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36,375 | A further variation is motivated by the concern that modern Natural Language Processing prove to be highly successful in generating text on the basis of a huge text corpus and could eventually pass the Turing test simply by manipulating words and sentences that have been used in the initial training of the model. Since... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21391751 | 36,363 |
1,093,249 | Nuclear safety is regarded highly by the Chinese government. However, to date, no comprehensive nuclear fusion safety framework exists within China. Presently safety protocols followed in China are based on fission reactor technology; these are outlined in Law "of the People's Republic of China on Prevention" a"nd Cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57546557 | 1,092,689 |
1,283,992 | Austin Burt, the great grandson of the inventor, built a working model of the typographer for the 1893 Chicago's World's Fair working from a parchment copy of the original patent (USX 558111). He explained in a letter dated April 1, 1893, that was attached to the model that it took him a month to construct it from the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2399453 | 1,283,293 |
1,928,224 | Kemal Gekić was born in Split, Croatia, to a Croatian mother and a Bosniak father. The maternal side of his family was extremely musical, and his father, an orthopedic surgeon, displayed a lifelong passion for music. Gekić displayed his musical gift extremely early even by the usual child prodigy standards - by picking... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3760847 | 1,927,120 |
1,732,358 | The next step was qualifying for the federal funds under the Teague-Cranston Act, with Quillen working with the State Board of Regents Chancellor Roy Nicks and President Culp on the application, which was approved by the Veterans Administration on July 11, 1974. On June 30, 1977, Dr. Culp's last day in office as the Pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6343851 | 1,731,382 |
706,044 | In addition to these methodological criticisms, conceptual issues are debated. One regards the social relevance of indirect contact chains of different degrees of separation. Much formal and empirical work focuses on diffusion processes, but the literature on the small-world problem also often illustrates the relevance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=636799 | 705,675 |
903,371 | While pollination by ants is somewhat rare, several "Myrmecia" species have been observed pollinating flowers. For example, the orchid "Leporella fimbriata" is a myrmecophyte which can only be pollinated by the winged male ant "M. urens". Pollination of this orchid usually occurs between April and June during warm afte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1057147 | 902,895 |
129,186 | In petro-hydraulic hybrids, the energy recovery rate is high and therefore the system is more efficient than electric battery charged hybrids using the current electric battery technology, demonstrating a 60% to 70% increase in energy economy in US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) testing. The charging engine need... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157736 | 129,134 |
659,813 | In 1982 the Far Infrared and Sub-millimetre Telescope (FIRST) was proposed to ESA. The ESA long-term policy-plan "Horizon 2000", produced in 1984, called for a "High Throughput Heterodyne Spectroscopy" mission as one of its cornerstone missions. In 1986, FIRST was adopted as this cornerstone mission. It was selected fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1172577 | 659,468 |
487,156 | Beginning in the mid-1960s, Donald Davies and his team at the NPL pioneered packet switching, now the dominant basis for data communications in computer networks worldwide. Davies designed and proposed a commercial national data network based on packet switching in his 1965 "Proposal for the Development of a National C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=250381 | 486,906 |
785,435 | In 1898, the Pidgeon machine was developed with a unique setup by W. R. Pidgeon. On October 28 that year, Pidgeon presented this machine to the Physical Society after several years of investigation into influence machines (beginning at the start of the decade). The device was later reported in the "Philosophical Magazi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1573430 | 785,014 |
391,520 | UCI's two freshman dormitory communities are Mesa Court and Middle Earth. Mesa Court was the first housing community at UCI, and features a volleyball court, two basketball courts, a community center, a recreational center, and the Mesa Academic Center (MAC). Middle Earth comprises 24 residence halls, two dining facili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44757 | 391,325 |
503,023 | The main environmental concern with tidal energy is associated with blade strike and entanglement of marine organisms as high speed water increases the risk of organisms being pushed near or through these devices. As with all offshore renewable energies, there is also a concern about how the creation of EMF and acousti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=623774 | 502,765 |
1,584,922 | For each set of assigned values of the parameters "ξ", the right sides of equations have definite constant values, and the world line determined by these equations is one of the possible trajectories of the particle. Choosing the quantities "ξ", which are constant along the trajectory, as new space coordinates, and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21666983 | 1,584,032 |
814,175 | Changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide may reduce the nutritional quality of some crops, with for instance wheat having less protein and less of some minerals. Food crops could see a reduction of protein, iron and zinc content in common food crops of 3 to 17%. This is the projected result of food grown under the expecte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47512577 | 813,742 |
329,128 | Because the main propellant charge are located deep inside the gun barrel and thus impractical to be directly lighted from the outside, an intermediate is needed to relay the ignition. In the earliest black powder muzzleloaders, a fuse was used to direct a small flame through a touch hole into the barrel, which was slo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=79270 | 328,953 |
1,055,255 | In 1740 Maupertuis went to Berlin at the invitation of Frederick II of Prussia, and took part in the Battle of Mollwitz on a donkey, where he was taken prisoner by the Austrians. On his release he returned to Berlin, and thence to Paris, where he was elected director of the Academy of Sciences in 1742, and in the follo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196221 | 1,054,707 |
594,938 | The "885" is a small thyratron tube, using argon gas. This device was used extensively in the timebase circuits of early oscilloscopes in the 1930s. It was employed in a circuit called a relaxation oscillator. During World War II, small thyratrons similar to the 885 were utilized in pairs to construct bistables, the "m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=402178 | 594,633 |
859,965 | The Brigham and Women's Hospital transplant team led by Bohdan Pomahač, performed the nation's second full face transplant on patient Mitch Hunter of Speedway, Indiana. Hunter, who is a US war veteran, was left disfigured in a car accident, burning about 94% of his face. It was the third face transplant procedure to be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1000053 | 859,507 |
145,217 | Simon Newcomb's calculation at the end of the 19th century for general precession ("p") in longitude gave a value of 5,025.64 arcseconds per tropical century, and was the generally accepted value until artificial satellites delivered more accurate observations and electronic computers allowed more elaborate models to b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72576 | 145,159 |
383,677 | Founded in 1921, the University of Connecticut School of Law is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. The campus is located just outside the downtown core of Hartford, minutes away from the Connecticut State Capitol, state courts and agencies, and the off... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239846 | 383,482 |
2,125,650 | As was expected, however, St. Cloud State ended the season as #10 in the PairWise rankings and was guaranteed a spot in the tournament. With Hrenák on the mend, the team would need to put forth a better effort and give their starter the time he needed to return. In the opening game they faced the nation's top defensive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68604024 | 2,124,429 |
805,298 | As a new player on the tour, Advani would need to win four matches to reach the main stage of the ranking events. He did this in just his fourth attempt, when qualifying for the International Championship. He defeated Craig Steadman 6–1, six-time world champion Steve Davis 6–5 (after being 1–4 down), Alan McManus 6–3 a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=415526 | 804,869 |
1,618,274 | She was an enthusiastic wireless experimenter, being licensed to receive from late 1922 shortly after the commencement of the new Wireless Regulations of 1922 (callsign 2GA, later A2GA, OA2GA, VK2GA). She passed the Amateur Operator's Proficiency Certificate in 1925 (the first woman to do so) and thereafter was permitt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31220954 | 1,617,361 |
13,302 | The Turkish Air Force (TAF) received 40 F-4Es in 1974, with a further 32 F-4Es and 8 RF-4Es in 1977–78 under the "Peace Diamond III" program, followed by 40 ex-USAF aircraft in "Peace Diamond IV" in 1987, and a further 40 ex-U.S. Air National Guard Aircraft in 1991. A further 32 RF-4Es were transferred to Turkey after ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11759 | 13,297 |
1,456,544 | Shapiro was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania on January 14, 1976. She grew up in Rome, Georgia, where she served as a local news presenter while still in high school. Having left Rome High School with a GPA of 4.0, Shapiro started at the University of Georgia in 1994. There, she studied Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Englis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2185422 | 1,455,724 |
901,064 | Boll's technique was ahead of its time as he was one of the first two-winged loopers. He employs the spin-block instead of a passive block to put more pressure on his opponents. He is renowned for being one of the top players when it comes to generating elevated amounts of spin, especially in his opening topspin. This ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2944618 | 900,588 |
1,279,490 | The stings of the red imported fire ant in animals are painful, and may prove life-threatening. In dogs, stings from the red imported fire ant can cause pustular dermatosis, a condition where pustules appear in crops as a result of the ant sting. After getting stung, the immediate response consists of erythema and swel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55137260 | 1,278,795 |
931,980 | By the use of the Bohr–Sommerfeld ("old") quantum theory, Paul Epstein and Karl Schwarzschild were independently able to derive equations for the linear and quadratic Stark effect in hydrogen. Four years later, Hendrik Kramers derived formulas for intensities of spectral transitions. Kramers also included the effect of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=614763 | 931,488 |
1,418,523 | The classic supply-chain approach has been to try to forecast future inventory demand as "accurately" as possible, by applying statistical trending and "best fit" techniques based on historic demand and predicted future events. The advantage of this approach is that it can be applied to data aggregated at a fairly high... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5205119 | 1,417,724 |
924,584 | While the two-year course (1961–1963) was still underway, rumors of it spread throughout the physics research and teaching community. In a special preface to the 1989 edition, David Goodstein and Gerry Neugebauer claimed that as time went on, the attendance of registered undergraduate students dropped sharply but was m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30872886 | 924,098 |
340,796 | By 2006, astronomers had resolved dust discs thought to be Kuiper belt-like structures around nine stars other than the Sun. They appear to fall into two categories: wide belts, with radii of over 50 AU, and narrow belts (tentatively like that of the Solar System) with radii of between 20 and 30 AU and relatively sharp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16796 | 340,615 |
244,041 | There are three Constitutionally mandated requirements for impeachment trials. The provision that senators must sit on oath or affirmation was designed to impress upon them the extreme seriousness of the occasion. The stipulation that the Chief Justice is to preside over presidential impeachment trials underscores the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31646 | 243,914 |
181,902 | The repulsions of two Mongol invasions were momentous events in Japanese history. Nichiren had predicted these invasions years earlier, in his "Rissho Ankoku Ron", a letter to the regency. Japanese relations with China had been terminated in the mid-ninth century after the deterioration of late Tang dynasty in China an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=201198 | 181,806 |
1,177,402 | Andrew Jay "Drew" Feustel (; born August 25, 1965) is an American/Canadian NASA astronaut and geophysicist. Following several years working as a geophysicist, Feustel was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in July 2000. He is the veteran of 3 space flights with NASA. His first spaceflight in May 2009, STS-125, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6755071 | 1,176,779 |
1,602,517 | At the Rockefeller Institute, Tyrrell worked on the epidemiology on poliomyelitis. He presented his findings at the second International Congress on Poliomyelitis in Copenhagen on 3–7 September 1951, and published in "The Lancet" at the end of the year. At CCU, he developed techniques for culturing different cold virus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54236722 | 1,601,616 |
778,614 | In the United States, work started on the ENIAC computer late in the Second World War. The machine was completed in 1945. Although one application which motivated its development was the production of firing tables for artillery, one of the first uses of ENIAC was to carry out calculations related to the development of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47825879 | 778,197 |
39,975 | The residential system has a number of "living-learning communities" where academic activities and residential life are combined. These communities focus on areas such as research through the Michigan Research and Discovery Scholars, medical sciences, community service and the German language. The Michigan Research and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31740 | 39,960 |
1,624,811 | Following the completion of his formal education, Stein became a researcher under Bergmann at Rockefeller Institute, where much of his most important work was done. Stanford Moore joined Bergmann's lab in 1939, where he and Stein began research focusing on amino acids. According to Moore, "During the early years of our... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=789033 | 1,623,895 |
32,305 | For early warning, ISRO began a ₹400 crore (4 billion; US$53 million) project called Network for Space Object Tracking and Analysis (NETRA). It will help the country track atmospheric entry, intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), anti-satellite weapon and other space-based attacks. All the radars and telescopes wil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1019722 | 32,293 |
1,261,872 | In 1976, the institute was offered a generous donation from Hussain Jamal Foundation. In appreciation of this donation, the institute was renamed as Hussain Ebrahim Jamal Research Institute of Chemistry. In due time, Siddiqui transformed the institute into a distinguished centre of international excellence in the field... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6857524 | 1,261,185 |
358,765 | On 21 August 1945, laboratory assistant Harry Daghlian, one of Slotin's close colleagues, was performing a criticality experiment when he accidentally dropped a heavy tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium–gallium alloy bomb core. The 24-year-old Daghlian was irradiated with a large dose of neutron radiation. Later es... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=507859 | 358,579 |
1,713,134 | Another problem would be keeping the signal from the tightly focused pencil beams on the target as the ship rolled and pitched in the sea. Bernard Lovell suggested the solution would be to use an antenna that had a narrow horizontal beam like the parabolas they were using, but little vertical focussing. This would crea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39752340 | 1,712,168 |
1,869,561 | SAMPEX studies the energy composition, and charge states of particles from supernova explosions in the distant reaches of the galaxy, from the heart of solar flares, and from the depths of nearby interstellar space. It also monitors closely the magnetospheric particle populations which plunge occasionally into the midd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10669005 | 1,868,485 |
1,389,594 | Employers generally prefer applicants who have completed a PLC technician certificate or related associate degree. These programs can be completed at Colleges and Universities in either an in-class or online format. Some Colleges, such as George Brown College, offer an online PLC Technician program that uses simulation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47780890 | 1,388,823 |
1,877,140 | Carbon cones have also been observed, since 1968 or even earlier, on the surface of naturally occurring graphite. Their bases are attached to the graphite and their height varies between less than 1 and 40 micrometers. Their walls are often curved and are less regular than those of the laboratory made nanocones. The di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26913089 | 1,876,062 |
1,440,978 | Though guidelines and recommendations for the care, handling, and proper storage of vinyl LPs are available from such resources as The Library of Congress and the National Library of Canada, to this date there are no nationally agreed upon standards for audio preservation. In January 2007, a five-page letter was sent t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10993007 | 1,440,168 |
1,168,982 | In 1994, the FDA established an Office of Women's Health, which promotes that sex as a biological variable should be explicitly considered in research studies. The FDA and NIH have several ongoing formal efforts to improve the study of sex differences in clinical trials, including the Critical Path Initiative, which us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38846583 | 1,168,364 |
1,221,219 | Neurogenesis occurs in Cnidaria not only during developmental stages, but also in adults. "Hydra", a genus belonging to Cnidaria, is used as a model organism to study nerve nets. In the body column of "Hydra", there is continuous division of epithelial cells occurring while the size of the "Hydra" remains constant. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=379198 | 1,220,561 |
2,156,672 | In conservation, noninvasive genotyping has been used to supplement traditional techniques with broadly ranging levels of success. Modern DNA amplification methods allow researchers to use fecal or hair samples collected from the field to assess basic information about the specimen, including sex or species. Despite th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6246830 | 2,155,441 |
1,102,545 | The goal of radiomics is to be able to use this database for new patients. This means that we need algorithms that run new input data through the database which return a result with information about what the course of the patients’ disease might look like. For example, how fast the tumor will grow or how good the chan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50086691 | 1,101,984 |
567,553 | Their value as music and popularity does not, naturally enough, rest upon their formal structure though but on the musical content. Mozart's piano concertos are filled with assured transition passages, modulations, dissonances, Neapolitan relationships and suspensions. This technical skill, combined with a complete com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7918554 | 567,263 |
430,024 | Gilbert Walker was an established applied mathematician at the University of Cambridge when he became director-general of observatories in India in 1904. While there, he studied the characteristics of the Indian Ocean monsoon, the failure of whose rains had brought severe famine to the country in 1899. Analyzing vast a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1622030 | 429,812 |
136,891 | Moving coil instruments can respond only to the average value of the current through them. To measure alternating current, which changes up and down repeatedly, a rectifier is inserted in the circuit so that each negative half cycle is inverted; the result is a varying and nonzero DC voltage whose maximum value will be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40623 | 136,836 |
91,401 | Differential geometry came into its own when Albert Einstein used it in general relativity. Entirely new areas of mathematics such as mathematical logic, topology, and John von Neumann's game theory changed the kinds of questions that could be answered by mathematical methods. All kinds of structures were abstracted us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14220 | 91,361 |
535,393 | Differential geometry came into its own when Albert Einstein used it in general relativity. Entirely new areas of mathematics such as mathematical logic, topology, and John von Neumann's game theory changed the kinds of questions that could be answered by mathematical methods. All kinds of structures were abstracted us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56516812 | 535,114 |
1,939,321 | "P. scudderi", unlike "P. florissantia", was described from two specimens. However only holotype specimen MCZ number 2027 was noted as a type specimen. The second specimen, MCZ number 7738, while used in the description, was not noted as a paratype. The species has eyes that are deeply emarginate like modern "Vespa" sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28639234 | 1,938,211 |
148,687 | On March 28, 2012, a team funded by Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, reported that they had located the F-1 rocket engines from an Apollo mission using sonar equipment. Bezos stated he planned to raise at least one of the engines, which rest at a depth of , about east of Cape Canaveral, Florida. However, the conditio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=712616 | 148,626 |
151,579 | Mathematical fictionalism was brought to fame in 1980 when Hartry Field published "Science Without Numbers", which rejected and in fact reversed Quine's indispensability argument. Where Quine suggested that mathematics was indispensable for our best scientific theories, and therefore should be accepted as a body of tru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46439 | 151,511 |
245,957 | The anamorphic widescreen format in use today is commonly called 'Scope' (a contraction of the early term "CinemaScope"), or 2.35:1 (the latter being a misnomer born of old habit; see "Aspect ratio" section below). "Filmed in Panavision" is a phrase contractually required for films shot using Panavision's anamorphic le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10515524 | 245,830 |
79,998 | According to historians Lu Gwei-djen and Joseph Needham, there is substantial evidence that acupuncture may have begun around 600 BC. Some hieroglyphs and pictographs from that era suggests acupuncture and moxibustion were practised. However, historians Lu and Needham said it was unlikely a needle could be made out of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1537 | 79,965 |
136,630 | Free radical grafting of macromolecules (as the functional group) onto the surface of CNTs can improve the solubility of CNTs compared to common acid treatments which involve the attachment of small molecules such as hydroxyl onto the surface of CNTs. The solubility of CNTs can be improved significantly by free-radical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5320 | 136,575 |
352,248 | Conybeare's presentation followed the resolution of a controversy over the legitimacy of one of the fossils. The fact that the plesiosaur's long neck had an unprecedented 35 vertebrae raised the suspicions of the eminent French anatomist Georges Cuvier when he reviewed Anning's drawings of the second skeleton, and he w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38334 | 352,065 |
1,594,942 | In the past, New Brunswick had an on-line transfer system that focused on transfers between New Brunswick's two public postsecondary systems (community colleges and public universities). The New Brunswick Community College (NBCC) has had a "policy in place since 1994 to allow, where academically appropriate, credit tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17662787 | 1,594,044 |
1,517,020 | There were 127 riders total (133 entries) from 21 nations (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States). Seven countries (Czechoslovakia, France, Ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2378596 | 1,516,168 |
1,316,700 | Boston Latin Academy (BLA) was established on November 27, 1877 as Girls' Latin School (GLS). The school was founded with the intention to give a classical education and college preparatory training to girls. A plan to admit girls to Public Latin School was formed by an executive committee of the Massachusetts Society ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7442081 | 1,315,975 |
2,044,655 | From 20 April 1781 to his resignation in 1783 he was physician to St. George's Hospital, London, and in 1784 he delivered the Gulstonian lectures. He moved back to acquired the estate of Clehonger, near Hereford, and built on it in 1788–90 the mansion of Belmont, situated on the banks of the River Wye with extensive la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28275535 | 2,043,474 |
702,694 | Hexokinases I and II can associate physically to the outer surface of the external membrane of mitochondria through specific binding to a porin, or voltage dependent anion channel. This association confers hexokinase direct access to ATP generated by mitochondria, which is one of the two substrates of hexokinase. Mitoc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152958 | 702,326 |
267,845 | However, in the real world, many bodies rotate, and this introduces oblateness and distorts the gravity field, and gives a quadrupole moment to the gravitational field which is significant at distances comparable to the radius of the body. In the general case, the gravitational potential of a rotating body such as, e.g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22498 | 267,701 |
1,696,098 | POLQA, similar to P.862 PESQ, is a Full Reference (FR) algorithm that rates a degraded or processed speech signal in relation to the original signal. It compares each sample of the reference signal (talker side) to each corresponding sample of the degraded signal (listener side). Perceptual differences between both sig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33710191 | 1,695,145 |
402,765 | In November 1917, the Bolsheviks seized control of key centres in Russia. This led to the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922, which pitted the Bolsheviks and their allies against the Whites and other counter-revolutionary forces. During this period the Bolsheviks attempted to administrate Russia's economy purely by decree,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40229586 | 402,565 |
199,570 | Toumaï had been found with a femur, but this was stored with animal bones and shipped to the University of Poitiers in 2003, where it was stumbled upon by graduate student Aude Bergeret the next year. She took the bone to the head of the Department of Geosciences, Roberto Macchiarelli, who considered it to be inconsist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61700 | 199,467 |
404,618 | Each spaceship within the "Eve Online" universe has a different set of characteristics, and can be fitted with different combinations of modules, subject to their fitting requirements. Ships have a wide variety of characteristics, including power grid, CPU, capacitor size and recharge rate, energy shields, armor, maxim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=403307 | 404,418 |
233,341 | Armstrong reported that the OAMS fuel had dropped to 30%, indicating that the problem could be on their own spacecraft. With concern that the high rate of rotation might damage one or both spacecraft or even cause the propellant-heavy Agena to rupture or explode, the crew decided to undock from the Agena so they could ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=364888 | 233,222 |
886,459 | A 2022 report from World Animal Protection and the Center for Biological Diversity found that, based on 2018 data, some 235 million pounds (or 117,500 tons) of pesticides are used for animal feed purposes annually in the United States alone, in particular glyphosate and atrazine. The report emphasizes that 100,000 poun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15588468 | 885,995 |
1,416,114 | On 9 December 2015, scientists reported that the bright spots on Ceres may be related to a type of salt, particularly a form of brine containing hydrated magnesium sulfate (MgSO·6HO); the spots were also found to be associated with ammonia-rich clays. Arizona State University scientists have proposed that the bright sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46697463 | 1,415,317 |
1,718,983 | Denning was widely criticized for her role in NSA's controversial Clipper chip initiative to give the government authorized access to encrypted private communications through a key escrow system. At the government's request Denning privately reviewed the classified Skipjack block cipher, and testified in Congress that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1613907 | 1,718,013 |
2,022,970 | Maternal immune system regulation is also a critical event in implantation as the early embryo is essentially a partial allograft, that is a tissue that is recognised as fully identical to that of the mother. Consequently, the embryo may be rejected and attacked if it is not recognised, an event that normally causes sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60620623 | 2,021,806 |
2,153,107 | The genomic location of the FKRP gene is on chromosome 19. FKRP is a ribitol-5-phosphate (enzyme) glycosyltranferase, which means this enzyme helps create glycosidic linkages to an acceptor. In glycosylation of α-dystroglycan (sugar chain) it adds a ribitol-5-phosphate onto the M3 core O-mannosylation of α-dystroglycan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13052145 | 2,151,876 |
445,521 | However, it could also be said that there are, in fact, a range of "silver bullets" today, including lightweight methodologies (see "Project management"), spreadsheet calculators, customized browsers, in-site search engines, database report generators, integrated design-test coding-editors with memory/differences/undo,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=758895 | 445,305 |
746,590 | In 1981, Harrison and Pliska used the general theory of continuous-time stochastic processes to put the Black–Scholes model on a solid theoretical basis, and showed how to price numerous other derivative securities. The various short-rate models (beginning with Vasicek in 1977), and the more general HJM Framework (1987... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29295573 | 746,195 |
903,928 | Whether or not a column-oriented system will be more efficient in operation depends heavily on the workload being automated. Operations that retrieve all the data for a given object (the entire row) are slower. A row-oriented system can retrieve the row in a single disk read, whereas numerous disk operations to collect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6870132 | 903,452 |
36,963 | Lead can accumulate in soils, especially those with a high organic content, where it remains for hundreds to thousands of years. Environmental lead can compete with other metals found in and on plants surfaces potentially inhibiting photosynthesis and at high enough concentrations, negatively affecting plant growth and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17747 | 36,951 |
980,843 | UT's campus features 60 buildings on 110 landscaped acres. Plant Hall – a National Historic Landmark built in 1891 by Henry B. Plant – is a leading example of Moorish Revival architecture in the southeastern United States and a focal point of downtown Tampa. In addition to serving as a main location of classrooms and f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=947651 | 980,331 |
1,302,856 | "GBTimes" writes that with having seen his own "film hundreds of times in different movie theaters, sometimes with ten people, other times with 500 people in the audience," Till Nowak loves to watch audience reactions as they watch the film, and is bemused that "some people have perceived it as a real documentary of re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44806037 | 1,302,141 |
1,425,122 | The materials employed in multiphoton lithography are those normally used in conventional photolithography techniques. They can be found in liquid-viscous, gel or solid state, in relation to the fabrication need. Liquid resists imply more complex sample fixing processes, during the fabrication step, while the preparati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22124835 | 1,424,320 |
266,757 | A key purpose of performing life cycle interpretation is to determine the level of confidence in the final results and communicate them in a fair, complete, and accurate manner. Interpreting the results of an LCA is not as simple as "3 is better than 2, therefore Alternative A is the best choice". Interpretation begins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=604896 | 266,613 |
1,242,642 | Once in place, the seeds or sources slowly begin to release their radiation. While the sources are active, the patient must observe some basic precautions. Travel and contact with adults are fine; however, for the first two months following seed implantation, small children and pregnant women should not be in direct co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17769499 | 1,241,970 |
1,263,886 | One disadvantage is that not all molecules are detectable. Because only molecules with a proton affinity higher than water can be detected by PTR-MS, proton transfer from HO is not suitable for all fields of application. Therefore, in 2009 first PTR-MS instruments were presented, which are capable of switching between ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18730256 | 1,263,198 |
1,814,907 | While this process is highly efficient in HeV and NiV leading to a broad tropism and effective infection of the virus within the host GhV exhibits a less than effective entry process. While HeV and NiV have strong fusion activity with a variety of host cells, GhV is restricted to a limited host range and only replicate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62577924 | 1,813,873 |
1,495,030 | The effect should, in theory, be detectable by recording changes in the distance between pairs of free-falling objects in spacetime before and after the passage of gravitational waves. The proposed LISA detector is expected to detect the memory effect easily. In contrast, detection with the existing LIGO is complicated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64692781 | 1,494,189 |
1,542,147 | Arvo Henrik Ylppö (27 October 1887 – 28 January 1992) was a Finnish physician and professor of pediatrics who significantly decreased Finnish infant mortality during the 20th century. He is credited as the father of Finland's public maternity and child health clinic system established in 1922 (), which focuses on monit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=168027 | 1,541,274 |
894,152 | In 10-20% of cases, FL appears limited to single radiation field, does not involve the bone marrow, and is therefore regarded as localized early-stage FL. In these cases, which are sometimes classified as Ann Arbor stage I (i.e. disease limited to a single restricted region) or stage II (i.e. disease restricted to two ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3034995 | 893,682 |
36,647 | The Air Force considered Boeing's design to be better than that of Lockheed, but Lockheed's proposal was the lowest total-cost bid. Lockheed was selected as the winner in September 1965, then awarded a contract in December 1965. General Electric's TF39 engine was selected in August 1965 to power the new transport plane... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160434 | 36,635 |
1,281,831 | A battle usually opened with light troops skirmishing with the opposition. These light forces then withdrew to the flanks or between the gaps in the central line of heavy infantry. Cavalry might be launched against their opposing numbers or used to screen the central core from envelopment. As the gap between the conten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8049650 | 1,281,135 |
1,682,371 | Many cases of congenital dysfibrinogenemia are asymptomatic. Since manifestations of the disorder generally occur in early adulthood or middle-age, younger individuals with a gene mutation causing it may not have had time to develop symptoms while previously asymptomatic individuals of advanced age with such a mutation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12514534 | 1,681,428 |
959,626 | There are two generic ideas on how to visualize the Pareto front in high-order multi-objective decision problems (problems with more than two objectives). One of them, which is applicable in the case of a relatively small number of objective points that represent the Pareto front, is based on using the visualization te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10251864 | 959,118 |
261,249 | The solution was first discovered by English metallurgist Robert Forester Mushet, who had carried out thousands of experiments in the Forest of Dean. His method was to first burn off, as far as possible, "all" the impurities and carbon, then reintroduce carbon and manganese by adding an exact amount of spiegeleisen, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40180 | 261,112 |
236,688 | Despite their modern abundance, due to their small size and fragility, copepods are extremely rare in the fossil record. The oldest known fossils of copepods are from the late Carboniferous of Oman, around 303 million years old, which were found in a clast of bitumen from a glacial diamictite. The copepods present in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=207036 | 236,569 |
1,937,774 | A common practice in data mining is to classify, to look at the attributes of an object or situation and make a guess at what category the observed item belongs to. As new evidence is examined (typically by feeding a "training set" to a learning algorithm), these guesses are refined and improved. Contrast set learning ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34055690 | 1,936,666 |
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