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214,596 | The instruments are in most cases huge structures. The scale to which they have been built has been alleged to increase their accuracy. However, the penumbra of the sun can be as wide as 30 mm, making the 1mm increments of the Samrat Yantra sundial devoid of any practical significance. Additionally, the masons construc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2605334 | 214,488 |
500,626 | When the university was founded in 1842, the only building on site was the Log Chapel, which had been built in 1831. Under the guidance of the founder and first president Edward Sorin, Old College and the first church and main building were built. The second main building, which constituted almost the entirety of the u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49273941 | 500,369 |
480,832 | The species is often plagued by "Mycoplasma haemocanis". The already endangered fox is prone to this infection because the infection's bacteria attach themselves to surface red blood cells of many mammals, and although the species is believed to be no major threat to human life it can spread to humans, dogs, cats, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2008537 | 480,588 |
2,055,395 | The original GDF specification was introduced in 2005 as a new data format to overcome some of the limitations of the European Data Format for Biosignals (EDF). GDF was also designed to unify a number of file formats which had been designed for very specific applications (for example, in ECG research and EEG analysis).... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1194622 | 2,054,212 |
1,578,206 | The NGA uses GIS products to create digital nautical, aeronautical, and topographic charts and maps, to perform geotechnical and coordinate system analysis, and to help solve a large variety of national security and military problems. Since the NGA is a U.S. Department of Defense combat support agency and a member of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30831822 | 1,577,316 |
1,754,175 | Nonetheless, polymorphism alters carbonate compounds' stability at different depths within the Earth. To illustrate, laboratory simulations and density functional theory calculations suggest that tetrahedrally-coordinated carbonates are most stable at depths approaching the core–mantle boundary. A 2015 study indicates ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59596489 | 1,753,185 |
1,440,896 | Tatarinov noted in 1999 that "Viatkogorgon" could have pressed food against the concave, smooth palatine areas between the palatal teeth with its tongue. Palatal teeth are thought to have helped early synapsids and other basal amniotes (ancestrally land-dwelling vertebrates) grip food; these were lost in mammals which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16984249 | 1,440,086 |
567,578 | Earlier forms of childrearing coexist with later modes, even in the most advanced countries. An example of this are reports of selective abortion (and sometimes exposure of baby girls) especially in China, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, New Guinea, and many other developing countries in Asia and N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25102 | 567,288 |
1,524,508 | The collision-extrusion model argues that the opening of the South China Sea Basin is related to the collision of the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate. The Borneo and Indochina plate are still considered as a single block and attached to each other. When India collided with Eurasia, part of the continent was pushed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44041683 | 1,523,647 |
614,108 | Most protein separations are performed using a "discontinuous" (or DISC) buffer system that significantly enhances the sharpness of the bands within the gel. During electrophoresis in a discontinuous gel system, an ion gradient is formed in the early stage of electrophoresis that causes all of the proteins to focus int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=589968 | 613,796 |
86,539 | In his Harvard "Lectures on Pragmatism" (1903), Peirce enumerated what he called the "three cotary propositions of pragmatism" (L: "cos, cotis" whetstone), saying that they "put the edge on the maxim of pragmatism". First among these, he listed the peripatetic-thomist observation mentioned above, but he further observe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10174 | 86,505 |
1,290,859 | With this data, the company created personality profiles for the users and mapped their trends in likes and friends to direct certain ads toward the user. Considering that 62% of adults receive their news on social networks like Facebook, Cambridge Analytica influenced the result of the election which leaves many wonde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10241777 | 1,290,149 |
54,147 | It was quickly noted after the discovery of radioactivity in 1897, that the total energy due to radioactive processes is about one "million times" greater than that involved in any known molecular change, raising the question of where the energy comes from. After eliminating the idea of absorption and emission of some ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=422481 | 54,127 |
489,354 | The men's doubles competition also began, having originally been scheduled to start on Day 1. Chris Guccione and Lleyton Hewitt (Australia) defeated Agustín Calleri and Juan Mónaco (Argentina) 4–6, 7–6(4), 18–16. The match, which lasted three hours and 17 minutes, was the longest (in games, in a three set match) in Oly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9185980 | 489,101 |
1,348,523 | In 2007, Drǎgulescu participated in the European Championships which turned to be an unfortunate event for him. On floor exercise, he did not manage to complete his routine. After a hard landing to the back of his head on a layout Thomas salto, he twice attempted to run into his final tumbling pass. Instead of tumbling... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=897981 | 1,347,781 |
134,481 | In 1982, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved potassium iodide to protect thyroid glands from radioactive iodine involving accidents or fission emergencies. In an accidental event or attack on a nuclear power plant, or in nuclear bomb fallout, volatile fission product radionuclides may be released. Of these p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1014366 | 134,426 |
20,025 | In 1958, Leakey sent Goodall to London to study primate behaviour with Osman Hill and primate anatomy with John Napier. Leakey raised funds, and on 14 July 1960, Goodall went to Gombe Stream National Park, becoming the first of what would come to be called The Trimates. She was accompanied by her mother, whose presence... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45397 | 20,017 |
1,674,849 | Each of the four preparation steps of ExM must fully complete, or the cell will not yield a bright and clear stain. Failure to complete these steps can result in the breaking of the cell or uneven expansion, distorting the image beyond use. ExM struggles in those procedures that use fluorophore markers, as the polymeri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48309708 | 1,673,907 |
1,876,040 | With W7-X operations starting in 2014, the space occupied by WEGA and its power systems was taking up much needed real-estate for the Thompson Scattering system and a cryogenic pellet injection system. During the 2013 SOFE conference, Daniel Andruczyk, a former Post-Doc on WEGA, met with some former colleagues and it w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45566670 | 1,874,963 |
2,153,276 | Wild strains of "D. purpureum" were taken from the Houston Arboretum to a lab where they were cultured in dishes. In each of 14 experiments, a pair of strains were placed in a dish in equal proportion, and one of the strains in each pair was labeled with a fluorescent dye. Food was withheld, causing the microbes in eac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22701661 | 2,152,045 |
6,924 | The Block II package aircraft offered to the RAAF include installed engines and six spares, APG-79 AESA radars, Link 16 connectivity, LAU-127 guided missile launchers, AN/ALE-55 fiber optic towed decoys and other equipment. The government has also sought U.S. export approval for Boeing EA-18G Growlers. On 27 February 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=845012 | 6,921 |
619,531 | All three remaining Western Neo-Aramaic dialects are facing critical endangerment as living languages. As with any village community in the 21st century, young residents are migrating into major cities like Damascus and Aleppo in search of better employment opportunities, thus forcing them into monolingual Arabic-speak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1497885 | 619,217 |
1,002,897 | In the 1980s, it was discovered that many of the second-generation trees in cultivation suffered from inbreeding depression (extremely low genetic variability), which could lead to increased susceptibility to disease and reproductive failure. Many sources claim that the original 1947 seedlots came from as few as one tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=334782 | 1,002,379 |
1,133,356 | "WFM broadcast band rx path (76-108 MHz)" is identical to the 2 m path on the PA unit. On the MAIN unit it passes through the same portion as the 2 m signal, then through a HSC277 diode. This signal then goes into pin 10 of a Sony CXA1611 FM Receiver IC. The IC has a front end, mixer, IF and demodulation and provides r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28194434 | 1,132,763 |
1,075,910 | By 1927, Weston Price's researches had been criticized for allegedly "faulty bacterial technique". In the 1930s and 1940s, researchers and editors dismissed the studies of Price and of Edward Rosenow as flawed by insufficient controls, by massive doses of bacteria, and by contamination of endontically treated teeth dur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9510615 | 1,075,355 |
1,507,786 | The Petworth House globe, now in the North Gallery, is the only Molyneux terrestrial globe preserved in its original 1592 state. One of Molyneux's "great globes", measuring in diameter, it was reported in 1952 to be in poor condition despite restoration by the British Museum the previous year. The Northern Hemisphere w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15442947 | 1,506,940 |
2,096,472 | Given the social hierarchy present in France at the time, Graindorge initially had a difficult time organizing the group under his leadership. He began to use the knowledge he gained in Paris to direct the work of the group, focusing on natural phenomena and animals, such as the causes of dew, snakes and the effects of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31093370 | 2,095,264 |
437,677 | The deep fascia can also relax. By monitoring changes in muscular tension, joint position, rate of movement, pressure, and vibration, mechanoreceptors in the deep fascia are capable of initiating relaxation. Deep fascia can relax rapidly in response to sudden muscular overload or rapid movements. Golgi tendon organs op... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3158104 | 437,463 |
518,265 | Protestantism had an important influence on science. According to the Merton thesis there was a positive correlation between the rise of Puritanism and Protestant Pietism on the one hand and early experimental science on the other. The Merton thesis has two separate parts: Firstly, it presents a theory that science cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42657576 | 517,996 |
395,797 | William H. Schlesinger, dean of the Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University, said "[Gore] got all the important material and got it right." Robert Corell, chairman of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, was also impressed. "I sat there and I'm amazed at how thorough and accurate. After th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4097799 | 395,602 |
1,072,470 | At that time electric companies in Italy were private and the power plants were built by different private companies. However the electricity sector was nationalized in 1962 with the creation of a new corporation responsible for production and distribution of electricity in the country: Enel. This factor is thought to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11295284 | 1,071,916 |
363,936 | Bose was the first to use a semiconductor junction to detect radio waves, and he invented various now-commonplace microwave components. In 1954, Pearson and Brattain gave priority to Bose for the use of a semi-conducting crystal as a detector of radio waves. In fact, further work at millimetre wavelengths was almost no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288059 | 363,746 |
1,454,287 | The Jacobi Hyperbaric Medicine Service provides care for both inpatient and ambulatory patients in a large facility featuring a spacious, 23-foot long chamber. This room-like chamber is one which patients and medical support staff can actually walk into. It can comfortably accommodate up to nine patients at a time. Ope... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4654529 | 1,453,467 |
134,010 | Risk differences between outcomes in men and women can be attributed to a combination of multiple factors, including anatomical, hormonal, genetic, positional, neuromuscular, and environmental factors. The size of the anterior cruciate ligament is often the most reported difference. Studies look at the length, cross-se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=578923 | 133,955 |
1,463,422 | With this considered, such positive impacts are very area specific and one of the main negative environmental impacts scallop culture can create in some other areas is the eutrophication of waters. This has been well observed in Russia where culture of scallops in partially closed bays has resulted in eutrophication an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28707242 | 1,462,599 |
832,679 | AI systems can be challenging to align and misaligned systems can malfunction or cause harm. It can be difficult for AI designers to specify the full range of desired and undesired behaviors. Therefore, they use easy-to-specify proxy goals that omit some desired constraints. However, AI systems exploit the resulting lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50785023 | 832,230 |
1,768,679 | The Way Things Work was a short-lived children`s television series based on the best-selling book of the same name by David Macaulay. The series was co-produced by Millimages, Pearson Broadband, and Schlessinger Media; it was distributed by the latter. The program ran daily on BBC2 and CBBC from 2001 to early 2002, bef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31523869 | 1,767,685 |
164,504 | Switchgear is as old as electricity generation. The first models were very primitive: all components were simply fixed to a wall. Later they were mounted on wooden panels. For reasons of fire protection, the wood was replaced by slate or marble. This led to a further improvement, because the switching and measuring dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1561900 | 164,419 |
989,699 | This problem has already manifested in Oracle's Access Manager version 10.1.4.3 for Windows. The Identity Console component sets a cookie containing UI preferences with an expiry of 500,000,000 seconds in the future (just over 15 years, 308 days, 53 minutes and 20 seconds). This is beyond 19 January 2038 and so it thro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15340084 | 989,182 |
1,301,109 | Clopidogrel is a prodrug that is metabolized by two pathways. In one of the pathway most of the dose of clopidogrel (85%) is hydrolyzed by esterases to an inactive carboxylic acid derivate and rapidly cleared via glucoridination followed by renal excretion. The other pathway of clopidogrel requires a two step hepatic C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25032880 | 1,300,395 |
1,354,325 | Previously, a new World Champion had won the title by defeating the former champion in a match. Alekhine's death created an "interregnum" (gap between reigns) that made the normal procedure impossible. The situation was very confusing, with many respected players and commentators offering different solutions. FIDE foun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8831489 | 1,353,577 |
774,036 | The shift towards settled communities based on farming was a significant cultural change, which in turn may have accelerated human evolution. Agriculture brought about an abundance of cereals, enabling women to wean their babies earlier and have more children over shorter periods of time. Despite the vulnerability of d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54472601 | 773,620 |
627,869 | He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering on February 14, 1997, for conceiving and developing widely used mathematical software. He received an honorary degree from Linköping University, Sweden. He received an honorary degree of Doctor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo on June 16, 2001... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=562706 | 627,534 |
1,164,756 | Since initial identification as a prokaryotic adaptive immune system, the bacterial type II clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 system has become a simple and efficient tool for generating targeted LOF mutations. It has been successfully applied to edit human genomes, and has started ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63202233 | 1,164,139 |
1,215,117 | In September 2013, Heythrop College announced that it would stop recruiting undergraduates for University of London degrees, noting its then discussions about a "strategic partnership" with St Mary's University, Twickenham. The initiative was attributed to financial difficulties the College faced as an autonomous colle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=533358 | 1,214,465 |
397,591 | In June 2013, Bell Helicopter announced that the V-280 Valor design had been selected by the US Army for the Joint Multi-Role (JMR) Technology Demonstrator (TD) phase. The JMR-TD phase is the technology demonstration precursor to Future Vertical Lift (FVL). The Army classified the offering as a Category I proposal, mea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39167147 | 397,395 |
1,355,441 | Long term treatment of acute porphyrias is centered on the avoidance of acute attacks by eliminating precipitating factors, such as drugs, dietary changes, and infections. Females often have attacks coincident with their menstrual cycle, which can be managed effectively with hormonal birth control. Because of the reduc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=518656 | 1,354,693 |
933,154 | Phytic acid, an anti-nutritional factor, occurs primarily in the seed coats and germ tissue of plant seeds. It forms insoluble or nearly insoluble compounds with many metal ions, including those of calcium, iron, magnesium, and zinc, reducing their dietary availability. Diets high in phytic acid and poor in these miner... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=287843 | 932,662 |
1,293,709 | Steller’s eider is the smallest of four eider species, with both females and males weighing 800 grams on average (1.8 pounds). They have a compact body with a relatively large head, long tail, and a long, thick bill. The males assume their breeding plumage from early winter to midsummer with a black cap, chin, throat, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=356354 | 1,292,998 |
2,099,723 | Jay A. Switzer is an American chemist, currently the Curators’ Distinguished Professor and Donald L. Castleman/FCR Missouri Endowed professor of Discovery in Chemistry at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Switzer received his BS degree in chemistry from the University of Cincinnati, and his PhD degree ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53794702 | 2,098,515 |
1,187,218 | The Niobrara Formation , also called the Niobrara Chalk, is a geologic formation in North America that was deposited between 87 and 82 million years ago during the Coniacian, Santonian, and Campanian stages of the Late Cretaceous. It is composed of two structural units, the Smoky Hill Chalk Member overlying the Fort Ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19107206 | 1,186,587 |
620,404 | Related to parameters, but slightly different, are constraints. Constraints are relationships between entities that make up a particular shape. For a window, the sides might be defined as being parallel, and of the same length. Parametric modeling is obvious and intuitive. But for the first three decades of CAD this wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=457579 | 620,089 |
2,110,898 | Synthetic morphology extends this idea by adding output modules that alter the shape or social behaviour of cells in response to the state of the artificial gene network. For example, instead of just making a fluorescent protein, a gene network may switch on an adhesion molecule so that cells stick to each other, or ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24455791 | 2,109,683 |
65,260 | Many of the American pilots were experienced World War II veterans, while the North Koreans and the Chinese lacked combat experience, thus accounting for much of the F-86's success. However, United Nations pilots suspected many of the MiG-15s were being flown by experienced Soviet pilots who also had combat experience ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=359331 | 65,235 |
1,589,875 | The DEP has initiated the Recovery Program, which uses ARAA federal stimulus money to fund environmental programs across the state. Diesel emissions reduction is receiving 1.7 million dollars to add electricity to rest stops so trucks do not have to idle and retrofitting school buses to make them more environmentally f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33618768 | 1,588,981 |
170,563 | The first images from space were taken on sub-orbital flights. The U.S-launched V-2 flight on October 24, 1946, took one image every 1.5 seconds. With an apogee of 65 miles (105 km), these photos were from five times higher than the previous record, the 13.7 miles (22 km) by the Explorer II balloon mission in 1935. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1184557 | 170,473 |
1,787 | During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union invested heavily in propaganda designed to influence people around the world, especially using motion pictures. The Cold War endures as a popular topic reflected extensively in entertainment media, and continuing to the present with numerous post-1991 Cold War... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=325329 | 1,787 |
400,834 | The 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Empire occurred during Slayton's senior year of high school. He initially wished to join the U.S. Navy, but joined the U.S. Army Air Forces when it began accepting high school graduates to fly. After graduation, Slayton moved to San Antonio, Texas, and entered the Aviatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=331454 | 400,635 |
142,472 | Japan relies heavily on imports for 80% of all energy requirements, due to this shortage, mounting pressures to produce self-sustaining energy sources remain. In 2014, the Japanese government decided to establish the "Strategic Energy Plan" naming nuclear power as an important power source that can safely stabilize and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12034210 | 142,414 |
740,602 | Other public-health strategies to control tooth decay, such as education to change behavior and diet, have lacked impressive results. Although fluoride is the only well-documented agent which controls the rate at which cavities develop, it has been suggested that adding calcium to the water would reduce cavities furthe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=763637 | 740,210 |
1,124,338 | By the end of the 1960s, mainframe computers and minicomputers were present in many academic research institutions and large companies such as Bell Labs. While the commercial video game industry did not yet exist at that point in the early history of video games and would not until the early 1970s, programmers at these... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49386138 | 1,123,764 |
370,576 | Larry Sears and Sally Zlotnick Sears think[box] is a public-access design and innovation center at Case Western Reserve University that allows students and other users to access prototyping equipment and other invention resources. The makerspace is located in the Richey Mixon building, a seven-story, 50,000 sq. ft. fac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230547 | 370,382 |
407,677 | The "U-factor" or "U-value" is the overall heat transfer coefficient that describes how well a building element conducts heat or the rate of transfer of heat (in watts) through one square metre of a structure divided by the difference in temperature across the structure. The elements are commonly assemblies of many lay... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=253849 | 407,476 |
887,350 | See circuit diagram. Hertz's transmitters consisted of a dipole antenna made of a pair of collinear metal rods of various lengths with a spark gap "(S)" between their inner ends and metal balls or plates for capacitance "(C)" attached to the outer ends. The two sides of the antenna were connected to an induction coil (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1105907 | 886,885 |
648,831 | In 2016, he founded the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence at UC Berkeley, with co-principal investigators Pieter Abbeel, Anca Dragan, Tom Griffiths, Bart Selman, Joseph Halpern, Michael Wellman and Satinder Singh Baveja. Russell has published several hundred conference and journal articles as well as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=566689 | 648,490 |
1,549,375 | Not many days after my return home there reached me the part of the "Journal of the Linnean Society" which bears on its cover the date 20th August 1858, and contains the papers by Mr Darwin and Mr Wallace, which were communicated to that Society at its special meeting of the first of July preceding... I sat up late tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=370257 | 1,548,494 |
59,136 | Iodine is an essential element for life and, at atomic number "Z" = 53, is the heaviest element commonly needed by living organisms. (Lanthanum and the other lanthanides, as well as tungsten with "Z" = 74 and uranium with "Z" = 92, are used by a few microorganisms.) It is required for the synthesis of the growth-regula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14750 | 59,111 |
1,972,050 | Based on his trust in the Imperial commission and in furtherance of carrying out the duties it imposed upon him, Fraser and his eldest son John started out once more in 1799, bound for America and the West Indies. They visited with Thomas Jefferson at Monticello and made an extended journey through Kentucky, eastern Te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14920367 | 1,970,916 |
496,287 | At the beginning of the competition season, "FIRST" sends a set of official competition materials to each registered team, consisting of a 'challenge mat', LEGO electronic and mechanical components, and instructions for building the items for the mat (collectively known as the Challenge Set, formerly the Field Setup Ki... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=970161 | 496,031 |
1,275,623 | Specific phospholipids are regulators of PLD activity in plant and animal cells. Most PLDs require phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP), as a cofactors for activity. PIP and other phosphoinositides are important modifiers of cytoskeletal dynamics and membrane transport and can traffic PLD to its substrate PC. PL... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5507029 | 1,274,931 |
559,773 | Regenerative medicine: In recent years, tremendous interest in developmental biology has been stoked by the promise of regenerative medicine. "Xenopus" has played a role here, as well. For example, expression of seven transcription factors in pluripotent "Xenopus" cells rendered those cells able to develop into functio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57547 | 559,484 |
762,481 | Lawrence was alarmed by the Soviet Union's first nuclear test in August 1949. The proper response, he concluded, was an all-out effort to build a bigger nuclear weapon: the hydrogen bomb. He proposed to use accelerators instead of nuclear reactors to produce the neutrons needed to create the tritium the bomb required, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39040 | 762,073 |
2,099,320 | Started on September 28, 1952, the former People's Bank of China directly under the financial institutions in North China is the only considerable size and distinctive financial professional characteristics of the economic class institutions of higher learning. Known as the reputation of "Whampoa Military Academy" in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36692784 | 2,098,112 |
2,146,773 | The London Medical Research Club is a society founded in 1891 composed of scientists and medical doctors carrying out research in all fields of medicine and related disciplines. The purpose of the club is to offer an informal venue in which members can confidentially share their opinion and ideas on different scientifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49289350 | 2,145,542 |
1,769,438 | Inland navigation grew more quickly than the rail system and in 1986 carried 827.8 billion ton-kilometers of freight, nearly as much as the railroads. The principal inland waterway was the Yangtze River and its tributaries, which constituted the major artery linking the industrial and agricultural areas of central Chin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14189344 | 1,768,444 |
1,406,952 | The company claims that comprehensive occupational safety and health systems existed at the Kodaikanal factory prior to its closure in 2001. Internal monitoring within the factory and external audits carried out by statutory authorities during the operations of the factory showed that there were no adverse health effec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41848782 | 1,406,162 |
344,987 | While it is often stated that the COF is a "material property," it is better categorized as a "system property." Unlike true material properties (such as conductivity, dielectric constant, yield strength), the COF for any two materials depends on system variables like temperature, velocity, atmosphere and also what are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11062 | 344,806 |
55,879 | Additionally, in quantitative backtesting of market performance or other characteristics, survivorship bias is the use of a current index membership set rather than using the actual constituent changes over time. Consider a backtest to 1990 to find the average performance (total return) of S&P 500 members who have paid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1745325 | 55,855 |
1,939,621 | The definition employed by Lieb and Yngvason is rather different since the state changes considered can be the result of arbitrarily complicated, possibly violent, irreversible processes and there is no mention of 'heat' or differential forms. In the example of the water given above, if the stirring is done slowly, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28289950 | 1,938,511 |
1,301,291 | Among the most widely used controllers of the era was the Western Digital FD1771 series. The original FD1771 supported FM only, but it was quickly paired with the FD1781 and FD1791 which performed MFM based on an externally provided clock signal. Implementing MFM support with these drivers required an external data sep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=383902 | 1,300,577 |
1,004,125 | Few companies are willing or able to manufacture the massive, expensive gears required for BWEs. Unex, Czech Republic, still has the original casting forms, and is still able to manufacture BWEs. However, these machines were built to last indefinitely under continuous heavy use and strip mining is now less popular, so ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2725757 | 1,003,607 |
441,925 | Ecologists have proposed a wide range of factors determining the slope and elevation of the species-area relationship. These factors include the relative balance between immigration and extinction, rate and magnitude of disturbance on small vs. large areas, predator-prey dynamics, and clustering of individuals of the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2376755 | 441,710 |
311,966 | Seasonal thermal energy storage (STES) allows heat or cold to be used months after it was collected from waste energy or natural sources. The material can be stored in contained aquifers, clusters of boreholes in geological substrates such as sand or crystalline bedrock, in lined pits filled with gravel and water, or w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24130 | 311,798 |
183,572 | In 2005, construction began on the $113 million science and engineering building, which has 200,000 square feet of teaching space, laboratories, and high-tech conference rooms. The building, completed in 2008, was designed to support interdisciplinary research; draw students to high-demand fields such as electrical eng... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239216 | 183,475 |
596,243 | Tychus J. Findlay is a marine and past associate of Raynor's who becomes affiliated with the Raiders. He appears in the novel "Heaven's Devil" and in "Wings of Liberty" as one of the main characters. Findlay is known for his charisma and toughness, and by his friendship with James Raynor. Findlay is introduced in the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12123161 | 595,938 |
2,016,877 | The "Admiral Spiridov"-class monitors were significantly larger than their predecessors, the , and were long at the waterline. They had a beam of and a maximum draft of . The ships were designed to displace , but turned out to be overweight and actually displaced . Their crew consisted of 280 officers and crewmen. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47216206 | 2,015,715 |
893,845 | When methotrexate is prescribed, folic acid supplements are sometimes given with the methotrexate. The therapeutic effects of methotrexate are due to its inhibition of dihydrofolate reductase and thereby reduce the rate "de novo" purine and pyrimidine synthesis and cell division. Methotrexate inhibits cell division and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5573286 | 893,375 |
65,527 | After he was elevated as abbot in 1868, his scientific work largely ended, as Mendel became overburdened with administrative responsibilities, especially a dispute with the civil government over its attempt to impose special taxes on religious institutions. Mendel died on 6 January 1884, at the age of 61, in Brünn, Mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12562 | 65,502 |
136,821 | Approaches that reorganize the softmax layer for more efficient calculation include the hierarchical softmax and the differentiated softmax. The hierarchical softmax (introduced by Morin and Bengio in 2005) uses a binary tree structure where the outcomes (vocabulary words) are the leaves and the intermediate nodes are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6152185 | 136,766 |
1,998,476 | In addition to professors and students, more than 150 employees work exclusively on projects supported with third-party funding and generate several million Euros annually in nearly 50 unique fields. This group of projects guarantees the continuation and expansion of modern research efforts with a focus on effective, p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50062746 | 1,997,333 |
1,345,805 | By simulating the flow field, one can extract the pressure distribution or as in the case of the VLM, the force distribution, around the simulated body. This knowledge is then used to compute the aerodynamic coefficients and their derivatives that are important for assessing the aircraft's handling qualities in the con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16321447 | 1,345,064 |
1,038,613 | Signal boxes also served as important communications hubs, connecting the disparate parts of a rail line and linking them together to allow the safe passage of trains. The first signaling systems were made possible by technology like the telegraph and block instrument that allowed adjacent signal boxes to communicate t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275877 | 1,038,072 |
309,180 | Part Two of MIL-STD-810 contains the environmental laboratory test methods to be applied using the test tailoring guidelines described in Part One of the document. With the exception of Test Method 528, these methods are not mandatory, but rather the appropriate method is selected and tailored to generate the most rele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4253041 | 309,015 |
1,076,314 | The roots of SWT go back to work that Object Technology International (OTI), did in the 1990s when creating multiplatform, portable, native widget interfaces for Smalltalk, originally for OTI Smalltalk, which became IBM Smalltalk in 1993. IBM Smalltalk's Common Widget layer provided fast, native access to multiple plat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=468205 | 1,075,759 |
1,544,271 | The objective in solar heating is 163 000 m collector area (1995–2010). In 2006 the collector area in operation was 16 493 m. Solar heat in Finland was (1997–2004) 4-5 GWh and (2005) 6 GWh. Thus, Finland has installed 10% of its objective in 11 years time (1995–2010). The solar heating has not been competitive due to c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38549640 | 1,543,398 |
940,204 | The settings provided by French Intelligence covered two months that straddled a changeover period for the rotor ordering. A different rotor happened to be in the right-hand position for the second month, and so the wirings of two rotors could be recovered by the same method. Rejewski later recalled: "Finding the [wiri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4349420 | 939,703 |
813,531 | In the orthodox community, an organization called Dor Yeshorim carries out anonymous genetic screening of couples before marriage to reduce the risk of children with genetic diseases being born. The program educates young people on medical genetics and screens school-aged children for any disease genes. These results a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25137267 | 813,098 |
1,056,327 | The second coauthor of the thesis of incommensurability is Thomas Kuhn, who introduced it in his 1962 book, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions", in which he describes it as a universal property that defines the relationship between successive paradigms. Under this meaning incommensurability goes beyond the field ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=987231 | 1,055,779 |
1,255,798 | Public opinion appears to have been aroused with regard to the re-licensing application of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant. Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials had already planned to conduct a series of public meetings in January, February and March 2011 as public attention in San Luis Obispo County turned towards th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31284652 | 1,255,114 |
887,383 | Spark transmitters and the crystal receivers used to receive them were simple enough that they were widely built by hobbyists. During the first decades of the 20th century this exciting new high tech hobby attracted a growing community of "radio amateurs", many of them teenage boys, who used their homebuilt sets recrea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1105907 | 886,918 |
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