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1,934,617 | Larger wind turbine units achieve economies of scale. NASA research and prototypes demonstrated that there were considerable scaling challenges in structural strength, fatigue, speed control, and aerodynamics. In the 1980s most wind turbines were small units up to 25 kW rating. Studies carried out by NASA's contractors... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30251550 | 1,933,509 |
315,373 | Within the European Union GMP inspections are performed by National Regulatory Agencies. GMP inspections are performed in Canada by the Health Products and Food Branch Inspectorate; in the United Kingdom by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA); in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) by the Min... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=614085 | 315,204 |
1,796,641 | The majority of Michigan State's academic and residential buildings are north of the Canadian National Railway. South of the CN line are service buildings such as the T. B. Simon Power Plant, laundry services, and the campus incinerator. Nevertheless, there are a growing number of academic buildings south of the railro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3576799 | 1,795,632 |
19,159 | The loss in Serbia caused the USAF to create a subsection of their existing weapons school to improve tactics. More training was done with other units, and the F-117A began to participate in Red Flag exercises. Though advanced for its time, the F-117's stealthy faceted airframe required a large amount of maintenance an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11720 | 19,151 |
1,122,688 | The Borland management team, with its 85% market share of the desktop database market, severely underestimated the threat of Microsoft and Microsoft Access. Still, Paradox/W sold well for a while. Meanwhile, Borland was going through some serious problems caused by the Ashton-Tate acquisition. Many product lines were d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1013505 | 1,122,114 |
824,346 | The Cleveland Indians selected Aiken with the 17th overall selection of the 2015 draft. Aiken signed with the Indians agreeing to a signing bonus of $2,513,280. Aiken made his professional debut with the Arizona League Indians in June 2016, and he was later promoted to the Mahoning Valley Scrappers. Aiken ended 2016 wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42303070 | 823,903 |
2,025,493 | Dr. Roberts completed his undergraduate at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He attended Medical school at Dalhousie University and training in cardiology at University of Toronto in Canada. With a scholarship from the Canadian Heart Foundation he relocated to the U.S. to complete a research fellowship at the Univer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56386150 | 2,024,327 |
1,393,381 | In the best-studied green alga, "Chlamydomonas reinhardtii", phototaxis is mediated by a rhodopsin pigment, as first demonstrated by the restoration of normal photobehaviour in a blind mutant by analogues of the retinal chromophore. Two archaebacterial-type rhodopsins, channelrhodopsin-1 and -2, were identified as phot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67845153 | 1,392,610 |
1,739,337 | In the initial works, the compartmentalization was stated as an evolutionary consequence of the hypercyclic organization. Carsten Bresch and coworkers raised an objection that hypercyclic organization is not necessary if compartments are taken into account. They proposed the so-called package model in which one type of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29491519 | 1,738,360 |
535,121 | British encroachment into areas of South Africa already settled by the Afrikaner Boers and the competition for resources and land that developed between them as a result, led to the Second Boer War in 1899. Pre-empting the deployment of British forces, the Afrikaner Republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,842 |
1,139,748 | The EDP (see Epoxydocosapentaenoic acid) and EEQ (see epoxyeicosatetraenoic acid) metabolites have a broad range of activities. In various animal models and in vitro studies on animal and human tissues, they decrease hypertension and pain perception; suppress inflammation; inhibit angiogenesis, endothelial cell migrati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5119921 | 1,139,155 |
645,635 | To minimize the possible drawbacks of the Trombe wall system, there are additional thermal control strategies to employ to the wall design. For instance, the minimum 4-inch distance between the glass and the mass allows cleaning the glazing and the insertion of a roll-down radiant barrier as needed. Adding a radiant ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61867 | 645,295 |
1,831,471 | In 1993, Chen became a professor of Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). During this period, Chen discovered the existence of energetic-particle modes within the shear Alfvén wave continuous spectrum and introduced a unified theoretical framework to understand the distinctive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22871362 | 1,830,424 |
41,491 | A 2015 review of clinical studies of possible nootropic effects in healthy people found: "... whilst most studies employing basic testing paradigms show that modafinil intake enhances executive function, only half show improvements in attention and learning and memory, and a few even report impairments in divergent cre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20690 | 41,476 |
740,084 | Edmond Halley was the first to suggest, in 1695, that the mean motion of the Moon was apparently getting faster, by comparison with ancient eclipse observations, but he gave no data. (It was not yet known in Halley's time that what is actually occurring includes a slowing-down of Earth's rate of rotation: see also Ephe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30647 | 739,692 |
251,243 | The next major technical development was the invention of the gramophone record, generally credited to Emile Berliner and patented in 1887, though others had demonstrated similar disk apparatus earlier, most notably Alexander Graham Bell in 1881. Discs were easier to manufacture, transport and store, and they had the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2417230 | 251,110 |
433,357 | Kurzweil says Alan Turing's 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" launched the field of artificial intelligence. He admits that early progress in the field led to wild predictions of future successes which did not materialize. Kurzweil feels intelligence is the "ability to use optimally limited resources" t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=87966 | 433,143 |
827,502 | The concept of emergence—that the properties and functions found at a hierarchical level are not present and are irrelevant at the lower levels–is often a basic principle behind self-organizing systems. An example of self-organization in biology leading to emergence in the natural world occurs in ant colonies. The quee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=207874 | 827,058 |
998,217 | Social psychologists use both empirical research and experimental methods to study the effects of social interactions on individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Social psychologists use experimental methods, both within and outside the laboratory, and there have been several key experiments done in the past few... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=364299 | 997,699 |
318,416 | The current may, if it is high enough and is delivered at sufficient voltage, cause tissue damage or fibrillation which can cause cardiac arrest; of AC (rms, 60 Hz) or of DC at high voltage can cause fibrillation. A sustained electric shock from AC at 120 V, 60 Hz is an especially dangerous source of ventricular fibril... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211889 | 318,245 |
133,229 | In Babylonian astronomy, records of the motions of the stars, planets, and the moon are left on thousands of clay tablets created by scribes. Even today, astronomical periods identified by Mesopotamian proto-scientists are still widely used in Western calendars such as the solar year and the lunar month. Using these da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400 | 133,176 |
2,086,609 | The thallus of "Punctelia perreticulata" measures in diameter. It has either a close or loose attachment to its substrate (either bark, wood, or rock). The upper surface of the thallus is grey to greenish grey, and is often marked with shallow depressions and pits ("scrobicules")–but not always. The lobes comprising th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67471948 | 2,085,407 |
1,445,033 | Some literature reports have identified CZTS in the related stannite structure, but conditions under which a stannite structure may occur are not yet clear. First-principle calculations show that the crystal energy is only 2.86 meV/atom higher for the stannite than kesterite structure suggesting that both forms can coe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33384730 | 1,444,217 |
1,606,077 | Textiles are woven fabrics or cloth that represent culture, material legacy of international trade, social history, agricultural development, artistic trends, and technological progress. There are four main material sources: animal, plant, mineral, and synthetic. Deterioration of textiles can be caused by exposure to u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9962115 | 1,605,173 |
1,927,920 | Dawkins then shows the audience a number of designed and designoid objects, including the pitcher plant, megalithic mounds built by the compass termite, and pots made by trapdoor spiders, potter wasps, and mason bees. He examines some designoid objects that use camouflage, such as a grasshopper that looks like a stone,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11080148 | 1,926,816 |
831,812 | The history of computing hardware starting at 1960 is marked by the conversion from vacuum tube to solid-state devices such as transistors and then integrated circuit (IC) chips. Around 1953 to 1959, discrete transistors started being considered sufficiently reliable and economical that they made further vacuum tube co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=264051 | 831,363 |
201,418 | Live cells in particular generally lack sufficient contrast to be studied successfully, since the internal structures of the cell are colorless and transparent. The most common way to increase contrast is to stain the structures with selective dyes, but this often involves killing and fixing the sample. Staining may al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19567 | 201,315 |
1,396,061 | Baxter has an animated screen for a "face" that allows it to display multiple facial expressions determined by its current status. There are sets of sensors on its head that allow it to sense people nearby and give Baxter the ability to adapt to its environment, unlike other industrial robots which will either shut dow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37427379 | 1,395,290 |
1,157,894 | Three fundamental findings shaped HiTOP. First, psychopathology is best characterized by dimensions rather than in discrete categories. Dimensions are defined as continua that reflect individual differences in a maladaptive characteristic across the entire population (e.g., social anxiety is a dimension that ranges fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68802534 | 1,157,281 |
1,798,740 | Within the hospital were operating rooms, kitchens, baths, a dispensary, latrines, a mortuary and herb gardens, as doctors relied heavily on herbs for drugs. The "medici" could treat any wound received in battle, as long as the patient was alive. They operated or otherwise treated with scalpels, hooks, levers, drills, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5989657 | 1,797,731 |
1,010,753 | During the 1950s, a number of countries began to operate compact jet-powered trainer aircraft that possessed similar performance to frontline operational aircraft, often having been produced as two-seat adaptions of these aircraft. Recognising the potential to better fulfil this role, several different companies indepe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=184400 | 1,010,232 |
1,004,215 | OsO is a widely used staining agent used in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to provide contrast to the image. This staining method is known in the literature as the OTO (Osmium Tetraoxide) method, or osmium impregnation technique or simply as osmium staining. As a lipid stain, it is also useful in scanning elect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66306 | 1,003,697 |
2,129,042 | The Protein Structure Initiative (PSI) was a USA based project that aimed at accelerating discovery in structural genomics and contribute to understanding biological function. Funded by the U.S. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) between 2000 and 2015, its aim was to reduce the cost and time require... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15330149 | 2,127,819 |
1,405,453 | In contrast to monolayer cultures, however, the spheroid structures that are formed when ESCs aggregate enables the non-adherent culture of EBs in suspension, making EB cultures inherently scalable, which is useful for bioprocessing approaches, whereby large yields of cells can be produced for potential clinical applic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1195514 | 1,404,663 |
1,351,584 | The 2000 study by Michael A. Nitsche and Walter Paulus at the University of Goettingen is considered to be the one of the first device-oriented attempts at influencing the brain non-invasively. The study found that the motor cortex of the brain responds to weak electrical stimuli in the form of transcranial direct curr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2709917 | 1,350,838 |
137,660 | , there were more than 3,800 tenured or tenure-eligible faculty members, as well as 4,400 non-tenured adjunct professors and instructors. Current faculty include Nobel laureates David J. Wineland (physics 2012), John Hall (physics, 2005), Eric Cornell (physics, 2001), and Thomas Robert Cech (chemistry, 1989). Carl Wiem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=289672 | 137,604 |
1,501,706 | Eyeblink conditioning (EBC) is a form of classical conditioning that has been used extensively to study neural structures and mechanisms that underlie learning and memory. The procedure is relatively simple and usually consists of pairing an auditory or visual stimulus (the conditioned stimulus (CS)) with an eyeblink-e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=487945 | 1,500,860 |
610,263 | A motor "synergy" is a neural organization of a multi-element system that (1) organizes sharing of a task among a set of elemental variables; and (2) ensures co-variation among elemental variables with the purpose to stabilize performance variables. The components of a synergy need not be physically connected, but inst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2843988 | 609,952 |
1,392,756 | The Engineering Quad was designed in the 1940s and 1950s on a site previously occupied by the Old Armory and faculty housing, using a master plan developed by the Perkins and Will firm. It has undergone major changes in recent years, particularly with the completion of Duffield Hall. In 2004, relandscaping with a desig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1552559 | 1,391,985 |
1,778,340 | Anthropologist Anna Hayden writes, "However, somewhere in the Middle Woodland (ca. 400 BCE–900 CE), these large-scale trading systems seem to collapse, ending the cultural continuity that had existed for some time (Custer 1994)." Algonquian speakers from the Great Lakes region likely began migrating into the Middle Atl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17254851 | 1,777,338 |
1,832,026 | Work on the Cambridge History of Korea was originally started in the 1990s by editorship of James B. Palais (University of Washington), but due to a lack of scholars specialized in the field in English, progress was slow, eventually stopping with his death in 2006 until work on the series was renewed under Donald L. Ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62425919 | 1,830,979 |
2,247,478 | Fractionation and immunohistochemical imaging studies revealed that glycoRNAs are primarily associated with the cell surface, as evidenced by their loss from the cell surface after treatment with a sialic acid-cleaving enzyme. This suggests that they may be involved in extracellular molecular interactions. Cell surface... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71908749 | 2,246,206 |
1,386,360 | The plans proved to be highly controversial, with Cardiff Metropolitan opposing any merger, citing the lack of a business case, concerns that the new institution (which would be the largest campus university in Britain) would simply be too big to manage properly, and the 'predatory' attitude of Glamorgan. Newport, howe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1277625 | 1,385,593 |
559,720 | One of the most important developments that the Enlightenment era brought to the discipline of science was its popularization. An increasingly literate population seeking knowledge and education in both the arts and the sciences drove the expansion of print culture and the dissemination of scientific learning. The new ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17912788 | 559,431 |
22,585 | The Chinook was originally designed by Vertol, which had begun work in 1957 on a new tandem-rotor helicopter, designated as the Vertol Model 107 or V-107. Around the same time, the United States Department of the Army announced its intention to replace the piston engine–powered Sikorsky CH-37 Mojave with a new, gas tur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38005 | 22,576 |
1,866,425 | FooDB (The Food Database) is a freely available, open-access database containing chemical (micronutrient and macronutrient) composition data on common, unprocessed foods. It also contains extensive data on flavour and aroma constituents, food additives as well as positive and negative health effects associated with foo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42620834 | 1,865,351 |
2,139,737 | The Biological Research Centre (BRC) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences () is located in Szeged, Hungary. The research center was founded in 1971, created by Brunó F. Straub, who was director until 1977. As of 2018, the director is Ferenc Nagy. The four institutes of the BRC employ about 260 scientists, whose work is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30227128 | 2,138,507 |
1,533,280 | Activation of BA 40, the superior parietal lobe, the lateral left MRG, the striatum, and left thalamus was unique to truth while activation of the precuneus, posterior cingulate gyrus, prefrontal cortex, and cerebellum will be used to show a similar network for truth and lie. The most brain activity occurs in both side... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68534966 | 1,532,412 |
731,808 | During World War II, German aircraft commonly fitted a more advanced version of the slat that reduced drag by being pushed back flush against the leading edge of the wing by air pressure, popping out when the angle of attack increased to a critical angle. Notable slats of that time belonged to the German Fieseler Fi 15... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18733230 | 731,421 |
934,092 | Stemmatics or stemmatology is a rigorous approach to textual criticism. Karl Lachmann (1793–1851) greatly contributed to making this method famous, even though he did not invent it. The method takes its name from the word "stemma". The Ancient Greek word and its loanword in classical Latin may refer to "family trees". ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155023 | 933,600 |
1,481,704 | According to Galen, digestion begins in the mouth because this where food comes into contact with the saliva. The chewed food is then pulled into the stomach where the heat of the stomach cooks the food into chyle. The chyle is then carried to the liver where the nutrients are converted to blood and transported through... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48369072 | 1,480,870 |
951,371 | While being a fully aerobatic aircraft, it possesses favourable handling qualities, including relatively tame stall characteristics. Controllability during stalls is augmented by vanes located on the wing tip tanks which accelerate airflow over the tips and ailerons. The SF.260 is a relatively fast aircraft, complete w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=931256 | 950,867 |
169,655 | In 2012, the Dutch ministry of defense announced that the Goalkeeper systems in use by the Netherlands Navy will receive radar upgrades, mechanical improvements, new high-precision frangible ammunition and a new electro-optical tracking system. Also, the system's surface model will be improved to counter high-speed boa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=284300 | 169,565 |
2,008,275 | Inglis published the book "A Mathematical Treatise on Vibrations in Railway Bridges" in 1934, which was described by a reviewer as "a valuable asset for both the mathematician and engineer", and also submitted several papers on the matter to the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). Inglis delivered the Trevithick Memo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16975609 | 2,007,123 |
1,128,206 | Molecular modelling has become a convenient choice in MIP design and analysis, allowing rapid selection of monomers and optimization of polymer composition, with a range of different techniques being applied. The application of molecular modelling in this capacity is commonly attributed to Sergey A. Piletsky and his vi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6497232 | 1,127,628 |
277,192 | In 1977, the F-16XL started out as the F-16 SCAMP (Supersonic Cruise And Maneuver Prototype) at General Dynamics Fort Worth. Under the leadership of Harry Hillaker (father of the original F-16), the original goal of the program was to be a quick project to demonstrate the applicability of supersonic transport technolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1883426 | 277,042 |
262,673 | The possibility of designing aircraft in such a manner as to reduce their radar cross-section was recognized in the late 1930s, when the first radar tracking systems were employed, and it has been known since at least the 1960s that aircraft shape makes a significant difference in detectability. The Avro Vulcan, a Brit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=262577 | 262,534 |
4,801 | The idea of a body so big that even light could not escape was briefly proposed by English astronomical pioneer and clergyman John Michell in a letter published in November 1784. Michell's simplistic calculations assumed such a body might have the same density as the Sun, and concluded that one would form when a star's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4650 | 4,799 |
131,178 | Submarine communication cables have had a wide variety of influences over society. As well as allowing effective intercontinental trading and supporting stock exchanges, they greatly influenced international diplomatic conduct. Before the existence of submarine communication connection, diplomats had much more power in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45206 | 131,126 |
44,580 | Enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) are a new type of geothermal power technology that does not require natural convective hydrothermal resources. The vast majority of geothermal energy within drilling reach is in dry and non-porous rock. EGS technologies "enhance" and/or create geothermal resources in this "hot dry rock... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25784 | 44,563 |
1,648,224 | In late June 1980, Vince Lester set up a cross-party public appeal with Dr Lockwood (Liberal Party, Toowoomba North) and Mr Wright (Australian Labor Party, Rockhampton) to raise money to stop the Pritchard auction. Mr Lester, who had visited Mr. Pritchard's Bayswater factory in April said, "I believe that if Pritchard ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54112011 | 1,647,292 |
915,906 | Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology dealt with the instability of BaCeO differently. They replaced a desired fraction of Ce in BaCeO with Zr to form a solid solution that exhibits proton conductivity, but also chemical and thermal stability over the range of conditions relevant to fuel cell operation. A ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1049636 | 915,425 |
1,279,373 | Dabie bandavirus, also called SFTS virus, is a tick-borne virus in the genus "Bandavirus" in the family "Phenuiviridae", order "Bunyavirales". The clinical condition it caused is known as severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS). SFTS is an emerging infectious disease that was first described in northeast and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31299041 | 1,278,678 |
648,861 | Artificial intelligence (AI) computer programs of the 1960s and 1970s intrinsically required what was then considered a huge amount of computer power, as measured in processor time and memory space. The power requirements of AI research were exacerbated by the Lisp symbolic programming language, when commercial hardwar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18123 | 648,520 |
2,126,001 | A vector magnetograph works in a very narrow waveband around a single spectral line, for example the 525.02 nm 'Fe I' line from neutral (non-ionized) iron. The measured shifts in wavelength are fractions of a picometre. Measuring the full spectral profile of the line with this precision requires a high-dispersion spect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7123853 | 2,124,780 |
21,234 | In late 2003, the concept for compute, which would later launch as EC2, was reformulated when Chris Pinkham and Benjamin Black presented a paper internally describing a vision for Amazon's retail computing infrastructure that was completely standardized, completely automated, and would rely extensively on web services ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1691376 | 21,225 |
1,192,638 | The Medical Service Corps (MSC) consists entirely of commissioned officers. Members are required to hold a bachelor's or master's degree in Healthcare, Management, Economics, Finance, Operations Research, Business Administration or similar degree before receiving a commission, and must complete a four-week orientation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4572344 | 1,192,002 |
2,012,700 | Georgetown rounded out its non-conference schedule by sweeping the homestand that followed, beating all four opponents by double-digit margins ranging from 11 to 40 points and giving the Hoyas an eight-game winning streak. During the homestand, which ended with a rare, regular-season, non-conference rematch with by-the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33673923 | 2,011,546 |
1,907,855 | The Advanced Computing and Informatics Laboratories is dedicated to "Policy Informatics", including the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory. It pursues research and development in interaction-based modeling, simulation, and associated analysis, experimental design, and decision support tools for understa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1493799 | 1,906,759 |
2,142,528 | Plans were made to close the facility by the mid-2000s due to rising fuel and maintenance costs. Unit 1 was decommissioned in March 2002, and plans were considered to either close Unit 2, or to convert it from oil to coal. However, with the indefinite shutdown of the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant in May 2011 due to the 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34102325 | 2,141,297 |
2,010,587 | Brown worked with and studied under one of the foremost medical practitioners and theoreticians of the time, William Cullen. Cullen and Brown, however, had a falling out. Brown was likely influenced by Cullen's ideas on the capacity for nerves and muscles to be excited or stimulated (similar to the work of Haller in Ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2283118 | 2,009,434 |
195,072 | In the mathematics of Riemannian geometry, it is conventional to define the Clifford algebra Cl(formula_2) for arbitrary dimensions . The Weyl spinors transform under the action of the spin group formula_127. The complexification of the spin group, called the spinc group formula_128, is a product formula_129 of the spi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2907966 | 194,972 |
390,928 | Despite the name, aerogels are solid, rigid, and dry materials that do not resemble a gel in their physical properties: the name comes from the fact that they are made "from" gels. Pressing softly on an aerogel typically does not leave even a minor mark; pressing more firmly will leave a permanent depression. Pressing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50069638 | 390,733 |
959,056 | Moreno et al.'s recommended considerations for social media research are: 1) determine if the study qualifies as human subject research, 2) consider the risk level of the content, 3) present research and motives accurately when engaging on social media, 4) provide contact information throughout the consent process, 5) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=447842 | 958,550 |
1,609,132 | Over the past decades the term ‘evolution’ has undertaken several definitions and implications. However, when referring to “human history and the development of long term trends it is used interchangeably with social or sociocultural evolution”. The publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species profoundly i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51781074 | 1,608,227 |
260,732 | Rational choice theory does not claim to describe the choice process, but rather it helps predict the outcome and pattern of choice. It is consequently assumed that the individual is self-interested or being homo economicus. Here, the individual comes to a decision that maximizes personal advantage by balancing costs a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25400 | 260,597 |
1,164,712 | According to the International Committee of the Red Cross(ICRC), “there is no doubt that the development and use of autonomous weapon systems in armed conflict is governed by international humanitarian law.” States recognize this: those who participated in the first UN Expert Meeting in May 2014 recognized respect for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8434470 | 1,164,095 |
738,509 | Synaptic scaling serves to maintain the strengths of synapses relative to each other, lowering amplitudes of small excitatory postsynaptic potentials in response to continual excitation and raising them after prolonged blockage or inhibition. This effect occurs gradually over hours or days, by changing the numbers of N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=423771 | 738,118 |
222,034 | In summer 1976, British researcher John Prewer carried out a series of aeroponic experiments near Newport, Isle of Wight, U.K., in which lettuces (variety Tom Thumb) were grown from seed to maturity in 22 days in polyethylene film tubes made rigid by pressurized air supplied by ventilating fans. The equipment used to c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1044136 | 221,925 |
424,454 | Activation is achieved through an interacting protease cascade involving plasmin and stromelysin 1 (MMP-3). Plasmin generates active MMP-3 from its zymogen. Active MMP-3 cleaves the propeptide from the 92-kDa pro-MMP-9, yielding an 82-kDa enzymatically active enzyme. In the active enzyme a substrate, or a fluorogenic a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12744177 | 424,247 |
10,916 | The Diemaco C7 and C8 are updated variants of the M16 developed and used by the Canadian Forces and are now manufactured by Colt Canada. The C7 is a further development of the experimental M16A1E1. Like earlier M16s, it can be fired in either semi-automatic or automatic mode, instead of the burst function selected for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19901 | 10,911 |
933,454 | Those with Alzheimer's disease generally display symptoms such as getting momentarily lost on familiar routes, placing possessions in inappropriate locations and distortions of existing memories or completely forgetting memories. Researchers have often used the Deese–Roediger–McDermott paradigm (DRM) to study the effec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17995 | 932,962 |
1,985,094 | Kim et al. first conceived a limited form of EBG and coined the term ‘DGS’. They used a single unit of dumbbell-shaped defect beneath a microstrip line to use its stop-band characteristics within which it impedes the propagation of electromagnetic (EM) down the line over a range of frequencies. The compact feature and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65711212 | 1,983,955 |
1,688,364 | Botanical studies can help to estimate the impact of confounding variables and in some cases guide corrections for them. These experiments may be either ones where growth variables are all controlled (e.g. in a greenhouse), partially controlled (e.g. FACE [Free Airborne Concentration Enhancement] experiments—add ref), ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1369239 | 1,687,418 |
214,182 | 7000 series alloys such as 7075 are often used in transport applications due to their high specific strength, including marine, automotive and aviation. These same properties lead to its use in rock climbing equipment, bicycle components, inline-skating-frames and hang glider airframes are commonly made from 7075 alumi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7436202 | 214,074 |
1,308,463 | Textual entailment measures natural language understanding as it asks for a semantic interpretation of the text, and due to its generality remains an active area of research. Many approaches and refinements of approaches have been considered, such as word embedding, logical models, graphical models, rule systems, conte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32707853 | 1,307,747 |
1,222,460 | Standards for second-life applications of retired electric vehicle batteries are still emerging technology. One of the few standards, UL 1974, was published by Underwriters Laboratories (UL). The document gives a general procedure of the safety operations and performance tests on retired power battery cells, packs, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42601555 | 1,221,801 |
1,163,421 | Other requirements considered when designing operando experiments include reagent and product flow rates, catalyst position, beam paths, and window positions and sizes. All of these factors must also be accounted for while designing operando experiments, as the spectroscopic techniques used may alter the reaction condi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36929631 | 1,162,804 |
11,123 | Sagan advocated scientific skeptical inquiry and the scientific method, pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He spent most of his career as a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, where he directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies. Sagan and his works recei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6824 | 11,118 |
999,725 | Meanwhile, another group of researchers has investigated using consumer-grade GPUs to achieve similar levels of parallelism. They utilize OT extensions and some other novel techniques to design their GPU-specific protocol. This approach seems to achieve comparable efficiency to the cluster computing implementation, usi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=646233 | 999,207 |
497,509 | Hyperglycemia during pregnancy is thought to cause epigenetic changes in the leptin gene of newborns leading to a potential increased risk for obesity and heart disease. Leptin is sometimes known as the “satiety hormone” because it is released by fat cells to inhibit hunger. By studying both animal models and human obs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=343457 | 497,252 |
1,448,486 | While it is still something of a niche market, a few companies have begun to produce and market small sponges as reusable feminine hygiene products. They are marketed under the brand names Sea Pearls in the United States and Jam Sponge in the United Kingdom. The sponges are inserted into the vagina in much the same way... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32630289 | 1,447,670 |
608,693 | China is pursuing a strategic policy of military-civil fusion on AI for global technological supremacy. According to a February 2019 report by Gregory C. Allen of the Center for a New American Security, China's leadership – including paramount leader Xi Jinping – believes that being at the forefront in AI technology is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56127293 | 608,382 |
431,110 | At the beginning of the winter semester of the 2020/2021 academic year, roughly 22,000 young people were studying at the University of Potsdam. The University is placing particular emphasis by establishing four university research focuses. Constantly increasing third-party funding volume testifies to the quality of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4039448 | 430,898 |
1,973,653 | Carbonate deposition common in the Paleozoic ended during the Jurassic as the North American continent moved westward with the opening of the Atlantic Ocean. The Guichon Batholith emplaced 200 million years ago, near Ashcroft, British Columbia and was accompanied by a period of erosion that wore away Devonian, Mississi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58577885 | 1,972,518 |
736,299 | The International Electro-Technical Exhibition of 1891, in Frankfurt, Germany, featured the long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current. It was held between 16 May and 19 October on the disused site of the three former “Westbahnhöfe” (Western Railway Stations) in Frankfurt am Main. The exhibi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18179220 | 735,911 |
1,855,219 | The Bruno Rossi Prize is awarded annually by the High Energy Astrophysics division of the American Astronomical Society "for a significant contribution to High Energy Astrophysics, with particular emphasis on recent, original work". Named after astrophysicist Bruno Rossi, the prize is awarded with a certificate and a g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2350491 | 1,854,153 |
967,607 | The costs for the switch to ETCS are well documented in the Swiss reports from their railway operator SBB to the railway authority BAV. In December 2016 it was shown that they could start switching parts of the system to ETCS Level 2 whenever a section needs improvement. This would not only result in a network where se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2214121 | 967,097 |
1,167,152 | There was no further plot twist in the final. Even though the United States were along the curb in the normally less advantageous lane 1, Tianna Bartoletta shot out to the lead around the first turn, making up the stagger on Canada's Farah Jacques before the halfway point in the turn. It was a clean, unobstructed pass ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45151448 | 1,166,534 |
443,670 | In an opinion piece for "The New York Times" published in 2016, Steven Rattner called the new building of the Peterson Institute "the locker room of the Team Globalization and Free Trade cheering squad." We should not close our borders or retreat from the world, said Rattner, but free trade has winners and losers, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2600125 | 443,455 |
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