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Radiation clean up is a messy business. And the usual approach is disturbingly low tech: human beings scrub radioactivity off walls, cars, and so on with soap and water. The dirty water, which is taken away to be further decontaminated, has a tendency to slosh around and leak, and it's heavy and hard to transport. Japa... | <urn:uuid:84ff202a-c7ba-46fe-b784-7fc5580a64db> | 3.390625 | 497 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 45.737234 | 3,500 |
Grand design spiral galaxy
A grand design spiral galaxy is a type of spiral galaxy with prominent and well-defined spiral arms, as opposed to multi-arm and flocculent spirals which have subtler structural features. The spiral arms of a grand design galaxy extend clearly around the galaxy through many radians and can be... | <urn:uuid:66a70a0e-a87e-4c78-b45d-95024b3526f0> | 2.921875 | 301 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 39.473333 | 3,501 |
Pearl Dace - Margariscus margarita
State Rank Reason (see State Rank above)
Pearl dace are not abundant when they are collected at the relatively few sites in cool, small streams and ponds they are known to inhabit. This factor, as well as introduced northern pike invasions into their small prairie streams, has caused ... | <urn:uuid:38f01bd1-8091-4232-a397-0bff539babaa> | 3.15625 | 782 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 35.691111 | 3,502 |
As the world marks 20 years since the introduction of the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer, Nature has learned of experimental data that threaten to shatter established theories of ozone chemistry. If the data are right, scientists will have to rethink their understanding of how ozone holes are formed and h... | <urn:uuid:09e42268-06ff-461a-a2b9-7f2478764eb9> | 3.90625 | 367 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 26.339524 | 3,503 |
Provides a property and a method for accessing the computer's serial ports.
The My.Computer.Ports object provides a straightforward entry point for accessing the .NET Framework serial port class, SerialPort.
The following table lists examples of tasks involving the My.Computer.Ports object.
Dial a modem attached to a s... | <urn:uuid:938e25ff-8f39-470f-bd29-81a480b43932> | 2.671875 | 220 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 55.591053 | 3,504 |
Study results suggest this was the worst cold-related coral mortality on record.
Before (top) and after (bottom) photos
illustrate the January 2010 cold-water
event's damaging effect on patch reef
coral communities in the Florida Keys.
Florida’s nearshore coral reefs are an important component of the greater Florida re... | <urn:uuid:9e031600-1e94-448c-8528-bbec39894bcf> | 3.765625 | 558 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 19.659139 | 3,505 |
The Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) measures the speed and direction of ocean currents using the principle of “Doppler shift”. Anyone who has ever heard a train whistle is familiar with the Doppler effect. When the train is traveling towards you, the whistle’s pitch is higher. When it is moving away from you, ... | <urn:uuid:56c9cde1-cf8f-4c20-85ba-2fca53ea3f76> | 4.03125 | 642 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 43.311469 | 3,506 |
Siam named the following as the most important algorithms of the 20th century:
1946: The Metropolis Algorithm for Monte Carlo. Through the use of random processes, this algorithm offers an efficient way to stumble toward answers to problems that are too complicated to solve exactly.
1947: Simplex Method for Linear Prog... | <urn:uuid:6c781eea-ee35-4f64-a744-c5e6dde7b690> | 3.203125 | 296 | Q&A Forum | Software Dev. | 32.795534 | 3,507 |
Lua is an extension programming language designed to support general procedural programming with data description facilities. It also offers good support for object-oriented programming, functional programming, and data-driven programming. Lua is intended to be used as a powerful, light-weight scripting language for an... | <urn:uuid:876d5a6b-8734-498e-8898-ce4d649fefb2> | 3 | 419 | Knowledge Article | Software Dev. | 43.820826 | 3,508 |
strchr - string scanning operation
char *strchr(const char *s, int c);
[CX] The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict between the requirements described here and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 defers to the ISO C standar... | <urn:uuid:29b44ee6-a18c-4b53-8d2d-3bddd75c56c5> | 2.734375 | 206 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 76.329423 | 3,509 |
Previous stories pertaining to Professor Shum's research:
["Flood Monitoring and Hydrologic Studies Using Retracked Satellite Radar Altimetry" will be presented Thursday, December 18, 2008, at 1:40 p.m. PT (4:40 p.m. ET) at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco (Poster session H43G-1110, MC Hall D).]
... | <urn:uuid:b9ee929e-0a72-4b08-9893-9210311854c2> | 3.296875 | 955 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 42.740621 | 3,510 |
Secrecy and competition to achieve breakthroughs have been part of scientific culture for centuries, but the latest Internet advances are forcing a tortured openness throughout the halls of science and raising questions about how research will be done in the future.
The openness at the technological and cultural heart ... | <urn:uuid:f033c30e-5dbc-4208-b24e-3321992250e7> | 3.078125 | 2,114 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 37.247523 | 3,511 |
Lobsters are odd creatures. Despite their strange, even grotesque appearance and their nickname as the "cockroaches of the sea," lobsters are a tasty delicacy enjoyed by humans around the world. But lobsters are also quite sophisticated critters. A lobster's two claws can come in several different forms (crusher and cu... | <urn:uuid:f6b5b41d-c03d-4b6b-ae2f-97b4ce1b582a> | 3.171875 | 614 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 52.01173 | 3,512 |
International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory
Launch Date: October 17, 2002
Mission Project Home Page - http://heasarc.nasa.gov/docs/integral/integral.html
Program(s):Physics of the Cosmos
INTEGRAL is providing new insight into the most violent and exotic objects of the Universe, such as black holes, neutron stars, a... | <urn:uuid:7a312dd9-bc2d-4acd-bbc5-98cada747298> | 3.09375 | 572 | About (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 35.880445 | 3,513 |
New Radio Telescope Makes First Scientific Observations
10 May 2001
(Source: National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
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Charlottesville, VA 22903
Dave Finley, Public Information Officer
(505) 835-7302, firstname.lastname@example.org
The world's two largest radio telesco... | <urn:uuid:6778a094-d1fb-4511-a959-e2c501917461> | 3.46875 | 1,114 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 32.919342 | 3,514 |
EL NIÑO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO) DIAGNOSTIC DISCUSSION
CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER/NCEP/NWS
and the International Research Institute for Climate and Society 5 April 2012
ENSO Alert System Status: La Niña Advisory
Synopsis: La Niña is expected to transition to ENSO-neutral conditions during April 2012.
La Niña continue... | <urn:uuid:532173c4-5df6-4687-b4f5-4f8f00f715c1> | 2.640625 | 803 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 33.403167 | 3,515 |
Water is known to exist in three different states; as a solid, liquid or gas.
Clouds, snow, and rain are all made of up of some form of water. A cloud is comprised of tiny water droplets and/or ice crystals, a snowflake is an aggregate of many ice crystals, and rain is just liquid water.
Water existing as a gas is call... | <urn:uuid:deca4398-2ded-4f53-b115-eb982a7ab129> | 3.578125 | 168 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 55.59 | 3,516 |
November 30, 2012
Scientists build with DNA bricks
Researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute have coaxed single strands of DNA to fit together like Lego bricks and form scores of complex three-dimensional shapes, including a teeny-tiny space shuttle. The technique, described in this week's issue of the journal Science, a... | <urn:uuid:6d04708d-b823-4e61-8aab-f0d2e1781dc9> | 4.09375 | 415 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 47.211071 | 3,517 |
It came from Outer Space! Yes, that’s the title of an old Sci-Fi movie, but it’s also the solar storm that is expected to hit the Earth today.
It will be the strongest radiation storm to hit the Earth since 2003. After years of quiet, the sun is awake and sputtering with sunspots, flares and CMEs (Coronal Mass Ejection... | <urn:uuid:0c317f95-53a4-46df-b003-99cfe5e84f17> | 2.796875 | 549 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 58.313706 | 3,518 |
An aperture synthesis telescope, like the GMRT, consists of a number of antennas located on the ground and the resolution of such a telescope is proportional to the maximum projected separation between the antennas. The locations of the antennas are usually specified in the Earth-centred co-ordinate system. The Earth c... | <urn:uuid:01350e52-ba87-41cc-9a2b-b0f2b3dffa59> | 3.4375 | 10,599 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 45.647277 | 3,519 |
lurk in clouds of glowing hydrogen gas in
emission nebula is found near the edge of a
large molecular cloud, unseen at visible wavelengths,
in the southern
Ara, about 4,000 light-years away.
stars of the embedded Ara
were formed in that region only a few million years ago,
sculpting the dark shapes and
powering the neb... | <urn:uuid:4482fc8d-ab15-47ac-a88d-23a0651366bf> | 3.375 | 234 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 43.503514 | 3,520 |
Genes that are active are located mainly in the central region of the nucleus, while inactive genes are at the periphery. But scientists have had no way to track chromosome movement inside the nucleus or to determine whether the location of the chromosomes was the result of random diffusion or if they are moved around ... | <urn:uuid:b3d473ed-f25b-4f5b-b749-dff89ab1467a> | 3.75 | 319 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 15.51394 | 3,521 |
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- SW Climate
Published November 23, 2010
Precipitation Outlook(December 2010–May 2010)
Data Source(s): NOAA-Climate Prediction Center (CPC)
The NOAA–Climate Prediction Center (CPC) precipitation outlooks suggest drier-than-average conditions for most of the winter and early spring in all of Arizona and weste... | <urn:uuid:537238df-736f-41ab-ac4e-90ca62f5a4b5> | 2.59375 | 737 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 34.547779 | 3,522 |
Alaska’s Ice Drain 2004-07
Alaska has only about 5% of the total ice Greenland has — but from 2004 to 2007, Alaska shed an average of 80 billion metric tons per ear, under half the amount that Greenland did. Put another way, relative to its own stock, Alaska is losing ice about eight times faster than Greenland.
This t... | <urn:uuid:18358d70-1dfa-4f81-9336-73a105d4b9bc> | 3.75 | 502 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 45.249037 | 3,523 |
THE BASIC FACTS and INFORMATION ABOUT SOLAR ENERGY
WHAT IS IT?
The sun is shining brightly every day, bathing the world with light and heat. But besides for these benefits, sunlight also miraculously carries energy, which can be captured and used for a variety of purposes. Before we go over practical solar energy facts... | <urn:uuid:94f699a4-2e40-4029-9b3d-8b2406b87ae2> | 3.609375 | 1,779 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 54.578825 | 3,524 |
Moving On Up: Lifelike Spontaneous Motion Seen In Lab Created GelBrandeis University researchers have created an organic gel that, despite being lifeless, seems to move of its own volition. While the movements are too small to be seen with the naked eye, when viewed under a microscope, microtubules in the gel flow of t... | <urn:uuid:188121e8-1d31-4803-93e9-035fbce74009> | 2.671875 | 275 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 55.204312 | 3,525 |
Kepler in Brief
A Nutshell Description of the Kepler Mission
The Kepler Mission is a NASA Discovery Program for detecting potentially life-supporting planets around other stars. All of the extrasolar planets detected so far by other projects are giant planets, mostly the size of Jupiter and bigger. Kepler is poised to ... | <urn:uuid:4bf12376-6fa9-4a29-9c17-05e600806334> | 4.28125 | 338 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 58.080924 | 3,526 |
You don’t have to get your feet wet to see what’s happening under the water’s surface thanks to a variety of new, lightweight hi-definition cameras that bring everything from crabs to crawfish to your laptop or TV.
The affordable technology shows species behavior like never before and it turns out, it’s also serious sc... | <urn:uuid:93da5b97-427b-4659-9541-09368dac26a4> | 2.8125 | 724 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 53.190893 | 3,527 |
On the right, you see a picture of a surface which is starting along a bad path. Light colors represent atoms in high layers (isolated atoms and clumps we call islands), and dark colors represent atoms in lower layers (vacancies and pits). Most of the surface is pretty flat, but there is a big dark-grey pit! This pit r... | <urn:uuid:574f25d0-72f7-4e4c-b1f9-89aceeacb367> | 3.515625 | 752 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 61.557084 | 3,528 |
Did Bacteria Fuel World's Worst Extinction?
Nickel-eating bacteria may have worsened the mass die-off some 250 million years ago, scientists suggest. (Shown here, International Space Station astronaut Ron Garan captures one of the 16 sunrises they see each day, on Aug. 27, 2011.)
SAN FRANCISCO — Nickel-eating bacteria ... | <urn:uuid:fcc2ef6b-87e8-44bf-a496-93692576675f> | 3.15625 | 863 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 33.919684 | 3,529 |
Cameras Capture Falling Snowflakes in 3D
A gadget that can snap photos of individual snowflakes in freefall could lead to more accurate weather predictions.
Researchers at the University of Utah have developed the Multi Angle Snowflake Camera (MASC), which uses three high-speed cameras triggered by infrared sensors to ... | <urn:uuid:708d1ebf-5a89-402b-a186-14cdbc9ad8ad> | 3.125 | 593 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 45.169558 | 3,530 |
Dr. Martin Brasier, an adjunct professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, will present a public lecture on the inside story of cells and complex life.
Currently a professor of palaeobiology at Oxford University, Dr. Brasier will talk about a remarkable episode in the history of life that took place between two and ... | <urn:uuid:268fa0a4-334c-4842-9fcc-a5672ff67306> | 3.015625 | 592 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 48.276207 | 3,531 |
The Making of the Hottest Year on Record
Climate.gov is featuring a new video entitled The Making of the Hottest Year on Record: USA Temperature Update that stars Deke Arndt, Chief of the Climate Monitoring Branch at NCDC. The video highlights October temperatures as well as the current year-to-date temperatures. After... | <urn:uuid:dd69896b-f38d-4bb4-bc8f-61f13ff62181> | 2.703125 | 152 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 36.45 | 3,532 |
Black Mangroves Mini Report
Genus: AvicenniaSpecies: germinans
Avicennia germinans, Linnaeus, 1764 (Lamiales, Verbenacae) is known by different names, salt bush and honey mangrove for example, but the most commonly used title is the black mangrove. Until as late as the 1960’s this species was considered of too low prod... | <urn:uuid:9468450a-e359-48ee-b01a-19747f3f460c> | 4.125 | 1,847 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 48.576959 | 3,533 |
Pumping sulphur particles into the atmosphere to mimic the cooling effect of a large volcanic eruption has been proposed as a last-ditch solution to combating climate change - but doing so would cause problems of its own, including potentially catastrophic drought, say researchers.
Sulphur "sunshades" are just one exam... | <urn:uuid:96883693-c3f4-443a-a39a-70f520062199> | 3.890625 | 1,504 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 44.312608 | 3,534 |
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"And doesn't it go against thermodynamics for DNA or RNA to form out of the constituents?"
-Don't certain RNA chains have catalytic properties, and so their production(from random nucleotides bonding) lowers the energy required for more bonding to o... | <urn:uuid:613038df-131e-4a73-9a3b-7f21422f3227> | 2.640625 | 164 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 48.011727 | 3,535 |
A lot of information can be gained from stellar spectra e.g. the stellar ages, velocities, evolutionary stage, abundances, as well as the composition of the environment they were born in. High quality spectra allow us to derive stellar abundances of about 2/3 of the elements in the periodic table. By comparing abundanc... | <urn:uuid:7f97256a-bc91-45e3-895a-c3db00da4b8c> | 3.953125 | 343 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 46.299776 | 3,536 |
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Flux trapping effect.
Magnetic suspension and levitation is the caused by the flux trapping effect in superconductors.How does this flux get "trapped"?
Another quick question-
We link a magnet to a superconductor by bringing it very close to one ,until both of them start attracting and repellin... | <urn:uuid:96f7ef48-b8c9-4d59-bfb0-cbc0386d5e3a> | 3.34375 | 382 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 52.228161 | 3,537 |
Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change Division
Rivers Run Right Through It...The Model
New river-routing model improves simulations of water movement within the Earth's system
The new river-routing model can simulate how water makes it into tributaries and the main river channel by way of runoff and below-surface water ... | <urn:uuid:33fb96d2-a505-4b86-9bb7-b6ab576f3c3e> | 3.421875 | 968 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 32.799916 | 3,538 |
(A) Curiosity will trundle around its landing site looking for interesting rock features to study. Its top speed is about 4cm/s
(B) This mission has 17 cameras. They will identify particular targets, and a laser will zap those rocks to probe their chemistry
(C) If the signal is significant, Curiosity will swing over in... | <urn:uuid:9820b740-7c3b-4bbd-9d6a-93a84f219165> | 3.859375 | 446 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 46.228144 | 3,539 |
In this program we are going to tell you how you can write a simple "Hello World" word in a pdf, rtf and html file irrespective of the fact whether it exists or not.
To make a program over this, firstly we need to import some packages. Remember to make this program the first and foremost thing to remember is to place t... | <urn:uuid:39f15ccc-24b4-422f-8f0b-c1fb90a68f0c> | 3.3125 | 599 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 65.52263 | 3,540 |
Nov. 3, 2004 Scientists have made a world-first discovery which is a step towards using environmentally-friendly hydrogen to power our cars.
A team from the Universities of Newcastle upon Tyne and Liverpool in the UK, who report their findings in the prestigious academic journal, Science, have found a safe way of stori... | <urn:uuid:e64946ef-35ab-4c6b-b698-4d1c3dbbc199> | 4 | 695 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 27.780311 | 3,541 |
Oct. 19, 2005
On repeated occasions we have read that volatile organic compounds are danaging for the atmosphere and to our health. This is why a group of researchers at the Leioa campus of the University of the Basque Country have put forward a process for “cleaning” these compounds before they are emitted into the at... | <urn:uuid:7bc0ba78-8552-47d2-a0ce-25b615bf91b8> | 3.90625 | 637 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 38.592376 | 3,542 |
Nov. 1, 2012 For the kinds of animals that are most familiar to us -- ones that are big enough to see -- it's a no-brainer: Is it better to sit around and wait for food to come to you, or to move around and find it? Larger animals that opt to sit around aren't likely to last long.
But for bacteria out in the ocean, the... | <urn:uuid:6dbbf301-a4dc-4405-a29c-19f3ac250ba2> | 3.359375 | 1,407 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 38.608943 | 3,543 |
The Trouble with Gerrold: Self-validating code
January 15, 2013 —
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Related Search Term(s): debugging
At the beginning, it was called “microcomputing.” Enthusiasts were delighted at the idea that computing could finally be freed from the “priesthood.” Magazines like “Creative Computing” and "Byte” and “Kilo... | <urn:uuid:cbc27a8e-dfc9-4105-a22a-2e8f5ef19ce3> | 2.90625 | 510 | Truncated | Software Dev. | 44.583743 | 3,544 |
Why Didn’t We Know the Russian Meteor Was Coming?
We’re getting better at spotting potentially dangerous objects, but this one was too small.
Thomas Pynchon said it best, years before: “A screaming comes across the sky.” Midmorning today, near the city of Chelyabinsk in western Siberia, a meteor came in from the northe... | <urn:uuid:dc0d239a-315d-477f-9fce-41bfa07d9fcf> | 3.796875 | 1,643 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 45.018508 | 3,545 |
The beginning of a project lays the groundwork for the rest of the project. The purpose of this phase is to set the framework for the project, which involves:
- Traditional SDLC based Waterfall Model
- Iterative Spiral Model
- Rational Unified Process
- Agile Process model
- Scrum Process
Traditional SDLC based Waterfa... | <urn:uuid:36e2a947-d5f1-42c4-9114-ba37f99403ab> | 2.65625 | 1,232 | About (Org.) | Software Dev. | 25.990708 | 3,546 |
Astronomers have located an exceptionally massive black hole in orbit around a huge companion star. This result has intriguing implications for the evolution and ultimate fate of massive stars.
The black hole is part of a binary system in M33, a nearby galaxy about 3 million light years from Earth. By combining data fr... | <urn:uuid:347a2d8b-496e-4ab9-8558-b9ec2699ea31> | 3.765625 | 835 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 46.98933 | 3,547 |
Hibernate O/R Mappings
So far we have seen very basic O/R mapping using hibernate but there are three most important mapping topics which we have to learn in detail. These are the mapping of collections, the mapping of associations between entity classes and Component Mappings.
If an entity or class has collection of v... | <urn:uuid:d5116192-b404-4b7e-ae54-0d2b56f0bd37> | 3 | 718 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 41.688192 | 3,548 |
Energy and Ecology
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Studies in the area of freshwater research reported from University of Wisconsin
April 9th, 2010
According to recent research from the United States, "We quantified standin... | <urn:uuid:57e2a232-80c1-4628-ba7f-3b358d5739cc> | 2.671875 | 221 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 62.020571 | 3,549 |
Microbiology & Microbial Ecology
Microbial studies encompass the distribution, abundance, physiological status, and growth rates of these organisms as well as their symbiotic interactions, population diversity and dynamics, and biochemical adaptations. Molecular biological methods are increasingly applied to these area... | <urn:uuid:a96ba52a-8b2a-45f7-b9f5-524654625cab> | 2.703125 | 348 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | -10.375463 | 3,550 |
On 13 February, 2011, the Sun
spewed out the strongest flare that's been recorded in the
current solar cycle. The culprit was sunspot 1158, which happened
to be pointed directly at Earth when the category
M6.6 flare was emitted.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a series of images,
which were compiled into the... | <urn:uuid:02839c01-be14-4eac-9660-73966c9cbf79> | 3.609375 | 273 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 48.489186 | 3,551 |
The Great Dying
Scientists look for clues that climate change caused mass extinction
Posted August 15, 2008
About a quarter of a billion years ago, the most severe extinction event in the planet’s history wiped out just about every form of life on Earth.
Upwards of 95 percent of the critters that swam, floated, drifted... | <urn:uuid:d03da728-db28-47f1-bd30-a5ac8b65c394> | 3.53125 | 1,410 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 41.180617 | 3,552 |
Nuts and bolts: Diamond synchrotron
Diamond Light Source, opened in 2007, was built to supply scientists and industry with just this capability. The facility currently supplies 20, soon to be 22, experimental stations with beams of X-rays, ultraviolet light and infrared light needed for a variety of purposes.
Diamond i... | <urn:uuid:96288adf-35fa-4f89-9fdf-44fe3fd9f6bb> | 3.625 | 370 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 40.445625 | 3,553 |
Algae is the term for several groups of simple living organisms that capture light and process it through photosynthesis to create the energy they need to live and grow. They can occur in most habitats but are usually found in damp places or bodies of water. Phytoplankton, living in oceans and lakes is the basis for mo... | <urn:uuid:3e775011-0377-4e1c-90d8-ca920d230479> | 3.75 | 159 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 39.746341 | 3,554 |
One of the primary jobs of Pyramid is to find and invoke a view callable when a request reaches your application. View callables are bits of code which do something interesting in response to a request made to your application.
A Pyramid view callable is often referred to in conversational shorthand as a view. In this ... | <urn:uuid:573dd8dc-4bbc-44fc-a877-84824f171887> | 2.59375 | 3,351 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 46.325266 | 3,555 |
The Element Uranium
[Click for Isotope Data]
Atomic Number: 92
Atomic Weight: 238.02891
Melting Point: 1408 K (1135°C or 2075°F)
Boiling Point: 4404 K (4131°C or 7468°F)
Density: 18.95 grams per cubic centimeter
Phase at Room Temperature: Solid
Element Classification: Metal
Period Number: 7 Group Number: none Group Nam... | <urn:uuid:e19f9e4d-7246-431b-ad26-96e07dedfcc6> | 3.875 | 1,350 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 49.361643 | 3,556 |
In engineering, the damping ratio is a dimensionless measure describing how oscillations in a system decay after a disturbance. Many systems exhibit oscillatory behavior when they are disturbed from their position of static equilibrium. A mass suspended from a spring, for example, might, if pulled and released, bounce ... | <urn:uuid:d6e9e522-692a-44e7-9740-323179713bdb> | 3.84375 | 1,169 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 38.648632 | 3,557 |
Rufous Hare-Wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus) National Recovery Plan
Department of Environment and Conservation (WA), 2012
ISSN 0816 9713
- Rufous Hare-Wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus) National Recovery Plan (PDF - 839 KB) | Rufous Hare-Wallaby (Lagorchestes hirsutus) National Recovery Plan(Word - 822 KB)
The rufous hare-... | <urn:uuid:44924bbe-7656-4184-8295-1cfc0c7c8ee3> | 3.109375 | 455 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 3.445 | 3,558 |
Look out for Asteroid 2012 DA14.
It is heading toward Earth at 17,450 miles per hour, according to NASA, and the tug of our planet's gravitational field will cause it to accelerate when it gets here.
But it's not going to strike us, when it passes by on February 15. NASA is adamant about this.
"Its orbit is very well-k... | <urn:uuid:0c2eba3c-acc2-47a0-954d-11ff57c5b068> | 2.546875 | 114 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 80.813146 | 3,559 |
July 19, 2012
A CHUNK of ice twice the size of Manhattan has parted from Greenland’s Petermann glacier, a break researchers at the University of Delaware and Canadian Ice Service attributed to warmer ocean temperatures.
The separation along Greenland’s north-west coast on Monday is the second major calving for the glac... | <urn:uuid:ca5933d2-ca4b-4b11-bb42-01ac09a71885> | 3.09375 | 349 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 44.509814 | 3,560 |
In the latest issue of Nature Genetics
(volume 22; in July 1st 1999) the first ever-established
complete clone-based physical map of a plant genome is
published. The work was conducted in the group of Dr. Thomas
Altmann at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant
Physiology, Golm, in collaboration with groups at the... | <urn:uuid:8d60e1ba-db8b-4f8b-b658-c0595880c36d> | 3.125 | 389 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 18.177034 | 3,561 |
Scientists From Woods Hole Respond to Gulf Oil Spill
Soon after the April 20, 2010, explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) administrators and investigators were among those whom BP and the federal government called for advice and assistanc... | <urn:uuid:026f4b28-bd3c-4c8f-86de-a236ffc43967> | 3.609375 | 506 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 47.944187 | 3,562 |
|Title||Minimum data requirements for designing a set of marine protected areas, using commonly available abiotic and biotic datasets|
|Publication Type||Journal Article|
|Year of Publication||2009|
|Journal||Biodiversity and Conservation|
|Pagination||1829 - 1845|
Marine protected areas (MPAs) can be an effective tool... | <urn:uuid:39427e68-2781-4448-a96b-3df70fc2164e> | 2.828125 | 325 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 3.664143 | 3,563 |
Capturing Climate Change
Predicting and preparing for the effects of global warming
ARTWORK: PETE MCARTHUR
This is part of IEEE Spectrum's special report: Critical Challenges 2002: Technology Takes On
The government of Tuvalu, a Pacific Island nation, made a plea last summer for countries to take in Tuvalu evacuees, fe... | <urn:uuid:8e519c08-9340-4eb9-90e3-e1f4eb749fb3> | 3.578125 | 6,469 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 39.380147 | 3,564 |
WHY DOES A PINE TREE PRODUCE TURPENTINE?
Q. Why would a tree living in a habitat that catches fire every few years produce turpentine, a highly flammable substance?
That question was asked as I was building a fire at home with a piece of fat lighter, wood from the stump of a long-dead pine tree. Fat lighter, also known... | <urn:uuid:23105efc-c7e6-4661-9d34-c8fad0a1a9f0> | 3.796875 | 903 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 44.781943 | 3,565 |
UBNS requires a mechanism for (1) authentication of users over the network and (2) allowing server processes to change the user on whose behalf they execute. Implementing the cryptographic mechanisms for user authentication as part of the application is complex and error prone, and as we showed, requires a substantial ... | <urn:uuid:91fe61ad-2d33-48f8-beb9-53d70b30a035> | 2.515625 | 410 | Academic Writing | Software Dev. | 14.763667 | 3,566 |
Death Valley now the hottest spot in the world
It's official: California's famed Death Valley now holds the world record for the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth.
One of weather's most iconic and hallowed statistics, the Earth's all-time warmest temperature -- supposedly set 90 years ago today at a remote spo... | <urn:uuid:6be76e5a-1f3b-404d-a570-01c677e9cfbe> | 3.359375 | 731 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 36.523664 | 3,567 |
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Ask an Expert Where does the solar system end, and has Voyager 1 crossed the edge yet?
Monday, 22 April 2013
All systems go An Antares rocket, one of two launchers developed with NASA backing to fly cargo ca... | <urn:uuid:4b103bcc-50ad-4e27-9276-a3626138387d> | 3.015625 | 643 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 41.550814 | 3,568 |
Berkeley Lab scientists
delivered nearly 100 presentations at the American Chemical Society’s
Fall 2010 national meeting in Boston, August 22-26, 2010.
In the opening scene of the famous 1967 movie The Graduate, Benjamin Braddock,
at a party to celebrate his new degree, is given one word of advice for his
future: “Plas... | <urn:uuid:5fa548f9-c53b-4338-a419-7416ea44c063> | 2.65625 | 1,426 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 9.131863 | 3,569 |
Discussion of everything related to the Theory of Evolution.
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Hello guys, I recently had a year of evolution in high school and a question came to my mind - don't worry, I'm not a creationist and I don't want to debunk Darwin as Evolution is an observable effect.
But the following thing got me curi... | <urn:uuid:c054d611-1834-4dac-b37b-accf57d8f38d> | 2.53125 | 697 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 47.152459 | 3,570 |
lugwormArticle Free Pass
lugworm, (genus Arenicola), any of several marine worms (class Polychaeta, phylum Annelida) that burrow deep into the sandy sea bottom or intertidal areas and are often quite large. Fishermen use them as bait. Adult lugworms of the coast of Europe (e.g., A. marina) attain lengths of about 23 cm... | <urn:uuid:c4b228b4-04a2-469e-b2ed-56d368c20c34> | 3.4375 | 299 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 63.420004 | 3,571 |
Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition
The Common Lisp facility for generating pseudo-random numbers has been carefully defined to make its use reasonably portable. While two implementations may produce different series of pseudo-random numbers, the distribution of values should be relatively independent of such machine... | <urn:uuid:2c466ce2-1fe1-410b-babd-95105cbc53f9> | 3.234375 | 1,278 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 53.45356 | 3,572 |
Definitions for dark field illumination
dark ground illumination, dark field illumination(noun)
a form of microscopic examination of living material by scattered light; specimens appear luminous against a dark background
Use the citation below to add this definition to your bibliography:
"dark field illumination." Defi... | <urn:uuid:644c6140-eba8-4f1a-be50-d6a8b95aea42> | 2.578125 | 93 | Structured Data | Science & Tech. | 39.076867 | 3,573 |
Lightning in Canada
Did you know that lightning flashes occur in Canada about 2.34 million times a year, including about once every three seconds during the summer months? Did you also know that each year in Canada, lightning strikes kill up to 10 people, seriously injure up to 164 others, and ignite some 4,000 forest ... | <urn:uuid:17c16dfe-adb3-477d-b7b6-fca6934d9577> | 3.515625 | 267 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 50.360205 | 3,574 |
Impact and recovery from light reduction in an Amphibolis seagrass ecosystem
This project aims to develop criteria for dredging (timing, duration, intensity of shading) to minimise impact to seagrass ecosystems. Sub-lethal indicators of stress will be developed for use as monitoring tools in dredging operations. In add... | <urn:uuid:6bf1c884-24f0-43fe-addc-54bd4abbdb23> | 2.65625 | 307 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 0.150175 | 3,575 |
The Venus Transit 2004
... Frequently Asked Questions
This page will provide answers to some of the most common questions asked in connection with this programme.
If you have other questions in connection with this programme, you may also contact the organisers of the ESO/EAAE Venus Transit 2004 project via email at em... | <urn:uuid:29027ca2-11db-4da9-84b5-f8366888e6f2> | 3.046875 | 596 | FAQ | Science & Tech. | 48.569278 | 3,576 |
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Mechanical Engineer Armen Toorian explains that the wheel tracks of the Mars rover Curiosity are used to determine how far the rover has travelled on the red planet. Lead Curiosity Driver Matt Heverly and Research Scientist Bethany Ehlmann elaborate on the un... | <urn:uuid:54b68b4a-96bb-4add-8832-3a524e386848> | 3.203125 | 411 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 41.084714 | 3,577 |
How Science Works
Scientific Knowledge - Uses - Limitations.
Scientific knowledge can used to develop technology.
The results of improved
can be more useful to some people than to others.
For example, developing genetic changes to crops
to make them grow in hot dry conditions might be more useful
to people living neare... | <urn:uuid:1252348d-beb5-49b2-8aea-8079dceeb94c> | 3.78125 | 247 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 43.509412 | 3,578 |
For a portion of my code, I need to either input a date from user or capture the system date. From there onwards I have to add 7 more days to the actual date and store it as the variable 'DueDate'. The format for the stored DueDate is DDMMYY. I am very confused as I am facing a lot of problems.
System time, seems very ... | <urn:uuid:39d76385-881f-4c8f-aa31-7be0b7970999> | 2.796875 | 519 | Q&A Forum | Software Dev. | 72.023601 | 3,579 |
By: Nola Taylor Redd
Published: 09/10/2012 11:04 AM EDT on SPACE.com
In the past decade, astronomers have observed clay materials on Mars that seem to indicate large bodies of water once filled the Martian surface. But new research suggests that magma could form some of these slick deposits rapidly, and ancient Mars ma... | <urn:uuid:4dd867f4-2962-488c-84ca-a20394b30557> | 3.96875 | 1,735 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 51.188631 | 3,580 |
1. A glass flask whose volume is exactly 1000cm^3 at 0 degrees Celsius is completely filled with mercury at this temperature. When the flask and mercury are heated to 100 degrees Celsius, 15.2cm^3 of mercury overflow. If the coefficient of volume expansion of mercury is 18 x 1...
variable saparable(separation of variab... | <urn:uuid:b19c53d5-59d6-4a85-a23f-00ae3f087b1e> | 3.296875 | 453 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 92.470912 | 3,581 |
Has NASA discovered extraterrestrial life?
December 1, 2010 by Amara D. Angelica
NASA has announced it will hold a news conference in Washington, D.C. at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss “an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.”
- Mary Voytek, Director, Astro... | <urn:uuid:5ab53ee8-1e10-4c45-a59f-b01bf0f11a50> | 2.671875 | 411 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 36.371316 | 3,582 |
Grab your telescope. The asteroid known as Toutatis will make its closest approach to Earth tonight.
From Tuesday night to Wednesday morning, the 3-mile long asteroid will be about 18 times the distance of the moon from the Earth.
And if you miss it Tuesday night, don't worry. The asteroid should be visible if you have... | <urn:uuid:bece3422-5eef-4cb6-a795-4e6e4c83587a> | 3.140625 | 464 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 62.246881 | 3,583 |
Today is a date in history to note for humankind and for our understanding of the universe.
Scientists at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have announced that they believe they have found the elusive Higgs boson – the particle that elementary particles interact with to gain mass. The search began nearl... | <urn:uuid:b8598c65-f81c-46c7-be94-d22336d8ac66> | 3.046875 | 441 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 31.451139 | 3,584 |
“Predator” bacteria (green) surround “prey” bacteria (red) in this petri dish version of the Serengeti. Rather than eating their prey, however, predator cells release a chemical that activates a suicide gene in the prey. Prey cells also release a chemical, but one that promotes survival of the predators. Researchers ge... | <urn:uuid:ccdd3db1-ea0b-4b2b-885f-f0b5243ec8b3> | 3.109375 | 160 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 36.646071 | 3,585 |
Solar Energy it is Energy from the Sun
Solar Energy Can Be Used for Heat and Electricity
Solar thermal energy:
There are many applications for the direct use of solar thermal energy, space heating and cooling, water heating, crop drying and solar cooking. It is a technology which is well understood and widely used in m... | <urn:uuid:903ec154-718e-46c4-a3d7-14354d8ab29c> | 3.21875 | 796 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 29.723841 | 3,586 |
The 'Pioneer anomaly' - the mystifying observation that NASA's two Pioneer spacecraft have drifted far off their expected paths - cannot be explained by tinkering with the law of gravity, a new study concludes.
The study's author suggests an unknown, but conventional, force is instead acting on the spacecraft. But othe... | <urn:uuid:48c72ba4-7085-46b3-8117-81921da98f66> | 3.6875 | 1,746 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 47.304614 | 3,587 |
Time of North Cascade Glaciers
Mauri S. Pelto, Director
Glacier Change Blog
Death of a Glacier
Glacier Change Blog
Middle Fork Nooksack
Type 1 glacier with lots of crevassing, indicating higher velocity, and
a substantial elevation range leading to high accumulation rates.
Sholes Glacier which has a moderate slope and ... | <urn:uuid:30ac3f6b-2834-467c-9f3a-be39d47f7727> | 3.234375 | 10,250 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 58.96599 | 3,588 |
When an electron collides with an atom or ion, there is a small probability that the electron kicks out another electron, leaving the ion in the next highest charge state (charge q increased by +1). This is called electron-impact ionization and is the dominant process by which atoms and ions become more highly charged.... | <urn:uuid:716dc55f-ad7c-480f-828e-32665f8aa931> | 3.09375 | 985 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 24.725172 | 3,589 |
New View of SuperconductivityCategory: Science & Technology
Posted: May 31, 2012 05:22PM
The ultimate goal for many materials scientists and the field of electronics is the creation of room-temperature superconductors. These, thus far, undiscovered material are able to carry electric currents with no resistance and no ... | <urn:uuid:a8c46367-e836-4202-a7fe-80729dbb5101> | 3.65625 | 381 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 28.4175 | 3,590 |
What is Dark Matter?
We know dark matter is out there—but what is it?
An invisible army of black holes? A cosmic graveyard of burned-out stars? A swarm of rogue planets that roam the depths of interstellar space? While examples of objects like these have been observed, we now know that they can’t account for the enormo... | <urn:uuid:c2646bb4-d438-43f3-b7bb-6e1c95a99ef8> | 4.15625 | 1,108 | Nonfiction Writing | Science & Tech. | 41.15393 | 3,591 |
The 6-ft.-high steel wellhead jutting up from a weedy field next to the R.E. Burger coal-fired power plant in eastern Ohio doesn't look momentous. If anything, it resembles a supersize fire hydrant. Yet the wellhead and the borehole extending through a mile and a half of rock below it represent an ambitious goal: nothi... | <urn:uuid:7fe9a073-551e-4e9e-882d-a31a3fecff01> | 3.125 | 1,685 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 44.768595 | 3,592 |
Ether is a class of organic compounds which contain an ether group — an oxygen atom connected to two (substituted) alkyl or aryl groups — of general formula R–O–R'. A typical example is the solvent and anesthetic diethyl ether, commonly referred to simply as "ether" (ethoxyethane, CH3-CH2-O-CH2-CH3).
cannot form hydrog... | <urn:uuid:c378a27e-491b-4f83-87fe-b27cad4360f2> | 3.875 | 1,735 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 34.932905 | 3,593 |
Courtesy Wikipedia CommonsSkeptics of human-induced climate change have long pointed to a lag between an increase in temperature and a rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide at the end of the last Ice Age as suggesting that carbon dioxide is an effect of rising temperatures, not a cause. This lag, however, was based on evi... | <urn:uuid:e8401fc8-f233-4ba3-b748-35595e87670d> | 3.765625 | 170 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 13.633638 | 3,594 |
San Andreas Fault in Santa Cruz Mountains – large quakes more frequent than previously thought
Recent paleoseismic work has documented four surface-rupturing earthquakes that occurred across the Santa Cruz Mountains section of the San Andreas Fault (SAF) in the past 500 years. The research, conducted by the U.S. Geolog... | <urn:uuid:4198a07d-1fec-47ef-a3cf-e2cdce7e451e> | 3.125 | 752 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 44.915749 | 3,595 |
Mar. 13, 2005 The most intense swarms of earthquakes detected in the last 10 to 12 years on the far edge of the Juan de Fuca plate could indicate the eruption of magma from the seafloor or an underwater volcano. Between 50 and 70 earthquakes an hour, most of them small, were occurring at the end of February at a spot s... | <urn:uuid:f7d87181-c2b3-4fcf-b5bc-0c15e2e29123> | 3.265625 | 1,093 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 38.891601 | 3,596 |
Web edition: January 15, 2013
Print edition: February 9, 2013; Vol.183 #3 (p. 17)
Pregnant male pipefish have hormone swings
The first study to track a form of testosterone through male pregnancy in fish has found an unusual roller coaster of swoops and spikes.
Among pipefishes, seahorses and sea dragons, females produ... | <urn:uuid:e619ba5b-d00d-4168-a5e7-b0d9148356e3> | 2.609375 | 538 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 41.362447 | 3,597 |
May 11, 2009 05:30 PM
New Caledonia, a French territory in the South Pacific, is the hottest spot on Earth for biodiversity, says a study in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. That island boasts a rich array of unique plant and animal species, which are increasingly under threa... | <urn:uuid:3385c0a4-34b6-43a1-9773-24c478adc7d1> | 3.859375 | 681 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 36.200776 | 3,598 |
In early July 2012, Asian clam shells were spotted in Turtle Bay of Otisco Lake by an Otisco Lake Preservation Association member. The alert went to Cornell Cooperative Extension Onondaga, and the presence of Asian clam was later confirmed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Using the iMapIn... | <urn:uuid:1d068cd8-b3cb-4f77-8d72-f744c0e86a79> | 2.828125 | 530 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 38.404661 | 3,599 |