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1,066,193 | National evidence-based guidelines for stroke rehabilitation have been published for England, Netherlands, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand; yet in none of these is the Bobath approach recommended. Conversely, in 2016 the American Stroke Association concluded that although the effectiveness of NDT/Bobath (compared wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1326454 | 1,065,639 |
2,105,811 | The Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity (ADUM) project is a U.S. government-funded study investigating strategies for applying diagnostic telemedicine to space. The Principal Investigator is Scott Dulchavsky, Chairman of Surgery at the Henry Ford Health System. This study was the first formal experiment to e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24301015 | 2,104,598 |
895,884 | In parallel with these developments people in the US had begun to consider the issues in environmental design. One of the first areas was the consideration of psychiatric hospitals. Psychiatrists worked with architects to take account of the experience of patients who were mentally ill. Robert Sommer wrote his book on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1639997 | 895,413 |
565,873 | On 25 April, concerns were initially raised in the United Kingdom regarding a cluster of children of various ages presenting with a multisystem inflammatory state who required intensive care, and who all displayed "overlapping features of toxic shock syndrome and atypical Kawasaki disease with blood parameters consiste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63895130 | 565,583 |
1,344,366 | The HSU is designed as a campus university, and its campus in the Wandsbek district consists of 3 parts. Studying activities take place on the premises of the former Douaumont barracks on the Holstenhofweg in Hamburg-Jenfeld. The university administration is located here, as well as all departments and faculties, lectu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11558243 | 1,343,628 |
2,107,400 | In high-energy hadron reactions one distinguishes peripheral reactions with low multiplicity and central collisions with high multiplicity. Peripheral reactions are also characterized by the existence of a "leading particle" which retains a large proportion of the incoming energy. By taking the notion of peripheral lit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23139945 | 2,106,187 |
998,008 | In the early hours of 15 June, the invasion fleet moved into position and at 04:30, TG 52.17 began the pre-landing bombardment. "Tennessee" held her fire until 05:40, when she unleashed a barrage of shells from her primary, secondary, and 40 mm batteries at a range of . All shooting ceased at 06:30 to allow the carrier... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196975 | 997,490 |
1,509,800 | On-line aerosol measurements methods took a little longer than off-line to be developed and perfected. It wasn't till 1973 with Davis who developed and patented of the real-time single particle mass spectrometry (RTSPMS) instrument. The setup is quite similar to today's AMS system, with the sample being introduced thro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44305631 | 1,508,950 |
1,247,615 | In 1959, Herschbach joined the University of California at Berkeley, where he was appointed an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and became an Associate Professor in 1961. At Berkeley, he and graduate students George Kwei and James Norris constructed a cross-beam instrument large enough for reactive scattering experimen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174867 | 1,246,940 |
778,669 | A requirement of the course was that each student had to produce a thesis for graduation: Whittle decided to write his on potential aircraft design developments, notably flight at high altitudes and speeds over 500 mph (800 km/h). In "Future Developments in Aircraft Design" he showed that incremental improvements in ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42707 | 778,252 |
1,403,118 | Army officials consider the GMV a needed addition to a global response force like the 82nd Airborne Division. Currently, airdropped infantry would be flown to a target area or driven there by trucks. Either way, they then need to dismount and walk the distance to their destination, sometimes for many miles while carryi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43598546 | 1,402,331 |
191,213 | As of 2005 Local to regional collective management efforts were considered appropriate for services like crop pollination or resources like water. Another approach that has become increasingly popular during the 1990s is the marketing of ecosystem services protection. Payment and trading of services is an emerging worl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1855357 | 191,114 |
1,352,218 | V-5 Pre-Flight Schools were established in five locations: at the University of Iowa in Iowa City (opened on April 15, 1942), at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (established on February 1, 1942, opened that May), at the University of Georgia campus in Athens (contract "NOd3035" signed on March 19, 1942,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31834573 | 1,351,472 |
773,548 | From around 1950 to 1965, the support for these theories was evenly divided, with a slight imbalance arising from the fact that the Big Bang theory could explain both the formation and the observed abundances of hydrogen and helium, whereas the Steady State could explain how they were formed, but not why they should ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2794117 | 773,132 |
219,262 | As research on nuclear fission progressed in early 1939, Edwin McMillan at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley decided to run an experiment bombarding uranium using the powerful 60-inch (1.52 m) cyclotron that had recently been built at the university. The purpose was to separate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21277 | 219,153 |
357,927 | In cancer, the genomes of affected cells are rearranged in complex or even unpredictable ways. Massive sequencing efforts are used to identify previously unknown point mutations in a variety of genes in cancer. Bioinformaticians continue to produce specialized automated systems to manage the sheer volume of sequence da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4214 | 357,741 |
827,529 | Monarch butterflies are especially noted for their lengthy annual migration. In North America they make massive southward migrations starting in August until the first frost. A northward migration takes place in the spring. The monarch is the only butterfly that migrates both north and south as the birds do on a regula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=207874 | 827,085 |
117,677 | In humans, BMR is directly proportional to a person's lean body mass. In other words, the more lean body mass a person has, the higher their BMR; but BMR is also affected by acute illnesses and increases with conditions like burns, fractures, infections, fevers, etc. In menstruating females, BMR varies to some extent w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=562788 | 117,632 |
1,233,538 | During the mid-1950s, planners devised the idea of extending the wall of powerful land-based radar seaward with Airborne early warning and control units. This was done by equipping two wings of Lockheed RC-121 Warning Star aircraft, the 551st Airborne Early Warning and Control Wing, based at Otis Air Force Base, Massac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4149679 | 1,232,875 |
1,941,317 | Bachhawat return to India in 1957 to join Christian Medical College and Hospital (CMC), Vellore and established a centre for advanced research in neurochemistry and glycobiology. Here, he did research on glycolipids, glycosaminoglycans and glycoproteins and their role in neural development and neurological disorders. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50565963 | 1,940,206 |
1,159,217 | Deprivation of an individual virus from possible suppression, complementation or cooperation, may represent a liberation to initiate a new evolutionary process, or a condemnation to extinction. If liberated from suppression, the isolated genome must replicate and be able to reconstruct a mutant cloud to regain adaptive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6962692 | 1,158,602 |
1,656,931 | After completing 18 months in Ghana, in 1944 Ridley was transferred to India and then Burma, where he studied and treated malnourished former prisoners of war. His biographer David Apple reports Ridley's own words: "In Calcutta, we basically had nothing to do with no assignments – a situation which continued after tran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1222880 | 1,655,998 |
1,068,822 | In "Autonomy and Biopower in the Anti-Doping Establishment: A Rogue Agent of Governmentality," sport historian Daniel Rosenke reviews Pechstein's case, citing it as an example of the contentious nature of the biological passport. After collecting sample data on the skater for a period of nearly nine years, the ISU bann... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2496059 | 1,068,268 |
1,572,799 | The history of animal genetic resources begins about 12,000 to 14,000 years ago. The domestication of major crop and livestock species in the early neolithic time period changed our human evolution and lifestyles. This ability to control food production led to major demographic, technological, political and military ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51678199 | 1,571,911 |
305,923 | Traditionally, it was assumed that extinct reptile groups were cold-blooded like modern reptiles. New research during the past decades has led to the conclusion that some groups, such as theropod dinosaurs and pterosaurs, were very likely warm-blooded. Whether perhaps plesiosaurs were warm-blooded as well is difficult ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1398078 | 305,759 |
277,066 | The 2L-II is an upgrade of the 2L introduced simultaneously with the 3L engine in 1988 in the 5th generation Hilux. Although bore and stroke remain the same, multiple changes have been made in its design. The engine block was made more rigid through the use of finite element analysis and through adding reinforcement ri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3556328 | 276,916 |
1,936,507 | After completing her PhD, Shanahan became a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2015 to 2017. During this time, she studied the role of force-carrying elementary particles called gluons in the structure of subatomic particles called hadrons. She also used lattice quantum chromodynam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65513520 | 1,935,399 |
1,087,166 | An I-frame is a separately-compressed version of a single uncompressed (raw) frame. The coding of an I-frame takes advantage of spatial redundancy and of the inability of the eye to detect certain changes in the image. Unlike P-frames and B-frames, I-frames do not depend on data in the preceding or the following frames... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1376890 | 1,086,607 |
581,132 | With the rise of the ability to present complex, real-world images on a computer screen, McConkie, in the early 1990s, as part of new research at the new Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, renewed investigations of why the world looks stable and continuous despite the shifting retinal input signal t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2438760 | 580,835 |
126,510 | Due to increasing environmental pressures from lobby groups and the like, many have called into question the relevance of Formula 1 as an innovating force towards future technological advances (particularly those concerned with efficient cars). The FIA has been asked to consider how it can persuade the sport to move do... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=645083 | 126,458 |
54,517 | Initially, U.S. President Eisenhower was not surprised by Sputnik 1. He had been forewarned of the R-7's capabilities by information derived from U-2 spy plane overflight photos, as well as signals and telemetry intercepts. The Eisenhower administration's first response was low-key and almost dismissive. Eisenhower was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28484 | 54,494 |
391,884 | The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website states that the system was developed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, starting in the early 1940s. However, a series of aerial photos found in the Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv (the military section of the German Federal Archives) apparently d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2514694 | 391,689 |
1,015,620 | Delays in the F-35 program may lead to a "fighter gap" with the United States and other countries lacking sufficient fighter aircraft to meet their requirements. Israel may seek to buy second-hand F-15Es, while Australia has considered buying additional F/A-18 Super Hornets in the face of F-35 delays. In May 2011, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54719700 | 1,015,097 |
151,010 | The fourth principle is the Equal Compensation Principle, which essentially states that activities equally valued by the employer should be equally valuable (in terms of compensation, including non-financial aspects such as pleasantness of the workplace) to the employee. This relates to the problem that employees may b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=730742 | 150,942 |
157,992 | While some models of the MB-339 are primarily intended for training operations, other are instead principally equipped to perform light fighter and fighter-bomber roles. Combat-orientated aircraft are typically outfitted with more advanced avionics, such as improved inertial guidance systems, digital nav/attack compute... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=946381 | 157,911 |
805,429 | Fire retardants applied to wildfires are usually a mixture of water and chemicals designed to wet the area as well as chemically retard a fire's progression through vegetation. Typically it is colored so that the application area can be seen from the air. Fire retardant gel based retardants which meet NFPA Standard 115... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2833427 | 805,000 |
2,036,368 | The data is presented to the user with a strong emphasis on the relation to curated background information and underlying evidence that led to the observation of a terminus, its modification or proteolytic cleavage. In brief the protein information, its domain structure, protein termini, terminus modifications and prot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33178845 | 2,035,194 |
2,057,833 | In early 2013 Jager relocated to South Korea at the invitation of 1984 Olympic gold medal-winning coach Kim Hyung-Tak, one of two athletes selected by the Danish Archery Federation to undergo full-time training in the country ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Jager spent six months under Kim's instruction before conte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36566969 | 2,056,648 |
1,848,067 | In late 1977 the Queen Mary group led by Peter Kalmus, along with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory group under Alan Astbury and the Birmingham University group led by John Dowell joined Carlo Rubbia in the international collaboration known as UA1 at CERN. The UK groups involved had joint responsibility for designing,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38200075 | 1,847,009 |
417,876 | Snapshot DNA Phenotyping Service is the name of a DNA phenotyping tool developed by Parabon NanoLabs which creates composite face imaging sketches based on DNA samples. The algorithms used to make the composites are not open source, however, which has attracted criticism from members of the scientific community. Moses ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55337803 | 417,672 |
1,146,251 | The documentary follows Drs Hopkins, Burks and Willenbring through discussions of their respective careers and the barriers they faced as women in STEM. Among notable aspects of the documentary, Dr Hopkins describes sexual harassment during her career and the fact that she was refused the same sized office space in com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67118650 | 1,145,647 |
648,915 | In the early twenties Ralph H. Fowler (in collaboration with Charles Galton Darwin) developed a new method in statistical mechanics permitting a systematic calculation of the equilibrium properties of matter. He used this to provide a rigorous derivation of the ionization formula which Saha had obtained, by extending t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1438662 | 648,574 |
1,228,272 | Although the political system was formally democratic, the Army increasingly seized control in Japan. Indeed, in the 1930s, separatist Army elements in Manchuria largely shaped foreign-policy. The League of Nations criticized Japan's takeover of Manchuria in 1931, so it withdrew. It joined the Axis alliance with German... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54108025 | 1,227,610 |
70,750 | A central question in evolution is how simple protocells first arose and differed in reproductive contribution to the following generation, thus driving the evolution of life. A functional protocell has (as of 2014) not yet been achieved in a laboratory setting. Self-assembled vesicles are essential components of primi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19179706 | 70,723 |
619,481 | In 1964, Bill Stead, a Nevada rancher, pilot, and unlimited hydroplane racing champion, organised the first Reno Air Races at a small dirt strip called the Sky Ranch, located between Sparks, Nevada, and Pyramid Lake. The National Championship Air Races were soon moved to the Reno Stead Airport, and have been held there... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=810456 | 619,167 |
495,196 | In 2008, Eric Snively and Adam Cox tested the performance of 2D and 3D pachycephalosaur skulls through finite element analysis, and found that they could withstand considerable impact; greater vaulting of the domes allowed for higher forces of impact. They also considered it likely that pachycephalosaur domes were cove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2274197 | 494,940 |
338,408 | The Pleistocene is a geological epoch that began about 2.6 million years ago. The Holocene, the current geological epoch, begins about 11,700 years ago when the Pleistocene ends. Establishing the date of this boundary − which is defined by sharp climatic warming − as accurately as possible has been a goal of geologists... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26197 | 338,228 |
1,402,555 | According to an article in the "Iowa Orthopedic Journal", Coley's toxins were opposed by the medical establishment despite his reports of good results, because his reports were not believed to be credible. Hall (1997) extensively explores the issue; one of the lenses through which Hall explores it is the decades-long, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4527097 | 1,401,768 |
353,290 | RTV5 is a student-run television network available as channel 5 on campus. RTV5 was created initially as Rice Broadcast Television in 1997; RBT began to broadcast the following year in 1998, and aired its first live show across campus in 1999. It experienced much growth and exposure over the years with successful progr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25813 | 353,107 |
654,203 | 1975 – Tjentiste, Yugoslavia – (July) – Set in the mountains about 100 miles north of Dubrovnik, the small town was the scene of World War II's Battle of the Sutjeska. Dr. Max Euwe laid a wreath on the war memorial at the opening ceremony. The tournament was organised at the last minute by the Yugoslav Chess Federation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=294931 | 653,859 |
847,058 | To be able to deliver the engineering degree, an École Master 's curriculum has to be validated by the Commission des titres d'ingénieur (Commission of the Engineering Title). It is important for the external observer to note that the system in France is extremely demanding in its entrance requirements (numerus clausus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8081063 | 846,608 |
278,243 | The mechanism and action of lipoic acid when supplied externally to an organism is controversial. Lipoic acid in a cell seems primarily to induce the oxidative stress response rather than directly scavenge free radicals. This effect is specific for RLA. Despite the strongly reducing milieu, LA has been detected intrace... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=81648 | 278,093 |
699,596 | On October 18, 2012, multiple sources reported that the negotiations between Superior Aviation Beijing and Hawker Beechcraft had failed, with a press release from Hawker Beechcraft ascribing the failure to the fact that "the proposed transaction with Superior could not be completed on terms acceptable to the company." ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8549092 | 699,232 |
1,192,904 | During the 1990s, Modula-3 gained considerable currency as a teaching language, but it was never widely adopted for industrial use. Contributing to this may have been the demise of DEC, a key Modula-3 supporter (especially when it ceased to maintain it effectively before DEC was sold to Compaq in 1998). In any case, in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241545 | 1,192,268 |
1,052,553 | The use of heating presented major technical problems, because as of 2013, there was no clear way to focus the required heat into the tiny area required within the constraints imposed by hard drive usage. The time required for heating, writing, and cooling is about 1 nanosecond, which suggests a laser or similar means ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2882199 | 1,052,007 |
614,093 | Receiving a Sloan Foundation Fellowship in 1959, Bhaumik went to the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) for a position as Postdoctoral researcher. In 1961, he joined the Quantum Electronics Division at Xerox Electro-Optical Systems in Pasadena and began his career as a laser scientist. Concurrently, he taught ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4877968 | 613,781 |
313,259 | In December 1952, he composed a "Konkrete Etüde", realized in Pierre Schaeffer's Paris musique concrète studio. In March 1953, he moved to the NWDR studio in Cologne and turned to electronic music with two "Electronic Studies" (1953 and 1954), and then introducing spatial placements of sound sources with his mixed "con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17268 | 313,091 |
1,714,976 | Until the early 1980s the majority of servo drive systems used to control motion in industrial machinery were based upon analog electronics. The accepted interface to control such devices was an analog voltage signal, where polarity represented the desired direction of motion, and magnitude represented the desired spee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11264866 | 1,714,009 |
1,405,990 | The ISS is a collaborative effort by multiple space agencies around the world. The countries involved in the funding of the stations includes Europe, Japan, Canada, Russia and the United States. The respective space agencies of these countries are ESA, JAXA, CSA, Roscosmos, NASA. The modularity and size of components o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1857169 | 1,405,200 |
377,200 | Not long after the conclusion of "The Reader", a former editor, Norman Lockyer, decided to create a new scientific journal titled "Nature", taking its name from a line by William Wordsworth: "To the solid ground of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye". First owned and published by Alexander Macmillan, "Nature" w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43427 | 377,005 |
141,706 | From about the 1980s, new designs of smaller gasoline engines also displayed cavitation phenomena. One answer to the need for smaller and lighter engines was a smaller coolant volume and a correspondingly higher coolant flow velocity. This gave rise to rapid changes in flow velocity and therefore rapid changes of stati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7807 | 141,648 |
188,769 | In 1698, at the behest of King William III, Halley was given command of the , a pink, so that he could carry out investigations in the South Atlantic into the laws governing the variation of the compass, as well as to refine the coordinates of the English colonies in the Americas. On 19 August 1698, he took command of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36858805 | 188,672 |
730,341 | When Sedgwick visited Paris at the end of 1826 he found hostility to Diluvialism: Alexander von Humboldt ridiculed it "beyond measure", and Louis-Constant Prévost "lectured against it". In the summer of 1827 Sedgwick and Roderick Murchison travelled to investigate the geology of the Scottish Highlands, where they found... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=543667 | 729,956 |
2,617 | The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 reduced the Department of Defense's (DoD) urgency for new weapon systems like the F-22 and the following years would see reductions in DoD spending; this resulted in the F-22's EMD being rescheduled and lengthened multiple times over the course of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66299 | 2,617 |
462,563 | However, considerations of how unified conscious representations are formed are not the full focus of multisensory Integration research. It is obviously important for the senses to interact in order to maximize how efficiently people interact with the environment. For perceptual experience and behavior to benefit from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1619306 | 462,334 |
1,308,510 | Reduce energy use and demand through passive solar techniques and integrated building design. This process looks at optimum orientation and maximizes the thermal efficiency of the building envelope (windows, walls, roof) while also considering the interaction of the HVAC, lighting, and control systems. Integrated desig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33814239 | 1,307,794 |
53,728 | The initial impact of outsourcing, and the relatively lower cost of international human resources in developing third world countries led to a massive migration of software development activities from corporations in North America and Europe to India and later: China, Russia, and other developing countries. This approa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27010 | 53,708 |
800,154 | Cosmos is a popular science book written by astronomer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sagan. It was published in 1980 as a companion piece to the PBS mini-series with which it was co-developed and intended to compliment. Each of the book’s 13 illustrated chapters corresponds to one of the 13 episodes of the tel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3789887 | 799,728 |
1,290 | Following Bill Gates' internal "Internet Tidal Wave memo" on May 26, 1995, Microsoft began to redefine its offerings and expand its product line into computer networking and the World Wide Web. With a few exceptions of new companies, like Netscape, Microsoft was the only major and established company that acted fast en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19001 | 1,290 |
634,121 | The season restarted in the calendar newcomer Estonia. The rally marked the return of the FIA World Rally Championship after a half-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and was the 600th event since the championship was founded back in . Winning the warm-up event, local favourites Tänak and Järveoja were determi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60663941 | 633,783 |
238,692 | Although rickets and osteomalacia are now rare in Britain, osteomalacia outbreaks in some immigrant communities included women with seemingly adequate daylight outdoor exposure wearing typical Western clothing. Having darker skin and reduced exposure to sunshine did not produce rickets unless the diet deviated from a W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20840716 | 238,572 |
125,442 | Oral rabies vaccination (ORV) programs have been used in many countries in an effort to control the spread of rabies and limit the risk of human contact with the rabies virus. ORV programs were initiated in Europe in the 1980s, Canada in 1985, and in the United States in 1990. ORV is a preventive measure to eradicate r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16179834 | 125,390 |
1,721,301 | All of these constructs work together and must be understood in order to assess the impact of multiple levels of influence on the distribution of disease in populations. Embodiment describes the literal physical incorporation of the social and biological world into an individual's body. Embodiment is an active process ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38762727 | 1,720,331 |
78,269 | In their reply to Tegmark's paper, also published in "Physical Review E", the physicists Scott Hagan, Jack Tuszyński and Hameroff claimed that Tegmark did not address the Orch-OR model, but instead a model of his own construction. This involved superpositions of quanta separated by 24 nm rather than the much smaller se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26193 | 78,240 |
196,609 | Astronomical optical interferometry has had to overcome a number of technical issues not shared by radio telescope interferometry. The short wavelengths of light necessitate extreme precision and stability of construction. For example, spatial resolution of 1 milliarcsecond requires 0.5 µm stability in a 100 m baseline... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166689 | 196,509 |
332,936 | Born in Schenectady, New York, Otto Octavius had a turbulent upbringing. His father Torbert Octavius, a factory worker, was abusive and violent towards both Otto and his mother Mary Lavinia Octavius. The young Octavius's shyness and good work in school got him labeled as a "teacher's pet" and targeted as a subject for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315873 | 332,759 |
1,871,170 | The use of facial recognition technology (FRT) has grown in Canada in recent years. Nineteen of 27 Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation casinos, which receive 40,000,000 visitors a year, are using FRT to automatically identify 15,000 problem gamblers who have voluntarily placed themselves on a self-exclusion list. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29991137 | 1,870,093 |
873,470 | Blakiston's fish owl is classified as an Endangered Species by the IUCN. It is endangered due to the widespread loss of riverine forest, increasing land development along rivers and dam construction. The current population in Japan has been estimated at approximately 100–150 birds (20 breeding pairs and unpaired indivi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=764546 | 873,009 |
354,170 | Some months earlier, in the Italian autumn of 1943, two officers in the Hermann Göring Panzer Division, Captain Maximilian Becker and Lieutenant Colonel Julius Schlegel, proposed the removal of Monte Cassino's treasures to the Vatican and Vatican-owned Castel Sant'Angelo ahead of the approaching front. The officers con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33088 | 353,987 |
763,163 | The Gallic were unable to sustain their strategy, however, and Vercingetorix was to become trapped in Alesia, facing not divided sections or detachments of the Roman Army but Caesar's full force of approximately 70,000 men (50,000 legionaries plus numerous additional auxiliary cavalry and infantry). This massive concen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30855309 | 762,754 |
214,885 | The Rare Earth hypothesis argues that the evolution of biological complexity anywhere in the universe requires the coincidence of a large number of fortuitous circumstances, including, among others, a galactic habitable zone; a central star and planetary system having the requisite character (i.e. a circumstellar habit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=827792 | 214,777 |
1,425,373 | Cox starts this episode in Al-Qayrawan, Tunisia to analyse the orbit of the planets around our Sun, with details on how the 23-degree tilt of the Earth creates the seasonal weather patterns. He also visits the Atlas Mountains, and relates how in clear night skies the ancients observed the rotation of the stars and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26634059 | 1,424,571 |
133,710 | For example, in the case of anthrax, it is likely that by 24–36 hours after an attack, some small percentage of individuals (those with the compromised immune system or who had received a large dose of the organism due to proximity to the release point) will become ill with classical symptoms and signs (including a vir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4361 | 133,657 |
1,015,041 | All the recent advances in molecular genetics clearly permit the analysis of microbial communities at much finer and functional scales and potentially with more confidence than previous methods. The classical AM fungal identification method of spore extraction from soil and further spore morphological analysis is fraug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1372958 | 1,014,520 |
1,890,510 | In early 1942 SIB became part of the "Fleet Radio Unit, Melbourne", (FRUMEL), an "inter-naval" (joint American-Australian-British) cryptographic unit, and moved to the "Monterey" apartment building in Queens Road. FRUMEL was commanded by USN Lieutenant Rudolph Fabian, formerly of Station CAST in the Philippines. Despit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24946564 | 1,889,427 |
1,703,730 | The Technical University of Košice (TUKE) is an internationally recognized research and education institution that provides education and smart solutions for various areas of life. TUKE has been ranked in the world’s top university rankings, such as: QS World University Rankings, in which TUKE ranked for the first time... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9977754 | 1,702,774 |
1,195,653 | Mantell returned to Lewes at age 15. With the help of a local Whig party leader, Mantell secured an apprenticeship with a local surgeon named James Moore. He served as an apprentice to Moore in Lewes for a period of five years, in which he took care of Mantell's dining, lodging and medical issues. Mantell's early appre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=327498 | 1,195,013 |
772,457 | MOFs have potential as heterogeneous catalysts, although applications have not been commercialized. Their high surface area, tunable porosity, diversity in metal and functional groups make them especially attractive for use as catalysts. Zeolites are extraordinarily useful in catalysis. Zeolites are limited by the fixe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9821563 | 772,043 |
1,747,374 | Willian Henry Harvey (1811–1866), Keeper of the Herbarium and professor in botany at Trinity College, Dublin, was one of the most distinguished algologists of his time (Papenfuss, 1976 p. 26). Apart from Ireland he visited South Africa, the Atlantic seaboard of America as far south as the Florida Keys on the east coast... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7587938 | 1,746,388 |
1,642,375 | Near the end of the 18th century, workers operating saltpeter vats in a cave then considered part of Greenbrier County, Virginia discovered fossil limb bones. In 1796, man named John Stuart sent these remains to Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson recognized them as being from a genus unknown to science and named the creature ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37798914 | 1,641,448 |
2,062,058 | The signature event in the history of Canadian oceanography was the founding of the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Instrumental in the establishment was Dr. W. E. van Steenburgh, Director-General of Scientific Services of the Department of Mines and Technical Surveys, who recognized the need... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18401364 | 2,060,868 |
2,112,913 | The westerlies are prevailing winds in the middle latitudes (between 35 and 65 degrees latitude), which blow in regions north or southward of the high-pressure sub-tropical regions of the world. Consequently, aerosols sampled over the North Atlantic Ocean will be influenced by air masses originating in North America, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62264747 | 2,111,698 |
2,021,752 | The important research work of William H. Wehlau, staff, and students could not be summarized better than the obituary written by Bill's last graduating PhD student, Professor Jaymie Matthews, when he wrote, after Bill's sudden death in 1995, "Bill laid the foundation for many of the astronomical period-searching techn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61505618 | 2,020,589 |
719,261 | From 1974 through the mid-1980s the United States government worked with industry to advance the technology and enable large commercial wind turbines. The NASA wind turbines were developed under a program to create a utility-scale wind turbine industry in the U.S. With funding from the National Science Foundation and l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8312093 | 718,881 |
305,237 | Since the 1998 election of Hugo Chávez as president in Venezuela and the beginnings of his "Bolivarian Revolution" aimed at creating greater equality, Latin American nations have seen a tide of democratically elected socialist and centre-left governments emerge. They have been elected in increasing numbers as the poor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 305,074 |
1,667,393 | The beginning of the Pacific War—and the rapid advance of Japanese forces—threatened the Australian mainland for the first time. The RAAF was quite unprepared for the emergency, and initially had negligible forces available for service in the Pacific. Its four squadrons based in Malaya – Nos. 1, 8, 21 and 453 – equippe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3630911 | 1,666,454 |
364,166 | The ability of diatoms to make silica-based cell walls has been the subject of fascination for centuries. It started with a microscopic observation by an anonymous English country nobleman in 1703, who observed an object that looked like a chain of regular parallelograms and debated whether it was just crystals of salt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46374 | 363,976 |
1,233,822 | Impurity ions may move from the cold side of a semiconductor wafer towards the hot side, since the higher temperature makes the transition structure required for atomic jumps more achievable. The diffusive flux may occur in either direction (either up or down the temperature gradient), dependent on the materials involv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7170579 | 1,233,159 |
509,898 | Ionization processes require energy above 10 eV, while splitting covalent bonds in molecules and generating free radicals requires only 3-4 eV. The electrical discharges initiated by the ionization events by the particles result in plasma populated by large amount of free radicals. The highly reactive free radicals can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9934503 | 509,634 |
2,013,004 | Kell's primary research interests are in systems biology, synthetic biology and computational biology. He has also been heavily involved in the development of multivariate scientific instrumentation and the attendant machine learning software (his first paper on artificial neural networks was in 1992). He has written e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21091411 | 2,011,847 |
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