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74,976 | A third problem is to minimize the "total" number of real multiplications and additions, sometimes called the "arithmetic complexity" (although in this context it is the exact count and not the asymptotic complexity that is being considered). Again, no tight lower bound has been proven. Since 1968, however, the lowest ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11512 | 74,949 |
1,260,626 | The selection of biomaterials for wear resistance unfortunately cannot rely only on conventional thinking of using hard ceramics, because of their low coefficient of friction and high modulus of elasticity. This is because ceramics are generally prone to brittle fracture (having a fracture toughness typically less than... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39117935 | 1,259,939 |
1,127,246 | The concept of biomedical engineering was developed after World War II. The invention of the first artificial heart valve was successfully implanted in 1952, the first artificial kidney was created in the 1940's, and a heart-lung machine was successfully using in a human heart surgery in 1953. These advancements are ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57051730 | 1,126,669 |
809,561 | TRAPPIST-1d, also designated as 2MASS J23062928-0502285 d, is a small exoplanet (about 30% the mass of the Earth), which orbits on the inner edge of the habitable zone of the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 approximately 40 light-years (12.1 parsecs, or nearly km) away from Earth in the constellation of Aquarius. The e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50431127 | 809,130 |
596,248 | Valerian Mengsk is the son of Arcturus Mengsk and his successor as Emperor of the Terran Dominion. Valerian is first introduced in "The Dark Templar Saga" series of novels, while his backstory is further developed in "I, Mengsk". Valerian was created as Metzen felt that Arcturus' story had been effectively told in "Sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12123161 | 595,943 |
897,536 | The genetic code within living organisms can potentially be co-opted to store information. Furthermore synthetic biology can be used to engineer cells with "molecular recorders" to allow the storage and retrieval of information stored in the cell's genetic material. CRISPR gene editing can also be used to insert artifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38324409 | 897,063 |
1,645,150 | Articles published in "AJE" are indexed by PubMed, Embase, and a number of other databases. The "AJE" offers open-access options for authors. It is published monthly, with articles published online ahead of print at the accepted manuscript and corrected proof stages. Entire issues have been dedicated to abstracts from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18537010 | 1,644,222 |
1,801,625 | The NHS has been slow at recognising the merits of telepsychiatry, perhaps because the regional set up of the NHS makes the provision non-location based virtual service difficult for the bureaucracy of a state owned model to implement, though there are now some NHS Mental Health Trusts such as Oxford NHS Foundation Tru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6027168 | 1,800,616 |
1,127,305 | The Vallecitos boiling water reactor (VBWR) was the first privately owned and operated nuclear power plant to deliver significant quantities of electricity to a public utility grid. During the period October 1957 to December 1963, it delivered approximately 40,000 megawatt-hours of electricity. This reactor—a light-wat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1806558 | 1,126,728 |
551,981 | The placement and bonding to form G-quadruplexes is not random and serve very unusual functional purposes. The quadruplex structure is further stabilized by the presence of a cation, especially potassium, which sits in a central channel between each pair of tetrads. They can be formed of DNA, RNA, LNA, and PNA, and may... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4238684 | 551,693 |
1,716,477 | The MP-RTIP is a "modular, active electronically scanned array radar system" designed to be scaled in size in order to fit on board different platforms. The system is being developed from earlier Northrop-Grumman radar systems, including the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JointSTARS) and the existing Gl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10797785 | 1,715,508 |
45,801 | On September 3, 2002, astronomer Bill Yeung discovered a suspected asteroid, which was given the discovery designation J002E3. It appeared to be in orbit around the Earth, and was soon discovered from spectral analysis to be covered in white titanium dioxide, which was a major constituent of the paint used on the Satur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20584918 | 45,783 |
140,177 | A supernova is a transient astronomical event that occurs during the last stellar evolutionary stages of a massive star's life, whose dramatic and catastrophic destruction is marked by one final titanic explosion. This explosion can happen in one of many ways, but in all of them a significant proportion of the matter i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8111079 | 140,120 |
2,114,596 | From modest beginnings, the Menzies Research Institute quickly gained a reputation for its ground-breaking work into the link between babies’ sleeping position and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Menzies developed into an established centre for population health research, with a global reputation in epidemiology. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27606148 | 2,113,381 |
1,350,035 | Great Britain's medal performance at the 2008 Summer Olympics was its best in a century; at the close of the Games, the total medal count, 47, was also the fourth highest Great Britain had ever achieved. Only its performance at the 1908 Summer Olympics, which Britain hosted in London, resulted in more gold medals being... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14879786 | 1,349,289 |
953,601 | Anders received an appointment to Annapolis, following in the footsteps of his father, who graduated with the Class of 1927. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1955. Part of the course was orientation cruises during which midshipmen could experience life at sea. A cruise on board an air... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82925 | 953,096 |
1,127,380 | 2017 is the inauguration of Villa Heydeck: The former director's villa in the north of the foundry grounds becomes an official THI building. The Audi Confucius Institute Ingolstadt (AKII), a non-profit institution for the promotion of knowledge of the Chinese language and culture, is founded. In addition to strengtheni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65836710 | 1,126,803 |
1,593,103 | SIMS is a micro-analytical technique valuable for three-dimensional analysis of a materials elemental composition and isotopic ratios. This method can be utilized in characterization of bulk materials with a detection limit in the low parts per billion (10 or ng/g) range. Particles as small as a few hundreds of nanomet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36022927 | 1,592,206 |
1,021,612 | Mackinder was anti-Bolshevik, and as British High Commissioner in Southern Russia in late 1919 and early 1920, during the Russian Civil War, he stressed the need for Britain to continue her support to the White Russian forces, which he attempted to unite. Mackinder's last major work was the 1943 article, “The Round Wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=634585 | 1,021,083 |
1,713,706 | Open surgical procedures such as ATL have inherent risks including damage to the brain (either directly or indirectly by injury to important blood vessels), bleeding (which can require re-operation), blood loss (which can require transfusion), and infection. Furthermore, open procedures require several days of care in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5799941 | 1,712,740 |
144,992 | While sentiment analysis has been popular for domains where authors express their opinion rather explicitly ("the movie is awesome"), such as social media and product reviews, only recently robust methods were devised for other domains where sentiment is strongly implicit or indirect. For example, in news articles - mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6435232 | 144,934 |
1,183,143 | In August 2010, an intergovernmental agreement was signed to provide that the Russian party will build at least one VVER-1000 reactor, supply nuclear fuel for it and decommission it. Construction was to commence in 2012 or early 2013 and is expected to cost US$5 billion. The customer and owner of new reactors, as well ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8003578 | 1,182,517 |
810,520 | PAMPs activate innate immune responses, protecting the host from infection, by identifying some conserved nonself molecules. Bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPSs), endotoxins found on the cell membranes of gram-negative bacteria, are considered to be the prototypical class of PAMPs. LPSs are specifically recognised by T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1902312 | 810,088 |
894,321 | Using a different annealing technology based on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), a quantum Hopfield network was implemented in 2009 that mapped the input data and memorized data to Hamiltonians, allowing the use of adiabatic quantum computation. NMR technology also enables universal quantum computing, and it was used ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44108758 | 893,851 |
2,244,157 | Polyanskyy was selected to the Ukrainian squad in the men's heavyweight class (+100 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, as a result of the nation's top nine finish in the European Judo Union ranking list. Polyanskyy opened his match with a brilliant ippon victory and an ōuchi gari (big inner reap) over Egypt's I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50732411 | 2,242,886 |
965,766 | As technology improved and operational knowledge grew, Oceaneering upgraded their fleet of JIMs. The magnesium construction was replaced with glass-reinforced plastic (GRP) and the single joints with segmented ones, each allowing seven degrees of motion, and when added together giving the operator a very great range of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1273138 | 965,257 |
1,569,761 | Harvard University conducts forest biology and conservation research on the property, including two major programs: the Long Term Ecological Research LTER program, funded by the National Science Foundation and established in 1988 to investigate New England's natural ecosystem; and the National Institute of Global Envir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20798513 | 1,568,873 |
1,975,674 | Different types of devices can be used to produce the physiological changes. Of the bodily organs, the heart plays a particularly important role in our emotional experience. The heart imitator HaptiHeart produces special heartbeat patterns according to emotion to be conveyed or elicited (sadness is associated with slig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28495100 | 1,974,537 |
919,841 | Fudan has reconstructed its course system to suit education goals. A course scheme of general education, specialized education and basic education in arts and sciences has been implemented. Encompassing a complete and comprehensive range of disciplines, the courses of general education enable students to receive educat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72599 | 919,355 |
1,655,479 | In June 2014 Tinkoff-Saxo announced that Kreuziger was being temporarily suspended from racing after the UCI questioned abnormalities in his biological passport. The UCI had originally highlighted the problems in his biological data for the 2011 and 2012 seasons through a letter in June 2013, which Kreuziger had respon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10587813 | 1,654,547 |
746,019 | Before drilling, the underground geology needs to be understood, and drillers need to be prepared to seal the borehole, including preventing penetration of water between strata. The unfortunate example is a geothermal heating project in Staufen im Breisgau, Germany which seems the cause of considerable damage to histor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7096967 | 745,624 |
1,871,190 | The importance of the shipping container has been emphasized by recent developments in Winnipeg. "CentrePort Canada, an 8,000-hectare inland port being developed on the city’s edge is a one-stop shop for air, truck and rail shipments and is designed to reroute North American trade through the middle of the country...Ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29991137 | 1,870,113 |
751,863 | Proponents of bioidentical hormone therapy believe that progesterone offers fewer side effects and improved quality of life compared to MPA. The evidence for this view has been questioned; MPA is better absorbed when taken by mouth, with a much longer elimination half-life leading to more stable blood levels though it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23484633 | 751,461 |
492,611 | Defending champion Xiao Ruoteng of China lost the title on a tiebreaker to Russia's Artur Dalaloyan. The tie-breaking procedure in this situation is dropping of the lowest-scoring apparatus from the combined score, and whoever's total score on the remaining five apparatuses is higher after that will rank ahead (74.198 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56909136 | 492,356 |
1,807,494 | Coastal sediment transport (a subset of sediment transport) is the interaction of coastal land forms to various complex interactions of physical processes. The primary agent in coastal sediment transport is wave activity (see Wind wave), followed by tides and storm surge (see Tide and Storm surge), and near shore curre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41054127 | 1,806,475 |
1,193,942 | HSP60, as a mitochondrial protein, has been shown to be involved in stress response as well. The heat shock response is a homeostatic mechanism that protects a cell from damage by upregulating the expression of genes that code for HSP60. The upregulation of HSP60 production allows for the maintenance of other cellular ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1406208 | 1,193,302 |
244,322 | On September 30, 2008, Chief Judge Joseph R. Goodwin of the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia denied the certification of a class of Parkersburg residents exposed to PFOA from DuPont's facility because they did not "show the common individual injuries needed to certify a class acti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=824692 | 244,195 |
1,986,258 | Optical interferometers are extremely complex, unfilled aperture photon-collecting telescopes in the visual (sometimes the near infrared, too), which produce synthesized images and fringe data "on the fly" (unlike radio interferometers which are privileged to record the data for "later" synthesis), essentially by takin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1517197 | 1,985,117 |
953,921 | The main Physics building accommodates several research groups—Radio and Space Plasma Physics (RSPP), X-ray and Observational Astronomy (XROA), and Theoretical Astrophysics (TA)—as well as centres for supercomputing, microscopy, Gamma and X-ray astronomy, and radar sounding, and the Swift UK Data Centre. A purpose buil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=354047 | 953,416 |
1,589,378 | With Aberdeen colleague Ela Krol, among others, he has published a series of over 30 papers in the "Journal of Experimental Biology", which culminated in a novel hypothesis that animal energy expenditure is limited by the capacity to dissipate body heat. This idea – the "heat dissipation limit hypothesis" (HDL) was pub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23755266 | 1,588,484 |
928,023 | Produce from urban gardens can be perceived to be more flavorful and desirable than store bought produce which may also lead to a wider acceptance and higher intake. A Flint, Michigan study found that those participating in community gardens consumed fruits and vegetables 1.4 times more per day and were 3.5 times more ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=450257 | 927,535 |
1,696,792 | Attributes of merit for electrically controlled devices, include speed of response and avoiding degradation of the transmitted signal. Dynamic range is usually quite restricted, and power feedback may mean that long term stability is a relatively minor issue. Speed of response is a particularly major issue in dynamical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41455 | 1,695,839 |
1,963,193 | Doctors can appear in the MRCPI in general internal medicine part I examination six months (or more) after graduation. The MRCPI part I consists of one paper with 100 questions in a best of fives format, to be completed within 3 hours (there is no break). There is no negative marking and each question is equally weight... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70592262 | 1,962,065 |
1,016,626 | Within legume root nodules, nitrogen gas (N) from the atmosphere is converted into ammonia (NH), which is then assimilated into amino acids (the building blocks of proteins), nucleotides (the building blocks of DNA and RNA as well as the important energy molecule ATP), and other cellular constituents such as vitamins, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1028836 | 1,016,102 |
842,729 | The second exploit revealed by Project Zero runs as an unprivileged Linux process on the x86-64 architecture, exploiting the row hammer effect to gain unrestricted access to all physical memory installed in a computer. By combining the disturbance errors with memory spraying, this exploit is capable of altering page ta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45634177 | 842,279 |
854,358 | Type II Seyfert galaxies have the characteristic bright core, as well as appearing bright when viewed at infrared wavelengths. Their spectra contain narrow lines associated with forbidden transitions, and broader lines associated with allowed strong dipole or intercombination transitions. NGC 3147 is considered the bes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=206919 | 853,903 |
14,739 | In 2016, the Navy announced they would begin the outfitting of 34 Flight IIA "Arleigh Burke" vessels with a hybrid-electric drive (HED) to lower fuel costs. While the four LM-2500 gas turbines of the "Arleigh Burke"s are most efficient at high speeds, an electric motor is to be attached to the main reduction gear to tu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=197341 | 14,734 |
1,622,400 | The assumption of population homogeneity in association studies, especially case-control studies, can easily be violated and can lead to both type I and type II errors. It is therefore important for the models used in the study to compensate for the population structure. The problem in case control studies is that if t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59659427 | 1,621,484 |
1,506,445 | The formulators of this doctrine were relatively young junior officers, nearly all of them former reservists commissioned during or immediately after World War I. They viewed war in the abstract, admitted (and even apologized for) being unable to offer conclusive proof of their theories, but firmly believed that the do... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7705538 | 1,505,599 |
66,769 | Due to its ability to regulate angiogenesis by stimulating endothelial cells to proliferate, hyaluronan can be used to create hydrogels to study vascular morphogenesis. These hydrogels have properties similar to human soft tissue, but are also easily controlled and modified, making HA very suitable for tissue-engineeri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1241101 | 66,744 |
596,784 | Advances in semi-rational enzyme engineering and de novo enzyme design provide researchers with powerful and effective new strategies to manipulate biocatalysts. Integration of sequence and structure based approaches in library design has proven to be a great guide for enzyme redesign. Generally, current computational ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216104 | 596,479 |
1,028,420 | On 11 September 1940, George Stibitz was able to transmit problems using teleprinter to his Complex Number Calculator in New York and receive the computed results back at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. This configuration of a centralized computer or mainframe computer with remote "dumb terminals" remained popular ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8774050 | 1,027,886 |
524,928 | The magnetic anisotropy of a benzene ring (A), alkene (B), carbonyl (C), alkyne (D), and a more complex molecule (E) are shown in the figure. Each of these unsaturated functional groups (A-D) create a tiny magnetic field and hence some local anisotropic regions (shown as cones) in which the shielding effects and the ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13084071 | 524,656 |
1,228,291 | At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, Japan was awarded a League of Nations mandate over a number of smaller islands and territory that had previously been part of the German Empire. Japan was disappointed when its draft resolution condemning racism in international affairs, was dropped from the agenda. However, its m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54108025 | 1,227,629 |
1,495,159 | "Onondaga" had an overall length of and a beam of . She was overweight and her draft of was almost a foot deeper than intended. The ship had a depth of hold of , a tonnage of 1,250 tons burthen and displaced . Her crew consisted of 130 officers and enlisted men. "Onondaga" was powered by a pair of two-cylinder horizont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1117109 | 1,494,318 |
1,141,452 | "Modeling" techniques of crowds vary from holistic or network approaches to understanding individualistic or behavioral aspects of each agent. For example, the Social Force Model describes a need for individuals to find a balance between social interaction and physical interaction. An approach that incorporates both as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=886876 | 1,140,858 |
1,724,058 | The Kingdom of Hungary were divided into counties. The heads of most counties were directly subordinated to the sovereign, with the exception of the seven Transylvanian counties which were under the authority of a higher royal official, the voivode. Assemblies of noblemen were the most important administrative bodies i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4745801 | 1,723,088 |
899,877 | ASCOT-LLA manufacturer-sponsored study addressed the benefit of atorvastatin 10 mg (a cholesterol-lowering drug) in patients with hypertension (high blood pressure) but no previous cardiovascular disease (primary prevention). The trial ran for 3.3 years, and during this period the relative risk of a "primary event" (he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1964571 | 899,402 |
1,069,405 | Two of the six were qualified pilots: Michel with the Air Force, and Kerwin with the Navy. They were given jobs related to space suits and Apollo experiments, respectively, while the rest were sent to Williams Air Force Base in Arizona for 55 weeks of pilot training. Graveline resigned on August 18, 1965, after his fir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3144242 | 1,068,851 |
101,757 | Since "Ender's Game" was published in 1985, Card was reluctant to license film rights and artistic control for the novel. He had two opportunities to sell the rights of "Ender's Game" to Hollywood studios, but refused when creative differences became an issue. Card announced in February 2009 that he had completed a scr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6097209 | 101,712 |
44,553 | Renewable energy stands in contrast to fossil fuels, which are being used far more quickly than they are being replenished. Renewable energy resources and significant opportunities for energy efficiency exist over wide geographical areas, in contrast to other energy sources, which are concentrated in a limited number o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25784 | 44,536 |
437,941 | There are five variations of the S3TC algorithm (named DXT1 through DXT5, referring to the FourCC code assigned by Microsoft to each format), each designed for specific types of image data. All convert a 4×4 block of pixels to a 64-bit or 128-bit quantity, resulting in compression ratios of 6:1 with 24-bit RGB input da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1356994 | 437,727 |
17,800 | The university's standard offer for most courses is set at A*AA, with A*A*A for sciences courses (or equivalent in other examination systems, e.g. 7,6,6 or 7,7,6 in IB). Due to a high proportion of applicants receiving the highest school grades, an interview process was introduced as a component of consideration for ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25978572 | 17,794 |
1,252,606 | At the beginning of the First World War, Kirchheim became a company commander in the Hanoverian Jäger Battalion No. 10 . With his battalion he took part in the fighting on the Western Front, There he was promoted to captain on August 24, 1914 . On the same day Kirchheim was shot through the neck while attempting to tak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19106625 | 1,251,928 |
1,348,076 | The Arctic supports productive ecosystems that include many types of planktivorous species. Planktivorous pink salmon are common in the Arctic and the Bering Strait and have been suggested to exert significant control on structuring the phytoplankton and zooplankton dynamics in the subarctic North Pacific. Shifts in pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36726184 | 1,347,335 |
2,055,937 | Jacob Whitman Bailey was born in Auburn, Massachusetts on April 29, 1811, and in 1832 graduated at West Point, where, after 1834, he was successively assistant professor, acting professor, and professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology. At West Point he studied with John Torrey. He devised various improvements in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5125887 | 2,054,754 |
1,763,258 | Allergan holds at least six active patents protecting Combigan from generic competition. Several generic companies challenged the validity of the patents and filed Abbreviated New Drug Applications (ANDA) seeking market entry. Allergan responded by filing a lawsuit against the ANDA filers. In Allergan, Inc. v. Sandoz, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18020060 | 1,762,265 |
13,208 | For generation II reactors located in flood or tsunami prone areas, a 3+ day supply of back-up batteries has become an informal industry standard. Another change is to harden the location of back-up diesel generator rooms with water-tight, blast-resistant doors and heat sinks, similar to those used by nuclear submarine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31162817 | 13,203 |
1,205,416 | The Australian government calculates that Australia's net emissions (including Land use, land-use change, and forestry) for the 12-month period to September 2020 were 510.10 million tonnes -equivalent. The sectoral contributions based on the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report metrics were as follows:electricity 170.36Mt, 33.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20802345 | 1,204,771 |
200,142 | In evolutionary developmental biology scientists look at how the different processes in development play a role in how a specific organism reaches its current body plan. The genetic regulation of ontogeny and the phylogenetic process is what allows for this kind of understanding of biology to be possible. By looking at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=418101 | 200,039 |
1,501,152 | This aim was set through their ambitious three-stage Growth and Transformation Plan, Ethiopia seeks to transform itself into a modern economy by 2025. According to the Ministry of Water and Energy, as of 2018, only 23% of the national populace has access to grid electricity. That figure falls even further to 10% when m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40906426 | 1,500,306 |
1,643,686 | where formula_4 and formula_5 are the complex frequencies of the perturbed and unperturbed cavity modes, and formula_6 and formula_7 are the electromagnetic fields of the unperturbed mode (permeability change is not considered for simplicity). Expression () relies on stored energy considerations. The latter are intuiti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31213900 | 1,642,759 |
390,909 | In the Middle Ages studies and adaptations of "Timaeus" solidified the view that there was a numerical explanation for proportion and harmony among learned men. Pythagoreanism, as mediated in Plato's "Timaeus", spurred increasingly detailed studies of symmetry and harmony. Intellectuals pondered how knowledge of the ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=291170 | 390,714 |
1,085,896 | Working in his home lab, Brown developed an electrical device he called a "gravitor" or "gravitator", consisting of a block of insulating or dielectric material with electrodes at either end. He received a British patent for it in November 1928. In demonstrations, Brown would mount the unit as a pendulum, apply electri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188656 | 1,085,338 |
248,613 | Multiple holes in the front of the skull were originally thought to be either from a bacterial infection or bite marks by some other tyrannosaur. A subsequent study found these to be areas of parasitic infection instead, possibly from an infestation of an ancestral form of "Trichomonas gallinae", a protozoan parasite t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10633984 | 248,485 |
1,625,637 | In a VECSEL, the external mirror permits a significantly greater area of the diode to participate in generating light in a single mode, resulting in much higher power than otherwise attainable. Monolithic VCSELs emit powers in the low milliwatt range. By contrast, at the 2004 Optical Society of America "Conference on L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1256726 | 1,624,719 |
1,005,146 | Currently, female personnel of all three services play an active part in ongoing operations. However, there are certain limitations in 'direct combat' duties such as special forces, pilot branch, naval fast attack squadrons. These are only a few restrictions; female personnel have been tasked with many front line dutie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26491558 | 1,004,628 |
1,657,752 | Alpher and Robert Herman were awarded the Henry Draper Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1993. They were also awarded the Magellanic Premium of the American Philosophical Society in 1975, the Georges Vanderlinden Physics prize of the Belgian Academy of Sciences, as well as significant awards of the New Yor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1273628 | 1,656,819 |
466,550 | Microscopic organisms live throughout the biosphere. The mass of prokaryote microorganisms — which includes bacteria and archaea, but not the nucleated eukaryote microorganisms — may be as much as 0.8 trillion tons of carbon (of the total biosphere mass, estimated at between 1 and 4 trillion tons). Single-celled baroph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32000533 | 466,317 |
1,448,942 | Nominally, IMAP will have two 4-hour contacts per week through the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN). This is sufficient to upload any commands, download the week's worth of science data and housekeeping, and perform spacecraft ranging required for navigation. DSN will communicate with the IMAP Mission Operation Center (MO... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57595591 | 1,448,126 |
1,215,426 | Cerebral blood flow remains unchanged over a wide range of arterial pressures (mean arterial pressure of 50–150 mmHg) through a process termed autoregulation of blood flow. Signs and symptoms of hypertensive encephalopathy may include severe headache, nausea and vomiting (often of a projectile nature), focal neurologic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23371046 | 1,214,774 |
2,011,400 | It was dedicated on October 22, 1913, during the tenure of the first dean of the Graduate School, Andrew Fleming West, and was the first residential college in the United States devoted solely to postgraduate liberal studies. The group of Collegiate Gothic buildings was designed by Ralph Adams Cram and located on a hil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10884334 | 2,010,247 |
2,001,350 | In the penultimate chapter, "Religion de Profundis", the authors examine a number of recurring features in Neolithic Western Europe which they believe can shed light on the religious beliefs of the period. Exploring ritual elements to the act of flint mining at such sites as Grimes Graves, they discuss the potential sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37688915 | 2,000,204 |
1,998,518 | 25 nations competed: Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the USA. This was the first appearance for Canada,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2380256 | 1,997,375 |
1,311,001 | In 1716 Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, who wrote many essays on comparative anatomy for the Académie française, published his "Memoir on the Different Positions of the Occipital Foramen in Man and Animals" ("Mémoire sur les différences de la situation du grand trou occipital dans l'homme et dans les animaux"). Six years l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39480604 | 1,310,283 |
28,615 | UAVs can threaten airspace security in numerous ways, including unintentional collisions or other interference with other aircraft, deliberate attacks or by distracting pilots or flight controllers. The first incident of a drone-airplane collision occurred in mid-October 2017 in Quebec City, Canada. The first recorded ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58900 | 28,605 |
74,973 | A fundamental question of longstanding theoretical interest is to prove lower bounds on the complexity and exact operation counts of fast Fourier transforms, and many open problems remain. It is not rigorously proved whether DFTs truly require formula_29 (i.e., order "formula_30" or greater) operations, even for the si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11512 | 74,946 |
1,253,804 | An advantage of MEMMs rather than HMMs for sequence tagging is that they offer increased freedom in choosing features to represent observations. In sequence tagging situations, it is useful to use domain knowledge to design special-purpose features. In the original paper introducing MEMMs, the authors write that "when ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27900233 | 1,253,124 |
956,180 | Descartes separates external objects into those that are clear and distinct and those that are confused and obscure. The former group consists of the ideas of extension, duration and movement. These geometrical ideas cannot be misconstrued or combined in a way that makes them false. For example, if the idea of a creatu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=342912 | 955,675 |
241,235 | Russian customs officials twice refused to let the target enter the country because of missing or incomplete paperwork. Over the span of a few days, the target traveled over the Atlantic Ocean five times. On its arrival in Russia in June 2009, the berkelium was immediately transferred to Research Institute of Atomic Re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67611 | 241,115 |
726,577 | Aptamer applications can be roughly grouped into sensing, therapeutic, reagent production, and engineering categories. Sensing applications are important in environmental, biomedical, epidemiological, biosecurity, and basic research applications, where aptamers act as probes in assays, imaging methods, diagnostic assay... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1970691 | 726,195 |
2,129,239 | Clarke was born at East Bergholt, in Suffolk, the eldest child of William Clarke, schoolmaster, and his wife Sarah, "née" Branwhite. He was partly educated at his father's house, under the Rev. R. G. S. Brown, B.D., and partly at Dedham Grammar School. In October 1817 he went to Cambridge and entered into residence at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1091633 | 2,128,016 |
907,706 | Reference ranges are usually given as what are the usual (or "normal") values found in the population, more specifically the prediction interval that 95% of the population fall into. This may also be called "standard range". In contrast, "optimal (health) range" or "therapeutic target" is a reference range or limit tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217707 | 907,228 |
720,582 | In 2008, Kaminsky discovered a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol that could allow attackers to easily perform cache poisoning attacks on most nameservers (djbdns, PowerDNS, MaraDNS, Secure64 and Unbound were not vulnerable). With most Internet-based applications depending on DNS to locate their ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17498141 | 720,202 |
803,954 | Practice is clearly an important process for learning and perfecting a new skill. With over 40 years of research, it is well established in both humans and animals that the formation of all forms of memory are greatly enhanced during the brain-state of sleep. Furthermore, with humans, sleep has been consistently shown ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21312313 | 803,525 |
1,480,309 | In science as in everything, small-scale synthesizers usually get credit from all constituent parties, but truly great synthesizers can fall between the cracks in the cycle of scientific credit. Ledyard Stebbins was in the latter category; neither fish nor fowl, he frequently failed to receive credit for work in some a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1591079 | 1,479,475 |
545,644 | In August 1914, when World War I broke out in Europe, the Ottomans initially remained neutral, but they entered the war on the side of the Central Powers in November. and were partially disarmed in late 1914 and early 1915 to improve the defenses in the Dardanelles, though they retained their main batteries so they cou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10865795 | 545,358 |
418,651 | With Myfanwy Evans, Piper founded the contemporary art journal "Axis" in January 1935. As the art critic for "The Listener", through working on "Axis" and by his membership of the London Group and the Seven and Five Society, Piper was at the forefront of the modernist movement in Britain throughout the 1930s. In 1935 P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=411340 | 418,446 |
373,119 | In a single-beam instrument, the cuvette containing only a solvent has to be measured first. Mettler Toledo developed a single beam array spectrophotometer that allows fast and accurate measurements over the UV/VIS range. The light source consists of a Xenon flash lamp for the ultraviolet (UV) as well as for the visibl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71020 | 372,924 |
41,826 | Potash is primarily a mixture of potassium salts because plants have little or no sodium content, and the rest of a plant's major mineral content consists of calcium salts of relatively low solubility in water. While potash has been used since ancient times, its composition was not understood. Georg Ernst Stahl obtaine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23055 | 41,811 |
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