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Background: Wikipedia is a popular encyclopedia for health- and disease-related information in which patients seek advice and guidance on the web. Yet, Wikipedia articles can be unsuitable as patient education materials, as investigated in previous studies that analyzed specific diseases or medical topics with a comparatively small sample size. Currently, no data are available on the average readability levels of all disease-related Wikipedia pages for the different localizations of this particular encyclopedia. Objective: This study aimed to analyze disease-related Wikipedia pages written in English, German, and Russian using well-established readability metrics for each language. Methods: Wikipedia database snapshots and Wikidata metadata were chosen as resources for data collection. Disease-related articles were retrieved separately for English, German, and Russian starting with the main concept of Human Diseases and Disorders (German: Krankheit; Russian: ). In the case of existence, the corresponding International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10), codes were retrieved for each article. Next, the raw texts were extracted and readability metrics were computed. Results: The number of articles included in this study for English, German, and Russian Wikipedia was n=6127, n=6024, and n=3314, respectively. Most disease-related articles had a Flesch Reading Ease (FRE) score <50.00, signaling difficult or very difficult educational material (English: 5937/6125, 96.93%; German: 6004/6022, 99.7%; Russian: 2647/3313, 79.9%). In total, 70% (7/10) of the analyzed articles could be assigned an ICD-10 code with certainty (English: 4235/6127, 69.12%; German: 4625/6024, 76.78%; Russian: 2316/3314, 69.89%). For articles with ICD-10 codes, the mean FRE scores were 28.69 (SD 11.00), 20.33 (SD 9.98), and 38.54 (SD 13.51) for English, German, and Russian, respectively. A total of 9 English ICD-10 chapters (11 German and 10 Russian) showed significant differences: chapter F (FRE 23.88, SD 9.95; P<.001), chapter E (FRE 25.14, SD 9.88; P<.001), chapter H (FRE 30.04, SD 10.57; P=.049), chapter I (FRE 30.05, SD 9.07; P=.04), chapter M (FRE 31.17, 11.94; P<.001), chapter T (FRE 32.06, SD 10.51; P=.001), chapter A (FRE 32.63, SD 9.25; P<.001), chapter B (FRE 33.24, SD 9.07; P<.001), and chapter S (FRE 39.02, SD 8.22; P<.001). Conclusions: Disease-related English, German, and Russian Wikipedia articles cannot be recommended as patient education materials because a major fraction is difficult or very difficult to read. The authors of Wikipedia pages should carefully revise existing text materials for readers with a specific interest in a disease or its associated symptoms. Special attention should be given to articles on mental, behavioral, and neurodevelopmental disorders (ICD-10 chapter F) because these articles were most difficult to read in comparison with other ICD-10 chapters. Wikipedia readers should be supported by editors providing a short and easy-to-read summary for each article.

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Readability of English, German, and Russian Disease-Related Wikipedia Pages: Automated Computational Analysis - Newswise

A 'PEOPLE map'can now tell us who the top person is associated with certain parts of the UK.

Created by The Pudding, the map uses the last four year's worth of Wikipedia search data toreplacetowns and villages with famous residents or people born or connected to that place.

Using the map, here are the two most searched for people in Halton.

Nicola Roberts - Runcorn

The singer and songwriter, who grew up in Runcorn,rose to prominence in2002 when she won a place inGirls Aloud, agirl groupcreated throughITV'sPopstars: The Rivals.

The group then had huge success with20 consecutive top 10singles. They even entered theGuinness World Recordsas the most successful reality television music-group.

David Dawson - Widnes

David Dawson in The Last Kingdom

Widnes-born David Dawson has had a varied acting career appearing in a number of high profile shows such asLuther,Ripper Street,The Last Kingdom, Peaky Blinders and The Thick of It.

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The most famous people in Widnes and Runcorn, based on Wikipedia searches - Runcorn and Widnes World

Granting that maritime jargon can be esoteric, a few basic commandments have governed the English language for at least 500 years. One is: Thou shalt not confuse ships with boats. Ships carry boats, but not vice versa, and any surface vessel large enough to carry its own boats is a ship. When a layperson confuses the terms, it may seem like terminological pettifogging to correct the error but in a work of naval history, the standard is different. To call a heavy warship a boat, as is often done in these pages, is a cardinal error. Entire classes of giant battleships and aircraft carriers are introduced, for example, as Iowa-class boats, Yorktown-class boats, Illustrious-class boats and Bismarck-class boats.

In a quick look at Kennedys earlier works, no references to boats for ships are found. In Victory at Sea, the instances fall into a 70-page section of the book, in Chapters 8 and 9. The question arises: After decades of having used the terms correctly, did Kennedy write the mistaken phrases in this book? Or did he lose control of the editing process? In his acknowledgments, he names eight research assistants, seven at Yale and one at Kings College London. He claims sole responsibility for the final product, warts and all, and in a strict sense, he is right to. But with enough research assistants to organize a basketball team, one wonders whether better coaching was needed. At the very least, some part of the collective effort could have been diverted to identifying and correcting errors, for example, by searching Wikipedia.

In a mark of his confidence as a scholar, Kennedy does not gloss over his reliance on that online encyclopedia. He quotes from Wikipedia liberally in the main text, cites it more often than any other single source and regrets that he cannot acknowledge so many fine though anonymous authors by name. And indeed, Wikipedia does not deserve much of the disparagement often aimed against it. As a first look reference, it is a handy tool; this reviewer even consulted it while writing this review. Wikipedias articles on military history have improved in recent years, and many contain information not easily found elsewhere on the web. But, by Wikipedias own account, studies measuring its accuracy and reliability have been mixed, and its crowdsourced model means that any page can be edited by anyone, at any time, anonymously. For that reason, Wikipedia does not consider itself to be a reliable source and discourages readers from using it in academic or research settings. Many university professors would mark down a student paper that included uncorroborated Wikipedia citations. For a major university press to include more than 80 in one volume may be unprecedented. What on earth is going on in New Haven?

Kennedys professional legacy rests upon 50 years of distinguished scholarship. He is a legitimately great historian. No one book, much less a single faultfinding review, could dull a reputation that glitters so brightly. As the preface tells us, Victory at Sea was first conceived as an art book. After Ian Marshalls death, the project grew by degrees into something much bigger and more ambitious. If Kennedys motive in reimagining the book was to pay posthumous tribute to a dear friend, it lends a noble character to the enterprise, in which case the reviewer is a rascal who deserves to feel ashamed of the criticism offered here.

But what is true of maritime affairs is equally true in the profession of history: If you book the passage, you have to pay the freight. Scholarship progresses inexorably. Let a decade go by, and the price of updating ones expertise might be 20,000 pages of new reading. Researching and writing history is like a spinach-eating competition in which the only possible prize is another helping of fresh, steaming vegetables. In a valedictory passage in his acknowledgments, Kennedy seems to concede that some spinach was left uneaten: If I have failed to acknowledge another scholars work, I apologize; it has been a joy to give credit (in the endnotes) to so much earlier writing and research. The sentiment is generous but perplexing. To apologize seems a bit much better, perhaps, to call it a sense of regret? A consciousness of shortcoming? But if the point is to concede that Victory at Sea is based mainly on outdated scholarship, wouldnt the apology be owed to the reader, rather than the neglected scholars?

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The Battle for the Seas in World War II, and How It Changed History - The New York Times

"Envolver"[A] is a song by Brazilian singer Anitta from her fifth studio album Versions of Me. It was released as the fourth single from the album through Warner Records on November 11, 2021.[1] A reggaeton and Latin pop song that hints to desiring a sexual relationship in a casual way, the lyrics incorporate several sexualinnuendos and double entendres. A remix of the song featuring American singer Justin Quiles was released on February 17, 2022.[3]

The song and its music video, self-directed by Anitta, went viral in March 2022, after it gained popularity on TikTok, where its "booty-grinding" dance became one of the most replicated. "Envolver" broke a string of records, including theSpotify record for most streamed song in a single-day in 2022 (7.278 million) at the time, biggest streaming day for a female Latin song, as well as the first song by a Brazilian artist and first solo Latin song to reach the top of the Spotify Global Daily chart.[4][5] Additionally it also became the first song ever to place inside the top 50 of all Latin countries on Spotify. It also broke the record for most one-day streams in Brazil with over 4.5 million plays, a record that was previously held by herself with "Vai Malandra" (2.1 million streams).[6]

Commercially, the song achieved international success, it reached number 70 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart issue dated April 16, 2022, becoming Anitta's highest career peak. She also had her highest entries on the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S., at numbers two and one, respectively.[7] With the former, "Envolver" claimed the highest peak for a Latin female soloist; meanwhile, for the latter, Anitta became the first Latin female solo act to reach the top. The song topped charts in Brazil, where it was certified triple platinum, and number six on Billboard's Hot Latin Songs chart, and has charted in the Top 10 of Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Panama, Peru, Portugal and Puerto Rico, and figured within the record charts of twenty others, including Argentina, Canada, El Salvador, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Switzerland and top 80 in United States and France.

On November 8, 2021, Anitta released a teaser of the song through her social medias.[8] On the following days, the single cover art and a small snippet of the music video were also revealed.[9] The self-directed music video of "Envolver" was released along with the song on November 11st. It features Anitta dancing sensually with Moroccan dancer and model Ayoub Mutanda.[10]

A remix featuring American singer Justin Quiles was released on February 17, 2022.[3]

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Fast Radius, LLC was formed in 2014 by Rick Smith and Mitch Free, and in 2017, Fast Radius, LLC merged with Fast Radius, Inc.[6][7] Fast Radius, Inc. was co-founded by Lou Rassey, Pat McCusker, Bill King, and John Nanry in a partnership with the shipping and logistics company UPS in an effort to leverage additive manufacturing as a supply chain solution.[8] Since its founding, the company has grown to more than 240 full-time employees and has expanded from supply chain solutions[buzzword] to all manner of parts manufacturing.[3][9]

Currently, Fast Radius specializes in manufacturing industrial-grade metal and plastic parts for applications including consumer goods, medical devices, automotive, aerospace, industrial equipment, and electronics, along with product development and design services.

Its Chicago headquarters, which has been in operation since 2018, is home to the largest public install base of Carbon DLS 3D printers in North America.[3] It was named a Lighthouse Factory, a distinction honoring the best digital factories in the world, by the World Economic Forum.[10]

In addition, Fast Radius has a large footprint of HP Multi Jet Fusion (MJF) equipment, Formlabs Stereolithography (SLA) printers, and the Desktop Metal Studio System.[11] Fast Radius also has a robust presence of Stratasys FDM printers co-located at the UPS World Port facility in Louisville, Kentucky.[12][13] The company is technology-agnostic, and works with a global network of manufacturers to provide CNC machining, injection molding, and urethane casting services.

Notable customers include Satair (an Airbus Services Company), Curtiss Motorcycles, Axial3D, Bastian Solutions (a Toyota Advanced Logistics Company), Rawlings, Yanfeng, Aptiv,[14][15] Danfoss, and Steelcase.[16][17][18][19]

In 2019, Fast Radius raised $48 million in a Series B funding round led by UPS and assisted by Drive Capital.[5][9]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Fast Radius designed a 3D-printed respirator mask in response to the nationwide PPE shortage. The company released the design files and instructions online as an open-source resource. Fast Radius also produced face shield kits for frontline healthcare workers. They also worked with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to design and patent a microfluidics chip for a point-of-care COVID-19 testing solution.[buzzword][1][20][21]

In 2022, the company became listed on Nasdaq through a merger with ECP Environmental Growth Opportunities Corp.[22]

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