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1,461,321 | In 1957, a male child was born with poor mental development, repeated attacks of acidosis, and high levels of ketones and glycine in the blood. Upon dietary testing, Dr. Barton Childs discovered that his symptoms worsened when given the amino acids leucine, isoleucine, valine, methionine, and threonine. In 1961, the me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=549792 | 1,460,499 |
1,737,848 | Surgery is not always an option when the anatomy of the malformation creates too much of a risk. Recent improvements in endovascular procedures have made many cases, which were not surgically accessible, treatable. Endovascular treatments involve delivering drugs, balloons, or coils to the site of the malformation thro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27119200 | 1,736,871 |
265,278 | Karem Aircraft proposed to design an optimum-speed tiltrotor (OSTR), designated the TR36TD demonstrator. It would have had twin variable-speed rotors powered by existing turboshaft engines. The production version of the TR36D would have had a level flight speed of . Karem says its variable-speed OSTR configuration offe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29347958 | 265,135 |
1,403,833 | A deep learning system was reported to learn intuitive physics from visual data (of virtual 3D environments) based on an unpublished approach inspired by studies of visual cognition in infants.<ref name="10.1038/s41562-022-01394-8"></ref> Other researchers have developed a machine learning algorithm that could discover... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61373032 | 1,403,043 |
1,500,490 | Köchler has been the organizer of major international conferences in the fields of transnational co-operation, democracy, human rights, terrorism, and conflict resolution, among them the "International Conference on the European Vocation of the Alpine Region" in Innsbruck (1971), which initiated transborder co-operatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3810935 | 1,499,645 |
308,381 | There has been concern over interference between narrowband and UWB signals that share the same spectrum. Earlier, the only radio technology that used pulses was spark-gap transmitters, which international treaties banned because they interfere with medium-wave receivers. However, UWB uses much lower levels of power. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166428 | 308,216 |
1,387,693 | Along with Greenpeace, WWF, Spanish energy companies and the regional authority of Galicia, ClientEarth has intervened regarding the European Commission's decision to approve subsidies to the Spanish coal industry. The approved plan gives preferential access to the wholesale electricity market in Spain for power plants... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30896727 | 1,386,926 |
1,563,020 | On 26 Dec 2004, there was a great tsunami striking the coasts of most landmasses bordering the Indian Ocean, killing more than 225,000 people in eleven countries. It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in history. Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand were among approximately 14 countries to experience the d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20222724 | 1,562,133 |
1,613,970 | The break-up of Gondwana left the resulting continents, including Zealandia, with a shared ecology. Zealandia began to move away from the part of Gondwana which would become Australia and Antarctica approximately 85 million years ago (Ma). By about 70 Ma, the break up was complete. Zealandia has been moving northwards ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15089769 | 1,613,065 |
955,659 | Neuroscientists generally work as researchers within a college, university, government agency, or private industry setting. In research-oriented careers, neuroscientists typically spend their time designing and carrying out scientific experiments that contribute to the understanding of the nervous system and its functi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=665536 | 955,154 |
387,103 | In his book "The New Economics for Industry, Government, and Education" Deming championed the work of Walter Shewhart, including statistical process control, operational definitions, and what Deming called the "Shewhart Cycle," which had evolved into Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA). Deming is best known for his work in Japan ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70534 | 386,908 |
1,073,789 | Iproniazid was originally developed for the treatment of tuberculosis, but in 1952, its antidepressant properties were discovered when researchers noted that patients became inappropriately happy when given isoniazid, a structural analog of iproniazid. Subsequently N-isopropyl addition led to development as an antidepr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2951507 | 1,073,235 |
1,374,026 | Grew was the only son of Obadiah Grew (1607–1688), Nonconformist divine and vicar of St Michaels, Coventry, and was born in Warwickshire. He graduated at Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1661, and ten years later took the degree of MD at Leiden University, his thesis being "Disputatio medico-physica de liquore nervoso". ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=476465 | 1,373,268 |
2,235,774 | Wayne State was to begin its 13th season of women’s ice hockey on September 30, 2011. In its twelve existing seasons, the Warriors compiled a won-loss record of 138-209-29 (.406 winning percentage). In College Hockey America conference play, the program accumulated an all-time CHA mark of 48-59-7 (.452) in nine seasons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33106149 | 2,234,504 |
1,807,187 | Nanoparticles can also be used in conjunction with DNA to perform genetic alterations. These are frequently monitored through the use of fluorescent materials, allowing scientists to judge if these tagged proteins have successfully been transmitted—for example green fluorescent protein, or GFP. Nanoparticles are signif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31726766 | 1,806,168 |
134,906 | The limitation that Diamond admits in her study is that she had only one Einstein to compare with 11 brains of normal intelligence individuals. S. S. Kantha of the Osaka Bioscience Institute criticized Diamond's study, as did Terence Hines of Pace University. Other issues related to Diamond's study point out glial cell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3627193 | 134,851 |
1,176,168 | Clinical measurement of cardiac output has been available since the 1970s. However, this blood flow measurement is highly invasive, utilizing a flow-directed, thermodilution catheter (also known as the Swan-Ganz catheter), which represents significant risks to the patient. In addition, this technique is costly (several... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5312299 | 1,175,546 |
238,026 | Genetic screening for Down syndrome (trisomy 21) and Edwards syndrome (trisomy 18), the national standard in the United States, is rapidly evolving away from the AFP-quad screen, done typically in the second trimester at 16–18 weeks. The newer integrated screen (formerly called F.A.S.T.E.R for First And Second Trimeste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52965 | 237,907 |
1,430,619 | Dressed in the traditional Russian black cassock, with his long hair a beard often described as 'Christ-like', Feodorov was a man of the "narod", of the ordinary Russian people for whom the Revolution had been fought. His presence put the lie to the usual description of Catholicism as 'the Polish religion.' His present... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5014963 | 1,429,815 |
99,453 | Macular degeneration is especially prevalent in the U.S. and affects roughly 1.75 million Americans each year. Having lower levels of lutein and zeaxanthin within the macula may be associated with an increase in the risk of age-related macular degeneration. < Lutein and zeaxanthin act as antioxidants that protect the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1070221 | 99,410 |
158,532 | Toyota originally began sharing TPS with its parts suppliers in the 1990s. Because of interest in the program from other organizations, Toyota began offering instruction in the methodology to others. Toyota has even "donated" its system to charities, providing its engineering staff and techniques to non-profits in an e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=342815 | 158,451 |
468,288 | The size of today's subsea permafrost has been estimated at 2 million km (~1/5 of the terrestrial permafrost domain size), which constitutes a 30-50% reduction since the LGM. Containing around 560 GtC in OM and 45 GtC in CH, with a current release of 18 and 38 MtC per year respectively, which is due to the warming and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13294262 | 468,053 |
1,687,826 | The size of today's subsea permafrost has been estimated at around 2 million km (~1/5 of the terrestrial permafrost domain size), which constitutes a 30-50% reduction since the LGM. Containing around 560 GtC in OM and 45 GtC in CH, with a current release of 18 and 38 MtC per year respectively, which is due to the warmi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27167234 | 1,686,880 |
1,281,828 | At the end of a day's march, the Romans would typically establish a strong field camp called a castra, complete with palisade and a deep ditch, providing a basis for supply storage, troop marshalling and defence. Streets were laid out, units designated to take specific places, and guards posted at carefully designed ga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8049650 | 1,281,132 |
436,187 | After Despradelle's sudden death in 1912, Freeman's "Study No. 7" was thrust to the fore. His proposal, based on Taylorism, was "one-fifth architecture and four-fifths a problem of industrial engineering." He proposed connecting all departmental buildings to prevent the emergence of academic fiefdoms, to provide protec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8071866 | 435,973 |
218,220 | However, instead of translating "POW"<nowiki></nowiki>'s proposals into institutional plans for transformation, Wits reacted in a defensive manner and refused to even acknowledge many of the criticisms that had been raised. Within the university community the perception was different—it was felt that Wits was on the ri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=320467 | 218,112 |
1,325,335 | Before the smelter was constructed, the company knew the smoke and fumes would be an issue, and the lead emissions were a health risk. In the words of the Public Health Service surgeon, Dr. Royd R. Sayers, written in 1918, "Whoever works in or about a lead smelter may become leaded." Yet, the 1924 Idaho Industrial Acci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32086133 | 1,324,608 |
1,765,870 | Studying the female reproductive tract, especially in humans, allows for a better understanding of the immune system, including during pregnancy. However, studying the female reproductive tract has been a challenging area of research due to existing limitations in the in vitro and in vivo tools available. Ethical conce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22827348 | 1,764,877 |
1,597,108 | In 2020, Jackson was one of several academics who took a public position on racism in the New Zealand health sector. He co-authored an article in the New Zealand Medical Journal that defined systematic racism in terms of how it affected health for marginalised populations by inequitable access to services, prejudice an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69753744 | 1,596,209 |
1,013,157 | Prior to this, there had been failed synthesis attempts in 1986–87 at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna (then in the Soviet Union) and in 1990 at the GSI. A 1995 attempt at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory resulted in signs suggesting but not pointing conclusively at the discovery of a new isot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40163 | 1,012,636 |
1,214,994 | In December 2011, a research group at MIT reported a combined implementation of the laser (stroboscopic) and streak camera applications to capture images of a repetitive event that can be reassembled to create a trillion-frame-per-second video. This rate of image acquisition, which enables the capture of images of movi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3582572 | 1,214,342 |
1,517,840 | Many experiments of the Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) have to be carried out above the dense Earth's atmosphere using aircraft, rockets, satellites and space probes. In the early days experiments were also flown on balloons. To run advanced extraterrestrial physics and state-of-the-art experim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=614798 | 1,516,988 |
1,487,434 | BIRCH (balanced iterative reducing and clustering using hierarchies) is an algorithm used to perform connectivity-based clustering for large data-sets. It is regarded as one of the fastest clustering algorithms, but it is limited because it requires the number of clusters as an input. Therefore, new algorithms based on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58475368 | 1,486,596 |
544,622 | On February 20, 2018, Vice President Mike Pence, Chairman of the National Space Council announced the candidates selected to serve on the National Space Council Users Advisory Group. Pending official appointment by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the selected members of the Users... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18716701 | 544,340 |
612,804 | Lorentz (1892a) set the foundations of Lorentz aether theory, by assuming the existence of electrons which he separated from the aether, and by replacing the "Maxwell–Hertz" equations by the "Maxwell–Lorentz" equations. In his model, the aether is completely motionless and, contrary to Fresnel's theory, also is not par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1790788 | 612,493 |
452,994 | This led to the possibility of making a memory system similar to the moving-domain twistor concept, but using a single block of magnetic material instead of many twistor wires. Starting work extending this concept using orthoferrite, Bobeck noticed an additional interesting effect. With the magnetic tape materials used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=163097 | 452,773 |
1,713,219 | International relief targeted at poverty reduction could also be redirected towards subsidizing renewable energy projects. Because of the integral role that electrification plays in supporting economic and social development, funding of rural electrification can be seen as the core method for addressing poverty. Radios... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11492908 | 1,712,253 |
772,026 | Flaps may be fully extended for landing to give the aircraft a lower stall speed so the approach to landing can be flown more slowly, which also allows the aircraft to land in a shorter distance. The higher lift and drag associated with fully extended flaps allows a steeper and slower approach to the landing site, but ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1002551 | 771,612 |
880,411 | Jackson and Berry (1979) and Ungricht et al. (1998) have documented the subsequent confusion over the number of Mediterranean species of "Mandragora" and their scientific names. Dioscorides was among those who distinguished between "male" and "female" mandrakes, a distinction used in 1764 when Garsault published the na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46222073 | 879,947 |
653,036 | An amateur scientist, Foote conducted a series of experiments that demonstrated the interactions of sunlight on different gases. She used an air pump, two glass cylinders, and four mercury-in-glass thermometers. In each cylinder, she placed two thermometers and then used the pump to evacuate the air from one cylinder a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49280323 | 652,693 |
1,916,982 | In the Middle Ages, Galenic anatomo-physiology prevailed as the leading medical thought. Furthermore, Aristotelian natural philosophy had dominated for centuries, including the humoral system as a primary method of medical thought. However, the philosophies of Aristotle, Hippocrates, and Galen began to wane in populari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10512779 | 1,915,883 |
610,986 | Deep neural networks can be potentially improved by deepening and parameter reduction, while maintaining trainability. While training extremely deep (e.g., 1 million layers) neural networks might not be practical, CPU-like architectures such as pointer networks and neural random-access machines overcome this limitation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28016652 | 610,675 |
1,413,965 | These characteristics suggest that carbon nanotubes are a potential substitute for silicon with regards to CNTFETs and logic circuits. But CNTFETs cannot (yet) be mass manufactured, and therefore carbon nanotube processors cannot either, and both are currently limited to research facilities where they are manually asse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40636816 | 1,413,169 |
29,492 | Philosophy – Alexandria acted as a melting pot for philosophies of Pythagoreanism, Platonism, Stoicism and Gnosticism which formed the origin of alchemy's character. An important example of alchemy's roots in Greek philosophy, originated by Empedocles and developed by Aristotle, was that all things in the universe were... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573 | 29,482 |
1,056,857 | Space mirrors were also proposed at the "Response Options to Rapid or Severe Climate Change" round-table meeting organized by the President's Climate Change Technology Program in September 2001. Lowell Wood, a senior staff scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory proposed stationing one or more wire-mesh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27271259 | 1,056,308 |
1,231,527 | Laban's first book on the subject was published in German in 1928 called Schrifttanz (Written Dance); a similar version in French and English appeared in 1930. A few years later Laban's interest turned to other matters and he gave his notation system to the world. The German dancer, choreographer and pedagogue Albrecht... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=482651 | 1,230,865 |
586,366 | Whenever partial discharge is initiated, high frequency transient current pulses will appear and persist for nanoseconds to a microsecond, then disappear and reappear repeatedly as the voltage sinewave goes through the zero crossing. The PD happens near the peak voltage both positive and negative. PD pulses are easy to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=467804 | 586,066 |
772,361 | One prominent example of common non-causal methodology is the erroneous assumption of correlative properties as causal properties. There is no inherent causality in phenomena that correlate. Regression models are designed to measure variance within data relative to a theoretical model: there is nothing to suggest that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37103476 | 771,947 |
1,203,331 | There has been a boom in underwater environmental exploration; rather than simply creating a map, scientists are attempting to visualize the entire seafloor with maximum possible detail. Computers are put to good use here. With their help, researchers have managed to store and analyze large quantities of data. This led... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52233145 | 1,202,687 |
2,647 | Compared to previous stealth designs like the F-117, the F-22 is less reliant on RAM, which are maintenance-intensive and susceptible to adverse weather conditions. Unlike the B-2, which requires climate-controlled hangars, the F-22 can undergo repairs on the flight line or in a normal hangar. The F-22 has a "Signature... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66299 | 2,647 |
176,119 | Wavelet theory is applicable to several subjects. All wavelet transforms may be considered forms of time-frequency representation for continuous-time (analog) signals and so are related to harmonic analysis. Discrete wavelet transform (continuous in time) of a discrete-time (sampled) signal by using discrete-time filte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50903 | 176,027 |
22,008 | Smith discusses potential benefits of specialization by division of labour, including increased labour productivity and gains from trade, whether between town and country or across countries. His "theorem" that "the division of labor is limited by the extent of the market" has been described as the "core of a theory of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9223 | 21,999 |
1,076,837 | Naturalistic observation, sometimes referred to as fieldwork, is a research methodology in numerous fields of science including ethology, anthropology, linguistics, the social sciences, and psychology, in which data are collected as they occur in nature, without any manipulation by the observer. Examples range from wat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=980435 | 1,076,282 |
2,023,065 | In 2015, Schmidt was awarded a UF Research Opportunity Seed Fund for her project "Engineering Tissue Mimics to Investigate Congenital Heart Disease." The aim of her project was to engineer cardiac tissue mimics to investigate the role biophysical and biochemical cues play in the progression of congenital heart disease.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66225638 | 2,021,901 |
1,479,145 | Culture-historical archaeology arose during a somewhat tumultuous time in European intellectual thought. The Industrial Revolution had spread across many nations, leading to the creation of large urban centres, most of which were filled with poverty stricken proletariat workers. This new urban working class had begun t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=642813 | 1,478,312 |
981,669 | In humans, ingestion of certain plant and animal (e.g., red meat, egg yolk) food containing lecithin, choline and L-carnitine provides certain gut microbiota with the substrate to synthesize TMA, which is then absorbed into the bloodstream. High levels of trimethylamine in the body are associated with the development o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1620404 | 981,157 |
1,060,315 | If hypofrontality is, in fact, caused by these inefficient synaptic connections, then the associated irregular dopaminergic activity in certain parts of the brain (the limbic striatum and mediodorsal thalamus) can be, in part, explained. Dopaminergic activity is the release (or lack thereof) of the neurotransmitter dop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40637173 | 1,059,764 |
1,013,458 | Although forest plots can take several forms, they are commonly presented with two columns. The left-hand column lists the names of the studies (frequently randomized controlled trials or epidemiological studies), commonly in chronological order from the top downwards. The right-hand column is a plot of the measure of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11394359 | 1,012,937 |
1,364,480 | "C. crescentus" derives its name from its crescent shape, which is caused by the protein crescentin. It is an interesting organism to study because it inhabits nutrient-poor aquatic environments. Their ability to thrive in low levels of nutrients is facilitated by its dimorphic developmental cycle. The swarmer cell has... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=839361 | 1,363,724 |
270,121 | In addition, the lack of defined methodology and regulations surrounding the consumption of dietary supplements hinders the application of bioavailability measures in comparison to drugs. In clinical trials with dietary supplements, bioavailability primarily focuses on statistical descriptions of mean or average AUC di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=769021 | 269,974 |
1,419,430 | Following World War II, the Coast and Geodetic Survey resumed its peacetime scientific and surveying efforts. In 1945 it adapted the British Royal Air Forces Gee radio navigation system to hydrographic surveying, ushering in a new era of marine electronic navigation. In 1948 it established the Pacific Tsunami Warning C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16021406 | 1,418,631 |
781,188 | The massive skull of "Albertosaurus", which was perched on a short, S-shaped neck, was about long in the largest adults. Wide openings in the skull (fenestrae) reduced the weight of the head while also providing space for muscle attachment and sensory organs. Its long jaws contained, both sides combined, 58 or more ban... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1367 | 780,770 |
305,113 | In the first half of the 20th century, the Soviet Union and the communist parties of the Third International around the world mainly came to represent socialism in terms of the Soviet model of economic development and the creation of centrally planned economies directed by a state that owns all the means of production,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 304,951 |
541,030 | In 1957, André and Rouiller first coined the term "nuage". (French for "cloud"). Its amorphous and fibrous structure occurred in drawings as early as in 1933 (Risley). Today, the nuage is accepted to represent a characteristic, electrondense germ plasm organelle encapsulating the cytoplasmic face of the nuclear envelop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=747128 | 540,750 |
1,062,019 | In the field of cellular biology, single-cell analysis is the study of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and cell–cell interactions at the single cell level. The concept of single-cell analysis originated in the 1970s. Before the discovery of heterogeneity, single-cell analysis mainly referred to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38991948 | 1,061,465 |
841,554 | In nonradiative relaxation, the energy is released as phonons, more commonly known as heat. Nonradiative relaxation occurs when the energy difference between the levels is very small, and these typically occur on a much faster time scale than radiative transitions. For many materials (for instance, semiconductors), ele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28219 | 841,104 |
669,613 | Metals or alloys like galinstan that are liquids at room temperature are often used by overclockers and enthusiasts as a thermal interface for computer hardware cooling, where their higher thermal conductivity compared to thermal pastes, and thermal epoxies can allow slightly higher clock speeds and CPU processing powe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=867089 | 669,263 |
133,790 | Around the 9th century AD, the central Sudanic Empire of Kanem, with its capital at Njimi, was founded by the Kanuri-speaking nomads. Kanem arose by engaging in the trans-Saharan trade. It exchanged slaves captured by raiding the south for horses from North Africa, which in turn aided in the acquisition of slaves. By t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14099 | 133,737 |
569,942 | Commentators have primarily categorised "Calculating Infinity" as mathcore due to its frequent use of complex time signatures, atypical rhythms and unpredictable tempo changes. Many have claimed that The Dillinger Escape Plan "pioneered" or even "created" the genre with the release of their debut album. Others have des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=846067 | 569,652 |
725,497 | Mayr also greatly influenced the American ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice. Mayr encouraged her to correspond with European ornithologists and helped her in her landmark study on song sparrows. Nice wrote to Joseph Grinnell in 1932, trying to get foreign literature reviewed in the "Condor": "Too many American ornithol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9238 | 725,116 |
874,717 | The delay in the rise or fall time of the circuit is in this case caused by the back-EMF from the inductor which, as the current flowing through it tries to change, prevents the current (and hence the voltage across the resistor) from rising or falling much faster than the time-constant of the circuit. Since all wires ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1585348 | 874,255 |
598,780 | Research by Klaus Wallmann et al. 2018 concluded that hydrate dissociation at Svalbard 8,000 years ago was due to isostatic rebound (continental uplift following deglaciation). As a result, the water depth got shallower with less hydrostatic pressure, without further warming. The study, also found that today's deposits... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5069503 | 598,475 |
442,006 | A grower utilizing a DWC system has to modify the environment as to provide the proper conditions for optimal growth. Although this is true for any protected-crop production system, such as greenhouses, indoor systems, or vertical farms; utilizing DWC comes with some specific responsibilities that the grower should hee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6781181 | 441,791 |
409,839 | Heisenberg said in 1939 that the physicists at the (second) meeting said that "in principle atomic bombs could be made... it would take years... not before five." He said, "I didn't report it to the Führer until two weeks later and very casually because I did not want the Führer to get so interested that he would order... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1397318 | 409,637 |
1,472,004 | During EMT, the following major events occur: malignant epithelial cells lose their apical-basal polarity due to disruption in tight intercellular junctions and loss of cellular adhesion molecules (such as E-cadherin and integrins); the cellular actin cytoskeleton is changed and subjected to remodeling with the formati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58886026 | 1,471,175 |
758,646 | The relief programs did offer indirect help. The Civil Works Administration (CWA) and Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) focused on hiring unemployed people on relief, and putting them to work on public buildings, including public schools. It built or upgraded 40,000 schools, plus thousands of playgrounds a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9083795 | 758,240 |
31,769 | In practice, capacitors deviate from the ideal capacitor equation in several aspects. Some of these, such as leakage current and parasitic effects are linear, or can be analyzed as nearly linear, and can be accounted for by adding virtual components to the equivalent circuit of an ideal capacitor. The usual methods of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4932111 | 31,758 |
960,065 | The haplochromine cichlid fishes in the Great Lakes of the East African Rift (particularly in Lake Tanganyika, Lake Malawi, and Lake Victoria) form the most speciose modern example of adaptive radiation. These lakes are believed to be home to about 2,000 different species of cichlid, spanning a wide range of ecological... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1909 | 959,557 |
1,189,529 | In 1952, when the release of the FCC's Sixth Report and Order announced the end of its freeze on new station license applications, among the issues the commission was slated to address was whether to approve the UPT-ABC merger. One FCC Commissioner saw the possibility of ABC, funded by UPT, becoming a viable and compet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64765894 | 1,188,897 |
228,597 | In the United States, most of these aircraft are privately owned and contracted to government agencies, and the National Guard and the U.S. Marines also maintain fleets of firefighting aircraft. On May 10, 2004, The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced that they were cancelling c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1143974 | 228,480 |
1,847,277 | In 1985 the NTTTC (National Technical Teachers Training College) and Technical education unit of the Ministry of Education conducted a survey on the workforce. It was found that the ratio of chartered engineers to middle level engineers should be 1:3. However, according to the statistics it was 1:5:20, the ratio of cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43835762 | 1,846,220 |
248,615 | After the bones were prepared, photographed and studied, they were sent to New Jersey where work began on making the mount. This work consists of bending steel to support each bone safely and to display the entire skeleton articulated as it was in life. The real skull was not incorporated into the mount as subsequent s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10633984 | 248,487 |
851,076 | Low-cost HMD devices are available for use with 3D games and entertainment applications. One of the first commercially available HMDs was the Forte VFX1 which was announced at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 1994. The VFX-1 had stereoscopic displays, 3-axis head-tracking, and stereo headphones. Another pioneer in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1259296 | 850,623 |
1,874,565 | Because of the mistaken belief in some quarters of the spread spectrum community that little could be gained from receivers more sophisticated than the single-user matched filter, multiuser detection did not start developing until the early 1980s. Verdu showed that the near-far problem suffered by CDMA was not inherent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9243688 | 1,873,488 |
962,310 | Most glucometers today use an electrochemical method. Test strips contain a capillary that sucks up a reproducible amount of blood. The glucose in the blood reacts with an enzyme electrode containing glucose oxidase (or dehydrogenase). The enzyme is reoxidized with an excess of a mediator reagent, such as a ferricyanid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1627125 | 961,801 |
1,057,902 | The restrictions in the size of several flags fields, return codes and label types available in the basic DNS protocol prevented the support of some desirable features. Moreover, DNS messages carried by UDP were restricted to 512 bytes, not considering the Internet Protocol (IP) and transport layer headers. Resorting t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5587160 | 1,057,353 |
587,678 | The artists using the ornate style tended to favour large vessels, like volute "kraters", "amphorae", "loutrophoroi" and "hydriai". The larger surface area was used to depict up to 20 figures, often in several registers on the body of the vase. Additional colours, especially shades of red, yellow-gold and white are use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1457406 | 587,376 |
4,102 | The high elevation of the interior, the low temperatures, and the length of polar nights during the winter months all allow for better astronomical observations at Antarctica than anywhere else on Earth. The view of space from Earth is improved by a thinner atmosphere at higher elevations and a lack of water vapour in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18959138 | 4,100 |
260,820 | Go is a popular game in China, Japan and Korea, and the 2016 matches were watched by perhaps a hundred million people worldwide. Many top Go players characterized AlphaGo's unorthodox plays as seemingly-questionable moves that initially befuddled onlookers, but made sense in hindsight: "All but the very best Go players... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49242352 | 260,684 |
555,062 | Clathrate hydrate, which encaged CO as guest molecule is termed as CO hydrate. The term CO hydrates are more commonly used these days with its relevance in anthropogenic CO capture and sequestration. A nonstoichiometric compound, carbon dioxide hydrate, is composed of hydrogen-bonded water molecules arranged in ice-lik... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54140 | 554,773 |
640,484 | The United States entered World War I on the side of the Entente Powers in April, 1917, without any tanks of its own. The following month, in the light of a report into British and French tank theories and operations, the American Expeditionary Forces' commander-in-chief, Gen. John Pershing, decided that both light and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23084208 | 640,145 |
1,460,721 | Insights into language storage in the brain have come from studying multilingual individuals afflicted with a form of aphasia. The symptoms and severity of aphasia in multilingual individuals depend on the number of languages the individual knows, what order they learned them, and thus have them stored in the brain, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25181073 | 1,459,899 |
418,629 | In his autobiography Arthur Rubinstein criticized Hofmann as someone who took interest in only the mechanics of music and not in its heart or spirituality, and commented that at the end of Hofmann's career "he was left with nothing after his technique left him". Claudio Arrau dismissed Hofmann (along with Paderewski) a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=440258 | 418,424 |
414,439 | aHUS is not the only condition that causes systemic TMA, a fact that makes differential diagnosis essential. Historically, the clinical diagnosis of TMA-causing diseases was grouped into a broad category that (in addition to aHUS) included thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) and Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38187439 | 414,236 |
1,507,507 | Geometric morphometrics can also be used to capture the slight shape variations found in postcranial bones of the human body such as "os coxae". Bierry and colleagues used 3D CT reconstructions of modern adult pelvic bones for 104 individuals to look at the shape of the obturator foramen. After a normalization techniqu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45580833 | 1,506,661 |
631,728 | Also under NASA's CCDev program, SpaceX was awarded $75 million for the development of their own version of a "pusher" LAS. Their Dragon 2 spacecraft was to use its SuperDraco engines during a launch abort scenario. Although often referred to as a "pusher" arrangement since it lacks a tower, the Dragon 2 LAS removes bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1143181 | 631,390 |
33,018 | After examining wrecked B-17s and B-24s, Luftwaffe officers discovered that on average it took about 20 hits with 20 mm shells fired from the rear to bring them down. Pilots of average ability hit the bombers with only about two percent of the rounds they fired, so to obtain 20 hits, the average pilot had to fire one t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4997 | 33,006 |
576,827 | MHA programs are thus intended to provide students with the essential knowledge required for senior managerial and planning work in the health services and systems sectors. The objectives of the program are to develop graduates who are: competent general and financial managers, competent planners, knowledgeable about p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4439485 | 576,531 |
1,496,867 | In the spring of 1831 Drummond journeyed on foot by the Alleghany Mountains, reaching St. Louis in July, where he fell ill. In consequence of this delay he was unable to join the fur traders on their expedition to the north. He therefore was compelled to confine his explorations to New Orleans and thereabouts. Hence he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32855572 | 1,496,024 |
41,795 | WHP was first established in 2008 and immediately set about developing a new flywheel energy-recovery system for the Williams F1 Team after the introduction of Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems (KERS) into Formula One for the 2009 season. While other teams were pouring their efforts into electric battery systems, William... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34104 | 41,780 |
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