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874,153 | Construction crews started installing the welded panels at night in August 1978. Officials made no public mention of any possible structural issues, and the city's three major newspapers had gone on strike. Officials barely acknowledged the issue, instead describing the work as a routine procedure. Henry DeFord III of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68289612 | 873,691 |
842,985 | Older research considered that the high frequency of this subclade in the South Slavic-speaking populations to be the result of "pre-Slavic" paleolithic settlement in the region. Peričić "et al." (2005) for instance place its expansion to have occurred "not earlier than the YD to Holocene transition and not later than ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8683255 | 842,535 |
789,423 | The modern era of AAC began in the 1950s in Europe and North America, spurred by several societal changes; these included an increased awareness of individuals with communication and other disabilities, and a growing commitment, often backed by government legislation and funding, to develop their education, independenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2106968 | 788,999 |
1,565,566 | "Aspergillus clavatus" is often described as a spoilage organism occurring on dung and in soil and can also grow in strong alkaline conditions. When it comes to geographical distribution, "A. clavatus" has been spotted in the tropical, subtropical and Mediterranean areas. It has been accounted in low frequencies in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51666001 | 1,564,679 |
224,645 | There are many different kinds of IQ tests using a wide variety of test tasks. Some tests consist of a single type of task, others rely on a broad collection of tasks with different contents (visual-spatial, verbal, numerical) and asking for different cognitive processes (e.g., reasoning, memory, rapid decisions, visua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=168191 | 224,531 |
2,113,862 | From his arrival at Otago University, and assisted by his technician, Jack Sutherland, and other staff from the university's physics department, Robert Jack undertook research and experiments in wireless radio transmission. 1920–21 saw Jack back in the United Kingdom where he researched developments in naval radio comm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29841394 | 2,112,647 |
1,436,049 | With the use of non-edible vegetable oils produced by trees such as Millettia Pinnata (formerly Pongamia Pinnata) or the Moringa oleifera tree, both which grow on borderline or non-arable land, the food versus fuel debate becomes less of an either/or question. Apart from their facility of growing in non-arable and/or m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9808909 | 1,435,242 |
75,844 | Individuals differ in their inherited tendency to develop cancer, and cancer is a genetic disease. The process of cancer development in the body is a combination of events. Mutations occasionally occur within cells in the body as they divide. Although these mutations will not be inherited by any offspring, they can aff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12266 | 75,815 |
934,671 | One of the issues proposed by Brendan Kibbee for "decolonizing" ethnomusicology is how scholars might reorganize the disciplinary practices to broaden the base of ideas and thinkers. One idea posed is that the preference and privilege of the written word more than other forms of media scholarship hinders a great deal o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80077 | 934,177 |
794,538 | Friedman’s team remained the primary U.S. code-breakers assigned to the South American threat, and they solved numerous cipher systems used by the Germans and their local sympathizers, including three separate Enigma machines. According to cables between Britain's Bletchley Park and Washington, D.C. at the time, the tw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=475830 | 794,113 |
1,541,109 | Roentgen did not confine his attentions to Paris, or even to France. He traveled about Europe accompanied by furniture vans of his factory's products. Undoubtedly his aptitude as a commercial traveler was remarkable. He had shops in Berlin and Saint Petersburg. On one of his visits to Russia, he sold to the Empress Cat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2879654 | 1,540,236 |
637,808 | The crews are primarily staffed by "sea-returnee" operators, themselves graduates of the Nuclear Power Program, who have successfully served several years on at least one tour at sea on a Navy nuclear vessel. NPTU students are divided up amongst the operating crews and get "checkouts" by staff operators on the specific... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24008985 | 637,469 |
474,664 | Other hardware components were supplied as follows: the beam-combining mirror from REOSC at Saint-Pierre-du-Perray, France; the spherical, folding and relay mirrors from Carl Zeiss AG in Oberkochen, Germany; the external straylight baffles from CASA in Madrid, Spain; the modulating grid from CSEM in Neuchâtel, Switzerl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=207964 | 474,428 |
1,013,694 | Though popularized in television and movies, and commonly referred to as "true stopping power" by uneducated proponents of large powerful calibers such as .44 Magnum, the effect of knockback from a handgun and indeed most personal weapons is largely a myth. The momentum of the so-called "manstopper" .45 ACP bullet is a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1339615 | 1,013,173 |
1,909,860 | The accurate assessment of physiological time using certain biomarkers found in human blood can improve diagnosis of circadian disorders and optimize chronotherapy. In order to receive an assessment of one’s biological time, a dim light melatonin onset test is often used. This requires the patient to stay in low light ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67467257 | 1,908,762 |
1,746,658 | "Drosophila" circadian keeps time via daily fluctuations of clock-related proteins which interact in what is called a transcription-translation feedback loop. The core clock mechanism consists of two interdependent feedback loops, namely the PER/TIM loop and the CLK/CYC loop. The CLK/CYC loop occurs during the day in w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56144090 | 1,745,672 |
323,104 | Historical accounts suggest narcissi have been cultivated from the earliest times, but became increasingly popular in Europe after the 16th century and by the late 19th century were an important commercial crop centred primarily in the Netherlands. Today narcissi are popular as cut flowers and as ornamental plants in p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=142854 | 322,932 |
1,694,995 | Interpreting stimuli from an organism's environment is an essential part of life for any individual. Abiotic things that an organism must interpret include climate (weather, temperature, rainfall), geology (rocks, soil type), and geography (location of vegetation communities, exposure to elements, location of food and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8694335 | 1,694,044 |
521,799 | The European leg of the season commenced in Monaco. The fifth consecutive driver to clinch pole position in the season came to fruition when Buemi recorded the fastest time in qualifying. He took an early lead with second-place starter di Grassi close behind. Buemi established a small advantage of one second over di Gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45532368 | 521,527 |
1,576,732 | A 1977 study detailed options for a new computer center to replace the Amos Eaton facility and house a 'brand-new' IBM 3033. The study was to choose among three plans. The first two proposals sought to build the center on top of or below the Armory Parking Lot. The third plan suggested renovating the Seminary Chapel, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32133136 | 1,575,843 |
1,858,015 | Music has accompanied life at the University of Missouri since the dedication of Academic Hall in 1843. Although of that first venue only The Columns remain, music itself has since become a serious topic of study at the university. Instruction as part of official curriculum began in 1885 with the founding of the Cadet ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58085796 | 1,856,947 |
715,271 | The system's proponents overcame such resistance with the help of foreign pressure and internal failures, after the defeat of Prussia in the early stages of the Napoleonic Wars. After the military blunder of Prussian drill and line formation against the levée en masse of the French revolutionary army in the Battle of J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4206694 | 714,897 |
2,012,694 | The second game, against the Bayi Rockets, a military team from the Chinese Basketball Association composed of People's Liberation Army personnel, was a rough one, with 11 fouls called against Bayi and 28 against Georgetown in the first half alone. The rough play continued in the second half and the game took on an ugl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33673923 | 2,011,541 |
1,561,206 | The team had originally predicted that the system would have a practical detection range on the order of , but never managed to stretch this much beyond 3 miles. Much of this was due to the inefficient system being used to blank out the receiver during the transmission pulse, which wasted most of the radio energy. This... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43764346 | 1,560,320 |
4,487 | In a 2010 "Space Foundation" survey, Armstrong was ranked as the most popular space hero; and in 2013, "Flying" magazine ranked him #1 on its list of 51 Heroes of Aviation. The press often asked Armstrong for his views on the future of spaceflight. In 2005, he said that a human mission to Mars would be easier than the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21247 | 4,485 |
1,351,320 | Bill Rodriguez, one of Bass' graduate students, wrote his doctoral thesis on information gathered from this facility. During the facility's first year of operation, Rodriguez conducted a study where each day he observed and notated the presence of various insects on human cadavers and other information like changes in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16471345 | 1,350,574 |
397,831 | A test track for a tracked hovercraft system was built at Earith near Cambridge, England. It ran southwest from Sutton Gault, sandwiched between the Old Bedford River and the smaller Counter Drain to the west. Careful examination of the site will still reveal traces of the concrete piers used to support the structure. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152690 | 397,635 |
1,587,958 | Rosen had an epiphany when it occurred to him that if he used spin-phased impulses on a spin-stabilized satellite, he could have a simple, long-lived control system to go along with the satellite's lightweight electronics. He gathered a small team of gifted colleagues (most notably, Don Williams, Tom Hudspeth and John ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10150062 | 1,587,064 |
2,186,831 | Anchialine systems may occur in karst landscapes, regions with bedrock composed of soluble sedimentary rock, such as limestone, dolomite, marble, gypsum, or halite. Subterranean voids form in karst landscapes through the dissolution of bedrock by rainwater, which becomes mildly acidic by equilibrating with carbon dioxi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72402042 | 2,185,583 |
343,277 | A week before re-entry, NASA forecast that it would occur between July 10 and 14, with the 12th the most likely date, and the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) predicted the 14th. In the hours before the event, ground controllers adjusted Skylab's orientation to minimize the risk of re-entry on a populated area. They ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29441 | 343,096 |
1,420,017 | Currently, the main building of the complex is the fourth home of Central Tech. As early as 1888, the Association of Stationary Engineers had requested the City Council to consider the establishment of a school for technical training to meet the need for skilled workers for Toronto's booming industries. There followed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1820605 | 1,419,218 |
50,971 | Interactions involving electrons with other subatomic particles are of interest in fields such as chemistry and nuclear physics. The Coulomb force interaction between the positive protons within atomic nuclei and the negative electrons without, allows the composition of the two known as atoms. Ionization or differences... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9476 | 50,951 |
13,224 | In the wake of the disaster, the Senate Appropriations Committee requested the United States Department of Energy “to give priority to developing enhanced fuels and cladding for light water reactors to improve safety in the event of accidents in the reactor or spent fuel pools”. This brief has led to ongoing research a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31162817 | 13,219 |
2,139,337 | On 15 July 1912, at the Stockholm Olympics, Fanny Durack became the first Australian to win a swimming event on a world stage and first Australian female to win an Olympic gold medal. At the meet she won the 100m in a time of 1 minute and 25 seconds, just beating fellow Australian Mina Wylie. Miss Durack and Miss Wylie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31751409 | 2,138,107 |
1,170,894 | Whitlockite can also be found in biological systems and has been implicated in several human diseases. Whitlockite can be found at many sites in the human body, but is particularly concentrated in calcified tissues, such as embryonic and adult bone. The highest concentrations of whitlockite appear in the weight bearing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3882845 | 1,170,275 |
941,266 | Microbiome research originated in microbiology back in the seventeenth century. The development of new techniques and equipment boosted microbiological research and caused paradigm shifts in understanding health and disease. The development of the first microscopes allowed the discovery of a new, unknown world and led ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45515504 | 940,764 |
1,221,571 | Only four ships, "T23", "T28", "T33" and "T35", of the fifteen built survived the war. The Allies divided the surviving ships of the "Kriegsmarine" amongst themselves in late 1945 and the British were awarded the first pair, the Soviets received "T33" and the Americans "T35". After protests by France, the Royal Navy tu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58527641 | 1,220,913 |
1,465,284 | As the prices for gasoline continued to soar a man of many inventions named Stanley Myer worked on a solution that would cut the cost of fueling our cars as well as help the planet. The war on the supply and demand of a necessity for vehicles would become a distant memory if Myer could make his invention work for all v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19949953 | 1,464,461 |
201,979 | Berzelius developed the radical theory of chemical combination, which holds that reactions occur as stable groups of atoms called radicals are exchanged between molecules. He believed that salts are compounds formed of acids and bases, and discovered that the anions in acids were attracted to a positive electrode (the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1416046 | 201,876 |
767,415 | There is consensus amongst stroke specialists that tPA is the standard of care for eligible stroke patients, and benefits outweigh the risks. There is significant debate mainly in the emergency medicine community regarding recombinant tPA's effectiveness in ischemic stroke. The NNT Group on evidence-based medicine conc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=546836 | 767,003 |
2,628 | The F-22 and its subsystems were designed to be upgraded over its life cycle. The modernization and upgrades consist of software and hardware modifications, or Tactical Mandates, captured under numbered Increments, originally called Spirals, as well as software-only Operational Flight Program (OFP) Updates. Amid debate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66299 | 2,628 |
1,855,269 | NeuroArm was designed to take full advantage of the imaging environment provided by intraoperative MRI. The ability to couple near real-time, high resolution images to robotic technologies provides the surgeon with image guidance, precision, accuracy, and dexterity. MDA's engineers were immersed in the operating room t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10764126 | 1,854,203 |
303,809 | Shortly afterwards was Israel's Operation Mole Cricket 19, launched at the start of the 1982 Lebanon War. During the prior Yom Kippur War of 1973, Egyptian and Syrian SAM batteries proved to be costly to attack for the Israeli Air Force (IAF), such as during Operation Model 5; during the first three days of the war alo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573491 | 303,647 |
1,790,752 | Observations of CH can yield a large number of insights into the chemical and physical conditions where it is located. First, the relative abundance of ethynyl is an indication of the carbon-richness of its environment (as opposed to oxygen, which provides an important destruction mechanism). Since there are typically ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6425704 | 1,789,746 |
1,003,841 | In the formation of terrestrial planets or planetary cores, several stages can be considered. First, when gas and dust grains collide, they agglomerate by microphysical processes like van der Waals forces and electromagnetic forces, forming micrometer-sized particles; during this stage, accumulation mechanisms are larg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1661177 | 1,003,323 |
963,884 | In countries like Iran, Finland, Malaysia, Portugal, Singapore or the United Kingdom, there is often a significant and confused distinction between polytechnics and universities. In the UK, a binary system of higher education emerged consisting of universities (research orientation) and polytechnics (engineering and ap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1121030 | 963,375 |
1,126,116 | In the nucleotide sequence of TSST-1, there is a 708 base-pair open-reading frame and a Shine-Dalgarno sequence which is seven base pairs downstream from the start site. In the entire nucleotide sequence, only 40 amino acids make up the signal peptide. A single signal peptide consists of a 1 to 3 basic amino acid termi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14168475 | 1,125,539 |
1,952,375 | On March 8, Princeton defeated Penn to force a one-game playoff at the Payne Whitney Gymnasium at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Princeton won the playoff by a 63–62 margin. However, many thought Harvard had a chance to make the tournament in spite of the loss as an at-large team. Four of Harvard's regular ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31094018 | 1,951,254 |
83,053 | Cephalopods are a diverse group of species, but share common life history traits, for example, they have a rapid growth rate and short life spans. Stearns (1992) suggested that in order to produce the largest possible number of viable offspring, spawning events depend on the ecological environmental factors of the orga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42726 | 83,019 |
394,821 | While the national level AFRS project is still in the works, police departments in various states in India are already deploying facial recognition technology systems, such as: TSCOP + CCTNS in Telangana, Punjab Artificial Intelligence System (PAIS) in Punjab, Trinetra in Uttar Pradesh, Police Artificial Intelligence S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=602401 | 394,626 |
2,059,114 | Although DDA and DEM are similar in the sense that they both simulate the behavior of interacting discrete bodies, they are quite different theoretically. While DDA is a displacement method, DEM is a force method. While DDA uses displacement as variables in an implicit formulation with opening-closing iterations within... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6373591 | 2,057,929 |
1,128,583 | "In 1811 Johann Georg Steinbuch (1770–1818) referred repeatedly to the problem of efference copy and reafference in his book "Beytrag zur Physiologie der Sinne" ("Contribution to the Physiology of Senses"). After studying medicine, Steinbuch worked for a number of years as lecturer at the University of Erlangen and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14573357 | 1,128,005 |
1,772,528 | The University of Minnesota Bakken Medical Device Center initiated a collaboration with various companies to bring a ventilator alternative to the market that works as a one-armed robot and replaces the need for manual ventilation in emergency situations. The "Coventor" device was developed in a very short time and app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63495620 | 1,771,531 |
1,361,157 | Meehl hypothesized the existence of an autosomal dominant schizogene widespread throughout the population, which would function as a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for schizophrenia. The schizogene would manifest on the cellular level throughout the central nervous system and should be observed as a functiona... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3125942 | 1,360,404 |
25,941 | Because of the high operating altitude and the cockpit's partial pressurization, equivalent to pressure altitude, the pilot wears a partially pressurized space suit, which delivers the pilot's oxygen supply and provides emergency protection in case cabin pressure is lost. While pilots can drink water and eat various li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32310 | 25,932 |
582,623 | The facility did not experience significant flooding during Hurricane Katrina due to a natural ridge that runs along its northwestern boundary, the levee that makes up the southern and eastern boundaries, and the work of the pump operators who stayed to protect the facility during the storm. Several buildings sustained... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1247115 | 582,324 |
1,793,326 | Their first machine was the C1, released in 1985. The C1 was very similar to the Cray-1 in general design, but its CPU and main memory was implemented with slower but less expensive CMOS technology. They offset this by increasing the capabilities of the vector units, including doubling the vector registers' length to 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=78379 | 1,792,317 |
1,779,739 | At least one very small juvenile (possibly hatchling) specimen has been attributed to "Sinopterus". This specimen was originally classified as a distinct genus in 2008, "Nemicolopterus crypticus". The name "Nemicolopterus" comes from the Greek words "Nemos" meaning "forest", "ikolos" meaning "dweller", and the Latinise... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9356089 | 1,778,736 |
1,897,243 | As the second largest class of enzymes behind ubiquitin ligases and responsible for ~2% of any organism's genes, proteases have drawn the attention of biologists to develop a field aimed to identify and quantify their roles in biology. First coined in 2000 by the Overall Lab in McQuibban et al., degradomics was describ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49520826 | 1,896,159 |
395,082 | The rear of the skull is dominated by a large eye socket, often covering the major part of the rear side surface. In the socket, a large scleral ring is present; this is a circular structure of small, overlapping bone segments protecting the eye against the water pressure. Both in the relative and absolute senses, icht... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314101 | 394,887 |
1,689,116 | Nitrogen in the form of N is 78% of Earth's modern atmosphere by volume, making it the most abundant gas. N is generally considered a background gas in the Earth's atmosphere because it is relatively unreactive due to the strength of its triple bond. Despite this, atmospheric N was at least moderately important to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70910834 | 1,688,170 |
1,021,142 | X-rays were put to diagnostic use very early; for example, Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton opened a radiographic laboratory in the United Kingdom in 1896, before the dangers of ionizing radiation were discovered. Indeed, Marie Curie pushed for radiography to be used to treat wounded soldiers in World War I. Initially, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5399622 | 1,020,613 |
87,060 | Arnoux furthered this in with consecutive wins in Brazil and South Africa, both on high altitude circuits where the Renaults were dominant. Jabouille continued to have problems with retirements, but in his only points finish he emerged victorious in Austria. At the end of the year, Jabouille crashed heavily at the Cana... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240378 | 87,025 |
548,230 | Tel Rehov is an important Bronze and Iron Age archaeological site approximately five kilometers south of Beit She'an and three kilometers west of the Jordan River. The site represents one of the largest ancient city mounds in Israel, its surface area comprising 120,000 m in size, divided into an "Upper City" (40,000 m)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=673123 | 547,942 |
1,142,265 | The use of magnesium chloride on roads remains controversial. Advocates claim (1) Cleaner air, which leads to better health as fugitive dust can cause health problems in the young, elderly and people with respiratory conditions; and (2) Greater safety through improved road conditions, including increased driver visibil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42105035 | 1,141,670 |
334,495 | When the Boeing 757-200 entered service in 1983, it was equipped with the first suitable ring laser gyroscope. This gyroscope took many years to develop, and the experimental models went through many changes before it was deemed ready for production by the engineers and managers of Honeywell and Boeing. It was an outco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44125 | 334,317 |
1,504,411 | On 27 December 2013, Kotov and Ryazansky were outside of the ISS to perform a spacewalk. The cosmonauts attached two (high and medium resolution) cameras as part of a commercial agreement between a Canadian firm and the Russian Federal Space Agency to provide Earth views to internet-based subscribers. Kotov routed the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6166648 | 1,503,565 |
1,537,518 | V(D)J recombination is the rearrangement of multiple, distinct gene segments in germ-line DNA to produce the unique protein domains of immune cells, B cells and T cells, that will specifically recognize foreign antigens such as viruses, bacteria, and pathogenic eukaryotes. B cells produce antibodies that are secreted i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9933420 | 1,536,647 |
953,617 | Anders served briefly as a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute. In September 1977, he joined General Electric (GE) as its vice president and general manager of its Nuclear Products Division. Based in San Jose, California, Anders was responsible for the fuel, equipment, and instrumentation used in its boiling-wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82925 | 953,112 |
1,483,799 | The isotopic reference frame of Standard Mean Ocean Water (SMOW) was established by Harmon Craig in 1961 by measuring δH and δO in samples of deep ocean water previously studied by Epstein & Mayeda (1953). Originally SMOW was a purely theoretical isotope ratio intended to represent the mean state of the deep ocean. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52796143 | 1,482,963 |
1,437,101 | Another alternative to traditional epistemological methodology in epistemology is methodological naturalism, advocated for by Willard Quine, Hilary Kornblith and Alvin Goldman. Methodological naturalism was first explicitly proposed by Quine as part of his project to naturalize epistemology. Quine argued for the radica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3193700 | 1,436,292 |
985,785 | After the disaster that struck Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012, a new school was built to help heal the community and provide a new sense of security for those occupying the space. Major biophilic design parameters that Svigals + Partners included in this project are animal feeders, wetlands, courtyards, natural shapes a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59271750 | 985,270 |
712,250 | Carbocations typically undergo rearrangement reactions from less stable structures to equally stable or more stable ones by migration of an alkyl group or hydrogen to the cationic center to form a new carbocationic center. This often occurs with rate constants in excess of 10 s at ambient temperature and still takes pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241767 | 711,878 |
1,666,452 | Binary offset carrier modulation (BOC modulation) was developed by John Betz in order to allow interoperability of satellite navigation systems. It is currently used in the US GPS system, Indian IRNSS system and in Galileo and is a square sub-carrier modulation, where a signal is multiplied by a rectangular sub-carrier... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22607263 | 1,665,513 |
1,607,656 | Coinfections or immunizations may enhance viral replication by inducing a response and activation of the immune system. This activation facilitates the three key stages of the viral life cycle: entry to the cell; reverse transcription and proviral transcription. Chemokine receptors are vital for the entry of HIV into c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2378970 | 1,606,751 |
1,099,149 | The first stage known as needs assessment is common to any instructional design process, especially software development. This involves a "learner analysis", consultation with subject matter experts and/or the instructor(s). This first step is part of the development of the expert/knowledge and student domain. The goal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3765637 | 1,098,589 |
227,891 | SONGS-1 was a Westinghouse 3-loop pressurized water reactor constructed by Bechtel and rated at 1347 MWthermal . It began commercial operation on January 1, 1968, and ceased operation on November 30, 1992. Defueling was completed on March 6, 1993. On December 28, 1993, NRC approved the Permanently Defueled Technical Sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1780952 | 227,774 |
1,136,297 | In thermodynamic equilibrium, a necessary condition for stability is that pressure formula_1 does not increase with volume formula_2. This basic consistency requirement—and similar ones for other "conjugate" pairs of variables—are sometimes violated in analytic models for first order phase transitions. The most famous ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18428835 | 1,135,704 |
693,775 | Industrial microbiology is a branch of biotechnology that applies microbial sciences to create industrial products in mass quantities, often using microbial cell factories. There are multiple ways to manipulate a microorganism in order to increase maximum product yields. Introduction of mutations into an organism may b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52893218 | 693,412 |
1,786,260 | Oakwood was founded in 1907. Originally situated above King Edward Public School (Jr. & Sr.), in 1911 architect Charles Hartnoll Bishop completed the permanent location opened at the corner of St. Clair Ave. West and Oakwood Avenue in Collegiate Gothic structure. Oakwood celebrated its 100th anniversary in May 2008 thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7390458 | 1,785,255 |
729,916 | Orthomolecular therapies have been criticized as lacking a sufficient evidence base for clinical use: their scientific foundations are too weak, the studies that have been performed are too few and too open to interpretation, and reported positive findings in observational studies are contradicted by the results of mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=327995 | 729,532 |
147,018 | The first versions of Kaplan and Norton's interpretation of the balanced scorecard asserted that relevance should derive from the corporate strategy, and proposed design methods that focused on choosing measures and targets associated with the main activities required to implement the strategy. As the initial audience ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=522230 | 146,960 |
1,798,616 | Due to the high importance of mechanical components or even exposed engines to motorcycle styling, almost always designers will have a greater sensitivity to and awareness of engineering than will typical car designers. In OEM situations, large teams of professional engineers and specialists will collaborate on each pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10160476 | 1,797,607 |
281,011 | "The analytical problems arose in a particularly acute form in the smoke ball case. Thus it seemed very peculiar to say that there had been any sort of agreement between Mrs. Carlill and the company, which did not even know of her existence until January 20, when her husband wrote to them to complain. There were indeed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=806313 | 280,859 |
323,183 | Although not achieving the sensationalism of tulips, daffodils and narcissi have been much celebrated in art and literature . The largest demand for narcissi bulbs were large trumpet daffodils, "N. poeticus" and "N. bulbocodium", and Istanbul became important in the shipping of bulbs to western Europe. By the early bar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=142854 | 323,011 |
1,977,478 | While the 2016–17 campaign was similar to the previous two in some ways (a dual ECWHL championship, an ACHA tournament bid), it was also different in others. Beyond his typically-stout freshman class, Wright picked up three key transfers, including goaltender Amber Greene (via Penn State's NCAA Division I team), swing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54095645 | 1,976,340 |
1,738,930 | At the end of 1759 Waring published the first chapter of "Miscellanea Analytica". On 28 January the next year he was appointed Lucasian professor of mathematics, one of the highest positions in Cambridge. William Samuel Powell, then tutor in St John's College, Cambridge opposed Waring's election and instead supported t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9723 | 1,737,953 |
1,734,150 | After many experimental shorts and several live scores for silent films, Reynolds's first feature film score was "The Journeyman" (2001), a grim, Sergio Leone-inspired western featuring Willie Nelson. His relationship with iconic independent film director Richard Linklater ("Slacker, Dazed and Confused, School of Rock)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5875842 | 1,733,173 |
1,713,383 | By the 1960s, farming had become uncertain as a potential career and outright purchase of food and other goods a more economical way of meeting the School's needs - so the farming program was phased out. In 1964, St. Andrew's was granted membership in the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC). In 1976... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13479361 | 1,712,417 |
1,666,663 | Nikolai Koltsov worked on cytology and vertebrate anatomy. In 1903 Koltsov proposed that the shape of cells was determined by a network of tubules forming a skeleton which was later termed as the cytoskeleton. He saw the role of gel-sol transitions in the cytoplasm as key mechanisms for the cell structure. In 1927 Kolt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1732821 | 1,665,724 |
351,632 | Around that time, Philips was seeking to expand sales of its radios into parts of the world where grid electricity and batteries were not consistently available. Philips' management decided that offering a low-power portable generator would facilitate such sales and asked a group of engineers at the company's research ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186919 | 351,449 |
1,237,015 | The WAIR hypothesis, a version of the "cursorial model" of the evolution of avian flight, in which birds' wings originated from forelimb modifications that provided downforce, enabling the proto-birds to run up extremely steep slopes such as the trunks of trees, was prompted by observation of young chukar chicks, and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10589364 | 1,236,351 |
85,529 | On 5 June, 24 Pakistani soldiers were slaughtered by members of Mohamed Farrah Aidid's Habr Gidr militia; some were skinned. Subsequently, the United Nations called for the arrest of those responsible. Weeks later they would formally place the blame on Aidid, leader of the Habr Gidr clan. Subsequently, U.N. troops hunt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=338060 | 85,495 |
1,691,244 | EP plays a critical role in postnatal closure of the ductus arteriosus as defined in mice lacking a functional gene for this receptor, i.e. EP(-/-) mice (see Knockout mouse). About 95% of EP(-/-) mice die within 3 days of birth due to the pulmonary congestion and heart failure caused by a patent ductus arteriosus. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14162110 | 1,690,294 |
1,181,663 | In 1969, Busicom asked Intel, a company founded one year earlier in 1968 for the purpose of making solid state random-access memory (RAM), to finalize and manufacture their calculator engine. Intel, which was more of a memory company back then, had facilities to manufacture the high density silicon gate MOS chip Busico... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54109056 | 1,181,038 |
450,869 | Histoplasmosis is usually a subclinical infection that does not come to the attention of the person involved. The organism tends to remain alive in the scattered pulmonary calcifications; therefore, some cases are detected by emergence of serious infection when a patient becomes immunocompromised, perhaps decades later... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9261687 | 450,650 |
157,097 | Languages that are strongly typed and do not allow direct memory access, such as COBOL, Java, Python, and others, prevent buffer overflow from occurring in most cases. Many programming languages other than C/C++ provide runtime checking and in some cases even compile-time checking which might send a warning or raise an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4373 | 157,025 |
95,997 | It is citrate, catalase, and oxidase positive. It is found in soil, water, skin flora, and most man-made environments throughout the world. It thrives not only in normal atmospheres, but also in low-oxygen atmospheres, thus has colonized many natural and artificial environments. It uses a wide range of organic material... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2459654 | 95,956 |
593,131 | The 2019–20 season was Heo's break-out season, despite the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic during the last few rounds. During the October game against Wonju DB Promy at home, he scored nine consecutive three-point shots, tying Cho Sung-won's fifteen-year-old record for the most consecutive three-point shots ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62987248 | 592,827 |
1,706,747 | The primary two stimulus modalities used for negative priming research are visual and auditory stimulus materials. The stimulus presented varied from objects or symbols in visual field to human voices or artificial sounds. Stronger negative priming effects are found for auditory stimulus but the standardized effect siz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8680973 | 1,705,789 |
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