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1,602,993 | For most developers coming to deploy at EMEC, installation at these facilities will be the first time their device has been in the open sea and grid connected. They typically will not have a track record which indicates the type and extent of interactions between the device and the receiving environment. Therefore, whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13475612 | 1,602,092 |
342,699 | A drawback of the basic "majority voting" classification occurs when the class distribution is skewed. That is, examples of a more frequent class tend to dominate the prediction of the new example, because they tend to be common among the "k" nearest neighbors due to their large number. One way to overcome this problem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1775388 | 342,518 |
314,228 | Beta mode is based on 8b/10b (from Gigabit Ethernet, also used for many other protocols). 8b/10b encoding involves expanding an 8-bit data word into 10 bits, with the extra bits after the 5th and 8th data bits. The partitioned data is sent through a Running Disparity calculator function. The Running Disparity calculato... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26246088 | 314,059 |
1,276,501 | Shaded relief was traditionally drawn with charcoal, airbrush and other artist's media. The Swiss cartographer Eduard Imhof is widely regarded as a master of manual hill-shading technique and theory. Shaded relief is today almost exclusively computer-generated from digital elevation models (DEM). The mathematical basis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7963618 | 1,275,808 |
308,375 | Ultra-wideband pulse Doppler radars have also been used to monitor vital signs of the human body, such as heart rate and respiration signals as well as human gait analysis and fall detection. It serves as a potential alternative to continuous-wave radar systems since it involves less power consumption and a high-resolu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166428 | 308,210 |
317,162 | If detonation is allowed to persist under extreme conditions or over many engine cycles, engine parts can be damaged or destroyed. The simplest deleterious effects are typically particle wear caused by moderate knocking, which may further ensue through the engine's oil system and cause wear on other parts before being ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=228468 | 316,993 |
504,769 | Porcelain fillings are hard, but can cause wear on opposing teeth. They are brittle and are not always recommended for molar fillings. They are hard and rigid thus able to resist abrasion forces, are brittle due to surface irregularities, porosities, tendency to undergo static fatigue, and is good aesthetically as it m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=498206 | 504,507 |
597,539 | The Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften (Today: Max-Planck Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften) was founded in 1911. Its purpose was to promote the sciences by founding and maintaining research institutes. One such institute was the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Physik (KWIP) founded in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=396454 | 597,234 |
1,589,841 | The ecology of Florida is remarkable due to its climate and diverse ecological regions. From the northwestern panhandle to the Everglades, differences in hydrology, climate, landforms, soil types, flora, and fauna shape each ecoregion, creating a complex and unique landscape that has been recognized as a global biodive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33618768 | 1,588,947 |
2,130,249 | Singh, born on 16 March 1971, is a former Scientific Steering Committee member and the incumbent member of the Data Management Committee of GEOTRACES, an international forum for research on the marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and isotopes. As a collaborator, he is associated with the "Ganga Corridor" pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52820595 | 2,129,025 |
1,442,804 | The Planetarium was designed by Gyo Obata of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum with a unique shape (Obata was later tasked in the 1970s with designing the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.). "Architectural Forum" magazine described it as, "Looking like some strange craft spun down to earth fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1720698 | 1,441,991 |
1,500,105 | A maths school is a type of specialist free school sixth form college in England which specialises in the study of mathematics. Each maths school is sponsored by a university and, frequently, also a nearby established sixth form college or multi-academy trust. All students in a maths school must follow a course of stud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69742243 | 1,499,260 |
293,925 | Nobel laureate Philip Warren Anderson used the idea that symmetry breaking is an example of an emergent phenomenon in his 1972 "Science" paper "More is different" to make an argument about the limitations of reductionism. One observation he made was that the sciences can be arranged roughly in a linear hierarchy—partic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49198 | 293,766 |
2,138,898 | The most successful example of the country's economic evolution is the international financial services industry based in London. Within this sector aviation services are seen as critically important for both businesses and their clients, even in the era of video-conferencing. London's air transport services are widely... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14120583 | 2,137,668 |
1,551,135 | The bearing operator would then turn the entire receiver hut using a gear set connected to bicycle pedals, looking for the point when the signal disappeared, indicating that the target was now perfectly aligned between the two antennas. This null-seeking system was often used as it more sharply indicates locations; max... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44378239 | 1,550,254 |
1,672,903 | The survey committee's final meeting was held on San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice in June 1984, where the "Horizon 2000" plan was presented to ESA's then-Director General Erik Quistgaard, and leading members of the European scientific community. The broad objectives of Horizon 2000 were to expand scientific knowledge, esta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60457571 | 1,671,961 |
1,068,105 | On December 11, 2017, President Trump signed Space Policy Directive 1, a change in national space policy that provides for a U.S.-led, integrated program with private sector partners for a human return to the Moon, followed by missions to Mars and beyond. The policy calls for the NASA administrator to "lead an innovati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30731968 | 1,067,551 |
182,223 | Notable designers such as Eric Offenstadt and Dan Hanebrink created unique monocoque designs for racing in the early 1970s. The F750 event at the 1973 Isle of Man TT races was won by Peter Williams on the monocoque-framed John Player Special that he helped to design based on Norton Commando. Honda also experimented wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57992 | 182,127 |
448,365 | Notable designers such as Eric Offenstadt and Dan Hanebrink created unique monocoque designs for racing in the early 1970s. The F750 event at the 1973 Isle of Man TT races was won by Peter Williams on the monocoque-framed John Player Special that he helped to design based on Norton Commando. Honda also experimented wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10208635 | 448,147 |
1,909,363 | Since 2004, Chen et al. studied liquid state physics with regard to the structure and dynamics of supercooled water. They studied supercooled confined water by a high-resolution Quasielastic neutron scattering (QENS) technique, and this led to the discovery of the likelihood of a second low-temperature critical point i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33550173 | 1,908,265 |
1,800,612 | CAPI was developed to enable computers to more easily and efficiently attach specialized accelerators. Memory intensive and computation intensive works like matrix multiplications for deep neural networks can be offloaded into CAPI-supported platforms. It was designed by IBM for use in its POWER8 based systems which ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52050128 | 1,799,603 |
1,476,276 | Molecular chaperones are typically referred to as proteins that associate with and help other proteins reach a native conformation while not being present in the end state. Chaperones bind to their substrate (i.e. a misfolded protein) in an ATP-dependent manner to perform a specific function. Exposed hydrophobic residu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2354497 | 1,475,444 |
454,329 | By 1940, half of the enrolled students were college level, the elementary division closing before the end of World War II. With the closing of the original Training School's primary school, some thought that the mountain mission school had served its purpose. In a 1948 editorial for the "Richmond Christian Advocate", i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2273027 | 454,107 |
811,212 | Digging resumed on February 23, after a WSDOT review determined that new soil monitoring practices were sufficient, allowing the machine conditional permission to bore through of material and finish the initial testing phase of the machine. By March 14, Bertha had finished its bore to a "safe haven" located ahead of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41421736 | 810,780 |
1,716,068 | According to their official website, The Proponency/Leader Development Division (PLDD) Reviews, recommends, and coordinates actions related to AR 5–22, AR 600-3, and other DA proponent regulations. PLDD evaluates the AG personnel inventory and recommends adjustments to support authorized positions and force structure c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30313942 | 1,715,101 |
1,454,559 | Wildlife-friendly farming, also known as land sharing, allows for the conservation of biodiversity while also allowing for production of agricultural products. In this approach, land is set aside to preserve the wildlife while the rest is used to fulfill the farmers need of agricultural commodities. Farmers take this a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216147 | 1,453,739 |
918,799 | Several procedures to help protect home computers and related devices from the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities have been published. Meltdown patches may produce performance loss. On 18 January 2018, unwanted reboots, even for newer Intel chips, due to Meltdown and Spectre patches, were reported. According... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56208586 | 918,316 |
2,015,571 | In continental Europe, 'Plotii' was distributed by the Späth nursery of Berlin from at least 1930 onwards, as "U. minor" ("U. sativa" ), 'Goodyer-Rüster' [:'Goodyer Elm'], "a tall tree up to 30 m, of upright growth and [with] pendulous [branchlets]". Späth knew Elwes and Henry's 1913 work, with its photograph of one of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5961044 | 2,014,411 |
1,735,902 | In 1920 the university had 900 students in Newcastle but only 200 in Durham. The University Grants Committee told the university in 1921 that it must produce ambitious expansion plans if it was to receive funding. This led to the establishment of a school of education and, in 1924, a faculty of pure science on what bec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26517318 | 1,734,925 |
22,257 | A major purpose of the ships was initially to support the U.S. military during the Cold War, and they were designed with capabilities for that role, including using nuclear power instead of oil for greater endurance when deployed in blue water, and the ability to make adjustments to the carriers' weapons systems on the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181160 | 22,248 |
1,030,542 | Nanorobots made of DNA origami demonstrated computing capacities and completed pre-programmed task inside the living organism was reported by a team of bioengineers at Wyss Institute at Harvard University and Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials at Bar-Ilan University. As a proof of concept, the team inje... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4415615 | 1,030,007 |
1,041,789 | Occupational health psychology (OHP) is an interdisciplinary area of psychology that is concerned with the health and safety of workers. OHP addresses a number of major topic areas including the impact of occupational stressors on physical and mental health, the impact of involuntary unemployment on physical and mental... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18079605 | 1,041,246 |
244,581 | According to the most authoritative source on the early history of Lie groups (Hawkins, p. 1), Sophus Lie himself considered the winter of 1873–1874 as the birth date of his theory of continuous groups. Hawkins, however, suggests that it was "Lie's prodigious research activity during the four-year period from the fall ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17945 | 244,454 |
1,839,610 | Kaback and his associates also developed the first mass screening program for genetic disease carriers. Every aspect of this landmark study was meticulously planned, including community liaison, blood-draw procedure, laboratory set-up, assay protocol, and follow-up genetic counseling. On a Sunday in May 1971, more than... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34209373 | 1,838,558 |
283,512 | Evolutionary psychologists have suggested that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder may reflect a side-effect of genes with fitness benefits, such as increased creativity. (Some individuals with bipolar disorder are especially creative during their manic phases and the close relatives of people with schizophrenia have be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9703 | 283,359 |
336,214 | The word "intelligence" derives from the Latin nouns "intelligentia" or "intellēctus", which in turn stem from the verb "intelligere", to comprehend or perceive. In the Middle Ages, the word "intellectus" became the scholarly technical term for understanding, and a translation for the Greek philosophical term "nous". T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=519280 | 336,036 |
1,941,229 | All international competitions in athletics, including the Olympic games, are governed under the rules of the International Association of Athletics Federations. The IAAF rules define the standard length of the marathon as 42.195 km and specifically state that the course must not be less than this distance. The rules f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18947085 | 1,940,118 |
694,526 | On returning to the United States, Urey received an offer of a National Research Council fellowship to Harvard University, and also received an offer to be a research associate at Johns Hopkins University. He chose the latter. Before taking up the job, he traveled to Seattle, Washington, to visit his mother. On the way... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=453578 | 694,163 |
2,162,130 | It has been demonstrated that TFIIH is a rate-limiting factor for HIV transcription in unactivated T-cells by using a combination of in vivo ChIP experiments and cell-free transcription studies. The ability of NF-κB to rapidly recruit TFIIH during HIV activation in T-cells is an unexpected discovery; however, there are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11368321 | 2,160,895 |
774,221 | Sockets are available in various depths or lengths, often divided by most manufacturers into two categories of "standard" and "deep" according to the ANSI or DIN standard they are made to and the tolerances allowed by those specifications for each length of socket. Because the standards allow for some flexibility in to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1317435 | 773,805 |
677,962 | During this period, Harvard experienced unparalleled growth that securely placed it financially in a league of its own among American colleges. Ronald Story notes that in 1850, Harvard's total assets were "five times that of Amherst and Williams combined, and three times that of Yale". Story also notes that "all the ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4484508 | 677,608 |
1,109,354 | The current trend of increasing use of ECPR is very promising. However the pool of available research of efficacy is limited, with a number of retrospective observational studies and prospective case-controls studies providing the foundation of modern ECPR evidence. Due to the very nature of ECPR, the applications of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46523681 | 1,108,789 |
69,665 | After graduating from high school, Lovell attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison for two years, where he studied engineering under the United States Navy's "Flying Midshipman" program from 1946 to 1948. At Wisconsin, he played college football and pledged to the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity. While Lovell was att... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=344336 | 69,638 |
967,207 | In 2015, several of the scientists in the original group published an update, bringing in new co-authors and new model-based analysis. According to this update, four of the boundaries were crossed: climate change, loss of biosphere integrity, land-system change, altered biogeochemical cycles (phosphorus and nitrogen). ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24458151 | 966,697 |
845,121 | Throughout the 1990s and beginning with MSC 6 (their first ANSI C compliant compiler) Microsoft re-focused their C compilers on the emerging Windows market, and also on OS/2 and in the development of GUI programs. Mixed language compatibility remained through MSC 6 on the MS-DOS side, but the API for Microsoft Windows ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=291615 | 844,671 |
78,524 | A wavelet is a wave-like oscillation with an amplitude that starts out at zero, increases, and then decreases back to zero. It can typically be visualized as a "brief oscillation" that promptly decays. Wavelets can be used to extract information from many different kinds of data, including – but certainly not limited t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=207074 | 78,491 |
31,491 | There are a variety of other chemical sensors for measuring glucose. Given the importance of glucose analysis in the life sciences, numerous optical probes have also been developed for saccharides based on the use of boronic acids, which are particularly useful for intracellular sensory applications where other (optica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12950 | 31,480 |
986,058 | Bird-line archosaurs appear in the fossil record by the Anisian stage of the Middle Triassic about 245 million years ago, represented by the dinosauriform "Asilisaurus". However, Early Triassic fossil footprints reported in 2010 from the Świętokrzyskie (Holy Cross) Mountains of Poland may belong to a more primitive din... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5685796 | 985,543 |
977,365 | The Renaissance period saw renewed interest in the literary sources of the ancient cultures of Greece and Rome, and the fertile development of a new architecture based on classical principles. The treatise "De architectura" by Roman theoretician, architect and engineer Vitruvius, is the only architectural writing that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6938 | 976,854 |
1,048,418 | The glider has little tendency to enter a spin. In order to make spinning possible for training purposes or demonstrations a spin kit is available from the manufacturer. It consists of ballast discs applied to the tail to change the center of gravity according to the weight of the crew. With this device the ASK 21 when... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2858154 | 1,047,873 |
2,137,847 | Severe drought episodes are estimated to have occurred throughout the Holocene epoch. Sediment cores from Wyoming's Yellowstone Lake and carbon-dated bison remains found in lava tubes on the eastern Plain have helped to illustrate this dry history. Yellowstone Lake serves as the main water source for the Columbia-Snake... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54288777 | 2,136,617 |
622,387 | In 1988, the US Supreme Court upheld a regulation whereby the Veterans' Administration was able to avoid paying benefits by presuming that primary alcoholism is always the result of the veteran's "own willful misconduct." The majority opinion written by Justice Byron R. White echoed the District of Columbia Circuit's f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6044476 | 622,055 |
357,084 | The contemporary work of Peter Senge provides detailed discussion of the commonplace critique of educational systems grounded in conventional assumptions about learning, including the problems with fragmented knowledge and lack of holistic learning from the "machine-age thinking" that became a "model of school separate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29238 | 356,898 |
1,878,474 | The university was founded during the Qing Dynasty in 1907 when it was firstly named Jingshi (Peking) Elementary Industrial School. The school changed its name in 1933 to Beiping Municipal Senior Vocational School before the Civil Engineering Division was established in 1936. Approved by the State Council in 1977, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31465347 | 1,877,394 |
728,225 | In some fields of PAR it is believed that an ethics of participation should go beyond avoidance of harm. For participatory settings that engage with marginalized or oppressed populations, including criminal justice, PAR can be mobilized to actively support individuals. An "ethic of empowerment" encourages researchers t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2819542 | 727,841 |
268,028 | Davies Giddy met Davy in Penzance carelessly swinging on the half-gate of Dr Borlase's house, and interested by his talk invited him to his house at Tredrea and offered him the use of his library. This led to his introduction to Dr Edwards, who lived at Hayle Copper House. Edwards was a lecturer in chemistry in the sch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14369 | 267,884 |
1,452,638 | Significant loss of rights and privileges resulted from the change to an academic "Lyceum". Legal jurisdiction over professors and students was no more: in 1783 the right to award Masters and Doctoral degrees was taken over by the Emperor (Bachelor degrees in philosophy were however awarded until 1821), and lectures we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2080773 | 1,451,821 |
325,868 | The sulfate minerals all contain the sulfate anion, [SO]. They tend to be transparent to translucent, soft, and many are fragile. Sulfate minerals commonly form as evaporites, where they precipitate out of evaporating saline waters. Sulfates can also be found in hydrothermal vein systems associated with sulfides, or as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19053 | 325,695 |
817,776 | Cadherins are synthesized as polypeptides and undergo many post-translational modifications to become the proteins which mediate cell-cell adhesion and recognition. These polypeptides are approximately 720–750 amino acids long. Each cadherin has a small C-terminal cytoplasmic component, a transmembrane component, and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1201933 | 817,339 |
3,563 | On the advice of his doctor, Beethoven moved to the small Austrian town of Heiligenstadt, just outside Vienna, from April to October 1802 in an attempt to come to terms with his condition. There he wrote the document now known as the Heiligenstadt Testament, a letter to his brothers which records his thoughts of suicid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17914 | 3,563 |
59,988 | In the days before calculators, people would use mathematical tables—lists of numbers showing the results of calculation with varying arguments—to simplify and speed up computation. Tables of logarithms and trigonometric functions were common in math and science textbooks. Specialized tables were published for applicat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25175 | 59,963 |
1,003,723 | The Chicxulub impact is believed to have triggered earthquakes estimated at magnitude , releasing up to 4000 times the energy of the Tohoku quake. Co-author Mark Richards, a professor of earth sciences focusing on dynamic earth crust processes suggests that the resulting seiche waves would have been approximately high ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60404595 | 1,003,205 |
357,222 | The brigade began publishing a humor magazine called "The Log" in 1913. This magazine was discontinued in 2001 but returned to print in the fall of 2008. Among "The Log's" usual features were "Salty Sam," an anonymous member of the senior class who served as a gossip columnist, and the "Company Cuties," photos of male ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59766 | 357,036 |
1,356,832 | The ship returned to Germany at the end of the year for a refit and was transferred to Norway in June as part of the preparations for Operation Barbarossa. "Z20 Karl Galster" spent some time at the beginning of the campaign conducting anti-shipping patrols in Soviet waters but these were generally fruitless. She escort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31560913 | 1,356,082 |
2,103,223 | Mrs. Dr. Keck refused to stop treating her patients in Illinois and quickly emerged as one of the most formidable opponents to the state's legal reform effort. As she pushed back against the new governmental regulations, Mrs. Dr. Keck became locked in a highly publicized, adversarial relationship with the secretary of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32553497 | 2,102,011 |
1,159,678 | The theorem has also raised concerns about the falsifiability of general equilibrium theory, because it seems to imply that almost any observed pattern of market price and quantity data could be interpreted as being the result of individual utility-maximizing behavior. In other words, Sonnenschein–Mantel–Debreu raises ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4519721 | 1,159,063 |
1,616,299 | During the past two decades, the region has been the object of archaeological investigations at the large Middle and Late Preclassic sites of El Mirador, Nakbe, El Tintal, Wakna, the recently discovered sites of Xulnal and El Pesquero, and numerous smaller settlements, dating mostly to the Classic period, such as La Fl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8698012 | 1,615,388 |
551,239 | The adaptive mechanism of Ethiopian highlanders is quite different. This is probably because their migration to the highland was relatively early; for example, the Amhara have inhabited altitudes above for at least 5,000 years and altitudes around to for more than 70,000 years. Genomic analysis of two ethnic groups, Am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39127332 | 550,951 |
1,115,518 | One could observe that the most effective way to mitigate a threat on the attack tree is to mitigate it as close to the "root" as possible. Although this is theoretically sound, it is not usually possible to simply mitigate a threat without other implications to the continued operation of the system. For example, the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4339301 | 1,114,949 |
1,976,868 | TLR10 is unique among the TLR family in having an anti-inflammatory function, rather than a pro-inflammatory function. This was discovered by over-expressing TLR10 in human cell lines and using antibody-mediated engagement of the receptor on primary human cells. When TLR10 is activated in this manner, it suppresses the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13977422 | 1,975,730 |
199,176 | Parsons' action theory can be characterized as an attempt to maintain the scientific rigour of positivism while acknowledging the necessity of the "subjective dimension" of human action incorporated in hermeneutic types of sociological theories. It is cardinal in Parsons' general theoretical and methodological view tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54041 | 199,073 |
1,049,326 | Incentives and consequences also play a large role in deception in games. Gneezy (2005) studied deception using a cheap talk sender-receiver game. In this type of game player one receives information about the payouts of option A and option B. Then, player one gives a recommendation to player two about which option to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45222866 | 1,048,780 |
1,616,689 | For the next year and a half the group continued to serve in the Southwest Pacific, where it played an important role in the offensives in which the Allies pushed along the northern coast of New Guinea, taking Salamaua, Lae, Hollandia, Wakde, Biak, and Noemfoor. In March 1943 it took part in the Battle of the Bismarck ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25359328 | 1,615,778 |
343,216 | In November 1964, von Braun proposed a more ambitious plan to build a much larger station built from the S-II second stage of a Saturn V. His design replaced the S-IVB third stage with an aeroshell, primarily as an adapter for the CSM on top. Inside the shell was a cylindrical equipment section. On reaching orbit, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29441 | 343,035 |
99,375 | The Carthaginians captured the chief city of the hostile Taurini (in the area of modern Turin) and seized its food stocks. In late November the Carthaginian cavalry routed the cavalry and light infantry of the Romans at the battle of Ticinus. As a result, most of the Gallic tribes declared for the Carthaginian cause an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28563 | 99,332 |
421,932 | The gold-leaf electroscope was one of the instruments used to indicate electric charge. It is still used for science demonstrations but has been superseded in most applications by electronic measuring instruments. The instrument consists of two thin leaves of gold foil suspended from an electrode. When the electrode is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40364 | 421,726 |
1,828,536 | Similar to other ion channels, MscLs are organized as symmetric oligomers with the permeation pathway formed by the packing of subunits around the axis of rotational symmetry. Unlike MscS, which is heptameric, MscL is likely pentameric; although the Sa-MscL appears to be a tetramer in a crystal structure, this may be a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8393459 | 1,827,497 |
51,121 | The male "Colostethus subpunctatus", a tiny frog, protects the egg cluster which is hidden under a stone or log. When the eggs hatch, the male transports the tadpoles on his back, stuck there by a mucous secretion, to a temporary pool where he dips himself into the water and the tadpoles drop off. The male midwife toad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=621 | 51,101 |
2,006,514 | FM uses an implementation of the differential Manchester encoding, an encoding that is used in a number of different fields. A zero in the original data is encoded by a single transition during the period, and ones are encoded as two transitions. For instance, if a byte of data from the original system contains the bit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70460267 | 2,005,365 |
1,958,606 | Tertiapin binds specifically to different subunits of the inward rectifier potassium channel (Kir), namely GIRK1 (Kir 3.1), GIRK4 (Kir 3.4) and ROMK1 (Kir 1.1), inducing a dose-dependent block of the potassium current. It is thought that tertiapin binds to the Kir channel with its α-helix situated at the C-terminal of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24662403 | 1,957,479 |
1,865,606 | Just prior to the postseason, Paul Washe was formally charged with sexual assault. Reportedly, the incident occurred at a party on December 5. The unnamed victim, also a WMU student, testified that Washe had led her into a basement and into a secluded corner. Despite repeated attempts to rebuke his advances, she said W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68619355 | 1,864,533 |
861,042 | The driving conviction was that philosophy should be freed of its technical jargon so that more people would be able to read it. At the same time, all kinds of summaries, paraphrases, and dialogues dealing with philosophical issues were prepared, in order to give their topics a wider dissemination. Humanists also encou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=809629 | 860,583 |
1,909,746 | Examples of military equipment evaluated at the DCC include tents, parachutes, heaters, airbeams, medical devices and wild mills. The heat transfer properties of a wide range of new protective military clothing are tested at the DCC. Constant control of temperature (to within +/- 1 °F) is possible with simultaneous con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9817280 | 1,908,648 |
1,695,351 | Sedimentological data from the Mussentuchit Member indicates that "Eolambia" lived on a poorly-drained floodplain, around a system of large, perennial lakes. The lakes fluctuated between high and low water levels in Milankovitch cycles of roughly 21,000 years, caused by the Earth's axial precession. These cycles is ref... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3534822 | 1,694,399 |
1,477,400 | "Ammophila" builds coastal sand dunes and thus stabilizes the sand. For this reason, the plants are seen as a useful means of reinforcing sand dunes around the world, and have been introduced far from their native range. Alfred Wiedemann writes that "Ammophila arenaria", the European species, "has been introduced into ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=153665 | 1,476,568 |
600,807 | Plants and basal metazoans such as sponges (Porifera) and corals (Anthozoa) do not sequester a distinct germline, generating gametes from multipotent stem cell lineages that also give rise to ordinary somatic tissues. It is therefore likely that germline sequestration first evolved in complex animals with sophisticated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=365938 | 600,501 |
2,198,401 | For the second straight year Princeton entered their rematch with Harvard needing a win to force a third game. Baker was again the star of the game, assisting on Kilner's goal to open the scoring then netting one of his own to tie the match just before the end of the half. Baker's second goal came just past the midway ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63128823 | 2,197,150 |
488,520 | Attaching proteins, nucleic acids, or small molecules to the VLP surface, such as for targeting a specific cell type or for raising an immune response is useful. In some cases a protein of interest can be genetically fused to the viral coat protein. However, this approach sometimes leads to impaired VLP assembly and ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1660995 | 488,270 |
1,628,626 | In early 2020, immunology research focused on finding a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 as part of the inter-departmental COVID-19 Response Team, led by the faculty. Under the leadership of professor Robin Shattock, the team made a significant breakthrough by reducing a part of the normal development time to develop the vac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26242608 | 1,627,707 |
1,535,686 | Modern scientific psychology had an international dimension from its beginnings in the late 19th century. Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920), for instance, the father of modern experimental psychology, supervised approximately 190 doctoral students from at least 10 countries. Similarly, the First International Congress of Physi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12691183 | 1,534,818 |
2,032,226 | Coming into the 1951–52 season off of a 9–15 record the year before, the Broncos remained under the radar. Even during the 1952 Final Four season they were inconsistent: through the first 14 games the Broncos went 7–7, including a three-game losing streak. They found their rhythm on February 1 against San Francisco Sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66135790 | 2,031,056 |
157,818 | A 2–3:1 male-to-female predilection occurs in primary sclerosing cholangitis. PSC can affect men and women at any age, although it is commonly diagnosed in the fourth decade of life, most often in the presence of IBD. PSC progresses slowly and is often asymptomatic, so it can be present for years before it is diagnosed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=864489 | 157,746 |
1,718,711 | Difficulty in monitoring, evaluation, and establishing the evidence base for effective EbA. Confusion around what Ecosystem-based Adaptation means has led to an array of different methodologies used for assessments, and the lack of consistent and comparable quantitative measures of EbA success and failure makes it diff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60945092 | 1,717,741 |
909,366 | In Japan, in 2013, the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science began planning an exascale system for 2020, intended to consume less than 30 megawatts. In 2014, Fujitsu was awarded a contract by RIKEN to develop a next-generation supercomputer to succeed the K computer. The successor is called Fugaku, and aim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25479785 | 908,887 |
1,650,464 | From First Fortran (1957) onwards, separate compilation of portions of a program has been possible, supporting the creation of libraries of procedures and functions. A procedure in the source file being compiled that invokes a function from such an outside collection must know the type of result returned by the unknown... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2012090 | 1,649,532 |
1,375,731 | Four publications were presented at the CBD COP-10 by The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) initiative: TEEB Ecological and Economic Foundations, TEEB in National and International Policy Making, TEEB in Local and Regional Policy, and TEEB in Business and Enterprise. These, along with an Interim Report re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39613895 | 1,374,970 |
2,049,545 | After finishing his work for the joint-stock company, he founded (1910/1911), again trading under its own name, another factory called "Dr. Alfred Oppenheim", which was connected with a chemical laboratory. The company mainly supplied government agencies and was well known for its railway lighting products. Mid-1930s t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40904850 | 2,048,364 |
158,146 | Although there is no standard for the depth of equipment, nor specifying the outer width and depth of the rack enclosure itself (incorporating the structure, doors and panels that contain the mounting rails), there is a tendency for 4-post racks to be or wide, and for them to be , or deep. This of course varies by manu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35836 | 158,065 |
92,894 | The importance of antibodies in health care and the biotechnology industry demands knowledge of their structures at high resolution. This information is used for protein engineering, modifying the antigen binding affinity, and identifying an epitope, of a given antibody. X-ray crystallography is one commonly used metho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2362 | 92,853 |
104,150 | Work on an upgraded weapon began in 1990. In the upgrade program, all three major systems and seven minor systems were improved. The modifications began with introducing a chrome-lined barrel, an enhanced feeder, and an enhanced receiver. The weapon systems also received minor upgrades such as quick-detachable link cov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1561727 | 104,105 |
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