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522,652 | Aggregate supply is targeted by government "supply-side policies", which are intended to increase productive efficiency and hence national output. Some examples of supply-side policies include education and training, research and development, supporting small/medium entreprise, reducing business taxes, undertaking labo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=661103 | 522,380 |
435,553 | During a fire in a tunnel, as well as in the petrochemical industry, temperatures exceed those of ordinary building (cellulosic) fires. This is because the fuel for the fire is hydrocarbons, which burn hotter (compare hydrocarbon curve above to ASTM E119 curve), faster and typically run out of fuel faster as well, comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6774137 | 435,339 |
272,700 | National or local (i.e. US state or Canadian provincial) legislation governs who can write a prescription. In the United States, physicians (either M.D., D.O. or D.P.M.) have the broadest prescriptive authority. All 50 US states and the District of Columbia allow licensed certified Physician Assistants (PAs) prescripti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=304263 | 272,552 |
1,799,116 | Omega 3 fatty acids are essential for brain development and support cognition. These acids affect how the cell receptors react inside of the cell membranes. The human body is not able to make, or synthesize, omega 3 or DHA acids on its own. This means that the only source we have for these vital fatty acids comes direc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34730803 | 1,798,107 |
64,718 | Biodiversity is not distributed evenly on Earth; it is usually greater in the tropics as a result of the warm climate and high primary productivity in the region near the equator. Tropical forest ecosystems cover less than 10% of earth's surface and contain about 90% of the world's species. Marine biodiversity is usual... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45086 | 64,693 |
1,004,335 | LiH powder reacts rapidly with air of low humidity, forming LiOH, and . In moist air the powder ignites spontaneously, forming a mixture of products including some nitrogenous compounds. The lump material reacts with humid air, forming a superficial coating, which is a viscous fluid. This inhibits further reaction, alt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2196648 | 1,003,817 |
1,295,094 | Thermotogota bacteria are typically thermophilic or hyperthermophilic, gram-negative staining, anaerobic organisms that can live near hydrothermal vents where temperatures can range between 55-95 °C. They are thought to be some of the earliest forms of life. Evidence of these organisms has been discovered in the Austra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60456582 | 1,294,383 |
522,032 | A relatively new development in MCM technology is the so-called "chip-stack" package. Certain ICs, memories in particular, have very similar or identical pinouts when used multiple times within systems. A carefully designed substrate can allow these dies to be stacked in a vertical configuration making the resultant MC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2891978 | 521,760 |
1,230,704 | During the Second World War, General Dornberger was the military head of the army's rocket programme, Zanssen became the commandant of the Peenemünde army rocket centre, and von Braun was the technical director of the ballistic missile programme. They led the team that built the Aggregat-4 (A-4) rocket, which became th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65552841 | 1,230,042 |
399,254 | In March 2018, the European Commission announced that the United Kingdom may be excluded from parts of the project (especially relating to the secured service PRS) following its exit from the European Union (EU). As a result, Airbus was to relocate work on the Ground Control Segment (GCS) from its Portsmouth premises t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13009 | 399,056 |
508,973 | Within ASL there is a class of indexical (often called 'directional') verbs. These include the signs for 'see', 'pay', 'give', 'show', 'invite', 'help', 'send', 'bite', etc. These verbs include an element of motion that indexes one or more referents, either physically present or set up through the referent locus system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10240549 | 508,709 |
431,483 | Nanotechnologies may provide new solutions for the millions of people in developing countries who lack access to basic services, such as safe water, reliable energy, health care, and education. The 2004 UN Task Force on Science, Technology and Innovation noted that some of the advantages of nanotechnology include produ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7200558 | 431,271 |
1,943,392 | Things worked out differently in the Rheinland, where he spent most of the spring and summer at several locations. His large format painting "The Harvest" was displayed in Paris in 1910 and brought a letter of appreciation from Henri Matisse. The following year, he left Berlin for good and settled near Brüggen, taking ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61861710 | 1,942,281 |
1,287,622 | The results from a G study can also be used to inform a decision, or D, study. In a D study, we can ask the hypothetical question of "what would happen if different aspects of this study were altered?" For example, a soft drink company might be interested in assessing the quality of a new product through use of a consu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7914038 | 1,286,921 |
986,147 | A study in 2018 proposed an altered variant of the original version of the hypothesis called the 'transformative cultural intelligence hypothesis'. The research involved investigating four year old's problem solving skills in different social contexts. The children were asked to extract a floating object from a tube us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2452832 | 985,632 |
321,411 | Indian civilian authorities and the IAF donated 1 DC-3 Dakota (gifted by the Maharaja of Jodhpor), 1 Twin Otter plane, and 1 Alouette III helicopter for the newborn Bangladesh Air Force, which was to take advantage of the lack of night-fighting capability of the PAF to launch hit-and-run attacks on sensitive targets in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=508478 | 321,239 |
2,202,604 | It was originally reported from "N"-alkyl- or "N"-aryl- "N"-cyanomethylated β-aminoalcohols but other electron-withdrawing groups such as esters or phosphonates are also suitable and the chloride can be replaced by a Michael acceptor. Over the years, the Couty's azetidine synthesis was shown to be efficient to access a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70917854 | 2,201,350 |
2,143,960 | The Golisano College is housed within a three-floor, 126,500 sq. ft. facility that features three cube sculptures created by famed artist Harry Bertoia, that house trees that stretch up through the atrium. There are 13 classrooms, 12 studio teaching labs, and 16 dedicated labs at the college, offering access to the stu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2735622 | 2,142,729 |
1,176,264 | eNAMPT/PBEF/visfatin was originally cloned as a putative cytokine shown to enhance the maturation of B cell precursors in the presence of Interleukin-7 (IL-7) and stem cell factor, it was therefore named "pre-B cell colony-enhancing factor" (PBEF). When the gene encoding the bacterial nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransfe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14661752 | 1,175,642 |
8,156 | Psychologists in Germany, Denmark, Austria, England, and the United States soon followed Wundt in setting up laboratories. G. Stanley Hall, an American who studied with Wundt, founded a psychology lab that became internationally influential. The lab was located at Johns Hopkins University. Hall, in turn, trained Yujiro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22921 | 8,153 |
226,586 | In many jurisdictions of the United States, the architectural engineer is a licensed engineering professional. Usually a graduate of an EAC/ABET-accredited architectural engineering university program preparing students to perform whole-building design in competition with architect-engineer teams; or for practice in on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19278728 | 226,470 |
1,993,535 | According to a paper presented to the American Society of Criminology in 2006, an illegal economy in the theft of pets, mostly dogs, has emerged in the U.S. in recent years, with the thieves known as "bunchers". The bunchers sell the animals to Class B animal dealers, who pay $25 per animal. The dealers then sell the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14690411 | 1,992,392 |
1,782,053 | New York 1924 was an elite chess tournament held in the Alamac Hotel in New York City from March 16 to April 18, 1924. It was organized by the Manhattan Chess Club. The competitors included world champion José Raúl Capablanca and his predecessor Emanuel Lasker. Nine other top players from Europe and America were also i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19415651 | 1,781,049 |
2,044,650 | This Integrated Project aims at exploring novel ways of organizing and using networks beyond legacy Internet technology. The ultimate goal is to design and develop a novel network architecture that enables flexible, dynamic, and fully autonomic formation of network nodes as well as whole networks. It will allow dynamic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17766713 | 2,043,469 |
1,555,764 | Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a treatment where the animal is placed in a chamber that is pressurized and filled with 100% oxygen. This high-pressure environment increases the amount of oxygen carried in solution within the blood, thereby delivering a significantly greater amount to tissues. HBOT has been shown t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45517504 | 1,554,881 |
1,885,824 | Chamberlin was noted by colleagues at Utah for being a lifelong champion of the scientific method and instilling in his students ideas that natural processes must be used to explain human existence. Angus and Grace Woodbury wrote that one of his greatest cultural contributions was his ability "to lead the naive student... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3997448 | 1,884,742 |
529,079 | The non-SI unit of luminance, Lambert, is named in recognition of his work in establishing the study of photometry. Lambert was also a pioneer in the development of three-dimensional colour models. Late in life, he published a description of a triangular colour pyramid ("Farbenpyramide"), which shows a total of 107 col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=93085 | 528,805 |
1,485,934 | A different approach to constituency parsing leveraging neural sequence models was developed by Oriol Vinyals et al. in 2015. In this approach, constituent parsing is modelled like machine translation: the task is sequence-to-sequence conversion from the sentence to a constituency parse, in the original paper using a d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68841311 | 1,485,096 |
625,899 | The process formally started in December 1958 when Bendix was awarded a contract to develop the AAM-N-10 Eagle missile system (later the project's development funding was cut off by the Kennedy administration due to budgetary reasons, thus saving $57.7 million). After launch, the Eagle was boosted to Mach 3.5 by a larg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1048043 | 625,566 |
1,199,163 | The highly selective aspartic protease renin is secreted from the juxtaglomerular apparatus, which is the only source of active renin, although its precursor, prorenin, can be secreted by other tissues, such as the salivary glands, brain, heart and blood vessels. Renin is a circulating enzyme that acts on a circulating... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14778970 | 1,198,522 |
1,488,651 | The structure of the composite matrix can play a large role in the outcome of the final bulk mechanical properties. This is especially true for inorganic based matrix materials. Several lab-scale examples have demonstrated a general trend that smaller matrix particle sizes can result in orders of magnitude increase in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21066540 | 1,487,812 |
689,921 | Data Loggers are changing more rapidly now than ever before. The original model of a stand-alone data logger is changed to one of a device that collects data but also has access to wireless communications for alarming of events, automatic reporting of data, and remote control. Data loggers are beginning to serve web pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=988114 | 689,558 |
207,769 | In January 1952, ADC was ordered to deploy the 319th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron from the 25th Air Division at Larson AFB, Washington to Japan, and to relieve the 68th FIS at Itazuke. A detachment of the ADC squadron was sent to Misawa AB to fly air defense missions over Northern Honshu and Hokkaido against any intrud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=401013 | 207,662 |
1,132,243 | Ad Astra Rocket Company developed the VX-200, a full-scale prototype of the VASIMR engine intended for ground testing. The company successfully tested the prototype in September 2009. Following the test, the company will begin preparations for the VF-200-1, the first flight unit. The VASIMR technology could be useful i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16872546 | 1,131,651 |
674,804 | Fothergill and others searched Europe for designs for these creations. In March 1770 Boulton visited the Royal Family and sold several vases to Queen Charlotte, George III's wife. He ran annual sales at Christie's in 1771 and 1772. The Christie's exhibition succeeded in publicising Boulton and his products, which were ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=250764 | 674,451 |
1,377,895 | The improvement in conductivity in going from earlier aluminium to copper based conductors was modest, and not as good as to be expected by a simple comparison of bulk conductivities of aluminium and copper. The addition of barrier metals on all four sides of the copper conductor significantly reduces the cross-section... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230641 | 1,377,133 |
419,619 | The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), established in 1989, is the aeronautics and space agency of South Korea. Its main laboratories are located in Daejeon, in the Daedeok Science Town. KARI's vision is to continue building upon indigenous launch capabilities, strengthen national safety and public service, ind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1916449 | 419,414 |
1,513,058 | Robert G. Roeder (born June 3, 1942, in Boonville, Indiana, United States) is an American biochemist. He is known as a pioneer scientist in eukaryotic transcription. He discovered three distinct nuclear RNA polymerases in 1969 and characterized many proteins involved in the regulation of transcription, including basic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1568691 | 1,512,207 |
64,313 | The description of Solomon's Temple given in I Kings and II Chronicles is remarkably detailed, but attempts to reconstruct it have met many difficulties. The description includes various technical terms that have lost their original meaning to time. Archaeological studies have provided ancient Near Eastern counterparts... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28163575 | 64,288 |
1,867,746 | On 2 March 1714 Bach was appointed concertmaster of the Weimar court capelle of the co-reigning dukes Wilhelm Ernst and Ernst August of Saxe-Weimar. As concertmaster, he assumed the principal responsibility for composing new works, specifically cantatas for the "Schlosskirche" (palace church), on a monthly schedule. He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37930018 | 1,866,670 |
327,782 | Later chapters provide evidence that evolution has occurred, supporting the idea of branching, adaptive evolution without directly proving that selection is the mechanism. Darwin presents supporting facts drawn from many disciplines, showing that his theory could explain a myriad of observations from many fields of nat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29932 | 327,608 |
211,992 | Some vehicles use torsion bars to provide automatic levelling, using a motor to pre-stress the bars to provide greater resistance to load and, in some cases (depending on the speed with which the motors can act), to respond to changes in road conditions. Height adjustable suspension has been used to implement a wheel-c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=391266 | 211,884 |
221,622 | Another, more successful, programme was the US's Bell X-1, which also was equipped with a straight wing. According to Miles Chief Aerodynamicist Dennis Bancroft, the Bell Aircraft company was given access to the drawings and research on the M.52. On 14 October 1947, the Bell X-1 performed the first manned supersonic fl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=246851 | 221,513 |
1,079,848 | Meredith Rodney McKay was born in 1968. He has a sister named Jeannie Miller (played by David Hewlett's sister Kate Hewlett), who is similar in intellect. McKay feels that his parents blamed him for their problems. McKay originally turned to science after his piano teacher told him he was a "fine clinical player" but h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1657669 | 1,079,293 |
1,199,579 | The upper part of the thermosphere, where the mean free path of the molecules exceeds the scale height, is called the exosphere. The lower boundary of the Uranian exosphere, the exobase, is located at a height of about 6,500 km, or 1/4 of the planetary radius, above the surface. The exosphere is unusually extended, rea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13062770 | 1,198,938 |
467,972 | The choice of Hastelloy-N for the MSRE was on the basis of the promising results of tests at aircraft nuclear propulsion conditions and the availability of much of the required metallurgical data. Development for the MSRE generated the further data required for ASME code approval. It also included preparation of standa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5710651 | 467,737 |
642,420 | Within a few hours of inhaling abrin, common symptoms include fever, cough, airway irritation, chest tightness, pulmonary edema (excess fluid accumulated in the lungs), and nausea. This makes breathing difficult (called dyspnea), and the skin might turn blue or black in a condition called cyanosis, which is a symptom o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2338947 | 642,081 |
1,557,082 | A muon is about 206 times more massive than the electron, which reduces the amount of synchrotron radiation from a muon by a factor of about 1 billion. The reduced radiation loss enables the construction of circular colliders with much higher design energies than equivalent electron / positron colliders. This provides ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34317146 | 1,556,197 |
467,228 | Gund Hall is the main building, which has studio spaces and offices for approximately 800 students and more than 100 faculty and staff, lecture and seminar rooms, workshops and darkrooms, an audiovisual center, computer facilities, Chauhaus, the cafeteria, a project room, Piper Auditorium, and the Frances Loeb Library.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1563010 | 466,993 |
56,415 | Overall, Hashimoto's thyroiditis affects up to 2% of the general population. About 5% of Caucasians will develop Hashimoto's at some point in their lives. In the US, the African-American population experiences it less commonly but has greater associated mortality. It is also less frequent in Asian populations. About 1.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=660960 | 56,391 |
1,267,204 | Soon after the discovery of restriction endonucleases and ligases, the field of genetics began using these molecular tools to assemble artificial sequences from smaller fragments of synthetic or naturally-occurring DNA. The advantage in using the recombinatory approach as opposed to continual DNA synthesis stems from t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11330015 | 1,266,514 |
1,874,238 | Soon after the discovery of restriction endonucleases and ligases, the field of genetics began using these molecular tools to assemble artificial sequences from smaller fragments of synthetic or naturally occurring DNA. The advantage in using the recombinatory approach as opposed to continual DNA synthesis stems from t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47757024 | 1,873,161 |
2,230,989 | The University of Calgary's sixth generation vehicle looked to make significant improvements of their cruiser class vehicle while keeping practicality their main focus. The team started the design phase in 2016 and crafted a catamaran inspired frame to help increase aerodynamics and reduce weight. Furthermore, the team... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3421567 | 2,229,723 |
204,845 | Ioannidis's 2005 paper "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" is the most downloaded paper in the Public Library of Science. In the paper, Ioannidis says that most published research does not meet good scientific standards of evidence. Ioannidis has also described the replication crisis in diverse scientific ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20900378 | 204,739 |
133,316 | Another important landmark in medicine and biology were the successful efforts to prove the germ theory of disease. Following this, Louis Pasteur made the first vaccine against rabies, and also made many discoveries in the field of chemistry, including the asymmetry of crystals. In 1847, Hungarian physician Ignác Fülöp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400 | 133,263 |
447,485 | Josephson's reputation for promoting unorthodox causes was cemented by his support for the ideas of water memory and cold fusion, both of which are rejected by mainstream scientists. Water memory is purported to provide a possible explanation for homeopathy; it is dismissed by scientists as pseudoscience, although Jose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=396631 | 447,268 |
1,927,942 | The ability of a brain to run complex simulations is a powerful evolutionary advantage. Dawkins talks about how this ability to model future events by showing a painting suggesting a hypothetical situation in which a female "Homo erectus" uses a mental model of a tree fallen across a gorge as a possible solution to cro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11080148 | 1,926,838 |
2,171,860 | Farrell, a professional player, won the Stanley Cup with the Montreal Shamrocks of the Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) in 1899 and 1900. He wrote the book in the middle of his career, in response to demand. He stated in the introduction his work was borne out of "the necessity of a book on hockey". The book, 122 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31854022 | 2,170,621 |
457,353 | In 1897 he moved back to Paris, holding positions in the Sorbonne and the Collège de France, where he was appointed Professor of Mechanics in 1909. In addition to this post, he was appointed to chairs of analysis at the École Polytechnique in 1912 and at the École Centrale in 1920, succeeding Jordan and Appell. In Pari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=312675 | 457,130 |
62,138 | The introduction of new electronics in the 1960s allowed the two techniques to be combined. It starts with a longer pulse that is also frequency modulated. Spreading the broadcast energy out in time means lower peak energies can be used, with modern examples typically on the order of tens of kilowatts. On reception, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25676 | 62,113 |
704,618 | Conceptual analysis of nuclear marine propulsion started in the 1940s. Research on developing nuclear reactors for the Navy was done at Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania starting in 1948. Under the long-term leadership of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, the first test reactor plant, a prototype re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32325 | 704,250 |
62,767 | The M60 underwent many updates over its service life. The interior layout, based on the design of the M48, provided ample room for updates and improvements, extending the vehicle's service life for over four decades. It was widely used by the US and its Cold War allies, especially those in NATO, and remains in service ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=470028 | 62,742 |
7,763 | In penal theory and the philosophy of punishment, parsimony refers specifically to taking care in the distribution of punishment in order to avoid excessive punishment. In the utilitarian approach to the philosophy of punishment, Jeremy Bentham's "parsimony principle" states that any punishment greater than is required... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36797 | 7,760 |
1,158,381 | TSTC is a technical college designed to provide vocational and technical education to people entering the workforce or in the midst of a career change. As such, it primarily offers the associate of applied science (AAS) degree (along with certificates of completion). In 2009, TSTC Harlingen received approval from the T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=894090 | 1,157,767 |
1,704,310 | The medical school of FMHCMD takes in 150 students every year on the basis of MDCAT scores as well as conducting their own test. The affiliated hospitals provide immense clinical exposure to the medical students as well as giving them the ability to interact with the patients during their pre-clinical years. The Anatom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36688423 | 1,703,354 |
914,745 | Two "morphs" of "Coelophysis" have been identified: a more gracile form, as in specimen AMNH 7223, and a slightly more robust form, as in specimens AMNH 7224 and NMMNH P-42200. Skeletal proportions were different between these two forms; the gracile form has a longer skull, a longer neck, shorter forelimbs, and has sac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1091927 | 914,264 |
2,198,828 | In the 1940s Roger Sperry was conducting experiments on newts and frogs to understand how axons are guided to their topographic locations; he did this by cutting the optic nerve and rotating the detached eye 180°. What he observed was that the animals behaved as if their visual world was back-to-front and upside-down w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34806886 | 2,197,576 |
1,899,161 | The men's eight event was a rowing event conducted as part of the 1964 Summer Olympics programme. It was held from 12 to 15 October at the Toda Rowing Course. There were 14 boats (126 competitors) from 14 nations, with each nation limited to a single boat in the event. The event was won by the United States, returning ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8429473 | 1,898,077 |
2,147,235 | The South Asian University, which opened its doors in 2010 with the intention of becoming a centre of excellence, is the exception which confirms the rule. The university is hosted by India but all SAARC members share the operational costs in mutually agreed proportions. Admission is governed by a quota system, with st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53042476 | 2,146,004 |
1,298,982 | Alpine skis have undergone three distinct changes in sidecut design. The earliest skis from the 1800s all the way to modern examples in the late 1990s featured a very small amount of sidecut that produced a ski that was almost rectangular in profile as seen from the top. Starting with the Elan SCX in 1993, and very rap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3060970 | 1,298,268 |
1,064,749 | As of 2022, UCAS is ranked 112th globally,16th in Asia and 7th in China by the "U.S. News & World Report" Best Global University Ranking, with its "Artificial Intelligence", "Agricultural Science", "Biology and Biochemistry", "Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology", "Cell Biology", "Chemical Engineering", "Chemistry",... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6704292 | 1,064,195 |
1,116,707 | Bourseul's idea seems to have attracted little notice at the time, and was soon forgotten. Even the Count du Moncel, who was ever ready to welcome a promising invention, evidently regarded it as a fantastic notion. It is very doubtful Reis had ever heard of it. Reis was led to conceive a similar apparatus by a study of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=305047 | 1,116,134 |
1,622,410 | This was the 18th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. There were two 1972 finalists returning, sixth-place finisher Herman Mignon of Belgium and seventh-place finisher Paul-Heinz Wellmann of West Germany. The highly anticipated matchup was between Fil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30673804 | 1,621,494 |
897,084 | Findings with respect to epiblasts before and after implantation have produced proposals for classifying pluripotency into two distinct phases: "naive" and "primed". The baseline stem cells commonly used in science that are referred as embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are derived from a pre-implantation epiblast; such epibl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26982208 | 896,612 |
549,145 | Several states or communities might lay claim to the favour of a particular deity; the foundation myth of Athens, whose navy was a major factor in the city's growth and defence, had Athena and Poseidon, god of the sea, compete in a chariot race for the honour of becoming the patron of Athens. This was not interpreted a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40139134 | 548,857 |
409,810 | Antihydral cream is one of the solutions prescribed for hyperhidrosis for palms. Topical agents for hyperhidrosis therapy include formaldehyde lotion, topical anticholinergics etc. These agents reduce perspiration by denaturing keratin, in turn occluding the pores of the sweat glands. They have a short-lasting effect. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=862281 | 409,608 |
583,280 | Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB) is a memory-mapped key-value database for the OpenLDAP Project. It is written in C and the API is modeled after the Berkeley DB API, though much simplified. The library is extremely compact, compiling down to under 40KB of x86 object code, being usually faster than similar librar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15300413 | 582,981 |
688,774 | An infantile hemangioma (IH), sometimes called a strawberry mark due to appearance, is a type of benign vascular tumor or anomaly that affects babies. Other names include capillary hemangioma, strawberry hemangioma, strawberry birthmark and strawberry nevus. and formerly known as a cavernous hemangioma. They appear as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=862505 | 688,412 |
1,128,920 | On May 18–19, 2019, Shirai competed at the 2019 NHK Trophy in Chofu, Tokyo metro, Japan, repeating his 2018 participation in the IAA-only event. Due to lingering injury issues with the left ankle, he was unable to perform as well in the competition in comparison to most others, which would also include his performance ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40713040 | 1,128,342 |
812,106 | GFS is enhanced for Google's core data storage and usage needs (primarily the search engine), which can generate enormous amounts of data that must be retained; Google File System grew out of an earlier Google effort, "BigFiles", developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in the early days of Google, while it was still lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1419735 | 811,673 |
7,836 | There followed a series of electronic calculator models from these and other manufacturers, including Canon, Mathatronics, Olivetti, SCM (Smith-Corona-Marchant), Sony, Toshiba, and Wang. The early calculators used hundreds of germanium transistors, which were cheaper than silicon transistors, on multiple circuit boards... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7593 | 7,833 |
760,867 | Many of the innovations introduced by "The General Theory" continue to be central to modern macroeconomics. For instance, the idea that recessions reflect inadequate aggregate demand and that Say's Law (in Keynes's formulation, that "supply creates its own demand") does not hold in a monetary economy. President Richard... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=319373 | 760,461 |
73,288 | In 2014 the USAF began upgrading block 30/35 E-3B/Cs into block 40/45 E-3Gs. This upgrade replaces the main flight computer with a Red Hat Linux-based system, as well as replacing the DOS 2.0-like operating system with a Windows 95-like system on the operator workstations. In 2016, a three-week long cybersecurity vulne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10384 | 73,261 |
1,577,391 | With the effect of the equipment change, SAC plans was to disperse its B-52 bomber force over a wide number of bases, in order to insure that an entire wing of planes could not be taken out in one attack. The 31st with its 15 B-52s moved to Beale Air Force Base, California on 1 October 1959 and was reassigned to the 41... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15725980 | 1,576,502 |
545,902 | When applications such as a 3D game engine or a 3D computer graphics software shunt calculations from the CPU to the GPU, they usually use a special-purpose API like OpenGL or Direct3D and do not address the hardware directly. Because all translation (from API calls to GPU opcodes) is done by the device driver, it cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2226118 | 545,616 |
532,295 | Species restricted to a specific habitat in relatively remote regions, infrequently visited by biologists looking for reptiles, are often virtually unknown and rarely recorded. In a review in 2017, it was found that 15 anole species only were known from their holotype. These may truly be rare and seriously threatened, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322654 | 532,018 |
1,661,416 | In the early 1990s, sports people from this disability group had available as options on the elite level included basketball, athletics, indoor soccer, swimming and table tennis. These sports were the ones on offer at the first INAS World Games in 1990. The first competition similar to the Paralympic Games for people w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51210627 | 1,660,482 |
940,015 | An addition to the Special Metallurgical building weapon component production facility was completed at the end of 1964 for Pu heat source fuel fabrication. A temporary fuel production facility was also installed in the Research Building in 1969 for "Transit" fuel fabrication. With completion of the weapons component p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4051468 | 939,514 |
1,884,119 | In biodrying processes, the drying rates are augmented by biological heat in addition to forced aeration. The major portion of biological heat, naturally available through the aerobic degradation of organic matter, is utilized to evaporate surface and bound water associated with the mixed sludge. This heat generation a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8098322 | 1,883,038 |
1,091,264 | "Ralstonia solanacearum" possesses genes for all six protein secretion pathways that have been characterized in Gram-negative bacteria. Perhaps the best-studied of these is the Type III secretion system (T3SS or TTSS), which secretes infection-promoting effector proteins (T3Es) into host cells. Around 74 suspected or c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10438113 | 1,090,704 |
215,216 | Because the Mark V* had been lengthened, its original length-width ratio had been spoiled. Lateral forces in a turn now became unacceptably high causing thrown tracks and an enormous turning circle. Therefore, Major Wilson redesigned the track in May 1918, with a stronger curve to the lower run reducing ground contact ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7568878 | 215,108 |
1,024,736 | Uniprocessor and SMP systems require different programming methods to achieve maximum performance. Programs running on SMP systems may experience an increase in performance even when they have been written for uniprocessor systems. This is because hardware interrupts usually suspends program execution while the kernel ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50318 | 1,024,203 |
1,623,399 | Ignimbrites range in age from 25 mya to 1 mya. In the late Miocene, more evolved andesite magmas were erupted and the crustal components increased. In the late Tertiary until the Quaternary, a sudden decrease of mafic volcanism coupled with a sudden appearance of rhyodacitic and dacitic ignimbrites occurred. During thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47603156 | 1,622,483 |
302,948 | The school is rich in distinctive traditions, many of which are tied to Southern culture. For example, male students have historically worn coats and ties to classes—this tradition has generally been continued, though the coat and tie are often combined with casual pants and sometimes shorts. However, this tradition is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=765199 | 302,786 |
906,725 | In 1917, Ward "Piggy" Lambert, a former basketball player at Wabash College, was named head coach of the Boilermakers. What followed was one of the most dominant eras of Purdue Basketball on the conference and national level. Under Lambert, Purdue became a front-runner in the development of the fast-paced game as it is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8204961 | 906,249 |
1,574,807 | Hooke's device was not used again for study purposes for over a century. Its next documented usage was in 1830 when Savart reported his use of a system similar to Hooke's which he developed while investigating the lower range of human hearing. Savart's specific contribution was to attach a tachometer to the axis of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8665976 | 1,573,918 |
45,567 | Many metal silicides are known, most of which have formulae that cannot be explained through simple appeals to valence: their bonding ranges from metallic to ionic and covalent. Some known stoichiometries are , , , , , , , , , MSi, , , , and . They are structurally more similar to the borides than the carbides, in keep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27114 | 45,550 |
133,967 | Medial capitals are traditionally used in abbreviations to reflect the capitalization that the words would have when written out in full, for example in the academic titles PhD or BSc. A more recent example is NaNoWriMo, a contraction of National Novel Writing Month and the designation for both the annual event and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6698 | 133,913 |
203,087 | When in the soluble state, the process of diffusion causes the atoms of the dissolved element to spread out, attempting to form a homogenous distribution within the crystals of the base metal. If the alloy is cooled to an insoluble state, the atoms of the dissolved constituents (solutes) may migrate out of the solution... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182208 | 202,983 |
701,867 | IPSPs can also be used to study the input-output characteristics of an inhibitory forebrain synapse used to further study learned behavior—for example in a study of song learning in birds at the University of Washington. Poisson trains of unitary IPSPs were induced at a high frequency to reproduce postsynaptic spiking ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=465517 | 701,502 |
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