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1,097,496 | In the 1980s, UC Berkeley law professor Phillip E. Johnson began reading the scientific literature on evolution. This led him to author "Darwin on Trial" (1991), which examined the evidence for evolution from a religious point of view and challenged the assumption that the only reasonable explanation for the origin of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34846832 | 1,096,936 |
397,041 | The standard MSFR would be a 3000 MWth reactor that has a total fuel salt volume of 18 m with a mean fuel temperature of 750 C. The core's shape is a compact cylinder with a height to diameter ratio of 1 where liquid fluoride fuel salt flows from the bottom to the top. The return circulation of the salt, from top to bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1584031 | 396,845 |
746,017 | Ground-source heat pumps always produce fewer greenhouse gases than air conditioners, oil furnaces, and electric heating, but natural gas furnaces may be competitive depending on the greenhouse gas intensity of the local electricity supply. In countries like Canada and Russia with low emitting electricity infrastructur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7096967 | 745,622 |
1,287,189 | Dysfunctions in distinguishing differences in sizes and shapes of objects can have many causes, including brain injury, stroke, epilepsy, and oxygen deprivation. Lesions on the brain that develop as a result of injury or illness impair object recognition. Regions that specifically lead to deficits in object recognition... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32197396 | 1,286,488 |
372,033 | In music theory, serialism is a method or technique of composition that uses a series of values to manipulate different musical elements. Serialism began primarily with Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique, though his contemporaries were also working to establish serialism as one example of post-tonal thinking. Tw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54783 | 371,838 |
1,420,031 | The school gradually became more focused on educating youth, with the adult education programs being moved to other schools in the late 1930s. In 1915 there were approximately 750 "scholars". With an expected increase in student population the school ultimately had to expand. In 1932 to accommodate the increasing numbe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1820605 | 1,419,232 |
140,341 | In this chapter, Hawking describes the development of scientific thought regarding the nature of space and time. He first describes the Aristotelian idea that the naturally preferred state of a body is to be at rest, and which can only be moved by force, implying that heavier objects will fall faster. However, Italian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67227 | 140,284 |
1,031,703 | The propulsion system was changed from the four shaft arrangement of the "Duquesne" to a three shaft arrangement in the "Suffren". Three single reduction gear Rateau-Bretagne steam turbines with six Guyot du Temple small tube boilers built by Indret rated at 20 kg/cm2 while operating at 215° Fahrenheit would produce 90... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4389274 | 1,031,167 |
345,542 | An important role for proprioception is to allow an animal to stabilize itself against perturbations. For instance, for a person to walk or stand upright, they must continuously monitor their posture and adjust muscle activity as needed to provide balance. Similarly, when walking on unfamiliar terrain or even tripping,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21290714 | 345,361 |
1,856,991 | Isaac Jacob Schmidt is generally regarded as the "founder" of Mongolian studies as an academic discipline. Schmidt, a native of Amsterdam who emigrated to Russia on account of the French invasion, began his exposure to the Mongolic languages as a missionary of the Moravian Church among the Kalmyks, and translated the G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51704205 | 1,855,923 |
1,539,466 | HCV is transmitted by coming in contact with the blood of someone infected with HCV. The virus is commonly spread by sharing needles, mother to infant during birth, improperly sterilized medical equipment, intercourse with an infected individual, and unregulated tattoos. Once inside the body, the virus enters the liver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5806819 | 1,538,593 |
1,152,242 | Excimer light sources are also being produced and researched. The stable, non-equilibrium condition of microplasmas favors three-body collisions which can lead to excimer formation. The excimer, an unstable molecule produced by collisions of excited atoms, is very short lived due to its rapid dissociation. Upon their d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18446530 | 1,151,633 |
250,665 | Essential tremor (ET), also called benign tremor, familial tremor, and idiopathic tremor, is a medical condition characterized by involuntary rhythmic contractions and relaxations (oscillations or twitching movements) of certain muscle groups in one or more body parts of unknown cause. It is typically symmetrical, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10528 | 250,532 |
525,592 | Aerojet agreed to recondition sufficient NK-33s to serve Orbital's 16-flight NASA Commercial Resupply Services contract. Beyond that, it had a stockpile of 23 1960s- and 1970s-era engines. Kuznetsov no longer manufactures the engines, so Orbital sought to buy RD-180 engines. Because NPO Energomash's contract with Unite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3813298 | 525,319 |
383,042 | Metastatic pheochromocytoma is defined as the presence of tumor cells (chromaffin tissue) where they are not normally found. Patients with a paraganglioma are more likely to develop metastases than those with a pheochromocytoma. The most common extra-adrenal sites of metastases are the lymph nodes, lung, liver, and bon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277088 | 382,847 |
135,262 | The Pei Plan was a failed urban redevelopment initiative designed for downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1964. The plan called for the demolition of hundreds of old downtown structures in favor of renewed parking, office building, and retail developments, in addition to public projects such as the Myriad Convention C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15155 | 135,207 |
644,681 | Cancer cells have characteristically accelerated metabolic machinery and Pyruvate Kinase is believed to have a role in cancer. When compared to healthy cells, cancer cells have elevated levels of the PKM2 isoform, specifically the low activity dimer. Therefore, PKM2 serum levels are used as markers for cancer. The low ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=508739 | 644,341 |
74,731 | Up to 90% of cardiovascular disease may be preventable if established risk factors are avoided. Prevention involves adequate physical exercise, decreasing obesity, treating high blood pressure, eating a healthy diet, decreasing cholesterol levels, and stopping smoking. Medications and exercise are roughly equally effec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5876 | 74,704 |
862,550 | Degree regulations state that, to be awarded a degree, a student must have passed two honours examinations (i.e., two Tripos examinations) – this could include a Part I and a Part II, two Part I exams, or (in some cases) a Part I and a Part IA. From October 2011, students can only be awarded an honours degree if they h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=83025 | 862,090 |
1,091,677 | The premiere, which took place in St. Petersburg on March 28, 1897, was an absolute disaster for reasons which included under-rehearsal and the poor performance of the possibly intoxicated conductor Alexander Glazunov. Rachmaninoff subsequently suffered a psychological collapse but did not destroy or attempt to disown ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2539421 | 1,091,117 |
764,049 | During 2015 the Croatian economy started with slow but upward economic growth, which continued during 2016 and conclusive at the end of the year seasonally adjusted was recorded at 3.5%. The better than expected figures during 2016 enabled the Croatian Government and with more tax receipts enabled the repayment of debt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5578 | 763,639 |
1,033,987 | This has significant implications for the interpretation of the output of a regression model. All statistical programs "solve" the mean-variance confound by setting the variance equal to a constant; all estimated beta coefficients are, in fact, an estimated beta multiplied by an estimated lambda (an inverse function of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15841082 | 1,033,450 |
665,638 | The planned program to replace the original J79 engines with the Pratt & Whitney PW1120 was cancelled, but the fleet was updated to Kurnass 2000 standards. This upgrade included installation of a wide-angle Kaiser HUD, a digital mission computer and some structural improvements. The main updates involved the APG-76 rad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13567676 | 665,291 |
61,189 | The influence of cubism extended to other artistic fields, outside painting and sculpture. In literature, the written works of Gertrude Stein employ repetition and repetitive phrases as building blocks in both passages and whole chapters. Most of Stein's important works utilize this technique, including the novel "The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37803 | 61,164 |
735,827 | While Stellite remains the material of choice for certain internal parts in industrial process valves (valve seat hardfacing), its use has been discouraged in nuclear power plants. In piping that can communicate with the reactor, tiny amounts of Stellite would be released into the process fluid and eventually enter the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=398671 | 735,440 |
507,836 | The cause of Köhler's disease, has thus far, been declared unknown by scientists. However, it is suspected that possible causes may be caused by strain on the foot and the blood vessels associated with it, before the bone is fully able to grow into its adult form (ossification). This bone ossification usually begins wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2807801 | 507,572 |
1,049,978 | California Northstate University College of Medicine (CNUCOM) is a private for-profit medical school located in Elk Grove, California and is one of the four colleges of California Northstate University, granting the degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD). Although the proposed California Northstate University hospital will ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47963618 | 1,049,432 |
220,303 | In academic cryptography, a "weakness" or a "break" in a scheme is usually defined quite conservatively: it might require impractical amounts of time, memory, or known plaintexts. It also might require the attacker be able to do things many real-world attackers can't: for example, the attacker may need to choose partic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5715 | 220,194 |
854,588 | The range of a heliograph depends on the opacity of the air and the effective collecting area of the mirrors. Heliograph mirrors ranged from 1.5 inches to 12 inches or more. Stations at higher altitudes benefit from thinner, clearer air, and are required in any event for great ranges, to clear the curvature of the eart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=712727 | 854,133 |
593,192 | The initial 1998 paper by the APG made angiosperms the first large group of organisms to be systematically re-classified primarily on the basis of genetic characteristics. The paper explained the authors' view that there is a need for a classification system for angiosperms at the level of families, orders and above, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=631671 | 592,888 |
557,977 | Early fossil reptiles retained the arrangement seen in more primitive vertebrates, but in mammals, the lower surface of the palatine became folded over during evolution, forming the horizontal plate, and meeting in the midline of the mouth. This forms the rear of the hard palate, separating the oral and nasal cavities,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=312054 | 557,688 |
51,275 | Three weeks later, Watson gave Kubrick his first story treatment, and concluded his work on "A.I." in May 1991 with another treatment of 90 pages. Gigolo Joe was originally conceived as a G.I. Mecha, but Watson suggested changing him to a male prostitute. Kubrick joked, "I guess we lost the kiddie market." Meanwhile, K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=142224 | 51,255 |
1,276,943 | Primarily insectivorous, this animal forages in moist soil and dead leaves to find its prey. Because of the pygmy shrew's small size, its diet primarily consists of insects and insect larvae, while the larger shrews eat insects and worms. Its diet is almost exclusively protein-based. To stay alive, the pygmy shrew has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1389520 | 1,276,250 |
949,708 | Clade B included 22% of the dog sequences which related to modern wolves from Sweden and Ukraine, with a common recent ancestor estimated to 9,200 YBP. However, this relationship might represent mitochondrial genome introgression from wolves because dogs were domesticated by this time. Clade C included 12% of the dogs ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5141410 | 949,204 |
2,010,468 | Genes are commonly regarded as the basic units transferred through an HGT event. However it is also possible for HGT to occur within genes. For example, it has been shown that horizontal transfer between closely related species results in more exchange of ORF fragments, a type a transfer called gene conversion, mediate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46968364 | 2,009,316 |
522,692 | Major contributors to "classical" statistics in the early 20th century included Fisher, Neyman and Pearson. Fisher contributed to most of statistics and made significance testing the core of experimental science, although he was critical of the frequentist concept of "repeated sampling from the same population" (Rubin,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10869 | 522,420 |
373,781 | In Boston, Hamilton initially intended to enroll in graduate study in abstract mathematics at Brandeis. However, in mid-1959, Hamilton began working for Edward Norton Lorenz, in the meteorology department at MIT. She developed software for predicting weather, programming on the LGP-30 and the PDP-1 computers at Marvin ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28196618 | 373,586 |
1,352,339 | Some narrative texts which discuss the past lives of the Buddha and other figures, mainly the Jatakas and Avadanas, could also be considered early Buddhist texts. According to Peter Skilling, the Jataka genre is "one of the oldest classes of Buddhist literature." Sarah Shaw writes that the earliest part of the Pali Jāt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55632957 | 1,351,593 |
1,755,579 | The Ionian Revolt was triggered by the dissatisfaction of the Greek cities of Asia Minor with the tyrants appointed by Persia to rule them. In 499 BC, the then-tyrant of Miletus, Aristagoras, launched a joint expedition with the Persian satrap Artaphernes to conquer Naxos, in an attempt to bolster his position in Milet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3009581 | 1,754,589 |
1,437,663 | The superinsulating state is the exact dual to the superconducting state and can be destroyed by increasing the temperature and applying an external magnetic field and voltage. A superinsulator was first predicted by M. C. Diamantini, P. Sodano, and C. A. Trugenberger in 1996 who found a superinsulating ground state du... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16864252 | 1,436,854 |
267,879 | With help from Cailliau, he published a more formal proposal on 12 November 1990 to build a "hypertext project" called "World Wide Web" (abbreviated "W3") as a "web" of "hypertext documents" to be viewed by "browsers" using a client–server architecture. The proposal was modelled after the Standard Generalized Markup La... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4192777 | 267,735 |
447,592 | Standard black and white stock can also be reversal processed to give black and white slides. After 'first development,' the initial silver image is then removed (e.g. using a potassium bichromate/sulfuric acid bleach, which requires a subsequent "clearing bath" to remove the chromate stain from the film). The unfixed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378392 | 447,375 |
1,019,933 | The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) is the largest professional society for petroleum engineers and publishes much technical information and other resources to support the oil and gas industry. It provides free online education (webinars), mentoring, and access to SPE Connect, an exclusive platform for members to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65465 | 1,019,406 |
1,695,130 | In 1994, Chandrakasan joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT. He was the Director of the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories from 2006 to 2011, and head of the EECS department from 2011 to 2017. In his role as head of EECS, he launched programs such as a year-long indepe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60558995 | 1,694,179 |
1,114,403 | Traditional morphometrics analyzes lengths, widths, masses, angles, ratios and areas. In general, traditional morphometric data are measurements of size. A drawback of using many measurements of size is that most will be highly correlated; as a result, there are few independent variables despite the many measurements. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1367908 | 1,113,835 |
959,310 | The Michelson interferometer (among other interferometer configurations) is employed in many scientific experiments and became well known for its use by Michelson and Edward Morley in the famous Michelson–Morley experiment (1887) in a configuration which would have detected the Earth's motion through the supposed lumin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=582263 | 958,802 |
407,317 | For the message, the main factors are code, content, and treatment, each of which can be analyzed in terms of its structure and its elements. The code is the sign system used to express the message, like a language. The content is the idea or information expressed in the message. Choosing an appropriate content and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33742208 | 407,116 |
810,474 | Pantnagar is a non-affiliating university and its academic activities are organized through its nine constituent colleges (faculties),which run large undergraduate (UG) programs. All Masters and PhD students are part of College of Post Graduate Studies, however they have strong association with one of the other college... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23105037 | 810,042 |
1,368,834 | In April 1943 the government started work on the M24 Chaffee, designated Light Tank T24 as a replacement for the M3/M5 Stuart after the original replacement, the M7, was rejected in March. Every effort was made to keep the weight of the vehicle under 20 tons. The armor was kept light, and a lightweight 75 mm gun was de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27247561 | 1,368,078 |
953,227 | Different algorithms requiring various amounts of computing power result in varying-quality final images. This can be done in-camera, producing a JPEG or TIFF image, or outside the camera using the raw data directly from the sensor. Since the processing power of the camera processor is limited, many photographers prefe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=571760 | 952,722 |
549,173 | The Western Approaches Tactical Unit was able to develop and update anti-submarine tactical doctrine between 1942 and 1945 as new with new technology and assets became available. We were able to collect, transfer and integrate information to achieve our three goals of challenging norms, objectives and applicable polici... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28170586 | 548,885 |
537,465 | During periods of a wet or "Green Sahara", the Sahara and Arabia become a savanna grassland and African flora and fauna become common. Following inter-pluvial arid periods, the Sahara area then reverts to desert conditions, usually as a result of the retreat of the West African Monsoon southwards. Evaporation exceeds p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8590459 | 537,186 |
1,606,517 | Basic Number Theory is an influential book by André Weil, an exposition of algebraic number theory and class field theory with particular emphasis on valuation-theoretic methods. Based in part on a course taught at Princeton University in 1961-2, it appeared as Volume 144 in Springer's "Grundlehren der mathematischen W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64463469 | 1,605,613 |
877,854 | The sub-surface sample collection required an impactor to create a crater in order to retrieve material under the surface, not subjected to space weathering. This required removing a large volume of surface material with a powerful impactor. For this purpose, "Hayabusa2" deployed on 5 April 2019 a free-flying gun with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10915042 | 877,392 |
1,781,645 | Others saw the Act, which repealed the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA), as an attempt by oil and gas interests to monopolize utility generation through deregulation. Former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission administrator Lynn Hargis noted in 2005 that "PUHCA prohibits the re-creation of the huge h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21980418 | 1,780,641 |
713,315 | The majority of the tallest steel lattice towers in the world are actually built in water and used as oil platforms. These structures are usually built in large pieces on land, most commonly in Texas or Louisiana, and then moved by barge to their final resting place. Since a large portion of these towers is underwater ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1273047 | 712,943 |
1,593,572 | The Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture (BSLA) is a general professional degree, nationally accredited by the American Society of Landscape Architects. The undergraduate and graduate program both ranked 10th nationally by "DesignIntelligence" 2014. The department's students won 5 out of 20 awards from the Ame... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19360061 | 1,592,675 |
1,042,920 | The figure shows the magsail design consisting of a loop of superconducting wire of radius formula_116 (m) on the order of 100 km that carries a direct current formula_131 (A) that generates a magnetic field, which was modeled according to the Biot-Savart law inside the loop and as a magnetic dipole far outside the loo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37845 | 1,042,377 |
964,074 | The FV432 is of all-steel construction. The chassis is a conventional tracked design with the engine at the front and the driving position to the right. Directly behind the driver's position is the vehicle commander's hatch. There is a large round opening in the passenger compartment roof, which has a split/folding (co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1465498 | 963,565 |
1,623,530 | A solvated ligand that binds the protein of interest is likely to exist as an equilibrium mixture of several conformers. Likewise the solvated protein also exists as several conformers in equilibrium. Formation of protein-ligand complex includes displacement of the solvent molecules that occupy the binding site of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1731024 | 1,622,614 |
2,008,779 | In coordinated multipoint (CoMP), data and channel state information (CSI) is shared among neighboring cellular base stations (BSs) to coordinate their transmissions in the downlink and jointly process the received signals in the uplink. The system architecture is illustrated in Fig. 1a. CoMP techniques can effectively... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13150336 | 2,007,627 |
1,751,065 | "Lazarussuchus" was initially interpreted as the basalmost member of Choristodera, meaning that its lineage must have been the earliest to branch off from the group. Since the first definitive choristoderes appear in the Middle Jurassic, the lineage represented by "Lazarussuchus" implied a very long ghost lineage of ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16798853 | 1,750,079 |
985,208 | The study of attitudes and persuasion began as the central focus of social psychology, featured in the work of psychologists Gordon Allport (1935) and Edward Alsworth Ross (1908). Allport described attitudes as "the most distinctive and indispensable concept in contemporary social psychology". Considerable research was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2176826 | 984,694 |
1,578,279 | Morphological analyses view classifiers as a series of morphemes. Currently, this is the predominant school of thought. In this analyses, classifier verbs are combinations of verbal roots with numerous affixes. If the handshape is taken to consist of several morphemes, it is not clear how they should be segmented or an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35204947 | 1,577,389 |
1,941,542 | The school was founded in 1997, and welcomed its first class in the Fall of 1998. Among the founding members was its first dean, Ambassador Clay Constantinou, a former U.S. diplomat and graduate of Seton Hall Law. The school was later named in honor of retired Goldman Sachs executive and philanthropist John C. Whitehea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1830428 | 1,940,431 |
1,341,059 | The diamondback moth's caterpillars gorge on cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and kale, globally costing farmers an estimated $5 billion (£3.2 billion) a year worldwide. In 2015, Oxitec developed GM-diamondback moths which produce non-viable female larvae to control populations able to deve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25174711 | 1,340,326 |
2,179,012 | Sue Griffin received both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in nutrition from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. In 1974, she earned a Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Rochester, School of Medicine. Following the completion of her doctorate, Griffin was a fellow at the University of Texas Southwestern M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63157996 | 2,177,767 |
1,266,988 | The SLOWPOKE research reactor was conceived in 1967 at the Whiteshell Laboratories of AECL. In 1970 a prototype unit called SLOWPOKE (both the name of the reactor and of the prototype reactor class of 2 reactors it was a member of; especially later when further generations of SLOWPOKE reactors had appeared, these type ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2807861 | 1,266,298 |
1,620,850 | By the end of September 2009, the Thai Ministry of Health reported more than 42,000 cases during the previous year in 50 provinces in the south of Thailand, including the popular tourist destination of Phuket. About 14 years had lapsed since the last appearance of the disease. In May 2009 the provincial hospital in Tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7149912 | 1,619,935 |
703,483 | At 24.87 °C and zero ionic strength, "K" is equal to . Note that as with all equilibrium constants, the result is dimensionless because the concentration is in fact a concentration relative to the standard state, which for H and OH are both defined to be 1 molal (= 1 mol/kg) when molality is used or 1 molar (= 1 mol/L)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337279 | 703,115 |
440,115 | Until 2008, several full life cycle ("Well to Wheels") studies had found that corn ethanol reduces greenhouse gas emissions as compared to gasoline. In 2007 a team led by Farrel from the University of California, Berkeley evaluated six previous studies and concluded corn ethanol reduces greenhouse gas emissions by only... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5029525 | 439,901 |
790,118 | Problems with the motor during development led to the brief consideration of using a storable liquid-fuel rocket design, but was replaced instead by the Lockheed XSR13-LP-1 solid rocket. This lowered the top speed from Mach 6 to Mach 4. In this form, the GAR-9 started ground firings in August 1961. For air-launch testi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1158589 | 789,693 |
811,249 | The "Ardi" skeleton was discovered at Aramis in the arid badlands near the Awash River in Ethiopia in 1994 by a college student, Yohannes Haile-Selassie, when he uncovered a partial piece of a hand bone. The discovery was made by a team of scientists led by UC Berkeley anthropologist, Tim D. White, and was analyzed by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24539067 | 810,817 |
1,179,566 | Caulfield is the host and main protagonist of the documentary series, "A User's Guide to Cheating Death", presented in 60 countries, including Canadian specialty channel Vision TV. The first six-episode season presents Caulfield subjecting himself to various treatments of doubtful efficacy. The episodes include convers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50824139 | 1,178,942 |
762,484 | In July 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower asked Lawrence to travel to Geneva, Switzerland, to help negotiate a proposed Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the Soviet Union. AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss had pressed for Lawrence's inclusion. The two men had argued the case for the development of the hydrogen bomb, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39040 | 762,076 |
949,962 | Elevated temperature typically decreases the level of dissolved oxygen and of water, as gases are less soluble in hotter liquids. This can harm aquatic animals such as fish, amphibians and other aquatic organisms. Thermal pollution may also increase the metabolic rate of aquatic animals, as enzyme activity, resulting i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1732697 | 949,458 |
318,194 | In philosophy, the brain in a vat (BIV) is a scenario used in a variety of thought experiments intended to draw out certain features of human conceptions of knowledge, reality, truth, mind, consciousness, and meaning. It is a modern incarnation of René Descartes's evil demon thought experiment, originated by Gilbert Ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=265952 | 318,024 |
208,678 | The effects of the transition can be seen in the geological record at many locations around the world. Ice volumes rose as temperature and sea levels dropped. Playa lakes of the Tibetan Plateau disappeared at the transition, pointing to cooling and aridification of central Asia. Pollen and spore counts in marine sedime... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22286 | 208,571 |
1,829,048 | Jan Peters graduated from the University of Hagen in 2000 with a diplom in computer science and from Technical University of Munich in 2001 with a diploma in electrical engineering. From 2000 to 2001, he spent two semesters as visiting student at the National University of Singapore. He then studied at the University o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59629396 | 1,828,007 |
723,519 | The methods already discussed involve working from a pre-existing corpus to learn tag probabilities. It is, however, also possible to bootstrap using "unsupervised" tagging. Unsupervised tagging techniques use an untagged corpus for their training data and produce the tagset by induction. That is, they observe patterns... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=746912 | 723,139 |
1,399,494 | Chemosensors describes molecule of synthetic origin that signal the presence of matter or energy. A chemosensor can be considered as type of an analytical device. Chemosensors are used in everyday life and have been applied to various areas such as in chemistry, biochemistry, immunology, physiology, etc. and within med... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9414430 | 1,398,719 |
1,085,512 | In contrast, Integer BASIC would convert the line entirely into tokens that could be immediately read and performed. In MS-BASIC, the line would produce , and at runtime the "100" would have to be converted to 16-bit format every time it was encountered. In contrast, Integer BASIC also tokenized numeric variables, avoi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64701882 | 1,084,954 |
69,144 | Chief among these qualities was its digital computer. This could be updated in the field with new targets and better information about the flight paths with relative ease, gaining accuracy for little cost. One of the unavoidable effects on the warhead's trajectory was the mass of the Earth, which contains many mass con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49365 | 69,117 |
2,189,598 | The UK Centre for Astrobiology was set up at the University of Edinburgh in 2011 by Charles Cockell. It was set up as a UK node, formally affiliated as an international partner with the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) alongside other national nodes until the NAI's dissolution in 2019. It was established as a virtual ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67631404 | 2,188,349 |
399,554 | Compelling evidence shows that the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor has significant involvement in the CNS sensitization process. It is also hypothesized that elevated CNS glutamate levels promote wind-up and CNS sensitization. In addition, there exists experimental evidence demonstrating the presence of NMDA recep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56283 | 399,356 |
711,391 | In January 1995, the College and Institute Amendment Act gave UCC the authority to independently grant degrees. Several new programs launched in the decade that followed, including five more bachelor's degrees and the Adventure Guide Diploma. Construction in the 1990s included a cost-recovery-based joint proposal betwe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1024505 | 711,019 |
1,953,160 | Latz was born in Alice Springs in 1941 and grew up in the Arrernte settlement of Ntaria / Hermannsburg Mission 120 km west of Alice Springs in Central Australia, the son of Lutheran missionaries. This town is most well-known as the home of the renowned painter Albert Namatjira with whom Peter’s mother worked. Peter was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51378502 | 1,952,039 |
448,976 | CTCF’s ability to bind to multiple sequences through the usage of various combinations of its zinc fingers earned it the status of a “multivalent protein”. More than 30,000 CTCF binding sites have been characterized. The human genome contains anywhere between 15,000-40,000 CTCF binding sites depending on cell type, sug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9463447 | 448,758 |
500,633 | Cedar Grove Cemetery was established in 1843 by Rev. Edward Sorin, soon after he founded the university. Notable burials include Dave Duerson, Arthur Erich Haas, Leon Hart, Joe Kernan, Moose Krause, Ray Lemek, Ralph McInerny, Ara Parseghian, Regis Philbin, Jim Seymour, Timothy E. Howard and Lucius G. Tong. Charles Sher... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49273941 | 500,376 |
2,062,174 | All G-13 universities have departments of philosophy with doctorate level staff members conducting research related to the philosophy of the mind. The work of Dr. Paul R. Thagard at the University of Waterloo, with respect to cognitive functions and coherence, is of note. Charles Taylor of McGill University in Montreal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18401364 | 2,060,984 |
996,295 | The region to the east of Tamil Nadu stretching from Tanjore in the south to Andhra Pradesh in the north was known as the Carnatic region during 17th and 18th centuries. The Carnatic war in which Robert Clive annexed Trichirapali is relevant. The music that prevailed in this region during the 18th century onwards was k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4043799 | 995,777 |
2,056,499 | Intraocular lymphoma is a rare malignant form of eye cancer. Intraocular lymphoma may affect the eye secondarily from a metastasis from a non-ocular tumor or may arise within the eye primarily (primary intraocular lymphoma, PIOL). PIOL is a subset of primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL). PCNSL (and PIOL) are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8633202 | 2,055,315 |
1,439,954 | In November 2012 security checkups prompted by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster revealed that from 2003 eight suppliers had forged quality certificates for a delivered 7,682 items to the plant. Of the plant's six reactors two were affected by more than 5,000 of those parts and were consequently shut down, for an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26183087 | 1,439,144 |
1,526,112 | Amazon.com was a virtual business (short: virtubis) pioneer. As an online bookstore, it delivered and brokered bookstore services without a physical retail store presence; efficiently connecting buyers and sellers without the overhead of a brick-and-mortar location. As Web 2.0 services have risen in popularity, many bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5971024 | 1,525,249 |
760,688 | The Macdonald Institute was established in 1903 to house women's home economics programs, nature studies, and some domestic art and science. It was named after its financier, Sir William Macdonald, who worked to promote domestic sciences in rural Canada, and founded Macdonald College and McGill University College. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9181362 | 760,282 |
101,796 | In February 1960, it was decided the first power plant would be erected in Western India, with locations in Rajasthan, near Delhi and near Madras noted for future commercial reactors. In September, the Punjab government requested a nuclear power station for their state. On 11 October 1960, the Indian government issued ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12902516 | 101,751 |
1,416,982 | Dottie dropped heavy rainfall in South Florida, with a peak total of . However, impact from the precipitation was mainly limited to street flooding in several cities, which delayed the commute of thousands of motorists during morning rush hour traffic, especially in Miami. Tropical storm force wind gusts damaged a roof... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=791513 | 1,416,184 |
949,294 | Dinosaurs are the game's main attraction and income earner, although money can also be earned through selling products in stores and guests staying at hotels. The game features approximately 40 dinosaur species at launch. Players can name each dinosaur after they are incubated. Players need to build enclosures to conta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54971409 | 948,790 |
930,256 | Prebaked anodes are baked in very large gas-fired ovens at high temperature before being lowered by various heavy industrial lifting systems into the electrolytic solution. There are usually 24 prebaked anodes in two rows per cell. Each anode is lowered vertically and individually by a computer, as the bottom surfaces ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174009 | 929,765 |
1,688,971 | Yoseikan Budo was introduced into Australia by Yoshiaki Unno a direct student of Minoru Mochizuki. The style was taught by Unno as separate disciplines (Karate, Aikido, Kobudo and Iaido). The Australian representative of the World Yoseikan Federation (WYF) evolved from a club founded in 1980 by Stephen Weir one of Unno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1991270 | 1,688,025 |
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