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1,888,149 | Early in the design phase of MTDS, it was decided to use magnetic drum memory computers. Memory drums were used as the digital storage elements and system clock pulse generators in the Central Computer Group and each of the Radar and Identification Data Processors (RIDP). The drums utilized had a capacity of 1,123,200 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62305142 | 1,887,066 |
1,682,064 | Many IDSS implementations are based on expert systems, a well established type of KBS that encode knowledge and emulate the cognitive behaviours of human experts using predicate logic rules, and have been shown to perform better than the original human experts in some circumstances. Expert systems emerged as practical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16070200 | 1,681,121 |
1,624,665 | Handwriting movements are fast, non-repetitive with a primary frequency around 5 Hz and a bandwidth of about 10 Hz. While sampling rates of 20 Hz would theoretically suffice, up-sampling will be needed to properly visualize the Lissajous-like handwriting and drawing strokes. Higher-than-necessary sampling rates such as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24578359 | 1,623,749 |
1,175,438 | Gene therapy is another treatment option which is available only for clinical trials. X-linked SCID is a monogenic disorder, the IL2RG gene is mutated, so gene therapy will replace this mutated gene with a normal one. This will result in a normal functioning gamma chain protein of the interleukin receptor. In order to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4529789 | 1,174,816 |
1,075,897 | In 1900, British surgeon William Hunter blamed many disease cases on "oral sepsis". In 1910, lecturing in Montreal at McGill University, Hunter declared, "The worst cases of anemia, gastritis, colitis, obscure fevers, nervous disturbances of all kinds from mental depression to actual lesions of the cord, chronic rheuma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9510615 | 1,075,342 |
51,115 | In newts and salamanders, metamorphosis is less dramatic than in frogs. This is because the larvae are already carnivorous and continue to feed as predators when they are adults so few changes are needed to their digestive systems. Their lungs are functional early, but the larvae do not make as much use of them as do t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=621 | 51,095 |
952,473 | Lynn Margulis advanced and substantiated the theory with microbiological evidence in a 1967 paper, "On the origin of mitosing cells." In her 1981 work "Symbiosis in Cell Evolution" she argued that eukaryotic cells originated as communities of interacting entities, including endosymbiotic spirochaetes that developed int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60426 | 951,968 |
28,099 | In adults, the most common symptom of meningitis is a severe headache, occurring in almost 90% of cases of bacterial meningitis, followed by neck stiffness (the inability to flex the neck forward passively due to increased neck muscle tone and stiffness). The classic triad of diagnostic signs consists of neck stiffness... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21009963 | 28,089 |
1,146,776 | With the publication of his "Principia" roughly eighty years later (1687), Isaac Newton provided a physical theory that accounted for all three of Kepler's laws, a theory based on Newton's laws of motion and his law of universal gravitation. In particular, Newton proposed that the gravitational force between any two bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12191272 | 1,146,172 |
399,645 | The industry expanded rapidly in the 1940s because World War II created a huge demand for inexpensive, mass-produced products. In 1946, American inventor James Watson Hendry built the first screw injection machine, which allowed much more precise control over the speed of injection and the quality of articles produced.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=325831 | 399,446 |
751,748 | The liquid crystal displays used in calculators and other devices with similarly simple displays have direct-driven image elements, and therefore a voltage can be easily applied across just one segment of these types of displays without interfering with the other segments. This would be impractical for a large display,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1240595 | 751,346 |
933,749 | Masson himself argues with the largely Greek character of the Macedonian onomastics and sees Macedonian as "a Greek dialect, characterised by its marginal position and by local pronunciations" and probably most closely related to the dialects of the Greek North-West (Locrian, Aetolian, Phocidian, Epirote). Brian D. Jos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=85437 | 933,257 |
801,368 | Haggard describes other studies at the neuronal levels as providing "a reassuring confirmation of previous studies that recorded neural populations" such as the one just described. Note that these results were gathered using finger movements and may not necessarily generalize to other actions such as thinking, or even ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26565579 | 800,940 |
319,490 | The exclusive mission of Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen (SWCC) operators is to expertly drive and provide large-caliber gunfire support on specialized high-tech, high-speed, and low-profile Surface Combatant Craft to secretly infiltrate and exfiltrate Navy SEALs on Special Operations missions worldwide. These ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=846251 | 319,319 |
1,783,040 | Just-in-time teaching was developed for university level physics instructors in the late 1990s, but its use has since spread to many other academic disciplines. Early work was done in the physics department at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in collaboration with physics instructors at David... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33453274 | 1,782,036 |
358,965 | Controversy arose during the cruise when "Midway" docked in Cape Town, South Africa. Democratic senator Herbert Lehman sent a telegram to Secretary of the Navy Charles Thomas when he learned of a supposed United States Navy plan to segregate 400 non-white members of the crew of "Midway" while it was in Cape Town. Fello... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=402386 | 358,779 |
1,874,085 | Lepirudin is approved for the treatment of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) in the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia. HIT is a very serious adverse event related to heparin and occurs with both unfractionated heparin and LMWH, although to a lesser extent with the latter. It is an immune-mediated, prothrombotic co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37120076 | 1,873,008 |
436,902 | AX.25 has also been implemented on personal computers. For example, the Linux kernel includes native support for AX.25. The computer connects to a transceiver via its audio interface or via a simple modem. The computers can also interconnect to other computers or be bridged or routed to TNCs and transceivers located el... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=334423 | 436,688 |
2,164,968 | In 1992, Dr. Campbell Laird and Dr. Yuanfeng Li invented the EFS™. The EFS™ relies on a patented electrical test method, which monitors the current flow at the surface of a metal while it is being mechanically flexed. The output current resembles a heart’s EKG pattern and can be interpreted to indicate the degree of fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37840569 | 2,163,731 |
1,276,674 | The initial dockyard trials of the type were not entirely successful. Early diving trials on the "Revolutsioner" in March 1930 revealed that the boat listed sharply to one side during diving, a problem which the designers knew had also been encountered by double-hulled German designs like U-139. Similar problems were e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10683646 | 1,275,981 |
1,803,442 | "Alexandrium" as a whole is wide spread across the globe and has been identified in different parts of the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. The genus can be found in oligotrophic, mesotrophic, and eutrophic coastlines. During the winter months of temperate regions, the cysts remain dormant because of the cold temperat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37020081 | 1,802,428 |
1,160,703 | Following his stint in France, Hugh Owen Thomas joined his father Evan Thomas' practice for a year. His working relationship deteriorated with his father, as the academically uneducated father and medically educated son continued to disagree. Thomas started his own practice at 24 Hardy Street, Liverpool and in 1866 he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4326695 | 1,160,087 |
1,852,643 | Its principle is to confine ecosystems in totally or partially waterproof enclosures which are permeable to energy flow and capable of generating a range of physical and chemical conditions applied to terrestrial or aquatic ecosystems, continental or marine. Environmental control and real-time measurements are precise ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64236977 | 1,851,581 |
998,746 | These curricula were quite different from one another, yet shared the idea that children's learning of arithmetic algorithms would last past the exam only if memorization and practice were paired with teaching for "understanding." More specifically, elementary school arithmetic beyond single digits makes sense only on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=404988 | 998,228 |
787,175 | The Morrison Formation records an environment and time dominated by gigantic sauropod dinosaurs such as "Barosaurus", "Apatosaurus", "Brontosaurus", "Camarasaurus", "Diplodocus", and "Brachiosaurus". Dinosaurs that lived alongside "Saurophaganax", and may have served as prey, included the herbivorous ornithischians "Ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3553065 | 786,752 |
115,494 | VZV is closely related to the herpes simplex viruses (HSV), sharing much genome homology. The known envelope glycoproteins (gB, gC, gE, gH, gI, gK, gL) correspond with those in HSV; however, there is no equivalent of the HSV gD protein. VZV also fails to produce the LAT (latency-associated transcripts) that play an imp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=300539 | 115,449 |
1,277,630 | This process offers the benefit of not requiring an expensive autoclave while also being capable of producing large, complex aerospace-grade parts. Products produced using this method vary widely in their application with parts being used in transportation, wind energy, marine, infrastructure, and aerospace application... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44575211 | 1,276,937 |
220,576 | Despite efforts made in cleaning up uranium sites, significant problems stemming from the legacy of uranium development still exist today on the territory of the Navajo Nation and in the states of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. Hundreds of abandoned mines have not been cleaned up and present environmental and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4913827 | 220,467 |
113,016 | The 1s electron configuration of hydrogen, while analogous to that of the alkali metals (ns), is unique because there is no 1p subshell. Hence it can lose an electron to form the hydron H, or gain one to form the hydride ion H. In the former case it resembles superficially the alkali metals; in the latter case, the hal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=666 | 112,971 |
1,438,903 | The Chi-I had a Type 90 57 mm cannon as its main armament, with one machine gun in the front hull glacis and another located in a small rear turret. The armour was riveted steel plates with a minimum thickness of 6 mm and a maximum of 17 mm. The engine compartment was located in the middle of the hull and the tank was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53883569 | 1,438,093 |
1,126,890 | Nanoparticles have the ability to assemble chemically through covalent or noncovalent interactions with their capping ligand. The terminal functional group(s) on the particle are known as capping ligands. As these ligands tend to be complex and sophisticated, self-assembly can provide a simpler pathway for nanoparticle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39631094 | 1,126,313 |
261,103 | Filippo Brunelleschi ( , , also known as Pippo; 1377 – 15 April 1446), considered to be a founding father of Renaissance architecture, was an Italian architect, designer, and sculptor, and is now recognized to be the first modern engineer, planner, and sole construction supervisor. In 1421, Brunelleschi became the firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=90007 | 260,966 |
370,431 | Based on media speculation, however, thanks to an intervention by Bernie Ecclestone to avoid further negative publicity on the sport, Ericsson and Nasr were able to take part in Friday afternoon's second practice session. The matter was temporarily resolved on Saturday, 14 March 2015, following an announcement by van d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3158734 | 370,237 |
1,132,233 | First described in 1988, "C. amycolatum" is one of the diphtheroid most often isolated from clinical samples. However, it is often difficult to differentiate from other fermentative corynebacteria such as "C. minutissimum" and "C. xerosis", both of which are known human pathogens. One method of differentiation, however... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37492131 | 1,131,641 |
170,656 | An emotional woman who is at the center of a love triangle between Boone and Chalmers, she begins as head of the Russian contingent. The novels hint that she used both wit and seduction to rise through the ranks of the Russian space agency to become the leader of the first colonization mission. After the first revoluti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89970 | 170,566 |
1,608,343 | Conservation managers or scientists can use it as a basis for providing recommendations to improve the representativeness of nature reserves or the effectiveness of protected areas so that these areas provide the best value for conserving biological diversity. With the information that a gap analysis yields, the bounda... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8294877 | 1,607,438 |
2,057,541 | Belal Mansoor Ali took the field through the first 400 in 52.48. Kicker Yuriy Borzakovskiy went to the back of the pack, but uncharacteristically moved to the front near the end of the first lap. But the entire field was jostling for position, with Wilfred Bungei elbowing his way to the lead and the entire field scramb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30725725 | 2,056,356 |
1,298,090 | GPS intelligent buoys (GIB) systems are inverted LBL devices where the transducers are replaced by floating buoys, self-positioned by GPS. The tracked position is calculated in realtime at the surface from the Time-Of-Arrival (TOAs) of the acoustic signals sent by the underwater device, and acquired by the buoys. Such ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21898118 | 1,297,378 |
40,618 | Stanislaw Ulam, while working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the 1940s, studied the growth of crystals, using a simple lattice network as his model. At the same time, John von Neumann, Ulam's colleague at Los Alamos, was working on the problem of self-replicating systems. Von Neumann's initial design was foun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37035 | 40,603 |
935,375 | In the early history of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which was first awarded in 1901, the laureates were decided upon by the entire faculty of the Karolinska Institute. The reason for creating a special body for the decisions concerning the Nobel Prize was the fact that the Karolinska Institute is a state... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216908 | 934,881 |
125,059 | Ironclads were widely used in South America. Both sides used ironclads in the Chincha Islands War between Spain and the combined forces of Peru and Chile in the early 1860s. The powerful Spanish participated in the Battle of Callao but was unable to inflict significant damage upon the Callao defences. Besides, Peru was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=251489 | 125,007 |
1,407,863 | Vasopressin infusions are in use for septic shock patients not responding to fluid resuscitation or infusions of catecholamines (e.g., dopamine or norepinephrine) to increase the blood pressure while sparing the use of catecholamines. These argipressins have much shorter elimination half-life (around 20 minutes) than s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54396555 | 1,407,073 |
796,862 | In the 1950s, Lorenz became interested in and started work on numerical weather prediction, which relied on computers to forecast weather by processing observational data on such things as temperature, pressure, and wind. This interest was sparked, in part, after a visit to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1706783 | 796,437 |
179,432 | One of the most popular athletes from the games was British ski jumper Michael Edwards, who gained infamy by placing last in both the 70 and 90 metre events finishing 70 and 53 points behind his next closest competitor, respectively. Edwards' "heroic failure" made him an instant celebrity; he went from earning £6,000 p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187504 | 179,339 |
1,120,528 | Decabromodiphenyl ether ("Deca-BDE" or "DeBDE") - In August 2012, the UK authorities proposed decabromodiphenyl ether (Deca-BDE or DeBDE) as a candidate for Authorisation under the EU‘s regulatory regime on chemicals, REACH. On 5 July 2013 ECHA withdrew Deca-BDE from its list of priority substances for Authorisation un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1978770 | 1,119,954 |
809,725 | This was not the only source of performance problems. Another centered on the problems of trying to handle memory properly when physical memory ran low and paging had to occur. In the traditional monolithic operating systems the authors had direct experience with which parts of the kernel called which others, allowing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21028 | 809,294 |
932,557 | In the 14th century, both the French philosopher Jean Buridan and the Merton College of Oxford rejected the Aristotelian concept of gravity. They attributed the motion of objects to an impetus (akin to momentum), which varies according to velocity and mass; Buridan was influenced in this by Ibn Sina's "Book of Healing"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4387043 | 932,065 |
1,127,087 | Charlotte is currently the largest city in the United States without a four-year medical school. On April 10, 2019, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and Atrium Health announced that the School of Medicine would have a second campus in Charlotte, North Carolina. Preliminary plans for the campus were revealed August 12... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6207062 | 1,126,510 |
40,559 | Pre-eclampsia is a serious condition of the second half of pregnancy and following delivery characterised by increased blood pressure and the presence of protein in the urine. It occurs in about 5% of pregnancies and is responsible for approximately 16% of all maternal deaths globally. Pre-eclampsia also doubles the ri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77432 | 40,544 |
1,696,216 | "Bamboo hair" is a rare autosomal recessive genodermatosis characterized by congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma, trichorrhexis invaginata, and atopic diathesis with failure to thrive. Chronic skin inflammation results in scaling and exfoliation, predisposing these patients to life-threatening infections, sepsis, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20918855 | 1,695,263 |
1,671,956 | The treatment is delivered during hour-long sessions with a speech-language pathologist, given four times a week for four weeks. These sessions stress the idea of "thinking loud in order to speak loud" and uses exaggerated motions and behaviors. Through video documentation, the patient's loudness is measured through a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30594101 | 1,671,015 |
860,522 | Ancient DNA analysis of Iberomaurusian skeletal remains at the Taforalt site in Morocco, which have been dated to between 15,100 and 13,900 ybp, observed the M1b subclade in one of the fossils (1/7; ~14%). Ancient individuals belonging to the Late Iron Age settlement of Çemialo Sırtı in Batman, southeast Turkey were fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4130962 | 860,064 |
294,977 | Following the conclusion of the ALT test flight program, on March 13, 1978, "Enterprise" was flown once again, but this time halfway across the country to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Alabama for the Mated Vertical Ground Vibration Testing (MGVT). The orbiter was lifted up on a sling very similar to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28236 | 294,817 |
1,159,514 | Hill had a distinguished career in research and teaching and as author of a very successful textbook, "Principles of Medical Statistics", but he is famous for two landmark studies. He was the statistician on the Medical Research Council Streptomycin in Tuberculosis Trials Committee and their study evaluating the use of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=993361 | 1,158,899 |
1,517,762 | In his 1970 paper "The Teaching of Probability in the Intermediate Grades", Engel described an activity in which students would first use a spinning device to generate a random series of numbers, then use devices to create a series where the spins were not independent, simulating a Markov process. An Australian teacher... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42562945 | 1,516,910 |
2,059,431 | KIF23 (also known as Kinesin-6, CHO1/MKLP1, C. elegans ZEN-4 and Drosophila Pavarotti) is a member of kinesin-like protein family. This family includes microtubule-dependent molecular motors that transport organelles within cells and move chromosomes during cell division. This protein has been shown to cross-bridge ant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14763869 | 2,058,245 |
319,459 | Scout landings were done at night during the new moon. The men were brought to a lagoon by submarine and came ashore with rubber paddle boats. (Goodyear invented inflatable rubber boats just for this purpose.) They would bury the boats in the sand and begin recon. Their mission was to clear the area prior to the main N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=846251 | 319,288 |
892,366 | On the Apple II, the operating system directly controls the step motor that moves the floppy drive head, and also directly interprets the raw data, called "nibbles", read from each track to identify the data sectors. This allowed complex disk-based software copy protection, by storing data on half tracks (0, 1, 2.5, 3.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29213 | 891,897 |
1,036,006 | Printed electronics allows the use of flexible substrates, which lowers production costs and allows fabrication of mechanically flexible circuits. While inkjet and screen printing typically imprint rigid substrates like glass and silicon, mass-printing methods nearly exclusively use flexible foil and paper. Poly(ethyle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8054686 | 1,035,466 |
1,949,647 | Will Slocombe, reviewing this encyclopedia for "" the same year, observed that noted that the project is too ambitious for its limited size, and pointed out that the allocation of roughly the same word count to all entries is not fair for more complex topics (comparing, for example, entries on "Aliens in Space" to "Rat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68248898 | 1,948,526 |
719,088 | The sensory modality over which a stimulus is administered in a reaction time task is highly dependent on the afferent conduction times, state change properties, and range of sensory discrimination inherent to our different senses. For example, early researchers found that an auditory signal is able to reach central pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4778196 | 718,708 |
834,020 | Because the laser transitions are actually on vibration-rotation bands of a linear triatomic molecule, the rotational structure of the P and R bands can be selected by a tuning element in the laser cavity. Prisms are not practical as tuning elements because most media that transmit in the mid-infrared absorb or scatter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1119275 | 833,571 |
1,131,378 | Although studies in the past have shown a benefit of the use of CPM in those individuals having undergone a TKA, recent research has shown that the benefits are questionable. When groups that only received standard mobilization therapies were compared to groups that received CPM treatment in addition to this same thera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7086856 | 1,130,788 |
1,006,793 | By 1944, the Sabre V was delivering 2,400 horsepower (1,800 kW) consistently and the reputation of the engine started to improve. This was the last version to enter service, being used in the Hawker Typhoon and its derivative, the Hawker Tempest. Without the advanced supercharger, the engine's performance over fell off... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=158783 | 1,006,274 |
371,465 | Sarcoidosis is a disease of unknown cause characterized by non-necrotizing ("non-caseating") granulomas in multiple organs and body sites, most commonly the lungs and lymph nodes within the chest cavity. Other common sites of involvement include the liver, spleen, skin, and eyes. The granulomas of sarcoidosis are simil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=446252 | 371,270 |
613,934 | Both agents have moderate protein binding, reported at 38% for sulbactam and 28% for ampicillin.15,16 The half-life of ampicillin is approximately 1 hour, when used alone or in combination with sulbactam; therefore it will be eliminated from a healthy person in around 5 hours. It is eliminated primarily by the urinary ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3119987 | 613,622 |
1,097,306 | On 30 March 1972, North Vietnam launched an all-out invasion of South Vietnam, which came to be known as the Easter Offensive. The "Vietnamization" policy of the United States had resulted in the vast majority of US ground combat forces been withdrawn from South Vietnam with PACAF's tactical air units also being reduce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3403029 | 1,096,746 |
911,372 | If laboratory tests are abnormal, a systemic disease process is likely, and, if the ophthalmologic examination is abnormal, ocular disease is likely. However, in the event that both of these routes of investigation yield normal findings or an inadequate explanation, noninvasive duplex ultrasound studies are recommended... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=729812 | 910,893 |
908,473 | Transformational analysis is a part of the classical Western grammatical tradition based on the metaphysics of Plato and Aristotle and on the grammar of Apollonius Dyscolus. These were joined to establish linguistics as a natural science in the Middle Ages. Transformational analysis was later developed by humanistic gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58439 | 907,995 |
521,775 | Several team changes took place before the season began. Car manufacturer Jaguar announced their return to motor racing in December 2015 as a works team for the first time since its withdrawal from Formula One (F1) at the end of 2004. It entered the sport in collaboration with Williams Grand Prix Engineering, as a mean... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45532368 | 521,503 |
1,010,733 | A public demo of the game was released under the North American version's working title "X-COM: Terran Defense Force". Despite numerous changes from the first demo, the tactical part of the game remains true to the turn-based layout of "Laser Squad" and the Gollop brothers' earlier "Rebelstar" series. The AI system of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=668164 | 1,010,212 |
1,288,341 | The HPI was founded in October 1998 as a public-private partnership. The private partner is the "Hasso Plattner Foundation for Software Systems Engineering", which is the administrative body responsible for the HPI and its only corporate member. The foundation's legal status is that of a GmbH, a limited-liability compa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10919936 | 1,287,632 |
135,275 | The growing popularity of art museums presented unique challenges to the architecture. Mellon and Pei both expected large crowds of people to visit the new building, and they planned accordingly. To this end, Pei designed a large lobby roofed with enormous skylights. Individual galleries are located along the periphery... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15155 | 135,220 |
404,681 | In May 2017, CCP converted PLEX into smaller increments. All existing PLEX were converted to 500 of the new PLEX (which are exclusively referred to as PLEX in-game, rather than Pilot License EXtension, though the acronym meaning remains unchanged). 30 days subscriptions now cost 500 PLEX, effectively the same cost as p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=403307 | 404,481 |
170,220 | In July 2007, the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) adopted a resolution titled "The Urgency of Addressing Climate Change". In it, the IUGG concurs with the "comprehensive and widely accepted and endorsed scientific assessments carried out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and regional... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=326324 | 170,130 |
701,562 | Admission is based solely on how the student does on the SHSAT. The New York City Department of Education created the New York Specialized High School Institute (SHSI), a free program run by the department for middle school students with high test scores on citywide tests and solid report card grades. The program's ori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4141633 | 701,197 |
92,277 | The Intel 4004 was followed in 1972 by the Intel 8008, the world's first 8-bit microprocessor. The 8008 was not, however, an extension of the 4004 design, but instead the culmination of a separate design project at Intel, arising from a contract with Computer Terminals Corporation, of San Antonio TX, for a chip for a t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19553 | 92,236 |
1,079,317 | The glass envelope is most commonly a thin tube, often made of fused quartz, borosilicate or Pyrex, which may be straight, or bent into a number of different shapes, including helical, "U" shape, and circular (to surround a camera lens for shadowless photography—'ring flashes'). In some applications, the emission of ul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=387514 | 1,078,762 |
1,945,439 | In 1990, he started the first global warming field experiment in the world, which involved many scientists and continued for nearly 30 years, making it the longest-running global warming field experiment ever undertaken. The wide-ranging, profound and copious research results on heating a subalpine meadow ecosystem wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57032934 | 1,944,327 |
2,063,402 | After serving as a lieutenant in the Army Ordnance Corps, Redstone Arsenal, AL, Carr led the Component Technology Branch of the Air Force Research Laboratory (formerly AF Cambridge Research Laboratory and Rome Laboratory) Bedford, MA from 1967 to 1995. He won the Marcus O'Day Memorial Award for the best laboratory pape... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23608371 | 2,062,211 |
1,229,748 | Following launch on January 7, 1998 UT (January 6 EST) aboard a four-stage Athena II rocket, "Lunar Prospector" had a 105-hour cruise to the Moon. During the cruise, the three instrument booms were deployed. The MAG and APS collected calibration data, while the GRS, NS, and ER outgassed for one day, after which they al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=612519 | 1,229,086 |
299,345 | The use of deep feedforward (non-recurrent) networks for acoustic modeling was introduced during the later part of 2009 by Geoffrey Hinton and his students at the University of Toronto and by Li Deng and colleagues at Microsoft Research, initially in the collaborative work between Microsoft and the University of Toront... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29468 | 299,184 |
364,266 | The concentrations of nutrients in plant tissues depend on many factors, including growing conditions. Interpretation of concentrations determined by analysis is easy only when a nutrient occurs in excessively low or occasionally excessively high concentration. Values are influenced by environmental factors and interac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68085 | 364,076 |
679,973 | Peter Boodberg and William Boltz have argued that no ancient characters were compound ideographs. Boltz accounts for the remaining cases by suggesting that some characters could represent multiple unrelated words with different pronunciations, as in Sumerian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs, and the compound characte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1727572 | 679,619 |
1,488,943 | In July 2014, Shanghai Medical College's campus began a 2-year large-scale construction project and was open for use in late 2017. New facilities include new student residential colleges with residential towers, food services, and activity space, two research complexes, an indoor swimming center with rooftop soccer fie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2354116 | 1,488,104 |
119,048 | In the 1950s and 1960’s during the Cold War, a strong interceptor force was crucial for the opposing superpowers as it was the best means to defend against an unexpected nuclear attack by strategic bombers. Hence, for a brief period of time they fared rapid development in both speed, range, and altitude. At the end of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=142759 | 119,000 |
1,412,691 | The set-up for performing an electro-oxidation treatment consists of an electrochemical cell. An external electric potential difference (aka voltage) is applied to the electrodes, resulting in the formation of reactive species, namely hydroxyl radicals, in the proximity of the electrode surface. To assure a reasonable ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61186827 | 1,411,896 |
777,962 | In the beginning of the 20th century the rise of the middle class and the leisure industry allowed for investment in sight-seeing machines. Prior to 1893 a combined goods and passenger carrying cableway was installed at Gibraltar. Initially its passengers were military personnel. An 1893 industry publication said of a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=105709 | 777,545 |
492,123 | Metallothioneins are rich in thiols, causing them to bind a number of trace metals. Metallothionein binds several Zn ions. One of few eukaryotic proteins distinguished as having a role in substantial metal detoxification. Zinc and Cadmium are tetrahedrally coordinated to cysteine residues, each metallothionein protein ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276462 | 491,869 |
769,111 | Genetic testing has also been taken on by private companies, such as 23andMe, Ancestry.com, and Family Tree DNA. These companies will send the consumer a kit at their home address, with which they will provide a saliva sample for their lab to analyze. The company will then send back the consumer’s results in a few week... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=310782 | 768,699 |
228,429 | Very large numbers are being farmed in China, but most of the breeding stock are either wild-caught or first-generation captive-bred. This is partially explained by the fact that the industry is relatively new, but some farms have also struggled to produce second-generation captive-bred offspring. Registrations showed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9428033 | 228,312 |
530,922 | Agricultural research has been successful in releasing high-yielding varieties with higher stability as well as tolerance to harsh weather conditions. The agriculture researchers are working jointly with international Institutes to find the best procedures and genotypes to overcome produce failure and to increase yield... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26656516 | 530,648 |
912,529 | In March 2013, Saga University with various Japanese industries completed the installation of a new OTEC plant. Okinawa Prefecture announced the start of the OTEC operation testing at Kume Island on April 15, 2013. The main aim is to prove the validity of computer models and demonstrate OTEC to the public. The testing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68498 | 912,050 |
785,850 | Motion control photography is a technique that uses a computer to record (or specify) the exact motion of a film camera during a shot, so that the motion can be precisely duplicated again, or alternatively on another computer, and combined with the movement of other sources, such as CGI elements. Early forms of motion ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30797574 | 785,427 |
526,551 | In 1903 Chlorophylls a and b were separated by thin layer chromatography then, through the 1920s and 1930s, biochemists, notably Hans Krebs (1900–1981) and Carl (1896–1984) and Gerty Cori (1896–1957) began tracing out the central metabolic pathways of life. Between the 1930s and 1950s it was determined that ATP, locate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25007304 | 526,278 |
525,400 | The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Tirupati, established in 2015, offers elective courses in the areas of Economics, English, Philosophy, Finance, and Organisational behaviour for all engineering disciplines in Undergraduate programmes. The department also offers compulsory courses in the area of E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47131292 | 525,127 |
599,694 | VLM systems are sold in numerous configurations, which could be applied in different industries, logistics, as well as office settings. The VLM systems could be customized to fully utilize the height of the facility, even through multiple floors. With the capability of multiple access openings on different floors, a VL... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4999945 | 599,388 |
991,133 | Capture the Flag (CTF) is a cybersecurity competition that is used as a test of security skills. It was first developed in 1993 at DEFCON, the largest cybersecurity conference in the United States hosted annually in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference hosts a weekend of cybersecurity competitions including CTF. There are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69230869 | 990,616 |
1,651,848 | Lower hybrid current drive (LHCD) (based on Lower hybrid oscillation) is used to supplement the current driven by the Ohmic transformer. The LHCD system is capable of delivering 1.0+ MW of microwave power (planned upgrade to 2 MW or more with addition of a second antenna in 2013) to the plasma at 4.6 GHz. Power is prov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3540994 | 1,650,916 |
1,816,342 | When looking for leukotriene receptor antagonists, researchers began without any assistance of ligand-receptor binding data and approached the issue in three different ways. Those approaches included the structural design of leukotriene analogues, quinoline analogues, and the randomized screening of compounds. Those co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61824790 | 1,815,308 |
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