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556,347 | In 1955 Kalecki returned to Poland, never to work abroad for any extended period again. Hopeful for an opportunity to participate there in reforms that were socially advantageous, he believed that socialism would avoid the miseries brought by capitalist policies. He became economic advisor to the Office of the Council ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2205338 | 556,058 |
2,093,958 | This system will increase lethality, mobility, survivability, command and control and overall protection of the troops. This environmental chamber study compared physiological responses of volunteers exercising in MOPP 0, MOPP 1, and MOPP 4 with equivalent SIPE configurations, including SIPE 4 with and without ambient ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24535988 | 2,092,751 |
148,953 | The "Seiran" was specifically designed for use aboard the submarines and could carry an bomb at . To fit inside the narrow confines of the hangar, the floats were removed and stowed, the wings rotated 90 degrees and folded backward hydraulically against the fuselage, the horizontal stabilizers folded down and the top o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=497953 | 148,892 |
206,668 | The silent 16 mm format was initially aimed at the home enthusiast, but by the 1930s it had begun to make inroads into the educational market. The addition of optical sound tracks and, most notably, Kodachrome in 1935, gave an enormous boost to its popularity. The format was used extensively during World War II, and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46224 | 206,561 |
882,392 | Ion-beam sputtering (IBS) is a method in which the target is external to the ion source. A source can work without any magnetic field like in a hot filament ionization gauge. In a Kaufman source ions are generated by collisions with electrons that are confined by a magnetic field as in a magnetron. They are then accele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9084531 | 881,928 |
1,919,900 | Since 1994 Larhammar has been a professor of molecular biology at Uppsala University where he has supervised 22 students to a PhD degree. His research focuses on three lines of research: clarifying the evolution of the mechanisms for long-term memory, resolving the evolution important gene families in vertebrates, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54629951 | 1,918,799 |
1,466,777 | In the United States, radiation oncologists undergo four years of residency (in addition to an internship), which is more dedicated to oncology training than any other medical specialty. During the four years of post-graduate training, residents learn about clinical oncology, the physics and biology of ionizing radiati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=273501 | 1,465,954 |
977,524 | In 1923, the French physicist Louis de Broglie put forward his theory of matter waves by stating that particles can exhibit wave characteristics and vice versa. This theory was for a single particle and derived from special relativity theory. Building on de Broglie's approach, modern quantum mechanics was born in 1925,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9067941 | 977,013 |
681,473 | The main driver of Jupiter's magnetosphere is the planet's rotation. In this respect Jupiter is similar to a device called a Unipolar generator. When Jupiter rotates, its ionosphere moves relatively to the dipole magnetic field of the planet. Because the dipole magnetic moment points in the direction of the rotation, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8482163 | 681,117 |
2,052,021 | When the Nazis came to power, he left Germany and moved to Scotland, then Canada, then Cuba. He received his B.S. from the University of Havana in 1946. He moved to the United States in 1946 and taught at the University of Notre Dame from 1948. In 1972 he moved to be the W.R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Chemistry at the Un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18650424 | 2,050,840 |
1,794,916 | The Urban Aeronautics X-Hawk is a proposed flying car designed by Rafi Yoeli in Yavne, Israel, being built by Metro Skyways Ltd., a subsidiary of Yoeli's privately held company, Urban Aeronautics. The firm claims to have flown the car to a height of , and that greater heights are possible. The X-Hawk and its smaller un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9342901 | 1,793,907 |
825,521 | Evidence rapidly accumulated to show that natural selection was responsible. Using a method invented by L'Héritier and Teissier, Dobzhansky bred populations in "population cages", which enabled feeding, breeding and sampling whilst preventing escape. This had the benefit of eliminating migration as a possible explanati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=344879 | 825,078 |
886,954 | The rise of the personal computer industry in the early 1980s created a new common practice among both consumers and businesses of adopting "bleeding edge" communications technology even if it was not yet standardized. Thus, standards organizations had to put forth standards much faster, or find themselves ratifying de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14744 | 886,490 |
162,453 | Structure mapping, originally proposed by Dedre Gentner, is a theory in psychology that describes the psychological processes involved in reasoning through and learning from analogies. More specifically, this theory aims to describe how familiar knowledge, or knowledge about a base domain, can be used to inform an indi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=103533 | 162,368 |
598,739 | Throughout its operation, Davis–Besse has been the site of several safety incidents that affected the plant's operation. According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Davis–Besse has been the source of two of the top five most dangerous nuclear incidents in the United States since 1979. The most severe occurrin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1011995 | 598,434 |
1,986,921 | Mortimer qualified for six women's SM10 events at the 2012 London Paralympics—the 200-metre individual medley, 4 × 100 m freestyle relay 34pts, 4 × 100 m medley relay, 50- and 100-metre freestyle and 100-metre backstroke—and expectations for her were high. On August 30, the first day of the competition, Sophie Pascoe o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36891092 | 1,985,779 |
326,925 | In December 2014, following a request for information, the bulk of the MMF member states entered negotiations with Airbus to procure an A330 MRTT fleet to be owned by NATO while the Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR) and the NATO Support and Procurement Agency would support the procurement process. Thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=616482 | 326,751 |
906,935 | Since their discovery in 1873 there has been considerable debate about their origin. Three theories were dominant: from 1949 to 1970 the connective tissue origin was popular, which stated that osteoclasts and osteoblasts are of the same lineage, and osteoblasts fuse together to form osteoclasts. After years of controve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=592914 | 906,457 |
1,424,991 | Neurexins (NRXN) are a family of presynaptic cell adhesion proteins that have roles in connecting neurons at the synapse. They are located mostly on the presynaptic membrane and contain a single transmembrane domain. The extracellular domain interacts with proteins in the synaptic cleft, most notably neuroligin, while ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12409041 | 1,424,189 |
840,017 | Studies suggest that Rb repression of the E2F family of transcription factors regulates the G to G transition just as it does the G to S transition. Activating E2F complexes are associated with the recruitment of histone acetyltransferases, which activate gene expression necessary for G entry, while E2F4 complexes recr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=619064 | 839,567 |
596,970 | Johns, Schmader, and Martens (2005) conducted a study in which they examined the effect of teaching stereotype threat as a means of improving women's math performance. The researchers concluded that women tended to perform worse than men when problems were described as math equations. However, women did not differ from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8111444 | 596,665 |
1,075,918 | European sources find it more certain that dental infections drive systemic diseases, at least by driving systemic inflammation, and probably, among other immunologic mechanisms, by molecular mimicry resulting in antigenic crossreaction with host biomolecules, while some seemingly find progressive invasion of local tis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9510615 | 1,075,363 |
742,264 | A key problem was that the customer might only have a single twisted pair line to the location of the handset, so the solution used in T1 with separate upstream and downstream connections was not universally available. With analog connections, the solution was to use echo cancellation, but at the much higher bandwidth ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15231 | 741,872 |
346,037 | Hahn was fascinated by chemistry and spent years conducting amateur chemistry experiments, which sometimes caused small explosions and other mishaps. He was inspired in part by reading "The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments" and tried to collect samples of every element in the periodic table, including the radioacti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1024843 | 345,856 |
949,823 | Additional medications that are being considered for prevention but require further research to determine efficacy and treatment guidelines include acetazolamide, salmeterol, tadalafil (and other PDE5 inhibitors), and dexamethasone. Acetazolamide has proven to be clinically effective, but formal studies are lacking. Sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1612590 | 949,319 |
1,473,302 | Through the whole Siberian prehistoric period from the Neolithic until the Iron Age, there are a very limited range of ceramic types. The vast majority of ceramic finds are round bulbous vessels, often with folded edges. In the Neolithic they mostly had concave bases, while later flat bases became more common. In the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14836781 | 1,472,471 |
225,584 | The genus "Mycobacterium" is a slow growing bacteria, made up of small rods that are slightly curved or straight, and are considered to be gram positive. Some mycobacteria are free-living saprophytes, but many are pathogens that cause disease in animals and humans. "Mycobacterium bovis" causes tuberculosis in cattle. S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1126212 | 225,468 |
1,382,798 | Chrysler had apparently been carrying out paper studies of a very large engine for a brief period starting in May 1940 and decided to present their work to the United States Army Air Corps. They proposed a large engine to provide 2,500 hp initially, with room for growth upwards. Instead of using advanced features such ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2119447 | 1,382,032 |
1,515,157 | A quantitative imaging biomarkers (QIB) is "an objective characteristic derived from an in vivo image measured on a ratio or interval scale as indicators of normal biological processes, pathogenic processes or a response to a therapeutic intervention". advantage of QIB's over qualitative imaging biomarkers is that they... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26450590 | 1,514,306 |
1,175,563 | Periglaciation became a distinct subject within the study of geology after Walery Łoziński, a Polish geologist, introduced the term in 1909. Łoziński drew upon the early work of Johan Gunnar Andersson. According to Alfred Jahn, his introduction of his work at the 1910 International Geological Congress held in Stockholm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44318365 | 1,174,941 |
1,423,449 | Educators have shown some interest and described projects and experiences with transformation geometry for children from kindergarten to high school. In the case of very young age children, in order to avoid introducing new terminology and to make links with students' everyday experience with concrete objects, it was s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=473774 | 1,422,648 |
1,545,576 | An All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position—who in turn are given the honorific "All-America" and typically referred to as "All-American athletes", or simply "All-Americans". Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26305001 | 1,544,702 |
619,451 | "Semantic" retrieval starts with a user making a request like "find pictures of Abraham Lincoln". This type of open-ended task is very difficult for computers to perform - Lincoln may not always be facing the camera or in the same pose. Many CBIR systems therefore generally make use of lower-level features like texture... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=743971 | 619,137 |
248,014 | Petrochemicals are predominantly made in a few manufacturing locations around the world, for example in Jubail & Yanbu Industrial Cities in Saudi Arabia, Texas & Louisiana in the US, in Teesside in the Northeast of England in the United Kingdom, in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, in Jamnagar, Dahej in Gujarat, India and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67728 | 247,886 |
1,446,021 | OTDR was developed more than 20 years ago and has become the industry standard for telecom loss measurements which detects the—compared to Raman signal very dominant—Rayleigh backscattering signals. The principle for OTDR is quite simple and is very similar to the time of flight measurement used for radar. Essentially ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6593900 | 1,445,205 |
1,436,580 | Swamidass published "The Genealogical Adam and Eve: The Surprising Science of Universal Ancestry" in 2019 based on implications of recent universal genealogical ancestry regarding the theology of the image of God, the fall, and people outside the garden. The appendix includes Swamidass' work "The Resurrection, Evidence... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69182555 | 1,435,771 |
1,864,798 | In March 1970, additional tests begun at different places, including Lushun, Zhoushan, and Qinghai, and lasted 18 months, over 500 times and using 104 samples. The 18-month-long trial tested a total of 28 designs and finally solved all of the existing problems. However, the Chinese microelectronics industry was not cap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12949759 | 1,863,726 |
259,115 | Any inherent errors in early pendulum clocks were smaller than other errors caused by factors such as temperature variation. In 1729 the Yorkshire carpenter and self-taught clockmaker John Harrison invented the gridiron pendulum, which used at least three metals of different lengths and expansion properties, connected ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14449116 | 258,981 |
1,786,438 | Similar to text-based sentiment analysis, multimodal sentiment analysis can be applied in the development of different forms of recommender systems such as in the analysis of user-generated videos of movie reviews and general product reviews, to predict the sentiments of customers, and subsequently create product or se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57687371 | 1,785,433 |
1,031,165 | It is not possible to completely avoid all discrepant messages. When exposure to a dissonant message has occurred, the phenomenon of selective perception often follows. This process simply means that people skew their perceptions to coincide with what they desire (Johnson-Cartee & Copeland, 1997). Perception is subject... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22330799 | 1,030,629 |
1,562,879 | Scintillation, meaning rapid modification, in radio waves due to the small scale structures in the ionosphere, known as ionospheric scintillation, was observed as early as 1951 by Antony Hewish, and he then reported irregularities in radiation received during an observation of a bright radio source in Taurus in 1954. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23673493 | 1,561,992 |
775,770 | One of the earliest electronic photocomposition systems was introduced by Fairchild Semiconductor. The typesetter typed a line of text on a Fairchild keyboard that had no display. To verify correct content of the line it was typed a second time. If the two lines were identical a bell rang and the machine produced a pun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=169180 | 775,354 |
1,703,635 | Product service systems (PSS) are sets of marketable products and services that work together to fulfill a user's needs. This approach is a result of firms realizing that services in combination with products can provide higher profits and customer satisfaction then simply selling products alone. Firms that use PSS wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33689817 | 1,702,679 |
1,156,507 | From several studies involving cases of "P. oryzihabitans", research reveals that there is a close relationship between infection, underlying disease, and the presence of catheters in patients. This means that infections occur most in people that have debilitating disease and have artificial material located in their b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10330881 | 1,155,897 |
1,486,230 | Teresa K. Woodruff is an American medical researcher in human reproduction and oncology, with a focus on ovarian biology, endocrinology, and women's health. She joined Michigan State University as the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs in August 2020. Woodruff became the interim President of Mich... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58094788 | 1,485,392 |
973,435 | While some sources say that an individual's style of throwing or the type of pitches that they throw are the most important determinant of their likelihood to sustain an injury, the results of a 2002 study suggest that the total number of pitches thrown is the greatest determinant. A 2002 study examined the throwing vo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=306900 | 972,925 |
45,361 | Despite the potential retirement of the Block 30 fleet due to low reliability, low mission readiness, and high costs, the USAF released a pre-solicitation notice in September 2013 for Lot 12 aircraft. In planning the USAF's FY 2015 budget, the Pentagon reversed its previous decision, shifting $3 billion from the U-2 to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37375 | 45,344 |
539,604 | What sets connectivism apart from theories such as constructivism is the view that "learning (defined as actionable knowledge) can reside outside of ourselves (within an organization or a database), is focused on connecting specialized information sets, and the connections that enable us to learn more are more importan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17364396 | 539,324 |
1,872,776 | Where the Model 700 differs from classical delta-sigma modulation is in its replacement of the single integrator with a complex system of comparators and high-order linear prediction filters. This was done in order to reduce the quantization error, and is accomplished in part by changing the effective "step size" of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4786858 | 1,871,699 |
820,849 | In 1928, Medawar went to Marlborough College in Marlborough, Wiltshire. He hated the college because "they were critical and querulous at the same time, wondering what kind of person a Lebanese was—something foreign you can be sure". And also because of its preference on sports, in which he was weak. An experience of b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=172002 | 820,408 |
739,093 | The concerto had a disastrous premiere, at the opening concert of the London Symphony Orchestra's 1919–20 season on 27 October 1919. Apart from the concerto, which the composer conducted, the rest of the programme was conducted by Albert Coates, who overran his rehearsal time at the expense of Elgar's. Lady Elgar wrote... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=763813 | 738,701 |
2,198,330 | Numerous proteins are utilized in PNP synthesis. They are often sourced naturally from animal and plant sources. Accordingly, generally shared advantages of animal proteins include high biocompatibility, biodegradability, non-immunogenicity, drug loading efficiency, cell uptake, and easy and cost-effective production. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70704600 | 2,197,079 |
817,060 | In "The Orrery", all the subjects have been identified apart from the philosopher, who has physical similarities to Isaac Newton but differs enough to make positive identification impossible. Nicolson detects the strong influence of Frye throughout the picture. Particularly striking is the similarity between Frye's mez... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8870404 | 816,624 |
1,667,006 | One proposal to improve research for treatment in aggressive lymphoma is to use canines as model animals. Canine lymphoma prevalence has been increasing over the years similar to the incidence of human lymphoma cases. Lymphoma represents the most frequent hematopoietic cancer in dogs with canine non-Hodgkin lymphoma (c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400583 | 1,666,067 |
463,811 | Critical responses to relativity were also expressed by proponents of neo-Kantianism (Paul Natorp, Bruno Bauch etc.), and phenomenology (Oskar Becker, Moritz Geiger etc.). While some of them only rejected the philosophical consequences, others rejected also the physical consequences of the theory. Einstein was criticiz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30694430 | 463,581 |
1,747,591 | Ephs can be divided into two subclasses, EphAs and EphBs (encoded by the genetic loci designated "EPHA" and "EPHB" respectively), based on sequence similarity and on their binding affinity for either the glycosylphosphatidylinositol-linked ephrin-A ligands or the transmembrane-bound ephrin-B ligands. Of the 16 Eph rece... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5647595 | 1,746,605 |
1,028,166 | Following the HLH program cancellation, Allison decided in early 1976 to apply the XT701 engine technology into a new industrial gas turbine product, the 570-K. The industrial engine, which entered production in the late 1970s, was derated to and adapted for marine, gas compressor, and electrical power generation varia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2395247 | 1,027,632 |
667,759 | The L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science were set up in 1998, with prizes alternating each year between the materials science and life sciences. One award is given for each geographical region of Africa and the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and North America. By 2017, these a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3135183 | 667,411 |
1,344,146 | In this approach, the second law of thermodynamics is introduced as "Energy spontaneously disperses from being localized to becoming spread out if it is not hindered from doing so," often in the context of common experiences such as a rock falling, a hot frying pan cooling down, iron rusting, air leaving a punctured ty... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7319263 | 1,343,409 |
1,623,059 | Models can be created and managed by one of several means. Oracle Data Miner provides a graphical user interface that steps the user through the process of creating, testing, and applying models (e.g. along the lines of the CRISP-DM methodology). Application- and tools-developers can embed predictive and descriptive mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8740192 | 1,622,143 |
1,632,872 | In 1978 the US Congress passed the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act (UMTRCA) which was tasked the DOE with the responsibility of stabilizing, disposing, and controlling uranium mill tailings and other contaminated material at uranium mill processing spread across 10 states and at approximately 5,200 associat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30651486 | 1,631,950 |
982,481 | Caddisfly larvae can be found in all feeding guilds in freshwater habitats. Most early stage larvae and some late stage ones are collector-gatherers, picking up fragments of organic matter from the benthos. Other species are collector-filterers, sieving organic particles from the water using silken nets, or hairs on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1529533 | 981,969 |
1,856,976 | The Solinst Waterloo Multilevel groundwater monitoring system is a modular MLS designed to collect groundwater data from multiple depths within a single borehole via a series of monitoring ports positioned at specific intervals along 2-inch ID Schedule 80 PVC casing. The various monitoring ports can be connected to a c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54028205 | 1,855,908 |
107,823 | Several competing designs were offered, and even more were drawn up prior to reaching prototype stage. All had heavy armour, torsion-bar suspension, wide tracks, and were of welded and cast construction. One of the main competing designs was the SMK, which in its final form had two turrets, mounting one 76.2 mm and one... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188701 | 107,778 |
352,912 | The University of Illinois, originally named "Illinois Industrial University", was one of the 37 universities created under the first Morrill Land-Grant Act, which provided public land for the creation of agricultural and industrial colleges and universities across the United States. Among several cities, Urbana was se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384695 | 352,729 |
255,357 | Legendre (1786) laid down a method, not entirely satisfactory, for the discrimination of maxima and minima. Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz also gave some early attention to the subject. To this discrimination Vincenzo Brunacci (1810), Carl Friedrich Gauss (1829), Siméon Poisson (1831), Mikhail Ostrogradsky (1834), ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=171882 | 255,223 |
387,517 | "A Theory of Justice" received criticism from several philosophers. Robert Nozick criticized Rawls' account of distributive justice in his defense of libertarianism, "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" (1974). Allan Bloom, writing in "American Political Science Review" in 1975, noted that "A Theory of Justice" had "attracted ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=243665 | 387,322 |
451,109 | Australopithecus garhi is a species of australopithecine from the Bouri Formation in the Afar Region of Ethiopia 2.6–2.5 million years ago (mya) during the Early Pleistocene. The first remains were described in 1999 based on several skeletal elements uncovered in the three years preceding. "A. garhi" was originally con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2128113 | 450,890 |
795,769 | Model-based systems engineering (MBSE), according to the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), is the "formalized application of modeling to support system requirements, design, analysis, verification and validation activities beginning in the conceptual design phase and continuing throughout developme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45068086 | 795,344 |
1,018,819 | The spectrometer consists of a suitable scintillator crystal, a photomultiplier tube, and a circuit for measuring the height of the pulses produced by the photomultiplier. The pulses are counted and sorted by their height, producing a x-y plot of scintillator flash brightness vs number of the flashes, which approximate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=212147 | 1,018,292 |
1,031,799 | In response to the complaints about the definition of the word "function" some have noted that ENCODE did define what it meant and since the scope of ENCODE was seeking biomedically relevant functional elements in the genome, then the conclusion of the project should be interpreted ""as saying that 80 % of the genome i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2140955 | 1,031,263 |
1,003,627 | All compressors have an optimum point relating rotational speed and pressure, with higher compressions requiring higher speeds. Early engines were designed for simplicity, and used a single large compressor spinning at a single speed. Later designs added a second turbine and divided the compressor into low-pressure and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1605425 | 1,003,109 |
894,883 | The N-end rule may partially determine the half-life of a protein, and proteins with segments rich in proline, glutamic acid, serine, and threonine (the so-called PEST proteins) have short half-life. Other factors suspected to affect degradation rate include the rate deamination of glutamine and asparagine and oxidatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24594 | 894,413 |
1,170,457 | After his time at Clark University, Turner had his first career experience at a high school in 1906 when he obtained a position as the principal of College Hill High School in Cleveland, Tennessee. He then resigned the position in order to pursue a professorship in biology and chemistry at Haines Normal and Industrial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3400598 | 1,169,838 |
31,965 | After the end of the Gemini program, the Soviet Union began flying their second-generation Zond crewed spacecraft in 1967 with the ultimate goal of looping a cosmonaut around the Moon and returning him or her immediately to Earth. The Zond spacecraft was launched with the simpler and already operational Proton launch r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1558077 | 31,954 |
2,132,452 | Pisanski’s research interests span several areas of discrete and computational mathematics, including combinatorial configurations, abstract polytopes, maps on surfaces, chemical graph theory, and the history of mathematics and science. In 1980 he calculated the genus of the Cartesian product of any pair of connected, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84539 | 2,131,227 |
1,300,298 | Neuroethologists performed several experiments under "Eigenmannia"s natural conditions to study how it determined the sign of the frequency difference. They manipulated the fish's discharge by injecting it with curare which prevented its natural electric organ from discharging. Then, an electrode was placed in its mout... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=645120 | 1,299,584 |
764,037 | At the time Croatia gained independence, its economy (and the whole Yugoslavian economy) was in the middle of recession. Privatization under the new government had barely begun when war broke out in 1991. As a result of the Croatian War of Independence, infrastructure sustained massive damage in the period 1991–92, esp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5578 | 763,627 |
1,193,199 | Sleep disturbances such as insomnia, night terrors, and inconsistent REM sleep impact the lives of many with PTSD. Occupational therapists are equipped to address this meaningful area through sleep hygiene. Some examples of this technique are reducing screen time, developing nighttime routines, and creating a safe and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33410103 | 1,192,563 |
1,259,242 | For the first two decades of its existence, UCLA was oriented towards training educators and toward the liberal arts. With the establishment of graduate studies and professional schools, the school gradually became more oriented toward scientific research. The School of Medicine was developed primarily as a research in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12226819 | 1,258,555 |
936,287 | VSSC pursues research and development in the fields of aeronautics, avionics, composites, computer and information technology, control guidance and simulation, launch vehicle design, mechanical engineering, mechanisms vehicle integration and testing, propellants polymers and materials, propulsion propellants and space ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1129259 | 935,792 |
299,736 | On 4 March 2014, the car was officially revealed at a press conference during the Geneva Motor Show. From 24 to 26 March, Porsche held its first two-car endurance tests at the Circuit Paul Ricard and fine-tuned the 919 Hybrid's setups with its drivers, covering a total of with multiple technical problems stopping both ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41368349 | 299,575 |
897,950 | The single-strand RNA is tightly bound to p7 nucleocapsid proteins, late assembly protein p6, and enzymes essential to the development of the virion, such as reverse transcriptase and integrase. Lysine tRNA is the primer of the magnesium-dependent reverse transcriptase. The nucleocapsid associates with the genomic RNA ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2846927 | 897,476 |
1,913,002 | The imagination ethic allows a person to step away from the impetuous emotional responses of the older parts of the brain and consider alternative actions based on logic and reason. It is centered in the neocortex and related thalamic structures, including the frontal lobes used for reasoning and judgement skills. It i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60522879 | 1,911,903 |
653,019 | Many computer installations used cards with the opposite corner cut (sometimes no corner cut) as "job separators", so that an operator could stack several job decks in the card reader at the same time and be able to quickly separate the decks manually when they removed them from the stacker. These cards (e.g., a JCL "J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7380371 | 652,676 |
267 | Although the patent office promoted Einstein to Technical Examiner Second Class in 1906, he had not given up on academia. In 1908, he became a "Privatdozent" at the University of Bern. In ""Über die Entwicklung unserer Anschauungen über das Wesen und die Konstitution der Strahlung"" (""), on the quantization of light, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=736 | 267 |
236,101 | The person is usually placed on their side (left more commonly than right). The patient bends the neck so the chin is close to the chest, hunches the back, and brings knees toward the chest. This approximates a fetal position as much as possible. Patients may also sit on a stool and bend their head and shoulders forwar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=342304 | 235,982 |
1,381,721 | Social-ecological resilience, also known as adaptive resilience, is a new concept that shifts the focus to combining the social, ecological and technical domains of resilience. The adaptive model focuses on the transformable quality of the stable state of a system. In adaptive buildings, both short term and long term r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40050529 | 1,380,958 |
1,269,990 | Magendie was also a notorious vivisector, shocking even many of his contemporaries with the live dissections that he performed at public lectures in physiology. Richard Martin, an Irish MP, in introducing his famous bill banning animal cruelty in the United Kingdom, described Magendie's public dissection of a greyhound... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=985142 | 1,269,299 |
2,137,563 | Richard Osborne reviewed the album on LP in "Gramophone" in June 1978, comparing it with alternative versions of the "symphony of heavenly life" conducted by Otto Klemperer, Rafael Kubelik, James Levine and George Szell. Claudio Abbado's reading of the first movement, he wrote, was straightforward, colourful and likeab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61490366 | 2,136,333 |
591,799 | Widespread inappropriate use of the procedure later led to it falling out of use. However, it was reintroduced by Hermann Schwartze in the 19th century. An inherent problem became recognized, namely the tendency of the tympanic membrane to heal spontaneously and rapidly, reversing the beneficial effects of the perforat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1262373 | 591,497 |
993,653 | The final style of Chinchorro mummification was the mud-coat (3000-1300 BCE). Ecologically speaking, at the time of the Chinchorro culture the region was relatively stable. It has been suggested by environmentalists that the incredible preservation of these mummies is also influenced by the pedogenic (the evolution of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3244110 | 993,136 |
306,329 | Chuikov arrived in Stalingrad on 11 September 1942 and occupied Hill 102.24 where he set up his command post, and immediately set about preparing the defense of Stalingrad proper. The 62nd Army in Stalingrad faced threat of envelopment by fast-moving panzer and motorized infantry elements of German 6th Army. In the nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=580776 | 306,165 |
1,813,443 | If light is then applied to the capacitor it will change capacitance to a new value: formula_8. The charge that the plates can accommodate will therefore change to formula_9, leaving a surplus / deficit of charge on each plate. The excess charge will be forced to leave the plates, flowing either to ground or the input ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69314250 | 1,812,409 |
962,959 | Individual organisms participating in a biological life cycle ordinarily age and die, while cells from these organisms that connect successive life cycle generations (germ line cells and their descendants) are potentially immortal. The basis for this difference is a fundamental problem in biology. The Russian biologist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=319610 | 962,450 |
281,587 | Barnes Wallis, deputy chief aircraft designer at Vickers, spent much time thinking about weapons that might shorten the war. He conceived his “Spherical Bomb, Surface Torpedo” after watching his daughter flip pebbles over water. Two versions of the 'bouncing bomb' were developed: the smaller Highball was to be used aga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=343960 | 281,434 |
755,092 | In May 1942's Operation Ironclad, the Allies attacked the French colony of Madagascar, defended by Japanese miniature submarines and Vichy French forces. By March 1942, submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy freely roamed the north and eastern Indian Ocean, and Japanese aircraft carriers raided shipping in the Bay of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=376965 | 754,689 |
1,348,009 | The facility was founded by the United States Army during World War I arising from the need to treat the large number of casualties from chemical weapons in Europe. Denver's reputation as a prime location for the treatment of tuberculosis led local citizens to lobby the Army on behalf of Denver as the site for the new ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=466014 | 1,347,268 |
846,951 | The last generation of Pentium D branded processors was Presler released on January 16, 2006, identified by the product code 80553, and made of two 65 nm-process cores found also in Pentium 4 branded Cedar Mill CPUs. "Presler" introduced the 'multi-chip module, or MCM, which consisted of two single-core dies placed nex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1560876 | 846,501 |
454,869 | NASA scientists studying pictures from the "Odyssey" spacecraft have spotted what might be seven caves on the flanks of the Arsia Mons volcano on Mars. The pit entrances measure from wide and they are thought to be at least deep. See image below: the pits have been informally named (A) Dena, (B) Chloe, (C) Wendy, (D) A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8867758 | 454,647 |
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