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1,502,071 | "Jianianhualong" is known from the type and only specimen, a nearly complete skeleton preserving feathers that is missing only the end of the tail. It is articulated and compressed on a stone plate. This holotype specimen is stored under the collection number DLXH 1218 in the Dalian Xinghai Museum, Liaoning Province, C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54432449 | 1,501,225 |
1,708,411 | After ARP's demise, the remaining companies that had produced analog synthesizers rapidly began to feel the stress of the newly popular digital synths. Roland and Korg, also from Japan, developed some innovations of their own and each had 'hit' keyboards: the D-50 from Roland and M1 from Korg in the late 1980s. The tot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56945879 | 1,707,453 |
88,093 | In modern times peas are usually boiled or steamed, which breaks down the cell walls and makes the taste sweeter and the nutrients more bioavailable. Along with broad beans and lentils, these formed an important part of the diet of most people in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe during the Middle Ages. By the 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59407 | 88,058 |
1,884,855 | Mechanical+Enzymatic(ME) and mechanical methods are the most common isolation methods, although there is no standard method. Accordingly, Dr. Glass and Ferretti proposed one of the ME methods which is to apply tumescent-assisted liposuction using a mechanical or ultrasound-assisted liposuction cannula. Through liposuct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67266086 | 1,883,774 |
524,504 | Here, as in his ethical doctrine, Whewell was moved by opposition to contemporary English empiricism. Following Immanuel Kant, he asserted against John Stuart Mill the "a priori" nature of necessary truth, and by his rules for the construction of conceptions he dispensed with the inductive methods of Mill. Yet, accordi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=205488 | 524,232 |
95,842 | The Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter (VBSDC), built by students at the University of Colorado Boulder, is operating periodically to make dust measurements. It consists of a detector panel, about , mounted on the anti-solar face of the spacecraft (the ram direction), and an electronics box within the spacecraft. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=390905 | 95,801 |
1,121,607 | The Lockheed L-133 was an exotic design started in 1939 which was proposed to be the first jet fighter of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during World War II. The radical design was to be powered by two axial-flow turbojets with an unusual blended wing-body canard design capable of 612 mph (985 km/h) in level... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24197931 | 1,121,033 |
1,917,009 | In 1876, Jean-Charles Houzeau became the new director. He called on François van Rysselberghe to attach him to the weather forecast service the same year. On 26 September 1876, the Observatory published the first Meteorological Bulletin in its history. Immediately after he became director, Houzeau started planning a mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4750018 | 1,915,910 |
821,035 | The first American Standards Association (predecessor to ANSI) standard C18 appeared in 1928. It listed cell sizes using a letter code, roughly in order of size from smallest (A) to larger types. The only numerical designation was the 6-inch tall "No. 6" cell. The 1934 edition of the C18 standard expanded the nomenclat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25829181 | 820,594 |
1,507,343 | A payload fairing is a clamshell-shaped cover that encloses and protects a payload on the pad and during early flight. Fairings are a standard component of expendable launch vehicles, and are always jettisoned as soon as possible after a rocket has climbed high enough for heating from air friction to no longer risk dam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4682253 | 1,506,497 |
1,561,496 | Rudolf II ordered the princes of Brandenburg and Palatinate-Neuburg to restore the previous religious and political situation of Aachen under the menace of a ban. The Protestants, however, ignored the command and seriously wounded an Imperial commissary sent to implement the Emperor's edict. In May 1612, elections were... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37002727 | 1,560,610 |
1,527,882 | One solution to the concurrent modification problem is using a particular wrapper class provided by a factory in Collections: codice_1 which wraps an existing non-thread-safe Map with methods that synchronize on an internal mutex. There are also wrappers for the other kinds of Collections. This is a partial solution, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49876799 | 1,527,018 |
1,415,474 | Software engineering ethics is a large field. In some ways it began as an unrealistic attempt to define bugs as unethical. More recently it has been defined as the application of both computer science and engineering philosophy, principles, and practices to the design and development of software systems. Due to this en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=473948 | 1,414,677 |
477,707 | The Biel–Täuffelen–Ins-Bahn near Bern, Switzerland was looking for a lighter train model to replace its aging fleet, so that a low floor system does not require heavy installations on the roof. Based on that requirement Stadler came up with a concept of placing most of the equipment in a central unit between the seatin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4941360 | 477,467 |
1,722,774 | Richard Priestley Lifton (born 1953) is an American biochemist and the 11th and current president of The Rockefeller University. He earned his B.A. in biological sciences from Dartmouth College and in 1986 he got his M.D. and Ph.D. in biochemistry from Stanford University. He trained at Brigham and Women's Hospital bef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37420133 | 1,721,804 |
1,225,783 | Around the same time that Doolittle and Darnell suggested that introns in eukaryotic genes could be ancient, Colin Blake and Walter Gilbert published their views on intron origins independently. In their view, introns originated as spacer sequences that enabled convenient recombination and shuffling of exons that encod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59575257 | 1,225,123 |
1,333,705 | Other features had been changed more significantly since the Advanced Development concept. “Androgyny” had been discarded: all 16 bolts were collected on the same side of the CBM/CBM interface, and the nut side was no longer described as being drivable. An 8-channel multiplexing motor controller could be remotely switc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7362461 | 1,332,976 |
1,819,638 | Gower is within the northern part of the Variscan orogen, that is its rocks were affected by the Variscan orogeny which took place in late Carboniferous/early Permian times. The main structural trend is ESE-WNW with a series of folds and thrust faults present across the peninsula. The main axis of the east–west aligned... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64337037 | 1,818,603 |
316,501 | The early scholar Rudolf Hoernle proposed that some concepts from the "Suśruta-saṃhitā" could be found in the "Śatapatha-Brāhmaṇa", which he dates to the 600 BCE, and this dating is still often repeated. However, during the last century, scholarship on the history of Indian medical literature has advanced substantially... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6768921 | 316,332 |
590,408 | The application of user conservatism for dive computers varies considerably. The general tendency in dive computers intended for the recreational market is to provide one or two preset conservatism settings which have the effect of reducing allowed no-decompression limit in a way which is not transparent to the user. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38810153 | 590,106 |
1,016,327 | UP's NCAA soccer program became well known after Clive Charles, who started coaching the men's team in 1986, added the women's head coaching job in 1989, heading both teams until his death in 2003. The women's team won the NCAA Division I National Championship in 2002 and 2005, led both years by current Canadian intern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=415982 | 1,015,804 |
285,381 | The Ming dynasty (1368–1644) retained and expanded the system it inherited. The Hongwu Emperor was initially reluctant to restart the examinations, considering their curriculum to be lacking in practical knowledge. In 1370 he declared that the exams would follow the Neo-Confucian canon put forth by Zhu Xi in the Song d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=244479 | 285,227 |
1,799,025 | Luminescent solar concentrators convert sunlight or other sources of light into preferred frequencies; they concentrate the output for conversion into desirable forms of power, such as electricity. They rely on luminescence, typically fluorescence, in media such as liquids, glasses, or plastics treated with a suitable ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29268997 | 1,798,016 |
200,122 | DNP, however, continues to be used by some bodybuilders and athletes to rapidly lose body fat. Fatal overdoses include cases of accidental exposure, suicide, and excessive intentional exposure (overdose). The substance's use as a dieting aid has also led to a number of accidental fatalities, including 32 confirmed DNP-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=948020 | 200,019 |
1,305,231 | It is also possible that impairments in mechanisms that register spatial locations lead to simultanagnosia. According to the feature-integration theory of attention, features of the visual scene, such as color and orientation, are registered early and in parallel across the visual field. These features are represented ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1616390 | 1,304,515 |
214,402 | The total synthesis of artemisinin has been performed from available organic starting materials, using basic organic reagents, many times. The first two total syntheses were a stereoselective synthesis by Schmid and Hofheinz at Hoffmann-La Roche in Basel starting from (−)-isopulegol (13 steps, ~5% overall yield), and a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=727067 | 214,294 |
1,882,539 | A number of other professors disliked the name and organisational structure of the university, and wanted it to shake off the association with "technology" and become a "real university". While Baxter did not side with them, contending that the university's association with the government provided funding and facilitie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18243283 | 1,881,458 |
389,749 | On 11 March 2021, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) stated that there is no indication that vaccination has been the cause of the observed clotting issues, which were not listed as side effects of the vaccine. At the time, according to the EMA, the number of thromboembolic events in vaccinated people was no higher th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64586749 | 389,554 |
2,071,013 | The International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry (IAGC) was formally founded on 8 May 1967. Prior to that time the organization of international geochemical affairs was largely carried out through the Inorganic Chemistry section of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) starting i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8976994 | 2,069,822 |
1,731,459 | A hybrid follower adds two simple emitter followers T5, T6 to the input stage. When the latter switches off, one of the added transistor provides the required base current to the output stage. The idea was used, for example, in the 1987 Burr-Brown OPA633 fast buffer IC. This circuit, too, suffers from crossover distort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67830508 | 1,730,483 |
1,818,639 | Subglacial streams are conduits of glacial meltwater that flow at the base of glaciers and ice caps. Meltwater from the glacial surface travels downward throughout the glacier, forming an englacial drainage system consisting of a network of passages that eventually reach the bedrock below, where they form subglacial st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31213939 | 1,817,604 |
124,896 | In Scotland, while a similar Gothic style to that used further south in England was adopted by figures including Frederick Thomas Pilkington (1832–98) in secular architecture it was marked by the re-adoption of the Scots baronial style. Important for the adoption of the style in the early 19th century was Abbotsford, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=311821 | 124,844 |
769,796 | Eight people died that night, seven from other expeditions, and the disaster was covered in numerous magazine articles and interviews with other survivors. Jon Krakauer, who was sent to climb with another expedition, and to report on the commercialization of Everest and the increasing number of rich clients without exp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32955238 | 769,382 |
723,109 | The Directorate has contributed significantly to the Integrated Sensor is Structure (ISIS) project managed by DARPA which is a project to develop a missile tracking airship. In June 2008, the Air Force announced that scientists working for the Sensors Directorate had demonstrated transparent transistors. These could ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=764257 | 722,729 |
1,623,543 | "Aspergillus wentii" produces single-celled, globose, conidia (singular conidium) in unbranched, filamentous chains. Young asexual conidia (also called spores) start off smooth, colourless, and ellipsoidal before maturing into rough, globose spores approximately 4.5–5 µm in diameter. "Aspergillus wentii" conidia can ap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58468292 | 1,622,627 |
657,612 | The seven-year WMAP data were released on 26 January 2010. As part of this release, claims for inconsistencies with the standard model were investigated. Most were shown not to be statistically significant, and likely due to "a posteriori" selection (where one sees a weird deviation, but fails to consider properly how ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186468 | 657,268 |
1,343,324 | The various languages and libraries offering a PGAS memory model differ widely in other details, such as the base programming language and the mechanisms used to express parallelism. Many PGAS systems combine the advantages of a SPMD programming style for distributed memory systems (as employed by MPI) with the data re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9000089 | 1,342,588 |
396,658 | Up to five percent of sports injuries are concussions. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 300,000 sports-related concussions occur yearly in the U.S., but that number includes only athletes who lost consciousness. Since loss of consciousness is thought to occur in less than 10% of concus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=399231 | 396,462 |
1,085,205 | With the emergence of large scale distributed electronic devices, first the radio with electronic valves, and later TV and Personal Computers, there has been a fundamental problem with mains pollution by harmonic currents. All mentioned electronic apparatus need a smoothed DC voltage as supply. A 100 or 120 Hz ripple o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41587475 | 1,084,647 |
1,493,091 | Research in semantic spaces dates back more than 20 years. In 1996, two papers were published that raised a lot of attention around the general idea of creating semantic spaces: latent semantic analysis and Hyperspace Analogue to Language. However, their adoption was limited by the large computational effort required t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54449666 | 1,492,252 |
964,255 | A methodological phenomenon in the sciences is the replication crisis. Inside the field of embodied cognition, it indicates that certain findings have failed to be reproduced with the same results as the originals. Such studies have in common the embodiment idea that bodily experiences influence cognitive processes tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33034640 | 963,746 |
1,712,274 | In the transferred technique of using the electric arcs, the substrate itself plays the role of the cathode. In this case, the substrate is subject not only to the reactive chemical species, but also to their ions with energies of up to 10 – 20 eV, to high temperatures reaching within the cathode spots 3000 °C, and to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8198899 | 1,711,309 |
586,270 | There has not been any push for full semantic unification of all semantically-linked characters, though the idea would treat the respective users of East Asian languages the same, whether they write in Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Kyūjitai Japanese, Shinjitai Japanese or Vietnamese. Instead of some ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187273 | 585,970 |
2,094,357 | The number of Unleashed Registrants has increased 10 fold since the integration of BIND. As of December 2006 registration fell just short of 10,000. Subscribers to the commercial versions of BOND fall into six general categories; agriculture and food, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, informatics, materials and other. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9774017 | 2,093,149 |
992,271 | In species of Lepidoptera, it consists of two tubes held together by hooks and separable for cleaning. Each tube is inwardly concave, thus forming a central tube through which moisture is sucked. Suction is effected through the contraction and expansion of a sac in the head. The proboscis is coiled under the head when ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24104729 | 991,754 |
551,174 | In 1885, at the age of 23, Bragg was appointed (Sir Thomas) Elder Professor of Mathematics and Experimental Physics in the University of Adelaide, Australia, and started work there early in 1886. Being a skilled mathematician, at that time he had limited knowledge of physics, most of which was in the form of applied ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=396459 | 550,886 |
858,872 | There is also the case of the Internet, which serves as a repository of information and expert content that can be used to "self-diagnose" instead of going to their doctor. For instance, one need only enumerate symptoms as search parameters at Google and the search engine could identify the illness from the list of con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3255966 | 858,414 |
2,060,603 | Other adaptations to eating include altering the pace of feeding and recommending specific foods and textures that the individual is easily able to swallow, which is difficult done by a speech therapist. In addition, OTs provide adaptive devices such as cuffs and loops (to help the individual hold their utensils), larg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55742304 | 2,059,416 |
337,606 | From 1981 to 1983 Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer worked at IBM in Zurich, Switzerland to study the quantum tunnelling phenomenon. They created a practical instrument, a scanning probe microscope from quantum tunnelling theory, that read very small forces exchanged between a probe and the surface of a sample. The probe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19568 | 337,427 |
70,775 | Russell has proposed that "the purpose of life is to hydrogenate carbon dioxide" (as part of a "metabolism-first," rather than a "genetics-first," scenario). The physicist Jeremy England has argued from general thermodynamic considerations that life was inevitable. An early version of this idea was Oparin's 1924 propos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19179706 | 70,748 |
641,456 | The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 showed the need for direct, timely, and private communications between the leaders of the world's two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. A duplex cable circuit (later augmented by a satellite hookup) between the two capitals known as the Moscow–Washington hotli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52555 | 641,117 |
443,653 | A chronospecies is a species derived from a sequential development pattern that involves continual and uniform changes from an extinct ancestral form on an evolutionary scale. The sequence of alterations eventually produces a population that is physically, morphologically, and/or genetically distinct from the original ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1322877 | 443,438 |
820,702 | The evolution of space data system standards has gone on in parallel with the evolution of the Internet, with conceptual cross-pollination where fruitful, but largely as a separate evolution. Since the late 1990s, familiar Internet protocols and CCSDS space link protocols have integrated and converged in several ways; ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1391825 | 820,261 |
101,734 | In 1964, Card and his family moved to Mesa, Arizona, where he participated in mock debates in junior high school. In 1967, the family moved to Orem, Utah, where his father worked at Brigham Young University (BYU). Card attended BYU's laboratory school, where he took both high school and early college-level classes befo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6097209 | 101,689 |
1,475,888 | The interaction between Saturn's magnetosphere and the solar wind generates bright oval aurorae around the planet's poles observed in visible, infrared and ultraviolet light. The aurorae are related to the powerful saturnian kilometric radiation (SKR), which spans the frequency interval between 100 kHz to 1300 kHz and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2309427 | 1,475,056 |
1,031,096 | Three verticals method (formerly the triangle method) is a modification of the simpler parallax method. It is possible to measure the height of a tree indirectly without taking any horizontal sweep angles, which can be difficult to obtain accurately in the field. With this method, find three open views in any space to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39003927 | 1,030,560 |
4,473 | Armstrong's family released a statement describing him as a "reluctant American hero [who had] served his nation proudly, as a navy fighter pilot, test pilot, and astronaut ... While we mourn the loss of a very good man, we also celebrate his remarkable life and hope that it serves as an example to young people around ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21247 | 4,471 |
1,118,735 | The first questions about assignment were raised in the early 1980s when Money and others reported an unexpectedly high rate of failure to achieve normal adult sexual relationships (i.e., heterosexual orientation, marriage, and children) in grown women with CAH (though all had female gender identities). However, the sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=802065 | 1,118,162 |
1,756 | Soviet investment in the defense sector was not driven by military necessity but in large part by the interests of the nomenklatura, which was dependent on the sector for their own power and privileges. The Soviet Armed Forces became the largest in the world in terms of the numbers and types of weapons they possessed, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=325329 | 1,756 |
1,157,910 | Additional ways HiTOP can be useful in empirical research include its dimensions serving as outcomes of experimental manipulations both in the lab and in a randomized clinical trial, although such applications are understudied. HiTOP can be assessed directly with validated measures, avoiding the complications of extrac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68802534 | 1,157,297 |
1,477,963 | The granularity of the reconfigurable logic is defined as the size of the smallest functional unit (configurable logic block, CLB) that is addressed by the mapping tools. High granularity, which can also be known as fine-grained, often implies a greater flexibility when implementing algorithms into the hardware. Howeve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188371 | 1,477,131 |
253,620 | Knowledge that TdP may occur in patients taking certain prescription drugs has been both a major liability and reason for removal of 14 medications from the marketplace. Forty-nine drugs known to cause TdP and another 170 that are known to prolong QT remain on the market because the drugs provide medical benefit and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=685936 | 253,487 |
1,624,996 | Extracellular RNA (exRNA) describes RNA species present outside of the cells in which they were transcribed. Carried within extracellular vesicles, lipoproteins, and protein complexes, exRNAs are protected from ubiquitous RNA-degrading enzymes. exRNAs may be found in the environment or, in multicellular organisms, with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38289515 | 1,624,080 |
670,118 | The HID standard was adopted primarily to enable innovation in PC input devices and to simplify the process of installing such devices. Prior to the introduction of the HID concept, devices usually conformed to strictly defined protocols for mouse, keyboards and joysticks; for example, the standard mouse protocol at th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=641655 | 669,768 |
440,002 | RNAi is widely used as a laboratory technique for genetic functional analysis. RNAi in organisms such as "C. elegans" and "Drosophila melanogaster" provides a quick and inexpensive means of investigating gene function. In "C. elegans" research, the availability of tools such as the Ahringer RNAi Library give laboratori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=446223 | 439,788 |
346,098 | Mercantilism developed at a time of transition for the European economy. Isolated feudal estates were being replaced by centralized nation-states as the focus of power. Technological changes in shipping and the growth of urban centers led to a rapid increase in international trade. Mercantilism focused on how this trad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19708 | 345,917 |
1,824,281 | While the 1982 tournament was the first tournament under the NCAA, many of the participating teams had a long history of tournament experience. The Louisiana Tech team made it to the Final Four of the 1979, 1980 and 1981 AIAW Tournaments, winning the National Championship with a perfect 34–0 record in 1981. The Lady Te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10002240 | 1,823,243 |
2,000,994 | The master's in science (MS) curriculum supports the JMP's vision to develop antiracist physicians and public health changemakers by adding a framework of collaborative practice, systems thinking and critical inquiry to the traditional medical education. This framework affords students the intellectual, practical, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22837432 | 1,999,849 |
332,768 | Epicurus asserted that philosophy's purpose is to attain as well as to help others attain happy ("eudaimonic"), tranquil lives characterized by "ataraxia" (peace and freedom from fear) and "aponia" (the absence of pain). He advocated that people were best able to pursue philosophy by living a self-sufficient life surro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10073 | 332,591 |
268,085 | Of a sanguine, somewhat irritable temperament, Davy displayed characteristic enthusiasm and energy in all his pursuits. As is shown by his verses and sometimes by his prose, his mind was highly imaginative; the poet Coleridge declared that if he "had not been the first chemist, he would have been the first poet of his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14369 | 267,941 |
641,140 | The claustrum (Latin, meaning "to close" or "to shut") is a thin, bilateral collection of neurons and supporting glial cells, that connects to cortical (e.g., the pre-frontal cortex) and subcortical regions (e.g., the thalamus) of the brain. It is located between the insula medially and the putamen laterally, separated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=555816 | 640,801 |
963,823 | Certain antiviral compounds such as tecovirimat (ST-246) have been reported to be 100% active against vaccinia virus or other orthopoxviruses "in vitro" and among test animals. Tecovirimat has been granted orphan drug status by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is currently under study to determine its safety ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2591633 | 963,314 |
1,579,847 | Heinicke's institution in Leipzig capitalized on teaching deaf children to lipread and produce speech. Slight augmentations of oralist techniques cultivated by Heinicke were self-proclaimed his own "German system". Certain well-guarded aspects of this system utilized techniques that would remain unshared with the great... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63287127 | 1,578,957 |
1,664,217 | Proper treatment of SAAM often results in full recovery. Recovery can occur even with persistently elevated creatine kinase (CK) levels. Conversely, some people with SAAM do not regain full muscle strength despite the normalization of their CK levels. Longitudinal analysis of a patient cohort revealed that the majority... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61394505 | 1,663,280 |
622,578 | One other effect that can trigger an avalanche is known as afterpulsing. When an avalanche occurs, the PN junction is flooded with charge carriers and trap levels between the valence and conduction band become occupied to a degree that is much greater than that expected in a thermal-equilibrium distribution of charge c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=972711 | 622,246 |
939,624 | New nuclear power plants typically have high capital expenditure for building plants. Fuel, operational, and maintenance costs are relatively small components of the total cost. The long service life and high capacity factor of nuclear power plants allow sufficient funds for ultimate plant decommissioning and waste sto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10838742 | 939,123 |
1,651,798 | The journal "Deutsche Mathematik", published between 1936-1943, was edited by Theodor Vahlen and Ludwig Bieberbach. Bieberbach was a distinguished mathematician who first taught in Königsberg in 1910, moving to Basel in 1913 and Berlin in 1921; Ferdinand Georg Frobenius called him "the most insightful and penetrating m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58079132 | 1,650,866 |
1,335,784 | Miller is the recipient of many awards, including eight honorary doctorates, three American Bar Association Gavel Awards, and a Special Recognition Gavel Award for promoting public understanding of the law. Queen Elizabeth II with the advice of her government bestowed on him an honorary Commander of the Order of the Br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1997449 | 1,335,054 |
725,662 | Fossilized plants found in different strata show that the marshy, wooded country in which "Hyracotherium" lived became gradually drier. Survival now depended on the head being in an elevated position for gaining a good view of the surrounding countryside, and on a high turn of speed for escape from predators, hence the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2339577 | 725,281 |
1,446,389 | The Barnes maze consists of a circular surface with up to 20 circular holes around its circumference. Visual cues, such as colored shapes or patterns, are placed around the table in plain sight of the animal. The table surface is brightly lit by overhead lighting. Under one of the holes is an "escape box" which can be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3653501 | 1,445,573 |
724,439 | One of the most important applications of MNT would be medical nanorobotics or nanomedicine, an area pioneered by Robert Freitas in numerous books and papers. The ability to design, build, and deploy large numbers of medical nanorobots would, at a minimum, make possible the rapid elimination of disease and the reliable... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19637 | 724,059 |
944,496 | While the authors of the proposal initially considered partnering with the Rhodes Scholarship and even considered using the same selection committees, this idea was eventually disregarded because its proponents strongly believed the scholarships should be available to women, and to married men under the age of 28; at t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1006389 | 943,994 |
585,505 | In August 2011, 5th Marines deployed as Regimental Combat Team 5 (RCT-5), for the first time to Helmand province, Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. They conducted a Relief-In-Place (RIP) with the 1st Marine Regiment (RCT-1) and under the command of Colonel Roger Turner, assumed control of their area... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2936492 | 585,205 |
750,039 | The submarines originally had a predicted operational life of around 30 years, with "Collins" to decommission around 2025. The Submarine Institute of Australia released a report in July 2007 arguing that planning for the next generation of Australian submarines had to begin soon. In December 2007, shortly after the 200... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=810758 | 749,641 |
925,590 | After the division secured a fourteen-year, $15-billion deal to supply light armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia, Unifor representatives expressed concern that the London plant would suffer financially due to negative publicity surrounding the deal and that union members employed at the plant would lose their jobs. Both ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1638159 | 925,104 |
2,097,871 | While the study of drug delivery methods and techniques has been around for centuries, the modern field of drug delivery we know today was not introduced until the 1960s, when the concept of controlled drug delivery systems was introduced by Judah Folkman, MD of Harvard. He first introduced the idea of a prolonged drug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70660722 | 2,096,663 |
1,005,887 | In control system theory, the Routh–Hurwitz stability criterion is a mathematical test that is a necessary and sufficient condition for the stability of a linear time-invariant (LTI) dynamical system or control system. A stable system is one whose output signal is bounded; the position, velocity or energy do not increa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1705432 | 1,005,368 |
1,407,583 | One of the most prominent uses of biocatalysis in process chemistry today is in the synthesis of Januvia®, a DPP-4 inhibitor developed by Merck for the management of type II diabetes. The traditional process synthetic route involved a late-stage enamine formation followed by rhodium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41264758 | 1,406,793 |
406,959 | Some specific mechanisms guiding new DNA methylations and new DNA demethylations in the hippocampus during memory establishment have been established (see for summary). One mechanism includes guiding the short isoform of the TET1 DNA demethylation enzyme, TET1s, to about 600 locations on the genome. The guidance is per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=159266 | 406,758 |
2,222,463 | On 21 April 1910, the United States Congress had assigned the responsibility for the management and harvest of northern fur seals, foxes and other fur-bearing animals in the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea, as well as for the care, education, and welfare of the Aleut communities in the islands to the United States B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58454970 | 2,221,201 |
184,613 | The main problem facing the Il-86 project was the lack of a suitable engine. It was never resolved. By the close of the 1960s, the US and the UK had turbofans with bypass ratios of 4 or 5 to 1. The first Soviet large turbofan, the Lotarev D-18T, did not appear before the mid-1980s. The Soloviev D-30, originally intende... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=229859 | 184,516 |
139,315 | In 1972, a group at the University of Illinois filed for a patent on an optical touchscreen that became a standard part of the Magnavox Plato IV Student Terminal and thousands were built for this purpose. These touchscreens had a crossed array of 16×16 infrared position sensors, each composed of an LED on one edge of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=667206 | 139,258 |
1,365,358 | The cingulum is described from various brain images as a C shaped structure within the brain that wraps around the frontal lobe to the temporal lobe right above the corpus callosum. It is located beneath the cingulate gyrus within the medial surface of the brain therefore encircling the entire brain. There are two prim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2472611 | 1,364,602 |
37,296 | The physicists Günter Nimtz and Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Koblenz, claim to have violated Einstein's theory of relativity by transmitting photons faster than the speed of light. They say they have conducted an experiment in which microwave photons traveled "instantaneously" between a pair of prisms that h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31591 | 37,283 |
714,996 | During the sea trials for the preceding battleship , the ship's engineers learned that the engines might fail at high levels of forced draught; as a result, the "Majestic"s were designed to reach the same maximum speed with a more powerful engine. This allowed the engineers a wider margin of safety at maximum speed. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=464310 | 714,622 |
44,789 | Codeine is an opiate and prodrug of morphine mainly used to treat pain, coughing, and diarrhea. It is also commonly used as a recreational drug. It is found naturally in the sap of the opium poppy, "Papaver somniferum". It is typically used to treat mild to moderate degrees of pain. Greater benefit may occur when combi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9716092 | 44,772 |
10,708 | In early 2010, two journalists from the "New York Times" spent three months with soldiers and Marines in Afghanistan. While there, they questioned around 100 infantrymen about the reliability of their M4 carbines, as well as the M16 rifle. Troops did not report reliability problems with their rifles. While only 100 tro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=321957 | 10,703 |
481,090 | Drug attachment to the dendrimer may be accomplished by (1) a covalent attachment or conjugation to the external surface of the dendrimer forming a dendrimer prodrug, (2) ionic coordination to charged outer functional groups, or (3) micelle-like encapsulation of a drug via a dendrimer-drug supramolecular assembly. In t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1335984 | 480,846 |
429,655 | The use of stable isotope tracers to study mineral nutrition and metabolism in humans was first reported in the 1960s. While radioisotopes had been used in human nutrition research for several decades prior, stable isotopes presented a safer option, especially in subjects for which there is elevated concern about radia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1652307 | 429,445 |
1,471,482 | Much of Elster's writing is characterized by attempts to use analytical theories, especially rational choice theory, as a springboard for philosophical and ethical analysis, with numerous examples from literature and history. "Elster has made important contributions to several fields," Daniel Little wrote in a review e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2159322 | 1,470,655 |
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