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468,003 | The differences observed between morphs are unique evolutionary trade offs employed by each morph to promote survival within the different environments they face in light of limited ability to adapt perfectly to each pressure. Such a trade off is seen when comparing orange morphs to white morphs: morphs, on average, ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1044933 | 467,768 |
53,280 | The typical hospital was divided into departments such as systemic diseases, surgery, and orthopedics, with larger hospitals having more diverse specialties. "Systemic diseases" was the rough equivalent of today's internal medicine and was further divided into sections such as fever, infections and digestive issues. Ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37477763 | 53,260 |
787,795 | Three immunotoxin drugs have been studied in patients at the NIH National Cancer Institute in the U.S.: BL22, HA22 and LMB-2. All of these protein-based drugs combine part of an anti-B cell antibody with a bacterial toxin to kill the cells on internalization. BL22 and HA22 attack a common protein called CD22, which is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1094648 | 787,371 |
531,906 | ITT to the point of extreme hypoglycemia is considered to be the gold standard for assessing the integrity of the HPA. Sometimes ITT is performed to assess the peak adrenal capacity, e.g. before surgery. It is assumed that the ability to respond to insulin induced hypoglycemia translates into appropriate cortisol rise ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9633736 | 531,632 |
177,131 | Dysmenorrhea is one of the most common gynecological conditions, regardless of age or race. It is one of the most frequently identified causes of pelvic pain in those who menstruate. Dysmenorrhea is estimated to affect between 50% and 90% of female adolescents and women of reproductive age. Another report states that e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=411879 | 177,039 |
287,820 | To minimize its radar cross-section (RCS), the X-2's body is designed to have even surfaces and eliminate seam joints. The radiation-absorbent material (RAM) used on the body is reportedly a composite material consisting of ceramic and silicon carbide and is developed by Ube Industries, while the cockpit windshield is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12057661 | 287,664 |
36,127 | According to Crile, who includes information from Alexander Prokhanov, the Stinger was a "turning point". Milt Bearden saw it as a "force multiplier" and morale booster. Representative Charlie Wilson, the politician behind Operation Cyclone, described the first Stinger Mi-24 shootdowns in 1986 as one of the three cruci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38049 | 36,115 |
1,552,856 | There is very limited research done on contagious diseases on aircraft. The two most common respiratory pathogens to which air passengers are exposed are parainfluenza and influenza. In one study, the flight ban imposed following the attacks of September 11, 2001 was found to have restricted the global spread of season... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33087757 | 1,551,975 |
572,650 | A draft report was finally published in February 1968. This was met by "shock, horror and dissent", mostly due to the hundreds of pages of unreadable grammar and odd terminology. Charles H. Lindsey attempted to figure out what "language was hidden inside of it", a process that took six man-weeks of effort. The resultin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=692880 | 572,357 |
1,884,883 | The school was established in 1947 at the Soviet Union's Gromov Flight Research Institute in Zhukovsky near Moscow, to train personnel involved in conducting test flights primarily within the Russian aviation industry. They underwent theoretical and practical training to allow safe and effective flight testing of the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57741714 | 1,883,802 |
1,756,795 | The Brazilian poultry flock, in 2018, was of the order of 1.5 billion heads. Poultry flocks, according to IBGE, include chickens, roosters, hens and chicks. In 2018, the South region, with emphasis on the creation of chickens for slaughter, was responsible for almost half of the Brazilian total (46.9%). Paraná alone ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64784917 | 1,755,804 |
2,249,258 | Specific research efforts are undertaken in analysis and development of intelligent agents, understanding of coalition setting dynamics, social structure dynamics analysis, formal model construction for norms and conventions for e-commerce, information flow process design, temporal episode-based reasoning, experience-b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38857256 | 2,247,986 |
354,668 | Ron Walker and telecommunications company Telstra successfully lobbied for Webber to replace Fernando Alonso at Minardi for the first three races of the season. Webber's Minardi PS02-Asiatech car was underdeveloped and he was barely able to fit inside it due to his height. He hoped to become experienced enough to make ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564161 | 354,485 |
21,727 | The L5 frequency band at 1.17645 GHz was added in the process of GPS modernization. This frequency falls into an internationally protected range for aeronautical navigation, promising little or no interference under all circumstances. The first Block IIF satellite that provides this signal was launched in May 2010. On ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11866 | 21,718 |
351,716 | The wartime "Scharfschützen-Gewehr 98" program intended to regularize equipment issued for snipers but failed. The telescopic sights used consisted of 2.5×, 3× and 4× models, made by manufactures like Görtz, Gérard, Oigee, Zeiss, Hensoldt, Voigtländer and various civilian models from manufacturers like Bock, Busch and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2023424 | 351,533 |
331,485 | Monetarist economists long contended that the money-supply growth could affect the macroeconomy. These included Milton Friedman who early in his career advocated that government budget deficits during recessions be financed in equal amount by money creation to help to stimulate aggregate demand for production. Later he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=297032 | 331,308 |
173,776 | However, in some scenarios involving extra dimensions of space, the Planck mass can be as low as the TeV range. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has a design energy of for proton–proton collisions and 1,150 TeV for Pb–Pb collisions. It was argued in 2001 that, in these circumstances, black hole production could be an im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=709427 | 173,685 |
2,005,442 | Construction and operation. The basic design principle underlying resistive pulse sensing is shown in Fig. 1. Individual particles, suspended in a conductive fluid, flow one-at-a-time through a constriction. The fluids most commonly used are water containing some amount of dissolved salts, sufficient to carry an electr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56747378 | 2,004,293 |
776,191 | The second method of histology processing is called frozen section processing. This is a highly technical scientific method performed by a trained histoscientist. In this method, the tissue is frozen and sliced thinly using a microtome mounted in a below-freezing refrigeration device called the cryostat. The thin froze... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=714434 | 775,775 |
470,878 | The processes used to manufacture orally disintegrating tablets include loose compression tabletting, a process which is not very different than the manufacturing method used for traditional tablets and lyophilization processes. In loose compression, ODTs are compressed at much lower forces (4 – 20 kN) than traditional... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8187204 | 470,642 |
617,157 | Regardless of their ambiguous evolutionary history, platypuses have been empirically determined to follow an XY sex-determination system, with females possessing five pairs of X chromosomes as the homogametic sex, and males possessing five X and five Y chromosomes as the heterogametic sex. Because the entire genome of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1502597 | 616,843 |
1,648,222 | There were repeated domestic and international signs of interest in the engine for marine and stationary use, but there were no funds available to pursue these possibilities. "An American university, which calls the machine 'the most advanced steam device we know of,' has asked for straw-alcohol-fuelled prototypes, for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54112011 | 1,647,290 |
426,533 | An interesting implication of RQM arises when we consider that interactions between material systems can only occur within the constraints prescribed by Special Relativity, namely within the intersections of the light cones of the systems: when they are spatiotemporally contiguous, in other words. Relativity tells us t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5974662 | 426,324 |
71,369 | In the 1980s, the first modification program retrofitted 157 Air Force Reserve (AFRES) and Air National Guard (ANG) tankers with the Pratt & Whitney TF33-PW-102 turbofan engines from 707 airliners retired in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The modified tanker, designated the KC-135E, was 14% more fuel-efficient than th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17441 | 71,342 |
70,120 | The Italian scientist Galileo Galilei knew that air had mass and so was subject to gravity. In 1640, he demonstrated that an established force resisted the formation of a vacuum. It would remain for his pupil Evangelista Torricelli to create an apparatus that would produce a partial vacuum in 1643. This experiment resu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177602 | 70,093 |
1,936,046 | Since the completion of the human genome, new projects are now attempting to systematically analyze all the gene alterations in a disease like cancer rather than focusing on a few genes at a time. In the future, large-scale data will be integrated from different sources in order to extract functional information. The a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37670240 | 1,934,938 |
20,864 | Some organisms, such as sharks, are able to detect and respond to changes in electric fields, an ability known as electroreception, while others, termed electrogenic, are able to generate voltages themselves to serve as a predatory or defensive weapon; these are electric fish in different orders. The order Gymnotiforme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9550 | 20,855 |
1,949,781 | The Element One team, formed in January 2007, had over 20 members from the Colleges of Engineering and Arts and Sciences. The team officially entered the competition and submitted initial designs on June 12, 2007. The Element One team placed in the top three during their Step 3 design. The team completed their final de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14692599 | 1,948,660 |
1,189,518 | Edward J. Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall, and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. According to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell WMCA with the FCC's approv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64765894 | 1,188,886 |
581,695 | In August 2017, a neutron star collision that occurred in the galaxy NGC 4993 produced the gravitational wave signal GW170817, which was observed by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration. After 1.7 seconds, it was observed as the gamma-ray burst GRB 170817A by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and INTEGRAL, and its optical co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2639335 | 581,397 |
1,752,614 | The Caroline Lucretia Gallery, named after Caroline Herschel, was added to the museum in 2011. The gallery was designed by Hetreed Ross Architects, and is of a modern design, with floor-to-ceiling glazing, overhanging eaves and a flat stainless steel stressed skin roof, with the solid walls constructed of Bath Stone As... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=846923 | 1,751,626 |
310,701 | In January 2017, a further two-year delay was announced, pushing the expected first delivery to mid 2020. This resulted from moving the avionics bay and wiring looms and in March the flight certification program was extended from 2500 to 3000 flying hours. Four of the five delays were caused, at least partly, by failur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11998628 | 310,533 |
10,469 | Ceramics are the most commonly surviving type of Maya art. The Maya had no knowledge of the potter's wheel, and Maya vessels were built up by coiling rolled strips of clay into the desired form. Maya pottery was not glazed, although it often had a fine finish produced by burnishing. Maya ceramics were painted with clay... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18449273 | 10,464 |
761,548 | Several other studies have noted observational difficulties with MOND. For example, it has been claimed that MOND offers a poor fit to the velocity dispersion profile of globular clusters and the temperature profile of galaxy clusters, that different values of a are required for agreement with different galaxies' rotat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21591425 | 761,141 |
611,149 | The pattern of prepotential or spontaneous depolarization, followed by rapid depolarization and repolarization just described, are seen in the SA node and a few other conductive cells in the heart. Since the SA node is the pacemaker, it reaches threshold faster than any other component of the conduction system. It will... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26862016 | 610,838 |
51,170 | Early operations of the E-Jet were not problem-free, the American operator JetBlue reported engine troubles with its fleet, while cold start hydraulic issues were experienced by Air Canada. Embraer had to undertake a rapid expansion of its product support network in order to satisfy the needs of its mainline operators;... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=879946 | 51,150 |
1,927,141 | As mentioned the analytic element method thus not rely on discretization of volume or area in the model, as in the finite elements or finite different methods. Thus, it can model complex problem with an error on the order of machine precision. This is illustrated in a study which modeled a highly heterogeneous, isotrop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2289219 | 1,926,037 |
1,261,454 | Dr. Laurencin is an expert in public health, especially as it pertains to ethnic minority health and health disparities. Academically, he completed the Program in African-American Studies at Princeton University. He is a core faculty member of the Africana Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut, and is Edit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16262568 | 1,260,767 |
1,322,219 | The museum first occupied the site in 1967, having repurposed a pre-existing bakery and distribution centre for its own use. The building was later renovated and expanded to from 2014 to 2017, with designs by Canadian architecture firm NORR. The 2014 to 2017 renovations also saw a number of improvements added to the bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17324747 | 1,321,493 |
822,216 | The Pentium M represented a new and radical departure for Intel, as it was not a low-power version of the desktop-oriented Pentium 4, but instead a heavily modified version of the Pentium III Tualatin design (itself based on the Pentium II core design, which in turn had been a heavily improved evolution of the Pentium ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=199672 | 821,775 |
48,150 | The semiconductors of the periodic table of the chemical elements were identified as the most likely materials for a "solid-state vacuum tube". Starting with copper oxide, proceeding to germanium, then silicon, the materials were systematically studied in the 1940s and 1950s. Today, monocrystalline silicon is the main ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15150 | 48,130 |
1,263,452 | Iliocostal friction syndrome most commonly occurs bilaterally as a result of spinal osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a condition in which the bone density and quality deteriorates, resulting in an increased risk for fractures. More than 2 million fractures occur anally in the United States due to osteoporosis. The most co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68319330 | 1,262,764 |
858,217 | Sport structures are a particularly suitable application for wide-span glulam roofs. This is supported by the light weight of the material, combined with the ability to furnish long lengths and large cross-sections. Prefabrication is invariably employed, and the structural engineer needs to develop clear method stateme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1048678 | 857,759 |
15,415 | Current research suggests that genes that increase susceptibility to ASD are ones that control protein synthesis in neuronal cells in response to cell needs, activity and adhesion of neuronal cells, synapse formation and remodeling, and excitatory to inhibitory neurotransmitter balance. Therefore, despite up to 1000 di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29113700 | 15,410 |
60,383 | At the end of the preceding Pliocene, the previously isolated North and South American continents were joined by the Isthmus of Panama, causing a faunal interchange between the two regions and changing ocean circulation patterns, with the onset of glaciation in the Northern Hemisphere occurring around 2.7 million years... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23310 | 60,358 |
1,879,990 | Aflatoxin total synthesis concerns the total synthesis of a group of organic compounds called aflatoxins. These compounds occur naturally in several fungi. As with other chemical compound targets in organic chemistry, the organic synthesis of aflatoxins serves various purposes. Traditionally it served to prove the stru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2576438 | 1,878,909 |
904,055 | In the United States, Texas Instruments was the first to develop zero-based budgeting for the private sector. Jimmy Carter, then Governor of Georgia, applied the same method to the public sector while he prepared the state's 1973 fiscal budget. Three years later, after Carter was elected President of the United States,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4478338 | 903,579 |
1,749,344 | Outside of the traditional synthetic routes, several papers have reported that CsPbX NCs could be prepared on supports or within porous structures even without ligands. Dirin et al. first demonstrated that bright NCs of CsPbX could be prepared without organic ligands within the pores of mesoporous silica. By using meso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61491450 | 1,748,358 |
913,186 | Judea Pearl (born September 4, 1936) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and philosopher, best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks (see the article on belief propagation). He is also credited for developing a theory of causal and cou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=699964 | 912,707 |
1,687,929 | The Java object viewers in jGRASP provide interface-based, structural, and other views of data structures and other objects and primitives during debugging and workbench operations. For example, a content-based view shows ArrayList and LinkedList in an identical way, as a list of elements. Structural views show the int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8444089 | 1,686,983 |
1,849,428 | Another approach is through mutual information, a measure of independence between two variables. Full independence is reached when I(D;T) = 0. Chi and Mytkowicz's research shows that as a measure of usefulness of tags and their encoding, there is a worsening trend in the ability of users to specify and find tags and do... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24574814 | 1,848,370 |
887,342 | An induction coil (Ruhmkorff coil) was used in low-power transmitters, usually less than 500 watts, often battery-powered. An induction coil is a type of transformer powered by DC, in which a vibrating arm switch contact on the coil called an interrupter repeatedly breaks the circuit that provides current to the primar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1105907 | 886,877 |
615,554 | By 1961, although it was yet to launch a person into space, the STG was confident that Project Mercury had overcome its initial setbacks, and the United States had overtaken the Soviet Union as the most advanced nation in space technology. The STG began considering Mercury Mark II, a two-person successor to the origina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2296945 | 615,240 |
635,177 | Following two studies conducted in 1986 and 2006, piperacillin was found to inhibit the removal of methotrexate in animal kidneys. Furthermore, in the presence of piperacillin-tazobactam, the decay time for methotrexate triples in comparison to the normal half-life, leaving the patient exposed to cytotoxic effects prod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2322131 | 634,838 |
752,005 | In 2001 Mary Robinson, then United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Vaclav Havel, then President of the Czech Republic, established the "Rudy Vrba Award" for films in the "right to know" category about unknown heroes. In 2014 the Vrba–Weztler Memorial began organizing an annual 130-km, five-day walk from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5043162 | 751,603 |
752,886 | What scant information is known about King Rædwald of East Anglia, according to the Anglo-Saxon historian Simon Keynes, could fit "on the back of the proverbial postage stamp." Almost all that is recorded comes from the eighth-century "Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum" by the Benedictine monk Bede, leaving knowle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22706403 | 752,484 |
1,261,866 | Siddiqui was the first scientist to bring the anthelmintic, antifungal, antibacterial, and antiviral constituents of the Neem tree to the attention of natural products chemists. In 1942, he extracted three bitter compounds from neem oil, which he named as nimbin, nimbinin, and nimbidin respectively. The process involve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6857524 | 1,261,179 |
688,878 | The example shown below, the first goal of Diego Maradona against England in 1986, is used to illustrate the potential of the move. Argentina utilised it frequently, being ideally suited to their crisp, quick, short passing style. As he had often done during the game, Maradona initiated the sequence with a quick dribbl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=651571 | 688,516 |
704,049 | Liquid cooling techniques are increasingly being used for the thermal management of electronic components. This type of cooling is a solution to ensure the optimisation of energy efficiency while simultaneously minimising noise and space requirements. Especially useful in supercomputers or Data Centers as maintenance o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=531184 | 703,681 |
1,027,373 | On 29 September 2014, the MoD revealed that an undisclosed number of Watchkeepers had become fully operational and sent to Afghanistan. The aircraft were stationed at Camp Bastion to provide force protection for British troops and worked alongside Hermes 450s that it is derived from. Watchkeeper proved its use by succe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2484509 | 1,026,839 |
1,812,677 | Aschenbrenner earned his "Vordiplom" at the University of Passau in 1996. In 2001, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he was a student of Lou van den Dries. For his dissertation, he was awarded the 2001 Sacks Prize by the Association for Symbolic Logic. After a visiting pos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44788496 | 1,811,644 |
1,170,146 | Most recently, she received U.S. Congress' Golden Goose Award, was inducted as a member to the National Academy of Sciences, named a Distinguished Member of Psi Chi, an International Honor Society in Psychology, received the Scientific Impact Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, Distinguished Cogni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8287102 | 1,169,527 |
1,701,268 | In view of a total ban from 2004, manufacturers cannot launch next AAS, presently they are interested in substances that are related to hormones, but do not affect testosterone. These include derivatives e.g. methoxydienone (methoxygonadiene; Ethyl Methoxy Gona), methasterone (so called Superdrol or S-Drol) and many ot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=458544 | 1,700,314 |
510,595 | The study of plants and vegetation is complicated by their form. First, most plants are rooted in the soil, which makes it difficult to observe and measure nutrient uptake and species interactions. Second, plants often reproduce vegetatively, that is asexually, in a way that makes it difficult to distinguish individual... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23470640 | 510,330 |
294,967 | The design of "Enterprise" was not the same as that planned for , the first flight model; the aft fuselage was constructed differently, and it did not have the interfaces to mount OMS pods. A large number of subsystems—ranging from main engines to radar equipment—were not installed on "Enterprise", but the capacity to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28236 | 294,807 |
2,094,519 | The size of the shell varies between 38 mm and 64 mm. The imperforate shell has a conical shape. It is black or purplish-black. The 6 to 7 whorls are concave, longitudinally somewhat obliquely plicated. The plicae more or less project at the suture and on the edge of the basal whorl, producing an undulating or crenulat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36955550 | 2,093,311 |
1,439,489 | Hybrid solution- and immobilization-based strategies have been applied, in which ligands functionalized with an enrichment tag, such as biotin, are allowed to float freely in solution and find their target proteins. After an incubation period, ligand-protein complexes can be reacted with streptavidin-coated beads, whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48999251 | 1,438,679 |
430,097 | Lockheed Martin and an industry team of radio vendors demonstrated extensive Arctic communications reach near the North Pole, believed to be the most northerly successful call to a geosynchronous satellite. WCDMA calls to the far north will be increasingly important where there has been an increase in shipping, resourc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2088185 | 429,885 |
104,861 | In his roles as director, president, and chancellor, Watson led CSHL to articulate its present-day mission, "dedication to exploring molecular biology and genetics in order to advance the understanding and ability to diagnose and treat cancers, neurological diseases, and other causes of human suffering." CSHL substanti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16289 | 104,816 |
982,435 | In 2009, the NRC made a safety change related to the events of September 11, ruling that all plants be designed to withstand the direct hit from a plane. To meet the new requirement, Westinghouse encased the AP1000 buildings concrete walls in steel plates. Last year Ma, a member of the NRC since it was formed in 1974, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3111140 | 981,923 |
1,029,186 | A new class of software called Application definition or simulation software enables users to rapidly build lightweight, animated simulations of another computer program, without writing code. Application simulation software allows both technical and non-technical users to experience, test, collaborate and validate the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1090852 | 1,028,652 |
1,869,102 | Adams remained at McGill, where he served as the Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and then as Vice-Principal to the University. He served as President of the International Geological Congress held in Toronto in 1913, and was President of the Geological Society of America in 1917. He received many honors during hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1253997 | 1,868,026 |
1,857,946 | Virtual microscopy is a method of posting microscope images on, and transmitting them over, computer networks. This allows independent viewing of images by large numbers of people in diverse locations. It involves a synthesis of microscopy technologies and digital technologies. The use of virtual microscopes can transf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9152927 | 1,856,878 |
1,336,784 | A transmission line circuit which circumvented the above problem, producing an output pulse equal to the power-supply voltage "V", was invented in 1937 by British engineer Alan Blumlein and is widely used today in PFNs. In the Blumlein generator (animation, right), the load is connected in series between two equal-leng... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=945530 | 1,336,053 |
289,799 | They utilized the information to initiate work on the Bell X-1. The final version of the Bell X-1 was very similar in design to the original Miles M.52 version. Also featuring the all-moving tail, the XS-1 was later known as the X-1. It was in the X-1 that Chuck Yeager was credited with being the first person to break ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166072 | 289,642 |
912,437 | His writing was credited as both broad and deep. Noam Chomsky once wrote, "Martin Gardner's contribution to contemporary intellectual culture is uniquein its range, its insight, and understanding of hard questions that matter." Gardner repeatedly alerted the public (and other mathematicians) to recent discoveries in ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20435 | 911,958 |
447,133 | Before carbon nanotubes can be used to cure Boeing 787 fuselages however, further development needs to occur. The largest challenge associated with creating reliable carbon nanotube structured heaters is being able to create a uniform carbon nanotube dispersion in a polymer matrix to ensure heat is applied evenly. CNTs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7452926 | 446,916 |
2,104,512 | To determine the space occupied by a ZFP when bound to its DNA target, a fragment of the target gene is amplified by PCR and mixed with a 32P-end-labelled promoter fragment. This reaction is then incubated with several different concentrations of ZFP produced and purified using one of the previously described overexpre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15087912 | 2,103,299 |
2,060,467 | Common public explanations for the college's closure include student radicalism, lack of discipline, administrative issues, and financial issues. "The Nation"s Eliseo Vivas blamed its lack of grades as detrimental to student incentive, and judged the effort to create self-motivated students through freedom to be a fail... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41013618 | 2,059,280 |
384,665 | In addition to single-penetrator EFPs (also called single EFPs or SEFPs), there are EFP warheads whose liners are designed to produce more than one penetrator; these are known as multiple EFPs, or MEFPs. The liner of an MEFP generally comprises a number of dimples that intersect each other at sharp angles. Upon detonat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4302166 | 384,470 |
936,159 | Farmland birds are declining more rapidly than birds of any other biome in North America, a decline that is correlated with intensification and expansion of pesticide usage. In the farmland of the United Kingdom, populations of ten different bird species declined by 10 million breeding individuals between 1979 and 1999... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16534351 | 935,664 |
1,391,187 | The isolobal fragments of octahedral complexes, such as type ML, can be created in a similar fashion. Transition metal complexes should initially satisfy the eighteen electron rule, have no net charge, and their ligands should be two electron donors (Lewis bases). Consequently, the metal center for the ML starting poin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1408515 | 1,390,416 |
55,113 | Although stimulus-response mechanisms are the easiest to understand, the nervous system is also capable of controlling the body in ways that do not require an external stimulus, by means of internally generated rhythms of activity. Because of the variety of voltage-sensitive ion channels that can be embedded in the mem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21944 | 55,090 |
1,389,849 | Modern genetics began on the foundation of Gregor Mendel's work. Once this became widely known, it spurred a revolution in studies of hereditary throughout the animal kingdom; with studies showing genetic transmission and control over characteristics and traits. As gene variation was shown to affect disease, work began... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16017459 | 1,389,078 |
565,663 | "Psilotum" superficially resembles certain extinct early vascular plants, such as the rhyniophytes and the trimerophyte genus "Psilophyton". The unusual features of "Psilotum" that suggest an affinity with early vascular plants include dichotomously branching sporophytes, aerial stems arising from horizontal rhizomes, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=171267 | 565,373 |
744,090 | On October 4, 2004, the company announced the Cray XD1 range of entry-level supercomputers which use dual-core 64-bit Advanced Micro Devices Opteron central processing units running Linux. This system was previously known as the OctigaBay 12K before Cray's acquisition of that company. The XD1 provided one Xilinx Virtex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217315 | 743,696 |
1,074,594 | In 1975, Cech completed his PhD in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and in the same year, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he engaged in postdoctoral research. In 1978, he obtained his first faculty position at the University of Colorado where he lectured undergraduate stude... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1312155 | 1,074,040 |
1,227,567 | After "classes préparatoires" studies at Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris and later at Lycée Joffre in Montpellier, he joined in 1945 the Paris-based École des Mines, one of the most prestigious engineering schools in France. The following year he became a naturalized French citizen. He graduated in 1948, earning the French ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=342525 | 1,226,906 |
453,609 | The orbit would prove to be determined based on the specifics of the spacecraft's mission. The overriding considerations were the need for full sky coverage, the need to eliminate stray radiation from the instruments and the need to maintain thermal stability of the dewar and the instruments. A circular Sun-synchronous... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186630 | 453,388 |
909,279 | The original edition of "The Population Bomb" began with this statement: "The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate ..... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=359542 | 908,800 |
1,122,852 | The choice of the kernel function "K" is not crucial to the accuracy of kernel density estimators, so we use the standard multivariate normal kernel throughout: formula_3, where H plays the role of the covariance matrix. On the other hand, the choice of the bandwidth matrix H is the single most important factor affecti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28831427 | 1,122,278 |
38,931 | NHTSA reported, "After reviewing all available data, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has not found evidence at this time that would indicate the recent battery fire involving a Tesla Model S was the result of a vehicle safety defect or noncompliance with federal safety standards." The following month... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18215937 | 38,917 |
71,326 | Since fuel cell electrolyzer systems do not store fuel in themselves, but rather rely on external storage units, they can be successfully applied in large-scale energy storage, rural areas being one example. There are many different types of stationary fuel cells so efficiencies vary, but most are between 40% and 60% e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11729 | 71,299 |
834,069 | In the September 11 attacks, two commercial airliners were deliberately crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact and resulting fires caused both towers to collapse within less than two hours. The impacts severed exterior columns and damaged core columns, redistributing the loa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36337411 | 833,620 |
875,711 | The Solid Propulsion Operations initially used ammonium nitrate -based propellants in the manufacture of gas generators used to start aircraft jet engines, turbo pumps of the Rocketdyne H-1 rocket engine and the manufacture of the Jet Assisted Take Off (JATO) rocket engines. Ullage motors were developed for the Saturn ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=320873 | 875,249 |
1,108,508 | Determining if a potential biosignature is worth being investigated is a fundamentally complicated process. Scientists must consider any and every possible alternate explanation before concluding that something is a true biosignature. This includes investigating the minute details that make other planets unique and bei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1072857 | 1,107,943 |
1,140,133 | In the opening ceremonies, patchy showers greeted the 14000 spectators packed into the Mitchel Park stadium for the 2pm start of the New York Games opening ceremony on 19 June. New York radio personality William B. Williams introduced everyone with a welcome speech. Entertainers such as Bill Buzzeo and the Dixie Ramble... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=339974 | 1,139,539 |
224,399 | A variational autoencoder is a generative model with a prior and noise distribution respectively. Usually such models are trained using the Expectation-Maximization meta-algorithm (e.g. probabilistic PCA, (spike & slab) sparse coding). Such a scheme optimizes a lower bound of the data likelihood, which is usually intra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62078649 | 224,285 |
936,375 | The Buddha placed much importance on the cultivation of good will and compassion towards one's parents, spouse, friends and all other beings. Buddhism strongly values harmony in the family and community. Keeping the five precepts and having a generous attitude (Dana) is seen as the foundation for this harmony. An impor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4746907 | 935,880 |
417,952 | At the start of the first round, Hélio and Kimura immediately went to a clinch. The Brazilian tried to throw his opponent down with osoto gari and kouchi gari, but Kimura blocked them and in turn started scoring multiple throws, including ouchi gari, harai goshi, uchi mata and ippon seoi nage. However, Gracie was able ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53276997 | 417,748 |
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