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2,117,782 | In 1949 the University of Colorado received a bequest of $49,054 from the estate of Mayme Sommers in memory of her husband Elmer E. Sommers. These funds were used to construct the observatory, which was built in an adapted rural Italian style to match buildings on the campus. Construction began in 1950 and was complete... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3122259 | 2,116,564 |
1,432,131 | Medical image computing typically operates on uniformly sampled data with regular x-y-z spatial spacing (images in 2D and volumes in 3D, generically referred to as images). At each sample point, data is commonly represented in integral form such as signed and unsigned short (16-bit), although forms from unsigned char (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35201519 | 1,431,327 |
1,162,065 | An alignment suitable for visual observation and short exposure imaging (up to a few minutes) can be achieved with a polarscope. This is a low magnification telescope mounted co-axially with the mount (and adjusted to maximise the accuracy of this alignment). A special reticle is used to align the mount with Polaris (o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10201642 | 1,161,448 |
238,802 | Boeing admitted MCAS played a role in both accidents, when it acted on false data from a single angle of attack (AoA) sensor. In 2020, the FAA, Transport Canada, and European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) evaluated flight test results with MCAS disabled, and suggested that the MAX might not have needed MCAS to co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60203108 | 238,682 |
401,586 | The ice hockey team plays a significant role in the campus's culture, drawing thousands of fans each week to the Houston Field House during the season. The team's popularity even sparked the tradition of the hockey line, where students lined up for season tickets months in advance of the on-sale date. Today, the line g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=194026 | 401,387 |
749,245 | In 1885, the Wisconsin State Normal School opened for classes at 18th and Wells in downtown Milwaukee. The first president was John Mapel, an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin Madison who had previously been the superintendent of schools in Iowa. His ideas for the curriculum were largely influenced by a tour he ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=512185 | 748,847 |
2,008,267 | Inglis was involved with the Cambridge University Officer Training Corps (CUOTC), being commissioned a second lieutenant on 24 May 1909. He served with the CUOTC's engineering detachment and noticed that when the unit was deployed on field days with the rest of the force it often had little to do. To remedy this, Ingli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16975609 | 2,007,115 |
1,087,720 | The failure of "Galileo" high-gain antenna meant that data storage to the tape recorder for later compression and playback was absolutely crucial in order to obtain any substantial information from the flybys of Jupiter and its moons. This was a four-track, 114-megabyte digital tape recorder, manufactured by Odetics Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13077 | 1,087,161 |
716,889 | ESA’s UK facility, ECSAT, has been developing steadily since 2008, following the UK government’s decision to increase its contribution to ESA. Named after the ESA's first British Director General, Roy Gibson, ECSAT's building hosts 100+ jobs including teams in telecommunications and integrated applications. Special emp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26667988 | 716,512 |
1,815,412 | MDA classes focus on development theories, such as those oriented to government action, economic markets, and popular participation; skills, such as budgeting, human resource management, research and writing, and public speaking; methods, such as cost-benefit analysis, the logical framework, stakeholder analysis, monit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40607086 | 1,814,378 |
1,046,811 | Debates over the validity of the IDH are ongoing within the discipline of tropical ecology as the theory is tested in various ecological communities. Other evidence exists for and against the hypothesis. The intermediate disturbance hypothesis has been supported by several studies involving marine habitats such as cora... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1999038 | 1,046,266 |
1,760,176 | In 2013, Lopaeva "et al." exploited photon number correlations, instead of entanglement, in a sub-optimal target detection experiment. To illustrate the benefit of quantum entanglement, in 2013 Zhang "et al." reported a secure communication experiment based on quantum illumination and demonstrated for the first time th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41129282 | 1,759,183 |
1,865,124 | Policy approaches have also been discussed in recent years which intend to revise relevant guidelines or propose new regulations to better manage location-based service applications. The current technology state does not have a sufficiently aligned policies and legal environment, and there are efforts from both academi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60583225 | 1,864,052 |
429,217 | Increased neuronal bursting occurs throughout the central motor system in both human forms and animals models of Parkinson's disease. T-type calcium channels are highly expressed in basal ganglia structures as well as neurons in the motor areas of the thalamus and are thought to contribute to normal and pathological bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9773346 | 429,007 |
541,164 | This technique is favored over single-microelectrode clamp or other voltage clamp techniques when conditions call for resolving large currents. The high current-passing capacity of the two-electrode clamp makes it possible to clamp large currents that are impossible to control with single-electrode patch techniques. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=603690 | 540,884 |
1,987,612 | BCSR supporters argue that though their method does not produce greater bulk yield than SLAN, soil balanced using their methods leads to greater plant, animal and human health, as well as increasing the soil biological activity and the physical properties of tilth, aeration, and moisture retention. There is currently n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29769528 | 1,986,470 |
694,226 | The Carboniferous period is characterised by the formation of coal deposits which were formed within a context of the removal of atmospheric carbon. In the latest Middle Pennsylvanian (late Moscovian) a cycle of aridification began. At the time of the Carboniferous rainforest collapse, the climate became cooler and dri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29957884 | 693,863 |
222,832 | The SpaceX turbopump was an entirely new, clean-sheet design contracted to Barber-Nichols, Inc. in 2002, who performed all design, engineering analysis, and construction; the company had previously worked on turbopumps for the RS-88 (Bantam) and NASA Fastrac engine programs. The Merlin 1A turbopump used a unique fricti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=840611 | 222,723 |
1,839,246 | The DMTPC detector consists of a TPC filled with low pressure CF gas. Charged particles incident on the gas are slowed and eventually stopped, leaving a trail of free electrons and ionized molecules. The electrons are drifted by an electric field toward an amplification region. Instead of using MWPC endplates for ampli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26467469 | 1,838,194 |
612,076 | The CDC 6600 used a simplified central processor (CP) that was designed to run mathematical and logic operations as rapidly as possible, which demanded it be built as small as possible to reduce the length of wiring and the associated signalling delays. This led to the machine's (typically) cross-shaped main chassis wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58661 | 611,765 |
922,014 | On February 19, 1997, President Bill Clinton delivered an address on the campus (arranged in part by U.S. Representative Joe Moakley from Massachusetts's 9th congressional district), and on October 3, 2000, the Clark Athletic Center hosted the first presidential debate between Texas Governor George W. Bush and Vice Pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99867 | 921,528 |
161,050 | Most discussions and research in the academic literature focus on individual rationality. This concerns the rationality of individual persons, for example, whether their beliefs and actions are rational. But the question of rationality can also be applied to groups as a whole on the social level. This form of social or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61032 | 160,965 |
2,084,925 | This allows the controllable stimulation of both the key tone and the individual overtones in a resonator. Consequently, the sound of a great number of organ pipes can be reproduced with a relatively small number of resonators so that the required total number of emitting elements is considerably reduced without any no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37016610 | 2,083,724 |
714,981 | Cognitive linguistics offers a scientific first principle direction for quantifying states-of-mind through natural language processing. As mentioned earlier Cognitive Linguistics approaches grammar with a nontraditional view. Traditionally grammar has been defined as a set of structural rules governing the composition ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72711 | 714,607 |
2,137,910 | Precisely why quantum mechanics is applied to this biological phenomenon is left amply unaccounted for in the proposed model. This approach has been generally criticized for simply employing correlative math which happens to work with a poorly understood mental mechanism and quantum mechanical effects. Indeed, the mode... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49771725 | 2,136,680 |
391,608 | While significant research efforts have broadened the understanding of toxicity of QDs, there are large discrepancies in the literature, and questions still remain to be answered. Diversity of this class of material as compared to normal chemical substances makes the assessment of their toxicity very challenging. As th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=511547 | 391,413 |
1,224,646 | John Oluseun Dabiri is a Nigerian-American aeronautics engineer and the Centennial Chair Professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), with appointments in the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories (GALCIT) and Mechanical Engineering. His research focuses on unsteady fluid mechanics and flow physics, with pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36529558 | 1,223,986 |
1,484,852 | Science and technology are big contributions to the economic development, but can also lead to negative side effects as it evolves. For example, people care more about materialistic things than the negative influences they have created in human morals and education. For example, it is more important for people to know ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45360866 | 1,484,015 |
609,573 | The Hoshina-Matsudaira clan was founded by Hoshina Masayuki. Masayuki, a son of the second shōgun Tokugawa Hidetada, was adopted by Hoshina Masamitsu, the lord of the Takatō Domain. Masayuki was recognized as a relative of the Tokugawa family by his half-brother Tokugawa Iemitsu; after Iemitsu's death, Masayuki served ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2272520 | 609,262 |
615,273 | A 1994 Canadian government health survey found that 73% of Canadian mothers initiated breastfeeding, up from 38% in 1963. It has been speculated that the gap between breastfeeding generations in Canada contributes to the lack of success of those who do attempt it: new parents cannot look to older family members for hel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10923799 | 614,959 |
136,261 | The Canberra was the backbone of the Indian Air Force (IAF) for bombing raids and photo reconnaissance for many decades. Negotiations to acquire the Canberra as a replacement for the obsolete Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers then being used by IAF began in 1954. During the extended negotiations between Britain and I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=201787 | 136,206 |
1,948,551 | Biological membranes are found in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. They surround cells and organelles with a semi-permeable barrier that prevents free flow of substances. The membrane consists of a phospholipid bilayer structure and often embedded or otherwise associated proteins, along with cholesterol and glyco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22528148 | 1,947,437 |
665,781 | Self-assembled cell aggregates consisting of BMECs, astrocytes, and pericytes are emerging as a potential alternative to transwell and microfluidic models for certain applications. These organoides can generate many features of the BBB, such as the expression of tight junctions, molecular transporters, and drug efflux ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4542890 | 665,433 |
996,052 | Projectile/bullet path analysis is of great use to shooters because it allows them to establish ballistic tables that will predict how much vertical elevation and horizontal deflection corrections must be applied to the sight line for shots at various known distances. The most detailed ballistic tables are developed fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=584911 | 995,535 |
2,126,941 | Its status was changed from university when it was integrated into the polytechnic subsector in 1988 through the decree "Decreto-Lei nº389/88", of 25 of October", and incorporated into the newly created Polytechnical Institute of Coimbra. It remodeled all courses to a 6 semesters (3 years) "bacharelato" degrees in seve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2678033 | 2,125,720 |
2,222,853 | Three functions (routing function, local statistic computation and monitoring function, and integrated decisionmaking function) are implemented in the different parts of the mobile network. Due to the distributed structure, the computation and implementation complexity of the routing scheme are reduced. Also, since rou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16911228 | 2,221,591 |
171,546 | Fidelity of feedback responses between diverse cell types and the immune system depends on the integrity of mechanisms that limit the range of genes activated by NF-κB, allowing only expression of genes which contribute to an effective immune response and subsequently, a complete restoration of tissue function after re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2344516 | 171,455 |
1,787,744 | In the mid nineteenth century, the coal tar industry, particularly in England, produced the precursors needed for a large amount of organic syntheses, in large quantities. For the first eight years after the first marketable synthetic dye, Mauveine, until the middle of the 1860s, British and French firms were the major... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62919428 | 1,786,739 |
2,075,053 | Comparisons of the "M. alligatoris" genome and that of its nearest known relative, "Mycoplasma crocodyli", were analyzed in hopes of understanding the unusually aggressive nature of the "M." "alligatoris" species. "Mycoplasma crocodyli" is much less virulent than "M. alligatoris", lacking the genes for adhesins, variab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46500140 | 2,073,856 |
1,442,764 | The Letterman Army Institute of Research (LAIR) was at the forefront of Military Nutrition Research and conducted studies in various areas of medicine, optics, toxicology and nutrition throughout the latter half of the 1970s. Nutrition research targeted the development of new methodologies for the measurement of nutrie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26529555 | 1,441,951 |
916,638 | The coup d'état was led by the Committee of Safety, a 13-member group made up of non-native Hawaiian's. The Committee of Safety initiated the overthrow by organizing a group armed non-native men to depose Queen Liliʻuokalani. The United States Military forces involved in the coup d’état consisted of 1 cruiser, the USS ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=161323 | 916,155 |
269,850 | Biosensors can be used to indirectly measure BOD via a fast (usually <30 min) to be determined BOD substitute and a corresponding calibration curve method (pioneered by Karube et al., 1977). Consequently, biosensors are now commercially available, but they do have several limitations such as their high maintenance cost... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=420598 | 269,703 |
1,283,660 | Foreseeing the end, Arthur Evans and his younger friend and protégé, David George Hogarth, left the excavation at Phylakopi early. Not much could be done at Crete, as the Ottoman Empire was not giving permission to excavate there. Evans went home to tend to the Ashmolean and other affairs while Hogarth investigated Cre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14946338 | 1,282,962 |
2,108,621 | After the liberation, work on the pumphouse foundation was picked up again in 1816. The pit was pumped dry, and dug out again. However, the piles were nowhere to be found. They could neither be dug up, nor could they be found by exploring with iron sounding devices called s. The pit was kept dry by using three chain pu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66553510 | 2,107,407 |
842,073 | Saliency typically arises from contrasts between items and their neighborhood. They might be represented, for example, by a red dot surrounded by white dots, or by a flickering message indicator of an answering machine, or a loud noise in an otherwise quiet environment. Saliency detection is often studied in the contex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4217714 | 841,623 |
10,849 | In early 2010, two journalists from "The New York Times" spent three months with soldiers and Marines in Afghanistan. While there, they questioned around 100 infantry troops about the reliability of their M16 rifles, as well as the M4 carbine. The troops did not report reliability problems with their rifles. While only... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19901 | 10,844 |
1,154,458 | Cornell had enrolled African-American students by the mid-1880s. On December 4, 1906, Alpha Phi Alpha, the first Greek letter fraternity for African-Americans was founded at Cornell. Cornell had a very low black enrollment until the 1960s, when it formed the Committee on Special Educational Projects (COSEP) to recruit ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3601339 | 1,153,848 |
1,087,439 | A bivalent is the association of two replicated homologous chromosomes having exchanged DNA strand in at least one site called chiasmata. Each bivalent contains a minimum of one chiasma and rarely more than three. This limited number (much lower than the number of initiated DNA breaks) is due to crossover interference,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6371716 | 1,086,880 |
1,437,000 | Together with his students and collaborators, over the next 20 years, McCarty's work changed the understanding of the organism from a gram-positive streptococcus with a particular serological characteristic to one of the best characterized bacterial species. Work on bacterial cell-wall anatomy and chemistry was just be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1040550 | 1,436,191 |
1,087,501 | The majority of clan or lineage groups were not very influential in local society. However, prominent kinship groups could enjoy a great deal of ad hoc influence, especially if a member served as a government official. Wealthy scholars or officials often shared the same kinship group with poor commoners. Since clan mem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21786810 | 1,086,942 |
556,158 | The last great exponent of late Victorian free Renaissance eclecticism was Edwin Lutyens, and his shift into the Classical mode after 1900 symbolised a wider retreat from the stylistic ferment of the 19th century to a plain and homogenous Classicism based on Georgian exemplars, an approach followed by many architects o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1194886 | 555,869 |
1,258,978 | From the above thermodynamic construct, EMC Activation results in a highly "amorphous" phase that can be justified as a large formula_24 and also a large formula_22 increase. The benefits of the EMC Activation being large in formula_20 means that an EMC's reactivity is less temperature dependent. In terms of any reacti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39204523 | 1,258,291 |
959,479 | PDF/A was originally a new joint activity between the Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies (NPES) and the Association for Information and Image Management AIIM in conjunction with Adobe to develop an international standard defining the use of the Portable Document Format (PDF) f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4170455 | 958,971 |
937,731 | After getting her master's degree, Meir worked from 2000 to 2003 for Lockheed Martin Space Operations as an experiment support scientist for the Human Research Facility at the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas. Meir coordinated and supported human space life science experiments that were performed by as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33550544 | 937,231 |
480,866 | Some examples of programs which have relied heavily on expert knowledge are Handtalk (later known as Goemate), The Many Faces of Go, Go Intellect, and Go++, each of which has at some point been considered the world's best Go program. However, these methods ultimately had diminishing returns, and never really advanced p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=227021 | 480,622 |
29,180 | In many ways, bacterial metabolism provides traits that are useful for ecological stability and for human society. One example is that some bacteria called diazotrophs have the ability to fix nitrogen gas using the enzyme nitrogenase. This environmentally important trait can be found in bacteria of most metabolic types... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9028799 | 29,170 |
1,706,849 | Officially recognized by the Commission for University Education of Kenya, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST) offers courses and programmes leading to officially recognized higher education degrees such as pre-bachelor degrees (i.e. certificates, diplomas, associate or foundation), bachelor deg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27156740 | 1,705,891 |
201,848 | In November and December 2004, the Riken team studied the Tl + Zn reaction, aiming the zinc beam onto a thallium rather than a bismuth target, in an effort to directly produce Rg in a cross-bombardment as it is the immediate daughter of 113. The reaction was unsuccessful, as the thallium target was physically weak comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77474 | 201,745 |
1,244,480 | While the Newcastle system ran on water from the public water supply, the crane installed by Armstrong at Burntisland was not located where such an option was possible, and so he built a tower, with a water tank at the top, which was filled by a steam engine. At Elswick in Glasgow, charges by the Corporation Water Depa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4488634 | 1,243,807 |
1,014,825 | Cloud computing addresses two major ICT challenges related to Green computing – energy usage and resource consumption. Virtualization, dynamic provisioning environment, multi-tenancy, green data center approaches are enabling cloud computing to lower carbon emissions and energy usage up to a great extent. Large enterpr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1661475 | 1,014,304 |
656,889 | After finishing middle school, Tange moved to Hiroshima in 1930 to attend high school. It was here that he first encountered the works of Swiss modernist, Le Corbusier. His discovery of the drawings of the Palace of the Soviets in a foreign art journal convinced him to become an architect. Although he graduated from hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53427 | 656,545 |
1,619,126 | Department of Defense (DoD) interest in the health effects of exposure to radiological agents (radiobiology), born in the wake of the Manhattan Project, motivated a 1958 Bureau of Medicine and Surgery proposal that a bionuclear research facility be established to study such issues. On June 8, 1960, Public Law 86-500 au... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6277981 | 1,618,211 |
702,426 | Disorders of this protein include alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, an autosomal co-dominant hereditary disorder in which a deficiency of alpha-1 antitrypsin leads to a chronic uninhibited tissue breakdown. This causes the degradation especially of lung tissue and eventually leads to characteristic manifestations of pulm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=469969 | 702,058 |
2,178,120 | Archaeological evidence suggests that Sardinia was settled about 8000 years ago, although human occupation has been noted at least 20,000 years ago. During the Neolithic period, black obsidian drew other Mediterraneans to the Island. The local contributions (Italian peninsula via Corsica, Balearic Islands) and Eastern ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23801823 | 2,176,875 |
1,053,269 | Dr Mensah delivered the 10th R. P. Baffour Lecture at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology on 23 November 2017 where he was awarded an Honorary degree in Doctor of Science; D.Sc. Honoraris Causa after the lecture. In November 2015, he received the International Business Leadership Award from the Afric... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46260387 | 1,052,723 |
1,402,263 | While serving in Europe, Hunsaker gauged that the “airplane and engine have reached a commercial degree of reliability, but that the technique of operation needs development.” He therefore decided to resign from the Navy and join Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York as a vice president in charge of aeronautical rese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3956769 | 1,401,476 |
256,534 | The respiratory system is the most common system to be affected and the complications are the leading cause of death in SMA types 0/1 and 2. SMA type 3 can have similar respiratory problems, but it is more rare. Complications arise due to weakened intercostal muscles because of the lack of stimulation from the nerve. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5695295 | 256,400 |
647,395 | Athetosis is characterized as a symptom that is present in many forms of central nervous system disorders that affect the body movement coordination, such as cerebral palsy. Children may struggle to engage in social communication, since the poor coordination of the tongue and mouth muscles can reduce their speech abili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=857160 | 647,055 |
264,963 | The second BRT system in the world was the Rede Integrada de Transporte (RIT, "integrated transportation network"), implemented in Curitiba, Brazil, in 1974. The Rede Integrada de Transporte was inspired by the previous transport system of the National Urban Transport Company of Peru (In Spanish: ENATRU), which only ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=333625 | 264,820 |
27,811 | The intellectual climate of the time "remained dominated by Aristotelian philosophy and the corresponding Ptolemaic astronomy. At that time there was no reason to accept the Copernican theory, except for its mathematical simplicity [by avoiding using the equant in determining planetary positions]." Tycho Brahe's system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=323592 | 27,801 |
1,754,803 | There is a reciprocal relationship between neurogenesis in the SGZ and learning and memory, particularly spatial memory. On the one hand, high rates of neurogenesis may increase memory abilities. For instance, the high rate of neurogenesis and neuronal turnover in young animals may be the reason behind their ability to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11079999 | 1,753,813 |
605,131 | Timeliness contributed no small part to the widespread acceptance and resultant influence of Mahan's views. Although his history was relatively thin (he relied on secondary sources), the vigorous style and clear theory won widespread acceptance by navalists across the world. Seapower supported the new colonialism that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4273206 | 604,821 |
1,918,637 | Scientific documentation of pathologies in theropod bones goes all the way back to the first description of a large theropod. Nevertheless, Ralph Molnar contends that despite the long history of recognized pathologies in theropod dinosaurs the topic had been almost completely overlooked in the scientific literature. Fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32671279 | 1,917,537 |
1,153,898 | Sadoway was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He did both his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Toronto, receiving his PhD in 1977. There he focused his studies on chemical metallurgy. He also served on the National Executive of the Ukrainian Canadian Students' Union (SUSK) from 1972–1974. In 1977... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6909686 | 1,153,288 |
1,210,647 | In July 1938, Captain Alfred Ritscher received a mandate to launch preparations for an Antarctic expedition and within a few months he managed to bring about logistics, equipment and organizational measures for a topographical and marine survey expedition. Whale oil was then the most important raw material for the prod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67163228 | 1,210,000 |
2,000,566 | Archaeological research under DAFA traced the prosperous societies along the silk road mainly focusing on the Buddhist monasteries of the Kushan and Hellenistic periods. Full-scale excavations began in Hadda in 1926 by French Archaeologist, Barthoux. He recovered over 15,000 artefacts and fragments from eight monasteri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24812878 | 1,999,421 |
1,412,627 | Following the completion of the Nauka module being connected to the ISS via a series of cables, the ERA will be deployed. It will take five spacewalks to assemble and prepare the robotic arm to be fit for space operations. The first of these, originally scheduled for January 2022 but were delayed to 18 April 2022, will... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1120311 | 1,411,832 |
1,098,288 | Prior to the introduction of epitaxial magnesium oxide (MgO), amorphous aluminum oxide was used as the tunnel barrier of the MTJ, and typical room temperature TMR was in the range of tens of percent. MgO barriers increased TMR to hundreds of percent. This large increase reflects a synergetic combination of electrode an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=845722 | 1,097,728 |
1,092,356 | Some surgeons perform a reduction of the subcutaneous soft tissue. The rationale for this is to reduce the mobility between implant and skin to avoid inflammation at the penetration site. This reduction of the soft tissue has been questioned and some surgeons do not perform any or a minimum of it. The rationale for thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3016334 | 1,091,796 |
967,263 | Human activities related to agriculture and nutrition globally contribute to the transgression of four out of nine planetary boundaries. Surplus nutrient flows (N, P) into aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems are of highest importance, followed by excessive land-system change and biodiversity loss. Whereas in the case of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24458151 | 966,753 |
701,012 | Using the concept of potential natural vegetation, Miyawaki developed, tested, and refined a method of ecological engineering today known as the Miyawaki method to restore native forests from seeds of native trees on very degraded soils that were deforested and without humus. With the results of his experiments, he res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32652872 | 700,647 |
1,607,866 | Activation and recruitment of DNA ligase I seem to be associated with posttranslational modifications. N-terminal domain is completed through phosphorylation of four serine residues on this domain, Ser51, Ser76, and Ser91 by cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) and Ser66 by casein kinase II (CKII). Phosphorylation of these re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14179655 | 1,606,961 |
1,636,081 | While some non-spiking neurons are specifically involved in neuromuscular modulation, studying amacrine cells has created opportunities to discuss the role of non-spiking neurons in neuroplasticity. Since amacrine cells, which are a type of non-spiking neurons, undergo a transformation from spiking to non-spiking cells... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33244792 | 1,635,156 |
1,423,603 | Due to the large amount of interfacial energy associated with a large volume fraction of grain boundaries, nanocrystalline metals are thermally unstable. In nanocrystalline samples of low-melting point metals (i.e. aluminum, tin, and lead), the grain size of the samples was observed to double from 10 to 20 nm after 24 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6966559 | 1,422,802 |
1,112,890 | The higher education system in Quebec is unique when compared to the other Canadian provinces and territories. Students complete their secondary studies in their 5th year, which is the equivalent of the eleventh grade. Post-secondary studies start within a mandatory pre-university college system. A publicly funded coll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17661972 | 1,112,324 |
1,868,221 | Conditions attached to World Bank loans forced African countries to reduce spending on higher education, since higher education institutions paid lower dividends than elementary and secondary education programs. These conditions decreased the quality of education provided by African universities. Additionally, the Worl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37796710 | 1,867,145 |
1,015,612 | The F-35B STOVL variant was in danger of missing performance requirements in 2004 because it weighed too much; reportedly, by or 8%. In response, Lockheed Martin added engine thrust and thinned airframe members, reduced the size of the common weapons bay and vertical stabilizers, rerouted some thrust from the roll-post... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54719700 | 1,015,091 |
1,198,906 | The first stage of the TAMER algorithm acquires the initial reconstruction of the full image volume, formula_37, by assuming that all motion parameters are zero. One can solve for formula_37 by minimizing the least squared error of the SENSE forward model without motion i.e. solve the system formula_39 where formula_40... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56564310 | 1,198,265 |
1,425,590 | The experience with developing CTSS led to a second project, Multics, which was adopted by General Electric for its high-end computer systems (later acquired by Honeywell). Multics pioneered many concepts now used in modern operating systems, including a hierarchical file system, ring-oriented security, access control ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=303613 | 1,424,788 |
268,337 | The native habitat of "Aspergillus" is in soil, decaying vegetation, hay, and grains undergoing microbiological deterioration, but it invades all types of organic substrates whenever conditions are favorable for its growth. Favorable conditions for production of aflatoxins include high moisture content (at least 7%) an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177303 | 268,193 |
1,040,278 | "The various Pugwash activities (general conferences, workshops, study groups, consultations and special projects) provide a channel of communication between scientists, scholars, and individuals experienced in government, diplomacy, and the military for in-depth discussion and analysis of the problems and opportunitie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=417126 | 1,039,737 |
606,748 | On July 2, 1967, at 14:19 UTC, the Vela 4 and Vela 3 satellites detected a flash of gamma radiation unlike any known nuclear weapons signature. Uncertain what had happened but not considering the matter particularly urgent, the team at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, led by Ray Klebesadel, filed the data away for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=630088 | 606,438 |
40,554 | Secondary hypertension is hypertension due to an identifiable cause, and may result in certain specific additional signs and symptoms. For example, as well as causing high blood pressure, Cushing's syndrome frequently causes truncal obesity, glucose intolerance, moon face, a hump of fat behind the neck and shoulders (r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77432 | 40,539 |
605,960 | The Department of Mathematics at Courant occupies a leading position in analysis and applied mathematics, including partial differential equations, differential geometry, dynamical systems, probability and stochastic processes, scientific computation, mathematical finance, mathematical physics, and fluid dynamics. A sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1617601 | 605,650 |
853,821 | The Dobzhansky–Muller model proposes that reproductive incompatibilities between species are caused by the interaction of the genes of the respective species. It has been demonstrated recently that "Lhr" has functionally diverged in "D. simulans" and will interact with "Hmr" which, in turn, has functionally diverged in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5146476 | 853,366 |
597,407 | Regulatory reporting examples include the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), part of a broader set of rules to make EU countries carbon neutral by 2050, and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 55 percent compared with 1990 levels by 2030. It will require many large companies and com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5362623 | 597,102 |
1,229,399 | Where detailed geographic data are not available, units may be assigned based on the center of a district. To make the computing problem easier, the CAD system may use "centroids" to evaluate service vehicle locations. Centroids are estimated center points within a zone. The system calculates a distance from a fire sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=405911 | 1,228,737 |
1,638,885 | Since audio signals are interpreted by the human ear–brain system, that complex perceptual mechanism should be simulated somehow in software for "machine listening". In other words, to perform on par with humans, the computer should hear and understand audio content much as humans do. Analyzing audio accurately involve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9536113 | 1,637,960 |
925,139 | In March 2015, one of the Mars One finalists, Joseph Roche, stated to media outlets that he believed the mission to be a scam. Roche holds doctorate degrees in physics and astrophysics, and shared many of his concerns and criticisms of the mission. These claims include that the organization lied about the number of app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36047287 | 924,653 |
1,454,278 | While the precise mechanism by which these genes facilitate hyperaccumulation is unknown, expression patterns strongly correlate with individual hyperaccumulation capacity and metal exposure, implying that these gene families play a regulatory role. Because the presence and expression of zinc transporter gene families ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4040188 | 1,453,458 |
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