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1,978,224 | In modern society, the government, especially the executive branch, has struggled with the ever-growing mixture of republican and energetic governments. The executive branch can be held by two major political parties: the Democrats and the Republicans. The elections that take place every four years, unequal representat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2653890 | 1,977,086 |
2,155,440 | The eighth event, named "Mars Encounter", ran from 14 to 22 November 2020. Mars made a very close approach to Earth, and will not be as close again until 2035. Saturn and Jupiter were in an excellent position as they approached the Great Conjunction which took place the following month. Initially the week was planned t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41118824 | 2,154,209 |
102,969 | Volkswagen's Rudolf Krebs said in 2013 that "no matter how excellent you make the cars themselves, the laws of physics hinder their overall efficiency. The most efficient way to convert energy to mobility is electricity." He elaborated: "Hydrogen mobility only makes sense if you use green energy", but ... you need to c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188545 | 102,924 |
1,423,615 | Erasure codes are used in data storage applications due to massive savings on the number of storage units for a given level of redundancy and reliability. The requirements of erasure code design for data storage, particularly for distributed storage applications, might be quite different relative to communication or da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3410547 | 1,422,814 |
1,625,726 | The history of San Diego State University began in the late 19th century with the establishment of a normal school in San Diego, California. Founded on March 13, 1897, the school opened on November 1, 1898, with a class of 135 students. By 1921, the school had become San Diego State Teachers College, allowing it to gra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20079555 | 1,624,808 |
786,920 | Software quality measurement quantifies to what extent a software program or system rates along each of these five dimensions. An aggregated measure of software quality can be computed through a qualitative or a quantitative scoring scheme or a mix of both and then a weighting system reflecting the priorities. This vie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1301906 | 786,497 |
1,404,389 | Cellular Confinement Systems (CCS) have been used to improve the performance of both paved and unpaved roads by reinforcing the soil in the subgrade-base interface or within the base course. The effective load distribution of CCS creates a strong, stiff cellular mattress. This 3D mattress reduces vertical differential ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18365940 | 1,403,599 |
55,115 | A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another. Thus, the neuron "mirrors" the behavior of the other, as though the observer were itself acting. Such neurons have been directly observed in primate species. Birds have been shown to have i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21944 | 55,092 |
2,084,849 | The intertwined response of the Earth and heliosphere are studied because this planet is immersed in this unseen yet exotic and inherently dangerous environment. Above the protective cocoon of Earth's lower atmosphere is a plasma soup composed of electrified and magnetized matter entwined with penetrating radiation and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39630233 | 2,083,648 |
647,152 | In modern vehicles, passive cooling can be found as reinforced carbon–carbon material instead of metal. This material constitutes the thermal protection system of the nose and the front edges of the Space Shuttle and was proposed for the vehicle X-33. Carbon is the most refractory material known with a sublimation temp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=233740 | 646,812 |
379,477 | Posidonius calculated the Earth's circumference by reference to the position of the star Canopus. As explained by Cleomedes, Posidonius observed Canopus on but never above the horizon at Rhodes, while at Alexandria he saw it ascend as far as degrees above the horizon (the meridian arc between the latitude of the two lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59216757 | 379,282 |
522,474 | Wilson held that with the rise of the modern sciences, the sense of unity gradually was lost in the increasing fragmentation and specialization of knowledge in the last two centuries. He asserted that the sciences, humanities, and arts have a common goal: to give a purpose to understanding the details, to lend to all i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7638 | 522,202 |
940,270 | Further research conducted at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine showed that three melanin-containing fungi—"Cladosporium sphaerospermum", "Wangiella dermatitidis", and "Cryptococcus neoformans"—increased in biomass and accumulated acetate faster in an environment in which the radiation level was 500 times higher ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11680057 | 939,769 |
438,445 | In comparison to the Space Shuttle, "Hermes" was a substantially smaller vehicle. As well as being scaled down, it does not share the ogival planform of the Shuttle, the designers having opted for a highly-swept delta wing complete with wingtip devices, similar to the proposed Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar spacecraft. Like the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=272950 | 438,231 |
194,040 | Further unsuccessful suggestions for union were brought about throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries. William Ogilvie, known as the Rebel Professor, proposed a paper on the union and reform of the two colleges in 1787, but the proposals were rejected by seven (known as the 'seven wise Masters') out of ten profess... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213135 | 193,940 |
1,811,727 | In its short life, TechBC managed to recruit some high-calibre talent. The new university scored a major coup when it hired prominent SFU computer scientist Tom Calvert as its vice president, Research and External Relations. Moreover, Professor Alice Mansell, a prominent academic leader and artist, joined TechBC as its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3132800 | 1,810,694 |
1,797,584 | Ohio completed non-conference play with a record of 9–2 with wins over OVC favorite Belmont, Horizon favorite Cleveland St., and rival Marshall with losses only to Kentucky and LSU. Ohio opened conference play 5–0 to extend their winning streak to nine games. Ohio lost to Toledo in the next game and fell into second pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68659660 | 1,796,575 |
35,429 | There is no direct punishment for breaking the Hippocratic Oath, although an arguable equivalent in modern times is medical malpractice, which carries a wide range of punishments, from legal action to civil penalties. In the United States, several major judicial decisions have made reference to the classical Hippocrati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37992 | 35,417 |
1,116,322 | Define the continuous-time geometric mean formula_11 as:formula_12where the underlying formula_13 follows a standard geometric Brownian motion. It is straightforward from here to calculate that:formula_14To derive the stochastic integral, which was originally formula_15, note that:formula_16This may be confirmed by Itô... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=438091 | 1,115,750 |
891,081 | The first mass production run of PAN fiber was in 1946 by American chemical conglomerate DuPont. The German intellectual property had been stolen in Operation Paperclip. The product, branded as Orlon, was based on a patent filed exactly seven days after a nearly identical German claim. In the German Democratic Republic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=451781 | 890,612 |
242,399 | Upon arrival at Cambridge, Ramanujan encounters various forms of racial prejudice and finds his adjustment to life in England more difficult than expected. Hardy, though much impressed by Ramanujan's abilities, remains concerned about Ramanujan's ability to communicate effectively due to his lack of experience in writi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43330547 | 242,272 |
2,062,148 | The International Regulome Consortium is a Canadian-led international initiative, begun in 2004, the aim of which is to map the functional transcriptome or the genetic circuitry of stem cells. Planned as a follow-up to the Human Genome Project, the consortium is headquartered at the University of Ottawa and led by Dr. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18401364 | 2,060,958 |
2,013,255 | Sonodynamic therapy (SDT) is a noninvasive treatment, often used for tumor irradiation, that utilizes a sonosensitizer and the deep penetration of ultrasound to treat lesions of varying depths by reducing target cell number and preventing future tumor growth. Many existing cancer treatment strategies cause systemic tox... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36264089 | 2,012,098 |
1,985,593 | LaTeXML was used to convert 90% (60% without errors) of 530,000 documents from the arXiv to XML. As a result of this ongoing effort for enhancing coverage, LaTeXML supports a large range of LaTeX packages. The ACL 2014 conference used LaTeXML to convert submitted papers to XML. This followed existing work which has bee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41318226 | 1,984,452 |
1,376,790 | Kieran Suckling, Peter Galvin, and Todd Schulke founded the organization in response to what they perceived as a failure on the part of the United States Forest Service to protect imperiled species from logging, grazing, and mining. As surveyors in New Mexico, the three men discovered "a rare Mexican spotted owl nest i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8991651 | 1,376,028 |
80,950 | There is an increased risk of falls associated with aging. These falls can lead to skeletal damage at the wrist, spine, hip, knee, foot, and ankle. Part of the fall risk is because of impaired eyesight due to many causes, (e.g. glaucoma, macular degeneration), balance disorder, movement disorders (e.g. Parkinson's dise... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22461 | 80,917 |
1,373,724 | The independent particle model and mean field theories (we shall see that there exist several variants) have a great success in describing the properties of the nucleus starting from an effective interaction or an effective potential, thus are a basic part of atomic nucleus theory. One should also notice that they are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8752642 | 1,372,966 |
133,628 | After leaving the Lake District, Dalton returned annually to spend his holidays studying meteorology, something which involved a lot of hill-walking. Until the advent of aeroplanes and weather balloons, the only way to make measurements of temperature and humidity at altitude was to climb a mountain. Dalton estimated t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44112 | 133,575 |
1,221,065 | Alexander Graham Bell died in 1922, and until recently no recordings of his voice were known to survive. On April 23, 2013, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, which houses a collection of Volta Laboratory materials, announced that one of its fragile Volta experimental sound recordings, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17363244 | 1,220,409 |
228,630 | Wu and Yuan were married at the home of Robert Millikan, Yuan's academic supervisor and the President of Caltech, on May 30, 1942. Neither the bride's nor the groom's families were able to attend due to the outbreak of the Pacific War. Wu and Yuan moved to the East Coast of the United States, where Wu became an assista... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=252131 | 228,513 |
1,485,842 | Sheffield Medical School is located on Beech Hill Road attaching to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital's main Tower Blocks. The Medical School building contains 3 lecture theatres, 8 seminar rooms and group meeting spaces with a total of 110 seats. Sheffield Biorepository, a storage facility for human tissues approved unde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18690151 | 1,485,004 |
194,045 | During the mid-20th century departments which had been at Marischal College moved into one of these new buildings (most at King's College) and by the late 20th-century Marischal College had been abandoned by all but the Anatomy Department, a graduation hall and the Marischal Museum (Marischal College has now been resto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213135 | 193,945 |
397,934 | "Challenger" lifted off from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B at 11:38 on January 28. A minute later it broke up, torn apart by aerodynamic forces after a catastrophic failure of an O-ring seal on the starboard solid rocket booster. The cabin remained intact until it hit the water at , killing all on board. Resn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=316815 | 397,738 |
273,362 | The first generation of the quinolones began following introduction of the related, but structurally distinct naphthyridine-family nalidixic acid in 1962 for treatment of UTIs in humans. Nalidixic acid was discovered by George Lesher and coworkers in a chemical distillate during an attempt at synthesis of the chloroqui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31690663 | 273,214 |
184,311 | Amundsen's initial plans had focused on the Arctic and the conquest of the North Pole by means of an extended drift in an icebound ship. He obtained the use of Fridtjof Nansen's polar exploration ship "Fram", and undertook extensive fundraising. Preparations for this expedition were disrupted when, in 1909, the rival A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15021680 | 184,214 |
1,580,611 | The National Board annually offers up to two $12,000 scholarships to select college students meeting eligibility standards. Application period extends from September 1 to February 28. Scholarships are available to the children, step-children, grandchildren, or great-grandchildren of past or present National Board Commi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30781788 | 1,579,721 |
857,712 | Agarose is a preferred matrix for work with proteins and nucleic acids as it has a broad range of physical, chemical and thermal stability, and its lower degree of chemical complexity also makes it less likely to interact with biomolecules. Agarose is most commonly used as the medium for analytical scale electrophoreti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2635 | 857,257 |
2,066,983 | Four orthologues of aureochromes have been identified in model diatom "P. tricornutum", i.e. AUREO 1a, 1b, 1c and 2. Aureo1a recognizes the sequence TGACGT, which is the typical binding site for certain subfamilies of bZIP transcription factors. It was also shown that PtAUREO1a and 1c are regulated in a light-independe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60312068 | 2,065,792 |
1,780,321 | Zond 6 was a formal member of the Soviet Zond program, and an unmanned version of the Soyuz 7K-L1 manned Moon-flyby spacecraft. It was launched on a lunar flyby mission from a parent satellite (68-101B) in Earth parking orbit. The spacecraft carried scientific probes including cosmic ray and micrometeoroid detectors, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186814 | 1,779,317 |
682,898 | Upon receiving the contract to build the EMU in 1974, Hamilton Standard and ILC Dover delivered the first EMU units to NASA in 1982. During the research and development phase (1975–1980), a suit being tested caught fire, injuring a technician and forcing a redesign on the regulator and circulation fan. On STS-4 in July... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=739856 | 682,542 |
1,082,502 | The free radical chain reaction is sometimes referred to as the Bolland-Gee mechanism or the basic autoxidation scheme (BAS) and was originally based on the oxidation of rubbers, but remains generally accurate for many materials. It can be divided into three stages: initiation, propagation, and termination. The initiat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3189738 | 1,081,945 |
2,196,838 | Murphy was educated at public schools and privately, and began engineering work in 1852 on the Midland Great Western Railway. He was resident engineer of the Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway from 1862 to 1868, when he went to Canada and served for a year as engineer for the city of Halifax. He was chief engineer fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8001684 | 2,195,587 |
319,328 | When humans breathe in an asphyxiant gas, such as pure nitrogen, helium, neon, argon, methane, or any other physiologically inert gas(es), they exhale carbon dioxide without re-supplying oxygen. Physiologically inert gases (those that have no toxic effect, but merely dilute oxygen) are generally free of odor and taste.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3802867 | 319,157 |
847,759 | The Earth Microbiome Project (EMP) is an initiative to collect natural samples and analyze the microbial community around the globe. Microbes are highly abundant, diverse and have an important role in the ecological system. Yet , it was estimated that the total global environmental DNA sequencing effort had produced le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19456032 | 847,309 |
634,743 | Stars evolve and move over time, making catalogues evolving, impermanent databases at even the most rigorous levels of production. The USNO catalogues are the most current and widely used astrometric catalogues available at present, and include USNO products such as USNO-B (the successor to USNO-A), NOMAD, UCAC and oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28232 | 634,405 |
1,471,942 | On flight day 14, the crew of Space Shuttle "Discovery" began their final preparations for landing. The crew packed and stowed away items they no longer need for the rest of the flight. Throughout the day commander Alan Poindexter and pilot Jim Dutton completed a series of checkouts of flight systems. These checks incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6002628 | 1,471,113 |
1,932,059 | The thickness and type of sediments covering the ocean crust are estimated using the seismic reflection technique. This method was highly advanced by offshore oil exploration companies. The method employs a sound source at the ship with much lower frequencies than echo sounding, and an array of hydrophones towed by the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67380762 | 1,930,951 |
1,962,856 | For classifying web documents as conceived by Jens Hartmann, University of Karlsruhe, Prof.Walter Koch, University of Graz, has explored in his Institute for Applied Information Technology Research Society (AIT) the application of ICC to automatically classifying metadata of some 350.000 documents. This was facilitated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47525166 | 1,961,728 |
2,124,976 | Based on the solution of the density matrix equations, Einstein coefficient for induced transition has been derived; it has been shown that the saturation effect is small for semiconductor lasers. The formula of gain depending on the energy flux has been derived; it is the basic nonlinear effect in a laser. It has been... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52207824 | 2,123,755 |
171,143 | A more recent study by Hicks and colleagues from the Georgia Institute of Technology similarly argued that evidence concerning the test's validity was limited. Their research showed "that Wonderlic has no direct relationship to fluid intelligence once its commonality to working memory capacity is accounted for", and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1977429 | 171,053 |
216,711 | President Obama requested $7.373 billion for fiscal year 2013. Due to the October 1, 2013 shutdown of the Federal Government, and NSF's lapse in funding, their website was down "until further notice", but was brought back online after the US government passed their budget. In 2014, NSF awarded rapid response grants to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157427 | 216,603 |
989,000 | In some languages, some word orders are considered more "natural" than others. In some, the order is the matter of emphasis. For example, Russian allows the use of subject–verb–object in any order and "shuffles" parts to bring up a slightly different contextual meaning each time. E.g. "любит она его" (loves she him) ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29617 | 988,484 |
887,847 | The Attacker was powered by a single Rolls-Royce Nene Mk. 101 turbojet engine; at the time, the Nene was the most powerful jet engine in the world, with a thrust of 5,000 lb. The engine was supported by a heavy box-section rear spar frame, which was braced fore and aft to the main spar. As the jet-pipe was relatively l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=678691 | 887,380 |
400,711 | Cognitive illusions include some which result from the unconscious misapplication of certain optical principles. For example, the Ames room, Hering, Müller-Lyer, Orbison, Ponzo, Sander, and Wundt illusions all rely on the suggestion of the appearance of distance by using converging and diverging lines, in the same way ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22483 | 400,512 |
1,591,359 | Controlled traffic farming is a system which confines all machinery loads to the least possible area of permanent traffic lanes. Current farming systems allow machines to run at random over the land, compacting around 75% of the area within one season and the whole area by the second season. Soils don’t recover quickly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26615494 | 1,590,464 |
1,095,602 | The costumes were created by Balanchine's long-time collaborator Barbara Karinska, who created a distinct look for each different act: romantic, calf-length tulle skirts for "Emeralds", fabric that flared at the hips of both men and women in "Rubies", and the flat, classical tutu of the Imperial Russian Ballet for "Dia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11914576 | 1,095,042 |
2,075,529 | The men's stationary target small-bore rifle, also referred to as the "miniature rifle competition", was one of 15 events on the Shooting at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Regulation of the equipment used in the event was done through proscribing ammunition weighing more than 140 grains, with a velocity of more th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5095833 | 2,074,332 |
732,606 | With the isolation of medications from the raw materials or crude drugs came the birth of the modern pharmaceutical company. Pharmacists were trained to compound the preparations made by the drug companies, but they could not do it efficiently on a small scale. So economies of scale, not lack of skill or knowledge, pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7521201 | 732,219 |
1,416,993 | Throughout the 1976 season, there were 11 tropical depressions monitored that did not achieve gale intensity. The first such system developed just north of Grand Bahama in the Bahamas on June 7. Moving north-northeastward for much of its duration, the depression strengthened slightly to reach winds of 35 mph (55 km/h).... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=791513 | 1,416,195 |
2,123,032 | Fromme was amongst the first people to use high energy X-ray free-electron lasers to analyze proteins. These lasers, which produce extremely bright and ultra-short pulses of light, allow for serial femtosecond nanocrystallography. Whilst conventional high intensity X-ray pulses can damage the molecules they are interro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68515874 | 2,121,812 |
2,091,743 | It has been shown that growing cells and tissues have very individual oxygen requirements. Due to this reason it is important that the content of oxygen can be adapted in individual perfusion culture experiments. The technical solution is a gas exchanger module containing a gas inlet and outlet (Fig. 6a). Further a spi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33902476 | 2,090,538 |
1,490,405 | When photogenerated electrons and holes have different mobilities, a potential difference can be created between the illuminated and non-illuminated faces of a semiconductor slab. Generally this potential is created through the depth of the slab, whether it is a bulk semiconductor or a polycrystalline film. The differe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15482602 | 1,489,566 |
1,786,024 | Functions of PAK1 are regulated by its ability to phosphorylate downstream effector substrates, scaffold activity, redistribution to distinct sub-cellular cellular sub-domains, stimulation or repression of expression of its genomic targets either directly or indirectly, or by all of these mechanisms. Representative PAK... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14021340 | 1,785,019 |
1,045,075 | It has been suggested that an ancestor of "Europasaurus" would have quickly decreased in body size after emigrating to an island that existed at the time, as the largest of the islands in the region around northern Germany was smaller than squared, which may not have been able to support a community of large sauropods.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5468113 | 1,044,530 |
1,597,947 | Corvol et al. conducted a whole-genome association study to identify modifiers of CF lung disease, identifying five associated loci. Their methods exemplify the large sample size required to conduct a statistically powerful analysis capable of identifying loci of relatively small effects. To obtain a large population, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50619245 | 1,597,048 |
487,403 | After he graduated from Central High School in 1928, he went on to study at Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now known as Michigan Technological University) where he received the school’s first Bachelors of Science in Chemistry. He went on to earn his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1935. While under ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=354575 | 487,153 |
754,010 | Much of the critique of classical Marxian economics came from Marxian economists that revised Marx's original theory, or by the Austrian School of economics. V. K. Dmitriev, writing in 1898, Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz, writing in 1906–07, and subsequent critics claimed that Marx's labor theory of value and law of the te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42824033 | 753,607 |
1,488,384 | There are two reasons that could explain the difference in outcomes between cochlear implants and ABIs. Firstly, non-auditory side-effects, such as vertigo, limit the overall number of electrodes that can deliver useful frequency information. Electrodes found to cause one of these side-effects are deactivated, resultin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16589538 | 1,487,545 |
144,191 | Since solid-fuel rockets can remain in storage for an extended period without much propellant degradation and because they almost always launch reliably, they have been frequently used in military applications such as missiles. The lower performance of solid propellants (as compared to liquids) does not favor their use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37830 | 144,133 |
325,744 | TI was active in the area of artificial intelligence in the 1980s. In addition to ongoing developments in speech and signal processing and recognition, it developed and sold the Explorer computer family of Lisp machines. For the Explorer, a special 32-bit Lisp microprocessor was developed, which was used in the Explore... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47768 | 325,571 |
188,246 | The first one is the effect of the vehicle. The medium to carry the topical drugs can affect the penetration of the drug active ingredient and efficacy. For example, this carrier can have a cooling, drying, emollient or protective action to suit the required conditions of the application site such as applying gel or lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=867542 | 188,149 |
916,241 | Sport psychologists may also deal with helping athletes recover from the psychological consequences resulting from injury. Because athletes, especially professionals, are more at risk to injury than other kinds of exercisers, the process of recovering from injury, and the varying effects of different kinds of injuries ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25688228 | 915,759 |
580,083 | Lockheed based its candidate, which it named the Model 12 Electra Junior, around a scaled down Electra. It would carry only six passengers and two pilots but would use the same Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior SB radial engines as the main Electra version, the 10A. This made it faster than the Electra, with a top spee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2036514 | 579,786 |
597,633 | Epigenetic inheritance may confer a fitness benefit to organisms that deal with environmental changes at intermediate timescales. Short-cycling changes are likely to have DNA-encoded regulatory processes, as the probability of the offspring needing to respond to changes multiple times during their lifespans is high. On... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31182307 | 597,328 |
1,024,883 | The gill arches are equipped with rows of parallel 3-to-12-centimetre-long (1.2-to-4.7-inch-long) gill rakers, in life probably attached to the ceratobranchials via soft tissue. On the top of each raker one or two rows of dozens of low "teeth" are present. When there are two rows, they are placed on the edges of the up... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1987761 | 1,024,350 |
2,107,394 | The EuroNanoForum was held for the 6th time in June 2013 in Dublin, Ireland. The event was hosted under the auspices of the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It was dedicated to "Nanotechnology Innovation: From research to commercialisation – the bridge to Horizon2020". The speakers initiated a thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32006409 | 2,106,181 |
1,911,787 | Max Palevsky, who later worked with the MADDIDA duplication team at Northrop, drew influence from the MADDIDA's design in his work in 1952–56 building the Bendix G-15, an early personal computer, for the Bendix Corporation. In March 1957, Palevsky begin work at Packard Bell, at a new affiliate of the company he started... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15833779 | 1,910,688 |
759,663 | Recall that decimation of sampled data in one domain (time or frequency) produces overlap (sometimes known as aliasing) in the other, and vice versa. Compared to an -length DFT, the formula_6 summation/overlap causes decimation in frequency, leaving only DTFT samples least affected by spectral leakage. That is usually ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1216914 | 759,257 |
703,493 | where "k" is the Boltzmann constant. Thus some dissociation can occur because sufficient thermal energy is available. The following sequence of events has been proposed on the basis of electric field fluctuations in liquid water. Random fluctuations in molecular motions occasionally (about once every 10 hours per water... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337279 | 703,125 |
470,387 | CdTe doped with chlorine is used as a radiation detector for x-rays, gamma rays, beta particles and alpha particles. CdTe can operate at room temperature allowing the construction of compact detectors for a wide variety of applications in nuclear spectroscopy. The properties that make CdTe superior for the realization ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2084276 | 470,151 |
1,517,078 | "PAPPA" encodes a secreted metalloproteinase which cleaves insulin-like growth factor binding proteins (IGFBPs). PAPPA's proteolytic function is activated upon collagen binding. It is thought to be involved in local proliferative processes such as wound healing and bone remodeling. Low plasma level of this protein has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11163790 | 1,516,226 |
1,363,664 | Additionally, research done by Greg Erikson and Paul Gignac et al. and published in the journal "Scientific Reports" indicates that "Tyrannosaurus" could bite down with around 8,000 pounds force (36 kN) when feeding, exerting a pressure of 431,000 pounds per square inch (3 gigapascals) with their teeth. This adaptation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42194964 | 1,362,911 |
1,573,908 | CARD9 mutations have been associated with inflammatory diseases such as ankylosing spondylitis and inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis). A genetic variant, c.IVS11+1G>C was found to be protective against crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and ankylosing spondilitis by Manuel Rivas, Mark... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16855179 | 1,573,019 |
1,232,997 | The first varve chronology was constructed by De Geer in Stockholm in the late 19th century. Further work soon followed, and a network of sites along the east coast of Sweden was established. The varved sediments exposed in these sites had formed in glaciolacustrine and glacimarine conditions in the Baltic basin as the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=947217 | 1,232,334 |
1,496,054 | While a person may manipulate the environment, the specific environment in which the person develops has highly constraining effects on the possible neural representations exhibited through a restriction of the possible physical and social experiences. For example, if a child is raised without a mother, the child canno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5473337 | 1,495,211 |
365,658 | Once we have calculated the key metrics we can make some initial conclusions on the performance of the decision tree model built. The accuracy that we calculated was 71.60%. The accuracy value is good to start but we would like to get our models as accurate as possible while maintaining the overall performance. The sen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=232602 | 365,467 |
1,831,290 | Cannabis () is commonly known as marijuana or hemp and has two known strains: "Cannabis sativa" and "Cannabis indica", both of which produce chemicals to deter herbivory. The chemical composition includes specialized terpenes and cannibinoids, mainly tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), and cannabidiol (CBD). These substances p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70796522 | 1,830,243 |
297,732 | In the mid-1980s, artificial hearts were powered by dishwasher-sized pneumatic power sources whose lineage went back to Alfa Laval milking machines. Moreover, two sizable catheters had to cross the body wall to carry the pneumatic pulses to the implanted heart, greatly increasing the risk of infection. To speed develop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=256461 | 297,572 |
135,607 | Connective tissue has a wide variety of functions that depend on the types of cells and the different classes of fibers involved. Loose and dense irregular connective tissue, formed mainly by fibroblasts and collagen fibers, have an important role in providing a medium for oxygen and nutrients to diffuse from capillari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=228845 | 135,552 |
850,216 | Another factor that can render a model invalid is human error. One notorious example was the US Air Force's "Advanced Penetration Model", which due to a programming error made US bombers invulnerable to enemy air defences by inadvertently altering their latitude or longitude when checking their location for a missile i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10280894 | 849,764 |
1,836,168 | The preservation of these fossils is one of their great fascinations to science. As soft-bodied organisms, they would normally not fossilise. Unlike later soft-bodied fossil biota (such as the Burgess Shale, or Solnhofen Limestone) the Ediacara biota is not found in a restricted environment subject to unusual local con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19937346 | 1,835,119 |
812,010 | "Robotics;Notes" was announced through 5pb.'s official website on December 22, 2010, noting that details about the game would appear in the interview with Chiyomaru Shikura, the CEO of 5pb., featured in the issue of "Famitsu" magazine that was being sold on the same day. "Robotics;Notes" is the third entry in the "Scie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30237226 | 811,577 |
611,477 | The first incarnation of the Zhuk radar family featuring an Active electronically scanned array (AESA) based on N031 Sokol series was introduced in 2005 at MAKS. The Zhuk MA (MAE for export) used 1088 transceiver modules divide into 272 blocks and an antenna of 700 mm diameter. With a range of 200 km and ability to tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14897806 | 611,166 |
1,197,881 | Television channels which air a mixture of (or high-definition) programming and (or standard definition) programming may employ scaling and/or cropping in order to make the programming fill the entire screen, as opposed to pillarboxing the feed instead, in order to maintain consistency in format. Likewise, broadcasters... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2848565 | 1,197,240 |
255,892 | Economic indicators are used to measure the business cycle: consumer confidence index, retail trade index, unemployment and industry/service production index. Stock and Watson claim that financial indicators' predictive ability is not stable over different time periods because of economic shocks, random fluctuations an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=168918 | 255,758 |
1,251,263 | The academic debate around the ETH is still active, and has inspired a number of similar tests, all attempting to verify the ETH with another species or group of species by looking at encephalization (a ratio between brain size and body size), gut size, and/or diet quality. Primates, being the closest living relatives ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58887918 | 1,250,585 |
1,156,762 | GE Aviation and LSP Technologies were the first companies performing laser peening commercially, having licensed the technology from Battelle. GE Aviation performed laser peening for its aerospace engine components and LSP Technologies marketed laser shock peening services and equipment to a broader industrial base. In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7465720 | 1,156,152 |
1,087,271 | There has been a gradual increase in brain volume as the ancestors of modern humans progressed along the human timeline of evolution (see Homininae), starting from about 600 cm in "Homo habilis" up to 1736 cm in "Homo neanderthalensis". Thus, in general there is a correlation between brain volume and intelligence. Howe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33644895 | 1,086,712 |
2,054,532 | The Infrared Spatial Interferometer (ISI) is an astronomical interferometer array of three telescopes operating in the mid-infrared. The telescopes are fully mobile and their current site on Mount Wilson allows for placements as far as apart, giving the resolution of a telescope of that diameter. The signals are conver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5556804 | 2,053,349 |
39,957 | Michigan is one of the founding members (in the year 1900) of the Association of American Universities. With over 6,200 faculty members, 73 of whom are members of the National Academy and 471 of whom hold an endowed chair in their discipline, the university manages one of the largest annual collegiate research budgets ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31740 | 39,942 |
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