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447,584 | The developer selectively reduces silver halide crystals in the emulsion to metallic silver, but only those having latent image centres created by action of light. The light sensitive layer or emulsion consists of silver halide crystals in a gelatin base. Two photons of light must be absorbed by one silver halide cryst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378392 | 447,367 |
68,398 | In February 1980, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) started project 802 to standardize local area networks (LAN). The "DIX-group" with Gary Robinson (DEC), Phil Arst (Intel), and Bob Printis (Xerox) submitted the so-called "Blue Book" CSMA/CD specification as a candidate for the LAN specifica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9499 | 68,372 |
1,957,177 | N.I. Tikhomirov’s agent in those years was Dr. Slyotov, who filed petitions for the invention to various authorities. On 11 February 1916, he received a positive conclusion from the expert commission, which was signed by Nikolay Zhukovsky, Chairman of the Inventions Department of the Moscow Military Industrial Committe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70947774 | 1,956,053 |
1,917,221 | Maz'ya graduated from Leningrad University in 1960. The same year he gave two talks at Smirnov's seminar: their contents were published as a short report in the Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences and later evolved in his "kandidat nauk" thesis, ""Classes of sets and embedding theorems for function spaces"", wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11713215 | 1,916,121 |
1,428,421 | In addition to permeating the blood brain barrier, ultrasound and MB therapy can alter the tumor environment and serve as an immunotherapeutic treatment. High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) alone triggers an immune response, speculated to be through facilitating the release of tumor antigens for immune cell recogn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25352260 | 1,427,617 |
117,452 | On April 26, 2007, NASA decided to bring Williams back to Earth on the STS-117 mission aboard "Atlantis". Although she did not break the U.S. single spaceflight record that was recently broken by former crew member Commander Michael López-Alegría, she did break the record for longest single spaceflight by a woman. Will... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2377150 | 117,407 |
2,060,848 | Epigenetic modifications, such as methylation, phosphorylation, acetylation, and ubiquitylation, can affect gene activity. Decreased DNA methylation is thought to be linked to air pollution exposure. The mechanism behind this is not completely understood, but it may involve the formation of reactive oxygen species. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61385234 | 2,059,661 |
1,428,335 | A single Jianghu I (hull 516) was modified very recently. It has its anti-ship missiles replaced with several multiple-rocket launchers. The rockets are of 122 mm caliber, and are based on the Type 89 system, which is itself quite similar to the Soviet BM-21 rocket system. The 122 mm rockets are launched from a stabili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5751493 | 1,427,531 |
1,923,612 | The Faculty of Medicine is engaged in research in a wide variety of fields spanning the breadth of medical science. It has also selected key research areas on which to place additional emphasis. These focal points are characterized by significant expertise and cutting-edge research. As of 2009, these areas include: mol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15863155 | 1,922,509 |
405,334 | The original game and its expansion have been praised as one of the benchmark real-time strategy games of its time. The series has gathered a solid following around the world, particularly in South Korea, where professional players and teams participate in matches, earn sponsorships, and compete in televised matches. B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14271726 | 405,134 |
611,886 | Gas dynamic lasers are constructed using the supersonic flow of gases, such as carbon dioxide, to excite the molecules past threshold. The gas is pressurized and then heated to as high as 1400 kelvins. The gas is then allowed to expand rapidly through specially shaped nozzles to a very low pressure. This expansion occu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3245664 | 611,575 |
1,641,271 | Writing for William & Mary Business Law Review in 2020, Carl Lindstrom states that ""Micro Star v. Formgen"’s holding still remains the final word on the legal status of mods, even when created using developer-furnished tools. Melinda Schlinsog of the Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property noted "Micros... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29279140 | 1,640,344 |
1,258,580 | Italy had a scientific "golden age" during the Renaissance. Leonardo da Vinci, was trained to be a painter, but his interests and achievements spread into an astonishing variety of fields that are now considered scientific specialties. He conceived ideas vastly ahead of his time. Notably, he invented concepts for the h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23296431 | 1,257,893 |
1,029,259 | The basic definitions and facts above enable one to do classical algebraic geometry. To be able to do more — for example, to deal with varieties over fields that are not algebraically closed — some foundational changes are required. The modern notion of a variety is considerably more abstract than the one above, though... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=248808 | 1,028,725 |
1,935,167 | Acoustic droplet ejection was first reported in 1927 by Robert W. Wood and Alfred Loomis, who noted that when a high-power acoustic generator was immersed in an oil bath, a mound formed on the surface of the oil and, like a “miniature volcano,” ejected a continuous stream of droplets. Ripples that appear in a glass of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11591432 | 1,934,059 |
1,439,482 | Broad proteomic and transcriptomic profiling has led to innumerable advances in the biomedical space, but the characterization of RNA and protein expression is limited in its ability to inform on the functional characteristics of proteins. Given that transcript and protein expression information leave gaps in knowledge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48999251 | 1,438,672 |
904,854 | It is possible for optical answer sheets to be printed incorrectly, such that all ovals will be read as filled. This occurs if the outline of the ovals is too thick, or is irregular. During the 2008 U.S. presidential election, this occurred with over 19,000 absentee ballots in the Georgia county of Gwinnett, and was di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=439697 | 904,378 |
580,211 | This is effectively an electric locomotive with a relatively small auxiliary diesel prime mover intended only for low-speed or short-distance operation (e.g. British Rail Class 73). Some of these, such as the British Rail Class 74, were converted from electric locomotives. The Southern Region of British Railways used t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2023225 | 579,914 |
10,083 | Fermi contacted Chien-Shiung Wu, who identified the cause of the problem as neutron poisoning from xenon-135, which has a half-life of 9.2 hours. Fermi, Woods, Donald J. Hughes and John Archibald Wheeler then calculated the nuclear cross section of xenon-135, which turned out to be 30,000 times that of uranium. DuPont ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19603 | 10,079 |
8,785 | If a third mass is added, the Kepler problem becomes the three-body problem, which in general has no exact solution in closed form. That is, there is no way to start from the differential equations implied by Newton's laws and, after a finite sequence of standard mathematical operations, obtain equations that express t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55212 | 8,781 |
860,017 | Many lubricant applications require the lubricant to perform across a wide range of conditions, for example, automotive lubricants are required to reduce friction between engine components when the engine is started from cold (relative to the engine's operating temperatures) up to when it is running. The best oils with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2204862 | 859,559 |
2,027,331 | In 1989-91, Pearlman worked as a USAID consultant for the government of Botswana, and from 1984 to 1989, he was a member of Yale University's Council Committee for the Peabody Museum of Natural History. He also coordinated the 1981 youth essay contest at The Planetary Society's Planetfest '81 celebration; 25 essay winn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66488938 | 2,026,164 |
867,079 | Overall, the hindlimb is built lightly and with long elements, contrary to the robust, stocky hind limbs of "Utahraptor". "Dakotaraptor" more closely resembles the agile, springy smaller dromaeosaurids and would have been well-suited to running and pursuit predation. The length of the thighbone is . It is relatively sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48416755 | 866,619 |
2,028,823 | The Lick observatory had a spare silvered parabolic glass mirror in its possession, but the shape was imperfect. After deciding on a Cassegrain-style reflecting telescope, during the spring of 1901 the mirror was shipped to the John A. Brashear Company in Allegheny for refiguring. However, the mirror broke while the ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67773743 | 2,027,655 |
1,763,010 | Cretaceous polar forests were temperate forests that grew at polar latitudes during the final period of the Mesozoic Era, known as the Cretaceous Period 145–66 Ma. During this period, global average temperature was about higher and carbon dioxide (CO) levels were approximately 1000 parts per million (ppm), 2.5 times th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37882012 | 1,762,017 |
1,672,007 | Unlike the standard cosmological model, the quasi steady state hypothesis implies the universe is eternal. According to Narlikar, multiple "mini bangs" would occur at the center of quasars, with various creation fields (or C-field) continuously generating matter out of empty space due to local concentration of negative... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28276396 | 1,671,066 |
1,522,150 | The build-up of calc-sinter material in the Eifel Aqueduct was commercially exploited in the 11th and 12th centuries. With deposits up to thick, the material was cut into vertical columns of polished brown rock with impressive layered patterns, which made it much in demand by cathedral builders across large parts of ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30850405 | 1,521,289 |
1,032,595 | Autoimmunity can thus be defined simply as exceptions to the tolerance "rules." By doing this, an immune response is generated against self-tissue and cells. These mechanisms are known by many to be intrinsic. However, there are pathogenic mechanisms for the generation of autoimmune disease. Pathogens can induce autoim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5795298 | 1,032,059 |
1,369,857 | The first Commercial Crew Development test missions flew this year, aiming to restore United States human spaceflight capability following Space Shuttle retirement in 2011. In an uncrewed test flight, SpaceX SpaceX Dragon 2 successfully flew on a Falcon 9 to the International Space Station on 3 March 2019; the crewed m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34130425 | 1,369,101 |
2,008,717 | One of the issues commonly discussed in the field of feminist digital humanities is the existence of institutional bias which includes race and gender-based injustices. In an article written in the Debates in the Digital Humanities, a hybrid print/digital book discussing debates emerging in the field, Wikipedia’s stand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38824009 | 2,007,565 |
1,140,183 | However using broadly occurring deposited layers trapped within differently located rock columns, geologists have pieced together a system of units covering most of the geologic time scale using the law of superposition, for where tectonic forces have uplifted one ridge newly subject to erosion and weathering in foldin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18092646 | 1,139,589 |
1,052,277 | Typically, an array is made up of omnidirectional microphones, directional microphones, or a mix of omnidirectional and directional microphones distributed about the perimeter of a space, linked to a computer that records and interprets the results into a coherent form. Arrays may also be formed using numbers of very c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44408 | 1,051,731 |
658,268 | Loosely-coupled architectural implementations (e.g.: SOA) have created additional complexities with performance testing. To truly replicate production-like states, enterprise services or assets that share a common infrastructure or platform require coordinated performance testing, with all consumers creating production... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39294 | 657,923 |
285,835 | In order to perform this matching, Wiles had to create a class number formula (CNF). He first attempted to use horizontal Iwasawa theory but that part of his work had an unresolved issue such that he could not create a CNF. At the end of the summer of 1991, he learned about an Euler system recently developed by Victor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21950759 | 285,681 |
78,666 | The Air National Guard procured many upgrades for their fleet of aging block 30/32s including the addition of improved inertial guidance systems, improved electronic warfare suite (AN/ALQ-213), and upgrades to carry the Northrop Grumman LITENING targeting pod. The standard Inertial Navigation Unit (INU) was first chang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18895385 | 78,633 |
814,317 | NORM utilizes object surface scanning by stochastically moving nanoparticles. Through the microscope, nanoparticles look like symmetric round spots. The spot width is equivalent to the point spread function (~ 250 nm) and is defined by the microscope resolution. Lateral coordinates of the given particle can be evaluate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26694015 | 813,884 |
1,513,700 | The Fermi satellite has now observed both long and short gamma-ray bursts that emit multi-GeV gamma rays. No high energy cut off is observed in any of these GRBs, and the highest energy gamma ray observed in the three brightest bursts were emitted (i.e. corrected for the observed redshift) at energies of 70, 60, 94, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41814278 | 1,512,849 |
640,738 | Charles Sweeny, a wealthy businessman living in London, persuaded the British Government to form an RAF squadron composed of Americans. (His uncle, also named Charles Sweeny, had been working along similar lines, recruiting American pilots to fight in France.) Sweeny's efforts were also coordinated in Canada by the Wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=880854 | 640,399 |
61,944 | "S. gracilis" was the smallest species, estimated at in weight, about the size of a jaguar. It was similar to its predecessor "Megantereon" of the same size, but its dentition and skull were more advanced, approaching "S. fatalis". "S. fatalis" was intermediate in size between "S. gracilis" and "S. populator". It range... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=169071 | 61,919 |
216,612 | Human bodies rely on the innumerable bacterial genes as the source of essential nutrients. Both metagenomic and epidemiological studies indicate vital roles for the human microbiome in preventing a wide range of diseases, from type 2 diabetes and obesity to inflammatory bowel disease, Parkinson's disease, and even ment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=205464 | 216,504 |
338,323 | The downward mobility of the neck of "Brachiosaurus" would have allowed it to reach open water at the level of its feet, while standing upright. Modern giraffes spread their forelimbs to lower the mouth in a relatively horizontal position, to more easily gulp down the water. It is unlikely that "Brachiosaurus" could ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20598015 | 338,143 |
1,505,344 | Named after Mount Ainslie, Australian Capital Territory where their type location occurs, the Ainslie Volcanics are composed of Dacitic ignimbrite and minor volcaniclastic and argillaceous sediments. The lithology is bluish grey dacitic tuff, which can be massive or foliated, also dacitic agglomerate and shale. These v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3203656 | 1,504,498 |
1,081,558 | This method uses the well-studied methods of producing block copolymers with well-defined geometries and compositions across a large variety of substrates. Synthesis of Janus particles by self-assembly via block copolymers was first described in 2001 by Erhardt "et al." They produced a triblock polymer from polymethyla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16037610 | 1,081,002 |
1,616,646 | In the early stages of this area statistics on biomechanical data, like different kinds of forces or rates, played a major role. Scientists started to analyze sports games by collecting and looking at such values and features in order to interpret them. Later on, with the continuous improvement of computer hardware - i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25852537 | 1,615,735 |
705,573 | A neurophysiological study by Cauquil et al. describes V1 and V2 color-preferring cells as coding local image characteristics (such as binocular disparity) and surface properties of a 3D scene, respectively. The study conducted by Cauquil et al. indicates, based on electrode stimulation results, that both dorsal and ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18499558 | 705,204 |
1,530,729 | True rosette or lower pitchers are only produced for a brief period before the plant begins developing mature traps (termed "intermediate pitchers" in the type description). These mature pitchers can be very large: up to 33.0 cm high by 9.5 cm wide. They are broadly cylindrical throughout, being widest near the base (≤... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34202412 | 1,529,863 |
1,089,004 | Human activities dominate the global and most regional N cycles. N inputs have shown negative consequences for both nutrient cycling and native species diversity in terrestrial and aquatic systems. In fact, due to long-term impacts on food webs, Nr inputs are widely considered the most critical pollution problem in mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11632817 | 1,088,445 |
626,997 | A force-directed graph can involve forces other than mechanical springs and electrical repulsion. A force analogous to gravity may be used to pull vertices towards a fixed point of the drawing space; this may be used to pull together different connected components of a disconnected graph, which would otherwise tend to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=710331 | 626,664 |
2,187,710 | The College of Engineering operates the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility (MwRSF), which researches highway design and safety with a particular emphasis on safety performance evaluations of roadside appurtenances. Since its establishment in 1974, the facility has evaluated existing barriers and frequently developed new ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72262409 | 2,186,462 |
1,358,104 | An executive education program in infrastructure asset management (Certificate of Advanced Studies Managing Infrastructure Assets, CASMIA, 16ECTS) has been developed since 2012, launched in 2014 and funded by Swiss federal Agency of Energy (SFOE). It is the only individual and organizational learning program worldwide ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29332110 | 1,357,354 |
568,446 | Williams tubes tended to become unreliable with age, and most working installations had to be "tuned" by hand. By contrast, mercury delay-line memory was slower and not truly random access, as the bits were presented serially, which complicated programming. Delay lines also needed hand tuning, but did not age as badly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33571 | 568,156 |
746,291 | Despite not being included at launch, Microsoft slowly incorporated backward compatibility for select titles on the Xbox One several years into its product life cycle. Players have racked up over a billion hours with backward compatible games on Xbox, and the newest generation of consoles such as PlayStation 5 and Xbox... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4459 | 745,896 |
233,831 | Another securement device is a nasal bridle, or a device that enters one nare, around the nasal septum, and then to the other nare where it is secured in place around the nasogastric tube. There are two ways a bridle is put into place. One method, according to the Australian Journal of Otolaryngology, is performed by a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=338082 | 233,712 |
1,183,855 | The Wide Field Imager (WFI) is a large field of view spectral-imaging camera based on the unique Silicon DEPFET technology developed in the semiconductor laboratory of the Max Planck Society. The DEPFETs provide an excellent energy resolution (<170eV at 7keV), low noise, fast readout and high time resolution, with good... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23423743 | 1,183,229 |
189,706 | Leslie B. Lamport (born February 7, 1941 in Brooklyn) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. Lamport is best known for his seminal work in distributed systems, and as the initial developer of the document preparation system LaTeX and the author of its first manual. Lamport was the winner of the 2013 Turin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=195671 | 189,609 |
645,799 | As Apollo 12's backup command module pilot, Worden forged a close, lifelong friendship with the prime crew's CMP, Dick Gordon, with whom he trained. Worden remembered, "Dick was my buddy. We flew together and worked together for a year and a half when he was training for Apollo12 and I was his backup. We just went ever... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=677187 | 645,459 |
794,172 | The Safeguard Program was deployed in the mid-1970s and was based on the Sentinel Program. Since the ABM treaty only allowed for construction of a single ABM facility to protect either the nation's capital city or an ICBM field, the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex was constructed near Nekoma, North Dakota to pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2380807 | 793,747 |
275,115 | Another gene that experiences a change in methylation status in atherosclerosis is the monocarboxylate transporter (MCT3), which produces a protein responsible for the transport of lactate and other ketone bodies out of many cell types, including vascular smooth muscle cells. In atherosclerosis patients, there is an in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1137227 | 274,967 |
2,070,131 | A well-studied stimulus is strong blue light, which drives movement of nuclei to anticlinal (perpendicular to the plane of the leaf) cell walls in mesophyll and epidermal cells of "Arabidopsis thaliana" plants. Chloroplasts moving in response to blue light associate with the nucleus to move the nucleus to the appropria... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63641386 | 2,068,940 |
31,810 | Several other types of capacitor are available for specialist applications. Supercapacitors store large amounts of energy. Supercapacitors made from carbon aerogel, carbon nanotubes, or highly porous electrode materials, offer extremely high capacitance (up to 5 kF ) and can be used in some applications instead of rech... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4932111 | 31,799 |
626,330 | Mycologist Taylor Piercefield developed a method using beds of hardwood tree saplings which would be inoculated with mycelium, concentrating on the symbiotic relationship of Morchella esculenta. Later, once the mycelium network had been fully developed, the beds would be treated with potassium hydroxide to replicate th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=854127 | 625,997 |
1,235,543 | Despite winning the Big Ten regular season and tournament championships, MSU did not receive a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament. Instead, the Spartans received the No. 2 seed in the East Region. In the First Round, they struggled against No. 15-seeded Bradley, and trailed with only four minutes left in the game. Howev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56903804 | 1,234,880 |
100,137 | Prevention of Rhinovirus is very challenging as there are no official or approved vaccines or preventative measures for Rhinovirus. The lack of data and knowledge of Rhinovirus poses obstacles to the development of a vaccine. Better understanding and study have been promoted in recent years in order to provide treatmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=104066 | 100,092 |
1,566,585 | Buonomano was born in Rhode Island in 1965 and lived in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada before moving to Brazil at the age of 7 in 1972. Buonomano's younger sister was born in 1974 and he attributes her to being one of his first "test dummies" for his psychological experiments. An interview conducted by Anna Azvolinsky from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52262008 | 1,565,698 |
1,469,185 | First report in 2002 has been shown that immunohistochemical marker for phosphorylated PKR and eIF2α was displayed positively in degenerating neurons in the hippocampus and the frontal cortex of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), suggesting the link between PKR and AD. Additionally, many of these neurons were also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6846786 | 1,468,361 |
2,123,207 | Boron nitride aerogel is an aerogel made of highly porous boron nitride (BN). It typically consists of a mixture of deformed boron nitride nanotubes and nanosheets. It can have a density as low as 0.6 mg/cm and a specific surface area as high as 1050 m/g, and therefore has potential applications as an absorbent, cataly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53572933 | 2,121,987 |
1,622,216 | Collagen XVII is a homotrimer of three alpha1(XVII)-chains and a transmembrane protein in type II orientation. Each 180 kD a-chain contains a globular intracellular domain of approximately 70 kDa, which interacts with beta4-integrin, plectin, and BP230 and is necessary for the stable attachment of hemidesmosomes to ker... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11374136 | 1,621,300 |
2,154,313 | In this technique, a solid model of the component to be fabricated is made either by 3D imaging system or by designer using computer-aided design (CAD) software or by math data as an output of numerical analysis. Thus obtained model is sliced into thin layers along the vertical axis. The thin layers are converted into ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34418155 | 2,153,082 |
2,054,419 | Sharp used to treat poor Londoners at his house. One night, he was asked for help by a slave who had been beaten by his owner. Sharp treated the man but also discussed the case with his brother, Granville Sharp. The man was called Jonathan Strong and he had been so badly beaten that he was nearly blind and required fou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27453793 | 2,053,236 |
1,579,572 | Many affected infants also have distinctive abnormalities of the head and facial (craniofacial) area. Many of the physical features associated with the disorder are congenital. In most cases, premature closure of fibrous joints (sagittal sutures) between certain bones (parietal bones) of the skull may restrict lateral ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17533758 | 1,578,682 |
1,702,482 | In the 1980s, there was a movement in the United Kingdom and Europe against the view of archeology as a field of anthropology, echoing Radcliffe-Brown's earlier rejection of cultural anthropology. During this same period, then-Cambridge archaeologist Ian Hodder developed "post-processual archaeology" as an alternative.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41831802 | 1,701,527 |
1,558,888 | An ambush predator, the Pacific angelshark conceals itself on the sea floor and waits for approaching prey, primarily bony fishes and squid. Prey are targeted visually and, with a quick upward thrust of the head, snatched in protrusible jaws. Individual sharks actively choose ideal ambush sites, where they stay for sev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7332664 | 1,558,003 |
945,562 | Subsequently, a Special Conference of BWC States Parties in 1994 considered the VEREX report and decided to establish an Ad Hoc Group to negotiate a legally-binding verification protocol. The Ad Hoc Group convened 24 sessions between 1995 and 2001, during which it negotiated a draft protocol to the BWC which would esta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337082 | 945,060 |
2,048,819 | During the time, the government was involved in several wars. Despite this, construction of the canal continued. A shortage of laborers further slowed progress. Estimates were around 2000 at the beginning of the project, decreasing over time. Although the monarchy had promised 4000 soldiers for the project, only two re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38475224 | 2,047,638 |
2,054,493 | Many fresh-water algae that produce toxins are known, among which the "euglenoids" (Euglenophyceae). It has been found that this alga lives in fresh-water environments all over the world. Many euglenoids are "heterotrophic", as they feed through either "phagocytosis" or simple diffusion. However, a monophyletic group o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36254865 | 2,053,310 |
246,415 | While development of the Avro Vulcan strategic bomber was underway, British officials recognised that its operational flexibility could be improved by the provision of in-flight refuelling equipment. Accordingly, from the 16th aircraft to be completed onwards, the Vulcan was furnished with in-flight refuelling receivin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=237949 | 246,288 |
1,340,091 | The metabolism of xyloglucans is the result of the concerted action of several enzymes and membrane transporters. However, given the high diversity of composition of xyloglucans from different plant sources, there is a keystone enzyme, an endo-xyloglucanase called BoGH5A, that has the ability to cleave a range of xylog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7816017 | 1,339,358 |
357,243 | In 1976 at Sima de los Huesos (SH) in the Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain, Spanish palaeontologists Emiliano Aguirre, José María Basabe and Trinidad Torres began to excavate archaic human remains. Their investigation of the site was prompted by the finding of several bear remains ("Ursus deningeri") since the early 20th cen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=442638 | 357,057 |
1,326,404 | Several scientists have developed murine models of SSADH (Aldh5a1-/-) by typical gene methodology to create a uniform absence of the SSADH enzyme activity as well as accumulations of GHB and GABA in tissues and physiological fluids. The mice are born at the expected Mendelian frequencies for an autosomal recessive diso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5407179 | 1,325,677 |
4,208 | Software is usually developed in integrated development environments (IDE) like Eclipse, IntelliJ and Microsoft Visual Studio that can simplify the process and compile the software. As noted in a different section, software is usually created on top of existing software and the application programming interface (API) t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5309 | 4,206 |
588 | On December 27, 2020, Curry put up 36 points in a 129–128 win over the Chicago Bulls. With this game, he joined Ray Allen and Reggie Miller as the only players to have scored more than 2,500 career three-pointers in NBA history. On January 3, 2021, Curry scored a career-high 62 points in a 137–122 win against the Portl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5608488 | 588 |
2,080,769 | This family consists of several HOOK1, 2 and 3 proteins from different eukaryotic organisms. The different members of the human gene family are HOOK1, HOOK2 and HOOK3. Different domains have been identified in the three human HOOK proteins, and it was demonstrated that the highly conserved N-terminal domain mediates at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31943707 | 2,079,569 |
1,336,310 | Primarily nocturnal, the mole salamander is found in habitats of moist forest debris, usually near a permanent source of water. The adult range is up to about and the animals migrate to near bodies of water on rainy nights in winter when the breeding season approaches. The eggs are laid in the spring, during heavy rain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5914689 | 1,335,580 |
1,945,695 | In 1903, Hopkinson was elected to the Cambridge chair in mechanism and applied mechanics, and in 1910 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. During World War I he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers, and opened a research establishment at Orford Ness where he and his team researched weapons, sights, and am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9951005 | 1,944,583 |
426,040 | ARPES systems consist of a monochromatic light source to deliver a narrow beam of photons, a sample holder connected to a manipulator used to position the sample of a material, and an electron spectrometer. The equipment is contained within an ultra-high vacuum (UHV) environment, which protects the sample and prevents ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7078310 | 425,832 |
342,254 | The rest of the world was slow to adopt this treatment, largely because of deaths which resulted from even relatively minor overdosing, including those reported from use of lithium chloride as a substitute for table salt. Largely through the research and other efforts of Denmark's Mogens Schou and Paul Baastrup in Euro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39923620 | 342,073 |
98,347 | Roddenberry firmly believed that throwaway clothes were the future of the industry, and this idea was incorporated into the costumes of "The Motion Picture". William Ware Theiss, the designer who created the original television series costumes, was too busy to work on the film. Instead Robert Fletcher, considered one o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277006 | 98,305 |
1,057,895 | Zachtronics Industries has encouraged the game to be used as a learning tool for programming and chemistry concepts, and offers discounts for schools, though briefly offered the game free-of-charge for educational institutions for a few months after the release of the sandbox mode addition. According to The Independent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31625168 | 1,057,346 |
2,130,178 | An immunization survey of human serum samples suggests that exposure to glutamyl endopeptidase is common, although a correlation to any specific type of infection could not be established. The numerous targets of bacterial proteases, adding the complexity of other virulence factors and their genetic regulation, makes i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39269575 | 2,128,954 |
813,692 | In 1957, the first All-Union Congress of Soviet Artists takes place in Moscow. It establishes the USSR Union of Artists that unites over 13000 professional artists from all republics and of all specializations. In 1960, the Union of Artists of Russian Federation was organized. Accordingly, these events influenced the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30872141 | 813,259 |
1,679,310 | Aside from the oscillatory motions associated with tidal flow, there are two primary causes of large scale flow in the ocean: "(1)" thermohaline processes, which induce motion by introducing changes at the surface in temperature and salinity, and therefore in seawater density, and "(2)" wind forcing. In the 1940s, when... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3309536 | 1,678,367 |
615,553 | The launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, started a Cold War technological and ideological competition with the United States known as the Space Race. The demonstration of American technological inferiority came as a profound shock to the American public. In response to the Sputnik c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2296945 | 615,239 |
1,832,722 | In 1993, Division 12 (Clinical Psychology) of the American Psychological Association organized a subsection (Division 12, Section II) that would eventually be renamed the Society of Clinical Geropsychology. This was done at the initiative of a steering committee composed of several psychologists, including: George Nied... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43193946 | 1,831,674 |
851,643 | David Lewis defends moral realism against this argument by pointing out that morality, as commonly conceived, is only interested in the actual world, specifically, that the actual agent doesn't do evil. So the "argument from morality" would only be problematic for an odd version of utilitarianism aiming at maximizing t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1598292 | 851,190 |
1,006,197 | A simple example would be a GPU program that collects data about average lighting values as it renders some view from either a camera or a computer graphics program back to the main program on the CPU, so that the CPU can then make adjustments to the overall screen view. A more advanced example might use edge detection... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1268939 | 1,005,678 |
2,183,862 | In 1835, when Pond was replaced by Airy, the standards at the observatory were falling. Airy came with the ambition to give the Observatory a new thrust and wanted to lay off the first assistants, one of whom was Richardson, even though the latter had received the Royal Astronomical Society's gold medal. This later hel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60630236 | 2,182,614 |
837,314 | In physics, horror vacui, or plenism (), commonly stated as "nature abhors a vacuum", is a postulate attributed to Aristotle, who articulated a belief, later criticized by the atomism of Epicurus and Lucretius, that nature contains no vacuums because the denser surrounding material continuum would immediately fill the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23223531 | 836,865 |
1,359,038 | Led by NETL, the National Risk Assessment Partnership (NRAP) studies the behavior of engineered-natural systems to develop the risk assessment tools necessary for safe, permanent geologic storage. To assist in effective site characterization, selection, operation, and management, NRAP is considering potential risks ass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1711574 | 1,358,287 |
1,014,313 | The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) predicted that wind energy will supply 28.5% of global energy by 2030. This requires a newer and larger fleet of more efficient turbines and the corresponding decommissioning of older ones. Based on a European Wind Energy Association study, in 2010 between 110 and 140 kilotonnes of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8309537 | 1,013,792 |
430,982 | However, when using Arabic numerals to write the digits (and not including the subscripts as in the above examples), their simple concatenation becomes ambiguous for numbers having a "digit" greater than 9. The smallest such example is the number 10 × 10! = 36,288,000, which may be written A0000000000=10:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1113108 | 430,770 |
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