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426,056 | Electron analyzers that use a slit to prevent the mixing of momentum and energy channels are only capable of taking angular maps along one direction. To take maps over energy and two-dimensional momentum space, either the sample is rotated in the proper direction so that the slit receives electrons from adjacent emissi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7078310 | 425,848 |
953,395 | Notably, cyberpunk has influenced film, in works such as "Johnny Mnemonic" and "The Matrix" series, in anime such as "Akira" and "Ghost in the Shell", and the emerging medium of video games, with the critically acclaimed "Deus Ex" and "Metal Gear" series. This entrance of cyberpunk into mainstream culture has led to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3387802 | 952,890 |
174,955 | After the 2011 Croatian parliamentary election, the new SDP-led government terminated the existing construction contract worth 1.94 billion HRK ( €259 million) for lack of funds in May 2012. At the same time, plans were made to use the bridge construction sites as new ferry docking sites. There was also discussion rega... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4722829 | 174,864 |
1,935,120 | In the finite symmetric group, the Robinson–Schensted correspondence gives a bijection between the group and pairs formula_220 of standard Young tableaux of the same shape. This bijection plays a central role in the combinatorics and the representation theory of the symmetric group. For example, in the language of Kazh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67465897 | 1,934,012 |
1,813,274 | Rehydroxylation [RHX] dating is a developing method for dating fired-clay ceramics. It is based on the fact that after a ceramic specimen is removed from the kiln at the time of production, it immediately begins to recombine chemically with moisture from the environment. This reaction reincorporates hydroxyl (OH) group... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27048957 | 1,812,240 |
1,920,364 | She joined the United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) after the end of the war. At the NRL, her husband Jerome developed "direct methods" for analyzing structure of crystals. However, for many years the crystallographic community remained skeptical about their utility. Isabella Karle was the first person to appl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19305500 | 1,919,261 |
1,707,846 | While the initiative was first proposed in 1978, prior to the Ariane 1's first flight, approval to commence the first phase of development was not received until July 1979. The bulk of development work on the new launcher occurred between 1980 and 1982. The Ariane 3 was designed to satisfy the future demand for the del... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=159328 | 1,706,888 |
1,417,682 | In 2020, the company appointed Troy Cox, former board of directors member, as its new chairman, and Lara Hashimoto as chief business officer. In August, the company released a data analysis solution that was focused on predicting the disease evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The platform’s AI system was designed to co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61237696 | 1,416,883 |
470,145 | In 1905, from special relativity, Einstein deduced mass–energy equivalence, particles being variant forms of distributed energy, how particles colliding at vast speed experience that energy's transformation into mass, producing heavier particles, although physicists' talk promotes confusion. As "the contemporary locus ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1845675 | 469,909 |
998,132 | The skeletons of two women were found in the grave with the ship. One, probably aged around 80, suffered badly from arthritis. The older woman also had Morgagni's syndrome, which would have given her a masculine appearance and beard. The second was initially believed to be aged 25–30, but analysis of tooth-root translu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1061074 | 997,614 |
1,004,020 | Strategic Studies Institute writer and United States Army War College professor Antulio J. Echevarria II, in his article "Fourth-Generation War and Other Myths", argues what is being called "fourth generation warfare" are simply insurgencies. He also claims that 4GW was "reinvented" by Lind to create the appearance of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1237547 | 1,003,502 |
1,116,778 | Industrial use requires consideration of the environment in which the equipment must operate. Factory equipment must tolerate a wider range of temperature, vibration, physical contamination and electrical noise than equipment installed in dedicated information-technology wiring closets. Since critical process control m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2125485 | 1,116,205 |
157,969 | Hamilton was the fastest in Q1 and Q2 during qualifying at the Russian Grand Prix, but wasn't unable to set a faster lap time in Q3, due to making contact with the pit wall while on the way to change his tyres to slicks. Resulting a front wing damage and he couldn't get his tyres up to temperature as he was forced to s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62264910 | 157,892 |
2,019,129 | Meissner grew up in Berlin, Germany, where she attended the Französisches Gymnasium Berlin. Meissner completed an engineering degree at the Ecole Centrale de Lille in 1995. Meissner moved to the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, France where she investigated the predictability of the West African monsoon base... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58100475 | 2,017,966 |
928,461 | In late 2017, users of Apple, Inc. older iPhone models discovered evidence that recent updates to the phone's operating system, iOS, were purposely throttling the speed of the phone. This led many to accuse Apple of deliberately sabotaging the performance of older iPhones to compel customers to buy new models more freq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56788383 | 927,973 |
1,837,257 | Where formula_6 is the intrinsic carrier radiative lifetime of the bulk material, formula_7 is the differential gain, formula_8 is the group velocity, formula_9 is the photon lifetime, formula_10 is the lasing frequency, formula_11 is the spontaneous emission coupling factor which is enhanced by the Purcell effect, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44594133 | 1,836,208 |
1,520,060 | Chapter two, "Seeking Answers", proceeds to examine the various different interpretative approaches that scholars have taken to the Upper Palaeolithic cave art of Europe. Noting the problems innate with using the term "art", he nevertheless believes it can still be used in this context with caution. From there, he look... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34228559 | 1,519,202 |
1,092,151 | Oil-shale extraction can damage the biological and recreational value of land and the ecosystem in the mining area. Combustion and thermal processing generate waste material. In addition, the atmospheric emissions from oil shale processing and combustion include carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. Environmentalists oppos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12321977 | 1,091,591 |
1,079,409 | In 1976, John Moore was treated for hairy cell leukemia by physician David Golde, a cancer researcher at the UCLA Medical Center. Moore's cancer cells were later developed into a cell line that was commercialized by Golde and UCLA. The California Supreme Court ruled that a hospital patient's discarded blood and tissue ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4217717 | 1,078,854 |
685,539 | At the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, many coastal fortifications already protected the Atlantic coast. Prior to independence from Britain the colonies bore cost and responsibilities for their own protection. Urgency would wax and wane based on the political climate in Europe. Most defenses were artillery... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13422946 | 685,182 |
1,582,549 | Overall measurements from OCO-3 will help quantify sources and sinks of carbon dioxide from terrestrial ecosystems, the oceans, and from anthropogenic sources. Due to the ISS orbit, measurements will be made at latitudes less than 52°. Data from OCO-3 are expected to significantly improve understanding of global emissi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59987820 | 1,581,659 |
560,672 | Suppose we have a shared memory area (critical section) with the basic constraints detailed above. It is possible to protect the shared data behind a mutual exclusion mutex, in which case no two threads can access the data at the same time. However, this solution is sub-optimal, because it is possible that a reader "R"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4189100 | 560,383 |
1,656,520 | Federation Square, a building complex in Melbourne, Australia, features the pinwheel tiling. In the project, the tiling pattern is used to create the structural sub-framing for the facades, allowing for the facades to be fabricated off-site, in a factory and later erected to form the facades. The pinwheel tiling system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9402045 | 1,655,587 |
251,293 | In 2013, media reports claimed that the first batch of helicopters delivered to Turkish Army for trials did not meet the requirements of the contract, specifically in terms of "vibration, balance, weight". The T129 was nose-heavy; to resolve this, 137 kg was added to the tail, causing the total weight to exceed the spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23527536 | 251,160 |
75,021 | What already has been observed directly in many systems are the lower non-relativistic velocities of matter orbiting further out from what are presumed to be black holes. Direct Doppler measures of water masers surrounding the nuclei of nearby galaxies have revealed a very fast Keplerian motion, only possible with a hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=215706 | 74,994 |
2,194,015 | Astumian earned a bachelor's degree, followed by a master's degree in chemistry from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1978 and 1982. He obtained a doctorate in mathematical science and physical chemistry from the same institution the next year. Astumian is a professor at the University of Maine. In 2000, he was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70743900 | 2,192,765 |
1,911,671 | Acidithiobacillus caldus formerly belonged to the genus "Thiobacillus" prior to 2000, when it was reclassified along with a number of other bacterial species into one of three new genera that better categorize sulfur-oxidizing acidophiles. As a member of the Gammaproteobacteria class of Pseudomonadota, "A. caldus" may ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40620853 | 1,910,572 |
1,035,832 | A research project involving positive use of video games is outlined in an article that focuses on studies that suggest there are health benefits to playing video games. This article presents information from studies from the University of Utah, Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, 2009's "Annual Review of Cybert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10527118 | 1,035,292 |
193,658 | Al-Kindi says that the soul is a simple, immaterial substance, which is related to the material world only because of its faculties which operate through the physical body. To explain the nature of our worldly existence, he (borrowing from Epictetus) compares it to a ship which has, during the course of its ocean voyag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=272065 | 193,558 |
326,837 | Neo-Malthusianism is the advocacy of human population planning to ensure resources and environmental integrities for current and future human populations as well as for other species. In Britain the term 'Malthusian' can also refer more specifically to arguments made in favour of preventive birth control, hence organiz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1454728 | 326,663 |
338,315 | Many cladistic analyses have since suggested that at least some genera can be assigned to the Brachiosauridae, and that this group is a basal branch within the Titanosauriformes. The exact status of each potential brachiosaurid varies from study to study. For example, a 2010 study by Chure and colleagues recognized "Ab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20598015 | 338,135 |
737,514 | Often, a transmission has multiple gear ratios (or simply "gears") with the ability to switch between them as the speed varies. This switching may be done manually (by the operator) or automatically (by a control unit). Directional (forward and reverse) control may also be provided. Single-ratio transmissions also exis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=609147 | 737,125 |
1,770,642 | Each geyser's characteristic form appears to depend on a combination of such factors as local fluid or gas composition and pressure, ice thickness, underlying gravel type, local climate and meteorological conditions. The geysers' boundary does not seem to correlate with any other properties of the surface such as eleva... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18418502 | 1,769,645 |
1,737,891 | The alternative method used for modeling the otolithic membrane is the finite difference method, while the finite element method has advantages in handling complicated geometry, while difference method is more easily implemented. Difference models impose a rectangular grid over the shape of the otolithic membrane and u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5109550 | 1,736,914 |
187,239 | External validity is the extent to which results obtained from a study sample can be generalized "to" some well-specified population of interest, and "across" subpopulations of people, times, contexts, and methods of study. Lynch has argued that generalizing "to" a population is almost never possible because the popula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11864322 | 187,142 |
1,248,325 | Two filter canisters are issued for the FM12, as with the S10; a light pressed metal type for riot control situations or training (marked with a painted red stripe or red tape), and a heavier plastic-encased type for protection against CBRN agents. The latter have a maximum shelf-life of 10 years, and the mask itself (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37617951 | 1,247,649 |
1,711,004 | Seabirds are one of the only avian families that include ritualized dances in their courtship. These dances are complex and can include displays and vocalizations that vary greatly between families and orders. Albatrosses are well known for their intricate mating dances. All species of albatross have some form of ritua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30722380 | 1,710,041 |
598,776 | By 2013, the same team of researchers used multiple sonar observations to quantify the density of bubbles emanating from subsea permafrost into the ocean (a process called ebullition), and found that 100–630 mg methane per square meter is emitted daily along the East Siberian Arctic Shelf (ESAS), into the water column.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5069503 | 598,471 |
2,205,285 | Meetings are held monthly, except in some winter months, at the Niles Historical & Cultural Center. Originally meetings were held at the Field Museum of Natural History, and later at North Park Village Nature Center, both in Chicago. The meetings usually include a lecture from a professional mycologist or author and ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57025907 | 2,204,030 |
997,994 | On 31 May, "Tennessee" and the heavy cruiser steamed out of San Pedro, bound for Adak, Alaska, where they arrived on 9 June. On arrival, Rear Admiral Howard Kingman, the commander of Battleship Division Two, came aboard the ship. The ship joined Task Force 16, which had been organized to support the Aleutian Islands Ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196975 | 997,476 |
874,771 | The morula is produced by a series of cleavage divisions of the early embryo, starting with the single-celled zygote. Once the embryo has divided into 16 cells, it begins to resemble a mulberry, hence the name morula (Latin, "morus": mulberry). Within a few days after fertilization, cells on the outer part of the morul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=222157 | 874,309 |
625,284 | Many European folk and traditional repertories also feature quintuple meter. This is particularly true of Slavic cultural groups. The Bulgarian "paidushko" dance, for example, is in a fast , counted . In north-eastern Poland (especially in Kurpie, Masuria, and northern Podlaskie), five-beat bars are frequently found in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29834609 | 624,951 |
69,931 | Criticality in nature is uncommon. At three ore deposits at Oklo in Gabon, sixteen sites (the so-called Oklo Fossil Reactors) have been discovered at which self-sustaining nuclear fission took place approximately 2 billion years ago. Unknown until 1972 (but postulated by Paul Kuroda in 1956), when French physicist Fran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22054 | 69,904 |
60,316 | The Mirage 2000N is a dedicated nuclear-strike variant, which was intended to carry the Air-Sol Moyenne Portée (ASMP) nuclear stand-off missile. Flight tests of the first of two prototypes, Mirage 2000N 01 (the eighth Mirage 2000) began on 3 February 1983. During the 65-minute flight, the aircraft reached a speed of Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=381535 | 60,291 |
381,385 | Doppler arteriography, with probes at the fingertips and arms, tests the force and "smoothness" of the blood flow through the radial arteries, with and without having the patient perform various arm maneuvers (which causes compression of the subclavian artery at the thoracic outlet). The movements can elicit symptoms o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=759166 | 381,190 |
689,503 | Adaptive bit rate over HTTP was created by the DVD Forum at the WG1 Special Streaming group in October 2002. The group was co-chaired by Toshiba and Phoenix Technologies, The expert group count with the collaboration of Microsoft, Apple Computer, DTS Inc., Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Digital Deluxe, Disney, Macr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27959061 | 689,141 |
2,021,881 | Blue dinitrogen trioxide (NO) is only available as a solid because it rapidly dissociates above its melting point to give nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide (NO), and dinitrogen tetroxide (NO). The latter two compounds are somewhat difficult to study individually because of the equilibrium between them, although sometimes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5704794 | 2,020,718 |
38,810 | Blue dinitrogen trioxide (NO) is only available as a solid because it rapidly dissociates above its melting point to give nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide (NO), and dinitrogen tetroxide (NO). The latter two compounds are somewhat difficult to study individually because of the equilibrium between them, although sometimes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21175 | 38,796 |
463,696 | Quite recently yet another scheme has been proposed for the deuterium separation using Trojan wavepackets in circularly polarized electromagnetic field. The process of Trojan wave packet formation by the adiabatic-rapid passage depends in ultra-sensitive way on the reduced electron and nucleus mass which with the same ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37197 | 463,466 |
1,653,391 | In late 1994, Carsten Peter Thiede proposed redating the Magdalen papyrus to the middle of the 1st century (AD 37 to 70). This attracted considerable publicity, as journalists interpreted the claim optimistically. Thiede's official article appeared in "Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik" in 1995. A version edit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=991400 | 1,652,459 |
116,545 | Much of his work in mathematical modelling of chemical processes can be thought of as early computational chemistry. In further work, published in book form as "Applications of dynamics to physics and chemistry" (1888), Thomson addressed the transformation of energy in mathematical and theoretical terms, suggesting tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70085 | 116,500 |
1,403,315 | The overall design of the AHWR is to utilize large amounts of thorium and the thorium cycle. The AHWR is much like that of the pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR), in that they share similarities in the concept of the pressure tubes and calandria tubes, but the tubes' orientation in the AHWR is vertical, unlike that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4028565 | 1,402,525 |
176,036 | The major differences of the 350 in comparison to other GM V8s are Buick's "deep-skirt" engine block construction, the use of cast iron with increased nickel content, an external oil pump, a forward-mounted distributor, under-square cylinder bore sizing, crankshaft main journals, and connecting rods. The Buick 350 also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1084072 | 175,944 |
1,768,961 | Other features include visualization of ntopng, ntop, wireshark, traceroute, NetFlow and kismet data by geolocating the host addresses, IPv4 Address conversation, traceroute data and wireless access points and displaying them via Google Earth or a Mercator World Map bit image, a browser-based packet capture and protoco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19103396 | 1,767,967 |
114,042 | Erythropoietin was reported to have a range of actions beyond stimulation of erythropoiesis including vasoconstriction-dependent hypertension, stimulating angiogenesis, and promoting cell survival via activation of EPO receptors resulting in anti-apoptotic effects on ischemic tissues. However this proposal is controver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217732 | 113,997 |
1,137,708 | The technology may be used to determine whether a potential drug is disease modifying. For example, in humans G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are a large family of around 880 cell surface proteins that transduce extra-cellular changes in the environment into a cell response, like triggering an increase in blood pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5824073 | 1,137,115 |
452,241 | A fire pump usually refers to a pressure-increasing component of the water supply for fixed-place fire suppression systems such as fire sprinklers, standpipes, and foam systems. Fire pumps are also a critical component integrated into fire trucks and fire boats, and serve a similar purpose boosting water supplies for f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3671608 | 452,022 |
533,965 | Some of the early developmental differences were identified in the first year of life in a study in Finland, although generally related to all psychotic disorders rather than schizophrenia specifically. The early subtle motor signs persisted to some extent, showing a small link to later school performance in adolescenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11304934 | 533,686 |
1,071,453 | At the next meeting in 1968, the Soviets presented considerable data from their devices that showed even greater performance, about 100 times the Bohm diffusion limit. An enormous argument broke out between the AEC and the various labs about whether this was real. When a UK team verified the results in 1969, the AEC su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39825 | 1,070,899 |
850,983 | Rotary-vane pumps are also a common type of vacuum pump, with two-stage pumps able to reach pressures well below 10 bar. These are found in such applications as providing braking assistance in large trucks and diesel-powered passenger cars (whose engines do not generate intake vacuum) through a braking booster, in most... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4055584 | 850,530 |
2,011,468 | The Achilles heel of Fisher's approach lies in the joint distribution of more than one parameter, say mean and variance of a Gaussian distribution. On the contrary, with the last approach (and above-mentioned methods: population bootstrap and twisting argument) we may learn the joint distribution of many parameters. Fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20890511 | 2,010,315 |
1,918,149 | Surface monitoring is used to check the integrity of caps on waste and check on borehole monitoring. It may give preliminary indications of the migration of gas off-site. The typical regulatory limit of methane is 500 parts per million (ppm) by volume (in California, AB 32 may push this limit down to 200 ppm). In the U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6472972 | 1,917,049 |
1,682,793 | Means of diagnosis became increasingly evidence-based and impersonal. The factors considered in diagnosis shifted away from patient narrative in favor of physicians' observations. Doctors of the period, including François Victor Mérat de Vaumartoise (who studied under Jean-Nicolas Corvisart), noted the likelihood of pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53106139 | 1,681,850 |
1,526,365 | The model was implemented in the modeling toolkit Repast using the JAVA programming language. The model was run in daily time steps and focused on the autumn and winter seasons. Input data for the model included habitat data, daily minimum, maximum, and mean temperatures, and wind speed and direction. For the Aphid age... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29782518 | 1,525,502 |
1,563,867 | Inhibition of Ca1.3 can be achieved using calcium channel blockers, such as dihydropyridines (DHPs). These drugs are used since decades to treat arterial hypertension and angina. This is due to their potent vasorelaxant properties, which are mediated by the inhibition of Ca1.2 L-type calcium channels in arterial smooth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14819060 | 1,562,980 |
909,153 | Members of the biotite group are found in a wide variety of igneous and metamorphic rocks. For instance, biotite occurs in the lava of Mount Vesuvius and in the Monzoni intrusive complex of the western Dolomites. Biotite in granite tends to be poorer in magnesium than the biotite found in its volcanic equivalent, rhyol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5047 | 908,674 |
97,133 | The AN/BQQ-5 system was replaced by the AN/BQQ-10 system. Acoustic Rapid Commercial Off-The-Shelf Insertion (A-RCI), designated AN/BQQ-10, is a four-phase program for transforming existing submarine sonar systems (AN/BSY-1, AN/BQQ-5, and AN/BQQ-6) from legacy systems to a more capable and flexible COTS/Open System Arch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18504 | 97,092 |
1,168,960 | Abused women often have higher rates of unplanned and problematic pregnancies, abortions, neonatal and infant health issues, sexually transmitted infections (including HIV), and mental disorders (such as depression, anxiety disorders, sleep disorders and eating disorders) as compared to their non-abused peers. During p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38846583 | 1,168,342 |
1,109,322 | McDougall was a strong advocate of the scientific method and academic professionalisation in psychical research. He was instrumental in establishing parapsychology as a university discipline in the US in the early 1930s. The traditional historiography of psychical research, dominated by the ‘winners’ of the race for ‘t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1209907 | 1,108,757 |
364,825 | Input from General Dynamics helped resolve many of the software issues associated with 3D CAD; General Dynamics was also responsible for the introduction of vertical outfitting and other construction techniques. Consequently, much rework was needed on "Astute" now that detailed designs were complete. On 8 June 2007 "As... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186252 | 364,634 |
835,931 | SpaceX's Crew-1 mission, the first operational flight in the program, carried Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, Soichi Noguchi, and Shannon Walker to the ISS in November 2020 aboard "Resilience". "Resilience" was originally planned to be used for Crew-2, but was reassigned following a scheduling change resulting from the ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64072812 | 835,482 |
746,587 | Modern quantitative investment management was first introduced from the research of Edward Thorp, a mathematics professor at New Mexico State University (1961–1965) and University of California, Irvine (1965–1977). Considered the "Father of Quantitative Investing", Thorp sought to predict and simulate blackjack, a card... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29295573 | 746,192 |
30,536 | One rather complex task that falls to STScI is scheduling observations for the telescope. Hubble is in a low-Earth orbit to enable servicing missions, but this means most astronomical targets are occulted by the Earth for slightly less than half of each orbit. Observations cannot take place when the telescope passes th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40203 | 30,526 |
584,003 | The use of reflection seismology in studies of tectonics and the Earth's crust was pioneered in the 1970s by groups such as the Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (COCORP), who inspired deep seismic exploration in other countries such as BIRPS in Great Britain and ECORS in France. The British Institutions ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=676418 | 583,704 |
1,986,834 | Cassini's Division hit the studio of Universal Music Publishing in the middle of 2014 to record their second album titled "Animal Wisdom" with Universal resident recording engineer Devashis Ray. This album includes works of Rahul which predates the band's 2010 debut album Ringside View. The album revolves around the co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28715093 | 1,985,692 |
1,413,140 | The work by the RN and RCN teams was well known to the USN starting as early as 1946, and included live demonstrations of the Canadian system on Lake Ontario. They also built their own version of the Royal Navy's concept as the "Electronic Data System", and 20 sets were eventually produced by Motorola. In 1953 they pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2026808 | 1,412,344 |
366,753 | SDI was an extremely ambitious program to provide a total shield against a massive Soviet ICBM attack. The initial concept envisioned large sophisticated orbiting laser battle stations, space-based relay mirrors, and nuclear-pumped X-ray laser satellites. Later research indicated that some planned technologies such as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1791 | 366,561 |
1,262,860 | The Jewish community in Poland suffered the most in the ensuing Holocaust. From amongst the 6 million Polish citizens who perished during the occupation of Poland in World War II, roughly half (or 3 million) were Polish Jews murdered at the Nazi extermination camps of Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek, Belzec, Sobibór, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2125860 | 1,262,172 |
188,623 | Air pollutants have a negative impact on plant growth, primarily through interfering with resource accumulation. Once leaves are in close contact with the atmosphere, many air pollutants, such as O3 and NOx, affect the metabolic function of the leaves and interfere with net carbon fixation by the plant canopy. Air poll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23754906 | 188,526 |
1,106,713 | During 1962-1964 phage T4 researchers provided an opportunity to study the function of virtually all of the genes that are essential for growth of the bacteriophage under laboratory conditions. These studies were facilitated by the discovery of two classes of conditional lethal mutants. One class of such mutants is kno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4173711 | 1,106,149 |
831,848 | In the minicomputer ancestors of the modern personal computer, processing was carried out by circuits with large numbers of components arranged on multiple large printed circuit boards. Minicomputers were consequently physically large and expensive to produce compared with later microprocessor systems. After the "compu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=264051 | 831,399 |
647,589 | In 1998, he won the fellowship of the Royal Society on being nominated by the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. His contributions include the entropy function formalism for extremal black holes and its applications to attractors. His recent important works include the attractor mechanism and the precision counting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=644615 | 647,249 |
432,407 | On 13 September 2006, the RepRap 0.2 prototype printed the first part identical to its own, which was then substituted for the original part created by a commercial 3D printer. On 9 February 2008, RepRap 1.0 "Darwin" made at least one instance of over half its rapid-prototyped parts. On 14 April 2008, RepRap made an en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1993025 | 432,194 |
175,750 | Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 to 1927, took up the effort, and in January 1915, Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, and Representative Ernest W. Roberts introduced identical resolutions recommending the creation of an advisory committee as outlined by Walcott. The purpose of the commit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=192347 | 175,658 |
851,698 | The Centuriate assembly () was formed under the monarchy, and widely seen by the ancients as a means of allotting voting privileges in proportion to military duties demanded of the citizenry, disproportionately granting voting power to the richest in society, as at the time of its formation, the wealthiest were also ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12170961 | 851,245 |
1,135,187 | In dung flies, the observed values of copulation time and time searching for another mate vary with body weight. Heavier males have shorter search times and shorter copulation times. These shorter search times are likely due to increased cost of travel with increased body weight; shorter copulation times probably refle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1481355 | 1,134,594 |
1,364,102 | Hydrogen is a chemical element with an atomic number of 1. It has just one proton and one electron. Deuterium is the heavier naturally occurring, non-radioactive, stable isotope of hydrogen. Deuterium was discovered by Harold Urey in 1931, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1934. The deuterium isotope effect has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43496222 | 1,363,346 |
771,760 | Cases of extrasolar planets close to a 1:2 mean-motion resonance are fairly common. Sixteen percent of systems found by the transit method are reported to have an example of this (with period ratios in the range 1.83–2.18), as well as one sixth of planetary systems characterized by Doppler spectroscopy (with in this ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22444 | 771,346 |
1,391,954 | The PCRA is mandated to promote popular awareness of the importance of energy conservation. It cites an international acceptance that energy efficiency measures, like turning off car engines at traffic signals and driving at speeds of 45–50 km/h, could help most countries to reduce their use of petroleum products by 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27217839 | 1,391,183 |
397,938 | A memorial to Resnik and the rest of the crew of "Challenger" was dedicated in Seabrook, Texas, where she lived while stationed at the Johnson Space Center. She is also commemorated on the Space Mirror Memorial at the Kennedy Space Center. The IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award was established in 1986 by the Institute of Elec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=316815 | 397,742 |
173,320 | Cohort studies represent one of the fundamental designs of epidemiology which are used in research in the fields of medicine, pharmacy, nursing, psychology, social science, and in any field reliant on 'difficult to reach' answers that are based on evidence (statistics). In medicine for instance, while clinical trials a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=397271 | 173,229 |
607,685 | Results of a single fecal sample should be interpreted cautiously, as there is a high rate of false negativity associated with the test. Using three cards, each on a different day, is recommended to improve sensitivity. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in a 2006–2007 survey found extensive inappropr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7863406 | 607,374 |
679,667 | Most Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū variants headed by instructors other than Risuke Ōtake do not require keppan. However, Risuke Ōtake regarded the keppan as a strict requirement for all candidates seeking entrance into his school in order to preserve the secrecy and integrity of the ryū's teachings. Even so, studen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234251 | 679,313 |
873,233 | There is the potential for mining at a range of scales within the oceans from small to very large. Technologies involved in the mining of seabed minerals would be highly technological, and involve a range of robotic mining machines, as well as surface ships, and metal refineries at onshore locations. One vision for the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10431114 | 872,773 |
1,352,636 | Prout, therefore, advocates an economic democracy where the decision-making power for the economic future of a community is given to its inhabitants. Economic democracy is not a new term, but Sarkar reinvents it by setting four requirements for what he considers a successful one. The first and foremost requirement is g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=851574 | 1,351,890 |
2,023,714 | Danionella translucida is an extremely small (1.1 cm long) species of cyprinid fish endemic to Myanmar. When described, it was considered to be one of the smallest fish. It was collected from the roots of floating aquatic plants in a slow-flowing, shallow stream (maximum depth 1 m) in the Pegu Division of Myanmar. It w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3227652 | 2,022,550 |
5,519 | Writing first appeared in association with kingship on labels and tags for items found in royal tombs. It was primarily an occupation of the scribes, who worked out of the "Per Ankh" institution or the House of Life. The latter comprised offices, libraries (called House of Books), laboratories and observatories. Some o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=874 | 5,516 |
1,279,936 | In 1993, their postdoctoral trainees, Wang Xiaodong and Michael Briggs, purified the Sterol Regulatory Element-Binding Proteins (SREBPs), a family of membrane-bound transcription factors. Since 1993, Goldstein, Brown, and their colleagues have described the unexpectedly complex machinery that proteolytically releases t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1319809 | 1,279,241 |
928,804 | In April 1941, United States Navy officer Marc Mitscher proposed that the Navy develop amphibious gliders with flying-boat hulls with a goal of deploying an amphibious glider force capable of delivering an entire United States Marine Corps brigade of 715 men to a hostile beachhead, the gliders to be towed by Consolidat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3482374 | 928,313 |
366,537 | On the day of the impact, Bloomberg News reported that the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs had suggested the investigation of creating an "Action Team on Near-Earth Objects", a proposed global asteroid warning network system, in face of 's approach. As a result of the impact, two scientists in California ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38528850 | 366,345 |
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