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328,703 | Post-doctoral residency and fellowship education prevalence is increasing steadily with 219 residency, and 42 fellowship programs accredited in 2016. Residencies are aimed to train physical therapists in a specialty such as acute care, cardiovascular & pulmonary, clinical electrophysiology, faculty, geriatrics, neurolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24022 | 328,529 |
255,752 | The LMC was long considered to be a planar galaxy that could be assumed to lie at a single distance from the Solar System. However, in 1986, Caldwell and Coulson found that field Cepheid variables in the northeast lie closer to the Milky Way than those in the southwest. From 2001 to 2002 this inclined geometry was conf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39374 | 255,618 |
88,606 | Despite the name "nuclear winter", nuclear events are not necessary to produce the modeled climatic effect. In an effort to find a quick and cheap solution to the global warming projection of at least 2 ˚C of surface warming as a result of the doubling in CO levels within the atmosphere, through solar radiation managem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22171 | 88,570 |
3,012 | One change made during production was augmented pitch control to avoid deep stall conditions at high angles of attack. The stall issue had been raised during development but had originally been discounted. Model tests of the YF-16 conducted by the Langley Research Center revealed a potential problem, but no other labor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11642 | 3,012 |
916,642 | Banana Wars is an informal term for the minor intervention in Latin America from 1898 until 1935. These include military presence in Cuba, Panama with the Panama Canal Zone, Haiti (1915–1935), Dominican Republic (1916–1924) and Nicaragua (1912–1925; 1926–1933). The U.S. Marine Corps began to specialize in long-term mil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=161323 | 916,159 |
30,990 | Other evolution is related to endemic diseases: the presence of malaria selects for sickle cell trait (the heterozygous form of sickle cell gene), while in the absence of malaria, the health effects of sickle-cell anemia select against this trait. For another example, the population at risk of the severe debilitating d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10326 | 30,980 |
1,798,747 | The "TAFAZZIN" gene is located on the q arm of chromosome X at position 28 and it spans 10,208 base pairs. The "TAFAZZIN" gene produces a 21.3 kDa protein composed of 184 amino acids. The structure of the encoded protein has been found to differ at their N terminus and the central region, which are two functionally not... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3445259 | 1,797,738 |
1,848,480 | Rice plants infected with RRSV are stunted with whitish spindle-shaped outgrowths. Later the infected leaves become twisted with ragged edges, and may eventually turn brown. Rice plants may survive the infection, but yields are greatly reduced due to delayed flowering, incomplete panicle emergence, and unfilled grains.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12458326 | 1,847,422 |
401,561 | The ability to attract greater research funds is needed to meet the goals of the plan, and the university has set a goal of $100 million annually. Fourteen years later, in FY2013, research expenditures reached this goal. To help raise money the university mounted a $1 billion capital campaign, of which the public phase... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=194026 | 401,362 |
103,079 | The sprites in "Fallout" were highly detailed and took up a huge chunk of memory. 21 NPCs were voiced by various actors, and Ron Perlman voiced the narrator. Some NPCs feature 3D models during conversation called "talking heads", most of which were created by Scott Redenhizer. Each took eight weeks to create, and voice... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4508917 | 103,034 |
1,835,141 | SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) is a good example of a heuristic that is useful but also easy to misapply. Cascading of action plans makes intuitive sense but is frequently done in such a way as to demotivate employees. Because of the difficulty of combining strategic planning, strategic m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6163915 | 1,834,092 |
6,923 | A review was announced on 31 December 2007, by the new Australian Labor government, as part of a wider review of the RAAF's combat aircraft procurement plans. The main reasons given were concerns over operational suitability, the lack of a proper review process, and internal beliefs that an interim fighter was not requ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=845012 | 6,920 |
928,082 | Urban agriculture is especially important in New York City as many low-income residents suffer from high rates of obesity and diabetes and limited sources of fresh produce. The City and local nonprofit groups have been providing land, training and financial encouragement, but the impetus in urban farming has really com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=450257 | 927,594 |
1,628,430 | As various authorities began shaping policies to encourage sustainable consumption and production, two issues emerged. One was that the field was lacking the kind of rigorous scientific assessments that underpinned research into other environmental disciplines, such as climate change (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31840383 | 1,627,511 |
357,272 | With either method, knappers (tool makers) would have had to have produced some item indirectly related to creating the desired product (hierarchical organisation), which could represent a major cognitive development. Experiments with modern humans have shown that platform preparation cannot be learned through purely o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=442638 | 357,086 |
186,443 | IHC is an excellent detection technique and has the tremendous advantage of being able to show exactly where a given protein is located within the tissue examined. It is also an effective way to examine the tissues. This has made it a widely used technique in the neurosciences, enabling researchers to examine protein e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1021210 | 186,346 |
1,420,703 | With a p"K" of 12.34 for its conjugate acid in aqueous solution, 1,8-bis(dimethylamino)naphthalene is one of the strongest organic bases. However, it only absorbs protons slowly—hence the trade name. The high basicity is attributed to the relief of strain upon protonation and/or the strong interaction between the nitro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1140774 | 1,419,903 |
526,121 | Telemetry data from the original failure suggested that the throat of its main engine, the orbit maneuver engine (OME) was still largely intact, and trial jet thrusts of the probe's onboard OME were performed twice, on 7 and 14 September 2011. However, the thrust was only about , which was 10% of expectations. Followin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1795428 | 525,848 |
1,079,413 | In 1983, Moore became suspicious about a new consent form he was asked to sign that said, "I (do, do not) voluntarily grant to the University of California all rights I, or my heirs, may have in any cell line or any other potential product which might be developed from the blood and/or bone marrow obtained from me". Mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4217717 | 1,078,858 |
991,705 | From the mathematical viewpoint, the conditional distribution of the random states of a signal given some partial and noisy observations is described by a Feynman-Kac probability on the random trajectories of the signal weighted by a sequence of likelihood potential functions. Quantum Monte Carlo, and more specifically... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1396948 | 991,188 |
616,438 | The Coast Guard's preparations for the coming war actually started before the Declaration of War on 6 April 1917. In late 1916, the Interdepartmental Board on Coast Communications recommended that telephone communications be improved and brought to a high state of readiness all along the U.S. coastline to include light... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6204230 | 616,124 |
931,605 | The Kjeldahl method's universality, precision and reproducibility have made it the internationally recognized method for estimating the protein content in foods and it is the standard method against which all other methods are judged. It is also used to assay soils, waste waters, fertilizers and other materials. It doe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5366272 | 931,113 |
1,908,764 | David Evans was born in Ontario and raised in Kelowna, British Columbia. He received his B.Sc. from the Integrated Sciences Program of the University of British Columbia in 2003, where he completed an undergraduate thesis on skull growth and variation in the hadrosaur "Corythosaurus". Over the course of his undergradua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62883473 | 1,907,667 |
2,138,905 | The government recognises that there are no viable alternative aviation fuels, and whilst it accepts that the exemption of aviation fuel from fuel tax is anomalous, it sees no scope for a unilateral approach in addressing this. The strategy adopted in the White Paper seeks to mitigate the global effects of air transpor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14120583 | 2,137,675 |
1,741,036 | The idea that embryos of different species have similar morphologies at some point during development can be traced back to Aristotle. Aristotle observed a number of developing vertebrate embryos, noting in his text The Generation of Animals that the morphological differences among the different embryos arose late in d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52448763 | 1,740,054 |
987,018 | "An Unearthly Child" was provisionally scheduled to begin recording on 5 July, but was delayed to 19 July. Production was later deferred for a further two weeks while scripts were prepared. The show's pilot recording was finally scheduled for 27 September and regular episodes made from 18 October. Tucker was originally... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34564137 | 986,503 |
1,987,523 | Geisel studied physics in Frankfurt and Regensburg. After graduating from the University of Regensburg in 1975, he worked as Post-Doc at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart (1976–77) and at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (1978–79). In 1980, he returned to Regensburg as assistant professo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23775658 | 1,986,381 |
315,600 | During the Second World War, captured Italian frogmen's rebreathers influenced improved designs for British rebreathers. Many British frogmen's breathing sets used aircrew breathing oxygen cylinders salvaged from shot-down German Luftwaffe aircraft. The earliest of these breathing sets may have been modified Davis Subm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=294126 | 315,431 |
1,779,522 | According to author Mark Cartwright, "Inca roads covered over 40,000 km (25,000 miles), principally in two main highways running north to south across the Inca Empire, which eventually spread over ancient Peru, Ecuador, Chile and Bolivia." Several sources challenge Cartwright's claim in stating that the Inca roads cove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7083018 | 1,778,519 |
941,592 | When Adolf Hitler became chancellor in 1933, he instructed the Truppenamt/General Staff to ignore the Versailles restrictions, he would create a greatly expanded Wehrmacht from the army, navy, and air-force. A new War Academy ("Kriegsakademie") was established in 1935. The General Staff advised Hitler that the German A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=438600 | 941,090 |
770,654 | In general, the molecular pathomechanism of achromatopsia is either the inability to properly control or respond to altered levels of cGMP; particularly important in visual perception as its level controls the opening of cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channels (CNGs). Decreasing the concentration of cGMP results in closur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=255798 | 770,240 |
57,658 | In the same year he received a personal invitation from Ireland's Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera – a mathematician himself – to reside in Ireland and agree to help establish an Institute for Advanced Studies in Dublin. He moved to Kincora Road, Clontarf, Dublin, and lived modestly. A plaque has been erected at his Clontarf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9942 | 57,634 |
454,394 | One problem for medical care on Mars missions, is the difficulty in returning to Earth for advanced care, and providing adequate emergency care with a small crew size. A crew of six might have only one crew member trained to the level of emergency medical technician and one physician, but for a mission that would last ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42302371 | 454,172 |
237,445 | There is archaeological evidence that javelins and throwing sticks were already in use by the last phase of the Lower Paleolithic. Seven spear-like objects were found in a coal mine in the city of Schöningen, Germany. Stratigraphic dating indicates that the weapons are about 400,000 years old. The excavated items were ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8700358 | 237,326 |
313,069 | Admiral Charles F. Hughes elected to retire rather than enforce the cuts, and he was replaced by Pratt. Pratt and Leahy soon clashed over cuts to shipbuilding, and Pratt attempted to have Leahy reassigned as chief of staff of the Pacific Fleet. Leahy had the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation block this, but decided tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=448716 | 312,901 |
2,139,124 | iThemba LABS ( "iThemba" is Xhosa for "Hope"; LABS is an acronym for "Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences" ) is a scientific research center with plants at Faure near Cape Town and on the Wits Campus in Johannesburg. The organization has in the past been known as the "National Accelerator Center", and specializes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67537501 | 2,137,894 |
1,304,434 | Since 2017, neuroethics working groups across multiple organizations have published a spate of reports and guiding principles. In 2017, the Global Neuroethics Summit Delegates prepared a set of ethical questions to guide research in brain science, published in Neuron. In December 2018, The Neuroethics Working Group of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=703002 | 1,303,718 |
1,983,938 | Multipstep ultrasensitivity occurs when a single effector acts on several steps in a cascade. Successive cascade signals can result in higher levels of noise being introduced into the signal that can interfere with the final output. This is especially relevant for large cascades, such as the flagellar regulatory system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33785040 | 1,982,799 |
1,741,472 | In biogeochemistry, scientists focused primarily on the stable isotope of deuterium as a tracer for environmental processes, especially the water cycle. The American geochemist Harmon Craig, once a graduate student of Urey's, discovered the relationship between rainwater's hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios. The linear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50525886 | 1,740,490 |
1,814,516 | The FAST magnetic field instrumentation includes a DC fluxgate magnetometer and an Alternating current (AC) search coil magnetometer. The fluxgate magnetometer is a three-axis instrument using highly stable low noise ring core sensors. It is boom-mounted at from the spacecraft body in a shielded housing. It provides ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6300866 | 1,813,482 |
262,955 | In 1821, Fresnel derived formulae equivalent to his sine and tangent laws Eqs.() and (), above by modeling light waves as transverse elastic waves with vibrations perpendicular to what had previously been called the plane of polarization. Using old experimental data, he promptly confirmed that the equations correctly p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30426 | 262,816 |
37,276 | Some ancient myths depict a character skipping forward in time. In Hindu mythology, the "Vishnu Purana" mentions the story of King Raivata Kakudmi, who travels to heaven to meet the creator Brahma and is surprised to learn when he returns to Earth that many ages have passed. The Buddhist Pāli Canon mentions the relativ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31591 | 37,263 |
627,329 | Though middle-to-late-Eocene archaeocetes are also known from North America, Europe, and Africa, most of these are found only on the Indian subcontinent. Therefore, it is thought cetaceans originally evolved in that region. Based on molecular data, cetaceans are most closely allied with hippos (Whippomorpha), and they ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=893602 | 626,996 |
1,856,974 | The Solinst continuous multichannel tubing (CMT) system is a system that uses custom-extruded flexible 1.7-inch OD multichannel MDPE tubing to monitor as many as seven discrete zones within a single borehole in either unconsolidated sedimentary or in bedrock. Prior to insertion, ports are created that allow groundwater... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54028205 | 1,855,906 |
2,069,877 | Implementation of occupancy grid mapping using a miniature mobile robot equipped with a set of five infrared based ranging sensors is explored in this research. Bayesian methods are used to update the map. Another variant of this technique will utilize a single IR-range sensor to obtain range to different distinctive f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18397575 | 2,068,686 |
584,926 | Runic Games' first product is "Torchlight", a single-player action role-playing game published by Perfect World Entertainment, Inc. and Encore, Inc, and released for Windows on October 27, 2009. The fantasy-themed game is set in the fictional town of Torchlight and the expansive caverns and dungeons nearby, which adven... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18831715 | 584,626 |
403,022 | After the publication of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" in 1859, Thomson saw evidence of the relatively short habitable age of the Earth as tending to contradict Darwin's gradualist explanation of slow natural selection bringing about biological diversity. Thomson's own views favoured a version of theistic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33302 | 402,822 |
2,061,519 | Starting in 1966, teachers from nine junior high and high schools, mostly in the New York metropolitan area, began getting training in the study program at Teachers College. Such training was crucial since few junior high or high school teachers knew all the material that would be introduced. They then returned to thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40556829 | 2,060,331 |
83,998 | Gosper's end conclusion is not necessarily meant to be taken seriously, and it is akin to a mathematical joke. The critical step is "...110 = ...111 − 1", i.e., "2"X" = "X" − 1", and thus "X" = ...111 = −1. This presupposes a method by which an infinite string of 1s is considered a number, which requires an extension o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=307145 | 83,964 |
894,130 | In situ follicular lymphoma is an accumulation of monoclonal B cells (i.e. cells descendent from a single ancestral cell) in the germinal centers of lymphoid tissue. These cells commonly bear a pathological genomic abnormality, i.e. a translocation between position 32 on the long (i.e. "q") arm of chromosome 14 and pos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3034995 | 893,660 |
1,942,519 | Curtis was born in Norwich to Frances and Charles Morgan Curtis. Charles Morgan died before his son had reached the age of 4 years. His mother, Frances, had a passion for flowers and was a professional flower grower. She encouraged her son to study natural history with a young local naturalist, Richard Walker (1791–187... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1618060 | 1,941,408 |
1,671,613 | An electromechanical driver of the sort later used in loudspeakers was invented by German industrialist Werner von Siemens in 1877 but no practical amplification existed to create the loudspeaker until 1921. Various loudspeaker designs were produced in the 1920s, including General Electric engineers Chester W. Rice and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38537361 | 1,670,673 |
431,666 | He is best known for arguing that the complexity of biological systems and organisms might result as much from self-organization and far-from-equilibrium dynamics as from Darwinian natural selection, as discussed in his book "Origins of Order" (1993). In 1967 and 1969 he used random Boolean networks to investigate gene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62902 | 431,454 |
316,516 | Depending on the size of the internal diameter, it can be used either for the injection of cosmetic wrinkle fillers like hyaluronic acid, collagen, poly-L-lactic acid, CaHA, etc., or for fat transfer (Liposuction). The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic surgery notes additional soft tissue fillers like calcium hydr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=332952 | 316,347 |
1,371,816 | It is also important to note that the ETH makes statements about "specific observables" on a case by case basis - it does not make any claims about whether every observable in a system will obey ETH. In fact, this certainly cannot be true. Given a basis of energy eigenstates, one can always explicitly construct an oper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39937659 | 1,371,059 |
389,755 | A study published in April 2021 by researchers from the COVID-19 Genomics United Kingdom Consortium, the AMPHEUS Project, and the Oxford COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Group indicated the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine showed somewhat reduced efficacy against infection with the Alpha variant (lineage B.1.1.7), with 70.4% efficacy ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64586749 | 389,560 |
153,796 | Proteins have two types of well-classified, frequently occurring elements of local structure defined by a particular pattern of hydrogen bonds along the backbone: alpha helix and beta sheet. Their number and arrangement is called the secondary structure of the protein. Alpha helices are regular spirals stabilized by hy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=366555 | 153,726 |
2,131,384 | In the Heilbronn triangle problem, throw formula_2 points in the unit square and determine the maximum of the minimal area of a triangle formed by three of the points over all possible arrangements. This problem was solved for small arrangements, and much work was done on asymptotic expression as a function of formula_... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48885825 | 2,130,159 |
1,763,625 | Since 2012, Hendrik Brumme is President of Reutlingen University, succeeding his predecessor Peter Nieß und Wolfgang Hiller. Since 2019, Alexander Leisner is chancellor and hence head of administration. The University's President is elected by the University Advisory Board, which is responsible for the development and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=545147 | 1,762,632 |
502,913 | Tyrone Hayes was born in Columbia, South Carolina to Romeo and Susie Hayes in 1967. As a child he studied lizards and frogs, particularly interested in the way that frogs morphed from tadpoles to their adult form. He won a state science fair with research that showed anole lizards had to be awake to change color. He gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19536399 | 502,655 |
608,523 | Phytosensors are genetically modified plants that can report the presence of biotic or abiotic contaminants. Obviously, the production of these engineered plants have great agricultural and laboratory promise. However, creating an appropriate reporter vector has shown to be problematic. "cis"-regulatory elements play a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6019108 | 608,212 |
1,801,769 | The B-52 Stratofortress that arrived at Eglin AFB in May 1955, underwent all-weather testing in the climatic hangar at the base, and then was prepared from November 23 for an "accelerated phase" of the operational suitability testing with the "Arctic Testing Phase", deploying from Eglin AFB to Eielson Air Force Base fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,760 |
175,865 | In 1946, Szilard secured a research professorship at the University of Chicago that allowed him to research in biology and the social sciences. He teamed up with Aaron Novick, a chemist who had worked at the Metallurgical Laboratory during the war. The two men saw biology as a field that had not been explored as much a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56359 | 175,773 |
313,631 | Post incineration process, toxic ash residue is produced and is often disposed at landfills. These landfills are not protected by any barrier and the residue has the potential of reaching underground water that is often exposed to human use. The combustion of plastic material releases toxic gases that escapes and joins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18626487 | 313,462 |
1,959,696 | In another part of his research on economic growth, Wößmann has studied the roles of innovation, trade, structural change, and the internet. Analysing the impact of structural change in a dual economy on growth, Wößmann and Jonathan Temple argue that changes in the structure of employment will increase productivity mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56571686 | 1,958,569 |
2,088,178 | "C. frenchi" is native to Australia and is present in the coastal area of Queensland and in New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia. The nests are typically in the root crown of eucalyptus trees, or inside the trunks within a few metres of the ground, but in the d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42084450 | 2,086,975 |
8,791 | Classical mechanics can be mathematically formulated in multiple different ways, other than the "Newtonian" description (which itself, of course, incorporates contributions from others both before and after Newton). The physical content of these different formulations is the same as the Newtonian, but they provide diff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55212 | 8,787 |
1,470,150 | The tank at the head of the small road from Pumsaint to Caio was thought to be modern since it still holds water. However, when the level of the water was low in 1970, it yielded large quantities of Roman pottery which show that it is of Roman origin and built early during their exploitation of the mines. The section s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1714630 | 1,469,325 |
249,208 | When using RFLP, the theoretical risk of a coincidental match is 1 in 100 billion (100,000,000,000) although the practical risk is actually 1 in 1,000 because monozygotic twins are 0.2% of the human population. Moreover, the rate of laboratory error is almost certainly higher than that and actual laboratory procedures ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44290 | 249,079 |
594,354 | The concept of full product NRE as described above may lead readers to believe that NRE expenses are unnecessarily high. However, focused NRE wherein small amounts of NRE money can yield large returns by making existing product changes is an option to consider as well. A small adjustment to an existing assembly may be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1165697 | 594,049 |
1,947,136 | Celiac disease is a disease in which the small intestine is damaged in those whose bodies are unable to process gluten because of a T cell response that is activated when gluten, from foods such as wheat or rye, is present in the intestines. Several epigenetic mechanisms are implicated in Celiac disease, such as DNA me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70058191 | 1,946,023 |
927,512 | Over the past 20 years, children have benefited from major improvements in both technology and clinical management of dialysis. Morbidity during dialysis sessions has decreased with seizures being exceptional and hypotensive episodes rare. Pain and discomfort have been reduced with the use of chronic internal jugular v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56511 | 927,024 |
305,125 | François Marie Charles Fourier (1772–1837) was a French utopian socialist and philosopher. Modern scholars credit Fourier with having originated the word in 1837. As early as 1808, he had argued in the "Theory of the Four Movements" that the extension of the liberty of women was the general principle of all social prog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 304,963 |
706,271 | Newton's study of Descartes' "Geometry" seems to have inspired him with a love of the subject, and introduced him to higher mathematics. In a small commonplace book, dated January 1664, there are several articles on angular sections, and the squaring of curves and "crooked lines that may be squared", several calculatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315685 | 705,902 |
1,704,184 | "You Look Like a Thing and I Love You" (2019) gives an example of a tic-tac-toe bot that learned to win by playing a huge coordinate value that would cause other bots to crash when attempting to expand the model of the board. Among other examples from the book is a bug-fixing evolution-based AI (named GenProg) that, wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64335737 | 1,703,228 |
463,477 | This quickly led to one or two lines, each representing a particular note, being placed on the music with all of the neumes relating back to them. The line or lines acted as a reference point to help the singer gauge which notes were higher or lower. At first, these lines had no particular meaning and instead had a let... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49182501 | 463,248 |
1,120,014 | JTRS GMR are a key enabler of the DoD and Army Transformation and will provide critical communications capabilities across the full spectrum of Joint operations. Through software reconfiguration, JTRS GMR can emulate current force radios and operate new internet protocol-based networking waveforms offering increased da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1102237 | 1,119,441 |
774,461 | Data collected by the United Nations of indicators of human development in the early 1990s show that a high level of social development was achieved in the former socialist planned economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS). Life expectancy in the CEE/CIS area in the pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43069513 | 774,045 |
297,289 | The concept of CBA dates back to an 1848 article by Jules Dupuit, and was formalized in subsequent works by Alfred Marshall. Jules Dupuit pioneered this approach by first calculating "the social profitability of a project like the construction of a road or bridge" In an attempt to answer this, Dupuit began to look at t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=374583 | 297,129 |
1,616,353 | The school was established in 1976 as a program within the Department of Socio-Medical Sciences and Community Medicine with an initial class of 54 MPH students and 20 non-degree students. It was the brainchild of Dr. Douglas K. Decker, who designed its admission criteria (successful healthcare managers and practitioner... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7361062 | 1,615,442 |
1,476,477 | Although UMN Morris officially opened its doors in 1960, the history of what became the current institution reaches to 1887. That year, the first building of the Morris Industrial School for Indians, an American Indian boarding school founded by Mother Mary Joseph Lynch, was constructed on the site and run by the Roman... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=624236 | 1,475,645 |
1,387,837 | In 2008, the FDA reassured consumers that current limits were safe, but convened an outside panel of experts to review the issue. The Lang study was released, and co-author David Melzer presented the results of the study before the FDA panel. An editorial accompanying the Lang study's publication criticized the FDA's a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57552333 | 1,387,070 |
1,721,735 | In the Newtonian framework there was indeed a degree of comfort in the answers one could give. Consider for example the question of whether the Earth really goes round the Sun. In a frame of reference adapted to calculating the Earth's orbit, this is a mathematical but also tautological statement. Newtonian mechanics c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1504486 | 1,720,765 |
1,929,075 | In 1947 the then largely uninhabited area was home to a Hermes Rocket test site, known as the Malta Test Station, an approximately site where rocket engines underwent stationary testing under the supervision of the General Electric Company. "The original facility included underground and above-ground bunkers, two gantr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22311124 | 1,927,970 |
955,030 | Several additional scientists contributed new theories to further develop the concept of biogeography. Charles Lyell developed the Theory of Uniformitarianism after studying fossils. This theory explained how the world was not created by one sole catastrophic event, but instead from numerous creation events and locatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99358 | 954,525 |
1,571,283 | Pines is a pioneer in the development and applications of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy of non-liquid samples. In his early work, he demonstrated time-reversal of dipole-dipole couplings in many-body spin systems, and introduced high sensitivity, cross polarization NMR of dilute spins such as carbon-13 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4499323 | 1,570,395 |
1,661,414 | Intellectual disabilities cause issues with sport performance because of issues with reaction time and processing speed, attention and concentration, working memory, executive function, reasoning and visual-spatial perception. These things are all important components of sports intelligence. Successful coaching strateg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51210627 | 1,660,480 |
2,125,954 | The technology introduced in the United States and rolled out to Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) from Bellcore in April 1995, (very soon after the introduction of CLASS-based services through electronic switching system (ESS)), was marketed by the RBOCs who implemented it, as a way to streamline all available... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2233219 | 2,124,733 |
640,731 | Shortly after the ERC 90 F1 Lynx had been built for export, Panhard recognized the need for a cost-effective light armoured vehicle that could defeat a more modern main battle tank (MBT), like the Russian T-72 which was being exported to many nations. The "Lynx" version could only fire medium-velocity HEAT rounds in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1199188 | 640,392 |
412,406 | Operators of hydroelectric stations compare the total electrical energy produced with the theoretical potential energy of the water passing through the turbine to calculate efficiency. Procedures and definitions for calculation of efficiency are given in test codes such as ASME PTC 18 and IEC 60041. Field testing of tu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14073 | 412,204 |
1,874,147 | The theory of facilitated variation addresses the nature and function of phenotypic variation in evolution. Recent advances in cellular and evolutionary developmental biology shed light on a number of mechanisms for generating novelty. Most anatomical and physiological traits that have evolved since the Cambrian are, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2998760 | 1,873,070 |
473,449 | Antichamber is a first-person puzzle-platform game created by Australian developer Alexander "Demruth" Bruce. Many of the puzzles are based on phenomena that occur within impossible objects created by the game engine, such as passages that lead the player to different locations depending on which way they face, and str... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4964468 | 473,213 |
1,554,405 | John Leroy Gustafson (born January 19, 1955) is an American computer scientist and businessman, chiefly known for his work in high-performance computing (HPC) such as the invention of Gustafson's law, introducing the first commercial computer cluster, measuring with QUIPS, leading the reconstruction of the Atanasoff–Be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17452058 | 1,553,524 |
693,643 | As a boy, Wharton attended two Quaker boarding schools in the towns outside of Philadelphia and also several private schools in the city. Between the age of 14 and 16, Wharton was prepared for college by a private tutor. However, when he was 16, he went on the advice of his parents to mature and learn the life of a far... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=383305 | 693,280 |
1,084,380 | In the Gotthard Railway's early days ultrasound was not available to examine the tracks. Fractures within these were far more common than today, when special ultrasound equipped trains are employed in the maintenance process. The railway watchman was especially important in ensuring the Gotthard railway's safe operatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4109835 | 1,083,823 |
435,301 | Treatment normally consists of rigorous dieting, involving massive amounts of vitamin E. High-dose Vitamin E therapy helps the body restore and produce lipoproteins, which people with abetalipoproteinemia usually lack. Vitamin E also helps keep skin and eyes healthy; studies show that many affected males will have visi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68451 | 435,087 |
553,071 | During the 1950s, racial discrimination was common throughout America and the auto industry was not immune. African-Americans were typically offered only the lowest paying jobs or were outright denied employment as employers openly advertised for "white only" applicants. Workplace discrimination was not universal, but ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37336786 | 552,782 |
83,263 | The car features numerous proprietary designs and technologies; it is lighter and has a more streamlined structure than many modern sports cars, despite having one seat more than most similar sports cars, with the driver's seat located in the centre (and slightly forward) of two passengers' seating positions, providing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=420183 | 83,229 |
77,218 | The addition of glycerol results in an exothermic reaction (i.e., heat is produced), as usual for mixed-acid nitrations. If the mixture becomes too hot, it results in a runaway reaction, a state of accelerated nitration accompanied by the destructive oxidation of organic materials by the hot nitric acid and the release... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21530 | 77,189 |
1,504,297 | In a typical implementation, the radar or sodar can sample along each of five beams: one is aimed vertically to measure vertical velocity, and four are tilted off vertical and oriented orthogonal to one another to measure the horizontal components of the air's motion. A profiler's ability to measure winds is based on t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4860340 | 1,503,451 |
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