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1,071,475 | In 1913 Hermann Weyl published his classic textbook "Die Idee der Riemannschen Fläche" based on his Göttingen lectures from 1911 to 1912. It was the first book to present the theory of Riemann surfaces in a modern setting and through its three editions has remained influential. Dedicated to Felix Klein, the first editi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288270 | 1,070,921 |
1,909,764 | Dwight A. Sangrey, a professor of civil engineering at Cornell University and Carnegie Mellon University and dean of engineering at RPI, was hired by OGC as president in 1988, "with a mandate to increase significantly the size of OGC's faculty and student body." OGC was renamed OGI in 1989. Sangrey was awarded the Stat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48411848 | 1,908,666 |
1,448,919 | The sixth report, "New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics", was released in 2010. The committee was chaired by Roger D. Blandford. Recommendations for scientific questions to be answered include: the nature of dark energy; the structure, distribution, and evolution of exoplanetary systems; detailed exam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28761104 | 1,448,103 |
790,133 | Once this has happened, the seeker guides the bomb toward the designated impact point. If the laser illumination is lost, the bomb stops guiding and follows a roughly ballistic path, although interference from the guidance kit can lead to the weapon wandering off course. While the GBU-24 is guided, it is not a powered ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=201671 | 789,708 |
61,460 | Typhoid fever is caused by "Salmonella" serotypes which are strictly adapted to humans or higher primates—these include "Salmonella" Typhi, Paratyphi A, Paratyphi B, and Paratyphi C. In the systemic form of the disease, salmonellae pass through the lymphatic system of the intestine into the blood of the patients (typho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42114 | 61,435 |
313,859 | Even so, air reconnaissance played a critical role in the "war of movement" of 1914, especially in helping the Allies halt the German invasion of France. Aircraft were first used during Alexander von Kluck's German First Army during the Battle of Mons to target its guns on British II Corps positions. On 22 August 1914,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=768600 | 313,690 |
1,087,402 | The film however did help to secure his position on Harry O. Hoyt's "The Lost World". For his early, short films O'Brien created his own characters out of clay, although for much of his feature career he would employ Richard and Marcel Delgado to create much more detailed stop-motion models (based on O'Brien's designs)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66604 | 1,086,843 |
964,542 | Deacetylating vecuronium at position 3 results in a very active metabolite. In the case of rapacuronium the 3-deacylated metabolite is even more potent than rapacuronium. As long as the D-ring acetylcholine moiety is unchanged they retain their muscle relaxing effect. "Mono"-quaternary aminosteroids produced with deacy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2729485 | 964,033 |
735,597 | In a March 1998 ACM essay, "Playfulness in 3D Spaces -- Why Quake is better than VRML, and what it means for software design", Clay Shirky sharply criticised VRML as a "technology in search of a problem", whereas "Quake does something well instead of many things poorly...The VRML community has failed to come up with an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=101679 | 735,210 |
1,240,222 | Ventilation is accomplished partly by opening the windows, and partly by a forced-air system served by 2 twin centrifugal fans. The fans are mounted above the ceiling of each vestibule and force fresh air into a ventilation duct which runs above the ceiling along the car centerline and feeds the air into the passenger ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8412180 | 1,239,553 |
1,483,929 | Mouse models of DRPLA have been successfully generated, which demonstrate the same intergenerational instability and severe phenotype as human DRPLA. The Schilling mice express full-length human atrophin-1 with 65 CAG repeats under transcriptional control of the mouse prion protein promoter. The mice demonstrated progr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16702814 | 1,483,092 |
1,736,628 | The first results of the ECSS efforts were released on 19 April 1996, with the publication of 17 standard documents. In parallel to defining and compiling standardization documents, the ECSS actively worked on developing regional and international liaisons in the objective of achieving a formal status of a selected par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12971550 | 1,735,651 |
1,638,641 | Bipolar electrochemistry is a phenomenon in electrochemistry based on the polarization of conducting objects in electric fields. Indeed, this polarization generates a potential difference between the two extremities of the substrate that is equal to the electric field value multiplied by the size of the object. If this... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32318003 | 1,637,716 |
1,879,491 | Due to random distribution of elements in HEA-NPs, in addition to conventional characterization methods, other methods with higher resolution are needed for the structural analysis. To analyze the random mixing of multiple elements, atomic electron tomography can be used, which provides positional precision of 21 pm an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64810837 | 1,878,410 |
942,545 | In economics, concerns have been raised in relation to the credibility and reliability of published research. In other sciences, reproducibility is regarded as fundamental and is often a prerequisite to research being published, however in economic sciences it is not seen as a priority of the greatest importance. Most ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47651 | 942,043 |
376,619 | Kaolinite has a low shrink–swell capacity and a low cation-exchange capacity (1–15 meq/100 g). It is a soft, earthy, usually white, mineral (dioctahedral phyllosilicate clay), produced by the chemical weathering of aluminium silicate minerals like feldspar. In many parts of the world it is colored pink-orange-red by ir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16938 | 376,424 |
768,574 | The National Science Board's "Patterns and Perspectives in Environmental Science" report of 1972 discussed the cyclical behavior of climate, and the understanding at the time that the planet was entering a phase of cooling after a warm period. "Judging from the record of the past interglacial ages, the present time of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=295445 | 768,162 |
1,482,211 | At the men's ice hockey tournament, Slovenia competed in Group B with United States, Slovakia, and Olympic Athletes from Russia in the preliminary round. Following the NHL's decision not to allow its players to participate at the tournament, Slovenia's top player Anže Kopitar of Los Angeles Kings was unable to join the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51511867 | 1,481,376 |
1,391,308 | The Morse Fall Scale (MFS) is a rapid and simple method of assessing a patient’s likelihood of falling. A large majority of nurses (82.9%) rate the scale as “quick and easy to use,” and 54% estimated that it took less than 3 minutes to rate a patient. "The scale consists of six items reflecting risk factors of falling ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40678198 | 1,390,537 |
791,041 | It is possible to exhaust the body's supply of glucuronic acid by combining multiple drugs/substances whose metabolism and excretion are primarily or entirely dependent on glucuronidation. Although most such substances have secondary metabolic routes which become prominent following GCA depletion, the rate of metabolis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2355673 | 790,616 |
585,987 | As satellites orbit their host and interact with each other they progressively lose small amounts of kinetic energy and angular momentum due to dynamical friction. Consequently, the distance between the host and the satellite progressively decreases in order to conserve angular momentum. This process continues until th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2973295 | 585,687 |
1,892,973 | Reviewer Michael Goldberg notes some minor errors in the book's historical credits and its notation, and writes that for American audiences some of the British terminology may be unfamiliar, but concludes that it could still be valuable for students and teachers. Stanley Ogilvy complains about the inconsistent level of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65273997 | 1,891,890 |
1,981,608 | The search for new ways to improve treatment of patients infected with HIV is constant. Considering the experience that has been gathered since the 1980s of ARV drug development arrival of INSTIs as a new potent class of ARV signals a new era in the treatment of HIV. Development of a successful INSTI treatment was acco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33139249 | 1,980,469 |
137,365 | This left only the Sea Sparrow using the basic platform, and it no longer had to fit on aircraft. So instead of simply using the P and R models as they were, it was decided to dramatically upgrade the weapon as the Evolved SeaSparrow. The ESSM emerged as a completely new weapon, common only in name with the original, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1040886 | 137,309 |
231,417 | In the early 20th century, Carl von Voit and Max Rubner independently measured caloric energy expenditure in different species of animals, applying principles of physics in nutrition. In 1906, Edith G. Willcock and Frederick Hopkins showed that the amino acid tryptophan aids the well-being of mice but it did not assure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=93827 | 231,298 |
1,028,284 | "A. aquatica" is able to remain submerged for prolonged periods of time due to the silk-based structure it constructs in order to retain an oxygen supply, named after the diving bell structure it resembles. The species range in size, although the size of females may be limited as they put more energy into building and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=953257 | 1,027,750 |
522,435 | The first creation of a Z-pinch in the laboratory may have occurred in 1790 in Holland when Martinus van Marum created an explosion by discharging 100 Leyden jars into a wire. The phenomenon was not understood until 1905, when Pollock and Barraclough investigated a compressed and distorted length of copper tube from a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5351223 | 522,163 |
1,499,723 | ANOVA on ranks means that a standard analysis of variance is calculated on the rank-transformed data. Conducting factorial ANOVA on the ranks of original scores has also been suggested. However, Monte Carlo studies, and subsequent asymptotic studies found that the rank transformation is inappropriate for testing intera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29601304 | 1,498,878 |
1,866,796 | Implantation of any foreign device or material through the means of surgery results in at least some degree of tissue trauma. Therefore, especially when removing a native heart valve either partially or completely, the tissue trauma will trigger a cascade of inflammatory responses and elicit acute inflammation. During ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59675893 | 1,865,721 |
1,865,594 | Western Michigan began the Pat Ferschweiler era in fine form, winning six of its first seven games. The team earned a signature win early on when it defeated top-ranked Michigan after jumping up into the national rankings. The Broncos ran into a bit of trouble in mid-November but then reeled off seven consecutive victo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68619355 | 1,864,521 |
221,283 | Engelbart was Founder Emeritus of the Doug Engelbart Institute, which he founded in 1988 with his daughter Christina Engelbart, who is Executive Director. The Institute promotes Engelbart's philosophy for boosting Collective IQ—the concept of dramatically improving how we can solve important problems together—using a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8081 | 221,174 |
942,824 | A general cooling trend by the late Eocene and Oligocene reduced the northern ranges of ancestral "Sequoia". By the end of the Miocene and beginning of the Pliocene, "Sequoia" fossils were morphologically identical to the modern "Sequoia sempervirens". Continued cooling in the Pliocene meant that "Sequoia", which is ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27201561 | 942,322 |
1,501,016 | The Open Geospatial Consortium has a spatial reference system standard based on the DERM called a [Discrete Global Grid] System (DGGS). According to OGC ""a DGGS is a spatial reference system that uses a hierarchical tessellation of cells to partition and address the globe. DGGS are characterized by the properties of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7297180 | 1,500,170 |
1,048,168 | Commercial application started at a farm in Tahiti (French Polynesia) in 1988 using 1000m concrete tanks with limited water exchange achieving a record of 20–25 ton/ha/year in 2 crops. A farm located at Belize, Central America also produced around 11-26 ton/ha/cycle using 1.6 ha poly lined ponds. Another farm located i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67648843 | 1,047,623 |
673,093 | In Canada the Air Force started a trial program for women pilots in 1979. Dee Brasseur was one of the four selected and in 1988 became one of the two first women in the world to fly the F-18 jet fighter. Khatool Mohammadzai became the first Afghan woman paratrooper in 1984, the same year that Beverly Burns first served... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47210395 | 672,741 |
2,066,978 | VUCEL is a purpose-built research facility designed by Pynenburg & Collins Architects Ltd with the internal laboratory spaces designed by Labworks Architecture Ltd, the research facility was completed in early 2009 and comprises an 816m² research space that includes 113m² of science laboratories, 168m² of wet laborator... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21739632 | 2,065,787 |
1,711,857 | Another important line of current research targets netrin as a treatment for various diseases, including cancer, myocardial infarction, and Alzheimer's disease. In avian and mouse model organisms suffering from neuroblastoma, interfering with the netrin-1 autocrine loop in malignant tumors leads to cell death. This cou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2139633 | 1,710,892 |
1,797,095 | Initially, Allmand was given command of a platoon; however, later he was promoted to acting captain and took over command of a company. On 11 June, two days after 3/6 GR had reached the outskirts of the town, Allmand's platoon was tasked with capturing a road bridge about away from the central railway station, close to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=826241 | 1,796,086 |
601,850 | The Navy announced 14 August 2013 that four Preliminary Design Review (PDR) contracts were awarded for the UCLASS air vehicle segment. The four $15 million firm-fixed price contracts were awarded to Boeing Co., General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. The peri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39092723 | 601,541 |
2,158,782 | The Bankers Agricultural revolt had its origin in 1919 when the Profitable Farming Bureau (PFB), an agency established by bankers in Little Rock, to promote further investment in agriculture, began to pressure Futrall and the Board of Directors on the issue of the university's College of Agriculture and extension servi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23302106 | 2,157,550 |
564,516 | In October 2014, immediately after being awarded the ScotRail franchise, Abellio ScotRail announced it had concluded an agreement with the Japanese manufacturer Hitachi Rail to procure 234 new EMU carriages from its A-Train family for use on routes in Scotland that were being electrified. During April 2015, a contract ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48450453 | 564,226 |
196,693 | The institutionalization of science occurred throughout the 18th century. In 1731, Benjamin Franklin established the Library Company of Philadelphia, the first library owned by a group of public citizens, which quickly expanded beyond the realm of books and became a center of scientific experimentation, and which hoste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=149354 | 196,593 |
1,288,243 | Cerebrospinal fluid is found in the brain and spinal cord. It is a clear fluid that provides a barrier to absorb shock and prevent injury to the brain. It is useful for diagnosing neuro-degenerative diseases such as Alzheimers. There are various substances in the cerebrospinal fluid that can be measured including urea,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48816196 | 1,287,534 |
1,941,222 | On Tower Hill, a short distance from the Tower's moat, the course makes a U-turn back to Lower Thames Street at the start of the return leg. Leaving Lower Thames Street, the route reaches The Monument dedicated to the Great Fire of London. After The Monument, the return leg has far fewer bends than the outward leg, as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18947085 | 1,940,111 |
965,800 | Some of the major cities along the length of the arc include Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, and the population in the region exceeds 10 million. All could be potentially affected by volcanic activity and great subduction-zone earthquakes along the arc. Because the population of the Pacific Northwest is rapidly incre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8845370 | 965,291 |
175,860 | At its December 6, 1941, meeting, the National Defense Research Committee resolved to proceed with an all-out effort to produce atomic bombs. This decision was given urgency by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the following day that brought the United States into World War II. It was formally approved by Roosevelt i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56359 | 175,768 |
882,809 | Greenwood and Williamson in 1966 (GW) proposed a theory of elastic contact mechanics of rough surfaces which is today the foundation of many theories in tribology (friction, adhesion, thermal and electrical conductance, wear, etc.). They considered the contact between a smooth rigid plane and a nominally flat deformabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9697733 | 882,345 |
2,245,734 | The 2014–15 Duke Blue Devils women's basketball team will represent Duke University during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. Returning as head coach was Joanne P. McCallie entering her 8th season. The team plays its home games at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, North Carolina as members of the At... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43201111 | 2,244,462 |
1,601,515 | The company shares its name with its flagship product, Code Dx Enterprise. Enterprise is a vulnerability management system that combines and correlates the results generated by a wide variety of static and dynamic testing tools. For static analysis, the product installs and configures several bundled open source static... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53883682 | 1,600,614 |
990,884 | Serpentines find use in industry for several purposes, such as railway ballasts, building materials, and the asbestiform types find use as thermal and electrical insulation (chrysotile asbestos). The asbestos content can be released into the air when serpentine is excavated and if it is used as a road surface, forming ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=375247 | 990,367 |
847,809 | Though the vast majority of machine vision applications are solved using two-dimensional imaging, machine vision applications utilizing 3D imaging are a growing niche within the industry. The most commonly used method for 3D imaging is scanning based triangulation which utilizes motion of the product or image during th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=172088 | 847,359 |
1,471,935 | On flight day 7 astronauts Clay Anderson and Rick Mastracchio performed their second spacewalk of the STS-131 mission. Mastracchio and Anderson exited the airlock at 05:30 UTC, a full 45 minutes ahead of the planned time, and spent 7 hours and 26 minutes outside the ISS. The pair removed the old Ammonia Tank Assembly (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6002628 | 1,471,106 |
1,989,792 | Eavor-Loop is a closed-loop geothermal energy extraction system. It is a buried well system consisting of two vertical wells several kilometers deep connected by an extended system of interconnected multilaterals. Multilaterals are drilled connecting the vertical wells, parallel to each other. The multilaterals are not... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65953969 | 1,988,650 |
1,006,790 | Problems arose as soon as mass production began. Prototype engines had been hand-assembled by Napier craftsmen and it proved to be difficult to adapt it to assembly-line production techniques. The sleeves often failed due to the way they were manufactured from chrome-molybdenum steel, leading to seized cylinders, which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=158783 | 1,006,271 |
733,380 | The origins of DIN 1451 ('condensed face') for hand lettering date back to 1905, when the Prussian state railways prescribed a standardized lettering style for use on all of its rolling stock. This specification was published in a document known as ('master template', literally: 'pattern drawing') . Ten years later, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5993264 | 732,993 |
1,793,209 | By 1978 substantial progress had been made toward restoring the science and technology establishment to its pre-Cultural Revolution state. Leaders with special responsibility for science and technology joined recently rehabilitated senior scientists in looking ahead and framing sweeping and very ambitious plans for fur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14246598 | 1,792,200 |
375,775 | Some scientists and engineers have expressed reservations about nuclear power, including Barry Commoner, S. David Freeman, John Gofman, Arnold Gundersen, Mark Z. Jacobson, Amory Lovins, Arjun Makhijani, Gregory Minor, and Joseph Romm. Mark Z. Jacobson, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford Univer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4131402 | 375,580 |
568,951 | Single-skin brick walls of standard thickness (9 inches) have been considered to provide inadequate resistance to rain penetration for many years, which is why cavity wall construction is now standard in the UK. The 1944 Housing Manual published by the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Health stated that:""The resi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6888386 | 568,661 |
1,229,784 | Initially the communication was accomplished by dedicated wires or wire pairs, but later this was supplanted by pulse code systems utilizing a single common communications link and relay-based telecommunications technology similar to that used in crossbar switches. Also, instead of only displaying information about tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1308828 | 1,229,122 |
1,198,221 | In the fall of 1938 Pais enrolled for graduate classes at University of Utrecht. Uhlenbeck, however, spent that term as a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York City. He left Pais with the use of his laboratory and a list of topics to study and work on. Pais was soon exposed to other prominent Dutch phys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=316643 | 1,197,580 |
757,301 | The introduction of new devices like scanners and multi-function printers demanded much more performance than either the Bi-Tronics or IBM style backchannels could handle. Two other standards have become more popular for these purposes. The Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP), originally defined by Zenith Electronics, is simi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=100616 | 756,897 |
1,911,678 | "A. caldus" is capable of oxidizing reduced inorganic sulfur compounds along with other substrates including molecular hydrogen, and formate, in addition to numerous organic compounds and sulfide minerals. It displays chemolithotrophic growth when exposed to substrates containing sulfur, tetrathionate, or thiosulfate, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40620853 | 1,910,579 |
1,726,051 | An ecological cascade effect is a series of secondary extinctions that are triggered by the primary extinction of a key species in an ecosystem. Secondary extinctions are likely to occur when the threatened species are: dependent on a few specific food sources, mutualistic (dependent on the key species in some way), or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11128986 | 1,725,080 |
1,028,594 | This process also has two side effects that have come to characterize Japanese swords: 1.) It causes the blade to curve and 2.) It produces a visible boundary between the hard and soft steel. When quenched, the uninsulated edge contracts, causing the sword to first bend towards the edge. However, the edge cannot contra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7528817 | 1,028,060 |
9,204 | After the original model, Boeing developed an increased gross weight variant of the 777-200 with greater range and payload capability. Initially named 777-200IGW, the 777-200ER first flew on October 7, 1996, received FAA and JAA certification on January 17, 1997, and entered service with British Airways on February 9, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89260 | 9,200 |
694,448 | Clarricoates concludes her study by observing that there is a "catch 22" situation for young female pupils. If a girl conforms to institutional ideals by learning her lessons well, speaking appropriately and not bothering the teacher then her success is downplayed in comparison to the equivalent behavior in a male pupi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16973246 | 694,085 |
199,775 | In physiology, a stimulus is a detectable change in the physical or chemical structure of an organism's internal or external environment. The ability of an organism or organ to detect external stimuli, so that an appropriate reaction can be made, is called sensitivity (excitability). Sensory receptors can receive infor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=569399 | 199,672 |
1,425,493 | At every scale, climate influences the condition of snow and ice on Earth's surface. In colder periods massive ice sheets may extend toward the Equator, while in periods warmer than today, the Earth may be completely free of ice. A significant, empirically demonstrated, positive relationship exists between the surface ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32428639 | 1,424,691 |
589,756 | From the high speed machine, the board transits to a precision placement machine. These pick-and-place machines often use high resolution verification cameras and fine adjustment systems via high precision linear encoders on each axis to place parts more accurately than the high-speed machines. Furthermore, the precisi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2383713 | 589,454 |
73,466 | The Reynolds number can be defined for several different situations where a fluid is in relative motion to a surface. These definitions generally include the fluid properties of density and viscosity, plus a velocity and a characteristic length or characteristic dimension (L in the above equation). This dimension is a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23868856 | 73,439 |
183,751 | Atoms and molecules had long been theorized as the constituents of matter, and Albert Einstein published a paper in 1905 that explained in precise detail how the motion that Brown had observed was a result of the pollen being moved by individual water molecules, making one of his first big contributions to science. Thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5756554 | 183,654 |
1,941,666 | The viable systems approach proposes a deep analysis of the structure/systems dichotomy, proposing that every system represents a recognisable entity emerging from a specific changing structure (set of individual elements with assigned roles, activities and tasks performing in compliance with rules and constraints). Si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33249477 | 1,940,555 |
1,052,746 | The car's mid-mounted, naturally-aspirated petrol V8 engine, angled at 90 degrees, was carried over from the TS030 Hybrid. Its displacement, increased from to by lengthening the stroke for better efficiency, supplied to the rear wheels. The engine was developed to run with a fuel flow metre promoting a concept switch t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41475424 | 1,052,200 |
1,754,177 | Although the presence of carbon in the Earth's core is well-constrained, recent studies suggest large inventories of carbon could be stored in this region. Shear (S) waves moving through the inner core travel at about fifty percent of the velocity expected for most iron-rich alloys. Considering the core's composition i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59596489 | 1,753,187 |
1,688,041 | In 1984, the International Organization for Succulent Plant Study set up a working party, now called the International Cactaceae Systematics Group, to produce a consensus classification of the cactus family, down to the level of genus. Their classification has been used as the basis for systems published since the mid-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2660611 | 1,687,095 |
208,779 | The N62B44 was evolved into the N62B48TU beginning in model year 2005. The N62B48 featured several changes over the N62B44, including an increase in the bore size to and stroke to which increased the displacement to 4798.52 cc. Several changes were made to the engine including different exhaust manifolds, replacement o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=967102 | 208,672 |
1,643,370 | John McMurtry received his doctorate from University College, London in the United Kingdom after completing his BA and MA at the University of Toronto, Canada where he also joined the Zeta Psi fraternity. Prior to doctoral studies, he was "a professional football player, print and television journalist, academic Englis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314524 | 1,642,443 |
426,900 | The VBI was originally needed because of the inductive inertia of the magnetic coils which deflect the electron beam vertically in a CRT; the magnetic field, and hence the position being drawn, cannot change instantly. Additionally, the speed of older circuits was limited. For horizontal deflection, there is also a pau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=329829 | 426,691 |
635,840 | The 1856 works of English physician and physiologist Marshall Hall recommended against using any type of bellows/positive pressure ventilation, views that held sway for several decades. A common method of external manual manipulation, introduced in 1858, was the "Silvester Method" invented by Dr. Henry Robert Silvester... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=968873 | 635,501 |
902,124 | In a 2015 study, Cary Stothart, Walter Boot, and Daniel Simons attempted to replicate and extend the findings from both Graham and Burke's 2011 study and Steven Most and colleague's 2000 study on Amazon Mechanical Turk using a sample of 515 participants that varied in age. In this study, participants were tasked with c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1677048 | 901,648 |
613,865 | A total of 526 quota spots were available. Each qualified nation entered one boat for each of the fourteen events. The majority of the berths were awarded based on the results at the 2019 World Rowing Championships, held in Ottensheim, Austria from 25 August to 1 September 2019. Places were awarded to National Olympic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40486870 | 613,553 |
300,239 | In a similar chain of transformations beginning at the dawn of the universe, nuclear fusion of hydrogen in the Sun releases another store of potential energy which was created at the time of the Big Bang. At that time, according to one theory, space expanded and the universe cooled too rapidly for hydrogen to completel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1413965 | 300,078 |
1,469,291 | The founding of Linaro was announced at Computex in June 2010 by ARM, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson, and Texas Instruments in a joint press conference. Linaro was formed to provide ”new resources and industry alignment for open source software developers using Linux on the world’s most sophisticate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29087817 | 1,468,467 |
1,942,789 | The publication of the book had an effect on the college, both in its internal structure, as well as its relationship with the broader community. Peter Dalglish, the founder of Street Kids International, criticised the school heavily in his interview for "Old Boys", where he said "A prime failing of UCC is that they ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9633735 | 1,941,678 |
825,443 | In 1964 Ford and Chrysler in the US released V8 versions of their respective Falcon and Valiant models which Holden expected to soon be released in locally assembled or produced versions. In response, in January 1965 the company's engineering division initiated a forward engine program review and concluded that by 1969... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20323291 | 825,000 |
1,880,023 | Davis was born in Franklin, Massachusetts, where his parents, Jewish immigrants from Lithuania, had settled. He was valedictorian at his high school, then attended Harvard University, where he majored in biochemistry. After earning his Bachelor of Science degree, he enrolled at Harvard Medical School, graduating in 194... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3477687 | 1,878,942 |
206,361 | The Kaplan–Meier estimator, also known as the product limit estimator, is a non-parametric statistic used to estimate the survival function from lifetime data. In medical research, it is often used to measure the fraction of patients living for a certain amount of time after treatment. In other fields, Kaplan–Meier est... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3168650 | 206,255 |
943,866 | A two-line element set (TLE) is a data format encoding a list of orbital elements of an Earth-orbiting object for a given point in time, the "epoch". Using a suitable prediction formula, the state (position and velocity) at any point in the past or future can be estimated to some accuracy. The TLE data representation i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1936310 | 943,364 |
629,338 | "Moorings", the Mount's undergraduate critical humanities journal, published its first issue in 2016. Moorings accepts essay submissions primarily in History, English, Communications, Art, Music, and Theater. The journal attempts to maintain a balance in subjects while remaining dedicated to a high quality of academic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=863822 | 629,000 |
2,049,881 | In 1936, before the war started, Zhang Boling took precautionary measures in case that Nankai University was assaulted by the Japanese army. Before the army took over Tianjin, Nankai Institute of Economics was relocated to the underground floor of Zhongshu Library in Chongqing Nankai Secondary School, and 21,000 books ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56956514 | 2,048,700 |
359,595 | Further significant developments did not come until the Renaissance. Vesalius discussed the cerebellum briefly, and the anatomy was described more thoroughly by Thomas Willis in 1664. More anatomical work was done during the 18th century, but it was not until early in the 19th century that the first insights into the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50397 | 359,408 |
1,069,319 | One month later, detailed thermal imaging infrared sensor data and video were released of the controlled-descent test. The data was collected by NASA in a joint arrangement with SpaceX as part of research on retropropulsive deceleration technologies in order to develop new approaches to Mars atmospheric entry. A key pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43091601 | 1,068,765 |
1,412,942 | In the eighth step, LCS adopts a highly elitist genetic algorithm (GA) which will select two parent classifiers based on fitness (survival of the fittest). Parents are selected from [C] typically using tournament selection. Some systems have applied roulette wheel selection or deterministic selection, and have differen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=854461 | 1,412,147 |
1,324,281 | Several workshops were held in 2000 at the ACM Digital Libraries conference, at the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries and elsewhere to share the ideas from the Santa Fe Convention. It was discovered at the workshops that the problems faced by the e-print community were also shared by libraries, muse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=905790 | 1,323,555 |
537,366 | Projectional radiography of the breasts is called mammography. This has been used mostly on women to screen for breast cancer, but is also used to view male breasts, and used in conjunction with a radiologist or a surgeon to localise suspicious tissues before a biopsy or a lumpectomy. Breast implants designed to enlarg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11205600 | 537,087 |
1,425,123 | The acrylates are the most diffused resin components. They can be found in many traditional photolithography processes which imply a radical reaction. They are largely diffused and commercially available in a wide range of products, having different properties and composition. The main advantages of this kind of resist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22124835 | 1,424,321 |
348,552 | The gun's original design was as a water-cooled machine gun (see the M1917 Browning machine gun). When it was decided to try to lighten the gun and make it air-cooled, its design as a closed bolt weapon created a potentially dangerous situation. If the gun was very hot from prolonged firing, the cartridge ready to be f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30863956 | 348,370 |
1,584,661 | In this scenario the existence of the Higgs boson follows from the symmetries of the theory. This allows to explain why this particle is lighter than the rest of the composite particles whose mass is expected from direct and indirect tests to be around a TeV or higher. It is assumed that the composite sector has a glob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44182725 | 1,583,771 |
895,882 | The origins of the field can be traced to the Romantic poets, such as Wordsworth and Coleridge who drew attention to the power of nature and the significance of human interaction with it. Darwin pointed to the role of the environment in shaping evolution. This idea was quickly applied to human interactions with the sur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1639997 | 895,411 |
1,467,654 | Type I interferons (IFN-α, IFN-ß) bind to receptors, cause signaling via kinases, phosphorylate and activate the Jak kinases TYK2 and JAK1 and also STAT1 and STAT2. STAT molecules form dimers and bind to ISGF3G/IRF-9, which is Interferon stimulated gene factor 3 complex with Interferon regulatory Factor 9. This allows ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10155191 | 1,466,831 |
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