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1,515,319 | Biofilm formation occurs when free floating microorganisms attach themselves to a surface. Although there are some beneficial uses of biofilms, they are generally considered undesirable, and means of biofilm prevention have been developed. Biofilms secrete extracellular polymeric substance that provides a structural ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31616401 | 1,514,467 |
1,760,157 | For the last time, Utah was covered by shallow seas in the Cretaceous and with the continued uplift of the Sevier orogeny leading to erosion, deposits from the time are double the thickness of Jurassic units. The Kelvin and Lower Indianola formations indicate continuous sand and gravel deposition in streams along the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58634214 | 1,759,164 |
620,640 | Like most "Strix" species, it has a broad, rounded head with a correspondingly round facial disc, barring a tiny V-shaped indentation. The Ural owl has, for an owl, an exceptionally long tail that bears a wedge-shaped tip. In colour, it tends to be a plain pale greyish-brown to whitish overall (with more detailed descr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=815909 | 620,325 |
213,687 | Plants continued to innovate ways of reducing the resistance to flow within their cells, progressively increasing the efficiency of their water transport and to increase the resistance of the tracheids to collapse under tension. During the early Devonian, maximum tracheid diameter increased with time, but may have pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11008314 | 213,579 |
769,530 | HMPV is associated with 5% to 40% of respiratory tract infections in hospitalized and outpatient children. The virus is distributed worldwide and, in temperate regions, has a seasonal distribution generally following that of RSV and influenza virus during late winter and spring. Serologic studies have shown that by the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=477498 | 769,118 |
301,364 | An equilibrium real-gas model assumes that a gas is chemically reactive, but also assumes all chemical reactions have had time to complete and all components of the gas have the same temperature (this is called "thermodynamic equilibrium"). When air is processed by a shock wave, it is superheated by compression and che... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45294 | 301,203 |
1,835,564 | At first it was the Mining Institute founded on the basis of Kemerovo Mining Construction College (the order number 13718 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR of August 30, 1950 and the order number 1572 of the Minister of Higher and Secondary Special Education of September 9, 1950). Then it was reorganized in the K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6015595 | 1,834,515 |
396,049 | Another common cause is pulmonary tuberculosis. Smokers and the elderly are also at an increased risk. Outside of this context, atelectasis implies some blockage of a bronchiole or bronchus, which can be within the airway (foreign body, mucus plug), from the wall (tumor, usually squamous cell carcinoma) or compressing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1171612 | 395,854 |
360,646 | Peer-mediated interventions (PMI) are a school-based treatment approach for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder in which peers are trained to be role models in order to promote social behavior. Laghi et al. studied whether analysis of prosocial (nice) and antisocial (nasty) theory-of-mind behaviors c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=488083 | 360,458 |
1,971,986 | Clinical Microbiology and Infection (CMI) is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal publishing original research and review articles that assist physicians and microbiologists in their management of patients and the prevention of infectious diseases. CMI publishes manuscripts presenting the results of original researc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51448153 | 1,970,852 |
868,472 | Early WWII-era uncapped armour-piercing projectiles fired from high-velocity guns were able to penetrate about twice their calibre at close range (100 m). At longer ranges (500–1,000 m), this dropped 1.5–1.1 calibres due to the poor ballistic shape and higher drag of the smaller-diameter early projectiles. In January 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=79266 | 868,012 |
714,445 | After the U.S. entered the war following the attack on Pearl Harbor, a number of V-72 and A-31 aircraft were repossessed for use by the USAAF. As the USAAF became interested in dive bombing, it decided to order production of an improved version of the Vengeance, designated the A-35, for both its own use and for supply ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2953330 | 714,073 |
2,202,050 | Sleep deprivation is a significant societal problem. It is estimated that around 35.2% of all adults in the US sleep less than 7 hours. Lifestyle choices, health conditions, and the use of stimulants are examples of some of the causes that underlie sleep deprivation in humans. Sleep deprivation is known to cause metabo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69860092 | 2,200,797 |
1,687,828 | A 2018 perspectives article discussing tipping points in the climate system activated around 2 degrees Celsius of global warming suggested that at this threshold, permafrost thaw would add a further 0.09 °C to global temperatures by 2100, with a range between 0.04 °C and 0.16 °C In 2021, another study estimated that in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27167234 | 1,686,882 |
133,849 | The origins of the Urewe culture are ultimately in the Bantu expansion originating in Cameroon. Research into early Iron Age civilizations in Sub-Saharan Africa has been undertaken concurrently with studies on African linguistics on Bantu expansion. The Urewe culture may correspond to the Eastern subfamily of Bantu lan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14099 | 133,796 |
386,020 | There are multiple genes that code for proteins needed in the visual pathway, when mutated, they can cause the retinitis pigmentosa phenotype. Inheritance patterns of RP have been identified as autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, X-linked, and maternally (mitochondrially) acquired, and are dependent on the specifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=350926 | 385,825 |
1,595,633 | Regarding its application in fluorescent sensing of glucose, the first glucose biosensor by fluorescence, which, as mentioned, was made in 1982 by means of a competition assay for the binding site of ConA, was entrapped in a sealed microdialysis tube, in the same lab, namely of J Schultz, in 2001 another study was publ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29221300 | 1,594,734 |
2,016,058 | After chapters on 'litterae' (letter notation), monochord, nine 'consonant' intervals (unison, semitone, whole tone, ditone, semiditone, diatessaron, diapente, semitone-plus-diapente, whole-tone-plus-diapente), the Perfect System (systema teleion) of Greeks, musical modes (including a chapter on their ethos), and the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1461518 | 2,014,896 |
1,825,961 | This disease was first described in 1984 by Axelsson "et al." in a large Swedish pedigree. It is a disorder better known to neuropathologists than clinicians. A neuropathologist with an interest in HDLS, Dr. Dennis W. Dickson, has identified a number of cases from neuropathology study of brains submitted for investigat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34231074 | 1,824,923 |
124,903 | By declaring the Doge's Palace to be "the central building of the world", Ruskin argued the case for Gothic government buildings as Pugin had done for churches, though mostly only in theory. When his ideas were put into practice, Ruskin often disliked the result, although he supported many architects, such as Thomas Ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=311821 | 124,851 |
1,442,662 | In these theories, regular problems involve convex functions defined on convex domains, and this convexity allows simplifications of techniques and economic meaningful interpretations of the results. In economics, dynamic programing was used by Martin Beckmann and Richard F. Muth for work on inventory theory and consum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30618217 | 1,441,849 |
1,583,443 | Geopropolis collected by "M. scutellaris" display antimicrobial and antiproliferative activity. It has also been proven to be a promising source of antibiofilm agents and to present selectivity against human cancer cell lines at low concentrations compared to normal cells. Its chemical composition appears to be essenti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48203403 | 1,582,553 |
776,654 | Working from a gridded photograph, he built his images by applying one careful stroke after another in multi-colors or grayscale. He worked methodically, starting his loose but regular grid from the left hand corner of the canvas. His works are generally larger than life and highly focused. "One demonstration of the wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=840023 | 776,238 |
154,078 | In 1960, Maurice Brennan joined Folland as its chief engineer and director. Hawker Siddeley wanted to use his knowledge of variable-geometry wings in future designs. Under his direction, a variable geometry wing was applied to the basic Gnat 5 design to produce two different configurations – one tailless and one with a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=495874 | 154,008 |
1,605,045 | Bulk metallic gold is known to be inert, exhibiting a surface reactivity at room temperature only towards a few substances such as formic acid and sulphur-containing compounds, e.g. HS and thiols. Within heterogeneous catalysis, reactants adsorb onto the surface of the catalyst thus forming activated intermediates. How... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57084837 | 1,604,143 |
1,583,617 | Stanhope Elmore's football team is the Stanhope Elmore Mustangs. The first coach was Conrad Henderson. After the retirement of Henderson in 1973, the school hired Robert Butterworth. Butterworth resigned in 1975, the school then selected Jimmy Foshee as head coach and athletic director. Foshee never had a losing season... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8126443 | 1,582,727 |
620,075 | On December 12, 1952, one of the world's first major reactor accidents occurred in the NRX reactor at AECL's Chalk River Laboratories, when a combination of human and mechanical error led to a temporary loss of control over the reactor's power level. Undercooling of the fuel channels led to a partial meltdown. This cau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=888866 | 619,760 |
2,061,912 | For the first time since freshmen became eligible in 1974, Indiana started four freshmen in a conference opener on January 3 against Iowa. On January 11, Minnesota tied an NCAA record and set a conference record by making all nine of its three-point field goals. Illinois' January 14 victory over Michigan made it the th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21330550 | 2,060,722 |
1,748,849 | Coding is the process during which the video inputs are transferred into binary digit (0, 1) because digits can be much more easily transmitted. A crystal oscillator is used in coding. It is an electronic oscillator that uses the mechanical resonance of a vibrating crystal or piezoelectric material to create an electri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=566523 | 1,747,863 |
960,679 | In an effort to handle the growing geographic dispersion of teams and to involve stakeholders earlier and more often in the process, Microsoft added the Feedback Client. This tool allows users to exercise an application, annotate what they are seeing with audio and video, capture screens and provide contextual feedback... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11847635 | 960,170 |
1,067,172 | The "Los Angeles Times" reported in July 2017 that while Puliafito served as dean and USC professor, he "kept company with a circle of criminals and drug users who said he used methamphetamine and other drugs with them." The reporters reviewed video and photographs of Puliafito engaging in these activities in hotel roo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1797169 | 1,066,618 |
1,195,379 | In one of the most unexpected results at these Games, the Chinese women's team pulled off an enormous upset from the favoured Australian team, taking more than a second off Australia's previous world record. China's Yang Junxuan led off the Chinese quartet in a national record of 1:54.37, holding off Australia's 200 fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58482153 | 1,194,739 |
1,722,062 | Math reporting categories include numbers and operations, measurement, geometry, algebraic concepts, and data analysis and probability. Reading reporting categories include reading comprehension skills as well as interpreting and analysis fiction and nonfiction texts. Science reporting categories include the nature of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15971390 | 1,721,092 |
89,118 | One of the most famous and stimulating problems in graph theory is the four color problem: "Is it true that any map drawn in the plane may have its regions colored with four colors, in such a way that any two regions having a common border have different colors?" This problem was first posed by Francis Guthrie in 1852 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12401 | 89,081 |
67,932 | The Germans had been unable to develop turbojets with thrust over running at the time of the surrender in May 1945, which limited the performance of immediate Soviet postwar jet aircraft designs. They did inherit the technology of the advanced axial-compressor and BMW 018 engines, in the class of the later Rolls-Royce ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182690 | 67,906 |
1,506,498 | Catecholamines are synthesized inside cells and sequestered in intracellular vesicles. This was first shown by Blaschko and Arnold Welch (1908–2003) in Oxford and by Hillarp and his group in Lund for the adrenal medulla and later for sympathetic nerves and the brain. In addition the vesicles contained adenosine triphos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38791208 | 1,505,652 |
348,450 | 3D models rigged for animation may contain thousands of control points — for example, "Woody" from "Toy Story" uses 700 specialized animation controllers. Rhythm and Hues Studios labored for two years to create Aslan in the movie "", which had about 1,851 controllers (742 in the face alone). In the 2004 film "The Day A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6777 | 348,268 |
1,883,792 | Stagljar is known for the development and application of numerous techniques in the field of biomedical research, in order to understand how proteins interact with each other to produce either healthy or diseased cell states. Over the years, his lab has made significant contributions in the development and application ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36547306 | 1,882,711 |
1,691,200 | The tiento was a polyphonic form of instrumental music that originated in the Iberian peninsula, and has been linked to both tastar de corde (an improvisatory prelude) and the ricercar (an improvisatory prelude or, at a later stage of development, a strict imitative composition). Twenty-nine tientos by Cabezón survive.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=681790 | 1,690,250 |
1,820,547 | In Utopia Planitia, a series of curvilinear ridges parallel to the scarp are etched on the floor of large scalloped depressions, possibly representing different stages of scarp erosion. Recently, other researchers have advanced an idea that the ridges represent the tops of layers. Sometimes the surface around scalloped... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23003925 | 1,819,510 |
1,472,403 | Clinical rotations by medical students and residents occur within the Duke University Health System, a fully integrated academic health care system encompassing a tertiary-care hospital and specialty clinics on the Medical Center campus, two community hospitals, a VA hospital, home health and hospice services, a networ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4760134 | 1,471,574 |
2,103,489 | "Triodia scariosa" is common, and currently not listed as threatened at state or national level. However, numerous threatened species and ecosystems are reliant on "T. scariosa" as a foundation species. For example, in the critically endangered ecological community ‘Porcupine Grass-Red Mallee-Gum Coolabah hummock grass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57875884 | 2,102,277 |
174,893 | Some 3,000 men entered Burma in many columns. They caused damage to Japanese communications, and they gathered intelligence. However, they suffered dreadful casualties, with only two thirds of the men who set out on the expedition returning. Those that returned were wracked with disease and quite often in dreadful phys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=202102 | 174,802 |
983,039 | Under the assumption that evolution is driven by vertical transmission, 16S rRNA genes have long been believed to be species-specific, and infallible as genetic markers inferring phylogenetic relationships among prokaryotes. However, a growing number of observations suggest the occurrence of horizontal transfer of thes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14075787 | 982,526 |
535,800 | Dispersion models are important to governmental agencies tasked with protecting and managing the ambient air quality. The models are typically employed to determine whether existing or proposed new industrial facilities are or will be in compliance with the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) in the United S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3747894 | 535,521 |
970,991 | Protein engineering with homologous recombination develops chimeric proteins by swapping fragments between two parental proteins. These techniques exploit the fact that recombination can introduce a high degree of sequence diversity while preserving a protein's ability to fold into its tertiary structure, or three-dime... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2631477 | 970,481 |
1,120,324 | As for video games, differences carried other meaning than in the film industry in the late 2000s. Games for PlayStation 3 were stored on single-layer Blu-ray which has a higher data rate per second by default but the console's drive speed multiplier was set at 2× (9 MB/s). On Xbox 360, video games were stored on commo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13157906 | 1,119,751 |
629,930 | Directed ortho metalation is an important tool in the synthesis of regiospecific substituted aromatic compounds. This approach to lithiation and subsequent quenching of the intermediate lithium species with electrophile is often better than the electrophilic aromatic substitution due to its high regioselectivity. This ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=519858 | 629,592 |
755,307 | However, some experts consider Rosling's world-view excessively rose-tinted, or anti-environmental. For instance, in "The One-Sided Worldview of Hans Rosling" Christian Berggren, a Swedish professor of industrial management, argues that "Factfulness", "presents a highly biased sample of statistics as the true perspecti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6116152 | 754,904 |
895,412 | Thermal batteries are used almost exclusively for military applications, notably for nuclear weapons and guided missiles. They are the primary power source for many missiles such as the AIM-9 Sidewinder, AIM-54 Phoenix, MIM-104 Patriot, BGM-71 TOW, BGM-109 Tomahawk and others. In these batteries the electrolyte is immo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5054933 | 894,941 |
1,087,126 | It is a quite serious modification of the original language. It introduces non-propositional state-variables (which may be n-ary: true, false, unknown, or anything else). It introduces a temporal model given with modal operators (before, after, etc.). Nonetheless in PDDL3.0 a more thorough temporal model was given, whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1530548 | 1,086,567 |
1,098,543 | Xylem tissue is one of two types of vascular tissue found in plants, and is composed of dead cells. It is used mainly for the transport of water, along with some small nutrients. The meristem of the stem creates cells which make up the cambium and pro-cambium. These cells then produce a highly branched poly-phenolic pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3808422 | 1,097,983 |
2,197,769 | The UMBC chess team has won Pan-American Championships against fields with dozens of teams, including Ivy League institutions and other top competitors. Through 2002, the team had proven dominant in winning the Pan-American Intercollegiate Chess Championship six out of seven years. However, in the two following years i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9746798 | 2,196,518 |
1,135,580 | McNutt spoke on a panel of leaders of US agencies (OSTP, NSF, NIH, DOE, DOD, DARPA and USGS) who rolled out the Obama administration's "Big Data Research and Development Initiative." Tom Kalil of the Office of Science and Technology Policy said, "By improving our ability to extract knowledge and insights from large and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8962853 | 1,134,987 |
2,023,881 | His first lecturing post (1950) was at the University of Manchester, where Newman was his Head of Department. In 1964 he became a Reader at the University of Sussex, and then in 1965 was appointed as a Professor at the newly formed Mathematics Institute at Warwick University, where he led the algebra group. He spent se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10670093 | 2,022,717 |
250,155 | The National Service Scheme (NSS) in IIT Madras has been noted for taking up socially relevant initiatives, taken up as individual projects to create an impact on the society as well as the students. The wing of NSS at IITM has over 400 students every year, contributing to the cause of the scheme. Since its inception, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6961226 | 250,023 |
1,194,186 | On 18 December, 1 News and the "Otago Daily Times" reported that a 26-year old Dunedin man named Rory Nairn had died of vaccine-related myocarditis in November 2021 after receiving his first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. In late August and September 2022, a coroner's inquest into Nairn's death was heard at the D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67067814 | 1,193,546 |
1,152,494 | In the 1980s, the United Kingdom Department of Energy undertook a research and development programme to examine the potential of geothermal aquifers in the UK. However, after some initial success drilling a well in the Wessex Basin in 1981, it was deemed too small to be commercially viable. The project was abandoned by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10075207 | 1,151,884 |
1,854,742 | The Gonen laboratory spearheaded the use of electron diffraction for the determination of protein structure from 3D nano crystals in a frozen hydrated state. The method termed microED was established in 2013 with a proof of principle paper published in eLife. In 2014 continuous rotation MicroED was established and demo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57815594 | 1,853,676 |
914,349 | Information asymmetry within societies can be created and maintained in several ways. Firstly, media outlets, due to their ownership structure or political influences, may fail to disseminate certain viewpoints or choose to engage in propaganda campaigns. Furthermore, an educational system relying on substantial tuitio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=309801 | 913,870 |
204,185 | The principal features of the genus "Corynebacterium" were described by Collins and Cummins, for Coryn Taylor in 1986. They are gram-positive, catalase-positive, non-spore-forming, non-motile, rod-shaped bacteria that are straight or slightly curved. Metachromatic granules are usually present representing stored phosph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1285813 | 204,080 |
668,334 | The evidence on the market value of specific businesses varies widely, largely depending on reported market transactions in the equity of the firm. A fraction of businesses are "publicly traded," meaning that their equity can be purchased and sold by investors in stock markets available to the general public. Publicly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1885799 | 667,985 |
2,132,706 | The Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills (KIMS) is a 39-item self-report measuring Mindfulness on four scales: "Observing", "Describing", "Act With Awareness", and "Accept Without Judgment". It was developed at Kentucky University by Baer, Smith, & Allen in 2004. A short, 20-item version of it (KIMS-Short) was deve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35376387 | 2,131,481 |
902,057 | The origins of the supercritical airfoil can be traced back to the German aerodynamicist K. A. Kawalki, who designed a number of airfoils during the Second World War. Following the end of the conflict, multiple nations continued research into the field, including Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2100390 | 901,581 |
688,425 | During normal operation, the containment is air-tight and access is only through marine style airlocks. High air temperature and radiation from the core limit the time, measured in minutes, people can spend inside containment while the plant is operating at full power. In the event of a worst-case emergency, called a "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2102860 | 688,067 |
841,827 | Autolysis is uncommon in living adult organisms and usually occurs in necrotic tissue as enzymes act on components of the cell that would not normally serve as substrates. These enzymes are released due to the cessation of active processes in the cell that provide substrates in healthy, living tissue; autolysis in itse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2538686 | 841,377 |
58,450 | RSV can cause outbreaks both in the community and in hospital settings. Following initial infection via the eyes or nose, the virus infects the epithelial cells of the upper and lower airway, causing inflammation, cell damage, and airway obstruction. A variety of methods are available for viral detection and diagnosis ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=477489 | 58,425 |
1,072,209 | In a study conducted by a group of scientists from iNANO and CDNA centers in Aarhus University, researchers were able to construct a small multi-switchable 3D DNA Box Origami. The proposed nanoparticle was characterized by atomic force microscopy (AFM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and Förster resonance energ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26901564 | 1,071,655 |
818,604 | Although most paleontologists believe that they were predatory carnivores, the many small, coarsely serrated teeth, large denticle size, and U-shaped jaws of some species (particularly "Troodon") suggest that some species may have been omnivorous or herbivorous. Some suggest that the large denticle size is reminiscent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=409825 | 818,164 |
1,331,883 | Gamma-control amplifiers in television transmission equipment are capable of inverting the phase or contrast relationship of the signal—in practice this means that an incoming negative image can be electronically converted eventually to appear as a positive image displayed by the television receiver. This facility may ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2528110 | 1,331,154 |
1,569,082 | Since the 2010s, advances in computer hardware have led to more efficient methods for training deep neural networks that contain many layers of non-linear hidden units and a very large output layer. By 2019, graphics processing units (GPUs), often with AI-specific enhancements, had displaced central processing unit (CP... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68990413 | 1,568,195 |
1,507,987 | Gerd Gigerenzer and David Murray argue that twentieth century psychology as a discipline adopted probabilistic inference as a unified set of ideas and ignored the controversies among probability theorists. They claim that a normative but incorrect view of how humans "ought to think rationally" follows from this accepta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57091071 | 1,507,139 |
2,035,821 | Symptoms present 1–36 months before diagnosis, and can vary depending on age, tumor grade, and location. Increased intracranial pressure can induce vomiting, headache, irritability, lethargy, changes in gait, and in children less than 2, feeding problems, involuntary eye movements, and hydrocephalus are often noticeabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32016376 | 2,034,647 |
832,229 | Comparisons of antibody responses generated by natural (viral) infection, immunization with recombinant protein and immunization with pDNA are summarised in Table 4. DNA-raised antibody responses rise much more slowly than when natural infection or recombinant protein immunization occurs. As many as 12 weeks may be req... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45570 | 831,780 |
1,216,436 | To ensure sustainability and Gaiaology can maintain their momentum, the global government must provide incentives as essential schools globally make an effort to inculcate Gaiaology into each and every facet of our curriculum. and society incorporates the international development goals. A misconception the masses have... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17945609 | 1,215,784 |
2,230,176 | Protactinium oxides are known for the metal oxidation states +2, +4 and +5. The most stable is white pentoxide PaO, which can be produced by igniting protactinium(V) hydroxide in air at a temperature of 500 °C. Its crystal structure is cubic, and the chemical composition is often non-stoichiometric, described as PaO. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71871109 | 2,228,911 |
927,195 | Protactinium oxides are known for the metal oxidation states +2, +4 and +5. The most stable is white pentoxide PaO, which can be produced by igniting protactinium(V) hydroxide in air at a temperature of 500 °C. Its crystal structure is cubic, and the chemical composition is often non-stoichiometric, described as PaO. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23322 | 926,708 |
9,226 | The wings on the 777 feature a supercritical airfoil design that is swept back at 31.6 degrees and optimized for cruising at Mach 0.83 (revised after flight tests up to Mach 0.84). The wings are designed with increased thickness and a longer span than previous airliners, resulting in greater payload and range, improved... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89260 | 9,222 |
371,639 | Some RCTs are fully or partly funded by the health care industry (e.g., the pharmaceutical industry) as opposed to government, nonprofit, or other sources. A systematic review published in 2003 found four 1986–2002 articles comparing industry-sponsored and nonindustry-sponsored RCTs, and in all the articles there was a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=163180 | 371,444 |
393,352 | In 1888, William Thompson Sedgwick said that the apparent contradiction between the results of these experiments was a consequence of different heating rates used in the experiments: "The truth appears to be that if the heating be sufficiently gradual, no reflex movements will be produced even in the normal frog; if it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=395046 | 393,157 |
1,939,791 | Ascospores of "M. pinodes" produce leaf infections that can be identified by many small purple spots on the undersides of leaves. Under dry conditions, these spots remain small and have no well-defined margin. However, under moist conditions, the purple spots enlarge, turning into well-defined, brown- black lesions. So... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37395547 | 1,938,681 |
2,152,925 | Baker was born to William K. Baker and Margaret I. Stewart in Swannanoa, North Carolina, on December 20, 1945, while his father served in the United States military. The first Drosophila Research Conference was hosted by his parents in 1958. Baker attended high school in Chicago. He enrolled at Reed College prior to gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58004106 | 2,151,694 |
399,459 | Tetraethyllead (commonly styled tetraethyl lead), abbreviated TEL, is an organolead compound with the formula Pb(CH). It is a fuel additive, first being mixed with gasoline beginning in the 1920s as a patented octane rating booster that allowed engine compression to be raised substantially. This in turn increased vehic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=116035 | 399,261 |
1,529,836 | Frank Neese is a German theoretical chemist at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research. He is the author of more than 440 scientific articles in journals of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics. His work focuses on the theory of magnetic spectroscopies (electron paramagnetic resonance, magnetic circular dichroism) an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28450776 | 1,528,972 |
1,736,385 | The nonlinearity of surface gravity waves refers to their deviations from a sinusoidal shape. In the fields of physical oceanography and coastal engineering, the two categories of nonlinearity are skewness and asymmetry. Wave skewness and asymmetry occur when waves encounter an opposing current or a shallow area. As wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67657720 | 1,735,408 |
444,690 | This book is extensively illustrated and describes the tools and machinery associated with mining. Handtools and different sorts of buckets, wheelbarrows and trucks on wooded plankways are described. Packs for horses and sledges are used to carry loads above ground. Agricola then provides details of various kinds of ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4484806 | 444,475 |
995,874 | The Data Universal Numbering System, abbreviated as DUNS or D-U-N-S, is a proprietary system developed and managed by Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) that assigns a unique numeric identifier, referred to as a "DUNS number" to a single business entity. It was introduced in 1963 to support D&B's credit reporting practice. It is s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2594411 | 995,357 |
1,946,917 | Burt claimed in his patent that he took the common sextant and combined it with his special mechanical techniques of horizontal and equatorial movement settings to obtain latitude, time, azimuth, altitude and declination without having to figure it out mathematically as they were read directly off the instrument. Many ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29512737 | 1,945,804 |
117,465 | The university was founded in 1863 under the provisions of the Federal Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act to provide instruction to Massachusetts citizens in "agricultural, mechanical, and military arts." Accordingly, the university was initially named the Massachusetts Agricultural College, popularly referred to as "Mass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=248437 | 117,420 |
724,624 | In reality, it is impossible to obtain such rapid mixing, as there is necessarily a delay between any molecule passing through the inlet and making its way to the outlet, and hence the RTD of a real reactor will deviate from the ideal exponential decay, especially in the case of large reactors. For example, there will ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50390340 | 724,243 |
2,145,666 | Wirsing studied Mathematics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) and at Université Paris 7, obtaining the Diplom in Mathematics from LMU and the Mâitrise-ès-Sciences Mathématiques at the Université Paris 7. Supervised by Kurt Schütte, he received his PhD from LMU in 1976, with a thesis on a topic in mathemat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50995048 | 2,144,435 |
714,255 | Seneff attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), earning her Bachelor of Science (BS) in biophysics in 1968, master's (MS) and engineering (E.E.) degrees in electrical engineering in 1980, and a doctoral degree (PhD) in computer science and electrical engineering in 1985. She is a senior research scient... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46453136 | 713,883 |
652,627 | PNNL was established in 1965 but traces its origins to World War II, in the establishment of the Hanford Site in 1943. Plutonium production for the Manhattan Project required extensive research and development activities at the Hanford Site. The General Electric Company began operating the site in 1946 and consolidated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75797 | 652,285 |
577,744 | In nearly every translation process, we have to deal with the fact that the color gamut of different devices vary in range which makes an accurate reproduction impossible. They therefore need some rearrangement near the borders of the gamut. Some colors must be shifted to the inside of the gamut, as they otherwise cann... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186108 | 577,448 |
1,265,209 | The livelihoods of nature dependent communities depend on abundance and availability of certain species. Climate change conditions such as increase in atmospheric temperature and carbon dioxide concentration directly affect availability of biomass energy, food, fiber and other ecosystem services. Degradation of species... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26515241 | 1,264,521 |
6,064 | Observations of distant galaxies and quasars show that these objects are redshifted: the light emitted from them has been shifted to longer wavelengths. This can be seen by taking a frequency spectrum of an object and matching the spectroscopic pattern of emission or absorption lines corresponding to atoms of the chemi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4116 | 6,061 |
359,520 | In the late 1950s, he applied the Hamiltonian methods he had developed to cast Einstein's general relativity in Hamiltonian form and to bring to a technical completion the quantization problem of gravitation and bring it also closer to the rest of physics according to Salam and DeWitt. In 1959 he also gave an invited t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24742 | 359,333 |
1,212,808 | Genetic evidence suggests that the age of the most recent common ancestor for "Nothomyrmecia" and "Myrmecia" is approximately 74 million years old, giving a likely origin in the Cretaceous. There are two hypotheses of the internal phylogeny of "Nothomyrmecia": subfamily Formicinae is more closely related to "Nothomyrme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9372569 | 1,212,156 |
1,000,306 | Semi-automatic building extraction from lidar data and high-resolution images is also a possibility. Again, this approach allows modelling without physically moving towards the location or object. From airborne lidar data, digital surface model (DSM) can be generated and then the objects higher than the ground are auto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2714255 | 999,788 |
1,229,127 | In 1985, Weinberg received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. Weinberg won the National Medal of Science and the Keio Medical Science Prize in 1997. In 1999, he received the Albert Einstein World Award of Science in recognition of his valuable and pioneering contributions in the field of Bio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4268961 | 1,228,465 |
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