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2,112,745 | The men's individual all-around competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The qualification and final rounds took place on July 20, 22 and 24th at the Sports Palace of the Central Lenin Stadium. There were 65 competitors from 14 nations. Each ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24179239 | 2,111,530 |
1,988,561 | Gilchrist was born in Sheffield, England, the second son of Robert Murray Gilchrist and Isabella. He was educated at Sheffield Royal Grammar School and later privately. He never married. He worked briefly for noted editor William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) at "National Observer" (formerly "The Scots Observer"). He lived... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23024991 | 1,987,419 |
357,922 | The core of comparative genome analysis is the establishment of the correspondence between genes (orthology analysis) or other genomic features in different organisms. It is these intergenomic maps that make it possible to trace the evolutionary processes responsible for the divergence of two genomes. A multitude of ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4214 | 357,736 |
826,276 | Concern exists about possible grade inflation. It is claimed that academics are under increasing pressure from administrators to award students good marks and grades with little regard for those students' actual abilities, in order to maintain their league table rankings. The percentage of graduates who receive a First... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=81513 | 825,832 |
457,553 | Siddhartha Academy of General & Technical Education, better known as Siddhartha Academy, came into being in the year 1975 with a Corpus Fund of Rs.25 lakhs (Rs.2.5 million) through the efforts of 250 life members drawn from different walks of life having a philanthropic bent of mind. This was registered as a Society un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1278967 | 457,330 |
1,009,744 | The plot of Pentiment takes place in distinct acts, each act focusing on a different incident connecting the town's enduring mystery. In Act I, 1518, Andreas Maler is serving an apprenticeship as an illuminator at Kiersau Abbey, outside the small Upper Bavarian town of Tassing. One day in April, Baron Lorenz Rothvogel,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70997952 | 1,009,223 |
1,967,717 | Through the 1980s and 1990s the University's student population continued to expand dramatically (from 6,000 in 1980 to 14,000 in 1998) resulting in the University focusing on research and opening other campuses: Avenue Campus, National Oceanography Centre and Winchester School of Art in 1996 and La Sainte Union Colleg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13484007 | 1,966,587 |
346,908 | One key innovation of the rotorcraft is the four-channel fly-by-wire control system employed; the NH90 is the first helicopter in the world to be equipped with full fly-by-wire flight controls. A four-axis autopilot is also integrated with the fly-by-wire system, as are mission and navigation systems to enable greater ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=513911 | 346,727 |
1,650,431 | Suppose that the symbol < is recognized as being for a "less than" comparison, as opposed to "greater than" for example. Because of character coding limitations, the glyph ≤ may not be available in a standard encoding, so a compound representation is to be allowed, "<=". Even though this context is determined by the ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2012090 | 1,649,499 |
334,197 | Many diagnostic approaches depend on microbiological culture to isolate a pathogen from the appropriate clinical specimen. In a microbial culture, a growth medium is provided for a specific agent. A sample taken from potentially diseased tissue or fluid is then tested for the presence of an infectious agent able to gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37220 | 334,019 |
1,343,660 | The microdialysis principle was first employed in the early 1960s, when push-pull canulas and dialysis sacs were implanted into animal tissues, especially into rodent brains, to directly study the tissues' biochemistry. While these techniques had a number of experimental drawbacks, such as the number of samples per ani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2279144 | 1,342,924 |
1,718,035 | By January 17, materials were being recovered from the first engagement of the war, the battle of Khafji. Among the materials recovered from the city was an Iraqi T-55 Enigma, a variant of the Soviet main battle tank given to Iraqi battalion commanders which was upfitted with indigenous non-explosive reactive armor tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67447284 | 1,717,065 |
1,454,821 | S100B is secreted by astrocytes or can spill from injured cells and enter the extracellular space or bloodstream. Serum levels of S100B increase in patients during the acute phase of brain damage. Over the last decade, S100B has emerged as a candidate peripheral biomarker of blood–brain barrier (BBB) permeability and C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14228084 | 1,454,001 |
500,635 | The Main Building houses various offices, including the Office of the President and admissions. It was built in 1879, after the previous main building, built in 1865, was destroyed by a fire. Construction started May 17 and was finished by the start of the following academic year. The architect was the American Willoug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49273941 | 500,378 |
2,169,034 | According to "Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families," a broad coalition of groups, including major environmental organizations like the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Defense Fund, health organizations like the Learning Disabilities Association, Breast Cancer Fund, and the Autism Society of America... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31677000 | 2,167,797 |
296,654 | Chemosynthetic ecosystems surrounding the Galápagos Rift submarine hydrothermal vents were first directly observed in 1977, when a group of marine geologists funded by the National Science Foundation returned to the Clambake sites. The principal investigator for the submersible study was Jack Corliss of Oregon State Un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=354588 | 296,494 |
1,939,844 | Since 2012, Goriely has done some work related to the brain modeling. With his collaborators, he has developed models for axon growth based on the combined mechanics of microtubules extension, growth cone connection. At the tissue level, with his collaborators, he developed new constitutive models for brain tissue vali... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64431963 | 1,938,734 |
1,835,571 | Now it is the largest higher educational institution in the region. The university has imposing personnel's potential. There are 684 instructors in it. 60 academicians and associate members, State prize and Russia's Government prize laureates, Honoured Scientists are among the professors of the university and there are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6015595 | 1,834,522 |
1,540,236 | In 1983, a team composed of Stan Woosley, Don Lamb, Ed Fenimore, Kevin Hurley, and George Ricker began discussing plans for a new GRB research satellite, the High Energy Transient Explorer (HETE). Although many satellites were already providing data on GRBs, HETE would be the first satellite devoted entirely to GRB res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22308958 | 1,539,363 |
1,526,207 | There are multiple methods, which are based on a known solution of the acoustic wave equation to compute the acoustic far field of a sound source. Because a general solution for wave propagation in the free space can be written as an integral over all sources, these solutions are summarized as integral methods. The aco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4248526 | 1,525,344 |
1,149,462 | Boyd joined the faculty of Stanford University's Electrical Engineering department in 1985. He regularly teaches undergraduate courses in applied linear algebra and machine learning. During his time at Stanford, he has been recognized with several teaching awards, including the 2016 Walter J. Gores Award for excellence... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41903803 | 1,148,855 |
1,473,297 | The prehistoric inhabitants of the vast areas of taiga and tundra east of the Yenissei and north of Baikal differ in many ways from the prehistoric cultures of the other parts of north Asia. There is stronger evidence than usual for settlement continuity here from the Mesolithic until the second half of the first mille... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14836781 | 1,472,466 |
1,375,142 | There are some notable individuals that have, and continue to make a large impact on theoretical psychology. Jerome Kagan's (1971) work on personality traits and aging, emotion, and temperament could be considered theoretical psychology due to Kagen dedicating much of his work to psychology constructs, specifically to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=981440 | 1,374,383 |
1,143,659 | The development of computer environments for making construals has been an ongoing subject of research over the last thirty years. The many variants of such environments that have been implemented are based on common principles. The network of dependencies that currently connect observables is recorded as a family of d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3003070 | 1,143,059 |
708,872 | The main campus includes a planetarium, an arboretum, and geology and wildlife museums. The college also operates several athletic fields and facilities around campus which are used to support intramural programs and the expanded student activities program that was instituted when intercollegiate sports were discontinu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=543502 | 708,503 |
45,474 | Smaller MOSFETs are desirable for several reasons. The main reason to make transistors smaller is to pack more and more devices in a given chip area. This results in a chip with the same functionality in a smaller area, or chips with more functionality in the same area. Since fabrication costs for a semiconductor wafer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40345 | 45,457 |
358,238 | The first biography of Tycho, which was also the first full-length biography of any scientist, was written by Gassendi in 1654. In 1779, Tycho de Hoffmann wrote of Tycho's life in his history of the Brahe family. In 1913, Dreyer published Tycho's collected works, facilitating further research. Early modern scholarship ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30027 | 358,052 |
1,915,586 | His research interests include ultra low-noise radar and ultra high stability cryogenic microwave oscillators and clocks based on a pure single-crystal sapphire resonators. Applications for the latter are to provide low noise local oscillators to atomic physics labs, time and frequency atomic fountain standards, and ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33778096 | 1,914,487 |
525,429 | Most of Peebles' work since 1964 has been in the field of physical cosmology to determine the origins of the universe. In 1964, there was very little interest in this field and it was considered a "dead end" but Peebles remained committed to studying it. Peebles has made many important contributions to the Big Bang mod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=864778 | 525,156 |
157,493 | Some authorities use the term "avicularia" (plural of "avicularium") to refer to any type of zooid in which the lophophore is replaced by an extension that serves some protective function, while others restrict the term to those that defend the colony by snapping at invaders and small predators, killing some and biting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3416 | 157,421 |
928,802 | The most widely used type was the Waco CG-4A, which was first used in the invasion of Sicily in July 1943 and participated in the D-Day assault on France on 6 June 1944, and in other important airborne operations in Europe, including Operation Market Garden in September 1944 and the crossing the Rhine in March 1945, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3482374 | 928,311 |
1,491,621 | Thomas attended the State University College at Cortland, where he earned a B.S. in Biology, summa cum laude, in 1982. While in college, he ran successfully for the presidency of the college's Student Association and unsuccessfully for mayor of the city of Cortland. Thomas graduated from Harvard Medical School (1986), ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9595600 | 1,490,782 |
62,726 | Neutrophils are the most abundant white blood cell, constituting 60-70% of the circulating leukocytes. They defend against bacterial or fungal infection. They are usually first responders to microbial infection; their activity and death in large numbers form pus. They are commonly referred to as polymorphonuclear (PMN)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25164668 | 62,701 |
638,323 | 1980 – Le Havre, France – (? – ?) – The World Cadet Championship (for players under 17 on 1 September 1980) was played alongside the familiar Le Havre Open chess tournament. A total of fifty-one 'cadets' represented forty-nine different countries. France fielded three players, two by right and a third when immigration ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=295488 | 637,984 |
442,427 | Ocean stratification can be defined and quantified by the change in density with depth. It is not uncommon to use the Buoyancy frequency, or sometimes called the Brunt-Väisälä frequency as direct representation of stratification in combination with observations on temperature and salinity. The Buoyancy frequency, formu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4707633 | 442,212 |
408,547 | Activated carbon can be manufactured from carbonaceous material, including coal (bituminous, subbituminous, and lignite), peat, wood, or nutshells (e.g., coconut). The manufacturing process consists of two phases, carbonization and activation. The carbonization process includes drying and then heating to separate by-pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=207601 | 408,346 |
1,146,508 | The involvement of cyclic nucleotides on biological functions is varied, while an understanding of their role continues to grow. There are several examples of their biological influence. They are associated with long-term and short-term memory. They also work in the liver to coordinate various enzymes that control bloo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=158542 | 1,145,904 |
406,832 | Most of these shortcomings were resolved by Arnold Sommerfeld's modification of the Bohr model. Sommerfeld introduced two additional degrees of freedom, allowing an electron to move on an elliptical orbit characterized by its eccentricity and declination with respect to a chosen axis. This introduced two additional qua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14225 | 406,631 |
1,687,237 | Throughout history, we see how evolutionary neuroscience has been dependent on developments in biological theory and techniques. The field of evolutionary neuroscience has been shaped by the development of new techniques that allow for the discovery and examination of parts of the nervous system. In 1873, Camillo Golgi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1555376 | 1,686,291 |
1,624,432 | In July 2019, Kitaev was placed in a two-man cell, with his cohabitant being 29-year-old Tajikistani citizen Dustmurod Ilyosov, who was serving a life sentence for killing four people and attempting to kill a fifth in the village of Demyansk in 2013. Due to their conflicting personalities, Kitaev and Ilyosov would freq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66857982 | 1,623,516 |
980,282 | Generally, if, during an uncontrollable flailing caused by a sudden paroxysmal episode, such as that produced by an epileptic seizure, a person strikes another, that person will not be criminally liable for the injuries sustained by the other person. However, if prior to the assault on another, the seized individual wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=207437 | 979,770 |
608,060 | The impacts of the conventional transition strategies proved to be de-stabilizing in the short-term and left the population impoverished in the long-term. Economic output declined much more than expected. The decline in output lasted until 1992-96 for all transition economies. By 1994, economic output had declined acro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1489819 | 607,749 |
2,058,330 | The United Arab Emirates under-23 team qualified for the men's football tournament by leading Group B in the third preliminary round of the men's Asian qualifying rounds. It was the first time that the nation had qualified for an Olympic football competition. The 18-player squad and 4 alternate players included those f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34456801 | 2,057,145 |
916,884 | SpaceShipOne is an experimental air-launched rocket-powered aircraft with sub-orbital spaceflight capability at speeds of up to 3,000 ft/s (900 m/s, 3240 km/h), using a hybrid rocket motor. The design features a unique "feathering" atmospheric reentry system where the rear half of the wing and the twin tail booms folds... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=407982 | 916,401 |
1,087,691 | Before the "Challenger" disaster, the JPL had conducted shock tests on the RTGs that indicated that they could withstand a pressure of without a failure, which would have been sufficient to withstand an explosion on the launch pad. The possibility of adding additional shielding was considered but rejected, mainly becau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13077 | 1,087,132 |
2,175,042 | The journal started as "Bulletins de la Société royale de Botanique de Belgique" in 1862, the same year as the foundation of the Royal Botanical Society of Belgium, and was meant as a publication for the members of the society. It originally published a mix of matters related to the society (bylaws, member lists, minut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69146001 | 2,173,800 |
1,610,818 | Also introduced by Chou in 1976 was the median-effect plot which is a plot of log (D) vs log [(fa)/(1-fa)] or log [(fa)/(fu)] yields a straight line with slope (m) and the x-intercept of log (Dm), where Dm equals to the anti-log of the x-intercept. This unique theory holds true for all dose-effect curves that follows t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40586690 | 1,609,913 |
591,682 | The first oncolytic virus to be approved by a regulatory agency was a genetically modified adenovirus named H101 by Shanghai Sunway Biotech. It gained regulatory approval in 2005 from China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) for the treatment of head and neck cancer. Sunway's H101 and the very similar Onyx-15 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1723667 | 591,380 |
847,712 | The pressurised cabin was used to counter the physiological problems encountered by pilots at high altitudes. The cabin was not like the fully pressurised cabin of a modern airliner; the pressure differential provided by the modified cockpit of the VI was only (which was double the Air Ministry requirement). To achieve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16070159 | 847,262 |
894,469 | The 2009 Nobel Prize Winners in Economics, Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson, have advocated mixed methods and complex approaches in economics and hinted implicitly to the relevance of field research approaches in economics. In a recent interview Oliver Williamson and Elinor Ostrom discuss the importance of examining... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5669923 | 893,999 |
689,560 | Zeal's general and high-ranking adviser of the magical Kingdom of Zeal, is depicted as an overall inept character, once even breaking the fourth wall when he complains about the wrong music playing in the background while he stole the Epoch. He is not entirely loyal to Queen Zeal, and he wants to have Lavos' power for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5817189 | 689,198 |
1,116,228 | In children NMZL has been classified by the World Health Organization (2016) as a separate variant of NMZL based on its presentation, histology of the involved lymph nodes, and clinical course. Of the more than 60 published cases, 95% of Pediatric NMZL cases occurred in adolescent boys with >90% of cases presenting as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21339698 | 1,115,656 |
156,852 | Red algae are divided into the Cyanidiophyceae, a class of unicellular and thermoacidophilic extremophiles found in sulphuric hot springs and other acidic environments, an adaptation partly made possible by horizontal gene transfers from prokaryotes, with about 1% of their genome having this origin, and two sister clad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21392989 | 156,780 |
773,660 | Domokos and Várkonyi spent a year measuring tortoises in the Budapest Zoo, Hungarian Museum of Natural History and various pet shops in Budapest, digitizing and analyzing their shells, and attempting to "explain" their body shapes and functions from their geometry work published by the biology journal "Proceedings of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9493560 | 773,244 |
444,394 | Cross-cultural clinical psychologists (e.g., Jefferson Fish) and counseling psychologists (e.g., Lawrence H. Gerstein, Roy Moodley, and Paul Pedersen) have applied principles of cross-cultural psychology to psychotherapy and counseling. Additionally, the book by Uwe P. Gielen, Juris G. Draguns, and Jefferson M. Fish ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11507939 | 444,179 |
391,494 | Construction on the campus all but ceased after the Administration building, Aldrich Hall, was completed in 1974, and then resumed in the late 1980s, beginning a massive building boom that still continues today. This second building boom continued the futuristic trend, but emphasized a much more colorful, postmodern ap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44757 | 391,299 |
2,026,500 | The Gies College of Business Instructional Facility (BIF) is a $60 million, state-of-the-art business facility designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects located on the Champaign campus at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC). The facility is home to numerous classrooms, career development and academic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29962673 | 2,025,333 |
951,219 | The identification of suitable matrix compounds is determined to some extent by trial and error, but they are based on some specific molecular design considerations. They are of a fairly low molecular weight (to allow easy vaporization), but are large enough (with a low enough vapor pressure) not to evaporate during sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2190535 | 950,715 |
2,076,270 | Its first reference was the group "Die Brücke", founded in Dresden in 1905 by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff; later Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein and Otto Mueller joined. Influenced by German Gothic—Kirchner studied Durero's woodcuts in depth—African art, "Arts and Crafts", "Juge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72166508 | 2,075,072 |
631,874 | Bova, like Campbell, was a technophile with a scientific background, and he declared early in his tenure that he wanted "Analog" to continue to focus on stories with a scientific foundation, though he also made it clear that change was inevitable. Over his first few months some long-time readers sent in letters of comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18932608 | 631,536 |
614,100 | Published in 2009 by Penguin (), The Cosmic Detective is a primer on modern cosmology for the general but scientifically inclined reader. It was selected as an official book by the secretariat of the International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) declared by the UN General Assembly. The slogan of IYA2009 was "THE UNIVERSE -... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4877968 | 613,788 |
1,605,680 | In addition to offering unparalleled deskside performance for its day, the Cray CX1 also pioneered a number of unique technologies to make possible the integration of supercomputing into the traditional office space. In order to meet workplace noise requirements, the CX1 utilized an active noise cancellation system bui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19347166 | 1,604,776 |
1,001,776 | Brooklyn Tech fields 30 junior-varsity and varsity teams in the Public School Athletic League (PSAL). The school's historic team name has been the Engineers. The school colors are navy blue and white. The school's more than 100 organizations include the Brooklyn Tech Amateur Radio Club (club station call sign W2CXN), C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378883 | 1,001,258 |
1,461,046 | The contrast agents used for DCE-MRI are often gadolinium based. Interaction with the gadolinium (Gd) contrast agent (commonly a gadolinium ion chelate) causes the relaxation time of water protons to decrease, and therefore images acquired after gadolinium injection display higher signal in T1-weighted images indicatin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39657209 | 1,460,224 |
2,099,400 | The progress in 3D structure determination of membrane proteins by X-ray crystallography and cryo electron microscopy has created an increasing demand and opportunity for in-depth mechanistic studies by magnetic resonance methods. Due to the challenges intrinsic to membrane proteins, progress relies on the availability... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63334526 | 2,098,192 |
977,925 | William S. Halsted was born on September 23, 1852, in New York City. His mother was Mary Louisa Haines and his father William Mills Halsted, Jr. He was the oldest of four children. His father was a businessman with Halsted, Haines and Company which was an organization that supplied dry goods. William Halsted, Jr. was v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2394191 | 977,414 |
398,354 | The pathogenesis of pulmonary "arterial" hypertension (WHO Group I) involves the narrowing of blood vessels connected to and within the lungs. This makes it harder for the heart to pump blood through the lungs, as it is much harder to make water flow through a narrow pipe as opposed to a wide one. Over time, the affect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=674529 | 398,158 |
1,359,687 | Heterologous expression systems can be clinically incorporated to evaluate enzyme activity under highly reproducible conditions for in vitro drug development. This works to minimize patient risk by serving as an alternative to highly invasive procedures, or potential for the development adverse drug reactions. Enzyme a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29071957 | 1,358,936 |
692,364 | ICG is metabolized microsomally in the liver and only excreted via the liver and bile ducts; since it is not absorbed by the intestinal mucous membrane, the toxicity can be classified as low. Administration is not without risks during pregnancy. It has been known since September 2007 that ICG decomposes into toxic wast... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23002394 | 692,001 |
1,529,504 | On 11 June 1874 the Victoria Rooms hosted a meeting to promote what was described as a College of Science and Literature for the West of England and South Wales. The meeting was attended by the then president of the British Association and Sir William Thompson (later Lord Kelvin). This meeting has been described as a p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1340505 | 1,528,640 |
1,764,321 | The technical core of the DISN is provided by the capabilities built by DISA from 2002–2006 called the Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion (GIG-BE). This program remains to this day the core of the services provided by DISA to serve the United States. As one of few on time, within budget, to required performanc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2466896 | 1,763,328 |
1,385,736 | An early paper with interim results from the RAND HIE concluded that health insurance without coinsurance "leads to more people using services and to more services per user," referring to both outpatient and inpatient services. Subsequent RAND HIE publications "rule[d] out all but a minimal influence, favorable or adve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1191433 | 1,384,969 |
2,034,265 | These extremo-tolerant characteristics make "D. frigens" a candidate for further study in areas as diverse as cancer, aging, and microbiology in space. Because of their hardy nature and extreme characteristics, "Deinococcus" species are often used as model organisms for oncological and aging studies. Their ability to c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42802153 | 2,033,092 |
586,625 | Firing a bullet at from a barrel, the 6 mm U.S.N. was the highest-velocity cartridge used by any military force at the time of its adoption. Designed to achieve better penetration than the Army's .30 Army cartridge used in the Model 1892/98 (Krag) rifle, the round was intended to perforate the hulls of small enemy craf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18509293 | 586,325 |
1,854,000 | The "semiautomatic" AN/FSG-1 automatically plotted target tracks, evaluated missile sites for use against a target, and automated the communication with batteries. The automation reduced delay "by four or five times" over the previous command post method with manual plotting, review of hardcopy performance charts to es... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33016961 | 1,852,937 |
1,758,685 | Members of the genus "Chlorovirus" are found in freshwater sources around the world and infect the green algae symbionts zoochlorellae. There is a lack of information about the role chloroviruses play in freshwater ecology. Despite this, chloroviruses are found in native waters at 1–100 plaque-forming units (PFU)/ml an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7903516 | 1,757,692 |
148,652 | For the first few months after its installation, the PDP-1 programming community at MIT focused on simpler programs to work out how to create software for the computer. During this period, Russell visited his old friends in the community frequently and described the "Spacewar!" concept to them. Russell hoped someone wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5482854 | 148,591 |
1,767,166 | One of the goals of Onyx was to re-establish the Society for African-American Students at the University of Pennsylvania. The society provided an all-expenses-paid program for black students in the summer before their first year. The program lasted from 1969–72, and concentrated on preparing its participants for the ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7525676 | 1,766,172 |
290,661 | In the years after the War of 1812, the Commonwealth of Virginia built and maintained several arsenals to store weapons intended for use by the state militia in the event of invasion or slave revolt. One of them was placed in Lexington. Residents came to resent the presence of the soldiers, whom they saw as drunken and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=345295 | 290,503 |
428,472 | If an infection involves interdigital candidiasis, paronychia and diaper rash, subject is likely to have cutaneous candidiasis. Otherwise, if an infection involves body fluid and internal organs damages, subject will experience pulmonary candidiasis, invasive and disseminated candidiasis, gastrointestinal candidiasis a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55225200 | 428,262 |
417,993 | Furber was educated at Manchester Grammar School and represented the UK in the International Mathematical Olympiad in Hungary in 1970 winning a bronze medal. He went on to study the Mathematical Tripos as an undergraduate student of St John's College, Cambridge, receiving a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Master of Mathemati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=529373 | 417,789 |
681,361 | Starting already in the 7th century BC painted pottery was being produced in Sparta for local consumption as well as for export. The first quality pieces were produced around 580 BC. The zenith in black-figure pottery was reached between about 575 and 525 BC. Besides Sparta, the main discovery sites are the islands of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1076046 | 681,005 |
1,844,101 | Overexpressing of regucalcin in rats (transgenic rats) has been shown to induce bone loss and hyperlipidemia with increasing age, indicating a pathophysiologic role. Regucalcin transgenic rat may be a useful tool as animal model in osteoporosis and hyperlipidemia. Also, regucalcin/SMP30-knockout mice are known to induc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24356587 | 1,843,047 |
1,551,735 | In 2006 the college announced an extensive expansion of its campus, including new halls of residence, a sports and complementary therapy building and a new outdoor floodlit sports pitch. The £21.5m sports development would be the venue for the 2010 World Blind Football Championship. A £10 million fundraising campaign, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5556351 | 1,550,854 |
320,350 | Considering the extent of Priestley's influence, relatively little scholarship has been devoted to him. In the early 20th century, Priestley was most often described as a conservative and dogmatic scientist who was nevertheless a political and religious reformer. In a historiographic review essay, historian of science ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40176 | 320,178 |
1,127,701 | While Canada developed a volunteer militia force of partially trained and often unpaid amateurs, defence of the country was dependent on a contingent of regular British soldiers, as well as naval defence through the Royal Navy. The Canadian Militia evolved from the various British garrison forces on the North American ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3110164 | 1,127,124 |
1,818,574 | Born in Mamaroneck, New York, Conant lost his father when he was young. When he was a teenager he took a job at a local zoo to help his mother make ends meet, which, along with participating in the Boy Scouts of America, began his lifelong passion for reptiles. He was the first Eagle Scout in Monmouth County Council, N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5119996 | 1,817,539 |
933,647 | The "Metaphysics" is considered to be one of the greatest philosophical works. Its influence on the Greeks, the Muslim philosophers, Maimonides thence the scholastic philosophers and even writers such as Dante was immense. Aristotle gives an epistemology of causation: his theory of four causes to supplement the materia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2590334 | 933,155 |
1,456,904 | Research suggests chronic inflammation plays a major role in COVID-19 morbidity. In severe cases, COVID-19 causes a cytokine storm which contributes to excessive and uncontrolled inflammation of organs, particularly respiratory tissues. If untreated, this increased inflammation can result in reduced immune response, pn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14884263 | 1,456,084 |
855,860 | The first NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) global temperature analysis was published in 1981. Hansen and his co-author analyzed the surface air temperature at meteorological stations focusing on the years from 1880 to 1985. Temperatures for stations closer together than 1000 kilometers were shown to be h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=890916 | 855,405 |
1,331,900 | Over fourteen chapters, Thorne proceeds roughly chronologically, tracing first the crisis in Newtonian physics precipitated by the Michelson–Morley experiment, and the subsequent development of Einstein's theory of special relativity (given mathematical rigor in the form of Minkowski space), and later Einstein's incorp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2486836 | 1,331,171 |
1,882,873 | LPB was developed and patented by Lambda Technologies in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1996. Since then, LPB has been developed to produce compression in a wide array of materials to mitigate surface damage, including fretting, corrosion pitting, stress corrosion cracking (SCC), and foreign object damage (FOD), and is being empl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20644699 | 1,881,792 |
189,987 | Both Microsoft and Sony released successors to their home consoles in November 2020. Consoles in this generation also launched with lower-cost models lacking optical disc drives, targeting those who would prefer to purchase games exclusively through digital downloads. Both console families target 4K and 8K resolution t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=982571 | 189,890 |
1,750,908 | Several related homologues of the protein of interest are selected and aligned in a multiple sequence alignment (MSA), a 'phylogenetic tree' is constructed with statistically inferred sequences at the nodes of the branches. It is these sequences that are the so-called 'ancestors' – the process of synthesising the corre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39867144 | 1,749,922 |
452,197 | If these events are presumed to be produced by energetic particles from large flares, it is not easy to estimate the particle energy in the flare or compare it with known events. The Carrington event does not appear in the cosmogenic records, and neither did any other large particle event that has been directly observe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24728109 | 451,978 |
80,797 | The modern sine convention is first attested in the "Surya Siddhanta", and its properties were further documented by the 5th century (AD) Indian mathematician and astronomer Aryabhata. These Greek and Indian works were translated and expanded by medieval Islamic mathematicians. By the 10th century, Islamic mathematicia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18717261 | 80,764 |
488,242 | Saccadic gaze is the perceptual mechanism through which the eye is inadvertently drawn to external stimulus without the individual's conscious action. An involuntary gaze is most easily drawn by movement or distinct changes in illumination in an individual's visual field. These external stimuli can be beneficial in suc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44739087 | 487,992 |
1,311,157 | For the first six months of development, the team prototyped several possible ideas to brainstorm on what concepts would be effective for the next game. The team had originally considered reusing Rapture from the first two "BioShock" games, aware that Rapture would be synonymous with the "BioShock" name, and that playe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38977195 | 1,310,439 |
63,863 | In 2003, Ian McNab outlined a plan to turn this idea into a realized technology. Because of strong acceleration, this system would launch only sturdy materials, such as food, water, and—most importantly—fuel. Under ideal circumstances (equator, mountain, heading east) the system would cost $528/kg, compared with $5,000... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218930 | 63,838 |
228,276 | Starting from Adolf Fercher and colleagues’ work on low-, partial coherence or white-light interferometry for "in vivo" ocular eye measurements in Vienna in the 1980s, imaging of biological tissue, especially of the human eye, was investigated in parallel by multiple groups worldwide. A first two-dimensional "in vivo" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=628583 | 228,159 |
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