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215,071 | In order to become board certified, family physicians must complete a residency in family medicine, possess a full and unrestricted medical license, and take a written cognitive examination. Between 2003 and 2009, the process for maintenance of board certification in family medicine is being changed (as well as all oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1656748 | 214,963 |
1,258,986 | For example, the contact time of a two-ball collision can be as short as 20μs, generating a pressure of 3.3 GPa upwards and with an associated ambient temperature increase of 20 Kelvin. Because of the short duration of the impact, the rate of change in momentum is significant—generating a shock wave of duration only 1-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39204523 | 1,258,299 |
93,185 | One approach to economically obtaining a customized enterprise application is through an application service provider. Specialty companies provide hardware, custom software, and end-user support. They may speed the development of new applications because they possess skilled information system staff. The biggest advant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5783 | 93,144 |
179,424 | The 1988 Olympic torch relay began on November 15, 1987, when the torch was lit at Olympia and Greek runner Stelios Bisbas began what was called "the longest torch run in history". The flame arrived in St. John's, Newfoundland on the Atlantic Ocean two days later and over 88 days, travelled west across the then 10 Cana... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187504 | 179,331 |
52,365 | In 2019, Ukroboronprom reported that the Kharkiv Armored Plant (KhBTZ) had delivered over 100 updated tanks to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The upgraded tanks included new thermal imaging for all crew, remove Luna infrared searchlight, include TPN-1-TPV Ukrainian night sight in place of TPN1-49-23, Nizh reactive armour ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196228 | 52,345 |
2,176,422 | In 2013, Hafi et al. developed a novel super-resolution technique through sparse deconvolution of polarization-modulated fluorescent images (SPoD). Because the fluorescent dipole is an inherent feature of fluorescence, and its polarization intensity can be easily modulated with rotating linear polarized excitation, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54551486 | 2,175,178 |
1,956,609 | Established in 1985, The Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS) is an Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission program whose purpose is to measure sea level globally for long-term climate change studies. The program's purpose has changed since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the program now collects real time... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3518342 | 1,955,485 |
804,817 | The mission to incorporate sustainable interior design into every aspect of life is slowly becoming a reality. The commercial Interior Design Association (IIDA) created the sustainability forum to encourage, support, and educate the design community and the public about sustainability. The Athena Sustainable Materials ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28730644 | 804,388 |
1,997,094 | In phytotechnology the naturally existing properties of plants are used to accomplish defined outcomes with ecosystem services in a designed environment. The phytotechnologic system uses these properties, broadly the degradation/use of chemicals in the environment and the transport and storage of water, to change the o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33533216 | 1,995,951 |
551,754 | One study found that EPM did enhance productivity, but only in ways that are consistent with the effects of social facilitation. Employees working on a data entry task were monitored while working alone, with others, or as part of a cohesive group. Results indicated that EPM improved the performance of highly skilled w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4039440 | 551,466 |
892,502 | As the temperature of the sample has a significant influence on the optical rotation of the sample, modern polarimeters have already included Peltier elements to actively control the temperature. Special techniques as temperature controlled sample tubes reduce measuring errors and ease operation. Results can directly b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3259030 | 892,033 |
1,889,556 | Mutations in the NDUFS4 gene are associated with Mitochondrial Complex I Deficiency, which is autosomal recessive. This deficiency is the most common enzymatic defect of the oxidative phosphorylation disorders. Mitochondrial complex I deficiency shows extreme genetic heterogeneity and can be caused by mutation in nucle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14774129 | 1,888,473 |
202,519 | LAs are weak bases and are usually formulated as the hydrochloride salt to render them water-soluble. At a pH equal to the protonated base's pKa, the protonated (ionized) and unprotonated (unionized) forms of the molecule exist in equimolar amounts, but only the unprotonated base diffuses readily across cell membranes.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=175734 | 202,415 |
1,296,636 | Shell sculpture tends to be primarily concentric, but radial and divaricating ornamentation (see "Gafrarium"), and rarely spines ("Pitar lupanaria" for example) occur on some. One small subfamily, the Samarangiinae, is created for a unique and rare clam found in coral reefs with an outer covering of cemented sand or mu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4186250 | 1,295,925 |
133,219 | Historians have emphasized that trust is necessary for claims about nature to be agreed upon. In this light, the establishment of the Royal Society and its code of experiment - trustworthy because witnessed by its members - has become an important chapter in the historiography of science. Many people in modern history ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400 | 133,166 |
78,700 | The F-16I is a two-seat variant of the Block 52 developed for the Israeli Defense Force – Air Force (IDF/AF). Israel issued a requirement in September 1997 and selected the F-16 in preference to the F-15I in July 1999. An initial "Peace Marble V" contract was signed on 14 January 2000 with a follow-on contract signed o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18895385 | 78,667 |
193,625 | Al-Kindi was born in Kufa and educated in Baghdad. He became a prominent figure in the House of Wisdom, and a number of Abbasid Caliphs appointed him to oversee the translation of Greek scientific and philosophical texts into the Arabic language. This contact with "the philosophy of the ancients" (as Hellenistic philos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=272065 | 193,525 |
101,403 | Neuroscientist David Eagleman at Stanford University developed a free on-line test for hyperthymesia (no longer available). Participants first give their year of birth, and then are challenged to match dates to 60 famous events that happened between the time they were five years old and the present day. To qualify as p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4476769 | 101,358 |
2,095,144 | The pressure gradient in an ultrasonic wave moves particles relative to the fluid. This motion disturbs the double layer that exists at the particle-fluid interface. The picture illustrates the mechanism of this distortion. Practically all particles in fluids carry a surface charge. This surface charge is screened with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13662027 | 2,093,936 |
916,198 | Franklin M. Henry was a researcher who had a positive influence on sport psychology. In 1938, he began to study how different factors in sport psychology can affect athlete's motor skills. He also investigated how high altitudes can have an effect on exercise and performance, aeroembolism, and decompression sickness, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25688228 | 915,716 |
653,223 | According to the complementarity principle, the 'particle-like' (having exact location) or 'wave-like' (having frequency or amplitude) properties of a photon can be measured, "but not both at the same time". What characteristic is measured depends on whether experimenters use a device intended to observe particles or t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3474980 | 652,880 |
1,307,314 | In 1890 he presented his cableway in Switzerland, a country very interested in that transport owing to its geography and which was already coming to use cable cars for bulk transport, but Torres's project was dismissed, allowing certain ironic commentary from the Swiss press. In 1907, Torres constructed the first cable... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182044 | 1,306,598 |
1,619,740 | UMT provides Distance and off-campus learning, the university faculty and staff have extensive management and education experience working with major universities, companies, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies. These entities include government branches, such as The White House, the National Institute of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14348566 | 1,618,825 |
286,236 | The "complex" domain represents the "unknown unknowns". Cause and effect can only be deduced in retrospect, and there are no right answers. "Instructive patterns ... can emerge," write Snowden and Boone, "if the leader conducts experiments that are safe to fail." Cynefin calls this process "probe–sense–respond". Hard i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3829401 | 286,082 |
927,545 | Ray casting is the methodological basis for 3D CAD/CAM solid modeling and image rendering. It is essentially the same as ray tracing for computer graphics where virtual light rays are "cast" or "traced" on their path from the focal point of a camera through each pixel in the camera sensor to determine what is visible a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=447625 | 927,057 |
1,536,133 | On January 15, 1997, at 6:30 am local time, simultaneous opposite-direction parallel runway operations were in use at Kingsford Smith International Airport in Sydney, Australia. An Airbus Industries A320-211 departed on runway 16L while an international Boeing 747 to the south was approaching runway 34L and because of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29381763 | 1,535,265 |
1,638,693 | It is difficult to completely understand how each structural variant is created. It was previously known that repeated sequences on a chromosome increases the probability of non allelic homologous recombination. These repeated sequences could cause deletions, duplications, inversions, and inverted duplication chromosom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50518079 | 1,637,768 |
1,323,431 | As a method of chemical synthesis, Droplets in microfluidics devices act as individual reaction chambers protected from contamination through device fouling by the continuous phase. Benefits of synthesis using this regime (compared to batch processes) include high throughput, continuous experiments, low waste, portabil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54022162 | 1,322,705 |
1,148,838 | Natural selection acts upon genetic mutations, which are present in every generation, removing those which reduce fitness and increasing the prevalence of those which improve fitness. Mutations are also more likely to reduce fitness than improve it. Biological traits with a large mutational target size, such as brains,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42449890 | 1,148,231 |
472,178 | Interplay Productions developed a string of hits in the form of "The Bard's Tale" (1985) and its sequels under publisher Electronic Arts, originally for the Apple II and Commodore 64. The series became the first outside "Wizardry" to challenge "Ultima"s sales. It combined colorful graphics with a clean interface and si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32408640 | 471,942 |
252,150 | The Bf 109 G-10, AS-engined G-5s, G-6s and G-14s as well as the K-4 saw a refinement of the engine cowlings. The formerly separate, added-on "Beule" blisters which had earlier covered the spent shell-casing chutes of the synchronized fuselage-mount MG 131s were completely integrated into the upper cowling panels, vastl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24983642 | 252,017 |
763,031 | Sensitivity and selectivity depends on a channel; alpha backscattering has high sensitivity for light elements like carbon and oxygen, proton emission is mainly sensitive to sodium, magnesium, aluminium, silicon, sulfur, and X-ray emission is more sensitive to heavier elements sodium to iron and beyond. Combining all t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36694809 | 762,623 |
961,908 | Augmentation, inoculative release and inundative release are different methods of biological control that affect the target pest in different ways. Augmentative control includes the periodic introduction of predators. With inundative release, predators are collected, mass-reared and periodically released in large numbe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=420764 | 961,399 |
997,057 | Pharaoh ants utilize three types of pheromones. One is a long-lasting attractive chemical that is used to build a trail network. It remains detectable even if the ants do not use the trail for several days. Pharaoh ants cease activity at night and begin each day of work at around 8 am, yet parts of the trail network ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2116156 | 996,539 |
2,127,750 | Meanwhile, Dinwiddie was appointed as professor of natural philosophy at the Fort William College in 1801. He also conducted public as well as private lectures and demonstrations for Europeans and some of the Indian elite. He trained the Indian students Hurry Mohun Thakoor and Gopee Mohun Deb in astronomy in 1795. His ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55383326 | 2,126,529 |
1,609,159 | Specifically, this phylogenetic approach is crucial for archaeologists who are seeking to employ evolutionary paradigms in their research. Just like paleobiologists, archaeologists seek to answer similar research questions and tasks. In sum, their goals are “identifying prehistoric artifacts, reconstructing lineages o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51781074 | 1,608,254 |
170,657 | A Russian engineer who started out building nuclear reactors in Siberia, during the voyage and initial exploration of Mars, she does her best to avoid the squabbles of the other members of the First Hundred. Instead, she busies herself by building the first permanent habitation of Mars, Underhill, using programmed auto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89970 | 170,567 |
1,137,109 | Born in Pavlovsky Posad, Russia, on 2 August 1934, Bykovsky was the son of Fyodor Fyodorovich Bykovsky and Klavdia Ivanova. He had an older sister named Margarita born three years earlier. When he was four years old, World War II began, forcing the family to move to Kuybyshev, and later again to Syzran, before moving b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=194640 | 1,136,516 |
977,088 | In 1956, W. H. Thorpe explained: The ability to pull up food which is suspended by a thread, the pulled in loop being held by the foot while the bird reaches with its beak for the next pull, is doubtfully inborn and it has been subject to many experiments. The act appears at first sight to be a real and sudden solution... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10909065 | 976,577 |
473,174 | The Hawker Siddeley Harrier is the first generation-version and is also known as the AV-8A or AV-8C Harrier; it was used by multiple air forces, including the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Marine Corps (USMC). The Sea Harrier is a naval strike/air defence fighter derived from the Hawker Siddeley Harrier; ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=305172 | 472,938 |
1,555,703 | On average, bone heals better than soft tissue. It requires less time to heal and, unlike soft tissue which is always weaker after healing, bone heals to 100% strength. However, fracture healing in horses is complicated by their size, flightiness, and desire to stand. Horses are at risk of re-injury of the fracture sit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45517504 | 1,554,820 |
1,449,261 | Christoffel is mainly remembered for his seminal contributions to differential geometry. In a famous 1869 paper on the equivalence problem for differential forms in "n" variables, published in Crelle's Journal, he introduced the fundamental technique later called covariant differentiation and used it to define the Riem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=605155 | 1,448,445 |
472,543 | Leonard Kleinrock was born in New York City on June 13, 1934, to a Jewish family, and graduated from the noted Bronx High School of Science in 1951. He received a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree in 1957 from the City College of New York, and a master's degree and a doctorate (Ph.D.) in electrical engineering ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=464164 | 472,307 |
103,999 | The 1997 Asian financial crisis that began to affect Indonesia became an economic and political crisis. The initial response was to float the rupiah, raise key domestic interest rates, and tighten fiscal policy. In October 1997, Indonesia and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reached an agreement on an economic ref... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14647 | 103,954 |
1,836,667 | The implementation stage starts with the signing of a chemical leasing agreement that defines the scope and conditions, unit of payment, KPIs, roles, and responsibilities. The chemical company supervises the chemical process, transporting and managing the inventory, laboratory management, improving process controls, re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23211852 | 1,835,618 |
969,835 | The designation arose in postwar Japan, inspired by the seven famous weapons of Benkei. It was possibly introduced by Kaoru Ishikawa who in turn was influenced by a series of lectures W. Edwards Deming had given to Japanese engineers and scientists in 1950. At that time, companies that had set about training their work... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8521562 | 969,325 |
364,401 | "Doom" takes place during the year 2149 in a research facility located in the Hellas Planitia on Mars owned by the Union Aerospace Corporation. The facility is run by Dr. Samuel Hayden, a UAC scientist whose mind now inhabits an android body after having lost his original to brain cancer. Researchers at the UAC facilit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12915762 | 364,211 |
1,209,729 | Aerosol particle counters are used to determine the air quality by counting and sizing the number of particles in the air. This information is useful in determining the quantity of particles inside a building or in the ambient air. It also is useful in understanding the cleanliness level in a controlled environment. A ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4754533 | 1,209,082 |
1,934,196 | SpaceX was created in 2002 by entrepreneur, engineer, and inventor Elon Musk with the mission of taking humans to Mars and revolutionizing space technology. Over the past two decades, the company specialized in the manufacture and launch of rockets that directly competed with the United Launch Alliance, the contract ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67456408 | 1,933,088 |
1,358,895 | During the 2011 proton-proton run, LHCb recorded an integrated luminosity of 1 fb at a collision energy of 7 TeV. In 2012, about 2 fb was collected at an energy of 8 TeV. During 2015-2018 (Run 2 of the LHC), about 6 fb was collected at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. In addition, small samples were collected in prot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1285524 | 1,358,144 |
841,504 | At first glance it may appear that the contestants of evolutionary games are the individuals present in each generation who directly participate in the game. But individuals live only through one game cycle, and instead it is the strategies that really contest with one another over the duration of these many-generation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=774572 | 841,054 |
537,695 | In 1954, charge-transfer salts derived from perylene with iodine or bromine were reported with resistivities as low as 8 ohm·cm. In 1973, it was discovered that a combination tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ) and tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) form a strong charge-transfer complex, referred to as TTF-TCNQ. The solid shows almo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1169436 | 537,416 |
1,829,375 | The tissue distribution of Pod-1 was determined by hybridization of a human multiple tissue northern blot with a Pod-1 cDNA. A probe lacking the bHLH domain was used to minimize cross-reactivity along with high stringency hybridization and washing. Results showed that in humans and mice, Pod-1 was most highly expressed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14878523 | 1,828,334 |
577,800 | Accordingly, by the late 1970s, there was considerable pressure within British Rail for the development of a new, low-cost, easily maintainable freight locomotive. Thus, despite multiple follow-on orders for the Class 56 being placed during the mid-1970s, British Rail also authorised a feasibility study into the develo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2725672 | 577,504 |
1,000,540 | Since bone maturation is a good indicator of overall physical maturation, an x-ray of the left hand and wrist to assess bone age usually reveals whether the child has reached a stage of physical maturation at which puberty should be occurring. X-ray displaying a bone age <11 years in girls or <13 years in boys (despite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=651378 | 1,000,022 |
2,110,274 | Histpathologically, hemotoxin and eosin dye-stained and otherwise properly prepared LPF-NT tissues consist of mildly to moderately atypical spindle-shaped cells that variably infiltrate into subcutaneous adipose (i.e. fat) tissues. The spindle-shaped cells commonly have indistinct nucleoli borders (nucleoli are the lar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68573171 | 2,109,060 |
1,083,441 | In 1968-1970 Leroy Cooper, PhD of the University of California at Davis completed his thesis which showed what molecules looked like. He used x-ray deflection off crystals and a complex computer program written by Bill Pentz of the UC Davis Computer Center. This program took the mapped deflections and used them to calc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7071490 | 1,082,884 |
897,351 | The existence of the focal point is first demonstrated by Schelling with a series of questions. The most famous one is the New York City question: if you are to meet a stranger in New York City, but you cannot communicate with the person, then when and where will you choose to meet? This is a coordination game, where a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2583208 | 896,878 |
41,444 | Rare occurrences have been reported of more serious adverse effects, including severe skin rashes and other symptoms that are probably allergy-related. From the date of initial marketing, December 1998, to January 30, 2007, the US Food and Drug Administration received six cases of severe cutaneous adverse reactions ass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20690 | 41,429 |
1,290,664 | Microparticles can be released as extracellular microvesicles from red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, or endothelial cells. These biological microparticles are thought to be shed from the plasma membrane of the cell as lipid bilayer-bound entities that are typically larger than 100 nm in diameter. "Micropar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5367445 | 1,289,954 |
92,783 | As the name suggests, Brainfuck programs tend to be difficult to comprehend. This is partly because any mildly complex task requires a long sequence of commands and partly because the program's text gives no direct indications of the program's state. These, as well as Brainfuck's inefficiency and its limited input/outp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4086 | 92,742 |
1,069,529 | In the ALA-LC Uighur Romanization and the Uyghur Latin alphabet, only the ISO basic Latin alphabet is needed plus in the way of diacritic marks that occur above vowels (which are supported by many fonts and encoding standards) only: in both spellings diaeresis (umlaut) and in the ALA-LC breve as well. The letter is onl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=386689 | 1,068,975 |
48,834 | Tertiary lymphoid organs (TLOs) are abnormal lymph node-like structures that form in peripheral tissues at sites of chronic inflammation, such as chronic infection, transplanted organs undergoing graft rejection, some cancers, and autoimmune and autoimmune-related diseases. TLOs are regulated differently from the norma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71425 | 48,814 |
1,116,599 | To ensure that the flights did not violate Sweden's neutrality, the aircraft carried civilian markings and were operated by crews who were nominally "civilian employees" of British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). They carried small, high value cargoes such as precision ball bearings and machine-tool steel, as well... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23908469 | 1,116,026 |
1,153,216 | The Luria-Nebraska has been the subject of some debate that has split the neuropsychology field. It faced criticism for its combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, the wide variety of its fourteen scales, and the possibility that it did not include enough different neuropsychological skills or did not dist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32081140 | 1,152,606 |
973,631 | As well as these advances in firearms and artillery technology, new repeating firearms began to emerge on the battlefield. As soon as matchlocks appeared, there were attempts to create non-muzzleloading firearms. Early attempts such as the Ferguson rifle proved to be too complicated for regular soldiers. By 1836 a Germ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23468036 | 973,121 |
354,851 | On the meet's final day, Ledecky set her fifth world record of the year, lowering her record in the 1500-meter freestyle by nearly six seconds with a time of 15:28.36. Ledecky swam the second half of the race faster than the first, completing the final 800 meters in 8:14.11—faster than any other woman has completed a r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36301418 | 354,668 |
1,910,318 | A significant area of research on Inuit skin clothing has been its effectiveness, especially as contrasted with modern winter clothing made from synthetic materials. Despite extensive oral testimony on the effectiveness of skin garments from Inuit elders, as well as written records produced by Arctic explorers as early... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67335138 | 1,909,220 |
668,163 | The inaccuracy of much of Osborn's composite reconstruction of ""Naosaurus"" was detailed by E.C. Case in 1914 with a revised description of "Edaphosaurus" based on additional fossil material, including large parts of a skeleton with limb bones and a crushed skull, which Case had discovered in Archer County, Texas, in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2607200 | 667,814 |
339,927 | The S-500 is designed for intercepting and destroying intercontinental ballistic missiles, as well as hypersonic cruise missiles and aircraft, for air defense against Airborne Early Warning and Control and for jamming aircraft. With a planned range of for anti-ballistic missile (ABM) and for air defense, the S-500 woul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11587099 | 339,746 |
1,811,108 | Gene Shoemaker founded the Astrogeology Research Program August 25, 1960. The research program started out as the "Astrogeologic Studies Group" at the United States Geological Survey center in Menlo Park, California. The research program was moved to Flagstaff, Arizona (starting in December 1962 and completed in 1963).... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5782370 | 1,810,075 |
2,055,307 | This is a single-lined spectroscopic binary with a close, circular orbit, having a period of just 26.33 days. The primary, component A, is a slightly evolved B-type subgiant star with a stellar classification of B3 IV. It has an estimated 10 times the mass of the Sun and around 5.6 times the Sun's radius. The star radi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3113350 | 2,054,124 |
239,288 | Strontium plays an important role in marine aquatic life, especially hard corals, which use strontium to build their exoskeletons. It and barium have some uses in medicine, for example "barium meals" in radiographic imaging, whilst strontium compounds are employed in some toothpastes. Excessive amounts of strontium-90 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37411 | 239,168 |
1,058,364 | Infrared vision is used extensively by the military for night vision, navigation, surveillance and targeting. For years, it developed slowly due to the high cost of the equipment and the low quality of available images. Since the development of the first commercial infrared cameras in the second half of the 1960s, howe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16979130 | 1,057,815 |
894,143 | Primary follicular lymphoma of the testis (PFLT), also termed testicular follicular lymphoma, was classified as a distinct form of FL by the World Health Organization in 2016. It is an extremely rare disease that has been recognized as occurring primarily in children and adolescents but also has been reported in 5 adul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3034995 | 893,673 |
318,164 | Like modern humans, but unlike fossil hominins (including South African australopithecines, "H. erectus", and Neanderthals), the permanent 2nd molar erupted comparatively late in life, emerging alongside the premolars instead of before, which indicates a slower maturation unusually comparable to modern humans. The toot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47774240 | 317,994 |
2,041,469 | On September 9, by which time Ion Antonescu had assumed power, he signed two decrees. The first authorized eight religious bodies to function on Romanian soil: Romanian Orthodoxy, Greek-Catholicism, Roman Catholicism (including the Ukrainian and Armenian Vicariates), Reformed, Lutheran, Unitarian, Armenian Apostolic an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50700005 | 2,040,289 |
141,238 | where "ρ" is the (mass) density of the satellite, "n" is its mean orbital motion, "r" is the satellite's radius, "e" is the orbital eccentricity of the satellite, "μ" is the shear modulus and "Q" is the dimensionless dissipation factor. For a same-temperature approximation, the expected value of "q" for Mimas is about ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=208430 | 141,181 |
341,101 | The terseness of Euclid's propositions and proofs may have been a necessity. As is, the "Elements of Geometry" is over 500 pages of propositions and proofs. Making copies of this popular textbook was labor intensive given that the printing press was not invented until 1440. And the book's popularity lasted a long time:... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12630 | 340,920 |
135,273 | In the mid-1960s, directors of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., declared the need for a new building. Paul Mellon, a primary benefactor of the gallery and a member of its building committee, set to work with his assistant J. Carter Brown (who became gallery director in 1969) to find an architect. The ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15155 | 135,218 |
689,698 | The endarterectomy procedure was developed and first done by the Portuguese surgeon Joao Cid dos Santos in 1946, when he operated an occluded superficial femoral artery, at the University of Lisbon. In 1951 an Argentinian surgeon repaired a carotid artery occlusion using a bypass procedure. The first endarterectomy was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2771113 | 689,336 |
992,409 | The PL/I optimizing compiler took over from the PL/I F compiler and was IBM's workhorse compiler from the 1970s to the 1990s. Like PL/I F, it is a multiple pass compiler with a 44 kilobyte design point, but it is an entirely new design. Unlike the F compiler, it has to perform compile time evaluation of constant expres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23708 | 991,892 |
523,004 | “Okay,” I thought, “if I could just get past the 400-degree mark I could bail out to my knees and not land on my head.” After a couple dozen tries it happened and I landed one with speed, just like that ... Before long everybody showed up, saying, “Okay, let’s see it.” So I did, but it wasn’t half-way up the wall as th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3242703 | 522,732 |
498,319 | The U.S. Army Research Laboratory's "Vehicle Technology Directorate" (VTD) manages research and development of vehicle propulsion and structure. In addition, VTD conducts analytical and practical experiments in loads analysis, structural dynamics, aero-elasticity, structural acoustics, and vibration reduction. VTD make... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3678878 | 498,062 |
111,894 | Mies served as the last director of Berlin's Bauhaus, and then headed the department of architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where he developed the Second Chicago School. He played a significant role as an educator, believing his architectural language could be learned, then applied to design any ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17897 | 111,849 |
57,362 | The Arduino integrated development environment (IDE) is a cross-platform application (for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux) that is written in the Java programming language. It originated from the IDE for the languages "Processing" and "Wiring". It includes a code editor with features such as text cutting and pastin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5389424 | 57,338 |
964,229 | In a dyadic social interaction study from 2014, same-sex participants interacted verbally in "cooperative", "competitive", and "fun task" conditions. The focus of this study was to investigate the connection between the participants' affectivity and nonverbal synchrony. Results showed that positive emotions were associ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33034640 | 963,720 |
886,843 | The Soviet probe "Venera 9" entered orbit on October 22, 1975, becoming the first artificial satellite of Venus. A battery of cameras and spectrometers returned information about the planet's clouds, ionosphere and magnetosphere, as well as performing bi-static radar measurements of the surface. The descent vehicle sep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3057806 | 886,379 |
2,147,185 | This first government funded programme focused on their use for learning subjects other than programming. It supported some 35 projects, seven in schools, a number in higher education but the majority were based on the British armed services’ growing interest in developing more automated and managed approaches to train... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44210893 | 2,145,954 |
1,706,902 | A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Williams' research specialties cover nebulae, novae, and emission-line spectroscopy and analysis. He is a strong advocate for science education and has lectured internationally on the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope. In 1996, Williams made the controversial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48270622 | 1,705,944 |
2,083,050 | In 1991, in collaboration with Ros Crouch, he was awarded the British Nuclear Fuels Partnership Award for Innovative Teaching in Mathematics, in recognition of their undergraduate module in which mathematical modelling was used as a vehicle for the teaching and learning of communication skills. He was a member of the M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8782995 | 2,081,850 |
1,020,948 | Amphisbaenia (called amphisbaenians or worm lizards) is a group of usually legless squamates, comprising over 200 extant species. Amphisbaenians are characterized by their long bodies, the reduction or loss of the limbs, and rudimentary eyes. As many species have a pink body and scales arranged in rings, they have a su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=308680 | 1,020,419 |
1,244,095 | TriQuint Semiconductor began in the mid-1980s as a subsidiary of Tektronix. In 1985 the founders held a contest to come up with a name for the company. The winning entry paid homage to the gallium arsenide on which the company was founded. *Tri, from the Greek for “a prefix meaning three, thrice, threefold”, and quint,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15761787 | 1,243,422 |
1,981,549 | The MPS method is used to solve the Navier-Stokes equations in a Lagrangian framework. A fractional step method is applied which consists of splitting each time step in two steps of prediction and correction. The fluid is represented with particles, and the motion of each particle is calculated based on the interaction... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22690116 | 1,980,410 |
2,160,630 | Infantile convulsions and choreoathetosis (ICCA) syndrome is a neurological genetic disorder with an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance. It is characterized by the association of benign familial infantile epilepsy (BIFE) at age 3–12 months and later in life with paroxysmal kinesigenic choreoathetosis. The ICCA synd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30306769 | 2,159,397 |
223,573 | As early as 1946, the harmful effects of DDT on bird, beneficial insects, fish, and marine invertebrates were seen in the environment. The most infamous example of these effects were seen in the eggshells of large predatory birds, which did not develop to be thick enough to support the adult bird sitting on them. Furth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=903152 | 223,459 |
1,787,442 | Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) () is a private, non-profit, independent educational institution and the only business school in China with faculty governance. The school offers MBA, Finance MBA, Executive MBA, Business Scholars Program, and short-term Executive Education programs to both Chinese and in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21857790 | 1,786,437 |
786,681 | The longest successful post-war breakaway by a single rider was by Albert Bourlon in the 1947 Tour de France. In the stage Carcassonne-Luchon, he stayed away for . It was one of seven breakaways longer than 200 km, the last being Thierry Marie's 234 km escape in 1991. Bourlon finished 16:30 ahead. This is one of the bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39325799 | 786,258 |
1,869,384 | When the power goes out, rooms at the center of a building typically receive little to no light. Designing a building to take advantage of natural daylight instead of relying on electric lighting will make it more resilient to power outages and other events. Daylighting and passive solar gain often go hand in hand, but... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43933585 | 1,868,308 |
2,104,322 | On 11 April 1918, the destroyer had the opportunity to return to the fortifications at Zeebrugge. "Stork" formed part of a force of 165 Royal Navy vessels, including the monitors and sent to bombard the town. The mission succeeded in partially blocking the harbour and placed limits on the way it could be used by submar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70334591 | 2,103,109 |
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