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66,087 | Much in the same line, it has been pointed out that the decisions based on the analysis of big data are inevitably "informed by the world as it was in the past, or, at best, as it currently is". Fed by a large number of data on past experiences, algorithms can predict future development if the future is similar to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27051151 | 66,062 |
757,957 | Maven addresses two aspects of building software: how software is built and its dependencies. Unlike earlier tools like Apache Ant, it uses conventions for the build procedure. Only exceptions need to be specified. An XML file describes the software project being built, its dependencies on other external modules and co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1333305 | 757,552 |
1,640,636 | The diagnosis is based on a clinical presentation, molecular analysis, electropherogram and radiograph. This disease is diagnosed within the first few years of life. Identification of the main characteristics is the key factor in diagnosis. Molecular analysis is used to examine the DNA of the affected person and their ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47868049 | 1,639,709 |
111,130 | The Sea Cobra was involved in multiple major operations during the latter half of the twentieth century, such as during the United States invasion of Grenada in 1983. During the Iran–Iraq War of the 1980s, Iranian Sea Cobras were intensely used, proving itself to be capable in both anti-armor and anti-aircraft warfare.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=574557 | 111,085 |
1,227,978 | After graduating from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Edgerton married Esther May Garrett in 1928. She was born in Aurora, Nebraska on September 8, 1903 and died on March 9, 2002 in Charleston, South Carolina. She received a bachelor's degree in mathematics, music and education from the University of Nebraska-Linco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14466 | 1,227,316 |
2,210,067 | Slevin moved to Carmel ca. 1903 where he and his wife and two children lived in their home on Carmelo Street between Sixth and Ocean Avenues. That same year, they bought a lot for $325 () on Ocean Avenue between Dolores and Lincoln Streets, where Slevin built a general merchandise store in March 1904. The wood-framed W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71239379 | 2,208,807 |
501,045 | Both enantiomers of fluoxetine bind to the extracellular vestibule on the LeuT protein is such a way that the three fluorine atoms of the methylphenoxy ring bind into the HBP that is formed by Leu25, Gly26, Leu29, Arg30 and Tyr108. The halogens additionally make Van der Waals interaction with Leu29 and Tyr108, where th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44152139 | 500,788 |
984,204 | The cline of admixture between the ANI and ASI lineages is dated to the period of c. 4.2–1.9 kya by Moorjani et al. (2013), corresponding to the Indian Bronze Age, and associated by the authors with the process of deurbanisation of the Indus Valley civilization and the population shift to the Gangetic system in the inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3133330 | 983,690 |
2,104,166 | The event was an outdoor target archery event using recurve bows. Held under the World Archery-approved rules, archers shot at a 122 cm-wide target from a distance of 70 metres, each arrow being awarded between one and ten points depending on how close it landed to the centre of the target. The competition consisted of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61097736 | 2,102,953 |
1,541,467 | The development began in 2009 and was inspired by the edition project "Keilschrifttexte aus Assur literarischen Inhalts" (KAL, cuneiform texts with literary content) of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In parallel it was applied within the Austrian Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum of the Austrian Academy of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58268072 | 1,540,594 |
30,555 | Heat had been the problem on prior spacewalks, which occurred in sunlight. Hubble needed to be repaired out of sunlight. Musgrave discovered during vacuum training, seven months before the mission, that spacesuit gloves did not sufficiently protect against the cold of space. After STS-57 confirmed the issue in orbit, N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40203 | 30,545 |
1,059,854 | "Wittelsbach", "Wettin", "Mecklenburg", and "Zähringen" served in I Squadron for the duration of their peacetime careers, where they were primarily occupied with training exercises and cruises abroad. "Schwaben" was used as a training ship to modernize the training unit of the German fleet. By 1910, with the arrival of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10865837 | 1,059,303 |
182,613 | In 2008, the U.S. government sponsored another study, "Early Implementation of Public Single-Sex Schools: Perceptions and Characteristics", which listed the benefits of single-sex schools: (1) Decreases distractions in learning, (2) Reduces student behavior problems, (3) Provides more leadership opportunities, (4) Prom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1515358 | 182,517 |
1,527,324 | The pollutant species "black carbon" appears gray or black due to the absorption of electromagnetic energy by partially mobile electrons in the graphitic microstructure of the black carbon particles. This absorption is purely ‘resistive’ and displays no resonant bands: consequently, the material appears gray rather tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40215556 | 1,526,460 |
1,760,710 | Developing computational tools for identification of cell populations has been an area of active research only since 2008. Many individual clustering approaches have recently been developed, including model-based algorithms (e.g., flowClust and FLAME), density based algorithms (e.g. FLOCK and SWIFT, graph-based approac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41282920 | 1,759,717 |
870,445 | In 1989, RISC OS was provided with the Paint application on one of the accompanying application discs. It featured a multi-document, desktop-based interface with a range of elementary painting and drawing tools, also allowing images to be created in arbitrary sizes for any of the display modes, even permitting editing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 869,985 |
1,198,348 | During her years at the Children's Hospital of Michigan, Dr. Canady also continued research with Wayne State University. She served as a Professor of Neurosurgery there as well. Her work and accomplishments have opened the door for many surgeons of all races and genders. From 2001 to her retirement in 2012, Dr. Canady ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30961849 | 1,197,707 |
1,258,207 | Aside from their use in medicine, man-made fluorinated compounds have also played a role in several noteworthy environmental concerns. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), once major components of numerous commercial aerosol products, have proven damaging to Earth's ozone layer and resulted in the wide-reaching Montreal Protoco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39367145 | 1,257,520 |
2,124,702 | Prior to joining RPI in 2003, he was then a professor for 21 years at the University of Iowa. During his career in Iowa, he spent eight years as the F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and ten years as a member of the executive committee of the Center for Biocatalysis & Bioprocessing. Since 2008 Linh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34616091 | 2,123,481 |
129,157 | Hybrid power trains use diesel-electric or turbo-electric to power railway locomotives, buses, heavy goods vehicles, mobile hydraulic machinery, and ships. A diesel/turbine engine drives an electric generator or hydraulic pump, which powers electric/hydraulic motors—strictly an electric/hydraulic transmission (not a hy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157736 | 129,105 |
712,924 | Each of these points alone can give rise to false results. Due to the combined effects of all error sources yeast two-hybrid have to be interpreted with caution. The probability of generating false positives means that all interactions should be confirmed by a high confidence assay, for example co-immunoprecipitation o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2015367 | 712,552 |
1,241,608 | Although the genus was considered to be a tomistomine gavialoid or even a direct descendant of "Eogavialis" by early research due to its elongated skull, later research has repeatedly shown this to be merely be the result of convergent evolution, instead placing it much deeper within the Crocodylidae. For instance, "Eu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22539149 | 1,240,936 |
1,026,981 | According to Gangal et al. (2014), there is strong archeological and geographical evidence that neolithic farming spread from the Near East into north-west India. Yet, Jean-Francois Jarrige argues for an independent origin of Mehrgarh. Jarrige notes the similarities between Neolithic sites from eastern Mesopotamia and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21007548 | 1,026,447 |
1,794,171 | The conclusions of his 1971 paper on Central Banks and Economic and Social Welfare programs foreshadowed what is probably his most influential and best known work: "Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression?" (1976). This work hypothesized that it was not primarily the actions of the Federal Reserve in response to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1475520 | 1,793,162 |
350,744 | There is some supporting evidence from randomized clinical trials (RCTs). A meta-analysis on the effects of alpha-tocopherol supplementation in RCTs on aspects of cardiovascular health reported that when consumed without any other antioxidant nutrient, the relative risk of heart attack was reduced by 18%. The results w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54104 | 350,561 |
785,387 | Towards the end of the twentieth century, the so-called Dinosaur Renaissance took place in which a vast increase in scientific attention was given to the Dinosauria. In 2007, "Jiangjunosaurus" was reported, the first Chinese dinosaur named since 1994. Nevertheless, European and North-American sites have become producti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4375088 | 784,966 |
827,503 | A further key concept in the field of swarm intelligence is stigmergy. Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination between agents or actions. The principle is that the trace left in the environment by an action stimulates the performance of a next action, by the same or a different agent. In that way, subsequent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=207874 | 827,059 |
742,543 | Experiments were done in 2000–2004 at Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Dubna studying the fission properties of the compound nucleus Fl by bombarding Pu with accelerated Ca ions. A compound nucleus is a loose combination of nucleons that have not yet arranged themselves into nuclear shells. It has no internal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77473 | 742,150 |
73,697 | The error would not have rendered his work worthless – each part of Wiles's work was highly significant and innovative by itself, as were the many developments and techniques he had created in the course of his work, and only one part was affected. However without this part proved, there was no actual proof of Fermat's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19021953 | 73,670 |
1,734,809 | Neil Bartlett was born on 15 September 1932 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Bartlett's interest in chemistry dated back to an experiment at Heaton Grammar School when he was only eleven years old, in which he prepared "beautiful, well-formed" crystals by reaction of aqueous ammonia with copper sulfate. He explored che... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=433101 | 1,733,832 |
1,409,987 | In 1914, the Beckman family moved to Normal, located just north of Bloomington, Illinois, so that the young Beckmans could attend University High School in Normal, a "laboratory school" associated with Illinois State University. In 1915 they moved to Bloomington itself, but continued to attend University High, where Ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315197 | 1,409,195 |
1,311,830 | The McKinley National Memorial dedication on September 30, 1907 was one of the most memorable events in Canton's history. President Theodore Roosevelt joined other dignitaries to observe a grand parade from the review stand at Public Square in downtown Canton. In the dedication ceremony, Supreme Court Justice William R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=906961 | 1,311,111 |
361,965 | Thorium has been used as a power source on a prototype scale. The earliest thorium-based reactor was built at the Indian Point Energy Center located in Buchanan, New York, United States in 1962. China may be the first to have a shot at commercializing the technology. The country with the largest estimated reserves of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30044 | 361,775 |
787,157 | Richard T. Whitcomb, after whom the rule is named, independently discovered this rule in 1952, while working at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). While using the new Eight-Foot High-Speed Tunnel, a wind tunnel with performance up to Mach 0.95 at NACA's Langley Research Center, he was surprised by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34036 | 786,734 |
181,117 | The supersonic airliner Concorde had to deal with particularly high pressure differentials because it flew at unusually high altitude (up to ) and maintained a cabin altitude of . Despite this, its cabin altitude was intentionally maintained at . This combination, while providing for increasing comfort, necessitated ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1488888 | 181,023 |
1,940,019 | In 2017, Rajasethupathy was appointed the Jonathan M. Nelson Family Assistant Professor and head of the Laboratory of Neural Dynamics & Cognition at the Rockefeller University. Her lab continues research into how memories form, stabilize, and re-organize over time by observing and manipulating neural circuitry while mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59507257 | 1,938,909 |
866,467 | Around 1508, Albrecht Dürer described the function of portraiture as "preserving a person's appearance after his death". Portraits were objects of status, and served to ensure that the individual's personal success was recorded and would endure beyond his lifetime. Most portraits tended to show royalty, the upper nobil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=799881 | 866,007 |
391,853 | Better color separation can be reached by three-CCD devices (3CCD) and a dichroic beam splitter prism, that splits the image into red, green and blue components. Each of the three CCDs is arranged to respond to a particular color. Many professional video camcorders, and some semi-professional camcorders, use this techn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6804 | 391,658 |
71,854 | The Gold Rush stimulated economies around the world as well. Farmers in Chile, Australia, and Hawaii found a huge new market for their food; British manufactured goods were in high demand; clothing and even prefabricated houses arrived from China. The return of large amounts of California gold to pay for these goods ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58296 | 71,827 |
1,345,732 | Many open textbooks are licensed to allow modification. This means that instructors can add, remove or alter the content to better fit a course's needs. Furthermore, the cost of textbooks can in some cases contribute to the quality of instruction when students are not able to purchase required materials. A Florida gove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17327644 | 1,344,991 |
763,091 | The legions after the Marian Reforms were able to form into a close-defensive formation to resist a barrage of arrow fire or an enemy charge. This formation was called the testudo. The Roman Legionary Cohorts continued to use the testudo throughout the remainder of their history until the collapse of the Western Roman ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30855309 | 762,682 |
928,253 | In July 2019, China National Nuclear Corporation announced it would start building a demonstration ACP100 small modular reactor (SMR) on the north-west side of the existing Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant by the end of the year. Design of the ACP100 started in 2010 and it was the first SMR project to pass an independent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12899377 | 927,765 |
2,078,289 | The Broadgate Phase 11 - Exchange House in London was one of Iyengar's most innovative structural engineering works. The building is directly over the top of Liverpool Street Station, a high traffic railroad station. But the rail station could not be touched so no supporting column could touch the ground. To solve this... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36320532 | 2,077,090 |
904,092 | The Dassault nEUROn is an experimental unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) being developed with international cooperation, led by the French company Dassault Aviation. Countries involved in this project include France, Greece, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. The design goal is to create a stealthy, autonomous U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=944461 | 903,616 |
37,402 | Netbooks, also called mini notebooks or subnotebooks, were a subgroup of laptops suited for general computing tasks and accessing web-based applications. Initially, the primary defining characteristic of netbooks was the lack of an optical disc drive, smaller size, and lower performance than full-size laptops. By mid-2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18457137 | 37,389 |
947,706 | Correct use of language can also be key to identifying or reducing the risks of human error, which are often the root cause of many failures. This can include proper instructions in maintenance manuals, operation manuals, emergency procedures, and others to prevent systematic human errors that may result in system fail... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1724836 | 947,203 |
1,881,785 | NREC applies robotics technologies to build functional prototype systems from concept to commercialization. A typical NREC project includes a rapid proof-of-concept demonstration followed by an in-depth development and testing phase that produces a robust prototype with intellectual property for licensing and commercia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36966467 | 1,880,704 |
742,482 | Richard Dawkins dedicates a chapter in "The Blind Watchmaker" to correcting, in his view, the wide confusion regarding "rates of change". His first point is to argue that phyletic gradualism—understood in the sense that evolution proceeds at a single uniform speed, called "constant speedism" by Dawkins—is a "caricature... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24980 | 742,089 |
1,286,197 | The "Drosophila" embryonic protein SNAI1, commonly known as Snail, is a zinc finger transcriptional repressor which downregulates the expression of ectodermal genes within the mesoderm. The nuclear protein encoded by this gene is structurally similar to the "Drosophila" Snail protein, and is also thought to be critical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14754943 | 1,285,496 |
2,119,316 | Chickens normally have an anisodactyl toe arrangement, with one short toe pointing backwards and three long toes pointing forwards. In diplopodia, the feet usually lack the normal hind toe and instead develop two to four extra toes at various positions between the hock joint and the front toes. The toes are almost alwa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20359770 | 2,118,097 |
1,811,284 | Bisphosphonates were originally synthesized in the 19th century and used in industry for their antiscaling and anticorrosive properties. In the late 1960s their potential to treat diseases related to the metabolism of the bones became evident. The first generation of bisphosphonates included etidronic acid and clodroni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61997982 | 1,810,251 |
1,750,407 | A number of peer-reviewed scientific literature exists on the ecophysiology of this algal genus. Natural and cultivated sexually reproducing environmental samples, as well as sexually reproducing and serendipitously discovered asexually reproducing ecotypes of monostromatic green alga from Tosa Bay, Japan are conspecif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13132068 | 1,749,421 |
499,029 | However, Judge Kenny split the aforementioned case into two parts, and the second part was continued to Feb. 11, 2016. The issues to be decided concerned other Proposition 1A legal requirements: (1) Can the train travel from Los Angeles (Union Station) to San Francisco (Transbay Terminal) in two hours and 40 minutes? (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47675007 | 498,772 |
274,360 | Garivier and Moulines derive some of the first results with respect to bandit problems where the underlying model can change during play. A number of algorithms were presented to deal with this case, including Discounted UCB and Sliding-Window UCB. A similar approach based on Thompson Sampling algorithm is the f-Discou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2854828 | 274,212 |
517,070 | Historically, the vast majority of freight trains on Britain's railways have used diesel propulsion since the 1960s. During the late 2010s, as part of wider efforts to pursue carbon neutral operations, the Department for Transport (DfT) stated its long term goal of eliminating diesel-only traction from Britain's railwa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59409853 | 516,801 |
493,565 | About 50% of people of Northeast Asian descent have a dominant mutation in their acetaldehyde dehydrogenase gene, making this enzyme less effective, which causes the alcohol flush reaction, also known as Asian flush syndrome. A similar mutation is found in about 5–10% of blond-haired blue-eyed people of Northern Europe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=449708 | 493,310 |
542,993 | "Inflexible" was the first Royal Navy ship to be completely lit by electricity, and the first to have underwater torpedo tubes. The electrical installation provided 800 volts DC to power arc lamps in the engine and boiler rooms and Swan incandescent bulbs in other parts of the ship. The circuitry was complicated becaus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5817501 | 542,713 |
568,741 | The game was announced at the Chiyo-ST Live 2017 Genesis event in Tokyo in May 2017, and was showcased at Sega's booth at Tokyo Game Show 2017, with a seven-minute demo available for the public to play. The full game, which is branded as a "Full Animation Adventure", was released on September 20, 2018, in Japan for Pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54164625 | 568,451 |
1,547,052 | Henry's drawing machines of the 1960s represent a remarkable innovation in the field of art and technology for a variety of reasons. Firstly, the bombsight analogue computer provided not only the inspiration but also the main tool for producing highly original visual effects (O'Hanrahan 2005). Secondly, his machines' r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11814754 | 1,546,175 |
1,611,945 | Technical Air Intelligence operations were fully developed by the time of the invasion of the Philippines. Considerable instruction was given to the troops on the equipment likely to be found and the importance of its preservation. The TAIU-SWPA moved from Australia to the Philippines in early 1945 and gained an apprec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21716716 | 1,611,040 |
195,876 | The Kaiser died on 15 June 1888. The next day a post-mortem examination was performed by Virchow and his assistant. They found that the larynx was extensively damaged by ulceration, and microscopic examination confirmed epidermal carcinoma. "Die Krankheit Kaiser Friedrich des Dritten (The Medical Report of Kaiser Frede... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=140752 | 195,776 |
1,689,550 | With the second configuration enclosed in a lead box, the results showed that some cosmic rays interact in lead to produce multiple secondary particles. In an extension of the second experiment, he measured the rate of triple coincidences as a function of the amount of the lead above the counters. A plot of this rate a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=520727 | 1,688,604 |
2,236,560 | The species is a climbing and ground-sprawling, deciduous vine or liana. The stem can reach 15–25 m high and presents an 8-shaped cross section, typical of the genus. Leaves are 4–8 cm long, sparsely pubescent on both surfaces and variable in shape. Young shoots are attenuated, densely covered with golden hairs. The in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50655749 | 2,235,289 |
1,159,749 | Tao was born in Urbana, Illinois to Sam Tao, an engineer, and Mingfang Ting, a research scientist. Both parents were born in China and earned doctorates from Princeton University. Hearing his older sister Connie's piano lessons, Tao began to play children's songs on the piano, by ear, at the age of 18 months. He gave h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33615494 | 1,159,134 |
352,509 | MARDI is fixed to the lower front left corner of the body of "Curiosity". During the descent to the Martian surface, MARDI took color images at 1600×1200 pixels with a 1.3-millisecond exposure time starting at distances of about to near from the ground, at a rate of four frames per second for about two minutes. MARDI h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36645032 | 352,326 |
881,515 | In the Middle Hills and Himalaya of Nepal, people living above about 2,000 m practise transhumance and nomadic pastoralism because settled agriculture becomes less productive due to steep slopes, cooler temperatures and limited irrigation possibilities. Distances between summer and winter pasture may be short, for exam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3819214 | 881,051 |
242,385 | In the U.S., thousands of civilian UAV operators work for contractors, piloting and maintaining UAVs. Up to four UAVs and about 400 to 500 pilot and ground support personnel are required for a single 24-hour-coverage combat air patrol (CAP). A 2011 study by the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine indicated that near... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45755485 | 242,258 |
478,772 | In 1937, Hebb married his second wife, Elizabeth Nichols Donovan. That same year, on a tip from his sister Catherine (herself a PhD student with Babkin at McGill University), he applied to work with Wilder Penfield at the Montreal Neurological Institute. Here he researched the effect of brain surgery and injury on huma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=323121 | 478,532 |
673,734 | Cardiac output increases throughout early pregnancy, and peaks in the third trimester, usually to 30-50% above baseline. Estrogen mediates this rise in cardiac output by increasing the pre-load and stroke volume, mainly via a higher overall blood volume (which increases by 40–50%). The heart rate increases, but general... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27289540 | 673,382 |
95,709 | Research into deployments of multi-factor authentication schemes has shown that one of the elements that tend to impact the adoption of such systems is the line of business of the organization that deploys the multi-factor authentication system. Examples cited include the U.S. government, which employs an elaborate sys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22772421 | 95,668 |
551,947 | DirectX included DirectInput from version 1.0 (1995). It initially offered true support only for joysticks, as the mouse and keyboard modules simply provided wrappers to the standard Win32 API. DirectX version 3.0 (1996) added support for keyboards and mice; it also improved joystick support. DirectX 5.0 (1997) include... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=700211 | 551,659 |
1,440,471 | In industrialized nations, thiamine deficiency is a clinically significant problem in individuals with chronic alcoholism or other disorders that interfere with normal ingestion of food. Thiamine deficiency within developed nations tends to manifest as Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome. Chronic alcoholism can disrupt thiamin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27024757 | 1,439,661 |
235,620 | The idea of incorporating an integrated circuit chip onto a plastic card was first introduced by two German engineers in the late 1960s, Helmut Gröttrup and Jürgen Dethloff. In February 1967, Gröttrup filed the patent DE1574074 in West Germany for a tamper-proof identification switch based on a semiconductor device. It... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59957 | 235,501 |
1,253,959 | Various aspects of pterosaur biology invited controversy from the beginning. Samuel Thomas von Soemmering ignited a multi-century debate over how pterosaurs walked on the ground by suggesting they crawled on all fours like bats. August Quenstedt, by contrast, argued that they walked on their hind limbs. In the early 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49289810 | 1,253,279 |
1,194,655 | Since 2008, electrical and computer engineering students from Michigan State University have installed multiterminal systems with internet access in three schools in Mto wa Mbu, Tanzania. The purpose of the project is to study the impact of having computer systems with internet access in an education system that cannot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4941539 | 1,194,015 |
972,663 | These systems claim symmetric and full duplex communication in excess of 1 Gbit/s in each direction. Multiple Wi-Fi channels with simultaneous analog television in the 2.4 and 5.0 GHz unlicensed bands have been demonstrated operating over a single medium voltage line conductor. Because the underlying propagation mode i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=238420 | 972,153 |
1,357,045 | Although it resembles a pachinko machine in its aesthetic use of gravity-fed metal balls, it is primarily a teaching device in the fundamentals of logic-computer programming, and as such is an example of gamification. The framing device in the included comic book features an astronaut who must solve sixty increasingly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62552105 | 1,356,295 |
534,311 | In some countries, like the United States, chiropractors earn a professional doctorate where training is entered after obtaining between 90 and 120 credit hours of university level work (see second entry degree) and in most cases after obtaining a bachelor's degree. The World Health Organization lists three potential e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7544201 | 534,032 |
2,113,894 | Training of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows is an integral part of the mission of the ZMNH. A "Graduate Program in Molecular Biology" was established at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in 1986 to promote in a multi-disciplinary approach the ability for scientific thinking and working. This Gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44751487 | 2,112,679 |
1,087,043 | One of the most popular of the many versions of Tiny BASIC was Palo Alto Tiny BASIC, or PATB for short, by Li-Chen Wang. PATB first appeared in the May 1976 edition of "Dr. Dobbs", written in a custom assembler language with non-standard mnemonics. This led to further ports that worked with conventional assemblers on t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=86894 | 1,086,485 |
1,948,879 | A number of methods have been reported to produce carbon nanoscrolls, including arc discharge, high-energy ball milling, and intercalation, among others. Wedge based mechanical exfoliation is also reported to form carbon nanoscrolls experimentally. However, the real world applications of nanoscroll products are limited... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42714015 | 1,947,761 |
363,144 | Human languages use many different sounds and in order to compare them linguists must be able to describe sounds in a way that is language independent. Speech sounds can be described in a number of ways. Most commonly speech sounds are referred to by the mouth movements needed to produce them. Consonants and vowels are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23194 | 362,954 |
806,525 | Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a potential treatment, providing oxygenation through an apparatus that imitates the gas exchange process of the lungs. However, newborns cannot be placed on ECMO if they are under 4.5 pounds (2 kg), because they have extremely small vessels for cannulation, thus hindering a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=789862 | 806,096 |
278,611 | "Resistance" (R) proteins, encoded by R genes, are widely present in plants and detect pathogens. These proteins contain domains similar to the NOD Like Receptors and TLRs. Systemic acquired resistance (SAR) is a type of defensive response that renders the entire plant resistant to a broad spectrum of infectious agents... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3113497 | 278,461 |
1,830,365 | The CSI is a graph-based technique that essentially employs an amino acid-specific digital filter to convert every assigned backbone chemical shift value into a simple three-state (-1, 0, +1) index. This approach generates a more easily understood and much more visually pleasing graph of protein chemical shift values. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41985381 | 1,829,319 |
1,398,850 | Weyl applied his theory to Carl Friedrich Gauss's hypergeometric differential equation, thus obtaining a far-reaching generalisation of the transform formula of Gustav Ferdinand Mehler (1881) for the Legendre differential equation, rediscovered by the Russian physicist Vladimir Fock in 1943, and usually called the Mehl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16990545 | 1,398,075 |
1,290,500 | Levan has shown uses for burned tissue, anti-inflammation, and aquaculture. By combining levan into a thin film, it is able to activate an enzyme known as metalloproteinase which increases the recovery and healing process. In the case of inflammation, levan interacts with the aggregating cells and affects their adhesio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18913871 | 1,289,790 |
910,141 | The "Picea/Abies" forests of the Alberta foothills are often characterized by deep accumulations of organic matter on the soil surface and cold soil temperatures, both of which make reforestation difficult and result in a general deterioration in site productivity; Endean and Johnstone (1974) describe experiments to te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1031149 | 909,662 |
1,764,471 | The men's road race, a part of the cycling events at the 2008 Summer Olympics, took place on August 9 at the Urban Road Cycling Course in Beijing. It started at 11:00 China Standard Time (UTC+8), and was scheduled to last until 17:30 later that day. The course ran north across the heart of the Beijing metropolitan area... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18664179 | 1,763,478 |
1,221,759 | In the Unicode standard, iota subscript is represented by a non-spacing combining diacritic character U+0345 "Combining Greek Ypogegrammeni". There is also a spacing clone of this character (U+037A, ), as well as 36 precomposed characters, representing each of the usual combinations of iota subscript with lowercase , a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1447834 | 1,221,101 |
510,317 | Control of Biak nearly became a critical turning point battle in the campaign for the Pacific. The Japanese had been seeking to engage the Americans in a decisive battle, the Kantai Kessen, that would enable them to win the war. Biak was not far from major Japanese fleet units and there were a number of land airfields ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7163666 | 510,052 |
1,594,205 | ESCMID drives scientific knowledge forward by bringing together professionals in the fields of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases and by supporting the generation and distribution of scientific information through conferences, research projects, medical guidelines, postgraduate courses, workshops, summer sch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52940649 | 1,593,308 |
388,378 | The NDA campus is located about 17 km south-west of Pune city, north-west of Khadakwasla Lake with the Sinhagad Fort providing a panoramic backdrop. It spans of the donated by the Government of former Bombay State. While many states had offered land for a permanent place for the Academy, Bombay got the honour, donating... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2591094 | 388,183 |
3,838 | Many hostnames used for the World Wide Web begin with "www" because of the long-standing practice of naming Internet hosts according to the services they provide. The hostname of a web server is often "www", in the same way that it may be "ftp" for an FTP server, and "news" or "nntp" for a Usenet news server. These hos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33139 | 3,838 |
1,387,354 | The breakthrough for large molecule laser desorption ionization came in 1987 when Koichi Tanaka of Shimadzu Corp. and his co-workers used what they called the “ultra fine metal plus liquid matrix method” that combined 30 nm cobalt particles in glycerol with a 337 nm nitrogen laser for ionization. Using this laser and m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4906534 | 1,386,587 |
1,380,820 | The PPVT-IV provides an estimate of the client's verbal intelligence and has been administered to groups who had reading or speech problems, had intellectual disability, or were emotionally withdrawn. Studies of earlier versions of the test suggested that it tended to underestimate full-scale IQ scores for both intelle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2830736 | 1,380,057 |
622,065 | Kerberos was discovered by researchers of the Pluto Companion Search Team using the Hubble Space Telescope on 28 June 2011, using the Wide Field Camera 3, during an attempt to find any rings that Pluto might possess. The search for rings was motivated in part by a desire to avoid damage to "New Horizons" when it passed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32475056 | 621,733 |
1,446,098 | Trapped electrons only have a limited time frame when they are within the intermediate energy level stages. After a certain time range, or temperature fluctuations, trapped electrons will return to their energy states and recombine with holes. The recombination of electrons with their holes is only negligible if the av... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48223675 | 1,445,282 |
729,816 | In a memoir read in September 1822, Fresnel announced that he had verified Brewster's diagnosis more directly, by compressing a combination of glass prisms so severely that one could actually see a double image through it. In his experiment, Fresnel lined up seven 45°-90°-45° prisms, short side to short side, with thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1141 | 729,432 |
2,102,149 | The 2017–18 Arkansas–Pine Bluff Golden Lions men's basketball team represented the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Golden Lions, led by 10th-year head coach George Ivory, played their home games at the K. L. Johnson Complex as members of the Southwest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55758156 | 2,100,937 |
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