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498,035 | O'Connor is best known for his work on the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme, also known as the "Goldfields Pipeline". The pipeline carries water from Perth to Kalgoorlie. A succession of gold rushes in the Yilgarn region near Southern Cross in 1887, at Coolgardie in 1892, and at Kalgoorlie in 1893 caused a population exp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216426 | 497,778 |
248,984 | After a nine-year wait (since 2010), permission to fly U.K. registered gyroplanes through the Russian Federation was finally approved, and on 22 April 2019, Surplus and G-YROX continued eastwards from Larne, Northern Ireland, to cross Northern Europe and rendezvous with fellow gyroplane pilot James Ketchell piloting Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62709 | 248,856 |
601,064 | In August 2002 a 100 MW Gas Turbine Power Plant was commissioned on the Shoreham site utilizing the existing switchgear that was in place for the decommissioned nuclear facility. This facility utilizes two 42 MW GE LM6000PC Jet Engine Generators equipped with Sprint injection (can increase capacity to 50 MW each) and S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2046186 | 600,756 |
1,914,596 | A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies is a treatise and textbook on analytical dynamics by British mathematician Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker. Initially published in 1904 by the Cambridge University Press, the book focuses heavily on the three-body problem and has since gone through four ed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65496619 | 1,913,497 |
1,322,590 | In 1896 David went to the Pacific atoll of Funafuti as part of an expedition under Professor William Sollas of Oxford in order to take borings which it was hoped would settle the question of the formation of coral atolls. There were defects in the boring machinery and the bore penetrated only slightly more than 100 fee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2223233 | 1,321,864 |
1,610,670 | He was awarded the Chauvenet Prize for mathematical writing in 1963 for an article on the gamma function, and won numerous other prizes, including being chosen to deliver the 1991 Hendrick Lectures of the MAA (which became the basis for his book "Spirals: From Theodorus to Chaos"). He was a frequent invited lecturer an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3753768 | 1,609,765 |
381,575 | In 1947, aged 31, Crick began studying biology and became part of an important migration of physical scientists into biology research. This migration was made possible by the newly won influence of physicists such as Sir John Randall, who had helped win the war with inventions such as radar. Crick had to adjust from th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11461 | 381,380 |
927,040 | In the 1990s, the school's leadership debated transitioning the college to be coeducational. Whereas many women in the Telluride Association advocated for the change, a large portion of the school's alumni wished to keep its status as a men's college. Though the board of Deep Springs voted against making any change in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=353345 | 926,553 |
763,030 | The principle of the APXS technique is based on the interaction of alpha particles from a radioisotope source with matter. There are three components of the return radiation; simple Rutherford backscattering, production of protons from reactions with the nucleus of light elements, and generation of X-rays upon recombin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36694809 | 762,622 |
1,611,727 | Shur has led many research efforts in diverse fields related to semiconductor devices, solid-state physics, and engineering, such as plasma wave electronics, thin film transistors, laser technology, sub micrometer field effect transistors, terahertz technology, Surface Acoustic and Acousto-Optic devices. Having written... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8856566 | 1,610,822 |
1,184,015 | In measurements, Young's elastic modulus formula_33 depends not only on concrete age formula_4 but also on the test duration because the curve of compliance formula_1 versus load duration formula_7 has a significant slope for all durations beginning with 0.001 s or less. Consequently, the conventional Young's elastic m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37709269 | 1,183,388 |
1,079,129 | The origin of Recreation Areas as a category in the National Park System stemmed in important part from widened responsibilities assigned to the Service beginning in the 1930s. A central feature of these new responsibilities was administration of hundreds of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps located in State Park... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19187901 | 1,078,574 |
1,057,791 | The crystalline structure of BiTe allows for mechanical exfoliation of thin samples by cleaving along the trigonal axis. This process is significantly lower in yield than epitaxial growth, but produces samples without defects or impurities. Similar to extracting graphene from bulk graphite samples, this is done by appl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3840002 | 1,057,242 |
220,939 | A talented handyman, he built his own phonograph and made most of his furniture, utensils, and doorways. His worldview valued "differentiating the essential from the ephemeral," with Plato, Lao-Tzu, and Milarepa as influences. Reportedly, he had a copy of the first ever translation from the Tibetan into French of Jacqu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6585 | 220,830 |
1,868,076 | The study of these materials arises from the pioneering articles of Ludwig Boltzmann and Vito Volterra, in which they sought an extension of the concept of an elastic material. The key assumption of their theory was that the local stress value at a time depends upon the history of the local deformation up to . In gener... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53634896 | 1,867,000 |
749,823 | The nose of the Pendolino is manufactured out of composite materials and moulded in a similar fashion as has been used to produce the shells of racing cars. This construction methodology has been claimed to have been readily compatible with the aerodynamic contouring techniques practised while also retaining considerab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1438262 | 749,425 |
693,820 | Numerous experimental controllers exist which abandon traditional musical interfaces entirely. These include the gesture-controlled Buchla Thunder, sonomes such as the C-Thru Music Axis, which rearrange the scale tones into an isometric layout, and Haken Audio's keyless, touch-sensitive Continuum playing surface. Exper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1354621 | 693,457 |
1,720,943 | Toward the end of April, an area of convection persisted in the southern Bay of Bengal. It developed into a distinct low-pressure area on May 1 over the body of water, but soon moved westward into India without developing. On May 4, the system emerged from Kerala into the Arabian Sea, and soon after convection rapidly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15111055 | 1,719,973 |
2,197,821 | With the growth and advancement of the urological research field and the Society’s goals and objectives, the formal, independent annual meeting of the Society began to be held in the fall of each year starting in 1992. The first fall meeting was held at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, attended by a very encourag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17778327 | 2,196,570 |
896,861 | In 1805 a Swiss geodesist Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler brought copies of the French metre and kilogram to the United States. In 1830 the Congress decided to create uniform standards for length and weight in the United States. Hassler was mandated to work out the new standards and proposed to adopt the metric system. The C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20353 | 896,389 |
241,341 | Teleradiology is the transmission of radiographic images from one location to another for interpretation by an appropriately trained professional, usually a radiologist or reporting radiographer. It is most often used to allow rapid interpretation of emergency room, ICU and other emergent examinations after hours of us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152623 | 241,221 |
60,848 | The use of chloroform during surgery expanded rapidly thereafter in Europe. In the 1850s, chloroform was used by the physician John Snow during the birth of Queen Victoria's last two children. In the United States, chloroform began to replace ether as an anesthetic at the beginning of the 20th century; it was quickly a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82933 | 60,823 |
1,492,838 | The observatory was originally built by Worcester R. Warner and Ambrose Swasey, owners of Warner & Swasey Company, which made precision instruments and telescopes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They became trustees of the Case School of Applied Science (later renamed to Case Institute of Technology), and bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3221143 | 1,491,999 |
1,371,275 | No. 77 Squadron began moving to Goodenough Island in May 1943, and was fully established and ready for operations by 15 June. As Japanese fighter opposition was limited, the squadron took part in several ground-attack missions in New Britain, armed with incendiary and general-purpose bombs, a practice that had been emp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3573298 | 1,370,518 |
788,030 | Metachromatic leukodystrophy is the result of genetic defects in the enzymes associated with the cellular compartment the lysosome. MLD is one of two leukodystophies that are also a lysosomal storage disorder. MLD is inherited in an autosomal recessive way and is the result of mutations in three different ARSA alleles ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1997086 | 787,606 |
1,948,367 | In their book on the k·p method, Voon and Willatzen devote several chapters to explaining Kane models. They note that Kane's quasi-degenerate perturbation theory approach worked well for semiconductors with small band gaps. Kane improved previous valence band models by adding the lowest conduction band. This model was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51320853 | 1,947,254 |
760,070 | HSV Technologies, Inc. (named for its founders, Herr, Schlesinger and Vernon; not to be confused with Holden Special Vehicles), formerly of San Diego, California, USA, then Port Orchard, WA, designed a non-lethal device which was profiled in the 2002 "TIME" magazine article "Beyond the Rubber Bullet". It is an electrol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146808 | 759,664 |
95,865 | Also in regard to the approach phase during January 2015, on August 21, 2012, the team announced that they would spend mission time attempting long-range observations of the Kuiper belt object temporarily designated VNH0004 (now designated ), when the object was at a distance from "New Horizons" of . The object would b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=390905 | 95,824 |
1,563,479 | Blocq's disease was first considered by Paul Blocq (1860–1896), who described this phenomenon as the loss of memory of specialized movements causing the inability to maintain an upright posture, despite normal function of the legs in the bed. The patient is able to stand up, but as soon as the feet are on the ground, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22308502 | 1,562,592 |
1,238,293 | Kean introduces pathological science by mentioning William Crookes. Crookes lost his brother Philip at sea and Crookes and his family became overwhelmed with grief. They turned to spiritualism to express their grief. Crookes and his family became frequent attendees of the séances to try to communicate with his brother.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46736756 | 1,237,627 |
1,162,605 | The onset of the Globalisation era of the 1980s saw the United Arab Emirates become one of the most developed countries in the Persian Gulf region. The country saw a major economic boost with transforming into a commodity based economy, with shipments of oil and natural gas accounting for 40% of total exports and 38% o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60447339 | 1,161,988 |
1,762,790 | The Venture Incubation Program (VIP) is open to full-time degree-seeking students and select alumni of any of the Harvard schools that are working on an entrepreneurial or innovative ventures. The 12-week program has fall, spring, and summer cohorts. As of November 2018, 1,146 VIP student teams have participated. In th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38830309 | 1,761,797 |
850,213 | Although fictional, the above scenario may however have been based on fact. The Japanese extensively wargamed their planned expansion during World War II, but map exercises conducted before the Pacific War were frequently stopped short of a conclusion where Japan was defeated. One often-cited example prior to Midway ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10280894 | 849,761 |
370,823 | In 2019, an enormous volume of e-waste (53.6 Mt, with a 7.3 kg per capita average) was generated globally. This is projected to increase to 74 Mt by 2030. Asia still remains the largest contributor of a significant volume of electronic waste at 24.9 Mt, followed by the Americas (13.1 Mt), Europe (12 Mt), and Africa and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3887690 | 370,629 |
139,812 | On April 12, 1961, the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space on an orbital flight. He was not present in his spacecraft during landing thus technically his mission was not initially considered as the first complete human spaceflight by then World Air Sports Federation's definitions, although la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19812 | 139,755 |
1,676,329 | Generally simple in concept, the expanding nozzle is considerably more complex to build than it might seem. Engine bells must be cooled to avoid damage from the hot rocket exhaust, and this has presented problems in expanding nozzle designs. The cooling is normally accomplished by running either the oxidizer or fuel (i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157315 | 1,675,387 |
646,617 | Testing and diagnosing for dyschronometria have also been shown to be ineffective. Dementia is caught so late despite the signals seeming obvious because psychological tests that try to catch signs of dementia, such as dyschronometria, are not very helpful. With these tests, the bell curves formed after statistical ana... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20539972 | 646,277 |
10,190 | All undergraduates are required to complete a core curriculum called the General Institute Requirements (GIRs). The Science Requirement, generally completed during freshman year as prerequisites for classes in science and engineering majors, comprises two semesters of physics, two semesters of calculus, one semester of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18879 | 10,186 |
560,793 | One of the predominant aims of epidemiology is to identify modifiable causes of health outcomes and disease especially those of public health concern. In order to ascertain whether modifying a particular trait (e.g. via an intervention, treatment or policy change) will convey a beneficial effect within a population, fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10453294 | 560,504 |
600,495 | Parallelogram suspension seat posts use dual linked bars that connect the saddle clamp to the post, and all operate in an arcing motion although some arc backwards and others arc forwards. Differences between the arc directions create posts that are designed for different things, a rear arc would be better for small wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8876936 | 600,189 |
26,856 | Most target the transcription stage of genetic expression. One approach has been to try and develop medication that get the ribosome to overcome the stop codon and produce a full-length CFTR protein. About 10% of CF results from a premature stop codon in the DNA, leading to early termination of protein synthesis and tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50601 | 26,846 |
690,987 | The application of token economies, especially with adults, became a matter of criticism. In addition some impediments and the evolution of mental health care caused troubles. Token economies have proven their effectiveness and utility for chronic psychiatric patients, despite requiring months or even years to achieve ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4320068 | 690,624 |
373,634 | Binary reverse engineering is performed if source code for a software is unavailable. This process is sometimes termed "reverse code engineering", or RCE. For example, decompilation of binaries for the Java platform can be accomplished by using Jad. One famous case of reverse engineering was the first non-IBM implement... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18935488 | 373,439 |
521,611 | The unique and bizarre features of the group has encouraged research into the paleobiology and paleoecology of the family. A fair portion of modern research has concentrated on the feeding-patterns of these dinosaurs, as they are considered to be the best regarded theropod candidates for herbivory. While other theropod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3812410 | 521,340 |
1,311,166 | According to Levine, the team had to revolutionize their previous work on the "BioShock" game in order to realize Columbia, including both indoor and outdoor settings that take place thousands of feet above the ground. The original "BioShock" engine, a modified Unreal Engine 2.x, was inadequate for their vision, and so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38977195 | 1,310,447 |
130,048 | The Apollo 8 crew and Mission Control medical personnel held a conference using an unoccupied second-floor control room (there were two identical control rooms in Houston, on the second and third floors, only one of which was used during a mission). The conference participants concluded that there was little to worry a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=663 | 129,996 |
1,854,226 | West was a chemist best known for his groundbreaking research in silicon chemistry as well as for his work with oxocarbons and organolithium compounds. In 2004, West was listed as one of the most cited scientists during the period 1981-1999, according to a citation survey by Thomson ISI. West's most well-known discover... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2951190 | 1,853,163 |
980,622 | Over the following several weeks, Wilkins considered the radio detection problem. He outlined an approach and backed it with detailed calculations of necessary transmitter power, reflection characteristics of an aircraft, and needed receiver sensitivity. He proposed using a directional receiver based on Watt's lightnin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1280053 | 980,110 |
1,473,345 | The Laboratory of Precision Environmental Biosciences, regarded as one of the pioneering epigenetics labs worldwide, is the central focus of a wider Precision Medicine program at the Mailman School, focusing on public health and prevention. That includes research and education on the human microbiome, extracellular RNA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15920782 | 1,472,514 |
180,900 | The first American spacewalk was performed on June 3, 1965, by Ed White from the second crewed Gemini flight, Gemini IV, for 21 minutes. White was tethered to the spacecraft, and his oxygen was supplied through a umbilical, which also carried communications and biomedical instrumentation. He was the first to control hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9792 | 180,806 |
1,647,143 | There have been several hypotheses made that attempt to explain possible resolutions for intralocus sexual conflict. In one proposition, it is suggested that intralocus sexual conflict can be minimized through sex-dependent gene regulation. By doing this, genes that are negatively selected may evolve sexually dimorphic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33907902 | 1,646,212 |
1,527,258 | In January 2020, an ILSI-sponsored survey report by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) on consumption of added sugar among Indians, drew criticism from the Alliance Against Conflict of Interest (AACI). They described ILSI as a lobbying arm of food industry, notorious for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7365962 | 1,526,394 |
2,248,328 | Single-Entity Electrochemistry (SEE) refers to the electroanalysis of an individual unit of interest. A unique feature of SEE is that it unifies multiple different branches of electrochemistry. Single-Entity Electrochemistry pushes the bounds of the field as it can measure entities on a scale of 100 microns to angstrom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62571269 | 2,247,056 |
655,154 | First synthesized in 1992 by Yoshitomi Pharmaceuticals, fingolimod was derived from an immunosuppressive natural product, myriocin (ISP-I) through chemical modification. Myriocin was isolated from the culture broth a type of entomopathogenic fungus ("Isaria sinclairii") that was an eternal youth nostrum in traditional ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1475435 | 654,810 |
95,331 | Electric power generated from wind power can be highly variable at several different timescales: hourly, daily, or seasonally. Annual variation also exists but is not as significant. Because instantaneous electrical generation and consumption must remain in balance to maintain grid stability, this variability can prese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277289 | 95,290 |
2,034,141 | Margaret Frame’s long-held research interests are in cancer invasion and metastasis, and the role of tyrosine kinases in controlling tumour cell spread. She has had several CR-UK funded programs of research to work on understanding cancer invasion and metastasis and was awarded a European Research Council Advanced Inve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56185573 | 2,032,968 |
912,518 | Japan is a major contributor to the development of OTEC technology. Beginning in 1970 the Tokyo Electric Power Company successfully built and deployed a 100 kW closed-cycle OTEC plant on the island of Nauru. The plant became operational on 14 October 1981, producing about 120 kW of electricity; 90 kW was used to power ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68498 | 912,039 |
718,546 | Mainland China uses a varied concept of "muzzle ratio kinetic energy" (), which is the quotient (ratio) of the muzzle energy divided by the bore cross sectional area, to distinguish genuine guns from "imitation" replicas like toy guns. The Ministry of Public Security unilaterally introduced the concept in 2008 leading ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1131674 | 718,167 |
2,052,748 | He was also a leading scientific contributor to the establishment of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, a group of now more than 60 nations along with many intergovernmental and non-governmental organization dedicated to implementing actions that simultaneously reduce air pollution and mitigate climate change. He cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1230447 | 2,051,566 |
597,869 | In 1942, during the German occupation of France, Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Émile Gagnan designed the first successful and safe open-circuit scuba, known as the Aqua-Lung. Their system combined an improved demand regulator with high-pressure air tanks. Émile Gagnan, an engineer employed by the Air Liquide company, minia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51846703 | 597,564 |
1,807,423 | In 1962, Turnbull joined Harvard University as the Gordon McKay Professor of applied physics, where he taught for 23 years. One of his graduate students at Harvard described him as follows: "As a physicist, manager, psychologist and philosopher, he combines the erudition of a Renaissance scholar with the expert knowled... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12157619 | 1,806,404 |
288,482 | By 1999, six missiles had been test fired, and another eight were earmarked for test firing. In June 2016, a Trident II D-5 missile "veered off in the wrong direction towards America" after being launched from "Vengeance" off the coast of Florida. The incident was not revealed until January 2017; the "Sunday Times" rep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9095461 | 288,325 |
1,432,657 | Once in the synapse, neurotransmitters will rapidly move across the synapse to attach themselves to receptors on the postsynaptic membrane. Neurotransmitter receptors will either signal postsynaptic channels to "open" or "close" which will affect the rates that ions are able to cross the synaptic membrane. The relative... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45702632 | 1,431,853 |
1,976,886 | The ACSEP was originally formed as the Australian College of Sports Physicians (ACSP) in 1985 by a group of doctors with vocational interest in sports medicine. Some of the original sports physicians in Australia were GPs who took an interest in sport and eventually chose to practise full-time in this area. In the late... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64151144 | 1,975,748 |
518,732 | Some of graphite blocks were purchased from National Carbon. The construction crews began stacking them in September 1943. Cast uranium billets came from Metal Hydrides, Mallinckrodt and other suppliers. These were extruded into cylindrical slugs, and then canned. The fuel slugs were canned to protect the uranium metal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4110093 | 518,463 |
1,448,904 | Stingarees feed on or near the sea floor, consuming small invertebrates and occasionally bony fishes. They are aplacental viviparous, meaning their embryos emerge from eggs inside the uterus, and are sustained to term first by yolk and later by maternally produced histotroph ("uterine milk"). As far is known, the gesta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4533443 | 1,448,088 |
20,095 | In October 2017, the Army announced Raytheon's Lower-Tier Air and Missile Defense System (LTAMDS) radar had been selected as the Patriot system's new radar. Unlike the previous radar which could only watch one part of sky at a time primarily to detect ballistic missiles, the LTAMDS has 360-degree coverage to detect low... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52024 | 20,087 |
1,217,524 | Dr. Chauncey Starr, then the Dean of the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science, led the initiative, proposed by Congress, to create an independent research and development organization to support the electricity sector and address its technical and operational challenges. In 1972, at a formal hearing of the U.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8531714 | 1,216,871 |
316,164 | By defining SI base units with respect to physical constants, and not artefacts or specific substances, they are realisable with a higher level of precision and reproducibility. As of the redefinition of the SI units on 20 May 2019 the kilogram, ampere, kelvin, and mole are defined by setting exact numerical values for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65637 | 315,995 |
240,945 | Damage occurred up to away, with the most damage in the west San Fernando Valley, and the cities and neighborhoods of Santa Monica, Hollywood, Simi Valley and Santa Clarita. The Historic Egyptian Theater in Hollywood was red-tagged and closed as was the Capital Theater in Glendale due to structural damage. The exact nu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=267024 | 240,825 |
679,460 | The opening of COMSATS University in the historical and industrial town of Wah was a joint effort of the university and Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) which is located in Wah Cantonment. The university management started campus at Wah in a record period of 70 days. The then-Minister for Science and Technology and Ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2817531 | 679,106 |
1,597,878 | Once a DTO calculated, it can be combined with the known position of the satellites and the receiving station. This combination provides a locus of positions on the Earth’s surface for the source of the signal; from this result a line of position (LOP) can be derived. A similar line can be derived for the frequency dif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24981352 | 1,596,979 |
1,212,793 | As a medium-sized ant, "Nothomyrmecia" measures . Workers are monomorphic, showing little morphological differentiation among one another. Mature colonies are very small, with only 50 to 100 individuals in each nest. Workers are strictly nocturnal and are solitary foragers, collecting arthropod prey and sweet substance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9372569 | 1,212,141 |
18,072 | USAF F-15Es have participated in Operation Inherent Resolve against Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq and Syria. On the morning of 23 September 2014, numerous American and Arab aircraft conducted air strikes in Syria against IS fighters, training compounds, headquarters and command and control facilities, storage fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=495724 | 18,066 |
2,155,098 | Different Engineering Programs at EEC prepare students in different engineering programs and teach them the ways to discover the new trends in their fields. Our management team and faculties are dedicated to create excellent teaching-learning environment with extensive counselling, interactions and project works leadin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51725891 | 2,153,867 |
119,931 | Human impact on the environment has resulted in an increase in the interbreeding between regional species, and the proliferation of introduced species worldwide has also resulted in an increase in hybridisation. This genetic mixing may threaten many species with extinction, while genetic erosion from monoculture in cro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41244 | 119,882 |
56,652 | In November 2017, the International Olympic Committee announced the winners of the Golden rings in six categories for the best broadcast coverage of the Games. The Best Olympic Sports Production was awarded to Beach Volleyball, produced by Geoff Johnson and directed by Greg Breakell and Gary Milkis. The production for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=961522 | 56,628 |
439,522 | Lovaas co-authored a study with George Rekers in 1974 where they attempted to modify the behavior of feminine male children through the use of rewards and punishment with the goal of preventing them from becoming homosexuals. The subject of the first of these studies, a young boy at the age of 4 at the inception of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1317207 | 439,308 |
1,129,603 | A map of the world was also included. A scroll in the lower left panel of the map is inscribed with instructions on how to use the map and a lunar distance measurement to calculate longitude: it states that by observing the edge of the Moon's disc in relation to a known star, or a lunar eclipse, it is possible to calcu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3288669 | 1,129,025 |
808,755 | The Junkers F.13 of 1919 was the first of several successful civil aircraft designs produced by "Junkers Flugzeugwerke": later designs include the Junkers Ju 52/3m from 1932. Through a variety of business initiatives, Junkers was active in founding and developing airlines around the globe, initially intending to sell t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242188 | 808,325 |
349,210 | The law was discovered by Pierre Bouguer before 1729, while looking at red wine, during a brief vacation in Alentejo, Portugal. It is often attributed to Johann Heinrich Lambert, who cited Bouguer's "Essai d'optique sur la gradation de la lumière" (Claude Jombert, Paris, 1729) – and even quoted from it – in his "Photom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4476 | 349,028 |
1,901,583 | The WIA is the Australian "peak" radio amateur society being the sole national organisation recognised by the IARU. The WIA has existed for over 100 years (since 1910), and is a foundation member of the IARU (Region 3). The IARU represents Radio Amateur Service and their global spectrum allocations with the Internation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=532076 | 1,900,494 |
581,991 | One particularly important experimental tool in astrochemistry is spectroscopy through the use of telescopes to measure the absorption and emission of light from molecules and atoms in various environments. By comparing astronomical observations with laboratory measurements, astrochemists can infer the elemental abunda... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71268 | 581,693 |
1,814,169 | In Valkenik, Tsemakh faces several challenges and conflicts, often without any effect. He must resist the attractive Rokhshte (Ronya), the married daughter of the yeshiva's cook, whose husband is home only twice a year. He must rebuke a student whose charming friendliness with Leitshe, the unmarried daughter, has led t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5673389 | 1,813,135 |
40,968 | Heritable traits are passed from one generation to the next via DNA, a molecule that encodes genetic information. DNA is a long biopolymer composed of four types of bases. The sequence of bases along a particular DNA molecule specifies the genetic information, in a manner similar to a sequence of letters spelling out a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9236 | 40,953 |
360,980 | In April 2016, "New Scientist" obtained a copy of a data sharing agreement between DeepMind and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. The latter operates three London hospitals where an estimated 1.6 million patients are treated annually. The agreement shows DeepMind Health had access to admissions, discharge and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41755648 | 360,791 |
2,061,406 | The book begins by describing how George W. Bush received the smallpox vaccine in 2002, given that it was thought, by Bush and his aides, that enemies of the US government, particularly Saddam Hussein, might possess the virus. It then describes how this vaccine was only slightly different from the type invented by Edwa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40208289 | 2,060,219 |
2,070,384 | The 1983–84 Fresno State Bulldogs men's basketball team represented California State University, Fresno during the 1983–84 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. This was head coach Boyd Grant's 7th season at Fresno State. The Bulldogs played their home games at Selland Arena and were members of the Pacific Coast Ath... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69924591 | 2,069,193 |
959,915 | The University of Toledo began in 1872 as a private arts and trades school, offering subjects such as painting and architectural drawing. Jesup Wakeman Scott, a local newspaper editor, published a pamphlet in 1868 entitled "Toledo: Future Great City of the World." He believed that the center of world commerce was movin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33431636 | 959,407 |
2,015,548 | Current theories for interfibre bonding during papermaking process are based on general recognition of the hydrogen bonding model. Consequently, all effort for boosting fibre strength is connected to mechanical beating of fibres in order to generate more flexible and fragmented fibres for increased bonding areas. As a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48692630 | 2,014,388 |
1,154,478 | New Jersey Medical School’s core teaching hospital, The University Hospital, is located on campus. It is home to a Level I Trauma Center, the busiest in the state, and one of the nation’s most active liver transplant programs. The 504-bed facility is also highly regarded for its Comprehensive Stroke Center, the New Jer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10655897 | 1,153,868 |
235,787 | The second basic method uses LEDs in conjunction with a phosphor to produce complementary colors from a single LED. Some of the light from the LED is absorbed by the molecules of the phosphor, causing them to fluoresce, emitting light of another color via the Stokes shift. The most common method is to combine a blue LE... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9910525 | 235,668 |
947,594 | Osler was a prolific author and public speaker and his public speaking and writing were both done in a clear, lucid style. His most famous work, "The Principles and Practice of Medicine" quickly became a key text to students and clinicians alike. It continued to be published in many editions until 2001 and was translat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146219 | 947,091 |
420,555 | While modern genomic prediction scoring in humans is generally referred to as a "polygenic score" (PGS) or a "polygenic risk score" (PRS), in livestock the more common term is "genomic estimated breeding value", or GEBV (similar to the more familiar "EBV", but with genotypic data). Conceptually, a GEBV is the same as a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52142704 | 420,350 |
881,179 | Acromioclavicular joint dislocations are graded from I to VI. Grading is based upon the degree of separation of the acromion from the clavicle with weight applied to the arm. Grade I is slight displacement of the joint, and a badly stretched or partially torn AC ligament. It has the normal separation of <4 mm. Grade II... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1911791 | 880,715 |
1,492,332 | Typestates are capable of representing behavioral type refinements such as "method "A" must be invoked before method "B" is invoked, and method "C" may not be invoked in between". Typestates are well-suited to representing resources that use open/close semantics by enforcing semantically valid sequences such as "open t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36495871 | 1,491,493 |
2,143,485 | Suib studied photo-catalytic oxygen evolution from non-potable water by using a bio-inspired molecular water oxidation catalyst. His research group found that under specific conditions, the incorporation of manganese cubane clusters in Nafion membranes along with the illumination with light, led to water oxidation in a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65457261 | 2,142,254 |
267,387 | Jubilee Campus, designed by Sir Michael Hopkins, was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1999, and is approximately from University Park. The campus' facilities house the Schools of Education and Computer Science, and The Nottingham University Business School. The site is also the home of The National College for School Le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25086027 | 267,243 |
9,847 | The 787's internal cabin pressure is the equivalent of altitude, resulting in a higher pressure than for the altitude of older conventional aircraft. According to Boeing, in a joint study with Oklahoma State University, this significantly improves passenger comfort. Cabin air pressurization is provided by electrically ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=307133 | 9,843 |
350,273 | Selected as one of the Mercury Seven astronauts, Grissom was the pilot of Mercury-Redstone 4 ("Liberty Bell 7"), the second American suborbital flight, on July 21, 1961. At the end of the flight, the capsule's hatch blew off prematurely after it landed in the Atlantic Ocean. Grissom was picked up by recovery helicopter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36592 | 350,090 |
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