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108,197 | The ADF currently has several forces deployed to the Middle East. The ADF's contribution to the Military intervention against ISIL makes up the largest overseas commitment with 780 personnel deployed as part of Operation Okra. As of December 2017, six F/A-18F Super Hornets, one E-7A Wedgetail and one KC-30A tanker were... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67538 | 108,152 |
233,578 | The clouds may show a large variety of different patterns and forms. An identification scheme was developed by Fogle in 1970 that classified five different forms. These classifications have since been modified and subdivided. As a result of recent research, the World Meteorological Organization now recognizes four majo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=759071 | 233,459 |
1,348,687 | A German hegemony of sorts seems to have taken hold in location theory from the time of von Thünen through to Walter Christaller's 1933 book "Die Zentralen Orte in Sűddeutschland", which formulated much of what is now understood as central place theory. An especially notable contribution was made by Alfred Weber, who p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4483356 | 1,347,945 |
198,614 | The sensitivity and input resistance of a voltmeter can be increased if the current required to deflect the meter pointer is supplied by an amplifier and power supply instead of by the circuit under test. The electronic amplifier between input and meter gives two benefits; a rugged moving coil instrument can be used, s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32743 | 198,512 |
56,164 | Though, in principle, more galaxies will become observable in the future, in practice, an increasing number of galaxies will become extremely redshifted due to ongoing expansion; so much so that they will seem to disappear from view and become invisible. An additional subtlety is that a galaxy at a given comoving dista... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=251399 | 56,140 |
1,251,923 | He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I as a civilian surgeon and was captured by the Imperial Russian Army. When his Nobel Prize was awarded in 1914, Bárány was in a Russian prisoner of war camp. In response to his receiving the prize, Sigmund Freud wrote in 1915: "The granting of the Nobel Prize to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240218 | 1,251,245 |
2,016,252 | The Soffer Ornithology Collection at Amherst College observes that "Yarrell's History was the standard illustrated British bird book of the 19th century and one of the historically great ornithological works. In well chosen prose, Yarrell provides synonymy, generic characters, a description with measurements, local and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38306357 | 2,015,090 |
934,011 | Self-reporting is also usually used in a balanced identity design. Although self-reports don't necessarily reflect the predicted consistency patterns from Heider's theory, it is often used to compare with the results from the Implicit Association Test (IAT). Any discrepancies between the self-reports and the IAT result... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1791156 | 933,519 |
1,802,629 | The application of slow science principles are especially dedicated to changes in clinical research as a whole. German psychologist Uta Frith describes her breakthrough 1980’s research into the link between dyslexia and phonological processing as one which had the freedom to make errors, and run numerous trials. Uta F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11045901 | 1,801,616 |
1,429,201 | In 2016, Merit began one of its largest projects; managing the implementation of the Michigan Statewide Education Network (MISEN), a private transport based network. MISEN connects 55 of Michigan's 56 Intermediate School Districts (ISDs) via high capacity fiber infrastructure. The project was completed on June 30, 2017... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21775906 | 1,428,397 |
18,023 | Many plants, including a variety of food plants, synthesize dopamine to varying degrees. The highest concentrations have been observed in bananas—the fruit pulp of red and yellow bananas contains dopamine at levels of 40 to 50 parts per million by weight. Potatoes, avocados, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts may also cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48548 | 18,017 |
818,405 | Between 1905 and 1913, the British Army Officer and aeronaut J. W. Dunne developed a series of tailless aircraft intended to be inherently stable and unstallable. Inspired by his studies of seagulls in flight, they were characterised by swept wings with a conical upper surface. The cone was arranged so that the wing tw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13405764 | 817,966 |
702,996 | Modern developments in the area of logic have resulted in a great proliferation of logical systems. This stands in stark contrast to the historical dominance of Aristotelian logic, which was treated as the one canon of logic for over two thousand years. Treatises on modern logic often treat these different systems as a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=304939 | 702,628 |
2,000,157 | "Lettuce mosaic virus" is a very common and economically important viral disease that affects lettuce worldwide. The virus spread due to an increased exchange of seeds of various lettuce varieties between countries. It was first recorded in 1921 in lettuce crops in Florida. Since then it has been found in most of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4347601 | 1,999,013 |
604,138 | On different occasions, it has been claimed that 61 Cygni might have unseen low-mass companions, planets or a brown dwarf. Kaj Strand of the Sproul Observatory, under the direction of Peter van de Kamp, made the first such claim in 1942 using observations to detect tiny but systematic variations in the orbital motions ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36188 | 603,828 |
1,591,929 | When a reservoir's pressure is depleted through primary and secondary production, carbon dioxide flooding can be an ideal tertiary recovery method. It is most effective and most commonly used in sandstone and carbonate (such as limestone or dolomite) reservoirs and reservoirs that produce medium to light oil. By inject... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7397481 | 1,591,033 |
2,015,532 | Risk = Threat * Consequence * Vulnerability. The unit of analysis is a generic attack mode against a specific target. All of the Department of Homeland Security’s planning scenarios are addressed. However, each attack mode is defined in sufficient detail to support analysis of consequences and vulnerabilities. The targ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17022966 | 2,014,372 |
1,690,821 | The ultimate goal was to produce a system that could be shipped in a conventional semi-trailer truck to the power plant, providing laser energy with 18% end-to-end efficiency, 15 times that of the NIF system. This reduces the required fusion gains into the 25 to 50 area, within the predicted values for NIF. The consens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46293573 | 1,689,874 |
1,568,591 | This selection bias makes the treatment look better, because candidates who would have fared better under any condition were selected. To belabour the point further Hortobagyi, using data from the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, reported in May 1995 that those eligible for high-dose chemoth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38028125 | 1,567,704 |
1,578,444 | The Association Friends and Sponsors of the Wehrtechnische Studiensammlung (Verein der Freunde und Förderer der Wehrtechnischen Studiensammlung e.V.-VFF WTS e.V.) supports the WTS. The personnel and financial resources provided by the service ensure the performance of the collection's service-related tasks within the B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69306757 | 1,577,554 |
1,552,034 | The Germans spent much of the rest of the year using radar detectors at longer wavelengths in a fruitless attempt to find the new ASV. Further confusion was added by a captured Coastal Command pilot, who related that ASV was no longer used for search, but only in the last minutes of the approach. Instead, their aircraf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60172896 | 1,551,153 |
232,989 | The Aα, Bβ, and γ chains are transcribed and translated coordinately on the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), with their peptide chains being passed into the ER while their signal peptide portions are removed. Inside the ER, the three chains are assembled initially into Aαγ and Bβγ dimers, then to AαBβγ trimers, and finally ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=238687 | 232,870 |
1,212,339 | The Germans introduced gas as a weapon in part because naval blockades limited their supply of nitrate for explosives, while the massive German dye industry could easily produce chlorine and organic chemicals in large amounts. Industrial capacity was completely mobilized for war, and Fritz Haber and other industrial sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4999816 | 1,211,687 |
939,191 | In the United States, the Forest Reserve Act of 1891 gave the President power to set aside forest reserves from the land in the public domain. John Muir founded the Sierra Club in 1892, and the New York Zoological Society was set up in 1895. A series of national forests and preserves were established by Theodore Roosev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216216 | 938,690 |
821,399 | The simplest multidomain organization seen in proteins is that of a single domain repeated in tandem. The domains may interact with each other (domain-domain interaction) or remain isolated, like beads on string. The giant 30,000 residue muscle protein titin comprises about 120 fibronectin-III-type and Ig-type domains.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10130725 | 820,958 |
325,345 | HMS "Dreadnought" was a Royal Navy battleship whose design revolutionised naval power. The ship's entry into service in 1906 represented such an advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships, the "dreadnoughts", as well as the class of ships named after her. Li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=717448 | 325,172 |
1,142,300 | Stoney published seventy-five scientific papers in a variety of journals, but chiefly in the journals of the Royal Dublin Society. He made significant contributions to cosmic physics and to the theory of gases. He estimated the number of molecules in a cubic millimetre of gas, at room temperature and pressure, from dat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=803060 | 1,141,705 |
929,969 | The first Soviet fusion design, developed by Andrei Sakharov and Vitaly Ginzburg in 1949 (before the Soviets had a working fission bomb), was dubbed the "Sloika", after a Russian layered puff pastry, and was not of the Teller–Ulam configuration, but rather used alternating layers of fissile material and lithium deuteri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2451331 | 929,478 |
889,731 | Lee Cronbach and Paul Meehl (1955) proposed that the development of a nomological net was essential to the measurement of a test's construct validity. A nomological network defines a construct by illustrating its relation to other constructs and behaviors. It is a representation of the concepts (constructs) of interest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=794342 | 889,262 |
1,708,835 | In the early decades of statehood, it became clear that the General Assembly was disproportionately powerful as compared to the executive and judicial branches. Much of state business was conducted through private bills, and partisan squabbling greatly reduced the ability of state government to do its work. The legisla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3184857 | 1,707,877 |
1,838,970 | The essence of the TSP concept is that a certain number of alleles at a locus must pass through the speciation phase from the ancestral to the descendant species to assure the retention of the ancestral polymorphism in the new species. If this number is known, the size of the founding population of the emerging species... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5231068 | 1,837,919 |
261,797 | The proposal for a "Combined Charging System" (CCS) was published at the 15th International VDI-Congress (Association of German Engineers) on 12 October 2011 in Baden-Baden. CCS defines a single connector pattern on the vehicle side that offers enough space for a Type 1 or Type 2 connector, along with space for a two-p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42386794 | 261,658 |
562,211 | Some systems can never be made fail safe, as continuous availability is needed. For example, loss of engine thrust in flight is dangerous. Redundancy, fault tolerance, or recovery procedures are used for these situations (e.g. multiple independent controlled and fuel fed engines). This also makes the system less sensit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29278 | 561,922 |
1,798,388 | Hairpin vortices resemble the horseshoe vortex, which exists because of perturbations of small upward motion due to differences in upward flowing velocities depending on the distance from the wall. These form multiple packets of hairpin vortices, where hairpin packets of different sizes could generate new vortices to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44059936 | 1,797,379 |
2,098,353 | Clark subsequently produced a number of other varieties released by Sutton & Son. These included Maincrop/Langworthy (1876), Reading Hero (1881), Sutton’s Seedling (1886), Abundance (1886), Best of All (1887), Satisfaction (1887), Masterpiece (1887), White Kidney (1888), Early Market (1888), Matchless (1889), Nonesuch ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62711692 | 2,097,145 |
482,348 | The relative importance of organisms varies with time and space, and looking at large databases may provide general insights into the problem. If different kinds of organisms occupy different types of network positions, then adjusting for this in food web modelling will result in more reliable predictions. Comparisons ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60927729 | 482,104 |
900,258 | Typical examples of complex adaptive systems include: climate; cities; firms; markets; governments; industries; ecosystems; social networks; power grids; animal swarms; traffic flows; social insect (e.g. ant) colonies; the brain and the immune system; and the cell and the developing embryo. Human social group-based end... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1428810 | 899,783 |
1,935,997 | The function of the γ chain as well as the γδ dimer is still largely unknown, although they have been implicated in cytokine secretion and cytotoxic activity as a part of the protective immune system. The Vδ2+ T cells recognize small non-peptide antigens, but unlike αβ T cells, these antigens do not need to be processe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14774825 | 1,934,889 |
1,629,043 | The most commonly used approach to genome-investigation is evolutionary genomics biology, or evo-geno, in which the genomes of two species which share a common ancestor are compared. A common example of evo-geno is comparative cognitive genomics testing between humans and chimpanzees which shared an ancestor 6-7 millio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34035032 | 1,628,124 |
999,409 | The measured deposition temperature of hassium tetroxide was higher than that of osmium tetroxide, which indicated the former was the less volatile one, and this placed hassium firmly in group 8. The enthalpy of adsorption for HsO measured, , was significantly lower than the predicted value, , indicating OsO is more vo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13764 | 998,891 |
387,703 | Retroviruses can cause diseases such as cancer and immunodeficiency. If viral DNA is integrated into host chromosomes, it can lead to permanent infections. It is therefore important to discover the body's response to retroviruses. Exogenous retroviruses are especially associated with pathogenic diseases. For example, m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25799 | 387,508 |
196,371 | Bioremediation techniques can be classified as (i) "in situ" techniques, which treats polluted sites directly, vs (ii) "ex situ" techniques which are applied to excavated materials. In both these approaches, additional nutrients, vitamins, minerals, and pH buffers are added to enhance the growth and metabolism of the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=434188 | 196,271 |
229,124 | In machine learning, the vanishing gradient problem is encountered when training artificial neural networks with gradient-based learning methods and backpropagation. In such methods, during each iteration of training each of the neural network's weights receives an update proportional to the partial derivative of the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43502368 | 229,007 |
2,110,700 | The Society is a non-profit organization. Its main aim is to promote research and achievements of natural sciences. The area of interest is mainly biology (including neuroscience), medicine, physics, chemistry, geography, geology (including speleology), meteorology and science education. The Society organizes scienti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41538511 | 2,109,486 |
176,306 | The Human Torch was a humanoid android created by Professor Phineas T. Horton in his lab in Brooklyn, New York for "scientific" purposes. At a press-conference unveiling, however, Horton's creation burst into flames when exposed to oxygen. The android showed human-like sentience, personality, and awareness, but the spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=274651 | 176,214 |
138,782 | Steam sterilization, also known as moist heat sterilization, uses heated saturated steam under pressure to inactivate or kill microorganisms via denaturation of macromolecules, primarily proteins. This method is a faster process than dry heat sterilization. Steam sterilization is performed using an autoclave, sometimes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=414144 | 138,726 |
1,722,057 | The Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) is a standardized test administered in public schools in the state of Pennsylvania. Students in grades 3-8 are assessed in English language arts skills and mathematics. Students in grades 4 and 8 are also assessed in skills relating to natural science, including the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15971390 | 1,721,087 |
972,220 | Xianfeng Gu and Yau considered the numerical computation of conformal maps between two-dimensional manifolds (presented as discretized meshes), and in particular the computation of uniformizing maps as predicted by the uniformization theorem. In the case of genus-zero surfaces, a map is conformal if and only if it is h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=303137 | 971,710 |
782,248 | Although there are no clearly defined recommendations on treatment of asymptomatic aneurysms, all symptomatic unruptured brain aneurysms should be treated. Endovascular therapy is an effective treatment for select cases. During this treatment, an interventional radiologist inserts a catheter into the patient's leg and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=457620 | 781,829 |
1,647,234 | According to Zoellner, "Remnants from typical uranium from the southwestern United States give a radioactive signature of about forty picocuries per gram, about ten times the amount of picocuries per liter of air that is considered safe for humans to breathe. The Shinkolobwe remnants, by contrast, emit a stunning 520,0... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1524935 | 1,646,303 |
776,843 | 1014–16 South Michigan Avenue was built in 1912 by Christian A. Eckstorm A red brick 4-story building with terra cotta detailing, this structure was erected by a developer as a speculative commercial building. During its first 30 years, it housed offices for a shingle distributor, a lumber company and an electrical par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1914203 | 776,427 |
804,018 | DTRA funded, managed, and tested the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bomb until February 2010 when the program was turned over to the United States Air Force. DTRA developed the MOP to fulfill a long-standing Air Force requirement for a weapon that could destroy hard and deeply buried targets. The MOP is a 30,000 pou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1522731 | 803,589 |
710,388 | Prior to its acquisition of Motorola Mobility in 2011, Google had previously acquired some patents related to modular mobile phones from Modu. Initial exploration of this concept began in 2012 and work started on April 1, 2013. Dutch designer Dave Hakkens announced the Phonebloks modular phone concept independently in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40924236 | 710,017 |
1,456,232 | Taylor continued his research after the war, serving on the Aeronautical Research Committee and working on the development of supersonic aircraft. Though he officially retired in 1952, he continued research for the next twenty years, concentrating on problems that could be attacked using simple equipment. This led to s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=610133 | 1,455,412 |
1,826,832 | The QAHS campus features modern architecture classrooms, seven university standard science laboratories, a multimedia suite, a sports and recreation centre and a 500-seat lecture theatre. In addition to this, students are also able to have full access to facilities. The refectory includes hot water, a refrigerator and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14579178 | 1,825,793 |
1,021,350 | Humans have also brought on varying implications into ecosystems which in turn affect animal behaviour and responses generated. Although there are some species which are able to survive these kinds of harsh conditions, such as, cutting down wood in the forests for pulp and paper industries, there are animals which can ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1259241 | 1,020,821 |
357,672 | Here, protein domains act as modules, each with a particular and independent function, that can be mixed together to produce genes encoding new proteins with novel properties. For example, the human eye uses four genes to make structures that sense light: three for cone cell or color vision and one for rod cell or nigh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19702 | 357,486 |
1,884,486 | The late 1940s and 1950s was a period of recovery and consolidation for the College. Few new buildings were erected, but student enrolments increased significantly and College land holdings expanded with the purchase of a small farm in the Laidley area in 1945, an adjacent farm of 95 acres in 1948 and an additional 85 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44321024 | 1,883,405 |
275,623 | Like the preceding FA20D, the FA24D uses the Toyota D-4S fuel injection system, which combines direct and port injection. It has the same displacement as the FA24F turbocharged engine with an identical 94×86 mm bore and stroke, but the compression level is increased to 12.5:1. Fitting the existing FA24F, with its botto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43479259 | 275,473 |
59,659 | While he was imprisoned in the castle of Fardajan near Hamadhan, Avicenna wrote his famous "floating man"—literally falling man—a thought experiment to demonstrate human self-awareness and the substantiality and immateriality of the soul. Avicenna believed his "Floating Man" thought experiment demonstrated that the sou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1130 | 59,634 |
175,574 | The present consensus is that "alluvium" refers to loose sediments of all types deposited by running water in floodplains or in alluvial fans or related landforms. However, the meaning of the term has varied considerably since it was first defined in the French dictionary of Antoine Furetière, posthumously published in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=183243 | 175,482 |
1,568,620 | Autologous stem cell transplants are used more often to treat lymphoma, but this may not be an option if the person's lymphoma has metastasized to their bone marrow or blood. Allogeneic stem cell transplants have side effects that can make it hard for the patient to tolerate the treatment. In addition, since the bone m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38028125 | 1,567,733 |
849,286 | Returning to its naval roots, a version of the D-10 was installed as a coastal artillery piece in Finland in the 1960s. This weapon is designated 100 56 TK in Finnish Navy service and consists of a complete T-55 tank turret without the stabilizer but furnished with a manually operated ammunition lift, a chute for used ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7924838 | 848,836 |
1,557,357 | The texts of the cycle are written in a highly surrealist form, generally with comprisations of isolated symbols, raised to the ultimate symbolic ideal in that they are emancipated from grammatical on syntactical constructions. As is the case for almost all of his vocal works, Messiaen himself wrote the libretto; follo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13495347 | 1,556,472 |
1,061,913 | Compared to less advanced power units known as hammer drills, rotary hammers tend to be larger and provide a bigger impact force by utilizing a technology called the "electro-pneumatic" (EP) hammering mechanism, because it is powered directly by electricity instead of a separate air compressor. Rotary hammers have two ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22005760 | 1,061,359 |
1,367,221 | The Maxberg specimen, like all "Archaeopteryx" exemplars except the so-called "Daiting", shows body feathers. The specimen was formally described in 1959 by Florian Heller. Heller had roentgen and UV-pictures made by the photographic institute of Wilhelm Stürmer. The specimen consists of a slab and counterslab, mainly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34483273 | 1,366,465 |
504,387 | Fasciolosis is a parasitic worm infection caused by the common liver fluke "Fasciola hepatica" as well as by "Fasciola gigantica". The disease is a plant-borne trematode zoonosis, and is classified as a neglected tropical disease (NTD). It affects humans, but its main host is ruminants such as cattle and sheep. The dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1043902 | 504,125 |
586,277 | Unicode claims that "Ideally, there would be no pairs of z-variants in the Unicode Standard." This would make it seem that the goal is to at least unify all minor variants, compatibility redundancies and accidental redundancies, leaving the differentiation to fonts and to language tags. This conflicts with the stated g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187273 | 585,977 |
1,818,844 | Other than counting the number of ions crossing the channel, sometimes it is desirable to study their behavior at different regions of the channel. Such examples would be the average occupancy of ions or their average moving velocity inside the channel or a nanopore. BioMOCA has been equipped with the option of dumping... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30695595 | 1,817,809 |
1,091,277 | Bacterial wilt caused by "R. solanacearum" is of economic importance because it infects over 250 plant species in over 50 families. As of 2007, this pathogen has affected over 450 host species representing 54 plant families due to its broad host range around the world. The disease is known as southern wilt, bacterial w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10438113 | 1,090,717 |
965,331 | TRA has also been used to study consumer attitudes towards renewable energy. In 2000, Bang, et al. found that people who cared about environmental issues like pollution were more willing to spend more for renewable energy. Similarly, a 2008 study of Swedish consumers by Hansla et al. showed that those who with a positi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3224522 | 964,822 |
833,537 | A wave of protests during the student movements of 1968 resulted in a reform of the university's structure. In 1969, the Faculties were dissolved in favor of more interdisciplinary departments. The involvement of students and staff in the administration was also increased, and the office of "Rektor" was abolished in fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1753136 | 833,088 |
1,103,802 | Steinhardt is best known for his development of new theories of the origin, evolution and future of the universe. He is also well known for his exploration of a new form of matter, known as quasicrystals, which were thought to exist only as man-made materials until he co-discovered the first known natural quasicrystal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1982016 | 1,103,240 |
394,085 | On 9 September 2014, Apple Inc. announced its first smartwatch called Apple Watch to be released in early 2015. On 24 April 2015, Apple Watch began shipping across the world. Apple's first try into wearable technology was met with considerable criticism during the pre-launch period, with many early technology reviews c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28825877 | 393,890 |
1,508,868 | The International Society for Pharmacoeconomomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) has issued guidelines on establishing equivalence between modes of administration. Their approach is hierarchical, and depends on the degree of change made during the process of migration from paper to electronic format. Three levels are su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28859692 | 1,508,020 |
553,049 | Until mid-decade, all radios in automobiles used vacuum tubes, but on April 28, 1955, Chrysler and Philco announced the development and production of the first all-transistor radio for an automobile. Dubbed the Mopar model 914HR, it was jointly developed by Chrysler and Philco and offered as a $150 option for 1956 Impe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37336786 | 552,760 |
68,439 | Mearsheimer's books include "Conventional Deterrence" (1983), which won the Edgar S. Furniss Jr. Book Award; "Nuclear Deterrence: Ethics and Strategy" (co-editor, 1985); "Liddell Hart and the Weight of History" (1988); "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics" (2001), which won the Lepgold Book Prize; "The Israel Lobby and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=980934 | 68,413 |
1,944,836 | QSS promises security against eavesdropping in the exact same way as quantum key distribution. Consider an eavesdropper, Eve, who is assumed to be capable of perfectly discriminating and creating the quantum states used in the QSS protocol. Eve's objective is to intercept one of the receivers' (say Bob's) shares, measu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69893608 | 1,943,724 |
1,874,160 | Creationists and advocates of Intelligent Design have argued that complex traits cannot evolve through successive small modifications to pre-existing functional systems. The theory of facilitated variation challenges this idea of irreducible complexity by explaining how random mutation can cause substantial and adaptiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2998760 | 1,873,083 |
534,124 | The Indian human space flight program still awaits a formal go ahead. Once cleared the mission is expected to take two Indians in a Soyuz-type orbital vehicle into low Earth orbit. The training for these astronauts should be based on the lessons learned from training India's only Cosmonaut Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34892999 | 533,845 |
211,609 | The 2011 National Health Interview Survey performed by the Centers for Disease Control was the first national survey to include questions about ability to pay for food. Difficulty with paying for food, medicine, or both is a problem facing 1 out of 3 Americans. If better food options were available through food banks, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1032780 | 211,501 |
1,925,957 | Following Japan's poor showing during its Olympic debut at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden, Japan planned for increased participation and the discipline of its athletes in the 1916 Summer Olympics planned for Berlin, Germany (which was subsequently cancelled by World War I. Japan also expanded its partici... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7640182 | 1,924,853 |
1,199,471 | The third (technical) issue is beam modulation and actual wavefront reconstruction. Masks may be printed, resulting often in a grained pattern structure since most printers can make only dots (although very small ones). Films may be developed by laser exposure. Holographic displays are currently yet a challenge (), alt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9596720 | 1,198,830 |
531,731 | The Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) is an exoplanet-survey facility located a few kilometers from the main peak. It consists of an array of twelve 0.2-meter robotic telescopes with a very large field of view of 96 square degrees or several hundred times the area of the full moon. The survey aims to discover numer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1000626 | 531,457 |
1,456,675 | Born in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto in 1928, Shimomura was brought up in Manchukuo (Manchuria, China) and Osaka, Japan while his father served as an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army. Later, his family moved to Isahaya, Nagasaki, 25 km from the epicenter of the August 1945 atomic bombing of the city. He recalled hearing, as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19663248 | 1,455,855 |
996,455 | In 1959–1961 years, when Texas Instruments and Westinghouse worked in parallel on aviation "molecular electronics", their competition had a friendly character. The situation changed in 1962 when Texas Instruments started to zealously pursue the real and imaginary infringers of their patents and received the nicknames "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37259051 | 995,937 |
951,599 | Primordial black holes belong to the class of massive compact halo objects (MACHOs). They are naturally a good dark matter candidate: they are (nearly) collision-less and stable (if sufficiently massive), they have non-relativistic velocities, and they form very early in the history of the Universe (typically less than... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23922614 | 951,094 |
2,033,566 | Robert Taft (March 24, 1894 September 22, 1955) was a professor of chemistry at the University of Kansas. He was known for his contributions to American studies, including photography and Western art and illustrations. His two books in these fields were "Photography and the American Scene" (1938) and "Artists and Illus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55449951 | 2,032,393 |
681,881 | Since 2009, the recurrent neural networks and deep feedforward neural networks developed in the research group of Jürgen Schmidhuber at the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA have won several international handwriting competitions. In particular, the bi-directional and multi-dimensional Long short-term memory (LSTM) of Alex Graves et ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=203619 | 681,525 |
2,195,448 | The ANSER Center works closely with the NU-based National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NCLT) to develop outreach programs to the science education community. NCLT participants include Argonne and UIUC, among others as primary partners. ANSER holds joint summer programs with NCL... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20951850 | 2,194,198 |
1,221,140 | Traditionally, fisheries management and the science underpinning it was distorted by its "narrow focus on target populations and the corresponding failure to account for ecosystem effects leading to declines of species abundance and diversity" and by perceiving the fishing industry as "the sole legitimate user, in effe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=481277 | 1,220,484 |
266,015 | After landing, Young and Duke began powering down some of the LM's systems to conserve battery power. Upon completing their initial procedures, the pair configured "Orion" for their three-day stay on the lunar surface, removed their space suits and took initial geological observations of the immediate landing site. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1970 | 265,871 |
761,351 | Although he was an illegal immigrant in Paris, Xenakis was able to get a job at Le Corbusier's architectural studio. He worked as an engineering assistant at first, but quickly rose to performing more important tasks, and eventually to collaborating with Le Corbusier on major projects. These included a kindergarten on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=158366 | 760,944 |
336,060 | Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography (HIC) is a purification and analytical technique that separates analytes, such as proteins, based on hydrophobic interactions between that analyte and the chromatographic matrix. It can provide a non-denaturing orthogonal approach to reversed phase separation, preserving native st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6329 | 335,882 |
1,167,386 | The 2011 Australian Open was the 99th edition of the Australian Open, held at Melbourne Park, in Melbourne, Victoria. The tournament was an event run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and Tennis Australia, that was part of the 2011 ATP World Tour and the 2011 WTA Tour calendars, under the Grand Slam category... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26218783 | 1,166,768 |
1,906,374 | By the end of 2010, nearly 100 Sensei systems have been shipped worldwide since its 2007 release. The system has been used to perform almost 5,000 procedures. The Sensei system operates by guiding standard catheters through a manipulated robotically steerable sheath (hollow tube) in the patient's vasculature. The docto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19880880 | 1,905,278 |
1,287,005 | The later chapters of the book try to synthesize many of the points made earlier about the visual system into a unified framework, although Crick frequently notes the many exceptions to his assumptions and the clumsiness of many of his attempts at synthesis. Also, here he takes the opportunity to make suggestions for f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=530859 | 1,286,304 |
250,467 | In animals, egg cells are also known as "ova" (singular "ovum", from the Latin word meaning 'egg'). The term ovule in animals is used for the young ovum of an animal. In vertebrates, ova are produced by female gonads (sex glands) called ovaries. A number of ova are present at birth in mammals and mature via oogenesis. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=219596 | 250,334 |
582,847 | Distinct patterns of lower-level and upper-level atmospheric circulation anomalies accompany the MJO-related pattern of enhanced or decreased tropical rainfall across the tropics. These circulation features extend around the globe and are not confined to only the eastern hemisphere. The Madden–Julian oscillation moves ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1666522 | 582,548 |
271,746 | Anthony Cordesman writes that Israel conducted a series of clandestine operations to halt construction or destroy the reactor. In April 1979, Israeli agents in France allegedly planted a bomb that destroyed the reactor's first set of core structures while they were awaiting shipment to Iraq. In June 1980, Israeli agent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4191587 | 271,598 |
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