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92,055 | A series of standard types of coaxial cable were specified for military uses, in the form "RG-#" or "RG-#/U". They date from World War II and were listed in "MIL-HDBK-216" published in 1962. These designations are now obsolete. The RG designation stands for Radio Guide; the U designation stands for Universal. The curre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46380 | 92,015 |
1,010,349 | During Computer Science Education Week from December 9 to December 15, 2013, Code.org launched the "Hour of Code Challenge" on its website to teach computer science to school students, enticing them to complete short programming tutorials. The Hour of Code involved getting people to write short snippets of code to achi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41585692 | 1,009,828 |
734,196 | By November 2008 most hardware and software development was complete, and testing continued. At this point, cost overruns were approximately $400 million. In the attempts to meet the launch date, several instruments and a cache for samples were removed and other instruments and cameras were simplified to simplify testi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=453544 | 733,809 |
150,739 | In 1980, Philips introduced its model SL*18, which was a screw-in or bayonet mount lamp with integral magnetic ballast. The lamp used a folded T4 tube, stable tri-color phosphors, and a mercury amalgam. Inventor of new phosphors was Louis Vrenken. This was the first successful screw-in replacement for an incandescent l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1201545 | 150,671 |
855,938 | Apocrita is a suborder of insects in the order Hymenoptera. It includes wasps, bees, and ants, and consists of many families. It contains the most advanced hymenopterans and is distinguished from Symphyta by the narrow "waist" (petiole) formed between the first two segments of the actual abdomen; the first abdominal se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=432373 | 855,483 |
1,237,600 | The election of John F. Kennedy to president of the United States put a renewed focus on the space program, both military and civil. President Kennedy appointed Jerome Wiesner to chair a committee to review the organization of military and civil space. The Wiesner Report criticize the fractionalized military space prog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66185637 | 1,236,935 |
463,839 | Measurements made in the laboratory are essential to our understanding of the sources and sinks of pollutants and naturally occurring compounds. These experiments are performed in controlled environments that allow for the individual evaluation of specific chemical reactions or the assessment of properties of a particu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=706999 | 463,609 |
1,016,461 | ASN.1 is similar in purpose and use to protocol buffers and Apache Thrift, which are also interface description languages for cross-platform data serialization. Like those languages, it has a schema (in ASN.1, called a "module"), and a set of encodings, typically type–length–value encodings. Unlike them, ASN.1 does not... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75625 | 1,015,938 |
1,887,360 | Currently, ANFA's board of directors is composed of 17 renowned neuroscientists and architects from all around the United States of America. ANFA strives to foster collaboration among neuroscientists and architects to explore, through scientific methods, the range of human experiences with elements of architecture, to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31493339 | 1,886,278 |
1,599,630 | With the second round pick acquired from Minnesota in the Nilsson trade, Calgary selected East Coast Athletic Conference rookie of the year Joe Nieuwendyk from Cornell University. Labeled "Joe who?" by media and fans unsure of his potential, Nieuwendyk ultimately had the longest NHL career of any Flames' selection in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13712679 | 1,598,730 |
424,610 | Technology forecasting heavily relies on data and data makes contributions to manufacturing and Industry 4.0. IoT System provides a strong platform to make predictive analysis in the post-Industry 4.0. The advanced technologies will increase forecasting accuracy as well as reliability. As the rapid development of IoT t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3403430 | 424,402 |
1,851,900 | After the turn of the 20th century, the university began to expand considerably, opening several new schools as well as changing its name. On June 21, 1904, with the consent of the Regents of the University of the State of New York, the board of trustees authorized the opening of both a law and medical school. St. John... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53885358 | 1,850,839 |
913,046 | The high symmetry of the double-cone topology of the linear E ⊗ e JT system directly reflects the high underlying symmetry. It is one of the earliest (if not the earliest) examples in the literature of a conical intersection of potential energy surfaces. Conical intersections have received wide attention in the literat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1964288 | 912,567 |
1,755,366 | One issue which hinders control of Ebola is that diagnostic tests that are currently available require specialised equipment and highly trained personnel. Since there are few suitable testing centres in West Africa, this leads to delay in diagnosis. In December, a conference in Geneva will aim to work out which diagnos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44942023 | 1,754,376 |
2,211,134 | After resuscitating the squad in the mid-30's as a club team, Columbia's ice hockey program received approval from the administration for the first time in 14 years. The team was led by senior captain Chris MacFadden who had been a driving force behind the team's return. The Lions were hoping to get an early start on t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68228986 | 2,209,874 |
124,909 | The arguments against modern construction materials began to collapse in the mid-19th century as great prefabricated structures such as the glass and iron Crystal Palace and the glazed courtyard of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History were erected, which appeared to embody Gothic principles. Between 1863 and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=311821 | 124,857 |
1,287,326 | The 2009–10 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team represented Michigan State University in the 2009–10 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Their head coach was Tom Izzo who was in his 15th year. The Spartans played their home games at the Breslin Center in East Lansing, Michigan and were members of the Big... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22876491 | 1,286,625 |
1,603,231 | From a biological point of view, work is being done on the brains of fruit flies that should yield techniques precise enough to allow an understanding of the workings of the human brain on a scale appreciative of individual groups of neurons rather than the more regional scale previously used. Similarly, gene activity ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12185843 | 1,602,330 |
70,316 | Although most injury responses include a calcium influx signaling to promote resealing of severed parts, axonal injuries initially lead to acute axonal degeneration, which is the rapid separation of the proximal and distal ends, occurring within 30 minutes of injury. Degeneration follows with swelling of the axolemma, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21120 | 70,289 |
1,853,737 | In theoretical works on stellar physics, new conclusions were drawn about the physical nature of the end product of stellar evolution. It is shown that during the collapse, during the formation of a neutron star, a flux of neutrinos and antineutrinos with an energy of 50 eV is formed. The neutron star formed during the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11630810 | 1,852,674 |
1,263,754 | Arman's company engaged in battle on 29 October 1936 near Seseña, 30 km south-west of Madrid. Twelve T-26s advanced 35 km during the ten-hour raid and inflicted significant losses to Francoists (around two squadrons of Moroccan cavalry and two infantry battalions were defeated; twelve 75 mm field guns, four CV-33 tanke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25627069 | 1,263,066 |
1,308,413 | The SNAP Experimental Reactor (SER) was the first reactor to be built by the specifications established for space satellite applications. The SER used uranium zirconium hydride as the fuel and eutectic sodium-potassium alloy (NaK) as the coolant and operated at approximately 50 kW thermal. The system did not have a pow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5230467 | 1,307,697 |
1,050,036 | Biomining is the technique of extracting metals from ores and other solid materials typically using prokaryotes, fungi or plants (phytoextraction also known as phytomining or biomining). These organisms secrete different organic compounds that chelate metals from the environment and bring it back to the cell where they... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9929778 | 1,049,490 |
1,123,786 | When psychiatrists and pediatricians first began to recognize and discuss childhood psychiatric disorders in the 19th century, they were largely influenced by literary works of the Victorian era. Authors like the Brontë sisters, George Eliot, and Charles Dickens, introduced new ways of thinking about the child mind and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11743428 | 1,123,212 |
404,622 | Players can organize themselves into corporations (similar to guilds or clans in other MMOs). Corporations are run by one chief executive officer (CEO) who controls the corporation's assets. The CEO assigns roles to corporation members such as director, accountant and personnel manager. Corporations may also band toget... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=403307 | 404,422 |
1,340,817 | The design concept for utilizing quartz crystals as a filtering component was first established by Walter Cady in 1922, but it was largely Warren P. Mason's work in the late 1920s and early 1930s that devised methods for incorporating crystals into LC lattice filter networks which set the groundwork for much of the pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234088 | 1,340,084 |
1,961,646 | Alexander Luria is considered by some to be a founding father of the field of neuropsychology. Luria's work, much of which was related to speech rehabilitation, provided much of the foundation for what we know today as child neuropsychology (developmental neuropsychology focusing only on beginning of lifespan). The Lur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62484990 | 1,960,519 |
653,287 | The simplest type of glow discharge is a direct-current glow discharge. In its simplest form, it consists of two electrodes in a cell held at low pressure (0.1–10 torr; about 1/10000th to 1/100th of atmospheric pressure). A low pressure is used to increase the mean free path; for a fixed electric field, a longer mean f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=870857 | 652,943 |
116,135 | There is no silver bullet in electricity or energy demand and bill management, because customers (sites) have different specific situations, e.g. different comfort/convenience needs, different electricity tariffs, or different usage patterns. Electricity tariff may have a few elements, such as daily access and metering... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=652531 | 116,090 |
745,043 | Australia used the 25-pounder extensively, including in WW2, Korea and the Malayan Emergency. They were kept in use by reserve units up until 1970s. Individual guns are now often seen as fixed memorials in memorial parks and Returned Servicemen's clubs. Because of the rough terrain involved in the New Guinea campaign, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1066409 | 744,649 |
664,335 | The operational level of war is concerned with four essential elements: time, space, means, and purpose. Through means such as directing troops and allocating (limited) resources (among others), operational art aims to achieve political goals by producing an optimal (or at least near-optimal) generation and application... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1436399 | 663,988 |
315,765 | The 2000s have witnessed the rapid development of Fast-scan DSC (FSC), a novel calorimetric technique that employs micromachined sensors. The key advances of this technique are the ultrahigh scanning rate, which can be as high as 106 K/s, and the ultrahigh sensitivity, with a heat capacity resolution typically better t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=97914 | 315,596 |
870,910 | Diabatic storage dissipates much of the heat of compression with intercoolers (thus approaching isothermal compression) into the atmosphere as waste, essentially wasting the energy used to perform the work of compression. Upon removal from storage, the temperature of this compressed air is "the one indicator" of the am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=436418 | 870,450 |
1,568,376 | In all, the astronauts who trained at the planetarium were Buzz Aldrin, Joseph P. Allen, William Anders, Neil Armstrong, Charles Bassett, Alan Bean, Frank Borman, Vance D. Brand, John S. Bull, Scott Carpenter, Gerald P. Carr, Eugene Cernan, Roger B. Chaffee, Philip K. Chapman, Michael Collins, Pete Conrad, Gordon Coope... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=496494 | 1,567,489 |
1,949,115 | Cysteine cathepsins are a family of cysteine proteases that represent a major component of the lysosomal proteolytic system. In general, cathepsins contain a signal peptide, followed by a propeptide and then a catalytically active mature region. The very long (251-amino acid residues) proregion of the cathepsin F precu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15066289 | 1,947,997 |
1,690,795 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has been a leader in laser-driven inertial confinement fusion (ICF) since the initial concept was developed by LLNL employee John Nuckols in the late 1950s. The basic idea was to use a "driver" to compress a small pellet known as the "target" that contains the fusion fuel, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46293573 | 1,689,848 |
1,468,779 | The PC explosion in the late 1980s and early 1990s signalled the end of the road for proprietary DNC terminals. With some exceptions, CNC manufacturers began migrating to PC-based controls running DOS, Windows or OS/2 which could be linked in to existing networks using standard protocols. Customers began migrating away... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2998794 | 1,467,955 |
602,015 | Co-op's proponents identify benefits for students (including motivation, career clarity, enhanced employability, and vocational maturity) and employers (labor force flexibility, recruitment/retention of trained workers, and input into curricula) as well as educational institutions and society (ibid.). Beyond informal a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=445944 | 601,706 |
960,798 | HEAT had posed a serious threat to armoured vehicles since its introduction in World War II. Lightweight and small, HEAT projectiles could nevertheless penetrate hundreds of millimetres of the most resistant steel armours. The capability of most materials for defeating HEAT follows the "density law", which states that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=81825 | 960,289 |
564,717 | Soon after these discoveries, "Ichthyornis" was recognized for its significance to the theory of evolution recently published by Charles Darwin. Darwin himself told Marsh in an 1880 letter that "Ichthyornis" and "Hesperornis" offered "the best support for the theory of evolution" since he had first published "On the Or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1708899 | 564,427 |
897,799 | "Prototaxites" would have been the tallest living organism in its day by far. In comparison, the plant "Cooksonia" only reached 6 cm, and itself towered over the "moss forests". Invertebrates were the only other land-dwelling multi-cellular life. "Prototaxites" became extinct as vascular plants rose to prominence. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10857884 | 897,325 |
121,786 | Around the time Lockheed Martin withdrew its protest some potentially crucial data from JLTV testing was revealed. The 472–page annual report from the Pentagon's independent Director of Operational Test and Evaluation revealed that in testing Oshkosh's JLTV prototype lasted nearly six times longer between significant b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9398801 | 121,737 |
1,081,542 | Currently, different cognitive anthropologists are concerned with how groups of individuals are able to coordinate activities and "thinking" (Edwin Hutchins); with the distribution of cultural models (who knows what, and how people access knowledge within a culture: Dorothy Holland, A. Kimball Romney, Dan Sperber, Marc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7055844 | 1,080,986 |
88,457 | Only parts which really require being in a privileged mode are in kernel space: IPC (Inter-Process Communication), basic scheduler, or scheduling primitives, basic memory handling, basic I/O primitives. Many critical parts are now running in user space: The complete scheduler, memory handling, file systems, and network... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21346982 | 88,422 |
1,992,772 | The only mandatory EOBR use is for companies with a poor compliance record that is slated to go into effect in June, 2012. On August 26, 2011, in a lawsuit brought by the Owner–Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA), the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded the rule back to the agency for fu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15979184 | 1,991,629 |
633,464 | For such an increase to occur would have required an accelerated influx of land-derived nutrients coupled with vigorous upwelling, requiring major climate change on a global scale. Geochemical data from oxygen-isotope ratios in carbonate sediments and fossils, and magnesium/calcium ratios in fossils, indicate that all ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1632974 | 633,126 |
1,832,145 | The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the Bcl-2 protein family. Bcl-2 family members form hetero- or homodimers and act as anti- or pro-apoptotic regulators that are involved in a wide variety of cellular activities. The proteins encoded by this gene are located at the outer mitochondrial membrane, and have been ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14087255 | 1,831,098 |
1,754,755 | As one of the two sites administered by the defense department, the Blue Grass Army Depot has been storing chemical weapons since 1944. Located near Richmond Kentucky, this facility has been home to over 500 tons of chemical weaponry ranging from mustard gas to VX nerve agent. Like Pine Bluff it is an extremely vast si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26503440 | 1,753,765 |
337,421 | In 1996, Bruce Perens assumed the project leadership. Perens was a controversial leader, regarded as authoritarian and strongly attached to Debian. He drafted a social contract and edited suggestions from a month-long discussion into the Debian Social Contract and the Debian Free Software Guidelines. After the FSF with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8242 | 337,242 |
125,141 | In 2016, the USDA sponsored a committee to consider future regulatory policy for upcoming genetic modification techniques. With the help of the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, special interests groups met on April 15 to contemplate the possible advancements in genetic engineering within th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59990826 | 125,089 |
2,177,899 | It has been observed among natural RuBisCOs that an increased ability to distinguish between CO and O (larger values of S) corresponds with a decreased rate of carboxylation (lower values of V and K). The variation and trade-off between S and K has been observed across all photosynthetic organisms, from photosynthetic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57511265 | 2,176,654 |
844,509 | In Pakistan, engineering education and profession is regulated by the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) via PEC Act 1976. PEC is a federal government organization. Any person with an engineering degree (BE/BS/BSc Engineering) from PEC accredited universities/institutes is legally allowed to register with the Pakistan ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=291251 | 844,059 |
1,819,052 | Interest in the area took off with vigour in the mid-19th century with the first real efforts made to quantify the strata of the country using the new mapping methods that geologists like William Smith had pioneered. The economical value of the area in those times lead to a detailed examination of Alderley. Boreholes s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8367084 | 1,818,017 |
50,386 | Themes of religion and spirituality appear in much of Clarke's writing. He said: "Any path to knowledge is a path to Godor Reality, whichever word one prefers to use." He described himself as "fascinated by the concept of God". J. B. S. Haldane, near the end of his life, suggested in a personal letter to Clarke that Cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598148 | 50,366 |
245,617 | The devices lanthanide elements are used in include superconductors, samarium-cobalt and neodymium-iron-boron high-flux rare-earth magnets, magnesium alloys, electronic polishers, refining catalysts and hybrid car components (primarily batteries and magnets). Lanthanide ions are used as the active ions in luminescent m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18308 | 245,490 |
495,118 | Habib and Witton also went in to describe how insectivory evolved with pterosaurs, just like what is seen with "Anurognathus ammoni" and "Dendrorhynchoides curvidentatus", and how that relates to their functional morphology. They explained that with the great locomotion and flexibility that their wings showed, "Anurogn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3361076 | 494,862 |
388,603 | Helium and high pressure both cause hyperbaric distortion of speech. The process of talking underwater is influenced by the internal geometry of the life support equipment and constraints on the communications systems as well as the physical and physiological influences of the environment on the processes of speaking a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=489941 | 388,408 |
1,705,654 | The biotechnical company Defymed, based in France, is developing an implantable bio-artificial device called MailPan which features a bio-compatible membrane with selective permeability to encapsulate different cell types, including pancreatic beta cells. The implantation of the device does not require conjunctive immu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6313537 | 1,704,696 |
1,706,825 | The correlation between PISA 2003 and TIMSS 2003 grade 8 country means is 0.84 in mathematics, 0.95 in science. The values go down to 0.66 and 0.79 if the two worst performing developing countries are excluded. Correlations between different scales and studies are around 0.80. The high correlations between different sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50185803 | 1,705,867 |
647,124 | The LPAAT BARS-50 has also been implicated in budding from the Golgi. This suggests that the conversion of lysoPA into PA might affect membrane curvature. LPAAT activity doubles the number of acyl chains, greatly increasing the cross-sectional area of the lipid that lies ‘within’ the membrane while the surface headgrou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1556672 | 646,784 |
1,550,609 | The first issue, dated August 1938, appeared on newsstands in May of that year. It contained "Survival" by Arthur J. Burks as the lead novel; this was well received by the readers, and did not contain any sexual content. The first couple of issues contained several stories that did little to offend readers, but they al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38820233 | 1,549,728 |
1,203,770 | Alon is a Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University and a Baumritter Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Computer Science at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He graduated from the Hebrew Reali School in 1974 and received his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1983 and had visiting positi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4939651 | 1,203,126 |
1,512,774 | The Russian space program has never given a high priority to the noise levels experienced by its cosmonauts (e.g. on Mir the noise levels reached 70–72 dB). Less than 75 decibels are unlikely to cause hearing loss. See noise-induced hearing loss for more information. This could result in hazard warning alarms not being... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12987773 | 1,511,923 |
741,009 | Bicalutamide has been studied in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in a 24-week trial of 15 patients at a dosage of 50 mg/day. Prostate volume decreased by 26% in patients taking bicalutamide and urinary irritative symptom scores significantly decreased. Conversely, peak urine flow rates and urine pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1269496 | 740,617 |
689,984 | Traditionally, in the pre-nanometer era, DFM consisted of a set of different methodologies trying to enforce some soft (recommended) design rules regarding the shapes and polygons of the physical layout of an integrated circuit. These DFM methodologies worked primarily at the full chip level. Additionally, worst-case s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3497359 | 689,621 |
54,210 | Neutron stars can host exoplanets. These can be original, circumbinary, captured, or the result of a second round of planet formation. Pulsars can also strip the atmosphere off from a star, leaving a planetary-mass remnant, which may be understood as a chthonian planet or a stellar object depending on interpretation. F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21869 | 54,190 |
1,244,256 | In mammals, microRNAs (miRNAs) regulate about 60% of the transcriptional activity of protein-encoding genes. Some miRNAs also undergo methylation-associated silencing in cancer cells. Let-7 and miR15/16 play important roles in down-regulating RAS and BCL2 oncogenes, and their silencing occurs in cancer cells. Decreased... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35746225 | 1,243,583 |
406,070 | Theoretical modeling of Krissansen-Totton and Fortney (2022) suggest that the inner planets most likely have oxygen- and carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres, if any. If the planets have an atmosphere, the amount of precipitation, its form and where it occurs would be determined by the presence and position of mountains and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50402274 | 405,870 |
898,779 | The eluent exits the gas chromatography column (A) and enters the FID detector’s oven (B). The oven is needed to make sure that as soon as the eluent exits the column, it does not come out of the gaseous phase and deposit on the interface between the column and FID. This deposition would result in loss of eluent and er... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4162402 | 898,304 |
2,018,524 | With these ideas in mind, in 1912 the house committee obtained purchase options on two lots owned by a development company called Troy Parkway Villa Site. The first lot could be purchased for $3,500 while the second was $2,500. The two lots were located on People's Avenue, one block away from the main campus. With the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8379666 | 2,017,361 |
2,103,621 | The German Diabetes Center (DDZ), Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich Heine University (HHU), is a research institution based in Düsseldorf. In 1964, it was founded due to the initiative of Prof. Dr. med. Karl Oberdisse as an Association for the Promotion of Research on Diabetes mellitus ("Gesellschaft zur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63262308 | 2,102,409 |
436,602 | In order to support the country's effort to contain the spread of the novel Corona pandemic, DIAT (DU) developed a cost-effective solution to disintegrate coronavirus. A microwave sterilizer named as ‘ATULYA' can be operated in portable or fixed installations and helps in disintegrating the virus by differential heatin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11943899 | 436,388 |
1,273,512 | The university uses English as the primary medium of instruction for the majority of its courses and has many native English-speaking lecturers in a wide range of disciplines. Mae Fah Luang University is a relatively new university and benefits from this by being able to offer modern courses relevant to today's world. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4069037 | 1,272,820 |
1,424,732 | The autograph manuscript for this quartet is inscribed "October 1810", but the paper on which it appears does not match the variety Beethoven is known to have used at that time. It is more likely that he finished it several months later. It premiered in 1814 and appeared in print two years later, dedicated to Nikolaus ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=607726 | 1,423,930 |
202,651 | Therapeutic exercises are frequently used in combination with many of the previously mentioned modalities and with great results. A variety of exercise regimens are available in patient treatment. An exercise regimen should be modified according to the abilities and weaknesses of the patient. Stabilization of the cervi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8639835 | 202,547 |
34,796 | Her first space mission began on 19 November 1997, as part of the six-astronaut crew that flew the Space Shuttle "Columbia" flight STS-87. Chawla was the first Indian woman to go in space. She spoke the following words while traveling in the weightlessness of space, "You are just your intelligence." She had traveled 10... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177537 | 34,784 |
1,493,302 | Several intrinsically conductive polymers of interest include polyacetylene, polythiophene, and polyaniline, and others may be made conductive through processes including chemical doping. The principle chemistry underlying the electronic sensing mechanism of conductive polymers is modulation of the conductivity of thes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66888952 | 1,492,462 |
508,735 | One of the most influential manifestos for the Structuralist movement was compiled by Aldo van Eyck in the architectural magazine "Forum" 7/1959. It was drawn up as the programme for the International Congress of Architects in Otterlo (7−15 September 1959). The central aspect of this issue of "Forum" was a frontal atta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18411985 | 508,471 |
284,475 | In 2012, new life was breathed into the ATA thanks to a $3.6M philanthropic donation by Franklin Antonio, co-founder and Chief Scientist of QUALCOMM Incorporated. This gift supports upgrades of all the receivers on the ATA dishes to have dramatically (2x - 10x from 1–8 GHz) greater sensitivity than before and supportin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28153 | 284,321 |
755,610 | At its inception in 1998, the Bluetooth SIG was primarily run by a staff effectively seconded from its member companies. In 2001 Tom Siep served as the group's managing director, and from 2002 to 2004 Mike McCamon led the group as its executive director. In 2004 he was replaced by Michael W. Foley (Mike). In mid-2012, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3743 | 755,207 |
1,826,161 | The men's shot put event at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program was held at the Olympic Stadium on Friday, 22 September. The shot put has been ever present since the beginning of the modern Olympic Games in 1896. Thirty-seven athletes from 27 nations competed. The maximum number of athletes per na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23925761 | 1,825,122 |
1,402,007 | Eisen announced through Twitter on January 25 his intent to run for U.S. Senate from California in 2018 for Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein's seat, registering the Twitter handle "SenatorPhD". His campaign slogan was "Liberty, Equality, Reality". Eisen's reasons for running for Congress included his perception that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3095306 | 1,401,220 |
1,723,320 | The 37KE was designated Kvant and was equipped with an astrophysics payload. It also used the Salyut-5B digital flight control computer and Gyrodyne flywheel orientation system developed for Almaz. As the module neared completion Salyut 7 experienced numerous technical problems and Kvant was retargeted for a docking wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10473434 | 1,722,350 |
1,129,417 | Overseen by Cyril Lovesey, flight testing commenced on 4 August 1929 in the new Supermarine S.6 at RAF Calshot, a seaplane and flying boat station on Southampton Water in Hampshire. During pre-race scrutineering tests, metal particles were found on two of the engine's 24 spark plugs indicating a piston failure which wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2544842 | 1,128,839 |
1,063,544 | Representer theorems are useful from a practical standpoint because they dramatically simplify the regularized empirical risk minimization problem formula_71. In most interesting applications, the search domain formula_4 for the minimization will be an infinite-dimensional subspace of formula_74, and therefore the sear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35887507 | 1,062,990 |
1,691,099 | In the early 1950s, Teletronix used the "T4" optical attenuator in the LA-2 compressor, furthermore, for their unique sound, they are still used today by Universal Audio in their reproductions of the LA-2. After the 1950s selenium in photocells was gradually replaced by CdS and CdSe. By 1960, ROs based on incandescent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37259466 | 1,690,149 |
503,018 | The major advantage of conventional hydroelectric dams with reservoirs is their ability to store potential power for later electrical production. The combination of a natural supply of energy and production on demand has made hydro power the largest source of renewable energy by far. Other advantages include longer lif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=623774 | 502,760 |
847,812 | The term "Deep Learning" has variable meanings, most of which can be applied to techniques used in machine vision for over 20 years. However the usage of the term in Machine Vision began in the later 2010s with the advent of the capability to successfully apply such techniques to entire images in the industrial machine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=172088 | 847,362 |
332,286 | First detected in October 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom from a sample taken the previous month in Kent, lineage B.1.1.7, labelled Alpha variant by the WHO, was previously known as the first Variant Under Investigation in December 2020 (VUI – 202012/01) and later notated as VOC-202012/01. It is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66185220 | 332,109 |
1,507,254 | Hand has received various awards for his work, including being elected Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1999, the Guy Medal in Silver of the Royal Statistical Society in 2002, the IEEE ICDM Outstanding Contributions Award in 2004, the Credit Collections and Risk Award for Contributions to the Credit Ind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30666895 | 1,506,408 |
388,493 | Bronchiectasis may result from a number of infectious and acquired causes, including measles, pneumonia, tuberculosis, immune system problems, as well as the genetic disorder cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis eventually results in severe bronchiectasis in nearly all cases. The cause in 10–50% of those without cystic fib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=331633 | 388,298 |
309,660 | At the 1900 Paris Olympics, the US team featured 75 athletes, a significant increase compared to 1896, but still considerably less than the French hosts that fielded 720 competitors. The most notable of all American participants was Margaret Abbott who became the first female American Olympic champion by winning the wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2112059 | 309,495 |
1,047,815 | Organised single-handed yacht racing was pioneered by Britons "Blondie" Hasler and Francis Chichester, who conceived the idea of a single-handed race across the Atlantic Ocean. This was a revolutionary concept at the time, as the idea was thought to be extremely impractical, particularly in the adverse conditions of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3607388 | 1,047,270 |
447,309 | Avery was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1877 to Francis Joseph Avery, a Baptist minister, and his wife Elizabeth Crowdy. The couple had immigrated from Britain in 1873. Oswald Avery was born and grew up in a small wooden row house on Moran Street in the North End of Halifax, now a designated heritage building. When A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50847 | 447,092 |
531,420 | Pullum and Scholz frame the poverty of the stimulus argument by examining all of the ways that the input is insufficient for language acquisition. First, children are exposed only to positive evidence. They do not receive explicit correction or instruction about what is not possible in the language. Second, the input t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2691458 | 531,146 |
116,374 | Fresnel's next lens was a rotating apparatus with eight "bull's-eye" panels, made in annular arcs by Saint-Gobain, giving eight rotating beams—to be seen by mariners as a periodic flash. Above and behind each main panel was a smaller, sloping bull's-eye panel of trapezoidal outline with trapezoidal elements. This refra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63978 | 116,329 |
190,905 | During the Miocene continents continued to drift toward their present positions. Of the modern geologic features, only the land bridge between South America and North America was absent, the subduction zone along the Pacific Ocean margin of South America caused the rise of the Andes and the southward extension of the M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11603215 | 190,806 |
269,167 | On 12 February 1958, the U.S. Department of Defense transferred executive responsibility for the PGM-19 Jupiter (IRBM) from the U.S. Department of the Army to the U.S. Air Force. Headquarters SAC transferred the 864th Strategic Missile Squadron (IRBM-Jupiter) from Huntsville, Alabama, to Cooke AFB. In April 1958, Headq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=108145 | 269,021 |
830,430 | Thomas Crombie Schelling (April 14, 1921 – December 13, 2016) was an American economist and professor of foreign policy, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public Policy at University of Maryland, College Park. He was also co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute. He w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=696024 | 829,983 |
1,176,111 | In recent years, there has been a move towards vertical integration of debt securitization. Previously, investment banks had assisted lenders in raising more lending funds and having the ability to offer longer term fixed interest rates by converting lenders' outstanding loans into bonds. For example, a mortgage lender... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31519517 | 1,175,489 |
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