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1,027,358 | The Watchkeeper WK450 is based on the Elbit Hermes 450 UAV and is built in the UK by a joint venture company, UAV Tactical Systems (U-TacS), set up by the Israeli company Elbit Systems (51% ownership) and the Thales group. The Watchkeeper is 6.5m long, with a 10.9m wingspan. Its cruising speed is , and it can operate a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2484509 | 1,026,824 |
291,581 | After the Prussian army received a 25% increase in funding and was reformed by Wilhelm I, Albrecht von Roon and Helmuth von Moltke the Elder from 1859 to 1863, the Dreyse needle gun played an important role in the Austro-Prussian victory in the Second Schleswig War against Denmark in 1864. The introduction of cast stee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1533521 | 291,423 |
136,559 | The carrier-frequency pulsed output voltage of a PWM VFD causes rapid rise times in these pulses, the transmission line effects of which must be considered. Since the transmission-line impedance of the cable and motor are different, pulses tend to reflect back from the motor terminals into the cable. The resulting refl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1845708 | 136,504 |
29,550 | Alchemical symbolism has been important in analytical psychology and was revived and popularized from near extinction by the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung. Jung was initially confounded and at odds with alchemy and its images but after being given a copy of "The Secret of the Golden Flower", a Chinese alchemical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573 | 29,540 |
1,169,984 | Further, from a neuroconstructivist perspective attention is a vital mechanism through which the child can actively select particular aspects of their environment for further learning. Executive functions include the abilities to inhibit unwanted information or responses, to plan ahead for a sequence of mental steps or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25935238 | 1,169,365 |
725,621 | A large body of molecular evidence supports a variety of mechanisms for large evolutionary changes, including: genome and gene duplication, which facilitates rapid evolution by providing substantial quantities of genetic material under weak or no selective constraints; horizontal gene transfer, the process of transferr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2339577 | 725,240 |
1,075,121 | In humans, melanopsin is found in intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs). It is also found in the iris of mice and primates. Melanopsin is also found in rats, amphioxus, and other chordates. ipRGCs are photoreceptor cells which are particularly sensitive to the absorption of short-wavelength (blue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1110766 | 1,074,567 |
1,565,587 | After a two-month break, The Wow Signal was sent to France and stepped up to Group 1 class and sent to France for the Prix Morny over 1200 metres at Deauville Racecourse on 24 August. He had been originally aimed at the Phoenix Stakes earlier that month but was withdrawn after he was found to be suffering from a minor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58458796 | 1,564,700 |
5,718 | At , the right SRB pulled away from the aft strut that attached it to the ET, causing lateral acceleration that was felt by the crew. At the same time, pressure in the LH2 tank began dropping, accompanied by a large fireball on the side of the ET. Pilot Mike Smith said "Uh-oh," which was the last speech recorded of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=403717 | 5,715 |
349,085 | Both "Sahelanthropus" and "Orrorin" existed during the estimated duration of the ancestral chimpanzee–human speciation events, within the range of eight to four million years ago (Mya). Very few fossil specimens have been found that can be considered directly ancestral to genus "Pan". News of the first fossil chimpanze... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2556665 | 348,903 |
1,057,711 | The notorious RBMK graphite moderated, water-cooled reactors of Chernobyl Power Plant disaster were designed with a positive void coefficient with boron control rods on electromagnetic grapples for reaction speed control. To the degree that the control systems were reliable, this "design" did have a corresponding degre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1228393 | 1,057,162 |
1,381,643 | MITF is also an integral part of melanocytes, where it regulates the expression of a number of proteins with melanogenic potential. Continuous expression of MITF at a certain level is one of the necessary factors for melanoma cells to proliferate, survive and avoid detection by host immune cells through the T-cell reco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7330969 | 1,380,880 |
1,468,037 | Goldberg was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 22, 1945. Her parents moved to Chicago, Illinois when she was 11, where she spent the rest of her childhood. She enjoyed problem solving and mathematics from a young age and was encouraged by her teachers to pursue mathematics. In 1967, she earned a bachelor's degree in mat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=246513 | 1,467,213 |
1,291,678 | Russell and Burch writing six decades ago could not have anticipated some of the technologies that have emerged today. One of these technologies, 3D cell cultures, also known as organoids or mini-organs, have replaced animal models for some types of research. In recent years, scientists have produced organoids that can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8077127 | 1,290,968 |
243,379 | A claim that the concept of virtual memory was first developed by German physicist Fritz-Rudolf Güntsch at the Technische Universität Berlin in 1956 in his doctoral thesis, "Logical Design of a Digital Computer with Multiple Asynchronous Rotating Drums and Automatic High Speed Memory Operation" does not stand up to car... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32354 | 243,252 |
118,691 | In 1992 Evgeny Podkletnov published a heavily debated journal article claiming a specific type of rotating superconductor could shield gravitational force. Independently of this, from 1991 to 1993 Ning Li and Douglas Torr published a number of articles about gravitational effects in superconductors. One finding they de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84400 | 118,644 |
2,016,426 | He helped found the UK’s first Biotechnology Centre in 1981 at Cranfield University. There he led the Biosensors Group that went on to develop, in collaboration with Oxford University, a biosensor that transformed the lives of people with diabetes. The principle they established, of using a mediator in a disposable ele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38624716 | 2,015,264 |
1,035,144 | Kobayashi attempted to pass around the outside of Schumacher on lap 31 but the two made contact with Schumacher subsequently hitting a barrier. Kobayashi damaged his Sauber, losing control of his rear-end, and crashed at the exit of turn 18 after his front wing was knocked off entering the corner. Senna was slow to rea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24511010 | 1,034,604 |
1,882,877 | The cold work produced from this process is typically minimal, similar to the cold work produced by laser peening, only a few percent, but a great deal less than shot peening, gravity peening or, deep rolling. Cold work is particularly important because the higher the cold work at the surface of a component, the more v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20644699 | 1,881,796 |
1,061,107 | Long ignored as an exotic, marginal phenomenon, "Trichoplax adhaerens" is today viewed as a potential biological model organism. In particular, research is needed to determine how a group of cells that cannot be considered full-fledged epithelial tissue organizes itself, how locomotion and coordination occur in the abs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=712760 | 1,060,555 |
605,951 | The Computer Science Masters program offers instruction in the fundamental principles, design and applications of computer systems and computer technologies. Students who obtain an MS degree in computer science are qualified to do significant development work in the computer industry or important application areas. Tho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1617601 | 605,641 |
953,594 | Physical therapists can assist patients in maintaining their level of independence through therapeutic exercise programmes. One recent research report demonstrated a gain of 2 SARA points (Scale for the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia) from physical therapy. In general, physical therapy emphasises postural balance and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2304494 | 953,089 |
303,802 | The Vietnam War saw the evolution of what would become known as SEAD over the course of the conflict. At the start of Operation Rolling Thunder, North Vietnam's air defenses were only dealt with in a piecemeal fashion, in spite of intelligence indicating that the North Vietnam Army was developing an integrated air defe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573491 | 303,640 |
1,457,895 | Wow and flutter are particularly audible on music with oboe, string, guitar, flute, brass, or piano solo playing. While wow is perceived clearly as pitch variation, flutter can alter the sound of the music differently, making it sound ‘cracked’ or ‘ugly’. A recorded 1 kHz tone with a small amount of flutter (around 0.1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3970341 | 1,457,075 |
2,172,243 | The use of PICT in an in situ fashion is not limited to aquatic systems. Studies on soil microbial communities have been conducted in industrial and agricultural contexts (see the review of Boivin et al., 2002). Thus, for examples in the context of industrial contamination a study involving 2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene utiliz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36065288 | 2,171,002 |
690,371 | The same year, USP doubled the size of its campus when it acquired an adjacent, vacant industrial site—the home of the original Breyers Ice Cream factory, which had closed its Philadelphia operation in the early 1990s. The additional space allowed the university to add a 1,000-seat event gymnasium, recreation gymnasium... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=284987 | 690,008 |
1,375,856 | There were no fatal accidents at the production plant, although it had a higher accident rate than other Manhattan Project production facilities due to the haste to get it into operation. When the crews attempted to start the first rack there was a loud noise and a cloud of vapor due to escaping steam. This would norma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3673785 | 1,375,095 |
330,252 | Extensive tests were carried out by the Junkers works at their Dessau plant. It was discovered that the highest load a pilot could endure was 8.5 g for three seconds, when the aircraft was pushed to its limit by the centrifugal forces. At less than 4 g, no visual problems or loss of consciousness were experienced. Abov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16590 | 330,077 |
781,196 | A hypothesis of "Albertosaurus" life history postulates that hatchlings died in large numbers, but have not been preserved in the fossil record due to their small size and fragile construction. After just two years, juveniles were larger than any other predator in the region aside from adult "Albertosaurus", and more f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1367 | 780,778 |
1,314,323 | The type fossil of "Jeholornis prima" preserved over 50 round seeds in the area of the crop, each about 8-10 millimeters wide. The seeds belong to the form genus "Carpolithes", thus it is uncertain what exact lineage of plant they represent. This "J. prima" specimen, while about two times heavier than the type specimen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4590357 | 1,313,602 |
1,064,487 | LacI finds its target operator DNA surprisingly fast. "In vitro" the search is 10-100 times faster than the theoretical upper limit for two particles searching for each other via diffusion in three dimensions (3D). To explain the fast search, it was hypothesized that LacI and other transcriptions factors (TFs) find the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=380458 | 1,063,933 |
1,749,199 | The theory of Super-Turing computation has attracted attention in physics, biology, and medicine. Siegelmann is also an originator of the Support Vector Clustering, a widely used algorithm in industry, for big data analytics, together with Vladimir Vapnik and colleagues. Siegelmann also introduced a new notion in the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17472116 | 1,748,213 |
2,122,011 | The Swedish Armed Forces Logistics (FMLOG) is the Swedish Armed Forces' largest organizational unit. The task is to support operational activities, units, centers and schools by providing under its own auspices such maintenance and support activities that are unique to military activities. Other needs must be met prima... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69078549 | 2,120,792 |
1,004,894 | The SOM stand-off cruise missile is a family of launch and leave precision strike weapons against both land or sea targets. It uses GPS as its primary mode of guidance complemented by an advanced Inertial Navigation System and a radar-based Terrain Referenced Navigation system, allowing the missile to skim the terrain ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31998943 | 1,004,376 |
1,359,080 | Historically, thousands of murine typhus cases were reported in the United States every year; however, the disease experienced a sudden decline in incidence in the 1940s with the implementation of pest control programs to remove the flea and rodent reservoirs responsible for rickettsial transmission in urban dwellings.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20321247 | 1,358,329 |
58,326 | In response to a 1957 German Air Staff Paper asking for a single aircraft to fulfill its fighter, fighter-bomber, and reconnaissance mission requirements, Lockheed redesigned the entire airframe, including 96 new forgings, additional skin panels, and reinforced landing gear with larger tires and improved brakes. The pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82439 | 58,301 |
774,003 | In 1989, several studies conducted in Thailand demonstrated ceftazidime as an effective antibiotic against melioidosis. Ceftazidime had been shown to reduce the risk of death of melioidosis from 74% to 37%. In 1990, a non-virulent 'arabinose-positive B. pseudomallei' was found by Vanaporn Wuthiekanun. The organism was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=471444 | 773,587 |
217,814 | The most common method is the use of "analytical nebulizers." Nebulizer converts liquids into an aerosol, and that aerosol can then be swept into the plasma to create the ions. Nebulizers work best with simple liquid samples (i.e. solutions). However, there have been instances of their use with more complex materials l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49503 | 217,706 |
627,538 | Software engineering for safety-critical systems is particularly difficult. There are three aspects which can be applied to aid the engineering software for life-critical systems. First is process engineering and management. Secondly, selecting the appropriate tools and environment for the system. This allows the syste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=286550 | 627,204 |
115,975 | "Candida" is found worldwide but most commonly compromises immunocompromised individuals diagnosed with serious diseases such as HIV and cancer. "Candida" are ranked as one of the most common groups of organisms that cause hospital-acquired infections. Especially high-risk individuals are patients that have recently un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=411673 | 115,930 |
935,617 | At the time of Operation Barbarossa on 22 June 1941, 425 Yak-1s had been built, although many were en route or still incomplete. 92 machines were fully operational in the Western Military Districts but most were lost in the first days. The Yak-1 was built as an escort fighter for Il-2 tactical bombers and combats took ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1493765 | 935,123 |
537,472 | Around 12,500 BC, the amount of dust in the cores in the Bølling/Allerød phase suddenly plummets and shows a period of much wetter conditions in the Sahara, indicating a Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO) event (a sudden warming followed by a slower cooling of the climate). The moister Saharan conditions had begun about 12,500 BC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8590459 | 537,193 |
2,177,948 | The B-DR component shows a similar distribution, but lacks adequate testing to the south to resolve its most southern extent. DR3-DQ2 is very common in West and North Africa. And B18 is also elevated in N. Africa and Middle East, with peak levels in Italy. However B18 found in the Middle East is linked to B18-DR11 (DR1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23801823 | 2,176,703 |
65,376 | Some theorists such as Ray Kurzweil think that the pace of technological innovation is accelerating and that the next 50 years may yield not only radical technological advances, but possibly a technological singularity, which may fundamentally change the nature of human beings. Transhumanists who foresee this massive t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30299 | 65,351 |
149,442 | From the outset, Revit was intended to allow architects and other building professionals to design and document a building by creating a parametric three-dimensional model that included both the geometry and non-geometric design and construction information, which is also known as building information modeling or BIM (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7399459 | 149,381 |
56,650 | Olympic Broadcasting Services served as the host broadcaster for the 2016 Games. Produced from a total of seven mobile units, OBS distributed 40,000 hours of television footage and 60,000 hours of digital footage of the Games to its international rightsholders. For the first time in Olympic history, digital-oriented fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=961522 | 56,626 |
876,450 | According to Walker, system 1 functions as a serial cognitive steering processor for system 2, rather than a parallel system. In large-scale repeated studies with school students, Walker tested how students adjusted their imagined self-operation in different curriculum subjects of maths, science and English. He showed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6240358 | 875,988 |
1,865,695 | In February 2016 the chief executive of CSIRO, Dr Larry Marshall, announced that research into the fundamentals of climate science was no longer a priority for CSIRO and up to 110 jobs were feared to be cut from the climate research section(s) of the Oceans and Atmosphere Unit. After overwhelming negative reaction both... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52768889 | 1,864,622 |
835,929 | Boeing's CST-100 Starliner – "CST" an acronym for "Crew Space Transportation" – measures in diameter and in height. The crew module of Starliner can be reused for up to ten flights, while the service module is expended during each flight. Various engines manufactured by Aerojet Rocketdyne for orbital maneuvering, attit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64072812 | 835,480 |
8,970 | Beginning in 1946, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) began experimenting with rocket planes such as the supersonic Bell X-1. In the early 1950s, there was challenge to launch an artificial satellite for the International Geophysical Year (1957–1958). An effort for this was the American Project Vang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426568 | 8,966 |
277,587 | In contrast, some other platforms have had very little use of direct hardware addressing, such as an emulator for the PlayStation 4. In these cases, a simple compatibility layer may suffice. This translates system calls for the foreign system into system calls for the host system e.g., the Linux compatibility layer use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18943937 | 277,437 |
1,169,717 | The first true chromatography is usually attributed to the Russian-Italian botanist Mikhail Tsvet. Tsvet applied his observations with filter paper extraction to the new methods of column fractionation that had been developed in the 1890s for separating the components of petroleum. He used a liquid-adsorption column co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18519026 | 1,169,098 |
442,712 | At the steady state, unstimulated cells have reduced biosynthetic activities and more condensed chromatin with reduced gene transcription, The interaction of exogenous PAMPs (β-glucan, muramyl peptide) or endogenous DAMPs (oxidized LDL, uric acid) with PRR initiates a cellular response. Triggered Intracellular signalin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55059510 | 442,497 |
773,998 | Melioidosis is an understudied disease that remains endemic in developing countries. In 2015, the International Melioidosis Society was formed to raise awareness of the disease. In 2016, a statistical model was developed which predicted that the number is 165,000 cases per year with 138,000 of those occurring in East a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=471444 | 773,582 |
541,894 | A conceptual design of an antimatter-catalyzed thermonuclear explosive physics package is one in which the primary mass of plutonium usually necessary for the ignition in a conventional Teller–Ulam thermonuclear explosion, is replaced by one microgram of antihydrogen. In this theoretical design, the antimatter is heliu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=142390 | 541,614 |
61,289 | The TSP, in particular the Euclidean variant of the problem, has attracted the attention of researchers in cognitive psychology. It has been observed that humans are able to produce near-optimal solutions quickly, in a close-to-linear fashion, with performance that ranges from 1% less efficient, for graphs with 10-20 n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31248 | 61,264 |
1,042,603 | The TS030 Hybrid featured a Kinetic energy recovery system (KERS) regenerative braking device produced by Toyota Racing Development (the Le Mans organisers, Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO), use the alternate name ERS) to charge a super capacitor. The extra power is directed to the rear wheels, giving an automatic hors... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34484574 | 1,042,060 |
521,811 | A maximum of 59 points were available for the final ePrix which meant Buemi could still win the title if di Grassi won both races and Buemi took two pole positions and finished second twice. A heavy crash in the second practice session by Buemi prompted his team to construct a new car around a spare monocoque. He incur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45532368 | 521,539 |
2,162,101 | Just before Whitley became president in 1925, ETSTC employed a total of 65 faculty, which grew to 80 by the 1932–33 academic year. Historian of the university William E. Sawyer described the teaching loads for the 1925 summer normal institute as "excessive": one single teacher was assigned to teach agriculture, physica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49869717 | 2,160,866 |
1,176,969 | Another common low-pass design technique is to implement the shunt capacitors as stubs with the resonant frequency set above the operating frequency so that the stub impedance is capacitive in the passband. This implementation has a lumped-element counterpart of a general form similar to the filter of figure 6. Where s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24231219 | 1,176,346 |
912,995 | Due to the fact that the HOX genes are so highly conserved, most research has been done on much simpler model organisms, such as mice. One of the major differences that was noticed when comparing mice and drosophila, in particular, has to do with the location and layering of HOX genes within the genome. Vertebrates do ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2925212 | 912,516 |
895,722 | Lung AVMs may be suspected because of the abnormal appearance of the lungs on a chest X-ray, or hypoxia (low oxygen levels) on pulse oximetry or arterial blood gas determination. Bubble contrast echocardiography (bubble echo) may be used as a screening tool to identify abnormal connections between the lung arteries and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=728467 | 895,251 |
1,363,319 | A 2011 study by researchers at Stanford University suggested that although reflective roofs decrease temperatures in buildings and mitigate the "urban heat island effect", they may actually increase global temperature. The study noted that it did not account for the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions that results fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3178571 | 1,362,566 |
472,195 | Interplay, now known as Interplay Entertainment and a publisher in its own right, produced several late 1990s RPG titles through two new developers, Black Isle Studios and BioWare. Black Isle released the groundbreaking "Fallout" (1997) which, reminiscent of Interplay's earlier "Wasteland", was set in an alternate hist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32408640 | 471,959 |
415,133 | The various fossil beds of the Green River Formation span a 5 million year period, dating to between 53.5 and 48.5 million years old. This span of time includes the transition between the moist early Eocene climate and the slightly drier mid-Eocene. The climate was moist and mild enough to support crocodiles, which do ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=557360 | 414,930 |
1,276,669 | Many parallels to the Italian design tradition can be identified in the new "Dekabrist" design, particularly in the hull structure and ballast arrangements: the heavy gauge of the pressure hull, designed to withstand depths of 90 meters (and constructed using high-quality armour plate from scrapped battle cruisers), th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10683646 | 1,275,976 |
1,403,291 | BMAL1 binding is regulated in a tissue-specific manner by numerous factors including non-circadian ones. Following, tissue-specific KOs cause unique effects. BMAL1 has been shown to be important in bone metabolism as osteoblast BMAL1 KO mice have lower bone mass than their wild type counterparts. It is also important f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19865510 | 1,402,501 |
829,614 | The game generates a random star cluster that includes stars and their orbiting planets and moons with various resources based on biome type at the start of a new game, and designates one planet with the more fundamental resources for the player to start at. The player, controlling a mechanized suit, can gather resourc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66542086 | 829,168 |
1,598,487 | Environmental conditions are key to the growth and spread of "Peronospora destructor". Spores are generally dispersed during periods of high or low humidity regardless of the temperature at the time. The optimal temperature for "P. destructor" spore germination is 10 °C, and less sporulation occurs as the temperature i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27377596 | 1,597,587 |
1,929,167 | Michael is a full member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (MIET) since 1999, a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) since 2012 and a full member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (MIEEE), and he also sits on the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Technical Committee on Fac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68476818 | 1,928,062 |
1,086,567 | Accordingly, by 1984 economic liberalisation, reduced protection for local businesses and deregulation were becoming official policy. A rationalisation scheme was underway when a new government elected in July 1984 found it was facing a foreign exchange crisis and chose to deal with the economic situation with these ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34570831 | 1,086,009 |
1,837,635 | Lineweaver received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry from George Washington University in 1930, and continued on to receive his Masters of Arts degree there in 1933. He obtained his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Johns Hopkins University in 1936. In 1929, a year before graduating, he was appointed a Junior Scie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18150250 | 1,836,586 |
2,721 | Physicist Isidor Rabi noticed Oppenheimer's disconcerting triumphalism: "I'll never forget his walk; I'll never forget the way he stepped out of the car ... his walk was like "High Noon" ... this kind of strut. He had done it." At an assembly at Los Alamos on August 6 (the evening of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima), O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39034 | 2,721 |
957,841 | Coordination failure was another important new Keynesian concept developed as another potential explanation for recessions and unemployment. In recessions a factory can go idle even though there are people willing to work in it, and people willing to buy its production if they had jobs. In such a scenario, economic dow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80327 | 957,335 |
714,984 | The three NLP approaches to understanding literal semantics in text based on traditional linguistics are symbolic NLP, statistical NLP, and neural NLP. The first method, symbolic NLP (1950s - early 1990s) is based on first principles and rules of traditional linguistics. The second method, statistical NLP (1990s - 2010... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72711 | 714,610 |
2,005,679 | The SPRM instrument works with the combination of the following main components: source light (typically He-Ne laser), that further travels through a prism that is attached to a glass side, coated with a thin metal film (typically gold or silver), where the light beam reflects at the gold/solution interface at an angle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47482842 | 2,004,530 |
1,779,434 | Dausset began his research shortly after obtaining his medical degree in 1945, while working as an intern in the hematology lab at the Children’s Hospital in Boston. His first paper was published in 1950, and dealt with the detection of incomplete antibodies using trypsinized erythrocytes in a plasmatic medium, a techn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1700316 | 1,778,431 |
613,988 | Synthetic polymers are human made through chemical reactions of monomers. Their mechanical properties are favorable in that their molecular weights can be regulated from low to high based on differing requirements. However, their lack of functional groups and structural complexity has limited their usage in organ print... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3160379 | 613,676 |
1,780,563 | The team returned home to play Lewis-Clark State on November 29. They routed the Warriors 104–57, and were led by freshman Kyle Dranginis, who had a career-high 30 points, seven assists, and six rebounds. Despite sitting starters Harris and Bell, the Zags forced 20 turnovers and had a 46–20 rebounding advantage. In the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36171940 | 1,779,559 |
2,060,128 | Prior to the construction of the building, the Massachusetts Agricultural College had maintained a beekeeping program for a number of years as one of the first land-grant agricultural colleges to teach the subject in the United States. In time, techniques in apiculture progressed, leaving beekeeping as no longer simply... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31274932 | 2,058,942 |
936,109 | In 1983, a report from the National Commission on Excellence in Education declared that American education standards were eroding, that young people in the United States were not learning enough. In 1989, President Bush and the nation’s governors set national goals to be achieved by the year 2000. Goals 2000: Educate A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22816 | 935,614 |
716,604 | Zhang's long lyrical poems also revealed a great amount of information on urban layout and basic geography. His rhapsody "Sir Based-On-Nothing" provides details on terrain, palaces, hunting parks, markets, and prominent buildings of Chang'an, the Western Han capital. Exemplifying his attention to detail, his rhapsody o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34542 | 716,227 |
2,198,925 | The importance of engineering and computation has been brought to the attention of clinics and the marketplace in compliance with their incorporation into the medical field and growing public demand for individualized health care services. Computer-based analytical platforms using AI, and Machine Learning are practicab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70423831 | 2,197,673 |
744 | Further work by Hawking in the area of arrows of time led to the 1985 publication of a paper theorising that if the no-boundary proposition were correct, then when the universe stopped expanding and eventually collapsed, time would run backwards. A paper by Don Page and independent calculations by Raymond Laflamme led ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19376148 | 744 |
863,206 | Chloroquine is a 4-aminoquinolone compound with a complicated and still unclear mechanism of action. It is believed to reach high concentrations in the vacuoles of the parasite, which, due to its alkaline nature, raises the internal pH. It controls the conversion of toxic heme to hemozoin by inhibiting the biocrystalli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186625 | 862,746 |
1,229,753 | The GRS was a small cylinder which was mounted on the end of one of the three radial booms extending from "Lunar Prospector". It consisted of a bismuth germanate crystal surrounded by a shield of borated plastic. Gamma rays striking the bismuth atoms produced a flash of light with an intensity proportional to the energ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=612519 | 1,229,091 |
1,363,434 | With a small bottle of acid to test for carbonate of lime, a knife to ascertain the hardness of rocks and minerals, and a pocket lens to magnify their structure, the field geologist is rarely at a loss to what group a rock belongs. The fine grained species are often indeterminable in this way, and the minute mineral co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=894729 | 1,362,681 |
1,302,072 | Therefore, there have been investigations into using graphene analogues, such as silicene, as field effect transistors. Despite silicene's natural state also having a zero-band gap, Akinwande and Molle and coworkers in collaboration with U.S. Army Research Laboratory have developed a silicene transistor. They designed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31324594 | 1,301,358 |
330,278 | With the G variant, the ageing airframe of the Ju 87 found new life as an anti-tank aircraft. This was the final operational version of the Stuka, and was deployed on the Eastern Front. The reverse in German military fortunes after 1943 and the appearance of huge numbers of well-armoured Soviet tanks caused Junkers to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16590 | 330,103 |
1,569,139 | Biohub is intended to allow researchers at leading institutions to collaborate and accelerate the development of breakthrough scientific and medical advancements, applications, and therapeutics. Scientists chosen for the initial 47 research positions are working on a wide range of projects, but the selection committee ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51851430 | 1,568,252 |
573,349 | One focus of ergonomic principles is maintaining neutral postures, which are postures in which muscles are at their normal length and able to generate the most force, while reducing stress and possible injury to muscles, tendons, nerves, and bones- therefore, in the workplace or in everyday life, it is ideal for muscle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8400045 | 573,055 |
2,205,814 | Liposomes are another type of nanoparticle delivery system widely studied. Liposomes can easily cross lipid bilayers and cell membranes but usually get rapidly eliminated in vivo unless stabilized with PEG or another polymer. Formation of liposomes can also present issues, as toxic solvents, high temperatures, and low ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70621516 | 2,204,557 |
956,941 | The CS division services the commercial airline industry and business aircraft, providing navigation, communication, synthetic vision, other cockpit products such as autoland autopilots, and cabin products such as in-flight entertainment. The GS division services primarily the US government and military, but also provi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=867009 | 956,435 |
171,865 | Considerable testing of the CSM took place, but this was principally Scott's responsibility, allowing McDivitt and Schweickart leisure to observe the Earth; they alerted Scott if anything particularly noteworthy was upcoming, letting him leave his work for a moment to look at Earth too. The seventh burn of the SPS syst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1774 | 171,774 |
1,664,642 | "S. pasteurii" have the unique capability of hydrolyzing urea and through a series of reactions, produce carbonate ions. This is done by secreting copious amounts of urease through the cell membrane. When the bacterium is placed in a calcite rich environment, the negatively charged carbonate ions react with the positiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26274722 | 1,663,705 |
1,977,071 | Wild's science minister, Barry Jones, enclosed a copy in a letter to the Prime Minister, observing that the concept would be very valuable in assisting decentralisation. The proposal would be sent to the federal Minister for Transport, Peter Morris, with comments reflecting his officials' opinion: it was not worth cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=610478 | 1,975,933 |
1,451,840 | In his 2002 review, Yale D. Belanger, compared Alan Cairn's publication entitled "Citizens Plus" with Flanagan's "First Nations? Second Thoughts". He concluded that the ideas in " First Nations? Second Thoughts" should be made publicly available and read as a companion piece with Cairn's "Citizens Plus". The books were... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1725890 | 1,451,023 |
80,016 | In 1971, "New York Times" reporter James Reston published an article on his acupuncture experiences in China, which led to more investigation of and support for acupuncture. The US President Richard Nixon visited China in 1972. During one part of the visit, the delegation was shown a patient undergoing major surgery wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1537 | 79,983 |
11,859 | The main concept of a network of smart devices was discussed as early as 1982, with a modified Coca-Cola vending machine at Carnegie Mellon University becoming the first ARPANET-connected appliance, able to report its inventory and whether newly loaded drinks were cold or not. Mark Weiser's 1991 paper on ubiquitous com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12057519 | 11,854 |
217,262 | "U.S. News & World Report" editor Robert Morse issued a response on 22 June 2007, stating:"in terms of the peer assessment survey, we at "U.S. News" firmly believe the survey has significant value because it allows us to measure the "intangibles" of a college that we can't measure through statistical data. Plus, the re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31604324 | 217,154 |
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