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1,237,168 | This product pioneered several features that went on to become standard on future designs. The most important were: the strict organization of n-channel and p-channel transistors in 2-3 row pairs across the chip; and running all interconnect on grids rather than minimum custom spacing, which had been the standard until... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=592816 | 1,236,504 |
405,848 | In May 1972, Nutting Associates chief engineer Nolan Bushnell, designer of the first commercial arcade video game, "Computer Space", saw a demonstration of the Odyssey. Inspired, when he and Ted Dabney quit Nutting to found Atari, he assigned Allan Alcorn to create a cheap ping-pong arcade game as a training exercise, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77262 | 405,648 |
774,026 | The advent of agriculture has played a key role in the evolutionary history of humanity. Early farming communities benefited from new and comparatively stable sources of food, but were also exposed to new and initially devastating diseases such as tuberculosis, measles, and smallpox. Eventually, genetic resistance to s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54472601 | 773,610 |
1,790,363 | The idea of a national science policy for Sri Lanka was first discussed in the 1980s, although the matter did not move forward in any concrete way for several decades due to the more pressing economic and budgetary needs of the civil war on successive administrations. Nevertheless, a presidential taskforce was appointe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54963902 | 1,789,357 |
2,120,576 | Dipak Kumar Dey (born August 12, 1953 in Kolkata, India) is an Indian-American statistician best known for his work on Bayesian methodologies. He is currently the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut. Dey has an international reputation as a statisti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59770129 | 2,119,357 |
936,183 | While dubbed economic and ecologically sound practices by suppliers, the effects of agricultural pesticides can include toxicity, bioaccumulation, persistence, and physiological responses in humans and wildlife, and several international NGOs, such as Pesticide Action Network, have risen in response to the economic act... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16534351 | 935,688 |
561,831 | A 2010 review by evolutionary psychologists Confer et al. suggested that domain general theories, such as for "rationality," has several problems: 1. Evolutionary theories using the idea of numerous domain-specific adaptions have produced testable predictions that have been empirically confirmed; the theory of domain-g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=446606 | 561,542 |
1,651,124 | In contrast to the “western” economic model, most early social scholarship about economics stressed the predominance of reciprocity as a primary driving force in traditional non-Western societies. Marcel Mauss referred to the gift as a “total social phenomenon”, fraught with ritual and socio political as well as materi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17200325 | 1,650,192 |
462,522 | Due to increasing destruction of their habitat, deforestation, climate change, diseases, and chemical contaminants, amphibian population decline and extinctions may be as high as 211 times the background extinction rate. Both water and air temperatures play a major role in timing and rates of breeding, larval developme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13010117 | 462,293 |
925,708 | Direct3D 10.1 sets a few more image quality standards for graphics vendors, and gives developers more control over image quality. Features include finer control over anti-aliasing (both multisampling and supersampling with per sample shading and application control over sample position) and more flexibilities to some o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=97025 | 925,222 |
797,752 | Studies have shown that music education can be used to enhance cognitive achievement in students. In the United States an estimated 30% of students struggle with reading, while 17% are reported as having a specific learning disability linked to reading. Using intensive music curriculum as an intervention paired alongsi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2025792 | 797,327 |
1,015,617 | On 21 April 2009, media reports, citing Pentagon sources, said that during 2007 and 2008, spies downloaded several terabytes of data related to the F-35's design and electronics systems, potentially compromising the aircraft and aiding the development of defense systems against it. Lockheed Martin rejected suggestions ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54719700 | 1,015,096 |
100,008 | Since Spartans wrote no history prior to the Hellenistic period – their only extant literature is fragments of 7th-century lyrics – Plutarch's five Spartan lives and "Sayings of Spartans" and "Sayings of Spartan Women", rooted in sources that have since disappeared, are some of the richest sources for historians of Lac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24517 | 99,963 |
798,403 | By the 1990s, computing was dominated by men. The proportion of female computer science graduates peaked in 1984 around 37 per cent, and then steadily declined. Although the end of the 20th century saw an increase in women scientists and engineers, this did not hold true for computing, which stagnated. Despite this, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2279544 | 797,978 |
1,144,531 | The mansions of metropolitan Detroit are among the nation's grandest estates. Meadow Brook Hall (1929), the 110 room mansion of Matilda Dodge Wilson at 480 South Adams Rd. in the suburb of Rochester Hills, is the fourth largest in the United States. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the mansion is ope... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8692117 | 1,143,930 |
1,004,615 | During the October 1973 Yom Kippur War, with the initial surprise breakthroughs on both northern and southern borders by Arab armies, the alarmed Defense Minister Moshe Dayan told Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir that "this is the end of the third temple." He was warning of Israel's impending total defeat, but "Temple... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216096 | 1,004,097 |
661,541 | Maritime College is the oldest institution of its kind in the United States. Due in part to the Civil War, there was a decline in the American maritime industry and a growing concern about the professionalism of its officers. As a result, the New York Chamber of Commerce and maritime interests of the port of New York l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=563935 | 661,196 |
884,090 | The first generation of Folding@home's GPU client (GPU1) was released to the public on October 2, 2006, delivering a 20–30 times speedup for some calculations over its CPU-based GROMACS counterparts. It was the first time GPUs had been used for either volunteer computing or major molecular dynamics calculations. GPU1 g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=413102 | 883,626 |
950,781 | Tesla's design attempted to sidestep the key drawbacks of the bladed axial turbines, and even the lowest estimates for efficiency still dramatically outperformed the efficiency of axial steam turbines of the day. However, in testing against more modern engines, the Tesla turbine had expansion efficiencies far below con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30869 | 950,277 |
98,967 | In 1948, several Mongolian Paleontological expeditions organized by the USSR Academy of Sciences were conducted in the Nemegt Formation of the Gobi Desert, Southwestern Mongolia, with the main objective of new fossils findings. The expeditions unearthed numerous dinosaur and turtle fossil remains from the stratotype lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=851586 | 98,924 |
1,458,576 | Wingcopter GmbH was founded in 2017 by Jonathan Hesselbarth, Tom Plümmer, and Ansgar Kadura in Darmstadt, Germany. In 2018, the company partnered with DHL and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63477455 | 1,457,756 |
1,472,396 | "This Is Your Brain on Music" was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in 2006–2007 for best in the Science and Engineering category, and a Quill Award for best debut author of 2006–2007. It was named one of the best books of the year by "The Globe and Mail", "The Independent" and "The Guardian". A long list... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23755918 | 1,471,567 |
266,183 | In 1997, Charig and Milner demonstrated direct dietary evidence in the stomach region of the "B. walkeri" holotype. It contained the first evidence of piscivory in a theropod dinosaur, acid-etched scales and teeth of the common fish "Scheenstia mantelli" (then classified in the genus "Lepidotes"), and abraded or etched... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1091918 | 266,039 |
900,865 | Student numbers, at over 21,000 in 2016, increased from the late 1980s, precipitating the expansion of the campus by the acquisition of adjacent buildings and lands. This expansion continued with the opening of the Alfred O'Rahilly building in the late 1990s, the Cavanagh Pharmacy building, the Brookfield Health Scienc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=738094 | 900,389 |
1,951,346 | At this point in time, Haile Gebrselassie was the #1 distance runner in the world, with two successive Olympic titles and four World Championships at 10,000. He also held the 5-year-old world record plus the world record at 5,000 metres. A poor race at the previous World Championships was the first sign of his lack of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21408212 | 1,950,225 |
369,645 | The gut plays several important roles including acting as the main pathway for fluid, electrolyte and nutrient absorption while also acting as a barrier to toxic agents present in the gut lumen including acid, digestive enzymes and gut bacteria. It is also a major immunological defence mechanism, detecting natural comm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=525722 | 369,452 |
675,399 | The fish family Psychrolutidae (commonly known as blobfishes, toadfishes, flathead sculpins, tadpole sculpins,) contains over 35 recognized species in 8 genera. This family consists of bottom-dwelling marine sculpins shaped like tadpoles, with large heads and bodies that taper back into small, flat tails. The skin is l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2455979 | 675,046 |
205,553 | It is generally assumed that any extraterrestrial life that might exist will be based on the same fundamental biochemistry as found on Earth, as the four elements most vital for life, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, are also the most common chemically reactive elements in the universe. Indeed, simple biogenic c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2592906 | 205,447 |
500,213 | Hydraulic Engineering Circular No. 18 Manual (HEC-18) was published by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). This manual includes several techniques of estimating scour depth. The empirical scour equations for live bed scour, clear water scour, and local scour at piers and abutment are shown in Chapter 5-General S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20943440 | 499,956 |
721,202 | A major advantage of closed-circuit rebreathers for biological research diving is the absence of noise and visual disturbance due to the bubbles of exhaled gas, which is known to have disruptive effects on animal behaviour. This has proved particularly effective where the diver needs to closely approach or capture anim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39194607 | 720,822 |
745,376 | Denis Papin (22 August 1647 – c. 1712) was a French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker. In the mid-1670s Papin collaborated with the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens on an engine which drove out the air from a cyl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17423952 | 744,982 |
50,599 | The prospect of a potential third world war featuring large mechanized armies and nuclear-weapon strikes led to a degree of specialization along two design approaches: interceptors, such as the English Electric Lightning and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21F; and fighter-bombers, such as the Republic F-105 Thunderchief and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10929 | 50,579 |
1,584,877 | During the early part of the Cenozoic, central and eastern South Dakota was still covered by the sea. The uplift responsible for the Black Hills continued to elevate their topography. As the Cenozoic continued the sea shrank away from the state. In its place, grasslands formed and were roamed by herds of grazing mammal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799115 | 1,583,987 |
1,486,759 | Cryofibrinogenemic disease commonly begins in adults aged 40–50 years old with symptoms of the diseases occurring in the almost always affected organ, skin. Cutaneous symptoms include one or more of the following: cold contact-induced urticarial (which may be the first sign of the disease); painful episodes of finger a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22137864 | 1,485,921 |
1,472,889 | In all cases of amenorrhea, pregnancy should be excluded. This can be done by obtaining serum B-hCG levels. In cases of suspected FHA, screening laboratory tests include a complete blood count (CBC), electrolytes, glucose, bicarbonate, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), creatinine, liver panel, and when appropriate, sedimentat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15738568 | 1,472,058 |
1,407,672 | David Wolf began his NASA career in the Medical Sciences Division at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. He was responsible for engineering development and spacecraft avionics integration of the American Flight Echocardiograph for investigating cardiovascular physiology in microgravity. Upon completion, he was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=468050 | 1,406,882 |
985,784 | Referred to as a “garden hospital”, KTP has an abundance of native plants and water features that surround its exterior. This inclusion of vegetation has increased the biodiversity of the local ecosystem, bringing butterflies and bird species; the rooftop of the hospital is also used by local residents to grow produce.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59271750 | 985,269 |
694,520 | Urey speculated that the early terrestrial atmosphere was composed of ammonia, methane, and hydrogen. One of his Chicago graduate students was Stanley L. Miller, who showed in the Miller–Urey experiment that, if such a mixture were exposed to electric sparks and water, it can interact to produce amino acids, commonly c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=453578 | 694,157 |
264,811 | Most subsistence agriculture is practiced in developing countries located in tropical climates. Effects on crop production brought about by climate change will be more intense in these regions as extreme temperatures are linked to lower crop yields. Farmers have been forced to respond to increased temperatures through ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=323964 | 264,668 |
229,415 | Electrical or magnetic interference inside a computer system can cause a single bit of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) to spontaneously flip to the opposite state. It was initially thought that this was mainly due to alpha particles emitted by contaminants in chip packaging material, but research has shown that the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4473248 | 229,298 |
1,516,828 | Arístides Bastidas (San Pablo, March 12, 1924 – Caracas, September 23, 1992) was a Venezuelan journalist, educator and scientist and was one of the pioneers of what is termed as "science journalism" in Venezuela. He moved to Caracas with his family in 1936, settling in a modest neighborhood in the south of the capital.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,976 |
95,496 | Ecology is an employed science of restoration, repairing disturbed sites through human intervention, in natural resource management, and in environmental impact assessments. Edward O. Wilson predicted in 1992 that the 21st century "will be the era of restoration in ecology". Ecological science has boomed in the industr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9630 | 95,455 |
963,373 | Project Ghatak was initiated as a successor to the 2009 AURA (Autonomous Unmanned Research Aircraft) programme. The AURA was a pioneer programme sanctioned in 2009 with a budget of , to carryout a feasibility study for the future Indian UCAV. The AURA programme was completed in April 2013. The project Ghatak was initia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27675934 | 962,864 |
1,004,637 | Energy needed to perform short lasting, high intensity bursts of activity is derived from anaerobic metabolism within the cytosol of muscle cells, as opposed to aerobic respiration which utilizes oxygen, is sustainable, and occurs in the mitochondria. The quick energy sources consist of the phosphocreatine (PCr) system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=395477 | 1,004,119 |
1,004,303 | The 13th World Championship took place in 1998 in Germany. Russian team participated at this tournament for first time after dissolution of Soviet Union. In the second group round, they lost to United States with great margin of 36 points (60–96) but then managed to reach final where met with US team again. In the fina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5779563 | 1,003,785 |
1,793,182 | In the post-Mao Zedong era, the anti-intellectual policies of the Cultural Revolution were reversed, and such top leaders as Deng Xiaoping encouraged the development of science. But China's leaders in the 1980s remained, like their predecessors over the past 100 years, interested in science primarily as a means for nat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14246598 | 1,792,173 |
2,203,320 | The study involved the investigation of ITIH3 (inter alpha trypsin inhibitor heavy chain 3). Researchers used functional analysis, linkage disequilibrium mapping, SNP markers, and the HapMap database. FESD Version II may have been used since it has the information from HapMap as well as other databases. The researchers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30894898 | 2,202,066 |
1,219,091 | Different rules govern the possible explanations for representations of the four classes and “every explanation given in accordance with this guiding line is merely relative. It [the principle of sufficient reason] explains things in reference to one another, but it always leaves unexplained something that it presuppos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5634430 | 1,218,437 |
736,838 | Tomatoes have been altered in attempts to add nutritional content. In 2000, the concentration of pro-vitamin A was increased by adding a bacterial gene encoding phytoene desaturase, although the total amount of carotenoids remained equal. The researchers admitted at the time that it had no prospect of being grown comme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28441864 | 736,450 |
1,600,348 | This investigation is designed to perform a full-sky survey, searching for EUV sources. The instrument package contains four Wolter-Schwarzschild grazing-incidence telescopes (with EUV thin-film filters) to collect and to isolate radiation. The detector system for each telescope was a wedge and strip anode image conver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8984536 | 1,599,447 |
223,798 | The right to marry a person of a different race was addressed in "Loving v. Virginia", in which the Court said, in 1967, that its decision striking down anti-miscegenation laws could be justified either by substantive due process, or by the Equal Protection Clause. The unconstitutionality of bans on and refusals to rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=585092 | 223,684 |
216,843 | A low socioeconomic status in a deprived neighborhood may include exposure to "environmental stressors and risk factors". Socioeconomic inequalities are commonly measured by the Cartairs-Morris score, Index of Multiple Deprivation, Townsend deprivation index, and the Jarman score. The Jarman score, for example, conside... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=321263 | 216,735 |
1,929,727 | The field has only recently seen a growth in interest, as well as in research, due to technological advancements that facilitate better resolution of the minute modifications made to DNA. However, even with the significant advances in technology, studying the biology of neurological phenomena, such as cognition and add... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51304858 | 1,928,620 |
299,731 | The compact and lightweight engine was a 90-degree V4 cylinder bank mid-mounted mono-turbocharged petrol engine. It ran at 9,000 rpm, with performance coming from a direct fuel-injection system and a single Garrett-designed turbocharger with a dual overhead camshaft. It produced approximately and acted as a chassis loa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41368349 | 299,570 |
2,169,008 | The United States is the world leader in chemicals manufacturing. As a multibillion-dollar industry, the chemical industry has a leading role in the US economy and because of this, a high level of influence in federal decision-making. Central to the modern world economy, it converts raw materials (oil, natural gas, air... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31677000 | 2,167,771 |
763,547 | In order to test the effects of the protein mutations on living organisms, researchers genetically altered lab mice to be homozygous for another mutation in protein related to DNA replication, flap endonuclease 1, or FEN1. The results varied based on the specific gene alterations. The homozygous knockout mutant mice ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=506315 | 763,138 |
1,327,489 | The geographic origin of microblades is poorly understood, with differing theories posing origins in Southern Siberia, Northern China, or the PHSK (Paleo-Hokkaido-Sakhalin-Kurile) peninsula, with dates ranging from over 30,000 BP to as little as 18,000 BP. Because microblade technology is economical (using less raw mat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2613743 | 1,326,762 |
546,210 | The demands of combat during World War II led to changes in the composition of Army units. The success of German mechanised units during the invasions of Poland and France convinced Australian defence planners that the Army required armoured units, and these began to be raised in 1941. These units were not suitable for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22738876 | 545,924 |
2,137,997 | Simply put, this architecture extends the existing World Wide Web infrastructure of networked web servers down into the product at its subsystem's controller level using a Systems Engineering "system of systems" nested approach. Its core is an embedded dual function webserver/computer workstation connected to the produ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16620919 | 2,136,767 |
1,326,024 | The Georgia General Assembly amended EES' charter in the early 1960s, authorizing an "industrial extension service to meet the technical, informational and other needs of industry and local development groups". This led to an expansion of some of EES' activities that it had been involved in since the 1940s. In particul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4424567 | 1,325,297 |
100,576 | The F6F-5 featured several improvements, including a more powerful R-2800-10W engine employing a water-injection system and housed in a slightly more streamlined engine cowling, spring-loaded control tabs on the ailerons, and an improved, clear-view windscreen, with a flat armored-glass front panel replacing the F6F-3'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=532448 | 100,531 |
963,442 | On 6 June 1944, Dog, Easy, and Fox Companies, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel James Rudder, landed at Pointe du Hoc from LCA landing craft and specially modified DUKW "Ducks" operated by the Royal Navy. The 225 Rangers had set off from Britain to launch an assault upon the cliffs overlooking the English Channel. In ord... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3044555 | 962,933 |
312,351 | Which type of medication to use initially for hypertension has been the subject of several large studies and resulting national guidelines. The fundamental goal of treatment should be the prevention of the important endpoints of hypertension, such as heart attack, stroke and heart failure. Patient age, associated clini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=633467 | 312,183 |
950,379 | Academics had to play catch up with practitioners in this matter. One important theoretic development came from a Czech mathematician, Oldrich Vasicek, who argued in a 1977 paper that bond prices all along the curve are driven by the short end (under risk-neutral equivalent martingale measure) and accordingly by short-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=547742 | 949,875 |
1,829,751 | The center currently has a total of 153,000 square feet with 24,000 square feet of raised floor modules for supercomputing systems in its expandable design. It incorporates numerous resource conservation features to reduce its environmental impact. Water consumption at the NWSC is reduced by about 40% compared to tradi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40305469 | 1,828,710 |
1,996,576 | The first recorded observations of oscillating genes come from the marches of Alexander the Great in the fourth century B.C. At this time, one of Alexander's generals, Androsthenes, wrote that the tamarind tree would open its leaves during the day and close them at nightfall. Until 1729, the rhythms associated with osc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21923868 | 1,995,433 |
1,663,441 | Pregnancy outcomes can impact the wellbeing of a society. Comparisons between the children who were in gestation during the 1918 flu pandemic and those in gestation immediately before or after the health crisis show marked differences between the two groups on census data. Across all socioeconomic measures, those who w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47957160 | 1,662,506 |
34,480 | Despite Japan's loss of Mount Suribachi on the South end of the island, the Japanese still held strong positions on the north end. The rocky terrain vastly favored defense, even more so than Mount Suribachi, which was much easier to hit with naval artillery fire. Coupled with this, the fortifications constructed by Kur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60027 | 34,468 |
1,702,499 | French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss's structuralist anthropology brought together ideas of Boas (especially Boas's belief in the mutability of cultural forms, and Bastian's belief in the psychic unity of humankind) and French sociologist's Émile Durkheim's focus on social structures (institutionalized relationshi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41831802 | 1,701,544 |
1,123,553 | A couple of years later, Grignard was able to isolate the intermediate. He had heated a mixture of magnesium turnings, isobutyl iodide, and added dry ethyl ether to the mixture and a reaction was observed. The product is known as a Grignard reagent. Named after him, this organo-magnesium compound (R-MgX) (R = alkyl ; X... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=900383 | 1,122,979 |
1,127,728 | In the summer of 1950, when Canada was asked to contribute troops to the United Nations forces fighting in Korea, the government in Ottawa was forced to admit that the Mobile Strike Force was seriously under-strength, and that to send the Mobile Strike Force to South Korea would leave Canada undefended. Rather than eng... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3110164 | 1,127,150 |
573,344 | Because workers maintain the same posture over long work days and often several years, even natural postures like standing can lead to MSDs like low back pain. Postures which are less natural, such as twisting of or tension in the upper body, are typically contributors to the development of MSDs due to the unnatural bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8400045 | 573,050 |
1,517,403 | In July 2007, the California Attorney General threatened to file suit against Corinthian Colleges, corporate parent of National Institute of Technology, unless it settled allegations that it has misrepresented its placement statistics; the school had been under investigation by the state attorney general's office for o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4107494 | 1,516,551 |
278,557 | Barnard later wrote, "For a dying man it is not a difficult decision because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water, convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side." The donor heart came from a young woman, Denise Darvall, who h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7015 | 278,407 |
2,200,290 | Charles Vacanti continued to work on these cells when he moved to Harvard, including with thoracic surgeon Koji Kojima who identified them in lung tissue. Working with a graduate student Haruko Obokata in his lab at Harvard from 2008, Vacanti later refined this theory to suggest that stress or injury could actually tri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3352205 | 2,199,038 |
695,576 | Although the electronic health record (EHR), previously known as the electronic medical record (EMR), is frequently cited in the literature, there is no consensus about the definition. However, there is consensus that EMRs can reduce several types of errors, including those related to prescription drugs, to preventive ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19565233 | 695,212 |
338,384 | AMS counts the atoms of and in a given sample, determining the / ratio directly. The sample, often in the form of graphite, is made to emit C ions (carbon atoms with a single negative charge), which are injected into an accelerator. The ions are accelerated and passed through a stripper, which removes several electrons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26197 | 338,204 |
119,353 | The precursor sciences to the development of modern computer graphics were the advances in electrical engineering, electronics, and television that took place during the first half of the twentieth century. Screens could display art since the Lumiere brothers' use of mattes to create special effects for the earliest fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18567210 | 119,304 |
693,733 | In Europe, the Water Framework Directive (WFD) went into effect on October 23, 2000. It requires all EU member states to show that all surface and groundwater bodies are in good status. The WFD requires member states to implement monitoring systems to estimate the integrity of biological stream components for specific ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1859694 | 693,370 |
2,194,760 | In November 1933 Dickinson decided to put aside his large painting "Woodland Scene", which he had been unable to bring to a satisfactory resolution, and began a new painting—his largest—that he eventually gave the neutral name of "Composition with Still Life". Adopting a more systematic method of painting than he had u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32739872 | 2,193,510 |
1,966,411 | The evaluation of the performance cannot be considered complete without considering the limit of detection, the range of linear response and the signal reproducibility. EI is known as a low-efficiency ionization technique. Because less than 1/10 000 of the gas-phase sample molecules are ionized, impressive detection li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24897052 | 1,965,282 |
849,652 | Max von Laue in his 1920 paper gave serious consideration to the effect of General Relativity on the Sagnac effect stating, "General relativity would of course be capable of giving some statements about it, and we want to show at first that no noticeable influences of acceleration are expected according to it." He make... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1636296 | 849,200 |
919,441 | The SDV is used primarily for inserting SEALs for covert operations or for placing mines on ships. It is also used for underwater mapping and terrain exploration, location and recovery of lost or downed objects, and reconnaissance missions. It has been invaluable at deploying SEAL teams in clandestine missions, as it h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=774540 | 918,956 |
729,761 | In his final "Memoir on the diffraction of light", deposited on 29 July and bearing the Latin epigraph ""Natura simplex et fecunda"" ("Nature simple and fertile"), Fresnel slightly expanded the two tables without changing the existing figures, except for a correction to the first minimum of intensity. For completeness,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1141 | 729,377 |
1,727,070 | To sustain their guerrilla campaign, the Boers needed a regular supply of food, ammunition and equipment. In an effort to obtain such supplies, Koos de la Rey led a 3,000 strong Boer attack on the British post at Brakfontein on the Elands River in Western Transvaal on 4 August 1900. At the time, it was lightly defended... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25045057 | 1,726,096 |
71,168 | Mustard gases were possibly developed as early as 1822 by César-Mansuète Despretz (1798–1863). Despretz described the reaction of sulfur dichloride and ethylene but never made mention of any irritating properties of the reaction product. In 1854, another French chemist, Alfred Riche (1829–1908), repeated this procedure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46126 | 71,141 |
1,434,423 | The notion of a proactive pre-emptive operations group (P2OG) emerged from a report of the Defense Science Board's (DSB) 2002 briefing. The briefing was reported by Dan Dupont in "Inside the Pentagon" on September 26, 2002, and was also discussed by William M. Arkin in the "Los Angeles Times" on October 27, 2002. The "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18248534 | 1,433,619 |
1,656,542 | The Roman Senate and emperors were not blind to the possibility of rebellion by its troops as generals could gain the loyalty of his officers through a mixture of personal charisma, promises and simple bribes: once the general and officers had a unity of purpose the rigid discipline of the military meant that the troop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7968922 | 1,655,609 |
2,105,568 | The Department of Homeland Security laid out the plan for the national biosurveillance system. They stated that an effect surveillance system relies on five key principles that are generally applied to public health and medical preparedness. The first is being prepared for all potential catastrophic health events; the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46862281 | 2,104,355 |
1,429,005 | The accuracy of the method then largely depends on the choice of the variational state. The simplest choice typically corresponds to a mean-field form, where the state formula_13 is written as a factorization over the Hilbert space. This particularly simple form is typically not very accurate since it neglects many-bod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8987340 | 1,428,201 |
1,415,762 | A common application of FBARs is radio frequency (RF) filters for use in cell phones and other wireless applications like positioning (GPS, Glonass, BeiDou, Galileo (satellite navigation) etc.), Wi-Fi systems, small telecommunication cells and modules for those. Such filters are made from a network of resonators (eithe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4166537 | 1,414,965 |
1,984,945 | There is a stable equilibrium in point 1 of Figure 8 where the energy which has been input into the process is sufficient for the melting of the continuously fed wire electrode. In the case of a rapid change of distance, the arc compensates the length change, point 2. The lower resistance of the short arc brings about ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37686388 | 1,983,806 |
717,562 | Lindgren was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1973 to a Taiwanese mother and American father in the US Air Force; his Chinese name is Lin Qi'er (). His family later moved to the Midwestern United States, but he spent most of his childhood in England. He attended Lakenheath American High School for a year before moving back to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23437049 | 717,185 |
1,515,692 | At Imperial College, in the Department of Computing, Shanahan was a postdoc from 1987 to 1991, an advanced research fellow until 1995. At Queen Mary & Westfield College, he was a senior research fellow from 1995 to 1998. Shanahan joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Imperial, and then (in 2005) the Depart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49675317 | 1,514,840 |
2,134,428 | The AHAAH was first developed in 1987 by the U.S. Army Human Engineering Laboratory (HEL), which later became part of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL), to investigate the complex interactions between the outer, middle, and inner ears and understand the process behind hearing loss on the level of the cochlea. Ori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57869905 | 2,133,203 |
1,313,304 | At least six major areas of cryobiology can be identified: 1) study of cold-adaptation of microorganisms, plants (cold hardiness), and animals, both invertebrates and vertebrates (including hibernation), 2) cryopreservation of cells, tissues, gametes, and embryos of animal and human origin for (medical) purposes of lon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=219284 | 1,312,584 |
216,431 | In recent years, actor-network theory has gained a lot of traction, and a growing number of IS academics are using it explicitly in their research. Despite the fact that these applications vary greatly, all of the scholars cited below agree that the theory provides new notions and ideas for understanding the socio-tech... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=505093 | 216,323 |
536,273 | Albert Einstein, in 1916, introduced the Einstein notation which summed over a set of indexed terms in a formula, thus exerting notational brevity. Arnold Sommerfeld would create the contour integral sign in 1917. Also in 1917, Dimitry Mirimanoff proposes axiom of regularity. In 1919, Theodor Kaluza would solve general... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6134187 | 535,994 |
1,474,015 | The British victories over Burma in 1826 set the stage for a century in which the military history of Thailand was to be dominated by the threat of European colonialism. Initially, however, Siamese concern remained focused on its traditional rivals of Burma and Vietnam. Siam intervened in support of Britain against Bur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2938344 | 1,473,184 |
1,598,456 | The development of the helicon or toroidal ring began with André-Marie Ampère, who in 1823 proposed tiny magnetic "loops of charge" to explain the attractive force between current elements. In that same era Carl Friedrich Gauss and Michael Faraday also uncovered foundational laws of classical electrodynamics, later col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13372642 | 1,597,556 |
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