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1,587,633 | Inorganic materials such as silicon nanostructures, inorganic oxide films (e.g. titanium oxide and indium oxide), and ultrathin two-dimensional inorganic materials (e.g. bismuth oxychloride, tin sulfide, and titanium sulfide nanosheets) have light harvesting and optoelectronic properties. Silicon is commonly used in so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60814319 | 1,586,739 |
2,018,855 | Located within the southeastern interior portion of North America, Kentucky has a climate that is best described as a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: "Cfa"), only small higher areas of the southeast of the state has an oceanic climate ("Cfb") influenced by the Appalachians. Temperatures in Kentucky usually range fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16765486 | 2,017,692 |
399,936 | There is currently an open-design Prosthetics forum known as the "Open Prosthetics Project". The group employs collaborators and volunteers to advance Prosthetics technology while attempting to lower the costs of these necessary devices. Open Bionics is a company that is developing open-source robotic prosthetic hands.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72750 | 399,737 |
183,899 | The circulation patterns in the upper mesosphere and thermosphere of Venus are completely different from those in the lower atmosphere. At altitudes 90–150 km the Venusian air moves from the dayside to nightside of the planet, with upwelling over sunlit hemisphere and downwelling over dark hemisphere. The downwelling o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6410946 | 183,802 |
1,376,445 | Sechenov was born in the village of Tepli Stan, which is now known as Sechenov, Gorky Oblast. He was a son of a nobleman and a peasant. Sechenov was first taught by private tutors and he had mastered German and French at an early age. By the age of 14, he was admitted to the St. Petersburg Military Engineering School. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6759464 | 1,375,683 |
1,463,780 | In October 2009, Boeing announced the opening of an 584,000-square-foot assembly plant in North Charleston which cost $2 billion to construct. Earlier that year, Boeing had purchased a Vought Aircraft facility in North Charleston due to Vought's inability to supply Boeing with parts on time. The company decided to expa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21927183 | 1,462,957 |
1,695,296 | Few analytical detectors are truly specific for a single species; therefore some type of separation step is often necessary prior to detection. Moreover, separation allows for detection of multiple analytes within a single platform. Separations based upon planar chromatography (TLC) are perhaps the easiest to implement... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56210030 | 1,694,345 |
394,988 | In 2016, Russia is believed to have conducted two successful tests of Avangard, a hypersonic glide vehicle. The third known test, in 2017, failed. In 2018, an Avangard was launched at the Dombarovskiy missile base, reaching its target at the Kura shooting range, a distance of 3700 miles (5955 km). Avangard uses new com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14564979 | 394,793 |
61,594 | The advantages of licensure vary depending upon location. For example, in the United States and Canada "only a licensed engineer may seal engineering work for public and private clients". This requirement is enforced by state and provincial legislation such as Quebec's Engineers Act. In other countries, no such legisla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9531 | 61,569 |
883,405 | Although in theory all [F]FDG is metabolized as above with a radioactivity elimination half-life of 110 minutes (the same as that of fluorine-18), clinical studies have shown that the radioactivity of [F]FDG partitions into two major fractions. About 75% of the fluorine-18 activity remains in tissues and is eliminated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3077796 | 882,941 |
1,145,432 | At higher doses, ethanol also affects NMDA receptors (NMDARs) by inhibiting the ion current induced by NMDA, a glutamate receptor agonist. This inhibition of synaptic excitation by alcohol has been shown to be dose-dependent (up to a certain point, after which it did not differ by much). Alcohol appears to produce this... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26685784 | 1,144,831 |
1,243,271 | In 1979, W.M.Brown and Wilson began looking at the evolution of mitochondrial DNA in animals, and found they were evolving rapidly. The technique they used was restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), which was more affordable at the time compared to sequencing. In 1980, W.M. Brown, looking at the relative vari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3295330 | 1,242,598 |
1,278,046 | Atomic level resolution in 3D electron tomography reconstructions has been demonstrated. Reconstructions of crystal defects such as stacking faults, grain boundaries, dislocations, and twinning in structures have been achieved. This method is relevant to the physical sciences, where cryo-EM techniques cannot always be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8898050 | 1,277,353 |
1,157,342 | Studied in some General and Scientific Gymnasiums for 2 or 4 years, while in Classical Gymnasiums it is studied together with ancient Greek for 4 years, it is a 2 period per week subject in most schools, but there are often many options for extracurricular activities and competitions involving Latin for students that t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13209022 | 1,156,729 |
1,091,115 | There are technological solutions that can improve education management information systems effectiveness. For instance, as mentioned by Burundi in the 2018 EMIS conference, electronic transfer of information from schools to the Ministry of Education through mobile devices (including computers, tablets and smartphones)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68896578 | 1,090,555 |
87,126 | Humans have two lungs, one on the left and one on the right. They are situated within the thoracic cavity of the chest. The right lung is bigger and heavier than the left, which shares space in the chest with the heart. The lungs together weigh approximately . The lungs are part of the lower respiratory tract that begi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36863 | 87,091 |
316,381 | Until the mid-1930s, Germany's ability to realize these goals was limited by her weakened military and economic position. Hitler's strategy involved building up German military and economic strength through re-armament, while seeking to avoid an early war by diplomatic engagement with France, Britain and (later) the So... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=91515 | 316,212 |
2,131,903 | Percolation theory was originally purposed by Broadbent and Hammersley as a mathematical theory for determining the flow of fluids through porous material. An example of this is the question originally purposed by Broadbent and Hammersley: "suppose a large porous rock is submerged under water for a long time, will the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39199253 | 2,130,678 |
1,650,885 | Although Artificial Intelligence and Discrete Optimization had known and reasoned about Constraint Satisfaction Problems for many years, it was not until the early 1990s that this process for solving large CSPs had been codified in algorithmic form. Early on, Mark Johnston of the Space Telescope Science Institute looke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2000174 | 1,649,953 |
966,453 | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and international health authorities have published an alert of galantamine based on data from two studies during the treatment for mild cognitive impairment (MCI); higher mortality rates were seen in drug-treated patients. However, it reduced mortality in Alzheimer's patient... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1214927 | 965,943 |
52,181 | For attachment theory to be viable, it must be believed that attachment behaviour is strongly affected by one's environment. A 2016 article from the "Psychological Bulletin" suggests that one's attachment could largely be due to heredity; hence, the authors point to the need to focus research on nonshared environmental... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=884589 | 52,161 |
735,312 | Incentive spirometer is indicated for patients who have had any surgery that might jeopardize respiratory function, particularly surgery to the lungs, but also to patients recovering from cardiac or other surgery involving extended time under anesthesia and prolonged in-bed recovery. Under general anesthesia and inacti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8089589 | 734,925 |
1,020,931 | MLS has typically been treated by surgical resection but may require more radical interventions, e.g. limb amputation may be needed when a limb's neurovascular bundle is compromised. The post-surgical risk of recurrence within 3 years after surgery has been reported to be ~15% when not all tumor is removed and ~10% whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1386912 | 1,020,402 |
988,432 | In 2003, the SCO Group started legal action against various users and vendors of Linux. SCO had alleged that Linux contained copyrighted Unix code now owned by the SCO Group. Other allegations included trade-secret violations by IBM, or contract violations by former Santa Cruz customers who had since converted to Linux... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2333752 | 987,916 |
1,577,900 | On March 9, 1891, the "Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race" was established by an act of the North Carolina General Assembly as an annex of the private Shaw University in Raleigh. The act read in part: "That the leading objective of the college shall be to teach practical agriculture and the mechan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42220009 | 1,577,011 |
204,861 | In an editorial on STAT published March 17, 2020, Ioannidis wondered whether the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic may be a "once-in-a-century evidence fiasco" and asked for obtaining more reliable data to deal with the pandemic. He estimated that the coronavirus could cause 10,000 U.S. deaths if it infected 1% ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20900378 | 204,755 |
126,825 | X-ray crystallography has led to a better understanding of chemical bonds and non-covalent interactions. The initial studies revealed the typical radii of atoms, and confirmed many theoretical models of chemical bonding, such as the tetrahedral bonding of carbon in the diamond structure, the octahedral bonding of metal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34151 | 126,773 |
37,267 | The most famous Duke football season came in 1938, when Wallace Wade coached the "Iron Dukes" that shut out all regular season opponents; only three teams in history can claim such a feat. That same year, Duke made their first Rose Bowl appearance, where they lost 7–3 when USC scored a touchdown in the final minute of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53273 | 37,254 |
444,756 | Biotech start-up Toregen BioPharma signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with WuXi Biologics in October 2022 to develop the monoclonal antibody TRG035. Under the MoU, the companies will form a collaboration for the development of TRG035, which targets USAG-1 to treat congenital adentia. As part of the collaboratio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61516243 | 444,541 |
1,303,145 | The STARSHINE satellite consists of an inert, hollow sphere covered by 1,000 evenly distributed, flat, polished mirrors, each 1 inch in diameter. The payload consists of the STARSHINE satellite, integrated with the Pallet Ejection System (PES), then mounted inside a lidless carrier. The HH equipment consists of one HH ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=557228 | 1,302,429 |
279,258 | Some scientists, such as Richard A. Muller, think that geomagnetic reversals are not spontaneous processes but rather are triggered by external events that directly disrupt the flow in the Earth's core. Proposals include impact events or internal events such as the arrival of continental slabs carried down into the man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2203131 | 279,108 |
1,229,174 | Anti-reflection coatings were of immediate interest to Technicolor Corporation, which ordered the first commercial coated projection lenses from Bausch and Lomb for 25 Loew theatres in the larger US cities for the first showings of "Gone with the Wind" where "improvements in screen illumination, image contrast, and sha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38186969 | 1,228,512 |
2,122,759 | "P. pacificus" is one of several social paper wasp species that migrate seasonally depending on the times of the wet and dry seasons. In areas with less pronounced dry seasons, "P. pacificus" is more likely to brood continuously. However, when "P. pacificus" live in regions with a defined dry season, the dry season is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43952399 | 2,121,539 |
511,590 | 66ff: Imagine a circle drawn about the origin in the x'y' plane of K' and a diameter of this circle. Imagine, further, that we have given a large number of rigid rods, all equal to each other. We suppose these laid in series along the periphery and the diameter of the circle, at rest relatively to K'. If U is the numbe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2819556 | 511,324 |
1,390,677 | Two main frontal areas have been implicated in the dream process. The first involves the deep white matter of the frontal lobes (just above the eyes). The main systems at work here involve the mesolimbic and mesocortical dopaminergic pathways. There are connecting fibres that run between frontal and limbic structures. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25196457 | 1,389,906 |
511,668 | As rivers flow onward towards the sea, they experience a considerable diminution in their fall, and a progressive increase in the basin which they drain, owing to the successive influx of their various tributaries. Thus, their current gradually becomes more gentle and their discharge larger in volume and less subject t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3966984 | 511,402 |
856,422 | The retreat of glaciers since 1850 affects the availability of fresh water for irrigation and domestic use, mountain recreation, animals and plants that depend on glacier-melt, and, in the longer term, the level of the oceans. Deglaciation occurs naturally at the end of ice ages, but glaciologists find the current glac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4804597 | 855,967 |
382,420 | Henry Gray wrote "Gray's Anatomy" with an audience of medical students and physicians in mind, especially surgeons. For many decades however, precisely because Gray's textbook became such a classic, successive editors made major efforts to preserve its position as possibly the most authoritative text on the subject in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=168205 | 382,225 |
323,441 | There is a zone of the atmosphere in which ozone absorbs some 98% of non-ionizing but dangerous UV-C and UV-B. This so-called ozone layer starts at about and extends upward. Some of the ultraviolet spectrum that does reach the ground is non-ionizing, but is still biologically hazardous due to the ability of single phot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25856 | 323,269 |
1,113,941 | Acute-phase serum amyloid A proteins (A-SAAs) are secreted during the acute phase of inflammation. These proteins have several roles, including the transport of cholesterol to the liver for secretion into the bile, the recruitment of immune cells to inflammatory sites, and the induction of enzymes that degrade extracel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8253387 | 1,113,375 |
2,106,421 | Sérgio Danilo Junho Pena (born 17 October 1947 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil) is a Brazilian human geneticist and professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Immunology at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He began researching the population genetics of the Brazilian population in the la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69613216 | 2,105,208 |
574,993 | Microbubbles are used as contrast agents for sonographic examination, specifically echocardiograms, for the detection of a cardiac shunt. These microbubbles are composed of agitated saline solution, most of which are too large to pass through the lung capillaries. Therefore, the only ones that reach the left side of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3244736 | 574,699 |
590,583 | Based on secondary structure and hydrophobicity predictions, NCX was initially predicted to have 9 transmembrane helices. The family is believed to have arisen from a gene duplication event, due to apparent pseudo-symmetry within the primary sequence of the transmembrane domain. Inserted between the pseudo-symmetric ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7188750 | 590,281 |
1,250,738 | Bicalutamide has been found to be at least as effective as or more effective than flutamide in the treatment of prostate cancer, and is considered to be the most potent and efficacious antiandrogen of the three first-generation . As such, although bicalutamide has not been compared head-to-head to or spironolactone in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55841187 | 1,250,062 |
2,042,998 | The men's coxed four competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics took place at Lake Albano, Italy. It was held from 31 August to 3 September. There were 21 boats (105 competitors) from 21 nations, with each nation limited to a single boat in the competition. The event was won by the United Team of Germany in its debut in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52235191 | 2,041,818 |
101,529 | Passive sonar has several advantages, most importantly that it is silent. If the target radiated noise level is high enough, it can have a greater range than active sonar, and allows the target to be identified. Since any motorized object makes some noise, it may in principle be detected, depending on the level of nois... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29438 | 101,484 |
681,493 | All Galilean moons have thin atmospheres with surface pressures in the range 0.01–1 nbar, which in turn support substantial ionospheres with electron densities in the range of 1,000–10,000 cm. The co-rotational flow of cold magnetospheric plasma is partially diverted around them by the currents induced in their ionosph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8482163 | 681,137 |
714,999 | The saving in weight from the main battery allowed the "Majestic" class to carry a secondary battery of twelve QF (quick-firing) 6-inch 40-calibre guns, a larger secondary armament than in previous classes. These were mounted in casemates in two gun decks amidships, and they fired a shell at a muzzle velocity of . Elev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=464310 | 714,625 |
481,960 | The model differential analyser built at Manchester University in 1934 by Douglas Hartree and Arthur Porter made extensive use of Meccano parts: this meant that the machine was less costly to build, and it proved "accurate enough for the solution of many scientific problems". A similar machine built by J.B. Bratt at Ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=690759 | 481,716 |
1,426,939 | The landing flaps (55° in early models, 38° in later models), in conjunction with very effective airbrakes, allow the pilot to make exceptionally steep approaches at slow speeds, permitting very short landings when required. Second generation winglets further improved the handling and reduced drag at low to mid speeds.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2834865 | 1,426,136 |
1,713,476 | Another experiment onboard STS-85 was the Southwest Ultraviolet Imaging System (SWUIS-01) from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) along with scientific collaborators from JPL, APL, and the University of Maryland. SWUIS (pronounced, "swiss") is a wide-field UV imager to which was used to observe comet Hale-Bopp. It... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=504742 | 1,712,510 |
29,667 | In 1928, the British mathematical physicist Paul Dirac had derived his relativistic wave equation of quantum mechanics, which implied the existence of positive electrons, later to be named positrons. In 1932, from a cloud chamber photograph of cosmic rays, the American physicist Carl David Anderson identified a track a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33130 | 29,657 |
575,544 | In an opinion article published on the Debye Institute website, Dr. Gijs van Ginkel, until April 2007 Senior Managing Director of the VM Debye Instituut in Utrecht deplored this decision. In his article he cites scholars who point out that the DPG was able to retain their threatened staff as long as could be expected u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37067 | 575,250 |
2,180,210 | The discovery of adult neurogenesis in the songbird during the late twentieth century had a pivotal role in reversing the long-held dogma that brain cells are fixed in numbers after birth. The first relevant studies in adult canaries (1960s) were conducted in the context of studying singing behaviors and the way differ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71895680 | 2,178,965 |
1,169,937 | Ginling's first home was an old-style Chinese residence in Embroidery Alley () known locally as the Garden of the Lis () because it was previously owned by the fifth son of Li Hongzhang, the famous statesman of the Qing dynasty. It consisted of “two large, rambling, Chinese mansions set side by side, each containing fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=668984 | 1,169,318 |
1,801,254 | The widespread use of whole genome bisulfite sequencing has been primarily limited by its excessive cost, complex data output, and minimal required coverage. Due to the high amount and subsequent cost of DNA input, many studies using whole genome bisulfite sequencing assays occur with few or no biological replicates. F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49662809 | 1,800,245 |
860,496 | Rapid prototyping is also commonly applied in software engineering to try out new business models and application architectures such as Aerospace, Automotive, Financial Services, Product development, and Healthcare. Aerospace design and industrial teams rely on prototyping in order to create new AM methodologies in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10579736 | 860,038 |
467,179 | Triboelectric nanogenerator is an ideal energy harvester which can collect diverse mechanical energies from the environment, especially low frequency mechanical energies, like wind and water waves. In 2013, Zhonglin Wang's group reported a rotary triboelectric nanogenerator for harvesting wind energy. Subsequently, var... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30057479 | 466,944 |
504,603 | Carlson wrote over 400 ideas for new inventions in his personal notebooks while working at Bell Labs. He kept coming back to his love of printing, especially since his job in the patent department gave him new determination to find a better way to copy documents. "In the course of my patent work," wrote Carlson, "I fre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=358498 | 504,341 |
1,142,162 | Weber's intervention came at the right moment when Marxism – particularly vulgar Marxism – reduced "non-economic" practices and beliefs, the superstructure, to a determined base, the mode of production. Similarly, speculative philosophy imposed its own metaphysical categories on diverse concrete realities thus making a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21763531 | 1,141,568 |
438,426 | In renal physiology, reabsorption or tubular reabsorption is the process by which the nephron removes water and solutes from the tubular fluid (pre-urine) and returns them to the circulating blood. It is called "reabsorption" (and not "absorption") because these substances have already been absorbed once (particularly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4672669 | 438,212 |
498,474 | Returning from Rio was Gold Medalist Shaunae Miller-Uibo, remembered for her diving finish to beat Allyson Felix. Felix was back as well, now age 35 and a mother, running in her fifth Olympics. Each time she sets a season best, it is a masters world record. But the list of non-participants is notable; World Champion Sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60376595 | 498,217 |
1,997,429 | After Presbyterian Hospital was established in 1872, administrators had trouble finding competent staff and recognized a need for qualified nurses. In 1892, the School of Nursing was founded as the Presbyterian Hospital Training School for Nurses, with Anna C. Maxwell serving as its first dean. The early curriculum at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1170629 | 1,996,286 |
1,723,662 | Niednagel began to develop Brain Typing in the late 1970s and 1980s while coaching youth soccer, basketball, and Little League baseball. He observed that children with similar personalities also tended to have similar motor skills. Niednagel began to receive more attention for his work in the 1990s, particularly in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7786114 | 1,722,692 |
30,538 | By January 1986, the planned launch date for Hubble that October looked feasible, but the "Challenger" disaster brought the U.S. space program to a halt, grounded the Shuttle fleet, and forced the launch to be postponed for several years. During this delay the telescope had to be kept in a clean room, powered up and pu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40203 | 30,528 |
748,763 | New concepts are required since “intelligence” is no longer centralized but can be found throughout all minuscule objects. Anthropocentric concepts have been known to lead to the production of IT systems in which data processing, control units and calculating forces are centralized. These centralized units have continu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=588615 | 748,365 |
931,273 | Photoresists can also be exposed by electron beams, producing the same results as exposure by light. The main difference is that while photons are absorbed, depositing all their energy at once, electrons deposit their energy gradually, and scatter within the photoresist during this process. As with high-energy waveleng... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23781 | 930,782 |
1,201,533 | Without losing generality, consider a steady state, i.e. formula_126, and an infinite crosswind line source, for which, at formula_127formula_128Assuming that formula_129, i.e., the x-transport by mean flow greatly outweighs the eddy flux in that direction, the gradient based diffusion equation for the flux of a statio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7747984 | 1,200,892 |
337,044 | The forward-facing NIIP N011M Bars (Panther) is a powerful integrated passive electronically scanned array radar. The N011M is a digital multi-mode dual frequency band radar. The N011M can function in air-to-air and air-to-land/sea mode simultaneously while being tied into a high-precision laser-inertial or GPS navigat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3793034 | 336,865 |
1,979,405 | Engineering for Change (E4C) is an online platform and international community of engineers, scientists, non-governmental organizations, local community advocates and other innovators working to solve global development problems. The organization's founding partners are the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31032136 | 1,978,267 |
514,557 | Solar desalination in the United States began in the early 1950s when Congress passed the Conversion of Saline Water Act, which led to the establishment of the Office of Saline Water (OSW) in 1955. OSW's main function was to administer funds for desalination research and development projects. One of five demonstration ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2712280 | 514,291 |
1,344,164 | Oliver started the 2010 outdoor season with four straight wins over other competitors, among them victories at the Ponce Grand Prix, and the Colorful Daegu Pre-Championships Meeting over Dayron Robles. He scored his first IAAF Diamond League win at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix in May, beating home favorite Liu Xiang ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7152719 | 1,343,427 |
1,947,138 | Myasthenia Gravis is an autoimmune disease that causes weakness and dysfunction of the patient’s skeletal muscles as a result of extensive neurological damage that destroys the communication between the nerves and the muscles. It has been found that individuals who have Myasthenia Gravis possess high levels of the acet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70058191 | 1,946,025 |
166,468 | The first introduction of drab general uniform was by the British Corps of Guides in India in 1848. Initially the drab uniform was specially imported from England, with one of the reasons being to "make them invisible in a land of dust". However, when a larger quantity was required the army improvised, using a local dy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3554176 | 166,382 |
426,039 | Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) is an experimental technique used in condensed matter physics to probe the allowed energies and momenta of the electrons in a material, usually a crystalline solid. It is based on the photoelectric effect, in which an incoming photon of sufficient energy ejects an elect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7078310 | 425,831 |
278,339 | After condensation and ignition of a star, it generates thermal energy in its dense core region through nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium. During this stage of the star's lifetime, it is located on the main sequence at a position determined primarily by its mass but also based on its chemical composition and age. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19605 | 278,189 |
1,402,898 | The site was initially discovered by Victor Guérin in 1874, then by Gottlieb Schumacher in 1910, and Bellarmino Bagatti in 1974. Later on, excavations in Khirbet Belameh, led by Hamdan Taha of the Palestinian Antiquities Department, began in 1996. These have focused on a water tunnel carved out of rock sometime in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15703061 | 1,402,111 |
771,460 | Spaceflight became an engineering possibility with the work of Robert H. Goddard's publication in 1919 of his paper "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes". His application of the de Laval nozzle to liquid fuel rockets improved efficiency enough for interplanetary travel to become possible. He also proved in the labor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77178 | 771,046 |
565,692 | Singapore's Youth Olympic Games Learning Centre is located at the SYOGOC headquarters along Kay Siang Road. It was officially opened by the SNOC President Teo Chee Hean and former pole vaulting champion Sergei Bubka on 30 October 2008. The two-storey, facility was open to the public for free allow visitors to discover ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13765908 | 565,402 |
1,296,247 | Paz first started his career at Bell Labs as an intern from December 1950 to April 1952 as an Engineering Aid. Paz worked on testing several transistor parameters, such as rise time, RC timing constant, alpha coefficient, to determine their effects on a transistor circuit design. He then went on to work at RCA as a sum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6144286 | 1,295,536 |
744,806 | Various avionics are present upon the Panther; some variants are fitted with the advanced human-machine interface (HMI) glass cockpit. It features the vehicle and engine multifunction display (VEMD), integrated electronic standby instrument (ESI), usage monitoring system (UMS), traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=535824 | 744,412 |
592,416 | After 9 months of observation, should the paralysis not resolve and the patient be dissatisfied with the outcomes of voice therapy, the next option is temporary injection medialization. In this procedure, a variety of materials can be injected into the body of the vocal fold in order to bring it closer to the midline o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8580965 | 592,112 |
1,815,284 | Physical cues such as pressure, velocity, flow patterns, and shear stress are known to act on the vascular network in a number of ways, including branching morphogenesis, enlargement of vessels in high-flow areas, angiogenesis, and the development of vein valves. The mechanotransduction of these physical cues to endoth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34015166 | 1,814,250 |
2,137,533 | In 1968, Ireland's economic development required more energy production and the Electricity Supply Board began evaluating ways of diversifying its electricity generation. The Turlough Hill project had just commenced and this was one of the most prestigious engineering projects since the foundation of the state and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=857361 | 2,136,303 |
738,309 | Vest BCs typically provide up to about 25 kilograms of buoyancy (depending on size) and are fairly comfortable to wear, if of the correct size and adjusted to fit the diver. Vest BCs are the most common type among recreational divers because they can integrate buoyancy control, weights, attachment points for auxiliary ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=460801 | 737,918 |
1,533,546 | During 2014-2015, large parts of the original code base were rewritten. BioJava 3 is a clear departure from the version 1 series. It now consists of several independent modules built using an automation tool called Apache Maven. These modules provide state-of-the-art tools for protein structure comparison, pairwise and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=559858 | 1,532,678 |
1,376,563 | The design of a challenge study involves first, simultaneously testing a vaccine candidate for immunogenicity and safety in laboratory animals and healthy adult volunteers (100 or fewer)which is usually a sequential process using animals firstand second, rapidly advancing its effective dose into a large-scale PhaseII–I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63996932 | 1,375,801 |
2,159,544 | The introductory chapter of the book explores the limits of calculation on the problem, from 49-point problems solved by hand in the mid-1950s by George Dantzig, D. R. Fulkerson, and Selmer M. Johnson to a problem with 85,900 points solved optimally in 2006 by the Concorde TSP Solver, which Cook helped develop. The nex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63192769 | 2,158,312 |
582,122 | Saks began experiencing symptoms of mental illness at eight years old, but she had her first full-blown episode when studying as a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University. Another breakdown happened while Saks was a student at Yale Law School, after which she "ended up forcibly restrained and forced to take anti-psychoti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16226468 | 581,824 |
2,154,557 | His Early Start on the Violin was first published in German in 1976, followed by three more volumes, and is widely used. The work has been translated into Italian, Chinese, and (in 2008) into English; adaptations for viola and cellos have also been published. Sassmannshaus grew up in Wuppertal and was largely self-taug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21111454 | 2,153,326 |
2,190,310 | The 1962–63 Bearcats were coached by Ed Jucker, who was in his third season on the job. In the previous two seasons, Cincinnati won the national championship, defeating Ohio State in the 1961 and 1962 national championship games. The Bearcats were attempting to become the first program ever to win the NCAA Tournament f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54644076 | 2,189,061 |
1,062,671 | In November 2017, 15,364 scientists signed "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice" written by lead author professor of ecology, William J. Ripple of Oregon State University, along with 7 co-authors calling for, among other things, limiting population growth, and drastically diminishing per capita consu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2016744 | 1,062,117 |
1,967,619 | Nano-scaffolding is very small, 100 times smaller than the human hair and is built out of biodegradable fibers. The use of this scaffolding allows more effective use of stem cells and quicker regeneration. Electrospun nanofibers are prepared using microscopic tubes that range between 100 and 200 nanometers in diameter.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21880823 | 1,966,489 |
2,138,865 | Dunsby briefly received international attention following a 20 March 2018 report of a "very bright optical transient near the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae" to the "Astronomers Telegram", an internet service for quickly disseminating information about astronomical events. Forty minutes later he posted again, saying that th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56911891 | 2,137,635 |
1,010,749 | An official remake, titled "", was developed by Firaxis Games, led by MicroProse's co-founder Sid Meier. The game's prototype was actually a modernization of the original, with all the classic gameplay features, but then gradually evolved into a completely "reimagined" version. The game was released by 2K Games for Mic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=668164 | 1,010,228 |
1,680,175 | Acland applied for and received two years of funding from the Medical Research Council (MRC) to improve the instruments used in microsurgery. It was unusual for surgical trainees to receive MRC funding, and Acland suspected that the Scottish plastic surgeon Thomas Gibson may have played a part in approving his applicat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49048686 | 1,679,232 |
83,425 | Nevertheless, it is clear from the archaeology of numerous mithraea that most rituals were associated with feasting – as eating utensils and food residues are almost invariably found. These tend to include both animal bones and also very large quantities of fruit residues. The presence of large amounts of cherry-stones... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20826 | 83,391 |
2,222,907 | Communities with large black and hispanic populations are also most likely to have lower quality/less available healthcare. This means that the risk of mistakes being made in screening and diagnosis are more likely to happen in these areas. The clinics and hospitals are often understaffed and rushing through samples ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71861413 | 2,221,645 |
60,360 | In response to mainland China's purchase of the Su-27, the Republic of China (Taiwan) began talks with the US and France about the possible purchase of new fighters. While the US opposed Taiwan's acquisition of the Mirage 2000 and instead pressured it to procure the F-16, the Republic of China Air Force became the firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=381535 | 60,335 |
383,367 | There was to be a store (that is, a memory) capable of holding 1,000 numbers of 40 decimal digits each (ca. 16.6 kB). An arithmetic unit (the "mill") would be able to perform all four arithmetic operations, plus comparisons and optionally square roots. Initially (1838) it was conceived as a difference engine curved bac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1271 | 383,172 |
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