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Deterministic Chaos: Sensitivity, Mixing, and Periodic Points
Mathematical research in chaos can be traced back at least to 1890, when Henri Poincaré studied the stability of the solar system. He asked if the planets would continue on indefinitely in roughly their present orbits, or might one of them wander off into et... | <urn:uuid:2973e5fb-77d6-40eb-9b2a-03b17ad3cee0> | 3.390625 | 175 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 31.090833 | 95,617,166 |
Driving to work becomes routine--but could you drive the entire way in reverse gear? Humans, like many animals, are accustomed to seeing objects pass behind us as we go forward. Moving backwards feels unnatural.
In a new study, scientists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) reveal that moving forward actually tr... | <urn:uuid:c2a92944-6e87-4742-909e-7e41fba9be7f> | 3.875 | 1,634 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 43.672536 | 95,617,167 |
Inventors: Minoura N
, Rachikofu O
Discrimination of protein
Publication date: 2001
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To selectively discriminate a desired protein with a simple operation at reduced cost by using a polymer having a specific molecular template form.
SOLUTION: A protein is selectively discriminated with a polymer ha... | <urn:uuid:f24044d8-3798-46d7-9233-e4a47dbba87c> | 2.625 | 322 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 8.670816 | 95,617,198 |
1. In forward-swimming Paramecium the direction of metachronal wave propagation is turned progressively clockwise from forward-right to backward-left if the viscosity of the medium is increased to more than 100 cP.2. With increasing viscosity the direction of the power stroke is turned clockwise at a lower rate than th... | <urn:uuid:ea92ab00-3e41-46f6-b662-3b805d13026a> | 2.625 | 513 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 48.822544 | 95,617,205 |
whats the difference for the rate equation for a reaction and the average rate?
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- 02-01-2004 15:56
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if your talking about the A-level chemistry's rate equation then there isn't any difference:
Rate = k[A][b]
The units of rate is: moldm'3s'-1
so therefore the r... | <urn:uuid:2266ed3d-470b-43ee-8dea-40a7729c95f7> | 3 | 127 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 58.931667 | 95,617,206 |
March 6th, 2018 | by Faye Oney
Researchers have developed a process that uses silver nanowires to print electronic circuits on flexible surfaces. Their method could be promising for the future of flexible and wearable electronics, especially for the medical industry.
February 13th, 2018 | by April Gocha
Residential LED... | <urn:uuid:1399ba81-6cdf-4753-8735-27bb61e9a5fb> | 2.578125 | 564 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 21.106949 | 95,617,208 |
Although native enemies in an exotic species' new range are considered to affect its ability to invade, few studies have evaluated predation pressures from native enemies on exotic species in their new range. The exotic prey naiveté hypothesis (EPNH) states that exotic species may be at a disadvantage because of its na... | <urn:uuid:3d05ff89-3bc6-4848-8862-4115628a001e> | 3.40625 | 390 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 8.059197 | 95,617,219 |
SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk published a paper revealing more details about his plan of building a self-sustaining city on Mars. SpaceX is also working on interplanetary transport system that is capable of sending humans to Mars or even beyond.
The giant gas planet Jupiter now has 69 known moons. This was discovere... | <urn:uuid:cf209da4-ffa1-4b7d-a019-8b286bc5504f> | 3.21875 | 507 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 49.857539 | 95,617,238 |
Synaptic scaling is a slow process that modifies synapses, keeping the firing rate of neural circuits in specific regimes. Together with other processes, such as conventional synaptic plasticity in the form of long term depression and potentiation, synaptic scaling changes the synaptic patterns in a network, ensuring d... | <urn:uuid:fe0afb3b-8afb-41c8-9673-523bd0e441c0> | 2.578125 | 268 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | -6.569592 | 95,617,257 |
VICTORIA — While humans have mapped the surfaces of the moon and Mars, our own deep sea remains largely a mystery — but Ocean Networks Canada is working to change that.
The University of Victoria facility has pioneered ocean observatories in the Strait of Georgia, along coastal British Columbia and in the Arctic that s... | <urn:uuid:dd399325-a242-40a2-b90c-2ecfa1e5b41a> | 3.140625 | 882 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 42.484672 | 95,617,270 |
Optically stimulated luminescent (OSL) dosimeters are devices used for measuring doses of ionizing radiation. Signal is stored within an OSL material so that when stimulated with light, light of a specific wavelength is emitted in proportion to the integrated ionizing radiation dose. Each interrogation of the material ... | <urn:uuid:541cdf6a-7baa-4b0a-88b3-27342b36c753> | 2.96875 | 381 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 22.269873 | 95,617,293 |
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Fire effects in the coastal lowlands: Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park
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Ground cover fires -- Hawaii -- Hawaii Island... | <urn:uuid:49c13931-4367-438a-ad1c-bef97b093ae3> | 3.03125 | 859 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 26.54157 | 95,617,294 |
A Way to Sequence DNA of Rare Animals Has Been Discovered
Credit: Eddy Perez, LSU
Rare and extinct animals are preserved in jars of alcohol in natural history museum collections around the world, which provide a wealth of information on the changing biodiversity of the planet. These preserved specimens of snakes, lizar... | <urn:uuid:8113c010-fe03-4545-9fbe-a3e374adce74> | 3.9375 | 857 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 23.242241 | 95,617,296 |
Radiocarbon dating is a technique that utilizes decay of carbon-14 to estimate the age of organic materials. This method is based on the principle that carbon is found in various forms. Through photosynthesis, plants absorb both forms of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. When an organism dies it contains a ratio of car... | <urn:uuid:d7178c11-015d-44d0-af53-950dccadf865> | 3.875 | 295 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 48.362772 | 95,617,309 |
Finds and tabulates sub-strings which match the target regular expression
Array — the captured sub-strings each in tabular form
A string against which the regular expression is matched
An optional character index within the string at which to start matching
This method compares the target regular expression against the... | <urn:uuid:22a2123c-823a-40aa-b0b1-6a3f591b8ef9> | 2.96875 | 217 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 44.248297 | 95,617,310 |
Using Star Charts and Measuring Distance
How to find objects in the sky using celestial coordinates, what are arc minutes and arc seconds? How big is the Plough compared to the Square of Pegasus?
- Tips for Getting Started in Astronomy
- Dark Eye Adaption - How We See In the Dark
- Light Pollution
- Using Star Charts a... | <urn:uuid:b7860434-a42c-44d8-bc90-6b1e40774134> | 3.671875 | 1,097 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 60.359031 | 95,617,313 |
For more than 40 years, Landsat satellites have collected millions of images of this region and others worldwide. And as Landsat 8 begins its new mission, collecting more than 400 images per day, scientists are anticipating what the program’s trove of images will reveal about Earth’s surface.
Landsat satellites have ca... | <urn:uuid:9d855621-071e-410e-9750-4cebaa20153b> | 4.03125 | 2,358 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 40.77759 | 95,617,317 |
They may look like stained-glass windows but these dazzling images reveal the kaleidoscope of colours found inside METEORITES thought to date back 4.5 billion years
- The images were created using a standard SLR camera, a microscope, a filter, a spectrograph and simple software
- Texan photographer, Jeff Barton, taught... | <urn:uuid:b10d1cf7-6ffc-4e2c-b68d-5879b51704e8> | 3.1875 | 1,308 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 37.057272 | 95,617,324 |
Access a range of climate-related reports issued by government agencies and scientific organizations. Browse the reports listed below, or filter by scope, content, or focus in the boxes above. To expand your results, click the Clear Filters link.
The goal of this concerted effort is to help Thurston County (Washington)... | <urn:uuid:4d1dea8c-1c9a-4101-a763-989e066c46b9> | 2.625 | 4,994 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 19.37621 | 95,617,327 |
electrolysis: Commercial Applications of Electrolysis
Various substances are prepared commercially by electrolysis, e.g., chlorine by the electrolysis of a solution of common salt; hydrogen by the electrolysis of water; heavy water (deuterium oxide) for use in nuclear reactors, also by electrolysis of water. A metal su... | <urn:uuid:3a99445b-1816-43e6-a5ef-dff2734bba88> | 3.296875 | 573 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 11.084582 | 95,617,334 |
Does radiation affect carbon dating
The method was developed by Willard Libby in the late 1940s and soon became a standard tool for archaeologists.
Libby received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in 1960.
After 11,460 years (two half-lives), only 256 atoms are left.
After ten half-lives (or 57,300 years), less... | <urn:uuid:6594ab7e-baf6-455a-acd9-6b4fe6f957ac> | 3.671875 | 355 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 46.933295 | 95,617,344 |
Candid Critter: Library trail cams will track backyard fauna
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — People in North Carolina will soon be able to check out motion-activated trail cameras from the library to get close-up pictures of the deer, coyotes and other critters that wander through their backyards.
It's part of a plan by state wil... | <urn:uuid:e8d4351b-5b1f-4e8b-a2d6-6b8691bfd887> | 2.546875 | 478 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 49.725068 | 95,617,345 |
About This Workshop:
Python is a versatile and widely-used programming language with many applications. This workshop explores basic programming concepts in Python and discusses real world applications across multiple industries. Designed as a stand-alone introduction to the programming in Python, this class is also a ... | <urn:uuid:e1823815-6794-49ad-a525-e034705c3086> | 2.703125 | 167 | Product Page | Software Dev. | 22.212993 | 95,617,390 |
Gravity Satellite Blasts Off on Climate Mission
The spacecraft will measure the earth’s gravitational field with new accuracy.
Today the European Space Agency (ESA) launched one of the most advanced Earth-observing satellites ever built. The GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer) satellite bla... | <urn:uuid:504455c2-8072-4335-ab26-822903853767> | 3.734375 | 1,026 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 33.520976 | 95,617,414 |
Sydney: Polar scientists said Thursday they had successfully drilled a 2,000-year-old ice core in the heart of Antarctica in a bid to retrieve a frozen record of how the planet`s climate has evolved.
The Aurora Basin North project involves scientists from Australia, China, France, Denmark, Germany and the United States... | <urn:uuid:32099d44-81cf-48db-a9cf-09f1c6e1f358> | 2.9375 | 496 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 34.066311 | 95,617,421 |
Will the Parker Solar Probe really touch the surface of the sun and what science will it do?
Tag Archives | Moon
Astronomers hate the Moon because it ruins perfectly good observing nights. But is it possible that we all need the Moon for our very existence?
Thanks to Cassini and other spacecraft, we’ve learned a tremen... | <urn:uuid:571c6449-f88b-4111-b097-dcc6aac069ee> | 2.765625 | 297 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 52.677917 | 95,617,423 |
Jaguar electric boat breaks the world’s speed record with its electric boat. As we know Jaguar is famous for its luxury vehicle brand of Jaguar Land Rover, and not only luxury vehicles but also electric cars, and what about electric boats? It really sounds fantastic, they released not only electric boat but also electr... | <urn:uuid:f63eadb8-5251-4367-bbde-931ec988f3fa> | 2.78125 | 431 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 65.885992 | 95,617,439 |
In software application development, Agile is a methodology that anticipates the need for flexibility and applies a level of pragmatism into the delivery of the finished product. Agile requires a cultural shift in many companies because it focuses on the clean delivery of individual pieces or parts of the software and ... | <urn:uuid:7ef86242-fdfd-453a-bbe3-a3e379831011> | 3.171875 | 746 | Knowledge Article | Software Dev. | 22.171369 | 95,617,440 |
This week I wrap up my college class on Java programming. We spent a lot of time on some basic Java concepts in class. That meant we had to rush through a lot of the final chapters in the book. Unfortunately we rushed through inheritance, and skipped many sections. One such section we skipped was the use of super() to ... | <urn:uuid:d3989430-1145-4730-bfd4-c08a676dcc2f> | 3.15625 | 362 | Personal Blog | Software Dev. | 62.458132 | 95,617,459 |
In a laboratory test, a car of mass 1200 kg is driven into a concrete wall, as shown in Fig. 2.1.
A video recording of the test shows that the car is brought to rest in 0.36s when it collides with the wall. The speed of the car before the collision is 7.5 m / s.
the change of momentum of the car,
Turn on thread page Be... | <urn:uuid:48d60b12-339c-4863-8865-19018a835b92> | 3.390625 | 194 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 104.230857 | 95,617,469 |
The equation of state of one mole of a van der Waals gas is given by
(P+a/(v^2))(V-b) = RT
with a and b are constants.
a) Calculate the work W in an isothermal reversible process when volume changes from V1 to V2.
b) Using the energy equation, show that (du/dV) = a/v^2
c) Calculate the change in internal energy U in th... | <urn:uuid:382358bf-c591-4c3a-9781-3e71377d2387> | 3.15625 | 458 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 89.467596 | 95,617,476 |
A Surrey scientist claims to have an answer to what is often considered to be the hardest problem in science (sometimes just known as the “Hard Problem”): why we are aware.
Johnjoe McFadden, Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Surrey, has previously proposed that consciousness is generated by the brain... | <urn:uuid:ce7a6f2c-88bb-498c-b7eb-9b50d4ca80db> | 3.484375 | 854 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 39.932312 | 95,617,480 |
We studied variation in C and energy flow in stream food webs by examining primary consumer diets and potential food sources at 8 sites of different drainage areas in the South Fork Eel River drainage. Both heptageniid mayfly nymphs and Glossosoma caddisfly larvae are considered scrapers in traditional functional feedi... | <urn:uuid:45316aa1-393e-4520-a049-b5ede0de027a> | 3.0625 | 341 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 14.712326 | 95,617,493 |
2. Calculate the pressure needed to prevent osmosis when 10.0 g KCl is added to 150 mL of water at 25oC.
20.1 atm 40.1 atm 65.7 atm 80.2 atm 160 atm
3. Which statement is false:
if a nonvolatile solute is added to a solvent, the vapor pressure of the solvent is lowered DHsolution">salts have a low DHsolution the amount... | <urn:uuid:ac7812db-17c5-43c7-8b40-148750514552> | 3.1875 | 262 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 69.529011 | 95,617,506 |
DNA may seem an unlikely molecule from which to build nanostructures, but this is not correct. The specificity of interaction that enables DNA to function so successfully as genetic material also enables its use as a smart molecule for construction on the nanoscale. The key to using DNA for this purpose is the design o... | <urn:uuid:32b8e7ca-29ff-434d-a450-ec3a60607a32> | 3.875 | 247 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 18.025662 | 95,617,521 |
If a British biotech company called Oxitec wins approval, the
Nothing smells quite like the familiar, earthy aroma that arrives with rain at the end of a dry spell. What you’re smelling is known as “petrichor,” which brings back many fond memories for anyone who attended summer camp as a kid. What creates this telltale... | <urn:uuid:9e0053e1-f9d3-4c45-90b2-99d46308d500> | 3.109375 | 391 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 46.738565 | 95,617,528 |
Two articles published in the magazines “Science” and “Nature Astronomy” describe two studies also presented at the American Geophysical Union meeting taking place in San Francisco that reported new evidence of the presence of water ice below the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres. The researchers used the data collecte... | <urn:uuid:8f8bfbba-7603-4a50-af49-d30d3b7207cc> | 4.09375 | 858 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 27.047016 | 95,617,538 |
What is it?
Many people have probably seen the terms "services oriented architecture" (SOA) and microservices. If you're curious about the differences between them, there's a free ebook from O'Reilly available.
Today I want to focus on the latter. So - you've heard microservices are awesome and you should consider them... | <urn:uuid:5dcd7673-0c5e-4300-b785-2128c53bf348> | 2.625 | 1,101 | Personal Blog | Software Dev. | 30.074784 | 95,617,593 |
Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in MathematicsBook - 2003
In August 1859 Bernhard Riemann, a little-known 32-year old mathematician, presented a paper to the Berlin Academy titled: "On the Number of Prime Numbers Less Than a Given Quantity." In the middle of that paper, Riemann made an incidental rem... | <urn:uuid:bf2b80e6-a816-416a-a6d5-09cd4deee5d6> | 3.03125 | 553 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 24.304412 | 95,617,594 |
http://divipiso.com/rtyre/6825 At the end of the article, you will able to distinguish between two types of properties – intensive property, extensive property, examples. Let’s start discussing it one by one.
Affileremmo diserberete battitacchi http://pandjrecords.com/brokerage.html/2006/TIARA/360-SOVRAN/36-FT/2003/MON... | <urn:uuid:4df0d9e7-7d33-448d-9c4c-b4bf3635e9eb> | 3.390625 | 876 | Spam / Ads | Science & Tech. | 47.128332 | 95,617,614 |
This animation illustrates the science objectives of the SOFIE instrument studied by the Aeromony of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) spacecraft.
The Solar Occultation For Ice Experiment (SOFIE) instrument uses solar occultation to measure cloud particles, temperature and atmospheric gases involved in forming the noctilucen... | <urn:uuid:0ec19ac6-e0d3-4911-86ed-286490c9cb41> | 3.0625 | 270 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 60.151 | 95,617,625 |
Authors: Raymond W. Jensen
Using a three-particle entangled system (triple), it is possible in principle to transmit signals faster than the speed of light from sender to receiver in the following manner: From an emitter, for every triple, particles 1 and 2 are sent to the receiver and 3 to the sender. The sender is gi... | <urn:uuid:b7d91f82-b552-4209-a284-1e149b2165e6> | 2.9375 | 336 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 51.449529 | 95,617,630 |
“Crowdsourcing”, the cooperation of a large number of interested nonscientists, has helped to find a new fungus from which American researchers have now isolated and characterized an unusual metabolite with interesting antitumor activity.
To date, fewer than 7 % of the more than 1.5 million species of fungi thought to ... | <urn:uuid:486f895c-d420-4416-8b9f-d73a191c9b01> | 3.015625 | 1,374 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 31.600187 | 95,617,636 |
Using a simple "mirror trick" and not-so-simple computational analysis, scientists affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have considerably improved the speed, efficiency, and resolution of a light-sheet microscope, with broad applications for enhanced imaging of live cells ... more
Live-cell microscopy... | <urn:uuid:670404be-6b99-4ec9-9d14-0c6fa31faed8> | 2.90625 | 1,234 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 27.11381 | 95,617,649 |
In a laboratory, researchers created a miniature river delta that replicates flooding patterns seen in natural rivers, resulting in a mathematical model capable of aiding in the prediction of the next catastrophic flood.
The results appear in the current issue of Geophysical Research Letters.
Slow deposition of sedimen... | <urn:uuid:9576c557-be9d-4876-8949-630dede0d9d4> | 4.28125 | 1,346 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 36.797978 | 95,617,659 |
- Research Article
- Open Access
Hardware Architecture for Pattern Recognition in Gamma-Ray Experiment
© Sonia Khatchadourian et al. 2009
Received: 19 March 2009
Accepted: 21 July 2009
Published: 10 September 2009
The HESS project has been running successfully for seven years. In order to take into account the sensitiv... | <urn:uuid:42d7a1f4-1651-42a9-8c90-ba90287fb221> | 3.375 | 6,920 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 38.468152 | 95,617,674 |
New geological evidence indicates the Grand Canyon may be so old that dinosaurs once lumbered along its rim, according to a study by researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the California Institute of Technology.
The team used a technique known as radiometric dating to show the Grand Canyon may have ... | <urn:uuid:adf0d417-6a84-48e0-95b8-6aadc6d3917e> | 4.21875 | 1,397 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.370228 | 95,617,699 |
News Jan 27, 2017 | Original Story By Bob Marcotte of the University of Rochford
For the past several years, Jessica Cantlon has been working to understand how humans develop the concept of numbers, from simple counting to complex mathematical reasoning. Early in her career at the University of Rochester, the assistant... | <urn:uuid:ac0fb657-1097-40f0-b5ce-62ab3e0bfd54> | 3.5 | 1,364 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 27.801033 | 95,617,701 |
Mathematical models of seasonally migrating populations
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The phenomenon of seasonal migration has attracted a wealth of attention from biologists. However, the dynamics of migratory populations have been little considered. In this thesis, we use dif... | <urn:uuid:c51e0cc7-09a3-410c-93d9-2c6f93b6cbb3> | 3 | 443 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 20.759752 | 95,617,711 |
Visualization of Flow Past Inclined Bluff Cylinders
Most of the engineering structures like buildings normally have either square, rectangular, trapezoidal or triangular cross-sectional shape. It is thus essential to know the aerodynamic loading, both in magnitude and frequency, on prismatic bodies. Some preliminary me... | <urn:uuid:81e0cfb9-510a-49b1-932c-7c7091f3df85> | 2.75 | 341 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 55.045326 | 95,617,713 |
Consider a two-dimensional spatial coordinate system S' whose coordinates (u,v) are defined by
x = u + v
y = u - v
in terms of the coordinates of a Cartesian coordinate system S. Suppose you are given a vector in S whose contravariant components are Am = (2,8). Determine the contravariant components of this vector in S... | <urn:uuid:71700952-f37c-4236-aae8-b8e4acc05528> | 3.046875 | 215 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 48.470221 | 95,617,724 |
Radical Factors in the Evolution of Animal LifeJune 22, 2018 / Posted by: Miki Huynh
Complex animal life appeared in the earth’s record soon after the second major rise in atmospheric oxygen roughly 800 million years ago. The evolution of enzymatic reduction of oxygen yielded a several-fold increase in energy productio... | <urn:uuid:f89b26bc-97e4-4e74-b156-756dbe2a3889> | 3.34375 | 580 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 7.678365 | 95,617,726 |
In a study published today in Nature Climate Change researchers used the latest emissions scenarios and climate models to show how varying levels of carbon emissions are likely to result in more frequent and severe coral bleaching events.
In a new article in Nature Climate Change scientists from NOAA's Cooperative Inst... | <urn:uuid:aa2f6fe8-f4a4-47d9-9de3-ec249f4d6852> | 3.796875 | 1,662 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 37.70967 | 95,617,729 |
In places with large concentrations of people, animals and natural fresh water is usually not enough, especially if it is used to collect sewage and transport them away from populated areas. If dirt gets into the soil is not much soil organisms recycle them, re-using nutrients, and in the neighboring streams seeps have... | <urn:uuid:8c56a433-77f3-4ccb-b354-3322f30cf06d> | 3.28125 | 297 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 32.940471 | 95,617,747 |
"We uncovered a novel mechanism that allows proteins that direct pre-mRNA splicing – RNA-binding proteins – to induce a regulatory effect from greater distances than was thought possible," said first author Michael T. Lovci, of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, the Stem Cell Research Program and Instit... | <urn:uuid:e46bfe92-1f9e-4422-a1b7-ee2ae0c8b299> | 3.765625 | 1,709 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 32.183831 | 95,617,756 |
why do we need light to see
Does this seem like a strange question? It could be if you don't really think about it, but, could we survive without light? Food : Light is the sole source of food generation for all living organisms on the earth. Except for a few
almost all living beings depend on light for their food and ... | <urn:uuid:00049ba6-08c2-48db-98c7-ad5ef656d886> | 3.515625 | 805 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 60.837059 | 95,617,766 |
Routing in Microsoft MVC or WebAPI applications serves as a map to define the routes for all incoming requests. There are three basic components of routing in MVC , WebAPI applications Controller, Action method, and parameters.
In the provided link account is a controller, login is action method and 24 is parameter or ... | <urn:uuid:4fbbd60b-1745-46aa-a430-286a89c91138> | 3.234375 | 449 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 36.049798 | 95,617,767 |
Estimating a Probability Law
Estimating the probability law that gave rise to given data is one of the chief aims of statistics. Once known, its variance, confidence limits, and all other parameters describing fluctuation may be determined. There are two main schools of thought — the classical and the Bayesian — regard... | <urn:uuid:72c8099a-7511-4d65-aeab-1a390719497f> | 2.546875 | 242 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 46.223539 | 95,617,769 |
Using particles that are 1/100,000 the width of a human hair to deliver drugs to cells or assist plants in fighting off pests may sound like something out of a science fiction movie, but these scenarios may be a common occurrence in the near future.
Carbon nanotubes, cylindrically shaped carbon molecules with a diamete... | <urn:uuid:6aed26a6-94f0-4bb8-814e-e0f40ea7af01> | 3.734375 | 1,587 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 41.980449 | 95,617,774 |
Washington State University researchers have created a sustainable alternative to traditional concrete using coal fly ash, a waste product of coal-based electricity generation.
The advance tackles two major environmental problems at once by making use of coal production waste and by significantly reducing the environme... | <urn:uuid:b64f7d42-fba9-4772-a72f-870346dd7c8b> | 2.984375 | 1,761 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 28.172967 | 95,617,815 |
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There has been no direct evidence provided that proves the industrial revolution caused the current changes in the earth's climate. One could just as easily declare that climate change caused the Industrial Revolution.
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The Interplay of Continental Evolution, Plate Tectonics, and Evolution of LifeJune 29, 2017 / Written by: University of Wisconsin
Satellite view of the Red Lakes region in Ontario, Canada with four of the sampling areas from the UW-Madison study of Sr isotope compositions of Archaen carbonates. Image source: Google Map... | <urn:uuid:d395a9df-c4ff-47a9-8824-9ac13d591f38> | 2.953125 | 607 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 1.253124 | 95,617,840 |
Differential of a function
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holds, where the derivative is represented in the Leibniz notation dy/dx, and this is consistent with regarding the derivative as the quotient of the differentials. One also writes
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Natural defence against natural disasters
World Wetlands Day focuses on conservation that minimizes nature’s extremes
Unprecedented. Extraordinary. Historic. Words like these were once reserved for the rarest of weather events. Today, we’re hearing them more often as the rare becomes the regular.
Case in point: when fl... | <urn:uuid:1047a154-b92d-444e-bd61-67e9f3353462> | 3.640625 | 536 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 31.992436 | 95,617,867 |
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Game Programming using Qt 5.x Beginner's Guide - Second Edition: Design and build fun games with Qt and Qt Quick 2 using associated toolsets
If you are planning to learn about Qt and its associated toolsets to build apps and games, this book is a must have.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Worldwide levels of the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming have hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal scientists said Friday.
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Perl 5 to Perl 6 guide - Overview
How do I do what I used to do?
These documents should not be mistaken for a beginner tutorial or a promotional overview of Perl 6; it is intended as a technical reference for Perl 6 learners with a strong Perl 5 background and for anyone porting Perl 5 code to Perl 6.
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Export fluxes of calcite in the eastern equatorial Pacific from the Last Glacial Maximum to present
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The eastern equatorial Pacific (EEP) is an important center of biological productivity, generating significant organic carbon and calcite fluxes to the deep ocean. We reconstructed paleocalc... | <urn:uuid:a6709d91-2b8f-4d73-8512-eba3d775d6e9> | 2.625 | 764 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 34.872003 | 95,617,955 |
General Theory of Finite Probability Spaces
If S is any probability space (Definition 1.6), we have defined an event A as any subset of S (Definition 1.12). In Chapter 2 we worked with a uniform space S and considered the problem of computing the probability p(A) by counting the elements in A and in S and using Equatio... | <urn:uuid:6f5eebf3-979a-4354-99bc-4b9cdb81d420> | 2.65625 | 117 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 50.741744 | 95,617,970 |
With the latest piece of the puzzle just published in a scientific journal, a solar system mystery that has perplexed people for more than 20 years has been solved, truly thanks to the support of Planetary Society members.
If you want to test your planetary knowledge, or just have a masochistic love of tests, I’ve post... | <urn:uuid:b965809c-b24e-4621-8fe0-493c50b6cb49> | 2.875 | 519 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 40.818145 | 95,617,982 |
What do we have in this chapter 11 part 4?
Using IP Header Include Option
The one limitation of raw sockets is that you can work only with certain protocols that are already defined, such as ICMP and IGMP. You cannot create a raw socket with IPPROTO_UDP and manipulate the UDP header; likewise with TCP. To manipulate th... | <urn:uuid:b20f3488-8f91-4b55-9bba-9580236aaae8> | 2.828125 | 2,349 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 54.984873 | 95,617,983 |
BIG Corporation produces just about everything but is currently interested in the lifetimes of its batteries, hoping to obtain its share of a market boosted by the popularity of portable CD and MP3 players. To investigate its new line of Ultra batteries, BIG randomly selects 1000 Ultra batteries and finds that they hav... | <urn:uuid:b6659895-d896-42b0-bc4a-88f7863036da> | 2.65625 | 229 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 50.788966 | 95,618,003 |
Astronomers have discovered 41 new alien planets in one sweep by analyzing how each world gravitationally yanks on its neighbors.
The newly confirmed exoplanets were spotted by NASA's prolific Kepler space telescope, which has detected more than 2,300 potential alien worlds since its March 2009 launch. The new finds, a... | <urn:uuid:ed2cdef4-544b-492f-bc67-f9df5dbb5a87> | 3.15625 | 664 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 47.230117 | 95,618,007 |
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Do black holes have hair?
|(Nanowerk News) A black hole. A simple and clear concept, at least according to the hypothesis by Roy Kerr, who in 1963 proposed a “clean” black hole model, which is the current theoretical paradigm. From theory to reality things may be quite different. According to a n... | <urn:uuid:44b31770-c9ef-4282-ada2-a52958cc7801> | 3.53125 | 621 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 36.200741 | 95,618,014 |
User controls enable you to group logically related content and controls together so they can
be used as a single unit in content pages, master pages, and inside other user controls. A user
control is actually a sort of mini-ASPX page in that it has a markup section and optionally a
Code Behind file in which you can wr... | <urn:uuid:033a1d8f-e952-4ba7-8b00-e56e962bb021> | 2.703125 | 512 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 39.526455 | 95,618,025 |
Part of the Middle East and North Africa may become uninhabitable due to climate change
The number of climate refugees could increase dramatically in future. Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and the Cyprus Institute in Nicosia have calculated that the Middle East and North Africa could become so ho... | <urn:uuid:9727616a-01a8-4f40-8c31-dbb53da38705> | 3.328125 | 2,064 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 44.583818 | 95,618,058 |
34 Limestone is a sedimentary rock consisting mostly of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). Which process is
most likely to cause a chemical change to limestone?
F Freezing water cracking limestone
G Flowing water eroding a limestone riverbed
H Acid rain forming puddles on limestone
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|Scientific Name:||Hippocampus ingens Girard, 1858|
Hippocampus ecuadorensis Fowler, 1922
Hippocampus gracilis Gill, 1862
Hippocampus hildebrandi Ginsburg, 1933
|Taxonomic Source(s):||Girard, C. 1858. Fishes. In General report upon zoology fo the several Pacific railroad routes, 1857. United States Senate Miscellaneous... | <urn:uuid:aad86446-2ad9-4d00-acb1-5753fb9f7c0b> | 2.515625 | 1,820 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 39.537914 | 95,618,119 |
Introduction To Random Processes
by William A. Gardner
Publisher: McGraw-Hill 1990
Number of pages: 560
Intended to serve primarily as a first course on random processes for graduate-level engineering and science students, particularly those with an interest in the analysis and design of signals and systems. This new e... | <urn:uuid:55713e41-a31b-4739-aac0-884ca444d711> | 2.734375 | 365 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 24.163436 | 95,618,136 |
The tubulin homolog FtsZ is the major cytoskeletal protein in bacterial cytokinesis. It can generate a constriction force on the bacterial membrane or inside tubular liposomes. Several models have recently been proposed for how this force might be generated. These fall into 2 categories. The first is based on a conform... | <urn:uuid:f2d275e0-1ac7-4854-84f5-e9ddc068ce40> | 2.859375 | 275 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 21.352337 | 95,618,176 |
, PARIS, Jan 30 – As fish get smaller under Man’s environmental impact, they become more exposed to predators, which means a crucial food source will become more endangered than thought, scientists said on Wednesday.
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This scientific paper is a massive achievement for the Jumeirah Groups sea turtle conservation work, with the collation of nearly 12 years of green sea turtle
Thirty-year recovery trend in the once depleted Hawaiian green sea turtle
Officials from the Supreme Council for Environment (SCE) have blamed fishermen, who go ... | <urn:uuid:cd6ea083-cd0a-46b5-91bb-0c219ed72633> | 2.671875 | 391 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 34.472304 | 95,618,196 |
Tokyo: Japanese scientists on Friday began a test run of an underground telescope to detect gravitational waves and gain a better understanding of the universe through their observations.
The test run, which will continue until March 31, comes a month after a US-led team of scientists said it had identified the gravita... | <urn:uuid:a27db6b4-d5c8-41f0-865c-ecafc057122a> | 3.25 | 278 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 20.239531 | 95,618,203 |
Other Statistical Websites
Google and YouTube are your friends – you can find information and explanations (much of excellent quality) on virtually any topic of interest. Here are some of our favorite links.
- Dance of the p-values by Geoff Cumming is an unforgettable multimedia masterpiece. Additional videos that acco... | <urn:uuid:a8160f2c-5d9c-4b36-a2ae-ebc98c02b59a> | 2.53125 | 993 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 23.377195 | 95,618,210 |
Authors: Osvaldo Domann
Special Relativity derived by Einstein presents time and space distorsions and paradoxes. This paper presents an approach where the Lorenz transformations are build on equations with speed variables instead of space and time variables as done by Einstein. The result are transformation rules betw... | <urn:uuid:96823102-56f5-46b4-be4e-030529a6d9e4> | 2.640625 | 378 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 29.30157 | 95,618,245 |
1) Which material would have the strongest compressive strength?
i) egg shell 11) a ream of paper 111) pile of dry sand iv) rope v)shopping bag
2) Hydrogen is to a proton as helium is to.
a) an alpha particle. b) a beta particle c) a gamma particle
d) an electron e) a neutron
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San Antonio, Texas, based Living Slides (www.theliveslide.com) is pleased to announce the launch of an innovative new microscope slide, LiveSlide®, developed in San Antonio and proudly manufactured in…
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Authors: W.C. Wilson, G.M. Atkinson
Affilation: NASA Langley Research Center, United States
Pages: 298 - 301
Keywords: space, aerospace, wireless sensors, applications
Reducing the weight of spacecraft will reduce both fabrication and launch costs. The elimination of wiring and wiring harnesses reduces the total mass o... | <urn:uuid:cd3f2a03-2a93-4ce9-85d4-8d213a13df3e> | 3.53125 | 427 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 17.526957 | 95,618,267 |
Act III. Equivalence, Conservation, Interconvertibility: When and of What?
That heat could sometimes cause mechanical effect, and much of it, had been known since the disaster that befel Strepsiades while he was cooking the haggis for the feast of Zeus, but apparently it was the sooty proliferation of the steam engine ... | <urn:uuid:fbb6ecb2-e706-489b-a24c-1a5bcceaa940> | 3.109375 | 216 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 33.722699 | 95,618,279 |
12 July 2018
Red Sea corals will stand the test of time
Published online 19 November 2017
Robust corals in the northern region could outlive the rest of the population by a century.
Despite warming temperatures and destructive human practices, the Red Sea may be able to sustain its robust coral population in the north ... | <urn:uuid:114a1841-d354-4697-84b5-349251427b1f> | 3.359375 | 697 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 38.931517 | 95,618,315 |
An international team of scientists have put forward a blueprint for a purely space-based system to solve the growing problem of space debris. The proposal, published in Acta Astronautica, combines a super-wide field-of-view telescope, developed by RIKEN’s EUSO team, which will be used to detect objects, and a recently... | <urn:uuid:37bfae86-f637-4dd3-a2d3-1d23168e59ea> | 3.78125 | 1,613 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 34.287896 | 95,618,317 |
This discusses methods of long term software preservation. Briefly about hardware that will not degrade over time, but the majority of the paper is about how to design a software stack that can be executed in the far future. In order to achieve this they recommend build everything in terms of a machine with a short sim... | <urn:uuid:f9000d1b-bbe2-48d7-81f0-1f0ca6bc4602> | 2.796875 | 1,022 | Content Listing | Software Dev. | 53.514412 | 95,618,328 |
Osmium tetroxide, OsO//4, is the most important and most easily prepared compound of osmium. It is one of the few volatile oxides of a heavy metal and although the osmium is octavalent (of all elements only osmium and ruthenium reach as high an oxidation state) it is a reasonably controllable oxidizing agent. Most of i... | <urn:uuid:407be39c-8224-4126-9403-65e314801853> | 2.640625 | 184 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 24.041096 | 95,618,342 |
If a prediction by two US scientists were true then the world could see an increase in the number of strong earthquakes in 2018 and the next few years, a media report said.
Roger Bilham of the University of Colorado and Rebecca Bendick of the University of Montana, who presented their research at the annual conference ... | <urn:uuid:94d5ed63-86d7-476e-8549-790965fe29f8> | 3.5 | 415 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 29.240905 | 95,618,355 |
Collaborative Research: Links Between Magma Source Characteristics, Shallow Plumbing, and Eruptive Styles in Mafic Intraplate Volcanic Fields (Lunar Crater Volcanic Field, Nevada)
Greg Valentine Principal Investigator
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continue statement jumps to the top of the closest enclosing loop
The following example uses continue to skip odd numbers.
This code prints all even numbers less than 10 and greater than or equal to 0.
Remember, 0 means false and % is the remainder of division (modulus) operator.
This loop counts down to 0, skipping nu... | <urn:uuid:f92fd249-86d1-47a4-9803-288ca3f1a38b> | 3.546875 | 202 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 108.025 | 95,618,393 |
Developing a Basic Web Application Using Python
Developing a Basic Web Application Using Python
In this in-depth, code-heavy tutorial, learn how to use Python to create basic web apps. Once you know how to do this, you can make any web app to fit your needs!
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience.J... | <urn:uuid:af8f1569-f595-4871-b5a2-7f797fbbf8ae> | 3.78125 | 3,249 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 66.279326 | 95,618,394 |
Animals Using Solar Energy for Photosynthesis or Electric Power
Plants and Animals That Use Light Energy
Most people consider plants to be simpler creatures than animals, but green plants have one big advantage that animals lack. They have the wonderful ability to make food inside their bodies by photosynthesis, using ... | <urn:uuid:a1152af0-3be3-423d-8853-f890f77f3d0b> | 3.6875 | 2,431 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 40.570199 | 95,618,419 |
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This last decade has witnessed a revolution in our observations of galaxies; in particular deep imaging with HST and spectroscopy with 10m-class ground-based telescopes have uncovered many objects that are difficult to place along the Hubble sequence.
High resolution spectroscopy of extremely faint obje... | <urn:uuid:d159fdec-d333-486c-a755-4be6bb0dd57a> | 2.546875 | 298 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 29.348386 | 95,618,420 |