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999,879 | The kingdom of Goguryeo in Korea was renowned for its military power and influence, especially during the rule of Gwanggaeto the Great. The rapid expansion of Goguryeo into Manchuria and parts of eastern China can be accredited to the skill and discipline of the Goguryeo heavy infantry and cavalry. Soldiers were typica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8938093 | 999,361 |
656,687 | To adjust to today's environment of quick social and ecological changes, some organizations have begun to experiment with new tools and concepts. Those that are more traditional and stick to hierarchical decision making have difficulty dealing with the demand for lateral decision making that supports effective particip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1407416 | 656,343 |
1,626,741 | Phosphoglucomutase 1 (PGM1) deficiency is an inherited metabolic disorder in humans (CDG syndrome type 1t, CDG1T). Affected patients show multiple disease phenotypes, including dilated cardiomyopathy, exercise intolerance, and hepatopathy, reflecting the central role of the enzyme in glucose metabolism. The biochemical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14799384 | 1,625,823 |
326,951 | What is today called Olmec first appeared fully within San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán, where distinctive Olmec features occurred around 1400 BCE. The rise of civilization was assisted by the local ecology of well-watered alluvial soil, as well as by the transportation network provided by the Coatzacoalcos river basin. This e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77260 | 326,777 |
2,152,372 | The CDF family (TC# 2.A.4) is a ubiquitous family, members of which are found in bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes. They transport heavy metal ions, such as cadmium, zinc, cobalt, nickel, copper and mercuric ions. There are 9 mammalian paralogues, ZnT1 - 8 and 10. Most proteins from the family have six transmembrane hel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35049854 | 2,151,141 |
866,442 | A number of factors led to the popularity of Netherlandish illuminators. Primary was the tradition and expertise that developed in the region in the centuries following the monastic reform of the 14th century, building on the growth in number and prominence of monasteries, abbeys and churches from the 12th century that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=799881 | 865,982 |
1,009,167 | The most common intervention to help people who are struggling with polypharmacy is deprescribing. Deprescribing can be confused with medication simplification, which does not attempt to reduce the number of medicines but rather reduce the number of dose forms and administration times. It is important to acknowledge th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1099391 | 1,008,646 |
1,886,604 | Ben-Jacob's studies in neuroscience are guided by an effort to simplify the complexity searching for principles of information coding, memory and learning. He has many unique contributions in the field of Systems Neuroscience and Neural Networks, including the relations between network size and its synchronized activit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33064706 | 1,885,522 |
636,207 | Auger electron spectroscopy (AES; pronounced in French) is a common analytical technique used specifically in the study of surfaces and, more generally, in the area of materials science. It is a form of electron spectroscopy that relies on the Auger effect, based on the analysis of energetic electrons emitted from an e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36835 | 635,868 |
108,899 | In the mid-nineteenth century more complex classification systems were developed to allow governments to manage their information according to the degree of sensitivity. For example, the British Government codified this, to some extent, with the publication of the Official Secrets Act in 1889. Section 1 of the law conc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15036 | 108,854 |
1,590,323 | B Reactor went critical in September 1944 and after overcoming neutron poisoning produced its first plutonium in November. Irradiated fuel slugs were transported by rail to two huge long, remotely operated chemical separation plants (T and B) away where plutonium was extracted from the irradiated slugs using the bismut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72002318 | 1,589,429 |
1,727,134 | Wright also developed a reputation as a surveyor on land. He prepared "a plat of part of the waye whereby a newe River may be brought from Uxbridge to St. James, Whitehall, Westminster [,] the Strand, St Giles, Holbourne and London", However, according to a 1615 paper in Latin in the annals of Gonville and Caius Colleg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17214829 | 1,726,160 |
3,324 | The Sun is gradually becoming hotter in its core, hotter at the surface, larger in radius, and more luminous during its time on the main sequence: since the beginning of its main sequence life, it has expanded in radius by 15% and the surface has increased in temperature from to , resulting in a 48% increase in luminos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26751 | 3,324 |
221,226 | Nuclear weapons employ high quality, highly enriched fuel exceeding the critical size and geometry (critical mass) necessary in order to obtain an explosive chain reaction. The fuel for energy purposes, such as in a nuclear fission reactor, is very different, usually consisting of a low-enriched oxide material (e.g. UO... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22133 | 221,117 |
386,102 | "Lateralus" and the corresponding tours would take Tool a step further toward art rock, and progressive rock territory, in contrast to the band's earlier material, which has often been labeled as alternative metal. The album has also been described as progressive metal. "Rolling Stone" wrote in an attempt to summarize ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=170335 | 385,907 |
1,543,903 | Arguably the biggest potential application of nanocircuits deals with computers and electronics. Scientists and engineers are always looking to make computers faster. Some think in the nearer term, we could see hybrids of micro- and nano-: silicon with a nano core—perhaps a high-density computer memory that retains its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10214429 | 1,543,030 |
1,524,256 | After the Fast Flux Test Facility and the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) were decommissioned in 1992 and 1994, respectively, the United States was left with no fast-neutron reactor in its fleet. Fast-neutron research was limited to a few restricted reactors located in Russia, including the Bor-60. To address ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61487628 | 1,523,395 |
739,944 | At the request of the United States Marine Corps, WAK Inc. started work on an "Interim SAW" in 1977. This was to provide a more solid automatic rifle to replace the practice of the automatic rifleman switching his weapon to full-auto, and to provide this capability until the US Army's SAW trials had been completed. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3352016 | 739,552 |
1,220,663 | Theodor Schwann proposed in 1839 that the tissues of all organisms are composed of cells. Schwann was expanding on the proposal of his good friend Matthias Jakob Schleiden the previous year that all plant tissues were composed of cells. The nervous system stood as an exception. Although nerve cells had been described i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3198778 | 1,220,008 |
1,007,163 | Under an internally funded project, the firm Lorenz AG developed a pulse-modulated set. The "Heer" contracted for a few sets for "Flak" (anti-aircraft) support, but then this mission was transferred to the "Luftwaffe". Over several years, Lorenz was unsuccessful in selling new versions called "Kurfürst" and "Kurmark" (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27693223 | 1,006,644 |
365,599 | A version of HIIT was based on a 1996 study by Ritsumeikan University Professor Izumi Tabata (田畑泉) et al. initially involving Olympic speedskaters. The study used 20 seconds of ultra-intense exercise (at an intensity of about 170% of VOmax) followed by 10 seconds of rest, repeated continuously for 4 minutes (8 cycles).... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1409767 | 365,408 |
1,986,410 | A phenomenon which could severely alter the way we look for signatures of adaptive evolution is biased gene conversion (BGC) (Galtier and Duret 2007). Meiotic recombination between homologous chromosomes that are heterozygous at a particular locus can produce a DNA mismatch. DNA repair mechanisms are biased towards rep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30142141 | 1,985,268 |
965,075 | On 1 July 1958, responding to Eisenhower's call, the nuclear powers convened the Conference of Experts in Geneva, aimed at studying means of detecting nuclear tests. The conference included scientists from the US, Britain, the Soviet Union, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Poland, and Romania. The US delegation was led ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30592 | 964,566 |
821,944 | Medical professionals may clinically diagnose lumbar spinal stenosis using a combination of a thorough medical history, physical examination, and imaging (CT or MRI). EMG may be helpful if the diagnosis is unclear. Useful clues that support a diagnosis of LSS are age; radiating leg pain that worsens with prolonged stan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=658155 | 821,503 |
1,296,360 | The A.I. program functions by using machine vision. Machine vision is a series of algorithms, or mathematical procedures, which work like a flow-chart or series of questions to compare the object seen with hundreds of thousands of stored reference images of humans in different postures, angles, positions and movements.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48653319 | 1,295,649 |
870,441 | In mid-1991, the PC Emulator was eventually updated to work as a multitasking application on the RISC OS desktop, requiring 2 MB of RAM to do so, and supporting access to DOS files from the RISC OS desktop filer interface. The emulator itself permitted access to CD-ROM devices and ran MS-DOS 3.3 with a special mouse dr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 869,981 |
1,865,772 | CARD curation occurs continuously, with monthly updates released by a team of biocurators. The curation process primarily involves regular review of the available scientific literature. Enforced curation guidelines provide the necessary context to ensure proper hierarchical classification, defined semantic relationship... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60831687 | 1,864,699 |
1,238,903 | New releases continued into late 2006. The "Thieves' Den", a 2.27MB download offering the chance to "Uncover a famous pirate's lost ship and claim it for your own", was released on May 22 for the Xbox 360, priced at 150 Marketplace points, "roughly" equivalent to US$1.89. Explaining the add-on, Ashley Cheng stated "Bas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12164267 | 1,238,236 |
868,866 | Perhaps the best known bacterial adaptation to stress is the formation of endospores. Endospores are bacterial survival structures that are highly resistant to many different types of chemical and environmental stresses and therefore enable the survival of bacteria in environments that would be lethal for these cells i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4209093 | 868,406 |
1,659,231 | On 1 December 1952, the 47th was redesignated the 47th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron and was activated at Niagara Falls Municipal Airport, New York, where it assumed the mission, personnel and equipment of the 136th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, a federalized New York Air National Guard unit that was returned to state c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17163459 | 1,658,298 |
1,477,575 | A conference was held between 10–12 July 2017 at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, to recognise the tenth anniversary of the start of Galaxy Zoo in July 2007. Co-founder Chris Lintott stated: "What started as a small project has been completely transformed by the enthusiasm and efforts of the volunteers... It has had a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12212921 | 1,476,743 |
458,834 | Two types of chemically absorbent tubes are used to sample for a wide range of chemical substances. Traditionally a chemical absorbent 'tube' (a glass or stainless steel tube of between 2 and 10 mm internal diameter) filled with very fine absorbent silica (hydrophilic) or carbon, such as coconut charcoal (lypophylic), ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=790153 | 458,610 |
108,855 | An alternative theory suggests instead that the jet stream shifted northward in response to the melting of the North American ice sheet, which brought more rain to the North Atlantic, which freshened the ocean surface enough to slow the thermohaline circulation. Another proposed cause has been volcanic activity. Howeve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11338425 | 108,810 |
1,309,523 | In subsequent years, Kluge's classifications of genera, which built off Underwood's original groupings, were generally accepted. However, Kluge's subfamilial allocations—including his subdivision of Diplodactylinae—and his apparent assumptions around their respective monophyly proved problematic for some (e.g., Moffatt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33865889 | 1,308,807 |
1,381,575 | The early focus of the field of gnotobiology was on proving that an organism could live in the absence of microorganisms, which ultimately resulted in the development of gnotobiotic organisms as a tool for research. Between the 1950s and 1970s, germ-free models were used to study the effects of the absence of bacteria ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2458018 | 1,380,812 |
1,641,109 | Becker also made important contributions to the history and interpretation of ancient Greek mathematics. Becker, as did several others, emphasized the "crisis" in Greek mathematics occasioned by the discovery of incommensurability of the side of the pentagon (or in the later, simpler proofs, the triangle) by Hippasus o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1798192 | 1,640,182 |
2,237,076 | After his return to New Zealand, Wood served as acting government statistician for a few months, before taking up the substantive role of government statistician on 9 August 1946. He remained in that position until his retirement at the end of January 1958. During his tenure, the Statistics Department began producing b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72073322 | 2,235,805 |
190,884 | The Devonian spanned roughly from 419 to 359 Ma. The period was a time of great tectonic activity, as Laurasia and Gondwana drew closer together. The continent Euramerica (or Laurussia) was created in the early Devonian by the collision of Laurentia and Baltica, which rotated into the natural dry zone along the Tropic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11603215 | 190,785 |
1,463,779 | The swath of Interstate 85 in the upstate has been known as "the Autobahn" because of the large concentration of German companies that lie along the interstate. In the early 1990s, citing the Upstate's access to Charlotte and Atlanta due to the interstate, as well as the state's nationally renowned technical school pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21927183 | 1,462,956 |
1,718,021 | The 203rd traces its lineage to the Army's reputed Ordnance Technical Intelligence Teams of World War II, established in 1943. After American forces struggled with considerable losses at the hands of the German technological surprises in North Africa, G.I.s fighting Axis forces began to receive issues of the "well-illu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67447284 | 1,717,051 |
851,607 | Shortly after the end of the war in 1945, Bell Labs formed a Solid State Physics Group, led by William Shockley and chemist Stanley Morgan; other personnel including John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, physicist Gerald Pearson, chemist Robert Gibney, electronics expert Hilbert Moore and several technicians. Their assignm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5951576 | 851,154 |
2,097,881 | Each laboratory conceives and develops its own research projects in each field of interest. While most of the studies are coordinated and executed by biomedical researchers, the experimental equipment development and assembly falls to the Aerospace Engineering Lab, located within the School of Engineering. Commonplace ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25161602 | 2,096,673 |
1,155,850 | This case, however, and a series of following cases, failed to produce a clear statement of the operative principle which commanded the support of a majority of the Court. But in 1997 in "Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation" which involved the alleged defamation of a former Prime Minister of New Zealand a unani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1098034 | 1,155,240 |
1,189,278 | Patrol and scouting operations out of Pearl Harbor with the "Lexington" group were followed by convoy duty to the west coast and back before Task Force 11 (TF 11), with "Monaghan" screening "Lexington," sortied from Pearl Harbor on April 15, 1942, bound for the South Pacific. With the Japanese threatening Port Moresby,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=386542 | 1,188,646 |
520,132 | Solid-state drives, which are flash-based, differ from hard-disk drives in two ways: first, in the way data is stored; and second, in the way the algorithms are used to manage and access that data. These differences can be exploited to recover previously erased data. SSDs maintain a layer of indirection between the log... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1230415 | 519,861 |
1,996,861 | The Suàn shù shū consists of 200 strips of bamboo written in ink, 180 strips are intact, the others have rotted. They consist of 69 mathematical problems from a variety of sources, two names Mr Wáng and Mr Yáng were found, probably two of the writers. Each problem has a question, an answer, followed by a method. The pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6186205 | 1,995,718 |
886,852 | On August 10, 1990, the American "Magellan" probe, named after the explorer Ferdinand Magellan, arrived at its orbit around the planet and started a mission of detailed radar mapping at a frequency of 2.38 GHz. Whereas previous probes had created low-resolution radar maps of continent-sized formations, "Magellan" mappe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3057806 | 886,388 |
54,311 | Being one of the most advanced aviation designs to attain operational status during the Second World War, the Me 262's roles included light bomber, reconnaissance, and experimental night fighter versions. The Me 262 proved to be an effective dogfighter against Allied fighters; German pilots claimed a total of 542 Allie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20488 | 54,291 |
1,863,735 | Having finished his literary studies, he was, according to custom, sent to Neuchâtel to learn French. On his return, he graduated in law. This study, however, did not check his hereditary taste for geometry. The early lessons which he had received from his father were continued by his uncle Daniel, and such was his pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21044568 | 1,862,663 |
1,347,109 | The E.I was essentially an armed version of the Fokker M.5K single-seat reconnaissance aircraft (military designation A.III), which was in turn very closely based on the design of the 1913 French Morane-Saulnier Type H. Like the Morane, the Fokker was an externally braced mid-winged monoplane with a vertically tapered ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1189231 | 1,346,368 |
1,246,922 | Through his work, Apianus became a favourite of emperor Charles V, who had praised "Cosmographicus liber" at the Imperial Diet of 1530 and granted him a printing monopoly in 1532 and 1534. In 1535, the emperor made Apianus an armiger, i.e. granted him the right to display a coat of arms. In 1540, Apianus printed the "A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=494745 | 1,246,247 |
125,067 | While genome editing in eukaryotic cells has been possible using various methods since the 1980s, the methods employed had proved to be inefficient and impractical to implement on a large scale. With the discovery of CRISPR and specifically the Cas9 nuclease molecule, efficient and highly selective editing is now a rea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59990826 | 125,015 |
430,741 | A related phenomenon to the behavioral shutdown model is learned helplessness. In animal subjects, a loss of control or predictability in the subject's experiences results in a condition similar to clinical depression in humans. That is to say, if uncontrollable and unstoppable stressors are repeated for long enough, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13190302 | 430,529 |
614,279 | Even the Turkish government has not held aloof from the work of exploration, and the Museum at Istanbul is filled with the tablets discovered by V. Scheil in 1897 on the site of Sippara. Jacques de Morgan's exceptionally important work at Susa lies outside the limits of Babylonia; not so, however, the American excavati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=606821 | 613,967 |
2,086,904 | Lees was a post-doctoral fellow (1985-1988) in the laboratory of Dr. Howard Dintzis. The work in the Dintzis’ lab centered on the Immunon model of the immune cell signaling around the synthesis of multivalent peptide constructs. He subsequently moved to the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (Bethesda... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49290674 | 2,085,702 |
1,168,936 | While a majority of the global health gender disparities is weighted against women, there are situations in which men tend to fare poorer. One such instance is armed conflicts, where men are often the immediate victims. A study of conflicts in 13 countries from 1955 to 2002 found that 81% of all violent war deaths were... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38846583 | 1,168,318 |
741,786 | A UK case-control study for 54,906 participants, testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 between 1 October 2020 and 29 January 2021 in the community setting (not including vulnerable persons from care centres and other public institutions), reported that patients infected with the Alpha variant (VOC 202012/1) had a hazard rati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66147797 | 741,394 |
1,592,494 | The White Mountain School Field Course is a week-long, academic exploration of a specific topic that occurs within an appropriate geographic setting. They occur in October and March for five days in length. Recent courses have included Poverty, Homelessness and Hunger (Portland, Maine), Adirondack Art and Adventure (Ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1781581 | 1,591,597 |
1,476,815 | The vertical input is digitized by an analog-to-digital converter to create a data set that is stored in the memory of a microprocessor. The data set is processed and then sent to the display, which in early DSOs was a cathode ray tube, but today is a LCD flat panel. DSOs with color LCD displays are common. The samplin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27598453 | 1,475,983 |
1,411,787 | In addition to its activation, ALOX5 must gain access to its polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) substrates, which commonly are bound in an ester linkage to the "sn"2 position of membrane phospholipids (see phospholipid), in order to form biologically active products. This is accomplished by a large family of phospholipa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10995185 | 1,410,992 |
580,958 | The absorbed dose and dose equivalent from galactic cosmic rays and solar energetic particles on the Martian surface for ~300 days of observations during the current solar maximum was measured. These measurements are necessary for human missions to the surface of Mars, to provide microbial survival times of any possibl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34298804 | 580,661 |
752,383 | In January 1906, Eddington was nominated to the post of chief assistant to the Astronomer Royal at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. He left Cambridge for Greenwich the following month. He was put to work on a detailed analysis of the parallax of 433 Eros on photographic plates that had started in 1900. He developed a n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2274 | 751,981 |
343,148 | The reliable function of SCADA systems in our modern infrastructure may be crucial to public health and safety. As such, attacks on these systems may directly or indirectly threaten public health and safety. Such an attack has already occurred, carried out on Maroochy Shire Council's sewage control system in Queensland... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62437 | 342,967 |
338,610 | Feldman considers Thales' environment and holds that Thales would have seen tears, sweat, and blood as granting value to a person's work and the means how life giving commodities travelled (whether on bodies of water or through the sweat of slaves and pack-animals). He would have seen that minerals could be processed f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30072 | 338,430 |
185,107 | Other focal-plane shutter designs, such as the Copal Square, travelled vertically — the shorter travelling distance of 24 millimetres (as opposed to 36 mm horizontally) meant that minimum exposure and flash synchronisation times could be reduced. These shutters are usually manufactured from metal, and use the same movi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29648 | 185,010 |
1,429,594 | More than 200 methods are used worldwide to prescribe river flows needed to maintain healthy rivers. However, very few of these are comprehensive and holistic, accounting for seasonal and inter-annual flow variation needed to support the whole range of ecosystem services that healthy rivers provide. Such comprehensive ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9437083 | 1,428,790 |
1,360,761 | A "bench shear", also known as a "lever shear", is a bench mounted shear with a compound mechanism to increase the mechanical advantage. It is usually used for cutting rough shapes out of medium-sized pieces of sheet metal, but cannot do delicate work. For the small shear, it mostly designed for a wide field of applica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24963265 | 1,360,009 |
49,070 | qPCR allows the quantification and detection of a specific DNA sequence in real time since it measures concentration while the synthesis process is taking place. There are two methods for simultaneous detection and quantification. The first method consists of using fluorescent dyes that are retained nonspecifically in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23647 | 49,050 |
478,835 | A more realistic way of modeling the behavior of nucleic acids would seem to be to have parameters that depend on the neighboring groups on both sides of a nucleotide, giving a table with entries like "TCG/AGC". However, this would involve around 32 groups for Watson-Crick pairing and even more for sequences containing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9299409 | 478,595 |
2,019,906 | 500 Women Scientists often uses science writing as a means of communicating their expertise and values to the public at large, with pieces featured in outlets like "Science", "Scientific American", and "The Seattle Times". The global leadership team has authored a number of opinion pieces on topics as varied as calling... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57712174 | 2,018,743 |
251,164 | When a top-down parser tries to parse an ambiguous input with respect to an ambiguous context-free grammar (CFG), it may need an exponential number of steps (with respect to the length of the input) to try all alternatives of the CFG in order to produce all possible parse trees. This eventually would require exponentia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=723483 | 251,031 |
2,145,251 | During his early career at the University of Florida in the 1990s certain of his antibodies made originally for research purposes were licensed to outside companies for sale. Some of these are still today sold by vendors such as Cell Signaling Technology, which however charges what Dr. Shaw regards as unreasonably high... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33879721 | 2,144,020 |
1,801,805 | The Low Altitude Bombing System (LABS), or toss bombing, tactic was first made public in front of a crowd of 3,000 including 11 state governors on 7 May 1957 at Eglin AFB, when a B–47 Stratojet entered its bombing run at low altitude, pulled up sharply (3.5 g) into a half loop, releasing its bomb under computer control... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,796 |
1,801,112 | Following the successful 5-year run of the RoboMaster Robotics Competition, the RoboMaster Youth Tournament (, "RoboMaster youth challenge competition"), a brand-new competition targeted at underage participants, was launched by DJI in early 2020. A simplified form of the main Robotics Competition, the Youth Tournament... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62042120 | 1,800,103 |
72,208 | Some political commentators, law enforcement workers, and addiction specialists have argued naloxone enables opioid addiction and worsens the crisis. Some police officers report reviving the same addict multiple times and that the availability of naloxone have allowed some addicts to push their use over the edge. Radio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=142818 | 72,181 |
69,948 | These problems were not helped by the production process. The SA80 series was produced from metal stampings; while RSAF Enfield had previous experience in manufacturing stamped-metal firearms, this was only in relation to weapons such as the Sten submachine gun that had relatively loose tolerances. The tighter toleranc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84350 | 69,921 |
633,112 | Finally, when these technologies are being developed society must understand that these neurotechnologies could reveal the one thing that people can always keep secret: what they are thinking. While there are large amounts of benefits associated with these technologies, it is necessary for scientists, citizens and poli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=987320 | 632,774 |
1,115,671 | Several wars with the Dutch in the 17th century prompted the English to issue instructions for the conduct of particular fleets, such as (in 1673) the Duke of York's "Instructions for the better Ordering of His Majesties Fleet in Sayling". Signals were primitive and rather ad hoc ("As soon as the Admiral shall loose hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24564752 | 1,115,102 |
270,459 | In 1924, Louis de Broglie proposed that not only do light waves sometimes exhibit particle-like properties, but particles may also exhibit wave-like properties. Two different formulations of quantum mechanics were presented following de Broglie's suggestion. The wave mechanics of Erwin Schrödinger (1926) involves the u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22688097 | 270,312 |
702,066 | The 1963 Robbins Report on the future of UK higher education recommended major expansion, which led to the renaming of the institution to Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology to suggest its increasing role in higher education rather than further education. As well as new "plate-glass" universities, reforms following... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=381864 | 701,701 |
572,403 | Some software development from the early 1970s is notable. PLN (created by Robert Nichols) was the host language for a number of DG products, making them easier to develop, enhance, and maintain than macro assembler equivalents. PLN smacked of a micro-subset of PL/I, in sharp contrast to other languages of the time, su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157959 | 572,110 |
1,835,424 | The Biotic Ligand Model (BLM) is a tool used in aquatic toxicology that examines the bioavailability of metals in the aquatic environment and the affinity of these metals to accumulate on gill surfaces of organisms. BLM depends on the site-specific water quality including such parameters as pH, hardness, and dissolved ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36065193 | 1,834,375 |
1,465,246 | It quickly became apparent after a road was built into the area in the 1950s that the Bennett was going to need some protection from visitors. The first attempt was the formation of the Bennett Juniper Association, which placed a monument at the tree in 1963. Joseph W. Martin Sr., the owner of the land on which the Ben... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44590051 | 1,464,423 |
1,213,242 | The Commonwealth Naval Board was aware of the worsening situation in the region; the sloop reported its first case on 11 November 1918 while stationed in Fiji, with half her complement eventually affected. On 20 November 1918, the Naval Board began forming a joint relief expedition from available military medical perso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5606945 | 1,212,590 |
6,890 | The end of the Cold War led to a period of military budget cuts and considerable restructuring. At the same time, U.S. Naval Aviation faced a number of problems. The McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II was canceled in 1991 after the program ran into serious problems; it was intended to replace the obsolete Grumman A-6 In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=845012 | 6,887 |
1,356,283 | Stafne's defect is usually discovered by chance during routine dental radiography. Radiographically, it is a well-circumscribed, monolocular, round, radiolucent defect, 1–3 cm in size, usually between the inferior alveolar nerve (IAN) and the inferior border of the posterior mandible between the molars and the angle of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7454880 | 1,355,533 |
1,885,878 | The external skull surface is covered randomly with small pits. The orbits are huge, with a complete dorsal roof made by the paired supraorbitals. The maxilla has sharp edge, which extends forward and covers some part of the lateral notch. The ears are protected by earflaps, which prevent water inflow to the otic reces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5749495 | 1,884,796 |
6,363 | On 18 March 2013, NASA reported evidence from instruments on the "Curiosity" rover of mineral hydration, likely hydrated calcium sulfate, in several rock samples including the broken fragments of "Tintina" rock and "Sutton Inlier" rock as well as in veins and nodules in other rocks like "Knorr" rock and "Wernicke" rock... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14640471 | 6,360 |
972,238 | The presence of an inadequate number of centrosomes is very often linked to the appearance of genome instability and the loss of tissue differentiation. However, the method to count the centrosome number (with two centrioles to each centrosome) is often not very precise, because it is frequently assessed using fluoresc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=95464 | 971,728 |
622,114 | After an overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard from 27 January–22 April, "Sailfish" returned to Pearl Harbor on 30 April. Departing Hawaii on 17 May for her eighth patrol, she stopped off to fuel at Midway Island and proceeded to her station off the east coast of Honshū. Several contacts were made but, because of bad ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=422293 | 621,782 |
994,993 | Expression of "VSG" genes occurs through a number of mechanisms yet to be fully understood. The expressed VSG can be switched either by activating a different expression site (and thus changing to express the "VSG" in that site), or by changing the "VSG" gene in the active site to a different variant. The genome contai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2198661 | 994,476 |
1,780,288 | The Paxon School faculty consists of over 100 teachers whose awards include district Teacher of the Year and National Board Certification. The campus includes athletic facilities, a swimming pool, a professional grade television production studio, science labs, and a theater. Sports teams include football, baseball, ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2710941 | 1,779,284 |
1,718,129 | Mosquitoes have a small window for preferential conditions for breeding and maturation. The ultimate breeding and maturing temperature for mosquitoes ranges from 16 to 18 degrees Celsius. If the temperature is decreased by 2 degrees, most of the insects will succumb to death. This is why malaria is unsustainable in pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63453251 | 1,717,159 |
169,277 | "H. ergaster" lived on the African savannah, which during the Pleistocene was home to a considerably more formidable community of carnivorans than the present savannah. Hominins could probably only have adapted to life on the savannah if effective anti-predator defense behaviours had already evolved. Defense against pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276745 | 169,187 |
307,956 | LSD made a comeback in the 1980s accompanying the advent of recreational MDMA use, first in the punk and gothic subcultures through dance clubs, then in the 1990s through the acid house scene and rave subculture. LSD use and availability declined sharply following a raid of a large scale LSD lab in 2000 (see LSD in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1119225 | 307,791 |
471,234 | In 2003, Government of India announced that the missile will be a technology demonstrator and de-linked it from Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme. But Ministry of Defence (MoD) was not interested in downgrading the Trishul Missile project. After modification in guidance, sub-systems and propellant composi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1248899 | 470,998 |
2,013,039 | The building was built in neo-gothic style and designed by Maginnis and Walsh and was built in light face brick with limestone trimmings. The exterior features carvings of saints and athletes. The hall's unique architecture includes gargoyles up top and stone carvings of everything from Madonna and Child (north side ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4327068 | 2,011,882 |
469,785 | In RTLS application in the healthcare industry, various studies were issued discussing the limitations of the currently adopted RTLS. Currently used technologies RFID, Wi-fi, UWB, all RFID based are hazardous in the sense of interference with sensitive equipment. A study carried out by Dr Erik Jan van Lieshout of the A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22845262 | 469,549 |
227,013 | Though it was originally found to nest closer to "Einiosaurus" and later centrosaurines by McDonald and colleagues in both 2010 and 2011, revisions of phylogenetic analyses in 2013 by Scott Sampson and colleagues, and further expansions and modifications of the same dataset, instead placed "Rubeosaurus ovatus" as the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1792150 | 226,897 |
2,046,698 | On a fine April day, Ike Webb made his debut in goal away to Luton Town, where Jimmy Inglis scored the decisive goal for Small Heath in the second half. Visiting Newton Heath, Small Heath won the toss, and elected to play with the benefit of the wind behind them. They soon opened the scoring, James Higgins reacting to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34698933 | 2,045,517 |
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