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2,028,809 | In 1892, he succeeded the late Henry Doyle as Director of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin, which his predecessor had reorganized and developed; and in this post Armstrong remained for over 20 years, his services recognized by a knighthood in 1899. During his time in Dublin he wrote many books, among which his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35665773 | 2,027,641 |
1,291,957 | On July 11, 1942, Lieutenant (j.g.) Sasai led 12 Zeros providing fighter escort for 21 bombers from Rabaul heading for Port Moresby. En route, they encountered six Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 19th Bomb Group. Sasai gave the order to attack the B-17s, so Sakai, Nishizawa, Ohta and two others joined Sasai. They ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6303326 | 1,291,247 |
512,725 | The causal outcomes obey the usual well-respected rule that the causes precede the effects in time. Some pairs of processes cannot be connected by cause-and-effect relations, and they are said to be spatially separated. This is in perfect agreement with the viewpoint of the Einstein theory of special relativity and wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1640527 | 512,459 |
266,189 | Sales and Schultz agreed in 2017 that spinosaurids were semiaquatic and partially piscivorous, based on skull features such as conical teeth, snouts that were compressed from side to side, and retracted nostrils. They interpreted the fact that histological data indicates some spinosaurids were more terrestrial than oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1091918 | 266,045 |
1,038,999 | Problems in commercial development are similar to those for any of the existing fusion reactor designs. The need to form high-strength magnetic fields at the focus of the machine is at odds with the need to extract the heat from the interior, making the physical arrangement of the reactor a challenge. Further, the fusi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15743956 | 1,038,458 |
1,991,784 | Its graduate programs include five master's degrees and two doctorates. All masters programs have the option to be completed online. The Master of Science in Gerontology is targeted towards students aiming for professional leadership positions, while the Master of Arts in Gerontology is formal training in gerontology f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2417312 | 1,990,641 |
2,119,192 | Two of the number one seeds advanced to the Final four – Tennessee and Connecticut – while two failed to advance. Penn State upset Louisiana Tech in the Midwest Regional, while Rutgers upset Georgia in the West Regional. Tennessee faced Rutgers in one of the Final Four match ups. At the end of the half, the Lady Vols h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10722146 | 2,117,973 |
461,907 | TopI relaxes DNA supercoiling during replication and transcription. Under normal circumstances, TopI attacks the backbone of DNA, forming a transient TopI-DNA intermediate that allows for the rotation of the cleaved strand around the helical axis. TopI then re-ligates the cleaved strand to reestablish duplex DNA. Treat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6688255 | 461,678 |
1,262,856 | The assembly of numerous medical products uses acoustic microscopes to investigate internal bonds and features. For example, a polymer film may be imaged to examine its bond to a multi-channel plastic plate used in blood analysis. SAM can provide data on the elasticity of cells and both, hard and soft tissues, which ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18395236 | 1,262,168 |
971,968 | DNSSEC implementation can add significant load to some DNS servers. Common DNSSEC-signed responses are far larger than the default UDP size of 512 bytes. In theory, this can be handled through multiple IP fragments, but many "middleboxes" in the field do not handle these correctly. This leads to the use of TCP instead.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337389 | 971,458 |
2,049,048 | The bracts that subtend the flower head are pointy or suddenly pointed, about 5 mm (0.2 in) wide and 7–10 mm (0.28–0.40 in) long, overlapping, rubbery in consistency, softly hairy and with a tightly spaced, regular row of equal length hairs along its margin. The bract subtending the individual flower is egg-shaped, 8–1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57534792 | 2,047,867 |
820,522 | Ductile iron pipe in the developed world is normally manufactured exclusively from recycled material including scrap steel and recycled iron. The pipe can be recycled after use. In terms of environmental impact, several studies have compared ductile iron pipe's impact on the environment with that of other pipe material... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23107410 | 820,081 |
2,039,417 | Pap Jonga was the youngest athlete to represent The Gambia at the Rio Games at age 19. He had not participated in any previous Olympic Games. Jonga qualified for the Games by earning a universality place from swimming's governing body FINA because his fastest time of 27.24 seconds was 4.19 seconds slower than the requi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50565971 | 2,038,238 |
1,247,106 | In mechanical engineering design such as design of pressure equipment, the method uses the actual loads predicted to be experienced in practice to calculate stress and deflection. Such loads may include pressure thrusts and the weight of materials. The predicted stresses and deflections are compared with allowable valu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1877149 | 1,246,431 |
1,271,613 | Draco dussumieri, also known comonly as the Indian flying lizard, the southern flying lizard, and the Western Ghats flying lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is capable of gliding from tree to tree. It is found principally in the Western Ghats and some other hill forests of Southern Indi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3489409 | 1,270,922 |
1,517,745 | CNBs have been shown to have electronic properties that differ from those of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes (CNTs). CNBs exhibit lower field thresholds, higher current densities, and electric field emissions than SWCNTs. The chemical bonds between the nanotube's wall and the fullerenes on the surface can lead to charg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9751522 | 1,516,893 |
11,768 | Machine learning poses a host of ethical questions. Systems that are trained on datasets collected with biases may exhibit these biases upon use (algorithmic bias), thus digitizing cultural prejudices. For example, in 1988, the UK's Commission for Racial Equality found that St. George's Medical School had been using a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=233488 | 11,763 |
739,748 | A $60 million (raised to $90 million) retrofit program called ZR (Z Refurbished) was announced in 2004 to increase its power by 50%. The Z machine was dismantled in July 2006 for this upgrade, including the installation of newly designed hardware and components and more powerful Marx generators. The de-ionized water se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1096102 | 739,356 |
1,579,889 | Today's School of Engineering and Computer Science (in German "Ingenieurwissenschaften und Informatik", abbreviated to IuI) arose from the earlier schools of engineering, electrical engineering and computer science as well as materials and processes. The School of Business Management and Social Sciences (in German "Wir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48971746 | 1,578,999 |
1,523,555 | DePaul chose to have the official opening of their new Wintrust Arena on the night that UConn came to town. The Huskies quickly quashed any notion that the Blue Demons would christen their new arena with a win. Really in the game, UConn went on a 14–2 run, aided by back-to-back three-pointers from Dangerfield to set th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54727394 | 1,522,694 |
1,462,331 | Creative Micro Designs (CMD) was the longest-running third-party hardware vendor for the Commodore 64 and Commodore 128, hailed by some enthusiasts as being better at supporting the Commodore 64 than Commodore themselves. Their first commercial product for the C64 was a KERNAL based fast loader and utility chip called ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3405797 | 1,461,509 |
115,262 | For 1991 General Motors made significant changes to the Big-Block resulting in the Generation V. The block received a one-piece rear seal and all blocks received 4-bolt mains. Additionally the main oil galley was moved from near the oil pan to near the camshaft. Also the valvetrain became non-adjustable and the provisi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=878027 | 115,217 |
1,109,961 | Dehaene is best known for his work on numerical cognition, a discipline which he popularized and synthesized with the publication of his 1997 book, "The Number Sense" ("La Bosse des maths") which won the for best French language general-audience scientific book. He began his studies of numerical cognition with Jacques ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6265123 | 1,109,396 |
91,667 | A hearing of the FIA's Contract Recognition Board (CRB) commenced on 29 August 2022 with the intention of determining whether Piastri was contracted to Alpine, or if he was free to join a different team for 2023. Had Alpine won their case with the board, the team could have obligated Piastri to fulfil his contract and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59449712 | 91,627 |
1,186,933 | In the first section, Christian interweaves discussions of the history of artificial intelligence research, particularly the machine learning approach of artificial neural networks such as the Perceptron and AlexNet, with examples of how AI systems can have unintended behavior. He tells the story of Julia Angwin, a jou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69438830 | 1,186,304 |
1,907,195 | In 1692 he set up his apothecary practice "at the sign of the white cross" on Aldersgate and lived in London for the rest of his life. His interest in natural history may have come from visits to the garden of the Society for Apothecaries or at Fulham Palace. Early naturalist influences included John Watts and fellow a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2737568 | 1,906,099 |
592,084 | In 1994, the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (Fourth Edition) of the American Psychiatric Association stated that penile plethysmography has been used in research settings to assess various paraphilias by measuring an individual's sexual arousal in response to visual and auditory stimuli. The re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=410384 | 591,782 |
1,600,542 | The influenza outbreak was colloquially called Spanish flu. Most flu outbreaks disproportionately kill juvenile, elderly, or already weakened patients, but the 1918 pandemic predominantly killed previously healthy young adults. To maintain morale, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27283604 | 1,599,641 |
1,758,166 | Though the 4 x 400 m was the final men's event of the championships, the team title was already decided as the University of Georgia's points lead was too great for any other team to overtake them in the relays. Nevertheless, the University of Southern California won the event and set a new collegiate record of 2:59.00... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57596294 | 1,757,173 |
1,680,770 | The gun's hydro-spring recoil system consisted of an oil cylinder on top of the barrel and two spring cylinders underneath. It did not work at high elevation angles, and by early 1918 production of the US version of the French Canon de 75 modèle 1897 was emphasized. By the end of 1918, shortly after the war ended, only... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30037855 | 1,679,827 |
556,562 | Baseline pre-treatment plasma levels of CXCL10 are elevated in patients chronically infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) of genotypes 1 or 4 who do not achieve a sustained viral response (SVR) after completion of antiviral therapy. CXCL10 in plasma is mirrored by intrahepatic CXCL10 mRNA, and both strikingly predict t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8707236 | 556,273 |
643,973 | The emergence of social sciences inspired new speculative research on the "science of science" and the possibility of studying science itself as a scientific object: "The belief that social activities, including science, could be reduced to quantitative laws, just as the trajectory of a cannonball and the revolutions o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1223245 | 643,633 |
327,829 | The most widely known variant, the PMM ("Pistolet Makarova Modernizirovannyy" or Modernised Makarov pistol), was a redesign of the original gun. In 1990, a group of engineers reworked the original design, primarily by increasing the load for the cartridge. The result is a significant increase in muzzle velocity and gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=565883 | 327,655 |
369,409 | Reducing the time and the cost of building new nuclear plants have been goals for decades but costs remain high and timescales long. Various new forms of nuclear energy are in development, hoping to address the drawbacks of conventional plants. Fast breeder reactors are capable of recycling nuclear waste and therefore ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1055890 | 369,216 |
1,418,835 | These exercises were performed in the supine position on a floor or other flat surface. There were variations, but the primary maneuver is to grab the legs and pull the knees up to the chest and hold them there for several seconds. The patient then relaxes, drops the legs down and repeats the exercise again. The primar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34729329 | 1,418,036 |
1,286,097 | The U.S. government has a set of standard practices for civilian (NASA) and military (DoD/USSF) orbital debris mitigation that require passivation for space launches with U.S. launch licenses. "All on-board sources of stored energy of a spacecraft or upper stage should be depleted or safed when they are no longer requi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33997230 | 1,285,396 |
1,125,818 | In 1931 Koopman and André Weil independently observed that the phase space of the classical system can be converted into a Hilbert space by postulating a natural integration rule over the points of the phase space as the definition of the scalar product, and that this transformation allows drawing of interesting conclu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37704906 | 1,125,241 |
62,261 | Environmental sustainability has become a mainstream issue, with a profound effect on the architectural profession. Many developers, those who support the financing of buildings, have become educated to encourage the facilitation of environmentally sustainable design, rather than solutions based primarily on immediate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21296224 | 62,236 |
292,911 | Two software errors detected during the test, one of which prevented a planned docking with the International Space Station, could each have led to the destruction of the spacecraft, had they not been caught and corrected in time, NASA said on February 7, 2020. A joint NASA–Boeing investigation team found that "the two... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24068195 | 292,753 |
1,163,150 | An excimer molecule can exist in an excited electronic state for a limited time, as a rule from a few to a few tens of nanoseconds. After that, an excimer molecule transits to the ground electronic state, while releasing the energy of internal electronic excitation in the form of a photon. Owing to a specific electroni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39632612 | 1,162,533 |
144,727 | As early as 1913, Bohr's research on electronic structure led physicists such as Johannes Rydberg to extrapolate the properties of undiscovered elements heavier than uranium. Many agreed that the next noble gas after radon would most likely have the atomic number 118, from which it followed that the transition series i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=619795 | 144,669 |
2,112,766 | The IHC test is used by USDA researchers in their BSE surveillance program because they consider it the gold standard, providing a high level of confidence about the results. However, IHC tests are expensive and time-consuming. More rapid and less expensive testing alternatives (“rapid tests”) have been used in some ot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23658298 | 2,111,551 |
969,903 | Lunar materials could facilitate continued exploration of the Moon itself, facilitate scientific and economic activity in the vicinity of both Earth and Moon (so-called cislunar space), or they could be imported to the Earth's surface where they would contribute directly to the global economy. Regolith (lunar soil) is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61340431 | 969,393 |
1,818,263 | Thus, if the elasticity is inferred from the measurements of the scattering intensity, and the viscosity is determined independently (via mechanical methods such as ultrasonic attenuation) measurement of the relaxation rate yields information on the pore size distribution contained within the polymer network, e.g. larg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58840824 | 1,817,228 |
582,699 | The "Mle 1915" was a conventional design with a hydro-pneumatic recoil system mounted under the barrel, a gun shield to protect the crew and a box carriage with wooden wheels. It used an interrupted-screw breech with separate-loading ammunition; the shell being loaded first followed by the proper amount of propellant i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13089000 | 582,400 |
364,215 | Diatom genomics brought much information about the extent and dynamics of the endosymbiotic gene transfer (EGT) process. Comparison of the "T. pseudonana" proteins with homologs in other organisms suggested that hundreds have their closest homologs in the Plantae lineage. EGT towards diatom genomes can be illustrated b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46374 | 364,025 |
214,876 | Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) is a qualification given by EC-Council and obtained by demonstrating knowledge of assessing the security of computer systems by looking for weaknesses and vulnerabilities in target systems, using the same knowledge and tools as a malicious hacker, but in a lawful and legitimate manner to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3802153 | 214,768 |
3,242 | The "dual-axis steering" (DAS) system developed by Mercedes in 2020 was banned, starting from 2021. The DAS system allowed the driver to adjust the toe of the front wheels to optimise mechanical grip by pulling or pushing on the steering wheel. The FIA introduced newly revised wing load tests mid-season at the French G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57373873 | 3,242 |
689,475 | In July 1914, World War I broke out in Europe; the United States remained neutral for the first three years of the war. Tensions with Germany came to a head in early 1917 following the German unrestricted submarine warfare campaign, which sank several American merchant ships in European waters. On 6 April 1917, the Uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=485027 | 689,113 |
1,520,313 | Hofer had been opposed to Nazism even before they reached power. In 1931 he was attacked in the Nazi press, with claims that he was Jewish. In the same year he wrote articles against Nazism, "Faschismus, die dunkle Reaktion!" ("Fascism, the dark reaction!") and "Wie kämpfen wir gegen ein Drittes Reich?" ("How do we fig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3027913 | 1,519,452 |
1,072,581 | Specific topics of his research included: the quantum mechanical behavior of trapped wave packets; interactions of light with trapped ions; atom counting-the statistical properties of free atom beams and their measurement; algebraic methods for dealing with fermion statistics; coherence and correlations of bosonic atom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2830958 | 1,072,027 |
1,964,822 | GSTs are essential in this process because they catalyze the nucleophilic attack of glutathione on various electrophilic residues of xenobiotic substrates, thereby preventing their disruption of vital cellular proteins and nucleic acids. Similar to the mechanism GSTs use for catalyzation of redox reactions, the mechani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26135488 | 1,963,693 |
1,465,445 | Extreme fire hazard with any significant amounts of air (oxygen) and spontaneous combustion with water, rendering sodium leaks and flooding dangerous. This was the case at the Monju Nuclear Power Plant in a 1995 accident and fire. Reactions with water produce hydrogen which can be explosive. Sodium activation product (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1429401 | 1,464,622 |
326,663 | The third is by mixing with the Scripture diverse relics of the religion, and much of the vain and erroneous philosophy of the Greeks, especially of Aristotle. Hobbes has little time for the various disputing sects of philosophers and objects to what people have taken "From Aristotle's civil philosophy, they have learn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=190192 | 326,489 |
232,948 | Victory over Spain had made the United States a power in both the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. It was already the largest economic power. Roosevelt was determined to continue the expansion of American influence, stating in his 1905 Inaugural Address:We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3520221 | 232,829 |
2,104,404 | In 2005, in order to combat deficiencies in the supervision and quality of medical theses, the Medical Faculty implemented the structured training program "Experimental Medicine", which was subsequently adopted by the Graduate School in 2009. The requirement for entry is an above-average intermediate examination (part ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29372572 | 2,103,191 |
2,029,713 | In 1912 Priestley became a member of the London Mathematical Society and subsequently published papers in its proceedings and in other journals, mainly in the areas of applied mathematics and mathematical physics. He believed the University would not succeed unless its academics published extensively to improve its rep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48522957 | 2,028,545 |
1,247,759 | For a long time the question whether a polymer meshwork, a “nuclear matrix” or “nuclear-scaffold” or "NuMat" is an essential component of the in vivo nuclear architecture has remained a matter of debate. While there are arguments that the relative position of chromosome territories (CTs), the equivalent of condensed me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2004719 | 1,247,083 |
1,343,274 | Until STS-41, previous research had shown that during the process of adapting to microgravity, animals and humans experienced loss of bone mass, cardiac deconditioning, and after prolonged periods (over 30 days), developed symptoms similar to that of terrestrial disuse osteoporosis. The goal of the STS-41 Physiological... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=497740 | 1,342,538 |
1,028,106 | All fourteen vessels were constructed by Austal at Henderson, Western Australia. The first vessel, , was commissioned into the RAN in June 2005, and the last, , entered service in February 2008. The "Armidale"-class ships are operated by the Australian Patrol Boat Group, and based in Cairns and Darwin. They are primari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1912105 | 1,027,572 |
422,944 | In information theory, a polar code is a linear block error-correcting code. The code construction is based on a multiple recursive concatenation of a short kernel code which transforms the physical channel into virtual outer channels. When the number of recursions becomes large, the virtual channels tend to either hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38104403 | 422,738 |
80,589 | Proponents of the genetic bottleneck theory (including Robock) suggest that the Youngest Toba eruption resulted in a global ecological disaster, including destruction of vegetation along with severe drought in the tropical rainforest belt and in monsoonal regions. A 10-year volcanic winter triggered by the eruption cou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186406 | 80,556 |
370,604 | Nearly one-half of the campus undergraduates are in a fraternity or sorority. There are ten sororities and sixteen fraternities currently on campus. Greek organizations are governed by an Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council. During the 2010–2011 school year, fraternities and sororities at Case collectively ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230547 | 370,410 |
1,776,917 | Nearly complete fossils suggest the living animals were about in length. The body had a mobile tail covered with small protective plate-like scales of less than and a forebody covered with plate-like scales larger than . The specimen from North America (described by Sansom et al., 1997) is to have had relatively large,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6004717 | 1,775,918 |
1,112,690 | On 18 March 2022, Rylov participated in the fascist Moscow rally in support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, wearing a "Z" sticker. His swimwear sponsor at the time of the rally, Speedo, terminated their endorsement deal with Rylov in response to his participation in the rally. He was also subsequently suspended fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47484119 | 1,112,124 |
1,569,920 | The IEC 60601-1 standard requires that two independent precautionary measures (Means of Patient Protection, or MOPPs) are set in place, to protect the patient from electrical shock in the medical system. A network isolator can be constructed to provide one or both required MOPPs. In the case where only a single MOPP is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22435060 | 1,569,032 |
986,113 | These environmental pressures caused selection to favor bipedalism: walking on hind legs. This gave the Homininae's eyes greater elevation, the ability to see approaching danger further off, and a more efficient means of locomotion. It also freed the arms from the task of walking and made the hands available for tasks ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2452832 | 985,598 |
1,647,907 | Having originated as the by-product of industrial metal chloride synthesis, CDC has certainly a potential for large-scale production at a moderate cost. Currently, only small companies engage in production of carbide-derived carbons and their implementation in commercial products. For example, Skeleton, which is locate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25279655 | 1,646,975 |
799,752 | Giorgio de Santillana, professor of the History of Science in the School of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, along with Hertha von Dechend believed that the old mythological stories handed down from antiquity were not random fictitious tales but were accurate depictions of celestial cosmology cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2864 | 799,326 |
166,208 | Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has been shown to be effective for reducing premenstrual symptoms in women with (retrospectively-reported) PMS. CBT is an evidence-based approach for treating depression and focuses on the link between mood, thoughts, and actions to help women address current issues and symptoms. When... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=586404 | 166,123 |
1,259,201 | Once the subject is properly placed, wavefront correction and imaging takes place. A laser is collimated and then reflected off of a beam-splitting mirror. As in confocal SLO, light must pass through both a horizontal and a vertical scanning mirror before and after the eye is scanned to align the moving beam for eventu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=660008 | 1,258,514 |
1,252,864 | A facilitator is to keep asking these questions of the learners until they feel confident that all participants have voiced their understanding of the situation. The point of the description phase is to identify the impact of the experience, gain insights into what mattered to the participants throughout the simulation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20489338 | 1,252,185 |
195,439 | The piece of input data for which an output value is generated is formally termed an "instance". The instance is formally described by a vector of features, which together constitute a description of all known characteristics of the instance. These feature vectors can be seen as defining points in an appropriate multid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=126706 | 195,339 |
100,985 | Natural and man-made disasters will disrupt the flow of energy, goods and services. The down-stream customers of those goods and services will, in turn, not be able to produce their product or render their service because they were counting on incoming deliveries "just in time" and so have little or no inventory to wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218445 | 100,940 |
2,009,851 | Thaler grew up in York, Maine, and attended high school at Phillips Exeter Academy, where he won the Cox Medal, an award for the top five in the graduating class. From 1998 to 2002, he pursued a physics major "magna cum laude" from Brown University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a funk band. In 2006, Thal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67031117 | 2,008,699 |
233,418 | Recent studies, however, have shown that this rationale behind Lewis acid-catalyzed Diels–Alder reactions is incorrect. It is found that Lewis acids accelerate the Diels–Alder reaction by reducing the destabilizing steric Pauli repulsion between the interacting diene and dienophile and not by lowering the energy of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=173238 | 233,299 |
687,916 | In 2004, Nordhaus was designated a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association (AEA), along with George P. Shultz and William A. Brock. The accompanying AEA statement referred to his "knack for asking large questions about the measurement of economic growth and well-being, and addressing them with simple ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4023913 | 687,558 |
66,360 | People may choose between several methods of fertility preservation prior to chemotherapy, including cryopreservation of semen, ovarian tissue, oocytes, or embryos. As more than half of cancer patients are elderly, this adverse effect is only relevant for a minority of patients. A study in France between 1999 and 2011 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7172 | 66,335 |
1,226,978 | It is important to examine the mechanotransduction pathways in chondrocytes since mechanical loading conditions which represent an excessive or injurious response upregulates synthetic activity and increases catabolic signalling cascades involving mediators such as NO and MMPs. In addition, studies by Chowdhury TT and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2891226 | 1,226,317 |
868,640 | The report also strongly criticized the decision making process that led to the launch of "Challenger", saying that it was seriously flawed. Morton Thiokol called a meeting the night before the launch to raise concerns over the forecast temperature in regards to the O-Rings. During the meeting, Morton Thiokol's enginee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=405494 | 868,180 |
938,870 | In 2008, the championship reverted to a 16-player round robin. Despite a late charge from the defending champion Ivanchuk, who won seven of the final eight rounds, the tournament was won by Leinier Domínguez, a 25-year-old GM from Cuba who scored 11½/15 to edge out Ivanchuk by a half-point. In 2009, the championship re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20120963 | 938,369 |
335,658 | Once tempeh is produced, it is divided into three categories based on its quality: good, unfinished, and inedible. Good tempeh includes beans that are bound into a firm, compact cake by a dense, uniform, white mycelium, which should permeate the entire cake; the beans should be barely visible. The odor of good tempeh s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=293037 | 335,480 |
1,122,335 | He returned to Lugoj, where he studied the problem of human flight and designed his first flying machine, which he called the "airplane-car". He attempted to build the machine, but due to financial constraints decided to go to Paris in July 1902, hoping to find someone interested in financing his project, possibly ball... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=300675 | 1,121,761 |
1,444,125 | Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT) is a French public academic institution dedicated to Higher Education and Research for Innovation in the fields of engineering and digital technology, organized as a Collegiate University. Created in 1996, it was originally known as the "Groupe des écoles des télécommunications", or GET, fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14932406 | 1,443,312 |
859,990 | The "old friends hypothesis" proposed in 2003 may offer a better explanation for the link between microbial exposure and inflammatory diseases. This hypothesis argues that the vital exposures are not common cold and other recently evolved infections, which are no older than 10,000 years, but rather microbes already pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=407814 | 859,532 |
26,740 | People of African, Japanese and Chinese descent are rarely diagnosed; this reflects a much lower prevalence of the genetic risk factors, such as HLA-B8. People of Indian ancestry seem to have a similar risk to those of Western Caucasian ancestry. Population studies also indicate that a large proportion of coeliacs rema... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63526 | 26,730 |
75,020 | Some of the best evidence for the presence of black holes is provided by the Doppler effect whereby light from nearby orbiting matter is red-shifted when receding and blue-shifted when advancing. For matter very close to a black hole the orbital speed must be comparable with the speed of light, so receding matter will ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=215706 | 74,993 |
1,293,052 | The system of a fixed tail surface and moveable elevators is standard in subsonic aircraft. Craft capable of supersonic flight often have a stabilator, an all-moving tail surface. Pitch is changed in this case by moving the entire horizontal surface of the tail. This seemingly simple innovation was one of the key techn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1553856 | 1,292,341 |
1,950,553 | John Beltz (1926–1972) was Oldsmobile's chief engineer in 1964 and one of the prime movers of the Oldsmobile Toronado and 442 project. Beltz was promoted to Oldsmobile general manager at age 43 in 1969 when Harold N. Metzel retired. Beltz died in May 1972 from cancer at the age of 46. He was revered in the automotive i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21589801 | 1,949,432 |
342,857 | Even though geothermal power is globally sustainable, extraction must still be monitored to avoid local depletion. Over the course of decades, individual wells draw down local temperatures and water levels until a new equilibrium is reached with natural flows. The three oldest sites, at Larderello, Wairakei, and the Ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=113728 | 342,676 |
1,013,335 | The dimensional model is a specialized adaptation of the relational model used to represent data in data warehouses in a way that data can be easily summarized using online analytical processing, or OLAP queries. In the dimensional model, a database schema consists of a single large table of facts that are described us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10973690 | 1,012,814 |
592,022 | The Automatic Meter Reading Association (AMRA) endorses the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) resolution to eliminate regulatory barriers to the broad implementation of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). The resolution, passed in February 2007, acknowledged the role of AMI in support... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=435397 | 591,720 |
679,811 | Bolla was born visually impaired at childbirth in Seetharamapuram of Machilipatnam, a city in Andhra Pradesh in 1991. His family was mainly dependent on farming After his matriculation, he pursued science in his 12, but was not permitted to do so. Bolla filed a case, and after a six-month wait, he was allowed to pursue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50466451 | 679,457 |
1,082,490 | Students further explained each theme during their interviews. Exposure referred to the general atmosphere of the college experience. Students were able to become more comfortable with being in a college setting and were more prepared for attending college once they graduated high school. “Learning the hidden curriculu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1689858 | 1,081,933 |
1,546,748 | In 2018, Harvey-Smith toured Australia with her live astronomy stage show “When Galaxies Collide”. She hosted the Australian tour of "Eugene Cernan-The Last Man on the Moon" in 2016. In 2015, Harvey-Smith performed several live events on-stage, including her self-penned "Stargayzing" show at Sydney Observatory as part ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36359542 | 1,545,872 |
83,771 | Theophilus died unexpectedly in 412. He had been training his nephew Cyril, but had not officially named him as his successor. A violent power struggle over the diocese broke out between Cyril and his rival Timothy. Cyril won and immediately began to punish those who had supported Timothy; he closed the churches of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38375 | 83,737 |
706,884 | The rangekeeper's target position prediction characteristics could be used to defeat the rangekeeper. For example, many captains under long range gun attack would make violent maneuvers to "chase salvos." A ship that is chasing salvos is maneuvering to the position of the last salvo splashes. Because the rangekeepers a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21169396 | 706,515 |
1,619,242 | Within the last two decades, researchers have reconsidered the role of the skull in bTBI. While it was originally considered that the skull remained static upon contact with the primary wave front, clinically significant skull flexure has been documented in vivo with rats exposed to blast waves and with model human hea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31518966 | 1,618,327 |
456,434 | By the 16th century, with the widespread adoption of the printing press, the increase in the urban population and other social changes, the number of treatises increased dramatically. After around 1500 carrying swords became more acceptable in most parts of Europe. The growing middle classes meant that more men could a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15755088 | 456,211 |
451,685 | Pentaceratops ("five-horned face") is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America. Fossils of this animal were first discovered in 1921, but the genus was named in 1923 when its type species, "Pentaceratops sternbergii", was described. "Pentaceratops" lived ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1791383 | 451,466 |
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