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633,290 | Diagenesis () is the process that describes physical and chemical changes in sediments first caused by water-rock interactions, microbial activity, and compaction after their deposition. Increased pressure and temperature only start to play a role as sediments become buried much deeper in the Earth's crust. In the earl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174236 | 632,952 |
1,500,593 | The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a unit of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign dedicated to interdisciplinary research. A gift from scientist, businessman, and philanthropist Arnold O. Beckman (1900–2004) and his wife Mabel (1900–1989) led to the building of the Institute which opene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1268483 | 1,499,748 |
413,465 | Plants are referred to as annuals which live only one year, biennials which live two years, and perennials which live longer than that. The longest-lived perennials, woody-stemmed plants such as trees and bushes, often live for hundreds and even thousands of years (one may question whether or not they may die of old ag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=232786 | 413,263 |
1,950,224 | Plasmonic direct writing is a maskless form of photolithography that is based on scanning probe lithography; the method uses localized surface plasmon (LSP) enhancements from embedded plasmonic scanning probes to expose the photoresist. Wang et al. experimentally demonstrated 100 nm field confinement with this method. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19953006 | 1,949,103 |
102,383 | However, sometimes incorrectly regarded as a degree, the Habilitation is a higher academic qualification in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic that allows further teaching and research endorsement after a doctorate. It is earned by writing a second thesis (the "Habilitationsschrift") or presenting a p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167241 | 102,338 |
271,741 | Iraq and France claimed that the Iraqi reactor was intended for peaceful scientific research. Agreements between France and Iraq excluded military use. The American private intelligence agency STRATFOR wrote in 2007 that the uranium-fueled reactor "was believed to be on the verge of producing plutonium for a weapons pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4191587 | 271,593 |
1,897,081 | In 2002 to suit its expansion the school moved to larger accommodations a few blocks away at 2087 Addison Street, leaving the cafe to operate separately. The new location—the basement of the historic S. H. Kress & Co. retail store in the middle of the Downtown Berkeley Arts District—was rebuilt to contain 12 rehearsal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36981607 | 1,895,997 |
199,324 | The bulk of the microorganisms that form the biofilm are "Streptococcus mutans" and other anaerobes, though the precise composition varies by location in the mouth. Examples of such anaerobes include fusobacterium and actinobacteria. "S. mutans" and other anaerobes are the initial colonisers of the tooth surface, and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2323622 | 199,221 |
1,561,757 | Development of the area did not come until the 1930s. Cattle ranchers were the area's first white settlers. The primary route over the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, the Mullan Road, skirted the volcanic field to the north, although dirt stagecoach roads were built into the Missouri River Canyon in the volcanic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24552797 | 1,560,871 |
1,099,947 | PCP is quickly absorbed through the gastrointestinal tract following ingestion. Accumulation is not common, but if it does occur, the major sites are the liver, kidneys, plasma protein, spleen, and fat. Unless kidney and liver functions are impaired, PCP is quickly eliminated from tissues and blood, and is excreted, ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1250286 | 1,099,387 |
1,546,544 | Accum paid particular attention to beer, introducing the subject with the comment: "Malt beverages, and especially port, the preferred drink of the inhabitants of London and other large cities, is among the items which is most frequently adulterated in the course of supply." He claimed that English beer was occasionall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=287779 | 1,545,668 |
1,418,610 | The concept of a national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) for the United States was proposed by Marcus Sachs (Auburn University) when he was a staff member for the U.S. National Security Council in 2002 to be a peer organization with other national CERTs such as AusCERT and CERT-UK, and to be located in the for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1289446 | 1,417,811 |
1,864,436 | The Hessert Laboratory for Aerospace Research and Hessert Laboratory at White Field offer a combined 84,000-square-feet of research space for aerospace research. Combined, they house 19 major high-speed wind tunnels to provide near-flight conditions for research related to innovations in flight and flight speed, jet en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48464061 | 1,863,364 |
1,531,814 | Owls are very adept nocturnal predators, hunting prey that includes small mammals, reptiles, and insects. They are able to rotate their head up to 270 degrees, lock onto prey, and launch a silent attack. Owls lock onto prey by using sound localization. Sound localization is an animal’s ability to identify the origin of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47338295 | 1,530,947 |
772,729 | The 8085 is a binary compatible follow-up on the 8080. It supports the complete instruction set of the 8080, with exactly the same instruction behavior, including all effects on the CPU flags (except for the AND/ANI operation, which sets the AC flag differently). This means that the vast majority of object code (any pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=97302 | 772,313 |
2,160,952 | Completion of the 28 month curriculum results in award of a master's degree. The education is divided into two portions (a didactic and clinical phase). The faculty of the Yale School of Medicine provides the education, which is coordinated by the Physician Associate program core faculty. The didactic year includes cli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12746185 | 2,159,719 |
144,449 | The scope of practice of UK podiatrists includes the use of some prescription-only medicines, injection therapy and non-invasive surgery e.g. performing partial or total nail resection and removal, with chemical destruction of the tissues. Podiatrists complete about 1,000 supervised clinical hours in the course of trai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=594086 | 144,391 |
1,318,451 | Drug metabolism is one of the most important factors to consider when developing new drugs for therapeutic applications. The degradation rate of these new drugs in an organism's system determines the duration and intensity of their pharmacological action. During the past few years, FMOs have gained a lot of attention i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44991939 | 1,317,726 |
535,183 | 3 RAR deployed to Borneo in March 1965, and served in Sarawak until the end of July, operating on both sides of the border. The battalion had four major contacts with Indonesian forces and several smaller ones—including at Sungei Koemba, Kindau and Babang during which they inflicted heavy casualties on the Indonesians—... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,904 |
333,370 | The principles of natural selection have inspired a variety of computational techniques, such as "soft" artificial life, that simulate selective processes and can be highly efficient in 'adapting' entities to an environment defined by a specified fitness function. For example, a class of heuristic optimisation algorith... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21147 | 333,192 |
584,014 | A complicating factor in the discussion of seismic sound energy as a disruptive factor to marine mammals is that of the size and scale of seismic surveys as they are conducted into the 21st century. Historically, seismic surveys tended to have a duration of weeks or months and to be localised, but with OBN technology, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=676418 | 583,715 |
549,058 | Antimicrobial peptides are a unique and diverse group of molecules, which are divided into subgroups on the basis of their amino acid composition and structure. Antimicrobial peptides are generally between 12 and 50 amino acids. These peptides include two or more positively charged residues provided by arginine, lysine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2065768 | 548,770 |
1,798,824 | The Center for Advanced Sustainable Management (CASM) was founded at the CBS in 2016 from the Dr. Jürgen Meyer Endowed Chair for International Business Ethics and Sustainability. Since its foundation, the CASM has been headed by and Patrick Bungard. The CASM deals with questions of corporate social responsibility, inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26880251 | 1,797,815 |
2,163,840 | The Nuclear Facility portion was expected to be completed around 2014 but has been delayed. It is a very complex building, featuring NNSA Security Category 1 laboratory space and a total of approximately 306 enclosures, 26 fume hoods and 43 sections of Material Transfer System (MTS). The Nuclear Facility will contain a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28951534 | 2,162,604 |
2,064,575 | REC is distinct from related services, such as those of Institutional Review Boards, in that it is typically available at any point during a study (planning, conducting, interpreting, or disseminating results), and can relate to any ethical question. While little is known about the range and distribution of topics put ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35731771 | 2,063,384 |
139,798 | Deke Slayton was grounded in 1962 due to a heart condition, but remained with NASA and was appointed senior manager of the Astronaut Office and later additionally assistant director of Flight Crew Operations at the beginning of Project Gemini. On March 13, 1972, after doctors confirmed he no longer had a coronary condi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19812 | 139,741 |
2,087,328 | Lancaster University aims to develop computing system software to make the robots semi-autonomous, which will simplify human control done remotely due to the highly radioactive environments surrounding nuclear waste in which the robots operate. The researchers at the Lancaster University developed a mobile robotic syst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69503760 | 2,086,126 |
283,941 | Plants that have been colonized by PGPR forming a biofilm have gained systemic resistances and are primed for defense against pathogens. This means that the genes necessary for the production of proteins that work towards defending the plant against pathogens have been expressed, and the plant has a "stockpile" of comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43946 | 283,788 |
1,042,635 | The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the principal in-house research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). ARS is one of four agencies in USDA's Research, Education and Economics mission area. ARS is charged with extending the nation's scientific knowledge and solving agricultural problems... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=251892 | 1,042,092 |
534,898 | entire industry sector's workforce. Iran exported $736 million worth of foodstuffs in 2007 and $1 billion (~600,000 tonnes) in 2010. Soft drinks, mineral water, biscuit, chocolate, confection, edible oil, dairies, conserved foods and fruits, jam and jelly, macaroni, fruit juice and yeast were among the main exports to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7459175 | 534,619 |
962,279 | Christopher Layne further highlights problems associated with the geographic variable. He criticizes Mearsheimer's reasoning according to which the "stopping power of water" prevents a great power from achieving global hegemony as this constraint does not seem to apply to the case of an emerging rival's capacity to exe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4243423 | 961,770 |
368,344 | Others have been fascinated by the possibilities of creating new languages that could enable new, and perhaps better, ways of thinking. Examples of such languages designed to explore the human mind include Loglan, explicitly designed by James Cooke Brown to test the linguistic relativity hypothesis, by experimenting wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26915 | 368,151 |
98,115 | Arctic foxes generally eat any small animal they can find, including lemmings, voles, other rodents, hares, birds, eggs, fish, and carrion. They scavenge on carcasses left by larger predators such as wolves and polar bears, and in times of scarcity also eat their feces. In areas where they are present, lemmings are the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2208 | 98,074 |
1,984,641 | This white polycrystalline solid was found to be stable under standard conditions but is extremely shock sensitive causing it to violently decompose when ground with a mortar. The thermodynamic properties of cyanuric triazide were studied using bomb calorimetry with a combustion enthalpy (H) of 2234 kJ mol under oxidiz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38817016 | 1,983,502 |
1,590,371 | DuPont investigated the problem at the Hanford Engineering Works, while the Metallurgical Laboratory studied it in Chicago. Uranium was so reactive that oxidation occurred no matter how quickly the canning process was applied. Several techniques were tried without success, as they failed to get the required exact fit. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72002318 | 1,589,477 |
329,986 | These can all be applied to natural and man-made sources. For man-made sources the use of Containment is a major tool in reducing dose uptake and is effectively a combination of shielding and isolation from the open environment. Radioactive materials are confined in the smallest possible space and kept out of the envir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=202522 | 329,811 |
1,737,027 | One of the challenges in thermal therapy is delivering the appropriate amount of heat to the correct part of the patient's body. A great deal of current research focuses on precisely positioning heat delivery devices (catheters, microwave, and ultrasound applicators, etc.) using ultrasound or magnetic resonance imaging... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10176 | 1,736,050 |
689,821 | Another general approach is primarily associated with Michael Artin. Here the idea is to start with an object of the kind to be classified and study its deformation theory. This means first constructing infinitesimal deformations, then appealing to prorepresentability theorems to put these together into an object over ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=361609 | 689,458 |
936,103 | In the early 1990s, all states and territories in Australia developed intended curriculum documents largely based on OBE for their primary and secondary schools. Criticism arose shortly after implementation. Critics argued that no evidence existed that OBE could be implemented successfully on a large scale, in either t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22816 | 935,608 |
2,005,285 | The company's founder, George D. LeMaitre, M.D., was a practicing vascular surgeon in Massachusetts, chief of surgery at Lawrence General Hospital, and a clinical instructor at his alma mater, the Tufts University School of Medicine. In 1981, LeMaitre treated an elderly colleague who required a procedure to reroute blo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71318055 | 2,004,136 |
810,403 | Some modern bladesmiths have taken pattern welding to new heights, with elaborate applications of traditional pattern welding techniques, as well as with new technology. A layered billet of steel rods with the blade blank cut perpendicular to the layers can also produce some spectacular patterns, including mosaics or e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24175 | 809,971 |
1,177,851 | Like other siphonophores, "Marrus orthocanna" is a colony composed of a number of specialised zooids linked together by a long stem. They have different functions such as locomotion, capturing prey, waste removal, and reproduction. At the front is the pneumatophore, an orange-colored, gas-filled float, the largest of w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29202985 | 1,177,228 |
183,561 | The first college classes, which eventually became the classes of UNLV, were offered as the southern regional extension division of the University of Nevada, in 1959 in a classroom at Las Vegas High School. In 1955, State Senator Mahlon Brown "sponsored the legislation to provide $200,000 to construct the campus's firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239216 | 183,464 |
1,937,895 | Once the program is decomposed into a set of small communicating processes, it is expanded into "hand-shaking expansions (HSE)". Channel actions are expanded into their constituent protocols and multi-bit operators are expanded into their circuit implementations. These HSE are then reshuffled to optimize the circuit im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2817767 | 1,936,787 |
1,202,291 | The incidence of hemifacial spasm is approximately 0.8 per 100,000 persons. Hemifacial spasm is more prevalent among females over 40 years of age. The estimated prevalence for women is 14.5 per 100,000 and 7.4 per 100,000 in men. Prevalence for hemifacial spasm increase with age, reaching 39.7 per 100,000 for those age... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2071023 | 1,201,649 |
2,187,714 | Perkins carried out his own review on actions taken in the year following the publication of the report. He noted the improvement in the standing of the profession brought about by the government funding of the Tomorrow's Engineers programme and the successful introduction of a "Tomorrow's Engineers Week". He also welc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56525875 | 2,186,466 |
443,659 | The institute was founded by C. Fred Bergsten in 1981, in response to a proposal from the German Marshall Fund (GMF). The president of the GMF, Frank Loy, as well as the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, Leslie Gelb, asked Bergsten to create a research institution focused on assessing the growing importanc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2600125 | 443,444 |
1,133,875 | The magnitude of PPI is often significant, reaching as much as 65% in healthy subjects, with maximum inhibition is typically observed at 120 ms interval. The baseline startle response does not affect overall PPI levels – this finding was first discovered in rat studies and later duplicated in the studies of mice. The o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3471070 | 1,133,282 |
1,144,863 | Fiske was a popular lecturer on these topics in his early career, and many of his books from the 1870s were first given to the public in the form of lectures or magazine articles, revised and collected under a general title. Of these, in "The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of his Origin" (1884), he argues that inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=195994 | 1,144,262 |
1,251,349 | Attorneys have long used peremptory challenges to exclude undesirable prospective jurors, but have not always been successful at identifying these. Much of the early efforts were based on lawyers' folklore about who makes a good juror for their case. Early examples of scientific jury selection were similar. For example... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13206586 | 1,250,671 |
1,596,571 | In 1734 he went to Edinburgh, where he began to make portraits in miniature, by which means, while engaged in his scientific studies, he supported himself and his family for many years. Subsequently, he settled at Inverness, where he drew up his "Astronomical Rotula for showing the motions of the planets, places of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2000367 | 1,595,672 |
713,068 | This problem was addressed in the larger Me 163C, which featured the same HWK 509B or -C dual chamber rocket engine already tested on the Me 163B V6 and V18 prototypes. The main upper chamber was tuned for high thrust while the lower "Marschofen" combustion chamber was designed for much less thrust (about 400 kgf maxim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=454962 | 712,696 |
1,619,069 | Dr. John also received the 1996 Herzberg Medal for Physics and the 2007 Brockhouse Medal for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics from the Canadian Association of Physicists. He received the first ever McLean Fellowship from the University of Toronto in 1996, the 1997 Steacie Prize in Science and Engineering from the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=422960 | 1,618,154 |
648,343 | Unfortunately, interpretation of the microneurographic readings can be difficult because axonal membrane potential can not be determined from this method. A supplemental method used to better understand these readings involves examining recordings of post-spike excitability and shifts in latency; these features are ass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11747471 | 648,002 |
1,157,853 | Many specifics of the evolution of the human diet change regularly as new research and lines of evidence become available. Through the Paleolithic across the last 2.8 million years there has been a pattern of human and human ancestor’s biology adapting to an additionally available food source with resulting greater bra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53970984 | 1,157,240 |
1,986,447 | The first and second year undergraduate Political Economy courses proved to be popular. In April 1975, Professor Joan Robinson from Cambridge, UK, visited the University of Sydney and spoke at the Wallace Lecture Theatre, arguing that political economy is a better basis for studying economic issues. The first National ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32100260 | 1,985,305 |
1,934,621 | The initial MOD-0 blades were made by Lockheed, out of aluminum. Structural problems surfaced almost immediately at the root end of the blades. Several significant changes and efforts were performed to address this. An investigation revealed that unexpectedly high cyclic loads were the result of a significant blockage ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30251550 | 1,933,513 |
62,657 | Plant circadian rhythms tell the plant what season it is and when to flower for the best chance of attracting pollinators. Behaviors showing rhythms include leaf movement, growth, germination, stomatal/gas exchange, enzyme activity, photosynthetic activity, and fragrance emission, among others. Circadian rhythms occur ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56565 | 62,632 |
1,242,880 | In 1866, the College of California, a private institution in Oakland founded by Andover and Yale alumnus Henry Durant, purchased the land that comprises the current Berkeley campus, and the State of California established an agricultural, mining, and mechanical arts college, which existed only as a legal entity to secu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20486122 | 1,242,207 |
1,493,890 | The genome of "T. maritima" consists of a single circular 1.8 megabase chromosome encoding for 1877 proteins. Within its genome it has several heat and cold shock proteins that are most likely involved in metabolic regulation and response to environmental temperature changes. It shares 24% of its genome with members of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34536095 | 1,493,049 |
39,126 | The S-300 (NATO reporting name SA-10 Grumble) is a series of long range surface-to-air missile systems developed and operated by the former Soviet Union, now fielded by the militaries of Russia and Ukraine as well as several other former Eastern Bloc countries. It was produced by NPO Almaz, based on the initial S-300P ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=546105 | 39,111 |
7,269 | The station was intended to have several smaller external components, such as six robotic arms, three External Stowage Platforms (ESPs) and four ExPRESS Logistics Carriers (ELCs). While these platforms allow experiments (including MISSE, the STP-H3 and the Robotic Refueling Mission) to be deployed and conducted in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15043 | 7,266 |
1,979,124 | PBT2-201 (EURO) was a 12-week randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel three-group study (Phase II) to assess the safety, tolerability and efficacy of two dose levels of PBT2 to slow progression of disease in patients with early AD. Seventy-eight (78) patients were enrolled and all were evaluated for safe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28793194 | 1,977,986 |
1,622,236 | In mathematics, differential forms on a Riemann surface are an important special case of the general theory of differential forms on smooth manifolds, distinguished by the fact that the conformal structure on the Riemann surface intrinsically defines a Hodge star operator on 1-forms (or differentials) without specifyin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51016663 | 1,621,320 |
1,509,626 | In 1982, Ellen Kaplan, an FEF member raising money in the Newark Airport, spotted former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and his wife Nancy. Kissinger was flying to Boston for a heart operation. Kaplan went up to Kissinger and asked him why he had "prolonged the war in Vietnam", and then, "Mr. Kissinger, do you slee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23391020 | 1,508,776 |
866,372 | Sea cucumbers are typically dioecious, with separate male and female individuals. The reproductive system consists of a single gonad, consisting of a cluster of tubules emptying into a single duct that opens on the upper surface of the animal, close to the tentacles. Many species fertilise their eggs internally. The fe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19653966 | 865,912 |
1,008,003 | Physical activity is defined as any voluntary bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy expenditure. Physical activity encompasses all activities, at any intensity, performed during any time of day or night. It includes both exercise and incidental activity integrated into daily routine. This in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2741315 | 1,007,483 |
1,003,824 | Paper and droplet microfluidics allow for devices that can detect small amounts of unwanted bacteria or chemicals, making them useful in food safety and analysis. Paper-based microfluidic devices are often referred to as microfluidic paper-based analytical devices (µPADs) and can detect such things as nitrate, preserva... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18906 | 1,003,306 |
401,095 | The USF Tampa campus offers three Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) programs: Air Force, Army, and Navy. USF is one of only 38 universities in the nation to offer all three service ROTC programs. The university was the first in the nation to create a Joint Military Leadership Center (JMLC) to house all three prog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3649046 | 400,896 |
1,348,096 | One of the most important planktivores in the tropics are corals themselves. Although spending a portion of their life cycle as planktonic organisms themselves, established corals are sedentary organisms that can use their tentacles to capture plankton from the surrounding environment to help supplement energy produced... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36726184 | 1,347,355 |
1,311,193 | The official game cover was revealed by Irrational Games in early December 2012; the art featured DeWitt against a burning flag with some other elements of the game. Several journalists were critical of the art, with the lack of any major elements from the game including Elizabeth, and lacking any of the uniqueness tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38977195 | 1,310,474 |
642,025 | Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity (and, by extension, the general theory) predicts time dilation that could be interpreted as time travel. The theory states that, relative to a stationary observer, time appears to pass more slowly for faster-moving bodies: for example, a moving clock will appear to run slo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=123450 | 641,686 |
585,506 | In April through early May 2013, 5th Marines participated in Exercise Desert Scimitar at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, 29 Palms, California. The purpose of the exercise was to command and control a Marine air ground task force (MAGTF) as part of the Marine Corps' shift from counterinsurgency back to convention... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2936492 | 585,206 |
2,114,453 | The men's single sculls competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics took place at Misari Regatta, South Korea. The event was held from 19 to 24 September. It was the 20th appearance of the event, which had been held at every Olympic Games since the introduction of rowing in 1900. NOCs were limited to one boat apiece; 22 se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43049462 | 2,113,238 |
422,359 | Implementation of the UHV grid enables the construction of newer, cleaner, more efficient power generation plants far from population centers. Older power plants along the coast will be retired. This will lower the total current amount of pollution, as well as the pollution felt by citizens within urban dwellings. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24228936 | 422,153 |
934,596 | Nettl has also been vocal about the effect of subjective understanding on research. As he describes, a fieldworker might attempt immersing themselves into an outsider culture to gain full understanding. This, however, can begin to blind the researcher and take away the ability to be objective in what is being studied. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80077 | 934,103 |
164,340 | The main armament of the "Baltimore" class consisted of three turrets, each with three Mark 15 8"/55 caliber guns (Mark 12 in "Baltimore"). Two of these were located forward and one aft. They fired a 335-pound (152 kg) shell out to a maximum range of 30,050 yards (27,480 m). The armor-piercing shell could penetrate six... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=612128 | 164,255 |
284,050 | During World War II, the United States Navy (USN) began to explore the concept of operating jet-powered aircraft from its aircraft carriers. Success encouraged further development of the concept; early in the post-war years, officials within the USN began to investigate the use of jet power as a potential means of oper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=457649 | 283,897 |
1,148,858 | Depression is common in people who are pursuing unreachable goals and depression might be a manifestation, similarly to the social competition hypothesis, of a failure to yield. Low mood increases an organism's ability to cope with the adaptive challenges characteristic of unpropitious situations. Pessimism and lack of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42449890 | 1,148,251 |
147,579 | Currently, there are 41 medical schools in South Korea. Medical programs in South Korea used to be direct-entry programs such as in the UK, taking six years to complete. A change in the system was under discussion since 1996, and the government started to name the program medical professions graduate school (의학전문대학원). ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=465584 | 147,520 |
460,266 | A technique presented in 2006 does away with the display medium altogether, using a focused pulsed infrared laser (about 100 pulses per second; each lasting a nanosecond) to create balls of glowing plasma at the focal point in normal air. The focal point is directed by two moving mirrors and a sliding lens, allowing it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1167787 | 460,040 |
1,507,190 | Standard containment devices such as fume hoods, glove boxes, use of high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters, ventilated containment or weighing, or placing the carcinogenic substance in a sealed weighed container (Tare Method). The employment of these methods and equipment can help reduce the unnecessary exposu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31596352 | 1,506,344 |
1,328,152 | While the 126C4's engine was powerful at around in qualifying making it virtually the equal of the BMW and Renault engines (and more power than McLaren had with their TAG-Porsche engines), the car itself produced little downforce compared to its main rivals with both Alboreto and Arnoux claiming all season that the car... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68985962 | 1,327,424 |
1,065,197 | The World Cup tournament would feature a large sense of deja vu from two years prior, with the Americans grouped with China and Germany again. The US opened in a rematch of the previous final against Germany, this time coming up short, losing 2–0. But in a similar manner that they had in the previous World Cup, they su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21231778 | 1,064,643 |
973,594 | After Rome was sacked by the Senones in 390 BCE, they regrouped and formed an alliance of the city states. They deployed thoroughly trained soldiers in the north western frontiers to protect Rome from further attacks. These soldiers were divided into two groups, "Legionaries" and "Auxiliaries". Legionaries were Roman c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23468036 | 973,084 |
947,574 | Inorganic synthetic methods can be classified roughly according to the volatility or solubility of the component reactants. Soluble inorganic compounds are prepared using methods of organic synthesis. For metal-containing compounds that are reactive toward air, Schlenk line and glove box techniques are followed. Volati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14624 | 947,071 |
195,365 | Named for British anesthetist Brian Arthur Sellick (1918–1996) who first described the procedure in 1961, the goal of cricoid pressure is to minimize the possibility of regurgitation and pulmonary aspiration of gastric contents. Cricoid pressure has been widely used during RSI for nearly fifty years, despite a lack of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146396 | 195,265 |
1,743,148 | The cycle of organizational activity for intelligence purposes extends from the collection of selected information to its direct use in reports prepared for policy makers. Between these beginning and end activities there lie a number of functions which can be grouped under the term information processing. These functio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13980190 | 1,742,164 |
916,404 | A building's location and surroundings play a key role in regulating its temperature and illumination. For example, trees, landscaping, and hills can provide shade and block wind. In cooler climates, designing northern hemisphere buildings with south facing windows and southern hemisphere buildings with north facing wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11944078 | 915,922 |
1,931,683 | Faculty at the school include biomedical scientists, economists, nutritionists, epidemiologists, physicians, political scientists and psychologists focusing on a myriad of issues with the common thread of nutrition and its role in understanding and fostering the growth and development of human populations. The school's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1688670 | 1,930,575 |
1,974,023 | The analysis of biological networks with respect to diseases has led to the development of the field of network medicine. Recent examples of application of network theory in biology include applications to understanding the cell cycle as well as a quantitative framework for developmental processes. Good network inferen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10571004 | 1,972,888 |
546,009 | Regarding the history, such coordinates were introduced soon after the advent of special relativity, when they were studied (fully or partially) alongside the concept of hyperbolic motion: In relation to flat Minkowski spacetime by Albert Einstein (1907, 1912), Max Born (1909), Arnold Sommerfeld (1910), Max von Laue (1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1327701 | 545,723 |
1,666,365 | The Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture, as it was originally named, grew out of a conference called "The Death of Materialism and the Renewal of Culture" that the Discovery Institute organised in mid-1995. It was founded in 1996 by the Discovery Institute with funding provided by Fieldstead & Company, the St... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1138207 | 1,665,426 |
248,850 | The first problem encountered with the Typhoon after its entry into service was the seepage of carbon monoxide fumes into the cockpit. In an attempt to alleviate this, longer exhaust stubs were fitted in November 1941 ("Mod [modification] 239"), and at about the same time the port (left) cockpit doors were sealed. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63744 | 248,722 |
1,329,463 | Callose is laid down at plasmodesmata, at the cell plate during cytokinesis, and during pollen development. Endothecium contains a substance callose, which makes it thicker. Callose is produced in response to wounding, infection by pathogens, aluminium, and abscisic acid. When there is wounding in the plant tissue, it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9366660 | 1,328,735 |
53,169 | Weber saw religion as one of the core forces in society. His goal was to find reasons for the different development paths of the cultures of the Occident and the Orient, although without judging or valuing them, like some of the contemporary thinkers who followed the social Darwinist paradigm; Weber wanted primarily to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19455 | 53,149 |
497,881 | The crest of "Corythoraptor" is apparently quite similar to the casque of the modern cassowary. The cassowary uses its casque to dissipate heat from the brain cavity, and as an resonator to aid in the detection or gauge the point of origin of low frequency signals across a greater distance. In "Corythoraptor", the latt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54675994 | 497,624 |
590,756 | The lattice recursive least squares adaptive filter is related to the standard RLS except that it requires fewer arithmetic operations (order "N"). It offers additional advantages over conventional LMS algorithms such as faster convergence rates, modular structure, and insensitivity to variations in eigenvalue spread o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2017338 | 590,454 |
899,876 | There are a number of factors that can affect the meaning of the NNT depending on the situation. The treatment may be a drug in the form of a pill or injection, a surgical procedure, or many other possibilities. The following examples demonstrate how NNT is determined and what it means. In this example, it is important... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1964571 | 899,401 |
1,083,391 | Sadleir et al. (2008) established several traits that distinguish "Eustreptospondylus" from its direct relatives. In the corner of the lacrimal a shallow depression is present, which is pierced by a smaller foramen. The descending branch of the postorbital has a groove in its outer rear corner. The outer side of the sq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3534921 | 1,082,834 |
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