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What is tungsten carbide?
Tungsten carbide (WC) is a generally utilized building material which is typically arranged at high temperature. Another component for integrating nanoscaled WC at ultralow temperature has been found. This revelation opens a novel course to orchestrate significant WC and different carbides at ... | <urn:uuid:4f28d499-4814-4331-a3b2-11462ec4fe01> | 2.96875 | 810 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 30.898895 | 95,635,298 |
THEMIS Image of the Day, August 9, 2017. This image shows the central part of the dune field on the floor of Russell Crater, including the smaller dunes and the massive ridge of sand.
Russell Crater is located in Noachis Terra. A spectacular dune ridge and other dune forms on the crater floor have caused extensive imag... | <urn:uuid:e2b6bacb-b91b-487f-b618-b24641375e11> | 3.203125 | 284 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 44.022121 | 95,635,308 |
Visual Basic for Applications Reference
Initializes the random-number generator.
Randomize uses number to initialize the Rnd function's random-number generator, giving it a new seed value. If you omit number, the value returned by the system timer is used as the new seed value.
If Randomize is not used, the Rnd functio... | <urn:uuid:5bf97b90-06a1-48cd-9a73-c722e0d69a49> | 3.421875 | 211 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 31.868446 | 95,635,311 |
- Diamagnetic, Paramagnetic, and Ferromagnetic Substances, with Examples
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- Diamagnetism, Paramagnetism, Ferromagnetism
undefined video tutorial00:02:58... | <urn:uuid:6974a33b-85e0-4d03-8dc9-3e4c4573fa56> | 3.359375 | 277 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 4.223333 | 95,635,328 |
Java is an object-oriented language that adapts itself to the real-world problem being solved as opposed to a procedural language that adapts the problem to itself. In this chapter, we explore some features of Java that make it possible to adapt the programs to the problem rather than the other way around. The real wor... | <urn:uuid:b33ae955-ba57-4c11-b66c-914080be421e> | 3.671875 | 158 | Truncated | Software Dev. | 50.284275 | 95,635,353 |
When our solar system was young, its biggest babies--Jupiter and Saturn--threw tantrums by the trillion. The huge planets hurled ice-covered rocky bodies from the inner solar system far past the orbit of Pluto. Some of those bodies revisit their old neighborhood as "long period" comets, which have been called the Roset... | <urn:uuid:31c041c3-1167-4946-94d5-0bdbd4fa3f23> | 3.921875 | 915 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 36.001053 | 95,635,355 |
Tracking wildlife migration has been historically difficult in the rugged terrain of Alaska. Researchers primarily rely on either surveys or GPS tracking to understand bird migration patterns. Both methods are expensive, either in terms of time or money. And the trackers are often too large or heavy.
One way to sideste... | <urn:uuid:cf112a29-4f35-4e80-b9af-69b7d6a9a6ba> | 3.640625 | 912 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 40.560557 | 95,635,358 |
Climate Change And Environment
#Climate_change has created enormous amount of impacts on the earth especially in case of environment the issues arising are intense heat waves, ascending sea levels, variations in precipitation which gave way for flooding and droughts, extreme hurricanes and deteriorated air condition th... | <urn:uuid:250f0185-a728-43e8-9f09-37076850679c> | 2.609375 | 126 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 9.950114 | 95,635,365 |
U.N. climate experts reportedly fear global warming might cause the Earth's temperature to rise far higher than now predicted.
The Geneva-based Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says scientists are unable to reliably predict how quickly the atmosphere will warm as carbon dioxide levels increase, The Guardian re... | <urn:uuid:4961e58a-a48b-4d3c-adda-cd8714978a7b> | 3.125 | 255 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 51.601098 | 95,635,394 |
A new European meteorological satellite soared into space today, Sept. 17, with five environmental instruments aboard that were developed by the Polar Operational Environmental Satellites (POES) Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. These instruments were developed under a reimbursable agreeme... | <urn:uuid:52b634ff-3516-4109-b775-6123e4fa75a1> | 3.421875 | 1,240 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 17.987367 | 95,635,416 |
Queen traits and colony size of four bumblebee species of China
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Bumblebee pollination efficiency is significantly affected by colony size, which differs among different bumblebee species. Bumblebee colonies are initiated by a single queen; thus queen traits have an important influence on colony developme... | <urn:uuid:0e3c3d23-b352-42dd-b2f5-2ac11fd41a09> | 3.140625 | 776 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 37.488068 | 95,635,419 |
They investigated how nerve signals are suppressed inside the so-called entorhinal cortex. According to the researchers, this neuronal inhibition leads nerve cells to synchronize their activity. The results of this study are now published in Neuron.
A microscopic view of the entorhinal cortex. The bright spots are the ... | <urn:uuid:f333d40c-a332-4291-8ff7-61d5ad038c58> | 3.59375 | 1,411 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 41.058549 | 95,635,447 |
Fabio H. Ribeiro
Oxidation reactions are of prime importance at an industrial level and correspond to a huge market. Oxidation reactions are widely practiced in industry and are thoroughly studied in academic and industrial laboratories. Achievements in oxidation process resulted in the development of many new selectiv... | <urn:uuid:0a1a1ddf-3a87-4335-99e1-e00e8f4baa2d> | 2.90625 | 1,445 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 22.367961 | 95,635,453 |
Gravity and Motion: Kepler/Newton. Astronomy, Chapter 2 D Taylor Edited by Mr. Baxley. Introduction. Gravity gives the Universe its structure It is a universal force that causes all objects to pull on all other objects everywhere It holds objects together
Astronomy, Chapter 2
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A ball rolling down a ... | <urn:uuid:f78ff0b5-c6ec-4e6a-9550-c7677e48a8b3> | 3.96875 | 589 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 66.51387 | 95,635,473 |
Soils are important for carbon (C) storage and thus for possible mitigation of atmospheric CO₂ concentrations. In a recently published Nature Geoscience article, scientists took a closer look at the drivers of C storage in soils. The study along a 3-million-year old terrace sequence in the Californian central valley sh... | <urn:uuid:ba0b6d42-895b-49f4-b33d-492f08049e52> | 4.03125 | 1,380 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 42.004839 | 95,635,484 |
Martian chemical complicates hunt for life’s clues
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A scientific paper published has been published that details the investigation of a chemical in the Martian soil that interferes with the techniques used by the Curiosity rover to test for traces of life. The chemical causes the evidence to burn away ... | <urn:uuid:3f67b126-7ce8-4888-b21a-cc6466d4128c> | 3.375 | 858 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 26.172 | 95,635,486 |
The photosphere is a star's outer shell from which light is radiated. The term itself is derived from Ancient Greek roots, φῶς, φωτός/phos, photos meaning "light" and σφαῖρα/sphaira meaning "sphere", in reference to it being a spherical surface that is perceived to emit light. It extends into a star's surface until the... | <urn:uuid:6bb5d809-0160-42ea-8ad5-d9a16577d540> | 4.0625 | 197 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 43.98587 | 95,635,502 |
The search for evidence that life evolved somewhere beyond Earth, or has evolved on Earth has led to interesting research, but has yielded no signs of any extra-terrestrials. Still, if some form of life were found, people would probably react positively.
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Professor DUAN Haibin and his group members (LUO Qinan and YU Yaxiang) from the Science and Technology in Aircraft Control Laboratory, School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University set out to tackle this problem. Through 5 years of innovative research, they investigated the trophallactic m... | <urn:uuid:10bd1bc9-e37f-40a3-86fd-7092a4de16ea> | 3.359375 | 1,171 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 40.984881 | 95,635,625 |
FANCY catching the next solar and lunar eclipses in the UK?
Here's everything you need to know about the upcoming cosmic spectacles and the differences between them...
When can the next solar eclipse be seen in the UK?
The next one we are scheduled to see in the UK will be on June 10, 2021, although it will just be a p... | <urn:uuid:53f2b43b-6ed8-4ee9-b646-1472b886e369> | 2.6875 | 398 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 67.215962 | 95,635,677 |
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- (Also called dip.) In terrestrial magnetism, the angle through which a freely suspended magnet would dip below the horizon in the magnetic north–south meridional plane; one of the magnetic elements.
At the aclinic line (dip equator) the inclination is zero; at ... | <urn:uuid:99794afc-9aaa-4bec-b39e-96706aa1d961> | 3.078125 | 89 | Structured Data | Science & Tech. | 28.222011 | 95,635,679 |
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Science Podcast Podcast: Polio outbreak and America's first dogs On this week’s show: A vaccine-derived polio outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo leads to tough choices for public health experts, and new evidence points to Siberian origins for America’s first dogs.
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Coral may be listed as endangered, threatened
HANAUMA BAY NATURE PRESERVE, Hawaii — Ringed rice coral appears strikingly modest for a species that's caught in the struggle over greenhouse gas emissions.
The coral is among the most abundant in Hawaii's waters and is among 82 coral species the federal government is consi... | <urn:uuid:cd39c2cf-a24c-4405-936c-c401462a2709> | 3.234375 | 1,317 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 48.773184 | 95,635,688 |
Scientists in the US and Germany have found the two largest prime numbers ever calculated in a discovery which could dramatically increase the effectiveness of cryptographic systems.
The two numbers were discovered within a fortnight of each other by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search project, which has spent 12 ... | <urn:uuid:a7329177-4181-4d62-bd52-87a202288051> | 2.90625 | 370 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 49.837875 | 95,635,690 |
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Invertebrate animals make up the greater part of the world's biological diversity and are present in all habitats, where they perform essential ecological functions. Their survival is fundamental to the maintenance of life as we know it. Large numbers of invertebrate species are under severe threat of e... | <urn:uuid:d1bab091-e934-45f1-8b24-73d070944d4d> | 3.46875 | 380 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 15.964957 | 95,635,726 |
A Program Notation
In this chapter, we introduce a notation for writing programs. It is sufficiently similar to Pascal and C to warrant only a short introduction, so we concentrate on describing the effects brought about by a program written in such a language. Let us start with an example of a Pascal program.
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Animals are cut from a cloth woven largely of collagen. This rope-like protein is the most abundant in the body, giving structure to tissues such as skin and cartilage, but to date chemists haven’t fully understood the source of collagen’s strength. A prevailing theory dictated that the molecule-a tightly wound triple ... | <urn:uuid:9bf7f790-6a36-4e7a-b27f-15dc44d0524c> | 3.203125 | 540 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 31.369647 | 95,635,751 |
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The negatively charged lepton that belongs to the second generation of elementary fermions and has a mass 207 times that of an electron and a mean lifetime of 2.2 × 10-6 second. Also called mu lepton.
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X-ray Laser Experiment Provides First Look at Changes in Atomic Structure that Support Superconductivity
An experiment at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory provided the first fleeting glimpse of the atomic structure of a material as it entered a state resembling room-temperature supercondu... | <urn:uuid:257ab1f2-ce25-462e-b8a5-e7b25f0b79c0> | 3.90625 | 1,646 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 29.643595 | 95,635,761 |
Systems Approach to Natural and Artificial Plankton Communities by Continuous Cultures
Shortly after the invention of the microscope (about 1590 by Z. Jansen) Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) was the first to observed infusoria in a drop of water. Since that time and since the first use of plankton gauze nets by the ... | <urn:uuid:7d7247d3-f662-4c92-bb9c-ea75c4721507> | 2.796875 | 341 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 21.642134 | 95,635,798 |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are building up so high, so fast, that some scientists now think the world can no longer limit global warming to the level world leaders have agreed upon as safe.
New figures from the U.N. weather agency Monday showed that the three biggest greenhouse g... | <urn:uuid:d04b8d08-1b7d-4363-b506-cb31bc1218d3> | 3.25 | 1,000 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 54.267702 | 95,635,801 |
Pick up a handful of sand, and it flows through your fingers like a liquid. But when you walk on the beach, the sand supports your weight like a solid. What happens to the forces between the jumbled sand grains when you step on them to keep you from sinking?
An international team of researchers collaborating at Duke Un... | <urn:uuid:f2bcb706-a984-41a7-98e8-7b28a20939aa> | 4.25 | 1,465 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 42.405357 | 95,635,802 |
As we know that the Session is used to maintain the session between request. Session object is responsible to hold the conversational state across multiple requests.
The listener HttpSessionAttributeListener is an interface and extends the java.util.EventListener class. This listener will be called by the container whe... | <urn:uuid:a0498d86-27a7-47b6-b8ba-ffc1b45d79ef> | 3.09375 | 262 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 43.385667 | 95,635,808 |
5,000 today), the Western Black Rhino was stated extinct in 2011. And the last male Northern White Rhino died this March in Sudan. Overall, rhinos in South Africa are being eliminated at a rate of more than 3 each day. If that continues, rhinos will be extinct in SouthAfrica by 2025. But networking and sensing unit tec... | <urn:uuid:9f3e9e98-d332-4848-9afb-a66446fd19eb> | 3.109375 | 586 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 28.647538 | 95,635,814 |
Molecular chlorine, from sea salt released by melting sea ice, reacts with sunlight to produce chlorine atoms. These chlorine atoms are highly reactive and can oxidize many constituents of the atmosphere including methane and elemental mercury, as well activate bromine chemistry, which is an even stronger oxidant of el... | <urn:uuid:73fb1ed9-a9cf-48ac-aa24-8d9e9b99b6d0> | 3.796875 | 1,461 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 36.613662 | 95,635,815 |
The 2015-16 El Nino did impact the atmosphere of the globe, besides causing severe heat and drought in tropical regions of South America, Africa and Indonesia.
The spikes recorded by OCO-2 indicated that the carbon dioxide emissions got a 50 percent increase in the year 2015-16 as compared to the average carbon emissio... | <urn:uuid:52c376d7-0ff7-44af-8997-00dc24c66efa> | 3.703125 | 595 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 36.971309 | 95,635,835 |
Temporal range: early Triassic–recent 250–0 Ma
|A pygmy mole-cricket|
The Caelifera are a sub-order of Orthopteran insects. They include the grasshoppers and grasshopper-like insects, as well as other superfamilies classified with them: the ground-hoppers (Tetrigoidea) and pygmy mole crickets (Tridactyloidea). The latt... | <urn:uuid:4f978fb6-8330-4a26-9819-c9b4956593e4> | 3.125 | 1,162 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 27.316616 | 95,635,838 |
The Susquehanna Flats, a large bed of underwater grasses near the mouth of the Susquehanna River, virtually disappeared from the upper Chesapeake Bay after Tropical Storm Agnes more than 40 years ago. However, the grasses mysteriously began to come back in the early 2000s. Today, the bed is one of the biggest and healt... | <urn:uuid:e71b6004-eb53-4719-979c-910db528063e> | 3.59375 | 1,914 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 37.602042 | 95,635,860 |
The recent discovery of a planet around the star closest to Earth’s sun has raised hopes that life might exist around the sun’s nearest neighbor, but researchers now find that this world might frequently experience extinction-level “superflares” from its star.
In August, scientists revealed the existence of an alien wo... | <urn:uuid:734b86ab-c721-430d-ad39-0fe746c7acf6> | 3.828125 | 952 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 44.547942 | 95,635,865 |
Tritium Systems Test Assembly (TSTA)
The Tritium Systems Test Assembly (TSTA) was a facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory dedicated to the development and demonstration of technologies required for fusion-relevant Deuterium-Tritium processing. The facility design was launched in 1977. It was commissioned in 1982 a... | <urn:uuid:26fff2c1-6b1f-4925-aa88-9f1ba06bd861> | 2.875 | 544 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 68.751752 | 95,635,870 |
Photodegradation of Pesticides on Plant and Soil Surfaces
Sunlight photodegradation is one of the most destructive pathways for pesticides after their release into the environment. Plant surfaces, especially leaf surfaces, are the first reaction environment for a pesticide molecule after application, and spray drift wo... | <urn:uuid:028cd79d-6de5-40f4-b977-8cc42266122b> | 3.609375 | 200 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 19.871039 | 95,635,872 |
Root chemistry and soil fauna, but not soil abiotic conditions explain the effects of plant diversity on root decomposition
Plant diversity influences many ecosystem functions including root decomposition. However, due to the presence of multiple pathways via which plant diversity may affect root decomposition, our mec... | <urn:uuid:2d965d75-0b46-460a-b33d-b52f8a8f4fa0> | 2.8125 | 1,511 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 40.269933 | 95,635,909 |
In this post we will discuss about what are Extensions method in C#.Net.
If your source code is available then there are different ways to extend the class like through inheritance you can add functionality to the objects. But what will happen if you do not have the source code. In C#.Net Extensions method will help us... | <urn:uuid:a047feb2-0e59-4e3b-b5fe-8a20ef1fdca0> | 3.453125 | 363 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 55.686333 | 95,635,912 |
The cortex consists of six different layers, which vary in their anatomical and physiological properties. It plays a key role in the cognitive capacities of the brain. Since the cortical layers are segregated functionally, we could potentially say something about the neural processes that take place when an area is act... | <urn:uuid:77533387-7439-493e-a43d-1b90a99e8bdf> | 3.8125 | 1,554 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 28.212309 | 95,635,914 |
Dynamic SQL refers to SQL statements that are constructed and executed at runtime. Dynamic is the opposite of static. Static SQL refers to SQL statements that are fully specified, or fixed, at the time the code containing that statement is compiled. Dynamic PL/SQL refers to entire PL/SQL blocks of code that are constru... | <urn:uuid:73731780-fabc-48b8-8896-75cc97902b69> | 2.84375 | 279 | Truncated | Software Dev. | 54.35021 | 95,635,929 |
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Found most commonly in these habitats: 8 times found in premontane rainforest, 6 times found in mature rainforest, 2 times found in treefall gap; premontane rainforest, 2 times found in Bamboo forest, 1 times found in riparian rainforest, 1... | <urn:uuid:e220996b-134b-4d64-aabb-29fd1d6739bb> | 2.65625 | 273 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 51.821011 | 95,635,955 |
In this project we're going to produce a Flappy Bird clone called Crashy Plane. Flappy Bird might seem like a remarkably simple game when you’re playing it, but has a lot going on behind the scenes: there’s physics, animation, infinite scrolling, and more – it’s a worthy choice for a learning project.
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Elephant Genome Provides Evidence to Boost Conservation Efforts
African savanna elephants in San Diego Zoo. In the middle is Swazi, the female elephant from which the reference genome was sequenced. Credit : San Diego Zoo Global
Elephants—the largest living terrestrial mammal—began walking the surface of the earth 5 to... | <urn:uuid:910e800f-172f-4084-9478-9cf926d77630> | 4.03125 | 1,506 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 19.570898 | 95,635,980 |
Hydrologic Effects of Global Climate Change on a Large Drained Pine Forest
A simulation study using a watershed scale forest hydrology model (DRAINWAT) was conducted to evaluate potential effects of climate change on the hydrology of a 3,000 ha managed pine forest in coastal North Carolina. The model was first validate... | <urn:uuid:4a795f97-440c-4177-945f-171aed6b0fba> | 2.65625 | 600 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 47.168345 | 95,636,043 |
|Mission type||Balloon-borne telescope|
|Operator||Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS)|
|Mission duration||6 days (2009), 5 days (2013)|
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research |
Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics
High Altitude Observatory
Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory
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Vicky Meretsky of Indiana University and her co-authors say established state wildlife programs provide "strong building blocks" for such a network. But they make a forceful argument that national cooperation and coordination are needed to protect at-risk wildlife species and habitat and to respond to threats such as n... | <urn:uuid:22041b83-e88c-442d-bbf2-ddc180323e3d> | 3.265625 | 1,318 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 29.2786 | 95,636,115 |
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Welcome to the gyroscope forum. If you have a question about gyroscopes in general,
want to know how they work, or what they can be used for then you can leave your question here for others to answer.
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S-Adenosyl-L-methionine—Donor of Methyl Groups
The compound S-adenosyl-L-methionine (AdoMet), shown in Figure 4.1, is the methyl group donor in numerous cellular enzymatic transmethylation reactions, including DNA methylation (Cantoni, 1975). In reality AdoMet is probably second only to ATP in the variety of reactions ... | <urn:uuid:86010271-b824-467b-a16d-8b20f63c7cd4> | 2.53125 | 225 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 15.403529 | 95,636,179 |
A new study by a University of Exeter researcher has shed light on how an estimated one million-strong population of wild camels thriving in Australia's remote outback have become reviled as pests and culled on a large scale.
Sarah Crowley, of the Environment and Sustainability Institute at the University of Exeter's P... | <urn:uuid:1a0b9624-9136-4630-905b-7a2270423401> | 3.875 | 1,690 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 32.496824 | 95,636,180 |
Many people have a misguided interpretation of software development. They tend to think most software is generated by solitary individuals beavering away in a darkened room with nothing but the glow of their laptop screens. They spend hours writing lines of code which auto-magically transform into multi-million dollar ... | <urn:uuid:42729938-e452-4ffa-939a-001d22dfd8e1> | 3.421875 | 1,112 | Personal Blog | Software Dev. | 18.190008 | 95,636,202 |
PHP is a server-side scripting language that is most often used for web development. However it is also used as a general-purpose programming language.
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Pro One of the most common languages
According to the 2015 Stack Overflow Developer Survey (26,086 people surveyed), PHP was t... | <urn:uuid:7e889e1b-1943-449b-bcd3-28d8bdd9d96a> | 2.71875 | 494 | Knowledge Article | Software Dev. | 41.582273 | 95,636,204 |
Chapter 4. Notation and Conventions
Table of Contents
Since there are many supported target architectures, notation conventions are used in this manual to avoid repeating instructions that are very similar.
4.1. GDB and GCC Command Notation
Cross-development commands like gcc
and gdb will be shown with a
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Java database connectivity (JDBC) is the Java Soft
specification of the API. It allows Application Programs to interact with the Database to access the Relational Data. Typically the JDBC API consists of a set of interfaces and classes written in the Java programming language. The applications can be written to connect... | <urn:uuid:7d6d4e8a-d2cc-4e05-b3a9-2a5d19a3a794> | 2.859375 | 825 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 36.851914 | 95,636,245 |
Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a live-cell fluorescent labeling that makes bacterial cell-to-cell communication pathways visible. The communication between bacterial cells is essential in the regulation of processes within bacterial populations, such as biofilm development. The results have been ... | <urn:uuid:8ca00090-112c-4b05-933b-661d3b3a1255> | 3.03125 | 632 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 24.066275 | 95,636,249 |
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Adding structure to land cover – using fractional cover to study animal habitat use
© Bevanda et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015
Received: 10 June 2014
Accepted: 11 December 2014
Published: 25 December 2014
Linking animal movements to landscape features is critical to identify factors that shape the sp... | <urn:uuid:29c4d824-9e14-4bb3-a7ed-7f475b688246> | 3.09375 | 7,717 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 35.221677 | 95,636,252 |
Though 75% of the planet is a comparatively unchanging ocean of blue, the remaining 25% of Earth’s floor is a dynamic inexperienced. NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite tv for pc is ready to detect these delicate variations in greenness. These sources spotlight our ever-changing planet, utilizing extremely detailed vegetatio... | <urn:uuid:3bc5330e-f67b-407a-8fbf-de9840e78243> | 3.15625 | 468 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 16.255641 | 95,636,260 |
There's really only one string operator, and that's the concatenation operator . (dot).
This operator takes two string values, and joins the right-hand string onto the left-hand one to make a longer string.
<?php echo "a, " . "b"; // Displays "a, b" ?>/*from ww w . j a v a2 s.c o m*/
You can concatenate more than two s... | <urn:uuid:60bca1f0-9626-4b1e-9c12-16741dbd0b32> | 3.265625 | 264 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 84.251464 | 95,636,287 |
More extreme weather to come: WMO
Scientists believe the North and South Poles are the "canaries in the coal mine" when it comes to understanding the world's rapidly changing climate system.
The poles are key because they harbour the Earth's frozen water supplies known as the "cryospheres".
One scientist who says we ne... | <urn:uuid:d2dfaa63-66ac-47d2-bbed-a7d864fbc392> | 2.703125 | 191 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 46.662357 | 95,636,297 |
- Item 11: Define a copy constructor and an assignment operator for classes with dynamically allocated memory.
- Item 12: Prefer initialization to assignment in constructors.
- Item 14: Make destructors virtual in base classes.
- Item 15: Have “operator=” return a reference to *this.
- Item 23: Don’t try to return a re... | <urn:uuid:8c415d57-1f4a-474c-920d-b66730513aea> | 2.796875 | 187 | Listicle | Software Dev. | 40.042857 | 95,636,299 |
The Leibniz Association has awarded a grant of almost one million euros to a research project on mangroves, which will collect data in tropical regions around the globe. The project makes use of state-of-the-art molecular biological methods, which will be used for the first time in this combination to study the mangrov... | <urn:uuid:1aa7611d-498c-4d76-a20a-2980702dba29> | 3.25 | 1,624 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 33.985987 | 95,636,303 |
A new method provides a three-dimensional identikit of chromosomes
Genome sequencing is a milestone in modern biology as it allows access to the entire "list of instructions" (the chemical sequence of genetic makeup) for the development and function of organisms. Sequencing the genome is a bit like writing down the exa... | <urn:uuid:0d2a55cb-ba30-44a8-b4c2-aca71dd35c29> | 3.59375 | 1,156 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.956127 | 95,636,304 |
Carbon-14 datin of ancient objects requires that material to be organic in order to assay its age. You hear someone sat that a dinosaur bone ws carbon dated to be 75 million yaers old. What are two specific reasons that this claim is incorrect?© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com July 20, 2018, 9:52 pm ad1c9bdddf
As soon as ... | <urn:uuid:a8c73ab5-9996-49c4-a5a3-804650f1900b> | 3.359375 | 195 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 76.540175 | 95,636,325 |
John C. Davis, Geoffrey C. Bohling, 2001. "The Search for Patterns in Ice-Core Temperature Curves", Geological Perspectives of Global Climate Change, Lee C. Gerhard, William E. Harrison, Bernold M. Hanson
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Predictions of global climate change are based on large computer-simulation models that are... | <urn:uuid:75ca3b4e-ad49-4666-bc27-7c45b4634d8a> | 3.265625 | 385 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 25.129605 | 95,636,327 |
Ozone pollution across the continental United States will become far more difficult to keep in check as temperatures rise, according to new research. The detailed study shows that Americans face the risk of a 70 percent increase in unhealthy summertime ozone levels by 2050.
This is because warmer temperatures and other... | <urn:uuid:f0fa816e-b888-4d77-a1a9-31aaea9fd089> | 3.65625 | 2,653 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 38.704529 | 95,636,361 |
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By: National Research Council
188 pages, colour illustrations, maps
The ocean has absorbed a significant portion of all human-made carbon dioxide emissions. This benefits human society by moderating the rate of climate change, but also causes unprecedented changes to ocean chemistry. Carbon dioxide take... | <urn:uuid:b64b4a8c-0b2b-4064-9f5d-03de5401484e> | 3.1875 | 213 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 30.667974 | 95,636,362 |
Java Applets: Interactive Programming
- The purpose of this assignment is
We're going to create a slideshow of images, with a previous and next button so
the user can walk through the slideshow via buttons.
- You're going to need some images, so copy some from another project or
import some in to your working project.
... | <urn:uuid:9ee7c5a2-c163-4c90-85c0-b2900a505da0> | 3.4375 | 932 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 59.895203 | 95,636,393 |
Observations of a freshwater pulse induced by Typhoon Morakot off the northern coast of Taiwan in August 2009
In this paper we describe large-scale impacts from a typhoon on the circulation over the continental shelf and slope north of Taiwan. Typhoon Morakot was a category 2 tropical storm that landed in central Taiwa... | <urn:uuid:4351bd37-fe0e-4796-a0e6-0029004b9952> | 2.578125 | 560 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 36.061548 | 95,636,446 |
Diel oxygen dynamics and anoxic events in an eutrophic estuary of Waquoit Bay, Massachusetts
- Charlene D’Avanzo, James N. Kremer
- Estuaries SCOPUS
- Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation in 1994
- Cited Count
- Springer JSTOR
As a result of nutrient loading from septic systems, a thick canopy of macroalgae covers... | <urn:uuid:7ef5959e-6490-47cf-ac27-048de77a6be0> | 2.765625 | 516 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 20.622922 | 95,636,449 |
Georgius Agricola, born in 1494, mineralogist, he was a physician who worked at a mining town. He took the knowledge of the miners and wrote a book. Because of this he became known as the father of mineralogy. He died in 1555 at age 61.
Joseph Liouville, born in 1809, mathematician, he discovered transcendental numbers... | <urn:uuid:2208a365-a7f2-402f-b0b3-562c61c7c420> | 3.21875 | 525 | Listicle | Science & Tech. | 62.096125 | 95,636,461 |
A natural agent against the higly allergenic common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia), Acontia candefacta was the first insect species intentionally introduced to Europe for biological control of an invasive weed species. Released in 1969 in the Krasnodar and Stavropol regions of the former USSR, the moth has since mig... | <urn:uuid:8a017daa-9dae-4397-ace2-c29d719fce44> | 3.328125 | 231 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 29.550013 | 95,636,464 |
The oryx, along with eight others from American and European zoos, was sent to Tunisia in December 2007 for an eventual reintroduction into the wild, where they have been extinct since the late 1970s. Oryx are a type of desert antelope that are mostly white with reddish-brown necks and marks on the face and a long, dar... | <urn:uuid:3f60903c-b75f-4df5-9a49-5a2025062cd0> | 3.390625 | 1,161 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 39.753836 | 95,636,540 |
udp - User Datagram Protocol for IPv4
udp_socket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
This is an implementation of the User Datagram Protocol described in
RFC 768. It implements a connectionless, unreliable datagram packet
service. Packets may be reordered or duplicated before they arrive. UDP
generates and checks checksu... | <urn:uuid:00a30b83-e456-4017-946b-7a36b294646b> | 3.296875 | 1,480 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 52.455614 | 95,636,556 |
Authors: O. Katsuda, S. Saito and K. Takahashi
Affilation: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Pages: 426 - 429
Keywords: micromanipulation, liquid bridge, phase transition, condensation
The size of an object has decreased in the electrical and mechanical engineering field for fabricating highly functional microelectr... | <urn:uuid:02c2789e-7349-45d6-9815-318250b3045d> | 2.578125 | 346 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 15.806584 | 95,636,561 |
The direct influence of black carbon, or soot, on warming the climate could be about twice previous estimates, according to an in-depth study published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, a publication of the American Geophysical Union.
Accounting for all of the ways black carbon can affect climat... | <urn:uuid:a36fc977-60b9-4fe2-8f1a-0a935877b755> | 3.65625 | 1,337 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 34.862769 | 95,636,563 |
You may have heard some mixed opinions about the state of coral reefs. Some will argue that coral conditions are in a natural flux, or that reefs will have time to adapt to our changing oceans. Others have found that coral populations have sustained irreparable damage. Now several new studies help show that things are ... | <urn:uuid:52b383fa-5a6a-4b93-a17d-79a497e0e19a> | 3.59375 | 715 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.663382 | 95,636,564 |
Species Detail - Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus) - Species information displayed is based on all datasets.
Terrestrial Map - 10kmDistribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
Marine Map - 50kmDistribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS8... | <urn:uuid:e85df495-dab2-4bbb-bf05-d52070c0bc5b> | 2.828125 | 201 | Structured Data | Science & Tech. | 21.199297 | 95,636,577 |
The geographical characteristics of an area dictate which renewable energy sources will work best. Because renewable energy is inherently, though predictably, intermittent, governments will need to build supplementary systems. Basically, no single technology will answer all of the world’s needs. However, a “portfolio” ... | <urn:uuid:6cc22eaa-acc6-4980-88d5-03e1ec7f5c4a> | 3.4375 | 273 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 29.046388 | 95,636,582 |
Java Script Trigonometric Methods
By Stephen Bucaro
The Java Script Math object provides the trigonometric functions cosine, sine,
tangent, along with many others. All the trigonometric functions return an angular value
in radians. Why use radians rather than degrees?
The 360 degree rotation angle of a circle is totall... | <urn:uuid:5a30089f-aa97-49df-82c1-17613acb5c6f> | 4.1875 | 586 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 52.994644 | 95,636,607 |
Exploring the structure of a number square: how quickly can you put the number tiles in the right place on the grid?
Watch our videos of multiplication methods that you may not have met before. Can you make sense of them?
Design and test a paper helicopter. What is the best design?
Dotty Six game for an adult and child... | <urn:uuid:324332e8-6433-440b-ada8-38d23b13de5d> | 3.375 | 422 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 61.227658 | 95,636,634 |
remanence(redirected from Remanent magnetization)
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The magnetic induction that remains in a material after removal of the magnetizing field.
[From Middle English remanent, remaining, from Latin remanēns, remanent-, present participle of remanēre, to remain; see remain.]
(General Physics) phy... | <urn:uuid:8879e3a7-d78d-4026-9430-970c2c4a0d1f> | 3.359375 | 172 | Structured Data | Science & Tech. | 18.807248 | 95,636,638 |
In topology and related areas of mathematics, a metrizable space is a topological space that is homeomorphic to a metric space. That is, a topological space is said to be metrizable if there is a metric
Metrizable spaces inherit all topological properties from metric spaces. For example, they are Hausdorff paracompact ... | <urn:uuid:6546bedd-078e-4f17-bdcf-bf8824f0ebd1> | 3.21875 | 1,040 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 33.871498 | 95,636,649 |
Coral reefs, under pressure from climate change and direct human activity, may have a reduced ability to protect tropical islands against wave attack, erosion and salinization of drinking water resources, which help to sustain life on those islands. A new paper gives guidance to coastal managers to assess how climate c... | <urn:uuid:d464546d-9fa2-4f05-ba0f-e730756d963b> | 3.78125 | 1,775 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 38.427572 | 95,636,656 |
X-Ray Phase Contrast Imaging (XPCI) has been the subject of intensive research over the last ~20 years, because of its potential to transform all applications of X-ray imaging. In XPCI, contrast arises from refraction/interference effects instead of absorption, which leads to the visualization of features classically c... | <urn:uuid:32f69de2-c075-4d81-b465-a6e314cca313> | 2.640625 | 253 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 1.524394 | 95,636,676 |
NASA's Terra satellite provided an outside look at Tropical Cyclone Pam while the RapidScat instrument that flies aboard the International Space Station provided an inside look at the surface winds generated by the storm. The GPM core satellite provided another inside look at Pam and provided data on where the heavy ra... | <urn:uuid:cde8c2cb-4ab7-4a36-b65f-28bb45b4da9d> | 3.140625 | 1,511 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 55.106617 | 95,636,687 |
Variables beginning with a lowercase character are called local variables.
They exist only within a specific part of a program.
They are restricted to a well-defined scope. Here is an example:
localvar = "hello" $globalvar = "goodbye" def amethod # ww w .ja v a 2 s. co m localvar = 10 puts( localvar ) puts( $globalvar ... | <urn:uuid:8b915dc9-22a2-4696-aad3-48b858cc6db3> | 3.453125 | 266 | Knowledge Article | Software Dev. | 43.877747 | 95,636,695 |
Nanomaterials In Sunscreens And Boats Leave Marine Life Vulnerable
News May 14, 2015
Nanomaterials commonly used in sunscreens and boat-bottom paints are making sea urchin embryos more vulnerable to toxins, according to a study from the University of California, Davis. The authors said this could pose a risk to coastal... | <urn:uuid:784dad70-0854-433d-a4cd-27031663bc53> | 2.9375 | 708 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 18.258918 | 95,636,712 |
Species Detail - Splitpea Shanklet (Collybia cookei) - Species information displayed is based on all datasets.
Terrestrial Map - 10kmDistribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
Marine Map - 50kmDistribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Co... | <urn:uuid:f87efda6-8084-4667-af70-cc70aae30822> | 2.609375 | 184 | Structured Data | Science & Tech. | 43.092374 | 95,636,723 |
August 2, 2017
The Far North Regional Science Hub has been busy this year, and the excitement is only ramping up as National Science Week approaches.
Started in 2016, the Far North Regional Science Hub covers almost 800,000 square km of sparsely populated arid and semi-arid country in northern South Australia. Spruikin... | <urn:uuid:ab930e4e-12b7-4300-85fa-d4d88c5e9f79> | 2.65625 | 299 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 40.148214 | 95,636,760 |
In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Japanese scientists have now introduced a new type of colorfast, environmentally friendly pigment. These consist of submicrometer-sized silicon dioxide particles and carbon black and are simply sprayed on to the desire surface. The resulting color is tough and does not fade.
Organic dy... | <urn:uuid:37be1828-a1fe-4323-b8ad-9a02ea2eb9be> | 3.75 | 1,143 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 33.421753 | 95,636,766 |
Enjoy some of the extensive magazine, newspaper and web-based coverage of our work through the years.
Enjoy a sampling of print media featuring Dr. Nichols' efforts collected on ISSU.
By: Emily Laughnan
The moon casts a gauzy, yellow light along the tops of curling waves. It’s after midnight along Florida’s Gulf Coast.... | <urn:uuid:0a935653-ca31-410b-a145-dfe58596fae7> | 3.734375 | 1,916 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 55.117959 | 95,636,797 |
Representatives of recreational fisheries interests north and south of the border are concerned that beavers can harm economically important fish stocks due to their dam building activities and potential to block migratory life phases. However, results of a study conducted by scientists at the University of Southampton... | <urn:uuid:97527583-fbd4-4559-af87-37ea8584da8c> | 3.75 | 1,402 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 32.029693 | 95,636,820 |
Calculate the molarity of PMDA using the results of each standardization titration. Compute the molarity of PMDA from the mass of reagent used to make the PMDA stock solution. Compare these values and determine the percent purity of the solid reagent.
Please provide steps with explanations. Results are in the Excel spr... | <urn:uuid:b480196b-7392-4e4f-9638-cac45441f6bb> | 2.828125 | 151 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 55.207308 | 95,636,860 |
Observational Astronomy: Techniques and Instrumentation (Hardback)Edmund C. Sutton (author)
Hardback 428 Pages / Published: 13/10/2011
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Astronomy is fundamentally an observational science and as such it is important for astronomers and astrophysicists to understand how their data are collected and an... | <urn:uuid:d4739ed0-4bce-4388-8cc3-3f2febd35f48> | 2.546875 | 365 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 28.825437 | 95,636,884 |
Astronomers Say Planets Hospitable to Life May Be CommonNovember 4, 2013, 1:51 PM HST (Updated November 4, 2013, 5:57 PM)
Astronomers are continuing to collect findings on the possibilities of Earth-like planets from data collected from the now-crippled Kepler Space Telescope.
Scientists gathering for this week’s Keple... | <urn:uuid:eba7ea16-21c2-477a-a7b7-28eaf268883b> | 3.375 | 779 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 40.669177 | 95,636,885 |
The effects of roads on carnivores have obviously been underestimated in worldwide species conservation. This is the conclusion of the first comprehensive global study on this topic, which has been published in the scientific journal “Global Ecology and Biogeography” by an international research team from Germany and P... | <urn:uuid:6c775507-c55f-4d6b-b227-87e14bcc46e3> | 3.171875 | 2,601 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 35.666427 | 95,636,898 |