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135,296 | The project presented a variety of specific challenges. Because its main purpose was the presentation of live music, the hall needed a design focused on acoustics first, then public access and exterior aesthetics. To this end, a professional sound technician was hired to design the interior. He proposed a shoebox audit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15155 | 135,241 |
211,183 | In many-body potentials, the potential energy includes the effects of three or more particles interacting with each other. In simulations with pairwise potentials, global interactions in the system also exist, but they occur only through pairwise terms. In many-body potentials, the potential energy cannot be found by a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=198608 | 211,076 |
1,085,039 | In 1999, Russian Su-25s once again saw heavy use in Chechnya with the onset of the Second Chechen War in 1999. During the war, the Su-25 was again primarily a close air support platform, providing support for ground troops at low altitude in conjunction with Mi-24 Hind and Ka-50 helicopters while Su-24s flew higher alt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56842965 | 1,084,481 |
770,732 | In general, base running is a tactical part of the game requiring good judgment by runners (and their coaches) to assess the risk in attempting to advance. During tag plays, a good slide can affect the outcome of the play. Managers will sometimes simultaneously send a runner and require the batter to swing (a hit-and-r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=895961 | 770,318 |
2,053,778 | Neurohydrodynamics is an emerging discipline within neurophysics. Such an evolution is common as a new field transitions from being an interdisciplinary specialization among already-established fields, to being considered a field in itself. Much of the work in neurohydrodynamics consists of clinical research and in vit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32475802 | 2,052,595 |
68,386 | Beginning in 2017, GAN technology began to make its presence felt in the fine arts arena with the appearance of a newly developed implementation which was said to have crossed the threshold of being able to generate unique and appealing abstract paintings, and thus dubbed a "CAN", for "creative adversarial network". A ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50073184 | 68,360 |
1,846,509 | Michael D. Intriligator (February 5, 1938 – June 23, 2014) was an American economist at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was Professor of Economics, Political Science, and Policy Studies, and Co-Director of the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48367825 | 1,845,454 |
1,102,081 | NTA-NEET (Undergraduate), for MBBS and BDS courses, was conducted in 2013 by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). NEET-UG replaced the All India Pre Medical Test (AIPMT) and all individual MBBS exams conducted by states or colleges themselves. However, many colleges and institutes took a stay order and cond... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67605615 | 1,101,520 |
1,889,490 | The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) was started in the American Veterans Health Administration (VHA). In the mid-1980s the VHA was criticized for their high operative mortality. To that end, Congress passed Public Law 99-166 in December 1985 which mandated the VHA ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27143571 | 1,888,407 |
741,043 | In addition to the injectable and nasal spray dosage forms of the salmon calcitonin, noninvasive oral formulations of the peptide are currently under clinical development. The short-half-life of this peptide in serum triggered several attempts to enhance plasma concentrations. The peptide is complexed with a macromolec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=467058 | 740,651 |
2,211,045 | 1894 was the fifth season of County Championship cricket in England. The championship culminated in a close battle between Surrey and the 1893 champions Yorkshire. Before the round of 23 August, the two teams were tied on 10 points, with one match left to play and all other teams out of contention. Yorkshire travelled ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2510759 | 2,209,785 |
129,782 | No gamma-ray bursts from within our own galaxy, the Milky Way, have been observed, and the question of whether one has ever occurred remains unresolved. In light of evolving understanding of gamma-ray bursts and their progenitors, the scientific literature records a growing number of local, past, and future GRB candida... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48803 | 129,730 |
1,488,634 | The species was originally mentioned without description by William Colenso, the name being given as "Phormium forsterianum". It was later known as "P. colensoi", a name that was listed without description in 1846 by Joseph Dalton Hooker. The name became better known from J. D. Hooker's 1864 publication in "Handbook of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7029932 | 1,487,795 |
282,036 | During pregnancy in viviparous mammals (all mammals except Monotremes), endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are activated and produced in high quantities during the implantation of the embryo. They are currently known to possess immunosuppressive properties, suggesting a role in protecting the embryo from its mother's immun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1664060 | 281,883 |
159,111 | On the other hand, only Missile N-11 suffered a malfunction due to pogo and the combustion instability issue had occurred in static firings, but not any actual flights. All Titan II failures save for N-11 were caused by gas generator restrictions, broken plumbing, or faulty welds. The trouble appeared to be with Aeroje... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=841594 | 159,029 |
1,561,911 | The solutions of the Wannier equation produce valuable insight to the basic properties of a semiconductor's optical response. In particular, one can solve the steady-state solutions of the SBEs to predict optical absorption spectrum analytically with the so-called Elliott formula. In this form, one can verify that an u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39252459 | 1,561,024 |
1,687,984 | Internally, the Model 30 286 features an Intel 80286 microprocessor clocked at 10 MHz. Instead of the pin-grid-array version of the 80286 as used in earlier IBM machines, the company opted for the plastic-leaded chip carrier version of the 80286, which was less expensive to produce and is less susceptible to damage whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70578771 | 1,687,038 |
254,452 | By the time those who have DSPD seek medical help, they usually have tried many times to change their sleeping schedule. Failed tactics to sleep at earlier times may include maintaining proper sleep hygiene, relaxation techniques, early bedtimes, hypnosis, alcohol, sleeping pills, dull reading, and home remedies. DSPD ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231014 | 254,319 |
1,067,886 | Based upon the KBS-1 concept R3 was, through a highly controversial process including a governmental crisis, granted permission to load fuel on 27 March 1979. The Three Mile Island accident occurred the following day which triggered a referendum in Sweden about nuclear power. The referendum was held on 23 March 1980 an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1873581 | 1,067,332 |
1,947,459 | Piotr Piecuch (born January 21, 1960) is a Polish-born American physical chemist. He holds the title of University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States. He supervises a group, whose research focuses on theoretical and computational ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39731430 | 1,946,346 |
431,123 | Following a multi-theoretical approach, researchers are investigating the interactive relationship between politics, economy, and institutions at different levels and in different fields of activity. The interdisciplinary approach allows for a study of the interplay between the economy, public and private institutions,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4039448 | 430,911 |
1,082,071 | Although the process of ecdysis is metabolically risky and expensive, it does have some advantages. For one thing it permits a complex development cycle of metamorphosis in which young animals may be totally different from older phases, such as the nauplius larvae of crustaceans, the nymphs of say, the Odonata, or the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18457721 | 1,081,515 |
1,353,136 | In a study by Dandekar et al., the researchers examined the survival rates of cheating and non-cheating bacteria populations ("Pseudomonas aeruginosa") under varying environmental conditions. These microorganisms, like many species of bacteria, use a cell-cell communication system called quorum sensing that detect thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5467149 | 1,352,389 |
925,225 | Reaction intends ultimately to operate as a for-profit commercial enterprise which, upon the completion of development, shall manufacture Skylon vehicles for multiple international customers who shall operate their fleets directly, while being provided with support from Reaction. Skylon has been designed with the targe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=550928 | 924,739 |
719,858 | The cause of the X-ray emission is thought to be a combination of two mechanisms. Interactions between energetic solar wind particles and cometary material evaporating from the nucleus is likely to contribute significantly to this effect. Reflection of solar X-rays is seen in other Solar System objects such as the Moon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=141738 | 719,478 |
2,030,355 | The Image Permanence Institute (IPI) is a university-based, non-profit research laboratory devoted to scientific research in the preservation of visual and other forms of recorded information. It's the world's largest independent laboratory with this specific scope. IPI was founded in 1985 through the combined efforts ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11903407 | 2,029,187 |
379,774 | The 1804 Raid on Boulogne made extensive use of explosive devices designed by inventor Robert Fulton. The 'torpedo-catamaran' was a coffer-like device balanced on two wooden floats and steered by a man with a paddle. Weighted with lead so as to ride low in the water, the operator was further disguised by wearing dark c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22102 | 379,579 |
2,057,380 | In 2012, Stephen C. Angle, Professor of Philosophy, and Mansfield Freeman, Professor of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University, first put forward the idea of Progressive Confucianism as a continuation of the Confucian tradition that accepts the challenges posed by contemporary society. Angle's conception of Progress... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60491148 | 2,056,196 |
758,125 | Adi Setia describes the debate among Islamic scholars in the twelfth century, based on the commentary of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi about whether the celestial spheres are real, concrete physical bodies or "merely the abstract circles in the heavens traced out… by the various stars and planets." Setia points out that most of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=383129 | 757,720 |
730,609 | The species became internationally known when an epidemic occurred in an agrarian community in Rio Grande do Sul. Doctors were mystified when scores of patients came in with the same symptoms. Hematoma and gangrene-like symptoms manifested, spreading throughout the body, eventually causing massive blood leakage into th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30058434 | 730,224 |
213,234 | Aalto claimed that his paintings were not made as individual artworks but as part of his process of architectural design, and many of his small-scale "sculptural" experiments with wood led to later larger architectural details and forms. These experiments also led to a number of patents: for example, he invented a new ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2009 | 213,126 |
898,178 | Psittacosaurus ( ; "parrot lizard") is a genus of extinct ceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of what is now Asia, existing between 126 and 101 million years ago. It is notable for being the most species-rich non-avian dinosaur genus. Up to 12 species are known, from across China, Mongolia, Russia, and Thail... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2274247 | 897,704 |
456,930 | One theory of the origins of human bipedality is that it evolved from a terrestrial knuckle-walking ancestor. This theory is opposed to the theory that such bipedalism arose from a more generalized arboreal ape ancestor. The terrestrial knuckle-walking theory argues that early hominin wrist and hand bones retain morpho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2077667 | 456,707 |
413,470 | Accumulated DNA damage appears to be a limiting factor in the determination of maximum life span. The theory that DNA damage is the primary cause of aging, and thus a principal determinant of maximum life span, has attracted increased interest in recent years. This is based, in part, on evidence in human and mouse that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=232786 | 413,268 |
153,963 | Laramie architects Eliot and Clinton Hitchcock, whose father had designed the Aven Nelson Memorial Building, teamed up with the Porter and Porter firm in Cheyenne to design the new library. Their modular design was popular at the time and they intended to make the space very functional. The layout provided room for ove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=535684 | 153,893 |
392,858 | Naturally artistic, witty and impulsive, Tal led a bohemian life of chess playing, heavy drinking and chain smoking. His already fragile health suffered as a result, and he spent a great deal of time in the hospital, including an operation to remove a kidney in 1969. He was also briefly addicted to morphine, prescribed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=183145 | 392,663 |
1,210,097 | The ADI-R was written by Michael Rutter, MD FRS, Ann LeCouteur, MBBS and Catherine Lord, PhD. and published by Western Psychological Services in 2003. The original version of the Autism Diagnostic Interview, written in 1989, was used mainly for research purposes. The ADI was developed in response to four major developm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12294154 | 1,209,450 |
829,056 | Small spherical "point-source" acoustic devices follow the known inverse square law, which predicts the loss of 6 decibels (dB) per doubling of distance from the source, solely due to geometric spreading. Large speakers (or large arrays), such as these, have an interference pattern in the nearfield which produces peaks... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=620661 | 828,610 |
390,600 | Fortunately, the current space exploration is not completely driven by competition, and there still exists a chance for dialogues and cooperation among all stakeholders in both developed and developing countries, to reach an agreement on tackling space debris and assure an equitable and orderly exploration. Besides pri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=266344 | 390,405 |
905,543 | In the 2016–2017 season, as a freshman majoring in health and exercise science, she made the competitive lineup on all four events and scored at least one perfect 10 on each. As of Week 5, she led the NCAA standings in all four events and the all-around. She finished the regular season in first place in the all-around,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43476073 | 905,067 |
642,985 | First, the properties such as weight capacity of biodegradable polymer are different from the traditional polymer, which may be unfavorable in many daily applications. Second, engineering issues. Biodegradable polymers are mostly plant-base materials, which means they originally come from organic source like soybean or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14253816 | 642,646 |
76,875 | The BAR continued in service in the Korean War. The last military contract for the manufacture of the M1918A2 was awarded to the Royal Typewriter Co. of Hartford, Connecticut, which manufactured a total of 61,000 M1918A2s during the conflict, using ArmaSteel cast receivers and trigger housings. In his study of infantry... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378838 | 76,846 |
678,469 | Phytosaurs are known from many different morphologies, specifically with vastly different skull forms. These changes relate to the feeding and habits of the animals, not completely evolutionary modifications. Dolichorostral ("long snouted") phytosaurs have a long, slender snout with many conical teeth that are homodont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1658563 | 678,115 |
68,042 | Air-to-air encounters, however, were not particularly frequent, with close air support accounting for most missions flown in Afghanistan while combat air patrol and air-to-air escort missions comprised 15% of the total. Sorties with dumb bombs and cluster munitions were flown against a wide range of targets, while more... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=220186 | 68,016 |
1,773,500 | Standard radiotherapy for fibrillary astrocytoma requires 10 to 30 sessions, depending on the subtype of the tumor, and may sometimes be performed after surgical resection to improve outcomes and survival rates. Side effects include the possibility of local inflammation, leading to headaches, which can be treated with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26696443 | 1,772,503 |
1,678,647 | World polity theory (also referred to as world society theory, global Neo-institutionalism, and the "Stanford school" of global analysis) was developed mainly as an analytical frame for interpreting global relations, structures, and practices. It was developed partly in response to the application of world systems theo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39038931 | 1,677,704 |
611,464 | The Zhuk (Beetle) family of X band pulse-Doppler radars provide aircraft with two modes of operation, air-to-air and air-to-surface. The air-to-air mode of the Zhuk is capable of detecting targets and measuring their coordinates, range and speed. The radar has a look-down/shoot-down capability for air targets against a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14897806 | 611,153 |
733,306 | "a" and "a"′ are detector settings on side A, "b" and "b"′ on side B, the four combinations being tested in separate subexperiments. The terms "E"("a", "b") etc. are the quantum correlations of the particle pairs, where the quantum correlation is defined to be the expectation value of the product of the "outcomes" of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=169283 | 732,919 |
1,906,736 | Biocomplexity is the study of complex structures and behaviors that arise from nonlinear interactions of active biological agents, which may range in scale from molecules to cells to organisms. Almost every biological system exhibits complexity - emergent properties where the ensemble possesses capabilities that its in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=872938 | 1,905,640 |
1,865,876 | The different oxidation states are explained by the proteins that combined with the [FeS] cluster. Analysis from crystallographic data suggests that HiPIP is capable of preserving its higher oxidation state by forming fewer hydrogen bonds with water. The characteristic fold of the proteins wraps the [FeS] cluster in a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14853095 | 1,864,803 |
360,154 | Other two-stroke engines might pump lubrication from a separate tank of two-stroke oil. The supply of this oil is controlled by the throttle position and engine speed. Examples are found in Yamaha's PW80 (Pee-wee), and many two-stroke snowmobiles. The technology is referred to as auto-lube. This is still a total-loss s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82156 | 359,967 |
1,827,579 | The experiment studying the decay of lanthanum-148, named TRISTAN, which burned contained a cylindrical capsule of 5 grams of uranium approximately 1 inch in diameter and 1 ½ inches tall. The capsule had been exposed to neutrons from a reactor beam line. Solid and gaseous fission products, including gaseous iodine-131,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66153873 | 1,826,540 |
1,937,073 | Hand-counting is a cheap and easy to conduct method to estimate the liberation characteristics of a bulk sample wither originating from run-of-mine material, a waste dump or for example exploration trenching. Analysis of particles in the size range 10-100mm has been conducted on a total sample mass of 10 tonnes. By vis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34076303 | 1,935,965 |
1,745,901 | The 70th Division had been planning another attack to capture El Adem but the battle made these plans redundant. The inability of the Germans and Italians to defeat the 70th Division and push the unit back inside Tobruk had strategic consequences. Rommel had come to the conclusion that his troops could not maintain the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4468060 | 1,744,916 |
56,303 | The switch to digital projection came at a steep cost in image quality, with 2K projectors having roughly an order of magnitude less resolution than traditional IMAX film projectors. Maintaining the same 7-story screen size would only make this loss more noticeable, so many new theaters were instead built with signific... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=173787 | 56,279 |
1,669,302 | Despite changing political views towards women and minorities during the civil rights movement, college women’s enrollment rates into engineering were still relatively low when compared to men's. For example, in a study of over 440 college campuses nationwide throughout 1971–72, approximately 17% of polled Science, Tec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11214607 | 1,668,362 |
153,898 | A virtual retinal display (VRD), also known as a retinal scan display (RSD) or retinal projector (RP), not to be confused with a "Retina Display", is a display technology that draws a raster image (like a television picture) directly onto the retina of the eye. The user sees what appears to be a conventional display fl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=201460 | 153,828 |
784,019 | Confusingly, there are two different mathematical expressions in use, both called 'structure factor'. One is usually written formula_1; it is more generally valid, and relates the observed diffracted intensity per atom to that produced by a single scattering unit. The other is usually written formula_2 or formula_3 and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4924578 | 783,600 |
2,156,442 | The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is a non-profit vaccine developed for the purpose of distribution toward lower and middle-income countries. The phase one results of the clinical trial supported a two-dose vaccination to be distributed 28 days apart. The trials involved participants either receiving the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63936969 | 2,155,211 |
361,556 | The real-time strategy genre has been relatively stable since 1995. Additions to the genre's concept in newer games tend to emphasize more of the basic RTS elements (higher unit caps, more unit types, larger maps, etc.). Rather than innovations to the game concept, new games generally focus on refining aspects of succe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77251 | 361,366 |
1,704,799 | SBML is sometimes incorrectly assumed to be limited in scope only to biochemical network models because the original publications and early software focused on this domain. In reality, although the central features of SBML are indeed oriented towards representing chemical reaction-like processes that act on entities, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4461797 | 1,703,843 |
40,100 | On the third occasion, Theseus volunteered to talk to the monster to stop this horror. He took the place of one of the youths and set off with a black sail, promising to his father, Aegeus, that if successful he would return with a white sail. Like the others, Theseus was stripped of his weapons when they sailed. On hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31255 | 40,085 |
1,354,258 | Some argue that because human hearing and perception are not fully understood, listener experience should be valued above everything else. This tactic is often encountered in the high-end home audio world, where it is used to sell amplifiers with poor specifications. The usefulness of blind listening tests and common o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=302052 | 1,353,510 |
939,587 | The three-day annual techno-cultural festival, ELAN, started in 2009. The fest takes place in the beginning of the year, in either January or February. IIT Hyderabad also hosted ηvision, an annual inter-institute technical festival, since 2011. Since 2017, both events have been merged into a single annual fest called E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27833441 | 939,086 |
2,842 | The Su-57 is a fifth-generation multirole fighter aircraft and the first operational stealth aircraft for the Russian armed forces. In addition to stealth, the fighter emphasizes supermaneuverability in all aircraft axes, capacious internal payload bays for multirole versatility, and advanced sensor systems such as act... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2971192 | 2,842 |
127,102 | Because both formula_14 and formula_17 take the values formula_18, then either formula_19 or formula_20. In the former case, formula_21, while in the latter case, formula_22. So, one of the terms on the right-hand side of the above expression will vanish, and the other will equal formula_23. Consequently, if the experi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56369 | 127,050 |
141,797 | "Dwarf Fortress" was praised for its depth and complexity. Jonah Weiner from "The New York Times" stated, "Many simulation games offer players a bag of building blocks, but few dangle a bag as deep, or blocks as small and intricately interlocking, as "Dwarf Fortress"." "PC Gamer" Steve Hogarty commented, ""Dwarf Fortre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7239234 | 141,739 |
980,735 | A prototype set operating at 4.2 m (71 MHz) and producing about 5 kW was completed on a crash basis. With the NTRI in the lead, the firm NEC and the Research Laboratory of Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) made major contributions to the effort. Kenjiro Takayanagi, Chief Engineer of NHK's experimental television sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1280053 | 980,223 |
1,698,464 | Bioinformatics approaches support the idea that, by these properties, S/MARs not only separate a given transcriptional unit (chromatin domain) from its neighbors, but also provide platforms for the assembly of factors enabling transcriptional events within a given domain. An increased propensity to separate the DNA str... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32761768 | 1,697,510 |
922,161 | Today, astronomers have access to a continuous record of Jupiter's atmospheric activity thanks to telescopes such as Hubble Space Telescope. These show that the atmosphere is occasionally wracked by massive disturbances, but that, overall, it is remarkably stable. The vertical motion of Jupiter's atmosphere was largely... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30873277 | 921,675 |
1,020,097 | Chief Engineer Hadeler had originally planned for only eight such weapons on the carriers, four on each side in single mountings. However, the Naval Armaments Office misinterpreted his proposal to save space by pairing them and instead doubled the number of guns to 16, resulting in a need for increased ammunition stowa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12734316 | 1,019,570 |
617,378 | Most musical instruments generate a fairly complex waveform with multiple related frequency components. The fundamental frequency is the pitch of the note. Additional "harmonics" (also called "partials" or "overtones") give each instrument its characteristic timbre. As well, this waveform changes during the duration of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4385464 | 617,064 |
610,311 | The Cierva Autogiro Company, Ltd's, C.41 gyrodyne pre-WW2 design study was updated and built by Fairey Aviation as the FB-1 Gyrodyne commencing in 1945. Fairey's development efforts were initially led by Bennett, followed by his successor Dr. George S. Hislop. George B.L. Ellis and Frederick L. Hodgess, engineers from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5204834 | 610,000 |
1,152,609 | Another way of deriving some sort of electromagnetic mass was based on the concept of radiation pressure. These pressures or tensions in the electromagnetic field were derived by James Clerk Maxwell (1874) and Adolfo Bartoli (1876). Lorentz recognized in 1895 that those tensions also arise in his theory of the stationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4769216 | 1,151,999 |
755,263 | The Field Museum offers opportunities for informal and more structured public learning. Exhibitions remain the primary means of informal education, but throughout its history the Museum has supplemented this approach with innovative educational programs. The Harris Loan Program, for example, begun in 1912, reaches out ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=379262 | 754,860 |
46,672 | The exact criteria for membership in the tribe Hominini under the current understanding of human origins are not clear, but the taxon generally includes those species that share more than 97% of their DNA with the modern human genome, and exhibit a capacity for language or for simple cultures beyond their 'local family... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19773811 | 46,654 |
1,132,401 | In 1810, at Jena, Seebeck described the action of light on silver chloride sensitised paper (a technique used by Johann Ritter). He observed that the exposed chemical would sometimes take on an approximate, pale version of the color of the solar spectrum as projected from a prism to which it had been exposed, and also ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=88254 | 1,131,809 |
364,917 | The publication of Ken Uston's books and of his landmark lawsuits against the casinos, both stimulated the growth of blackjack teams (Hyland's team and the first MIT team were formed in Atlantic City shortly after the publication of "Million Dollar Blackjack") and increased casino awareness of the methods of blackjack ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=438494 | 364,726 |
20,198 | The prototype NA-73X was rolled out in September 1940, just 102 days after the order had been placed; it first flew on 26 October 1940, 149 days into the contract, an uncommonly short development period, even during the war. With test pilot Vance Breese at the controls, the prototype handled well and accommodated an im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24710 | 20,190 |
1,642,577 | He was made an MBE in 1948. He was elected member of Fellow of the Royal Society in 1960 (the youngest member at that time) and also won one of its Royal Medals in 1977 and its Copley Medal in 1997. He was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in 1971. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3383286 | 1,641,650 |
1,678,940 | The same year Nikolaos Zachariadis, the General Secretary of KKE was transferred by the Germans to the Dachau concentration camp, and Siantos undertook the leadership of the party as acting Secretary General. During the German occupation of Greece from 1941–1944, Siantos led the Communist-dominated Greek National Liber... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2566777 | 1,677,997 |
1,420,648 | O Canada! Twin towers would aptly describe this season's anchored 6'3" and 6'5" middle blockers, long, lean and sky-high. The inner city of Honolulu would be well represented additionally in the back row by UH top three all-time digger, prodigious, Kanaka Maoli Hawai'ian libero. The Preseason/OOC gauntlet ran as follow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3376212 | 1,419,848 |
395,654 | A few other non-essential heavy metals have one or more toxic forms. Kidney failure and fatalities have been recorded arising from the ingestion of germanium dietary supplements (~15 to 300 g in total consumed over a period of two months to three years). Exposure to osmium tetroxide (OsO) may cause permanent eye damage... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46659847 | 395,459 |
620,655 | This is a fairly powerful species of owl. However, like owls of nearly all sizes, mostly it prefers to take small prey relative to itself, especially small mammals. In a great majority of dietary studies, somewhere between 50 and 95% of the food is mammalian. Prey consists mostly of various species of rodent, though sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=815909 | 620,339 |
1,145,484 | Neuroimmunology is a field combining neuroscience, the study of the nervous system, and immunology, the study of the immune system. Neuroimmunologists seek to better understand the interactions of these two complex systems during development, homeostasis, and response to injuries. A long-term goal of this rapidly devel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4052447 | 1,144,883 |
2,143,985 | UND met 1986 Runner-Up Harvard in the semifinal at the Joe Louis Arena. Once again Hrkac was the story of the game, scoring a goal and adding three assists as the Fighting Sioux trounced the Crimson 5–2 to reach the championship. On defending National Champion Michigan State stood in their way but just as they had agai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62135834 | 2,142,754 |
247,872 | In the computer chess community, Komodo developer Mark Lefler called it a "pretty amazing achievement", but also pointed out that the data was old, since Stockfish had gained a lot of strength since January 2018 (when Stockfish 8 was released). Fellow developer Larry Kaufman said AlphaZero would probably lose a match a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55981499 | 247,744 |
1,347,493 | Many individuals believed in catastrophism to allow room for religious beliefs. For example, the Genesis flood narrative could be described as a real geological event as catastrophism describes the changing of the Earth surface as one-time, violent events. Lyell challenged the believers of the catastrophic theory by st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9144685 | 1,346,752 |
1,516,444 | The concept of temporal microstates of brain electrical activity during no-task resting and task execution (event-related microstates) was developed by Dietrich Lehmann and his collaborators (The KEY Institute for Brain-Mind Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland) between 1971 and 1987,( see ) Drs. Thomas Koenig (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33814258 | 1,515,592 |
521,464 | Wythe and Pendleton both sat on the chancery court bench which granted freedom to slaves in "Pleasants v. Pleasants." However, that decision was appealed, and in 1799, after Virginia passed a law forbidding abolitionists from serving on juries in freedom suits, Wythe's decision was modified by the appellate court led b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=261191 | 521,193 |
126,882 | An intuitive understanding of X-ray diffraction can be obtained from the Bragg model of diffraction. In this model, a given reflection is associated with a set of evenly spaced sheets running through the crystal, usually passing through the centers of the atoms of the crystal lattice. The orientation of a particular se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34151 | 126,830 |
15,930 | It therefore fell to Aldrin to complete Gemini's EVA goals. NASA formed a committee to give him a better chance of success. It dropped the test of the Air Force's astronaut maneuvering unit (AMU) that had given Gordon trouble on Gemini11 so Aldrin could focus on EVA. NASA revamped the training program, opting for under... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65777 | 15,925 |
261,519 | Dantzig was asked to work out a method the Air Force could use to improve their planning process. This led to his original example of finding the best assignment of 70 people to 70 jobs, showing the usefulness of linear programming. The computing power required to test all the permutations to select the best assignment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13111 | 261,380 |
1,471,939 | On flight day 11 the MPLM "Leonardo"s hatches were closed at 07:38 UTC (03:38 EDT) and the MPLM was unberthed from the nadir or earth facing port of the Harmony node at 20:24 UTC (16:24 EDT). It was placed in a low hover, about above Shuttle "Discovery"'s payload bay. This was done because the MPLM was unberthed from "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6002628 | 1,471,110 |
355,361 | The modern usage of the term carbine covers much the same scope as it always had, namely lighter weapons (generally rifles) with barrels up to in length. These weapons can be considered carbines, while rifles with barrels longer than 20 inches are generally not considered carbines unless specifically named so. Converse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6579 | 355,178 |
779,550 | Throughout his youth, his father, , relentlessly moved the family between Hamburg, Salzburg, Freiberg, Augsburg and Vienna. Consequently he studied with many teachers – his father, Johann Peter Heuschkel, Michael Haydn, Giovanni Valesi, Johann Nepomuk Kalcher and Georg Joseph Vogler – under whose supervision he compose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45190 | 779,133 |
1,339,609 | Landslides more than once dammed the Virgin River and created lakes where sediment accumulated. Every time the river eventually breached the slide and drained the lake, leaving a flat-bottomed valley. About 7,000 years ago, the relatively thin wall between two closely spaced joints in the Navajo Sandstone collapsed. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=630226 | 1,338,876 |
26,351 | In January 2013, it was announced that the Orion spacecraft's service module was to be built by the European Space Agency and named the European Service Module. In mid-November 2014, construction of the SLS core stage began at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF). In January 2015, NASA and Lockheed Martin announced t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36641570 | 26,341 |
1,010,332 | Most fMRI scanners allow subjects to be presented with different visual images, sounds and touch stimuli, and to make different actions such as pressing a button or moving a joystick. Consequently, fMRI can be used to reveal brain structures and processes associated with perception, thought and action. The resolution o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3557219 | 1,009,811 |
283,704 | Lindbergh took off in the "Spirit" from Roosevelt Airfield, Garden City, New York, and landed 33 hours, 30 minutes later at Aéroport Le Bourget in Paris, France, a distance of approximately 3,600 miles (5,800 km). One of the best-known aircraft in the world, the "Spirit" was built by Ryan Airlines in San Diego, Califor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=358988 | 283,551 |
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