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2,542 | Williams started off her season at the 2015 ASB Classic, where she won her 46th career singles title by defeating Caroline Wozniacki in three sets in the final. Then, at the Australian Open, Williams made it to the quarterfinals at a Grand Slam for the first time since the 2010 US Open. She defeated Camila Giorgi in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167378 | 2,542 |
1,700,340 | Additional advantages could include higher speed limits; smoother rides; and increased roadway capacity; and minimized traffic congestion, due to decreased need for safety gaps and higher speeds. Currently, maximum controlled-access highway throughput or capacity according to the US Highway Capacity Manual is about 2,2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69239975 | 1,699,386 |
1,450,172 | The harsh winter of 1777–1778 froze the Hudson River, allowing elements of the Connecticut militia under the command of General Samuel Holden Parsons to march westward across the river. They first occupied West Point on 27 January 1778, making it the longest continually occupied post in the United States. George Washin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20793344 | 1,449,356 |
129,624 | High-level languages are designed independent of a specific computing system architecture. This facilitates executing a program written in such a language on any computing system with compatible support for the Interpreted or JIT program. High-level languages can be improved as their designers develop improvements. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=189842 | 129,572 |
530,570 | From an economic perspective, contract theory studies how economic actors can and do construct contractual arrangements, generally in the presence of information asymmetry. Because of its connections with both agency and incentives, contract theory is often categorized within a field known as law and economics. One pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=296775 | 530,296 |
1,115,909 | Fruit bodies of "Mycena chlorophos" are found in forests, where they grow in groups on woody debris such as fallen twigs, branches, and bark. In the Japanese Hachijo and Bonin Islands, mushrooms occur predominantly on decaying petioles of the palm "Phoenix roebelenii". The fungus requires a proper range of humidity to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36952642 | 1,115,340 |
1,504,481 | After being assigned to Syria by the American Board, he and his wife sailed from Boston, Massachusetts, in December 1855. By April 1856, they arrived at their destination in Aley, Lebanon. Bliss and his wife worked there for roughly one and a half years in a small school which had opened in 1843. Under his direction, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10833916 | 1,503,635 |
953,525 | In 1678, Huygens proposed that every point reached by a luminous disturbance becomes a source of a spherical wave; the sum of these secondary waves determines the form of the wave at any subsequent time. He assumed that the secondary waves travelled only in the "forward" direction and it is not explained in the theory ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14359 | 953,020 |
1,261,934 | The result is a visual reproduction complete with all significant depth cues, including parallax in all directions, perspective that changes with the position and distance of the observer, and, if the lenses are small enough and the images of sufficient quality, the cue of accommodation — the adjustments of eye focus r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5291448 | 1,261,247 |
538,681 | The hospital offers medical facilities which includes emergency, OPD services, 7 modular Operation Theatres, Labour Room, ICU, HDU, NICU, Physiotherapy, MRI, CT, Ultrasound scan and IPD services. It also houses a regional dialysis centre. It was declared a dedicated COVID hospital by the Government of Haryana in April ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56783427 | 538,402 |
1,991,332 | The prime contractor selected to perform the ARD's development and construction was French aerospace company Aérospatiale (which later merged into the multinational EADS – SPACE Transportation group). During 1995 and 1996, multiple development studies exploring concepts for the shape of such a vehicle were conducted; u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2459800 | 1,990,189 |
455,234 | The clinical presentation of TMA, although dependent on the type, typically includes: fever, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia (see schistocytes in a blood smear), kidney failure, thrombocytopenia and neurological manifestations. Generally, renal complications are particularly predominant with Shiga-toxin-associated he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3951905 | 455,012 |
170,424 | Linnaeus described his "Amphibia" (comprising reptiles and amphibians) as: "Animals that are distinguished by a body cold and generally naked; stern and expressive countenance; harsh voice; mostly lurid color; filthy odor; a few are furnished with a horrid poison; all have cartilaginous bones, slow circulation, exquisi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28292088 | 170,334 |
1,765,789 | Dyslexia is a complex, lifelong disorder involving difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters and other symbols. Dyslexia does not affect general intelligence, but is often co-diagnosed with ADHD. There are at least three sub-types of dyslexia that have been recognized by researchers: orthographic, or s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23085583 | 1,764,796 |
150,158 | The College of Arts and Letters (CAL) approaches the humanities, social sciences and the arts from a science and technology perspective. While every undergraduate at Stevens is required to take a set of humanities courses, CAL offers B.A. degrees in literature, history, philosophy and the social sciences. CAL was estab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292132 | 150,090 |
1,492,987 | The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) is a series of experiments designed to directly detect particle dark matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (or WIMPs). Using an array of semiconductor detectors at millikelvin temperatures, CDMS has at times set the most sensitive limits on the interactions o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1419800 | 1,492,148 |
2,038,112 | Christine Drea followed her Ph.D. with a postdoctoral fellowship in physiology at the Morehouse School of Medicine and a NRSA postdoctoral fellowship in psychology. She was also a lecturer of integrative biology at University of California, Berkeley. While at Berkeley, Drea studied the social behavior and reproductive ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57138268 | 2,036,937 |
162,755 | The design of the Roman Space Telescope has heritage to various proposed designs for the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) between NASA and the Department of Energy (DOE). Roman adds some extra capabilities to the original JDEM proposals, including a search for extra-solar planets using gravitational microlensing. In it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28371067 | 162,670 |
2,015,565 | Note that while not required, it is a convention that module and symbolic names are in all upper case, that the first character of a name field is a letter or the symbols @,# or $, and that subsequent characters of a name consist of those characters plus the character digits 0 through 9, although older software may or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40095816 | 2,014,405 |
743,402 | Admission to a Doctor of Physical Therapy program in the United States is highly competitive. According to the Aggregate Program Data Report from CAPTE from 2016 to 2017, the average grade point average for enrolling students was 3.6 out of 4 with a range of 3.20–3.88 for all programs. On average, there were 1,000 appl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2110699 | 743,008 |
807,358 | Technoethical inquiry in the field of education examines how technology impacts the roles and values of education in society. This field considers changes in student values and behavior related to technology, including access to inappropriate material in schools, online plagiarism using material copied directly from th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=699052 | 806,928 |
1,549,490 | Pediatric gastroenterology has grown greatly in North America and Europe. It began with the speciality of pediatrics, which was developed along with children’s hospitals in the 19th century. The concept of specialists concentrating on organ specific specialties started around the same time. A person who contributed to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39337624 | 1,548,609 |
1,634,503 | Upon return to the United States on 14 August 1929, "Noa" went into the Mare Island Navy Yard for overhaul before assignment to West Coast operations. Through the next five years, she operated out of San Diego as a unit of the Battle Fleet. During the fall and winter of 1929, "Noa" was called upon to assist in plane gu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2470153 | 1,633,580 |
1,775,690 | PC keyboards, notebook keyboards are vulnerable to attacks based on differentiating the sound emanated by different keys. This attack takes as input an audio signal containing a recording of a single word typed by a single person on a keyboard, and a dictionary of words. It is assumed that the typed word is present in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29816614 | 1,774,693 |
669,587 | The Infrared Spatial Interferometer (ISI), run by an arm of the University of California, Berkeley, is an array of three 1.65 meter telescopes operating in the mid-infrared. The telescopes are fully mobile and their current site on Mount Wilson allows for placements as far as 70 meters apart, giving the resolution of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213583 | 669,237 |
1,745,881 | On 3 November, the division was renamed the 6th Infantry Division. The division initially commanded rear area personnel and the 22nd Infantry Brigade. Over the coming months, the 14th and 16th Infantry Brigades were assigned to the division as they arrived in Egypt from Palestine. On 10 June 1940, Italy declared war up... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4468060 | 1,744,896 |
521,440 | Wythe continued his thriving legal practice with Jefferson's assistance. In 1767, Wythe introduced Jefferson to the bar of the General Court, and Jefferson was appointed clerk to the House of Burgesses. The following year, Wythe wrote the colony's London agent to secure copies of the burgesses' complete journals from t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=261191 | 521,169 |
2,098,813 | It is a small tree reaching 3-4 meters in height. Its young branches have dense red, velvety hairs. Older branches are black. Its densely hairy petioles are 7-8 millimeter long and have a channel. Its elliptical leaves are 12-17 by 3.7-4.7 centimeters with tips that taper to a point and bases that taper to their petiol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59803609 | 2,097,605 |
1,797,350 | Camera auto-calibration is a form of sensor ego-structure discovery; the subjective effects of the sensor are separated from the objective effects of the environment leading to a reconstruction of the perceived world without the bias applied by the measurement device. This is achieved via the fundamental assumption tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23281951 | 1,796,341 |
256,613 | Monasteries produced manuscripts for their own use; heavily illuminated ones tended to be reserved for liturgical use in the early period, while the monastery library held plainer texts. In the early period manuscripts were often commissioned by rulers for their own personal use or as diplomatic gifts, and many old man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=92310 | 256,479 |
625,052 | The Polo R WRC was officially unveiled in May 2011, and spent the next eighteen months in testing, with two-time World Rally Champion Carlos Sainz, Sébastien Ogier—who was recruited to the team from the Citroën World Rally Team at the end of the 2011 season—and Volkswagen's testing and development driver Dieter Depping... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36636484 | 624,719 |
138,916 | Karelin competed in Greco-Roman wrestling, representing the Soviet Union and Russia between 1987 and 2000. Nicknamed the "Russian Bear", "Russian King Kong", "Alexander the Great" and "The Experiment", he is widely considered to be the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of all time. Karelin won gold medals at the 1988, 1992... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=622606 | 138,860 |
495,793 | HFO refrigerants are categorized as having zero ozone depletion potential (ODP) and low global warming potential (GWP) and so offer a more environmentally friendly alternative to CFC, HCFC, and HFC refrigerants. Compared to HCFCs and HFCs, HFOs have shorter tropospheric lifetimes due to the reactivity of the C=C bond w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34058884 | 495,537 |
34,195 | In biology, energy is an attribute of all biological systems, from the biosphere to the smallest living organism. Within an organism it is responsible for growth and development of a biological cell or organelle of a biological organism. Energy used in respiration is stored in substances such as carbohydrates (includin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9649 | 34,183 |
1,020,698 | Most recently, more programs have sprung up worldwide, including NestWatch, a bird species monitoring program which tracks data on reproduction. This might include studies on when and how often nesting occurs, counting eggs laid and how many hatch successfully, and what proportion of hatchlings survive infancy. Partici... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2155752 | 1,020,169 |
1,362,965 | In December 1984, project management consultant David Andrews issued an eight-page critique of the programme, noting that the design was optimised for the ascent while exposing itself to extended thermal loads during descent due to a low level of drag. He also claimed that the vehicle offered no capability that was not... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14301 | 1,362,212 |
278,416 | Pol α (alpha), Pol δ (delta), and Pol ε (epsilon) are members of Family B Polymerases and are the main polymerases involved with nuclear DNA replication. Pol α complex (pol α-DNA primase complex) consists of four subunits: the catalytic subunit POLA1, the regulatory subunit POLA2, and the small and the large primase su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=235926 | 278,266 |
93,492 | Between 1978 and 1980, the DoD and USN repeatedly attempted to terminate the AV-8B program. There had previously been conflict between the USMC and USN over budgetary issues. At the time, the USN wanted to procure A-18s for its ground attack force and, to cut costs, pressured the USMC to adopt the similarly designed F-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18940560 | 93,451 |
609,523 | Although often associated with California due to its adoption and widespread use there, the technology was exported widely, to Oregon (Jacksonville in 1856), Colorado (Clear Creek, Central City and Breckenridge in 1860), Montana (Bannack in 1865), Arizona (Lynx Creek in 1868), Idaho (Idaho City in 1863), South Dakota (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=353849 | 609,212 |
1,330,793 | scFv is the smallest of the recombinant antibody formats, which is capable of antigen binding. They have a molecular weight of approximately 27kDa. They are formed by light and heavy chain of the variable region of an immunoglobulin. The two chains are linked by a flexible peptide linker. The flexible peptide linker us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54969945 | 1,330,064 |
874,594 | In 2012, Yin's research group published a paper about optimizing the specificity of nucleic acid hybridization. They introduced a ‘toehold exchange probe (PC)’ which consists of a pre-hybridized complement strand C and a protector strand P. Complement strand is longer than protector strand to have unbound tail in the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15037251 | 874,132 |
708,998 | Upon the introduction of active yeasts to the grape must, phosphates are attached to the sugar and the six-carbon sugar molecules begin to be split into three-carbon pieces and go through a series of rearrangement reactions. During this process, the carboxylic carbon atom is released in the form of carbon dioxide with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13824744 | 708,629 |
1,758,217 | After some controversy over three weeks, Ayres apologized and said: "in several brief instances in the book, my language is too close to the sourced material and I should have used quotation marks to set it apart from my text." However, The Chronicle of Higher Education noted that Ayres insisted: "his citations are pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10022527 | 1,757,224 |
1,551,492 | Attached to ISOLDE is in building 508 one of the largest solid-state physics laboratory for perturbed angular correlation that receive its major funding from BMBF. It uses about 20-25% of ISOLDE's beam time. Its major focus is the study of functional materials, such as metals, semiconductors, insulators and bio-molecul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2050029 | 1,550,611 |
1,689,734 | Rocky Mountain University of Physical Therapy was established in 1998 by Dr. Richard P. Nielsen and Dr. Michael Skurja Jr. as an exclusive post-professional graduate healthcare institution. Nielsen and Skurja, both board-certified electrophysiologists, had co-founded the Institute for Clinical Electrophysiology in 1993... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31060338 | 1,688,788 |
1,358,748 | The most commonly used and commercially available fluorescent base analogue, 2-aminopurine (2-AP), has a high-fluorescence quantum yield free in solution (0.68) that is considerably reduced (appr. 100 times but highly dependent on base sequence) when incorporated into nucleic acids. The emission sensitivity of 2-AP to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14039006 | 1,357,998 |
1,916,227 | A man of the times, Cooper was heavily involved in community development and civil rights issues, especially educational opportunities and motivation. There was a great deal of social turmoil present in Rochester, as shown by the 1964 Rochester Race Riots. Cooper served the National Association for the Advancement of C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29274552 | 1,915,128 |
1,464,985 | In addition to the otolith, recent studies have revealed more information about the reproductive organs of the oarfish. Using photographs, histological cross-sections, and measurements of four samples of "R. russelii", researchers were able to qualitatively describe the sexual organs of the species. These studies have ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60350142 | 1,464,162 |
770,700 | The pitcher's main role is to pitch the ball toward home plate with the goal of getting the batter out. Pitchers also play defense by fielding batted balls, covering bases (for a potential tag out or force out on an approaching runner), or backing up throws. The catcher's main role is to receive the pitch if the batter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=895961 | 770,286 |
122,271 | In his "Al-Shukūk ‛alā Batlamyūs", variously translated as "Doubts Concerning Ptolemy" or "Aporias against Ptolemy", published at some time between 1025 and 1028, Alhazen criticized Ptolemy's "Almagest", "Planetary Hypotheses", and "Optics", pointing out various contradictions he found in these works, particularly in a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1645 | 122,222 |
979,017 | Originally Ytong autoclaved aerated concrete in Sweden was produced with alum shale, whose combustible carbon content was beneficial in the production process. Unfortunately, the slate deposits used for Ytong in Sweden also contain a very low level of natural uranium, which makes the material give off radioactive radon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2624245 | 978,506 |
1,193,970 | In order to apply combinatorial chemistry for the synthesis of DNA-encoded chemical libraries, a Split-&-Pool approach was pursued. Initially a set of unique DNA-oligonucleotides (n) each containing a specific coding sequence is chemically conjugated to a corresponding set of small organic molecules. Consequently, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22810768 | 1,193,330 |
350,914 | Molten aluminium oxide near the melting temperature is roughly 2/3 tetrahedral (i.e. 2/3 of the Al are surrounded by 4 oxygen neighbors), and 1/3 5-coordinated, with very little (<5%) octahedral Al-O present. Around 80% of the oxygen atoms are shared among three or more Al-O polyhedra, and the majority of inter-polyhed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=141888 | 350,731 |
972,041 | Several types of molecules are important in morphogenesis. Morphogens are soluble molecules that can diffuse and carry signals that control cell differentiation via concentration gradients. Morphogens typically act through binding to specific protein receptors. An important class of molecules involved in morphogenesis ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19965 | 971,531 |
449,141 | In 2017, IBM invested $240 million to create the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab. Headquartered in Cambridge, MA the Lab is a unique joint research venture in artificial intelligence established by IBM and MIT, which brings together researchers in academia and industry to advance AI that has a real world impact for business, aca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=551666 | 448,923 |
569,500 | Data release 8 (DR8), released in January 2011, includes all photometric observations taken with the SDSS imaging camera, covering 14,555 square degrees on the sky (just over 35% of the full sky). Data release 9 (DR9), released to the public on 31 July 2012, includes the first results from the Baryon Oscillation Spectr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=831170 | 569,210 |
2,132,785 | One of the longest established spinmechatronic systems is the Magnetic Resonance Force Microscope or MRFM. First proposed by J. A. Sidles in a seminal paper of 1991 – and since extensively developed both theoretically and experimentally by a number of international research groups – the MRFM operates by coupling a magn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21534694 | 2,131,560 |
1,032,701 | Emission theories, according to which the speed of light depends on the velocity of the source, can conceivably explain the negative outcome of aether drift experiments. It wasn't until the mid-1960s that the constancy of the speed of light was definitively shown by experiment, since in 1965, J. G. Fox showed that the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1608886 | 1,032,165 |
2,152,445 | Between 1989 and 1993, Allen discussed the company with Jeffery Stein, who had founded an information process company called On-Line Business Systems. Working with Reda Athanasios, Stein, buoyed by his experience founding a computer-based service company, played the largest role in turning the early software company in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12230883 | 2,151,214 |
1,631,528 | In hybrid methods, the Lagrange fields are for jumps of fields between elements, living on the boundary of the elements, weakly enforcing continuity; continuity from fields in the elements does not need to be enforced through shared degrees of freedom between elements anymore. Both mixing and hybridization can be appli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41729317 | 1,630,606 |
53,329 | When introduced in the 1997 Corvette the LS1 was rated at at 5,600 rpm and at 4,400 rpm. After improvements to the intake and exhaust manifolds in 2001 the rating improved to and ( for Manual Transmission Corvettes . The LS1 was used in the Corvette from 97 to 04. It was also used in 98-02 GM F-Body (Camaro & Firebird)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=877441 | 53,309 |
1,944,120 | DAPPI can analyze both polar (e.g. verapamil) and nonpolar (e.g. anthracene) compounds. This technique has an upper detection limit of 600 Da. Compared to desorption electrostray ionization (DESI), DAPPI is less likely to be contaminated by biological matrices. DAPPI was also seen to be more sensitive and contain less ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19344297 | 1,943,008 |
1,965,090 | Patz has also held a variety of positions in which he has furthered the discussion on the public health effects of climate change. Beginning in 1998, Patz served as Co-chair of the Health Expert Panel for the first US National Assessment on Climate Variability and Change. Patz also served as Founding President of the I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50954852 | 1,963,961 |
1,217,246 | Characterizing the form of the point-spread function by a single number, as the Strehl Ratio does, will be meaningful and sensible only if the point-spread function is little distorted from its ideal (aberration-free) form, which will be true for a well-corrected system that operates close to the diffraction limit. Tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4653057 | 1,216,593 |
2,117,687 | Cognitive specialization suggests that certain behaviors, often in the domain of social communication, are passed on to offspring and refined to be maximally beneficial by the process of natural selection. Specializations serve an adaptive purpose for an organism by allowing the organism to be better suited for its hab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3286366 | 2,116,469 |
199,783 | Smell allows the body to recognize chemical molecules in the air through inhalation. Olfactory organs located on either side of the nasal septum consist of olfactory epithelium and lamina propria. The olfactory epithelium, which contains olfactory receptor cells, covers the inferior surface of the cribiform plate, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=569399 | 199,680 |
679,185 | On-going mutual perturbations of the planets cause long-term quasi-periodic variations in their orbital elements, most apparent when two planets' orbital periods are nearly in sync. For instance, five orbits of Jupiter (59.31 years) is nearly equal to two of Saturn (58.91 years). This causes large perturbations of both... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1490148 | 678,831 |
81,437 | Each "MythBusters" episode focuses typically on two or more popular beliefs, Internet rumors, or other myths. Many of the myths are on mechanical effects as portrayed in live-action films and television of fictional incidents. The list of myths tested by the series is compiled from many sources, including the personal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=627304 | 81,404 |
1,195,141 | The Founding Conference culminated in the formal creation of the International Space University, and established it as a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization in the state of Massachusetts, USA. The first ISU Summer Session Program (SSP) took place at MIT from 20 June to 20 August 1988 with the support of the maj... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1077821 | 1,194,501 |
717,053 | Two weeks later, Guth heard colleagues discussing something called the horizon problem. The microwave background radiation discovered by Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson appeared extremely uniform, with almost no variance. This seemed very paradoxical because when the radiation was released about 300,000 years af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=454498 | 716,676 |
1,628,981 | Even before the slump in international demand during the global financial crisis of 2008–2009, diamond mining had been contributing less to economic growth with each plan period. This led the government to make diversifying the economy a priority of the "Tenth National Development Plan" for the period 2009–2016. The go... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53470501 | 1,628,062 |
2,113,597 | AFCEE performed "cradle-to-grave" management for base environmental restoration that spans the full spectrum of cleanup activities, from preliminary assessment/site investigation to remedial action, remedial process optimization, and site close out. The Center served as the primary restoration agent and consultant to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5934016 | 2,112,382 |
563,594 | Original cell-culture based experiments demonstrated cell cycle arrest at the G1-S transition resulting from the deletion of Cdk2. Later experiments showed that Cdk2 deletions lengthened the G phase of the cell cycle in mouse embryo fibroblasts. However, they still entered S phase after this period and were able to com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9880204 | 563,305 |
1,203,829 | Because TAM CSF1R signaling is tumor-permissive and can tumor treatment-resistance, CSF1R signaling is a promising therapeutic target in the treatment of cancer. Several studies have investigated the efficacy of CSF1R inhibitor as a monotherapy and as a combination therapy in refractory and metastatic cancers. Several ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14722972 | 1,203,184 |
326,481 | In the mid-15th century, Serbia was conquered by the Ottoman Empire and for the next 400 years there was no opportunity for the creation of secular written literature. However, some of the greatest literary works in Serbian come from this time, in the form of oral literature, the most notable form being epic poetry. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75595 | 326,307 |
559,062 | The debate regarding the "hegemonikon" persisted among ancient Greek philosophers and physicians for a very long time. Already in the 4th century BC, Aristotle thought that the heart was the seat of intelligence, while the brain was a cooling mechanism for the blood. He reasoned that humans are more rational than the b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4794482 | 558,773 |
949,042 | A head-mounted display (HMD), worn over the entire head or worn in front of the eyes, is a device that uses one or two optics to project an image directly in front of the user's eyes. Its applications range across medicine, entertainment, aviation, and engineering, providing a layer of visual immersion that traditional... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=877295 | 948,538 |
162,750 | In 2012, another possibility emerged: NASA could use a second-hand National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) telescope made by Harris Corporation to accomplish a mission like the one planned for Roman. NRO offered to donate two telescopes, the same size as the Hubble Space Telescope but with a shorter focal length and hence... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28371067 | 162,665 |
858,049 | In the fall of 1770 Scheele became director of the laboratory of the great pharmacy of Locke, at Uppsala, which is about 40 miles north of Stockholm. The laboratory supplied chemicals to Professor of Chemistry Torbern Bergman. A friendship developed between Scheele and Bergman after Scheele analyzed a reaction which Be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59483 | 857,594 |
1,711,631 | The Science Center installed a wind turbine in its front yard in summer 2006. The wind turbine provides approximately 7% of the Science Center's annual electrical needs. A year later, it completed the installation of a 300-foot solar array canopy featuring 156 photovoltaic panels that provide enough power to light all ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2725762 | 1,710,668 |
1,459,722 | The end of inflation is called reheating, when the inflation particles decay into a hot, thermal plasma of other particles. In this epoch, the energy content of the universe is entirely radiation, with standard model particles having relativistic velocities. As the plasma cools, baryogenesis and leptogenesis are though... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1810098 | 1,458,901 |
1,233,426 | While an assistant professor of Educational Studies in the late 1980s, Gottfredson applied for and received three grants from the Pioneer Fund, which was created to advocate research into eugenics. She was promoted to full professor at the University of Delaware in 1990. That year, her fourth grant application to the P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2315046 | 1,232,763 |
196,703 | By the 1980s, large databases, such as Grateful Med at the National Library of Medicine, and user-oriented services such as Dialog and Compuserve, were for the first time accessible by individuals from their personal computers. The 1980s also saw the emergence of numerous special interest groups to respond to the chang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=149354 | 196,603 |
1,940,255 | Jennifer (Jen) Dionne is an American scientist and pioneer of nanophotonics. She is currently Senior Associate Vice Provost of Research Platforms at Stanford University, a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator, and an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and by courtesy, of Radiology. She serves as Di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62684129 | 1,939,145 |
1,710,686 | In 2008 and 2009, some Republican commentators advanced claims that used Millican's software to claim Barack Obama's autobiography, "Dreams from My Father" was written or ghost-written by Bill Ayers. Millican insists the claim is false. In a series of articles in American Thinker and WorldNetDaily, author Jack Cashill ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24993687 | 1,709,726 |
937,329 | The Junkers factory in Dessau was overrun by the Red Army in late April 1945. Before long, the Junkers Ju 287 V2 had been almost completed, waiting for its engines to be fitted, and construction of the V3 had reached 80-90 percent completion, while the V4 was reportedly 60 percent complete. Both V1 and V2 were destroye... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=456631 | 936,831 |
605,957 | The undergraduate division of the Department of Mathematics offers Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of Science (BS) degrees in Mathematics. It consists of a wide variety of courses in pure and applied mathematics taught by a distinguished faculty with a tradition of excellence in teaching and research. Students in ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1617601 | 605,647 |
1,217,923 | Functional TCD uses pulse-wave Doppler technology to record blood flow velocities in the anterior, middle, and posterior cerebral arteries. Similar to other neuroimaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), fTCD is based on a close coupling between regi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3147406 | 1,217,270 |
791,846 | Recently, researchers fabricated a graphene-based Bragg grating (one-dimensional photonic crystal) and demonstrated that it supports excitation of surface electromagnetic waves in the periodic structure by using 633 nm He-Ne laser as the light source. Besides, a novel type of one-dimensional graphene-dielectric photoni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=355377 | 791,421 |
615,885 | The NSFNET became the principal Internet backbone starting in the Summer of 1986, when MIDnet, the first NSFNET regional backbone network became operational. By 1988, in addition to the five NSF supercomputer centers, NSFNET included connectivity to the regional networks BARRNet, JVNCNet, Merit/MichNet, MIDnet, NCAR, N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=100247 | 615,571 |
1,849,684 | In the biological sciences, the term bow tie (so called for its shape) is a recent concept that tries to grasp the essence of some operational and functional structures observed in biological organisms and other kinds of complex and self-organizing systems. In general, bow tie architectures refer to ordered and recurre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22615944 | 1,848,626 |
1,143,986 | When asked about the series in a 2016 interview with online electronic music journal Resident Advisor, Sean Booth of Autechre said that,I dunno, I didn't come up with Artificial Intelligence. You'd have to ask [Warp founder] Rob Mitchell and he's not around any more! I think it was a joke, really. There was a definite ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1197108 | 1,143,386 |
652,124 | Secondary hyperaldosteronism can also be caused by excessive ingestion of licorice or other members of the "Glycyrrhiza" genus of plants that contain the triterpenoid saponin glycoside known as glycyrrhizin. Licorice and closely related plants are perennial shrubs, the roots of which are used in medicine as well as mak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3150808 | 651,782 |
735,465 | Adjuvants in immunology are often used to modify or augment the effects of a vaccine by stimulating the immune system to respond to the vaccine more vigorously, and thus providing increased immunity to a particular disease. Adjuvants accomplish this task by mimicking specific sets of evolutionarily conserved molecules,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10173410 | 735,078 |
295,592 | The prosoma also bore six pairs of appendages which are usually referred to as appendage pairs I to VI. The first pair of appendages, the only pair placed before the mouth, is called the chelicerae (homologous to the fangs of spiders). They were equipped with small pincers used to manipulate food fragments and push the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=765459 | 295,432 |
328,266 | In 1960, the Air Staff approached Avro with a request into a study for a patrol missile carrier armed with up to six Skybolt missiles capable of a mission length of 12 hours. Avro's submission in May 1960 was the Phase 6 Vulcan, which would have been the Vulcan B.3. The aircraft was fitted with an enlarged wing of span... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44070 | 328,092 |
1,123,841 | Leica Microsystems GmbH is a German microscope manufacturing company. It is a manufacturer of optical microscopes, equipment for the preparation of microscopic specimens and related products. There are ten plants in eight countries with distribution partners in over 100 countries. Leica Microsystems emerged in 1997 out... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25025332 | 1,123,267 |
769,031 | In September 1954, a Symposium on Solar Energy and Wind Power organised by the CSIR and UNESCO was held in New Delhi; among the attendees was E. W. Golding, a British power engineer and authority on wind energy generation. Convinced of the potential of wind power in India, he recommended continued and extensive wind ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10922076 | 768,619 |
407,405 | The Carol of Lights is an annual event, sponsored by the Residence Halls Association, traditionally held the first Friday in December, to celebrate the holiday season. The event begins with a carillon concert, from the 43 bells in the west tower of the Administration Building followed a torch-light processional by the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=272980 | 407,204 |
745,499 | Further evidence of the Red Queen hypothesis was observed in allelic effects under sexual selection. The Red Queen hypothesis leads to the understanding that allelic recombination is advantageous for populations that engage in aggressive biotic interactions, such as predator-prey or parasite-host interactions. In cases... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9918043 | 745,105 |
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