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851,451 | Scholars from a variety of fields study phenomena that can be described under the umbrella term of computer-mediated communication (CMC) (see also Internet studies). For example, many take a sociopsychological approach to CMC by examining how humans use "computers" (or digital media) to manage interpersonal interaction... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=320498 | 850,998 |
2,177,224 | He was then recommended by the Royal Society to be the astronomer for Captain William Parry’s second attempt to find a north-west passage. In April 1821, (Fisher’s ship) and were sent by the Admiralty to search for a passage along the west coast of the unknown Foxe Basin in northernmost Hudson Bay. Parry became the fir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27775421 | 2,175,980 |
789,426 | The late 1970s and 1980s saw a massive increase of AAC-related research, publications, and training as well the first national and international conferences. The International Society for Alternative and Augmentative Communication (ISAAC) was founded in 1983; its members included clinicians, teachers, rehabilitation en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2106968 | 789,002 |
2,197,246 | Penta-silicene or pentasilicene denotes a silicon-based two-dimensional (2D) structure, a cousin of silicene, composed entirely of Si pentagons, in analogy with penta-graphene,a hypothetical variant of graphene. As of 2017 such a structure has only been obtained synthetically as one-dimensional nanoribbons (1D-NRs) gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55734964 | 2,195,995 |
669,588 | The Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA), built and operated by Georgia State University, is an interferometer formed from six 1 meter telescopes arranged along three axes with a maximum separation of 330 m. The light beams travel through vacuum pipes and are delayed and combined optically, requiring a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213583 | 669,238 |
133,274 | Madrasas were centers for many different religious and scientific studies and were the culmination of different institutions such as mosques based around religious studies, housing for out-of-town visitors, and finally educational institutions focused on the natural sciences. Unlike Western universities, students at a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400 | 133,221 |
1,761,915 | Schmidt has appeared on various occasions in the media, often he is asked about his expertise on climate related study findings, current events or gives lectures. Schmidt worked with the American Museum of Natural History, the College de France, and the New York Academy of Sciences for education and outreach. Schmidt a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1230631 | 1,760,922 |
1,152,248 | Microplasmas serve as energetic sources of ions and radicals, which are desirable for activating chemical reactions. Microplasmas are used as flow reactors that allow molecular gases to flow through the microplasma inducing chemical modifications by molecular decomposition. The high energy electrons of microplasmas acc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18446530 | 1,151,639 |
2,015,218 | There has been very limited study of patients receiving potentially actionable genomic based results or the utilization of genetic counselors in the online result delivery process. A randomized controlled trial on 199 patients with chronic disease each receiving eight personalized and actionable complex disease reports... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25569540 | 2,014,059 |
167,576 | Alfred Marshall and his disciples dominated economic theory until the end of WWII. With the Cold War, the theory changed, emphasizing that a market economy was superior and the only sensible way. In Paul Samuelson's "Economics: An Introductory Analysis", 1948, Adam Smith's "invisible hand" was only a footnote. In later... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41531 | 167,489 |
1,327,163 | The term ‘usage-based’ was coined by Ronald Langacker in 1987, while doing research on Cognitive Grammar. Langacker identified commonly recurring linguistic patterns (patterns such as those associated with Wh- fronting, subject-verb agreement, the use of present participles, etc.) and represented these supposed rule-go... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66383636 | 1,326,436 |
1,831,566 | Hedges has a Bachelor of Science undergraduate degree from George Mason University, and a Masters and Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Maryland, supervised by Richard Highton. Before he joined Temple University in 2014, he was a professor at Penn State. He is also a founding member of the NASA Astrobiology Cente... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46183389 | 1,830,519 |
254,844 | Kate Jones, Chair of Ecology and Biodiversity at University College London, says zoonotic diseases are increasingly linked to environmental change and human behaviour. The disruption of pristine forests driven by logging, mining, road building through remote places, rapid urbanisation and population growth is bringing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34439 | 254,711 |
1,448,477 | Sea sponge aquaculture is the process of farming sea sponges under controlled conditions. It has been conducted in the world's oceans for centuries using a number of aquaculture techniques. There are many factors such as light, salinity, pH, dissolved oxygen and the accumulation of waste products that influence the gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32630289 | 1,447,661 |
1,758,596 | Coffinite was first discovered in sedimentary uranium deposits in the Colorado Plateau region, but has also been discovered in sedimentary uranium deposits and hydrothermal veins in many other locations. Samples of coffinite from the Colorado Plateau were found with black fine-grained low-valence vanadium minerals, ura... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=719150 | 1,757,603 |
77,836 | The energy and momentum are properties of matter and radiation, and it is impossible to deduce that they form a four-vector just from the two basic postulates of special relativity by themselves, because these don't talk about matter or radiation, they only talk about space and time. The derivation therefore requires s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26962 | 77,807 |
1,976,047 | Green building on college campuses is the purposeful construction of buildings on college campuses that decreases resource usage in both the building process and also the future use of the building. The goal is to reduce emissions, energy use, and water use, while creating an atmosphere where students can be healthy an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25102062 | 1,974,910 |
768,147 | In efforts to remediate the damages done by slow-degrading plastics, detergents, metals, and other pollutants created by humans, economic costs have become a concern. Marine litter in particular is notably difficult to quantify and review. Researchers at the World Trade Institute estimate that cleanup initiatives' cost... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47490 | 767,735 |
1,347,393 | Perturb-seq or other conceptually similar protocols can be used to address a broad scope of biological questions and the applications of this technology will likely grow over time. Three papers on this topic, published in the December 2016 issue of the Journal Cell, demonstrated the utility of this method by applying i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53353992 | 1,346,652 |
1,337,984 | "M. atropurpureum" is native to Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean Islands, and has been known to grow in some regions of southern North America, including Mexico and the USA in states such as Arizona, Texas, Florida, and Hawaii, as well as coastal regions in Queensland and New South Wales, Australia, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15208051 | 1,337,253 |
967,598 | Stakeholders such as Deutsche Bahn have opted for a streamlined development model for ETCS – DB will assemble a database of change requests (CRs) to be assembled by priority and effect in a CR-list for the next milestone report (MRs) that shall be published on fixed dates through ERA. The "SRS 3.4.0" from Q2 2014 match... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2214121 | 967,088 |
970,677 | With a failure in emotion regulation, there is a rise in psychosocial and emotional dysfunctions caused by traumatic experiences due to an inability to regulate emotions. These traumatic experiences typically happen in grade school and are sometimes associated with bullying. Children who can't properly self-regulate ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17476149 | 970,167 |
239,987 | Furthermore, the team continued to struggle with the Frostbite engine, as EA's management under Patrick Söderlund wanted all its studios using the same technology. Frostbite was not originally designed for the purposes that the team had in mind for "Anthem". BioWare had difficulty transitioning some of the systems they... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54272102 | 239,867 |
648,516 | One of the main disagreements between the two theorists revolves around their conceptualization among narcissistic and borderline disorders. According to Kernberg, the defensive structure of the narcissistic individual is quite similar to that of the borderline person since the former has a fairly underlying borderline... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1042977 | 648,175 |
637,699 | In situ ellipsometry refers to dynamic measurements during the modification process of a sample. This process can be used to study, for instance, the growth of a thin film, including calcium phosphate mineralization at the air-liquid interface, etching or cleaning of a sample. By in situ ellipsometry measurements it is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1177592 | 637,360 |
2,145,788 | He studied physics at the University of Szeged, Hungary and the University of Jena, Germany, and received a diploma as research physicist in 2000. After graduation, he was awarded a German Academic Exchange Service Doctoral Fellowship and began his doctoral studies at the University of Jena, under the supervision of Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19836008 | 2,144,557 |
1,941,598 | Infected individuals and diseased corpses pose a particular risk for social insects because they can act a source of infection for the rest of the colony. As mentioned above, dead nestmates are typically removed from the nest to reduce the potential risk of disease transmission. Infected or not, ants that are close to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51046084 | 1,940,487 |
1,204,096 | As of 2012, the typical Internet core link speed is 40 Gbit/s, with many links at higher speeds, reaching or exceeding 100 Gbit/s (out of a theoretical current maximum of 111 Gbit/s, provided by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone ), provisioning the explosion in demand for bandwidth in the current generation of cloud compu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9358077 | 1,203,451 |
1,823,894 | Today, hundreds of academic and industrial groups use Guy Bertrand's CAACs and other carbenes in transition metal catalysis, but also for other purposes. The most recent developments cover a wide range from nanoparticle stabilization to the antibacterial and anti-cancer properties of silver (I) and gold (I) complexes. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25315066 | 1,822,856 |
586,385 | Once begun, PD causes progressive deterioration of insulating materials, ultimately leading to electrical breakdown. The effects of PD within high voltage cables and equipment can be very serious, ultimately leading to complete failure. The cumulative effect of partial discharges within solid dielectrics is the formati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=467804 | 586,085 |
510,613 | An important ecological function of plants is that they produce organic compounds for herbivores in the bottom of the food web. A large number of plant traits, from thorns to chemical defenses, can be related to the intensity of herbivory. Large herbivores can also have many effects on vegetation. These include removin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23470640 | 510,348 |
288,455 | The Cabinet Secretary, Sir John Hunt briefed Cabinet on Polaris on 28 November 1977, noting that a possible successor might take up to 15 years to bring into service, depending on the nature of system chosen, and whether it was to be developed by the UK, or in collaboration with France or the US. With the recent experi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9095461 | 288,298 |
435,253 | The first modern diagnosis was provided by David Bruce Norman in 2020. In a first article, Norman provided autapomorphies, unique derived characters, of the skull. The front snout bones, the premaxillae, have a common central rough extension, in life bearing a small upper beak. The nasal bone has on its upper outside a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2469650 | 435,039 |
1,440,897 | The Spanish paleoartist and writer Mauricio Antón provided an overview of gorgonopsian biology in a 2013 book, writing that despite their differences from saber-toothed mammals, many features of their skeletons indicated they were not sluggish reptiles but active predators. While their brains were relatively smaller th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16984249 | 1,440,087 |
1,741,318 | During the mid-2000s, researchers at the National Aerospace Laboratory in the Netherlands examined the use of DVI in the "GRACE" simulator; a total of twelve pilots participated in the ensuing experiment. The tests performed reportedly revealed that, while the hardware itself functioned well, several improvements were ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8820064 | 1,740,336 |
12,931 | Less pessimistic than Dayan, Elazar was not ready yet to abandon the Golan Heights. Israeli High Command had a strategic reserve, consisting of the 146th Ugda that was earmarked for Central Command, controlling the eastern border with Jordan. In the evening of October 6, Elazar had considered sending this division to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34276 | 12,926 |
133,877 | The Akan speak a Kwa language. The speakers of Kwa languages are believed to have come from East/Central Africa, before settling in the Sahel. By the 12th century, the Akan Kingdom of Bonoman (Bono State) was established. During the 13th century, when the gold mines in modern-day Mali started to dry up, Bonoman and lat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14099 | 133,824 |
873,377 | The Cretaceous () had much of the same insect fauna as the Jurassic until much later on. During the Cretaceous, the late-Paleozoic-to-early-Mesozoic supercontinent of Pangaea completed its tectonic breakup into present day continents, although their positions were substantially different at the time. As the Atlantic Oc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3969819 | 872,917 |
1,197,511 | The most common weather Barograph found in homes and public buildings these days are the 8-day type. Some important manufacturers of barographs are Negretti and Zambra, Short and Mason, and Richard Ferris among others. The late Victorian to early 20th century is generally considered to be the heyday of Barograph manufa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=570723 | 1,196,870 |
386,186 | Its battlefield debut occurred on 31 May 1918, east of the Forest of Retz, east of Chaudun, between Ploisy and Chazelles, during the Third Battle of the Aisne. This engagement, with 30 tanks, successfully broke up a German advance, but in the absence of infantry support, the vehicles later withdrew. From then on, gradu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=354354 | 385,991 |
1,867,073 | For their second game, Quinnipiac knew they were facing a tougher fight in top-seeded Michigan and they would have to play much better if they had any chance at victory. Early on, nothing seemed to go right for the Bobcats. They weren't able to get any traction in the game and found themselves down 0–4 after two period... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68590921 | 1,865,998 |
825,850 | There was no consistency observed in clinical results relating chromium(III) picolinate to adequate treatment of type 2 diabetes. This is due to the degree of glucose intolerance of patients that participate in the clinical studies. Glucose intolerance is a gradient and the intensity is affected by ethnicity, degree of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2876898 | 825,407 |
1,379,117 | Early SECMs were constructed solely by individual lab groups from a set of common components including potentiostat (or bipotentiostat) and potential programmer, current amplifier, piezoelectric positioner and controller, computer, and UME. Many SECM experiments are highly specific in nature, and in-house assembly of S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33179399 | 1,378,355 |
1,200,041 | AUAF in fall 2011 began its first graduate program, offering the master of business administration degree. This program builds on the success of the university's undergraduate business program, which is the most popular major among AUAF students. A total of 29 students were admitted in the first MBA class. It is now of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5229461 | 1,199,400 |
419,581 | However, subsequent studies have cast doubt on the usefulness of minor variations in frill spike arrangement for classifying centrosaurines. In particular, large sample sizes of the species "Centrosaurus apertus" and "Styracosaurus albertensis" have shown a higher than predicted amount of variation. In 2020, Holmes et ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10834116 | 419,376 |
1,163,957 | The AAI is considered one of the most comprehensive attachment assessments, and is well validated. It was initially created by Nancy George and Carol Kaplan in, and later developed with Mary Main in 1985. Crittenden and Landini slightly modified it with DMM theory in 2011. It assesses self-protective attachment strateg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65792544 | 1,163,340 |
1,204,415 | In response to increasing public pressure due to the changing needs of Baltimore's trade and commercial classes, political leaders introduced legislation establishing a high school. The resolution establishing the school was unanimously passed by the Baltimore City Council on March 7, 1839 and was signed into law by Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=713949 | 1,203,770 |
291,834 | Under the Indian Human Spaceflight Program, India was planning to send humans into space on its orbital vehicle Gaganyaan before August 2022, but it has been delayed to 2023, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) began work on this project in 2006. The initial objective is to carry... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18896 | 291,676 |
1,590,372 | Slug production commenced in June 1944 and by September enough canned slugs had been accumulated to commence loading the first reactor. In August 1944, the process was improved by reducing the temperature of the copper–tin alloy by . This lifted the number of acceptable canned slugs from a few percent to more than 75 p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72002318 | 1,589,478 |
487,509 | The mass-spring model (obtained from a polygonal mesh representation of the cloth) determines the internal spring forces acting on the nodes at each timestep (in combination with gravity and applied forces). Newton's second law gives equations of motion which can be solved via standard ODE solvers. To create high resol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5917746 | 487,259 |
772,478 | Implementing MOFs in industry necessitates a thorough understanding of the mechanical properties since most processing techniques (e.g. extrusion and pelletization) expose the MOFs to substantial mechanical compressive stresses. The mechanical response of porous structures is of interest as these structures can exhibit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9821563 | 772,063 |
820,753 | The progress made with SPARC has built off previously mentioned work on the ITER project and is aiming to utilize new technology in high-temperature superconductors (HTS) as a more practical material. HTS will enable reactor magnets to produce greater magnetic field and proportionally increase the transport processes n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1690634 | 820,312 |
1,723,118 | Presented here is a model of a photon Monte Carlo method in a homogeneous infinite medium. The model is easily extended for multi-layered media, however. For an inhomogeneous medium, boundaries must be considered. In addition for a semi-infinite medium (in which photons are considered lost if they exit the top boundary... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14308303 | 1,722,148 |
349,137 | The eastern edge of Pangea was encroached upon by a pair of extensive oceanic basins: The Neo-Tethys (or simply Tethys) and Paleo-Tethys Oceans. These extended from China to Iberia, hosting abundant marine life along their shallow tropical peripheries. They were divided from each other by a long string of microcontinen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29989 | 348,955 |
1,126,173 | In 2010–2014, under the “Megagrant programs”, MCTUR launched the International Laboratory of Functional Materials Based on Glass named after Academician P. D. Sarkisov. The laboratory was initially headed by the Italian scientist Albert Paleari and the head of the Department of Chemical Technology of Glass and Sitalls ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20001197 | 1,125,596 |
283,715 | Lindbergh sat in a cramped cockpit which was 94 cm wide, 81 cm long and 130 cm high (36 in × 32 in × 51 in). The cockpit was so small, Lindbergh could not stretch his legs, nevertheless it was to be his home for nearly two days and nights over the Atlantic. The "Spirit of St. Louis" was powered by a , air-cooled, nine-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=358988 | 283,562 |
1,269,073 | Aerial archaeology, specifically LIDAR, was used to study Caracol, a Mayan city in Belize, dated to 550-900 AD. Archaeologists Arlen and Diane Chase, from the University of Central Florida, worked for 25 years in the dense tropical rainforest, managing to map of settlement. At the end of the dry season of 2009, they em... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=615752 | 1,268,382 |
1,940,945 | The seventh round was marked with the high 3½-½ victories of the top two seeds Russia and the United States against the Czech Republic and the only team with a perfect score and sole leader in the standings India, respectively. The three wins for the American team came from the games played from the second to the fourt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51472590 | 1,939,834 |
1,696,395 | In vertebrates, the ventricular zone (VZ) is a transient embryonic layer of tissue containing neural stem cells, principally radial glial cells, of the central nervous system (CNS). The VZ is so named because it lines the ventricular system, which contains cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The embryonic ventricular system con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47723048 | 1,695,442 |
1,913,719 | Over the years, many errors were found, and many of them were published in "Chess Life" in the column by Larry Evans . Over one hundred such errors were found and a mimeographed list of them was printed and circulated by Paul L. Crane and Rev. David Chew. An 18-page booklet containing over 200 corrections was published... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18529384 | 1,912,620 |
1,478,099 | After the February Revolution and the beginning of internal conflict within the army the Garfords began to be gradually withdrawn from the front. Later with the coming to power of the Bolsheviks, the Garford-Putilov armoured cars, like other armoured vehicles possessed by the army, were quickly seized by opposing sides... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26354934 | 1,477,267 |
594,993 | In terms of evolution, the oldest physiological role of AhR is in development. AhR is presumed to have evolved from invertebrates where it served a ligand-independent role in normal development processes. The AhR homolog in "Drosophila, spineless "(ss) is necessary for development of the distal segments of the antenna ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4976535 | 594,688 |
349,561 | The backstory begins with the USA becoming embroiled in a major conflict in Central America in the 1980s, causing a significant economic collapse ending in a military coup resulting in the European Common Market and Japan as superpowers and the Soviet Union not collapsing. This is coupled with the development of orbita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=151821 | 349,378 |
1,424,586 | The concerns for possible health risks related to the residual radioactivity of the gemstones led to government regulations in many countries. In the United States, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has set strict limits on the allowable levels of residual radioactivity before an irradiated gemstone can be distri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20521094 | 1,423,784 |
1,538,963 | As part of the preparations for the Battle of Messines, the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company was tasked with ensuring that the tunnels and explosives beneath Hill 60 and The Caterpillar remained intact and undiscovered by the Germans over the next seven months. Drainage and ventilation shafts had to be dug in the unfa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46673504 | 1,538,090 |
390,736 | In March 2008, NC State launched the University Sustainability Office in order to address environmental concerns on campus. The university has established a commitment to reduce its annual energy consumption per square foot by at least 4% over a 10-year period. In addition, the university has surpassed the Executive Or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72544 | 390,541 |
823,814 | John Keats wrote about an American guerrilla leader in World War II: Colonel Wendell Fertig, who in 1942 organized a large guerrilla force which harassed the Japanese occupation forces on the Philippine Island of Mindanao all the way up to the liberation of the Philippines in 1945. His abilities were later utilized by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22634688 | 823,371 |
202,897 | Very short or very similar sequences can be aligned by hand. However, most interesting problems require the alignment of lengthy, highly variable or extremely numerous sequences that cannot be aligned solely by human effort. Instead, human knowledge is applied in constructing algorithms to produce high-quality sequence... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=149289 | 202,793 |
27,176 | Sugar in the form of glucose is the main nutrient used by animal and plant cells in respiration. Cellular respiration involving oxygen is called aerobic respiration, which has four stages: glycolysis, citric acid cycle (or Krebs cycle), electron transport chain, and oxidative phosphorylation. Glycolysis is a metabolic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9127632 | 27,166 |
1,763,040 | The currently available magnetogenetics techniques combine targeted magnetic particle delivery with magnetic stimulation. This allows for the accurate spatial control of the targeted intervention (i.e. inhibition or excitation of the target neurons in target brain regions). The temporal precision seems to vary dependin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47814884 | 1,762,047 |
689,901 | Since trees can grow larger than other plant life-forms, there is the potential for a wide variety of forest structures (or physiognomies). The infinite number of possible spatial arrangements of trees of varying size and species makes for a highly intricate and diverse micro-environment in which environmental variable... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2215958 | 689,538 |
1,256,480 | On October 3, 2015, Smith was inaugurated as the 15th President of Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Her position as the first African-American president drew many of the speakers to discuss the growing racial divides in the U.S. and academia. The president of Brown University at the time, Ruth Simmons, n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45467234 | 1,255,796 |
958,440 | While QKD is secure, its practical application faces some challenges. There are in fact limitations for the key generation rate at increasing transmission distances. Recent studies have allowed important advancements in this regard. In 2018, the protocol of twin-field QKD was proposed as a mechanism to overcome the lim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28676005 | 957,934 |
1,132,961 | In Italy, known as "Laurea in Fisioterapia (abilitante alla professione sanitaria di Fisioterapista)", it is a three-year full-time degree taught in the Faculty of Medicine of many Italian Universities. The course is an intensive mix of class time and mandatory internship right from the first year. Internship is such a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24210226 | 1,132,369 |
1,652,898 | Carbon monoxide dehydrogenase is closely associated with the regulation of atmospheric CO and CO levels, maintaining optimal CO levels suitable for other forms of life. Microbial organisms rely on these enzymes for both energy conservation along with CO fixation. Often encoding for and synthesizing multiple unique form... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14132547 | 1,651,966 |
1,739,219 | Simulations can be performed offline (as in apart from when they are viewed) in the development of special effects for movies. Speed is therefore not strictly a necessity in the production of special effects but is still desirable for reasonably responsive feedback and because the hardware required for slower methods i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38539971 | 1,738,242 |
600,642 | Since the time of Pierre-Simon Laplace (1799), scientists had been puzzled as to why pressure variations measured at the Earth's surface associated with the semi-diurnal solar tide dominate those of the diurnal tide in amplitude, when intuitively one would expect the diurnal passage of the sun to dominate. Lord Kelvin ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182075 | 600,336 |
1,525,785 | In 1980 Morawetz won a Lester R. Ford Award. In 1981, she became the first woman to deliver the Gibbs Lecture of The American Mathematical Society, and in 1982 presented an Invited Address at a meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. She received honorary degrees from Eastern Michigan University ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1254108 | 1,524,923 |
288,454 | More important than political differences was a shared sense of British national identity. Britain was seen as an important player in world affairs, its economic and military weaknesses offset by its membership of NATO and the Group of Seven, its then active membership of the European Union, its permanent seat on the U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9095461 | 288,297 |
1,007,883 | With the first prototype's repairs completed, it also joined the flight test program, completing captive flights. While in flight, the Goblin was stable, easy to fly, and recoverable from spins, although initial estimates of a 648 mph (1,043 km/h) top speed proved optimistic. The first test flights revealed that turbul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=307179 | 1,007,363 |
1,563,621 | Comparative musicology, an initial term intended to differentiate what would become ethnomusicology and musicology, was the area of study concerned with utilizing methods of acoustics to measure pitches and intervals, quantitatively comparing different kinds of music. Because of the high density of Europeans and Euro-A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65721530 | 1,562,734 |
618,355 | Genetic models of SLOS are created by knocking out the "DHCR7" gene. One study used homologous recombination to disrupt "DCHR7" in mouse embryonic stem cells. Similar to what is found in humans, heterozygous mice (having only one mutated allele) were phentoypically normal, and were crossed to produce pups (young mice) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1907985 | 618,041 |
49,221 | Keynesian-like policies were adopted by Sweden and Germany, but Sweden was seen as too small to command much attention, and Keynes was deliberately silent about the as he was dismayed by its imperialist ambitions and its treatment of Jews. Apart from Great Britain, Keynes's attention was primarily focused on the United... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37973 | 49,201 |
114,135 | Dan Hartman, the program manager for Gateway, on 30 March 2020, told "Ars Technica" that the benefits of using Gateway are extending the mission duration, buying down risk, providing research capability and the capability to re-use ascent modules.When you go single, I'll say direct mission to the Moon, you're limited o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53648310 | 114,090 |
1,049,011 | The EDHI program has developed in efficiency over the past few decades. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) initially began mandating EDHI programs in each state in 2000, when the first funds were authorized from Congress to support its development. The CDC claimed deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children to be endange... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4739983 | 1,048,466 |
1,620,815 | The proof-of-concept is obviously extremely inefficient as the amount of computation necessary to merely send the packets in the first place easily exceeds the computations leeched from the other program; the 3-SAT problem would be solved much more quickly if just analyzed locally. In addition, in practice packets woul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23985 | 1,619,900 |
1,930,537 | The current consensus on the "rate" of pycnonuclear reactions is not coherent. There are currently a lot of uncertainties to consider when modelling the rate of pycnonuclear reactions, especially in spaces with high numbers of free particles. The primary focus of current research is on the effects of crystal lattice de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71465792 | 1,929,430 |
564 | In 2010–11, Curry appeared in 74 games (all starts), averaging 18.6 points, 3.9 rebounds, 5.8 assists and 1.47 steals in 33.6 minutes per contest. His free throw percentage of .934 (212–227 FT) established a new Warriors single-season record, surpassing the previous mark of .924 set by Rick Barry in 1977–78. He also be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5608488 | 564 |
362,911 | The modern explanation for the metric expansion of space was proposed by physicist Alan Guth in 1979 while investigating the problem of why no magnetic monopoles are seen today. Guth found in his investigation that if the universe contained a field that has a positive-energy false vacuum state, then according to genera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5985207 | 362,721 |
1,312,255 | A major critique of development from anthropologists came from Arturo Escobar's seminal book "Encountering Development", which argued that Western development largely exploited non-Western peoples and enacted an Orientalism (see Edward Said). Escobar even sees international development as a means for the Occident to ke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3176466 | 1,311,536 |
864,503 | Instead of the seconds pendulum method, the commission – whose members included Lagrange, Laplace, Monge and Condorcet – decided that the new measure should be equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator (the quadrant of the Earth's circumference), measured along the meridian passing t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28200487 | 864,043 |
2,168,880 | In 2008, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed two joined bills, AB 1879 and SB 507, which created California's Green Chemistry Initiative (CGCI). AB 1879 increases regulatory authority over chemicals in consumer products. The law established an advisory panel of scientists, known as the green ribbon science... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31677000 | 2,167,643 |
1,620,874 | The Automatic Train Protection sub-system uses coded track circuit technology originally supplied by Rochester, New York-based General Railway Signal when the line was constructed in the 1970s. It is a life-critical system that provides a continuous stream of information to the train regarding the maximum safe speed vi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5559789 | 1,619,959 |
1,459,046 | Perceptual control theory (PCT) is a model of behavior based on the properties of negative feedback control loops. A control loop maintains a sensed variable at or near a reference value by means of the effects of its outputs upon that variable, as mediated by physical properties of the environment. In engineering cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1678822 | 1,458,225 |
419,068 | T cells must reproduce after arriving at the tumor site to further increase their numbers, survive the TME's hostile elements and migrate through the stroma to the cancer cells. The TME obstructs all three activities. The draining lymph nodes are the likely location for T cell clonal reproduction, although this also oc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38925137 | 418,863 |
300,877 | In trying to show that quantum mechanics was not a complete theory, Einstein started with the theory's prediction that two or more particles that have interacted in the past can appear strongly correlated when their various properties are later measured. He sought to explain this seeming interaction classically, throug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2796131 | 300,716 |
588,983 | The Gyroscopic Inertial Thruster is a proposed reactionless drive based on the mechanical principles of a rotating mechanism. The concept involves various methods of leverage applied against the supports of a large gyroscope. The supposed operating principle of a GIT is a mass traveling around a circular trajectory at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4756732 | 588,681 |
773,761 | Botvinnik used almost exclusively pawn openings with the white pieces. In his eight World Championship matches, he never started a game with an e4-opening, and his usual choices as White were the English Opening or Queen's Gambit. When playing the black pieces, he preferred the French Defense or Sicilian Defense in res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242416 | 773,345 |
1,849,564 | Hox genes contain a DNA sequence known as the homeobox that are involved in the regulation of patterns of anatomical development. They contain a specific DNA sequence with the aim of providing instructions for making a string of 60 protein building blocks - amino acids- which are referred to as the homeodomain. Most ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46335535 | 1,848,506 |
501,250 | Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) are a class of drugs that inhibit the enzyme monoamine oxidase. This enzyme is responsible for breaking down many compounds; basically, anything with a primary amine moiety is likely to be oxidized by monoamine oxidase. An important substrate of the enzyme MAO is tyramine. MAOIs inh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18462506 | 500,993 |
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