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1,152,241 | The team of Gary Eden and Sung-Jin Park are pioneering the use of microplasmas for general illumination (as well as UV source). Their apparatus uses many microplasma generators in a large array, which emit light through a clear, transparent window. Unlike fluorescent lamps, which require the electrodes to be far apart ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18446530 | 1,151,632 |
1,891,983 | To contrast, the doplima system of Japan, or an academic degree, is governed by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, aiming originally to improve the reputation of a vocational school graduate, and to promote lifelong learning. Diploma will be issued to those who had completed a particula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51717997 | 1,890,900 |
800,117 | Most patients presenting to trauma centers have multiple injuries involving different organ systems, and so the care of such patients often requires a significant number of diagnostic studies and operative procedures. The trauma surgeon is responsible for prioritizing such procedures and for designing the overall treat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30865215 | 799,691 |
1,440,943 | Classical mechanics is deceptively simple. It is surprisingly easy to get the right answer with fallacious reasoning or without the real understanding. To address this problem Jack Wisdom and I, with help from Hardy Mayer, have written ["Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics"] and are teaching a class at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3261964 | 1,440,133 |
1,802,741 | Long baseline systems get their name from the fact that the spacing of the baseline transponders is long or similar to the distance between the diver or vehicle and the transponders. That is, the baseline transponders are typically mounted in the corners of an underwater work site within which the vehicle or diver oper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23077283 | 1,801,728 |
2,156,395 | The Umkehr is the time variation of the ratio of the scattered intensity at two different wavelengths. The word means 'reversal' in German. The Umkehr effect is observed when measurements are made with ultraviolet spectrophotometer of the ratio of the zenith sky light intensities of two wavelengths in the solar ultravi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25187038 | 2,155,164 |
439,602 | At an operating range of 150 to 200 °C, the expelled water can be converted to steam for air and water heating (combined heat and power). This potentially allows efficiency increases of up to 70%. PAFCs are CO-tolerant and can tolerate a CO concentration of about 1.5%, which broadens the choice of fuels they can use. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1049624 | 439,388 |
211,793 | Evidence of just such an event horizon may have been detected in 1992 using ultraviolet (UV) observations with the High Speed Photometer on the Hubble Space Telescope. As self-luminous clumps of matter spiral into a black hole, their radiation is emitted in a series of pulses that are subject to gravitational redshift ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=86061 | 211,685 |
1,741,982 | Matyjaszewski began studying chemistry at Lodz University of Technology in late 1960s and later graduated from the Petrochemical University in Moscow. He received his doctorate from the Center of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1976 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14709851 | 1,740,998 |
897,509 | The physical phenomena that electromagnetism describes have been studied as separate fields since antiquity. For example, there were many advances in the field of optics centuries before light was understood to be an electromagnetic wave. However, the theory of electromagnetism, as it is currently understood, grew out ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=426219 | 897,036 |
990,188 | In a computer's assembly language, mnemonics are used that are directly equivalent to machine code instructions. The mnemonics are frequently three letters long, such as ADD, CMP (to compare two numbers), and JMP (jump to a different location in the program). The HCF instruction was originally a fictitious assembly lan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=376486 | 989,671 |
667,825 | The Malaysian information technology (IT) sector is made up equally of women and men, with large numbers of women employed as university professors and in the private sector. This is a product of two historical trends: the predominance of women in the Malay electronics industry, the precursor to the IT industry, and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3135183 | 667,477 |
26,986 | Alumni in the arts and media include actors Emma Watson '14, Daveed Diggs '04, Julie Bowen '91, Tracee Ellis Ross '94, and Jessica Capshaw '98; NPR program host Ira Glass '82; singer-composer Mary Chapin Carpenter '81; humorist and Marx Brothers screenwriter S.J. Perelman '25; novelists Nathanael West '24, Jeffrey Euge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4157 | 26,976 |
1,880,670 | In the experiments by Hugo Schiff, oligomers and low-molecular polymers were formed in a solid state reaction by polycondensation upon water elimination. This is generally the case in the absence of strong acids, which suppress the thermal decomposition of free amino end groups and thus chain interruption reactions. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59912350 | 1,879,589 |
10,519 | Belief in supernatural forces pervaded Maya life and influenced every aspect of it, from the simplest day-to-day activities such as food preparation, to trade, politics, and elite activities. Maya deities governed all aspects of the world, both visible and invisible. The Maya priesthood was a closed group, drawing its ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18449273 | 10,514 |
614,444 | Relationship-oriented leaders are focused on supporting, motivating and developing the people on their teams and the relationships within. This style of leadership encourages good teamwork and collaboration, through fostering positive relationships and good communication. Relationship-oriented leaders prioritize the we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37580406 | 614,132 |
1,598,701 | Rules for Olympic luge competitions are set by the International Luge Federation (FIL) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). They entrust 5 officials with making decisions about whether competition rules have been followed: a technical delegate, three jury members from different countries, and an international... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25012240 | 1,597,801 |
1,091,108 | Developing an effective decentralized structure for EMIS data requires engaging in several decision-making processes. These include: 1) identifying the right balance between direct government control over education institutions and staff, and the degree of autonomy given to them, which depends to a large extent on exis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68896578 | 1,090,548 |
1,948,761 | The business was operated by Russian serfs, some of them extremely skilled in fine ornamental metalwork, according to James Nasmyth's account. Baird brought other engineers from Scotland to work with him: his son Francis and nephew William Handyside made important contributions, with Francis carrying the Baird Works fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6837937 | 1,947,643 |
1,070,163 | The beginning of the history of lupin cultivation in the Old World is often associated with the times of the ancient Egyptian civilization (Zhukovsky, 1929). It is, however, more likely (Kurlovich, 2002) that originally white lupin was introduced into cultivation in ancient Greece where its greatest biodiversity was co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6258860 | 1,069,609 |
942,484 | In biological and medical science, the effect of second-harmonic generation is used for high-resolution optical microscopy. Because of the non-zero second-harmonic coefficient, only non-centrosymmetric structures are capable of emitting SHG light. One such structure is collagen, which is found in most load-bearing tiss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7334318 | 941,982 |
507,146 | As this is an industry standard, similar directory structures and naming procedures can be found in most digital cameras. The standard leaves room for varying types of file and directory organisations. Some manufacturers choose filenames that include the subdirectory number as part of the alphanumeric part of the filen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2920017 | 506,882 |
1,412,321 | Like other concepts from statistical mechanics (such as entropy and master equations), universality has proven a useful construct for characterizing distributed systems at a higher level, such as multi-agent systems. The term has been applied to multi-agent simulations, where the system-level behavior exhibited by the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1752072 | 1,411,526 |
1,126,800 | Since the early 1960s, with the availability of oracles for certain combinatorial games, also called tablebases (e.g. for 3x3-chess) with any beginning configuration, small-board dots-and-boxes, small-board-hex, and certain endgames in chess, dots-and-boxes, and hex; a new area for data mining has been opened. This is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47888356 | 1,126,223 |
662,867 | Another example of a genotoxic substance causing DNA damage are pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs). These substances are found mainly in plant species and are poisonous to animals, including humans; about half of them have been identified as genotoxic and many as tumorigenic. The researchers concluded from testing that when... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=632874 | 662,522 |
931,663 | Mutation of tumor suppressor genes that are passed on to the next generation of not merely cells, but their offspring, can cause increased likelihoods for cancers to be inherited. Members within these families have increased incidence and decreased latency of multiple tumors. The mode of inheritance of mutant tumor sup... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2332422 | 931,171 |
574,703 | Electrically operated display devices have developed from electromechanical systems for display of text, up to all-electronic devices capable of full-motion 3D color graphic displays. Electromagnetic devices, using a solenoid coil to control a visible flag or flap, were the earliest type, and were used for text display... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22974231 | 574,409 |
868,845 | The plasma membrane or bacterial cytoplasmic membrane is composed of a phospholipid bilayer and thus has all of the general functions of a cell membrane such as acting as a permeability barrier for most molecules and serving as the location for the transport of molecules into the cell. In addition to these functions, p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4209093 | 868,385 |
1,927,273 | GE's design capitalized upon hardware almost ready to fly: a bullet-shaped descent module, carried between a conical mission module cabin containing life support and avionics, and the cylindrical propulsion module. The entire craft was long, with one innovation: a cocoonlike wrapping for secondary pressure protection i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36082139 | 1,926,169 |
481,582 | The Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-152A was a twin-engined version of the Ye-152, sharing its general layout but utilising two Tumansky R-11 afterburning turbojets mounted side by side in a revised rear fuselage. The change in engine type, necessitated by the extremely poor reliability of the R-15, led to a widened rear fuselage ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30444593 | 481,338 |
2,023,066 | Trophoblast cells form the outer lining of the blastocyst in preimplantation development, eventually forming more differentiated extra-embryonic tissues including the placenta. Before this differentiation can occur the embryo's invasion and infiltration into the uterine wall must be tightly regulated by both maternal a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60620623 | 2,021,902 |
104,840 | Originally, Watson was drawn into molecular biology by the work of Salvador Luria. Luria eventually shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the Luria–Delbrück experiment, which concerned the nature of genetic mutations. He was part of a distributed group of researchers who were making use ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16289 | 104,795 |
1,098,304 | In c. 1303, Veera Ballala III subdued the recalcitrant Alupas of Dakshina Kannada. His attempts to reduce the Yadava power did not diminish either. In c. 1305, Veera Ballala III successfully fought the invading Yadavas at Holalkere and pushed them back to Lakkundi. He dealt swiftly with the rebellious Kadambas of Hanga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6841475 | 1,097,744 |
275,768 | These ideas may be expressed in ordinary language as follows. In the account of ordinary physical waves, a 'point' refers to a position in ordinary physical space at an instant of time, at which there is specified a 'displacement' of some physical quantity. But in the account of quantum mechanics, a 'point' refers to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=229104 | 275,618 |
456,800 | Due to the specificity of the statute, the law on video games in India has developed more on the basis of business practice. This has led to developers and publishers seeking protection as "cinematograph works". Under Section 2 of the act, a "cinematograph film" means "any work of visual recording on any medium produce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53955866 | 456,577 |
2,075,997 | The Wildcats had to travel to Sault Ste. Marie to take on their long-time rival but their powerful offense, which had carried them to victory so often during the season, gave Northern Michigan the edge. After splitting the first two games, NMU found itself down 1–3 mid-way through the deciding game but then went on a r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68570836 | 2,074,800 |
1,122,036 | The University Program is a traditional four-year Doctor of Medicine program designed to train well-rounded physicians in a curriculum called the Western Reserve2 (WR2) which is built on four cornerstones of clinical mastery, research and scholarship, leadership, and civic professionalism to prepare students for the on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15470080 | 1,121,462 |
1,330,447 | The United States Navy also began studies for UCAVs at about the same time. The Navy saw that UCAVs had a number of potential benefits. They promised to be cheaper than manned aircraft, with a lower purchase cost and much lower operating costs, since operators could be given much of their training through simulations. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3525512 | 1,329,718 |
226,292 | The engines, now referred to as "power units", are divided into 6 components: the internal combustion engine (ICE); turbocharger (TC); Motor Generator Unit-Kinetic (MGU-K), which harvests energy that would normally be wasted under braking; Motor Generator Unit-Heat (MGU-H), which collects energy in the form of heat as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=640543 | 226,176 |
44,012 | No direct evidence of PIE exists; scholars have reconstructed PIE from its present-day descendants using the comparative method. For example, compare the pairs of words in Italian and English: and "foot", and "father", and "fish". Since there is a consistent correspondence of the initial consonants that emerges far too... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=559297 | 43,995 |
273,422 | A mathematical proof is an inferential argument for a mathematical statement, showing that the stated assumptions logically guarantee the conclusion. The argument may use other previously established statements, such as theorems; but every proof can, in principle, be constructed using only certain basic or original ass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82285 | 273,274 |
2,018,718 | A few years after the death of Charles Nicolle in 1936, his collaborators compete to take control of the institution. Jean Mons, General Resident of France in Tunisia ended up imposing Lucien Balozet, who was acting director from 1943 to 1949, with the aim of removing from Tunisia an important institution, which must b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61430595 | 2,017,555 |
1,228,303 | While the admirals were also dubious about their long-term ability to confront the American and British navies, they hoped that a knockout blow destroying the American fleet at Pearl Harbor would bring the enemy to the negotiating table for a favorable outcome. Japanese diplomats were sent to Washington in summer 1941 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54108025 | 1,227,641 |
1,903,689 | Bill Masters is a firm believer in educating, the development of entrepreneurial skills, and mentoring, especially young entrepreneurs. He gives back by dedicating his time to numerous committees and boards, including Greenville Technical College Entrepreneurial Forum and writing a book to create and advocate for peer ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49782636 | 1,902,595 |
792,675 | Frequently in the rhizosphere, more than two organisms (and species) can take part in the communication, resulting in a complex network of interactions and cross-talks which influence the fitness of all participating partners. Thus, this environment can be considered a hot spot for numerous inter-kingdom signals exchan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2915538 | 792,250 |
1,370,312 | Musculoskeletal injuries can affect any part of the human body including; bones, joints, cartilages, ligaments, tendons, muscles, and other soft tissues. Symptoms include mild to severe aches, low back pain, numbness, tingling, atrophy and weakness. These injuries are a result of repetitive motions and actions over a p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18716626 | 1,369,556 |
690,768 | After the FIA had deemed a hole in the floor of the RB8 illegal, the team had arrived at the with a slightly altered car. Vettel qualified on pole position, and after a close fight with Hamilton and Alonso for the majority of the race, finished fourth after making an extra stop due to poor tyre degradation. Webber enco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33899691 | 690,405 |
1,132,937 | In Sri Lanka from the year 2006 Allied health sciences faculty of University of Peradeniya and faculty of Medicine University of Colombo and also the year 2013 in General sir John Kotelawala Defence University have started the undergraduate course of four years with 6-month internship. 2011 is the remarkable year in Sr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24210226 | 1,132,345 |
356,373 | Metroidvania is a sub-genre of platform video games focused on guided non-linearity and utility-gated exploration and progression. The term is a portmanteau of the names of the video game series "Metroid" and "Castlevania", with games in the genre borrowing from both series. Typically based on two-dimensional, sidescro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45665895 | 356,188 |
503,303 | In November 2016, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha pledged to improve the well-being of farmers over the following five years. He did so in the face of declining rice prices, the lowest in ten years. He said the improvements would result from "smart farmer projects" initiated by the government, part of its 20-year nati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3467679 | 503,045 |
917,486 | During the Second World War, special forces within the Allies demanded a more portable, lighter, more accurate automatic rifle that provided the equivalent stopping power of the American BAR. As a result, this machine gun was adapted as the BAR replacement for commandos operating behind Axis lines. The First Special Se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2072850 | 917,003 |
1,100,070 | In June 1994, an article in the "Chicago Tribune" by John Crewdson stated that an anonymous junior researcher in Hamer's laboratory alleged that Hamer selectively presented the data in his 1993 paper in the journal "Science". The junior researcher had assisted in the gene mapping in Hamer's 1993 study. Shortly after vo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6341158 | 1,099,510 |
1,333,621 | In January 2009, Corsica published the website observatoryhill.ca describing the property, stating, "[We] are in the process of looking for an astronomy club to occupy the observatory and welcome proposals for consideration." On 22 April 2009, Corsica and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada announced an agreement ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=725242 | 1,332,892 |
299,455 | Each type of solder offers advantages and disadvantages. Soft solder is so called because of the soft lead that is its primary ingredient. Soft soldering uses the lowest temperatures (and so thermally stresses components the least) but does not make a strong joint and is unsuitable for mechanical load-bearing applicati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25067088 | 299,294 |
1,798,244 | Universal time (UT1) tracks the Earth's rotation in time, which performs one revolution in about 24 hours. The Earth's rotation is uneven, so UT is not linear with respect to atomic time. It is practically proportional to the sidereal time, which is also a direct measure of Earth rotation. The excess revolution time is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24994958 | 1,797,235 |
969,624 | Unnatural water flow below dams causes immense habitat degradation, reducing viable options for aquatic organisms. Upstream migration is hindered by the dam structure and can cause population declines as fishes don't have access to normal feeding and/or spawning grounds. Dams tend to affect upstream species richness, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6783609 | 969,114 |
1,450,287 | When isotope labeling is transient and has not yet equilibrated, isotopically non-stationary MFA (INST-MFA) is advantageous in deducing fluxes, particularly for systems with slow labeling dynamics. Similar to isotopically stationary MFA, this method requires mass and isotopomer balances to characterize the stoichiometr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10756580 | 1,449,470 |
1,280,297 | The sporophytes of this genus have unbranched shoots that are generally upright and round in cross section. Horizontal stems are absent. The leaves are not borne in distinct ranks, and are usually somewhat lanceolate in shape. In some species, they vary in size according to the season in which they grow. Branchlets bea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=199405 | 1,279,602 |
642,037 | The term Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics was often used interchangeably with and as a synonym for Heisenberg's uncertainty principle by detractors (such as Einstein and the physicist Alfred Landé) who believed in determinism and saw the common features of the Bohr–Heisenberg theories as a threat. Within ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=123450 | 641,698 |
1,400,166 | The SWISS-MODEL Workspace integrates programs and databases required for protein structure modelling in a web-based workspace. Depending on the complexity of the modelling task, different modes of usage can be applied, in which the user has different levels of control over individual modelling steps: automated mode, al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34913748 | 1,399,379 |
1,358,036 | Zimmer attended Evander Childs High School in the Bronx, graduating in 1938 at the age of 15. She was awarded a scholarship to attend New York City's Hunter College starting that fall. In college, Zimmer initially wanted to study French or literature, but she switched her field of study to biochemistry against the reco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8215305 | 1,357,286 |
1,680,429 | Most rubber products are vulcanized, a process which involves heating with a small quantity of sulphur (or equivalent cross-linking agent) so as to stabilise the polymer chains, over a wide range of temperature. This discovery was made by Charles Goodyear in the 1844, but is a process restricted to polymer chains havin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8654845 | 1,679,486 |
1,330,885 | As part of the Bullrun program, NSA has been inserting backdoors into cryptography systems. One such target was suggested in 2013 to be Dual_EC_DRBG. The NSA accomplished this by working during the standardization process to eventually become the sole editor of the standard. In getting Dual_EC_DRBG accepted into NIST S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40611086 | 1,330,156 |
1,575,813 | Kadoch was born and raised in Marin County, California, just north of San Francisco. As a teenager, she lost a close family friend to late-stage breast cancer, which inspired her to learn more about the disease. Kadoch eventually studied molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Berkeley. She move... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68615057 | 1,574,924 |
1,091,521 | When the wavelength of the radiation to be scattered is much smaller than the spacing between atoms, the Ewald sphere radius becomes large compared to the spatial frequency of atomic planes. This is common, for example, in transmission electron microscopy. In this approximation, diffraction patterns in effect illuminat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1165668 | 1,090,961 |
232,176 | Hoth continued to lead the XV Army Corps during the invasion of France from May 1940. The initial German advance of "Generaloberst" Günther von Kluge's 4th Army through the Ardennes was spearheaded by "General der Panzertruppe" Guderian's XIX Motorised Corps on the left and Hoth's corps on the right. Hoth's corps consi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=261665 | 232,057 |
654,865 | Shifting baselines arise in research on marine ecosystems because changes must be measured against some previous reference point (baseline), which in turn may represent significant changes from an even earlier state of the ecosystem. For example, radically depleted fisheries have been evaluated by researchers who used ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61622385 | 654,521 |
1,394,667 | It is recommended that new or recycled empty bars be placed at each side of the brood chamber just before spring build–up as it is easier for the bees to make new comb than to move honey stores to make room for new brood. This will also ensure the maintenance of a well built honey barrier between the brood and higher g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=483630 | 1,393,896 |
859,813 | The Late Ordovician mass extinction is traditionally considered to occur in two distinct pulses. The first pulse began at the boundary between the Katian and Hirnantian stages of the Late Ordovician Period. This extinction pulse is typically attributed to the Late Ordovician glaciation, which abruptly expanded over Gon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=425753 | 859,355 |
1,232,379 | Hot pressing is a popular method for obtaining densified UHTC materials that relies upon both high temperatures and pressures to produce densified materials. Powder compacts are heated externally and pressure is applied hydraulitically. In order to improve densification during hot pressing, diboride powders can undergo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38050893 | 1,231,717 |
934,243 | It is time to find a broader solution to the phage therapy regulatory issues. Medicine agencies, such as the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are urged to build on the initiatives that were developed by some national regulatory authorities. Policymakers need to be convinced ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=682382 | 933,751 |
996,185 | Despite its high cost, portable X-ray devices use thulium that has been bombarded with neutrons in a nuclear reactor to produce the isotope Thulium-170, having a half-life of 128.6 days and five major emission lines of comparable intensity (at 7.4, 51.354, 52.389, 59.4 and 84.253 keV). These radioactive sources have a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30047 | 995,667 |
233,908 | This prompted the design of a more advanced turretless tank destroyer with an even more powerful cannon. Development was conducted under supervision of L. I. Gorlitskiy, chief designer of all medium Soviet self-propelled guns. The work started in February 1944 and the first prototype of the SU-100, "Object 138", was de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=329518 | 233,789 |
797,007 | The aircraft was armed with two 37 mm NL-37L cannon, mounted low on the sides of the center fuselage. A supply of 50 rounds per gun was typically carried, although the ammunition boxes could contain twice as much. Under the wings, there was provision for two ARS-212 unguided rockets. The aircraft's avionics allowed it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1045156 | 796,582 |
1,789,894 | Geminiviruses constitute a large family of phytopathogens (Geminiviridae). The family geminiviridae have been classified into four genera, namely Begomovirus, Curtovirus, Topocuvirus and Mastrevirus, depending on their genomes, mode of transmission and host range. Geminiviridae are transmitted by white flies, scientifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12366124 | 1,788,888 |
1,697,544 | The Pontic mountain range along the north Anatolian coast is a more or less continuous barrier against humid air from the Black Sea, causing high precipitation on the northern slopes of the Pontus all year. Climatic conditions on the northern coast therefore resemble those in central Europe and so does the vegetation. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24646202 | 1,696,590 |
1,857,469 | The plan of the building, executed by the French architect architects Jean François Gille Colson (1861-1865), José da Costa Sequeira (1800-1872) and Valentim José Correia (1822-1900) (then the most distinguished foreign architect living in Lisbon), was inspired by the building of the Russian Observatory in Pulkova. Wil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20081258 | 1,856,401 |
44,541 | CERN has developed a number of policies and official documents that enable and promote open science, starting with CERN's founding convention in 1953 which indicated that all its results are to be published or made generally available. Since then, CERN published its open access policy in 2014, which ensures that all pu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37351 | 44,524 |
1,694,043 | The most common use of air knives is to contain or remove free-standing materials (liquids or solids) from the surface of material. The applications include drying bottles and cans after filling and rinsing, printed circuit boards following the conveyorized wash to remove solder paste and flux, metals castings after au... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4021459 | 1,693,092 |
22,001 | Gary Becker, a contributor to the expansion of economics into new areas, described the approach he favoured as "combin[ing the] assumptions of maximizing behaviour, stable preferences, and market equilibrium, used relentlessly and unflinchingly." One commentary characterizes the remark as making economics an approach r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9223 | 21,992 |
1,871,154 | In Toronto, Cineplex Entertainment, through Technicolor Digital Cinema has installed the Canadian made Christie CP2000 DLP Cinema projector in the Scotiabank Theatre in Toronto, making it the first Canadian cinema operating this new technology, which provides sharp images and uncompressed digital sound. It can also pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29991137 | 1,870,077 |
1,263,146 | Since the non-circular component of the Sun's velocity is known, it can be subtracted out from our observations to compensate. We do not know, however, the non-circular components of the velocity of each individual star we observe, so they cannot be compensated for in this way. But, if we plot transverse velocity divid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7577556 | 1,262,458 |
488,240 | The Eyes-on-the-Road-Benefit (ERB), also known as the Head-Up-Display-Advantage, is the term given to the purported advantages provided to motorists when driving using a head-up display (HUD). This can also be referred to as a heads-up-device or heads-up design, as compared to traditional dashboard designs, which are r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44739087 | 487,990 |
345,808 | Like the original "Portal" (2007), players solve puzzles by placing portals and teleporting between them. "Portal 2" adds features including tractor beams, lasers, light bridges, and paint-like gels that alter player movement or allow portals to be placed on any surface. In the single-player campaign, players control C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15888290 | 345,627 |
1,213,520 | Two accounts of Sprinkle's conception of the instrument are known. From the discovery of Luray Caverns in 1878 onward, the favorable attributes of the formations for creating musical tones were well known. One of the earliest references to performances of lithophone music in Luray Caverns comes from the tour led by co-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3673158 | 1,212,868 |
832,844 | By the end of March 2011, with a federal election in full swing and no sign of the requested federal government loans coming, the company laid-off 213 London-based employees, mostly on the D-Jet program. Company CEO Peter Maurer stated, "We are hopeful that the government will give this matter urgent attention and prov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3445241 | 832,395 |
1,759,158 | The KamLAND detector's outer layer consists of an 18 meter-diameter stainless steel containment vessel with an inner lining of 1,879 photo-multiplier tubes (1325 17" and 554 20" PMTs). Photocathode coverage is 34%. Its second, inner layer consists of a -diameter nylon balloon filled with a liquid scintillator composed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2450202 | 1,758,165 |
415,813 | Brazil's navy fell into obsolescence after an 1889 revolution, which deposed Emperor Dom Pedro II, and an 1893 civil war. Meanwhile, an Argentine–Chilean dispute over the boundary of Patagonia and control of the Beagle Channel kindled a naval arms race between the two beginning in the late 1880s and lasting until 1902.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29900534 | 415,610 |
1,654,818 | ETA is found in green-lipped mussel and appears to act as dual inhibitor of arachidonic acid oxygenation by both the cyclooxygenase (COX) and lipoxygenase pathway. According to the journal of nutrition, feeding green-lipped mussel to arthritic dogs leads to an improved response. In addition to their inflammatory nature... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4163527 | 1,653,886 |
1,262,459 | On October 29, 2013, the lander and its rocket engine methane/LOX performed six off 600 ms burns whilst on top of the trench at JSC. There were no instabilities. On November 1, 2013, with all the software and hardware enhancements included, the lander successfully performed a tethered flight test. The vehicle performed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31513219 | 1,261,772 |
1,395,154 | The VB-13, redesignated ASM-A-1 in 1948, was developed under the project code MX-674. It had an annular wing around the midsection of its body, mounted near the weapon's center of gravity. At the rear of the bomb was an octagonal tail surface containing the Razon control surfaces. Intended to be carried by the Boeing B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30699118 | 1,394,383 |
759,565 | In the last century, the kill quota for hunting Baikal seals was raised several times, most notably after the fur industry boomed in the late 1970s and when official counts began indicating more Baikal seals were present than previously known. The quota in 1999, 6,000, was lowered in 2000 to 3,500, which was still near... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=159778 | 759,159 |
787,508 | One of the reasons for the divide is that neurology traditionally looks at the causes of disorders from an "inside-the-skin" perspective (neuropathology, genetics) whereas psychiatry looks at "outside-the-skin" causation (personal, interpersonal, cultural). This dichotomy is argued not to be instructive and authors hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2628506 | 787,085 |
1,782,205 | The Toscana virus has a high rate of vertical transmission, as demonstrated in sandflies through experimental infection. This suggests that there is an amplified role for vertebrate hosts despite the maintenance in nature coming mainly from sandflies. A sandfly is a name for members of any species or genus of flying, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4321583 | 1,781,201 |
237,964 | Athletics at McMaster is managed by the university's student affairs, under their athletics and recreation department. The university's varsity teams compete in the Ontario University Athletics conference of U Sports (formerly called Canadian Interuniversity Sport). The university's team sports programs include basebal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=342555 | 237,845 |
1,242,397 | On 27 July 1917, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels approved the construction of the Naval Aircraft Factory, as a means for the government to promote industry efficiency, ensure engineering expertise, and to monitor costs. The contract was let on 6 August 1917, and ground was broken four days later. The main assemb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=371684 | 1,241,725 |
1,020,812 | Forensic archaeologists employ their knowledge of proper excavation techniques to ensure that remains are recovered in a controlled and forensically acceptable manner. When remains are found partially or completely buried the proper excavation of the remains will ensure that any evidence present on the bones will remai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=379047 | 1,020,283 |
1,418,262 | Lenski traced these differences back to the Reformation and the Catholic church's reaction to it. In Lenski's view, the Reformation encouraged intellectual autonomy among Protestants, in particular Anabaptists, Puritans, Pietists, Methodists, and Presbyterians. In the Middle Ages, there had been tendencies toward intel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1791718 | 1,417,463 |
1,948,993 | Although the Stark Center's collection is rooted in the study of physical culture, it contains more than 4000 books about competitive sports, thousands of rare photographs of athletes, and several hundred magazine titles about sports, including full runs of such magazines as Sports Illustrated. The Stark Center holding... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30785138 | 1,947,875 |
255,926 | The American mathematician and economist Richard M. Goodwin formalised a Marxist model of business cycles known as the Goodwin Model in which recession was caused by increased bargaining power of workers (a result of high employment in boom periods) pushing up the wage share of national income, suppressing profits and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=168918 | 255,792 |
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