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519,795 | Computer scientist Jim Gray analyzed multi-primary replication schemes under the transactional model and published a widely cited paper skeptical of the approach "The Dangers of Replication and a Solution". He argued that unless the data splits in some natural way so that the database can be treated as "n" disjoint sub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2722905 | 519,526 |
368,700 | After the establishment of the Republic, years began to be dated by consulships and control over intercalation was granted to the pontifices, who eventually abused their power by lengthening years controlled by their political allies and shortening the years in their rivals' terms of office. Having won his war with Pom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25792 | 368,507 |
1,354,824 | There are two keyhole limpet hemocyanin genes, termed KLH1 and KLH2 which share around 60% identity at the protein level. Both encode large glycosylated proteins consisting of around 3400 amino acids and a molecular weight of around 390,000 Daltons, excluding the glycosylation. The protein oligomerises to form a barrel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17310564 | 1,354,076 |
2,849 | The aircraft employs thrust vector control (TVC) where the vectoring nozzles' rotational axes are each canted at an angle, similar to the nozzle arrangement first employed on the Su-30MKI and also used on Su-35S. The nozzles themselves vector in only one plane; the canting allows roll and yaw moments by vectoring each ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2971192 | 2,849 |
553,632 | Simpson was elected President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1850 and an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 1863. He was created a Baronet of Strathavon in the County of Linlithgow, and of the City of Edinburgh, in 1866. He died at his home in Edinburgh in May 1870 at the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1459367 | 553,343 |
558,422 | The main goal of heuristic evaluations is to identify any problems associated with the design of user interfaces. Usability consultants Rolf Molich and Jakob Nielsen developed this method on the basis of several years of experience in teaching and consulting about usability engineering. Heuristic evaluations are one of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=357366 | 558,133 |
1,775,725 | The identification of clinically significant protein biomarkers of phenotype and biological function is an expanding area of research which will extend diagnostic capabilities. Biomarkers for a number of diseases have recently emerged, including prostate specific antigen (PSA) for prostate cancer and C-reactive protein... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3322568 | 1,774,728 |
1,791,533 | Speech perception refers to the understanding of speech. The beginning of the process towards understanding speech is first hearing the message that is spoken. The auditory system receives sound signals starting at the outer ear. They enter the pinna and continue into the external auditory canal (ear canal) and then to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14405771 | 1,790,526 |
1,216,743 | Interlaced and non-interlaced output modes are supported, as is a hardware text cursor. The sync generation includes generation of horizontal and vertical video blanking signals, which are used to condition the external pixel generation circuits. Also, an internal latch is provided which when triggered will duplicate a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1109665 | 1,216,091 |
578,585 | It is very difficult to determine exactly what events will hinder or support the growth of a community, as shown in the following example. Very few seedlings survive for a long period of time during primary succession, with 1.7% of seedlings in an outwash plain named Skeiðarársandur in southeast Iceland lasting from 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1687359 | 578,289 |
481,362 | The weapon first saw combat during the Battles of Khalkhin Gol in 1939, where it reportedly disabled a number of the lightly armoured vehicles used by the Soviets at that time. The Type 97 was not extensively deployed in China until the following year, by which time they were mostly used as infantry support weapons. Re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1845124 | 481,118 |
860,597 | With a recorded single-junction cell lab efficiency of 26.7%, monocrystalline silicon has the highest confirmed conversion efficiency out of all commercial PV technologies, ahead of poly-Si (22.3%) and established thin-film technologies, such as CIGS cells (21.7%), CdTe cells (21.0%), and a-Si cells (10.2%). Solar modu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18526033 | 860,139 |
78,056 | James M. Buchanan criticized Keynesian economics on the grounds that governments would in practice be unlikely to implement theoretically optimal policies. The implicit assumption underlying the Keynesian fiscal revolution, according to Buchanan, was that economic policy would be made by wise men, acting without regard... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17326 | 78,027 |
153,261 | Science Centre Delft was opened in September 2010 and is located at Mijnbouwstraat 120 in Delft. Science Center Delft is a successor of Technical Exhibition Center. Technical Exhibition Center was established by a group of TU Delft professors with the aim of presenting the recent advances in technology to a wider audie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=103244 | 153,191 |
865,819 | Courses had been offered in theology since 1932 at the Faculty of Humanities, but in 1942 the Faculty of Theology was formally established. Already on 22 June 1928, Reverend Balslev of Aarhus had proposed that Universitetsundervisningen i Aarhus (not yet university) taught basic courses in theology. Though the proposal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=401280 | 865,359 |
295,266 | Some groups have a greater ease of access than others and are thus more likely to get their demands placed on agenda than others. For instance, policymakers have been found to be more influential than the overall group of news sources because they often better understand journalists' needs for reliable and predictable ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=473279 | 295,106 |
183,362 | On 11 December 2010, Gregory Perry, a former technical consultant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), emailed De Raadt alleging that the FBI had paid some OpenBSD ex-developers 10 years prior to insert backdoors into the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework. De Raadt made the email public on 14 December by forwar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18949571 | 183,265 |
1,368,585 | Blizzard has said it is committed to maintaining a competitive landscape for the game and will take proactive steps to prevent cheating through hacks and other tricks. Blizzard performed one such mass-ban of players they had found to be using aimbots and other cheating assistants in late July 2016. Following "Overwatch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55762533 | 1,367,829 |
1,642,633 | After undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1986, he received his PhD in 1991 from the University of California, Berkeley, with a thesis entitled "Congestion Control in Computer Networks". His advisor was Domenico Ferrari. He then joined the research staff at Bell Labs; while at Bell Lab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2071881 | 1,641,706 |
1,863,321 | Almost concurrently with Kurata's publication, John Turnbull and Anne Middleton described the same species under the name "N. infundibuliformis" in the journal "Reinwardtia". Kurata's description was published on February 6, whereas Turnbull and Middleton's was printed four days later, on February 10. As such, the name... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4851886 | 1,862,252 |
1,525,602 | The major infectious disease threats to soldiers in Southeast Asia include drug resistant malaria, diarrhea and dysentery, dengue fever, HIV, hepatitis, and scrub typhus. These agents pose health risks to soldiers as well as to the civilian population, and thus form the major areas of research at AFRIMS. Research is pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49185083 | 1,524,741 |
2,116,940 | The mechanism of manganese(III)-mediated radical reactions begins with the single-electron oxidation of a carbonyl compound to an α-oxoalkyl radical. Addition to an olefin then occurs, generating adduct radical 2. The fate of 2 is primarily determined by reaction conditions—in the presence of copper(II) acetate, this i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27959040 | 2,115,722 |
814,617 | An interesting trait has evolved in semelparous insects, especially in those that have evolved from parasitic ancestors, like in all subsocial and eusocial aculeate Hymenoptera. This is because larvae are morphologically specialized for development within a host's innards and thus are entirely helpless outside of that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22610793 | 814,184 |
1,851,907 | Though first established in 1882, Fordham gained a significant amount of national renown from its football program in the early 20th century. Fordham football played on some of the largest stages in sports, including games in front of sellout crowds at the Polo Grounds and Yankee Stadium, a Cotton Bowl appearance and a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53885358 | 1,850,846 |
209,688 | Nonetheless, in 2004, Shen and colleagues reported evidence of a massive fire at Layer 10 — ostensibly as old as 770,000 years ago, during a glacial period — and asserted Peking Man needed to control fire so far back in time in order to survive such cold conditions. In 2014, Chinese anthropologist Maohua Zhong and coll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=253340 | 209,581 |
114,950 | Plane angle is defined as , where is the subtended angle in radians, is arc length, and is radius. One radian corresponds to the angle for which , hence . However, is only to be used to express angles, not to express ratios of lengths in general. A similar calculation using the area of a circular sector gives 1 radian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26003 | 114,905 |
805,595 | In a newer approach to explain the phenomenon, NASA's Friedmann Freund has proposed that the infrared radiation captured by the satellites is not due to a real increase in the surface temperature of the crust. According to this version the emission is a result of the quantum excitation that occurs at the chemical re-bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231137 | 805,166 |
493,374 | Though the details of the mechanism are uncertain, there is a consensus forming about the physical requirements. It is presumed that TGF photons are emitted by electrons traveling at speeds very close to the speed of light that collide with the nuclei of atoms in the air and release their energy in the form of gamma ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1667261 | 493,119 |
715,487 | Savage Arms offered the Model 10FCM Scout with their adjustable AccuTrigger (allowing the owner to safely adjust trigger pull weight to anywhere between without the need of a gunsmith), black synthetic AccuStock with aluminum spine and three-dimensional bedding cradle, a free-floating button-rifled barrel, oversized bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77603 | 715,113 |
1,092,220 | He proposed a theoretical explanation of the superfluid properties of liquid helium in 1949; two years later the physicist Richard Feynman independently proposed the same theory. He also worked on the theories of liquid crystals and the electrical properties of ice. While on a Fulbright scholarship to the University of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37175 | 1,091,660 |
329,898 | Pathology is the study of the causes and effects of disease or injury. The word "pathology" also refers to the study of disease in general, incorporating a wide range of biology research fields and medical practices. However, when used in the context of modern medical treatment, the term is often used in a narrower fas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48791 | 329,723 |
241,133 | A few months after the National Telesystems Conference 1992, in an E-Systems corporate program review, a vice-president of E-Systems Garland Division objected to Melpar's (Mitola's) use of the term "software radio" without credit to Garland. Alan Jackson, Melpar VP of marketing at that time, asked the Garland VP if the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=83137 | 241,013 |
528,214 | Sir Rajen Mookerjee, along with Sir Aquin Martin, had founded Martin & Co. and had a fairly good feel of the iron industry. G.H. Fairhurst was instrumental in drawing in Sir Rajen Mookerjee into a new venture. Promoted by Burn & Co., the Indian Iron and Steel Company was incorporated on 11 March 1918. The iron works we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4659165 | 527,940 |
204,647 | Biodiversity Risk Assessments evaluate risks to biological diversity, specially the risk of species extinction or the risk of ecosystem collapse. The units of assessments are the biological (species, subspecies or populations) or ecological entities (habitats, ecosystems, etc.), and the risk are often related to human ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=219072 | 204,542 |
114,302 | An important step in the development of the Three-age System came in the period 1816–1825 when the Danish antiquarian Christian Jürgensen Thomsen was able to use the Danish national collection of antiquities and the records of their finds as well as reports from contemporaneous excavations to provide a solid empirical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31295 | 114,257 |
63,063 | In the PC world, notable failed first tries for low-cost 3D graphics chips were the S3 "ViRGE", ATI Rage, and Matrox "Mystique". These chips were essentially previous-generation 2D accelerators with 3D features bolted on. Many were even pin-compatible with the earlier-generation chips for ease of implementation and min... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=390214 | 63,038 |
777,386 | The game begins with a short montage detaling Delta Squad's creation, early life, and training at the cloning facilities on Kamino. At the onset of the Clone Wars, the four members of the squad—Delta-38, 62, 40, and 07 ("Boss", "Scorch", "Fixer", and "Sev" respectively)—are deployed during the Battle of Geonosis and ta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1401029 | 776,970 |
609,063 | The United States and Britain used one-time tape systems, such as the 5-UCO, for their most sensitive traffic. These devices were immune to known-plaintext attack; however, they were point-to-point links and required massive supplies of one time tapes. Networked cipher machines were considered vulnerable to cribs, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=517019 | 608,752 |
365,952 | In the macroeconomic models in ecological economics, the economic system is a subsystem of the environment. In this model, the circular flow of income diagram is replaced in ecological economics by a more complex flow diagram reflecting the input of solar energy, which sustains natural inputs and environmental services... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18820 | 365,761 |
942,864 | The common house mold, "Trichoderma longibrachiatum", produces small toxic peptides containing amino acids not found in common proteins, like alpha-aminoisobutyric acid, called trilongins (up to 10% w/w). Their toxicity is due to absorption into human cells and production of nano-channels that obstruct vital ion channe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10456574 | 942,362 |
1,126,651 | In the process industries (e.g., oil and gas, chemicals, mining, energy, etc. which tend to dominate AACE's membership), benchmarking (i.e., "outside view") of project cost estimates against the historical costs of completed projects of similar types, including probabilistic information, has a long history. A method co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15212186 | 1,126,074 |
685,696 | The history of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent began prior to the 3rd millennium BCE and continued well into the British Raj. Metals and related concepts were mentioned in various early Vedic age texts. The Rigveda already uses the Sanskrit term Ayas(आयस) (metal). The Indian cultural and commercial contacts with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2311822 | 685,339 |
2,024,753 | The Georgia Academy of Arts, Mathematics, Engineering and Sciences, (formerly known as GAMES), is a dual-enrollment early college entrance program created in 1997 and facilitated by the University System of Georgia in the United States. Typically, juniors in high school who meet the base requirements of GPA and SAT/ACT... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2625447 | 2,023,589 |
101,611 | Precambrian marine diversity was dominated by small fossils known as acritarchs. This term describes almost any small organic walled fossil – from the egg cases of small metazoans to resting cysts of many different kinds of green algae. After appearing around , acritarchs underwent a boom around , increasing in abundan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19349161 | 101,566 |
1,704,119 | But, the development of new and improved cholera vaccines has allowed this practice of emergency responses to be revised. In addition, recent research has advanced understanding of cholera, its transmission and the immune response. Subsequently, these advances have resulted in the development of experimental cholera va... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16948770 | 1,703,163 |
1,571,125 | During the Baroque era of music (ca. 1600–1750), technologies for keyboard instruments developed, which led to improvements in the designs of pipe organs and harpsichords, and to the development of the first pianos. During the Baroque period, organ builders developed new types of pipes and reeds that created new tonal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49646776 | 1,570,237 |
1,206,991 | Fish and some aquatic amphibians detect hydrodynamic stimuli via a lateral line. This system consists of an array of sensors called neuromasts along the length of the fish's body. Neuromasts can be free-standing (superficial neuromasts) or within fluid-filled canals (canal neuromasts). The sensory cells within neuromas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37944206 | 1,206,345 |
1,148,340 | The eyespot apparatus (or "stigma") is a photoreceptive organelle found in the flagellate or (motile) cells of green algae and other unicellular photosynthetic organisms such as euglenids. It allows the cells to sense light direction and intensity and respond to it, prompting the organism to either swim towards the lig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10096234 | 1,147,735 |
1,656 | According to historian Robert Louis Benson, "Washington's forte was 'signals' intelligence--the procurement and analysis of coded foreign messages." leading to the Venona project or Venona intercepts, which monitored the communications of Soviet intelligence agents. Moynihan wrote that the Venona project contained "ove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=325329 | 1,656 |
1,711,696 | Sydney Law School had changed location several times in the past but had always remained in the centre of the city because of the tradition of teaching by practitioners, and for easy access to the courts and members of the profession. However, with the increased number of enrolled students, the campus in the city was n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7252327 | 1,710,733 |
139,921 | A new drug application (NDA) for the approval of apixaban was submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) and Pfizer jointly after conclusion of the ARISTOTLE clinical trial in 2011. Apixaban was approved for the prevention of stroke in people with atrial fibrillation on 28 De... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33914968 | 139,864 |
914,013 | The reaction yield is about 2% of the radium weight. Ac can further capture neutrons resulting in small amounts of Ac. After the synthesis, actinium is separated from radium and from the products of decay and nuclear fusion, such as thorium, polonium, lead and bismuth. The extraction can be performed with thenoyltriflu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=899 | 913,534 |
292,936 | The testing for VWD can be influenced by laboratory procedures. Numerous variables exist in the testing procedure that may affect the validity of the test results and may result in a missed or erroneous diagnosis. The chance of procedural errors are typically greatest during the preanalytical phase (during collecting s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=311436 | 292,778 |
1,924,378 | 2021-2022 officers Scott Cornelius (Oklahoma State University) and Shannon DeFranza (Roger Williams University) continue pandemic recovery efforts for the organization and work to strengthen relationships with allied organizations. President Cornelius passes a new, short-term strategic plan aimed at stabilizing the org... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=607666 | 1,923,275 |
2,070,231 | "Anaeromyces robustus" is found in relatively low quantities compared to many bacterial microorganisms within the rumen; however, this fungus has been shown to play a significant role in ruminant digestion through the production of xylanase. A large proportion of plants have a compound known as xylan within the hemicel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70729648 | 2,069,040 |
332,027 | A proof-of-work system (or protocol, or function) is an economic measure to deter denial-of-service attacks and other service abuses such as spam on a network by requiring some work from the service requester, usually meaning processing time by a computer. A key feature of these schemes is their asymmetry: the work mus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=439526 | 331,850 |
1,056,082 | This divergence of archaeological theory has not progressed identically in all parts of the world where archaeology is conducted or in the many sub-fields of the discipline. Traditional heritage attractions often retain an ostensibly straightforward Culture History element in their interpretation material whilst univer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1728479 | 1,055,534 |
1,518,354 | Seeing the business potential for music printing, in 1498 Petrucci had obtained an exclusive 20-year license for all printing activities related to music anywhere in the Venetian Republic. Three years later, in 1501, he brought out his first anthology, 96 secular songs, mostly polyphonic French chansons, for three or f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8370721 | 1,517,496 |
1,153,206 | The size of the gate control is designed considering the worst-case scenario that will require the circuit to switch during every clock cycle, resulting in a huge area impact. Some of the recent designs implement the fine-grain power gating selectively, but only for the low V cells. If the technology allows multiple V ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25912566 | 1,152,596 |
46,033 | By this time, the apparent position of Ceres had changed (primarily due to Earth's motion around the Sun), and was too close to the Sun's glare for other astronomers to confirm Piazzi's observations. Towards the end of the year, Ceres should have been visible again, but after such a long time, it was difficult to predi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5595163 | 46,015 |
166,553 | The UEA Student Union also organises gigs and club nights at the Nick Rayns LCR, or Lower<ref name="http://www.ueaticketbookings.co.uk/venues/default.aspx"></ref> Common Room in Union House. The LCR is home to hundreds of music gigs every year. The students' union also runs the Waterfront venue, off campus in Norwich's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=197027 | 166,467 |
1,756,338 | The pH-dependent conductance of KcsA indicates that the opening of the ion channel occurs when the protein is exposed to a more acidic environment. NMR studies performed by the Riek group show that pH sensitivity occurs in both the C-terminal TM2 region of the protein as well as with Tyr78 and Gly79 residues in the sel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36080526 | 1,755,347 |
796,925 | Ciena acquired Nortel's optical technology and Carrier Ethernet division for approximately $770 million during 2009–2010. Nortel's Metro Ethernet Networks business developed next-generation optical-transmission equipment and had more than 1,000 customers in 65 countries at the time. The business had approximately 1,400... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3569061 | 796,500 |
1,500,529 | The school was founded as an educational option school, so out of all applicants to 9th and 10th grade, 50% are chosen directly by the school, and 50% are selected at random. Many graduates attend CUNY and SUNY institutes. HPHS has a large number of students by the diversity of race or color, comprising their student b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3075106 | 1,499,684 |
510,196 | Because there is a free choice in the matrix formula_3, it is common to express formula_59 in "systematic form" so that the last formula_30 columns correspond to the identity matrix formula_61. This reduces the key size to formula_62. McEliece originally suggested security parameter sizes of formula_63, resulting in a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=735452 | 509,931 |
613,977 | In the 2010s and beyond, further research has been put forth into producing other organs, such as the liver and heart valves, and tissues, such as a blood-borne network, via 3D printing. In 2019, scientists in Israel made a major breakthrough when they were able to print a rabbit-sized heart with a network of blood ves... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3160379 | 613,665 |
903,383 | While most ants have poor eyesight, "Myrmecia" ants have excellent vision. This trait is important to them, since "Myrmecia" primarily relies on visual cues for navigation. These ants are capable of discriminating the distance and size of objects moving nearly a metre away. Winged alates are only active during the day,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1057147 | 902,907 |
1,238,803 | Protocols vary depending on local standard procedures and the extremity being operated on. A vast majority of practitioners begin by exsanguinating the limb as Bier did with an elastic bandage (Esmarch bandage), squeezing blood proximally toward the heart, then pneumatic tourniquets are applied to the limb and inflated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33189659 | 1,238,136 |
1,840,266 | Archaeo-optics, as yet unnamed, arose as a formal line of inquiry beginning in 2005, with a presentation by Matt Gatton and his colleagues of "The Camera Obscura and the Origin of Art" at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. They made subsequent presentations at the University of Lisbon in 2006, and Archaeology Inst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49823773 | 1,839,214 |
1,056,290 | Dot plots compare two sequences by organizing one sequence on the x-axis, and another on the y-axis, of a plot. When the residues of both sequences match at the same location on the plot, a dot is drawn at the corresponding position. Note, that the sequences can be written backwards or forwards, however the sequences o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8634376 | 1,055,742 |
205,236 | Solar radiation would normally strip any free water or water ice from the lunar surface, splitting it into its constituent elements, hydrogen and oxygen, which then escape to space. However, because of the only very slight axial tilt of the Moon's spin axis to the ecliptic plane (1.5 °), some deep craters near the pole... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1580280 | 205,130 |
1,584,325 | In robotics, Vector Field Histogram (VFH) is a real time motion planning algorithm proposed by Johann Borenstein and Yoram Koren in 1991. The VFH utilizes a statistical representation of the robot's environment through the so-called histogram grid, and therefore places great emphasis on dealing with uncertainty from se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18207458 | 1,583,435 |
2,019,820 | In the United States HealthMap, a freely available website and mobile app software is using data philanthropy related tactics to track the outbreak of diseases. HealthMap analyzes data from publicly available media sources such as news websites, government alerts, and social media sites like Twitter for outbreaks of va... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49882988 | 2,018,657 |
1,854,581 | Inequalities have different faces in Lebanon that is related to income, consumption and social aspects, particularly between Beirut and rural areas. Geographical gaps exist and increased due to the manner of sending the funding directly to municipalities, particularly affecting municipalities in rural areas. Notably sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65430747 | 1,853,515 |
983,756 | The signal strength received on Earth from "Huygens" was comparable to that from the "Galileo" probe (the Jupiter atmospheric descent probe) as received by the VLA, and was therefore too weak to detect in real time because of the signal modulation by the (then) unknown telemetry. Instead, wide-band recordings of the pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=185083 | 983,242 |
494,261 | Also, in 1964, with the establishment of the School of Engineering, the library started working with 22 volumes of dictionary books in the vicinity of the classrooms of Engineering Building No. 1. After the development of the faculty building, this library had a study hall, a publication hall, and a limited number of l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1398287 | 494,006 |
964,657 | The sudden improvement without a theoretical breakthrough was unexpected, as many did not expect that Belle's ability to examine 100,000 positions a second—about eight plies—would be sufficient. The Spracklens, creators of the successful microcomputer program "Sargon", estimated that 90% of the improvement came from fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68367 | 964,148 |
1,196,669 | In addition to the previously named complications of bicoronal craniosynostosis, many babies will also be affected by hydrocephalus, more commonly known as water on the brain. Hydrocephalus results in increased pressure on the brain which can cause permanent brain damage if not treated promptly. An abnormally highly ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2853212 | 1,196,029 |
29,061 | A world effort was triggered in the 1960s to study magnetohydrodynamic converters in order to bring MHD power conversion to market with commercial power plants of a new kind, converting the kinetic energy of a high velocity plasma into electricity with no moving parts at a high efficiency. Research was also conducted i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25916521 | 29,051 |
1,566,161 | In other words, the SEF does not immediately or directly contribute to saccade initiation. But, the SEF is thought to improve saccade production by using prior knowledge of anticipated task requirements to influence saccadic eye movements. It does so by balancing gaze holding and gaze shifting actions, yielding a modes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4136417 | 1,565,274 |
52,177 | In 1988, Bowlby published a series of lectures indicating how attachment theory and research could be used in understanding and treating child and family disorders. His focus for bringing about change was the parents' internal working models, parenting behaviours and the parents' relationship with the therapeutic inter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=884589 | 52,157 |
1,881,245 | Gladwin started his career as emerging technologies manager at Martin Marietta, a defense contractor which in 1995 merged with Lockheed Corporation. He later created the first "workgroup storage server" while working for Zenith Data Systems. In June 1996, Gladwin founded "Cruise Technologies", a developer and maker of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56892577 | 1,880,164 |
1,920,275 | Aqueducts were constructed to supply urban centers with drinking water. Before the Spanish conquest in 1521, the Aztecs had constructed an aqueduct from a spring at Chapultepec (“hill of the grasshopper”) to Tenochitlan to provide freshwater to the urban population of nearly 100,000. It had dual pipes so that maintenan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65056762 | 1,919,172 |
1,932,953 | The Australian government had a strong desire to include submarines in its new navy before the outbreak of the war and ordered and of the E class. The early loss of both of these boats frustrated the submarine ambitions of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), seeking a replacement for "AE1" as early as October 1914, and se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1691839 | 1,931,845 |
555,079 | Eratosthenes' method was actually more complicated, as stated by the same Cleomedes, whose purpose was to present a simplified version of the one described in Eratosthenes' book. The method was based on several surveying trips conducted by professional bematists, whose job was to precisely measure the extent of the ter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=233663 | 554,790 |
379,476 | Eratosthenes' method was actually more complicated, as stated by the same Cleomedes, whose purpose was to present a simplified version of the one described in Eratosthenes' book. The method was based on several surveying trips conducted by professional bematists, whose job was to precisely measure the extent of the ter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59216757 | 379,281 |
1,888,428 | In the women's race, history was made as Australia claimed all three podium spots for the first time, all who coincidentally had the first name Emma. Moffatt claimed her first win since the 2009 Grand Final, drawing her level with Paula Findley for total series wins at five. Moffatt defeated reigning world under-23 cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29804819 | 1,887,345 |
1,746,920 | Applied behavior analysts sometimes work with a team to address a person's educational or behavioral needs. Other professionals such as speech therapists, physicians and the primary caregivers are treated as key to the implementation of successful therapy in the applied behavior analysis (ABA) model. The ABA method rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14941587 | 1,745,934 |
903,775 | On October 13, 2015 Toyota made public details of the Fourth Generation Hybrid Synergy Drive to be introduced in the 2016 model year. The transaxle and traction motor have been redesigned, delivering a reduction in their combined weight. The traction motor itself is considerably more compact and gains a better power-to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1277811 | 903,299 |
1,561,674 | Renal sympathetic denervation (RSDN) is a minimally invasive, endovascular catheter based procedure using radiofrequency ablation or ultrasound ablation aimed at treating resistant hypertension (high blood pressure not controlled by medication). Nerves in the wall of the renal artery are ablated by applying radiofreque... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35455667 | 1,560,788 |
14,420 | Therefore, it is suggested that temperament should be kept as an independent concept for further studies and not be conflated with personality. Moreover, temperament refers to dynamical features of behavior (energetic, tempo, sensitivity and emotionality-related), whereas personality is to be considered a psycho-social... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1284664 | 14,415 |
86,523 | In response to the early-to-mid-17th century "continental rationalism," John Locke (1632–1704) proposed in "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" (1689) a very influential view wherein the "only" knowledge humans can have is "a posteriori", i.e., based upon experience. Locke is famously attributed with holding the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10174 | 86,489 |
532,599 | Dstl carries out a broad range of work from high-level analysis to support Ministry of Defence policy and procurement decisions, to technical research in defence areas such as biomedical science and electronics, alongside operational work such as forensic analysis of explosives and providing paid volunteer scientists t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3464288 | 532,320 |
562,754 | During the 1970s there was growing concern that the combined conventional forces of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact could overwhelm the forces of NATO. It seemed unthinkable to respond to a Soviet/Warsaw Pact incursion into Western Europe with strategic nuclear weapons, inviting a catastrophic exchange. Thus, tech... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45959 | 562,465 |
1,495,389 | "A. borkumensis" is found naturally in seawater environments. It is more common in oceanic areas containing petroleum oil (whether from spills, natural fields, or other sources), although it can be found in small amounts in unpolluted water. It has been found across the world in various locations both in coastal enviro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28260078 | 1,494,548 |
1,140,727 | The wavefunctions are functions not only of the bosonic variables, formula_53, but also of the Grassmann numbers or fermions, formula_54, from the tangent space of formula_55. The wavefunctions can be viewed as differential forms on formula_55 with the fermions playing the role of the differentials formula_57. The conc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53961341 | 1,140,133 |
969,575 | Automatic weapons tend to be restricted to military and police organizations in most developed countries that permit the use of semi-automatic firearms. Where automatic weapons are permitted, restrictions and regulations on their possession and use may be much more severe than for other firearms. In the United States, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=768511 | 969,065 |
948,033 | The hydra and the planarian flatworm have long served as model organisms for their highly adaptive regenerative capabilities. Once wounded, their cells become activated and restore the organs back to their pre-existing state. The Caudata ("urodeles"; salamanders and newts), an order of tailed amphibians, is possibly th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=854081 | 947,529 |
556,860 | In the late 20th century, 60% of nickel production was based on the matte smelting of sulfide ores, this did not lend itself to ferronickel production. According to 2003 data, the share of laterites in primary nickel production was reported to be 42%. World annual production of ferronickel in 2014 was around 250,000 to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1858454 | 556,571 |
5,713 | The air temperature on January 28 was predicted to be a record-low for a Space Shuttle launch. The air temperature was forecast to drop to overnight before rising to at 6:00 a.m. and at the scheduled launch time of 9:38 am. Based upon O-ring erosion that had occurred in warmer launches, Morton Thiokol engineers were co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=403717 | 5,710 |
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