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1,322,632 | In May 2020, he was selected to serve as a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, although he left a few days later over concerns that his participation would represent a conflict with his position at FDA. Marks also played a role in establishing Operation Warp Speed, a partnership between the federal govern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65176759 | 1,321,906 |
1,304,436 | Neuroethics encompasses a wide range of issues, which can only be sampled here. Some have close ties to traditional biomedical ethics, in that different versions of these issues can arise in connection with organ systems other than the brain. For example, how should incidental findings be handled when a presumed health... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=703002 | 1,303,720 |
175,685 | Demand for Model I drives greatly exceeded supply at first. The drive is unreliable, partly since the interface lacked an external data separator (buffer). The early version(s) of TRSDOS are also buggy, and not helped by the Western Digital FD1771 chip that cannot reliably report its status for several instruction cycl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30747 | 175,593 |
833,534 | The academic situation shifted quickly after the general election in March 1933. On 1 May of that year, the university held a ceremony to honor Adolf Hitler as its leader. Massive political influence by the Nazis followed, including the removal of books from the libraries and harassment against alleged enemies of the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1753136 | 833,085 |
710,793 | At one time this sort of hybrid approach was common in disk and network drivers where there was not DMA or significant buffering available. Because the desired transfer speeds were faster even than could tolerate the minimum four-operation per-datum loop (bit-test, conditional-branch-to-self, fetch, and store), the har... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1880953 | 710,422 |
9,313 | Some archaeologists have speculated that the original speakers of ancient Sumerian may have been farmers, who moved down from the north of Mesopotamia after perfecting irrigation agriculture there. The Ubaid period pottery of southern Mesopotamia has been connected via Choga Mami transitional ware to the pottery of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50521 | 9,309 |
401,677 | The Egyptian MiG's include the upgraded RD-33MK smokeless engines, Zhuk-ME pulse-doppler radar, latest OLS-UE electro-optical targeting station, which feeds both TV and IR imagery to the cockpit display and includes a laser rangefinder, unlike previous IRSTs installed on MiG-29s that only featured IR imagery, and the T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=943020 | 401,478 |
996,438 | As an example, Noyce described an integrator that he discussed with Keonjian. Transistors, diodes and resistors of that hypothetical device were isolated from each other by p-n junctions, but in a different manner from the solution by Lehovec. Noyce considered the IC manufacturing process as follows. It should start wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37259051 | 995,920 |
1,315,013 | The term "unglazed air collector" refers to a solar air heating system that consists of an absorber without any glass or glazing over top. The most common type of unglazed collector on the market is the transpired solar collector. This technology was invented and patented by Canadian engineer John Hollick of Conserval ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25613762 | 1,314,292 |
2,094,891 | Mutations among these linked genes are the nonadaptive fuel which can create evolution. Evolution may also occur because the integration may have an adaptive advantage in a particular environment for an organism. It is also important to recognize that not only can the traits be inherited together, but inherited separat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41185140 | 2,093,683 |
113,330 | Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) was formed on 1 October 1964 (the Registrar of Companies has a registration date of 16 August 1963) when Hindustan Aircraft Limited joined the consortium formed in June by the IAF Aircraft Manufacturing Depot, Kanpur (at the time manufacturing HS748 under licence) and the group recen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241601 | 113,285 |
1,664,076 | Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya was born in a Brahmaņa family of Serampur (Bengal) on the 12th of May. 1875. The grand- father, Umakanta Tarkalankara was a Sanskrit scholar trained in the indigenous seminaries of learning. The father Kedarnath had not much of academic education and was employed in a mercan- tile house at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45645 | 1,663,139 |
1,542,194 | Atmospheric pressure photoionization (APPI) is a soft ionization method used in mass spectrometry (MS) usually coupled to liquid chromatography (LC). Molecules are ionized using a vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) light source operating at atmospheric pressure (105 Pa), either by direct absorption followed by electron ejection ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44339074 | 1,541,321 |
911,582 | Computer use today involves a broad ability which includes but isn't limited to physician diagnosis and documentation, patient appointment scheduling, and billing. Many researchers in the field have identified an increase in the quality of health care systems, decreased errors by health care workers, and lastly savings... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=351581 | 911,103 |
2,236,640 | In the final, the Olympic men's team from 2022, consisting of Sergey Glukhov, Evgeny Klimov, Dmitry Mironov and Anton Kalalb won the title, defeating the Alexey Stukalskiy rink 7–6 in the final. After the game Glukhov said that "This year the tournament had an unusual format, I think that both guys and girls were inter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71117422 | 2,235,369 |
369,405 | The greenhouse gas emissions of fossil fuel and biomass power plants can be significantly reduced through carbon capture and storage (CCS). Most studies use a working assumption that CCS can capture 85–90% of the carbon dioxide () emissions from a power plant. Even if 90% of emitted is captured from a coal-fired power ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1055890 | 369,212 |
952,147 | In October 1942 the 9th Division and the RAAF squadrons in the area took part in the Second Battle of El Alamein (23 October to 11 November 1942). After a lengthy period of preparation, the Eighth Army launched its major offensive on 23 October. The 9th Division became involved in some of the heaviest fighting of the b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4578255 | 951,642 |
1,654,688 | Case control studies was among the first approaches utilized to determine whether particular genetic variant is associated with increased risk of disease in humans. Woofle, in 1955, proposed a relative risk statistic that could be used to assess genotype dependent risk. However persistent concern regarding these studie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25273326 | 1,653,756 |
599,754 | The dynamic behavior of vehicles can be analysed in several different ways. This can be as straightforward as a simple spring mass system, through a three-degree of freedom (DoF) bicycle model, to a large degree of complexity using a multibody system simulation package such as MSC ADAMS or Modelica. As computers have g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=180624 | 599,448 |
375,099 | Forthcoming projects include an inter-disciplinary biosciences research facility; a £25 million upgrade to Warwick Business School; and the National Automotive Innovation Campus, a new £150 million venture funded by Jaguar Land Rover and the UK government. The NAIC's purpose is to research and develop novel technologie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61115 | 374,904 |
1,226,404 | Extremely high-intensity sources of 9.25 keV X-rays (gallium K-alpha line) for X-ray phase-contrast microscopy, from a focal spot about 10 um x 10 um, may be obtained with an X-ray source which uses a liquid metal galinstan anode. This was demonstrated in 2003. The metal flows from a nozzle downward at a high speed and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=904792 | 1,225,744 |
1,378,239 | Klawe has been heavily involved with increasing the representation of women in STEM fields. While Klawe was the dean at UBC, she became the NSERC-IBM chair for Women in Science and Engineering. She was in charge of increasing female participation in science and engineering. During her five years as the chair appointmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2976395 | 1,377,477 |
2,203,423 | Risk of organic swine diseases can be high depending on geographic region, breeds, and farmer management. If those conditions are met, certain risks of parasites can affect swine herds. Based strictly on systems, pasture raised organic pork could lead to parasitic worm ingestion from rooting, although actual cases repo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41194738 | 2,202,169 |
396,564 | A 1961 experiment showed that mice dosed with 21.5 μCi/g had a 50% fatality within 30 days (implying an LD of 245 μg/kg). A similar experiment in 1972 showed that when dogs are subjected to a whole body burden of 3800 μCi/kg (140 MBq/kg, or approximately 44 μg/kg) of caesium-137 (and 950 to 1400 rads), they die within ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3093327 | 396,368 |
687,455 | More serious side effects are very rare. Before COVID-19 vaccines such as Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech were authorized for use in the general population, they had to pass phase III studies involving tens of thousands of people. Any serious side effects that did not appear during that testing are likely to occur less oft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68597435 | 687,097 |
1,986,152 | For EarthScope to live up to its potential in the Earth sciences, the connections between the research and the education and outreach communities must continue to be cultivated. Enhanced public outreach to museums, the National Park System, and public schools will ensure that these forward-thinking connections are fost... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3463982 | 1,985,011 |
1,697,680 | Ludwig demonstrated the existence of a new class of secretory nerves that control this action, and by showing that if the nerves are appropriately stimulated the salivary glands continue to secrete, even though the animal be decapitated, he initiated the method of experimenting with excised organs. He devised the kymog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1920481 | 1,696,726 |
342,253 | Also in 1949, the Australian psychiatrist John Cade and Australian biochemist Shirley Andrews rediscovered the usefulness of lithium salts in treating mania while working at the Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital in Victoria. They were injecting rodents with urine extracts taken from manic patients in an attempt to isolat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39923620 | 342,072 |
1,208,650 | Ferdowsi was born November 7, 1979, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is of Persian descent; his father immigrated to the United States from Iran. His parents met in college. He was inspired to work in the space sector by his high school teachers and his love of science fiction, including "Star Trek" and the works of A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36682390 | 1,208,004 |
1,010,811 | Many of the ideas integral to appropriate technology can now be found in the increasingly popular "sustainable development" movement, which among many tenets advocates technological choice that meets human needs while preserving the environment for future generations. In 1983, the OECD published the results of an exten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=190450 | 1,010,290 |
2,026,897 | In 1976, Hecht published an exhaustive evaluation of the various theories which were considered to be fairly general. In it, he presented his derivation of the Hecht finite difference formula by replacing the fundamental differential equations of the Kubelka-Munk theory by the finite difference equations, and obtained:... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67525376 | 2,025,730 |
1,098,735 | After the resignation of NIH Director Bernadine Healy in April, 1993, Varmus was nominated for the post by President William J. Clinton in July, and confirmed by the Senate in November. As the NIH director, Varmus was credited with helping to nearly double the research agency's budget; but his tenure was also noted for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=666898 | 1,098,175 |
1,279,348 | The somatomedin B domain of vitronectin binds to plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), and stabilizes it. Thus vitronectin serves to regulate proteolysis initiated by plasminogen activation. In addition, vitronectin is a component of platelets and is, thus, involved in hemostasis. Vitronectin contains an RGD (45-4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5042569 | 1,278,653 |
1,337,561 | Another group of physicists, Fronczak and Fronczak, derived Taylor's power law for fluctuation scaling from principles of equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics. Their derivation was based on assumptions of physical quantities like free energy and an external field that caused the clustering of biological ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34983797 | 1,336,830 |
1,482,647 | The building was designed by Cambridge-based architecture firm Ellenzweig, which designed several other buildings on the MIT campus. The structural engineer was LeMessurier. Designed to encourage interaction and collaboration, the building employs both dedicated lab space as well as common areas, and features a ground-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21464432 | 1,481,812 |
488,028 | Due to the relative rarity of "Acanthamoeba" keratitis (AK) compared to other causes of keratitis (bacterial, viral, etc.), it is often misdiagnosed, especially in the early stages of the disease. AK should be considered in all patients who use contact lenses, and following corneal abrasions or trauma. A thorough histo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5179331 | 487,778 |
175,837 | In addition to the nuclear reactor, Szilard coined and submitted the earliest known patent applications and the first publications for the concepts of electron microscope (1928), the linear accelerator (1928), and the cyclotron (1929) in Germany, proving him as the originator of the idea of these devices. Between 1926 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56359 | 175,745 |
190,680 | Luminescence dating methods are not radiometric dating methods in that they do not rely on abundances of isotopes to calculate age. Instead, they are a consequence of background radiation on certain minerals. Over time, ionizing radiation is absorbed by mineral grains in sediments and archaeological materials such as q... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26298 | 190,581 |
2,236,847 | In 1988 the Department for Education and Science (DES) set up the Information Technology in Schools (ITIS) initiative to oversee this area, headed by Phillip Lewis and supported by David Noble. It funded the deployment of 600 advisory teachers and the provision of hardware in schools through the payment of Education Su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44347907 | 2,235,576 |
54,511 | The Soviet Union agreed to transmit on frequencies that worked with the United States' existing infrastructure, but later announced the lower frequencies. Asserting that the launch "did not come as a surprise", the White House refused to comment on any military aspects. On 5 October the Naval Research Laboratory captur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28484 | 54,488 |
2,006,993 | Recently, fatigue detection system software has been modified to run on Android mobile phones. The technology utilises the mobile phone camera which is mounted in a stand on the cab dashboard to monitor operator eye movement. The developers of the system preferred to use eyelid movement technique. The robust system is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31839460 | 2,005,842 |
397,585 | During the 1970s, the introduction of metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) integrated circuits allowed a 12-month battery life from a single coin cell when driving either a mechanical Lavet-type stepping motor, a smooth sweeping non-stepping motor, or a liquid-crystal display (in an LCD digital watch). Light-emitting diode ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21304320 | 397,389 |
540,864 | Mount Garibaldi is the largest volcano in Squamish Nation territory. An obsidian outcrop on the southeastern flank of Mount Garibaldi is said by the Squamish people to have been created by the thunderbird, a legendary creature in some North American indigenous peoples' history and culture. During battles, the thunderbi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=659719 | 540,584 |
985,021 | Argonne had its beginnings in the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago, formed in part to carry out Enrico Fermi's work on nuclear reactors for the Manhattan Project during World War II. After the war, it was designated as the first national laboratory in the United States on July 1, 1946. In the post-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160773 | 984,507 |
546,701 | In 1992, PGE spent $4.5 million to successfully defeat ballot measures seeking to close Trojan immediately, rather than within four years, as PGE had At the time, it was the most expensive ballot measure campaign in Oregon history. A week after the election, the Trojan plant suffered another steam generator tube leak o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2885429 | 546,415 |
95,080 | The university has an extensive student life program, with over 1,000 student organizations; intercollegiate, club and recreational sports programs; student media organizations and publications, fraternities and sororities; and three student governments. Its athletic teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are know... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22217 | 95,039 |
1,119,172 | The endogenous pathway is used to present cellular peptide fragments on the cell surface on MHC class I molecules. If a virus had infected the cell, viral peptides would also be presented, allowing the immune system to recognize and kill the infected cell. Worn out proteins within the cell become ubiquitinated, marking... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1704073 | 1,118,599 |
1,780,828 | PVX is found mainly in potatoes and is only transmitted mechanically. There are no insect or fungal vectors for this virus. This virus causes mild or no symptoms in most potato varieties, but when Potato virus Y is present, synergy between these two viruses causes severe symptoms in potatoes. The virion has helical sym... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12386402 | 1,779,824 |
1,101,506 | This method was originally described by Bert Vogelstein and his group at Johns Hopkins University. Safe-Seq decreases the error rate of massively parallel sequencing in order to increase the sensitivity to rare mutants. It achieves this by addition of a unique identifier (UID) sequence to each DNA template. The DNA is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44690654 | 1,100,945 |
1,585,851 | Most geoneutrinos are electron antineutrinos originating in decay branches of K, Th and U. Together these decay chains account for more than 99% of the present-day radiogenic heat generated inside the Earth. Only geoneutrinos from Th and U decay chains are detectable by the inverse beta-decay mechanism on the free prot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37923625 | 1,584,960 |
1,133,425 | Various researchers have conducted studies to determine the differences between men and women and their abilities within their short-term memory. For example, a study conducted by Lowe, Mayfield, and Reynolds (2003) examined gender differences among children and adolescents on various short-term memory measures. This s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49026556 | 1,132,832 |
93,661 | Genetic engineering has applications in medicine, research, industry and agriculture and can be used on a wide range of plants, animals and microorganisms. Bacteria, the first organisms to be genetically modified, can have plasmid DNA inserted containing new genes that code for medicines or enzymes that process food an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12383 | 93,620 |
472,254 | There are two major listings of the maximum ages of trees. The OldList is a database of ancient trees maintained by Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring research. Its purpose is to identify maximum ages that different species in different localities can attain such that exceptionally old age individuals may be recognized. In addit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40858186 | 472,018 |
1,999,107 | Reproduction in the species has not been well studied. In the northeast of India, the breeding season is from April to May. The nest is placed off the ground, between two and eight meters high, and is often built in a hole of a (living or dead) oak or rhododendron tree, or sometimes in other large trees. Nests are cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=385008 | 1,997,963 |
825,164 | Patients with TTS typically complain of numbness in the foot radiating to the big toe and the first three toes, pain, burning, electrical sensations, and tingling over the base of the foot and the heel. Depending on the area of entrapment, other areas can be affected. If the entrapment is high, the entire foot can be a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2632974 | 824,721 |
939,164 | In 751 he led an invasion into the new Abbasid Caliphate under As-Saffah. Constantine captured Theodosiopolis (Erzurum) and Melitene (Malatya), which he demolished, and again resettled some of the population in the Balkans. The eastern campaigns failed to secure concrete territorial gains, as there was no serious attem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=253026 | 938,663 |
1,942,638 | Thousands of years ago, many cultures used the plumb bob to find proper alignment and it was decided to use this technique to obtain perfect alignment. Two readings were taken separated by two hours to obtain a very accurate triangulated result. Exact positions of the sun for the Observatory location were taken from a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28120684 | 1,941,527 |
157,775 | Unlike non-human apes that are able to practice bipedality such as "Pan" and "Gorilla", hominins have the ability to move bipedally without the utilization of a bent-hip-bent-knee (BHBK) gait, which requires the engagement of both the hip and the knee joints. This human ability to walk is made possible by the spinal cu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4210 | 157,703 |
125,344 | The feeling of an electric shock is caused by the stimulation of nerves as the neutralizing current flows through the human body. The energy stored as static electricity on an object varies depending on the size of the object and its capacitance, the voltage to which it is charged, and the dielectric constant of the su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=200136 | 125,292 |
1,743,336 | AdeptVision is probably the first commercially available robot vision system that achieved sales in the thousands of units. AdeptVision included many vision-related operations for image capture, enhancement, and analysis. It provided machine guidance with robot-vision calibration and supported on-line gauging and assem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16574225 | 1,742,352 |
1,212,862 | The authors next claim that the fact regarding TRF(H)'s structure progressed by decreases in the number of "'logically' possible alternatives" (146). However, Latour and Woolgar critique the explanation that "logic" or "deduction" is a satisfactory and complete explanation for the specific way in which a scientific fac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14004644 | 1,212,210 |
1,405,573 | Compatibility is commonly described by an element's distribution coefficient. A distribution coefficient describes how the solid and liquid phases of an element will distribute themselves in a mineral. Current studies of Earth's rare trace elements seek to quantify and examine the chemical composition of elements in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5571005 | 1,404,783 |
599,069 | Digital PCR has many applications in basic research, clinical diagnostics and environmental testing. Its uses include pathogen detection and digestive health analysis; liquid biopsy for cancer monitoring, organ transplant rejection monitoring and non-invasive prenatal testing for serious genetic abnormalities; copy num... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11314351 | 598,763 |
1,958,356 | "A. dactyloides" has the ability to form rings of hypha that can constrict sharply and catch a nematode in the loop. Each ring is a short branch of the hypha containing three cells, separated by three "T-shaped" areas of cell wall. When stimulated by the movement of a nematode inside the loop (or by heat, or by the tip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55409254 | 1,957,229 |
645,598 | Medical therapy of chronic aortic regurgitation that is stable and asymptomatic involves the use of vasodilators. Trials have shown a short-term benefit in the use of ACE inhibitors or angiotensin II receptor antagonists, nifedipine, and hydralazine in improving left ventricular wall stress, ejection fraction, and mass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=651743 | 645,258 |
1,706,671 | Since 1990 (Sibley & Ahlquist 1990), molecular data has been added to aid the efforts of discovering the parrotbills' true relationships. As "Paradoxornis" species are generally elusive and in many cases little-known birds, usually specimens of the bearded reedling which are far more easy to procure were used for the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=255408 | 1,705,713 |
752,389 | The topic of extension of his models precipitated his dispute with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who was then a student at Cambridge. Chandrasekhar's work presaged the discovery of black holes, which at the time seemed so absurdly non-physical that Eddington refused to believe that Chandrasekhar's purely mathematical der... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2274 | 751,987 |
1,903,934 | Critical reception for the book was positive. In a starred review, "Kirkus Reviews" said Hager "does a remarkable job of transforming material fit for a biology graduate seminar into highly entertaining reading." "The Wall Street Journal", in its review, noted "This is a grand story, and Mr. Hager tells it well, descri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39934192 | 1,902,840 |
724,341 | where, formula_2 is the probability of a visible vector, which is given by formula_3. formula_4 is the partition function (used for normalizing) and formula_5 is the energy function assigned to the state of the network. A lower energy indicates the network is in a more "desirable" configuration. The gradient formula_6 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41416740 | 723,961 |
339,104 | A degree of "Doutor" usually enables an individual to apply for a junior faculty position equivalent to a US assistant professor. Progression to full professorship, known as "Professor Titular" requires that the candidate be successful in a competitive public exam and normally takes additional years. In the federal uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188886 | 338,924 |
1,465,865 | 1983–1994 global low cloud formation data from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) was highly correlated with galactic cosmic ray (GCR) flux; subsequent to this period, the correlation broke down. Changes of 3–4% in cloudiness and concurrent changes in cloud top temperatures correlated to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47491846 | 1,465,042 |
1,038,695 | During the early 1970s the Western economies were mired in slow economic growth and rising employment costs, and NC machines started to become more attractive. The major U.S. vendors were slow to respond to the demand for machines suitable for lower-cost NC systems, and into this void stepped the Germans. In 1979, sale... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39469106 | 1,038,154 |
884,766 | Another element was a maneuverable work platform which would secure an MMU-propelled spacewalking astronaut to the fragile tiles beneath the orbiter. The concept used electrically controlled adhesive cups which would lock the work platform into position on the featureless tile surface. About one year before the 1981 ST... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2230989 | 884,302 |
1,725,011 | Just as having too little water is detrimental to the grapevine, so too is having too much. When vines become water-logged they become a target for various microbial agents such as bacteria and fungi that compete with the vine for nutrients in the soil. Additionally excessively moist soil is poor conductor of valuable ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25762883 | 1,724,040 |
804,002 | DTRA employs approximately 2,000 civilians and uniformed service members at more than a dozen permanent locations around the world. The majority of personnel are at DTRA headquarters at Fort Belvoir. Approximately 15% of the workforce is split between Kirtland Air Force Base and the White Sands Missile Range in New Mex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1522731 | 803,573 |
746,586 | Quantitative finance started in 1900 with Louis Bachelier's doctoral thesis "Theory of Speculation", which provided a model to price options under a normal distribution. Harry Markowitz's 1952 doctoral thesis "Portfolio Selection" and its published version was one of the first efforts in economics journals to formally ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29295573 | 746,191 |
1,904,739 | The number of clear nights (zero cloudiness) at the Wise Observatory site is about 170 a year. The number of useful nights, with part of the night cloud-free, is about 240. The best season, when practically no clouds are observed, is June to August, while the highest chance for clouds are in the period January to April... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2393990 | 1,903,644 |
360,781 | Lie detection has a long history in mythology and fairy tales; the polygraph has allowed modern fiction to use a device more easily seen as scientific and plausible. Notable instances of polygraph usage include uses in crime and espionage themed television shows and some daytime television talk shows, cartoons and film... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71734 | 360,593 |
806,707 | Another solid-state technology to see more than purely experimental development is Phase-change RAM, or PRAM. PRAM is based on the same storage mechanism as writable CDs and DVDs, but reads them based on their changes in electrical resistance rather than changes in their optical properties. Considered a "dark horse" fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=173874 | 806,278 |
403,596 | Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) is an enzyme in the cells lining the biliary ducts of the liver. It can also be found on the mucosal epithelium of the small intestine, proximal convoluted tubule of the kidneys, bone, liver, and placenta. It plays an important role in lipid transposition in small intestines and calcification... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211923 | 403,396 |
1,944,443 | Natural springs clearly cluster around the southwest and northern rim of the plateau have sustained permanent settlements in the steppe. The inhabitants are thought to have hunted gazelles, equids and camelids. Vegetation was only possible for short periods in the Middle and Upper Pleistocene. Many stone tools and arte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31106051 | 1,943,331 |
1,490,978 | The practice of real estate development requires practitioners to work with selecting building types and designs, determining appropriate dimensions, programming internal spaces, shaping the site, and appropriately fitting the project to surrounding contexts. Some programs, including Columbia University MSRED include d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25494160 | 1,490,139 |
1,677,360 | The xanthogranulomatous type of inflammation is most-commonly seen in pyelonephritis and cholecystitis, although it has more recently been described in an array of other locations including bronchi, lung, endometrium, vagina, fallopian tubes, ovary, testis, epididymis, stomach, colon, ileum, pancreas, bone, lymph nodes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35182691 | 1,676,418 |
43,512 | In January 2009, AMD released a new processor line dubbed Phenom II, a refresh of the original Phenom built using the 45 nm process. AMD's new platform, codenamed "Dragon", utilized the new Phenom II processor, and an ATI R770 GPU from the R700 GPU family, as well as a 790 GX/FX chipset from the AMD 700 chipset series.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2400 | 43,496 |
1,414,077 | Towards the end of 1942 the previously experimental non-Morse transmissions from teleprinter cipher machines were being received in greater numbers by the British Signals Intelligence collection sites. The one using the Lorenz SZ 40/42, code-named "Tunny" at the Government Code & Cypher School at Bletchley Park, was us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9063810 | 1,413,281 |
337,390 | Gerald Pershall wrote in 1991: ""Generations" is guaranteed to attract pop history and pop social science buffs. Among professional historians, it faces a tougher sell. Period specialists will resist the idea that their period is akin to several others. Sweeping theories of history are long out of fashion in the halls ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28937240 | 337,211 |
2,213,140 | There are 21 pages devoted to "The properties and applications of selenium", including the use of its changing electrical resistance in different light levels. A quantitative measurement of an eclipse of the sun, by means of a selenium based sensor, is reported. Use of selenium in a "radiophone" devised by Alexander Gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32305402 | 2,211,880 |
724,956 | The advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) techniques at the end of the 2000s decade has led to another application of the Burrows–Wheeler transformation. In NGS, DNA is fragmented into small pieces, of which the first few bases are sequenced, yielding several millions of "reads", each 30 to 500 base pairs ("DNA ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36777 | 724,575 |
121,597 | Despite meager fossil evidence, much can be deduced from the structure of current traps and their ecological interactions. It is widely believed that carnivory evolved under extremely nutrient-poor conditions, leading to a cost-benefit model for botanical carnivory. Cost-benefit models are used under the assumption tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18952739 | 121,548 |
1,202,773 | Symbiodinium is a genus of dinoflagellates that encompasses the largest and most prevalent group of endosymbiotic dinoflagellates known. These unicellular microalgae commonly reside in the endoderm of tropical cnidarians such as corals, sea anemones, and jellyfish, where the products of their photosynthetic processing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11375187 | 1,202,130 |
350,736 | For prostate cancer, there are also conflicting results. A meta-analysis based on serum alpha-tocopherol content reported an inverse correlation, with the difference between lowest and highest a 21% reduction in relative risk. In contrast, a meta-analysis of observational studies reported no relationship for dietary vi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54104 | 350,553 |
826,758 | A way to test for errors in models created by step-wise regression, is to not rely on the model's "F"-statistic, significance, or multiple R, but instead assess the model against a set of data that was not used to create the model. This is often done by building a model based on a sample of the dataset available (e.g.,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4877759 | 826,314 |
1,544,402 | Whilst Iceland is a good example of this, we can also see other examples around the world. One of the other common examples of event horizons, besides volcanic eruptions. One more rare example are tsunami deposits. The reason for the rarity lies largely with the fact that tsunami deposits are in areas that experience f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38358339 | 1,543,528 |
1,998,445 | A PCNN is a two-dimensional neural network. Each neuron in the network corresponds to one pixel in an input image, receiving its corresponding pixel's color information (e.g. intensity) as an external stimulus. Each neuron also connects with its neighboring neurons, receiving local stimuli from them. The external and l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6107563 | 1,997,302 |
2,086,861 | In 1959 when the Worley family of Shreveport attended an astronomy convention in Colorado. Enthusiastic about astronomy, an organizational meeting for a club was held on October 10, 1959. The first public meeting of the club was held on November 14, 1959 at Centenary College. Sara Worley was the first President. At tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3089335 | 2,085,659 |
627,341 | The leg proportions of "Ambulocetus" are similar to otters and seals, and American mammalogist Alfred Brazier Howell predicted similar proportions for a transitional cetacean in 1930. The femur measures , a length similar to the presumably cursorial (capable of running) mesonychid "Pachyaena". Archaeocete femora are ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=893602 | 627,007 |
1,090,179 | Since the first publication of "A General Theory of Love" in 2000, the term limbic resonance has gained popularity with subsequent writers and researchers. The term brings a higher degree of specificity to the ongoing discourse in psychological literature concerning the importance of empathy and relatedness. In "A hand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23301912 | 1,089,619 |
547,219 | They again climbed on 27 May. At this point the food was nearly exhausted as such a long lasting climb had not been planned. Nevertheless, they started at 6:30a.m. with the sun shining, but climbing was hindered by a steadily increasing wind. Tejbir who had no suitable clothing against the wind grew slow and slower and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20852640 | 546,932 |
609,918 | Today, Seki, Gifu is considered the home of modern Japanese kitchen cutlery, where state-of-the-art manufacturing technology has updated ancient forging skills to produce a world-class series of stainless and laminated steel kitchen knives. Many major cutlery-making companies are based in Seki, producing the highest-qu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=519666 | 609,607 |
2,141,795 | Although CAOS has advantages in both the accuracy and precision of the procedure at hand, it is still not widely accepted within the orthopedic community for various reasons. One such reason is the increased medical costs to the patient. Regardless of the navigation preference, the inclusion of computer technology resu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2845911 | 2,140,564 |
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