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2,084,076 | Having completed their refits, the batteries of 23rd Bde were ordered back into the line on 1 May. They pulled their guns into position at Longpré next day, 41st Siege Bty struggling to haul theirs uphill into the pits. One of the battery's sections was in a 'silent' position, not to open fire until required. May, June... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69464934 | 2,082,876 |
451,313 | Between sixties and late seventies, to ensure potable water to communities, NEERI paid special attention to cost-effective process development. The processes for defluoridation, removal of heavy metals and salts, and destruction of microbial organisms were developed by the scientists. ‘Chlorine tablets’ and ‘Nalgonda ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16085921 | 451,094 |
961,741 | The dense water masses that sink into the deep basins are formed in quite specific areas of the North Atlantic and the Southern Ocean. In the North Atlantic, seawater at the surface of the ocean is intensely cooled by the wind and low ambient air temperatures. Wind moving over the water also produces a great deal of ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=387457 | 961,232 |
912,155 | The three bright rings around SN 1987A that were visible after a few months in images by the Hubble Space Telescope are material from the [[stellar wind]] of the progenitor. These rings were ionized by the ultraviolet flash from the supernova explosion, and consequently began emitting in various emission lines. These r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28930 | 911,676 |
1,399,130 | Corrugated-waveguide filters, also called ridged-waveguide filters, consist of a number of ridges, or teeth, that periodically reduce the internal height of the waveguide as shown in figures 10 and 11. They are used in applications which simultaneously require a wide passband, good passband matching, and a wide stopban... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25000433 | 1,398,355 |
2,037,509 | The Blisworth limestone lies above the Upper Estuarine Series of strata. The latter was formed close to the coast where rivers flowed from the London-Brabant Island. The land sank a little in relation to the sea so the site lay a little further offshore. In the hot, shallow sea, the water partially evaporated so that t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2824348 | 2,036,334 |
1,722,797 | In contrast to the free-carrier description, this model contains contributions due to many-body Coulomb interactions such as formula_20 and formula_21, and the collision term formula_24 that describes the effect of the correlations which may be treated in different approximations. The easiest approach is to replace the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39454434 | 1,721,827 |
1,772,092 | The Albatros C.I began to reach units at the front at the end of April 1915, serving in reconnaissance, artillery spotting, bombing and photography roles. The type proved successful, with its good performance, easy handling and robust construction making it popular with its crews. Its effective armament also resulted i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1109708 | 1,771,095 |
459,187 | Evolutionary economics deals with the study of processes that transform economy for firms, institutions, industries, employment, production, trade and growth within, through the actions of diverse agents from experience and interactions, using evolutionary methodology. Evolutionary economics analyzes the unleashing of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162791 | 458,962 |
2,193,296 | After taking a fellowship at Armstrong College, Smith moved to Clare College, Cambridge in 1912. He published his first paper on corals there. He then worked at Aberystwyth College, Wales from 1913 until 1920, Bedford College for Women, London (1920-1921) and Toronto College (1921-1922). Smith became assistant lecturer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30388027 | 2,192,046 |
967,441 | For this technique to work, a specific sequence of motions would have to be followed. First, the animal must be completely subdued, and the predatory machairodonts must be social, so that several individuals can hold the prey animal down. The individual preparing to deliver the killing bite would open its mouth at maxi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1223797 | 966,931 |
1,897,429 | Fluorine can enter the atmosphere via volcanic activity and other geothermal emissions, as well as via biomass burning and wind-blown dust plumes. Additionally, it can come from a wide variety of anthropogenic sources, including coal combustion, brick-making, uranium processing, chemical manufacturing, aluminum product... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66446555 | 1,896,345 |
2,031,338 | More specifically, the GNA enzyme catalyzes the fourth step of the HBP pathway in eukaryotes, promoting a carbon transfer from Acetyl-CoA to the other substrate, D-Glucosamine-6-phosphate which will finally yield UDP-N-Acetylglucosamine. This is a small, but an important chemical step that is crucial to the properties ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14542456 | 2,030,169 |
1,321 | On July 20, 2012, Microsoft posted its first quarterly loss ever, despite earning record revenues for the quarter and fiscal year, with a net loss of $492 million due to a writedown related to the advertising company aQuantive, which had been acquired for $6.2 billion back in 2007. As of January 2014, Microsoft's mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19001 | 1,321 |
149,373 | A co-solvent dilution strategy has been reported to obtain high-quality perovskite films with very low concentration precursor solutions. This strategy substantially reduces the quantity of expensive raw materials in the perovskite precursor ink and reduces the toxic waste production by spin coating through two key rou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43845714 | 149,312 |
362,889 | Eratosthenes went to Athens to further his studies. There he was taught Stoicism by its founder, Zeno of Citium, in philosophical lectures on living a virtuous life. He then studied under Aristo of Chios, who led a more cynical school of philosophy. He also studied under the head of the Platonic Academy, who was Arcesi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46117 | 362,699 |
1,282,386 | There are active industrial scale applications of waste valorization using spent nuclear fuel - primarily nuclear reprocessing using the PUREX process which yields reactor grade plutonium for use in MOX-fuel as well as reprocessed uranium. In addition to that process, there are numerous proposals and small scale applic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67977141 | 1,281,690 |
179,147 | Autologous HSCT requires the extraction (apheresis) of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) from the patient and storage of the harvested cells in a freezer. The patient is then treated with high-dose chemotherapy with or without radiotherapy with the intention of eradicating the patient's malignant cell population at the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=575810 | 179,054 |
1,069,371 | Logwood also played an important role in the lives of 17th-century buccaneers and into the Golden Age of Piracy. Spain claimed all of Central and South America as its sovereign territory through the 17th and 18th centuries; despite this, English, Dutch, and French sailors recognized the value of logwood and set up camp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=545404 | 1,068,817 |
2,134,429 | The AHAAH model estimates the auditory hazard of impulsive sounds by modelling their transmission using a one dimensional electroacoustic model of the outer, middle and inner ear. This wave motion analysis applies the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) wave dynamics method. The motion of the stapes footplate is estimated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57869905 | 2,133,204 |
1,412,841 | The Transcendental Aircraft Company was founded in January 1947 at New Castle, Delaware by Mario Guerrieri and Bob Lichten, two employees of Kellet Aircraft, to develop the Model 1-G, on which they had begun design work in 1945. Their design was a small cantilever monoplane powered by a single Lycoming O-290-A air-cool... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40588236 | 1,412,046 |
813,877 | In 2008, the University of the Philippines questioned the validity of the 2008 THES-QS rankings, claiming that the methodology used was "problematic", and cited the "International Ranking Systems for Universities and Institutions: A Critical Appraisal", which found out that "The Times" simply asks 190,000 ‘experts’ to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25724776 | 813,444 |
2,027,777 | Herminiimonas glaciei is a species of ultramicrobacterium in the family Oxalobacteraceae. These small gram-negative cells have a variable number of long flagella at the ends and sides of their rod-shaped bodies. With dimensions of 0.5–0.9 by 0.3–0.4 µm, "H. glaciei" is roughly 10 to 50 times smaller than "Escherichia c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23237740 | 2,026,610 |
1,247,467 | Current standard ECG markers of repolarization abnormalities include ST depression, T wave inversion and QT prolongation. Many studies have investigated the prognostic strength of the SA for cardiac morbidity and mortality compared to these and other ECG parameters. In treated hypertensive patients, the SA was signific... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21305661 | 1,246,792 |
1,361,641 | In December 1997, British Cycling appointed Peter Keen as its Performance Director, with initial responsibility for £900,000 of funding granted by the UK Sports Council on the basis of a one-year interim World Class Performance Plan. He was chosen ahead of Steve Paulding and Paul Sherwen. Keen immediately outlined the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1052782 | 1,360,888 |
708,977 | According to the recent publication of the US national version of the collateral standard for products intended for home use, ANSI/AAMI HA60601-1-11, the application of the standard does not apply to the nursing home environment. In the United States, nursing facilities are considered to be environments providing profe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31633696 | 708,608 |
1,350,593 | Prior to the emergence of machine learning, bioinformatics algorithms had to be programmed by hand; for problems such as protein structure prediction, this proved difficult. Machine learning techniques, such as deep learning can learn features of data sets, instead of requiring the programmer to define them individuall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53970843 | 1,349,847 |
618,351 | Antioxidants are those which inhibit the oxidation of molecules or reduce metabolites that were previously oxidized. Given that some symptoms of SLOS are thought to result from the peroxidation of 7DHC and its derivatives, inhibiting this peroxidation would likely have beneficial effects. Antioxidants have been shown t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1907985 | 618,037 |
260,381 | In September 2005, a draft summary report by the Chernobyl Forum, comprising a number of UN agencies including the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), other UN bodies and the Governments of Belarus, the Russian Federation and U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4155456 | 260,247 |
230,589 | Aluminium toxicity is the most widespread problem in acid soils. Aluminium is present in all soils to varying degrees, but dissolved Al is toxic to plants; Al is most soluble at low pH; above pH 5.0, there is little Al in soluble form in most soils. Aluminium is not a plant nutrient, and as such, is not actively taken ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=106001 | 230,471 |
1,622,063 | The CTI was designed to be quickly administered (most clients complete the 48 CTI items in 7 to 15 minutes) and scored (and scored in 5 to 8 minutes). As a result, the CTI can be used as part of a brief intake procedure or during an initial session. The CTI Workbook presents interpretive information for all four scales... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29303703 | 1,621,147 |
1,669,116 | Electron crystallographic studies on inorganic crystals using high-resolution electron microscopy (HREM) images were first performed by Aaron Klug in 1978 and by Sven Hovmöller and coworkers in 1984. HREM images were used because they allow to select (by computer software) only the very thin regions close to the edge o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1822961 | 1,668,176 |
1,737,562 | The idea is related to a property of the bosonic string in a curve background, better known as nonlinear sigma model. First calculations from this model showed as the beta function, representing the running of the metric of the model as a function of an energy scale, is proportional to the Ricci tensor giving rise to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2864696 | 1,736,585 |
1,209,625 | Cancer biomarkers can also be used to determine the most effective treatment regime for a particular person's cancer. Because of differences in each person's genetic makeup, some people metabolize or change the chemical structure of drugs differently. In some cases, decreased metabolism of certain drugs can create dang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35714108 | 1,208,978 |
30,628 | Existing ground-based telescopes, and various proposed Extremely Large Telescopes, can exceed the HST in terms of sheer light-gathering power and diffraction limit due to larger mirrors, but other factors affect telescopes. In some cases, they may be able to match or exceed Hubble in resolution by using adaptive optics... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40203 | 30,618 |
1,660,708 | Due to a delay in the MICNS secure data link, the first prototype system was produced in a Block I configuration. This system used the same air vehicle (minus the MICNS and automated landing system), the same hydraulic launcher, the same hydraulically operated recovery system, and same Ground Control System. This syste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17844797 | 1,659,774 |
239,485 | T Tauri stars like the young Sun have far stronger stellar winds than more stable, older stars. Uranus and Neptune are thought to have formed after Jupiter and Saturn did, when the strong solar wind had blown away much of the disc material. As a result, those planets accumulated little hydrogen and helium—not more than... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6139438 | 239,365 |
71,335 | Some commentators believe that hydrogen fuel cell cars will never become economically competitive with other technologies or that it will take decades for them to become profitable. Elon Musk, CEO of battery-electric vehicle maker Tesla Motors, stated in 2015 that fuel cells for use in cars will never be commercially v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11729 | 71,308 |
396,569 | In April 2011, elevated levels of caesium-137 were also being found in the environment after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disasters in Japan. In July 2011, meat from 11 cows shipped to Tokyo from Fukushima Prefecture was found to have 1,530 to 3,200 becquerels per kilogram of Cs, considerably exceeding the Japanese le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3093327 | 396,373 |
903,686 | The M107 also had its disadvantages. It was noted for its relative inaccuracy at longer ranges. The gun was assigned to corps-level artillery units and a number of M107/M110 composite-formed units were created, allowing the option of responding with the longer-ranged M107 or the more-accurate M110. In addition, as note... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2681976 | 903,210 |
904,146 | Allegro was born in 1923, son of John Allegro and Mabel ("nee" Perry). Allegro went through Wallington County Grammar School in 1939. He joined the Royal Navy, serving during World War Two. After the war he began training for the Methodist ministry, but found that he was more interested in Hebrew and Greek, so he went ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1809873 | 903,670 |
1,651,319 | "Spore" is a god game. The player molds and guides a species across many generations, growing it from a single-celled organism into a more complex animal. Eventually, the species becomes sentient. The player then begins molding and guiding this species' society, developing it into a space-faring civilization, at which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13252995 | 1,650,387 |
742,106 | Green chemistry emerged from a variety of existing ideas and research efforts (such as atom economy and catalysis) in the period leading up to the 1990s, in the context of increasing attention to problems of chemical pollution and resource depletion. The development of green chemistry in Europe and the United States wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=936085 | 741,714 |
1,293,112 | Programming errors represent a serious safety consideration, particularly in large industrial robots. The power and size of industrial robots mean they are capable of inflicting severe injury if programmed incorrectly or used in an unsafe manner. Due to the mass and high-speeds of industrial robots, it is always unsafe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4055998 | 1,292,401 |
837,444 | A notable feature of Harappan architecture is that of a developed infrastructural city plan, in that they had sophisticated systems to control the flow of water and waste with public wells and drains that may have required advanced planning to implement. The cities were divided into rectilinear grids, encircled by fort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10893142 | 836,995 |
986,172 | Human brain evolution involves cellular, genetic, and circuitry changes. On a genetic level, humans have a modified FOXP2 gene, which is associated with speech and language development. The human variant of the gene SRGAP2, SRGAP2C, enables greater dendritic spine density which fosters greater neural connections. On a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2452832 | 985,657 |
209,556 | Military gliders were used mainly during the Second World War for carrying troops and heavy equipment (see Glider infantry) to a combat zone. These aircraft were towed into the air and most of the way to their target by military transport planes, e.g. C-47 Dakota, or by bombers that had been relegated to secondary acti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13049012 | 209,449 |
725,704 | Limitations exist within the fossil record when considering the concept of what constitutes a species. Paleontologists largely rely on a different framework: the morphological species concept. Due to the absence of information such as reproductive behavior or genetic material in fossils, paleontologists distinguish spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2339577 | 725,323 |
135,209 | During El Niño events, increased precipitation is expected in California due to a more southerly, zonal, storm track. During the Niño portion of ENSO, increased precipitation falls along the Gulf coast and Southeast due to a stronger than normal, and more southerly, polar jet stream. Snowfall is greater than average ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16472 | 135,154 |
729,333 | On March 19, 1942, Haley obtained our incorporation papers and the Aerojet Engineering Corporation was launched. I was President; Malina was Treasurer; and Haley was Secretary. We had three vice-presidents: Parsons, Summerfield, and Forman. We issued stock to ourselves, and for a brief time Haley seemed to own the enti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1398923 | 728,949 |
982,323 | Fixation is usually the first stage in a multistep process to prepare a sample of biological material for microscopy or other analysis. Therefore, the choice of fixative and fixation protocol may depend on the additional processing steps and final analyses that are planned. For example, immunohistochemistry uses antibo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8156507 | 981,811 |
1,655,018 | As with any industry, marketing plays an important role in the buying and selling of food products. Marketing campaigns for food and beverages are increasingly prevalent today and are larger in scope than ever before, given the resources that large corporations are able to use in the forms of social media and viral mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37161190 | 1,654,086 |
1,288,846 | In February 2017, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, announced the signature of a $83‑million contract with "Selex ES" (ex-subsidiary of Leonardo S.p.A. now marketed under Leonardo Electronics) to buy 20 new radars with the most modern technology available (S band and double polarized) t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5569449 | 1,288,137 |
1,986,193 | Experiments in rats have examined, in fine detail, the course of testicular events during a bacterial infection. In the short term (3 hours) multiple inflammatory factors are produced and released by testicular macrophages. Examples are prostaglandin E2, inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), TNFα and IL-1β, although ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14932478 | 1,985,052 |
505,704 | In 1908, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching conducted a survey of medical education institutions in the United States. At the time, the discipline emphasized "bedside teaching" and providing students experience with a broad variety of illnesses and patients. The school's rural location was deemed t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=981603 | 505,441 |
1,166,073 | Some infants are treated with 40% dextrose (a form of sugar) gel applied directly to the infant's mouth. There are two main ways that neonatal hypoglycemia is treated. The first way includes intravenous infusion of glucose. For less severe, borderline, asymptomatic hypoglycemic neonates early introduction of breast mil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41374389 | 1,165,456 |
407,963 | [...] This motion of heat takes place in three ways, which a common fire-place very well illustrates. If, for instance, we place a thermometer directly before a fire, it soon begins to rise, indicating an increase of temperature. In this case the heat has made its way through the space between the fire and the thermome... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47526 | 407,762 |
1,184,260 | Ataxia usually goes away without any treatment. In cases where an underlying cause is identified, medical treatment may be needed. In extremely rare cases, patients can have continuing and disabling symptoms. Treatment includes corticosteroids, intravenous immunoglobulin, or plasma exchange therapy. Drug treatment to i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33167825 | 1,183,633 |
733,801 | The Queen Bee effect is similar to the Black Sheep effect but applies only to women. It explains why higher-status women, particularly in male-dominated professions, may actually be far less likely to help other women than their male colleagues might be. A 2004 study found that while doctoral students in a number of di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36487460 | 733,414 |
401,129 | The Yuengling Center on the Tampa campus is the home facility of the men's and women's basketball teams and the women's volleyball team. The first event held in the facility was a basketball game in 1980. Since the opening of the arena, it has been the site for USF Commencement Ceremonies, orientation sessions, and oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3649046 | 400,930 |
1,958,866 | Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP) is an annual symposium hosted by the European Association For Computer Graphics (Eurographics). The goal of the symposium is to present and discuss new research ideas and results in geometry processing. The conference is geared toward the discussion of mathematical foundations and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31572346 | 1,957,739 |
960,279 | Following claims of the observation of elements 104 and 105 in 1970 by Albert Ghiorso et al. at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a search for element 106 using oxygen-18 projectiles and the previously used californium-249 target was conducted. Several 9.1 MeV alpha decays were reported and are now thought to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28144 | 959,770 |
137,315 | The aliens' objectives are not explained until the fourth season. They plan to extract helium-3 from Earth's moon to power their technology and to use humanity as an enslaved frontline army in their war with another alien race. To do this, the aliens round up children between the ages of 8 and 18 and attach a biomechan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30214103 | 137,259 |
762,757 | Futurists have a decidedly mixed reputation and a patchy track record at successful prediction. Many 1950s futurists predicted commonplace space tourism by 2000, but ignored the possibilities of ubiquitous, cheap computers. On the other hand, many forecasts have portrayed the future with some degree of accuracy. Sample... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1508301 | 762,349 |
94,949 | A west coast Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS), Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 41, received the MH-60R aircraft in December 2005 and began training the first set of pilots. In 2007, the R-model successfully underwent final testing for incorporation into the fleet. In August 2008, the first 11 combat-ready Rom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=202031 | 94,908 |
364,828 | The "Astute" class has stowage for 38 weapons and would typically carry a mix of Spearfish heavy torpedoes and Tomahawk Block IV cruise missiles, the latter costing £870,000 each. The Tomahawk missiles are capable of hitting a target to within a few metres, to a range of . In May 2022, the MOD announced that it would b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186252 | 364,637 |
158,432 | The total load connected to the power grid can vary significantly over time. Although the total load is the sum of many individual choices of the clients, the overall load is not necessarily stable or slow varying. For example, if a popular television program starts, millions of televisions will start to draw current i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13201685 | 158,351 |
2,710 | On October 9, 1941, two months before the United States entered World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved a crash program to develop an atomic bomb. In May 1942, National Defense Research Committee Chairman James B. Conant, who had been one of Oppenheimer's lecturers at Harvard, invited Oppenheimer to take... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39034 | 2,710 |
591,100 | In 2018, reanalysis of electron microscopy photographs from the 1980s allowed scientists to identify a giant virus ("Meelsvirus") infecting "Adhesisagitta hispida"; its site of multiplication is nuclear and the virions (length: 1.25 μm) are enveloped. In 2019, reanalysis of other previous studies has shown that structu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43171 | 590,798 |
2,164,693 | The seismometers consisted of an inertial mass on a sensor boom suspended by springs and hinges, a capacitor plate and a damping magnet. The LP seismometers could function in a flat-response mode and in a peaked response mode. In the flat response mode, the LP seismometers had a natural period of 15 s. In the peaked-re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49384392 | 2,163,456 |
1,984,443 | The seismometers consisted of an inertial mass on a sensor boom suspended by springs and hinges, a capacitor plate and a damping magnet. The LP seismometers could function in a flat-response mode and in a peaked response mode. In the flat response mode, the LP seismometers had a natural period of 15 s. In the peaked-re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49383463 | 1,983,304 |
159,105 | Despite the Air Force's lack of interest in human-rating the Titan II, General Bernard Adolph Schriever assured that any problems with the booster would be fixed. BSD decided that 0.6 Gs was good enough despite NASA's goal of 0.25 Gs and they stubbornly declared that no more resources were to be expended on it. On 29 M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=841594 | 159,023 |
1,183,094 | Both North and South Korea had survived the Korean War (1950–53). From the end of World War II, South Korea remained largely dependent on U.S. aid until a military coup occurred in 1961. American economic aid failed in its goal of creating an industrial base in South Korea largely thanks to corruption. While the South ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5334394 | 1,182,468 |
641,523 | On the other hand, in industrial settings where harmonic cancellation, frequency conversion, or line isolation is needed, MG sets remain a popular solution. A useful feature of motor–generators is that they can handle large short-term overloads better than semiconductor devices of the same average load rating. Consider... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1118317 | 641,184 |
2,109,541 | In 1903 in Chicago Henderson saw the first performance in the United States of Bernard Shaw's play "You Never Can Tell". Henderson became so enthusiastic about the playwright and his personality that he determined to write Shaw's biography. After some communication between Shaw and Henderson, Henderson arrived in Londo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4638858 | 2,108,327 |
926,882 | In 1973, while a graduate student working with David Gross at Princeton University, Wilczek (together with Gross) discovered asymptotic freedom, which holds that the closer quarks are to each other, the less the strong interaction (or color charge) between them; when quarks are in extreme proximity, the nuclear force b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275603 | 926,395 |
1,241,159 | Routine monitoring of individuals with Norrie disease is recommended to best manage the disease. This includes regular follow-up with an ophthalmologist, even when vision is severely compromised. Additionally, due to the high proportion of individuals with Norrie disease who develop hearing loss, regular monitoring of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1971959 | 1,240,488 |
205,043 | Circuit diagrams are pictures with symbols that have differed from country to country and have changed over time, but are now to a large extent internationally standardized. Simple components often had symbols intended to represent some feature of the physical construction of the device. For example, the symbol for a r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=587339 | 204,937 |
274,447 | In January 1969 NASA awarded contracts to General Dynamics, Lockheed, McDonnell Douglas, and North American Rockwell to initiate the early development of the Space Shuttle. As part of these 'Phase A' studies, the involved companies selected an upgraded version of the XLR-129, developing , as the baseline engine for the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=680000 | 274,299 |
1,616,276 | As a poor saprophyte and obligate parasite, "T. basicola" is often dependent upon favorable environmental conditions. Although the pathogen is able to grow in a variety of soil moistures, wet soil is optimal for greater infection since spores are able to move easily in water. Water plays a role in dispersal of spores a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11063377 | 1,615,367 |
975,070 | The P1 adhesin (trypsin-sensitive protein) is a 120 kDa protein highly clustered on the surface of the attachment organelle tip in virulent mycoplasmas. Both the presence of P1 and its concentration on the cell surface are required for the attachment of "M. pneumoniae" to the host cell. "M. pneumoniae" cells treated wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=466746 | 974,559 |
634,085 | The Cattell–Horn–Carroll theory of intelligence is a synthesis of Cattell and Horn's "Gf-Gc" model of fluid and crystallised intelligence and Carroll's Three Stratum Hierarchy (Sternberg & Kauffman, 1998). Awareness of the similarities between Cattel and Horn's "Gf-Gc" expanded model abilities and Carroll's Broad Strat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11375626 | 633,747 |
350,977 | Both mental logic theories and mental model theories assume that there is one general-purpose reasoning mechanism that applies to all forms of deductive reasoning. But there are also alternative accounts that posit various different special-purpose reasoning mechanisms for different contents and contexts. In this sense... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61093 | 350,794 |
1,044,353 | The various alternatives to Darwinian evolution by natural selection were not necessarily mutually exclusive. The evolutionary philosophy of the American palaeontologist Edward Drinker Cope is a case in point. Cope, a religious man, began his career denying the possibility of evolution. In the 1860s, he accepted that e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53955838 | 1,043,809 |
536,228 | The Mesopotamians had symbols for each power of ten. Later, they wrote their numbers in almost exactly the same way done in modern times. Instead of having symbols for each power of ten, they would just put the coefficient of that number. Each digit was separated by only a space, but by the time of Alexander the Great,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6134187 | 535,949 |
608,637 | The species occurs across a vast region of eastern and southern Australia, mainly north and west of the Great Dividing Range, within the Murray-Darling Basin, and within the states of New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria. Its extent of occurrence has been greatly depleted by clearing for cereal cropping and pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12863920 | 608,326 |
1,759,107 | IVI's first major initiative, Diseases of the Most Impoverished (DOMI), was a program of research and technical assistance to accelerate the introduction of new vaccines against typhoid fever, cholera, and shigellosis into public health programs for the poor in developing countries. From 2000 to 2006, IVI's DOMI progra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22613352 | 1,758,114 |
9,211 | On February 29, 2000, Boeing launched its next-generation twinjet program, initially called 777-X, and began issuing offers to airlines. Development was slowed by an industry downturn during the early 2000s. The first model to emerge from the program, the 777-300ER, was launched with an order for ten aircraft from Air ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89260 | 9,207 |
1,671,321 | Gubser did foundational work in the AdS/CFT correspondence as a graduate student. In particular, his 1998 paper "Gauge Theory Correlators from Non-Critical String Theory" with his advisor Igor Klebanov and another Princeton physics professor Alexander Markovich Polyakov, made a precise statement of the AdS/CFT duality.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23493273 | 1,670,381 |
362,440 | The next step was taken by Eudoxus of Cnidus, who formalized a new theory of proportion that took into account commensurable as well as incommensurable quantities. Central to his idea was the distinction between magnitude and number. A magnitude "...was not a number but stood for entities such as line segments, angles,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20647689 | 362,250 |
147,963 | In RF induction plasma torches, energy coupling to the plasma is accomplished through the electromagnetic field generated by the induction coil. The plasma gas does not come in contact with electrodes, thus eliminating possible sources of contamination and allowing the operation of such plasma torches with a wide range... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1234517 | 147,904 |
61,296 | The Qin introduced a range of reforms such as standardized currency, weights, measures and a uniform system of writing, which aimed to unify the state and promote commerce. Additionally, its military used the most recent weaponry, transportation and tactics, though the government was heavy-handedly bureaucratic. Han Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43461 | 61,271 |
21,725 | All satellites broadcast at the same two frequencies, 1.57542 GHz (L1 signal) and 1.2276 GHz (L2 signal). The satellite network uses a CDMA spread-spectrum technique where the low-bitrate message data is encoded with a high-rate pseudo-random (PRN) sequence that is different for each satellite. The receiver must be awa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11866 | 21,716 |
201,010 | Rutger Macklean (1742–1816) was a prominent captain, politician and land owner remembered for introducing agricultural reforms leading to more effective large-scale farming in Sweden. Ernst Wigforss (1881–1977) was Sweden's finance minister 1925–1926 and 1932–1949 and has been considered the 'foremost developer of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17843 | 200,907 |
271,417 | While appendectomy is a standard surgical procedure, its cost has been found to vary considerably in the United States. A 2012 study analyzed 2009 data from nearly 20,000 adult patients treated for appendicitis in California hospitals. Researchers examined "only uncomplicated episodes of acute appendicitis" that involv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=158240 | 271,269 |
1,038,461 | A neurologist is usually needed to determine the diagnosis, which is based on the history and physical examination along with the electrodiagnostic study, which includes nerve conduction studies (NCS) and needle electromyography (EMG). The NCS usually demonstrate conduction block. This can be done by showing that the n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31030642 | 1,037,920 |
569,320 | Humans show a great deal of variability in their abilities to recognize emotion. A key point to keep in mind when learning about automated emotion recognition is that there are several sources of "ground truth," or truth about what the real emotion is. Suppose we are trying to recognize the emotions of Alex. One source... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48198256 | 569,030 |
540,532 | Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a type of lung infection that occurs in people who are on mechanical ventilation breathing machines in hospitals. As such, VAP typically affects critically ill persons that are in an intensive care unit (ICU) and have been on a mechanical ventilator for at least 48 hours. VAP is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3046843 | 540,252 |
1,864,519 | Patrick Juola is an internationally noted expert in text analysis, security, forensics, and stylometry. He is a professor of computer science at Duquesne University. As a faculty member at Duquesne University, he has authored two books and more than 100 scientific publications as well as generated more than two million... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7955903 | 1,863,447 |
1,376,604 | Measurement of dissolved oxygen in coastal and open ocean waters for the past 50 years has revealed a marked decline in oxygen content. This decline is associated with expanding spatial extent, expanding vertical extent, and prolonged duration of oxygen-poor conditions in all regions of the global oceans. Examinations ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19892474 | 1,375,842 |
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