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This is an image of the surface of Io.
Click on image for full size
Can there be Life in the Environment of Io?
In spite of the fact that Io has an atmosphere, the environment of Io seems pretty unfriendly toward life as we know it
Io is very small, so there is not much gravity. For this reason, the atmosphere of Io is... | <urn:uuid:02e394b4-f0c3-4110-8b8a-89d2995b8116> | 3.34375 | 604 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 54.294398 | 3,200 |
An image of one of a dozen such tornadoes found by SOHO. The lighter right-hand side is material that is moving towards SOHO. The darker left-hand side is material that is moving away from SOHO (the doppler effect).
Click on image for full size
Courtesy of NASA
Tornadoes on the Sun!
News story originally written on May... | <urn:uuid:fc5a7608-cb14-4156-8075-bac22a571ad2> | 2.984375 | 613 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 59.835499 | 3,201 |
The strfmon() function formats the specified amounts according to the format specification format and places the result in the character array s of size max.
Ordinary characters in format are copied to s without conversion. Conversion specifiers are introduced by a `%' character. Immediately following it there can be z... | <urn:uuid:9cfc027a-d81b-4a36-ad59-bb7f969a168e> | 3.375 | 391 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 46.384671 | 3,202 |
Genus = Larix,
Displaying matches 1 - 2 of 2.
|Larix lyallii (subalpine larch, alpine larch, Lyall's larch, tamarack)
(= Larix lyallii in Flora of the Pacific Northwest)
A small, often misshapen tree up to 20 m. tall.
Distribution: Southern British Columbia to the central Cascades and Wenatchee Mountains in Washington,... | <urn:uuid:d401a5e9-5f8f-4dd5-9eb3-c895957bbb9a> | 2.671875 | 221 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 26.356298 | 3,203 |
By Matin Durrani, Editor, Physics World
The Royal Society — perhaps the world’s oldest and most prestigious scientific society — is celebrating its 350th anniversary this year. It was founded in 1650 by a group of 12 natural philosophers, including Robert Boyle, best known for his law describing how the pressure of a g... | <urn:uuid:1ef53030-21a4-4043-9156-8b31d1e92578> | 2.703125 | 579 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 36.802979 | 3,204 |
Glowing Remnant from a Star-Shattering Explosion
This "true color" Chandra image of N132D shows the beautiful, complex remnant of an explosion of a massive star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy about 160,000 light years from Earth. The colors represent different ranges of X-rays, with red, green, and blue... | <urn:uuid:d1a7dd89-5a2a-478f-9557-8a030b6ebc77> | 3.28125 | 174 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 47.350529 | 3,205 |
We mentioned a recent paper that examined silicon/carbon fibers for use in batteries. Shown above is a TEM image from the paper. From it you can tell the fibers are essentially hollow carbon fibers with a layer of silicon around the outside edge.
Transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) work by shooting a beam of elect... | <urn:uuid:6d86496c-53c1-4080-8a94-89e00c16c845> | 3.640625 | 240 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 44.574091 | 3,206 |
This section describes how to use mysqldump to produce dump files, and how to reload dump files. A dump file can be used in several ways:
As a backup to enable data recovery in case of data loss.
As a source of data for setting up replication slaves.
As a source of data for experimentation:
To make a copy of a database... | <urn:uuid:182834a8-1fd0-4088-9d77-9703ea2a3ee7> | 3.390625 | 252 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 45.133333 | 3,207 |
Application Code Signing
Signing an application allows the system to identify who signed the application and to verify that the application has not been modified since it was signed. Signing is a requirement for submitting to the App Store (both for iOS and Mac apps). OS X and iOS verify the signature of applications d... | <urn:uuid:2c9d6cec-4acb-47fa-8ad7-699062ed53b5> | 3.296875 | 410 | Knowledge Article | Software Dev. | 33.010903 | 3,208 |
GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language. Octave has extensive tools for solv... | <urn:uuid:ea48cfbe-f960-4639-8b5f-c6cc73963105> | 2.546875 | 494 | Knowledge Article | Software Dev. | 36.590888 | 3,209 |
Let's start with the number 1. We'll allow ourselves to add or subtract the number 1 to get to new numbers.
Question: what integers will we be able to reach by this process?
Answer: all of them.
To get to 17 simply add 1 16 times. To get to -42 simply subtract 1 43 times. The fact that the integers can be "built" by ad... | <urn:uuid:13f31e82-652f-40d8-ac98-800420ce5558> | 2.9375 | 2,727 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 71.052973 | 3,210 |
by definition. The q-Pochhammer symbol is a major building block in the construction of q-analogs; for instance, in the theory of basic hypergeometric series, it plays the role that the ordinary Pochhammer symbol plays in the theory of generalized hypergeometric series.
Unlike the ordinary Pochhammer symbol, the q-Poch... | <urn:uuid:37ca191a-aeba-40b8-abc9-644d2a79e77e> | 2.875 | 867 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 43.063215 | 3,211 |
Structure of RNase A
|PDB structures||RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum|
|Gene Ontology||AmiGO / EGO|
The importance of bovine pancreatic RNase A was secured when the Armour & Co. (of hot dog fame) purified a kilogram of it, and gave 10 mg samples away free to any interested scientists. The ability to have a single lot of purified ... | <urn:uuid:d0ce9b78-5a05-4dae-b236-ca3f87650e03> | 2.953125 | 1,990 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 66.418369 | 3,212 |
Threat abatement plan
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, May 2009
- Background paper for the threat abatement plan for the impacts of marine debris on vertbrate marine life (PDF - 1.71 MB) | (RTF - 558 KB)
- Threat abatement plan for the impacts of marine debris on vertbrate marine life (PDF -... | <urn:uuid:5b01ba13-5598-40a3-815e-cd5e86586dd0> | 2.9375 | 362 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | -3.679034 | 3,213 |
The Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) is an information and|
analysis tool on global climate change. It provides a comprehensive
and comparable database of greenhouse gas emissions data (including
all major sources and sinks) and other climate-relevant
indicators. CAIT can be used to analyze a wide range of
clima... | <urn:uuid:1c4aa814-3d90-46a0-bb2a-a9ed64a790ea> | 2.65625 | 105 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 11.334808 | 3,214 |
This margarita glass-shaped space setup is nicknamed, SPS-ALPHA – which is short for Solar Power Satellite via Arbitrarily Large PHased Array. It consists of a large array of thin-film mirrors attached to the curved surface of a massive satellite. These mirrors are moveable and will be used to redirect incoming Sunligh... | <urn:uuid:6190dafc-d372-4cdf-8fa1-f736f6b743a5> | 3.5 | 961 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 38.539571 | 3,215 |
See also the
Dr. Math FAQ:
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Selected answers to common questions:
Volume of a tank.
- Averaging Two Angles [06/08/1999]
How do you take the average of two or more angles?
- Basics of Trigonometr... | <urn:uuid:bd822fd3-b498-428e-b51b-5393a8c8e832> | 3.3125 | 1,815 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 77.8179 | 3,216 |
Well, security should be no different. To build secure mobile apps, there are certain things that we're just going to have to do, and darn near every single time we write code.
So, what security goodies are in your bag of tricks? Here's some food for thought on some things you might find useful, in no particular order:... | <urn:uuid:590363e6-f889-495a-b13b-ce314fc182f5> | 2.84375 | 751 | Personal Blog | Software Dev. | 48.645908 | 3,217 |
Bare-Naked Languages or What Not to Model
by Jack Greenfield
Summary: Domain-specific language (DSL) technology was introduced at Microsoft as part of the software factories methodology. While DSLs are useful as stand-alone languages, placing them in the context of a software factory makes them more powerful and helps ... | <urn:uuid:bcf565b6-a5fa-492f-a972-62d54b4c49ef> | 2.53125 | 9,451 | Truncated | Software Dev. | 35.755767 | 3,218 |
Operating systems and runtime environments typically provide some form of isolation between applications. For example, Microsoft Windows uses processes to isolate applications. This isolation is necessary to ensure that code running in one application cannot adversely affect other, unrelated applications.
Application d... | <urn:uuid:d56be093-5630-4726-8672-8f829743f239> | 3.640625 | 186 | Documentation | Software Dev. | -8.731054 | 3,219 |
The XmlLite library allows developers to build high-performance XML-based applications that provide a high degree of interoperability with other applications that adhere to the XML 1.0 standard. The primary goals of XmlLite are ease of use, performance, and standards compliance.
XmlLite works with any Windows language ... | <urn:uuid:afc1de8a-e57a-4e74-bc10-8eb3635d863f> | 2.734375 | 1,067 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 44.147531 | 3,220 |
Assigns a handle to this window.
Assembly: System.Windows.Forms (in System.Windows.Forms.dll)
The handle to assign cannot be in a different application process.
The following code example demonstrates intercepting operating system window messages in a window procedure. The example creates a class that inherits from Nat... | <urn:uuid:e8f95dbd-5312-4b2f-845c-992d9e784785> | 2.546875 | 511 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 25.405342 | 3,221 |
5.3.4 Host Galaxies
A simple test of unification is that the morphology and magnitude of radio galaxies and quasar host galaxies be comparable. At present the observational situation for quasars and FR II radio galaxies is not entirely clear, as comparisons of their mean host galaxy luminosities have led to conflicting... | <urn:uuid:7a00aecc-4da3-42ad-8233-964f98c0a2ab> | 2.609375 | 937 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 48.623301 | 3,222 |
I’m tickled to see that my work on stonefly flight has come up in this discussion. One thing that is worth adding here is that a gills-to-wings transition would require a simultaneous change in gas exchange, since a sophisticated wing is unlikely to also be an effective gill, and the physics and physiology of gas excha... | <urn:uuid:eb4046fd-5a95-4d7b-918b-bed39cfc7831> | 2.703125 | 676 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 55.837475 | 3,223 |
Scientist’s efforts to fathom how the oceans influence climate and fisheries productivity enter a new era this month with the milestone establishment of a network of 3,000 futuristic, 1.5-metre tall ocean robots operating simultaneously throughout the world’s oceans.
The Argo project has already helped Australian scien... | <urn:uuid:c7ae92d4-96ba-42ed-b0e7-3e4de0cae2d0> | 3.0625 | 537 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 21.732907 | 3,224 |
Researchers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and several other government and academic institutions have created four new supercomputer simulations that for the first time combine their mathematical computer models of the atmosphere, ocean, land surface and sea ice. These simulations are the first field t... | <urn:uuid:29c32f5f-08d6-4129-8686-d024eca547ef> | 3.28125 | 1,137 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 14.703019 | 3,225 |
The Mg/Ca in foraminifera shells is commonly used as a proxy to estimate ocean temperatures in Earth’s past. However, studies have shown that both dissolution and salinity influence the Mg/Ca in shells of tropical foraminifera, which can cause paleotemperature estimates to be inaccurate. We measured Mg/Ca in shells of ... | <urn:uuid:4c233e43-b19a-4654-80b1-468c074b7642> | 2.84375 | 260 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 27.516287 | 3,226 |
Launch Date: August 14, 2014
Mission Project Home Page - http://mms.gsfc.nasa.gov/
MMS will investigate how the Sun's and Earth's magnetic fields connect and disconnect, explosively transferring energy from one to the other in a process that is important at the Sun, other planets, and everywhere in the universe, known ... | <urn:uuid:0df254ed-c419-47da-9220-471aae7c031e> | 3.265625 | 320 | About (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 21.827542 | 3,227 |
SWAN Lyman-alpha whole sky map in ecliptic coordinates. Two areas were not covered for safety reasons, around the Sun and around the anti-solar direction. The color is coding the intensity, in counts per second per pixel (one square degree), which corresponds to 1.3 Rayleigh. A number of UV hot stars can be identified,... | <urn:uuid:b956fdde-dd35-4ddc-b697-985dfd032fc2> | 3.078125 | 240 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 43.645949 | 3,228 |
Advance in science comes by laying brick upon brick, not by sudden
erection of fairy palaces.
- J. S. Huxley
Astronomers refer to Venus as Earth's sister planet. Both are similar in size, mass, density and volume. Both formed about the same time and condensed out of the same nebula. However, during the last few years s... | <urn:uuid:bcaa0314-ca1b-470f-ac88-d2841847fb8c> | 4.28125 | 3,719 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 52.345557 | 3,229 |
After releasing a fantastic piece last December on the link between climate change and “mind-boggling” extreme weather, PBS is taking its coverage of the issue one step further.
The PBS NewsHour has just rolled out a new series, “Coping With Climate Change,” using multi-media reporting to explore the impact that our wa... | <urn:uuid:a52d2432-1504-4b53-8df8-b389e1bf8241> | 3.140625 | 433 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 37.678846 | 3,230 |
Unitary transformations are like orthogonal transformations, except we’re working with a complex inner product space. We’ll focus on just the transformations that are unitary with respect to the inner product itself. That is, we ask that
and so we must have just as we wrote for orthogonal transformations, but we have t... | <urn:uuid:e781c5a3-8505-4486-8c3c-7276e1377f94> | 3 | 322 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 42.795 | 3,231 |
2012 SURF: Evolution of Fruit Fly Wings
Selection to Change the Wings in Drosophila
The goal of this project is to carry out controlled selective breeding on wings in fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) so that we can shed light on the genetics of evolution. Fly wings are slightly different in closely related species... | <urn:uuid:aa1876c2-122f-485f-ba0b-2c02959661e7> | 3.046875 | 184 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 28.952895 | 3,232 |
Genome traces pigeons to the Middle East
Flying the coop Much of the world's pigeon population descends from the Middle East, confirms one of the most extensive DNA studies on the now ubiquitous bird.
The study, published in the journal Science, decoded the genetic blueprint of the rock pigeon (Columba livia) — the bir... | <urn:uuid:f05e77e1-610c-4ab2-8a5d-cda41c1d99c4> | 3.890625 | 699 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 39.51958 | 3,233 |
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Electrical conductivity is a measure of how well a material accommodates the transport of electric charge. Its SI derived unit is the siemens per metre, (A2s3m-3kg-1) (named after Werner von Siemens). It is the ratio of the current density to the electric field strength. This applies a... | <urn:uuid:f1a7a351-f4fa-44f1-8718-6555700614b3> | 4 | 287 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 18.196298 | 3,234 |
The breeding population of chinstrap penguins has declined significantly as temperatures have rapidly warmed on the Antarctic Peninsula, according to researchers funded in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The study indicates that changing climatic conditions, rather than the impact of tourism, have had th... | <urn:uuid:2afa46c6-6c9a-46b2-9aa6-09ee5e55a4e5> | 3.0625 | 394 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 31.323284 | 3,235 |
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(Science: zoology) An ichneumon (Herpestes galera) native of southern Africa and madagascar. It is reddish brown or dark brown, grizzled with white.
Synonym: von... | <urn:uuid:97bcb753-0adc-498c-a48c-1f304db053cb> | 2.75 | 194 | Structured Data | Science & Tech. | 46.140164 | 3,236 |
Astronomers detect atmosphereof planet outside solar system
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have made the first direct detection of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a star outside our solar system and have obtained the first information about its chemical composition. Their unique observations demons... | <urn:uuid:be53f7b0-83df-48d6-8de8-8f2a067c2449> | 3.5625 | 1,260 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 30.494808 | 3,237 |
What is meant by first contact?
Basically it's the start of the eclipse. The point where the eclipsing body first touches the primary star's image and starts a decrease in the primary star's brightness as seen from Earth. But it's not so simple. With epsilon Aurigae, first contact appears to be wavelength dependent. Th... | <urn:uuid:e4110162-b091-43d5-80da-0140bf3f775d> | 3.5625 | 450 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 54.391179 | 3,238 |
On our second afternoon at Woleai, I had the opportunity to deploy my drifter. I went out to the reef in one of the small boats that we use to move from the big ship, anchored in deep water, to the shallow reef area, near the shore.
To begin, I looked around to observe the water movement, and I jumped in the water to f... | <urn:uuid:789e4c67-d683-4277-a157-b2e80aefe6e7> | 2.828125 | 322 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 48.006043 | 3,239 |
HomePHP An Introduction to Simulating the Model-View-Controller Schema in PHP
An Introduction to Simulating the Model-View-Controller Schema in PHP
Would you like to learn how to simulate an MVC-based system with PHP? If so, you've come to the right place. This is the first article in a three-part series that will show... | <urn:uuid:8b899c15-0fd2-4048-ae9a-9c5c65bf7e7f> | 2.609375 | 676 | Truncated | Software Dev. | 38.460882 | 3,240 |
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Oct. 5 (UPI) — The possible impact of human activity on the world’s environment and climate may not be known for 40 years or more, U.S. researchers say.
A Texas A&M study shows that although it is evident the world is experiencing one of the fastest warming rates since the beginning of climate r... | <urn:uuid:fd3164e1-7c01-4fde-a0e0-012a9cb02308> | 3.3125 | 426 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 32.644623 | 3,241 |
Proponents of nuclear fusion claim that if it succeeds, the ITER project will result in a cost effective and potentially inexhaustible supply of energy that will eventually replace oil and gas altogether. Officials from the six-partner consortium predict that the project will create approximately 10,000 jobs and take e... | <urn:uuid:2f08f912-5255-45d3-9e1a-91f34bff0697> | 3.203125 | 203 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 30.112402 | 3,242 |
COLUMBIA, Mo. – A falling leaf often catches a poet's eye, but scientists also wonder about the phenomenon that causes leaves to fall, or abscission in plants. Abscission is the physiological process plants use to separate entire organs, such as leaves, petals, flowers and fruit, that allow plants to discard non-functi... | <urn:uuid:e2057fa4-01a0-4dec-ac5e-3e035ad7c6b6> | 3.765625 | 584 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 26.86888 | 3,243 |
COLLEGE STATION – "Four and 20 black birds baked in a pie" – but wait, one has blue-gray eyes.
That discovery, backed by DNA analysis, means scientists now know there is one more species of black shrike in the Albertine Rift of Africa than was previously thought. And if Dr. Gary Voelker has his way, he'll soon be study... | <urn:uuid:135e865f-0a1b-4a85-b329-89fd1acff552> | 2.890625 | 760 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 36.73659 | 3,244 |
Itokawa’s Muses Sea (the smooth area near the center), where HAYABUSA collected its sample
Optical microscope photo of Itokawa dust particles supported by 5-µm-diameter carbon fibers (courtesy: Osaka University/JAXA)
For me, it’s the amazing amount of information such tiny samples hold about the heating history of the ... | <urn:uuid:a4d0c0d4-6fcd-4a73-bc62-534ac7727dcb> | 3.453125 | 1,705 | Audio Transcript | Science & Tech. | 53.997704 | 3,245 |
When NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) launches on Monday (Feb. 11), it will deliver to orbit the latest and most capable Earth-observing satellite in a four-decade long project to study the surface of our planet.
Examining Earth at a resolution of a quarter of an acre (0.1 hectare), the Landsat satellites ... | <urn:uuid:afd42c68-f3c6-49d7-b7b6-a53e7d7bff23> | 4 | 1,374 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 43.178333 | 3,246 |
Name: Steve L.
Date: July 2003
If centrifugal forces are "Imaginary" or "virtual", then how does a centrifuge manage
to separate particles in immersion according to their mass?
I hope I am understanding your question correctly. I do not know what you mean by "virtual" or
"imaginary". The force is a REAL one. As you spi... | <urn:uuid:57daa09d-a06d-41e1-8214-150073192a00> | 3.21875 | 785 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 53.54861 | 3,247 |
Kitchen chemistry is alive and well at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) as chemical researchers report cooking up a new and more water-soluble strain of carbon nanotubes. An article about this work, “Rapidly Functionalized, Water-Dispersed Carbon Nanotubes at High Concentration,” appeared Jan. 11, 2006, in the... | <urn:uuid:937720b2-6abd-493c-8c14-a39aacdde72c> | 3.46875 | 1,061 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 22.784501 | 3,248 |
Physicists have observed for the first time two distinct hot spots that appear to be showering Earth with an excess of cosmic rays. The discovery calls into question nearly a century of understanding about galactic magnetic fields near our solar system because it raises the possibility that an unknown source or magneti... | <urn:uuid:90bc5244-5d60-4e11-b589-45a6dbff9073> | 3.953125 | 618 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 27.063692 | 3,249 |
The CEI is currently involved in many international space missions and projects.
Gaia: Gaia was adopted within the scientific programme of the European Space Agency (ESA) in October 2000. The mission aims to: measure the positions of ~1 billion stars both in our Galaxy and other members of the Local Group, with an accu... | <urn:uuid:87c1836c-5c2f-464a-b960-6d267edf25b2> | 2.734375 | 1,461 | About (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 30.820569 | 3,250 |
This class can be used to encrypt data (messages, files) and hide that data in images using steganography techniques. Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one apart from the intended recipient knows of the existence of the message; this is in contrast to cryptography, wh... | <urn:uuid:6cb51bbe-4c54-449d-bf2e-e30f053d1522> | 3.078125 | 241 | Knowledge Article | Software Dev. | 23.241574 | 3,251 |
The spacecraft had a fruitful dozen years. Launched in 1999, Stardust's first mission was to capture the debris cascading off of the comet Wild 2 and bring it back to Earth. Wild 2 is a hunk of dust and ice that's believed to be 4.6 billion years old, and so scientists thought it might contain the building blocks of th... | <urn:uuid:9151e696-a0e4-43e0-9f9c-21bc4f1d9b43> | 4.125 | 708 | Nonfiction Writing | Science & Tech. | 60.170751 | 3,252 |
As we've seen over the past year, solar energy use worldwide continues to grow rapidly. While this is certainly a positive trend, we face a challenge in today's energy landscape. In some cases, geographic and economic situations make solar power installation extremely difficult. These situations demonstrate a great nee... | <urn:uuid:43d35ae5-f717-4b87-a05f-39a2c7e8b73b> | 3.21875 | 810 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 27.784017 | 3,253 |
Sep. 14, 2010 The contiguous United States had its fourth-warmest summer (June-August) on record, according to the latest NOAA State of the Climate report issued September 8. The report also showed the August average temperature was 75.0 degrees F, which is 2.2 degrees F above the long-term (1901-2000) average. Last mo... | <urn:uuid:4180b679-3867-4121-ac29-e4a49a859ab9> | 3.1875 | 1,344 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 41.519283 | 3,254 |
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Scientists worldwide have been capturing and analyzing detailed data about the atmosphere for decades. Information about the oceans has been much more spotty, however. Ships have taken readings along many isolated transects, but each effort has occurred at a moment in time, and significant portions... | <urn:uuid:69257608-39e7-4767-8712-7068e9557f83> | 3.671875 | 484 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 47.021634 | 3,255 |
July 8, 2009–Good solar potential, relative proximity to existing or potential energy transmission corridors, and the perception of the fewest conflicts with existing land uses and the natural environment were factors in site selection.
May 27, 2009–Researchers from California and Hawaii have analyzed 25 factors and de... | <urn:uuid:e3661328-c220-4ec8-b875-16007b80c388> | 2.90625 | 196 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 20.116552 | 3,256 |
To help clarify: the term ASP is an acronym for Active Server Pages, which was coined some years ago. ASP.NET makes use the core .NET framework to accomplish it's goals, and is available in several languages (E.G. C#, VB).
that kind of exactly same mostly i mean to say .net or asp.net both are similar. When you add .ne... | <urn:uuid:0aa1084b-c599-4c0c-8222-9ca0061f785a> | 3.5 | 261 | Comment Section | Software Dev. | 69.850195 | 3,257 |
Cosmic Hand Reaches for the Light
By SPACE.com Staff
posted: 04 April 2009
10:37 am ET
Tiny and dying but still-powerful stars called pulsars spin like crazy and light up their surroundings, often with ghostly glows. So it is with PSR B1509-58, which long ago collapsed into a sphere just 12 miles in diameter after runn... | <urn:uuid:3b2a1acf-d7d2-4c8c-a46b-61acd522e7da> | 2.8125 | 356 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 64.043077 | 3,258 |
LA Plans a Massive Water Conservation Plan
A $2 billion proposal to conserve water for the City of Los Angeles California has reached city officials who will take a serious look at the future of water. The plan proposes a massive water conservation plan to conserve about 32 billion gallons of water each year!
Part of t... | <urn:uuid:5d661cd6-e7b9-483a-8f6c-accd01456e8b> | 2.703125 | 385 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 49.386403 | 3,259 |
Data reported by the weather station: 865823 (SULS)
Latitude: -34.85 | Longitude: -55.1 | Altitude: 30
Weather Maldonado - Capitan Corbeta
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To calculate annual averages, we analyzed data of 359 days (98.36% of year).
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in a Changing Climate Perspective
The five year research programme EcoChange (2010-2014) is all about discovering and predicting what ecological consequences climate changes - e g increased temperature and precipitation – will have on the Baltic Sea, and how the Baltic Sea will respond to these consequences.
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Instead of hitting the books, Eaton Rapids students got a lesson Wednesday, in going green.
"Cleaning up our planet is the obligation of our generation," says Devan Rostorfer, the Eaton Rapids High School senior who organized the Community Earth Day Festival as part of an independent study.
High school students spent E... | <urn:uuid:829215f1-557d-4287-b4ac-8e9c58ce5c6d> | 2.671875 | 361 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 55.54923 | 3,262 |
New research from a pair of scientists at the excellently-named Flinders University in Australia reveals that sperm whales are actually able to offset their own carbon emissions. Like all mammals, sperm whales take in oxygen and turn it into carbon dioxide, but it turns out that the creatures also defecate iron-rich nu... | <urn:uuid:ac3cfced-238e-4fa9-bc82-d558ea9f99d6> | 3.625 | 439 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 36.599213 | 3,263 |
Climate News and Views
Hot Year, Cool Response -- A view of the year in climate
Getting in Over Our Heads:
Global Warming Theory is Coming True, Recent Reports Show
A storm of recent reports, studies and measurements from scientists and trusted agencies worldwide is making it clear that the Earth is beginning to have t... | <urn:uuid:b84e1b79-d1bb-4c86-8716-528eb498f260> | 2.984375 | 955 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 52.622945 | 3,264 |
The first ever video footage of a giant squid swimming in the ocean depths is "an enormous breakthrough," according to a prominent marine conservationist who wrote a book about the quest to find the mysterious creatures.
"People have been searching for them for hundreds of years, literally," said Richard Ellis, the aut... | <urn:uuid:963ee5a3-cbd1-4eb6-b2c4-3937c39de6bf> | 3.140625 | 365 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 50.912115 | 3,265 |
3. Color - color diagram
From data in Tables 3 and 4, after the IRAS fluxes are transformed into magnitudes without color corrections according to Cheeseman et al. (1989), different infrared color-color diagrams can be plotted: () - () in Fig. 1; () - () in Fig. 2; () - () in Fig. 3 and () - () in Fig. 4. In those figu... | <urn:uuid:627c94ba-49ab-4079-a3b0-1df27a69ab0c> | 3.4375 | 999 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 67.166366 | 3,266 |
Biologists from Kyoto University in Japan have turned a crab's shell transparent. More than just a neat party trick, the research into see-through structures could help the construction of flat panel displays, solar cells and bendy screens.
Muhammad Iftekhar Shams and his team at Kyoto University took an entire (dead) ... | <urn:uuid:2e4d0a59-eac3-43f0-9b20-3d25a618d2b1> | 3.9375 | 465 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 39.837652 | 3,267 |
``It's been a long strange trip for this universe we call home ...."
Interest in cosmology undoubtedly predates recorded human history. The question of the origin, composition, structure and fate of the universe has challenged lay persons, scientists, philosophers and theologians across racial and cultural barriers. It... | <urn:uuid:9a1856dd-f0fa-4931-a960-1cfeeb9a657b> | 3.578125 | 275 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 37.488136 | 3,268 |
Canadian gun-launched orbital launch vehicle. In 1962-1967 Canada's Gerard Bull led development of the Martlet system for gun-launched access to space. The program was cancelled before the objective of gun launch to orbit was attained.
Even after the rocket established its primacy as a method of accessing space, Gerald... | <urn:uuid:e82b973d-df77-4a75-8aa2-c3c35ba12955> | 3.59375 | 810 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 57.774986 | 3,269 |
A Soft Matter paper by Roberto Piazza and co-workers has been highlighted on a number of Italian news-sites, ANSA, Sole 24 Ore and Galileo.
The paper combines experimental and theoretical studies on what buoyancy actually is, and its relation to the Archimedes’ principle.
What buoyancy really is. A generalized Archimed... | <urn:uuid:d3f2ae60-633d-44ed-8a9f-e57a58ab3852> | 3.296875 | 362 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 27.500612 | 3,270 |
One Of The Strange Mysteries Of Our Sky
Galaxies are mysteries of the sky, all unique in their own way. Come explore with me about galaxies, our Milky Way, and more.
Now, you might be wondering how galaxies are made. Just, how did they appear in our universe? Well, I’m here to answer your questions. Galaxies are made u... | <urn:uuid:67db2c91-fb06-418d-861b-836b0f9e970c> | 3.671875 | 361 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 65.348783 | 3,271 |
Monday, November 12th 2012, 6:46 PM EST
The "Jet Stream" location has been a very good tool to use to show how the activity on the Sun can change weather patterns on the Earth's climate. The following story from MeteoWeb.eu is all about the "Cut Off" left behind from the re-location of the Jet Stream.
As you can see fr... | <urn:uuid:08193382-28e6-474b-a7c3-ade333b4dcc7> | 2.640625 | 1,390 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 28.0836 | 3,272 |
The map shows temperature changes for the last decade--January 2000 to December 2009--relative to the 1951-1980 mean. Warmer areas are in red, cooler areas in blue. The largest temperature increases occurred in the Arctic and a portion of Antarctica. (Credit: NASA)
From Science Daily:
ScienceDaily (Jan. 22, 2010) — A n... | <urn:uuid:99243111-497c-4567-b42f-3fc307c6b68c> | 3.234375 | 226 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 63.77 | 3,273 |
This map may be one of the most amazing and unique images ever created of Earth. Using just two months of data, a gravity-measuring satellite made the first map of Earth’s gravitational field. It’s a surprising and beautiful image of a force that we would never expect to be able to see – and yes, different places on Ea... | <urn:uuid:fc40229b-9728-4f08-a139-2d6df532e00b> | 4.28125 | 276 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 42.3885 | 3,274 |
New England Air Quality
Project DescriptionIn the summer of 2004 several separate field programs intensively studied the photochemical, heterogeneous chemical and radiative environment of the troposphere over North America, the North Atlantic Ocean, and western Europe. Previous studies have indicated that the transport... | <urn:uuid:696f0c7c-226c-4e9d-a8de-83f972320df1> | 2.875 | 308 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 18.410408 | 3,275 |
Jaeger Monthly Mean Global PrecipitationEntry ID: jaegrain
Abstract: The Jaeger Surface Rain Gauge Observations data set consists of gridded
mean monthly global precipitation values for 1931 to 1960 over the
continents and 1955 to 1965 over the oceans. The data set volume is 126
Kbytes and is available by ftp.
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Professor Pamela Silver of Harvard Medical School (HMS) believes in biology’s potential to change the world. She sees a future where scientists routinely wield microbes against disease, using computers to turn bacteria into microscopic drug factories rapidly assembled from off-the-shelf biological parts.
She sees crops... | <urn:uuid:b8f712f1-0ecb-4458-b94a-4c52682546c6> | 3.609375 | 1,893 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 37.578097 | 3,277 |
Pilot Whales Are "Cheetahs of the Sea," Study Finds
for National Geographic News
|May 16, 2008|
Short-finned pilot whales off the Canary Islands race like cheetahs after prey over long distances in the deep Atlantic waters, new research reveals.
Like all whales, pilot whales need to come to the surface to breathe, but ... | <urn:uuid:4dcaa565-7485-4cb9-aa7d-94fae80c22cd> | 3.640625 | 826 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 50.765968 | 3,278 |
mktemp - make a unique temporary file name
char *mktemp(char *template);
The mktemp() function generates a unique temporary file name from tem-
plate. The last six characters of template must be XXXXXX and these
are replaced with a string that makes the filename unique. Since it
will be modified, template must not be a... | <urn:uuid:c037864e-9e7b-4b50-a500-1740d19e1733> | 3.40625 | 378 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 65.612863 | 3,279 |
Investigate the molecular masses in this sequence of molecules and deduce which molecule has been analysed in the mass spectrometer.
Explore the distribution of molecular masses for various hydrocarbons
Which dilutions can you make using only 10ml pipettes?
Get some practice using big and small numbers in chemistry.
Ma... | <urn:uuid:548c2d67-bc41-41d2-a5c5-5fdab7c560d4> | 3.875 | 477 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 46.34103 | 3,280 |
Overview: Students make observations of individual galaxies in visible and X-ray light to develop an understanding of their differences. Students explore an applet relating to the Doppler effect, after discussing the different uses of the particle and wave model of light. Students then use this idea to develop Hubble's... | <urn:uuid:933bcbfc-de05-4e94-82ab-748c8775e4cf> | 4.53125 | 173 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 17.500015 | 3,281 |
Strategy For Farming Vs. Wildlife Studied
September 2, 2011 by UPI - United Press International, Inc.
CAMBRIDGE, England, Sept. 1 (UPI) — Separating habitats from farmland could save species more effectively than trying to grow crops and conserve nature on the same land, British researchers say.
The separation may be t... | <urn:uuid:23a2f315-4abd-4d68-8d9b-b2c89021d9d4> | 3.265625 | 408 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 37.636681 | 3,282 |
Phoenix's Robotic Arm (RA) is the single most crucial element to making scientific measurements. The robotic arm combines strength and finesse to dig trenches, scrape water ice, and precisely deliver samples to other instruments on the science deck. Also, the robotic arm carries a camera and thermal-electric probe to m... | <urn:uuid:747ab767-21ec-4640-a7eb-985922dd47dd> | 3.578125 | 195 | Structured Data | Science & Tech. | -2.710067 | 3,283 |
The concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), a major greenhouse gas, continues to climb primarily due to the combustion of fossil fuels. Terrestrial ecosystems remove CO2 from the atmosphere through the photosynthetic activity of plants and trees and release CO2 to the atmosphere through respiration. Whether ... | <urn:uuid:cac811e6-4926-454a-84fe-6f4ab95608bc> | 3.375 | 293 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 0.259375 | 3,284 |
By David L. Brown
One of the things that helps slow the rise of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere—and the greenhouse warming that results from higher CO2—is the fact that more than a third of the carbon released into the air since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution has been absorbed in our oceans and sequestered... | <urn:uuid:a4c236d3-0ffd-4fb6-9bbf-b591923c00fe> | 3.859375 | 1,831 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 38.556122 | 3,285 |
Branched chain surfactants were some of the first used and manufactured. They were chosen over their linear counterparts due to increased solubility. However, the very slow biodegradation of branched chain surfactants lead to their ultimate replacement with the linear counterparts. The branched species are still used i... | <urn:uuid:1bfe7b27-bb6f-4fe8-ad54-2eab47e93e5f> | 2.734375 | 477 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 40.572697 | 3,286 |
The First Dive to the Lost City
The bizarre hydrothermal vent field discovered a little more than two years ago surprised scientists not only with vents that are the tallest ever seen --the one that's 18 stories dwarfs most vents at other sites by at least 100 feet -- but also because the fluids forming these vents are... | <urn:uuid:e7d66a1a-b06b-4a02-95da-f6c3f900f120> | 2.84375 | 2,275 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 48.95774 | 3,287 |
Gravity Reference Systems
- German Gravity Reference Systems
- European Gravity Reference Systems
- Global Gravity Reference Systems
The free fall of a test mass is recorded with high accuracy. In order to minimize non-gravitational disturbing influences, such as air drag, buoyancy etc. the test mass moves in an evacua... | <urn:uuid:671a132a-b04f-423c-ae96-cad8e507f23f> | 2.71875 | 859 | About (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 17.894186 | 3,288 |
Report: Chance of a Catastrophic Solar Storm Is 1 in 8; Would Take Down Power Grid, Food Transportation, Water Utilities, Financial SystemsMarch 8, 2012
By Mac Slavo
According to a recent study published by Space Weather: The International Journal of Research and Applications, we have roughly a 12% chance of getting hi... | <urn:uuid:cc353426-9876-4a68-8b5d-4656b97db5eb> | 3.234375 | 1,199 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 18.950942 | 3,289 |
Tomorrow, in Philadelphia, Queen's University professor Arthur B. McDonald is scheduled to receive a half-share of the Benjamin Franklin Institute's annual physics prize. It is the latest in a long series of honours for Prof. McDonald, who was the director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO). As one of the oldest... | <urn:uuid:622fd98a-2358-496d-a4f9-c05904f2f98c> | 2.734375 | 844 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 33.778792 | 3,290 |
Dog and cat lovers continually debate about which animal is man's best friend. But ask marine education specialist Bill Hall his opinion, and he will tell you that the hands-down winner is the horseshoe crab. While few may know it, this prehistoric creature with the helmet-shaped body and spear-like tail has saved coun... | <urn:uuid:6af805ef-30f2-4071-b665-63e513b4fd28> | 2.96875 | 692 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 52.525952 | 3,291 |
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A 5.2 μC charge is positioned at x=-0.70, y=0.0 A
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Salinity tolerance in halophytes
Halophytes, plants that survive to reproduce in environments where the salt concentration is around 200 mm NaCl or more, constitute about 1% of the world's flora. Some halophytes show optimal growth in saline conditions; others grow optimally in the absence of salt. However, the toleran... | <urn:uuid:bf844f67-2954-40be-9673-3ade6d8ec158> | 3.34375 | 300 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 7.273182 | 3,293 |
The largest mammal that ever walked the earth—Indricotherium transouralicum, a hornless rhinoceros-like herbivore that weighed approximately 17 tons and stood about 18 feet high at the shoulder, lived in Eurasia almost 34 million years ago. In a paper just published in the journal Science, an international team of rese... | <urn:uuid:712c8e27-1da0-400e-b121-935a8c642863> | 4.21875 | 1,046 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 23.513097 | 3,294 |
Section illustrating the structure of the ocean's floor. Brief Introduction of the Model of Ocean Expanding Floor The model mainly demonstrates the processes of the formation and distinction of the ocean floor. Due to the intrusion of the new substances from the asthemosphere underneath the edges of the lithosphere, th... | <urn:uuid:48ac7759-b1d4-4400-8232-0cf44cce8148> | 4.03125 | 239 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 50.904615 | 3,295 |
University of California, Berkeley, chemists are reimagining catalysts in ways that could have a profound impact on the chemical industry as well as on the growing market for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
Catalysts are materials typically metals that speed up chemical reactions and are widely used in the synthesis of ch... | <urn:uuid:fd726872-7a1f-41c9-bdfb-a40fccf2ac27> | 3.671875 | 859 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 23.54 | 3,296 |
Two related quantities x and y are called proportional (or directly proportional) if there exists a constant non-zero number k such that
- y = kx
In this case, k
is called the proportionality constant
of the relation. If y
are proportional, we often write
- y ~ x.
For example, if you travel at a constant speed, then th... | <urn:uuid:ef5b19f2-9538-4917-a0ed-23f95137d390> | 4.5625 | 263 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 30.71288 | 3,297 |
Here is a list of the characters that are special in a regular expression.
‘*’ always applies to the smallest possible preceding expression. Thus, ‘fo*’ has a repeating ‘o’, not a repeating ‘fo’. It matches ‘f’, ‘fo’, ‘foo’, and so on.
The matcher processes a ‘*’ construct by matching, immediately, as many repetitions ... | <urn:uuid:ed3e83ab-b9b3-4c9a-b245-674a34f854a9> | 3.296875 | 2,090 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 47.905656 | 3,298 |
Half of Europe's frogs face extinction
More than half of all amphibian species in Europe could become extinct by 2050 because of a combination of habitat loss, infectious diseases and the effects of climate change, scientists have found.
The latest assessment of frogs, toads, salamanders and newts suggests many will be... | <urn:uuid:4aa474ad-ab9f-4a0b-884f-d25d3662d592> | 3.359375 | 716 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 49.861667 | 3,299 |