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179,947 | In the United States, endometrial cancer is the most frequently diagnosed gynecologic cancer and, in women, the fourth most common cancer overall, representing 6% of all cancer cases in women. In that country, it was estimated that 52,630 women were diagnosed yearly and 8,590 would die from the disease. Northern Europe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=412809 | 179,853 |
638,028 | "The Guardian" and "The New York Times" have reported in 2013 that the National Security Agency (NSA) inserted a backdoor into a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) of NIST SP 800-90A which allows the NSA to readily decrypt material that was encrypted with the aid of Dual_EC_DRBG. Both papers report that, as independe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182249 | 637,689 |
1,881,662 | Rather than testing a student's content knowledge, the ITED endeavors to evaluate students' skills in a variety of areas, especially based on problem solving and critical analysis of texts. These are considered by the authors of the ITED to be skills acquired across multiple curricular areas and skills that are importa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3331807 | 1,880,581 |
1,467,070 | Microarrays was once the mainstay of the transcriptomics the last ten years and array based technology has subsequently branched out to other areas. However, they are limited in that only information can be obtained for probes that are on the chip. Only information for organisms for which chips are available can obtain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15236363 | 1,466,247 |
787,932 | One recurring problem in ACL rehabilitation is improving muscle strength of the quadriceps without re-injury. Early, high-force eccentric training can be used to increase muscle strength and volume without damage to the ACL graft, surrounding soft-tissue, and the articular cartilage. In an experiment performed on rat m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29763544 | 787,508 |
1,573,958 | Maciej Lewenstein was born on 21.09.1955. He graduated at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Warsaw University in 1978, with his diploma thesis about the superradiance phenomenon written under the supervision of Prof. . After one year of working as a scientific assistant at the ITP of Warsaw University, he joined... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46396821 | 1,573,069 |
1,139,891 | Pentax lenses were first badged as Takumar. The Takumar branded lenses were well respected for their line of Super Takumar, which designated the high performance coating applied to the lens as well as the optical formulas used to make them. The majority of the industry at the time was still satisfied with the variation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20340164 | 1,139,297 |
1,720,491 | One mark of a good author is the ability to make a successful book out of an unpromising subject. Over the years, Donald E. Knuth has produced a slew of bestsellers on topics that might seem to have only limited appeal, most notably the arts of computer programming and mathematical typography. His latest book takes on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17394241 | 1,719,521 |
1,754,397 | The John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences (UND Aerospace) is a multidisciplinary college within the University of North Dakota (UND) in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The school was formed in 1968. The majority of the school's fleet of over 120 aircraft is based at nearby Grand Forks International Airport and is the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6408751 | 1,753,407 |
1,889,823 | Most of the gas generated during heating of the heat-transfer oil does not come into contact the waste material and can be discharged directly to the atmosphere without emission controls. The remainder of the flue gas maintains the thermal screw purge gas exit temperature above 300 degrees F. This ensures that volatili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8851414 | 1,888,740 |
2,176,525 | Planar cell polarity was first described in insects and then further defined in fruit flies ("Drosophila melanogaster"). Some of the earlier work on gene controlled polarity of fly wings was published by D. Gubb and A. García-Bellido in 1982 describing how the mutation of some genes resulted in a morphology change in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15592325 | 2,175,281 |
1,577,674 | The problem of counting planar perfect matchings has its roots in statistical mechanics and chemistry, where the original question was: If diatomic molecules are adsorbed on a surface, forming a single layer, how many ways can they be arranged? The partition function is an important quantity that encodes the statistica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30159370 | 1,576,785 |
2,168,517 | MRSECs form a significant component of NSF's center-based research portfolio, but are also of historical importance. MRSECs were established by NSF in 1994 but have their roots in the NSF Materials Research Laboratories (MRLs) started in 1972, which in turn evolved from the Interdisciplinary Laboratories (IDLs) initiat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30862721 | 2,167,280 |
209,165 | The fire lance () was a gunpowder weapon and the ancestor of modern firearms. It first appeared in 10th–12th century China and was used to great effect during the Jin-Song Wars. It began as a small pyrotechnic device attached to a polearm weapon, used to gain a shock advantage at the start of a melee. As gunpowder impr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5318699 | 209,058 |
1,923,441 | After the initial loop, the sequences follows to the first and longest β-sheet (sI). A second loop precedes large "amphipathic α-helix" (hA) that longitudinally spans protein site. The β-strands sII and sIII follows separated by the respective loops, loop 4 being commonly designated as "short loop" bridging sII to sIII... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14027081 | 1,922,338 |
283,676 | Passive mass shielding of four metric tons per square meter of surface area will reduce radiation dosage to several mSv or less annually, well below the rate of some populated high natural background areas on Earth. This can be leftover material (slag) from processing lunar soil and asteroids into oxygen, metals, and o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29248 | 283,523 |
1,290,026 | Later that year he was assigned to the Manhattan Project, and moved with his family to Los Alamos, New Mexico. There he joined the Los Alamos Laboratory's Ordnance (O) Division, which was under the command of another Naval officer, Captain William S. Parsons. Initially the goal of the O Division was to design a gun-typ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14105833 | 1,289,316 |
1,609,894 | Population-based studies in Europe and North America have identified a consistent prevalence of approximately 0.1% of children having a hearing loss of more than 40 decibels through review of health or education records, or both. Other international studies using different methods or criteria have reported higher estim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32101377 | 1,608,989 |
1,461,457 | “The initial force of a composition is the invention of some definite theme, and not the desire to describe a given emotion by musical means. Thanks to that primitive and mysterious power, whose mode of action will forever be hidden from us, a theme, a melody flashes on the composer’s mind. The origin of this first ger... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=364624 | 1,460,635 |
667,214 | As a black project (i.e. one that was secret and publicly unacknowledged), but one that was impossible to completely conceal, MOL needed some "white" (i.e. unclassified and publicly acknowledged) experiments as cover. An MOL Experiments Working Group was created under Colonel William Brady. Some 400 experiments propose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=615373 | 666,866 |
641,488 | "Montrose" deployed in 2006 to the Persian Gulf on Operation Telic in the first half of 2006. After returning to the UK for personnel changes and maintenance, from 8 January to 27 July 2007, "Montrose" then deployed for seven months to the Mediterranean Sea as the UK contribution to the Standing NATO Maritime Group Two... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=449988 | 641,149 |
336,385 | Diagnosis of BSE continues to be a practical problem. It has an incubation period of months to years, during which no signs are noticed, though the pathway of converting the normal brain prion protein (PrP) into the toxic, disease-related PrP form has started. At present, no way is known to detect PrP reliably except b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19344418 | 336,207 |
318,153 | "H. naledi" anatomy indicates that, though they were capable of long-distance travel with a humanlike stride and gait, they were more arboreal than other "Homo", better adapted to climbing and suspensory behaviour in trees than endurance running. Tooth anatomy suggests consumption of gritty foods covered in particulate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47774240 | 317,983 |
1,580,254 | Built in 1892 to serve as a laboratory for City Hospital, it was "the first institution in the nation for pathological and bacteriological research". The project was funded by the Strecker family. The building was designed by architects Frederick Clarke Withers and Walter Dickson in the Romanesque Revival style with la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25026073 | 1,579,364 |
1,334,520 | The secondary structure of group II introns is characterized by six typical stem-loop structures, also called domains I to VI (DI to DVI, or D1 to D6). The domains radiate from a central core that brings the 5' and 3' splice junctions into close proximity. The proximal helix structures of the six domains are connected ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7916185 | 1,333,790 |
1,756,154 | Internet Engineering Task Force's RFC 6157 describes the necessary mechanisms to guarantee that SIP works successfully between both Internet Protocol versions during the transition to IPv6. While SIP signaling messages can be transmitted through heterogeneous IPv4/IPv6 networks as long as proxy servers and DNS entries ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44402859 | 1,755,163 |
33,040 | Hollywood featured the B-17 in its period films, such as director Howard Hawks' "Air Force" starring John Garfield and "Twelve O'Clock High" starring Gregory Peck. Both films were made with the full cooperation of the United States Army Air Forces and used USAAF aircraft and (for "Twelve O'Clock High") combat footage. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4997 | 33,028 |
1,226,507 | Electrical and electrochemical detection are easily adapted for portability and miniaturization, especially in comparison to optical detection. In amperometric biosensors, an enzyme-catalyzed redox reaction causes a redox electron current that is measured by a working electrode. Amperometric biosensors have been used i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19081158 | 1,225,847 |
353,155 | The finite element method obtained its real impetus in the 1960s and 1970s by the developments of J. H. Argyris with co-workers at the University of Stuttgart, R. W. Clough with co-workers at UC Berkeley, O. C. Zienkiewicz with co-workers Ernest Hinton, Bruce Irons and others at Swansea University, Philippe G. Ciarlet ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18233581 | 352,972 |
681,503 | The "Galileo" spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003, provided a comprehensive coverage of Jupiter's magnetic field near the equatorial plane at distances up to 100 "R". The regions studied included the magnetotail and the dawn and dusk sectors of the magnetosphere. While Galileo successfully survived in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8482163 | 681,147 |
1,221,249 | FTP has become important because banks are expected to state their funding costs accurately as a regulatory requirement because funding costs affect a bank's liquidity reporting. Failure and bail-outs of banks have made reported liquidity a hot topic. FTP calculation is complicated by several factors which make the cal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9188656 | 1,220,591 |
1,095,189 | The work of the neuropathologist consists largely of examining autopsy or biopsy tissue from the brain and spinal cord to aid in diagnosis of disease. Tissues are also observed through the eyes, muscles, surfaces of organs, and tumors. The biopsy is usually requested after a mass is detected by radiologic imaging, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1740329 | 1,094,629 |
1,003,802 | One major area of application for microfluidic devices is the separation and sorting of different fluids or cell types. Recent developments in the microfluidics field have seen the integration of microfluidic devices with magnetophoresis: the migration of particles by a magnetic field. This can be accomplished by sendi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18906 | 1,003,284 |
19,705 | Principal photography began on 4 January 2019 in Mumbai and was shot as a multilingual, with scenes simultaneously filmed in the Hindi, Tamil, and English languages. A few days after the start of the shoot, Mahadevan left the project owing to prior commitments and Madhavan took over as the project's sole director. Film... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58932491 | 19,697 |
768,925 | In 1927, D. R. Hartree introduced a procedure, which he called the self-consistent field method, to calculate approximate wave functions and energies for atoms and ions. Hartree sought to do away with empirical parameters and solve the many-body time-independent Schrödinger equation from fundamental physical principles... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=475393 | 768,513 |
1,732,563 | On April 24, 1787, Georgetown landowner John Threlkeld donated a plot of land to Carroll, which was ultimately where he founded Holy Trinity Church. In April 1788, construction began at a larger neighboring plot on Georgetown's first building, later called "Old South", leading Carroll to write "We shall begin the build... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9623056 | 1,731,587 |
2,154,245 | In the late 1950s the Polish Navy decided to develop fast torpedo boats of own design, to supplement Soviet-origin project 183 (P-6) class torpedo boats. It was decided to use a gas turbine for propulsion and arm them with four torpedo tubes. Due to lack of previous experience in designing such craft, development was v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8441910 | 2,153,014 |
1,509,519 | This is a prolific nitrogen-fixing and phosphorus reducing species of bacteria that fixes approximately half of the nitrogen in the food chain of the ocean and contributes to the turn over of phosphorus. Unlike other bacteria, it can also photosynthesize. This is a colonial species that forms long filaments and tends t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51136517 | 1,508,669 |
136,552 | When the power company's voltage becomes distorted due to harmonics, losses in other loads such as normal fixed-speed AC motors are increased. This condition may lead to overheating and shorter operating life. Also, substation transformers and compensation capacitors are affected negatively. In particular, capacitors c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1845708 | 136,497 |
373,746 | According to Eliasson, the decision to power the type using turboprop engines rather that jet engines had been provided as one of the reasons for Saab deciding to close down the project; another major factor had been the increasingly competitive and politicised regional airliner market in which various competing airlin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=469211 | 373,551 |
163,160 | The season produced a domestic double of La Liga and Copa del Rey wins, with Barça coming out on top in a closely fought title race and defeating newly crowned Europa League winners Sevilla in the Copa del Rey final after extra time. However, Barça failed to clinch its second sextuple after 2009 by losing the Supercopa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46735387 | 163,075 |
1,277,584 | Since August 2004, an interim storage facility has been established on the grounds of the nuclear power plant for spent fuel elements with a heavy metal weight of 2,250 tonnes. It contains 192 storage spaces and was placed in operation in 2006. € 30 million have been budgeted for this. Construction of the building (104... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12542929 | 1,276,891 |
1,741,557 | Laser Spectroscopy (or Cavity ring-down spectroscopy, CRDS) is able to directly measure D/H, O/O and OO isotope compositions in water or methane. The application of laser spectroscopy to hydrogen isotopes was first reported by Bergamaschi et al. in 1994. They directly measured CHD/CH in atmospheric methane using a lead... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50525886 | 1,740,575 |
99,141 | Batara Surya was hit when Anoman blamed Batara Surya for what happened to his mother, Dewi Anjani and her grandmother, who had been cursed by her husband. Anoman feels Batara Surya must be responsible so Anoman with his magic collects clouds from all over the world to cover the natural world so that the rays of the sun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20646470 | 99,098 |
104,986 | IBM (which counts among its founding patents a method for mechanical tabulation of population statistics for the United States Census Bureau in 1897), launched its “Smarter Cities” marketing initiative in 2008. In 2010, Cisco Systems, with $25 million from the Clinton Foundation, established its Connected Urban Develop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12592050 | 104,941 |
2,001,873 | Held 23–25 October at Physikalisch-Technischen Reichsanstalt at Charlottenburg. The 1904 Congress recommended holding an international conference to address discrepancies in the electrical units and their interpretation. Emil Warburg, president of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt in Germany, invited representa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14555039 | 2,000,726 |
1,839,435 | Like all other organisms, plants do not lead solitary lives, as there are myriads of microbes and viruses living around and within them. Some microbes, whether endophytic or epiphytic, play diverse roles in supporting healthy plant growth, whereas others are pathogenic, which can become dominant over the beneficial one... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65429792 | 1,838,383 |
254,395 | The term "android" appears in US patents as early as 1863 in reference to miniature human-like toy automatons. The term "android" was used in a more modern sense by the French author Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam in his work "Tomorrow's Eve" (1886). This story features an artificial humanlike robot named Hadaly. As s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=713 | 254,262 |
1,166,558 | On 31 December 2006, Dungeness A ceased power generation after over forty years of operation. Defuelling was completed in June 2012 with all fuel having been sent to Sellafield for reprocessing. After the site was declared fuel-free, demolition works accelerated beginning with the demolition of the turbine hall in June... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=645131 | 1,165,940 |
1,312,475 | The was a school established to train line officers for the Imperial Japanese Navy. It was originally located in Nagasaki, moved to Yokohama in 1866, and was relocated to Tsukiji, Tokyo in 1869. It moved to Etajima, Hiroshima in 1888. Students studied for three or four years, and upon graduation were ordered (warranted... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6797774 | 1,311,756 |
843,322 | Ballast is used in surface vessels to alter the draft, trim, list and stability. It may also be used to modify structural load distribution, usually the longitudinal load distribution which affects hogging and sagging stresses. It may also be used to change the moments of inertia which affect motion in a seaway. Intern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3619680 | 842,872 |
1,742,667 | Carbon nanofoam clusters can be synthesized through high-repetition-rate laser ablation in inert gases such as argon. Short (fs), low-energy (µJ) pulses delivered at high rates of repetition (10 kHz – 100 MHz) generate carbon vapors for deposition. Ambient gas is heated from room temperature with the atomized carbon wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=739628 | 1,741,683 |
1,969,797 | Barrier and Isolator designs are used throughout the industries, from sterile injectable drug filling to cytotoxic sterile drug compounding to electronics manufacturing to orange juice filling. Pharmaceutical industry and pharmacy compounding isolators are used for maintaining sterility of a drug, and that is the focus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10127780 | 1,968,663 |
429,299 | Follicular unit excision takes considerable time and expense to learn and to develop skills to a high standard. The first part of the procedure involves making an incision with a circular cutting punch around the hair follicle through the epidermis into the subcutaneous tissue in order to release the follicle from the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9320155 | 429,089 |
1,566,232 | A characteristic feature of primary care is that doctors’ often care for several patients who are related to each other. They also often care for a number of individuals and families who live and/or work in close proximity, and whose lives are intimately related to each other. Particularly though not exclusively in rur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34196819 | 1,565,345 |
857,881 | The root patents of LFP compounds are held by four organizations. University of Texas-Austin for the discovery of the material. Hydro-Québec, Université de Montréal and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) for the carbon coating that enhance its conductivity and actually makes LFP suitable for indu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13079232 | 857,426 |
19,583 | In 2011, the Dutch authority investigating child pornography discovered the IP address of a Tor onion service site called "Pedoboard" from an unprotected administrator's account and gave it to the FBI, who traced it to Aaron McGrath. After a year of surveillance, the FBI launched "Operation Torpedo" which resulted in M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20556944 | 19,575 |
158,384 | SPAAG development continued through the early 1950s with ever-larger guns, improving the range and allowing the engagement to take place at longer distances where the crossing angle was smaller and aiming was easier. Examples including the 40 mm U.S. M42 Duster and the 57 mm Soviet ZSU-57-2. However, both were essentia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2288 | 158,303 |
1,910,739 | After the completion of the survey in 1968, it was used occasionally as an educational instrument as part of the Green Bank radio astronomy summer schools. In 1987 it was restored and upgraded for full use as an educational telescope, including by local science teachers as part of the Secondary Science Teachers Institu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69514030 | 1,909,641 |
2,131,393 | Shellsort, discovered by Donald Shell in 1959, is a comparison sort which divides a list to be sorted into sublists and sorts them separately. The sorted sublists are then merged, reconstituting a partially-sorted list. This process repeats a number of times (the number of passes). The difficulty of analyzing the compl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48885825 | 2,130,168 |
868,477 | The armour-piercing concept calls for more penetration capability than the target's armour thickness. The penetrator is a pointed mass of high-density material that is designed to retain its shape and carry the maximum possible amount of energy as deeply as possible into the target. Generally, the penetration capabilit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=79266 | 868,017 |
1,714,944 | Bailey returned prior to the start of 1946 season and resumed his coaching duties. From 1947–1950, the program won four consecutive PCC North Division titles. This run culminated in the program's first College World Series appearance in 1950, the first College World Series played at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebrask... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30079048 | 1,713,977 |
975,078 | The majority of antibiotics used to treat "M. pneumoniae" infections are targeted at bacterial rRNA in ribosomal complexes, including macrolides, tetracycline, ketolides, and fluoroquinolone, many of which can be administered orally. Macrolides are capable of reducing hyperresponsiveness and protecting the epithelial l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=466746 | 974,567 |
96,507 | Without oxygen, pyruvate (pyruvic acid) is not metabolized by cellular respiration but undergoes a process of fermentation. The pyruvate is not transported into the mitochondrion but remains in the cytoplasm, where it is converted to waste products that may be removed from the cell. This serves the purpose of oxidizing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=102871 | 96,466 |
650,520 | The plasma experiment's goal was to study the ionized gases (plasma) of the solar wind, the temperature and density of its electrons, and how the planets affected the velocity of the plasma stream. The experiment contained two components, facing in opposite directions. The Scanning Electrostatic Analyzer was aimed towa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38785 | 650,179 |
218,455 | For 1982 the better equipped 504 Pickup GR was added, these received some chrome touches and luxuries such as a clock and door-mounted armrests. Externally, the GR was set apart by black rubber bumper overriders, different hubcaps and a modicum of chrome ornamentation (the standard version received a grille and bumpers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=456445 | 218,347 |
774,008 | Human traits that emerged recently include the ability to free-dive for long periods of time, adaptations for living in high altitudes where oxygen concentrations are low, resistance to contagious diseases (such as malaria), light skin, blue eyes, lactase persistence (or the ability to digest milk after weaning), lower... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54472601 | 773,592 |
768,236 | Louis Pasteur was unable to find a causative agent for rabies and speculated about a pathogen too small to be detected by microscopes. In 1884, the French microbiologist Charles Chamberland invented the Chamberland filter (or Pasteur-Chamberland filter) with pores small enough to remove all bacteria from a solution pas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32772 | 767,824 |
369,740 | Adipose tissue contains many small blood vessels. In the integumentary system, which includes the skin, it accumulates in the deepest level, the subcutaneous layer, providing insulation from heat and cold. Around organs, it provides protective padding. However, its main function is to be a reserve of lipids, which can ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=419094 | 369,547 |
1,934,139 | The ASRT publishes two peer-reviewed research journals. The bimonthly journal "Radiologic Technology" keeps readers informed about advances in technology and patient care. It also offers ASRT members the opportunity to earn continuing education credit through its Directed Reading program. "Radiation Therapist", publish... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12466214 | 1,933,031 |
460,700 | The use of antibiotics in livestock also has the potential to introduce antibiotic-resistant bacteria to humans via environmental exposure or inhalation of airborne bacteria. Antibiotics given to livestock in sub-therapeutic concentrations to stimulate growth when there is no diagnosis of disease – a practice still per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40364158 | 460,474 |
191,967 | However, Nick Bostrom's "orthogonality thesis" argues against this, and instead states that, with some technical caveats, more or less any level of "intelligence" or "optimization power" can be combined with more or less any ultimate goal. If a machine is created and given the sole purpose to enumerate the decimals of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46583121 | 191,868 |
151,277 | The Exploratorium aimed to introduce and inspire, as well as teach. The museum exposed people to science by means of human perception. It provides a form of "educational sightseeing" as well as the understanding of the underlying principles. Its intention was not to replace a science class, but rather to inspire people... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=788828 | 151,209 |
433,505 | Helium is lighter than air; larger flow rates are required. It is an inert gas, not reacting with the molten metals. Its thermal conductivity is high. It is not easy to ionize, requiring higher voltage to start the arc. Due to higher ionization potential it produces hotter arc at higher voltage, provides wide deep bead... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1924637 | 433,291 |
431,209 | Clouds have also been found over the south polar region. While typically covering 1% of Titan's disk, outburst events have been observed in which the cloud cover rapidly expands to as much as 8%. One hypothesis asserts that the southern clouds are formed when heightened levels of sunlight during the Titanean summer gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16074640 | 430,997 |
1,404,309 | Despite the word "primary" in its name, PGNCS data was not the main source of navigation information. Tracking data from NASA's Deep Space Network was processed by computers at Mission Control, using least squares algorithms. The position and velocity estimates that resulted were more accurate than those produced by PG... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=954760 | 1,403,519 |
275,486 | The South Pacific convergence zone (SPCZ) is a reverse-oriented, or west-northwest to east-southeast aligned, trough extending from the west Pacific warm pool southeastwards towards French Polynesia. It lies just south of the equator during the Southern Hemisphere warm season, but can be more extratropical in nature, e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=432961 | 275,337 |
89,250 | Official ACC designated rivalry games include the Virginia–Virginia Tech rivalry and the Virginia–Louisville series. These two rivalries are guaranteed an annual game in all sports, and a home-and-away series in men's and women's basketball. The Cavaliers competed against the Hokies in the "Commonwealth Challenge" and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59801 | 89,213 |
1,435,335 | The first classes started on October 9, 1900. Professor Vladimir Nekrasov gave the first lecture on analytic geometry. Among the first professors of the Institute, there were notable scientists: Professor Nikolai Kischner, who discovered the Wolff–Kishner reduction; Professor Theodor Molien, who gave a foundation to hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4563685 | 1,434,529 |
1,722,045 | Sea grasses stabilize sea beds and protect shorelines from erosion by absorbing energy from waves. Shrimp, spiny lobsters, and sea urchins live in and among the grasses and feed on phytoplankton; they in turn feed larger predators such as sharks, rays, barracuda, and king mackerel ("Scomberomorus cavalla"). Due to shal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17273354 | 1,721,075 |
71,597 | The congressional and media furor over the firing of Admiral Denfeld, as well as the significant use of aircraft carriers in the Korean War, resulted in the Truman administration subsequently ousting both Johnson and Matthews in their respective secretary roles, and in the design and procurement of the subsequent of su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=385077 | 71,570 |
207,013 | During a downside regime, a large number of investors who have held positions in riskier assets such as equities or real estate may seek refuge in 'safer' investments such as cash or bonds. This is also known as a flight-to-quality effect and investors tend to exit their positions in riskier assets in large numbers in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1793003 | 206,906 |
1,820,363 | James S. Forrester III (born July 13, 1937) is an American cardiologist. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he received his medical training at the University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, and Harvard University. During the 1970s through 1990s, his research led to three major advancements in the practice of cardiology. Later... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44523992 | 1,819,326 |
2,103,323 | The building is a two storied brick and concrete structure of 1000 sq.m.area, with vertical panels of dark face brick separated by lightweight panels containing fenestration and copper sun screens. It has a parapeted form with a simple monopitch roof. The plan comprises a simple rectangular office building with a small... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57714944 | 2,102,111 |
102,903 | Markovits proposes a different approach to meritocracy, one where socioeconomic life conveniences are freely distributed to the people who are sufficiently successful at the things they are doing rather than creating an environment of ongoing competition. He promotes the idea that striving for being the best and bright... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20971 | 102,858 |
261,319 | Cell metabolism is necessary for the production of energy for the cell and therefore its survival and includes many pathways. For cellular respiration, once glucose is available, glycolysis occurs within the cytosol of the cell to produce pyruvate. Pyruvate undergoes decarboxylation using the multi-enzyme complex to fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6339 | 261,182 |
685,513 | The school accepts A-levels, the International Baccalaureate Diploma, Irish Leaving Certificate, Scottish Highers, Cambridge Pre-U and the European Baccalaureate as entry qualifications. Both the medical and dental degrees are open to graduate students, with a minimum of a 2:1 required. Applicants must sit the UK Clini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=504928 | 685,156 |
1,406,896 | Sturtevant accomplished most of his work between 1910 and World War II. These years saw both World War I and the Great Depression. Prior to World War II, universities and research programs operated under private donations; the federal government was not very involved in the funding of scientific research. Much research... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1641423 | 1,406,106 |
1,838,833 | Planet Nine can deliver extreme trans-Neptunian objects into orbits roughly perpendicular to the plane of the Solar System. Several objects with high inclinations, greater than 50°, and large semi-major axes, above 250 AU, have been observed. Their high inclination orbits can be generated by a high order secular resona... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59389667 | 1,837,784 |
1,059,692 | Plasma-based ambient ionization is based on an electrical discharge in a flowing gas that produces metastable atoms and molecules and reactive ions. Heat is often used to assist in the desorption of volatile species from the sample. Ions are formed by chemical ionization in the gas phase. A direct analysis in real time... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=326386 | 1,059,141 |
2,222,203 | The difficult portion of their schedule began after claiming the conference title when the Tigers faced their toughest opponent to date, Yale. The Bulldogs followed a similar tactic to earlier opponents by pitting two defenders against Baker but with the increased talent possessed by the Elis their efforts were more ef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63123921 | 2,220,941 |
1,983,526 | In a November 26 scrum with reporters in Washington, DC, President Trump told reporters he had seen and read some of the report but he doesn't believe it. The White House dismissed the NCA4 as "inaccurate". White House spokesperson, Lindsay Walters said that the climate report was "largely based on the most extreme sce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59146390 | 1,982,387 |
966,471 | Active learning is "a method of learning in which students are actively or experientially involved in the learning process and where there are different levels of active learning, depending on student involvement." states that "students participate [in active learning] when they are doing something besides passively li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=445239 | 965,961 |
1,034,320 | There are many forms of lexical–gustatory synesthesia and the various taste sensations linked to the neurological condition vary widely from synesthete to synesthete. Examples of many well-known synesthetic taste experiences are recorded in case studies with singular participants that demonstrate the variability of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6541938 | 1,033,783 |
1,683,016 | The amino acids with the highest frequency in LCRs are glycine and alanine, with their respective codons GGC and GCC being the most frequent, as well as complementary. In eukaryotes and more specifically in chordates (such as human, mouse, chicken, zebrafish and sea squirt), alanine- and glycine-rich LCRs are over-repr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60027018 | 1,682,073 |
950,567 | In the 1920s, Otto Loewi determined the biomechanical mechanism for the effects of physostigmine on the body. Loewi was studying how actions that we now consider to be controlled by the parasympathetic nervous system, were directed by chemicals. During his studies, Loewi discovered acetylcholine and that physostigmine ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=743397 | 950,063 |
1,650,541 | Mild to moderate gastrointestinal side effects (such as nausea, cramping, bloating, and abdominal discomfort) are common after ESG (reported in over 70% of patients), but these are predictable, temporary, and can be managed with medications. Most will resolve within one week after ESG. Due to the minimally invasive nat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58563702 | 1,649,609 |
77,326 | As discussed below, there are several context-dependent ways of defining the expected value. The simplest and original definition deals with the case of finitely many possible outcomes, such as in the flip of a coin. With the theory of infinite series, this can be extended to the case of countably many possible outcome... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9653 | 77,297 |
807,150 | In his book "Science, Faith and Society" (1946), Polanyi set out his opposition to a positivist account of science, noting that it ignores the role personal commitments play in the practice of science. Polanyi gave the Gifford Lectures in 1951–52 at Aberdeen, and a revised version of his lectures were later published a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19711 | 806,720 |
607,445 | The "Budapest rook" was an invigorating innovation of the 1980s, and gave the gambit new life. However, inconveniences arise from delaying d7–d6 in order to allow the lift: the light-square bishop has to wait a long time to develop, and any attack on the Bc5 is potentially annoying for Black (since it means either clos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1630627 | 607,135 |
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