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842,272 | The grid Audion was the first device to amplify, albeit only slightly, the strength of received radio signals. However, to many observers it appeared that de Forest had done nothing more than add the grid electrode to an existing detector configuration, the Fleming valve, which also consisted of a filament and plate en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=256764 | 841,822 |
1,014,546 | Expected to arrive in Mercury orbit on 5 December 2025, the "Mio" and MPO satellites will separate and observe Mercury in collaboration for one year, with a possible one-year extension. The orbiters are equipped with scientific instruments provided by various European countries and Japan. The mission will characterize ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=551228 | 1,014,025 |
1,691,419 | The Department of Psychological Medicine, chaired by Professor Ulrike Schmidt, addresses many of the commonest mental disorders which affect adults including depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, somatoform disorders, and medically unexplained symptoms and syndromes. Its research spans ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2072717 | 1,690,469 |
540,101 | Phosphorus (P) is a key nutrient regarding the eutrophication of surface waters and has been shown to limit algae growth in lake environments. Loss of P from agricultural fields has long been recognized as one of the major threats to surface water quality. Leaching is an important transport pathway for P losses from ag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16921372 | 539,821 |
779,330 | Contrasting with industry practice of the day, IBM created an entire new series of computers, from small to large, low- to high-performance, all using the same instruction set (with two exceptions for specific markets). This feat allowed customers to use a cheaper model and then upgrade to larger systems as their needs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29294 | 778,913 |
705,567 | In one method, twenty-five control subjects were tested using color-based depth effects through the use of five different colored pairs of squares. The different colors were blue, red, green, cyan and yellow. Subjects were placed in a dark room and the colored square stimuli were presented for 400 milliseconds each, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18499558 | 705,198 |
368,354 | Rheumatic fever is a systemic disease affecting the connective tissue around arterioles, and can occur after an untreated strep throat infection, specifically due to group A streptococcus (GAS), "Streptococcus pyogenes". The similarity between antigens of "Streptococcus pyogenes" and multiple cardiac proteins can cause... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=412735 | 368,161 |
38,405 | A number of Dartmouth alumni have found success in professional sports. In baseball, Dartmouth alumni include All-Star and three-time Gold Glove winner and manager Brad Ausmus, All-Star reliever Mike Remlinger, and pitcher Kyle Hendricks. Professional football players include Miami Dolphins quarterback Jay Fiedler, lin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8418 | 38,391 |
148,566 | The interference with mRNA proofreading has been exploited to treat genetic diseases that result from premature stop codons (leading to early termination of protein synthesis and truncated proteins). Aminoglycosides can cause the cell to overcome the stop codons, insert a random amino acid, and express a full-length pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=617210 | 148,505 |
1,740,097 | Killam considered his wife to have "the best business brain of any woman he ever met", and discussed his business affairs with her throughout their married life. In 1954 Killam, in failing health, retired as president of Royal Securities and sold the company to his senior staff. He died at his fishing camp on the Casca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46489032 | 1,739,116 |
1,940,645 | The Super-pressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) is a highly-stabilized, high resolution telescope that operates in the stratosphere via NASA's super-pressure balloon (SPB) system. At 40 km altitude above sea level, the football-stadium-sized balloon carries SuperBIT (at 3500 lbs) to a suborbital environme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68284830 | 1,939,534 |
791,857 | The plane wave expansion method can be used to calculate the band structure using an eigen formulation of the Maxwell's equations, and thus solving for the eigen frequencies for each of the propagation directions, of the wave vectors. It directly solves for the dispersion diagram. Electric field strength values can als... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=355377 | 791,432 |
1,382,677 | Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags can be used in many different applications. These tags can be used in packaging, inventory control, used to verify authenticity and even allow or deny access to something. These ID tags can even have other integrated sensors to allow for the physical environment to be monitore... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19236411 | 1,381,912 |
758,397 | In 1905 Oskar von Miller (1855–1934) of the Deutsches Museum in Munich commissioned updated versions of a geared orrery and planetarium from M Sendtner, and later worked with Franz Meyer, chief engineer at the Carl Zeiss optical works in Jena, on the largest mechanical planetarium ever constructed, capable of displayin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60548 | 757,991 |
468,699 | Following the acquisition, various new systems, largely focused upon defence equipment and combat management tools, were developed. It has continued to specialise in the production of integrated naval command and control, sensor, and communications systems, along with ground-based air defense systems, telecommunication... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3762603 | 468,463 |
303,800 | While there were some technological changes between World War II and the Korean War, many of the tactics for dealing with enemy air defenses remained the same. For aircraft performing missions at low altitudes, AAA remained a constant danger; in fact, it was less dangerous for a UNC pilot to engage in air-to-air combat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573491 | 303,638 |
589,523 | While C enhances the efficiency of RuBisCO, the concentration of carbon is highly energy intensive. This means that C plants only have an advantage over C organisms in certain conditions: namely, high temperatures and low rainfall. C plants also need high levels of sunlight to thrive. Models suggest that, without wildf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41468418 | 589,221 |
305,571 | The most common of these uses a group contribution method and is termed cLogP. It has been shown that the log "P" of a compound can be determined by the sum of its non-overlapping molecular fragments (defined as one or more atoms covalently bound to each other within the molecule). Fragmentary log "P" values have been ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=796652 | 305,408 |
935,894 | In 1950 Dr Jack Gross, a Canadian endocrinologist, came to the British National Institute for Medical Research to work with Rosalind Pitt-Rivers as a postdoctoral fellow. Gross had previous experience working at McGill University under Professor Charles Leblond, where they used radioactive iodine to study the physiolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=467048 | 935,400 |
1,021,486 | Essential thrombocythemia (ET) is a disorder characterized by elevated numbers of circulating platelets. The disease occurs in 1–2 per 100,000 people. The 2016 WHO requirements for diagnosis include > 450,000 platelets/μL of blood (normal 150,000–400,000) and characteristic findings in a bone marrow biopsy. Some of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=524385 | 1,020,957 |
492,644 | The launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, started a Cold War technological and ideological competition with the United States known as the Space Race. The demonstration of American technological inferiority came as a profound shock to the American public. In response to the Sputnik c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3144431 | 492,389 |
193,159 | A fire at the ICI New Zealand store in Mount Wellington, Auckland, on 21 December 1984, killed an ICI employee and caused major health concerns. Over 200 firefighters were exposed to toxic smoke and effluents during the firefighting efforts. Six firefighters retired for medical reasons as a result of the fire. This inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15356 | 193,059 |
1,534,498 | Nutrition and exercise: Adjusting an individual's lifestyle through their diet choices and increased physical activity has shown to reduce the long-term negatives associated with most risk factors, including plaque buildup and weakening of the heart muscle. Exercise has been shown to strengthen the heart muscle, allowi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65904454 | 1,533,630 |
626,313 | Morchella esculenta, (commonly known as common morel, morel, yellow morel, true morel, morel mushroom, and sponge morel) is a species of fungus in the family Morchellaceae of the Ascomycota. It is one of the most readily recognized of all the edible mushrooms and highly sought after. Each fruit body begins as a tightly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=854127 | 625,980 |
1,431,431 | The need for an Enterprise Bus Matrix stems from the way one goes about creating the overall Data Warehouse environment. Historically there have been two approaches: a structured, centralized and planned approach and a more loosely defined, department specific approach, in which solutions are developed in a more indepe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29723359 | 1,430,627 |
1,737,906 | Michigan State University and Warsaw Institute of Technology researchers claim to have a prototype wave-disk engine and electricity generator that could replace current backup generator technology of plug-in electric hybrid vehicles. The research team is led by Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Norbert Müll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31237736 | 1,736,929 |
1,426,841 | The studies were conducted into the 1980s, and the terrain was surveyed and measured, as it is made of karst. Apart from Yugoslavia and Romania, representatives of the electric companies from USSR and West Germany also participated in the surveys. Romania was to build a similar facility on its side of the river. Both s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15152681 | 1,426,038 |
2,038,512 | He returned to California as an associate professor in astronomy at University of California, Berkeley, where he remained for over half a century. He founded an observatory there for student instruction, later renamed in his honor Leuschner Observatory. Together with Lick director James E. Keeler, Leuschner shaped the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=617006 | 2,037,335 |
627,268 | In January 2000, the Federal Communications Commission established Low Power FM (LPFM) as a new designated class of radio station. These stations were allowed to operate at 1–10 or 50–100 watts of power, compared to the minimum requirement for commercial stations at 100 watts. (). Originally, it was supported by activi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=272479 | 626,935 |
2,162,250 | The establishment of the Higher Education Board of New South Wales and changes to funding structures presented new challenges to the college. Ultimately, the College amalgamated with the Polding College, itself an amalgamation of several teaching colleges, to form the Catholic College of Education, Sydney, in 1982. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62880865 | 2,161,015 |
1,687,923 | In mid-1977 the go-ahead was given for the project to begin and it was decided by the KwaZulu Cabinet that the institution would be named ‘Mangosuthu’, the first name of KwaZulu's Chief Minister, Prince Buthelezi, the man who conceived the idea of a technikon in KwaZulu. An eminently suitable site for the technikon was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2659368 | 1,686,977 |
550,161 | The Polish government responded nervously. Some politicians voiced concern that the country would lose its special status in Washington, and that the move by Obama was to appease Moscow. Jarosław Gowin, a member of Poland's governing Civic Platform party, said Obama's decision had been made independently of Polish sens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19169445 | 549,873 |
1,820,797 | From 1912 to 1919, Forlanini was nominated at least 20 times for the Nobel Prize; all of his nominators were Italian professors of medicine. They put forward several explanations, trying to convince the prize jury of why Forlanini should be seen as "the person who shall have made the most important discovery within the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12359592 | 1,819,760 |
1,160,976 | A frequency-selective surface (FSS) is any thin, repetitive surface (such as the screen on a microwave oven) designed to reflect, transmit or absorb electromagnetic fields based on the frequency of the field. In this sense, an FSS is a type of optical filter or metal-mesh optical filters in which the filtering is accom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43540545 | 1,160,360 |
197,697 | In the wake of the Polish campaign, during the Phoney War French, British and German tank production sharply increased, with both western allies out-producing Germany. However, the Anglo-French coalition proved unable to match the Germans in the number of armoured divisions, as it was impossible to quickly raise such l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1559537 | 197,595 |
15,264 | The Gripen's cost has been subject to frequent attention and speculation. In 2008, Saab announced reduced earnings for that year, partly attributing this to increased marketing costs for the aircraft. In 2008, Saab disputed Norway's cost calculations for the Gripen NG as overestimated and in excess of real world perfor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=87577 | 15,259 |
1,003,785 | Microfluidics refers to the behavior, precise control, and manipulation of fluids that are geometrically constrained to a small scale (typically sub-millimeter) at which surface forces dominate volumetric forces. It is a multidisciplinary field that involves engineering, physics, chemistry, biochemistry, nanotechnology... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18906 | 1,003,267 |
1,963,293 | Mann's research is concerned with the chemical synthesis, characterization and emergence of complex forms of organized matter. His research activities include biomineralization, biomimetic materials chemistry, synthesis and self-assembly of nanoscale objects, functional nanomaterials, complexity and emergent behaviour ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51169847 | 1,962,165 |
401,319 | After the first Sputnik proved to be a successful propaganda coup, Korolev—now known publicly only as the anonymous "Chief Designer of Rocket-Space Systems"—was charged to accelerate the crewed program, the design of which was combined with the Zenit program to produce the Vostok spacecraft. After Sputnik, Soviet scien... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=723059 | 401,120 |
864,944 | As an expansion pack for "Half-Life", "Opposing Force" is a first-person shooter. The overall gameplay of "Opposing Force" does not significantly differ from that of "Half-Life". Players navigate through levels, fight hostile non-player characters and solve a variety of puzzles to advance. The game continues "Half-Life... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=488916 | 864,484 |
106,614 | Couder, Fort, "et al." showed that macroscopic oil droplets on a vibrating fluid bath can be used as an analogue model of wave–particle duality; a localized droplet creates periodical wave field around itself. Resonant interaction between the droplet and its own wave field exhibits behaviour analogous to quantum partic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33426 | 106,569 |
1,527,467 | Silent synapses release glutamate as do prototypical glutamatergic synapses, but their postsynaptic membranes contain only NMDA—and possibly mGlu—receptors able to bind glutamate. Though AMPA receptors are not expressed in the postsynaptic membranes of silent synapses, they are stored in vesicles inside the postsynapti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=531575 | 1,526,603 |
287,611 | WIPO Re:Search is a public-private partnership between WIPO and the non-profit BIO Ventures for Global Health focused on early-stage medical research and development against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), malaria and tuberculosis. It has 150 members, including eight of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33294 | 287,455 |
1,341,127 | William Kenneth Livingston advanced a summation theory in 1943, proposing that high intensity signals, arriving at the spinal cord from damage to nerve or tissue, set up a reverberating, self-exciting loop of activity in a pool of interneurons, and once a threshold of activity is crossed, these interneurons then activa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34045015 | 1,340,394 |
730,414 | In Spain, pilot and engineer Virgilio Leret Ruiz was granted a patent for a jet engine design in March 1935. Republican president Manuel Azaña arranged for initial construction at the Hispano-Suiza aircraft factory in Madrid in 1936, but Leret was executed months later by Francoist Moroccan troops after unsuccessfully ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27888245 | 730,029 |
1,341,358 | The DC-3 was one of several early design proposals for the NASA Space Shuttle designed by Maxime Faget at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) in Houston. It was nominally developed by North American Aviation (NAA), although it was a purely NASA-internal design. Unlike the design that eventually emerged, the DC-3 was a f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18952422 | 1,340,625 |
1,527,720 | The early part of the ensuing Mesozoic era is also missing from the local rock record. Sedimentation did not resume in Tennessee until the Cretaceous period. At that time western Tennessee was once more submerged by seawater. 75 million year ago, the area around what is now Coon Creek was just off the coast of a Late C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37798944 | 1,526,856 |
1,983,869 | Clinical metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) is the comprehensive analysis of microbial and host genetic material (DNA or RNA) in clinical samples from patients by next-generation sequencing. It uses the techniques of metagenomics to identify and characterize the genome of bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62084354 | 1,982,730 |
433,443 | The vertebrae were complex and not particularly strong, consisting of numerous, often poorly ossified elements. The long bones of the limbs were short and broad and the ankle had limited mobility and the toes lacked claws, limiting the amount of traction the feet could produce. This would have made most labyrinthodonts... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1227129 | 433,229 |
1,966,260 | That led Leith, a physicist who was devising the correlator, to recognize that those effects in themselves could, by natural processes, perform a significant part of the needed processing, since along-track strips of the recording operated like diametrical slices of a series of circular optical zone plates. Any such pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71515213 | 1,965,131 |
1,528,002 | Although Gauss was the first to study the differential geometry of surfaces in Euclidean space E, it was not until Riemann's Habilitationsschrift of 1854 that the notion of a Riemannian space was introduced. Christoffel introduced his eponymous symbols in 1869. Tensor calculus was developed by Ricci, who published a sy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18873116 | 1,527,138 |
955,161 | The latest variant, the DF-21D, has a maximum range exceeding 1,450 kilometres (900 mi; 780 nmi) according to the U.S. National Air and Space Intelligence Center. It is hailed as the world's first anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) system, capable of targeting a moving carrier strike group from long-range, land-based m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55126 | 954,656 |
498,909 | The entire "base population" is outlined by the normal curve to the right. Along the Z axis is every value of the attribute from least to greatest, and the height from this axis to the curve itself is the frequency of the value at the axis below. The equation for finding these frequencies for the "normal" curve (the cu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=297382 | 498,652 |
2,132,503 | In all plant species, the activity of plant P5CS is likewise linked to the proline biosynthesis pathway, during both optimal and abiotic stress conditions. Similar to mammals, plants possess two P5CS isoenzymes encoded by paralogous genes, "P5CS1" and "P5CS2". Different plant species have evolved to utilize different P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15224555 | 2,131,278 |
1,914,151 | Like many TRIGA reactors, the WSUR has the ability to pulse. Ordinarily the WSUR runs at a steady state power level of 1MW, however because of the unique characteristics of TRIGA fuel it can be pulsed to approximately 1000 times this power for a very short amount of time. This ability is due to the fact that TRIGA fuel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25062587 | 1,913,052 |
160,919 | To model job performance, researchers have attempted to define a set of dimensions that are common to all jobs. Using a common set of dimensions provides a consistent basis for assessing performance and enables the comparison of performance across jobs. Performance is commonly broken into two major categories: in-role ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15450 | 160,834 |
1,679,982 | However, chipless RFID tags are fundamentally different from RFID tags. In the latter, a specific frame is sent by the reader toward the tag according to a classic binary modulation schema. The tag demodulates this signal, processes the request, possibly writes data in its memory, and sends back a response, modulating ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40259268 | 1,679,039 |
1,798,703 | A signal event in the Roman medical community was the construction of the first Aesculapium (a temple to the god of healing) in the city of Rome, on Tiber Island. In 293 BC, some officials consulted the Sibylline Books concerning measures to be taken against the plague and were advised to bring Aesculapius from Epidaur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5989657 | 1,797,694 |
1,346,212 | Attlee set up a cabinet sub-committee, the Gen 75 Committee (known informally by Attlee as the "Atomic Bomb Committee"), on 10 August 1945 to examine the feasibility of an independent British nuclear weapons programme. The Chiefs of Staff Committee considered the issue of nuclear weapons in July 1946, and recommended t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52018264 | 1,345,471 |
912,369 | Many of the byproducts produced in the processing of microalgae can be used in various applications, many of which have a longer history of production than algal biofuel. Some of the products not used in the production of biofuel include natural dyes and pigments, antioxidants, and other high-value bio-active compounds... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14205946 | 911,890 |
1,945,117 | CBA is the primary methodology for TBL-CBA and there are many ways of summarizing the results. The best criterion for deciding whether a project can be justified using CBA is a positive net present value (NPV). The NPV is the discounted monetized value of expected net benefits (i.e., benefits minus costs). Other metric... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53907269 | 1,944,005 |
1,198,785 | Resembling hair-like projections, the stereocilia are arranged in bundles of 30-300. Within the bundles the stereocilia are often lined up in several rows of increasing height, similar to a staircase. At the core of these hair-like stereocilia are rigid cross-linked actin filaments, which can renew every 48 hours. Thes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2196633 | 1,198,144 |
814,021 | Energy harvesting devices converting ambient energy into electrical energy have attracted much interest in both the military and commercial sectors. Some systems convert motion, such as that of ocean waves, into electricity to be used by oceanographic monitoring sensors for autonomous operation. Future applications may... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1406812 | 813,588 |
1,968,307 | The institutional framework for the water and sanitation sector has undergone many successive changes, including some reforms that were never implemented and some that considerably changed the responsibilities in the sector. Two reforms that had a lasting impact were the transfer of the responsibility for water supply ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10611984 | 1,967,176 |
670,464 | Norvig is a councilor of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and co-author, with Stuart J. Russell, of "", now the leading college text in the field. He was head of the Computational Sciences Division (now the Intelligent Systems Division) at NASA Ames Research Center, where he oversaw a staf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=566666 | 670,113 |
306,653 | Cirit is a guided missile system fitted with a semi-active laser homing seeker. The seeker and guidance section is attached to a purpose-built warhead with a Class 5 Insensitive Munition (IM). The multipurpose warhead has a combined armour-piercing ammunition with enhanced behind armor anti-personnel and incendiary eff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23772279 | 306,489 |
2,241,573 | In 1989, the Aggies put together a 58–7 record (17–4 in SWC play) and were SWC Co-Champions. The Aggies won the SWC tournament and hosted a regional at Olsen Field, which included Jackson State, BYU, South Alabama, and #12 LSU. The Aggies exploded in the first three games, outscoring their opponents 65–13 before they w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18455992 | 2,240,302 |
1,917,434 | Before the molecules react with the reagents, they should be prepared for the reactions. The most typical is separation by centrifugal force. In the case of blood, for example, the sedimentation of blood cells from plasma can be achieved by rotating the biodisk for some time. After separation, all molecular diagnostic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29503316 | 1,916,334 |
577,437 | TAL effectors are proteins that are secreted by "Xanthomonas" bacteria via their type III secretion system when they infect plants. The DNA binding domain contains a repeated highly conserved 33–34 amino acid sequence with divergent 12th and 13th amino acids. These two positions, referred to as the Repeat Variable Dire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31001884 | 577,141 |
2,236,178 | Badash graduated in 1956 with a B.S. in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he was a Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) student. After serving three years as a naval aviator, he became a graduate in the physics department of Yale University but soon switched to the history of science. He became De... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72393332 | 2,234,907 |
307,534 | At various times, there were nearly 30 players playing simultaneously at different casinos around the world, including Native American casinos throughout the country, Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Canada, and island locations. Never before had casinos throughout the world seen such an organized and scientific onslaught dir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=770521 | 307,369 |
432,959 | During the 1940s, psychologists throughout the world were facing difficulty in eliciting the specific deficits exhibited by individuals (both adults and children) who had experienced traumatic brain injury. In 1941, the Swiss psychologist André Rey was working at the University of Geneva and recognized the necessity of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17258773 | 432,746 |
523,993 | The document classifies electronic hardware items into simple or complex categories. An item is simple "if a comprehensive combination of deterministic tests and analyses appropriate to the design assurance level can ensure correct functional performance under all foreseeable operating conditions with no anomalous beha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3296562 | 523,721 |
720,603 | After several months of first-team starts, an injury caused Taylor lose his place to Sébastien Bassong, who formed an impressive partnership with Fabricio Coloccini. He put some strong performances in vital matches, including scoring a goal and setting up another to earn a hard-fought draw away at Everton, and was back... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1404167 | 720,223 |
161,112 | Aristotle reinforced this focus on the heart which originated in Egypt. He believed the heart to be in control of mental processes, and looked on the brain, due to its inert nature, as a mechanism for cooling the heat generated by the heart. He drew his conclusions based on the empirical study of animals. He found that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288292 | 161,027 |
1,150,582 | Powdery mildews are generally host-specific. "Uncinula necator" is the pathogen that causes powdery mildew on grape. The most susceptible hosts of this pathogen are members of the genus "Vitis". The signs of powdery mildews are widely recognizable and easily identifiable. The majority of them can be found on the upper ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2405677 | 1,149,975 |
1,967,408 | Norgaard serves on the board of directors of the New Economics Institute, on scientific advisory boards to Tsinghua and Beijing Normal University, and on the board of EcoEquity. He has also served on the board of directors of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (2000–2009), in the position of treasurer (2003–... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41162191 | 1,966,278 |
1,132,328 | Despite not being fully elucidated, vaults have been associated with the nuclear pore complexes and their octagonal shape appears to support this. Vaults have been implicated in a broad range of cellular functions including nuclear-cytoplasmic transport, mRNA localization, drug resistance, cell signaling, nuclear pore ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15126654 | 1,131,736 |
538,077 | Bioceramics' properties of being anticorrosive, biocompatible, and aesthetic make them quite suitable for medical usage. Zirconia ceramic has bioinertness and noncytotoxicity. Carbon is another alternative with similar mechanical properties to bone, and it also features blood compatibility, no tissue reaction, and non-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22183423 | 537,798 |
1,687,566 | Affective disorders are characterized by a frequent, fluctuating alteration in mood, affecting the patient's thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Affective disorders include depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder. A number of approaches have been utilized to study the role that neurokinin A plays in the manifestation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9347711 | 1,686,620 |
1,587,573 | Iterative gradient descent that is typically used in adaptive filters has also gained popularity in offline batch-mode support vector based machine learning because of its computational efficiency for large data set processing. Both time series and batch data processing performance is reported to be able to easily hand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42253995 | 1,586,679 |
1,153,286 | The simplest lattice model is the binomial options pricing model; the standard ("canonical") method is that proposed by Cox, Ross and Rubinstein (CRR) in 1979; see diagram for formulae. Over 20 other methods have been developed, with each "derived under a variety of assumptions" as regards the development of the underl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3815666 | 1,152,676 |
494,462 | Indole-3-carbinol (CHNO), sometimes referred to as I3C, is produced by the breakdown of the glucosinolate glucobrassicin, which can be found at relatively high levels in cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, collard greens and kale. It is also available in dietary supplements.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5506288 | 494,206 |
1,940,854 | The South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine was established in 2008 by Dr. Neville Fernando with the aim to provide tertiary qualifications in medicine, engineering, and information technology, management and finance, and information communication technology and media. The institute was initially affiliated wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24185662 | 1,939,743 |
1,984,305 | Prophet arrived in Paris in August of either 1921 or 1922 and obtained a studio on Avenue du Chatillon in Montparnasse. In the Fall of 1922 or 1923 to the Spring of 1924 or 1925, she studied with Victor Joseph Jean Ambroise Segoffin at the École des Beaux-Arts, a sculptor noted for his statues, tombs, and portrait bust... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10720523 | 1,983,166 |
159,834 | At the age of 12, Hou became the youngest player ever to participate in the Women's World Championship (Yekaterinburg 2006) and the Chess Olympiad (Torino 2006). In June 2007, she became the youngest Chinese Women's Champion ever. She achieved the titles of Woman FIDE Master in January 2004, Woman Grandmaster in Januar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4498970 | 159,749 |
187,325 | With prompt treatment, it is possible to cure mastoiditis. Seeking medical care early is important. However, it is difficult for antibiotics to penetrate to the interior of the mastoid process and so it may not be easy to cure the infection; it also may recur. Mastoiditis has many possible complications, all connected ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2105390 | 187,228 |
283,433 | From psychology there are the primary streams of developmental, social and cognitive psychology. Establishing some measure of the relative influence of genetics and environment on behavior has been at the core of behavioral genetics and its variants, notably studies at the molecular level that examine the relationship ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9703 | 283,280 |
588,212 | Molecules have a kinetic energy that is a function of the temperature and is expressed as translational and rotational motions, and by collisions between molecules. The moving dipoles disturb the magnetic field but are often extremely rapid so that the average effect over a long time-scale may be zero. However, dependi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55538688 | 587,910 |
881,995 | Gilpin's argument opposes balancing and the balance of power theory. His theory targets the system by analysis. He contends that the system naturally goes toward equilibrium. To acquire a new system, global war or "hegemonic war", definitionally creates a new hegemon. This new hegemon will create the new system of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1295711 | 881,531 |
509,784 | The French had made an important development. They had taken the string galvanometer and adapted it to record signals from microphones onto photographic film. This work had been done by Lucien Bull and Charles Nordmann (an astronomer at the Paris observatory). Processing the film took some minutes but this was not a si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5336990 | 509,520 |
664,507 | In this case Σ consists of finitely many points. To a single point we associate a vector space "V" = "Z"(point) and to "n"-points the "n"-fold tensor product: "V" = "V" ⊗ … ⊗ "V". The symmetric group "S" acts on "V". A standard way to get the quantum Hilbert space is to start with a classical symplectic manifold (or ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=443757 | 664,160 |
478,219 | In the last few years immersion cooling in particular for bitcoin mining has become a popular method to generate usable heat. In cold climates a single ASIC miner can provide ultra high efficiency electric heat conversion sufficient to heat an entire home. Immersion cooling offered a means to silently convert the waste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49108687 | 477,979 |
1,142,101 | The number of instructions to perform the above basic "loop" (Fetch/Execute/calculate new address) depends on hardware but it could be accomplished on IBM S/360/370/390/ES9000 range of machines in around 12 or 13 instructions for many instruction types. Checking for valid memory locations or for conditional "pause"s ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3076791 | 1,141,507 |
48,255 | Until modern times, cryptography referred almost exclusively to "encryption", which is the process of converting ordinary information (called plaintext) into an unintelligible form (called ciphertext). Decryption is the reverse, in other words, moving from the unintelligible ciphertext back to plaintext. A cipher (or c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18934432 | 48,235 |
1,300,346 | During the Middle Ages the Armenian cochineal dyestuff "vordan karmir", also known in Persia as "kirmiz", was widely celebrated in the Near East. "Kirmiz" is not to be confused with dyer's kermes, which was derived from another insect. The Armenian cities Artashat and Dvin were early centers of the production of "kirmi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44059741 | 1,299,632 |
349,298 | Tiny amounts of Po are sometimes used in the laboratory and for teaching purposes—typically of the order of , in the form of sealed sources, with the polonium deposited on a substrate or in a resin or polymer matrix—are often exempt from licensing by the NRC and similar authorities as they are not considered hazardous.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23325 | 349,116 |
1,964,864 | The resources, tools, and standards were not only created by the DPC to be applied at institutions with existing digital collections, but to teach anyone the fundamentals and best practices of digital preservation. Their primary resource for teaching the proper methods for digital preservation was originally called the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2361111 | 1,963,735 |
1,248,984 | As the specific impurity matters it is not sufficient to rely on normal metrics of gas purity, often reported using nines (e.g. >99.9990% or 5.0N), as this does not provide adequate information about which impurities may be present at trace levels. Instead, standards have been developed that provide more detailed requi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20320971 | 1,248,308 |
397,319 | Lightweight armoured fighting vehicles designed or modified to be carried by aircraft and delivered by air drop, helicopter lift, glider, or air landing with infantry to provide heavier tactical firepower and mobility. The air-equivalent to amphibious vehicles, the main advantage of airborne forces is their ability to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2148 | 397,123 |
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