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1,395,515 | With C++/WinRT, users can also implement their own runtime classes using standard C++, without resorting to COM-style programming. For a runtime class, types can be described in a MIDL file (.idl), and from that file the codice_3 and codice_1 tools generate the implementation boilerplate source code files, ready for us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57666526 | 1,394,744 |
1,922,354 | His earliest publications were in 1915. The basic research for which he is best known was carried out in 1912–28, and Brown subsequently concentrated on teaching and supervising research students. He is credited with creating the Imperial College's plant pathology research school in the 1920s. As head of department fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66719750 | 1,921,251 |
1,616,247 | Since launching the Epidemic Intelligence Service by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1951, the development of field epidemiology has been promoted internationally and globally. The first FETP outside of the United States was established by Canada in 1975. In 1980, the government of Thailand request... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12807001 | 1,615,338 |
732,836 | Additionally, although SLM solidifies a structure from molten metal, the thermal fluid dynamics of the system often produces inhomogeneous compositions or unintended porosity which can cumulatively affect the overall strength and fatigue life of a printed structure. For example, the directed laser beam can induce conve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29017963 | 732,449 |
979,482 | The fetal heart contains two upper atria and two lower ventricles. It also contains two additional structures, the foramen ovale and the ductus arteriosus, that function as shunts for oxygenated blood. The function of these shunts is to bypass the lungs and maintain proper circulation to important fetal tissue. In the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3046797 | 978,971 |
156,844 | The problem was not a programming error in the AGC, nor was it pilot error. It was a peripheral hardware design bug that had already been known and documented by Apollo 5 engineers. However, because the problem had only occurred once during testing, they concluded that it was safer to fly with the existing hardware tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188887 | 156,772 |
1,795,192 | The Phosphoria Formation and its equivalents of Permian age are unlike any other Paleozoic rocks because of their extraordinary content of uncommon elements. The formation consists of sandy dolomite, widespread black phosphate beds and black shale that is unusually rich not only in phosphorus, but also in vanadium, ura... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=768815 | 1,794,183 |
1,971,680 | CLEO-c was the final version of the detector, and it was optimized for taking data at the reduced beam energies needed for studies of the charm quark. It replaced the CLEO III silicon detector, which suffered from lower-than-expected efficiency, with a six layer, all stereo drift chamber (ZD). CLEO-c also operated with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5478160 | 1,970,546 |
281,703 | The NCBI Bookshelf is a collection of freely accessible, downloadable, online versions of selected biomedical books. The Bookshelf covers a wide range of topics including molecular biology, biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, microbiology, disease states from a molecular and cellular point of view, research methods, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=149306 | 281,550 |
584,484 | Cracks in rock do not form smooth path like a crack in a car windshield or a highly ductile crack like a ripped plastic grocery bag. Rocks are a polycrystalline material so cracks grow through the coalescing of complex microcracks that occur in front of the crack tip. This area of microcracks is called the brittle proc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6985160 | 584,184 |
1,791,783 | "Ajax" was not commissioned until 30 April 1885 and was assigned to the Particular Service Squadron commanded by Admiral Geoffrey Hornby. That summer, the squadron evaluated the weapons and defences of a fortified harbour, Berehaven (now Castletownbere), Ireland, against torpedo boats and other threats. In August 1885,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5830821 | 1,790,776 |
1,428,783 | Since hopanoids are a C terpenoid, biosynthesis begins with isopentenyl pyrophosphate (IPP) and dimethylallyl pyrophosphate (DMAP), which are combined to form longer chain isoprenoids. Synthesis of these smaller precursors proceeds either via the mevalonate pathway or the methylerythritol-4-phosphate pathway depending ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2313403 | 1,427,979 |
1,370,214 | Standards of error handling at the time were primitive and in any case programs squeezed into the limited memory of the BBC Micro could rarely afford to waste space attempting to handle errors gracefully. Instead, the user would find themselves dumped back at the command prompt with the "Can't extend" message and all t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8429119 | 1,369,458 |
1,336,555 | The idea of a stationary weather ship was proposed as early as 1921 by Météo-France to help support shipping and the coming of transatlantic aviation. Established during World War II, a weather ship, or ocean weather vessel, was a ship stationed in the ocean as a platform for surface and upper air meteorological observ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39067260 | 1,335,825 |
1,212,343 | If World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war. As with other total wars, it is difficult to draw a line between military funding and more spontaneous military-scientific collaboration during World War II. Well before the Invasion of Poland, nationalism was a powerful force in the German phy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4999816 | 1,211,691 |
184,236 | The Bernoulli numbers (n)/(n) were introduced by Jakob Bernoulli in the book "Ars Conjectandi" published posthumously in 1713 page 97. The main formula can be seen in the second half of the corresponding facsimile. The constant coefficients denoted , , and by Bernoulli are mapped to the notation which is now prevalent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4964 | 184,139 |
663,272 | Z-clipping, or depth clipping, refers to techniques that selectively render certain scene objects based on their depth relative to the screen. Most graphics toolkits allow the programmer to specify a "near" and "far" clip depth, and only portions of objects between those two planes are displayed. A creative application... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1932701 | 662,927 |
1,486,649 | In many places around the world, vegetation within riparian zones have been completely removed as humans have cleared land for raising crops, growing timber, and developing land for commercial or residential purposes. Removing riparian vegetation increases the erodibility of stream banks, and can also speed the rate of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26956225 | 1,485,811 |
783,896 | The availability of several recombinant canarypox vectors has provided interesting results that may prove to be generalizable to other viral vectors. Increasing the complexity of the canarypox vectors by including more genes/epitopes has increased the percent of volunteers that have detectable CTL to a greater extent t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=147473 | 783,477 |
1,062,077 | Challenges include: 1) finding a surface and a method of attachment that allows the proteins to maintain their secondary or tertiary structure and thus their biological activity and their interactions with other molecules, 2) producing an array with a long shelf life so that the proteins on the chip do not denature ove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1659679 | 1,061,523 |
819,789 | The planet orbits a red dwarf (M-type) star named Gliese 667 C, orbited by a total of two planets. The star is part of a trinary star system, with Gliese 667 A and B both being more massive than the smaller companion. Gliese 667 C has a mass of 0.31 and a radius of 0.42 . It has a temperature of 3,700 K, but its age is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34582396 | 819,348 |
535,680 | He then improved ship design with two screw-propellers rotating in opposite directions (as opposed to earlier tests with this technology, which used a single screw). However, the Admiralty disapproved of the invention, which led to the fortunate contact with the American captain Robert Stockton who had Ericsson design ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=105978 | 535,401 |
147,162 | Other advantages include the species' nearly constant size during early development, which enables simple staining techniques to be used, and the fact that its two-celled embryo can be fused into a single cell to create a homozygous embryo. The zebrafish is also demonstrably similar to mammalian models and humans in to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5009 | 147,104 |
1,944,457 | SOA makes practical sense because organizations cannot be expected to replace or modify their current enterprise software to achieve BPI, regardless of the benefits involved. Many workers' jobs are built around the applications they use, and most organizations have sizable investments in their current information infra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3543438 | 1,943,345 |
1,001,944 | Internet exchange points began as Network Access Points or NAPs, a key component of Al Gore's National Information Infrastructure (NII) plan, which defined the transition from the US Government-paid-for NSFNET era (when Internet access was government sponsored and commercial traffic was prohibited) to the commercial In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=359193 | 1,001,426 |
1,098,447 | Samples analyzed on Earth can be matched against findings of remote sensing for more insight into the processes that formed the Solar System. This was done, for example, with findings by the "Dawn" spacecraft, which visited the asteroid Vesta from 2011 to 2012 for imaging, and samples from HED meteorites (collected on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2680305 | 1,097,887 |
1,368,560 | From a narrative and artistic standpoint, "Overwatch" approach came out of emotional impact of the failed "Titan" development. Kaplan said his small team was "very nervous about our future" when tasked to come up with a new game concept, but this soon solidified into the idea of "a future worth fighting for", which had... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55762533 | 1,367,804 |
25,169 | The infinitesimal approach fell out of favor in the 19th century because it was difficult to make the notion of an infinitesimal precise. In the late 19th century, infinitesimals were replaced within academia by the epsilon, delta approach to limits. Limits describe the behavior of a function at a certain input in term... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5176 | 25,160 |
1,326,012 | Rosselot's administration included the 1946 establishment of the Industrial Development Council, renamed to the Georgia Tech Research Institute in 1948 and its present name, the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, in 1984. The Georgia Board of Regents had ruled that all money received in a year had to be spent that year... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4424567 | 1,325,285 |
2,162,565 | In the late 1990s, national attention began to be brought to sustainable and organic agriculture methods. The program began to shift its focus towards marketing, local production, and the use of efficient, renewable energy sources on farms. The Secretary of Agriculture was influenced by the program to issue a memorandu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3925463 | 2,161,330 |
1,773,805 | The four Main Bus Switching Units (MBSUs, located in the S0 truss), control the routing of power from the four solar array wings to the rest of the ISS. In late 2011 MBSU-1, while still routing power correctly, ceased responding to commands or sending data confirming its health, and was scheduled to be swapped out at t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22885005 | 1,772,808 |
1,624,036 | However, non contrasted CT scans, chest X-rays, and transesophageal echos can also be used. Chest X-rays most sensitive finding is a widened mediastinum of greater than 8 cm. An apical cap and displacement of the trachea to either side of the chest from midline can also be seen. A normal chest X-ray, however, does not ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19961573 | 1,623,120 |
1,865,783 | While a large part of CARD’s value is expert human biocuration of AMR sequence data and its relationship to antibiotics, with AMR publications in PubMed exceeding over 5000 per year for the last 10 years the task of keeping CARD both comprehensive and up-to-date is daunting. CARD addresses this problem using three appr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60831687 | 1,864,710 |
124,987 | Encouraged by the positive reports of the iron hulls of those ships in combat, the Admiralty ordered a series of experiments to evaluate what happened when thin iron hulls were struck by projectiles, both solid shot and hollow shells, beginning in 1845 and lasting through 1851. Critics like Lieutenant-general Sir Howar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=251489 | 124,935 |
1,182,369 | The 2011–12 season marked another return to the CCHA Semifinals at Joe Louis Arena and seventh straight appearance in the NCAA Tournament. The RedHawks finished the season with a record of 24-15-2 (.610). Despite a slow start to the season that included a five-game winless streak through October, they finished the regu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22191294 | 1,181,744 |
856,296 | On 10 July 1916, Boelcke left on a tour of the Balkans. He transited Austria-Hungary to visit the Ottoman Empire. From his diary notes, the journey seemed a combination of military facility inspections, a celebrity tour, and a holiday. He kept attendance at formal social obligations to a minimum, but had to oblige such... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=193002 | 855,841 |
1,839,026 | In later life, he became well known as an author, his "Modern Science and Modern Thought" (1885), "Problems of the Future" (1889) and "Human Origins" (1892) being widely read, not only by reason of the writer's influential position, experience of affairs and clear style, but also through their popular and at the same t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7031031 | 1,837,974 |
641,629 | SERS can be used to target specific DNA and RNA sequences using a combination of gold and silver nanoparticles and Raman-active dyes, such as Cy3. Specific single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) can be identified using this technique. The gold nanoparticles facilitate the formation of a silver coating on the dye-labelle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3434894 | 641,290 |
737,588 | The tumors take the form of cartilage-capped bony projections or outgrowth on the surface of bones exostoses. It is characterized as a type of overgrowth that can occur in any bone where cartilage forms bone. Tumors most commonly affect long bones about the knee and in the forearm. Additionally, flat bones such as the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2477198 | 737,199 |
1,402,741 | The Li-ion battery is currently one of the most popular electrochemical energy storage systems and has been widely used in areas from portable electronics to electric vehicles. However, the gravimetric energy density of Li-ion batteries is limited and less than that of fossil fuels. The lithium sulfur (Li-S) battery, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10209776 | 1,401,954 |
981,518 | Plants often produce toxic or unpalatable secondary metabolites to deter herbivores from feeding on them. Monophagous insects have developed specific adaptations to overcome those in their specialist hosts, giving them an advantage over polyphagous species. However, this puts them at greater risk of extinction if their... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=214053 | 981,006 |
718,499 | In the 14th-century historical novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Hua Tuo heals the general Guan Yu, who is hit by a poisoned arrow in the arm during the Battle of Fancheng in 219. Hua Tuo offers to anaesthetise Guan Yu, but he simply laughs and says that he is not afraid of pain. Hua Tuo uses a knife to cut the fl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1107511 | 718,120 |
1,323,735 | In Europe attempts were made to eradicate the virus by culling infected animals. The first country considered to be free of infection was Denmark. Soon the United Kingdom followed. Like the North American states, those of the Eastern bloc in Europe did not try to get rid of the virus. But the Eastern Europe states star... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10104983 | 1,323,009 |
16,730 | On 11 October 2007, two providers of consumer information on nutritional products and supplements, ConsumerLab.com and The People's Pharmacy, released the results of comparative tests of different brands of bupropion. The People's Pharmacy received multiple reports of increased side effects and decreased efficacy of ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378579 | 16,725 |
1,279,485 | Anaphylaxis occurs in 0.6 to 6% of people who have been stung by the ants, and it can be fatal if left untreated. Typical symptoms of anaphylaxis include dizziness, headaches, fever, severe chest pain, nausea, severe sweating, low blood pressure, loss of breath, serious swelling, and slurred speech. One case reports a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55137260 | 1,278,790 |
308,612 | The Heat-generated Food Toxicants (HEATOX) Project was a European Commission-funded multidisciplinary research project running from late 2003 to early 2007. Its objectives were to "estimate health risks that may be associated with hazardous compounds in heat-treated food, [and to] find cooking/processing methods that m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56239 | 308,447 |
1,155,970 | While the use of possession stats dates back at least as far as former North Carolina Coach Frank McGuire, modern quantitative basketball analysis came into existence when Bill James gained popularity for his "Baseball Abstracts" and basketball enthusiasts borrowed some of the ideas and the overall philosophy of the im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3355871 | 1,155,360 |
1,415,462 | Under his command, JG 7 "Nowotny" achieved some success before the end of World War II in Europe on 8 May 1945. On 18 March 1945, JG 7 "Nowotny" claimed 25 aerial victories over Berlin, among them three Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses shot down by Weissenberger. On 4 April, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Eight... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10301408 | 1,414,665 |
949,187 | The International Commission on Atomic Weights, which was then responsible for the attribution of new element names, settled the dispute in 1909 by granting priority to Urbain and adopting his names as official ones, based on the fact that the separation of lutetium from Marignac's ytterbium was first described by Urba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17745 | 948,683 |
663,375 | In 2015 two controlled studies of the effect of the ACGME-mandated maximum shift began, involving nearly 190 hospitals and residency training programs. The studies randomly assigned medical residents to shifts longer than specified by the ACGME regulations. A study led by the University of Pennsylvania, which will end ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3624330 | 663,030 |
191,959 | Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are one of the earliest examples of proposed safety measures for AI agents. Asimov's laws were intended to prevent robots from harming humans. In Asimov's stories, problems with the laws tend to arise from conflicts between the rules as stated and the moral intuitions and expectati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46583121 | 191,860 |
387,361 | Pulsed inductive thrusters (PIT) use pulses instead of continuous thrust and have the ability to run on power levels on the order of megawatts (MW). PITs consist of a large coil encircling a cone shaped tube that emits the propellant gas. Ammonia is the gas most commonly used. For each pulse, a large charge builds up i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37839 | 387,166 |
210,488 | This idea proved influential, serving as an alternative to a full Dyson sphere that required fewer assumptions (such as artificial gravity) and allowed a day/night cycle to be introduced (through the use of a smaller ring of "shadow squares", rotating between the ring and its sun). This was further developed by Iain M.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18210 | 210,381 |
1,532,668 | The Roadmap states that delivering OER to the dominant model of teacher-centred knowledge transfer will have little effect in equipping teachers, students and workers with the knowledge and skills required in the knowledge economy and, lifelong learning. Downloading Web-accessible, open teaching materials for classes a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35660273 | 1,531,800 |
76,226 | Numerous "gastro-protective" drugs have been developed with the goal of preventing gastrointestinal toxicity in people who need to take NSAIDs on a regular basis. Gastric adverse effects may be reduced by taking medications that suppress acid production such as proton pump inhibitors (e.g.: omeprazole and esomeprazole)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22071 | 76,197 |
1,479,130 | In the 1930s and 1940s, George Snell and Peter Gorer individually isolated the genetic factors that when similar allowed transplantation between mouse strains, naming them H and antigen II respectively. These factors were in fact one and the same, and the locus was named H-2. Snell coined the term "histocompatibility" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=144757 | 1,478,297 |
1,927,314 | The "eco-evo" perspective on pathogen-host interactions emphasizes the influences ecology and the environment on pathogen evolution. The dynamic genomic factors such as gene loss, gene gain and genome rearrangement, are all strongly influenced by changes in the ecological niche where a particular microbial strain resid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21787394 | 1,926,210 |
1,146,065 | The "agents" in ACE models can represent individuals (e.g. people), social groupings (e.g. firms), biological entities (e.g. growing crops), and/or physical systems (e.g. transport systems). The ACE modeler provides the initial configuration of a computational economic system comprising multiple interacting agents. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10941831 | 1,145,461 |
370,163 | John Locke's "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" (1690) is often cited as the foundational document of the "blank slate" view. In the "Essay", Locke specifically criticizes René Descartes's claim of an innate idea of God that is universal to humanity. Locke's view was harshly criticized in his own time. Anthony A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39807 | 369,969 |
471,919 | Impacts of climate change on sanitary engineering vary based on region and the sanitation solutions employed there. In the Arctic, permafrost melting has caused damage to pipes and other infrastructure. In the Northeastern United States, increased precipitation has overwhelmed aging infrastructure not equipped to handl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8416361 | 471,683 |
449,393 | The vespertilionids employ a range of flight techniques. The wing surface is extended to the lower limbs, and the tails of this family are enclosed in an interfemoral membrane. Some are relatively slow-flying genera, such as "Pipistrellus", that manipulate the configuration of their broader wing shape and may give a fl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=86387 | 449,175 |
292,827 | Kennedy's goal provided a specific direction to NASA's Apollo program, which required expansion of NASA's Space Task Group into the Manned Spacecraft Center. Houston, Texas was chosen as the site for the new center, and the Humble Oil and Refining Company donated the land in 1961 through Rice University as an intermedi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40868618 | 292,669 |
2,157,274 | The University of Leeds was one of the earliest British universities to establish a school of geography in 1919. Various types of geography, including commercial geography, had been taught at the Yorkshire College (which preceded the University of Leeds) and in the university economics department before 1919. This refl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29387996 | 2,156,043 |
263,991 | In statistics and econometrics, and in particular in time series analysis, an autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model is a generalization of an autoregressive moving average (ARMA) model. Both of these models are fitted to time series data either to better understand the data or to predict future points ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1510134 | 263,848 |
64,289 | Significant advances in chemistry also took place during the scientific revolution. Antoine Lavoisier, a French chemist, refuted the phlogiston theory, which posited that things burned by releasing "phlogiston" into the air. Joseph Priestley had discovered oxygen in the 18th century, but Lavoisier discovered that combu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38890 | 64,264 |
1,649,279 | The properties of bent functions are naturally of interest in modern digital cryptography, which seeks to obscure relationships between input and output. By 1988 Forré recognized that the Walsh transform of a function can be used to show that it satisfies the strict avalanche criterion (SAC) and higher-order generaliza... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24465207 | 1,648,347 |
313,043 | Since 2010, the North Plains Groundwater Conservation District, which encompasses eight counties north of Amarillo, including Moore and Dallam Counties, has offered a $300,000 annual demonstration project to conserve water that farmers pump from the Ogallala Aquifer. Participating farmers grow corn with just over half ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=133495 | 312,875 |
1,483,624 | In later examples, such as that in the Shuttleworth Collection, the horizontal tail surface was shorter, the leading edges being swept at about 45°. A distinctive feature of the type was that the trailing edge of the rudder and elevator was braced by wires leading to the control horns. The controls consisted of a wheel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41433493 | 1,482,788 |
1,257,059 | The systematic investigation of each individual organ led to the development in Vienna of new clinical disciplines. Rokitansky also supported this development in his role as a medical advisor to the Minister of the Interior as well as the establishment of the world's first clinic for otology. As a pathologist and philo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1920065 | 1,256,374 |
221,307 | For high-cardinality columns, it is useful to bin the values, where each bin covers multiple values and build the bitmaps to represent the values in each bin. This approach reduces the number of bitmaps used regardless of encoding method. However, binned indexes can only answer some queries without examining the base d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2017214 | 221,198 |
1,260,338 | Diffusion of an innovation is the concept of how it is picked up by society, at what rate and why. The diffusion of a technological innovation into society can be considered in distinct phases. Pre-development is the gestation period where the new technology has yet to make an impact. Take-off is when the process of a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34066587 | 1,259,651 |
1,231,951 | Since the lobe is being rotated around the midline of the antenna, conical scanning is only really appropriate for antennas with a circular cross section. This was the case for the Würzburg, which operated in the microwave region. Most other forces used much longer-wavelength radars that would require paraboloid antenn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3907454 | 1,231,289 |
443,461 | Early work in the application of dynamical systems to cognition can be found in the model of Hopfield networks. These networks were proposed as a model for associative memory. They represent the neural level of memory, modeling systems of around 30 neurons which can be in either an on or off state. By letting the netwo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=355240 | 443,246 |
1,813,919 | 'Abdu'l-Bahá anonymously published "The Secret of Divine Civilization" in 1875 in Iran, noting how the country had declined among the nations "as a result of poor education, bad governance, ignorance of scientific advances, rejection of innovation, and the atrophy of the life of the mind." and later restated Bahá'u'llá... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2353883 | 1,812,885 |
1,060,472 | Dr. Thomas David "Tom" Jones (b. January 22, 1955) is a strategic adviser to B612, member of the NASA Advisory Council and a former U.S. astronaut and planetary scientist who has studied asteroids for NASA, engineered intelligence-gathering systems for the CIA, and helped develop advanced mission concepts to explore th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=333633 | 1,059,921 |
221,344 | Regenerative pumps utilize vortex behavior of the fluid (air). The construction is based on hybrid concept of centrifugal pump and turbopump. Usually it consists of several sets of perpendicular teeth on the rotor circulating air molecules inside stationary hollow grooves like multistage centrifugal pump. They can reac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32500 | 221,235 |
12,391 | Development of a version for the Soviet Navy called the "Su-27K" (Russian for "Korabyelny" - "Shipborne", NATO designation 'Flanker-D') commenced not long after the development of the main land-based type. Some of the T10 demonstrators were modified to test features of navalized variants for carrier operations. These m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65580 | 12,386 |
1,980,771 | The Laboratory was established by Charles and Clarice Yentsch in 1974 as a private, non-profit research institution named for the oceanographer Henry Bryant Bigelow, founding director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Bigelow's extensive investigations in the early part of the twentieth century are recognize... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38256785 | 1,979,633 |
677,859 | Yield management is particularly suitable when selling perishable products, i.e. goods that become unsellable at a point in time (for example air tickets just after a flight takes off). Industries that use yield management include airlines, hotels, stadiums and other venues with a fixed number of seats, and advertising... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1053994 | 677,505 |
1,423,438 | Additional immediate and pragmatic reasons to consider one-way human space exploration missions are explored by Krauss. Since much of the cost of a voyage to Mars will be spent on returning to Earth, if the fuel for the return is carried on board, this greatly increases the mission mass requirement – that in turn requi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25236027 | 1,422,637 |
273,353 | Quinolones are chemotherapeutic bactericidal drugs. They interfere with DNA replication by preventing bacterial DNA from unwinding and duplicating. Specifically, they inhibit the ligase activity of the type II topoisomerases, DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV, which cut DNA to introduce supercoiling, while leaving nuclea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31690663 | 273,205 |
1,423,549 | In 2002, the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) project was founded at University of California, Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, funded by the National Science Foundation. BOINC provides a complete middleware system for volunteer computing, including a client, client GUI, application runtime... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9651556 | 1,422,748 |
2,117,291 | Bilingualism may also affect reading ability. Bialystok observed bilingual children's reading abilities and how the children made connections between the spoken and written language systems. Children were given a "Moving Word Task," where they needed to appropriately match a written word to an object on a card. Correct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3289570 | 2,116,073 |
680,086 | Having been dropped from the Test side during the Ashes, Finn faced competition from fast bowlers such as Bresnan and Shahzad to break into the team. When Sri Lanka toured in May Finn was included in the Test squad, though missed out on selection for the first match. An injury to James Anderson opened up a gap in Engla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5917452 | 679,732 |
939,211 | Long-term monitoring can include the continued measuring of many biological, ecological, and environmental metrics including annual breeding success, population size estimates, water quality, biodiversity (which can be measured in many way, i.e. Shannon Index), and many other methods. When determining which metrics to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216216 | 938,710 |
1,902,099 | Traditional experimental economics places individuals in situations where they have to make decisions about questions that affect their real or theoretical pocketbooks. Such experiments are conducted in a controlled laboratory environment. The analysis of the experiments is limited to the evaluation of market outcomes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28442132 | 1,901,009 |
1,525,138 | While the intermolecular reductive Heck reaction has seen some limited usage in the pharmaceutical industry (synthesis of NK-1 receptor antagonist precursors) and drug discovery, the continued development of reductive Heck reactions on terminal and unactivated alkenes represents a valuable new disconnection in medicina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60828102 | 1,524,277 |
1,130,133 | The domestic pharmaceutical industry has been a key contributor to the country's impressive economic growth. As one of the world's major producers of pharmaceuticals, the sector achieved an annual compound growth rate of 16.7% between 1978 and 2003. Both far outpaced other economies in the world, making China the world... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2913045 | 1,129,555 |
342,915 | Mazda's RX-8 car with the Renesis engine met California State fuel economy requirements, including California's low emissions vehicle (LEV) standards. This was achieved by a number of innovations. The exhaust ports, which in earlier Mazda rotaries were located in the rotor housings, were moved to the sides of the combu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33303 | 342,734 |
1,625,963 | The synthesis of the macrocyclic systems involves self-assembles of two organic building blocks: 2,6-diformylpyridine (an aromatic compound with two aldehyde groups positioned "ortho" to the nitrogen atom of the pyridine ring) and a symmetric diamine containing a "meta"-substituted 2,2'-bipyridine group. Zinc acetate i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2401526 | 1,625,045 |
1,421,071 | An archaeoastronomy debate was triggered by the 1963 publication of "Stonehenge Decoded", by Gerald Hawkins an American astronomer. Hawkins claimed to observe numerous alignments, both lunar and solar. He argued that Stonehenge could have been used to predict eclipses. Hawkins’ book received wide publicity, in part bec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3151382 | 1,420,271 |
1,598,873 | Sesklo and Dimini are two of the main sites of the Greek Neolithic Period, ca. 6000-3000 BCE. They are located only a few miles apart in the Thessaly region of Greece and were excavated between 1899 and 1906 by Christos Tsountas. Both settlements included a large central megaron building surrounded by smaller buildings... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55209538 | 1,597,973 |
306,555 | The compass was invented in China during the Han dynasty between the 2nd century BC and 1st century AD where it was called the "south-governor"("sīnán" ) or "South Pointing Fish" (). The magnetic compass was not, at first, used for navigation, but for geomancy and fortune-telling by the Chinese. The earliest Chinese ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50466674 | 306,391 |
2,013,578 | Paper spray ionization is a technique used in mass spectrometry to produce ions from a sample to be analyzed. It is a variant of electrospray ionization. The sample (for instance a few microlitres of blood or urine) is applied to a piece of paper and solvent is added. Then a high voltage is applied, which creates the i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55353295 | 2,012,419 |
1,629,388 | The first type of diagnostic procedure referred to as a ‘slit lamp examination’ of phacolytic glaucoma allows for specific identification of microcystic corneal edema and the presence of macrophages, white material (dotted with patches within the inside capsule of the lens) and intense flare and iridescent or hyper-ref... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58816250 | 1,628,469 |
125,276 | The March 11, 2011, Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami caused various nuclear accidents, the worst of which was the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. At an estimated eighty minutes after the tsunami strike, the temperatures inside Unit 1 of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant reached over 2,300 ˚C, causing the fuel ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26266872 | 125,224 |
4,809 | At first, it was suspected that the strange features of the black hole solutions were pathological artifacts from the symmetry conditions imposed, and that the singularities would not appear in generic situations. This view was held in particular by Vladimir Belinsky, Isaak Khalatnikov, and Evgeny Lifshitz, who tried t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4650 | 4,807 |
230,857 | She attended medical school at the University of Zurich from June 1905 to January 1911, excelling there academically. Her diaries show a very broad range of interests and reading including philosophy, religion, Russian literature and evolutionary biology. She lived in several different apartments, mixing in a social ci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2425513 | 230,739 |
1,997,531 | Crook was a pioneer in the early development of socio-ecology, adding this dimension to ethology which was then dominated by the ideas of "Niko" Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz. His student paper on the gulls of Southampton Water while at University of Southampton, led to his doctoral study at Jesus College, Cambridge of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=739638 | 1,996,388 |
130,699 | The armament of Il-2 was subject to a competition. One of the first 1940 photographs of the Il-2 show it equipped with two MP-6 23 mm autocannons developed by Yakov Taubin ("Яков Таубин") at OKB-16. The MP-6 gun weighed and developed an initial muzzle velocity of . It operated on the short recoil principle and had a ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=183726 | 130,647 |
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