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867,397 | Harmful algal blooms in marine ecosystems have been observed to cause adverse effects to a wide variety of aquatic organisms, most notably marine mammals, sea turtles, seabirds and finfish. The impacts of HAB toxins on these groups can include harmful changes to their developmental, immunological, neurological, or repr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18348855 | 866,937 |
206,589 | In 1990, Congress established the Robert Noyce National Math and Science Teachers Corps Act which authorizes awards up to 5,000 scholarships annually to assist individuals in obtaining a teaching degree. These awards are granted to institutions of higher education who administer the projects after successful proposal s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25808 | 206,482 |
1,657,622 | Automated pupillometry removes subjectivity from the pupillary evaluation, providing more accurate and trendable pupil data, and allowing earlier detection of changes for more timely patient treatment. By using automated pupillometers and algorithms such as Reflex's "Reflex Score", doctors can easily and objectively as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37178647 | 1,656,689 |
830,111 | By far the biggest problem with the conventional approach is cost; solar cells require a relatively thick layer of doped silicon in order to have reasonable photon capture rates, and silicon processing is expensive. There have been a number of different approaches to reduce this cost over the last decade, notably the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1932063 | 829,664 |
205,325 | The idea of building a subway in the Greater Manila Area had been forwarded as early as 1973, when the JICA (at the time known as the Overseas Technical Cooperation Agency or OTCA) and former Secretary of Public Works and Highways David Consunji conducted a study on what shall later be Metro Manila (formally constitute... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53819964 | 205,219 |
736,197 | After quarterbacks Jay Cutler, Michael Vick and Alex Smith sustained concussions in Week 10 of the 2012 season, the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) reiterated their plans to have independent neurologists on the sidelines at every game. The 2013-14 NFL season involved an independent neurological con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36082813 | 735,810 |
1,141,669 | Pakistani engineer Asad Ali Abidi, while working at Bell Labs and then UCLA during the 1980s1990s, pioneered radio research in metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) technology and made seminal contributions to radio architecture based on complementary MOS (CMOS) switched-capacitor (SC) technology. In the early 1980s, while w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61539255 | 1,141,075 |
1,497,775 | Severe adverse effects of EMP are thromboembolic and cardiovascular complications including pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis, stroke, thrombophlebitis, coronary artery disease (ischemic heart disease; e.g., myocardial infarction), thrombophlebitis, and congestive heart failure with fluid retention. EMP produces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4498159 | 1,496,932 |
1,897,016 | The permitted level of delay ripple (or phase ripple) introduced by a circuit is very much dependent on the application in which the network is being used. In situations where waveform or pulse fidelity is important, then the permitted ripple is only small. In the case of analogue television waveforms, for example, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48820122 | 1,895,932 |
1,350,623 | Despite their importance, machine learning tools related to metagenomics have focused on the study of gut microbiota and the relationship with digestive diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), "Clostridioides difficile" infection (CDI), colorectal cancer and diabetes, seeking better diagnosis and treatments... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53970843 | 1,349,877 |
1,513,714 | Because Lovelock action contains, among others, the quadratic Gauss–Bonnet term (i.e. the four-dimensional Euler characteristic extended to "D" dimensions), it is usually said that Lovelock theory resembles string-theory-inspired models of gravity. This is because a quadratic term is present in the low energy effective... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30031074 | 1,512,863 |
783,182 | Linear probing provides good locality of reference, which causes it to require few uncached memory accesses per operation. Because of this, for low to moderate load factors, it can provide very high performance. However, compared to some other open addressing strategies, its performance degrades more quickly at high lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1852304 | 782,763 |
1,121,365 | Fibroblast growth factor 21 is a liver-secreted peptide hormone that in humans is encoded by the "FGF21" gene. Together with FGF19 (FGF15 in rodents) and FGF23, this protein is a member of the endocrine subgroup within the fibroblast growth factor (FGF) family. FGF21 is a potent, extracellularly acting metabolic regula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16849002 | 1,120,791 |
1,305,474 | Several scholars have made comparative studies of the two empires. As historian Samuel Adshead puts it, "Other comparisons could be made ... None, however, offers so close a parallel with Han dynasty as the Roman empire". These have tended to focus on the philosophical and intellectual histories of China and the Greco-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26519723 | 1,304,758 |
1,870,846 | Saunders' most important contributions were made in the field of horticulture. In 1869 he bought a small farm near London, planted fruit-trees, and began experiments in hybridization. The results of his work were published by the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, another organization in which he was involved. By 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22197016 | 1,869,769 |
2,012,759 | In Australia, many members of this tribe have gone extinct very rapidly since the 19th century due to introduced predators and habitat alteration (such as development and fire suppression). Prominent examples include the white-footed rabbit rat ("Conilurus albipes"), lesser stick-nest rat ("Leporillus apicalis"), blue-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69489170 | 2,011,602 |
2,089,818 | The mechanism underlying this behavior is thought to involve the effect of the electric field on receptors and membrane proteins on the cell's surface. These charged proteins would experience an electrophoretic force pulling them toward the oppositely charged pole of the electric field. Most of these membrane proteins ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2416913 | 2,088,615 |
329,620 | A skeletal survey is useful to confirm the diagnosis of achondroplasia. The skull is large, with a narrow foramen magnum, and relatively small skull base. The vertebral bodies are short and flattened with relatively large intervertebral disk height, and there is congenitally narrowed spinal canal. The iliac wings are s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56579 | 329,445 |
506,754 | Although all three of these proteins are G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), activation of AVPR1A and AVPR1B stimulate phospholipase C, while activation of AVPR2 stimulates adenylate cyclase. These three receptors for vasopressin have unique tissue distributions. AVPR1A are expressed in vascular smooth muscle cells, h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5080634 | 506,490 |
1,899,415 | The entire length of the device is fitted with "ball joints," vacuum-tight angular couplings (invented by a LAPD staff member) which allow probes to be inserted and rotated, both vertically and horizontally. In practice, these are used in conjunction with computer-controlled motorized probe drives to sample "planes" (v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1887714 | 1,898,330 |
254,491 | Following the Vietnam War, the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979 was the next largest use of Type 59 tanks to date in modern Chinese military history. China committed nearly 300 Type 59, Type 62, and Type 63 tanks and armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) into the conflict against their former ally, with 48 of the total listed a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=676065 | 254,358 |
1,273,655 | The fruit bodies of "Calvatia craniiformis" grow to dimensions of tall by wide, and have a form ranging from pear-shaped, to flattened-spherical, to obovate (roughly egg-shaped), to tunicate (like an inverted cone). At the bottom is a thick, often crumpled base attached to a cord-like rhizomorph, which is often encrust... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9895808 | 1,272,963 |
469,409 | "Mammalian cell culture" fermentation, also known as recombinant DNA technology, is used mainly for the production of complex big molecule therapeutic proteins, a.k.a. biopharmaceuticals. The first products made were interferon (discovered in 1957), insulin, and somatropin. Commonly used cell lines are Chinese hamster ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3694845 | 469,173 |
1,098,245 | A fusible plug operates as a safety valve when dangerous temperatures, rather than dangerous pressures, are reached in a closed vessel. In steam boilers the fusible plug is screwed into the crown sheet (the top plate) of the firebox, typically extending about an inch (25mm) into the water space above it. Its purpose is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4652142 | 1,097,685 |
2,124,614 | Nonetheless, Beasley pursued his controversial hypothesis by designing one of the first large cohort studies to test the link between hepatitis B and liver cancer. With his co-investigator, Lu-Yu Hwang, and the Taiwan team of investigators, he conducted a study of over 22,000 government workers starting in 1974 and fol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36791907 | 2,123,393 |
2,176,583 | Hydrogen cryomagnetics is especially useful where high magnetic fields are required, such as in high torque electric motors. At atmospheric pressure liquid hydrogen boils at approximately 20.3 K (-259.3 °C). Liquid hydrogen at such a temperature is significantly colder than the temperatures at which superconductivity c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70046013 | 2,175,339 |
1,170,201 | "Missouri" spent the next several years laid up, with periodic reactivations for summer training cruises for midshipmen from the US Naval Academy. She was reduced temporarily to reserve status on 1 May 1910 in Boston, though she was recommissioned on 1 June 1911 for service with the Atlantic Fleet. In June 1912, the sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196796 | 1,169,582 |
182,355 | The 2004–05 NHL season was locked out and eventually cancelled because of a labour dispute between the league and its players. In January 2005, Bettman commented that he was hesitant to allow league participation in the Olympics because he did not like the idea of stopping play mid-season after the cancellation of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1855215 | 182,259 |
2,636 | The aircraft has an integrated avionics system where through sensor fusion, data from all onboard sensor systems as well as off-board inputs are filtered and processed into a combined tactical picture, thus enhancing the pilot's situational awareness and reducing workload. Key mission systems include Sanders/General El... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66299 | 2,636 |
221,938 | The interior of Type I (sand) fulgurites normally is smooth or lined with fine bubbles, while their exteriors are coated with rough sedimentary particles or small rocks. Other types of fulgurites are usually vesicular, and may lack an open central tube; their exteriors can be porous or smooth. Branching fulgurites disp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=329115 | 221,829 |
1,359,841 | Newton's Apple is an American educational television program produced and developed by KTCA of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, and distributed to PBS stations in the United States that ran from October 15, 1983, to January 3, 1998, with reruns continuing until October 31, 1999. The show's title is based on the legend of Isaac ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1419397 | 1,359,089 |
359,278 | Inhibition of apoptosis can result in a number of cancers, inflammatory diseases, and viral infections. It was originally believed that the associated accumulation of cells was due to an increase in cellular proliferation, but it is now known that it is also due to a decrease in cell death. The most common of these dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2457 | 359,091 |
1,737,109 | On 25 October 2002, 'Australian Age of Dinosaurs Incorporated', commenced operations as a not-for-profit organisation aimed at ensuring future dinosaur digs and the preparation and conservation of dinosaur fossils from the Winton Formation could continue. The organisation, with support from a strong member's volunteer ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42516906 | 1,736,132 |
1,502,703 | The first promotion post-high school specialization range was the following: Economist 30%; Engineers (computer, Electronics, Mechanics) 30%; Engineer-Physicist 1%; Mathematics 6%; Physics 2%; Romanian Army Superior Officer 2%(Economics; Communication-Engineering); Representing 74% of graduates, with higher education, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28068850 | 1,501,857 |
449,657 | Goldmann tonometry is considered to be the gold standard IOP test and is the most widely accepted method. A special disinfected prism is mounted on the tonometer head and then placed against the cornea. The examiner then uses a cobalt blue filter to view two green semicircles. The force applied to the tonometer head is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2964685 | 449,438 |
617,784 | All four telescopes have had a substantial impact on astronomy. The opening up of new wavebands to high resolution, high sensitivity observations by the Compton, Chandra and Spitzer has revolutionized our understanding of a wide range of astronomical objects, and has led to the detection of thousands of new, interestin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=723993 | 617,470 |
1,736,597 | Managed code, such as C# or VB.NET, provides native access to classes, methods, and types defined within the libraries that make up the .NET Framework. While the .NET Framework provides an extensive set of functionality, it may lack access to many lower level operating system libraries normally written in unmanaged cod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4183932 | 1,735,620 |
1,297,008 | Efforts to develop a universal coronavirus vaccine began in early 2020. In December 2021, NIAID director Anthony Fauci, virologist Jeffery K. Taubenberger, and David M. Morens endorsed the development of durable universal coronavirus vaccines and advocated in favor of "an international collaborative effort to extensive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69554903 | 1,296,297 |
684,476 | In September 1914 Rawlinson was appointed General Officer Commanding 4th Division in France. Promoted to temporary lieutenant-general on 4 October 1914, he then took command of the IV Corps. In late September, the Belgian government formally requested British military assistance in defending Antwerp. IV Corps, acting u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=889184 | 684,119 |
166,762 | Pulsejets have been used to power experimental helicopters, the engines being attached to the ends of the rotor blades. In providing power to helicopter rotors, pulsejets have the advantage over turbine or piston engines of not producing torque upon the fuselage since they don't apply force to the shaft, but push the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=81957 | 166,676 |
1,248,323 | A microelectrode is an electrode used in electrophysiology either for recording neural signals or for the electrical stimulation of nervous tissue (they were first developed by Ida Hyde in 1921). Pulled glass pipettes with tip diameters of 0.5 μm or less are usually filled with 3 molars potassium chloride solution as t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11558054 | 1,247,647 |
10,002 | The Section d'Or ('Golden Section') was a collective of painters, sculptors, poets and critics associated with Cubism and Orphism. Active from 1911 to around 1914, they adopted the name both to highlight that Cubism represented the continuation of a grand tradition, rather than being an isolated movement, and in homage... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12386 | 9,998 |
1,663,815 | Momentum associated to points, curves and surfaces are all singular, implying the momentum is concentrated on subsets of formula_20 which are dimension formula_74 in Lebesgue measure. In such cases, the energy is still well defined formula_75 since although formula_76 is a generalized function, the vector fields are sm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48520204 | 1,662,878 |
108,492 | The music team was led by Shimomura, who was initially very confused by the odd naming of tracks, along with getting the opportunity of using sounds not normally used in compositions in her other projects, such as electric guitars. Kiyota had only previously done superficial work on video game titles; she accepted Dog ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25992553 | 108,447 |
22,903 | Evolutionary game theory explains this altruism with the idea of kin selection. Altruists discriminate between the individuals they help and favor relatives. Hamilton's rule explains the evolutionary rationale behind this selection with the equation , where the cost to the altruist must be less than the benefit to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11924 | 22,894 |
2,090,567 | Born on 14 October 1926, Sargent was educated at Bedford School and at Imperial College London where he received a BSc and a PhD in chemical engineering. He worked for Air Liquide in Paris as a practising engineer until 1959 when he returned to the UK and subsequently joined Imperial College as a lecturer. He described... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30221926 | 2,089,364 |
1,564,318 | Symptoms of exposure to this type of compound include cholinesterase inhibition, miosis, frontal headache, increased bronchial secretion, nausea, vomiting, sweating, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, lacrimation, increased salivation, bradycardia, cyanosis and muscular twitching of the eyelids, tongue, face and neck, possibl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13298809 | 1,563,431 |
45,908 | The residence halls, or dorms, are the focus of student social and intramural life. Each hall is led by a rector, a full-time, live-in professional who serves as leader, chief administrator, community builder and university resource to the residents, and is a priest, religious sister or brother, or a layperson trained ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146269 | 45,890 |
1,469,160 | Miliband wrote that Kołakowski had provided a comprehensive survey of Marxism. However, while he praised much of Kołakowski's discussion of Marxism, he considered him too hostile to Marxism for his description of his work as a "handbook" to be accurate, and maintained that his approach to Marxism and its history was "f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34430017 | 1,468,336 |
1,798,781 | There is no known fossil record of Crassulaceae. The Crassulaceae family evolved approximately 100 million years ago (mya) in southern Africa with the two most basal phylogenetic branches (Crassula, Kalanchoe) representing the predominantly southern African members. Divergence times are shown in Cladogram III. The fami... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61497953 | 1,797,772 |
916,893 | The wings of SpaceShipOne can be pneumatically tilted forwards into an aerodynamically stable high-drag "feathered" shape. This removes most of the need to actively control attitude during the early part of reentry: Scaled Composites refer to this as "care-free reentry". One of the early test flights actually performed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=407982 | 916,410 |
599,067 | dPCR measures the amount of DNA after amplification is complete and then determines the fraction of replicates. This is representative of an endpoint measurement as it requires the observation of the data after the experiment is completed. In contrast, qPCR records the relative fluorescence of the DNA at specific point... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11314351 | 598,761 |
530,038 | The pilot of an F-16C fighter General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon#F-16C/D jet that crashed in a remote area about 80 miles northwest of Phoenix, Arizona was killed when his plane went down. The plane was spotted late March 13, 2008. Rescuers could reach the site only by helicopter and arrived at daybreak March 15, 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9895061 | 529,764 |
2,064,225 | The 1922 Pitt Panther football entourage returned from its victorious west coast trip and was feted at a gala banquet on January 10th with more than a thousand students and alumni in attendance. The lettermen received their "P" and All-American center Charles Bowser was elected captain for the 1923 season. On May 17th ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49396204 | 2,063,034 |
2,213,540 | We want to finish this labeling tasks rely on the power of the crowd hopefully. For example, suppose we want to identify a picture according to the people in a picture is adult or not, this is a Bernoulli labeling problem, and all of us can do in one or two seconds, this is an easy task for human being. However, if we ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47034961 | 2,212,280 |
1,936,331 | Some important languages used in OGC compliant systems are described in the following. XML stands for eXtensible Markup language and is widely used for displaying and interpreting data from computers. Thus the development of a web-based GI system requires several useful XML encodings that can effectively describe two-d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14449501 | 1,935,223 |
1,497,425 | The proposal was accepted by the Government, with a Task Force chaired by the Director-General of Industry to flesh out the specifics . Subsequently, in 2001, ASTRI was established as a limited company and subvented organization under the Memoranda of Administrative Arrangements and the ITF, with permanent facilities i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24207795 | 1,496,582 |
223,004 | One problem with this approach is that it can lead to various controversial ontological commitments. Mathematics, for example, quantifies over numbers in sentences such as "there are prime numbers between 1000 and 1010". This would mean that the ontological commitment to the existence of numbers, i.e. realism about num... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21368888 | 222,895 |
1,199,376 | Microlensing surveys in the 21st century have provided extremely accurate photometry of thousands of stars over many years. This has allowed for the discovery of many new variable stars, often of very small amplitudes. Multiple period-luminosity relationships have been discovered, grouped into regions with "ridges" of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1275331 | 1,198,735 |
611,577 | The yearlong conversion began October 9, 2011. Between October and December, 96 of Jaguar's 200 cabinets, each containing 24 XT5 blades (two 6-core CPUs per node, four nodes per blade), were upgraded to XK7 blade (one 16-core CPU per node, four nodes per blade) while the remainder of the machine remained in use. In Dec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34658831 | 611,266 |
2,005,001 | In 2021, Dickenstein received the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Award for the Latin America and Caribbean region. She was "recognized for her outstanding contributions at the forefront of mathematical innovation by leveraging algebraic geometry in the field of molecular biology. Her research enables... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46808043 | 2,003,852 |
1,952,826 | Kentucky bluegrass and Fescue are less susceptible to "Pythium" blight than Perennial ryegrass and Bentgrass. Creating an environment that includes adequate drainage, good air movement, and balanced fertility will help prevent the disease. Removing dew during hot and humid weather will also help prevent "Pythium". Dew ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22722940 | 1,951,705 |
107,929 | Since there is no downstream turbine, a ramjet combustor can safely operate at stoichiometric fuel: air ratios, which implies a combustor exit stagnation temperature of the order of for kerosene. Normally, the combustor must be capable of operating over a wide range of throttle settings, for a range of flight speeds an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26321 | 107,884 |
2,092,605 | Ann Marie Grover Carlton is an American academic working as a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine, with expertise in atmospheric chemistry. She is a reviewing editor for the journal "Science", and the winner of multiple awards and fellowships, notably the quadrennial Roger Revelle Fellowship ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71575629 | 2,091,400 |
2,215,608 | The DM3 weighs media (slurry) as it travels through a metered section of pipe using a patented, high resolution load cell. Using linear, direct sensing of mass per unit volume, measurement system within a reinforced rubber tube. This in-line section of pipe calculates the percentage of dry solids, wet density or wet an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36843586 | 2,214,348 |
897,489 | Meriden introduced several new models such as the dual purpose TR7T Tiger Trail and budget 650 cc Triumph TR65 Thunderbird during its last years but none were able to stop the decline, worsened by a UK recession and a continuing strong pound harming sales to the US. However, the Triumph Royal Wedding T140LE Bonneville ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=463234 | 897,016 |
228,402 | The Colorado School of Mines, informally called Mines, is a public research university in Golden, Colorado, founded in 1874. The school offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering, science, and mathematics, with a focus on energy and the environment. While Mines does offer minor degrees in the humanit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=340937 | 228,285 |
448,297 | One of the best known examples is the prevalence of the genotype for adult lactose absorption in human populations, such as Northern Europeans and some African societies, with a long history of raising cattle for milk. Until around 7,500 years ago, lactase production stopped shortly after weaning, and in societies whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3869283 | 448,080 |
1,350,216 | The Department of the Navy established Task Force Energy to focus on meeting energy goals, which include reducing non-tactical petroleum use in the commercial fleet by 50 percent by 2015, producing at least 50 percent of shore based energy from alternative sources by 2050, acquiring 50 percent of total energy from alte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34032429 | 1,349,470 |
1,480,597 | Athletes are held to a higher standard of nutrition, and preventive nutrition can be the key to many athletes staying on the field in the first place. According to a study done by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, most athletes don’t even have a grasp on their nutrition, and neither do their coaches. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53912950 | 1,479,763 |
495,417 | RHIC is an intersecting storage ring particle accelerator. Two independent rings (arbitrarily denoted as "Blue" and "Yellow") circulate heavy ions and/or polarized protons in opposite directions and allow a virtually free choice of colliding positively charged particles (the eRHIC upgrade will allow collisions between ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=849375 | 495,161 |
2,115,153 | Computer transparency is important in construction because of the requirements listed in the 'usages' section in this article. Especially important here are the lack of training in computer sciences and need to remain focused on the job-site activities. Any suitable device and system should support the user without the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5155293 | 2,113,938 |
269,324 | After scheduled maintenance during the summer of 2021, some power plants were not back in service in late 2021. In October, Stress corrosion cracking at Civaux Nuclear Power Plant led to the decision to shut down both blocks for long term repair. In December 2021, this was extended to both blocks of Chooz Nuclear Power... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4131857 | 269,177 |
1,234,866 | A traffic counter is a device, often electronic in nature, used to count, classify, and/or measure the speed of vehicular traffic passing along a given roadway. The device is usually deployed in near proximity to the roadway and uses an on-road medium, such as pneumatic road tubes laid across the roadway, piezo-electri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23476218 | 1,234,203 |
478,324 | Negative attention stems from cases of nutritional deficiencies that have come to the attention of the courts, including the death of a baby in New Zealand in 2002 due to hypocobalaminemia, i.e. vitamin B deficiency. Positive attention includes in 2018 when journalist Rebecca Seal of "The Guardian" reported on the grow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31485669 | 478,084 |
305,848 | "A. afarensis" was likely a generalist omnivore. Carbon isotope analysis on teeth from Hadar and Dikika 3.4–2.9 million years ago suggests a widely ranging diet between different specimens, with forest-dwelling specimens showing a preference for C forest plants, and bush- or grassland-dwelling specimens a preference fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=443293 | 305,685 |
329,919 | Molecular pathology is focused upon the study and diagnosis of disease through the examination of molecules within organs, tissues or bodily fluids. Molecular pathology is multidisciplinary by nature and shares some aspects of practice with both anatomic pathology and clinical pathology, molecular biology, biochemistry... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48791 | 329,744 |
52,753 | The idealized greenhouse model is a simplification. In reality, the atmosphere near the Earth's surface is largely opaque to thermal radiation and most heat loss from the surface is by convection. However radiative energy losses become increasingly important higher in the atmosphere, largely because of the decreasing c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12395 | 52,733 |
1,057,961 | Sweden's southern third was part of the stock-keeping and agricultural Nordic Bronze Age Culture's area, most of it being peripheral to the culture's Danish centre. The period began in c. 1,700 BC with the start of bronze importation; first from Ireland and then increasingly from central Europe. Copper mining was never... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13840112 | 1,057,412 |
1,627,627 | The building has been altered including refurbishment of the galleried lecture theatre, library, some offices and laboratory areas and the roof accommodation. An annexe has been constructed to the east with a direct connecting link to the Medical School and a research and teaching facility has been erected to the west ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44463368 | 1,626,709 |
1,350,430 | Cognitive ergonomics is a scientific discipline that studies, evaluates, and designs tasks, jobs, products, environments and systems and how they interact with humans and their cognitive abilities. It is defined by the International Ergonomics Association as "concerned with mental processes, such as perception, memory,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3225176 | 1,349,684 |
1,177,418 | In patients with loss of visual imagery during sleep, instances of acute-onset brain damage such as thrombosis, hemorrhage, trauma, and carbon monoxide poisoning in particular have been indicated as possible motivators for CWS. Additionally, some slower progressing conditions, namely tumor growth (neoplasm) in brain ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21335432 | 1,176,795 |
2,151,156 | CSE was established in 1966 when it was first designated the national center for research in educational evaluation as a result of a national competition. This charge was most recently renewed in 1996 when CSE successfully competed for the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRES... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9369430 | 2,149,925 |
1,198,838 | The Holmdel Horn Antenna is a large microwave horn antenna that was used as a satellite communication antenna and radio telescope during the 1960s at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel Township, New Jersey, United States. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1988 because of its association with the res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=639767 | 1,198,197 |
638,675 | Pain may be experienced as a result of irritation to the sensory nerve roots by bone depending on the degree of displacement and the presence of any rotatory positioning of the individual spinal motion segments. The soft tissue of the disc is often caused to bulge in retrolistheses. These cannot be determined by plain ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1368212 | 638,336 |
218,514 | Texts in Middle Persian are found in remnants of Sasanian inscriptions and Egyptian papyri, coins and seals, fragments of Manichaean writings, and Zoroastrian literature, most of which was written down after the Sasanian era. The language of Zoroastrian literature (and of the Sasanian inscriptions) is sometimes referre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=889882 | 218,406 |
1,889,072 | During the late 1960s, a global project was begun by H.H. Schmid (Switzerland) to connect 45 stations all over the continents, with distances of 3000–5000 km. It was finished in 1974 by precise reduction of some 3000 stellar plates and network adjustment of 46 stations (2 additional ones in Germany and the Pacific, but... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7162656 | 1,887,989 |
2,138,893 | Following the publication of the White Paper, the Project for the Sustainable Development of Heathrow ('Project Heathrow' for short) was set up to examine how expansion at Heathrow could best be accomplished within the constraints of the stringent environmental limits the White Paper required. A provisional assessment ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14120583 | 2,137,663 |
1,079,332 | K is used to calculate the amount of input voltage and capacitance needed to emit a desired spectrum, by controlling the current density. K is determined by the internal diameter, arc length, and gas type of the lamp and, to a lesser extent, by fill pressure. The resistance in flashtubes is not constant, but quickly dr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=387514 | 1,078,777 |
1,363,982 | Digital transceivers take the strength of the signal and the emitted dipole flux pattern and compute distance and direction to the buried transceiver. In order to calculate the emitted dipole flux pattern, a digital transceiver must have at least two antennas, although most modern transceivers have three. The digital b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10846132 | 1,363,226 |
667,174 | The H5 series is directly based on the E5 series trains operated by JR East on the Tohoku Shinkansen since 2011, and has an identical maximum operating speed of , although this is limited to on the Hokkaido Shinkansen, and to on the dual gauge track extending through the undersea Seikan Tunnel connecting Hokkaido with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69129560 | 666,826 |
427,546 | It has been found that all the common metals behave relatively similarly. The two spaced electrodes, having a load in an external circuit connected between them, are disposed in an electrical medium, and energy is imparted to the medium in such manner that ""free electrons"" in the medium are excited. The free electron... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=505992 | 427,336 |
1,661,927 | The minimal effect of high altitude bombing raids on the Ploieşti refineries prompted Fifteenth Air Force planners on 10 June 1944, to lay on a low level dive bombing attack by 48 P-38s of the 82nd Fighter Group and 45 of 1st FG. Mechanical turnbacks reduced the force by 21 aircraft, nine from the 1st Group. En route t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4381244 | 1,660,992 |
1,764,986 | Autonomous operation was a major departure from the philosophy of Apollo and the Shuttle, which had been designed as piloted vehicles. Flight control, guidance and navigation had already been automated in other aircraft, but "on-board vehicle health management" would be more of a challenge; practical spaceflight experi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49131707 | 1,763,993 |
1,687,124 | The energy of the electrons used for imaging (80–300 kV) is high enough that covalent bonds can be broken. When imaging specimens are vulnerable to radiation damage, it is necessary to limit the electron exposure used to acquire the image. These low exposures require that the images of thousands or even millions of ide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2235991 | 1,686,178 |
835,923 | While the first flights of Commercial Crew Program were originally intended to be launched by the end of 2017, Boeing announced in May 2016 that their first crewed flight would be delayed to 2018 due to issues related to Starliner's Atlas V N22 launch vehicle. In December 2016, SpaceX announced their first crewed fligh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64072812 | 835,474 |
566,206 | To design and characterize organic semiconductors used for optoelectronic applications one should first measure the absorption and photoluminescence spectra using commercial instrumentation. However, in order to find out if a material acts as an electron donor or acceptor one has to determine the energy levels for hole... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1104369 | 565,916 |
2,242,787 | As a graduate student and early career investigator, Dr. May pioneered the application of allozyme electrophoresis to measure genetic variability in aquatic organisms. His Master's thesis included a manual for allozyme electrophoresis, has been widely referenced, and subsequently appeared as a book chapter. He contribu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43257821 | 2,241,516 |
1,705,087 | Engle started running marathons in 1989. His first was the Big Sur marathon and he ran in several more marathons, including the Boston Marathon, before getting sober. Engle entered his first ultra-marathon by accident in Brisbane, Australia, in 1996, thinking he was entering shorter-distance event. He still managed to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37744072 | 1,704,131 |
1,285,666 | With more intensive agricultural use, the amounts and duration of fallow were progressively reduced in more populous areas. A situation approaching continuous mono-cropping developed on many Malawian smallholdings, which placed soil fertility under gradually increasing pressure Maize monocropping without fallow or fert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14543243 | 1,284,966 |
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