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The IRAS Asteroid and Comet Survey is the largest, most uniform
and least biased survey ever conducted of asteroids and comets.
Because the emission observed is thermal, the present survey is not
plagued by the albedo bias to which visible wavelength analogues are
susceptible. Asteroids and comets are bright infrared s... | <urn:uuid:15c8dc73-3a3d-46bf-b908-0a631c767eff> | 2.859375 | 393 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 27.895568 |
XSL Transformation is widly known tecnique for converting XML files to XHTML output. XSLT is designed for use as part of XSL, which is a stylesheet language for XML. XSL specifies the styling of an XML document by using XSLT to describe how the document is transformed into another XML document that uses the formatting ... | <urn:uuid:9dd63720-3113-43f3-a282-dd19dde081bf> | 3.15625 | 298 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 42.855491 |
Mission Type: Lander, Orbiter
Launch Vehicle: Proton booster plus upper stage and escape stages; 8K82K + Blok D (Proton-K no. 255-01)
Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), USSR; NIIP-5 / launch site 81P
Spacecraft Mass: Orbiter/bus and descent module: about 4650 kg at launch (orbiter/bus: 3440 kg, descent module... | <urn:uuid:d24666e5-cf4e-4c2a-a7ed-3e39b607f34f> | 3.15625 | 1,027 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 50.848701 |
Programs which give users access to privileges of any sort need to be able to authenticate the users. When you log into a system, you provide your name and password, and the login process uses those to authenticate the login -- to verify that you are who you say you are. Other forms of authentication than passwords are... | <urn:uuid:9331b09c-259f-49c1-8d55-bc09af163792> | 3.171875 | 1,697 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 44.404333 |
image credit: Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response System, Goddard Space Flight Center; image source; larger image
The Arctic Oscillation
Great Britain is usually exempt from the cold winter weather in other countries of the same latitude. (Warm air from the Gulf Stream keeps temperatures mild; read more here.) However,... | <urn:uuid:86562b12-a563-40ce-a90f-51de4ee6eabc> | 3.796875 | 184 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 35.463571 |
Algae may help corals withstand warmer waters
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Certain types of algae can help corals withstand higher sea temperatures and prevent them from bleaching, scientists in Australia have found.
Coral reefs are vulnera"le to climate change and without rapid genetic adaptation, they will not survive proje... | <urn:uuid:77ae3099-9edc-4805-b9aa-a773dd9aeca7> | 3.53125 | 443 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 38.271744 |
Inscribed and Central Angles Showing that an inscribed angle is half of a central angle that subtends the same arc
Inscribed and Central Angles
⇐ Use this menu to view and help create subtitles for this video in many different languages. You'll probably want to hide YouTube's captions if using these subtitles.
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A transformation in which
a figure grows smaller.
Compressions may be with respect to a point (compression
of a geometric figure) or with respect to the axis of
a graph (compression
of a graph).
Note: Some high
school textbooks erroneously use the word dilation to
refer to all transformations in which the figure change... | <urn:uuid:a92d9dc1-9f60-42be-a2f6-c8cf2cec1cff> | 3.09375 | 139 | Structured Data | Science & Tech. | 25.023088 |
Life in a Drop of Water
by Mike Morgan
How often have we seen, in books aimed at the amateur microscopist, that one drop of sediment and water from the pond, would yield a wealth of organisms to view and wonder at?
I tried this, observing over a period of one hour, 25 microlitres of sediment/pond water.
Indeed there we... | <urn:uuid:bea94844-ca90-4f4e-8ab3-29604fe22595> | 2.9375 | 440 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 48.515739 |
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Rafinesque described this species in 1820. As with most species of the genus Lampsilis, the wavyrayed lampmussel exhibits sexual dimorphism in shell shape. Females are relatively circular, while males are more elliptical. The periostracum is a shiny g... | <urn:uuid:dfaa178f-69e9-4b78-bb65-472ad2c5abd8> | 2.984375 | 375 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 37.661379 |
Fluid dynamics of flapping wings associated with change of domain topology
Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute
We re-examine the clap-fling-sweep mechanism employed by some insects to increase lift. As argued by Lighthill (J Fluid Mech 60(1):1-17, 1973), this mechanism can create a circulatory motion even in a totally inv... | <urn:uuid:2e8a4728-e673-40d5-bd9e-faef96e8c33a> | 2.8125 | 437 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 37.933166 |
Name: Jason M.
Date: March 2004
I have been wondering how long the cells in our bodies
stay with us. I mean, I know that our cells are dividing and eventually
are passed from our bodies. I found that red blood cells have a life
span of 120 days, but what about the rest of our cells. How often do we
(basically) get a ne... | <urn:uuid:d7240d33-5082-4853-96d8-8771f40e6738> | 3.0625 | 743 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 63.979624 |
I have a biology final coming up and I would really appreciate it if someone could answer this question for me. Thank you very much!
The equation for photosynthesis is 6CO2 + 6H2O = C6H12O6 +6O2, which shows that energy is stored in the form of glucose, a 6 carbon sugar. This forms chains of starch, which are kept as a... | <urn:uuid:d3c3516c-65ee-44a6-b9a8-d6761ce311f7> | 3.609375 | 559 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 52.108364 |
|Global annual mean temperature anomalies as measured by surface data (black bars) and the MSU satellite unit (gray bars) using the MSU-2R technique. Temperatures on the vertical axis are times 100 degrees C. (Illustration from Hurrell and Trenberth, "Satellite versus surface estimates of air temperature since 1979," J... | <urn:uuid:e9c9ad88-6550-45dd-8462-1e337f874011> | 3.359375 | 1,393 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 31.935713 |
The Prolog Language
Prolog (for PROgramming in LOGic) is a logic programming language loosely based on first-order logic. It was invented by Alain Colmerauer and Phillipe Roussel at the University of Aix-Marseille in 1971. Since then a large number of good implementations of the language have become available.
See http... | <urn:uuid:42241b82-0311-4b1d-b254-7819899e46d1> | 3.390625 | 93 | Knowledge Article | Software Dev. | 45.815 |
"Electronegativity is the power of an atom when in a molecule to attract eletrons to itself." The electronegativity will depend upon a number of factors including other atoms in the molecule, the number of atoms coordinated to it, and the oxidation number for the atom. There are a number of ways to produce a set of num... | <urn:uuid:afe16325-19f2-4b77-8b4d-5cbb3028ea27> | 3.59375 | 485 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 51.085632 |
Logic Devices from Neuronal Cultures
(to design a novel neuronal device click here)
Neurons in the brain perform amazing calculations in a flash, but if you put them into a dish they become sluggish and 'stupid' - i.e. their response repertoire is very limited. Our principal question is how the connections between the ... | <urn:uuid:4ccbe4c3-a5c8-4eca-a3e2-8446e542d7fc> | 2.984375 | 837 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 34.218072 |
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The Morelet’s Crocodile is also known as an Alligator, an Agarei, Brown Crocodile or Swamp Crocodile. These crocodiles are relatively small, usually less than 3m in length. They have a broad snout, and are greyish brown in colour with dark bands and spots on their bodies and tai... | <urn:uuid:67395444-2d92-4b1f-8254-e4bbf7adc7ff> | 3.921875 | 366 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 41.693136 |
Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
In optics Spherical aberration is an imperfection of telescopes and other instruments, which makes their focussing less than ideal due to the spherical shapes of the lenses and mirrors. This is an important effect, as spherical shapes are much easier to produce than aspherical and so m... | <urn:uuid:77ec8e40-2cc3-4619-8dd1-29f3d651e793> | 4.21875 | 307 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 40.71562 |
[Very incomplete. Please extend as you learn more.]
The parser is written using
- Alex, for lexical analysis. Source file compiler/parser/Lexer.x
- Happy, for the parser itself. Source file compiler/parser/Parser.y.pp. Note the .pp suffix; it is run through cpp to yield Parser.y.
- RdrHsSyn, for Haskell support functio... | <urn:uuid:6d9ce047-b222-40c5-adc7-181e11d2a594> | 2.90625 | 519 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 61.305189 |
Hello math experts, thanks for giving me the opportunity to post here.
My maths education is limited to a 16 yr old's so your help is much appreciated.
In my attachment, I have measured A, B and C in 112 different subjects. Using these measurements, I hope to come up with an approximate index that can be used to compar... | <urn:uuid:38022e3b-4a67-4349-9566-4483f8808d74> | 3.15625 | 184 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 66.329789 |
A neuroscientist has linked the brains of two rats together, so when one of them pushes a lever - the other one does, too!
The rats were trained to push a lever when a light went on, but after a while, electrodes were placed in the rodent's brains.
Soon they had one rat pushing a level because of the light, and another... | <urn:uuid:6c322b6b-2875-4fd8-9424-07c6d0d0d4e8> | 2.78125 | 413 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 67.714393 |
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This combination of pictures shows the moon in various stages of a total lunar eclipse as seen from Mexico City on Dec. 21. This eclipse takes place just hours before the December solstice, which marks the beginning of northern winter and southern summer.
Jose Cabezas / AFP - Getty Imag... | <urn:uuid:5461a9ba-d428-4ad2-8952-0d5db25e0e1b> | 2.765625 | 713 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 59.347941 |
Cosmic dust clouds ripple across
this infrared portrait
of our Milky Way's
galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud.
In fact, the remarkable composite image from the
Space Observatory and the
Spitzer Space Telescope
show that dust clouds fill this neighboring dwarf galaxy, much like
dust along the plane of the Milky Way itse... | <urn:uuid:915ae4f3-4af1-4af9-9a04-e32cb8148bd0> | 4 | 235 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 44.094232 |
Posted by U15626221 (U15626221) on Friday, 22nd February 2013
I don't understand the topic of gas exchange, can someone explain clearly but in detail please, a few example would help too. Much appreciated :D
Posted by The Bitesize Science Teacher (U14392404) on Friday, 22nd February 2013
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SAVING THE Devils River minnow
In just about 50 years, the Devils River minnow has gone from being one of the most abundant native fishes in southern Texas to one of the rarest fishes in the world. Requiring clean spring waters for survival, populations of this tiny, shiny minnow have declined drastically as stream mod... | <urn:uuid:9d0b9bb3-9663-4c3a-9269-ed4ef811de25> | 3.265625 | 377 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 34.191391 |
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atmospheric and cloud processes
...greater than 100 percent, with respect to a flat surface of H2O. The development of clouds in such a fashion, w... | <urn:uuid:8991ff78-7af2-4917-a140-daa8dca8354b> | 3.640625 | 366 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 37.165477 |
Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometer (ICP-AES)
Simultaneous Determination of Manganese and Nickel in Steel by Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry:
pp. 106-108, 479-482, 486-487, and 492-494 in Harris text
- To simultaneously determine the mass percentages of manganese and nickel i... | <urn:uuid:b24d7262-50e0-49a0-9d6a-7987b9c4afdd> | 2.8125 | 1,273 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 38.058912 |
Home > News > Terahertz rays see into the nanoworld
October 23rd, 2003
Terahertz rays see into the nanoworld
A new form of imaging that could be particularly valuable in medicine can be used to see nanoscale objects, US researchers report. Terahertz (THz) promises an alternative to techniques such as X-ray, magnetic-re... | <urn:uuid:64be5d8f-127b-45cc-883d-a0fc521e8b1d> | 3.015625 | 231 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 24.168027 |
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When a high voltage is applied across the electrodes of the discharge tube, and the pressure of the gas inside the tube is lowered, the electrical energy knocks out some of the electrons from the atoms. These constitute the cathode rays. How does electrical energy knocks out electrons is someth... | <urn:uuid:9752ed3e-729a-430e-bf35-536147d8451a> | 3.421875 | 303 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 40.996882 |
Researchers have designed a new kind of adaptive material with tunable transparency and wettability features - imagine a tent that blocks light on a dry and sunny day, and becomes transparent and water-repellent on a dim, rainy day. Or highly precise, self-adjusting contact lenses that also clean themselves.
The new ma... | <urn:uuid:ae1f10d3-da04-4520-9e95-941f48f95a54> | 2.953125 | 1,473 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 31.630072 |
|PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference
10g Release 1 (10.1)
Part Number B10807-01
return_value := SCN_TO_TIMESTAMP(number);
SCN_TO_TIMESTAMP takes an argument that represents a system change number (SCN) and returns the timestamp associated with that SCN. The returned value has the datatype
This function is part of the fla... | <urn:uuid:7ee95074-e3ec-4d7c-997f-3ff7005a73fa> | 3.125 | 414 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 56.8696 |
New data suggests that Mercury has undergone much more dynamic
processes than previously believed and that its core is unlike any
of the other rocky planets in our solar system.
Nasa's Messenger spacecraft, which has been in orbit around
the solar system's smallest and innermost planet for just over a
year, has beamed ... | <urn:uuid:0975ac71-a43c-4549-8bf4-a741e31d89bd> | 3.265625 | 156 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 28.74814 |
Bryogeography of the Hypopterygiaceae
The moss family Hypopterygiaceae contains eight genera. This page discusses the bryogeography of the family with hypotheses as to how some the family's current distribution arose. The bulk of the information is taken from Chapter 7 of Kruijer's monograph listed in the references at... | <urn:uuid:9c66a5b2-c4c2-4dd5-a27f-050b7d98ac0a> | 3.171875 | 1,632 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 23.745306 |
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The bitand operator is an alternative representation of the &operator (bitwise AND).
The bitwise AND operator compares each bit of the first operand to the corresponding bit of the second operand When both bits are 1, the corresponding result bit is set to 1. Otherwise, the... | <urn:uuid:6f35f999-7a1a-45c1-9c22-ae957260fa45> | 2.8125 | 119 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 30.842174 |
Science Keywords>LAND SURFACE
North American ASTER Land Surface Emissivity DatabaseEntry ID: naalsed
Abstract: The North American Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection radiometer (ASTER) Land Surface Emissivity Database (NAALSED) covers the continent with 3,327 1 degree (°) x 1° tiles of 100-meter (m) res... | <urn:uuid:de65aac3-9a03-4877-ad59-b2fbe7cb6964> | 2.703125 | 1,678 | Structured Data | Science & Tech. | 51.924961 |
The broad concept of Oecophoridae, as treated by Clarke (1941), Hodges (1974) and others has been narrowed to include only two subfamilies: Oecophorinae and Stathmopodinae (Hodges, 1998). The family lacks autapomorphies and has been defined by two polymorphic parallelisms and one reversal: 1) second abdominal sternum w... | <urn:uuid:148a876e-e5ac-469e-a790-4ccc0875d163> | 3.28125 | 920 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 39.390791 |
A Nasa animation demonstrates the agency's plan to capture an asteroid in the moon's orbit. The idea is for a robot to catch a small asteroid by pushing or pulling it into a stable orbit. This would allow astronauts to explore the rock and test samples. Nasa hopes to achieve this by 2021. The mission forms part of a lo... | <urn:uuid:c59f61ac-e338-498f-92d9-2c662e13c336> | 3.5625 | 101 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 64.08697 |
Csóka, GY., and Kovács, T. 1999. Xylophagous insects. Forest Research Institute. Erdészeti Turományos Intézet. Agroinform Kiadó, Budapest. 189 pp.
The xylophagous insects in their different developmental stages are eaten by many species of animals. In this chapter we discuss the most characteristic groups of these pred... | <urn:uuid:36705671-4adc-4ef2-8041-8897a51eb14a> | 3.609375 | 1,053 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 42.495317 |
Aerodynamic drag is the resistance (retarding effect) applied to a body as it passes through the air. It is made up of two components, caused by pressure and by friction. Resistance caused by pressure occurs because there is a difference in air pressure between the front and rear surfaces of the body. This has to be ov... | <urn:uuid:59771d48-e3c3-479a-b308-64490c393bf5> | 3.828125 | 194 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 44.174672 |
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psychological testing and measurement
...of odours), it constitutes an ordinal scale. An interval scale has equal units and an arbitrarily assigne... | <urn:uuid:1b399ee3-5693-494f-b543-bda92700de32> | 3.03125 | 122 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 38.66125 |
Interesting things occur when solutes are added to water. Freezing is inhibited and temperature decreases. Practical applications can be had from these properties. Duration: 4:37.
VIDEO CHECK QUESTIONS
8.4a What happens to the rate of freezing when a solute such as NaCl is added to the water?
8.4b How can you increase ... | <urn:uuid:c97086f5-88bc-4609-a87b-d0fc8baca9ac> | 3.046875 | 120 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 67.969545 |
An aqueous antifreeze solution is 58.0% ethylene glycol (C2H6O2) by mass. The density of the solution is 1.075 g/cm3. Calculate molality, molarity, and mole fraction of ethylene glycol.
y=x is a particular solution for 2(x^2)y''+xy'+y=0 find the full solution
2 Hailstone Sequences [12 marks] A hailstone sequence is a s... | <urn:uuid:3e6a3890-ae88-45fe-9941-66f52ca5b933> | 2.921875 | 236 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 65.040538 |
wchar_t* wcstok (wchar_t* wcs, const wchar_t* delimiters);
Split wide string into tokens
A sequence of calls to this function split wcs into tokens, which are sequences of contiguous wide characters separated by any of the wide characters that are part of delimiters.
On a first call, the function expects a C wide strin... | <urn:uuid:1c1f593b-9d31-4f24-8840-0b2a561f8d88> | 3.09375 | 418 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 62.345673 |
Most of the time the Sun is quiet, shining in space beaming out light and heat. But every eleven years it gets cranky – covered in dark spots and fiery eruptions. This is a time called solar maximum, or solar max for short.
The Sun, like all stars, is a big ball of plasma – mostly hydrogen and helium. Because the Sun i... | <urn:uuid:f898e34d-5e55-42f5-af52-8d07f9eb2170> | 3.90625 | 383 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 61.456914 |
Read more: "Climate change: It's even worse than we thought"
If we stopped pumping more CO2 into the atmosphere now, we'd have a very good chance of avoiding a big hike in temperature. But there is no sign of that happening. Annual emissions fell only slightly after 2008 - the biggest financial crisis since the Great D... | <urn:uuid:6e826f14-7a65-4343-8a4b-c5e43875329a> | 2.921875 | 212 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 49.758023 |
Image Formation in Plane Mirrors
Visit The Physics Classroom's Flickr Galleries and enjoy a photo overview of the topic of reflection and mirrors.
Other Multiple Mirror Systems
Besides right angle mirror systems, there is a wealth of other multiple mirror systems that involve two or more mirrors. If two plane mirrors a... | <urn:uuid:fe98da02-3504-494d-96a5-56bbb66acc82> | 4.15625 | 988 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 51.624385 |
AcetylcholinesteraseJune 2004 Molecule of the Month by David Goodsell
doi: 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/mom_2004_6 (PDF Version, ePub Version )
Every time you move a muscle and every time you think a thought, your nerve cells are hard at work. They are processing information: receiving signals, deciding what to do with them, and d... | <urn:uuid:8193161b-d4d0-4139-96ea-f467b0da9b04> | 3.203125 | 1,432 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 33.377597 |
Magma mixing at the El Hierro submarine eruption
The eruption started from a submarine fissure system on 10 October extending in a N-S direction in the submarine prolungation of El Hierro's southern rift zone, beginning at about 6 km distance from La Restinga at depth of 1000 m, until the closest vent at about 2 km dis... | <urn:uuid:e737b328-314a-4728-9beb-3f383f78a3dc> | 3 | 499 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 57.891317 |
Source code: Lib/tokenize.py
The tokenize module provides a lexical scanner for Python source code, implemented in Python. The scanner in this module returns comments as tokens as well, making it useful for implementing “pretty-printers,” including colorizers for on-screen displays.
To simplify token stream handling, a... | <urn:uuid:4b7a8542-e96a-4b38-9af0-aa33cd10d5d9> | 3.15625 | 1,151 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 52.143485 |
Who would ever think that building something to function deep in Antarctica in the middle of winter would be the cheap option?
New Scientist reports that astronomers at the University of New South Wales, Australia, have proposed building a new telescope (an "Extremely Large Telescope," no less, with at least a 30 meter... | <urn:uuid:4c515207-8eae-4175-924d-23638c6c5341> | 3.375 | 531 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 44.326519 |
Jan 31 2013
I know almost nothing about fluid dynamics but my article about wingtip vortices two weeks ago piqued my interest in the subject.
Last weekend I learned about this amazing phenomenon, the von Kármán vortex street, animated above by Cesareo de La Rosa Siqueira.
Von Kármán vortex streets occur when a fluid fl... | <urn:uuid:dbaa9aca-9707-4869-b9ad-8598e27b8646> | 3.265625 | 346 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 57.513156 |
Four years ago, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga from Leicester University showed that single neurons in the brain react selectively to the faces of specific people, including celebrities like Halle Berry, Jennifer Aniston and Bill Clinton. Now, he’s back, describing single neurons that respond selectively to the concept of Sadda... | <urn:uuid:2be2412f-d439-408d-9c06-40280e028e50> | 3.015625 | 585 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 34.479044 |
This will be short but sweet. In the spirit of @J.R answer- (in particular the block section)- the information content of any "word" is most certainly less than that in an equivalent random amount of characters in that word (if one is writing) or syllables (if one is speaking.) As anyone who reads @J.R. block passage w... | <urn:uuid:74b6aa44-69d7-4d37-8e03-2ccff86a8c08> | 2.984375 | 682 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 45.603606 |
On 2001-12-08 09:47, SEG9585 wrote:
Since photons in a wave of light always move at the speed of light, if the frequency of one wave was higher than another, wouldnt the higher-frequency's wave take longer to get somewhere than the light with a lower frequency over a long distance, (on a longitudal line). Since the fre... | <urn:uuid:62fee08e-f3ce-4009-b327-89b884cbb038> | 3.15625 | 162 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 50.926364 |
LINQ stands for Language Integrated Query and it is a set of .Net framework extensions that allow us to query various data sources using a .Net language. There are a couple of different flavors of LINQ:
a) LINQ to SQL: This is for applications that use objects mapped to the database objects.
b) LINQ to Entities: This i... | <urn:uuid:a25045b3-def1-4973-98db-e3ebb3596e83> | 2.921875 | 184 | Knowledge Article | Software Dev. | 61.5325 |
3.1 Systematic Errors
Systematic errors are uncertainties in the bias of the data. A simple example is the zeroing of an instrument such as a voltmeter. If the voltmeter is not correctly zeroed before use, then all values measured by the voltmeter will be biased, i.e., offset by some constant amount or factor. However,... | <urn:uuid:9094e6b4-5afe-4ecd-b518-999222f1de45> | 3.71875 | 279 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 38.967686 |
Offshore cabled seismic arrays can provide early warning systems.
The oceans are the planetary flywheel for our global climate and the underlying boundaries of tectonic plates are the loci for the formation and destruction of Earth's shallow crust. In concert, these forces generate life but also are deadly when they ta... | <urn:uuid:afd2279a-b2ac-4270-bd2b-595b6cb8f02b> | 3.390625 | 357 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 35.419685 |
Details in radiation belts close to Jupiter are mapped from measurements that NASA's Cassini spacecraft made of radio emission from high-energy electrons moving at nearly the speed of light within the belts.
The three views show the belts at different points in Jupiter's 10-hour rotation. A picture of Jupiter is superi... | <urn:uuid:4ec931ba-d1d5-493c-9b14-3b525eb2ea55> | 4.03125 | 323 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 39.68224 |
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- Clustering in heavy ion collisions : why it could happen and how to observe it? (2008)
- We argue that Clustering in heavy ion collisions could be the missing element in resolving the socalled HBT puzzle, and briefly discuss the different physical situations where clustering could be present. We... | <urn:uuid:3f1df0d6-5b37-4c04-b901-4e3f1c9816c3> | 2.734375 | 273 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 20.298443 |
DNA from soil mirrors plant taxonomic and growth form diversity
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