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316,598 | CubeSat propulsion has made rapid advancements in: cold gas, chemical propulsion, electric propulsion, and solar sails. The biggest challenge with CubeSat propulsion is preventing risk to the launch vehicle and its primary payload while still providing significant capability. Components and methods that are commonly us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=641656 | 316,429 |
131,066 | Using this model the effective temperature of stars is estimated, defined as the temperature of a black body that yields the same surface flux of energy as the star. If a star were a black body, the same effective temperature would result from any region of the spectrum. For example, comparisons in the "B" (blue) or "V... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44364 | 131,014 |
308,238 | More than 90% of verapamil is absorbed when given orally, but due to high first-pass metabolism, bioavailability is much lower (10–35%). It is 90% bound to plasma proteins and has a volume of distribution of 3–5 L/kg. It takes 1 to 2 hours to reach peak plasma concentration after oral administration. It is metabolized ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=525963 | 308,073 |
1,825,937 | An alternative method of control is a hot water treatment, which affects all stages of the life cycle and can be used on whole plants. This treatment has been used for 60 years with some effect in greenhouse plants, but not on a widespread agricultural level. The difficulty in this treatment is that exposure times to h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14402154 | 1,824,899 |
1,912,533 | Recently, the European Union (EU) puts the concept of healthy soils at the core of the European Green Deal to achieve climate neutrality, zero pollution, sustainable food provision and a resilient environment. Given the European Union's objective to become the first climate neutral continent by 2050, the European Commi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34080286 | 1,911,434 |
505,733 | Suppose an experimenter wishes to measure the value of a quantity, say the acceleration due to gravity of Earth, whose true value happens to be formula_3. A careful experimenter makes multiple measurements, which we denote with formula_4 random variables formula_5. If they are all noisy but unbiased, i.e., the measurin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30440719 | 505,470 |
497,920 | School psychology combines principles from educational psychology and clinical psychology to understand and treat students with learning disabilities; to foster the intellectual growth of "gifted" students; to facilitate prosocial behaviors in adolescents; and otherwise to promote safe, supportive, and effective learni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26277853 | 497,663 |
1,752,907 | Its ability to close its leaf rosettes when undergoing deleterious environmental conditions such as excessive heat and droughts gives "Saxifraga paniculata" a very high resistance to sustained photoinhibition and irreversible dehydration; a paper published by Hacker and Neuner in 2006 found that "S. paniculata" was mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9776295 | 1,751,918 |
2,142,472 | In partnership with Capgemini Invent, Women in Data hosted a senior leader’s session in May 2022, focussing on Women’s Health. This was in recognition of the persistently poor healthcare outcomes that women face and the urgent need to tackle ingrained gender inequalities in the healthcare systems. The event brought tog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70358320 | 2,141,241 |
1,714,136 | One of Lavoisier's experiments connected the worlds of respiration and combustion. Lavoisier's hypothesis was that combustion and respiration were one and the same, and combustion occurs with every instance of respiration. Working with Pierre-Simon Laplace, Lavoisier designed an ice calorimeter apparatus for measuring ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36920393 | 1,713,170 |
901,763 | Furfural was first isolated in 1821 (published in 1832) by the German chemist Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, who produced a small sample as a byproduct of formic acid synthesis. In 1840, the Scottish chemist John Stenhouse found that the same chemical could be produced by distilling a wide variety of crop materials, inclu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=490020 | 901,287 |
1,998,412 | The TMX was formally proposed by Fred Coensgen and the Livermore team on January 12, 1977 to the US Energy Research and Development Administration. The project was projected to cost 11 million dollars. The design consisted of five rings of current around the plasma. The ends uses shaped "Baseball" magnets at the end to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39948045 | 1,997,269 |
2,086,720 | Published continuously since 1839, the biannual "Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society" publishes original research and review papers in the earth sciences, frequently, though by no means only, with special reference to the geology of the north of England. Since 2011 the digitised "Proceedings" from 1839 to d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35619299 | 2,085,518 |
224,431 | The discovery of the pulmonary circulation has been attributed to many scientists with credit distributed in varying ratios by varying sources. In much of modern medical literature, the discovery is credited to English physician William Harvey (1578 – 1657 CE) based on the comprehensive completeness and correctness of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=598465 | 224,317 |
1,528,105 | Early in the 1990s, for those large-scale and eddies resolvable models, the computer requirement for the 2D ancillary problem associated with the rigid lid approximation was becoming excessive. Furthermore, in order to predict tidal effects or compare height data from satellites, methods were developed to predict the h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41244624 | 1,527,241 |
736,704 | Wi-Fi positioning system (WPS) is used where GPS is inadequate. The localization technique used for positioning with wireless access points is based on measuring the intensity of the received signal ("received signal strength" in English RSS) and the method of "fingerprinting". To increase the accuracy of fingerprintin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13431137 | 736,316 |
1,561,202 | One problem now remained, the need for two antennas for broadcast and reception. Lovell had attempted a solution using two dipoles in front of a common parabolic reflector, separated by a metal disk, but found that enough signal leaked through to cause the crystal detectors in the receivers to burn out. On 30 December ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43764346 | 1,560,316 |
1,698,015 | Willis was born in Maguiresbridge, County Fermanagh, Ireland in 1837. In 1855 he was enrolled at the faculty of medicine in the University of Glasgow (Scotland), where he completed his pre-medical and pre-clinical studies. He then transferred to the University of Edinburgh. After his graduation in May 1859 with the the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1304914 | 1,697,061 |
830,451 | Within this work, Schelling discusses military capabilities and how they can be used as bargaining power. Instead of just considering the choices available to you on a surface level, you can think ahead to try to influence the other party to come to the conclusion you want. Specifically he mentions the actions taken by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=696024 | 830,004 |
931,105 | VisiCorp's Visi On was a GUI designed to run on DOS for IBM PCs. It was released in December 1983. Visi On had many features of a modern GUI, and included a few that did not become common until many years later. It was fully mouse-driven, used a bit-mapped display for both text and graphics, included on-line help, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13914 | 930,614 |
266,026 | During the return to Earth, Mattingly performed an 83-minute EVA to retrieve film cassettes from the cameras in the SIM bay, with assistance from Duke who remained at the command module's hatch. At approximately 173,000 nautical miles (199,000 mi; 320,000 km) from Earth, it was the second "deep space" EVA in history, p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1970 | 265,882 |
632,010 | To communicate information clearly and efficiently, data visualization uses statistical graphics, plots, information graphics and other tools. Numerical data may be encoded using dots, lines, or bars, to visually communicate a quantitative message. Effective visualization helps users analyze and reason about data and e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3461736 | 631,672 |
594,603 | These patents had accumulated because after World War II, the government under President Harry S. Truman decided to continue and even ramp up its spending on research and development, on the basis of Vannevar Bush's famous report entitled, "Science The Endless Frontier", which stated: "Scientific progress is one essent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1430224 | 594,298 |
49,152 | There was a short-lived radio show in 1975 that adapted early Lee/Kirby stories and is notable for casting a pre-"Saturday Night Live" Bill Murray as the Human Torch. Also in the cast were Bob Maxwell as Reed Richards, Cynthia Adler as Sue Storm, Jim Pappas as Ben Grimm and Jerry Terheyden as Doctor Doom. Other Marvel ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11664 | 49,132 |
1,003,412 | Cuthbert entered into the monastery of Melrose, now in lowland Scotland but then in Northumbria, in the late 7th century, and after being ordained a priest he began to travel throughout Northumbria, "rapidly acquiring a reputation for holiness and for the possession of miraculous powers". The Synod of Whitby in 664 pit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71325 | 1,002,894 |
1,685,045 | The first category is to discover and study models of complex systems, such as disease transmission. This can be done through different types of data collections, such as hospital surveys, or electronic surveys submitted to the organization (such as the CDC). Transmission rates or disease incidence rates/surveillance c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4905289 | 1,684,100 |
1,262,976 | Propellant depots in LEO are of little use for transfer between two low earth orbits when the depot is in a different orbital plane than the target orbit. The delta-v to make the necessary plane change is typically extremely high. On the other hand, depots are typically proposed for exploration missions, where the chan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22202480 | 1,262,288 |
438,252 | The term derives from the name of Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician who discovered in 1847 that childbed fever mortality rates fell ten-fold when doctors disinfected their hands with a chlorine solution before moving from one patient to another, or, most particularly, after an autopsy. (At one of the two maternit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17805391 | 438,038 |
1,583,628 | In 1997 Goodnow joined the faculty at the Australian National University as Professor and Founding Director of the Medical Genome Centre, leading its development into a major national research facility, the Australian Phenomics Facility. In 2015 he joined the Garvan Institute of Medical Research as Deputy Director to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22873253 | 1,582,738 |
758,061 | Many physical and biochemical processes are regulated by diffusion. Facilitated diffusion is one form of diffusion and it is important in several metabolic processes. Facilitated diffusion is the main mechanism behind the binding of Transcription Factors (TFs) to designated target sites on the DNA molecule. The in vitr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11712 | 757,656 |
1,383,966 | The Soviet Union began military development of the R-1, a copy of the V-2 with modifications intended to improve reliability, in 1947. Flight testing of this first Soviet-made liquid-fueled missile began on 13 September 1948, and the rocket entered military service in 1950. Also from 1947, two advanced rockets with ran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9894134 | 1,383,199 |
1,778,177 | Stakeholder Community of the Once-Only Principle For Citizens (SCOOP4C) is an EU coordination and support action supported by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme. The aim of the initiative is to examine how better provision of public services to citizens can be achieved by applying the once-only principle. SCOOP4C was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56837703 | 1,777,175 |
346,471 | The acute oral toxicity for mammals is low, but death has been reported after deliberate overdose of concentrated formulations. The surfactants in glyphosate formulations can increase the relative acute toxicity of the formulation. In a 2017 risk assessment, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) wrote: "There is very li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=294295 | 346,290 |
1,527,824 | The station is the world's 4th largest tidal power plant in operation since the Annapolis Royal Generating Station ceased operation. With an output capacity of . Station began operating in 1968, but was later shut down for 10 years until December 2004, when funding resumed. The old French-built generation unit was dism... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25652402 | 1,526,960 |
1,022,142 | Vice Admiral Walter E. "Ted" Carter Jr. became the 62nd superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy on July 23, 2014. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1981, was designated a Naval Flight Officer in 1982, and graduated from the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN) in 1985. Carter's career as an aviator incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1029605 | 1,021,613 |
271,987 | All operations of the UART hardware are controlled by an internal clock signal which runs at a multiple of the data rate, typically 8 or 16 times the bit rate. The receiver tests the state of the incoming signal on each clock pulse, looking for the beginning of the start bit. If the apparent start bit lasts at least on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75008 | 271,839 |
19,301 | The Cephalopoda evolved from a mollusc resembling the Monoplacophora in the Cambrian some 530 million years ago. The Coleoidea diverged from the nautiloids in the Devonian some 416 million years ago. In turn, the coleoids (including the squids and octopods) brought their shells inside the body and some 276 million year... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22780 | 19,293 |
848,973 | Because of increasing cost and the dwindling availability of liquid helium, many superconducting systems are cooled using two stage mechanical refrigeration. In general two types of mechanical cryocoolers are employed which have sufficient cooling power to maintain magnets below their critical temperature. The Gifford-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=461227 | 848,523 |
311,086 | In every other case in which the IAEA Board of Governors made a finding of safeguards non-compliance involving clandestine enrichment or reprocessing, the resolution has involved (in the cases of Iraq and Libya) or is expected to involve (in the case of North Korea) at a minimum ending sensitive fuel cycle activities. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=721807 | 310,918 |
1,379,242 | Bailey made significant contributions to the taxonomic study of palms. His interest in the plants reportedly stemmed from his inability to answer his wife's questions about the plants during a family trip to Jamaica in 1910. After retiring as dean of the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160679 | 1,378,480 |
201,224 | Traditional shaders calculate rendering effects on graphics hardware with a high degree of flexibility. Most shaders are coded for (and run on) a graphics processing unit (GPU), though this is not a strict requirement. "Shading languages" are used to program the GPU's rendering pipeline, which has mostly superseded the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1090096 | 201,121 |
1,998,395 | "A. paraponerae" utilize both visual and chemical cues to locate injured or freshly killed hosts for feeding and egg-laying. These injuries species are often the result of interspecies aggression and serve as ideal hosts for "A. paraponerae" to lay their egg on. Studies have shown that "A. paraponerae" can distinguish ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62177240 | 1,997,252 |
1,700,302 | In Greece, he was a fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1911–1913), during which time he worked on excavations at Locris, Corinth and Korakou. During World War I Blegen was involved with relief work in Bulgaria and Macedonia, receiving the Saviors Order from Greece in 1919. After the war he co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3380257 | 1,699,348 |
162,138 | The Edwardian era (1901–1910) stands out as a period of peace and plenty. There were no severe depressions and prosperity was widespread. Britain's growth rate, manufacturing output, and GDP (but not GDP per capita) fell behind its rivals the United States, and Germany. Nevertheless, the nation still led the world in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,053 |
1,914,389 | The GPR56 is grouped in the B family of GPCRs. This GPCR group have long N termini characterized by an extracellular “cysteine box” and hydrophilic, potentially mucin-rich. The cysteine box contains four conserved cysteines and two tryptophans arranged in a specific fashion (C-x2-W-x6-16-W-x4-C-x10-22-C-x-C) just befor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1446449 | 1,913,290 |
1,668,474 | It has been said that "The Mt. Sandel excavations dominate the picture of the Early Mesolithic (in Ireland) as so few other sites have been excavated and fully published, let alone found. Not only that, but here was evidence for dwellings – until recently it was not until the Neolithic that there was again evidence for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14523579 | 1,667,534 |
295,077 | Despite his desire to return to Japan, Berg reported to the Senators training camp on February 26, 1933, in Biloxi. He played in 40 games during the season and batted a disappointing .185. The Senators won the pennant, but lost to the Giants in the World Series. Cliff Bolton, the Senators' starting catcher in 1933, dem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=278492 | 294,917 |
715,553 | The material quality factor formula_36 is useful because it allows for an intrinsic comparison of possible efficiency between different materials. This relation shows that improving the electronic component formula_37, which primarily affects the Seebeck coefficient, will increase the quality factor of a material. A la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=476993 | 715,179 |
1,030,102 | After the Vietnam war the Australian Army suffered severe budget cut-backs, and expenditure on equipment decreased as a result. The army was scaled back in size, and experienced a period of very little overseas deployment for the first time in the post–World War II period. Despite this the Army did manage to continue t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17924530 | 1,029,568 |
4,796 | A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, including light or other electromagnetic waves, has enough energy to escape it. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can deform spacetime to form a black hole. The boundary of no escape is called the eve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4650 | 4,794 |
355,301 | The primary feature highlight for the new release of DirectX was the introduction of advanced low-level programming APIs for Direct3D 12 which can reduce driver overhead. Developers are now able to implement their own command lists and buffers to the GPU, allowing for more efficient resource utilization through paralle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8506 | 355,118 |
1,876,087 | Because of the lack of accurate prediction methods, each system should generally be tested in full configuration to accurately determine the regression rate before flight. Typically, data points for several identical grains tested under different flux conditions are fitted to the space-time averaged power function. Ini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70478462 | 1,875,009 |
894,233 | Unlike most Antarctic glaciers, the Taylor Glacier is not frozen to the bedrock, probably because of the presence of salts concentrated by the crystallization of the ancient seawater imprisoned below it. Salt cryo-concentration occurred in the deep relict seawater when pure ice crystallised and expelled its dissolved s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22456675 | 893,763 |
271,109 | An analog of human leptin metreleptin (trade names Myalept, Myalepta) was first approved in Japan in 2013, and in the United States in February 2014 and in Europe in 2018. In the US it is indicated as a treatment for complications of leptin deficiency, and for the diabetes and hypertriglyceridemia associated with conge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=214938 | 270,961 |
1,050,565 | Fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase is also a key player in treating type 2 diabetes. In this disease, hyperglycemia causes many serious problems, and treatments often focus on lowering blood sugar levels. Gluconeogenesis in the liver is a major cause of glucose overproduction in these patients, and so inhibition of gluconeoge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=316522 | 1,050,019 |
1,048,832 | By the age of fourteen, he had graduated from the local academy and applied to the University of Georgia in Athens. It was here he met and shared a room with Alexander Stephens, future Vice President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. In 1835, he received his A.M. degree. He began his s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=347774 | 1,048,287 |
1,355,250 | USS "Trout" (SS-202) was the fifth "Tambor"-class submarine commissioned in the United States Navy, serving in the Pacific from 1941 to 1944. She received 11 battle stars for World War II service and three Presidential Unit Citations, for her second, third, and fifth war patrols. "Trout" also delivered ammunition to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=430381 | 1,354,502 |
1,835,609 | The first scientifically recognized dinosaur egg fossils were discovered serendipitously in 1923 by an American Museum of Natural History crew while looking for evidence of early humans in Mongolia. These eggs were mistakenly attributed to the locally abundant herbivore "Protoceratops", but are now known to be "Ovirapt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39701360 | 1,834,560 |
1,290,975 | Hookworm infection of STH is caused by "N. americanus" and "A. duodenale". Mild infections produce diarrhoea and abdominal pain. More severe infections can create serious health problems for newborns, children, pregnant women, and malnourished adults. In fact it is the leading cause of anaemia and protein deficiency in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38946504 | 1,290,265 |
204,012 | On 23 June 1967, Rolls-Royce offered Lockheed the RB211-06 for the L-1011. The new engine was to be rated at thrust and combined features of several engines then under development: the large high-power, high-bypass design from the RB207 and the triple-spool design of the RB203. To this was added one new piece of techno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=387227 | 203,907 |
1,917,963 | Evidence-based practice in general is based on a very thorough search of the scientific literature and a very thorough selection and analysis of the retrieved literature. A close familiarity with database searching is needed, and library and information professionals have important roles to play in this respect. Theref... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33894217 | 1,916,863 |
1,732,085 | Mitragotri is widely recognized for his contributions to the field of drug delivery. He is considered a pioneer of many novel drug delivery technologies, especially in the fields of transdermal, oral and targeted systems. He invented techniques to deliver drugs transdermally using low-frequency ultrasound, pulsed micro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33431952 | 1,731,109 |
1,931,352 | Additionally, forelimb flexion tests have been shown to have poor predictive value for future soundness or unsoundness, and are best interpreted in cases of clinical lameness, joint effusion, reduced range of motion, or pain on palpation. Unfortunately, a positive response to forelimb flexion tests is one reason horses... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11757866 | 1,930,244 |
1,781,868 | The Dual Credit Strategy calls for an expansion of the network of partnerships between the government (school jurisdictions) and higher-education institutions, and provides an evolving database to a list of courses called "pathways" organized based on emerging with a particular designation or certification in the job m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17662721 | 1,780,864 |
1,068,331 | The adoption and implementation of neural networks, deep learning in the field of computational economics may reduce the redundant work of data cleaning and data analytics, significantly lowering the time and cost of large scale data analytics and enabling researchers to collect, analyze data on a great scale. This wou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1420447 | 1,067,777 |
398,377 | For people considered likely to have PAH based on the above tests, the specific associated condition is then determined based on the physical examination, medical/family history and further specific diagnostic tests (for example, serological tests to detect underlying connective tissue disease, HIV infection or hepatit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=674529 | 398,181 |
1,576,315 | When asked by a Watchtower fan on Facebook in July 2020 about the current state of the band, drummer Rick Colaluca stated, "We've had discussions a few times over the past several years about finishing recording "Mathematics" ("Concepts of Math Book 1" was about half of the project), but there are a couple of sticking ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51560357 | 1,575,426 |
154,110 | The first operational use of a rotating turret was on the American ironclad , designed during the American Civil War by John Ericsson. Open barbettes were also used to house their main batteries on rotating mounts. Both designs allowed naval engineers to dramatically reduce the number of guns present in the battery, by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=351615 | 154,040 |
1,121,084 | The first known oblique wing design was the Blohm & Voss P.202, proposed by Richard Vogt in 1942. The oblique wing concept was later promoted by Robert T. Jones, an aeronautical engineer at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. Analytical and wind tunnel studies Jones initiated at Ames indicated that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6061807 | 1,120,510 |
2,109,652 | One of the earliest extended projects carried out on the instrument was the first successful very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) experiment. Long Baseline Interferometry compares the signals from two or more telescopes, using the differences in phase between the signals to resolve the objects. Earlier experiments ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49378210 | 2,108,438 |
819,639 | It is difficult to distinguish between nerve damage and structural damage due to similarity of the symptoms. Diagnosis of ototoxicity typically results from ruling out all other possible sources of hearing loss and is often the catchall explanation for the symptoms. Treatment options vary depending on the patient and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=618910 | 819,198 |
2,117,290 | In their book "In Other Words," Ellen Bialystok and Kenji Hakuta, both professors studying bilingualism, examined the idea that "the knowledge of two languages is greater than the sum of its parts." They argued that there are linguistic benefits to being bilingual and that they are more than simply being able to speak ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3289570 | 2,116,072 |
1,149,512 | The light can also be pictured as consisting of a bundle of lines radiating in the direction of propagation, which are always perpendicular to the wavefront, called "rays". These imaginary lines of infinitely small thicknesses are separated by only the angle between them. In ray tracing, the vergence can then be pictur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8354104 | 1,148,905 |
403,775 | On February 14, 2008, U.S. officials announced plans to use a modified SM-3 missile launched from a group of three ships in the North Pacific to destroy the failed American satellite USA-193 at an altitude of 130 nautical miles (240 kilometers) shortly before atmospheric reentry. Officials publicly stated that the inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15787389 | 403,575 |
338,158 | Like contemporary "Homo", "H. habilis" brain size generally varied from . The body proportions of "H. habilis" are only known from two highly fragmentary skeletons, and is based largely on assuming a similar anatomy to the earlier australopithecines. Because of this, it has also been proposed "H. habilis" be moved to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14348 | 337,978 |
315,738 | Prior to the destruction of the Space Shuttle "Columbia" in 2003, NASA investigated the replacement of the current 4-segment SRBs with either a 5-segment SRB design or replacing them altogether with liquid-fueled "flyback" boosters using either Atlas V or Delta IV EELV technologies. The 5-segment SRB, which would have ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=548862 | 315,569 |
179,007 | A narrowed ureter may lead to ureteric enlargement () and cause swelling of the kidneys (hydronephrosis). Associated symptoms may include recurrent infections, pain or blood in the urine; and when tested, kidney function might be seen to decrease. These are considered situations when surgery is needed. Medical imaging,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188325 | 178,914 |
65,390 | In fact, Warwick has gone a lot further than merely making a proposal. In 2002 he had a 100 electrode array surgically implanted into the median nerves of his left arm to link his nervous system directly with a computer and thus to also connect with the internet. As a consequence, he carried out a series of experiments... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30299 | 65,365 |
1,087,258 | The evolution of nervous systems dates back to the first development of nervous systems in animals (or metazoans). Neurons developed as specialized electrical signaling cells in multicellular animals, adapting the mechanism of action potentials present in motile single-celled and colonial eukaryotes. Primitive systems,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33644895 | 1,086,699 |
1,916,415 | IDH3 is one of three isocitrate dehydrogenase isozymes, the other two being IDH1 and IDH2, and encoded by one of five isocitrate dehydrogenase genes, which are "IDH1", "IDH2", "IDH3A", "IDH3B", and "IDH3G". The genes "IDH3A", "IDH3B", and "IDH3G" encode subunits of IDH3, which is a heterotetramer composed of two 37-kDa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14874326 | 1,915,316 |
1,437,099 | The use of intuitive judgements in traditional epistemological methodology has been criticised due to empirical results coming from the field of experimental philosophy which have aimed to cast doubt on this and other kinds of philosophical methodology which experimental philosophers view as "armchair methodology". Stu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3193700 | 1,436,290 |
288,017 | MPLS works in conjunction with the Internet Protocol (IP) and its routing protocols, usually Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs). MPLS LSPs provide dynamic, transparent virtual networks with support for traffic engineering, the ability to transport layer-3 (IP) VPNs with overlapping address spaces, and support for layer-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20623 | 287,861 |
1,934,987 | Prior to any handling, an examination of the work should be completed, including looking for signs of weakened structure and material stability. Both the painting and the space to which it is being transferred should be measured. These notes should be shared with preparators, registrars, and curatorial staff. The recom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53622622 | 1,933,879 |
580,114 | In addition to serving as the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor and director of the Economics Research Center in the department of economics, Heckman is also a professor of law at the Law School and a professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, where he is director of both the Center for Social Program... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16333 | 579,817 |
2,142,171 | Harris received his undergraduate degree from Cambridge in 1936, and went on to attend medical training at St. Mary's Hospital in London until 1939. In 1940, he became a demonstrator of Anatomy at Cambridge, and helped train physicians for the war effort. He earned his M.D. from Cambridge in 1944 with a thesis on elect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59443644 | 2,140,940 |
352,602 | The current Microsoft Windows license lets the manufacturer determine the refund policy. With previous versions of Windows, it was possible to obtain a refund if the manufacturer failed to provide the refund by litigation in the small claims courts. On February 15, 1999, a group of Linux users in Orange County, Califor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18212 | 352,419 |
35,836 | By contrast, the EM far-field is composed of "radiation" that is free of the transmitter in the sense that (unlike the case in an electrical transformer) the transmitter requires the same power to send these changes in the fields out, whether the signal is immediately picked up or not. This distant part of the electrom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9426 | 35,824 |
83,434 | Elsewhere, as at Dura-Europos, Mithraic graffiti survive giving membership lists, in which initiates of a mithraeum are named with their Mithraic grades. At Virunum, the membership list or "album sacratorum" was maintained as an inscribed plaque, updated year by year as new members were initiated. By cross-referencing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20826 | 83,400 |
1,838,962 | Initially, genetic mapping of the mouse class I antigens suggested the existence of multiple class I loci in the "H2" complex. Soon, however, inconsistencies in the assignment of certain antigens to loci signaled that something was amiss with the "H2" maps, as they were then drawn. Klein and Donald C. Shreffler solved ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5231068 | 1,837,913 |
2,124,832 | The pairings in the fourth round resulted in interesting matches involving strong teams. Ukraine, Serbia, Russia and Kazakhstan remained the only teams with four match victories. Russia narrowly beat Hungary on the top match board with draws on the first three boards and a single win by Natalija Pogonina over Anita Gar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51472598 | 2,123,611 |
1,529,939 | The breakup of Gondwana in the Mesozoic Era led to the formation of a large number of minor crustal fragments, including the Falkland Islands. At first, the fragment containing the islands separated from the southeastern part of Africa on a section that would become Antarctica and later rotated by almost 180°. The inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2893647 | 1,529,075 |
1,118,901 | "Palorchestes azael", was similar in size to a horse, being around in length, with quantitative body mass estimates based on humerus and femur bones indicating its body mass could well have exceeded . "Palorchestes" species had four powerful legs, with the front legs bearing large claws, similar to those of a koala, wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5611840 | 1,118,328 |
1,371,382 | Amontons investigated the relationship between pressure and temperature in gases though he lacked accurate and precise thermometers. Though his results were at best semi-quantitative, he established that the pressure of a gas increases by roughly one-third between the temperatures of "cold" and the boiling point of wat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=555468 | 1,370,625 |
2,061,497 | Even when abstract concepts were being introduced, they were introduced in concrete, intuitive forms, especially at the younger levels. Logical proofs were introduced early on and built in importance as the years developed. At least one year of university-level mathematics education was incorporated into the later cour... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40556829 | 2,060,309 |
367,274 | In "direct imaging" (also termed "global imaging" or "wide-field illumination"), the whole field of view is examined for light scattering integrated over a small range of wavenumbers (Raman shifts). For instance, a wavenumber characteristic for cholesterol could be used to record the distribution of cholesterol within ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68686 | 367,081 |
284,065 | For most of the Vietnam War, EA-3Bs of Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 1 (VQ-1) flew from Da Nang Air Base in South Vietnam, providing continuous electronic reconnaissance capability over the area, including the Ho Chi Minh Trail and all the way north to Haiphong harbor. This was known as VQ-1 Det.B. The aircrew and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=457649 | 283,912 |
814,186 | Global warming would cause an increase in rainfall in some areas, which would lead to an increase of atmospheric humidity and the duration of the wet seasons. Combined with higher temperatures, these could favour the development of fungal diseases. Similarly, because of higher temperatures and humidity, there could be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47512577 | 813,753 |
768,584 | An April 28, 1975, article in "Newsweek" magazine was titled "The Cooling World", it pointed to "ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change" and pointed to "a drop of half a degree [Fahrenheit] in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968." The article stated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=295445 | 768,172 |
1,157,186 | With bSI no longer reliant on the previous US-specific name, its project has improved clarity, approach and scope. Given wide interest in delivering ISO-standards supporting many types of projects, not just buildings, bSI's strategic approach is to develop a set of ISO 16739 based specifications that will entirely repl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37264560 | 1,156,574 |
762,457 | What Lawrence needed to develop the idea was capable graduate students to do the work. Edlefsen left to take up an assistant professorship in September 1930, and Lawrence replaced him with David H. Sloan and M. Stanley Livingston, whom he set to work on developing Widerøe's accelerator and Edlefsen's cyclotron, respect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39040 | 762,049 |
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