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2,143,512 | The behavior of quantum dots (QDs) in solution and their interaction with other surfaces is of great importance to biological and industrial applications, such as optical displays, animal tagging, anti-counterfeiting dyes and paints, chemical sensing, and fluorescent tagging. However, unmodified quantum dots tend to be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39619984 | 2,142,281 |
1,856,231 | A report given to the Food and Drug Administration by the Institute of Food Technologists thoroughly discusses the thermal processing of food. A notable step in development of heat application to food processing is pasteurization, developed by Louis Pasteur in the nineteenth century. Pasteurization is used to kill micr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56979757 | 1,855,163 |
1,035,961 | In 2021, a study proposed by Andrea Cau re-evaluated the classification of this specimen and the classification of compsognathids in general. According to Cau's study, compsognathids would be a "false clade" (a polyphyletic assemblage) and most of the ascribed genera would actually represent juvenile forms or chicks of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3558454 | 1,035,421 |
403,564 | In Clifton, Goldney Hall was built first in the early 18th century by the wealthy merchant Goldney family and eventually became part of the university in 1956. It is a popular location for filming, with "The Chronicles of Narnia", "The House of Eliott" and "Truly, Madly, Deeply", as well as episodes of "Only Fools and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60991 | 403,364 |
1,513,699 | Over 20 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) have been detected in very high energy (VHE) gamma rays and extreme flares of up to 50 times the quiescent flux have been observed. Gamma rays are produced via interactions of the high-energy electrons and/or protons with lower energy photons. There exist several models to explain t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41814278 | 1,512,848 |
833,562 | Chadwick noted that being electrically neutral, neutrons would be able to penetrate the nucleus more easily than protons or alpha particles. Enrico Fermi and his colleagues in Rome—Edoardo Amaldi, Oscar D'Agostino, Franco Rasetti and Emilio Segrè—picked up on this idea. Rasetti visited Meitner's laboratory in 1931, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64011351 | 833,113 |
1,245,140 | Metallic microlattice may find potential applications in thermal and vibration insulators such as shock absorbers, and may also prove useful as battery electrodes and catalyst supports. Additionally, the microlattices' ability to return to their original state after being compressed may make them suitable for use in sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33796928 | 1,244,467 |
135,064 | Acheson patented the method for making silicon carbide powder on February 28, 1893. Acheson also developed the electric batch furnace by which SiC is still made today and formed the Carborundum Company to manufacture bulk SiC, initially for use as an abrasive. In 1900 the company settled with the Electric Smelting and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=225256 | 135,009 |
585,308 | Low-altitude ("dicing") missions, such as the one on the Bruneval Würzburg and Freya radar position, were usually flown under low cloud, with the pilot constantly on the lookout for enemy fighters and flak positions. These missions were much more dangerous than the high-altitude missions. At high speed and low altitude... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15630676 | 585,008 |
1,007,930 | In 2011, Renesas Electronics was adversely affected by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and flooding in Thailand. In 2012, the company, which had about 50 thousand employees of manufacturing, design and sales operations in about 20 countries in 2011, decided to restructure its business, including the sale and con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=346245 | 1,007,410 |
1,502,554 | STXM which uses near-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy is able to be applied to fully hydrated biological molecules due to the ability of X-rays to penetrate water. Soft X-rays also provide spatial resolution better than 50 nm which is suitable for bacterial and bacterial microfilms. With this, quantitative chemical m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44592731 | 1,501,708 |
1,402,071 | People need to be educated on interpreting their results and what they should be rationally taking from the experience. Concerns about customers misinterpreting health information was one of the reasons for the 2013 shutdown by the FDA of 23&Me's health analysis services. It is not only the average person who needs to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14402695 | 1,401,284 |
720,265 | The gaseous state of water is lighter than air (density 0.804 g/L at STP, average molecular mass 18.015 g/mol) due to water's low molar mass when compared with typical atmospheric gases such as nitrogen gas (N). It is non-flammable and much cheaper than helium. The concept of using steam for lifting is therefore alread... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18995926 | 719,885 |
1,017,747 | Many common wireless mesh network hotspot solutions are supported in open source router firmware including DD-WRT, OpenWRT and derivatives. The IEEE 802.21 standard specifies basic capabilities for such systems including 802.11u unknown user authentication and 802.11s ad hoc wireless mesh networking support. Effectivel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4624565 | 1,017,223 |
1,031,333 | Viola Spolin initially trained to be a settlement worker (from 1924 to 1927), studying at Neva Boyd's Group Work School in Chicago. Boyd's innovative teaching in the areas of group leadership, recreation, and social group work strongly influenced Spolin, as did the use of traditional game structures to affect social be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1077017 | 1,030,797 |
2,199,740 | The Mammal Research Institute was founded in 1952 and is an independent research institution of the Biology Department of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The Institute conducts research in morphology, taxonomy, systematics, evolution, population ecology, genetics, physiology, ethology, and ecology of mammals. From 1952... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27677649 | 2,198,488 |
1,559,158 | Measurement of abundant formation of formula_5 (uss/dss), formula_9 (sss) and especially their antiparticles is an important cornerstone of the claim that quark–gluon plasma has been formed. This abundant formation is often presented in comparison with the scaled expectation from normal proton–proton collisions; howeve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23984205 | 1,558,272 |
1,021,737 | Diesel engines regulate power output purely by the volume and timing of fuel injected into the combustion chambers. The engine braking generated by creating partial vacuum with a closed throttle at each intake stroke in petrol/gasoline engines does not apply to vehicles equipped with diesel engines, as such engines are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3677408 | 1,021,208 |
1,528,277 | Newer cases are also starting to be treated by taxotere and gemcitabine. Taxotere is similar to Oncovin used in CHOP; it irreversibly binds beta tubulin halting formation of microtubules. Taxotere has an added benefit though; it also phosphorylates bcl-2 to halt the anti-apoptotic pathway. The dual effect of taxotere o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21763101 | 1,527,413 |
546,095 | Waksman had been studying the Streptomyces family of organism since his college student days and had, for a time, been studying the organism "Streptomyces griseus". Streptomycin was isolated from "S. griseus" and found effective against tuberculosis by one of Waksman's graduate students, Albert Schatz. These results we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=718096 | 545,809 |
1,275,176 | The first problem that Born had to tackle was that after the US joined the war in 1941, “Optik” had been reproduced and sold widely in the US, along with many other books and periodicals. This had been done under the aegis of the Office of Alien Property which was authorised to confiscate enemy property, so that neithe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65937478 | 1,274,484 |
1,203,358 | Since the chief difficulty of the problem is its underdetermination, methods for blind source separation generally seek to narrow the set of possible solutions in a way that is unlikely to exclude the desired solution. In one approach, exemplified by principal and independent component analysis, one seeks source signal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28804 | 1,202,714 |
569,504 | For imaging observations, the SDSS telescope used the drift scanning technique, but with choreographed variation of right ascension, declination, tracking rate, and image rotation which allows the telescope to track along great circles and continuously record small strips of the sky. The image of the stars in the focal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=831170 | 569,214 |
844,991 | At the time, atoms were the smallest particles known and were believed to be indivisible, the electron was unknown, and what carried electric currents was a mystery. During the last quarter of the 19th century, many ingenious types of Crookes tubes were invented and used in historic experiments to determine what cathod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1930784 | 844,541 |
1,420,388 | In the early years of the 20th century, a few women were admitted to engineering programs, but they were generally looked upon as curiosities by their male counterparts. Alice Perry (1906), Cécile Butticaz (1907), and Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu (1912) and Nina Cameron Graham (1912) were some of the first European to grad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32567501 | 1,419,588 |
33,567 | A total of 19 Tu-160s were stationed inside the newly independent Ukraine during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. On 25 August 1991, the Ukrainian parliament decreed that the new nation would take control of all military units on its territory; a Defence Ministry was created that same day. By the mid-1990s, the Pry... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=662636 | 33,555 |
468,001 | The femoral gland secretions of males differ in chemical composition according to each respective morph. Secretions are used by males for intra-species communication, such as marking of territories and attracting potential mates. Individuals share the same organics within the secretions, but the concentrations of certa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1044933 | 467,766 |
1,067,894 | In December 2014, the Swedish regulator required that all Swedish reactors should be equipped with an Independent Core Cooling System - ICCS - before 31 December 2020. The system should be able to cool the reactor during 72 hours without any supply of water, power, fuel or other consumables, and should survive external... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1873581 | 1,067,340 |
1,697,005 | Elemental imbalances arise for a number of physiological and evolutionary reasons related to the differences in the biological make up of organisms, such as differences in types and amounts of macromolecules, organelles, and tissues. Organisms differ in the flexibility of their biological make up and therefore in the d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4411204 | 1,696,051 |
170,969 | In the first tenet, his views presented the idea that all actors, whether firms or consumers, are striving to maximize something. They could be attempting to maximize profits, utility, or wealth, but it did not matter because their efforts to improve their well-being would provide a basic model for all actors in an eco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216669 | 170,879 |
1,549,453 | In the autoimmune-mediated congenital heart block, autoantibodies are passively transferred through the placenta during gestation. The mother might be asymptomatic during or after pregnancy but she is usually positive to anti-Ro\SSA or anti-La\SSB antibodies. In this case, the fetus's heart is normally developed and sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63072534 | 1,548,572 |
854,759 | Winograd grew up in Colorado and graduated from Colorado College in 1966. He wrote SHRDLU as a PhD thesis at MIT in the years from 1968–70. In making the program Winograd was concerned with the problem of providing a computer with sufficient "understanding" to be able to use natural language. Winograd built a blocks wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=192786 | 854,304 |
1,604,964 | Many studies have been done to determine whether the perceived benefits of a limited endoscopic or arthroscopic release are truly significant. One prospective, randomized, multi-center study found no significant differences between the two groups with regard to the secondary quantitative outcome measurements. However, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22700389 | 1,604,062 |
596,877 | Partially as a result of its impressive maneuverability, as well as some operators continuing to maintain a preference for the established biplane configuration over the incoming generation of monoplane fighters that would soon prove to outperform them, the B-534 stayed in production for considerable time (1933-1939). ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3755816 | 596,572 |
541,374 | Köppen was a principal founder of modern climatology and meteorology. Between 1850 and 1860, Köppen contributed to Seewart's sailing handbooks for the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans by studying ship reports over the winds of different oceans. Between 1872 and 1873 Köppen was employed in the Russian meteorological ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=485323 | 541,094 |
1,001,752 | In 1918, Dr. Albert L. Colston, chair of the Math Department at Manual Training High School, recommended establishing a technical high school for Brooklyn boys. His plan envisioned a heavy concentration of math, science, and drafting courses with parallel paths leading either to college or to a technical career in indu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378883 | 1,001,234 |
509,185 | One might suppose that the work of designing an adder stage is now complete, but we haven't addressed the fact that all 3 of the input variables have to appear in both their direct and complement forms. There's no difficulty about the addends "x" and "y" in this respect, because they are static throughout the addition ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=794841 | 508,921 |
806,108 | Researchers of communication accommodation theory who have been interested in conversations between the elderly and the young, actively apply this theory to analyze intergenerational communication situations. Since the aging of population is becoming a serious issue in current society, communication difficulties of old... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7649963 | 805,679 |
1,029,162 | Developer misunderstanding of user objectives: Developers may assume that users share their objectives (e.g. to deliver core functionality on time and within budget), without understanding wider commercial issues. For example, user representatives attending Enterprise software (e.g. PeopleSoft) events may have seen dem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1090852 | 1,028,628 |
319,761 | The visual system comprises the sensory organ (the eye) and parts of the central nervous system (the retina containing photoreceptor cells, the optic nerve, the optic tract and the visual cortex) which gives organisms the sense of sight (the ability to detect and process visible light) as well as enabling the formation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=305136 | 319,589 |
1,059,632 | The parahippocampal place area (PPA) is located in the posterior parahippocampal gyrus, which itself is contained in the medial temporal lobe with close proximity to the hippocampus. Its name comes from the increased neural response in the PPA when viewing places, like buildings, houses, and other structures, and when ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1170978 | 1,059,081 |
360,636 | To make it easier for animals, young children, and individuals with classical (Leo Kanner-type) autism to understand and perform theory of mind tasks, researchers have developed tests in which verbal communication is de-emphasized: some whose administration does not involve verbal communication on the part of the exami... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=488083 | 360,448 |
200,696 | Human personal names, also referred to as "prosoponyms", are presented, used and categorised in many ways depending on the language and culture. In most cultures (Indonesia is one exception) it is customary for individuals to be given at least two names. In Western culture, the first name is given at birth or shortly t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=391896 | 200,593 |
246,082 | Imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are routinely used in oncology and neuroscience areas. For example, measurement of tumour shrinkage is a commonly used surrogate endpoint in solid tumour response evaluation. This allows for faster and more objective asse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234714 | 245,955 |
1,823,318 | In 1968, the competition joined the City of London Festival, an arts festival held in July, and the frequency changed to every two years. By then, the age limit had been raised to thirty-two years. In addition to the Carl Flesch Medal, a first prize of £1000 was offered, with a second prize of £750, third prize of £500... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66453367 | 1,822,280 |
611,860 | However, rapid expansion during the war had left NRL improperly structured to address long-term Navy requirements. One major task – neither easily nor rapidly accomplished – was that of reshaping and coordinating research. This was achieved by transforming a group of largely autonomous scientific divisions into a unifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=411893 | 611,549 |
1,759,150 | The significant features of the OH 9 also consisted of the structure of the skull. O.H. 9 had a flatter frontal squama curving not as steep from a broader supratoral shelf. Also, OH 9 showed no sign of keeling in the midline, which was often found in "H. erectus" especially with a protruding brow ridge. The occipital t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45649760 | 1,758,157 |
327,501 | Henry George is best known for popularizing the argument that government should be funded by a tax on land rent rather than taxes on labor. George believed that although scientific experiments could not be performed in political economy, theories could be tested by comparing different societies with different condition... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=368329 | 327,327 |
653,250 | Wheeler's version of the double-slit experiment is arranged so that the same photon that emerges from two slits can be detected in two ways. The first way lets the two paths come together, lets the two copies of the wavefunction overlap, and shows interference. The second way moves farther away from the photon source t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3474980 | 652,906 |
1,877,137 | Electron microscopy observations do confirm the model prediction of discrete cone angles. Two experimental artifacts must be considered though: (i) charging of the poorly conducting carbon samples under electron beam, which blurs the images and (ii) that electron microscopy observations at a fixed sample tilt only yiel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26913089 | 1,876,059 |
924,188 | It is important to know that taxa lists derived by conventional (morphological) identification are not, and maybe never will be, directly comparable to taxa lists derived from barcode based identification because of several reasons. The most important cause is probably the incompleteness and lack of accuracy of the mol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30872162 | 923,702 |
604,273 | The United States began the World War with 65 pilots, a few of which were veterans of the Mexican Expedition, and some who were still in training. None were familiar with the control systems being used in Europe. Like the rest of the Army, the Aviation Section concluded that training Reserve officers was the solution t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=662917 | 603,963 |
594,889 | This species can occasionally reach lengths of , but lengths of at maturity are more common. The body is laterally compressed. The base of the tail is slender. The caudal fin has 12 rays. The dorsal fin has 10–14 rays; in front of it are the three spines that give the fish its name (though some individuals may have onl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=489642 | 594,584 |
1,342,163 | These conflicting findings could be the result of the differences in patient selection for the studies. In the first set of results the patients were older and had large portions of their frontal lobes completely removed, whereas in the second set, patients were younger and had smaller areas of damage without tissue re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34820690 | 1,341,429 |
208,468 | Computer modeling is essential for quantum and relativistic physics. Classic physics is considered the limit of quantum mechanics for large number of particles. On the other hand, classic mechanics is derived from relativistic mechanics. For example, in many formulations from special relativity, a correction factor (v/... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=151066 | 208,361 |
856,960 | UPM began its academic life in 1973 with three founding Faculties and a Division of Basic Sciences. The first intake of 1,559 students was for bachelor's degrees in Agricultural Science or Forestry Science, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, Diploma in Home Technology, Diploma in Animal Health and Production, Diploma in Sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1779258 | 856,505 |
1,462,152 | In 2019 the Czech government gave preliminary approval for at least one new nuclear power unit for about 2035 to replace the four units expected to shut down between 2035 and 2037. The financial model proposed is a state guarantee so finance can be obtained at government interest rates, but no subsidy on operating cost... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4704088 | 1,461,330 |
1,616,931 | 15("S")-HpETE and 15("S")-HETE bind to and activate the G protein-coupled receptor, Leukotriene B4 receptor 2, i.e. BLT2. This receptor activation may mediate, at least in part, certain cell-stimulating activities of the two metabolites. BLT2 may be responsible in part or whole for mediating the growth-promoting and an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44358555 | 1,616,020 |
1,682,018 | There has been controversy over both the location and year of Mayow's birth, with both Cornwall and London claimed, along with birth years from 1641 to 1645. Proctor's extensive research led him to conclude that Mayow was born in 1641 near Morval in Cornwall and that he was admitted to Wadham College, Oxford at age 17 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1177384 | 1,681,075 |
1,352,127 | This lizard reaches a total length of 9-11″ (23-28cm), with females generally being smaller than males. The body colour is bright green or, rarely, bluish green. A red stripe extends from the nostril to the eye. On the back there are typically red coloured dots or bars. These red markings are quite variable, and in som... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=318246 | 1,351,381 |
1,977,554 | In fact it is more appropriate to speak not about differential equations but about linear systems of differential equations: in order to realise any monodromy by a differential equation one has to admit, in general, the presence of additional apparent singularities, i.e. singularities with trivial local monodromy. In m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1965023 | 1,976,416 |
1,828,865 | They have an electroreceptor system located on the ventral part of their body that is sensitive to low frequency, they use this in order to search for prey. The system is composed of many sensory units, known as Ampullae of Lorenzini, these are connected to the environment and the nervous system through external pores ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30891731 | 1,827,825 |
573,721 | After Goku left to train Uub, Mr. Buu and Mr. Satan won the 28th Tenkaichi Budokai by cheating and remained undefeated through the 29th and 30th. However, after a while, Mr. Buu became envious of the humans and the close relationships they had with their sweethearts. In Age 790, Buu accidentally found and read Mr. Sata... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10239473 | 573,427 |
285,461 | Some Korean examination practices converged with the Chinese system. By the end of the Goryeo period, a military exam had been added, the triennial schedule observed, and the exam hierarchy organized into provincial, metropolitan, and palace levels, similar to the Chinese. Other practices, such as the inclusion of exam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=244479 | 285,307 |
741,077 | There are several risk factors for developing throat cancer. These include smoking or chewing tobacco or other things, such as gutkha, or paan, heavy alcohol consumption, poor diet resulting in vitamin deficiencies (worse if this is caused by heavy alcohol intake), weakened immune system, asbestos exposure, prolonged e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=729500 | 740,685 |
45,322 | The Global Hawk took its first flight on 28 February 1998. The first seven aircraft were built under the Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) program, sponsored by DARPA, in order to evaluate the design and demonstrate its capabilities. Demand for the RQ-4's abilities was high in the Middle East; thus, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37375 | 45,305 |
449,375 | Another means of assessing support is Bremer support, or the decay index which is a parameter of a given data set, rather than an estimate based on pseudoreplicated subsamples, as are the bootstrap and jackknife procedures described above. Bremer support (also known as branch support) is simply the difference in number... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1130020 | 449,157 |
2,127,091 | Part one begins with the economic context of the later Middle Ages in Western Europe, including the institutions of the feudal demesne, the guilds and master craftsmen; expanding trade among West European countries, and the importance of colonial trade. With these came changes in the fortunes of different classes, such... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63599492 | 2,125,870 |
2,111,035 | Animals recognise a wide variety of chemicals using their senses of taste and smell. The nematode "Caenorhabditis elegans" has only 14 types of chemosensory neuron, yet is able to respond to dozens of chemicals because each neuron detects several stimuli. More than 40 highly divergent transmembrane proteins that could ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29049734 | 2,109,820 |
2,117,284 | To test the protection of bilingualism against Alzheimer's disease (AD), Bialystok et al. (2007) examined hospital records of monolingual and bilingual patients who were diagnosed with various types of dementia. After controlling for various cognitive factors, the researchers found bilinguals experienced later onset of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3289570 | 2,116,066 |
2,089,469 | Buseck is the only child of Paul and Edith Buseck. He was born on September 30, 1935, in Frankfurt, Germany. His family emigrated to the United States in February 1937. His education was in the public schools of New York City, graduating in 1952 from the Bronx High School of Science. Buseck attended Antioch College in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67121371 | 2,088,266 |
146,556 | Although FFP designs are not susceptible to magnification-induced errors, they have their own disadvantages. It's challenging to design a reticle that is visible through the entire range of magnification: a reticle that looks fine and crisp at 24× magnification may be very difficult to see at 6×. On the other hand, a r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1052795 | 146,498 |
17,156 | Princeton has made significant progress in expanding the diversity of its student body in recent years. The 2021 admitted freshman class was one of the most diverse in the school's history, with 68% of students identifying as students of color. The university has worked to increase its enrollment of first-generation an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23922 | 17,151 |
1,260,242 | Resilience can change in stable states when environmental parameters are shifted. Often, humans influence stable states by reducing the resilience of basins of attraction. There are at least three ways in which anthropogenic forces reduce resilience (Folke et al. 2004): (1) Decreasing diversity and functional groups, o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23737622 | 1,259,555 |
1,306,400 | Geobiology is a field of scientific research that explores the interactions between the physical Earth and the biosphere. It is a relatively young field, and its borders are fluid. There is considerable overlap with the fields of ecology, evolutionary biology, microbiology, paleontology, and particularly soil science a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1962246 | 1,305,684 |
195,263 | Vacuum brazing is a material joining technique that offers significant advantages: extremely clean, superior, flux-free braze joints of high integrity and strength. The process can be expensive because it must be performed inside a vacuum chamber vessel. Temperature uniformity is maintained on the work piece when heati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=331936 | 195,163 |
531,919 | The fitness evaluations might lead to command directed administrative actions or provide the information necessary to make decisions by a medical board or other tribunal and must be thoroughly conducted by non-biased individuals with the experience and training necessary to render a professional opinion that is critica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15059413 | 531,645 |
964,628 | Paul Ferrill wrote that "Windows Server 2012 Essentials provides all the pieces necessary to provide centralized file storage, client backups, and remote access," but Tim Anderson contended that "Many businesses that are using SBS2011 and earlier will want to stick with what they have", citing the absence of Exchange, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34201152 | 964,119 |
1,468,390 | The film idea was abandoned, and instead production moved on to "", a new television series intended for the Paramount Television Service upon its launch in April 1978. It was claimed by Roddenberry that Nimoy said he was unwilling to return to television as Spock. However, Nimoy said that the first offer Roddenberry g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51264925 | 1,467,566 |
1,712,977 | The collection of electromagnetic intelligence is a strategic tool for France. In order to master this technology, CNES has developed and launched the Essaim and ELISA. These demonstrators set the framework for an operational program called CERES. Like its predecessors, CERES is made up of satellites flying in formatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42913330 | 1,712,012 |
1,962,193 | Freshman forward Jeff Green quickly emerged as a star of the team. He started all 32 games and averaged 33.8 minutes per game. In December 2004 he was selected to the Rainbow Classic All-Tournament Team. Over the course of the season he shot 50.2 percent from the field and had five double-doubles. He finished the year ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41096183 | 1,961,065 |
1,094,538 | As the volcanic islands collided with the mainland around 1.7 billion years ago, blobs of magma rose from the subduction zone and intruded the Granite Gorge Metamorphic Suite. These plutons slowly cooled to form the Zoroaster Granite; part of which would later be metamorphosed into gneiss. This rock unit can be seen as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=621004 | 1,093,978 |
1,417,456 | Individuals with Down syndrome almost always have three instead of the normal two copies of chromosome 21. The extra copies of key chromosome 21 genes underlie their increased susceptibility to AMKL by promoting the development of a certain type of inactivating mutation in the "GATA1" gene. The "GATA1" gene resides on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16187658 | 1,416,658 |
399,811 | The European Union's control of genetically modified organisms is a particular part of an image of the promise and limitations of debate as a framework for supranational regulation. The issues posed by the EU’s GMO regulation have caused major problems in agriculture, politics, societies, status, and other fields. 12 T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216102 | 399,612 |
821,582 | Chalk River was also the site of two nuclear accidents in the 1950s. The first incident occurred on December 12, 1952, when there was a power excursion and partial loss of coolant in the NRX reactor, which resulted in significant damage to the core. The control rods could not be lowered into the core because of mechani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=611043 | 821,141 |
295,412 | The 4004 was the first significant example of large scale integration, showcasing the superiority of the MOS silicon gate technology (SGT). Compared to the incumbent technology, the SGT integrated on the same chip area twice the number of transistors with five times the operating speed. This step-function increase in p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=102393 | 295,252 |
1,541,201 | The case holds several interesting facts that must be taken into account when investigating the case. First, had the eggs, maggots and insects taken from the scene not dried out in a bag then thrown away, it could have been possible to determine if the body was placed at the scene late at night or early that morning. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16470771 | 1,540,328 |
1,687,863 | "91 F", "94 F" and "98 M" were chased and engaged by Italian torpedo boats off Pola on 11 August, resulting in splinter damage to one of the Italian boats. The Austro-Hungarians sent a large force of four cruisers and five destroyers, accompanied by "83 F", "85 F", "87 F" and "88 F", to sail off the Italian coast on 28... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46387997 | 1,686,917 |
572,408 | Data General produced a full range of peripherals, sometimes by rebadging printers for example, but Data General's own series of CRT-based and hard-copy terminals were high quality and featured a generous number of function keys, each with the ability to send different codes, with any combination of control and shift k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157959 | 572,115 |
870,467 | Acorn's introduction of Replay prompted comparisons with Apple's QuickTime system which was already broadly available to users of Macintosh systems. Replay's advantages included the efficiency of the solution on existing hardware, with even an entry-level A3000 upgraded to 2 MB of RAM being able to handle 2 MB of data ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 870,007 |
1,622,767 | The IPCC report from 2007 noted on older datasets, "The historical record typically records the central pressure and the maximum winds, but these turn out not to be physically consistent in older records, mainly prior to about the early 1970s. However, attempts at mutual adjustments result in increases in some years an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6701524 | 1,621,851 |
43,172 | Despite magazine articles on the subject from 1970 onward, the majority of programmers and managers only started recognizing Y2K as a looming problem in the mid-1990s, but even then, inertia and complacency caused it to be mostly unresolved until the last few years of the decade. In 1989, Erik Naggum was instrumental i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25739013 | 43,156 |
180,411 | By relieving the load-bearing walls of excess weight and thickness, in the way of a smaller area of contact, using flying buttresses enables installing windows in a greater wall surface area. This feature and a desire to let in more light, led to flying buttresses becoming one of the defining factors of medieval Gothic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=430379 | 180,317 |
1,124,348 | Some mainframe games that did not appear in "101 BASIC Computer Games" have still had a lasting impact. One such game was "Space Travel", developed by Ken Thompson in 1969, which simulates travel in the Solar System. The player flies their ship around a two-dimensional scale model of the solar system with no objectives... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49386138 | 1,123,774 |
139,610 | Research and development of thorium-based nuclear reactors, primarily the liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR), MSR design, has been or is now being done in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Brazil, India, Indonesia, China, France, the Czech Republic, Japan, Russia, Canada, Israel, Denmark and the Netherlan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36389653 | 139,553 |
1,948,875 | Inductive pumps are considered highly accurate and energy efficient. Inductive pumps use two primary parameters to control flow, they are Rate and Dwell. Rate is used to determine the number of strokes per second or in any given time interval. Dwell is used to control the length of time the energizing coil remains on d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4028727 | 1,947,757 |
105,998 | Modern-day clinical behavior analysis has also witnessed a massive resurgence in research, with the development of relational frame theory (RFT), which is described as an extension of verbal behavior and a "post-Skinnerian account of language and cognition." RFT also forms the empirical basis for acceptance and commitm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=540801 | 105,953 |
1,587,630 | Since the late 1990s a lot of emphasis has been placed on the design of supramolecular species that can partake as antenna molecules for artificial photosynthetic applications; many of these artificially designed antennas are dendrimers. Light harvesting dendritic molecular structures are designed to have a high abunda... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60814319 | 1,586,736 |
1,849,096 | During the offseason prior to the 2014–15 season, Cotton was drafted in the 4th round, 61st overall, by the Dubuque Fighting Saints of the United States Hockey League (USHL). He chose to return to Cushing and endured a breakout season where he recorded 27 goals and 42 assists in 33 games for the Penguins. He helped the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67124225 | 1,848,038 |
2,054,307 | A radionuclide identification device (RID or RIID) is a small, lightweight, portable gamma-ray spectrometer used for the detection and identification of radioactive substances. It is available from many companies in various forms to provide hand-held gamma-ray radionuclide identification. Since these instruments are ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47497328 | 2,053,124 |
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