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Pub. date: 2008 | Online Pub. Date: April 25, 2008 | DOI: 10.4135/9781412963893 | Print ISBN: 9781412958783 | Online ISBN: 9781412963893| Publisher:SAGE Publications, Inc.About this encyclopedia
Impacts of Global Warming
IMPACTS FROM THE phenomenon known as global warming include environmental, social, and economic eff... | <urn:uuid:e9b9663e-a503-4a1d-b284-16f1447bf5b3> | 3.9375 | 252 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 30.482857 |
ok but then il try say for x=1 and y=2
i find f(x+y) not equal to f(x)+f(y) which makes 10 not equal 14. so this is not linear also? can someone give me an example of a linear function that works.
......... wait so the these properties cannot be satisfied if there is a constant, but i thought a linear function could be... | <urn:uuid:54ca889c-bbbd-4038-93d3-5cd0cb2dc9f0> | 2.984375 | 167 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 96.373957 |
I am going through Effective Java and some of my things which I consider as standard are not suggested by the book, for instance creation of object, I was under the impression that constructors are the best way of doing it and books says we should make use of static factory methods, I am not able to few some advantages... | <urn:uuid:ec7eb7c4-ee94-46d6-b3a6-a8c0f1b8f37d> | 2.953125 | 301 | Q&A Forum | Software Dev. | 27.404821 |
A "domain specific language" is one in which a class of problems (or solutions to problems) can be expressed succinctly, usually because the vocabulary aligns with the that of the problem domain, and the notation is similar (where possible) to that used by experts that work in the domain.
What this really means is a gr... | <urn:uuid:2d9b3ae0-6feb-41db-8372-2afec1a10b90> | 2.796875 | 235 | Q&A Forum | Software Dev. | 44.52 |
Today, a global warming progress report. The University of Houston's College of Engineering
presents this series about the machines that make our civilization
run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
When I face questions about global warming, it's
usually a struggle to point out that the problem must be kept ... | <urn:uuid:20e81113-3097-40a1-b921-c35da330d771> | 3.125 | 840 | Nonfiction Writing | Science & Tech. | 57.711664 |
In quantum mechanics
Quantum mechanics, also known as quantum physics or quantum theory, is a branch of physics providing a mathematical description of much of the dual particle-like and wave-like behavior and interactions of energy and matter. It departs from classical mechanics primarily at the atomic and subatomic..... | <urn:uuid:516275b6-3f1a-40a3-a982-aa6176296f9e> | 3.390625 | 3,228 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 37.941987 |
ABOUT SNOWFLAKES: Snow is a form of precipitation. Rising warm air carries water vapor high into the sky, where it cools and condenses into water droplets. Some vapor freezes into tiny ice crystals, which can attract cooled water drops to form snowflakes. As snowflakes fall, they may meet warmer air and melt into raind... | <urn:uuid:a0e37488-f43a-4545-b743-364b9bb57970> | 3.890625 | 366 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 31.530721 |
Threats to Frogs
One of the most pressing threats to frogs today is the chytrid fungus, a deadly skin fungus that has moved across the globe causing amphibian declines in Australia, South America, North America, Central America, New Zealand, Europe, and Africa killing frogs by the millions. The chytrid fungus is respon... | <urn:uuid:41cc0e52-1089-47c4-b367-00aac24e3935> | 4 | 408 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 35.836035 |
Creature Spotlight of the Week- OrcaBY EARTHFIRST
The killer whale which is commonly referred to as the orca is a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family. Killer whales are found in all oceans, from the freezing Arctic and Antarctic regions to tropical seas. Killer whales as a species have a diverse diet ... | <urn:uuid:2c91a7e2-624f-4f8f-a586-14d6382e9f2f> | 3.546875 | 241 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 42.82976 |
C14 - The Double Cluster
Algol - Eclipsing Binary Star
Perseus lies along the plane of the Milky Way, but as we view it, we are looking away from the galactic centre, so that there are fewer clusters within its boundaries than when looking towards Sagattarius or Scorpius. However, the two clusters that form the Perseus... | <urn:uuid:d4face32-c368-4fdf-a8be-4dc11dd9121c> | 3 | 890 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 60.366302 |
Lesser Long-nosed Bats:
Nectar-powered Bat Math!
Counting the Calories in Cactus
Contributed by Ginny Dalton, Bat Biologist
Merlin D. Tuttle,BCI
ever wonder: How much energy does it take to operate a bat? How many
flowers must a bat visit to stay alive?
Get ready to count the calories in a cactus flower! After reading ... | <urn:uuid:21b711b3-73d7-4ee0-8113-2f9006242494> | 3.109375 | 1,359 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 69.242251 |
For a transaction to take place between a client and a server, a conversation must be established. A conversation is established when a client makes a request by broadcasting a service name and topic name, and a server responds. Transactions can then take place across the conversation. When no more transactions are to ... | <urn:uuid:ab27fc5f-2d86-45bb-8493-e416cd46d33e> | 3.46875 | 247 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 42.490322 |
Moon Crater Shapes
Date: 1999 - 2000
The craters on the moon are obviously round but
impacts with a grazing incidence should leave a V shaped crater. I would think that some percentage of the impacts would be at shallow angles of attack but this does not appear to be the case in photos.
Have they discovered such crater... | <urn:uuid:b485f2c8-49c9-4268-91c3-d88b5c45c43b> | 4.15625 | 299 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 53.441538 |
The Law of Momentum Conservation
Improve your problem-solving skills with problems, answers and solutions from The Calculator Pad.Flickr Physics
Visit The Physics Classroom's Flickr Galleries and take a visual tour of the topic of momentum and collisions.
Enjoy a rich source of instructional, demonstration and lab idea... | <urn:uuid:9b183fd2-00c9-493b-8c99-e1c8a1a5edc9> | 3.9375 | 2,390 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 60.538752 |
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Question on light intensity at the focus of a lens.
From using a magnifying lens under the Sun, I gather it can focus all or most of the light impinging on its surface area to a small spot and that is how it is able to create a greater intensity light at its focus (disregarding absorption in th... | <urn:uuid:32929577-cba4-4fdd-b572-8d2fe897b09f> | 3.546875 | 753 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 62.022674 |
Scientists study the illusive snow leopard in Northern Afghanistan (The New York Times)
- Snow leopards have the advantage of living in “one of the most remote and isolated mountain landscapes in the world,” away from the human threats other large cats face.
- Increasingly, snow leopards have been eating livestock, and... | <urn:uuid:5db0eaf8-dc27-4e80-b8f1-1935edb19e7d> | 3.125 | 437 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 27.048713 |
Composition of Solutions
Problems and Solutions
Calculate the volume of a 0.753 M sodium hydroxide solution that is neutralized by the addition of 100 mL of a 1.203 M sulfuric acid solution.
If the volume of a 100 L solution of 1.1 moles of hydrogen in 6.0 moles argon is suddenly doubled, what happens to the mole fract... | <urn:uuid:8bcee731-1a98-4d6f-a6e6-b9a1474d0e87> | 2.703125 | 127 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 76.5535 |
Jeanna Bryner LiveScience Staff Writer LiveScience.comWed Mar 21, 4:30 PM ET
The fossil of an ancient amphibious reptile with a crocodile's body and a fish's tail has been unearthed in Oregon. Scientists believe the creature's remains were transported by geologic processes nearly 5,000 miles away from where it original... | <urn:uuid:8ac6ce54-16e9-4a3b-a93c-d6805e297bb6> | 3.46875 | 206 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 34.538077 |
WebRef Update: Featured Article: X(ML) Marks the Spot
X(ML) Marks the Spot
Never before has an Internet development witnessed such rave reviews before thorough implementation and testing as the eXtensible Markup Language (XML). XML is definitely the latest buzzword in the developer community. However, you must crawl be... | <urn:uuid:f2be1028-3e4e-4f08-8e06-dbf40b98a018> | 3.140625 | 1,209 | Truncated | Software Dev. | 67.677158 |
Forecast an El Nino or La Nina!
|You can see if an El Nino or a La Nina is coming!|
|Who hasn't heard of El Nino and la Nina? Almost no one! But who can tell if one of these events that change our weather and climate is coming. Scientists are working to forecast El Nino and La Nina events but as yet our best way to tel... | <urn:uuid:64c95389-69c4-4e78-a832-cba6209b2e46> | 3.734375 | 996 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 68.224935 |
Fixing Potholes with Non-Newtonian Fluid
potholes? Forget waiting around for 5 road workers to stand around and watch
while one guy fills the pothole with asphalt! Just grab a bit of non-Newtonian
fluid and, there – you fixed it:
The students, undergraduates at Case Western Reserve University
in Cleveland, devised the ... | <urn:uuid:5af6453b-641b-45b8-a8d0-06568ad68016> | 3.015625 | 289 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 54.622506 |
Today’s the big day, when Asteroid 2005 YU55 will pass within about 200,000 miles (and come slightly closer to the moon tomorrow) of our fair planet.
This closeness of the approach can be seen in the short movie below (click it to activate).
The very dark asteroid is estimated to measure about 400 meters across. Here’s... | <urn:uuid:b34240de-d4be-4df7-8f7e-a3dc08b94b51> | 3.4375 | 505 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 58.808991 |
Sequencing the DNA in a scoop of dirt can tell scientists what creatures are living nearby, a new study using soil from safari parks shows, and the amount of DNA present can even tell how many individuals of each species there are, which could allow field biologists to get preliminary surveys of species. But though the... | <urn:uuid:046c4c60-e012-45e8-8c8d-b75aba3d33a3> | 3.046875 | 1,074 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 41.204243 |
The following methods can be defined to emulate numeric objects. Methods corresponding to operations that are not supported by the particular kind of number implemented (e.g., bitwise operations for non-integral numbers) should be left undefined.
%, divmod() pow()
|). For instance, to evaluate the expression x
+y, wher... | <urn:uuid:6d180ad6-d124-4b8e-a711-061c7906bcd6> | 3.421875 | 757 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 56.978462 |
Advanced Camera for Surveys
One of the Hubble Space Telescope's advanced instruments is referred to as the ACS.
Hubble's newest science instrument-the Advanced Camera for Surveys - brought the telescope into the 21st century. With its wider field of view, sharper image quality, and enhanced sensitivity, the new camera ... | <urn:uuid:7b9f7faf-9823-4b57-9216-9451009c13ca> | 3.59375 | 400 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 32.185344 |
Tides of Change
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|Mark Schneider; SCORE Mathematics|
|This lessons deals with collecting data, charting data, and interpreting data, based on the changing ocean tide. Aligned to the California State Standards. From the Schools of California Online ... | <urn:uuid:f4cb62dd-863e-4105-980c-8756226d113d> | 2.953125 | 149 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 26.450887 |
Ask the user what's her name
When prompting the user with a question it is probably the best to use the prompt function. Similarly to say it prints to the screen, but without the newline at the end. Then it waits for the user to type in something.
It reads up to the ENTER the user presses, but passes over only the the ... | <urn:uuid:df63d47e-82b0-4502-86dd-dc9c8a4569c3> | 2.921875 | 141 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 69.399524 |
According to the USGS, the total energy from an earthquake includes energy required to create new cracks in rock, energy dissipated as heat through friction, and energy elastically radiated through the earth. Of these, the only quantity that can be measured is that which is radiated through the earth. It is the radiate... | <urn:uuid:d8a12e13-5e3f-45af-9e05-cbfbeaf883f1> | 3.625 | 120 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 32.564 |
The meteor that slammed into Russia in February injured about 1,000 people and freaked out many more. Recent months have highlighted the danger of larger space objects that could bring doomsday if they collide with our planet.
Aside from death and taxes, there's another thing certain in life: meteors. To get a historic... | <urn:uuid:83832394-1775-42ae-9db8-8eac0782a93f> | 3.515625 | 1,033 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 56.716944 |
Effect of Hypersonic Speeds
Recently, intense research has gone into the development of planes that can fly at hypersonic speeds, approximately five times or more than the speed of sound. At these speeds the properties of air change radically; there is a rapid increase in temperature associated with the air flowing at ... | <urn:uuid:2bce410d-bbcd-4d4b-9a28-a446f5d0b13f> | 3.765625 | 148 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 55.905357 |
The following procedures raise, handle and wait for signals.
Scheme code signal handlers are run via a system async (see System asyncs), so they’re called in the handler’s thread at the next safe opportunity. Generally this is after any currently executing primitive procedure finishes (which could be a long time for pr... | <urn:uuid:d7170610-df81-4a15-a7a0-8613d9334e2e> | 2.96875 | 1,236 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 47.244207 |
The Trojan asteroids lie in Jupiter's orbit equidistant from Jupiter and the sun. They are an example of what is known as the restricted three-body problem: the motion of a small body, an asteroid, under the influence of two massive bodies whose motion is not affected by the presence of the asteroid. The gravitational ... | <urn:uuid:6f3ce9dc-a162-41b8-a378-42a369a5def2> | 3.796875 | 1,236 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 50.43042 |
In general, the TOC is determined by oxidizing a water sample. The produced CO2 is detected and defined quantitatively. However, not all methods succeed in the complete oxidation of a sample. Often enough this may result only in SOC (Some Organic Carbon) instead of the TOC.
With this oxidation method the sample will be... | <urn:uuid:02ba6c77-3758-4f96-a3c5-57e73541cecc> | 2.71875 | 715 | Documentation | Science & Tech. | 32.119411 |
The integrating power of the eye has been tested for short flashes of light, ranging in duration from 10-2 to 8 × 10-9 sec. The shorter flashes were produced by passing the image of the straight filament of an electric lamp across a narrow slit, the light having been reflected from a mirror mounted on an air-driven tur... | <urn:uuid:8b63c035-96b4-4881-8a5a-f7c76b74fc8a> | 3.171875 | 198 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 73.021389 |
Posted 14 September 2010 - 02:49 PM
We know that a six base pair sequence AGAATA occurs 1 time in 4096 nucleotides [ (1/4)^6 = 4096 ] correct?
Let's say we have a DNA library that is 50,000 base pairs in total (small library of 50 clones to keep numbers small) it should occur roughly ~12 times [ 50000/4096 = 12.2 ] wit... | <urn:uuid:23e83e71-27ba-4d90-a99e-54022cb39fc7> | 2.8125 | 262 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 85.931199 |
by Staff Writers
Durham NC (SPX) Nov 23, 2011
If you're a snack-sized squid or octopus living in the ocean zone where the last bit of daylight gives way, having some control over your reflection could be a matter of life and death.
Most predators cruising 600 to 1,000 meters below the surface spot the silhouette of the... | <urn:uuid:b3341e2f-d121-453d-99d3-f68a7c16e1e3> | 3.40625 | 910 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 44.679049 |
These pictures were taken 13 November 2005 at about 1:15 PM from the bay shore on the UW-Green Bay. Water levels in Green Bay dropped more than 3 feet from strong southwest to northeast winds.
Point Sable is shown at the horizon.
Bay Beach and the power plant near the mouth of the Fox River in Green Bay, WI.
( source: ... | <urn:uuid:0fcc547e-d988-422d-a639-cfcebeeb5bfb> | 2.9375 | 320 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 84.161987 |
Size Adult females may attain a body length of 56 mm and males 47 mm.
Description The adult frog has a somewhat flattened body; an eye with a dark, horizontal band running through it and a vertically elliptical pupil; and long limbs with large, spatulate adhesive pads at the tips of the fingers and toes. While the fing... | <urn:uuid:79ca8b7a-838d-4030-9fff-d37b3895249e> | 3 | 775 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 48.637492 |
Oddities of Physics (Oct, 1937)
Oddities of Physics
Science is much closer to our daily lives than many of us believe. Some of the simplest phenomena and everyday occurrences which do not strike one as of any particular interest, abound with scientific explanations.
WHO would imagine, when watching soldiers marching ac... | <urn:uuid:df45235b-2e7c-425e-a092-456287ff6504> | 3.09375 | 1,774 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 64.020219 |
An accessor method is an instance method that gets or sets the value of a property of an object. In Cocoa’s terminology, a method that retrieves the value of an object’s property is referred to as a getter method, or “getter;” a method that changes the value of an object’s property is referred to as a setter method, or... | <urn:uuid:fa5c2fa1-af36-4ff5-8788-a254b8275e51> | 4.3125 | 334 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 33.366527 |
In addition to using data manipulation statements directly, as just described, it is also possible to manipulate table data by calling a procedure. Procedures perform the specific data manipulations laid out in the procedure definition.
Any SQL statement in the grouping procedural-sql-statement, see the Mimer SQL Refer... | <urn:uuid:8183da38-272d-4f14-8018-c0e29c672f1b> | 2.71875 | 418 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 24.696794 |
File:Recent Sea Level Rise.png
From Global Warming Art
This figure shows the change in annually averaged sea level at 23 geologically stable tide gauge sites with long-term records as selected by Douglas (1997). The thick dark line is a three-year moving average of the instrumental records. This data indicates a sea le... | <urn:uuid:f043ae14-22cc-4ca6-b2ac-331ed18bcea0> | 3.484375 | 821 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 45.548251 |
Your municipality withdraws 10,000 gallons per day from an aquifer that originally held 1,000,000 gallons. The recharge rate to the aquifer is 2,000 gallons per day. How long will it take before the aquifer is depleted?
You have to make an equation that relates the amount of water (w) in the aquafier to time (t).
Start... | <urn:uuid:84be61a4-9360-49ee-9102-e14d330dd196> | 3.09375 | 151 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 61.215 |
This image shows water quality changes in the Gulf of Mexico. Reds and oranges represent high concentrations of algae and river sediment. Under certain conditions excessive algal growth can result in a "dead zone" of low oxygen.
Credit (via NASA/Goddard Conceptual Image Lab)
An illustration of the flow of water from tr... | <urn:uuid:10f4c9b4-0718-4564-b799-a790e9ed9d70> | 3.140625 | 105 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 38.113711 |
Identifying time lags in the restoration of grassland butterfly communities: a multi-site assessment
Woodcock, B.A.; Bullock, J.M.; Mortimer, S.R.; Brereton, T.; Redhead, J.W.; Thomas, J.A.; Pywell, R.F.. 2012 Identifying time lags in the restoration of grassland butterfly communities: a multi-site assessment. Biologic... | <urn:uuid:4cc9b21b-9ac9-4733-b1e7-35a758cedd90> | 2.84375 | 497 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 31.319651 |
A November 2, 1979 article by John Yemma in the Christian Science Monitor outlined Jesco Von Puttkamer's vision of America's future in space. Von Puttkamer was a planner for NASA and even consulted on the first Star Trek movie.
By the late '80s or early '90s, a huge solar power satellite may be constructed to beam micr... | <urn:uuid:540d8913-8456-469f-96ff-0b4740cd2aa5> | 3.125 | 138 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 49.580369 |
If you take a bunch of random particles and put them together, why should a pole form on each side of this collection?
Some particles already have a magnetic field. Many particles are polar, such that they will orient themselves in a magnetic field. If you jumble them all together, they will self align, and eventually ... | <urn:uuid:56a7c8f9-ece0-406d-acf3-3311fe68c27b> | 3.5625 | 307 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 48.958142 |
…is a smaller species of oceanic sunfish found in tropical and temperate seas worldwide. Like its more well known relative M. mola the slender sunfish is pelagic and roams the vast oceans feeding on jellyfish. Also like most molids the slender sunfish will recruit other animals like cleaner fish and seabirds to pick pa... | <urn:uuid:c5361d60-74f0-4148-9149-036087fb5d09> | 3.75 | 853 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 51.327209 |
Sorry for the delay; it’s getting crowded around here again.
Anyway, an irreducible module for a Lie algebra is a pretty straightforward concept: it’s a module such that its only submodules are and . As usual, Schur’s lemma tells us that any morphism between two irreducible modules is either or an isomorphism. And, as ... | <urn:uuid:6f079210-a79b-44cf-96f8-e099ba38271d> | 2.703125 | 220 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 37.340802 |
No coal fired power stations. No SUV’s.
And they are warning the planet's atmosphere could have similar levels of the greenhouse gas within hundreds of years.
An international team led by German scientists and involving University of Queensland Environmental Geologist Dr Kevin Welsh has found tropical palms grew on the... | <urn:uuid:30bc0048-2d31-4c07-afe0-15786ed57ea5> | 3.765625 | 1,080 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 41.273169 |
Heat escape routes
Take a look at this diagram showing heat loss from a house.
Heat energy is transferred from homes through the
Examples of convective losses: cold air can enter the house through gaps in doors and windows, and convection currents can transfer heat energy in the loft to the roof tiles.
Heat energy also... | <urn:uuid:183e5efc-3b83-47f6-867c-8661256d209c> | 4 | 385 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 54.938824 |
The Unicode Standard, Version 2.0 (TUS2.0) provides different ways to encode accented characters, either decomposed (a combining character sequence [CCS]) or composed (as a single precomposed character). For example, the following are equivalent:
|Ã||A + ~|
The TUS2.0 specifies an algorithm for determining whether any ... | <urn:uuid:9f958add-2fd0-4d46-8105-6110fc8ebcca> | 3 | 850 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 34.731385 |
Weaver Ants, Oecophylla spp.
This Order of insects include sawflies, horntails, wood wasps, ensign wasps, Ichneumonids, fairyflies, fig wasps, chalcids, gall wasps, cuckoo wasps, yellow-faced bees, sweat bees, leafcutter bees, carpenter bees, honey bees, bumble bees, orchid bees, velvet ants, spider wasps, paper wasps,... | <urn:uuid:2e1a4015-06d3-4507-a13d-66ca4ca5855a> | 3.84375 | 216 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 31.600294 |
UAVSAR: An Airborne Window on Earth Surface Deformation
Jan. 20 & 21
The Earth's surface is constantly undergoing surface deformation at the millimeter to meter scale both from natural forces such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and glacier motion and from anthropogenic causes such as oil and ground water pumping.
From Crus... | <urn:uuid:0e941192-95b9-447e-ba95-2c4b1910758d> | 3.515625 | 722 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.439142 |
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Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia
4.9 OCEAN ACIDIFICATION
... | <urn:uuid:3e031665-0ef1-403c-997c-5c389ce54d7b> | 3.15625 | 503 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 29.897243 |
THE Japanese government is planning to build two deep holes vertically into the ground. The largest, 720 metres deep, will be in a disused coal mine in the northern island of Hokkaido and, from summer next year, you will be able to drop up to 1 tonne down the shaft for only 800 000 yen (about Pounds sterling 3000).
The... | <urn:uuid:c6706d13-2453-4037-9d48-2f89ff17cf77> | 3.5 | 204 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 63.08037 |
Use of RNA:DNA ratios for assessing secondary production of planktonic food webs effects of temperature, salinity, food and heavy metals /
Abstract (Summary)Acartia tonsa is a dominant copepod in coastal waters and is an important link in the food web between microplankton and higher trophic levels. RNA:DNA ratios have... | <urn:uuid:75ddf350-00f0-4913-95b0-2da1f15a3b0b> | 3.390625 | 330 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 34.88186 |
Constructing an octahedron and Kepler's conjecture To make an interesting skeletal model of an octahedron, start with 12 identical squares of paper or light card.
Net for the octahedron Downloaded from http: // mathworld. wolfram. com / pdf / Octahedron. pdf For more information, see the MathWorld entry http: // mathwo... | <urn:uuid:4609f201-efc1-4e08-8c9f-87ebe3e2ea74> | 3.8125 | 497 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 31.837121 |
Treading Heavily on the Environment: China's Growing Eco-Footprint Highlighted in New Report
photo by Sheila via flickr
We've written about the concept of Eco-Footprint a number of times--what it is, how to calculate it, and how to reduce yours--and with the Olympics upon us it comes as no surprise that China's environ... | <urn:uuid:a71cbc30-cd29-430f-8b78-f08c2763a387> | 2.78125 | 1,097 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 31.015367 |
Classical General Relativity in more than four spacetime dimensions has been the subject of increasing attention in recent years. Among the reasons why it should be interesting to study this extension of Einstein’s theory, and in particular its black hole solutions, we may mention that
- String theory contains gravity ... | <urn:uuid:152ce7f1-8d02-4546-a969-0b59a15efdeb> | 2.765625 | 560 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 27.993433 |
Panama’s San Lorenzo forest reserve is around the size of Manhattan. For two years, this small area was host to 102 scientists, working together to count everything that crept and crawled. They came from 17 countries, and converged upon a half-hectare of the forest, about the size of half a rugby pitch. They dug into t... | <urn:uuid:02aa08dd-851d-4e0d-b30a-d216d7782699> | 3.828125 | 2,756 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 55.634264 |
Nonlinear Complex Resistivity
complex resistivity (NLCR) is a geophysical method of stimulating materials
with an electrical current sine wave of variable frequency and measuring
the voltage response. The ratio of the amplitudes of the voltage
to the current normalized by the geometry of the electrodes is the magnitude... | <urn:uuid:48c7089b-7243-45b2-9ab7-c054ed071daf> | 3.28125 | 339 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 20.921333 |
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Dealing with Data: A 'Simple' Linear Fit
[Note: The activities in this module make reference to the computer algebra system (CAS) Maple. Any other CAS can be used instead (e.g., Mathematica, Mathcad... | <urn:uuid:3afc882f-3743-40dc-b6ea-15777e6ec5c4> | 3.484375 | 1,704 | Documentation | Science & Tech. | 53.700603 |
Arcs, Cevians, Tangents
Theorem 4.5 The lines tangent to the circumcircle of a triangle at its vertices cut the opposite sides in three collinear points.
The proof in the text is as follows: Let the tangent to the circumcircle at A meet line BC at L. Then Angle BAL is congruent to angle C since each angle is measured b... | <urn:uuid:a48c710c-cee8-4d73-8702-0f1548da2c2b> | 3.375 | 318 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 71.270484 |
|El NiƱo-Southern Oscillation
The most common way of monitoring the El NiƱo-Southern Oscillation phase is by looking at sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. The animated map below shows sea surface temperature anomalies over the past three months. Warm/positive anomalies are associated with the E... | <urn:uuid:5e01c03d-a1e5-4b30-abfe-34ab14544b5c> | 3.28125 | 323 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 27.113896 |
The manned research submersible Alvin.
September 8 - October 1, 2001
The Deep East Expedition completed its field season on October 1. Scientists explored three regions of the Atlantic Ocean, from Maine to Georgia, including the submarine canyons of Georges Bank and Bear Seamount off the New England coast; Hudson Subma... | <urn:uuid:25d2e1c4-c7e1-4ead-a970-89b1a6a25b89> | 3.40625 | 2,884 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 51.487519 |
Ion strings make brilliant beams
Aug 15, 2001
Physicists have long struggled to combat heating in the ion beams used in high-energy experiments. Laser cooling can be used to reduce collisions between the ions, which create heat and reduce the energy of the beam. Now Ulrich Schramm and colleagues at the University of Mü... | <urn:uuid:bc6e3879-d2fd-478e-832b-124df80bfc06> | 3.59375 | 529 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 42.617974 |
A range of designs have been proposed for space habitats. Some appear to be mostly artistic concepts, others are much more serious. They include:
(From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_habitat)
- Bernal sphere - "Island One", a spherical habitat for about 20,000 people.
- Stanford torus - A larger alternati... | <urn:uuid:6a270838-120e-4dc2-bbe9-cf890b8f9054> | 3.375 | 2,625 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 55.352559 |
Layzej writes "Two new papers indicate that we are likely already seeing some of the predicted impacts of global warming. The first used Monte Carlo simulations to analyze how many new record events you expect to see in a time series with a trend. They applied the technique to the unprecedented Russian heat wave of Jul... | <urn:uuid:346d42c8-2bb5-4cf2-a2d3-bddeacb77888> | 2.9375 | 175 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 36.036644 |
SLOSH (Sea, Lake and Overland Surges from Hurricanes) is a computerized model run by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) to estimate storm surge heights and winds resulting from historical, hypothetical, or predicted hurricanes by taking into account pressure, size, forward speed, track and winds.
Graphical output (124... | <urn:uuid:5e904fc9-0c1a-484f-87b9-b790d6416511> | 3.234375 | 462 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 35.896066 |
Sci. STKE, 12 September 2006
PLANT BIOLOGY Touché! Plants and Bacteria Battle at Leaf Pores
Plants have special openings on the surface of the leaf known as stomata, which allow gas exchange essential for respiration and osmotic balance. However, the stomata also provide a route by which infectious bacteria can gain ac... | <urn:uuid:5f6a3fc9-0fad-4906-89a7-fe02130381e2> | 3.515625 | 493 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 43.048826 |
This, from the free daily UK paper called the Metro:
- "If you felt a bit soggy while walking through the snow this week, it's because your relatives were sponges. Well, your ancestors who lived 635 million years ago were.
Mankind is thought to have evolved from primitive sea sponges, according to a study of fossils fo... | <urn:uuid:6e02f333-c3d3-43c0-a9cc-020297cd2558> | 3.125 | 523 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 47.497408 |
WordCount Example in Python
The program reads text files and counts how often words occur. The input is text files and the output is text files, each line of which contains a word and the count of how often it occured, separated by a tab. To create some input, take your a directory of text files and put it into DFS.
bi... | <urn:uuid:84d7d53e-7a88-4b17-817f-c836c9ec7b43> | 3.546875 | 288 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 76.271389 |
Fluid Thread Patterns
Thin threads of fluids show how conveyor belt speeds control fluid pattern behavior in both experiments and models. A thin thread of viscous fluid (translucent threads at left) is poured onto a moving belt, creating a dazzling array of intricate patterns. Simulations (gold threads at right) reprod... | <urn:uuid:a6b79502-7ba7-46fb-a1c2-3dd995d5c3ea> | 3.421875 | 109 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 34.683 |
In this blog i have explained OOPS Features of C# in brief to help new comer's to crack an interview,i have explained these feature in brief because of focsing on new comer's to give them a idea how to answer thes questions which are often asked in an interview .
programming in which data is logically represented in th... | <urn:uuid:886541f2-eb3a-4752-b999-da437f733bce> | 3.359375 | 587 | Personal Blog | Software Dev. | 49.700203 |
Nematodes are nonsegmented roundworms that are abundant in freshwater lakes. Nematodes often comprise 15% of the total biomass on lake bottoms. This reflects the incredible abundance of these organisms, since most only grow to a maximum length of a centimeter.
Life stages of these species are often as complex as they a... | <urn:uuid:692fb250-5513-48d8-9012-6601c442388e> | 4.21875 | 1,162 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 32.649554 |
Predation Did Not Come from Evolution
by Daniel Criswell, Ph.D. *
Although the origin of predation is poorly understood, it is incorrect to attribute to young-earth creation the assertion that predatory animals quickly and recently evolved the physical features necessary for predation. It is a common fallacy that carni... | <urn:uuid:7c3ae2d6-280f-4242-becc-3823e717b85e> | 3.453125 | 931 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 43.610463 |
SWADDLED in a cloud of dust and gas, a baby solar system 450 light years away offers one of the best peeks yet at what our sun may have looked like in its infancy. The star is surrounded by enough raw material to build at least seven Jupiter-sized planets.
But it was unclear from previous studies whether the disc of de... | <urn:uuid:bd4e97be-5a07-4e0f-bebe-669f6473ee53> | 3.234375 | 276 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 45.490964 |
Air Pressure and Resistance
Name: Loretta H.
Is there a relationship between air pressure and air
resistance? Recently, I had said that the air resistance acting on a
falling object is actually the air pressure that is acting on the object.
This did not sound right. Air pressure that is acting on an object is I
know a ... | <urn:uuid:06d4b085-8c24-4c00-8131-bf1405beaba3> | 3.40625 | 1,390 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 53.916471 |
Mathematica Notebook for This Page.
All trignometric functions sine, cosine, tangent, secant, cosecant, cotangent can all be simply defined in terms of a single function sine. Sine, as associated with trigonometry, began in early civilization as a very important measuring science. When the function concept and calculus... | <urn:uuid:045fd621-b315-45a4-b532-be448460ba76> | 4.125 | 544 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 48.515928 |
Serving wine usually involves a rather elaborate ceremony in which the host tastes the wine before pouring it for the guests. One reason for this is the possibility that the wine may have been spoiled by exposure to air.
Certain bacterial enzymes are capable of converting ethanol to ethanoic acidIn Arrhenius theory, a ... | <urn:uuid:e66e40a8-9165-40c0-9c90-f4295980351d> | 3.515625 | 1,194 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 32.01548 |
Just to clear up a common misconception, one that seems to be at the root of every newcomer's approach to coding for standards, you do not use divs instead of tables. That's important enough to repeat, "you do not use divs instead of tables".
What do you use? You use well structured, semantic and well formed html inste... | <urn:uuid:9d2852e2-12ae-406e-8b2b-a3c32618f5e4> | 2.765625 | 267 | Personal Blog | Software Dev. | 58.425177 |
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Clerk Maxwell ( 1831-1879 )
14 India Street
epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell."
"The special theory
of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's
equations of the electromagnetic field."
James Clerk Maxwell was one of the greatest scientists and
mathematicians of the 19th century. With... | <urn:uuid:944e23b5-e2d2-48db-9603-b8e7fe4abc96> | 3.203125 | 1,160 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 47.083809 |
#include <stdlib.h>char *getpass(const char *prompt);
#include <unistd.h>char *getpass(const char *prompt);
The getpass() function opens the process's controlling terminal, writes to that device the null-terminated string prompt, disables echoing, reads a string of characters up to the next newline character or EOF, re... | <urn:uuid:1960dbfd-a7c7-471a-bfcb-14f2049c3a7a> | 3.015625 | 323 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 43.052737 |
The Application Programmer's Interface to Python gives C and C++ programmers access to the Python interpreter at a variety of levels. The API is equally usable from C++, but for brevity it is generally referred to as the Python/C API. There are two fundamentally different reasons for using the Python/C API. The first r... | <urn:uuid:da5fb3b0-48cd-4024-9047-45131b2274e3> | 2.96875 | 244 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 28.808571 |
Partition function (statistical mechanics)
In physics, a partition function describes the statistical properties of a system in thermodynamic equilibrium. They are functions of temperature and other parameters, such as the volume enclosing a gas. Most of the aggregate thermodynamic variables of the system, such as the ... | <urn:uuid:2d23088a-355c-4d5a-89fb-97e7d23e4b29> | 3.453125 | 2,195 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 30.677008 |
sth is right. You can also use os.popen(), but where available (Python 2.4+) subprocess is generally preferable.
However, unlike some languages that encourage it, it's generally considered bad form to spawn a subprocess where you can do the same job inside the language. It's slower, less reliable and platform-dependent... | <urn:uuid:ce066de4-b043-45a7-a206-5c651d394563> | 3.09375 | 228 | Q&A Forum | Software Dev. | 73.124533 |
Our Solar System: In Order From the Sun
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The sixth planet from the Sun is the majestic Saturn. It takes 29 years for Saturn to make one trip around the Sun. Orbiting this giant, gas-filled planet are its famous rings. The rings are a collection of billions of boulder-sized chunks of ice. Saturn's intense gravita... | <urn:uuid:b13dd7f6-d747-409d-9fd4-1edc25b78540> | 3.015625 | 104 | Listicle | Science & Tech. | 66.732143 |
A reentrant lock is one where a process can claim the lock multiple times without blocking on itself. It's useful in situations where it's not easy to keep track of whether you've already grabbed a lock. If a lock is non re-entrant you could grab the lock, then block when you go to grab it again, effectively deadlockin... | <urn:uuid:c78af1d7-ca10-4975-a938-d2dea12b4a6b> | 3.0625 | 622 | Q&A Forum | Software Dev. | 50.108782 |
Coastal & Marine Geology InfoBank
Our Mapping Systems
The USGS and Science Education
USGS Fact Sheets
ground penetrating radar
Comment: 11:53 - 13:06 (01:13)
Source: Annenberg/CPB Resources - Earth Revealed - 4. The Sea Floor
Keywords: subduction, "Grand Canyon", vessel, instrument, "camel-grab", "box corer", "James Sa... | <urn:uuid:42b1e945-abcd-4ae4-9b84-8465df6d50b2> | 4.03125 | 343 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 37.567739 |
In the 1920s, examining photographic plates from the
Mt. Wilson Observatory's
100 inch telescope,
Edwin Hubble determined the distance to the
decisively demonstrating the existence of other galaxies far beyond
the Milky Way.
His notations are evident on the historic plate image
inset at the lower right, shown in contex... | <urn:uuid:c4a12908-519a-4291-bce8-43604a6d0a46> | 3.984375 | 294 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 42.238893 |
Isentropic LiftLifting of air that is traveling along an upward-sloping isentropic surface.
Isentropic lift often is referred to erroneously as overrunning, but more accurately describes the physical process by which the lifting occurs. Situations involving isentropic lift often are characterized by widespread stratifo... | <urn:uuid:1fc62f10-767f-404c-a08f-e128aea15f12> | 2.71875 | 139 | Structured Data | Science & Tech. | 47.450708 |
Physics and Star WarsThe Interstellar triology, Star Wars, uses science and technology in their settings and storylines, though they were not considered "hard" science fiction. Star Wars concentrates mainly on the epic drama and not on the "technobabble". It has borrowed freely from the scientific world. The series has... | <urn:uuid:fbff2c91-3597-4911-8675-20a68a31984e> | 2.9375 | 254 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 29.614286 |
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- Vaisala WXT520: Weather station designed... | <urn:uuid:5d0ce22a-9aa6-4c66-adbf-27f73a5aaf44> | 3.09375 | 1,163 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 37.247121 |
The functions described in this section (
printf and related
functions) provide a convenient way to perform formatted output. You
printf with a format string or template string
that specifies how to format the values of the remaining arguments.
Unless your program is a filter that specifically performs line- or
charact... | <urn:uuid:c91e3746-12cd-405b-bf1b-7be5876c989e> | 3.03125 | 114 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 32.207486 |
Doomsday and the Big Bang Experiment
It is expected that nuclear research known as CERN experiment will reveal how the universe was created. Everything depends on the success of the experiment. This is the world's largest experiment which may have positive or negative outcomes. This may cost lives of human beings or di... | <urn:uuid:cdc80be4-639f-4d09-a1b1-90fe3885d28a> | 3.03125 | 310 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 42.946238 |
ISAAC ASIMOV would probably have been horrified at the experiments under way in a robotics lab in Slovenia. There, a powerful robot has been hitting people over and over again in a bid to induce anything from mild to unbearable pain - in apparent defiance of the late sci-fi sage's famed first law of robotics, which sta... | <urn:uuid:b6a4c306-eee3-4d8c-9832-8b5d0fbc9bd6> | 3.328125 | 1,102 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 48.718808 |
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Eric, bacteria convert organic matter to CO2 *after* the organism has died. As long as the plants are alive and growing, they won't get the chance. So: arctic summer- air temperature's warm enough to have plants growing- bacteria don't touch live plan... | <urn:uuid:7d11046d-dcbc-4263-b526-c0ebca3365d8> | 3.375 | 188 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 38.251884 |
In Java, thread scheduler can use the thread priorities in the form of integer value to each of its thread to determine the execution schedule of threads . Thread gets the ready-to-run state according to their priorities.
This page discusses - Synchronized Threads.
Multithreading in Java
This page discusses - Multithre... | <urn:uuid:a1d3e8da-fdfc-4674-a483-50916bdd4005> | 3.5625 | 122 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 37.189951 |
by Elizabeth K. Gardner
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 02, 2011
A drop in carbon dioxide appears to be the driving force that led to the Antarctic ice sheet's formation, according to a recent study led by scientists at Yale and Purdue universities of molecules from ancient algae found in deep-sea core samples.
The key rol... | <urn:uuid:382c9246-8d43-4e94-ba3d-d659ff4d79b6> | 3.28125 | 1,658 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 35.658527 |