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335,066 | The fuel used depended on what was economically available to the railway. In the UK and other parts of Europe, plentiful supplies of coal made this the obvious choice from the earliest days of the steam engine. Until 1870, the majority of locomotives in the United States burned wood, but as the Eastern forests were cle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196788 | 334,888 |
147,733 | In 2003, NovaUCD, a Euro Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre opened. In 2004, Hugh Brady was appointed president. In 2006, UCD Horizons begins. In 2009, Trinity and UCD announce the Innovation Alliance. In 2010, NCAD and UCD form an academic alliance. In 2012 the expanded Student and Sports Centre opened. In 2012... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41537643 | 147,674 |
827,727 | Referencing the inherent qualities of a system in place of a reference state environment is the most direct way that ecologists determine the exergy of a natural resource. Specifically, it is easiest to examine the thermodynamic properties of a system, and the reference substances that are acceptable within the referen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1075005 | 827,283 |
1,569,381 | What she and C.L.R.U. were trying to do was far ahead of its time. Efforts were made to tackle fundamental problems with the computers of the day that had the capacity of a modern digital wrist watch. Despite every kind of problem, the Unit produced numerous publications on language and related subjects, including info... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25850319 | 1,568,494 |
1,653,718 | PAR2 is a member of the large family of 7-transmembrane receptors that couple to guanosine-nucleotide-binding proteins. PAR2 is also a member of the protease-activated receptor family. PAR2 is activated by several different endogenous and exogenous proteases. It is activated by proteolytic cleavage of its extracellular... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14258296 | 1,652,786 |
387,611 | The Nilotic peoples of Sudan such as the Shilluk and Dinka have been described as some of the tallest in the world. Dinka Ruweng males investigated by Roberts in 1953–54 were on average tall, and Shilluk males averaged . The Nilotic people are characterized as having long legs, narrow bodies and short trunks, an adapta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=905957 | 387,416 |
1,433,681 | Smaart's transfer function requires a stereo input to the computer because it analyzes two channels of audio signal. Using its dual-FFT mode, Smaart compares one channel with the other to show the difference. This is used by live sound engineers to set up concert sound systems before a show and to monitor and adjust th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24803004 | 1,432,877 |
34,573 | Ytterbium, holmium, thulium, and erbium are other common "dopants" in solid-state lasers. Ytterbium is used in crystals such as Yb:YAG, Yb:KGW, Yb:KYW, Yb:SYS, Yb:BOYS, Yb:CaF, typically operating around 1020–1050 nm. They are potentially very efficient and high powered due to a small quantum defect. Extremely high pow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17556 | 34,561 |
36,476 | Approximately four hours prior to deorbit, the crew began preparing the orbiter vehicle for reentry by closing the payload doors, radiating excess heat, and retracting the Ku band antenna. The orbiter vehicle maneuvered to an upside-down, tail-first orientation and began a 2–4 minute OMS burn approximately 20 minutes b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28189 | 36,464 |
1,378,753 | Cytochrome c release is proposed to take place in one of two ways. Firstly, the permeability transition pore (PTP) when the mitochondria receives a death inducing signal, and releases intermembrane space proteins (12). The PTP is composed of the voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC), the inner membrane protein adenine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3736715 | 1,377,991 |
1,890,599 | Born in Denmark in 1950, his interest in environmental toxins began as a teenager watching birds and realizing that they were threatened by pesticides. Grandjean obtained his MD in environmental medicine from the University of Copenhagen in 1974 and his PhD in 1979. He began his career conducting field work into mercur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42019271 | 1,889,516 |
1,577,020 | VASVIK awards have been instituted by Vividhlaxi Audyogik Samshodhan Vikas Kendra (VASVIK), a non profit making non governmental organization established in 1974 by the Mumbai based business family of Patels, headed by Mohan Patel, an ex Sheriff of Mumbai, who is credited with the development of the first ophthalmic no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44942272 | 1,576,131 |
418,824 | Fritware (also called stonepaste) is a composite material made from quartz sand mixed with small amounts of finely ground glass (called frit) and some clay. When fired, the glass frit melts and binds the other components together. In the 13th century the town of Kashan in Iran was an important centre for the production... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8677039 | 418,619 |
756,492 | The L-39NG project has been divided into two distinct stages, or versions. The Stage 1 programme is an upgrade that is available to existing L-39 operators; the original airframes are retrofitted with a new engine and (optionally) modern avionics. The Stage 2 programme involves the production of new-build aircraft; the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46999159 | 756,089 |
2,132,809 | The squadron was first activated as the 566th Bombardment Squadron in late December 1942 at Davis-Monthan Field, Arizona, one of the original four squadrons of the 389th Bombardment Group. A little over a month later, its cadre moved to Biggs Field, Texas, where it began training with the Consolidated B-24 Liberator he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25923533 | 2,131,584 |
1,143,948 | One of the earliest and most well known form of sensory substitution devices was Paul Bach-y-Rita's TVSS that converted the image from a video camera into a tactile image and coupled it to the tactile receptors on the back of his blind subject. Recently, several new systems have been developed that interface the tactil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1903855 | 1,143,348 |
281,562 | Because of advances in aircraft design and engineering — especially in powerplants and aerodynamics — the size of payloads carried by heavy bombers has increased at rates greater than increases in the size of their airframes. The largest bombers of World War I, the four engine aircraft built by the Sikorsky company in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=343960 | 281,409 |
1,896,700 | MACF1 is important for embryonic development. For mice, by embryonic day 7.5 (E7.5), MACF1 is expressed in the headfold and primitive streak, and by E8.5 the protein is expressed in neuronal tissues and the foregut. MACF1 was shown to be present in the Wnt signaling pathway. When Wnt signalling is not present, MACF1 as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14773692 | 1,895,616 |
133,258 | Theophrastus wrote some of the earliest descriptions of plants and animals, establishing the first taxonomy and looking at minerals in terms of their properties such as hardness. Pliny the Elder produced what is one of the largest encyclopedias of the natural world in 77 CE and must be regarded as the rightful successo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400 | 133,205 |
1,328,977 | It is not possible to make every element into an anion easily, so it is very rare for tandems to accelerate any noble gases heavier than helium, although KrF and XeF have been successfully produced and accelerated with a tandem. It is not uncommon to make compounds in order to get anions, however, and TiH might be extr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26877140 | 1,328,249 |
1,476,070 | Low voltage and low current signals (i.e., at the secondary of a voltage transformers and current transformers) are brought into a low pass filter that removes frequency content above about 1/3 of the sampling frequency (a relay A/D converter needs to sample faster than twice per cycle of the highest frequency that it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14840572 | 1,475,238 |
344,510 | A completely sealed distillation apparatus could experience extreme and rapidly varying internal pressure, which could cause it to burst open at the joints. Therefore, some path is usually left open (for instance, at the receiving flask) to allow the internal pressure to equalize with atmospheric pressure. Alternativel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8301 | 344,329 |
730,780 | In attempts to address the weaker structure of the reparative fibrocartilage, new techniques have been designed to fill the defect with tissue that more closely simulates normal hyaline articular cartilage. One such technique is autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI), which is useful for large, isolated femoral defe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3762029 | 730,395 |
411,489 | The use of this warhead type is mainly restricted to lightly armored areas of main battle tanks (MBT) such as the top, belly and rear armored areas. It is well suited for the attack of other less heavily protected armored fighting vehicles (AFV) and in the breaching of material targets (buildings, bunkers, bridge suppo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37515 | 411,287 |
1,126,036 | Three-finger toxins (abbreviated 3FTx) are a protein superfamily of small toxin proteins found in the venom of snakes. Three-finger toxins are in turn members of a larger superfamily of three-finger protein domains which includes non-toxic proteins that share a similar protein fold. The group is named for its common st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53872747 | 1,125,459 |
1,950,721 | Opsismodysplasia can be characterized by a delay in bone maturation, which refers to "bone aging", an expected sequence of developmental changes in the skeleton corresponding to the chronological age of a person. Factors such as gender and ethnicity also play a role in bone age assessment. The only indicator of physica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31513765 | 1,949,600 |
377,182 | While alone in orbit, Gordon performed the Lunar Multispectral Photography Experiment, using four Hasselblad cameras arranged in a ring and aimed through one of the CM's windows. With each camera having a different color filter, simultaneous photos would be taken by each, showing the appearance of lunar features at dif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1967 | 376,987 |
664,791 | Between the wars various experimental bridging tanks were used to test a series of methods for bridging obstacles and developed by the Experimental Bridging Establishment (EBE). Captain SG Galpin RE conceived a prototype Light Tank Mk V to test the Scissors Assault Bridge. This concept was realised by Captain SA Stewar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6821 | 664,444 |
1,168,484 | Unlike patents, which may confer proprietary rights in relation to general ideas and concepts "per se" when construed as methods, copyrights cannot confer such rights. An adventure novel provides an illustration of the concept. Copyright may subsist in the work as a whole, in the particular story or characters involved... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230946 | 1,167,866 |
11,151 | Sagan further contributed insights regarding the atmospheres of Venus and Jupiter, as well as seasonal changes on Mars. He also perceived global warming as a growing, man-made danger and likened it to the natural development of Venus into a hot, life-hostile planet through a kind of runaway greenhouse effect. He testif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6824 | 11,146 |
1,999,773 | Because it has following benefits: Multiple apertures that are displaced in along-track can acquire additional samples along the synthetic aperture and meanwhile they enable an efficient suppression of azimuth ambiguities. Moreover, by controlling a highly directive receiver beam following the radar pulse as it travels... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52292265 | 1,998,629 |
101,389 | There is a distinction between those with hyperthymesia and those with other forms of exceptional memory, who generally use mnemonic or similar rehearsal strategies to memorize long strings of information. Memories recalled by hyperthymestic individuals tend to be personal, autobiographical accounts of both significant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4476769 | 101,344 |
320,524 | Decreased production of neutrophils is associated with deficiencies of vitamin B12 and folic acid, aplastic anemia, tumors, drugs, metabolic disease, nutritional deficiency and immune mechanisms. In general, the most common oral manifestations of neutropenia include ulcer, gingivitis, and periodontitis. Agranulocytosis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=235419 | 320,352 |
50,415 | In historical sources, Aramaic language is designated by two distinctive groups of terms, first of them represented by endonymic (native) names, and the other one represented by various exonymic (foreign in origin) names. Native (endonymic) terms for Aramaic language were derived from the same word root as the name of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2303 | 50,395 |
536,033 | Astrometry has also been used to support claims of extrasolar planet detection by measuring the displacement the proposed planets cause in their parent star's apparent position on the sky, due to their mutual orbit around the center of mass of the system. Astrometry is more accurate in space missions that are not affec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1181 | 535,754 |
63,106 | The invention of the cavity magnetron made possible the production of electromagnetic waves of a small enough wavelength (microwaves). The magnetron was a crucial component in the development of short wavelength radar during World War II. In 1937–1940, a multi-cavity magnetron was built by British physicist Sir John Tu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58017 | 63,081 |
1,361,282 | Typically, high-purity artificially grown sapphire crystals are used. The silicon is usually deposited by the decomposition of silane gas (SiH) on heated sapphire substrates. The advantage of sapphire is that it is an excellent electrical insulator, preventing stray currents caused by radiation from spreading to nearby... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=747222 | 1,360,529 |
1,629,868 | TechEdSat-8 (Technical and Educational Satellite-8) was CubeSat 6U. It was built as a conjoined project between San Jose State University (SJSU) and the University of Idaho as a collaborative engineering project, with oversight from the NASA Ames Research Center. It was a technology demonstration mission to further dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34573806 | 1,628,949 |
1,215,273 | With appropriate parameter selection, MFSK can tolerate significant Doppler or delay spreads, especially when augmented with forward error correction. (Mitigating large amounts of Doppler "and" delay spread is significantly more challenging, but it is still possible). A long delay spread with little Doppler spreading c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2371591 | 1,214,621 |
1,093,572 | The x-process in cosmic rays is the primary means of nucleosynthesis for the five stable isotopes of lithium, beryllium, and boron. As the proton–proton chain reaction cannot proceed beyond He due to the unbound nature of He and Li, and the triple alpha process skips over all species between He and C, these elements ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2447137 | 1,093,012 |
2,190,978 | SARE is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). It was initially authorized as the Low-Input Sustainable Agriculture (LISA) Program in the Food Security Act of 1985. In 1990, the Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade Act (FACTA) changed the name of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23610014 | 2,189,729 |
1,035,142 | Liuzzi pulled over to the inside of the circuit on the third lap, at turn ten, with left-rear suspension damage resulting from contact with the wall. His retirement triggered the deployment of the safety car as marshals were required to push his car away from the track. Webber was the only top running driver to pit for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24511010 | 1,034,602 |
601,771 | Relief carving became common in 5th century BC Greece, and gradually most of the spectacular carved gems in the Western tradition were in relief, although the Sassanian and other traditions remained faithful to the intaglio form. Generally a relief image is more impressive than an intaglio one; in the earlier form the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21369171 | 601,462 |
985,027 | Conducting classified research, the laboratory was heavily secured; all employees and visitors needed badges to pass a checkpoint, many of the buildings were classified, and the laboratory itself was fenced and guarded. Such alluring secrecy drew visitors both authorized—including King Leopold III of Belgium and Queen ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160773 | 984,513 |
641,057 | Hooker's first expedition, led by James Clark Ross, consisted of two ships, and ; it was the last major voyage of exploration made entirely under sail. Hooker was the youngest of the 128-man crew. He sailed on the "Erebus" and was assistant to Robert McCormick, who in addition to being the ship's Surgeon was instructed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=364723 | 640,718 |
974,655 | Lander later became acquainted with David Botstein, a geneticist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Botstein was working on a way to unravel how subtle differences in complex genetic systems can become disorders such as cancer, diabetes, schizophrenia, and even obesity. The two collaborated to develop ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=610184 | 974,144 |
1,081,549 | In 1976 Nick Sheridon of Xerox Corporation patented a Twisting Ball Panel Display, where he refers to a "plurality of particles which have an electrical anisotropy." Although the term "Janus particles" was not yet used, Lee and coworkers also reported particles matching this description in 1985. They introduced asymmet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16037610 | 1,080,993 |
338,861 | From 1946 to 1947 George B. Dantzig independently developed general linear programming formulation to use for planning problems in the US Air Force. In 1947, Dantzig also invented the simplex method that, for the first time efficiently, tackled the linear programming problem in most cases. When Dantzig arranged a meeti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43730 | 338,681 |
1,319,769 | The original plans foresaw a second-phase opening in 2008, with new trains cruising at a top speed of cutting Seoul-Busan travel times to just 1 hours 56 minutes. However, construction was delayed, and trains with higher top speeds weren't yet available. The main cause of delay was a long dispute over the environmental... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13602108 | 1,319,043 |
1,452,504 | Exposure assessment is a set of methods used to monitor contaminant release and exposures to workers and mitigate the health and safety hazards of nanomaterials in workplaces where they are handled. For engineered nanoparticles, the assessment often involves use of both real-time instruments such as particle counters, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54992011 | 1,451,687 |
852,044 | Three main pathways to explain this trend have been offered: placebo effect, focus and attitude adjustment, and activation of healing processes. These offerings have been expanded by Breslin and Lewis (2008) who have constructed a five pathway model between prayer and health with the following mediators: physiological,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=507197 | 851,590 |
1,150,707 | "B. mycoides" are rod-shaped cells about 1 micron across and 3 to 5 microns long. When growing, they either grow as single cells or form loosely connected chains of cells. They are not motile. "B. mycoides" can survive with or without oxygen and grows at temperatures ranging from 10 to 15 °C to 35–40 °C. "B. mycoides" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5145956 | 1,150,100 |
408,241 | Thiamine deficiency has been identified as the cause of a paralytic disease affecting wild birds in the Baltic Sea area dating back to 1982. In this condition, there is difficulty in keeping the wings folded along the side of the body when resting, loss of the ability to fly and voice, with eventual paralysis of the wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5759935 | 408,040 |
1,036,553 | As is common in automatic transmissions of its generation, power brought to the transmission via the torque converter drives hydraulic fluid. As the gears move faster or slower, pressure of the fluid increases or decreases in the case. Mechanical switching of gears is triggered by the increase or decrease of pressure. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12314033 | 1,036,013 |
1,941,278 | The Iron Age came relatively late to Denmark, but again the bogs yielded an exciting and dramatic find, Tollund Man. The well-preserved body of a hanged man created intense interest; it was associated by some with the accounts by Tacitus of sacrifices made to the goddess Nerthus. Runes based on the Latin alphabet began... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4650284 | 1,940,167 |
1,887,835 | A 10 GeV/c K- beam was required to produce the Ω suggested by Murray Gell-Mann on his SU(3) theory. Hence, in 1965 a RF separated beam was added in order to obtain a separated K and K at higher energies than with electrostatic separators. Furthermore, these beams enabled the study of hyperon resonances of strangeness -... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50994441 | 1,886,752 |
1,240,093 | The diameter of the core is hypothesized to be approximately , 70% of Pluto's diameter. It is possible that such heating continues today, creating a subsurface ocean layer of liquid water and ammonia some thick at the core–mantle boundary. Studies based on "New Horizon"'s images of Pluto reveal no signs of contraction ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2389848 | 1,239,425 |
572,464 | Inter-pulpal anaesthesia involves the direct placement of anaesthetic agent using a small needle (of 25 or 27 gauge) into the pulp chamber; it is injected under pressure leading to brief yet intense discomfort. This particular technique provides effective pulpal anaesthesia as the pulpal tissue is subject to chemical a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14298391 | 572,171 |
1,093,969 | There are a number of risks to the effective functioning of the Stiegler's Gorge Hydropower Project, if it is completed. One of these comes from climate change. It is unclear if the total rainfall in Tanzania will increase or decrease, but studies suggest that precipitation's variability will increase. This is importan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57026470 | 1,093,409 |
847,274 | Brainiac 5 joined other Legionnaires in searching for the space pirate Roxxas, and was present when the team officially reformed. The reassembled Legion repelled a Khund invasion fleet, and confronted Darkseid, but shortly thereafter, was swept into the war against the corrupt Earthgov and the Dominators. During the Do... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=713540 | 846,824 |
1,396,292 | Two evolutionary pathways may be considered to explain how and why gynogenesis evolved. The single-step pathway involves multiple changes taking place simultaneously: meiosis must be interrupted, one gender's gametes eradicated, and a unisexual gender formation must arise. The second option involves multiple steps: a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62008936 | 1,395,521 |
549,421 | GOES-16's design and instrumentation began in 1999 and was intended to fill key NOAA satellite requirements published that year. Following nearly a decade of instrument planning, spacecraft fabrication was contracted to Lockheed Martin Space Systems in 2008; construction of GOES-16 began in 2012 and lasted until 2014 w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35927196 | 549,133 |
2,145,674 | The institute is named after its founder, Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, who lived from 1851 to 1922. Jacobus Kapteyn was appointed professor of astronomy and theoretical mechanics in 1878 at a time when no astronomical tradition, let alone an observatory, existed in Groningen. Kapteyn's first "Astronomical Laboratory" was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8208723 | 2,144,443 |
631,155 | In order to keep radon levels in the dome area and water purification system below 100 Bq m, fresh air is continually pumped at approximately 10 m/min from outside the mine which generates a slight over-pressure in the Super-Kamiokande experimental area to minimize the entry of ambient mine air. A "Radon Hut" (Rn Hut) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28464 | 630,817 |
657,759 | Since 1992, Sanofi Pasteur has sponsored Sanofi Biogenius Canada (SBC), a national, biotechnology-focused science competition for Canadian high school and CEGEP students. Those selected for the SBC work with local mentors, giving students hands-on research experience in a professional lab setting. Participants compile ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4251406 | 657,415 |
463,826 | A collection of various criticisms can be found in the book "Hundert Autoren gegen Einstein" ("A Hundred Authors Against Einstein"), published in 1931. It contains very short texts from 28 authors, and excerpts from the publications of another 19 authors. The rest consists of a list that also includes people who only f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30694430 | 463,596 |
1,161,184 | Angina, or chest pain due to coronary insufficiency may persist for months after SCAD, sometimes even when repeat angiography shows vessel healing. Anti-anginal agents such as nitrates, calcium channel blockers and ranolazine are indicated as anti-anginal pharmacologic agents after SCAD. Control of hypertension is also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24946732 | 1,160,568 |
363,383 | Auburn University owns and operates the Auburn University Regional Airport, providing flight education and fuel, maintenance, and airplane storage. The Auburn University Aviation Department is fully certified by the FAA as an Air Agency with examining authority for private, commercial, instrument, and multiengine cours... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=327945 | 363,193 |
1,250,630 | Men enjoyed having a space that was free of women and which in the late 1940s "allowed them to continue the kind of male companionship and adventure they had enjoyed during the Second World War." In one news article about Antarctica written in 1958, the writer describes the use of dazzlement: "On the womanless continen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51410477 | 1,249,954 |
159,067 | Today, most ammonia is produced on a large scale by the Haber process with capacities of up to 3,300 tonnes per day. In this process, N and H gases are allowed to react at pressures of 200 bar. Ammonia is also processed by coal. The American Oil Co in the mid-1960s positioned a single-converter ammonia plant engineered... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4547563 | 158,985 |
959,801 | An occupational therapist may work with children in early intervention, from birth to three years old. The role of the occupational therapist is to support the child's needs by collaborating with the caregivers/parents. The goal of the occupational therapist in early intervention is to support the achievement of develo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48726 | 959,293 |
753,968 | The AICTE is composed of the e-Governance, Approval, Planning and Coordination, Academic, University, Administration, Finance, and Research, Institutional and Faculty Development Bureaus. There are 10 additional Board Studies dealing with technician, vocational, undergraduate engineering, postgraduate engineering and r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3072183 | 753,565 |
865 | The axial tilt of Earth is approximately 23.439281° with the axis of its orbit plane, always pointing towards the Celestial Poles. Due to Earth's axial tilt, the amount of sunlight reaching any given point on the surface varies over the course of the year. This causes the seasonal change in climate, with summer in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9228 | 865 |
2,041,192 | Culture conditions. As mammalian cells digest and metabolize glucose, they produce byproducts such as lactic acid which accumulate and acidify the cell's environment. The ability that cells have to uptake nutrients depends on the pH of the environment—it must be within a certain window for optimal growth. Lactic acid a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65710822 | 2,040,012 |
1,083,577 | Cleaning is the preparatory process of ensuring that the surface to be etched is free of contaminants which could negatively impact the quality of the finished part. An improperly cleaned surface could result in poor adhesion of the maskant, causing areas to be etched erroneously, or a non-uniform etch rate which could... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38481732 | 1,083,020 |
203,187 | As stated by J. B. S. Haldane, large animals do not look like small animals: an elephant cannot be mistaken for a mouse scaled up in size. This is due to allometric scaling: the bones of an elephant are necessarily proportionately much larger than the bones of a mouse, because they must carry proportionately higher wei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1730659 | 203,083 |
2,243,028 | Joshua Kosman of "San Francisco Chronicle" called the piece "...a boisterous, exhilarating concoction, in which fiercely patterned rhythmic explosions alternate with lyrical interludes headed by the strings, and as the title suggests, it's a display piece for the orchestra members." Scott MacClelland of "Metro Silicon ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46477217 | 2,241,757 |
175,009 | One can have more frets on a guitar (or keys on a piano) to handle both As, 9:8 with respect to G and 10:9 with respect to G so that A-C can be played as 6:5 while A-D can still be played as 3:2. 9:8 and 10:9 are less than of an octave apart, so mechanical and performance considerations have made this approach extremel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16493 | 174,918 |
1,345,970 | Humphry Davy was an English chemist and a professor of chemistry at the London's Royal Institution in the early 1800s. There he performed experiments that cast doubt upon some of Lavoisier's key ideas such as the acidity of oxygen and the idea of a caloric element. Davy was able to show that acidity was not due to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3543408 | 1,345,229 |
215,311 | As a further consequence of the Air Mail scandal, the Baker Board reviewed the performance of Air Corps aircraft and recognized that civilian aircraft were far superior to planes developed solely to Air Corps specifications. Following up on its recommendation, the Air Corps purchased and tested a Douglas DC-2 as the XC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23869026 | 215,203 |
1,508,044 | There is some evidence that the quirky nature of the sport is occasionally gaining the attention of modern swimmers. In June 2012, Danish female swimmer Laura Funch successfully plunged the full length of a pool in approximately 101 seconds. Divers approached at the 2016 Summer Olympics by the press about the sport als... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32563855 | 1,507,196 |
359,260 | TNF-alpha is a cytokine produced mainly by activated macrophages, and is the major extrinsic mediator of apoptosis. Most cells in the human body have two receptors for TNF-alpha: TNFR1 and TNFR2. The binding of TNF-alpha to TNFR1 has been shown to initiate the pathway that leads to caspase activation via the intermedia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2457 | 359,073 |
1,794,140 | One class of problem instances can be given by formula_14 points in the box formula_15, where their pairwise distances come from a norm. Already in two dimensions, the 2-opt heuristic might take exponentially many iterations until finding a local optimum. In this setting, one can analyze the perturbation model where th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18208194 | 1,793,131 |
2,191,803 | The architect of the building is Mr. James Edward Rogers, 205, Great Brunswick-street, on whom the design, however simple, reflects the highest credit. The different materials used in the exterior are artistically and quietly disposed, and the details are bold and good, and sufficiently uncommon to deserve more than or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50582292 | 2,190,554 |
2,103,099 | Applied Biomathematics conducts research in four main areas: environment, engineering, human health, and data science. Research pertaining to environmental issues includes assessments in conservation biology, ecology, pest management, and ecotoxicology. In engineering, research focuses on risk analysis, probability bou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48440127 | 2,101,887 |
1,317,902 | This predisposition to either be optimistic or pessimistic about job satisfaction may frame the job even before positive or negative events occur at work. To rule out the possibility of hiring personnel who come to the job with a negative outlook, the personality of potential employees should be evaluated through the u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10145037 | 1,317,177 |
1,133,485 | Niklas Luhmann sees Parsons' theory as missing the concepts of self-reference and complexity. Self-reference is a condition for the efficient functioning of systems. It means that a system is able to observe itself, can reflect on itself and can make decisions as a result of this reflection. In Luhmann's theory, the ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1417988 | 1,132,892 |
1,798,609 | In western Canada and the western United States, grasshoppers are estimated to cause over $400 million economic damage each year to crops and rangeland. From 1986 to 1992 an integrated pest management program was initiated by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46250279 | 1,797,600 |
1,061,496 | Many researchers contribute information to the Human Epigenome Consortium. The aim of future research is to reprogram epigenetic changes to help with addiction, mental illness, age related changes, memory decline, and other issues. However, the sheer volume of consortium-based data makes analysis difficult. Most studie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37122597 | 1,060,943 |
1,768,467 | ESI has a more complex ionisation mechanism, relying heavily on droplet charge excess and as such there are many more factors to consider when exploring the cause of ion suppression. It has been widely observed that for many analytes, at high concentrations, ESI exhibits a loss of detector response linearity, perhaps d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39819676 | 1,767,473 |
571,672 | The main event of College Night is the performance of musical theater productions by each side. Said musicals are composed, directed, produced, and performed entirely by student participants. The productions last from Wednesday through Saturday on the week of College Night. The competition also currently involves four ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1156187 | 571,381 |
278,370 | Other factors that broaden the main sequence band on the HR diagram include uncertainty in the distance to stars and the presence of unresolved binary stars that can alter the observed stellar parameters. However, even perfect observation would show a fuzzy main sequence because mass is not the only parameter that affe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19605 | 278,220 |
721,128 | If more than one statistically independent oxygen sensor cell is used, it is unlikely that more than one will fail at a time. If one assumes that only one cell will fail, then comparing three or more outputs which have been calibrated at two points is likely to pick up the cell which has failed by assuming that any two... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39194607 | 720,748 |
700,675 | The car's chassis was an almost completely new design after the failure of the MP4-18 and MP4-19. The new car featured the revised aerodynamics and suspension set up that the 2005 regulations required, including a raised front wing, smaller diffuser and rear wing moved further forward. A shorter wheelbase was used to m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10335398 | 700,310 |
528,218 | SCOB was amalgamated with IISCO on 1 January 1953. In the early fifties Tata Iron & Steel Company and IISCO were the only companies having integrated steel plants in India. It was estimated by a Technical Mission of the World Bank that steel demand in India would touch 6 million tonnes by 1960. Eugene Black, president ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4659165 | 527,944 |
2,091,450 | The loss dealt a serious blow to BU's title hopes but it did not end them entirely. Boston University's first champion in 1971 came as a result of being chosen over conference runner-up Clarkson and in the meantime the NCAA selection committee had given itself the ability to add up to four additional teams to the tourn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61287987 | 2,090,246 |
1,561,508 | US nationally applicable standardized methodology that contains models for estimating potential losses from earthquakes, floods and hurricanes. Hazus uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology to estimate physical, economic and social impacts of disasters. It graphically illustrates the limits of identified h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3689592 | 1,560,622 |
1,066,537 | Despite their very early occurrence in the fossil record, coelophysoids have a number of derived features that separate them from primitive (basal) theropods. Among the most prominent of these derived features ("apomorphies") is the way the upper jaw bones are connected (the premaxilla-maxilla articulation), which is f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1435787 | 1,065,983 |
1,517,449 | The lunate sulcus was first identified during the early 1900s in the human brain as a homologue of the Affenspalte, a major sulcus defining the primary visual cortex (V1) in apes and other monkey species, by anatomist and Egyptologist Grafton Elliot Smith. Based on Smith’s observations from studying over 400 Egyptian h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24921013 | 1,516,597 |
680,509 | In systems of direct rule, European colonial officials oversaw all aspects of governance, while natives were placed in an entirely subordinate role. Unlike indirect rule, the colonial government did not convey orders through local elites, but rather oversaw administration directly. European laws and customs were import... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5090455 | 680,154 |
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