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1,636,735 | In response to the Sputnik-inspired emphasis on science education, and the resultant Biological Sciences Curriculum Study textbooks (which emphasised evolution for the first time), creationists in the early 1960s were searching for an orthodox and up-to-date creationist biology textbook. The CRS responded with "Biology... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1260546 | 1,635,810 |
443,876 | First calculation of the radiation electromagnetic energy due to current was given by George Francis FitzGerald in 1883, where radiation resistance appears. However, dipole antenna experiments by Heinrich Hertz made bigger impact and gathered commentary by Poincaré on the "amortissement" or damping of the oscillator du... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3209246 | 443,661 |
977,646 | The first 88 students, mostly evening students, attended classes in a rented building at 21 West Park Street. Soon the facility became inadequate to house an expanding student body. To meet the needs of the growing school, a second fund-raiser—the institution's first capital campaign—was launched to support the constru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=283853 | 977,135 |
471,756 | In February 2020, traces of debris were discovered within the fuel tanks of aircraft produced during the groundings. FAA set out the remaining steps in the process to ungrounding the aircraft: after remaining minor issues are resolved, a certification flight will be conducted and flight data will be assessed. Operation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63181427 | 471,520 |
1,382,344 | After completing his PhD, Grimson worked as a research scientist at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (now CSAIL) before joining the university's faculty in 1984. He eventually rose to Bernard Gordon Chair of Medical Engineering and holds a joint appointment as a Radiology Lecturer at Harvard Medical School an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37956528 | 1,381,579 |
1,754,480 | A 10 feet high by 24 feet wide (3 by 7.3 meters) mural was commissioned by General Insurance Company of America (SAFECO) in 1953. The mural depicts the Great Seattle Fire which occurred on June 6, 1889. Zallinger spent a long time researching and studying historic photos and their every detail to capture the moment of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8990816 | 1,753,490 |
399,548 | The patient may also experience localized swelling; extreme sensitivity to nonpainful stimuli such as wind, water, noise, and vibrations; extreme sensitivity to touch (by themselves, other people, and even light clothing or bedding/blankets); abnormally increased sweating (or absent sweating); changes in skin temperatu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56283 | 399,350 |
1,731,223 | As depicted in the figure, there are three classical active thermographic techniques based on these two excitation modes: lock-in (or modulated) thermography and pulsed thermography, which are optical techniques applied externally; and vibrothermography, which uses ultrasonic waves (amplitude modulated or pulses) to ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16964212 | 1,730,247 |
2,116,996 | On 10 September 1915, the British government sent an appeal to Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand to raise tunnelling companies in the Dominions of the British Empire. On 17 September, New Zealand became the first Dominion to agree the formation of a tunnelling unit. The New Zealand Tunnelling Company arri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46673318 | 2,115,778 |
1,538,959 | On 10 September 1915, the British government sent an appeal to Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand to raise tunnelling companies in the Dominions of the British Empire. On 17 September, New Zealand became the first Dominion to agree the formation of a tunnelling unit. The New Zealand Tunnelling Company arri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46673504 | 1,538,086 |
286,668 | Spalding's mother took note of her daughter's musical proclivity when Spalding was able to reproduce Beethoven by ear on the family's piano at a young age. Spalding herself credited watching classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma perform on an episode of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" as an integral part of her childhood, and it in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17929761 | 286,513 |
1,864,783 | The propulsion system was the critical factor affecting the speed and the range of the torpedo. The Soviet Type 53 steam-powered torpedo was powered by a reciprocating engine and the cylinder of the engine had to sustain tremendous pressure. The only way to build cylinders that meet the requirement was to use a brand-n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12949759 | 1,863,711 |
1,455,040 | Mesquite lizards in Mexico and the southern United States have been found hibernating in groups of 2 to 8 in cracks or under slabs of bark in mesquite trees. Common collared lizards spend about 6 months hibernating, almost always solitarily, though pairs of juvenile females have been observed within the same hibernacul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12633703 | 1,454,220 |
494,160 | Within "TIS-100", the player is said to have come across a malfunctioning TIS-100 computer ("Tessellated Intelligence System") and its manual, based on early computers of the 1980s. The computer is presented to the player as twelve separate processing nodes laid out in a four-by-three grid. Each node has a single proce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46875661 | 493,905 |
1,415,274 | In the past, species descriptions and definitions have arisen through physiological characteristics like halotolerance and morphological characteristics like β-carotene content. However, this has led to numerous misidentifications, especially in marine species, since different conditions changing cell volumes, shapes, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13116468 | 1,414,477 |
603,894 | Daubechies orthogonal wavelets D2–D20 resp. db1–db10 are commonly used. The index number refers to the number "N" of coefficients. Each wavelet has a number of "zero moments" or "vanishing moments" equal to half the number of coefficients. For example, D2 has one vanishing moment, D4 has two, etc. A vanishing moment li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=554121 | 603,584 |
1,244,460 | Several laboratories have studied "in vitro" tumor cell angiogenesis using antisense constructs to the perlecan message. The full-length reverse complement cDNA, driven by a strong promoter, is transfected into various cell types to eliminate perlecan expression. Antisense in colon carcinoma cells blocks perlecan trans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4328716 | 1,243,787 |
693,139 | The first study of a laryngeal mask in 23 patients was conducted at London Hospital in 1982. Insertion and ventilation using the laryngeal mask in 16 anaesthetised, paralysed female patients was successful, achieving a seal greater than 20 cm HO in all patients. Emergence from anaesthesia was also noted to be uneventfu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=660192 | 692,776 |
800,092 | The second drawback was that ratings or rankings of profiles were unrealistic and did not link directly to behavioural theory. In real-life situations, buyers choose among alternatives rather than ranking or rating them. Jordan Louviere pioneered an approach that used only a choice task which became the basis of choice... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=296457 | 799,666 |
1,408,567 | Photon upconversion relies on metastable states to facilitate sequential energy absorption. Therefore, a necessary condition for upconverting systems is the existence of optically active long-lived excited states. This role is traditionally filled by lanthanide metal ions embedded in an insulating host lattice. General... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52499698 | 1,407,776 |
2,125,866 | He was born at Barlow, Gateshead, the only son of a tenant farmer of that village. He was educated at the village school and at Dr. Bruce's academy at Newcastle-on-Tyne, famous as the training-place of many great engineers. Leaving school at the age of fourteen, Nixon was set to farmwork for a time, and shortly after w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2341515 | 2,124,645 |
21,584 | The absence of a case gives pouch cells the highest gravimetric energy density; however, for many practical applications they still require an external means of containment to prevent expansion when their state of charge (SOC) level is high, and for general structural stability of the battery pack of which they are par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=201485 | 21,575 |
1,573,722 | Another government scheme hopes to increase the number of new diagnostics and therapies for patients, while reducing the time and cost of developing these. At the launch of the Accelerating Medicines Partnership in February 2014, NIH director Francis S. Collins stated that 'Currently, we are investing too much money an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53296445 | 1,572,833 |
348,042 | During the Dark Ages of Greece the old major settlements were abandoned (with the notable exception of Athens), and the population dropped dramatically in numbers. Within these three hundred years, the people of Greece lived in small groups that moved constantly in accordance with their new pastoral lifestyle and lives... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=340510 | 347,860 |
687,594 | Spallanzani was born in Scandiano in the modern province of Reggio Emilia to Gianniccolo Spallanzani and Lucia Zigliani. His father, a lawyer by profession, was not impressed with young Spallanzani who spent more time with small animals than studies. With financial support from Vallisnieri Foundation, his father enroll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=169015 | 687,236 |
263,702 | In the late 1930s, logical positivists fled Germany and Austria for Britain and the United States. By then, many had replaced Mach's phenomenalism with Otto Neurath's physicalism, whereby science's content is not actual or potential sensations, but instead is entities publicly observable. Rudolf Carnap, who had sparked... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18403 | 263,559 |
1,260,729 | Single-pair high-speed digital subscriber line (SHDSL) is a form of symmetric digital subscriber line (SDSL), a data communications technology for equal transmit and receive (i.e. symmetric) data rate over copper telephone lines, faster than a conventional voiceband modem can provide. As opposed to other DSL technologi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=487923 | 1,260,042 |
811,877 | Robert LeTourneau left school in 1902, at the age of fourteen. He moved from Vermont to Duluth, Minnesota, then to Portland, Oregon, where he began to work as an apprentice ironmonger at the East Portland Iron Works. While learning the foundry and machinist trades, he studied mechanics from an International Corresponde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1305142 | 811,445 |
925,227 | Speaking in June 2011, Reaction estimated that it would require ultimately $12 billion to achieve an operational configuration, which was then estimated to be achieved around 2020, dependent on funding. The obtaining of additional financing for the Skylon programme from the British government has often been difficult. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=550928 | 924,741 |
22,021 | Neoclassical economics studies the behaviour of individuals, households, and organizations (called economic actors, players, or agents), when they manage or use scarce resources, which have alternative uses, to achieve desired ends. Agents are assumed to act rationally, have multiple desirable ends in sight, limited re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9223 | 22,012 |
111,298 | The race was on. During the 1970s, four major second-generation proposals were funded worldwide. The Soviets continued their development lineage with the T-15, while a pan-European effort was developing the Joint European Torus (JET) and Japan began the JT-60 effort (originally known as the "Breakeven Plasma Test Facil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31439 | 111,253 |
1,956,383 | A long, rectangular, two-storey, facebrick building with a hip-roof drawn down over latticed lateral verandahs, the former Workshops building is sited west of F, G and H blocks and closes the courtyard visually to the west. Though different in form, the building is unified with the other buildings in the group in scale... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3049824 | 1,955,261 |
1,104,408 | The planet mass for which migration can be approximated to Type I depends on the local gas pressure scale height and, to a lesser extent, the kinematic viscosity of the gas. In warm and viscous disks, Type I migration may apply to larger mass planets. In locally isothermal disks and far from steep density and temperatu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1434249 | 1,103,845 |
410,941 | Alumni in the world of sport are many. They include Lisa Clayton, the first woman to sail the globe single-handed; 400 metres runner Allison Curbishley, who won silver at the 1998 Commonwealth Games; team pursuit cyclist Paul Manning, who won bronze, silver and gold at the Olympics of 2004, 2008 and 2012; sports schola... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209935 | 410,739 |
640,272 | The ruff has three male forms, which differ in mating behaviour and in appearance: the typical territorial males which have a dark neck ruff, satellite males which have a white neck ruff, and the very rare cryptic males known as "faeders" which have female-like plumage. The behaviour and appearance of each individual m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=350073 | 639,933 |
1,464,307 | The plaintiffs wanted these claims declared invalid, arguing that they are not patentable subject matter under §101 of Title 35 of the United States Code—that the isolated genes are unpatentable products of nature, that the diagnostic method claims are mere thought processes that do not yield any real world transformat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49626041 | 1,463,484 |
467,354 | The values taken by formula_6 depend on the mathematical space over which the random field varies. Thus, real-valued random fields take values on a simplex: this is the geometrical way of saying that the sum of probabilities must total to one. For quantum mechanics, the random variables range over complex projective sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16846849 | 467,119 |
477,999 | Pressure sensor arrays are large grids of tactels. A "tactel" is a 'tactile element'. Each tactel is capable of detecting normal forces. Tactel-based sensors provide a high resolution 'image' of the contact surface. Alongside spatial resolution and force sensitivity, systems-integration questions such as wiring and sig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25997913 | 477,759 |
2,017,006 | The Holomorphic Embedding Load-flow Method (HELM) is a solution method for the power-flow equations of electrical power systems. Its main features are that it is direct (that is, non-iterative) and that it mathematically guarantees a consistent selection of the correct operative branch of the multivalued problem, also ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34346707 | 2,015,844 |
781,371 | Other treatments that have been suggested, however, larger and more extensive research is needed to identify effective treatment strategies for this disease. Suggested treatments include light therapy, ultraviolet light (mainly NB-UVB 312 nm), topical steroids, topical and systemic chemotherapies, local superficial rad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1410487 | 780,953 |
395,068 | During the Early Jurassic, the ichthyosaurs still showed a large variety of species, ranging from in length. From this epoch, the original British discoveries were made, so that among ichthyosaurs, their names are the ones most familiar to the general public. Genera include "Eurhinosaurus", "Ichthyosaurus", "Leptonecte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314101 | 394,873 |
85,517 | The M41 TOW improved target acquisition system (ITAS) is a block upgrade to the M220 ground/high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle (HMMWV)-mounted TOW 2 missile system. The TOW ITAS is currently being fielded to airborne, air assault, and light infantry forces throughout the active and reserve components of the U.S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=338060 | 85,483 |
1,692,258 | Homogeneity of products: Calculations based on the standard IO model make it necessary to assume that each economic activity produces only one physically homogeneous product. In reality, however, the high level of aggregation of activities (e.g., in most European IO tables, all mining is included in the same activity i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42831222 | 1,691,307 |
816,120 | Wilkins' method of height-finding was added in 1937. He had originally developed this system as a way to measure the vertical angle of transatlantic broadcasts while working at the RRS. The system consisted of several parallel dipoles separated vertically on the receiver masts. Normally the RDF goniometer was connected... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=382754 | 815,684 |
680,734 | Homopolar generators underwent a renaissance in the 1950s as a source of pulsed power storage. These devices used heavy disks as a form of flywheel to store mechanical energy that could be quickly dumped into an experimental apparatus. An early example of this sort of device was built by Sir Mark Oliphant at the Resear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3707609 | 680,379 |
1,077,243 | Traditional databases are persistent but are incapable of dealing with dynamic data that constantly changes. Therefore, another system is needed. Real-time databases may be modified to improve accuracy and efficiency and to avoid conflict, by providing deadlines and wait periods to insure temporal consistency. Real-tim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8446344 | 1,076,688 |
2,004,827 | In March 2004, AUT members took industrial action over the proposed new pay structures (the Framework Agreement) offered by the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA). The original proposals from UCEA would have meant large reductions in income due to smaller annual increments. The action involved a one... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=881324 | 2,003,678 |
1,748,389 | All signal peptidases described so far are serine proteases. The active site that endoproteolytically cleaves signal peptides from translocated precursor proteins is located at the extracytoplasmic site of the membrane. The eukaryotic signal peptidase is an integral membrane protein complex. The first subunit, which wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32181058 | 1,747,403 |
1,937,513 | Gene expression of the brain changes throughout the different phases of life. The most significant levels of expression are found during early development, with the rate of gene expression being highest during fetal development. This results from the rapid growth of neurons in the embryo. Neurons at this stage are unde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24219329 | 1,936,405 |
1,104,225 | Coached by Tiit Sokk, Estonia qualified for EuroBasket 2015, with preliminary round matches held in Riga, Latvia. Estonia's first two performances were poor as the team suffered heavy defeats in matches against Czech Republic 57–80 and Belgium 55–84. However, the team bounced back with a 78–71 victory over Ukraine, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2859830 | 1,103,662 |
345,048 | Astrophysicist Jamie Farnes from the University of Oxford has proposed a theory, published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal "Astronomy & Astrophysics", that unifies dark energy and dark matter into a single dark fluid, and which is expected to be testable by new scientific instruments capable of being constructe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37856 | 344,867 |
701,182 | On 13 November 2019 Peugeot announced that they will take part in the 2022 WEC season in the newly created "Hypercar" class, which makes the brand's return to the sports car racing landscape after an 11-year absence. During the 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans, the CEO of PSA Group Carlos Tavares unveiled renders of the new Pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18795212 | 700,817 |
698,756 | In September 2018, FIDE announced the anti-cheating measures and procedures of the 43rd Chess Olympiad in accordance with the Abu Dhabi FIDE Executive Board in 2015 and the Moscow FIDE Presidential Board in 2016, as well as after clarifications of the FIDE WCOC Commission and FIDE Anti cheating Committee that were appl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51473085 | 698,392 |
827,354 | It is likely that Oberon formed from the accretion disk that surrounded Uranus just after the planet's formation. The moon consists of approximately equal amounts of ice and rock, and is probably differentiated into a rocky core and an icy mantle. A layer of liquid water may be present at the boundary between the mantl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66781 | 826,910 |
1,633,003 | The early 20th century saw the first widespread calls for increased government involvement and the idea of a national health insurance system had considerable popularity. During the Great Depression, calls for a public health system were widespread. Doctors who had long feared such an idea reconsidered hoping a governm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10620033 | 1,632,081 |
1,595,261 | Like natural TPP1, cerliponase alfa functions as a serine protease, cleaving N-terminal tripeptides from a broad range of protein substrates. The enzyme uses a catalytic triad active site composed of the three amino acids, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, and serine. Serine functions as the amino acid that performs the nu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54634310 | 1,594,363 |
1,454,672 | Established in 1882, it is one of the oldest institution of veterinary sciences and microbiology in Asia and one of the earliest institution founded by the Great Britain in indian subcontinent. Since its inception, it maintained its reoccupation as one of the famous and renown institution Veterinary and animal sciences... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7696916 | 1,453,852 |
27,904 | By international agreement, until May 2019, the Kelvin and Celsius scales were defined by two fixing points: absolute zero and the triple point of Vienna Standard Mean Ocean Water, which is water specially prepared with a specified blend of hydrogen and oxygen isotopes. Absolute zero was defined as precisely and . It i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20647050 | 27,894 |
753,723 | When evaluating a patient for cyanosis or respiratory distress, vital signs should be monitored, especially the patient's heart rate and oxygen saturation. It is beneficial to have vascular access established. In newborns, the pulse oximeter is typically placed on the right hand to determine pre-ductal oxygenation, ref... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=729431 | 753,321 |
23,718 | Salicylates are excreted mainly by the kidneys as salicyluric acid (75%), free salicylic acid (10%), salicylic phenol (10%), and acyl glucuronides (5%), gentisic acid (< 1%), and 2,3-dihydroxybenzoic acid. When small doses (less than 250mg in an adult) are ingested, all pathways proceed by first-order kinetics, with an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1525 | 23,709 |
221,939 | Fulgurites can exceed 20 centimeters in diameter and can penetrate deep into the subsoil, sometimes occurring as far as below the surface that was struck. Or they may form directly on sedimentary surfaces. One of the longest fulgurites to have been found in modern times was a little over in length, and was found in nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=329115 | 221,830 |
2,050,732 | SCIPP's scientific and technical staff are and have been involved in several cutting edge research projects for more than 25 years, in both theory and experiment. The primary focus is particle physics and particle astrophysics, including the development of technologies needed to advance that research. SCIPP is also pur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16524248 | 2,049,551 |
13,095 | The Investigation Committee on the Accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Stations of Tokyo Electric Power Company's interim report stated that Japan's response was flawed by "poor communication and delays in releasing data on dangerous radiation leaks at the facility". The report blamed Japan's central government as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31162817 | 13,090 |
574,160 | Muller, with about 250 strains of "Drosophila", moved to University of Edinburgh in September 1937, after brief stays in Madrid and Paris. In 1938, with war on the horizon, he began looking for a permanent position back in the United States. He also began courting Dorothea "Thea" Kantorowicz, a German refugee; they wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240846 | 573,866 |
343,338 | A new era in color photography began with the introduction of Kodachrome film, available for 16 mm home movies in 1935 and 35 mm slides in 1936. It captured the red, green, and blue color components in three layers of emulsion. A complex processing operation produced complementary cyan, magenta, and yellow dye images i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2435889 | 343,157 |
763,152 | Flank attacks were always possible, but the legion was flexible enough to pivot to meet this, either through sub-unit manoeuvre or through the deployment of lines farther back. The cavalry screen on the flanks also added another layer of security, as did nightly regrouping in fortified camps. The Gauls and Germans also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30855309 | 762,743 |
1,266,669 | Mixtures that are richer than stoichiometric allow for greater peak engine power when using vaporized liquid fuel due to the mixture not being able to reach a perfectly homogenized state so extra fuel is added to ensure all oxygen is burned producing maximum power. The ideal mixture in this type of operation depends on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8117001 | 1,265,980 |
1,726,404 | Ancestral reconstruction (also known as Character Mapping or Character Optimization) is the extrapolation back in time from measured characteristics of individuals (or populations) to their common ancestors. It is an important application of phylogenetics, the reconstruction and study of the evolutionary relationships ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6383817 | 1,725,433 |
776,716 | Somatic mutation leading to mosaicism is prevalent in the beginning and end stages of human life. Somatic mosaics are common in embryogenesis due to retrotransposition of long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) and Alu transposable elements. In early development, DNA from undifferentiated cell types may be m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=604020 | 776,300 |
2,067,032 | "The essential status of the "Handbook" emerges from its historical position; it looks back to the beginning of Australian ornithology, summarizing the known, and forward to the great "Catalogue" by Sharpe and others, and to the Australian works of Ramsay, Campbell, North and Mathews. From this transitional point it pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24795521 | 2,065,841 |
1,116,824 | In 2016, the paleontologist Spencer G. Lucas and colleagues criticized the idea of north–south dinosaur provinciality in Laramidia, and found the case for endemism among non-dinosaurian vertebrates weak, and that of dinosaurs problematic, as mainly a few chasmosaurine taxa were used to identify it. They rejected the id... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28916285 | 1,116,251 |
1,470,374 | As device geometry shrinks, i.e transistors and gates become smaller resulting in larger and more complex processors and SoCs (see Moore's law), the leakage current becomes much higher and less predictable. This makes it difficult to tell a low leakage part with a defect from a naturally high leakage part. Also, increa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3954002 | 1,469,549 |
33,810 | Sensor fusion and automatic target tracking are projected to give the fifth-generation jet fighter pilot a view of the battlespace superior to that of legacy AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) aircraft that may be forced back from the front lines by increasing threats. Therefore, tactical control could be shif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20926432 | 33,798 |
1,475,910 | Saturn is the source of rather strong low frequency radio emissions called Saturn kilometric radiation (SKR). The frequency of SKR lies in the range 10–1300 kHz (wavelength of a few kilometers) with the maximum around 400 kHz. The power of these emissions is strongly modulated by the rotation of the planet and is corre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2309427 | 1,475,078 |
330,339 | Towards the end of the war, as the Allies gained air supremacy, the Stuka was being replaced by ground-attack versions of the Fw 190. By early 1944, the number of Ju 87 units and operational aircraft terminally declined. For the Soviet summer offensive, Operation Bagration, 12 Ju 87 groups and five mixed groups (includ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16590 | 330,164 |
588,565 | A computer number format is the internal representation of numeric values in digital device hardware and software, such as in programmable computers and calculators. Numerical values are stored as groupings of bits, such as bytes and words. The encoding between numerical values and bit patterns is chosen for convenienc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48662 | 588,263 |
914,062 | Endopeptidases are enzymes that add water to an internal peptide bond in a peptide chain and break that bond. Three common endopeptidases that come from the pancreas are pepsin, trypsin, and chymotrypsin. Chymotrypsin performs a hydrolysis reaction that cleaves after aromatic residues. The main amino acids involved are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7663895 | 913,583 |
1,095,236 | Glutathione plays a key role in maintaining proper function and preventing oxidative stress in human cells. It can act as a scavenger for hydroxyl radicals, singlet oxygen, and various electrophiles. Reduced glutathione reduces the oxidized form of the enzyme glutathione peroxidase, which in turn reduces hydrogen perox... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3247252 | 1,094,676 |
2,215,204 | Archaeal Hami, one of the three domains of life, is a highly diverse group of prokaryotes that include a number of extremophiles. One of these extremophiles has given rise to a highly complex new appendage known as the hamus. In contrast to the well-studied prokaryotic appendages pili and fimbriae, much is yet to be di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71881949 | 2,213,944 |
89,596 | The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University. The selection of content for the record took almost a year. Sagan and his associates assembled 115 images and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind, thunder and animals (including the so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=144386 | 89,559 |
1,506,453 | Before the short courses began, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for an expansion of the Air Corps in January 1939. The need for experienced officers to supervise the expansion led to plans to reduce the size of the faculty and long course classes as a compromise to keep the school functioning. Six of the 24 Air ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7705538 | 1,505,607 |
789,437 | Critics warn that RPM's over-reliance on prompts (verbal and physical cuing by facilitators) may inhibit development of independent communication in its target population. , only one scientific study attempting to support Mukhopadhyay's claims of efficacy has been conducted, though reviewers found the study had serious... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2106968 | 789,013 |
1,263,569 | Each university program has its own recruitment process, primarily by competitive examination. ENAC has four bachelor's degree programs to train airline pilots and civil-aviation technicians. The school provides theoretical training for airline-pilot students (EPL) in eight months at its Toulouse campus; sixteen months... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2008318 | 1,262,881 |
1,371,372 | CFSE was originally developed as a fluorescent dye that could be used to stably label lymphocytes and track their migration within animals for many months. Subsequent studies revealed that the dye can be used to monitor lymphocyte proliferation, both "in vitro" and "in vivo", due to the progressive halving of CFSE fluo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9384017 | 1,370,615 |
381,977 | In addition to the aerial tanker conversion, the Air Weather Service by 1955 had worn out the WB-29s used for hurricane hunting and other weather reconnaissance missions. Thirty-six former SAC B-50Ds were stripped of their armament and equipped for long-range weather reconnaissance missions. The WB-50 could fly higher,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=635378 | 381,782 |
412,857 | The internal logic runs at the same speed as the external clock rate, but despite the low clock speeds (typically in the neighborhood of 1 to ), the 6502's performance was competitive with other contemporary CPUs using significantly faster clocks. This is partly due to a simple state machine implemented by combinationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20297 | 412,655 |
7,667 | Science education for the general public is embedded in the school curriculum, and is supplemented by online pedagogical content (for example, YouTube and Khan Academy), museums, and science magazines and blogs. Scientific literacy is chiefly concerned with an understanding of the scientific method, units and methods o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26700 | 7,664 |
1,777,820 | As was the custom at the time, the Olympic trials consisted of a tournament between top teams from the Amateur Athletic Union, the YMCA and the National Collegiate Athletic Association. One notably absent team from the tournament was the 1935–36 Long Island Blackbirds, who had just completed a 25–0 season behind stars ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42422468 | 1,776,818 |
1,797,526 | Consider the following two broad categories of attack of adversaries on a given cryptographic scheme: attacks in which the adversary tries to learn secret information, and attacks in which the adversary tries to convince an honest party to accept a false statement as true (or vice versa). In the first case, for example... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2290431 | 1,796,517 |
2,179,616 | Cooper was born in Lancaster in 1953. She was raised in Newark. She attended Newark High School and graduated in 1971. Her father, Charles Burleigh Cooper, was an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Delaware. She completed her undergraduate degree in 1976 at Cornell University. When she started at Cornel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67596815 | 2,178,371 |
992,336 | Cockroaches, like all insects, breathe through a system of tubes called "tracheae". The tracheae of insects are attached to the spiracles, excluding the head. Thus cockroaches, like all insects, are not dependent on the mouth and windpipe to breathe. The valves open when the CO level in the insect rises to a high level... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24104729 | 991,819 |
1,093,658 | Diplodocidae was the third name given to what is now recognized as the single family of long-necked, whip-tailed sauropods. Edward Drinker Cope named the family Amphicoeliidae in 1878 for his genus "Amphicoelias", sometimes considered a diplodocid. However, the name Amphicoeliidae did not come into wider use and was no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1137870 | 1,093,098 |
1,152,561 | In 1994, a 28-year-old man with EIS was reported. He was fully masculinized. At 204 cm, he had tall stature. His epiphyses were unfused, and there was evidence of still-occurring slow linear growth (for comparison, his height at 16 years of age was 178 cm). He also had markedly delayed skeletal maturation (bone age 15 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8104482 | 1,151,951 |
44,346 | SSRIs were originally invented with the goal of increasing levels of available serotonin in the extracellular spaces. However, the delayed response between when patients first begin SSRI treatment to when they see effects has led scientists to believe that other molecules are involved in the efficacy of these drugs. To... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26383679 | 44,329 |
790,083 | The artificiality of its creation posed great difficulties in attracting students; Thomas Aquinas was one of the few who came in these early years. Those years were further complicated by the long existence, in nearby Salerno, of Europe's most prestigious medical faculty, the Schola Medica Salernitana. The fledgling fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4932663 | 789,658 |
281,354 | There are five distinct groups of residence halls on the Cal Poly campus. The five North Mountain halls, constructed in the 1950s, are the oldest on campus still used for residential purposes. The six "red-brick" halls were completed shortly afterward in 1959. The Sierra Madre and Yosemite halls were finished by 1968, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=433230 | 281,201 |
1,247,276 | Second, two years later In 1949, analysing plates exposed at the Sphinx Observatory on the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland, first precise observations of the positive K-meson and its ‘strange’ decays were made by Rosemary Brown, a research student in Cecil Powell’s group at Bristol. Then known as the ‘Tau meson’ in the Tau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9769489 | 1,246,601 |
518,958 | The ship's medical variant employs a detachable "sensor probe" stored in the bottom compartment when not in use. The probe, although originally thought to have been fashioned from a spare salt shaker, it was actually scratch-built for the show, and the conical Danish saltshakers were set dressing, used as laser scalpel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348535 | 518,689 |
1,460,045 | The Mehran score is a clinical prediction rule to estimate probability of CIN which includes the following risk factors: systolic blood pressure <80 mm Hg for at least one hour requiring inotropic support, intra-arterial balloon pump, congestive heart failure with NYHA class III or worse, history of pulmonary edema, ag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3999255 | 1,459,223 |
169,787 | Change in locally specific constructions of hegemonic masculinity has been a consistent theme of masculinity research, but given the growing attention to globalization, the significance of transnational arenas for the construction of masculinity has also been argued. Charlotte Hooper described the deployment of masculi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9928314 | 169,697 |
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