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1,039,479 | The HZ-1 Aerocycle, also known as the YHO-2 and by the manufacturer's designation DH-5 Aerocycle, was an American one-man "personal helicopter" developed by de Lackner Helicopters in the mid-1950s. Intended to be operated by inexperienced pilots with a minimum of 20 minutes of instruction, the HZ-1 was expected to beco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26710343 | 1,038,938 |
414,384 | Several review articles have shown that deficient DNA repair, allowing greater accumulation of DNA damage, causes premature aging; and that increased DNA repair facilitates greater longevity. Mouse models of nucleotide-excision–repair syndromes reveal a striking correlation between the degree to which specific DNA repa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17062920 | 414,181 |
996,399 | The CCU was an experimental uniform produced both on M81 Woodland Camouflage and Desert Camouflage Pattern, a bridge between the older uniforms and the new ACU. It appropriated some behaviors from Special Forces, Mostly Rangers, Seals, Delta Force, Green Berets and Marsoc. Since Vietnam Green Berets had the habit of se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4577303 | 995,881 |
1,930,914 | From 2012 to 2015 his work increasingly focused on securing a new international climate change agreement, initially with the philanthropic Children's Investment Fund Foundation then at l'Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (IDDRI) in Paris, and through the Global Commission on the Economy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52621515 | 1,929,807 |
1,949,256 | His writings offer a musical-mathematical explanation of crucial passages in texts of world literature, including the Bible, the Rig Veda, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, and Plato. All of these passages deal with numbers that he claimed had either been ignored or misinterpreted throughout the centuries. McClain's expla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16146226 | 1,948,135 |
1,424,848 | Ellis is known for his efforts to involve non-European nations in CERN scientific activities. In the context of the LHC, he has interacted frequently with physicists, administrators at universities and institutes, and ministers of funding agencies and diplomatic corps from a wide variety of countries, ranging from majo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3063906 | 1,424,046 |
376,100 | Eventually, after a long period of being unable to decipher U-boat messages, a source of cribs was found. This was the Kurzsignale (short signals), a code which the German navy used to minimize the duration of transmissions, thereby reducing the risk of being located by high-frequency direction finding techniques. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=872175 | 375,905 |
1,905,138 | A common complaint is that the curriculum does not teach any of traditional arithmetic methods familiar to those taught in other nations and to parents with as little as an elementary-school education. The critics assert that "the TERC computational methods are cumbersome, inefficient, and only work for carefully selec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6877531 | 1,904,043 |
1,706,841 | In 2013 Martin Carnoy of the Stanford University Graduate School of Education and Richard Rothstein of the Economic Policy Institute released a report, "What do international tests really show about U.S. student performance?", analyzing the 2009 PISA data base. Their report found that U.S. PISA test scores had been low... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50185803 | 1,705,883 |
523,050 | The mythical phase is the treatment of a symbol as an archetype. This concept relates most closely with intertextuality and considers the symbol in a work as interconnected with similar symbolism throughout the entire body of literature. While Frye deals with myths and archetypes from a broader perspective in the third... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1174994 | 522,778 |
1,290,951 | Students trained at marine workshops during the day and attended classes by at night for the three years of the program. The fourth year was devoted fully to classroom instruction at Calcutta. In August 1958, the intake was increased to 60 students and to 100 in the subsequent year. In 1962, an all-India entrance exami... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5449852 | 1,290,241 |
1,289,488 | St. Joseph's Hall , a massive four-story building that was taller than anything else for miles provided the main cadet residence. It was one of the biggest structures along the Great South Bay shoreline and remains so to this day. The basement floor contained, classrooms, along with the athletic locker rooms, a barber ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3726000 | 1,288,779 |
1,813,877 | The Center for Advanced Intelligent Systems is an interdisciplinary laboratory in the computer science department. Currently the center conducts research in the fields of data understanding, human-centered computing, computational mechanics and materials, declarative languages and software engineering. The center's res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10673182 | 1,812,843 |
460,480 | Synthetic, polycrystalline herbertsmithite powder was first reported in 2005, and initial magnetic susceptibility studies showed no signs of magnetic order down to 2K. In a subsequent study, the absence of magnetic order was verified down to 50 mK, inelastic neutron scattering measurements revealed a broad spectrum of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31349351 | 460,254 |
726,760 | A wide range of fully functional soft robots have been printed using this method including bending, twisting, grabbing and contracting motion. This technique avoids some of the drawbacks of conventional manufacturing routes such as delamination between glued parts. Another additive manufacturing method that produces sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50647426 | 726,378 |
1,851,645 | The "Keeper"-class cutters are the first US Coast Guard cutters equipped with Z-drive propulsion units instead of the standard propeller and rudder configuration. They are designed to independently rotate 360 degrees. Combined with a thruster in the bow, they give the Keeper-class cutters unmatched maneuverability. Wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40112864 | 1,850,584 |
2,117,226 | Caballero was born in Edinburgh in 1991. He spent his childhood in the capital of Scotland until his family moved to Vigo, a Spanish city on the north-Atlantic west coast of the country. Caballero studied criminology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, and conflict resolution at the University of Vigo, in Spai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70966693 | 2,116,008 |
1,695,298 | Integration of microfluidic platforms and electronic components have the potential to generate micro total analysis systems (µTAS), which are devices that include and automate all essential steps for sample preparation and analysis. Paper electronics rely on functional structures like conductors to be fabricated on the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56210030 | 1,694,347 |
1,790,980 | When the laser beam hits the surface of the material, its behavior may vary according to the power of the laser used. In the case of high power, there is a real "ablation" or "vaporization" of the material at the point of incidence between the laser and the surface: this causes the disappearance of a small portion of m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2520153 | 1,789,973 |
140,339 | In the first chapter, Hawking discusses the history of astronomical studies, particularly ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle's conclusions about spherical Earth and a circular geocentric model of the Universe, later elaborated upon by the second-century Greek astronomer Ptolemy. Hawking then depicts the rejection of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67227 | 140,282 |
273,155 | EM typically converges to a local optimum, not necessarily the global optimum, with no bound on the convergence rate in general. It is possible that it can be arbitrarily poor in high dimensions and there can be an exponential number of local optima. Hence, a need exists for alternative methods for guaranteed learning,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=470752 | 273,007 |
1,749,638 | Gray (1821) provided the first description of Jussieu's scheme in English, identifying two genera occurring in Britain ("Tulipa", "Fritillaria"), distinguished by the absence or presence of basal nectaries. His key used the presence of six equal stamens, a single style, a simple petaloid (undifferentiated tepals resemb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42056883 | 1,748,652 |
692,809 | The BFDV genome is bi-directionally transcribed and encodes at least two major proteins: a replication initiation protein (rep) expressed from the virion strand and a capsid protein (cap) expressed from the complementary strand. A recent study conducted by Sarker et al. used a combination of X-ray crystallography, cryo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4942191 | 692,446 |
557,421 | In August 2017 Flannery hosted an episode of ABC Catalyst investigating how carefully managed seaweed growth could contribute to combating climate change via the sequestration of atmospheric carbon to the ocean floor. This explored the details of the book he published in July 2017, "Sunlight and Seaweed: An Argument fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1903368 | 557,132 |
1,938,644 | Some date the start of experimental criminology to the Cambridge Somerville Youth Study in Massachusetts in the 1930s, when 506 boys aged 5 to 13 were paired and randomly assigned to receive a multi-year program of support. The 30-year followup of this experiment by Joan McCord found that the expensive program had no e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54144672 | 1,937,534 |
2,093,386 | Educated at the London School of Medicine for Women, she received her joint degree from the school and the Royal Free Hospital in 1934 and her M.B. B.S. two years later. While studying for her M.D., Barber held several different academic positions. From 1936 to 1937, she was a resident assistant in the Pathology Unit o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37627534 | 2,092,181 |
1,594,974 | In 2002, EngenderHealth was awarded the United Nations Population Award for institutions for its contribution to family planning and reproductive health care in resource-poor countries. In recognition of this honor, Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared July 1, 2002, as "EngenderHealth Day" in New York City, and presented a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6232087 | 1,594,076 |
145,754 | Another kind of security application leverages the SDN controller by implementing some moving target defense (MTD) algorithms. MTD algorithms are typically used to make any attack on a given system or network more difficult than usual by periodically hiding or changing key properties of that system or network. In tradi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33520674 | 145,696 |
171,693 | Mahan believed that national greatness was inextricably associated with the sea, with its commercial use in peace and its control in war; and he used history as a stock of examples to exemplify his theories, arguing that the education of naval officers should be based on a rigorous study of history. Mahan's framework d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=210133 | 171,602 |
659,877 | Silicon has been explored as a nutrient for plant growth, with silica comprising up to 10% of plant weight on a dry matter basis. Orthosilicic acid is of particular interest as it is thought to be the form in which plants uptake silicon from the soil, before being deposited as phytoliths throughout the plant, leading t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2282768 | 659,532 |
67,127 | In March 1944, planning for the test was assigned to Kenneth Bainbridge, a professor of physics at Harvard University, working under explosives expert George Kistiakowsky. Bainbridge's group was known as the E-9 (Explosives Development) Group. Stanley Kershaw, formerly from the National Safety Council, was made respons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60033 | 67,102 |
149,398 | The water-solubility of the organic constituent of the absorber material make devices highly prone to rapid degradation in moist environments. The degradation which is caused by moisture can be reduced by optimizing the constituent materials, the architecture of the cell, the interfaces and the environment conditions d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43845714 | 149,337 |
2,160,584 | The project is an international collaboration of researchers from Louisiana State University, University of Maryland, College Park, Marshall Space Flight Center, Purple Mountain Observatory in China, Moscow State University in Russia and Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany. ATIC is supported in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20340167 | 2,159,351 |
777,065 | Elephants show an ability to manufacture and use tools with their trunk and feet. Both wild and captive Asian elephants ("Elephas maximus") use branches to swat flies or scratch themselves. Eight of 13 captive Asian elephants, maintained under a naturalistic environment, modified branches and switched with the altered ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15704241 | 776,649 |
1,451,257 | The lemma of Lloyd Shapley and Jon Folkman was first published by the economist Ross M. Starr, who was investigating the existence of economic equilibria while studying with Kenneth Arrow. In his paper, Starr studied a "convexified" economy, in which non-convex sets were replaced by their convex hulls; Starr proved tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29237460 | 1,450,440 |
1,495,644 | Soon after the fifth generator was added to Plant 1, plans for Plant 2 began. Engineer W.A. Brackenridge studied and designed the plant. It would include a tunnel from the weir connected to a forebay would supply water to the future Plant 2, located just downstream from the falls. Plant 2 was commissioned in 1910 with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45188074 | 1,494,802 |
1,174,714 | Netra can be launched from a small clearing, and it can fly up to a distance of 2.5 km from its take-off point. The operational altitude of the UAV is 200 m. With an on-board wireless transmitter, it can carry out surveillance in an area of 1.5 km Line of Sight (LOS) at the height of 300 m, for 30 minutes on a single b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36609578 | 1,174,092 |
1,565,923 | In the mid-1930s, Smyth began to shift his interest to nuclear physics, inspired by James Chadwick's discovery of the neutron, John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton splitting the atom, and Ernest Lawrence's invention of the cyclotron. Three of his last research articles concerned detection of triatomic hydrogen and helium-3... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1225199 | 1,565,036 |
953,328 | The 19th century saw a major acceleration of these trends and features, most clearly seen in the groundbreaking publication of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" in 1818. The short novel features the archetypal "mad scientist" experimenting with advanced technology. In his book "Billion Year Spree", Brian Aldiss claims "Fra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3387802 | 952,823 |
217,803 | Single Particle Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy (SP ICP-MS) was designed for particle suspensions in 2000 by Claude Degueldre. He first tested this new methodology at the Forel Institute of the University of Geneva and presented this new analytical approach at the 'Colloid 2oo2' symposium during the spring... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49503 | 217,695 |
21,917 | The LHC's experimental work since restarting in 2015 has included probing the Higgs field and boson to a greater level of detail, and confirming whether less common predictions were correct. In particular, exploration since 2015 has provided strong evidence of the predicted direct decay into fermions such as pairs of b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20556903 | 21,908 |
71,086 | Black-body radiation has a characteristic, continuous frequency spectrum that depends only on the body's temperature, called the Planck spectrum or Planck's law. The spectrum is peaked at a characteristic frequency that shifts to higher frequencies with increasing temperature, and at room temperature most of the emissi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=726748 | 71,059 |
1,471,991 | The use of antibodies that block integrins or protease inhibitors in clinical trials leads to the emergence of tumor cells with the amoeboid type of migration. Similar results were obtained in studies of malignant tumors in vivo. A relationship between the application of drugs on the basis of matrix metalloproteinase i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58886026 | 1,471,162 |
1,532,211 | Some observers believe that in recent years (i) the debate about probabilities has become stagnant, (ii) the protagonists in the probabilities debate have been talking past each other, (iii) not much is happening at the high-theory level, and (iv) the most interesting work is in the empirical study of the efficacy of i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3553038 | 1,531,344 |
992,727 | On May 1, 2009, during its fifth mission extension, "Spirit" became stuck in soft soil. After nearly nine months of attempts to get the rover back on track, including using test rovers on Earth, NASA announced on January 26, 2010 that "Spirit" was being retasked as a stationary science platform. This mode would enable ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=252908 | 992,210 |
94,822 | In the 1960s, the now-famous Homestake experiment made the first measurement of the flux of electron neutrinos arriving from the core of the Sun and found a value that was between one third and one half the number predicted by the Standard Solar Model. This discrepancy, which became known as the solar neutrino problem,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21485 | 94,781 |
2,133,214 | The museum dates back to a time when collections of objects were still essential in scientific teaching and research. It has its origins in the private collection of Josef Anton Häfliger (1873–1954), a pharmacist and lecturer in practical pharmacy and the history of pharmacy. In 1924, he donated his collection of ancie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10772424 | 2,131,989 |
351,714 | The Gewehr 98 was designed to be used with a bayonet. For this the rifle had a H-style top barrel-band with a long bayonet lug. The long bearing surface on the Gewehr 98 bayonet lug eliminated the addition of a muzzle ring. The advantage of this solution lies in the fact that muzzle rings can interfere with barrel osci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2023424 | 351,531 |
101,090 | All of the factions encountered in the game, including the Tenno, were created by or are splinter groups of the old Orokin Empire, which the Tenno learns was an ancient fallen civilization and former reigning power in the Origin System. Although most of them are long dead by the time of the Tenno's awakening, their lin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38333096 | 101,045 |
427,932 | Pine forests in western North America provide a good example of such a cycle involving insect outbreaks. The mountain pine beetle ("Dendroctonus ponderosae") plays an important role in limiting pine trees like lodgepole pine in forests of western North America. In 2004 the beetles affected more than 90,000 square kilom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3968480 | 427,722 |
1,663,241 | There is no set mechanism specifically for autoimmune oophoritis, but it is known that microscopic examinations reveal a picture of inflammatory infiltrate. Selectively attacking the developing follicles and corpus luteum with sparing of the primordial follicles. However, since it is an autoimmune disease, it occurs wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45485077 | 1,662,306 |
1,866,722 | The Department of Molecular Neurobiology, led by Nils Brose, focuses on molecular mechanisms of synapse development and function in the mammalian central nervous system. For that purpose, Molecular Neurobiology is combining protein biochemical, yeast genetic, cell biological, electrophysiological and morphological meth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6745934 | 1,865,647 |
1,084,669 | Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) is a DNA virus from the genus "Begomovirus" and the family "Geminiviridae". TYLCV causes the most destructive disease of tomato, and it can be found in tropical and subtropical regions causing severe economic losses. This virus is transmitted by an insect vector from the family "Al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12458036 | 1,084,112 |
1,704,025 | After a successful launch, booster burn-out occurred 91.1 seconds into flight at a height of about 56 km, the RLV-TD separated from the HS9 booster and further ascended to a height of about 65 km. The RLV-TD then began its descent at about Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound). The vehicle's navigation, guidance and c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23805257 | 1,703,069 |
293,998 | Some have stated that human ergonomics began with "Australopithecus prometheus" (also known as “little foot”), a primate who created handheld tools out of different types of stone, clearly distinguishing between tools based on their ability to perform designated tasks. The foundations of the science of ergonomics appea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36479878 | 293,839 |
2,032,440 | Prior to the season, Ritch was also unanimously re-elected as captain of the basketball team. On December 18, 1911, "The Charlotte News" reported that Ritch again returned to Charlotte and told the press that he "may not be able to return to 'the Hill' in the spring." The writers commented that if he did not, the baske... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62180062 | 2,031,270 |
1,364,578 | The Red Queen hypothesis asserts that MHC diversity is maintained by parasites. If individuals' MHC alleles render different resistances to a particular parasite, then the allele with the highest resistance is favored, selected for, and consequently spread throughout the population. Recombination and mutation cause gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31630294 | 1,363,822 |
1,619,971 | Napier's novel method of calculation spread quickly in Britain and abroad. Kepler dedicated his 1620 "Ephereris" to Napier, with a letter congratulating him on his invention and its benefits to astronomy. Keppler found no essential errors except for some inaccuracies at small angles. Edward Wright, an authority on cele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26291704 | 1,619,056 |
1,118,360 | In transgenic fast-growing fish genetically modified for growth hormone, the mosaic founder fish vary greatly in their growth rate, reflecting the highly variable proportion and distribution of transgenic cells in their bodies. Fish with these high growth rates (and their progeny) sometimes develop a morphological abno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25175288 | 1,117,787 |
1,158,574 | The second bad argument presented by Berker is “The Argument from Heuristics”, which is an improved version of the "Emotions Bad, Reasoning Good" argument. It is claimed that emotion-driven processes tend to involve fast heuristics, which makes them unreliable. It follows that deontological intuitions, being an emotion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42621632 | 1,157,960 |
1,440,615 | Embedded in the calcareous skeleton are numerous microscopic polyps. They are connected internally by a system of canals and are concealed behind pores in the skeleton, the surface of which is smooth and lacks the corallites of true stony corals. The polyps have specialist functions, the gastrozooids processing and dig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34268996 | 1,439,805 |
1,226,527 | Bio-MEMS for surgical applications can improve existing functionality, add new capabilities for surgeons to develop new techniques and procedures, and improve surgical outcomes by lowering risk and providing real-time feedback during the operation. Micromachined surgical tools such as tiny forceps, microneedle arrays a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19081158 | 1,225,866 |
1,819,864 | His scientific studies have included both experimental and theoretical work. His doctoral thesis, directed by William Moffitt, was on the subject of the electronic structure of butadiene. He then went on to study alkali halides in the gas phase, first at the University of Michigan and then at Yale, using shock waves to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=660207 | 1,818,829 |
1,144,857 | As a child, Fiske exhibited remarkable precocity. He lived at Middletown with his grandmother during childhood, and prior to his entering college he had read widely in English literature and history, had excelled in Greek and Latin work, and had studied several modern languages. He then entered Harvard, and graduated f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=195994 | 1,144,256 |
1,290,579 | In 2003, Anthony Trewavas led a study to see how the roots interact with one another and study their signal transduction methods. He was able to draw similarities between water stress signals in plants affecting developmental changes and signal transductions in neural networks causing responses in muscle. Particularly,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45684913 | 1,289,869 |
615,697 | In contrast to environmental sample analyses, synthetic studies of nonylphenols have more control over sample state, concentration and preparation, simplifying the use of powerful structural identification techniques like NMR - capable of identifying the individual nonylphenol isomers. In a preliminary investigation of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1475625 | 615,383 |
1,951,949 | Members of Acanthamoebidae have a specific form of pseudopodia, dubbed acanthopodia. These acanthopodia are continuously formed and reabsorbed, protrude from every area of the cell’s surface, and are usually, short and fine. An exception would be "A. astronyxis" and "A. comandoni", in which the acanthopodia may be quit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22034098 | 1,950,828 |
28,166 | The Neolithic 1 (PPNA) period began roughly around 10,000 BC in the Levant. A temple area in southeastern Turkey at Göbekli Tepe, dated to around 9500 BC, may be regarded as the beginning of the period. This site was developed by nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes, as evidenced by the lack of permanent housing in the vicin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21189 | 28,156 |
1,404,795 | Much of his subsequent work was a detailed exposition of the concepts and methods required to examine these fundamental aspects of health care. He was an early exponent of systems management in health services. He strove to define every aspect of quality in health systems and proposed models for its measurement in over... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33517932 | 1,404,005 |
963,230 | In June 2007, Saab signed a long term service agreement with the Austrian Air Force to provide logistics and technical support for their Saab 105Ö fleet for a further 10–15 years. Austria finally retired the Saab 105 on 31 December 2020. In December 2008, Saab received a SKr900 million ($115 million) contract to suppor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=848274 | 962,721 |
927,979 | A very similar practice came into use during the Great Depression that provided a purpose, job and food to those who would otherwise be without anything during such harsh times. These efforts helped raise spirits and boost economic growth. Over 2.8 million dollars worth of food was produced from the subsistence gardens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=450257 | 927,491 |
1,547,238 | He held a Distinguished Professorship of Evolution, Population Genetics and Genomics at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Besides over 250 papers, especially in population genetics, he has written a two volume textbook with Bruce Walsh. Alongside this textbook he has also published two other books. He promotes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3651405 | 1,546,361 |
1,381,756 | Commercial aquaculture so far has been confined to starting with young juveniles caught in the wild, weighing about 750 g. In Spain, these juveniles are purchased from local fishermen and transferred to offshore floating sea cages. There they are fattened with bycatch (fish, molluscs and crabs) for several months until... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33246392 | 1,380,993 |
276,536 | On 14 January 1939, Meitner learned that her brother-in-law Jutz had been released from Dachau and he and her sister Gusti were permitted to emigrate to Sweden. Jutz's boss, Gottfried Bermann had escaped to Sweden, and offered Jutz his old job back at the publishing firm if he was able to come. Niels Bohr interceded wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18070 | 276,386 |
924,534 | The bidirectional communication is done by immune, endocrine, humoral and neural connections between the gastrointestinal tract and the central nervous system. More research suggests that the gut microorganisms influence the function of the brain by releasing the following chemicals: cytokines, neurotransmitters, neuro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41080840 | 924,048 |
210,183 | The P-1 is equipped with many newly developed technologies and features, particularly in terms of its avionics and missions systems. One such key feature is the use of a fly-by-optics flight control system, which essentially replaces standard metal wiring with optical fiber cables. This has the effect of decreasing ele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10061467 | 210,076 |
609,824 | On 12 September 2006, Qantas Flight 68, Airbus A330 registration VH-QPA, from Singapore to Perth exhibited ADIRU problems but without causing any disruption to the flight. At and estimated position north of Learmonth, Western Australia, "NAV IR1 FAULT" then, 30 minutes later, "NAV ADR 1 FAULT" notifications were receiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7019701 | 609,513 |
403,708 | "The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned" is the first installment of downloadable content (DLC) for "Borderlands" and includes new quests, items, and enemies—including WereSkags and various zombies. The storyline takes place in an area known as Jakobs Cove which is a small town built by the Jakobs Corporation. Dr. Ned had been i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12785426 | 403,508 |
51,920 | The projected fighter needed to have a top speed of at , to be maintained for 20 minutes, while having a total flight duration of 90 minutes. The critical altitude of 6,000 metres was to be reached in no more than 17 minutes, and the fighter was to have an operational ceiling of . Power was to be provided by the new Ju... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186739 | 51,900 |
1,944,187 | The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity is one of the foremost centers for the multi-disciplinary study of diversity, in its multiple forms, in today’s globalizing world. As societies across the globe become ever more diverse, pressing new challenges emerge to the fore, motivating the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10201409 | 1,943,075 |
182,535 | The coiled form of cochlea is unique to mammals. In birds and in other non-mammalian vertebrates, the compartment containing the sensory cells for hearing is occasionally also called "cochlea," despite not being coiled up. Instead, it forms a blind-ended tube, also called the cochlear duct. This difference apparently e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134971 | 182,439 |
879,044 | The focus of preventive measures to date has been on the design of car seats, primarily through the introduction of head restraints, often called headrests. This approach is potentially problematic given the underlying assumption that purely mechanical factors cause whiplash injuries — an unproven theory. So far the in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234482 | 878,581 |
1,339,792 | A major application of smFRET is to analyze the minute biochemical nuances that facilitate protein folding. In recent years, multiple techniques have been developed to investigate single molecule interactions that are involved in protein folding and unfolding. Force-probe techniques, using atomic force microscopy and l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27083115 | 1,339,059 |
1,536,193 | With the start of the World War I in 1914, Burdenko once again volunteered for the frontline and joined the Red Cross detachment of the Northwestern Front, taking part in the East Prussian Operation and the Battle of the Vistula River. In addition to the duties of field surgeon he also evacuated wounded soldiers under ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3942571 | 1,535,325 |
171,488 | Interstitial lung disease (ILD), or diffuse parenchymal lung disease (DPLD), is a group of respiratory diseases affecting the interstitium (the tissue and space around the alveoli (air sacs)) of the lungs. It concerns alveolar epithelium, pulmonary capillary endothelium, basement membrane, and perivascular and perilymp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1483290 | 171,398 |
1,895,767 | Alain et al. utilized a delayed match to sample task in which participants held an initial tone in memory, comparing it to a second tone presented 500 ms later. Although the set of stimuli tones remained the same throughout the experiment, task blocks alternated between pitch and spatial comparisons. For example, durin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27169449 | 1,894,683 |
252,135 | Like most German aircraft produced in World War II, the Bf 109 G-series was designed to adapt to different operational tasks with greater versatility; larger modifications to fulfil a specific mission task, such as long-range reconnaissance or long-range fighter-bomber, were with "Rüststand" and given a "/R" suffix, sm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24983642 | 252,002 |
1,296,767 | The University of Málaga (UMA, "Universidad de Málaga") is a public university ranked 23 among all Spanish universities and 683 in the world. It was established in 1972 and has, as of 2016, 30,203 Bachelor students and 2576 on a Master's program, 1255 tenured and 1056 temporary teachers. The UMA offers 65 degree course... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27047364 | 1,296,056 |
481,242 | This measure has the advantage of being stationary in the sense that probabilities remain the same over time in the limit of large formula_3. However, it suffers from the "youngness paradox", which has the effect of making it exponentially more probable that we'd be in regions of high temperature, in conflict with what... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44982654 | 480,998 |
1,581,414 | Duplexes formed from xDNA are similar to natural duplexes aside from the distance between the two sugar-phosphate backbones. xDNA helices have a greater number of base pairs per turn of the helix as a result of a reduced distance between neighbour nucleotides. NMR spectra report that xDNA helices are anti-parallel, rig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32499267 | 1,580,524 |
41,046 | The "New Science" of the 17th century rejected the Aristotelian approach. It sought to explain natural phenomena in terms of physical laws that were the same for all visible things and that did not require the existence of any fixed natural categories or divine cosmic order. However, this new approach was slow to take ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9236 | 41,031 |
671,357 | In theoretical physics, the (one-dimensional) nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) is a nonlinear variation of the Schrödinger equation. It is a classical field equation whose principal applications are to the propagation of light in nonlinear optical fibers and planar waveguides and to Bose–Einstein condensates confi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1422748 | 671,005 |
352,212 | Mary Anning was born in Lyme Regis in Dorset, England, on 21 May 1799. Her father, Richard Anning ("c".1766–1810), was a cabinetmaker and carpenter who supplemented his income by mining the coastal cliff-side fossil beds near the town, and selling his finds to tourists; her mother was Mary Moore ("c".1764–1842) known a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38334 | 352,029 |
777,382 | The game features some gameplay elements that resemble features in other first-person shooters. The heads-up display (HUD) shows the player character's helmet, with a tactical visor. The player acts as squad leader of a squad of four elite troops. The squadmate order system allows the player general tactical control ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1401029 | 776,966 |
529,078 | Lambert invented the first practical hygrometer. In 1760, he published a book on photometry, the "Photometria". From the assumption that light travels in straight lines, he showed that illumination was proportional to the strength of the source, inversely proportional to the square of the distance of the illuminated su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=93085 | 528,804 |
1,480,295 | Stebbins's review, "The significance of polyploidy in plant evolution", published in "American Naturalist" in 1940, demonstrated how work done on artificial polyploids and natural polyploid complexes had shown that polyploidy was important in developing large, complex, and widespread genera. However, by looking at the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1591079 | 1,479,461 |
1,135,581 | Reuters reported that USGS released into the public domain a new estimate of the world's oil and gas resources, the first such report since 2000. Excluding the U.S. the USGS found: "565 billion barrels of conventional oil and 5,606 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered conventional natural gas in 171 priority geologic pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8962853 | 1,134,988 |
1,542,217 | An initial spirometry is performed to assess the patient's native respiratory status. You will be asked to take a deep breath and then blow into the mouthpiece of the spirometer as hard as you can. This is a baseline measurement. A dose of bronchodilator medication is administered by means of inhaler or nebulizer (such... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37579151 | 1,541,344 |
1,832,249 | Prof. Agrawal obtained a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 1990 with emphasis on robotics, dynamics, and control. He currently directs the Robotics and Rehabilitation Laboratory (ROAR) and Robotic Systems Engineering Laboratory (ROSE), which have an active group of PhD, MS, UG, and post-d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51386912 | 1,831,202 |
1,972,385 | A ballistic deflection transistor would be significant in acting as both a linear amplifier and a switch for current flow on electronic devices, which could be used to maintain digital logic and memory. A transistor switching speed is greatly affected by how fast charge carriers (typically, electrons) can cross from on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1216282 | 1,971,251 |
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