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2,012,701 | Freshman center Tyler Adams played 11 minutes in the NJIT game on December 3. Seeing no further action, he suffered chest pains during practice on December 14 and was taken to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with a heart arrhythmia that had the potential to make strenuous activities like basketball dangerous and e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33673923 | 2,011,547 |
876,654 | In 1998, Canadian researchers and historians Stephen Endicott and Edward Hagerman of York University made the case that the accusations were true in their book, "The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea". The book received mostly positive reviews, out of a collection of 20 rev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10548751 | 876,192 |
426,893 | EGM96 from 1996 is the result of a collaboration between the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), and the Ohio State University. It took advantage of new surface gravity data from many different regions of the globe, including data newly released from the NIMA archive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8665765 | 426,684 |
1,015,455 | In its 1980 review, "BYTE" wrote "The most exciting and influential piece of software that has been written for any microcomputer application is VisiCalc". It concluded, "VisiCalc is the first program available on a microcomputer that has been responsible for sales of entire systems". "Creative Computing"s review the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32628 | 1,014,934 |
999,367 | The principal innovation that led to the discovery of hassium was the technique of cold fusion, in which the fused nuclei did not differ by mass as much as in earlier techniques. It relied on greater stability of target nuclei, which in turn decreased excitation energy. This decreased the number of neutron ejections du... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13764 | 998,849 |
688,049 | Among the treatments are closing wounds with sutures (for wounds of the lip, throat, and shoulder), bandaging, splints, poultices, preventing and curing infection with honey, and stopping bleeding with raw meat. Immobilization is advised for head and spinal cord injuries, as well as other lower body fractures. The papy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1522526 | 687,691 |
1,996,380 | The neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCLs) are a group of inherited neurodegenerative disorders with pathological phenotypes that auto fluorescent lipopigments present in neurons and other cell types. Over the past two decades, accumulating evidences indicates that NCLs are caused by mutations in eight different genes, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14754028 | 1,995,237 |
487,692 | Echoic memory represents SM for the auditory sense of hearing. Auditory information travels as sound waves which are sensed by hair cells in the ears. Information is sent to and processed in the temporal lobe. The echoic sensory store holds information for 2–3 seconds to allow for proper processing. The first studies o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45464854 | 487,442 |
305,192 | In the general election of 1929 the Labour Party won 288 seats out of 615 and formed another minority government. The Great Depression of that period brought high unemployment and Prime Minister MacDonald sought to make cuts in order to balance the budget. The trade unions opposed MacDonald's proposed cuts and he split... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 305,030 |
1,531,058 | After the Second World War large scientific projects have increasingly relied on "knowledge infrastructure" to collect, process and analyze important amount of data. Punch-cards system were first used experimentally on climate data in the 1920s and were applied on a large scale in the following decade: "In one of the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31915311 | 1,530,192 |
407,378 | Texas Tech has made many contributions to NASA projects. Daniel Cooke, Computer Science Department Chair, and his colleagues are working to develop the technical content of the Intelligent Systems Program, and have been awarded a five-year budget valued at $350 million. University scientists have also teamed with NASA'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=272980 | 407,177 |
1,762,192 | The original LLWAS system (LLWAS I) was developed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 1976 in response to the 1975 Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 windshear accident in New York and the findings of Project NIMROD by Ted Fujita. LLWAS I used a center field anemometer along with five pole mounted anemometers site... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11571153 | 1,761,199 |
1,209,395 | Some passages in the Hebrew Bible (2 Kings 18–19) agree with at least a few of the claims made on the prism. The Bible recounts a successful Assyrian attack on Samaria, as a result of which the population was deported, and later recounts that an attack on Lachish was ended by Hezekiah suing for peace, with Sennacherib ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27380272 | 1,208,748 |
998,121 | The U.S. Army developed the Coyote with a counter unmanned air system (C-UAS) capability to intercept other small UAVs. The Coyote Anti-UAS delivers a kinetic effect by crashing into enemy drones or exploding near them and dispersing blast fragments from its warhead. By 2018, the U.S. Marine Corps was deploying a C-UAS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55327058 | 997,603 |
266,175 | The coracoid tapered hind-wards when viewed in profile, and, uniquely among spinosaurids, connected with the scapula in a peg-and-notch articulation. The scapulae were robust and the bones of the forelimb were short in relation to the animal's size, but broad and sturdy. The humerus was short and stout, with its ends b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1091918 | 266,031 |
628,759 | For air defence, the ships were equipped with one double-barrel AK-230 30 mm gun and one double-barrel AK-725 57 mm gun. The AK-725 double 57 mm AA gun, designed in 1959, was directed by the ESP-72 fire control system, which received ranging and target bearing information from an MR 103 (NATO codename 'MUFF COB') radar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8758180 | 628,423 |
128,259 | At a conference of German physicians and natural scientists, most of the speakers rejected his doctrine, including the celebrated Rudolf Virchow, who was a scientist of the highest authority of his time. Virchow's great authority in medical circles contributed potently to Semmelweis' lack of recognition. Ede Flórián Bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75319 | 128,207 |
801,691 | To calculate the maximum possible value for a non-tunneling deuterium KIE, we consider the case in which the zero-point energy difference between the stretching vibrations of a typical carbon-hydrogen bond (3000 cm) and carbon-deuterium bond (2200 cm) disappears in the transition state (an energy difference of (1/2)(30... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1106771 | 801,263 |
867,914 | Carbon ETS are in operation in China, the European Union, and other countries. However, they are usually not harmonized with any defined carbon budgets, which are required to maintain global warming below the critical thresholds of 1.5 °C or "well below" 2 °C. The existing schemes only cover a limited scope of emission... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15532928 | 867,454 |
1,836,847 | Supporters point to statistical studies that compare the performance of students enrolled in IMP courses with their peers enrolled in traditional high school mathematics courses. Merlino and Wolff, two such researchers, report that in their several studies IMP students consistently outperformed traditionally taught stu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7372672 | 1,835,798 |
1,014,102 | For the analysis of the "Aconitum" alkaloids in biological specimens such as blood, serum and urine, several GC-MS methods have been described. These employ a variety of extraction procedures followed by derivatisation to their trimethylsilyl derivatives. New sensitive HPLC-MS methods have been developed as well, usual... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59990 | 1,013,581 |
1,515,297 | Complete single-shot spectral profiles of modulation instability and supercontinuum have been mapped into the time domain with the TS-DFT for capture at megahertz repetition rates. These experiments have been used to collect large volumes of spectra data very rapidly, permitting detailed statistical analyses of the und... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42450197 | 1,514,445 |
1,116,818 | Though the area of Laramidia was only 20 percent that of modern North America, it saw a major evolutionary radiation of dinosaurs, including the common hadrosaurs and ceratopsians. It has been postulated that there was a latitudinal array of dinosaur "provinces" or biomes on Laramidia during the Campanian and Maastrich... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28916285 | 1,116,245 |
1,435,903 | In 1959, the heart of a 22 metric-ton (24 short-ton) male taken by whalers was measured to be , about 0.5% of its total mass. The circulatory system has a number of specific adaptations for the aquatic environment. The diameter of the aortic arch increases as it leaves the heart. This bulbous expansion acts as a windke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63196482 | 1,435,096 |
567,783 | The ARC began operations in 1962 with a Helio Twin Courier loaned from the USAF. ARC operated fixed-wing transport aircraft like Russian IL-76s and AN-32s. It also had General Dynamics Gulfstream III and Global 5000 jets. The helicopter inventory comprises Russian Mil Mi-17s and a mix of locally built Cheetahs (modifie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7105620 | 567,493 |
1,866,443 | Keppel has been with the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab, formerly CEBAF) in various capacities since 1995. Keppel performed electron scattering experiments to investigate the structure of protons and neutrons. In 2001 she founded the Hampton University Center for Advanced Medical Instrume... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61403225 | 1,865,369 |
53,397 | The LT4 engine builds on the design strengths of the previous LS9 supercharged engine used in the sixth-generation Corvette ZR1 and leverages the technologies introduced on the seventh-generation Corvette Stingray, including direct injection, cylinder deactivation, and continuously variable valve timing, to take Corvet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=877441 | 53,377 |
1,745,645 | In 1949, the University of Illinois created the Digital Computer Laboratory following the joint funding between the university and the U.S. Army to create the ORDVAC and ILLIAC I computers under the direction of physicist Ralph Meagher. The ORDVAC and ILLIAC computers the two earliest von-Neumann architecture machines ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39192504 | 1,744,661 |
1,123,113 | Gutenberg's most important innovation in the mid 15th century development of his press was not the printing itself, but the casting of Latinate types. Unlike Chinese characters, which are based on a uniform square area, European Latin characters vary in width, from the very wide "M" to the slender "l". Gutenberg develo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64087 | 1,122,539 |
533,066 | In 1999 William Ditto and his team of researchers at Georgia Institute of technology and Emory University created a basic form of a wetware computer capable of simple addition by harnessing leech neurons. Leeches were used as a model organism due to the large size of their neuron, and the ease associated with their col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2530148 | 532,787 |
1,493,647 | A 2007 study focused on the EMA subclade has shed further light on the EMA mutations. "The 36 new isolates reported here greatly expand the amount of whole-genome sequence data available from recent avian influenza (H5N1) isolates. Before our project, GenBank contained only 5 other complete genomes from Europe for the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4697208 | 1,492,807 |
908,914 | A 2007 study focused on the EMA subclade has shed further light on the EMA mutations. "The 36 new isolates reported here greatly expand the amount of whole-genome sequence data available from recent avian influenza (H5N1) isolates. Before our project, GenBank contained only 5 other complete genomes from Europe for the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1019908 | 908,435 |
1,812,726 | He was the first house staff member at Duke to be selected to Alpha Omega Alpha. After his chief residency at Duke in 1984, he was selected to develop and head the new cardiac surgery program at the East Carolina University School of Medicine. His initial appointment was as a full professor of surgery. Except for a two... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4099761 | 1,811,693 |
1,671,625 | Consider the take-the-best heuristic, which can be used for finding the best from a set of two or more options according to some criterion. Rather than considering information about all attributes of each option, the heuristic uses only information on the most valid attribute (i.e., the attribute correlating the highes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40941597 | 1,670,685 |
1,543,735 | Many of these models described are very limited in their application. Although many extensions of SDT have been proposed to cover a variety of other judgement domains (see T.D. Wickens, 2002, for examples), most of these never caught on, and SDT remains limited to binary situations. The narrow scope of these models is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47152350 | 1,542,862 |
1,490,867 | The first iSCAT-type of measurements were performed in the biophysics community in the 1990s. A systematic development of the method for the detection of nano-objects started in the early 2000s as a general effort to explore fluorescence-free options for studying single molecules and nano-objects. In particular, gold n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48622157 | 1,490,028 |
959,891 | After recovering from an illness, Ray moved to Calcutta in 1876 and was admitted to the Albert School, established by the Brahmo reformer Keshub Chandra Sen; owing to his concentrated self-study over the preceding two years, his teachers found him to have advanced much further than the rest of the students in his assig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2325728 | 959,383 |
139,776 | T. Keith Glennan had been appointed the first Administrator of NASA, with Hugh L. Dryden (last Director of NACA) as his Deputy, at the creation of the agency on October 1, 1958. Glennan would report to the president through the National Aeronautics and Space Council. The group responsible for Project Mercury was NASA's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19812 | 139,719 |
1,312,652 | "Parathyas barbigera" are among the most common mite species found parasitizing mosquitoes, especially those of the genera "Aedes" and "Ochlerotatus". Their host range is likely much wider, as studies have detected "P. barbigera" parasitizing other dipteran families, such as Tipulidae (crane flies), Ptychopteridae (pha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26945207 | 1,311,933 |
524,482 | Unlike other neurodegenerative diseases, the exact pathophysiology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is still far from being fully uncovered. Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the development and progression of this lethal disease, by which neuroinflammation is one of the above. It is characterised ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41120962 | 524,210 |
1,276,334 | On 1 August 2013, General William L. Shelton, commander of Air Force Space Command, directed that the Air Force Space Surveillance System (AFSSS) be closed and all sites vacated effective 1 October 2013. The main advantage of the system was its ability to provide uncued data on new objects as opposed to tracking object... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21768 | 1,275,641 |
733,121 | Preprint Servers come in many varieties, but the standard traits across them are stable: they seek to create a quick, free mode of communicating scientific knowledge to the public. Preprint servers act as a venue to quickly disseminate research and vary on their policies concerning when articles may be submitted relati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6277878 | 732,734 |
29,539 | Towards the end of the Middle Ages and beginning of the Renaissance, due to the emergence of print, women were able to access the alchemical knowledge from texts of the preceding centuries. Caterina Sforza, the Countess of Forlì and Lady of Imola, is one of the few confirmed female alchemists after Mary the Jewess. As ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573 | 29,529 |
2,097,673 | Workforce sciences is a highly interdisciplinary field. It draws heavily from theories, empirical lessons and methods developed in the fields of Microeconomics, Labor and Organizational Economics and Industrial and Organizational Psychology; but it also comprises lessons and methods from demography, general management,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24790449 | 2,096,465 |
381,639 | Crick hoped he might aid progress in neuroscience by promoting constructive interactions between specialists from the many different subdisciplines concerned with consciousness. He even collaborated with neurophilosophers such as Patricia Churchland. In 1983, as a result of their studies of computer models of neural ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11461 | 381,444 |
1,471,045 | Engineers Without Borders has created a way to train engineering students in technical and nontechnical skills. The model of education that Engineers Without Borders uses is called service learning, which consists of students getting experience by building infrastructure in struggling third world communities. This mode... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23584994 | 1,470,219 |
1,601,865 | The 115th Airlift Squadron traces its origins to the 115th Aero Squadron, organized at Kelly Field, Texas on 28 August 1917. It was formed from three groups of recruits, one from Fort McDowell, Santa Rosa, California, made up of men from the Pacific Coast States. The second group came from Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16657659 | 1,600,964 |
622,464 | Boyce returned to the United States and with Edward S. Stewart and Stanley D. Willis. He incorporated the Boy Scouts of America on February 8, 1910 and applied for a congressional charter. The bill was tied up with a charter for the Rockefeller Foundation and Boyce withdrew it after many delays. Around this time, Willi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6125637 | 622,132 |
580,656 | With the concept of short range day and night aerial reconnaissance and surveillance applications, system design activities started within 2004. Initial prototype Bayraktar A has been developed in 2005, and following successful autonomous flight demonstrations, Baykar has been awarded with a contract to start serial pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3800396 | 580,359 |
364,545 | An externally actuated weapon uses an external power source, such as an electric motor or hand crank, to move its mechanism through the firing sequence. Modern weapons of this type are often referred to as Gatling guns, after the original inventor (not only of the well-known hand-cranked 19th century proto-machine gun,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19690 | 364,355 |
113,181 | Zirconium dioxide thoroughly mixed with a stabilizer (normally 10% yttrium oxide) is fed into a cold crucible. Metallic chips of either zirconium or the stabilizer are introduced into the powder mix in a compact pile manner. The RF generator is switched on and the metallic chips quickly start heating up and readily oxi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60744 | 113,136 |
385,954 | The rhesus macaque is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List and estimated to exist in large numbers; it is tolerant of a broad range of habitats, including urban environments. Rhesus macaques have the largest natural range of any non-human primate which contributes to the conservation status of "least concern". ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=423943 | 385,759 |
403,386 | Usually close support is thought to be only carried out by fighter-bombers or dedicated ground-attack aircraft, such as the A-10 Thunderbolt II ("Warthog") or Su-25 ("Frogfoot"), but even large high-altitude bombers have successfully filled close support roles using precision-guided munitions. During Operation Enduring... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=600792 | 403,186 |
65,895 | On 11 September 1940, George Stibitz transmitted problems for his Complex Number Calculator in New York using a teletype and received the computed results back at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. This configuration of a centralized computer (mainframe) with remote dumb terminals remained popular well into the 1970s.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33094374 | 65,870 |
128,263 | Semmelweis's alleged affliction has been a subject of some debate. According to K. Codell Carter, in his biography of Semmelweis, its exact nature cannot be determined:It is impossible to appraise the nature of Semmelweis's disorder. ... It might have been Alzheimer's disease, a type of dementia, which is associated wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75319 | 128,211 |
1,407,122 | Because of its singular population resources and the questions its scientists can ask and answer, many of deCODE's most remarkable findings have been in basic science. One notable focus has been on elucidating how variation in the sequence of the genome is generated. Following its microsatellite-based genetic map of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1494572 | 1,406,332 |
630,483 | A meta-analysis that was performed indicates research studies conducted in PGD underscore future research. This is due to positive attitudinal survey results, postpartum follow-up studies demonstrating no significant differences between those who had used PGD and those who conceived naturally, and ethnographic studies ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=562180 | 630,145 |
1,461,263 | Jager raced sparingly during the outdoor season before the U.S. Championships. He ran 13:14.60 which was good for 2nd to Saucony's Ben True at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational. He also placed second in the Oxy HP 1500 m in 3:36.34. At the Prefontaine Classic he placed 4th in a time of 8:08.6, only two seconds of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26448294 | 1,460,441 |
1,389,057 | Thermohaline circulation drives a global-scale system of currents called the “global conveyor belt.” The conveyor belt begins on the surface of the ocean near the pole in the North Atlantic. Here, the water is chilled by Arctic temperatures. It also gets saltier because when sea ice forms, the salt does not freeze and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53377604 | 1,388,287 |
1,598,877 | Other Neolithic sites in Europe built structures using the same construction methods where a military function has been argued for very convincingly, including Makriyalos in Pieria, Strofilas on Andros Island, and in northeast Bulgaria. It is unlikely that Sesklo and Dimini would have used the same mechanisms for entir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55209538 | 1,597,977 |
1,857,803 | William was born at Ham on 4 March 1810, the son of Thomas Griffith. He studied under a private tutor along with brothers and even in his early days, took an interest in botany. He later went to London University where he studied under Robert Brown and John Lindley. He was also influenced by his friend R.H. Solly. He s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8101979 | 1,856,735 |
2,236,931 | The SAM's initial preparation phase involves gathering information based on a need assessment basis. Participants are asked to assemble data which acts as the foundation upon which the design will be built. Also known as a Savvy Start, this phase involves collaboration and brainstorming to ascertain the way forward. Du... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72210358 | 2,235,660 |
1,206,863 | Most pcALCL individuals present with isolated lesions that are effectively managed with radical surgical excision and/or radiation therapies; this approach is regarded as front-line therapy for localized disease. However, individuals with extensive disease and/or multiple tissue involvement respond poorly to front line... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1034755 | 1,206,217 |
502,104 | Superplastically formed (SPF) aluminium alloys have the ability to be stretched to several times their original size without failure when heated to between 470 and 520 °C. These dilute alloys containing zirconium, later known by the trade name SUPRAL, were heavily cold worked to sheet and dynamically crystallized to a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=262043 | 501,846 |
1,003,553 | The second failure of Samuel Langley's prototype plane on the Potomac was attributed to aeroelastic effects (specifically, torsional divergence). An early scientific work on the subject was George Bryan's "Theory of the Stability of a Rigid Aeroplane" published in 1906. Problems with torsional divergence plagued aircra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75047 | 1,003,035 |
1,914,679 | Scherer's discoveries led to the initial description of genome-wide copy number variations (CNVs) of genes and DNA, including defining CNV as a highly abundant form of human genetic variation. Previous theory held that humans were 99.9% DNA identical with the small difference in variation almost entirely accounted for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29205072 | 1,913,580 |
626,340 | Financial pressure prompted him to join the Hospital of the Chronically Ill (Pio Luogo degli Incurabili) in Abbiategrasso, near Milan, as Chief Medical Officer in 1872. To continue research, he set up a simple laboratory on his own in a refurbished hospital kitchen, and it was there that he started making his most nota... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53382 | 626,007 |
133,313 | In chemistry, Dmitri Mendeleev, following the atomic theory of John Dalton, created the first periodic table of elements. Other highlights include the discoveries unveiling the nature of atomic structure and matter, simultaneously with chemistry – and of new kinds of radiation. The theory that all matter is made of ato... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400 | 133,260 |
1,614,837 | The immature fruiting body of "Crucibulum laeve" (technically, the peridium), is roughly spherical in shape, but in maturity the base is narrowed slightly relative to the top, so that it appears like a cup, or crucible. The fruiting bodies are usually 5–8 mm tall and almost as wide at the mouth. When young, the mouth i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20942959 | 1,613,931 |
667,246 | The announcement that the MOL would be launched from the Western Test Range caused an outcry in the Florida news media, which decried it as a wasteful duplication of facilities, given that the recently completed US$154 million (equivalent to $ million in ) Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 41 was specifically built t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=615373 | 666,898 |
941,573 | In reviewing Prussian deficiencies against the Austrians, the General Staff made several improvements to increase the strategic and tactical proficiency of the King's army. Cavalry would no longer be held in reserve, but would actively screen the army's movements at all levels, make first contact with the enemy, and co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=438600 | 941,071 |
1,225,446 | By simplified classification, macrophage phenotype has been divided into 2 groups: M1 (classically activated macrophages) and M2 (alternatively activated macrophages). This broad classification was based on "in vitro" studies, in which cultured macrophages were treated with molecules that stimulated their phenotype swi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45238962 | 1,224,786 |
1,049,784 | A new type of driving game was introduced in Japan, with Kasco's 1968 racing game "Indy 500", which was licensed by Chicago Coin for release in North America as "Speedway" in 1969. It had a circular racetrack with rival cars painted on individual rotating discs illuminated by a lamp, which produced colorful graphics pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34967368 | 1,049,238 |
2,187,190 | Stage one is the reason this algorithm is so efficient and is what sets it apart from most other factoring algorithms. Because the FFT (fast Fourier transform) is used to evaluate the polynomial, a fast evaluation over a dense grid in the complex plane is possible. In order to use the FFT, the grid is structured in pol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36266522 | 2,185,942 |
542,358 | Today, the campus consists of 40 buildings, including the recently renovated Clyde A. Lynch Memorial Hall, the Vernon and Doris Bishop Library (revitalized in 2016), the Heilman Center for communication sciences & disorders/speech-language pathology, and $20 million Jeanne and Edward H. Arnold Health Professions Pavili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2328233 | 542,078 |
1,396,324 | Bagian served as the Lead Mission Specialist on the crew of STS-40 Spacelab Life Sciences, the first dedicated space and life sciences mission, which launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 5, 1991. SLS-1 was a nine-day mission during which crew members performed experiments that explored how the heart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=596595 | 1,395,553 |
1,024,386 | Still lacking an effective anti-aircraft system, the Army started development of two stop-gap systems that were meant to operate in concert. The M163 VADS combined the M61 Vulcan cannon, the M113 chassis, and an all-optical fire control system with a simple lead-computing gunsight. Suitable for "snap shots" against nea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23200607 | 1,023,853 |
1,004,283 | In 1986, Jon Bentley asked Knuth to demonstrate the concept of literate programming for his "Programming Pearls" column in the "Communications of the ACM", by writing a program in WEB. Knuth sent him a program for a problem previously discussed in the column (that of sampling "M" random numbers in the range 1.."N"), an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18136 | 1,003,765 |
1,220,075 | Devra G. Kleiman reviewed the work for "Signs". She called it "a remarkable attempt to explain the evolution of social behavior and social systems in animals by a synthesis of several disciplines within biology", but noted that it had been severely criticised by some biologists and social scientists. She observed that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1149054 | 1,219,421 |
117,142 | The university's buildings, along with most of its records and files, were destroyed in the Great Fire of 1845 that wiped out 20 square blocks of Pittsburgh. Classes were temporarily held in Trinity Church until a new building was constructed on Duquesne Way (on what was the site of the former Horne's department store)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239870 | 117,097 |
166,668 | Since the FDA approval of PrEP for the prevention of HIV, moves toward greater adoption of PrEP have been met some issues, especially around the overall public health effect of widespread adoption, the cost of PrEP and associated disparities in availability and access. Many public health organizations and governments h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5295343 | 166,582 |
2,236,671 | Galagan (2013) offers a definition of the model. SAM was the answer to Allen's quest for an alternative model of accelerated learning whereby users were not confined to the ‘perfect completion of this task before moving on to the next’ linear design which ADDIE exemplifies. According to Glova (2018), “The SAM model foc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72210358 | 2,235,400 |
2,032,214 | As technology has advanced through the years, law enforcement has needed to stay abreast of emerging technological advances and use these in the investigation of crime. A factor that is considered when new technology is used in these investigations is the determination of whether the use of that new technology will be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27658643 | 2,031,044 |
1,587,635 | The field of organic photovoltaics in particular, has developed rapidly since the late 1990s and small solar cells have demonstrated power conversion efficiencies up to 13%. The abundance of solar power and the ability to leverage this for conversion to chemical energy via artificial photosynthesis can allow for mass r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60814319 | 1,586,741 |
1,554,888 | X-linked hydrocephalus with stenosis of the aqueduct of Sylvius (HSAS) is the most severe phenotype on the L1 spectrum and is predominantly known for its major feature: profound hydrocephalus, typically beginning before birth. Due to its prenatal onset (i.e. before the bones of the skull have fused together), hydroceph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48168760 | 1,554,005 |
931,179 | Cellcept was developed by a South African geneticist Anthony Allison and his wife Elsie M. Eugui. In the 1970s while working at the Medical Research Council, Allison investigated the biochemical causes of immune deficiency in children. He discovered the metabolic pathway involving an enzyme, inosine monophosphate dehyd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=530470 | 930,688 |
1,919,136 | The complexity of biological systems requires customized care to sustain their function. When they are no longer able to perform their purpose, interference of new cells and biological cues is provided by a scaffold material. Fibrin scaffold has many aspects like being biocompatible, biodegradable and easily processabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23037879 | 1,918,036 |
368,756 | As of February 2014, 83% of mobile app developers were targeting tablets, but 93% of developers were targeting smartphones. By 2014, around 23% of B2B companies were said to have deployed tablets for sales-related activities, according to a survey report by Corporate Visions. The iPad held majority use in North America... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4182449 | 368,563 |
465,572 | The prefrontal cortex is previously known for its roles in the perception of colored objects, decision making, and memory. Recent studies have also linked it to the conscious aesthetic experience because it is activated during aesthetic tasks such as determining the appeal of a visual stimuli. This may be because a jud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1038052 | 465,342 |
256,327 | As a university professor for much of his life, Dijkstra saw teaching not just as a required activity but as a serious research endeavour. His approach to teaching was unconventional. His lecturing style has been described as idiosyncratic. When lecturing, the long pauses between sentences have often been attributed to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10018 | 256,193 |
406,449 | The length of the time step chosen within the model is related to the distance between the points on the computational grid, and is chosen to maintain numerical stability. Time steps for global models are on the order of tens of minutes, while time steps for regional models are between one and four minutes. The global ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=73231 | 406,248 |
1,551,063 | Varki has emphasized the key role of Physician-Scientists in the success of the US biomedical enterprise, and advocated for the support and preservation of this track at the national level. He also played a key role in advocating for a chimpanzee genome project, while emphasizing the need for ethical treatment of chimp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17898834 | 1,550,182 |
2,090,509 | The Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute or CDRI, incorporated in December 1973, is an independent non-profit, scientific and educational organization conducting its operations as a multi-featured Nature Center and Botanical Gardens located on a tract in the foothills of the Davis Mountains. The organization's mission ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19437782 | 2,089,306 |
1,110,006 | Simple European standardization with an alignment of voltage/frequency across Europe is not necessarily cost-effective since trans-border traction is more limited by the differing national standards in other areas. To equip an electric locomotive with a transformer for two or more input voltages is cheap compared to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1784383 | 1,109,441 |
2,137,604 | In 2009, Gillespie, along with UCLA geography professor John A. Agnew and several undergraduates, published the paper "Finding Osama bin Laden: An Application of Biogeographic Theories and Satellite Imagery" in the MIT International Review. Using remote sensing and reports of his movement, his students created a statis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63385246 | 2,136,374 |
737,509 | A classic example of secondary succession occurs in oak and hickory forests cleared by wildfire. Wildfires will burn most vegetation and kill those animals unable to flee the area. Their nutrients, however, are returned to the ground in the form of ash. Thus, even when areas are devoid of life due to severe fires, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3348515 | 737,120 |
343,212 | In 1959, von Braun, head of the Development Operations Division at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, submitted his final Project Horizon plans to the U.S. Army. The overall goal of Horizon was to place men on the Moon, a mission that would soon be taken over by the rapidly forming NASA. Although concentrating on the M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29441 | 343,031 |
2,023,621 | During the 1910s, the reasons for these problems became well understood, but remedies remained elusive. After the end of World War I, new efforts concentrated on the resolution of these deficiencies, as new research yielded insight into electric circuit theory for anti-sidetone compensation, and new hope of progress. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72276050 | 2,022,457 |
646,399 | About 16% of the population is estimated to be affected by major depression, and another 1% is affected by bipolar disorder, one or more times throughout an individual's lifetime. The presence of the common symptoms of these disorders are collectively called 'depressive syndrome' and includes a long-lasting depressed m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10534087 | 646,059 |
1,900,721 | "Commonsense Media" gave the game 3/5 stars for both quality and learning, calling it a "fun, low-budget, educational gumshoeing adventure", and recommending it for "those who prefer reading to reflex-based action". It noted that fluctuations in puzzle difficulty, and a frustrating navigational problem near the end mak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37619591 | 1,899,632 |
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