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164,743 | Although the part 'tribo-' comes from the Greek for "rubbing", "τρίβω" (τριβή: friction), the two materials only need to come into contact for electrons to be exchanged. After coming into contact, a chemical bond is formed between parts of the two surfaces, called adhesion, and charges move from one material to the oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60933 | 164,658 |
1,503,830 | Environmental Differences basically result from the mobility of computing devices, applications and people, which leads to highly dynamic computing environments. Unlike desktop applications, which rely on a carefully configured and largely static set of resources, ubiquitous computing applications are subject to change... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21704475 | 1,502,984 |
1,569,645 | The NHS provides, free at the point of delivery, healthcare to a population of 52 Million in England. With access to the data sets of NHS in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland the CPRD can provide a population of potentially up to 64 Million patients in the UK. Further access and partnerships have been estab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7874514 | 1,568,757 |
454,845 | Straddling the dichotomy boundary in Mars's western hemisphere is a massive volcano-tectonic province known as the Tharsis region or the Tharsis bulge. This immense, elevated structure is thousands of kilometers in diameter and covers up to 25% of the planet's surface. Averaging 7–10 km above datum (Martian "sea" level... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8867758 | 454,623 |
715,997 | According to a survey determined in 2016, students in Darmstadt paid an arithmetic mean of 348 euros a month for rent, heat and utilities. With the German average being 323 euros at the time, this made Darmstadt the ninth most expensive city for students in Germany. This value only includes students who live alone, are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1664084 | 715,622 |
1,341,773 | In all three modes, the CAP reader asks the EMV card to output a data packet that confirms the cancellation of a fictitious EMV payment transaction, which involves the details entered by the user. This confirmation message contains a message authentication code (typically CBC-MAC/Triple DES) that is generated with the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13827415 | 1,341,040 |
1,873,873 | Bell was a member and Former Chairman of the National Medical Association's Section on Psychiatry; a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists; a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a Founding Member and Past Board Chairman of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care. Bell was the E.Y. Will... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15109621 | 1,872,796 |
475,825 | Conduction aphasia, also called associative aphasia, is an uncommon form of difficulty in speaking (aphasia). It is caused by damage to the parietal lobe of the brain. An acquired language disorder, it is characterised by intact auditory comprehension, coherent (yet paraphasic) speech production, but poor speech repeti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=760914 | 475,588 |
1,273,237 | Although volcanic activity often leads to warming through the release of greenhouse gasses, it may also lead to cooling via the production of aerosols, light-blocking particles. There is good evidence for elevated volcanic activity through the Hirnantian, based on anomalously high concentrations of mercury (Hg) in many... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2830096 | 1,272,545 |
741,239 | In the early 20th century, the German chemist Paul Ehrlich was developing theories of selective toxicity based largely on the ability of certain dyes to kill microbes. Gerhard Domagk, who would later win a Nobel Prize for his efforts, made a major breakthrough in 1932 with the discovery of the antibacterial prontosil r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=660116 | 740,847 |
96,336 | The time when the monotreme line diverged from other mammalian lines is uncertain, but one survey of genetic studies gives an estimate of about 220 million years ago. Fossils of a jaw fragment 110 million years old were found at Lightning Ridge, New South Wales. These fragments, from the species "Steropodon galmani", a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22121709 | 96,295 |
1,262,865 | The Jewish cultural scene was particularly vibrant and blossomed in pre-World War II Poland. There were many Jewish publications and over 116 periodicals. Yiddish authors, most notably Isaac Bashevis Singer, went on to achieve international acclaim as classic Jewish writers, and in Singer's case, win the 1978 Nobel Pri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2125860 | 1,262,177 |
237,530 | There are other times when the implicit interests of the vehicle and replicator are in conflict, such as the genes behind certain male spiders' instinctive mating behaviour, which increase the organism's inclusive fitness by allowing it to reproduce, but shorten its life by exposing it to the risk of being eaten by the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44190 | 237,411 |
1,990,108 | Deudextromethorphan/quinidine (d-DXM/Q; developmental code names AVP-786, CTP-786) is a combination of deudextromethorphan (d-DXM; deuterated (d6) dextromethorphan (DXM)) and quinidine (Q) which is under development by Avanir Pharmaceuticals for the treatment of a variety of neurological and psychiatric indications. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68776178 | 1,988,965 |
2,117,126 | Instead of attempting a model-free inversion of the DSC profile to extract the underlying probability density function, they assumed a specific free energy functional with either one or two minima (similar to the Landau theory of phase transitions) thus enabling the extraction of free energy barrier heights. This model... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7118201 | 2,115,908 |
2,161,374 | The following step is planned for 2020, and it is a dedicated setup called GRANDProto300 within an area of . The baseline layout is a square grid with a inter-antenna spacing, just as for later stages. Because GRANDProto300 will not be large enough to detect cosmogenic neutrinos, the viability will be tested using inst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58938242 | 2,160,140 |
2,021,289 | The EACP was established in 2009 within the framework of CLUNET, a PRO INNO EUROPE project that encouraged the exchange of experiences and support for implementing concrete pilot projects relating to cluster innovation and policy development. Over the past few years, the EACP has developed into a permanent partnership ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28079376 | 2,020,126 |
2,169,841 | The Niagara Science Museum was founded by Nick Dalacu, a physicist who amassed a personal collection of hundreds of historically significant instruments and technologies over four decades. The museum presents its collection in 'living laboratories' in the style of the wunderkammern, or cabinet of curiosity, of Renaissa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21637876 | 2,168,603 |
495,693 | In 1947–1948 Baldwin built three unusual coal-fired steam turbine-electric locomotives for passenger trains on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (C&O). Their designation was M1, but because of their expense and poor performance they acquired the nickname "Sacred Cow". The units, which had Westinghouse electrical systems, h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2224535 | 495,437 |
1,325,441 | Diffraction is a characteristic effect when a wave is incident upon an aperture or a grating, and is closely associated with the meaning of wave motion itself. In the 19th Century, diffraction was well established for light and for ripples on the surfaces of fluids. In 1927, while working for Bell Labs, Davisson and Le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=930254 | 1,324,714 |
283,125 | Another new regulation decreed by FISA was that, in the interest of safety, the driver's feet must be situated behind the front axle-line. This rule had been introduced in 1988 and teams were free to incorporate it if they chose, but it was only made compulsory in 1989. Designers introduced smaller and more cramped coc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1137718 | 282,972 |
1,013,209 | The C/30, featuring a barrel length of 65 calibres, had a fire rate of about 120 rounds per minute. Disappointingly, it proved to have feeding problems and would often jam, which was offset to some degree by its undersized 20 round-magazine which tended to make reloading a frequent necessity. Nevertheless, the C/30 bec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3563538 | 1,012,688 |
874,980 | By the 1880s, the German chemical industry, jump-started by the lucrative development of dyes from coal tar, was branching out to investigate the potential of new tar-derived medicines. The turning point was the advent of Kalle & Company's Antifebrine, the branded version of acetanilide —the fever-reducing properties o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16283254 | 874,518 |
1,031,990 | The major exponents of the mid-17th century, Jacob van Campen and Pieter Post, adopted de Keyser's forms for such eclectic elements as giant-order pilasters, gable roofs, central pediments, and vigorous steeples. Brought together in a coherent combination, these stylistic developments anticipated Wren's Classicism. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9011443 | 1,031,454 |
354,667 | Webber made his F1 test debut with the Arrows team in a two-day session organised by Stoddart at the Circuit de Catalunya in December 1999. Plans to drive the Arrows A21 car at Silverstone in July 2000 was cancelled, when he and Stoddart rejected a binding contract for from team owner Tom Walkinshaw. Webber received a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564161 | 354,484 |
1,401,150 | Despite these initiatives, housing standards in Sweden were low. After the Second World War a massive building project was undertaken to satisfy the housing shortage and improve standards. In 1965 the government announced the Million Programme—the building of a million new dwellings within ten years (with a population ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6579985 | 1,400,363 |
1,503,596 | Alladi was born in Thiruvananthapuram, and did his undergraduate studies at the University of Madras, graduating in 1975. While still an undergraduate, he wrote to Paul Erdős concerning his research on the function that maps each integer to the sum of its prime factors (with repetition); Erdős came to Madras to meet hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45020957 | 1,502,750 |
1,825,933 | After the growing season, "Aphalenchoides fragariae" adults and juveniles may remain in soils for up to three months, while eggs may stay dormant for years until favorable conditions arise. Overwintering only occurs in dead plant tissues, and nematodes may successfully remain dormant in temperatures as low as 2 °C. Onc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14402154 | 1,824,895 |
789,981 | In the first week of April 1915 the soldiers of the 1st Canadian Division were moved to reinforce the salient where the British and Allied line pushed into the German line in a concave bend. On 22 April, the Germans sought to eliminate this salient by using poison gas. Following an intensive artillery bombardment, they... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5567596 | 789,556 |
307,608 | The vector concept, as we know it today, is the result of a gradual development over a period of more than 200 years. About a dozen people contributed significantly to its development. In 1835, Giusto Bellavitis abstracted the basic idea when he established the concept of equipollence. Working in a Euclidean plane, he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32533 | 307,443 |
1,329,554 | North East Institute of Science and Technology (NEIST), Jorhat (formerly Regional Research Laboratory) is a constituent establishment of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), a premier R&D organization of India, which has a chain of laboratories across the country. This laboratory was established in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17938085 | 1,328,826 |
1,566,024 | The first agreed upon account of synesthesia comes from German physician Georg Tobias Ludwig Sachs in 1812, who reports on his colored vowels as part of his PhD dissertation (on his albinism), although its importance has only become apparent retrospectively. The father of psychophysics, Gustav Fechner reported on a fir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6462420 | 1,565,137 |
1,384,105 | Between the 9th and 10th centuries, the Egyptian mathematician Abu Kamil wrote a now-lost treatise on the use of double false position, known as the "Book of the Two Errors" ("Kitāb al-khaṭāʾayn"). The oldest surviving writing on double false position from the Middle East is that of Qusta ibn Luqa (10th century), an Ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3304216 | 1,383,338 |
1,655,964 | The fern thrives in thin serpentine soils on sunny, disturbed habitats such as roadcuts and talus slopes, in dunite and other ultramafic rocks. Anthropogenic disturbance has removed thicker soils and increased sun exposure in many of these sites; for instance, many of the Quebec stations are in asbestos mines, both aba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32805051 | 1,655,031 |
64,394 | That important state variable was first recognized and denoted formula_6 by Clausius in 1850, but he did not then name it, and he defined it in terms not only of work but also of heat transfer in the same process. It was also independently recognized in 1850 by Rankine, who also denoted it formula_6 ; and in 1851 by Ke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166404 | 64,369 |
991,903 | The capacitive stylus pickup system which gives the CED its name can be contrasted with the technology of the conventional phonograph. Whereas the phonograph stylus physically vibrates with the variations in the record groove, and those vibrations are converted by a mechanical transducer (the phono pickup) to an electr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=716106 | 991,386 |
1,904,670 | Based on the expertise of the lecturers at the center, three research centers have been established under the Institute for Infrastructures Engineering and Sustainable Management (IIESM) namely myGERMeG, GeoFORENSIC and TRANSIT. Under myGERMeG research center, the members are actively involved in research, consultation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44432862 | 1,903,575 |
496,872 | A potential Curtin-Hammett scenario was also encountered during the enantioselective total synthesis of (+)-allocyathin B2 by the Trost group. The pivotal step in the synthesis was a Ru-catalyzed diastereoselective cycloisomerization. The reaction could result in the formation of two possible double bond isomers. The r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3702470 | 496,616 |
1,359,690 | Recombinant technology has also played a role in biofuel development. This has been explored using expression systems found in bacteria, plants, and yeast. Specifically, the heterologous expression of cellulase enzymes utilizes cellulose, the most abundant raw material worldwide. Cellulolytic enzymes are found in plant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29071957 | 1,358,939 |
684,562 | Stability constant values are exploited in a wide variety of applications. Chelation therapy is used in the treatment of various metal-related illnesses, such as iron overload in β-thalassemia sufferers who have been given blood transfusions. The ideal ligand binds to the target metal ion and not to others, but this de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20869108 | 684,205 |
692,645 | In 1967, Charles Pedersen, who was a chemist working at DuPont, discovered a simple method of synthesizing a crown ether when he was trying to prepare a complexing agent for divalent cations. His strategy entailed linking two catecholate groups through one hydroxyl on each molecule. This linking defines a polydentate l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1075926 | 692,282 |
716,307 | The major key to effective decentralization is increased broad-based participation in local-public decision making. In 2000, the World Bank report reveals that local government knows the needs and desires of their constituents better than the national government, while at the same time, it is easier to hold local leade... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4473245 | 715,930 |
1,658,036 | "The New York Times" said of Nirenberg's work that "the science of biology has reached a new frontier," leading to "a revolution far greater in its potential significance than the atomic or hydrogen bomb." Most of the scientific community saw these experiments as highly important and beneficial. However, there were som... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=611203 | 1,657,103 |
1,165,192 | Although low-energy houses can be constructed from dense or lightweight materials, internal thermal mass is normally incorporated to reduce summer peak temperatures, maintain stable winter temperatures, and prevent possible overheating in spring or autumn before the higher sun angle "shades" midday wall exposure and wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1866529 | 1,164,575 |
60,943 | Electric motors revolutionized industry. Industrial processes were no longer limited by power transmission using line shafts, belts, compressed air or hydraulic pressure. Instead, every machine could be equipped with its own power source, providing easy control at the point of use, and improving power transmission effi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=76086 | 60,918 |
313,077 | The "Panay" incident did prompt Roosevelt and Leahy to press ahead with plans for an ambitious shipbuilding program. On January 5, Roosevelt, Leahy and Edison met with Congressman Carl Vinson to draw up a strategy for obtaining Congressional approval for a 20 percent increase in all classes of warships. The resulting S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=448716 | 312,909 |
179,059 | The 152 mm howitzer 2A65 (M1987) is mounted on a conventional split trail carriage and, when deployed in the firing position, rests on three points, the hydraulic circular firing jack under the forward part of the carriage and the two spades at the rear. Each of the box section trails has a caster wheel to assist the g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15874399 | 178,966 |
684,223 | Most manufacturers of new domestic condensing boilers produce a basic "fit all" control system that results in the boiler running in condensing mode only on initial heat-up, after which the efficiency drops off. This approach should still exceed that of older models (see the following three documents published by the B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4277518 | 683,866 |
1,360,197 | Third generation systems (1980s) were transistorized and based on integrated circuits and likely used stronger algorithms. They were smaller and more reliable. Field maintenance was often limited to running a diagnostic mode and replacing a complete bad unit with a spare, the defective box being sent to a depot for rep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1042273 | 1,359,445 |
1,175,705 | The NCAA men's water polo championship was held December 1 and 2, 2018 at Avery Aquatic Center, Stanford, California. The tournament continued with the format in which eight teams competed for the championship. Teams qualifying as champions of their conferences were Long Beach State, from the Golden Coast Conference (G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=546997 | 1,175,083 |
269,944 | Although many components of the Su-15 were similar or identical to the previous Su-9 and Su-11 (NATO reporting name "Fishpot"), including Sukhoi's characteristic rear-fuselage air brake, the Su-15 abandoned the shock-inlet cone nose intake for side-mounted intake ramps with splitter plates feeding two powerful turbojet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=809641 | 269,797 |
687,767 | Not all scholars agree that Federalist No. 70 justifies the role that the President has played in the war on terror up to this point. Some scholars contend that President Bush's foreign policy decisions exceeded his presidential powers granted by the Constitution. Further, critics of the Bush Administration argue that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2653936 | 687,409 |
1,105,583 | There was a need for a separate body to look into the division of resources. Therefore, the finance commission was appointed in 1951 for the allocation of resources of revenue between the central and the state governments. It was held responsible for examining their liabilities, the resources of the states, their budge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26102286 | 1,105,020 |
1,103,785 | The holotype specimen AMNH FR 30556 (previously AMNH 001 and FIP 001, sometimes wrongly referred to as AMNH FR 30554), was uncovered in layers of the Upper Two Medicine Formation dating to the late Campanian. It is currently housed at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. It consists of a partially articula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1993708 | 1,103,223 |
1,275,773 | Under the act, government expenditure was not allowed immediately. They had concerns the entrepreneurs who had been bought out would set up in business again undercutting the Post Office flat rate of one shilling (5p) in lucrative city areas (the District charged sixpence (2.5p) in London) with no obligation to serve u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60245762 | 1,275,080 |
255,264 | Diamagnetism is a property of all materials, and always makes a weak contribution to the material's response to a magnetic field. However, other forms of magnetism (such as ferromagnetism or paramagnetism) are so much stronger that, when multiple different forms of magnetism are present in a material, the diamagnetic c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8315 | 255,130 |
2,095,073 | The men's rings competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The qualification and final rounds took place on July 29, 31 and August 4 at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion. There were 71 competitors from 19 nations, with nations competing in the team e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24179646 | 2,093,865 |
846,857 | Though it occurred less frequently than with balloon angioplasty or other techniques, stents nonetheless remained vulnerable to restenosis, caused almost exclusively by neointimal tissue growth. To address this issue, developers of drug-eluting stents used the devices themselves as a tool for delivering medication dire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5284087 | 846,407 |
1,424,067 | Its predecessor was the Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science, which opened on October 24, 1939. The Buhl Planetarium was the fifth major planetarium in the United States, and was popular for several decades. However, by the 1980s it had begun to show signs of age. An expansion was ruled out, so the institu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1417208 | 1,423,265 |
665,782 | Organoids enable to study how cells interact together in an organ, their interaction with their environment, how diseases affect them and the effect of drugs. "In vitro" culture makes this system easy to manipulate and facilitates their monitoring. While organs are difficult to culture because their size limits the pen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4542890 | 665,434 |
1,939,354 | While attending the University of Delaware, he acquired a job as a television cameraman, which led to his interest in educational media - particularly, how media technology was affecting instruction. He changed careers to become an academic and held professorships at Penn State University, the University of Colorado, D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52054402 | 1,938,244 |
381,751 | In many applications of predictive modeling, the structure of the system being studied evolves over time (i.e. it is "non-stationary"). Both of these can introduce systematic differences between the training and validation sets. For example, if a model for predicting stock values is trained on data for a certain five-y... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=416612 | 381,556 |
1,826,621 | David Brian Dunson (born 1972) is an American statistician who is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Statistical Science, Mathematics and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Duke University. His research focuses on developing statistical methods for complex and high-dimensional data. Particular themes of his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47140742 | 1,825,582 |
1,503,022 | ZymoGenetics' headquarters was previously in the landmark Lake Union Steam Plant building. This structure was built from 1914 to 1921 by Seattle City Light, the municipal electric utility. At the time, the building was in poor condition with many broken windows; Bruce Carter, the chief executive at the time, described ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=737761 | 1,502,176 |
703,225 | If one wants to represent a VLE data for a three-component mixture as a boiling point "diagram", a three-dimensional graph can be used. Two of the dimensions would be used to represent the composition mole fractions, and the third dimension would be the temperature. Using two dimensions, the composition can be represen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7817474 | 702,857 |
1,425,262 | The human enzyme cystathionine β-synthase is a tetramer and comprises 551 amino acids with a subunit molecular weight of 61 kDa. It displays a modular organization of three modules with the N-terminal heme domain followed by a core that contains the PLP cofactor. The cofactor is deep in the heme domain and is linked by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10952145 | 1,424,460 |
387,202 | Some authors support the idea of an aquatic phase as the origin of monocots. The phylogenetic position of Alismatales (many water), which occupy a relationship with the rest except the Acoraceae, do not rule out the idea, because it could be 'the most primitive monocots' but not 'the most basal'. The Atactostele stem, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55625 | 387,007 |
680,434 | Cerebral and spinal MRI is an important procedure performed in order to rule out other frequent neurological conditions, such as multiple sclerosis, but also to detect associated abnormalities such as cerebellar or corpus callosum atrophy as well as white matter abnormalities. Differential diagnosis of HSP should also ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=233735 | 680,079 |
810,822 | In September 1940, Rabi became a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the U.S. Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory. That month, the British Tizard Mission brought a number of new technologies to the United States, including a cavity magnetron, a high-powered device that generates microwaves using the interac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196999 | 810,390 |
255,759 | The LMC has a wide range of galactic objects and phenomena that make it known as an "astronomical treasure-house, a great celestial laboratory for the study of the growth and evolution of the stars", per Robert Burnham Jr. Surveys of the galaxy have found roughly 60 globular clusters, 400 planetary nebulae and 700 open... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39374 | 255,625 |
182,433 | Great tension developed in the crust, probably related to changing plate motions far to the west. As the crust stretched, the Basin and Range Province broke up into a multitude of down-dropped valleys and elongate mountains. Major faults, such as the Hurricane Fault, developed that separate the two regions. The dry cli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=649020 | 182,337 |
1,787,937 | After winning the jump ball, Baylor controlled much of the first half. The Bears jumped out to an early 9–0 lead with multiple baskets each from Davion Mitchell and Jared Butler before Gonzaga's Andrew Nembhard scored a free throw. Gonzaga's first field goal came nearly five minutes into the game, with Corey Kispert's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60432781 | 1,786,932 |
64,900 | In the Framingham Heart Study, each 10 mg/dL (0.6 mmol/L) increase in total cholesterol levels increased 30-year overall mortality by 5% and CVD mortality by 9%. While subjects over the age of 50 had an 11% increase in overall mortality, and a 14% increase in cardiovascular disease mortality per 1 mg/dL (0.06 mmol/L) y... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6437 | 64,875 |
1,306,883 | Racing engines often fail at high rotational speeds because mechanical springs are unable to retract the valves quickly enough to provide clearance for the piston. Renault's pneumatic valve technology replaced steel springs with light weight compressed air bellows. These could retract valves more quickly and reduce the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5850600 | 1,306,167 |
397,921 | While working on her doctorate, Resnik switched jobs in 1974, and went to work as a research fellow in biomedical engineering at the Laboratory of Neurophysiology at the National Institutes of Health. As a biomedical engineer, Resnik researched the physiology of visual systems. In 1977 she earned her PhD in electrical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=316815 | 397,725 |
363,805 | In 1942, the Smithsonian Institution, under a new secretary, Charles Abbot, published a list of 35 Curtiss modifications to the "Aerodrome" and a retraction of its long-held claims for the craft. Abbot went on to list four regrets including the role the Institution played in supporting unsuccessful defendants in patent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1045608 | 363,615 |
362,756 | After the fall of the Roman Empire, interest in geography greatly declined in Europe. Hindu and Muslim astronomers continued to develop these ideas, adding many new locations and often improving on Ptolemy's data. For example al-Battānī used simultaneous observations of two lunar eclipses to determine the difference in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17617 | 362,566 |
1,269,721 | Does the SHZ extend north? Though the Olympia Structure (a suspected fault) runs towards the SHZ, and delineates the northern edge of an exposed section of the Crescent Formation, it appears to be an "upper" crustal fold, part of a pattern of folding that extends southeast to cross the Columbia River near The Dalles, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27651043 | 1,269,030 |
1,871,381 | Rosette and lower pitchers are narrowly ovoid in the lower third to half of the pitcher cup. Above the hip, they are cylindrical and somewhat narrower. Terrestrial pitchers are relatively small, growing to 12 cm in height and 4 cm in width. A pair of fringed wings (≤4 mm wide) runs down the front of the pitcher. The gl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4859404 | 1,870,304 |
121,259 | The nuclear envelope allows control of the nuclear contents, and separates them from the rest of the cytoplasm where necessary. This is important for controlling processes on either side of the nuclear membrane: In most cases where a cytoplasmic process needs to be restricted, a key participant is removed to the nucleu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6235 | 121,210 |
812,290 | As an example, consider two triangles moving in time formula_61 and formula_62. At any point in time, the two triangles can be checked for intersection using the twenty planes previously mentioned. However, we can do better, since these twenty planes can all be tracked in time. If formula_63 is the plane going through ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=171552 | 811,857 |
746,532 | Preprolactase, the primary translation product, has a single polypeptide primary structure consisting of 1927 amino acids. It can be divided into five domains: (i) a 19-amino-acid cleaved signal sequence; (ii) a large prosequence domain that is not present in mature lactase; (iii) the mature lactase segment; (iv) a mem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18645 | 746,137 |
1,628,411 | In Minnesota, the state forestry agency has partnered with The Nature Conservancy and U.S Forest Service scientists to discern climate adaptation options where dieback of native trees is already evident in its northwoods. An article published in 2022 by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reports on the imple... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66931587 | 1,627,492 |
371,952 | The rapid mutation rate (in animals) makes mtDNA useful for assessing genetic relationships of individuals or groups within a species and also for identifying and quantifying the phylogeny (evolutionary relationships; see phylogenetics) among different species. To do this, biologists determine and then compare the mtDN... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89796 | 371,757 |
1,561,568 | Sen's internships and surgical training were completed at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital (KEM), Bombay between 1938 and 1943, after which he returned to G.S. Medical College as assistant honorary surgeon. Initially, he received aid from the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR). He was frequently in dispute wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57464531 | 1,560,682 |
178,299 | After the Nazi takeover of power in 1933, the Gleichschaltung transformed the university into a Nazi educational institution. According to the Führerprinzip the autonomous and self-governing administration of the university was replaced by a hierarchy of leaders resembling the military, with the university president be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89061 | 178,206 |
1,553,238 | Later in Permian time, the Kaibab Sea invaded the land and laid down a limey ooze that later lithified to form the locally up to 200 foot (60 m) thick Kaibab Limestone. This is the same light gray to white formation that rims the Grand Canyon to the southwest (see Geology of the Grand Canyon area). The lower parts of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1114005 | 1,552,357 |
2,060,243 | His work encompassed the subjects of magnetism, electricity, humidity, and capillary action (Jamin effect, Jamin chain). Other areas included the compressibility of liquids, the critical point of gases, specific heats, hygrometry, and the measurement of indices of refraction of gases, liquid water at different pressure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7075468 | 2,059,056 |
133,595 | Hagfish are long and vermiform, and can exude copious quantities of a milky and fibrous slime or mucus from about 100 glands or invaginations running along their flanks. Hagfish are able to produce a lot of slime, which combines with seawater, when they are in danger as a defense mechanism. This slime that hagfish excr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77662 | 133,542 |
1,320,058 | A tracking and data relay satellite (TDRS) is a type of communications satellite that forms part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) used by NASA and other United States government agencies for communications to and from independent "User Platforms" such as satellites, balloons, aircraft, the Intern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3766627 | 1,319,332 |
693,954 | WSR-88D has coverage gaps below 10,000 feet (or no coverage at all) in many parts of the continental United States, often for terrain or budgetary reasons, or remoteness of the area. Such notable gaps include most of Alaska; several areas of Oregon, including the central and southern coast and much of the area east of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314409 | 693,591 |
1,107,658 | Much of the reactor power control during steady-state operation comes as a result of the coolant water's negative temperature coefficient. The power of the reactor is determined by the instantaneous rate of fission events that take place in the fuel. As the water heats up, it expands and becomes less dense, which provi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231266 | 1,107,094 |
2,242,062 | Texas A&M University has initiated a program of study in the emerging nation of Qatar. A focused and growing library supports the four engineering disciplines: chemical, electrical, mechanical, and petroleum and the liberal arts subject areas required for these degrees. In addition to managing information resources, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8958419 | 2,240,791 |
2,013,408 | Silence Therapeutics develops medicines by harnessing the body's natural mechanism of RNA interference, or RNAi, to inhibit the expression of specific target genes thought to play a role in the pathology of diseases with significant unmet needs. Silence's proprietary mRNAi GOLD™ platform can be used to create siRNAs (s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33150311 | 2,012,249 |
1,761,735 | Fractionating Hadamard matrices appropriately is very time-consuming. Consider a 24-run design accommodating six factors. The number of Hadamard designs from each Hadamard matrix is 23 choose 6; that is 100,947 designs from each 24×24 Hadamard matrix. Since there are 60 Hadamard matrices of that size, the total number ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37759033 | 1,760,742 |
756,496 | In April 2018, a partnership agreement was signed between Aero Vodochody and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) for the integration of the latter's virtual training solutions onto the L-39NG, in addition to jointly working on other projects. The first L-39NG prototype was rolled out in Odolena Voda on 12 October 2018, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46999159 | 756,093 |
304,241 | Originally measured as in height, Mount Elbert's elevation was later adjusted to following a re-evaluation of mapped elevations, which sparked protests. The actual change was made in 1988 as a result of the North American Vertical Datum of 1988; it seems the original measurement resulted from the Sea Level Datum of 192... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=364793 | 304,079 |
1,205,576 | In the middle to late 1830s, both Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre found ways of chemically stabilizing the images their processes produced, making them relatively insensitive to additional exposure to light. In 1839, John Herschel pointed out his earlier published discovery that hyposulphite of soda (now known as s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3650851 | 1,204,931 |
2,106,488 | His first appointment was in the Department of Environment and Resource Studies at the University Waterloo (1987–88). He moved to New York City in 1988 to continue research in philosophy of technology in the Philosophy and Technology Studies Center at the Polytechnic University of New York. Higgs' taught at Oberlin Col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8084673 | 2,105,275 |
1,960,177 | With the rapid expansion of higher education and the starting of an undergraduate mathematics degree this changed, and by 1968 the 15-storey Maths and Social Sciences Building (MSS) was completed on UMIST campus to house the growing department. In 1960 Robin Bullough joined the UMIST department initiating four decades ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10387568 | 1,959,050 |
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