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1,172,392 | A number of studies have attempted to assess the medical risks for long-term space station habitation, but the results are inconclusive, as epidemiological data is lacking. It is, however, understood that longer periods in space increase the risk of serious problems. The closest estimates show an illness/injury rate of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7051471 | 1,171,773 |
116,371 | By the end of August 1819, unaware of the Buffon-Condorcet-Brewster proposal, Fresnel made his first presentation to the commission, recommending what he called ('lenses by steps') to replace the reflectors then in use, which reflected only about half of the incident light. Much to Fresnel's embarrassment, one of the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63978 | 116,326 |
1,332,062 | The structural configuration of pseudoknots does not lend itself well to bio-computational detection due to its context-sensitivity or "overlapping" nature. The base pairing in pseudoknots is not well nested; that is, base pairs occur that "overlap" one another in sequence position. This makes the presence of pseudokno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2163614 | 1,331,333 |
116,167 | In many cases, game engines provide a suite of visual development tools in addition to reusable software components. These tools are generally provided in an integrated development environment to enable simplified, rapid development of games in a data-driven manner. Game-engine developers often attempt to preempt imple... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=170581 | 116,122 |
1,093,085 | With the availability of affordable steel, flitch beams became a way to strengthen long-span wooden beams cost-effectively while taking up less space than solid wood. An 1883 article from "The American Architect and Building News" compares three alternatives in a hypothetical railway station "in which the second story... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4668173 | 1,092,525 |
1,381,272 | The 310 amino acid annexin core has four annexin repeats, each composed of 5 alpha-helices. The exception is annexin A-VI that has two annexin core domains connected by a flexible linker. A-VI was produced via duplication and fusion of the genes for A-V and A-X and therefore will not be discussed in length. The four an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2206555 | 1,380,509 |
1,599,947 | After the Dartmouth General Hospital opened in 1976, the old Dartmouth Emergency Hospital was shut down. The new hospital's emergency department began operations on July 7, 1976. The hospital was formally opened on January 14, 1977 by Nova Scotia premier Gerald Regan and Bagnell, who unveiled a memorial plaque in the b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7084279 | 1,599,046 |
2,153,596 | "While the electrical grid in the United States is very reliable, it is currently somewhat limited in its ability to incorporate new renewable energy sources; to effectively manage demand response; to sense and monitor trouble spots; and to repair itself." This reliability will not last if the grid systems stay the sam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37237664 | 2,152,365 |
1,941,374 | The release of IL15 is a major factor in coeliac disease as IL15 has been found to attract intraepithelial lymphocytes (IEL) that characterize Marsh grade 1 and 2 coeliac disease. Lymphocytes attracted by IL-15 are composed of markers enriched on natural killer cells versus normal helper T-cells. One hypothesis is that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18016634 | 1,940,263 |
1,126,124 | TSST-1 binds primarily to the alpha-chain of class II MHC exclusively through a low-affinity (or generic) binding site on the SAG N-terminal domain. This is opposed to other super antigens (SAGs) such as DEA and SEE, that bind to class II MHC through the low-affinity site, and to the beta-chain through a high-affinity ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14168475 | 1,125,547 |
1,962,459 | An anonymous article in the Eighth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1853) played a large part in Sargon's recognition since it argued for the king's independent existence. The Irish Assyriologist Edward Hincks was one of the first to attempt to synchronize the Assyrian and Babylonian kings based on both biblical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70245846 | 1,961,331 |
110,651 | One common misconception is that individual atoms, ions or molecules move randomly, which they do not. In the animation on the right, the ion in the left panel appears to have "random" motion in the absence of other ions. As the right panel shows, however, this motion is not random but is the result of "collisions" wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19908550 | 110,606 |
1,059,874 | Further operations took place in September and October, which included IV Squadron covering the laying of defensive minefields in the western Baltic. By this time, manpower shortages began to affect the German fleet; combined with the increased threat of British submarines operating in the Baltic, the inability to man ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10865837 | 1,059,323 |
659,056 | A valuable tool that is becoming very common in the training of forensic entomologists is the use of mock crime scenes using pig carcasses. The pig carcass represents a human body and can be used to illustrate various environmental effects on both arthropod succession and the estimate of the post mortem interval. Pigs ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61289 | 658,711 |
1,686,896 | A study at the University of Bonn explained how i-motifs can be utilized as molecular switches. The study synthesized a ring of DNA with certain regions of C-rich DNA. At a pH of 5, these regions contracted to form i-motifs, tightening the ring in a fashion similar to closing a trash bag. At a pH of 8 the i-motif regio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57285481 | 1,685,950 |
763,539 | Dna2 endonuclease becomes active when a terminal RNA segment attaches at the 5’ end, because it translocates in the 5’ to 3’ direction. In the presence of a single stranded DNA-binding protein RPA, the DNA 5' flaps become too long, and the nicks no longer fit as substrate for FEN1. This prevents the FEN1 from removing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=506315 | 763,130 |
154,840 | The first proper clinical trial was conducted by the Scottish physician James Lind. The disease scurvy, now known to be caused by a Vitamin C deficiency, would often have terrible effects on the welfare of the crew of long-distance ocean voyages. In 1740, the catastrophic result of Anson's circumnavigation attracted mu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241717 | 154,770 |
797,708 | Carl Orff was a prominent German composer. Orff Schulwerk is considered an "approach" to music education. It begins with a student's innate abilities to engage in rudimentary forms of music, using basic rhythms and melodies. Orff considers the whole body a percussive instrument and students are led to develop their mus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2025792 | 797,283 |
166,970 | In the 15th century, especially during the reign of King Hans, Danish trade expanded appreciably, increasing the need for the delivery of merchandise. As shipping was the ideal means of transport at the time, Danish maritime interests had to be further protected. King Hans is credited with establishing a joint Dano-Nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=201834 | 166,883 |
1,411,923 | During the mid-1960s, Britain had been contributing 40 per cent of the programme's costs. In early June 1966, the British government (Fred Mulley) decided it could not afford the cost of Europa and sought to leave the ELDO organisation - one of the few European organisations by which point it had become a lead player. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82373 | 1,411,128 |
1,568,939 | The possible observation of CNS effects in astronauts who were participating in past NASA missions is highly unlikely for several reasons. First, the lengths of past missions are relatively short and the population sizes of astronauts are small. Second, when astronauts are traveling in LEO, they are partially protected... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39761773 | 1,568,052 |
1,379,539 | The Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale is only applicable for adults with diagnosed or undiagnosed ADHD. A positive screening is not a proper diagnosis, but an indication that the adult should seek a healthcare professional for further analysis. Although the 6 question ASRS screener can be effective in diagnosing ADHD in adu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31418952 | 1,378,777 |
1,995,315 | Xia served as an Associate Editor of "Nano Letters" for 17 years (2002-2019) and is currently serving on its advisory board. He has served or is serving on the Advisory Boards of "Advanced Healthcare Materials" (2011-, Chairman of the International advisory board), "Nano Letters" (2020-), "Chemical Reviews" (2019-), "B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32615072 | 1,994,172 |
949,981 | Combinatorial optimization problems can be viewed as searching for the best element of some set of discrete items; therefore, in principle, any sort of search algorithm or metaheuristic can be used to solve them. Perhaps the most universally applicable approaches are branch-and-bound (an exact algorithm which can be st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=420555 | 949,477 |
1,922,430 | In addition to Clarke & Kitching (1995), three more theories have been investigated so far to explain the symbiotic relationship between ant and plant. In an exclusion experiment it was shown that plants without "C. schmitzi" receive greater herbivory damage, and the ants seem to specifically attack a certain weevil ("... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12011768 | 1,921,327 |
1,589,091 | In short, sprint velocity is reliant on three main factors: step frequency (how many steps you can take per second), average vertical force applied to the ground, and contact length (distance your center of mass translates over the course of one contact period). The formula was tested by having subjects run on a force ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33989922 | 1,588,197 |
730,408 | In Hungary, Albert Fonó in 1915 devised a solution for increasing the range of artillery, comprising a gun-launched projectile which was to be united with a ramjet propulsion unit. This was to make it possible to obtain a long range with low initial muzzle velocities, allowing heavy shells to be fired from relatively l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27888245 | 730,023 |
925,036 | Valparaiso University Students are from geographically diverse backgrounds. Of the nearly 3,000 students, only one-third is from the school's home state of Indiana. The remainder come from almost every other state of the United States and from nearly 50 countries. Over half graduate in the top quarter of their high sch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1001108 | 924,550 |
738,169 | On 9 October, ISIL forces were in control of more than a third of the city, including all of the eastern areas, a small part of the northeast, and an area in the southeast. ISIL also captured the Kurdish police headquarters, which they had targeted the previous night with a large suicide truck-bomb. The clashes in that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43904407 | 737,778 |
1,679,101 | Following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, according to Black & Veatch’s annual utility survey that took place after the disaster, of the 700 executives from the US electric utility industry that were surveyed, nuclear safety was the top concern. There are likely to be increased requirements for on-site spent fu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10638591 | 1,678,158 |
1,678,644 | Although LLOV was isolated in tissue culture, yet its genome has been determined in its entirety with exception of the 3' and 5' UTRs. Like all mononegaviruses, LLOV virions contain a non-infectious, linear nonsegmented, single-stranded RNA genome of negative polarity that most likely possesses inverse-complementary 3'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33017626 | 1,677,701 |
357,245 | Regarding the Middle Pleistocene European remains, some are more firmly placed on the Neanderthal line (namely SH, Pontnewyyd, Steinheim, and Swanscombe), whereas others seem to have few uniquely Neanderthal features (Arago, Ceprano, Vértesszőlős, Bilzingsleben, Mala Balanica and Aroeira). Because of this, it is sugges... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=442638 | 357,059 |
1,822,649 | TES identified a large (30,000 square-kilometer) area that contained the mineral olivine. Olivine was found in the Nili Fossae formation. It is thought that the ancient impact that created the Isidis basin resulted in faults that exposed the olivine. Olivine is present in many mafic volcanic rocks. In the presence of w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2786441 | 1,821,611 |
932,091 | The facial pits enabling thermoregulation underwent parallel evolution in pitvipers and some boas and pythons, having evolved once in pitvipers and multiple times in boas and pythons. The electrophysiology of the structure is similar between lineages, but it differs in gross structure anatomy. Most superficially, pitvi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=464447 | 931,599 |
970,504 | The European (CMAS) and the rest of the World (WAA) events following the split were held over exactly the same period in 2008 a continent apart. This dichotomy of championships coupled with the real possibility of future sanctions by CMAS on their member countries' organisations and athletes led to many countries being... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=488005 | 969,994 |
1,234,420 | In 1768 he built the famous anatomy theatre and museum in Great Windmill Street, Soho, where the best British anatomists and surgeons of the period were trained. His greatest work was "Anatomia uteri umani gravidi" [The anatomy of the human gravid uterus exhibited in figures] (1774), with plates engraved by Rymsdyk (17... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234337 | 1,233,757 |
155,975 | The main advantage of a class-D amplifier is power efficiency. Efficiency over 90% is achievable with MOSFETs and >80% is fairly common. Because the output pulses have a fixed amplitude, the switching elements (usually transistors such as MOSFETs, but vacuum tubes, and at one time bipolar transistors, were used) are sw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54005385 | 155,904 |
543,368 | In a small business all these functions might be done by one person or shared between the participants. In larger enterprises roles can differentiate and become more specialized emphasizing one or more aspects of the VSM. Local conditions, the environment and nature of the service or product, determines where warehousi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2312170 | 543,088 |
1,445,979 | An early example of a successful peripheral stem cell transplant was carried out in the wake of the 1999 Tokaimura nuclear accident. One of the two technicians who received the highest dose of radiation was treated with PBSCT in an attempt to restore his destroyed immune system. Cells from the patient's sister's bone m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16107090 | 1,445,163 |
521,432 | In October 1748, family connections (Benjamin Waller was related to Zachary Lewis) probably helped Wythe secure his first government job, as clerk to two powerful committees of the House of Burgesses, Privileges and Elections and Propositions and Grievances. Wythe also continued to practice law before those committees ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=261191 | 521,161 |
1,409,984 | Arnold Orville Beckman (April 10, 1900 – May 18, 2004) was an American chemist, inventor, investor, and philanthropist. While a professor at California Institute of Technology, he founded Beckman Instruments based on his 1934 invention of the pH meter, a device for measuring acidity (and alkalinity), later considered t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315197 | 1,409,192 |
1,017,619 | In vertebrates, gap junction hemichannels are primarily homo- or hetero-hexamers of connexin proteins. Invertebrate gap junctions comprise proteins from the innexin family. Innexins have no significant sequence homology with connexins. Though differing in sequence to connexins, innexins are similar enough to connexins ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337153 | 1,017,095 |
540,521 | Before this strategy was published, the World Health Organization made a plan around the beginning of 2015 to use digital health to end Tuberculosis. The following reasons why this strategy was passed included how health care managers didn't have the resources for prevention of Tuberculosis. There was a need for a step... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37451236 | 540,241 |
1,805,257 | Following the SARS outbreak in 2003, lessons learned resulted in a number of changes to public health in Canada. Among those were the creation of the Public Health Agency of Canada, and the construction of a high-tech operations centre at CSCHAH. This operations centre is the hub of the National Microbiology Laboratory... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19298710 | 1,804,242 |
237,871 | RDS-4 represented a branch of research on small tactical weapons. It was a boosted fission device using plutonium in a "levitated" core design. The first test was an air drop on August 23, 1953, yielding 28 kilotons. In 1954, the bomb was also used during Snowball exercise in Totskoye, dropped by Tu-4 bomber on the sim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1217440 | 237,752 |
1,537,426 | This protein is a voltage-dependent anion channel and shares high structural homology with the other VDAC isoforms (VDAC2 and VDAC3), which are involved in the regulation of cell metabolism, mitochondrial apoptosis, and spermatogenesis. Over expression and misregulation of this pore could lead to apoptosis in the cell ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14988574 | 1,536,555 |
107,434 | There are three levels of international participation. The United Kingdom is the sole 'Level 1' partner, contributing slightly over US$2 billion, about 10% of the development costs. Level 2 partners are Italy, which is contributing US$1 billion, and the Netherlands, US$800 million. At Level 3 are Canada, US$440 million... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=561535 | 107,389 |
937,840 | Feathers have been discovered in a variety of coelurosaurian dinosaurs (including the early tyrannosauroid "Dilong"). Modern birds are classified as coelurosaurs by nearly all palaeontologists. The original functions of feathers may have included thermal insulation and competitive displays. The most common version of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1837609 | 937,340 |
545,468 | After service on the Western Front with the Royal Field Artillery during the Great War, Cockcroft studied electrical engineering at Manchester Municipal College of Technology whilst he was an apprentice at Metropolitan Vickers Trafford Park and was also a member of their research staff. He then won a scholarship to St.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=352564 | 545,182 |
343,778 | Apheresis platelets are collected using a mechanical device that draws blood from the donor and centrifuges the collected blood to separate out the platelets and other components to be collected. The remaining blood is returned to the donor. The advantage to this method is that a single donation provides at least one t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196121 | 343,597 |
1,767,360 | Boe was commissioned from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1987. He completed Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training (ENJJPT) at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas in 1988. Following transition training in the F-4 Phantom II, he was then assigned to the 3d Tactical Fighter Squadron at Clark Air Base in the Philippines as a combat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4094114 | 1,766,366 |
295,352 | Evidence from Ancient Egypt shows that the early Egyptians knew how to assemble planks of wood into a ship hull as early as 3100 BC. Egyptian pottery as old as 4000 BC shows designs of early fluvial boats or other means for navigation. The Archaeological Institute of America reports that some of the oldest ships yet un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187377 | 295,192 |
615,215 | Humans have used the angelshark for thousands of years. Ancient Greek authors, such as Diphilus and Mnesitheus, described its meat as "light" and "easily digestible", and Pliny the Elder noted in his "Naturalis Historia" (77–79 AD) that its rough skin was valued by craftsmen for polishing wood and ivory. Aristotle reco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7367893 | 614,901 |
441,518 | The Ka-22 was in essence a fixed-wing aircraft with rotors fitted above the wing tips. An engine was mounted on each wing tip, with drive to both a four-bladed tractor propeller and a four-bladed main rotor. The original prototype was powered by 5,900shp Kuznetsov TV-2VK engines, although these were later replaced by t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=791062 | 441,303 |
483,310 | For kabbalists, ten utterances in Genesis with which God created the world are linked to the ten sefirot—the divine structure of all being. According to the Zohar and the Sefer ha-Yihud, the Torah is synonymous with God. More specifically, in the Sefer ha-Yihud, the letters in the Torah are the forms of God. The kabbal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11018726 | 483,063 |
1,066,233 | Quadrature sine/cosine signals can be monitored easily by using an oscilloscope in XY mode to display a circular Lissajous figure. Highest accuracy signals are obtained if the Lissajous figure is circular (no gain or phase error) and perfectly centred. Modern encoder systems employ circuitry to trim these error mechani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3062626 | 1,065,679 |
2,151,408 | The favorites and home team, USA, pulled no punches, strategically placing their fastest starter, Natasha Hastings on the lead leg. As planned, she took the lead at the break, holding off a feisty Romanian, Adelina Pastor around the third turn. Long striding Jamaican lead runner Patricia Hall found herself walled off. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49828545 | 2,150,177 |
172,803 | Additionally, bioethics has been condemned for its lack of diversity in thought, particularly concerning race. Even as the field has grown to include the areas of public opinion, policymaking, and medical decision-making, little to no academic writing has been authored concerning the intersection between race–especiall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191941 | 172,712 |
1,063,748 | Once the system was "locked" on the target, it produced a continuous fire control solution. While these fire control systems greatly improved the long-range accuracy of ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore gunfire, especially on heavy cruisers and battleships, it was in the anti-aircraft warfare mode that the Mark 1 made the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8762082 | 1,063,194 |
1,223,127 | The WIAT-III US consists of 16 subtests including several not featured in the second edition: Oral Reading Fluency, Math Problem Solving, Math Fluency Addition /Subtraction /Multiplication, Early Reading Skills, Alphabet Writing Fluency, Sentence Composition and Essay Composition. The test takes 45–90 minutes to admini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16714151 | 1,222,467 |
1,207,056 | Acute prostatitis is relatively easy to diagnose due to its symptoms that suggest infection. The organism may be found in blood or urine, and sometimes in both. Common bacteria are "Escherichia coli, Klebsiella, Proteus, Pseudomonas, Enterobacter, Enterococcus, Serratia," and "Staphylococcus aureus." This can be a medi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10388266 | 1,206,410 |
1,077,694 | The Alpha joint is the main rotary joint allowing the solar arrays to track the sun; in nominal operation the alpha joint rotates by 360° each orbit (however, see also Night Glider mode). One Solar Alpha Rotary Joint (SARJ) is located between the P3 and P4 truss segments and the other is located between the S3 and S4 t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7043982 | 1,077,139 |
608,734 | In the reaction mechanism for the Schmidt reaction of ketones, the carbonyl group is activated by protonation for nucleophilic addition by the azide, forming azidohydrin 3, which loses water in an elimination reaction to diazoiminium 5. One of the alkyl or aryl groups migrates from carbon to nitrogen with loss of nitro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10221830 | 608,423 |
189,656 | The first scientific concept of acids and bases was provided by Lavoisier in around 1776. Since Lavoisier's knowledge of strong acids was mainly restricted to oxoacids, such as (nitric acid) and (sulfuric acid), which tend to contain central atoms in high oxidation states surrounded by oxygen, and since he was not awar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3038 | 189,559 |
1,586,216 | In 1966, Jameson joined the Aerodynamics Section of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation in Bethpage, New York. In this period, his work was largely directed toward the application of automatic control theory to stability augmentation systems. Starting in 1970, he began to concentrate on the problem of predicting t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7655681 | 1,585,325 |
1,388,800 | If observers interpret rapid stimulus sequences in light of an expectation regarding velocity, then it would be expected that not only temporal, but also spatial illusions would result. This indeed occurs in the tau effect, when the spatial separation between stimuli is constant and the temporal separation is varied. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3555532 | 1,388,030 |
1,201,391 | By 900 AD in Europe, developments in iron smelting allowed for increased production, leading to developments in the production of farm tools such as ploughs, hand tools and horse shoes. The plough was significantly improved, developing into the mouldboard plough, capable of turning over the heavy, wet soils of northern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21992152 | 1,200,750 |
2,004,828 | On 22 April 2005, the AUT Council voted to boycott two Israeli universities: the University of Haifa and Bar-Ilan University. The motions to AUT Council were prompted by the call for a boycott from Palestinian academics and others. The AUT Council voted to boycott Bar-Ilan because it runs courses at colleges in the occ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=881324 | 2,003,679 |
1,213,071 | In America, throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, the government engaged in substantial regulation of the economy. In the 18th century, the production and distribution of goods were regulated by British government ministries over the American Colonies (see mercantilism). Subsidies were granted to agriculture, and tar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2371518 | 1,212,419 |
1,446,809 | When he assumed command, Rowell was informed that 25 days' supply of food and ammunition for 2,000 men was stored there, but on checking it was found that there were only four days' rations, with two days' reserves held forward of Myola. The official historian, Dudley McCarthy, suggested that "the rations were never dr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51118476 | 1,445,993 |
190,003 | The low-level nature of the WebGL API, which provides little on its own to produce desirable 3D graphics quickly, contributed to creation of libraries which are typically used to build things up in 3D graphics (e.g. view transformations for shaders, view frustum etc.). Basic tasks such as loading scene graphs and 3D ob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24336445 | 189,906 |
211,076 | Haber's new unit was called Pioneer Regiment 35. After brief training in Berlin, Hahn, together with physicists James Franck and Gustav Hertz, was sent to Flanders again to scout for a site for a first gas attack. He did not witness the attack because he and Franck were off selecting a position for the next attack. Tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46825 | 210,969 |
1,093,493 | "Clostridium tetani" produces tetanus toxin (TeNT protein), which leads to a fatal condition known as tetanus in many vertebrates (including humans) and invertebrates. While tetanus toxin is produced from "Clostridium tetani", a spore forming bacteria found in soil, Tetanus is a paralytic disease that is global and com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21107825 | 1,092,933 |
279,722 | Goddard's pace was slower than the Germans' because he did not have the resources they did. Simply reaching high altitudes was not his primary goal; he was trying, with a methodical approach, to perfect his liquid fuel engine and subsystems such as guidance and control so that his rocket could eventually achieve high a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=210597 | 279,572 |
18,149 | The template for all modern computers is the Von Neumann architecture, detailed in a 1945 paper by Hungarian mathematician John von Neumann. This describes a design architecture for an electronic digital computer with subdivisions of a processing unit consisting of an arithmetic logic unit and processor registers, a co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21808348 | 18,143 |
682,692 | At a meeting on plasma physics in Saltzberg in 1961, the Soviet delegation presented considerable data showing the instability, while the US teams continued to show none. An offhand question by Lev Artsimovich settled the matter; when he asked if the charts being produced from the instruments in the US machines were ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40234 | 682,336 |
1,528,172 | Throughout American history, military strength has been at the heart of identity; it is embedded in politics and culture. War as a solution is rooted in American culture, as The War of Independence and World War II are referred to as successes and justifications for future war. Rather than concentrating resources and m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19455353 | 1,527,308 |
1,234,449 | In the most basic sense of standards for education requirements in the United States, an educational psychologist needs a bachelor's degree, followed by a master's degree, and commonly finishing with a PhD or a PsyD in Educational Psychology. Specifically in California, an educational psychologist candidate (commonly r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5325141 | 1,233,786 |
281,951 | The Vierendeel truss, unlike common pin-jointed trusses, imposes significant bending forces upon its members—but this in turn allows the elimination of many diagonal elements. It is a structure where the members are not triangulated but form rectangular openings, and is a frame with fixed joints that are capable of tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=896753 | 281,798 |
1,460,532 | Carl Sauer's paper "The Morphology of Landscape" was probably the most influential article contributing to the development of ideas on cultural landscapes and is still cited today. However, Sauer's paper was really about his own vision for the discipline of geography, which was to establish the discipline on a phenomen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1410237 | 1,459,710 |
1,226,780 | PEX can become problematic when the flakes become enmeshed in a "spongy area" known as the trabecular meshwork and block its normal functioning, and may interact with degenerative changes in the Schlemm's canal and the juxtacanalicular area. The blockage leads to greater-than-normal elevated intraocular pressure which,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22481529 | 1,226,119 |
77,491 | The institute is organized into six primary academic divisions: Biology and Biological Engineering, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Engineering and Applied Science, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy. The voting faculty of Caltech include all profe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5786 | 77,462 |
768,764 | Formula One then went to the 5.1 mile Charade circuit, made up entirely of closed-off public roads located around an extinct volcano overlooking the small city of Clermont-Ferrand. Practice and qualifying were both eventful – in addition to Ferrari showing improved form by Jacky Ickx taking pole, the circuit was litter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1140091 | 768,352 |
817,040 | By the time Wright painted his picture in 1768, air pumps were a relatively commonplace scientific instrument, and itinerant "lecturers in natural philosophy"—usually more showmen than scientists—often performed the "animal in the air pump experiment" as the centrepiece of their public demonstration. These were perform... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8870404 | 816,604 |
407,231 | Francium nitrate, sulfate, hydroxide, carbonate, acetate, and oxalate, are all soluble in water, while the iodate, picrate, tartrate, chloroplatinate, and silicotungstate are insoluble. The insolubility of these compounds are used to extract francium from other radioactive products, such as zirconium, niobium, molybden... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10821 | 407,030 |
1,547,949 | Trinidad and Tobago is home to about 99 species of terrestrial mammals. About 65 of the mammalian species in the islands are bats (including cave roosting, tree and cavity roosting bats and even foliage-tent-making bats; all with widely differing diets from nectar and fruit, to insects, small vertebrates such as fish, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1676253 | 1,547,071 |
662,263 | "Brachypelma smithi" is a large spider. A sample of seven females had a total body length (excluding chelicerae and spinnerets) in the range . A sample of eight males were slightly smaller, with a total body length in the range . Although males have slightly shorter bodies, they have longer legs. The fourth leg is the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1992630 | 661,918 |
1,896,017 | The concept of a Wellington-based, independent medical research institute was first proposed in the early 1960s. At that time, relatively little medical research was carried out in New Zealand due to a lack of facilities and support by hospital boards. Using funds from a trust established by the Wellington Medical Rese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24723466 | 1,894,933 |
831,724 | Benchmarking creates standardized test materials for a specific type of design. Four key characteristics are considered when establishing a benchmark: time to do the core task, time to fix errors, time to learn applications, and the functionality of the system. Once there is a benchmark, other designs can be compared t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288276 | 831,275 |
413,789 | The rotation of plane polarized light by chiral substances was first observed by Jean-Baptiste Biot in 1812, and gained considerable importance in the sugar industry, analytical chemistry, and pharmaceuticals. Louis Pasteur deduced in 1848 that this phenomenon has a molecular basis. The term "chirality" itself was coin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1170166 | 413,586 |
1,993,738 | In June 2016, Sentience Politics began collecting signatures for a ballot initiative on fundamental rights for primates in Basel, Switzerland. With the submission of 3,080 valid signatures to the Basel State Chancellery, the initiative was officially handed in on September 16, 2017. The proposed reforms would revise th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52809362 | 1,992,595 |
1,675,722 | Puluj did heavy research into cathode rays, publishing several papers about those rays between 1880 and 1882. In 1881 as a result of experiments into what he called "cold light" Prof. Puluj developed the Puluj lamp. Puluj experimented with his new device and published his results in a scientific paper, "Luminous Electr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1521870 | 1,674,780 |
254,438 | The altered phase relationship between the timing of sleep and the circadian rhythm of body core temperature has been reported previously in DSPD patients studied in entrained conditions. That such an alteration has also been observed in temporal isolation (i.e; in absence of all external time cues) supports the notion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231014 | 254,305 |
1,341,367 | Unlike the other entries, DC-3 was much more conventional in layout, with an almost cylindrical fuselage and low-mounted slightly swept wings. The design looked more like a cargo aircraft than a spacecraft. Re-entry was accomplished in a 60 degree nose-high attitude that presented the lower surface of the spacecraft to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18952422 | 1,340,634 |
515,879 | Earlier in his career Bellard saw a similar approach implemented by former Detroit Lions guard Ox Emerson, then head coach at Alice High School near Corpus Christi, Texas. Trying to avoid the frequent pounding of his offensive line, Emerson moved one of the starting guards into the backfield, enabling him to get a runn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1947159 | 515,610 |
716,915 | The classical process of ijtihad combined these generally recognized principles with other methods, which were not adopted by all legal schools, such as "istihsan" (juristic preference), "istislah" (consideration of public interest) and "istishab" (presumption of continuity). A jurist who is qualified to practice ijtih... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1311096 | 716,538 |
723,234 | The T-18s armament stayed the same as that found on the Renault FT and T-16, the French 37 mm Model 28, mounted in a Hotchkiss-system mantlet. This gave the gun a range movement of 35 degrees horizontal, and +30 to -8 degrees vertical. This was coupled by a simple system of diopter sights. The 37 mm Model 28 was nearly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5841750 | 722,854 |
1,881,667 | HPPS requires a structural characteristics of low moving mass and high stiffness. The resulting system characteristic is a high value for the lowest natural frequency of the system. High natural frequency allows the motion controller to drive the system at high servo bandwidth, which means that the HPPS can reject all ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66038122 | 1,880,586 |
355,891 | Under Mann's guidance, Spence, at age 36, created a prototype in the form of the miniature camera which could be fitted inside his prosthetic eye; an invention that would come to be named by "Time" magazine as one of the best inventions of 2009. The bionic eye records everything he sees and contains a 1.5 mm, low-resol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20756967 | 355,708 |
1,645,751 | Ecological fitting represents a contrasting view to, and null hypothesis for, the hypothesis that current species interactions are evidence of coevolution. Coevolution occurs when each species in a relationship imposes evolutionary selection on the other(s). Examples could include mutualisms or predator-prey systems. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30509934 | 1,644,822 |
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