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ORS 4 (Octahedral Research Satellite 4), also known as Environmental Research Satellite-18 (ERS-18), was launched on 28 April 1967. The elliptical orbit had an apogee of 111,553 km, a perigee of 8631 km, and an inclination of 32.9 degrees. The orbital period was 2840 minutes. The spacecraft was a spin stabilized octahe...
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1. What is .NET Framework? .NET Framework is a complete environment that allows developers to develop, run, and deploy the following applications: .NET Framework also enables a developer to create sharable components to be used in distributed computing architecture. NET Framework supports the object-oriented programmin...
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They Might Be Giants We don't even have a jar big enough to catch it in." Those were the first words out of my mother's mouth when she saw the giant moth. About 5 or 6 inches wide in wingspan, it was fluttering against a tiled wall-in our bathroom, of all places. It appeared to be covered with something resembling gree...
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What is EXAMPLES OF ECOLOGICAL BACKLASH? Some examples of ecological backlash: Pest control resistance- bugs become immune to treatments and chemicals Effects of an oil spill on the enviroment- loss of fish, dirty ... What is ECOLOGICAL BACKLASH EXAMPLES? Mr What will tell you the definition or meaning of What is ECOLO...
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In the previous article we introduced Schrödinger's equation and its solution, the wave function, which contains all the information there is to know about a quantum system. Now it's time to see the equation in action, using a very simple physical system as an example. We'll also look at another weird phenomenon called...
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Peering though layers of the Sun Using two STEREO instruments that view the Sun in extreme UV light, we can combine frames taken at about the same time and see features from both. The focus of interest here iss an active region coming around the edge of the Sun on February 23, 2008. We are comparing the emission which ...
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Science Fair Project Encyclopedia - This article is about the components of sound, harmonics. See also: Harmony. In mathematics, see harmonic (mathematics). These two concepts are related, as the mathematical theory describes the vibrations of strings and air. In acoustics and telecommunication, the harmonic of a wave ...
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- Navigational mechanisms of migrating monarch butterflies Trends in Neurosciences, Volume 33, Issue 9, 1 September 2010, Pages 399-406 Steven M. Reppert, Robert J. Gegear and Christine Merlin AbstractRecent studies of the iconic fall migration of monarch butterflies have illuminated the mechanisms behind their southwa...
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Under the top-level Window object, comes the Document object. This object represents the head and body of the HTML page loaded in the browser, including all its images, forms and links. Like the Window object, this one too comes with its own methods and properties. One of the Document object's commonly-used properties ...
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Browsing 100 - 110 results of 235 programs for subject - Geology/Earth Science Climate researcher Billy D'Andrea and colleagues explore the remote "back lakes" of Greenland. To understand how Earth’s climate system has changed over time, scientists need to find, develop and use natural recorders of temperature and prec...
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Look up monthly U.S., Statewide, Divisional, and Regional Temperature, Precipitation, Degree Days, and Palmer (Drought) rankings for 1-12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 60-month, and Year-to-Date time periods. Data and statistics are as of January 1895. Please note, Degree Days are not available for Agricultural Belts Contiguous U.S...
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That would be something, but as the UN Environment Programme pointed out this month, those current commitments are nowhere near enough to cap warming at 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, which many regard as the maximum "safe" warming. Fearing the worst, leading climate scientists at a conference in Oxford, UK, last ye...
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Can information out speed light? Date: Around 1993 According the theory of relativity, nothing can surpass the speed of light, even the flow of information. But what of events that necessarily take place instantaneously? Ex: An object moves, and the gravitational force instantly changes proportionately a light-year awa...
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.TH CMPDYLIB 1 "November 3, 1997" "Apple Computer, Inc." .SH NAME cmpdylib \- compare two dynamic shared libraries for compatibility .SH SYNOPSIS .B cmpdylib .I oldLibrary .I newLibrary .SH DESCRIPTION .B cmpdylib compares two versions of a dynamic shared library to see if they are compatible with each other. If the tw...
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Intercellular Air Space The ubiquity of interconnected air-filed intercellular spaces in thick plant tissues were demonstrated over 90 years ago, wherein such spaces are present in almost every plant tissue – both thick and thin —but received remarkably little attention in research and textbooks. The intercellular air ...
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Now that looks like fun. Of course we intuitively know it's completely fake, and involves the usual videographic sleight of hand, but let's apply some basic physics to the situation to check our intuition. First of all, the "diver," after being launched off the ramp, travels a horizontal distance of at least 50 meters ...
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There are about 150 species of army ants in the New World (i.e. North, South and central America). They are all classified in the ant sub family Ecitonini. Although army ant species are found from Kansas to Argentina, few people in North America realize that there are plenty of army ants living in the US because most a...
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Data reported by the weather station: 916910 (NFNK) Latitude: -18.23 | Longitude: -178.8 | Altitude: 2 |Main||Year 1980 climate||Select a month| To calculate annual averages, we analyzed data of 364 days (99.45% of year). If in the average or annual total of some data is missing information of 10 or more days, this is ...
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The neutrino mass measurement should cause a revised estimate of "omega," the mass density of the universe. But so far, I haven't seen anything to suggest that this measurement will either make, or break, inflation theory. (There are other, independent measurements which set limits on the mass density and the "cosmolog...
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Modern languages, like Fantom and Scala are ditching the Java like Threading model for an Actor based model. So is there something wrong with Threads? Why do we need actors? Turns out that it’s really simple. There is nothing wrong with threads in java. Its just that variables are shared between threads. Each thread ca...
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Metamaterials and the possibility of negative refraction are interesting, but before industries based on classical and quantum electrodynamics can take them seriously, questions of faster-than-light propagation must be addressed. A negative value of n is required so that the velocity reverses Snell's Law of refraction,...
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Dust Stream From Comet Tempel 1 Photograph courtesy NASA, ESA, P. Feldman (Johns Hopkins University) and H. Weaver (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory) A new jet of dust streams from the icy nucleus of the Tempel 1 comet, caught in this Hubble Space Telescope image. The jet extends about 1,400 miles (2...
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The electric potential, which I will denote by $\Phi$, is originally defined by the following relation to the electric field (if the math is unfamiliar, don't worry I'm just including it for completeness) \mathbf E = -\nabla \Phi One consequence of this is that The electric potential is only defined up to an additive c...
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I know that there's a difference between relativistic rest mass. Relativistic mass is "acquired" when an object is moving at speeds comparable to the speed of light.Rest mass is the inherent mass that ... If photons are spin-1 bosons, then doesn't quantum mechanics imply that the allowed values for the z-component of s...
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Oct. 3 , 2006: In June 1912, Novarupta—one of a chain of volcanoes on the Alaska Peninsula—erupted in what turned out to be the largest blast of the twentieth century. It was so powerful that it drained magma from under another volcano, Mount Katmai, six miles east, causing the summit of Katmai to collapse to form a ca...
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Poly Area Architecture and Organization The architecture focuses on separating the UI code from the algorithmic code to accomodate testing and also potential replacement of the low-level graphic library (PyGame). In addition, there is a little module called config.py that lets users configure the look-and-feel. There a...
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Sea level rise of more than 3 feet plausible by 2100 Melting glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland may push up global sea levels more than 3 feet by the end of this century, according to a scientific poll of experts that brings a degree of clarity to a murky and controversial slice of climate science. Such a rise in the...
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brewer's yeast: see yeast. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. More on brewer's yeast from Fact Monster: - yeast - yeast yeast, name applied specifically to a certain group of microscopic fungi and to commercial ... - fermentation - fermentatio...
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There are currently three, maybe four, methods of power generation that meet the criteria for base load power production. These are fossil fuels, typically coal, hydropower, geothermal, and nuclear. Fossil fuels have a host of problems and concerns, from the production of CO2 and other greenhouse gases, acid rain, toxi...
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Rivers and Biodiversity River systems are the zone of Earth’s highest biological diversity – and also of our most intense human activity. Freshwater biodiversity is in a state of crisis, a consequence of decades of humans exploiting rivers with large dams, water diversions and pollution. Freshwater species are even mor...
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Discussion about math, puzzles, games and fun. Useful symbols: ÷ × ½ √ ∞ ≠ ≤ ≥ ≈ ⇒ ± ∈ Δ θ ∴ ∑ ∫ • π ƒ -¹ ² ³ ° You are not logged in. Is there a way to make inequality of imaginery numbers?if there is please show a example. Then, -1>-9 => i<3i,so square root of nagetive number changes inequality sign? So,is there a wa...
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Illustration courtesy NASA/CXC/M. Weiss An artist's rendering, made using data collected by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory, shows a quasar galaxy with a jet of high-energy particles extending more than 100,000 light-years from the supermassive black hole at its center. The object, located 12 billion light-years...
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A VERY special conversation began last month and is expected to continue throughout this year. Researchers in Tokyo and California are using lasers to "talk" to an orbiting satellite and get a reply. This is the first time lasers have been used to provide two-way communications with space. The aim is to develop laser-b...
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Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter As you probably know, the Earth is rotating on its axis. This gives us day and night. Of course it’s impossible, but what would happen if the Earth stopped spinning? Remember, this isn’t possible, it can’t happen, so don’t worry. Everything wou...
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This area of Lakeport, California was flooded due to extreme weather during the 1998 El Niño event. El Niño causes changes in rainfall patterns around the world. Click on image for full size Courtesy of FEMA El Niño and Other Climate Events Sometimes there is a change in the way air moves through parts of the atmospher...
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RadixSort Algorithm in Java Radix sort is a non comparing sort. It's performance is O(kn), where k is the maximum number of digits in inputs's decimal representation. It uses a queue to store number for each decimal digit. At each pass, it simply classifies inputs depending on the current decimal digit, starting from t...
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Reversing evolution: conspicuous mimicry vs. camoflage Two papers this week on the type of mimicry named for Henry Bates, whose book on exploring the Amazon was published shortly after The Origin of Species. Batesian mimic species resemble foul-tasting or dangerous species, thereby avoiding being eaten, even though the...
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Above: Whichever came first, they're equally delicious. Egg photo by , licensed. Chicken photo by Today I read possibly one of the dumbest science news articles of all time, or at least the most condescending. Somewhere in here is news of an interesting study. English scientists have isolated the protein responsible fo...
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World storm surge records There's still not much to talk about the tropical Atlantic today. The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), the band of intense thunderstorms that spans the tropical Atlantic between Africa and the Lesser Antilles Islands, has grown more active in the past few days, though. The two tropical w...
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Science in the News, November 2003 -- The Sun continues its dramatic spate of activity, unleashing three more powerful solar flares. Over the last ten days, the sun has blasted tons of superhot gases into space, some of it directly aimed at Earth. These solar flares have been the most powerful ever recorded since regul...
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Earth Moon Comparison May 09, 2001 The above image shows the Earth and the moon as viewed from the Odyssey spacecraft on its journey to Mars. Even though the Earth and its satellite look pretty small (the moon is a mere speck), at the time this photograph was taken (late April), Odyssey was more than 15 times closer to...
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2007 Lecture Series Dr. Jerry Nelson Making it Big in Astronomy (December 19, 2007) In 1977 Jerry Nelson was physicist at UC’s Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and he was asked to join a group to vision the future of US astronomy. For Nelson it was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to design a major apparatus with “cosmic impli...
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I'm trying to understand the proof for eccentricity; I can get about halfway through it. The problem I'm having is summarized below If e<1, you get the equation of an ellipse of the form The foci of an ellipse are at a distance c from the center, where This shows that It follows from equations 4 and 5 that the eccentri...
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what is the domain and range? describe the level curves, the boundary of the domain and determine if the domain is an open or closed or neither region. Also what points (x,y) in the plane is this function continuous. i dont really understand these questions at all. I dont really understand the range of 2 variable funct...
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Can you order the digits from 1-6 to make a number which is divisible by 6 so when the last digit is removed it becomes a 5-figure number divisible by 5, and so on? Use the clues to work out which cities Mohamed, Sheng, Tanya and Bharat live in. How many different shaped boxes can you design for 36 sweets in one layer?...
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At the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center, chimpanzees form a gallery of grief, looking on as Dorothy–a beloved female felled in her late 40s by heart failure–is borne to her burial. Image: National Geographic / Monica Szczupider The Prancing Papio has brought attention to this powerful photograph presented by Nation...
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Over twenty scientists, after six years of collaboration, have completed the most comprehensive picture of mammalian ancestry to date, just after the extinction of dinosaurs, 65 million years ago. The last common ancestor from which all placental mammals emerged. Image © Carl Buell The researchers using a combination o...
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osmium (Os)Article Free Pass osmium (Os), chemical element, one of the platinum metals of Groups 8–10 (VIIIb), Periods 5 and 6, of the periodic table and the densest naturally occurring element. A gray-white metal, osmium is very hard, brittle, and difficult to work, even at high temperatures. Of the platinum metals it...
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Coral Reef Overview - What is a coral reef? - What is coral? - What is a coral polyp? - Where do corals live? - How old are coral reefs? - How is coral constructed? - How long does it take coral to grow? - How do corals get their shape? - How do coral polyps eat? - How do corals get their color? - How do corals reprodu...
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DNA sequencing is the determination of the precise sequence of nucleotides in a sample of DNA. The most popular method for doing this is called the dideoxy method.DNA is synthesized from four deoxynucleotide triphosphates. The top formula shows one of them: deoxythymidine triphosphate (dTTP). Each new nucleotide is add...
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Phase Specimens and Amplitude Specimens Specimens that do not possess much color but a different refractive index that the surrounding mounting medium can be referred to as phase specimens as they cause a phase-shift in of the light. The unaided human eye is not capable of detecting this phase shift. This phase shift i...
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| The St. Lawrence Island Shrew is named for the only geographic location in which it has been found, St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, between Alaska and Siberia. It is the only shrew on the island, and it is common there. It has a brown back and paler sides, and is closely related to the Cinereus Shrew and the P...
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Impact on Animals Would a dramatic change in the Earth's magnetic field affect creatures that rely on it during migration? As this time line shows, our planet's magnetic shield has reversed its direction hundreds of times. Gallery of Auroras Auroras like those displayed here would be visible every night of the year dur...
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Search our database of handpicked sites Looking for a great physics site? We've tracked down the very best and checked them for accuracy. Just fill out the fields below and we'll do the rest. You searched for We found 1 result on physics.org and 35 results in our database of sites 35 are Websites, 0 are Videos, and 0 a...
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Hylarana fonensis (Rödel and Bangoura, 2004) White-lipped Frog (English) This species is known so far from two localities in the Simandou Range of south-eastern Guinea: the northeastern flank of the Pic de Fon Forest and the Parc National de Haute Niger (Rödel and Bangoura, 2004). This species is named for the Pic de F...
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- Use “Pascal” notation for SQL server Objects Like Tables, Views, Stored Procedures. Also tables and views should have ending “s”. - If you have big subset of table group than it makes sense to give prefix for this table group. Prefix should be separated by _. - Use following naming convention for Stored Procedure. sp...
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First, don't be worried about learning another language or syntax because DocBook is fairly straight forward and most contributors simply cut-n-paste existing files, modify the content, then commit. It's just plain text. What is DocBook? The following is a quote from » DocBook: The Definitive Guide: DocBook is a very p...
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In meteorology, lee waves are atmospheric standing waves. The most common form is mountain waves, which are atmospheric internal gravity waves. These were discovered in 1933 by two German glider pilots, Hans Deutschmann and Wolf Hirth, above the Krkonoše. They are periodic changes of atmospheric pressure, temperature a...
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Although Drupal itself provides a central CVS repository for the Drupal core code and contributed projects management, it is well known that people use other tools for their own purposes. There were several ocassions, when private Subversion repositories were used to develop new core functionality (such as Forms API or...
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The Naming of Life: Marine Taxonomy Taxonomy and Scientific Classification Today's classification system was developed by Carl Linnaeus as an important tool for use in the study of biology and for use in the protection of biodiversity. Without very specific classification information and a naming system to identify spe...
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Chapter 8. Microscale Gas Chemistry: Hydrogen sulfide is a colorless gas with an offensive stench and is said to smell like rotten eggs. The gas can be detected at a level of 2 parts per billion. To put this into perspective, 1 mL of the gas distributed evenly in a 100-seat lecture hall is about 20 ppb. B. Physical Pro...
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Array Conformability Rules Operands may be arrays, in which case the operation is performed on each element of the array(s) to produce an array result. Binary operands need not have identical dimensions, but their dimensions must be conformable. Two arrays are conformable if their first dimensions match, their second d...
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MP-FORTH is a language created to be a quick, useful language that will be fun and pain-free to develop both on small-screen devices (read: iPhone) as well desktops. MP-FORTH stands for Multi-Precision FORTH, because it is essentially a re-creation of FORTH with a heterogeneous stack, designed for interactive use. It i...
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Two class days System.out.println—what's the difference? printlnbegins a new line after what it prints printlncan have 0 or 1 parameters - p. 66: Syntax of variable declaration - What does the syntax diagram mean? - Examples? - Reserved words: final - Listing 2.5: PianoKeys.java - Assignment ( =): - p. 69: syntax - Lis...
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Criteria for Magnetosphere Why does Earth have a magnetosphere and Venus does not? As you know magnetospheres are believed to be caused by the currents produced by the motion of charged particles within the planet. Electrical currents have an allied magnetic field. While we cannot be sure why, Venus apparently has very...
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“Daddy, do you know where this cheese came from?” I absolutely love this video demonstrating that learning science can be – and should be – fun. Enjoy! This series is a result of a collaboration between broadcast media (NBC) and scientists (National Science Foundation.) From Eureka Alert: National Science Foundation an...
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Angel’s Madagascar frog (Boehmantis microtympanum) |Size||Male length: 5.3 cm (2)| Female length: 7.6 cm (2) Angel’s Madagascar frog is classified as Endangered (EN) on the IUCN Red List (1). With marbled greyish or greenish-brown upperparts, the large-bodied Angel’s Madagascar frog (Boehmantis microtympanum) is perfec...
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|Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4|| Return to Experiments Table of Contents Youíll have to imagine that in an actual plant, high pressure steam blasts against a series of such turbine wheels on the same shaft. The shaft, in turn, drives an electric generator, which produces the electricity. Itís amazing how powerful s...
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Even though it doesn’t quite qualify as a 'proper' planet, the second most massive asteroid in the Solar System, Vesta – which has a diameter of approximately 530 kilometres – exhibits numerous planetary characteristics. This is just one of the many significant results of NASA's Dawn mission, published in the journal S...
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http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic ... or_methane Certainly coming much sooner that expected............from the article: "While it’s no ice-nine, a frozen form of methane trapped in ocean sediments could be cause for concern. Warm Gulf Stream waters off the east coast of North America are converting large amounts...
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Scientists Now Using Earthworms to Make Quantum Dots Incredibly small, subatomic things operate by a different set of rules than the rest of us. Those rules are known as quantum physics. Nanoscale-sized bits of semiconductor are known as quantum dots, and they are used to make sure the electrons they contain are influe...
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Phillip E. Parker Wichita State University In the beginning there was geometry, and it was codified by Euclid about 300 BC. Some 1500 years later, the contemporary thought was that there could be only this one, true geometry. This culminated in Kant's argument in his Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 that Euclidean geome...
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The Partial Derivative of B The Partial Derivative of the Magnetic Flux Density On this page we define the symbol: Briefly, this is simply the negative of the rate of change of the B field with respect to time. The Magnetic Flux Density (B) is defined here. To define this fully, let's say we have a magnetic flux densit...
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A BLAZING row has broken out between fisheries scientists over whether fishing fleets are depleting the world's oceans of their large species. Fishing boats are thought to target smaller species only once the big, predatory ones are fished out. In the 1990s, Daniel Pauly of the University of British Columbia in Vancouv...
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Our solar system consists of the Sun, 8 planets, satellites, comets and asteroids, but as far as we know, there is only life on Earth. Will we ever discover otherwise? How much do we really know about our universe? Discover the Museum’s role in space exploration and research. We know that the solar system formed around...
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If the weather is just right you can see across Lake Erie to Canada as if it’s only a few miles away! Lake Erie is 50 miles wide. That means the U.S. shore is 50 miles away from Canada. Locals have long attested to being able to see trees and buildings on the Canadians side of Lake Erie when the weather is clear. Eyewi...
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Example below demonstrates working of bigdecimal class ulp method. Method returns bigdecimal values. Method returns the size of an ulp. which is the size of a unit at the last place of the bigdecimal object value. Method returns +1 for a positive bigdecimal value. Actually this ulp size is the difference between the bi...
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Powerful Ideas on IMAGINE A NEW breed of all-electric cars that can travel 300 miles or more before needing a quick rechargealmost three times farther than current hybrid models that rely on gasoline as a backup. Innovative science in the university's recently launched Energy Frontier Research Center may lead to such a...
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Technology - Science Follow the Curiosity rover on Twitter (@MarsCuriosity) and Facebook Get answers to some of the most common questions about Curiosity: http://bit.ly/h56pie INFORMATION ABOUT THE MISSION Mission name: Mars Science Laboratory Rover name: Curiosity rover Size: About the size of a car -- 10 feet long (n...
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Lifting the Fog: A Brief History of RadarJuly 6th, 2012 | Krissy Klinger One of the worst airplane disasters in history occurred as a consequence of a series of unfortunate events. The location of the disaster was the island of Tenerife, the largest and most populated island of the Canary Islands, on March 27th, 1977. ...
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Some of the excited engineers and staff on landing day. Click on image for full size Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Headlines declare: Mars Pathfinder Lands on July 4th The Mars Pathfinder was launched on a rocket last December. The spacecraft landed on Mars on July 4th, 1997. If you had the chance to visit Ma...
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Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2004 December 16 Explanation: The grand, winding arms are almost mesmerizing in this face-on view of NGC 7424, a spiral galaxy with a prominent cent...
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Physics Teacher's Inventions Fair Learning Science by Doing Science Paul Doherty, The Exploratorium Scientists look at what everyone has looked at and see what no one has seen Teachers help others to see what they have never seen before. Students ask questions that help their teachers to see what they have never seen b...
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Nanotechweb reports on nanoparticles pinpointing brain activity. Scientists could be a step closer to unraveling the mysteries of human memory thanks to a nanoparticle-based imaging technique developed at Bordeaux University. The team is observing how biomolecules change position within a cultured rat synapse, the junc...
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What impact might mitigation of diffuse nitrate pollution have on river water quality in a rural catchment? Hutchins, Michael G.. 2012 What impact might mitigation of diffuse nitrate pollution have on river water quality in a rural catchment? Journal of Environmental Management, 109. 19-26. 10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.04.04...
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Java applet for simulating spin systems This is a simple Ising-type model written in Java. It simulates a system of spins located on the grid points of a lattice. The spins are coupled to a heat bath with a temperature T = 1 / beta. This applet then updates the spins on the lattice in order to simulate the behavior of ...
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Forests, through growth of trees and an increase in soil carbon, contain a large part of the carbon stored on land. Forests present a significant global carbon stock. Global forest vegetation stores 283 Gt of carbon in its biomass, 38 Gt in dead wood and 317 Gt in soils (top 30 cm) and litter. The total carbon content ...
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In the very long line of Greek mathematicians from Thales of Miletus and Pythagoras of Samos in the 6th century BC to Pappus of Alexandria in the 4th century AD, Archimedes of Syracuse (287 - 212 BC) is the undisputed leading figure. His pre-eminence is the more remarkable when we consider that this dazzling millenium ...
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Science Fair Project Encyclopedia In words: you start with 0 and 1, and then produce the next Fibonacci number by adding the two previous Fibonacci numbers. The first Fibonacci numbers (sequence A000045 in OEIS) for n = 0, 1,... are As documented by Donald Knuth in The Art of Computer Programming, this sequence was fir...
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In this chapter, we develop a very basic CORBA application, designed to demonstrate some of the key concepts for using Common Lisp for distributed objects. The chapter aims to show you the sort of coding involved in using CORBA with Common Lisp, and to get a client/server application up and running quickly. It is not c...
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Bubbles and Temperature Does the temperature of water affect how long bubbles will is my science project i would like to know the answer and why. i would also like to know if heat and expansion or cold and contraction have anything to do with the results. thanks. Here's how science projects work: you pose a question (y...
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Foraging ecology of the black flying fox (Pteropus alecto) in the seasonal tropics of the Northern Territory, Australia Carol Palmer, Owen Price and Christine Bach 27(2) 169 - 178 Pteropus alecto uses landscape patchiness at two scales: firstly, between broad vegetation types (i.e. eucalypt open forest/savanna woodland...
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It is important to realize that with new information about subdivision or correlation of relative time, or new measurements of absolute time, the dates applied to the time scale can and do change. Revisions to the relative time scale have occurred since the late 1700s. The numerically calibrated geologic time scale has...
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Dropping Objects from the Database The DROP statement is used to drop the following objects from the database: The CASCADE or RESTRICT keywords may be used to specify the action to be taken if other objects exist that are dependent on the object being dropped. - If RESTRICT (the default) is specified, an error is retur...
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Permeability of Fault-Related Rocks, and Implications for Hydraulic Structure of Fault Zones Journal of Structural Geology The permeability structure of a fault zone in granitic rocks has been investigated by laboratory testing of intact core samples from the unfaulted protolith and the two principal fault zone compone...
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You are at: | Home | Introduction | The Men and Climate Change The men have always emitted CO2 to the atmosphere, in fact, every time we exhale. But something happen that made men to triplicate (or more) the emission of CO2 and GHG (Greenhouse gases) to the environment: Energy sources like carbon and oil, used in the i...
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1. Enter the left side of the inequality into Y1. 2. Enter the right side of the inequality into 3. Enter the inequality into Y3 using the inequality symbols found under 2nd MATH (TEST). Remember the Y1 and Y2 are found Just as we saw in Linear Inequalities, a small bar appears representing the graph of the value 1, sh...
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Nanotechnology as a whole is fairly simple to understand, but developing this universal technology into a nanorobot has been slightly more complicated. To date, scientists have made significant progress but have not officially released a finished product in terms of a nanorobot that functions on an entirely mechanical ...
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|A typical crank. | Image: Hoangquan hientrang via wikimedia The cranks of a bicycle are what connect the pedals to the front gears. They're lever arms that cyclists exert a force onto the end of, through the pedals, in order to turn the front gears. The front gears pull the chain which then spins the rear wheel, sendi...
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