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Proceedings of the 37th European Marine Biology Symposium held in Reykjavík, Iceland, 5-9 August 2002.
'Developments in Hydrobiology'.
Herausgegeben von K. Gunnarsson, Gudmundur V. Helgason, A. Ingólfsson
31. Januar 2004 - gebunden - 276 Seiten
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Forget El Niño, forecasters say 'The Blob' was to blame for strange seasonal shifts in the world's weather
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#Orion is currently "no-go" due to a range issue. There's a boat in the launch area. Teams are working to remove the boat from the area.— NASA (@NASA) December 4, 2014
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2. Acceleration (`v`-`t`) Graphs
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Almost lost in translation. Cryo-EM of a dynamic macromolecular complex: the ribosome
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The result of every possible measurement on a quantum system is coded in its wave function, which until recently could be found only by taking many different measurements of a system and estimating a wave function that best fit all those measurements.
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In mathematics and statistics, the arithmetic mean ( /
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Gas may lie near slow-spreading tectonic plates on the seafloor
Rocks formed beneath the ocean floor by fast-spreading tectonic plates may be a large and previously overlooked source of free hydrogen gas (H2), a new Duke University study suggests.
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Morphology, Anatomy, and Ultrastructure of CAM Plants
Part of the Ecological Studies book series (ECOLSTUD, volume 30)
CAM is usually regarded as a typical feature of succulents because of its occurrence in many succulent species. However, two questions must be asked:
Is the occurrence of CAM restricted to succulents?
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Technological Advancements Support Sustainability
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Increasing public awareness of environmental pollution influences the search and development of technologies that help in cleanup of organic and inorganic contaminants such as metals. Sludge waste of paper industries as toxic and hazardous material from specific source containing Pb, Zn, and Cu metal from waste soluble... | <urn:uuid:b3fbb4f9-e7df-4f8a-9196-701eda79c9c1> | 3.078125 | 395 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 29.233306 | 95,602,128 |
Position of star HD 164595 in the constellation Hercules
Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000
|Right ascension||18h 00m 38.894s|
|Declination||+29° 34′ 18.92″|
|Apparent magnitude (V)||7.08|
|Spectral type||G2V D|
|Surface gravity (log g)||4.44 ± 0.05 cgs|
|Temperature||5790 ± 40 K|
|Metallicity [Fe/H]||−0.06 dex|
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NGC 5643 by Hubble Space Telescope
|Observation data (J2000 epoch)|
|Right ascension||14h 32m 40.7s|
|Declination||−44° 10′ 28″|
|Redshift||1199 ± 2 km/s|
|Distance||55 Mly (16.9 Mpc)|
|Apparent magnitude (V)||10.7|
|Apparent size (V)||4′.6 × 4′.0|
|ESO 272- G 016, MCG -07-30-003, PGC 51969|
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2004 Global Vegetation from Blue Marble Next Generation
The Blue Marble Next Generation data set provides a monthly global cloud-free true-color picture of the Earth's land cover at a 500-meter spatial resolution. This visualization of the data set shows seasonal variations such as snowfall, spring greening and drought... | <urn:uuid:340274d2-a2c8-4ed6-a6d1-76a038d90a62> | 2.921875 | 411 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 68.946191 | 95,602,156 |
Production of Microcytospheres
Cytoplasmic vesicles can be isolated by several methods which utilize agents with cross-linking capabilities, formaldehyde or glutaraldehyde (Scott et al., 1979). These partially fixed vesicles are unable to attach to a substrate. Since, in certain types of experiments, cytoplasmic vesicl... | <urn:uuid:276ced15-dfd6-4af4-84de-fc4141764a2b> | 2.5625 | 388 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 39.435585 | 95,602,165 |
This chapter provides a general introduction to software engineering- It describes the major activities in software development and the structure of a software engineering environment.
KeywordsSoftware Development Software Engineering High Level Programming Language Software Engineering Research Stepwise Refinement
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The study of life and its existence in the universe, known as Astrobiology, is now one of the hottest areas of both popular science and serious academic research, fusing biology, chemistry, astrophysics, and geology. In this masterful introduction, Lewis Dartnell tours its latest findings, and explores ... | <urn:uuid:18dc2cba-ee27-448b-b035-d416aa13bdf8> | 2.875 | 348 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 35.403196 | 95,602,171 |
The Most Common of Our Gulls is Leaving, but Will Be Back
Author: Jorge Ventocilla
The laughing gull or Larus atricilla, without question the most common of gulls in Panama, chooses the month of March for going back to its nesting territories along the coasts of the U.S., the Gulf of Mexico, the Bahamas and other islan... | <urn:uuid:82e7fb5b-6d8f-4857-a25b-14e66777cb3a> | 2.59375 | 448 | Nonfiction Writing | Science & Tech. | 61.985366 | 95,602,190 |
Humidity is the amount of water vapor in a gas such as a portion of the Atmosphere. The Temperature and makeup of the gas determines a maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold (Saturation), and a measure of humidity as a percentage of this amount is termed Relative Humidity. A measure based purely on mass, i.e., ... | <urn:uuid:b1bfd6a0-2839-4842-8062-f8439a8b3496> | 3.796875 | 165 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 48.200714 | 95,602,204 |
|Class:||Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)|
|Species:||Mosquito (cf Ochlerotatus sp)|
|This Photo:||Female, whole|
|Similar Species:||Non-biting Midge|
General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee) & in the Adelaide Hills
Mosquitoes look a lot like Midges.
An easy ... | <urn:uuid:f01d7816-04cc-408a-a173-4597092b2f4c> | 2.65625 | 172 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 7.256896 | 95,602,218 |
Finding these hidden gems in the Hubble archive gives astronomers an invaluable time machine for comparing much earlier planet orbital motion data to more recent observations. It also demonstrates a novel approach for planet hunting in archival Hubble data.
Left: This is an image of the star HR 8799 taken by Hubble's N... | <urn:uuid:dabd52fa-88e6-4644-90be-ef4fc3f20183> | 3.65625 | 1,907 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 43.012916 | 95,602,238 |
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One of the most powerful tornadoes ever recorded in the United States barreled across southern Plains on May 31, 2013, devastating areas near El Reno, Oklahoma.
“The El Reno tornado is well-known to be the widest tornado on record,” AccuWeather Senior Storm Warning Meteorologist John Lavin said.
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The wasp (Agenioideus nigricornis) was first described scientifically in 1775 by Danish entomologist Johan Christian Fabricius, thanks to samples collected in Australia during Captain Cook's first great voyage (1768–1771).
"Since then, scientists have largely forgotten about the wasp," says Professor Andy Austin from t... | <urn:uuid:3c16eebd-c65d-46ef-96b7-316ac41b7fc0> | 4 | 1,285 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 42.113862 | 95,602,281 |
Coprolite Chemistry – what fossilised faeces can tell us about extinct animals
Presenter: Fiona Gill
Published: December 2012
Age: 14-19 and upwards
Views: 1555 views
Source/institution: Royal Society
Faeces contains a complex mixture of chemical compounds, including substances from the diet and digestive processes. By... | <urn:uuid:e625422b-6e3b-4ea6-b586-506d93b61706> | 3.328125 | 156 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 19.188035 | 95,602,312 |
What Caused the Glacial to Interglacial CO2 Change?
Scenarios put forward to explain the 80 µatm glacial to interglacial change in atmospheric CO2 content are evaluated. The conclusion is that no single mechanism is adequate. Rather, contributions from temperature, sea ice, biologic pumping, nutrient deepening, and CаC... | <urn:uuid:c8ee9229-812d-4117-85a4-b7ed41adb026> | 2.671875 | 555 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 37.070767 | 95,602,318 |
Flavins Keep a Handy Helper in Their Pocket
In the active center of the enzyme is a flavin cofactor. In the enlargement we can see that near it, oxygen (O2) is bound - enabling the flavin to be activated. Credit: Robin Teufel, Raspudin Saleem-Batcha.
In human cells, vitamins often serve as the precursors of “cofactors”... | <urn:uuid:b4fbf66d-dab0-4f5c-882d-c476652db5aa> | 3.5625 | 643 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 38.513678 | 95,602,321 |
Weather on the Earth is driven by multiple factors, including thermal energy from within the Earth's core and from the sun. Certain areas of the Earth are known for specific weather patterns that occur as a result of these factors. One area that scientists, geologists and meteorologists study frequently is the Intertro... | <urn:uuid:53d7200d-d321-406a-b326-e49e6bd64587> | 4.1875 | 557 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 35.327261 | 95,602,345 |
Solar energy has some problems. First, no matter how clear the skies, a solar panel won't produce electricity at night, so a solar energy system needs to have some method of storing energy. And if there is bad weather for an extended time, a solar energy system will provide little output, which means you need to have b... | <urn:uuid:03e6fef1-ce96-49b5-83d8-439b3e5e98eb> | 3.75 | 652 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 34.666667 | 95,602,346 |
Almost two thirds of our universe is made up of dark energy. It is invisibly interwoven with the empty space, and forces the universe to expand at an ever-increasing speed. This discovery, which two teams published simultaneously in 1998, was nothing short of a sensation. Nobody yet knows what is behind dark energy.
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Crops That Shut Down Pests' Genes
Monsanto is developing genetically modified plants that use RNA interference to kill the insects that eat them.
Researchers have created plants that kill insects by disrupting their gene expression. The crops, which initiate a gene-silencing response called RNA interference, are a step... | <urn:uuid:dceeb55c-abb2-4828-b18d-934384b81d67> | 3.328125 | 1,492 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 40.948561 | 95,602,350 |
A recent discovery of mushroom like creatures were formed under the sea, which was discovered by Scientists in Australia. According to the scientist, such a thing never existed, even in the subdivisions of the animal kingdom.
The study states that these shapes did not originate overnight, but must have taken at least a... | <urn:uuid:7df42808-b035-4b14-bc89-a163beaec45a> | 3.578125 | 232 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 44.346018 | 95,602,352 |
Black holes are surrounded by many mysteries, but now researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, have come up with new groundbreaking theories that can explain several of their properties. The research shows that black holes have properties that resemble the dynamics of both solids and liquids. "With thes... | <urn:uuid:23412550-35b7-454c-a7d2-34ce390b867a> | 3.625 | 767 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 44.926645 | 95,602,357 |
Episode 221: Elastic collisions
This episode extends the idea of conservation of momentum to elastic collisions, in which, because KE is conserved, useful information can also be found by calculating the changes in KE of the colliding objects.
Demonstration + Discussion: To introduce totally elastic collisions. (20 min... | <urn:uuid:3f2f3306-1fa2-474f-983f-bed3b936641c> | 3.625 | 4,207 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 76.97435 | 95,602,359 |
Presumably it was to minimize the operators used.
Yup. It thought it would make it easier to understand the problem (the programming challenge). It is also to limit the number of possible solutions. If there are many building blocks the search space is large but also full of good solutions. Then even a random search wo... | <urn:uuid:44d4cb28-e359-4547-b34f-a302d88770da> | 3.078125 | 177 | Comment Section | Software Dev. | 59.9235 | 95,602,367 |
The Relationship Between Language Paradigm and Parallelism: The EQ Prototyping Language
Both the imperative (Fortran , APL , Matlab , etc.) and functional (Sisal , Id , EPL , etc.) language paradigms have attractive features. Imperative languages are able to easily express changing quantities, something which functiona... | <urn:uuid:d629667d-a14c-4332-8f04-6254ec784f44> | 2.703125 | 429 | Academic Writing | Software Dev. | 35.659298 | 95,602,385 |
Elementary Electromagnetic Phenomena
All the effects discussed in this text rely on the presence of electric, magnetic or electro-magnetic fields in the system. It is therefore natural to discuss first the governing equations and some basic electromagnetic phenomena. In this regard, “elementary” in the title of this ch... | <urn:uuid:57ff6012-d898-46a0-bd4c-6f12a8cc61a7> | 3.203125 | 136 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 20.021658 | 95,602,386 |
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By: Julie Kerr Casper
254 pages, full-colour photographs & line illustrations, tables & charts
Global warming has increased dramatically during the last century at an unnatural rate, which makes specialists believe that humans contribute to the real cause of global warming today. Many activities humans ... | <urn:uuid:761eb513-01ab-410e-b81f-38050a38e255> | 3.375 | 436 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 26.3825 | 95,602,389 |
GOV.UK Message Queue Consumer
Standardises the way GOV.UK consumes messages from RabbitMQ. RabbitMQ is a messaging framework that allows applications to broadcast messages that can be picked up by other applications.
For detailed documentation, check out the gem documentation on rubydoc.info.
This gem is used by Rummag... | <urn:uuid:5b0c2de5-77c2-426b-b95d-5deea84c976f> | 2.765625 | 1,232 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 37.372797 | 95,602,401 |
New technology is helping more people see Frank Lloyd Wright’s winter home.
IMAGE Search: Amateur Astronomer Reconnects NASA To Zombie Satellite
An amateur astronomer has picked up signals from a satellite NASA gave up for dead more than decade ago.
Scott Tilley was scanning the skies for secret military satellites whe... | <urn:uuid:d5a7a409-4fce-4a06-b6d7-50ea64acf891> | 2.890625 | 900 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 36.870231 | 95,602,441 |
Novel Species Paving the Way
Identification and accurate documentation of species is vital to understanding how an ecosystem functions and in developing sound strategies for conservation management. Dilmah Conservation’s ‘Novel Species Paving the Way for Biodiversity Conservation’ programme was established to address t... | <urn:uuid:743d7225-2e33-469e-9d6f-f40976cc3dc5> | 2.921875 | 272 | About (Org.) | Science & Tech. | -5.854615 | 95,602,450 |
The nucleus of Comet Borrelly: a study of morphology and surface brightness
Abbreviated Journal Title
Comets; nucleus; surfaces; topography; morphology; photometry; IMAGES; GANYMEDE; Astronomy & Astrophysics
Stereo images obtained during the DS1 flyby were analyzed to derive a topographic model for the nucleus of Comet... | <urn:uuid:1b210dd2-1f58-447b-9a77-a8c078567921> | 2.734375 | 399 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 28.809613 | 95,602,469 |
Relativity: The Special and General Theory
by Albert Einstein
Publisher: Methuen & Co Ltd 1924
Number of pages: 56
How better to learn the Special Theory of Relativity and the General Theory of Relativity than directly from their creator, Albert Einstein himself? In Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, Einst... | <urn:uuid:5ecd222f-4de1-4a9d-b2e9-3f700ada0b90> | 3.40625 | 346 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 34.604907 | 95,602,484 |
A fern is a member of a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. They differ from mosses by being vascular, i.e., having specialized tissues that conduct water and nutrients, in having branched stems and in having life cycles in which the sporophyte is the dominant phase. L... | <urn:uuid:2d4bc317-698f-43a6-97c3-587438e4c5c9> | 3.984375 | 861 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 41.336838 | 95,602,501 |
Where is all of the New Horizons data?
Last summer, speeding along at 9 miles per second, the New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto and its 5 moons, gathering data and snapping incredible high resolution photos of the never-before-seen surface of Pluto, which has led to extraordinary discoveries about the mysterious dw... | <urn:uuid:f108af19-1940-49b1-84e5-0c72cda17e7a> | 3.765625 | 598 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 31.87603 | 95,602,522 |
"As I was telling you guys a week or so ago, this Blood Moon that's approaching on July 27 - before it gets here you have a partial solar eclipse which will be over Tasmania". Partial solar Eclipses are witnessed more often and happens frequently. The last solar eclipse that fell on Friday the 13th was in December 1974... | <urn:uuid:55e2c742-62be-4bf1-9e2e-876c047bebd7> | 2.609375 | 635 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 51.921131 | 95,602,527 |
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The only supermoon of the year will rise on Sunday night, appearing bigger and brighter than any other full moon in 2017.
A supermoon is a full moon that falls near or on perigee, the point in the moon’s orbit where it is closest to the Earth. This causes it to appear slightly larger and brighter th... | <urn:uuid:85c9d566-078a-426a-9548-63bb68c53d33> | 2.921875 | 776 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 49.17245 | 95,602,548 |
Now, researchers from the University of the Basque Country (Universidad del País Vasco) have studied the responses to the midsummer heat of the Mediterranean and Atlantic trees and bushes of the Iberian Peninsula to conclude that the latter species will suffer most with the increase in temperatures.
Researchers from th... | <urn:uuid:dbbccf28-402d-4cec-894e-15fe0f327d1f> | 3.734375 | 1,277 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 36.135988 | 95,602,566 |
Our Vision and Goals
For quick summaries of the carnivores we work with, click on the names below.
Dr. Adrian Treves founded the Carnivore Coexistence Lab in April 2007.
Large carnivores are the most challenging species with which to coexist. For millions of years, they competed with our ancestors for food and space. H... | <urn:uuid:93b3bdc9-5f57-4b47-8f71-8083389935dc> | 3.421875 | 660 | About (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 21.737654 | 95,602,567 |
This is an introductory tutorial on Docker containers. By the end of this article, you will know how to use Docker on your local machine. Along with Python, we are going to run Nginx and Redis containers. Those examples assume that you are familiar with the basic concepts of those technologies. There will be lots of sh... | <urn:uuid:0154fbdd-1ec1-4d8b-a432-0ae84b8f6217> | 3.296875 | 7,809 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 58.617784 | 95,602,571 |
What is HTML?
HTML is the standard markup language for making Web pages.
- HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
- It describes the structure of Web pages using markup
- The HTML elements are the building blocks of HTML pages
- These elements are represented by tags
- HTML tags label pieces of content such as “hea... | <urn:uuid:c7cb6ade-1361-4ab4-ab85-85bc9ab25074> | 4.4375 | 541 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 52.261387 | 95,602,574 |
Cell reprogramming calls The Curious Case of Benjamin Button to mind.
It's a new technology that uses molecular therapy to coax adult cells to revert to an embryonic stem cell-like state, allowing scientists to later re-differentiate these cells into specific types with the potential to treat heart attacks or diseases ... | <urn:uuid:8bdeeb1f-ac3e-4b00-a90d-3da8ada2d29d> | 3.53125 | 1,209 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.239132 | 95,602,595 |
Washington: NASA’s John H Glenn Research Centre is going to light a “large scale fire” in space as part of an experiment that seeks to understand how fire spreads in a micro-gravity environment.
Called the Spacecraft Fire Experiment (Saffire), the experiment on board the next Orbital/ATK Cygnus cargo mission will begin... | <urn:uuid:d0f24216-0816-419d-899b-3eac33ebbeb9> | 3.03125 | 465 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 25.862412 | 95,602,596 |
Population and Energetic Aspects of the Relationship Between Blackbrowed and Greyheaded Albatrosses and the Southern Ocean Marine Environment
The methods and results of the study of the tropho-dynamic relationships between 2 Diomedea albatrosses and the marine environment at South Georgia are described. They illustrate... | <urn:uuid:475097c4-b814-46e5-9995-7fe168d13c9a> | 3 | 664 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 31.678027 | 95,602,609 |
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identify the functional group and indicate polar bonds by assigning partial positive and negative charges.
1) The structure CH3OCH3 is drawn out and I know that this is an ether because the O is bonded to two carbons but I am not sure how to assign the charges. I think that the oxygen would be negative... | <urn:uuid:000e7e2d-f28a-4633-bdde-acd8175c5d37> | 3.15625 | 141 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 58.355679 | 95,602,617 |