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621,784 | There are four types of graves that are found at sites from the Middle Helladic period; pit graves, tholos graves, cist graves, and shaft graves. A pit grave is self explanatory, as it is simply a pit in the ground, while tholos styled graves are characterized as being more of a chamber like tomb. Cist graves and shaft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1748869 | 621,452 |
1,307,732 | Research has shown that treatment has a direct effect on aphasia outcomes. Intensity, duration and timing of treatment all need to be taken in to consideration when choosing a course of treatment and determining a prognosis. In general, greater intensity leads to greater improvement. For duration, longer-term treatment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2202100 | 1,307,016 |
1,153,934 | This is the problem of loss of derivatives. A very naive expectation is that, generally, if "P" is an order "k" differential operator, then if "P"("f") is in "C" then "f" must be in "C". However, this is somewhat rare. In the case of uniformly elliptic differential operators, the famous Schauder estimates show that thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2286045 | 1,153,324 |
1,421,658 | In the period 1700–1750, the trio sonata form became a sine qua non in the musical world. It incorporated all the ideals of harmony, melody and counterpoint espoused by theorists such as Mattheson, Scheibe and Quantz. In his treatise "Der Vollkommene Capellmeister" of 1739, Mattheson wrote that, "... es müssen hier all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47685517 | 1,420,857 |
1,983,570 | The BMP-15 gene is located on the X-chromosome and using Northern blot analysis BMP-15 mRNA is locally expressed within the ovaries in oocytes only after they have started to undergo the primary stages of development. BMP-15 is translated as a preproprotein that is composed of a single peptide, which contains a proregi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5635437 | 1,982,431 |
1,437,906 | After becoming Taoiseach in 1937, Éamon de Valera investigated the possibility of setting up an institute of higher learning. De Valera was aware of the decline of the Dunsink Observatory, where Sir William Rowan Hamilton and others had held the position of Royal Astronomer of Ireland. Following meetings with prominent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1222691 | 1,437,096 |
1,488,155 | Within 5 minutes of the shaking, all the trained bees began a sequence of unreinforced test trials with five odour stimuli presented in a random order for each bee: the CS+, the CS−, and three novel odours composed of ratios intermediate between the two learned mixtures. Shaken honeybees were more likely to withhold th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45312411 | 1,487,316 |
462,572 | More recent studies refine this early qualitative account of multisensory integration. Alais and Burr (2004), found that following progressive degradation in the quality of a visual stimulus, participants' perception of spatial location was determined progressively more by a simultaneous auditory cue. However, they als... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1619306 | 462,343 |
1,133,616 | The report was the result of many cooperating agencies that often had conflicting goals. An initial draft was submitted to Everglades National Park management who asserted not enough water would be released to the park quickly enough—that the priority went to delivering water to urban areas. When they threatened to ref... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17601646 | 1,133,023 |
515,783 | Procellariids have been a seasonally abundant source of food for people wherever people have been able to reach their colonies. Early records of human exploitation of shearwaters (along with albatrosses and cormorants) come from the remains of hunter-gatherer middens in southern Chile, where sooty shearwaters were take... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=224443 | 515,514 |
334,094 | In June 2010, it was announced that AgustaWestland and Rostvertol would build a manufacturing plant in Tomilino, Moscow Region, where it was initially planned to produce AW139s by 2012. HeliVert, a joint venture between AgustaWestland and Rostvertol, commenced domestic production of the AW139 in 2012, at which point it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6378164 | 333,916 |
1,732,186 | Historian Ahmad Y. al-Hassan, based on his analysis of 14th-century Arabic manuscripts which he argues to be copies of earlier texts, claims that hand cannons were used at the Battle of Ain Jalut in 1260. However Hassan's claims have been refuted by other historians such as David Ayalon, Iqtidar Alam Khan, Joseph Needh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61793153 | 1,731,210 |
913,148 | Throughout this period the problems with NIF were not reported up the management chain. In 1999 then Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson reported to Congress that NIF was on time and budget, as project leaders had reported. In August that year it was revealed that neither claim was close to the truth. As the Government... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337301 | 912,669 |
1,139,025 | This type of solid is named after German chemist Eduard Zintl who investigated them in the 1930s. The term "Zintl Phases" was first used by Laves in 1941. In his early studies, Zintl noted that there was an atomic volume contraction upon the formation of these products and realized that this could indicate cation forma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9912921 | 1,138,432 |
1,848,121 | Since the onset of genetic engineering, a number of microorganisms have been developed for the production of biological products. These products are used in medicine and industry to create pharmaceuticals like hepatitis B vaccines or insulin. Common platforms for the development of medicine and other products include t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11023489 | 1,847,063 |
612,309 | Other notable petroleum sector development deals include those with Russia and China. On February 19, 2008, Russian state gas company Gazprom announced a deal to establish a joint venture company to develop the offshore Iranian South Pars gas field. A China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) investment deal, val... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28205267 | 611,998 |
1,235,218 | The laboratory's main research facility is the CEBAF accelerator, which consists of a polarized electron source and injector and a pair of superconducting RF linear accelerators that are 7/8-mile (1400 m) in length and connected to each other by two arc sections that contain steering magnets. As the electron beam makes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2134346 | 1,234,555 |
656,217 | Another category was detectors which used two different crystals with their surfaces touching, forming a crystal-to-crystal contact. The "Perikon" detector, invented 1908 by Pickard was the most common. "Perikon" stood for "PERfect pIcKard cONtact". It consisted of two crystals in metal holders, mounted face to face. O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3678714 | 655,873 |
1,367,201 | While the London specimen included only a few fragments of the brain case and upper jaw, the Berlin specimen of "Archaeopteryx" has what appears at first glance to be an almost perfectly preserved skull. Closer inspection reveals the skull, while remarkable, to have considerable damage and defects, including compressio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34483273 | 1,366,445 |
434,654 | In February 2010, the Vermont Senate voted 26 to 4 against allowing the PSB to consider re-certifying the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant after 2012, citing radioactive tritium leaks, misstatements in testimony by plant officials, a cooling tower collapse in 2007, and other problems. Some businesses in Vermont were concer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=519753 | 434,440 |
624,070 | Throughout that time, the foundations were laid down to develop a military nuclear capability. This included the nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear weapons design, development and testing programme. The fuel cycle program included the uranium exploration, mining, refining, conversion and Uranium Hexafluoride (UF) productio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3923951 | 623,737 |
233,380 | A proto-oncogene is a normal gene that could become an oncogene due to mutations or increased expression. Proto-oncogenes code for proteins that help to regulate the cell growth and differentiation. Proto-oncogenes are often involved in signal transduction and execution of mitogenic signals, usually through their prote... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22689 | 233,261 |
23,603 | In literature, Toni Morrison (M.A.'50; Nobel laureate) is well known for her novel "Beloved", Pearl S. Buck (M.A.'25; Nobel laureate) authored "The Good Earth", Thomas Pynchon ('59) penned such canonical works of postwar American fiction as "Gravity's Rainbow" and "The Crying of Lot 49", Junot Díaz ('95) wrote The Brie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 | 23,594 |
162,091 | 19th century Britain was the world's richest and most advanced economy while 19th century Ireland experienced the worst famine in Europe in that century. Real GDP per person almost doubled in the 90 years between 1780 and 1870, when it reached $3263 per capita. This was one third greater than GDP per person in the Unit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,006 |
1,507,581 | As city commissioner and SS-Brigadeführer, Wendler established the Częstochowa Ghetto. The area chosen to house the ghetto was in the eastern and oldest portion of Częstochowa. The ghetto was officially sealed off from the rest of Częstochowa on August the 23rd, 1940. The initial population was that of 30,000 Jews, alt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12253013 | 1,506,735 |
855,031 | Robert found that he attracted the unwelcome attention of inventors and promoters; if he was too ill to be at Great George Street they visited him at home in Gloucester Square. In part to defend himself from these intrusions in 1850 he commissioned a 100-ton yacht, calling her "Titania." Finding that he had no unwanted... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=252957 | 854,576 |
492,702 | As the name suggests, the Last Glacial Maximum was much colder than today, and good data on atmospheric concentrations and radiative forcing from that period are available. The period's orbital forcing was different from today's but had little effect on mean annual temperatures. Estimating climate sensitivity from the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1765281 | 492,447 |
88,357 | The Hunan provincial government launched the construction of a maglev line between Changsha Huanghua International Airport and Changsha South Railway Station, covering a distance of 18.55 km. Construction started in May 2014 and was completed by the end of 2015. Trial runs began on 26 December 2015 and trial operations... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=822307 | 88,322 |
990,118 | Benefits also apply to specific processes of the oil and gas industry. The exploration process of oil and gas can be done more precisely with 4D models built by seismic imaging. These models map fluctuations in oil reserves and gas levels, they strive to point out the exact quantity of resources needed, and they foreca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54014377 | 989,601 |
1,564,345 | The rapid increase in popularity of these new drums sparked the start of a new era in composing for the timpani. Gone were the old ways of timpanists only playing the tonic and dominant. Composers began to write increasingly involved parts for the timpani and sought ways to challenge the timpanist, both technically and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26164030 | 1,563,458 |
664,035 | 59. Kg4 Qxf3+ 60. Kxf3 g6 61. Bd6 Nf5 62. Kf4 Nh4 63. Kg4 gxh5+ 64. Kxh4 Kxd4 65. Bb8 a5 66. Bd6 Kc4 67. Kxh5 a4 68. Kxh6 Kb3 69. b5 Kc4 70. Kg5 Kxb5 71. Kf5 Ka6 72. Ke6 Ka7 73. Kd7 Kb7 74. Be7 Ka7 75. Kc7 Ka8 76. Bd6 Ka7 77. Kc8 Ka6 78. Kb8 b5 79. Bb4 Kb6 80. Kc8 Kc6 81. Kd8 Kd5 82. Ke7 Ke5 83. Kf7 Kd5 84. Kf6 Kd4 85.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18402301 | 663,689 |
2,106,885 | Cell wall associated kinases are receptor-like protein kinases, found in plant cell walls, that have the capability to transmit signals directly by their cytoplasmic kinase domains. They usually link the plasma membrane to the protein and carbohydrate that composed the cell wall. The receptor-like proteins contain a cy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13415231 | 2,105,672 |
699,173 | Knowing the angles between bonds is a crucial component in determining a molecular structure. In valence bond theory, covalent bonds are assumed to consist of two electrons lying in overlapping, usually hybridised, atomic orbitals from bonding atoms. Orbital hybridisation explains why methane is tetrahedral and ethylen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3840994 | 698,809 |
786,609 | Planets are extremely faint light sources compared to stars, and what little light comes from them tends to be lost in the glare from their parent star. So in general, it is very difficult to detect and resolve them directly from their host star. Planets orbiting far enough from stars to be resolved reflect very little... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7290120 | 786,186 |
699,291 | Racing drones are designed for speed and agility, as opposed to a photography/video drones which are focused more on hovering and stable filming. A photography quadcopter design will typically have four motors configured in an X-pattern, all equally spaced apart. A racing model will typically have its four motors confi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47096759 | 698,927 |
1,915,500 | Visual reasoning is the process of manipulating one's mental image of an object in order to reach a certain conclusion – for example, mentally constructing a piece of machinery to experiment with different mechanisms. In a frequently cited paper in the journal "Science" and a later book, Eugene S. Ferguson, a mechanica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4658359 | 1,914,401 |
1,834,618 | In the first step, holo-retinol binding protein (holo-RBP; simply means RBP bound to retinol, i.e. the RBP-ROH complex) binds to the extracellular portion of STRA6. This facilitates the release of retinol through the transporter. ROH is then transferred to cellular retinol binding protein 1 (CRBP1), an intracellular ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9858250 | 1,833,569 |
1,992,833 | There are many different readers of research reports and these audiences all have very different expectations. Reporting must be personalised, writing and presentation style must be customised and adapted to the user. At one extreme there is the general public. There are many reasons why research is reported to the “ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10835639 | 1,991,690 |
241,724 | "Population pharmacokinetics" is the study of the sources and correlates of variability in drug concentrations among individuals who are the target patient population receiving clinically relevant doses of a drug of interest. Certain patient demographic, pathophysiological, and therapeutical features, such as body weig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9674107 | 241,598 |
1,426,717 | At an initial time a blocking-type circulation pattern establishes in the troposphere. This blocking pattern causes Rossby waves with zonal wavenumber 1 and/or 2 to grow to unusually large amplitudes. The growing wave propagates into the stratosphere and decelerates the westerly mean zonal winds. Thus the polar night j... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=164547 | 1,425,914 |
1,853,861 | He is chair of the MS Society, NHS National Joint Registry and NERC Advisory Committee on Scientific Leadership; non-executive director and trustee of the Universities Superannuation Scheme Ltd.; president of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society and patron of The Conversation UK. He was chair of the national R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11256312 | 1,852,798 |
1,114,416 | Multivariate statistical methods can be used to test statistical hypotheses about factors that affect shape and to visualize their effects. To visualize the patterns of variation in the data, the data need to be reduced to a comprehensible (low-dimensional) form. Principal component analysis (PCA) is a commonly employe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1367908 | 1,113,848 |
2,109,619 | The Institute was founded in 2008 with the proposition to establish a new, cross-disciplinary institute that would integrate the many diverse research projects in energy efficiency and provide a focus for work in this area. Leveraging the expertise of UCSB's engineers, scientists and researchers, and working with indus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67511807 | 2,108,405 |
605,326 | ARM makes an effort to promote recommended Verilog coding styles and techniques. This ensures semantically rigorous designs, preserving identical semantics throughout the chip design flow, which included extensive use of formal verification techniques. Without such attention, integrating an ARM11 with third-party desig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9865069 | 605,016 |
53,809 | People who are known carriers of the disease or at risk of having a child with sickle cell anemia may undergo genetic counseling. Genetic counselors work with families to discuss the benefits, limitations, and logistics of genetic testing options as well as the potential impact of testing and test results on the indivi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21010263 | 53,789 |
615,818 | Based on GPT-3, a neural network trained on text, Codex has additionally been trained on 159 gigabytes of Python code from 54 million GitHub repositories. A typical use case of Codex is typing a comment, such as "codice_1", then using the AI to suggest a block of code satisfying that prompt. OpenAI has stated that Code... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68638960 | 615,504 |
479,652 | It is not uncommon for patients to be anxious about being tested; explaining that tests are designed so that they will challenge everyone and that no one is expected to answer all questions correctly may be helpful. An important consideration of any neuropsychological assessment is a basic coverage of all major cogniti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=605564 | 479,411 |
1,903,160 | Engineering professions emerge when new technologies, new problems or new opportunities arise. This was the case when safety engineering grew in the early 1900s to combat the high workplace injury and fatality rates. In the 1960s, Environmental engineering emerged as a discipline to reduce industrial pollution and miti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39425504 | 1,902,068 |
217,747 | The temple complex of Karnak is located on the banks of the Nile River some 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) north of Luxor. It consists of four main parts, Precinct of Amon-Re, the Precinct of Montu, the Precinct of Mut and the Temple of Amenhotep IV (dismantled), as well as a few smaller temples and sanctuaries located out... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2672171 | 217,639 |
859,995 | Humans and the microbes they harbor have co-evolved for thousands of centuries; however, it is thought that the human species has gone through numerous phases in history characterized by different pathogen exposures. For instance, in very early human societies, small interaction between its members has given particular... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=407814 | 859,537 |
589 | On April 12, Curry scored 53 points in a 116–107 win against the Denver Nuggets, and he surpassed Chamberlain (17,783) to become the franchise's all-time scoring leader. It was part of an 11-game stretch in April in which Curry scored at least 30 points each game, surpassing Kobe Bryant's previous record for a player a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5608488 | 589 |
23,972 | Treatment may involve one or more of the following: chemotherapy, radiation therapy, proton therapy, targeted therapy, and surgery. In some non-Hodgkin lymphomas, an increased amount of protein produced by the lymphoma cells causes the blood to become so thick that plasmapheresis is performed to remove the protein. Wat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71422 | 23,963 |
761,378 | In 1921, Italian aerial warfare theorist Giulio Douhet published "The Command of the Air", a book positing that future wars would be decided in the skies. At the time, mainstream military theory did not see air power as a war-winning tactic. Douhet's idea was that air power could be a decisive force and be used to avoi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=537478 | 760,971 |
1,828,931 | During the 19th century nesting albatrosses were subject to sporadic, uncontrolled egg harvesting by sealers and other visitors to the Aucklands. Although this has ceased, from the mid 20th century onwards the population has become increasingly threatened through bycatch mortality in the Southern Ocean longline fishery... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37779312 | 1,827,890 |
133,583 | On Memorial Day, 2011, 53-year-old Raymond Zack, of Alameda, California, walked into the waters off Robert Crown Memorial Beach and stood neck deep in water roughly 150 yards offshore for almost an hour. His foster mother, Dolores Berry, called 9-1-1 and said that he was trying to drown himself. (There are conflicting ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=319013 | 133,530 |
1,388,488 | Six human chromosomal regions were found that may have been under particularly strong and coordinated selection during the past 250,000 years. These regions contain at least one marker allele that seems unique to the human lineage while the entire chromosomal region shows lower than normal genetic variation. This patte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2717130 | 1,387,718 |
1,802,013 | On 17 April 2007, a U.S. Navy Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile was vertically launched by , in the Gulf of Mexico and completed a successful test. The launched missile executed a Vertical Dive Maneuver attack on the Eglin H-Target complex on the test range. Seconds after launch from USS "Winston S. Churchill", the test... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,801,001 |
594,951 | for the second order partial derivative formula_51. Since formula_35 and formula_37 play a relatively similar role in the calculation of formula_31, their respective partial derivatives also look quite similar in terms of their structure, although they result in totally different derivative profiles. Indeed, the partia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1202098 | 594,646 |
730,445 | In plants, the shikimate pathway first leads to the formation of chorismate, which is the precursor of phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan. These aromatic amino acids are the derivatives of many secondary metabolites, all essential to a plant's biological functions, such as the hormones salicylate and auxin. This p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9579143 | 730,060 |
1,500,235 | The school also offers a Master's and Doctorate in Biomedical Sciences (and offers a joint M.D./Ph.D. program) and has recently started a joint M.D./M.P.H. program. The school currently offers residencies in 12 specialties. Under the direction of Joseph I. Shapiro, M.D., the school’s fifth dean, Marshall has continued ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31615355 | 1,499,390 |
285,414 | In practice, a number of official and unofficial restrictions applied to who was able to take the imperial exams. The commoners were divided into four groups according to occupation: scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants. Beneath the common people were the so-called "mean" people such as boat-people, beggars, sex-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=244479 | 285,260 |
1,588,242 | Conservation scientists use a variety of microscopic, spectroscopic, chromatographic, and other scientific techniques and instruments to physically and chemically examine objects. Non-destructive techniques are favored by conservation scientists so to preserve the originality, integrity, and current state of the object... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42559245 | 1,587,348 |
1,812,747 | The disease is genetically inherited and stems from a mutation that deletes the TFAP2A gene. This gene is important because it provides the blueprint for the arrangement of 437 amino acids that make up the protein transcription factor known as AP-2 alpha. This protein transcription factor binds to a carboxy terminus he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41341790 | 1,811,714 |
1,072,910 | If a series which is known to be random is analysed – fair dice falls, or computer-generated pseudo-random numbers – and a trend line is fitted through the data, the chances of an exactly zero estimated trend are negligible. But the trend would be expected to be small. If an individual series of observations is generat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=477060 | 1,072,356 |
739,912 | Failure of TOPIIβ to religase can have drastic consequences on protein synthesis, where it is estimated that “blocking TOPIIβ activity alters the expression of nearly one-third of all developmentally regulated genes,” such as neural immediate early genes (IEGs) involved in memory consolidation. Rapid expression of egr-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37626088 | 739,520 |
947,630 | Before becoming an astronaut, Mitchell earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management from Carnegie Institute of Technology and entered the United States Navy in 1952. After being commissioned through the Officer Candidate School at Newport, Rhode Island, he served as a Naval Aviator. In 1961, he receiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=303600 | 947,127 |
183,322 | The MacLean baseball field was located directly south of the Memorial Gym, until its infield was displaced by the construction of the College of Education building in 1967. The catcher and batter faced southwest (towards the pitcher's mound); the right field line was just south of the gym, running east–west. The backgr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53545 | 183,225 |
679,822 | Kumar was born in Mamidala, Nalgonda district, Telangana. He did his Masters and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.followed by post doctoral research at University of Waterloo, Canada. He works in the area of nanoscience and nanotechnology (nano-electronic devices, nanoscale devi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62767717 | 679,468 |
1,686,895 | Due to i-motif formation in acidic conditions and cancer cells having acidic endosomes, cancer therapy and theranostic applications have been investigated. In a study by Takahashi et al., it was found that by using carboxyl-modified single-walled carbon nanotubes (C-SWNTs), telomerase activity could be inhibited, which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57285481 | 1,685,949 |
106,017 | In two reports read before the Royal Society (London) in 1794, the American-born British scientist Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753–1814), coined the term "complement" to describe two colors that, when mixed, produce white. While conducting photometric experiments on factory lighting in Munich, Thompson noticed t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=405803 | 105,972 |
2,122,555 | The "Formicarius colma" is generally a small bird, averaging around 18 cm with males weighing between 38 and 49 grams and females between 41 and 49 grams. Males are marked by a black forehead, rufous-colored (red-brown) crown and nape, with the crown including a variable amount of black feathers. Its back, rump, and wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12452223 | 2,121,335 |
613,453 | The SSA can be measured by adsorption using the BET isotherm. This has the advantage of measuring the surface of fine structures and deep texture on the particles. However, the results can differ markedly depending on the substance adsorbed. The BET theory has inherent limitations but has the advantage to be simple and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8390819 | 613,141 |
953,239 | Fujifilm's EXR color filter array are manufactured in both CCD (SuperCCD) and CMOS (BSI CMOS). As with the SuperCCD, the filter itself is rotated 45 degrees. Unlike conventional Bayer filter designs, there are always two adjacent photosites detecting the same color. The main reason for this type of array is to contribu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=571760 | 952,734 |
904,651 | Social networks can still affect and cause evolution on their own by impending fitness differences on individuals. According to a 2012 study, male calves had a lower survival rate if they had stronger bonds with juvenile males. However, when other age and sex classes were tested, their survival rate did not significant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=875148 | 904,175 |
979,513 | In 2015, Australian anthropologists Gary Clark and Maciej Henneberg said that "Ardipithecus" adults have a facial anatomy more similar to chimpanzee subadults than adults, with a less-projecting face and smaller canines (large canines in primate males are used to compete within mating hierarchies), and attributed this ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1144 | 979,002 |
1,596,367 | As he reached retirement age, Salvadori began volunteering to work with under-privileged minority students from inner-city New York public schools. Developing a hands-on method of teaching kids about the built environment, he was able to reach out to thousands of students and teachers, giving them an appreciation of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3044087 | 1,595,468 |
1,763,041 | Magnetogenetics, freely moving mammalian behavior, and immunohistochemistry have been integrated to investigate the efficacy and validity of magnetogenetics as a neuroscientific tool. Magnetogenetic activation of the mice motor cortex has been shown to be effective in inducing locomotor changes in freely moving mice. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47814884 | 1,762,048 |
1,723,335 | Catagenesis is the second stage of maturation of organic carbon on the path to becoming graphitic. This geologic process accounts for very significant changes in the biogenic materials that make up the carbonaceous sediment. During catagenesis, the temperature increases, the pressure increases, and both organic and ino... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=183953 | 1,722,365 |
194,239 | Effective with the 1986 model year, the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Transport Canada mandated that all new passenger cars come equipped with a CHMSL. The requirement was extended to light trucks and vans for the 1994 model year. Early studies involving taxicabs and other fleet vehic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2357908 | 194,139 |
1,337,400 | The researchers in the Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics Division (SGT) study theoretical and observational seismology, solid Earth dynamics, rock mechanics, structural geology and tectonics, and sedimentary geology. They also contribute to understanding of earthquakes; the structure of Earth's crust, mantle, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2358436 | 1,336,669 |
1,259,568 | By the 1990s, the combination of cheaper storage and new users who were not concerned with topology led to a resurgence in spaghetti data structures, such as the shapefile. However, the need for stored topological relationships and integrity enforcement still exists. A common approach in current data is to store such a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33867932 | 1,258,881 |
341,446 | The ARM2 was roughly seven times the performance of a typical 7 MHz 68000-based system like the Commodore Amiga or Macintosh SE. It was twice as fast as an Intel 80386 running at 16 MHz, and about the same speed as a multi-processor VAX-11/784 superminicomputer. The only systems that beat it were the Sun SPARC and MIPS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60558 | 341,265 |
368,443 | In a citation graph the vertices are documents with a single publication date. The edges represent the citations from the bibliography of one document to other necessarily earlier documents. The classic example comes from the citations between academic papers as pointed out in the 1965 article "Networks of Scientific P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=204002 | 368,250 |
490,576 | The Minister of Public Works, Manuel Alonso Martínez, founded the Central Agriculture School on 1 October 1855. At first it was set up on the "La Flamenca" estate on the Royal Property in Aranjuez. It was closed on 3 November 1868 and by another Decree (28.01.1869) immediately moved to Madrid. Ratified by several legal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1933854 | 490,322 |
2,058,298 | In United States, the FHWA R&D initiated a Dynamic Traffic Assignment (DTA) research project in 1994 to meet the need for a traffic prediction system and to help address complex traffic control and management issues in the dynamic ITS environment. The main objective of this research is to develop a deployable real-time... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5775058 | 2,057,113 |
319,800 | Newborn infants have limited color perception. One study found that 74% of newborns can distinguish red, 36% green, 25% yellow, and 14% blue. After one month, performance "improved somewhat." Infant’s eyes don’t have the ability to accommodate. The pediatricians are able to perform non-verbal testing to assess visual a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=305136 | 319,628 |
477,240 | The PRECEDE framework was first developed and introduced in the 1970s by Green and colleagues. PRECEDE is based on the premise that, just as a medical diagnosis precedes a treatment plan, an educational diagnosis of the problem is very essential before developing and implementing the intervention plan. Predisposing fac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31057260 | 477,000 |
393,768 | In 1992, the design of a new station began for an building with two floor levels that cost US$150 million. Construction began in 1999, adjacent to the Dome. The facility was officially dedicated on January 12, 2008, with a ceremony that included the de-commissioning of the old Dome station. The ceremony was attended by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=221644 | 393,573 |
1,575,239 | A prosthetic neuronal memory silicon chip is a device that imitates the brain's process of creating long-term memories. A prototype for this device was designed by Theodore Berger, a biomedical engineer and neurologist at University of Southern California. Berger started to work on the design in the early 1990s. He par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29826376 | 1,574,350 |
58,482 | A 2019 paper claimed that research toward vaccine development had greatly advanced over the preceding 5–10 years, with more than 30 candidates in some stage of development. The same study predicted that a vaccine would be available within 10 years. The types of vaccines currently in research fall into five broad catego... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=477489 | 58,457 |
211,123 | In 1959 Hahn co-founded in Berlin the Federation of German Scientists (VDW), a non-governmental organization, which has been committed to the ideal of responsible science. The members of the Federation feel committed to taking into consideration the possible military, political, and economical implications and possibil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46825 | 211,016 |
1,156,933 | Much analysis of concrete is being done at the nano-level in order to understand its structure. Such analysis uses various techniques developed for study at that scale such as Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Focused Ion Beam (FIB). This has come about as a side benefit of the devel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7067473 | 1,156,322 |
173,734 | The phenomenon is most often observed in saturated, loose (low density or uncompacted), sandy soils. This is because a loose sand has a tendency to compress when a load is applied. Dense sands, by contrast, tend to expand in volume or 'dilate'. If the soil is saturated by water, a condition that often exists when the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=544776 | 173,643 |
488,677 | The main authors of classical Indian mathematics (400 CE to 1200 CE) were scholars like Mahaviracharya, Aryabhata, Brahmagupta, and Bhaskara II. Indian mathematicians made early contributions to the study of the decimal number system, zero, negative numbers, arithmetic, and algebra. In addition, trigonometry, having ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1673699 | 488,427 |
140,103 | In North America socket-outlets located in places where an easy path to ground exists—such as wet areas and rooms with uncovered concrete floors—must be protected by a GFCI. The US "National Electrical Code" has required devices in certain locations to be protected by GFCIs since the 1960s. Beginning with underwater sw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=530715 | 140,046 |
345,897 | Laura Bassi was born into a prosperous family of Bologna and was privately educated from the age of five. Bassi's education and intellect was noticed by Prospero Lorenzini Lambertini, who became the Archbishop of Bologna in 1731 (later Pope Benedict XIV). Lambertini became the official patron of Bassi. He arranged for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=263329 | 345,716 |
886,728 | In 2007, New Zealand universities including the University of Canterbury were accused of taking an increasingly litigious approach to managing its staff and, despite having an array of human-resources managers, routinely engaged lawyers and employment advocates to handle even minor matters. The university's 2006 financ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32242 | 886,264 |
1,949,619 | The tawny owl is a member of the wood-owl genus "Strix", part of the typical owl family Strigidae, which contains all species of owl other than the barn owls. Conservatively, about 18 species are currently represented in this "Strix" genus, typically being medium to large sized owls, characteristically round-headed and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68959959 | 1,948,498 |
2,178,317 | Game 10: Illinois. On January 12, 1952, the Wolverines lost their third straight game against a nationally ranked Big Ten opponent. They lost at home by a 67–51 score to an Illinois Fighting Illini team that was ranked No. 2 in the country. The Illini had won ten consecutive games, took a 41–24 lead at halftime and hel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40365985 | 2,177,072 |
2,159,338 | The extraction and study of bone tissue varies depending on the taxa involved and the amount of material available. However, skeletochronology best focuses on LAGs that encircle the entire shaft in a ring form and have a regular pattern of deposition. These growths show a repeated pattern, 'described mathematically as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9330285 | 2,158,106 |
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