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1,130,489 | A SASER device mimics this procedure using a source-pump to induce a sound beam of phonons. This sound beam propagates not in an optical cavity, but in a different active medium. An example of an active medium is the superlattice. A superlattice can consist of multiple ultra-thin lattices of two different semiconductor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7206727 | 1,129,911 |
249,184 | The process, developed by Jeffreys in conjunction with Peter Gill and Dave Werrett of the Forensic Science Service (FSS), was first used forensically in the solving of the murder of two teenagers who had been raped and murdered in Narborough, Leicestershire in 1983 and 1986. In the murder inquiry, led by Detective Davi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44290 | 249,056 |
34,110 | About the Ethereum Project, Buterin said in 2020: "I am truly grateful to have the opportunity to work in such an interesting and interdisciplinary area of industry, where I have the chance to interact with cryptographers, mathematicians and economists prominent in their fields, to help build software and tools that al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41729424 | 34,098 |
469,424 | The "third tier" includes thousands of "small independents" with sales below $100 million per year. Most of them are located in Asia. They often specialize in niche technologies. The minimum economical size of a fine chemical company depends on the availability of infrastructure. If a company is located in an industria... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3694845 | 469,188 |
1,578,810 | Research with amnesia patients suggests the "Dual Factor approach" may be the most accurate model. A series of experiments with amnesiac patients support the idea that AGL involves both abstract concepts and concrete exemplars. Amnesiacs were able to classify stimuli as "grammatical" vs. "randomly constructed" just as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6352447 | 1,577,920 |
728,458 | The China Next Generation Internet (CNGI, 中国下一代互联网) project is an ongoing plan initiated by the Chinese government with the purpose of gaining a significant position in the development of the Internet through the early adoption of IPv6. China showcased CNGI's IPv6 infrastructure during the 2008 Summer Olympics, being t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18558517 | 728,074 |
1,207,204 | Case studies of individuals with HUV have also highlighted other potential complicating factors which it seems the anti-C1q antibodies play a role in. This can mean in some cases the deposition of large immune complexes in the kidney which cannot be cleared by the usual cells of the immune system (e.g. macrophages whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22280211 | 1,206,558 |
597,910 | A change in pressure may have an immediate effect on the ears and sinuses, causing pain and leading to congestion, edema, hemorrhaging, and temporary to permanent hearing impairment. These effects have been familiar to breath-hold divers since antiquity and are avoided by equalisation techniques. Reduction of ambient p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51846703 | 597,605 |
1,659,882 | Innovation activity ebbed in Brazil between 2008 and 2013, according to a survey of firms by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The 2013 survey covered all public and private firms in the extractive and transformative sectors, as well as firms in the services sector involving technology. The dr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1525228 | 1,658,949 |
295,344 | The SIG P225 is a more compact version of the SIG P220. A new German police standard issued in the mid-1970's prompted SIG-Sauer, Heckler & Koch, and Walther to develop new pistols that met the standard: the Walther P5, the SIG-Sauer P225 (known as the P6) and the Heckler & Koch P7. (In addition, Mauser had a design, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=974195 | 295,184 |
1,613,141 | In 2006, Fred Markham, a 1976-80 US Olympic team member, set a record distance of 85.99 km (53.43 mi) on the track at the Nissan Technical Center, near Casa Grande in Arizona. Markham won $18,000 as a share of the $25,000 Dempsey-MacCready One Hour Prize that was to be awarded to the first HPV to surpass 90 km. Althoug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45517370 | 1,612,236 |
1,594,043 | Francis Guthrie (born 22 January 1831 in London; d. 19 October 1899 in Claremont, Cape Town) was a South African mathematician and botanist who first posed the Four Colour Problem in 1852. He studied mathematics under Augustus De Morgan, and botany under John Lindley at University College London. Guthrie obtained his B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1177603 | 1,593,146 |
2,117,776 | As part of the U.S. War Department's Manhattan Project, University of Chicago chemists began to study the newly manufactured radioactive element, plutonium. Room 405 was the site where, for the first time on August 18, 1942, a team led by physicist Glenn Seaborg isolated a trace quantity of this new element. Measuremen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5954319 | 2,116,558 |
960,855 | In October 2016, Bengio co-founded Element AI, a Montreal-based artificial intelligence incubator that turns AI research into real-world business applications. Having failed to develop marketable products and losing several partnerships, by 2020 the company was running out of money and options and announced its sale to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47749536 | 960,346 |
2,196,396 | In molecular biology, the glutaredoxin 2 family is a family of bacterial glutaredoxins. Unlike other glutaredoxins, glutaredoxin 2 (Grx2) cannot reduce ribonucleotide reductase. Grx2 has significantly higher catalytic activity in the reduction of mixed disulphides with glutathione (GSH) compared with other glutaredoxin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32998743 | 2,195,145 |
1,124,419 | One of the earliest document cases in which pollen plays a key role took place in Austria. A man went missing, and was presumed murdered, but no body was found. The authorities had arrested a suspect, who had motive for the murder, but did not have a body or confession, and the case stalled. A search of the suspect's b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61305 | 1,123,845 |
1,176,720 | Donald a 1985 Del Norte High School (New Mexico) graduate, enlisted in the United States Marine Corps at the age 17. He graduated from Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego before completing Amphibious Reconnaissance School, Army Airborne and Navy SCUBA School. Donald was interested in medicine and after learning the Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48294844 | 1,176,097 |
1,540,766 | Campbell was born on 19 April 1951 and educated at Shrewsbury School. He went on to study aeronautical engineering at the University of Bristol, graduating with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in 1972. He then gained a Master of Science (MSc) degree in astrophysics at Queen Mary College, University of London before ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17058864 | 1,539,893 |
1,741,067 | Trunk injection of pesticides is considered as an option for precise compound delivery which will reduce the negative impact of drift-driven pesticide losses in the environment, that occur after aerial or ground spraying of pesticides. Besides negative consequences of frequent pesticide applications in the environment,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44588506 | 1,740,085 |
246,366 | Meanwhile, in 1929, a group of U.S. Army Air Corps fliers, led by then Major Carl Spaatz, set an endurance record of over 150 hours with a Fokker C-2A named the "Question Mark" over Los Angeles. Between June 11 and July 4, 1930, the brothers John, Kenneth, Albert, and Walter Hunter set a new record of 553 hours 40 minu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=237949 | 246,239 |
55,793 | The Skunk Works had predicted that the U-2 would have a limited operational life over the Soviet Union. The CIA agreed. In late 1959, Skunk Works received a contract to build five A-12 aircraft at a cost of $96 million. Building a Mach 3.0+ aircraft out of titanium posed enormous difficulties, and the first flight did ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55249 | 55,769 |
115,781 | Generally, though, there are many techniques known to be able to hide messages in data using steganographic techniques. None are, by definition, obvious when users employ standard applications, but some can be detected by specialist tools. Others, however, are resistant to detection—or rather it is not possible to reli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28733 | 115,736 |
1,253,094 | In the object recognition unit model by Marr (1980), the process begins with sensory perception (vision) of the object, which results in an initial representation via feature extraction of basic forms and shapes. This is followed by an integration stage, where elements of the visual field combine to form a visual perce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2195324 | 1,252,415 |
389,071 | Because germanium is transparent in the infrared wavelengths, it is an important infrared optical material that can be readily cut and polished into lenses and windows. It is especially used as the front optic in thermal imaging cameras working in the 8 to 14 micron range for passive thermal imaging and for hot-spot de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12242 | 388,876 |
1,012,300 | Satellite systems operated by the Inmarsat company, overseen by the International Mobile Satellite Organization (IMSO) are important elements of the GMDSS. The types of Inmarsat ship earth station terminals recognized by the GMDSS are: Inmarsat C and F77. Inmarsat F77, an updated version of the now redundant Inmarsat A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=508209 | 1,011,779 |
1,220,086 | An extensive account of the controversy around the book was published at the same time as the new edition, largely supporting Wilson's views. Looking back at "Sociobiology" 35 years later, the philosopher of biology Michael Ruse called the book "a pretty remarkable achievement" of huge scope, "firmly in the Darwinian p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1149054 | 1,219,432 |
425,658 | Many important cell functions take place in the nucleus, more specifically in the nucleoplasm. The main function of the nucleoplasm is to provide the proper environment for essential processes that take place in the nucleus, serving as the suspension substance for all organelles inside the nucleus, and storing the stru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=385393 | 425,450 |
1,736,406 | The basic components of a photosynthetic system are the leaf chamber, infrared gas analyzer (IRGA), batteries and a console with keyboard, display and memory. Modern 'open system' photosynthesis systems also incorporate miniature disposable compressed gas cylinder and gas supply pipes. This is because external air has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29747342 | 1,735,429 |
1,787,446 | The CKGSB Case Center is a unit specialized in the production of teaching material for executive education. It manages, updates and expands a portfolio of business strategy cases in English and Chinese to be used as practical business scenario training in the school's programs. Cases range from China-specific topics su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21857790 | 1,786,441 |
1,556,080 | For half a century, HITRAN has been considered to be an international standard which provides the user a recommended value of parameters for millions of transitions for different molecules. HITRAN includes both experimental and theoretical data which are gathered from a worldwide network of contributors as well as from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10399056 | 1,555,196 |
315,028 | For projectiles in unpowered flight, its velocity is highest at leaving the muzzle and drops off steadily because of air resistance. Projectiles traveling less than the speed of sound (about in dry air at sea level) are "subsonic", while those traveling faster are "supersonic" and thus can travel a substantial distance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=282299 | 314,859 |
194,407 | Because of the temperature difference between the Earth's surface and outer core and the ability of the crystalline rocks at high pressure and temperature to undergo slow, creeping, viscous-like deformation over millions of years, there is a convective material circulation in the mantle. Hot material upwells, while coo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1079771 | 194,307 |
247,683 | The Banach–Tarski paradox states that a ball in the ordinary Euclidean space can be doubled using only the operations of partitioning into subsets, replacing a set with a congruent set, and reassembling. Its mathematical structure is greatly elucidated by emphasizing the role played by the group of Euclidean motions an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19759220 | 247,555 |
1,397,721 | This teaching position typically requires a PhD, and is similar to a tenured associate professor in the USA. A position as "lektor" requires proven pedagogical and scientific skills, usually being understood as teaching experience during his PhD studies and successful defence of a PhD thesis. Although lecturers are typ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23967392 | 1,396,948 |
763,327 | Las Cruces College merged with the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts and opened on January 21, 1890. It began with 35 students and six faculty members. The college was supposed to graduate its first student in 1893, but the only senior, named Sam Steel, was murdered before he was able to receive his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=510353 | 762,918 |
529,683 | It is an extension of the economic notion of capital (resources which enable the production of more resources) to goods and services provided by the natural environment. For example, a well-maintained forest or river may provide an indefinitely sustainable flow of new trees or fish, whereas over-use of those resources ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45795 | 529,409 |
1,289,603 | Under a microscope using a software interface, a tissue section (typically 5-50 micrometres thick) is viewed and individual cells or clusters of cells are identified either manually or in semi-automated or more fully automated ways allowing the imaging and then automatic selection of targets for isolation. Currently si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4020995 | 1,288,894 |
341,380 | Fuller was a pioneer in thinking globally, and explored energy and material efficiency in the fields of architecture, engineering and design. In his book "Critical Path" (1981) he cited the opinion of François de Chadenèdes (1920-1999) that petroleum, from the standpoint of its replacement cost in our current energy "b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4031 | 341,199 |
377,657 | Hopes of "Hilton Magic" returning took a boost with the hiring of ISU alum, Ames native, and fan favorite Fred Hoiberg as coach of the men's basketball team in April 2010. Hoiberg ("The Mayor") played three seasons under legendary coach Johnny Orr and one season under future Chicago Bulls coach Tim Floyd during his sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14875 | 377,462 |
226,804 | Ishant Sharma (; born 2 September 1988) is an Indian cricketer who has represented India in Tests, ODIs and T20Is. He is a 6 ft 4 in tall right-arm fast-medium bowler. At the age of 18, Sharma was called to join the Indian squad for the tour of South Africa in 2006–07. However, after receiving the call and organising t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8621566 | 226,688 |
1,628,401 | Several decision support tools are available for assisted migration in North American forests. The "Seedlot Selection Tool" currently has the broadest geographic scope of these tools, covering most of North America, and requires the user to set the acceptable climate transfer distances from a suite of climate variables... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66931587 | 1,627,482 |
444,235 | Formal semantics grew into a major subfield of linguistics in the late 1970s and early 1980s, due to the seminal work of Barbara Partee. Partee developed a linguistically plausible system which incorporated the key insights of both Montague Grammar and Transformational grammar. Early research in linguistic formal seman... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31395652 | 444,020 |
168,941 | Extensive efforts in computational biology have been directed toward the design of successful dsRNA reagents that maximize gene knockdown but minimize "off-target" effects. Off-target effects arise when an introduced RNA has a base sequence that can pair with and thus reduce the expression of multiple genes. Such probl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29188721 | 168,851 |
1,464,147 | He was educated at King Alfred School, London and St George's School, Harpenden, where his best friend was John Flinders Petrie, later a mathematician for whom Petrie polygons were named. He was accepted at King's College, Cambridge in 1925, but decided to spend a year studying in hopes of gaining admittance to Trinity... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216328 | 1,463,324 |
789,913 | In the meantime, the Balzac had led to the actual Mirage IIIV, which was roughly twice the size of the earlier aircraft. A pair of Mirage IIIV prototypes were constructed, the first of which conducted its first hovering trial on 12 February 1965. It was powered by a single Pratt & Whitney JTF10 turbofan engine, designa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3541341 | 789,488 |
29,176 | Endospores show no detectable metabolism and can survive extreme physical and chemical stresses, such as high levels of UV light, gamma radiation, detergents, disinfectants, heat, freezing, pressure, and desiccation. In this dormant state, these organisms may remain viable for millions of years, and endospores even all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9028799 | 29,166 |
1,397,120 | Despite their importance, the search and the proof were extremely difficult and took decades, because direct production, detection and verification of the Higgs boson on the scale needed to confirm the discovery and learn its properties required a very large experimental project and huge computing resources. For this r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36772327 | 1,396,347 |
2,023,795 | She is currently a parasitologist and virologist at New York University's Center for Genomics & Systems Biology at the College of Global Public Health. Her research covers diverse topics in parasitology and virology, including the genetic diversity of flu strains. She has said: ‘A flu infection is not homogeneous, but ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33157862 | 2,022,631 |
1,973,911 | The classic Forel-Ule Scale uses a set of liquid vials of multiple colors. Together, the liquid vials represent a standardized color palette created by using a set of small transparent glass tubes containing colored water by adding different concentrations of stable inorganic salts. By mixing different chemicals (disti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11977034 | 1,972,776 |
406,426 | Astronomer and mathematician Nicolaus Copernicus was appointed by the Catholic Church as an official, as his uncle was a bishop in the church. He used his income to further his studies, eventually studying at the University of Bologna in Italy. Copernicus began doubting the knowledge of natural philosophers and their b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38737 | 406,225 |
1,449,037 | Changes in the content of information is done by emulating similar features of a temporal database in a relational database. In anchor modeling, pieces of information can be tied to points in time or to intervals of time (both open and closed). The time points when events occur are modeled using attributes, e g the bir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30881930 | 1,448,221 |
1,442,540 | In late 1999, Masaaki joined Toryumon, Último Dragón's upstart promotion, and quickly became recognized as one of the three "aces" of the company, alongside Cima, and Magnum Tokyo. In April 2000, he formed the heel group M2K with Susumu Mochizuki (no relation), and Yasushi Kanda, the stable's name coming from their sur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9144587 | 1,441,727 |
393,705 | Tegmark now believes experimenters should only expect a normal probability of survival, not immortality. The experimenter's probability amplitude in the wavefunction decreases significantly, meaning they exist with a much lower measure than they had before. Per the anthropic principle, a person is less likely to find t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48685 | 393,510 |
1,040,133 | In a Directed graph, in-assortativity (formula_8) and out-assortativity (formula_9) measure the tendencies of nodes to connect with other nodes that have similar in and out degrees as themselves, respectively. Extending this further, four types of assortativity can be considered (see ). Adopting the notation of that ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8476776 | 1,039,592 |
1,417,747 | Since 2012, the NBDE exams have been graded on a PASS/FAIL basis only, with no scores being issued, unless one failed, in which case they will receive their score with details. If a student passes, they are not allowed to take the exam again, unless required by a state board or relevant regulatory agency. The Joint Com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5445902 | 1,416,948 |
8,180 | Noam Chomsky published an influential critique of radical behaviorism on the grounds that behaviorist principles could not adequately explain the complex mental process of language acquisition and language use. The review, which was scathing, did much to reduce the status of behaviorism within psychology. Martin Seligm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22921 | 8,177 |
852,802 | More and more PACS include web-based interfaces to utilize the internet or a wide area network (WAN) as their means of communication, usually via VPN (Virtual Private Network) or SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). The clients side software may use ActiveX, JavaScript and/or a Java Applet. More robust PACS clients are full app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63860 | 852,348 |
342,927 | The British company Rotron, which specializes in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications of Wankel engines, has designed and built a unit to operate on heavy fuel for NATO purposes. The engines uses spark ignition. The prime innovation is flame propagation, ensuring the flame burns smoothly across the whole combusti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33303 | 342,746 |
671,503 | There is no single curriculum that is 'best' for all situations. Not only does geographic location depends on the type of curriculum taught, but the demographics of the population matters as well. Some curriculums are based heavy of science and technology while another is focused mainly on the arts. However, a comparis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41439050 | 671,151 |
1,423,799 | According to a 2017 exposé by the Finnish newspaper "Helsingin Sanomat", the Finnish Intelligence Research Centre is responsible for monitoring the Russian Armed Forces by capturing and analysing electromagnetic radiation and maintaining an electronic intelligence mapping that contains information on the Russian milita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10631133 | 1,422,997 |
1,679,461 | Several other suggestions to address the cultural component of plant blindness have also been proposed. Research has shown that creative activities involving plants, such as storytelling, art, and role-playing can help to strengthen children's relationships to plants. Increasing the representation of plants in science ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59681101 | 1,678,518 |
220,578 | The "Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act" is a United States environmental law that amended the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and gave the Environmental Protection Agency the authority to establish health and environmental standards for the stabilization, restoration, and disposal of uranium mill tailings. Title 1 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4913827 | 220,469 |
1,602,589 | Capturing and marking birds allows for individuals to be identified whenever or wherever they are captured or seen again. It is a powerful method for studying bird migration, estimating population sizes and survival rates, and recognizing changes in productivity. There are many different ways to capture birds, but the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9746248 | 1,601,688 |
442,471 | To display information with a twisted nematic liquid crystal, the transparent electrodes are structured by photo-lithography to form a matrix or other pattern of electrodes. Only one of the electrodes has to be patterned in this way, the other can remain continuous ("common" electrode). For low information content nume... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6047353 | 442,256 |
569,000 | Porous renders to German WTA specification 2-2-91 can be used as an alternative to dense sand-cement renders. These have a minimum porosity of 40% of total volume. Salts crystallise in these pores rather than on the plaster surface, avoiding decorative spoiling. Such plasters offer a better solution than dense sand-cem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6888386 | 568,710 |
228,947 | Between about 3000 and 1000 BC speakers of Austronesian languages spread through the islands of Southeast Asia – most likely starting out from Taiwan, as tribes whose natives were thought to have previously arrived from mainland South China about 8000 years ago – into the edges of western Micronesia and on into Melanes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10712487 | 228,830 |
307,835 | With the release of Apple Macintosh II in 1987, which provided card slots, a hard disk, and more capable memory, Brooks and Gotcher saw the possibility to evolve Sound Designer into a featured digital audio workstation. They discussed with E-mu the opportunity of using the Emulator III as a platform for their updated s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=420787 | 307,670 |
1,627,317 | Between August 2020 and July 2021, both wells underwent a series of injection tests to analyse the hydrology within the fractured geothermal reservoir. In addition, in July 2021, full reservoir testing (simultaneous production and injection) was undertaken for seven days. These tests provided the technical clarity requ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25944250 | 1,626,399 |
998,011 | "Tennessee" returned to Tinian on 24 July, this time cruising off the island's northwest coast in company with "California", "Louisville", and several destroyers. The bombardment group unleashed a flurry of shells from a range of around from 05:32 to 07:47, at which point the marines made their assault on the beach. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196975 | 997,493 |
1,393,887 | When he was five years old, the family suffered a setback when a ship owned by Robert Orr was lost at sea. They had to sell their home in Kilmaurs, and moved to West Kilbride, a village on the North Ayrshire coast. According to Kay, the new house and environment were a great improvement on Kilmaurs, despite the family'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322276 | 1,393,116 |
544,404 | Cartan showed how to use his concept of connection to obtain a much more elegant and simple presentation of Riemannian geometry. His chief contribution to the latter, however, was the discovery and study of the symmetric Riemann spaces, one of the few instances in which the initiator of a mathematical theory was also t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=386274 | 544,122 |
427,933 | When multiple disturbance events affect the same location in quick succession, this often results in a "compound disturbance," an event which, due to the combination of forces, creates a new situation which is more than the sum of its parts. For example, windstorms followed by fire can create fire temperatures and dura... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3968480 | 427,723 |
1,217,731 | High-performance integrated circuits have traditionally been characterized by the clock frequency at which they operate. Measuring the ability of a circuit to operate at the specified speed requires an ability to measure, during the design process, its delay at numerous steps. Moreover, delay calculation must be incorp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2546747 | 1,217,078 |
957,220 | In computing, multitasking is the concurrent execution of multiple tasks (also known as processes) over a certain period of time. New tasks can interrupt already started ones before they finish, instead of waiting for them to end. As a result, a computer executes segments of multiple tasks in an interleaved manner, whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6857 | 956,714 |
36,191 | In 2005, seventeen countries produced concentrated uranium oxides: Canada (27.9% of world production), Australia (22.8%), Kazakhstan (10.5%), Russia (8.0%), Namibia (7.5%), Niger (7.4%), Uzbekistan (5.5%), the United States (2.5%), Argentina (2.1%), Ukraine (1.9%) and China (1.7%). In 2008 Kazakhstan was forecast to in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31743 | 36,179 |
396,428 | The NFL did not publicly acknowledge the link between concussions sustained in football and long-term neurological effects until December 2009, seven years after Omalu's discovery. However, as late as 2013, the annual meeting of the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology (AACN) included a debate between two sport... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35746799 | 396,232 |
1,896,435 | Cedric Austen Bardell Smith (5 February 1917 – 10 January 2002) was a British statistician and geneticist. Smith was born in Leicester. He was the younger son of John Bardell Smith (1876–1950), a mechanical engineer, and Ada ("née" Horrocks; 1876–1969). He was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys until 1929, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1643384 | 1,895,351 |
1,550,876 | During Nordenberg's tenure, Pitt re-established its reputation as a national and world class research university, and its yearly research allocations grew from $230 million in 1995 to $800 million currently. University of Pittsburgh is a member of the Association of American Universities, that consist of the 62 top Nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3598937 | 1,549,995 |
1,744,472 | Relativistic effects are significant in organogold chemistry due to the large nuclear charge of the metal ("Z" = 79). As a consequence of relativistically expanded 5"d" orbitals, the LAu fragment can stabilize a neighboring carbocation via electron donation into the empty "p"-type orbital. Thus, in addition to their ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25587650 | 1,743,488 |
1,817,802 | Lubic moved to Washington, D.C., in 1994 to begin her work in Ward 5, where the maternal and infant mortality rates were the highest in the United States. To address these health disparities through a family-centered care model, Lubic founded her third birth center, the Family Health and Birth Center (FHBC), as part of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27153303 | 1,816,767 |
1,820,924 | Utilizing SEND, bright and dark field images can be obtained from diffraction patterns by integration of direct and diffracted beams respectively, as discussed previously. During 4D STEM operation the ADF detector can be used to visualize a particular region of interest through a collection of scattered electrons to la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70302410 | 1,819,887 |
1,129,745 | The gradient methods unique to the MDO community derive from the combination of optimality criteria with math programming, first recognized in the seminal work of Fleury and Schmit who constructed a framework of approximation concepts for structural optimization. They recognized that optimality criteria were so success... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=547743 | 1,129,167 |
623,763 | Ibn al-Shatir (1304–1375) of Damascus, in "A Final Inquiry Concerning the Rectification of Planetary Theory", incorporated the Urdi lemma, and eliminated the need for an equant by introducing an extra epicycle (the Tusi-couple), departing from the Ptolemaic system in a way that was mathematically identical to what Nico... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012554 | 623,431 |
669,909 | Allosauroids had long, narrow skulls, large orbits, three-fingered hands, and usually had "horns" or ornamental crests on their heads. Although allosauroids vary in size, the group maintains a similar center of mass and hip position on their bodies. Allosauroids also exhibit reptilian-style immune systems, secreting fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4964679 | 669,559 |
1,575,208 | The Surface Force Apparatus (SFA) is a scientific instrument which measures the interaction force of two surfaces as they are brought together and retracted using multiple beam interferometry to monitor surface separation and directly measure contact area and observe any surface deformations occurring in the contact zo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1949793 | 1,574,319 |
535,168 | The demobilisation of the Australian military following the end of the Second World War was completed in 1947. Plans for post-war defence arrangements were predicated on maintaining a relatively strong peacetime force. It was envisioned the Royal Australian Navy would maintain a fleet that would include two light fleet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,889 |
361,587 | A pheromone () is a secreted or excreted chemical factor that triggers a social response in members of the same species. Pheromones are chemicals capable of acting like hormones outside the body of the secreting individual, to affect the behavior of the receiving individuals. There are "alarm pheromones", "food trail p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=105390 | 361,397 |
1,601,161 | From 1986–89, Lewis was Information Officer of the London-based Verification Technology Information Centre, and its director from 1989–1997. She was the Director or the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva 1997–2008. She was Deputy Director at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4400014 | 1,600,260 |
2,217,410 | Flagellated bacteria swim towards favourable chemicals and away from deleterious ones. Sensing of chemoeffector gradients involves chemotaxis receptors, transmembrane (TM) proteins that detect stimuli through their periplasmic domains and transduce the signals via their cytoplasmic domains . Signalling outputs from the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14025168 | 2,216,148 |
1,679,455 | The first, human nature, encompasses the idea that human brain chemistry and visual processing systems are inherently biased to ignore plants in the environment. Studies have shown that human visual systems can not effectively process all the information that is seen. Thus, research suggests that priority is given to v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59681101 | 1,678,512 |
309,769 | Gas metal arc welding (GMAW), commonly called "MIG" (for "metal/inert-gas"), is a semi-automatic or automatic welding process with a continuously fed consumable wire acting as both electrode and filler metal, along with an inert or semi-inert shielding gas flowed around the wire to protect the weld site from contaminat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=440996 | 309,602 |
518,271 | During the 4th through the 7th centuries, scholarly work in the Syriac and Greek languages was either newly initiated, or carried on from the Hellenistic period. Centers of learning and of transmission of classical wisdom included colleges such as the School of Nisibis, and later the School of Edessa, and the renowned ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42657576 | 518,002 |
2,059,853 | This disorder occurs through a mutation in the SPR gene, which is responsible for encoding the sepiapterin reductase enzyme. The enzyme is involved in the last step of producing tetrahydrobiopterin, better known as BH. BH is involved in the processing of amino acids and the production of neurotransmitters, specifically... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37691693 | 2,058,667 |
1,891,495 | Zadeh was born in Iran. Her father is an economist and her mother is a nuclear chemist. She spent part of her childhood in the United Kingdom whilst her mother studied chemistry. Her family moved back to Iran at the start of the Iranian Revolution. Her mother was awarded a scholarship to return to England, where her fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70897973 | 1,890,412 |
730,611 | It was discovered that the toxin in the caterpillar's skin held potent anti-clotting agents. This anti-clotting agent would attach to another protein of the body's cells and cause them to leak as blood is unable to clot. This internal bleeding would fill the surrounding tissue with "bruised blood". This internal bleedi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30058434 | 730,226 |
1,605,186 | During the 1st and s, mining, ore dressing and for smelting developed intensively. Flotation and melting of concentrates in water packs and reverberatory furnaces have been successfully applied in non-ferrous metallurgy. By 1934, 62% of all mined ore was being enriched in the Urals. By the beginning of the 2nd five-yea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66141214 | 1,604,283 |
1,437,612 | The methods used to demonstrate the rule have been subject to some controversy. Most commonly, authors plot means of latitudinal ranges in a particular 5° latitudinal band against latitude, although modal or median ranges have been used by some. In the original paper by Stevens, all species occurring in each band were ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1976946 | 1,436,803 |
964,492 | For passenger service the F40PH has another electrical alternator, the head-end generator. The HEP unit generates three-phase AC power at 480 V (500 kW on the first order, 800 kW on later units) for lighting, heating and air-conditioning the train. Originally, F40PHs powered the HEP alternator from the prime mover. As ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1081444 | 963,983 |
241,105 | With Mike Morris and Ulvi Yurtsever, he showed that traversable wormholes can exist in the structure of spacetime only if they are threaded by quantum fields in quantum states that violate the averaged null energy condition (i.e. have negative renormalized energy spread over a sufficiently large region). This has trigg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=238517 | 240,985 |
720,602 | The 2006–07 season was considered the breakthrough season for Taylor. He scored his debut senior goal in a UEFA Cup tie against Celta de Vigo on 23 November 2006. The two sides were deadlocked at 1–1 before his header won the game. He earned the nickname "Forrest Gump" for celebrating by running the length of the pitch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1404167 | 720,222 |
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