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2,160,078 | The investigation of possibilities gained by the operations that result in instances of the data type »image« but take as a starting point instances of non-pictorial data types is performed in particular in computer graphics and information visualization. The former deals with images in the closer sense, i.e., those pi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5491838 | 2,158,846 |
1,591,287 | Entering the game as the best-shooting team from the field in the country at 51.6 percent, the Hoyas went on the road to face their first ranked Big East opponent, No. 15 Pittsburgh, winners of 12 straight games on their home court, on January 14. Ronald Ramón and Keith Benjamin came off the bench to replace injured st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14518554 | 1,590,392 |
122,917 | The risk connected to a phosgene inhalation is based not so much on its toxicity (which is much lower in comparison to modern chemical weapons like sarin or tabun) but rather on its typical effects: the affected person may not develop any symptoms for hours until an edema appears, at which point it could be too late fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47107 | 122,868 |
1,713,341 | Until the end of the 19th century, weather prediction was entirely subjective and based on empirical rules, with only limited understanding of the physical mechanisms behind weather processes. In 1901 Cleveland Abbe, founder of the United States Weather Bureau, proposed that the atmosphere is governed by the same princ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30890995 | 1,712,375 |
706,277 | During the years 1666 to 1669 Newton's studies were very diverse. He bought prisms and lenses on two or three occasions, and also chemicals and a furnace, apparently for chemical experiments; but he also employed part of his time on the theory of fluxions and other branches of pure mathematics. He wrote a paper, "De An... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315685 | 705,908 |
731,886 | The empirical evidence for predictive coding is most robust for perceptual processing. As early as 1999, Rao and Ballard proposed a hierarchical visual processing model in which higher-order visual cortical area sends down predictions and the feedforward connections carry the residual errors between the predictions and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53953041 | 731,499 |
1,237,280 | The main building, designed by Hermann Eggertt and , was built between 1900 and 1904 and constructed at the same time as the Electro-Technical Institute, Machine Laboratory and the Chemical Institute. All the buildings were designed in the style of the Northern Renaissance with the elements of Art Nouveau. Several ston... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=785196 | 1,236,616 |
788,510 | Under strongly reducing conditions, in the absence of dissolved oxygen in water, or pore water of the ground, the electron acceptor (oxidizing agent) at the cathodic sites, where reduction occurs, can be the protons () of water itself, the protons of hydrogen sulfide (), or in acidic conditions in case of severe pyrite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1895068 | 788,086 |
1,745,547 | He also worked on the Wasserfall rocket, a radar-guided supersonic anti-aircraft missile, in which the same center-of-pressure shift was being encountered. Along the way, he developed a conical rocket propellant tank that successfully overcame liquid fuel sloshing problems, for which he won an internal prize with a mon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22824006 | 1,744,563 |
1,468,501 | There were plenty of descriptions in Chinese literature of the time on the operations and aspects of seaports, maritime merchant shipping, overseas trade, and the sailing ships themselves. In 1117, the author Zhu Yu wrote not only of the magnetic compass for navigation, but also a hundred-foot line with a hook that was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10444102 | 1,467,677 |
464,633 | Black cottonwood grows on alluvial sites, riparian habitats, and moist woods on mountain slopes, from sea level to elevations of . It often forms extensive stands on bottomlands of major streams and rivers at low elevations along the Pacific Coast, west of the Cascade Range. In eastern Washington and other dry areas, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7189344 | 464,403 |
2,216,022 | The phosphinyl radicals synthesised by Lappert and co-workers were found to be stable at room temperature for periods of over 15 days with no effect from short-term heating at 360 K. This stability was assigned to the steric bulk of the subsituents and the abscence of beta-hydrogen atoms. A structural study of this spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72418328 | 2,214,762 |
624,942 | Among the most influential ideas of the 19th century were those of Charles Darwin (alongside the independent researches of Alfred Russel Wallace), who in 1859 published the book "On the Origin of Species", which introduced the idea of evolution by natural selection. Another important landmark in medicine and biology we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56661172 | 624,609 |
280,007 | All three main features listed above, namely the presence of an amniotic buffer, water-impermeable cutes and a robust respiratory system, are very important for amniotes to live on land as true terrestrial animals – the ability to reproduce in locations away from water bodies, better homeostasis in drier environments, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=236981 | 279,857 |
254,083 | The next confirmed DES cracker was the COPACOBANA machine built in 2006 by teams of the Universities of Bochum and Kiel, both in Germany. Unlike the EFF machine, COPACOBANA consists of commercially available, reconfigurable integrated circuits. 120 of these field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) of type XILINX Spartan-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7978 | 253,950 |
108,981 | Similar to all-electric vehicles (BEVs), PHEVs displace greenhouse gas emissions from the car tailpipe exhaust to the power station generators powering the electricity grid. These centralized generators may be of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind or hydroelectric) and largely emission-free, or have an overall lower em... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1611987 | 108,936 |
1,501,114 | In the equation, formula_2 is normally the limiting conductor temperature derived from the insulation or tensile strength limitations. formula_3 is a term added to the ambient temperature formula_4 to compensate for heat generated in the jacket and insulation for higher voltages. formula_3 is called the dielectric loss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13969132 | 1,500,268 |
396,623 | Diagnosis of concussion requires an assessment performed by a physician or nurse practitioner to rule out severe injuries to the brain and cervical spine, mental health conditions, or other medical conditions. Diagnosis is based on physical and neurological examination findings, duration of unconsciousness (usually les... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=399231 | 396,427 |
726,000 | Many proprietary video editing systems used 68000 processors, such as the MacroSystem Casablanca, which was a black box with an easy to use graphic interface (1997). It was intended for the amateur and hobby videographer market. It is also worth noting its earlier, bigger and more professional counterpart, the "DraCo" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64826 | 725,619 |
23,243 | McLaren first contested the United States Auto Club's (USAC) Indianapolis 500 race in 1970, encouraged by their tyre supplier Goodyear, which wanted to break competitor Firestone's stranglehold on the event. With the M15 car, Bruce, Chris Amon, and Denny Hulme entered, but after Amon withdrew and Hulme was severely bur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20994 | 23,234 |
831,726 | Personas are fictitious characters created to represent a site or product's different user types and their associated demographics and technographics. Alan Cooper introduced the concept of using personas as a part of interactive design in 1998 in his book "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum", but had used this concept ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288276 | 831,277 |
826,397 | In 2013, researchers have disclosed an approach with small molecules from plants. In general, it is essential to provide high-quality proof-of-concept validations early in the drug discovery process. Here technologies that enable the identification of potent, selective, and bioavailable chemical probes are of crucial i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=882729 | 825,953 |
1,126,704 | An example of mathematics' explanatory indispensability presented by Baker is the periodic cicada case. Periodical cicadas are a type of insect that have life cycles of 13 or 17 years. It is hypothesized that this acts as an evolutionary advantage because 13 and 17 are prime numbers and so have no non-trivial factors. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58885745 | 1,126,127 |
179,407 | The Calgary Olympic Development Association (CODA) Board of Directors had originally 25 members. It was chaired by Frank King, followed by former Mayors Ralph Klein and Ross Alger, and other prominent Calgarians. The executive committee president was Robert Niven. The Olympic Organizing Committee (OOC) was formed by ut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187504 | 179,314 |
1,658,996 | Lipkin was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he attended the University of Chicago Laboratory School and was president of the student board in 1969. He relocated to New York and earned his BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1974. At Sarah Lawrence, he "felt that if I went straight into cultural anthropology after college... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20485252 | 1,658,063 |
1,004,786 | In separate incidents during the storm and flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy on the night of October 29, 2012, one Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid and 16 Fisker Karmas caught fire while being parked at Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal. The vehicles were partially submerged by flash floods caused by the hurricane. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38267353 | 1,004,268 |
1,065,586 | The brothers wind tunnel tested about 200 wing configurations, varying the aspect ratios, curves, cambers, dihedral, and anhedral in monoplane and multiwing combinations. Each airfoil was made from sheet metal, with welded leading edges. Wilbur described using a "wind straightener...a number of narrow vertical surfaces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5033561 | 1,065,032 |
1,925,441 | Gradually over time the rivers depositing the Dakota Formation sediments were submerged by the northward expansion of the Western Interior Seaway. This body of water deposited shale and chalk. Plesiosaurs lived in this sea and left behind fossils in several regions of Iowa. Northwestern Iowa's quartzite rocks may have ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799107 | 1,924,337 |
1,143,292 | To examine the existing instances of data sanitization policies and determine the impacts of not developing, utilizing, or following these policy guidelines and recommendation, research data was not only coalesced from the government contracting sector but also other critical industries such as Defense, Energy, and Tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67273665 | 1,142,692 |
907,426 | The tallest structure on campus at eight stories, the Mary and John Gray Library serves as a landmark for the university. Named after Mary and John Gray, considered to be the “first couple” of the university, the red brick structure took two and a half years to complete. The library holds extensive physical and digital... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=624221 | 906,948 |
941,105 | In December 2018, NBME President Peter Katsufrakis and FSMB President Humayun Chaudhry wrote in opposition of USMLE Step 1 changes in "from Improving Residency Selection Requires Close Study and Better Understanding of Stakeholder Needs": "If students reduce time and effort devoted to preparing for Step 1, they may ind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2555114 | 940,603 |
296,683 | The Kurgan hypothesis describes the initial spread of Proto-Indo-European during the 5th and 4th millennia BC. As used by Gimbutas, the term "kurganized" implied that the culture could have been spread by no more than small bands who imposed themselves on local people as an elite. This idea of PIE and its daughter lang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1070151 | 296,523 |
1,852,638 | Sutherland was a well-built man of slightly under medium height, very quiet in manner. He could have been a good musician or a painter if he had been able to give the time. One of the earlier papers to bring Sutherland into notice was on the viscosity of gases which appeared in the "Philosophical Magazine" in December ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2422389 | 1,851,576 |
1,800,323 | The I-S2077 subclade of haplogroup I-Z63 was sampled on an elite warrior buried in Bodzia (Poland) in a rich burial from ca. 1010-1020 AD. All artefacts there indicate a strong relation to the Kievian Rus ruling elite, so this man who probably succumbed to combat wounds, was in a close relationship with the Kievian Pri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58460808 | 1,799,314 |
709,075 | The university has drawn in external grants amounting to about PHP 325M (US$6.8M) from 2015 to 2020. Internal research grants of about PHP46M (US$960K) have also been awarded from the University Research Trust Fund within the same time period, while an additional PHP350M (US$7M) has been earmarked for laboratory facili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1367948 | 708,706 |
1,049,955 | The gray wolf's expressive behavior is more complex than that of the coyote and golden jackal, as necessitated by its group living and hunting habits. While less gregarious canids generally possess simple repertoires of visual signals, wolves have more varied signals that subtly inter grade in intensity. When neutral, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61366571 | 1,049,409 |
1,542,577 | Orcutt Ranch was the vacation and retirement estate of William Warren Orcutt, an early pioneer of oil production in California and the discoverer of one of the first prehistoric skeletons at the La Brea Tar Pits. The Rancho Sombra del Roble, Spanish for ""Ranch of the Shaded Oak"", was originally a cattle ranch and cit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19502075 | 1,541,704 |
700,210 | A major problem that may occur in continuous casting is "breakout" of the liquid metal: for whatever reason, the solid shell of the strand breaks and allows the still-molten metal contained within to spill out and foul the machine. In most industrial environments this event is very costly as it leads to a shutdown of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3174561 | 699,845 |
1,951,287 | Several protests occurred in Bristol in 2010 in response to government spending cuts in education, including the increasing of tuition fees, and the scrapping of Education Maintenance Allowance in England. On 24 November, approximately 2000 students from the university and nearby schools gathered outside of the univers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17701372 | 1,950,166 |
912,314 | The head of the Algal Biomass Organization stated in 2010 that algae fuel could reach price parity with oil in 2018 if granted production tax credits. However, in 2013, Exxon Mobil Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson said that after committing to spend up to $600 million over 10 years on development in a joint venture with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14205946 | 911,835 |
1,512,289 | The 1996 WGP is, to many, one of the best K-1 WGPs in the history of K-1, not only due to the quality of competitors but because of the emotional ending. In the first match Mike Bernardo beat Peter Aerts with a right hook in the third round to avenge his controversial lost to the "Dutch Lumberjack" last year and end th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6633778 | 1,511,439 |
1,878,626 | The creation and storage of antiprotons in sufficient numbers were one of the biggest challenges in the construction of the SpS. The production of antiprotons required use of existing CERN infrastructure, such as the Proton Synchrotron (PS) and the Antiproton Accumulator (AA). Antiprotons were produced by directing an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54488524 | 1,877,546 |
773,544 | In 1929, Edwin Hubble provided a comprehensive observational foundation for Lemaitre's theory. Hubble's experimental observations discovered that, relative to the Earth and all other observed bodies, galaxies are receding in every direction at velocities (calculated from their observed red-shifts) directly proportional... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2794117 | 773,128 |
153,363 | In November 2007, to celebrate the project completion and to mark the start of a fundraising initiative for The National Museum of Computing, a Cipher Challenge pitted the rebuilt Colossus against radio amateurs worldwide in being first to receive and decode three messages enciphered using the Lorenz SZ42 and transmitt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6229 | 153,293 |
1,265,176 | Many of the species at risk are Arctic and Antarctic fauna such as polar bears and emperor penguins. In the Arctic, the waters of Hudson Bay are ice-free for three weeks longer than they were thirty years ago, affecting polar bears, which prefer to hunt on sea ice. Species that rely on cold weather conditions such as g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26515241 | 1,264,488 |
290,311 | Building materials typically considered 'green' include lumber( that has been certified to a third-party standard), rapidly renewable plant materials (like bamboo and straw), dimension stone, recycled stone, hempcrete, recycled metal "(see: copper sustainability and recyclability)", and other non-toxic, reusable, renew... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1344439 | 290,154 |
2,072,556 | Porous inorganic solids have found great utility as catalysts and sorption media because of their large internal surface area, i.e. the presence of voids of controllable dimensions at the atomic, molecular, and nanometer scales. With increasing environmental concerns worldwide, nanoporous materials have become more imp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7074727 | 2,071,365 |
1,131,643 | The endogenous cannabinoids, or endocannabinoids, are endogenous lipids that activate cannabinoid receptors. The first such lipid to be isolated was anandamide which is the arachidonoyl amide of ethanolamine. Anandamide is formed via enzymatic release from N-arachidonoyl phosphatidylethanolamine by the N-acyl phosphati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5419130 | 1,131,052 |
901,483 | After World War I, three Standard E-1s were converted to drones. The Larynx was an early cruise missile in the form of a small monoplane aircraft that could be launched from a warship and flown under autopilot; the Royal Navy tested it between 1927 and 1929. The early successes of pilotless aircraft led to the developm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3524423 | 901,007 |
597,773 | Ice sheets are the greatest potential source of global freshwater, holding approximately 77% of the global total. This corresponds to 80 m of world sea-level equivalent, with Antarctica accounting for 90% of this. Greenland accounts for most of the remaining 10%, with other ice bodies and glaciers accounting for less t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47527 | 597,468 |
234,483 | The first known game incorporating graphics that updated in real time, rather than only when the player made a move, was a simulation of a bouncing ball created by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student Oliver Aberth for the Whirlwind I computer. He initially created the simulation in February 1951, which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19992532 | 234,364 |
887,212 | The toxins found in "Galerina marginata" are known as amatoxins. Amatoxins belong to a family of bicyclic octapeptide derivatives composed of an amino acid ring bridged by a sulfur atom and characterized by differences in their side groups; these compounds are responsible for more than 90% of fatal mushroom poisonings ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8749153 | 886,748 |
1,766,742 | From November 2000 to March 2001, Gidzenko was part of the first permanent ISS resident crew, the Expedition 1. He along with cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev and NASA astronaut William Shepherd was launched into space on board the Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft which lifted off from the Baikonour cosmodrome on October 31, 2000, at 0... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=604919 | 1,765,748 |
321,106 | Continuing the above example: instead of assigning three discrete values to revenue growth, and to the other relevant variables, the analyst would assign an appropriate probability distribution to each variable (commonly triangular or beta), and, where possible, specify the observed or supposed correlation between the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34742901 | 320,934 |
1,501,161 | Over 91% of the primary energy supply in Ethiopia is coming from biomass as of 2015 (45.8 out of 49.9 MTOE). Additionally, in the final sectors of Ethiopian society more than 90% of the energy is coming from biomass and of that 99% is consumed by direct residencies. Often coming in the form of animal product and forest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40906426 | 1,500,315 |
1,312,241 | The series originally grew out of five chassis built by Hayashi in Japan for the Jim Russell Racing Drivers School in California, USA. Twenty-five cars were built by Marc Bahner, Bahner Engineering, Calif., for the 1984 Long Beach Grand Prix, where the cars made their US debut. The majority of these cars were purchased... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2025488 | 1,311,522 |
2,091,585 | Harvard Medical African Expedition was a success with countless specimens collected and the customs of tribes such as Suah Koko's and those of the Gbanga and beyond Liberia in the Congo recorded. Furthermore, the photography endeavors of Loring Whitman yielded many photos ranging from local wildlife to the everyday dre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58155305 | 2,090,380 |
1,192,059 | In using a number of different resuscitation parameters, the critical care team can have a better idea as to which direction is progressing. The first 24 hours often require a significant amount of resources (i.e., blood products) and investment of time from personnel within the critical care team. In many circumstance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36643113 | 1,191,423 |
215,290 | The Air Corps in January 1931 "got its foot in the door" for developing a mission for which only it would have capability, while at the same time creating a need for technological advancement of its equipment. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral William V. Pratt wanted approval of his proposition that all naval aviation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23869026 | 215,182 |
1,421,902 | The Real-Time Solar Wind (RTSW) system is continuously monitoring the solar wind and producing warnings of impending major geomagnetic activity, up to one hour in advance. Warnings and alerts issued by NOAA allow those with systems sensitive to such activity to take preventative action. The RTSW system gathers solar wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1009525 | 1,421,101 |
1,650,463 | For the invocation of a procedure (or function) with parameters, their type will be known (they being declared before use) but their usage in the procedure invocation may not be. Fortran for example passes all parameters by reference (i.e. by address) so there is no immediate difficulty with generating the code (as alw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2012090 | 1,649,531 |
288,493 | The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a British defence and security think tank, released a paper in July 2010 assessing four possible options for maintaining both an effective nuclear deterrent and also reducing costs in light of anticipated budget restrictions. These proposals were motivated by the fact that fu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9095461 | 288,336 |
1,381,843 | The North American least shrew makes its home in burrows or shallow runways under flat stones or fallen logs. Its burrows are about 2.5 cm in diameter, from 25 cm to 1.5 m long, and seldom more than 20 cm below the ground. Most shrews are aggressive towards each other, but this species is a social creature and often co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1400053 | 1,381,080 |
1,123,296 | Epithelioid sarcoma most commonly strikes young adults, yet no age group is immune. The disease has a tendency to develop local recurrences and metastasis thereafter to regional lymph nodes, lung, bone, brain, and other locations, including the scalp. Generally speaking, epithelioid sarcoma has a high rate of relapse a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15025638 | 1,122,722 |
803,806 | Most bacterial chromosomes are circular and contain a single origin of chromosomal replication ("oriC"). Bacterial "oriC" regions are surprisingly diverse in size (ranging from 250 bp to 2 kbp), sequence, and organization; nonetheless, their ability to drive replication onset typically depends on sequence-specific read... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=619137 | 803,377 |
23,559 | The Cornell University Library is the 11th largest academic library in the United States, ranked by number of volumes held. Organized into 20 divisions, in 2005 it held 7.5 million printed volumes in open stacks, 8.2 million microfilms and microfiches, and a total of 440,000 maps, motion pictures, DVDs, sound recording... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 | 23,550 |
1,603,992 | Although closed channel microfluidics (discussed in the section above) offers high customizability and biological complexity for multi-culture, the operation often requires handling expertise and specialized equipment, such as pumps and valves. In addition, the use of PDMS is known to cause adverse effects to cell cult... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50311973 | 1,603,091 |
394,793 | In 2018, researchers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) developed a technique that would allow them to match facial imagery obtained using a thermal camera with those in databases that were captured using a conventional camera. Known as a cross-spectrum synthesis method due to how it bridges facial recognitio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=602401 | 394,598 |
1,954,248 | One of the 352d's greatest accomplishments was its huge victory over the Luftwaffe on 1 January 1945. In December 1944, the 352d received orders to deploy to Asch Airfield, a remote field approximately 3 miles south-southeast of As, Belgium. After arriving on 22 December, it began operating on the 24th. Poor weather ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2872588 | 1,953,127 |
139,755 | Production started at the beginning of 2001 with a team of only four programmers. Because "Resident Evil" was one of the first Capcom games developed for the GameCube, the development team had to study the system's performance during the first stages of development. Initially, the team considered creating the environme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35415479 | 139,698 |
2,062,099 | One of the largest science projects in Canadian history, the Canadian Light Source Synchrotron at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, began operation in 2004. Covering an area the size of a football field and built at a cost of $175 million, it is operated by CLS Inc., a University of Saskatchewan not-for-prof... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18401364 | 2,060,909 |
1,033,049 | In addition, as under Mughal rule, land revenue collected in the Bengal Presidency helped finance the Company's wars in other parts of India. Consequently, in the period 1760–1800, Bengal's money supply was greatly diminished; furthermore, the closing of some local mints and close supervision of the rest, the fixing of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21670823 | 1,032,513 |
560,088 | Newborn screening (NBS) is a public health program of screening in infants shortly after birth for conditions that are treatable, but not clinically evident in the newborn period. The goal is to identify infants at risk for these conditions early enough to confirm the diagnosis and provide intervention that will alter ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=768605 | 559,799 |
1,578,330 | There have been efforts to determine the evolutionary relationships between the known plant species, but phylogenies (or phylogenetic trees) created solely using morphological data, cellular structures, single enzymes, or on only a few sequences (like rRNA) can be prone to error; morphological features are especially v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26412304 | 1,577,440 |
1,540,763 | With Madabhushi as founding director, the team at Case Western Reserve University's Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD) is “involved in various different aspects of developing, evaluating and applying novel quantitative image analysis, computer vision, signal processing, segmentation, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54088361 | 1,539,890 |
1,705,538 | The reduction occurs when CeO, or ceria, is exposed to a inert atmosphere at around 1500 °C to 1600 °C, and hydrogen release occurs at 800 °C during hydrolysis when it is subjected to an atmosphere containing water vapor. One advantage of ceria over iron oxide lies in its higher melting point, which allows it to sustai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27636080 | 1,704,580 |
2,143,982 | The first application of the FPM to the solution of 3D compressible flows was presented in a pioneer work by (Löhner, Sacco, Oñate & Idelsohn, 2002). There, a reliable and general procedure for constructing local clouds of points (based on a Delaunay technique) and a well-suited scheme for solving the flow equations we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50991882 | 2,142,751 |
247,574 | Despite the grave initial presentation in some of the patients, most of the patients survive the initial acute event, with a very low rate of in-hospital mortality or complications. Once a patient has recovered from the acute stage of the syndrome, they can expect a favorable outcome and the long-term prognosis is exce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7710140 | 247,446 |
133,225 | Egypt was also a center of alchemy research for much of the Mediterranean. Based on the medical papyri written in the 2500–1200 BCE, the ancient Egyptians believed that disease was mainly caused by the invasion of bodies by evil forces or spirits. Thus, in addition to using medicines, their healing therapies included p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400 | 133,172 |
970,181 | This section gives a brief introduction to the subject of "equivalence" in photography. Equivalent images are made by photographing the same angle of view, with the same depth of field and the same Angular resolution due to diffraction limitation (which requires different f-stops on different focal length lenses), the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18729407 | 969,671 |
1,106,705 | If we evaluate the molecular revolution within the context of biological history, it is easy to note that it is the culmination of a long process which began with the first observations through a microscope. The aim of these early researchers was to understand the functioning of living organisms by describing their org... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4173711 | 1,106,141 |
1,344,904 | In 1981, Taube became a founding member of the World Cultural Council. As of 1997, Taube had over 600 publications, and had worked with over 250 students. He published a book, "Electron Transfer Reactions of Complex Ions in Solution (Current Chemical Concepts)" in 1970. His students have had faculty positions at many p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=917657 | 1,344,166 |
1,596,655 | On Saturday evening January 9, 1892, Academic Hall fell victim to a disastrous fire, rumored to have been caused by the first electric light bulb west of the Mississippi River. The Athenaeum Society was to give an exhibition in the chapel of Academic Hall, and as the audience began to assemble, a small blaze appeared a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17947948 | 1,595,756 |
368,172 | During World War II, various chloroalkanes were in standard use in military aircraft, although these early halons suffered from excessive toxicity. Nevertheless, after the war they slowly became more common in civil aviation as well. In the 1960s, fluoroalkanes and bromofluoroalkanes became available and were quickly r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54910 | 367,979 |
1,238,281 | Kean starts by discussing Henry Moseley, who was famous for finding a mathematical relationship between the wavelengths of x-rays, the number of protons an element has, and the elements atomic number. He also built an electron gun that helped sort radioactive elements which by doing so also was able to disprove newly f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46736756 | 1,237,615 |
52,347 | However, the arrival of the British 105 mm L7 gun and the US M68 variant of it, fitted to the Centurion and M60 tanks, forced the team to undertake another audacious "première", with the adoption of composite armour. The recently created process was called "K combination" by Western armies: this protection consisted of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196228 | 52,327 |
133,228 | The ancient Mesopotamians had no distinction between "rational science" and magic. When a person became ill, doctors prescribed magical formulas to be recited as well as medicinal treatments. The earliest medical prescriptions appear in Sumerian during the Third Dynasty of Ur ( 2112 BCE – 2004 BCE). The most extensive ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400 | 133,175 |
1,255,973 | The 2002 publication of a paper by Tikriti, "The south-east Arabian origin of the falaj system", provided the first counterpoint to the long-accepted narrative, that the Qanat originated in Persia and was identified as such by accounts of the campaigns of the Assyrian King, Sargon II, in 714 BCE. Tikriti cites this and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59092881 | 1,255,289 |
2,145,716 | Edward Henry Kraus was born at Syracuse, New York, on December 1, 1875. His father was John Erhardt Kraus, of German ancestry, and his mother, Rosa Kocher Kraus, was of Swiss descent. After training in the high school of Syracuse, he entered Syracuse University, from which he was graduated as Bachelor of Science in 189... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36669811 | 2,144,485 |
89,816 | Escher's fame in popular culture grew when his work was featured by Martin Gardner in his April 1966 "Mathematical Games" column in "Scientific American". Escher's works have appeared on many album covers including The Scaffold's 1969 "L the P" with "Ascending and Descending"; Mott the Hoople's eponymous 1969 record wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20127 | 89,779 |
1,922,551 | Almost all cancer cells have shortened telomeres. This may seem counter-intuitive, as short telomeres should activate the ATR/ATM DNA damage checkpoint and thereby prevent division. Resolving the question of why cancer cells have short telomeres led to the development of a two-stage model for how cancer cells subvert t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62585682 | 1,921,448 |
501,242 | François Furet (1927–1997) was the leading figure in the rejection of the "classic" or "Marxist" interpretation. Desan (2000) stated he "seemed to emerge the victor from the bicentennial, both in the media and in historiographic debates." A disillusioned ex-Communist, he published his "La Révolution Française" in 1965–... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=406597 | 500,985 |
403,129 | The concept of diffusion was first studied by the French sociologist Gabriel Tarde in late 19th century and by German and Austrian anthropologists and geographers such as Friedrich Ratzel and Leo Frobenius. The study of diffusion of innovations took off in the subfield of rural sociology in the midwestern United States... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1123434 | 402,929 |
1,423,685 | During the 17th and 18th centuries astronomers used the ephemeris tables generated by Cassini to better understand the nature of the Jovian system and light. In 1675, Danish astronomer Ole Rømer found that observed eclipse times for Io were earlier than predicted when Jupiter was closest to Earth at opposition and late... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26237277 | 1,422,884 |
711,866 | The pilotis elevates the structure from the ground, allowing for automobiles to drive underneath through a sweeping enclosure—that was designed to correspond to the turning radius of a car—as it curves around the house to afford direct entrance. The placement of the columns are predominately practical, organized in a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38574765 | 711,494 |
1,817,060 | In the early 1950s Henri Bader, then at the University of Minnesota, became interested in the possibility of using thermal drilling to obtain cores from holes thousands of metres deep. Lyle Hansen advised him that high voltage would be needed to prevent power loss, and this meant a transformer would need to be designed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56017314 | 1,816,026 |
992,522 | Over half the people who are diagnosed with prediabetes eventually develop type 2 diabetes and once diagnosed with prediabetes, people experience a range of emotions: distress and fear; denial and downplay of risks; guilt and self-criticism; and self-compassion. While prediabetes is a reversible condition, it requires ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13226296 | 992,005 |
15,493 | The discussion of autism prior to the twentieth century brought about much controversy. Without researchers being able to meet a consensus on the varying forms of condition, there was a lack of research being conducted on the disorder. Discussing the syndrome and its complexity frustrated researchers at the time. Contr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29113700 | 15,488 |
1,371,284 | China entered the war in mid-October 1950, attacking advancing UN troops as they closed in on the Yalu River. No. 77 Squadron undertook its first sorties against Chinese ground forces on 1 November. The squadron flew its first missions supporting the Australian Army on 5 November, when it attacked Chinese troops opposi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3573298 | 1,370,527 |
817,290 | Power consumption has become increasingly important, not only in mobile devices such as laptops but also in server and desktop markets. Increasing data center machine density has led to problems delivering sufficient power to devices (especially for spin-up), and getting rid of the waste heat subsequently produced, as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32279697 | 816,854 |
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