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Metric conversion is a systematic approach to problem solving that uses conversion factors to move or convert from unit ot another.
Many problems in chemistry and health science requires a change of units.You make changes in units everyday. We use metric system which is a common method of measuring system , in 1960 sci... | <urn:uuid:3bfd88be-666f-4aa1-aa5c-c37ea6f72e66> | 4.3125 | 829 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 55.934065 | 95,602,630 |
The distribution and ecology of 24 species of Decapoda Reptantia in the estuarine part of the rivers Rhine, Meuse, and Scheldt, in the southwestern part of The Netherlands, is discussed. A few species are common offshore, but a larger number are abundant in the seaward reaches of the estuaries at salinities over 15% Cl... | <urn:uuid:1894eefa-2247-4fef-b2b7-04f07b0b8e37> | 3.03125 | 1,578 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 45.44357 | 95,602,636 |
Write a C# console application in which you declare an array of five integers and store five values in the array. Write a try block in which you place a loop that attempts to access each element of the array, incrementing a subscript from 0 to 10. Create a catch block that catches the eventual IndexOutOfRangeException;... | <urn:uuid:71d8282f-1b50-4edd-859a-d7513dc0f4e6> | 2.671875 | 215 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 61.487546 | 95,602,643 |
A new discovery from the Brain Mind Institute of the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) shows that the brain rewires itself following an experience. The research further shows that this process of creation, testing, and reconfiguring of brain circuits takes place on a scale of just hours, suggesting that t... | <urn:uuid:61fc6634-df8d-402d-9ce8-f0d856e4ac86> | 3.390625 | 1,205 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 37.493154 | 95,602,645 |
The results of the coming geomagnetic storm may be pleasant – auroras as far south as Illinois – or unpleasant, such as GPS and communications problems, according to Young.
The coronal mass ejection is expected to hit the Earth at about 1:30 a.m. Eastern time Thursday – with a margin of error of plus or minus seven hou... | <urn:uuid:4df3c551-93c4-4f5d-8b87-7c359dc7c583> | 3.046875 | 776 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 38.198297 | 95,602,653 |
Callables and Future
The FiutureTask is "A cancellable asynchronous computation. This class provides a base implementation of Future, with methods to start and cancel a computation, query to see if the computation is complete, and retrieve the result of the computation."
Callables are just like Runnables to define the ... | <urn:uuid:65851183-d6f3-47c1-bcd3-c264b070a864> | 3.0625 | 524 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 44.489859 | 95,602,657 |
Valley Network (Venus)
Integrated system of elongate depressions cut into topography on Venus.
A type of valley on Venus
Networks of valleys, commonly with integrated systems of tributaries (Baker et al. 1992). Unlike channels, valley networks’ boundaries may not be shaped by fluids (Baker et al. 1992, 1997) and valley... | <urn:uuid:ff5d7d90-98f9-4745-85f2-91597106c7ad> | 3.046875 | 333 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 59.007835 | 95,602,658 |
A team of Germans competing at the Google Lunar X-Prize has already laid out plans for their first mission. What exactly is it? They plan to send out two probes to the Moon, all in hopes of proving that the Apollo 17 mission was truly successful.
A new research has revealed that astronauts who stay for long periods of ... | <urn:uuid:ec0c0b9e-742d-4e63-823c-e9a29cc8ad16> | 2.625 | 628 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 48.336407 | 95,602,662 |
The tiny black hole resides in a Milky Way
Galaxy binary system known as XTE J1650-500,
named for its sky coordinates in the southern
constellation Ara. NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing
Explorer (RXTE) satellite discovered the system
in 2001. Astronomers realized soon after J1650's
discovery that it harbors a normal star and ... | <urn:uuid:1e6da411-8d19-4620-ba9b-08c8e28ab572> | 3.484375 | 885 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 46.458183 | 95,602,668 |
American Journal of Modern Physics
Volume 6, Issue 6, November 2017, Pages: 122-126
Received: Aug. 12, 2017;
Accepted: Aug. 28, 2017;
Published: Sep. 21, 2017
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Hua Ma, The College of Science, Air Force University of Engineering, Xi’an, People’s Republic of China
It is a basic, ancient and myster... | <urn:uuid:a3f2882c-861e-481a-a4ed-bf96850b11cb> | 2.9375 | 873 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 56.463886 | 95,602,673 |
Decoding the essence of being – understanding the brain and all its connections, that is Connectomics. Scientists from the Max Planck Institutes for Medical Research in Heidelberg, of Neurobiology in Martinsried near Munich, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) now made an important step in this directio... | <urn:uuid:0d5fd6e9-ac04-4ba6-9748-3354e5150248> | 3.234375 | 1,783 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 39.608144 | 95,602,689 |
The Power of Networks Lets Scientists Unravel the Complex Control of Biological Processes
News Jun 18, 2007
Scientists at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital (Canada), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Germany), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) have created a new comp... | <urn:uuid:c74370b0-5367-4db7-8ba1-f690fd3f6220> | 3 | 652 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 25.2874 | 95,602,701 |
In spectroscopy, a forbidden mechanism (forbidden transition or forbidden line) is a spectral line associated with absorption or emission of light by atomic nuclei, atoms, or molecules which undergo a transition that is not allowed by a particular selection rule but is allowed if the approximation associated with that ... | <urn:uuid:3ac1f152-f37b-43dc-87f8-a5b8187bda38> | 3.1875 | 1,852 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 36.23173 | 95,602,709 |
Particle in a box
In quantum mechanics, the particle in a box model (also known as the infinite potential well or the infinite square well) describes a particle free to move in a small space surrounded by impenetrable barriers. The model is mainly used as a hypothetical example to illustrate the differences between cla... | <urn:uuid:3d4f1dc8-68ad-408e-9720-da749a300727> | 3.78125 | 5,331 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 49.868291 | 95,602,744 |
Sidereal Time, Civil Time and Solar Time
Sidereal time is a timekeeping system that astronomers use to locate celestial objects. Using sidereal time it is possible to easily point a telescope to the proper coordinates in the night sky.
- Introduction to Astronomy
- The Celestial Sphere - Right Ascension and Declination... | <urn:uuid:d671a625-1ab4-45e6-a723-c3860caad4a8> | 3.65625 | 1,074 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 44.841209 | 95,602,746 |
A-DNA and Z-DNA Atlases. Dave Ussery Comparative Microbial Genomics first lecture, 18 September, 2002. Outline. Helix family. A-DNA. A-DNA helix. A-DNA was the first DNA helix characterised by Rosalind Franklin in the early 1950’s. A-DNA helices
Comparative Microbial Genomics
first lecture, 18 September, 2002
Z-DNA was... | <urn:uuid:f9037bba-7d96-43df-8401-7678605f9d5e> | 3.5625 | 215 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 63.530712 | 95,602,752 |
Materials Could Capture CO2 and Make It Useful
Novel molecular structures are a first step toward economical carbon capture at a wide scale.
A viable technology for economical carbon capture would be a huge step in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Although progress has been made in limiting carbon emissions in some c... | <urn:uuid:23d24039-cddc-4936-8f9a-71c6b6347f21> | 3.71875 | 801 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 31.811481 | 95,602,753 |
FAU researchers gain new insights into the electrical charge of platinum particles
Whether it is in catalytic processes in the chemical industry, environmental catalysis, new types of solar cells or new electronic components, nanoparticles are everywhere in modern production and environmental technologies, where their ... | <urn:uuid:fea068ad-b0be-4fea-9d8a-50b53e37153a> | 3.015625 | 1,273 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 30.064033 | 95,602,764 |
The researchers want to understand the phenomena behind the magnetic storms engulfing the earth capable of destroying satellites and capable of damaging radio communications on the earth’s surface. For such experiment, they will also have to track down the reasons behind the tropical storms that take place on the groun... | <urn:uuid:f8fb6769-8415-4cbb-9336-121ac2373298> | 3.609375 | 138 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 28.60563 | 95,602,777 |
- Open Access
A framework for incorporating evolutionary genomics into biodiversity conservation and management
© Hoffmann et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015
Received: 19 September 2014
Accepted: 17 December 2014
Published: 28 January 2015
Evolutionary adaptation drives biodiversity. So far, however, evolutionary th... | <urn:uuid:00878986-d549-46cc-ad85-45827bf82d85> | 3.015625 | 28,234 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 29.362257 | 95,602,832 |
Over one thousand miles wide and three thousand miles long, the Sargasso Sea occupies almost two thirds of the North Atlantic Ocean. Within the sea, circling ocean currents accumulate mats of Sargassum seaweed that shelter a surprising variety of fishes, snails, crabs, and other small animals.
A recent paper by MBARI r... | <urn:uuid:ddbaf696-6b1d-445c-8660-b96339dff454> | 3.671875 | 1,665 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 44.176736 | 95,602,839 |
The research team of Prof. Sonja Hofer at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, has discovered why our brain might be so good at perceiving edges and contours. Neurons that respond to different parts of elongated edges are connected and thus exchange information. This can make it easier for the brain to identify contour... | <urn:uuid:3b19fb76-b313-48f2-9140-d09b03be2221> | 3.6875 | 1,363 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 41.160814 | 95,602,840 |
National Center for
4HUE: Structure Of 5-chlorouracil Modified G:u Base Pair
Nucleic Acids Res. (2013) 41 p.2689-2697
The thymine analog 5-chlorouridine, first reported in the 1950s as anti-tumor agent, is known as an effective mutagen, clastogen and toxicant as well as an effective inducer of sister-chromatid exchange... | <urn:uuid:e4407671-7e54-4e78-90ac-3938a2ca7213> | 2.9375 | 457 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 59.64587 | 95,602,841 |
A drop or droplet is a small column of liquid, bounded completely or almost completely by free surfaces. A drop may form when liquid accumulates at the lower end of a tube or other surface boundary, producing a hanging drop called a pendant drop. Drops may also be formed by the condensation of a vapor or by atomization... | <urn:uuid:dc9c0d17-3981-4ff9-b4c6-64107c509c60> | 4 | 2,094 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 66.249905 | 95,602,868 |
Although environmental managers are usually social scientists, there are numerous requirements within the management matrix that need the input of geologists. Because environmental management cuts across nearly all segments of human activities, it is vital that most societal segments be represented on decision-making b... | <urn:uuid:25c2f90e-a4c7-4160-9bd8-23d173a92649> | 2.671875 | 211 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 0.038385 | 95,602,869 |
In this chapter, you’ve learned about the fundamental concepts that power the Spring Framework. You saw how to bootstrap a Spring ApplicationContext, learned the basics of configuring bean dependencies in Spring XML configuration files, and developed an understanding of bean scopes and life cycles. The benefits of depe... | <urn:uuid:87aa3748-e2a6-4e88-9b97-9fdb08a86687> | 2.59375 | 171 | Truncated | Software Dev. | 28.520238 | 95,602,903 |
Lithium is going to be very important in the future of renewable energy. Storing energy from sustainable sources like wind and solar will likely be required due to the unreliability of nature and our need to stockpile energy. With demand soon to be on the rise, Stanford scientists have been studying a new source where ... | <urn:uuid:d01a93b5-8d06-4dbe-88c9-81495030d8d0> | 3.875 | 770 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 43.255752 | 95,602,905 |
PHP Form Validation
Form validation is very important when you are developing a website in PHP. PHP Form Validation provides you the facility to apply the validation on the forms so that only required data can be accepted by the client. Form Validation Using PHP provides the lot of attributes of functions to validate t... | <urn:uuid:9afd69b4-03b7-47eb-afb1-c435864e1671> | 2.90625 | 594 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 41.05746 | 95,602,914 |
The text is on the classical doppler effect, the relativistic doppler effect, aberration, and the transverse doppler effect. It also discusses wave fronts, first-order and second order effect, light-time correction, Galilean transformation, and parallax.
Part of a larger set of Physics Notes by James B. Calvert, Profes... | <urn:uuid:6080b2bd-42d4-4a7f-acc8-ce2671eb0d2c> | 2.515625 | 194 | Structured Data | Science & Tech. | 50.358625 | 95,602,917 |
The breakthrough comes from expressing certain genes in algae that increase the amount of photosynthesis in the plant, which leads to more biomass.
Expressing genes means that the gene's function is turned on.
"The key to this (increase in biomass) is combination of two genes that increases the photosynthetic carbon co... | <urn:uuid:831dda6b-854e-4660-8b5f-7565bbf5abab> | 4.09375 | 1,327 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 39.263658 | 95,602,918 |
"Marsupial" is a set of protocols defined by the Ministry of Education of Catalonia in the context of the 1-to-1 program educat1x1 - eduCAT 2.0.
Marsupial has been also adopted as a main interoperability protocol in the Punto Neutro de Recursos Educativos Digitales platform, promoted by the Spanish Ministry of Educatio... | <urn:uuid:77bbe06d-910b-49a3-a205-59d111e0b3f0> | 2.96875 | 506 | About (Org.) | Software Dev. | 19.809643 | 95,602,926 |
Around 540 million years ago there was a sudden diversification of species on earth. Within a short period of time, countless new species evolved almost simultaneously, becoming the predecessors of today's main animal groups. But what caused this rapid evolution? Palaeontologists around the world have been searching fo... | <urn:uuid:6940be95-7a96-45d7-810d-dd7b16fffb95> | 4.3125 | 1,308 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.719261 | 95,602,986 |
Join Patrick Royal for an in-depth discussion in this video My solution: Image-comparison algorithms, part of Code Clinic: Java (2014).
-Due to the complexity of image analysis,…there are actually a large number of different…algorithms that are commonly used…to compare images.…These range from very simple algorithms…th... | <urn:uuid:3f6d243b-fc5a-4fce-94fa-27695fc4a8d7> | 2.8125 | 539 | Truncated | Software Dev. | 39.484455 | 95,602,987 |
Observation of the abyssal current in the West Mariana Basin
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In order to investigate long-term variations of deep sea currents and temperature in the western North Pacific, a direct current measurement was made at 12.5°N, 137°E from July 1985 to July 1986. The current meter was moored at a depth of about... | <urn:uuid:7c162930-07f8-40c1-ac27-4088ffedef02> | 2.765625 | 991 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 67.79461 | 95,602,996 |
|The Twin Quasar Q0957+561|
The Twin Quasar QSO 0957+561, which lies 7.8 billion light-years from Earth, is seen right in the center of this picture.
|Observation data (Epoch J2000)|
|Right ascension||10h 01m 20.99s|
|Declination||+55° 53′ 56.5″|
|Distance||8,700,000,000 ly (2,400,000,000 pc)|
|Apparent dimensions (V)|... | <urn:uuid:63fad5f5-d9f7-4bad-afeb-e20753a2554e> | 3.015625 | 1,835 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 75.954333 | 95,603,009 |
The Use of SIMS for Semiconductor Processing Technology: The Influence of Oxygen at Depth Profiling
Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) is one of the most powerful characterization methods in semiconductor processing technology. In SIMS, the presence of oxygen has been found to influence the intensities of the secon... | <urn:uuid:a07ab77d-41d4-4114-8823-f4bd55c4902f> | 3.09375 | 216 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 7.764241 | 95,603,022 |
The reappearance of long-forgotten habitats and the resurgence of species unseen for years may not be among the expected effects of a natural disaster.
Yet that's exactly what researchers found in a study of the sandy beaches of south central Chile, after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake and devastating tsunami in 2010.
The... | <urn:uuid:7452797f-a4ec-4aa2-bda5-7ff17f674c47> | 3.78125 | 1,579 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 37.444972 | 95,603,030 |
New Biosensors for Managing Microbial ‘Workers’
News Aug 05, 2015
Super productive factories of the future could employ fleets of genetically engineered bacterial cells, such as common E. coli, to produce valuable chemical commodities in an environmentally friendly way. By leveraging their natural metabolic processes, ... | <urn:uuid:081fa0a3-e722-482b-b9e3-42e4f1299229> | 2.671875 | 962 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 23.856136 | 95,603,032 |
Plan to avert a real Armageddon: Scientists say nuclear bomb CAN save Earth from asteroid collision (and don't worry, there's no need to send Bruce Willis into orbit)
It sounds like a plot fit for a disaster movie - but this is real life.
Scientists say they have worked out a way to blast an asteroid into space dust us... | <urn:uuid:96b56ded-34cc-4756-a836-b7f52e140e2a> | 3.21875 | 831 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 27.781222 | 95,603,039 |
…Throughout much of human history, people consciously and intentionally produced randomness. They frequently used dice – or dice-shaped animal bones and other random objects – to gamble, for entertainment, predict the future and communicate with deities. Despite all this engagement with controlled random processes, peo... | <urn:uuid:a334e624-f928-4a6d-a943-3bc06d5993f0> | 3.21875 | 246 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 37.057773 | 95,603,042 |
Chemistry Question #102
Kelly, a 10 year old male from the Internet asks on December 8, 1999,
Why does an ice cube melt faster in tap water than salt water?
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Lara Baxley, Bakersfield College, California
answered on December 8, 1999
An ice cube does melt much faster in tap water than in salt water. The... | <urn:uuid:924cfcf4-96d8-466a-a852-b30aac86d7a6> | 3.265625 | 380 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 55.607397 | 95,603,053 |
Imagine we have four bags containing a large number of 1s, 4s, 7s and 10s. What numbers can we make?
Imagine we have four bags containing numbers from a sequence. What numbers can we make now?
List any 3 numbers. It is always possible to find a subset of adjacent numbers that add up to a multiple of 3. Can you explain ... | <urn:uuid:29ff4e20-03bf-42b6-94d7-a015421ab5c3> | 4.125 | 1,553 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 79.495533 | 95,603,056 |
Other rational expressions with the irrational function
1. If , we can use .
2. If , we can use .
3. If can be factored as , we can use .
4. If and can be factored as , we can use
Frequently occuring integrals of irrational functions are: , where and is possitive on an interval. We can exclude the case, that the polyno... | <urn:uuid:41c68e4c-74b1-4a3a-808b-6a8e4ada3571> | 2.625 | 259 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 72.146976 | 95,603,099 |
The future of technology – it’s a scary concept, isn’t it? The sheer speed at which technology is advancing can be a struggle to keep up with and it can be difficult to stop and truly think about what effect this could have on our daily lives in the future. But no technology is quite as daunting as that of Artificial I... | <urn:uuid:cf71f145-58d0-4e1d-b63c-84d0b2096f22> | 3.125 | 1,719 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 36.872254 | 95,603,121 |
Graphite - a new twist
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Aristotle suggested that all natural objects could be distinguished in terms of a natural and characteristic activity. Can we apply this approach to an ecosystem? Do different elements of an ecosystem perform different functions within that system? Could you reason from such ecological facts to normative conclusions ab... | <urn:uuid:3455706f-93ea-4fbc-9825-57276b9b1d5d> | 2.734375 | 345 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 52.249175 | 95,603,141 |
Discovering an exoplanet isn’t what it used to be. Since the first detection of a planet around another star in 1995, astronomers have found thousands more, thanks in large part to the Kepler Space Telescope, which—truly an overachiever—has discovered nearly 5,000 potential worlds and verified about half of them. Even ... | <urn:uuid:709f8870-ee24-45c2-b1a4-7a03dd8becb2> | 3.5 | 1,352 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 43.922494 | 95,603,150 |
Introduction to JPA
Download free Introduction to JPA for Beginners, course tutorial, a PDF file created by Bruce Campbell.
The use for the persistence of mapping allows us to offer a higher level of abstraction than the simple use of JDBC: This mapping ensures the transformation of objects to the database and also the... | <urn:uuid:682ced92-8435-4d6e-ba97-78cb3801905d> | 2.734375 | 480 | Product Page | Software Dev. | 28.936659 | 95,603,156 |
About half of the Amazon rainforest is subject to seasonal droughts of 3 months or more. Despite this drought, several studies have shown that these forests, under a strongly seasonal climate, do not exhibit significant water stress during the dry season. In addition to deep soil water uptake, another contributing expl... | <urn:uuid:1c3cdddf-3eae-43b4-b30e-887d35d331e1> | 3.640625 | 450 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 24.184259 | 95,603,159 |
The history of humanity’s grand sweep around the world is recorded in our genes and genealogies, our art and artifacts, our literature and languages.
It’s also written in the legions of tiny mites that live, eat, crawl, and have sex on your face.
There are two species of mites that live on human faces. Both look like w... | <urn:uuid:e7a0d915-a5b9-4a1d-9311-e4661eed0d6f> | 3.203125 | 1,319 | Nonfiction Writing | Science & Tech. | 48.810132 | 95,603,171 |
While any software method of handling stacks can be implemented in hardware, the generally practiced hardware implementation is to reserve contiguous locations of memory with a stack pointer into that memory. Usually the pointer is a dedicated hardware register that can be incremented or decremented as required to push... | <urn:uuid:053a946f-cb17-4525-ab8c-9205ead7bae9> | 2.6875 | 122 | Knowledge Article | Software Dev. | 16.284147 | 95,603,172 |
- Open Access
A fruitful outcome to the papaya genome project
© BioMed Central Ltd 2008
Published: 06 June 2008
The draft genome sequence of a transgenic virus-resistant papaya marks the first genome sequence of a commercially important transgenic crop plant.
In regard to genomics, the papaya is an ideal and interestin... | <urn:uuid:9c28ac8e-ee32-496c-a23c-5cba472dd278> | 2.984375 | 3,712 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 56.836662 | 95,603,187 |
A View from Emerging Technology from the arXiv
The Dark Matter Data Bonanza
After years of skepticism over the existence of dark matter, a growing number of experiments are revealing that dark matter was there all along.
The universe is filled with mysterious invisible stuff that refuses to interact with light. It does... | <urn:uuid:f5956f50-866b-40e8-97d9-370701751552> | 3.484375 | 1,125 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 52.364263 | 95,603,222 |
Birds and Climate Change
Impacts and Conservation Responses
- James W. Pearce-Higgins, British Trust for Ornithology, Norfolk
- Rhys E. Green, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: July 2014
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521132190
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Understanding the evolution of such fast muscles has been difficult for researchers because slow movement of a swimbladder does not generate sound.
In a study published online Nov. 29 in the journal Frontiers in Zoology, Virginia Commonwealth University biologists, together with researchers Hin-Kiu Mok, Ph.D., at the N... | <urn:uuid:3bc78169-f33b-4f72-9893-b45be52195c0> | 3.203125 | 1,282 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 42.291471 | 95,603,234 |
When termites munch on wood, the small bits are delivered to feed a community of unique microbes living in their guts, and in a complex process involving multiple steps, these microbes turn the hard, fibrous material into a nutritious meal for the termite host.
One key step uses hydrogen to convert carbon dioxide into ... | <urn:uuid:b17b490b-453d-42db-a963-38b278631c06> | 4.09375 | 2,013 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 29.573133 | 95,603,235 |
By S. Ketov
Read or Download Advances in Quantum Field Theory PDF
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NEW 2017 variation. What determines shades? what's movement? All colors in nature derive from the wonderful constitution consistent 1/137. 035 999 1. .. , the main well-known unexplained quantity in nature. What determines its w... | <urn:uuid:f149c97a-a993-4321-b4c5-274c81b51ea9> | 2.53125 | 751 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 44.899584 | 95,603,267 |
Discussion about Galaxies, Work Placement Opportunities & Diversity in Science
Tag Archives | galaxy
So how is it possible to have atmospheres around rocky planets in the Trappist 1 system?
Story about galaxy cluster Abell 2052.
How did our galaxy grow from nothing to the hundreds of billions of stars we see today?
Wha... | <urn:uuid:769290a3-e9ac-460d-8d65-bf4ebcb2d277> | 2.546875 | 146 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 48.848633 | 95,603,287 |
Beams of monoenergetic positrons with energies of a few eV to many keV have been used in experiments in atomic physics, solid state physics and materials science. The production of positron beams from a new source, an electron linac, is described.
Intense, pulsed beams of low-energy positrons have been produced by a hi... | <urn:uuid:64771f92-a774-4903-91bc-b4171dc4fd74> | 2.984375 | 226 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 23.155827 | 95,603,292 |
London: Male birds displaying gorgeous plumes seem to positively affect brooding females of the same species, improving offspring growth.
Scientists made the discovery during a breeding experiment with Houbara bustards, a North African bird species with a very distinctive courtship behaviour.
Females observing such col... | <urn:uuid:e9c54e6c-3270-4f05-bda3-262d5ebd3ba3> | 3.1875 | 516 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 14.655768 | 95,603,317 |
In a study published in Nature Genetics, scientists from the RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies in Japan, in collaboration with the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, the University of Copenhagen and the Joint Genome Institute (Walnut Creek, California) have discovered that "jumping DNA" known as re... | <urn:uuid:e2f2271e-5b33-4394-a229-784482a9526d> | 3.25 | 1,287 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 30.399231 | 95,603,319 |
How to make interactive components
How do you make a website interactive? That’s one question that many beginners get stuck at. In this video, I walk you through you need to know to build an interactive website.
The first thing you want to ask yourself is this—what makes a website interactive? Does it become interactiv... | <urn:uuid:ad50f2f3-3e59-49d7-b9b9-75d013e3a476> | 2.5625 | 1,005 | Personal Blog | Software Dev. | 62.097672 | 95,603,321 |
Add an Image to a Web Page
By Stephen Bucaro
The first version of HTML, suggested by Tim Berners-Lee back in 1990, didn't even have
a tag for images, it was designed for presenting formatted text. But adding an image to a webpage
makes it much more interesting. There are many different image file formats, each identifi... | <urn:uuid:b9cc03b7-6ae2-4026-8a4a-85c69c6a8782> | 2.609375 | 765 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 64.05467 | 95,603,323 |
Multiply-ionized atoms for clocks, qubits, and constants
The world is mostly neutral. That is, most of the atoms in our environment are electrically neutral. The number of electrons in the outer parts of atoms equals the number of protons at the centers of atoms. As one or more electrons are plucked away from the atoms... | <urn:uuid:11e1f896-f4b6-4620-8fe1-9f94083d61e9> | 3.5625 | 2,023 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 43.211516 | 95,603,339 |
Sorting an Icon list
Icon's built-in ``
sort()'' function can be used to
order the elements of a list. The expression
sort ( L )returns a list with the same number of elements as L, except they are sorted. This makes sense only for certain types---integers, reals, and strings.
As an example, here is a program that writ... | <urn:uuid:aab21e53-4811-4f8e-b2c8-4b4b98aa26a7> | 2.875 | 221 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 63.298067 | 95,603,343 |
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The first contribution in this volume investigates mainly the province of Khentii, covering an area with dominating higher or lower mountain ranges and tablelands above 600 m.s.l. Thus the diatom flora was supposed to resemble alpine and northern regions of Europe rather than mediterranean - like or sub... | <urn:uuid:26bba1c5-0745-45ad-9c02-2903da0b3bd1> | 2.546875 | 293 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 36.188716 | 95,603,386 |
Is it possible for your brain to hurt if you think too much?
This is one of those questions that until you ask it, you take the ‘answer’ for granted. So, Why are Women (Generally) Smaller than Men?
We have probably all had this experience. We listen to a recording of ourselves talking and insist that the tape doesn’t s... | <urn:uuid:e6fe1096-4803-4632-b701-5fe2c62097ad> | 2.640625 | 767 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 58.603996 | 95,603,404 |
Source of Inorganic and Organic Nutrients and Interaction with Photons
Dissolved HS comprise incompletely oxidized carbon. Therefore, HS have the potential to act as substrates for oxidations. Thess processes can be carried out by light or by microorganisms under oxygenated conditions. Usually photooxidation precedes m... | <urn:uuid:e37f2502-dc55-4597-af9d-436e96f03b89> | 2.859375 | 188 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 1.936985 | 95,603,439 |
The Caucasus Pearl-Bordered Fritillary (Boloria euphrosyne dagestanica) is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is an insect.
The Caucasus Pearl-Bordered Fritillary is orange with black spots on the upperside of its wings. The underside of its wings has a row of silver-pearl markings along the edge. The caterpilla... | <urn:uuid:2b3c287f-96ec-4344-ae34-9ea0f0171ad5> | 3.140625 | 303 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 49.062029 | 95,603,441 |
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By: Patrick Moore
Do you want a practical guide to astronomy? Would you like to be able to observe and understand the sky at night? Teach Yourself Astronomy is a comprehensive and straightforward guide to the 'science of the sky'. Assuming no prior knowledge, this book will ensure you grasp the basics o... | <urn:uuid:aecfa9d0-8d6b-4ec2-9d8e-dead54903d49> | 2.578125 | 190 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 61.330195 | 95,603,444 |
Type Number Object DisplayObject Library display.* Revision 2018.3332 Keywords y, position See also object.x
Specifies the y position (in local coordinates) of the object relative to its parent — specifically, the y position of the object's anchorY point relative to its parent. Changing this value will move the object ... | <urn:uuid:4a546bc0-ac5d-44c0-99d9-ac18958d4ade> | 3.125 | 177 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 56.545746 | 95,603,451 |
A metal is an element, compound or alloy that is a good conductor of both electricity and heat. They are generally shiny, malleable and ductile. Some elements and compounds are not classified as metals unless under high pressures when they begin to act as metals.
Metallic substances atoms are closely positioned to neig... | <urn:uuid:ac60fc45-c1cd-41ed-bfe2-99476afbb91f> | 3.984375 | 418 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 34.269543 | 95,603,482 |
Oxytocin, the body’s natural love potion, helps couples fall in love, makes mothers bond with their babies, and encourages teams to work together. Now new research at Rockefeller University reveals a mechanism by which this prosocial hormone has its effect on interactions between the sexes, at least in certain situatio... | <urn:uuid:25956627-376b-4bf0-8069-bcfc260bdaf0> | 3.015625 | 1,547 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 33.510437 | 95,603,485 |
The Morningstar device, which initially weighs 190 pounds, was able to reduce its weight by 7% during a steady-state situation and as much as 20% during transient operation. In our original paper, three or four approaches were identified to possibly explain this phenomenon including: conversion of angular momentum into... | <urn:uuid:6afa5788-6ecf-4ca7-99dc-c909c284634b> | 3.03125 | 221 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 5.492 | 95,603,494 |
Although they both seem to do the same thing, there is a subtle difference between them.
cout << endl : Inserts a new line and flushes the stream cout << "\n" : Only inserts a new line.
cout << endl;
can be said equivalent to
cout << ‘\n’ << flush;
As a conclusion, cout << “\n” seems performance wise better than cout <... | <urn:uuid:a86281fb-e92a-4e38-ab06-5e8f2480c887> | 4.03125 | 271 | Truncated | Software Dev. | 43.543419 | 95,603,500 |
OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) – A North American bumblebee species that all but vanished from about half of its natural range has re-emerged in Washington state, delighting scientists who voiced optimism the insect might eventually make a recovery in the Pacific Northwest.
Entomologists and bee enthusiasts in recent we... | <urn:uuid:1d92c8d7-0a4c-448c-966b-fdd767890339> | 2.578125 | 828 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 25.283808 | 95,603,546 |
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Scientists: 2015 was hottest on record
2015 was the hottest year on record...surpassing 2014. USA TODAY
Just as a big winter storm arrives across the Midwest and heads for the East Coast, the federal scient... | <urn:uuid:3d35af54-4193-4241-8605-1867e54334eb> | 3.078125 | 775 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 60.610441 | 95,603,588 |
Introduction. By: Dana, Hala, Sohaila What are Glaciers ? Can a glacier melt until summer? ( how it melts) What is it Caused by ? . Glaciers !!!!. G laciers.
Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites w... | <urn:uuid:ad6d3d1f-1c1a-4ed1-8ed7-f3364f315e6b> | 3.90625 | 252 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 66.235521 | 95,603,600 |
He missed the 'glitzy Oscars for science,' but that’s OK with Bob McKeown. McKeown is the Governor's Distinguished CEBAF Professor in William & Mary’s physics department as well as deputy director for science at Jefferson Lab. He was a participant in two of five experiments that share the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fun... | <urn:uuid:262ab091-9378-4740-b66f-3e19ffdcd016> | 2.59375 | 1,757 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 48.937232 | 95,603,611 |
The greens and blues of the ocean color from NASA satellite data have provided new insights into how climate and ecosystem processes affect the growth cycles of phytoplankton—microscopic aquatic plants important for fish populations and Earth’s carbon cycle.
At the bottom of the ocean’s food chain, phytoplankton accoun... | <urn:uuid:fdd2f695-e4f6-4b62-ab44-8b3c3b7e3da9> | 3.921875 | 1,994 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 32.065358 | 95,603,622 |
With 46 chromosomes and six feet of DNA to copy every time most human cells divide, its not surprising that gaps or breaks sometimes show up in the finished product – especially when the cell is under stress or dividing rapidly, as in cancer.
But what is surprising – according to Thomas Glover, Ph.D., a geneticist at t... | <urn:uuid:5170dbeb-bcfe-4728-be04-8560c9759bd4> | 3.5625 | 790 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 40.746339 | 95,603,623 |
Could the common cold virus help to treat a deadly cancer?
How the parasite Toxoplasma gondii adapts its growth rate to its environment
Does the microbiome hang on to genes to degrade plant toxins, and drugs, just for our benefit?
From where should scientists collect seeds to conserve tree species?
The brain region tha... | <urn:uuid:b5cd75b5-a560-4f3a-9d17-d943e87112ca> | 2.625 | 344 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 64.144444 | 95,603,629 |
Distant twin-sun 'Tatooine' solar system could have habitable moon, say astronomers
- Earth-like moon could orbit two suns of Kepler-16 system
- Habitable moon would be shrouded in CO2 or methane
- Team urges Nasa to look for 'extrasolar moon'
A group of astrophysicists from The University of Texas at Arlington suggest... | <urn:uuid:5f577f38-72e3-4924-933c-37584ce0cc8d> | 3.0625 | 804 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 40.804746 | 95,603,632 |
Species Detail - Brünnich's Guillemot (Uria lomvia) - Species information displayed is based on all datasets.
Terrestrial Map - 10kmDistribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
Marine Map - 50kmDistribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
8 A... | <urn:uuid:c006cc73-cd5f-47ea-a9a1-8c6c3762ee6d> | 2.703125 | 145 | Structured Data | Science & Tech. | 46.098 | 95,603,634 |
A comprehensive, 21-year analysis of the fastest-melting region of Antarctica has found that the melt rate of glaciers there has tripled during the last decade.
The glaciers in the Amundsen Sea Embayment in West Antarctica are hemorrhaging ice faster than any other part of Antarctica and are the most significant Antarc... | <urn:uuid:5aff0ecd-cfca-4590-a6a1-428c61cf60a4> | 3.578125 | 1,528 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 40.593947 | 95,603,636 |
Morpho-sedimentary features and sediment dispersal systems of the southwest end of the Ryukyu Trench: a source-to-sink approach
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The southwestern Ryukyu Trench near Taiwan is an ideal place for source-to-sink studies because of the short sediment transport route between the terrestrial sediment source in... | <urn:uuid:d3954047-e17d-410d-b955-a772e1d49699> | 2.828125 | 1,649 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 53.704968 | 95,603,648 |
Vorticity annihilation and inviscid blocking in multibody flows
Many environmental and processing engineering flows consist of collections of fixed or moving bodies (such as buildings, plants, bubbles and droplets). These flows may be unbounded or bounded high Reynolds number flows through groups of bodies, such as cro... | <urn:uuid:717075e6-dd0c-4f8e-8800-09b246bb91e1> | 2.71875 | 288 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 33.938874 | 95,603,649 |
Now, in a new study, scientists take a page from the social science handbook and use leading indicators of the environment to presage the potential collapse of ecosystems. The study, published today (Jan. 5) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by two ecologists and an economist, suggests it may be po... | <urn:uuid:6ae25947-e008-49dc-b31f-d3644f544f3d> | 3.640625 | 1,547 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 37.212146 | 95,603,665 |
Photovoltaic cells “harvest” the photons in sunlight and convert solar energy into electrical energy.
When a solar cell absorbs light, the photons “excite” an electron, which becomes separated from the “positive hole” left behind in the atom. This charge separation is the crucial first step that captures the energy der... | <urn:uuid:54005732-4534-4f12-a3a7-4447b5d27ebf> | 4.125 | 592 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 43.243499 | 95,603,667 |
Origin of Complex Life
News May 11, 2015
A new Nature study this week provided the strongest evidence yet of this in its description of a new archaeon – found near an arctic hydrothermal vent - with genetic properties of both archaea and eukarya.
“The most surprising moment was when we were a couple of weeks into the p... | <urn:uuid:78bf89d5-29bf-43fa-bbaa-0ef3ab954224> | 3.46875 | 1,320 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 17.179933 | 95,603,678 |
But a third option may have just become feasible. For a long time, people have dreamed about technology that would allow carbon to be pulled out of the air and stored in the ground or recycled into fuel. Now, a team of Harvard scientists is claiming they have a much cheaper way to do this.
The scientists, led by David ... | <urn:uuid:8bbf569c-d584-410e-9984-760a7bf5b063> | 4.25 | 581 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 36.396565 | 95,603,700 |
Code reuse can make coding simpler and more efficient for program development. esProc supports basic code reuse by loop, as well as the modular programming in which a subroutine an external cellset is called. Here we’ll explain how to call a subroutine and a cross-cellset program in esProc.
1. Subroutine call
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The team, funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, collected data Oct. 4 through Oct. 11 to document the impacts of the 8.1 earthquake and the ensuing tsunami that occurred on Sept. 29. They examined flow depths, run-up heights, inundation distances, sediment depositions and damage patterns at various scale... | <urn:uuid:43f9c90f-6dd6-466d-a058-1228b336ecc2> | 3.3125 | 1,583 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.204421 | 95,603,720 |
Supercomputing simulations at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could change how researchers understand the internal motions of proteins that play functional, structural and regulatory roles in all living organisms. The team's results are featured in Nature Physics.
"Proteins have never been seen... | <urn:uuid:75b4ae4a-e8e8-44c7-a1c7-b8e3ef8c4384> | 3.28125 | 1,745 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 35.887573 | 95,603,742 |
Discovering a new planet or having an extra-terrestrial object like an asteroid named after them perhaps tops the wishlist of many astronomy enthusiasts, including school students.
Over the past 6 years, several amateur astronomers and students from across the country have made discoveries facilitated by city-based org... | <urn:uuid:99711de3-2965-406a-b0ad-c917a47222c3> | 3.125 | 866 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 32.863595 | 95,603,754 |
The UN General Assembly has taken a first step toward establishing a Global Pact for the Environment, in a move opposed by the United States, Russia, and a handful of other nations. The pact would be aimed at finding gaps in protection of the environment around the globe and taking steps to address them. By a 142-5 vot... | <urn:uuid:0b0f2472-bebd-4392-9579-cf7667efaa1d> | 3.03125 | 1,076 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 41.717689 | 95,603,756 |
Atom used in radiocarbon dating
Radiocarbon dating is a method of estimating the age of organic material.It was developed right after World War II by Willard F.The fraction of the radiation transmitted through the dead skin layer is estimated to be 0.11.Small amounts of carbon-14 are not easily detected by typical Geig... | <urn:uuid:220ad929-a521-4053-9562-e67ad3f7b61f> | 3.734375 | 362 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 43.289934 | 95,603,762 |
Scientists found some brain cells whose signals reflect our interpretation of an imageŚnot so much the image itself
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Scientists have identified some brain cells whose signals reflect our interpretation of an image-not so much the image itself, a study has found.
The... | <urn:uuid:c1902240-a56a-401e-bbbb-f14c6e164acb> | 2.671875 | 626 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 38.41575 | 95,603,771 |
In their recently published study the glaciologists and climatologists, headed by Prof. Georg Kaser and Dr. Ben Marzeion from the Institute of Geography of the University of Innsbruck, have demonstrated that the contribution potential of glaciers to the water supply of populated areas varies regionally.
The scientists ... | <urn:uuid:6c998dfd-9b8f-47b2-a578-991881e8cc5c> | 3.703125 | 1,247 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 35.137613 | 95,603,785 |
NAMEflock - apply or remove an advisory lock on an open file
SYNOPSIS#include <sys/file.h> int flock(int fd, int operation);
DESCRIPTIONApply or remove an advisory lock on the open file specified by fd. The argument operation is one of the following: LOCK_SH Place a shared lock. More than one process may hold a shared ... | <urn:uuid:be343724-131b-48b4-8d6c-79d7680329be> | 2.71875 | 985 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 57.959406 | 95,603,792 |