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337,270 | In 2014, Schmidt co-authored the New York Times best-selling book "How Google Works" with Jonathan Rosenberg, former Senior Vice President of Products at Google and current advisor to Google CEO Larry Page, and Alan Eagle. The book is a collection of the business management lessons learned over the course of Schmidt an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=224584 | 337,091 |
565,825 | As well as shaping the evolution of gibbon body structure, brachiation has influenced the style and order of their behaviour. For example, unlike other primates who carry infants on their back, gibbons will carry young ventrally. It also affects their play activities, copulation, and fighting. It is thought that gibbon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=719614 | 565,535 |
1,267,164 | In late 1962, Paciorek attended an instructional league put on by Houston, which led to him becoming part of the team's spring training roster as one of 63 invited players. During exhibition play, he "hit everything in sight", and had a batting average of over .300. After spring training ended, he began his professiona... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5037679 | 1,266,474 |
1,011,349 | In outpatient settings, pulse oximeters are commonly worn on the finger. However, in cases of shock, hypothermia, etc., blood flow to the periphery can be reduced, resulting in a PPG without a discernible cardiac pulse. In this case, a PPG can be obtained from a pulse oximeter on the head, with the most common sites be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=684716 | 1,010,828 |
811,076 | The first evidence of burrowing which is widely accepted dates to the Ediacaran (Vendian) period, around . During this period the traces and burrows basically are horizontal on or just below the seafloor surface. Such traces must have been made by motile organisms with heads, which would probably have been bilateran an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=367492 | 810,644 |
1,790,894 | When the Sioux lived around the Great Lakes, they imagined their mythical Water Monster Unktehi as a large aquatic buffalo-like mammal. This image was likely derived from early observations of large Pleistocene mammal fossils such as mammoths and mastodons eroding out of the banks of local lakes and rivers. As some gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799135 | 1,789,888 |
966,028 | Eggs (oocytes) are frozen using either a controlled-rate, slow-cooling method or a newer flash-freezing process known as vitrification. Vitrification is much faster but requires higher concentrations of cryoprotectants to be added. The result of vitrification is a solid glass-like cell, free of ice crystals. Vitrificat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10990255 | 965,519 |
936,234 | In organic chemistry, hyperconjugation (σ-conjugation or no-bond resonance) refers to the delocalization of electrons with the participation of bonds of primarily σ-character. Usually, hyperconjugation involves the interaction of the electrons in a sigma (σ) orbital (e.g. C–H or C–C) with an adjacent unpopulated non-bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2729378 | 935,739 |
450,196 | Further questions about Strughold's activities during World War II emerged in 2004 following an investigation conducted by the Historical Committee of the German Society of Air and Space Medicine. The inquiry uncovered evidence of oxygen deprivation experiments carried out by Strughold's Institute for Aviation Medicine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5204415 | 449,977 |
819,681 | During this period of 1915-1916 activity by engineering societies, the National Academy of Sciences complained that there was a lack of scientists and the predominance of engineers on the Federal government's wartime technical committee, the Naval Consulting Board. One of the mathematicians on the Board, Robert Simpson... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5521184 | 819,240 |
1,731,947 | Oxygenic photosynthesis is a metabolic pathway facilitated by autotrophs, including plants, algae, and cyanobacteria. This pathway converts inorganic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or aquatic environment into carbohydrates, using water and energy from light, then releases molecular oxygen as a product. Organic carb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57042156 | 1,730,971 |
1,891,331 | Ehrenfeld states that the arrogance exhibited by today's society is attributed to humans' over-dependence on technology to solve environmental and social problems. He concludes that the intelligence of humans can not simply solve everything and that until humans accept this fact, society will not truly progress. Ehrenf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42365789 | 1,890,248 |
649,466 | Arnold is well known for his lucid writing style, combining mathematical rigour with physical intuition, and an easy conversational style of teaching and education. His writings present a fresh, often geometric approach to traditional mathematical topics like ordinary differential equations, and his many textbooks have... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32490 | 649,125 |
1,802,972 | Christian was born on 8 October (sometimes given as 22 or 26 October 1726) at Sonnenburg, in the electorate of Brandenburg, Prussia. His father was George Schwartz and his mother Margaret Grunerin. His mother died when he was young and he went to grammar school in Sonnenburg under Mr Helm. He learnt Latin and Greek wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1176488 | 1,801,959 |
784,968 | Temnospondyli (from Greek τέμνειν, "temnein" 'to cut' and σπόνδυλος, "spondylos" 'vertebra') is a diverse order of small to giant tetrapods—often considered primitive amphibians—that flourished worldwide during the Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic periods. A few species continued into the Jurassic and Cretaceous pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2925388 | 784,548 |
373,340 | Some of the deaths associated with TASER devices have been given a diagnosis of excited delirium, a term for a phenomenon that manifests as a combination of delirium, psychomotor agitation, anxiety, hallucinations, speech disturbances, disorientation, violent and bizarre behavior, insensitivity to pain, elevated body t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=237746 | 373,145 |
792,400 | It has been hypothesized that blockage of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway can lead to increased antitumor activity in TNBC. Preclinical data have shown that the combination of compounds targeting different cognate molecules in the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway leads to synergistic activity. On the basis of these findings, new compou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25330915 | 791,975 |
1,818,429 | Peter Forster studied chemistry at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel and the University of Hamburg. At the Heinrich-Pette-Institut for Virology and Immunology in Hamburg, he specialised in genetics and obtained his PhD degree in 1997 in biology on the topic of "Dispersal and differentiation of modern Homo sapi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41151572 | 1,817,394 |
2,048,619 | The Cumberland snubnose darter ("Etheostoma atripinne") is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a darter from the subfamily Etheostomatinae, part of the family Percidae, which also contains the perches, ruffes and pikeperches. This species is found in the middle Cumberland River drainage in Tennessee, Kentucky, Vir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32562345 | 2,047,438 |
129,363 | Over 221,000 people have graduated from the university, and now reside in over 150 countries. Waterloo graduates have accumulated a number of awards, such as George Elliott Clarke, recipient of the Governor General's Award; William Reeves, recipient of an Academy Award, and a number of Rhodes Scholarships. Two members ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=73276 | 129,311 |
376,642 | The third aspect is that these two initial components must be incorporated into one mixed crystal with a layer structure. From the following equation (as given by Gastuche and DeKimpe, 1962) for kaolinite formation<chem>2Al(OH)3 + 2H4SiO4 -> Si2O5 . Al2(OH)4 + 5H2O</chem>it can be seen that five molecules of water must... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16938 | 376,447 |
1,152,083 | Balancer chromosomes give geneticists a reliable method for genetically screening organisms for a specific mutation and maintaining that mutation consistently in subsequent generations. A new technique using balancer chromosomes is explored in the paper "The Autosomal Flp-Dfs Technique for Generating Germline Mosaics i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8485040 | 1,151,474 |
871,226 | The de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk is a two-seat, single-engine aircraft that has been heavily used as a primary trainer aircraft. The basic configuration of the aircraft included a low-mounted wing and a two-place tandem cockpit, which was fitted with a clear perspex canopy covers the pilot/student (front) and ins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=362619 | 870,766 |
515,103 | On February 13 and 14, 1945, British bomber planes commenced an air attack against Dresden, creating a vast firestorm below. During the first phase, 244 Lancaster bombers dropped high explosive and incendiary bombs aimed at the center of the city. American B-17 bombers followed the next morning, to destroy the city's r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9306991 | 514,837 |
678,300 | The historical and representative base of the Politecnico is in the town, on the River Po: the Valentino Castle, a House of Savoy of the 17th Century. It is the main teaching campus for Architecture and has an area of 23.000 sq. m. The big complex in corso Duca degli Abruzzi – with 122.000 sq. m., the main campus of En... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=911906 | 677,946 |
1,958,674 | The School of Pharmacy is composed of three units: the Office of the Dean, the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and the Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics. Instruction for the professional and graduate courses in the School of Pharmacy occurs mainly in Salk Hall, in shared classrooms and in a dedicated teach... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16932376 | 1,957,547 |
1,471,299 | The protein RUNX1 is composed of 453 amino acids. As a transcription factor (TF), its DNA binding ability is encoded by the runt domain (residues 50 – 177), which is homologous to the p53 family. The runt domain of RUNX1 binds to the core consensus sequence TGTGGNNN (where NNN can represent either TTT or TCA). DNA reco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13140606 | 1,470,472 |
407,301 | Lasswell's model is an early and influential model of communication. It was proposed by Harold Lasswell in 1948 and uses five questions to identify and describe the main aspects of communication: "Who?", "Says What?", "In What Channel?", "To Whom?", and "With What Effect?". They correspond to five basic components invo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33742208 | 407,100 |
625,744 | During the late 2000s, Indian aerospace manufacturer Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), which was interested in expanding their rotorcraft offering beyond that of the existing HAL Dhruv programme, began to explore the potential for the production of a conceptual 10-tonne class helicopter; this concept came to be know... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18093306 | 625,411 |
536,082 | IgA antibodies are secreted in the respiratory or the intestinal tract and act as the main mediators of mucosal immunity. They are monomeric in the serum, but appear as a dimer termed secretory IgA (sIgA) at mucosal surfaces. The secretory IgA is associated with a J-chain and another polypeptide chain called the secret... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10807859 | 535,803 |
1,883,169 | The Faculty of Mathematics (FM) at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russian: факультет математики Национального Исследовательского университета «Высшая Школа Экономики») was founded in 2008 jointly by the Higher School of Economics (HSE) and the Independent University of Moscow (IUM). It off... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34641350 | 1,882,088 |
911,486 | The ship lands on a distant planet with a medieval-level civilization of dog-like creatures, dubbed "Tines", who live in packs as group minds. Upon landing, however, the two surviving adults are ambushed and killed by Tine fanatics known as Flenserists, in whose realm they have landed. The Flenserists capture a young b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2080 | 911,007 |
685,059 | Sweeping algorithms such as the fast sweeping method (FSM) are highly efficient for solving Eikonal equations when the corresponding characteristic curves do not change direction very often. These algorithms are label-correcting but do not make use of a queue or heap, and instead prescribe different orderings for the g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4557698 | 684,702 |
1,126,059 | A 1989 report by a committee of the Australian Senate claimed that "there is hardly a medal winner at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, certainly not a gold medal winner...who is not on one sort of drug or another: usually several kinds. The Moscow Games might well have been called the Chemists' Games". A member of the IOC Med... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6143939 | 1,125,482 |
1,082,624 | Since geological sequestration of carbon dioxide has the potential to induce seismicity, researchers have developed methods to monitor and model the risk of injection-induced seismicity in order to manage better the risks associated with this phenomenon. Monitoring can be conducted with measurements from an instrument ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1016556 | 1,082,067 |
724,178 | Phallaceae is a family of fungi, commonly known as stinkhorns, within the order Phallales. Stinkhorns have a worldwide distribution, but are especially prevalent in tropical regions. They are known for their foul-smelling, sticky spore masses, or gleba, borne on the end of a stalk called the receptaculum. The character... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=304551 | 723,798 |
447,044 | However, illegal collection is not the only threat facing plants in the wild. The El Niño climatic phenomenon of 1997/98 had a catastrophic effect on the "Nepenthes" species on Mount Kinabalu. The dry period that followed severely depleted some natural populations. Forest fires broke out in 9 locations in Kinabalu Park... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3779130 | 446,828 |
175,265 | The activities of modern humans have drastic effects on the hydrosphere. For instance, water diversion, human development, and pollution all affect the hydrosphere and natural processes within. Humans are withdrawing water from aquifers and diverting rivers at an unprecedented rate. The Ogallala Aquifer is used for agr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145753 | 175,173 |
760,687 | The University of Guelph traces its origins back to when the Ontario government bought of farmland from Frederick William Stone and opened the Ontario School of Agriculture on May 1, 1874, which was renamed the Ontario Agricultural College (OAC) in 1880. The Experimental Farm has been part of the original project along... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9181362 | 760,281 |
2,186,130 | Lewis's career began in teaching chemistry. She taught at Connecticut College in 1925 and at Long Beach Junior College from 1928-1929. She then moved to Stanford University, where she was a researcher from 1931-1934. While at Stanford, she conducted research on protein metabolism, amino acids, and the vapor pressure of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48849196 | 2,184,882 |
1,082,657 | Recently chaos expansion received a generalization towards the arbitrary polynomial chaos expansion (aPC), which is a so-called data-driven generalization of the PC. Like all polynomial chaos expansion techniques, aPC approximates the dependence of simulation model output on model parameters by expansion in an orthogon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11938767 | 1,082,100 |
891,105 | The publication of "The Seven Daughters of Eve" by Sykes in 2001, which described the seven major haplogroups of European ancestors, helped push personal ancestry testing through DNA tests into wide public notice. With the growing availability and affordability of genealogical DNA testing, genetic genealogy as a field ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1090609 | 890,636 |
928,779 | The launcher was capable of a full 360 degrees traverse and +90/-9 degrees of elevation. Four missiles were carried on the launch rails, with eight extras stored below the launcher with their fins and wings removed. The gunner sat between the missile pairs on the mount, aiming using a simple reflex sight. An auxiliary ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1980355 | 928,288 |
895,214 | The environmental behaviour of flame retardants has been studied since the 1990s. Mainly brominated flame retardants were found in many environmental compartments and organisms including humans, and some individual substances were found to have toxic properties. Therefore, alternatives have been demanded by authorities... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=801863 | 894,744 |
1,889,635 | Roebuck described the man in his capacity as a botanist: He was a man of extraordinarily wide and varied range of information. He had a competent knowledge of all branches of field botany, and his attainments in plant physiology and morphology showed that, had he been specially interested in those branches of study, he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25778405 | 1,888,552 |
1,895,687 | The dataset consists of 60 labelled actions. Specifically: drink water, eat meal/snack, brushing teeth, brushing hair, drop, pickup, throw, sitting down, standing up (from sitting position), clapping, reading, writing, tear up paper, wear jacket, take off jacket, wear a shoe, take off a shoe, wear on glasses, take off ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52918812 | 1,894,603 |
282,234 | At Baikonur Cosmodrome on the morning of April 11, 1961, the Vostok-K rocket, together with the attached "Vostok 3KA" space capsule, were transported several kilometers to the launch pad, in a horizontal position. Once they arrived at the launch pad, a quick examination of the booster was conducted by technicians to ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32363 | 282,081 |
866,553 | One of the advantages of computerized dentistry (CAD/CAM technologies) involves the use of machinable ceramics which are sold in a partially sintered, machinable state that is fired again after machining to form a hard ceramic. Some of the materials used are glass-bonded porcelain (Vitablock), lithium disilicate glass-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1078092 | 866,093 |
1,075,583 | On August 18, 2006. the World Health Organization (WHO) changed the H5N1 strains recommended for candidate vaccines for the first time since 2004. "The WHO's new prototype strains, prepared by reverse genetics, include three new H5N1 subclades. The hemagglutinin sequences of most of the H5N1 avian influenza viruses cir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36131848 | 1,075,029 |
337,735 | In 1887, Eiffel became involved with the French effort to construct a canal across the Panama Isthmus. The French Panama Canal Company, headed by Ferdinand de Lesseps, had been attempting to build a sea-level canal, but came to the realization that this was impractical. The plan was changed to one using locks, which Ei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12232 | 337,556 |
673,566 | EIFS before 2000 were barrier systems, meaning that the EIFS itself was the weather barrier. After 2000 the EIFS industry introduced the air/moisture barrier that resides behind the foam. In a study done by the Department Of Energy's Office of Science - Oak Ridge National Laboratory it was found that the best air/moist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3308982 | 673,214 |
2,178,539 | Soon after arriving in Oregon, Howell and his brother Joseph developed an interest in botany. An aquatic plant sent to Harvard botanist Asa Gray in 1878 was named "Howellia aquatilis" by him in the brothers' honor. In 1877, Howell started an herbarium, in which he cataloged 2,152 species. Today his collections are in m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30515287 | 2,177,294 |
1,420,638 | Crew 2008: Not since UH's AIAW days had a team been recognized with those assembled recipients, being called to be as it were, stacked with prominent national accolades. These individuals included, 1st Team AVCA all-American Kanani Danielson, 1st Team Volleyball Magazine all-Americans Amber Kaufman and Jamie Houston, 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3376212 | 1,419,838 |
1,779,717 | In absolute number of features shared with modern birds, "S. chaoyangensis" is about as derived as "Confuciusornis". However, the apomorphies were largely different from "Confuciusornis", and a character analysis demonstrates that these two were not closely related. The tail plumage of "Sapeornis" consisted of rectrice... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7506423 | 1,778,714 |
384,720 | Researchers have critiqued the leniency of the ABA ethical code, discussing how it does not restrict or clarify the "appropriate use of aversives", does not require competency as ABA therapists are "not required to take even a single class on autism, brain function or child development", and its view of the client as t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1781075 | 384,525 |
1,238,472 | It is thought that these plants that have evolved protocarnivorous habits typically reside in habitats where there is a significant nutrient deficiency, but not the severe deficiency in nitrogen and phosphorus seen where true carnivorous plants grow. The function of the protocarnivorous habit, however, need not be dire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9270823 | 1,237,805 |
314,213 | FireWire can connect up to 63 peripherals in a tree or daisy-chain topology (as opposed to Parallel SCSI's electrical bus topology). It allows peer-to-peer device communication — such as communication between a scanner and a printer — to take place without using system memory or the CPU. FireWire also supports multiple... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26246088 | 314,044 |
330,089 | Asteroids are classified by their characteristic emission spectra, with the majority falling into three main groups: C-type, M-type, and S-type. These were named after and are generally identified with carbonaceous (carbon-rich), metallic, and silicaceous (stony) compositions, respectively. The physical composition of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=791 | 329,914 |
2,058,329 | At the age of 26, Mohamed Abbas Darwish was the only male athlete in the sport of athletics. He was making his debut at the Olympic Games in London. He used a wild card invite to enter the men's triple jump since his personal best was away from , the "B" qualifying standard for the event. Darwish trained barefooted pri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34456801 | 2,057,144 |
411,410 | with "m" the mass of the object, "w" the angular velocity, and "r" the radius. Huygens collected his results in a treatise under the title "De vi Centrifuga", unpublished until 1703, where the kinematics of free fall were used to produce the first generalized conception of force prior to Newton. The general formula for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42127 | 411,208 |
694,542 | In later life, Urey helped develop the field of cosmochemistry and is credited with coining the term. His work on oxygen-18 led him to develop theories about the abundance of the chemical elements on earth, and of their abundance and evolution in the stars. Urey summarized his work in "The Planets: Their Origin and Dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=453578 | 694,179 |
291,684 | ADS-B, which consists of two different services, "ADS-B Out" and "ADS-B In", could replace radar as the primary surveillance method for controlling aircraft worldwide. In the United States, ADS-B is an integral component of the NextGen national airspace strategy for upgrading and enhancing aviation infrastructure and o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18949160 | 291,526 |
1,200,836 | BASIC's roots go back to Dartmouth College. BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was developed in the 1960s as a method to overcome the difficulties of using assembly language written for processor-specific and/or brand name specific mainframes and hardware. Programming was hardware dependent by des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5438077 | 1,200,195 |
903,147 | "C. maenas" can live in all types of protected and semiprotected marine and estuarine habitats, including those with mud, sand, or rock substrates, submerged aquatic vegetation, and emergent marsh, although soft bottoms are preferred. "C. maenas" is euryhaline, meaning that it can tolerate a wide range of salinities (f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3298595 | 902,671 |
1,829,481 | In order to perform their functions, proteins often need to find a specific counterpart to which they will bind in a relatively long encounter. In a very crowded cytosol, in which proteins engage in a vast and complex network of attracting and repelling interactions, such search becomes challenging, because it involves... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61245307 | 1,828,440 |
759,329 | Earlier work with wheat-rye crosses was difficult due to low survival of the resulting hybrid embryo and spontaneous chromosome doubling. These two factors were difficult to predict and control. To improve the viability of the embryo and thus avoid its abortion, "in vitro" culture techniques were developed (Laibach, 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65085 | 758,923 |
2,049,574 | Derek Lee (also known as Derek E. Lee or Derek Edward Lee) is an American ecologist and wildlife biologist specializing in population biology and conservation biology. Lee was born in Lodi, California on March 15, 1971, and attended Tokay High School. Lee earned his bachelor's degree from the University of California a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56773226 | 2,048,393 |
1,130,389 | While Roosevelt's main goal was to increase employment, he also recognized the need for a support system for the poor. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration, started in 1933, addressed the urgent needs of the poor. It spent a stunning 500 million dollars on soup kitchens, blankets, employment schemes, and nursery... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62091020 | 1,129,811 |
1,942,889 | Another problem with lower-temperature sources is that their energy is more spread out, according to Wien's displacement law. While one can make a practical solar cell with a single bandgap tuned to the peak of the spectrum and just ignore the losses in the IR region, doing the same with a lower temperature source will... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2937772 | 1,941,778 |
222,132 | Boyd's key concept was that of the decision cycle or OODA loop, the process by which an entity (either an individual or an organization) reacts to an event. According to the idea, the key to victory is the ability to create situations in which one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than one's opponent. The con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=163161 | 222,023 |
463,489 | During the Romantic music era (c. 1810 to 1900), one of the key ways that new compositions became known to the public was by the sales of sheet music, which amateur music lovers would perform at home on their piano or in chamber music groups, such as string quartets. Saxophones began to appear in some 19th-century orch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49182501 | 463,260 |
1,590,336 | Since construction plans had not yet been drawn up, and work on the site could not immediately commence, Groves saw no harm in postponing the taking of the physical possession of properties under cultivation to allow farmers to harvest the crops they had already planted. This reduced the hardship on the farmers, and av... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72002318 | 1,589,442 |
833,596 | At the end of the war in Europe, Hahn was taken into custody and incarcerated at Farm Hall with nine other senior scientists, all of whom except Max von Laue had been involved with the German nuclear weapons program, and all except Hahn and Paul Harteck were physicists. It was here that they heard the news of the atomi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64011351 | 833,147 |
285,304 | Once released into the extracellular space by a putative endocannabinoid transporter, messengers are vulnerable to glial cell inactivation. Endocannabinoids are taken up by a transporter on the glial cell and degraded by fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH), which cleaves anandamide into arachidonic acid and ethanolamine ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4617112 | 285,150 |
1,592,393 | While being transported to England aboard the unit's transport, the SS "Tuscania", was struck by a U-boat torpedo, causing 200 casualties aboard the ship, however, all troops of Company A were able to safely board nearby escort destroyers. The unit's equipment was replaced prior to being deployed to France as it had be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43453030 | 1,591,496 |
770,487 | After completion of his graduate studies, Rao returned to Bangalore in 1959 to take up a lecturing position, joining IISc and embarking on an independent research program. The facility at the time was so meagre that he described it, saying, "You would get string and sealing wax and that's about it." In 1963 he accepted... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1605325 | 770,073 |
1,983,399 | The galloper carriage was not used in the Americas during the French and Indian War nor in the Revolutionary War. Smith's "Universal Military Dictionary" of 1779 states its use by the King of Prussia in the previous war. The replacements for the North American campaign were the Townsend design 3-pounder and the Patters... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12491508 | 1,982,260 |
249,531 | In applications where high currents (up to thousands of amperes) flow, solid conductors are usually replaced by tubes, completely eliminating the inner portion of the conductor where little current flows. This hardly affects the AC resistance, but considerably reduces the weight of the conductor. The high strength but ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=261642 | 249,399 |
42,746 | Supernovae are a major source of elements in the interstellar medium from oxygen through to rubidium, though the theoretical abundances of the elements produced or seen in the spectra varies significantly depending on the various supernova types. Type Ia supernovae produce mainly silicon and iron-peak elements, metals ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27680 | 42,731 |
785,629 | Berzelius later enrolled as a medical student at Uppsala University, from 1796 to 1801. Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, the discoverer of tantalum, taught him chemistry during this time. He worked as an apprentice in a pharmacy, during which time he also learned practical matters in the laboratory such as glassblowing. On his o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23701666 | 785,206 |
670,349 | Sometimes authors may exclude certain reviewers: one study conducted on the "Journal of Investigative Dermatology" found that excluding reviewers doubled the chances of article acceptance. Some scholars are uncomfortable with this idea, arguing that it distorts the scientific process. Others argue that it protects agai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33158412 | 669,998 |
870,519 | In early 1988, Computer Concepts announced its own ROM/RAM podule that was capable of accepting seven chips, each with a maximum capacity of 128 KB, supporting the use of installed RAM as "a RAM-disc filing system" with optional battery backup to retain the contents with the machine powered down. The company also annou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 870,059 |
10,896 | With these and other changes, the malfunction rate slowly declined and new soldiers were generally unfamiliar with early problems. A rib was built into the side of the receiver on the XM16E1 to help prevent accidentally pressing the magazine release button while closing the ejection port cover. This rib was later exten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19901 | 10,891 |
783,404 | A source of confusion is the notion that a transitional form between two different taxonomic groups must be a direct ancestor of one or both groups. The difficulty is exacerbated by the fact that one of the goals of evolutionary taxonomy is to identify taxa that were ancestors of other taxa. However, because evolution ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=331755 | 782,985 |
2,026,745 | The MRR was housed in a cylindrical steel building 60 feet in diameter and 54 feet high. The reactor was connected to the larger Medical Research Center by two sets of airlocks. The reactor vessel was a cylindrical aluminum tank only 24 inches in diameter and 7 feet 7 inches tall. Cooling water was provided by connecte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66158977 | 2,025,578 |
1,368,152 | Crossfeeding blends the left and right stereo channels slightly, reducing the extreme channel separation which is characteristic of headphone listening in older stereo recordings, and is known to cause headaches in a small fraction of listeners. Crossfeed also improves the soundstage characteristics and makes the music... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2193225 | 1,367,396 |
117,754 | The society has a variety of functions and activities. It supports modern science by disbursing nearly £42 million to fund approximately 600 research fellowships for both early and late career scientists, along with innovation, mobility and research capacity grants. Its awards, prize lectures and medals all come with p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=496064 | 117,709 |
238,379 | Neodymium is typically 10–18% of the rare-earth content of commercial deposits of the light rare-earth-element minerals bastnäsite and monazite. With neodymium compounds being the most strongly colored for the trivalent lanthanides, it can occasionally dominate the coloration of rare-earth minerals when competing chrom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21276 | 238,259 |
522,690 | Poisson clearly distinguished between objective and subjective probabilities in 1837. Soon thereafter a flurry of nearly simultaneous publications by Mill, Ellis ("On the Foundations of the Theory of Probabilities" and "Remarks on the Fundamental Principles of the Theory of Probabilities"), Cournot ("Exposition de la t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10869 | 522,418 |
1,767,005 | ADNI contributes data to a number of consortia and big data projects which have the potential to unlock many of the mysteries of neurological diseases. It shares imaging and genetic data with the Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA) consortium which uses imaging genetics to study 12 major bra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28353714 | 1,766,011 |
510,418 | The design, naturally, also included the advances in plasma shaping that were being studied concurrently. Like all modern designs, the ST uses a D-shaped plasma cross section. If you consider a D on the right side and a reversed D on the left, as the two approach each other (as A is reduced) eventually the vertical sur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30519868 | 510,153 |
745,967 | The first direct measurement of the distance to a star (61 Cygni at 11.4 light-years) was made in 1838 by Friedrich Bessel using the parallax technique. Parallax measurements demonstrated the vast separation of the stars in the heavens. Observation of double stars gained increasing importance during the 19th century. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14021 | 745,572 |
77,867 | In Newtonian mechanics, quantities that have magnitude and direction are mathematically described as 3d vectors in Euclidean space, and in general they are parametrized by time. In special relativity, this notion is extended by adding the appropriate timelike quantity to a spacelike vector quantity, and we have 4d vect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26962 | 77,838 |
1,330,452 | Both the US Air Force and Navy had been developing plans for operational follow-ons to their respective demonstrator programs, but pressures rose for the two services to merge their efforts, resulting in the formation of the Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems (J-UCAS) program in October 2003 under DARPA direction. The g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3525512 | 1,329,723 |
535,520 | Plaque-based assays are the standard method used to determine virus concentration in terms of infectious dose. Viral plaque assays determine the number of plaque forming units (pfu) in a virus sample, which is one measure of virus quantity. This assay is based on a microbiological method conducted in petri dishes or mu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26069912 | 535,241 |
1,040,199 | Critical care nurses are also known as ICU nurses. They treat patients who are acutely ill and unstable requiring more frequent nursing assessments and the utilization of life sustaining technology and drugs. Although many ICU patients have chronic health issues, patients are in the ICU for an acute pathology or an exa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8096785 | 1,039,658 |
1,096,009 | In another project, protons easily pass through slightly imperfect graphene membranes on fused silica in water. The membrane was exposed to cycles of high and low pH. Protons transferred reversibly from the aqueous phase through the graphene to the other side where they undergo acid–base chemistry with silica hydroxyl ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42482555 | 1,095,449 |
1,208,480 | The primary purpose of a decompression computer is to facilitate safe decompression by an underwater diver breathing a suitable gas at ambient pressure, by providing information based on the recent pressure exposure history of the diver that allows an ascent with acceptably low risk of developing decompression sickness... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=302027 | 1,207,834 |
1,521,225 | Modular construction is a great alternative to traditional construction when looking at the amount of waste each method produces. When constructing a high-rise building in Wolverhampton, 824 modules were used. During this process about 5% of the total weight of the construction was produced as waste. If it is compared ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23800840 | 1,520,364 |
1,548,608 | After the failure of the Munich Beer Putsch in November 1923, Jagow left the NSDAP, but remained active in a number of "völkisch" groups in Württemberg. From 1923 to 1927, he was a member of the "Bund Wiking" (Viking League). In 1925, he led a group of "völkisch" university students into a street fight with the "Reichs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65256855 | 1,547,727 |
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