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2,043,060 | The experimental principles of the HeSE experiment are analogous to those of neutron spin echo, differing in details such as the nature of the probe/sample interactions that give rise to scattering. In outline, a polarized He beam is created by a supersonic expansion followed by a spin-filtering stage (polariser). The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47889207 | 2,041,880 |
851,930 | One strand of criticism of the minimal guidance approach originating in cognitive load theory is that it does not align with human cognitive architecture making it an inefficient approach to learning for beginner learners in particular. In this strand of criticism, minimal guidance approaches are contrasted with fully ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=263104 | 851,476 |
251,005 | Total food intake and absorbance rate of food will rapidly decline after gastric bypass surgery, and the number of acid-producing cells lining the stomach increases. Doctors often prescribe acid-lowering medications to counteract the high acidity levels. Many patients then experience a condition known as achlorhydria, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=781984 | 250,872 |
58,389 | In August 1956, the USAF transferred YF-104A serial number 55–2961 to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, the predecessor of NASA), designating it NF-104A. In preparation for the X-15 test program of the late 1950s, it was fitted with the reaction control system (RCS) consisting of hydrogen peroxide-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82439 | 58,364 |
469,369 | Vytal, et al. 2010 examined 83 neuroimaging studies published between 1993–2008 to examine whether neuroimaging evidence supports biologically discrete, basic emotions (i.e. fear, anger, disgust, happiness, and sadness). Consistency analyses identified brain regions associated with individual emotions. Discriminability... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2640086 | 469,133 |
926,674 | Four years after Kármán died his autobiography "The Wind and Beyond" was published by Lee Edson with Little, Brown and Company. Seven major academic journals then followed with book reviews by noted authors: As the book was non-technical, written for the general reader, Thomas P. Hughes cited that as problematic given ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=194063 | 926,188 |
1,133,581 | An ongoing effort to remedy damage inflicted during the 20th century on the Everglades, a region of tropical wetlands in southern Florida, is the most expensive and comprehensive environmental repair attempt in history. The degradation of the Everglades became an issue in the United States in the early 1970s after a pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17601646 | 1,132,988 |
1,974,414 | The sheltered waters of Blakeney Haven had brought prosperity to the internationally important Glaven ports of Cley, Wiveton and Blakeney. Blakeney gained its market charter in 1222, and the three ports, along with Salthouse, were jointly required to provide three ships for Edward II in 1322, having previously contribu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34525509 | 1,973,279 |
1,382,643 | Incomplete measurements have been a problem observed across all algorithms in CDI. Since the detector is too sensitive to absorb a particle beam directly, a beamstop or hole must be placed at its center to prevent direct contact (Pham 2020). Furthermore, detectors are often constructed with multiple panels with gaps be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13751165 | 1,381,878 |
484,858 | In 1618, the Thirty Years' War broke out, leading to a tumultuous time for the German Reformed. Invading Roman Catholics besieged Heidelberg in 1622, severely damaging the city and persecuting many Reformed believers. Five years later, in 1627, Maximilian I of Bavaria demanded the citizens of Heidelberg to convert to R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10572690 | 484,609 |
977,553 | There are two major wide area synchronous grids in North America: the Eastern Interconnection and the Western Interconnection. In addition, there are three minor power grids in North America: the Alaska Interconnection, the Texas Interconnection, and the Quebec Interconnection. The Eastern, Western and Texas Interconne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51252717 | 977,042 |
41,056 | The teaching of evolution in American secondary school biology classes was uncommon in most of the first half of the 20th century. The Scopes Trial decision of 1925 caused the subject to become very rare in American secondary biology textbooks for a generation, but it was gradually re-introduced later and became legall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9236 | 41,041 |
44,118 | Oxytocin is not only correlated with the preferences of individuals to associate with members of their own group, but it is also evident during conflicts between members of different groups. During conflict, individuals receiving nasally administered oxytocin demonstrate more frequent defense-motivated responses toward... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=222300 | 44,101 |
1,459,455 | Upon completion of the submarine training pipeline, Bowen spent three years attached to and completed qualification in submarines on . After attending the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Ocean Engineering he reported to for duty as the Engineering Officer. During this tour, he qualified for command of nuclear powered submari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6926749 | 1,458,634 |
468,749 | One of the most famous of these was the "Epic of Gilgamesh", which first appears in Akkadian during the Old Babylonian period as a circa 1,000 line epic known by its incipit, "šūtur eli šarrī", ‘‘Surpassing all other kings,’’ which incorporated some of the stories from the five earlier Sumerian Gilgamesh tales. A pleth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=79205 | 468,513 |
2,104,987 | Prior to this report, very little data had been available about how—and even whether—FOSS was used widely in U.S. DoD systems. The report changed this aspect of the discussion immediately, proving beyond any reasonable doubt that the U.S. DoD was already a major user of FOSS. More importantly, the report documented tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5901315 | 2,103,774 |
106,984 | In the 19th century, it was also realized that Euclid's ten axioms and common notions do not suffice to prove all of the theorems stated in the "Elements". For example, Euclid assumed implicitly that any line contains at least two points, but this assumption cannot be proved from the other axioms, and therefore must be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9417 | 106,939 |
1,860,744 | One of the most notable features of the Integral Urban House was the amount of animals that were kept outside the house, including bees, fish, chickens, and rabbits. The beehives, located in the far southwest corner of the backyard, were raised to produce as much as fifty pounds of honey for the house's use, according ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25986184 | 1,859,676 |
537,899 | The primary purpose of most spy satellites is to monitor visible ground activity. While resolution and clarity of images has improved greatly over the years, this role has remained essentially the same. Some other uses of satellite imaging have been to produce detailed 3D maps for use in operations and missile guidance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=159746 | 537,620 |
709,884 | Endogenous retroviruses can play an active role in shaping genomes. Most studies in this area have focused on the genomes of humans and higher primates, but other vertebrates, such as mice and sheep, have also been studied in depth. The long terminal repeat (LTR) sequences that flank ERV genomes frequently act as alter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2311903 | 709,513 |
1,243,995 | Units 888s operators go through physical, mental and overall characteristics selection before starting training. Due to the tasks of the unit and the intense mix with both battle and technology the soldiers are tested with creativity and problem solving tests on top of regular special forces selection processes. Traini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63778892 | 1,243,322 |
579,047 | Senku is a teenage prodigy who excels in multiple fields of science, with a special love of astronomy and space exploration. In the series' beginning causes Senku and the entire population to be petrified for thousands of years. After awakening in the "Stone World", he sets to restore civilization by reinventing their ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61978528 | 578,750 |
273,174 | With polymerase chain reaction (PCR) being among the most popular contexts in which DNA denaturation is desired, heating is the most frequent method of denaturation. Other than denaturation by heat, nucleic acids can undergo the denaturation process through various chemical agents such as formamide, guanidine, sodium s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8456 | 273,026 |
1,129,426 | In 1931 the British Government withdrew financial support, but a private donation of £100,000 from Lucy, Lady Houston allowed Supermarine to compete on 13 September using the R-powered Supermarine S.6B. For this race the engine's rating was increased by to . The Italian and French entrants however, failed to ready thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2544842 | 1,128,848 |
56,972 | Now a celebrity, Ride, along with her STS-7 crewmates, spent the next few months after her flight on tour. She met with the Governor of California, George Deukmejian, and the Mayor of New York, Ed Koch. She testified before the Congressional Space Caucus on the efficacy of the robot arm, and addressed the National Pres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=94289 | 56,948 |
1,898,775 | The University of Washington Project on Modern History organized translations and monographs on the Taiping Rebellion, the mid-19th century civil war that nearly overthrew the dynasty. One result of the Project was "Taiping Rebellion in China", published by The University of Washington Press in three volumes, beginning... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47739148 | 1,897,691 |
985,503 | Because these alloys are intended for high temperature applications (i.e. holding their shape at temperatures near their melting point) their creep and oxidation resistance are of primary importance. Nickel (Ni)-based superalloys have emerged as the material of choice for these applications because of their unique γ' p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2025632 | 984,989 |
479,992 | Present growth in East Asia has now shifted to Mainland China. As of 2019, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong are the four East Asian countries and regions that are considered developed markets by most economic indexes, and Singapore is the sole developed market by all economic indexes in Southeast Asia. Since t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16234875 | 479,749 |
1,806,142 | Löwe worked briefly as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, before moving to MRC-LMB in 1996 to take up an EMBO long-term fellowship to work on crystallising FtsZ, a bacterial homologue of eukaryotic tubulin, with Linda A. Amos. Löwe became a group leader at MRC-LMB in 1998 and was awa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57285890 | 1,805,125 |
492,958 | Arthur Mourant was a British hematologist and chemist. He received many awards, most notably Fellowship of the Royal Society. His work included organizing the existing data on blood group gene frequencies, and largely contributing to the genetic map of the world through his investigation of blood groups in many populat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=328736 | 492,703 |
931,441 | Audio frequency chokes (AFC) usually have ferromagnetic cores to increase their inductance. They are often constructed similarly to transformers, with laminated iron cores and an air gap. The iron core increases the inductance for a given volume of the core. Chokes were frequently used in the design of rectifier power ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3382576 | 930,949 |
1,303,633 | The blood shift causes an increased respiratory and cardiac workload. Stroke volume is not greatly affected by immersion or variation in ambient pressure but slowed heartbeat reduces the overall cardiac output, particularly due to the diving reflex in breath-hold diving. Lung volume decreases in the upright position du... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54637386 | 1,302,917 |
997,743 | The presence of low-oxygen and hydroxyl-poor hydrocarbons in natural living media is supported by the presence of natural waxes (n=30+), oils (n=20+) and lipids in both plant matter and animal matter, for instance fats in phytoplankton, zooplankton and so on. These oils and waxes, however, occur in quantities too small... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=646478 | 997,225 |
1,795,377 | Manson formally published his theory in the 8 December 1894 issue of the "British Medical Journal". Under the title "On the Nature and Significance of Cresenteric and Flagellated bodies in Malarial Blood", he stated: [The] mosquito, having been shown to be the agent by which the filaria is removed from the human blood ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42553902 | 1,794,368 |
1,220,023 | "Desmatosuchus" had blunt, bulbous, slightly recurved teeth. Furthermore, they are believed to have had homodont dentition. This, combined with its shovel like snout, indicate that "Desmatosuchus" fed by digging up soft vegetation. This method of feeding is further evidenced by its toothless premaxilla and dentary tip,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5602744 | 1,219,369 |
29,505 | Islamic philosophers also made great contributions to alchemical hermeticism. The most influential author in this regard was arguably Jabir. Jabir's ultimate goal was "Takwin", the artificial creation of life in the alchemical laboratory, up to, and including, human life. He analyzed each Aristotelian element in terms ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573 | 29,495 |
22,136 | Caffeine is classified by the US Food and Drug Administration as generally recognized as safe. Toxic doses, over 10 grams per day for an adult, are much higher than the typical dose of under 500 milligrams per day. The European Food Safety Authority reported that up to 400 mg of caffeine per day (around 5.7 mg/kg of bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6868 | 22,127 |
1,946,611 | The BAMM Lab group focuses on developing innovative extracellular vesicle isolation tools, point-of-care technologies and creating microfluidic platforms for early cancer detection with broad applications to multiple diseases including infertility and HIV. Dr. Demirci’s lab has collaborated with over 50 research groups... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15934504 | 1,945,498 |
430,523 | With the operations of the calculus of relations as atoms or indefinables (primitive notions), Russell described logicism, or mathematics as logic, in "The Principles of Mathematics" (1903). Russell thought the revolutionary mathematical work could, through the development of relations, produce a similar revolution in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=622529 | 430,311 |
1,435,504 | On 8 December Müncheberg achieved his 60th aerial victory which was announced in the "Wehrmachtbericht", his third such mention. He claimed his 61st and 62nd overall victory and the last of the year 1941 on 16 December 1941. The claims are confirmed as aircraft belonging to No. 411 (Canadian) Squadron. Pilot Officer G ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10701662 | 1,434,698 |
297,611 | Designing assembly lines is a well-established mathematical challenge, referred to as an assembly line balancing problem. In the simple assembly line balancing problem the aim is to assign a set of tasks that need to be performed on the workpiece to a sequence of workstations. Each task requires a given task duration f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1146 | 297,451 |
1,007,161 | A system with great range was needed to track the British and American bomber formations as they crossed Germany. For this function, consultants Theodor Schultes and Hans Hollmann designed an experimental 2.4-m (125-MHz), 30-kW radar called "Panorama". Built by Siemens & Halske in 1941, it was placed atop a concrete to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27693223 | 1,006,642 |
1,233,015 | Engineering statistics dates back to 1000 B.C. when the Abacus was developed as means to calculate numerical data. In the 1600s, the development of information processing to systematically analyze and process data began. In 1654, the Slide Rule technique was developed by Robert Bissaker for advanced data calculations. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9546 | 1,232,352 |
406,146 | Blair suggested that the scant archaeological evidence for built cultic structures may be because many cultic spaces in early Anglo-Saxon England did not involve buildings. Supporting this, he highlighted ethnographically recorded examples from elsewhere in Northern Europe, such as among the Mansi, in which shrines are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2624098 | 405,946 |
797,916 | A noted research platform is Scannexus (formerly known as: Brains Unlimited): a scanning lab at the Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus, offering three MRI scanners with ultrahigh magnetic fields, including one of only four 9.4 Tesla scanners worldwide. Professor Rainer Goebel, director of the affiliated Maastricht Br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542667 | 797,491 |
2,100,353 | When scattering is neglected, sea ice emissivity can be modelled through radiative transfer. The diagram to the right shows a ray passing through an ice sheet with several layers. These layers represent the air above the ice, the snow layer (if applicable), ice with different electro-magnetic properties and the water b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28452312 | 2,099,143 |
1,181,978 | Electrocoagulation (EC) is a technique used for wastewater treatment, wash water treatment, industrially processed water, and medical treatment. Electrocoagulation has become a rapidly growing area of wastewater treatment due to its ability to remove contaminants that are generally more difficult to remove by filtratio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2820509 | 1,181,353 |
532,500 | Excitation frequencies in the low-frequency (LF) range, usually around 100 kHz, require several hundred volts to sustain the discharge. These large voltages lead to high-energy ion bombardment of surfaces. High-frequency plasmas are often excited at the standard 13.56 MHz frequency widely available for industrial use; ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8603211 | 532,221 |
1,470,890 | The unit was inducted into federal service on 30 November 1990 at Fort Stewart, GA. That year, more than 4,500 members of the unit were mobilized to participate in Operation Desert Storm. The unit completed training conducted at the Army's National Training Center in California, and was first and only National Guard co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15303550 | 1,470,064 |
281,294 | In early systems this signal was fed directly to the control surfaces, causing rapid flicking motions to bring the missile back into alignment, a control system known as "bang-bang". Bang-bang controls are extremely inefficient aerodynamically, especially as the target approaches the centerline and the controls continu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1396771 | 281,141 |
2,075,051 | The promoter region controlling expression of transcript variant 1 begins approximately 952 bases upstream of the start codon, and includes the entire 5' UTR. Several possible transcription factor binding sites have been identified using the program El Dorado including the CCCTC binding factor and a site for CTCF, an i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39179574 | 2,073,854 |
1,605,034 | Data analysis and evaluation of results is the most important part of every microarray experiment. After scanning the microarray slides, the scanner records a 20-bit, 16-bit or 8-bit numeric image in tagged image file format (*.tif). The .tif-image enables interpretation and quantification of each fluorescent spot on t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35260696 | 1,604,132 |
749,980 | The first submarine, , was laid down in February 1990. "Collins" launch was originally planned for 1994, but was later set for 28 August 1993. Although launched on schedule, she was not complete: the design of the submarine had not been finalised, important internal pipes and fittings were not installed, the components... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=810758 | 749,582 |
378,536 | Retinal development begins with the establishment of the eye fields mediated by the SHH and SIX3 proteins, with subsequent development of the optic vesicles regulated by the PAX6 and LHX2 proteins. The role of Pax6 in eye development was elegantly demonstrated by Walter Gehring and colleagues, who showed that ectopic e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48334 | 378,341 |
19,143 | The aircraft is equipped with sophisticated navigation and attack systems integrated into a digital avionics suite. It navigates primarily by GPS and high-accuracy inertial navigation. Missions are coordinated by an automated planning system that can automatically perform all aspects of an attack mission, including wea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11720 | 19,135 |
327,719 | In late September 1838, he started reading Thomas Malthus's "An Essay on the Principle of Population" with its statistical argument that human populations, if unrestrained, breed beyond their means and struggle to survive. Darwin related this to the struggle for existence among wildlife and botanist de Candolle's "warr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29932 | 327,545 |
262,343 | The first female students were admitted in 1900, the result of an effort led by Susan B. Anthony and Helen Barrett Montgomery. During the 1890s, a number of women took classes and labs at the university as "visitors" but were not officially enrolled nor were their records included in the college register. President Dav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31918 | 262,204 |
2,221,541 | Gated drug delivery systems are an emerging concept that have drawn a lot of attention for their wide variety of potential applications in the medical field. The abnormal physiological conditions found within the tumor environment provide a breadth of options that could be used for externally stimulating these systems ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70675314 | 2,220,279 |
159,730 | It became common for OH-6s to operate in teams with other rotorcraft, particularly the Bell AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter. This teamwork was actively encouraged by Army officials, and led to the development of so-called "hunter-killer" tactics that sought to flush out and eliminate hostile ground targets. Such a team wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=605092 | 159,645 |
492,175 | It was developed by the United States Army in partnership with Caltech's pioneering Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and initially produced by Douglas Aircraft Company. As development continued production shifted to Firestone Tire and Rubber Company (airframe) and Gilfillan Brothers Inc. (guidance). The Corporal was designed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1956534 | 491,921 |
1,234,131 | Currently Sandhoff disease does not have any standard treatment and does not have a cure. However, a person suffering from the disease needs proper nutrition, hydration, and maintenance of clear airways. To reduce some symptoms that may occur with Sandhoff disease, the patient may take anticonvulsants to manage seizure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2525541 | 1,233,468 |
13,491 | The solutions for "R(t)" depend on "k" and "Λ", but some qualitative features of such solutions are general. First and most importantly, the length scale "R" of the universe can remain constant "only" if the universe is perfectly isotropic with positive curvature ("k"=1) and has one precise value of density everywhere,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31880 | 13,486 |
1,406,539 | Mushroom bodies are known to be involved in learning and memory, particularly for smell, and thus are the subject of current intense research. In larger insects, studies suggest that mushroom bodies have other learning and memory functions, like associative memory, sensory filtering, motor control, and place memory. Re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=530801 | 1,405,749 |
969,511 | The simplest form of spark ignition is that using a magneto. The engine spins a magnet inside a coil, or, in the earlier designs, a coil inside a fixed magnet, and also operates a contact breaker, interrupting the current and causing the voltage to be increased sufficiently to jump a small gap. The spark plugs are conn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=362070 | 969,001 |
308,405 | The latest push for the Indian Human Spaceflight Programme took place in 2017, and it was accepted and formally announced by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his 2018 Independence day address to the nation. The current design calls for a crew of three. ISRO will perform four biological and two physical science e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20328936 | 308,240 |
370,874 | The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency encourages electronic recyclers to become certified by demonstrating to an accredited, independent third party auditor that they meet specific standards to safely recycle and manage electronics. This should work so as to ensure the highest environmental standards are being maint... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3887690 | 370,680 |
1,797,143 | Consider a plane standing sound wave that corresponds to the velocity field formula_5 where formula_6. Let the characteristic (transverse) dimension of the problem be formula_7. The flow field just described corresponds to inviscid flow. However viscous effects will be important close to a solid wall; there then exists... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16864008 | 1,796,134 |
1,216,017 | An important unanswered question is whether such rare variants exist because of chance mutations, population founder events and maintenance by processes such as drift, or whether there is any selective advantage involved in their maintenance and spread. An example of such a rare variant effect was recently discovered a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6687077 | 1,215,365 |
2,122,536 | Sharp resigned his appointment at Guy's Hospital on 23 September 1757 on the ground of ill-health; but he continued to practise until 1765, when he set out on a winter tour through Italy. The results were published in his plain-speaking "Letters from Italy", which appeared in August 1766. (The book gains a mention from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30147946 | 2,121,316 |
1,178,148 | According to Franklin, the selective fragments or pseudorealities that become news stories are produced to attract and hold people's attention by focusing on the unusual over the usual. She acknowledges that no one is forced to watch television or listen to radio; people can explore other channels of communication. But... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1094203 | 1,177,524 |
296,524 | Five Combat Talon IIs were delivered in 1985 but the problem of acquiring a navigation radar had not been resolved (the APQ-122 was no longer being built). IBM was contracted to develop a new terrain following/avoidance radar, who then subcontracted the task to Emerson Electric Company. The resulting radar performed so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=600765 | 296,364 |
1,268,048 | The systematic position of the order Agnostida within the class Trilobita remains uncertain, and there has been continuing debate whether they are trilobites or a stem group. The challenge to the status has focused on Agnostina partly due to the juveniles of one genus have been found with legs differing dramatically fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=764 | 1,267,358 |
992,208 | Notable programs include the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, which U.S. News & World Report 2019 ranking of graduate public affairs programs placed Levin College fourth in the Urban Policy specialty and 13th in the Local Government Management specialty, as well as the recently formed School of Communicat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=266877 | 991,691 |
52,458 | One use of the term "computer security" refers to technology that is used to implement secure operating systems. In the 1980s, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) used the "Orange Book" standards, but the current international standard ISO/IEC 15408, Common Criteria defines a number of progressively more stri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7398 | 52,438 |
934,471 | Computational science and engineering (CSE) is a relatively new discipline that deals with the development and application of computational models and simulations, often coupled with high-performance computing, to solve complex physical problems arising in engineering analysis and design (computational engineering) as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1181008 | 933,979 |
961,541 | Many animals temporarily change the number of legs they use for locomotion in different circumstances. For example, many quadrupedal animals switch to bipedalism to reach low-level browse on trees. The genus of "Basiliscus" are arboreal lizards that usually use quadrupedalism in the trees. When frightened, they can dro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1132756 | 961,032 |
1,766,140 | On 27 February 1945 the RAF sent 435 bombers to attack Mainz. Between the hours of 16:29 and 16:45, 1,500 tons of bombs were dropped, hitting large areas of the Neustadt. The old arsenal, St. Joseph and St. Boniface were also destroyed. Weisenau, Gustavsburg, and Bischofsheim were also hit hard, and there were reports ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41209387 | 1,765,146 |
680,503 | The policies and practices carried out by King Leopold II of Belgium in the Congo Basin are an extreme example of exploitation colonialism. E. D. Morel detailed the atrocities in multiple articles and books. Morel believed the Belgian system that eliminated traditional, commercial markets in favor of pure exploitation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5090455 | 680,148 |
515,319 | Blood samples are assessed for the absence or presence of aldosterone and cortisol. Physical examinations are also useful in patients in order to examine vision, skin pigmentation, how the body replaces steroids, and the cranial nerves. Recent advancements in high-resolution MRIs allow for adenomas to be detected durin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3754815 | 515,053 |
798,553 | Work began on the Il-112 project in 1994, for both civil and military roles, including as a 40-seat airliner and cargo versions with a rear loading ramp to replace the Antonov An-26. The project was announced at the 1995 Paris Air Show where a model was exhibited. The military transport version, the Il-112V, was entere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11977166 | 798,128 |
369,493 | Neurobiology has greatly influenced the development of computer vision algorithms. Over the last century, there has been an extensive study of eyes, neurons, and brain structures devoted to the processing visual stimuli in both humans and various animals. This has led to a coarse, yet convoluted, description of how nat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6596 | 369,300 |
207,995 | Instructional design (ID), also known as instructional systems design (ISD), is the practice of systematically designing, developing and delivering instructional materials and experiences, both digital and physical, in a consistent and reliable fashion toward an efficient, effective, appealing, engaging and inspiring a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=91820 | 207,888 |
5,821 | In the 18th century, German idealism revived philosophical interest in Socrates, mainly through Hegel's work. For Hegel, Socrates marked a turning point in the history of humankind by the introduction of the principle of free subjectivity or self-determination. While Hegel hails Socrates for his contribution, he noneth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25664190 | 5,818 |
759,574 | Their main food source is the golomyanka, a cottoid oilfish found only in Lake Baikal. Baikal seals eat more than half of the annual produced biomass of golomyanka, some 64,000 tons. In the winter and spring, it is estimated that more than 90% of its food consists of golomyankas. The remaining food sources for this sea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=159778 | 759,168 |
1,081,768 | Both theories are equally argued in working memory. One situation in which this shows considerable debate is within the complex-span task of working memory, where a complex task is alternated with the encoding of to-be-remembered items. It is either argued that the amount of time taken to perform this task or the amoun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=533317 | 1,081,212 |
165,377 | A rack and pinion is a type of linear actuator that comprises a circular gear (the "pinion") engaging a linear gear (the "rack"). Together, they convert rotational motion into linear motion. Rotating the pinion causes the rack to be driven in a line. Conversely, moving the rack linearly will cause the pinion to rotate.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=263745 | 165,292 |
939,937 | In a two- and three-dimensional space, there is an ambiguity in taking an integral between two points as there are infinitely many paths between the two points—apart from the straight line formed between the two points, one could choose a curved path of greater length as shown in the figure. Therefore, in general, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=461454 | 939,436 |
1,954,860 | For individuals with sensorineural hearing loss surgical implantation of a cochlear implant is indicated. The success of a cochlear implant relies in part upon electrode array placement within the cochlea in which the positioning is based on the frequency-spatial relationship empirically described by the Greenwood func... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4962167 | 1,953,738 |
1,404,666 | The World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS) is an annual conference organized by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), an independent research institute with multidimensional capabilities. It was instituted in 2001, as the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS). WSDS 2023, which is the 22nd edition of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24296124 | 1,403,876 |
1,475,916 | The three moons mentioned above add new plasma into the magnetosphere. By far the strongest source is Enceladus, which ejects a fountain of water vapor, carbon dioxide and nitrogen through cracks in its south pole region. A fraction of this gas is ionized by the hot electrons and solar ultraviolet radiation and is adde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2309427 | 1,475,084 |
71,897 | Adrenal cortex tissue is derived from the intermediate mesoderm. It first appears 33 days after fertilisation, shows steroid hormone production capabilities by the eighth week and undergoes rapid growth during the first trimester of pregnancy. The fetal adrenal cortex is different from its adult counterpart, as it is c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2296 | 71,870 |
1,409,036 | The show was intended not to require previous experience with calculus. Instead, the basics of differential and integral calculus would both be taught early in the series itself. Caltech mathematician Tom M. Apostol joined the "Mechanical Universe" production staff in order to ensure that the series did not compromise ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4840666 | 1,408,245 |
1,492,790 | OpenEI provides two mechanisms for contributing structured information: a semantic wiki (using MediaWiki and the Semantic MediaWiki extension) for collaboratively-managed resources and a dataset upload facility for contributor-controlled resources. US government data is distributed under a CC0 public domain dedication,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52660479 | 1,491,951 |
545,491 | In April 1945, Cockcroft and Oliphant scouted a site for a similar establishment in Britain, settling on RAF Harwell. Cockcroft was offered the directorship of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE) at Harwell on 9 November 1945. The official announcement was made on 29 January 1946, but the news leaked two mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=352564 | 545,205 |
2,006,482 | The origins of the Aircraft Institute "Moma Stanojlović" ("Vazduhoplovni zavod Moma Stanojlović") predate the World War II. Founded in 1949 as the workshop for the repairs of the aircraft engines, the Aircraft Institute "Moma Stanojlović" ("Vazduhoplovni zavod Moma Stanojlović") was enlarged in 1952 into the major over... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57747642 | 2,005,333 |
639,904 | Procellariiforms have had a long relationship with humans. They have been important food sources for many people, and continue to be hunted as such in some parts of the world. The albatrosses in particular have been the subject of numerous cultural depictions. Procellariiforms include some of the most endangered bird t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53560 | 639,565 |
512,818 | Science journalism is reported differently than traditional journalism. Traditionally, journalism is seen as more ethical if it is balanced reporting and includes information from both sides of an issue. Science journalism has moved to an authoritative type of reporting where they present information based on peer revi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2815112 | 512,552 |
1,397,799 | In 1974, IBM started a project with a design objective of creating a large telephone-switching network with a potential capacity to deal with at least 300 calls per second. It was projected that 20,000 machine instructions would be required to handle each call while maintaining a real-time response, so a processor with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38905529 | 1,397,026 |
2,090,335 | In the same year as the Brussels treaty, Sweden planned for a Scandinavian defence union (of Sweden, Denmark and Norway) which would be neutral in regards to the proposed NATO. However, due to pressure from the United States, Norway and Denmark joined NATO and the plans collapsed. A ""Scandinavian joint committee for e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11662516 | 2,089,132 |
82,245 | While Linux and Unix in general have always natively prevented normal users from making changes to the operating system environment without permission, Windows users are generally not prevented from making these changes, meaning that viruses can easily gain control of the entire system on Windows hosts. This difference... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18994196 | 82,211 |
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