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404,687 | Symptoms of acute compartment syndrome (ACS) can include severe pain, poor pulses, decreased ability to move, numbness, or a pale color of the affected limb. It is most commonly due to physical trauma such as a bone fracture (up to 75% of cases) or crush injury, but it can also be caused by acute exertion during sport.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234185 | 404,487 |
154,060 | Nevertheless, the Lebel rifle was preferred by French infantrymen over the M1907-15 Berthier rifle with its limited three-round magazine capacity. The difference was the Lebel's larger magazine capacity in an emergency (eight rounds plus two extra rounds). In the words of David Fortier (in "Standard Catalog of Military... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=427222 | 153,990 |
1,865,675 | Coach Jennings oversaw some minor changes to his assistant coaches, the most noteworthy being the replacement of longtime assistant L. F. Klien. The one new member of the staff, Russ Faulkinberry, would eventually go on to lead the Southwestern Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns, and was the one who renamed them as the Ragin' Caj... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28264581 | 1,864,602 |
483,239 | Metal parts of e-cigarettes in contact with the e-liquid can contaminate it. The temperature of the atomizer can reach up to 500 °F. The atomizer contains metals and other parts where the liquid is kept, and an atomizer head is made of a wick and metal coil which heats the liquid. Due to this design, some metals are po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47016616 | 482,993 |
432,606 | BEM has become more popular since the 1980s. Because it requires calculating only boundary values, rather than values throughout the space, it is significantly more efficient in terms of computational resources for problems with a small surface/volume ratio. Conceptually, it works by constructing a "mesh" over the mode... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3849994 | 432,393 |
394,148 | A tracheoesophageal fistula is a congenital defect in which the trachea and esophagus are abnormally connected (a ). This is because of abnormalities in the separation between the trachea and oesophagus during development. This occurs in approximately 1 in 3000 births, and the most common abnormalities is a separation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70289 | 393,953 |
2,063,878 | In molecular biology, the CDC48 N-terminal domain is a protein domain found in AAA ATPases including cell division protein 48 (CDC48), VCP-like ATPase and N-ethylmaleimide sensitive fusion protein. It is a substrate recognition domain which binds polypeptides, prevents protein aggregation, and catalyses refolding of pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32240206 | 2,062,687 |
843,031 | In the fourth century, another influential mathematician named Zu Chongzhi, introduced the "Da Ming Li." This calendar was specifically calculated to predict many cosmological cycles that will occur in a period of time. Very little is really known about his life. Today, the only sources are found in Book of Sui, we now... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1524543 | 842,581 |
359,818 | Albedo can affect the electrical energy output of solar photovoltaic devices. For example, the effects of a spectrally responsive albedo are illustrated by the differences between the spectrally weighted albedo of solar photovoltaic technology based on hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) and crystalline silicon (c-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39 | 359,631 |
1,063,029 | The 2.2-metre telescope has been in operation at La Silla since early 1984, and is on indefinite loan to ESO from the Max Planck Society ( or MPG). Telescope time is shared between MPG and ESO observing programmes, while the operation and maintenance of the telescope are ESO's responsibility. However, due to a new agre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1000624 | 1,062,475 |
450,544 | Predictive regulation also occurs at the cellular and systems levels. When humans are chronically stressed, the brain chronically raises blood pressure; then arterial muscles predict higher pressure and respond with hypertrophy (like skeletal muscles when we lift weights). Gradually the whole cardiovascular system adap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4948308 | 450,325 |
2,133,945 | However, those experiments were criticized by DeWitt Bristol Brace (1904). He argued that Rayleigh hadn't properly considered the consequences of contraction ( instead of ) as well as of the refraction index, so that the results were not conclusive. Therefore, Brace conducted experiments of much higher precision. He em... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30481665 | 2,132,720 |
1,649,987 | Skew bridges are not a recent invention, having been built on exceptional occasions since Roman times, but they were little understood and rarely used before the advent of the railway. An early example of the skew arch is the "Arco Barbara" in the Floriana Lines fortifications in Malta, which was designed by the Maltes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20224056 | 1,649,055 |
2,040,692 | In 2014, the ISCB Student Council began publishing a collection of articles in the "PLOS" journals that covers details about the development of the SC and how to advance in the field. As a collective effort because of reaching a decade of story, different Student Council leaders from different regions in the world, cam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32144185 | 2,039,512 |
839,759 | In the 1980s France began studies for the replacement of their S-60 "Daphné"-class diesel submarines. The French shipyard DCNI ("Direction des Constructions Navales International") came up with an all-new design called S-80, with a teardrop hull and new weapons and sensors, which the French government ultimately decide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23853018 | 839,310 |
1,714,949 | Following Buck Bailey's retirement at the end of the 1961 season, the school hired Bobo Brayton, a former Washington State player and head baseball coach at Yakima Valley Junior College for a decade. In Brayton's first three seasons, WSU failed to qualify for the postseason, but won the AAWU North Division in 1965 and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30079048 | 1,713,982 |
604,723 | The mercury oxide-zinc battery system was known since the 19th century, but did not become widely used until 1942, when Samuel Ruben developed a balanced mercury cell which was useful for military applications such as metal detectors, munitions, and walkie-talkies. The battery system had the advantages of long shelf li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3298170 | 604,413 |
1,975,087 | Pacific Gas and Electric first estimated that 50,000 people were without power in Humboldt County, a number later revised to 60,000, and the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) declared a transmission emergency. Phones were alerted as far south as the San Francisco Bay Area. As of 4:25 a.m. PST, PG&E revised... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72535054 | 1,973,950 |
1,906,118 | HAO's mission is to understand the behavior of the Sun and its impact on the Earth, to support, enhance, and extend the capabilities of the university community and the broader scientific community, nationally and internationally, and to foster the transfer of knowledge and technology. As articulated in its Strategic P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11484607 | 1,905,022 |
2,228,378 | Mars Surface Exploration (MSE) is a systems engineering tool for the design of rover missions originally developed in 2003 by the Space Systems Engineering graduate class at MIT. It has since been further enhanced by the MIT Space Systems Laboratory with the support of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The tool is i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7817593 | 2,227,114 |
864,194 | Multics has numerous features intended to ensure high availability so that it would support a computing utility similar to the telephone and electricity utilities. Modular hardware structure and software architecture are used to achieve this. The system can grow in size by simply adding more of the appropriate resource... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18847 | 863,734 |
752,906 | Breaking the symmetry of the helmet are subtle differences in the two eyebrows, and in the methods employed to fashion the cloisonné garnets. The dexter and sinister eyebrows, though at first glance identical, may have been "manufactured in different ways while being intended to look essentially the same." The dexter b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22706403 | 752,504 |
318,886 | The Internet has revolutionized the production of, and access to, academic journals, with their contents available online via services subscribed to by academic libraries. Individual articles are subject-indexed in databases such as Google Scholar. Some of the smallest, most specialized journals are prepared in-house, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=324572 | 318,715 |
358,197 | Tycho continued with his detailed observations, often assisted by his first assistant and student, his younger sister Sophie. In 1574, Tycho published the observations made in 1572 from his first observatory at Herrevad Abbey. He then started lecturing on astronomy, but gave it up and left Denmark in spring 1575 to tou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30027 | 358,011 |
504,078 | But before the OpenCourseWare conference in Beijing and the establishment of CORE, on April 8, 2003, the Ministry of Education had published a policy to launch the China Quality Course (精品课程) program. This program accepts applications for university lecturers that wish to put their courses online, and gives grants of b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11080315 | 503,819 |
1,096,777 | Fossil-fuel energy systems have different production, transmission, and end-use costs and characteristics than do renewable energy systems, and new promotional policies are needed to ensure that renewable systems develop as quickly and broadly as is socially desirable. Lester Brown states that the market "does not inco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10418624 | 1,096,217 |
305,408 | With reference to the diagram to the right, the flux formula_4, or discharge per unit area, is defined in units formula_11, the permeability formula_5 in units formula_13, the cross-sectional area formula_3 in units formula_13, the total pressure drop formula_16 in units formula_17, the dynamic viscosity formula_6 in u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=849543 | 305,245 |
511,274 | Hergé hoped for the story to be as realistic as possible, and sought to eschew fantastical elements. In his own words, it contained "no moonmen, no monsters, no incredible surprises". To ensure this realism, he collected a wide range of documents about rockets and space travel with which to conduct research. In this he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=547990 | 511,008 |
837,965 | In the sixth chapter titled "On the Goals of Linguistic Theory", Chomsky writes that his "fundamental concern" is "the problem of justification of grammars". He draws parallels between the theory of language and theories in physical sciences. He compares a finite corpus of utterances of a particular language to "observ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1790730 | 837,516 |
1,917,505 | The BMC paradigm has been used to implement webservers, split servers, VoIP, SIP server, email, webmail, Text Based Browser, security protocols, file systems, RAID, transformed bare SQLite., middleware for network cards interfaces (NICS), and ethernet BONDING on BMC webserver with dual NICs, Success in transforming con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55677685 | 1,916,405 |
281,496 | Lister had been previously experimenting with galvanic stimulation of the vagus nerve in rabbits and due to their active gut movement, he considered them ideal for the experiment. To ensure their gut reflexes weren't impaired, the rabbits weren't anaesthetised. Lister conducted three experiments. In the first experimen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16535 | 281,343 |
376,912 | As the principal use of relative density measurements in industry is determination of the concentrations of substances in aqueous solutions and these are found in tables of RD vs concentration it is extremely important that the analyst enter the table with the correct form of relative density. For example, in the brewi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37379 | 376,717 |
1,769,567 | Brown published a response to Smith's critique in the "Journal of Radiological Protection" [JRP]. In it, she notes that recent research is moving away from Smith's conclusions that nature in the Chernobyl Zone is thriving. A recent article in the JRP about the Kyshtym reserve in Siberia (the result of an explosion in a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40786659 | 1,768,572 |
1,466,950 | As critical design has gained mainstream exposure, the discipline has been itself criticized by some for dramatizing so-called 'dystopian scenarios,' which may, in fact, be reflective of real-life conditions in some places in the world. Some see Critical Design as rooted in the fears of a wealthy, urban, western popula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2987487 | 1,466,127 |
1,398,744 | RBC transfusion is necessary for many patients. However, to date the supply of RBCs remains labile. In addition, transfusion risks infectious disease transmission. A large supply of safe RBCs generated in vitro would help to address this issue. Ex vivo erythroid cell generation may provide alternative transfusion produ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 | 1,397,971 |
588,954 | The Tide-class tanker (formerly the Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability (MARS) project) is a class of four fast fleet tankers that entered service with the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary from 2017. The 37,000 t ships provide fuel, food, fresh water, ammunition and other supplies to Royal Navy vessels around the wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34852698 | 588,652 |
1,212,557 | One species of Bacteria, ""Candidatus" Desulforudis audaxviator", is the first known to comprise a complete ecosystem by itself. It was found 2.8 kilometers below the surface in a gold mine near Johannesburg, South Africa. In alkaline water at a temperature of about 60 °C, with no access to oxygen, it gets energy by re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61218171 | 1,211,905 |
147,520 | Medical education is normally a five-year Bachelor degree, including a one-year internship (or clinical rotation, during which students are actively involved in patient care) before the final degree is awarded. Although some medical schools run three-year programs, hospitals tend to recruit physicians who have graduate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=465584 | 147,461 |
438,260 | It is not always practically relevant, to any concerns except philology and the history of science, which language any particular ISV term first appeared in, as its cognate naturalized counterparts in other languages are effectively coeval with it for most practical scientific purposes, as well as being self-evidently ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=149795 | 438,046 |
677,722 | The Mercury-Redstone's automatic in-flight abort sensing system solved this problem by monitoring the rocket's performance during flight. If it detected an anomaly which might threaten the astronaut, such as loss of flight control, engine thrust, or electrical power, it would automatically abort, shutting down the engi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22448503 | 677,368 |
2,171,435 | In 1945, Fite began teaching at the University of Oklahoma alongside other prominent historians such as Edward Everett Dale and Carl Rister. During his early years at the institution, Fite published numerous articles and monographs, including the first carving records and major study done on the Mount Rushmore National... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38827243 | 2,170,197 |
1,269,505 | In August 2016 the Egypt Exploration Society (EES) decided not to reappoint Obbink a general editor of the "Oxyrhynchus Papyri" series, stating this was “because of unsatisfactory discharge of his editorial duties, but also because of concerns, which he did not allay, about his alleged involvement in the marketing of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26696596 | 1,268,814 |
998,122 | Raytheon then developed a Block 2 variant equipped with a jet engine, improving speed and loiter time to engage larger and further targets. The Coyote Block 2 features improved sensors and a turbine engine to make it four times faster than its predecessor. On 17 March 2020, Raytheon was cleared to sell the Coyote Block... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55327058 | 997,604 |
1,218,632 | Yasumi Matsuno added Vaan and Penelo to be male and female avatar characters for the player in "Final Fantasy XII". They would see and learn about Ivalice in sync with the player over the course of the game but would not be deeply connected to the story. The development team explained that their previous game, "Vagrant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2485957 | 1,217,978 |
909,313 | The "Sturgeon"s were essentially lengthened and improved variants of the "Thresher/Permit" class that directly preceded them. The five-compartment arrangement of the "Permit"s was retained, including the bow compartment, operations compartment, reactor compartment, auxiliary machinery room no. 2, and the engine room. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29068 | 908,834 |
414,088 | Several characteristic genetic changes lead to the creation of a leukemic lymphoblast. These changes include chromosomal translocations, intrachromosomal rearrangements, changes in the number of chromosomes in leukemic cells, and additional mutations in individual genes. Chromosomal translocations involve moving a larg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=837167 | 413,885 |
1,048,224 | Teachers of statistics have been encouraged to explore new directions in curriculum content, pedagogy and assessment. In an influential talk at USCOTS, researcher George Cobb presented an innovative approach to teaching statistics that put simulation, randomization, and bootstrapping techniques at the core of the colle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24985094 | 1,047,679 |
2,089,395 | With the passage of time, some dissenting views have emerged. In 1870, Charles Babbington wrote that "Knight's Proteaceae is very curious if the best part of it was really carried away from a Linnean meeting and appropriated by Salisbury to tease R. Brown"; and other authors have since denied Salisbury's involvement. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19286928 | 2,088,192 |
416,177 | On October 1, 2019, Rachel Kyte assumed the role of Dean of The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, becoming the thirteenth dean of the school. Formerly the chief executive officer of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and special representative of the UN secretary-general for Sustainable Energy for All, Kyte previo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30863382 | 415,974 |
866,024 | The first group includes scores in which the chance element is involved only in the process of composition, so that every parameter is fixed before their performance. In John Cage's "Music of Changes" (1951), for example, the composer selected duration, tempo, and dynamics by using the "I Ching", an ancient Chinese boo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99234 | 865,564 |
799,250 | In the later half of the twentieth century, chemists began to develop methods of stereoselective catalysis and kinetic resolution whereby reactions could be directed to produce only one enantiomer rather than a racemic mixture. Early examples include stereoselective hydrogenations (e.g., as reported by William Knowles ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1456984 | 798,825 |
153,646 | If a main-sequence star is not too massive (less than approximately 8 solar masses), it eventually sheds enough mass to form a white dwarf having mass below the Chandrasekhar limit, which consists of the former core of the star. For more-massive stars, electron degeneracy pressure does not keep the iron core from colla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6813 | 153,576 |
1,617,167 | The developers placed emphasis on cooperative gameplay, and provided incentives available only when playing cooperatively. In an interview with "Destructoid", Gary Napper stated, "We didn't want to make it just two players running around and doing the same thing, we want to make it so they can do stuff better." Napper ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29911535 | 1,616,254 |
1,093,925 | For cathode materials a number of different compounds have been researched for suitability, including those used in magnesium primary batteries. New cathode materials investigated or proposed include zirconium disulfide, cobalt(II,III) oxide, tungsten diselenide, vanadium pentoxide and vanadate based cathodes. Cobalt b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48511144 | 1,093,365 |
387,260 | Born was surprised to discover that Paul Dirac had been thinking along the same lines as Heisenberg. Soon, Wolfgang Pauli used the matrix method to calculate the energy values of the hydrogen atom and found that they agreed with the Bohr model. Another important contribution was made by Erwin Schrödinger, who looked at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61866 | 387,065 |
332,242 | Autophagy is essential for basal homeostasis; it is also extremely important in maintaining muscle homeostasis during physical exercise. Autophagy at the molecular level is only partially understood. A study of mice shows that autophagy is important for the ever-changing demands of their nutritional and energy needs, p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=624361 | 332,065 |
1,910,154 | In 2016, Tilburg University researcher Chris Hartgerink used Statcheck to scan over 50,000 psychology papers and posted the results to PubPeer; he subsequently published the data he extracted from these papers in an article in the journal "Data". Hartgerink told Motherboard that "We're checking how reliable is the actu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58815586 | 1,909,056 |
1,130,601 | Ground squirrels are generally quite social animals and some species even live in cohesive colonies. All ground squirrels live in burrows, which in species like prairie dogs can be quite elaborate. The "contour flight with short glide attack" is essentially the only hunting technique used by golden eagles on ground squ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41302685 | 1,130,021 |
853,467 | In addition to the nutrition label, products may display certain nutrition information or health claims on packaging. These health claims are only allowed by the FDA for "eight diet and health relationships based on proven scientific evidence", including: calcium and osteoporosis, fiber-containing grain products, fruit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3426093 | 853,012 |
663,170 | As noted in the previous sections, the lentic biota are linked in complex web of trophic relationships. These organisms can be considered to loosely be associated with specific trophic groups (e.g. primary producers, herbivores, primary carnivores, secondary carnivores, etc.). Scientists have developed several theories... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4479734 | 662,825 |
1,175,717 | NT5E can act as an immune inhibitory control molecule. Free adenosine generated by NT5E inhibits cellular immune responses and thereby promotes immune escape of tumor cells. Due to enzymatic and non-enzymatic properties, CD73 is involved in cancer-related processes and is upregulated in many cancers such as leukemia, g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14755145 | 1,175,095 |
1,142,166 | A. R. Radcliffe-Brown developed a structural functionalism approach in anthropology. He believed that concrete reality is "not any sort of entity but a process, the process of social life." Radcliffe-Brown emphasized on learning the social form especially a kinship system of primitive societies. The way in which one ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21763531 | 1,141,572 |
985,349 | An important development of the early 1950s was the British invention of the angled flight deck by Capt D.R.F. Campbell RN in conjunction with Lewis Boddington of the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough. The runway was canted at an angle of a few degrees from the longitudinal axis of the ship. If an aircraft mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=899167 | 984,835 |
1,627,368 | The idea behind these high-angle guns was that the high elevation gave the shell a steep angle of descent and hence enabled it to penetrate the lightly armoured decks of attacking ships rather than their heavily armoured sides. To increase accuracy the old barrels were relined and given modern polygroove rifling : 27 g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23577114 | 1,626,450 |
830,112 | In the late 1960s it was discovered that illuminated organic dyes can generate electricity at oxide electrodes in electrochemical cells. In an effort to understand and simulate the primary processes in photosynthesis the phenomenon was studied at the University of California at Berkeley with chlorophyll extracted from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1932063 | 829,665 |
44,381 | Born to Tamil Brahmin parents, Raman was a precocious child, completing his secondary and higher secondary education from St Aloysius' Anglo-Indian High School at the ages of 11 and 13, respectively. He topped the bachelor's degree examination of the University of Madras with honours in physics from Presidency College ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276727 | 44,364 |
971,691 | A graduate of the Technical University of Berlin, Wigner worked as an assistant to Karl Weissenberg and Richard Becker at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, and David Hilbert at the University of Göttingen. Wigner and Hermann Weyl were responsible for introducing group theory into physics, particularly the theory ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10101 | 971,181 |
401,571 | Rensselaer also hosts the Tetherless World Constellation, a multidisciplinary research institution focused on theories, methods, and applications of the World Wide Web. Research is carried out in three inter-connected themes: Future Web, Semantic Foundations and Xinformatics. At Rensselaer, a constellation is a multidi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=194026 | 401,372 |
1,694,997 | Inter organismic communication in communication between organisms of the same species (conspecifics), this includes human speech. Especially in humans, communication is key to upholding social structure. Dolphins likewise communicate with one another in a number of different ways by creating sounds, making physical con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8694335 | 1,694,046 |
1,685,659 | Stuhlinger played a small but important role in the race to launch a US satellite after the success of Sputnik 1. There was little time to develop and test automated guidance or staging systems, so Stuhlinger developed a simple spring-powered staging timer that was triggered from the ground. On the night of January 31,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6818394 | 1,684,713 |
705,114 | Max Ringelman, a French professor of agricultural engineering, demonstrated in the 1890s the concept of social loafing. Ringelman, who was also considered one of the founders of social psychology, made people pull on ropes both separately and in groups and measured and compared how hard they pulled. The results indicat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1129572 | 704,746 |
1,813,176 | MEXE were pioneers in the field of terrain evaluation, where the terrain is assessed and categorised based on a number of characteristics. Areas were divided into "facets" of land broadly homogeneous in morphology, water regime and surface material from a 1:50,000 scale map. Similar facets were grouped into "recurring ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56604252 | 1,812,142 |
473,155 | Neutron activation analysis is a sensitive multi-element analytical technique used for both qualitative and quantitative analysis of major, minor, trace and rare elements. NAA was discovered in 1936 by Hevesy and Levi, who found that samples containing certain rare-earth elements became highly radioactive after exposur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21933 | 472,919 |
589,275 | Ductility is defined as ‘'an extent to which a material can sustain plastic deformation without rupture.'’ It is not only required in the forming process but is also needed for plastic redistribution of stress in members and connections, where stress concentration would occur. The ductility criteria and performance of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18865371 | 588,973 |
1,645,226 | While the exact transcription start site is still a matter of debate, it is widely held that TERRA transcription begins in the subtelomeric region at the end of chromosomes, just before the tandem repeats of the telomere begin. In humans, at least 20 of 23 chromosome ends have been shown to contain CpG islands, which a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41059434 | 1,644,298 |
82,017 | Thunderbolt 3 is a hardware interface developed by Intel. It shares USB-C connectors with USB, and can require special "active" cables for maximum performance for cable lengths over 0.5 meters (1.5 feet). Compared to Thunderbolt 2, it doubles the bandwidth to 40 Gbit/s (5 GB/s). It allows up to 4 lanes of PCI Express 3... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24484686 | 81,983 |
1,145,710 | Genus "Torreya" is subdioecious, with separate male and female plants that may however include branches bearing cones of the opposite sex. The male (pollen) cones resemble those of a common yew, but are much larger and have imbricated scales (bracts) at their base. They are 5–7 mm long, grouped in lines along the under... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2680498 | 1,145,109 |
1,431,311 | STAP is essentially filtering in the space-time domain. This means that we are filtering over multiple dimensions, and multi-dimensional signal processing techniques must be employed. The goal is to find the optimal space-time weights in formula_1-dimensional space, where formula_2 is the number of antenna elements (ou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5534218 | 1,430,507 |
1,713,044 | In November 2015, 4500 students were studying at the Medical University of Varna, of whom 3400 Bulgarian citizens and 1100 foreign students from around 40 countries, 900 of which are studying in the English language programmes in “Medicine” and “Dental Medicine”. The students are studying in 26 programmes - 987 discipl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10873202 | 1,712,079 |
931,195 | A reviewer guide published by the company describes several areas of improvement in R2. These include new virtualization capabilities (Live Migration, Cluster Shared Volumes using Failover Clustering and Hyper-V), reduced power consumption, a new set of management tools and new Active Directory capabilities such as a "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16090138 | 930,704 |
2,015,862 | A study of electricity production conducted over an 18-month period following commissioning of Golmud 1 in September 2013 showed performance at both units stabilizing within about 10% of expectations relative to measured DNI. The authors' data over the final 12-month period is reproduced from their graphs in the tables... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59877562 | 2,014,702 |
192,052 | In March 2021, the company announced that it was planning to go public through an initial public offering (IPO) of stock in the second quarter of 2021. The company planned to accomplish the IPO through a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) called Vector Acquisition Corporation (VACQ). The deal had ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25113585 | 191,953 |
14,853 | IEEE covers several areas of 5G with a core focus in wireline sections between the Remote Radio Head (RRH) and Base Band Unit (BBU). The 1914.1 standards focus on network architecture and dividing the connection between the RRU and BBU into two key sections. Radio Unit (RU) to the Distributor Unit (DU) being the NGFI-I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23475353 | 14,848 |
604,310 | A "Chief of Air Service" was authorized with the rank of major general to replace the previous "Director of Air Service", and an assistant chief created in the rank of brigadier general (from 1920 to 1925 this position was held by Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell). The primary missions of the Air Service were observation and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=662917 | 604,000 |
525,809 | From the 1970s through to the 1990s there were several academic attempts to formalize legal reasoning, a knowledge representation task. The International Conference of Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL) has been held since 1987 The first commercially available legal AI system was an expert system released in 1988 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46550108 | 525,536 |
1,832,934 | In the mid 1800s, English physicist and chemist, Michael Faraday gave a series of nineteen lectures aimed towards young adults with the hopes of conveying scientific phenomena. His intentions were to raise awareness, inspire them and generate revenue of the Royal Institution. This series became known as the Christmas l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43264630 | 1,831,886 |
1,376,619 | In OMZs oxygen concentration drops to levels <10 nM at the base of the oxycline and can remain anoxic for over 700 m depth. This lack of oxygen can be reinforced or increased due to physical processes changing oxygen supply such as eddy-driven advection, sluggish ventilation, increases in ocean stratification, and incr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19892474 | 1,375,857 |
959,356 | Displays based on electrowetting provide several attractive features. The switching between white and colored reflection is fast enough to display video content. It is a low-power, low-voltage technology, and displays based on the effect can be made flat and thin. The reflectivity and contrast are better than or equal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9225 | 958,848 |
1,411,174 | He became professor at the U.S. Signal Corps in 1884, introducing of systematic observations of lightning, and investigating methods for determining ground temperatures. He was the first to establish stations in the United States for the systematic observation of earthquake phenomena. Resigning in 1886, Mendenhall took... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=847438 | 1,410,381 |
364,597 | Aircraft-mounted machine guns were first used in combat in World War I. Immediately this raised a fundamental problem. The most effective position for guns in a single-seater fighter was clearly, for the purpose of aiming, directly in front of the pilot; but this placement would obviously result in bullets striking the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19690 | 364,406 |
270,966 | The two men who served as Wertheimer's subjects in the phi experiment were Köhler and Koffka. Köhler was an expert in physical acoustics, having studied under physicist Max Planck (1858–1947), but had taken his degree in psychology under Carl Stumpf (1848–1936). Koffka was also a student of Stumpf's, having studied mov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1573230 | 270,818 |
1,757,359 | Another restriction on the hyperelliptic curves we can use comes from the Menezes-Okamoto-Vanstone-attack / Frey-Rück-attack. The first, often called MOV for short, was developed in 1993, the second came about in 1994. Consider a (hyper)elliptic curve formula_9 over a finite field formula_40 where formula_41 is the pow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=561913 | 1,756,368 |
829,621 | In late 2004 Kam was elected IEEE vice president for educational activities, having served earlier as director of IEEE Region 2 (Eastern USA). He served as vice president for three years, during which IEEE expanded greatly its activities in pre-university engineering education and in accreditation of academic programs.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30300521 | 829,175 |
1,289,725 | Its decommissioning has been exceptionally difficult, time-consuming and expensive. Since the original operators were overwhelmed by the effort, government agencies took over dismantling and disposal. In 2003 the reactor and its nuclear waste became government property. The temporary storage of 152 casks of spent fuel ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11124457 | 1,289,016 |
1,323,875 | CIFAR staff supports more than 400 researchers from 22 countries and more than 130 institutions. Approximately half of the researchers are based in Canada and half are located abroad. The President and CEO is directly responsible to the Chair and the Board of Directors, who are responsible for funding allocation and ap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6176673 | 1,323,149 |
985,243 | Many else research on how media content triggered the central or peripheral processing and lead to attitude change. In order to reduce youth smoking by developing improved methods to communicate with higher risk youth, Flynn and his colleagues conducted a study in 2013, exploring the potential of smoking prevention mes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2176826 | 984,729 |
789,415 | Depending on their language and cognitive skills, those with aphasia may use AAC interventions such as communication and memory books, drawing, photography, written words, speech generating devices and keyboards. Visual scene displays have been used on communication devices with adults who have chronic, severe aphasia;... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2106968 | 788,991 |
1,885,062 | Recent research breakthroughs in biotechnology have revived interest in targeted drought resistance breeding and use of new genomics tools to enhance crop water productivity. Marker-assisted breeding is revolutionising the improvement of temperate field crops and will have similar impacts on breeding of tropical crops.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34165756 | 1,883,981 |
1,533,595 | Nemeth taught part-time at various colleges in New York. Though his employers were sometimes reluctant to hire him knowing that he was blind, his reputation grew as it became apparent that he was a capable mathematician and teacher. Nemeth distinguished himself from many other blind people by being able to write visual... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2046064 | 1,532,727 |
776,177 | In the United Kingdom, there were no restrictions on paternity tests until the "Human Tissue Act 2004" came into force in September 2006. Section 45 states that it is an offence to possess without appropriate consent any human bodily material with the intent of analysing its DNA. Legally declared fathers have access to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=235169 | 775,761 |
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