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|CNIDARIA : ACTINIARIA : Haloclavidae||SEA ANEMONES AND HYDROIDS|
Description: This burrowing sea anemone has an elongated column, which is sausage-shaped, with a rounded base, sometimes with adherent sand grains. There are 12 tentacles, long in extension (only when buried). From one angle of the mouth a small lobed pr... | <urn:uuid:20d26a9d-b698-4dbf-8e8a-431c5ff4148b> | 3 | 477 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 43.57447 | 95,618,438 |
I am having trouble understanding why when maelic acid is heated to about 100 C it forms maelic anhydride but fumaric acid requires a much higher temp 250-300 before it dehydrates. Then in addition it only forms maleic anhydride?© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com July 19, 2018, 3:26 pm ad1c9bdddf
The physical properties of... | <urn:uuid:3b6fc051-18d8-4554-a973-c7b5faec4f1d> | 3.140625 | 149 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 64.622772 | 95,618,458 |
Common name: Legskates
A family of skates found on the lower continental shelf and slopes of all the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. Species have previously been included in the family Rajidae. A single genus and three species are known from Australian waters.
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Dianne J. Bray, Legskates, ANACANTH... | <urn:uuid:10d76b08-c447-43c0-b80b-827e816db105> | 2.703125 | 303 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 68.063233 | 95,618,524 |
Dinosaur Named for Rock Guitarist / Scientists say his music brought luck on dig
Paleontologists have discovered a dinosaur with strange, hooked teeth and named the vicious creature after rocker Mark Knopfler.
The team of researchers from Utah and New York chose the guitarist and songwriter from Dire Straits because th... | <urn:uuid:1e7e5b65-77af-4841-86cc-86a89469aba7> | 3 | 620 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 49.176656 | 95,618,542 |
Silver Perch (Bidyanus bidyanus) ***
ACTION PLAN No. 26
In accordance with section 21 of the Nature Conservation Act 1980, the Silver Perch (Bidyanus bidyanus) was declared an endangered species on 4 September 2001 (Instrument No. 192 of 2001). Section 23 of the Act requires the Conservator of Flora and Fauna to prepar... | <urn:uuid:3f443d01-b738-45f8-88f0-bfd0bd7f8e07> | 3.171875 | 10,511 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 40.432255 | 95,618,570 |
|Science & Environmental Health Network|
Science, Ethics and Action in the Public Interest
Nuclear energy: assessing the emissions|
Kurt Kleiner reports on whether nuclear power deserves its reputation as a low-carbon energy source. Nature
Published online 24 September 2008
Estimates of the emissions associated with pr... | <urn:uuid:bb2fde97-1c34-401e-93e5-e537e1fa0c04> | 3.296875 | 1,744 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 38.418652 | 95,618,573 |
From the Labs: Materials
New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in materials science–and what they mean.
A polymer implant signals cells to combat cancer.
Source: “Infection-Mimicking Materials to Program Dendritic Cells In Situ”
David Mooney et al.
Nature Materials 8: 151-158
Results: A new implant attracts i... | <urn:uuid:b37c4b6f-304d-4c7b-882c-872b916f1cab> | 3.328125 | 805 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 33.815247 | 95,618,581 |
Dendrites are short stout tapering processes that are rich in ribosomes and Golgi elements, whereas axons are long thin processes of uniform diameter that are deficient in these organelles. It has been hypothesized that the unique morphological and compositional features of axons and dendrites result from their distinc... | <urn:uuid:e1bc378b-6f1e-4c0a-ab1e-d5c5d7969be7> | 3.140625 | 406 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 3.227092 | 95,618,625 |
12 July 2018
pH controlled nanofilters
Published online 26 May 2011
Ultra-thin films riddled with nanoscale pores would be useful in applications ranging from water purification to drug delivery, especially if the pores could change size in response to their environment.
Researchers from the King Abdullah University of... | <urn:uuid:63c4c08d-c86b-4d02-bcb8-4e40dc90ff67> | 3.375 | 366 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 28.49 | 95,618,632 |
The study, which was co-authored by Eric Galbraith, of McGill's Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, looked at marine sediment and found that that the dissolved oxygen concentrations in large parts of the oceans changed dramatically during the relatively slow natural climate changes at the end of the last Ice Age.... | <urn:uuid:57485175-9b92-4073-87cf-2c76a7f57d8f> | 3.640625 | 1,026 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 40.409297 | 95,618,654 |
Sure beats little green men.
When people imagine Martians, they tend to think of variations on human life. Percival Lowell, expounding the theory that the mythical canals of Mars were created by martians, even imagined the kind of bureaucracy they'd have to develop for such a public works project. Martians, that is to ... | <urn:uuid:d8ead20e-d6e8-4f6a-8cb7-57c3b3fcdc40> | 2.96875 | 484 | Nonfiction Writing | Science & Tech. | 58.724214 | 95,618,676 |
1. Describe how you would prepare 1 liter of each of the following solutions.
a). 1.5 M glycine
b). 0.5 mM glucose
c). 10 mM ethanol
d). 10 mM hemoglobin
2. Describe how you would prepare just 100ml of each of the solutions in problem #1 above
3. When preparing a solution, why do you dissolve the component in less dilu... | <urn:uuid:3c05b776-89e8-4e27-a42d-f519967e0b1a> | 3.265625 | 352 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 96.387667 | 95,618,699 |
Surrounding the sun is a vast atmosphere of solar particles, through which magnetic fields swarm, solar flares erupt, and gigantic columns of material rise, fall and jostle each other around.
Now, using NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, scientists have found that this atmosphere, called the corona, is eve... | <urn:uuid:1e15fe2d-e970-46f7-a67b-56072b9d70ba> | 4.0625 | 1,211 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.676087 | 95,618,707 |
Climate Science in Focus (Weather versus Climate)
- Grade Level:
- High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
- Lesson Duration:
- 60 Minutes
- Common Core Standards:
- 6-8.RST.1, 6-8.RST.2, 6-8.RST.4, 6-8.RST.9, 9-10.RST.1, 9-10.RST.2
- State Standards:
- Next Generation Science Standards
Students will be able to:... | <urn:uuid:4b977b61-b487-465e-a533-ebd4f9f3fc43> | 3.65625 | 961 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 41.626494 | 95,618,709 |
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 86%. (I'm a bot)
Climate Change Means 'Virtually No Male Turtles' Born In A Key Nesting Ground : The Two-Way Like many reptiles, the sex of a turtle is determined by how warm the egg is as it's being incubated.
Scientists were surprised to find that "Virtually no... | <urn:uuid:29db901f-4ae7-47f9-830a-1f2cd188040e> | 3.03125 | 168 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 50.759688 | 95,618,711 |
vendredi 20 juillet 2018
ISS - Expedition 56 Mission patch.
July 20, 2018
The Expedition 56 crew members continued their work Friday on more fertility research and microbe studies aboard the International Space Station. They also worked on science gear for a study seeking advanced therapies for diseases such as Alzheim... | <urn:uuid:b993e702-feba-47ef-bbd8-a61a0380c6a5> | 2.65625 | 8,713 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 49.21544 | 95,618,727 |
Functions and subroutines (subs) are very similar; both enable you to create a reusable block of code that you can call from other locations in your application. The difference between a function and a subroutine is that a function can return data whereas a sub doesn’t. Together, functions and subroutines are referred ... | <urn:uuid:b7265383-fdb2-4504-9b74-7688b66259cd> | 3.90625 | 315 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 30.105831 | 95,618,730 |
A new radar image comprised from seven Titan fly-bys over the last year and a half shows a north pole pitted with giant lakes and seas, at least one of them larger than Lake Superior in the USA, the largest freshwater lake on Earth. Approximately 60% of Titan's north polar region, above 60° north, has been mapped by Ca... | <urn:uuid:b75fe3e1-ef34-4752-9184-79738f4ad20a> | 3.671875 | 1,202 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 47.759779 | 95,618,732 |
Permanent Magnet- Magnetic Field.
http://www.diracdelta.co.uk/science/source/m/a/magnetic%20field/source.html Magnets have two poles called North and South.
Similar (like) magnetic poles repel. Unlike magnetic poles attract. A magnet attracts a piece of iron. The most important of the two properties of attraction and r... | <urn:uuid:8dfa9b8d-3bdc-401b-9b1e-d145970705d2> | 4.0625 | 657 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 50.617857 | 95,618,746 |
Too much of a good thing could be harmful to the environment. For years, scientists have known about silver’s ability to kill harmful bacteria and, recently, have used this knowledge to create consumer products containing silver nanoparticles.
Now, a University of Missouri researcher has found that silver nanoparticles... | <urn:uuid:525dd49d-5743-4b98-bd40-3444e72aca8f> | 3.203125 | 1,136 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 31.471326 | 95,618,774 |
But a new study suggests that, as a way to fight global warming, the effectiveness of this strategy depends heavily on where these trees are planted. In particular, tropical forests are very efficient at keeping the Earth at a happy, healthy temperature.
The researchers, including Ken Caldeira of Carnegie’s Department ... | <urn:uuid:ef27e464-2193-4fb4-acc4-94e71cda7538> | 3.859375 | 1,062 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.128422 | 95,618,775 |
Java 5 Feature: An intro to Autoboxing
Boxing is to place a primitive data-type within an object so that the primitive can be used like an object. For example, a List, prior to JDK 1.5, can't store primitive data types. So, to store int type data in a List, a manual boxing was required (i.e from int to integer). Simila... | <urn:uuid:ca417d38-7985-49e7-977b-307dc3a1214d> | 3.71875 | 546 | Personal Blog | Software Dev. | 47.618162 | 95,618,788 |
API: How To Make A Call Using PHP - YouTube
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A UCSB geochemist uses helium and lead isotopes to gain insight into the makeup of the planet’s deep interior
A UC Santa Barbara geochemist studying Samoan volcanoes has found evidence of the planet’s early formation still trapped inside the Earth. Known as hotspots, volcanic island chains such as Samoa can ancient pri... | <urn:uuid:d6411cca-e0fc-4e22-8bd3-36a930a96f80> | 3.578125 | 1,517 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 40.919194 | 95,618,813 |
If the icy surface of Pluto's giant moon Charon is cracked, analysis of the fractures could reveal if its interior was warm, perhaps warm enough to have maintained a subterranean ocean of liquid water, according to a new NASA-funded study.
Pluto is an extremely distant world, orbiting the sun more than 29 times farther... | <urn:uuid:318ff679-a390-4a0d-9039-2cfb95b58e28> | 3.953125 | 1,572 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 41.917878 | 95,618,814 |
Aquifer sensitivity in shallow aquifers: Indiana
- Indiana Geological Survey
- Aquifer_Sensitivity_Near_Surface_IN is a raster data layer that displays a reclassified raster data layer of estimated rates of diffuse groundwater recharge to the water table in shallow aquifers in Indiana (see Aquifer_Recharge_Near_Surface... | <urn:uuid:d3b32bf3-ff6a-4d92-b9b3-93a47607d2f4> | 3.125 | 188 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | -34.488462 | 95,618,827 |
Jump to navigation Jump to search “Catalyst” redirects here. An air filter that utilizes low-temperature zeolite catalyst pdf catalyst used to convert carbon monoxide to less toxic carbon dioxide at room temperature. It can also remove formaldehyde from the air. Often only tiny amounts of catalyst are required in princ... | <urn:uuid:d751690d-eb79-42ac-a1b0-6afa26f1e0ae> | 3.6875 | 216 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 19.226731 | 95,618,834 |
Credit: John McMillan
Steelhead trout, a member of the salmon family that live and grow in the Pacific Ocean, genetically adapted to the freshwater environment of Lake Michigan in less than 120 years.
Steelhead were intentionally introduced into Lake Michigan in the late 1800s in order to bolster recreational and comme... | <urn:uuid:ce2e1064-e0aa-4065-b954-06ca2b82c8b9> | 4 | 738 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 22.287516 | 95,618,838 |
“Forecasting how an invader will affect the growth and production of a specific native fish species is very relevant to conservation groups and government agencies hoping to conserve those fish,” says Biology graduate student Mike Yuille.
Mr. Yuille is the lead author of a study that suggests for the first time that se... | <urn:uuid:66450165-e830-4851-9c73-056afff83be1> | 3.328125 | 908 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 36.595104 | 95,618,846 |
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known" Carl Sagan
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Evolution - "Junk DNA" defines differences between Humans and Chimps
For years, scientists believed the vast phenotypic differences between humans and chimpanzees would be easily explained – the two species must have signi... | <urn:uuid:6c0e740e-2213-431a-b911-361c3ce6d871> | 3.734375 | 548 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 13.516689 | 95,618,855 |
Sinkholes are cavities that form when water erodes easily dissolved, or soluble, rock located beneath the ground surface. Water moves along joints, or fractures, enlarging them to form a channel that drains sediment and water into the subsurface. As the rock erodes, materials above subside into the openings. At the sur... | <urn:uuid:5e951f1f-fad7-4178-aa9c-3e62d39bae9f> | 4.125 | 806 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 27.165224 | 95,618,865 |
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1. How much ice at -10 degrees Celsius is required to cool a mixture of 0.1 kg ethyl alcohol and 0.1 kg water from 20 degrees Celsius to 0 degrees Celsius?
2. Find the heat produced by 1 KW heating element in one hour.
3. A 3g lead bullet at 30 degrees Celsius is fired at a speed of 240 m/s into a la... | <urn:uuid:8e75011f-f590-42f5-add2-5db7ede81689> | 3.171875 | 253 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 85.837712 | 95,618,890 |
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Last week, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 that was carrying a NASA spacecraft into orbit. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is on a mission to search for exoplanets. The spacecraft will be using a never-before-used lunar resonant orbit, which will allow TESS to observe both nearby stars and tran... | <urn:uuid:d7c4c458-ac60-4d7b-b38c-e11a1d2d575f> | 3.78125 | 292 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 49.030038 | 95,618,927 |
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An interpreted language is a type of programming language for which most of its implementations execute instructions directl... | <urn:uuid:45defd22-7186-49f1-a56d-e0d6b6107fdd> | 4.4375 | 634 | Knowledge Article | Software Dev. | 11.516969 | 95,618,956 |
Atoms are the building blocks of matter and account for all structure that can be seen in the observable universe. Atoms consist of a positively charged nucleus that is surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons. In a neutral atom, the number of positively charged protons within the nucleus is equal to the n... | <urn:uuid:c1468fdb-f63b-4838-b780-1a5544c26fe5> | 4.375 | 490 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 52.353078 | 95,618,963 |
Record-high magnetic fields in the lab, almost a Gigagauss in magnitude, have been achieved by aiming intense laser light at a dense plasma, expanding the possibilities for laboratory re-creations of astrophysical events.
At last weeks APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting in Orlando, researchers from Imperial College... | <urn:uuid:237684ff-f920-4852-a12b-3430e75cd55b> | 2.90625 | 793 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 34.998653 | 95,618,964 |
Electronegativity, symbol ?, is a chemical property that describes the tendency of an atom to attract a shared pair of electrons (or electron density) towards itself. An atom's electronegativity is affected by both its atomic number and the distance at which its valence electrons reside from the charged nucleus. The hi... | <urn:uuid:31985b65-e7bc-43e3-a027-1fd40dbfdb54> | 4 | 3,579 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 18.713849 | 95,618,972 |
The Pleistocene, the geologic era immediately preceding our own, was an age of giants. North America was home to mastodons and saber-tooth cats; mammoths and wooly rhinos roamed Eurasia; giant lizards and bear-sized wombats strode across the Australian outback. Most of these giants died at the by the end of the last Ic... | <urn:uuid:616178b0-da73-415a-b1f5-cb2c56da51f6> | 3.65625 | 2,291 | Nonfiction Writing | Science & Tech. | 50.358496 | 95,618,980 |
##Python for Exploratory Computing
Lots of books are written on scientific computing, but very few deal with the much more common exploratory computing (a term coined by Fernando Perez), which represents daily tasks of many scientists and engineers that try to solve problems but are not computer scientists. This set of... | <urn:uuid:a5bd476f-3a26-4f61-bed3-bd47502630ab> | 2.796875 | 389 | Product Page | Software Dev. | 17.491706 | 95,618,992 |
The Laplacian of a Graph
The Laplacian is another important matrix associated with a graph, and the Laplacian spectrum is the spectrum of this matrix. We will consider the relationship between structural properties of a graph and the Laplacian spectrum, in a similar fashion to the spectral graph theory of previous chap... | <urn:uuid:db576f59-1f16-433d-9294-7db95d55dedb> | 2.53125 | 276 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 53.886015 | 95,619,007 |
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Identification and characterization of microsatellite loci in two socially complex old world tropical babblers (Family Timaliidae)
© Kaiser et al. 2015
Received: 14 September 2015
Accepted: 10 November 2015
Published: 24 November 2015
Although the highest diversity of birds occurs in tropic... | <urn:uuid:38160a18-35ff-44fd-877a-5726905cb87d> | 2.515625 | 3,787 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 53.289686 | 95,619,016 |
Correspondence between Geographic Proximity and Phenetic Similarity among Pinus Brutia Ten. Populations in Southern Turkey
Pinus brutia Ten. is distributed mainly in the eastern Mediterranean and Aegean regions, from sea level up to 1400 m., and rarely in the Black sea coast from 0 up to 500 m., growing under diverse e... | <urn:uuid:541d6abd-8883-4d4c-b603-dd1190076e3d> | 2.578125 | 484 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 49.529758 | 95,619,018 |
The term coordination geometry is used in a number of related fields of chemistry and solid state chemistry/physics.
The coordination geometry of an atom is the geometrical pattern formed by atoms around the central atom.
Inorganic coordination complexesEdit
In the field of inorganic coordination complexes it is the ge... | <urn:uuid:1bd6a509-7667-48f7-961b-40026f40921e> | 3.765625 | 1,842 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 50.785577 | 95,619,042 |
Mechanisms of uranium and thorium transfer to the crust
A variety of transfer mechanisms can be conceived which are compatible with the evidence. It is assumed that the initial condition of all three radioelements was one of more or less homogeneous dispersion. If the earth accreted from solid fragments or dust, homoge... | <urn:uuid:4d73786e-5180-47cb-9eb4-49c9f0e6be25> | 3.984375 | 370 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 24.94625 | 95,619,043 |
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Object-oriented Programming in R pdf
Object-oriented programming is a powerful paradigm for constructing reusable and maintainable code. This book gives an introduction to object-oriented programming in the R programming language. Object-oriented programming is a style of programmin... | <urn:uuid:ffcfbfdd-6b5b-4d51-aad3-5d9f5768003e> | 2.78125 | 287 | Product Page | Software Dev. | 37.194682 | 95,619,057 |
Engineers have found a way to pinpoint and identify the tiny iron oxide particles associated with Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases in the brain.
The technique is likely to accelerate research on the cause of the diseases and could lead to the first diagnostic procedure for Alzheimer’s in patients while ... | <urn:uuid:ae16482a-0357-4c2b-983d-065d5ea9c572> | 2.953125 | 703 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 36.49491 | 95,619,059 |
April 9, 2009
I know science is amazing buy how can they possibly know this asteroid is 1837 feet? Guestimating it to be even 1/4 mile long would be amazing, but to claim the size down to 37 feet, seems impossible.
Asteroid Could Threaten the Earth in 2182
Buzz up!4 votes ShareretweetEmailPrint Play Video Space Video:R... | <urn:uuid:76094a94-967b-480d-9a1b-0068d67db0b2> | 3.359375 | 984 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 45.747731 | 95,619,066 |
Snow plays an important role in the climate system of high elevations and cold regions because of its high albedo and low heat conductivity and it is also an important water resource for these regions.12.3.–4 Snow sublimation has been identified as an important hydrological process and results in a significant loss of ... | <urn:uuid:575c5022-27ec-4183-be00-d165ce7dd661> | 3.71875 | 6,845 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 40.376967 | 95,619,092 |
When you first starting out with Android understanding different layouts, but mostly attributes can be tricky. Let’s look at the most common and confusing ones here
One of the most common ones is layout_, it’s in layout_width/height, layout_margin and many more. What it means is this attribute meant for parent layout t... | <urn:uuid:682537a7-30c2-455f-9fcd-f5896d263823> | 2.53125 | 450 | Personal Blog | Software Dev. | 58.739138 | 95,619,094 |
Scientists at the Swiss Nanoscience Institute at the University of Basel have used resonators made from single-crystalline diamonds to develop a novel device in which a quantum system is integrated into a mechanical oscillating system. For the first time, the researchers were able to show that this mechanical system ca... | <urn:uuid:3b1719c9-4211-4fbb-bc39-5b7c835e2e45> | 3.390625 | 1,204 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 35.604504 | 95,619,101 |
Formal Theory of Basic COSY
In every expression as described above, the semicolon specifies sequential occurrences of the events named or subexpressions, and comma specifies a mutually exclusive occurrence of one of the events named or subexpressions. The comma binds more strongly than the semicolon, so that the expres... | <urn:uuid:996c84ee-bb3b-4dbe-8243-ffaf32342784> | 3.34375 | 303 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 23.731576 | 95,619,127 |
|RHODOPHYTA : NEMALIALES : Liagoraceae||RED ALGAE|
Description: Gametangial plants are attached by discoid holdfast growing to 25 cms in height, well branched and mucilaginous at least when young. Tetrasporangial plants only known in culture.
Habitat: Epilithic on Polyides rotundus or on gravel, shells etc. Sublittoral... | <urn:uuid:397ea6be-52b8-46ab-9f42-09753b3dfecc> | 2.875 | 301 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 32.2785 | 95,619,154 |
Red flour beetle
|Red flour beetle|
|Wikispecies has information related to Tribolium castaneum|
The red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum) is a species of beetle in the family Tenebrionidae, the darkling beetles. It is a worldwide pest of stored products, particularly food grains, and a model organism for ethological ... | <urn:uuid:d12c84ea-b8c5-47b1-a061-a486ec9b2e86> | 3.390625 | 3,041 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 42.00717 | 95,619,159 |
One company in Tucson, Arizona, earned two grants from NASA in order to continue its radiation study.
According to the Phoenix Business Journal, the company World View, who “manufactures high-tech balloons that operate high in the earth’s atmosphere,” got the two grants to take the next step in improving the safety of ... | <urn:uuid:46915407-cfb2-43f9-a296-c2a0c95c87e8> | 2.640625 | 245 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 23.794762 | 95,619,186 |
July highlights: Earth’s orbit around the sun isn’t perfectly circular. It’s oval in shape, so that at some date we are closest to the sun and six months later we are farthest from the sun. On Friday, we will be at aphelion, the farthest point from the sun. The sun’s center will be 94,508,365 miles from the center of E... | <urn:uuid:d1522b3e-a087-4722-b5e0-f2a2aecbd5f9> | 3.359375 | 430 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 73.549354 | 95,619,198 |
Heavy rainfall recently caused flooding, landslides and power outages in some areas of Peru. NASA’s Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) measured that rainfall by using a merged precipitation product from a constellation of satellites.
GPM is the Global Precipitation Measurement mission, which is a sat... | <urn:uuid:6f1d8fef-b10d-45c3-a611-a3ae3632fde7> | 3.265625 | 500 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 34.826266 | 95,619,210 |
The theory of relativity encompasses two theories, special relativity and general relativity. The concepts introduced by the theories are:
- Measurements of various quantities are relative to the velocities of observers.
- Spacetime: space and time should be considered together and in relation to each other.
- The spee... | <urn:uuid:8ef38508-d656-4f87-8431-446a6e2e13a5> | 4.34375 | 406 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 24.292529 | 95,619,243 |
Travelling Salesman Uncorks Synthetic Biology Bottleneck
News Jan 07, 2016
Researchers have created a computer program that will open a challenging field in synthetic biology to the entire world.
In the past decade, billions of dollars have been spent on technology that can quickly and inexpensively read and write DNA ... | <urn:uuid:422fa7c9-27e5-411c-aa52-9fb50a4a255e> | 3.109375 | 992 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 28.069476 | 95,619,246 |
Dominik Kulakowski -- The consequences of changing disturbance regimes for aspen in the western U.S.
Forest ecosystems are being affected by both the indirect and direct results of climate change. Indirect drivers include increasing extent, magnitude and/or frequency of various forest disturbances such as wildfires and... | <urn:uuid:5400115a-3be9-4851-a371-bf79aa659e1d> | 2.6875 | 436 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 11.886957 | 95,619,247 |
How does energy impact the environment and our lives? Dr. Webber provides a sweeping view of energy’s role in society over hundreds of years with fun facts, myth busting, and an optimistic eye towards future technologies and solutions.
Drones have been all over the media as well as our imaginations. What’s real and wha... | <urn:uuid:4026e630-23a7-4caa-887a-0533f782f353> | 3.078125 | 515 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 40.820462 | 95,619,260 |
Authors: B.F. Woodfield, S. Liu, J. Boerio-Goates, L. Astle
Affilation: Brigham Young University, United States
Pages: 662 - 665
Keywords: synthesis, nanoparticles, metal oxides, industrial
In this paper we discuss the materials that can now be produced using a novel method for producing large quantities of high-purity... | <urn:uuid:05222368-59de-4139-9c98-d12a0b514d7d> | 2.640625 | 313 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 36.010406 | 95,619,264 |
In a recent paper in Functional Ecology, Leonie Valentine, Richard Hobbs and collaborators investigated how bandicoot digging changed soil properties that subsequently altered seedling growth.
Published: Friday, 29 June 2018 01:25
Many marine protected areas are often unnecessarily expensive and located in the wrong pl... | <urn:uuid:4c621063-acbd-4581-ba1a-e6c5f66c902f> | 3.171875 | 508 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 3.369646 | 95,619,269 |
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Published today in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the research investigates the genetic and geographical relationships between different forms of crimson rosellas and the possible ways that these forms may have arisen.
Dr Gaynor Dolman of CSIRO’s Australian National Wildlife Collection says... | <urn:uuid:77283e6e-7b30-4c76-83bb-90c7b56c2992> | 3.625 | 1,066 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 32.953095 | 95,619,290 |
A View from Emerging Technology from the arXiv
How to Use Pulsars for Interstellar Navigation
The signals from pulsars form a natural GPS system that could locate any object in the galaxy to within a meter.
The Global Position System has revolutionised navigation on Earth. It consists of a network of satellites that ea... | <urn:uuid:25957291-6a53-4c57-b2ff-c488849e3c38> | 3.59375 | 453 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 48.062045 | 95,619,292 |
The challenges of combating terrorism, both domestically and abroad.
ASU Study Reveals Unusual Adaptation In Gila Monster Hatchlings
Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed. Now, an Arizona State University study shows how newborn Gila monsters (Heloderma suspectum) take that sentiment to a new level.
The findi... | <urn:uuid:e63aa2f9-e6c5-4cab-a925-d204a3295e74> | 3.578125 | 563 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 45.6612 | 95,619,296 |
General: Loosely dichotomously branched and having branch axils of 40–50° divergence. The axis is woody in texture and a dark golden brown in color, easily seen through the thin, single layer of translucent coenenchymal scales. Calyces are white and arranged in whorls of 3 or 4; calyces face upward.
Size: 1 m (w)
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The hope for restoring these arid environments and preventing further desertification may exist on the surface of the desert itself, according to new research by American Society of Agronomy and Soil Science Society of America Member Mandy Williams, a lab manager in the school of Life Science at the University of Nevad... | <urn:uuid:efb41030-e998-4f2c-85eb-bad013e2147f> | 3.4375 | 914 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 35.398218 | 95,619,396 |
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Context: The function v(t) represents the velocity of a particle moving along a horizontal line at any time, t, greater than or equal to zero. If the velocity is positive, the particle moves to the right. If the velocity is negative, the particle is moving to the left.
The question: A particle has a v... | <urn:uuid:069fad99-794f-4e6a-a460-db725fb6e6a4> | 3.953125 | 332 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 86.337046 | 95,619,397 |
This means that new brain networks were likely added in the course of evolution from primate ancestor to human. These findings, based on an analysis of functional brain scans, were published in a study by neurophysiologist Wim Vanduffel (KU Leuven and Harvard Medical School) in collaboration with a team of Italian and ... | <urn:uuid:4d66f2dc-61ab-4831-9722-ee8a92516ca2> | 3.6875 | 1,115 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 37.52821 | 95,619,415 |
SQL statements produce diagnostic information that populates the
diagnostics area. Standard SQL has a diagnostics area stack,
containing a diagnostics area for each nested execution context.
Standard SQL also supports
DIAGNOSTICS syntax for referring to the second
diagnostics area during condition handler execution. My... | <urn:uuid:1f286f26-c4db-4a0c-b18e-e4e75c34b4f9> | 2.796875 | 2,411 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 40.741595 | 95,619,424 |
Calculation of the Branching Behavior of Nonlinear Equations
Equipped now with some knowledge about continuation, we assume that we are able to trace branches. We take for granted thatthe entirebranch canbe traced, provided one solution on that branch can be found. In this chapter we address problems of locating bifurc... | <urn:uuid:e2c617c6-3136-4d0f-82fb-3231c330154f> | 3.015625 | 122 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 21.265245 | 95,619,447 |
Kolmogorov-Smirnov Two-Sample Tests
We have not previously discussed the use of criteria suggested by direct comparison of empirical (sample) cumulative distribution functions with one another or with hypothetical c.d.f.’s (“goodness of fit”). This important approach leads to a wide variety of procedures which stand ap... | <urn:uuid:4fcf3034-1589-49ed-9a8d-f14d9604d099> | 2.5625 | 199 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 14.261069 | 95,619,448 |
An expanded view of lightning around the globe is coming closer for scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), thanks to a repurposed measuring instrument.
UAH researchers have passed NASA qualifying inspections and shipped out a Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) in preparation for its planned March 2016... | <urn:uuid:0292f8c5-a07a-4d0f-a56e-4044ba65e6cd> | 2.609375 | 1,584 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 42.835653 | 95,619,459 |
In the preceding chapter, we focussed on (some of the) kinematic aspects related to the motion of a continuous body. In particular, the motion x(X,t) was treated as a given function. However, it is in fact one of the main tasks of continuum mechanics to calculate the motion of the particles forming continuous bodies an... | <urn:uuid:49a7ee0c-4752-4489-86c9-ae0d735c53a2> | 3.34375 | 246 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 24.094916 | 95,619,474 |
Common name: Desert Pupfish
available through www.itis.gov
Identification: Minckley (1973); Moyle (1976a); Page and Burr (1991); two subspecies in the United States, a Colorado River form C. m. macularius and a Quitobaquito form C. m. eremus. A third undescribed subspecies occurs in Mexico (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Servi... | <urn:uuid:8422aa91-c10f-4f54-8aa7-a334c8c88aab> | 3.140625 | 1,112 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 55.058157 | 95,619,490 |
Ophiolites, known to geologists for a long time, have acquired new esteem in view of the fact that they represent oceanic crust which we may visit on dry land. How is it possible that the first 10–15 km of this crust shear off and then creep along the floor of the ocean before climbing onto a continental margin? We sha... | <urn:uuid:cf18695e-85dd-48e0-8098-9a58988dc9b0> | 4.21875 | 203 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 46.662357 | 95,619,491 |
Scientists plumbing the depths of the ocean have made a surprise finding that could change the way we understand supernovae, exploding stars way beyond our solar system.
They have analysed extraterrestrial dust thought to be from supernovae, that has settled on ocean floors to determine the amount of heavy elements cre... | <urn:uuid:e3c1195c-ed8b-4d3b-bd62-26e6d58c27dd> | 4.15625 | 522 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 40.395138 | 95,619,512 |
OSLO – The biggest icebergs breaking off Antarctica unexpectedly help to slow global warming as they melt away into the chill Southern Ocean, scientists said on Monday, Reuters reports. .
The rare Manhattan-sized icebergs, which may become more frequent in coming decades because of climate change, release a vast trail ... | <urn:uuid:3fb2d82e-58ba-4dbf-b8b9-52cfba5e440d> | 3.6875 | 507 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 42.885474 | 95,619,521 |
A parabolic trough is a type of solar thermal collector that is straight in one dimension and curved as a parabola in the other two, lined with a polished metal mirror. The sunlight which enters the mirror parallel to its plane of symmetry is focused along the focal line, where objects are positioned that are intended ... | <urn:uuid:382c9a24-c585-4933-8264-6cff7b0da8a3> | 3.9375 | 2,333 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 46.29312 | 95,619,525 |
4. Learning and Adapting
Software development is a continuous learning activity between the customer who knows the business domain and the developers who know the software. Since the software product needs to combine the two areas of knowledge, the customers must teach the software developers about the business domain ... | <urn:uuid:d2c8e2f3-c048-468c-9d86-7c8c2a7d2d68> | 2.921875 | 2,929 | Personal Blog | Software Dev. | 36.317593 | 95,619,532 |
KGDB is an amazing Linux kernel debugging tool. It can debug the kernel while it is running, set breakpoints, and step through the code. Earlier, KGDB used to be a bunch of patches that had to be carefully merged into the mainline kernel. However, since version 2.6.26, KGDB has been merged into the mainline, and only n... | <urn:uuid:d5b4350e-7248-475e-97f0-77825ca27073> | 2.703125 | 1,775 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 58.641602 | 95,619,554 |
Most iterative language compilers have built-in error handling routines (e.g., TRY…CATCH statements) that developers can leverage when designing their code. Although SQL Server 2000 developers don't enjoy the luxury that iterative language developers do when it comes to built-in tools, they can use the @@ERROR system v... | <urn:uuid:4a7c261c-b931-451a-a411-bec7a977c9ac> | 3.296875 | 1,462 | Nonfiction Writing | Software Dev. | 39.493458 | 95,619,560 |
What are some of the BILL ADAPTATIONS and LIKELY FOOD SOURCES you might associate with the following habitats. Why would you expect to find this bill type?
1) Wetlands and shore birds
2) Lakes and open waters
3) Grasslands or Raptors
4) Oak wood land and/or Coniferous Forest© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com July 16, 2018,... | <urn:uuid:22983998-72e2-4353-b0d6-81bf7249922f> | 3.21875 | 156 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 55.90426 | 95,619,594 |
Due to its simplicity, the mineral magnesium oxide is a good model for studying the nature of planetary interiors. New work from a team led by Carnegie's Stewart McWilliams studied how magnesium oxide behaves under the extreme conditions deep within planets and found evidence that alters our understanding of planetary ... | <urn:uuid:f1f47e9c-849a-4fff-9f91-c56104252047> | 4.21875 | 1,302 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 31.994267 | 95,619,619 |
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Explores the unusual biology, amazing diversity and ecological importance of lichens and explains how understanding lichen biodiversity may lead to technological developments in medicine, metal prospecting and pollution control. Also includes new information on economic uses and outlines practical proje... | <urn:uuid:98cbe163-8f8e-486d-b1f1-a169f55f6dba> | 3.28125 | 180 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 14.709985 | 95,619,620 |
When air (or any gas) flows in tubes of different diameter, due to Venturi principle pressure in thin sections is smaller than pressure in thick sections. If speed of flow is great, the process of transition between sections can be considered adiabatic. It means that by entering thick section temperature of air increas... | <urn:uuid:a37fda7d-b509-4504-aa02-951cd546261e> | 3.390625 | 254 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 35.141339 | 95,619,661 |
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Having been millions of years in development, the life forms that thrive on Earth have come up with a trick or two for maximizing sustainability. So what better model could we use for sustainable technology than the Earth’s own natural processes? And one of the most impressive of the world’s natural features is the ene... | <urn:uuid:5e8afca2-f7af-42ed-91c3-ef4e44d7a8b3> | 4.1875 | 972 | Nonfiction Writing | Science & Tech. | 42.703864 | 95,619,705 |
This image was taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on June 20, 2013, at 11:15 p.m. EDT. It shows a solstice flare and an eruption of solar material shooting through the sun’s atmosphere, called a prominence eruption. The flare was a class M-2.9, which is in the low-moderate range. Shortly thereafter, this same r... | <urn:uuid:750668d5-bdd9-4daa-b642-f51944e076ad> | 3.546875 | 3,368 | Nonfiction Writing | Science & Tech. | 42.303583 | 95,619,706 |
Introduction to Compartmental Analysis
In the context of compartmental analysis, a living organism can be described as an open biological system existing in a steady-state far from thermodynamic equilibrium. Thermodynamic equilibrium is a state in which no biological processes can occur because there are no potential g... | <urn:uuid:db687317-1322-45c6-9c71-fe4e971f187a> | 3.171875 | 383 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 3.255217 | 95,619,710 |
The new tomographic image of the mantle beneath the French Massif Central reaching a depth of 270 km is interpreted in terms of mantle temperature, considering effects of anharmonicity and anelasticity on seismic velocities as well as effects of mineral reactions, composition and partial melt. For every block of the to... | <urn:uuid:dfa6c415-b936-4939-b7b9-75cb73b31d09> | 2.859375 | 466 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 11.717507 | 95,619,712 |
Parent DisplayObject Library display.* Revision 2018.3332 Keywords group, display group, groups See also display.newGroup() Group Programming (guide)
Group objects are a special type of display object. You can add other display objects as children of a group object. You can also remove them. Even if an object is not vi... | <urn:uuid:4c4264a0-03d4-4356-a3f2-afdb616e5aa4> | 2.96875 | 204 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 49.875944 | 95,619,758 |
An intermetallic (also called an intermetallic compound, intermetallic alloy, ordered intermetallic alloy, and a long-range-ordered alloy) is a type of metallic alloy that forms a solid-state compound exhibiting defined stoichiometry and ordered crystal structure.
Schulze in 1967, defined intermetallic compounds as sol... | <urn:uuid:390120f0-9147-464e-9c2b-5e20689a1095> | 3.484375 | 1,309 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 27.820295 | 95,619,760 |
Sketching Rupes (Scarps)
Part of the Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series book series (PATRICKMOORE)
Escarpments on the lunar surface are often labeled with the Latin word “rupes”. A number of processes created scarps on the Moon:
KeywordsLunar Surface White Paint Black Paper Small Crater Paint Marker
These keywo... | <urn:uuid:54d8e89a-ccaa-46e5-ac4c-0a1bc57140b9> | 2.890625 | 121 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 31.253502 | 95,619,761 |
Edited by Jamie (ScienceAid Editor), Taylor (ScienceAid Editor), Jen Moreau
Fermentation is any process where microorganisms use an external food source for energy. This process is done in a fermenter. Conditions are controlled by mixing using a water jacket.
Below is a diagram of a simple fermenter. In industry, these... | <urn:uuid:8af03350-7d45-41da-bea7-35c7835b38b5> | 3.6875 | 492 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 35.113924 | 95,619,763 |
Overnight tipping points from a cataclysmic event: impacts, recovery and constraints on rocky reef ecosystems (innovation fund)
The uplift of Kaikoura’s coastline due to the November 2016 earthquakes caused an unprecedented loss of kelp forests, which provide habitat and energy for other species. This project is invest... | <urn:uuid:d327af24-c3b4-4c47-8b42-e5ffe88afa9b> | 3.171875 | 792 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 15.363 | 95,619,775 |
Best programming languages 2018 → The web industry has itself changed in the past two decades. During its initial days, it was all about having a website and HTML was the primary language used for building websites. Static websites are used to represent a pre-defined set of information such as a business profile. Dynam... | <urn:uuid:36c19751-372e-4c83-929f-314fffcd667b> | 2.578125 | 679 | Listicle | Software Dev. | 38.902601 | 95,619,782 |
Mice with deviant internal rhythms due to a genetic mutation have fewer offspring and shorter life spans than normal conspecifics whose rhythms follow the 24-hr cycle of a day more accurately. This discovery was made by a team of scientists led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and Princeton ... | <urn:uuid:11a59c7b-87d5-433d-8b0f-89403152b173> | 3.859375 | 1,254 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 40.774779 | 95,619,783 |