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238,758 | If a short duration of action is desired, a single dose of medication called a bolus may be administered. Thereafter, this bolus may be repeated if necessary provided the catheter remains undisturbed. For a prolonged effect, a continuous infusion of medication may be used. There is some evidence that an automated inter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=985885 | 238,638 |
1,305,606 | During their undergraduate studies, Bassett was the sole recipient of the Paul Axt Prize, which is given to a student who demonstrates commitment to inquiry and fosters intellectual curiosity. Bassett was also a Schreyer Honors Scholar and was named the Most Achieving Undergraduate Woman of the Year in 2004. Bassett re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43849647 | 1,304,890 |
977,972 | Despite a lack of dualist responses overall and Jackson's own change of view, there are more recent instances of prominent dualists defending the Knowledge Argument. David Chalmers, one of the most prominent contemporary dualists, considers Jackson's thought experiment to successfully show that materialism is false. Ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=539988 | 977,461 |
1,991,224 | The AdK gene in humans is located on chromosome 10 in the 10q11-10q24 region. In contrast to its coding sequence (about 1 Kb), the AdK gene in mammalian species is unusually large (~546 Kb in humans) and it consists of 11 exons (36 to 173 bp in length) and 10 introns whose lengths vary from 4.2 Kb to 128.6 Kb (average ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14676583 | 1,990,081 |
2,232,223 | A few days afterwards, Minnesota arrived in Milwaukee but the Gophers were still finding their feet with a new bench boss. After a close game that ended in a draw, Marquette dominated the second match and won 6–3. Just when it looked like the Hilltoppers had a chance at another Intercollegiate title, warm weather force... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67556783 | 2,230,956 |
59,538 | The current coelacanth range is primarily along the eastern African coast, although "Latimeria menadoensis" was discovered off Indonesia. Coelacanths have been found in the waters of Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa, Madagascar, Comoros and Indonesia. Most "Latimeria chalumnae" specimens that have been caught ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45503 | 59,513 |
1,484,430 | According to the German pioneer psychologist Wilhelm Wundt, the attempt to theorize scientifically about national psychology dates from the mid-19th century . In post-1871 Germany, but especially during the Third Reich, some German professors of linguistics and literature tried to influence English studies with a polit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7222345 | 1,483,593 |
2,818 | Asperger's paper was published during World War II and in German, so it was not widely read elsewhere. Lorna Wing used the term "Asperger syndrome" in 1976, and popularized it to the English-speaking medical community in her February 1981 publication of case studies of children showing the symptoms described by Asperge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37556 | 2,818 |
294,251 | The weapon was lightened to and shortened to but retained the same barrel length. The CQB model has a 13-inch barrel, and is half a pound lighter than the regular model. Uncommon in other automatic shotguns, the AA-12 fires from an open bolt, a feature more commonly found in submachine guns, as well as heavy and squad-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4581435 | 294,092 |
1,403,243 | In China, Fudan University in collaboration with Pharma Co. Ltd. is engaged in development of the vaccine for COVID-19 prevention. SeV serves as a backbone vector in the project . Researchers from the Fudan University have significant experience working with SeV vectors; they created SeV based vaccine for tuberculosis ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6070061 | 1,402,455 |
745,638 | The remains of many animals including dinosaurs were found in the Hell Creek Formation. Its location at the changing conjunction of the eastern coast of Laramidia and the adjacent western shallows of the Western Interior Seaway led to the preservation of fossils of both marine and terrestrial creatures. Vertebrates inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3551034 | 745,244 |
2,029,674 | In 2016, DeWitte received a grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation to assist in her analysis of comparing dietary isotope data to mortality risk. She used the grant to combined paleodemographic, paleopathological, and isotopic data from human skeletal remains to examine the intersectionality of diet, sex, socioeconomic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70161939 | 2,028,506 |
882,671 | The widespread use of the term "biomarker" dates back to as early as 1980. The manner in which the environment was monitored and studied near the end of the 1980s was still mainly reliant on the study of chemical substances that were considered dangerous or toxic when found in moderate concentrations in water, sediment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4584079 | 882,207 |
173,972 | In the 1950s, new academic units and degree programs were established. Another major reform, the General Education (G.E.) Program, was introduced in 1959. The G.E. Program became a series of core courses prescribed for all students at the undergraduate level. Most of these courses were being taught at the then College ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=190490 | 173,881 |
2,102,872 | Page 29 of the report states: "This behavior by the administration violates the central premise of the scientific method, and is therefore of particularly grave concern to the scientific community." It then goes on, in a short section titled "Conclusions and Recommendations: What's at Stake" at the end of the report, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=495795 | 2,101,660 |
536,248 | Islamic mathematics developed and expanded the mathematics known to Central Asian civilizations. Al-Khwārizmī gave an exhaustive explanation for the algebraic solution of quadratic equations with positive roots, and Al-Khwārizmī was to teach algebra in an elementary form and for its own sake. Al-Khwārizmī also discusse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6134187 | 535,969 |
629,311 | Just as HTTP is a stateless protocol, so is SMS. As SMS became interoperable across rival networks in 1999, and text messaging started its ascent towards becoming a ubiquitous global form of communication, various enterprises became interested in using the SMS channel for commercial purposes. Initial services did not r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=865452 | 628,973 |
1,089,209 | Thus, by the early twentieth century the chemical, but not the structural nature of the cell membrane was known. Two experiments in 1924 laid the groundwork to fill in this gap. By measuring the capacitance of erythrocyte solutions Fricke determined that the cell membrane was 3.3 nm thick. Although the results of this ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21400587 | 1,088,650 |
1,688,839 | Once the cell is complete, a surface coil (or coils, depending on the desired coil type) is taped to the outside of the cell, which a) allows RF pulses to be produced in order to tip the polarized spins into the detection field (x,y plane) and b) detects the signal produced by the polarized nuclear spins. The cell is p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=900726 | 1,687,893 |
665,676 | Many of the Turkish Phantoms are used as ground attack aircraft, a role they performed well due to the systems installed. The first Phantoms delivered to the THK had Southeast Asia camouflage colors and TISEO equipment, consisting of a wing-mounted television camera with zoom capacity for spotting targets outside of no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13567676 | 665,329 |
1,166,028 | Throughout this article the standards are referred to by the year they came into force. Before 1968 each manufacturer used its own integrated circuit designation. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the standards were not as strictly enforced, and a number of manufacturers introduced manufacturer-spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50079645 | 1,165,411 |
754,833 | The standard is based on five principles: airtightness, ventilation, waterproofing, heating and cooling, and electrical loads. Within these principles, projects must pass building specified blower door, ventilation airflow, overall airflow, and electrical load tests; buildings must also achieve other measures such as l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1866599 | 754,430 |
500,222 | The photographic single-lens reflex camera (SLR) was invented in 1861 by Thomas Sutton, a photography author and camera inventor who ran a photography related company together with Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard on Jersey. Only a few of his SLRs were made. The first production SLR with a brand name was Calvin Rae Smith'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3193137 | 499,965 |
1,557,831 | The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) developed and launched two programs, named ConQuest and Mercury that run under Windows and various types of Unix, including Linux. ConQuest as a search interface to the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD), with Fortran code that performs a large variety of tasks, such a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65059134 | 1,556,946 |
1,345,068 | As NPY is a 36 amino acid peptide associated with many physiological and pathological conditions, it has multiple receptors that are broadly expressed in the developing and mature rodent brain. However, given "in vivo" studies performed by this group, the Y1 receptor displayed specifically mediated neuroproliferative e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6852419 | 1,344,330 |
201,962 | Repeating the experiments of Priestley, he demonstrated that air is composed of two parts, one of which combines with metals to form calxes. In "Considérations Générales sur la Nature des Acides" (1778), he demonstrated that the "air" responsible for combustion was also the source of acidity. The next year, he named th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1416046 | 201,859 |
1,158,204 | "Hynerpeton" was found at the Red Hill site of Pennsylvania. This roadcut preserved fossils from the Duncannon member of the Catskill Formation, which was laid down in an ancient coastal floodplain. During the late Devonian, the floodplain was close to the equator, so the climate was warm and humid, with a dry and wet ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3584084 | 1,157,590 |
5,496 | From the mid-first century AD, Christianity took root in Egypt and it was originally seen as another cult that could be accepted. However, it was an uncompromising religion that sought to win converts from the pagan Egyptian and Greco-Roman religions and threatened popular religious traditions. This led to the persecut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=874 | 5,493 |
1,277,770 | She was banned for a year by the World Anti-Doping Agency after missing three drugs tests in 2016 - two of them after she forgot to update her whereabouts details when she was attending a fete of honor in her hometown and travelling to the White House to meet the president. Rollins was punished under the World Anti-Dop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39750311 | 1,277,077 |
2,230,409 | S. wagneri is an obligate anaerobic chemolithoautotroph and undergoes anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) in the intracytoplasmic compartment called an anammoxosome. During the anammox process, ammonium is oxidized using nitrite as an electron acceptor and forms dinitrogen gas as a product. It is proposed that this ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37522041 | 2,229,143 |
1,790,573 | The first experimental demonstration of electromagnetic black hole at microwave frequencies occurred in October 2009. The proposed black hole was composed of non-resonant, and resonant, metamaterial structures, which can absorb electromagnetic waves efficiently coming from all directions due to the local control of ele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27470863 | 1,789,567 |
973,810 | Bradykinin was discovered in 1948 by three Brazilian physiologists and pharmacologists working at the Biological Institute, in São Paulo, Brazil, led by Dr. Maurício Rocha e Silva. Together with colleagues Wilson Teixeira Beraldo and Gastão Rosenfeld, they discovered the powerful hypotensive effects of bradykinin in an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=538905 | 973,300 |
151,457 | The body farms have contributed a great deal to the field of forensic anthropology. However, when such facilities first opened, local communities sometimes resisted, arguing these facilities are disturbing. Many have made the argument that the decomposing corpses will attract insects and scavenging animals. After the o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=740070 | 151,389 |
2,026,283 | The Goode Solar Telescope deploys adaptive optical systems to mitigate image blur caused by atmospheric turbulence. With its single deformable mirror (DM), the CAO system has been routinely used since 2010 for the vast majority of observations and serves all post-focus instruments except CYRA. CAO is a "classical" adap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54637429 | 2,025,117 |
781,204 | Most fossils of "Albertosaurus sarcophagus" are known from the upper Horseshoe Canyon Formation in Alberta. These younger units of this geologic formation date to the early Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period, 70 to 68 Ma (million years ago). Immediately below this formation is the Bearpaw Shale, a marine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1367 | 780,786 |
2,243,933 | Drake focused on community assembly models and the structure of ecological communities. He helped organize The International Program of the Scientific Committee on Problems with the Environment. This work led to the formation of the scientific study of invasion biology. He was the editor-in-chief of the journal "Biolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65404284 | 2,242,662 |
59,270 | Mitochondria-mediated oxidative stress plays a role in cardiomyopathy in type 2 diabetics. Increased fatty acid delivery to the heart increases fatty acid uptake by cardiomyocytes, resulting in increased fatty acid oxidation in these cells. This process increases the reducing equivalents available to the electron trans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19588 | 59,245 |
1,766,814 | Morocco has decided to compensate for its lack of hydrocarbons by becoming the leader in Africa for renewable energy by 2020. In 2014, it inaugurated the continent's biggest wind farm at Tarfaya in the southwest of the country. The government plans to create the world's biggest solar farm at Ouarzazate. The first phase... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25038241 | 1,765,820 |
313,513 | The vascular arterial system supplying fresh blood branches into smaller and smaller vessels as it enters the brain surface and within-brain regions, culminating in a connected capillary bed within the brain. The drainage system, similarly, merges into larger and larger veins as it carries away oxygen-depleted blood. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=226722 | 313,344 |
2,064,975 | Beside the buttons for adding individuals and for commingled inventories, one can use the database tracking system for commingled skeletal elements. This system is useful for keeping track of commingled remains during data collection and for future efforts at reassociation. The type of method and the time to use it whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48579655 | 2,063,784 |
842,635 | In the scanner the narrow light beam was produced by an arc lamp shining through the holes in a spinning Nipkow disk. Each sweep of the spot across the scene produced a "scan line" of the picture. A single "frame" of the picture was typically made up of 24, 48, or 60 scan lines. The scene was typically scanned 15 or 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1361581 | 842,185 |
1,564,530 | By 1979, ACT was effectively a worldwide mini-conglomerate. It had revenues over $16 million and in terms of size was in the top 60 of over 3,000 companies in the software, services, and facilities management sector. It derived approximately equal revenues from overseas as from the U.S. By 1981 the company stated it ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43706094 | 1,563,643 |
199,721 | Work on GOR.339 continued, with a deadline for submissions on 31 January 1958. Many proposals were entered; English Electric teamed up with Short Brothers and submitted its P.17A along with the Shorts' P.17D, a vertical-lift platform that would give the P.17 a VTOL capability; designs were also received from Avro, Blac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=225702 | 199,618 |
1,148,912 | These carbides and nitrides possess an unusual combination of chemical, physical, electrical, and mechanical properties, exhibiting both metallic and ceramic characteristics under various conditions. These include high electrical and thermal conductivity, thermal shock resistance, damage tolerance, machinability, high ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30720730 | 1,148,305 |
795,610 | Predictions are made using methods that combine historical data with oceanic modelling output, and one such study used the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) to show the Kuroshio Current interacting with the northern extremity of the subtropical gyre, contrasting older predictions of simple gyre "spin up" fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=952514 | 795,185 |
1,167,484 | Growth after 2011 slowed as the schemes were revised at sporadic intervals rather than timely interventions based on cost and deployment. In 2012 Italy added an estimated 3.4 GW of new capacity, a figure much reduced on 2011 but still a large rise in the context of solar development by that year. A 2013 report by Deuts... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32793086 | 1,166,866 |
141,719 | A series of experimental investigations of the propagation of strong shock wave (SW) in a liquid with gas bubbles, which made it possible to establish the basic laws governing the process, the mechanism for the transformation of the energy of the SW, attenuation of the SW, and the formation of the structure, and experi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7807 | 141,661 |
2,077,730 | Mary Lewis completed a BA in Archaeology at the University of Leicester in 1992 and attended the University of Bradford where she studied for an MSc in Osteology, Palaeopathology and Funerary Archaeology and a PhD in Bioarchaeology. Her thesis was titled "The impact of urbanisation and industrialisation in medieval and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62895952 | 2,076,531 |
1,624,978 | The appearance of a protrusive growth will be present at their mandible or maxilla. The expansive nature of this cyst may destruct the quality of symmetry at the facial region and would be a clear physical sign of abnormality. The area of impact may likely be at the anterior region of mandible as described in a signifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7456840 | 1,624,062 |
1,444,489 | The complex loading of the bass drive unit demands specific Thiele-Small driver parameters to realise the full benefits of a TL design. Most drive units in the marketplace are developed for the more common reflex and infinite baffle designs and are usually not suitable for TL loading. High efficiency bass drivers with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7417940 | 1,443,676 |
1,104,375 | The complex loading of the bass drive unit demands specific Thiele-Small driver parameters to realise the full benefits of a TL design. Most drive units in the marketplace are developed for the more common reflex and infinite baffle designs and are usually not suitable for TL loading. High efficiency bass drivers with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44224558 | 1,103,812 |
656,611 | Advantages of SLNs include the use of physiological lipids (which decreases the danger of acute and chronic toxicity), the avoidance of organic solvents, a potential wide application spectrum (dermal, per os, intravenous) and the high pressure homogenization as an established production method. Additionally, improved b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23291159 | 656,267 |
1,847,289 | On 15 November 1992 was a special day for the HNDE 2nd batch, with the presence of the chief guest lecturer, Mr. A.N.S Kulasinghe, the convocation was held at BMICH. 17 August 1994 was a turning point of HNDE.On that day HNDE was transferred to the ministry of labour and vocational training from the ministry of educati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43835762 | 1,846,232 |
1,357,456 | In 1985, Shimizu Construction developed a bioreactor that uses "Methanosarcina" to treat waste water from food processing plants and paper mills. The water is fed into the reactor where the microbes break down the waste particulate. The methane produced by the bacteria is then used to power the reactor, making it cheap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5220460 | 1,356,706 |
1,019,616 | Small aerodynamic fins allow the system to steer the shell on target. Its GPS receiver compares the PGK's flight pattern to the coordinates of where it should hit, and the fins adjust its path to match where the round will actually impact. A fail safe exists where if the shell does not impact within of the intended tar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12060615 | 1,019,089 |
1,991,893 | Mount Gargaron has been identified with the mountain today called Koca Kaya (Turkish "Great Rock"), a western spur of Mount Ida with a maximum elevation of 780 m. The poet Epicharmus ("fl." 540 - 450 BCE) refers to the mountain as "snowcapped" (ἀγάννιφα), and the "Etymologicum Magnum" (ca. 1150 CE) knew a tradition acc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4441310 | 1,990,750 |
219,049 | Africa's volcanoes have had an impact on the fossil record. Geographically a part of Africa, El Hierro is a shield volcano and the youngest and smallest of the Canary Islands. The most recent El Hierro eruption occurred underwater, in 2011, and caused earthquakes and landslides throughout the Canary Islands. Instead of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=434543 | 218,940 |
240,865 | In 1946, a technique called astronomical interferometry was developed. Astronomical radio interferometers usually consist either of arrays of parabolic dishes or two-dimensional arrays of omni-directional antennas. All of the telescopes in the array are widely separated and are usually connected together using coaxial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15112 | 240,745 |
1,144,070 | Taylor also co-authored the book "The Restoration of the Earth" with Charles C. Humpstone. According to reviews, the book focused on techniques to enhance sustainability and expanded on different sources of energy that could be used alternatively to meet the power needs of the earth. This book was also a culmination of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72573 | 1,143,469 |
397,791 | Another discovery was that the total amount of air needed to lift the craft was a function of the roughness of the surface over which it travelled. On flat surfaces, like pavement, the required air pressure was so low that hovercraft were able to compete in energy terms with conventional systems like steel wheels. Howe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152690 | 397,595 |
1,941,599 | Immunisation is a reduced susceptibility to a parasite upon secondary exposure to the same parasite. The past decade has revealed that immunisation occurs in invertebrates and is active against a wide range of parasites. It occurs in two forms: (i) specific immune priming particular parasite or (ii) a general immune up... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51046084 | 1,940,488 |
709,079 | There are 35 books published by USC Press from 2008 to 2015 which cover and involve the following subjects and areas of interests : Historical Images of Cebu during colonial era; Religious Heritage of the Archdiocese of Cebu; Ancestral Houses and Heritage Sites of Cebu and Bohol; Cebuano Literature, Poetry, Language, C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1367948 | 708,710 |
1,594,391 | The Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) at Berkeley, California was initiated in 1958 by a committee of faculty members who recognized that emerging rocket and satellite technology opened up new investigative realms for the physical, biological, and engineering sciences. The committee, chaired first by Professor Otto Struv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2229648 | 1,593,494 |
854,090 | In the 1990s, the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group PICMG developed a chassis/blade structure for the then emerging Peripheral Component Interconnect bus PCI called CompactPCI. CompactPCI was actually invented by Ziatech Corp of San Luis Obispo, CA and developed into an industry standard. Common among these c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=881423 | 853,635 |
325,036 | Piaget and colleagues have examined morphisms, which to them differ from the operative transformations observed on concrete operational children. Piaget (1977) wrote that "correspondences and morphisms are essentially comparisons that do not transform objects to be compared but that extract common forms from them or an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=95274 | 324,863 |
2,090,025 | Unlike most states in the Midwest, Michigan still does not sponsor boy's interscholastic high school volleyball. Still, the MSU club typically achieves a winning match percentage each year, and has earned several ten Top 10 National Championship finishes, 9 BTMVA Championships, 7 MIVA Championships and frequent top 25 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26942114 | 2,088,822 |
1,842,097 | The final was held at the Eden Gardens, in Calcutta, India, on 29 December 1997. The crowd was reported to be in excess of 50,000, partly due to the local government providing transportation for local women to attend the match, though estimates varied. A state government official suggested the crowd to be around 80,000... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63887749 | 1,841,045 |
1,037,580 | The next set of modifications deal with practice. Give students extra practice trials, build in more time for a student to master skills, make sure activities are perceived as fun, promote active participation, shorten activities to reduce problems with attention span, and allow choices in what activity will be done, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5089299 | 1,037,039 |
1,447,853 | In 2012, Hawker won the Centenary Prize from the Royal Society for developing strategies for the design of new polymers, which has had a major influence in the area and on those studying polymers. In 2013, Hawker and another colleague invented Olaplex, a successful commercial product designed to relink hair bonds and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3009568 | 1,447,037 |
1,781,777 | In common with the Schneider designs the Putilov guns had hydraulic recoil absorption and pneumatic recuperation. The gun had variable recoil, at less than 12° elevation the recoil length was 1800 , at greater than 16° elevation the recoil length was reduced to . The 152mm guns barrels were designed to be detached from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7482688 | 1,780,773 |
490,082 | Planning for the canal crossing dates back to at least the beginning of the 20th century. Work on the Mittellandkanal began in 1905, while work on the overall project continued until 1942, when all construction was brought to a halt because of World War II. After the war, the government of East Germany did not resume w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2876423 | 489,828 |
2,062,100 | Small scale physics is also the focus of the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta. Operated by the NRC, the institute was created in 2001 and moved into a state-of-the-art facility among the largest and quietest of its type in the world in 2006. It will study a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18401364 | 2,060,910 |
754,633 | Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950) was an Austrian School economist and political scientist best known for his works on business cycles and innovation. He insisted on the role of the entrepreneurs in an economy. In "Business Cycles: A theoretical, historical and statistical analysis of the Capitalist process" (1939), ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7881361 | 754,230 |
16,275 | Su-25SM weapon suite has been expanded with the addition of the Vympel R-73 highly agile air-to-air missile (albeit without helmet mounted cueing and only the traditional longitudinal seeker mode) and the S-13T 130 mm rockets (carried in five-round B-13 pods) with blast-fragmentation and armour-piercing warheads. Furth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=366696 | 16,270 |
22,916 | The SR-71 Blackbird was retired by the USAF in 1998, leaving a potential coverage gap between surveillance satellites, crewed aircraft, and unmanned aerial vehicles for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and strike missions. With the growth of anti-satellite weapons, anti-access/area denial tactics, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40950096 | 22,907 |
128,647 | The most common version of the Sparrow today, the AIM-7M, entered service in 1982 and featured a new inverse monopulse seeker (matching the capabilities of Skyflash), active radar proximity fuse, digital controls, improved ECM resistance, and better low-altitude performance. It was used to good advantage in the 1991 Gu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3146 | 128,595 |
1,801,923 | In 1972, the 58th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 33d Tactical Fighter Wing, was deployed to Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand, under what was known as the "Summer Help Program." During this period, the 58th was credited as the first temporary duty unit to down an enemy aircraft. On 2 June 1972, Major Philip W. Hand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,912 |
1,414,961 | Allow the objects to return a "success" or "failure" value for each modifier or raise an exception on failure. This is usually done in the case of file I/O, but can also be helpful here. Now, works, and returns "true", while simply returns "false". This is in general good practice, but may require that the original aut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9022379 | 1,414,164 |
1,479,154 | Believing that an individual's ethnicity determined their behaviour, the core of Kossinna's approach was to divide Temperate Europe into three large cultural groupings: Germans, Celts and Slavs, based upon the modern linguistic groups. He then divided each of these cultural groupings into smaller "cultures", or tribes,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=642813 | 1,478,321 |
1,249,153 | The fingers of the mummy are partially connected to each other by an envelope of skin impressions. In 1912, Osborn suggested that this skin envelope represented webbing between fingers and that the forelimb would have functioned as a paddle, which he considered a clear indication of an aquatic lifestyle for "Trachodon"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9726532 | 1,248,477 |
612,683 | At various times the U.S. government has investigated changes to the accreditation system. In 2002 the House of Representatives Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness criticized the system. Accreditation was a major topic of the Spellings Commission, which released its report on September 26, 2006. The Council fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28980088 | 612,372 |
464,291 | The Made In Space, Inc. 3D printers, which launched in 2014 to the International Space Station, are designed specifically for a zero-gravity or micro-gravity environment. The effort was awarded the Phase III Small Business Innovation and Research Contract. The Additive Manufacturing Facility will be used by NASA to car... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1780366 | 464,061 |
2,059,266 | In 2016, a box-shaped graphene (BSG) nanostructure resulted from mechanical cleavage of pyrolytic graphite has been reported. The discovered nanostructure is a multilayer system of parallel hollow nanochannels located along the surface that displayed quadrangular cross-section. The thickness of the channel walls is app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55264300 | 2,058,080 |
877,738 | Many models of quintessence have a "tracker" behavior, which according to Ratra and Peebles (1988) and Paul Steinhardt "et al." (1999) partly solves the cosmological constant problem. In these models, the quintessence field has a density which closely tracks (but is less than) the radiation density until matter-radiati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39137 | 877,276 |
1,498,573 | The human "GATA1" gene is located on the short (i.e. "p") arm of the X chromosome at position 11.23. It is 7.74 kilobases in length, consists of 6 exons, and codes for a full length protein, GATA1, of 414 amino acids (atomic mass=50 kilodaltons) and a shorter protein, GATA1-S (also termed GATA1s). GATA1-S lacks the fir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68511227 | 1,497,729 |
952,689 | The class currently consists of 14 validly named genera across 4 orders and 5 families. The orders "Brachyspirales", "Brevinematales" and "Leptospirales" each contain a single family, "Brachyspiraceae", "Brevinemataceae" and "Leptospiraceae", respectively. The "Spirochaetales" order harbours two families, "Spirochaetac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=206790 | 952,184 |
1,199,052 | The accelerating process takes approximately 0.3 ms before the proton achieves three-quarters the speed of light. The success of TRIUMF's programs depends on the ability to deliver protons from the cyclotron reliably. Typically, the cyclotron, although over 35 years old, averages an up-time of greater than 90% (2000–20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=683374 | 1,198,411 |
482,286 | The Arthus reaction involves the in situ formation of antigen/antibody complexes after the intradermal injection of an antigen. If the animal/patient was previously sensitized (has circulating antibody), an Arthus reaction occurs. Typical of most mechanisms of the type III hypersensitivity, Arthus manifests as local va... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4406991 | 482,042 |
1,013,854 | The result was a highly conventional aircraft that first flew on schedule on 5 April 1940 at the Khodynka Aerodrome in Moscow with chief test pilot Arkadij Ekatov at the controls. On 24 May the first prototype attained a speed of 648.5 km/h (402.9 mph) at 6,900 m (22,638 ft). It could not, however, attain the speed ori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=534690 | 1,013,333 |
1,393,888 | At the age of thirteen, Boyd Orr won a bursary to Kilmarnock Academy, a significant achievement as such bursaries were then rare. The new school was some from his home in West Kilbride, but his father owned a quarry about two miles (3 km) from the academy, and John was provided with accommodation nearby. His family cut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322276 | 1,393,117 |
88,621 | The metabolic processes of all organisms can only take place in very specific physical and chemical environments. The conditions vary with each organism, and with whether the chemical processes take place inside the cell or in the interstitial fluid bathing the cells. The best known homeostatic mechanisms in humans and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13980 | 88,585 |
1,149,255 | Since the nerve fiber layer has similar stimulation threshold to that of the retinal ganglion cells, axons passing under the epiretinal electrodes are stimulated, creating arcuate percepts, and thereby distorting the retinotopic map. So far, none of the epiretinal implants had light-sensitive pixels, and hence they rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3242434 | 1,148,648 |
1,873,047 | Fujimura’s work covers all aspects of phonetics, with a focus on speech articulation, analysis of acoustic phonetics, and speech perception. Fujimura and his colleagues introduced X-ray technologies to study human articulation patterns. The X-ray macrobeam speech corpus is considered to be an important research resourc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53546681 | 1,871,970 |
1,296,009 | Individual organisms are ordinarily mortal; they age and die, while the germlines which connect successive generations are potentially immortal. The basis for this difference is a fundamental problem in biology. The Russian biologist and historian Zhores A. Medvedev considered that the accuracy of genome replicative an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5914541 | 1,295,298 |
1,596,423 | Born to DR C.S. Uthamaroyan in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Velmurugendran graduated in medicine (MBBS) from University of Madras and followed it up with the degrees of MD and DM from the same institution,{.Prof & Head, Neurology Dept: Inst of Neurology, Madras Medical College & Govt Gen Hospital, Chennai 1985... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49386587 | 1,595,524 |
1,634,536 | The ocean dynamical thermostat mechanism was described in a dedicated publication by Clement "et al." 1996 in a coupled ocean-atmosphere model of the equatorial ocean. Since in the western Pacific SSTs are only governed by stored heat and heat fluxes, while in the eastern Pacific the horizontal and vertical advection a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68027732 | 1,633,613 |
1,247,346 | CBSD is characterized by severe chlorosis and necrosis on infected leaves, giving them a yellowish, mottled appearance. Chlorosis may be associated with the veins, spanning from the mid vein, secondary and tertiary veins, or rather in blotches unconnected to veins. Leaf symptoms vary greatly depending on a variety of f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27559748 | 1,246,671 |
1,336,777 | A pulse-forming network (PFN) is an electric circuit that accumulates electrical energy over a comparatively long time, and then releases the stored energy in the form of a relatively square pulse of comparatively brief duration for various pulsed power applications. In a PFN, energy storage components such as capacito... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=945530 | 1,336,046 |
1,506,992 | During his editorship of "The Cambridge Review" Casey expressed his conservative philosophy on politics, religion and culture. In 1976 he protested against social engineering and the egalitarianism of contemporary education policy, claiming that the fulfilment of the ideal of equality of opportunity meant the destructi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4383531 | 1,506,146 |
1,331,079 | Nordström then moved to Göttingen, Germany, where he had been recommended to go to study physical chemistry. However, he soon lost interest in the intended field and moved to study electrodynamics, a field the University of Göttingen was renowned for at the time. He returned to Finland to complete his doctoral disserta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2388915 | 1,330,350 |
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