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242,475 | The Mk 57 Peripheral Vertical Launch System (PVLS) is an evolution of Mk 41 VLS used on Zumwalt-class destroyers. Unlike the Mk 41, the Mk 57 is designed to be installed on the ship periphery instead of in centralized magazines. Developed by Raytheon, it provides backwards compatibility with existing missiles while all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33156479 | 242,348 |
36,211 | Natural uranium consists of three major isotopes: uranium-238 (99.28% natural abundance), uranium-235 (0.71%), and uranium-234 (0.0054%). All three are radioactive, emitting alpha particles, with the exception that all three of these isotopes have small probabilities of undergoing spontaneous fission. There are also fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31743 | 36,199 |
2,136,741 | The objective of the ultraviolet spectrometer (UVS) is to measure the density of nitric oxide in the terrestrial upper atmosphere (thermosphere) by observing the (1,0) and (0,1) gamma bands. The UVS design is similar to instruments flown on the Solar Mesosphere Explorer (SME), Pioneer Venus Orbiter, and several launch ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50946940 | 2,135,512 |
1,198,919 | The new model parameters are then used in a standard Least Squares optimization problem to reconstruct an image that minimizes the distance between the k-space data, and the result of applying the SENSE forward model formula_72 under our new parameter estimate formula_73 to our best estimate for the motion-free image:f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56564310 | 1,198,278 |
870,465 | With the introduction of CD-ROM and the broader adoption of multimedia, Acorn announced a full-motion video system called Acorn Replay in early 1992, supporting simultaneous audio and video at up to 25 frames per second in the RISC OS desktop or in "a low resolution full screen mode". Unlike certain other full-motion v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 870,005 |
891,800 | If the stick is held fixed, the aircraft will not maintain straight and level flight (except in the unlikely case that it happens to be perfectly trimmed for level flight at its current altitude and thrust setting), but will start to dive, level out and climb again. It will repeat this cycle until the pilot intervenes.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=221400 | 891,331 |
417,927 | The role of the Combined Development Trust was to purchase or control the mineral resources needed by the Manhattan Project, and to avoid competition between the three. Britain had little need for uranium ores while the war continued, but was anxious to secure adequate supplies for its own nuclear weapons programme whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41957579 | 417,723 |
1,554,621 | In 1972, Romer described the specimens his team had discovered in the journal "Breviora". He named a new genus for the specimens, "Gracilisuchus", with the prefix "Gracili-" referring to "the obviously graceful build of the little reptile". Furthermore, he placed them in the type and only species "G. stipanicicorum", w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4835624 | 1,553,740 |
530,677 | For certain classes of problems, algorithms running on quantum computers are naturally capable of achieving lower time complexity than on classical computers. That is, quantum algorithms can solve certain problems faster than the most efficient algorithm running on a traditional computer. For example, Shor's algorithm ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42674727 | 530,403 |
1,035,095 | Altman was born on May 7, 1939, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His parents, Ray (Arlin), a textile worker, and Victor Altman, a grocer, were immigrants to Canada, each coming from Eastern Europe as a young adult, in the 1920s. Altman's mother was from Białystok in Poland, and had come to Canada with her sister at the age... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51775 | 1,034,555 |
581,454 | The presentation of the results at the joint November 6, 1919 session of Royal Society and Royal Astronomical Society led to intensive press coverage first in Great Britain and a few days later in the US press, notably in The New York Times, and some days later still in the German press. While Einstein had been a moder... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60880859 | 581,156 |
1,451,182 | The main campus occupies a quad near the center of Cornell, comprising an academic building, a research building, an extension building, a conference center, and a library. Ives Hall, named after ILR founding dean Irving Ives, is the academic building and is divided into a classroom/student wing and a faculty wing. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=568930 | 1,450,365 |
722,681 | Kata (, or more traditionally, 型; lit. "form") is a Japanese word describing detailed patterns of movements practiced either solo or in pairs. Karate kata are executed as a specified series of a variety of moves, with stepping and turning, while attempting to maintain perfect form. The kata is not intended as a literal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4417843 | 722,301 |
1,529,341 | By the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem, all non-trivial voting rules can be manipulated in the sense that voters can sometimes achieve a better outcome by misrepresenting their preferences, that is, they submit a non-truthful ballot to the voting system. Social choice theorists have long considered ways to circumvent thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51245349 | 1,528,477 |
2,202,264 | There are instances where a person may feel fatigued in the daytime, causing experiences of drowsiness and sudden instances of going to sleep. These moments are characterized as a chronic sleep disorder known as narcolepsy. There are several genetic factors such as HLA-DQB*6:02 that have been identified as possibly pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69860092 | 2,201,010 |
1,421,072 | Gerald Hawkins’ work on Stonehenge was first published in "Nature" in 1963 following analyses he had carried out using the Harvard-Smithsonian IBM computer. Hawkins found not one or two alignments but dozens. He had studied 165 significant features at the monument and used the computer to check every alignment between ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3151382 | 1,420,272 |
953,351 | Rudyard Kipling's contributions to science fiction go beyond their direct impact at the start of the 20th century. The Aerial Board of Control stories and his critique of the British military, The Army of a Dream, were not only very modern in style, but strongly influenced authors like John W. Campbell and Robert Anson... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3387802 | 952,846 |
1,481,422 | On 11 October 2012, TEPCO released results of the first direct inspections (by remotely operated camera) of conditions in the interior of the Reactor 1 PCV. These suggest that the initial assumptions concerning the behaviour of the fuel mass during the accident may have been incorrect. In particular, the distribution o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38070727 | 1,480,588 |
985,319 | Naval aviation is typically projected to a position nearer the target by way of an aircraft carrier. Carrier-based aircraft must be sturdy enough to withstand demanding carrier operations. They must be able to launch in a short distance and be sturdy and flexible enough to come to a sudden stop on a pitching flight dec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=899167 | 984,805 |
917,792 | The sophist Hippias was the first writer to compile a comprehensive list of the Olympic victors (, "olympioníkes"). Although his "Olympic Record" (, "Olympionikō̂n Anagraphḗ") is now entirely lost, it apparently formed the basis of all later Olympic dating. By the time of Eratosthenes, his dating of Coroebus's victory ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=332902 | 917,309 |
2,056,772 | The Spring Assembly and the Autumn Assembly form the General Assembly. In these two meetings, major decisions concerning the Association are made. Activities held include: Plenary sessions- involves voting and election of the EMSA European Board, discussion and adoption of Policy Papers, other key discussions, and gues... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3174935 | 2,055,588 |
1,627,689 | " " The field expanded over the next two decades, initially using proteomics data to aid in refining genetic models via protein databases. In 2020s, one of the most common technique for identifying peptides involves using tandem mass spectrometry. This technique originated with Eng and Yates in 1994 which invo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28722065 | 1,626,771 |
1,765,173 | Though the many advances of HPLC and monoliths are highly visible within the confines of the analytical and pharmaceutical industries, it is unlikely that general society is aware of these developments. Currently, consumers may witness technology developments in the analytical sciences industry in the form of a broader... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22131699 | 1,764,180 |
1,440,045 | The possible interference between ATES and chlorinated ethenes has been also seen as an opportunity of integration of sustainable energy technology and sustainable groundwater management. The combination of ATES and enhanced bioremediation first introduced in the “More with SubSurface Energy” (Meer met Bodemenergie, MM... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45228255 | 1,439,235 |
1,940,840 | As a graduate student at Princeton, Desimone and his thesis supervisor Charles Gross were the first to publish data that neurons respond specifically to faces. At NIMH, he described the physiological properties of neurons in extrastriate visual cortex, and he and Leslie Ungerleider mapped the topographic organization a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25192046 | 1,939,729 |
13,630 | Optics, the study of light, is concerned not only with visible light but also with infrared and ultraviolet radiation, which exhibit all of the phenomena of visible light except visibility, e.g., reflection, refraction, interference, diffraction, dispersion, and polarization of light. Heat is a form of energy, the inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22939 | 13,625 |
887,373 | Marconi's achievement received worldwide publicity, and was the final proof that radio was a practical communication technology. The scientific community at first doubted Marconi's report. Virtually all wireless experts besides Marconi believed that radio waves traveled in straight lines, so no one (including Marconi) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1105907 | 886,908 |
675,471 | The mineral composition of sponge spicules makes these structures the most resistant parts of the sponge bodies and ensures the ability of spicules to withstand various taphonomic processes, resulting in that they often constitute the only evidence of the presence of some sponges in an ecosystem. Even though sponges ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27140295 | 675,118 |
1,000,716 | Data on tumor sizes at diagnosis and tumor growth behavior was sparse or contradictory and mainly short-term. The Central Brain Tumor Registry of the U.S., established in 1992, only began to keep records for benign tumors like VS in 2004. In 2006, a landmark study from Denmark, entitled "The Natural History of Vestibul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1002770 | 1,000,198 |
1,298,933 | MOSFET and Diode Level 2 models were added in the version 10 release. These models allow the simulation of the switch transition, reverse recovery effects, and gate drive circuitry. A comparison with a PSIM & SPICE model of the same device showed similar resulting waveforms with a comparable simulation speed given iden... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41201773 | 1,298,219 |
1,787,195 | Avellaneda was an expert in quantitative finance and has consulted extensively on the subject. His first assignment, in 1996, was with the foreign-exchange derivatives desk at Banque Indousuez in New York. He became Vice-President of the Fixed-Income research and Derivative Products Group at Morgan Stanley in 1996, whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52583053 | 1,786,190 |
2,033,912 | 1872 was a wet summer and Grace ended his season in early August so that he could join the tour of North America. He made 22 first-class appearances, scoring 1,561 runs at 53.82 including 6 centuries with a highest score of 170 not out and taking 27 catches. He took 62 wickets at 11.87 including 9 instances of 5 wicket... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33594219 | 2,032,739 |
2,127,792 | In additional reports, the working environment at MediaLab Europe was described as "hell", "chaos" and "inmates running the asylum", while independent assessments of the Laboratory's operation commissioned by MLE noted significant improvements in management and operations since mid-2003. It was also reported in (Smith ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1036581 | 2,126,571 |
963,571 | Charles Kettering presided over SAE during World War I and saw membership pass the 5,000 mark. During this time, SAE emphasized the importance of developing member activity through local chapters – called "Sections". After World War II, the Society established links with other standards bodies and automotive engineerin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=341646 | 963,062 |
1,546,080 | Dragon spacecraft can return of cargo to Earth, which can be all unpressurized disposal mass, or up to of pressurized cargo, from the ISS, and is the only current spacecraft capable of returning to Earth with a significant amount of cargo. Other than the Russian Soyuz crew capsule, Dragon is the only currently operatin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52066624 | 1,545,206 |
1,074,315 | In terms of total absolute power sensitivity, Denton and Pirenne in the Journal of Physiology in 1954 found that for diffuse, extended sources i.e. a relatively large (~ 45-degree wide source, as viewed by the subject) frosted glass aperture, and a long (5 second) observation and decision time, the human eye could begi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1776590 | 1,073,761 |
1,462,675 | Erosion and deposition has led to much of Zealandia now being covered in sedimentary rocks that formed in swamps and marine sedimentary basins. Much of New Zealand was low lying around Mid Eocene-Oligocene times (40–23 Ma). Swamps became widespread, forming coal. The land subsided further, and marine organisms produced... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21056320 | 1,461,852 |
1,458,401 | The final match of the FIDE World Championship featured Viswanathan Anand, the pre-tournament favorite and No. 1 seed, and Alexei Shirov, who had previously been denied a chance to challenge Garry Kasparov for the Classical World Championship despite winning a candidates' match two years earlier. After an uneventful 34... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18056562 | 1,457,581 |
311,084 | In exchange for suspending its enrichment program, Iran was offered "a long-term comprehensive arrangement which would allow for the development of relations and cooperation with Iran based on mutual respect and the establishment of international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program."... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=721807 | 310,916 |
1,317,528 | The most striking sign of Timothy syndrome type 1 is the co-occurrence of both syndactyly (about 0.03% of births) and long QT syndrome (1% per year) in a single patient. Other common symptoms include cardiac arrhythmia (94%), heart malformations (59%), and autism or an autism spectrum disorder (80% who survive long eno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1092527 | 1,316,803 |
1,178,354 | The next easiest target is Venus. This was a target of great scientific value, since it could provide an unambiguous way to measure the size of the astronomical unit, which was needed for the nascent field of interplanetary spacecraft. In addition such technical prowess had great public relations value, and was an exce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=264337 | 1,177,730 |
1,436,480 | When it comes to connecting assets, there are two features that will accelerate the adoption and usage of data democratisation: decentralized identity management and business data object monetization of data ownership. It enables multiple individuals and organizations to identify, authenticate, and authorize participan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61260930 | 1,435,671 |
1,823,769 | The weevil goes through a single life-cycle each year. Adults pass the winter months in surrounding leaf litter and become active throughout late April and early May. Before leaf buds on yellow-poplar, sassafras, or magnolia trees open, weevils attack the buds and leave their distinctive feeding marks. Mating takes pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47317375 | 1,822,731 |
234,304 | Modern stereophonic technology was invented in the 1930s by British engineer Alan Blumlein at EMI, who patented stereo records, stereo films, and also surround sound. In early 1931, Blumlein and his wife were at a local cinema. The sound reproduction systems of the early "talkies" invariably only had a single set of sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1369770 | 234,185 |
2,163,865 | The advantages of working with an SPMD passive sampler as opposed to a normal field test with an organism are that SPMDs are able to be deployed in extremely toxic waters that might be too toxic for an organism to live in or just not inhabited by sessile filter feeders. The design of the SPMD makes it so that it imitat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50610351 | 2,162,629 |
833,270 | A 2015 systematic review concluded that the limited evidence available indicates that using silver-coated endotracheal breathing tubes reduces the risk of contracting ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), especially during the initial days of utilisation. A 2014 study concluded that using silver-coated endotracheal tu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=149881 | 832,821 |
405,028 | The relation to real experiments can be quite complex, as can be seen again from an example going back to Albert Einstein. In 1935, with two coworkers, he published a paper on a newly created subject called later the EPR effect (EPR paradox). In this paper, starting from certain philosophical assumptions, on the basis ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49535 | 404,828 |
1,319,377 | A large quantity of field data is desirable for PVA; some conservatively estimate that for a precise extinction probability assessment extending "T" years into the future, five-to-ten times "T" years of data are needed. Datasets of such magnitude are typically unavailable for rare species; it has been estimated that su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=826478 | 1,318,651 |
467,172 | The working mechanism of the triboelectric nanogenerator can be described as the periodic change of the potential difference induced by the cycled separation and re-contact of the opposite triboelectric charges on the inner surfaces of the two sheets. When a mechanical agitation is applied onto the device to bend or pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30057479 | 466,938 |
544,623 | The fifth meeting of the National Space Council was held on March 26, 2019, where Chairman Vice President Mike Pence announced that U.S. astronauts would return to the surface of the moon by March 26, 2024. Reports from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and other council members were received and reviewed during the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18716701 | 544,341 |
1,008,063 | On the other hand, system integration projects can be incredibly rewarding. For out-of-date, legacy systems, different forms of integration offer the ability to enable real-time data sharing. This can enable, for example, publisher-subscriber data distribution models, consolidated databases, event-driven architectures,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8576385 | 1,007,543 |
970,666 | In addition to baseline levels of positive and negative affect, studies have found individual differences in the time-course of emotional responses to stimuli. The temporal dynamics of emotion regulation, also known as affective chronometry, include two key variables in the emotional response process: rise time to peak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17476149 | 970,156 |
1,882,154 | The fifth mission picked up where the fourth mission left off by demonstrating the fully autonomous aerial robotic behaviors necessary to rapidly negotiate the confined internal spaces of a structure once it has been penetrated by an air vehicle. The nuclear reactor complex explosion scenario of the fourth mission was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3961621 | 1,881,073 |
1,893,777 | Early in its history, Cemetech became embroiled in drama, disrupting the Texas Instruments calculator hobbyist scene, partly stemming from a premature announcement of the Doors CS project. Various community members spoofed user accounts in an attempt to further discredit Cemetech. Cemetech's growth and gradual gain in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31290307 | 1,892,694 |
1,701,278 | The history of the laboratory goes back to 1922 when, on farmland purchased by the Belgian Government, the first building was erected to house the STAé (Service Technique de l'Aéronautique), i.e. the technical services of the Civil Aviation Authority then under the Ministry of Defence. The building was designed to acco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=521787 | 1,700,324 |
798,309 | A typical broadside of a Royal Navy ship of the late 18th century could be fired 2–3 times in approximately 5 minutes, depending on the training of the crew, a well trained one being essential to the simple yet detailed process of preparing to fire. The British Admiralty did not see fit to provide additional powder to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5473205 | 797,884 |
254,846 | An April 2020 study, published in the "Proceedings of the Royal Society" journal, found that increased virus spillover events from animals to humans can be linked to biodiversity loss and environmental degradation, as humans further encroach on wildlands to engage in agriculture, hunting and resource extraction they be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34439 | 254,713 |
1,451,075 | The term 'crystal engineering' was first used in 1955 by R. Pepinsky but the starting point is often credited to Gerhard Schmidt in connection with photodimerization reactions in crystalline cinnamic acids. Since this initial use, the meaning of the term has broadened considerably to include many aspects of solid state... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5340351 | 1,450,258 |
861,462 | Pilot-physicians were previously assigned only to an operational flying squadron in their respective aircraft, with their main assignment as a pilot, but also with clinical duties seeing patients, usually the aviation medicine clinic, depending on the pilot-physician's medical specialty. On 21 April 2011 the USAF Pilot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=97085 | 861,003 |
1,581,108 | One of the only experiments to detect axions as dark matter is the Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX). Located at the University of Washington, ADMX uses a resonant microwave cavity in a strong magnetic field to convert dark matter into microwave photons by means of the Primakoff effect. Microwave cavities are simple ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70646792 | 1,580,218 |
1,549,643 | Directly inside the mouth opening, in the lining of the gullet, can be found characteristic finger-like processes known as "macrocilia". These were first described by J.G.F. Will in 1844 and further investigated by George Adrian Horridge in 1965. He found they were complex structures composed of 2,000 to 3,000 filament... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=570817 | 1,548,762 |
1,519,104 | Medicine is a profession that uses very advanced technical, high risk, as well as behavioral skills. However, unlike other areas with similar requirements (such as aviation), medicine has not totally embraced the use of simulations to assist with necessary medical training. The limited use of simulations for training i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20856654 | 1,518,246 |
2,090,822 | The 2015–16 Michigan Wolverines women's basketball team will represent University of Michigan during the 2015–16 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Wolverines, led by fourth year head coach Kim Barnes Arico, play their home games at the Crisler Center and were members of the Big Ten Conference. They finishe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47319778 | 2,089,619 |
183,055 | In Europe, some medical groups have discouraged or limited the use of puberty blockers. Following the "Bell v Tavistock" decision by the High Court of Justice for England and Wales, in which the High Court ruled children under 16 were not competent to give informed consent to puberty blockers — overturned by the Court ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36414000 | 182,959 |
1,584,683 | Behaviorism examines relationships between the environment and the individual with roots in early 20th century work in the German experimental school. Theories by researchers such as Ivan Pavlov (who introduced classical conditioning), and B.F. Skinner (operant conditioning) looked at how environmental stimulation coul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47963845 | 1,583,793 |
1,268,008 | Gilman played active roles in defending science education, and opposing creationism. He opposed the Texas state board of education in 2003 when the board tried to remove evolution from science curriculum. He was the leader of scientists of the US National Academy of Sciences, including Nobel laureates, to publicly crit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1414381 | 1,267,318 |
1,565,533 | and the functions formula_3 are continuously differentiable and linearly independent basis functions. Here, essentially, formula_4 and formula_5 are the lower and upper bounds (if they exist) of a random variable with quantile function formula_6. These distributions are called quantile-parameterized because for a given... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65801270 | 1,564,646 |
1,592,783 | Blood plasma is the liquid component of blood, which contains dissolved proteins, nutrients, ions, and other soluble components. In whole blood, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets are suspended within the plasma. The goal of plasma purification and processing is to extract specific materials that are pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8317987 | 1,591,886 |
281,291 | A second cell placed at the 3 o'clock position completes the system. In this case, the switching takes place not at the 9 and 3 o'clock positions, but 12 and 6 o'clock. Considering the same target, in this case, the waveform has just reached its maximum positive point at 12 o'clock when it is switched negative. Followi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1396771 | 281,138 |
1,838,393 | Knot signatures can also be defined in terms of the Alexander module of the knot complement. Let formula_9 be the universal abelian cover of the knot complement. Consider the Alexander module to be the first homology group of the universal abelian cover of the knot complement: formula_10. Given a formula_11-module form... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1693847 | 1,837,344 |
817,049 | The painting was one of a number of British works challenging the set categories of the rigid, French-dictated hierarchy of genres in the late 18th century, as other types of painting aspired to be treated as seriously as the costumed history painting of a Classical or mythological subject. In some respects the "Orrery... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8870404 | 816,613 |
398,368 | Plasma levels of serotonin, which promotes vasoconstriction, hypertrophy and proliferation, are increased in patients with PAH, although the role played by serotonin in the pathogenesis of PAH remains uncertain. The expression or activity of several growth factors (including platelet-derived growth factor, basic fibrob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=674529 | 398,172 |
1,276,276 | The above relations formula_58 are "three bijections" (one to one relations) in three sharing edges but otherwise separate subdomains, which altogether make the entire "two parameter" domain (half-plane) of biaxial tests stress states.The explicit reverse relations formula_59, easily obtainable from the above formulae,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64425095 | 1,275,583 |
849,574 | UPMC has committed to several community projects, most notably pledging $100million to the Pittsburgh Promise, a scholarship program to help students graduating from the Pittsburgh Public Schools pursue post-secondary education, and $525million for construction of a new Children's Hospital. In fiscal year 2012, UPMC do... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2156973 | 849,122 |
403,340 | The use of aircraft in the close air support of ground forces dates back to the First World War, the first conflict to make significant military use of aerial forces. Air warfare, and indeed aviation itself, was still in its infancy – and the direct effect of rifle caliber machine guns and light bombs of the First Worl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=600792 | 403,140 |
1,593,995 | The sculptures of Hermes Fastening his Sandal, which exist in several versions, are all Roman marble copies of a lost Greek bronze original in the manner of Lysippos, dating to the fourth century BCE. The identity of the subject, which may simply represent an idealized athlete, is conventional. No attribute in any of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12847757 | 1,593,098 |
538,180 | The Pledge treatment option had more effect under conditions of inequality: Success rates tripled from 2 of 10 in the Base-Unequal treatment to 6 of 10 in the Pledge-Unequal treatment (n = 20; P = 0.085, one-sided Fisher's exact test). The latter success rate (6 of 10) is not significantly different from the 7 of 10 ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1882343 | 537,901 |
434,831 | At the University of Leipzig in 1862–64, German astronomer Johann K. F. Zöllner developed a custom photometer to measure the reflectivity of the Moon, planets and bright stars. For Mars, he derived an albedo of 0.27. Between 1877 and 1893, German astronomers Gustav Müller and Paul Kempf observed Mars using Zöllner's ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25998318 | 434,617 |
551,701 | Merkle was the manager of compiler development at Elxsi from 1980. In 1988, he became a research scientist at Xerox PARC. In 1999 he became a nanotechnology theorist for Zyvex. In 2003 he became a Distinguished Professor at Georgia Tech, where he led the Georgia Tech Information Security Center. In 2006 he returned to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25849 | 551,413 |
461,377 | On 3 August 2004 Gennady Padalka and Mike Fincke again left the space station to install communications gear and replace space exposure experiments on the outside of the "Zvezda" Service Module. The spacewalk was conducted from the "Pirs" Docking Compartment airlock and commenced when Padalka and Fincke opened the oute... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=635366 | 461,150 |
795,208 | At the 2017 World Aquatics Championships, with swimming contested at Danube Arena in July in Budapest, Hungary, Sjöström won her first medal of the Championships in the 100 metre butterfly, winning the gold medal with a Championships record time of 55.53 seconds, which was 0.65 seconds faster than silver medalist Emma ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16493334 | 794,783 |
147,199 | As the immune system is relatively conserved between zebrafish and humans, many human infectious diseases can be modeled in zebrafish. The transparent early life stages are well suited for "in vivo" imaging and genetic dissection of host-pathogen interactions. Zebrafish models for a wide range of bacterial, viral and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5009 | 147,141 |
1,794,784 | In 1954, he changed the name to the Berklee School of Music, after his son, Lee Eliot Berk, to better reflect the school's broad curriculum. In the next few years, Berk added jazz musicians such as trumpeter Herb Pomeroy (1956), saxophonist Charlie Mariano (1957), drummer Alan Dawson (1957), and reed player John LaPort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26884512 | 1,793,775 |
573,510 | Plans and procedures for the procurement of fighter jets was established in the middle of 2016. The estimated cost of the jets was expected to be around 1.5 billion lev and a contract for 8 aircraft was supposed to be reached by the end of 2016. Deliveries were planned for 2018 to 2021 and additional 8 aircraft for 202... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59468861 | 573,216 |
965,154 | An electron moving through a conductor will attract nearby positive charges in the lattice. This deformation of the lattice causes another electron, with opposite spin, to move into the region of higher positive charge density. The two electrons then become correlated. Because there are a lot of such electron pairs in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4403 | 964,645 |
1,212,629 | The outbreak of World War I forced European nations to temporarily abandon development of international radio communications networks, while the United States increased efforts to develop transoceanic radio. By the end of the war the Alexanderson alternator was operating to reliably provide transoceanic radio service. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1280825 | 1,211,977 |
916,247 | Identity is built off of one's self-perception of their physical, psychological, and interpersonal characteristics which are rooted in personal experiences, memories, and social influences. Athletic identity is defined as "the degree to which an individual identifies with the athlete role and looks to others for acknow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25688228 | 915,765 |
1,474,023 | During the second phase, Japan took advantage of the weakening British hold on the region to invade Siam, seeing the country as an obstacle on the route south to British-held Malaya and its vital oil supplies, and northwest to Burma. On 8 December 1941, after several hours of minimal fighting between Siamese and Japane... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2938344 | 1,473,192 |
798,389 | In the early 1970s, Pam Hardt-English led a group to create a computer network they named Resource One and which was part of a group called Project One. Her idea to connect Bay Area bookstores, libraries and Project One was an early prototype of the Internet. To work on the project, Hardt-English obtained an expensive ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2279544 | 797,964 |
1,974,048 | Topological Clustering or Topological Data Analysis (TDA) provides a general framework to analyze high dimensional, incomplete, and noisy data in a way that reduces dimensional and gives a robustness to noise. The idea that is that the shape of data sets contains relevant information. When this information is a homolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10571004 | 1,972,913 |
1,225,285 | In December 2003 the contract to build the dam and its associated structures was awarded to a consortium of Boguchandgesstroy, Soyuzgidrosptsstry and Soma Enterprise Ltd. Due to difficulties acquiring land around the site, construction could not begin in earnest until 13 months after the contract was awarded. Unexpecte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27381487 | 1,224,625 |
934,215 | Phage therapy is being used to great effect in the treatment of biofilm infections, especially Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus. From 78 recent cases of treatment of biofilm infections, 96% of patients saw clinical improvement when phage therapy, and 52% of patients saw complete symptom relief or a full... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=682382 | 933,723 |
1,657,603 | ‘’FBN-1’’ is a gene approximately 200kb and is made up of a large coding sequence divided into 65 exons located on chromosome 15. This gene encodes for Fibrillin-1 protein. Fibrillin-1 is a large cysteine rich-glycoprotein approximately 350 kDa mainly composed of tandemly repeating domains of epidermal growth factor (E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14076409 | 1,656,670 |
1,621,665 | One type of Kriegsbeute or "(war booty)" in English was the M1891s that were salvaged from wrecked Belgian forts. The gun barrels were placed on a simple box trail carriage made from riveted steel plates and there were two large spoked cast iron wheels at the front. The carriage had a cutout behind the breech to allow ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67427716 | 1,620,749 |
1,074,378 | On their first season after founding they reached the second place in 2012–2013 Liga V season and promoted to the next league, Liga IV Timiș County. They reached again the second place but this time they not promoted to Liga III, anyway they won their first trophy Cupa României, Timiș County round, beating FC Giarmata ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46233607 | 1,073,824 |
2,104,488 | These investigations require the use of soluble ZFPs, since attachment to phage can alter the binding characteristics of the zinc fingers. Once a ZFP has been selected, its sequence is subcloned from pComb3H into a modified bacterial expression vector, pMal-c2, linking it to a sequence coding the maltose binding protei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15087912 | 2,103,275 |
1,069,451 | In 1879, Wien went to school in Rastenburg and from 1880 to 1882 he attended the city school of Heidelberg. In 1882 he attended the University of Göttingen and the University of Berlin. From 1883 to 1885, he worked in the laboratory of Hermann von Helmholtz and, in 1886, he received his Ph.D. with a thesis on the diffr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=149626 | 1,068,897 |
91,817 | The first group of 35, which included Shepard, assembled at the Pentagon on February 2, 1959. The Navy and Marine Corps officers were welcomed by the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Arleigh Burke, while the United States Air Force officers were addressed by the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, General ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63727 | 91,777 |
319,146 | The most notable example of ocean acidification is the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), which occurred approximately 56 million years ago when massive amounts of carbon entered the ocean and atmosphere, and led to the dissolution of carbonate sediments across many ocean basins. Relatively new geochemical method... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2801560 | 318,975 |
1,880,904 | Pioneer Pacific College has three campus locations in the Portland Metro and surrounding areas including Beaverton, and Springfield, in addition to a facility for culinary arts in downtown Portland. Pioneer Pacific's main campus is in Beaverton.The Beaverton, OR campus offers courses in legal studies and healthcare. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17548711 | 1,879,823 |
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