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Sun’s protective ‘bubble’ is shrinking
October 20, 2008
New data has revealed that the heliosphere, the protective shield of energy that surrounds our solar system, has weakened by 25 per cent over the past decade and is now at it lowest level since the space race began 50 years a... | <urn:uuid:588f57de-67d0-4ec6-a4c1-a1c319529393> | 2.96875 | 319 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 52.833182 |
Asymmetric Rhythms and Tiling Canons
Rachel W. Hall and Paul Klingsberg
Anyone who listens to rock music is familiar with the repeated drum beat—one, two, three, four—based on a 4/4 measure. Fifteen minutes listening to a Top 40 radio station offers evidence enough that most rock music has this basic beat. But if we tu... | <urn:uuid:21e6fa1b-95b7-44bd-a565-6904107d7062> | 2.796875 | 710 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 39.832048 |
By Dr. Norm Catto
How much of ongoing climate change is due
to people? How do we know that we contribute at all?
Current discussion about climate change is based on differences
of scientific opinion concerning both the significance and
magnitude of the changes recorded in temperature and precipitation
statistics, as we... | <urn:uuid:0c7179f7-c91d-4243-be98-cb9f77b0a637> | 3.8125 | 1,639 | Nonfiction Writing | Science & Tech. | 30.940215 |
Freshwater and Nutrient Inputs to a Mississippi River Deltaic Estuary with River Re-Introduction
In this study, I quantified freshwater and nutrient inputs in the Breton Sound estuary which is receiving freshwater reintroduction in an effort to restore deteriorating wetlands. Almost all wetlands of the Mississippi delt... | <urn:uuid:66463c98-5f83-494d-a667-43ef044ec775> | 2.953125 | 631 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 56.532056 |
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Santa Barbara Field Guides - Butterflies|
Wingspread 1-1.5 in. |
Recognition: Male a shimmering light blue above, with black wing edges and a white fringe; females very pale blue to pale gray above; undersides of both sexes white with varied black markings.
Flight period: Adults active in early to midsummer.
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Mar. 26, 2009 Insects such as honeybees and bumble bees are predictable in the way they move among flowers, typically moving directly from one flower to an adjacent cluster of flowers in the same row of plants. The bees' flight paths have a direct affect on their ability to hunt for pollen and generate "gene flow", fer... | <urn:uuid:1ea0aec9-125c-4f06-ba8d-9df8c538559f> | 4.21875 | 598 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 30.064467 |
Dead leaves? Grass clippings? Fruit and vegetable peels? Sure, you could compost them, or you could turn them into robot fuel or solar cells. Plus, a gadget for harvesting the power you generate while walking, and an app for showing off your gas and carbon savings from driving a plug-in vehicle.
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LAKE EFFECT SNOW
Snow showers that are created when cold dry air passes over a large warmer lake, such as one of the Great Lakes, and picks up moisture and heat.
A diurnal coastal breeze that blows offshore, from the land to the sea. It is caused by the temperature difference when the sea surface is warmer than the adj... | <urn:uuid:c8d01307-38cf-41a1-91bf-42b38e63dc62> | 3.375 | 1,223 | Structured Data | Science & Tech. | 45.483627 |
The estimated super high-pressure release of oil from under the earth's crust is between 80,000 to 100,000 barrels per day... that is equal to about an average of 6.3 Olympic sized swimming pools per DAY of crude oil geysering into the world's oceans.
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|We tend to view DC circuits in terms of their steady state values, but induced EMF can be important when the current is changing even in a mundane looking circuit. When the switch in a circuit is closed and current begins to flow, the current produces a magnetic flux through the loop. This magnetic flux changes with t... | <urn:uuid:8984325f-5fe1-4451-a365-db1dcd05146b> | 3.6875 | 141 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 58.73778 |
The analysis of astronomical data is commonly referred to as "data reduction". Data is analyzed (or "reduced") using software on a desktop computer. The most commonly used software package for optical and infrared data is the Image Reduction and Analysis Facility (IRAF). Learning the basics of IRAF is important if you ... | <urn:uuid:d50702b9-95b3-42ee-b040-2a36e8763303> | 2.734375 | 1,885 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 41.360112 |
See more from this Session: Microbe, Plant , and Soil Interactions (Includes Graduate Student Poster Competition)
Monday, October 17, 2011
Henry Gonzalez Convention Center, Hall C, Street Level
Methane (CH4) is a potent greenhouse gas and management strategies have been proposed to limit CH4 emissionsfrom freshwater we... | <urn:uuid:a58a529e-7260-42b0-be8d-9a39bbe163ec> | 2.84375 | 759 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 26.526241 |
When you specify the thread stack size, you must account for the allocations needed by the invoked function and by each subsequent function called. The accounting should include calling sequence needs, local variables, and information structures.
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This data set reports on dissolved nutrient concentrations, as well as dissolved oxygen, alkalinity, conductivity, turbidity, and pH measured in water samples collected from nine streams located in the state of Brasilia, Brazil, between September, 2004 and December, 2006. Streams were located in different land cover ty... | <urn:uuid:e73fa974-7a59-4731-9e1e-d3b0dab8162e> | 2.875 | 173 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 23.377813 |
Using Table Aliases
The readability of a SELECT statement can be improved by giving a table an alias, also known as a correlation name or range variable. A table alias can be assigned either with or without the AS keyword:
table_name AS table alias
In the following example, the alias c is assigned to Customer and the a... | <urn:uuid:c622fe50-ec5d-4ea4-855b-305f541add49> | 3.28125 | 222 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 49.388889 |
What is the true color of the sun? why is it that
color and how did it become that color?
My science teacher says its white but my dad challenges that
statement by saying its yellow-orange.
Your teacher and father are coming at it from different view points.
Because the Sun is at a temperature of approximately 5500K
(e... | <urn:uuid:cdf74405-d1fc-4ed3-9f1c-e11103a28cff> | 3.765625 | 278 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 60.021266 |
Saving What Remains
Carbon Offset Programs
Plants take carbon dioxide out of the air during the process of photosynthesis and use it to makes sugars for growth and metabolism. Carbon is stored in wood and other tissues until the death of the plant when the stored carbon is released to the atmosphere via burning or deco... | <urn:uuid:b7c03463-f1e8-4064-b1ed-d2806320daa7> | 4 | 454 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 22.696171 |
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Molecular clouds in the Taurus region
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This image shows the Taurus molecular cloud complex as seen through the glow of carbon mon... | <urn:uuid:76ca21c4-90c8-42fe-a4ac-d07685806e6d> | 3.125 | 479 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 43.0325 |
|In this tutorial, we will begin to explore the many ways to use ActionScript in your FlashR project. I'm not talking about the many things that you can make happen with ActionScript. I'm talking about how you can add ActionScript code to your Flash movie. |
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The chloroplast is the organelle in which photosynthesis takes place. Inside the chloroplast there are disk like structures called thylakoids arranged in stacks called granum. The light dependent reaction takes place across the membranes of the thylakoids while the Calvin Cycle takes place in the stroma, which is the s... | <urn:uuid:b2f39c02-3a8d-4776-b423-48c30204fa2c> | 4.34375 | 522 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 31.441862 |
A Cube has 6 faces, all being squares of the same size.
It has 8 vertices (corners) and 12 edges.
It has 4 'space diagonals', all the same length.
A 'space diagonal' is a straight line joining two opposite vertices which do not belong to the same face. (If they do belong to the same face, it is a 'face diagonal'.)
With... | <urn:uuid:b224e844-9ceb-4b02-9a3e-8d0df9401729> | 3.578125 | 152 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 63.491667 |
What will happen after sun vaporizes Earth? Scorched planets hold clues.
Scientists say they've found two planets that survived being swallowed by a red-giant star. Earth won't be so fortunate when our sun becomes a red giant in 5 billion years, but the find shows what can happen to solar systems after such dramatic ev... | <urn:uuid:fcc053ca-c4b3-4eac-900d-342ef83749be> | 3.46875 | 662 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 58.977177 |
M-theory, the theory formerly known as Strings
The Standard Model
In the standard model of particle physics, particles are considered to be points moving through space, tracing out a line called the World Line. To take into account the different interactions observed in Nature one has to provide particles with more deg... | <urn:uuid:994304b0-e95d-4056-af72-a9c2dbf05587> | 3.515625 | 1,823 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 42.268739 |
By PATRICK ROWAN
Asteroids and meteors and comets - oh my!
Recent stories almost make it seem like they're ganging up on us. Of course they are not, but a curious confluence of events makes it impossible to ignore these wild space beasts.
Soon after asteroid 2012 DA14 was discovered a year ago, it became apparent that ... | <urn:uuid:c10beb6d-a62b-4776-bdc3-64afeead0847> | 3.3125 | 2,021 | Nonfiction Writing | Science & Tech. | 51.479699 |
Summary: Tomaso Aste and Tiziana Di Matteo
In the year 2000, exactly one hundred years after David Hilbert posed
his now famous list of 23 open problems, The Clay Mathematics Insti-
tute (CMI) announced its seven Millennium Problems. (http://www.
claymath.org/millennium). The Gazette has asked leading Australian
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Why do stars twinkle?
If you've ever watched the stars at night they twinkle.
The famous nursey rhyme, "Twinkle, twinkle little star" is based upon this very observation.
If however, you travel to the moon and observe the stars from there they would not twinkle.
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Summary: The Law of Demeter is discussed using Java source code examples.
Whenever you talk to a good, experienced programmer, they will tell you that "loosely coupled" classes are very important to good software design.
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Ingersoll, Andrew P. and Summers, Michael E. and Schlipf, Steve G. (1985) Supersonic Meteorology of Io: Sublimation-Driven Flow of SO_2. Icarus, 64 (3). pp. 375-390. ISSN 0019-1035 http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20121205-141815339
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Surprisingly, you may find some wasps at your porch light after dark. Among the more common nocturnal hymenopterans are ichneumon wasps in the subfamily Ophioninae. They are large, gangly wasps, usually uniformly orange in color with long antennae and large ocelli (“simple eyes” arranged in a triangle at the crown of t... | <urn:uuid:5990866f-6fea-4e70-b02f-8d5dec187b68> | 3.421875 | 369 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 42.399267 |
Q: What is trigonometry?
A: Trigonometry is the study of how the sides and angles of a triangle are related to each other.
Q: WHAT? That’s all?
A: Yes, that’s all. It’s all about triangles, and you can’t get much simpler than that.
Q: You mean trigonometry isn’t some big, ugly monster that
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Today I want to write about some design patterns. There are really many out there and I want to summarize them a bit for you.
I will not write about design patterns of a specific language but for general. Many of them are really usefull!
Don’t you have sometimes the problem that you don’t know how to begin when you are... | <urn:uuid:e1b71f12-9345-42bd-a0e9-0bd064ef4db3> | 3.03125 | 1,142 | Personal Blog | Software Dev. | 60.031098 |
The Earth is a spinning globe where a point at the equator is travelling at around 1100 km/hour, but a point at the poles is not moved by the rotation. This fact means that projectiles moving across the Earth's surface are subject to Coriolis forces that cause apparent deflection of the motion.
|The Coriolis force defl... | <urn:uuid:4711a00d-7e69-4b25-a604-10e019bab67e> | 4.21875 | 709 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 46.077405 |
In engineering mechanics, bending (also known as flexure) characterizes the behavior of a slender structural element subjected to an external load applied perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis of the element.
The structural element is assumed to be such that at least one of its dimensions is a small fraction, typicall... | <urn:uuid:9c31101f-45c1-4865-98f7-4264b2498322> | 3.890625 | 3,232 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 43.84032 |
Humans have had more of an impact on climate change over the last 40 years than they have had over the last 150 years. This is primarily due to the sharp increase in Greenhouse Gas concentrations over the last 40 or so years. This means that not all
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Did you see the footage that so many people captured when a meteor streaked across the Russian sky on February 15th? If not, here's a slideshow and compilation video. The meteor originated in the asteroid belt, was visible in the sky for about 30 seconds, let loose several sonic booms as it entered the atmosphere, and ... | <urn:uuid:4b20443e-f2d0-40b7-93cc-10ef1f1daa8b> | 3.734375 | 248 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 52.830598 |
|Transmission of DENV - the principle mode is direct mosquito to human|
The group set out to understand the interactions between both DENV encoded proteins and those of its hosts – humans and Aedes mosquitos. Using previously determined structural information for human and fly (relatively closely related insect to Aede... | <urn:uuid:d4b7c972-8042-4270-afb0-76ffa566337d> | 2.765625 | 595 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 20.761544 |
Some cliff faces on Mars feature dark streaks that appear during the warm months, then disappear when weather turns colder. Writing in the journal Science, some researchers say that the streaks could be signs of briny water on the Martian surface. Planetary scientist Alfred McEwen discusses the findings, and what they ... | <urn:uuid:bed272b7-90b9-47ba-9d38-eb0187bb4c97> | 3.3125 | 112 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 39.959636 |
Maxwell’s demon is an interesting thought experiment on the 2nd law of thermodynamics. I have thought about this experiment for some time, and I think I have found a rebuttal.
In simple terms, this thought experiment suggests a way (using a tiny trapdoor between the A side and the B side of a gas container) to separate... | <urn:uuid:df6fadd2-0222-48f4-bb29-79e8b5f57d44> | 2.734375 | 489 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 54.204347 |
Into the Woods
If a tree once felled other trees in the woods, but was no longer
around to be studied, would it make for good research?
The American chestnut was once the most common canopy tree in the
deciduous forests of the eastern United States. It shaded areas from
New England to Georgia until the fungus Cryphonec... | <urn:uuid:60e4c785-f67b-41ff-bb03-3ae1d38b0625> | 3.625 | 863 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 36.720676 |
Quantifying leakage from CO<sub>2</sub> reservoirs
Jerome Neufeld, Dominic Vella, Herpert Huppert, and John Lister
ITG, DAMTP, University of Cambridge, England
Lay-language version of "Localized leakage from porous and viscous gravity currents"
Concern for the long-term fate of the Earth’s climate has increased in rece... | <urn:uuid:2b220b8f-b501-4162-8673-d530b215c03b> | 2.6875 | 818 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 35.050149 |
Over the last 20 years we have observed coral reefs declining at an alarming rate. What is causing this catastrophe and what can be done to prevent further damage?
This study room examines the causes of coral reef decline, including increasing ocean temperatures, overfishing, and runoff from coastal areas. The room des... | <urn:uuid:6601d5b2-4fda-4641-8d40-acce2ced8c95> | 3.25 | 113 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 40.265219 |
Java is a popular language for beginning programmers, and earlier editions of this fun and friendly guide have helped thousands get started. Now fully revised to cover recent updates for Java 7.0, Beginning Programming with Java For Dummies, 3rd Edition is certain to put more first-time programmers and Java beginners o... | <urn:uuid:14ad9976-7aca-41f3-b4df-868335a51941> | 2.71875 | 507 | Content Listing | Software Dev. | 46.012459 |
Although native North American parasitoids do attack the birch leafminer, they haven't had much impact on this introduced sawfly's populations. In the 1970's European ichneumonid wasps were introduced in New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Quebec. Lathrolestes nigricollis was one of two spec... | <urn:uuid:ded46856-1bf0-4f92-8ae0-e94e71a34c9b> | 2.765625 | 429 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 47.302606 |
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How was the mass of a proton determined?
Asked by: David Slochower
The mass of the proton was determined in a similar way to how the ... | <urn:uuid:e4a7d71b-df07-4b31-82f1-8767c6a5391f> | 3.640625 | 363 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 49.719512 |
Because Raptor is a staged combustion engine — like the main engines of NASA's now-retired space shuttle fleet — it is expected to be far more efficient than the open-cycle Merlin engines used by the Falcon 9.
While the Falcon 9’s engines use liquid oxygen (LOX) and kerosene, Raptor will use LOX and methane. Musk expla... | <urn:uuid:c1ecc8d2-8c4d-41c9-b326-0ebf0cac933f> | 3.3125 | 205 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 39.000239 |
Meteorites Found from Asteroid 2008 TC3
This week I'm in Houston for the 40th annual Lunar & Planetary Science Conference, where 1,500 researchers have gathered to talk shop about the solar system. And indeed the big space news this week involves high-stakes interplanetary events — but the story should be datelined "Al... | <urn:uuid:69d2c700-4adb-464e-b11b-f46c0efb7338> | 2.90625 | 1,085 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 40.981015 |
Two Suns Raise Family of Planetary Bodies
This artist's animation depicts a faraway solar system like our own -- except for one big difference. Planets and asteroids circle around not one, but two suns. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope found evidence that such solar systems might be common in the universe.
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Atomic mass unit
|Unit system:||Physical constant
(Accepted for use with the SI)
|Symbol:||u or Da|
|Named after:||John Dalton|
|1 u or Da in...||is equal to...|
The unified atomic mass unit (symbol: u) or dalton (symbol: Da) is the standard unit that is used for indicating mass on an atomic or molecular scale (atomic ... | <urn:uuid:71a2e5bb-84ac-4cdd-8f91-735c43ee061b> | 3.796875 | 2,345 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 58.977079 |
David Hebert: Hello and welcome to this USGS podcast, I'm David Hebert. On Wednesday of January 20th, a magnitude 5.9 aftershock struck Haiti which was alarming and notable considering the magnitude seven earthquake that devastated that country last week. So I'm here with Mike Blanpied, USGS Associate Earthquake Hazard... | <urn:uuid:33fe5508-7574-4483-9282-48559ddbb625> | 3.1875 | 1,822 | Audio Transcript | Science & Tech. | 49.34821 |
The most important signal to be recorded at the Superconducting Gravimeter Observatory is gravity. For most Global Geodynamics Project (GGP) purposes the atmospheric correction to gravity is required ... and so the local measurement of pressure is also necessary. At most sites the effect of groundwater, often associate... | <urn:uuid:486406d3-d714-4f48-b84d-fc5c1b3d890d> | 3.265625 | 119 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 29.008744 |
Copyright Peter Raedschelders
In mathematics, the best known solids are the 5 Platonic solids: tetrahedron,octahedron, cube, isocahedron and dodecahedron. These are regular solids constructed with only one sort of polygons. So is the cube constructed with 6 squares (4), the dodecahedron with 12 pentagons (5) .
Another ... | <urn:uuid:664489a6-0984-4365-bf8e-0a305c20b76b> | 3.03125 | 296 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 42.014723 |
I am given a base function of f=x2
and given a transformed equation of y = 7f((-1/6)(x-1))+1
I am being asked to describe the transformations that must be applied to the graph of the base function f(x) to obtain the transformed function, which I understand, and then I am ask to write the transformed equation in simplif... | <urn:uuid:944a8ed6-9240-41be-ade5-66e98340e495> | 3.21875 | 187 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 83.751748 |
Manipulating Magnetic Field Shape
Is it possible to manipulate the magnetic lines of flux in such
a way as the lines extend into an oval, with the magnet towards one end of
the oval? If possible, please tell me how it might be done, or refer me to
some where with the information.
First, I want to clarify if you mean fi... | <urn:uuid:fb8a014a-133a-494c-94f8-4cb3e3a542c9> | 2.9375 | 905 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 43.807882 |
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Mangroves, Hurricanes, and Lightning Strikes
Assessment of Hurricane Andrew suggests an interaction across two differing scales of disturbance
Thomas J. Smith, III, Michael B. Robblee, Harold R. Wanless, and Thomas W. Doyle
|Posted with permission from... | <urn:uuid:80d131a1-6980-41ed-a087-2248cd5bd2e8> | 3.0625 | 544 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 33.574571 |
(To complete all classifications ETI has added the Kingdom and the Phyla of all the different taxa treated on this DVD-ROM without higher classification descriptions. Texts from Lynn Margulis and Karlene V. Schwartz, Five Kingdoms. CD-ROM. © 2002 ETI / Freeman & Co Publishers).
[Editor's note: in the book South Atlanti... | <urn:uuid:8341263f-4171-4086-84fb-a938864eb9ac> | 3.59375 | 1,428 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 21.903633 |
Instances of a structured type hold more than one value. Structured types include arrays and records.. A type can have unlimited levels of structuring.
An array represents an indexed collection of elements of the same type (called the base type). Because each element has a unique index, arrays, unlike sets, can meaning... | <urn:uuid:d216ccec-662a-4979-a805-a1cb560f0bfd> | 3.484375 | 1,488 | Comment Section | Software Dev. | 45.294354 |
Peridotites from the boundary between the Atlantic Ocean crust and the West Iberia continental margin (west of Portugal) were drilled during Leg 149 in Holes 897C, 897D, and 899B. These peridotites have been serpentinized intensively with more than 90% of the primary phases being essentially lizardite. No talc or antig... | <urn:uuid:fe773796-fb29-4a2e-8269-f4e465eb6c96> | 2.75 | 699 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 21.650658 |
I just began but been noticing that most sites say you end with ; but looking more some other codes use " or > to end. I was wondering what is the difference?
all statements in c++ ends with ;
and when u see " or > at the end, it means its not the end of the statement
it continues on the next line until it hits ';'
Is ... | <urn:uuid:3661ec97-4ec4-493e-b9a6-29c47478ff8b> | 2.9375 | 92 | Comment Section | Software Dev. | 67.54 |
Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations
Hurricanes on sandy shorelines · By Dirk Frankenberg
Living in dunefields
Figure 18 shows three choices for construction on nearshore dunes. Most of the house on the left is built in front of the dune, the middle house is built on top of it, and the one on the right is buil... | <urn:uuid:22dc66f0-9d40-4686-8f45-c9c144de0b7b> | 2.6875 | 144 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 37.144185 |
Seaweed is a term applied to multicellular, marine algae which are large enough to be seen by the eye unaided. Some can grow to up to 60 metres in length. Seaweeds include members of the red, brown and green algae. They are members of the kingdom Protista meaning they are not Plants. They do not have the vascular syste... | <urn:uuid:66eda191-ae7f-4066-9ba2-a98695f6f615> | 4.34375 | 1,185 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 39.446279 |
How Does Glue Work?
How can glue stick things together?
There are many variants of glue and there are some slight differences in the
details of how they work, so I will just talk about how glues work in general.
The first requirement is that glues must be able to creep or flow into the
crevices of the two objects that ... | <urn:uuid:d31b8d1f-851c-4608-92e0-edc4a3eb3d23> | 4.15625 | 355 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 52.380842 |
Reflectivity: White vs Silver
Name: Elizabeth H.
Date: Sunday, September 15, 2002
Which reflects more light,a white polished surface or a
silver mirrored surface?
In most cases, they would reflect very similar amounts. The biggest
difference is where they reflect it. A shiny mirror reflects almost all of
the light in t... | <urn:uuid:d1ea263f-979a-4a8d-a157-2a0d2c365248> | 3.640625 | 735 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 59.601743 |
12.307 Weather and Climate Laboratory (MIT)
Course 12.307 is an undergraduate course intended to illustrate, by means of 'hands on' projects, the basic dynamical and physical principles that govern the general circulation of the atmosphere and ocean and the day to day sequence of weather events. The course parallels th... | <urn:uuid:432b0184-b83f-416c-a1a7-3dcc31df2663> | 2.6875 | 668 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 20.921609 |
On Science Podcast
Learning juicy details about someone can change the way you see them — literally, according to a new study.
Learning negative information about people can change the way you see them — literally, according to a new study. It's an unconscious response orchestrated by your brain's visual processing sys... | <urn:uuid:01560f76-b620-4471-9ed4-757c28bd1812> | 3.046875 | 179 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 44.609144 |
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What is a reflection
1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data
The point Q is the reflection of P(-1,3,4), in the plane with equation 2x-y+z=1.
Determine the coordinates of Q
2. Relevant equations
3. The attempt at a solution
Well im not really looking for a solution. I just w... | <urn:uuid:52d82b7d-baf1-4c56-bdac-6bc4c09d65fe> | 2.859375 | 701 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 67.791993 |
Graphing Sunspot Cycles
An activity adapted from Rice University-Houston Museum of Natural Sciences, Summer Solar Institute, Being a Solar Astronomer
Type of Lesson: Investigation with evaluation worksheet
Time Needed: 90 minutes (or 2 class periods)
MEGOSE ES5 Describe and explain common observations of the day and ni... | <urn:uuid:fe9a187f-69dc-418f-9ca8-0e8a1ccf2a88> | 3.765625 | 728 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 48.366547 |
Functions for number conversion and formatted string output.
Output not more than size bytes to str according to the format string format and the extra arguments. See the Unix man page snprintf(2).
Output not more than size bytes to str according to the format string format and the variable argument list va. Unix man p... | <urn:uuid:a7c7795a-94a2-4cf3-86fb-bf1f63a32c4e> | 3.359375 | 841 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 62.007133 |
This page describes the International Standard that defines the C programming language as a guide to those who are new to either. It's based on what a newcomer to comp.lang.c would find useful to know about the Standard without getting specific about the contents and scope of the Standard. See also questions 11.1, 11.2... | <urn:uuid:7b02b2bd-d1f2-47cd-97d8-c8ec7befd3bd> | 3.09375 | 1,944 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 51.994532 |
“Red and dead” is the unflattering label astronomers attach to giant elliptical galaxies full of aged stars. But funeral plans may be premature. With the help of the Hubble Space Telescope’s recently enhanced vision, researchers have uncovered flickers of star formation in these quiescent galaxies.
Nobody had ever obse... | <urn:uuid:f800f23c-f2ba-484e-9984-4eb98c71b2af> | 3.046875 | 300 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 46.190909 |
The data format used by pickle is Python-specific. This has the advantage that there are no restrictions imposed by external standards such as XDR (which can't represent pointer sharing); however it means that non-Python programs may not be able to reconstruct pickled Python objects.
By default, the pickle data format ... | <urn:uuid:6dade427-d05a-41ab-8be5-c671c0303214> | 3.4375 | 282 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 41.8675 |
See also:mathematics, a
See also:curve having ordinates which are a measure of the
See also:area (or quadrature) of another curve . The two most famous curvesof this class are those of Dinostratus and E . W . Tschirnhausen, which are both related to the circle . The quadratrix of Dinostratus was well known to the
See a... | <urn:uuid:df66e11d-6cdc-4f5f-946e-45ee2588a232> | 3.578125 | 949 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 54.260556 |
Aquatic environments in Antarctica have changes over time with a changing climate. Small aquatic zones on the surface of glaciers ablation zones are comparatively constant and represent perhaps the largest volume of freshwater in many catchments. Recent research suggests that they harbour a variety of organisms, and ma... | <urn:uuid:ee05d0f9-06d1-4b4e-b177-123ddcd642f6> | 2.84375 | 392 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 30.53398 |
Main difference between URL-rewriting and URL-encoding is that URL-rewriting is a technique to maintain user session if cookies are not enabled on client browser or browser doesn't support cookie while URL-encoding is a way to pass string to server containing special characters by converting special characters like spa... | <urn:uuid:4fa2b2bf-92bd-4193-ab02-e2834cdce5f5> | 2.984375 | 586 | Personal Blog | Software Dev. | 43.547869 |
Identifying acid-base species
Being able to readily identify a species with regards to its acid/base behavior is a very useful skill. This page provides basic drill and practice in this area. Though most of the species should be easily recognized, feel free to use whatever reference materials you wish. Ultimately the g... | <urn:uuid:d00e73dd-703e-4552-bd9b-21182f0336a2> | 2.75 | 152 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 54.16282 |
Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that experiences temperature swings of as much as 700 degrees within a matter of hours -- and are working to model the weather patterns there. Writing in the journal Nature, a team of astronomers describe the unusual behavior of planet HD80606b. The planet has an extremely irreg... | <urn:uuid:f0e5764d-ea63-4b9c-8a89-45b451cf904f> | 3.671875 | 178 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 46.924949 |
OpenLaszlo for HTML developers
HTML uses the <html> and <body> tags. Text can be wrapped in <p>, <div>, <span>, or left naked.
LZX uses the <canvas> tag. Text must be inside a <text> tag, or another tag that contains text (such as <inputtext> or <button>).
LZX is XML. Tags in LZX are case-sensitive, and require close t... | <urn:uuid:64da4a3e-abd4-42fc-a9ae-deb3f1d83b33> | 2.8125 | 910 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 65.809852 |
The microbial carbon pump in the ocean
The biological pump is a process whereby CO2 in the upper ocean is fixed by primary producers and transported to the deep ocean as sinking biogenic particles or as dissolved organic matter. The fate of most of this exported material is remineralization to CO2, which accumulates in... | <urn:uuid:75459225-3ee8-4c8d-ae9d-0fe565306509> | 3.03125 | 230 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 51.103776 |
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Articles, documents and multimedia from ABC Science
Thursday, 12 April 2012
A new study of ancient stars known as red giants has provided fresh insights into how newly created atoms and dust grains are spread out into space.
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
StarStuff Podcast No decision yet ab... | <urn:uuid:3079b3e3-a7b3-439c-8e29-f1e19fb10034> | 3 | 664 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 49.573471 |
October 5, 2010
There may be a shortage of blog posts over the next two weeks because I am busy compiling the all new 2011 abc27 Weather Almanac. I know many folks who rely on this each year for weather data, interesting weather stories, and lots of other fun facts. It also makes a great stocking stuffer and will once ... | <urn:uuid:6085dd8c-05eb-4f1d-ad64-a57fdae24a14> | 3.265625 | 512 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 53.320736 |
this is a simple selection sort C program ok(sorry for letting me put up a C progam in a C++ forum, I hope its just the syntax change and this is a very basic program so you wont mind)
printf("size of the array:");
printf("enter the terms:");
temp = a[i];
printf("\n\t The ascending order list os ..:\n");
Can some one e... | <urn:uuid:fe7ab750-174b-4a2e-81bd-f826ce85d00d> | 3.421875 | 271 | Q&A Forum | Software Dev. | 91.207981 |
It’s upsetting to think about the canaries in the mines singing to their heart’s content only to topple over and die when toxic gases make their presence felt during the mining process. The alternative, of course, is to sacrifice miners. Thankfully, choosing the lesser of two evils will no longer be necessary (actually... | <urn:uuid:4c17df28-b1ce-4a3b-91ae-cd2f24f91dbe> | 3 | 522 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 39.551752 |
The usual way to reference a variable is to write the symbol which names it. See Symbol Forms.
Occasionally, you may want to reference a variable which is only
determined at run time. In that case, you cannot specify the variable
name in the text of the program. You can use the
function to extract the value.
This funct... | <urn:uuid:5160860c-7aa6-4205-866b-82e445d2842f> | 3.640625 | 314 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 44.921594 |
A time object has type, seconds and nanoseconds fields representing a point in time starting from some epoch. This is an arbitrary point in time, not just a time of day. Although times are represented in nanoseconds, the actual resolution may be lower.
The following variables hold the possible time types. For instance
... | <urn:uuid:9a5347a0-da34-4a20-a8ab-bb78a735a27a> | 3.171875 | 552 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 51.253739 |
Fishers near marine protected areas end up traveling farther to catch fish but maintain their social and economic well-being, according to a study by fisheries scientists at Washington State University and in Hawaii.
The study, reported in the journal Biological Conservation, is one of the first to look closely at how ... | <urn:uuid:706cdd65-862c-4e42-a788-f63a6ccaa80b> | 3.328125 | 1,372 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 42.682089 |
Step 3: The beginning of a website
Open your editor and make sure you are on a page you can code (might be the source or code tab on GUI editors)
Make sure it is blank before starting. Some GUI editors add information to the code.
The beginning of every HTML page must start with the command <html>. This can be written ... | <urn:uuid:b2e558c2-7365-4883-8d13-9f29aebd921c> | 2.765625 | 171 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 69.792663 |
|Aug7-12, 09:31 AM||#1|
Muon and Scintillator
I am trying to set up a lab experiment on muon detection and determination of its decay time.
I know that when a muon first reaches the scintillator it slows down because of ionization and atomic excitation of solvent molecules. The deposited energy is transferred to the fl... | <urn:uuid:55e81d6f-dd24-4b43-a6ae-5106629cf1e9> | 3 | 393 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 44.82501 |
Last week we presented a general outline of how trees lift water. Donald J. Merhaut of Monrovia Nursery Company, headquartered in Azusa, Calif., has provided a more detailed reply:
"Water is often the most limiting factor to plant growth. Therefore, plants have developed an effective system to absorb, translocate, stor... | <urn:uuid:aabc730d-93bd-48a5-9000-24b705db911f> | 4.09375 | 957 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 48.11715 |
Narrator: This is Science Today. The health of coral reefs has been known to be at risk due to direct stressors such as water pollution, climate change and over-fishing, all of which can cause an overgrowth of algae that smothers the corals. Now, a team of scientists has discovered for the first time, an indirect micro... | <urn:uuid:0d0f1638-e0f8-4455-8614-5780377dc92e> | 3.765625 | 272 | Audio Transcript | Science & Tech. | 50.305459 |
Magnetic field lines from a computer simulation of the solar corona show some of the complexity of the Sun's magnetic field. Colors on the Sun's surface show the strength of the magnetic field (yellow is largest).
Click on image for full size
Helmet Streamers and the Magnetic Structure of the Corona
The gas in the sola... | <urn:uuid:949ae3f2-42fc-4fab-a710-271c3f4c7e70> | 3.296875 | 730 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 56.126921 |
The Impact of Federal Policies on Aquatic Environments and
Teacher Note: Depending on the length of class time available, this lesson may take 2-3 sessions to complete.
Students will describe factors that affect productivity and species distribution in aquatic environments.
Steps to the Lesson
- Discuss key vocabulary.... | <urn:uuid:d7ad182e-38d0-4083-bf62-8ef8b07de5dc> | 3.734375 | 877 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 24.273428 |
Some new classes were introduced in Foundation.framework as part of Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) to help ease the pain associated with performing IPC (inter-process communication) in Mac OS applications. Among them were NSXPCConnection, NSXPCListener, NSXPCListenerDelegate and NSXPCInterface. You can find the document... | <urn:uuid:51fd84c6-9fc5-4ac5-971e-1cc5b9a0d293> | 2.78125 | 494 | Personal Blog | Software Dev. | 42.216333 |
Animal Species:Braconid wasps
Braconid wasps are a large family of wasps with over 800 Australian species. They are closely related to the ichneumonid wasps and parasitise the larvae of many insect groups in a similar way.
Braconid wasps are found throughout Australia.
Braconid wasps live in urban areas, forests and wo... | <urn:uuid:361ad431-b789-4085-bddb-2ac6d881b608> | 3.703125 | 186 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 53.304451 |
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Water is the major constitutent of living matter. From 50 to 90 percent of the weight of living organisms is water. Protoplasm, the basic material of living cells, consists of a solution in water of fats, carbohydrates, proteins, salts, and similar chemicals. Water acts as a solvent, transp... | <urn:uuid:70b10cdb-5214-4caa-b896-0e0e6130d659> | 3.390625 | 335 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 60.898182 |
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- Finding the Height of a Tetrahedron [05/03/1998]
Using properties of medians, altitudes, and angle bisectors to find the
height of a tetrahedron of equilateral triangles.
- Find th... | <urn:uuid:5b6357ce-a148-4559-bd4a-9c2dde1475f1> | 3.15625 | 1,820 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 67.100775 |
Have a look at this video. (N.B. it is played back at normal speed)
After the numbers 1 through 9 make a split-second appearance on a computer screen, the chimp, Ayumu, gets to work. His index finger moves quickly across the screen, tapping white squares where the numbers had appeared, in order. Ayumu’s talent caused a... | <urn:uuid:fba866db-8527-4d7b-9f26-cf95ed76eaaf> | 2.875 | 303 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 69.280538 |
Depending on who is talking, Poincaré’s conjecture can sound either daunting or deceptively simple. It asserts that if any loop in a certain kind of three-dimensional space can be shrunk to a point without ripping or tearing either the loop or the space, the space is equivalent to a sphere.
The conjecture is fundamenta... | <urn:uuid:1fc1fa45-7ec4-4663-be89-861c4b4a6ecb> | 2.921875 | 319 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 45.929967 |
Sep 10, 2012, 4:53 AM
Post #2 of 3
If the special variable $_ matches:
start of string, followed by one or more non white space characters folowed by one or more white space characters followed by one or more digits followed by one or more digits followed by anything...
In addition, the parentheses lead to the followin... | <urn:uuid:e76621ce-d1c1-4dbd-a0a0-5b4a2491fb41> | 2.9375 | 126 | Comment Section | Software Dev. | 41.889041 |
To add a slightly more detailed answer than yesterdays kids's answer:
X-rays are electromagnetic waves, like light. They're different from visible light because they have a higher frequency, and therefore a higher energy per photon. That also means they have a lower wavelength (since f*λ=c)
Metals are solid materials i... | <urn:uuid:723ec999-c383-4e05-a48d-0a76080b6446> | 3.78125 | 197 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 48.614498 |