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1,268,215 | Larger asteroids can be detected even while far from the Earth, and their orbits can therefore be very precisely determined many years in advance of any close approach. Thanks largely to Spaceguard cataloging initiated by a 2005 mandate of the United States Congress to NASA, the inventory of the approximately one thous... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38623877 | 1,267,525 |
1,878,787 | In 2014, Wright launched a MOOC on Coursera entitled "The" "Bible's Prehistory, Purpose, and Political Future", to a worldwide audience of learners. The number of students who enrolled since its launch stands at more than 60,000. In this course, he draws from archaeology, the historiographical approach of longue durée,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45425015 | 1,877,707 |
1,893,817 | It is well known that the auditory systems of anurans are well adapted to detect species specific vocalizations, and that the behavioral response to these vocalizations often differs between the sexes. Sex differences in auditory systems have been found to underlie these gender specific behaviors in multiple species. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25348242 | 1,892,734 |
1,318,285 | The complex is found in cellular regions characterized by dynamic actin filament activity: in macropinocytic cups, in the leading edge of motile cells (lamellipodia), and in motile actin patches in yeast. In mammals and the social amoeba "Dictyostelium discoideum" it is required for phagocytosis. The complex has also b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30861458 | 1,317,560 |
295,432 | Intel's chip-naming scheme at that time used a four-digit number for each component. The first digit indicated the process technology used, the second digit indicated the generic function, and the last two digits specified the sequential number in the development of that component type. Using this convention, the chips... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=102393 | 295,272 |
1,869,220 | Since Dr. Brewer’s arrival in March 2015, Louisiana Christian University has advanced from one to four graduate programs, added the CS Lewis Honors Program, established academic partnerships with LaTech and Community Technical Colleges statewide, additional scholarship programs, increased donor base, implemented flat-r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47321900 | 1,868,144 |
1,516,773 | Benjamín Scharifker Podolsky (born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 21, 1953). Sharifker migrated with his Jewish family to Venezuela when he was 4 years old. Graduated in chemistry from the Universidad Simón Bolívar (1976) had a PhD in physicochemistry from the University of Southampton (1980). Professor emeritus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,921 |
2,190,821 | One of the major problems that NASA faced in preparation for the Apollo moon landing was the inability to determine the surface characteristics of the moon with regard to spacecraft landings and post-landing locomotion of exploratory vehicles and personnel. While radio and optical technology situated on Earth at the ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63327266 | 2,189,572 |
2,206,343 | Visual recognition processing is typically viewed as a bottom-up hierarchy in which information is processed sequentially with increasing complexities. During this process, lower-level cortical processors, such as the primary visual cortex, are at the bottom of the hierarchy. Higher-level cortical processors, such as t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24965027 | 2,205,085 |
1,194,552 | Unfortunately, this very sharp switching on and off inherent to the square-waveform causes extremely high frequency vibrations in the lamp. A square wave can be thought of as an infinite sum of odd-numbered harmonics, which will include frequencies at the resonant frequency of the bulb, causing it to vibrate at that fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1723027 | 1,193,912 |
705,992 | In self-defense, military, and law enforcement communities, opinions vary regarding the importance of remote wounding effects in ammunition design and selection. In his book on hostage rescuers, Leroy Thompson discusses the importance of hydrostatic shock in choosing a specific design of .357 Magnum and 9×19mm Parabell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13746 | 705,623 |
586,777 | Dual-coding theory, a theory of cognition, was hypothesized by Allan Paivio of the University of Western Ontario in 1971. In developing this theory, Paivio used the idea that the formation of mental images aids learning. According to Paivio, there are two ways a person could expand on learned material: verbal associati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1061157 | 586,477 |
56,522 | The match consisted of 12 games. In Game 1, Topalov defeated Anand in 30 moves with a very sharp attack that broke through Anand's Grunfeld Defence. It was revealed afterwards that Topalov had found the line during his opening preparation with the help of a powerful supercomputer loaned to him by Bulgaria's Defense Dep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=281337 | 56,498 |
147,846 | The most precarious of these quake-lakes was the one located in the extremely difficult terrain at Mount Tangjia in Beichuan County, Sichuan, accessible only by foot or air; an Mi-26T heavy lift helicopter belonging to the China Flying Dragon Special Aviation Company was used to bring heavy earthmoving tractors to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17901805 | 147,787 |
1,835,090 | Was established in October 1948 by Air Defense Command (ADC) as intermediate level of command. Initially responsible for atmospheric air defense of middle Atlantic region from North Carolina to greater New York City area east of the Appalachian mountains. Commanded Manual Direction Center (MDC) at Roslyn Air Force Stat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8836529 | 1,834,041 |
168,982 | Meghnad Saha was born in 1893 in a very poor family in Shaoratoli, a village near Dhaka-Bikrampur, in the former Bengal Presidency of British India (in present-day Village- Shaoratoli, Thana- Kaliakair, District- Gazipur, Bangladesh). Son of Jagannath Saha (a grocer) and Smt. Bhubneshwari Devi, Meghnad struggled to ris... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=839078 | 168,892 |
1,229,756 | The most important elements detectable by the GRS were uranium (U), thorium (Th), and potassium (K), radioactive elements which generate gamma rays spontaneously, and iron (Fe), titanium (Ti), oxygen (O), silicon (Si), aluminum (Al), magnesium (Mg), and calcium (Ca), elements which emit gamma rays when hit by cosmic ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=612519 | 1,229,094 |
926,106 | Lotus began its diversification from the desktop software business with its 1984 strategic founding investment in Ray Ozzie's Iris Associates, the creator of its Lotus Notes groupware platform. As a result of this early speculative move, Lotus had gained significant experience in network-based communications years befo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=103770 | 925,620 |
1,466,824 | People with Tourette's may suffer socially if their tics are viewed as "bizarre". If a child has disabling tics, or tics that interfere with social or academic functioning, supportive psychotherapy or school accommodations can be helpful. Even children with milder tics may be angry, depressed or have low self-esteem as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5071079 | 1,466,001 |
904,619 | Ambulocetids had relatively long limbs with particularly strong hind legs, and they retained a tail with no sign of a fluke. The hindlimb structure of Ambulocetids shows that their ability to engage in terrestrial locomotion was significantly limited compared to that of contemporary terrestrial mammals, and likely did ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=875148 | 904,143 |
1,472,853 | FHA can be caused by chronic stress, whether it be from psychosocial/emotional/mental factors, weight-related factors, or exercise-induced factors. As such, the clinical manifestations of the disorder are the result of this chronic stress caused by the above three factors. The "classic" description was previously a "th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15738568 | 1,472,023 |
1,112,238 | Bio-layer interferometry measures kinetics and biomolecular interactions on a basis of wave interference. To prepare for BLI analysis between two unique biomolecules, the ligand is first immobilized onto a bio compatible biosensor while the analyte is in solution. Shortly after this, the biosensor tip is dipped into th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28651121 | 1,111,672 |
247,885 | In 2014, in the face of an unprecedented Ebola epidemic in western Africa, Piot and other scientists called for the emergency release of the experimental ZMapp vaccine for use on humans before it had undergone clinical testing on humans. That year, he was appointed by Director General Margaret Chan to the World Health ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=816001 | 247,757 |
1,098,347 | In a 1991 article, English professor Catherine Lamb agreed with Lassner and added: "Rogerian argument has always felt too much like giving in." Lamb said that women (and men) need to have a theory of power and use it to evaluate alternative ways of communicating. Lamb considered more recent negotiation theory such as "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11396381 | 1,097,787 |
7,361 | The low altitudes at which the ISS orbits are also home to a variety of space debris, including spent rocket stages, defunct satellites, explosion fragments (including materials from anti-satellite weapon tests), paint flakes, slag from solid rocket motors, and coolant released by US-A nuclear-powered satellites. These... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15043 | 7,358 |
922,528 | Camptothecin (Fig. 7), originally derived from the tree "Camptotheca acuminata", targets human topo I and derivatives such as topotecan and irinotecan are widely used in cancer chemotherapy. Camptothecin and its derivatives act by stabilizing the topo I cleavage complex, preventing religation of the protein-mediated ni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=235935 | 922,042 |
842,271 | In late 1906, de Forest made a breakthrough when he reconfigured the control electrode, moving it from outside the tube envelope to a position inside the tube between the filament and the plate. He called the intermediate electrode a "grid", reportedly due to its similarity to the "gridiron" lines on American football ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=256764 | 841,821 |
1,693,633 | Through the required foundational courses in the humanities, specifically philosophy, theology, history, art, literature, and the social sciences, the Doctor of Liberal Studies establishes the intellectual and scholarly context needed to carry out serious interdisciplinary study and research in ethics and crucial issue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6887567 | 1,692,682 |
1,891,413 | In Davis-Floyd's first book, "Birth as an American Rite of Passage", she defines "technocracy" as a society organized around the super-valuation of high technology and the global flow of information. She argues that the beliefs and practices associated with birth are driven from a "technocratic model" that was influenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52996023 | 1,890,330 |
1,159,631 | Cui was born in Laibin, Guangxi, China. He obtained his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1998. He pursued his graduate study in physical chemistry with Charles M. Lieber at Harvard University and obtained his Ph.D. in 2002. At Harvard, he pioneered nanoscale sensors and device... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62783536 | 1,159,016 |
969,099 | Weishampel developed his model with the aid of a computer simulation. Natalia Rybczynski and colleagues have updated this work with a much more sophisticated three-dimensional animation model, scanning a skull of "E. regalis" with lasers. They were able to replicate the proposed motion with their model, although they f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1585380 | 968,589 |
896,753 | It is estimated that to a conventionally composed Roman glass flux 330 parts per million of silver and 40 of gold were added: "These particles were precipitated as colloids and form a silver-gold alloy. When viewed in reflected light the minute metallic particles are just coarse enough to reflect enough of the light wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11209942 | 896,282 |
433,754 | A first relevant question is whether it is possible or not to distinguish between uniform and boson-sampling distributions by performing a polynomial number of measurements. The initial argument introduced in Ref. stated that as long as one makes use of symmetric measurement settings the above is impossible (roughly sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49287688 | 433,540 |
1,826,392 | Aztec–Tanoan is a hypothetical and undemonstrated language family that proposes a genealogical relation between the Tanoan and the Uto-Aztecan families. In some forms, Aztec–Tanoan has also included the Zuni isolate. This proposed classification has not been definitively demonstrated, largely because of slow progress i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16174993 | 1,825,353 |
775,272 | Smallpox was externally brought to Australia. The first recorded outbreak, in April 1789, about 16 months after the arrival of the First Fleet, devastated the Aboriginal population. Governor Arthur Phillip said that about half of the Aboriginal people living around Sydney Cove died during the outbreak. Some later estim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20790125 | 774,856 |
2,062,120 | Canada's unmanned programme included the first launching of the Canadian earth observation satellite RADARSAT-1 in 1995, and an improved version, RADARSAT-2, in 2007. Placed in polar orbits, each of these satellites images almost all of the Earth's surface every 24 days using a powerful synthetic aperture radar, SAR. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18401364 | 2,060,930 |
1,143,137 | Second generation biofuels are now being produced from a much broader range of feedstocks including the cellulose in dedicated energy crops (perennial grasses such as switchgrass and Miscanthus giganteus), forestry materials, the co-products from food production, and domestic vegetable waste. Advances in the conversion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17153836 | 1,142,539 |
523,363 | The tungsten halogen curing light, also known as simply "halogen curing light" is the most frequent polymerization source used in dental offices. In order for the light to be produced, an electric current flows through a thin tungsten filament, which functions as a resistor. This resistor is then “heated to temperature... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34053477 | 523,091 |
1,137,332 | More notable projects in the early part of Shah Jahan's reign include the Agra and Lahore forts. These were part of reconstruction projects which built upon previous Mughal constructions and architectural practices. These broader Mughal architectural practices involved the organising and placement of imperial buildings... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3289027 | 1,136,739 |
703,769 | One of the earliest alleged uses of "Auftragstaktik" was at the Battle of Königgrätz in the Austro-Prussian War. "Auftragstaktik" is one of the tools often claimed to have given the Prussians their decisive victory. This claim is difficult to accept, since no appreciation of "Auftragstaktik" had been accepted officiall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1960159 | 703,401 |
1,304,492 | In the years that followed, not only did computers become more powerful, but also various research groups developed alternate techniques to improve the efficiency of the calculations. With respect to black hole simulations specifically, two techniques were devised to avoid problems associated with the existence of phys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1797708 | 1,303,776 |
1,017,746 | For further cost reduction, a large-scale high-capacity mesh is desirable. For instance, Kyushu University's Mimo-Mesh Project, based in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, has developed and put into use new technology for building high capacity mesh infrastructure. A key component is called IPT, intermittent peri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4624565 | 1,017,222 |
451,059 | NASA retired the Space Shuttle fleet on July 21, 2011 after completing the ISS and the final flight and subsequent landing of "Atlantis". The Shuttle's replacement, Orion, was to have consisted of an Apollo-derived spacecraft launched on the Ares I rocket, which would use a Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster as its fir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=471187 | 450,840 |
2,157,338 | Mathematical models are not time agnostic, but by their very nature are pre-computed, ie feedforward. Dyer [2012] and Feldman [2004] have independently investigated the simplest of all somatic governance paradigms, namely control of a simple jointed limb by a single flexor muscle. They found that it is impossible to de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44104564 | 2,156,107 |
1,507,993 | This is closely related to a concept called the "smoke detector principle" in evolutionary theory. It is defined by the tendency for immune, affective, and behavioral defenses to be hypersensitive and overreactive, rather than insensitive or weakly expressed. Randolph Nesse maintains that this is a consequence of a typ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57091071 | 1,507,145 |
1,386,322 | The Florida Geological Survey fossil vertebrate collection (FGS) was started during the 1910s and was originally housed in Tallahassee. Under the direction of E. H. Sellards, Herman Gunter, and S. J. Olsen, the FGS collection was the primary source of fossil vertebrate descriptions from Florida until the early 1960s. W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1143787 | 1,385,555 |
1,341,795 | Research involving bungarotoxins has been significant in improving our understanding of neurotransmission. Additionally, snake and krait bites and envenomation cause significant morbidity; understanding the mechanism by which bungarotoxins work can improve treatment options in such situations. According to the World He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13735196 | 1,341,062 |
1,097,521 | Despite proponents' urging that intelligent design be included in the school system's science curriculum, the school board of Chesterfield County Public Schools in Virginia decided on May 23, 2007, to approve science textbooks for middle and high schools which do not include the idea of intelligent design. However, dur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34846832 | 1,096,961 |
1,802,201 | Weiner follows the career of two biologists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, who have spent twenty years proving that Charles Darwin did not know the full strength of his theory of evolution. On a desert island among the Galapagos, Daphne Major, the Grants are showing that among the finches of the Galapagos, natural selectio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166663 | 1,801,189 |
1,044,718 | Initial attempts to provide MWD and LWD date back to the 1920s, and attempts were made prior to WW2 with mud pulse, wired pipe, acoustic and electromagnetics. JJ Arps produced a working directional and resistivity system in the 1960s. Competing work supported by Mobil, Standard Oil and others in the late 1960s and earl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3528182 | 1,044,174 |
51,308 | By the mid-1800s, various experiments such as the observation of the Arago spot and differential measurements of the speed of light in air versus water were considered to have proven the wave nature of light as opposed to a corpuscular theory. Propagation of waves was then assumed to require the existence of a "waving"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28758 | 51,288 |
2,101,905 | Lumped damage mechanics or LDM is a branch of structural mechanics that is concerned with the analysis of frame structures. It is based on continuum damage mechanics and fracture mechanics. It combines the ideas of these theories with the concept of plastic hinge LDM can be defined as the fracture mechanics of complex ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47517937 | 2,100,693 |
834,727 | A purely online model in this category would learn based on just the new input formula_18, the current best predictor formula_19 and some extra stored information (which is usually expected to have storage requirements independent of training data size). For many formulations, for example nonlinear kernel methods, true... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19892153 | 834,278 |
1,863,448 | From the start of the final, two Americans, defending champion Jennifer Simpson and super high-schooler Mary Cain bracketed the field and closed to fill in the front of the pack. But most of the pack stayed in close order formation throughout with much jockeying for position and flying elbows. Cain tried to stay on the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40190798 | 1,862,378 |
1,399,265 | Over time, several prominent figures joined the Scientific Advisory Committee. These members included cosmic ray physicist Thomas H. Johnson, mathematician Edward J. McShane, physicist David L. Webster, and aeronautical scientist Clark Millikan. The Scientific Advisory Committee was later disbanded in 1969 but re-estab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30865936 | 1,398,490 |
830,099 | Studies with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) also supported the idea that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex is an important component for reactivating past emotional associations and events, therefore essentially mediating pathogenesis of PTSD. Dysfunction of the vmPFC has also been identified as playing a role i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11287065 | 829,652 |
1,671,608 | In September 2020, the plant's owner and a thermal company instigated a plan to heat all of Haiyang city via heat exchange. Two months later, 700,000 square meters of housing had been heated and the project was en route for completion in its entirety in 2021. The switch to clean energy is expected to eliminate more tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18647713 | 1,670,668 |
789,670 | The EMS industry was initially established in 1961 by SCI Systems of Huntsville Alabama. The industry realized its most significant growth in the 1980s; at the time, most electronics manufacturing for large-scale product runs was handled by the OEMs in-house assembly. These new companies offered flexibility and eased h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3058053 | 789,245 |
1,583,294 | The buds are about 4 mm in length, globular in shape and dark green in colour. They are covered with acute, glossy reddish brown scale-like leaves which remain on the base of the shoot into the following year. The leaves themselves are glossy on the adaxial surface, i.e. the upper-side, and a deep yellowish-green to da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11710594 | 1,582,404 |
1,163,861 | The HCF (hybrid coordination function) controlled channel access (HCCA) works a lot like PCF. However, in contrast to PCF, in which the interval between two beacon frames is divided into two periods of CFP and CP, the HCCA allows for CFPs being initiated at almost anytime during a CP. This kind of CFP is called a Contr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=244315 | 1,163,244 |
1,995,577 | No Precambrian fossils are known from Georgia. As such, the state's fossils record does not begin until the Paleozoic. Although no major discoveries have been uncovered in Georgian Paleozoic the fossil record documents a great diversity of ancient life in the state. During the Cambrian the state was covered by a warm s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37798993 | 1,994,434 |
941,590 | Superior German staff work at division, corps and army level throughout the war was a major contributor to their run of successes. At the beginning of 1918 having defeated the Russians Hindenburg and Ludendorff resolved to win in the west. Tactically, their staff work was brilliant. Using only weapons that had failed a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=438600 | 941,088 |
1,956,457 | The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities is a 1998 book by American philosopher and mathematician William A. Dembski, a proponent of intelligent design, which sets out to establish approaches by which evidence of intelligent agency could be inferred in natural and social situations. In the b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2149752 | 1,955,335 |
1,596,843 | Functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI is a form of the traditional MRI imaging device that allows for brain activity to be observed in real time. An fMRI device works by detecting changes in neural blood flow that is associated with brain activity. fMRI devices use a strong, static magnetic field to align nucle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36560848 | 1,595,944 |
2,066,225 | The first stage in the Tour of Spain to actually take place in Spain, this course offered the first real climb for the riders, the second-category Alto de Fatxas soon after the stage begun. A breakaway had already gained a lead of 4:30 before reaching the climb. The breakaway consisted of Julián Sánchez, Aitor Hernande... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23665193 | 2,065,034 |
282,888 | The third major handheld of the fourth generation was the Game Gear. It featured graphics capabilities roughly comparable to the Master System (better colours, but lower resolution), a ready made games library by using the "Master-Gear" adaptor to play cartridges from the older console, and the opportunity to be conver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=437385 | 282,735 |
1,303,192 | From the work of Heaviside (1887) it had become clear that the performance of telegraph lines, and most especially telephone lines, could be improved by the addition of inductance to the line. George Campbell at AT&T implemented this idea (1899) by inserting loading coils at intervals along the line. Campbell found tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23431648 | 1,302,476 |
1,900,174 | On January 11, 2017, a report for members and committees of Congress was published by the Congressional Research Service, entitled "The Office of Surface Mining's Stream Protection Rule: An Overview." The report described the history of law, regulation, and litigation that had led to the new rules. The report also summ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52930504 | 1,899,086 |
383,374 | In October 2010, John Graham-Cumming started a "Plan 28" campaign to raise funds by "public subscription" to enable serious historical and academic study of Babbage's plans, with a view to then build and test a fully working virtual design which will then in turn enable construction of the physical Analytical Engine. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1271 | 383,179 |
72,799 | The number field sieve algorithm, which is generally the most effective in solving the discrete logarithm problem, consists of four computational steps. The first three steps only depend on the order of the group G, not on the specific number whose finite log is desired. It turns out that much Internet traffic uses one... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7903 | 72,772 |
423,616 | Once the Pacific War began, the Imperial Japanese Army quickly captured many critical areas. These included British Malaya, Guam, the Philippines and Wake Island. A combination of Japanese naval supremacy and the Allied doctrine of 'Europe first' meant they saw relatively little opposition during this stage of the war ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56409879 | 423,409 |
598,804 | Individuals exposed to blast frequently manifest loss of memory of events before and after explosion, confusion, headache, impaired sense of reality, and reduced decision-making ability. Patients with brain injuries acquired in explosions often develop sudden, unexpected brain swelling and cerebral vasospasm despite co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=892612 | 598,499 |
425,236 | More recently, many approaches have been proposed to predetermine the optimal bin size for different Hi-C experiments. Li et al. in 2018 described deDoc, a method where bin size is selected as the one at which the structural entropy of the Hi-C matrix reaches a stable minimum. QuASAR, on the other hand, offers a bit mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70169832 | 425,028 |
816,100 | The letter was discussed at the first official meeting of the Tizard Committee on 28 January 1935. The utility of the concept was evident to all attending, but the question remained whether it was actually possible. Albert Rowe and Wimperis both checked the maths and it appeared to be correct. They immediately wrote ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=382754 | 815,664 |
1,411,221 | O-level technicians troubleshoot various discrepancies with the use of multimeters and avionics test equipment to locate faults within the aircraft. An O-level AT will determine if the discrepancy that the aircrew reported is an aircraft-wiring problem or a system problem. If the problem is aircraft wiring, the AT will... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6559662 | 1,410,428 |
826,797 | There have been studies on the effects of stereotype threat based on age. A study was done on 99 senior citizens ranging in age from 60–75 years. These seniors were given multiple tests on certain factors and categories such as memory and physical abilities, and were also asked to evaluate how physically fit they belie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1809033 | 826,353 |
803,379 | During the period 2004–2008, as the project director for Chandrayaan I, he led a team of engineers and scientists that designed and developed the project to carry instrumentation from ISRO and from NASA, ESA, and Bulgaria to accomplish simultaneous chemical, mineralogical, resource and topographic mapping of the entire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4487597 | 802,950 |
1,741,121 | As a new and fast growing interdisciplinary field with no explicitly identified best practices, it has been subject to a number of flaws in both study design and interpretation. A 2016 publication identified four common pitfalls of landscape genetics research that should be targeted for correction. These include assumi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59627298 | 1,740,139 |
217,791 | To maximise plasma temperature (and hence ionisation efficiency) and stability, the sample should be introduced through the central tube with as little liquid (solvent load) as possible, and with consistent droplet sizes. A nebuliser can be used for liquid samples, followed by a spray chamber to remove larger droplets,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49503 | 217,683 |
1,152,771 | In "Image and Logic", Galison explored the fundamental rift rising in the physical sciences: whether singular, visual accounts of scientific phenomena would be accepted as the dominant language of proof, or whether statistically significant, frequently repeated results would dominate the field. This division, Galison c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1615854 | 1,152,161 |
1,816,163 | Constructed between 1910 and 1912, the is the university's oldest structure and was sponsored by Sir Hormusjee Naorojee Mody and designed by Architect Messrs Leigh & Orange. It is built in the post-renaissance style with red brick and granite and has two courtyards. The main elevation is articulated by four turrets wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68762473 | 1,815,129 |
1,670,152 | A leading figure of the Conservatives for the following years, he held several ministerial positions after 1891: he was Minister of Religious Affairs and Education in the Lascăr Catargiu cabinet (1891–1895) and again under Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino (April 1899 – January 1900), as well as Minister of Finance (January... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=738484 | 1,669,212 |
1,778,371 | "Hamlet and crop farmers" who trade with the Chesapeake Bay and the Gulf of Mexico coincide with the adaption of hunting bows in West Virginia. The early arrowhead called 'intrusive mound sniders point' wanes. In a broad sense, a Hamilton point type appears alongside other triangle types, while the dart is still in use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17254851 | 1,777,369 |
942,468 | Since media with inversion symmetry are forbidden from generating second-harmonic light via the leading-order electric dipole contribution (unlike third harmonic generation), surfaces and interfaces make interesting subjects for study with SHG. In fact, second-harmonic generation and sum frequency generation discrimina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7334318 | 941,966 |
1,745,785 | In contrast to elution chromatography, solutes separated in displacement mode form sharp-edged zones rather than spreading peaks. Zone boundaries in displacement chromatography are self-sharpening: if a molecule for some reason gets ahead of its band, it enters a zone in which it is more strongly retained, and will the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15881178 | 1,744,801 |
1,416,059 | Most protists are too small to be seen with the naked eye. They are highly diverse organisms currently organised into 18 phyla, but not easy to classify. Studies have shown high protist diversity exists in oceans, deep sea-vents and river sediments, suggesting large numbers of eukaryotic microbial communities have yet ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63933276 | 1,415,262 |
382,578 | On 27 July 2013, General Atomics announced the successful first flight of the Improved Gray Eagle (IGE). The IGE is designed for increased endurance, with 23 additional hours compared to its Block I predecessor. It has 50 percent greater fuel capacity through its deep belly fuselage and features improved payload capaci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11166539 | 382,383 |
1,653,494 | Zilber-Rosenberg and Rosenberg (2008) have tabulated many of the ways in which symbionts are transmitted and their contributions to the fitness of the holobiont, beginning with mitochondria found in all eukaryotes, chloroplast in plants, and then various associations described in specific systems. The microbial contrib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34920670 | 1,652,562 |
1,859,793 | Heart failure is one of the leading causes of death. In 2013, an estimate of 17.3 million deaths per year out of the 54 million total deaths was caused by cardiovascular diseases, meaning that 31.5% of the world's total death was caused by this. Often, the only viable treatment for end-stage heart failure is organ tran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42239426 | 1,858,725 |
310,310 | The Tiger I represented a new approach that emphasised firepower and armour. While heavy, this tank was not slower than the best of its opponents. However, with over 50 metric tons dead weight, suspensions, gearboxes and other such items had clearly reached their design limits and breakdowns were frequent. Design studi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29073044 | 310,142 |
27,291 | The Earth's physical environment is shaped by solar energy and topography. The amount of solar energy input varies in space and time due to the spherical shape of the Earth and its axial tilt. Variation in solar energy input drives weather and climate patterns. Weather is the day-to-day temperature and precipitation ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9127632 | 27,281 |
1,877,011 | For group decision-making, the hierarchical decision process (HDP) refines the classical analytic hierarchy process (AHP) a step further in eliciting and evaluating subjective judgements. These improvements, proposed initially by Dr. Jang Ra (a student of Dr. Thomas L. Saaty who developed and refined AHP) include the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20591151 | 1,875,933 |
1,020,562 | The line between antisepsis and asepsis is interpreted differently, depending on context and time. In the past, antiseptic operations occurred in people's homes or in operating theaters before a large crowd. Procedures for implementing antisepsis varied among physicians and experienced constant changes. Until the late ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2302400 | 1,020,033 |
1,884,499 | The above divisions reflect more than a planning pragmatism; they are important historically in illustrating the arrangement of administrative, teaching, training, farming, research, residential and recreational spaces within what has served for over a century as Queensland's most significant rural educational institut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44321024 | 1,883,418 |
342,075 | "The Temple News" is the editorially independent weekly newspaper of Temple University. It prints 5,000 copies to be distributed primarily on Temple's Main Campus every Tuesday. A staff of 25 plus more than 150 writers design, report and edit the 20-page paper. In 2008, the paper's Web site, temple-news.com, received t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239930 | 341,894 |
51,665 | Ultra-light carbon nanotubes meshed through molecular manufacturing techniques have densities between 1.3 g/m to 1.4 g/m. By the time a civilization is ready to use this technology, the carbon nanotube's manufacturing might be optimized enough for them to have a density lower than the necessary 0.7 g/m, and the average... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8586 | 51,645 |
440,972 | One method to utilize salinity gradient energy is called pressure-retarded osmosis. In this method, seawater is pumped into a pressure chamber that is at a pressure lower than the difference between the pressures of saline water and fresh water. Freshwater is also pumped into the pressure chamber through a membrane, wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4711003 | 440,757 |
1,716,798 | In the context of space flight, teamwork is an essential ingredient in successful missions. A variety of adverse influences may negatively impact the performance of mission teams both on the ground and in flight. Such influences may include physical stressors on the organism such as diurnal disruption, effects of micro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48346105 | 1,715,829 |
797,482 | In the design of devices incorporating organic solar cells, Gc and strain at fracture have been identified as two metrics that are important to consider. The bulk heterojunction (BHJ) layer is usually the weakest layer of an organic solar cell, so it is necessary to design the BHJ materials to be mechanically stable, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18397250 | 797,057 |
896,850 | In 1866, Spain and Portugal joined the Central European Arc Measurement which would become the European Arc Measurement the next year. In 1867 at the second general conference of the geodetic association held in Berlin, the question of an international standard unit of length was discussed in order to combine the measu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20353 | 896,378 |
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