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118,732 | The College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Life Sciences (CAFLS) supports Clemson University's land-grant mission to provide education, research, and service to the public. CAFLS faculty members teach major subjects and core curricula while preparing students to be leaders, creative thinkers, and communicators. Emphasis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=147456 | 118,685 |
361,975 | Acid digestion is a two-stage process, involving the use of up to 93% sulfuric acid at 210–230 °C. First, sulfuric acid in excess of 60% of the sand mass is added, thickening the reaction mixture as products are formed. Then, fuming sulfuric acid is added and the mixture is kept at the same temperature for another five... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30044 | 361,785 |
2,158,817 | The university's third chancellor, Daniel Edward Ferritor, continued and completed the restoration of Old Main, during his eleven-year term. Chief among Ferritor's accomplishments was the addition of another two million square feet in classroom and laboratory space at a cost of $120 million, as well as boosting annual ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23302106 | 2,157,585 |
1,044,211 | After assisting Congress in their earliest questions regarding the safety of the chemical preservatives then being employed in foods, Wiley was appropriated $5,000 in 1902 to study the effects of a diet including various preservatives, on human volunteers. These "poison squad" studies drew national attention to the nee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=106250 | 1,043,667 |
1,367,882 | By 1991, besides the Chukha project, government installations included seven mini hydroelectric plants, each averaging 7,350 kilowatt capacity; 12 micro hydroelectric plants, each averaging 340 kilowatts capacity; and 8 diesel-powered generation stations, each averaging 6,000 kilowatts capacity. Because domestic consum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33920837 | 1,367,126 |
1,699,230 | Doxycycline is a semi-synthetic tetracycline that has been studied for dental and medical applications. Its effects on diseases like periodontitis and cancer has been investigated. Doxycycline is nearly completely absorbed with a bioavailability about 95% in average and a 20% reduction with co-administration of food. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16040932 | 1,698,276 |
217,612 | The SOHC eight-valve 4G54 (also known as the G54B) displaces , with bore & stroke at . The G54B for the US market had a cylinder head with additional jet valves to improve emissions (MCA-Jet system). The engine was fitted to various Mitsubishi models from 1978 to 1997 and to the American Chrysler K-cars and their deriv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1255970 | 217,504 |
1,145,757 | In 2010, a forest pathologist at the University of Florida, Jason A. Smith, along with his graduate assistant, Aaron Trulock, published a Cooperative Extension Service "fact sheet" on Florida torreya that reported their discovery of the fungal cause of stem cankers. Resolution of the canker cause was crucial, as it was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2680498 | 1,145,156 |
76,081 | "Apperceptive prosopagnosia" has typically been used to describe cases of acquired prosopagnosia with some of the earliest processes in the face perception system. The brain areas thought to play a critical role in apperceptive prosopagnosia are right occipital temporal regions. People with this disorder cannot make an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=486429 | 76,052 |
942,341 | Despite the ubiquity of the usage of "basal", systematists try to avoid its usage because its application to extant groups is unnecessary and misleading. The term is more often applied when one branch (the one deemed "basal") is less diverse than another branch (this being the situation in which one would expect to fin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11287648 | 941,839 |
1,502,701 | The 1970 series of the high school included 4 classes of 25 students each, with a program of 4 hours a day in the morning from 8:30 to 12:30. The first 2 years included an intensive specialized program, studying the internal structure of the computer, representation, organization and management of data, algorithms and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28068850 | 1,501,855 |
1,540,318 | Motivated by her experiences in academia through the Radcliffe Institute, Kivelson joined UCLA in 1967 as an assistant research geophysicist. Kivelson quickly climbed through the ranks within the geophysics and space physics community becoming a full professor at UCLA's Department of Earth and Space Sciences in 1980. S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40442898 | 1,539,445 |
549,144 | Greek city-state foundation myths are always tied to a particular place, foundation date and festival, sometimes to a civic ancestor - who might also be a heroic or divinised proto-founder, such as Heracles - and often, but not always, to a named deity. The problems involved in the identification of patron deities, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40139134 | 548,856 |
1,081,371 | Also in 1936, Anderson and his first graduate student, Seth Neddermeyer, discovered a muon (or 'mu-meson', as it was known for many years), a subatomic particle 207 times more massive than the electron, but with the same negative electric charge and spin 1/2 as the electron, again in cosmic rays. Anderson and Neddermey... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=396485 | 1,080,815 |
1,198,065 | In the mid 1990s, a government agency in Massachusetts called Group Insurance Commission (GIC), which purchased health insurance for employees of the state, decided to release records of hospital visits to any researcher who requested the data, at no cost. GIC assured that the patient's privacy was not a concern since ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50417566 | 1,197,424 |
1,704,667 | The "mitochondrial targeting signal" also known as "presequence" is a 10-70 amino acid long peptide that directs a newly synthesized protein to the mitochondria. It is found at the N-terminus end consists of an alternating pattern of hydrophobic and positively charged amino acids to form what is called an amphipathic h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36758926 | 1,703,711 |
1,008,535 | At the time, "SSH", "Secure Shell" and "ssh" had appeared in documents proposing the protocol as an open standard. Without marking these within the proposal as registered trademarks, Ylönen ran the risk of relinquishing all exclusive rights to the name as a means of describing the protocol. Improper use of a trademark,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25490426 | 1,008,014 |
804,369 | Gatling guns were used by the U.S. Army during both the Spanish–American War and the Philippine–American War. A four-gun battery of Colt-made Model 1895 ten-barrel Gatling guns in .30 Army was formed into a separate detachment led by Lt. John "Gatling Gun" Parker. The detachment proved very effective, supporting the ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65681263 | 803,940 |
1,674,733 | The oldest microbiotheriid and microbiothere currently recognised is "Khasia cordillerensis", based on fossil teeth from Early Palaeocene deposits at Tiupampa, Bolivia. Numerous genera are known from various Palaeogene and Neogene fossil sites in South America. A number of possible microbiotheres, again represented by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=309241 | 1,673,791 |
1,034,270 | The oldest microbiothere currently recognised is "Khasia cordillerensis", based on fossil teeth from Early Palaeocene deposits at Tiupampa, Bolivia. Numerous genera are known from various Palaeogene and Neogene fossil sites in South America. A number of possible microbiotheres, again represented by isolated teeth, have... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=223438 | 1,033,733 |
211,177 | Most force fields in chemistry are empirical and consist of a summation of bonded forces associated with chemical bonds, bond angles, and bond dihedrals, and non-bonded forces associated with van der Waals forces and electrostatic charge. Empirical potentials represent quantum-mechanical effects in a limited way throug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=198608 | 211,070 |
2,131,336 | "Erwinia papayae", the bacterial pathogen responsible for the disease, was first identified in 1931 in Java, Indonesia (Gardan "et al." 2004), and has since spread to papaya growing countries worldwide—from the Caribbean to South America to South East Asia (Ollitrault "et al." 2007). By the late 1960s, "E. papaya"e had... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52516729 | 2,130,111 |
214,198 | While GOFAI systems often accept an explicit goal function, the paradigm can also be applied to neural networks and to evolutionary computing. Reinforcement learning can generate intelligent agents that appear to act in ways intended to maximize a "reward function". Sometimes, rather than setting the reward function to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2711317 | 214,090 |
1,087,742 | There was acrimonious debate among scientists over the thickness of the ice crust, and those who presented results indicating that it might be thinner than the proposed by the accredited scientists on the "Galileo" Imaging Team faced intimidation, scorn, and reduced career opportunities. The "Galileo" Imaging Team was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13077 | 1,087,183 |
302,575 | Bitterman "et al." in 1986 and 1995 showed that darkness and caffeine would delay the onset of changes to brain electrical activity in rats. In the years since, research on central nervous system toxicity has centred on methods of prevention and safe extension of tolerance. Sensitivity to central nervous system oxygen ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=462421 | 302,414 |
1,564,597 | In 2009, Ellen Trief, Susan M. Bruce, Paul W. Cascella, and Sarah Ivy created a Universal Tangible Symbol System. They began by developing a survey to determine which tangible symbols were already in use, new activities and concepts for which tangible systems are needed, and participant preferences for tangible symbols... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20004766 | 1,563,710 |
533,328 | X-rays are generated by bombarding a high atomic number material with electrons. If the target is removed (and the beam current decreased) a high energy electron beam is obtained. Electron beams are useful for treating superficial lesions because the maximum of dose deposition occurs near the surface. The dose then dec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=273470 | 533,049 |
1,518,874 | The early history of horse doping is unclear, although according to Euripides (480-406 BC), some horses were fed human flesh to make them faster and more savage. However, during Roman times, the use of hydromel for chariot race horses was punished by crucifixion. The evolution of horse doping is less well known over th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8763628 | 1,518,016 |
404,283 | This statistical theory, proposed by Alfred Saupe and Wilhelm Maier, includes contributions from an attractive intermolecular potential from an induced dipole moment between adjacent rod-like liquid crystal molecules. The anisotropic attraction stabilizes parallel alignment of neighboring molecules, and the theory then... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17973 | 404,083 |
1,834,937 | Desert RATS began in 1997, reviving Apollo-style lunar exploration training from decades earlier. The field season takes place for around two weeks each year, usually in September, in planned locations surrounding Flagstaff, Arizona. Some tests have also been conducted near Meteor Crater. These activities are designed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10503693 | 1,833,888 |
290,259 | The first manmade nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945, at 5:50 am on the Trinity test site near Alamogordo, New Mexico, in the United States, an area now known as the White Sands Missile Range. The event involved the full-scale testing of an implosion-type fission atomic bomb. In a memorandum to the U.S. Secret... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4380587 | 290,102 |
1,087,078 | The parasexual cycle, a process restricted to fungi and single-celled organisms, is a nonsexual mechanism of parasexuality for transferring genetic material without meiosis or the development of sexual structures. It was first described by Italian geneticist Guido Pontecorvo in 1956 during studies on "Aspergillus nidul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12794834 | 1,086,520 |
535,322 | The name Spinosauroidea is sometimes used in place of Megalosauroidea. The superfamily Spinosauroidea was named in 1915 by Ernst Stromer. It is a synonym of Megalosauroidea in almost all modern phylogenetic analyses, and it is therefore redundant. Spinosauroidea was defined as a clade in 1998 by Paul Sereno as the node... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3593098 | 535,043 |
604,369 | The use of force to prevent crime, including crimes against property, should be considered justifiable because of the utility to society, i.e. a police officer using reasonable force to lawfully arrest a criminal or suspect maximizes net utility. But, where the officers make mistakes, the law can be unpredictable. In "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3736836 | 604,059 |
2,128,064 | Most JINA-CEE nuclear physics experiments are carried out at the Nuclear Science Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University and the ATLAS/CARIBOU facility at Argonne National Laboratory. JINA-CEE is heavily involved in observations with the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8935386 | 2,126,841 |
545,612 | In 1888, Kaiser Wilhelm I died and his successor, the terminally ill Kaiser Friedrich III, remained on the throne for just 99 days before passing away as well. The new Kaiser, Wilhelm II, was an ardent supporter of the navy, which was to have profound impacts on the future of the service. Shortly thereafter, Caprivi re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10865795 | 545,326 |
1,086,886 | This speculative prediction and this lack of theoretical tools aroused the curiosity of Jean-Pierre Luminet and Brandon Carter of the Paris Observatory in the early 1980s who invented the concept of a TDE. Their first works were published in 1982 in the journal "Nature" and 1983 in "Astronomy & Astrophysics". The autho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45273959 | 1,086,328 |
1,715,276 | On 18 August 1941, Payne-Scott joined the Radiophysics Laboratory of the Australian government's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). During World War II, she was engaged in top secret work investigating radar technology, becoming Australia's expert on the detection of aircraft using Pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1480531 | 1,714,309 |
862,223 | Double bonded compounds, alkene homologs, RE=ER are now known for all of the heavier group 14 elements. Unlike the alkenes these compounds are not planar but adopt twisted and/or trans bent structures. These effects become more pronounced for the heavier elements. The distannene (MeSi)CHSn=SnCH(SiMe) has a tin-tin bond... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=254127 | 861,763 |
3,471 | As Edison expanded his direct current (DC) power delivery system, he received stiff competition from companies installing alternating current (AC) systems. From the early 1880s, AC arc lighting systems for streets and large spaces had been an expanding business in the US. With the development of transformers in Europe ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29778 | 3,471 |
1,832,733 | The first attempts of having a Brazilian science establishment were made around 1783, with the expedition of Portuguese naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues, who was sent by Portugal's prime minister, the Marquis of Pombal, to explore and identify Brazilian fauna, flora and geology. His collections, however, were lost to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12082329 | 1,831,685 |
2,242,489 | In 1976, a shortened submachine gun version of the MP5A2 was introduced; the "MP5K" (K from the German word "Kurz" = "short") was designed for close quarters battle use by clandestine operations and special services. The MP5K does not have a shoulder stock (the receiver end was covered with a flat end cap, featuring a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14297 | 2,241,218 |
942,403 | Thalamotomy (; ) is a surgical procedure in which an opening is made into the thalamus to improve the overall brain function in patients. First introduced in the 1950s, it is primarily effective for tremors such as those associated with Parkinson's disease, where a selected portion of the thalamus is surgically destroy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1874888 | 941,901 |
890,977 | The helepolis was a transportation vehicle used to besiege cities. The vehicle had wooden walls to shield soldiers as they were transported toward the enemy’s walls. Upon reaching the walls, the soldiers would disembark at the top of the 15m tall structure and drop on to the enemy’s ramparts. To be effective in combat,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14901914 | 890,508 |
454,682 | Bharath Ramsundar wrote that deep learning is being coupled with "[i]mprovements in custom architecture". For example, machine learning systems have been implemented in the blockchain world, where Bitmain assaulted "many cryptocurrencies by designing custom mining ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits)" which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65380994 | 454,460 |
301,369 | An important aspect of modelling non-equilibrium real gas effects is radiative heat flux. If a vehicle is entering an atmosphere at very high speed (hyperbolic trajectory, lunar return) and has a large nose radius then radiative heat flux can dominate TPS heating. Radiative heat flux during entry into an air or carbon ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45294 | 301,208 |
1,841,529 | The system is normally installed on fixed-wing airframes ranging from small, unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to long-range wide-bodies such as the Boeing 777 or Airbus A380. Upon completion of the installations scheduled for 2015, more than 6,000 daily soundings will be produced in North America, Europe, and Asia at more... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7689095 | 1,840,477 |
61,180 | At the 1912 Salon d'Automne an architectural installation was exhibited that quickly became known as "Maison Cubiste" (Cubist House), with architecture by Raymond Duchamp-Villon and interior decoration by André Mare along with a group of collaborators. Metzinger and Gleizes in "Du "Cubisme"", written during the assembl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37803 | 61,155 |
1,524,937 | Dr. ElBaradei, who was director of the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1997 to 2009, called for the establishment of a nuclear fuel bank to provide peaceful access to nuclear energy without raising questions about dual-use technology. "Every country that would like to get the fuel, that would like to get the te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3103801 | 1,524,076 |
777,154 | During World War II, the Allies noticed that certain German officials were making radio broadcasts from multiple time zones almost simultaneously. Analysts such as Richard H. Ranger believed that the broadcasts had to be transcriptions, but their audio quality was indistinguishable from that of a live broadcast and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70912 | 776,738 |
1,423,413 | In response to feedback following the EarthLight Institute's "Mars Colony 2030" project at NewSpace 2012 and the announcement of Mars One, Eric Machmer proposed conjunction-class missions be planned with a bias to stay (if low gravity, radiation, and other factors present no pressing health issues), so that, if at the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25236027 | 1,422,612 |
854,722 | As the open access issue has continued to evolve, so too has the ACS's position. In response to a 2013 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy directive that instructed federal agencies to provide greater access to federally funded research, the ACS joined other scholarly publishers in establishing the Clea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=428508 | 854,267 |
1,323,474 | In February 2019, a reanalysis of the combined Kepler and Hubble observations recovered both a moon-like dip and similar transit timing variation signal. However, the authors suggested that the data could also be explained by an inclined hot-Jupiter in the same system that has gone previously undetected, which could be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54681026 | 1,322,748 |
647,963 | To direct the newly fledged project, a Community Advisory Board was announced on April 4, 2005: two were elected by the pilot community, two were employees appointed by Sun, and one was appointed from the broader free software community by Sun. The members were Roy Fielding, Al Hopper, Rich Teer, Casper Dik, and Simon ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1178658 | 647,623 |
1,363,340 | In a 2001 federal study, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) measured and calculated the reduction in peak energy demand associated with a cool roof's surface reflectance. LBNL found that, compared to the original black rubber roofing membrane on the Texas retail building studied, a retrofitted vinyl membr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3178571 | 1,362,587 |
1,340,010 | Fire and logging constitute the primary disturbances in this area, both of which are occurring at an increasing frequency. Illegal logging practices, along with a political climate more favorable to multinational logging corporations has drastically increased the amount of timber taken per year. The occurrence of Korea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44519182 | 1,339,277 |
839,707 | In 1912, Oberth began the study of medicine in Munich, Germany, but at the outbreak of World War I, he was drafted into the Imperial German Army, assigned to an infantry battalion, and sent to the Eastern Front against Russia. In 1915, Oberth was moved into a medical unit at a hospital in Segesvár (German Schäßburg, Ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=87012 | 839,258 |
1,917,996 | "Cycle" is primarily known for its role in the genetic transcription-translation feedback loop that generates circadian rhythms in "Drosophila". In the cell nucleus, the CYCLE protein (CYC) forms a heterodimer with a second bHLH-PAS protein, CLOCK (CLK). This CYC-CLK protein complex binds to E-box elements in promoter ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39042642 | 1,916,896 |
1,827,896 | In 2015 the American Phytopathological Society (APS) launched a research framework, the Phytobiomes Initiative, to facilitate the organization of research into phytobiome. As part of this effort, in 2016 it launched "Phytobiomes Journal", an open-access journal. The journal focuses on transdisciplinary research that im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51886508 | 1,826,857 |
821,618 | Two high schools in the United States, one in Palos Hills, Illinois, and the other in Stockton, California, and an elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, are named after Stagg. The NCAA Division III National Football Championship game, played in Salem, Virginia, is named the Stagg Bowl after him. The athletic stadium ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=332836 | 821,177 |
660,756 | Alpha-thalassemia (α-thalassemia) is defined by a lack of α-globin chain production in hemoglobin, and those who carry a mutation impacting the α-globin chain on only one chromosome are considered to have a “silent” α-thalassemia whereas, if the mutation is on both then it is considered an α-thalassemia trait. α-thalas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1701330 | 660,411 |
1,913,982 | The main reason for having stationary batteries in one place away from the locomotive was so the batteries would not be damaged, which usually happened when the batteries were mounted in the moving vehicle. This toy electric train was sold as a scientific apparatus. The electric power was furnished by two Grove battery... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70581630 | 1,912,883 |
1,843,232 | The U.S. women's team established a new world record to defend their Olympic title in the event for the third consecutive streak. Leading the race from the start, Barbara Bedford (1:01.39), Megan Quann (1:06.29), Jenny Thompson (57.25), and Dara Torres (53.37) put together in a sterling time of 3:58.30 to clear the fou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12553636 | 1,842,179 |
44,719 | Sarcoidosis is a systemic inflammatory disease that can affect any organ, although it can be asymptomatic and is discovered by accident in about 5% of cases. Common symptoms, which tend to be vague, include fatigue (unrelieved by sleep; occurs in up to 85% of cases ), lack of energy, weight loss, joint aches and pains ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=287299 | 44,702 |
1,026,042 | If we rescale the formula_35th fundamental unit by a factor of formula_42, then formula_43 gets rescaled by formula_44, where formula_45 is the formula_32th entry of the dimensional matrix. In order to convert this into a linear algebra problem, we take logarithms (the base is irrelevant), yielding formula_47 which is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51399 | 1,025,508 |
1,940,685 | There have been 21 astronomy professors in all; Steven Balbus, the professor , was appointed in 2012. Past professors include Christopher Wren (1661–73), architect of St Paul's Cathedral in London and the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford; he held the professorship at the time of his commission to rebuild the cathedral afte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3358868 | 1,939,574 |
109,276 | James Wall of "The Christian Century" describes the film's concentration on the father-son relationship as "at times painful to watch. There are no winners or losers when sons go their separate ways. "October Sky" does not illustrate good parenting; rather, it evokes the realization that since parents have only a limit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1110047 | 109,231 |
925,805 | In 1980, Waterman joined Peters, and, along with Waterman's friend Tony Athos and Richard Pascale - both academics - came together at a two-day retreat in San Francisco to develop what would become known as the 7S Framework, the same framework that would organize "In Search of Excellence". In June 1980, Peters publishe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28247870 | 925,319 |
1,969,429 | Ethical practices in language documentation have been the focus of much recent discussion and debate. The Linguistic Society of America has prepared an Ethics Statement, and maintains an Ethics Discussion Blog which is primarily focused on ethics in the language documentation context. The morality of ethics protocols h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50701110 | 1,968,295 |
257,343 | The degree of hyperglycemia can change over time depending on the metabolic cause, for example, impaired glucose tolerance or fasting glucose, and it can depend on treatment. Temporary hyperglycemia is often benign and asymptomatic. Blood glucose levels can rise well above normal and cause pathological and functional c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=78226 | 257,209 |
671,301 | On 19 May 2001, India's Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Science and Technology division, Murli Manohar Joshi, announced that the ruins of an ancient civilization had been discovered off the coast of Gujarat, in the Gulf of Khambhat. The site was discovered by NIOT while they performed routine pollution s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26563 | 670,949 |
928,017 | Vacant urban lots are often victims to illegal dumping of hazardous chemicals and other wastes. They are also liable to accumulate standing water and "grey water", which can be dangerous to public health, especially left stagnant for long periods. The implementation of urban agriculture in these vacant lots can be a co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=450257 | 927,529 |
1,045,154 | Civil air transportation contributes $1.8 trillion to the U.S. economy, supports nearly 11 million jobs, and makes up more than 5 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product. NextGen is delivering benefits to continue to support U.S. aviation. Air traffic controllers have better information to track and separate aircraf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12942905 | 1,044,609 |
564,888 | Experimental investigations have shown, that "L. minor" is able to completely replace the add-on of soy bean in the diet of ducks. It can be cultivated directly on the farm resulting in low production costs. Therefore, using common duckweed as a food supplement in broiler diets is very profitable also from an economic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13151201 | 564,598 |
144,117 | An accelerated climate simulation chamber was built that applied varying weather conditions to insulation to test its efficacy and durability faster than real time. Materials research into heat resistant ceramics for use in truck and high-tech car engines was performed, building upon the materials research that began i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38147 | 144,059 |
740,671 | After bearing three children, Émilie, Marquise du Châtelet, considered her marital responsibilities fulfilled and reached an agreement with her husband to live separate lives while still maintaining one household. In 1733, aged 26, Du Châtelet resumed her mathematical studies. Initially, she was tutored in algebra and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1002045 | 740,279 |
284,905 | Based upon a review of other classical network models as a comparison, the Ising model on a closed Cayley tree was determined to be the first classical statistical mechanical model to demonstrate both local and long-range sites with non-vanishing spin-spin correlations, while at the same time exhibiting intermediate si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292744 | 284,751 |
1,400,297 | After World War II, the various U.S. military branches sent different models of their operational aircraft to the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory located at the Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View, California for evaluation of the planes' flight performance and flying qualities. The laboratory was operated by NACA, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6193204 | 1,399,510 |
458,801 | In 1859, Smith published an article using scientific findings and analysis to refute the former president Thomas Jefferson's theories of race, as expressed in his well-known "Notes on the State of Virginia" (1785). Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble, a medical physician and historian at George Washington University, in 201... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=368042 | 458,577 |
1,038,641 | The old Milwaukee classification of biliary sphincter of Oddi dysfunction (SOD) used to divide the condition into three subtypes: but it is no longer in use. Type I included patients with biliary-type abdominal pain, with all of altered liver enzymes on blood testing, dilated biliary ducts on ultrasound or ERCP, and de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24777432 | 1,038,100 |
385,318 | In recent years a focus of research has been the development of wireless-powered drone aircraft, which began in 1959 with the Dept. of Defense's RAMP (Raytheon Airborne Microwave Platform) project which sponsored Brown's research. In 1987 Canada's Communications Research Center developed a small prototype airplane call... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=570662 | 385,123 |
1,727,548 | In July and August 2021 at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan and postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Chupkov placed fourth in the 200 metre breaststroke final with a time of 2:07.24, fourth in the 4×100 metre medley relay swimming the breaststroke leg of the relay in 59.55 in the prelims heats, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47103778 | 1,726,574 |
988,788 | Mathematically, linear least squares is the problem of approximately solving an overdetermined system of linear equations A x = b, where b is not an element of the column space of the matrix A. The approximate solution is realized as an exact solution to A x = b', where b' is the projection of b onto the column space o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27118759 | 988,272 |
2,159,970 | Genetic linkage is the phenomenon where by alleles at different loci cosegregate in families. The strength of cosegregation is measured by the recombination fraction θ, the probability of an odd number of recombination. More complex pedigree provide higher power. Identity by descent (IBD) matrix estimation is a central... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34132734 | 2,158,738 |
944,737 | A further development was the Landing Ship, Tank designation, built to support amphibious operations by carrying significant quantities of vehicles, cargo, and landing troops directly onto an unimproved shore. The British evacuation from Dunkirk in 1940 demonstrated to the Admiralty that the Allies needed relatively la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19278672 | 944,235 |
1,621,516 | Permo-Carboniferous time, about 300 million years ago, was a period of significant glaciation. The widespread distribution of Permo-Carboniferous glacial sediments in South America, Africa, Madagascar, Arabia, India, Antarctica and Australia was one of the major pieces of evidence for the theory of continental drift, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1588123 | 1,620,601 |
831,630 | Because of those classificatory interdependences, the three trichotomies intersect to form ten (rather than 27) classes of signs. There are also various kinds of meaningful combination. Signs can be attached to one another. A photograph is an index with a meaningfully attached icon. Arguments are composed of dicisigns,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=562907 | 831,181 |
1,717,053 | Although intertidal ecology has traditionally focused on these negative interactions (predation and competition), there is emerging evidence that positive interactions are also important. "Facilitation" refers to one organism helping another without harming itself. For example, salt marsh plant species of "Juncus" and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4334096 | 1,716,084 |
1,002,108 | The influence of the Jagiellonian dynasty in Central Europe had been on the rise. In 1471 Casimir's son Władysław became a king of Bohemia, and in 1490 also of Hungary. The southern and eastern outskirts of Poland and Lithuania became threatened by Turkish invasions beginning in the late 15th century. Moldavia's involv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34960337 | 1,001,590 |
1,070,836 | The start point is a single steel tube of internal diameter slightly less than the desired calibre. The tube is subjected to internal pressure of sufficient magnitude to enlarge the bore and in the process the inner layers of the metal are stretched in tension beyond their elastic limit. This means that the inner layer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=972005 | 1,070,282 |
797,474 | Another deposition technique is vacuum thermal evaporation (VTE) which involves the heating of an organic material in vacuum. The substrate is placed several centimeters away from the source so that evaporated material may be directly deposited onto the substrate, as shown in Fig. 9(a). This method is useful for deposi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18397250 | 797,049 |
354,720 | Electrodesiccation and curettage (EDC, also known as curettage and cautery, simply curettage) is accomplished by using a round knife, or curette, to scrape away the soft cancer. The skin is then burned with an electric current. This further softens the skin, allowing for the knife to cut more deeply with the next layer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=696132 | 354,537 |
848,903 | Electric cars and plug-in hybrids when operating in all-electric mode at low speeds produce less roadway noise as compared to vehicles propelled by an internal combustion engine, thereby reducing harmful noise health effects. However, blind people or the visually impaired consider the noise of combustion engines a help... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23840623 | 848,453 |
1,366,777 | In the United Kingdom, following animal experiments and the recommendations of a government commissioned expert committee, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Research Purposes) Regulations were passed in 2001 regulating and allowing research into human embryos. In 2004, Newcastle University applied for a license t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25416659 | 1,366,021 |
195,270 | Brazing has many advantages over other metal-joining techniques, such as welding. Since brazing does not melt the base metal of the joint, it allows much tighter control over tolerances and produces a clean joint without the need for secondary finishing. Additionally, dissimilar metals and non-metals (i.e. metalized ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=331936 | 195,170 |
54,136 | Now the question remained open as to which formulation applies to bodies at rest. This was tackled by Einstein in his paper "Does the inertia of a body depend upon its energy content?", one of his Annus Mirabilis papers. Here, Einstein used to represent the speed of light in a vacuum and to represent the energy lost by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=422481 | 54,116 |
823,748 | The opening was first analysed in depth in the 19th century, and received its name from the Berliners that examined its variations. Due to the defensive and drawish nature of the opening, it is sometimes referred to as the Berlin Wall. The opening was rarely used in high-level games and received little attention until ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60613150 | 823,305 |
765,976 | In some biological systems, self-healing occurs via chemical releases at the site of fracture, which initiate a systemic response to transport repairing agents to the fracture site. This promotes autonomic healing. To demonstrate the use of micro-vascular networks for autonomic healing, researchers developed a microvas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45784 | 765,566 |
1,141,543 | Some planar types, notably microstrip, do not have a homogeneous dielectric; it is different above and below the line. Such geometries cannot support a true TEM mode; there is some component of the electromagnetic field parallel to the direction of the line, although the transmission can be "nearly" TEM. Such a mode is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39288501 | 1,140,949 |
1,110,832 | It was not before the early 1970s that the proteinaceous nature of the pyrenoid was elucidated, when pyrenoids were successfully isolated from a green alga, and showed that up to 90% of it was composed of biochemically active RuBisCO. In the following decade, more and more evidence emerged that algae were capable of ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=419483 | 1,110,266 |
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