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1,899,136 | The mutations in type XVIII collagen result in a multitude of abnormalities in vision and eye structure, some of which include high myopia, vitreoretinal degeneration, retinal detachment, macular abnormalities, and occipital encephalocele. Additionally, fragile iris, overgrowth of blood vessels in the retina, and an ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9932763 | 1,898,052 |
1,126,566 | In these carbonate factories, precipitation is biotically controlled by heterotrophic organisms, sometimes in association with photo-autotrophic organisms such as red algae. The typical skeletal association includes foraminifers, red algae and molluscs. Despite being autotrophic, red algae are mostly associated to hete... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4327886 | 1,125,989 |
256,361 | The game industry requires innovations, as publishers cannot profit from constant release of repetitive sequels and imitations. Every year new independent development companies open and some manage to develop hit titles. Similarly, many developers close down because they cannot find a publishing contract or their produ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=700265 | 256,227 |
647,396 | Patients living with the disorder into their adulthood often have trouble being involved in daily activities such as eating, walking, dressing, as well as performing everyday tasks. They are consistently faced with challenges that limit their ability to live on their own. They are more reluctant to be involved in socia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=857160 | 647,056 |
847,711 | At the time that the Mk V was placed in production there were growing fears that the "Luftwaffe" were about to start mass-producing very high flying bombers such as the Junkers Ju 86, which could fly above the reach of most fighters of the time. It was decided that a new Spitfire variant would be required with improved... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16070159 | 847,261 |
2,122,887 | The order Santalales, with its approximately 160 genera and 2,200 species distributed worldwide, is a monophyletic group that has long occupied an unresolved position at the base of the Gunneridae. Recently, phylogenetic studies based on molecular data from the complete chloroplast genome indicate a position of Santala... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53127579 | 2,121,667 |
1,787,755 | Synthetic colorants gained popularity as quickly with artists as with industry. The painters of the impressionist school in particular were famous early adopters. Critical reviews of Impressionists’ blues made comparisons to laundresses’ tubs, in particular the practice of laundry bluing, and to chemical waste dumped i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62919428 | 1,786,750 |
1,904,288 | There are two structurally unrelated proteins with this sort of activity, referred to as light-dependent (LPOR) and dark-operative (DPOR). The light- and NADPH-dependent reductase is part of the short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase (SDR) superfamily and is found in plants and oxygenic photosynthetic bacteria, while the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14042084 | 1,903,194 |
2,091,470 | It is only recently that the concept of memes were set free from the narrow scope of merely hand-crafted local search heuristics, paving the path towards fully automated extraction, dispersal and exploitation of knowledge memes. In this era of data-democratization with access to modern computing platforms, emerges an u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60532440 | 2,090,266 |
1,146,798 | In Proposition 45 of his "Principia", Newton applies his theorem of revolving orbits to develop a method for finding the force laws that govern the motions of planets. Johannes Kepler had noted that the orbits of most planets and the Moon seemed to be ellipses, and the long axis of those ellipses can determined accurat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12191272 | 1,146,194 |
2,115,864 | Subsequently he formed a new company, Gurian Instruments, which currently supplies materials and custom parts for the musical instrument, furniture and wood craft supply industries out of a floating facility in Seattle, Washington, although according to one video interview (see "External Links") he has not completely d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50010272 | 2,114,647 |
1,682,797 | Hospital policies continued to change after the turn of the century. In 1801, Paris instated a new policy of hospital admission: a central office was created at Hotel Dieu that triaged all patients in Paris, and redirected them to the appropriate hospital for treatment. This triaging would account for the demand for me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53106139 | 1,681,854 |
612,287 | The signing of the JCPOA in July 2015 by Hassan Rouhani and Javad Zarif with Barack Obama heralded a new era of détente in foreign relations. With it, Iran was allowed to come in from the cold, as it were and once again to sell its oil unencumbered on the world stage. The withdrawal by Donald Trump from the JCPOA in Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28205267 | 611,976 |
303,659 | The cultural practices of the United States show considerable similarities to those in northern and central European regions, such as Germany, Scandinavia, and the United Kingdom. Greeting rituals tend to be the same in Europe and in the United States, consisting of minimal body contact—often confined to a simple hands... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=225761 | 303,497 |
1,512,368 | A Witt lecture on the poor processes used by the American naval stores industry and the almost certain likelihood that those processes would completely destroy the Longleaf Pine ("Pinus palustris") led Herty to study the naval store industry's use of those trees to produce timber and turpentine. After engaging in liter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8435062 | 1,511,517 |
681,369 | In Klazomenai primarily amphoras and hydria were painted in the middle of the 6th century BC (c. 550 to 350 BC), as well as deep bowls with flat, angular-looking figures. The vessels are not very elegant in workmanship. Dancing women and animals were frequently depicted. Leading workshops were those of the Tübingen Pai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1076046 | 681,013 |
20,511 | Under most viewing conditions, the Andromeda Galaxy is one of the most distant objects that can be seen with the naked eye (M33 and M81 can be seen under very dark skies). The galaxy is commonly located in the sky about the constellations Cassiopeia and Pegasus. Andromeda is best seen during autumn nights in the Northe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=74331 | 20,502 |
1,098,157 | There are other forms of preventive actions, an example for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer would be to go through surgery: A hysterectomy is the removal of all or some of the uterus, whereas a mastectomy is removing a breast (double mastectomy meaning that both breasts are removed), this can often add years onto ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38885064 | 1,097,597 |
44,135 | Imahara began his career at Lucasfilm, where he worked in the THX division as an engineer and in the Industrial Light & Magic division in visual effects. His work has been featured in films from franchises such as "Star Wars", "Jurassic Park", "The Matrix", and "Terminator". His first foray into television was on the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4040762 | 44,118 |
545,675 | Nowadays, data management has transferred over from local storage to the cloud. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Salesforce and Amazon popularized the concept of internet-based services, which appealed to customers as it reduced in-house maintenance costs and increased flexibility in changing the needs of a business.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57391332 | 545,389 |
1,385,019 | In 2009, Riazuddin published a mathematical theory of the non-standard model, and its brief extensions to τ (tau) particles – particles that are similar to electrons with negative electric charge. In an experiment performed at the Synchrotron light source installed at the National Center for Physics (NCP), now the Abdu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22233947 | 1,384,252 |
143,727 | Research published in the March 26, 2009 issue of the journal "Nature", describes how scientists were able to identify an asteroid in space before it entered Earth's atmosphere, enabling computers to determine its area of origin in the Solar System as well as predict the arrival time and location on Earth of its shatte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174069 | 143,669 |
807,562 | Water makes an excellent moderator; the ordinary hydrogen or "protium" atoms in the water molecules are very close in mass to a single neutron, and so their collisions result in a very efficient transfer of momentum, similar conceptually to the collision of two billiard balls. However, as well as being a good moderator... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33087778 | 807,132 |
1,622,057 | CIP theory is based on cognitive therapy concepts developed by Aaron Beck, which specify that dysfunctional cognitions have a detrimental impact on behavior and emotions. Through cognitive restructuring, collaborative empiricism, attention to emotions, and the development of an effective helping relationship, clients l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29303703 | 1,621,141 |
296,967 | Individual action on climate change can include personal choices in many areas, such as diet, travel, household energy use, consumption of goods and services, and family size. People who wish to reduce their carbon footprint (particularly those in high income countries with high consumption lifestyles), can take "high-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2119179 | 296,807 |
324,307 | A breakthrough came in the summer of 1895, when Marconi found that much greater range could be achieved after he raised the height of his antenna and, borrowing from a technique used in wired telegraphy, grounded his transmitter and receiver. With these improvements, the system was capable of transmitting signals up to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12104 | 324,135 |
90,838 | The greatest OSH benefits stemming from the wider use of robotics should be substitution for people working in unhealthy or dangerous environments. In space, defense, security, or the nuclear industry, but also in logistics, maintenance, and inspection, autonomous robots are particularly useful in replacing human worke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20903754 | 90,798 |
1,157,148 | Besides the strength and duration of "E"("t"), the THz field's photon energy plays a vital role in semiconductor investigations because it can be made resonant with several intriguing many-body transitions. For example, electrons in conduction band and holes, i.e., electronic vacancies, in valence band attract each oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39456566 | 1,156,536 |
1,271,762 | After extensive negotiations and technical information exchanges between the U.S. and Russian space teams, the Russians concluded close approach could be safely achieved and the STS-63 crew was given 'go' to proceed. R1U's thruster manifold was closed and the backup thruster was selected for the approach. Ship-to-ship ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=526864 | 1,271,071 |
1,177,969 | Mangrove restoration is the regeneration of mangrove forest ecosystems in areas where they have previously existed. The practice of mangrove restoration is grounded in the discipline of restoration ecology, which aims to “[assist] the recovery of resilience and adaptive capacity of ecosystems that have been degraded, d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36309813 | 1,177,346 |
2,100,892 | Webster was born in Orkney in 1772, probably at Kirkwall, and was educated at Aberdeen. He subsequently went to London and studied architecture, the Royal Institution in Albemarle Street being built from his design, and where in 1830 he delivered the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture. In 1826 he was appointed house-s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2162541 | 2,099,682 |
1,205,952 | The regular representation of a group ring is such that the left-hand and right-hand regular representations give isomorphic modules (and we often need not distinguish the cases). Given an algebra over a field "A", it doesn't immediately make sense to ask about the relation between "A" as left-module over itself, and a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=360011 | 1,205,307 |
454,963 | Due to Santaolalla's stance on composing music—he lacks knowledge in reading and writing sheet music, preferring to simply record—he began working on "The Last of Us" early in development. To give Santaolalla a point to base his music, Druckmann simply told him about the story and themes, as opposed to giving specific ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45204814 | 454,741 |
1,579,077 | Lestaurtinib was mentioned as one of two oncology drugs being developed by Cephalon in a 2007 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) report. According to this report, in addition to holding patent applications involving methods of treatment, formulations, and polymorphs of lestaurtinib, Cephalon held a compositi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16764111 | 1,578,187 |
187,236 | Quasi-experimental estimates of impact are subject to contamination by confounding variables. In the example above, a variation in the children's response to spanking is plausibly influenced by factors that cannot be easily measured and controlled, for example the child's intrinsic wildness or the parent's irritability... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11864322 | 187,139 |
2,063,111 | In 1898, Foster found work teaching chemistry at Lynn High and Classical School. The next year, she became an assistant researcher in the Lab of Physiology and Chemistry in New York, where she stayed until 1901. In 1903, Foster worked as a research chemist in the department of pharmacology at Columbia University, where... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46432429 | 2,061,921 |
1,733,614 | The 2012 College Football All-America Team includes those players of American college football who have been honored by various selector organizations as the best players at their respective positions. The selector organizations award the "All-America" honor annually following the conclusion of the fall college footbal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37795583 | 1,732,637 |
443,192 | Five main groups of lepospondyls are often recognized: Microsauria, a superficially lizard- or salamander-like and species-rich group; Lysorophia, a group with elongated bodies and very small limbs; Aïstopoda, a group of limbless, extremely elongated snake-like forms; Adelospondyli, a group of presumably aquatic forms ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1908699 | 442,977 |
703,247 | Spinosyn A does not appear to interact directly with known insecticidal-relevant target sites, but rather acts via a novel mechanism. Spinosyn A resembles a GABA antagonist and is comparable to the effect of avermectin on insect neurons. Spinosyn A is highly active against neonate larvae of the tobacco budworm, "Heliot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10831708 | 702,879 |
1,189,933 | Taking a similar approach, a unique global study of 1,409 children undergoing emergency laparotomy from 253 centres in 43 countries showed that adjusted mortality in children following surgery may be as high as 7 times greater in low-HDI and middle-HDI countries compared with high-HDI countries, translating to 40 exces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1303 | 1,189,301 |
1,192,351 | President Bill Clinton exercised his line-item veto power at the time, however, and eliminated the Congressionally approved $39 million allocated to the SR-71 program in the fiscal year (FY) 1998 budget. Detachment 2 immediately ceased operations. The United States Supreme Court later declared presidential line-item ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8294433 | 1,191,715 |
199,789 | Semi circular ducts, which are connected directly to the cochlea, can interpret and convey to the brain information about equilibrium by a similar method as the one used for hearing. Hair cells in these parts of the ear protrude kinocilia and stereocilia into a gelatinous material that lines the ducts of this canal. In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=569399 | 199,686 |
1,988,075 | Boeing has invested in a blended wing body airplane program since 1993, a program which Liebeck managed. Run through Boeing's Phantom Works division, the program researched, designed and prototyped new aircraft designs which would reduce energy consumption and noise production. Initially funded by a grant from NASA of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41891348 | 1,986,933 |
1,229,814 | The first known mill in Lancashire dedicated to ring spinning was built in Milnrow for the New Ladyhouse Cotton Spinning Company (registered 26 April 1877). A cluster of smaller mills developed which between 1884 and 1914 out performed the ring mills of Oldham. After 1926, the Lancashire industry went into sharp declin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22591478 | 1,229,152 |
1,294,894 | In 2018, Willerslev and colleges published 2 papers in Nature and Science the same day addressing the population history of Central and Southern Asia. The Science paper deals with the spread of the Bronze Age pastoralists, such as Yamnaya and the peoples they met in Asia. They could show that descendants of the 24-thou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19136941 | 1,294,183 |
196,213 | Palmer would learn of those behind the genocide of the Morlaidhans, namely five CIA operatives, part of a group called the Cabal. In a mission called Operation: Fireball, the tiny aliens were murdered in hopes Ray would return as the Atom and become a tool for the Cabal (as Ray worked for the CIA in his earlier years).... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4971776 | 196,113 |
1,194,034 | 'Model' helicopters can be dangerous. Safety precautions, proper maintenance, and an understanding of the mechanics and flight characteristics of the models are necessary to prevent accidents. Modelers who fly at sanctioned sites are required to follow safety rules designated by national model aircraft organizations. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2334889 | 1,193,394 |
1,943,760 | The 3D structure of "Brassica rapa" (Turnip) cyt f has been determined. The lumen-side segment of cyt f includes two structural domains: a small one above a larger one that, in turn, is on top of the attachment to the membrane domain. The large domain consists of an anti-parallel beta-sandwich and a short haem-binding ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2001549 | 1,942,648 |
214,711 | High-field high-frequency EPR measurements are sometimes needed to detect subtle spectroscopic details. However, for many years the use of electromagnets to produce the needed fields above 1.5 T was impossible, due principally to limitations of traditional magnet materials. The first multifunctional millimeter EPR spec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1926015 | 214,603 |
468,949 | Experiments conducted in the 1970s also studied the phenomenon. These experiments revealed that although several explanations for why the LF were observed by astronauts have been proposed, there may be other causes as well. Charman "et al." (1971) asked whether the LF were the result of single cosmic-ray nuclei enterin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1364633 | 468,713 |
132,334 | A colloidal crystal is a highly ordered array of particles that can be formed over a very long range (typically on the order of a few millimeters to one centimeter) and that appear analogous to their atomic or molecular counterparts. One of the finest natural examples of this ordering phenomenon can be found in preciou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5346 | 132,282 |
19,238 | Partial classifications exist for many individual groups of organisms and are revised and replaced as new information becomes available; however, comprehensive, published treatments of most or all life are rarer; recent examples are that of Adl et al., 2012 and 2019, which covers eukaryotes only with an emphasis on pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30463 | 19,230 |
326,364 | The number 42 is, in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything," calculated by an enormous supercomputer named Deep Thought over a period of 7.5 million years. Unfortunately, no one knows what the question is. Thus, to calculate t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191178 | 326,190 |
1,071,305 | Part four considers conquest. Why is it that the Eurasians came to dominate other cultures? Diamond's answer is that, in part, this was due to the East–West layout of the Eurasian continent, due to which successful agricultural and animal domestication packages (combinations of certain domesticated plants and animals) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2521255 | 1,070,751 |
2,163,439 | The men's eight competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles took place at the Long Beach Marine Stadium. It was held from 10 to 13 August. There were 8 boats (72 competitors) from 8 nations, with each nation limited to a single boat in the event. The event was won by the United States, the nation's fourth co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38224230 | 2,162,203 |
674,752 | Broca published his findings from the autopsies of the twelve patients in his paper "Localization of Speech in the Third Left Frontal Cultivation" in 1865. His work inspired others to perform careful autopsies with the aim of linking more brain regions to sensory and motor functions. Although history credits this disco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145048 | 674,399 |
1,540,124 | Two-dimensional fire growth models such as FARSITE and Prometheus, the Canadian wildland fire growth model designed to work in Canadian fuel complexes, have been developed that apply such semi-empirical relationships and others regarding ground-to-crown transitions to calculate fire spread and other parameters along th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20115268 | 1,539,251 |
1,297,402 | Several unrelated events conspired to greatly delay further progress. On 1 January 1942 Lovell was sent to work on the H2S radar project and was replaced by Arthur Ernest Downing. This delayed the project just long enough that it got caught up in a great debate that broke out in the summer of 1942 about the use of "win... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44128965 | 1,296,691 |
1,583,064 | This new edition contained an extended discussion of eugenics (Chapter XXXII "The Improvement of the Human Race", pp. 394–404), but the section quoted above on "The Remedy" removed the words "If such people were lower animals, we would probably kill them off to prevent them from spreading. Humanity will not allow this.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2873458 | 1,582,174 |
983,513 | The main part of the Cathedral's first floor is the Commons Room, called one of the "great architectural fantasies of the twentieth century", is a fifteenth-century English perpendicular Gothic-style hall that covers half an acre (2,000 m) and extends upward four stories, reaching tall. The room was a gift of Andrew Me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=768929 | 982,999 |
952,208 | Australia also formed small-scale raiding and reconnaissance forces, most of which were grouped together as the Allied Intelligence Bureau. Z Special Unit conducted raids far behind the front line, including a successful raid on Singapore in September 1943. M Special Unit, coastwatchers and smaller AIB units also opera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4578255 | 951,703 |
550,384 | Equatorial telescope mounts come in many designs. In the last twenty years motorized tracking has increasingly been supplemented with computerized object location. There are two main types. Digital setting circles take a small computer with an object database that is attached to encoders. The computer monitors the tele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1055334 | 550,096 |
220,809 | Most polar molecules have low solubility in the hydrocarbon core of a lipid bilayer and, as a consequence, have low permeability coefficients across the bilayer. This effect is particularly pronounced for charged species, which have even lower permeability coefficients than neutral polar molecules. Anions typically hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=158011 | 220,700 |
286,725 | City College began charging tuition in 1976. But after three decades, by 1999, the CUNY Board of Trustees voted to eliminate remedial classes at all CUNYs senior colleges, thereby eliminating a central pillar of the policy of Open Admissions and effectively ending it. Students who could not meet the academic entrance r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954388 | 286,570 |
357,993 | Anteriorly, the condyles are slightly prominent and are separated by a smooth shallow articular depression called the patellar surface. Posteriorly, they project considerably and a deep notch, the Intercondylar fossa of femur, is present between them. The lateral condyle is the more prominent and is the broader both in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188497 | 357,807 |
1,304,817 | The signature of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) can be observed in the distribution of tracers of the matter density field and used to measure the expansion history of the Universe. BAO can also be measured using purely photometric data, though at less significance. DES team observation samples consists of 7 millio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9075104 | 1,304,101 |
2,183,827 | Richardson became involved in a scandal which led to his arrest in January 1846 in Pocklington. He was then charged the following month, February, for colluding with his daughter in the murder of Theodore Horatio Richardson who was their incest son. On 11 May 1846, the two were put to trial at the Old Bailey court. He ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60630236 | 2,182,579 |
484,740 | Bloom Energy Servers stack small fuel cells to operate in concert. Bloom Energy's approach of assembling fuel-cell stacks that enables individual plates to expand and contract at the same rate at high temperatures. However, other solid oxide fuel cell producers have solved the problem of different expansion rates of ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26284297 | 484,491 |
1,404,721 | The Space Task Group was a working group of NASA engineers created in 1958, tasked with managing America's human spaceflight programs. Headed by Robert Gilruth and based at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, it managed Project Mercury and follow-on plans. After President John F. Kennedy set the goal in 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7628698 | 1,403,931 |
366,409 | In 1951, 29, 141, 85 and 264 squadrons each received a number of NF.11 aircraft, the first of the Meteor night fighters. It was rolled out across the RAF until the final deliveries in 1954. A "tropicalised" version of the NF.11 for the Middle East was developed; first flying on 23 December 1952 as the "NF.13". The airc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42702 | 366,217 |
1,080,255 | Around 2010, a company called Sunvention Solar Energy created a device similar to the NASA design that they say can pump 100,000 gallons per day, purely off of solar energy and the Stirling cycle, and costing only US$1,250 This apparatus, much like the others, uses a large solar dish to collect heat from the sun to cre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35535735 | 1,079,700 |
1,577,582 | Allergies from food have been noted to become common disease nowadays. The food allergies in the clinical demonstration present different signs, for example mild symptoms from itching in the mouth and swelling of the lips to critical anaphylactic response result in fatal consequences. According to statistic, about 2% a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60902291 | 1,576,693 |
1,493,354 | Schleier-Smith's research career began an opportunity to do nanotechnology research at the MITRE Corporation while she was a student at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia. She went on to attend Harvard University as an undergraduate, receiving a B.A. in Chemistry and Physics... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60139557 | 1,492,514 |
959,551 | Surgical treatments such as nerve grafting, tendon lengthening, tendon transfers, and limb lengthening and shortening were used extensively during this time. Patients with residual paralysis were treated with braces and taught to compensate for lost function with the help of calipers, crutches and wheelchairs. The use ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11110672 | 959,043 |
905,828 | The first class was graduated in 1826, receiving their degrees only after the disposition of a lawsuit seeking to close the school. The first classes were held in the Tivoli Theater on Prune Street in Philadelphia, which had the first medical clinic attached to a medical school. Owing to the teaching philosophy of Dr. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211112 | 905,352 |
110,734 | Starting in 2011, Google Brain built DistBelief as a proprietary machine learning system based on deep learning neural networks. Its use grew rapidly across diverse Alphabet companies in both research and commercial applications. Google assigned multiple computer scientists, including Jeff Dean, to simplify and refacto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48508507 | 110,689 |
1,561,180 | GEC was working on producing a fully sealed version of the magnetron, as opposed to one that used an external vacuum pump. After inventing a new sealing method using gold wire and adapting the chamber of a Colt revolver as a drilling template, they produced the E1188 in early July 1940. This produced the same amount of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43764346 | 1,560,294 |
75,623 | Fluoride glass is a class of non-oxide optical quality glasses composed of fluorides of various metals. Because of their low viscosity, it is very difficult to completely avoid crystallization while processing it through the glass transition (or drawing the fiber from the melt). Thus, although heavy metal fluoride glas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3372377 | 75,595 |
812,794 | Gravity bombs are designed to be dropped from planes, which requires that the weapon be able to withstand vibrations and changes in air temperature and pressure during the course of a flight. Early weapons often had a removable core for safety, known as in flight insertion (IFI) cores, being inserted or assembled by th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3247324 | 812,361 |
1,232,382 | UHTCs, specifically Hf and Zr based diboride, are being developed to handle the forces and temperatures experienced by leading vehicle edges in atmospheric reentry and sustained hypersonic flight. The surfaces of hypersonic vehicles experience extreme temperatures in excess of 2,500 °C while also being exposed to high-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38050893 | 1,231,720 |
1,043,475 | Targeted contrast-enhanced ultrasound works in a similar fashion, with a few alterations. Microbubbles targeted with ligands that bind certain molecular markers that are expressed by the area of imaging interest are still injected systemically in a small bolus. Microbubbles theoretically travel through the circulatory ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3287565 | 1,042,931 |
693,960 | On August 27, 2020, the NEXRAD radar site located in Lake Charles, Louisiana, was destroyed by Hurricane Laura as the eye of the Category 4 storm—which packed wind gusts recorded around in the city—passed over the site after it made landfall. NEXRAD radars based in Houston, Shreveport and Fort Polk were used to fill ga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314409 | 693,597 |
1,609,018 | Infection and Immunity is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Society for Microbiology. It focuses on interactions between bacterial, fungal, or parasitic pathogens and their hosts. Areas covered include molecular pathogenesis, cellular microbiology, bacterial infection, host responses and inflamm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9793651 | 1,608,113 |
7,504 | The MiG-29's good operational record prompted India to sign a deal with Russia in 2005 and 2006 to upgrade all of its MiG-29s for US$888 million. Under the deal, the Indian MiGs were modified to be capable of deploying the R-77/RVV-AE (AA-12 'Adder') air-to-air missile. The missiles had been successfully tested in Octo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=185653 | 7,501 |
2,113,254 | The UNT Center for Human Identification (UNTCHI) was created in 2004 and consists of the Laboratory for Molecular Identification, the Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology, and the Forensic Services Unit. Founded in 1986, the Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology provides anthropological analysis of human remains for law e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31533662 | 2,112,039 |
1,798,337 | The NBFAC played a role in more than 45 federal law enforcement investigations of biological crimes in 2013 alone. Also in 2013, it activated unique bioforensic laboratories at biosafety level 3 with accreditation for casework operations. Its processes maintain operational capability to study more than 60 high-priority... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8888314 | 1,797,328 |
1,617,789 | Historically, board designers used to increase the length and volume of the boards in order to allow for sailing in lighter winds, but during the late 90s, some brands like AHD, Berky, Drops, ML, Pro-Tech, Roberts and Starboard started to work on alternative solutions. They came up with designs that widened and shorten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3307695 | 1,616,876 |
1,864,848 | Around this time, players such as Ian Botham, Allan Lamb and David Gower all came to the end of their international careers and specifically in the case of Botham, England had trouble replacing these players. Batsmen like Graeme Hick, Mark Ramprakash, Chris Lewis and Phil Tufnell all promised and sometimes delivered a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10829204 | 1,863,776 |
1,465,265 | OFDM enables reliable broadband communications by distributing user data across a number of closely spaced, narrowband subchannels. This arrangement makes it possible to eliminate the biggest obstacle to reliable broadband communications, intersymbol interference (ISI). ISI occurs when the overlap between consecutive s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41824003 | 1,464,442 |
24,465 | Most agile development methods break product development work into small increments that minimize the amount of up-front planning and design. Iterations, or sprints, are short time frames (timeboxes) that typically last from one to four weeks. Each iteration involves a cross-functional team working in all functions: pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=639009 | 24,456 |
1,138,781 | The facility will be based on four sites. Three of them are presently being implemented in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania, with an investment volume exceeding €850 million, mostly stemming from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). In Dolní Břežany, near Prague, Czech Republic, the ELI Beamlines facil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23639320 | 1,138,188 |
1,140,930 | The gut contents consist of fragments of fibrous or vascular plant tissue, fruiting bodies, spherical seeds, and vesicular tissue (possibly from fern sporangia). The most common remains are the fibrous or vascular fragments, which are typically rather uniform in size at long and have clean cuts at their ends, perpendic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48767246 | 1,140,336 |
768,756 | The new wedge-shaped Lotus 72 had very innovative car design, featuring torsion bar suspension, hip-mounted radiators, inboard front brakes and an overhanging rear wing. The 72 originally had suspension problems, but when dive and squat were designed out of the suspension the car quickly showed its superiority. Lotus's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1140091 | 768,344 |
685,311 | A theory that has gained a lot of traction recently is the "study-phase retrieval theory". This theory assumes that the first presentation is retrieved at the time of the second. This leads to an elaboration of the first memory trace. Massed presentations do not yield advantages because the first trace is active at the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=903495 | 684,954 |
887,111 | Since early on, Bigelow has been intent on "pursuing markets for a variety of users including biotech and pharmaceutical companies and university research, entertainment applications and government military and civil users". The business model includes "'leasing out' small space stations or habitats made of one or more... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=754129 | 886,647 |
1,367,148 | In 2012, Carney and colleagues performed the first colour study on an "Archaeopteryx" specimen with the fossil of this single feather. Using scanning electron microscopy technology and energy-dispersive X-ray analysis, the team was able to detect the structure of melanosomes in the fossil. The resultant structure was t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34483273 | 1,366,392 |
635,288 | In August 1950, Sister Mary Nona McGreal was appointed president of the college and prioress of the Sisters. A new academic criterion was adopted in 1950-1951: seniors were administered the Graduate Record Examination and sophomores a series of tests from the American Council on Education. Several campus organizations,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1756590 | 634,949 |
1,020,855 | Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a cryomicroscopy technique applied on samples cooled to cryogenic temperatures. For biological specimens, the structure is preserved by embedding in an environment of vitreous ice. An aqueous sample solution is applied to a grid-mesh and plunge-frozen in liquid ethane or a mix... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56452747 | 1,020,326 |
1,268,989 | Starting with the release of "Heart of the Swarm" in early 2013, the WCS transitioned into a league format as Blizzard strengthened its hold on professional "StarCraft II" competition with the introduction of WCS points that decided who would qualify for the year's biggest tournament, the WCS Global Finals. This led to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58381235 | 1,268,298 |
797,828 | Syzygy tablebases were developed by Ronald de Man, released in April 2013, in a form optimized for use by a chess program during search. This variety consists of two tables per endgame: a smaller WDL (win/draw/loss) table which contains knowledge of the 50-move rule, and a larger DTZ table (distance to zero ply, i.e., ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2658308 | 797,403 |
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