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Pezizomycotina is the largest subphylum of phylum Ascomycota (also known as sac fungi). With well over 100, 000 species (over 30,000 of these species have been well described), subphylum Pezizomycotin…
San Antonio, Texas, based Living Slides (www.theliveslide.com) is pleased to announce the launch of an innovative new ... | <urn:uuid:af0363f7-3ee7-49e5-95e5-f10cf77a5c25> | 3.015625 | 1,769 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 35.354505 | 95,597,319 |
Supernova Hunting with Supercomputers
Berkeley researchers provide “roadmap” and tools for finding and studying Type Ia supernovae in their natural habitat
May 20, 2015
Contact: Linda Vu, +1 510 495 2402, firstname.lastname@example.org
Type Ia supernovae are famous for their consistency. Ironically, new observations su... | <urn:uuid:404448ad-e3ff-43de-adcf-c038a3763d20> | 3.109375 | 2,239 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 31.497959 | 95,597,323 |
Original Research ARTICLE
At the brink of supercoloniality: genetic, behavioral, and chemical assessments of population structure of the desert ant Cataglyphis niger
- 1Department of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- 2Department of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology... | <urn:uuid:8099f101-c922-444c-8060-fb88a9efe30b> | 2.796875 | 12,656 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 54.726443 | 95,597,332 |
Just Earth News | @JustEarthNews | 06 Dec 2017
New York, Dec 6(Just Earth News): Soil is a major carbon storage system, essential for sustainable agriculture and climate change mitigation, the United Nations agriculture agency said on Tuesday, launching on World Soil Day a comprehensive global map showing the amount of... | <urn:uuid:374e3a31-889d-4d30-bd52-5bb9b19f2cc9> | 3.296875 | 576 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 20.728769 | 95,597,347 |
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Graze: the act of feeding on low-growing plants, like grasses.
Migration: movement of an animal or a group of animals from one place to another.
Nitrogen: a chemical that is important for all organisms to build tissues. Nitrogen makes up ... | <urn:uuid:fa1def48-5648-4677-b404-e2def3fa4443> | 3.375 | 1,337 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 60.159218 | 95,597,359 |
hath: Hath manipulates network blocks in CIDR notation.
Hath is a Haskell program for working with network blocks in CIDR notation. When dealing with blocks of network addresses, there are a few things that one usually wants to do with them:
Create a regular expression matching the CIDR block(s). This is because grep w... | <urn:uuid:0c3cd55f-16a6-4855-9d12-fd6d67d88b64> | 2.75 | 912 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 110.37401 | 95,597,374 |
Panda love spreads to benefit the planet
Recent MSU work shows China’s decades of defending panda turf have been good not just for the beloved bears, but also protects habitat for other valuable plants and animals, boosts biodiversity and fights climate change.
June 26, 2017 - Author: Sue Nichols, firstname.lastname@ex... | <urn:uuid:c91a1d13-33a4-4786-9c84-08112032214c> | 3.1875 | 839 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 36.696999 | 95,597,380 |
By downloading free open-source software, you could be using data from space to monitor global deforestation and land-use in general in just a matter of minutes.
Land use, forests and agriculture are at the core of the Paris Agreement on climate change, not least because they account for almost a quarter of the world’s... | <urn:uuid:fbea1d48-ff66-4096-af4f-4caaf8263e13> | 3.59375 | 749 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 25.294105 | 95,597,402 |
Alchemy was a precursor to chemistry. The word is derived from the Arabic الكيمية (Al Kimia), meaning "the art of transformation". The key pursuit of alchemy was to create what was known as the philosopher's stone, which was reputed to turn any base metal into gold; additionally alchemists searched for the elixir of li... | <urn:uuid:eb1dd26c-5bca-46cc-b930-f1ca05297aca> | 3.109375 | 330 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 34.291574 | 95,597,445 |
Find the volume of the following region in space: The first octant region bounded by the coordinate planes and the surfaces y=1-x^2, z=1-x^2.
This question is #12 (section 9.3) in Advanced engineering mathmatics (8th ed.) by Kreyszig.
This section deals with the evaluation of double integrals.© BrainMass Inc. brainmass... | <urn:uuid:e816ab53-454c-457f-a1b7-edbafa912c13> | 3.015625 | 119 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 82.263375 | 95,597,448 |
Evapotranspiration (ET) is a major component of the energy and water balances over land. Many studies of long-term averages have shown that more than half of the net solar energy and two thirds of precipitation go to ET over land. Evaporation of water from soil surfaces (ES) is a major component in the soil water balan... | <urn:uuid:cc4de271-2daa-42e0-8b92-5ab70c46f930> | 2.84375 | 131 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 26.983159 | 95,597,455 |
Fourwing saltbush, Atriplex canescens (Pursh) Nutt., is an ecologically important range plant in arid south-western U.S.A. rangelands. Native populations of this chenopodiacious shrub are more extensively colonized by melanized dark septate fungi (DS) than by conventional mycorrhizal fungi. Seedling radicles of A. cane... | <urn:uuid:5ea59fc1-6205-4534-88c5-7ed4c4e95119> | 2.65625 | 352 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 42.358069 | 95,597,484 |
Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, …and magnetoreception? While we are quite used to our five basic senses, there has always been a search for a sixth sense. Many have connected this sense to the ability to see the future, see distant objects, or read minds.
However, an American scientist has found something else. Ma... | <urn:uuid:20b7cb32-b66f-4f92-a727-5f0f6203d5f8> | 3.3125 | 583 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 31.474325 | 95,597,506 |
More of the United States is in moderate drought or worse than at any other time in the 12-year history of the U.S. Drought Monitor, officials from the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln said today.
Analysis of the latest drought monitor data revealed that 46.84 percent of the nati... | <urn:uuid:495d921a-258c-4c9b-bb16-5b52f85d3f5c> | 3.234375 | 1,123 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 51.549814 | 95,597,565 |
doi:10.1038/nindia.2018.62 Published online 21 May 2018
Using table sugar, researchers have synthesised carbon dots that can be used as a sensitive sensor for detecting minute traces of lead ions in drinking water1.
Carbon dots are carbon nanoparticles that are widely used to make light-emitting diodes, solar cells and... | <urn:uuid:190256e8-c5c0-4ae3-ac7b-2d529d1bce85> | 3.71875 | 386 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 48.750652 | 95,597,572 |
Temporal range: Neoproterozoic - Recent
|Ammonia tepida (Foraminifera)|
The Rhizaria are a species-rich supergroup of mostly unicellular eukaryotes. A multicellular form has also been described. This supergroup was proposed by Cavalier-Smith in 2002. Being described mainly from rDNA sequences, they vary considerably in... | <urn:uuid:8bfecd6e-8389-45ce-8e82-0977eb27a769> | 3.28125 | 1,485 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 51.365735 | 95,597,573 |
Reactor Irradiations at 15°K
Early attempts to describe the basic nature of radiation damage were based upon measurement of physical changes occurring in materials, which were bombarded at or near room temperature. Almost at the outset of research in this field, it was recognized that some radiation induced defects mig... | <urn:uuid:2a0ba202-8366-4009-bbb6-1762d1cf941b> | 3.109375 | 122 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 16.014469 | 95,597,581 |
Suppose I made a compass with a pencil on a string attached to a stick. If the string did not move freely around the stick the length between the stick and pencil would get shorter causing a spiral as the string winds up around the stick. Is there a certain radius of stick that would cause a golden ratio spiral?
Assume... | <urn:uuid:7f4dbb4d-ed79-4619-9a8c-450474e53436> | 3.34375 | 683 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 80.747138 | 95,597,585 |
Fuel cells are devices which electrochemically convert the chemical free energy of gaseous or liquid reactants into electrical energy in a continuous way. As in a battery the reactants are prevented from chemically reacting by separating them with an electrolyte, which is in contact with electro-catalytically active po... | <urn:uuid:4aa249f9-3195-4f33-8643-4193fdf9e333> | 3.078125 | 475 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 54.581044 | 95,597,590 |
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Factsheet: Tunisia
This factsheet provides information on 2011 greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in Tunisia. Included is an overview of emissions by sector, changes in emissions, information on carbon intensity, as well as climate change mitigation targets and plans.
Tunisia emitted 33 million met... | <urn:uuid:f6757a4e-b8fe-43a7-a576-8401fb13b1d7> | 3.15625 | 251 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 20.287727 | 95,597,602 |
Im no expert on this, but Im deckie on a scientific research vessel, and we have deployed Tsunami warning buoys off the coast of Chile and Thailand, and survey fault lines around the world. If the scientists arent too full of themselves I pick their brain a bit, cuz its pretty interesting work. Anyhow, I think the answ... | <urn:uuid:92236c84-cec5-4633-a030-792c9465d09f> | 2.53125 | 471 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 62.14455 | 95,597,619 |
The many threats facing bumblebees can be tested using a “virtual safe space” created by scientists at the University of Exeter. Bumble-BEEHAVE provides a computer simulation of how colonies will develop and react to multiple factors including pesticides, parasites and habitat loss.
The tool lets researchers, farmers, ... | <urn:uuid:0fb7dbf5-8144-4734-8445-7b947c77fdba> | 3.859375 | 629 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 19.275424 | 95,597,636 |
C#: Why you should use ConfigureAwait(false) in your library code
Writing asynchronous code after the introduction of async/await in .NET4.5 became relatively easy. Async/await keywords improve code readability and programmer productivity as code resembles synchronous code and it's easy to follow, thanks to the compile... | <urn:uuid:60a69f16-a367-4851-9829-e109e961e874> | 2.609375 | 789 | Personal Blog | Software Dev. | 44.001736 | 95,597,640 |
The first part of an investigation into how to represent numbers using geometric transformations that ultimately leads us to discover numbers not on the number line.
Arrow arithmetic, but with a twist.
How can you use twizzles to multiply and divide?
Introduces the idea of a twizzle to represent number and asks how one... | <urn:uuid:c313657e-164f-402d-bf1f-4f5fc06058ec> | 4.25 | 262 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 58.579151 | 95,597,665 |
University of Delaware marine scientists are now working aboard the 420-foot U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy on a National Science Foundation project to track the fresh water flowing out of the Arctic Ocean into the Atlantic. This fresh water, from melting ice and rivers, affects the salinity and circulation of the o... | <urn:uuid:a92b465e-db8a-42b5-a7fc-0ba9b8fb66a4> | 3.203125 | 912 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.085422 | 95,597,668 |
This chapter demonstrates how linear systems can be used to model biochemical networks. Such models give predictable power that can be used to generate hypotheses, which in turn can be (in)validated experimentally. The advantages of linear systems are that they are relatively simple, efficient to obtain and simulate, a... | <urn:uuid:e7b16541-aaf9-441e-89c4-bf83ac1e742b> | 2.9375 | 223 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 20.032778 | 95,597,678 |
An article in todays Lincoln Journal Star states
...nine whooper chicks now sport high-tech bling thanks to the work of two avian scientists from The Crane Trust, a conservation organization headquartered on the Platte River near Alda.
And the project marks the first time in 22 years whooping cranes have been banded on... | <urn:uuid:14f4c373-5af6-464a-b77b-122791708249> | 3.09375 | 168 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 52.727059 | 95,597,685 |
Scientists from Spectrolab, Inc., a subsidiary of Boeing, have recently published their research on the fabrication of solar cells that surpass the 40% efficiency milestone—the highest efficiency achieved for any photovoltaic device. Their results appear in a recent edition of Applied Physics Letters.
Most conventional... | <urn:uuid:db99b164-1c6d-4e2f-81c8-dd40b664e2d2> | 3.390625 | 712 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 35.598987 | 95,597,710 |
As film buffs queue to watch the new Spider-man movie, geography students from the University of Sussex have gone one better by discovering a new species of spider in the wild.
The second year undergraduates were taking part in a field course to the Seychelles, one of the most biologically diverse places on the planet.... | <urn:uuid:bf9fabe5-1f09-4a78-a8c7-7227da9eaf3b> | 2.6875 | 766 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 40.891695 | 95,597,742 |
The Voyager 1 probe, which launched 40 years ago today (Sept. 5), is humankind's most distant physical emissary, at almost 13 billion miles (21 billion kilometers) from Earth. Voyager 1 and its sister-spacecraft, Voyager 2, which launched two weeks earlier in 1977, gave scientists their first close-up views of Jupiter,... | <urn:uuid:fdeedfb5-a0f8-4114-9654-80f29ab56d27> | 3.78125 | 2,446 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 50.884426 | 95,597,746 |
Vacuum state(Redirected from Quantum vacuum)
In quantum field theory, the quantum vacuum state (also called the quantum vacuum or vacuum state) is the quantum state with the lowest possible energy. Generally, it contains no physical particles. Zero-point field is sometimes used as a synonym for the vacuum state of an i... | <urn:uuid:8efc703f-001a-4a82-a8bb-54a59c68eec8> | 3.125 | 3,835 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 56.733953 | 95,597,750 |
Sterile neutrinos (or inert neutrinos) are a hypothetical particle (neutral leptons – neutrinos) that interact only via gravity and do not interact via any of the fundamental interactions of the Standard Model. The term sterile neutrino is used to distinguish them from the known active neutrinos in the Standard Model, ... | <urn:uuid:3a7d9073-eac3-49ce-8c0e-b69a033278cd> | 3.59375 | 4,292 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 52.360317 | 95,597,751 |
Gaseous molecules and ions, and even dust grains, can accumulate charge in the interstellar medium (ISM) by harvesting the energy of UV photons, cosmic rays, helium ions and metastable atoms. This Perspective views the various modes of gas-phase formation of multiply-charged cations and the possible impact of their rea... | <urn:uuid:e255eff1-0a93-4e7a-b240-833226180625> | 2.5625 | 339 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 7.805278 | 95,597,771 |
A solar flare is a sudden flash of increased Sun's brightness, usually observed near its surface. Powerful flares are often, but not always, accompanied by a coronal mass ejection, with the most powerful ones barely detectable in the total solar irradiance.
Solar flares occur in a power-law spectrum of magnitudes; an e... | <urn:uuid:246ce649-0798-4eda-92c9-446585822a29> | 4.5 | 7,026 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 53.667322 | 95,597,781 |
Theory behind radiocarbon dating
Free 5-day trial Ever wondered how scientists know the age of old bones in an ancient site or how old a scrap of linen is?
Radiocarbon is not suitable for this purpose because it is only applicable: a) on a time scale of thousands of years and b) to remains of once-living organisms (wit... | <urn:uuid:2438605c-6d34-4360-bad7-88bb788e7943> | 4 | 428 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 38.365 | 95,597,793 |
The chemical composition of the environment, including gases and particles (aerosols), are continually altering on account of natural events equivalent to volcanic eruptions and because of human actions, including the results of emissions from fossil gas burning. The definitions in this glossary had been initially gene... | <urn:uuid:d35fc6be-a610-4fd6-a46f-101a18349a98> | 3.34375 | 259 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 10.384126 | 95,597,821 |
AN ancient virus could be responsible for human consciousness, giving you the ability to think for yourself.
New research has linked a human gene responsible for conscious thought to a virus that was spread in the early days of humanity.
Two papers published in the Cell journal discuss the origins of the Arc gene, whic... | <urn:uuid:512218a6-3d8c-43cb-b5bc-e52a59d31de0> | 3.5625 | 557 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 31.291387 | 95,597,845 |
The month-long launch window for NASA’s new Mars lander, InSight opens this weekend. InSight will be the first spacecraft to use a robotic arm to place its instruments on another planet’s soil—effectively unraveling the innards of the Red Planet. It’s also the first interplanetary mission to launch from the West Coast ... | <urn:uuid:3d008c4d-f8d6-4575-be3d-6df1df108e5a> | 3.328125 | 1,140 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 54.444678 | 95,597,863 |
Authors: Edward G. Lake
Paul Langevin’s so-called “Twin Paradox,” based upon Albert Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, seems to be by far the most argued topic in physics. Many hundreds of articles have been written about the “Twin Paradox,” but all they seem to accomplish is to make the subject even more confusi... | <urn:uuid:7772cd90-0bee-4e47-a1d8-39796c1c6519> | 2.75 | 282 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 47.633376 | 95,597,868 |
The Solar System
If you knew exactly where to look with a powerful telescope -- and took pictures several days, weeks, or months apart -- you might be able to find the four giant planets moving against the background of fixed stars. From the inside out we are looking at the orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptun... | <urn:uuid:95934e18-b3f8-4bdd-8846-3f7a5dd9b0f2> | 3.15625 | 237 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 66.790086 | 95,597,894 |
In chemistry, racemization is the conversion of an enantiomerically pure mixture (one where only one enantiomer is present) into a mixture where more than one of the enantiomers are present. If the racemization results in a mixture where the D and L enantiomers are present in equal quantities, the resulting sample is d... | <urn:uuid:461c878a-5018-4a9a-930b-a0d2d821e234> | 3.765625 | 2,156 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 42.416191 | 95,597,897 |
Artificial intelligence (AI). It’s in the walls, the toaster, and even the label on your favourite brand of wine.
In addition to the weird and wacky solutions peddled by Silicon Valley, AI also has a number of actual uses… ones that are, in themselves, useful. Chatbots, smart cars and heuristic programming are all exam... | <urn:uuid:9281ecdc-a44a-49c1-be5b-c048590cb1a2> | 3.4375 | 906 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 46.048911 | 95,597,902 |
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Series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research Volume: 31
Edited By: Yamada Y
715 pages, 227 colour & 67 b/w illustrations
Submarine mass movements represent major offshore geohazards due to their destructive and tsunami-generation potential. This potential poses a threat to human life a... | <urn:uuid:3fed718e-a299-4f81-ba0d-4fc3f09604bd> | 2.71875 | 362 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 10.222143 | 95,597,939 |
The Kentucky Seismic and Strong Motion Network
The Kentucky Seismic and Strong Motion Network, run by the Kentucky Geological Survey, is made up of 24 stations across the state. Eleven of those stations have strong-motion sensors (accelerometers) and 18 have weak-motion sensors (seismometers). Five stations have both. ... | <urn:uuid:9dca353f-ad9d-4ed9-a985-bcd02d958ef9> | 2.9375 | 80 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 36.51 | 95,597,962 |
UDP-based Data Transfer
UDT is a reliable UDP based application level data transport protocol for distributed data intensive applications over wide area high-speed networks. UDT uses UDP to transfer bulk data with its own reliability control and congestion control mechanisms. The new protocol can transfer data at a muc... | <urn:uuid:31e00e1b-20fd-4d1c-9312-836baa1ae530> | 2.5625 | 151 | Content Listing | Software Dev. | 47.405 | 95,597,974 |
Mission Areas L2 Landing Page Tabs
The Bird Banding Laboratory (BBL) is an integrated scientific program established in 1920 supporting the collection, archiving, management and dissemination of information from banded and marked birds in North America. This information is used to monitor the status and trends of resid... | <urn:uuid:b633507d-deb1-4ddb-9bb3-62e6601e2224> | 2.859375 | 3,163 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 27.855583 | 95,597,981 |
posted by Bruce
A sinusoidal wave traveling on a string is moving in the positive x-direction. The wave has a wavelength of 8 m, a frequency of 60 Hz, and an amplitude of 9 cm. What is the wave function for this wave? (Use any variable or symbol stated above as necessary.)
I think the function follows this format:
y(x,... | <urn:uuid:940c118f-74f8-41f8-bd7a-54d64e3bb4db> | 2.984375 | 113 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 70.565776 | 95,598,032 |
Facts Summary: Austrofolium equatorianum is a species of concern belonging in the species group "plants" and found in the following area(s): Ecuador (Galapagos Islands). This species is also known by the following name(s): Bartoniella equatoriana.
Austrofolium equatorianum Facts Last Updated: January 1, 2016
To Cite Th... | <urn:uuid:93545e44-add8-4d86-92e5-dcf7e3efe582> | 3.515625 | 267 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 43.473493 | 95,598,048 |
The movement of the 2 flagella of Oxyrrhis marina was examined with respect to their individual waveforms and the swimming behaviour of the organism. The longitudinal flagella propagated helicoidal waves whose amplitude decreased toward the tip of the flagellum. Their beat frequencies were 50-60 Hz. The transverse flag... | <urn:uuid:3b717db4-c894-4bbf-bad6-af51eec6843e> | 2.59375 | 277 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 13.478526 | 95,598,066 |
How many distinct triangles can be constructed by choosing three vertices from among the corners of a unit cube?
Source: NCTM Mathematics Teacher, February 2008
We construct four triangles from three corners of a face for a total of triangles.
In the plane formed by the the two diagonals and and the two sides, we const... | <urn:uuid:3138ca9c-5659-4dc1-97ee-ac482f6a1698> | 3.953125 | 211 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 59.444852 | 95,598,076 |
We need a few C functions created for us (Using GCC):
1) Small Database System
- We need a few functions that would simulate a small database written. I think a double linked list would be perfect. We need a function to add to the database, remove a record from the database, a function to read from the database and a f... | <urn:uuid:c57d9e95-1166-47ad-988c-58603e3bdc33> | 2.625 | 521 | Comment Section | Software Dev. | 66.452712 | 95,598,092 |
Can plants and animals evolve to keep pace with climate change? A study published May 19 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that for at least one widely-studied plant, the European climate is changing fast enough that strains from Southern Europe already grow better in the north than e... | <urn:uuid:60ccfdde-f8ca-42fd-9bad-dcc379b4359f> | 3.734375 | 1,040 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.885768 | 95,598,093 |
Developed programs should be documented at multiple levels, from code comments, through API documentation, to installation and usage documentation. Comments at each level should take into account different target audience, from experienced developers, to end users with no programming skills.
Example of good documentati... | <urn:uuid:8ff76264-cc5d-47a7-8cd9-dc2d576875c1> | 3.21875 | 1,291 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 37.930893 | 95,598,105 |
If you have ever grabbed the metal handle of pot being heated over a campfire, you have painfully experienced heat transfer. There are four ways in which heat is transferred from one object to another: conduction, radiation, convection and advection. Heat almost always flows from the higher temperature object to the lo... | <urn:uuid:6b4cf4fb-344a-45bb-9bd6-32a0f72d916b> | 4.15625 | 621 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 39.144414 | 95,598,107 |
Numbers and Ratios
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37 is a remarkable number for many reasons but for our purposes the astronomical utility and its connections, as an invariant, to anciently developed concepts involving it are highlighted. The number within mathematics can be studied at https://en.wikipedia... | <urn:uuid:c7cab827-56bf-4f98-acc4-dbcc815a257b> | 2.9375 | 295 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 62.610991 | 95,598,111 |
Scientists of the Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Biochemistry in Martinsried near Munich, Germany, have now decoded the structure of a protein complex (Ski complex) which plays an essential role in the process of degrading ribonucleic acids (RNAs).
The ski complex plays an important role in the quality management of the... | <urn:uuid:90b08ec3-212b-4370-8232-422bf8d608ed> | 3.171875 | 1,266 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 34.315936 | 95,598,153 |
We often hear that great crested newts are bad news for developers, but what about the ecology of this native protected species?
What’s their range?
In Britain, the great crested newt (Triturus cristatus) is widely distributed throughout England, Wales and southern Scotland, but is patchy in its distribution. Britain i... | <urn:uuid:034f10db-a5c4-4acf-a474-1c08157d10e0> | 3.703125 | 898 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 44.491334 | 95,598,165 |
Consider two imaginary cells. Both are cube shaped (the same dimension in all directions) The first cell has a side length of 10 micrometers. The second has a side length of 100 micrometers. Calculate the surface areas and volumes of both of these cells then calculate the sa/v for each of them. The SA, V and Sa/V dived... | <urn:uuid:a99ee69f-b801-4447-8c51-3157016c9246> | 3.953125 | 432 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 75.400091 | 95,598,196 |
The Syntax member of a data structure describes the type of data stored in the value member. The Syntax member is a CLUSPROP_SYNTAX union that describes data in one of two ways:
- As two WORD values with one value describing the format of the data and the other describing the data type. When Syntax is specified this wa... | <urn:uuid:9d91be30-3d33-4c15-9a86-8f15a9acfd2b> | 2.953125 | 160 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 44.851563 | 95,598,238 |
The Grotthuss mechanism (also known as proton jumping) is the process by which an 'excess' proton or proton defect diffuses through the hydrogen bond network of water molecules or other hydrogen-bonded liquids through the formation and concomitant cleavage of covalent bonds involving neighboring molecules.
In his 1806 ... | <urn:uuid:85c9c900-0ab7-47cf-bfcf-0c670d49d7aa> | 3.328125 | 672 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 30.869482 | 95,598,248 |
Researcher James Morris is rethinking what happens to the enormous number of mollusk shells that end up in landfills every year, according to Popular Science. Morris's team Calcium in a Changing Environment or CACHE, wants to recycle the waste produced by seafood lovers. Oysters on the half shell may seem like a specia... | <urn:uuid:930f959d-b997-4f32-b13e-ebab8e3b4012> | 3.9375 | 838 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 40.562787 | 95,598,252 |
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Visual scanning behaviour in honeybees
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Freely flying bees were rewarded with sugar solution on a variety of black-and-white shapes as well as on coloured gratings in various training situations (Table 1). In subsequent dualchoice tests, the bees' discrimination between the various shapes was measured. I... | <urn:uuid:00ecee15-1b34-4356-9bc1-c552ff68c664> | 3.078125 | 973 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 42.816117 | 95,598,278 |
Researchers at EPFL have built a matchbox-sized device that can test for the presence of bacteria in a couple of minutes, instead of up to several weeks. A nano-lever vibrates in the presence of bacterial activity, while a laser reads the vibration and translates it into an electrical signal that can be easily read—the... | <urn:uuid:028fc071-840e-45f1-810e-fbb924d67ae0> | 2.90625 | 818 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.3895 | 95,598,293 |
Scientists have found how fluids, such as water, become sealed within the earth’s fault planes for a long period of time. This fluid pressure makes it easier for the earth’s plates to move alongside each other, eventually resulting in an earthquake.
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A Continuing Enigma of Geology
Jelte P. Harnmeijer, University of Washington
Banded Iron Formations (‘BIFs’) are highly controversial chemical precipitates characterized by the presence of alternating layers of iron-rich and amorphous silica-rich layers. This dichotomous compositional layering is usually expressed on s... | <urn:uuid:8a510aac-ab0f-4e05-953b-d1ab399271a2> | 2.9375 | 812 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 22.926781 | 95,598,315 |
The Interior of the Earth
The interior of the Earth (and, a fortiori, of the other planets) is much less known than the interior of the Sun, and also of stars light years away. The physics and chemistry of solid and liquid phases at high pressures, essential for the understanding of terrestrial planets and the core of ... | <urn:uuid:206a7086-9835-4cca-bbca-39bc302eba8f> | 4.125 | 285 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 35.430058 | 95,598,321 |
Haploid yeast cells bud next to the site of the previous division (axial pattern), but diploid yeast cells bud from their poles (bipolar pattern). In the 8 December Science, Chen et al. propose that the Rax2 protein marks the cortex to provide a landmark for bipolar budding (Science 2000, 290:1975-1978). Rax2 is an int... | <urn:uuid:3af7abae-ca81-4d1e-87a1-45ab7ee1c1d1> | 3.078125 | 193 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 40.703594 | 95,598,329 |
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A bipolar neuron is a nerve cell which has two processes; a dendrite and an axon. Bipolar neurons are sensory nerve cells specialized for the transmission of special nerve impulses. As such, they are part of the sensory pathways for smell, sight, taste, hearing and vestibular functions. The most common examples are the... | <urn:uuid:ba9d99c4-ea52-4562-be25-bb51e2910ba6> | 3.609375 | 342 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 38.170136 | 95,598,335 |
Beyond the Basics in CSS and Scripting
In Chapters 5, 6, and 7, you learned how to use CSS to make your website attractive and easy to maintain with styles. In this chapter, we will look at styling your content for different media. In several places in this book, I have pointed out that you have more control over how p... | <urn:uuid:a7fa8dc8-2ff9-406a-b306-aa3ecdedeaa6> | 2.6875 | 161 | Truncated | Software Dev. | 57.472826 | 95,598,366 |
Hibernate is a Object-relational mapping (ORM) tool for Java. It was initiated by Gavin King in 2001. ORM methodology is used to map classes to tables, class instances is mapped to rows and attributes are mapped to table columns. It also map data types of Java to SQL data types.
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This tungsten recycling process dramatically slows the filament's decay. Although the filament gradually develops thin spots that... | <urn:uuid:170f9ba7-3236-4c0c-b306-369bd66c7048> | 3.078125 | 2,501 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 46.8714 | 95,598,377 |
In an array all elements are of the same type. In contrast to the array, the record structure offers the possibility to declare a collection of elements as a unit even if the elements are of different types. The following examples are typical cases where the record is the appropriate choice of structuring method. A dat... | <urn:uuid:ae55fa22-643a-4b0c-b513-e3f7cc7f1e7c> | 2.59375 | 132 | Truncated | Software Dev. | 30.817196 | 95,598,408 |
One third of us globally cannot see the Milky Way in the night sky because of light pollution – artificial light that brightens the night sky – says an international team of scientists who created the ‘New World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness’.
The scientists, from Israel, Germany, Italy and the USA, publishe... | <urn:uuid:1f830e17-ec9c-4d2d-a97a-905c3b29130b> | 3.890625 | 1,240 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 41.605579 | 95,598,414 |
An ultra fast meteor came in from space and hit our atmosphere earlier this month at an incredible speed of 29000 miles per hour (46,600 km/h), says the American space agency NASA, which estimated the object weighed at least 150 pounds (68 kg) and was approximately 16 inches (40.6 cm) in diameter. NASA scientists belie... | <urn:uuid:aa4d5134-23d7-4324-9da3-c7f324e9acbe> | 3.34375 | 508 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 54.616471 | 95,598,415 |
Toxin proteins are genetically engineered into our food because they kill insects by perforating body cell walls, and Professor Rikard Blunck of the University of Montreal's Group for the study of membrane proteins (GÉPROM) has detected the molecular mechanism involved.
In recognition of his breakthrough, he received t... | <urn:uuid:c011518d-d26e-4950-81d7-33395848667a> | 3.671875 | 1,229 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 35.536726 | 95,598,416 |
Fast Facts: What is phenology monitoring?
Your day-to-day observations of nature can contribute to citizen science! Plant and animal life stages that occur in an annual cycle, in rhythm with the changing seasons, are called phenophases. Phenology is the study of the timing of these changes. Scientists have found that p... | <urn:uuid:5fc55266-98ae-4131-9ba8-d19281da74ee> | 3.5 | 638 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 28.706546 | 95,598,438 |
Deakin research highlights global sea turtle conservation success storiesMedia release
New Deakin University research is pointing to signs of recovery in global sea turtle populations thanks to long-term conservation efforts, contrasting with a trend that’s seen most endangered vertebrates continue to decline in number... | <urn:uuid:0b06b55e-5fd4-4232-b26d-69b46d28fd2f> | 3.046875 | 772 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 19.663504 | 95,598,448 |
Dialysis tubing, also known as Visking tubing, is an artificial semi-permeable membrane tubing used in separation techniques, that facilitates the removal or exchange of small molecules from macromolecules in solution based on differential diffusion. In the context of life science research, dialysis tubing is typically... | <urn:uuid:1df423bb-b86e-4136-b2ef-4471538d6ce9> | 3.421875 | 1,116 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 21.087532 | 95,598,450 |
Common name: blue acara
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Identification: Kullander (1983) considered genus Aequidens, like genus Cichlasoma, a catch-all for several different phylogenetic lineages. According to Kullander (1983, 1986), "Aequidens" pulcher represents a species complex consisting of "A." pulcher, "A." coeru... | <urn:uuid:5129751e-7353-4139-8aea-e0d4e1aaa17e> | 2.875 | 1,232 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 56.288397 | 95,598,453 |
List sort method orders a list in place.
By default sorts in ascending order.
You can modify sort behavior by passing in keyword arguments.
A special "name=value" syntax in function calls that specifies passing by name and is often used for giving configuration options.
In sorts, the reverse argument sorts list in desc... | <urn:uuid:018899cb-a553-4c9f-bb1f-e0836db33121> | 3.65625 | 413 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 68.286023 | 95,598,471 |
But weather forecasting on the Red Planet is likely to be even trickier than on Earth
Weather, which changes day-to-day due to constant fluctuations in the atmosphere, and climate, which varies over decades, are familiar to those of us here on Earth. More recently, a third regime, called “macroweather,” has been used t... | <urn:uuid:5ed4204c-b737-40f1-89c0-9083c601a8d8> | 3.953125 | 1,479 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 43.165856 | 95,598,479 |
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The ABC facts of Environmental issues
Here are some interesting information on the ABC facts and terms used when we talk about the environment and climate change issues.
Environment - current issues: air pollution from industrial and vehicular emissions; water pollution from raw sewage; defores... | <urn:uuid:2722f707-892d-4959-82f4-e84d6e784e52> | 3.453125 | 1,682 | Structured Data | Science & Tech. | 14.024327 | 95,598,483 |
U. BUFFALO (US) — Scientists can produce hydrogen—a potential power source for portable devices—on demand by adding water to nanosized silicon.
In a series of experiments, scientists created spherical silicon particles about 10 nanometers in diameter. When combined with water, these particles reacted to form silicic ac... | <urn:uuid:8da24873-a77e-4c76-9fef-7f207ede575c> | 4.25 | 679 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 25.506224 | 95,598,491 |
A View from Katherine Bourzac
Making a Black Hole with Metamaterials
The materials might one day be used to make “optical black holes” in the lab.
Metamaterials interact with light in weird ways. They can bend it around an object as if the object weren’t there, or narrow the resolution of microscopes down to a few nano... | <urn:uuid:a502ac16-d873-4bc2-9600-b96e7bd49002> | 4.125 | 340 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 40.372564 | 95,598,531 |
Activation and stabilization of gallium arsenide anode in an aqueous photoelectrochemical cell
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The formation of a porous layer on the surface of gallium arsenide anode, n-GaAs, increases photogenerated currents significantly. This layer was formed as a result of an anodic polarization of i... | <urn:uuid:289bc481-5b37-4be5-8bdc-da31ac83f0c8> | 2.875 | 384 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 10.201026 | 95,598,543 |
By attaching short sequences of single-stranded DNA to nanoscale building blocks, researchers can design structures that can effectively build themselves.
The building blocks that are meant to connect have complementary DNA sequences on their surfaces, ensuring only the correct pieces bind together as they jostle into ... | <urn:uuid:413ee7c6-3d65-43c9-9d31-2149977fb42c> | 4 | 1,839 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 37.463133 | 95,598,544 |
The researchers produced cadmium sulphide particles in microscopically small membrane bubbles. Depending on which of the construction manuals they follow, the particles can be 4 or 50 nanometres in size.
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Recent reporting on the discovery and enhancement of plastic-dissolving enzymes in bacteria made me stop and think about what this might mean for the plastic pollution problem that is plaguing oceans and choking the world’s coral reefs.
While this development is interesting and draws necessary focus to an immense envir... | <urn:uuid:abd78662-2b8f-49c3-8ac4-c4cb675247b1> | 3.515625 | 708 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 34.584804 | 95,598,588 |
Researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM) Department of Botany have discovered hundreds of potentially new species of fungi in the deep coral ecosystem in the 'Au'au channel off Maui, Hawai'i. Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCE) are generally found at depths between 130 - 500 feet and possess abundant pla... | <urn:uuid:887de8f4-8463-4b7e-9701-13e8b74c328b> | 3.203125 | 1,362 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 33.409439 | 95,598,589 |
Calculating x^y, 2^x, etc.
If y is an integer, we can repeatedly multiply (or use even faster algorithms that repeatedly square and multiply).
If y is not an integer, we generally make the substitution
x^y = e^(y ln( x )) or x^y = 2^(y log2( x ))
and use some subroutine to calculate ln(x) and e^b -- or, alternatively, ... | <urn:uuid:bb96bdf9-375f-4cbe-ae13-e2b59c63d467> | 3.046875 | 722 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 57.335622 | 95,598,595 |
A room-temperature superconductor is a hypothetical material that would be capable of exhibiting superconductivity at operating temperatures above 0 °C (273.15 K). While this is not strictly "room temperature", which would be approximately 20–25 °C, it is the temperature at which ice forms and can be reached and easily... | <urn:uuid:29368473-bc8e-45fb-95bb-1a2a78ba6cfd> | 3.953125 | 2,064 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 57.598632 | 95,598,597 |
Falling sulfur dioxide emissions in the United States are expected to substantially increase rainfall in Africa’s semi-arid Sahel, while bringing slightly more rain to much of the United States, according to a recent study in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
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|White witch moth |
Thysania agrippina is a species of moth in the Erebidae family. The species has numerous common names, including white witch, birdwing moth, ghost moth, great grey witch, and great owlet moth. It is the lepidopteran with the biggest wingspan, which typically is reported as being up to 27–29 centimet... | <urn:uuid:034ffc1b-c3ad-4259-b16a-8695ed0231ef> | 2.640625 | 452 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 55.613085 | 95,598,613 |
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Centipedes can subdue giant prey by using venom, which is metabolically expensive to synthesize and thus used frugally through efficiently disrupting essential physiological systems. Here, we show that a centipede... | <urn:uuid:36d759c6-0654-4b4d-83bc-e76bca761a44> | 2.875 | 3,157 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 1.492216 | 95,598,622 |
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This series of books describes the morphology and biology of chrysomelids (i.e. leaf beetles) in Taiwan. The first issue includes 100 common and special species. This issue contains more than 500 full colour plates and live photos, and is written as an in-d... | <urn:uuid:d3e4bf4b-fc4f-4c96-9ddc-d5a5c6908250> | 2.5625 | 151 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 44.260957 | 95,598,635 |
These Breath-Taking Bubbles Shine Below A Canadian Lake... And They're Surprisingly Dangerous
This amazing spectacle below Lake Abraham, Alberta could cause quite the explosion
One look at the frozen Lake Abraham, in Alberta, Canada, and you know something special is going on below the ice.
At first glance it looks a b... | <urn:uuid:30521d90-5a57-47ca-b5b7-b4fee88ac38f> | 2.984375 | 270 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 53.603805 | 95,598,646 |
1. Write an Matlab m-file to solve this problem with Runge-Kutta method. Solve the concentration of T1 and T2 (or salt content) as function of time (up to 100 minutes). Both T1 and T2 are mixing tanks (assume immediate mixing). T1's capacity is 100 gallon and T2's capacity is 200 gallon. Initially, T1 contains full tan... | <urn:uuid:a877ed6a-21ab-44b2-a754-ae97d5da6198> | 2.78125 | 353 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 80.046418 | 95,598,654 |
Web Date: April 19, 2012
The genetic basis for life on Earth may be stored in RNA and DNA, but scientists have now made six synthetic mimics of genetic material that are capable of recording, propagating, and evolving genetic information (Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.1217622).
The mimics could form a rudimentary basis... | <urn:uuid:a8968917-d7b7-49ab-b2eb-578943086f15> | 3.859375 | 802 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 32.227733 | 95,598,655 |