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1,433,315 | Caribou are one of the most noticeable species at Wapusk National Park that have been steadily declining in population. This is proven from the data collected in 1994 that noted 500, 000 caribou compared to 2017 where only 288, 000 where reported. This data is based off the Qamanirjuaq herd which covers areas in Manito... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2023242 | 1,432,511 |
1,023,589 | Justus Freiherr von Liebig (12 May 1803 – 20 April 1873) was a German scientist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and is considered one of the principal founders of organic chemistry. As a professor at the University of Giessen, he devised the modern laboratory-oriented teaching met... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16024 | 1,023,056 |
1,631,790 | Continuous models are widely used to model diffuse reflection from particulate samples. They are embodied in various theories, including diffusion theory, the equation of radiation transfer, as well as Kubelka–Munk. In spite of its widespread use, there has long been an understanding that the Kubelka–Munk (K–M) theory ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66854311 | 1,630,868 |
1,105,538 | The procedures of conferring of both "Kandidat" and "Doktor" academic degrees are more formal and different from conferring a Ph.D. degree in Western universities. In particular, for the "Doktor", the academic institution, where the scholar is affiliated as a doctoral candidate, must conduct a preliminary review of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13491973 | 1,104,975 |
610,421 | Labov's seminal work has been referenced and critically examined by a number of scholars, mainly for its structural rigidity. Kristin Langellier explains that "the purpose of Labovian analysis is to relate the formal properties of the narrative to their functions": clause-level analysis of how text affects transmission... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=319165 | 610,110 |
392,266 | In 1983, Mullis was working for Cetus Corporation as a chemist. Mullis recalled that, while driving in the vicinity of his country home in Mendocino County (with his girlfriend, who also was a chemist at Cetus), he had the idea to use a pair of primers to bracket the desired DNA sequence and to copy it using DNA polyme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17095 | 392,071 |
1,214,382 | As of 2020, the role of mitophagy in cancer is not fully understood. Some models of mitophagy, such as PINK1 or BNIP3-mediated mitophagy, have been associated with tumor suppression in humans and mice. Mitophagy associated with NIX, in contrast, is associated with tumor promotion. In 1920 Otto Warburg observed that cer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21317821 | 1,213,730 |
1,662,118 | Since 1941, the MSI has trained over 1700 marine engineers and altogether, 55,000 industry ready workers. The NUS has 8 institutes, 3 faculties, a school at sea, a campus in Kherson and representation in three cities of Ukraine. It has links with its community and with industry. A student population of 12,000 read in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15050806 | 1,661,183 |
688,013 | For years, astronomers have ruled out red dwarfs as potential abodes for life, with masses ranging from roughly 0.08 to 0.60 solar masses (). The low masses of the stars cause the nuclear fusion reactions at their cores to proceed exceedingly slowly, giving them luminosities ranging from a maximum of roughly 10 percent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39863531 | 687,655 |
329,042 | Emergent gameplay was a goal of Arkane: while they had given the players abilities to take on "Prey" in a full action mode or full stealth mode, they wanted players to find a way to complete the game in their own manner. They recognized players may take one specific set of skills and weapons, and avoided including any ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11718979 | 328,867 |
236,886 | Alex can also transform parts of his body into a selection of martial implements acquired over the course of the game, either as purchased upgrades or being given them. Offensive powers include the large and powerful Blade arm, fast razor-sharp Claws (which can also erupt large spikes from the ground), the telescoping ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12374528 | 236,767 |
1,824,828 | There have been many studies on the purification and extraction of mercury from water sources and sometimes even the affected soils around the contaminated water sources. Some of these methods that are continuously being researched and sampled are the use of high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) combined with i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49463141 | 1,823,790 |
170,640 | The book ends on a major event which is a sudden catastrophic rise in Earth's global sea levels not caused primarily by any greenhouse effect but by the eruption of a chain of volcanoes underneath the ice of West Antarctica, disintegrating the ice sheet and displacing the fragments into the ocean. The resultant floodin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89970 | 170,550 |
681,386 | Scientific research on Attic vase painting owes a great deal to John D. Beazley. He began studying these vases in about 1910, making use of the method developed by the art historian Giovanni Morelli for studying paintings, which had been refined by Bernard Berenson. He assumed that each painter created original works w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1076046 | 681,030 |
786,858 | Further combat was seen during 2003 when US forces invaded Iraq and deposed the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, in an invasion that lasted just 43 days (20 March to 1 May). M1 tanks proved instrumental in leading rapid attacks against the Iraqi military, as exemplified by the so-called 'Thunder Runs.' Abandoned Abrams wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25079265 | 786,435 |
1,725,084 | Since the past few years, researchers have indeed begun looking at non-model, "non-conventional" organisms using modern genetic tools. One example of this is the Floral Genome Project, which envisages to study the evolution of the current patterns in the genetic architecture of the flower through comparative genetic an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13571938 | 1,724,113 |
731,889 | In 2017, contrary to the inductive notion that emotion categories are biologically distinct, Barrett (2017) proposed the theory of constructed emotion, which is the account that a biological emotion category is constructed based on a conceptual category—the accumulation of instances sharing a goal. In a predictive codi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53953041 | 731,502 |
349,055 | ROM and successor technologies such as flash are prevalent in embedded systems. These are in everything from industrial robots to home appliances and consumer electronics (MP3 players, set-top boxes, etc.) all of which are designed for specific functions, but are based on general-purpose microprocessors. With software ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18934934 | 348,873 |
1,262,375 | Hexafluorobenzene has been used as a reporter molecule to investigate tissue oxygenation in vivo. It is exceedingly hydrophobic, but exhibits high gas solubility with ideal liquid gas interactions. Since molecular oxygen is paramagnetic it causes F NMR spin lattice relaxation (R1): specifically a linear dependence R1= ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28825772 | 1,261,688 |
500,363 | When "Metamorphosis Alpha" was updated and expanded into "Gamma World", it seemed the right time for Gygax to reintroduce "Expedition to the Barrier Peaks" to the public. Said Gygax, "What could be more logical than to make available a scenario which blends the two role playing approaches into a single form?" Gygax upd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=520349 | 500,106 |
112,865 | A learning management system (LMS) is software used for delivering, tracking, and managing training and education. It tracks data about attendance, time on task, and student progress. Educators can post announcements, grade assignments, check on course activities, and participate in class discussions. Students can subm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1944675 | 112,820 |
719,331 | R and D Center involves in identifying new research areas, developing projects leading to publications in national/international journals and conferences. Established an RandD centre at the institution level to promote research and innovation among the faculty and students. The centre helps in developing co-operative a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=768983 | 718,951 |
148,653 | Russell had a program with a movable dot before the end of January 1962, and an early operational game with rotatable spaceships by February. The two spaceships were designed to evoke the curvy spaceship from Buck Rogers stories and the PGM-11 Redstone rocket. That early version also contained a randomly generated back... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5482854 | 148,592 |
2,156,425 | Immediate action was taken to implement proper containment measures when outbreak locations were identified. WHO also partnered with GOARN to dispatch teams of experts into areas heavily impacted by SARS such as China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Vietnam. These experts represented around 20 different organizations and 15... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63936969 | 2,155,194 |
956,036 | Initial auto production after World War II was slowed by the retooling process, shortages of materials, and labor unrest. However, the American auto industry reflected the post-war prosperity of the late-1940s and the 1950s. Cars grew in overall size, as well as engine size during the 1950s. The Overhead valve V-8 engi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23576520 | 955,531 |
1,228,489 | "Adasaurus" was first figured in 1977 by the Mongolian paleontologist Rinchen Barsbold on a pelvic comparison with other theropods, but it would remain as an informally named taxon until a proper description. In 1983, Barsbold published a large comparative revision of the known Mongolian theropod taxa at the time where... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2958157 | 1,227,827 |
1,882,225 | Katrin Amunts was born in Potsdam, East Germany in 1962. She studied medicine and biophysics at Pirogov Medical School in the Soviet Union. She earned a doctorate in neuroscience and anatomy at the Institute of Brain Research in Moscow in 1989. She later trained at a Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin and joined the C. & O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48590737 | 1,881,144 |
723,288 | Conversations with Wegener, the author of continental drift theory, got Milanković interested in the interior of the Earth and the movement of the poles, so he told his friend that he would investigate polar wandering. In November 1929, Milanković received an invitation from Professor Beno Gutenberg of Darmstadt to col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=150014 | 722,908 |
1,022,753 | There has been considerable discussion as to how seaweeds can be cultivated in the open ocean as a means to regenerate decimated fish populations and contribute to carbon sequestration. Notably, Tim Flannery has highlighted how growing seaweeds in the open ocean, facilitated by artificial upwelling and substrate, can e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27135340 | 1,022,223 |
150,919 | Investing in research and development work to design a new SST can be considered as an effort to push the speed limit of air transport. Generally, other than an urge for new technological achievement, the major driving force for such an effort is competitive pressure from other modes of transport. Competition between d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=215930 | 150,851 |
1,412,111 | A modified version of the car dubbed the FW09B was introduced in Round 10 of the season at Brands Hatch for the 1984 British Grand Prix. The car featured 'coke bottle' type sidepods pioneered by McLaren. Unfortunately from that race until the end of the season both Rosberg and Laffite only recorded one finish each and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19276625 | 1,411,316 |
98,436 | Decomposition, simplification, or slowing of multijoint movement may also be an effective strategy that therapists may use to improve function in patients with ataxia. Training likely needs to be intense and focused—as indicated by one study performed with stroke patients experiencing limb ataxia who underwent intensiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=969 | 98,394 |
417,368 | Fibrils are composed of linear biopolymers, and are characterized by rod-like structures with high length-to-diameter ratios. They often spontaneously arrange into helical structures. In biomechanics problems, fibrils can be characterized as classical beams with a roughly circular cross-sectional area on the nanometer ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2278611 | 417,165 |
1,211,754 | STS-54 "Endeavour", January 13–19, 1993. The primary objective of this mission was the deployment of a $200-million NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-F). A diffuse X-ray spectrometer (DXS) carried in the payload bay, collected over 80,000 seconds of quality X-ray data that will enable investigators to answer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=604816 | 1,211,102 |
1,357,258 | In the late 1990s utility computing re-surfaced. InsynQ, Inc. launched [on-demand] applications and desktop hosting services in 1997 using HP equipment. In 1998, HP set up the Utility Computing Division in Mountain View, CA, assigning former Bell Labs computer scientists to begin work on a computing power plant, incorp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1985147 | 1,356,508 |
1,839,667 | The history of the instrument can be traced back to 2007, during the XII Latin American Regional IAU Meeting (LARIM) held in Isla de Margarita (Venezuela). Argentinian radio astronomers discussed the idea with colleagues from South America. The search for the best place for a submillimeter (wavelength less than 1 mm) t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43566075 | 1,838,615 |
124,263 | In the Mantoux test, a standard dose of 5 tuberculin units (TU - 0.1 ml), according to the CDC, or 2 TU of Statens Serum Institute (SSI) tuberculin RT23 in 0.1 ml solution, according to the National Health Service, is injected intradermally (between the layers of dermis) on the flexor surface of the left forearm, mid-w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54995 | 124,212 |
1,616,800 | Ferrichrome is a siderophore, which are metal chelating agents that have a low molecular mass and are produced by microorganisms and plants growing under low iron conditions. The main function of siderophores is to chelate ferric iron (Fe) from insoluble minerals from the environment and make it available for microbial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23484902 | 1,615,889 |
1,062,903 | Fundamental to space architecture is designing for physical and psychological wellness in space. What often is taken for granted on Earth – air, water, food, trash disposal – must be designed for in fastidious detail. Rigorous exercise regimens are required to alleviate muscular atrophy and other effects of space on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23516569 | 1,062,349 |
634,123 | The thin layer of slippery gravel of Sardegna meant a late road position would be helpful for a good result. Sordo and del Barrio made full use of this advantage to build a commanding lead of over thirty seconds going onto Sunday. The Spanish crew eventually won the rally for the second straight year although their i20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60663941 | 633,785 |
364,184 | Diatoms are ecologically successful, and occur in virtually every environment that contains water – not only oceans, seas, lakes, and streams, but also soil and wetlands. The use of silicon by diatoms is believed by many researchers to be the key to this ecological success. Raven (1983) noted that, relative to organic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46374 | 363,994 |
341,199 | The earliest vacuum tubes strongly resembled incandescent light bulbs and were made by lamp manufacturers, who had the equipment needed to manufacture glass envelopes and the vacuum pumps required to evacuate the enclosures. de Forest used Heinrich Geissler's mercury displacement pump, which left behind a partial vacuu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32496 | 341,018 |
117,146 | In the early 20th century, epidemics of polio began to hit the United States and other industrialized countries. As hospitals filled with patients in iron lungs, and tens of thousands were left disabled, the fear of polio grew, leading to the closing of many public facilities. Meanwhile, Dr. Jonas Salk had set up the U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239870 | 117,101 |
646,843 | Laboratory quality control is designed to detect, reduce, and correct deficiencies in a laboratory's internal analytical process prior to the release of patient results, in order to improve the quality of the results reported by the laboratory. Quality control (QC) is a measure of precision, or how well the measurement... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17272221 | 646,503 |
946,099 | When Abel entered the university in 1821, he was already the most knowledgeable mathematician in Norway. Holmboe had nothing more he could teach him and Abel had studied all the latest mathematical literature in the university library. During that time, Abel started working on the quintic equation in radicals. Mathemat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21573 | 945,596 |
523,788 | Conductive anodic filaments (CAFs) may grow within the boards along the fibers of the composite material. Metal is introduced to a vulnerable surface typically from plating the vias, then migrates in presence of ions, moisture, and electrical potential; drilling damage and poor glass-resin bonding promotes such failure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26626178 | 523,516 |
446,380 | In 2018 the MIT Energy Initiative study on the future of nuclear energy concluded that, together with the strong suggestion that government should financially support development and demonstration of new Generation IV nuclear technologies, for a worldwide renaissance to commence, a global standardization of regulations... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36030827 | 446,164 |
870,024 | In Enron's natural gas business, the accounting had been fairly straightforward: in each time period, the company listed actual costs of supplying the gas and actual revenues received from selling it. However, when Skilling joined the company, he demanded that the trading business adopt mark-to-market accounting, claim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=457618 | 869,564 |
626,869 | In another case study of a 50-year-old woman who had symptoms consistent with MCS, administration of zolpidem, a sedative hypnotic drug improved the patient's condition significantly. Without treatment, the patient showed signs of mutism, athetoid movements of the extremities, and complete dependence for all personal c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2213172 | 626,536 |
1,211,030 | After the Second World War, interest focused towards the fundaments of electrochemical reactions. Among other developments, the potentiostat (1937) enabled such studies. A critical advance was provided by the work of Carl Wagner and Veniamin Levich in 1962 who linked the hydrodynamics of a flowing electrolyte towards a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30129507 | 1,210,382 |
1,723,954 | The central focus of the sub-field of Computational anatomy (CA) within medical imaging is mapping information across anatomical coordinate systems at the 1 millimeter morphome scale. In CA mapping of dense information measured within Magnetic resonance image (MRI) based coordinate systems such as in the brain has been... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49418115 | 1,722,984 |
96,017 | "P. aeruginosa" is an opportunistic pathogen with the ability to coordinate gene expression in order to compete against other species for nutrients or colonization. Regulation of gene expression can occur through cell-cell communication or quorum sensing (QS) via the production of small molecules called autoinducers th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2459654 | 95,976 |
276,537 | In Sweden, Meitner continued her research as best she could. She measured the neutron cross sections of thorium, lead and uranium using dysprosium as a neutron detector, an assay technique pioneered by George de Hevesy and Hilde Levi. She was able to arrange for Hedwig Kohn, who faced deportation to Poland, to come to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18070 | 276,387 |
1,956,558 | Sharp's major papers included those on the Coleoptera of the Hawaiian Islands published by the Entomological Society of London in 1878, 1879 and 1880. These were followed in 1899 and 1908 by the "Fauna Hawaiiensis" brought out by the Royal Society. This was followed by his work on the "Beetles of Central America", prep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5432229 | 1,955,434 |
2,036,864 | The Edison Tech Center reached over 2 million visitors online last year (2014) between its website and online video channels. The organization publishes new media and television programs on prominent engineers of the electrical age and various technologies. Since 2008 the center has expanded its online presence to incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32838426 | 2,035,689 |
1,249,162 | Several authors discussed the question of how the animal died and what circumstances led to its exceptionally good preservation. Charles H. Sternberg, in 1909, and Charles M. Sternberg, in 1970, assumed that the animal died in water. The gases accumulating in the abdomen after death would have floated the carcass, with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9726532 | 1,248,486 |
112,811 | The recent article, "Shift happens: online education as a new paradigm in learning", Linda Harasim covers an overview of the history of online education as well as a framework for understanding the type of need it addresses, the concept of distance learning has already been invented for many centuries. The value of onl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1944675 | 112,766 |
1,007,040 | The combination of magnetron, T-R switch, small antenna and high resolution allowed small, powerful radars to be installed in aircraft. Maritime patrol aircraft could detect objects as small as submarine periscopes, allowing aircraft to track and attack submerged submarines, where before only surfaced submarines could ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27693223 | 1,006,521 |
1,908,772 | David Evans' research focuses primarily on the evolution and paleobiology of Late Cretaceous dinosaurs, particularly in North American ecosystems. He has published extensively on various aspects of hadrosaurs, following his undergraduate and doctoral dissertations, including phylogenetics, development, biostratigraphy,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62883473 | 1,907,675 |
1,079,017 | As multibeam acoustic frequencies have increased and the cost of components has decreased, the worldwide number of multibeam swath systems in operation has increased significantly. The required physical size of an acoustic transducer used to develop multiple high-resolution beams, decreases as the multibeam acoustic fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7125022 | 1,078,462 |
1,882,543 | Baxter's biggest clashes with academic staff were over governance issues. He had a preference for industry-style organisation, with clear lines of authority. In 1957, he created a committee of deans, chaired by himself, that met every Wednesday. This became the vice-chancellor's advisory committee in 1960. Through this... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18243283 | 1,881,462 |
962,575 | On 30 September 1846, Morton administered diethyl ether to Eben Frost, a music teacher from Boston, for a dental extraction. Two weeks later, Morton became the first to publicly demonstrate the use of diethyl ether as a general anesthetic at Massachusetts General Hospital, in what is known today as the Ether Dome. On 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28755089 | 962,066 |
250,605 | The Wrights continued flying at Huffman Prairie near Dayton, Ohio in 1904–05. In May 1904 they introduced the Flyer II, a heavier and improved version of the original Flyer. On 23 June 1905, they first flew a third machine, the Flyer III. After a severe crash on 14 July 1905, they rebuilt the Flyer III and made importa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177680 | 250,472 |
991,442 | In the early 18th century, George Hadley, an English lawyer and amateur meteorologist, was dissatisfied with the theory that the astronomer Edmond Halley had proposed for explaining the trade winds. What was no doubt correct in Halley's theory was that solar heating creates upward motion of equatorial air, and air mass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6953458 | 990,925 |
374,647 | In the 1930s, Salvador Mazza rekindled Chagas disease research, describing over a thousand cases in Argentina's Chaco Province. In Argentina, the disease is known as "mal de Chagas-Mazza" in his honor. Serological tests for Chagas disease were introduced in the 1940s, demonstrating that infection with was widespread ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7012 | 374,452 |
1,778,405 | Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization maps out single copy or repetitive DNA sequences through localization labeling of specific nucleic acids. The technique utilizes different DNA probes labeled with fluorescent tags that bind to one or more specific regions of the genome. It labels all individual chromosomes at every st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8036853 | 1,777,403 |
778,827 | The dating and text of early manuscripts of the Qur'an have been used as evidence in support of the traditional Islamic views and by sceptics to cast doubt on it. The high number of manuscripts and fragments present from the first 100 years after the reported canonization have made the text one ripe for academic discus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47323795 | 778,410 |
331,581 | "IGN" wrote a positive review, describing it as "an incredibly complex "World War II" simulation that will require potentially hundreds of hours to master, both in-game and poring over wiki articles that read like an economics textbook", but adding that "the payoff is brilliant for those willing to put in the time to l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41721218 | 331,404 |
979,118 | Consumption of energy resources, (e.g. turning on a light) requires resources and has an effect on the environment. Many electric power plants burn coal, oil or natural gas in order to generate electricity for energy needs. While burning these fossil fuels produces a readily available and instantaneous supply of electr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2935251 | 978,607 |
1,185,079 | Production of the film started in summer 2018. On October 9, 2018, Boswell posted on his Twitter account an image of an early experiment of the film: a picture of an animated black hole. The screenshot differs from the final result absolutely: the extremely huge years numbers expressed with powers, no moving counter, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64523088 | 1,184,451 |
1,003,826 | A patient's drug response can be predicted based on the status of biomarkers, or the severity and progression of the disease can be predicted based on the atypical presence of specific cells. Drop-qPCR is a droplet microfluidic technology in which droplets are transported in a reusable capillary and alternately flow th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18906 | 1,003,308 |
1,073,576 | Dynamic nanoindentation or continuous stiffness measurement (CSM, also offered commercially as CMX, dynamics...), introduced in 1989, is a significant improvement over the quasi-static mode described above. It consists into overlapping a very small, fast (> 40 Hz) oscillation onto the main loading signal and evaluate t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4023692 | 1,073,022 |
383,057 | In 1908, two pathologists, Henri Alezais and Felix Peyron, introduced the scientific community to "paraganglioma" after they discovered extra-adrenal tissue that reacted to chromium salts, which mimicked the reaction of the adrenal medulla. Just four years later, German pathologist Ludwig Pick coined the term "pheochro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277088 | 382,862 |
1,013,999 | After Bataan and Corregidor, many who escaped the Japanese reorganized in the mountains as guerrillas still loyal to the U.S. Army Forces Far East (USAFFE). One example would be the unit of Ramon Magsaysay in Zambales, which first served as a supply and intelligence unit. After the surrender in May 1942, Magsaysay and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36873070 | 1,013,478 |
929,837 | Whitworth's main point was to advocate decimalization in place of fractions based on successive halving; but in mentioning thousandths, he was also broaching the idea of a finer division than had been used previously. Until then, workers such as millwrights, boilermakers, and machinists in the Anglosphere measured only... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5978127 | 929,346 |
1,729,163 | In 2005, Bodmer was appointed to lead a £2.3 million project (roughly US$4.5 million) by the Wellcome Trust at the University of Oxford to examine the genetic makeup of the United Kingdom – the People of the British Isles project. He was joined by Oxford Professor Peter Donnelly (a population genetics and statistics ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1431217 | 1,728,189 |
1,259,072 | During the Upper Jurassic, a rift was propagating from the spreading Central Atlantic along the continental margin of northwestern France towards Aquitaine. This happened probably as early as the Tithonian. As a consequence, the rift wedged Iberia southward and separated it from the Armorican Massif. In the wake, the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26161133 | 1,258,385 |
1,674,705 | After completing his doctorate, Schmidt resided in the United States for two years on a Carnegie Fellowship. He returned briefly to the Netherlands, but ultimately emigrated to the US on a permanent basis in 1959 to work at the California Institute of Technology. In the beginning, he worked on theories about the mass d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=726619 | 1,673,763 |
1,436,188 | Multiple elements of a power system can be modelled. A power-flow study calculates the loading on transmission lines and the power necessary to be generated at generating stations, given the required loads to be served. A short circuit study or fault analysis calculates the short-circuit current that would flow at vari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12825821 | 1,435,380 |
1,684,369 | With Sir John Fowler, he designed and engineered the Forth Bridge after the Tay bridge collapse. It was a cantilever bridge and Baker gave numerous lectures on the principles which lay behind his design. Thomas Bouch had originally been awarded the contract but he lost it after the Tay Bridge Inquiry reported in June 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=143580 | 1,683,425 |
905,389 | Since the introduction of multidrug therapy (MDT) in the 1980s, the prevalence of leprosy cases has declined by 95%. This decline led the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare leprosy eliminated as a public health problem, defined as a prevalence of less than one leprosy patient per 10,000 population. Aside from "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=453262 | 904,913 |
929,495 | The receiver was on an platform suspended above the dish by 18 main cables running from three reinforced concrete towers (six cables per tower), one high and the other two high, placing their tops at the same elevation. Each main cable was a bundle of 160 diameter wires, with the bundle painted over and dry air continu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9013135 | 929,004 |
1,832,231 | Anti-miRNA oligonucleotides (also known as AMOs) have many uses in cellular mechanics. These synthetically designed molecules are used to neutralize microRNA (miRNA) function in cells for desired responses. miRNA are complementary sequences (≈22 bp) to mRNA that are involved in the cleavage of RNA or the suppression of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41585434 | 1,831,184 |
1,130,599 | The estimated typical range of weights of hares hunted by golden eagles is , whereas rabbits hunted weigh a little under on average. Except for the occasional Arctic hare, white-tailed or antelope jackrabbit ("Lepus alleni"), most leporids hunted in North America weigh or less, including the smallest hare in the world,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41302685 | 1,130,020 |
62,857 | The M60A4 was the proposed upgrade of the M60A3 TTS for the National Guard that emerged from the M60AX study conducted by the ARNG Tracked Vehicle Task Force with a projected cost of $750,000 per tank. The upgrade would have included improved protection, automotive performance and combat effectiveness, but retained the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=470028 | 62,832 |
498,420 | In 1980, he left Columbia to go to Princeton. He is credited with a key insight in 1982 that made adaptive optics possible: there is a layer of sodium in the mesosphere, at around 90 to 100 km of elevation, which could be lit by a laser beam to make an artificial guide star. His idea was tested successfully by DARPA bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23405347 | 498,163 |
993,202 | Considering cytokines, SASP molecules IL-6 and IL-8 are likely to cause senescence without affecting healthy neighbor cells. IL-1beta, unlike IL-6 or IL-8, is able to induce senescence in normal cells with paracrine signaling. IL-1beta is also dependent on cleavage of IL-1 by caspase-1, causing a pro-inflammatory respo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15354795 | 992,685 |
1,998,260 | Edrich came on and bowled a bouncer, which Bradman tried to swing to the leg side, but instead the edge went in the air and landed behind point. On 13, Bradman played a Bedser ball from his legs, narrowly evading Hutton in the trap at short fine leg. After one hour he was on 14. Bradman and Morris settled down as Coxon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21051201 | 1,997,117 |
1,561,422 | The staff of Samarkand State Medical University, which occupies a leading position among medical universities of the Republic of Uzbekistan, in the new academic year commissioned a modern information and resource center for students. The information and resource center is equipped with new machinery and modern equipmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66858162 | 1,560,536 |
1,860,445 | Medical training at ICBAS began in 1976, based on an innovative pedagogical and institutional project different from traditional medical training. This project has evolved in the face of new challenges and is now an Integrated Master in accordance with the new Basic Law of the Education System, intended to apply the pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2133926 | 1,859,377 |
701,505 | Oystercatcher mussel feeding provides an example of how the optimal diet model can be utilized. Oystercatchers forage on mussels and crack them open with their bills. The constraints on these birds are the characteristics of the different mussel sizes. While large mussels provide more energy than small mussels, large m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3237391 | 701,140 |
579,304 | To register as a patent agent or patent attorney, one must pass the USPTO registration examination. This exam, commonly referred to as the "patent bar", tests a candidate's knowledge of patent law and USPTO policies and procedures as set forth in the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP). The exam consists of 100... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=743809 | 579,007 |
1,011,536 | The M67 was not completely withdrawn from infantry service. Instead, it was retained as a substitute standard antitank weapon for special tasks or battle environments. Since the batteries of the Dragon and the wires of the TOW could fail due to extremely low temperatures, the M67 was used for units deploying to arctic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1315744 | 1,011,015 |
789,556 | Besides being a scientist, John Tyndall was a science teacher and evangelist for the cause of science. He spent a significant amount of his time disseminating science to the general public. He gave hundreds of public lectures to non-specialist audiences at the Royal Institution in London. When he went on a public lectu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=256310 | 789,131 |
1,231,931 | Much of the beliefs held by Han-era physicians are known to modern historians through such texts as the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon" ("Huangdi neijing") medical corpus, which was compiled from the 3rd to 2nd century BCE and was mentioned in the "Book of Later Han". It is clear from this text and others that their met... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21620577 | 1,231,269 |
747,766 | Every choropleth map has a strategy for mapping values to colors. A "classified" choropleth map separates the range of values into classes, with all of the districts in each class being assigned the same color. An "unclassed" map (sometimes called "n-class") directly assigns a color proportional to the value of each di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1506652 | 747,370 |
728,885 | Potentially the most powerful of all sleeve-valve engines (though it never reached production) was the Rolls-Royce Crecy V-12 (oddly, using a 90-degree V-angle), two-stroke, direct-injected, turbocharged (force-scavenged) aero-engine of 26.1 litres capacity. It achieved a very high specific output, and surprisingly goo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=147563 | 728,501 |
1,572,934 | From 1945–1946, Lehmer served on the Computations Committee at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland, a group established as part of the Ballistics Research Laboratory to prepare the ENIAC for utilization following its completion at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering; the other Compu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=379706 | 1,572,046 |
167,984 | In a related but somewhat different sense, which evolved from the original definition of "infinitesimal" as an infinitely small quantity, the term has also been used to refer to a function tending to zero. More precisely, Loomis and Sternberg's "Advanced Calculus" defines the function class of infinitesimals, formula_9... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160990 | 167,894 |
1,444,717 | Individuals diagnosed with PEL most commonly (>33% of all cases) present with advanced Stage III or IV disease. They are predominately males with a median age of 42 years if they are infected with HIV and 73 years if they are not so infected. Some one-third to one-half of these individuals have a history of Kaposi's sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3628299 | 1,443,904 |
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