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2,009,904 | "Protection by Persuasion: International Cooperation in the Refugee Regime" (Cornell University Press, 2009), explores the history of responsibility-sharing in the global refugee regime. Theoretically, it identifies the cooperation problem in the refugee regime as being a 'suasion game' in which bargaining is character... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52790750 | 2,008,752 |
1,422,880 | Thalattosaurs are only known from marine deposits, indicating that they were all primarily aquatic reptiles. The retracted nostrils and long, paddle-shaped tail are further evidence for aquatic habits. Thalattosauroids seemingly spent all of their time in the water, with short, wide limbs, poorly developed wrist and an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14067771 | 1,422,079 |
461,274 | Veterinary school curricula are not standardized, with programs lasting from three to six years. In the United States and Canada the program is generally four years long, usually after a four-year pre-vet undergraduate degree). For the first three years, students learn anatomy, physiology, histology, neuroanatomy, phar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4447415 | 461,047 |
414,070 | In most cases, the cause is unknown. Genetic risk factors may include Down syndrome, Li-Fraumeni syndrome, or neurofibromatosis type 1. Environmental risk factors may include significant radiation exposure or prior chemotherapy. Evidence regarding electromagnetic fields or pesticides is unclear. Some hypothesize that a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=837167 | 413,867 |
182,336 | Although NHL players were originally planned to participate in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the league and the NHL Players' Association announced on December 21, 2021 that they would be pulling out of the tournament, citing the impact of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Finland won their first ever ice hockey gold m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1855215 | 182,240 |
1,471,325 | A classic example is the VIV of an underwater cylinder. How this happens can be seen by putting a cylinder into the water (a swimming-pool or even a bucket) and moving it through the water in a direction perpendicular to its axis. Since real fluids always present some viscosity, the flow around the cylinder will be slo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3653991 | 1,470,498 |
1,150,104 | A number of patients, activists, and psychiatrists dispute biological psychiatry as a scientific concept or as having a proper empirical basis, for example arguing that there are no known biomarkers for recognized psychiatric conditions. This position has been represented in academic journals such as "The Journal of Mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1658773 | 1,149,497 |
1,373,570 | The relatively new science of evo-devo that suggests everyone is a common descendant from a single tree has opened pathways into gene and biochemical study. One way in which this manifested within biolinguistics is through the suggestion of a common language gene, namely FOXP2. Though this gene is subject to debate, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9568471 | 1,372,813 |
2,089,072 | Although reviewer Philip Peak found the book "interesting and useful", and reviewer writes that it is written in a pleasant style, most reviewers were not as positive. Hardy Grant writes that Osen's profile of Hypatia has treated her "very badly" by being based primarily on a piece of fiction for children written in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63504856 | 2,087,869 |
1,675,192 | This disease typically begins between six and nineteen years after apparently normal development and generally results in death within ten years. It is characterised by the presence of Lafora bodies (polyglucosan inclusions) in neurons and other body tissue. The generalized seizures are usually well controlled by antic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12502166 | 1,674,250 |
1,871,981 | Morris Kline has said elsewhere that he considers the crowning achievement of twentieth-century mathematics to be the Godel theorem. I don't agree: the Gddel theorem, astonishing and deep as it is, had little effect on the mainstream of real mathematical development. It didn't actually lead into anything new and powerf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32925374 | 1,870,904 |
1,786,423 | Twersky succeeded his father Meshullam Zalman Twersky as the Talner Rebbe of Boston for the last twenty years of his life, serving as the spiritual leader of Congregation Beth David, known colloquially as the Talner Beis Medrash ("the Talner study hall"), which was located in a renovated house in the Brighton neighborh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2890454 | 1,785,418 |
37,075 | Through a variety of more complicated circumstances, the DOE case began to wane as it became clear that some of the data they were attempting to claim as "secret" had been published in a students' encyclopedia a few years earlier. After another H-bomb speculator, Chuck Hansen, had his own ideas about the "secret" (quit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2269463 | 37,063 |
1,629,139 | Schott and many scientists and engineers afterwards applied the additivity principle to experimental data measured in their own laboratory within sufficiently narrow composition ranges (local glass models). This is most convenient because disagreements between laboratories and non-linear glass component interactions do... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13803804 | 1,628,220 |
2,108,768 | Consistency help UMD capture the 1955 MIAC team title by 15 strokes ahead of runner-up Macalester College. John Patrick finished with 76-76 (152) to finish second and Rick Liljedahl, back from two years service in the military, shot 79-74 (153) for his second MIAC individual third-place finish. By virtue of claiming th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50172482 | 2,107,554 |
1,666,278 | Pinealocytes are the main cells contained in the pineal gland, located behind the third ventricle and between the two hemispheres of the brain. The primary function of the pinealocytes is the secretion of the hormone melatonin, important in the regulation of circadian rhythms. In humans, the suprachiasmatic nucleus of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=608751 | 1,665,339 |
572,424 | DG quickly responded by introduced new models of the AViiON series based on a true commodity processor, the Intel x86 series. By this time a number of other vendors, notably Sequent Computer Systems, were also introducing similar machines. The lack of lock-in now came back to haunt DG, and the rapid commoditization of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157959 | 572,131 |
1,109,225 | World War I AA guns were often pieces of standard medium-calibre artillery modified for anti-aircraft fire. However, fast development of aerial warfare meant that a higher muzzle velocity was needed to target modern planes flying faster and at higher altitudes. Having lost the war, Germany had been forbidden from devel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43014690 | 1,108,660 |
1,488,649 | Given the variety of ion gels, the mechanical properties of this broad class of materials spans a wide range. Often mechanical properties are tailored towards the desired application. Applications that require high flexibility target a highly elastic matrix material such as a cross-linked polymer. These types of elasto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21066540 | 1,487,810 |
1,105,055 | The famous problems of David Hilbert stimulated further development, which led to the reciprocity laws, and proofs by Teiji Takagi, Phillip Furtwängler, Emil Artin, Helmut Hasse and many others. The crucial Takagi existence theorem was known by 1920 and all the main results by about 1930. One of the last classical conj... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242695 | 1,104,492 |
698,747 | China successfully defended the gold medal won in 2016 and claimed their sixth title overall. The team scored seven wins and four draws for a total of 18 match points. This exact achievement was matched only by Ukraine, who had inferior tie-breaker and won the silver medal. These two teams were also the only unbeaten i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51473085 | 698,383 |
1,559,771 | Founded by Hugh Henry Brackenridge as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787, the University of Pittsburgh is among a select group of universities and colleges established in the 18th century in the United States. It is the oldest continuously chartered institution of learning in the U.S., west of the Allegheny Mountains. The scho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13999007 | 1,558,885 |
1,399,687 | "2001" accurately presents outer space as not allowing the propagation of sound, in sharp contrast to other films with space scenes in which explosions or sounds of passing spacecraft are heard. "2001" portrayal of weightlessness in spaceships and outer space is also more realistic. Tracking shots inside the rotating w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37415478 | 1,398,912 |
218,222 | On 25 February 2000, university management began implementing a policy called "Wits 2001" under which work deemed 'non-core' to the functioning of the university (such as cleaning and landscaping) was outsourced to external contractors; the university's academic departments were also restructured: the university's nine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=320467 | 218,114 |
934,585 | Dane Harwood, in response to this debate, approached the question of universality in music in his article “Universals in Music: A Perspective from Cognitive Psychology”, years after the initial debate, from a psychology perspective. His view is that universals in music are not a matter of specific musical structure or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80077 | 934,092 |
1,509,814 | Aerosol science and measurements field, especially aerosol mass spectrometry has grown a lot over the last couple decades. Its growth is partly due to the instruments versatility, it has the ability to analyze a particles size and chemical composition, and perform bulk and single-particle measurements. The versatility ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44305631 | 1,508,964 |
568,005 | For the medieval Islamic world, little information is known about female medical practitioners although it is likely that women were regularly involved in medical practice in some capacity. Male medical writers refer to the presence of female practitioners (a "ṭabība") in describing certain procedures or situations. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14457458 | 567,715 |
354,014 | In the late 18th century James Watt's steam engine was equipped with a governor (1775–1800), a centrifugal feedback valve for controlling the speed of the engine. In 1868 James Clerk Maxwell published a theoretical article on governors, one of the first to discuss and refine the principles of self-regulating devices. J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20786042 | 353,831 |
1,955,525 | Rollston holds an MA and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University Department of Near Eastern Studies. He also holds an MAR from Emmanuel School of Religion (now known as Emmanuel Christian Seminary), and an undergraduate degree from Great Lakes Christian College. Rollston is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He is Pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37734184 | 1,954,403 |
1,050,860 | The signal peptide is cleaved off producing a procollagen molecule. Three identical type III procollagen chains come together at the carboxy-terminal ends, and the structure is stabilized by the formation of disulphide bonds. Each individual chain folds into left-handed helix and the three chains are then wrapped toget... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7536016 | 1,050,314 |
416,483 | Emphasis during chip design was on high-precision frequency control, and the SID was originally designed to have 32 independent voices, sharing a common wavetable lookup scheme that would be time multiplexed. However, these features could not be finished in time, so instead the mask work for a certain working oscillato... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=202115 | 416,280 |
1,969,476 | At about the age of 10, Brewster became close friends with a boy his age, Daniel French. French's father was a hunter and amateur taxidermist who displayed his skill in cases in his home. Brewster's father gave him a gun and taught him to shoot, providing a means of collecting birds to study. In the nineteenth century,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=920198 | 1,968,342 |
2,074,171 | With White consistently scoring in double figures and Laughna beginning the season and his varsity career with a 14-rebound performance against American, the Hoyas went 12-2 in the seasons first 14 games. In an unusual event during this stretch that would prove significant later, they were losing 41-26 on December 18, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41373114 | 2,072,978 |
1,372,605 | Postprandial blood glucose levels become lower after consumption of a meal containing β-glucan as a result of increased gut viscosity, which delays gastric emptying and lengthens travel through the small intestine. In one review, the net decrease in blood glucose absorption reduced postprandial blood insulin concentrat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48633927 | 1,371,848 |
740,105 | Opposing the tidal deceleration of Earth is a mechanism that is in fact accelerating the rotation. Earth is not a sphere, but rather an ellipsoid that is flattened at the poles. SLR has shown that this flattening is decreasing. The explanation is that during the ice age large masses of ice collected at the poles, and d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30647 | 739,713 |
79,270 | Although the shadow-mask patterning method is a mature technology used from the first OLED manufacturing, it causes many issues like dark spot formation due to mask-substrate contact or misalignment of the pattern due to the deformation of shadow mask. Such defect formation can be regarded as trivial when the display s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191646 | 79,237 |
2,218,562 | Howard worked as a visiting professor at Emory University in the Department of Physics as an astronomy professor from September 1985 to May 1986. She conducted post-doctoral research at Los Alamos National Laboratory with the Space and Remote Sensing Sciences Group from January 1989 to January 1991. Following her post-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66036771 | 2,217,300 |
1,827,989 | Belnacasan (VX-765) is a drug developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals which acts as a potent and selective inhibitor of the enzyme caspase 1. This enzyme is involved in inflammation and cell death, and consequently blocking its action may be useful for various medical applications, including treatment of epilepsy, arthriti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58826759 | 1,826,950 |
72,663 | In 2005, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had approved a qualified health claim for chromium picolinate with a requirement for very specific label wording: "One small study suggests that chromium picolinate may reduce the risk of insulin resistance, and therefore possibly may reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. FD... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5669 | 72,636 |
1,119,477 | The use of a flash or strobe is often regarded as the most difficult aspect of underwater photography. Some misconceptions exist about the proper use of flash underwater, especially as it relates to wide-angle photography. Generally, the flash should be used to supplement the overall exposure and to restore lost color,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=291260 | 1,118,904 |
168,456 | The satellite has its own set of antennas to receive communication signals from Earth and to transmit signals to their target location. These antennas and transponders are part of the satellite's "payload", which is designed to receive and transmit signals to and from various places on Earth. What enables this transmis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=769088 | 168,366 |
1,864,035 | SMARTS version 2.9.2 was selected to prepare various reference terrestrial spectra, which have been standardized by ASTM under the designations G173, G177 and G197, and by IEC under 60904-3. The latter standard represents the spectral distribution of global irradiance incident on a 37° tilted surface facing the sun at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31794459 | 1,862,963 |
1,187,643 | In his book, "My Years with the IAF", Air Chief Marshal (Retd) P. C. Lal wrote that, "The Bangladesh war demonstrated that the three Services working closely together were strong and decisive in their actions. Inter-Services cooperation was indeed the most important lesson of that war." However Air Marshal Vinod Patney... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65650736 | 1,187,012 |
1,281,738 | Proposed in early 2007, DARPA came to believe that a visual warning system could be produced and developed via an integration of technology and artificial intelligence. By combining discoveries in flat-field, wide-angle optics, large pixel-count digital imagers, ultra-low power analog-digital hybrid signal processing e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15949970 | 1,281,042 |
1,917,397 | Kendon received research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the American Council of Learned Societies, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship. In addition to the previously mentioned positions at Oxford and Bronx State Hospital, he held research positions a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2072724 | 1,916,297 |
734,664 | In June 2008, at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Professor Paolo Macchiarini and his team, of the University of Barcelona, performed the first tissue engineered trachea (wind pipe) transplantation. Adult stem cells were extracted from the patient's bone marrow, grown into a large population, and matured into cartilag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2285007 | 734,277 |
1,057,544 | Anaphylatoxins, or complement peptides, are fragments (C3a, C4a and C5a) that are produced as part of the activation of the complement system. Complement components C3, C4 and C5 are large glycoproteins that have important functions in the immune response and host defense. They have a wide variety of biological activit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1455844 | 1,056,995 |
1,923,208 | As of 2010 there were 10 seagrass species at high rick of extinction. While three were considered endangered. With seagrass species loss comes biodiversity loss. This paper studies not only human impact on seagrass beds but also global climate change and how changing environments are impacting seagrasses worldwide (Sho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37993899 | 1,922,105 |
979,784 | Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are at risk for traumatic injury due to gunfire and improvised explosive devices. Previously, infection was thought to occur due to contamination with "A. baumannii" at the time of injury. Subsequent studies have shown, although "A. baumannii" may be infrequently isolated from the natur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9535016 | 979,272 |
1,389,499 | Four major cognitive systems are involved in eye movement during reading: language processing, attention, vision, and oculomotor control. Eye trackers bounce near infrared light off the interior of the eyeball, and monitor the reflection on the eye to determine gaze location. With this technique, the position of a fixa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8128856 | 1,388,728 |
618,493 | This goal of the division is to study radiative, chemical, ionization, and dynamical processes in the atmosphere of our planet by different methods such as in-situ rocket and balloon borne experiments, laboratory experiments, and theoretical simulation and modeling of the atmosphere of Earth. Wide research domains of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3569670 | 618,179 |
1,165,985 | Konrad Lorenz had examined the phenomenon of "imprinting" and felt that it might have some parallels to human attachment. Imprinting, a behavior characteristic of some birds and a very few mammals, involves rapid learning of recognition by a young bird or animal exposed to a conspecific or an object or organism that be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18756845 | 1,165,368 |
1,744,936 | The lowest, oldest deposits filled in the shallow valleys of the weathered rocks that were exposed at that time, which ranged in age from Cretaceous in Nebraska and Kansas to Permian in Texas. As the rivers built up the alluvial fans, subsurface water circulation varied, resulting in localized formation of caliche, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37922800 | 1,743,952 |
1,210,835 | FTT was initially proposed in the 1990s as an attempt to unify findings from the memory and reasoning domains that could not be predicted or explained by earlier approaches to cognition and its development (e.g., constructivism and information processing). One of such challenges was the statistical independence between... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27864034 | 1,210,188 |
1,204,237 | The temperature of the upper layers of the atmosphere does not show noticeable temporal changes. In 1988, 2002 and 2006 it was approximately constant and equal to (with uncertainty about ), despite a twofold increase in pressure. Dependence on latitude or morning/evening conditions is also absent: temperature is the sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22101775 | 1,203,592 |
1,264,410 | Infections are relatively rare in humans, with some studies reporting only about 2% prevalence on individuals with dermatitis. In terms of non-infectious occurrence, the same study found it on less than 1% of healthy populations. This yeast has been isolated from a number of areas of the human body such as the blood, l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40799953 | 1,263,722 |
866,026 | The greatest degree of indeterminacy is reached by the third type of indeterminate music, where traditional musical notation is replaced by visual or verbal signs suggesting how a work can be performed, for example in graphic score pieces. Earle Brown's "December 1952" (1952) shows lines and rectangles of various lengt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99234 | 865,566 |
551,349 | UBalt has numerous academic clubs, student organizations, and an active student government; as of May 2017, more than 90 were listed on the university's website. The academic clubs usually sponsor a host of programs and speakers throughout the school year. Not all clubs are academic or sports-related, however: Clubs re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=502775 | 551,061 |
373,116 | The basic parts of a spectrophotometer are a light source, a holder for the sample, a diffraction grating in a monochromator or a prism to separate the different wavelengths of light, and a detector. The radiation source is often a Tungsten filament (300–2500 nm), a deuterium arc lamp, which is continuous over the ultr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71020 | 372,921 |
1,065,534 | On March 15, 1975, John Moody successfully added a West Bend engine with a 71 cm (28 in) propeller to an UFM Easy Riser biplane hang glider designed by Larry Mauro. Moody opened the throttle and ran until he lifted from the frozen surface of a lake west of Racine, Wisconsin, and he flew for 30 minutes. Then on July 27,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6617911 | 1,064,980 |
314,770 | The so-called Golden Age of Aviation occurred between the two World Wars, during which both updated interpretations of earlier breakthroughs – as with Hugo Junkers' pioneering of all-metal airframes in 1915 leading to giant multi-engined aircraft of up to 60+ meter wingspan sizes by the early 1930s, adoption of the mos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46770 | 314,601 |
293,306 | In the oceans, size is critical in determining trophic links in planktonic ecosystems and is thus a critical factor in regulating the efficiency of the biological carbon pump. Body size is sensitive to changes in temperature due to the thermal dependence of physiological processes. The plankton is mainly composed of ec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50558 | 293,148 |
1,041,742 | The following year, Kvitová reached the semifinals and quarterfinals of the French and Australian Opens, respectively, and was runner-up to Aryna Sabalenka at the Qatar Total Open. Despite not having a won a title during the season, a first since 2010, she made the second week at all Majors by reaching the fourth round... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32264802 | 1,041,199 |
2,046,687 | Charlie Hare opened the scoring after six minutes at Woolwich Arsenal, but the home side had the better of the first half, and changed ends 3–1 ahead. Jack Kirton pulled one back halfway through the second period, but Hare went off injured with ten minutes left, and the final score was 4–2. A large crowd "seemed well p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34698933 | 2,045,506 |
716,981 | Such monolithic, all-fiber devices are produced by many companies worldwide and at power levels exceeding 1 kW. The major advantage of these all fiber systems, where the free space mirrors are replaced with a pair of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs), is the elimination of realignment during the life of the system, since the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2940855 | 716,604 |
1,845,405 | Microwave brightness measurements do not directly measure temperature. They measure radiances in various wavelength bands, which must then be mathematically inverted to obtain indirect inferences of temperature. The resulting temperature profiles depend on details of the methods that are used to obtain temperatures fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30471028 | 1,844,350 |
31,152 | The other common oxide is carbon monoxide (CO). It is formed by incomplete combustion, and is a colorless, odorless gas. The molecules each contain a triple bond and are fairly polar, resulting in a tendency to bind permanently to hemoglobin molecules, displacing oxygen, which has a lower binding affinity. Cyanide (CN)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5299 | 31,142 |
1,545,713 | It was during the move to 32-bit systems, and especially as the RISC concept began to take over processor design, that variable length instructions began to go away. In the MIPS architecture, for instance, all instructions are a single 32-bit value, with a 6-bit opcode in the most significant bits and the remaining 26 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67354180 | 1,544,839 |
797,483 | One major area of current research is the use of non-fullerene acceptors. While fullerene acceptors have been the standard for most organic photovoltaics due to their compatibility within bulk heterojunction cell designs as well as their good transport properties, they do have some fallbacks that are leading researcher... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18397250 | 797,058 |
55,576 | For susceptible strains, the treatment of choice for "S. aureus" infection is penicillin. An antibiotic derived from some "Penicillium" fungal species, penicillin inhibits the formation of peptidoglycan cross-linkages that provide the rigidity and strength in a bacterial cell wall. The four-membered β-lactam ring of pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=118212 | 55,553 |
1,037,762 | Her win in the 2014 World Junior Championship impressed GM Benjamin Finegold, who noted, "I was most impressed with her last round game, where, after already clinching Gold, she simply crushed her opponent." He adds, "[the game] show[s] the class Jennifer has over the field. By avoiding theory and playing a purely posi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60375025 | 1,037,221 |
709,125 | The uprisings in 1821 were supported by students in Turin to the extent that the Collegio delle Province had to be closed and the University itself operated only to a limited degree. To prevent student assemblies in the Capital, it was ordered that all students who did not come from the provinces of Turin, Pinerolo and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=453828 | 708,755 |
2,033,339 | Howard Theodore "Ted" Davis (1937 - 2009) was an American chemical engineer and Regents Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (CEMS) at the University of Minnesota. He is internationally known for his work in statistical thermodynamics, transport in porous media, and surface thermody... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57100503 | 2,032,167 |
315,364 | Current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) are those conforming to the guidelines recommended by relevant agencies. Those agencies control the authorization and licensing of the manufacture and sale of food and beverages, cosmetics, pharmaceutical products, dietary supplements, and medical devices. These guidelines pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=614085 | 315,195 |
856,277 | There was little ground combat and little need for air support during early 1915. Oswald had a spell in hospital with asthma, and both brothers went on home leave. The Boelckes' new commanding officer wished to separate them. In late March, matters came to a head when the brothers refused to fly separately and jumped t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=193002 | 855,822 |
1,020,541 | The Network capacity of the Hopfield network model is determined by neuron amounts and connections within a given network. Therefore, the number of memories that are able to be stored is dependent on neurons and connections. Furthermore, it was shown that the recall accuracy between vectors and nodes was 0.138 (approxi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1170097 | 1,020,014 |
646,836 | Minimal change disease usually responds well to initial treatment with the first-line therapy: corticosteroids, with 95% responding. Younger children, who are more likely to develop minimal change disease, usually respond faster than adults with 50% of children having complete remission with 8 days of corticosteroid th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2113705 | 646,496 |
1,349,246 | Many pozzolans consist of a heterogeneous mixture of phases of different pozzolanic activity. Obviously, the content in reactive phases is an important property determining the overall reactivity. In general, the pozzolanic activity of phases thermodynamically stable at ambient conditions is low when compared to on an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36653939 | 1,348,500 |
236,835 | A radical trachelectomy can be performed abdominally or vaginally and opinions are conflicting as to which is better. A radical abdominal trachelectomy with lymphadenectomy usually only requires a two- to three-day hospital stay, and most women recover very quickly (about six weeks). Complications are uncommon, althoug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53338 | 236,716 |
20,521 | In November 2014, Microsoft also produced an update to its patent grants, which further extends the scope beyond its prior pledges. Prior projects like Mono existed in a legal grey area because Microsoft's earlier grants applied only to the technology in "covered specifications", including strictly the 4th editions eac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25143203 | 20,512 |
551,596 | In 1990, Lego designed its next theme around magnets. After the introduction of Space Police, M:Tron was introduced as a repair and rescue faction, a space equivalent of a fire brigade. However, for the American market, the faction was depicted as a mining and exploration faction, adapting the names of the sets and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3478140 | 551,308 |
424,259 | Panellus stipticus, commonly known as the bitter oyster, the astringent panus, the luminescent panellus, or the stiptic fungus, is a species of fungus in the family Mycenaceae, and the type species of the genus "Panellus". A common and widely distributed species, it is found in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North Americ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25648059 | 424,052 |
112,234 | Mars presents a hostile environment for human habitation. Different technologies have been developed to assist long-term space exploration and may be adapted for habitation on Mars. The existing record for the longest consecutive space flight is 438 days by cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov, and the most accrued time in space ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1744360 | 112,189 |
2,108,418 | In 1987, Roger Dowson Engineering ran the ESSO Metro Challenge, a one-make series for MG Metro Turbos. They also made the kits used to prepare the cars for racing. 1987 also saw Roger Dowson Engineering enter the new British Touring Car Championship, running Jerry Mahony in a Class A Ford Sierra RS Cosworth in round si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39730514 | 2,107,204 |
1,763,285 | The DCM is often located tens of meters below the surface, and cannot be observed by using traditional satellite remote sensing methods. Estimates of primary productivity are often made via these remote sensing methods coupled with statistical models, though these statistical calculations may not have accurately includ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18166513 | 1,762,292 |
943,482 | Modularity offers benefits such as reduction in cost (customization can be limited to a portion of the system, rather than needing an overhaul of the entire system), interoperability, shorter learning time, flexibility in design, non-generationally constrained augmentation or updating (adding new solution by merely plu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2577605 | 942,980 |
750,040 | The 2009 white paper outlined the replacement submarine as a 4,000-ton vessel fitted with land-attack cruise missiles in addition to torpedoes and anti-ship missiles, capable of launching and recovering covert operatives while submerged, and carrying surveillance and intelligence-gathering equipment. The project initia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=810758 | 749,642 |
245,770 | In particular, the rejection of perfect competition does not generally entail the rejection of free competition as characterizing most product markets; indeed it has been argued that competition is stronger nowadays than in 19th century capitalism, owing to the increasing capacity of big conglomerate firms to enter any... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23002 | 245,643 |
1,146,007 | The small engine policy served the Midland well when its network was confined to the English Midlands, which is largely free of steep gradients. As the company expanded into other parts of Britain the policy's downsides began to cause problems. The company's own main line to Scotland (the Settle-Carlisle Line) and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564296 | 1,145,405 |
115,238 | The Mark IV differed from the W-series engine in the placement of the valves and the shape of the combustion chambers. Gone was the chamber-in-block design of the W-series engine (which caused the power curve to drastically dip above 6500 rpm), and in its place was a more conventional wedge chamber in the cylinder head... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=878027 | 115,193 |
1,365,766 | Politics poses challenge to scientific research. One example is the Tibesti Mountains, which is remote and politically unstable in recent decades due to conflicts over uranium deposit underneath. The area, however, could possibly serve as one spectacular example of intracontinental volcanism or hotspot. Detailed studie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55514078 | 1,365,010 |
546,199 | The E language is designed with secure computing in mind; this is accomplished chiefly by strict adherence to the object-oriented computing model, which in its pure form has properties that support secure computing. The E language and its standard library employ a capability-based design philosophy throughout in order ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1377046 | 545,913 |
1,176,097 | In 1913 the Pujo Committee, investigated the relationships in investment banking. Under the leadership of Attorney Samuel Untermyer, the committee decided that a small cabal of financiers had gained consolidated control of numerous industries through the abuse of the public trust in the United States. The chair of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31519517 | 1,175,475 |
158,435 | The smart grid allows for systematic communication between suppliers (their energy price) and consumers (their willingness-to-pay), and permits both the suppliers and the consumers to be more flexible and sophisticated in their operational strategies. Only the critical loads will need to pay the peak energy prices, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13201685 | 158,354 |
1,245,078 | The most commonly used nanosheet synthesis methods use a bottom-up approach, e.g., pre-organization and polymerization at interfaces like Langmuir–Blodgett films, solution phase synthesis and chemical vapor deposition (CVD). For example, CdTe (cadmium telluride) nanosheets could be synthesized by precipitating and agin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39726926 | 1,244,405 |
194,266 | Most cars have at least one "dome light" (or "courtesy light") located in or near the ceiling of the passenger compartment, to provide illumination by which to fasten seatbelts and enter or exit the car. These often have an option to automatically switch on when the front (or any) passenger doors are opened. Many vehic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2357908 | 194,166 |
1,044,349 | Contemporary biologists accept that mutation and selection both play roles in evolution; the mainstream view is that while mutation supplies material for selection in the form of variation, all non-random outcomes are caused by natural selection. Masatoshi Nei argues instead that the production of more efficient genoty... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53955838 | 1,043,805 |
454,320 | A large number of unnatural amino acids, which are similar to their canonical counterparts in shape, size and chemical properties, are introduced into the recombinant proteins by means of auxotrophic expression hosts. For example, methionine (Met) or tryptophan (Trp) auxotrophic "Escherichia coli" strains can be cultiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=842495 | 454,098 |
1,941,591 | Sociality, although a very successful way of life, is thought to increase the per-individual risk of acquiring disease, simply because close contact with conspecifics is a key transmission route for infectious diseases. As social organisms are often densely aggregated and exhibit high levels of interaction, pathogens c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51046084 | 1,940,480 |
910,010 | The Marines are working with Insitu to modify the Blackjack fuselage to carry greater and more various payloads. Enlarging the fuselage would increase its maximum takeoff weight from to and lengthen endurance from 16 hours to 24 hours. New turrets are being explored as well as other payloads including a synthetic-apert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36619075 | 909,531 |
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