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Assessing the effects of climate change on the distribution of pulmonate freshwater snail biodiversity
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Global warming is expected to profoundly change the characteristics of freshwater habitats. Increasing evaporation, lower oxygen concentration due to increased water temperatures and changes in precipi... | <urn:uuid:42e3e70d-031b-4445-a78b-05cbbdab156e> | 2.65625 | 1,062 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 34.922718 | 95,612,895 |
Co-indicator functions and related 1/ƒ noises
In thin metallic films, semiconductors, nerve tissues, and many other media, the measured spectral density of noise is proportional to ƒ D − 2, where ƒ is the frequency and D a constant 0 < D < 2. The energy of these “ƒ D − 2 noises” behaves more “erratically” in time than ... | <urn:uuid:e3b44af2-3b6e-4702-92f4-5da98d622f01> | 2.609375 | 483 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 34.857944 | 95,612,958 |
Global declines in insects have sparked wide interest among scientists, politicians, and the general public. Loss of insect diversity and abundance is expected to provoke cascading effects on food webs and to jeopardize ecosystem services. Our understanding of the extent and underlying causes of this decline is based o... | <urn:uuid:12f0a0f3-68c0-46f2-bb70-af05fa9ba973> | 3.578125 | 2,971 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 16.831271 | 95,612,978 |
A particle P passes through point A with velocity 2.8ms-1 and the constant acceleration 0.12ms-2. Three seconds later, a second particle Q passes through A with velocity 2.4ms-2 and constant acceleration 0.2ms-2.
Show that on the point meet, 2t2-50t-315=0. Where t is the time after P passes through A.
My following work... | <urn:uuid:c0870dea-5af1-4f0a-829b-217511578c42> | 3.03125 | 335 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 103.687007 | 95,612,994 |
Elizabeth Cottrell, lead author and research geologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and Katherine Kelley at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography measured the oxidation state of iron, which is the amount of iron that has a 3+ versus a 2+ electronic charge, in bits ... | <urn:uuid:4fe61d0f-88e4-4202-84f7-89c47aea0dfc> | 4.03125 | 1,281 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 41.369037 | 95,613,040 |
In studies with mice that develop the equivalent of Alzheimers disease that runs in families, Johns Hopkins researchers have shown that brain cells signals confuse the movement of implanted neuronal stem cells.
The observation reinforces the idea that disease can create "microenvironments" that affect the behavior of c... | <urn:uuid:fc73d827-a2be-49b9-a88f-2603c7e1c84e> | 2.984375 | 843 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 41.156238 | 95,613,060 |
If the universe is finite in size, what is at the very edge of it?
Its boundary, which lies at infinity.
Finite in size [itex]\neq[/itex] has an edge.
Look at our earth: it's finite in size but it doesn't have an edge.
I think OP is referring to the 3D projection of the multidimensional universe (or as we normally see ... | <urn:uuid:31f20b15-4bda-4572-99d9-a65d9eeb8b60> | 2.53125 | 1,350 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 62.0712 | 95,613,063 |
The three dimensional shape or configuration of a molecule is an important characteristic. This shape is dependent on the preferred spatial orientation of covalent bonds to atoms having two or more bonding partners. Molecules are made of fixed numbers of atoms joined together by covalent bonds, and can range from the v... | <urn:uuid:0eb3e47a-1a22-482b-a336-7675bffc2c70> | 3.171875 | 233 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 12.165 | 95,613,073 |
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Rejoice sci-fi aficionados: University of British Columbia mathematician Ben Tippett thinks that time travel, from a purely mathematical standpoint, is possible.
In fact, he recently published a paper in Classical and Quantum Gravity on the subject.
Tippett’s theory is a bit complicated, but it hinges on his... | <urn:uuid:a599a7f6-dddb-4610-a63c-f6c35913f116> | 3.546875 | 258 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 37.02799 | 95,613,089 |
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The Limoniinae are a paraphyletic assemblage of genera within the crane flies, Tipulidae, although they can usually be distinguished by the way the wings are held at rest. Limoniines usually hold/fold the wings along the back of the body, whereas other tipulids usually hold them out at right angles. Me... | <urn:uuid:2e6eba6d-1ecd-4ae2-9b4e-e27dd477c355> | 3.90625 | 1,252 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 37.183136 | 95,613,090 |
In mathematics and physics, the Magnus expansion, named after Wilhelm Magnus (1907–1990), provides an exponential representation of the solution of a first order homogeneous linear differential equation for a linear operator. In particular it furnishes the fundamental matrix of a system of linear ordinary differential ... | <urn:uuid:5687bf19-b342-4e10-9a82-9312110a22d7> | 2.84375 | 1,360 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 62.303132 | 95,613,091 |
In chemistry, a silicate is any member of a family of anions consisting of silicon and oxygen, usually with the general formula [SiO(4−2x)−
n, where 0 ≤ x < 2. The family includes orthosilicate SiO4−
4 (x=0), metasilicate SiO2−
3 (x=1), and pyrosilicate Si
7 (x=0.5, n=2). The name is also used for any salt of such anio... | <urn:uuid:b37f9753-6e01-44d4-912f-22f79f16a8bc> | 3.875 | 1,537 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 26.68156 | 95,613,142 |
The tornadoes that swept across the mid-South on Tuesday and Wednesday illustrate in tragic fashion the findings of a recently published study by Northern Illinois University meteorologist Walker Ashley.
Ashley found that while the “tornado alley” region of the Great Plains boasts the most frequent occurrence of tornad... | <urn:uuid:31dce888-cc58-4c7e-a55d-e8ce9733f82d> | 3.046875 | 640 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 33.613207 | 95,613,145 |
Master the art of developing applications using AngularJS, ASP.NET Web API 2, and Visual Studio 2013
About This Book
- Learn how to utilize the robust features of the AngularJS framework
- Explore the opportunity to develop client-side applications for cross-platforms such as web and mobile
- Step-by-step guide with de... | <urn:uuid:b7e40fb7-44da-40c3-bd84-a5bdef4c6704> | 2.59375 | 389 | Product Page | Software Dev. | 24.605428 | 95,613,180 |
The scientists said that the asteroid Omwamwi started to gain a huge speed.
Asteroid Oumayma is now within Solenoi system. Astronomers can’t yet explain the reasons for this strange phenomenon.
According to the researchers, it is possible, the speed of the asteroid Omoumi began to pick up under the influence of gravity... | <urn:uuid:88407ee1-7add-49de-984d-31dd0e4864b3> | 3.203125 | 280 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 49.090407 | 95,613,209 |
If you're searching for Facts about Ants for Kids to help with your children's homework, to use as a website resource for your classroom, or to use in your lesson plan for your students, the information below can help.
- Ants evolved from wasp-like ancestors in the mid-Cretaceous period between 110 and 130 million year... | <urn:uuid:8b4480f4-3dc9-43ba-b635-c61010ad4a40> | 4.03125 | 595 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 21.463669 | 95,613,231 |
Library filed under Impact on Bats
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service offered an option Thursday to protect northern long-eared bats while limiting regulatory burden on the public.
A large wind farm with 50 turbines proposed southwest of Vermilion is raising concerns about noise, disturbing farmers and killing migrator... | <urn:uuid:6127ccf4-1e6e-43ca-ab7c-4db02f02e037> | 3.125 | 1,322 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 42.687515 | 95,613,280 |
Blessed with an unusually rich natural diversity of plants and animals, North Carolina is losing species in large part due to habitat loss. What you can do to help – in your own yard.
For 2017, the KEEPING WATCH initiative focuses on wildlife habitat in our urban ecosystem. PlanCharlotte.org editor Mary Newsom talked w... | <urn:uuid:8231169d-d6a9-42f7-9c01-724adf6be089> | 2.515625 | 427 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 45.917431 | 95,613,303 |
Diversity and function of bacteria living inside a plant relevant for soil remediation of metals
Salt marshes are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth and are sometimes subjected to pollution. The vegetation in this type of environment is, as a consequence, highly specialized to endure its surroundings. For ov... | <urn:uuid:ccb39064-a68a-415e-839d-c6921e9692d2> | 3.765625 | 1,240 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 23.470905 | 95,613,329 |
In this chapter, we discuss the basic concepts of object-oriented programming. We begin by introducing objects, classes and abstract data types. Other concepts include message passing, inheritance, polymorphism, etc. Many examples have been used to illustrate these concepts. In Section 4.5 we describe the object-orient... | <urn:uuid:3d92bdc7-a6de-49e1-a46a-cb0293b1371a> | 3.96875 | 117 | Truncated | Software Dev. | 24.984948 | 95,613,373 |
MPQ scientists observe unusual interference phenomena by scattering laser light from two atoms trapped inside an optical resonator
The investigation and exploitation of light-matter-interaction in optical resonators is one of the central research topics in the Quantum Dynamics Division of Professor Gerhard Rempe, Direc... | <urn:uuid:4be53d36-c2d8-47f7-85fa-180e0ca64d10> | 2.953125 | 2,057 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.176081 | 95,613,375 |
How does the immune system manage to keep pace with this diversity? For the first time scientists from the GSF – Research Centre for Environment and Health and the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried could show that a molecular mechanism which is normally needed to repair damaged DNA pieces makes cells... | <urn:uuid:0c22e8c0-a172-484e-9276-3c3ef299a3cd> | 3.375 | 1,352 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 36.681062 | 95,613,406 |
“Desertification” or Land Degradation: Location and Dimension in Time, Vulnerability of Soil and Plants in Drylands
After the discussion in Chap. 1 of the existence or nonexistence of desertification, I have great difficulty in accepting the use of the word “desertification” at all, because it so often implies an irrev... | <urn:uuid:e7e44b40-f854-4e01-90d4-c427d7e60fa2> | 2.625 | 163 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 14.775804 | 95,613,427 |
A new study using a computer climate model to simulate the last 50 years of climate changes, projects warming over the next 50 years regardless of whether or not nations curb their greenhouse gas emissions soon. If no emission reductions are made and they continue to increase at the current rate, global temperatures ma... | <urn:uuid:97c0aed8-abb1-4efa-808a-660cee423774> | 4.25 | 980 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 40.998725 | 95,613,431 |
Hierarchical clustering is a type of unsupervised machine learning algorithm used to cluster unlabeled data points. Like K-means clustering, hierarchical clustering also groups together the data points with similar characteristics. In some cases the result of hierarchical and K-Means clustering can be similar. Before i... | <urn:uuid:4b1afa57-f006-4b7e-87ac-577dcbf8633a> | 3.078125 | 323 | Content Listing | Software Dev. | 17.091337 | 95,613,437 |
In an unexpected discovery, a team led by Northwestern University scientists has become the first to show that progesterone, a hormone usually associated with female reproduction and maternal behavior, plays a key role in regulating male aggression toward infants in mice. Testosterone, not progesterone, had been though... | <urn:uuid:27e4c1cb-d6eb-46b4-b3ac-81cc42210ef4> | 3.015625 | 830 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 35.568146 | 95,613,443 |
In today’s business area and economy, sparing cash is the highest priority on the rundown for any organization.
Testing is an essential part of any effective programming venture. The type of testing (manual or computerized) relies on upon different components, including Project prerequisites, spending plan, the course ... | <urn:uuid:f813679f-42a5-45f0-9f62-7c58ac0e1f10> | 2.75 | 464 | Truncated | Software Dev. | 16.877027 | 95,613,460 |
Astronomers have detected a beautiful spiral pattern in the disk of material around a young star. It looks like the gas in the disk is somehow stirred up, probably by one or two planets.
Young stars are surrounded by flat disks of gas and dust. The star AB Aurigae is no exception. From Earth, we see the disk almost exa... | <urn:uuid:bc3a5637-d7d8-4355-9d86-a1be2bcfc137> | 3.90625 | 601 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 57.810147 | 95,613,472 |
Great Lakes water temperatures soar after recent heat
Jul 06, 2018 11:56AM ● Published by Editor
By Mark Torregrossa of MLive.com - July 5, 2018
The Great Lakes surface water temperatures have warmed considerably in the past few weeks. Most of the Great Lakes are at the warmest average temperature right now compared to... | <urn:uuid:95af77a4-d27b-4806-b078-79ff87f1bc7e> | 2.953125 | 385 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 48.402612 | 95,613,477 |
Highlights from the latest issue
July 2018 | Vol. 160, issue 3
The current issue of IBIS contains 2 Review papers, 10 full papers, five short communications and two Viewpoint articles.
Here are just four of the many highlights in this issue.
Climate change and bird populations
In this issue we have two major studies ex... | <urn:uuid:8d5abd00-980b-4ee3-bac1-f28089c8fd65> | 2.828125 | 1,326 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 21.435225 | 95,613,486 |
Animals from Junk by Chance
February 12, 2008
How to build an animal: throw junk DNA at it. That seems to be the latest idea on where higher animals came from. A press release from University of Bristol posted on Science Daily and EurekAlert announced, “‘Junk DNA’ Can Explain Origin And Complexity Of Vertebrates, Study... | <urn:uuid:ac1746da-14c7-42d8-9113-26f0c7f06ef9> | 2.71875 | 1,327 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 39.607542 | 95,613,506 |
Exploring Aggregation in Space and Time
Population and ecosystem processes are heterogeneous in both time and space, and every ecological study requires some level of aggregation or abstraction. Aggregating organism or environmental dynamics is challenging because the processes occur at a variety of spatial and tempora... | <urn:uuid:e5e73bed-d2eb-487a-bb35-8f7df4a19ea3> | 2.875 | 349 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 0.193474 | 95,613,510 |
Mystery Signal from the Dawn of the Universe --"May Unveil a New Physics" (Today's Top Science News)
“The stakes are high because if the signal is real, this experiment is worth two Nobel prizes,” says astronomer Abraham Loeb of Harvard University. “One for being first to detect the 21 cm signal from the cosmic dawn an... | <urn:uuid:67f3e40d-d5a1-4df2-b284-399368ed2004> | 3.484375 | 523 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 29.926711 | 95,613,534 |
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Deforestation is still increasing exponentially in tropical regions. Some of the worst regions in the world are the Amazon rainforest, South East Asia and Central Africa. Between 2010 and 2015 there was an annual loss of 7.6 million ha of forest leading to changes in rainfall patterns, loss of biodiversity and contribu... | <urn:uuid:8b49187e-ccbc-48ec-8260-c68ebfe355af> | 3.546875 | 1,082 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 23.461199 | 95,613,539 |
Get up close and personal with African wildlife via AWF’s camera traps—a popular technology used in ecological research and monitoring. It is also one of the methods that AWF and its partners employ when studying lesser-known species or monitoring threatened species to better protect them.
Camera traps revolutionized w... | <urn:uuid:0836d117-9b5f-45d2-965b-44c6277a694d> | 3.015625 | 606 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 34.727676 | 95,613,540 |
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How fangs developed in venomous snakes
July 31st, 2008 - 4:21 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 31 (ANI): New researcher from Leiden University in the Netherlands suggests that both rear and front fangs in venomous snakes developed from separate teeth-forming tissue at the rear of the mouth, unlike... | <urn:uuid:b7119ecb-0ae5-4b9d-a8f5-4ff6afd069fd> | 3.578125 | 703 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 42.067757 | 95,613,547 |
Rapid urbanization in southeastern China in the past 25 years is responsible for an estimated warming rate much larger than previous estimates for other periods and locations, according to a new study funded by NASA.
Researchers led by the Georgia Institute of Technology report that the mean surface temperature in the ... | <urn:uuid:24390eac-da88-4c00-b1ac-697ee413e511> | 3.265625 | 845 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 32.894809 | 95,613,562 |
Some believe that we will stay on Earth — people will cease to exist. In an article published in June, Elon Musk has warned of the inevitability of space: life on Earth will disappear if we will not mnogoletnim. There are two ways Musk wrote: "One way to stay on the Ground forever until an event occurs that carries the... | <urn:uuid:3d3de489-2c08-45b1-9ff6-bc9283b86147> | 3.171875 | 2,197 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 49.242013 | 95,613,563 |
What Makes Good Brain Proteins Turn Bad?News
The protein FUS is implicated in two neurodegenerative diseases: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). Using a newly developed fruit fly model, researchers have zoomed in on the protein structure of FUS to gain more insight into ho... | <urn:uuid:c7bbb334-e92d-40ca-8e4b-9f38c824d0cf> | 2.71875 | 372 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 14.591381 | 95,613,575 |
Scientists have successfully studied the formation of clouds and precipitation above the Brazilian rainforest with the research aircraft HALO.
"Please buckle up. We are flying through an area with strong turbulence.” Some passengers might be petrified by such an announcement, but the atmosphere and climate researchers ... | <urn:uuid:36ce7593-ffbf-461e-bcf5-419012ff81ce> | 3.765625 | 2,288 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 31.619759 | 95,613,600 |
Observed and CMIP5 modeled influence of large-scale circulation on summer precipitation and drought in the South-Central United States
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Annual precipitation in the largely agricultural South-Central United States is characterized by a primary wet season in May and June, a mid-summer dry period in July an... | <urn:uuid:587dcc1a-c876-4b1b-b0ad-c9d84ef01eea> | 2.53125 | 1,214 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 53.614526 | 95,613,631 |
The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 6:34 p.m. EDT on March 12, 2014, and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, captured an image of it.
Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, how... | <urn:uuid:bc206fbf-02fc-4705-9ee3-719ddb596ad9> | 4.0625 | 951 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 44.224867 | 95,613,671 |
Picked this up from an Australian forum unsigned so can't give he/she credit but it is a great read:
H2O is water. CO2 is carbon dioxide.
Lets see, CO2 + H20 + Light energy and photosynthisis strips the Carbon from the Oxygen in CO2, the Hydrogen from the oxygen in the Water, and gives Carbon and Hydrogen compounds (ce... | <urn:uuid:13b7f04c-88e0-49c5-b9a9-b9479a885065> | 2.828125 | 621 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 72.135796 | 95,613,677 |
What is a Binomial Confidence Interval?
Let’s say you needed a 100(1-α) confidence interval (where α is the significance level) on a certain parameter p for a binomial distribution. Exactly how you would achieve this depends on the values for n (your sample size) and p:
- Large sample size (> 15) and large p (≥ 0.1): T... | <urn:uuid:d2bfc637-b76f-4434-a34b-48598bb35677> | 3.75 | 862 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 65.759491 | 95,613,682 |
Every day, rocks plummet from space into Earth's atmosphere, so small that they combust and burn away before they can collide with the surface. Occasionally, though, a rock large enough to survive the descent strikes the planet, earning the name “meteorite.” Research suggests a meteorite greater than 1 kilometer (0.62 ... | <urn:uuid:4ba32cff-6fb8-48ac-b595-51f01d4f0584> | 4.90625 | 550 | Nonfiction Writing | Science & Tech. | 37.803571 | 95,613,687 |
Humans have been using wind power for thousands of years, but renewed interest non-fossil-fuel-based energy generation has led to a rapid increase in the spread of wind turbines. Extracting energy from wind is conceptually simple: wind moves over fan blades that turn a shaft that rotates an electric generator. The powe... | <urn:uuid:5511f0b5-483b-493f-bef1-b763b8b7f616> | 3.9375 | 832 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 53.780474 | 95,613,688 |
A Hydrophone is a passive acoustic sensor that listens for earthquakes, sea creatures, and human-generated noise in the ocean. The Low Frequency Acoustic Receiver (Hydrophone) measures acoustic signal of wind, rain, and seismic t-phases on the seafloor.
This instrument measures the following data products. Select a dat... | <urn:uuid:2adb3228-bcfc-41af-9a54-3a928af8b452> | 2.90625 | 170 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 40.748279 | 95,613,723 |
Photo credit: Tourisme en Occitanie/flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)The mystery species, known affectionately by the researchers as the Higgs Bison* because of its elusive nature, originated over 120,000 years ago through the hybridization of the extinct Aurochs (the ancestor of modern cattle) and the Ice Age Steppe Bison, whi... | <urn:uuid:2546d7d3-4976-49fe-8c11-23de8b656393> | 4.0625 | 798 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 29.726318 | 95,613,737 |
Study: 2016 hurricane season 2nd longest on record
The 2016 Hurricane Season is the longest hurricane season since 1951, making the 2016 season the 2nd longest on record. That's the conclusion drawn in a paper just published in Geophysical Research Letters.
Lead author Jennifer Collins, PhD, associate professor in the ... | <urn:uuid:1090560f-539a-4f51-add9-2a2ab31d6310> | 2.609375 | 1,081 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 35.448724 | 95,613,794 |
Ice Concentration - Total Operational Weather Readiness - Satellites (TOWR-S)
VIIRS Ice Concentration
Frequently Asked Questions about the VIIRS Ice Concentration Product
1) What is this product?
This product has three fields of interest to the forecaster. The first is Ice Cover, which simply tells the forecaster if th... | <urn:uuid:2b7b5e71-03af-4b57-ad8b-89cf6289bbd7> | 2.59375 | 628 | FAQ | Science & Tech. | 39.923674 | 95,613,807 |
New 3D Observation of Nanomachines Working Inside Cells
Credit: O. Gallego IRB Barcelona
Researchers at IRB Barcelona combine genetic engineering, super-resolution microscopy and bio-computation to allow them to see in 3D the protein machinery inside living cells. Published in the journal Cell, the study unveils key fu... | <urn:uuid:fb4946b7-5433-4422-aef6-61fe98a4a2f7> | 3.3125 | 1,223 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 35.849287 | 95,613,810 |
Astronomy, Black Holes, Habitability
15 Jun , 2018 by Matt Williams
Physicist Dr. Sean Raymond recently created a hypothetical system where 550 planets and 9 Suns orbit around a central black hole, with fascinating results!
Astronomy, Extrasolar Planets, TRAPPIST-1
3 May , 2018 by Matt Williams
According to a new study... | <urn:uuid:915a414b-8f74-490f-aa2c-996531081198> | 3.125 | 315 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 36.40852 | 95,613,839 |
Species Detail - Sphecodes geoffrellus - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Bees of Ireland".
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).... | <urn:uuid:5122c052-fa18-4157-be7b-2f19c7fb791b> | 2.796875 | 190 | Structured Data | Science & Tech. | 21.43266 | 95,613,847 |
|Title||Fast Radio Bursts Could be Caused by Pulsars Near Black Holes or Supernova Remnants|
|Date||Thursday January 11 2018, @12:53PM|
|from the or-is-it-inter-galactic-wifi? dept.|
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) may be caused by neutron stars (pulsars) experiencing unusual conditions, such as proximity to a black hole or a... | <urn:uuid:8beb34e1-8f1a-44e2-8297-d024a711cfec> | 3.265625 | 312 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 44.596923 | 95,613,849 |
Dr. Robert P. Anderson, Associate Professor of Biology at The City College of New York, and Ph.D. student Eliécer E. Gutiérrez have reported the existence of a new species of spiny pocket mouse, from Venezuela, Heteromys catopterius.
The name derives from the Greek katoptêrios, which means a “height that commands a vie... | <urn:uuid:503a2743-8bb5-4341-a40f-371662c1c28a> | 3.171875 | 1,354 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 36.211837 | 95,613,901 |
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Online education is becoming increasingly accessible to a wide variety of demographics. As a result, it has the potential to create opportunities for those otherwise unable to access it.
The newfound diversity of students presents considerable difficulties in ensuring that the educational material is effective for each... | <urn:uuid:06327397-dcbd-4773-851b-a93f2d20d998> | 2.71875 | 386 | News (Org.) | Software Dev. | 27.330991 | 95,613,925 |
Watch the climate change in real time with these trackers
Global warming isn’t something that will happen decades down the line — it’s happening every day, bit by bit.
It’s possible now to actually see the concentration of greenhouse gases and the energy they trap ticking ominously upward in real time.
The ticker was b... | <urn:uuid:c82f1b94-190d-4ba1-91c0-91f296d45a8d> | 3.28125 | 239 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 31.014219 | 95,613,939 |
Natural and industrial flows, in geophysics, aeronautics or process engineering, are complex, unsteady, sometimes multiphase, and most often turbulent. Understanding and modeling these flows is a real challenge for both fundamental and practical reasons.
On a global scale, atmospheric and oceanic flows are subject to s... | <urn:uuid:0516d845-de94-4c62-8632-122965426e57> | 2.96875 | 1,083 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 32.471805 | 95,613,953 |
Astronomers have spotted the most distant massive star explosion of its kind, a supernova that could help scientists better understand the nature of the universe.
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists recently caught sight of Supernova UDS10Wil (nicknamed SN Wilson) which exploded more than 10 billion years ago.... | <urn:uuid:45949cc5-80ba-4359-97ac-7a76b35f32e6> | 3.734375 | 591 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 41.785886 | 95,613,957 |
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cancer a fight we can win
30th June 2017
Reports are still coming in that given the right conditions
you will get this effect
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General Models of Pattern Formation: Some Uses, Problems and Successes
Understanding the evolution of spatial patterns and the mechanisms which create them are among the most crucial issues in developmental biology. Whether the process is the generation of cartilage patterns in the developing limb, the formation of fea... | <urn:uuid:c922ef52-7c92-45a4-bf94-bccbc1eed32c> | 3.046875 | 1,021 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 55.262217 | 95,613,975 |
|An alder root nodule.|
Frankia is a genus of nitrogen-fixing, filamentous bacteria that live in symbiosis with actinorhizal plants, similar to the Rhizobium bacteria found in the root nodules of legumes in the family Fabaceae. Bacteria of this genus also form root nodules.
This genus was originally named by Jørgen Bru... | <urn:uuid:2bf31978-90d9-49b0-8f16-1c7340475578> | 3.671875 | 525 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 14.703647 | 95,614,012 |
Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers are proposing that the first battle for survival-of-the-fittest might have played out as a simple physical duel between fatty bubbles stuffed with genetic material. The scientists suggest that genetic material that replicated quickly may have been all the bubbles needed to ed... | <urn:uuid:46edabc1-d7c0-470b-b43b-c220a516637d> | 3.03125 | 782 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 31.963283 | 95,614,015 |
DNA Sequencing in a Snap
An innnovative approach could target hard-to-sequence areas.
A novel sequencing technology being developed by a Massachusetts startup allows scientists to take photographs of the sequence of a DNA molecule. William Glover, president of ZS Genetics, based in North Reading, MA, says that his appr... | <urn:uuid:c7ad03a8-0dc3-4e19-a494-592a9d8b1d19> | 3.21875 | 1,139 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 37.473877 | 95,614,018 |
VLBI of supernovae and gamma-ray bursts
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Supernovae and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the brightest events in the universe. Excluding Type Ia supernovae and short GRBs, they are the result of the core collapse of a massive star with material being ejectedwith speeds of several 1000 km/s to nearly the ... | <urn:uuid:14779154-ff78-4689-853b-541dd0223373> | 3.296875 | 437 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 70.87772 | 95,614,043 |
The world is still losing its forests, and these beautiful satellite maps tally the toll
A little more than 300,000 square miles of forest was established or replanted worldwide between 2000 and 2012. Unfortunately, almost 900,000 square miles was destroyed during the same time period — logged, ravaged by fire, or atta... | <urn:uuid:bb9a8223-7d3d-4b1b-ad51-faaf6a84440c> | 3.5625 | 555 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 36.054799 | 95,614,071 |
This is “Uses of Radioactive Isotopes”,. several groups of scientists used carbon-14 dating to demonstrate that the. Describe how iodine-131 is used to both.
Many people assume that rocks are dated at “millions of years” based on radiocarbon (carbon-14) dating. now radioactive with carbon-14,.Carbon-14, a radioactive i... | <urn:uuid:1efbddcb-e813-47ca-b9fc-6f346b4901bf> | 3.40625 | 868 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 54.155836 | 95,614,082 |
follow site Let us now see an example of a java program to add two integers.
go here In this program, user is asked to enter two integers. Then, the sum of those two integers is stored in a variable and displayed on the screen.
http://laprovence.sk/familjarnosty/3508 For algorithm & flowchart for addition of two number... | <urn:uuid:8f40da54-6d10-46a3-8d0a-e531b4f006d7> | 4.03125 | 743 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 66.140549 | 95,614,083 |
Ian eats too many mars bars. To try to get rid of the excess kJ's he exercises in the gym by using a weights machine which works by compressing a cylinder of gas. If a standard mars bar is approximately 1000kJ. Calculate the number of times Ian has to push the piston in the cylinder up and down to 'burn off' a mars bar... | <urn:uuid:c6fc0485-2445-4a59-a864-c410178beebb> | 2.703125 | 210 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 78.060588 | 95,614,087 |
VICTORIA will be a hotter and drier place by mid-century, with more desert and fewer temperate regions because of the impacts of global warming, new scientific analysis has found.
In a major report, Victoria's Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability, Kate Auty, warns the changes will put infrastructure and biodiv... | <urn:uuid:ccf11a5c-8391-4578-82ea-fb6aaa00fac5> | 3.3125 | 653 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 28.327775 | 95,614,095 |
Differences – (Linked List vs Array)
1) Arrays are assigned with contiguous memory location during compile time whereas in the linked list the memory is allocated at run time whenever a new element is added to it.
2) Arrays are fixed in size means so we have to provide the size limit of an array during declaration of a... | <urn:uuid:ffcb56a2-8861-429b-b171-87209478f0ea> | 3.265625 | 226 | Customer Support | Software Dev. | 40.930528 | 95,614,097 |
Writing a code using php?
Before we jump into coding we need to learn few basic things. Once you installed php on your machine and ready to write your first program using php you need to learn about the syntax.
Every language has their own syntax. Syntax is basically a way to identify a language. Followings are some of... | <urn:uuid:b1889af7-0497-4ee6-a5f1-23f5934271a6> | 3.359375 | 1,054 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 65.261385 | 95,614,102 |
By: David McNally, RDECOM Public Affairs
ADELPHI, Md. (June 1, 2012) — Army scientists are squeezing more power from batteries by developing new methods and materials with incredible results.
“Our battery group has recently developed some new materials that could potentially increase the energy density of batteries by ... | <urn:uuid:ecab95b8-f30e-425f-a343-d8a52eec3e2e> | 3.03125 | 716 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 45.965178 | 95,614,136 |
Theoretically, the calculation of the flow around a wing, a fuselage or a complete aircraft can be done by solving the Navier-Stokes equations. However, when the Reynolds number is large, as it is the case in aerodynamics, the size of computer which is needed is prohibitive. This is due to the fact that the spectrum of... | <urn:uuid:04e7a91f-b504-40c7-8b5e-980f5ab7552c> | 3.546875 | 349 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 27.403793 | 95,614,176 |
Comet landing named Physics World Breakthrough of the Year
The first ever landing of a man-made probe onto a comet has been named Physics World Breakthrough of the Year for 2014.
From a shortlist of 10 highly commended breakthroughs, the historic achievement by scientists working on the Rosetta mission was singled out ... | <urn:uuid:cb7975fa-0992-4997-a5e1-0c7b43fade8f> | 2.53125 | 974 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 19.859258 | 95,614,183 |
in reply to Jargon relating to Perl strings
The sequence of string elements in a string. This is not affected by the string's UTF8 flag.This is not what you want to say (it immediately confused me because my first thought was, "This is wrong because if you have a string with non-ASCII characters in it and change its UT... | <urn:uuid:71c1e0d1-15a6-44f8-a8bc-cda41bdc30ed> | 2.859375 | 406 | Comment Section | Software Dev. | 57.87579 | 95,614,194 |
An interstellar probe is a space probe that has left—or is expected to leave—the Solar System and enter interstellar space, which is typically defined as the region beyond the heliopause. It also refers to probes capable of reaching other star systems.
There are five interstellar probes: Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Pioneer 1... | <urn:uuid:ba5946e2-7493-4dd7-bf00-085a991d0499> | 3.84375 | 5,805 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 60.74299 | 95,614,206 |
Ozone /ˈoʊzoʊn/, or trioxygen, is an inorganic molecule with the chemical formula O 3. It is a pale blue gas with a distinctively pungent smell. It is an allotrope of oxygen that is much less stable than the diatomic allotrope O 2, breaking down in the lower atmosphere to O 2 or dioxygen. Ozone is formed from dioxygen ... | <urn:uuid:53bd9df0-208d-4b95-9efd-c1fd02f7670e> | 3.984375 | 407 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 29.320151 | 95,614,256 |
Authors: Victor Paromov
The Standard Model (SM) is the most useful theory of elementary particle interactions. Unfortunately, the SM cannot be unified with the theory of general relativity (GR) and has a number of ad hoc parameters. The full unification “beyond the SM” presents an important problem of modern theoretica... | <urn:uuid:ee868d5d-2ed6-4c57-9269-f237eee536fa> | 2.5625 | 558 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 24.620297 | 95,614,275 |
In the article theoretical bases of existence of troposphere radiowaveguides are considered above a sea. On the basis of analysis in the theory of distribution of radio waves of literature it is rotined known, that in practice of radio-location at the study of processes, which take a place in troposphere radiowaveguide... | <urn:uuid:c38c1313-2bb9-4953-ac26-2be5967e3f8e> | 2.53125 | 205 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | -13.805455 | 95,614,285 |
A new study published in the prestigious journal Science, co-authored by University of Nevada, Reno's Glenn Biasi and colleagues at GNS Science in New Zealand, finds that very large earthquakes have been occurring relatively regularly on the Alpine Fault along the southwest coastline of New Zealand for at least 8,000 y... | <urn:uuid:fe2a3711-b14a-42b9-a474-ff286d941c82> | 3.671875 | 1,070 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 41.334675 | 95,614,316 |
A potentially dangerous asteroid nicknamed "The Beast" - first discovered April 23- is flying by Earth on Thursday and its trek will be broadcast live via the Slooh Space Camera starting at 11:30 a.m. PDT/2:30 p.m. EDT.
A fake CNN iReport that saw more than 300,000 hits before being taken down by the news agency claime... | <urn:uuid:a16cd435-a979-40a6-9fb5-aae2354699e5> | 3.375 | 499 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 60.127037 | 95,614,318 |
Astronomy, Brown Dwarf, Extrasolar Planets, News
7 Jul , 2016 by Nancy Atkinson
Astronomers have now determined a nearby brown dwarf has some exciting characteristics: its atmosphere is full of clouds of water vapor. This is the first time water clouds have been detected outside of our Solar System.
Space stories from ... | <urn:uuid:4cc7a71a-6e19-4c5e-9c43-19381f1a1a8f> | 2.859375 | 77 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 40.615706 | 95,614,321 |
The best method to obtain the most precise information on the inner structure of atoms and molecules is to excite them by means of resonant laser light. Unfortunately, just this laser light (above a certain intensity) can lead to measurable modifications within the atom's electron shell.
Stylized representation of the ... | <urn:uuid:81d83331-7158-4845-aa6c-ebb3bac5c48c> | 3.84375 | 1,671 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 35.886364 | 95,614,334 |
The effects of flooding on interactions between streams and shallow aquifers are poorly studied due to the unpredictable nature of flooding events. This study examines groundwater-surface water interactions in a constructed experimental meander over several simulated flood events using hydrologic and thermal monitoring... | <urn:uuid:e51026c2-7908-4fcc-91f1-4bb85f89c726> | 2.65625 | 397 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 22.94318 | 95,614,335 |
The Ecology of Urban Forest Edges
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As of 2014, over half (54 percent) of the world’s population resides in urban areas, a number that is expected to increase to two-thirds of the global population by 2050 (UN 2014). Increased human flow into cities results in increased urbanization, a compl... | <urn:uuid:8e97b152-4a16-4531-9f4b-8b6c1aa22945> | 3.28125 | 151 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 19.159467 | 95,614,400 |
Astronomers detect diamond dust shimmering around distant stars
Nanoscale gemstones source of mysterious cosmic microwave light
For decades, astronomers have puzzled over the exact source of a peculiar type of faint microwave light emanating from a number of regions across the Milky Way. Known as anomalous microwave em... | <urn:uuid:7e04bd3d-1f36-4012-9fb1-80649f9bb562> | 3.484375 | 1,351 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 26.079463 | 95,614,402 |
The Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE-3) was launched by sounding rocket at 7:01 a.m. Monday from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. The purpose of the IRVE-3 test was to show that a space capsule can use an inflatable outer shell to slow and protect itself as it enters an atmosphere at hyp... | <urn:uuid:45474f21-049b-4fd2-9532-0486b172fcc0> | 3.234375 | 1,325 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 44.461488 | 95,614,413 |
To our ears, the buzz of a mosquito is intensely irritating and a sign of itchiness to come, but to theirs, it’s a lover’s serenade. The high-pitched drone of a female is a siren’s song that attracts male mosquitoes. And a new study shows that when the two love-bugs meet, they perform a duet, matching each other’s buzz... | <urn:uuid:0e64c716-695d-4ccd-b736-16329d2fc39f> | 3.359375 | 675 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 53.611119 | 95,614,431 |
In this video tutorial, we are going to learn about What is an Array and creating an Array in PHP. Basically an Array could be of three different types. Indexed arrays, Associative arrays and Multidimensional arrays, which are written in different ways. For example Indexed Array required numeric index id's. Where as an... | <urn:uuid:9829dca1-5bb0-4a3e-afd0-3444959a857a> | 4.0625 | 432 | Truncated | Software Dev. | 51.934611 | 95,614,439 |
Statistical Inference for Two Proportions
When comparing two proportions, it is common practice simply to quote a figure representing the contrast between them, such as their difference or ratio. Several such measures of association have already been introduced in Section 1.1, and we discuss others in Section 6.9. The ... | <urn:uuid:4320d906-7360-4971-b47b-72fdaa2bedd5> | 3.890625 | 277 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 29.9575 | 95,614,443 |
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have discovered a magnetic field deep in the cloud’s interior, which may protect it during its meteoric plunge into the disk of our Galaxy.
This discovery could help explain how so-cal... | <urn:uuid:589a6d2a-b3cd-44d3-9d8b-da3bdbdce8c8> | 3.703125 | 1,510 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 48.523188 | 95,614,446 |
Building on eight years of extraordinary discoveries by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS and SDSS-II), a new program of four coordinated surveys will revolutionize the study of the distant universe, the Milky Way galaxy, and giant planets orbiting other stars. The largest of these surveys will use a novel and powerfu... | <urn:uuid:99c043f1-f3d4-4718-9b8b-3508809e3706> | 3.390625 | 1,763 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 35.751624 | 95,614,456 |
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This is the first assessment of British butterflies against the new IUCN criteria, and replaces earlier assessments published in 1987 and 1997. It utilises comprehensive new data on trends in distribution and population, allowing a more complete and up-to-date publication.
The report is both important a... | <urn:uuid:7917edd4-9610-40c2-b198-578954e8762c> | 2.515625 | 156 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 45.24878 | 95,614,475 |
THE ROBINSON LIBRARY
|The Robinson Library >> Order Perissodactyla|
Despite its name, the black rhinoceros is actually yellow-brown to dark-brown in color, with the specific skin color depending on soil conditions within an individual rhino's habitat.The skin is hairless except for a patch of short, fringe-like hair on... | <urn:uuid:245eff8b-2a02-4528-88c6-27e88dc226b7> | 3.984375 | 780 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 48.358845 | 95,614,494 |
Basel Zoologists are unveiling the colorful secrets of coral reefs: On the Australian Great Barrier Reef they discovered a coral reef fish, the dusky dottyback that flexibly adapts its coloration to mimic other fishes and in doing is able to prey on their juvenile offspring. By changing colors, the dusky dottyback also... | <urn:uuid:1e116a49-de4a-469a-8885-087ceb4bdeaf> | 3.921875 | 1,699 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 42.63274 | 95,614,501 |
Facts Summary: The Baudo Oropendola (Psarocolius cassini) is a species of concern belonging in the species group "birds" and found in the following area(s): Colombia. This species is also known by the following name(s): Gymnostinops cassini.
Baudo Oropendola Facts Last Updated: January 1, 2016
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Similar wiring diagram may be used elsewhere in the brain
Eating, like breathing and sleeping, seems to be a rather basic biological task. Yet chewing requires a complex interplay between the tongue and jaw, with the tongue positioning food between the teeth and then moving out of the way every time the jaw clamps down... | <urn:uuid:85828b40-650f-4141-88cb-55d687ebc592> | 3.375 | 1,589 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 42.595135 | 95,614,529 |