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1,082,958 | Following his participation in the storming of the United States Capitol, friends of Keller's described him as a strong political conservative and a gun enthusiast, who had expressed increasingly strong support for Donald Trump on his social media in the previous years, particularly in the year immediately prior. He ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3295190 | 1,082,401 |
1,097,504 | In August 2008 Judge S. James Otero ruled in favor of University of California in "Association of Christian Schools International v. Roman Stearns" agreeing with the university's position that various religious books on U.S. history and science, from A Beka Books and Bob Jones University Press, should not be used for c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34846832 | 1,096,944 |
717,658 | Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) is a European Union regulation dating from 18 December 2006. REACH addresses the production and use of chemical substances, and their potential impacts on both human health and the environment. Its 849 pages took seven years to pass, and it ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1301665 | 717,281 |
2,112,776 | This was the 11th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The only returning vaulter from the pre-war 1936 Games was sixth-place finisher Richard Webster of Great Britain. American Cornelius Warmerdam had dominated the pole vault during World War II, brea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28006664 | 2,111,561 |
691,073 | During the Vietnam War, combat again provided the opportunity for study of pulmonary contusion; research during this conflict played an important role in the development of the modern understanding of its treatment. The condition also began to be more widely recognized in a non-combat context in the 1960s, and symptoms... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16996257 | 690,710 |
7,346 | Hazardous molds that can foul air and water filters may develop aboard space stations. They can produce acids that degrade metal, glass, and rubber. They can also be harmful to the crew's health. Microbiological hazards have led to a development of the LOCAD-PTS which identifies common bacteria and molds faster than st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15043 | 7,343 |
1,043,456 | Computationalism, a kind of functionalist philosophy of mind, is committed to the position that the brain is some sort of computer, but what does it mean to be a computer? The definition of a computation must be narrow enough so that we limit the number of objects that can be called computers. For example, it might see... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2208074 | 1,042,912 |
1,692,042 | The choice of target electron has changed during the development of AVLIS as newer laser technologies have been developed. Early work generally focused on electrons in the 16 micron band, which could be efficiently produced using CO2 lasers which were emerging in the late 1960s. However, the transitions in this area we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1324953 | 1,691,091 |
84,504 | In Operation Midnight Climax, the CIA set up several brothels within agency safehouses in San Francisco to obtain a selection of men who would be too embarrassed to talk about the events. The men were dosed with LSD, the brothels were equipped with one-way mirrors, and the sessions were filmed for later viewing and stu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42043 | 84,470 |
121,554 | Biochemical reactions are mainly controlled by enzymes. These proteins can specifically catalyze a single reaction so that reactions can be controlled very precisely. The reaction takes place in the active site, a small part of the enzyme which is usually found in a cleft or pocket lined by amino acid residues, and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6271 | 121,505 |
862,816 | In 1977, the British Ministry of Defence issued a requirement for an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopter to replace the Royal Navy's Westland Sea Kings. Westland responded with design "WG.34" that was approved for development. Meanwhile, the "Marina Militare" (Italian Navy) was also seeking a replacement for its Ag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=505837 | 862,356 |
599,347 | They hired Dr. Ira Duffendack, a professor at University of Michigan and a world expert on infrared research to head the lab and to hire a staff. In 1951 he hired Dr. David Miller as Assistant Director of Research. Dr. Miller had done research on X-ray instrumentation at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Duffenda... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1063456 | 599,041 |
380,598 | Up until the mid-1980s, the capacitors in DRAM cells were co-planar with the access transistor (they were constructed on the surface of the substrate), thus they were referred to as "planar" capacitors. The drive to increase both density and, to a lesser extent, performance, required denser designs. This was strongly m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=74567 | 380,403 |
1,429,827 | Carbonaceous materials such as cellulose char contain large numbers of stable free electrons delocalized in large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Such electrons can give large polarization enhancements to nearby protons via proton-proton spin-diffusion if they are not so close together that the electron-nuclear dipol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1119342 | 1,429,023 |
1,171,573 | The goal of biodefense is to integrate the sustained efforts of the national and homeland security, medical, public health, intelligence, diplomatic, and police communities. Health care providers and public health officers are among the first lines of defense. In some countries private, local, and provincial (state) ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45584 | 1,170,954 |
1,519,465 | Little is known of Apollonius Dyscolus, other than that he was born at Alexandria, son of Mnesitheus. The precise dates for his life are not known. His son Aelius Herodianus, who wrote on phonology, appears to have moved to Rome at the time of Marcus Aurelius. From this it is inferred that his father must have been a c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=840563 | 1,518,607 |
704,098 | Lowell's greatest contribution to planetary studies came during the last decade of his life, which he devoted to the search for Planet X, a hypothetical planet beyond Neptune. Lowell believed that the planets Uranus and Neptune were displaced from their predicted positions by the gravity of the unseen Planet X. Lowell ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24033 | 703,730 |
2,136,043 | EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering theoretical and practical aspects of signal processing in new and emerging technologies. The scope includes: communications, networking, sensors and actuators, radar and sonar, medical imaging, biomedical applica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11169244 | 2,134,816 |
27,171 | Within the cytoplasm of a cell, there are many biomolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids. In addition to biomolecules, eukaryotic cells have specialized structures called organelles that have their own lipid bilayers or are spatially units. These organelles include the cell nucleus, which contains most of the cel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9127632 | 27,161 |
1,230,283 | Various scientific disciplines have developed taxonomic classification systems to describe natural phenomena or individuals, like for example, plants or animals. These systems are based on specific characteristics like shape of organs or nature of reproduction. Differently, in landslide classification, there are great ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9597934 | 1,229,621 |
1,399,527 | Kermack–McKendrick theory is a hypothesis that predicts the number and distribution of cases of an infectious disease as it is transmitted through a population over time. Building on the research of Ronald Ross and Hilda Hudson, A. G. McKendrick and W. O. Kermack published their theory in a set of three articles from 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36477140 | 1,398,752 |
1,406,654 | The locomotive was painted in a red livery and was officially named "L.D. Porta" after the Argentinian engineer responsible for some of the ideas and developments incorporated in its modification. Initial steaming and yard running took place on Thursday 5 February 1981 and the first test trip, running light from Salt R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27230851 | 1,405,864 |
1,395,344 | Another situation where recovery is trivial is if traffic-flow security measures have each station sending a continuous stream of cipher bits, with null characters (e.g. "LTRS" in Baudot) being sent when there is no real traffic. This is common in military communications. In that case, and if the transmission channel i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1180461 | 1,394,573 |
740,092 | Tidal acceleration is one of the few examples in the dynamics of the Solar System of a so-called secular perturbation of an orbit, i.e. a perturbation that continuously increases with time and is not periodic. Up to a high order of approximation, mutual gravitational perturbations between major or minor planets only ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30647 | 739,700 |
882,331 | They were unsuccessful, but did provide much data on the advantages of such a system, should one be built. Namely; a fast voltage rise time to fire fouled or wet spark plugs, high energy throughout the RPM range resulting in better starting, more power and economy, and lower emissions. A few engineers, scientists, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6065047 | 881,867 |
1,119,491 | David Doubilet explained his technique for split field images in an interview for Nikon Corporation. "You need to use a D-SLR and a super wide-angle or fisheye lens and a sophisticated housing that has a dome, not a flat port. Underwater images are magnified by 25 percent, and the dome will correct for that. The techni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=291260 | 1,118,918 |
184,327 | The privately revised expedition schedule required "Fram" to leave Norway in August 1910 and sail to Madeira in the Atlantic, its only port of call. From there the ship would proceed directly to the Ross Sea in Antarctica, heading for the Bay of Whales, an inlet on the Ross Ice Shelf (then known as the "Great Ice Barri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15021680 | 184,230 |
1,264,260 | Following investigations into the composition of amorphous calcium phosphates precipitated under different conditions, Posner and Betts suggested in the mid 1970s that the structural unit of ACP was a neutral cluster Ca(PO). Calculations support the description of a cluster with central Ca ion surrounded by six phospha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15861718 | 1,263,572 |
1,106,670 | A question still debated today is to what extent improvements from perceptual learning stems from peripheral modifications compared with improvement in higher-level readout stages. Early interpretations, such as that suggested by William James, attributed it to higher-level categorization mechanisms whereby initially b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25335695 | 1,106,106 |
1,395,013 | Meanwhile, also in April 2014, the opposition DPP planned to introduce special legislation to bypass the provisions of the Referendum Act, allowing a simple majority vote (with no threshold of participation) to decide the plant's fate. Premier Jiang Yi-huah cited the prior 2000 precedent when construction was interrupt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4031918 | 1,394,242 |
1,045,243 | An FAA study conducted in 2015 showed that since 1975, the number of people flying in the United States increased from about 200 million to an estimated 800 million, yet the number of people exposed to significant aircraft noise had dropped from about 7 million to nearly 340,000. Even with this decrease, community conc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12942905 | 1,044,698 |
1,581,831 | The emergence and need for the analysis of different types of data generated through biological research has given rise to the field of bioinformatics. Molecular sequence and structure data of DNA, RNA, and proteins, gene expression profiles or microarray data, metabolic pathway data are some of the major types of data... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40646055 | 1,580,941 |
2,105,894 | No. 5 SFTS reached a strength of some 2,000 personnel during the war, and graduated 1,515 pilots. The rate of flying conducted at the school declined during 1945 and, by November, its aircraft were being readied for storage. In February 1946, No. 5 SFTS was disbanded and its staff and equipment used to re-establish No.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26279241 | 2,104,681 |
1,668,879 | During this period, Connaught was the world’s primary driver of research and innovation in insulin production as well as some of its earlier specialisations including the diphtheria antitoxin. The Labs' relevant advances are reflected in scientific publications of the time by Peter Moloney, David Scott, and Charles Bes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61019378 | 1,667,939 |
751,913 | Following its development in the late 1950s, DMPA was first assessed in clinical trials for use as an injectable contraceptive in 1963. Upjohn sought approval of intramuscular DMPA as a long-acting contraceptive under the brand name Depo-Provera (150 mg/mL MPA) in 1967, but the application was rejected. However, this f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23484633 | 751,511 |
553,102 | Although some definitions and concepts from classical mechanics do carry over to SR, such as force as the time derivative of momentum (Newton's second law), the work done by a particle as the line integral of force exerted on the particle along a path, and power as the time derivative of work done, there are a number o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2021419 | 552,813 |
1,274,826 | Mazur's early work at Harvard focused on the use of short-pulse lasers to carry out spectroscopy of highly vibrationally excited molecules. Mazur and his group have made many pioneering contributions to the field of ultrashort laser pulses and their interactions with matter ("femtosecond material science"). In 1989 his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4018066 | 1,274,134 |
1,687,131 | Even though in the majority of approaches in electron microscopy one tries to get the best resolution image of the material, it is not always the case in cryo-TEM. Besides all the benefits of high resolution images, the signal to noise ratio remains the main hurdle that prevents assigning orientation to each particle. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2235991 | 1,686,185 |
1,447,670 | In contrast to colchicine and vinca alkaloids, paclitaxel enhances microtubule polymerization promoting both the nucleation and elongation phases of the polymerization reaction, and it reduces the critical tubulin sub-unit concentration (i.e., soluble tubulin concentration at steady- state). Microtubules polymerized in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33071344 | 1,446,854 |
1,045,236 | The FAA allows the use of an enhanced flight vision system (EFVS) instead of natural vision to conduct an instrument landing procedure in low-visibility conditions. EFVS uses sensor technologies to provide a clear, real-time virtual image to the pilot of the view outside the aircraft, regardless of the cloud cover and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12942905 | 1,044,691 |
1,317,868 | Under Kistiakowsky's leadership, X-Division designed the complex explosive lenses needed to compress the fissile plutonium pit. These employed two explosives with significantly different velocities of detonation in order to produce the required waveform. Kistiakowsky chose Baratol for the slow explosive. After experime... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1074761 | 1,317,143 |
1,795,808 | Trapped bubbles of air and water within fossil amber can be analyzed to provide direct evidence of the climate conditions existing when the resin or tree sap formed. The analysis of these trapped air bubbles provides a record of atmosphere composition going back 140 million years. The data indicate that the oxygen cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1229268 | 1,794,799 |
15,103 | It provides strategic airlift, the ability to deploy special forces, and to operate in diverse terrain – from Himalayan air bases in North India at to Indian Ocean bases in South India. The C-17s are based at Hindon Air Force Station and are operated by No. 81 Squadron IAF "Skylords". The first C-17 was delivered in Ja... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6731 | 15,098 |
1,495,581 | "Orthoreovirus" is part of the family "Reoviridae". Its genome is composed of segmented double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), thus it is classified as a group III virus according to the Baltimore classification system of viruses. This family of viruses is taxonomically classified into 15 distinct genera. These genera are sorted... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4253583 | 1,494,740 |
1,353,131 | Cleaning symbiosis that develop between small and larger marine organisms often represent models useful for studying the evolution of stable social interactions and cheating. In the cleaning fish "Labroides dimidiatus" (Bluestreak cleaner wrasse), as in many cleaner species, client fish seeks to have ectoparasites remo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5467149 | 1,352,384 |
531,320 | Designing the process has in the past been a challenging task, since initial analytical modeling is possible only for limited cases. Advances in FEA and FEM in recent years has enabled hydroform processes to be more widely engineered for varieties of parts and materials. Often FEM simulations must be performed in order... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1722960 | 531,046 |
907,422 | The College of Fine Arts and Communication offers degree programs in communication fields such as Journalism and Broadcasting, Speech and Hearing sciences, Sign Language, and Deaf Education. Lamar University is one of five universities in Texas which offer a clinical doctorate in audiology program. Fine arts degree pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=624221 | 906,944 |
1,610,825 | Taking the advantage of facile CI determination, a new simple graphic representation of three or more drug combinations has been introduced by T.C. Chou and J. Chou in 1998. This method allows visual inspection of two-to-n drug combinations in the same circular frame which can be used to project the plausible semi-quan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40586690 | 1,609,920 |
1,606,080 | Metals are produced from ores that are found naturally in the environment. Most metal objects are made from a combination of individual metals called alloys and exhibit different strengths and colors based on their composition. Metals and alloys commonly found in cultural objects include gold, silver, copper, pewter, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9962115 | 1,605,176 |
775,161 | The primary disadvantage of OPV derives from its inherent nature. As an attenuated but active virus, it can induce vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP) in approximately one individual per every 2.4million doses administered. Likewise, mutation during the course of persistent circulation in undervaccinated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9901652 | 774,745 |
360,669 | An fMRI study demonstrated that the right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) of higher-functioning adults with autism was not more selectively activated for mentalizing judgments when compared to physical judgments about self and other. rTPJ selectivity for mentalizing was also related to individual variation on clinical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=488083 | 360,481 |
1,912,999 | The security ethic is based in the oldest part of the brain, involving the R-complex or the extrapyramidal system. The security ethic is triggered stressors that activate primal instincts and fight-or-flight responses. These are concerned or centered on safety, survival, and thriving in an environment (or biological sy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60522879 | 1,911,900 |
266,465 | Small (or micro) applications for pumped-storage could be built on streams and within infrastructures, such as drinking water networks and artificial snow making infrastructures. In this regard, a storm-water basin has been concretely implemented as a cost-effective solution for a water reservoir in a micro pumped hydr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277237 | 266,321 |
1,139,525 | Michael Freedman solved the topological case formula_5 in 1982 and received a Fields Medal in 1986. The initial proof consisted of a 50-page outline, with many details missing. Freedman gave a series of lectures at the time, convincing experts that the proof was correct. A project to produce a written version of the pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8536216 | 1,138,932 |
1,323,428 | While fluorogenic labeling is a powerful tool for tracking and sorting, it is not always compatible with droplet-based microfluidic systems and experimental design. New label-free and non-fluorescence-based detection techniques have recently been reported. In 2016, Gielen "et al." published an absorbance-activated drop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54022162 | 1,322,702 |
393,700 | Interviewed for the 2004 book "Schrödinger's Rabbits", Tegmark rejected this scenario for the reason that "the fading of consciousness is a continuous process. Although I cannot experience a world line in which I am altogether absent, I can enter one in which my speed of thought is diminishing, my memories and other fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48685 | 393,505 |
1,599,829 | In his 1990 book, "Syntactic Theory and the Acquisition of English Syntax", Radford summarizes the state of a maturation hypothesis for child language acquisition. Working within the principles and parameters framework as his point of departure, and drawing from previous work done by Hagit Borer and Kenneth Wexler on t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53644503 | 1,598,928 |
590,229 | The main activities of the NSS unit are plantation, blood donation camp, services at orphanages and old age homes, road safety, anti-ragging squads, medical camps in villages, environmental awareness, and programs, service to physically and mentally challenged people, issue of voter ID cards to students and staff, firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4336717 | 589,927 |
725,069 | The Out-of-Africa model proposes that modern humans originated in Africa and migrated north to populate Europe and Asia. These migrants most likely had a functional "MC1R" variant and, accordingly, dark hair and skin as displayed by indigenous Africans today. As humans migrated north, the absence of high levels of sola... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30870796 | 724,688 |
696,886 | In January 1986, an independent research firm commissioned by Nintendo delivered a survey of 200 NES owners, showing that the most popular given reason for buying an NES was because children wanted R.O.B. the robotfollowed most strongly by good graphics, variety of games, and the uniqueness and newness of the NES packa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1571248 | 696,522 |
856,914 | They typically move by sidewinding, during which they press their weight into the sand or soil, leaving whole-body impressions. Often, it is even possible to use these impressions to make ventral scale counts. They have a reasonably placid temperament, but if threatened, they may assume a C-shaped posture and rapidly r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=850941 | 856,459 |
830,727 | Using this concept, some aerospace analysts believe the way to lower launch costs is the exact opposite of SSTO. Whereas reusable SSTOs would reduce per launch costs by making a reusable high-tech vehicle that launches frequently with low maintenance, the "mass production" approach views the technical advances as a sou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29398 | 830,279 |
1,220,432 | The K9 Thunder is described as South Korea's most popular export and one of the most popular self-propelled howitzers in the world. This is due to its competitive performance and price range. The self-propelled artillery has been exported to Poland, India, Australia, Egypt, Norway etc. South Korea and Turkey co-develop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66301957 | 1,219,778 |
1,635,316 | Schadt founded Sema4, "a patient-centered health intelligence company dedicated to advancing healthcare through data-driven insights," in June 2017. The company uses Centrellis™, their health analytics platform, to build predictive models of human health and generate personalized medicine insights. Sema4, which was nam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38374635 | 1,634,393 |
1,277,114 | As planned, the US also released a large batch of results from their smaller pinch machines. Many of them were also giving off neutrons, although ZETA was stabilised for much longer periods and generating more neutrons, by a factor of about 1000. When questioned about the success in the UK, Strauss denied that the US w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3083485 | 1,276,421 |
1,262,868 | The political situation of Jews in Poland was most amiable under the rule of Józef Piłsudski (1926–1935). Piłsudski replaced "Endecja's" 'ethnic assimilation' with the 'state assimilation' policy: citizens were judged by their loyalty to the state, not by their nationality. The years 1926–1935 were favourably viewed by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2125860 | 1,262,180 |
311,121 | A IAEA report of 15 November 2007 found that on nine outstanding issues listed in the August 2007 workplan, including experiments on the P-2 centrifuge and work with uranium metals, "Iran's statements are consistent with ... information available to the agency," but it warned that its knowledge of Tehran's present atom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=721807 | 310,953 |
1,046,758 | The also known as the is a Famicom-based home video game console produced by Sharp Corporation under license from Nintendo in 1989. The console, released exclusively in Japan at a retail price of ¥43,000, was the most technologically ambitious project that Sharp had attempted with the Famicom system, with Sharp identif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68630525 | 1,046,213 |
2,073,230 | Small Tim proteins are synthesised lacking a cleavable presequence, but instead containing internal targeting information and need to be imported to the intermembrane space. The intermembrane space import and assembly machinery (MIA) is believed to mediate transport of the small Tim precursors into the intermembrane sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20287388 | 2,072,039 |
1,648,490 | In July 2013, José Menéndez, a physics professor at the Arizona State University Tempe campus published an article titled "Impressionism, Realism, and the aging of Ashcroft and Mermin" in "Physics Today" that stated: "It is undoubtedly one of the best physics books ever written, but it is not aging well". Both Ashcroft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65997474 | 1,647,558 |
1,830,543 | Arnold Bernard Scheibel (January 18, 1923 – April 3, 2017) was an American neuroscientist, professor of psychiatry and neuroanatomy, and the former director of the Brain Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is well known for his research regarding the anatomy of the spinal cord, brain ste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66282493 | 1,829,497 |
1,754,791 | Sondhi has worked extensively across a wide range of topics in theoretical condensed matter physics, notably in the areas of topological phases of matter, strongly correlated electrons, and quantum magnetism. His recent research activity focuses on the study of many-body quantum dynamics. Sondhi's most significant cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60312102 | 1,753,801 |
1,767,784 | Entry and exit screening involves the screening of travelers at ports of entry for symptoms of illness. Measures include health declarations, in which travelers make a deceleration that they have not recently had symptoms of illness; visual inspections by the screening agent of the traveler; and the use of non-contact ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63674823 | 1,766,790 |
1,101,895 | Sample handling in Raman spectroscopy offers considerable advantages over FTIR spectroscopy in that glass can be used for windows, lenses, and other optical components. A further advantage is that whereas water absorbs strongly in the infrared region, which limits the pathlengths that can be used and masking large regi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1248278 | 1,101,334 |
195,360 | Ideally, at least one of the methods utilized for confirming tracheal tube placement will be a measuring instrument. Waveform capnography has emerged as the gold standard for the confirmation of tube placement within the trachea. Other methods relying on instruments include the use of a colorimetric end-tidal carbon di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146396 | 195,260 |
152,694 | First publicly presented at the Spring 2007 joint assembly of the American Geophysical Union in Acapulco, Mexico, the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis suggests that the mass extinction was caused by fragments of a disintegrating asteroid or comet 12,900 years ago. Using photomicrograph analysis, research published in Ja... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18783051 | 152,626 |
122,924 | In 1981, the Chinese version of the An-12, designated Y-8, finally entered production. Since then, the Y-8 has become one of China's most popular military and civilian transport/cargo aircraft, with many variants produced and exported. A Tu-16/H-6 bomber navigator cockpit design was chosen for the Y-8 instead of the or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=908118 | 122,875 |
1,762,287 | Anubis operates on data blocks of 128 bits, accepting keys of length 32"N" bits ("N" = 4, ..., 10). It is designed as a substitution–permutation network, which bears large similarity to Rijndael. Like KHAZAD, designed by the same authors and also submitted to NESSIE, it uses involutions for the various operations. An i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3432526 | 1,761,294 |
327,331 | DCS is best known as a diving disorder that affects divers having breathed gas that is at a higher pressure than the surface pressure, owing to the pressure of the surrounding water. The risk of DCS increases when diving for extended periods or at greater depth, without ascending gradually and making the decompression ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61048 | 327,157 |
307,688 | An alternative characterization of Euclidean vectors, especially in physics, describes them as lists of quantities which behave in a certain way under a coordinate transformation. A "contravariant vector" is required to have components that "transform opposite to the basis" under changes of basis. The vector itself doe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32533 | 307,523 |
799,821 | Practically every imaginable posture has been suggested for "Plateosaurus" in the scientific literature at some point. Von Huene assumed digitigrade bipedality with erect hind limbs for the animals he excavated at Trossingen, with the backbone held at a steep angle (at least during rapid locomotion). In contrast, Jaeke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1565138 | 799,395 |
1,978,268 | However, by the late 1960s there was market saturation and entrepreneurs sold into conglomerates or otherwise merged their efforts. The mid-1970s saw an increase in interest in sailing as oil prices began to climb following the 1973 Oil Embargo; however, with petroleum as a major component for plastic resins manufactur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7541155 | 1,977,130 |
783,210 | By the early 1950s, the French Navy had in service a number of aircraft carriers, the most modern of which was . However, all of them were small and increasingly incapable of operating modern aircraft, which were steadily increasing in size. To ensure French independence in defence matters, a new class of two modern fl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7182356 | 782,791 |
311,153 | On 24 February 2012, IAEA Director General Amano reported to the IAEA Board of Governors that high-level IAEA delegations had met twice with Iranian officials to intensify efforts to resolve outstanding issues, but that major differences remained and Iran did not grant IAEA requests for access to the Parchin site, wher... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=721807 | 310,985 |
2,169,496 | Ionian's proprietary isothermal technology, termed the Nicking Enzyme Amplification Reaction Assay, is claimed to be capable of amplifying extremely low amounts of starting material to easily detectable levels in just a few minutes. The proprietary technology is based on the very rapid detection of small DNA or RNA fra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10441602 | 2,168,258 |
1,077,245 | The amount of research studying real-time database systems will increase because of commercial applications such as web based auction houses like eBay. More developing countries are expanding their phone systems, and the number of people with cell phones in the United States as well as other places in the world continu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8446344 | 1,076,690 |
70,117 | Surrounding and stretching between galaxies, there is a rarefied plasma that is organized in a galactic filamentary structure. This material is called the intergalactic medium (IGM). The density of the IGM is 5–200 times the average density of the Universe. It consists mostly of ionized hydrogen; i.e. a plasma consisti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177602 | 70,090 |
375,739 | The United States 9/11 Commission has said that nuclear power plants were potential targets originally considered for the September 11, 2001 attacks. If terrorist groups could sufficiently damage safety systems to cause a core meltdown at a nuclear power plant, and/or sufficiently damage spent fuel pools, such an attac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4131402 | 375,544 |
425,916 | Heat is the largest energy end-use. In 2015, the provision of heating for use in buildings, industrial purposes and other applications accounted for around 52% (205 EJ) of the total energy consumed. Of this, over half was used in the industry and around 46% in the building sector. While 72% of the heat was provided by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21595073 | 425,708 |
89,251 | The ACC is often regarded as the best college basketball conference, and UVA leads the series in its official ACC basketball rivalries: against Virginia Tech 96–56, and Louisville 15–4, . A budding but lopsided series between Virginia's Tony Bennett and Louisville's Rick Pitino saw Bennett win 5 of 6 games before Pitin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59801 | 89,214 |
1,364,328 | Working hypercognition is a strong directive-executive function that is responsible for setting and pursuing mental and behavioral goals until they are attained. This function involves processes enabling the person to: (1) set mental and behavioral goals; (2) plan their attainment; (3) evaluate each step's processing d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25076961 | 1,363,572 |
439,591 | The vision for MRP and MRPII was to centralize and integrate business information in a way that would facilitate decision making for production line managers and increase the efficiency of the production line overall. In the 1980s, manufacturers developed systems for calculating the resource requirements of a productio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1418103 | 439,377 |
295,880 | Geothermal power is considered to be sustainable because the heat extraction is small compared to the Earth's heat content, but extraction must still be monitored to avoid local depletion. Although geothermal sites are capable of providing heat for many decades, individual wells may cool down or run out of water. The t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13021878 | 295,720 |
925,641 | Mastery Learning has been one of the most highly investigated teaching methods over the past 50 years. While it has been the subject of high criticism, it has also been found to have resounding success when implemented correctly. A meta-analysis by Guskey & Pigott (1988) looked at 46 studies that implemented group-base... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3389587 | 925,155 |
1,213,334 | The coup took place on 5 December, but was bloodless and almost completely without violence. The evacuation of Australians was deemed unnecessary, and vessels of the task force began arriving back in Australia on 17 December, with "Kanimbla" docking in Townsville, and both "Newcastle" and "Success" returning to Sydney.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5606945 | 1,212,682 |
749,204 | Between 18 and 24 months of age, children begin to build mental symbols and start to participate in pretend play. For example, a child is mixing ingredients together but does not have a spoon so they pretend to use one or use another object to replace the spoon. Symbolic thought is a representation of objects and event... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1274232 | 748,806 |
1,248,968 | Iota Orionis is dominated by the multiple star Iota Orionis A. It is clearly identified as a double-lined spectroscopic binary whose components are a stellar class O9 III star (blue giant) and a class B0.8 III/IV star about 2 magnitudes fainter. The combined spectral type has long been accepted as O9 III and it was lis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=920344 | 1,248,292 |
1,590,390 | On 19 July 1944, Charles A. Thomas informed Williams and Greenewalt that Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory, had given up all hope of getting the Thin Man gun-type nuclear weapon to work. The Los Alamos Laboratory was now going to concentrate on the development of the Fat ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72002318 | 1,589,496 |
595,082 | There are four types of distributive shock. The most common, septic shock, is caused by an infection, most frequently by bacteria, but viruses, fungi and parasites have been implicated. Infection sites most likely to lead to septic shock are chest, abdomen and genitourinary tract. In septic shock the blood flow in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2930734 | 594,777 |
1,472,830 | The Eastern Coastal Party under Madigan left the base on 8 November, following the coast eastwards. They continued, mapping as they went and collecting geological and biological samples, to just beyond the 150° E mark, about from the base. Near that point, they discovered a rocky headland, more than high, with a magnif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3433767 | 1,472,001 |
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