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482,832 | Over his lifetime, Gessner amassed a considerable collection of plants and seeds and made extensive notes and wood engravings. In the last decade of his life he began to compile his major botanical work, "Historia plantarum". although he died prior to its publication his materials were utilised by many subsequent autho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162270 | 482,588 |
903,981 | In many ways military science was born as a result of the experiences of the Great War. "Military implements" had changed armies beyond recognition with cavalry to virtually disappear in the next 20 years. The "supply of an army" would become a science of logistics in the wake of massive armies, operations and troops t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=86586 | 903,505 |
363,046 | Prescription immediate release (Niacor) and extended release (Niaspan) niacin are contraindicated for people with either active or a history of liver disease because both, but especially Niaspan, have been associated with instances of serious, on occasion fatal, liver failure. Both products are contraindicated for peop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37996 | 362,856 |
1,414,637 | Trials conducted using a conventional, powered C-47, first conducting ordinary deadstick landings, then being towed by another C-47, indicated that the scheme was feasible. Therefore, a C-47-DL was taken in hand for conversion into a glider, which was given the designation XCG-17. The aircraft, formerly a Northwest Air... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14770103 | 1,413,840 |
521,435 | Although known for his modesty and quiet dignity, Wythe eventually gained a radical reputation for his opposition to the Stamp Act of 1765 and later attempts by the British government to regulate the overseas colony. Meanwhile, Wythe maintained close friendships with successive Governors Francis Fauquier and Norborne B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=261191 | 521,164 |
1,259,645 | Lutembacher is caused indirectly by heart damage or disorders. Lutembacher's syndrome is caused by either birth defects where the heart fails to close all holes in the walls between the atria or from an episode of rheumatic fever where damage is done to the heart valves such as the mitral valve and resultant in an open... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12367111 | 1,258,958 |
864,217 | During its commercial product history, it was often commented internally that the Honeywell Information Systems (HIS) (later Honeywell-Bull) sales and marketing staff were more familiar with and comfortable making the business case for Honeywell’s other computer line, the DPS 6 running GCOS. The DPS-6 and GCOS was a we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18847 | 863,757 |
1,825,835 | Leading earlier in the prelims, Italy's Alessio Boggiatto finished outside the podium by six-tenths of a second (0.60) in 4:15.93. South Africa's Terence Parkin, a deaf mute since birth, swam on the outside in lane eight, but pulled off a fifth-place effort in an African record of 4:16.92. He was followed in sixth spot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12446535 | 1,824,797 |
600,964 | Sensory input from the limbs may truncate or extend individual phase durations in a process akin to finite state control (in which "if-then” rules determine when state transitions occur). For example, if a limb that is swinging forward reaches the end of swing in less time than the current CPG-generated flexor phase du... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2645238 | 600,656 |
831,996 | Athenion replaced all the magistrates with his own men. Choosing this moment to return to Athens, Apellicon was welcomed as an old comrade. Athenion sent him to Delos in command of a force with instructions to recapture the Athenian national treasury there and bring the money to Athens. It is peculiar that the force he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1666053 | 831,547 |
926,537 | The SNPO set an objective for NERVA of 99.7 percent reliability, meaning that the engine would fail to perform as designed no more than three times in every thousand starts. To achieve this, Aerojet and Westinghouse estimated that they would require 6 reactors, 28 engines and 6 reactor in-flight test (RIFT) flights. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=712716 | 926,051 |
1,280,914 | In 1963, Gertrude F. Rempfer designed the electron optics for an early ultrahigh-vacuum (UHV) PEEM. In 1965, G. Burroughs at the Night Vision Laboratory, Fort Belvoir, Virginia built the bakeable electrostatic lenses and metal-sealed valves for PEEM. During the 1960s, in the PEEM, as well as TEM, the specimens were gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=803716 | 1,280,219 |
958,581 | Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team Miller's Report is a compilation film released on August 1, 1998. The film largely focuses on Shiro Amada's court martial over his concern towards the enemy. The film mixes footage from the first eight episodes along with new footage. It also introduces the titular character, Alice ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=304784 | 958,075 |
448,633 | The signing of the Quebec Agreement on 19 August 1943 merged Tube Alloys with the Manhattan Project. Akers had already cabled London with instructions that Chadwick, Peierls, Oliphant and Simon should leave immediately for North America to join the British Mission to the Manhattan Project, and they arrived the day the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1024759 | 448,415 |
1,736,765 | In 1999 Lowman became the Executive Director of Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida where she helped raise donations over 100 percent and increased membership by "friend-raising". The Selby Garden's lecture series "Tuesdays In The Tropics" was well attended by the community with topics such as "Does Mone... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5792354 | 1,735,788 |
922,698 | Another issue with tissue culture is introducing the proper factors or stimuli required to induce functionality. In many cases, simple maintenance culture is not sufficient. Growth factors, hormones, specific metabolites or nutrients, chemical and physical stimuli are sometimes required. For example, certain cells resp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=307065 | 922,212 |
2,067,225 | In allowing just 5 goals in the 4 games, Marc Behrend was awarded the Tournament MOP for the second time. He became just the second player to be honored twice and the only one to win on both occasions (Lou Angotti is the only other multiple-time winner as of 2019). Wisconsin played 4 players on the All-Tournament Team ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61507475 | 2,066,034 |
1,621,983 | They outlined the situation as having several aspects from the viewpoint of the Nisei: (1) Relation to First Generation, (2) Relation to American Society, (3) Vocational and Employment Guidance, (4) Standard of Social Conduct, and (5) Religious Life. These young people were having identity issues, although in 1925, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35326487 | 1,621,067 |
557,045 | Langley attended Boston Latin School and graduated from English High School of Boston, after which he became an assistant in the Harvard College Observatory. He then moved to a job at the United States Naval Academy, ostensibly as a professor of mathematics. However, he was actually sent there to restore the Academy's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=93840 | 556,756 |
399,318 | Faradion Limited, is a subsidiary of India's Reliance Industries. Its cell design uses oxide cathodes with hard carbon anode and a liquid electrolyte. Their pouch cells have energy densities comparable to commercial Li-ion batteries (160 Wh/kg at cell-level) with good rate performance till 3C and cycle lives of 300 (10... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30765254 | 399,120 |
750,622 | In August 1914, a flotilla of ten U-boats sailed from their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea in the first submarine war patrol in history. Their aim was to sink capital ships of the British Grand Fleet, and so reduce the Grand Fleet's numerical superiority over the German High Seas Flee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4551386 | 750,224 |
45,048 | The XM1060 40-mm grenade is a small-arms thermobaric device, which was delivered to US forces in April 2003. Since the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, the US Marine Corps has introduced a thermobaric "Novel Explosive" (SMAW-NE) round for the Mk 153 SMAW rocket launcher. One team of Marines reported that they had destroyed a lar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31418 | 45,031 |
186,432 | Although antibodies show preferential avidity for specific epitopes, they may partially or weakly bind to sites on nonspecific proteins (also called reactive sites) that are similar to the cognate binding sites on the target antigen. A great amount of non-specific binding causes high background staining which will mask... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1021210 | 186,335 |
1,280,807 | On 2 December he returned to London and began finding takers for his specimens, with Thomas Bell and the Revd. William Buckland interested in the reptiles. Darwin's reputation was being made by the giant mammal fossils. Owen's first surprising revelation was that a hippopotamus-sized fossil skull 2 feet 4 inches (710 m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1632764 | 1,280,112 |
883,215 | A disproportionately grown upper or lower jaw causes dentofacial deformities. Chewing becomes problematic, and may also cause pain due to straining of the jaw muscle and bone. Deformities range from micrognathia, which is when the mandible does not grow far forward enough (over bite), and when the mandible grows too mu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2108181 | 882,751 |
775,232 | There were over 400 cases caused by cVDPV2 in the same period, in sixteen countries. In addition, 48 cases of cVDPV1 were detected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 18 cases in Mozambique, 13 in Madagascar, and 3 in Malawi, while one case due to cVDPV3 in an unvaccinated three-year-old was identified in Israel. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9901652 | 774,816 |
789,306 | After finishing his doctorate, Manabe went to the United States to work at the General Circulation Research Section of the U.S. Weather Bureau, now the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of NOAA, continuing until 1997. From 1997 to 2001, he worked at the Frontier Research System for Global Change in Japan serving as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7994952 | 788,882 |
924,040 | Evolutionary biology has been the subject of extensive mathematical theorizing. The traditional approach in this area, which includes complications from genetics, is population genetics. Most population geneticists consider the appearance of new alleles by mutation, the appearance of new genotypes by recombination, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=662088 | 923,554 |
123,746 | Non-life actuaries followed in the footsteps of their life compatriots in the early 20th century. In the United States, the 1920 revision to workers' compensation rates took over two months of around-the-clock work by day and night teams of actuaries. In the 1930s and 1940s, rigorous mathematical foundations for stocha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43405 | 123,695 |
1,403,168 | There are certain disorders in the brain that can prevent someone from having the ability to perceive relative pitch. These disorders can be congenital or developed. Amusia is a term used to describe someone who has difficulty differentiating pitch or identifying music. Congenital amusia is often referred to as being t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30930484 | 1,402,381 |
2,095,706 | Following his senior season at Tennessee, Olsen represented Canada at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta. His gold performance solidified his stature as one of the world's best javelin throwers. Queen Elizabeth presented Olsen with his gold medal. Only the boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Ru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35808592 | 2,094,498 |
891,843 | Many young women in mid-19th century England had no access to the kind of formal secondary schooling which would have enabled them to go straight into the same university courses as the young men – the first principal herself had never been a pupil in a school. So Newnham's founders allowed the young women to work at a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=498109 | 891,374 |
399,828 | Studies have proven that herbicide resistant pollen from transgenic rapeseed could spread up to 3 km, while the average gene spread of transgenic crops is 2 km and even reach to maximum 21 kilometers. The high aggressiveness of these GM crops could cause certain disasters by competing with traditional crops for water, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216102 | 399,629 |
1,603,946 | In October 1868 the MIT architecture department opened with four students in the four-year course. Almost a thousand miles to the west, newly appointed Regent John Milton Gregory, at the newly established center of learning, the Illinois Industrial University (renamed the University of Illinois in 1878), also realized ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9283974 | 1,603,045 |
315,593 | The first commercially practical closed-circuit scuba was designed and built by the diving engineer Henry Fleuss in 1878, while working for Siebe Gorman in London. His self-contained breathing apparatus consisted of a rubber mask connected to a breathing bag, with (estimated) 50–60% O supplied from a copper tank and CO... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=294126 | 315,424 |
1,301,687 | Thanks to the development of technology since the original proposal, new experimental data has been collected and additional mechanistic details of neuronal control have been developed. It has been determined that consciousness states can be described with three values, and the AIM model is a model that uses these valu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30875305 | 1,300,973 |
1,478,107 | On 26 March near Korostyshev, "Grandfather" was hit by artillery fire and was out of action for a short time. Most likely it was this same Garford that took part in the hunt for a Red Army Austin which broke into the area of Zhitomir and single-handedly fought against superior Polish forces. A second armoured vehicle w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26354934 | 1,477,275 |
1,287,727 | This brief description has focused on the theory of stochastic geometry, which allows a view of the structure of the subject. However, much of the life and interest of the subject, and indeed many of its original ideas, flow from a very wide range of applications, for example: astronomy, spatially distributed telecommu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22037813 | 1,287,026 |
1,092,136 | The Illinois Institute of Technology developed the concept of oil shale volumetric heating using radio waves (radio frequency processing) during the late 1970s. This technology was further developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Oil shale is heated by vertical electrode arrays. Deeper volumes could be proc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12321977 | 1,091,576 |
1,734,442 | The Wealden Beds are confined to the south and increase in thickness from 107 to 716 m, between Upwey and Swanage. By 140 Mya, the waters covering Dorset's landmass had subsided, leaving the area almost completely terrestrial save for the large rivers that dominated it. These rivers drained the upland areas to the nort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1121663 | 1,733,465 |
952,149 | Australia played a small role in the Italian Campaign. The RAN returned to the Mediterranean between May and November 1943, when eight were transferred from the British Eastern Fleet to the Mediterranean Fleet to protect the invasion force during the Allied invasion of Sicily. The corvettes also escorted convoys in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4578255 | 951,644 |
424,596 | There are many benefits of cardiorespiratory fitness. It can reduce the risk of heart disease, lung cancer, type 2 diabetes, stroke, and other diseases. Cardiorespiratory fitness helps improve lung and heart condition, and increases feelings of wellbeing. Additionally, there is mounting evidence that CRF is potentially... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3115848 | 424,389 |
1,961,845 | State collection was changing depending on the political situation of the country and the development of science in the Jagiellonian University. At the end of the eighteenth century in the garden, there were about three thousand plant species, especially useful. Collection of plants declined in the early nineteenth cen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12607771 | 1,960,718 |
647,834 | Candida glabrata is a species of haploid yeast of the genus "Candida", previously known as "Torulopsis glabrata". Despite the fact that no sexual life cycle has been documented for this species, "C. glabrata" strains of both mating types are commonly found. C". glabrata" is generally a commensal of human mucosal tissue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4634382 | 647,494 |
532,262 | Most anoles are brownish or green, but there are extensive variations depending on the exact species. The majority can change their color depending on things like emotions (for example, aggression or stress), activity level, levels of light and as a social signal (for example, displaying dominance), but evidence showin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322654 | 531,988 |
1,247,318 | The city of Sumy has been subjected to air and artillery shelling several times. There are not many specialized bomb shelters in Sumy, the vast majority of them have been since the Second World War. Experts do not advise hiding in the basements of high-rise buildings, because there is a risk of buildings falling. That ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26773832 | 1,246,643 |
1,895,861 | The disease has been especially prevalent in areas of Great Britain and south-west England. Infection is most common at 16-20 °C during wet periods to allow for easy entry through the stomata. Poor soil drainage can contribute to "Mycosphaerella brassicicola" proliferation through allowing for the high levels of moistu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11069128 | 1,894,777 |
674,632 | Fearing English and Dutch penetration into Siberia, Russia closed the Mangazeya seaway in 1619. Pomor activity in Northern Asia declined and the bulk of exploration in the 17th century was carried out by Siberian Cossacks, sailing from one river mouth to another in their Arctic-worthy "kochs". In 1648 the most famous o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25437008 | 674,279 |
1,291,753 | the hybrid technology between inorganic and organic components. The refractive index of a nanocomposite can be estimated as formula_1, where formula_2, formula_3 and formula_4 stand for the refractive indices of the nanocomposite, nanoparticle and organic matrix, respectively. formula_5 and formula_6 represent the volu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30747791 | 1,291,043 |
157,150 | Some of the organizational management concepts needed to create 20th-century mass production, such as scientific management, had been pioneered by other engineers (most of whom are not famous, but Frederick Winslow Taylor is one of the well-known ones), whose work would later be synthesized into fields such as industri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63137 | 157,078 |
1,834,594 | A computer-assisted parallel program generation support(P-NCAS), is a PSE, creates a new way to reduce the programming hard task for the computer programming. This program can avoid or reduce the chance that huge computer software breaking down so this restrict uncertainty and major accidents in the society. Moreover, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2266487 | 1,833,545 |
861,432 | In 1966, Martin Rees pointed out that "an object moving relativistically in suitable directions may appear to a distant observer to have a transverse velocity much greater than the velocity of light". In 1969 and 1970 such sources were found as very distant astronomical radio sources, such as radio galaxies and quasars... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=405711 | 860,973 |
1,650,440 | This problem can be reduced through the employment of reserved words, so that for example "if", "then", and "else" always are parts of an if-statement and cannot be names of variables, but a surprisingly large number of useful words may thereby become unavailable. Another approach is "stropping", whereby reserved words... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2012090 | 1,649,508 |
410,399 | The quality of Olmsted's landscape architecture was recognized by his contemporaries, who showered him with prestigious commissions. Daniel Burnham said of him, "He paints with lakes and wooded slopes; with lawns and banks and forest-covered hills; with mountainsides and ocean views..." His work, especially in Central ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53321 | 410,197 |
725,071 | SAXS and USAXS belong to a family of X-ray scattering techniques that are used in the characterization of materials. In the case of biological macromolecules such as proteins, the advantage of SAXS over crystallography is that a crystalline sample is not needed. Furthermore, the properties of SAXS allow investigation o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12235089 | 724,690 |
782,059 | Damage done by "J. virginiana" includes outcompeting forage species in pastureland. The low branches and wide base occupy a significant portion of land area. The thick foliage blocks out most light, so few plants can live under the canopy. The needles that fall raise the pH of the soil, making it alkaline, which holds ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=446150 | 781,640 |
2,081,311 | Williams commenced lecturing at McGill University in 1960, and was selected to be the Chairman of the Department of Mining and Metallurgy in 1966. As Chairman, he was instrumental in expanding the department at a time when only six degree programs in Metallurgical Engineering were being offered in Canadian universities... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36831466 | 2,080,111 |
68,084 | On 6 December 2019, a Libyan National Army (LNA) MiG-23MLD was shot down by forces loyal to the Government of National Accord (GNA). In the ongoing Libyan Civil War both parties are pushing back to service stored airframes after repairs with foreign assistance. The jet, serial 26144, was restored using the wings of two... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=220186 | 68,058 |
1,516,968 | In a highly anticipated game, the Carlisle Indians (7–0–0) met the Princeton Tigers (5–1–0) at the Polo Grounds in New York City on November 2 before a crowd of thousands. In an upset, Princeton scored three touchdowns and a point after in a pouring rain, to win 16–0. Yale recorded another shutout, beating Washington &... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14681008 | 1,516,116 |
1,447,986 | There is a widely used method for computation of FLCs, introduced by Marciniak in 1967. It assumes an inclined band in the investigated plane sheet piece with smaller thickness which denotes an imperfection. With this model limit strains can be calculated numerically. The advantage of this method is that any material m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22488730 | 1,447,170 |
2,003,219 | The land on which the dojo and shrine were built was first purchased by Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido, in 1940. In 1943 he built the first part of the current Aiki Jinja and an "outdoor dojo" where he lived a life of ""Buno Ichinyo"" (the union of agriculture and Budō). This dojo was completed in 1945 and was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1134759 | 2,002,071 |
987,666 | The reflection of a laser pulse from the surface of an elastic solid can give rise to various types of elastic waves that propagate inside the solid or liquid. In other words, the light can excite and/or amplify motion of, and in, materials. This is the subject of study in the field of optomechanics. The weakest waves ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43709 | 987,150 |
166,313 | While political debate over the wisdom of placing all satellite and launch technology on the US Munitions List (USML) has been ongoing since the advent of ITAR regulation in 1999, there has been a shift in political opinion since 2007. In late 2012, the US Congress passed the 2013 defense authorization bill which, if s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=612446 | 166,228 |
325,427 | The powerpack of Boxer consists of a MTU 8V199 TE20 diesel engine developing (originally) 720 hp and coupled to an Allison HD4070 fully automatic transmission with seven forward and three reverse gears. The powerpack can be replaced under field conditions in approximately 20 minutes. The MTU 8V199 TE20 engine is a mili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=656230 | 325,254 |
77,949 | Given the backdrop of high and persistent unemployment during the Great Depression, Keynes argued that there was no guarantee that the goods that individuals produce would be met with adequate effective demand, and periods of high unemployment could be expected, especially when the economy was contracting in size. He s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17326 | 77,920 |
1,512,919 | In addition to bomb damage assessment, targeting and aerial photography for the Bomber Command and FEAF, the 91st conducted Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) and "ferret" missions in theater mapping radar emissions of air defense sites. It conducted the first ferret missions ever by the USAF. Overflights of Soviet-contro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12557413 | 1,512,068 |
58,614 | On 15 January 1986, the launch of the stretched ATR 72 programme was announced. On 27 October 1988, the first prototype performed its maiden flight; one year later, on September 25, 1989, the ATR 72 received airworthiness certification from the French Directorate General for Civil Aviation. During the following month, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=285018 | 58,589 |
735,662 | Between 2019 and 2021, a number of controversies revolving around the university's president Kyosuke Nagata came to light. Under Nagata's leadership the university became the first institution of higher education to receive large scale funding from the Ministry of Defense in December 2019. According to Alexandra Sakaki... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2080195 | 735,275 |
2,020,292 | Taking into account the definition of a crown group, crown eukaryotes could be seen as the aggrupation of all lineages descending from LECA (Last Eukarytotic Common Ancestor). This comprises a huge ensemble of taxa that seemingly diverged simultaneously and that conform the vast majority of the eukaryotic life, plants,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1694221 | 2,019,129 |
1,519,362 | Founded as the American Documentation Institute (ADI) in 1937, the group became the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) in 1968 to reflect the organization's interest in "all aspects of the information transfer process" such as, "designing, managing and using information systems and technology." Updating it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1464076 | 1,518,504 |
939,784 | According to ASHRAE, "Existing evidence for direct impacts of Carbon dioxide (CO) on health, well-being, learning outcomes, and work performance at commonly observed indoor concentrations is inconsistent, and therefore does not currently justify changes to ventilation and IAQ standards, regulations, or guidelines." NAS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=219736 | 939,283 |
1,096,015 | In 2015 the technique was adapted to produce stacked, 3-D supercapacitors. Laser-induced graphene was produced on both sides of a polymer sheet. The sections were then stacked, separated by solid electrolytes, making multiple microsupercapacitors. The stacked configuration substantially increased the energy density of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42482555 | 1,095,455 |
1,624,283 | The gene encoding this enzyme has been recently identified. The sequence of amino acids of iodotyrosine deiodinase is highly conserved among mammals and contains three domains. Iodotyrosine deiodinase is a membrane protein, with the N-terminus functioning as a membrane anchor. It forms a dimer that is domain-swapped. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21631002 | 1,623,367 |
1,643,083 | Endlicher described many new plant genera, including the genus "Sequoia", and also its only extant species "Sequoia sempervirens" (California coast redwood). Although Endlicher never offered an explanation for the name, later writers speculated that he must have been inspired by the achievements of the American Cheroke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=922788 | 1,642,156 |
1,833,857 | Christine A. Shoemaker joined the Department of Industrial Systems Engineering & Management and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as NUS Distinguished Professor on 31 August 2015. Prof Shoemaker obtained her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Southern California supervised by Richard Bellma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52572607 | 1,832,808 |
403,076 | The Milstein Hall of Ocean Life is in the southeastern quadrant of the first floor, west of the Hall of Biodiversity. It focuses on marine biology, botany and marine conservation. The center of the hall contains a -long blue whale model. The upper level of the hall exhibits the vast array of ecosystems present in the o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=399990 | 402,876 |
486,794 | The sacrifice takes place near the end of the village festival. The animal is doused with water, and if it shivers, it is deemed to be possessed by the deity. Then, the animal is led to the shrine, and is restrained. One man takes an "aruval" or other sword and beheads the animal, which is then tossed aside to twitch a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10203939 | 486,545 |
1,992,568 | The popularity of interference microscopy peaked around 1940–1970s and fell after that because of the complexity of the instrument and difficulties in both its use and in the interpretation of image data. In recent years, the classical interference microscope (in particular the Mach–Zehnder instrument) has been "redisc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13082651 | 1,991,425 |
15,927 | Aldrin initially applied to join the astronaut corps when NASA's Astronaut Group 2 was selected in 1962. His application was rejected on the grounds that he was not a test pilot. Aldrin was aware of the requirement and asked for a waiver but the request was turned down. On May 15, 1963, NASA announced another round of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65777 | 15,922 |
589,917 | "Mariner 10" was a NASA probe whose primary objective was to observe the atmosphere, surface, and physical characteristics of Mercury and Venus. It was a low-cost mission completed for under $98 million. "Mariner 10" was launched at 12:45 am EST on November 3, 1973, from Cape Canaveral. Since Mercury is so close to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9125179 | 589,615 |
2,152,435 | Consisting of six 10 MW Ac projects, the first two were completed, by the POD Generating Group, in October, 2010, the Baseline Road Facility on the west side of the city, also known as SSM1, using 87,000 Q.BASE modules from Q-Cells. The project was acquired by Starwood Energy, in June, 2010. The remainder of the projec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35280516 | 2,151,204 |
1,196,468 | A transmitter can be a separate piece of equipment, or an electronic circuit within another device. Most transmitters consist of an electronic oscillator which generates an oscillating carrier wave, a modulator which impresses an information bearing modulation signal on the carrier, and an amplifier which increases the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3548161 | 1,195,828 |
595,891 | In addition, the usage of natural gas in industry – both as a source of energy and as a raw material – is rapidly expanding, alongside the requisite infrastructure. This is giving companies a competitive advantage by reducing their energy costs and lowering national emissions. Since early 2013, almost the entire natura... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=397525 | 595,586 |
1,116,372 | Recent studies performed by Nilsson et al. examined the rates of bacterial genome reduction of obligate bacteria. Bacteria were cultured introducing frequent bottlenecks and growing cells in serial passage to reduce gene transfer so as to mimic conditions of endosymbiotic bacteria. The data predicted that bacteria exhi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35629150 | 1,115,800 |
1,422,077 | A matrix made up of many modules can separate to form multiple matrices with fewer modules, or they can combine, or recombine, to form a larger matrix. Some advantages of separating into multiple matrices include the ability to tackle multiple and simpler tasks at locations that are remote from each other simultaneousl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7649384 | 1,421,276 |
213,776 | While C enhances the efficiency of RuBisCO, the concentration of carbon is highly energy intensive. This means that C plants only have an advantage over C organisms in certain conditions: namely, high temperatures and low rainfall. C plants also need high levels of sunlight to thrive. Models suggest that, without wildf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11008314 | 213,668 |
2,115,398 | With "his horn-rimmed spectacles, broken tooth, beard, lank hair, string bag and apple", May stood out as a great eccentric on campus. Christine McNeil recalled: "'He never stays on topic,' wailed the note takers, as he soared off on a thousand tangents in his soft, sweet voice. 'Of course you all remember where Milton... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63335589 | 2,114,182 |
1,415,079 | In Ti-Al base alloys, the lamellar microstructure exhibits anisotropic properties in the lamellar direction and therefore the kinetics and orientation of its growth are integral to optimizing its mechanical properties. Selecting a directional solidification growth where the lamellar structure is parallel to the growth ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12078110 | 1,414,282 |
2,241,596 | The school is home to a state-of-the-art solar energy system created by students at the school in June 2004. The 2 kW photovoltaic (PV) array, installed on the southeastern wall of the school, uses semiconductor technology to convert sunlight into pollution-free electricity. The solar equipment was donated by the MIT S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7778206 | 2,240,325 |
147,557 | A student can join one of the six medical universities of Myanmar if he gets the highest scores in the science combination of the matriculation examination. This exam is highly competitive. Entrance is solely based on this examination and academic records have very minor consequences on an application. The undergraduat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=465584 | 147,498 |
417,113 | Similar to "Warhammer Fantasy Battle" players, "Lord of the Rings" players commonly collect and paint one army (or more) of their choice and find opponents (with similarly collected armies) to play against. Armies can be built up from through the purchase of boxed sets (usually having 10 or 12 plastic miniatures in eac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1739541 | 416,910 |
1,025,437 | In the early 20th century, the rediscovery of Mendel's work led to the rapid development of genetics by Thomas Hunt Morgan and his students, and by the 1930s the combination of population genetics and natural selection in the "neo-Darwinian synthesis". New disciplines developed rapidly, especially after Watson and Cric... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322460 | 1,024,904 |
484,194 | In a unique effort, growers, administrators, policy makers, and researchers are working on a solution for this immense "X. fastidiosa" threat. No cure has been found, but the understanding of "X. fastidiosa" and glassy-winged sharpshooter biology has markedly increased since 2000, when the California Department of Food... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5073625 | 483,945 |
85,821 | By 1909, Stravinsky had composed two more pieces, "Scherzo fantastique", Op. 3, and "Feu d'artifice" ("Fireworks"), Op. 4. In February of that year, both were performed in Saint Petersburg at a concert that marked a turning point in Stravinsky's career. In the audience was Sergei Diaghilev, a Russian impresario and own... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38172 | 85,787 |
342,944 | Mazda claimed to have solved the apex seal problem, operating test engines at high speed for 300 hours without failure. After years of development, Mazda's first rotary engine car was the 1967 Cosmo 110S. The company followed with a number of Wankel ("rotary" in the company's terminology) vehicles, including a bus and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33303 | 342,763 |
15,282 | All in-service Gripens as of January 2014 are powered by a Volvo RM12 turbofan engine (now GKN Aerospace Engine Systems), a licence-manufactured derivative of General Electric F404, fed by a Y-duct with splitter plates; changes include increased performance and improved reliability to meet single engine use safety crit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=87577 | 15,277 |
664,124 | Aside from creating and remodeling blood vessels, pericytes have been found to protect endothelial cells from death via apoptosis or cytotoxic elements. It has been shown "in vivo" that pericytes release a hormone known as pericytic aminopeptidase N/pAPN that may help to promote angiogenesis. When this hormone was mixe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1804463 | 663,777 |
1,773,954 | Several adverse biological events contribute to this secondary deterioration, including: release of excitatory amino acids which activate N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionate (AMPA) receptors on neurons (30,37) and oligodendroglial precursors, accumulation of excitatory neurotr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24488474 | 1,772,957 |
426,193 | Serological and imaging tests are commonly used to diagnose this disease. Since the serological tests for alveolar echinococcosis only indicate exposure to the parasite and not ongoing infection, visualization of the parasitic mass is required to confirm the diagnosis. Frequently used serological tests include antibody... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1700949 | 425,985 |
1,714,861 | Hospitalized patients may need to receive solutions and medications that, if given through an ordinary intravenous therapy catheter, would severely damage both blood cells and the vascular system. In these cases, it is common to insert a central venous catheter. All such catheters placed for the purpose of venous acces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20419472 | 1,713,894 |
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