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1,401,399 | The technique is used, for example, to study the formation of cracks during the welding process, as opposed to locating them after the weld has been formed with the more familiar ultrasonic testing technique. In a material under active stress, such as some components of an airplane during flight, transducers mounted in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2574174 | 1,400,612 |
86,695 | Under the leadership of Lattie F. Coor, president from 1990 to 2002, ASU grew through the creation of the Polytechnic campus and extended education sites. Increased commitment to diversity, quality in undergraduate education, research, and economic development occurred over his 12-year tenure. Part of Coor's legacy to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1859 | 86,661 |
460,876 | Although foam-core panels gained attention in the 1970s, the idea of using stress skinned panels for construction began in the 1930s. Research and testing of the technology was done primarily by Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) in Madison, Wisconsin as part of a U.S. Forest Service attempt to conserve forest resources.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=699437 | 460,650 |
2,070,877 | The Center for Computer Games Research is located at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark and was one of the first academic departments entirely dedicated to the scholarly study of digital gaming. Originally a part of the Department of Digital Aesthetics and Communication and spun off into its own independent unit ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6882973 | 2,069,686 |
195,874 | He made a crucial observation that certain cancers (carcinoma in the modern sense) were inherently associated with white blood cells (which are now called macrophages) that produced irritation (inflammation). It was only towards the end of the 20th century that Virchow's theory was taken seriously. It was realised that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=140752 | 195,774 |
2,065,490 | Born into modest circumstances in the industrial town of Merthyr Tydfil, Vaughan came to love plants as a boy, while walking in the Brecon Beacons. After grammar school, he entered the Victoria University of Manchester at the age of 17, to take a degree in botany. His first post was at a schoolteacher at Hele's School,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4071285 | 2,064,299 |
675,466 | When sponges are alive, their spicules provide a structural "framework". Following their death, the body and the skeleton structure, especially that of demosponges in which the spicules are connected to each other only by perishable collagen fibres, rapidly disintegrate leaving the spicules "free". Because of this, spo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27140295 | 675,113 |
1,399,601 | British school of thought led by Walter Cocking of "Wireless World" leaned to push-pull, class A, RC-coupled triode output stages. RC coupling, as opposed to transformer coupling, argued Cocking, extended the amplifier's bandwidth beyond the required minimum of 10 kHz and improved its transient response. Tetrodes and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1019188 | 1,398,826 |
346,597 | Morton at first attempted to hide the actual nature of his anesthetic substance, referring to it as Letheon. He received a US patent for his substance, but news of the successful anesthetic spread quickly by late 1846. Respected surgeons in Europe including Liston, Dieffenbach, Pirogov, and Syme quickly undertook numer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56561 | 346,416 |
993,399 | An advantage to high throughput sequencing is that this technique does not require cloning the DNA before sequencing, removing one of the main biases and bottlenecks in environmental sampling. The first metagenomic studies conducted using high-throughput sequencing used massively parallel 454 pyrosequencing. Three othe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1408929 | 992,882 |
1,560,178 | Ensuring that every specimen has an individual accession number will reduce the risk of disassociation. The accession number relates that number to an identifiable object and the object can only be moved if its location is updated, ensuring the object is never disassociated from its data. Most herbaria utilize a standa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53632609 | 1,559,292 |
1,483,550 | Each module performs all the catalytic reactions necessary to incorporate a single amino acid onto the peptide chain. This is accomplished through the subdomains for adenylation (A), peptityl carrier protein (PCP), condensation (C), and depending on the amino acid position, an epimerization (E). The adenylation subdoma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5606788 | 1,482,714 |
137,892 | Up until that time, attempts to make the old quantum theory of the atom compatible with the theory of relativity, which were based on discretizing the angular momentum stored in the electron's possibly non-circular orbit of the atomic nucleus, had failed – and the new quantum mechanics of Heisenberg, Pauli, Jordan, Sch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39407 | 137,836 |
1,716,009 | In 2015, police raided the home of physics professor Xi Xiaoxing and arrested him at gunpoint in front of his wife and 2 daughters. The US Justice Department (DOJ) had accused the scientist of illegally sending trade secrets to China: specifically, the design of a pocket heater used in superconductor research, threaten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47816709 | 1,715,042 |
91,825 | Project Gemini followed on from Project Mercury. After the Mercury-Atlas 10 mission was canceled, Shepard was designated as the commander of the first crewed Gemini mission, with Thomas P. Stafford chosen as his pilot. In late 1963, Shepard began to experience episodes of extreme dizziness and nausea, accompanied by a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63727 | 91,785 |
818,778 | In retrospect, after it was discovered, it turned out it had been observed many times before but not recognized, and there were others who made various calculations about its location which did not lead to its observation. By 1846, the planet Uranus had completed nearly one full orbit since its discovery by William Her... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13002123 | 818,338 |
2,123,594 | Delivered on 29 June 2018 to the ISS by SpaceX CRS-15. The research was the second mission sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Space Life and Physical Sciences program. The primary objective of the study was to study the impact of the space environment on the gut microbiota of mice. The imp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58816065 | 2,122,374 |
1,812,535 | At the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s rapid developments in the laser industry led to the appearance of ultrafast, so-called femtosecond lasers. This new generation of lasers has the ability to generate pulses with durations of a few femtoseconds and even less (1 fs = formula_1sec). The duration of such a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26102963 | 1,811,502 |
1,161,693 | Rutherford's Liberals self-identified as the party of free enterprise, in contrast to the Conservatives, who supported public ownership Still the Liberals made a limited number of large-scale forays into government operation of utilities, the most notable of which being the creation of Alberta Government Telephones. In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=233760 | 1,161,077 |
2,125,833 | Greeley received a number of awards and honors during his career, including the G. K. Gilbert Award presented by the Planetary Geology Division of the Geological Society of America in 1997, and being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2007 and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33771234 | 2,124,612 |
192,900 | In 1969, NATO was the first candidate to deal with climate change on an international level. It was planned then to establish a hub of research and initiatives of the organization in the civil area, dealing with environmental topics as acid rain and the greenhouse effect. The suggestion of US President Richard Nixon wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23423379 | 192,800 |
535,371 | In 1969, NATO was the first candidate to deal with climate change on an international level. It was planned then to establish a hub of research and initiatives of the organization in the civil area, dealing with environmental topics as acid rain and the greenhouse effect. The suggestion of US President Richard Nixon wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56516812 | 535,092 |
1,121,328 | The Thomas–Fermi (TF) model, named after Llewellyn Thomas and Enrico Fermi, is a quantum mechanical theory for the electronic structure of many-body systems developed semiclassically shortly after the introduction of the Schrödinger equation. It stands separate from wave function theory as being formulated in terms of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20198857 | 1,120,754 |
1,255,780 | Generation III reactors are safer than older reactors like the GE MAC 1 at Fukushima, Vermont Yankee and other plants around the world. But after a decade in which the federal government did all it could to boost this new version of nuclear power, only one Generation III+ reactor project has been approved in the United... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31284652 | 1,255,096 |
922,295 | As of March 23, 2010, all American Deluxe Precision Basses came with an N3 stacked-coil Jazz Bass pickup in the bridge position, a 21-fret tinted maple neck with compound rosewood or maple fingerboard with white or black pearloid dot markers, an active/passive toggle switch, a high-mass vintage bridge, Hipshot lightwei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1126492 | 921,809 |
70,811 | About 2,000 tonnes of selenium were produced in 2011 worldwide, mostly in Germany (650 t), Japan (630 t), Belgium (200 t), and Russia (140 t), and the total reserves were estimated at 93,000 tonnes. These data exclude two major producers: the United States and China. A previous sharp increase was observed in 2004 from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27117 | 70,784 |
2,197,133 | Matched Index of Refraction (or MIR) is a facility located at the Idaho National Laboratory built in the 1990s. The purpose of the fluid dynamics experiments in the MIR flow system at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is to develop benchmark databases for the assessment of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solutions of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27490223 | 2,195,882 |
1,993,615 | After graduating from Stuyvesant High School in New York City, Paul Chaikin earned his B.S. in physics from California Institute of Technology in 1966, and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971 working with Kondo superconductors. He joined the physics faculty at the University of California, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9065521 | 1,992,472 |
1,158,544 | Another critical piece of evidence supporting the dual process account comes from reaction time data associated with moral dilemma experiments. Subjects who choose the "utilitarian" path in moral dilemmas showed increased reaction times under high cognitive load in "personal" dilemmas, while those choosing the "deontol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42621632 | 1,157,930 |
227,633 | In between the battles with Denis, Marseille downed a Bristol Blenheim on 28 April. Blenheim "T2429", from No. 45 Squadron RAF, piloted by Pilot Officer B. C. de G. Allan, crashed killing all five men aboard. Jan Yindrich, a Polish Army soldier, witnessed the attack: "when a Blenheim came roaring down over our heads at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1441176 | 227,516 |
1,177,068 | A 2012 paper uses California from 2012 to 2027 as a case study for SWITCH. The study finds that there is no ceiling on the amount of wind and solar power that could be used and that these resources could potentially reduce emissions by 90% or more (relative to 1990 levels) without reducing reliability or severely raisi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38803848 | 1,176,445 |
362,745 | Some types of detectors used in SEM have analytical capabilities, and can provide several items of data at each pixel. Examples are the energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) detectors used in elemental analysis and cathodoluminescence microscope (CL) systems that analyse the intensity and spectrum of electron-indu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9730 | 362,555 |
1,215,986 | Tsuneko and Reiji Okazaki's early research consisted of studying DNA synthesis and specific nucleotide characteristics in frog eggs and sea urchins. This work led to the discovery of thymidine-diphosphate rhamnose, a sugar linked nucleotide, which then opened up the doors for them to work in the U.S. They worked at Was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4837552 | 1,215,334 |
277,466 | The nervous tissue found in the brain, spinal cord, and periphery comprises an extraordinarily complex biological system that largely defines many of the unique traits of individuals. As with any highly complex system, however, even small perturbations to its environment can lead to significant functional disruptions. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=326357 | 277,316 |
1,912,844 | While this deficiency primarily results in mutations in the E1 alpha subunit of the PDH complex, a few mutations have been identified in the PDX1 gene. Specific investigations of this gene have identified 78del85 and 965del59 mutations in a homozygous state, while some mutations could not be identified due to no PDHX m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10228374 | 1,911,745 |
606,369 | In 1936, the U.S. Navy assigned the U.S. Bureau of Standards (NBS) to develop an official radiosonde for the Navy to use. The NBS gave the project to Harry Diamond, who had previously worked on radio navigation and invented a blind landing system for airplanes. The organization led by Diamond eventually (in 1992) becam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=172851 | 606,059 |
146,509 | In 2004, he and Shadi Bartsch taught an undergraduate course at the University of Chicago on the history of atheism. In 2012, he organized the workshop "Moving Naturalism Forward", which brought together scientists and philosophers to discuss issues associated with a naturalistic worldview. His article "Does the Univer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6871680 | 146,451 |
1,231,924 | On Han tomb brick reliefs of Sichuan province, scenes of borehole drilling for mining projects are shown. They show towering derricks lifting liquid brine through bamboo pipes to the surface so that the brine could be distilled in evaporation pans over the heat of furnaces and produce salt. The furnaces were heated by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21620577 | 1,231,262 |
2,025,119 | Early in 2001, Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann of Butler, Pennsylvania and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania were chosen by Rensselaer as the architecture firms to handle the design of the structure Board chairman of Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann Associates, Richard Rittelmann who obtained an architecture deg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7693436 | 2,023,954 |
386,029 | While visual field and acuity test results combined with retinal imagery support the diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa, additional testing is necessary to confirm other pathological features of this disease. Electroretinography (ERG) confirms the RP diagnosis by evaluating functional aspects associated with photorecept... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=350926 | 385,834 |
1,449,807 | A final example of categorical use comes from an author’s introduction to his 2011 publication on the subject, "Cognitive Biology: Dealing with Information from Bacteria to Minds". After discussing the differences between the cognitive and biological sciences, as well as the value of one to the other, the author conclu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42985608 | 1,448,991 |
417,583 | From 2002 to 2007, CombiMatrix continued its commercial development of "CustomArray" as it was called and began selling its DNA synthesis instruments and arrays to various R&D facilities throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. In an effort to diversify the company from the "tools" R&D sector, the company created... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1666393 | 417,379 |
1,580,929 | After major modifications and upgrades, including installation of a two-stage turbocharger in place of its original single-stage unit, a larger fuel tank and additional intercooling capacity, the ALTUS II returned to flight status in the summer of 1998. The goal of its development test flights was to reach one of the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6443983 | 1,580,039 |
401,214 | In August 1940, 16 months before the United States entered the war, the U.S. Air Officer in London, Lieutenant General Delos C. Emmons, was briefed on British research in radar (RAdio Detection And Ranging), which had been underway since 1935 and had played an important role in the nation's defense against the "Luftwaf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=458868 | 401,015 |
1,771,613 | Kin selection (commonly referred to as altruism) is an example of an adaptive behavior that directly influences the genetic composition of a population. It involves evolutionary strategies that favor the persistence of an organism's relatives, often at the cost of the organism's own survival and reproduction. This will... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22052921 | 1,770,616 |
95,736 | Fermi arrived in New York City on 2 January 1939. He was immediately offered positions at five universities, and accepted one at Columbia University, where he had already given summer lectures in 1936. He received the news that in December 1938, the German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann had detected the elemen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10264 | 95,695 |
2,073,493 | RDBPs may be seen (in a wider sense) as so-called controlled branching processes. They were introduced by F. Thomas Bruss (1983)) with the objective to model different society structures and to compare the advantages and disadvantages of different forms of human societies. In these processes individuals have a means of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41659126 | 2,072,301 |
1,558,694 | In January 2006, the pilot version of Digital Universe was launched. This contained approximately 50 portals. Some visitors felt this version was confusing and difficult to navigate. Aaron Barlow, an associate professor at New York City College of Technology, wrote that "the problem with this, from a horizontal point o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3470519 | 1,557,809 |
971,865 | Returning to the University of California, Berkeley as a full professor, Alvarez had many ideas about how to use his wartime radar knowledge to improve particle accelerators. Though some of these were to bear fruit, the "big idea" of this time would come from Edwin McMillan with his concept of phase stability which led... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=320445 | 971,355 |
238,380 | The demand for mineral resources, such as rare-earth elements (including neodymium) and other critical materials, has been rapidly increasing owing to the growing human population and industrial development. Recently, the requirement for a low-carbon society has led to a significant demand for energy-saving technologie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21276 | 238,260 |
472,675 | Furthermore, although the somatic marker hypothesis has accurately identified many of the brain regions involved in decision-making, emotion, and body-state representation, it has failed to clearly demonstrate how these processes interact at a psychological and evolutionary level. There are many experiments that could ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2255858 | 472,439 |
404,693 | Failure to relieve the pressure can result in the death of tissues (necrosis) in the affected anatomical compartment, since the ability of blood to enter the smallest vessels in the compartment (capillary perfusion pressure) will fall. This, in turn, leads to progressively increasing oxygen deprivation of the tissues d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234185 | 404,493 |
1,367,177 | While Owen essentially missed any signs of the presence of skull fragments, later researchers noticed the fragments but detailed study was made difficult by their being partially hidden within the stone. This resulted in reconstructions of the braincase as being narrower than was probably the case in life until recent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34483273 | 1,366,421 |
1,592,198 | It is a coniferous evergreen tree growing at a fast rate to 25–30 m tall. The crown is narrowly conical with horizontal branches and pubescent shoots. The shoots are pubescent, with short brown hairs. The leaves are needle-like and flattened, 1–3 cm long and 2 mm broad. They are glossy dark green above with two conspic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3381010 | 1,591,302 |
374,642 | Chagas exists in two different ecological zones: In the Southern Cone region, the main vector lives in and around human homes. In Central America and Mexico, the main vector species lives both inside dwellings and in uninhabited areas. In both zones, Chagas occurs almost exclusively in rural areas, where also circulate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7012 | 374,447 |
1,532,081 | The 53.8 Acres of land was acquired for GMMMC Complex at the Sukkur Bypass, connecting main national highway N-5 National Highway (Karachi - Lahore - Islamabad - Peshawar) with N-65 National Highway (Sukkur - Quetta) bypassing the congested urban roads in the city of Sukkur. The new Complex will house (In sha Allah) Bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43366628 | 1,531,214 |
1,855,145 | The article Transverse Mercator projection restricts itself to general features of the projection. This article describes in detail one of the (two) implementations developed by Louis Krüger in 1912; that expressed as a power series in the longitude difference from the central meridian. These series were recalculated b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29030725 | 1,854,079 |
346,578 | Pain management is classified into either pre-emptive or on-demand. On-demand pain medications typically include either opioid or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs but can also make use of novel approaches such as inhaled nitrous oxide or ketamine. On demand drugs can be administered by a clinician ("as needed drug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56561 | 346,397 |
1,815,447 | It is still technically possible to reproduce these vintage colour effects by means of the original methods today. This is, of course, the most accurate method in terms of reproduction, though even then it cannot be said to be entirely accurate, as modern black-and-white print film, whilst very similar to the film used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20413071 | 1,814,413 |
1,703,235 | Elected member of the American Law Institute since 2007; Board of Trustees of the Law School Admission Council from 2006-2009, 2012, and 2016 to the present; Author and Executive Editor of Felix Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law since 2005; Member of the Criminal Law and Procedure Drafting Committee for the Nation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19068686 | 1,702,279 |
103,643 | When Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of German physicists Max von Laue (1914) and James Franck (1925) in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from confiscating them. The German government had prohibited Germans from accepting or keeping any Nobel Pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62929 | 103,598 |
2,092,106 | Kanstantsin Lukashyk, a 16-year-old Belarusian, unexpectedly had the pre-final lead. The final became severely interrupted by a pistol malfunction, originally assumed to be a technical fault in the electronic target system, for Tanyu Kiryakov who was second but had to leave the competition short of finishing his ten sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19393965 | 2,090,901 |
285,285 | Classroom Action Research is a method of finding out what works best in your own classroom so that you can improve student learning. We know a great deal about good teaching in general (e.g. McKeachie, 1999; Chickering and Gamson, 1987; Weimer, 1996), but every teaching situation is unique in terms of content, level, s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=92028 | 285,131 |
1,247,094 | Brain activation studies using PET to study language have found that people with dyslexia have a deficit in parts of the left hemisphere of the brain involved in reading, which includes the inferior frontal gyrus, inferior parietal lobule, and middle and ventral temporal cortex. A neural basis for the visual lexicon an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23033439 | 1,246,419 |
1,394,524 | AM IBOC in the United States still faces some serious technological challenges, including nighttime interference with other stations. iBiquity initially used an audio compression system known as PAC (also used at a higher bitrate in Sirius satellite radio, see Digital Audio Radio Service), but in August 2003 a switch t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=272097 | 1,393,753 |
472,937 | He moved to the United States in 1991 on the suggestion of his aunt, who was working on her Ph.D. at the University of Iowa. He accepted an English scholarship and a position as an assistant coach for the University of Iowa's men's gymnastics program. Afterwards he accepted a coaching job for the women's program. Follo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18896158 | 472,701 |
1,001,919 | Active inference is related to optimal control by replacing value or cost-to-go functions with prior beliefs about state transitions or flow. This exploits the close connection between Bayesian filtering and the solution to the Bellman equation. However, active inference starts with (priors over) flow formula_38 that a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39403556 | 1,001,401 |
116,255 | On 27 October 2008, it was reported that K-152 "Nerpa" of the Russian Pacific Fleet had begun her sea trials in the Sea of Japan before handover under a lease agreement to the Indian Navy. On 8 November 2008, while conducting one of these trials, an accidental activation of the halon-based fire-extinguishing system too... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=612389 | 116,210 |
1,737,790 | The 2021–22 season was a setback for Atalanta compared to the previous few years under Gasperini. In the Champions League, the club was drawn into Group F with English club Manchester United, Spanish club Villarreal, and Swiss champion Young Boys. With one win, two losses, and three draws, Atalanta finished third in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66131596 | 1,736,813 |
927,151 | Starting in 1887, Congress also funded agricultural experiment stations and various categories of agricultural and veterinary research "under direction of" the land-grant universities. Congress later recognized the need to disseminate the knowledge gained at the land-grant colleges to farmers and homemakers. The Smith–... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55593 | 926,664 |
902,058 | The supercritical airfoil was first suggested by aerodynamicists in Germany during the Second World War. During 1940, K. A. Kawalki at Deutsche Versuchsanstalt für Luftfahrt Berlin-Adlershof designed a number of airfoils characterised by elliptical leading edges, maximal thickness located downstream up to 50% chord and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2100390 | 901,582 |
54,109 | In some reactions, matter particles can be destroyed and their associated energy released to the environment as other forms of energy, such as light and heat. One example of such a conversion takes place in elementary particle interactions, where the rest energy is transformed into kinetic energy. Such conversions betw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=422481 | 54,089 |
1,402,272 | He was awarded the Navy Cross in 1919; the Daniel Guggenheim Medal (1933, - ‘For contributions to the science of aerodynamics, to the science and art of aircraft design, and to the practical construction and utilization of rigid airships’); the Franklin Medal (1942); Presidential Medal for Merit (1946); Hon Commander o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3956769 | 1,401,485 |
1,370,401 | The medial temporal lobes and their surrounding structures are of immense importance to memory in general. The hippocampus is of particular interest. It has been well documented that damage here can result in severe retrograde or anterograde amnesia, the patient is unable to recollect certain events from their past or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21312318 | 1,369,645 |
107,272 | "M. tuberculosis" is a clonal organism and does not exchange DNA via horizontal gene transfer. Despite an additionally slow evolution rate, the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance in "M. tuberculosis" poses an increasing threat to global public health. In 2019, the WHO reported the estimated incidence of anti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=392019 | 107,227 |
689,241 | During and after the Renaissance of the 12th century, Europe experienced an intellectual revitalization, especially with regard to the investigation of the natural world. In the 14th century, however, a series of events that would come to be known as the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages was underway. When the Black Death... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4175709 | 688,879 |
1,566,484 | The College delivers over 1,000 courses from introductory level to degree and post graduate studies. It offers courses for people over the age of sixteen, involving school-level qualifications such as Higher Grade exams, work-based learning, vocational training as well as Further and Higher Education programmes leading... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47582427 | 1,565,597 |
1,967,439 | Other investigators have focused on building structures that address specific kinds of molecules such as alkanes (Morozov); benzenoids (Dias); functional groups containing fluorine, oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur (Haas); or a combination of core charge, number of shells, redox potentials, and acid-base tendencies (Gorski)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28353469 | 1,966,309 |
1,772,282 | Walter Kohn and Norman Rostoker derived this same theory using the Kohn variational method. It is called the Korringa–Kohn–Rostoker method (KKR method) for band theory calculations. Ewald derived a mathematically sophisticated summation process that makes it possible to calculate the structure constants, formula_67. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50768319 | 1,771,285 |
19,253 | The octopus is bilaterally symmetrical along its dorso-ventral (back to belly) axis; the head and foot are at one end of an elongated body and function as the anterior (front) of the animal. The head includes the mouth and brain. The foot has evolved into a set of flexible, prehensile appendages, known as "arms", that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22780 | 19,245 |
125,507 | When Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, Fuchs decided to leave Kiel, where the NSDAP was particularly strong and he was a well-known KPD member. He enrolled at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics in Berlin. On 28 February, he took an early train to Berlin for a KPD meeting there. On the train, he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17317 | 125,455 |
1,203,752 | Repeaters may be linked together in order to form what is known as a "linked repeater system" or "linked repeater network". In such a system, when one repeater is keyed-up by receiving a signal, all the other repeaters in the network are also activated and will transmit the same signal. The connections between the repe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4149018 | 1,203,108 |
809,641 | The Utterance Generator Model was proposed by Fromkin (1971). It is composed of six stages and was an attempt to account for the previous findings of speech error research. The stages of the Utterance Generator Model were based on possible changes in representations of a particular utterance. The first stage is where a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12563101 | 809,210 |
51,835 | On 10 January 2009, it was reported that two Indian Air Force Su-30MKI fighter jets were sent to Russia for a retrofit program that would enable them to launch the missile. On 8 August 2009, Alexander Leonov, Director of the Russian Machine Building Research and Production Centre, said "we are ready for test launches."... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1814876 | 51,815 |
223,427 | A SPAN leverages existing hardware (primarily Wi-Fi and Bluetooth) and software (protocols) in commercially available smartphones to create peer-to-peer networks without relying on cellular carrier networks, wireless access points, or traditional network infrastructure. SPANs differ from traditional hub and spoke netwo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6624928 | 223,313 |
783,069 | The school has its roots in the Lincoln and Lee University movement first put forth by the Methodist Church and its Bishop Ernest Lynn Waldorf in the 1920s. The proposed university (which was to honor Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee) was to be built on the Missouri–Kansas border at 75th and State Line Road, where the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=170430 | 782,650 |
771,761 | A number of near-integer-ratio relationships between the orbital frequencies of the planets or major moons are sometimes pointed out (see list below). However, these have no dynamical significance because there is no appropriate precession of perihelion or other libration to make the resonance perfect (see the detailed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22444 | 771,347 |
730,590 | Bioactive materials have the ability to form bonds and interfaces with natural tissues. In the case of bone implants, two properties known as osteoconduction and osteoinduction play an important role in the success and longevity of the implant. Osteoconduction refers to a material's ability to permit bone growth on the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=251061 | 730,205 |
896,188 | But on the contrary, almost all the Martian basins with diameter of 275 km < "D" < 1000 km are associated with low amplitude surface and low amplitude Moho relief. Many are even found to have negative free air gravity anomaly, though evidence has shown that all of them should have experienced gravity high (positive fre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55521195 | 895,717 |
193,236 | Watt's Expansion Engine is generally considered as of historic interest only. There are however some recent developments which may lead to a renaissance of the technology. Today, there is an enormous amount of waste steam and waste heat with temperatures between 100 and 150 °C generated by industry. In addition, solart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=165067 | 193,136 |
1,256,914 | Dr. Lodish received his A.B. degree Summa Cum Laude and with Highest Honors in Chemistry and Mathematics, from Kenyon College in 1962, and his Ph.D. degree in genetics with Dr. Norton Zinder from the Rockefeller University in 1966. Following two years of postdoctoral research at the M.R.C. Laboratory of Molecular Biolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24644962 | 1,256,230 |
1,703,714 | Tomato grafting is a horticulture technique that has been utilized in Asia and Europe for greenhouse and high tunnel production and is gaining popularity in the United States. Typically, stock or rootstock are selected for their ability to resist infection by certain soilborne pathogens or their ability to increase vig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24398887 | 1,702,758 |
643,127 | The seven transmembrane α-helical domains in opsins are connected by three extra-cellular and three cytoplasmic loops. Along the α-helices and the loops, many amino acid residues are highly conserved between all opsin groups, indicating that they serve important functions and thus are called "functionally conserved res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1452717 | 642,788 |
5,468 | The Badari was followed by the Naqada culture: the Amratian (Naqada I), the Gerzeh (Naqada II), and Semainean (Naqada III). These brought a number of technological improvements. As early as the Naqada I Period, predynastic Egyptians imported obsidian from Ethiopia, used to shape blades and other objects from flakes. In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=874 | 5,465 |
1,517,052 | Ismael earned her M.A. and PhD from Princeton University in 1994 and 1997, where her dissertation advisor was Bas van Fraassen. In 1996, she was awarded a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship. In 2003, she was awarded an NEH Research fellowship at the National Humanities Center. Ismael worked at Stanford University ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40291525 | 1,516,200 |
969,084 | The fore legs were shorter and less heavily built than the hind legs. The upper arm had a large deltopectoral crest for muscle attachment, while the ulna and radius were slim. The upper arm and forearm were similar in length. The wrist was simple, with only two small bones. Each hand had four fingers, with no thumb (fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1585380 | 968,574 |
190,027 | The Mirage 2000N is based on the Mirage 2000B two-seat trainer, but features considerable changes. The airframe was strengthened for low-level flight and fitted with an Antilope 5 radar, which is used for terrain following, navigation and ground mapping, and which can follow terrain at . Other avionic features are twin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=774328 | 189,930 |
1,373,451 | The function of enzyme generated isopeptide bonds can be roughly divided into two separate categories; signaling and structure. In the case of the former these can be a wide range of functions, influencing protein function, chromatin condensation, or protein half-life. With regard to the latter category, isopeptides ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7590298 | 1,372,694 |
1,844,827 | The work by which Gegenbaur is best known is his "Grundriss der vergleichenden Anatomie" (Leipzig, 1874; 2nd edition, 1878), translated into English by Francis Jeffrey Bell (as "Elements of Comparative Anatomy", 1878), with additions by E. Ray Lankester. While recognizing the importance of comparative embryology in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=940542 | 1,843,773 |
178,487 | The academy is in the Doon Valley (Dronacharya Ashram), Uttarakhand. National Highway 72, the Dehradun–Chakrata Road, separates the North and South Campus. The campus of the academy covers an area of . The Chetwode Hall on the drill square, built in 1930, houses the administrative headquarters of IMA and is also the hu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2874417 | 178,394 |
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