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1,687,822 | Since methanogenesis requires anaerobic environments, it is frequently associated with Arctic lakes, where the emergence of bubbles of methane can be observed. Lakes produced by the thaw of particularly ice-rich permafrost are known as thermokarst lakes. Not all of the methane produced in the sediment of a lake reaches... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27167234 | 1,686,876 |
704,205 | For current energy systems, many lessons can be learned from history. The need for large amounts of firewood in early industrial processes in combination with prohibitive costs for overland transportation led to a scarcity of accessible (e.g. affordable) wood and it has been found that eighteenth century glass-works "o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39208945 | 703,837 |
244,193 | The search for patterns in the variations of birds was attempted by many. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854), his student Johann Baptist von Spix (1781–1826), and several others believed that a hidden and innate mathematical order existed in the forms of birds. They believed that a "natural" classification ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42967 | 244,066 |
2,242,477 | In the summer of 2005, the Texas Maritime Academy took delivery of the USNS "Sirius". Built in 1966 as a replenishment ship for the Royal Navy and purchased by the U.S. Navy as a logistics ship, it supported two carrier battle groups in the Indian Ocean during the Iranian hostage crisis and continued its career in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1373604 | 2,241,206 |
199,951 | During the classical period in Greece (6th, 5th and 4th centuries BCE) and in Hellenistic times, natural philosophy slowly developed into an exciting and contentious field of study. Aristotle (, "Aristotélēs") (384 – 322 BCE), a student of Plato, promoted the concept that observation of physical phenomena could ultimat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13758 | 199,848 |
98,363 | On returning to Paramount, the art department had to recreate parts of Yellowstone in a large "B tank", long. The tank was designed to be flooded with millions of gallons of water to represent large bodies of water. Minor set up miniatures on the tank's floor before construction and made sure that the shadows that fell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277006 | 98,321 |
2,064,991 | McDonald took a couple of years to research the contents and improve the technology to rework the formula and return in 2006 with the modern day Polishing of Metal. Now centering purely on the life and times of Heavy Metal, "Polishing of Metal" managed to impress both the industry and music fans alike. Except for the g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13093858 | 2,063,800 |
1,763,572 | The patient subsequently developed a temperature of 37.5 °C, expressed rigors, and night sweats. He returned to the ED the next day and on further history admitted to 3 weeks of "snorting 6–8 lines of coke a day" and smoking marijuana every evening to "come down". He was hospitalized and treated with cefepime, doxycycl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36611269 | 1,762,579 |
1,712,315 | Although European military art on land can be argued not to have reached its developed stage until the 19th century in the attempt to defeat linear tactics that led to the First World War, and ultimate sophistication during the Second World War and the Cold War, great increases in the firepower of the European firearms... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19100297 | 1,711,350 |
679,655 | The uniqueness of Iizasa's Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū is still evident today, in the particular aspects of weapon-wielding, posture, stance, and foot and body movements which make allowance for the fact that the bushi (classical samurai warriors) of his era would be wearing 'yoroi' (armour) weighing around 35 kg,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234251 | 679,301 |
1,197,218 | One Italian research group discovered through digital screening that commercially available thiadiazole derivatives displayed moderate inhibitory action on both Abl and Src kinases. Using a 1,3,4 thiadiazol core and trying different groups or molecules on the benzene rings, several different substances with inhibitory ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29482568 | 1,196,577 |
994,267 | It is generally true, however, that bonds depicted this way are polar covalent, sometimes strongly so, and some authors claim that there are genuine differences in the properties of a dative bond and electron-sharing bond and suggest that showing a dative bond is more appropriate in particular situations. As far back a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45708 | 993,750 |
630,130 | On 12 February 1935, Watson-Watt sent the secret memo of the proposed system to the Air Ministry, "Detection and location of aircraft by radio methods". Although not as exciting as a death-ray, the concept clearly had potential, but the Air Ministry, before giving funding, asked for a demonstration proving that radio w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37206 | 629,792 |
1,431,885 | PuO, along with UO, is used in MOX fuels for nuclear reactors. Plutonium-238 dioxide is used as fuel for several deep-space spacecraft such as the Cassini, Voyager, Galileo and New Horizons probes as well as in the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers on Mars. The isotope decays by emitting α-particles, which then generat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2451775 | 1,431,081 |
419,019 | There is one version of the caloric theory that was introduced by Antoine Lavoisier. Prior to Lavoisier's caloric theory, published references concerning heat and its existence, outside of being an agent for chemical reactions, were sparse only having been offered by Joseph Black in Rozier's Journal (1772) citing the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=226412 | 418,814 |
620,646 | The tawny owl is thought to be a close relative of the Ural owl. Authors have hypothesized that the origin of the species divide followed Pleistocene continental glaciations segregated a southwest or southern group in temperate forest (i.e. the tawny) from an eastern one inhabiting cold, boreal ranges (i.e. the Ural). ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=815909 | 620,331 |
1,332,939 | Three Mariner probes were constructed for the mission, with two intended to fly and one as a spare in the event of a mission failure. The spacecraft was shipped to Cape Canaveral with their Atlas-Centaur boosters in December 1968 – January 1969 to begin pre-launch checkouts and testing. On February 14, Mariner 6 was un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38782 | 1,332,210 |
4,398 | Armstrong was born and raised in Wapakoneta, Ohio. A graduate of Purdue University, he studied aeronautical engineering; his college tuition was paid for by the U.S. Navy under the Holloway Plan. He became a midshipman in 1949 and a naval aviator the following year. He saw action in the Korean War, flying the Grumman F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21247 | 4,396 |
1,634,911 | In 1865, Joseph Leidy described a single poorly preserved tooth of a Late Cretaceous theropod from the greensand at Mullica Hill. He called the animal who left the tooth "Diplotomodon horrificus". In 1866, dinosaur remains were discovered in a marl pit near Barnsboro, New Jersey, owned by the Wet Jersey Marl Company. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37798985 | 1,633,988 |
94,869 | The strongest upper limit on the masses of neutrinos comes from cosmology: the Big Bang model predicts that there is a fixed ratio between the number of neutrinos and the number of photons in the cosmic microwave background. If the total energy of all three types of neutrinos exceeded an average of per neutrino, there ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21485 | 94,828 |
743,895 | The cosmic microwave background is radiation left over from decoupling after the epoch of recombination when neutral atoms first formed. At this point, radiation produced in the Big Bang stopped Thomson scattering from charged ions. The radiation, first observed in 1965 by Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson, has a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5378 | 743,501 |
1,592,020 | Many variations on the original task retrieval experiment have been conducted using three-year-old and two-and-a-half-year-old children, yielding very different results between the two groups. Though only six months apart, three-year-olds consistently perform very well whereas two-and-a-half-year-olds perform very poor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40624750 | 1,591,124 |
1,292,793 | During this period contracts were awarded to Hughes Aircraft (Ground Systems Group) to develop a terminal suitable for operational use in AWACS and ground command and control systems and to Singer Kearfott Corporation, now BAE Systems, to develop a terminal suitable for fighter aircraft installation. The Hughes effort ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=106295 | 1,292,082 |
1,513,608 | Ferrocene, , was first synthesised in 1951 during an attempt to prepare the fulvalene () by oxidative dimerization of cyclopentadiene; the resultant product was found to have molecular formula and reported to exhibit "remarkable stability". The discovery sparked substantial interest in the field of organometallic chemi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28223827 | 1,512,757 |
636,311 | Common data protocols involved in entertainment and architectural systems are Digital Multiplexing (or DMX512-A), Remote Device Management (or RDM), Art-Net, ACN or sACN (Streaming Architecture for Control Networks), Analog, and various proprietary control software from a variety of manufacturers. Systems Integrators d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2354785 | 635,972 |
1,316,597 | On May 17, 1998, a 55-year-old patient named Audrey LaRue Jones died of acute liver failure after taking troglitazone. Importantly, she had been monitored closely by physicians at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a participant in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) dia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=597793 | 1,315,872 |
1,939,854 | Due to the presence of intrinsic microporosity these polymers have high-free volume, high internal surface area, and have a high affinity for gases. A novel property of PIMs is that they do not possess a network structure and are often freely soluble in organic solvents. This allows PIMs to be precipitated or cast from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62577114 | 1,938,744 |
179,402 | From the west of Calgary, the other two main all-purpose venues were built at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. First, the Canmore Nordic Centre was 90% funded by the province of Alberta, for C$17.3 million. It is located beside the town of Canmore and it hosted cross-country skiing, plus its men's portion of the N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187504 | 179,309 |
932,955 | According to Romila Thapar, Ashoka's Dhamma is a superb document of his essential humanity and an answer to the socio-political needs of the contemporaneous situation. It was not anti-Brahmanical because respect for the Brahmans and Sarmanas is an integral part of his Dhamma. His emphasis on non-violence did not blind ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40513032 | 932,463 |
1,910,180 | For current metallization technologies for high-performance and low-power microelectronics, copper is the material of choice due to its higher electromigration (EM) stability (resulting from the higher melting point) and conductivity to aluminium. For downscaled logic and memory applications up to 14 nm node the increa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51056408 | 1,909,082 |
932,178 | Zuse designed the Z1 in 1935 to 1936 and built it from 1936 to 1938. The Z1 was wholly mechanical and only worked for a few minutes at a time at most. Helmut Schreyer advised Zuse to use a different technology. As a doctoral student at the Berlin Institute of Technology in 1937 he worked on the implementation of Boolea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152671 | 931,686 |
130,268 | Following the 2013 release of the APT 1 report from Mandiant, the industry has seen a shift towards signature-less approaches to the problem capable of detecting and mitigating zero-day attacks. Numerous approaches to address these new forms of threats have appeared, including behavioral detection, artificial intellige... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=268622 | 130,216 |
366,694 | The plans propose the installation of a latest generation ABM system with a radar site in the Czech Republic and the launch site in Poland. The system was announced to be aimed against ICBMs from Iran and North Korea. This caused harsh comments by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Organization for Security and Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1791 | 366,502 |
2,195,592 | Throughout the programme rapid publication of results was effected through "The BRIDGE Newsletter". In style this was an academic journal (but without peer review) comprising BRIDGE science results together with conference announcements, meeting reports, cruise reports, updates from the mid-ocean ridge programmes of ot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48231632 | 2,194,341 |
719,463 | Muzychuk continued to excel in 2012, reaching a career-best rating of 2606 in the middle of the year. She produced her career-best result at the European Individual Women's Championship, scoring 8½/11 and earning a bronze medal. She had an opportunity to win the tournament with a last-round draw, but lost to Valentina ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1076780 | 719,083 |
1,838,669 | Furthermore, over the past years obesity rates have dramatically increased worldwide. Statistics from across the globe demonstrate that approximately 22 million children under the age of five are classified as obese. Some health risks associated with childhood obesity include high blood pressure, high cholesterol level... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34081870 | 1,837,620 |
285,454 | The imperial examinations influenced traditional Chinese religion as well as contemporary literary tradition. The examination system ostensibly represented the Confucian system in its most rationalist expression and was designed to achieve a society ruled by men of merit, as determined by an objective measure of the ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=244479 | 285,300 |
2,146,651 | From 1955-57 he did his National Service in the army, learning Russian at Bodmin and Crail and serving in the Intelligence Corps. In 1957-59 he worked at the University of Birmingham as research fellow, there meeting and becoming influenced by the adult education tutor Graham Webster. In 1960 Dobson began working as a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38959130 | 2,145,420 |
1,390,618 | These same mortars, using high-explosive shells, came to be acknowledged by U.S. Army commanders and personnel as being one of the most effective means of quickly striking at stationary targets, such as machine gun nests, prepared strongpoints, pillboxes and even German artillery positions. Other advantages chemical mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=396691 | 1,389,847 |
157,453 | Gestational age was positively correlated with volumes of the temporal and fusiform gyri and sensorimotor cortex bilaterally, left inferior parietal lobule, brain stem, and various white matter tracts, as well as specific positive associations with the cerebellum and thalamus. Several structural brain alterations have ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=429542 | 157,381 |
86,483 | Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins employs the typing monkey concept in his book "The Blind Watchmaker" to demonstrate the ability of natural selection to produce biological complexity out of random mutations. In a simulation experiment Dawkins has his weasel program produce the Hamlet phrase "METHINKS IT IS LIKE A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42515 | 86,449 |
1,678,646 | The LLOV life cycle is hypothesized to begin with virion attachment to specific cell-surface receptors, followed by internalization, fusion of the virion envelope with endosomal membranes and the concomitant release of the virus nucleocapsid into the cytosol. LLOV glycoprotein (GP) is cleaved by endosomal cysteine prot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33017626 | 1,677,703 |
83,860 | The development of radar, mainly in secrecy, before and during World War II, resulted in the technological advances which made microwaves practical. Wavelengths in the centimeter range were required to give the small radar antennas which were compact enough to fit on aircraft a narrow enough beamwidth to localize enemy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20097 | 83,826 |
1,692,249 | In recognition of the increasing importance of global resource use mediated by international trade for environmental accounting and policy, new perspectives have been and are currently being developed within environmental accounting. The most prominent among these are consumption-based accounts compiled using environme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42831222 | 1,691,298 |
64,736 | Brazil's Atlantic Forest is considered one such hotspot, containing roughly 20,000 plant species, 1,350 vertebrates and millions of insects, about half of which occur nowhere else. The island of Madagascar and India are also particularly notable. Colombia is characterized by high biodiversity, with the highest rate of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45086 | 64,711 |
1,940,573 | For example, conservator and material analyst Kristen Moffitt (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Conservation, Conservator & Materials Analyst) tells how Patrick Baty used soot laminated between layers of a sample to determine the point at which the pre- and post-industrial eras diverged, as regulations were introduced... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14104519 | 1,939,462 |
1,008,557 | After the fall of France a number of S 35s (297 were captured according to some sources) were taken into service with the Wehrmacht as the "Panzerkampfwagen 35-S 739(f)". The Germans modified the cupola by cutting its top off and installing a simple hatch. On 10 December 1940 the first German tank unit equipped with Fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2838334 | 1,008,036 |
293,407 | Solanine poisoning symptoms may occur when immature green fruit (looks similar to green peas) or mature leaves are ingested raw. They are typically delayed for 6 to 12 hours after ingestion. Initial symptoms of toxicity include fever, sweating, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, confusion, and drowsiness. Death from i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2187425 | 293,249 |
63,878 | The United States military have expressed interest in pursuing research in electric gun technology throughout the late 20th century, since electromagnetic guns don't require propellants to fire a shot as conventional gun systems do, significantly increasing crew safety and reducing logistics costs, as well as provide a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218930 | 63,853 |
1,189,538 | By 1954, all U.S. networks had regained control of their programming, with higher advertising revenues: ABC's revenue increased by 67% (earning $26 million), NBC's went up by 30% ($100 million) and CBS's rose by 44% ($117 million). However that year, ABC had only 14 primary affiliates compared to the 74 that carried th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64765894 | 1,188,906 |
1,709,748 | A process related to the sol-gel route is the Pechini, or liquid mix, process (named after its American inventor, Maggio Pechini). An aqueous solution of suitable oxides or salts is mixed with an alpha-hydroxycarboxylic acid such as citric acid. Chelation, or the formation of complex ring-shaped compounds around the me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66580770 | 1,708,789 |
801,246 | Prigogine traces the dispute over determinism back to Darwin, whose attempt to explain individual variability according to evolving populations inspired Ludwig Boltzmann to explain the behavior of gases in terms of populations of particles rather than individual particles. This led to the field of statistical mechanics... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=238560 | 800,818 |
1,313,556 | During the early Anglo-Saxon period (c. 450–650), archaeological evidence for subsistence-level wool production using warp-weighted looms is extensive. Tools and technologies of spinning and weaving were similar to those of the Roman period; it is likely that fine, white wool continued to be produced from sheep introdu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45342882 | 1,312,836 |
742,022 | The earliest EDA tools were produced academically. One of the most famous was the "Berkeley VLSI Tools Tarball", a set of UNIX utilities used to design early VLSI systems. Still widely used are the Espresso heuristic logic minimizer, responsible for circuit complexity reductions and Magic, a computer-aided design platf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216881 | 741,630 |
100,745 | The Computer Science department's webcam provides a live feed of the campus as seen from the top of the Gould-Simpson building (the tallest classroom building on campus at 10 stories). The Berger Memorial Fountain at the west entrance of Old Main honors the UA students who lost their lives in World War I, and dates bac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32015 | 100,700 |
961,610 | Thorndike's Educational psychology began a trend toward behavioral psychology that sought to use empirical evidence and a scientific approach to problem solving. Thorndike was among some of the first psychologists to combine learning theory, psychometrics, and applied research for school-related subjects to form psycho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84864 | 961,101 |
1,048,997 | The Part C (originally Part H) program mandates a statewide, comprehensive, multidisciplinary service system to address the needs of infants and toddlers who are experiencing developmental delays or a diagnosed physical or mental condition with a high probability of an associated developmental disability in one or more... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4739983 | 1,048,452 |
1,359,079 | "Rickettsia typhi" is a small, gram-negative intracellular bacterium that establishes the murine typhus infection in mammals and fleas. Murine typhus was once one of the most prevalent rickettsial diseases in the world, having isolated the "R. typhi" causative agent from nearly every continent around the globe except f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20321247 | 1,358,328 |
1,802,968 | The benefit of using interference lithography is the quick generation of dense features over a wide area without loss of focus. Seamless diffraction gratings on areas of more than one square meter have been originated by interference lithography. Hence, it is commonly used for the origination of master structures for s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4432469 | 1,801,955 |
1,350,840 | Advances in cartographic production technology in the 20th century, especially the advent and widespread availability of color Offset printing, then a multitude of advances spurred on by World War II, such as Photolithography, gave cartographers a larger palette of design options, and made it easier to creatively innov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64920852 | 1,350,094 |
1,652,934 | At the time, the property only had three buildings: a log chapel built by Stephen Badin (the original burned down in 1856 but a replica was built in 1906), a small two-story clapboard building that was the home of the Potawatomi interpreter Charon, and a small shed. Of the 524 acres, only 10 was cleared and ready for c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33791684 | 1,652,002 |
2,151,558 | Prof. Montañez's more recent contributions have consisted of developing quantitative proxies for paleoclimate reconstruction. Much of this work has focused on Paleozoic and Mesozoic climate change during periods of acute glaciation, oceanic anoxic events of greenhouse periods, and greenhouse gas-forced turnovers from i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42068331 | 2,150,327 |
325,058 | Piaget's research relied on very small samples that were not randomly selected. His book "The Origins of Intelligence in Children" was based on the study of just three children: his own. This means that it is difficult to generalize Piaget's findings to the broader population. Piaget interacted closely with his researc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=95274 | 324,885 |
1,056,612 | As Type 346 development continued, 14th Institute team went another personnel change. Due to the urgent need of integrating Russian MR-710 radar to Type 052B destroyer, the original general designer Wan Jun was reassigned as the general engineer of this program, and later on, deputy general designer Diao Chen-Xi immigr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51215241 | 1,056,063 |
187,427 | The RAN commenced plans to improve their frigates' combat capability in 1996, with the Warfighting Improvement Program (WIP). Upgrades proposed under the WIP included installation of a phased-array radar, a second Mark 41 vertical launch system. The WIP was scrapped near the end of 1999, and plans for a less ambitious ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=897679 | 187,330 |
118,213 | As global talk about climate change and the future of industrial corporations, the world systems theory can help to explain the creation of the G-77 group, a coalition of 77 peripheral and semi-peripheral states wanting a seat at the global climate discussion table. The group was formed in 1964, but it now has more tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1582335 | 118,168 |
1,959,692 | One major strand of Wößmann's research studies the determinants of student achievement, including the role of class size and teacher quality, of educational institutions and education systems, and of tracking and early childhood education. Key themes that emerge from this research focus on the often small effect of qua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56571686 | 1,958,565 |
1,771,974 | By discovering many geological forms that are typically formed from large amounts of water, Viking orbiters caused a revolution in our ideas about water on Mars. Huge river valleys were found in many areas. They showed that floods of water broke through dams, carved deep valleys, eroded grooves into bedrock, and travel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32939362 | 1,770,977 |
309,158 | "n"-grams can also be used for efficient approximate matching. By converting a sequence of items to a set of "n"-grams, it can be embedded in a vector space, thus allowing the sequence to be compared to other sequences in an efficient manner. For example, if we convert strings with only letters in the English alphabet ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=986182 | 308,993 |
70,728 | In 1952, Stanley Miller and Harold Urey carried out a chemical experiment to demonstrate how organic molecules could have formed spontaneously from inorganic precursors under prebiotic conditions like those posited by the Oparin–Haldane hypothesis. It used a highly reducing (lacking oxygen) mixture of gases—methane, am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19179706 | 70,701 |
582,633 | The navy began the program by testing and reverse engineering two German Type XXI U-boats— and —obtained as war reparation. That analysis led to four goals—increasing the submarines' battery capacity, streamlining the boats' structures, adding snorkels, and improving fire control systems. The navy immediately focused o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=444566 | 582,334 |
487,498 | In this approach, the body is modeled as a set of point masses (nodes) connected by ideal weightless elastic springs obeying some variant of Hooke's law. The nodes may either derive from the edges of a two-dimensional polygonal mesh representation of the surface of the object, or from a three-dimensional network of nod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5917746 | 487,248 |
1,712,203 | On 23 April 2020, NASA reported building, in 37 days, a ventilator (called VITAL). On April 30, NASA reported receiving fast-track approval for emergency use by the United States Food and Drug Administration for the new ventilator. , 26 manufacturers around the world have been licensed to make the device. The COVID-19 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65339945 | 1,711,238 |
1,940,954 | Russia had just one match point deficit to the leaders before the round and still had hopes for stealing the gold in the last minute but their hopes were dashed in the match against India that ended in a 2–2 tie. The Russian team were even trailing after the World Champion Challenger Sergey Karjakin lost to Pentala Har... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51472590 | 1,939,843 |
1,959,372 | To promote student mobility, AOTULE members organize intra-AOTULE student short stays and research exchanges varying in length from one week at Chulalongkorn University to three months at Tokyo Institute of Technology. These exchanges facilitate global engineering, cross-cultural competencies, foreign language learning... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44810542 | 1,958,245 |
2,026,871 | The field of Near infrared spectroscopy (NIR) got its start in 1968, when Karl Norris and co-workers with the Instrumentation Research Lab of the U.S. Department of Agriculture first applied the technology to agricultural products. The USDA discovered how to use NIR empirically, based on available sources, gratings, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67525376 | 2,025,704 |
241,334 | Nuclear medicine imaging involves the administration into the patient of radiopharmaceuticals consisting of substances with affinity for certain body tissues labeled with radioactive tracer. The most commonly used tracers are technetium-99m, iodine-123, iodine-131, gallium-67, indium-111, thallium-201 and fludeoxygluco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152623 | 241,214 |
2,062,109 | Cutbacks in funding hit Canada's premier astronomical research organization the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics hard. Money could not be found to resurface the Algonquin Park Radio Telescope and it along with the solar telescope near Ottawa were closed in 1986. However that same year, the HIA did establish the Canad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18401364 | 2,060,919 |
748,995 | As high-throughput technologies became common, technological and/or financial constraints led researchers to collect datasets with relatively small sample sizes (e.g. few individuals being tested) and large numbers of variables being measured per sample (e.g. thousands of gene expression levels). In these datasets, too... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4574271 | 748,597 |
690,506 | Brenner then focused on establishing a free-living roundworm "Caenorhabditis elegans" as a model organism for the investigation of animal development including neural development. He chose this 1-millimeter-long soil roundworm mainly because it is simple, is easy to grow in bulk populations, and turned out to be quite ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=379148 | 690,143 |
24,594 | Following a series of arcade game successes in the early 1980s, Nintendo made plans to create a cartridge-based console called the Family Computer, or Famicom. Masayuki Uemura designed the system. The console's hardware was largely based on arcade video games, particularly the hardware for Namco's "Galaxian" (1979) and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18944028 | 24,585 |
1,638,007 | In February 2010, Takana, a rabbinical forum set up to prevent sexual abuse in the national religious community, issued a statement claiming that it had received complaints against Elon dealing with allegations of "a long-term relationship that was clearly of a sexual nature" since shortly after its founding in 2003. D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4625240 | 1,637,082 |
26,611 | DSC compression works on a horizontal line of pixels encoded using groups of three consecutive pixels for native 4:4:4 and simple 4:2:2 formats, or six pixels (three compressed containers) for native 4:2:2 and 4:2:0 formats. If RGB encoding is used, it is first converted to reversible YCC. Simple conversion from 4:2:2 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2515655 | 26,601 |
1,547,889 | The apparently tumbling movements are composed of a series of very rapid separate jumps (each jump of a duration of approximately 80 ms). They result from the beetle's efforts to get itself back into take-off position for flight when it has been in either lateral or dorsal position. Each individual jump should be consi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21719540 | 1,547,011 |
1,102,137 | Chaudhuri sat in the editorial boards of several journals including "International Journal of Computer Vision" of Springer, "IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence" of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and "IET Computer Vision" of Institution of Engineering and Technology. He cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53067697 | 1,101,576 |
599,890 | For this reason, while super-miniature electronic integrated circuits are fully functional, the same technology cannot be used to make working mechanical devices beyond the scales where frictional forces start to exceed the available power. So even though you may see microphotographs of delicately etched silicon gears,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8327305 | 599,584 |
832,106 | Visible surface features such as oil seeps, natural gas seeps, pockmarks (underwater craters caused by escaping gas) provide basic evidence of hydrocarbon generation (be it shallow or deep in the Earth). However, most exploration depends on highly sophisticated technology to detect and determine the extent of these dep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=614302 | 831,657 |
215,279 | The Air Corps Act gave authorization to carry out a five-year expansion program. However, a lack of appropriations caused the beginning of the program to be delayed until 1 July 1927. Patrick proposed an increase to 63 tactical squadrons (from an existing 32) to maintain the program of the Lassiter Board already in eff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23869026 | 215,171 |
1,276,224 | The company continued to develop electronic memory, batteries, and solar cells, reinvesting almost every penny of profit into the scientific study of a wide variety of problems, much of which later became the basis of lucrative industries, e.g., flat screen liquid crystal displays. In time, license fees to ECD began to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2785878 | 1,275,531 |
36,645 | In 1961, several aircraft companies began studying heavy jet transport designs that would replace the Douglas C-133 Cargomaster and complement Lockheed C-141 Starlifters. In addition to higher overall performance, the United States Army wanted a transport aircraft with a larger cargo bay than the C-141, whose interior ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160434 | 36,633 |
67,371 | One of Skinner's experiments examined the formation of superstition in one of his favorite experimental animals, the pigeon. Skinner placed a series of hungry pigeons in a cage attached to an automatic mechanism that delivered food to the pigeon "at regular intervals with no reference whatsoever to the bird's behavior.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4868 | 67,345 |
991,230 | REXIS is a coded aperture soft X-ray (0.3–7.5 keV) telescope that images X-ray fluorescence line emission produced by the absorption of solar X-rays and the solar wind with elements in the regolith of Bennu leading to local X-ray emissions. Images are formed with 21 arcminute resolution (4.3 m spatial resolution at a d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31883732 | 990,713 |
2,018,544 | Swiss racing driver, engineer, and fuel injection specialist Michael May transferred from Mercedes Benz to Porsche to work on the 753 engine, but wound up developing improvements for the 547/3 engine instead. May's changes included reducing the oil pressure, removing two of the engines five piston rings, using a new ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69036377 | 2,017,381 |
404,600 | The playing environment in "Eve Online" consists of more than 5000 star systems, as well as 2500 randomly accessible wormhole systems, taking place in 23341 C.E. Systems are classified by their Security Status, on a decimal scale from −1.0 to 1.0. These systems are categorized into three groups, each determining the re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=403307 | 404,400 |
10,989 | The new group of drugs was initially greeted with optimism by the medical profession, but gradually concerns arose; in particular, the risk of dependence became evident in the 1980s. Benzodiazepines have a unique history in that they were responsible for the largest-ever class-action lawsuit against drug manufacturers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4781 | 10,984 |
76,842 | Final development of the M1918A2 was authorized on 30 June 1938. The FN-designed pistol grip and rate-reducer mechanism with two rates of automatic fire was shelved in favor of a rate-reducer mechanism designed by Springfield Armory, and housed in the butt stock. The Springfield Armory rate reducer also provided two se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378838 | 76,813 |
926,607 | During the eruption of the Siberian Traps, some of magma penetrated the crust, covering an area of , equal to 62% of the area of the contiguous states of the United States. The hot magma contained vast quantities of carbon dioxide and sulfur oxides, and released additional carbon dioxide and methane from deep petroleum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1097662 | 926,121 |
480,956 | Rhizotomy is usually performed on the pediatric spastic cerebral palsy population between the ages of 2 and 6, since this is the age range where orthopedic deformities from spasticity have not yet occurred, or are minimal. It is also variously claimed by clinicians that another advantage of doing the surgery so young i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8417113 | 480,712 |
972,282 | Causal dynamical triangulation (abbreviated as "CDT") invented by Renate Loll, Jan Ambjørn and Jerzy Jurkiewicz, and popularized by Fotini Markopoulou and Lee Smolin, is an approach to quantum gravity that like loop quantum gravity is background independent. This means that it does not assume any pre-existing arena (di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=151577 | 971,772 |
1,573,121 | While a neurons electrical properties are an important when considering defining a cell type its morphology, types of neurotransmitters released, neurotransmitter receptors expressed at synapses, as well as the neuron's location in the nervous system and its local circuit are equally important. Neurons come in a huge d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66692692 | 1,572,232 |
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