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1,890,021 | The RDTN.org began as an early crowd-sourcing initiative to sponsor and assist in gathering, monitoring and disseminating radiation data from the affected areas. RDTN intended their independent measurements to provide additional context for the radiation data reported by the official factors, to supplement and not to r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31462843 | 1,888,938 |
1,620,407 | Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis (PAM) is a rare, inherited disorder of lung phosphate balance that is associated with small stone formation in the airspaces of the lung. Mutations in the gene "SLC34A2" result in loss of a key sodium, phosphate co-transporter (called Npt2b), known to be expressed in distal alveolar ty... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48581903 | 1,619,492 |
915,434 | The problem is greatly simplified if it is out-of-place: the output array is distinct from the input array or, equivalently, an equal-size auxiliary array is available. The Stockham auto-sort algorithm performs every stage of the FFT out-of-place, typically writing back and forth between two arrays, transposing one "di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=352702 | 914,953 |
2,158,252 | Williams was born in Chicopee, Massachusetts. As a child Williams wanted to play American football for the Miami Dolphins. Williams trained in aeronautical engineering in the United States Air Force Academy and graduated in 1991. He worked as an engineer for the United States Air Force for six years. During his time in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64489247 | 2,157,020 |
2,111,439 | As an associate professor and Director of Urologic Oncology, Nielsen was appointed by the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) Board of Directors as the CMSS Representative to the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement. The following year, he was the lead author on a report from the American College ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66213985 | 2,110,224 |
617,457 | England won the toss and decided to bat first. However, within four overs they were already a wicket down as Andrew Strauss was caught for just three runs. He was then followed by Ravi Bopara (1), Ian Bell (8) and Paul Collingwood (0) before the end of the 19th over. Alastair Cook had managed to stay in throughout all ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8708994 | 617,143 |
1,928,964 | The upper Peridotite Nappe not only covers a quarter of the surface of the landmass, but also spreads to the offshore southern part of the Norfolk Ridge. In particular, the large exposure of the unit in the south is known as "Massif du Sud", where profitable metal ores are enriched. As the name suggests, peridotite, pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68673713 | 1,927,859 |
869,899 | Starting in the 1880s, advances were made in construction that led to the first truly practical gliders. Four people in particular were active: John J. Montgomery, Otto Lilienthal, Percy Pilcher and Octave Chanute. One of the first modern gliders was built by John J. Montgomery in 1883; Montgomery later claimed to have... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1607990 | 869,439 |
682,619 | In other scenarios and in contrast to the therapy outlined above, recent research suggests that HIF induction in normoxia is likely to have serious consequences in disease settings with a chronic inflammatory component. It has also been shown that chronic inflammation is self-perpetuating and that it distorts the micro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2408425 | 682,263 |
1,985,745 | Marxism and Keynesianism is a method of understanding and comparing the works of influential economists John Maynard Keynes and Karl Marx. Both men's works has fostered respective schools of economic thought (Marxian economics and Keynesian economics) that have had significant influence in various academic circles as w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63073736 | 1,984,604 |
611,857 | The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, the first modern research institution created within the United States Navy, began operations at 1100 on 2 July 1923. The Laboratory's two original divisions – Radio and Sound – performed research in the fields of high-frequency radio and underwater sound propagation. They produced c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=411893 | 611,546 |
300,688 | 'Core dinoflagellates' (dinokaryotes) have a peculiar form of nucleus, called a dinokaryon, in which the chromosomes are attached to the nuclear membrane. These carry reduced number of histones. In place of histones, dinoflagellate nuclei contain a novel, dominant family of nuclear proteins that appear to be of viral o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62290 | 300,527 |
305,911 | In Robinson's model, both the downstroke and the upstroke would have been powerful. In 1982, she was criticised by Samuel Tarsitano, Eberhard Frey and Jürgen Riess, who claimed that, while the muscles at the underside of the shoulder and pelvic plates were clearly powerful enough to pull the limbs downwards, comparable... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1398078 | 305,747 |
940,868 | Charles Merz, of the Merz & McLellan consulting partnership, built the Neptune Bank Power Station near Newcastle upon Tyne in 1901, and by 1912 had developed into the largest integrated power system in Europe. In 1905 he tried to influence Parliament to unify the variety of voltages and frequencies in the country's ele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=551731 | 940,367 |
280,119 | Administration of the test takes between 5 and 10 minutes and examines functions including registration (repeating named prompts), attention and calculation, recall, language, ability to follow simple commands and orientation. It was originally introduced by Folstein "et al." in 1975, in order to differentiate organic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1585251 | 279,968 |
228,295 | The drawbacks of this technology are found in a strong fall-off of the SNR, which is proportional to the distance from the zero delay and a sinc-type reduction of the depth-dependent sensitivity because of limited detection linewidth. (One pixel detects a quasi-rectangular portion of an optical frequency range instead ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=628583 | 228,178 |
379,316 | In addition to the Events Center, the north end of campus houses the East and West Gyms, which host student recreation and varsity athletics programs. The East Gym underwent a major renovation, completed in winter 2012, and is now called the Recreational Center at the East Gym, and includes the 10,000-sq. ft. FitSpace ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275474 | 379,121 |
1,171,671 | In 1909, he began working as an assistant to the physicist Kristian Birkeland, known for bombarding magnetized spheres with electrons and obtaining aurora-like effects; thus Skolem's first publications were physics papers written jointly with Birkeland. In 1913, Skolem passed the state examinations with distinction, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=453765 | 1,171,052 |
776,267 | These events marked a turning point in Cauchy's life, and a break in his mathematical productivity. Cauchy, shaken by the fall of the government and moved by a deep hatred of the liberals who were taking power, left Paris to go abroad, leaving his family behind. He spent a short time at Fribourg in Switzerland, where h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1842 | 775,851 |
714,043 | An expedition in May 2008 by 19 scientists studied the geology and biology of eight Macquarie Ridge sea mounts, as well as the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to investigate the effects of climate change of the Southern Ocean. The circumpolar current merges the waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans and carri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2015 | 713,671 |
400,740 | "Belfast" was recommissioned at Devonport on 3 November 1942, under the command of Captain Frederick Parham. On her return to the Home Fleet "Belfast" was made flagship of the 10th Cruiser Squadron, flying the flag of Rear-Admiral Robert Burnett, who had previously commanded the Home Fleet's destroyer flotillas. The sq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209815 | 400,541 |
213,472 | In 2009, the United States Naval Institute stated that there was "currently ... no defense against [a warhead able to destroy an aircraft carrier in one hit]" if it worked as theorized. It was reported in 2010 that China was finalizing development of a MaRV warhead for the DF-21. The United States Navy has responded by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9066481 | 213,364 |
1,668,191 | For example, a new radiolabelled compound is injected intravenously into a group of 16-20 rodents (typically mice or rats). At intervals of 1, 2, 4, and 24 hours, smaller groups (4-5) of the animals are euthanized, then dissected. The organs of interest (usually: blood, liver, spleen, kidney, muscle, fat, adrenals, pan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1840155 | 1,667,252 |
1,717,244 | Some estimates propose that if 1–2% of the Earth's surface area were dedicated to PDRC that warming would cease and temperature increases would be rebalanced to survivable levels. Regional variations provide different cooling potentials with desert and temperate climates benefiting more from application than tropical c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71855084 | 1,716,275 |
340,758 | Based on estimations of the primordial mass required to form Uranus and Neptune, as well as bodies as large as Pluto "(see )", earlier models of the Kuiper belt had suggested that the number of large objects would increase by a factor of two beyond 50 AU, so this sudden drastic falloff, known as the "Kuiper cliff", was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16796 | 340,577 |
1,796,315 | Neuromuscular blocking agents, or in abbreviation, NMBAs, are chemical agents that paralyse skeletal muscles by blocking the movement of neurotransmitter at the neuromuscular junction. They are often used during general anesthesia to optimize intubating and surgical conditions, specifically to facilitate endotracheal i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63488013 | 1,795,306 |
1,609,410 | Research in the psychological and brain sciences has long sought to understand the nature of individual differences in human intelligence, examining the stunning breadth and diversity of intellectual abilities and the remarkable cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms from which they emerge. These early findings motiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63336797 | 1,608,505 |
1,659,885 | The roots of the problem go deeper, though, than the current recession. Brazil's long-standing import substitution policy has protected locally produced goods from foreign competition, discouraging local businesses from investing heavily in research and development, as they are only competing with similar non-innovativ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1525228 | 1,658,952 |
346,943 | In 2001, Norway ordered 14 NH90 helicopters for use by the Royal Norwegian Navy and Norwegian Coast Guard, to be delivered in 2005-2008. In December 2011, the first helicopter was delivered. In July 2012, the Norwegian Deputy Defence Minister Roger Ingebrigtsen announced that "once our current Westland Lynx helicopters... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=513911 | 346,762 |
10,932 | Guidelines issued by the UK-based National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), carried out a systematic review using different methodology and came to a different conclusion. They questioned the accuracy of studies that were not placebo-controlled. And, based on the findings of placebo-controlled studi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4781 | 10,927 |
464,929 | Interior ocean DOM is a highly modified fraction that remains after years of exposure to sunlight, utilization by heterotrophs, flocculation and coagulation, and interaction with particles. Many of these processes within the DOM pool are compound- or class-specific. For example, condensed aromatic compounds are highly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4236528 | 464,699 |
779,191 | In November 1992, Marine Corps Systems Command drafted a mission needs statement for an enhanced sniper support team weapon (SSTW). It called for a weapon to support the M40A1 sniper rifle in a Scout Sniper team for close-range engagements and to lay down rapid semiautomatic suppressive fire. At the time, the role was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19578724 | 778,774 |
687,911 | In "Reflections on the Economics of Climate Change" (1993), he states: "Mankind is playing dice with the natural environment through a multitude of interventions – injecting into the atmosphere trace gases like the greenhouse gases or ozone-depleting chemicals, engineering massive land-use changes such as deforestation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4023913 | 687,553 |
1,743,230 | Not all fugitive slaves passing through Indiana actually migrated to Canada. Indiana had several communities of free people of color and river towns with African American communities that helped to protect runaways and provide a safe place to live, or at least temporary shelter. Most of the African American settlements... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21721057 | 1,742,246 |
2,045,615 | In modern optics experiments, ultrashort laser pulses have been used in a great variety of engineering application and scientific research, for example, biomedical engineering, material science, nonlinear spectroscopy, ultrafast chemistry, etc. Often, these experiments involve using two potentially different input lase... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36854472 | 2,044,434 |
1,563,974 | Remedial measures for impingement attack include modifications to the system to reduce the average water velocity, e.g. by using larger diameter tubes or, if appropriate, to lower the pump speed, and/or to redesign the part of the installation concerned to eliminate the cause of local turbulence, e.g. by using slow or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8090966 | 1,563,087 |
46,695 | Once researchers determine their preferred statistical model, different forms of regression analysis provide tools to estimate the parameters formula_19. For example, least squares (including its most common variant, ordinary least squares) finds the value of formula_19 that minimizes the sum of squared errors formula_... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=826997 | 46,677 |
1,904,666 | The Flood-Marine Excellence Centre has been established by Prof. Ir. Dr. Junaidah Ariffin. Members of the centre includes Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wardah Tahir, Dr Mohd Fozi Ali and from different disciplines such as Assoc. Prof. Dr. Azlinah Mohamed and Assoc. Prof. Zaidah Ibrahim. The aim of establishing this centre is to pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44432862 | 1,903,571 |
126,774 | Hadfield has cited part of his career inspiration to have come to him as a child, when he watched the first crewed Moon landing by American spaceflight Apollo 11 on television. He attended high school in Oakville and Milton in southern Ontario, and earned his glider pilot licence as a member of the Royal Canadian Air C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=78114 | 126,722 |
1,082,303 | In 2008 the "Journal of Medical Internet Research" began publishing views and tweets. These "tweetations" proved to be a good indicator of highly cited articles, leading the author to propose a "Twimpact factor", which is the number of Tweets it receives in the first seven days of publication, as well as a Twindex, whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36281866 | 1,081,747 |
209,372 | ALD can present in different ways. The different presentations are complicated by the pattern of X-linked recessive inheritance. There have been seven phenotypes described in males with "ABCD1" mutations and five in females. Initial symptoms in boys affected with the childhood cerebral form of ALD include emotional ins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52952 | 209,265 |
980,623 | Reflection of radio signals was critical to the proposed technique, and the Air Ministry asked if this could be proven. To test this, Wilkins set up receiving equipment in a field near Upper Stowe, Northamptonshire. On February 26, 1935, a Handley Page Heyford bomber flew along a path between the receiving station and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1280053 | 980,111 |
707,840 | However, Rome's social classes were qualified rather than created by the census. It is perhaps more accurate to say therefore that the army's structure was slightly refined during this period rather than radically reformed. Prior to these reforms, the infantry was divided into the "classis" of rich citizens and the "in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7948631 | 707,471 |
928,174 | After bouncing, "Philae" settled in the shadow of a cliff, canted at an angle of around 30 degrees. This made it unable to adequately collect solar power, and it lost contact with "Rosetta" when its batteries ran out after three days, well before much of the planned science objectives could be attempted. Contact was br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=179100 | 927,686 |
260,317 | Some children in the contaminated areas were exposed to high thyroid doses of up to 50 gray (Gy), mostly due to an intake of radioactive iodine-131 (a relatively short-lived isotope with a half-life of 8 days) from contaminated milk produced locally. Several studies have found that the incidence of thyroid cancer among... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4155456 | 260,183 |
1,359,854 | Metropolis-coupled MCMC algorithm (MC³) has been proposed to solve a practical concern of the Markov chain moving across peaks when the target distribution has multiple local peaks, separated by low valleys, are known to exist in the tree space. This is the case during heuristic tree search under maximum parsimony (MP)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7022979 | 1,359,102 |
992,410 | The PL/I checkout compiler, (colloquially "The Checker") announced in August 1970 was designed to speed and improve the debugging of PL/I programs. The team was led by Brian Marks. The three-pass design cut the time to compile a program to 25% of that taken by the F Compiler. It can be run from an interactive terminal,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23708 | 991,893 |
10,026 | One of Groves' early problems was to find a director for Project Y, the group that would design and build the bomb. The obvious choice was one of the three laboratory heads, Urey, Lawrence, or Compton, but they could not be spared. Compton recommended Oppenheimer, who was already intimately familiar with the bomb desig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19603 | 10,022 |
1,980,597 | After being awarded his first degree, Field moved back to Chicago in 1926 to begin working for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago as assistant curator of physical anthropology. Field's first participation in an expedition was in the University of Oxford/Field Museum excavation of Kish. His work included 500... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2544305 | 1,979,459 |
494,867 | At St. John, writer Norman Maurer and artist Kubert created the enduring character Tor, a prehistoric-human protagonist who debuted in the comic "1,000,000 Years Ago" (Sept. 1953). Tor immediately went on to star in "3-D Comics" #2-3 (Oct.-Nov. 1953), followed by a titular, traditionally 2-D comic-book series, written ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=855226 | 494,611 |
1,761,828 | Trove manages I/O to the objects stored on the local server. Trove operates on collections of data spaces. A collection has its own independent handle space and is used to implement distinct PVFS file systems, A data space is a PVFS object and has its own unique (within the collection) handle and is stored on one serve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5574878 | 1,760,835 |
1,391,291 | The 6 February 2004 edition of "Science" magazine reported that two research teams, one led by Sir John Skehel, director of the National Institute for Medical Research in London, another by professor Ian Wilson of The Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, had managed to synthesize the hemagglutinin protein responsib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5274548 | 1,390,520 |
1,221,300 | Despite the many successes the "rocketry fad" could not be sustained during the early years of the Great Depression. The German public lost interest amidst economic turmoil. Meanwhile, some rocket researchers formed closer ties with the military, which greatly expanded under the leadership of Wernher von Braun. With th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=421035 | 1,220,642 |
1,035,968 | "Scipionyx" is considered one of the most important fossil vertebrates ever discovered, after a long and painstaking "autopsy" revealed the unique fossilisation of portions of its internal organs. It is believed "Scipionyx" lived in a region filled with shallow lagoons. These bodies of water were oxygen deficient, lead... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3558454 | 1,035,428 |
726,188 | Leonardo has indicated the rotorcraft will be more stealthy than its predecessor, possessing both a reduced radar cross-section and a suppressed infrared signature. Furthermore, the AW249 is to possess lower operating costs than the A129, which is said to be achievable through the application of newer technology and de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55802012 | 725,807 |
1,778,175 | X-trans.eu was a cross-border pilot project between the Free State of Bavaria and Upper Austria with the aim of developing a faster procedure for the application and approval of cross-border large-capacity transports. Due to the different application forms and procedures for obtaining heavy goods transport permits in d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56837703 | 1,777,173 |
618,350 | HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors have been examined as treatment for SLOS. Given that this catalyzes the rate-limiting step in cholesterol synthesis, inhibiting it would reduce the buildup of toxic metabolites such as 7DHC. Simvastatin is a known inhibitor of HMG-CoA reductase, and most importantly is able to cross the blo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1907985 | 618,036 |
1,818,772 | The quantity determining the size of the effect is the change in relative phase, formula_21, where formula_22 is the difference in phase speeds, formula_23 is the propagation time, and formula_24 is the wavelength. For formula_25, the highest sensitivities are achieved by considering high-energy photons from distant so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39641446 | 1,817,737 |
1,589,613 | Other researchers, such as Tom Ormerod of the Investigative Expertise Unit at the UK's Lancaster University, argue that ordinary travel anxieties could cause false positives—Ormerod told "Nature" "even having an iris scan or fingerprint read at immigration is enough to raise the heart rate of most legitimate travellers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20284757 | 1,588,719 |
909,564 | Several design innovations and new technologies were used for the 1960 Games. The speed skating, figure skating and ice hockey events were held on artificial ice for the first time in Olympic history. A refrigeration plant capable of heating 4,800 homes had to be built to generate and maintain the ice. The heat generat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=163231 | 909,085 |
1,729,302 | Apart from spoiling foods, as a direct consequent of growth, "Z. bailii" can modify the product texture and composition such that it may be more readily colonized by other spoilage microorganisms. For example, by utilizing acetic acid, the yeast can raise the pH of pickles sufficiently to allow the growth of less acid-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4374802 | 1,728,328 |
872,063 | The launch of "Dawn" was rescheduled for September 26, 2007, then September 27, due to bad weather delaying fueling of the second stage, the same problem that delayed the July 7 launch attempt. The launch window extended from 07:20–07:49 EDT (11:20–11:49 GMT). During the final built-in hold at T−4 minutes, a ship enter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=532434 | 871,603 |
2,158,400 | During the study, 9361 patients were randomly assigned to either a 140 mm Hg target (referred to in the study as standard treatment) or a 120 mm Hg target (intensive treatment). Patients were prescribed blood pressure reducing medications to reach their assigned goal. Unlike normal hypertension treatment, once the goal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49371740 | 2,157,168 |
414,450 | Prior to the use of monoclonal antibodies(e.g., Soliris, Ultomiris) patients with aHUS had an extremely poor prognosis. Among those with the most commonly identified aHUS genetic mutation, the proportion of patients experiencing negative outcomes (e.g., need for dialysis, permanent kidney damage, death) within the firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38187439 | 414,247 |
381,325 | Pretreatment includes any method of treating the product prior to freezing. This may include concentrating the product, formulation revision (i.e., addition of components to increase stability, preserve appearance, and/or improve processing), decreasing a high-vapor-pressure solvent, or increasing the surface area. Foo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1002536 | 381,130 |
66,050 | Research on the effective usage of information and communication technologies for development (also known as "ICT4D") suggests that big data technology can make important contributions but also present unique challenges to international development. Advancements in big data analysis offer cost-effective opportunities t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27051151 | 66,025 |
605,008 | A feature of the game is that all taxa of multicellular animals are on an equal footing, and thus it is possible to evolve, for example, sapient molluscs. The two single-celled lifeform taxa, Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes (or Bacteria and Amoebas, in-game respectively) are treated specially. Some examples of animal taxa i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174974 | 604,698 |
1,035,973 | John Ruben's conclusions have, however, been questioned by some scientists, such as Lawrence Witmer, who claimed the study to be flawed. The 2011 study concluded that due to the fact that the liver had been preserved as a vague halo, representing body fluids that after death might have covered a larger surface than the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3558454 | 1,035,433 |
1,888,357 | Sanderson opened the scoring on his return, however, in spite of the boost his reappearance provided, the Hawks did not play well against the Tigers. North Dakota had almost three times as many wins as CC during the season but they got a huge fight from their opponents. UND only managed to score twice in each of the tw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68564278 | 1,887,274 |
440,976 | A third method is Doriano Brogioli's capacitive method, which is relatively new and has so far only been tested on lab scale. With this method energy can be extracted out of the mixing of saline water and freshwater by cyclically charging up electrodes in contact with saline water, followed by a discharge in freshwater... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4711003 | 440,761 |
108,472 | The game was announced in 2009 under its original title and released in Japan the following year. Despite releasing in Europe and in Oceania, its North American release remained unconfirmed until December 2011, during which time a fan campaign called Operation Rainfall drew considerable attention to the game. Upon rele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25992553 | 108,427 |
2,012,924 | For most of the evolutionary history, human societies have been organised in hunting-gathering tribes each with its own exclusive territory. This territoriality persisted in one form or the other with all Indian casts until recent times (Gadgil 1987). Continually searching for the food man acquires the knowledge of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11974085 | 2,011,767 |
940,232 | After the Germans suppressed the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, they sent Rejewski's wife and children west, along with other Warsaw survivors; the family eventually found refuge with her parents in Bydgoszcz. Rejewski was discharged from the Polish Army in Britain on 15 November 1946. Six days later, he returned to Poland to b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4349420 | 939,731 |
93,501 | Although there have been no new AV-8B variants, in 1990 McDonnell Douglas and British Aerospace began discussions on an interim aircraft between the AV-8B and the next generation of advanced V/STOL aircraft. The Harrier III would have presented an "evolutionary approach to get the most from the existing aircraft", as m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18940560 | 93,460 |
78,712 | MSIP III produced the Block 40/42/50/52. Initiated in June 1985, the first MSIP III Block 40 was delivered in December 1988, and the first Block 50 followed in October 1991. Introduced in the MSIP III Block 40/42 were LANTIRN navigation and targeting pods, along with the related diffractive optics HUD; the increased-re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18895385 | 78,679 |
1,274,101 | Edith, Pat and Robin returned to Australia on 23 November 1923, but Penleigh and Edith had a heated argument soon after the homecoming. A few days later, for reasons unknown, Penleigh left Melbourne to drive to Sydney in the company of another person, but he lost control of the vehicle on a sharp bend near Warragul and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3711086 | 1,273,409 |
741,621 | During World War I, it was quickly recognized that the Berthier's three-shot magazine was simply too small in comparison to foreign weapons, requiring too-frequent reloading. Additionally, it was found that trench mud and grit could enter the weapon through the opening in the bottom of the magazine. To correct these is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12812847 | 741,229 |
36,807 | This discontent with points-based and advantage-style competition has been echoed throughout the jiu-jitsu community, leading to many prominent submission-only style events. At these events, the winner of a match is determined only by submission, and these tournaments at times have no time limit, or are timed with a re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=207083 | 36,795 |
671,944 | A schematic diagram of instrumentation which can be used for electron ionization is shown to the right. The ion source block is made out of metal. As the electron source, the cathode, which can be a thin filament of tungsten or rhenium wire, is inserted through a slit to the source block. Then it is heated up to an inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=340284 | 671,592 |
1,731,267 | Angerer and Novak's conclusion is that “"working environments with low oxygen concentrations to a minimum of 13% and normal barometric pressure do not impose a health hazard, provided that precautions are observed, comprising medical examinations and limitation of exposure time".” Küpper et al. say that oxygen concentr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22239522 | 1,730,291 |
1,903,431 | "Bachaquero" was one of three shallow-draught oil tankers built by the Furness Shipbuilding Company of Haverton Hill-on-Tees in 1937 to operate in Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. She was requisitioned by the Royal Navy in December 1940, along with her sister ships "Misoa" and "Tasajera", for conversion to a tank landing s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67996704 | 1,902,337 |
1,580,565 | Well-known examples are the intramolecular isomerization of trigonal bipyramidal compounds by the Berry pseudorotation mechanism, and the out-of-plane motions of carbon atoms exhibited by cyclopentane, leading to the interconversions it experiences between its many possible conformers (envelope, twist). Note, no angula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5126231 | 1,579,675 |
2,171,186 | He was born on 24 July 1900 at Nether Fordun farm near Auchterarder the son of William Robertson, farmer, and his wife, Jeannie Monteath. He was educated at Auchterarder Primary School then Perth Academy. He then studied chemistry at Glasgow University graduating BSc in 1923, MA in 1925. He then continued as a postgrad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57003736 | 2,169,948 |
938,926 | Inventors in Europe included John Stenhouse, a Scottish chemist, who investigated the power of charcoal in its various forms, to capture and hold large volumes of gas. He built one of the first respirators able to remove toxic gases from the air, paving the way for activated charcoal to become the most widely used filt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1156703 | 938,425 |
1,513,212 | Two of the reasons to cultivate patient participation in clinical research have been the growth of patient organizations along with the development of databases and the concept of a patient or disease registry. Computer databases allow for the mass collection and dissemination of data. Registries, specifically, not onl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23453324 | 1,512,361 |
163,964 | The nucleus accumbens is causally related to the experience of pleasure. Microinjections of μ-opioid agonists, δ-opioid agonists or κ-opioid agonists in the rostrodorsal quadrant of the medial shell enhance "liking", while more caudal injections can inhibit disgust reactions, liking reactions, or both. The regions of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=553317 | 163,879 |
287,653 | Sometimes, a precision-oriented firearm's performance will be measured in MOA. This simply means that under ideal conditions (i.e. no wind, high-grade ammo, clean barrel, and a stable mounting platform such as a vise or a benchrest used to eliminate shooter error), the gun is capable of producing a group of shots whose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2431 | 287,497 |
1,362,603 | Mutations in ERβ have been shown to influence cardiomyocytes, the cells that comprise the largest part of the heart, and can lead to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). There is a disparity in prevalence of CVD between pre- and post-menopausal women, and the difference can be attributed to estrogen level... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13640902 | 1,361,850 |
698,404 | The weapon is based on a long recoil mechanism. This mechanism, usually found in shotguns, helps manage the heavy recoil forces of the 15.2 mm Steyr APFSDS round due to its damping effect that allows for force distribution over a longer period of time. Another unusual feature of this weapon is the movement of the barre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=682028 | 698,040 |
2,093,342 | Barber was born on 3 April 1911 in Derby. Her mother was Ethel Howlett and her father, a physician, was Hugh Barber; the couple had two daughters before Mary. She was the only daughter to go into medicine; she was a fifth-generation physician. Barber received her early education at the Alice Ottley School in Worcester.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37627534 | 2,092,137 |
312,920 | In October 2021, a Far-Left history group reviewing colonial links told Imperial College London that, because Huxley "might now be called racist", it should remove a bust of him and rename its Huxley Building. The group of 21 academics had been launched in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 to address Impe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30038 | 312,752 |
469,439 | "Process Optimization". Once a new chemical process has been introduced successfully on an industrial scale, process optimization is called upon to improve the economics. As a rule of thumb it should be attempted to reduce the costs of goods sold (COGS) by 10-20%, every time the yearly production quantity has doubled. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3694845 | 469,203 |
577,841 | The MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor) was invented by Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng at Bell Labs in 1959, and presented in 1960. They extended their work on MOS technology to do pioneering work on hot carrier devices, which used what would later be called a Schottky barrier. The Schottky diode... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14355756 | 577,545 |
305,260 | In New Zealand, socialism emerged within the budding trade union movement during the late 19th century and early 20th century. In July 1916, several left-wing political organisations and trade unions merged to form the New Zealand Labour Party. While Labour traditionally had a socialist orientation, the party shifted t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 305,097 |
1,291,772 | Kiel University, officially the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, (, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the "Academia Holsatorum Chiloniensis" by Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and has approximately 27,000 s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=552556 | 1,291,062 |
2,248,485 | After a poor season the year before, Lake Superior saw a great deal of roster turnover. At the start of the season the altered lineup seemed to be performing well; the team lost just once in their first ten games, though the strength of their opposition (or lack thereof) did contribute to their record. Their schedule w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67354842 | 2,247,213 |
771,273 | AST-OPC1 is a population of cells derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) that contains oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs). OPCs and their mature derivatives called oligodendrocytes provide critical functional support for nerve cells in the spinal cord and brain. Asterias recently presented the results fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1029022 | 770,859 |
1,318,897 | Weick believes that people will increasingly encounter with problems to make sense information with new technology. Cognitive Model posits states that new computer technologies have a huge impact on sensemaking in organizations in five aspects. First, actions deficiencies always happen because real objects can not be f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33079593 | 1,318,172 |
1,595,348 | Howley et al. (1995) in their important critique of American schools and gifted education, echo J.S. Mill (1859/1978) in their claim that "schooling aims, as it has for a very long time, to inculcate just those habits, attitudes, and skills that legitimate it in the eyes of powerful economic interests" (p. 6). Spring (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22632519 | 1,594,450 |
1,801,086 | In 2019, the RoboMaster competition sports a total prize pool of 3,750,000 RMB (US$600,000), with 500,000 RMB (US$75,000) for the winning team. In addition to the prize money, winners can achieve celebrity status among the 6 million fans who watch livestream online, as well as a shot at landing a job at DJI. Over the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62042120 | 1,800,077 |
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