a case-control study. This is done by following a group of people to accrue person years to evaluate historical associated factors. These historical factors can then help researchers deduce new cases and consider the discrepancies of various risk factors. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17886 | 1,121,029 |
1,661,056 | Certain species of fish and birds are able to locomote in both air and water, two fluid media with very different properties. A fluid is a particular phase of matter that deforms under shear stresses and includes any type of liquid or gas. Because fluids are easily deformable and move in response to applied forces, eff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26865891 | 1,660,122 |
561,423 | The largest tornado ever documented was a multiple-vortex tornado. It struck El Reno, Oklahoma, on May 31, 2013, taking the lives of tornado researcher Tim Samaras, his son Paul, and their TWISTEX colleague, Carl Young. This storm also took the life of local amateur chaser Richard Henderson. It had a maximum width of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1555237 | 561,134 |
1,259,228 | The December 7, 1941 airstrike on Pearl Harbor immediately put the campus on a wartime basis. Faculty adjusted the curriculum and academic schedule to assist students entering military service. A student defense committee, later called the Student War Board, was organized to coordinate emergency services. Japanese-Amer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12226819 | 1,258,541 |
678,897 | To illustrate the grammar, he produced the epic poetry "Dvyashraya Kavya" on the history of Chaulukya dynasty. It is an important source of history of region of the time. The epic poem "Trīṣaṣṭiśalākāpuruṣacharitra" or "Lives of Sixty-Three Great Men" is a hagiographical treatment of the twenty four tirthankaras and ot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1154896 | 678,543 |
114,356 | Wallace distinguishing between mind and body was asserting that natural selection shaped the form of man only until the appearance of mind; after then, it played no part. Mind formed modern man, meaning that result of mind, culture. Its appearance overthrew the laws of nature. Wallace used the term "grand revolution". ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31295 | 114,311 |
473,379 | MMICs are dimensionally small (from around 1 mm² to 10 mm²) and can be mass-produced, which has allowed the proliferation of high-frequency devices such as cellular phones. MMICs were originally fabricated using gallium arsenide (GaAs), a III-V compound semiconductor. It has two fundamental advantages over silicon (Si)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=422381 | 473,143 |
698,488 | No knowledge of electronics was needed to assemble a Heathkit. The assembly process itself did not teach much about electronics, but provided a great deal of what could have been called basic "electronics literacy", such as the ability to identify tube pin numbers or to read a resistor color code. Many hobbyists began ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=618552 | 698,124 |
366,393 | During development, sceptical elements of the Air Ministry had expected mature piston-powered aircraft types to exceed the capabilities of the Meteor in all respects except that of speed; thus, the performance of early Meteors was considered favourable for the interceptor mission, being capable of out-diving the majori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42702 | 366,201 |
1,836,252 | "Rubus nepalensis" is a plant which is native to the country of Nepal. It comes from the plant family Rosaceae. It is a shrub that has many stems, and it is known for growing widely and covering a lot of ground. It spreads wherever it grows and takes over the area in which it is located. This plant is an evergreen, whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27867399 | 1,835,203 |
274,301 | In March 2015, a merger agreement was announced through which NXP would acquire rival Freescale Semiconductor. In view of this merger, NXP's RF Power activities were sold to JAC Capital for US$1.8 billion and rebranded as Ampleon, in a transaction closed in November 2015. Both NXP and Freescale had deep roots stretchin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6794062 | 274,153 |
1,671,443 | The pentagrid converter in either guise operated extremely well, but it suffered from the limitation that a strong signal was able to 'pull' the oscillator frequency away from a weaker signal. This was not considered a major problem in broadcast receivers where the signals were likely to be strong, but it became a prob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=488182 | 1,670,503 |
2,135,015 | The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a large system of ocean currents that carry warm water from the tropics northwards into the North Atlantic. It is driven by differences in temperature and salt content. The present-day AMOC is mainly temperature-driven, which means that there is a strong AMOC ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67655573 | 2,133,788 |
1,120,506 | By 1998, "Shyena" was ready for trials, and it was tested 24 times by the NSTL from 1998 to 2000. During trials, thrust was laid on monitoring of various factors through four computers fitted on board Shyena. User evaluation tests with designed and engineered models of the TAL took place in 2003–2005, following which t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24885772 | 1,119,932 |
205,496 | Samuel Walker carried two of his namesake revolvers in the Mexican–American War. He was killed in battle the same year his famous handgun was invented, 1847, shortly after he had received them. Only 1,100 of these guns were originally made, 1,000 as part of a military contract and an additional 100 for the civilian mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19467924 | 205,390 |
976,892 | These mutations can have a range of effects. They may decrease the stability of the transcribed messenger RNA (mRNA), which increases the rate at which they are degraded. With less mRNA, less is available to be translated into the WRNp protein. Mutations may also lead to the truncation (shortening) of the WRNp protein,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=427217 | 976,381 |
192,050 | In 2018, Rocket Lab began to develop reusable first-stage technology, after previously stating publicly that they had no intention of attempting to recover and then reuse their small low-cost launch vehicles. They disclosed the effort to study the potential recovery of an Electron first stage in August 2019, aiming to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25113585 | 191,951 |
1,564,643 | The academic hoods used at Stanford University also follow the precepts of the ICC to a large extent. Like many universities and colleges in the United States, Stanford does not make use of hoods for bachelors. Instead, bachelors use a stole bearing the university seal at graduation ceremonies. Masters use hoods of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35853256 | 1,563,756 |
1,503,610 | The major problem faced by the Airborne Group was the problem of wavelength. For a variety of reasons, an antenna with reasonable gain has to be on the same order of length as the wavelength of the signal, with the half-wave dipole being a common solution. CH worked at wavelengths on the order of 10 metres, which calle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59944706 | 1,502,764 |
91,341 | In the 7th century, Brahmagupta identified the Brahmagupta theorem, Brahmagupta's identity and Brahmagupta's formula, and for the first time, in "Brahma-sphuta-siddhanta", he lucidly explained the use of zero as both a placeholder and decimal digit, and explained the Hindu–Arabic numeral system. It was from a translati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14220 | 91,301 |
790,871 | In Mauritius the academic staff have the following rights, which are stated in the Chapter II Constitution of Mauritius: the protection of Freedom of Conscience, Protection of Freedom of Expression, Protection of Freedom of Assembly and Association, Protection of Freedom to Establish schools and the Protection from Dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=614484 | 790,446 |
950,175 | Sea squirts are rounded or cylindrical animals ranging from about 0.5 to 10 cm (0.2 to 4 in) in size. One end of the body is always firmly fixed to rock, coral, or some similar solid surface. The lower surface is pitted or ridged, and in some species has root-like extensions that help the animal grip the surface. The b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=930016 | 949,671 |
973,827 | Academic Row is known to be the central pedestrian concourse and maintenance vehicle highway in the campus that borders along a series of buildings. Beginning south at Administration Drive, the pathway is covered by mature trees on either side. Friendly squirrels are a common sight near the University Center where stud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=375259 | 973,317 |
598,805 | In addition to known posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) risk factors experienced by both civilians and military personnel in combat areas; in early 2018, it was reported by "60 Minutes" that neuropathology specialist Dr. Daniel "Dan" Perl had conducted research on brain tissue exposed to traumatic brain injury (TBI),... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=892612 | 598,500 |
279,671 | In late 1919, the Smithsonian published Goddard's groundbreaking work, "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes". The report describes Goddard's mathematical theories of rocket flight, his experiments with solid-fuel rockets, and the possibilities he saw of exploring Earth's atmosphere and beyond. Along with Konstantin ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=210597 | 279,521 |
1,302,169 | Coelurus ( ) is a genus of coelurosaurian dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period (mid-late Kimmeridgian faunal stage, 155–152 million years ago). The name means "hollow tail", referring to its hollow tail vertebrae (Greek κοῖλος, "koilos" = hollow + οὐρά, "oura" = tail). Although its name is linked to one of the main d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3025674 | 1,301,455 |
833,949 | The Garretts lived in a square Georgian house opposite the church in Aldeburgh until 1852. Newson's malting business expanded and more children were born, Edmund (1840), Alice (1842), Agnes (1845), Millicent (1847), who was to become a leader in the constitutional campaign for women's suffrage, Sam (1850), Josephine (1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9695 | 833,500 |
933,176 | Railroads played a large role in the development of the United States from the industrial revolution in the Northeast (1810–1850) to the settlement of the West (1850–1890). The American railroad mania began with the founding of the first passenger and freight line in the nation of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 182... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=587997 | 932,684 |
1,705,036 | Suppression of MRE11 expression in genetically engineered human breast (MCF7) and bone (U2OS) cancer cell lines has resulted in decreased migratory capacity of these cells, indicating MRN may facilitate metastatic spread of cancer. Decreased expression of MMP-2 and MMP-3 matrix metalloproteinases, which are known to fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17269927 | 1,704,080 |
2,136,840 | In collaboration with Andrey Korotayev he has demonstrated that a rather simple mathematical model can be developed to describe in a rather accurate way the macrotrends of biological evolution. They have shown that changes in biodiversity through the Phanerozoic correlate much better with hyperbolic model (widely used ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34329779 | 2,135,611 |
2,175,420 | Planar Cell Polarity (PCP) is the protein mediated signaling that coordinates the orientation of cells in a layer of epithelial tissue. In vertebrates, examples of mature PCP oriented tissue are the stereo-cilia bundles in the inner ear, motile cilia of the epithelium, and cell motility in epidermal wound healing. Addi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15592325 | 2,174,176 |
881,152 | Elliptical trainers are primarily driven by the user's legs, and most are combination designs having handle-levers attached to each pedal-link to enable some burden on the arms and to provide a secondary source of driving power. The user grips the handles below shoulder height and pushes and pulls the arms while shuffl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1393614 | 880,688 |
1,735,644 | Ma Jun ( 220–265), courtesy name Deheng, was a Chinese mechanical engineer, inventor, and politician who lived in the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China. His most notable invention was that of the south-pointing chariot, a directional compass vehicle which actually had no magnetic function, but ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4566662 | 1,734,667 |
549,704 | Critics have pointed to research that indicates that because whey protein isolate is digested so quickly it may in fact enter the bloodstream and be converted into carbohydrates through a process called gluconeogenesis much more rapidly than was previously thought possible, so while amino acid concentrations increased ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6503821 | 549,416 |
1,098,994 | The middle Ming period saw the arrival of European guns in China. Portuguese breech-loading swivel gun known as "folangji" were well known in South China as early as 1510 and could be purchased by 1518. They probably did not reach China directly from the Portuguese due to the early date of their presence, preceding the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56557517 | 1,098,434 |
1,793,235 | Since emerging from the self-imposed isolation and self-reliance of the Cultural Revolution, China expanded its international scientific exchanges to an unprecedented degree. The 1980s policy of opening up to the outside world, a basic element of Deng Xiaoping's prescription for modernization, was nowhere better exempl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14246598 | 1,792,226 |
473,109 | Starting from the first cycle of lithium-ion battery operation, the electrolyte decomposes to form lithium compounds on the anode surface, producing a layer called the solid-electrolyte interface (SEI). For both silicon and graphite anodes, this SEI layer is the result of the reduction potential of the anode. During cy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47270052 | 472,873 |
2,024,600 | On April 27, 2012, came the decision in favour of the University Network Halle-Jena-Leipzig and for the establishment of the core centre at the Leipzig location. At its meeting in Bonn, the DFG’s central committee selected the joint application of the Universities of Halle, Jena and Leipzig on the recommendation of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41336708 | 2,023,436 |
104,080 | Agrippa participated in smaller military campaigns in 35 and 34 BC, but by the autumn of 34 BC he had returned to Rome. He rapidly set out on a campaign of public repairs and improvements, including renovation of the aqueduct known as the Aqua Marcia and an extension of its pipes to cover more of the city. He became th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19747 | 104,035 |
1,870,045 | The grandson of sociologist F. Stuart Chapin, Chapin III is better known to students and colleagues as 'Terry'. Chapin also serves as principal investigator of the Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program, and has a background in plant physiological ecology and ecosystem ecology. His current research ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10417260 | 1,868,968 |
193,568 | McAnulty was succeeded by Fr. Donald S. Nesti. Fr. Nesti's tenure in the 1980s saw construction begin on the A. J. Palumbo Center, which was dedicated in 1988, as well as an expansion of the law school. It was under the presidency of John E. Murray Jr., the university's first lay president, that the university develope... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=582163 | 193,468 |
148,688 | On March 20, 2013, Bezos announced he had succeeded in bringing parts of an F-1 engine to the surface, and released photographs. Bezos noted, "Many of the original serial numbers are missing or partially missing, which is going to make mission identification difficult. We might see more during restoration." The recover... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=712616 | 148,627 |
1,667,112 | " Note 3:" ""Long-haul telecommunications technicians"" can be translated into many fields of IT work within the corporate industry (Information Technology, Network Technician, Telecommunication Specialist, It Support, and so on). While the term is used in military most career fields that are in communications such as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41333 | 1,666,173 |
1,612,504 | Functional programming data structures often use polymorphic recursion to simplify type error checks and solve problems with nasty "middle" temporary solutions that devour memory in more traditional data structures such as trees. In the two citations that follow, Okasaki (pp. 144–146) gives a CONS example in Haskell wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24826482 | 1,611,599 |
1,198,472 | The concept of cortical influences provided reasons to raise questions about the process of parturition among humans, characterized by a high encephalization quotient. Michel Odent had observed that women can experience such a reflex, characterized by a birth after a short series of irresistible and powerful contractio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15641117 | 1,197,831 |
1,936,144 | cII is first expressed after phage protein N reaches sufficient levels to antiterminate the early right transcript past tR1, allowing RNA polymerase to transcribe the cII gene. If cII levels reach a certain threshold level, expression through the promoters pI, pRE and pAQ will be induced, initiating the two actions nec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49488860 | 1,935,036 |
50,330 | In his teens, he joined the Junior Astronomical Association and contributed to "Urania", the society's journal, which was edited in Glasgow by Marion Eadie. At Clarke's request, she added an "Astronautics" section, which featured a series of articles written by him on spacecraft and space travel. Clarke also contribute... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598148 | 50,310 |
1,364,228 | The BBS has been shown to have excellent inter-rater (ICC = 0.98) and intra-rater relative reliability (ICC = 0.97), with an absolute reliability varying between 2.8/56 and 6.6/56, with poorer reliability near the middle of the scale, and is internally consistent (0.96). The BBS correlates satisfactorily with laborator... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34704559 | 1,363,472 |
1,570,502 | Peirsol enjoyed a head-to-head battle against Lochte in the first 150 metres, but ended up only with a silver in 1:54.33. This made Peirsol the first man to earn three medals in the 200 metre backstroke, adding to his silver in 2000 and gold in 2004. Russia's Arkady Vyatchanin added a second bronze to his collection (h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18624740 | 1,569,614 |
906,470 | Sterol is an organic compound with formula , whose molecule is derived from that of gonane by replacement of a hydrogen atom in position 3 by a hydroxyl group. It is therefore an alcohol of gonane. More generally, any compounds that contain the gonane structure, additional functional groups, and/or modified ring system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1101329 | 905,994 |
11,954 | On 31 January 2019, the Washington Post wrote an article regarding the security and ethical challenges that can occur with IoT doorbells and cameras: "Last month, Ring got caught allowing its team in Ukraine to view and annotate certain user videos; the company says it only looks at publicly shared videos and those fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12057519 | 11,949 |
1,136,147 | Gordon Brown tried to intervene but was over-ruled by Tony Blair in a dispute against Geoff Hoon. Brown had wanted to reduce costs by putting the contract out to competitive tender, but jobs and export orders were considered more important. The purchase cost of the 44 aircraft was expected to be around £800 million. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44092692 | 1,135,554 |
929,511 | Several hurricanes and storms over the 2010s had raised the concerns of structural engineers over the stability of the observatory. On September 21, 2017, high winds associated with Hurricane Maria caused the 430 MHz line feed to break and fall onto the primary dish, damaging roughly 30 of the 38,000 aluminum panels. M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9013135 | 929,020 |
945,657 | The Alaska Nanooks compete at the NCAA Division I level in hockey as an Independent. The Nanooks play home games at the 4,500-seat Carlson Center, located in downtown Fairbanks. The Alaska Nanooks also have a Division I rifle team which has won 10 NCAA National Rifle Championships (1994, 1999–2004, 2006–2008). The rifl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=601485 | 945,155 |
1,867,445 | During her career, Petrou developed a number of important image recognition techniques, including methods for robotic texture analysis, image comparison and 3D measurement. Most notably, she and Dr Alexander Kadyrov co-invented the trace transform, a method of image representation that allows for more efficient facial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37617874 | 1,866,369 |
348,374 | The Central Area is spread around numerous squares and streets in Edinburgh's "Southside", with some buildings in Old Town. It is the university's oldest area, occupied primarily by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and the School of Informatics. The highest concentration of university buildings is ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23592200 | 348,192 |
679,921 | Apgar traveled thousands of miles each year to speak to widely varied audiences about the importance of early detection of birth defects and the need for more research in this area. She proved an excellent ambassador for the National Foundation, and the annual income of that organization more than doubled during her te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=250256 | 679,567 |
750,886 | The programming process is not electrically reversible. To erase the data stored in the array of transistors, ultraviolet light is directed onto the die. Photons of the UV light cause ionization within the silicon oxide, which allows the stored charge on the floating gate to dissipate. Since the whole memory array is e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=73333 | 750,488 |
1,880,895 | Potato rot nematodes are microscopic worms approximately 1.4 millimeters long. Their life cycle takes place inside potato tubers where they eat starch grains. This causes the affected tissues to become brown and powdery, and the surface of the tuber becomes covered with dark patches with dry cracking skin. The nematode... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11890008 | 1,879,814 |
50,939 | In the US, nineteen states have laws requiring insurance coverage for infertility treatment, and thirteen of those specifically include IVF. These states that mandate IVF coverage are: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, Ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57880 | 50,919 |
262,359 | After a period of landscaping, grading, and construction, the original buildings of the campus were dedicated in 1930 when the first class of River Campus was welcomed to the Men's college. The main academic buildings are examples of the Greek Revival style in 20th-century collegiate architecture. The main buildings si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31918 | 262,220 |
880,365 | In medicine an intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis of the results of a randomized controlled trial is based on the initial treatment assignment and not on the treatment eventually received. ITT analysis is intended to avoid various misleading artifacts that can arise in intervention research such as non-random attrition ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5080402 | 879,901 |
1,498,876 | The surprisal equals the sum over the constraints and is a measure of the deviation from the balanced state. These deviations are ranked on the degree of deviation from the balance state and ordered on the most to least influential to the system. This ranking is provided through the use of Lagrange multipliers. The mos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37737648 | 1,498,032 |
1,559,194 | The 1961 Ice Hockey World Championships was the 28th edition of the Ice Hockey World Championships. The tournament was held in Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland from 1 to 12 March 1961. The games were played outdoors on a frozen pool. A glare made it hard for players to see well, however photographers were able to get a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22178989 | 1,558,308 |
596,256 | A templar and an old friend of Tassadar's, Fenix is a powerful and cunning leader, but remains distrustful towards the motives of the ruling judicator caste. Under the command of Aldaris, Fenix helps defend Aiur from the Zerg invasion, but eventually falls in the battle of Antioch when his position is overwhelmed by Ze... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12123161 | 595,951 |
1,222,042 | module fashion, the next year and half is devoted to studying nine body systems: cardiovascular, respiratory, hematopoietic, digestive, endocrine, musculoskeletal, neuroscience 1 and 2, and reproductive and urinary. Towards the end of the third year students begin direct contact with patients in hospital settings. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4821140 | 1,221,383 |
1,004,712 | In 1947, the Soviet rocket engineer and scientist Mikhail Tikhonravov developed a theory of parallel stages, which he called "packet rockets". In his scheme, three parallel stages were fired from liftoff, but all three engines were fueled from the outer two stages, until they are empty and could be ejected. This is mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=402018 | 1,004,194 |
1,990,040 | Stripe-patterned polymer films can be formed on solid substrates by casting diluted polymer solution. This method is relatively easy, inexpensive, and has no restriction on the scaffold materials that can be used. The procedure involves horizontally overlapping glass plates while keeping them vertically separated by a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11088829 | 1,988,897 |
969,602 | Heracles, who had become a god many years earlier, came down from Olympus and told Philoctetes to go and that he would be healed by the son of Asclepius and win great honor as a hero of the Achaean army. Once back in military company outside Troy, they employed either Machaon the surgeon (who may have been killed by Eu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=81982 | 969,092 |
1,990,117 | Kurenniemi's concept for the studio represented a departure from the then prevalent tape editing studios in that it employed digital control technology and automation. The key unit for control, production and editing in 1964–1967 was the so-called integrated synthesizer, the design of which bore a closer resemblance to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3417256 | 1,988,974 |
1,747,262 | The sixth book of "de Magnete" was devoted to cosmology. He dismissed the prevailing Ptolemaic model of the universe, in which the planets and stars are organized in a series of concentric shells rotating about the Earth, on the grounds that the speeds involved would be absurdly large ("there cannot be diurnal motion o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33511862 | 1,746,276 |
2,006,259 | The school originated as a centre for training command personnel in a short period of time, achieved by reducing the number of subjects taught, and lengthening the teaching day from ten hours to twelve. With the demands of the Second World War, from 16 December 1941 the school offered advanced two-month training course... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62944733 | 2,005,110 |
443,615 | Concerning the historical development, relativistic equations containing accelerations can already be found in the early years of relativity, as summarized in early textbooks by Max von Laue (1911, 1921) or Wolfgang Pauli (1921). For instance, equations of motion and acceleration transformations were developed in the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52920749 | 443,400 |
1,398,794 | As an academic discipline, soundscape ecology shares some characteristics with other fields of inquiry but is also distinct from them in significant ways. For instance, acoustic ecology is also concerned with the study of multiple sound sources. However, acoustic ecology, which derives from the founding work of R. Murr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31352483 | 1,398,021 |
324,273 | The thymus continues to grow after birth reaching the relative maximum size by puberty. It is most active in fetal and neonatal life. It increases to a mass of 20 to 50 grams by puberty. It then begins to decrease in size and activity in a process called thymic involution. After the first year of life the amount of T c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56265 | 324,101 |
931,170 | Common adverse drug reactions (≥ 1% of people) include diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, joint pain; infections, leukopenia, or anemia reflect the immunosuppressive and myelosuppressive nature of the drug. Mycophenolate sodium is also commonly associated with fatigue, headache, cough and/or breathing issues. Intravenous (IV)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=530470 | 930,679 |
1,691,131 | RO is a simple and convenient tool for tuning the frequency of oscillators, filters and amplifiers in analog synthesizers. Particularly simple is their implementation in the voltage-controlled RC filters in a Sallen-Key topology, where the RO provides a nearly exponential dependence of the cutoff frequency on the contr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37259466 | 1,690,181 |
1,303,035 | On November 3, 1896, Martha Hughes Cannon became the first woman elected as a state senator in the United States with 10,288 votes while her husband only received 8,054 votes. The couple reported that no relationship issues were produced from the election. Cannon introduced three bills in her first month in state senat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3018281 | 1,302,319 |
1,251,150 | Range management's focus has been expanded to include the host of ecosystem services that rangelands provide to humans world-wide. Key management components seek to optimize such goods and services through the protection and enhancement of soils, riparian zones, watersheds, and vegetation complexes, sustainably improvi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50283749 | 1,250,472 |
1,754,536 | In 2014, Wyatt left "Dungeons & Dragons" to work on the writing and creative aspects of "". Wyatt wrote the text for the series of "Art of Magic: The Gathering" coffee table books, which reprint illustrations from the cards with details for each plane's lore. He then wrote a series of free PDF releases called "Plane Sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2502973 | 1,753,546 |
1,805,637 | Despite these shortcomings, lean tissue mass data collected by means of dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) before and after flight compares favorably with data from NASAMir, and the total body and leg losses are in fact less than seen during NASA-Mir or during three separate bed rest studies of similar durations i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39377992 | 1,804,622 |
929,489 | The Arecibo Telescope was primarily used for research in radio astronomy, atmospheric science, and radar astronomy, as well as for programs that search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Scientists wanting to use the observatory submitted proposals that were evaluated by independent scientific referees. NASA als... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9013135 | 928,998 |
842,958 | Tyrosine kinase activity is also significantly involved in other events that are sometimes considered highly unfavorable. For instance, enhanced activity of the enzyme has been implicated in the derangement of the function of certain systems, such as cell division. Also included are numerous diseases related to local i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51903 | 842,508 |
559,867 | In 1887, Torakusu founded Nippon Gakki Co Ltd. and used a drawing of a Chinese phoenix holding a tuning fork in its beak as the company's logo. After founding the company, Torakusu set up a manufacturing plant with modern assembly lines. In 1889, the Minister of Education asked the president of Nippon Gakki to look int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57714986 | 559,578 |
286,699 | Located in Hamilton Heights overlooking Harlem in Manhattan, City College's 35-acre (14 ha) Collegiate Gothic campus spans Convent Avenue from 130th to 141st Streets. It was initially designed by renowned architect George B. Post, and many of its buildings have achieved landmark status. The college has graduated ten No... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954388 | 286,544 |
943,462 | Snowball sampling is a recruitment method that employs research into participants' social networks to access specific populations. According to research mentioned in the paper written by Kath Browne, using social networks to research is accessible. In this research, Kath Browne used social networks to research non-hete... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1477405 | 942,960 |
1,230,461 | Security concerns for delay-tolerant networks vary depending on the environment and application, though authentication and privacy are often critical. These security guarantees are difficult to establish in a network without continuous bi-directional end-to-end paths between devices because the network hinders complica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2710684 | 1,229,799 |
56,964 | Ride's was one of 8,079 applications NASA received by the June 30, 1977, deadline. She then became one of 208 finalists. She was the only woman among the twenty applicants in the sixth group, all applicants for mission specialist positions, who reported to NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, on October... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=94289 | 56,940 |
1,686,441 | Around 1982, the consortium's attention was redirected towards the co-development of a more advanced engine in the 25000lb thrust class for the 150 seater market. Pratt & Whitney, MTU and FiatAvio joined the consortium, by then named International Aero Engines, shortly afterwards. The V in V2500 denotes the five origin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3873930 | 1,685,495 |
1,327,085 | The science of phytosociology has hardly penetrated into the Anglo-Saxon world, where the continuum concept of community prevailed, opposed to the concept of a 'society' of plants. Nonetheless it had some early adherents in the United States, notably Frederic Clements in particular, who used the concept to characterise... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2778317 | 1,326,358 |
1,333,619 | At the end of June 2008, the university completed the sale of both parcels of the property to Corsica Development Inc., a subsidiary of Metrus Development Inc. for $70 million, a lower price than expected. Observatory staff were laid off and faculty reassigned to the downtown St. George campus. The Town of Richmond Hil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=725242 | 1,332,890 |
811,796 | Whether the self-serving bias is exhibited may depend on interpersonal closeness, relationships in a social context. When working in pairs to complete interdependent outcome tasks, relationally close pairs did not show a self-serving bias while relationally distant pairs did. A study on self-serving bias in relational ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=511068 | 811,364 |
92 | In September 2014, Jason Nova of "Android Authority" reported on a study by the German security company Fraunhofer AISEC in antivirus software and malware threats on Android. Nova wrote that "The Android operating system deals with software packages by sandboxing them; this does not allow applications to list the direc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12610483 | 92 |
1,449,544 | The theory of introspection is highly controversial. This is due to research showing inconsistencies between our introspective reports and factors affecting our stimuli. This issue lead to a new way to study introspective access by using the adaptive unconsciousness. This is done by looking at the implicit-explicit rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2882373 | 1,448,728 |
448,938 | A more sensitive detector uses laser interferometry to measure gravitational-wave induced motion between separated 'free' masses. This allows the masses to be separated by large distances (increasing the signal size); a further advantage is that it is sensitive to a wide range of frequencies (not just those near a reso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11084869 | 448,720 |
1,419,205 | The Northern Ontario School of Medicine is one of only two medical schools in Canada outside of Quebec (along with University of Ottawa) that does not require an MCAT score to be considered for admission. Furthermore, the only academic prerequisite is a university undergraduate degree with a minimum GPA of 3.0 out of 4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=941554 | 1,418,406 |
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