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1,665,839 | The OpenMRS code is based on a "concept dictionary" that describes all the data items that can be stored in the system such as clinical findings, laboratory test results or socio-economic data. This approach avoids the need to modify the database structure to add new diseases, for example, and facilitates sharing of da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10889095 | 1,664,902 |
1,167,791 | The system was invented by Stanford University and Peter and Russell Schonberg of Schonberg Research Corporation. It was a development of the first 3D irradiation treatment realized with a linear accelerator producing 4 MeV X rays at that time still used only on planar dimensions as a CAT, by the physicist Renzo Carlo ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12418153 | 1,167,173 |
1,092,919 | When all of the isoprene units in a network chain have been forced to reside in just a few extended rotational conformations, the chain becomes taut. It may be regarded as sensibly straight, except for the zigzag path that the C-C bonds make along the chain contour. However, further extension is still possible by bond ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7623862 | 1,092,359 |
1,637,621 | Agha was born and completed his early schooling in Sindh, Pakistan. Agha completed his B.S. with honors at the California Institute of Technology in the year 1977. He received his Ph.D. in Computer and Communication Science from the University of Michigan in 1986 under the supervision of John Holland. However, much of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14959743 | 1,636,696 |
2,065,778 | A number of athletes who had placed outside the top four at the trials and not been selected also attempted to appeal their non-selection. The New York Athletic Club sponsored the trips of decathlete Fait Elkins, sprinter Roland Locke, hurdler Weems Baskin and hammer thrower Matt McGrath to Europe. The appeal of Elkins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48383429 | 2,064,587 |
20,750 | The 150th anniversary of Bell's birth in 1997 was marked by a special issue of commemorative £1 banknotes from the Royal Bank of Scotland. The illustrations on the reverse of the note include Bell's face in profile, his signature, and objects from Bell's life and career: users of the telephone over the ages; an audio w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=852 | 20,741 |
6,030 | The expansion of the Universe was inferred from early twentieth century astronomical observations and is an essential ingredient of the Big Bang models. Mathematically, general relativity describes spacetime by a metric, which determines the distances that separate nearby points. The points, which can be relative to ga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4116 | 6,027 |
810,636 | There are a variety of TBM designs that can operate in a variety of conditions, from hard rock to soft water-bearing ground. Some types of TBMs, the bentonite slurry and earth-pressure balance machines, have pressurised compartments at the front end, allowing them to be used in difficult conditions below the water tabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54691944 | 810,204 |
895,224 | Many halogenated flame retardants with aromatic rings, including most brominated flame retardants, are likely thyroid hormone disruptors. The thyroid hormones triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4) carry iodine atoms, another halogen, and are structurally similar to many aromatic halogenated flame retardants, includi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=801863 | 894,754 |
429,102 | After the Fylingdales BMEWS radars had been replaced by Raytheon/Cossor AeroSpace and Control Data Corporation (embedded CDC-Cyber computer) at a cost of US $100M, in February 1995 the "missile warning center at Cheyenne Mountain AS [was] undergoing a $450 million upgrade program". The entire SSPARS became operational ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42246132 | 428,892 |
1,757,811 | "Biomphalaria glabrata" is a simultaneous hermaphrodite, but self-fertilization is also possible. The mucus of this snail species contains species-specific signals that allow individual snails to identify others of the same species, but the causative mucus components decay within 10 to 30 min. The typically unilateral ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23596197 | 1,756,818 |
1,774,085 | This was the climate into which Boyd entered as interim institute president after Hansen had announced, on April 27, 1971, that he would be departing Georgia Tech to become president of Purdue University on July 1 of that year. Boyd stopped the plan for absolute absorption of the station, but did allow plans for closer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8753550 | 1,773,088 |
206,036 | Each GPHS-RTG, mounted on a boom, carried of . Each RTG contained 18 separate heat source modules, and each module encased four pellets of plutonium(IV) oxide, a ceramic material resistant to fracturing. The plutonium was enriched to about 83.5 percent plutonium-238. The modules were designed to survive a range of pote... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66515110 | 205,930 |
19,697 | At this point, Nambi strikes a deal with the French who need skilled scientists to help them build their own liquid fuel engine. He then moves to France with his colleagues, hoping to learn from France's advanced technology so that they may recreate it back in India. Unbeknownst to the French, Nambi and his 52 colleagu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58932491 | 19,689 |
935,493 | There is a measurement limitation for how precisely EVM can be used, stemming from classic conflict between accuracy and precision, as the mathematics can calculate deceptively far beyond the precision of the measurements of data and the approximation that is the plan estimation. The limitation on estimation is commonl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9728 | 934,999 |
316,397 | As the army was being defeated and giving up ground in the initial assault, a gigantic operation was staged to move economic capacity from the Western areas that were about to be overrun, to Eastern regions in the Urals and central Asia that were out of reach of the Germans. Entire factories, including their labour for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=91515 | 316,228 |
648,025 | Different waveforms can be used for different electrosurgical procedures. For cutting, a continuous single frequency sine wave is often employed. Rapid tissue heating leads to explosive vaporization of interstitial fluid. If the voltage is sufficiently high (> 400 V peak-to-peak) the vapor sheath is ionized, forming co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3553341 | 647,685 |
1,401,390 | Şenbabaoğlu "et al" demonstrated the original delta K metric to decide formula_1 in the Monti algorithm performed poorly, and proposed a new superior metric for measuring the stability of consensus matrices using their CDF curves. In the CDF curve of a consensus matrix, the lower left portion represents sample pairs ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21542452 | 1,400,603 |
1,358,844 | Hintikka is regarded as the founder of formal epistemic logic and of game semantics for logic. Early in his career, he devised a semantics of modal logic essentially analogous to Saul Kripke's frame semantics, and discovered the now widely taught semantic tableau, independently of Evert Willem Beth. Later, he worked ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1710903 | 1,358,093 |
90,543 | According to National Science Foundation (NSF) research and data, the university ranks first nationally among liberal arts colleges in federal funding for research in the sciences and mathematics. Wesleyan is the sole undergraduate liberal arts college to be designated a Molecular Biophysics Predoctoral Research Traini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241865 | 90,503 |
468,484 | For random-access type memories, a 1T1R (one transistor, one resistor) architecture is preferred because the transistor isolates current to cells that are selected from cells that are not. On the other hand, a cross-point architecture is more compact and may enable vertically stacking memory layers, ideally suited for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8768215 | 468,249 |
1,558,389 | On January 3, 2004, Gusev was the landing site of the first of NASA's two Mars Exploration Rovers, named "Spirit". It was hoped that the numerous smaller and more recent craters in this region would have exposed sedimentary material from early eras, although at first the region proved disappointing in its lack of avail... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=420050 | 1,557,504 |
796,910 | Ciena was founded in 1992 under the name HydraLite by electrical engineer David R. Huber. Huber served as chief executive officer, while Optelecom, a company building optical networking products, provided "management assistance and production facilities," and co-founder Kevin Kimberlin "provided initial equity capital ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3569061 | 796,485 |
379,565 | Improved warhead designs allow smaller warheads for a given yield, while better electronics and guidance systems allow greater accuracy. As a result, MIRV technology has proven more attractive than MRV for advanced nations. Multiple-warhead missiles require both a miniaturised physics package and a lower mass re-entry ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53145 | 379,370 |
905,158 | "Dead Space" is set in the year 2508, a time when humanity has spread throughout the universe. Following near-extinction of humans on Earth due to resource shortages, ships dubbed "Planetcrackers" are being used to harvest resources from barren planets. The oldest Planetcracker is the USG "Ishimura", which is performin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13381784 | 904,682 |
1,421,645 | The opening movement is a concerto allegro in G major and common time. This already sets the sonata apart from the previous sonatas, which like the sonatas da chiesa of Corelli start with slow movements: BWV 1019, like the instrumental concertos of Bach, begins with a fast movement. Symmetrical in structure and written... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47685517 | 1,420,844 |
1,087,565 | The simplest optical coatings are thin layers of metals, such as aluminium, which are deposited on glass substrates to make mirror surfaces, a process known as silvering. The metal used determines the reflection characteristics of the mirror; aluminium is the cheapest and most common coating, and yields a reflectivity ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=584887 | 1,087,006 |
624,614 | In addition to its use by ESA and Russia, the ATV was at one point under consideration to perform services for NASA as part of the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program to replace the retiring Space Shuttle in its orbital cargo carrying capacity. Under the proposal, which had been issued by a joint venture... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=227961 | 624,281 |
384,707 | Notable graduate students from the University of Washington include Robert Wahler, James Sherman, and Ivar Lovaas. Lovaas established the UCLA Young Autism Project while teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1965, Lovaas published a series of articles that described a pioneering investigation of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1781075 | 384,512 |
1,664,124 | The cobratoxin of the Thailand cobra belongs to the neurotoxins. An important property of neurotoxins is that they are not usually able to cross the blood-brain barrier. Instead of this, they block the nerve transmission in the body. α-Cobratoxin is a post-synaptic neurotoxin, which reversibly blocks the nicotinic acet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14147566 | 1,663,187 |
70,313 | Parkinson's disease (PD), also known as "Parkinsons", is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that often impairs motor skills and speech. Parkinson's disease belongs to a group of conditions called movement disorders. It is characterized by muscle rigidity, tremor, a slowing of physical movement (brady... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21120 | 70,286 |
263,616 | In 1916, Karl Schwarzschild obtained the exact solution to Einstein's field equations for the gravitational field outside a non-rotating, spherically symmetric body with mass formula_2 (see Schwarzschild metric). The solution contained terms of the form formula_3 and formula_4, which become singular at formula_5 and fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=206115 | 263,473 |
1,427,246 | Rosbash's research initially focused on the metabolism and processing of mRNA; mRNA is the molecular link between DNA and protein. After arriving at Brandeis, Rosbash collaborated with co-worker Jeffrey Hall and investigated the genetic influences on circadian rhythms of the internal biological clock. They used "Drosop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39093020 | 1,426,443 |
402,966 | William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, (26 June 182417 December 1907) was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast. Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow for 53 years, he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33302 | 402,766 |
2,141,651 | Smith has earned numerous accolades for his academic success. In 2002, he received the Associate Investigator Award from the VA San Diego Healthcare System. In 2005, he was elected to the National Center for Leadership in Academic Medicine at UC San Diego. Also in 2005, Discover Magazine acknowledged one of Smith's pap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64007207 | 2,140,421 |
347,381 | Acid–base equilibrium plays a critical role in regulating mammalian breathing. Oxygen gas (O) drives cellular respiration, the process by which animals release the chemical potential energy stored in food, producing carbon dioxide (CO) as a byproduct. Oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged in the lungs, and the body r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=656 | 347,200 |
581,992 | Perhaps the most powerful technique for detection of individual chemical species is radio astronomy, which has resulted in the detection of over a hundred interstellar species, including radicals and ions, and organic (i.e. carbon-based) compounds, such as alcohols, acids, aldehydes, and ketones. One of the most abunda... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71268 | 581,694 |
157,016 | In April 2009, then-President John Bassett denied Clark University Students for Palestinian Rights, a student group, permission to bring Norman Finkelstein to speak about the "Gaza Massacre" (2008–2009 Gaza War) because Finkelstein "would invite controversy and not dialogue or understanding". He also cited a conflict i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=274804 | 156,944 |
1,777,398 | where formula_4 is the model parameter including many dilated convolution layers. Thus, each audio sample formula_11 is conditioned on the samples at all previous timesteps. However, the auto-regressive nature of WaveNet makes the inference process dramatically slow. To solve this problem, Parallel WaveNet was proposed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69432561 | 1,776,397 |
2,098 | His duties were prosaic at first. "In those days [the artists] dipped the pen in ink, [so] I had to make sure the inkwells were filled", Lee recalled in 2009. "I went down and got them their lunch, I did proofreading, I erased the pencils from the finished pages for them". Marshaling his childhood ambition to be a writ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 | 2,098 |
582,870 | Whereas enzymes without coupled domains/subunits display normal Michaelis-Menten kinetics, most allosteric enzymes have multiple coupled domains/subunits and show cooperative binding. Generally speaking, such cooperativity results in allosteric enzymes displaying a sigmoidal dependence on the concentration of their sub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6182049 | 582,571 |
522,238 | The analog AC waveforms detected by the PMU are digitized by an analog-to-digital converter for each phase. A phase-locked oscillator along with a Global Positioning System (GPS) reference source provides the needed high-speed synchronized sampling with 1 microsecond accuracy. However, PMUs can take in multiple time so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5199213 | 521,966 |
136,972 | Ancient Greek, ancient Roman, and medieval philosophers usually combined the geocentric model with a spherical Earth, in contrast to the older flat-Earth model implied in some mythology. The ancient Jewish Babylonian uranography pictured a flat Earth with a dome-shaped, rigid canopy called the firmament placed over it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=83754 | 136,917 |
987,598 | The most popular on-highway Detroit Diesel engine was the 12.7-liter, and on-highway engines are electronically-controlled by the proprietary Detroit Diesel Electronic Control (DDEC) system. The DDEC system was the first commercial use of a fully electronic control on a highway engine, and multiple years would pass bef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17040072 | 987,082 |
2,090,537 | Localized pulsed electrodeposition (L-PED) is a technique for direct 3D printing of free-standing and layer-by-layer micro/nano-scale metallic structures at the tip of an electrolyte containing nozzle. The method follows the same principle for metal deposition as the traditional electrodeposition (electroplating), howe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56266877 | 2,089,334 |
1,175,763 | After 150 million years of volcanism, plutonism, metamorphism, and thrust faulting had run their course, the early part of the Cenozoic era (early Tertiary, 65–30 Ma) was a time of repose; neither igneous nor sedimentary rocks of this age are known here. A relatively featureless plain was created from erosion over many... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1134149 | 1,175,141 |
2,176,685 | Different kinds of stimuli result in different responses within the "Arabidopsis" plant. A wound or damage to the plant causes a wound-activated surface potential (WASP) changes that serve as an alert message to undamaged tissues. This wound response results in a plasma membrane depolarization, H+ and Ca efflux and K+ ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70855399 | 2,175,441 |
1,854,273 | The first volume he self-published was titled "Seed Germination Theory and Practice" and has been referred to by "Alpine Gardening" as "the bible" of horticulture and a required book for gardeners and those who work with plants. Original physical copies were sold by Deno for $20 through the mail and he estimated that o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66739039 | 1,853,210 |
1,829,599 | There are a number of applications for biodegradable metals, including cardiovascular implants (i.e. stents) and orthopedics. It is in this latter category where these materials offer the greatest potential. Bioresorbable metals are able to withstand loads that would destroy any currently available polymers, and offer ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39058868 | 1,828,558 |
945,307 | The above experiments search for a fifth force that is, like gravity, independent of the composition of an object, so all objects experience the force in proportion to their masses. Forces that depend on the composition of an object can be very sensitively tested by torsion balance experiments of a type invented by Lor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=169552 | 944,805 |
1,994,298 | In a four-week curriculum, Pre-Radio included a lightning-speed review of high school mathematics (through second-level algebra), physics (mainly electricity and magnetism), and elementary chemistry. Eddy, Brolly, and other instructors at the prototype primary school wrote a book to assist students in this effort. Each... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36494078 | 1,993,155 |
425,506 | As educators realized that in order to successfully complete an academic task, second language (L2) learners have to master both English as a language form (grammar, vocabulary etc.) and how English is used in core content classes, they started to implement various approaches such as Sheltered instruction and learning ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11111776 | 425,298 |
1,393,011 | Daniel Cnossen (born May 17, 1980) is an American biathlete and cross-country skier competing at the 2022 Winter Olympics. He won gold in the Biathlon at the 2018 Winter Paralympics – Men's 7.5 kilometres in the sitting division. He is a native of Topeka, Kansas and a double amputee. He lost both legs, above the knees,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56808306 | 1,392,240 |
186,486 | By 1863, motivated by Louis Pasteur's report on fermentation to butyric acid, fellow Frenchman Casimir Davaine identified a microorganism as the crucial causal agent of the cattle disease anthrax, but its routinely vanishing from blood left other scientists inferring it a mere byproduct of putrefaction. In 1876, upon F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=598302 | 186,389 |
1,057,888 | Prior to "SpaceChem", Zach Barth, the designer behind Zachtronics Industries, had created several Flash-based browser games with automation puzzles, including "The Codex of Alchemical Engineering" where the player had to place and program manipulator arms to construct atoms and molecules following the rules of alchemy.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31625168 | 1,057,339 |
689,084 | Notable economists affiliated with the school include former World Bank Chief Economist Anne Krueger, and former Fulbright Chair in Economics at Harvard University Michael D. Plummer. Many influential political scientists are also affiliated with the school, including Pulitzer-prize winning historian Anne Applebaum, Un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=918222 | 688,722 |
1,740,098 | Dorothy Killam made tens of millions of dollars by selling the shares she had inherited in her late husband's companies. She continued to increase her fortune, investing heavily in short term bonds. She once bought up a whole issue of Nova Scotia government bonds. In August 1960 the "Ladies' Home Journal" featured her ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46489032 | 1,739,117 |
175,784 | Chiune Sugihara was born on 1 January 1900 (Meiji 33), in Mino, Gifu prefecture, to a middle-class father, , and an upper-middle class mother, . When he was born, his father worked at a tax office in Kozuchi-town and his family lived in a borrowed temple, with the Buddhist temple where he was born nearby. He was the se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=504030 | 175,692 |
813,661 | The other pathway, non-cyclic photophosphorylation, is a two-stage process involving two different chlorophyll photosystems in the thylakoid membrane. First, a photon is absorbed by chlorophyll pigments surrounding the reaction core center of photosystem II. The light excites an electron in the pigment P680 at the core... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1394307 | 813,228 |
470,859 | Apalutamide is metabolized in the liver by CYP2C8 and CYP3A4. A major active metabolite, N-desmethylapalutamide, is formed by these enzymes, with similar contribution of each of these enzymes to its formation at steady-state. Following a single oral dose of 200 mg apalutamide, apalutamide represented 45% and N-desmethy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47734223 | 470,623 |
957,596 | Most construction projects require the use of hundreds of different materials. These range from the concrete of all different specifications, structural steel of different specifications, clay, mortar, ceramics, wood, etc. In terms of a load bearing structural frame, they will generally consist of structural steel, con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3730357 | 957,090 |
778,100 | The original IBM BIOS made POST diagnostic information available by outputting a number to I/O port 0x80 (a screen display was not possible with some failure modes). Both progress indication and error codes were generated; in the case of a failure which did not generate a code, the code of the last successful operation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1699425 | 777,683 |
272,735 | Nuclear weapons possess enormous destructive power from nuclear fission or combined fission and fusion reactions. Building on scientific breakthroughs made during the 1930s, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and free France collaborated during World War II, in what was called the Manhattan Project, to buil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242883 | 272,587 |
1,069,681 | The National Library of Medicine in the National Institutes of Health made ClinicalTrials.gov available to the public via the internet on February 29, 2000. In this initial release, ClinicalTrials.gov primarily included information about NIH-sponsored trials, omitting the majority of clinical trials being performed by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20506184 | 1,069,127 |
731,662 | There are several benefits of digital imaging. First, the process enables easy access of photographs and word documents. Google is at the forefront of this ‘revolution,’ with its mission to digitize the world's books. Such digitization will make the books searchable, thus making participating libraries, such as Stanfor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275682 | 731,276 |
1,832,849 | ICOS consists of a network of standardized, long-term, high-precision integrated monitoring of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations and fluxes. The infrastructure integrates terrestrial and atmospheric observations at various sites into a single, coherent, highly precise dataset. This data allows a unique regional... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20554257 | 1,831,801 |
1,956,021 | Jean-Luc Bredas is a Member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, the Royal Academy of Belgium, and the European Academy of Sciences. He is the recipient of multiple awards, including the 1997 Francqui Prize, the 2000 Quinquennial Prize of the Belgian National Science Foundation, the 2001 Italgas P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8407262 | 1,954,899 |
1,526,470 | In 1952 Rib Lake Copper Mines explored areas adjacent to Whitney Lake and between Whitney Lake and Rib Lake, by creating trenches and carrying out diamond drilling. Nickel was discovered with widespread pyrrhotite in sheared mafic rocks. Gold mineralization was discovered with pyrite in slightly siliceous tuff. The hig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14392038 | 1,525,606 |
1,320,898 | Release of acetylcholine vesicles from the presynaptic terminal occurs only after adequate depolarization of the efferent nerve. Once a motor nerve action potential reaches the presynaptic nerve terminal it causes an increase in intracellular calcium concentration by causing an increase in ion conductance through volta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18327609 | 1,320,172 |
1,176,125 | Mutations in the CDKL5 gene cause CDKL5 deficiency disorder. CDKL5 Deficiency had been thought of as a variant of Rett's Syndrome due to some similarities in the clinical presentation, but it is now known to be an independent clinical entity caused by mutations in a distinct X-linked gene, and is considered separate fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9398201 | 1,175,503 |
778,310 | The United States Naval Observatory states "the Equation of Time is the difference "apparent solar time" minus "mean solar time"", i.e. if the sun is ahead of the clock the sign is positive, and if the clock is ahead of the sun the sign is negative. The equation of time is shown in the upper graph above for a period of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=438948 | 777,893 |
148,118 | Here, Armstrong is describing at least four modern concepts. First, his "affinity" is better known nowadays as the electron, which was to be discovered only seven years later by J. J. Thomson. Second, he is describing electrophilic aromatic substitution, proceeding (third) through a Wheland intermediate, in which (four... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239836 | 148,057 |
704,034 | Concentrations of polyphosphates or phosphonates with zinc and chromates or similar compounds have been maintained in cooling systems to keep heat exchange surfaces clean so a film of gamma iron oxide and zinc phosphate may inhibit corrosion by passivating anodic and cathodic reaction points. These increase salinity an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=531184 | 703,666 |
639,312 | The Panzer III's 37 mm gun was considered underpowered, yet it was used in the interests of standardisation with the infantry. Contracts for the "Zugführerwagen" (ZW, "platoon leader vehicle") were issued late in 1936. Its weight was limited to a maximum of 24 tons, because it was required to be able to cross existing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2995889 | 638,973 |
3,087 | At that time, no one else in the world of physics had noticed what Curie recorded in a sentence of her paper, describing how much greater were the activities of pitchblende and chalcolite than uranium itself: "The fact is very remarkable, and leads to the belief that these minerals may contain an element which is much ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20408 | 3,087 |
1,586,243 | Throughout this period (1983–1991), Gwendolyn Galsworth was head of training and development at Productivity Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a publishing, training, and consulting firm known for bringing the work of Japan's manufacturing leaders to the United States. Galsworth headed study missions to Japan and obser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50902679 | 1,585,352 |
1,191,794 | For groups 1–5, 10, 13–16 (except nitrogen), the highest oxidation states of oxides and fluorides are always equal. Differences are only seen in chromium, groups 7–9, copper, mercury, and the noble gases. Fluorination allows some elements to achieve relatively low highest oxidation states that are otherwise hard to ach... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39292926 | 1,191,159 |
1,506,262 | The USTPC is a branch within the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) that is the main committee for facilitating the interaction of matters related to policies relating to information technology. One of the main ways the USTPC contributes is through providing informational reports on computing-related policy issu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1175103 | 1,505,416 |
23,563 | For the 2016–17 fiscal year, the university spent $984.5 million on research. Federal sources constitute the largest source of research funding, with total federal investment of $438.2 million. The agencies contributing the largest share of that investment are the Department of Health and Human Services and the Nationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 | 23,554 |
1,155,207 | Carla Bozzolo and Ezio Ornato in their 1980 book "Pour une histoire du livre manuscript au Moyen Age" object to the then usual view of the study of manuscripts as a tool for accessing intellectual history or studying illuminated manuscripts as art objects. They advocate for the study of the plenty of ordinary manuscrip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1592240 | 1,154,597 |
377,247 | In African countries such as Tanzania and Burundi, there has been an unprecedented rise in witchcraft-related killings of people with albinism in recent years, because their body parts are used in potions sold by witch doctors. Numerous authenticated incidents have occurred in Africa during the 21st century. For exampl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2909 | 377,052 |
1,171,780 | College of the Siskiyous athletic mascot is the Eagle. COS offers student intercollegiate athletic competition in a number of sports. Women's collegiate sports include: basketball, softball, cross country, track, soccer, and volleyball. Men's collegiate sports include: baseball, basketball, cross country, soccer, track... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3413356 | 1,171,161 |
1,646,079 | In 1918 The Churchill Machine Tool Co bought of land at Broadheath, near Altrincham, from the Earl of Stamford. By 1920 the company had relocated all its production to that site, which put it at the heart of a growing concentration of engineering businesses which included H.W. Kearns & Co, George Richards & Co, Luke & ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30046818 | 1,645,150 |
2,206,110 | Quorum sensing, a process which allows for differential gene expression in response to changes in cell density, can trigger bacterial biofilm formation when bacteria are present in sufficiently high concentrations. Biofilm formation in turn drives resistance to a range of environmental and biological stressors, includi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61753686 | 2,204,853 |
48,771 | The learning rate defines the size of the corrective steps that the model takes to adjust for errors in each observation. A high learning rate shortens the training time, but with lower ultimate accuracy, while a lower learning rate takes longer, but with the potential for greater accuracy. Optimizations such as Quickp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21523 | 48,751 |
1,920,917 | Pocock Racing Shells was founded in Seattle, Washington in 1911. The roots of the company began in England back in the 1800s. Founder George Pocock grew up in England, where his father was the head boat builder for prestigious Eton College at Windsor around the turn of the century. As a young man, George raced single s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3040791 | 1,919,814 |
1,546,461 | The design of certain objects can have human-related traits that illustrate techno-animism. A robot designed by Honda called ASIMO takes the form of an astronaut wearing a spacesuit. The form factor along with the spiritual values associated with space exploration makes ASIMO an embodiment of techno-animism. In additio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57013803 | 1,545,585 |
1,621,020 | "Drosera peltata" is a perennial tuberous herb. Its underground tuber is generally found 4 – 6 cm under the soil surface, and its aerial parts range from 5 – 50 cm in height, with wide differentiation into several forms. The subspecies "D. peltata" subsp. "auriculata" is often the most robust, reaching up to 50 cm in h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2669952 | 1,620,105 |
1,706,162 | In the North Atlantic Region pilots are expected to fly along the oceanic track center-line or 1 or 2 nautical miles to its right, randomly choosing one of these three offsets on each entry to oceanic airspace. The aim is to not achieve an overall even distribution of one-third of all flights on each of the three possi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13335245 | 1,705,204 |
1,640,548 | The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) created a task group in late 2003 to develop a wireless LAN standard delivering at least 100 Mbit/s of user data throughput. There were two major competing proposals: TGn Sync was backed by companies including Intel and Philips, and WWiSE was supported by com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40973575 | 1,639,621 |
867,553 | In November 2018, the present names were first used: Super Heavy for the booster, Starship for the spacecraft, and Starship system or just Starship for the whole vehicle. Around that time, Musk announced a redesigned spacecraft concept with three aft flaps and two forward flaps. In January 2019, Musk announced that Sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34666187 | 867,093 |
653,718 | Geomagnetic sensing has been identified as one of the most important specialized senses in this family. Unlike the other relatives the Anguillidae are catadromous meaning they must migrate for an extended period and depending on what life stage they are in they may be in the open ocean. The Anguillidae were placed in “... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2349109 | 653,374 |
1,599,300 | In the UK, parallels have been drawn between binge drinking and the Gin Craze of 18th century England. Some areas of the media are spending a great deal of time reporting on what they see as a social ill that is becoming more prevalent as time passes. In 2003, the cost of binge drinking was estimated as £20 billion a y... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31196751 | 1,598,400 |
107,622 | Using single-lensed microscopes of his own design and make, van Leeuwenhoek was the first to observe and to experiment with microbes, which he originally referred to as "dierkens", "diertgens" or "diertjes" (Dutch for "small animals" [translated into English as "animalcules", from Latin "animalculum" = "tiny animal"]).... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42001 | 107,577 |
2,141,905 | Due to the simple purification of this enzyme (5-30 fold purification is sufficient to reach homogeneity), its biological and biochemical analysis have been very thoroughly studied. In addition to the study of many isoforms within a given organism, there has been study dedicated to the understanding of HNL localization... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14284394 | 2,140,674 |
869,816 | The Wind River VxWorks operating system is used on the Boeing 787-8, 787-9 and 787-10 aircraft. As of April 2, 2020, the US Federal Aviation Administration requires the operating system to be power-cycled, or turned off and on, every fifty-one (51) days. The reason for requiring the periodic reboot of the common core s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157105 | 869,356 |
2,143,971 | In order to improve the effectiveness of PD drugs such as L-DOPA, a diet low in excessive protein is recommended since L-DOPA competes with these dietary proteins for access to the blood and brain. It is therefore recommended that the drug be taken so that it is not affected by digestion. It is recommended to take L-DO... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36561543 | 2,142,740 |
1,687,219 | Chromosome jumping libraries help address the complication of standard cloning techniques with large molecular distances. This process allowed the possibility to use the chromosome jumping library for other genetic disorders that requires 100 kilobases jumps. Particularly for genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1128142 | 1,686,273 |
1,667,712 | The oldest south Arabian sanctuaries belong to the prehistoric period and were simple stone monoliths, sometimes surrounded by stone circles or mortarless masonry walls. In a second phase, actual temples were constructed. These temples were simple rectangular stone structures without roofs. Their interiors were initial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58412746 | 1,666,773 |
699,982 | The term "iodine allergy" should be omitted because this kind of allergy does not exist. Seafood "allergy" is not a contraindication for the use of iodinated contrast materials, because in seafood allergy the immune system is directed against the muscle protein tropomyosin. While iodine levels in seafood are higher tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1320802 | 699,618 |
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