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1,588,181 | At its inception, the only admission requirement to the college was a high school diploma. The original course of study was 8 months in length including night classes, and the degree granted was the Doctor of Surgical Chiropody (D.S.C.). Along with the decades and successive physical expansion of the college came an in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6042457 | 1,587,287 |
1,086,467 | He was the oldest of three gifted brothers—the others being the aeronautical engineer Theodore Paul Wright and the political scientist Quincy Wright. From an early age Wright had a love and talent for mathematics and biology. Wright attended Galesburg High School and graduated in 1906. He then enrolled in Lombard Colle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1700593 | 1,085,909 |
1,893,668 | Cemetech began as a personal website hosted on Homestead and later GeoCities, publishing personal software and hardware projects. In 2004 the site expanded on shared hosting with a PhpBB-based forum, and in March 2005 moved to Cemetech.net. The site spent the following three years consolidating its presence in the TI g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31290307 | 1,892,585 |
266,164 | In 1986, Charig and Milner named a new genus and species with the skeleton as holotype specimen: "Baryonyx walkeri". The generic name derives from ancient Greek; βαρύς ("barys") means "heavy" or "strong", and ὄνυξ ("onyx") means "claw" or "talon". The specific name honours Walker, for discovering the specimen. At that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1091918 | 266,020 |
1,727,838 | The patriotic sentiments were also carried out in secondary settings. Specific programs and in-school curricula targeted the patriotic development of children, especially teens. New history curricula introduced rewrote the story of the American past to de-emphasize the friction between the colonies and Britain, and to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26048493 | 1,726,864 |
91,066 | The third moonwalk, the last of the Apollo program, began at 5:25 p.m. EST on December 13. Cernan and Schmitt rode the rover northeast of the landing site, exploring the base of the North Massif and the Sculptured Hills. Stopping at station 6, they examined a house-sized split boulder dubbed Tracy's Rock (or Split Rock... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1971 | 91,026 |
1,242,917 | William Henry was apprenticed to Thomas Percival and later worked with John Ferriar & John Huit at the Manchesters Infirmary. He began to study medicine at University of Edinburgh in 1795, taking his medical in 1807, but ill-health interrupted his practice as a physician, and he devoted his time mainly to chemical rese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=939729 | 1,242,244 |
1,440,680 | The first linear Fresnel reflector solar power system was developed in Italy in 1961 by Giovanni Francia of the University of Genoa. Francia demonstrated that such a system could create elevated temperatures capable of making a fluid do work. The technology was further investigated by companies such as the FMC Corporat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22486896 | 1,439,870 |
1,966,298 | The SAR principle was first acknowledged publicly via an April 1960 press release about the U. S. Army experimental AN/UPD-1 system, which consisted of an airborne element made by Texas Instruments and installed in a Beech L-23D aircraft and a mobile ground data-processing station made by WRRC and installed in a milita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71515213 | 1,965,169 |
1,774,624 | The formation of the nervous system is one of the most crucial events in the developing embryo. Specifically, the differentiation of stem cell precursors into specialized neurons gives rise to the formation of synapses and neural circuits, which is key to the principle of plasticity. During this pivotal point in develo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25253854 | 1,773,627 |
1,829,846 | In the beginning, the newly started Department of Informatics was housed in the Mathematics Building at Blindern. However, as there was a great shortage of space, the offices were scattered around on many different floors. After a couple of years, the department was moved to the physics building. However, the space pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68197062 | 1,828,805 |
1,131,350 | In 1968, literati Z.F. Fink, whose publications during World War II partially germinated research by J. G. A. Pocock in "The Machiavellian Moment" and Hannah Arendt in "On Revolution", critiqued "Ideological Origins" for not including an examination of "Continental republicans" and an entire body of republican thought ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19064726 | 1,130,760 |
871,347 | For many diseases, pathological analysis of cells and tissues is considered to be the gold standard of disease diagnosis. AI-assisted pathology tools have been developed to assist with the diagnosis of a number of diseases, including breast cancer, hepatitis B, gastric cancer, and colorectal cancer. AI has also been us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52588198 | 870,887 |
516,423 | Tyrosine hydroxylase is a tetramer of four identical subunits (homotetramer). Each subunit consists of three domains. At the carboxyl terminal of the peptide chain there's a short alpha helix domain that allows tetramerization. The central ~300 amino acids make up a catalytic core, in which all the residues necessary f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4943039 | 516,154 |
515,353 | Two major efforts occurred in the 1950s. One of these efforts was by G. Moore and K. Berman at General Electric. The duo used 90% high test peroxide (HTP, or HO) and polyethylene (PE) in a rod and tube grain design. They drew several significant conclusions from their work. The fuel grain had uniform burning. Grain cra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37831 | 515,087 |
10,122 | Starting in November 1943, the Army Air Forces Materiel Command at Wright Field, Ohio, began Silverplate, the codename modification of B-29s to carry the bombs. Test drops were carried out at Muroc Army Air Field, California, and the Naval Ordnance Test Station at Inyokern, California. Groves met with the Chief of Unit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19603 | 10,118 |
54,516 | The launch of Sputnik 1 surprised the American public, and shattered the perception created by American propaganda of the United States as the technological superpower, and the Soviet Union as a backward country. Privately, however, the CIA and President Eisenhower were aware of progress being made by the Soviets on Sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28484 | 54,493 |
851,617 | Wireless electricity is a form of wireless energy transfer, the ability to provide electrical energy to remote objects without wires. The term WiTricity was coined in 2005 by Dave Gerding and later used for a project led by Prof. Marin Soljačić in 2007. The MIT researchers successfully demonstrated the ability to power... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5951576 | 851,164 |
1,092,483 | With China's rising national strength and popularity of Chinese in the world, China as a study destination attracts thousands of foreign students abroad and the number of foreign students continues to grow rapidly in recent years. Since 2005, China has become the most popular country in Asia and the sixth largest count... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10789112 | 1,091,923 |
661,282 | A high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT), also known as heterostructure FET (HFET) or modulation-doped FET (MODFET), is a field-effect transistor incorporating a junction between two materials with different band gaps (i.e. a heterojunction) as the channel instead of a doped region (as is generally the case for a MOS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=842493 | 660,937 |
395,055 | During the nineteenth century, the number of described ichthyosaur genera gradually increased. New finds allowed for a better understanding of their anatomy. Owen had noted that many fossils showed a downward bend in the rear tail. At first, he explained this as a "post mortem" effect, a tendon pulling the tail end dow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314101 | 394,860 |
1,179,865 | As an astronaut candidate, Seddon drew a civil service salary of about US$22,000 (), which was more than she made as a surgical resident. Nonetheless, when she went to buy a town house she was told that her income was $3,000 short of what was required, even with her father putting up the deposit. United Savings and Loa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=557468 | 1,179,241 |
441,071 | The first RCC dam built in the USA was the Willow Creek Dam on Willow Creek, a tributary in Oregon of the Columbia River. It was constructed by the Army Corps of Engineers between November 1981 and February 1983. Construction proceeded well, within a fast schedule and under budget (estimated $50 million, actual $35 mil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8567475 | 440,856 |
898,181 | "Psittacosaurus" was first described as a genus in 1923, by Henry Fairfield Osborn. He named the type species "P. mongoliensis", for the location of its discovery in Mongolia, placing it in the new family Psittacosauridae. Remains of this dinosaur were first discovered the year before, on the third American Museum of N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2274247 | 897,707 |
1,099,540 | There are other BsAbs that lack an Fc region entirely, and thus leads to relatively simple design strategies. These include chemically linked Fabs, consisting of only the Fab regions, and various types of bivalent and trivalent single-chain variable fragments (ScFvs). There are also fusion proteins mimicking the variab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14416452 | 1,098,980 |
1,732,621 | Citadel is the name of a bulletin board system (BBS) computer program, and of the genre of programs it inspired. Citadels were notable for their room-based structure (see below) and relatively heavy emphasis on messages and conversation as opposed to gaming and files. The first Citadel came online in 1980 with a single... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1629209 | 1,731,645 |
504,800 | In everyday situations, people are most commonly searching their visual fields for targets that are familiar to them. When it comes to searching for familiar stimuli, top-down processing allows one to more efficiently identify targets with greater complexity than can be represented in a feature or conjunction search ta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4236583 | 504,538 |
294,315 | Westinghouse's interests in gas distribution and telephone switching led him to become interested in the then-new field of electrical power distribution in the early 1880s. Electric lighting was a growing business with many companies building outdoor direct current (DC) and alternating current (AC) arc lighting based s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49195 | 294,156 |
162,197 | Although the 1950s were overall a time of prosperity for Britain, the Suez Crisis of November 1956 precipitated a financial crisis and a speculative run on Sterling which underlined the fragility of post-war British finances. The tripartite invasion of the Suez Canal Zone by Britain, France and Israel in late October 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,112 |
1,154,799 | Two essential factors which led to the founding of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (Imperial Physical Technical Institute – PTR) were the determination of internationally valid, uniform measures in the Meter Convention of 1875 and the dynamic industrial development in Germany in the 19th century. Already in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=336112 | 1,154,189 |
1,967,297 | What Engineers Know and How they Know It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990) () is a historical reflection on engineering practice in US aeronautics from 1908 to 1953 written by Walter Vincenti (1917-2019) an accomplished practitioner and instructor. This period repr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30603530 | 1,966,167 |
562,980 | An 11½-year-old Hmong Laotian boy was brought into the emergency room by his parents with a 2- to 3-month history of decreasing stamina and increasing dyspnea [shortness of breath] on exertion. He described an intermittent nonproductive cough and decreased appetite and was thought to have lost weight. He denied fever, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2196281 | 562,691 |
1,116,219 | Current treatment recommendations for patients with symptomatic or rapidly progressive SMZL rely on drugs. Rituximab, a commercial preparation of a monoclonal antibody directed at the CD20 protein on B-cells, is significantly active in SMZL, with short-term treatments (e.g. ~4 weeks) achieving overall response rates of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21339698 | 1,115,647 |
984,107 | Each SPE is a dual issue in order processor composed of a "Synergistic Processing Unit", SPU, and a "Memory Flow Controller", MFC (DMA, MMU, and bus interface). SPEs do not have any branch prediction hardware (hence there is a heavy burden on the compiler). Each SPE has 6 execution units divided among odd and even pipe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=803950 | 983,593 |
459,107 | The PCC is commonly affected by neurodegenerative disease. In fact, reduced metabolism in the PCC has been identified as an early sign of Alzheimer's disease, and is frequently present before a clinical diagnosis. The reduced metabolism in the PCC is typically one part in a diffuse pattern of metabolic dysfunction in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4254360 | 458,882 |
206,785 | During allopatric (from the ancient Greek "allos", "other" + "patrā", "fatherland") speciation, a population splits into two geographically isolated populations (for example, by habitat fragmentation due to geographical change such as mountain formation). The isolated populations then undergo genotypic or phenotypic di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29000 | 206,678 |
88,498 | A much larger number of firestorms, in the thousands, was the initial assumption of the computer modelers who coined the term in the 1980s. These were speculated to be a possible result of any large scale employment of counter-value airbursting nuclear weapon use during an American-Soviet total war. This larger number ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22171 | 88,463 |
42,565 | First issued in 1943, the M1 uses a simple blowback operation, with the charging handle moved to the side. The flip-up adjustable Lyman rear sight was replaced with a fixed L sight. Late M1s had triangular guard wings added to the rear L sight, which were standardized on the M1A1. The slots adjoining the magazine well ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=95006 | 42,550 |
1,382,767 | On the sixth day of competition on July 29, five finals were contested, the women's 100 m freestyle, men's 200 m backstroke, women's 200 m breaststroke, men's 200 m breaststroke, and the men's 4×200 m freestyle relay. In the first final of day six, the women's 100 m freestyle, Dane Jeanette Ottesen and Belarusian Aleks... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4466178 | 1,382,002 |
796,491 | A similar incident involving a passenger ship occurred in 1992 when the Cunard liner "Queen Elizabeth 2" struck a submerged rock off Block Island in the Atlantic Ocean. In November 1999, the semi-submersible, heavy-lift ship "Mighty Servant 2" capsized and sank after hitting an uncharted single underwater isolated pinn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=238244 | 796,066 |
49,181 | During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Keynes spearheaded a revolution in economic thinking, challenging the ideas of neoclassical economics that held that free markets would, in the short to medium term, automatically provide full employment, as long as workers were flexible in their wage demands. He argued that ag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37973 | 49,161 |
2,126,612 | John Browning initially intended to follow the medical profession, and entered Guy's Hospital, a teaching hospital and the location of a school of medicine. Despite having passed the required examinations, however, he abandoned his plans due to ill health. Instead, he apprenticed with his father, William Spencer Browni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35561022 | 2,125,391 |
851,729 | After securing election as consul in 80 BC, Sulla resigned the dictatorship and attempted to solidify his republican constitutional reforms. Sulla's reforms proved unworkable. The first years of Sulla's new republic were faced not only the continuation of the civil war against Quintus Sertorius in Spain, but also a rev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12170961 | 851,276 |
374,755 | Developmental psychologists have a number of methods to study changes in individuals over time. Common research methods include systematic observation, including naturalistic observation or structured observation; self-reports, which could be clinical interviews or structured interviews; clinical or case study method; ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9014 | 374,560 |
1,170,654 | Dr. Yuzo Arima and his colleagues at WHO report "While poultry exposure appears to be a common risk factor, the age distribution among reported cases also raises the question why so few young adults (i.e. those of working age exposed to poultry as vendors/LBM <nowiki>[</nowiki>live bird market<nowiki>]</nowiki> workers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38969724 | 1,170,035 |
959,893 | At Edinburgh, Ray began his chemistry studies under Alexander Crum Brown and his demonstrator John Gibson, a former student of Brown's who had also studied under Robert Bunsen at the University of Heidelberg. He received his BSc. in 1885. During his student years at Edinburgh, Ray continued to nurture his strong intere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2325728 | 959,385 |
1,805,367 | Arnon joined the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1960. Upon joining the Institute Arnon began to work on her doctorate under Michael Sela. She has focused most of her life on the field of immunology. While at Weizmann, Arnon served as the Head of the Department of Chemical Immunology (1975-1978), as the Dean of the Fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5057839 | 1,804,352 |
1,654,819 | "Mortierella alpina" 1S-4 is a fungus employed in the biological production of arachidonic acid, and so biotechnology has allowed for the biosynthesis of a mutant strain of this fungus. "Mortierella alpina" typically only produces ETA in trace amounts at low temperatures, making it difficult to isolate and examine. Thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4163527 | 1,653,887 |
377,842 | The Compensatory stage (Stage 2) is characterised by the body employing physiological mechanisms, including neural, hormonal, and bio-chemical mechanisms, in an attempt to reverse the condition. As a result of the acidosis, the person will begin to hyperventilate in order to rid the body of carbon dioxide (CO). CO indi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146311 | 377,647 |
396,638 | Adults and children with a suspected concussion require a medical assessment to confirm the diagnosis of concussion and rule out more serious head injuries. After life-threatening head injuries, injuries to the cervical spine, and neurological conditions are ruled out, exclusion of neck or head injury, observation shou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=399231 | 396,442 |
393,871 | The 17th century was a period of advances in mathematics in Germany, France and England. At the same time there was a rapidly growing desire and need to place the valuation of personal risk on a more scientific basis. Independently of each other, compound interest was studied and probability theory emerged as a well-un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=189373 | 393,676 |
54,451 | Very early in the Pacific War, a scheme was proposed to fit Lightnings with floats to allow them to make long-range ferry flights. The floats would be removed before the aircraft went into combat. Concerns arose that saltwater spray would corrode the tailplane, so in March 1942, P-38E "41-1986" was modified with a tail... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25041 | 54,428 |
270,870 | Proposals for the airframe were issued on 18 June 1950, and in January 1951 six manufacturers responded. On 2 July 1954, three companies, Convair, Republic and Lockheed won the right to build a mockup. Until then, Convair had done research into delta-winged aircraft, experimenting with different designs, two of which f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239536 | 270,723 |
930,958 | Genetic studies show that specific gene mutations or deletions are causes for the disease. The genes identified for cerebral cavernous hemangiomas (or malformations), are CCM1 (also KRIT1), CCM2 (also MGC4607, malcavernin) and CCM3 (also PDCD10). The loss of function of these genes is believed to be responsible for cer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36135963 | 930,467 |
1,779,296 | The underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) used in multiple applications of underwater surveillance have unique challenges in terms of harsh underwater channel behavior with low bandwidth, high propagation delays, and higher bit error rates. Additionally, the variable speed of sound, and non-negligible node mobili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60878831 | 1,778,294 |
1,652,527 | The fine scoria ashes or "cinders" thrown out by basaltic volcanoes are often spongy masses of tachylite with only a few larger crystals or phenocrysts imbedded in black glass. Such tachylite volcanic bombs and scoria are frequent in Iceland, Auvergne, Stromboli and Etna, and are very common also in the ash beds or tuf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1198783 | 1,651,595 |
1,719,287 | The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain caused extensive pollution, and industrial cities such as Manchester and Birmingham were covered with black soot. R.S. Edleston was the first to identify the unusual black peppered moth in 1848 in Manchester. By the end of the century, it was recorded that the black moth, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3890535 | 1,718,317 |
706,406 | At the highest level, the design may be optimized to make best use of the available resources, given goals, constraints, and expected use/load. The architectural design of a system overwhelmingly affects its performance. For example, a system that is network latency-bound (where network latency is the main constraint o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=225779 | 706,037 |
761,137 | Neurofeedback (NFB), also called neurotherapy, is a type of biofeedback that presents real-time feedback from brain activity in order to reinforce healthy brain function through operant conditioning. Typically, electrical activity from the brain is collected via sensors placed on the scalp using electroencephalography ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=510370 | 760,730 |
998,493 | In addition to its three floors of standing exhibits, the museum hosts temporary and traveling exhibitions. Exhibitions last for five months or less and usually require a separate paid admission fee. Exhibitions at MSI have included "Titanic: The Exhibition", which was the largest display of relics from the wreck of RM... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50346 | 997,975 |
1,262,667 | The Shindō Yōshin-ryū tradition was founded late in the Edo period by a Kuroda clan retainer named Katsunosuke Matsuoka (1836–1898) Katsunosuke was born in Edo-Hantei, the Edo headquarters of the Kuroda clan in 1836. Katsunosuke opened his first "dōjō" in 1858 in the Asakusa district of Edo where he taught Tenjin Shiny... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3645611 | 1,261,979 |
336,669 | In 1991, AT&T Corporation briefly owned NCR. During the same period, companies found that servers based on microcomputer designs could be deployed at a fraction of the acquisition price and offer local users much greater control over their own systems given the IT policies and practices at that time. Terminals used for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20266 | 336,490 |
126,456 | Formula One cars use highly automated semi-automatic sequential gearboxes with paddle-shifters, with regulations stating that 8 forward gears (increased from 7 from the 2014 season onwards) and 1 reverse gear must be used, with rear-wheel-drive. The gearbox is constructed of carbon titanium, as heat dissipation is a cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=645083 | 126,404 |
309,958 | The first practical AC electric locomotive was designed by Charles Brown, then working for Oerlikon, Zürich. In 1891, Brown had demonstrated long-distance power transmission, using three-phase AC, between a hydro-electric plant at Lauffen am Neckar and Frankfurt am Main West, a distance of 280 km. Using experience he h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=390883 | 309,791 |
1,608,470 | "Cynops pyrrhogaster" diverged from its close relative "C. ensicauda" about 13.75 million years ago (during the Middle Miocene). The common ancestor of the two species would have lived in an area of the Eurasian mainland which is today the East China Sea and the central Ryukyu Islands. The land that would become the Ja... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2902215 | 1,607,565 |
640 | Testing found several major problems: early F-35B airframes had premature cracking, the F-35C arrestor hook design was unreliable, fuel tanks were too vulnerable to lightning strikes, the helmet display had problems, and more. Software was repeatedly delayed due to its unprecedented scope and complexity. In 2009, the D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11812 | 640 |
564,544 | In 1970, the Museum of Modern Art invited Irwin to create an installation. Using the entire project space, Irwin suspended a white scrim 10 feet from the ground and attached shimmering stainless steel wires to the wall. In 1971 the Walker Art Center commissioned the artist to create "Untitled (Slant/Light/Volume)" for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=645174 | 564,254 |
1,343,878 | In 1932, Grace Medes first described "a new disorder of tyrosine metabolism," She coined the condition "tyrosinosis" after observing 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate in the urine of a 49-year-old man with myasthenia gravis. She proposed that the metabolic defect in this patient was a deficiency of 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxyg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63823206 | 1,343,142 |
663,083 | As World War II drew to a close, large quantities of military surplus became available on the civilian market along with the cancellation of the remaining C-69 Constellations still in production. With the Constellation's design at risk, Lockheed purchased the five remaining C-69 transports still in production back from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32991673 | 662,738 |
2,131,347 | Although "Erwinia papayae" has been known to survive on leaves of cowpea, tomato, and rockmelon for a minimum of two weeks, the host range of bacterial crown rot is confined to papaya (Webb 1985). Inoculation with the pathogen of twenty-three common weed species and crops found in association with Philippine papaya fie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52516729 | 2,130,122 |
983,608 | Speed-and-feed selection is analogous to other examples of applied science, such as meteorology or pharmacology, in that the theoretical modeling is necessary and useful but can never fully predict the reality of specific cases because of the massively multivariate environment. Just as weather forecasts or drug dosages... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1527151 | 983,094 |
339,275 | During the German Grand Prix, it was announced that Häkkinen would remain at McLaren for 2000. Häkkinen encountered further bad fortunes in the race when his car's right rear tyre exploded at high speed, forcing his car into a 360° spin before resting on a tyre wall. He managed his fourth victory of the year at Hungary... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63073 | 339,095 |
763,134 | Weaknesses of the Macedonian phalanx. Nevertheless, the Macedonian phalanx had key weaknesses. It had some manoeuvrability, but once a clash was joined this decreased, particularly on rough ground. Its "dense pack" approach also made it rigid. Compressed in the heat of battle, its troops could only primarily fight faci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30855309 | 762,725 |
957,487 | As in some occupied European countries, a Greek puppet government was formed from the outset by the Occupation authorities, initially headed by General Georgios Tsolakoglou and later by Konstantinos Logothetopoulos. The forces this government had at its disposal were primarily these of the city police and the rural gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2150988 | 956,981 |
990,648 | Although the origins of statistical theory lie in the 18th-century advances in probability, the modern field of statistics only emerged in the late-19th and early-20th century in three stages. The first wave, at the turn of the century, was led by the work of Francis Galton and Karl Pearson, who transformed statistics ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14986442 | 990,131 |
1,752,850 | The evaluation for epilepsy surgery is designed to locate the "epileptic focus" (the location of the epileptic abnormality) and to determine if resective surgery will affect normal brain function. The definition of the epileptogenic zone has a fundamental role in determining the boundaries of the area that needs to be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7215046 | 1,751,861 |
173,440 | During the 1970s, many searches for long-lived superheavy nuclei were conducted. Experiments aimed at synthesizing elements ranging in atomic number from 110 to 127 were conducted at laboratories around the world. These elements were sought in fusion-evaporation reactions, in which a heavy target made of one nuclide is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66394 | 173,349 |
26,743 | Humans first started to cultivate grains in the Neolithic period (beginning about 9500 BCE) in the Fertile Crescent in Western Asia, and, likely, coeliac disease did not occur before this time. Aretaeus of Cappadocia, living in the second century in the same area, recorded a malabsorptive syndrome with chronic diarrhoe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63526 | 26,733 |
1,367,568 | Research in the study of brain function can also be applied to cognitive behaviour therapy. As therapy becomes increasingly refined, it is important to differentiate cognitive processes in order to discover their relevance towards different patient treatments. An example comes specifically from studies on lateral speci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25146378 | 1,366,812 |
1,539,713 | "Phyllobates bicolor" is one of the largest poison dart frogs. Unlike other species of frogs, the males and females are roughly similar size. Males can reach a length of 45–50 mm from snout to vent, while the slightly larger females reach 50–55 mm in length from snout to vent. The difference in size is an example of se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5495985 | 1,538,840 |
1,792,114 | The New York State Public Service Commission adopted a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) policy in 2004, calling for an increase in renewable energy used in the state from the then-current level of 19.3 percent (largely attributable to legacy hydroelectric power projects) to at least 25 percent by the end of 2013. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21401237 | 1,791,107 |
766,980 | A phase III clinical trial called ENSEMBLE started enrollment in September 2020 and completed enrollment on 17 December 2020. It was designed as a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial intended to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a single-dose vaccine versus placebo in adults aged 18 years of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66392176 | 766,569 |
1,807,076 | In January 2014, Ferguson and his wife Claire Ferguson delivered an MAA Invited Address, titled "Mathematics in Stone and Bronze," at the Joint Math Meetings in Baltimore Maryland. He is an active artist, often representing mathematical shapes in his works. One of the first bronze torii sculpted by Ferguson was exhibit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6874950 | 1,806,057 |
671,387 | An object at some distance from an observer will reflect light in all directions, some of which will fall upon the corneae of the eyes, where it will be focussed upon each retina, forming an image. The disparity between the electrical output of these two slightly different images is resolved either at the level of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23483 | 671,035 |
1,858,043 | Beginning in 1988, the Zeta Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia sponsored an annual jazz festival, drawing high school bands from across Missouri. The concert series brought the Modern Jazz Quartet to campus in 1988. By 1994 the department found itself in need of more space and a former Unitarian church adjacent to campus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58085796 | 1,856,975 |
2,110,144 | The dramatic increase in genome sequencing technology has caused the number of protein sequences deposited into public databases to grow apparently exponentially. To cope with the influx of sequences, databases use computational predictions to auto-annotate individual protein's functions. While these computational meth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31601913 | 2,108,930 |
1,547,816 | In this method, the camera is placed on the tracked device and looks outward to determine its location in the environment. Headsets that use this tech have multiple cameras facing different directions to get views of its entire surroundings. This method can work with or without markers. The Lighthouse system used by th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53747734 | 1,546,938 |
1,716,249 | To ensure that the process he developed would benefit people in the developing world, Keasling assembled a unique team consisting of his laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, Amyris Biotechnologies ( a company founded on this technology) and the Institute for OneWorld Health (a non-profit pharmaceutical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5619097 | 1,715,280 |
54,373 | The Lockheed Corporation designed the P-38 in response to a February 1937 specification from the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). Circular Proposal X-608 was a set of aircraft performance goals authored by First Lieutenants Benjamin S. Kelsey and Gordon P. Saville for a twin-engined, high-altitude "interceptor" ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25041 | 54,353 |
453,684 | Nick Bostrom established the institute in November 2005 as part of the Oxford Martin School, then the James Martin 21st Century School. Between 2008 and 2010, FHI hosted the Global Catastrophic Risks conference, wrote 22 academic journal articles, and published 34 chapters in academic volumes. FHI researchers have been... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8481853 | 453,463 |
775,063 | In 2016 Barsbold re-examined the Fighting Dinosaurs specimen and found several anomalies within the "Protoceratops" individual: both coracoids have small bone fragments indicatives of a breaking of the pectoral girdle; the right forelimb and scapulocoracoid are torn off to the left and backwards relative to its torso. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1064031 | 774,647 |
1,952,808 | "Pythium" may survive in the soil for extended periods of time, often coming from debris from past infected plants or spores living in the soil. "Pythium" spreads by the movement and growth of mycelium and spores from plant to plant. "Pythium" thrives in hot and humid weather typically day temperatures of 80°F to 95°F ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22722940 | 1,951,687 |
1,900,064 | Although his early independent projects directly reflected Maher's stylistic influences, as his own style developed Seyfarth's work became distinguished more as a distillation of prevailing revivalist architecture, characterized not by the frequent devotion to detail that typified the movement but by strong geometry, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24940492 | 1,898,978 |
37,930 | The Advanced Gun System is a 155 mm naval gun, two of which are installed in each ship. This system consists of an advanced 155 mm gun and its Long Range Land Attack Projectile (LRLAP). This projectile is a rocket with a warhead fired from the AGS gun; the warhead has an 11 kg / 24 lb bursting charge and has a circular... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=864558 | 37,917 |
341,594 | By the turn of the century, enough college teams were in the East that the first intercollegiate competitions could be played out. Although the sport continued to grow, Naismith long regarded the game as a curiosity and preferred gymnastics and wrestling as better forms of physical activity. However, basketball became ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=86346 | 341,413 |
888,386 | This usage derives from Miller's (1956) idea of chunking as grouping, but the emphasis is now on long-term memory rather than only on short-term memory. A chunk can then be defined as "a collection of elements having strong associations with one another, but weak associations with elements within other chunks". Chase a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=931802 | 887,918 |
1,490,339 | Cancer dormancy is not yet fully understood, but some researchers have performed mathematical modeling to explain the occurrence of cancer dormancy as a characteristic of all migrating tumor cells as part of an evolutionary process of selection and mutation. Recently, scientists from Aga Khan University Pakistan, have ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35714179 | 1,489,500 |
831,715 | As the designs become more complex, the testing must become more formalized. Testing equipment will become more sophisticated and testing metrics become more quantitative. With a more refined prototype, designers often test effectiveness, efficiency, and subjective satisfaction, by asking the user to complete various t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288276 | 831,266 |
934,017 | A 2009 meta-analysis lead-authored by Greenwald concluded that the IAT has predictive validity independent of the predictive validity of explicit measures. A follow-up meta-analysis lead-authored by Frederick L. Oswald criticised Greenwald's study for overestimating the correlations between IAT scores and discriminator... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1791156 | 933,525 |
1,659,427 | Manufacturers and operators of aircraft, trains, and civil engineering structures like bridges have a financial interest in ensuring that the inspection schedule is as cost-efficient as possible. In the example of aircraft, because these structures are often revenue producing, there is an opportunity cost associated wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1060889 | 1,658,494 |
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