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529,508 | Deep vein thrombosis can be characterized as a medical event whereby a blood clot forms in a deep vein, usually the femoral vein. This condition may become potentially fatal if the clot travels to the lungs and causes a pulmonary embolism. Another potential problem with cooling catheters is the potential to block acces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12461863 | 529,234 |
1,935,324 | It is the policy of the college that its students not only learn the engineering subjects, but also acquire communication, lifelong learning, team, and multitasking skills. Slots have been incorporated in the time tables for library, sports and seminar activities. The college publishes "AAR Mahaveer Newsletter", availa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30421651 | 1,934,216 |
1,878,480 | The school has two campuses in Xicheng and Daxing districts in Beijing. The Xicheng campus covers an area of 123,000 square meters, the Daxing campus covers an area of 501,000 square meters; the total school building area is 488,000 square meters. At present, the school is accelerating the construction of the two campu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31465347 | 1,877,400 |
894,310 | Hidden quantum Markov models (HQMMs) are a quantum-enhanced version of classical Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), which are typically used to model sequential data in various fields like robotics and natural language processing. Unlike the approach taken by other quantum-enhanced machine learning algorithms, HQMMs can be v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44108758 | 893,840 |
101,296 | The global adoption of ISO 9001 may be attributable to a number of factors. In the early days, the ISO 9001 (9002 and 9003) requirements were intended to be used by procuring organizations, such as contractors and design activities, as the basis of contractual arrangements with their suppliers. This helped reduce the n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=147042 | 101,251 |
1,411,467 | The side chain with three unsaturated bonds was the most active against "Streptococcus mutans", the tooth decay bacterium, in test tube experiments. The number of unsaturated bonds was not material against "Cutibacterium acnes", the acne bacterium. Eichbaum claims that a solution of one part anacardic acid to 200,000 p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15094211 | 1,410,674 |
1,230,549 | In the following soft clustering example, the reference vector formula_51 contains sample categories and the joint probability formula_52 is assumed known. A soft cluster formula_53 is defined by its probability distribution over the data samples formula_54. Tishby et al. presented the following iterative set of equati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=558462 | 1,229,887 |
676,144 | Replacing the silicon dioxide gate dielectric with another material adds complexity to the manufacturing process. Silicon dioxide can be formed by oxidizing the underlying silicon, ensuring a uniform, conformal oxide and high interface quality. As a consequence, development efforts have focused on finding a material wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2332464 | 675,791 |
673,031 | The retina consists of ten semi-transparent layers that serve specific functions in the process of visual perception. Fundus photography provides a bird's-eye view of the top most layer, the inner limiting membrane, as well as the other underlying layers. As retinal abnormalities often begin in a particular layer of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13863144 | 672,679 |
827,515 | The behaviour of social insects (insects that live in colonies, such as ants, bees, wasps and termites) has always been a source of fascination for children, naturalists and artists. Individual insects seem to do their own thing without any central control, yet the colony as a whole behaves in a highly coordinated mann... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=207874 | 827,071 |
952,182 | Following the defeat of the Japanese surface fleet the IJN deployed submarines to disrupt Allied supply lines by attacking shipping off the Australian east coast. This campaign began with an unsuccessful midget submarine raid on Sydney Harbour on the night of 31 May 1942. Following this attack, Japanese submarines oper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4578255 | 951,677 |
1,192,816 | Subcortical heterotopia form as distinct nodes in the white matter, "focal" indicating specific area. In general, patients present fixed neurologic deficits and develop partial epilepsy between the ages of 6 and 10. The more extensive the subcortical heterotopia, the greater the deficit; bilateral heterotopia are almos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4527356 | 1,192,180 |
969,886 | In recent years, "E. cloacae" has emerged as one of the most commonly found nosocomial pathogen in neonatal units, with several outbreaks of infection being reported.[31] In 1998, van Nierop et al. reported an outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit with nine deaths,[32] and in 2003, Kuboyama et al. reported three o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10877475 | 969,376 |
888,969 | Barzal's first multi-goal game and his first hat-trick came on December 23, 2017, against the Winnipeg Jets in a 5–2 Islanders win. On January 13, 2018, in a 7–2 win over the Rangers, he became just the fifth player in NHL history to have two five-point games in a season before his 21st birthday. On February 9, 2018, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43310207 | 888,501 |
337,722 | Eiffel's proposal was for a bridge whose deck was supported by five iron piers, with the abutments of the pair on the river bank also bearing a central supporting arch. The price quoted by Eiffel was FF.965,000, far below the nearest competitor and so he was given the job, although since his company was less experience... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12232 | 337,543 |
1,966,524 | The 1960s were a particular productive time for dissorophid research. In two separate papers published in 1964, Canadian paleontologist Robert L. Carroll named four new taxa: "Brevidorsum profundum, Broiliellus brevis", and "Parioxys bolli" from the early Permian of Texas and "Conjunctio multidens" from the early Permi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2917704 | 1,965,395 |
123,215 | A medical history, physical examination, and electrocardiogram (ECG) are the most effective ways to determine the underlying cause of syncope. Guidelines from the American College of Emergency Physicians and American Heart Association recommend a syncope workup include a thorough medical history, physical exam with ort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20254750 | 123,166 |
900,777 | In his book "Guns, Germs, and Steel", Jared Diamond postulates that the lack of geographic barriers within much of Chinaessentially a wide plain with two large navigable rivers and a relatively smooth coastlineled to a single government without competition. At the whim of a ruler who disliked new inventions, technology... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9311753 | 900,301 |
598,285 | The spike-count rate can be determined from a single trial, but at the expense of losing all temporal resolution about variations in neural response during the course of the trial. Temporal averaging can work well in cases where the stimulus is constant or slowly varying and does not require a fast reaction of the orga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6147487 | 597,980 |
163,554 | Argon is also commonly mixed with other gases, oxygen, helium, hydrogen and nitrogen. The addition of up to 5% oxygen (like the higher concentrations of carbon dioxide mentioned above) can be helpful in welding stainless steel, however, in most applications carbon dioxide is preferred. Increased oxygen makes the shield... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33731132 | 163,469 |
1,389,930 | Cognitive enrichment is defined as, improving animal welfare by providing opportunities for captive animals to use cognitive skills for problem solving and providing limited control over some aspects of its environment. In the wild, animals deal with ecological challenges in order to acquire the resources, such as food... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5469882 | 1,389,159 |
3,461 | In 1878, Edison began working on a system of electrical illumination, something he hoped could compete with gas and oil-based lighting. He began by tackling the problem of creating a long-lasting incandescent lamp, something that would be needed for indoor use. However, Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb. In 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29778 | 3,461 |
1,455,013 | While Emscripten and similar compilers allow Web developers to write new code, or port existing code, written in a high-level language such as C, C++, Go, and Rust to WebAssembly to achieve potentially higher, native-level execution performance in Web browsers, this forces Web developers accustomed to developing client... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66707963 | 1,454,193 |
1,922,075 | Informatics had several contracts with NASA. The earliest, in 1966 (and possibly earlier) was in support of NASA efforts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Ames Research Center. In conjunction with the contract, Informatics opened a branch office in Glendale, California. Work done there included software develope... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54196474 | 1,920,972 |
1,141,850 | There are also benefits to the increased required pressures. Increased pressures yield higher gas densities, which allow for greater refrigerating effects to be achieved. This makes it ideal for cooling dense loads such as ones found in server rooms. It also allows for carbon dioxide to perform well under cold (-30 to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12262882 | 1,141,256 |
2,052,030 | Johannes Buchmann studied mathematics, physics, pedagogy and philosophy at the University of Cologne from 1974 to 1979 after graduating from high school in 1972 and completing his military service. After passing the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools in 1979, he taught mathematics at a Cologne seco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62210304 | 2,050,849 |
2,096,222 | Robertson was born in Scotland and educated as a surgeon, in which capacity he started working as a naval doctor, first on whaling ships (from 1760) and then in the Royal Navy (from 1768). During his numerous expeditions, he recorded observations on fevers, scurvy and numerous other illnesses. After 23 years of service... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35825848 | 2,095,014 |
1,382,963 | In 1994, the Nuclear Posture Review recommended the withdrawal of four SSBNs. The decision was subsequently taken to convert the four oldest boats, , , and , into specialist cruise missile submarines, with an additional role as special operations boats. Each boat had 22 of its 24 ballistic missile tubes converted to ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59895854 | 1,382,197 |
2,027,617 | Rickey received his B.S. (1963), M.S. (1966), and Ph.D. (1968) from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. His Ph.D. was entitled "An Axiomatic Theory of Syntax". He joined the academic staff of Ohio's Bowling Green State University in 1968, became there a full professor in 1979, and retired there in 1998... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54455302 | 2,026,450 |
1,681,080 | After completing her PhD, Merminga held a postdoctoral position at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the accelerator theory group. In 1992, she joined Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility as a member of the Center for Advanced Studies of Accelerators (CASA). In 2002, she became director of CASA's beam p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65761627 | 1,680,137 |
1,019,229 | Sternberg's theory of intelligence is made up of three different components: creative, analytical, and practical abilities (Sternberg & Sternberg, 2012). Creativeness is the ability to have new original ideas, and being analytical can help a person decide whether the idea is a good one or not. "Practical abilities are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315578 | 1,018,702 |
606,546 | Thomas Cervantes and his colleagues, who are from Massachusetts General Hospital, built an artificial ear from sheep cartilage by a 3D printer. With a lot of calculations and models, they managed to build an ear shaped like a typical human one. Modeled by a plastic surgeon, they had to adjust several times so the artif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=197037 | 606,236 |
424,260 | "Panellus stipticus" is one of several dozen species of fungi that are bioluminescent. Strains from eastern North America are typically bioluminescent, but those from the Pacific coast regions of North America and from other continents are not. The luminescence is localized to the edges of the gills and the junction of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25648059 | 424,053 |
1,651,843 | At that time, the budget for magnetic fusion energy research in the United States had been increasing year-over-year, reaching a peak of $468.4 million in fiscal 1984. That year, the PSFC was notified that for a time, budgets would be falling, and DOE policy would be to only fund upgrades to existing devices, not new m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3540994 | 1,650,911 |
858,402 | A decimal number system using hieroglyphics dates back to 3000 BC in Egypt, and was later in use in ancient India. By the 9th century CE, the Hindu–Arabic numeral system was transmitted from the Middle East and to the rest of the world. The concept of 0 as a number, and not merely a symbol for separation is attributed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1770300 | 857,944 |
1,431,128 | The factory established in Shenyang (later known as Mukden) began producing the rifle around 1924. This date is believed to be the origin of the designation "Type 13" as the Nationalist Chinese calendar begins in 1911. After the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, rifles continued to be produced in the newly create... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52596604 | 1,430,324 |
758,668 | For much of its history, education in the United States was segregated (or even only available) based upon race. Early integrated schools such as the Noyes Academy, founded in 1835, in Canaan, New Hampshire, often were met with fierce local opposition. For the most part, African Americans received very little to no for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9083795 | 758,262 |
2,116,589 | In the following year a new contract was drawn up to run for at least three years, or five years if the war continued. Under this a monthly service was to be maintained by a fleet of five vessels; Dummer was to receive £12,500 per annum, and was to be allowed to carry for his own profit 5 tons of freight on the outward... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24510735 | 2,115,372 |
694,498 | In 2009, 56 genes for secreted proteins were identified in the genome of aster yellows witches' broom phytoplasma strain (AY-WB); these were named secreted AY-WB proteins (SAPs) and considered effectors. Also in 2009, effector SAP11 was shown to target plant cell nuclei and unload from phloem cells in AY-WB-infected pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1041312 | 694,135 |
725,607 | Nitrite produced in the first step of autotrophic nitrification is oxidized to nitrate by nitrite oxidoreductase (NXR)(2). It is a membrane-associated iron-sulfur molybdo protein and is part of an electron transfer chain which channels electrons from nitrite to molecular oxygen. The enzymatic mechanisms involved in nit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7142324 | 725,226 |
1,981,784 | In 1987 Suntola started Microchemistry Ltd as a subsidiary of the national oil company Neste Oy to apply the ALD technology to new application areas like thin film photovoltaic devices, heterogeneous catalysts, and most importantly, to semiconductor devices. In 1998, Microchemistry Ltd., and the ALD technology, was sol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49164439 | 1,980,645 |
1,402,920 | Some Israeli archaeologists also charged that archaeological material dating to the First Temple Period (c. 960-586 BCE) was destroyed when the thousands of tons of ancient fill from the site were dumped into the Kidron Valley, as well as into Jerusalem's municipal garbage dump, where it mixed with the local garbage, m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15703061 | 1,402,133 |
1,866,493 | When the university unveiled its $1.75 billion capital campaign in 2007, it allocated $300 million to build a headquarters for the department on a site of about . The new psychology building, Peretsman-Scully Hall opened in December, 2013. It is in the shape of a half-circle cylinder, and consists of five floors above ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18346213 | 1,865,419 |
1,119,411 | Having earned degrees in history, political science, and English literature, she had little interest in science until she met and married geologist Eugene Merle Shoemaker. Her career in astronomy began when she demonstrated good stereoscopic vision, a particularly valuable quality for looking for objects in near-Earth ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=251117 | 1,118,838 |
61,179 | Cubism was relevant to an architecture seeking a style that needed not refer to the past. Thus, what had become a revolution in both painting and sculpture was applied as part of "a profound reorientation towards a changed world". The Cubo-Futurist ideas of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti influenced attitudes in avant-garde ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37803 | 61,154 |
9,241 | Developed alongside the -300ER, the -200LR features an increased MTOW and three optional auxiliary fuel tanks in the rear cargo hold. Other new features include extended raked wingtips, redesigned main landing gear, and additional structural strengthening. As with the -300ER and 777F, the -200LR is equipped with wingti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89260 | 9,237 |
639,363 | Some rebreather diving safety issues can be addressed by training, others may require a change in technical diver culture. A major safety issue is that many divers become complacent as they become more familiar with the equipment, and begin to neglect predive checklists while assembling and preparing the equipment for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=291242 | 639,024 |
1,525,606 | This species is believed to be native to Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico. It has spread to certain Caribbean Islands, Hawaii and French Guiana, and also to parts of Southeast Asia, including India, Indonesia and Thailand. It was discovered in Bradenton, Florida, in the United States in 1998 feeding on hibiscus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31151998 | 1,524,745 |
1,612,672 | Unlike previous methods, MOLGEN is the only maintained efficient generic structure generator, developed as a closed-source platform by a group of mathematicians as an application of computational group theory. MOLGEN is an orderly generation method. Many different versions of MOLGEN have been developed, and they provid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66452088 | 1,611,767 |
1,680,014 | In 2000, in a bid to expand into the new growth market of coffee makers, Strix raised £50m of capital from HSBC Private Equity by selling 40% of its shares, valuing the company at £125m. This investment diluted Taylor's shareholding in Strix to 24%. In 2005, ABN AMRO Capital led a leveraged buyout of Strix; the value o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19412090 | 1,679,071 |
759,220 | Of particular interest, Manfred Schidlowski argued in 1979 that the carbon isotopic ratios of some sedimentary rocks found in Greenland were a relic of organic matter. There was much debate over the precise dating of the rocks, with Schidlowski suggesting they were about 3.8 Ga old, and others suggesting a more "modest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30864636 | 758,814 |
1,870,513 | Occurrence of welding defects in DFSW are quite common. Welding defects in DFSW include tunneling defect, fragment defect, crack, void, surface cavity or grooves and excessive flash formation. Amongst these, tunneling defect is the most common defect in DFSW resulting from improper material flows throughout welding. It... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57687305 | 1,869,436 |
22,764 | Overdoses of ingested iron can cause excessive levels of free iron in the blood. High blood levels of free ferrous iron react with peroxides to produce highly reactive free radicals that can damage DNA, proteins, lipids, and other cellular components. Iron toxicity occurs when the cell contains free iron, which general... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14734 | 22,755 |
1,348,920 | The design of the Type 98, in comparison to the Type 95, featured thicker, welded armor of improved shape, including the use of a Mitsubishi Type 100 6-Cylinder air-cooled diesel engine, rated at 130 horsepower, and located sideways to make maintenance easier. The height of the tank was 50 cm lower in profile, and slig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3834355 | 1,348,178 |
1,037,312 | Research activities at ARIES cover topics related to the sun, stars and galaxies. ARIES has made significant contributions particularly to the field of star clusters and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The longitude of ARIES (79° East) locates it in the middle of a 180-degree wide longitude band having modern astronomical fac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27886855 | 1,036,771 |
595,351 | Electronic lightning sensors advanced during the 20th century using radio wave disruptions. Originally the expense of such instruments caused only sporadic development. However a small set of sensors in the U.S. employed during a 1979 project by NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory grew into the National Lightning ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36683093 | 595,046 |
624,958 | The prediction that light represented a transmission of energy in wave form through a "luminiferous ether", and the seeming confirmation of that prediction with Helmholtz student Heinrich Hertz's 1888 detection of electromagnetic radiation, was a major triumph for physical theory and raised the possibility that even mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56661172 | 624,625 |
1,504,043 | Characteristic of thraustochytrids is their ectoplasmic net—which is an extension of the plasma membrane—emerging from the bothrosome (also known as the sagenogenetosome, or SAG). The cytoplasmic net is unilateral, motile, and resembles fine fibres when viewed under a scanning electron micrograph. Depending on the genu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70178444 | 1,503,197 |
871,197 | The Soviets never did get the detailed data required to redesign the ship's barbettes and magazines, but they did know that the 380-mm barbettes were bigger in diameter than that of the 305 mm turret as well as being taller than the Russian turrets. So the barbette of turret number two had to be raised to clear turret ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5168695 | 870,737 |
916,574 | Modern large reptiles naturally give off body heat at a slower rate than smaller ones, and are considered "inertial homeotherms", but they maintain a low body temperature of . If therapsids required a higher body temperature of , they would either have needed to have been endotherms (generating their own body heat) or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3705573 | 916,091 |
113,849 | The emitter-base junction of a bipolar NPN transistor behaves as a Zener diode, with breakdown voltage at about 6.8 V for common bipolar processes and about 10 V for lightly doped base regions in BiCMOS processes. Older processes with poor control of doping characteristics had the variation of Zener voltage up to ±1 V,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=97835 | 113,804 |
511,042 | The problem that Bordé et al. were trying to solve in 1984 was the averaging-out of Ramsey fringes of atoms whose transition frequencies were in the optical range. When this was the case, first-order Doppler shifts caused the Ramsey fringes to vanish because of the introduced spread in frequencies. Their solution was t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41740230 | 510,776 |
446,896 | During the 1980s there were no notable tenure battles, but three were outstanding in the 1990s. In 1995, the Florida Board of Regents tried to re-evaluate academic tenure, but managed only to institute a weak, post-tenure performance review. Likewise, in 1996 the Arizona Board of Regents attempted to re-evaluate tenure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314951 | 446,680 |
173,796 | Nereid is the third-largest moon of Neptune. It has a prograde but very eccentric orbit and is believed to be a former regular satellite that was scattered to its current orbit through gravitational interactions during Triton's capture. Water ice has been spectroscopically detected on its surface. Early measurements of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=818487 | 173,705 |
1,256,701 | "Boa constrictor occidentalis" reproduction is strongly seasonal within both sexes. Females are reproductive between April to August during the dry season. During this dry season 50% of adult females and 64% of adult male are reproductive. "Boa constrictor occidentalis" undergo mating aggregations during the dry season... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62371048 | 1,256,017 |
1,062,546 | In addition to being used for scientific purposes, MEAs have been used in contemporary art to investigate philosophical questions about the relationship between technology and biology. Traditionally within Western thought, biology and technology have been separated into two distinct categories: "bios" and "technê." In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20511935 | 1,061,992 |
995,616 | Conceived as an extension to C, C++ introduced object-oriented features, as well as other conveniences like references, operator overloading, and default arguments. Like C, C++’s generality allowed it to be used in a wide range of areas. While its C++’s core area of application is in systems programming (because of C++... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=891926 | 995,099 |
1,849,198 | Countries are struggling to steer their scientific efforts toward sustainable development, at a time when the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals have taken over from the Millennium Development Goals in 2016. It has been suggested that countries could begin by encouraging their scientists to focus more on att... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53513295 | 1,848,140 |
1,840,742 | The Turing test is an informal validation method that was developed by the English mathematician Alan Turing in the 1950s, which at its roots is actually a specialized form of face validation. The reason it is a subgroup of face validation is because all humans can be seen as "experts" on being able to analyze how othe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37837121 | 1,839,690 |
1,638,163 | The Information Technology Museum displays a basic understanding of communication, computers, networks, and information technology, as well as demonstrating how research and development can lead to new ideas. The museum aims to prepare the Thai people to aware of and get ready for digital revolution in the society as o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1749349 | 1,637,238 |
347,808 | Lithography works because of the mutual repulsion of oil and water. The image is drawn on the surface of the print plate with a fat or oil-based medium (hydrophobic) such as a wax crayon, which may be pigmented to make the drawing visible. A wide range of oil-based media is available, but the durability of the image on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426 | 347,627 |
1,075,899 | Since 1889, in the American state Minnesota, brothers William Mayo and Charles Mayo had built an international reputation for surgical skill at their Mayo Clinic, by 1906 performing some 5,000 surgeries a year, over 50% intra-abdominal, a tremendous number at the time, with unusually low mortality and morbidity. Though... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9510615 | 1,075,344 |
567,936 | In September 2013, The Union at Dearborn opened, with its 145 apartments providing the first on-campus student housing since the 1970s. Also that month, UM–Dearborn's School of Education was renamed the College of Education, Health and Human Services. In December 2015, UM–Dearborn conferred its 50,000 cumulative degree... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=848086 | 567,646 |
1,438,583 | In West Berlin, Hennig was given an interim post at the Technische Universität Berlin as Distinguished Professor. He rejected offers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. and an offer made by his friend Elmo Hardy, to become a Research Fellow at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, citing as reas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33952 | 1,437,773 |
963,056 | With the destruction of the superstructure of the Aztec Empire in 1521, central Mexico was brought under the control of the Spanish Empire. Over the course of the succeeding decades, virtually all of Mesoamerica was brought under Spanish control, which resulted in a fairly uniform policies toward indigenous populations... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=399215 | 962,547 |
1,429,524 | Classifying "Asteriornis" as a relative of chickens and ducks means that it is unequivocally a neornithean. This is important because Neornithes originated at the last common ancestor of all living birds, and corresponds to the term "bird" as it refers to modern-day animals. Pre-neornithean birds such as "Ichthyornis",... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63413093 | 1,428,720 |
2,016,082 | Hering moved to the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991 and was named Associate Professor in 1995. Around that time, Arsenic in water supplies became a worldwide concern. The World Health Organization recommended a value of only 10 μg per litre; as it can cause skin disease and cancer. Hering joined the Calif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59795552 | 2,014,920 |
258,449 | Sustainable agriculture attempts to solve multiple problems with one broad solution. The goal of sustainable agricultural practices is to decrease environmental degradation due to farming while increasing crop–and thus food–output. There are many varying strategies attempting to use sustainable farming practices in ord... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216143 | 258,315 |
1,812,962 | In 1989 Norton was appointed by Sir Derek Birley as the first professor in the field of the Built Environment at the University of Ulster, prior to which he taught at Cranfield University. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering. Norton studied physics at the Universit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41684377 | 1,811,928 |
765,992 | Canon Inc.'s SubWavelength structure Coating uses wedge-shaped structures the size of the wavelength of visible light. The wedge-shaped structures cause a continuously changing refractive index as light travels through the coating, significantly reducing lens flare. This imitates the structure of a moth's eye. Notable ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45784 | 765,582 |
1,825,533 | The mission of the Sciencenter is to cultivate a broad community of curious, confident, critical thinkers. The Sciencenter in Ithaca features 250+ fun, hands-on exhibits, educational programs, an outdoor science playground, a seasonal 18-hole Sciencenter Mini-Golf course, a Tidepool Touch Tank with live marine animals,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17460553 | 1,824,495 |
498,661 | In the early stages of her work with H.M., Milner wanted to completely understand his memory impairments. Dr. Milner showed that the medial temporal lobe amnestic syndrome is characterised by an inability to acquire new memories and an inability to recall established memories from a few years immediately before damage,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=605565 | 498,404 |
1,611,763 | AWCI promotes the modern watch industry by providing a range of education, certification, technical assistance and business services. For over 50 years, AWCI has worked with horology schools, individual watchmakers and clockmakers, manufacturers and retailers to advance the art, science and business of horology. The AW... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4050858 | 1,610,858 |
681,597 | Glatiramer acetate is a random polymer (average molecular mass 6.4 kD) composed of four amino acids found in myelin basic protein. The mechanism of action for glatiramer acetate is not fully elucidated. It is thought to act by modifying immune processes that are believed to be responsible for the pathogenesis of MS. Ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8476171 | 681,241 |
982,803 | The Mk XII was the first Spitfire powered by a Griffon engine to go into service. The first of 100 Supermarine-built production aircraft started appearing in October 1942; two RAF squadrons in total were equipped with the XII. Mk XIIs were manufactured from Mk Vc and Mk VIII airframes: early production aircraft had the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22829566 | 982,290 |
786,499 | When a target is marked by a designator, the beam is invisible and does not shine continuously. Instead, a series of coded laser pulses, also called PRF codes (pulse repetition frequency), are fired at the target. These signals bounce off the target into the sky, where they are detected by the seeker on the laser-guide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=810600 | 786,076 |
1,549,107 | A novel treatment is recreating the birth canal pressures which are believed to signal the transition of in the womb brain function to post birth standing and bonding with the mare and nursing. This treatment uses series of ropes and knots wrapped around the foal's chest, then pressure is applied for a set amount of ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57765385 | 1,548,226 |
2,037,756 | A demonstrator which has been operational since 2017 has shown an overall AC-AC roundtrip efficiency of 93.15%, which is comparatively higher other comparable battery storage systems with online references. This technology is based on lithium-sulfur battery technology which have a high theoretical energy density of 260... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67041304 | 2,036,581 |
1,771,624 | It has been proven that adaptive behavior is crucial in the process of natural selection, and thus is important in the evolutionary process. Species that possess positive adaptive behaviors will inherently acquire evolutionary advantages. For example, adaptive behavior is a mechanism of population stabilization. In nat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22052921 | 1,770,627 |
2,106,888 | NASA's Plum Brook Station is located off Taylor Road, between Bloomingville and Bogart, south of Sandusky, Ohio. This remote site was established by NASA to facilitate large-scale testing of dangerous equipment. The In-Space Propulsion Facility, designed to perform full-scale test-firing of large rockets, is one of sev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16696689 | 2,105,675 |
1,225,429 | It is a low-growing plant with shallow fibrous roots and a basal rosette of elliptical to lanceolate leaves long and broad. All parts of the plant exude a milky juice. The flowering stem is usually leafless or with just one or two small leaves. The stem and leaves are covered with short stiff hairs (trichomes), usually... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240760 | 1,224,769 |
1,820,043 | The next biggest impact over land occurred in California's gold country on April 22, 2012. One of the fragments landed at Sutter's Mill, the very site where gold was first discovered in 1848 that led to the California Gold Rush. Jenniskens found one of three fragments of this CM chondrite on April 24, before rains hit ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7750912 | 1,819,007 |
1,328,327 | in which formula_8 is a positive integer referring to time. The functions formula_9 and formula_10 are general nonlinear functions. The first equation is known as the state equation and the second is known as the output equation. All the signals are modeled using stochastic processes. The process formula_11 is known as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40158142 | 1,327,599 |
404,323 | The tetracyclines, a large family of antibiotics, were discovered by Benjamin Minge Duggar in 1948 as natural products, and first prescribed in 1948. Benjamin Duggar, working under Yellapragada Subbarow at Lederle Laboratories, discovered the first tetracycline antibiotic, chlortetracycline (Aureomycin), in 1945. The s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30649 | 404,123 |
2,177,808 | In his capacity as Resident Engineer in the Victorian Railways, Watson superintended the construction of the Geelong–Ballarat railway line, the Sandhurst and Echuca line, the North East railway line and its branches, the Gippsland line and branches, and many of the lines to the Western District. The line from Bacchus M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31865761 | 2,176,563 |
1,685,250 | The classification system, known by the acronym "PALM-COEIN", was developed and first published a textbook, and then, after ratification by the Working Group, was accepted by FIGO in 2010 and finally published together with the nomenclature system and definitions in 2011. Each of the first eight letters stands for a di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51070599 | 1,684,305 |
397,454 | A type of buckyball which uses boron atoms, instead of the usual carbon, was predicted and described in 2007. The structure, with each atom forming 5 or 6 bonds, was predicted to be more stable than the buckyball. However, subsequent analysis found that the predicted I symmetric structure was vibrationally unstable and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10628 | 397,258 |
1,804,505 | Cedarpelta is a extinct genus of basal ankylosaurid dinosaur from Utah that lived during the Late Cretaceous period (Cenomanian to lower Turonian stage, 98.2 to 93 Ma) in what is now the Mussentuchit Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation. The type and only species, Cedarpelta bilbeyhallorum, is known from multiple spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4312562 | 1,803,490 |
848,762 | An alternative hypothesis of adaptive significance was proposed by Bulmer and Bull in 1982 and supported by the work of Pen et al. (2010). They conjectured that disruptive selection produced by variation in the environment could result in an evolutionary transition from ESD to GSD. Pen et al. (2010) addresses evolution... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9975050 | 848,312 |
513,319 | It is thought that a majority of existing animals, including Homo sapiens, have evolved from a common wormlike ancestor that lived around 600 million years ago, called the urbilaterian. A bilaterian animal is one that has symmetrical left and right body halves. While it is still debated whether this species had a compl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=993449 | 513,053 |
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