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2,218,667 | Besides coastal exploration, Portuguese also made trips off in the ocean to gather meteorological and oceanographic information (in these trips were discovered the archipelagos of Madeira and the Azores, and the Sargasso Sea). The knowledge of wind patterns and currents – the trade winds and the oceanic gyres in the At... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72465922 | 2,217,405 |
1,558,236 | Despite anxieties about the automatic docking, the Spektr module successfully docked to the -X port under control of the Kurs system on June 1. The next day, in their fifth EVA, the cosmonauts again entered the depressurized base block to transfer compartment and moved the Konus from the -Z to the -Y port. With the Mir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=851176 | 1,557,351 |
487,937 | In August 2004, Nanochip licensed PRAM technology for use in MEMS (micro-electric-mechanical-systems) probe storage devices. These devices are not solid state. Instead, a very small platter coated in chalcogenide is dragged beneath thousands or even millions of electrical probes that can read and write the chalcogenide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=850973 | 487,687 |
2,110,985 | People in this class use a prosthetic limb when competing in athletics. It has four parts: a socket, a knee, a shank and a foot. In shot put, people in this class often plant their left leg against the toe board when they begin the glide stage of their throw. Above the knee amputees have difficulty using standard able-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51157660 | 2,109,770 |
803,690 | The earliest PDP-8 model, informally known as a "Straight-8", was introduced on 22 March 1965 priced at $18,500 (). It used diode–transistor logic packaged on flip chip cards in a machine about the size of a small household refrigerator. It was the first computer to be sold for under $20,000, making it the best-selling... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24364 | 803,261 |
585,609 | By creating this system, information flow was primarily in one direction and continued to be split out on the way down. For instance, the filter room might be receiving 15 reports per minute from various CH sites, but these would be about formations that might cover the entire coast of Great Britain. Portions of these ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29382758 | 585,309 |
2,178,255 | Placing boron into PAHs is known to improve and diversity the optoelectronic properties by reducing the LUMO energy level. This lowering of the LUMO energy increases acceptor ability by lowering the energy needed for absorption and emission. The fused NHC boryl anion units add an element of bifunctionality and induce π... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72205317 | 2,177,010 |
384,774 | Public health agencies in the EU, US, Canada, Australia and Japan as well as the WHO have all reviewed the health risks of BPA, and found normal exposure to be below the level currently associated with risk. Regardless, due to the scientific uncertainty, many jurisdictions have taken steps to reduce exposure on a preca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1001430 | 384,579 |
1,177,724 | In November 1964 Canadian businessman Colonel Samuel McLaughlin announced plans for donating money directly towards establishing a planetarium in Toronto. He was inspired by the recent construction of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, named after Charles Hayden, who had been a friend and associate on the board o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3464536 | 1,177,101 |
1,625,607 | It is well known that phage P2 has the potential to mediate horizontal gene transfer upon infection of different bacteria. During this process, phage P2 can serve as a source of new genes to the hosts, which provides materials for evolution and selection. Compared to evolution through mutation and selection, phage-medi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26912484 | 1,624,689 |
1,894,459 | The camera attributes must be known, focal length and distance apart etc., and a calibration done. Once this is completed the systems can be used to sense the distances of objects by triangulation. Finding the same singular physical point in the two left and right images is known as the "correspondence problem". Correc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8210422 | 1,893,375 |
125,065 | The technique is considered highly significant in biotechnology and medicine as it enables editing genomes "in vivo" very precisely, cheaply, and easily. It can be used in the creation of new medicines, agricultural products, and genetically modified organisms, or as a means of controlling pathogens and pests. It also ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59990826 | 125,013 |
504,367 | Other particle states originate from strings beginning and ending on the same D-brane. Some correspond to massless particles like the photon; also in this group are a set of massless scalar particles. If a D"p"-brane is embedded in a spacetime of "d" spatial dimensions, the brane carries (in addition to its Maxwell fie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=529418 | 504,105 |
1,531,080 | Structured bibliographic metadata for database has been a debated topic since the 1960s. In 1977, the American Standard for Bibliographic Reference adopted a definition of "data file" with a strong focus on the materiability and the mutability of the dataset: neither dates nor authors were indicated but the medium or "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31915311 | 1,530,214 |
426,575 | Feynman also helped to develop a model for estimating the environmental hazards of the local space environment. This work was taken on as high-velocity coronal mass ejections are known to cause geomagnetic storms, which can have dangerous effects on both functioning spacecraft and on humans in space at the time. Such f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7269844 | 426,366 |
1,673,176 | Besides the school's own forests, Yale has used a number of other sites in the eastern United States for field education over the years. From 1904 to 1926, the summer session leading to a master's degree in forestry was held at Grey Towers and Forester's Hall in Milford, Pennsylvania. Beginning in 1912, Yale classes to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5502920 | 1,672,234 |
12,105 | Lovelace became close friends with her tutor Mary Somerville, who introduced her to Charles Babbage in 1833. She had a strong respect and affection for Somerville, and they corresponded for many years. Other acquaintances included the scientists Andrew Crosse, Sir David Brewster, Charles Wheatstone, Michael Faraday and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=974 | 12,100 |
1,938,740 | Minerotrophic refers to environments that receive nutrients primarily through groundwater that flows through mineral-rich soils or rock, or surface water flowing over land. Minerotrophic, “minerogenous”, and “geogenous” are now often used interchangeably, although the latter two terms refer primarily to hydrological sy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16806606 | 1,937,630 |
1,466,209 | Saxifragaceae has long been considered in a pivotal position in the evolution of angiosperm lineage, located in an ancestral "Saxifragalean stock". Historically the Saxifragaceae have included many very morphologically disparate taxa in systems based on morphology alone, and has been very difficult to classify and char... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=749638 | 1,465,386 |
525,415 | The PTI objects to the licensing necessary due to the "more than 50 patents" related to SawStop's braking system; they say such costs "would destroy the market for the cheapest, most popular saws, adding $100 or more to the price of consumer models that typically sell for less than $200." In response, their members dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32136404 | 525,142 |
1,974,526 | Measurement of diel changes in dissolved gases within the lake, also known as the “free-water” method, has quickly become the most common method of estimating lake metabolism since the wide adoption of autonomous sensors used to measure dissolved oxygen and carbon dioxide in water. The free-water method is particularly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59168336 | 1,973,391 |
164,795 | In January 2014, the U.S. Department of Defense annual testing report found that the older A191 or MK 248 Mod 0 .300 Winchester Magnum service round loaded with aerodynamically less efficient 190 gr (12.32 g) Sierra MatchKing Hollow Point Boat Tail (HPBT) bullets (0.270 G7 ballistic coefficient provided by Bryan Litz) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29009448 | 164,710 |
1,459,867 | The French School had a centuries-long impact, which continues today. French playing is often thought of in terms of refinement, finesse, and elegance. However, during the 18th Century in Northern Europe, the cello was still considered a lowly and rudimentary instrument compared to the viola da gamba. The French cello ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37874200 | 1,459,045 |
1,427,623 | Evidence indicates linear increases in performance from age 4 years through to adolescence. Prior to about 7 years of age, serial recall performance is mediated by the phonological store which is one of two components of the phonological loop. Preschool aged children do not use a subvocal rehearsal strategy to maintain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31136207 | 1,426,820 |
1,746,035 | In addition to the research employees, the RTC became the headquarters of the DM&EE. This brought together engineers from the regional departments, together with its Drawing Offices, the Testing & Performance Section and the Engineering Development Unit workshop (EDU) from Darlington, the Workshops Division (which late... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2238710 | 1,745,049 |
166,161 | BDNF levels appear to be highly regulated throughout the lifetime both in the early developmental stages and in the later stages of life. For example, BDNF appears to be critical for the morphological development such as dendrite orientation and number along with soma size. This is important as neuron morphology is cri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=600788 | 166,076 |
1,061,580 | Pennycuick entered the East India Company Military College at Addiscombe, Surrey, in 1857, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Madras Engineer Group in December 1858. He arrived in India on 11 November 1860. He became a Second Captain on 15 October 1870; and a major on 8 December 1876. He commanded H company at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31261667 | 1,061,027 |
1,904,702 | The greenhouse on the barge is approximately 1200 ft2, purchased new from Nexus, Inc and constructed in place on the barge. The structure is aluminum and secured to the barge deck via bolts and custom-made welded steel brackets. The walls of the greenhouse are glass and the roof is a rigid, doubled walled polycarbonate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10481028 | 1,903,607 |
659,678 | The institute employs over 250 faculty members across 32 departments. Each department consists of teaching, training, patient care, and research. Professor R.K. Dhiman became head of the institute in January 2020. The dean, who is responsible for overseeing academic activities, is Prof Anish Srivastava. Prof Gaurav Aga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12639497 | 659,333 |
1,553,465 | Morpheeins are proteins that can form two or more different homo-oligomers (morpheein forms), but must come apart and change shape to convert between forms. The alternate shape may reassemble to a different oligomer. The shape of the subunit dictates which oligomer is formed. Each oligomer has a finite number of subuni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20559588 | 1,552,584 |
1,446,224 | After securing a solid line-up the band began working on new material for their third album "Blood Scent". The song "Poopmouth" which was later renamed "Broken Face Masterpiece" for the album was featured in the May edition of "Metal Edge Magazine" on a CD sampler that accompanied the magazine. In early July it was ann... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1487903 | 1,445,408 |
1,315,103 | Long & Murry reconstructed "Chindesaurus" with a stout body, long legs, a fairly long neck, and a total estimated length of 3 to 4 meters (9.9 to 13.1 feet). Benson & Brusatte (2012) suggested that "Chindesaurus" was smaller, up to in length. Holtz (2012) estimated that "Chindesaurus" had a length of about 2 meters (6.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4353939 | 1,314,382 |
453,070 | One organization listed "aggressive research and development" as being part of the definition of advanced manufacturing (Purdue University). Although research and development were not explicitly included in most definitions, the innovative technologies listed by many are most likely the result of extensive research and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18159068 | 452,849 |
1,208,508 | Many computers go into a "lockout mode" for 24 to 48 hours if the diver violates the computer's safety limits, to discourage continued diving after an unsafe dive. Once in lockout mode, these computers will not function until the lockout period has ended. This is a reasonable response if lockout is initiated after the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=302027 | 1,207,862 |
1,591,503 | An FCC-sponsored test market exercise in Wilmington, North Carolina shut down all analogue full-power commercial broadcasts at noon on September 8, 2008. While a large number of the resulting calls from viewers were straightforward questions about installation of antennas and converters, or the need to scan for channel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20376898 | 1,590,607 |
1,618,324 | In the original Hopfield model of associative memory, the variables were binary, and the dynamics were described by a one-at-a-time update of the state of the neurons. An energy function quadratic in the formula_2 was defined, and the dynamics consisted of changing the activity of each single neuron formula_4 only if d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68440670 | 1,617,411 |
1,607,926 | Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, the 50th was re-designated the 431st Bombardment Squadron. In June 1942, shortly after the Battle of Midway, the 11th Group was authorized as a mobile force by the Army Air Forces in order to respond to a Navy request by Admiral Nimitz for long-range arm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26634146 | 1,607,021 |
2,152,804 | 2008 research in which Hayman was involved, investigates the presence of Lagos bat virus (LBV)–specific antibodies in Megachiroptera from West Africa. Neutralizing antibodies were detected in "Eidolon helvum" (37%), "Epomophorus gambianus" (3%), and "Epomops buettikoferi" (33%, 2/6) from Ghana. These findings confirm t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70083782 | 2,151,573 |
56,956 | Ride worked for two years at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, then at the University of California, San Diego, primarily researching nonlinear optics and Thomson scattering. She served on the committees that investigated the "Challenger" and "Columbia" Space Shuttle disasters, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=94289 | 56,932 |
1,280,847 | In an early precursor of his work on "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals", Darwin turned round the theological idea of Charles Bell that humans were designed to expose their canine teeth when grinning, and explained the expression by shared descent: "no doubt a habit gained by formerly being a baboon wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1632764 | 1,280,152 |
847,676 | A single Mk I PR Type E "N3117" was built to address a requirement for oblique close-ups as opposed to high altitude vertical pictures. This conversion carried an F24 camera in a fairing under each wing. These faced forward, were splayed outwards slightly and aimed downwards at about 15 degrees below the horizontal. A ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16070159 | 847,226 |
1,099,331 | A TMS usually "sits" between an ERP or legacy order processing and warehouse/distribution module. A typical scenario would include both inbound (procurement) and outbound (shipping) orders to be evaluated by the TMS Planning Module offering the user various suggested routing solutions. These solutions are evaluated by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16944765 | 1,098,771 |
192,584 | In 2009, Sanofi-Pasteur started building a new facility in ' , a suburb of Lyon (France). This unit produces four-serotype vaccine for phase III trials. In September 2014, the Sanofi-Pasteur CEO gave early results of the phase III trial efficacy study in Latin America. The efficacy per serotype (ST) varied widely, 42.3... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=927267 | 192,485 |
346,559 | Anesthesia is unique in that it is not a direct means of treatment; rather, it allows the doctor or veterinarian to do things that may treat, diagnose, or cure an ailment which would otherwise be painful or complicated. The best anesthetic, therefore, is the one with the lowest risk to the patient that still achieves t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56561 | 346,378 |
273,162 | Proteins or polypeptides are polymers of amino acids. A protein is created by ribosomes that "read" RNA that is encoded by codons in the gene and assemble the requisite amino acid combination from the genetic instruction, in a process known as translation. The newly created protein strand then undergoes posttranslation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8456 | 273,014 |
1,646,009 | Lisiecki and Raymo (2005) used measurements of δO in benthic foraminifera from 57 globally distributed deep sea sediment cores, taken as a proxy for the total global mass of glacial ice sheets, to reconstruct the climate for the past five million years. This record shows oscillations of 2-10 degrees Celsius over this t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4128669 | 1,645,080 |
1,680,990 | Norman Radin began exploring the possibility of inhibiting the synthesis of lipid substrates involved in Gaucher's disease as early as 1982, and, in collaboration with the laboratory of Jim Shayman, found several candidate inhibitors in the mid-1990s. Genzyme initially rejected the candidates developed by Radin and Sha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43620620 | 1,680,047 |
2,044,479 | Gross attended the University of Pennsylvania, and earned a doctorate in applied physics from Harvard University. He subsequently worked for the Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation. In 1960, Gross joined the Columbia University faculty, where he later became the Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Applied... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56623952 | 2,043,298 |
1,591,467 | A quantitative bacteriological analysis has been performed by Milovanović and coworkers in a group of 36 trichomoniasis patients. The study aimed at quantifying locally unusual and mostly pathogenic organisms, whereby anaerobes were excluded for methodological reasons. Bacterial counts of aerobes excluding lactobacilli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64530838 | 1,590,572 |
965,125 | The agreement was initialed on 25 July 1963, just 10 days after negotiations commenced. The following day, Kennedy delivered a 26-minute televised address on the agreement, declaring that since the invention of nuclear weapons, "all mankind has been struggling to escape from the darkening prospect of mass destruction o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30592 | 964,616 |
24,417 | Many proteinogenic and non-proteinogenic amino acids have biological functions. For example, in the human brain, glutamate (standard glutamic acid) and gamma-aminobutyric acid ("GABA", nonstandard gamma-amino acid) are, respectively, the main excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters. Hydroxyproline, a major componen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1207 | 24,408 |
875,999 | The factors limiting primary production in the ocean are also very different from those on land. The availability of water, obviously, is not an issue (though its salinity can be). Similarly, temperature, while affecting metabolic rates (see Q), ranges less widely in the ocean than on land because the heat capacity of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=208303 | 875,537 |
1,239,618 | The factors limiting primary production in the ocean are also very different from those on land. The availability of water, obviously, is not an issue (though its salinity can be). Similarly, temperature, while affecting metabolic rates (see Q), ranges less widely in the ocean than on land because the heat capacity of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61256010 | 1,238,950 |
2,018,926 | In 1925, the school became the Richmond Division of the College of William and Mary because of $10,000 dollars in support given to RPI each year. In the transition to becoming a public institution from 1925 to 1940, the school was one of the few "state-supported colleges" in the country operating almost entirely withou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33465961 | 2,017,763 |
1,748,572 | The M1877 was designed by the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy in 1875 and produced by Obukhov State Plant in Saint Petersburg and later at Motovilikha Plants in Perm that entered service in 1877. The M1877 was fairly conventional for its time and most nations had similar guns. However, its lack of recoil mechanism made ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7887049 | 1,747,586 |
542,904 | At the outdoor studio, Muybridge's team used a array of twenty-four 4 by 5 inch cameras, placed 15 centimeters (6 inches) apart at 15 metres (49 feet) from the track. An improved electro-magnetic shutter system with variable rubber bands regulated the exposures. Muybridge had two additional arrays of smaller, portable ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70173577 | 542,624 |
1,116,304 | Wheeler's contributions to the field included work on the Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC) in the 1950s and the Burrows–Wheeler transform (published 1994). Along with Maurice Wilkes and Stanley Gill, he is credited with the invention around 1951 of the subroutine (which they referred to as the "clo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=532495 | 1,115,732 |
1,718,012 | The role of the 203rd is unique in the Army, operating in a joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational capacity, producing predictive and tailored intelligence using captured enemy materiel to provide US forces with an better understanding of foreign capabilities. According to (ADRP) 2-0, Intelligence, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67447284 | 1,717,042 |
1,618,839 | Carbonaceous chondrite fission xenon, often abbreviated as CCF Xe, are a collection of different isotopes of xenon that were thought to have arisen from the decay of a superheavy element within the island of stability. Early studies proposed that the half life of the theoretical progenitor of CCF Xe to be on the order ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49073376 | 1,617,924 |
1,056,323 | In dealing with the second consideration Feyerabend asks "why should it be necessary to have a terminology that allows us to say that two theories refer to the same experiment. This supposes a unificationist or possibly a realist aspiration, whose objective appears to be the truth, however, it is assumed that the theor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=987231 | 1,055,775 |
419,568 | In the United States, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reports that academic redshirting occurs at the rate of about 9% per year among kindergarten-age children, according to surveys from 1993 and 1995. The change has been even larger in first grade: over a period of forty years, the proportion of si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23864935 | 419,363 |
2,113,438 | The Great Depression was soon in full swing. and the department budget fell from $1000 to $200. It was during this time that Dr. Baker authored a number of books. Baker was an extremely gifted writer whose clear simple work helped him explain what was going on up there to an entire generation. In 1930, he authored the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7524908 | 2,112,223 |
2,043,653 | Organizations such as the UN, FAO, World Bank, and UNESCO consulted with him; UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, called upon him to address the subsidence issue in Italy. As a result of his work in Venice, Italy he is regarded him as the "savior of Venice" for revealing the reason... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70220620 | 2,042,473 |
803,938 | The limbic system is a group of unique brain areas that work together in many interrelated processes involved in emotion, motivation, learning and memory. Current thinking indicates that the limbic system shares anatomy with a component of the neostriatum already credited with the major task of controlling procedural m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21312313 | 803,509 |
802,116 | The traditional way of presenting a mathematical fallacy is to give an invalid step of deduction mixed in with valid steps, so that the meaning of fallacy is here slightly different from the logical fallacy. The latter usually applies to a form of argument that does not comply with the valid inference rules of logic, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=254364 | 801,687 |
799,345 | In 2013, "Nature" announced the publication of the first genetic study utilizing next-generation sequencing to ascertain the ancestral lineage of an Ancient Egyptian individual. The research was led by Carsten Pusch of the University of Tübingen in Germany and Rabab Khairat, who released their findings in the "Journal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16696142 | 798,920 |
1,601,034 | The Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute was officially launched on 14 February 1994, by Prime Minister Paul Keating, with Kerry Packer AC as patron, and Professor Robert Graham as executive director. The institute was originally founded under the auspices of the Sisters of Charity and St Vincent's Hospital. It was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7757198 | 1,600,133 |
1,547,810 | In VR, it is paramount that pose tracking is both accurate and precise so as not to break the illusion of a being in virtual world. Several methods of tracking the position and orientation (pitch, yaw and roll) of the display and any associated objects or devices have been developed to achieve this. Many methods utiliz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53747734 | 1,546,932 |
730,333 | Lehman's classification was developed by Abraham Gottlob Werner who thought that rock strata had been deposited from a primeval global ocean rather than by Noah's Flood, a doctrine called Neptunism. The idea of a young Earth was further undermined in 1774 by Nicolas Desmarest, whose studies of a succession of extinct v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=543667 | 729,948 |
1,873,078 | In 2011 she left AT&T Labs to become a Program Manager at DARPA. At DARPA she founded and ran the High-Assurance Cyber Military Systems (HACMS) and the Probabilistic Programming for Advancing Machine Learning (PPAML) programs. The HACMS program focused on leveraging Formal Methods to secure military vehicles from hacki... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46946860 | 1,872,001 |
205,643 | Cloud chambers were invented in the early 1900s by the Scottish physicist Charles Thomson Rees Wilson. They played a prominent role in experimental particle physics from the 1920s to the 1950s, until the advent of the bubble chamber. In particular, the discoveries of the positron in 1932 (see Fig. 1) and the muon in 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=483855 | 205,537 |
1,212,497 | Near the surface, living organisms consume organic matter and breathe oxygen. Lower down, these are not available, so they make use of "edibles" (electron donors) such as hydrogen (released from rocks by various chemical processes), methane (CH), reduced sulfur compounds and ammonium (NH). They "breathe" electron accep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61218171 | 1,211,845 |
94,604 | The teaching of anatomy in Britain was transformed by Sir John Struthers, Regius Professor of Anatomy at the University of Aberdeen from 1863 to 1889. He was responsible for setting up the system of three years of "pre-clinical" academic teaching in the sciences underlying medicine, including especially anatomy. This s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=674 | 94,563 |
1,626,697 | He was born on July 15, 1934 to parents Armand and Clarice with roots in Quebec (great-grandfather Edmund was born in Contrecoeur, Quebec) and he received his B.S. degree from Holy Cross College in 1956 and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959 with Professor Norman Allan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12170559 | 1,625,779 |
1,446,793 | The acting Commander, 7th Division Australian Army Service Corps (AASC), Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Richardson, assumed control of logistics on the track on 10 September. Supplies were then brought from the Base Supply Depots at Sogeri and Ilolo to Newton's Depot in 3-ton trucks by the 2/5th AASC Company. The 2/4th AASC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51118476 | 1,445,977 |
433,732 | Specifically, the proofs of the exact boson sampling problem cannot be directly applied here, since they are based on the #P-hardness of estimating the exponentially-small probability formula_36 of a specific measurement outcome. Thus, if a sampler ""knew"" which formula_36 we wanted to estimate, then it could adversar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49287688 | 433,518 |
310,257 | "Icebreaker Life" is a lander mission that was proposed for NASA's Discovery Program for the 2021 launch opportunity, but it was not selected for development. It would have had a stationary lander that would be a near copy of the successful 2008 "Phoenix" and it would have carried an upgraded astrobiology scientific pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2787 | 310,090 |
397,603 | The V-280 prototype (air vehicle concept demonstrator, or AVCD) was powered by the General Electric T64. The specific engine for the model performance specification (MPS) was unknown at the time, but has funding from the Army's future affordable turbine engine (FATE) program. The V-tail structure and ruddervators, made... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39167147 | 397,407 |
793,159 | Potential flow does not include all the characteristics of flows that are encountered in the real world. Potential flow theory cannot be applied for viscous internal flows, except for flows between closely spaced plates. Richard Feynman considered potential flow to be so unphysical that the only fluid to obey the assum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58320 | 792,734 |
1,397,516 | The primary model that has historically described Kapitza resistance is the phonon gas model. Within this model are the acoustic mismatch and diffuse mismatch models (AMM and DMM respectively). For both models the interface is assumed to behave exactly as the bulk on either side of the interface (e.g. bulk phonon dispe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22902373 | 1,396,743 |
1,648,135 | CCF is an approach to forest management which respects the characteristics and processes inherent to the site, and will normally involve a mixture of tree species and ages. In French, it is referred to as "sylviculture irrégulière, continue et proche de la nature" (SICPN) (i.e., continuous, irregular and close to natur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48347846 | 1,647,203 |
652,900 | Before the biological effects of radiation were known, many physicians and corporations had begun marketing radioactive substances as patent medicine and radioactive quackery. Examples were radium enema treatments, and radium-containing waters to be drunk as tonics. Marie Curie spoke out against this sort of treatment,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35993194 | 652,557 |
66,469 | The effect of botulinum toxin type-A on reducing and eliminating forehead wrinkles was first described and published by Richard Clark, MD a plastic surgeon from Sacramento, California. In 1987 Clark was challenged with eliminating the disfigurement caused by only the right side of the forehead muscles functioning after... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40172 | 66,444 |
1,729,044 | When he was named to the Charles Carpenter Fries Professorship of Linguistics at the University of Michigan in 1974, the Dean's citation noted that "his lifelong originality and energetic activity verge on the legendary." Pike was awarded honorary degrees by a number of institutions, including Huntington College, Unive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17431 | 1,728,070 |
2,011,792 | This apparatus was used to characterize copper phthalocyanine deposited over an array of gold squares patterned on an ITO substrate affixed to a prism. The prism was illuminated under total internal reflection at 636 nm, 533 nm, and 441 nm (selected from a white light laser using optical filters), allowing photo-conduc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50229484 | 2,010,639 |
1,926,570 | In November, 2005, the All-Chiefs’ Task Force on the Future of the First Nations University of Canada released a report outlining their findings and recommendations following a forensic audit of the First Nations University of Canada. The report identifies "institutional governance [as] the most important of its recomm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17662656 | 1,925,466 |
1,218,036 | Many great painters, such as Aqa Mirak, Mir Sayyid Ali or Dust Muhammad worked in the book-workshop, and produced great royal manuscripts. The first of which we have some trace is the unfinished "Tahmasp Shahnameh" commissioned by Ismail for his son Tahmasp, including "Raksh defends a sleeping Rustam". This last is und... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9485636 | 1,217,382 |
1,479,339 | In 1933, the North Carolina Department of Transportation asked the Coast and Geodetic Survey to assist in creating a comprehensive method for converting curvilinear coordinates (latitude and longitude) to a user-friendly, 2-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system. This request developed into the State Plane Coordinate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7654445 | 1,478,506 |
1,765,370 | Animals evolved to exploit plant tissues and energy stores and in response, plants developed a number of defenses, including neurotoxins. The presence and concentration of these toxins vary by plant tissue, with leaves and organs central to reproduction and energy conservation displaying high toxin concentrations (e.g.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53918629 | 1,764,377 |
2,147,615 | Chondria tumulosa is a species of red algae in the family Rhodomelacae. It was first discovered in 2016, growing in small patches in the Pearl and Hermes Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. By 2019, the species had spread to cover several thousand square meters, smothering and killing vast swathes of the atoll'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64505507 | 2,146,384 |
910,142 | Slash weight (the oven-dry weight of the entire crown and that portion of the stem < 4 inches in diameter) and size distribution are major factors influencing the forest fire hazard on harvested sites. Forest managers interested in the application of prescribed burning for hazard reduction and silviculture, were shown ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1031149 | 909,663 |
160,830 | Systems of regression equation approaches were developed at the Cowles Commission from the 1950s on, extending the transportation modeling of Tjalling Koopmans. Sewall Wright and other statisticians attempted to promote path analysis methods at Cowles (then at the University of Chicago). University of Chicago statistic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2007748 | 160,745 |
658,154 | In 1900, German scientist K.E. Hirn wrote a monograph concerning his finding of a new taxon, to which he promptly gave the name "Oedogoniaceen" – now "Oedogonium". This paper was published and translated 60 years later. Hirn discovered "Oedogonium" in a ditch, appearing from June – October, but not much else is known a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2470464 | 657,810 |
362,077 | The original studies of Fuster and of Goldman-Rakic emphasized the fundamental ability of the prefrontal cortex to represent information not currently in the environment, and the central role of this function in creating the "mental sketch pad". Goldman-Rakic spoke of how this representational knowledge was used to int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1967493 | 361,887 |
1,385,264 | While based in Kyiv from 1994 to 1997, Kaminski reported for the "Financial Times" and "The Economist" on the former Soviet Union. He subsequently joined "The Wall Street Journal" as Brussels correspondent, and in 2004 was awarded the Peter Weitz Prize by the German Marshall Fund for a series of columns about the Europ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21553765 | 1,384,497 |
951,309 | Super-absorbent polymers (SAP) similar to sodium polyacrylate were developed in the 1960s by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Before the development of these substances, the best water absorbing materials were cellulosic or fiber-based like tissue paper, sponge, cotton, or fluff pulp. These materials can only retain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2915728 | 950,805 |
568,724 | In the "Republic" (VI 507b-509c), Plato's character, Socrates, uses the sun as a metaphor for the source of "intellectual illumination," which he held to be "The Form of the Good". The metaphor is about the nature of ultimate reality and how we come to know it. It starts with the eye, which Socrates says is unusual amo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=261450 | 568,434 |
769,480 | He was born in Mitchellville, Iowa. His father was a mail carrier and his mother was a member of the school board; Patterson had one brother, Paul, and one sister, Patricia. From a young age he was encouraged by his family to pursue his intellectual curiosity. Patterson graduated from high school in 1939, at the age of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239630 | 769,068 |
1,022,068 | The researchers stated that these findings potentially provide a neural basis for observable sex differences in psychology. The research was consistent with previous studies that found that females performed better than males on tasks of attention, face and word memory, and social cognition tests, while males performed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3315213 | 1,021,539 |
371,648 | Sodium thiopental, also known as Sodium Pentothal (a trademark of Abbott Laboratories), thiopental, thiopentone, or Trapanal (also a trademark), is a rapid-onset short-acting barbiturate general anesthetic. It is the thiobarbiturate analog of pentobarbital, and an analog of thiobarbital. Sodium thiopental was a core me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29218 | 371,453 |
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