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Using genome sequencing and phylogenetics, researchers have shown that the industrial yeast Pichia kudriavzevii is genetically the same species as Candida krusei.
From infant skeletal remains going back hundreds of years, a team produced three Treponema pallidum genomes, representing both syphilis- and yaws-causing sub... | <urn:uuid:4f06522c-4b52-4a78-9587-669f42982818> | 2.65625 | 402 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 6.093626 | 95,645,752 |
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The .Net Common Language Specifications
In an object-oriented environment such as C# and the .Net platform, everything is an object. Once an object is created it needs to be able to communicate or interact with other objects, and the object may need to be manipulated.
These other objects may have been created in a diff... | <urn:uuid:c506e9d6-9afa-4de6-b902-9a8af19ab84d> | 3.65625 | 606 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 49.400911 | 95,645,775 |
UMass Boston scientists predict heat, sea level rise increase for city of Boston
More severe storms, higher coastal waters, and extreme heat waves are coming to Boston in the near future. Mayor Marty Walsh’s administration plans to prepare the city for climate change using scientific projections compiled by a team of s... | <urn:uuid:d95415f9-33b0-496a-b9a2-a921596fb99f> | 3.140625 | 557 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 46.854885 | 95,645,801 |
The term ‘green’ is nowadays widely used (and misused) in connection with many types of technologies. If a technology is ‘green’ it usually means that the technology requires less non-renewable energy sources than other alternatives. However, other parameters need to be considered as well, such as sustainability, recyc... | <urn:uuid:5034d91a-9765-45bb-9f16-ec1999d5b840> | 3.296875 | 413 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 18.406484 | 95,645,812 |
The axiom of choice is the most esoteric math concept you are likely to encounter. You might think it has no relevance to computing, but you would be wrong.
A Programmers Guide To Theory
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- Finite State Machines
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A phreatomagmatic eruption ends when the water supply is exhausted, and not, as in most other eruptions when the magma stops rising. The development of an explosive surge is dependent on the magma coming into contact with water and forming a phreatomagmatic eruption. Water for a phreatomagmatic eruption could come from... | <urn:uuid:105d3bcd-b954-407e-944c-0333b28bfeb1> | 3.65625 | 326 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 28.817987 | 95,645,864 |
Is it possible to excite a photon? Or bring it to a higher electronvolt?
In the case of massive particles, what would it mean to "excite" one?
I mean in detail - not just to give it more energy.
Then try to see how that could relate to photons.
The words "excite", or "bring to higher level" suggests the existence of le... | <urn:uuid:2cdcbaf8-d336-40e7-9266-f63231580c91> | 3.265625 | 2,854 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 56.159722 | 95,645,884 |
A canyon or gorge is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and ... The processes of weathering and erosion will form canyons when the river's headwaters and estuary are at .... the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet, is regarded by some as the deepest canyon in the world at 5,500 m ( 18,000 f... | <urn:uuid:292e47d7-9129-4e95-9082-0e5f03a6008f> | 3.859375 | 342 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 77.063918 | 95,645,905 |
Appendix from Dynamics and locomotion of flexible foils in a frictional environment
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Over the past few decades, oscillating flexible foils have been used to study the physics of organismal propulsion in different fluid environments. Here, we extend this work to a study of flexible foils in ... | <urn:uuid:2f5d2695-19ea-4eda-a89a-4c797af54ba0> | 2.734375 | 301 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 30.077211 | 95,645,914 |
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phototropism defined in 1951 yearphototropism - phototropism (HELIOTROPISM);
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The effects of light and moisture on the early establishment of four canopy tree seedlings were studied from October 1999 to August 2000. The study was undertaken in a primary dry forest in the Hellshire Hills protected area, Jamaica with rainfall for the year totaling 650 mm most of which fell during the 6-month long ... | <urn:uuid:e59d02e8-bca7-4f19-92a4-02b87df0d616> | 3.015625 | 441 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 39.505093 | 95,645,994 |
Science says: The lunar surface is much more awesome than you think it is.
Here are ten heavenly bodies, ranked according to their general awesomeness:
While this list might not be 100 percent scientifically accurate ... still, poor Moon. It lacks the intrigue of the sun, the mystery of Mars, even the lonely metaphor o... | <urn:uuid:1c784ef6-d2bc-495f-baa6-d204a8b1864b> | 3.375 | 597 | Listicle | Science & Tech. | 44.411429 | 95,645,995 |
Plant cells communicate via microscopic channels called plasmodesmata that are embedded in their cell walls. For the stem cells in the plants' growing tips, called "meristems," the plasmodesmata are lifelines, allowing nutrients and genetic instructions for growth to flow in.
Developmental and environmental cues trigge... | <urn:uuid:f1aceabd-74c9-41c4-ac10-56422c4c2907> | 4 | 1,850 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 39.309965 | 95,646,006 |
Описание книги The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net:
Unit testing, done right, can mean the difference between a failed project and a successful one, between a maintainable code base and a code base that no one dares touch, and between getting home at 2 AM or getting home in time for dinner, even before a rel... | <urn:uuid:3babd669-dd61-4787-8337-0b28fa81c80a> | 2.8125 | 313 | Product Page | Software Dev. | 42.898696 | 95,646,010 |
In 2009, the DOE had funded the creation of 46 EFRCs to lay the scientific groundwork necessary to meet the global need for abundant, clean and economical energy.
Only about half of the 46 centers were funded in the second round, although 10 new ones were added for a total of 32 awards. Those 32 projects were selected ... | <urn:uuid:d41f6aef-bcac-42e0-a6e3-6658d08763c3> | 3.109375 | 499 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 12.240713 | 95,646,020 |
Nagoya University-led team of physicists use a synchrotron radiation X-ray source to probe a so-called 'structure-less' transition and develop a new understanding of molecular conductors
We normally associate conduction of electricity with metals. However, some of the high measured conductivities are found in certain o... | <urn:uuid:30749afb-74bb-45ce-8078-f432182a4ec9> | 3.359375 | 1,244 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 28.067809 | 95,646,024 |
Make sure you have a solid versioning policy in place. You can apply a version stamp using the AssemblyVersion attribute at compile time, for example:
It’s usually best to apply the same version number to all the assemblies in an application during the build process.
2. Give Assemblies Strong Names
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‘One of the largest human experiments in history’ was conducted on unsuspecting residents of San Francisco.
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This is a crazy story; one that seems like it must be a conspiracy theory. But the core of this incredible tale is documented and true.
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2. Polar Covalent Bonds: Acids and Bases. Based on McMurry’s Organic Chemistry , 7 th edition. Why this chapter?. Description of basic ways chemists account for chemical reactivity. Establish foundation for understanding specific reactions discussed in subsequent chapters.
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There is a common question of “why is geothermal energy considered a renewable resource?”. Well, talking about renewable resources, usually geothermal energy is not as popular as solar energy or wind energy. However, certainly this geothermal energy is in there whenever we talk about renewable resources. This is the in... | <urn:uuid:806d9290-cfed-49d0-97c8-f6d03c5f2e92> | 3.28125 | 557 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 46.267008 | 95,646,119 |
Smart, Self-Healing Hydrogels
A smart, self-healing hydrogel developed at UC San Diego is made of linked chains of polymer molecules that are similar to the soft tissues of the body. "Dangling side chain" molecules add the capability of self-repair when the body of the hydrogel is cut or damaged.
(Smart, self-healing h... | <urn:uuid:2d8e8ff1-376e-432e-99f2-3c63632b96ce> | 3.078125 | 1,244 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 57.462571 | 95,646,130 |
Earth might be our Solar System’s last habitable planet after all
By Mike Wehner
Earth is a fantastic place to be right now, but that won’t always be the case. If humanity doesn’t manage to completely destroy the planet for ourselves before our sun begins to grow noticeably warmer, its intense heat will make our world ... | <urn:uuid:c3579ad7-a052-40e3-bd7b-efc5c650cabb> | 3.609375 | 401 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 40.695828 | 95,646,135 |
The aurorae on Mars were discovered in 2004 using the SPICAM ultraviolet and infrared atmospheric spectrometer on board Mars Express. They are a powerful tool with which scientists can investigate the composition and structure of the Red Planet’s atmosphere.
Now Francois Leblanc, from the Service d’Aéronomie, IPSL/CNRS... | <urn:uuid:45cbd42b-b7a7-45c3-8360-aa26df28b26e> | 4.15625 | 1,314 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 39.081081 | 95,646,136 |
A View from Emerging Technology from the arXiv
The Puzzle of Particle Jets and Blast Waves
Nobody knows why particles form into jets when caught in a blast wave, but a new video casts some light on the conundrum.
One of the best ways to understand fluid motion is to record a video of the action. That has created some f... | <urn:uuid:c30f4b63-9e5c-4d15-96c1-db28902ab338> | 2.828125 | 479 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 49.875058 | 95,646,138 |
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is a system of ocean currents that has an essential role in Earth’s climate, redistributing heat and influencing the carbon cycle1, 2. The AMOC has been shown to be weakening in recent years1; this decline may reflect decadal-scale variability in convection in the ... | <urn:uuid:742b9822-d09b-440b-aff0-b9526e8fa8a5> | 2.71875 | 3,809 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 52.542159 | 95,646,155 |
After completion of its final-design review last year, it is full steam ahead for the construction of the MOONS instrument - the next generation multi-object spectrograph for the VLT. This remarkable instrument will combine for the first time: the 8 m collecting power of the VLT, 1000 optical fibres with individual rob... | <urn:uuid:9ac763d3-e301-4d5c-9581-cdae30685016> | 2.546875 | 1,623 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 23.009995 | 95,646,158 |
Losing green up the stack
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Fume hoods are an essential feature of many laboratories. They provide an enclosed workspace, typically the size of a large desktop, for mixing chemicals that give off noxious vapors, which are whisked out of the building by the ventilation sys... | <urn:uuid:f95d96d4-514b-4859-a34e-838c936b4044> | 2.71875 | 563 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 44.696667 | 95,646,167 |
Most vertebrate olfactory receptor neurons share a common G-protein-coupled pathway for transducing the binding of odorant into depolarization. The depolarization involves 2 currents: an influx of cations (including Ca2+) through cyclic nucleotide-gated channels and a secondary efflux of Cl- through Ca2+-gated Cl- chan... | <urn:uuid:ebef7be6-4a03-4401-9023-1ba5fda1b520> | 2.9375 | 231 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 13.578015 | 95,646,171 |
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Measurement and Detection of X-Rays
In any application or study of X-rays some method of detection of the X-ray beam will be required. It may be sufficient to detect the existence of a beam or to record its position relative to the incident beam or to some other reference. In such cases qualitative methods are acceptab... | <urn:uuid:3b9279ec-e553-41c6-b2cb-18721836e2a8> | 2.71875 | 329 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 50.801795 | 95,646,180 |
Soils and Global Change — An Overview
There have been a number of meetings and publications on soils and global change in the last few years (Anderson, 1992; Scharpenseel et al., 1990; Bouwman, 1990; Arnold et al., 1990). In continuing further with this work, we ought to bear in mind that the study of soil has been cha... | <urn:uuid:a37f0606-87e2-4d49-949b-4112c742279e> | 3.015625 | 308 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 41.305638 | 95,646,181 |
Daniel Bernoulli wrote Euler on 18 December 1734 that he was studying the small (transversal) vibrations of a rod with one end fixed in a wall.1 On 4 May 1735, he wrote that he had found the equation for its shape, namely â d4 y/ dz4 = y, but that its solutions known to him, namely sine and exponential functions, were ... | <urn:uuid:18786348-1aa5-4f09-a935-83f2c867ff00> | 3.625 | 254 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 45.015872 | 95,646,194 |
Elliptic boundary problems
To solve a boundary problem means to find a solution of a given differential equation in an open set (or manifold with boundary) Ω which on the boundary of Ω satisfies som other given differential equations, called the boundary conditions. In the previous chapters we have only discussed the C... | <urn:uuid:a2ba880a-b2fc-4e2e-8abb-9c4db8f34d4d> | 2.984375 | 284 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 41.641053 | 95,646,195 |
Researchers at the University of Rochester have made an optics breakthrough that allows them to encode an entire image's worth of data into a photon, slow the image down for storage, and then retrieve the image intact.
While the initial test image consists of only a few hundred pixels, a tremendous amount of informatio... | <urn:uuid:b9dcc88a-6170-4e2b-bce5-ca5cc4e94ee9> | 3.59375 | 802 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 37.62487 | 95,646,247 |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. and WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 20, 2018) – The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) commended legislation filed in the California Legislature on Friday that would make it easier for businesses, schools, nonprofits and municipalities to access solar energy.
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Human interaction and stimulation enhance chimpanzees’ cognitive abilities, according to new research from the Chimpanzee Cognition Center at The Ohio State University. The study (1) is the first to demonstrate that raising chimpanzees in a human cultural environment enhances their cognitive abilities, as measured by t... | <urn:uuid:eb6d14ad-788c-4a90-bace-693a4d5a3fe7> | 3.640625 | 618 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 31.139253 | 95,646,275 |
Giant pterosaurs 'were capable of flying 10,000 miles non-stop
to other continents'
Giant pterosaurs may have been capable of flying up to 10,000 miles non-stop, scientists believe.
The huge flying creatures, some of which had a wingspan of more than 30 feet, used updrafts of warm air and wind currents to fly over long... | <urn:uuid:43f0377a-e988-4c72-b271-1c193664e64d> | 3.8125 | 747 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 44.154463 | 95,646,281 |
into the atmosphere than all of mankind to date, let alone 10,000 times more, is one of the most pervasive as well as one of the most demonstrably false climatological claims out there.
It stems, ultimately, from a geologist named Ian Plimer, infamous for writing a widely discredited book titled Heaven and Earth, which... | <urn:uuid:9a8a8852-a972-43dd-ac41-eb784ebc7a25> | 3.421875 | 435 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 42.043897 | 95,646,290 |
The University of Pennsylvania is part of a collaboration of physicists and computer scientists from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Israel, Argentina and Japan investigating a radical new idea about the fundamental nature of reality.
Through the collaboration, called " It from Qubit ," researchers hope ... | <urn:uuid:bb4ddd22-0b06-4eb9-9bc4-037ee90dae6d> | 3.21875 | 1,381 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 22.091382 | 95,646,328 |
In a paper posted on the arXiv pre-print server on Wednesday, physicist Stephen Hawking dashed the dreams of science fiction aficionados by declaring that black holes don’t exist.
Stephen Hawking claims that two of the properties most often identified with black holes — the singularity and the event horizon — don’t exi... | <urn:uuid:0a11efcf-d2d9-4d77-b39b-c4fdbee35770> | 2.59375 | 755 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 27.746291 | 95,646,331 |
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It's a make-out session on a cosmic scale: Two incredibly hot stars, spinning in a tight orbit around one another, appear to be "kissing." The stellar pair are so close together that their surfaces overlap, creating a bridge between them.
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Octopus, squid and cuttlefish are famous for engaging in complex behavior, from unlocking and escaping from an aquarium tank to instantaneous skin camouflage to hide from predators. A new study suggests their evolutionary path to neural sophistication includes a novel mechanism: Prolific RNA editing at the expense of e... | <urn:uuid:e64afae2-7f28-4ea0-a1ea-aae8bb5e2e57> | 2.84375 | 691 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 25.510905 | 95,646,470 |
A Korean research team has developed semi-transparent perovskite solar cells that could be great candidates for solar windows.
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Max Planck scientists show how persistent pollutants will accumulate in the Arctic in the future.
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Rhacophorus arboreus is a relatively large treefrog with adult males smaller (42-60mm) than females (59-82mm). These frogs have large heads. They have well developed webbing on their hands but only moderate webbing on their toes. Digits terminate in truncated discs. Dorsally, these frogs are bright green with or withou... | <urn:uuid:e2dd93af-8557-41c8-bdc9-6ffd2cac270b> | 3.15625 | 630 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 58.22614 | 95,646,561 |
Researchers have for the first time used a gene editing technique to successfully cure a genetic condition in a mouse model.
Researchers have developed a gentle, contact-free method that uses sound waves to separate circulating tumour cells from blood samples quickly and efficiently enough for clinical use.
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Dendritic cells monitor foreign substances in the body and communicate whether they present a danger to the rest of the immune system. Emory immunologists have developed a sensitive method to detect and follow dendritic cells by marking them with a change in their DNA, and have discovered that they are more numerous an... | <urn:uuid:76d3787a-7216-4f4b-9853-b22dfae90d12> | 3.71875 | 915 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 34.622586 | 95,646,588 |
Ecology and Conservation of Estuarine Ecosystems: Lake St. Lucia as a Global Model (BOK)
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St Lucia is the world's oldest protected estuary and Africa's largest estuarine system. It is also the centerpiece of South Africa's first UNESCO World Heritage Site, the iSimangal... | <urn:uuid:b8a7d8b0-27a7-40dd-8ca6-fb83a8d00d5c> | 2.515625 | 331 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 24.468213 | 95,646,591 |
Study Finds ‘Microbial Clock’ may Help Determine Time of Death
News Oct 21, 2013
The clock is essentially the lock-step succession of bacterial changes that occur postmortem as bodies move through the decay process. And while the researchers used mice for the new study, previous studies on the human microbiome – the es... | <urn:uuid:001488c7-8edb-4933-a72f-70b0c2226bc5> | 3.109375 | 1,380 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 18.877346 | 95,646,616 |
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Long-term trends in geomagnetic daily variation
© The Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences (SGEPSS); The Seismological Society of Japan; The Volcanological Society of Japan; The Geodetic Society of Japan; The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences. 2007
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By: Butterfly Conservation
36 pages, colour photos
This report reveals that the moth population of Britain is in serious decline, causing concern for the future of many species of birds, bats and several small mammals that feed on them.
Since 1968, the Rothamsted network of light traps has been recordin... | <urn:uuid:46baa9ea-2031-4af2-82e9-fefc0bb40f86> | 3.546875 | 264 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 43.79781 | 95,646,649 |
Particulate matter sinking to the deep-sea floor at 2000 M in the Tongue of the Ocean, Bahamas, with a description of a new sedimentation trap
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A sedimentation trap for use just above the deep-sea floor was free-fallen to a depth of 2050 m in the Tongue of the Oc... | <urn:uuid:d499ee38-6b9b-4d93-aed5-314b0ec1f206> | 3.109375 | 869 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 53.063821 | 95,646,670 |
Water-soluble and crosslinked water-insoluble polymers having suitable functional groups are capable to retain metal ion pollutants through ion exchange or complexation, allowing their remove from contaminated water streams. The polymeric sorbents can be obtained by polymerization of monomers containing the functional ... | <urn:uuid:740ba42a-8bac-46b7-8c71-1cd89a13dd0c> | 2.875 | 214 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | -8.145152 | 95,646,691 |
General Relativity Notes
by Edmund Bertschinger
Publisher: MIT 1999
Number of pages: 156
Working with GR, particularly with the Einstein field equations, requires some understanding of differential geometry. In this text we will develop the essential mathematics needed to describe physics in curved spacetime. These not... | <urn:uuid:4aea3ab3-a984-4275-be4c-b03e0e165972> | 3.234375 | 320 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 15.843531 | 95,646,724 |
Even with 'mixed fibers' chromatin does not change its 3-D structure
"Interphase" refers to the period in the cell cycle in which chromosomes spend most of their time. During this phase, in between mitoses, chromosomes live "dissolved'' in the nucleus where they carry out the processes required for the duplication of g... | <urn:uuid:b8cb694c-31bb-40ed-9fa7-ee0698abde81> | 3.328125 | 1,124 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 33.758412 | 95,646,732 |
1. A fisherman catches two striped bass. The smaller of the two has a measured length of 93.46 cm(two decimal places, four significant figures), and the larger fish has a measured length of 135.3cm (one decimal place, four significant figures). What is the total length of fish caught for the day?
2. How many significan... | <urn:uuid:0f2f081b-93cf-450e-a2d6-8b6df7796f72> | 3.734375 | 442 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 93.999445 | 95,646,744 |
After days of anticipation a fresh breeze rises through a sunny field, creating a flurry of dancing white fluff. A busy cacophony of tiny parachutes rise and there is a wave of new excitement as young dandelion seeds finally break free from their parents and launch into the unknown. Finally, they’re on their way, with ... | <urn:uuid:004ee56b-58ed-4885-bc13-518ce6324fc0> | 4.125 | 1,672 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 43.224274 | 95,646,774 |
Turning-point filtering is a method to focus acoustic energy from a vertical line array receiver into an oceanographically meaningful image. The turning-point filter is a simple modification of the linear beamformer which compensates for the sound-speed variation in the water column. Focused peaks in the image (phase-s... | <urn:uuid:3738c923-13c3-4609-bd68-b1207584c325> | 2.828125 | 227 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 35.61514 | 95,646,789 |
Proteins in gel
Biochips carrying thousands of DNA fragments are widely used for examining genetic material. Experts would also like to have biochips on which proteins are anchored. This requires a gel layer which can now be produced industrially.
Several thousand test fields are tightly packed together on the tiny sur... | <urn:uuid:122c416a-312e-4f8b-9c87-a2d667b9f321> | 3.640625 | 614 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 49.413212 | 95,646,798 |
Researchers compared the ecological consequences of variation within species and among species, and found similar effects in many cases
Concerns about biodiversity tend to focus on the loss of species from ecosystems, but a new study suggests that the loss of variation within species can also have important ecological ... | <urn:uuid:015fbda4-caf6-4dc0-9a68-31b6f1ee58d7> | 3.9375 | 1,523 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 31.944323 | 95,646,825 |
Forest Soils of the South
The impacts of acidic deposition depend strongly on the specific chemistry of each soil and the nutrient cycles within each ecosystem. To provide perspective on the general characteristics, patterns, and diversity of forest soils in the South, the general geomorphology of the region and the ma... | <urn:uuid:e4b03888-8eff-4c6f-bc74-5c3a18750a41> | 3.125 | 101 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 28.570139 | 95,646,833 |
An Intro to Encryption in Python 3
An Intro to Encryption in Python 3
Learn how to encrypt and decrypt strings using the PyCrypto and cryptography libraries.
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Learn how error monitoring with Sentry closes the gap between the product team and your ... | <urn:uuid:04e2ec4e-76bc-4c83-aa71-3f0b681020ec> | 3.375 | 3,908 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 64.092304 | 95,646,841 |
Through a recent study, the researchers in our Department of Psychology were surprised to find that the ‘mental number line’ for congenitally blind people ran in the opposite direction to sighted people, with larger numbers to the left and smaller numbers to the right.
Whereas a sighted person would count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... | <urn:uuid:925aeb6d-b64e-4ff9-ad12-a6acdb4f9280> | 3.421875 | 611 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 41.177182 | 95,646,844 |
Bands of strong thunderstorms that make up tropical storm Nock-ten were visible in an infrared image captured on July 28 by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument that flies on NASA's Aqua satellite. The colder the cloud tops, the higher the thunderstorms and the stronger they are, and cloud top temperature... | <urn:uuid:00f2ac2e-3c8d-4fc1-a4d8-6661a2f29ab6> | 2.796875 | 1,059 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 52.359109 | 95,646,852 |
They have masses of 13 and 14 respectively and are referred to as "carbon-13" and "carbon-14." If two atoms have equal numbers of protons but differing numbers of neutrons, one is said to be an "isotope" of the other.
Carbon-13 and carbon-14 are thus isotopes of carbon-12.
Carbon has an atomic number of 6, an atomic we... | <urn:uuid:12f7d5f3-d671-4170-8dcb-50f7b6f5f951> | 3.984375 | 357 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 53.071121 | 95,646,868 |
July 1979. BYTE Magazine of that month had an article by Peter Grogono entitled "MOUSE: A Language for Microcomputers."
MOUSE is a stack based language like Forth but very terse (!) almost a byte code. It is lightweight; it can be implmented in under 200 lines of C. And can be quite powerful; in under 2000 lines of C.
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Tropical Depression Peipah has been very stubborn and has moved over the southern and central Philippines bringing clouds, showers and gusty winds.
NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured an image that showed Peipah's clouds covering the Visayas and Mindanao regions of the country.
The VIIRS instrument aboard NASA-NOA... | <urn:uuid:9737686b-62e0-4138-bb3d-97106bc64162> | 2.640625 | 982 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 44.470037 | 95,646,896 |
This means that:
- If a number is 4 more than a multiple of 5, i.e. it is in the sequence
- 4, 9, 14, 19, 24, 29, . . .
- then the number of its partitions is a multiple of 5.
- If a number is 5 more than a multiple of 7, i.e. it is in the sequence
- 5, 12, 19, 26, 33, 40, . . .
- then the number of its partitions is a... | <urn:uuid:c1e69f9f-55f9-471d-ab59-9dfa21fa875d> | 3.171875 | 1,074 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 76.373343 | 95,646,907 |
Populations of dolphins in the Eastern Pacific were expected to increase in abundance after successful regulations and agreements were enacted to reduce dolphin deaths as a result of fishing “bycatch,” cases in which animals are caught unintentionally along with intended targets.
But the new study, published in the Oct... | <urn:uuid:1e383b3f-8af6-4eb5-9897-5804e5c99650> | 3.65625 | 1,568 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 33.081186 | 95,646,923 |
Higher Mathematics for Engineers and Physicists
by Ivan S. Sokolnikoff
Publisher: McGraw Hill 1941
Number of pages: 537
A book on mathematics beyond the calculus, written from the point of view of the student of applied science. The chief purpose of the book is to help to bridge the gap which separates many engineers f... | <urn:uuid:62b3e962-1153-4667-bfcc-3a6dda8ec4d0> | 2.703125 | 326 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 30.172077 | 95,646,950 |
Introductory Chemistry Online
by Paul R. Young
Publisher: Wikibooks 2011
Number of pages: 444
Introductory Chemistry Online is an open-source introductory chemistry textbook/workbook that is designed cover a college-level one-semester course. The text is designed to be simple, uncluttered and very much to the point.
Ho... | <urn:uuid:6471fcdb-ce79-4b13-a77c-e0684887d445> | 2.65625 | 351 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 34.548344 | 95,646,999 |
Prof. Dr. Sabine Zachgo, Director of the Botanical Garden of the Osnabrück University and Head of the Network commented: “This project will contribute to the requirements of the German National Biological Strategy and promote the implementation of the preservation of genetic diversity of wild species and the protection... | <urn:uuid:99299d1d-d7a6-44ca-960b-89230a2fe7da> | 3.09375 | 1,324 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 33.599897 | 95,647,006 |
[13-DEC-13] We place a 1.27-mm thick (0.343 g/cm2) Al absorber in front of our continuous source. The absorber eliminates almost all x-rays below 14 keV. Our x-rays are generated with a 50-keV anode voltage, so their maximum possible energy is 50 keV. For these x-rays, energy deposition per unit mass density in silicon... | <urn:uuid:745dc02f-0312-4d78-8880-9286997ad7a5> | 2.6875 | 13,652 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 76.180604 | 95,647,009 |
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The formation of galaxies is one of the greatest puzzles in astronomy, the solution is shrouded in the depths of space and time, but has profound implications for the universe we observe today. This book discusses the beginnings of the process from cosmological observations and calculations. It also con... | <urn:uuid:fefffd23-1fa0-4031-8b44-2000ced385d9> | 3.109375 | 613 | User Review | Science & Tech. | 47.955115 | 95,647,019 |
Environmental data have inherent uncertainty which is often ignored in visualization. For example, meteorological stations measure wind with good accuracy, but winds are often averaged over minutes or hours. As another example, Doppler radars (wind profilers and ocean current radars) take thousands of samples and avera... | <urn:uuid:f1e5c9df-13a3-4b31-8ef0-af00db495a02> | 2.90625 | 252 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 11.537824 | 95,647,032 |
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In mathematics and its applications, particularly to phase transitions in matter, a Stefan problem (also Stefan task) is a particular kind of boundary value problem for a partial differential equat... | <urn:uuid:7a024cf4-2eac-4a00-8ac2-8f8d0fbaed68> | 3.5 | 2,158 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 54.347994 | 95,647,036 |
Renewable energy has been replacing traditional non-renewable energy owing to the limitation of the latter and environmental protection. Renewable energy is energy that can be circularly regenerated in nature. It mainly includes solar energy, wind energy, biomass energy, tidal energy and ocean thermal energy, just name... | <urn:uuid:64007318-9b9f-49bd-9604-bae8ffc42dd9> | 3.03125 | 233 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 36.185888 | 95,647,055 |
Lagoons represent nearly 13% of the shoreline globally and around 5% in Europe. Coastal lagoons are shallow water bodies separated from the ocean by a barrier (e.g., narrow spit), connected at least intermittently to the ocean by one or more restricted inlets, and usually geographically oriented parallel to the shore-l... | <urn:uuid:afd7dffc-3b43-4e16-9445-a1daaa5ab968> | 3.203125 | 357 | Product Page | Science & Tech. | 12.994299 | 95,647,060 |
A dinosaur tail with beautifully preserved feathers still attached to the bone has been found preserved in amber, and it's one of the coolest things we've ever seen.
It's not the first time feathers have been found trapped in amber, but it is the first time that researchers have been able to definitively link them to a... | <urn:uuid:e968180f-8c8f-49dc-8d6f-187d84533d92> | 3.4375 | 809 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 45.590714 | 95,647,062 |
Dark matter holds the universe together right? Well, the theory of dark matter may be widely believed, but there isn't much of it in our part of the universe. The research team puts forward its findings. Believers question the accuracy of what they have found.
This isn't a question of how much is out there. The team fo... | <urn:uuid:4a71a256-9def-4648-bc5e-6d158df862e7> | 3.546875 | 211 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 68.427711 | 95,647,078 |
Kostal Cone is made of fragmented and solidified lava called cinder and its summit contains a bowl-shaped crater. Kostal's cinders were ejected by lava fountain eruptions and accumulated around the volcano's vent in the shape of a cone when they fell back around its surroundings. Lava flows from Kostal's 400 BP eruptio... | <urn:uuid:82d93dd1-24bc-4b0d-a71c-0bae416b5f31> | 3.875 | 303 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 40.313686 | 95,647,080 |
A study conducted by University of Utah genetics researchers shows that the steroid hormone ecdysone controls an important phase in the embryonic development of insects, providing an unexpected parallel with the role of the hormone in controlling metamorphosis. The studys findings also give scientists new insights into... | <urn:uuid:db3937f2-e334-4e8a-b63f-3e6da7f60105> | 2.96875 | 916 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 34.479407 | 95,647,118 |
The hippocampus in the brain's temporal lobe is responsible for more than just long-term memory. Researchers have for the first time demonstrated that it is also involved in quick and successful conflict resolution. The team headed by Prof Dr Nikolai Axmacher from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), together with collea... | <urn:uuid:60e51add-69c0-44b6-958f-f573b855136b> | 3.21875 | 1,467 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 40.19951 | 95,647,129 |
But a group of researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is examining alternative materials that can be modified to absorb oil and chemicals. If further developed, the technology may offer a cheaper and “greener” method to absorb oil and heavy metals from water and other surfaces.
Shaoqin “Sarah” Gong, a resea... | <urn:uuid:b9576870-486a-4918-9f99-c0e3027069f7> | 3.359375 | 607 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 26.894605 | 95,647,139 |
Deposits in lakes and seas contain a wealth of information related to the environ-mental conditions prevalent during their genesis. Thus, they are an unfailing archive, particularly with regard to paleo-environmental conditions, for environmental and climate scientists. Now, the fine art is to interpret the derived dat... | <urn:uuid:69c85361-0148-425f-ab5e-b9468b6b4081> | 3.6875 | 1,174 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 32.477604 | 95,647,148 |
This function returns the end of line (EOL) text marker, also known as CRLF (carriage return line feed ~ #13 #10).
@EOL() : String
String split := @EOL();
String file := "c:\test\file_in_utf8.txt";
Integer cpUTF8 := 65001; //the utf8 codepage;
@FileReadTextLines(file, cpUTF8, textLines, split);
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