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92,104 | Minor uses of ethylene glycol include the manufacture of capacitors, as a chemical intermediate in the manufacture of 1,4-dioxane, as an additive to prevent corrosion in liquid cooling systems for personal computers, and inside the lens devices of cathode-ray tube type of rear projection televisions. Ethylene glycol is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=143129 | 92,063 |
1,763,015 | In the early Cretaceous, approximately 130 million years ago, there was a major diversification of angiosperms that set in motion a large evolutionary change in high paleolatitude forest composition. The diversification of angiosperms is in close connection with pollen and nectar collecting insects. It is thought that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37882012 | 1,762,022 |
574,310 | In 1948, Roger and Colette Vendrely reported a "remarkable constancy in the nuclear DNA content of all the cells in all the individuals within a given animal species", which they took as evidence that DNA, rather than protein, was the substance of which genes are composed. The term C-value reflects this observed consta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2354482 | 574,016 |
1,700,838 | A controlled environment can protect metals from polluted air, dust, ultraviolet radiation, and excessive relative humidity - ideal values are temperature of 16-20 °C and up to 40% (35-55% according to recent Canadian Conservation Institute recommendations) relative humidity, noting that if metal is combined with organ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31121305 | 1,699,884 |
1,868,299 | A chromatoid body is a dense structure in the cytoplasm of male germ cells. It is composed mainly of RNAs and RNA-binding proteins and is thus a type of RNP granule. Chromatoid body-like granules first appear in spermatocytes and condense into a single granule in round spermatids. The structure disappears again when sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42981249 | 1,867,223 |
896,873 | The phase-in way is to pass a law permitting the use of metric units in parallel with traditional ones, followed by education of metric units, then progressively ban the use of the older measures. This has generally been a slow route to metric. The British Empire permitted the use of metric measures in 1873, but the ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20353 | 896,401 |
1,126,843 | Nishihara and coworkers studied the clinical features of subacute thyroiditis in 852 mostly 40- to 50-year-old women in Japan. They noted seasonal clusters (summer to early autumn) and most subjects presented with neck pain. Fever and symptoms of thyrotoxicosis were present in two thirds of subjects. Upper respiratory ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7968643 | 1,126,266 |
673,089 | On 9 September 1976, Asli Hassan Abade soloed her first flight as the only female pilot in the Somali Air Force. In 1977, Cheryl Pickering-Moore and Beverley Drake of Guyana became the first two women pilots of the Guyana Defence Force. Drake was transferred a few months later as the first female pilot of the Guyana Ai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47210395 | 672,737 |
108,365 | In the mid-1990s development of both, residential and commercial rooftop solar as well as utility-scale photovoltaic power stations began to accelerate again due to supply issues with oil and natural gas, global warming concerns, and the improving economic position of PV relative to other energy technologies. In the ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13690575 | 108,320 |
1,752,399 | His paper "Artificial Evolution for Computer Graphics" described the application of genetic algorithms to generate abstract 2D images from complex mathematical formulae, evolved under the guidance of a human. He used this method to create the video "Primordial Dance" – which, according to one published study with suppl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=767665 | 1,751,411 |
2,189,466 | The 1935–36 season would turn out to be Craig Ruby's 14th and final year of coaching at the University of Illinois. It would also turn out to be Ruby's final head coaching job anywhere as he would leave to pursue a career with Hallmark Greeting Cards. Ruby's tenure at Illinois ranks 3rd behind Lou Henson (21 years) and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37647374 | 2,188,217 |
629,077 | The redshifting for a particular quasar provides temporal (time) information about reionization. Since an object's redshift corresponds to the time at which it emitted the light, it is possible to determine when reionization ended. Quasars below a certain redshift (closer in space and time) do not show the Gunn-Peterso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=488748 | 628,739 |
937,070 | In control theory and stability theory, the Nyquist stability criterion or Strecker–Nyquist stability criterion, independently discovered by the German electrical engineer at Siemens in 1930 and the Swedish-American electrical engineer Harry Nyquist at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1932, is a graphical technique for d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1697331 | 936,574 |
1,933,332 | In "Rhodobacter sphaeroides", PRK (or RsPRK) exists as a homooctomer with protomers composed of seven-stranded mixed β-sheets, seven α-helices, and an auxiliary pair of anti-parallel β-strands. The RsPRK subunit exhibits a protein folding analogous to the folding of nucleotide monophosphate (NMP) kinases. Mutagenesis s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14680360 | 1,932,224 |
1,672,815 | The program above scales poorly because the loop that distributes information executes sequentially. Writing scalable programs often requires a sophisticated understanding of parallel algorithms, a detailed knowledge of the underlying network characteristics, and special tuning for application characteristics such as t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=899197 | 1,671,873 |
1,299,339 | After World War II, and with the onset of Cold War tensions, the US continued its clandestine wartime bio-weapons program. The Korean War (1950–53) added justification for continuing the program, when the possible entry of the Soviet Union into the war was feared. Concerns over the Soviet Union were justified, for the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38421966 | 1,298,625 |
646,091 | In Spring 1983, at age 38, he was arrested in Allentown, Pennsylvania after police found him in his car, holding a pistol, which was a violation of his parole terms. On May 3, 1983, he attempted a failed escape from prison in Allentown, breaking his leg in the process. Later that year, he was tried and convicted for in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14754992 | 645,751 |
1,384,809 | In her dissertation, Prosser argues that racial injustices and feelings of isolation have damaging effects on the psyche of Black children. The effects are even more detrimental with the standards of living as it applies to socioeconomic status. Given that her sample size was small (64 students), Prosser refrained from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13646566 | 1,384,042 |
273,709 | While foil chaff is still used by certain aircraft, such as the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber, this type is no longer manufactured. The chaff used by aircraft such as the Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, and McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1550386 | 273,561 |
357,820 | Roman law addressed the rape of a male citizen as early as the 2nd century BC, when it was ruled that even a man who was "disreputable and questionable" ("famosus," related to "infamis", and "suspiciosus)" had the same right as other free men not to have his body subjected to forced sex. The "Lex Julia de vi publica", ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5139910 | 357,634 |
1,266,503 | In the 1990s, with the onset of market reforms, agricultural output collapsed, and rural agricultural areas continued to decline in productivity, though they were not alone in this lack of output as urban centers began to suffer in terms of manufacturing, but at an even higher rate. This was not only alarming because n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34407497 | 1,265,815 |
1,032,115 | Unlike its predecessor DFZ/DFR, the Cosworth HB was hardly ever used outside of Formula 1. After the FIA had allowed 3.5-liter naturally aspirated engines for the 1991 season of the sports car world championship as part of extensive rule changes, aggregates from the Formula 1 can be adopted with a few changes. Accordin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68931039 | 1,031,579 |
1,891,799 | Michigan State senior Mateen Cleaves limped his way to the Most Outstanding Player (MOP) of the 2000 NCAA Tournament. Cleaves sprained his ankle with 16:18 to play in the second half, and this was after Florida had trimmed Michigan State's double digit halftime lead to 50–44. Cleaves returned about four minutes later, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45680670 | 1,890,716 |
658,262 | However, performance testing is frequently not performed against a specification; e.g., no one will have expressed what the maximum acceptable response time for a given population of users should be. Performance testing is frequently used as part of the process of performance profile tuning. The idea is to identify the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39294 | 657,917 |
1,900,829 | The Mezen River basin is located in northern Russia and has extensive exposures of Middle Permian sediments along the edges of affluent rivers of the Mezen River. These sediments have produced many skeletal remains of diverse amniotes, but most importantly, a partial skull of “a small synapsid of varanopseid affinities... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22439792 | 1,899,740 |
990,279 | Aside from its use to supply medical oxygen, or as a substitute for bulk cryogenic or compressed-cylinder storage, which is the primary oxygen source for any hospital, PSA has numerous other uses. One of the primary applications of PSA is in the removal of carbon dioxide (CO) as the final step in the large-scale commer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2457822 | 989,762 |
2,162,266 | In 1992, after occupying the site for 84 years, the Christian Brothers vacated Mount St Mary. A Feast Day in honour of the Blessed Virgin was held in the Barron Chapel on 15 August 1992. On 3 September, a final mass was celebrated in the Gothic chapel and on 14 September, the last Brothers left Mount St Mary. In July 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62880865 | 2,161,031 |
217,667 | Inadequately secured hardware can be subject to physical tampering. Some critics, such as the group "Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet" ("We do not trust voting machines"), charge that, for instance, foreign hardware could be inserted into the machine, or between the user and the central mechanism of the machine itself... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=371301 | 217,559 |
462,953 | CDKN2A, also known as cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2A, is a gene which in humans is located at chromosome 9, band p21.3. It is ubiquitously expressed in many tissues and cell types. The gene codes for two proteins, including the INK4 family member p16 (or p16INK4a) and p14arf. Both act as tumor suppressors by regu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14842113 | 462,724 |
33,938 | the IBM 350 and similar drives. The 1301 consisted of one (for Model 1) or two (for model 2) modules, each containing 25 platters, each platter about thick and in diameter. While the earlier IBM disk drives used only two read/write heads per arm, the 1301 used an array of 48 heads (comb), each array moving horizontally... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13777 | 33,926 |
1,037,785 | Some materials in nature act as ready made "building blocks" to the animals in question, such as feathers and leaf petioles for some birds and animal hair for the chaffinch. Other materials need to be "processed". Caddisfly larvae use stone pieces and also cut sections from green leaves for use in construction. The sto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32282725 | 1,037,244 |
1,966,655 | From K.T. Chau, Chair Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, to Deborah Paredez, Professor of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin, TGS alumni are professors at universities across the globe and across many fields of study. Alumni who are professors at universit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12326456 | 1,965,525 |
2,104,198 | Professor MacVicar was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science from Clarkson University in 1985. She was Orator at the 1984 Literary Exercises of Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard University; Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Texas in 1979; and Vollmer W. Fries Lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Ins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8050763 | 2,102,985 |
535,105 | From 1788 until 1870 the defence of the Australian colonies was mostly provided by British Army regular forces. Originally Marines protected the early settlements at Sydney Cove and Norfolk Island, however they were relieved of these duties in 1790 by a British Army unit specifically recruited for colonial service, kno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,826 |
1,235,531 | MSU returned to the road to face Illinois at State Farm Center. Nick Ward did not start as Tom Izzo tried to send a message to his team. However, Illinois took an early lead and for the majority of the game as their intense defense forced the Spartans into 24 turnovers in the game. Cassius Winston alone had nine turnov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56903804 | 1,234,868 |
912,561 | Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation (OTE) currently has plans to install two 10 MW OTEC plants in the US Virgin Islands and a 5-10 MW OTEC facility in The Bahamas. OTE has also designed the world's largest Seawater Air Conditioning (SWAC) plant for a resort in The Bahamas, which will use cold deep seawater as a method of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68498 | 912,082 |
858,844 | Aside from its development, however, assessment in the health technology industry has been viewed as sporadic and fragmented Issues such as the determination of products that needed to be developed, cost, and access, among others, also emerged. These - some argue - need to be included in the assessment since health tec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3255966 | 858,386 |
109,214 | In January 2013, as part of France's intervention in the Northern Mali conflict, a small number of Tigers were deployed for combat operations to that theatre. Early production HADs (Block 1) followed in November 2014 after having been declared combat capable. In March 2017, German Tigers were rotated into the same coun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=310780 | 109,169 |
1,452,024 | "Myxobolus cerebralis" is a myxosporean parasite of salmonids (salmon and trout species) that causes whirling disease in farmed salmon and trout and also in wild fish populations. It was first described in rainbow trout in Germany in 1893, but its range has spread and it has appeared in most of Europe (including Russia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1849824 | 1,451,207 |
1,933,481 | Robert Ader spent his entire career at the University of Rochester, where he held many teaching and research positions. He was appointed the director of the Division of Behavioral and Psychosocial Medicine in the University of Rochester’s department of psychology and director of the Center for Psychoneuroimmunology Res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34141635 | 1,932,373 |
1,896,501 | The School continued its evening classes but now put a focus on its full-time day students, of whom six enrolled in the first term. On 5 February 1902 the foundation stone of new bakery buildings was laid by Thomas Fletcher of Birmingham Town Council, with John Humphry, president of the National Association of Master B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3590702 | 1,895,417 |
357,753 | An increase in eosinophils, i.e., the presence of more than 500 eosinophils/microlitre of blood is called an eosinophilia, and is typically seen in people with a parasitic infestation of the intestines; autoimmune and collagen vascular disease (such as rheumatoid arthritis) and Systemic lupus erythematosus; malignant d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=238729 | 357,567 |
1,260,158 | The effectiveness of the TSP depends on a number of factors. Amongst the most critical are; the area of the titanium film, the temperature of the chamber walls and the composition of the residual gas. The area is typically maximised when considering where to mount the TSP. The reactivity of the new titanium film is inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18837003 | 1,259,471 |
115,884 | Paleontology lies on the border between biology and geology, but differs from archaeology in that it excludes the study of anatomically modern humans. It now uses techniques drawn from a wide range of sciences, including biochemistry, mathematics, and engineering. Use of all these techniques has enabled paleontologists... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23084 | 115,839 |
23,375 | Bacon's public career ended in disgrace in 1621. After he fell into debt, a parliamentary committee on the administration of the law charged him with 23 separate counts of corruption. His lifelong enemy, Sir Edward Coke, who had instigated these accusations, was one of those appointed to prepare the charges against the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11319 | 23,366 |
1,546,136 | In Haskell and other functional programming languages, it is common to use a data type that is just as big as it needs to be to express any possible result. For example, we could write a division function that returned the type codice_13, and a codice_14 function returning codice_15. The first is an option type, which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4785143 | 1,545,262 |
541,333 | The 81st and other units, including the 168th Engineer Combat Battalion, pulled back from St. Vith on 21 December, under constant enemy fire, and withdrew over the Saint River at Vielsalm on 23 December. The following day, the 424th Regiment, attached to the 7th Armored Division, fought a delaying action at Manhay unti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=912223 | 541,053 |
421,506 | In response to American and European pressure on Russia, a new revised agreement was reached in September 2006, under which fuel deliveries to Bushehr were scheduled to start in March 2007 and the plant was due to come on stream in September 2007 after years of delays. In February 2007, the work on the site faltered du... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18522794 | 421,300 |
70,717 | The classic 1952 Miller–Urey experiment demonstrated that most amino acids, the chemical constituents of proteins, can be synthesized from inorganic compounds under conditions intended to replicate those of the early Earth. External sources of energy may have triggered these reactions, including lightning, radiation, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19179706 | 70,690 |
1,069,401 | Confidence that the United States was catching up with the Soviet Union was shattered on April 12, 1961, when the Soviet Union launched Vostok 1, and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the Earth. In response, Kennedy announced a far more ambitious goal on May 25, 1961: to put a man on the Moon by the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3144242 | 1,068,847 |
1,806,983 | When the density of uniform tomographic view angles is under what is prescribed by the Nyquist-Shannon's sampling theorem, it is said that the imaging system is performing sparse sampling. Sparse sampling typically occurs as a way of keeping production costs low and improving image acquisition speed. The typical networ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63664231 | 1,805,964 |
1,057,648 | This setup is preferred when core or crucial business activities are needed to be run at cheaper costs. The rationale for employing such a setup is to cater to long-term strategic plans involving high managerial control. In this case there are two major ways of setting up a captive market: these are the DIY or 'Start F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2985632 | 1,057,099 |
446,849 | Nilotinib has a number of adverse effects including headache, fatigue, gastrointestinal problems such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and constipation, muscle and joint pain, rash and other skin conditions, flu-like symptoms, and reduced blood cell count. Less typical side effects are those of the cardiovascular system, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6068016 | 446,633 |
969,162 | According to 2015 guidelines published by European resuscitation council, early initiation of resuscitation and coordination of lay people with medical personnel on helping an unconscious person is very helpful in increasing the chance of survival of the patient. When a person is unconscious and is not breathing normal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=581687 | 968,652 |
472,933 | Before giving a mathematical proof for the formula for the volume of a sphere, Archimedes used physical reasoning to discover the solution (imagining the balancing of bodies on a scale). From the seventeenth century, many of the most important advances in mathematics appeared motivated by the study of physics, and this... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42877569 | 472,697 |
74,726 | In minor to moderate cases, nitroglycerine may be used to alleviate acute symptoms of stable angina or may be used immediately prior to exertion to prevent the onset of angina. Sublingual nitroglycerine is most commonly used to provide rapid relief for acute angina attacks and as a complement to anti-anginal treatments... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5876 | 74,699 |
318,525 | "C. elegans" made news when specimens were discovered to have survived the Space Shuttle "Columbia" disaster in February 2003. Later, in January 2009, live samples of "C. elegans" from the University of Nottingham were announced to be spending two weeks on the International Space Station that October, in a space resear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57546 | 318,354 |
318,279 | Camelids are large, strictly herbivorous animals with slender necks and long legs. They differ from ruminants in a number of ways. Their dentition show traces of vestigial central incisors in the incisive bone, and the third incisors have developed into canine-like tusks. Camelids also have true canine teeth and tusk-l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=318351 | 318,108 |
1,294,211 | Over the next 150 million years, these two parts moved towards each other, eventually uniting about 440 million years ago. Fossils discovered near Clogherhead, County Louth, show the coming together of shoreline fauna from both sides of the original dividing ocean. The mountains of northwest Ireland were formed during ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9499062 | 1,293,500 |
363,522 | The Academic Ranking of World Universities shows a similar distribution, with 185 of their 500 ranked institutions in 2020 coming from Europe, 161 from the Americas, 149 from Asia/Oceania and 5 from Africa. Again, all regions except Africa are represented in the top 100, although the Americas are represented solely by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1148604 | 363,332 |
2,002,475 | In common with other picornaviruses, the capsid of BEV is composed of 60 copies of each of four structural proteins, VP1, VP2, VP3 and VP4, in icosahedral symmetry, at about 27 nm in diameter, and enclosing a single stranded positive sense RNA genome of about 7,500 bases. The capsid is not enveloped and roughly spheric... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19591319 | 2,001,327 |
2,160,412 | "Osmia xanthomelana" was known from around 28 scattered sites in Great Britain as far north as Tyneside but it was thought to have been reduced to a single site on the Isle of Wight by the 1990s, from which no bees have been recorded since the 1990s. However, two sites were discovered on the Llŷn Peninsula in Wales in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47560053 | 2,159,179 |
497,477 | Non-vertebrate fossils are more widely distributed in the Cedar Mountain Formation. These include the distinctive reproductive structures of fresh water algae that are called charophytes. Charophytes are so distinctive that they are used to correlate strata of similar age, and thus were used to show that the Yellow Cat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10642224 | 497,220 |
1,072,999 | His 1981 book "" was an exercise in futurology. O'Neill narrated it as a visitor to Earth from a space colony beyond Pluto. The book explored the effects of technologies he called "drivers of change" on the coming century. Some technologies he described were space colonies, solar power satellites, anti-aging drugs, hyd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=758947 | 1,072,445 |
1,026,552 | The AMD FX line-up generally performed worse than its Intel competitors during its lifespan. The floating-point performance was relatively poor due to a single shared FPU per module. Most games also could not take advantage of the high core counts that the series provided. In applications that benefitted from more thre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36235031 | 1,026,018 |
1,091,933 | Many practice the historical-grammatical method using the inductive method, a general three-fold approach to the text: observation, interpretation, and application. Each step builds upon the other, which follows in order. The first step of observation involves an examination of words, structure, structural relationship... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2273181 | 1,091,373 |
614,939 | Voice stress analysis (also called voice risk analysis) uses computers to compare pitch, frequency, intensity and micro tremors. In this way voice analysis "detect[s] minute variations in the voice thought to signal lying." It can even be used covertly over the phone, and has been used by banking and insurance companie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5067510 | 614,625 |
1,389,004 | Efforts to develop more environmentally friendly SIs have been made since the late 1990s and an increasing number of such SIs are becoming commercially available. Recent environmental awareness over the past 15 years has resulted in the production and application of more environmentally friendly SIs, otherwise called '... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51937029 | 1,388,234 |
983,849 | As in other areas of chemistry, electron counting is useful for organizing organometallic chemistry. The 18-electron rule is helpful in predicting the stabilities of organometallic complexes, for example metal carbonyls and metal hydrides. The 18e rule has two representative electron counting models, ionic and neutral ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22526 | 983,335 |
584,303 | Born in Charlton, Massachusetts, William T. G. Morton was the son of James Morton, a miner, and Rebecca (Needham) Morton. William found work as a clerk, printer, and salesman in Boston before entering Baltimore College of Dental Surgery in 1840. In 1841, he gained notoriety for developing a new process to solder false ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=677490 | 584,003 |
2,008,056 | This was the climate into which Boyd entered as interim institute president after Hansen had announced, on April 27, 1971, that he would be departing Georgia Tech to become president of Purdue University on July 1 of that year. Boyd stopped the plan for absolute absorption of the station, but did allow plans for closer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26697426 | 2,006,904 |
594,514 | A thermoreceptor is a non-specialised sense receptor, or more accurately the receptive portion of a sensory neuron, that codes absolute and relative changes in temperature, primarily within the innocuous range. In the mammalian peripheral nervous system, warmth receptors are thought to be unmyelinated C-fibres (low con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=569842 | 594,209 |
1,329,256 | It is important to remember that permissive hypotension is a temporizing measure to improve outcomes until the source of bleeding is controlled. There are issues associated with prolonged permissive hypotension (> 90 min considered prolonged where detrimental effects outweigh benefits according to most recent animal st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30775715 | 1,328,528 |
1,554,800 | The biogeoclimatic zones of British Columbia are units of a classification system used by the British Columbia Ministry of Forests for the Canadian province's fourteen different broad, climatic ecosystems. The classification system, termed Biogeoclimatic Ecosystem Classification, exists independently of other ecoregion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21664122 | 1,553,919 |
869,603 | Prior to the development of quantum mechanics as a separate theory, the mathematics used in physics consisted mainly of formal mathematical analysis, beginning with calculus, and increasing in complexity up to differential geometry and partial differential equations. Probability theory was used in statistical mechanics... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20728 | 869,143 |
1,333,452 | A total of 66 riders from 24 countries contested the difficult Greger Lewnhaupt-designed course, which no one was able to ride clear in the first round. Considered the first modern course in Olympic history, it was 775 meters in length, to be ridden at 400m/min, with 14 obstacles and 17 jumping efforts. The gold medal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2380464 | 1,332,723 |
1,751,347 | In January 2015, Algoma Central ordered three Equinox 740 self-unloaders from Croatian shipbuilder Uljanik, scheduled for delivery in 2018, though the schedule later slipped to late 2018 and early 2019. They are equipped with unloading booms mounted at the bow of the ship, in contrast to the conventional location at th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56875721 | 1,750,361 |
1,392,728 | In 1929, two important laws concerning apartment buildings took effect. The law about "horizontal property" made it possible that many different owners own one apartment building, each by owning one or more apartment units. Theoretically, each apartment corresponds to a percentage of the original plot. The most importa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18198410 | 1,391,957 |
1,113,236 | While a student at Harvard Business School, Bricklin co-developed VisiCalc in 1979, making it the first electronic spreadsheet readily available for home and office use. It ran on an Apple II computer, and was considered a fourth generation software program. VisiCalc is widely credited for fueling the rapid growth of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8668 | 1,112,670 |
1,552,055 | The EGU was established by the merger of the European Geophysical Society (EGS) and the European Union of Geosciences (EUG) on 7 September 2002. Council members of the two organisations came together at Hotel Platzl in Munich, Germany, to sign the Union into existence. The final stages of the merger were completed on 3... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2670571 | 1,551,174 |
1,411,210 | A recently proposed early warning indicator of such population crashes uses effective estimation of the Lotka-Volterra interaction coefficients formula_27. The idea is that such coefficients can be obtained from spatial distributions of individuals of the different species through Maximum Entropy. This method was teste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24018375 | 1,410,417 |
88,532 | Although never openly acknowledged by the multi-disciplinary team who authored the most popular 1980s TTAPS model, in 2011 the American Institute of Physics states that the TTAPS team (named for its participants, who had all previously worked on the phenomenon of dust storms on Mars, or in the area of asteroid impact e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22171 | 88,497 |
357,772 | "New poetry" introduced at the end of the 2nd century included that of Gaius Valerius Catullus, whose work include expressing desire for a freeborn youth explicitly named "Youth" ("Iuventius"). The Latin name and freeborn status of the beloved subvert Roman tradition. Catullus's contemporary Lucretius also recognizes t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5139910 | 357,586 |
991,777 | Leaching is a naturally occurring process which scientists have adapted for a variety of applications with a variety of methods. Specific extraction methods depend on the soluble characteristics relative to the sorbent material such as concentration, distribution, nature, and size. Leaching can occur naturally seen fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16921412 | 991,260 |
319,000 | Above the critical temperature, "T", the Van der Waals equation is an improvement over the ideal gas law, and for lower temperatures, i.e., "T" < "T", the equation is also qualitatively reasonable for the liquid and low-pressure gaseous states; however, with respect to the first-order phase transition, i.e., the range ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=206064 | 318,829 |
1,612,476 | Born to refugee parents in Ulm, Germany in 1948, Held came to Minnesota with his family at the age of 4. His father died when he was only eight and he and his brother were raised by his mother Bertha, a Holocaust survivor who worked as a seamstress. Held did his undergraduate work in physics at the University of Minnes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27455648 | 1,611,571 |
2,061,176 | DenBaars also has professional experience in his field. He was a member of the technical staff at Hewlett Packard’s Optoelectronics Division from 1988 to 1991, where he developed high brightness visible LEDs. He has served on the editorial board of "MRS Internet Journal of Nitride Research", "Compound Semiconductor Mag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54907559 | 2,059,989 |
1,859,196 | Traditional occupational safety and health protection programs have primarily focused on ensuring that work is safe and that workers are protected from the harms that arise from work itself. TWH builds on this approach through the recognition that work is a social determinant of health. Job-related factors such as wage... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37423001 | 1,858,128 |
146,089 | An index is a copy of selected columns of data, from a table, that is designed to enable very efficient search. An index normally includes a "key" or direct link to the original row of data from which it was copied, to allow the complete row to be retrieved efficiently. Some databases extend the power of indexing by le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1711076 | 146,031 |
1,497,471 | Even with a fourth-place finish in their debut, Chrysler Corporation decided that the Le Mans project was no longer fruitful, and they canceled the entire program at the end of 2001. Chrysler's partner, Oreca, decided to continue on with the program as a privateer, replacing the Mopar V8 engines with Judd GV4 V10s. Alt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10644769 | 1,496,628 |
772,437 | The study of MOFs has roots in coordination chemistry and solid-state inorganic chemistry, but it developed to form a new field. In addition, MOFs are constructed from bridging organic ligands that remain intact throughout the synthesis. Zeolite synthesis often makes use of a "template". Templates are ions that influen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9821563 | 772,023 |
56,658 | In 2014, Operation Car Wash, an investigation by the Federal Police of Brazil, uncovered unprecedented money laundering and corruption at the state-controlled oil company Petrobras. In early 2015, a series of protests against alleged corruption by the government of President Dilma Rousseff began in Brazil, triggered by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=961522 | 56,634 |
1,382,626 | Three ideas developed that enabled the reconstruction of real space images from diffraction patterns. The first idea was the realization by Sayre in 1952 that Bragg diffraction under-samples diffracted intensity relative to Shannon's theorem. If the diffraction pattern is sampled at twice the Nyquist frequency (inverse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13751165 | 1,381,861 |
1,667,614 | In troughs, the structure's topography can accelerate flows and form jets that result in maximum erosion along the deflation basin floor and laterally expand the slopes of the blowout. Additionally, when the wind flows on top of the blowout's lateral walls, sediment transport is at its maximum in the middle axis of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2803139 | 1,666,675 |
1,177,029 | EMLab-Generation simulates the actions of power companies investing in generation capacity and uses this to explore the long-term effects of various energy and climate protection policies. These policies may target renewable generation, emissions, security of supply, and/or energy affordability. The power companies are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38803848 | 1,176,406 |
970,961 | Upon encountering a Chi site, the activity of the RecBCD enzyme changes drastically. DNA unwinding pauses for a few seconds and then resumes at roughly half the initial speed. This is likely because the slower RecB helicase unwinds the DNA after Chi, rather than the faster RecD helicase, which unwinds the DNA before Ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2631477 | 970,451 |
974,518 | The equipartition theorem makes quantitative predictions. Like the virial theorem, it gives the total average kinetic and potential energies for a system at a given temperature, from which the system's heat capacity can be computed. However, equipartition also gives the average values of individual components of the en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=516133 | 974,007 |
996,618 | On February 19, 1426, Masaccio was commissioned by Giuliano di Colino degli Scarsi da San Giusto, for the sum of 80 florins, to paint a major altarpiece, the "Pisa Altarpiece", for his chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Pisa. The work was dismantled and dispersed in the 18th century, and only eleven of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31086 | 996,100 |
27,309 | The M1 Garand was made in large numbers during World War II; approximately 5.4 million were made. They were used by every branch of the United States military. The rifle generally performed well. General George S. Patton called it "the greatest battle implement ever devised." The typical opponent of a US soldier during... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=149051 | 27,299 |
1,424,676 | Marine evidence indicates that the area initially opened to form an ocean called the Manikewan Ocean. Faulting, sedimentary and igneous rocks all indicate that divergence formed a rift valley that continued to spread until it resulted in a passive margin in which there was no tectonic activity. Shallow marine deposits ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15453416 | 1,423,874 |
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