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1,495,645 | In April 2010, Puget Sound Energy began a US$200 million project to rehabilitate and upgrade the power plant. The project included retrofitting the first four of the generators in Plant 1 and replacing the fifth. A turbine-generator would be replaced in Plant 2 as well. The weir was lowered to in height, lengthened by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45188074 | 1,494,803 |
1,965,409 | At Harvard, Low turned to topics she would continue in her later positions at Columbia University: the structure and composition of insulin and structural investigations into albumin crystals. Once her Columbia lab was established, Low also included research into neurotoxins on her schedule, including curare and its de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60232519 | 1,964,280 |
1,995,365 | Teva has 15 API production facilities located in Israel, Hungary, Italy, the U.S., the Czech Republic, India, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Monaco, China and Croatia. TAPI's holds expertise in a variety of production technologies, including chemical synthesis, semi-synthetic fermentation, enzymatic synthesis, high potent manufa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32450455 | 1,994,222 |
579,488 | An association with the folliculin ("FLCN") gene was first reported in 2002. This 14-exon gene is located on the short arm of chromosome 17 (17p11.2) and has a cytosine-rich region in exon 11 particularly susceptible to mutation. The most common mutation in this region is the insertion or deletion of a cytosine residue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1638257 | 579,191 |
826,965 | The primary industry and source of the lithium-ion battery is electric vehicles (EV). Electric vehicles have seen a massive increase in sales in recent years with over 90% of all global car markets having EV incentives in place as of 2019. With this increase in sales of EVs and the continued sales of them we can see a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66691590 | 826,521 |
1,133,945 | Starling enjoyed collaborating with William Bayliss (1860–1924), who was on the staff of University College London (UCL), and together they published on the electrical activity of the heart and on peristalsis. In 1891, when he was 25, Starling married Florence Amelia Wooldridge, the widow of Leonard Charles Wooldridge,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=532926 | 1,133,352 |
860,594 | A single continuous crystal is critical for electronics, since grain boundaries, impurities, and crystallographic defects can significantly impact the local electronic properties of the material, which in turn affects the functionality, performance, and reliability of semiconductor devices by interfering with their pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18526033 | 860,136 |
357,363 | In order to replace the elderly F1CRs of ER 2/33, a number of Rafales were outfitted with an advanced reconnaissance pod. The Rafale's range, maneuverability and combat load is far superior to the F1CR that it replaces, as well as its reconnaissance capabilities: after the Rafale's pod has taken photographs, these can ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=377985 | 357,177 |
595,879 | All Israeli research universities have technology transfer offices. Recent research conducted by the Samuel Neaman Institute has revealed that, between 2004 and 2013, the universities’ share of patent applications constituted 10–12% of the total inventive activity of Israeli applicants. This is one of the highest share... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=397525 | 595,574 |
52,314 | After 750 CE, the Muslim world had the works of Hippocrates, Galen and Sushruta translated into Arabic, and Islamic physicians engaged in some significant medical research. Notable Islamic medical pioneers include the Persian polymath, Avicenna, who, along with Imhotep and Hippocrates, has also been called the "father ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18957 | 52,294 |
2,191,067 | Additionally, otd is involved in development of all eight photoreceptors of adult "Drosophila" in each of their ~700 individual eye units, known as ommatidia and their proximal-distal distribution in the eye. The two types of photoreceptors, outer (OPRs) and inner (IPRs), are distinguished through their function and an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21611215 | 2,189,818 |
1,513,605 | Owing to their stability and relative ease of preparation, rhodocenium salts are the usual starting material for preparing rhodocene and substituted rhodocenes, all of which are unstable. The original synthesis used a cyclopentadienyl anion and tris(acetylacetonato)rhodium(III); numerous other approaches have since bee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28223827 | 1,512,754 |
1,393,897 | On leaving the university, he took a position as a ship's surgeon on a ship trading between Scotland and West Africa, choosing this job because it offered the possibility of paying off his bank overdraft faster than any other. He resigned after four months, when he had repaid the debt. He then tried general practice, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322276 | 1,393,126 |
289,415 | There is evidence that prenatal stress can influence HPA regulation. In animal experiments, exposure to prenatal stress has been shown to cause a hyper-reactive HPA stress response. Rats that have been prenatally stressed have elevated basal levels and abnormal circadian rhythm of corticosterone as adults. Additionally... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191003 | 289,258 |
501,429 | British intelligence soon discovered the nature of the Kammhuber Line and started studying ways to defeat it. RAF Bomber Command sent aircraft one at a time to force the defenses to be spread as far apart as possible, meaning that any one aircraft would have to deal with little concentrated flak. The "Himmelbett" cente... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=312991 | 501,172 |
1,284,287 | In the United States in the early 1920s, articles in "Popular Astronomy" by Russell W. Porter and in "Scientific American" by Albert G. Ingalls featuring Porter and the "Springfield Telescope Makers" helped expand interest in the hobby. There was so much public interest, Ingalls began a regular column for "Scientific A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63557 | 1,283,588 |
1,940,661 | After testifying as an expert witness in an inquest regarding the death of the driver of a snowplow that broke through the ice on a winter road, Giesbrecht realized that up to 10% of all drownings occurred in vehicles and that there was virtually no organized research into vehicle submersion, especially with people in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40264007 | 1,939,550 |
453,082 | To comply with Sarbanes-Oxley, organizations must understand how the financial reporting process works and must be able to identify the areas where technology plays a critical part. In considering which controls to include in the program, organizations should recognize that IT controls can have a direct or indirect imp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1990178 | 452,861 |
247,804 | In September 2014 Merck halted the clinical development of two drug candidates in development with Oxygen Biotherapeutics. One drug candidate suffered a lack of success in patient recruitment, with its MUC1 antigen-specific cancer immunotherapy drug, tecemotide (L-BLP25), missing its Phase I/II endpoint of increasing o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=482924 | 247,676 |
94,565 | Nervous tissue is composed of many nerve cells known as neurons which transmit information. In some slow-moving radially symmetrical marine animals such as ctenophores and cnidarians (including sea anemones and jellyfish), the nerves form a nerve net, but in most animals they are organized longitudinally into bundles. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=674 | 94,524 |
735,712 | The concept of using a stored-program computer for switching of telecommunication circuits is called stored program control (SPC). It was instrumental to the development of the first electronic switching systems by American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) in the Bell System, a development that started in earnest by c. 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=148417 | 735,325 |
1,617,602 | Thomas has made contributions to algebraic geometry, differential Geometry, and symplectic geometry. His doctoral thesis, which introduced the invariants that later became known as Donaldson–Thomas invariants, was published in the Journal of Differential Geometry as `A holomorphic Casson invariant for Calabi-Yau 3-fold... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33826774 | 1,616,689 |
600,667 | In 2017, Lindzen sent a petition to President Trump, asking the President to withdraw the United States from the United Nations Convention on Climate Change. The petition contained the names of "around 300 eminent scientists and other qualified individuals", and called on the United States and other nations to “change ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182075 | 600,361 |
873,610 | Acrylamide (; mW: 71.08) when dissolved in water, slow, spontaneous autopolymerization of acrylamide takes place, joining molecules together by head on tail fashion to form long single-chain polymers. The presence of a free radical-generating system greatly accelerates polymerization. This kind of reaction is known as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=102352 | 873,148 |
109,661 | In his book "Sensing the World", Moreland Perkins argues that qualia need not be identified with their objective sources: a smell, for instance, bears no direct resemblance to the molecular shape that gives rise to it, nor is a toothache actually in the tooth. He is also like Hobbes in being able to view the process of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21402758 | 109,616 |
1,486,426 | Terence "Terry" John Lyons is a British mathematician, specializing in stochastic analysis. Lyons, previously the Wallis Professor of Mathematics, is a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford and a Faculty Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. He was the director of the Oxford-Man Institute from 2011 to 2015 and the preside... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31709329 | 1,485,588 |
1,647,847 | Propagule pressure (also termed introduction effort) is a composite measure of the number of individuals of a species released into a region to which they are not native. It incorporates estimates of the absolute number of individuals involved in any one release event (propagule size) and the number of discrete release... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15144250 | 1,646,915 |
457,205 | During the entire war, battleship guns sank only a single fleet carrier and a single battleship. In comparison, carrier-launched aircraft damaged, sank, or took part in sinking 19 battleships. Although Japan was first to recognize and exploit the greater effective striking power of aircraft carriers over battleships, s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65453048 | 456,982 |
641,290 | In 1953, he completed a PhD in biophysics at Yale University, where his doctoral research focused on the inactivation of viruses by heat and ionizing radiation. He studied medicine at the University of Rochester for two years, quitting two days into a pediatrics rotation. Then he became a postdoctoral researcher in bio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40598 | 640,951 |
335,565 | The 7.92 LPS gs MD71 (7.92×56mm) cartridge was manufactured in Romania by their Factory 22 ("UM Sadu") from 1972 to 1978. It had a Semi-Armor-Piercing bullet with a copper jacket and mild steel core, corrosive VT stick propellant, and a Berdan-primed steel case with a green lacquer coating. The case mouth and primer po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2935674 | 335,387 |
283,616 | Human missions to the outer planets would need to arrive quickly due to the effects of space radiation and microgravity along the journey. In 2012, Thomas B. Kerwick wrote that the distance to the outer planets made their human exploration impractical for now, noting that travel times for round trips to Mars were estim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29248 | 283,463 |
1,302,032 | The Multistrada 1000DS was ostensibly a supermoto bike, but with a more upright seating position. The 1000DS was a two valve dual spark SuperSport. The 1000DS motor has a 992 cc air-cooled 90° V-Twin, based on Ducati's existing liquid and air-cooled engines, with twin-spark plug heads, pressure fed plain camshaft beari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6913139 | 1,301,318 |
40,822 | A wing feature that contributed greatly to its success was an innovative spar boom design, made up of five square tubes that fitted into each other. As the wing thinned out along its span, the tubes were progressively cut away in a similar fashion to a leaf spring; two of these booms were linked together by an alloy we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26027181 | 40,807 |
1,902,297 | The regime for approving amateur-built aircraft in the United Kingdom differs from that in many other countries, of which the United States is the prime example. Instead of the FAA's Experimental airworthiness category, under which an amateur may design, build and operate (and is ultimately responsible for) an aircraft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=906690 | 1,901,207 |
37,006 | Before Ivy Mike, Operation Greenhouse of 1951 was the first American nuclear test series to test principles that led to the development of thermonuclear weapons. Sufficient fission was achieved to boost the associated fusion device, and enough was learned to achieve a full-scale device within a year. The design of all ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2269463 | 36,994 |
1,115,104 | After the departure of the British, Risalpur was like an abandoned airfield. The airfield was formally established after Pakistan became an independent nation on 14 August 1947 with 20 officers, 21 trainees, 23 senior non-commissioned officers (SNCOs) and 257 airmen. The base comprised only a handful of men and some eq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3558718 | 1,114,535 |
292,182 | The use of toxic chemicals as weapons dates back thousands of years, but the first large scale use of chemical weapons was during World War I. They were primarily used to demoralize, injure, and kill entrenched defenders, against whom the indiscriminate and generally very slow-moving or static nature of gas clouds woul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167578 | 292,024 |
650,693 | The most popular replacement are the codice_31 and codice_32 functions, which appeared in OpenBSD 2.4 in December, 1998. These functions always write one NUL to the destination buffer, truncating the result if necessary, and return the size of buffer that would be needed, which allows detection of the truncation and pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33691376 | 650,352 |
2,126,095 | To determine the similarity of objects such as genomes, languages, music, internet attacks and worms, software programs, and so on, information distance is normalized and the Kolmogorov complexity terms approximated by real-world compressors (the Kolmogorov complexity is a lower bound to the length in bits of a compres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41129889 | 2,124,874 |
1,488,743 | Although it is generally accepted that Helitrons are RC transposons and through numerous investigations, the role of Helitron transposition in gene duplication and shaping the genetic architecture has been proven, but neither the various mechanisms by which this occurs nor the frequency is well understood. At this poin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23838716 | 1,487,904 |
1,475,869 | One of the main landmarks of the university is the Raymond Munger Memorial Chapel, erected in 1933. The chapel was built with one of the single largest donations ever received by the college at the time, a $75,000 gift from Miss Jesse Munger of Plainfield, N.J. Munger donated the money to build the chapel in memory of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1706961 | 1,475,037 |
1,966,636 | The Graduate School saw an increasing number of applicants in the decade after its founding. With the exception of the years of 1917-18 and 1918–19, where many college students were enlisted in the army during WW1, attendance increased every year between 1910 and 1922: from 91 students in 1910–11 to 300 in 1922. The po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12326456 | 1,965,506 |
94,524 | The theta mode appears during states of active, alert behavior (especially locomotion), and also during REM (dreaming) sleep. In the theta mode, the EEG is dominated by large regular waves with a frequency range of 6 to 9 Hz, and the main groups of hippocampal neurons (pyramidal cells and granule cells) show sparse pop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53948 | 94,483 |
1,099,925 | Allison Rapp, a Treehouse employee not directly involved in localization, garnered controversy due to her comments on Twitter. Attention on Rapp was heightened as part of the Gamergate controversy by the circulation of an undergraduate essay by Rapp which favored cultural relativism regarding sexualization of minors in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8735708 | 1,099,365 |
1,392,307 | While Gambit was primarily designed and operated as a surveillance satellite, capturing high definition images of specific targets at low orbital altitudes, a single Gambit Block 3 mission was operated in 'dual-mode', orbiting first at a higher altitude to capture wide-area search imagery before lowering its perigee to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=615353 | 1,391,536 |
886,443 | Mitigation options for reducing methane emission from ruminant enteric fermentation include genetic selection, immunization, rumen defaunation, outcompetition of methanogenic archaea with acetogens, introduction of methanotrophic bacteria into the rumen, diet modification and grazing management, among others. The princ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15588468 | 885,979 |
1,537,186 | At Brown, he began working on problems of fluid dynamics, and in particular on the two-dimensional subsonic flows associated with cross-sections of airfoils. At this time, he began his work with Abe Gelbart on what would eventually develop into the theory of pseudoanalytic functions. Through the 1940s and 1950s he cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9335972 | 1,536,315 |
1,279,794 | One of the current engineering challenges is to create miniaturised functional vehicles that can carry out complex tasks at a small scale that would be otherwise impractical, inefficient, or outright impossible by conventional means. These vehicles are termed nano/micromotors or nano/microrobots, and should be distingu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69133408 | 1,279,099 |
687,337 | Cassini's practical objections stimulated much debate at the Royal Academy of Sciences (with Huygens participating by letter from London). Cassini noted that the other three Galilean moons did not seem to show the same effect as seen for Io, and that there were other irregularities which could not be explained by Rømer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24896900 | 686,979 |
453,079 | The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) identifies five components of internal control: control environment, risk assessment, control activities, information and communication and monitoring, that need to be in place to achieve financial reporting and disclosure objectives; COBIT pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1990178 | 452,858 |
280,484 | Many of Newton's critical insights occurred during the plague years of 1665–1666 which he later described as, "the prime of my age for invention and minded mathematics and [natural] philosophy more than at any time since." It was during his plague-induced isolation that the first written conception of fluxionary calcul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=746117 | 280,332 |
392,254 | Patients that suffer from pain in the rotator cuff may consider utilizing orthotherapy into their daily lives. Orthotherapy is an exercise program that aims to restore the motion and strength of the shoulder muscles. Patients can go through the three phases of orthotherapy to help manage pain and also recover their ful... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=227856 | 392,059 |
1,954,425 | N–heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) are an emerging class of organocatalysts that are able to induce Umpolung reactivity as well as normal polarity transformations, however until recently these have not been broadly used in total synthesis due to limited substrate scope. An interesting expansion in the use of these organoca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44527923 | 1,953,303 |
801,801 | Nuclear batteries use small amounts (milligrams and microcuries) of radioisotopes with high energy densities. In one betavoltaic device design, radioactive material sits atop a device with adjacent layers of P-type and N-type silicon. Ionizing radiation directly penetrates the junction and creates electron–hole pairs. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=183256 | 801,373 |
512,451 | As a female author in the 10th century, Hrotsvitha's work was largely ignored until re-discovered and edited by Conrad Celtis in the early 16th century. Since then many authors have taken up the work of translating and editing them. Often these works are filtered through the perceptions and unconscious bias of the tran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1016799 | 512,185 |
452,531 | In 2016, it was discovered that the partial lipodystrophy associated with MPL is caused by loss of the C-terminal domain cleavage product of profibrillin and novel glucogenic protein hormone, which has been named asprosin. Due to asprosin deficiency, individuals with MPL eat less, and do not gain weight or develop symp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54176268 | 452,312 |
1,887,163 | “During 60 years of research, Professor Katritzky's output was prodigious with over 2170 papers in the primary scientific literature plus authorship or editorship of more than 200 books. In the 1960s, Katritzky collaborated with Jeanne Lagowski to write two seminal textbooks: "Heterocyclic Chemistry" 1960 and "Principl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16521438 | 1,886,081 |
82,448 | Oganesson is expected to have an extremely broad polarizability, almost double that of radon. Because of its tremendous polarizability, oganesson is expected to have an anomalously low first ionization energy of about 860 kJ/mol, similar to that of cadmium and less than those of iridium, platinum, and gold. This is sig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62200 | 82,414 |
1,046,951 | Integration of all sensory modalities occurs when multimodal neurons receive sensory information which overlaps with different modalities. Multimodal neurons are found in the superior colliculus; they respond to the versatility of various sensory inputs. The multimodal neurons lead to change of behavior and assist in a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=569650 | 1,046,406 |
490,557 | In these instruments a focused beam of electrons impinges on a sample and induces it to emit light that is collected by an optical system, such as an elliptical mirror. From there, a fiber optic will transfer the light out of the microscope where it is separated into its component wavelengths by a monochromator and is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61275 | 490,303 |
1,953,997 | John Nathan Cobb (February 20, 1868 – January 13, 1930) was an American author, naturalist, conservationist, canneryman, and educator. He attained a high position in academia without the benefit of a college education. In a career that began as a printer's aide for a newspaper, he worked as a stenographer and clerk, a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2490732 | 1,952,876 |
803,937 | The cerebellum is known to play a part in correcting movement and in fine-tuning the motor agility found in procedural skills such as painting, instrument playing and in sports such as golf. Damage to this area may prevent the proper relearning of motor skills and through associated research it has more recently been l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21312313 | 803,508 |
993,326 | Enrollment in 2013 included 337 students from 54 countries and the university graduated the largest class in its history. That year the university began offering a program called the David Lynch MA in Film. The program's segments include courses called Advanced Narrative, Advanced Screenwriting and Acting for Film. Oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=271937 | 992,809 |
106,314 | Hypoid gears resemble spiral bevel gears except the shaft axes do not intersect. The pitch surfaces appear conical but, to compensate for the offset shaft, are in fact hyperboloids of revolution. Hypoid gears are almost always designed to operate with shafts at 90 degrees. Depending on which side the shaft is offset to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82916 | 106,269 |
1,575,312 | During the 2nd century C.100 -C.200 it was the first time human civilisation was introduced to material of cork, and it was only until the 19th century when cork was widely used leading to major industrial production. Cork, which is harvested from the Oak trees generally found in Portugal, Spain and other Mediterranean... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8855042 | 1,574,423 |
246,602 | An important argument which favors the generative approach, is the poverty of the stimulus argument. The child's input (a finite number of sentences encountered by the child, together with information about the context in which they were uttered) is, in principle, compatible with an infinite number of conceivable gramm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18614 | 246,474 |
1,633,635 | Another important development of Darwin's conclusions deserves notice. The fact of variation was familiar: no two animals, even of the same brood, are alike. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck hypothesised that structural alterations acquired by a parent might be transmitted to the offspring, and as these are acquired by an animal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30410498 | 1,632,712 |
2,236,250 | Starting out as a campaign to eliminate litter on campus in 2006, the Solid Green initiative has progressed to achieve other goals. One such example is Gameday Recycling, which was started in 2009 and has exponentially increased in tonnage recycled. This project involves over 80,000 people on any given home weekend, a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45560672 | 2,234,979 |
1,438,050 | The fruiting bodies, or perida, are funnel- or barrel-shaped, 6–15 mm tall, 4–8 mm wide at the mouth, sometimes short-stalked, golden brown to blackish brown in age. The outside wall of the peridium, the ectoperidium, is covered with tufts of fungal hyphae that resembles shaggy, untidy hair. However, in older specimens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21431742 | 1,437,240 |
384,592 | During 1895, at his laboratory in the Würzburg Physical Institute of the University of Würzburg, Röntgen was investigating the external effects from the various types of vacuum tube equipment—apparatuses from Heinrich Hertz, Johann Hittorf, William Crookes, Nikola Tesla and Philipp von Lenard—when an electrical dischar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61325 | 384,397 |
78,364 | The beta distribution has been applied in acoustic analysis to assess damage to gears, as the kurtosis of the beta distribution has been reported to be a good indicator of the condition of a gear. Kurtosis has also been used to distinguish the seismic signal generated by a person's footsteps from other signals. As pers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=207074 | 78,335 |
895,683 | A 2008 study of relevant oceanographic data from the time period in question, co-authored by Kieran Westley and Justin Dix, concluded, however, that "it is clear from the paleoceanographic and paleo-environmental data that the Last Glacial Maximum in the North Atlantic does not fit the descriptions provided by the prop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8413101 | 895,212 |
937,939 | The Apple III is powered by a 1.8-megahertz Synertek 6502A or B 8-bit CPU and, like some of the later machines in the Apple II family, uses bank switching techniques to address memory beyond the 6502's traditional 64 KB limit, up to 256 KB in the III's case. Third-party vendors produced memory upgrade kits that allow t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2117 | 937,439 |
503,067 | In 3D computer graphics, radiosity is an application of the finite element method to solving the rendering equation for scenes with surfaces that reflect light diffusely. Unlike rendering methods that use Monte Carlo algorithms (such as path tracing), which handle all types of light paths, typical radiosity only accoun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25974 | 502,809 |
1,545,649 | Sustainable cities in earthquake-prone areas are built with input from civil engineers, architects, and urban planners who collaborate on safe architecture that can withstand disasters. This reduces waste and ensures that buildings will last for many years to come. In areas that are protected because of nature and cu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4081192 | 1,544,775 |
1,563,972 | The minimum water speed at which copper pipes suffer impingement attack depends also to some extent on water composition. Aggressive waters that tend to be cupro-solvent are the most likely to give rise to impingement attack. Installations in large buildings where flow rates may be high and water is in continuous circu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8090966 | 1,563,085 |
1,653,270 | Conversion therapy focuses on altering homosexual and/or transgender individuals to heterosexual and cis-gender identities. Conversion therapy consists of a variety of approaches ranging from aversion and hormonal therapy, to religious-based techniques such as threats of eternal damnation or use of prayer. Little empir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55206108 | 1,652,338 |
394,733 | Critics of the hypothesis argue that while a linear increase in brain volume of the genus "Homo" is seen over time, adding fire control and cooking does not add anything meaningful to the data. Species such as "H. ergaster" existed with large brain volumes during time periods with little to no evidence of fire for cook... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14205251 | 394,538 |
1,855,185 | The most successful student leaders are Nkululeko Sibanda and Blessing Vava. Nkululeko Sibanda was one of the two students to be expelled from college by then Principal Mwadiwa for student activism after Swithern Chirowodza, in 2002. Swithern was expelled for labelling Mwadiwa as corrupt and Nkululeko Sibanda on the or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5611306 | 1,854,119 |
606,674 | Nuclear reactors become preferred targets during military conflict and, over the past three decades, have been repeatedly attacked during military air strikes, occupations, invasions and campaigns. Various acts of civil disobedience since 1980 by the peace group Plowshares have shown how nuclear weapons facilities can ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40528380 | 606,364 |
621,220 | For all technologies, advances in efficiency, and therefore reductions in e since the time of publication, have not been included. For example, the total life cycle emissions from wind power may have lessened since publication. Similarly, due to the time frame over which the studies were conducted, nuclear Generation I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26894208 | 620,888 |
1,787,439 | In its first draft published in May 2014, Cuneiform was closely related to Make in that it constructed a static data dependency graph which the interpreter traversed during execution. The major difference to later versions was the lack of conditionals, recursion, or static type checking. Files were distinguished from s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51797637 | 1,786,434 |
1,297,827 | A biopsy is indicated when the patient's clinical presentation, past history or imaging studies do not allow a definitive diagnosis. A biopsy is a surgical procedure that involves the removal of a piece of tissue sample from the living organism for the purpose of microscopic examination. In most cases, biopsies are car... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17584743 | 1,297,115 |
1,805,626 | The specific aim of DSO 475, "Direct Assessment of Muscle Atrophy Before and After Short Spaceflight" was to define the morphologic and biochemical effects of spaceflight on skeletal fibers. To obtain myofiber biomechanical and morphological data from Space Shuttle crewmembers, biopsies were conducted once before fligh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39377992 | 1,804,611 |
1,300,684 | These realizations were taking place as the microprocessor market was moving from 8 to 16-bit with 32-bit designs about to appear. These processors were designed on the premise of trying to replicate some of the more well-respected ISAs from the mainframe and minicomputer world. For instance, the National Semiconductor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1355137 | 1,299,970 |
47,935 | Airborne lidar (also "airborne laser scanning") is when a laser scanner, while attached to an aircraft during flight, creates a 3-D point cloud model of the landscape. This is currently the most detailed and accurate method of creating digital elevation models, replacing photogrammetry. One major advantage in compariso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41958 | 47,915 |
633,209 | Within modeling and simulation, a model is a task-driven, purposeful simplification and abstraction of a perception of reality, shaped by physical, legal, and cognitive constraints. It is task-driven because a model is captured with a certain question or task in mind. Simplifications leave all the known and observed en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3224795 | 632,871 |
1,940,388 | Since natural materials exhibit very weak coupling through the magnetic component of the electromagnetic wave, artificial materials that exhibit a strong magnetic coupling are being researched and fabricated. These artificial materials are known as metamaterials. The first of these were fabricated (in the lab) with an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24631368 | 1,939,278 |
1,699,201 | Examples of diseases are periodontitis, hepatitis, glomerulonephritis, atherosclerosis, emphysema, asthma, autoimmune disorders of skin and dermal photoaging, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, chronic ulcerations, uterine involution, corneal epithelial defects, bone resorpti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16040932 | 1,698,247 |
567,602 | 2005 saw a massive form reversal for Triple Eight. Craig Lowndes and Steve Ellery were signed as drivers and Stone Brothers Racing engineer Campbell Little joined the team. Lowndes in particular was a catalyst for change, which along with powerful and reliable Stone Brothers Racing sourced engines saw a massive improve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5514907 | 567,312 |
336,289 | The earliest appearance of dyscalculia is typically a deficit in subitizing, the ability to know, from a brief glance and without counting, how many objects there are in a small group. Children as young as five can subitize six objects, especially looking at a die. However, children with dyscalculia can subitize fewer ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=533237 | 336,111 |
1,971,126 | The now high-grade metamorphic rocks – essentially the amphibolite facies with medium-pressure high-temperature conditions was reached - were originally deposited as flysch sequences along Gondwanas northern continental slope. This flysch sequence consisted of monotonous, rhythmically interbedded clayey (pelites) and s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25268349 | 1,969,992 |
1,126,613 | Kerr was born in 1934 in Kurow, New Zealand. He was born into a dysfunctional family, and his mother was forced to leave when he was three. When his father went to war, he was sent to a farm. After his father's return from war, they moved to Christchurch. He got into St Andrew's College, a private school, as his father... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2372371 | 1,126,036 |
312,388 | James Barry (born Margaret Anne Bulkley (or Bulkeley), – 25 July 1865) was a military surgeon in the British Army. Originally from the city of Cork in Ireland, Barry obtained a medical degree from the University of Edinburgh Medical School, then served first in Cape Town, South Africa, and subsequently in many parts of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=169505 | 312,220 |
155,516 | 1951 saw major changes when Ralph W. McDonald was appointed the fourth president in school history, following the retirement of Frank Prout. McDonald was the first university president from outside Ohio and came to BGSU with a focus on improving teacher education and certification standards. Prior to becoming president... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275181 | 155,446 |
987,024 | "The Keys of Marinus" was transmitted across six weeks from 11 April to 16 May; the third episode became the first "Doctor Who" episode to be transmitted on BBC1, following its renaming from BBC TV due to the launch of BBC2, and the show's broadcast time returned to its original slot of 5:15 p.m. from the fifth episode... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34564137 | 986,509 |
961,971 | Adding "Bifidobacterium" as a probiotic to conventional treatment of ulcerative colitis has been shown to be associated with improved rates of remission and improved maintenance of remission. Some "Bifidobacterium" strains are considered as important probiotics and used in the food industry. Different species and/or st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30862624 | 961,462 |
220,444 | There have also been claims of patient injuries caused by stray electrical currents released from inappropriate parts of the surgical tips used by the system. Intuitive Surgical counter this argument by saying the same type of stray currents can occur in non-robotic laparoscopic procedures. A study published in the "Jo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18005554 | 220,335 |
930,028 | Eventually, Mike Stephenson took on the role as maintainer of the "Hack" source code. At this point, he decided to create a new fork of the game, bringing in novel ideas from Izchak Miller, a philosophy professor at University of Pennsylvania, and Janet Walz, another computer hacker. They called themselves the DevTeam ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21489 | 929,537 |
2,010,046 | Predation and interactions with phages also affect development of a hydrocarbonoclastic bacterial community. It is possible that the increase of the turnover of biomass (which can be obtained by stimulating the activity of bacteriophages lysis or protozoa predation) could benefit hydrocarbonoclastic populations by stim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69363429 | 2,008,894 |
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