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783,119 | One of the best known traditions in the history of UMKC was Hobo Day, later known as Bum Friday. The campus-wide event was created as Hobo Day, and it first occurred on May 8, 1935, to celebrate the end of the spring semester. Students dressed as hobos throughout the day, and various events and competitions took place.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=170430 | 782,700 |
1,266,316 | If diagnosed prior to time of gut closure (foal is less than 24 hours of age), the foal should be given an alternative nutrient source via nasogastric tube. The mare should be stripped of milk and the foal muzzled during the time to prevent additional ingestion of colostrum. However, this disease is usually diagnosed i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11331670 | 1,265,628 |
1,640,339 | A major limitation of electrokinetics is the introduction of an external fluid into the soil. If the contaminant cannot be dissolved it is not possible to extract the contaminant of interest. Electrolysis near the electrodes can alter the pH of the soil especially if the current is induced for an extended period of tim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25296388 | 1,639,412 |
266,239 | Children with OSA commonly show cognitive deficits, resulting in attention and concentration difficulties, as well as lower academic performance and IQ. Poor academic performances have been linked to OSA and suggested to result from cortical and sympathetic arousals and hypoxemia which affects memory consolidation. A s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1976353 | 266,095 |
615,078 | Such a study is the large complex multisite study of Miller et al. (2013). The main focus is to determine how to improve the effectiveness of the inoculation process by evaluating and generating reactance to a threatened freedom by manipulating explicit and implicit language and its intensity. While most inoculation st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18546373 | 614,764 |
1,145,780 | "The cultivation of Torreya taxifolia began not long after its discovery in 1835 by Hardy Bryant Croom. By 1859, A.J. Downing reported on the success of the plant growing in cultivation: 'Our best specimen is about eight feet high, very dense, showing nothing but foliage, like a thrifty arbor vitae, and remarkable, par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2680498 | 1,145,179 |
1,913,827 | On 23 September 1669. Leopold I certified at the Jesuit Neoacademica Zagrebiensis, a three-year higher education institution, which gradually developed the studies of Philosophy, Law and Theology. At the Jesuit School philosophy was taught even earlier, and part of its first year studies were logic, physics, and metaph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40095270 | 1,912,728 |
360,739 | Although there is some debate in the scientific community regarding the efficacy of polygraphs, assessments of polygraphy by scientific and government bodies generally suggest that polygraphs are inaccurate, may be defeated by countermeasures, and are an imperfect or invalid means of assessing truthfulness. Despite cla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71734 | 360,551 |
124,188 | The Vector uses an articulated mechanism referred to as the "Kriss Super V", which allows the bolt and an inertia block to move downward into a recess behind the magazine well. The theory is that at the end of this travel, the energy is transmitted downward rather than rearward, thus reducing the felt recoil. When fire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10681353 | 124,137 |
876,452 | Moral judgments are said to be explained in part by dual process theory. In moral "dilemmas" we are presented us with two morally unpalatable options. For example, should we sacrifice one life in order to save many lives or just let many lives be lost? Consider a historical example: should we authorize the use of force... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6240358 | 875,990 |
101,202 | In a few cases, a national telecommunication agency may also allow hams to use frequencies outside of the internationally allocated amateur radio bands. In Trinidad and Tobago, hams are allowed to use a repeater which is located on 148.800 MHz. This repeater is used and maintained by the National Emergency Management A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23275402 | 101,157 |
2,092,497 | In 1996 he and his wife used his patent income to set up Welston Court Science Centre in Pembrokeshire, which is a facility to support the Darwin Centre. In 2016, with his wife, he set up "The Young Darwinian", an international journal for school students to publish their projects and scientific experiences. He has app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66381958 | 2,091,292 |
1,151,043 | In 1992, Congress passed the "Amtrak Authorization and Development Act" requiring Amtrak to establish high-speed rail passenger service between New York City and Boston. The goal was to reduce travel time in this corridor from 4.5 hours to less than 3 hours. Revenue from this service was expected to play a critical rol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30203804 | 1,150,436 |
873,460 | Vocalizations differ among the recognized subspecies. In the nominate subspecies from Japan, the male calls twice and the female responds with one note, whereas the mainland subspecies has a somewhat more elaborate, four-note duet: "HOO-hoo, HOOO-hoooo" (here, the male call is in capital letters ("HOO") and the female ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=764546 | 873,000 |
1,354,969 | Taqī al-Dīn was both the founder and director of the Constantinople Observatory, which is also known as the Istanbul Observatory. This observatory is frequently said to be one of Taqī al-Dīn's most important contributions to sixteenth-century Islamic and Ottoman astronomy. In fact, it is known as one of the largest obs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=982540 | 1,354,221 |
2,163,477 | In addition to severe immunodeficiency, motor and neurologic impairment are evident from early life. Oral motor deficits, dysarthria, developmental delay, ataxia, myoclonus, seizure and mild sensory loss have all been identified. These distinctive neurologic features are suggestive of hypomyelination, as they resemble ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47622142 | 2,162,241 |
1,800,767 | High Performance Driver Education (HPDE) refers to driving schools held on dedicated race tracks designed to teach drivers proper high-speed driving techniques. HPDE events are held by various automobile enthusiasts' clubs at some of the most renowned road-course tracks around the world. Participants include both stude... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4312402 | 1,799,758 |
1,982,885 | Begun in 1994, the "Margaret Lowe Benston (MLB) Lecture Series in Social Justice is financed by an endowment established in her memory. There is an annual event hosted by the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University. Events are often lectures but have also included dance performan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42828629 | 1,981,746 |
314,972 | Akasa Linea, the neck region connecting the two lobi, has a brighter and less red appearance than the surfaces of either lobus. The brightness of Akasa Linea is likely due to a composition of a more reflective material than the surfaces of the lobi. One hypothesis suggests the bright material originated in the depositi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44163394 | 314,803 |
532,360 | No type of CP is officially a progressive condition, and indeed spastic diplegia does not clinically "get worse" given the nerves, damaged permanently at birth, neither recover nor degrade. This aspect is clinically significant because other neuromuscular conditions with similar surface characteristics in their present... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6115887 | 532,081 |
1,848,404 | The post-translational modification of histone tails by either histone-modifying complexes or chromatin remodeling complexes is interpreted by the cell and leads to the complex, combinatorial transcriptional output. It is thought that a histone code dictates the expression of genes by a complex interaction between the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63611863 | 1,847,346 |
1,664,139 | The right figure illustrates the energy diagram of the simplest spin system where a is the isotropic hyperfine coupling constant in hertz (Hz). This diagram indicates the electron Zeeman, nuclear Zeeman and hyperfine splittings. In a steady state ENDOR experiment, an EPR transition (A, D), called the observer, is partl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25463466 | 1,663,202 |
792,672 | From bacterial quorum sensing to the signals of bees, communication is often the basis of biotic interactions. Frequently, more than two organisms can take part in the communication, resulting in a complex network of crosstalking. Recent advances in plant-microbe interactions research have shown that communication, bot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2915538 | 792,247 |
10,044 | By December 1942 there were concerns that even Oak Ridge was too close to a major population center (Knoxville) in the unlikely event of a major nuclear accident. Groves recruited DuPont in November 1942 to be the prime contractor for the construction of the plutonium production complex. DuPont was offered a standard c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19603 | 10,040 |
1,379,327 | Moving to a 32-bit format had another significant advantage. In practice, it was found that the two-operand format was difficult to use in typical math code. Ideally, both input operands would remain in registers where they could be re-used in subsequent operations, but as the output of the operation overwrote one of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60671 | 1,378,565 |
56,506 | In a radical departure from previous years, the 1998 world championship was a 100-player knockout tournament, with each round consisting of two-game matches and ties resolved by rapid and blitz games. Controversially, Karpov, the defending champion, was seeded directly into the final, held just three days after the con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=281337 | 56,482 |
305,525 | Comparative advantage is a theory about the benefits that specialization and trade would bring, rather than a strict prediction about actual behavior. (In practice, governments restrict international trade for a variety of reasons; under Ulysses S. Grant, the US postponed opening up to free trade until its industries w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62018 | 305,362 |
763,133 | Strengths of the Macedonian phalanx. Prior to the rise of Rome, the Macedonian phalanx was the premiere infantry force in the Western World. It had proven itself on the battlefields of Mediterranean Europe, from Sparta to Macedonia, and had met and overcome several strong non-European armies from Persia to Pakistan/Nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30855309 | 762,724 |
868,008 | Snow crabs have equally long and wide carapaces, or protective shell-coverings, over their bodies. Their tubercles, or the bodily projections on their shells, are moderately enclosed in calcium deposits, and they boast hooked setae, which are rigid, yet springy, hair-like organs on their claws. Snow crabs have a horizo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31679024 | 867,548 |
1,268,214 | Future impacts are bound to occur, with much higher odds for smaller regionally damaging asteroids than for larger globally damaging ones. The 2018 final book of physicist Stephen Hawking, "Brief Answers to the Big Questions", considers a large asteroid collision the biggest threat to our planet. In April 2018, the B61... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38623877 | 1,267,524 |
2,166,111 | The institute's primary research facility is the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds (WCET), which opened in 2017 and was funded by an additional $8 million state grant approved by governor Jay Inslee. Located next to University Village near the main campus, the facility allows both academic and private sector users to re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61476013 | 2,164,874 |
1,329,634 | A blood-oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) fMRI was used in a study by Drummond et al. to measure the brain's response to verbal learning following sleep deprivation. An fMRI recorded brain activity during a verbal learning task of participants either having a normal night of sleep or those deprived of 34.7 (± 1.2) hours of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26685741 | 1,328,906 |
1,521,382 | In larger variants of arachnids, such as the tarantulas and hairy desert spiders, another mechanism used for locomotion is an elastic sclerite. These sclerites are semi-rigid connectors between leg segments that allow storage and expending of potential energy. This is used as a supplement or in conjunction with the hyd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67470706 | 1,520,521 |
1,673,556 | There are three types of dendritic cells, plasmacytic dendritic cells (pDC) and two types of conventional dendritic cells (cDC), myeloid cDC1 and myeloid cDC2. pDC circulate in the blood, representing <0.4% of all nucleated blood cells, and are present in various hematological tissues such as lymph nodes and spleen. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21292793 | 1,672,614 |
221,328 | By the 17th century, water pump designs had improved to the point that they produced measurable vacuums, but this was not immediately understood. What was known was that suction pumps could not pull water beyond a certain height: 18 Florentine yards according to a measurement taken around 1635, or about . This limit wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32500 | 221,219 |
72,968 | Traditionally, a health-care worker measured blood pressure non-invasively by auscultation (listening) through a stethoscope for sounds in one arm's artery as the artery is squeezed, closer to the heart, by an aneroid gauge or a mercury-tube sphygmomanometer. Auscultation is still generally considered to be the gold st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56558 | 72,941 |
645,120 | The position of a diffraction peak is independent of the atomic positions within the cell and entirely determined by the size and shape of the unit cell of the crystalline phase. Each peak represents a certain lattice plane and can therefore be characterized by a Miller index. If the symmetry is high, e.g.: cubic or he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2296159 | 644,780 |
417,924 | William Penney worked on means to assess the effects of a nuclear explosion, and wrote a paper on what height the bombs should be detonated at for maximum effect in attacks on Germany and Japan. He served as a member of the target committee established by Groves to select Japanese cities for atomic bombing, and on Tini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41957579 | 417,720 |
151,606 | Modern vehicles have a diagnostic interface for off-board diagnostics, which makes it possible to connect a computer (client) or diagnostics tool, which is referred to as tester, to the communication system of the vehicle. Thus, UDS requests can be sent to the controllers which must provide a response (this may be posi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43495360 | 151,538 |
798,161 | Either used in sheet or alternatively, plate for all-metal hulls or for isolated structural members. It is strong, but heavy (despite the fact that the thickness of the hull can be less). It is generally about 30% heavier than aluminium and somewhat more heavy than polyester. The material rusts unless protected from wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=499365 | 797,736 |
105,375 | Gygax wrote the supplements "Greyhawk", "Eldritch Wizardry", and "Swords & Spells" for the original "D&D game". With Brian Blume, Gygax also designed the wild west-oriented role-playing game "Boot Hill". In the same year, Gygax created the magazine "The Strategic Review" with himself as editor. But wanting a more indus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12848 | 105,330 |
1,990,962 | This concern with anthropology as "limit and negativity" would animate Foucault's future work: "The Order of Things" would continue his critique of the doubling of man as subject and object in the form of the "Analytic of Finitude", whilst work such as "The Birth of the Clinic" or "Madness and Civilization" both outlin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23026933 | 1,989,819 |
1,699,026 | While techniques such as microarray analysis, RNA interference, and the yeast two-hybrid system can be used to experimentally demonstrate the function of a protein, advances in sequencing technologies have made the rate at which proteins can be experimentally characterized much slower than the rate at which new sequenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29467449 | 1,698,072 |
113,447 | Jaber F. Gubrium's series of organizational ethnographies focused on the everyday practices of illness, care, and recovery are notable. They include "Living and Dying at Murray Manor," which describes the social worlds of a nursing home; "Describing Care: Image and Practice in Rehabilitation," which documents the socia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152626 | 113,402 |
651,432 | According to aviation journalist and ex-IAI engineer Danny Shalom, substantial work on the development of what would become the Arava commenced right after the Six-Day War between Israel and several neighbouring nations. Prior to this point, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) had largely confined its aircraft manufactur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8917650 | 651,090 |
1,049,991 | Humpback whales have a vertical throat roughly the size of a grapefruit. They cannot physically swallow anything larger than that. They are carnivores and primarily feed on small fish such as krill, juvenile salmon, and herring. They are also baleen whales, which means that they do not have teeth, so they must be able ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52243894 | 1,049,445 |
217,572 | In laboratories and industry, vacuum flasks are often used to hold liquefied gases (commonly liquid nitrogen with a boiling point of 77 K) for flash freezing, sample preparation and other processes where creating or maintaining an extreme low temperature is desired. Larger vacuum flasks store liquids that become gaseou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=143689 | 217,464 |
1,209,889 | Sebaceous carcinoma, also known as sebaceous gland carcinoma (SGc), sebaceous cell carcinoma, and meibomian gland carcinoma is an uncommon malignant cutaneous tumor. Most are typically about 1.4 cm at presentation. SGc originates from sebaceous glands in the skin and, therefore, may originate anywhere in the body where... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21594254 | 1,209,242 |
30,605 | In the United States, outreach efforts are coordinated by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) Office for Public Outreach, which was established in 2000 to ensure that U.S. taxpayers saw the benefits of their investment in the space telescope program. To that end, STScI operates the HubbleSite.org website. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40203 | 30,595 |
1,627,179 | A neural structure located behind the lateral geniculate nucleus that is understood to control eye movements. In particular, the deeper layers of the superior colliculus, known as lamina VI and VII, have been found to be involved in initiating and executing saccadic eye movements, which includes the desired speed and d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31148473 | 1,626,261 |
827,224 | Members of the hedgehog family play key roles in a wide variety of developmental processes. One of the best studied examples is the action of Sonic hedgehog during development of the vertebrate limb. The classic experiments of Saunders and Gasseling in 1968 on the development of the chick limb bud formed the basis of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5150349 | 826,780 |
1,142,487 | The goals of antiretroviral administration during pregnancy are to reduce the risk of transmission of HIV from mother to child, to slow maternal disease progression, and to reduce the risks of maternal opportunistic infection and death. It is important to choose medications that are as safe as possible for the mother a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43456997 | 1,141,892 |
1,966,264 | Adult Day Services is part of Virginia Tech's Department of Human Development in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. The organization strives to provide a service to New River Valley older adults and their families, a teaching site for students at Virginia Tech and other institutions devoted to learning abo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32936129 | 1,965,135 |
390,002 | Therapeutically, clomifene is given early in the menstrual cycle. It is typically prescribed beginning on day 3 and continuing for five days. By that time, FSH levels are rising steadily, causing the development of a few follicles. Follicles, in turn, produce the estrogen, which circulates in serum. In the presence of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1085916 | 389,807 |
83,764 | Hypatia was the daughter of the mathematician Theon of Alexandria (c. 335 – c. 405 AD). According to classical historian Edward J. Watts, Theon was the head of a school called the "Mouseion", which was named in emulation of the Hellenistic Mouseion, whose membership had ceased in the 260s AD. Theon's school was exclusi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38375 | 83,730 |
1,844,438 | Meehan was born in Ireland, in Shinrone, County Offaly, in 1774. He was declared a rebel and given a life sentence in a trial after the Rebellion of 1798 and was one of a number of political prisoners who arrived in Australia on the "Friendship" in February 1800. He came under the assumed name James Mahon. Two months l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3113105 | 1,843,384 |
895,393 | It was invented in 1985 by the Zeolite Battery Research Africa Project (ZEBRA) group at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria, South Africa. It can be assembled in the discharged state, using NaCl, Al, nickel and iron powder. The positive electrode is composed mostly of materials in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5054933 | 894,922 |
1,506,649 | The final step of an imaging "in-silico" trial is evaluation and interpretation of the generated images in a systematic way. The images can be evaluated by humans in ways similar to a conventional clinical trial, but for an "in-silico" trial to be really effective, image interpretation as well needs to be automized. Fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46232572 | 1,505,803 |
369,639 | The transition from fetal to neonatal and shift from maternal to environmental reliance requires an abrupt immunological change. In calves, for example, colostrum provides a significant benefit in neonatal intestine development. This includes villus area, circumference, height and height/crypt ratio. Colostrum is criti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=525722 | 369,446 |
488,682 | There are many time periods involved within the history of science which is still continued to this day. One major tine period is between the 7th and 16th century which marks the time period of the embarking of Islamic science under the development of islamic civilizations. The are many reason why science flourished in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1673699 | 488,432 |
1,184,613 | Simonov also conducted observations of Antarctic ice shields; however, V. Koryakin did not appreciate his expertise in this field. On the one hand, astronomer suggested that "the South Pole is covered with harsh and an impenetrable crust of ice, whose thickness, judging by the elevation above the surface of the ocean, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40880361 | 1,183,985 |
64,921 | The second case from Kentucky, "Love v. Beshear", involved two male couples. Maurice Blanchard and Dominique James held a religious marriage ceremony on June 3, 2006. Kentucky county clerks repeatedly refused them marriage licenses. Timothy Love and Lawrence Ysunza had been living together as a couple for thirty years ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44399484 | 64,896 |
1,223,240 | La Niña is characterised by increased rainfall and cloud cover, especially across the east and north that continue into the warm months (unlike El Niño events); the average December–March precipitation is 20% higher than the long-term average, particularly in the east coast. Snow depth and snow cover is increased in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69348495 | 1,222,580 |
2,159,833 | Buckner married his cousin Elizabeth Lewis Buckner (1791-1868), who gave birth to a very large family, as well as survived her husband by more than two decades. At least two of their sons continued the family's legal and political traditions through the Civil War, as would their son-in-law, Col. John Allen. Their first... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10533278 | 2,158,601 |
1,873,905 | 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 like mammoths and mastodons eroding out of the banks of local lakes and rivers. As some groups... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799114 | 1,872,828 |
1,102,967 | Initially, Wrighton intended to study mathematics and government at Florida State University. Instead, inspired by his freshman chemistry professor, Edward Mellon, he switched his major to chemistry. Jack Saltiel became his advisor and mentor, and he continued undergraduate research in the area of organic photochemistr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5503601 | 1,102,405 |
1,360,541 | In 2005, Agrawal joined Parsons Brinckerhoff (later called WSP) on a graduate program, becoming a chartered engineer with the Institution of Structural Engineers in 2011. She spent six years working on the tallest building in Western Europe, the Shard, designing the foundations and the iconic spire. She describes the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55385155 | 1,359,789 |
636,735 | A modern computer radio transmitter and receiver can be equipped with synthesizer technology, using a phase-locked loop (PLL), with the advantage of giving the pilot the opportunity to select any of the available channels with no need of changing a crystal. This is very popular in flying clubs where a lot of pilots hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1466438 | 636,396 |
905,139 | The G-engine gave better performance than its competitors at its 1960 introduction, and generally kept up through the 1960s and early-1970s, though engines like the Pontiac OHC Six, a brief GM outlier, bested the performance of most versions of the Slant-6. After an early factory racing program was discontinued by 1962... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=861486 | 904,663 |
1,934,412 | A chipping call is produced in flight and when agitated. The flight is straight (may sometimes be undulating) and direct, sometimes in flocks of 20 to 30 birds. At deserted honeycombs, the bird clings tight and presses its tail on the surface of the comb. They feed mainly on the foundation wax of "Apis laboriosa" that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3302905 | 1,933,304 |
2,210,143 | Slevin was a supporter of the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club where he served as treasurer and director. The club was another place to sell his photographs in addition to his store. He photographed plays at the Forest Theater, California State Fairs, the King City bridge, festivals at Carmel Mission, abandoned mines, fauna... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71239379 | 2,208,883 |
369,908 | The standard mechanism for star birth is through the gravitational collapse of a cold interstellar cloud of gas and dust. As the cloud contracts it heats due to the Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism. Early in the process the contracting gas quickly radiates away much of the energy, allowing the collapse to continue. Eventuall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44401 | 369,714 |
871,567 | Azerbaijan is also an important economic hub in the transportation of raw materials. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline (BTC) became operational in May 2006 and extends more than 1,774 kilometers through the territories of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. The BTC is designed to transport up to 50 million tons of crude oil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1081 | 871,107 |
1,643,307 | Parataxonomy is a system of labor division for use in biodiversity research, in which the rough sorting tasks of specimen collection, field identification, documentation and preservation are conducted by primarily local, less specialized individuals, thereby alleviating the workload for the "alpha" or "master" taxonomi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30109600 | 1,642,380 |
522,022 | Stephen Wolfram used randomness tests on the output of Rule 30 to examine its potential for generating random numbers, though it was shown to have an effective key size far smaller than its actual size and to perform poorly on a chi-squared test. The use of an ill-conceived random number generator can put the validity ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9296426 | 521,750 |
306,881 | In comparison, a SAR's (commonly) single physical antenna element gathers signals at different positions at different times. When the radar is carried by an aircraft or an orbiting vehicle, those positions are functions of a single variable, distance along the vehicle's path, which is a single mathematical dimension (n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=645554 | 306,717 |
471,124 | Testers write tracing programs (also referred to as scripts) using the D programming language (not to be confused with other programming languages named "D"). The language, inspired by C, includes added functions and variables specific to tracing. D programs resemble awk programs in structure; they consist of a list of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1179136 | 470,888 |
2,242,118 | In the summer of 1963, as the fledgling academy awaited its own training vessel, some 50 A&M Cadets got underway aboard the "Empire State" IV with SUNY Maritime for their first official cruise. A&M President Rudder had promised TMA its own ship by the summer of 1965. In that year, the U.S. Maritime Administration annou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1373604 | 2,240,847 |
1,806,903 | Today, the Albright Institute is one of three separately incorporated institutes affiliated with the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), the others being the American Center of Oriental Research – ACOR in Amman, Jordan, and the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute – CAARI – in Nicosia, Cyprus. In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31917726 | 1,805,884 |
878,370 | To measure emissions during the on-road test, vehicles are equipped with a portable emissions measurement system (PEMS) that monitors pollutants and CO values in real time. The PEMS contains complex instrumentation that includes: advanced gas analyzers, exhaust gas flowmeters, an integrated weather station, a Global Po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36852132 | 877,908 |
1,800,136 | In 1865, Edwards began a 12-year residence in San Francisco, California. At the 1870 United States Census, Edwards reported himself as a non-voting foreign-born resident, a comedian by trade, living in a home worth $1,000. Edwards lived in San Francisco with a white woman listed in the census as "Mariana", born in Engl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23711726 | 1,799,127 |
1,779,101 | The Dowding system relied on a private telephone network forwarding information from the CH stations, Royal Observer Corps (ROC), and pip-squeak radio direction finding (RDF) to a central room where the reports were plotted on a large map. This information was then telephoned to the four regional Group headquarters, wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43239543 | 1,778,099 |
1,429,536 | Many aspects of the disease and of the pathogen "Rhinosporidium seeberi" remain problematic and enigmatic. These include the pathogen’s natural habitat, some aspects of its ‘lifecycle’, its immunology, some aspects of the epidemiology of the disease in humans and in animals, the reasons for the delay at "in vitro" cult... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6121044 | 1,428,732 |
944,494 | There are over 1,900 Marshall Scholar alumni. Many of these alumni have achieved distinctions and hold prestigious careers. In the government, current alumni include Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, the director of the CIA, members of Congress and presidential cabinets, and state governors.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1006389 | 943,992 |
1,828,405 | The Department houses one of only a handful of non-medical CT scanners at an academic institution anywhere in the world. The High Resolution X-Ray CT (UTCT) Facility has been used to non-destructively scan precious, one-of-a-kind specimens such as Lucy (an ancient human ancestor and the world's most famous fossil), "Ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6873192 | 1,827,366 |
637,360 | Decentralized markets allow the generation companies to choose their own way to provide energy for their day-ahead bid (that specifies price and location). The provider can use any unit at its disposal (so called "portfolio-based bidding") or even pay another company to deliver the energy. The market still has the cent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=215909 | 637,021 |
229,951 | In their first steps towards this unifying system, the two built the PR1 as a hardware prototype and began to work on software from it, borrowing the best practices from other early open-source robotic software frameworks, particularly switchyard, a system that Morgan Quigley, another Stanford PhD student, had been wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19768790 | 229,834 |
942,665 | "Engine lathe" is the name applied to a traditional late-19th-century or 20th-century lathe with automatic feed to the cutting tool, as opposed to early lathes which were used with hand-held tools, or lathes with manual feed only. The usage of "engine" here is in the mechanical-device sense, not the prime-mover sense, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2551777 | 942,163 |
207,774 | The 449th utilized its F-82Hs as long-range reconnaissance aircraft along the Siberian coastline and the Chukchi Peninsula. Also the F-82s were flown in a ground support role during maneuvers with the Army forces. They would also drop bombs on frozen rivers to break up ice floes. For these missions, the F-94 was totall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=401013 | 207,667 |
174,852 | This was mainly based on that the British forces did not aggressively pursue territory. Author and military officer Stephen Hart analysed the 21st Army Group in 1992 and finds that Montgomery's emphasis on the reduction of casualties which would maintain morale and a higher fighting performance in non-regular soldiers,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=202102 | 174,761 |
649,559 | TFOs bind specifically to homopurine-homopyrimidine regions that are often common in promoter and intron sequences of genes, influencing cell signaling. TFOs can inhibit transcription by binding with high specificity to the DNA helix, thereby blocking the binding and function of transcription factors for particular seq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2060438 | 649,218 |
1,401,629 | Acellular dermal matrices have been successful in a number of different applications. For example, skin grafts are used in cosmetic surgery and burn care. The decellularized skin graft provides mechanical support to the damaged area while supporting the development of host-derived connective tissue. Cardiac tissue has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33993737 | 1,400,842 |
1,759,716 | The Hardy–Weinberg principle provides the mathematical framework for genetic equilibrium. Genetic equilibrium itself, whether Hardy-Weinberg or otherwise, provides the groundwork for a number of applications, in including population genetics, conservation and evolutionary biology. With the rapid increase in whole genom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3936412 | 1,758,723 |
1,155,401 | The trend to implement software programs into the civil engineering industry began as educational concerns for the future as civil engineering prepared to enter the twenty-first century. Today, these concerns and trends are centered on the continuing education unit which have become required as part of maintaining the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14121747 | 1,154,791 |
743,089 | Waterjet technology evolved in the post-war era as researchers around the world searched for new methods of efficient cutting systems. In 1956, Carl Johnson of Durox International in Luxembourg developed a method for cutting plastic shapes using a thin stream high-pressure waterjet, but those materials, like paper, wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2366787 | 742,695 |
239,604 | A further argument of Behavioural Economics relates to the impact of the individual's cognitive limitations as a factor in limiting the rationality of people's decisions. Sloan first argued this in his paper 'Bounded Rationality' where he stated that our cognitive limitations are somewhat the consequence of our limited... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177698 | 239,484 |
1,301,528 | The Bluefield Colored Institute was founded in 1895 as a "high graded school" for African-American youth in the nearby area; at that time, the West Virginia Constitution prohibited "racial" integration in publicly supported schools, and until 1891, when West Virginia Colored Institute was founded, there was no educatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1239128 | 1,300,814 |
575,572 | Greece was believed never to have used the Sherman tank, although several British Shermans were in action in Athens during the Communist insurrection of 1944, in support of government forces. During the Greek Civil War, which followed, in the generally mountainous terrain where fighting invariably took place, like at t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5305861 | 575,278 |
1,066,931 | The scientific method was argued for by Enlightenment philosopher Francis Bacon, rose to popularity with the discoveries of Isaac Newton and his followers, and continued into later eras. In the early eighteenth century, there existed an epistemic virtue in science which has been called "truth-to-nature". This ideal was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4410781 | 1,066,377 |
1,367,603 | After a brief family exile in Saxony and Austria, Selten returned to Hesse, Germany after the war and, in high school, read an article in Fortune magazine about game theory by the business writer John D. McDonald. He recalled later, he would occupy his "mind with problems of elementary geometry and algebra" while walki... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=212034 | 1,366,847 |
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