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1,069,920 | According to Zanno in 2010, "Beipiaosaurus" can be distinguished from other therizinosaur taxa based on the following characteristics, which are unique derived traits (autapomorphies): a low ridge is present on the front of the thighbone shaft which extends upwards from the inner condyle; the last four dorsal vertebrae... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1179697 | 1,069,366 |
835,585 | When SO is emitted as an air pollutant, it forms sulfuric acid through reactions with water in the atmosphere. Once the acid is completely dissociated in water the pH can drop to 4.3 or lower causing damage to both man-made and natural systems. According to the EPA, acid rain is a broad term referring to a mixture of w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2465352 | 835,136 |
211,892 | Inertia is seen when a bowling ball is pushed horizontally on a level, smooth surface, and continues in horizontal motion. This is quite distinct from its weight, which is the downwards gravitational force of the bowling ball one must counter when holding it off the floor. The weight of the bowling ball on the Moon wou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14476384 | 211,784 |
286,957 | A Gavaksha or chandrashala are often used to describe the motif centred on an ogee, circular or horseshoe arch that decorates many examples of Indian rock-cut architecture and later Indian structural temples and other buildings. It is called a chaitya arch when used on the facade of a chaitya hall, around the single la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276879 | 286,802 |
1,316,123 | As a civil war immediately followed (the Paris Commune from 18 March to 28 May 1871), he was stationed at the Saint Martin Military Hospital. In 1874, he qualified a competitive examination by which he was appointed to the Chair of Military Diseases and Epidemics at the École de Val-de-Grâce, a position his father had ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240181 | 1,315,398 |
988,377 | In 81, Agricola "crossed in the first ship" and defeated peoples unknown to the Romans until then. Tacitus, in Chapter 24 of "Agricola", does not tell us what body of water he crossed. Modern scholarship favours either the Firth of Clyde or Firth of Forth. Tacitus also mentions Hibernia, so southwest Scotland is perhap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12408 | 987,861 |
1,508,179 | Patrick's research in fossilized diatoms showed that the Great Dismal Swamp between Virginia and North Carolina was once a forest, which had been flooded by seawater. Similar research proved that the Great Salt Lake was not always a saline lake. During the Great Depression, she volunteered to work as a curator of micro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1698749 | 1,507,331 |
583,917 | Periodicals gave "A New Kind of Science" coverage, including articles in "The New York Times", "Newsweek", "Wired", and "The Economist". Some scientists criticized the book as abrasive and arrogant, and perceived a fatal flaw—that simple systems such as cellular automata are not complex enough to describe the degree of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=93070 | 583,618 |
1,203,576 | Her discovery paved the way for identification of the gene sequence. In September 1994, Myriad Genetics published a paper on the positional cloning of the sequence after a highly publicized "race" by groups of scientists. In December 1994, King and her collaborators published results based on a second cohort of familie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7684249 | 1,202,932 |
686,594 | Astronomers have studied the potential effects increased satellite usage in Low Earth Orbit would have on very large telescope that use ultra-wide imaging exposures, such as the 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope used in the Legacy Survey of Space and Time project at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. They found that 30 to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56931263 | 686,237 |
1,665,968 | Some derivations have evolved from the message passing paradigm of Occam to enable uniform efficiency when porting applications between distributed memory and shared memory parallel computers . The first such derived example appears in the programming language Ease designed at Yale University in 1990. Similar models ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10043195 | 1,665,030 |
1,943,372 | His research contributed to enabling the emergence of antibody engineering, notably by the use of "E. coli" as an engineering platform and studies on synthetic antibodies which led to the first fully synthetic antibody library. To create a true in vitro protein evolution technology his laboratory developed ribosome dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49217974 | 1,942,261 |
1,123,220 | Unwin and Martill suggested in 2007 that thalassodromids may have foraged similarly to storks, as had been suggested for azhdarchids. Witton said in 2013 that although skim-feeding had been suggested for many pterosaur groups, the idea was criticised in recent years; pterosaurs lacked virtually all adaptations for skim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5382243 | 1,122,646 |
2,069,929 | The main setup program gives the user the ability to choose from the following commands: record interval, which parameters to log (it is possible to add measurement of other parameters such as temperature, conductivity, oxygen, word time updated with each record, tilt, battery voltage), sample intervals for each select... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37797383 | 2,068,738 |
1,548,154 | Heritage science is an increasingly lively science domain. Materials and techniques of the past are often very difficult to study and state-of-the-art techniques and methods need to be employed. Discoveries new to science are often the result of such endeavours, e.g. new antibiotics from bacteria discovered in the Cave... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26740386 | 1,547,273 |
1,527,890 | The java.util.concurrency packages' solution to the concurrent modification problem, the convoy problem, the predictable latency problem, and the multi-core problem includes an architectural choice called weak consistency. This choice means that reads like get() will not block even when updates are in progress, and it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49876799 | 1,527,026 |
60,426 | The discovery of the Möbius strip as a mathematical object is attributed independently to the German mathematicians Johann Benedict Listing and August Ferdinand Möbius in However, it had been known long before, both as a physical object and in artistic depictions; in particular, it can be seen in several Roman mosaics ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37817 | 60,401 |
1,410,721 | No machine yet exists that can maneuver in the "scansorial" regime – that is, perform nimbly in general vertical terrain environments without loss of competence in level ground operation. Two major research challenges face the development scansorial robotics: First, they seek to understand, characterize and implement t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2547900 | 1,409,929 |
1,635,087 | Approximately 10-15 times per decade, the Sun emits particles of sufficient energy and intensity to raise radiation levels on Earth's surface. The official list of GLEs is kept by the International GLE database. The largest of these events, termed a "ground level enhancement" (GLE) was observed on February 23, 1956. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23240438 | 1,634,164 |
234,306 | In the United States, Harvey Fletcher of Bell Laboratories was also investigating techniques for stereophonic recording and reproduction. One of the techniques investigated was the "wall of sound", which used an enormous array of microphones hung in a line across the front of an orchestra. Up to 80 microphones were use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1369770 | 234,187 |
1,689,514 | A gravity tractor is a theoretical spacecraft that would deflect another object in space, typically a potentially hazardous asteroid that might impact Earth, without physically contacting it, using only its gravitational field to transmit the required impulse. The gravitational force of a nearby space vehicle, though s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18272728 | 1,688,568 |
305,136 | While the use of the term "socialism" was initially adopted to describe the philosophy of the Saint-Simonians, which advocated the socialized ownership of the means of production, the term was quickly appropriated by working class movements in the 1840s, and in the 19th century the term "socialism" came to encompass a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 304,974 |
256,169 | Early ARMs, such as the AGM-45 Shrike, were not particularly intelligent; they would simply home in on the source of radiation and explode when they got near it. SAM operators learned to turn their radar off when an ARM was fired at them, then turn it back on later, greatly reducing the missile's effectiveness. This le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1032936 | 256,035 |
697,403 | HVAF coating technology is the combustion of propane in a compressed air stream. Like HVOF, this produces a uniform high velocity jet. HVAF differs by including a heat baffle to further stabilize the thermal spray mechanisms. Material is injected into the air-fuel stream and coating particles are propelled toward the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6434629 | 697,039 |
2,161,360 | Przytycka is originally from Myszków; her parents, native of the village Gorajec in eastern Poland, were well-educated in part through the Polish underground education. She studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Warsaw, earning a master's degree there in 1982. She stayed at the university as a re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69496794 | 2,160,126 |
1,764,586 | Among anti-angiogenesis inhibitors, endostatin has a wide range of anti-cancer spectrum targets, increasing its significance since synthetic inhibitors usually have single targets and struggle with toxicity. Endostatin has several characteristics that may be advantageous to cancer therapy. First of all, endogenous endo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2275394 | 1,763,593 |
1,832,000 | His "Prooved Practise for all young Chirurgians" (London, 1591) and "Treatise on the Struma" (London, 1602) are full of pictures of daily life in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. He was called to a northern clothier whose leg was broken by robbers two miles outside London; to another man whose injury was received by the b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24845411 | 1,830,953 |
1,087,828 | The BRIEF was developed in 2000 to address limitations of available assessments in examining real-world expressions of behaviors related to executive function; the scale was normed on data from 1419 parents (815 girls and 604 boys) and 720 teachers (403 girls and 317 boys) from a representative distribution of socioeco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35401006 | 1,087,269 |
2,065,079 | Hershey defeated the Springfield Falcons 3–2 in a shootout on November 2, in which Boyd Kane and Matt Pope scored their first regulation goals of the season, and Galiev made the game-winner in the seventh round of the shootout, his first professional shootout attempt. In a subsequent 3–2 loss against the Bridgeport Sou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38828912 | 2,063,888 |
1,607,349 | Beginning in 1900, with recommendations from Dana, Marsh, Scott, and Yale President Timothy Dwight, Hatcher was hired by William Jacob Holland as curator of paleontology and osteology for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, succeeding Jacob Lawson Wortman. Hatcher supervised William Harlow Reed and hired Charles Wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=304744 | 1,606,444 |
859,989 | Although the idea that exposure to certain infections may decrease the risk of allergy is not new, Strachan was one of the first to formally propose it, in an article published in the "British Medical Journal" in 1989. This article proposed to explain the observation that hay fever and eczema, both allergic diseases, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=407814 | 859,531 |
1,279,797 | Microorganisms have adapted their locomotion to the harsh environment of low Reynolds number regime by invoking different swimming strategy. For example, the "E. coli" moves by rotating its helical flagellum, Chlamydomonas flagella have a breaststroke kind of motion. African trypanosome has a helical flagellum attached... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69133408 | 1,279,102 |
2,002,852 | In 1882, Brüll married Marie Schosberg, a banker's daughter who became a popular hostess to Viennese musical and artistic society. Brüll now shifted his attention towards composition, reduced the number of concert engagements, and permanently gave up touring. He also found himself playing host to Johannes Brahms's circ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1572140 | 2,001,704 |
1,411,316 | The arrival of remote sensing means, such as radar and satellite, and more rapid development of the computer, greatly help to fill that gap. For instance, digital radar systems made it possible to track thunderstorms, providing users with the ability to acquire detailed information of each storm tracked, since the late... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30230871 | 1,410,523 |
513,332 | The computer program starts with simple antenna shapes, then adds or modifies elements in a semirandom manner to create a number of new candidate antenna shapes. These are then evaluated to determine how well they fulfill the design requirements, and a numerical score is computed for each. Then, in a step similar to na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3105175 | 513,066 |
1,393,369 | In contrast to flagellates, propulsion of ciliates derives from the motion of a layer of densely-packed and collectively-moving cilia, which are short hair-like flagella covering their bodies. The seminal review paper of Brennen and Winet (1977) lists a few examples from both groups, highlighting their shape, beat form... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67845153 | 1,392,598 |
1,646,815 | Stephens's kangaroo rats have been shown to have a keystone like effect on their sounding environment. One way this is seen is by digging burrows. By digging burrows the soil fertility increases and the water infiltration increase as well. This then leads to larger plant diversity. Seed caching is also another means of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12520991 | 1,645,885 |
862,714 | The vast majority of software-based computing occurs on machines implementing the von Neumann architecture, collectively known as stored-program computers. Computer programs are stored as data and executed by processors. Such processors must fetch and decode instructions, as well as loading data operands from memory (a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2031045 | 862,254 |
188,043 | where formula_42 stands for conditional averages computed on the sample, for example, formula_43 is the indicator for the after period, formula_44 is an indicator for the control group. Note that formula_45 is an estimate of the counterfactual rather than the impact of the control group. The control group is often used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3404894 | 187,946 |
183,525 | A wet bell is a platform for lowering and lifting divers to and from the underwater workplace, which has an air filled space, open at the bottom, where the divers can stand or sit with their heads out of the water. The air space is at ambient pressure at all times, so there are no great pressure differences, and the gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=654092 | 183,428 |
148,975 | The Japanese conceived of an attack on the United States through the use of biological weapons specifically directed at the civilian population in San Diego, California. Dubbed "Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night", the plan was to launch aircraft from five "I-400" submarines near Southern California at night, who would... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=497953 | 148,914 |
684,185 | As mentioned previously, a serious criticism against the absorber theory is that its Machian assumption that point particles do not act on themselves does not allow (infinite) self-energies and consequently an explanation for the Lamb shift according to quantum electrodynamics (QED). Ed Jaynes proposed an alternate mod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3062954 | 683,828 |
59,801 | The early British developments with "Stooge" and "Brakemine" were successful, but further development was curtailed in the post-war era. These efforts picked up again with the opening of the cold war, following the "Stage Plan" of improving UK air defences with new radars, fighters and missiles. Two competing designs w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182664 | 59,776 |
346,926 | In July 2012, the German NH90 fleet reached a combined total of 5,000 flight hours. In April 2013, up to 4 German Army NH90 TTH were deployed in Afghanistan in a Forward Air Medical Evacuation role in support of coalition forces operating in the country. On 23 June 2013, German Army NH90s were declared operationally ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=513911 | 346,745 |
2,134,191 | Singh's research focus is on understanding the "metabolic pathways that enable Mycobacterium tuberculosis to survive in stressful conditions" and he is known to have characterized genes associated with its pathogenesis such as tyrosine phosphatases. He has undertaken vaccine development projects as the principal invest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57406767 | 2,132,966 |
774,397 | According to influential socialist economic historian Karl Polanyi's classic account, the forceful transformation of land, money and especially labour into commodities to be allocated by an autonomous market mechanism was an alien and inhuman rupture of the pre-existing social fabric. Marx had viewed the process in a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43069513 | 773,981 |
113,812 | But in 1950, on his 76th birthday, an astrologer wrote Schoenberg a note warning him that the year was a critical one: 7 + 6 = 13. This stunned and depressed the composer, for up to that point he had only been wary of multiples of 13 and never considered adding the digits of his age. He died on Friday, 13 July 1951, sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67025 | 113,767 |
1,081,943 | The imine condensation reaction which eliminates water (exemplified by reacting aniline with benzaldehyde using an acid catalyst) can be used as a synthetic route to reach a new class of COFs. The 3D COF called COF-300 and the 2D COF named TpOMe-DAQ are good examples of this chemistry. When 1,3,5-triformylphloroglucino... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22272874 | 1,081,387 |
1,994,646 | The classic HP 3000 organized physical memory into 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 banks of 64K (65536) 16-bit words (128K bytes). Code (shared, non-modifiable) and data were separate from each other and stored in variable-length segments of up to 32K words each. Within a process, data addresses such as pointers were 16-bit offsets f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4888909 | 1,993,503 |
821,647 | When Bessemer tried to induce makers to take up his improved system, he met with general rebuffs and was eventually driven to undertake the exploitation of the process himself. He erected steelworks in Sheffield in a business partnership with others, such as W & J Galloway & Sons, and began to manufacture steel. At fir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44342 | 821,206 |
1,554,705 | The Chinese during the Han dynasty (202 BC – AD 220) were the first to apply hydraulic power (i.e. a waterwheel) in working the inflatable bellows of the blast furnace in creating cast iron. This was recorded in AD 31, an innovation of the engineer Du Shi, Prefect of Nanyang. After Du Shi, Chinese in subsequent dynasti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9680966 | 1,553,824 |
61,295 | The Qin sought to create a state unified by structured centralized political power and a large military supported by a stable economy. The central government moved to undercut aristocrats and landowners to gain direct administrative control over the peasantry, who comprised the overwhelming majority of the population a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43461 | 61,270 |
1,132,704 | "Baudoinia compniacensis" is black in colour and is partly responsible for the frequently observed phenomenon of 'Warehouse Staining', reported originally from the walls of buildings near brandy maturation warehouses in Cognac, France. "Baudoinia compniacensis" is a cosmopolitan colonist of outdoor surfaces subjected t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31555335 | 1,132,112 |
527,566 | The idea for the competition originates from Danish-born adventurer Hans Tholstrup. He was the first to circumnavigate the Australian continent in a open boat. At a later stage in his life he became involved in various competitions with fuel-saving cars and trucks. Already in the 1980s, he became aware of the necessity... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=344413 | 527,293 |
280,128 | The authors later transferred all their intellectual property rights, including the copyright of the MMSE, to MiniMental registering the transfer with the U.S. Copyright Office on June 8, 2000. In March 2001, MiniMental entered into an exclusive agreement with Psychological Assessment Resources granting PAR the exclusi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1585251 | 279,977 |
253,897 | At the back of the vehicle is the service module (). It has a pressurized container shaped like a bulging can (instrumentation compartment, ) that contains systems for temperature control, electric power supply, long-range radio communications, radio telemetry, and instruments for orientation and control. A non-pressur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=178182 | 253,764 |
451,510 | In 1997, Ronald Klatz of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine published "Grow Young With HGH: The Amazing Medically Proven Plan To Reverse the Effects Of Aging", an uncritical touting of GH as the answer to aging. This time, the internet amplified the proposition and spawned a hundred frauds and scams. However, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=622411 | 451,291 |
1,432,966 | During exocytosis at the bipolar ribbon synapse, vesicles are seen to pause at the membrane and then upon opening of the calcium channels to promptly release their contents within milliseconds. Like most exocytosis, Ca regulates the release of vesicles from the presynaptic membrane. Different types of ribbon synapses h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21610244 | 1,432,162 |
1,368,739 | Former long distance runner David Moorcroft, previously Chief Executive of the British Athletics Federation, continued in the same role at the newly formed UKA. He headed the organisation until 2006 when he stepped down after Great Britain's worst performance at a European Athletics Championships for twenty years. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1452898 | 1,367,983 |
1,135,571 | In May 2010, McNutt headed the Flow Rate Technical Group which attempted to measure the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Preliminary reports from the group said that the rate of the oil spill was at least twice and possibly up to five times as much as previously acknowledged. Subsequent estimates, bas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8962853 | 1,134,978 |
1,681,531 | When calculating average efficiency over a period of time, one needs to take an average of efficiencies weighted by the product of power input and time (of that segment of power input): formula_1 where formula_2 is the power input and formula_3 is the efficiency during time formula_4 If efficiency is low at very low po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36017606 | 1,680,588 |
1,945,055 | TSS did not become operational again until 1982, when the International Cospas-Sarsat Programme made use of the station. The Ministry of Trade and Industry took a renewed interest in the satellite station in the early 1980s and proposed in 1982 that Norway join ESA's European Remote-Sensing Satellite (ERS) program. Thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37455421 | 1,943,943 |
1,511,851 | It was not until 1829 that the idea of applying Schweigger style multipliers to telegraph needles was mooted by Gustav Theodor Fechner in Leipzig. Fechner, in other respects following the scheme of Ampère, also suggested a pair of wires for each letter (twenty-four in the German alphabet) laid underground to connect Le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55063141 | 1,511,001 |
305,908 | Skeletons have also been discovered with gastroliths, stones, in their stomachs, though whether to help break down food, especially cephalopods, in a muscular gizzard, or to vary buoyancy, or both, has not been established. However, the total weight of the gastroliths found in various specimens appears to be insufficie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1398078 | 305,744 |
1,986,682 | Functional aspects of these proteins, including metabolite transport, have been reviewed by Dr. Ferdinando Palmieri and Dr. Ciro Leonardo Pierri (2010). Diseases caused by defects of mitochondrial carriers are reviewed by Palmieri et al. (2008) and by Gutiérrez-Aguilar and Baines 2013. Mutations of mitochondrial carrie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10902777 | 1,985,540 |
194,930 | After millennia of empirical development, the discipline of ballistics was initially studied and developed by Italian mathematician Niccolò Tartaglia in 1531, although he continued to use segments of straight-line motion, conventions established by the Greek philosopher Aristotle and Albert of Saxony, but with the inno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=212094 | 194,830 |
297,948 | Considerations of some Dutch politicians to buy alternatives such as Saab AB's Gripen, Boeing F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet or the EADS Eurofighter, caused the US DoD to suggest (in April 2013) these options would cost more in the long run. In 2013 the Netherlands Court of Audit found that increasing per-unit costs of the F-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28702755 | 297,788 |
778,720 | During a lecture tour in the US, Whittle again broke down and retired from the RAF on medical grounds on 26 August 1948, leaving with the rank of air commodore. He joined BOAC as a technical advisor on aircraft gas turbines and travelled extensively over the next few years, viewing jet engine developments in the United... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42707 | 778,303 |
182,324 | The Winter Olympics returned to Lake Placid, New York in 1980. Twelve teams participated in the tournament, including Canada for the first time since 1968. The Soviet Union had won the gold medal in five of the six previous Winter Olympic Games, and were the favorites to win once more in Lake Placid. The team consisted... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1855215 | 182,228 |
1,149,290 | PTPN11 is a member of the protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) family. PTPs are known to be signaling molecules that regulate a variety of cellular processes including cell growth, differentiation, mitotic cycle, and oncogenic transformation. This PTP contains two tandem Src homology-2 domains, which function as phospho-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6062401 | 1,148,683 |
976,706 | Lister continued to develop improved methods of antisepsis and asepsis when he realised that infection could be better avoided by preventing bacteria from getting into wounds in the first place. This led to the rise of sterile surgery. Lister instructed surgeons under his responsibility to wear clean gloves and wash th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11848019 | 976,195 |
1,528,964 | Clays, zeolites, and other natural material have a high capacity for cation exchange. They do this by creating a net negative charge by substituting lower-valent cations (e.g. Al) with a higher-valent cation (e.g. Si) within the mineral structure. Adding sorbed surfactants can change the affinity for anions and nonpola... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30934088 | 1,528,100 |
308,451 | By October 2018, half of the certification was completed, and eight development engines were used, mostly in Peebles, Ohio: #1 was stored; a fan blade was deliberately separated from the fan hub of #2 at takeoff thrust for the blade-out test; #3 was used for crosswind ground testing and cyclic and load testing of the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45448561 | 308,286 |
2,246,569 | Gray undertook postdoctoral research as a Science Research Fellow at University College London (UCL) in the group of Professors Malcolm Lilly and Peter Dunnill. The group was receiving major funding to investigate the application of immobilised enzymes processes for industrial bioprocessing. While at UCL, Gray carried ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44644845 | 2,245,297 |
1,564,061 | The Berkeley SETI Research Center also hosts the Breakthrough Listen program, which is a ten-year initiative with $100 million funding begun in July 2015 to actively search for intelligent extraterrestrial communications in the universe, in a substantially expanded way, using resources that had not previously been exte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56065871 | 1,563,174 |
409,830 | A second effort began under the administrative purview of the "Wehrmacht's " "Heereswaffenamt" on 1 September 1939, the day of the invasion of Poland. The program eventually expanded into three main efforts: the "Uranmaschine" (nuclear reactor), uranium and heavy water production, and uranium isotope separation. Eventu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1397318 | 409,628 |
964,081 | The need to upgrade the FV432 to extend its service life further led the MoD to sign an £85m contract with BAE Systems Land Systems to update over 1,000 FV 432s to Mark 3 standard. Major changes include a new diesel engine and braking system. Initially, only FV432 and 434 models were converted, but other variants are b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1465498 | 963,572 |
2,009,359 | Members of the genus "Cephaloscyllium" are generally slow-moving, sedentary animals with an anguilliform (eel-like) mode of swimming. Of the species whose diets have been documented, they have been known to feed on a wide variety of benthic organisms, including other sharks and rays, bony fishes, crustaceans, and mollu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6354535 | 2,008,207 |
261,315 | Cells were first seen in 17th century Europe with the invention of the compound microscope. In 1665, Robert Hooke termed the building block of all living organisms as "cells" (published in "Micrographia") after looking at a piece of cork and observing a cell-like structure, however, the cells were dead and gave no indi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6339 | 261,178 |
233,305 | If all mutations are additive, they can be acquired in any order and still give a continuous uphill trajectory. The landscape is perfectly smooth, with only one peak (global maximum) and all sequences can evolve uphill to it by the accumulation of beneficial mutations "in any order". Conversely, if mutations interact w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50981211 | 233,186 |
585,949 | The railcar was built at the beginning of 1930 in the Hannover-Leinhausen works of the German Imperial Railway Company ("Deutsche Reichsbahn"). The work was completed by autumn of the same year. The vehicle was long and had just two axles, with a wheelbase of . The height was . As originally built it had two conjoined ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3680930 | 585,649 |
605,948 | The Courant Institute offers Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and PhD degree programs in both mathematics and computer science with program acceptance rates ranging from 3% to 29%. The overall acceptance rate for all CIMS graduate programs is 15%, and program admissions reviews are holistic. A h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1617601 | 605,638 |
810,786 | An example of high-end homebuilt design is Lancair, which has developed a number of high-performance kits. The most powerful is the Lancair Propjet, a four-place kit with cabin pressurization and a turboprop engine, cruising at and 370 knots (425 mph, 685 km/h). Although aircraft such as this are considered "home-built... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1024004 | 810,354 |
1,863,018 | I-"Cre"I is a homing endonuclease whose gene was first discovered in the chloroplast genome of "Chlamydomonas reinhardtii", a species of unicellular green algae. It is named for the facts that: it resides in an Intron; it was isolated from "Clamydomonas reinhardtii"; it was the first (I) such gene isolated from "C. rei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8142925 | 1,861,949 |
774,838 | Cas9 has been used often as a genome-editing tool. Cas9 has been used in recent developments in preventing viruses from manipulating hosts' DNA. Since the CRISPR-Cas9 was developed from bacterial genome systems, it can be used to target the genetic material in viruses. The use of the enzyme Cas9 can be a solution to ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38570862 | 774,422 |
608,065 | Ten years on, in the "Transition Report" for 2010, the EBRD was still finding that the quality of market-enabling institutions continued to fall short of what was necessary for well-functioning market economies. Growth in the transition economies had been driven by trade integration into the world economy with "impress... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1489819 | 607,754 |
745,786 | In addition to traditional (i.e. molecular and cellular) biophysical topics like structural biology or enzyme kinetics, modern biophysics encompasses an extraordinarily broad range of research, from bioelectronics to quantum biology involving both experimental and theoretical tools. It is becoming increasingly common f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54000 | 745,392 |
1,753,609 | Diadectids had a much wider geographic distribution than their relatives; while the distribution of limnoscelids is limited to parts of North America and "Tseajaia" is restricted to just the southwestern United States, diadectids are present in North America, Europe, and Asia. During the late Carboniferous and Permian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2230644 | 1,752,619 |
1,518,885 | The Introduction of ELISA testing (1988)In the mid-1980s, equine drug testing was for all practical purposes dependent on a screening technique called thin layer chromatography (TLC). This technology is not particularly sensitive, and in the mid-1980s some horsemen were reportedly attempting to affect the outcome of ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8763628 | 1,518,027 |
807,970 | On 7 November 2018, ISRO released an Announcement of Opportunity seeking proposals from the Indian science community for microgravity experiments that could be carried out during the first two robotic flights of "Gaganyaan". The scope of the experiments is not restricted, and other relevant ideas will be entertained. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7818844 | 807,540 |
2,127,710 | New developments in hands-on computing have led to the creation of interfaces that can respond to gestures and facial signaling. Often haptic devices like a glove have to be worn to translate the gesture into a recognizable command. The natural actions of pointing, grabbing, and tapping are common ways to interact with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20245037 | 2,126,489 |
1,903,515 | A 2006 study from Japan focused on olfactory inhibition in chum salmon and their ability to recover from copper toxicity after being exposed to relevant copper concentrations that are often used on hatchery fishes. The fish were exposed to the relevant concentrations for four hours while using an electro-olfactogram (E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42730404 | 1,902,421 |
1,651,386 | A properly tested, half-face particulate respirator will provide protection at exposure concentrations 10 times the REL, while an elastomeric full facepiece respirator with P100 filters will provide protection at 50 times the REL. In the absence of OELs, a control banding scheme may be used. Control banding is a qualit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53376859 | 1,650,454 |
806,090 | Other factors that determine whether and to what extent individuals converge in interaction are their relational history, social norms and power variables. Because individuals are more likely to converge to the individual with the higher status it is likely that the speech in a conversation will reflect the speech of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7649963 | 805,661 |
336,231 | A counter argument is that intelligence is commonly understood to involve the creation and use of persistent memories as opposed to computation that does not involve learning. If this is accepted as definitive of intelligence, then it includes the artificial intelligence of robots capable of "machine learning", but exc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=519280 | 336,053 |
516,286 | In 1897 Hornaday also hired field researcher Andrew J. Stone to survey the condition of wildlife in the territory of Alaska. On the basis of these studies, Hornaday led the campaign for new laws to protect the wildlife there and the United States as a whole. In 1901, a small herd of American Bison were gathered in a 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2628698 | 516,017 |
1,338,360 | Western colonization of Eastern Asian countries has overwhelmed traditional cultural perspectives of landscape architecture with Western ideals. Urbanization leads to environmental degradation such as fragmentation, a lack of green spaces and poor water quality. All these side-effects hinder the practice of Fengshui. F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5285068 | 1,337,627 |
1,429,203 | In May 2019, Merit Network, in partnership with Michigan State University's Quello Center and the D.C.-based Measurement Lab, launched a pilot for the Michigan Moonshot broadband data collection project. Three school districts, representing more than 6,000 students, were chosen. The data for this project consisted of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21775906 | 1,428,399 |
500,301 | One of the most significant works to provide a legitimate theoretical and philosophical foundation for the reorientation of geography into a spatial science was David Harvey's book, "Explanation in Geography", published in 1969. In this work, Harvey laid out two possible methodologies to explain geographical phenomena:... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2519712 | 500,044 |
725,955 | To evaluate equipment condition, predictive maintenance utilizes nondestructive testing technologies such as infrared, acoustic (partial discharge and airborne ultrasonic), corona detection, vibration analysis, sound level measurements, oil analysis, and other specific online tests. A new approach in this area is to ut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3064522 | 725,574 |
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