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1,133,611 | Restoration of the Everglades, however, briefly became a bipartisan cause in national politics. A controversial penny-a-pound (2 cent/kg) tax on sugar was proposed to fund some of the necessary changes to be made to help decrease phosphorus and make other improvements to water. State voters were asked to support the ta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17601646 | 1,133,018 |
28,372 | The Moon train starts with gear b1 and proceeds through c1, c2, d1, d2, e2, e5, k1, k2, e6, e1, and b3 to the Moon pointer on the front face. The gears k1 and k2 form an epicyclic gear system; they are an identical pair of gears that don't mesh, but rather, they operate face-to-face, with a short pin on k1 inserted int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89732 | 28,362 |
1,321,378 | A large variety of RF cavities are used in particle accelerators. Historically most have been made of copper – a good electrical conductor – and operated near room temperature with exterior water cooling to remove the heat generated by the electrical loss in the cavity. In the past two decades, however, accelerator fac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15713242 | 1,320,652 |
1,610,155 | Gardiner observes that the first recitative for alto, accompanied by the strings, contains "tortuous passage[s] in which voice and continuo struggle to free themselves from "Satan's slavish chains"". The cantata contains two duets, rare in Bach's cantatas, likely an expression of communal rejoicing which is expressed b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32335014 | 1,609,250 |
1,026,434 | Adult "Schistosoma haematobium" has male and female, which are permanently paired (a condition called "in copula") as what looks like an individual. The male forms the flatworm part, measuring 10–18 mm in length and 1 mm in width. It bears oral and ventral suckers towards its anterior end. Its leaf-like flat body is cu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2196984 | 1,025,900 |
2,139,540 | Unlike many of the web designs constructed by its closely related species in the family of orb weavers, "M. hutchinsoni" do not form the typical two-dimensional orb web. Instead, the females primarily reside in a nearby leaf or plant while producing a single horizontal thread which they stay on and travel across during... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57355891 | 2,138,310 |
1,645,239 | Data has shown that TERRA interacts with telomeric DNA to form G-Quadruplex structures both "in vitro" and "in vivo". These structures form due to the abundance of guanine found in the TERRA transcript and their ability to associate through Hoogsteen hydrogen bonding. The resulting square planar structure is known as a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41059434 | 1,644,311 |
1,932,563 | Lowenstein graduated with a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Colorado (1973), obtained an M.S. degree in Man-Environment Relations from Pennsylvania State University (1978), and received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1983. At the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), he completed an intern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27525787 | 1,931,455 |
1,624,981 | Histological features related to the GOC differ in each scenario; however, there is a general criterion to identify the cyst. The GOC usually features a "stratified squamous epithelium" attached to connective tissue that is filled with active immune cells. The lining of the epithelium features a very small diameter tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7456840 | 1,624,065 |
125,995 | Garmin has acquired Dynastream Innovations, EME Tec Sat SAS (EME), and Digital Cyclone. Dynastream, in Cochrane, Alberta, produces personal monitoring technology (ANT+)—such as foot pods and heart rate monitors for sports and fitness products—and also ultra-low-power and low-cost wireless connectivity devices for a wid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1118198 | 125,943 |
926,807 | Equal representation in organized sport for girls and women is commonly referred to as the "battle for equality" and includes a variety of competing feminist ideologies. Worldwide, the dominant representative sex in sport is male both financially and globally except in the rare case of sports created specifically for g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=265901 | 926,321 |
122,555 | In 2010, MBDA was awarded an assessment phase contract for a network-enabled standoff missile, named SPEAR 3, which reuses technology derived from Brimstone. SPEAR 3 flies at high subsonic speed and can reach ranges of at least . It features a Hamilton Sundstrand TJ-150 turbojet engine, wing kit, multi-mode seeker, INS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780295 | 122,506 |
628,738 | Some vector competence studies have been undertaken on "Ixodes holocyclus" with respect to the Lyme disease pathogen "Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto" (a United States strain). These suggested that the tick can not transmit this strain of spirochaete. Despite this, there is a strong belief that some kind of Lyme-lik... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3272427 | 628,402 |
2,110,617 | Writing in 1988, Meijer mentioned that the plant had not been seen on Java since before the Second World War. He mentions that botanists were likely the main reason for the decline of the species, at least at Mount Salak, the most well-known collecting locality near Bogor. Another reason for its continued absence was t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34572874 | 2,109,403 |
968,789 | While diverse applications exist for organosilanes, silane itself has one dominant application, as a precursor to elemental silicon, particularly in the semiconductor industry. The higher silanes, such as di- and trisilane, are only of academic interest. About 300 metric tons per year of silane were consumed in the lat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188972 | 968,279 |
1,287,854 | This debate was concurrent with that over the book "On the Origin of Species", published in 1859, and was evidently related; but was not one in which Charles Darwin initially made his own views public. Consolidation of the "antiquity of man" required more work, with stricter methods; and this proved possible over the n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33809974 | 1,287,153 |
839,714 | Shortly after the Opel RAK team's successful liquid-fuel rocket launches of April 10 and 12, 1929 by Friedrich Wilhelm Sander at Opel Rennbahn in Rüsselsheim, Oberth conducted in the autumn of 1929 a static firing of his first liquid-fueled rocket motor, which he named the "Kegeldüse". The engine was built by Klaus Rie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=87012 | 839,265 |
1,625,971 | The lyrics of the second stanza refer to the geographical location of the university in Pittsburgh and that city's role in the early nation as the "Gateway to the West". "First beyond the mountains founded" refers to the fact that the University of Pittsburgh is the oldest continuously chartered institution of learning... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16415540 | 1,625,053 |
824,133 | In classic cross-country skiing the skis remain parallel, as the skier strides straight ahead. The undersides of the skis have a grip section in the middle treated with a special ski wax that provides friction when the foot is still, yet glides when the foot is in motion, while the rest of the ski bottom has a glide wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44298710 | 823,690 |
771,384 | Other areas of the world that have frequent strong tornadoes include Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy, Spain, China, and the Philippines. Australia, France, Russia, areas of the Middle East, and Japan have a history of multiple damaging tornado events. Bangladesh and surrounding areas of eastern India suffe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8293375 | 770,970 |
1,169,739 | It should be clear there could be many deformations of a single germ of analytic functions. Because of this, there are some book-keeping devices required to organize all of this information. These organizational devices are constructed using tangent cohomology. This is formed by using the Koszul–Tate resolution, and po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=679351 | 1,169,120 |
1,410,733 | The idea that all matter is composed of elementary particles dates to as far as the 6th century BC. The Jains in ancient India were the earliest to advocate the particular nature of material objects between 9th and 5th century BCE. According to Jain leaders like Parshvanatha and Mahavira, the ajiva (non living part of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41555255 | 1,409,941 |
1,393,516 | Surveys in home waters were also important. What Robinson (1962) described as the "Grand Survey of the British Isles" began with the appointment of George Thomas as Head Maritime surveyor. Thomas and a series of able surveyors including Michael Slater, Henry Otter, Charles Robinson, William Hewett and Frederick Beechey... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1986808 | 1,392,745 |
549,448 | Participants in the proving ground program were classified as developers—those developing the satellite algorithms and training materials for GOES-R products—or users—the recipients of those products. The three primary developers in the program were the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35927196 | 549,160 |
2,148,112 | Vladimir Rusalov, who continued the line in research in the Laboratory of Differential Psychophysiology (Institute of Psychology of Russian Academy of Sciences) started by Nebylitsyn and Teplov, recorded EEGs and measured evoked potential, absolute threshold in visual, auditory, and tactile modalities, strength of exci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42903631 | 2,146,881 |
76,599 | As the second orbiter to be constructed, and the first able to fly into space, "Columbia" was roughly heavier than subsequent orbiters such as "Endeavour", which were of a slightly different design, and had benefited from advances in materials technology. In part, this was due to heavier wing and fuselage spars, the we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28237 | 76,570 |
1,881,648 | Previously, his research had also centered around the mechanisms of brain development. His were neuronal stem cells, their asymmetrical cell division and processes of growth control. Building on his post-doctoral work, Knoblich and his colleagues characterized a complete mechanism for asymmetrical stem cell division in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61293154 | 1,880,567 |
395,931 | After modifications (most notably, the charging handle was re-located from under the carrying handle like AR-10 to the rear of the receiver), the new redesigned rifle was subsequently adopted as the M16 Rifle. "(The M16) was much lighter compared to the M14 it replaced, ultimately allowing Soldiers to carry more ammuni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2471637 | 395,736 |
1,980,964 | Thus, Foerster's prominent position in the neurology of Germany was recognized in 1924. His prominence was at the same level of Max Nonne (1861-1959) and Foerster succeeded him as the president of the German Society of Neurology for eight years until 1932. From 1925 to 1935 Foerster brought all available analytic metho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2649305 | 1,979,826 |
8,295 | The university passed a statute in 1875 allowing examinations for women at roughly undergraduate level; for a brief period in the early 1900s, this allowed the "steamboat ladies" to receive "ad eundem" degrees from the University of Dublin. In June 1878, the "Association for the Education of Women" (AEW) was formed, ai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31797 | 8,292 |
877,780 | Arguably the most prevalent example of a stabilized inverted pendulum is a human being. A person standing upright acts as an inverted pendulum with their feet as the pivot, and without constant small muscular adjustments would fall over. The human nervous system contains an unconscious feedback control system, the sens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=265421 | 877,318 |
374,498 | EU Research Headlines reported the ARWU's work on 31 December 2003: "The universities were carefully evaluated using several indicators of research performance." A survey on higher education published by "The Economist" in 2005 commented ARWU as "the most widely used annual ranking of the world's research universities.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=959184 | 374,303 |
572,997 | Xenobiology might challenge the regulatory framework, as currently laws and directives deal with genetically modified organisms and do not directly mention chemically or genomically modified organisms. Taking into account that real xenobiology organisms are not expected in the next few years, policy makers do have some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1265269 | 572,703 |
343,234 | Skylab orbited Earth 2,476 times during the 171 days and 13 hours of its occupation during the three crewed Skylab expeditions. Each of these extended the human record of 23 days for amount of time spent in space set by the Soviet Soyuz 11 crew aboard the space station Salyut 1 on June 30, 1971. Skylab 2 lasted 28 days... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29441 | 343,053 |
714,874 | For NASA operations, the aircraft often carry a three-ton (2,700 kg) data-gathering sensor pallet in the former bomb-bay underneath the center fuselage that can include the Airborne Remote Earth Sensing (ARES) instrument to calibrate satellite data, a combined hyperspectral imager/radiometer with a two-dimensional foca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33576652 | 714,501 |
761,554 | Probes are often derived from fragments of DNA that were isolated, purified, and amplified for use in the Human Genome Project. The size of the human genome is so large, compared to the length that could be sequenced directly, that it was necessary to divide the genome into fragments. (In the eventual analysis, these f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1690338 | 761,147 |
556,543 | JT type dryers are units that utilize the compressed air stream as their refrigeration element. High pressure compressed air (150~175 PSI) is fed into a pressure reducing valve on top of the dryer. The output of this valve (90–120 PSI) is directed into an expansion chamber which is surrounded with porous walls. As the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56765008 | 556,254 |
1,745,893 | The following day the division improved its position. Strong point "Lion", to the south west of "Tiger", was captured, but an attempt to capture the remaining sections of "Tugun" was repelled. As a result of the fighting, the division began to face a shortage of ammunition for its artillery. Due to the tank battle ragi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4468060 | 1,744,908 |
1,713,437 | After the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, the Japanese army experimented with a variety of grenades; however, no design reached mass production. Japanese military observers in the European front of World War I noted the technical development and tactical application of hand grenades as infantry support weapons with co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2341955 | 1,712,471 |
316,404 | Australia's defensive doctrine saw a fierce campaign fought along the Kokoda track in New Guinea. This campaign sought to further stretch Japanese supply lines, preventing the invasion of the Australian mainland until the arrival of fresh American troops and the return of seasoned Australian soldiers from Europe. This ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=91515 | 316,235 |
2,150,127 | The first order of business for the Congress was to establish administrative roles. Ferdinand Piercot, Belgium's Minister of the Interior, was elected as President of the Congress; William Farr of England, Louis-René Villermé of France, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Dieterici of then-Prussia, Carl Mittermaier of then-Baden, J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63314949 | 2,148,896 |
294,795 | Although the concept of the keystone species has a value in describing particularly strong inter-species interactions, and for allowing easier communication between ecologists and conservation policy-makers, it has been criticized by L. S. Mills and colleagues for oversimplifying complex ecological systems. The term ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230342 | 294,635 |
1,371,189 | In 2003, the MTA signed a $160 million contract with Siemens Transportation Systems to install digital real-time message boards (officially Public Address Customer Information Screens, or PA/CIS) at 158 of its IRT stations to display the number of minutes until the arrival of the next trains. Payments to the company we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55208663 | 1,370,432 |
369,342 | When an electric eel identifies prey, its brain sends a nerve signal to the electric organ; the nerve cells involved release the neurotransmitter chemical acetylcholine to trigger an electric organ discharge. This opens ion channels, allowing sodium to flow into the electrocytes, reversing the polarity momentarily. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61262925 | 369,149 |
2,077,827 | In 1813, Sutton published his book, "Tracts on Delirium Tremens, on Peritonitis, and on Some other Internal Inflammatory Affections, and on the Gout". The chapter on delirium tremens contains sixteen case-reports with detailed description of the symptoms and the differential diagnosis from “phrenitis” (another term for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40230278 | 2,076,628 |
1,833,403 | Millions of children worldwide do not receive all of the routine vaccinations as per their national schedule. As immunization is a powerful public health strategy for improving child survival, it is important to determine what strategies work best to increase coverage. A Cochrane review assessed the effectiveness of in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44441540 | 1,832,355 |
1,829,759 | Becoming operational in 2017, the 5.34-petaflops Cheyenne supercomputer is currently providing more than three times the computational capacity of Yellowstone. Cheyenne is an SGI ICE XA system with 4,032 dual-socket scientific computation nodes running 145,152, 18-core 2.3-GHz Intel Xeon E5-2697v4 (Broadwell) processin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40305469 | 1,828,718 |
231,343 | When humans are undernourished, they no longer maintain normal bodily functions, such as growth, resistance to infection, or have satisfactory performance in school or work. Major causes of under nutrition in young children include lack of proper breast feeding for infants and illnesses such as diarrhea, pneumonia, mal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=93827 | 231,224 |
965,248 | In terms of supercomputing, the first widely acknowledged supercomputer was the Control Data Corporation (CDC) 6600 built in 1964 by Seymour Cray. Its maximum speed was 40 MHz or 3 million floating point operations per second (FLOPS). The CDC 6600 was replaced by the CDC 7600 in 1969; although its normal clock speed wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=386519 | 964,739 |
187,228 | Though quasi-experiments are sometimes shunned by those who consider themselves to be experimental purists (leading Donald T. Campbell to coin the term “queasy experiments” for them), they are exceptionally useful in areas where it is not feasible or desirable to conduct an experiment or randomized control trial. Such ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11864322 | 187,131 |
721,205 | Scientific diving programs have been establishing and developing technical diving facilities to allow marine scientists to safely access these regions. The nature of this extended range diving exposure makes it necessary to modify and adapt procedures to ensure acceptably safe operations. To a large degree this implies... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39194607 | 720,825 |
813,244 | Explanation for the low extrusion rates necessary to successfully extrude some magnesium alloys does not lie outside reasons put forward for other metals. Altwicker considers that the most significant cause is connected. With the degree of recovery from crystal deformation, which is less complete when work is applied q... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4826789 | 812,811 |
1,299,624 | The island of Rousay has a substantial number of prehistoric sites (see also below), including fifteen of such tombs, resulting it becoming known as the "Egypt of the north". Midhowe Chambered Cairn on the western shore of the island is the finest example. The exterior walls of this large stone burial mound survive to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19163052 | 1,298,910 |
550,399 | In 1986, MIPS Computer Systems designs were noticed by companies such as Cadnetix, Prime Computer and Silicon Graphics (SGI), these adopting the R2000 for new products, with SGI adopting the MIPS architecture for its computers having noted that the Motorola 68000 series of processors was "at the end of its price-perfor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20682 | 550,111 |
1,562,226 | Galactokinase deficiency is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder marked by an accumulation of galactose and galactitol secondary to the decreased conversion of galactose to galactose-1-phosphate by galactokinase. The disorder is caused by mutations in the GALK1 gene, located on chromosome 17q24. Galactokinase cata... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10208840 | 1,561,339 |
1,685,224 | H-infinity loop-shaping is a design methodology in modern control theory. It combines the traditional intuition of classical control methods, such as Bode's sensitivity integral, with H-infinity optimization techniques to achieve controllers whose stability and performance properties hold despite bounded differences be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13297359 | 1,684,279 |
19,908 | In the rain-affected qualifying session, Russell qualified in second place behind Max Verstappen. This marked the first front-row start for Williams since the 2017 Italian Grand Prix. The race was delayed by wet weather and ultimately only two laps were completed, both under safety car conditions. This allowed Russell ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44641054 | 19,900 |
1,605,165 | By the time of the abolition of serfdom, the Ural metallurgy was in a deep crisis, which was facilitated by a sharp increase in grain prices in 1857 due to crop failures, especially significant in the Northern Urals. Of the 41 mining districts, 13 had a total debt of 8.1 million rubles, which increased to 12.4 million ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66141214 | 1,604,262 |
393,355 | ILS uses two directional radio signals, the "localizer" (108 to 112 MHz frequency), which provides horizontal guidance, and the "glideslope" (329.15 to 335 MHz frequency) for vertical guidance. The relationship between the aircraft's position and these signals is displayed on an aircraft instrument, often additional po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240584 | 393,160 |
323,544 | In 1956, the U.S. Navy developed a requirement for an airborne early warning aircraft where its data could be integrated into the Naval Tactical Data System aboard the Navy's ships, with a design from Grumman being selected to meet this requirement in March 1957. Its design, initially designated W2F-1, but later redesi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56075 | 323,372 |
240,416 | For electrical and electronics work, solder wire is available in a range of thicknesses for hand-soldering (manual soldering is performed using a soldering iron or soldering gun), and with cores containing flux. It is also available as a room temperature paste, as a preformed foil shaped to match the workpiece which ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28942 | 240,296 |
919,917 | Earth's global radiation balance fluctuates as the planet rotates and orbits the Sun, and as global-scale thermal anomalies arise and dissipate within the terrestrial, oceanic and atmospheric systems (e.g. ENSO). Consequently, the planet's 'instantaneous radiative forcing' (IRF) is also dynamic and naturally fluctuates... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=467147 | 919,431 |
306,291 | The ancient Greek architects took a philosophic approach to the rules and proportions. The determining factor in the mathematics of any notable work of architecture was its ultimate appearance. The architects calculated for perspective, for the optical illusions that make edges of objects appear concave and for the fac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52684 | 306,127 |
162,251 | From Q2 2013, the UK's economy continued to grow for five consecutive quarters, the longest since Q1 of 2008, showing growth beating most developed economies helped by the rebound in the housing market and strong growth in both manufacturing and services industries. The IMF increased UK growth forecasts for 2014 from 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,166 |
1,690,440 | Sensory stimuli, in relation to retailing pertains to any event or object, igniting the senses, that elicits a response by the person receiving them. These faculties include; olfactory (smelling), tactile (touching), aural (hearing), visual (seeing) and oral (tasting). With the contemporary shopper being inspired by a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33544122 | 1,689,494 |
3,710 | The Abrams is equipped with a ballistic fire-control computer that uses user and system-supplied data from a variety of sources to compute, display, and incorporate the three components of a ballistic solution—lead angle, ammunition type, and range to the target—to accurately fire the main gun. These three components a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37744 | 3,710 |
628,073 | When an aircraft is in flight, it is moving relative to the body of air through which it is flying; therefore maintaining an accurate ground track is not as easy as it might appear, unless there is no wind at all—a very rare occurrence. The pilot must adjust heading to compensate for the wind, in order to follow the gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=316393 | 627,738 |
185,760 | Jerome Huyler and Michael P. Zuckert approach Locke in the broader context of his oeuvre and historical influence. Locke is situated within changing religious, philosophical, scientific, and political dimensions of 17th century England. Objecting to the use of the contemporary concept of economic man to describe Locke'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=910810 | 185,663 |
1,220,405 | Second measure to curtail the financial losses experienced include the South Korean government spending more on domestic contracts. In mid-June 2020, Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo met with CEO's of various contractors to discuss ways on adjusting to the COVID-19 pandemic. These adjustments includes increased govern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66301957 | 1,219,751 |
1,498,000 | On the Sunday Samuel Wilberforce, now the Bishop of Oxford, used his sermon at St. Mary's Church on "the wrong way of doing science" to deliver a stinging attack obviously aimed at Chambers. The church "crowded to suffocation" with geologists, astronomers and zoologists heard jibes about the "half-learned" seduced by t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1588456 | 1,497,156 |
1,468,262 | Adrenocorticotropic hormones bind to ACTH receptors on the cells within the adrenal medulla and adrenal cortex, causing a signal cascade within the adrenomedullary cell, ultimately releasing the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. The neurotransmitter acetylcholine causes the excitation of the nerves that innervate the ske... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35799849 | 1,467,438 |
258,206 | Due to the high voltages used in arc lighting, a single generating station could supply a long string of lights, up to long circuits. Each doubling of the voltage would allow the same size cable to transmit the same amount of power four times the distance for a given power loss. Direct current indoor incandescent light... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=212253 | 258,072 |
155,629 | The United States Supreme Court stated in "Roe v. Wade" (1973) that viability, defined as the "interim point at which the fetus becomes ... potentially able to live outside the mother's womb, albeit with artificial aid", "is usually placed at about seven months (28 weeks) but may occur earlier, even at 24 weeks." The 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1467229 | 155,559 |
536,242 | Chinese mathematics made early contributions, including a place value system. The geometrical theorem known to the ancient Chinese were acquainted was applicable in certain cases (namely the ratio of sides). It is that geometrical theorems which can be demonstrated in the quasi-experimental way of superposition were al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6134187 | 535,963 |
383,138 | The NavIC or NAVigation with Indian Constellation is an autonomous regional satellite navigation system developed by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The government approved the project in May 2006, and consists of a constellation of 7 navigational satellites. 3 of the satellites are placed in the Geostationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1515653 | 382,943 |
185,633 | Proposals for a university in Queensland began in the 1870s. A Royal Commission in 1874, chaired by Sir Charles Lilley, recommended the immediate establishment of a university. Those against a university argued that technical rather than academic education was more important in an economy dominated by primary industry.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=192819 | 185,536 |
368,888 | In India, Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh biogas produced from the anaerobic digestion of manure in small-scale digestion facilities is called gobar gas; it is estimated that such facilities exist in over 2 million households in India, 50,000 in Bangladesh and thousands in Pakistan, particularly North Punjab, due to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54838 | 368,695 |
1,420,497 | Bonington's general plan had been to pair off the leading climbers and to share the work of the pairs equitably by having periods of rest, carrying supplies to higher camps and extending the route. The Sherpas were carrying higher up the mountain than expected and other trekkers with climbing experience had turned up b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60134235 | 1,419,697 |
12,269 | Transistor-based computers had several distinct advantages over their predecessors. Aside from facilitating increased reliability and lower power consumption, transistors also allowed CPUs to operate at much higher speeds because of the short switching time of a transistor in comparison to a tube or relay. The increase... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5218 | 12,264 |
47,941 | Airborne LiDAR systems were traditionally able to acquire only a few peak returns, while more recent systems acquire and digitize the entire reflected signal. Scientists analysed the waveform signal for extracting peak returns using Gaussian Decomposition. Zhuang et al, 2017 used this approach for estimating abovegroun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41958 | 47,921 |
676,003 | The classical approach of Gauss to the differential geometry of surfaces was the standard elementary approach which predated the emergence of the concepts of [[Riemannian manifold]] initiated by [[Bernhard Riemann]] in the mid-nineteenth century and of [[connection (mathematics)|connection]] developed by [[Tullio Levi-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15513875 | 675,650 |
478,450 | Kin recognition is the mechanism by which individuals identify and avoid mating with closely related conspecifics. There have been numerous documented examples of instances in which individuals are shown to find closely related conspecifics unattractive. In one set of studies, researchers formed artificial relative and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44447884 | 478,210 |
660,111 | The University of Winnipeg (UWinnipeg, UW) is a public research university in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, that offers undergraduate faculties of art, business and economics, education, science and kinesiology and applied health as well as graduate programs. UWinnipeg's founding colleges were Manitoba College and Wesley... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=587404 | 659,766 |
123,356 | A stochastic analogue of the standard (deterministic) Newton–Raphson algorithm (a "second-order" method) provides an asymptotically optimal or near-optimal form of iterative optimization in the setting of stochastic approximation. A method that uses direct measurements of the Hessian matrices of the summands in the emp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1180641 | 123,305 |
378,069 | For horizontal propagation between transmitting and receiving antennas situated near the ground reasonably far from each other, the distances traveled by the direct and reflected rays are nearly the same. There is almost no relative phase shift. If the emission is polarized vertically, the two fields (direct and reflec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187317 | 377,874 |
1,321,519 | Discrete trial training (DTT) is a technique used by practitioners of applied behavior analysis (ABA) that was developed by Ivar Lovaas at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). DTT uses direct instruction and reinforcers to create clear contingencies that shape new skills. Often employed as an early intensi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1559185 | 1,320,793 |
1,519,098 | The use of simulation-based learning in the medical field has many benefits, including patient safety, accelerating diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, unfulfilled demand for medical personnel, medical cost reduction and lowering of medical errors that amount to loss of life and associated costs. The use of current ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20856654 | 1,518,240 |
1,017,989 | The analysis of the debris at the 10-megaton "Ivy Mike" nuclear test was a part of long-term project, one of the goals of which was studying the efficiency of production of transuranium elements in high-power nuclear explosions. The motivation for these experiments was as follows: synthesis of such elements from uraniu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10822 | 1,017,465 |
63,826 | A very large power supply, providing on the order of one million amperes of current, will create a tremendous force on the projectile, accelerating it to a speed of many kilometers per second (km/s). Although these speeds are possible, the heat generated from the propulsion of the object is enough to erode the rails ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218930 | 63,801 |
831,876 | In 1947 Ramanna went on to attend Bombay University where he gained his MSc in Physics, followed by M.Mus. in Music theory. Ramanna was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship, and travelled to Great Britain in 1952 to complete his doctorate. Ramanna attended London University's King's College and enrolled in a doctoral pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1016489 | 831,427 |
4,490 | For thousands of years, mathematicians have attempted to extend their understanding of , sometimes by computing its value to a high degree of accuracy. Ancient civilizations, including the Egyptians and Babylonians, required fairly accurate approximations of for practical computations. Around 250BC, the Greek mathemati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23601 | 4,488 |
951,140 | Whenever a Cushing reflex occurs, there is a high probability of death in seconds to minutes. As a result, a Cushing reflex indicates a need for immediate care. Since its presence is a good detector of high ICP, it is often useful in the medical field, particularly during surgery. During any neurosurgery being performe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1149178 | 950,636 |
192,062 | On 4 July 2020, an issue during the second-stage burn of flight 13, named "Pics or It Didn't Happen", caused Electron to fail to get into orbit and its payloads were lost. On 19 November 2020, a successful launch mission named "Return to Sender" deployed its payload of 29 small sats into orbit. In addition to satellite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25113585 | 191,963 |
69,920 | In August 1939, Szilard and fellow Hungarian refugee physicists Teller and Wigner thought that the Germans might make use of the fission chain reaction and were spurred to attempt to attract the attention of the United States government to the issue. Towards this, they persuaded German-Jewish refugee Albert Einstein to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22054 | 69,893 |
1,389,161 | This most often describes the use of a "mobile" and a "desktop" version of a page (or in most cases, the entire site), either of which is retrieved based on the user-agent defined in the HTTP GET request, which is known as "dynamic serving". Adaptive web design was one of the first strategies for optimizing a site for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39594074 | 1,388,391 |
1,191,254 | Envelope glycoprotein GP120 (or gp120) is a glycoprotein exposed on the surface of the HIV envelope. It was discovered by Professors Tun-Hou Lee and Myron "Max" Essex of the Harvard School of Public Health in 1988. The 120 in its name comes from its molecular weight of 120 kDa. Gp120 is essential for virus entry into c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2852949 | 1,190,620 |
918,659 | On the other hand, he aimed to produce an engine that was far below its theoretical potential, in the interests of expediting development and simplifying production. One major decision was to opt for a simple combustion area using six "flame cans", instead of the more efficient single annular can. For the same reasons,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=401054 | 918,176 |
765,359 | Due to the asbestos fibers' natural resistance to digestion, some macrophages are killed and others release inflammatory chemical signals, attracting further lung macrophages and fibrolastic cells that synthesize fibrous scar tissue, which eventually becomes diffuse and can progress in heavily exposed individuals. This... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=424015 | 764,949 |
787,557 | Due to the unpredictable political landscape in Europe after the First World War and upheaval of World War II many European scientist and engineers emigrated to the United States. Ukrainian engineer Stephan Timoshenko fled the Bolsheviks Red Army in 1918 and eventually emigrated to the U.S. in 1922; over the next twent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4562815 | 787,134 |
1,804,951 | ISIS was founded on a belief that scientists have an obligation to participate actively in solving major problems of national and international security. ISIS focuses primarily on four parts: 1) prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and related technology to other nations and terrorists, 2) lead to greater transparency... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4778898 | 1,803,936 |
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