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1,819,870 | Algorithmic complexity is the rate in which an algorithm performs. Although there are multiple ways to solve a computational problem, the best and most effective way in doing so matters. All factors such as the hardware, networking, programming language, and performance constraints play into the time a program takes to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27733786 | 1,818,835 |
1,232,157 | Brain–machine interfaces (BMIs) have been developed within the last 20 years. By recording single unit potentials, these devices can decode signals through a computer and output this signal for control of an external device such as a computer cursor or prosthetic limb. BMIs have the potential to restore function in pat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3581220 | 1,231,495 |
1,571,157 | Recall that a generic quintic threefold formula_3 in formula_5 is defined by a homogeneous polynomial of degree formula_22. This polynomial is equivalently described as a global section of the line bundle formula_23. Notice the vector space of global sections has dimensionformula_24 but there are two equivalences of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64540037 | 1,570,269 |
918,997 | The northbridge plays an important part in how far a computer can be overclocked, as its frequency is commonly used as a baseline for the CPU to establish its own operating frequency. This chip typically gets hotter as processor speed becomes faster, requiring more cooling. There is a limit to CPU overclocking, as digi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=513883 | 918,514 |
1,320,404 | While teaching at MIT (where he remained until his retirement in 1974), Kepes was in contact with a wide assortment of artists, designers, architects and scientists, among them Pietro Belluschi, Norbert Wiener, Buckminster Fuller, Rudolf Arnheim, Marcel Breuer, Charles Eames, Erik Erikson, Walter Gropius, Maurice K Smi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8755894 | 1,319,678 |
1,458,276 | Biochar (charcoal created through the pyrolysis of biomass) is a potent and stable form of biosequestration derived from investigation of the highly fertile Terra preta soils of the Amazon Basin. Placing biochar in soils also improves water quality, increases soil fertility, raises agricultural productivity, and reduce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24603722 | 1,457,456 |
1,706,257 | In addition to the immunodeficiency-causing viral disease, HIV/AIDS (which is an AIDS-defining clinical condition), recent studies have diagnosed PBL in individuals who have one or more other causes for immunodeficiency. These causes include prior organ transplantation; immunosuppressive drugs; autoimmune and chronic i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36982384 | 1,705,299 |
818,811 | Ultrasound imaging is useful as the first-line, non-invasive investigation in determining the size, texture, position, and vascularity of a nodule, accessing lymph nodes metastasis in the neck, and for guiding fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) or biopsy. Ultrasonographic findings will also guide the indication to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13581791 | 818,371 |
1,672,901 | The European Space Agency (ESA) was established in May 1975 as the merger of the European Space Research Organisation (ESRO) and the European Launcher Development Organisation. In 1970, the governing Launch Programme Advisory Committee (LPAC) of ESRO made a decision not to execute astronomy or planetary missions, which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60457571 | 1,671,959 |
1,966,293 | Michigan's chosen -wide World War II-surplus antenna was theoretically capable of resolution, but data from only 10% of the beamwidth was used at first, the goal at that time being to demonstrate resolution. It was understood that finer resolution would require the added development of means for sensing departures of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71515213 | 1,965,164 |
595,863 | Recent statistics support the assertion that Israel may be living on the ‘fruits of the past’, that is to say, on the heavy investment made in primary, secondary and tertiary education during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Between 2007 and 2013, the number of graduates in physical sciences, biological sciences and agricul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=397525 | 595,558 |
354,659 | Webber began driving motorbikes on weekends from about age four or five on his maternal grandfather's farm. Webber was not encouraged to seriously take up motorcycling by his father, because he sponsored some local children who were injured in motorbike accidents. At about 12 or 13, he switched to karting, buying a go-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564161 | 354,476 |
1,329,949 | The first step to becoming a dentist in Brazil is to take a 10-subject examination (Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Literature, one of the 5 main Languages offered by the institutions, Portuguese, History, Geography and an Essay) which might be compared to the SAT exam in the US. These examinations vary from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8978514 | 1,329,220 |
13,288 | In 1975, Germany also received 10 F-4Es for training in the U.S. In the late 1990s, these were withdrawn from service after being replaced by F-4Fs. In 1982, the initially unarmed RF-4Es were given a secondary ground attack capability; these aircraft were retired in 1994. The F-4F was upgraded in the mid-1980s. Germany... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11759 | 13,283 |
1,552,627 | The term macromolecular assembly (MA) refers to massive chemical structures such as viruses and non-biologic nanoparticles, cellular organelles and membranes and ribosomes, etc. that are complex mixtures of polypeptide, polynucleotide, polysaccharide or other polymeric macromolecules. They are generally of more than on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36128950 | 1,551,746 |
164,929 | Other, long-standing controversies underscore the role for conflicts of interest among medical school faculty and researchers. For example, coverage of University of California (UC) medical school faculty members has included news of ongoing corporate payments to researchers and practitioners from companies that market... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50355 | 164,844 |
1,154,332 | Seeking to improve its ships' anti-submarine capabilities, the RCN pioneered the use of large ship-borne helicopters on small surface ships like destroyers in the rough waters of the North Atlantic and Pacific. The recovery of helicopters to a wildly pitching flight deck was made possible by the invention of the "Bear ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=293384 | 1,153,722 |
299,588 | The first major revision of the MMPI was the MMPI-2, which was standardized on a new national sample of adults in the United States and released in 1989. The new standardization was based on 2,600 individuals from a more representative background than the MMPI. It is appropriate for use with adults 18 and over. Subsequ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=446184 | 299,427 |
1,569,379 | Her main creation in 1953, one which endured for twenty years, was the Cambridge Language Research Unit, which grew out of an informal discussion group with a very heterogeneous membership interested in language from philosophical and computational points of view. Subsequently, the attempt to build language processing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25850319 | 1,568,492 |
1,327,012 | The majority of recreational divers do not do penetration dives or dives exceeding the no-decompression limit, and can safely ascend directly to the surface at any point of a dive. Such ascents do not use a large volume of gas, and these divers are commonly taught to start the ascent at a given remaining pressure in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33700393 | 1,326,285 |
9,196 | On October 14, 1990, United Airlines became the 777's launch customer when it placed an order for 34 Pratt & Whitney-powered aircraft valued at US$11 billion with options on an additional 34. The development phase coincided with United's replacement program for its aging DC-10s. United required that the new aircraft be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89260 | 9,192 |
1,264,841 | Technology during the Tang period was built also upon the precedents of the past. The mechanical gear systems of Zhang Heng (78-139) and Ma Jun (fl. 3rd century) gave the Tang engineer, astronomer, and monk Yi Xing (683-727) inspiration when he invented the world's first clockwork escapement mechanism in 725. This was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31641740 | 1,264,153 |
1,340,963 | The acceptable range of HCPs in a final pharmaceutical product is large due to limitations with the detection and analytical methods that currently exist. Analysis of HCPs is complex as the HCP mixture consists of a large variety of protein species, all of which are unique to the specific host organisms, and unrelated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58630953 | 1,340,230 |
2,195,469 | In 1909 WHB & family departed Adelaide for England & JPVM returned to Sydney University with his family & in an effort to keep JPVM abreast of research mainly in England & Germany, WHB wrote lengthy letters from Leeds also making arrangements for a new large & very expensive supply of Radium from Braunschweig funded to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52676648 | 2,194,219 |
1,246,082 | "Marphysa sanguinea," or known locally in Italy as “Murrido”, “Murone”, “Bacone” and “Verme sanguigno” is the most valuable bait of all Polychaete species collected in Italy. This species is also cultivated in USA and South Korea and is typically commercially harvested once at its optimal length of 20–30 cm. "Marphysa ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7329785 | 1,245,407 |
111,824 | The neurotropic activities of the ergot alkaloids may also cause hallucinations and attendant irrational behaviour, convulsions, and even death. Other symptoms include strong uterine contractions, nausea, seizures, high fever, vomiting, loss of muscle strength and unconsciousness. Since the Middle Ages, controlled dose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=262925 | 111,779 |
779,541 | By 2013, there was a national goal, that "the state has decided that power coming from outside of the earth, such as solar power and development of other space energy resources, is to be China's future direction" and the following roadmap was identified: "In 2010, CAST will finish the concept design; in 2020, we will f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=343674 | 779,124 |
684,364 | By the 1950s, lax enforcement of the rules in international competition had allowed the press phase of the lift, by rule an upright, rigid body movement performed by the shoulders and arms, to evolve into a "layback" movement that utilized the larger muscles of the legs, hips, and torso, enabling the lifter to "cheat" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3622624 | 684,007 |
1,752,481 | Leading Edge was founded in 1980 by Thomas Shane and Michael Shane. At the outset, they were a PC peripherals company selling aftermarket products such as Elephant Memory Systems brand floppy disk media ("Elephant. Never forgets") and printer ribbons, and acting as the sole North American distributor/reseller of printe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4960348 | 1,751,493 |
2,061,766 | Upon turning on disorder, the excitations in the non-interacting model (formula_13) localize due to Anderson localization. In other words, the domain walls get pinned by the disorder, so that a generic highly excited eigenstate for formula_21 looks like formula_22, where formula_23 refers to the formula_24 eigenstate a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59188974 | 2,060,578 |
1,620,558 | An example of SBL technology is currently (since 2007) underway in Antarctica, where the Moss Landing Marine Laboratory is using a PILOT SBL system to guide the SCINI remotely operated vehicle. SCINI (figure 2) is a small, torpedo-shaped tethered vehicle (ROV) designed for rapid and uncomplicated deployment and explora... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22567973 | 1,619,643 |
176,868 | The first examples of Leonardo's studies on anamorphosis can be found both in his treatise Treatise on Painting ("Rules for the Painter") and in the Codex Atlanticus. Two anamorphic drawings of the Codex Atlanticus, representing the head of a baby and an eye, are examples of plane anamorphosis. The two drawings can be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9282401 | 176,776 |
1,691,246 | Activation of EP suppresses the production of IL-12p70 and increases IL-23 thereby promoting development of IL-17-producing Th17 cells, a subset of pro-inflammatory T helper cells that serves to maintain mucosal barriers, clear mucosal surfaces of pathogens, and contribute to autoimmune and inflammatory disorders. Its ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14162110 | 1,690,296 |
347,531 | After Adams's retirement on June 30, 2013, Jere Morehead was appointed as UGA's 22nd president. Morehead is an alumnus of UGA's law school and previously served as provost and vice president of academic affairs. Under Morehead, UGA continues its focus on research with a $458 million budget as of the 2017 fiscal year, p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378232 | 347,350 |
876,726 | For a list of students, please see the list organized by type. Four of Sommerfeld's doctoral students, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, Peter Debye, and Hans Bethe went on to win Nobel Prizes, while others, most notably, Walter Heitler, Rudolf Peierls, Karl Bechert, Hermann Brück, Paul Peter Ewald, Eugene Feenberg, H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213639 | 876,264 |
2,061,529 | However, SSMCIS developed slowly. Funding became an issue, and indeed it was never funded as well as some other mathematics curriculum efforts had been. Despite the federal funding source, there was no centralized, national focal point in the U.S. for curriculum changes – such as some European countries had – and that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40556829 | 2,060,341 |
1,407,136 | A key rationale for the acquisition was deCODE's unique ability to use WGS data to discover rare coding variants and cause extreme versions of more common diseases. As Sean Harper, then Amgen's head of R&D told Forbes, "It was really working on targets like PCSK9 [for heart disease]...that really drove home the immense... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1494572 | 1,406,346 |
1,878,581 | She received a BS in Applied Mathematics, an AB in Russian Language and Literature, an ScM in Applied Mathematics, and a PhD in Applied Mathematics, all from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Nagurney's Doctoral Advisor at Brown University was Stella Dafermos. Anna has contributed to many different areas of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28094923 | 1,877,501 |
1,237,007 | For flight to occur, four physical forces (thrust and drag, lift and weight) must be favorably combined. In order for birds to balance these forces, certain physical characteristics are required. Asymmetrical wing feathers, found on all flying birds with the exception of hummingbirds, help in the production of thrust a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10589364 | 1,236,343 |
806,567 | United Launch Alliance applies FSW to the Delta II, Delta IV, Atlas V, and the new Vulcan expendable launch vehicles along with their Cryogenic Upper Stages, and the first of these with a friction stir welded interstage module was launched in 1999. The process was also used for the Space Shuttle external tank, for Ares... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1496597 | 806,138 |
51,290 | Mick LaSalle gave a largely negative review. ""A.I." exhibits all its creators' bad traits and none of the good. So we end up with the structureless, meandering, slow-motion endlessness of Kubrick combined with the fuzzy, cuddly mindlessness of Spielberg." Dubbing it Spielberg's "first boring movie", LaSalle also belie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=142224 | 51,270 |
1,626,214 | A practical example of health ecology is the management of malaria in Mexico. A multidisciplinary approach ended the use of DDT harm while reducing malaria cases. This study reveals the nature of the complex interactions of the problem and the extent to which a successful solution must cross research disciplines. The s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4151398 | 1,625,296 |
723,280 | Milanković's works on astronomical explanations of ice ages, especially his curve of insolation for the past 130,000 years, received support from the climatologist Wladimir Köppen and from the geophysicist Alfred Wegener. Köppen noted the usefulness of Milanković's theory for paleoclimatological researchers. Milanković... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=150014 | 722,900 |
1,303,431 | From 1908 to 1912, Brillouin studied physics at the École Normale Supérieure, in Paris. From 1911 he studied under Jean Perrin until he left for the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), in 1912. At LMU, he studied theoretical physics with Arnold Sommerfeld. Just a few months before Brillouin's arrival at LMU, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1612715 | 1,302,715 |
45,917 | Notre Dame students run nine media outlets: three newspapers, a radio and television station, and several magazines and journals. The "Scholastic" magazine, begun as a one-page journal in 1876, is issued twice monthly and claims to be the oldest continuous collegiate publication in the United States. The other magazine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146269 | 45,899 |
509,728 | There is disagreement as to when consonants , and , which were originally pronounced , , , acquired the value of , , and that they have in Modern Greek. There is evidence of fricative as far back as the 4th century BC, in the form of omissions before a back vowel. In the papyri from the 2nd century BC is sometimes omit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7549774 | 509,464 |
1,652,936 | With Old College ready, the college officially opened to its first five students in the fall of 1843, with seven more arriving in the next months. Sorin based the school around the French collège model, which combined two years of high school and four years of college. The early curriculum focused mostly on reading, wr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33791684 | 1,652,004 |
2,097,507 | The Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute was founded through the initiatives of Yiannis Laouris and a team of repatriated Cypriot scientists with the support of ex-Minister of Education and Culture Dr. Chrysostomos Sofianos, District School Inspector Dr. Christodoulos Laouris, the Bishop of Paphos Chrysostomos ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31593887 | 2,096,299 |
1,316,197 | In 1932, Bothe had succeeded Philipp Lenard as Director of the "Physikalische und Radiologische Institut" (Physical and Radiological Institute) at the University of Heidelberg. It was then that Rudolf Fleischmann became a teaching assistant to Bothe. When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=358425 | 1,315,472 |
2,137,214 | "Rathayibacter toxicus", transported by the parasitic nematode "Anguina funesta", is infectious to annual ryegrass and is the principal cause of annual ryegrass toxicity (ARGT). ARGT is a neurological disorder caused by "R. toxicus"’ secretion of a lethal glycolipid toxin (structurally similar to tunicamycin) in infect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44331938 | 2,135,985 |
1,507,755 | The worm snake is a burrower, and is seldom seen. Its annual activity period varies with latitude and elevation. Some have found them active in every month but February on the coastal plain of South Carolina. Farther north, the worm snake is active from March–April to October- November. Few are active above ground in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38909820 | 1,506,909 |
2,145,830 | In 2016, Apai assembled a group of optical scientists, astrophysicists, and aerospace engineers to address a key technological challenge to scaling up astronomical space telescopes, with the goal of proposing a novel space telescope to NASA to survey a thousand extrasolar planets for atmospheric signatures of life (bio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19836008 | 2,144,599 |
720,354 | Industrial agriculture arose hand in hand with the Industrial Revolution in general. The identification of nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus (referred to by the acronym NPK) as critical factors in plant growth led to the manufacture of synthetic fertilizers, making possible more intensive types of agriculture. The di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10980601 | 719,974 |
470,350 | There are no common mutations that cause disease, however 10 - 15% of disease causing mutations are deletions. It is inherited in an X-linked recessive manner, meaning males are more commonly affected than females. Females who carry a defective copy of the gene can be severely affected or asymptomatic, largely dependin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1086440 | 470,114 |
2,210,028 | For genotyping of microorganisms for medical diagnosis, or other purposes, scientists may use a wide variety of DNA profiling techniques, such as polymerase chain reaction, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis or multilocus sequence typing. A complication of this broad variety of techniques is the difficulty to standardize... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38008898 | 2,208,768 |
1,605,046 | It is generally known that decreasing the size of metallic particles in some dimension to the nanometer scale will yield clusters with a significantly more discrete electronic band structure in comparison with the bulk material. This is an example of a quantum-size effect and has been previously correlated with an incr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57084837 | 1,604,144 |
1,974,792 | Engel received a B.Sc. in physiology and cell biology and a B.A. in chemistry from the University of Kansas in 1993, and a Ph.D. in entomology from Cornell University in 1998. He was employed as a research scientist at the American Museum of Natural History from 1998–2000, and then returned to the University of Kansas ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3544951 | 1,973,655 |
1,206,957 | Other than explosions, methods of synthesis include hydrothermal synthesis, ion bombardment, laser bombardment, microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition techniques, ultrasound synthesis, and electrochemical synthesis. In addition, the decomposition of graphitic CN under high pressure and high temperature yields large... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22263812 | 1,206,311 |
81,747 | A common variant on this resolution is , which confers several technical benefits, most significantly a reduction in memory requirements from just over to just under 1MB per 8-bit channel ( needs 1024.5KB per channel; needs 1020KB; 1MB is equal to 1024KB), which simplifies architecture and can significantly reduce the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28385304 | 81,714 |
986,148 | Another theory that tries to explain the growth of human intelligence is the reduced aggression theory (aka self-domestication theory). According to this strand of thought what led to the evolution of advanced intelligence in "Homo sapiens" was a drastic reduction of the aggressive drive. This change separated us from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2452832 | 985,633 |
1,227,142 | DuPont licensed the product to Sony in Japan and BASF in Germany in the early 1970s for regional production and distribution. Japanese competitors developed cobalt-adsorbed (TDK: "Avilyn") and cobalt ferrite (Maxell: "Epitaxial") "chrome equivalent" Type II audio cassettes and various videotape formats as substitutes. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4661493 | 1,226,481 |
539,885 | In 1946 an Emergency teacher training college for the University of Birmingham was established in Worcester on the site of one of the former RAF bases used during the Second World War. Henry Hines came to Worcester from the Canterbury Technical Institute as the principal of the college. E.G. Peirson followed Hines's le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2685124 | 539,605 |
1,984,492 | On October 28, 2021, just days after Trinity College's new provost, Linda Doyle, chairperson of Science Gallery Dublin's board, opened the first exhibition since closure due to Covid pandemic restrictions, staff were informed that the gallery would close in February 2022. No consultation had occurred, no public announc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21526576 | 1,983,353 |
1,530,684 | Many investigations of the magnetosphere and auroral regions have been made using rockets and satellites. McIlwain discovered from a rocket flight in 1960 that the energy spectrum of auroral electrons exhibited a peak that was thought then to be too sharp to be produced by a random process and which suggested, therefor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13651046 | 1,529,818 |
2,230,174 | Barley has been an invaluable crop for humans since the birth of the Fertile Crescent. Prior to the mass cultivation of maize ("Zea mays"), wheat ("Triticum aestivum") and rice ("Oryza sativa"), barley was the main cereal crop for humans. Today, barley is primarily used for animal feed (55-60%) and malt (30-40%). Many ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72423414 | 2,228,909 |
2,171,991 | He decided at an early stage to pursue a career in ophthalmology. He was resident house surgeon in Moorfields Eye Hospital in London in 1878-79 and at this very early stage of his career he was an enthusiastic supporter of the formation of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom which was established in 1880... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25154028 | 2,170,752 |
10,067 | In November 1942 the Military Policy Committee approved the construction of a 600-stage gaseous diffusion plant. On 14 December, M. W. Kellogg accepted an offer to construct the plant, which was codenamed K-25. A cost plus fixed-fee contract was negotiated, eventually totaling $2.5 million. A separate corporate entity ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19603 | 10,063 |
543,866 | Radar was developed during World War II as a military air defense system. The primary surveillance radar (PSR) consists of a large parabolic "dish" antenna mounted on a tower so it can scan the entire airspace unobstructed. It transmits pulses of microwave radio waves in a narrow vertical fan-shaped beam about a degree... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4456695 | 543,585 |
438,104 | Despite the Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald's pledge that government support would be provided for the next British race entrant immediately after Britain's 1929 victory, official funding was withdrawn less than two months later following the Wall Street Crash; the official reason given for the withdrawal that the prev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4091776 | 437,890 |
377,236 | It is suggested that the early genus "Homo" (humans in the broader sense) started to evolve in East Africa around 3 million years ago. The dramatic phenotypic change from the ape-like "Australopithecus" to early "Homo" is hypothesized to have involved the extreme loss of body hair – except for areas most exposed to UV ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2909 | 377,041 |
1,381,732 | RELi is a design criteria used to develop resilience in multiple scales of the built environment such as buildings, neighborhoods and infrastructure. It was developed by the Institute for Market Transformation to Sustainability (MTS) to help designers plan for hazards. RELi is very similar to LEED but with a focus on r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40050529 | 1,380,969 |
143,854 | The Sommerfeld model and spin models for ferromagnetism illustrated the successful application of quantum mechanics to condensed matter problems in the 1930s. However, there still were several unsolved problems, most notably the description of superconductivity and the Kondo effect. After World War II, several ideas fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5387 | 143,796 |
1,796,874 | Understanding the ocean began with the general exploration and voyaging for trade. Some notable events closer to our time, include Prince Henry the Navigator’s ocean exploration in the 1400s. In 1513, Ponce de Leon described the Florida Current. In 1674, Robert Boyle investigated the relationship between salinity, temp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6456388 | 1,795,865 |
2,042,002 | The DEE Lab is a new campus research laboratory bringing together faculty and students from design, marketing, business and engineering to solve real world product development problems for industry. Companies are finding that they can no longer compete on the basis of technology alone. User needs must be met through te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25450119 | 2,040,822 |
833,948 | The Garrett ancestors had been ironworkers in East Suffolk since the early seventeenth century. Newson was the youngest of three sons and not academically inclined, although he possessed the family's entrepreneurial spirit. When he finished school, the town of Leiston offered little to Newson, so he left for London to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9695 | 833,499 |
1,160,639 | For any given level of clinical impairment, there is a higher degree of neuropathological change in the brains of those Alzheimer's disease sufferers who are involved in greater number of activities. This is true even when education and IQ are controlled for. This suggests that differences in lifestyle may increase cog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4482452 | 1,160,023 |
276,941 | In 1993, inspired by countless exhibition matches termed the "Gracie Challenge", a tradition that started with his uncle and Gracie jiu-jitsu co-founder Carlos Gracie, Rorion teamed with promoter and business executive Art Davie in the creation of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Davie had always dreamed of an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4670494 | 276,791 |
1,690,143 | In the late 1960s, the SFR developed a proposal for a new east-west trunkline (German: "Haupttransversale", NHT). This was considered by the "Swiss Transport Commission" (German: "Schweizerischen Gesamtverkehrskommission", GVK). In 1977, after almost six years work, the GVK submitted a 400-page report, which recommende... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23812586 | 1,689,197 |
2,076,356 | Other Surrealist artists who practiced printmaking were Paul Klee, Max Ernst, André Masson and Yves Tanguy. Klee started in the "Jugendstil" and was a member of the expressionist group "Der Blaue Reiter", before turning to surrealism. He recreated in his work a fantastic and ironic world, close to that of children or m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72166508 | 2,075,157 |
967,253 | The idea that there are limits to the burden placed upon our planet by human activities has been around for a long time. The Planetary Boundaries framework acknowledges the influence of the 1972 study, "The Limits to Growth", that presented a model in which exponential growth in world population, industrialization, pol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24458151 | 966,743 |
703,378 | Diagnosis can be achieved through a specialized form of electromyographic (EMG) testing called the long exercise test. This test measures the amplitude of a nerve response (called the Compound Muscle Action Potential or CMAP) for 40 to 50 minutes following a few minutes of exercise. In affected patients, there is a pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3360547 | 703,010 |
1,123,697 | Preuss gained renown in the summer of 1911, with his second ascent of the West Face of the Totenkirchl. This climb at that time was reputed to be one of the hardest in the Alps. The first ascent took seven hours. He climbed it solo in two and a half, including a new variation. This was rapidly followed by a solo first ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5889884 | 1,123,123 |
1,624,986 | The unilocular and multilocular nature is imperative to the determination of treatment style. Local anesthesia is regularly provided as the GOC is embedded within the tissue structure of the jaw and requires an invasive procedure for a safe and accurate extraction. For unilocular GOCs with minimal tissue deterioration,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7456840 | 1,624,070 |
1,401,999 | Trichostatin A (TSA) is an organic compound that serves as an antifungal antibiotic and selectively inhibits the class I and II mammalian histone deacetylase (HDAC) families of enzymes, but not class III HDACs (i.e., sirtuins). However, there are recent reports of the interactions of this molecule with Sirt 6 protein. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3181579 | 1,401,212 |
2,150,262 | The Congress sought to standardise certain measurements for cities and their inhabitants. In terms of demographics and population, metrics like emigration and immigration were analysed based on origin, health condition, and number of people departing from and arriving at certain nations. As well, the cause of the immig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63314949 | 2,149,031 |
1,422,693 | In January 1991 Ball Aerospace Corp. was selected by NASA as the prime contractor to undertake the entire development, production and verification of COSTAR, a process which took 26 months. To calculate the required corrections one team calculated the existing error by examining the still in situ tooling that was used ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5260305 | 1,421,892 |
273,545 | Like its close relative, the Asian steppe polecat (with which it was once thought to be conspecific), the black-footed ferret represents a more progressive form than the European polecat in the direction of carnivory. The black-footed ferret's most likely ancestor was "Mustela stromeri" (from which the European and ste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234031 | 273,397 |
917,963 | The H-21C saw extensive service with the U.S. Army, primarily for use in transporting troops and supplies. On 24 August 1954, with the assistance of inflight refueling provided by a U.S. Army U-1A Otter, a H-21C known as "Amblin' Annie" became the first helicopter to cross the United States non-stop. Experiments were m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1596180 | 917,480 |
1,081,950 | In order to verify and analyze COF linkage formation, various techniques can be employed such as infrared (IR) spectroscopy, and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Precursor and COF IR spectra enables comparison between vibrational peaks to ascertain that certain key bonds present in the COF linkages appear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22272874 | 1,081,394 |
1,407,123 | To understand the population that it is working in and to address broader questions few can in the same way, deCODE has also from its early days had its own genetic anthropology group. It has published pioneering work on mitochondrial and Y-chromosome mutation to trace the Norwegian and Celtic mix in the early populati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1494572 | 1,406,333 |
1,979,866 | Moving peptide and protein therapeutics through the plasma membrane of cells has been made more efficient through the use of a platform made from the anthrax lethal toxin (PA/LF), which arises from the bacterium "Bacillus anthracis." Pentelute's lab took more than two decades to develop this delivery vehicle. His studi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59104462 | 1,978,728 |
2,002,295 | In the initial studies of khatyrkite, a negative correlation was observed between copper and zinc, i.e. the higher the copper the lower the zinc content and vice versa, which is why the formula was specified as . It was found later that iron can be substituted for zinc. The mineral is opaque and has a steel-gray yellow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23910190 | 2,001,147 |
1,737,847 | Head circumference measurements should be obtained regularly and monitored carefully to detect hydrocephalus. Neurosurgical procedures to relieve hydrocephalus are important. A ventriculoperitoneal shunt may be required in some infants. A pediatric cardiologist should be consulted to manage high-output failure, if pres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27119200 | 1,736,870 |
1,502,526 | For sustainability point of view, Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) is a Nano-scale manufacturing technology using bottom-up and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) manufacturing method. ALD replaces SiO dielectric film with AlO dielectric film. ALD industry is already in use in Semiconductor industry and promising in solar ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6736363 | 1,501,680 |
273,330 | In most countries, fluoroquinolones are approved for use in children only under narrowly defined circumstances, owing in part to the observation of high rates of musculoskeletal adverse events in fluoroquinolone-treated juvenile animals. In the UK, the prescribing indications for fluoroquinolones for children are sever... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31690663 | 273,182 |
774,167 | EDX spectrometers are different from WDX spectrometers in that they are smaller, simpler in design and have fewer engineered parts, however the accuracy and resolution of EDX spectrometers are lower than for WDX. EDX spectrometers can also use miniature X-ray tubes or gamma sources, which makes them cheaper and allows ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72048 | 773,751 |
1,240,185 | High-frequency oscillatory ventilation was first described in 1972 and is used in neonates and adult patient populations to reduce lung injury, or to prevent further lung injury. HFOV is characterized by high respiratory rates between 3.5 and 15 hertz (210 - 900 breaths per minute) and having both inhalation and exhala... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5915493 | 1,239,516 |
1,627,203 | James Nicoll questioned the basic premise of scientific language being necessarily decipherable — "what if Martian didn't use letters and a numbering system which sounds very akin to ours?" — but overall concluded that the story was "well worth reading." The "Routledge Companion to Science Fiction" similarly faulted th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6952283 | 1,626,285 |
1,121,841 | John W. Mauchly was born on August 30, 1907, to Sebastian and Rachel (Scheidemantel) Mauchly in Cincinnati, Ohio. He moved with his parents and sister, Helen Elizabeth (Betty), at an early age to Chevy Chase, Maryland, when Sebastian Mauchly obtained a position at the Carnegie Institution of Washington as head of its S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=78018 | 1,121,267 |
58,396 | Takeoff speeds were between , with the pilot needing to swiftly raise the landing gear to avoid exceeding the maximum landing gear operating speed of . Climb and cruise performance were outstanding; occasionally a "slow" light would illuminate on the instrument panel at around Mach 2 to indicate that the engine compres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82439 | 58,371 |
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