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1,745,492 | RAFT technology offers the benefit of being able to readily synthesize polymers with predetermined molecular weight and narrow molecular weight distributions over a wide range of monomers with reactive terminal groups that can be purposely manipulated, including further polymerization, with complex architecture.6 Furth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27930353 | 1,744,508 |
1,168,993 | According to the World Health Organization (WHO) gender discrimination in relation to lack of access and provision of health in this region is supported by concrete survey data. In the European Region, 1 in 5 women have been domestic violence victims, while honour killings, female genital mutilation, and bride kidnappi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38846583 | 1,168,375 |
1,410,626 | AstroRad is personal protective equipment for astronauts to be worn beyond low Earth orbit which was co-developed by StemRad and Lockheed Martin. AstroRad protects bone marrow to prevent acute radiation sickness but is further expanded to also protect the lungs, stomach, colon, breast and ovaries – organs that are part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43439055 | 1,409,834 |
1,078,113 | Influenza virus C is different from Types A and B in its growth requirements. Because of this, it is not isolated and identified as frequently. Diagnosis is by virus isolation, serology, and other tests. Hemagglutination inhibition (HI) is one method of serology that detects antibodies for diagnostic purposes. Western ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3833671 | 1,077,558 |
2,118,220 | Dynamic morphometrics technology involves new methods of labeling, imaging, and quantifying dendritogenesis. The transparent, externally developing vertebrate embryos of "Xenopus laevis" and zebrafish allow direct imaging of the organism in the critical stages of development while keeping the embryos intact. Individual... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7375514 | 2,117,002 |
515,776 | Most procellariids' nests are in burrows or on the surface on open ground, with a smaller number nesting under the cover of vegetation (such as in a forest). All the fulmarine petrels bar the snow petrel nest in the open, the snow petrel instead nesting inside natural crevices. Of the rest of the procellariids the majo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=224443 | 515,507 |
1,782,523 | Given the complex specification of electronic systems and the plethora of design choices ranging from the choice of components, number of components, operating modes of each of the components, connections between the components, choice of algorithm, etc.; design decisions need to be based on a systematic exploration pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45233993 | 1,781,519 |
41,576 | In 1988 Israel's defense minister denied a report by the Sunday Times of London that Israel and China had agreed to develop a fighter derived from the IAI Lavi, a project based on the F-16. In 2006, Russia's SibNIA engineers believed that the J-10 was "more or less a version" of the Lavi, incorporating "a melting pot o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1300422 | 41,561 |
935,730 | Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis (PLCH) is a unique form of LCH in that it occurs almost exclusively in cigarette smokers. It is now considered a form of smoking-related interstitial lung disease. PLCH develops when an abundance of monoclonal CD1a-positive Langerhans (immature histiocytes) proliferate the bronch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1737814 | 935,236 |
334,669 | After a brief but fierce storm sent up against the group at Juno's request, Aeneas and his fleet made landfall at Carthage after six years of wanderings. Aeneas had a year-long affair with the Carthaginian queen Dido (also known as Elissa), who proposed that the Trojans settle in her land and that she and Aeneas reign ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1540 | 334,491 |
845,468 | In Australia, sodium fluoroacetate was first used in rabbit control programmes in the early 1950s, where it is regarded as having "a long history of proven effectiveness and safety". It is seen as a critical component of the integrated pest-control programmes for rabbits, foxes, wild dogs, and feral pigs. Since 1994, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1190114 | 845,018 |
564,524 | During early 2015, when the order for the Class 385 was placed, the fleet was expected to be declared operational around autumn 2017. However, issues were encountered that necessitated timetable changes. During February 2018, reports emerged that vision problems with the Class 385 had been encountered during testing; t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48450453 | 564,234 |
50,275 | On 10 October 2016, the Forum announced the opening of its Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco. This was also subject and title of Schwab's 2016 book. Schwab includes in this fourth era technologies that combine hardware, software, and biology (cyber-physical systems), and emphasizes advances i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39773873 | 50,255 |
2,208,690 | Shell large for genus (maximum diameter 9 mm), spire height relatively low (height-width ratio of holotype 0.72). Shell wall extremely thin, maximum thickness of broken lip 0.1 mm. Surface dull, yellowish white, periostracum not evident, surface finely pitted. Protoconch and earliest teleoconch whorl missing. Remaining... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26899128 | 2,207,431 |
1,709,604 | Paired-end tags (PET) (sometimes "Paired-End diTags", or simply "ditags") are the short sequences at the 5’ and 3' ends of a DNA fragment which are unique enough that they (theoretically) exist together only once in a genome, therefore making the sequence of the DNA in between them available upon search (if full-genome... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26224857 | 1,708,645 |
1,289,251 | Repairs to the RAAF's F-111Cs were undertaken from late 1971, and all 24 were accepted on 15 March 1973. The RAAF considered retaining the Phantoms after the F-111s entered service, and the US Government offered to sell the 23 remaining aircraft to Australia for $54 million. Studies found that the upfront cost of keepi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36437816 | 1,288,542 |
993,780 | The United States maintains American military bases in Japan as part of the U.S.-Japan alliance of 1951. Most US military are in Okinawa Prefecture. In 2013 there were approximately 50,000 U.S. military personnel stationed in Japan with 40,000 dependents and 5,500 American civilians employed by the United States Depart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166614 | 993,263 |
2,041,693 | On the first day of competition, Kozmus was the first to pass the automatic qualifying mark of 77.50 m. Pars had the best effort of the day with 78.68 m, while former world champion Ziółkowski led group A with a throw of 77.89 m. Aspiring medallists Sokolov, Shayunov and Karjalainen all failed to progress to the final ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23985605 | 2,040,513 |
848,327 | Ultrasonography can be used to determine the tendon thickness, character, and presence of a tear. It works by sending harmless high frequencies of sound waves through the body. Some of these sound waves reflect back off the spaces between fluid and soft tissue or bone. These reflected images are analyzed and created in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2186340 | 847,877 |
514,889 | Further studies by Yannakakis and Hallam have shown that artificial neural networks (ANN) and fuzzy neural networks can extract a better estimator of player satisfaction than a human-designed one, given appropriate estimators of the challenge and curiosity (intrinsic qualitative factors for engaging gameplay according ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22006984 | 514,623 |
386,786 | Swimming capability was provided by a flotation screen, similar to that used by the World War II, amphibious DD Tanks. The front armor was overlain by a wooden "surfboard", actually three folded layers, hinged together. This could be opened up into a sloping vertical surface in front of the driver providing a bow of a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38094 | 386,591 |
620,451 | The power rule for integrals was first demonstrated in a geometric form by Italian mathematician Bonaventura Cavalieri in the early 17th century for all positive integer values of formula_89, and during the mid 17th century for all rational powers by the mathematicians Pierre de Fermat, Evangelista Torricelli, Gilles d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=147912 | 620,136 |
766,471 | Much of the early research into effective OTH systems was carried out under the direction of Dr. William J. Thaler at the Naval Research Laboratory. The work was dubbed "Project Teepee" (for "Thaler's Project"). Their first experimental system, MUSIC ("Multiple Storage, Integration, and Correlation"), became operationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1694703 | 766,061 |
318,083 | Brazilian Nelson Piquet qualified on pole position, with Prost 2nd. The latter, however, had to start from the pit lane due to problems with his car (Prost was able to race the spare car after ignition problem with Lauda's McLaren was solved, as the Ghinzani crash allowed McLaren extra time to fix it. If not for the cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1140073 | 317,913 |
982,253 | An article in the August 13, 2007 issue of "The New Yorker" magazine, written by Richard Preston, discusses "deep-brain stimulation" as a possible treatment. It has been performed on a few patients with Lesch–Nyhan syndrome by Dr. Takaomi Taira in Tokyo and by a group in France led by Dr. Philippe Coubes. Some patients... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1115749 | 981,741 |
1,285,671 | The declared objectives of colonial Malawi's legislation on the production and marketing of economic crops were to increase the quantity and improve the quality of the crops, and to stabilise the income of farmers through periods of price fluctuation. However, rather than promotion, restrictions were imposed on the num... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14543243 | 1,284,971 |
1,082,287 | In 1941-42 the Wehrmacht captured hundreds of F-22s. Initially they were adopted as field guns, designated FK 296(r). In late 1941 it was decided to rebuild the gun as an anti-tank weapon, 7.62 cm PaK 36(r). The modifications included rechambering for a bigger cartridge, a modified recoil system, elevation controls tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5821770 | 1,081,731 |
1,480,712 | Seifert started Pentia in 1998 as a systems integration company focused on Microsoft technologies. As consultants, Seifert and his team were hired to design and implement websites, among other things, for a number of large Danish international corporations. To make their jobs easier, Thrane had devised a set of automat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43435946 | 1,479,878 |
1,772,483 | observed that the separator theorem may be used to obtain polynomial time approximation schemes for NP-hard optimization problems on planar graphs such as finding the maximum independent set. Specifically, by truncating a separator hierarchy at an appropriate level, one may find a separator of size formula_298 the remo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18978005 | 1,771,486 |
1,673,136 | Meliha Archaeological Centre is a visitor centre and exhibition based around the history and archaeology of the areas surrounding the village of Mleiha in Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates. Built around a preserved Umm Al Nar era tomb, the centre details the excavations and discoveries made over the past 40 years at Ml... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50030352 | 1,672,194 |
557,269 | Oliphant returned to England in March 1945, and resumed his post as a professor of physics at the University of Birmingham. He was on holiday in Wales with his family when he first heard of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was later to remark that he felt "sort of proud that the bomb had worked, and abs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315710 | 556,980 |
586,528 | The first evidence of plant domestication comes from emmer and einkorn wheat found in pre-Pottery Neolithic A villages in Southwest Asia dated about 10,500 to 10,100 BC. The Fertile Crescent of Western Asia, Egypt, and India were sites of the earliest planned sowing and harvesting of plants that had previously been gat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37214939 | 586,228 |
824,701 | The lowest energy level of positronium () is . The next level is . The negative sign is a convention that implies a bound state. Positronium can also be considered by a particular form of the two-body Dirac equation; Two particles with a Coulomb interaction can be exactly separated in the (relativistic) center-of-momen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44596 | 824,258 |
1,541,242 | Developmental robotics (DevRob), sometimes called epigenetic robotics, is a scientific field which aims at studying the developmental mechanisms, architectures and constraints that allow lifelong and open-ended learning of new skills and new knowledge in embodied machines. As in human children, learning is expected to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1422176 | 1,540,369 |
916,447 | On 12 August 2016, the German government released a green paper on energy efficiency for public consultation (in German). It outlines the potential challenges and actions needed to reduce energy consumption in Germany over the coming decades. At the document's launch, economics and energy minister Sigmar Gabriel said "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11944078 | 915,965 |
71,439 | Rosberg quickly cut into Hamilton's championship lead by securing victories in Spain (reducing his deficit to twenty points) and Monaco. The latter win was aided by the result of a costly miscalculation by the Mercedes team to pit Hamilton with a 19-second lead during a safety car period (that briefly saw the use of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39263987 | 71,412 |
1,365,755 | In lithological composition studies, lab and field spectroscopy of proximal and remote sensing can help. The spectral reflectance data from imaging spectrometry employing short wavelength, for example form Airborne visible/infrared imaging spectrometer (AVIRIS), provide chemical properties of the target object. For ins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55514078 | 1,364,999 |
733,814 | According to A. N. Pell, the pipeline has several major leaks spanning the time from elementary school to retirement. One of the most important periods is adolescence. One of the factors behind girls' lack of confidence might be unqualified or ineffective teachers. Teachers' gendered perceptions on their students' capa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36487460 | 733,427 |
752,418 | Lincoln focused on what he saw as a more politically practical goal: preventing the expansion of slavery into the new Western territories, which, if it occurred, could lead to new slave states, and if it was prevented would eventually lead to slavery's demise. He supported excluding slavery from territories with the fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1345874 | 752,016 |
743,613 | Technological challenges in terms of array layout, single radiation element design, and overall efficiency, as well as the associated theoretical limits are presently a subject of research, as it was demonstrated by the Special Session on "Analysis of Electromagnetic Wireless Systems for Solar Power Transmission" held ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6757017 | 743,219 |
683,701 | TGN1412 had not previously been given to humans, however the trial was preceded by animal testing, including in non-human primates. The company claims that these did not indicate any safety issues, and this was supported in subsequent MHRA reports. The US patent application states "it could be shown in a pilot study th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4402358 | 683,345 |
1,348,033 | Between 15 September and 15 November 1942, groups under Herbert L. Anderson and Walter Zinn constructed sixteen experimental reactors (known at the time as "piles") under the Stagg Field stands. Fermi designed a new uranium and graphite pile that could be brought to criticality in a controlled, self-sustaining nuclear ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1951235 | 1,347,292 |
162,401 | In about 20 BC, the Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius wrote a treatise on the acoustic properties of theaters including discussion of interference, echoes, and reverberation—the beginnings of architectural acoustics. In Book V of his "De architectura" ("The Ten Books of Architecture") Vitruvius describes sound as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1198 | 162,316 |
1,131,608 | During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Markforged helped to produce over 6,000 face shields in the first three months and partnered with a company called Neurophotometrics to produce Fiberflex Rayon, a 3D printed nasopharyngeal swab for use in diagnostic testing for COVID-19. The effort was renamed Swab56, which developed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63513865 | 1,131,018 |
284,056 | Considerable development problems, largely associated with the original J40 engines, had delayed the introduction of the Skywarrior until 31 March 1956. The A-3 was, by far, the largest and heaviest aircraft ever designed for routine use on an aircraft carrier, though ironically it was the smallest proposal among other... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=457649 | 283,903 |
2,068,334 | The Rice Networks Group has deployed, operates, and manages a large-scale urban wireless network in a Houston under-resourced community. This network, Technology For All (TFA) Wireless, is serving over 4,000 users in several square kilometers and employs custom-built programmable and observable access points. Knightly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47177041 | 2,067,143 |
1,985,124 | The Airship is located in the centre of the alliance's Launchpad, is hexagonal in shape and is the main way alliances score points. Two Human Players, known as Pilots, are stationed inside the Airship. On the Airship there are 3 lifts with pegs for robots to deposit gears onto and a cable to let the Pilots pull the gea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52896759 | 1,983,985 |
510,955 | By using directional antennas on a base station, each pointing in different directions, it is possible to sectorise the base station so that several different cells are served from the same location. Typically these directional antennas have a beamwidth of 65 to 85 degrees. This increases the traffic capacity of the ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=672137 | 510,689 |
1,257,064 | The old prosecture also played an important role in the March Revolution of 1848. What became known as the "Doctors' Revolution" was prepared by 40 physicians in Rokitansky's pathology department, as this was not under police surveillance even during the Metternich era. Due to Rokitansky's liberal attitudes, the constr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1920065 | 1,256,378 |
1,873,388 | During the 1930s in Tokyo, Shimizu felt that the traditional way of teaching Jo was not suited for this new (and more numerous) generation of students. He realised that a better method of teaching Jo was required in order to properly teach ever increasing number of new students who had no previous experience of Martial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8705842 | 1,872,311 |
2,043,251 | In 2009, the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation published the Manchester Manifesto, the signatories of which include Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz (also director of Brooks World Poverty Institute), John Sulston. The manifesto raised questions about the ownership of science and the rationale for strict intel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22522278 | 2,042,071 |
1,290,697 | In September 2010, researchers demonstrated 250 charge cycles maintaining above 80 percent of initial storage capacity. However, some studies pointed out that Si nanowire anodes exhibit significant fade in energy capacity with more charge cycles; this is caused by the volumetric expansion of silicon nanowires during li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15439559 | 1,289,987 |
1,025,162 | The first mandatory sex test issued by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the world's track and field governing body, for woman athletes was in July 1950 in the month before the European Championships in Belgium. All athletes were tested in their own countries. Sex testing at the actual game... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=844733 | 1,024,629 |
1,186,132 | Response to stand-alone PIDs is generally linear from the ppb range up to at least a few thousand ppm. In this range, response to mixtures of components is also linearly additive. At the higher concentrations, response gradually deviates from linearity because of recombination of oppositely charged ions formed in close... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4897776 | 1,185,503 |
169,075 | The intestinal dysbiosis theory hypothesizes that yet unidentified environmental triggers (e.g., diet, medication, inflammation) reduce microbiota diversity and/or alter the population of specific species. The resulting imbalance between primary and secondary bile acids may lead to PSC via the gut-liver axis. The prima... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2632843 | 168,985 |
1,076,216 | In 2004, Taylor and Joel M. Weisberg published a new analysis of the experimental data to date, concluding that the 0.2% disparity between the data and the predicted results is due to poorly known galactic constants, including the Sun's distance from the galactic center, the pulsar's proper motion and its distance from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2353934 | 1,075,661 |
1,028,810 | Among the properties listed above, the light output is the most important, as it affects both the efficiency and the resolution of the detector (the efficiency is the ratio of detected particles to the total number of particles impinging upon the detector; the energy resolution is the ratio of the full width at half ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=454323 | 1,028,276 |
961,847 | Diuretic resistance is defined as failure of diuretics to reduce fluid retention (can be measured by low urinary sodium) despite using the maximal dose of drugs. There are various causes for the resistance towards loop diuretics. After initial period of diuresis, there will be a period of "post-diuretic sodium retentio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=973588 | 961,338 |
1,958,652 | The fifth LIHG Congress took place from 22 to 23 March 1912, in Brussels, Belgium. Unlike the two previous conferences, it was not held in conjunction with the European Championships, which had been staged in Prague in early February. A verdict was reached regarding the fate of the past month's European Championship, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66544751 | 1,957,525 |
906,870 | Instead, Steinitz concentrated on his work as a chess journalist, notably for "The Field", which was Britain's leading sports magazine. Some of Steinitz's commentaries aroused heated debates, notably from Zukertort and Leopold Hoffer in "The Chess Monthly" (which they founded in 1879). This "Ink War" escalated sharply ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167866 | 906,393 |
65,692 | A third wire, called the bond (or earth) wire, is often connected between non-current-carrying metal enclosures and earth ground. This conductor provides protection from electric shock due to accidental contact of circuit conductors with the metal chassis of portable appliances and tools. Bonding all non-current-carryi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42986 | 65,667 |
216,393 | ANT appears to reflect many of the preoccupations of French post-structuralism, and in particular a concern with non-foundational and multiple material-semiotic relations. At the same time, it was much more firmly embedded in English-language academic traditions than most post-structuralist-influenced approaches. Its g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=505093 | 216,285 |
103,709 | Perhaps the most notorious episode of iconoclasm in India was Mahmud of Ghazni's attack on the Somnath Temple from across the Thar Desert. The temple was first raided in 725, when Junayad, the governor of Sind, sent his armies to destroy it. In 1024, during the reign of Bhima I, the prominent Turkic-Muslim ruler Mahmud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15085 | 103,664 |
360,181 | Around the same time in 1990, Scott Miller of Apogee Software learned of the group and their exceptional talent, having played one of Romero's Softdisk games, "Dangerous Dave", and contacted Romero under the guise of multiple fan letters that Romero came to realize all originated from the same address. When he confront... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15526 | 359,994 |
606,558 | Reproductive age patients who develop cancer often receive chemotherapy or radiation therapy, which damages oocytes and leads to early menopause. An artificial human ovary has been developed at Brown University with self-assembled microtissues created using novel 3-D petri dish technology. In a study funded and conduct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=197037 | 606,248 |
1,041,270 | Other research has attempted to model potential changes to OMZs as a result of rising global temperatures and human impact. This is challenging due to the many factors that could contribute to changes in OMZs. The factors used for modeling change in OMZs are numerous, and in some cases hard to measure or quantify. Some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=997178 | 1,040,727 |
1,477,203 | Leloir returned to Buenos Aires in 1937 after his brief stay at Cambridge. 1943 saw Leloir marry; Luis Leloir and Amelia Zuberbuhler (1920-2013) would later have a daughter also named Amelia. However, his return to Argentina was amidst conflict and strife; Houssay had been expelled from the University of Buenos Aires f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=392727 | 1,476,371 |
1,277,045 | As a profession, medical illustration has a more recent history. In the late 1890s, Max Brödel, a talented artist from Leipzig, was brought to The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore to illustrate for Harvey Cushing, William Halsted, Howard Kelly, and other notable clinicians. In addition to being an extraord... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3229777 | 1,276,352 |
1,102,174 | The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued the FIPS 140 Publication Series to coordinate the requirements and standards for cryptography modules that include both hardware and software components. Federal agencies and departments can validate that the module in use is covered by an existing FIPS 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25191344 | 1,101,613 |
1,778,242 | The Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode (SCSU) is a Unicode Technical Standard for reducing the number of bytes needed to represent Unicode text, especially if that text uses mostly characters from one or a small number of per-language character blocks. It does so by dynamically mapping values in the range 128–255 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=653715 | 1,777,240 |
1,623,761 | Thermal trauma is any burn-related injury that can potentially lead to serious outcomes. There are various causes of thermal trauma, including fire, radiant heat, radiation, chemical, or electrical contact, that can affect a person in many ways based on factors from anatomical and physiological factors. Depending on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47901201 | 1,622,845 |
1,552,020 | Looking at the environment and health together, conservation medicine has the potential to effect rapid change in public opinion on complex societal issues, by making the distant and ill-defined, local and pressing. For instance, global warming may vaguely define long-term impacts, but an immediate effect may be a rela... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1453457 | 1,551,139 |
366,417 | Australia's F.8s saw extensive service during the Korean War with No. 77 Squadron RAAF, part of British Commonwealth Forces Korea. The squadron had personnel from the RAF and other Commonwealth air forces attached to it. It had arrived in Korea equipped with piston-engined Mustangs. To match the threat posed by MiG-15 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42702 | 366,225 |
2,460 | Williams played 15 tour events in 1997, including five Tier I tournaments. She reached the quarterfinals in three of the Tier I events – the State Farm Evert Cup in Compton, California, the European Indoor Championships in Zürich, and the Kremlin Cup in Moscow. In Indian Wells in March, Williams defeated No. 9 Iva Majo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167378 | 2,460 |
1,025,721 | Electromechanical paper-tape-based equipment such as the Friden Flexowriter had long been available; the Flexowriter allowed for operations such as repetitive typing of form letters (with a pause for the operator to manually type in the variable information), and when equipped with an auxiliary reader, could perform an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33236 | 1,025,187 |
708,265 | At one time, all servers were bare-metal servers. Servers were kept on-premises and often belonged to the organisation using and operating them. Operating systems developed very early on (early 1960s) to allow time-sharing. Single large computers, mainframes or minis, were commonly housed in centralised locations and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49531132 | 707,896 |
850,023 | Type 1 diabetes mellitus, also known as insulin-dependent diabetes, is believed to be caused by an auto-immune mediated destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells in the body. The process of beta-cell destruction begins with insulitis activating antigen-presenting cells (APCs). APCs then trigger activation of CD4+... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56549 | 849,571 |
167,133 | The testes remain high in the abdomen until the seventh month of gestation when they move from the abdomen through the inguinal canals into the two sides of the scrotum. Movement has been proposed to occur in two phases, under the control of somewhat different factors. The first phase, movement across the abdomen to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=415293 | 167,046 |
1,926,672 | In 2001, Terhaar became head coach of USRowing. International competitors at this time had rigorous programs for their female rowers, with intensive training schedules and high expectations, but prior to Terhaar's promotion, the U.S. team had been practicing significantly less than their competition. Terhaar implemente... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57494496 | 1,925,568 |
219,220 | The location of transmission infrastructure for wireless communication networks is an important engineering problem involving competing objectives. A minimal selection of locations (or sites) are required subject to providing adequate area coverage for users. A very different-ant inspired swarm intelligence algorithm, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=762988 | 219,111 |
1,130,329 | The presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes began with the Compromise of 1877. The results of the 1876 presidential election were contested in four states, leaving no candidate with a majority of electoral votes. It was agreed that the contested states would be resolved in Hayes' favor on the condition that he end the milita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62091020 | 1,129,751 |
1,882,555 | In 1967 he started professional ice hockey career playing for HC České Budějovice Junior team and from 1970 became a member of 'senior team'. In the same year Dvořák was named the best defender of World Junior Ice Hockey Championships held in Sweden. During his military service he moved to the army team Dukla Jihlava w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10797727 | 1,881,474 |
126,194 | In the winter of 1935, four graduates of Lincoln University—a traditionally black school about away in Jefferson City—were denied admission to MU's graduate school. One of the students, Lloyd L. Gaines, brought his case to the United States Supreme Court. On December 12, 1938, in a landmark 6–2 decision, the court orde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23964683 | 126,142 |
593,084 | Here, Spearman gives a compact summary of his findings and theory of g:There was also another co-factor as proposed by Spearman that was special intelligence. The special intelligence was for individuals who accomplished high success results in the same tests. However, later Spearman introduced group factor that was pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1290799 | 592,780 |
859,324 | Vertebrate lenses are composed of adapted epithelial cells which have high concentrations of the protein crystallin. These crystallins belong to two major families, the α-crystallins and the βγ-crystallins. Both categories of proteins were originally used for other functions in organisms, but eventually adapted for vis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5645086 | 858,866 |
358,704 | Hydropower is produced in 150 countries, with the Asia-Pacific region generated 32 percent of global hydropower in 2010. China is the largest hydroelectricity producer, with 721 terawatt-hours of production in 2010, representing around 17 percent of domestic electricity use. Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Paragua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=381399 | 358,518 |
315,371 | The World Health Organization (WHO) version of GMP is used by pharmaceutical regulators and the pharmaceutical industry in over 100 countries worldwide, primarily in the developing world. The European Union's GMP (EU-GMP) enforces similar requirements to WHO GMP, as does the FDA's version in the US. Similar GMPs are us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=614085 | 315,202 |
966,379 | The solution arrived at was to use ceramic fuel elements.The core of the reactor would be made of beryllium oxide (), the only available neutron moderator material that could withstand the high temperatures required. Over 80 percent of the fueled tubes were long; the rest varied in length so as to achieve the correct c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57684 | 965,869 |
635,763 | Joseph Henry (December 17, 1797– May 13, 1878) was an American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was the secretary for the National Institute for the Promotion of Science, a precursor of the Smithsonian Institution. He was highly regarded during his lifetime. While building ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187477 | 635,424 |
1,183,750 | Early models of plate tectonics, such as Harry Hess's seafloor spreading model, assumed that the motions of plates and the activity of mid-ocean ridges and subduction zones were primarily the result of convection currents in the mantle dragging on the crust and supplying fresh, hot magma at mid-ocean ridges. Further de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61440570 | 1,183,124 |
392,133 | The kidneys contribute to overall homeostasis in the body, including carnitine levels. In the case of renal impairment, urinary elimination of carnitine increasing, endogenous synthesis decreasing, and poor nutrition as a result of disease-induced anorexia can result in carnitine deficiency. Carnitine has no effect on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=271056 | 391,938 |
964,856 | It was adopted by the United States in 1909 as the "Benét–Mercié Machine Rifle, Caliber .30 U. S. Model of 1909" firing the .30-06 cartridge. It was also used by other countries, including Belgium, Sweden and Mexico. France and Britain used the Hotchkiss M1909 through World War I and on into World War II. The Australia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3144850 | 964,347 |
2,160,726 | "Nepenthes" "barcelonae" inhabits stunted submontane forest at altitudes of 1500-1700 m a.s.l. in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Luzon, Philippines. The specific type locality was not included in the species description to prevent pressures upon wild populations by hobbyists. Four species of "Nepenthes" have been descri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47603705 | 2,159,493 |
2,092,295 | Sometimes referred to as 'real-time' measurement systems, these are analytical or measurement technologies capable of producing data quickly enough to direct the progress of field activities (characterization or remediation) while they are underway , analogous to Real-time business intelligence. Example analytical meth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12595069 | 2,091,090 |
1,310,220 | There are three main phases of biofilm development and rhamnolipids are implicated in each phase. Rhamnolipids are reported to promote motility, thereby inhibiting attachment by preventing cells from adhering tightly to the substratum. During biofilm development, rhamnolipids are reported to create and maintain fluid c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33705242 | 1,309,502 |
565,213 | Multilayer insulation (MLI) is the most common passive thermal control element used on spacecraft. MLI prevents both heat losses to the environment and excessive heating from the environment. Spacecraft components such as propellant tanks, propellant lines, batteries, and solid rocket motors are also covered in MLI bla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32721695 | 564,923 |
33,557 | On 16 November 2017, a newly assembled Tu-160, built from an unfinished Tu-160 airframe, was unveiled during a roll-out ceremony at KAPO, signifying a restoration of certain production technologies such as electron-beam welding or titanium work reportedly lost after the termination of serial production in 1992. Accordi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=662636 | 33,545 |
1,869,717 | Further descriptions of CyberGIS include: "a fundamentally new software framework comprising a seamless integration of cyberinfrastructure, GIS, and spatial analysis/modeling capabilities", and a "GIS detached from the desktop and deployed on the web, with the associated issues of hardware, software, data storage, digi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49858188 | 1,868,640 |
647,572 | Both the JAAF and JNAF approved its design and construction and a prototype was built. In December 1944, the MXY8 was completed and, on 8 December 1944, at the Hyakurigahara Airfield, Lieutenant-Commander Toyohiko Inuzuka took the controls of the MXY8. Once in the air, Inuzuka found the MXY8 almost perfectly emulated t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=460022 | 647,232 |
1,057,894 | "SpaceChem" was ported to the iPad in October 2011, using touch controls instead of mouse and keyboard to manipulate the visual program. An Android port was released in July 2012. Both mobile platforms include most of the full game excluding the defense puzzles. The sandbox mode was added at the request of a player who... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31625168 | 1,057,345 |
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