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"Silk from caddisfly larvae – known to western fly fishermen as 'rock rollers' – may be useful some day as a medical bioadhesive for sticking to wet tissues," says Russell Stewart, an associate professor of bioengineering and principal author of a new study of the fly silk's chemical and structural properties.
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Nine anemonefish species were reared in the laboratory, and individuals were released in the field (Lizard Island, Australia and Madang, Papua New Guinea) at different distances and orientations away from natural (anemone species the fishes are found with in nature) and unnatural species of host anemones. Experiments w... | <urn:uuid:ed1c1d39-f9d4-44b3-b619-a47b45ab7647> | 3.6875 | 364 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 5.854518 | 95,605,111 |
Welcome to The Sound of Science on WNIJ.
(K) We’re answering listener questions this month and today we have another summer question. Andy asks, “Why do things look wavy when looking at them across the roadway in the summer?”
(P) Great question, Andy. There’s a lot of science in the answer. First, you likely know from ... | <urn:uuid:8ca27382-2a66-4943-9c9f-b705a626a159> | 3.6875 | 522 | Audio Transcript | Science & Tech. | 74.125455 | 95,605,137 |
Probability is a statistical measure of the chance that an event will occur. An event, in probability, describes a set of outcomes. So for example, when two die are rolled, the events (the sums of the numbers) that may happen are: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12. It can be seen that 1 is not an event as a minimum... | <urn:uuid:1644803f-c5e0-4836-bf8a-a5b2dc187e66> | 4.21875 | 322 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 73.599597 | 95,605,141 |
Templeton, a software architect and futurist, tells of a hypothetical machine that could bring down the internet (and much of society with it). Such a machine would harness the principles of quantum mechanics and boast problem-solving capabilities both amazing and scary:
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Ants are one of the most regular and crucial group of insects. In 1985 Taylor and Brown categorized the Australian fauna and classified them in 9 subfamilies, with 95 genera and an approximate total of 4000 species. The chief characteristic of ants are their waist. It is usually made up of one or two knobs (which are t... | <urn:uuid:849ddf52-9550-487a-aa99-79d3fb5d887a> | 3.5625 | 686 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 40.912634 | 95,605,160 |
A well above average Atlantic hurricane season is on tap for 2008, according to the latest seasonal forecast
issued today by Dr. Bill Gray and Phil Klotzbach of Colorado State University (CSU). The Gray/Klotzbach team is calling for 15 named storms, 8 hurricanes, and 4 intense hurricanes. An average season has 10-11 na... | <urn:uuid:f46605a6-b1f9-427c-8f42-74a285c80652> | 2.828125 | 1,310 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 51.587864 | 95,605,167 |
What do you do when the volcano whose beauty you've admired for so long suddenly wakes with a shiver and blows a plume of steam and ash into the sky?
The Scientific American Blog Network turns 1 today! Scicurious wrote a poem for the occasion.Hard to believe we're so young, innit? We've got a long-established magazine ... | <urn:uuid:f3226c2e-a67f-45aa-b9da-167ccbbafab5> | 2.5625 | 849 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 42.916231 | 95,605,192 |
Leslie Looney is a University of Illinois astronomy professor and director of the Laboratory for Astronomical Imaging. He spoke with News Bureau physical sciences editor Lois Yoksoulian about what to expect for the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse.
What is a total solar eclipse? Are they rare?
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- Capillarity and capillary action
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Exoplanets are also known as extrasolar planets as these planets exist outside our solar system and orbit some other stars. Special telescopes and methods are needed to find them. The first ever exoplanet was discovered in 1992 named 51 Pegasi b which was similar to Jupiter in radius. Since then hundreds of other have ... | <urn:uuid:c5758831-2575-44d2-b9c4-f5f4ccebacfe> | 4.03125 | 503 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 60.246478 | 95,605,221 |
Rotating wheel space station
A rotating wheel space station, or von Braun wheel, is a hypothetical wheel-shaped space station that rotates about its axis, thus creating an environment of artificial gravity. Occupants of the station would experience centripetal acceleration according to the following equation,
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The technology needed to cut the world’s greenhouse gas emissions by 85% by 2050 already exists, according to a joint statement by eleven of the world’s largest engineering organisations, including the UK's Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).
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Space Research & Astronomy
By Bryan Dyne, 25 June 2018
The Curiosity rover and the constellation of satellites orbiting Mars are using the storm to study Martian weather and climate.
By Don Barrett and Patrick Martin, 9 February 2018
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Unpolarized light is passing through three successive polarizers placed one after the other. Polarizing axis of Polarizer 1 is vertically arranged i.e. polarizing axis is making 0 degree angle with vertical axis. Next polarizers, Polarizer 2 and Polarizer 3 are placed in such a way that their polarizing axis are making... | <urn:uuid:3dd27b79-b997-4dc2-83b5-971100c80d55> | 3.609375 | 260 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 42.913667 | 95,605,277 |
Android applications can store application data in SQLite databases. In this tutorial, you learn how SQLite databases are designed and manipulated.
Here we begin by designing and using a simple SQLite database to manage chess tournament scores. This tutorial is meant as a brief overview of how SQLite databases work. Th... | <urn:uuid:508ac447-8a6f-4c1c-a461-34c3f60d9a91> | 3.453125 | 3,314 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 49.939388 | 95,605,278 |
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On a cold day, you take a breath, inhaling 0.50 L of air whose initial temperature
is −10°C. In your lungs, its temperature is raised to 37°C. Assume that the
pressure is 101 kPa and that the air may be treated as an ideal gas. What is the
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Microsoft Excel is TheRaven's weapon of choice in the war on data. You know data. Not the StarTrek character, who didn't espouse data at all. "Data" in StarTrek was actually the exact opposite - he provided information. Excel is the single best tool for converting mass amounts of useless data into valuable information.... | <urn:uuid:7b776455-db99-4c67-8ce1-7bb425bfaee3> | 2.625 | 589 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 42.325193 | 95,605,297 |
Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.
Vim is often called a "programmer's editor," and so useful for programming that many consider it an entire IDE. It's not just for programmers, though. Vim is pe... | <urn:uuid:812f8cb0-2b16-4bab-bae4-a4c082ca0e52> | 2.640625 | 3,476 | Structured Data | Software Dev. | 52.022974 | 95,605,301 |
Osmosis is the movement of solvent molecules through a semipermiable membrane.When two solutions of the same solvent are seperated by a semipermiable membrane,solvent molecules migrate through the membrane from the solution of low concentration to the solution of high concentration.
Certain membranes allow solvent mole... | <urn:uuid:4e907648-dd0f-477e-9cc2-d1cc06538b6b> | 3.765625 | 479 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 33.574688 | 95,605,336 |
Brazil: Origins - the road to space
In 1957, the International Geophysical Year, two students from the Technical Institute of Aeronautics (ITA) in São José dos Campos, in the Brazilian province of São Paulo, wrote a letter to the US Naval Research Laboratory. Fernando de Mendonça and Julio Alberto de Morais Coutinho wa... | <urn:uuid:f5308d04-3087-468d-bb42-0257e1638cb8> | 3.34375 | 704 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 49.131627 | 95,605,340 |
When during evolution did plants learn to conserve water? The first attempts in this regard have been discovered by an international research team with a moss. The findings also revealed how evolution affects molecules.
The first plants to venture out of the sea and onto land 500 million years ago were green algae. The... | <urn:uuid:3b89c68b-6c01-457e-a4b2-b1fe53e4b03a> | 3.265625 | 1,973 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 43.026888 | 95,605,343 |
The EMRP project ‘Metrology for ocean salinity and acidity’ developed measurement methods, standards and tools to improve the accuracy of ocean data used for climate monitoring and modelling.
The project’s outputs enable the traceable calibration of sensor networks and satellite systems.
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How sensitive are neuronal networks to external interference? To what extent are neuronal network processes incudung the thinking patterns of the brain predefined? These questions have been investigated by Sven Jahnke, Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer and Marc Timme at the Bernstein Center for Computional Neuroscience and the... | <urn:uuid:36d4cc20-100f-4a6f-9bc8-480293880a93> | 2.921875 | 1,211 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 34.092691 | 95,605,354 |
As NASA begins its third decade of global ocean and land measurements, these discoveries point to important questions about how ecosystems will respond to a changing climate and broad-scale changes in human interaction with the land.
Most of the data is gleaned from NASA's SeaWiFS (Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor... | <urn:uuid:14a4ab8b-b36c-4975-87ae-a6fa83401d39> | 3.1875 | 519 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 28.883552 | 95,605,375 |
Origin of Life. What is Life? Life resists a simple, one-sentence definition because it is associated with numerous emergent properties - properties that emerge as a result of interactions between components But, we can recognize life without defining it, by recognizing its properties:
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With help from a common aquarium pet and a recently released online database of human genetic variation, a collaborative team of Penn State researchers has found what could be the most important skin color gene identified to date.
The team, led by cancer geneticist Keith Cheng, M.D., Ph.D., a Jake Gittlen Cancer Resear... | <urn:uuid:ea672937-6c2f-4c93-b5f8-c7a3fd1ecd30> | 2.96875 | 796 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 40.054252 | 95,605,420 |
1. Many organisms respond to threats such as stress and predation by expressing a defended phenotype (phenotypic plasticity) or inducing the expression of a defended phenotype in offspring (transgenerational phenotypic plasticity). While defended phenotypes can increase resistance to a predator or stress, in the absenc... | <urn:uuid:97b64005-d42c-428d-af0c-ad8f69f9db8e> | 3.1875 | 325 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 4.579457 | 95,605,437 |
In this issue, you’ll meet a couple who are using goats to control invasive plant species on their property. Then, we’ll look at how some species have adapted to roadside habitat—to their detriment. Once we’re off the road, we’ll take you up on the roof to install solar panels. You’ll find out about how citizen scienti... | <urn:uuid:4dd0a8e3-3cad-49fc-a11f-46b90fef75dc> | 2.515625 | 156 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 55.028429 | 95,605,463 |
Analysis of Cytoplasmically Inherited Mutants
Although cytoplasmic mutants have been documented in higher plants, they have not been studied as well as in lower eukaryotes, such as yeast and Chlamydomonas. Very few potential chloroplast mutations have been described in maize, in contrast to several in Chlamydomonas and... | <urn:uuid:af4ef417-a7b6-490d-bce0-403e4b49a7ae> | 2.78125 | 637 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 37.91333 | 95,605,484 |
(mē'zŏn) [Gr.,=middle (i.e., middleweight)], class of elementary particles whose masses are generally between those of the lepton class of lighter particles and those of the baryon class of heavier particles. From a technical point of view mesons are strongly interacting bosons; i.e., they participate in the strong nuc... | <urn:uuid:cdbb03d9-f1e5-4451-bb40-b0490707b5b8> | 3.734375 | 528 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 50.630577 | 95,605,497 |
Determination of Gold Nanoparticle Sizes
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Global warming and solar anomaly
During 2002-2008, there was no increase in global temperature, though green house gas concentrations had increased. Sun is the ultimate source of energy. It has been, therefore, examined if there was any anomaly in the solar characteristics during this period. The sunspot number data ha... | <urn:uuid:55c04d0b-d0a5-4405-8806-5af9ed820901> | 2.953125 | 224 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 38.165 | 95,605,505 |
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The conversion of forests, grasslands, shrublands and wetlands to cropland over the course of three centuries profoundly changed the surface of the Earth and the carbon cycle of the terrestrial ecosystem in Northeast China.
In a new study published in the Beijing-based journal SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences, a team of re... | <urn:uuid:6c1d9d47-07b9-4f4f-992d-b36aa9273650> | 3.453125 | 1,867 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 46.732843 | 95,605,535 |
“The orca’s main source of food is Chinook salmon. And the whales are suffering from malnutrition,” said NOAA Fisheries Scientist Mary Ruckelshaus.
“But by increasing salmon production in hatcheries, the whales’ appetites may be fed at the expense of recovering wild Chinook. Releasing large numbers of salmon raised in ... | <urn:uuid:65fc746a-6861-46c5-b95a-8e74efabdf76> | 3 | 907 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.528401 | 95,605,536 |
Simple construction, analysis and modification of binary data.
bitstring is a pure Python module designed to help make the creation and analysis of binary data as simple and natural as possible. BitStrings can be constructed from integers (big and little endian), hex, octal, binary, strings or files. They can be sliced... | <urn:uuid:e7726f08-d71a-483c-a5d6-b98988b351d7> | 2.6875 | 306 | Knowledge Article | Software Dev. | 37.441632 | 95,605,547 |
Individuals show great diversity in their ability to identify scents and odors. More importantly, males and females greatly differ in their perceptual evaluation of odors, with women outperforming men on many kinds of smell tests.
Sex differences in olfactory detection may play a role in differentiated social behaviors... | <urn:uuid:193f782b-8e14-47f2-8d83-8a0c2e1383ad> | 3.671875 | 1,377 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 34.190248 | 95,605,551 |
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red dwarf Any of a large group of main-sequence stars, mainly M and K stars, that are much cooler, smaller, and less massive than the Sun (about 0.1–0.7 MO ). The convective motion within the... | <urn:uuid:1fe0b4a7-b349-4190-b38f-7137ed89c46f> | 3.484375 | 139 | Structured Data | Science & Tech. | 45.655357 | 95,605,557 |
Chapter 5 Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration. Section 5-1. Directly/indirectly, almost all energy in LTs needed for metabolism comes from the sun . Section 5-1. Building Molecules that Store Energy: Photosynthesis : process by which light energy is converted to chemical energy.
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Species Detail - Stygnocoris sabulosus - 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).
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In 1908 an atmospheric explosion in northern Siberia released energy equivalent to 15 Mton of TNT. Can a comparable or larger NEO affect us again? When the next NEO strikes Earth will it be large enough to destroy a city? Will the climate change significantl... | <urn:uuid:9833b663-a084-455e-bb76-07bb37026830> | 3.0625 | 490 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 34.385085 | 95,605,637 |
A Real Time Research Documentary on Mass Extinction
and an urgent Call for Action on Climate and Biodiversity
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This page maintains a real-time update of human impact on the biosphere, focused on global warming
and catastrophic climate change,
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The worldwide consumption of energy has increased every year by several percentages in the last decades. Nowadays, a large amount of energy is produced by fossil fuels and to a certain extent by nuclear energy. However, these resources are limited and their use has a serious environmental impact. Solar light is the mos... | <urn:uuid:12049d8c-4539-4632-8bf3-4656a779ffc8> | 3.140625 | 316 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 24.049293 | 95,605,643 |
The sun has not risen above the North Pole since mid-September. The sea ice—flat, landlike, windswept, and stretching as far as the eye can see—has been bathed in darkness for months.
But later this week, something extraordinary will happen: Air temperatures at the Earth’s most northernly region, in the middle of winte... | <urn:uuid:2e8d1c03-8ceb-4952-bb3d-57f143b3cf23> | 3.25 | 617 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 51.914885 | 95,605,650 |
A senior member of the consortium and IMB researcher Professor David Hume said transcriptome describes all of the information read from the genome by a cell at any given time.
"Essentially, we need to understand the language that cells use to read DNA in order to know how processes in the body are controlled," Professo... | <urn:uuid:abefdc8e-6fb0-4cb4-b5c2-d1a9a37a9504> | 3.28125 | 1,045 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.31064 | 95,605,665 |
Film crew dives into the incredible secret world of the giant manta ray
Gliding through the oceans like ghosts, these mysterious manta rays have been captured in unique footage filmed off the coast of Mozambique.
Biologist Andrea Marshall is shown performing a ballet-like dance with the inquisitive giant fish, which sh... | <urn:uuid:4148ae82-18a0-4547-8b4a-62fdfda20714> | 2.5625 | 820 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 39.858117 | 95,605,675 |
International Space Station
The International Space Station is the most expensive single object ever built by the human race to date. It orbits the earth every 90 minutes, amazingly that 16 times daily. It travels at a whopping speed of 5 miles per second. It is made up of hundreds of major and minor components. Curren... | <urn:uuid:900f0a55-d6f4-4655-a387-6bb2275637bf> | 3.3125 | 463 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 56.719552 | 95,605,677 |
Although a population of bacteria may be genetically identical, individual bacteria within that population can act in radically different ways.
As these bacterial cells divide, chemotaxis machinery (bright blue and red) localize in one daughter cell.
Credit: Samuel Miller lab/University of Washington
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Just as Gotham City uses the Bat Signal to call for Batman's aid, a new tool developed by scientists from the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in La Jolla, California, should serve as the cellular equivalent for children with glycosylation disorders, sometimes called "CDG syndromes."
In a new report appearing... | <urn:uuid:12e33ae0-6b96-4939-bd70-45ece242564e> | 3.578125 | 1,471 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 42.275765 | 95,605,681 |
A new feature has been added to COBS analysis page enabling the observer to plot the date of perihelion on the lightcurve graph.
It does not look like much now — just a 19th-magnitude smudge tucked away in southwestern Virgo — but a newly discovered comet could become something special 10 months from now.
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The biophysical principles and mechanisms by which membrane proteins insert and fold into a biomembrane have mostly been studied with bacteriorhodopsin and outer membrane protein A (OmpA). This review de-scribes the assembly process of the monomeric outer membrane proteins of Gram-negative bacteria, for which OmpA has ... | <urn:uuid:06aa7a0e-3997-49ca-8089-1ffcb84c5850> | 2.578125 | 469 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 10.381559 | 95,605,735 |
The environmental challenges facing our planet have never been more acute. SEFARI research helps to show how we can protect and restore our natural capital – our soils, biodiversity and ecosystems – and develop effective ways to manage the land and water to improve environmental condition. SEFARI works to better unders... | <urn:uuid:16527c6b-4044-4c61-9a45-ff25d4b8164c> | 2.953125 | 280 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 29.551397 | 95,605,747 |
Climate change: PV foresight
Innovations are the on the rise as it has been mentioned in the website of the White House that innovations of any sort or form will be supported by the US government to address the believed phenomenon of change is permanent. So, the idea of production of electricity will also change. It ha... | <urn:uuid:02db3dbb-e26b-41bf-af4e-f1c27bf0d51a> | 2.71875 | 751 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 48.477825 | 95,605,753 |
To navigate, birds require a ‘map’ (to tell them home is south, for example) and a ‘compass’ (to tell them where south is), with the sun and the Earth’s magnetic field being the preferred compass systems.
A new paper provides evidence that the information pigeons use as a map is in fact available in the atmosphere: odo... | <urn:uuid:129c32cb-87aa-4938-8b2e-b1e3b4fab397> | 3.734375 | 1,871 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 43.932901 | 95,605,767 |
Solar radiation management (SRM) geoengineering has been proposed as one means of helping avoid the occurrence of dangerous climate change and undesirable state transitions ('tipping points') in the Earth system. The irreversible melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is a case in point-a state transition that could occur ... | <urn:uuid:f2089011-b078-4ed7-813a-b42caad0efaa> | 3.140625 | 384 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 9.054525 | 95,605,778 |
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Black-widow spiders are already "in the wild" in Kahului, Maui
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As you may know, this is Bat Week where people aim to raise awareness of all things bat. I’m going to contribute by writing an article that was suggested by Louise (click her name to see her work) in an earlier post which I wrote.
Bats are what are known as an “indicator species”, which simply means that the presence (... | <urn:uuid:fdd7e01d-e8af-49be-92e7-922527ac992f> | 3.28125 | 489 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 50.574076 | 95,605,800 |
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The frequency of years when Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) produces cones and seeds affects its reproduction in the north. The study area covered most of the pine lands in Northern Finland. Scots pine seems to be able to produce cones relatively often in the north. The am... | <urn:uuid:0aa47b1b-2ec4-44d8-9f88-7293d09fe705> | 3.46875 | 190 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 53.686091 | 95,605,807 |
The principal solutions to biodiversity loss are the reduction of land and soil degradation, especially related to agriculture, and the integration of biodiversity strategies with other major environmental concerns such as climate change, and also with human development concerns such as poverty reduction.
In addition, ... | <urn:uuid:f389e8c5-622e-4634-99ca-3fb89a3ee7c6> | 4.03125 | 839 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 1.697472 | 95,605,832 |
What do you mean by deep cloning and shallow cloning
Java supports two different types of cloning
- Shallow cloning - java's object.clone() gives a shallow copy of the object being cloned. Here the object cloned is copied without its contained object. Shallow cloning is a bitwise copy of an object. New object is create... | <urn:uuid:76c39d89-a98e-467c-a3ce-5c9debaaa24c> | 3.5625 | 537 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 40.570212 | 95,605,840 |
Publisher: Wikibooks 2012
Number of pages: 193
This book is about the topic of mathematical analysis, particularly in the field of engineering. It attempts to be a companion piece to high-level engineering texts that will rely on a certain fundamental mathematical background among readers. This will build on topics cov... | <urn:uuid:d0908533-6371-42c0-9bf2-e66b70297640> | 3.171875 | 325 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 31.766067 | 95,605,852 |
The increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration probably will have significant direct effects on vegetation whether predicted changes in climate occur or not. Averaging over many prior greenhouse and growth chamber studies, plant growth and yield have typically increased more than 30%, with a doubling of CO2 concentration... | <urn:uuid:2e8981bd-353d-4bef-8af9-82e187d10741> | 3.53125 | 317 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 29.150203 | 95,605,889 |
Heat-loving or thermophilic bacteria (pictured here in orange and yellow) thrive in the extreme environment of hot springs such as this one in Yellowstone National Park. The microbes, which include photosynthetic cyanobacteria, form extensive multispecies communities called microbial mats that can be seen with the nake... | <urn:uuid:e4da9bef-7f25-4a87-8fde-3725c4c7293f> | 3.953125 | 234 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 35.690143 | 95,605,961 |
Oxy-fuel circulating fluidized bed combustion (CFBC) has an advantage of being operated with high oxygen concentration, making it a better choice for CO2 capture. In order to study the emission of nitrogen oxides and SO2 under O2/RFG (recycle flue gas) firing mode with an overall O2 concentration of 50%, oxy-fuel combu... | <urn:uuid:a6004e4b-5e3b-4824-8b6c-2516bd33bdb7> | 2.828125 | 244 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 16.984388 | 95,605,962 |
Measures of Dispersion > Coefficient of Dispersion
What is a Coefficient of Dispersion (COD)?
The term “coefficient of dispersion” can mean a few different things in statistics. There isn’t one formula or definition that is universal. Everything depends on the context of where you’re using the coefficient and what you ... | <urn:uuid:143c9d29-0115-422a-bcbc-ba88a5fbdcb7> | 3.28125 | 635 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 70.427894 | 95,605,970 |
Photo courtesy of Kansas State UniversityMANHATTAN — Forget chemicals, catalysts, and expensive machinery—a Kansas State University team of physicists has discovered a way to mass-produce graphene with three ingredients: hydrocarbon gas, oxygen, and a spark plug.
Their method is simple: Fill a chamber with acetylene or... | <urn:uuid:aa96ffe3-9da9-4472-a194-5665de41bfeb> | 3.375 | 783 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 22.49799 | 95,606,017 |
Washington: A new monkey species with unique calico colouring has been spotted in the Amazon rainforest.
Due to deforestation in the region, the new monkey species, believed to be belonging to the Pithecia genus, is already endangered, the researchers suggested.
The new saki Saki monkey (any primate member of the Pithe... | <urn:uuid:e519e9b5-9e1c-4958-a379-fc8cd6140dc6> | 2.71875 | 211 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 39.535758 | 95,606,038 |
Simultaneous estimation of survival, reproduction, and movement is essential to understanding how species maximize lifetime reproduction in environments that vary across space and time. We conducted a four-year, capture-recapture study of three populations of eastern tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum tigrinum) and ... | <urn:uuid:c44948c3-7913-4b6e-9203-c8223762389f> | 2.734375 | 327 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | -2.139657 | 95,606,056 |
ESA's XMM-Newton observatory has discovered the best-ever candidate for a very rare and elusive type of cosmic phenomenon: a medium-weight black hole in the process of tearing apart and feasting on a nearby star،spacedaily reported.
There are various types of black hole lurking throughout the Universe: massive stars cr... | <urn:uuid:5b5e2796-0884-4da8-b89d-c0bc3260a22b> | 3.234375 | 1,071 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 33.512203 | 95,606,058 |
Redox Equilibria: Variable Oxidation States, Electrode Potentials, Electrochemical Series
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Variable Oxidation States
On of the properties of transition metals is their variable oxidation states. This is crucial for looking at their reactions; the r... | <urn:uuid:7ee84a35-b852-43fe-8062-6373714a10f1> | 3.828125 | 954 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 37.924524 | 95,606,090 |
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Since C is not an object oriented language, creating a derived hash table requires sticking together some boilerplate routines with a few differences specific to the type of hash table you want to create.
An example of a derived ha... | <urn:uuid:dbf7c282-837e-44a8-b09b-ab51f96b4645> | 2.734375 | 209 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 58.524271 | 95,606,101 |
According to Natural News, radiation from Fukushima has reached the shores of California. This has been confirmed by county officials in Half Moon Bay, California, who conducted radiation tests and found a 500% increase in radiation on the beaches there.
It has been confirmed that TEPCO lied about radiation readings at... | <urn:uuid:950f21f7-dee9-451b-88f9-e88956c81b29> | 3.078125 | 522 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 38.096453 | 95,606,110 |
The role of the US Great Plains low-level jet in nocturnal migrant behavior
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The movements of aerial animals are under the constant influence of atmospheric flows spanning a range of spatiotemporal scales. The Great Plains nocturnal low-level jet is a large-scale atmospheric phenomenon that provides freq... | <urn:uuid:7f0c9f37-c3bb-4206-a3f8-2496a93e06ec> | 2.875 | 775 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 42.955669 | 95,606,132 |
Rutgers' Nicole Fahrenfeld leads research documenting impacts in stream water and sediments from a wastewater disposal facility
Wastewater from oil and gas operations -- including fracking for shale gas -- at a West Virginia site altered microbes downstream, according to a Rutgers-led study.
The study, published recent... | <urn:uuid:0d7c6c01-c5c4-4706-9d70-f12629dae3a2> | 3.3125 | 1,621 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 33.591107 | 95,606,137 |
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. The purpose of HTML is to make web pages or web documents. A markup language process and present the information within markup tags.
There are many web pages which still uses HTML 4.0 version, however, the latest version is HTML 5 getting very popular among the web developers... | <urn:uuid:6be9e8e7-a6a8-434c-a814-6e66fdbb9f9d> | 3.5 | 146 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 60.922922 | 95,606,165 |
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Determination Of The Thermal Offset Of The Eppley Precision Spectral Pyranometer
Smith, A. M.
Rutledge, C. K.
Charlock, T. P.
Mahan, J. Robert
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Eppley's precision spectral pyranometer (PSP) is used i... | <urn:uuid:b3357d0b-9c40-47fc-af17-4b5f466f4e14> | 2.765625 | 433 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 47.619628 | 95,606,167 |
Scientists uncover dinosaur footprint that may be world’s largest
Scientists have found what could be the world’s largest dinosaur footprint — measuring nearly 1.7 metres (5.6 ft) — on a remote part of Australia’s northwestern coastline
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On August 6, 2012, the NASA Curiosity rover landed on Mars at the base of Mount Sharp, a mountain the size of Kilimanjaro (roughly 19,000 feet) in the middle of Gale Crater. Nina Lanza, space scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, remembers the day well. As part of the team that built ChemCam, one of the ten ... | <urn:uuid:227a8e41-a06a-44e3-8629-b4f0ec117232> | 4.375 | 1,345 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 51.018981 | 95,606,178 |
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Recent accomplishments of CDFW's scientific community
Porcupine1: NRVP participants Greg Moore, Mike Maulhardt, Charles Brown and Ben Smith volunteered to service and maintain porcupine stations at Red Lake Wildlife Area.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but studying California’s porcupines hasn’t traditionally been ... | <urn:uuid:5513e8c1-50d1-4720-8f32-156d5d49d212> | 3.0625 | 1,129 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 33.476719 | 95,606,218 |
Around the world, freshwater ecosystems support tens of thousands of unique species and hundreds of millions of people. Zeb Hogan leads a multi-year effort to document the 30+ species of giant freshwater fish, the real life Loch Ness monsters of the aquatic world. Through the project, Hogan travels to the most endanger... | <urn:uuid:32107105-41b6-4c68-bf10-8b4a6802ebb5> | 2.953125 | 455 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 43.947217 | 95,606,221 |
Rotation is key to the performance of salad spinners, toy tops, and centrifuges, but recent research suggests a way to harness rotation for the future of mankind's energy supply. In papers published in Physics of Plasmas in May and Physical Review Letters this month, Timothy Stoltzfus-Dueck, a physicist at the U.S. Dep... | <urn:uuid:00d3580c-caa8-46da-bdd0-a8763b438cd8> | 3.59375 | 1,486 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 35.797262 | 95,606,238 |
Jakobshavn Isbrae is Greenland's fastest moving outlet glacier and a major contributor to sea level rise. We analyze new gravity and magnetic profiles across the glacier, extending from the mouth of the outlet fjord to 64 km inland of the 2008 grounding line. Our results provide new insights into Jakobshavn Isbrae's ge... | <urn:uuid:5961ef8e-0ab1-4cb9-89db-78e99ea2c1ae> | 3 | 282 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 34.727854 | 95,606,252 |
Sentry milk-vetch (Astragalus cremnophylax Barneby var. cremnophylax Barneby) was listed as an endangered species on December 5, 1990 (55 FR 50184-50187) pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). In 2006, when the sentry milk-vetch recovery plan was published (U.S. Fish and Wi... | <urn:uuid:e235aa64-4187-4b3e-b902-6a07785ce483> | 3.171875 | 879 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 57.286576 | 95,606,253 |
Dinosaur discoveries - NSF news releases since 1998
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Evidence of a "Lost World": Antarctica Yields Two Unknown Dinosaur Species — February 26, 2004
"Against incredible odds, researchers working in separate sites, thousands of miles apart in Antarctica have ... | <urn:uuid:132e0287-6a80-463a-b1c9-211c986d5b8b> | 3.234375 | 1,652 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 49.70349 | 95,606,272 |
Increased summer precipitation apparently helping to spread spores of pathogen
Biologists studying a lethal blight of lodgepole pines in northwestern British Columbia present strong evidence in the September issue of BioScience that climate change is to blame for the outbreak. The blight, caused by the fungus Dothistro... | <urn:uuid:118e8584-90b6-417a-a5db-5ce20c1e6e93> | 3.25 | 971 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 36.568301 | 95,606,286 |
Widely spaced telescopes also determined asteroid pair's shapes
When the double asteroid Patroclus-Menoetius passed directly in front of a star on the night of Oct. 20, a team of volunteer astronomers across the U.S. was waiting.
Observing the event, known as an occultation, from multiple sites where each observer reco... | <urn:uuid:63f418f2-1b0d-4d40-9e4d-a96ebae9ec50> | 3.4375 | 1,220 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 41.533262 | 95,606,287 |
Saturday, July 12, 2014
7 Of The Most Fascinating And Powerful Materials Science
We often hear of new technological improvements - robots, gadgets, phones, vehicles, medicine and more. But these are just part of the picture of scientific achievement. No less important is the field of chemical engineering, which has inv... | <urn:uuid:1adc7dd4-e8f7-4420-a2f5-84cb550709a0> | 3.21875 | 1,096 | Listicle | Science & Tech. | 42.997963 | 95,606,290 |
Stream Line Doppler lidar measurements of wind speed and direction with the duo-beam method in the surface air layer
The results of retrieval of wind speed and direction from measurements of radial velocity by a Stream Line pulsed coherent Doppler lidar using the duo-beam method and conical scanning are presented. Thes... | <urn:uuid:58fa2a03-48ff-4e7c-8a15-8abf89c2f9d9> | 2.75 | 594 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 70.267898 | 95,606,322 |
Birds of a feather may flock together, but that doesn't mean they share a genetic background. Though birds were first classified into groups primarily based on appearance, research forthcoming in The Auk: Ornithological Advances by Brett Benz of the American Museum of Natural History, Mark Robbins of the University of ... | <urn:uuid:cc8caf28-1b2d-4867-8adf-52acf2765c88> | 3.875 | 1,618 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 27.815114 | 95,606,343 |
On Saturday night, June 02, 2018, an asteroid disintegrated after it lit up above the surface of the earth, in the sky. It lasted only a few hours and was lost forever. In Botswana, a fireball was seen in the sky by the natives. The fireball was identified as an asteroid hurling down towards the earth at a speed of 10 ... | <urn:uuid:649be8f5-98bf-4985-aafb-dc3c285c6803> | 3.671875 | 186 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 49.49956 | 95,606,354 |
Weitere Kapitel dieses Buchs durch Wischen aufrufen
In this chapter, the reduction and removal of Cr(VI) from aqueous solution by microplasma are explained, which represents a new and fascinating realm of plasma science for the first time. The effect of various process parameters on the Cr(VI) reduction efficiency and ... | <urn:uuid:059a2d8c-307f-4e78-8606-8d42a593c24a> | 2.546875 | 3,099 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 69.078619 | 95,606,405 |
Artist depiction of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth.
An asteroid on a collision course with Earth is inevitable. Astronomer Michael Lund explains how a new telescope under construction in Chile will become a vital tool for detecting objects that could devastate our planet.
Letitia Wright in
Black Panther. ... | <urn:uuid:15a655ca-5309-4a82-a409-03f3b9077add> | 2.890625 | 943 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 55.758702 | 95,606,435 |
Lucerne Leaf Roller
(formerly known as Conchylis divulsana)
ARCHIPINI, TORTRICINAE, TORTRICIDAE, TORTRICOIDEA
(Photo: courtesy of Agriculture Western Australia)
The Caterpillars of this species are an agricultural pest in Australia, feeding on various crops and herbaceous garden plants, including :
The caterpillars gro... | <urn:uuid:f29ff4b4-fa75-47c8-a08d-391ca3af91b4> | 2.984375 | 267 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 55.60892 | 95,606,452 |
Effects of climate variability and change on sea temperature, currents, and water mass distribution are likely to affect the productivity and structure of high-latitude ecosystems. This paper focuses on the Barents Sea (BS), a productive Arcto–boreal shelf ecosystem sustaining several ecologically and economically impo... | <urn:uuid:d74c62c8-d4e5-443b-bc62-4325309bbe0a> | 2.890625 | 270 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 8.919701 | 95,606,461 |
Atmospheric Aerosol Properties and Climate Impacts (SAP 2.3)
Atmospheric aerosols are suspensions of solid and/or liquid particles in air. Aerosols are ubiquitous in air and are often observable as dust, smoke, and haze. Both natural and human processes contribute to aerosol concentrations. On a global basis, aerosol m... | <urn:uuid:030b314f-dc1e-4156-844f-7cbaee522454> | 3.515625 | 352 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 23.413009 | 95,606,487 |
Gujrat based lab discovers sub-Saturn size planet
Physical Research Lab (PRL) based in Gujrat have discovered a sub-Saturn or super-Neptune sized planet around a Sun like star. The team of scientists and engineers led by Prof. Abhijit Chakraborty discovered the planet which is 6 times the radii and 27 times the mass of... | <urn:uuid:4e24672c-364b-4e09-93b7-5b0d8450d619> | 2.671875 | 253 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 51.132422 | 95,606,493 |
How stars evolve
Stars take a variety of form throughout their lives
Supergiants If the star begins life big enough, normally above ten solar masses, it will become a supergiant.
They can be thousands of times bigger than our Sun.
Main sequence stars These range from between 0.08 and 10 solar radii, with masses around ... | <urn:uuid:14ad0067-4cd7-40e7-959c-3d3702d8e437> | 3.765625 | 227 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 70.449175 | 95,606,520 |