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863,897 | Although particles and TOC are usually measured using on-line methods, there is significant value in complementary or alternative off-line lab analysis. The value of the lab analysis has two aspects: cost and speciation. Smaller UPW facilities that cannot afford to purchase on-line instrumentation often choose off-line... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31050418 | 863,437 |
1,812,859 | She worked on the Connaught Tunnel, a Victorian rail tunnel built in 1878 between Stratford and North Woolwich. At the start the team only had 135 year-old drawings as a guide, and had to use giant props to support the excavation. She described the project as 'open heart surgery'. She thinks it is "boom time" for tunne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57003443 | 1,811,825 |
4,986 | Unlike the previous games, Santa Monica did not make a demo specifically for public release. Barlog explained that doing so would have delayed the game by a couple of months. He also confirmed the game was built for the standard PlayStation 4 but would "benefit from the power" of the PlayStation 4 Pro; an updated versi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50810460 | 4,983 |
655,519 | Numerous Miami players and coaches have expressed their displeasure toward the call. Coker stated, "Whether it be a good call, a bad call, it was a poorly timed call, you know? I just think you don't make that call at that stage of the game." Sharpe denies that he committed a penalty and criticized Porter for refusing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6048857 | 655,175 |
704,056 | Dedicated overclockers have occasionally used vapor-compression refrigeration or thermoelectric coolers in place of more common standard heat exchangers. Water cooling systems in which water is cooled directly by the evaporator coil of a phase change system are able to chill the circulating coolant below the ambient ai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=531184 | 703,688 |
1,579,369 | By the 1930s, there was a general feeling that airplanes should be dynamically stable, but some aeronautical engineers were starting to recognize the conflict between the requirements for stability and flying qualities. To resolve this question, Edward Warner, who was working as a consultant to the Douglas Aircraft Com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6333892 | 1,578,479 |
1,010,745 | In 2009, "Edge" called "X-COM" "the title that first brought turn-based wargaming to the masses." It has often appeared in top video game lists by various publications. "Computer Gaming World" ranked it as the 22nd (1996) and third (2001) best computer game of all time; the magazine's readers also voted it for tenth pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=668164 | 1,010,224 |
1,750,769 | Because of poor grades until his senior year of high school, an adviser suggested military rather than college. Falkow described himself as an average student, and below average at mathematics, which he later rectified by working through workbooks of high school and college level mathematics later in his career, after ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1920745 | 1,749,783 |
16,827 | In 1959, Freeman Dyson observed that every developing human civilization constantly increases its energy consumption, and he conjectured that a civilization might try to harness a large part of the energy produced by a star. He proposed a hypothetical "Dyson sphere" as a possible means: a shell or cloud of objects encl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11579 | 16,822 |
814,323 | Although the term "structured illumination microscopy" was coined by others in later years, Guerra (1995) first published results in which light patterned by a 50 nm pitch grating illuminated a second grating of pitch 50 nm, with the gratings rotated with respect to each other by the angular amount needed to achieve ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26694015 | 813,890 |
1,729,794 | The mining industry of Uganda, documented as early as the 1920s, witnessed a boom in the 1950s with a record 30 percent of the country's exports. It received a further boost when mining revenues increased by 48 percent between 1995 and 1997. However, the World Bank reported that the sector's contribution to gross domes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46810428 | 1,728,819 |
1,368,251 | Systems neuroscience is a subdiscipline of neuroscience and systems biology that studies the structure and function of neural circuits and systems. Systems neuroscience encompasses a number of areas of study concerned with how nerve cells behave when connected together to form neural pathways, neural circuits, and larg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=762064 | 1,367,495 |
502,808 | Activation of the polyol pathway results in a decrease of reduced NADPH and oxidized NAD+; these are necessary co-factors in redox reactions throughout the body, and under normal conditions they are "not" interchangeable. The decreased concentration of these NADPH leads to decreased synthesis of reduced glutathione, ni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4645095 | 502,550 |
1,757,386 | 5-("S")-HETE and 5-("S")-HpETE stimulate the production of progesterone by cultured rat ovarian glomerulosa cells and enhance the secretion of progesterone and testosterone by cultured rat testicular Leydig cells. Both metabolites are made by cyclic adenosine monophosphate-stimulated MA-10 mouse Leydig cells; stimulate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14713923 | 1,756,394 |
1,042,597 | Bromide was introduced as the first anti-epileptic drug 150 years ago. Because of the adverse effects mentioned above, bromide is not currently in use as an AED. Early treatment discontinuation was occurring far too frequently and eventually resulted in negative effects on several patients. Current treatment options in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16074501 | 1,042,054 |
190,410 | The Interior Department responded by sending personnel to analyze the proposed route and plan. Max Brewer, an arctic expert in charge of the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory at Barrow, concluded that the plan to bury most of the pipeline was completely unfeasible because of the abundance of permafrost along the route. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=197732 | 190,313 |
2,146,948 | Ramesh Mehta was born in 1947 in a village in central India. From the age of seven, he aspired to become a doctor. Prior to immigrating to the United Kingdom in 1981, he undertook his undergraduate training at the Government Medical College and Hospital, Nagpur, where he completed his postgraduate paediatrics training.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60937195 | 2,145,717 |
1,311,151 | The development of "BioShock Infinite" began after "BioShock"s release in August 2007. The five-year development, led by studio Irrational Games, began under the moniker "Project Icarus". Irrational's creative lead, Ken Levine was inspired by events at the turn of the 20th century and the expansion of the concept of Am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38977195 | 1,310,433 |
698,679 | The concept of selfDNA stems from discoveries made by scientists from the University of Naples Federico II, which were reported during 2015 in the journal "New Phytologist", about the self-inhibitory effect of extracellular DNA in plants, but also in bacteria, fungi, algae, plants, protozoa and insects. The environment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46925036 | 698,315 |
596,363 | The nucleation stage of seed-mediated growth consists of the reduction of metal ions in a precursor to metal atoms. In order to control the size distribution of the seeds, the period of nucleation should be made short for monodispersity. The LaMer model illustrates this concept. Seeds typically consist small nanopartic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23891367 | 596,058 |
356,233 | The raw material feedstocks with the largest potential in the future is lignocellulosic (non-edible) biomass (for instance coppices or perennial energy crops), agricultural residues, and biological waste. These feedstocks also have the shortest delay before producing climate benefits. Heat production is normally more "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7906908 | 356,050 |
1,384,805 | Prosser returned to Tougaloo College for the 1932-1933 academic year while still working on her dissertation to work as a faculty member. Her dissertation was approved in June 1933. Dean Louis Augustus Pechstein who was the head of Prosser's Doctor of Philosophy program at the University of Cincinnati wrote to William ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13646566 | 1,384,038 |
1,166,021 | In 2004, Bargmann moved to Rockefeller University. She says that the reason for the move is that she wanted more flexibility to focus on research. She served as an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute until 2016 before she took the President of CZI. Bargmann's lab uses a relatively simple organism, the n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15111438 | 1,165,404 |
884,117 | Dale Carrico wrote that "human enhancement" is a loaded term which has eugenic overtones because it may imply the improvement of human hereditary traits to attain a universally accepted norm of biological fitness (at the possible expense of human biodiversity and neurodiversity), and therefore can evoke negative reacti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3877892 | 883,653 |
285,399 | Although there was a military version of the exam, it was neglected by the government. The importance of the regular imperial examinations in governance had the effect of subordinating the military to civil government. By the time of the Song dynasty, the two highest military posts of Minister of War and Chief of Staff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=244479 | 285,245 |
1,204,357 | At Los Alamos in the late 1940s and early 1950s a group of researchers led by Metropolis, including John von Neumann and Stanislaw Ulam, developed the Monte Carlo method. This is a class of computational approaches that rely on repeated random sampling to compute their results, named in reference to Ulam's relative's l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=504326 | 1,203,712 |
204,295 | Humans are generally quite talented in their freehand movements; the drawings, paintings, and sculptures of artists such as Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci, and of countless other talented people, show that human freehand toolpath has great potential. The value that machine tools added to these human talents is in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191490 | 204,190 |
1,057,732 | Programming complexity (or software complexity) is a term that includes many properties of a piece of software, all of which affect internal interactions. According to several commentators, there is a distinction between the terms complex and complicated. Complicated implies being difficult to understand but with time ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2814347 | 1,057,183 |
625,072 | With the sport undergoing an overhaul of the technical regulations for the 2017 season, Volkswagen developed the 2017-specification Polo WRC throughout the 2016 season, with the development phase once again carried out by Marcus Grönholm. The car, which officially became known as the Volkswagen Polo GTI WRC, was design... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36636484 | 624,739 |
1,288,884 | Each player will have their own responsibility in the zone. They each have their own area to guard on the court. Players will also shift as the ball is moved to be in better defensive position. This means moving to a better location to cut off passes and gather rebounds. Typically, the one will take the top position. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20914541 | 1,288,175 |
2,032,421 | The Dobramysl and Holcman mixed analytical-stochastic simulation model was published in 2018 by Ulrich Dobramysl and David Holcman, from the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford respectively. It simulates parts of Brownian trajectories, instead of simulating the entire trajectory. This approach is particula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64436250 | 2,031,251 |
1,630,124 | A second wave of construction commenced just prior to World War II, resulting in the construction of four notable buildings. In 1939, the Harris Hall of Architecture and Fine Arts, also designed by Flewelling, and the Fisher Gallery were completed. In 1940, the Biegler Hall of Engineering was completed. The Allan Hanco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17943835 | 1,629,204 |
1,949,632 | When using different types of microspheres, SAT is capable of simultaneously testing multiple variables, such as DNA and proteins, in a given sample. This allows SAT to analyze variety of molecular targets during a single reaction. The common nucleic acid detection method includes direct DNA hybridization. The direct D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30990996 | 1,948,511 |
976,331 | Jacksonian seizures are initiated with abnormal electrical activity within the primary motor cortex. They are unique in that they travel through the primary motor cortex in succession, affecting the corresponding muscles, often beginning with the fingers. This is felt as a tingling sensation, or a feeling of waves thro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2954690 | 975,820 |
38,210 | The type-IV secretion apparatus also injects the "cag" PAI-encoded protein CagA into the stomach's epithelial cells, where it disrupts the cytoskeleton, adherence to adjacent cells, intracellular signaling, cell polarity, and other cellular activities. Once inside the cell, the CagA protein is phosphorylated on tyrosin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=199665 | 38,197 |
1,633,078 | APHIS officials are responsible for inspecting the field trials. At least one inspection is carried out for each state listed on a permit, while inspection of field trials authorized by notification is conducted based on the relative risk of each trial. For field trials of organisms that contain pharmaceutical or indus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23135486 | 1,632,156 |
1,427,414 | The JABS completed its low-rate production phase from 2016 to 2018 with a total of 51 vehicles. ANAD produced 10 in fiscal year 2016, 14 in 2017 and an additional 27 in 2018. These first JABSs underwent exploitation and fire survivability testing at the Aberdeen Test Center. These tests finalized the current configurat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59565578 | 1,426,611 |
1,002,965 | In the mid-18th century, it became apparent that certain progressions of mathematical reasoning recurred when similar ideas were studied on the number line, in two dimensions, and in three dimensions. Thus the general concept of a metric space was created so that the reasoning could be done in more generality, and then... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11953 | 1,002,447 |
1,421,123 | Photographs and video clips published in 2012 indicated that much of the interior of the plant was in excellent condition. In October 2019, the Niagara Parks Commission publicized plans to re-open the facility in 2021 as a historic industrial site for the purposes of tourism. A report by a journalist who visited the st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7264654 | 1,420,323 |
25,450 | In 2005, three ex-Boeing employees filed a lawsuit on behalf of the U.S. government, claiming that dozens of 737NG contained defective structural elements supplied by airframe manufacturer Ducommun, allegations denied by Boeing. The federal judge presiding the case sided with Boeing, and a subsequent court of appeal al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17670854 | 25,441 |
346,945 | In September 2018, the Norwegian Armed Forces reversed course and released an updated study that affirms that under "certain conditions" the requirements for both the navy and coast guard can be met with the current order of 14 helicopters. The conditions specifically state good spare parts availability, sufficient air... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=513911 | 346,764 |
1,986,236 | Gerald obtained a teaching position at UCLA in 1953 and they moved to Los Angeles. When Thelma's husband began working at UCLA, she was not able to work there too because of nepotism, so she started working at a junior college, Los Angeles Valley College in San Fernando Valley, CA, where she taught drafting. Shortly af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31434049 | 1,985,095 |
1,441,282 | At high temperatures, heat is transferred predominantly by thermal radiation (rather than thermal conduction). However, the hydrogen gas used as propellant is almost completely transparent to this radiation. Therefore, in most gas core reactor rocket concepts, some sort of "seeding" of the propellant by opaque solid or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30856603 | 1,440,472 |
1,289,239 | The RAAF's F-4Es entered service in September 1970, and proved to be highly effective. Used in the air-to-ground role, they prepared aircrew to operate the sophisticated F-111s, and the intensive training program undertaken using the aircraft improved the RAAF's professional standards. One of the Phantoms was destroyed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36437816 | 1,288,530 |
1,460,870 | One method to overcome aggregation and retain or increase nanocrystal stability is by use of stabilizer molecules. These molecules, which interact with the surface of the nanocrystals and prevent aggregation via ionic repulsion or steric barriers between the individual nanocrystals, include surfactants and are generall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59383794 | 1,460,048 |
851,135 | Electromagnetic active suspension uses linear electromagnetic motors attached to each wheel. It provides extremely fast response, and allows regeneration of power consumed, by using the motors as generators. This nearly surmounts the issues of slow response times and high power consumption of hydraulic systems. Electro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7667706 | 850,682 |
2,033,395 | Davis grew up in western North Carolina in the small town of Hendersonville as the child of an apple farm and textile mill worker. He received his B.S. in chemistry from Furman University in 1959 before completing his Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Chicago in 1962 with advisor Stuart Rice on the topic of "Some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57100503 | 2,032,223 |
1,336,545 | Within the United States National Weather Service (NWS), forecast weather maps began to be published by offices in New York City, San Francisco, and Honolulu for public use. North Atlantic forecasts were shifted from a closed United States Navy endeavor to a National Weather Service product suite via radiofacsimile in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39067260 | 1,335,815 |
801,704 | In this type of experiment, the same substrates that are used in Experiment A are employed, but they are allowed in to react in the same container, instead of two separate containers. The kinetic isotope effect from this experiment is determined by the relative amount of products formed from C-H versus C-D functionaliz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1106771 | 801,276 |
431,528 | The five-day-long session, from 3 to 7 January 2011, at the Campus of SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai was inaugurated by prime minister Manmohan Singh on 3 January 2011. The focal theme of this session was: "Quality education and excellence in scientific research in Indian universities". The prime mini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3816837 | 431,316 |
1,099,146 | Nkambou et al. (2010) make mention of Nwana's (1990) review of different architectures underlining a strong link between architecture and paradigm (or philosophy). Nwana (1990) declares, "[I]t is almost a rarity to find two ITSs based on the same architecture [which] results from the experimental nature of the work in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3765637 | 1,098,586 |
902,224 | According to Olalde et al. (2018), the spread of the Bell Beaker culture to Britain from the lower Rhine area in the early Bronze Age introduced high levels of steppe-related ancestry, resulting in a near-complete change of the local gene pool within a few centuries, replacing about 90% of the local Neolithic-derived l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17336491 | 901,748 |
1,472,156 | When World War II ended, a team of American aerodynamicists travelled to Germany as part of Operation Lusty. The team included von Kármán, Tsien Hsue-shen, Hugh Dryden and George S. Schairer from Boeing. They reached the Braunschweig labs on 7 May, where they found a mass of data on the swept wing concept. When they as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7897913 | 1,471,327 |
204,764 | In the early 1980s, technology had matured to consider space based missile defense options. Precision hit-to-kill systems more reliable than the early Nike Zeus were thought possible. With these improvements, the Reagan Administration promoted the Strategic Defense Initiative, an ambitious plan to provide a comprehensi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1099196 | 204,658 |
637,395 | In a deregulated grid some sort of incentives are necessary for market participants to build and maintain generation and transmission resources that "may" some day be called upon to maintain the grid balance (supporting the "resource adequacy", or RA), but most of the time these resources are idled and do not produce r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=215909 | 637,056 |
2,099,787 | Yale began its season poorly, losing its first three games and not contending much in any. However, because those game were against professional hockey clubs, the losses did not harm the Elis as far as the Intercollegiate season went. When they did play their fellow colleges, starting in mid-January, Yale's recent emba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62807678 | 2,098,579 |
1,410,319 | Different from traditional machine learning approaches, an approach based on data mining has been recently proposed. In the work of Gu et al., the problem of activity recognition is formulated as a pattern-based classification problem. They proposed a data mining approach based on discriminative patterns which describe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15795950 | 1,409,527 |
1,336,839 | Teeth that can be restored despite a poor long-term prognosis may be retained to transition the patient into the edentulous state via a series of transitional partial dentures. It is important that the patient can maintain good plaque control during this period, as progression of periodontal disease will lead to furthe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55576234 | 1,336,108 |
1,012,149 | The Salk Institute replete with empty space is symbolic of an open environment for creation. The contrast between balance and dynamic space manifests a pluralistic invitation for scientific study in structures developed to accommodate their respective functions as parts of a research facility. Although modern in appear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=164934 | 1,011,628 |
2,060,130 | Ribosomes, the organelles that catalyze protein synthesis, consist of a small 40S subunit and a large 60S subunit. Together these subunits are composed of 4 RNA species and approximately 80 structurally distinct proteins. This gene encodes a cytoplasmic ribosomal protein that is a component of the 60S subunit. The prot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14818820 | 2,058,944 |
224,852 | In 1948, Chadwick accepted an offer to become the Master of Gonville and Caius College. The job was prestigious but ill-defined; the Master was the titular head of the College, but authority actually resided in a council of 13 fellows, of whom one was the Master. As Master, Chadwick strove to improve the academic reput... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174316 | 224,737 |
198,145 | While the absence of ceramics appears anomalous, Mann notes that the presence of textiles is intriguing. "Quipu" (or khipu), string-based recording devices, have been found at Caral, suggesting a writing, or proto-writing, system at Caral-Supe. (The discovery was reported by Mann in "Science" in 2005, but has not been ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9225497 | 198,043 |
61,963 | "Smilodon" lived during the Pleistocene epoch (2.5 mya–10,000 years ago), and was perhaps the most recent of the saber-toothed cats. It probably lived in closed habitat such as forest or bush. Fossils of the genus have been found throughout the Americas. The northernmost remains of the genus are "S. fatalis" fossils fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=169071 | 61,938 |
474,119 | Cost limits the pressure ratio in a membrane CO separation stage to a value of 5; higher pressure ratios eliminate any economic viability for CO capture using membrane processes. Recent studies have demonstrated that multi-stage CO capture/separation processes using membranes can be economically competitive with older ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1569089 | 473,883 |
1,912,080 | The low terrains between the mountains show a "multi-convex" relief over large expanses, which consists of countless low bulging hills. The hills have a striking similarity in top height. The different top levels are arranged in a stepwise manner and can be followed along the river in an upstream direction. They are be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58206850 | 1,910,981 |
1,516,088 | Numerous researchers have suggested that the wide range suggests that "Apistogramma agassizii" is actually more than one distinct species. A study by Estivals et al. (2020) in the Peruvian Amazon showed at least three separate genotypic clusters and estimated that the "Apistogramma agassizii" designation actually holds... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22503525 | 1,515,236 |
397,916 | Judith Arlene Resnik was born in Akron, Ohio, on April 5, 1949, the daughter of Marvin Resnik, an optometrist, and his wife Sarah ( Polensky), a legal secretary. She had a brother, Charles, who was four years younger. Her father was the son of a rabbi, and he had been born in Preluke in Ukraine. His family had emigrate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=316815 | 397,720 |
407,659 | RF (radio frequency) positioning systems are becoming more viable as higher frequency RF devices allow greater precision than older RF technologies such as traditional radar. The speed of light is 30 centimeters per nanosecond (billionth of a second), so a 10 gigahertz (billion cycles per second) RF signal enables an a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=396968 | 407,458 |
491,493 | The Maunsell King Arthur class also faced a decrease in suitable work on the Central and Eastern sections following the introduction of BR Standard class 5 and BR Standard class 4 4-6-0s in 1955. The gradual withdrawal of the "Urie N15s", H15s and SR N15x classes presented an opportunity to replace the ageing Drummond ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1326400 | 491,239 |
936,010 | Among the victims were Aa Jimmy, an Indonesian actor and comedian, and several members of the Indonesian band Seventeen — bassist Awal "Bani" Purbani, guitarist Herman Sikumbang, road manager Oki Wijaya, and crewmember Ujang was declared to be dead at the scene. After one day being announced missing, drummer Windu Andi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59466638 | 935,516 |
1,581,056 | Cleaved CRMP products play a considerable role in the degeneration of axons as a result of trauma inflicted on the central nervous system (CNS). As a result of trauma induced on the CNS, glutamate activates NMDA receptors leading to an influx of calcium that activates the calcium-dependent protease calpain. It has been... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23947350 | 1,580,166 |
271,848 | The F-16 Fighting Falcon entered service powered by the Pratt & Whitney F100 afterburning turbofan. Seeking a way to drive unit costs down, the USAF implemented the Alternative Fighter Engine (AFE) program in 1984, under which the engine contract would be awarded through competition. The F110 currently powers 86% of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=636522 | 271,700 |
117,195 | Pitt neighbors the campus of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and in some cases, buildings of the two universities are intermingled. This helps to facilitate a myriad of academic and research collaborations between the two schools, including such projects as the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, the Pittsburgh Life Sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239870 | 117,150 |
451,925 | Members of the genus "Heloderma" have many extinct relatives in the Helodermatidae whose evolutionary history may be traced back to the Cretaceous period, such as "Estesia". The genus "Heloderma" has existed since the Miocene, when "H. texana" lived, and fragments of osteoderms from the Gila monster have been found in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=343908 | 451,706 |
1,114,478 | INPhO is conducted on the last Sunday of January , every year, by the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education. School students (usually of standards 11 and 12 albeit special cases prevail) first need to qualify the National Standard Examination in Physics (NSEP) held on the last (or second last) Sunday of November of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6040494 | 1,113,910 |
1,686,435 | The Air Force Meteorologists and NASA's Observational Scientists desired higher apogees with the ROBINSphere payloads in the early 1970s. In 1972, Space Data completed the development of the Viper IIIA solid propellant rocket motor. This motor followed the design of the Super Loki nearly identically and provided apogee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1434867 | 1,685,489 |
241,343 | The major advantage of teleradiology is the ability to use different time zones to provide real-time emergency radiology services around-the-clock. The disadvantages include higher costs, limited contact between the referrer and the reporting Clinician, and the inability to cover for procedures requiring an onsite repo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152623 | 241,223 |
1,212,477 | A Straus flask (often misspelled "Strauss") is subclass of "bomb" flask originally developed by Kontes Glass Company, commonly used for storing dried and degassed solvents. Straus flasks are sometimes referred to as solvent bombs — a name which applies to any Schlenk bomb dedicated to storing solvent. Straus flasks are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7364243 | 1,211,825 |
54,319 | The Me 262 is often referred to as a "swept wing" design as the production aircraft had a small, but significant leading edge sweep of 18.5° which likely provided an advantage by increasing the critical Mach number. Sweep, uncommon at the time, was added after the initial design of the aircraft. The engines proved heav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20488 | 54,299 |
888,615 | From those first tentative steps, to the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon and the partially reusable Space Shuttle, the American space program brought forth a breathtaking display of applied science. Communications satellites transmit computer data, telephone calls, and radio and television broadcasts. Weather satellites ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=199804 | 888,147 |
101,095 | Players and their equipment also gain experience and level up from missions; equipment with higher levels support more 'Mods', abstracted upgrades (presented as cards in the game's UI) that can be slotted into the equipment to change its attributes or provide beneficial, or sometimes negative, bonuses and abilities. Mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38333096 | 101,050 |
1,140,904 | Bates and Wallace sailed from Liverpool in April 1848, arriving in Pará (now Belém) at the end of May. For the first year they settled in a villa near the city, collecting birds and insects. After that they agreed to collect independently, Bates travelling to Cametá on the Tocantins River. He then moved up the Amazon, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=163551 | 1,140,310 |
620,594 | A unique class of partially crystalline aromatic polyesters based on p-hydroxybenzoic acid and related monomers, liquid-crystal polymers are capable of forming regions of highly ordered structure while in the liquid phase. However, the degree of order is somewhat less than that of a regular solid crystal. Typically, LC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4721451 | 620,279 |
93,825 | A somewhat similar hypothesis was advanced by astronomer John J. Matese of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2002. He contends that more comets are arriving in the inner Solar System from a particular region of the postulated Oort cloud than can be explained by the galactic tide or stellar perturbations alone... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22385 | 93,784 |
418,709 | Trachytes are well represented among the Cenozoic volcanic rocks of Europe. In Britain they occur in Skye as lava flows and as dikes or intrusions, but they are much more common on the continent of Europe, as in the Rhine district and the Eifel, also in Auvergne, Bohemia and the Euganean Hills. In the neighborhood of R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=285236 | 418,504 |
555,564 | In the early years, research at Wallops concentrated on obtaining aerodynamic data at transonic and low supersonic speeds. Between 1959 and 1961, Project Mercury capsules were tested at Wallops in support of NASA's manned space flight program - the Mercury program - before astronauts were launched from Cape Canaveral A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=845673 | 555,275 |
859,508 | Technological change itself is often included in other models (e.g. climate change models) and was often taken as an [[exogenous]] factor. These days TC is more often included as an endogenous factor. This means that it is taken as something you can influence. Today, there are sectors that maintain the policy which can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1605798 | 859,050 |
458,795 | When John C. Calhoun, then U.S. Secretary of State and former U.S. Senator from South Carolina, claimed that freedom negatively affected Black Americans and that the 1840 U.S. Census showed that Blacks in the North had high rates of insanity and mortality, Smith responded with a masterful paper. In "A Dissertation on t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=368042 | 458,571 |
204,030 | In the mid 1970s, Boeing was considering designs for a new twin-engined aircraft to replace its successful 727. As the size of the proposed plane grew from 150 passengers towards 200, Rolls-Royce realised that the RB211 could be adapted by reducing the diameter of the fan and removing the first IP compressor stage to p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=387227 | 203,925 |
436,665 | The engineers of the construction consortium PBTB (Parsons Brinckerhoff-Tudor-Bechtel) used the best estimates of ground motion available at the time, now known to be insufficient given modern computational analysis methods and geotechnical knowledge. Unexpected settlement of the tube has reduced the amount of slip tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=923301 | 436,451 |
809,751 | Molecular recognition and self-assembly may be used with reactive species in order to pre-organize a system for a chemical reaction (to form one or more covalent bonds). It may be considered a special case of supramolecular catalysis. Non-covalent bonds between the reactants and a "template" hold the reactive sites of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1048518 | 809,320 |
1,074,603 | A photosynthetic reaction center is a complex of several proteins, pigments and other co-factors that together execute the primary energy conversion reactions of photosynthesis. Molecular excitations, either originating directly from sunlight or transferred as excitation energy via light-harvesting antenna systems, giv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3967032 | 1,074,049 |
1,256,898 | Although this technique is rather simple, it represents an enormous fabrication problem. A new kind of cell pattern potentially introduces as much as twice the amount of fabrication cost and infrastructure; the number of possible quantum dot locations on an interstitial grid is doubled and an overall increase in geomet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8411212 | 1,256,214 |
1,432,940 | Their well deck extended three-quarters the length of the ship and measured . The stern gate that opened onto the well deck measured . The original design called for the ability to transport 16 landing craft mechanized (LCMs), with each LCM able to embark a single tank. With four TLCs a medium tank battalion (comprisin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23183091 | 1,432,136 |
939,303 | Thermodynamic systems with unbounded phase space cannot achieve negative temperatures: adding heat always increases their entropy. The possibility of a decrease in entropy as energy increases requires the system to "saturate" in entropy. This is only possible if the number of high energy states is limited. For a system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=362728 | 938,802 |
140,311 | The S-125 "Neva/Pechora (, NATO reporting name SA-3 "Goa) is a Soviet surface-to-air missile system that was designed by Aleksei Isaev to complement the S-25 and S-75. It has a shorter effective range and lower engagement altitude than either of its predecessors and also flies slower, but due to its two-stage design it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1377417 | 140,254 |
886,390 | All enzymes work within a range of temperature specific to the organism. Increases in temperature generally lead to increases in reaction rates. There is a limit to the increase because higher temperatures lead to a sharp decrease in reaction rates. This is due to the denaturating (alteration) of protein structure resu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2634856 | 885,926 |
866,618 | High-purity, semiconductor-grade silicon (only a few parts per million of impurities) is melted in a crucible at , usually made of quartz. Dopant impurity atoms such as boron or phosphorus can be added to the molten silicon in precise amounts to dope the silicon, thus changing it into p-type or n-type silicon, with dif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=175039 | 866,158 |
459,677 | Just off campus, in the center of Main Street in Geneseo sits the famous Bronze Bear statue. "The Bear" also plays host to any number of spontaneous decorations and pranks throughout the academic year. A story also circulates that one of the wealthy Wadsworth daughters saw the bear fountain in a small town in Germany, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=512335 | 459,452 |
108,640 | The treatment of hyponatremia depends on the underlying cause. How quickly treatment is required depends on a person's symptoms. Fluids are typically the cornerstone of initial management. In those with severe disease an increase in sodium of about 5 mmol/L over one to four hours is recommended. A rapid rise in serum s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=190961 | 108,595 |
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