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2,037,945 | The Blanowice Formation recovers a deltaic section on the eastern Bohemian Massif, where rivers come from the west, as proven by the Carboniferous fossil matter found on the layers of the formation, moved from the west of the Czech Republic, and deposited especially on the Parkoszowice borehole. The Borehole was part o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64249358 | 2,036,770 |
767,101 | During the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990) AUB pursued various means to preserve the continuity of studies, including enrollment agreements with universities in the United States. In 1982 acting president David S. Dodge was kidnapped on campus by pro-Iranian Shiite Muslim extremists. On January 18, 1984, AUB President M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=470969 | 766,690 |
1,028,615 | Some modern swordsmiths have made high quality reproduction swords using the traditional method, including one Japanese swordsmith who began manufacturing swords in Thailand using traditional methods, and various American and Chinese manufacturers. These however will always be different from Japanese swords made in Jap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7528817 | 1,028,081 |
43,455 | The first CSeries, a CS100, was delivered to Swiss Global Air Lines on 29 June 2016 at Montréal–Mirabel International Airport, and began commercial service on 15 July with a flight between Zürich and Paris. The launch operator stated in August, that "the customer feedback is very positive with the expected remarks conc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1567474 | 43,439 |
1,358,885 | The LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty) experiment is one of eight particle physics detector experiments collecting data at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. LHCb is a specialized b-physics experiment, designed primarily to measure the parameters of CP violation in the interactions of b-hadrons (heavy particles contai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1285524 | 1,358,134 |
1,479,817 | Data and information collected internationally can shed light onto the mysteries of schizophrenia. Sekar et al. analyzed single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) of 40 cohorts in 22 countries, in total adding up to nearly 29,000 cases. They found out two features: 1) A great number of SNPs reaching only 2Mb across the end... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9693587 | 1,478,983 |
813,429 | In machine learning and mathematical optimization, loss functions for classification are computationally feasible loss functions representing the price paid for inaccuracy of predictions in classification problems (problems of identifying which category a particular observation belongs to). Given formula_1 as the space... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44578554 | 812,996 |
1,526,684 | The sulfonyl functional group (RS(O)R') has become an important electron-withdrawing group for modern organic chemistry. α-Sulfonyl carbanions may be used as nucleophiles in alkylation reactions, Michael-type additions, and other processes. After having served their synthetic purpose, sulfonyl groups are often removed.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27757801 | 1,525,820 |
2,195,565 | To discuss and publicise the programme’s results BRIDGE organised its own science conferences at Durham University (1991), the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory (IOSDL), Wormley (1992), Leeds University (1993), Oxford University (1994), the Geological Society of London (1994, 1995 and 1997), Cambrid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48231632 | 2,194,315 |
1,280,705 | McEwen published his first paper in 1959, and eventually published more than 700 peer-reviewed articles in journals including "Nature", "JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, The New England Journal of Medicine, Neurobiology of Aging" and "The Journal of Neuroscience". His expertise and work have been ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10531828 | 1,280,010 |
2,001,727 | The computational scheme is finite-difference and non-conservative; the time integration is implemented by an explicit scheme. Due to the usage of the vector potential, the magnetic field is intrinsically divergence free. High-order (4th, 6th, and 10th order, as well as single-sided or upwind) derivatives are available... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43249202 | 2,000,580 |
204,395 | Traditionally, the auks were believed to be one of the earliest distinct charadriiform lineages due to their characteristic morphology, but genetic analyses have demonstrated that these peculiarities are the product of strong natural selection, instead; as opposed to, for example, plovers (a much older charadriiform li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53622 | 204,290 |
1,154,769 | Started in 1984 by David Milne and Jim Reid. Within a year the company had 20 employees and a deal with Fujitsu. Wolfson grew and floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2003 and be listed in the FTSE 250. Both Milne and Reid had connections with the University of Edinburgh; Reid attained a First Class Honours degree i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11960371 | 1,154,159 |
34,154 | Tungsten, usually alloyed with nickel, iron, or cobalt to form heavy alloys, is used in kinetic energy penetrators as an alternative to depleted uranium, in applications where uranium's radioactivity is problematic even in depleted form, or where uranium's additional pyrophoric properties are not desired (for example, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30046 | 34,142 |
277,080 | On 12 December 1979, following European pressure for a response to the SS-20, Western foreign and defense ministers meeting in Brussels made the NATO Double-Track Decision. The ministers argued that the Warsaw Pact had "developed a large and growing capability in nuclear systems that directly threaten Western Europe": ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=446189 | 276,930 |
1,850,778 | Ryan's career began as a lecturer in Polymer Science at UMIST (1985-1988), followed by a NATO Research Fellow position at the University of Minnesota (1988-1989), before returning to UMIST as a lecturer in 1990. He was promoted to senior lecturer in 1994 and reader in 1995. In 1997 he joined the University of Sheffield... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30235559 | 1,849,717 |
269,060 | One-third of Wundt's own library was left to his children Eleonore and Max Wundt; most of the works were sold during the times of need after the First World War to Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. The university's stock consists of 6,762 volumes in western languages (including bound periodicals) as well as 9,098 spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34128 | 268,914 |
69,479 | The functionality of the PLC has evolved over the years to include sequential relay control, motion control, process control, distributed control systems, and networking. The data handling, storage, processing power, and communication capabilities of some modern PLCs are approximately equivalent to desktop computers. P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24992 | 69,452 |
285,465 | The earliest evidence of examinations in Europe date to 1215 or 1219 in Bologna. These were chiefly oral in the form of a question or answer, disputation, determination, defense, or public lecture. The candidate gave a public lecture of two prepared passages assigned to him from the civil or canon law, and then doctors... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=244479 | 285,311 |
888,177 | The role of chemotherapy in DIPG remains unclear. Studies have shown little improvement in survival, although efforts (see below) through the Children's Oncology Group (COG), Paediatric Brain Tumour Consortium (PBTC), and others are underway to explore further the use of chemotherapy and other drugs. Drugs that increas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36389980 | 887,709 |
1,015,422 | In 1850, Swan began working on a light bulb using carbonised paper filaments in an evacuated glass bulb. By 1860, he was able to demonstrate a working device, but the lack of a good vacuum, and of an adequate electric source, resulted in an inefficient light bulb with a short life. In August 1863 he presented his own d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=136688 | 1,014,901 |
1,552,381 | When carrying out their humanitarian function during armed conflicts, medical personnel are protected persons under international humanitarian law, and are entitled under the laws of war to carry out their work without being inhibited; they may not be attacked, harmed, taken as prisoners of war or persecuted in any way... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45025561 | 1,551,500 |
372,054 | Some other researchers have challenged Weiss et al.'s 2016 conclusions. Sarah Berkemer and Shawn McGlynn argue that Weiss et al. undersampled the families of proteins, so that the phylogenetic trees were not complete and failed to describe the evolution of proteins correctly. A phylogenomic and geochemical analysis of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1301827 | 371,859 |
402,174 | In 2011, a study conducted by six anthropologists criticized Gould's claim that Samuel Morton unconsciously manipulated his skull measurements, arguing that his analysis of Morton was influenced by his opposition to racism. The group's paper was reviewed in an editorial in the journal "Nature", which pointed out that t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27875 | 401,975 |
899,777 | Changing these lead-pipe crooks was time-consuming, and even keeping them from falling out while playing was a matter of some concern to the player, so changing crooks could take place only during substantial rests. Medial crooks, inserted in the central portion of the instrument, were an improvement devised in the mid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56886 | 899,302 |
504,729 | Calcium Hydroxide has a relatively low compressive strength and a viscous consistency making them difficult to apply to cavities in thick sections, a common technique used to overcome this issue would be to apply a thin sub-lining of a calcium hydroxide lining and then building up with zinc phosphate prior to amalgam c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=498206 | 504,467 |
1,395,337 | Antiandrogens can considerably relieve and prevent priapism (potentially painful penile erections that last more than four hours) via direct blockade of penile . In accordance, bicalutamide, at low dosages (50 mg every other day or as little as once or twice weekly), has been found in a series of case reports to comple... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55839585 | 1,394,566 |
1,237,608 | On 21 September 1961, the Air Force's first formal space plan was completed, calling for an aggressive military space program. Specifically, it recommended continuing the Discoverer/Corona program, MIDAS, Samos, and Blue Scout research vehicle at their present pace, while accelerating efforts to develop orbital weapons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66185637 | 1,236,943 |
858,462 | "Agincourt" was later transferred to the 2nd Battle Squadron and was present at the surrender of the High Seas Fleet on 21 November 1918. She was placed in reserve at Rosyth in March 1919. After unsuccessful attempts to sell her to the Brazilian Government, she was listed for disposal in April 1921, but was used for ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=872892 | 858,004 |
374,560 | In 1960, Rolf Landauer raised an exception to this argument. He realized that some measuring processes need not increase thermodynamic entropy as long as they were thermodynamically reversible. He suggested these "reversible" measurements could be used to sort the molecules, violating the Second Law. However, due to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=96558 | 374,365 |
842,915 | There are few accounts of the use of intraperitoneal injections prior to 1970. One of the earliest recorded uses of IP injections involved the insemination of a guinea-pig in 1957. The study however did not find an increase in conception rate when compared to mating. In that same year, a study injected egg whites intra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15552594 | 842,465 |
88,195 | Despite a regulation prohibiting "evaders" (escaped pilots) from flying over enemy territory again, the purpose of which was to prevent resistance groups from being compromised by giving the enemy a second chance to possibly capture him, Yeager was reinstated to flying combat. He had joined another evader, fellow P-51 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6185 | 88,160 |
440,123 | On February 3, 2010, EPA finalized the Renewable Fuel Standard Program (RFS2) for 2010 and beyond. EPA incorporated direct emissions and significant indirect emissions such as emissions from land use changes along with comments and data from new studies. Adopting a 30-year time horizon and a 0% discount rate EPA declar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5029525 | 439,909 |
230,854 | She was born in 1885 into a wealthy Jewish family in Rostov-on-Don, Russian Empire. Her mother Eva (born Khave) Lublinskaya was the daughter and granddaughter of rabbis from Yekaterinoslav. Eva trained as a dentist, but did not practice. Sabina's father Nikolai (born Naftul) Spielrein was an agronomist. After moving fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2425513 | 230,736 |
575,403 | In accordance with these converging interests, PZL decided to embark upon preliminary design work into the prospective development of a further evolved form of the P.11 that would be aimed specifically at the export market. The project, and the resulting design produced by it, soon received its own designation as the "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1139061 | 575,109 |
1,140,074 | Combining various MSI techniques can be beneficial, since each particular technique has its own advantage. For example, when information regards both proteins and lipids are necessary in the same tissue section, performing DESI to analyze the lipid, followed by MALDI to obtain information about the peptide, and finaliz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13535375 | 1,139,480 |
1,552,234 | The above equations are written in SI units (short SI) suppressing that the unit D (darcy) for the absolute permeability is defined in non-SI units. That is why there are no unit-related constants. The petroleum industry doesn't use the SI units. Instead, they use a special version of SI units that we will call Applied... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52944974 | 1,551,353 |
874,386 | Individual in-service S.E.5s would often receive customisations and user-specified tweaks at the request of their pilots. Popular changes included reducing the dihedral of the wings in order to increase its manoeuvrability and the removal of the head fairing to increase the pilot's visibility to the rear. James McCudde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1004448 | 873,924 |
228,026 | By 1989 Poland had overthrown its Communist government. In that same year, the Jagiellonian University successfully completed the purchase of its first building plot in Pychowice, Kraków, where, from 2000, construction of a new complex of university buildings, the so-called Third Campus, began. The new campus, official... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38078 | 227,909 |
529,573 | When incubated with their bacterial food supply, heterothallic or homothallic sexual development can occur, resulting in the formation of a diploid zygote. Heterothallic mating occurs when two amoebae of different mating types are present in a dark and wet environment, where they can fuse during aggregation to form a g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15261560 | 529,299 |
1,758,209 | Ayres grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where they graduated from Pembroke Country Day School in 1977. They played varsity basketball, ran cross country, and served as executive editor of their high school newspaper. Ayres wrote an op-ed piece their senior year called "Black Like Me" (named for the 1961 book of the sam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10022527 | 1,757,216 |
1,060,359 | In October 2010, Thorlabs broke ground on a new 125,000 sq ft headquarters in Newton. The $20 million project was funded in part by a $4 million bond grant for redeveloping a former brownfield, originally owned by the Sterling Silk Company and abandoned since 1993. Mayor Kristen Becker called the project "an integral p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45477128 | 1,059,808 |
1,726,406 | Ancestral reconstruction relies on a sufficiently realistic statistical model of evolution to accurately recover ancestral states. These models use the genetic information already obtained through methods such as phylogenetics to determine the route that evolution has taken and when evolutionary events occurred. No mat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6383817 | 1,725,435 |
1,069,561 | Lumbriculus variegatus, also known as the blackworm or California blackworm, is a species of worm inhabiting North America and Europe. It lives in shallow-water marshes, ponds, and swamps, feeding on microorganisms and organic material. The maximum length of a specimen is 10 cm (4 in). Worms raised in laboratory enviro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2789116 | 1,069,007 |
2,169,614 | EE is ideal for pharmaceuticals with low concentrations of active ingredient, such as those containing proteins and peptides, because of its ability to lower limits of detection for liquid chromatography and capillary electrophoresis. In addition, sample enrichment by EE helps overcome the low injection volumes and sho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3643923 | 2,168,376 |
109,192 | On 21 December 2001, Eurocopter was awarded the contract to meet the Australian Army's "AIR 87 requirement" for 22 Tiger helicopters of the ARH (Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter) version. Modifications from the standard Tiger included new communications and avionics systems, as well as compatibility with Australian safe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=310780 | 109,147 |
1,180,545 | The original version of the Kiliani–Fischer synthesis proceeds through cyanohydrin and aldonic acid lactone intermediates. The first step is to react the starting sugar with aqueous cyanide (typically NaCN); the cyanide undergoes nucleophilic addition to the carbonyl group of the sugar (while sugars tend to exist mainl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6364894 | 1,179,921 |
1,852,788 | Proprietary and commercially available software is available that provides a solution for storage, retrieval, and analysis of high throughput phenotype data. A powerful free and open source software is the "opm" package based on R. "opm" contains tools for analyzing PM data including management, visualization and stati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38245286 | 1,851,726 |
596,731 | Natural Darwinian evolution can be effectively imitated in the lab toward tailoring protein properties for diverse applications, including catalysis. Many experimental technologies exist to produce large and diverse protein libraries and for screening or selecting folded, functional variants. Folded proteins arise surp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216104 | 596,426 |
1,656,262 | WAN optimization has been the subject of extensive academic research almost since the advent of the WAN. In the early 2000s, research in both the private and public sectors turned to improving the end-to-end throughput of TCP, and the target of the first proprietary WAN optimization solutions was the Branch WAN. In rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5658266 | 1,655,329 |
199,781 | Vision provides opportunity for the brain to perceive and respond to changes occurring around the body. Information, or stimuli, in the form of light enters the retina, where it excites a special type of neuron called a photoreceptor cell. A local graded potential begins in the photoreceptor, where it excites the cell ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=569399 | 199,678 |
1,496,580 | The 10-acre Public Safety Institute (PSI) opened in January 2016 adjacent to the Automotive & Technology Center. PSI houses Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Fire Science, Medical Assisting, Phlebotomy and Criminal Justice (CJ). Amenities include a 53,000 square-foot, two-story building; drill ground area for fire, pol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16830840 | 1,495,737 |
61,402 | In economics, notable Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winners Milton Friedman, a major advisor to Republican U.S. president Ronald Reagan, Conservative British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, George Stigler, Nobel laureate and proponent of regulatory capture th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32127 | 61,377 |
1,333,457 | "Iron Foundry" is a product of its time. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, romantic music—though not banned—fell from prominence as it was a remnant of the deposed ruling class, and experimental and revolutionary ideas flourished. In 1923, the Association for Contemporary Music was founded for avant-garde composers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4964602 | 1,332,728 |
2,077,572 | From the gun WMA M55 Champion Anselm Lebourne, the oldest athlete in the field, seemed to go out slightly faster than everybody else, but a last moment burst at the break line put home town favorite Chunsheng Wang into the early lead. By the end of the straightaway, he was overtaken by new M50 1500 metres world record ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47651577 | 2,076,373 |
1,471,002 | During the early 1950s, the UK government had identified the need to develop its own series of ballistic missiles due to advances being made in this field, particularly by the Soviet Union and the United States. The ballistic missile was of critical importance to developing a more effective method of nuclear deterrence... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=544735 | 1,470,176 |
468,446 | At "the conscientious stage ... individuals at this level, and even more often at higher levels, refer spontaneously to psychological development." Internalization of rules is complete by this stage, although "exceptions and contingencies are recognized." Goals and ideals are acknowledged, and there is a new sense of r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2929771 | 468,211 |
759,819 | There is scientific concern that extended spaceflight might slow down the body's ability to protect itself against diseases. Radiation can penetrate living tissue and cause both short and long-term damage to the bone marrow stem cells which create the blood and immune systems. In particular, it causes 'chromosomal aber... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1614102 | 759,413 |
1,830,609 | During the Triassic, the Mesozoic era began. Ichthyosaurs entered the sea and achieved large sizes in Nevada. The Petrified Forest appeared in the southwest. The dinosaurs appeared and achieved dominance on land while pterosaurs flew overhead. Into the Jurassic, plesiosaurs began usurping marine dominance from the icht... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799182 | 1,829,563 |
957,540 | SIBO may be defined as an increased number of bacteria measured via exhaled hydrogen and/or methane gas following the ingestion of glucose, or via analysis of small bowel aspirate fluid. Nevertheless, as of 2020, the definition of SIBO as a clinical entity lacks precision and consistency; it is a term generally applied... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1221516 | 957,034 |
1,690,808 | One of the cost concerns for MCF designs like ITER is that the reactor materials are subject to the intense neutron flux created by the fusion reactions. When high-energy neutrons impact materials they displace the atoms in the structure leading to a problem known as neutron embrittlement that degrades the structural i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46293573 | 1,689,861 |
1,081,543 | While not forming a school in the sense of having a particular methodological approach, a number of prominent psychological anthropologists have addressed significant attention to the interaction of culture and mental health or mental illness (Jenkins and Barrett 2004), ranging through the description and analysis of c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7055844 | 1,080,987 |
560,090 | Robert Guthrie is given much of the credit for pioneering the earliest screening for phenylketonuria in the late 1960s using a bacterial inhibition assay (BIA) to measure phenylalanine levels in blood samples obtained by pricking a newborn baby's heel on the second day of life on filter paper. Congenital hypothyroidism... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=768605 | 559,801 |
1,244,314 | According to Dennis King, Winterberg shared his ideas on beam weapons with the U.S. Air Force and he speculated on the subject in publications for the Fusion Energy Foundation (FEF), a part of the Lyndon LaRouche movement. The FEF published a book of Winterberg describing the design of the hydrogen bomb, with the hope ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4088563 | 1,243,641 |
1,360,385 | Turning points are also analyzed in relation to negotiation crises or disruptions in the flow of the talks. Earlier research showed that TPs are more likely to occur in the context of crises, often in the form of changes that put the talks back on track and transition to a new stage (Druckman, 1986, 2001). A key to res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1163412 | 1,359,633 |
692,362 | ICG was developed in the Second World War as a dye in photography and tested in 1957 at the Mayo Clinic for use in human medicine by I.J. Fox. After being granted FDA approval in 1959, ICG was initially used primarily in hepatic function diagnostics and later in cardiology. In 1964, S. Schilling was able to determine r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23002394 | 691,999 |
213,782 | The origin of microbes on Earth, tracing back to the beginning of life more than 3.5 billion years ago, indicates that microbe-microbe interactions have continuously evolved and diversified over time, long before plants started to colonize land 450 million years ago. Therefore, it is likely that both intra- and inter-k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11008314 | 213,674 |
1,260,708 | The team should be suitably equipped with adequate thermal protection, an adequate oxygen supply, a means of delivering oxygen at or near 100% for the duration of both underwater and surface phases of the treatment, a means of voice or written communication, and a method of keeping the diver at the appropriate depth an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=508346 | 1,260,021 |
2,152,814 | Hayman was involved in research in 2013 that explores the extent to which emerging infectious diseases originating in wildlife, posed a threat to humans and animals. The study gathered serologic data on the ecology of these infectious diseases by considering the "pathogen, animal hosts that are naturally infected by th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70083782 | 2,151,583 |
1,067,088 | The "Prior Analytics" represents the first formal study of logic, where logic is understood as the study of arguments. An argument is a series of true or false statements which lead to a true or false conclusion. In the "Prior Analytics", Aristotle identifies valid and invalid forms of arguments called syllogisms. A sy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=491442 | 1,066,534 |
1,830,452 | The FCC created the Medical Implant Communication Service (MICS) in 1999 "in response to a petition for rule making by [Medtronic, Inc.] to permit use of a mobile radio device, implanted in a patient, for transmitting data in support of the diagnostic and/or therapeutic functions associated with an implanted medical de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49535342 | 1,829,406 |
1,122,680 | Paradox for Windows is distinctly different from Paradox for DOS, and was produced by a different team of programmers. Paradox for Windows applications are programmed in a different programming language called ObjectPAL. Although key features of the DOS product, the QBE and the database engine, were ports keeping the D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1013505 | 1,122,106 |
1,603,991 | The flexibility of microfluidic devices greatly contributes to the development of multi-culture studies by improved control over spatial patterns. Closed channel systems made by PDMS are most commonly used because PDMS has traditionally enabled rapid prototyping. For example, mixed co-culture can be achieved in droplet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50311973 | 1,603,090 |
140,188 | During the past century, astronomy has been revolutionized by the use of new methods for observing the universe. Astronomical observations were initially made using visible light. Galileo Galilei pioneered the use of telescopes to enhance these observations. However, visible light is only a small portion of the electro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8111079 | 140,131 |
1,994,160 | On 31 December 2021, the ground team extended the two telescoping "mid booms" from the left and right sides of the observatory, pulling the five sunshield membranes out of their folded stowage in the fore and aft pallets, which were lowered three days earlier. Deployment of the left side boom (in relation to pointing d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71399656 | 1,993,017 |
130,364 | However, both BA and Rolls-Royce had not relinquished their will to collaborate with the Americans in future aircraft endeavours and, in BA's case, procure American aircraft. During the late 1970s, BA sought to purchase two separate types of aircraft in development by American company Boeing, initially known as the "7N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162896 | 130,312 |
901,370 | Stephen Christmas (12 February 1947 – 20 December 1993) was the first patient described to have Christmas disease (or Haemophilia B) in 1952 by a group of British doctors. Christmas was born to a British family in London. He was the son of film and television actor Eric Christmas. He emigrated to Toronto, Ontario, Cana... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=199559 | 900,894 |
388,336 | The clinical manifestations of chronic infection is mainly caused by immune reaction to the eggs entrapment within tissues resulting in granuloma formation and chronic inflammation. Adult worms live together in pairs (one male and female), sexually reproduce, and lay eggs in the veins around the intestines and bladder ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191304 | 388,141 |
371,696 | While there may be some validity to the idea that for various types of specific damage detailed below that are by-products of metabolism, all other things being equal, a fast metabolism may reduce lifespan, in general this theory does not adequately explain the differences in lifespan either within, or between, species... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146539 | 371,501 |
682,966 | Although the system's construction ran far over budget, it still proved to be what its designers had claimed: a reliable system of automated transit that was inexpensive to operate. It has offered on-time service rates far better than the bus services it replaced, and eliminated the gridlock that had locked up the city... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1782275 | 682,610 |
196,284 | Metals are insoluble in water or organic solvents, unless they undergo a reaction with them. Typically, this is an oxidation reaction that robs the metal atoms of their itinerant electrons, destroying the metallic bonding. However metals are often readily soluble in each other while retaining the metallic character of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19838 | 196,184 |
1,810,453 | The University experienced a rapid period of growth just five years into autonomy. This led the university into considering ambitious expansion plans for the main campus. According to early schematic plans in 1967, the university desired to create building complexes that represent the major clusters of the present Facu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51387853 | 1,809,430 |
1,671,677 | Released on October 21, 2008, the z10 Business Class has only a single model: E10. Machine type is 2098. It has the same processor chip design and instruction set as the z10 EC but with higher manufacturing yields (3.5 GHz clock speed, one core per chip disabled) and lower cost processor packaging due to reduced coolin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15909912 | 1,670,736 |
1,798,594 | Taylor achieved notoriety outside academe in 2009 with an NYT op-ed piece entitled "End the University As We Know It" (Apr. 27), in which he advocated the end of tenure and academic departments. He followed it up quickly with a book in which he expanded on his reform, "Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6522995 | 1,797,585 |
925,554 | An important branch of stereochemistry is the study of chiral molecules, which are molecules that lack a plane of symmetry and are, therefore, not superimposable on their mirror images. The term chiral stems from the Greek word "cheir," meaning handedness and describes objects that have a "left-handed" and "right-hande... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28756 | 925,068 |
222,895 | Passivation, in physical chemistry and engineering, refers to coating a material so it becomes "passive", that is, less readily affected or corroded by the environment. Passivation involves creation of an outer layer of shield material that is applied as a microcoating, created by chemical reaction with the base materi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=175622 | 222,786 |
237,832 | Influential research towards the advancement of nuclear physics was guided by Abram Ioffe, who was the director at the Leningrad Physical-Technical Institute (LPTI), having sponsored various research programs at various technical schools in the Soviet Union. The discovery of the neutron by the British physicist James C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1217440 | 237,713 |
1,517,469 | Science Group of the Research and Technology Development Center at APL also developed a suitcase TOF incorporated with matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization MALDI. The suitcase TOF was tested by scientists from U.S. Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command. The samples are biological toxins and chemical agent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45249739 | 1,516,617 |
18,180 | Crichton received an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1969 but did not practice medicine, choosing to focus on his writing instead. Initially writing under a pseudonym, he eventually wrote 26 novels, including: "The Andromeda Strain" (1969), "The Terminal Man" (1972), "The Great Train Robbery" (1975), "Congo" (1980)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20762 | 18,174 |
259,374 | Stephen Wolfram independently began working on cellular automata in mid-1981 after considering how complex patterns seemed formed in nature in violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. His investigations were initially spurred by an interest in modelling systems such as neural networks. He published his first pape... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54342 | 259,240 |
619,942 | In the two years following this agreement, both the British and French governments expressed doubts about the project. The memorandum of understanding had stated that 75 orders must be achieved by 31 July 1968. The French government threatened to withdraw from the project due to its concern over funding all of the Airb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57333683 | 619,627 |
210,615 | In September 1916 Huxley returned to England from Texas to assist in the war effort. He was commissioned a temporary second lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps on 25 May 1917, and was transferred to the General List, working in the British Army Intelligence Corps from 26 January 1918, first in Sussex, and then i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145837 | 210,508 |
2,146,247 | Two complete, systematically arranged first-edition proof sets are in a private library in West Sussex, England. The first is one of the two sets subscribed for by James Wadmore of Paddington. It bears later ownership stamps; ""T.H.T. Hopkins Magd: Coll: Oxford"" for Thomas Henry Toovey Hopkins (1831–1885) at the Colle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8145404 | 2,145,016 |
1,525,809 | The smallest, often portable photovoltaic systems are called pico solar PV systems, or pico solar. They mostly combine a rechargeable battery and charge controller, with a very small PV panel. The panel's nominal capacity is just a few watt-peak (1–10 W) and its area less than in size. A large range of different applic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58650635 | 1,524,947 |
1,718,256 | His philosophical and theological studies terminated, he set up a school at Dundee, took out a licence to preach in 1801, and officiated as probationer during some years at Stirling and elsewhere. After about fifteen months, he was excommunicated and lost his job there due to an affair with his servant. An invitation f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7061857 | 1,717,286 |
924,768 | During July 2008, the Government of India circulated a request for proposals (RFP) to various helicopter companies, including AgustaWestland, Bell Helicopter, Eurocopter, Kamov and Sikorsky, for a fleet of 197 light utility helicopters to be purchased in a fly-away condition directly from the manufacturer in order to s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17808298 | 924,282 |
1,361,694 | Recent research has found significant involvement of auxin, cytokinin, ABA, and MIZ1 in hydrotropic processes. ABA treatment, in addition to blue light irradiation, and stressful environment conditions, increase MIZ1 expression in plants. Arabidopsis plants are dependent on MZ1 for displaying hydrotropic behavior in re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1384354 | 1,360,941 |
1,041,545 | Major D.P. Singh is a retired officer of the Indian Army. He is a Kargil War veteran and is known as India's first blade runner. After his amputation, he gradually started running using a prosthetic limb and has run in 26 half-marathons in his running career. This includes three half-marathons in extreme high altitude ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53208986 | 1,041,002 |
274,715 | The first production model, the Sea Fury F Mk X (later Sea Fury F.10), flew in September 1946. With the completion of flight testing at Boscombe Down in 1946, the trials process was repeated aboard the aircraft carrier . Carrier testing revealed directional stability issues related to rudder effectiveness during landin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=594681 | 274,567 |
698,599 | Carbon is the chemical element with atomic number 6, occurring as C, C and C. At standard temperature and pressure, carbon is a solid, occurring in many different allotropes, the most common of which are graphite, diamond, the fullerenes and amorphous carbon. Graphite is a soft, hexagonal crystalline, opaque black semi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=199077 | 698,235 |
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