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884,979 | George Edward Moore (4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958) was an English philosopher, who with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and earlier Gottlob Frege was among the founders of analytic philosophy. He and Russell led the turn from idealism in British philosophy and became known for advocating common-sense concept... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11959 | 884,515 |
1,473,724 | The Library is named after Professor Albert Ilemobade, who was the second Vice-Chancellor of the university. It was established in 1982, out of the desires of the founding fathers and matriarch of the institution in order to cut a niche for research and sound teaching. It started off in the Old Library Complex located ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=929521 | 1,472,893 |
351,521 | Ellen G. White, who had proclaimed that a cleansing sword of fire was poised over the increasingly "worldly" and business-oriented Battle Creek, was against rebuilding the large institution. Although she apparently wrote a manuscript testifying against the rebuilding in 1902, it was not sent to Kellogg at that time, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=490269 | 351,338 |
26,822 | As lung disease worsens, mechanical breathing support may become necessary. Individuals with CF may need to wear special masks at night to help push air into their lungs. These machines, known as bilevel positive airway pressure (BiPAP) ventilators, help prevent low blood oxygen levels during sleep. Non-invasive ventil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50601 | 26,812 |
1,663,791 | The developments in computational anatomy included the establishment of the Sobolev smoothness conditions on the diffeomorphometry metric to insure existence of solutions of variational problems in the space of diffeomorphisms, the derivation of the Euler-Lagrange equations characterizing geodesics through the group an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48520204 | 1,662,854 |
799,860 | Allegedly, the Oryx's development was greatly facilitated by the French helicopter firm Aérospatiale, the Puma's original manufacturer, who produced kits that were supplied to South Africa; Atlas Aviation had denied this involvement and claimed that the Oryx was an entirely indigenous programme. The existence of the Or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=487267 | 799,434 |
1,751,114 | Like other bacterial infections, antibiotic susceptibility assays should be performed and it has been reported that "Hisotphilus somni" is usually susceptible to ceftiofur, penicillin, enrofloxacin, florfenicol, and tetracycline. This is troublesome because we know that it is difficult to diagnose before a post mortem ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59375134 | 1,750,128 |
771,378 | Tornadoes have been recorded on all continents except Antarctica. They are most common in the middle latitudes where conditions are often favorable for convective storm development. The United States has the most tornadoes of any country, as well as the strongest and most violent tornadoes. A large portion of these tor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8293375 | 770,964 |
771,594 | Tactics are based on the aerodynamic benefit of drafting, whereby a rider can significantly reduce the required pedal effort by closely following in the slipstream of the rider in front. Riding in the main field, or peloton, can save as much as 40% of the energy employed in forward motion when compared to riding alone.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1755460 | 771,180 |
1,216,491 | High-resolution structures have been solved by X-ray crystallography for intact MetE both in the absence and presence of substrates and for fragments of MetH, although no structural description exists of a fully intact MetH enzyme. The available structures and accompanying bioinformatic analysis indicate minimal simila... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2941863 | 1,215,839 |
13,272 | By the time of the Tonkin Gulf incident, 13 of 31 deployable navy squadrons were armed with the type. F-4Bs from made the first Phantom combat sortie of the Vietnam War on 5 August 1964, flying bomber escort in Operation Pierce Arrow. Navy fighter pilots were unused to flying with a non-pilot RIO, but learned from air ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11759 | 13,267 |
37,284 | Wormholes are a hypothetical warped spacetime permitted by the Einstein field equations of general relativity. A proposed time-travel machine using a traversable wormhole would hypothetically work in the following way: One end of the wormhole is accelerated to some significant fraction of the speed of light, perhaps wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31591 | 37,271 |
1,851,486 | The BEIR VII Report contains an extensive review of data sets from human populations, including nuclear reactor workers and patients who were treated with radiation. The recent report from Cardis et al. describes a meta-analysis for reactor workers from several countries. A meta-analysis at specific cancer sites, inclu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36335582 | 1,850,425 |
162,043 | Between 1870 and 1900, economic output per head of the United Kingdom rose by 50 percent (from about £28 per capita to £41 in 1900: an annual average increase in real incomes of 1% p.a.), growth which was associated with a significant rise in living standards. However, and despite this significant economic growth, some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 161,958 |
94,539 | The causes of schizophrenia are not well understood, but numerous abnormalities of brain structure have been reported. The most thoroughly investigated alterations involve the cerebral cortex, but effects on the hippocampus have also been described. Many reports have found reductions in the size of the hippocampus in p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53948 | 94,498 |
1,406,599 | Since the formation of wetting layers occurs in a commensurate fashion at a crystal surface, there is often an associated misfit between the film and the substrate due to the different lattice parameters of each material. Attachment of the thinner film to the thicker substrate induces a misfit strain at the interface g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14552970 | 1,405,809 |
1,130,611 | The other family of carnivores that turns up with some regularity in the golden eagle's diet are the mustelids, at about 2.3% of the diet. The largest percentage of mustelids was 13.2% in a nest in central Alaska. Mustelids turned up in large numbers in the French Alps where they made up 10.1% of nest remains. Though s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41302685 | 1,130,028 |
1,265,868 | A fast performance-oriented recognizer, originally developed by Xuedong Huang at Carnegie Mellon and released as open-source with a BSD-style license on SourceForge by Kevin Lenzo at LinuxWorld in 2000. Sphinx 2 focuses on real-time recognition suitable for spoken language applications. As such it incorporates function... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5387453 | 1,265,180 |
23,207 | Having been fired by Renault, Prost returned to McLaren once again for . Now using the TAG engines, the team dominated, scoring 12 wins and two-and-a-half times as many constructors' points as nearest rival Ferrari. In the Drivers' Championship, Lauda prevailed over Prost by half a point, the narrowest margin ever. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20994 | 23,198 |
905,539 | In June, she returned to competition at the National Championships. She performed only on the uneven bars and balance beam, finishing 13th and 10th, respectively, and advanced to the Olympic Trials in July. There, she finished sixth in the all-around, fifth on vault, ninth on uneven bars, eighth on balance beam, and fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43476073 | 905,063 |
1,185,283 | A procedure for producing mesoporous materials (silica) was patented around 1970, and methods based on the Stöber process from 1968 were still in use in 2015. It went almost unnoticed and was reproduced in 1997. Mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) were independently synthesized in 1990 by researchers in Japan. They ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1932328 | 1,184,654 |
694,430 | In various developed countries, Margaret B. Sutherland explained that in the last several decade’s changes have shown that there was an increase in education access for women. Margaret pinpointed how dissimilar gender groups take part equally in “primary” and “secondary” education in advanced countries around the globe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16973246 | 694,067 |
684,030 | It was normally operated by a three-man crew; the seating arrangement could be altered in order to suit various purposes, such as to better enable a specific training role. The cockpit was outfitted with dual flying controls and a pair of seats, intended to accommodate a pilot and either a navigator or second pilot alo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=569246 | 683,674 |
2,191,932 | The extra period was described as "a cautious game of cat-and-mouse" by Mal Florence of the "Los Angeles Times". The opening tip of overtime was won by Rouse and controlled by Hunter. Harkness received a pass from Hunter and scored on a layup, giving the Ramblers the lead. Wilson responded with a basket for the Bearcat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54644076 | 2,190,683 |
2,838 | In 2004, Sukhoi anticipated that the Su-57 could become the basis for a family of combat aircraft for the Russian Aerospace Forces, similar to the Su-27 family. Under the program name "Megalopolis" (), the company is developing a new variant, designated Su-57M, that augments the base Su-57 design with improved mission ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2971192 | 2,838 |
373,658 | Reverse engineering of computer software often falls under both contract law as a breach of contract as well as any other relevant laws. That is because most end-user license agreements specifically prohibit it, and US courts have ruled that if such terms are present, they override the copyright law that expressly perm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18935488 | 373,463 |
272,221 | Alternating current, commonly used when welding aluminum and magnesium manually or semi-automatically, combines the two direct currents by making the electrode and base material alternate between positive and negative charge. This causes the electron flow to switch directions constantly, preventing the tungsten electro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1448709 | 272,073 |
489,831 | The satellite vehicle's liquid apogee engine (LAE) provided by IHI failed to raise the orbit after two attempts. To solve the problem, the perigee altitude was raised to 4700 km with twelve firings of the smaller Aerojet Rocketdyne-provided Reaction Engine Assembly thrusters, originally intended for attitude control du... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13236983 | 489,577 |
229,267 | The creation of the abyssal plain is the result of the spreading of the seafloor (plate tectonics) and the melting of the lower oceanic crust. Magma rises from above the asthenosphere (a layer of the upper mantle), and as this basaltic material reaches the surface at mid-ocean ridges, it forms new oceanic crust, which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=972800 | 229,150 |
1,049,051 | After Shang Yang (d. 338 BC) of the State of Qin abolished the communal and aristocratic well-field system in an effort to curb the power of nobles, land in China could be bought and sold. Historical scholars of the Han dynasty like Dong Zhongshu (179–104 BC) attributed the rise of the wealthy landowning class to this ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21423531 | 1,048,506 |
20,685 | Unsure of his future, he contemplated returning to London to complete his studies, but decided to return to Boston as a teacher. His father helped him set up his private practice by contacting Gardiner Greene Hubbard, the president of the Clarke School for the Deaf for a recommendation. Teaching his father's system, in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=852 | 20,676 |
750,715 | In 1954, Robinson proposed that "A. africanus" was a generalist omnivore whereas "P. robustus" was a specialised herbivore; and in 1981, American palaeoanthropologist Frederick E. Grine suggested that "P. robustus" specialised on hard foods such as nuts whereas "A. africanus" on softer foods such as fruits and leaves. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1627000 | 750,317 |
1,917,086 | To date, several international government agencies, as well as individual authors, have developed occupational exposure limits (OEL) to reduce the risk of any possible human health effects associated with workplace exposures to CNT. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducted a risk asse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51069172 | 1,915,987 |
770,260 | The electron distribution around an atom or molecule undergoes fluctuations in time. These fluctuations create instantaneous electric fields which are felt by other nearby atoms and molecules, which in turn adjust the spatial distribution of their own electrons. The net effect is that the fluctuations in electron posit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=355547 | 769,846 |
2,054,544 | Coming off of the worst championship loss in over 30 years, Jack Parker was looking for a way to help his team recover from a nightmarish end. To make matters worse, goaltender J. P. McKersie an AHCA Second Team All-American, was hit by a car while biking that left him in a coma for 6 days. While McKersie would recover... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62503776 | 2,053,361 |
1,479,864 | The radar was intended to be introduced in late 1943, but delays meant the SCR-584 did not reach field units until early 1944. They began replacing the earlier and more complex SCR-268 as the US Army's primary anti-aircraft gun laying system as quickly as they could be produced. They proved easier to use in the field t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3972623 | 1,479,030 |
1,098,731 | To fulfill his national service obligations during the Vietnam War, Varmus became a member of the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service, working as a Clinical Associate in the laboratory of Ira Pastan at the National Institutes of Health from 1968 to 1970. During this first period of laboratory research, he a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=666898 | 1,098,171 |
416,874 | Signs are superficially similar to "Fusarium" wilts. There are no fungicides characterized for the control of this disease but soil fumigation with chloropicrin has been proven successful in dramatically reducing "Verticillium" wilt in diverse crops such as vegetables using plasticulture production methods, and in non-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8220315 | 416,671 |
1,892,459 | Many universities maintain such journals for their own undergraduates, such as the "Beloit Biologist", a Beloit College publication that launched in the early 1970s. Some scholarly societies also maintain venues for the dissemination of undergraduate research, for example as special sessions at academic conferences. No... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46680782 | 1,891,376 |
1,701,002 | In mouse, frog and fish, Dapper2, is a negative regulator of mesoderm formation acting through the down-regulation of the Wnt and TGFβ / nodal signaling pathways. In zebrafish, nodal is known to activate the gene expression of "dapper2". In the cell surface Dapper2 tightly binds to the active form of the activin type 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26381377 | 1,700,048 |
489,343 | By winning gold in this Beijing Olympics, Rafael Nadal cemented his place in tennis history by winning gold in his first try. In the calendar year preceding the 2008 Olympics, there was a shift at the hierarchy of men's tennis as Rafael Nadal displaced Roger Federer as the world number one, after his record consecutive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9185980 | 489,090 |
1,117,127 | The paper for which Lazarsfeld and Merton is best known is their "Mass Communication, Popular Taste, and Organized Social Action" (1948). Widely anthologized, the paper has been proposed as a canonical text in media studies. Lazarsfeld and Merton set out to understand the burgeoning public interest in problems of the "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=427665 | 1,116,554 |
444,391 | Research on how the self is construed (whether, for example, in individualistic or collectivistic terms) has been a major topic of research in cross-cultural psychology for decades. Some psychologist employed cultural priming to understand how people living with multiple cultures interpret events. For example, Hung and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11507939 | 444,176 |
1,351,912 | The behavior of such a system is independent of the operating frequency, but is dependent upon details of the power conductor and its environment. "A nearby conductor other than the line itself may provide a termination point and thereby reduce energy coupled into the TM wave". (This has relevance to Tesla's 1891-1893 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1350525 | 1,351,166 |
708,293 | Arachnoiditis is difficult to treat and treatment is generally limited to alleviation of pain and other symptoms. While arachnoiditis may not yet be curable and can be significantly life-altering, management of the condition, including with medication, physical therapy, and if appropriate, psychotherapy, can help patie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1368567 | 707,924 |
744,202 | During World War II, Germany began an intensive program to research and develop a practical internal propellant caseless ammunition cartridge for military use, which was driven by the rising scarcity of metals, especially copper used to make cartridge cases. The Germans had some success, but not sufficient to produce a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=561270 | 743,808 |
203,801 | In a 2010 study exploring how vivid television portrayals are used when forming social reality judgments, people watching vivid violent media gave higher estimates of the prevalence of crime and police immorality in the real world than those not exposed to vivid television. These results suggest that television violenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=403396 | 203,696 |
219,889 | There have been speculations in open literature for why the ADS has not been used in a theater of operations. Some of the claimed problems expressed have included: (1) that a potential unreliability in certain environmental conditions, because precipitation (rain/snow/fog/mist) commonly dissipates RF energy, which may ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=953399 | 219,780 |
595,270 | CPT II codes describe clinical components usually included in evaluation and management or clinical services and are not associated with any relative value. Category II codes are reviewed by the Performance Measures Advisory Group (PMAG), an advisory body to the CPT Editorial Panel and the CPT/HCPAC Advisory Committee.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2014255 | 594,965 |
1,634,248 | The Spring team had the advantage of being able to examine what went wrong with the Mach model and fix it. The result was a much more cleanly separated system of "address spaces" in programs, mapped by the VM into various "memory" objects, which were in turn managed by a "pager" for backing store handling. When a progr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1695848 | 1,633,325 |
1,811,449 | Blood Falls was used as the target for testing IceMole in November 2014. This is being developed in connection with the Enceladus Explorer (EnEx) project by a team from the FH Aachen in Germany. The test returned a clean subglacial sample from the outflow channel from Blood Falls. Ice Mole navigates through the ice by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53351715 | 1,810,416 |
1,023,500 | In some pressing operations, such as hot isostatic pressing (HIP) compact formation and sintering occur simultaneously. This procedure, together with explosion-driven compressive techniques is used extensively in the production of high-temperature and high-strength parts such as turbine disks for jet engines. In most a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=495768 | 1,022,967 |
1,605,093 | Some of the most profound effects of irradiation on materials occur in the core of nuclear power reactors where atoms comprising the structural components are displaced numerous times over the course of their engineering lifetimes. The consequences of radiation to core components includes changes in shape and volume by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31259060 | 1,604,191 |
1,119,978 | Passive random reflections are achieved when plane waves are subject to one or more reflective paths around an object that makes an otherwise LOS radio path into NLOS. The reflective paths might be caused by various objects that could either be metallic (very good conductors such as a steel bridge or an airplane) or re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2175469 | 1,119,405 |
7,672 | Attitudes towards science are often determined by political opinions and goals. Government, business and advocacy groups have been known to use legal and economic pressure to influence scientific researchers. Many factors can act as facets of the politicization of science such as anti-intellectualism, perceived threats... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26700 | 7,669 |
2,006,842 | In addition to vocational training programs for school aged students the Chinese government also operates a series of adult vocational training centers similar to the Xinjiang re-education camps. This program seeks to redistribute “surplus” rural herders and farmers to manufacturers looking for labor. The campaign aims... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25199505 | 2,005,692 |
1,235,346 | BBN was a key participant in the creation of the Internet. It was the first organization to receive an Autonomous System Number (AS1) for network identification. ASNs are an essential identification element used for Internet Backbone Routing; lower numbers generally indicate a longer established presence on the Interne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=252539 | 1,234,683 |
1,127,207 | In 1892, Witmer left Germany and returned to the University of Pennsylvania, becoming the Director of The Laboratory of Psychology. He was interested in teaching Child Psychology and taught several different courses. He also began conducting research on individual differences in sensory-perceptual variables and present... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4419426 | 1,126,630 |
1,559,661 | The "Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues" (WRLSI) is one of the few multi-disciplinary legal academic student-run journals in Canada. First published in 1989, the WRLSI was initially an annual publication. However, due to the increase in submissions received and recognition of its journal, the WRLSI now publishes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17599452 | 1,558,775 |
698,920 | Since 1985, Vishay has pursued a business strategy that principally consists of the following elements: expanding within the electronic components industry, primarily through the acquisition of other manufacturers of electronic components; reducing expenses; transferring manufacturing operations to countries with lower... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18537605 | 698,556 |
1,159,334 | The choice of plutonium for the fissile component of the bomb meant that Penney's HER team at Fort Halstead had to design an implosion-type nuclear weapon. The Los Alamos Laboratory had solved the problem of doing this with explosive lenses. The involvement of several British scientists gave HER a solid base of experie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52573493 | 1,158,719 |
23,789 | Ohm's law was probably the most important of the early quantitative descriptions of the physics of electricity. We consider it almost obvious today. When Ohm first published his work, this was not the case; critics reacted to his treatment of the subject with hostility. They called his work a "web of naked fancies" and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49090 | 23,780 |
1,129,216 | The Soviet RD-0120 (also designated 11D122) was the Energia core rocket engine, fueled by LH/LOX, roughly equivalent to the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME). These were attached to the Energia core rather than the orbiter, so were not recoverable after a flight, but created a more modular design (the Energia core could... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15698501 | 1,128,638 |
377,164 | The ALSEP experiments left on the Moon by Apollo 12 were connected to a Central Station, which contained a transmitter, receiver, timer, data processor, and equipment for power distribution and control of the experiments. The equipment was powered by SNAP-27, a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) developed by t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1967 | 376,969 |
991,883 | In the summer of 2007, an alternative energy company called Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc. (AEHI) tested a method for capturing the energy in lightning bolts. The design for the system had been purchased from an Illinois inventor named Steve LeRoy, who had reportedly been able to power a 60-watt light bulb for 20 minu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36672111 | 991,366 |
1,315,684 | In many situations it is desired to measure resistivity of a bulk material by applying an electrode array at the surface. Amongst the fields that use this technique are geophysics (because it avoids having to dig into the substrate) and the semiconductor industry (for the similar reason that it is non-intrusive) for te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=301950 | 1,314,959 |
1,445,602 | GRKs can be regulated by signaling events in cells, both in direct feedback mechanisms where receptor signals alter GRK activity over time, and due to signals emanating from distinct pathways from a particular GPCR/GRK system of interest. For example, GRK1 is regulated by the calcium sensor protein recoverin: calcium-b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5669787 | 1,444,786 |
2,031,699 | The general class of probability measures on formula_1 with (proper) rational characteristic functions are densities corresponding to mixtures of the pointmass at zero ("delta distribution") and 2-EPT densities. Unlike phase-type and matrix geometric distributions, the 2-EPT probability density functions are defined on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34446051 | 2,030,530 |
475,528 | Ramachandran was born in the town of Ernakulam, Kingdom of Cochin, India to a Tamil Brahmin family. He completed his BSc honours in Physics from St Joseph's College, Tiruchirappalli in 1939. He joined the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1942 in the Electrical Engineering Department. Quickly realising his inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1141136 | 475,291 |
417,980 | In January 1887 at the age of 83, Sir Joseph Whitworth died in Monte Carlo where he had travelled in the hope of improving his health. He was buried at St Helen's Church, Darley Dale, Derbyshire. A detailed obituary was published in the American magazine "The Manufacturer and Builder". He directed his trustees to spend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=87164 | 417,776 |
1,403,697 | In January 1900, the Washington attaché Captain Charles Ottley reported that the US government was considering purchasing a submarine-boat designed by John Holland and provided the Admiralty with US Navy reports on the boat's performance and a set of blueprints. In February the new Paris attaché submitted further favou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4108784 | 1,402,907 |
1,571,098 | "W.L.S.", reviewing Cott in The Geographical Journal in 1940, begins with "In this large and well-illustrated volume the author discusses at length reason or reasons for the various colour patterns found in the animal kingdom." The reviewer goes on "He has presented us with a vast number of facts and observations which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37658639 | 1,570,210 |
1,233,083 | When that ended, the workers had to come to grips with the difficulties of dealing with hydrogen, which could leak through microscopic holes too small to permit the passage of other fluids. On 7 November 1961, a minor accident caused a violent hydrogen release. The complex finally became operational in 1964. SNPO envis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23821416 | 1,232,420 |
495,623 | The structures and components of CQDs determine their diverse properties. Many carboxyl moieties on the CQD surface impart excellent solubility in water and biocompatibility. Such surface moieties enable CQDs to serve as proton conducting nanoparticles. CQDs are also suitable for chemical modification and surface passi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48534860 | 495,367 |
953,005 | Design involves parameters such as maximum safe operating pressure and temperature, safety factor, corrosion allowance and minimum design temperature (for brittle fracture). Construction is tested using nondestructive testing, such as ultrasonic testing, radiography, and pressure tests. Hydrostatic pressure tests usual... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=636219 | 952,500 |
81,594 | Training for Gemini 10 was interrupted in March when Slayton diverted Young, Collins and Williams to represent their respective services on a panel to select another group of astronauts, along with himself, Shepard, spacecraft designer Max Faget, and astronaut training officer Warren J. North. Young protested the loss ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=97666 | 81,561 |
1,927,254 | Dynamic genomes with high plasticity are necessary to allow pathogens, especially bacteria, to survive in changing environments. With the assistance of high throughput sequencing methods and in silico technologies, it is possible to detect, compare and catalogue many of these dynamic genomic events. Genomic diversity i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21787394 | 1,926,150 |
1,588,268 | "D. nodosus" has a global distribution year-round with characteristic highly transmissible peaks occurring in temperate zones where there is adequate moisture and an ambient temperature above 10 degrees. In cooler conditions, such as spring and autumn, higher disease prevalence can be observed in the UK and Ireland. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10430855 | 1,587,374 |
974,302 | In the developing world some people sell their organs illegally. Such people are often in grave poverty or are exploited by salespersons. The people who travel to make use of these kidneys are often known as 'transplant tourists'. This practice is opposed by a variety of human rights groups, including Organs Watch, a g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1584036 | 973,791 |
1,268,784 | Alternatively, anonymous decentralized report processing protocols, while still having a central reporting server, delegate the responsibility to process logs to clients on the network. Tokens exchanged by clients contain no intrinsic information or static identifiers. Protocols using this approach, such as TCN and DP-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63696174 | 1,268,094 |
1,913,046 | An inverse association between exposure to the sun and upper respiratory tract infections was first proposed in 1926 by Smiley, who theorized that seasonality of infection was caused by “disordered vitamine metabolism in the human...directly due to a lack of solar radiation during the dark months of winter.” Studies of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39794453 | 1,911,947 |
1,130,494 | External energy pumping (e.g. a light beam or voltage) can help to the excitation of an electron. Relaxation of an electron from one of the upper states may occur by emission of either a photon or a phonon. This is determined by the density of states of phonons and photons. Density of states is the number of states per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7206727 | 1,129,916 |
616,698 | The missing link was the demonstration that the neurotransmitter acetylcholine is actually contained in synaptic vesicles. About ten years later, the application of subcellular fractionation techniques to brain tissue permitted the isolation first of nerve endings (synaptosomes), and subsequently of synaptic vesicles f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780320 | 616,384 |
866,478 | Religious images came under close scrutiny as actually or potentially idolatrous from the start of the Protestant Reformation in the 1520s. Martin Luther accepted some imagery, but few Early Netherlandish paintings met his criteria. Andreas Karlstadt, Huldrych Zwingli and John Calvin were wholly opposed to public relig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=799881 | 866,018 |
344,315 | Following the bloom of the Middle Triassic, the Late Triassic, from 237 to 201 million years ago, featured frequent heat spells and moderate precipitation (10–20 inches per year). The recent warming led to a boom of dinosaurian evolution on land as those one began to separate from each other (Nyasasaurus from 243 to 21... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19322 | 344,134 |
878,756 | In his last writing on the topic, Einstein further refined his position, making it completely clear that what really disturbed him about the quantum theory was the problem of the total renunciation of all minimal standards of realism, even at the microscopic level, that the acceptance of the completeness of the theory ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1025272 | 878,293 |
1,581,117 | Crystal scintillator experiments are a middle ground between cryogenic crystal detectors and noble gas scintillators, utilizing the crystals of the former and the scintillation properties of the latter. One such experiment that utilizes this technology is the DAMA/LIBRA experiment, once again located in the Gran Sasso ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70646792 | 1,580,227 |
1,474,314 | When starved for their bacterial food supply and exposed to dark, moist conditions, heterothallic or homothallic strains can undergo sexual development that results in the formation of a diploid zygote. Heterothallic mating has been best studied in "D. discoideum" and homothallic mating has been best studied in "Dictyo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=236164 | 1,473,483 |
1,108,244 | The continental flora in Antarctica is dominated by lichens, followed by mosses and ice algae. The plants are mainly found in coastal areas in Antarctica. The only vascular plants on continental Antarctica, "Deschampsia antarctica" and "Colobanthus quitensis", are found on the Antarctic Peninsula. Because of changing c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46905624 | 1,107,680 |
321,405 | By the 2010s, the majority of Alouette III operators were in the process of winding down or entirely retiring their fleets. During 2017, the French Navy observed that it was costing the service around 13,000 Euros per flight hour to operate a single Alouette III, which it claims was more than double the equivalent cost... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=508478 | 321,233 |
1,729,764 | Throughout his career, Atwater had been interested in human nutrition studies; having conducted the studies on behalf of the U.S. Fish Commission and the Smithsonian Institution, he had continued human nutrition research and the Storrs experiment station became known for nutritional studies. Once the Storrs station was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10465237 | 1,728,790 |
179,414 | OCO'88 made several alterations to the Olympic program as part of efforts to ensure value for its broadcast partners. Now, the premier and main events, including ice hockey and figure skating, were scheduled for prime time and the Games were lengthened to 15 days from the previous 12 to ensure three weekends of coverag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187504 | 179,321 |
455,236 | Bacterial toxins are the primary cause of one category of thrombotic microangiopathy known as HUS or hemolytic uremic syndrome. HUS can be divided into two main categories: Shiga-toxin-associated HUS (STx-HUS), which normally presents with diarrhea, and atypical HUS. The Shiga-toxin inhibits the binding of eEF-1-depend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3951905 | 455,014 |
1,059,738 | When considering how two functional groups or species react, the precise 3D configurations of the chemical entities involved will determine how they may approach one another. Any restrictions as to how these species may approach each other will determine the configuration of the product of the reaction. In the case of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4879260 | 1,059,187 |
1,725,558 | HMM-265 (REIN) "Dragons" deployed aboard as part of Task Group 76.3/Amphibious Ready Group Alfa/Amphibious Squadron Seven. HMM-265 was equipped with 12 CH-46D Sea Knight and were reinforced by detachments from HMH-463 and 4 CH-53D Sea Stallions, HMA-169 with 4 AH-1T Sea Cobra / 2 UH-1N Hueys from MCAS Camp Pendleton, C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3883819 | 1,724,587 |
1,745,931 | The quantitative precipitation forecast (abbreviated QPF) is the expected amount of melted precipitation accumulated over a specified time period over a specified area. A QPF will be created when precipitation amounts reaching a minimum threshold are expected during the forecast's valid period. Valid periods of precipi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12088404 | 1,744,946 |
963,043 | The beginnings of Maya culture date from the development of Kaminaljuyu, in the Highlands of Guatemala, during the middle Preclassic period. According to Richard D. Hansen and others researchers, the first true political states in Mesoamerica consisted of Takalik Abaj, in the Pacific Lowlands, and the cities of El Mira... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=399215 | 962,534 |
666,372 | When phospholipids are placed in water, the molecules spontaneously arrange such that the tails are shielded from the water, resulting in the formation of membrane structures such as bilayers, vesicles, and micelles. In modern cells, vesicles are involved in metabolism, transport, buoyancy control, and enzyme storage. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19179678 | 666,024 |
276,394 | The M79 AP shot could penetrate 92 mm of homogeneous armor angled at 30 degrees from the vertical at 1,000 yards. The M62 APCBC/HE-T shell was capable of penetrating 88 mm of homogeneous armor angled 30 degrees from the vertical at 1,000 yards. The rare T4 (M93) HVAP shot that saw action in small numbers beginning in S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1759964 | 276,244 |
980,590 | In his dissertation, Blumenbach mentioned the name "Simia troglodytes" in connection with a short description for the common chimpanzee. This dissertation was printed and appeared in September 1775, but only for internal use in the University of Göttingen and not for providing a public record. The public print of his d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=364090 | 980,078 |
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