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Edited By: NC Aery and Shruti Kshirsagar
300 pages, 100 black & white illustrations
This book presents current methods for determining the impact of pollutants on the biosystem and enzymes, instrumentation, and statistical methods. Encompassing the breadth and depth of the field, this book explores anal... | <urn:uuid:910991cb-4134-4002-b9bc-41a8f02d7aed> | 2.640625 | 235 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 19.171024 | 95,643,093 |
Application Progress on Goldstone Solar System Radar and Its Inspiration for Deep Space Exploration in China
Li Dewei1，2，Jiang Liming1，2，Jiang Houjun3
(1.State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth’s Dynamics，Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics，Chinese Academy of Sciences，Wuhan 430077，China；2.University of Chinese Academ... | <urn:uuid:c7f6b8aa-158d-4ad1-807f-b9a7e58a2d86> | 2.515625 | 489 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 37.797647 | 95,643,104 |
The Theoretical and Technical Development of Field-Ion Microscopy
A field-ion microscope is the most powerful microscopic device known today. It is the only instrument that can show directly the atomic structure of a specimen and the atomic lattice defects. But, for reasons that might lie in the difficulty of operation... | <urn:uuid:e901ac3c-0853-4f86-b490-1a8b1c8586db> | 3.4375 | 636 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 58.57775 | 95,643,127 |
The same type of forces are at work bringing the building blocks of viruses together, and the inorganic supercluster structures in this research are in many ways similar to viruses.
Engineering researchers have discovered that under the right circumstances, basic atomic forces can be exploited to enable nanoparticles t... | <urn:uuid:29d744a8-63ba-4c9d-8807-b87ebf93e9a4> | 3.828125 | 1,239 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 32.230848 | 95,643,158 |
Buffer Object Streaming
- Buffer Objects
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- Asynchronous query objects
- Framebuffer Objects
- Unconventional objects:
Buffer Object Streaming is the process of updating buffer objects frequently with new data while using those buffers. Streaming works like this. You make modifications to a buffer... | <urn:uuid:6210e360-a085-4507-924f-f440a8073cbf> | 3.328125 | 2,142 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 48.310707 | 95,643,178 |
Learn Fortran Programming is a completely free application.
Most programmers love Fortran programming language, because of its interest.
Learn Fortran Programming application makes your Fortran programming learning simple and easy. In order to have the full documents of Fortran programming self-studying, click the down... | <urn:uuid:778b82b7-19f8-473e-b11f-cc30f8cc9843> | 2.78125 | 145 | Product Page | Software Dev. | 38.600317 | 95,643,223 |
There are shades of Hal Clement's Science Fiction (SciFi) novel "Mission of Gravity", where aliens are employed by Earth's scientists to investigate a fast spinning super Jupiter type planet in sailing ships. However, this article about a nautical craft for Saturn's moon Titan, is a real proposed scientific project, al... | <urn:uuid:82dd4437-7639-4ac7-86d4-67d464d78071> | 2.5625 | 186 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 43.851477 | 95,643,230 |
Flow cell for real time observation of single particle adhesion and detachment
A flow cell was built for observing particle removal from test surfaces in real time. The removal force is the hydrodynamic force exerted on the particle by liquid flowing parallel to the test surface. Particle removal was detected visually ... | <urn:uuid:c8688211-7f27-4b43-8944-327234ed4a86> | 2.78125 | 333 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 33.312544 | 95,643,240 |
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Moreover, it shall focus on a rhetorical analysis of Kepler, Hey and Krupp.
There are different modes of expressing information on issues ascribed to astronomy and how this knowledge has been changing from time to time. Different writers and researchers have applied varying modes ... | <urn:uuid:842a8b3d-ca85-4238-b2ef-21476a3a7e50> | 3.4375 | 721 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 30.311827 | 95,643,246 |
Artificially created island in the shape of a circle with a radius of 50 m is overgrown with grass. The only exception is a landing area for helicopters in the shape of a rectangle measuring 15 m and 8 m. What is the probability that the flying seagull (without the use of the senses, eyes, ......) make land to landing ... | <urn:uuid:008f5286-6289-4bf4-b16c-7a0a04af6b37> | 2.734375 | 781 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 79.811401 | 95,643,248 |
For the past three decades, deep crustal studies of the British Isles have been restricted to the interpretation of 2-D seismic reflection and refraction profiles, mostly acquired offshore. During this period, the British Geological Survey (BGS) seismic monitoring network has developed to an unrivalled density for a re... | <urn:uuid:7c102614-8712-4060-84de-c0dd6bdf1248> | 2.578125 | 448 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 21.942647 | 95,643,269 |
why does carbon dioxide put out a flame
Make sure to This subreddit is for asking for objective explanations. It is not a repository for any question you may have. E is for Explain - merely answering a question is not enough. LI5 means friendly, simplified and layman-accessible explanations - not responses aimed at lit... | <urn:uuid:30a7228d-31f3-4bd0-be1b-29ff1a2c9bf2> | 3.96875 | 476 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 59.287472 | 95,643,283 |
Man-Made Earthquakes Are on the Rise, But They Don’t Have to Be
There are alternatives to the wastewater injection that causes earthquakes and contaminates groundwater.
When the U.S. Geological Survey released its new one-year prediction of earthquake risk on Tuesday, it said some parts of Texas and Oklahoma now face t... | <urn:uuid:07c2895b-b21a-4f08-97e7-43061f398395> | 3.1875 | 436 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 42.973371 | 95,643,289 |
The ruby_sscanf gem monkey patches the String class to support the sscanf instance method. This method is modeled after the POSIX "C" standard sscanf but with alterations and omissions to suit the Ruby programming language.
It is noteworthy that this gem never was intended to be 100% compatible with the built in scanf ... | <urn:uuid:b98e3d8a-27e0-47c5-8e1e-ad2d18c52c63> | 3.1875 | 2,151 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 82.453887 | 95,643,318 |
The following section uses file to illustrate what is an iterator.
open file objects have a method called readline.
It reads one line of text from a file at a time-each time we call the readline method, we advance to the next line.
At the end of the file, an empty string is returned, which we can detect to break out of... | <urn:uuid:1bd7119c-c490-4b0a-b427-d6ef0a3bc1b9> | 4.4375 | 400 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 74.083323 | 95,643,326 |
A powerful new tool that can help advance the genetic engineering of “fuel” crops for clean, green and renewable bioenergy, has been developed by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), a multi-institutional partnership led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berke... | <urn:uuid:c66a4fe3-4cdb-4542-875e-62924c83b5b8> | 2.75 | 1,906 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 30.168474 | 95,643,332 |
When you declare an integer, and the leading digit is a '0', the compiler considers the value to be an Octal representation of the number. So, in your case, it is reading in 12 base 8. When you print it out, it converts it to decimal. so you get 1*8 + 2*1 or 10.
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache... | <urn:uuid:f18b2d1e-dbb7-46e2-8d09-26de7c874994> | 3.40625 | 210 | Q&A Forum | Software Dev. | 80.556877 | 95,643,342 |
Friday, May 12, 2017
5 Minute Science Lesson - Wind Turbines
1. Do you know what these are?
2. What do they look like?
3. What do you think they're doing?
4. These are wind turbines. By using the wind, they generate electricity. Where do you think these might be located?
5. See that little strip of bare land running in... | <urn:uuid:df7557c3-068a-4f43-b72c-1b67cdc6edef> | 3.078125 | 146 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 91.586644 | 95,643,353 |
Neutral and Non-Euclidean Geometries
by David C. Royster
Publisher: UNC Charlotte 2000
Number of pages: 145
In this course you are introduced, or re-introduced, to the method of Mathematical Proof. You will be introduced to new and interesting areas in Geometry, with most of the time spent on the study of Hyperbolic Ge... | <urn:uuid:b1dfabc1-97b4-4cf2-838d-36e3893810f0> | 2.953125 | 382 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 41.006984 | 95,643,358 |
Violent Storms South Australia and New South Wales 11th to 13th November 2016
A significant weather event has crossed much of southern and eastern Australia which has impacted South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory and Queensland in different ways.
The system has been respons... | <urn:uuid:4b2d8599-9043-4aac-a5dc-3fdb29de12f0> | 2.78125 | 1,028 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 65.809764 | 95,643,362 |
An Indian zoologist has found a new species of limbless lizard in a forested area in the country's east.
"Preliminary scientific study reveals that the lizard belongs to the genus Sepsophis," said Sushil Kumar Dutta, who led a team of researchers from "Vasundhra," a non-governmental organization, and the North Orissa U... | <urn:uuid:c8104ba5-4788-49c8-8735-d7dcb578426b> | 3.109375 | 525 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 42.859792 | 95,643,381 |
Elementary Number Theory: Primes, Congruences, and Secrets
by William Stein
Publisher: Springer 2004
Number of pages: 166
This is a textbook about prime numbers, congruences, basic public-key cryptography, quadratic reciprocity, continued fractions, elliptic curves, and number theory algorithms. We assume the reader ha... | <urn:uuid:b2bdbf20-d14d-4c63-ab17-1ebd49bd115a> | 2.875 | 359 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 26.019191 | 95,643,400 |
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The InterPlanetary Network (IPN) is a group of spacecraft equipped with gamma ray burst (GRB) detectors. By timing the arrival of a burst at several spacecraft, its precise location can be foun... | <urn:uuid:f9089796-901f-491d-9fef-0c25644ff59e> | 4.1875 | 2,530 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 44.319339 | 95,643,404 |
Authors: Bader Binkhudhayr
Our understanding of motion has been influenced by the assumption that external and invisible forces act upon matter to cause acceleration. In this article, I refute the validity of this convention and propose an alternative perception that suggests matter's independence. That change in persp... | <urn:uuid:97b7e0fb-9653-4226-91c4-d4d5aba1f0de> | 2.96875 | 307 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 29.619735 | 95,643,425 |
Turbulenz – ein problemhistorischer Abriss
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Turbulence in Perspective
In the beginning of the 20th century, the riddles of turbulent flow became articulated as “the turbulence problem”. It comprised two p... | <urn:uuid:35df6029-27c2-4ca3-8502-fc047e288f49> | 3.078125 | 349 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 25.79588 | 95,643,438 |
Thanks to a new high-tech gadget, astronomers have observed four planets orbiting a star relatively close to the sun in unprecedented detail, revealing the roughly ten-Jupiter-mass planets to be among the most exotic ones known.
In this image of the star HR 8799, most of the light from the star itself has been removed,... | <urn:uuid:95d4a28f-ae68-43a0-9b85-a42abe534922> | 3.796875 | 2,366 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.311779 | 95,643,441 |
Protection of the Environment through Power from Space: Science Fiction or Future Reality?
All energy sources on Earth — except the nuclear ones — derive their energy from the Sun. For comfort and a high living standard people need a considerable amount of energy. More than 80% of the World’s consumption of energy is c... | <urn:uuid:17cd108c-3647-473d-b0c0-e737c5e26b83> | 3.296875 | 713 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 54.890941 | 95,643,451 |
The researchers concluded that models of climate change may be underestimating how much water is likely to run off the land and back into the sea as atmospheric chemistry changes. Runoff may be as much as 17 percent higher in forests of the eastern United States when models account for changes in soil nitrogen levels a... | <urn:uuid:50969391-72ac-4c30-b32e-2e6671f23606> | 3.796875 | 1,485 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 36.485174 | 95,643,453 |
There is still a widespread belief that microscopic organisms, such as bacteria, fungi, protists, and small multicellulars, have a cosmopolitan distribution due to a presumed easy dispersal by wind and water. However, the contributions collected in this book – ranging from protists to rotifers and mosses – show tha... | <urn:uuid:40ce1e35-c5a5-4397-881b-0f6d0dcf0951> | 3.46875 | 641 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 5.92352 | 95,643,454 |
Great Lakes Research Center Seminar Series: W. Charles Kerfoot of the Lake Superior Ecosystem Research Center & Department of Biological Sciences,
Michigan Technological University
LiDAR and MSS Applications For Coastal Ecosystem Research & Restoration Projects
Description: Due to its high spatial resolution and excell... | <urn:uuid:617cc881-5537-4fcd-8702-caef5c575101> | 2.75 | 305 | Audio Transcript | Science & Tech. | 3.470738 | 95,643,467 |
Determine the secret number n, which reversed decrease by 16.4 if the number increase by 16.4.
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By: Denise Chow, SPACE.com Contributor
Published: 04/25/2013 10:43 AM EDT on SPACE.com
The sun has unleashed a trio of solar eruptions toward the planet Mercury in recent days, solar storms that may pass one NASA spacecraft while dealing a glancing blow to another, NASA officials say.
The three flares erupted from the ... | <urn:uuid:a850f3fb-6f79-4164-ab8e-e324d611bcf3> | 3.28125 | 551 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 60.359884 | 95,643,475 |
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Important contribution to the ongoing controversies over the Sakhalin Island oil and gas development project.
From the publisher's announcement:
The population of western gray whales numbers only about 100 animals and is classified on IUCN's Red List as `critically en... | <urn:uuid:301a595b-745b-4dbf-bdf6-551f0e1ff88b> | 2.65625 | 240 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 32.903244 | 95,643,476 |
#include <pcap/pcap.h> void pcap_breakloop(pcap_t *);
This routine is safe to use inside a signal handler on UNIX or a console control handler on Windows, as it merely sets a flag that is checked within the loop.
The flag is checked in loops reading packets from the OS - a signal by itself will not necessarily terminat... | <urn:uuid:a9614783-914a-4a23-90be-a60b60580a8c> | 2.53125 | 549 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 40.305174 | 95,643,496 |
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Found most commonly in these habitats: 61 times found in rainforest, 5 times found in secondary lowland rainforest, 10 times found in premontane rainforest, 6 times found in montane wet forest, 2 times found in lowland rainforest, 2 times f... | <urn:uuid:0d09fc22-a4cc-4d17-bf8c-6ae3907fa030> | 2.875 | 415 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 60.894216 | 95,643,515 |
GEOMAGNETIC STORM WARNING: A pair of closely-spaced CMEs propelled by explosions of sunspot AR1302 on Sept. 24th are heading not-quite directly toward Earth. A significant glancing blow to our planet's magnetic field is possible on Sept. 26th around 14:00 UT (+/- 7 hours). NOAA forecasters estimate a 30% chance of stro... | <urn:uuid:aad4df61-307a-4d61-a2fa-74c3e7d50e79> | 2.625 | 583 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 54.057576 | 95,643,523 |
Scientists have long known that solar-energized particles trapped around the planet are sometimes scattered into Earth's upper atmosphere where they can contribute to beautiful auroral displays. Yet for decades, no one has known exactly what is responsible for hurling these energetic electrons on their way. Recently, t... | <urn:uuid:3826a6b9-cd83-4bea-ae4a-e4b306d58e87> | 4.28125 | 1,194 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 37.900332 | 95,643,533 |
In a remote area of the Indian Ocean, a tropical storm continues to intensify then weaken only to redevelop making forecasting very challenging.
The named storm is forecast to develop into a weak tropical cyclone over coming days. However only two days ago on February 14, a forecast was made for the storm to develop in... | <urn:uuid:505c1ca4-7a8f-4c32-9c6b-21f68a9b534b> | 2.921875 | 417 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 53.070871 | 95,643,558 |
At a time when life as we know it was just getting its start on Earth, Martian clay may have contained a key component for one of life's molecular building blocks, researchers say.
Boron found in a Martian meteorite suggests that the Red Planet may once have had the right chemistry to give rise to RNA, according to a n... | <urn:uuid:ec83373a-0938-46f8-9b6a-2497fc37cb05> | 3.9375 | 814 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 38.426503 | 95,643,582 |
The strong southwesterly wind shear that has been battering Tropical Storm Ana has abated and has given the storm a chance to re-organize.
Ana appeared more rounded on imagery from NASA's Terra satellite as thunderstorms again circled the low-level center.
NASA's Terra satellite passed over Ana on Oct. 22 at 22:10 UTC ... | <urn:uuid:7c711e89-e209-4c80-bc60-4703960f7834> | 2.71875 | 972 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 49.53152 | 95,643,599 |
When Japanese researchers wanted to see if chimps could learn things from simply viewing a situation just once, they needed to create situations where apes would anticipate a noteworthy event. So they made their own horror films just for apes.
The plots of King Kong Attack and Revenge of King Kong were rudimentary. The... | <urn:uuid:708d300e-285c-4503-810d-e07c79594c66> | 2.84375 | 364 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 47.831978 | 95,643,618 |
Several species of pines (Pinus spp.; Pinaceae) are highly invasive in parts of the Southern Hemisphere, where pines are widely planted in commercial forestry plantations. Problems associated with the spread of pines from plantations have increased substantially over the past few decades. We review the current extent o... | <urn:uuid:6e07d614-1361-4b06-a59c-5ea544f87f65> | 3.09375 | 339 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 0.99754 | 95,643,619 |
By this point you will have used and modified many of the example programs described earlier, and you will have written programs of your own. The problem of what to do when your program does not behave as expected is now relevant. Problems with programs are known as “bugs”, and the process of removing bugs from program... | <urn:uuid:5928126e-4c73-4c51-85c8-eac13cf4f76e> | 3.859375 | 204 | Truncated | Software Dev. | 48.764848 | 95,643,629 |
This photo-like image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ (MODIS) on NASA's terra.nasa.gov/ Terra satellite on September 19, 2006, at 10:15 a.m. local time (14:15 UTC). Helene is a well-defined, sprawling storm system with long spiral arms, a tightly wound central port... | <urn:uuid:43e6adc0-9292-41fa-a8b2-9c274a7ef390> | 3.109375 | 241 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 56.272742 | 95,643,643 |
CESA-2009:1335 -- centos 5 x86_64 openssl
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OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security protocols, as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library. Datagram ... | <urn:uuid:483146fa-5663-4220-8eba-1432e8c96f09> | 2.515625 | 653 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 43.471572 | 95,643,659 |
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Algal bloom: growth of marine algae that is so great, the algae changes the color of the water.
Host: an organism that is carrying a parasite.
In the marine biome, food is generally hard to come by. This is because most plants (which stay... | <urn:uuid:f4da816b-74f4-4f34-8dd2-8f2b30eb75e3> | 3.796875 | 934 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 57.455059 | 95,643,669 |
Heat has always been a problem for fuel cells. There’s usually either too much (ceramic fuel cells) for certain portable uses, such as automobiles or electronics, or too little (polymer fuel cells) to be efficient.
Image: Ddiagram of a fuel cell’s polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) with the proton-conducting group tria... | <urn:uuid:be2dc11a-e75f-4024-96ee-0a2b0cf03143> | 4.1875 | 869 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 28.812658 | 95,643,689 |
Classifying corals in terms of species is a risky business. Biologist Onno Diekmann from the University of Groningen has discovered that four species of stone corals differ so little in terms of their genetic material that they can scarcely be termed separate species.
Corals are formed by a collection of identical cora... | <urn:uuid:fa337f51-7b8b-4294-84c5-e0d8cacdef52> | 3.765625 | 973 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 36.000793 | 95,643,706 |
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Evolving a photosynthetic organelle
© Nakayama and Archibald; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2012
Received: 4 April 2012
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Published: 24 April 2012
The evolution of plastids from cyanobacteria is believed to represent a singularity in the history of life. The enigmatic amoeba Paulinell... | <urn:uuid:fb6248cd-70e0-493e-81cd-6d2fdaf8086f> | 3.375 | 3,744 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 35.716184 | 95,643,715 |
The Nordic Orion became the first cargo ship to take the treacherous Northwest Passage from the Pacific Ocean to Europe last year, and now its Danish operators are planning more trips across the Arctic as the sea ice melts.
If no new policy measures are adopted to combat global warming, the cost of climate change in Eu... | <urn:uuid:9eead4fe-9b84-4443-9c67-867a5fa33dcc> | 3.515625 | 325 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 38.896681 | 95,643,717 |
It isn’t easy to spot planets far away in our galaxy – normally we can only infer their presence, from the effect they have on their host stars. But now a group of astronomers has demonstrated an easier way to study distant worlds, by detecting the first visible light reflected off an exoplanet.
The Philae probe landin... | <urn:uuid:cef774bc-efc6-4a1b-864a-fb4ae4141068> | 3.234375 | 363 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 29.79144 | 95,643,718 |
Darkness will fall over a huge swath of America on August 21.
The good news is that the solar eclipse will be visible from more than ten states. The bad news, however, is you’ll have to cross your fingers you happen to live on the path, because hotels and campsites are booked solid.Prince Louis looks just like Prince G... | <urn:uuid:44d94f06-9171-4894-be5a-e69a2b351720> | 2.671875 | 508 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 52.408384 | 95,643,761 |
This chapter develops the standard properties of topological spaces. Most of these properties do not go beyond the level of a convenient language. In the text proper, we have given precisely those results which are used very frequently in all analysis. In the exercises, we give additional results, of which some just gi... | <urn:uuid:2bf68bfc-3773-47ee-be00-b039354defce> | 2.796875 | 151 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 30.477561 | 95,643,763 |
Pennsylvania bats: Some species headed for extinction?
Pennsylvania's bats have not come back.
After being decimated by white-nose syndrome, cave bats, especially the little brown bat and the northern long-eared bat, continue to show signs of massive decline, experts say.
This is the time of year when the Pennsylvania ... | <urn:uuid:3785a84e-bb23-4585-a424-4f25a2abfd73> | 3.265625 | 903 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 47.014359 | 95,643,765 |
Collisional cooling of ions in the rf-only multipole guides has become a method of choice for coupling electrospray sources to various mass analyzers. Normally parameters of such ion guides (length, pressure) provide enough thermalization and focusing for ions in a wide mass range. Noncovalent complexes, however, have ... | <urn:uuid:d735bf50-a54a-4589-a0d4-31ec126495bd> | 2.625 | 215 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 3.375602 | 95,643,766 |
Find the osmotic pressure of the solution: Lets understand how to find the osmotic pressure of a solution when you have given mass using osmotic pressure equation.
(A) Isotonic intervenous solutions contain 49 g/L of glucose .What is the osmotic pressure of blood?Solution A :
Strategy: Isotonic solutions by defination ... | <urn:uuid:765b2402-1a9d-4ce7-a19e-717b7dce37d3> | 3.0625 | 398 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 63.200305 | 95,643,771 |
As our oceans are suffering the devastating effects of human exploitation and climate change, various marine life are struggling ro survive.
Here are some of the most threatened ocean species, and ways in which we can contribute in working towards their conservation.
A huge portion of our planet's land mass is being us... | <urn:uuid:1cc7e8d1-575c-4f07-bc9a-668abcc81130> | 2.8125 | 151 | About (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 32.350269 | 95,643,782 |
Three generations of small diameter ceramic fibres based on polycrystalline silicon carbide have been developed over a period of thirty years. This has been possible due to studies into the relationships between the microstructures and properties of the fibres. A variety of techniques have been employed by research tea... | <urn:uuid:6a0beb0e-6961-4ecf-b412-ed348d3e4448> | 2.8125 | 277 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 10.201822 | 95,643,801 |
Scientists from St.Petersburg University and Zelinsky Institute, Russia investigated chemical applications of calcium carbide. The project advances the idea of diverse acetylene chemistry on the basis of carbide technology. Cheap carbide raw material has been transformed into valuable products for material science and ... | <urn:uuid:3e9e8f7b-4c39-42de-acbe-cd863bff08db> | 3.46875 | 1,291 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 26.878271 | 95,643,828 |
Bacteria speak to one another using peptide signals in a soundless language known as quorum sensing. In a step towards translating bacterial communications, researchers at Princeton University have revealed the structure and biosynthesis of streptide, a peptide involved in the quorum sensing system common to many strep... | <urn:uuid:7dc2b5ba-6b12-44a0-8be8-fd961e6b56c1> | 3.078125 | 1,548 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 34.34772 | 95,643,852 |
Every time energy changes forms, some portion is "lost." With each change some amount of the original energy turns into heat.
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a) how many km^2 of forest does the image represent?
b) how many km^2 of the forest is burned?
c) how many km^2 of forest remained after the fires?
I know that 1 pixel = 900m^2 but I do not know how to solve these problems.
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