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Monday, August 20, 2007
A conservation group says the Pacific and Atlantic oceans are absorbing too much carbon from excessive greenhouse gas emissions. The organization wants California and other west coast states to use the federal Clean Water Act to protect the waters off their coasts. KPBS reporter Ed Joyce has det... | <urn:uuid:5ef3e95f-079f-438b-97ca-8ec3efe757b3> | 2.984375 | 248 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 45.469509 | 4,000 |
To compile the file associated with the current buffer, choose File > Compile . To compile multiple files associated with buffers, select them in the buffers view and choose File > Compile . If there is not a current buffer, the menu command File > Compile... is available, which prompts for a file to compile.
Note: thi... | <urn:uuid:200a7dd1-1407-405c-9bc2-0fd5d65ebb77> | 2.546875 | 174 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 60.361785 | 4,001 |
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December in Montreal, and people are talking about "hockey stick graphs" — which have nothing to do with the Montreal Canadiens but instead map climate, population and CO2 emissions over the past millennium. Each shows a long steady line and, in the last century, a rapid increase, just like a hockey ... | <urn:uuid:4972d2bb-fc09-40a1-a1da-89767521d3c4> | 2.984375 | 1,052 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 30.808486 | 4,002 |
The latest news from academia, regulators
research labs and other things of interest
Posted: May 18th, 2012
Synthetic scent hounds - Nanostructured sensor for the detection of very low concentrations of explosive
(Nanowerk News) To prevent terrorist attacks at airports, it would be helpful to detect extremely low conce... | <urn:uuid:f3f9f337-e298-45f1-8e32-6ba8464b5b20> | 2.546875 | 724 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 17.874091 | 4,003 |
Long live the creepy-crawlies, the bugs, the tiny wigglers and wrigglers, the minuscule parasites and nematodes, the mites and oribatids and all the myriad life forms that buzz, crawl and throb below our feet.
Most have barely been given a second thought by science, but biologists now think that these mostly named crea... | <urn:uuid:548af9bc-12b6-40bd-9674-6d7fead42005> | 3.15625 | 1,325 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 45.531611 | 4,004 |
Importance of programming languages
As technology evolves, as a driving force in business. In the past, companies were manage by people and processes. These two factors that have led business performance and to determine whether the organization will be successful in achieving important goals. Thus, the need and import... | <urn:uuid:73651ab1-1c53-462f-9cec-d9ed5668f096> | 2.84375 | 361 | Knowledge Article | Software Dev. | 36.004824 | 4,005 |
Vectors - Fundamentals and Operations
Need to see it? Study the 6 + 8 = ??? animation from the Multimedia Physics Studios.Walter Fendt Physics Applets: Resultant of Forces (Addition of Vectors)
Add between two and five vectors together with this interactive Java simulation.
Explore nine lessons from a two-week unit on ... | <urn:uuid:38790c07-e177-47fa-8857-0f677afe020d> | 4.25 | 673 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 61.11956 | 4,006 |
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Rotational energy levels
Are rotational energy levels of a molecule in general equally spaced or does the spacing increase with energy? How about a diatomic molecule; I have seen a derivation showing that the rotational levels in a diatomic molecule are equally spaced, but when drawn in an ener... | <urn:uuid:915f0cab-1fde-4bcf-934a-376116e6ee70> | 2.71875 | 573 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 45.271061 | 4,007 |
This is an issue that is often misunderstood in the public sphere and media, so it is worth spending some time to explain it and clarify it. At least three careful ice core studies have shown that CO2 starts to rise about 800 years (600-1000 years) after Antarctic temperature during glacial terminations. These terminat... | <urn:uuid:28efacbf-3847-488e-947e-46cb72f8526b> | 3.65625 | 653 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 61.451226 | 4,008 |
Environment - Jun 2
Click on the headline (link) for the full text.
Many more articles are available through the Energy Bulletin homepage
Canada Pays Environmentally for U.S. Oil Thirst
Doug Struck, Washington Post
Huge Mines Rapidly Draining Rivers, Cutting Into Forests, Boosting Emissions
FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta -- Hu... | <urn:uuid:1f63d250-76bf-4cbf-a850-5dde46f6c423> | 2.5625 | 1,835 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 44.3925 | 4,009 |
In this tutorial, we will see how to create a short array with the help of short buffer.
The java.nio.ShortBuffer class extends java.nio.Buffer class. It provides the following methods:
|static ShortBuffer||allocate( int capacity)||The allocate(..) method allocate a short buffer of given capacity.|
|short||array()||The... | <urn:uuid:29117fa5-11be-4cce-bc6c-50fb5a6459a6> | 2.75 | 188 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 57.494615 | 4,010 |
Oct. 11, 2007 The hit song that proclaimed, "All we are is dust in the wind," may have some cosmic truth to it. New findings from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that space dust -- the same stuff that makes up living creatures and planets -- was manufactured in large quantities in the winds of black holes that p... | <urn:uuid:6701f7bf-f057-43b6-a848-3c82c2004855> | 3.703125 | 1,051 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 44.463596 | 4,011 |
The Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) has announced it has developed a lightweight propulsion system that could propel small satellites to the Moon using only 100mL of fuel. The entire propulsion system, which comprises an electric ion engine powered by photovoltaic solar cells, weighs only 200g including... | <urn:uuid:1bcc4231-1fbc-4fd1-a5b0-4905ae4ac92f> | 3.234375 | 515 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 25.192818 | 4,012 |
Once again, an article implies there is a proactive adaptive mechanism whereby animals adapt.
I am willing, able, and eager to acknowledge and accept any evidence that such a mechanism exists or has existed.Â
To say that a species developed or evolved a morphology "because" that morphology was "needed" or "because" tha... | <urn:uuid:47723ad8-aead-4aaf-a929-5ac0900d62a8> | 2.5625 | 910 | Nonfiction Writing | Science & Tech. | 10.341139 | 4,013 |
What languages can the <Say> verb speak?
Currently, the <Say> verb is able to properly pronounce words from several languages, provided the language parameter is set. For example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <Response> <Say language="es">Hola mono.</Say> </Response>
Currently, <Say language=” “> suports the... | <urn:uuid:73d443cf-41e9-457c-bd69-3132eb12c619> | 2.703125 | 179 | Customer Support | Software Dev. | 54.137457 | 4,014 |
Cloning is the process of creating an identical copy of something. In biology, it collectively refers to processes used to create copies of DNA fragments (molecular cloning), cells (cell cloning), or organisms. The term also encompasses situations whereby organisms reproduce asexually.
The term clone is derived from κλ... | <urn:uuid:709637c6-6644-41a3-aa9d-7ac8220e68f0> | 4.09375 | 5,244 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 35.182343 | 4,015 |
Ocean Volcanic Rocks Contain Samples of Recycled Crust
Scientists have long believed that lava erupted from certain oceanic volcanoes contains materials from the early Earth’s crust. But decisive evidence for this phenomenon has proven elusive. New research from a team including Carnegie’s Erik Hauri demonstrates that ... | <urn:uuid:448e21d1-97ca-4ae8-ae03-c3a03e873a23> | 3.84375 | 197 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 42.497647 | 4,016 |
Modern MacGyver: The Camel Fridge
Supplies to remote areas in rural Kenya—home of dusty villages that are inaccessible by Land Rovers—must be transported by camelback. This causes many devastating challenges for the delivery of vaccines and other vital medical supplies, many of which are rendered useless if exposed to ... | <urn:uuid:16e7d5ce-ba5d-4091-8c2d-78e32b9b82ee> | 2.546875 | 115 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 4.365 | 4,017 |
Hello, Frank Indiviglio here. Genetic research has revealed that a fairly well-studied frog has been hiding an astonishing secret – pairs form lifelong pair bonds and remain faithful to one another. Equally surprising is the fact that pool size alone (and not morality!) seems responsible for the fidelity shown by Mimic... | <urn:uuid:aca2f117-bbee-4224-b2c3-c5dafaf79600> | 3.28125 | 564 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 28.644912 | 4,018 |
Violent Tornado Causes Catastrophic Damage in Moore, Oklahoma
Posted: 12:00 PM EDT on May 21, 2013
A massive and violent tornado at least a mile wide smashed through Moore, Oklahoma near 3 pm CDT Monday, causing catastrophic damage along a 22-mile long path. The National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma has rated th... | <urn:uuid:05b25402-df14-458b-a4e3-39672ccaa27c> | 2.8125 | 227 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 51.559943 | 4,019 |
|Its early summer 1994, 12:34 p.m. local time, and the
Canadian Twin Otter research aircraft is flying 20 meters (about 65
feet) above the boreal forest canopy near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
Scientists are busy measuring the exchanges of gas and heat between the
forest and the lower atmosphere when the plane flies i... | <urn:uuid:ceae1f2a-5964-443c-90da-3f7c81c7920f> | 3.65625 | 479 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 35.957132 | 4,020 |
Classical electromagnetism and special relativity
The theory of special relativity plays an important role in the modern theory of classical electromagnetism. First of all, it gives formulas for how electromagnetic objects, in particular the electric and magnetic fields, are altered under a Lorentz transformation from ... | <urn:uuid:91ba8ab3-943d-4785-aac1-051c15ba1514> | 3.890625 | 2,442 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 49.572746 | 4,021 |
Novo, E.M., Hansom, J.D. and Curran, P., 1989. The effect of sediment type on the relationship between reflectance and suspended sediment concentration. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 10 (7), pp. 1283-1289.
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Official URL: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~co... | <urn:uuid:58ff8112-4251-44d7-86ba-53ae86bfec64> | 2.671875 | 386 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 48.955 | 4,022 |
The Global Climate during El Niño and La NiñaTopics: Composite (average) climate | Seasonal extremes | How events differ
|El Niño and La Niña can cause the "seasonal climate" -- the cumulative effects of the weather over a season -- to deviate from normal at many places around the globe. These pages analyze what happen... | <urn:uuid:ff3b6bbd-9889-4f91-9443-27060d29f45c> | 3.421875 | 533 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 22.512361 | 4,023 |
How can I convert an integer into its verbal representation?
I am looking for some solution to return a number as text.
By that I mean that 100 should be returned as 'one hundred'
It is more or less just a tidious task to make such a function myself, but I rather not re-invent the wheel, and this can't be the first tim... | <urn:uuid:3f7ef9a1-4bd2-4824-9224-f8a7e54b59a8> | 2.546875 | 190 | Q&A Forum | Software Dev. | 54.333829 | 4,024 |
Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. It features modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. There are interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems (X11... | <urn:uuid:11a41678-d594-425a-903b-936ffd8e0773> | 2.859375 | 158 | Product Page | Software Dev. | 43.765217 | 4,025 |
A macro replaces the original text in the code before the compiler start to process the file. I.e. every single place where you use the macro will get a duplicate of the code.
A function is a complete section of code i.e. no duplication occur.
Consider macros to be evil and stick to using functions instead, at least un... | <urn:uuid:b16f546e-1ff8-4914-a5a4-16a8b8c0bde9> | 3.296875 | 445 | Comment Section | Software Dev. | 61.40352 | 4,026 |
Three important geoengineering research projects supported by EU funds have recently been gaining ground. The first is known as Implications and Risks of Novel Options to Limit Climate Change, or IMPLICC. IMPLICC is an SRM modeling collaboration involving five research centers in France, Germany, and Norway, led by the... | <urn:uuid:78798c5d-4837-4f5a-b4c8-9a3eb5e51e9b> | 2.78125 | 341 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 7.869381 | 4,027 |
Credit: NASA/CXC/MIT/L.Lopez et al.
Fifty score years ago, or thereabouts, the thermonuclear furnace at the heart of a very massive star tested whether that star, or any star, so conceived and so created, could long endure. It could not. The ensuing explosion ripped through the Milky Way in a titanic fireball, leaving ... | <urn:uuid:4d6b3c8a-6547-4a2e-8269-ea4b829f0fe1> | 3.53125 | 505 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 43.535718 | 4,028 |
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Many images of the solar system do not do justice to how small the planets are relative to the Sun, or how distant they are from the Sun and each other. The solar system is really mostly empty space. The Toilet Roll Solar System activity helps give an idea of the relative distances between the plan... | <urn:uuid:34c1061a-aeab-4f8c-bb27-f33c51722326> | 2.875 | 83 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 49.725068 | 4,029 |
Vent Communities Under the Galapagos Islands
Vent communities are animals and plants that are found deep in the ocean near hot water or geothermal vents. Vents are found where the tectonic plates crack. Molten lava lies deep within the cracks and heats up the water. This ecosystem is teeming with life. They are rich in... | <urn:uuid:30046acd-23e8-4dc9-9e9e-29081e35b098> | 3.671875 | 171 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 54.501374 | 4,030 |
Towards the end of every year tropical storm activity moves from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere. The South Indian Ocean has already spawned three tropical storms including the unusually strong early season Cyclone Anais in October. Attention has now switched to the South Pacific Ocean and Cyclone Ev... | <urn:uuid:0ca18714-2557-45f4-bcd5-1ceca5844f67> | 3.125 | 345 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 39.128947 | 4,031 |
Description: The stunning Blue Morpho Butterfly is one of 80 species classified as Morpho butterflies. The Blue Morpho Butterfly is a large butterfly with a wingspan that may measure up to six inches. It has iridescent blue wings with black wing edges. The upper edges are flecked with white. The butterfly’s brilliant b... | <urn:uuid:8ce13416-4a9a-4b37-8e1b-aa42e7cd3c48> | 3.609375 | 476 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 45.064761 | 4,032 |
Tag: "microbes" at biology news
Newly Discovered Bacteria Produce Magnetic Material
... "In 1994," Phelps says, "we determined that these microbes
from theTaylorsville Triassic Rift Basin near Fred...ionth of a meter. "We also found evidence that the microbes
can remediate groundwatercontaining chlorocarbon compounds, ... | <urn:uuid:0887eb30-b3d9-4456-bdb8-ec0c6e420fb0> | 2.859375 | 1,558 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 34.958807 | 4,033 |
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After spending weeks adrift in the ocean as tiny larvae, juvenile coral reef fish often return to their "home reef" to settle down, researchers say.
The strong homing behavior shown by reef-dwelling butterflyfish in the waters near Papua New Guinea came as a surprise to scientists, and it m... | <urn:uuid:99fe559a-72dc-4c3c-a941-baf212988e05> | 4 | 310 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 42.112792 | 4,034 |
Research Opens Doors To UV Disinfection Using LED Technology
For Immediate Release
Research from North Carolina State University will allow the development of energy-efficient LED devices that use ultraviolet (UV) light to kill pathogens such as bacteria and viruses. The technology has a wide array of applications rang... | <urn:uuid:3cb5a56e-315d-4189-b32b-ab602dcbceab> | 3.046875 | 868 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 28.835313 | 4,035 |
When a cockroach scuttles into a dark corner as we flip on the kitchen light, we feel revulsion, not kinship. But a new study reveals that most humans
share a basic trait with Kafka's creepy creatures: right-handedness. Researchers released roaches into a Y-shaped tube, where scents of
vanilla or ethanol enticed the in... | <urn:uuid:9883ac36-3777-4e2f-b3d7-3f02af0373f1> | 3.140625 | 215 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 51.742778 | 4,036 |
Pavements designed to fight climate change could increase energy consumption in surrounding buildingsNovember 8th, 2012 in Technology / Energy & Green Tech
A simulation shows that while pavements covered with new, heat-trapping materials remain cool, the building's facades facing them are quite warm.
(Phys.org)—A push ... | <urn:uuid:d669188e-b919-46ad-9e7a-55b634552b4c> | 3.21875 | 1,201 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 28.594483 | 4,037 |
One fourth length of a Uniform Rod of mass $m$ and length $x$ is placed on rough horizontal surface and it is held stationary by means of a light thread as shown in the figure. The thread is brunt and the rod starts rotating about the edge, the co-efficient of friction of the surface is $μ$. Determine the angle between... | <urn:uuid:6925e7d3-68d5-4d08-927a-5e5366c3535f> | 2.671875 | 113 | Q&A Forum | Science & Tech. | 67.328947 | 4,038 |
Most people would not question the species status of the polar bear (Ursus maritimus). While it is true that polar bears – under certain circumstances – have successfully interbred with brown bears (aka ‘grizzlies,’ Ursus arctos)[see previous post on hybridization], there are many characteristics that distinguish each ... | <urn:uuid:5b036a37-71a1-4483-a422-834128cfbd35> | 3.5 | 208 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 62.419939 | 4,039 |
An estimated 126,000 described species rely on freshwater habitats, including species of fishes, molluscs, reptiles, insects, plants, and mammals. With the inclusion of undescribed species, this number could rise to over one million. Species richness in relation to area of habitat is extremely high in many freshwater g... | <urn:uuid:66f61bcf-20c8-46b6-be07-f41ba10ef983> | 3.328125 | 308 | About (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 23.429663 | 4,040 |
unassimilatible writes "The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reports 'to impress your favorite lady this Valentine's Day, get her the galaxy's largest diamond.' A newly discovered cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallized carbon 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus. It is 2,500 miles ... | <urn:uuid:c85c2700-6e4e-4b05-917b-2b1db99838be> | 3.1875 | 112 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 40.921 | 4,041 |
Gregorio Zara — Filipino physicist and aeronautical engineer
Creator of the first videophone ( a forerunner of such video telecommunication applications as Skype, Webcam and videoconferencing) and discoverer of the physical law known as the “Zara Effect.”
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Once oil has entered the Gulf Stream, it may stay offshore in the Gulf Stream. There is some chance that it could move toward nearshore coastal waters and even reaching the coastlines of South Atlantic states. The amount of oil — if any — that reaches shore depends on several factors, including:
- the amount of oil in ... | <urn:uuid:d5a43cf0-e630-4c37-83f4-4fdb026ba079> | 3.609375 | 367 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 41.386749 | 4,043 |
Although the highly invasive water hyacinth was introduced into Florida over 30 years ago, the aquatic plant hasn’t been nearly as successful as it has been in other places such as Lake Victoria, South Africa. Despite this, Florida’s weather and conditions are optimal for sufficient growth of water hyacinth. The warm c... | <urn:uuid:286c4586-712d-4978-ac2a-a17e99544c1e> | 3.546875 | 594 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 32.138458 | 4,044 |
National Science Foundation
Media contact: Lee Herring, (703) 306-1070, firstname.lastname@example.org
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NSF PR 98-79 November 20, 1998
High School Students Discover Distant Asteroid Using NSF Telescope and
High school students have discovered a previously u... | <urn:uuid:322ba8fc-cfb4-4db7-a9e1-1aea733cdea6> | 2.796875 | 798 | News (Org.) | Science & Tech. | 33.858942 | 4,045 |
May 23, 2006
I’ve wasted a couple of weeks of my life tracking down a rather odd problem with the CLEO detector, and I feel a certain need to offload. So here follows a rather detailed discussion of the CLEO tracking system — actually, drift chambers in general, so if you’ve ever wondered how exactly we follow all the ... | <urn:uuid:16ab899a-620c-483d-8b1d-a11c3714d35e> | 2.78125 | 4,470 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 51.799121 | 4,046 |
The CGI (Common Gateway Interface) defines a way for a web server to
interact with external content-generating programs, which are often
referred to as CGI programs or CGI scripts.
Within Tomcat, CGI support can be added when you are using Tomcat as your
HTTP server and require CGI support. Typically this is done
durin... | <urn:uuid:91f15aa7-7164-4e02-a672-0a55cb422ca4> | 3.09375 | 156 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 52.904655 | 4,047 |
Disclaimer: I do not claim credit for the code examples and much of the contents here, these are mostly extracts from the book by Chris Smith, Programming F#: A comprehensive guide for writing simple code to solve complex problems. In fact, if you’re thinking of learning F# and like what you read here, you should buy t... | <urn:uuid:a35cdaf7-02ff-4f2b-b377-d17518da91ad> | 3.15625 | 2,264 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 51.980666 | 4,048 |
This post is from Dr John Bissell, a physicist researching tipping points in mathematical systems for the project.
In a conference that had largely focused on `tipping points’ in human society, especially those involving the spread of `buzzwords’, `innovation’ and `trends’, Prof Richard Law‘s talk on ecological dynamic... | <urn:uuid:e4bc7cec-7b94-468b-9df3-f54037e70154> | 2.78125 | 518 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 20.614824 | 4,049 |
Authors: Amrit S. Sorli
Penrose describes consciousness as a result of quantum gravity acting on the neurons of the brain. Consciousness is non local; it does not exist exclusively in the brain. Here it is introduced idea that consciousness is a basic frequency of quantum space. Human brains have ability to "connect" a... | <urn:uuid:2795051b-f03b-40c8-af60-0f56ed597685> | 2.859375 | 112 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 47.596429 | 4,050 |
Computational model offers insight into mechanisms of drug-coated balloons.
Graduate student Cristina Thomas has been making observations of asteroids using a large NASA telescope in Hawaii, at least once a month for more than three years now. Doing this kind of astronomical research has traditionally required a lot of... | <urn:uuid:ca2ba4fd-8e40-4e3c-b6da-4307c3aa938a> | 3.171875 | 1,162 | Nonfiction Writing | Science & Tech. | 40.825875 | 4,051 |
|Resonant Soft X-Ray Scattering of Tri-Block Copolymers|
In principle, tri-block copolymers (tri-BCPs), consisting of three chemically distinct polymers covalently joined together at the ends of each polymer chain, can serve as scaffolds and templates for fabricating a vast number of nanostructures. While quantitativel... | <urn:uuid:8a7fe78e-f355-42b5-b0d2-ccb273075458> | 2.578125 | 1,142 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 30.460833 | 4,052 |
He may look like a pretty butterfly, but this winged creature is actually a day-flying, evil-eradicating, heroic moth.
The Cinnabar Moth (Tyria jacobaeae) is a member of the Arctiidae (Tiger Moth) family — originally found only in Europe and western and central Asia — and is a relatively new resident to our area.
Initi... | <urn:uuid:1256045d-c096-418e-ab48-c55cfeb74bbe> | 3.25 | 883 | Nonfiction Writing | Science & Tech. | 44.744415 | 4,053 |
ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF GRASSHOPPERS AND OTHER INSECT PESTS IN THE NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS
Location: Pest Management Research Unit
Title: Enemy targeting, trade-offs, and the evolutionary assembly of a tortoise beetle defense arsenal
Submitted to: Evolutionary Ecology
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication... | <urn:uuid:4e4e181a-b5ca-4ac7-bb25-cd35b78c6e51> | 2.5625 | 875 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 14.077717 | 4,054 |
Lox/Kerosene propellant rocket stage. Loaded/empty mass 5,000/700 kg. Thrust 122.50 kN. Vacuum specific impulse 280 seconds. All values except thrust estimated.
Status: In development.
More... - Chronology...
Gross mass: 5,000 kg (11,000 lb).
Unfuelled mass: 700 kg (1,540 lb).
Height: 9.60 m (31.40 ft).
Diameter: 1.00 ... | <urn:uuid:ba5a78d8-1ca2-4bd6-8839-f5cdd315be82> | 2.5625 | 935 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 60.681489 | 4,055 |
The lower 48 U.S. states experienced an average July temperature of 77.6 degrees Fahrenheit (25.3 degrees Celsius).
That's about 3.3 degrees (1.8 degrees Celsius) above the 20th-century average and the highest July average since record-keeping began in 1895, according to a report released August 8 by the U.S. National ... | <urn:uuid:42587d80-7112-4184-a765-f07b6ed6d14d> | 2.953125 | 139 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 62.698343 | 4,056 |
Higgs bosonArticle Free Pass
Higgs boson, also called Higgs particle, hypothetical particle that is postulated to be the carrier particle, or boson, of the Higgs field, a theoretical field that permeates space and endows all elementary subatomic particles with mass through its interactions with them. The field and the ... | <urn:uuid:04e23da0-bef7-4d40-969e-273afae8c3a8> | 3.765625 | 605 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 34.59825 | 4,057 |
An overview of the Chandra mission and goals, Chandra's namesake, top 10 facts.
Classroom activities, printable materials, interactive games & more.
Overview of X-ray Astronomy and X-ray sources: black holes to galaxy clusters.
All Chandra images released to the public listed by date & by category
Current Chandra press... | <urn:uuid:b0344c07-5a05-43a4-b8a9-f41f93ba57f3> | 2.6875 | 1,123 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 41.420265 | 4,058 |
How do macrophyte distribution patterns affect hydraulic resistances?
In eutrophic river systems, macrophytes attain high biomass with reduced drainage and increased flooding risk. To avoid these problems, water managers remove vegetation. Total removal, however, increases wash out of macro-invertebrate communities red... | <urn:uuid:cc282816-aad2-4002-bc37-07c80cc060eb> | 2.84375 | 316 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 29.762071 | 4,059 |
Simple information searches -- name lookups, word searches, etc. -- are often implemented in terms of an exact match criterion. However, given both the diversity of homophonic (pronounced the same) words and names, as well as the propensity for humans to misspell surnames, this simplistic criterion often yields less th... | <urn:uuid:878a76ff-9056-4c2e-ad0c-f0ba2d84ccce> | 3.15625 | 1,491 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 29.884647 | 4,060 |
protected member function
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Initializes the values of the stream's internal flags and member variables.
Derived classes are expected to call this protected member function at some point before its first use or before its destruction (generally, during construction).
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How Much Potential Energy Do Different Nuts Have?
It seems that at least once a year California has another energy crisis, and almost as often, someone wonders what will happen when California runs out of energy sources. Christopher Crews, knowing that all living things contain energy, set out to prove that different v... | <urn:uuid:70991200-cc00-4786-b3cc-22df4b25f76e> | 3.46875 | 469 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 46.829936 | 4,062 |
Some operations are difficult or even impossible to obtain with an expression, or the operation could become too complex to achieve. The alternative is to create a function that would take care of performing the operation and supplying the result to the table. Of course, as you may know already, a function is its own o... | <urn:uuid:c0647975-81bf-4915-9484-30a474c1ec66> | 2.75 | 811 | Tutorial | Software Dev. | 42.359164 | 4,063 |
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FROM VOLUME 11, NUMBER 11, NOVEMBER 1998
Antarctic Elevation Change from 1992 to 1996, D. J. W... | <urn:uuid:8033b752-a977-47a9-a363-c50cbe39beda> | 3.328125 | 960 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 48.759231 | 4,064 |
Click chemistry is a term introduced by Professors Valery V. Fokin and Nobel laureate K.B. Sharpless to describe chemistry tailored to generate substances quickly and reliably by joining small units together similar to the modular strategy adopted by Mother Nature. The term “click chemistry” implies that the reactions ... | <urn:uuid:09d85829-e617-48bc-b12c-1f96b857f7a2> | 2.6875 | 1,844 | Academic Writing | Science & Tech. | 7.471667 | 4,065 |
The module Storable provides most elementary support for marshalling and is part of the language-independent portion of the Foreign Function Interface (FFI) - see also Section 4.13. It provides a class Storable and instances of this class for all primitive types that can be stored in raw memory. The member functions of... | <urn:uuid:30ab7895-4b57-4e50-9fba-60eb63276c2b> | 2.71875 | 925 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 42.353662 | 4,066 |
National Overview - July 2003
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Lava, not water, may have carved the biggest channels on Mars.
Ever since NASA's Mariner 9 spacecraft beamed back the first images of the channels in the 1970s, most people have assumed they were created by massive floods. But David Leverington of Texas Tech University in Lubbock says flowing water would have left behi... | <urn:uuid:3f607ba1-e14d-4a3e-8d9b-55af8ff3041c> | 3.921875 | 560 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 54.708963 | 4,068 |
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Dust Achieves Lofty Aspirations
Disposition to form ice crystals is measured and modeled for a new-fangled framework
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Size of 23s and 16s RNA different - (Apr/24/2006 )
I did DNA extraction from B. subtilis sample, but did not use any RNase to remove RNA in my sample. Two distinct bands appear at size 1.2kb and 1.7kb. I am suspecting they are 16s and 23s rRNA. However, I found out the size of 23 and 16s respectively are 2.9kb and 1.5k... | <urn:uuid:2f82beef-5928-42e0-92ec-f90a05ece7ec> | 2.84375 | 292 | Comment Section | Science & Tech. | 75.21229 | 4,070 |
The basic requirements for a synthetic motor are repetitive 360° motion, the consumption of energy and unidirectional rotation. Two efforts in this direction were published in 1999 in the same issue of Nature. For the two reports below, it is unknown whether these molecules are capable of generating torque. It is expec... | <urn:uuid:377dc203-5e06-4237-b87b-8cdbdbc67bd0> | 2.625 | 1,167 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 31.516471 | 4,071 |
There’s no hiding the fact that several ideas that we see every day in the real world, have stemmed from concepts thought up within that of a science fiction-based reality. While time travelling may not be happening right now, scientists are still working hard on the idea, trying to make it real. But, what about someth... | <urn:uuid:49f74bb0-ac22-4f90-8391-b299a4a90c99> | 3.046875 | 271 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 43.061935 | 4,072 |
Trigonometry: Trigonometric Functions
The Unit Circle
The unit circle is the circle whose center is at the origin and whose radius is one. The circumfrence of the unit circle is 2Π . An arc of the unit circle has the same length as the measure of the central angle that intercepts that arc. Also, because the radius of t... | <urn:uuid:b8a5ee0b-6b6b-401f-a776-8a8c6a2c21d4> | 4.4375 | 310 | Tutorial | Science & Tech. | 59.987129 | 4,073 |
I saw on the news today that a new tropical storm is forming in the Gulf of Mexico. When you’re from New Orleans, that always grabs your attention. It looks like the Crescent City will be spared – models show the storm more likely drifting east toward Florida — but on the other hand it seems certain that one of these d... | <urn:uuid:4423681e-7dc0-47b4-bfa5-4108d43bdffb> | 2.671875 | 930 | Personal Blog | Science & Tech. | 42.101796 | 4,074 |
Curiosity starts to sift dirt for signs of life
This image provided by NASA shows shows a Martian rock outcrop near the landing site of the rover Curiosity thought to be the site of an ancient streambed, next to similar rocks shown on earth. Photo: AP/NASA
WASHINGTON: NASA's Mars rover, Curiosity, is parked at a sandpi... | <urn:uuid:01fe8c42-66a5-44ee-a131-0d4b4624b5ce> | 2.984375 | 435 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 44.320193 | 4,075 |
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This graphic shows how the movements of the fish along the lake bed left the trails. Credit: Anthony Martin
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Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on TwitterWe keep sending missions to Mars with the key objective to search for past or present life. But what if a huge impact early in the Red Planet’s history hindered any future possibility for life to thrive? Recent studies into the Martian “crustal ... | <urn:uuid:b9afece9-df12-4944-b4a5-e5a50a7a2548> | 4.1875 | 864 | Truncated | Science & Tech. | 36.890406 | 4,077 |
Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS)
What are aquatic invasive species?
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Mercury Transit on November 8, 2006
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The planet Mercury will cross in
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Portrait of Niels Bohr
The Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen
Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who lived between 1885-1962. He studied the structure of atoms and developed a new theory about how the electrons in an atom were arranged.
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February 12, 2001 Winter Weather Event and
the "Seeder - Feeder Mechanism"
Background information on the February 12, 2001 Winter Weather Event.
On February 12, an ice storm, consisting primarily of sleet, was expected over the
RAH CWFA. The heaviest sleet was expected during the morning between 12Z and 18Z.
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Insertion of a NodeBefore we discuss about how to insert a NODE let us discuss few rules to follow at the time of insertion.
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A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism/Part I/Chapter I
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DESCRIPTION OF PHENOMENA.
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Concentration and composition of dissolved organic carbon in streams in relation to catchment soil properties
Nelson, P.N., Baldock, J.A., and Oades, J.M. (1993) Concentration and composition of dissolved organic carbon in streams in relation to catchment soil properties. Biogeochemistry, 19 (1). pp. 27-50.
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Evo in the news: Livestock kick a drug habit This news brief, from September of 2005, describes the FDA ban on the use of the antibiotic Baytril in poultry production. The decision was made in order to reduce the danger presented by the evolution of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
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20 Amazing Science Facts That You Never Knew
The universe is filled with undiscovered wonderful things. And, to help you discover few of those amazing stuff , I’ve lined up these 20 awesome and weird science facts that would definitely blow your mind, in a good way of course. Check them all out after the break.
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Laurentian Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada
Data Center Description
The Canadian Forest Service (CFS) of Natural Resources Canada works to promote the sustainable development of Canada's forests and the competitiveness of the Canadian forest sector to ensure the continuity of the resou... | <urn:uuid:d8c21cce-bace-4e13-9b39-499cdbac8c4a> | 2.65625 | 298 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | -22.029733 | 4,087 |
Mathematics Quiz 1
*1. Let’s start off with Pi itself! The 762nd decimal place of Pi is quite beautiful as the sequence of numbers that follow it is 9999998……, the first such instance of a string of 6 consecutive 9′s in the decimal representation of Pi. What is the unique name assigned to this point and why?
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Credit: Swift; NASA; A. Cucchiara et al.
Now Who's Farthest?
Astronomers like to push limits, and almost nothing excites astronomical competition like finding the most distant known object. This competition is not merely for bragging rights in the astronomical community; looking back at objects at great distances provi... | <urn:uuid:204c3562-48b3-434c-9aae-9721303fef38> | 3.75 | 394 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 53.154797 | 4,089 |
We also have a
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and depths in their own way;
you too can explore and color this world topography dataset.
Temperature and salinity together essentially determine the density of water, and thus how it moves about. rhoa is the density minus one (the density of water... | <urn:uuid:1a732790-6a10-4fbf-be82-14af93d1557d> | 3.8125 | 531 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 31.187552 | 4,090 |
Federal officials plan to fund a study at UC Davis to learn more about the basic behavior of Delta smelt, the threatened fish at the vortex of water supply and environmental problems in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced the study on a government grants website. It plans to pay U... | <urn:uuid:6fee1d50-9d41-4991-9e52-30cf0a3b9031> | 3.421875 | 245 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 44.203899 | 4,091 |
See also the
Dr. Math FAQ:
0.9999 = 1
0 to 0 power
n to 0 power
0! = 1
dividing by 0
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The Metric System (SI): A Concise Reference Guide
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|Accurate but concise information intended to clarify the mysteries of the Système International d'Unités (SI), for both the layman and the expert. Introduction, a brief history, the base and suppl... | <urn:uuid:bca3d1b8-1eea-4419-8226-53fc44293aee> | 3.3125 | 192 | Content Listing | Science & Tech. | 25.176835 | 4,093 |
Grouping constructs allow you to capture groups of subexpressions and to increase the efficiency of regular expressions with noncapturing lookahead and lookbehind modifiers. The following table describes the Regular Expression Grouping Constructs.
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Entity Framework Overview
The Entity Framework is a set of technologies in ADO.NET that support the development of data-oriented software applications. Architects and developers of data-oriented applications have struggled with the need to achieve two very different objectives. They must model the entities, relationshi... | <urn:uuid:96abeabf-ba68-4269-a190-ad5c587a83e0> | 3.59375 | 1,952 | Documentation | Software Dev. | 19.189771 | 4,095 |
The basic results of the recent efforts concerning observations of gas deficiency in cluster spirals can be summarized as follows:
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Frequent Flora Miles: Plants Can "Hop" to Distant Lands
for National Geographic News
|June 14, 2007|
Looking for frequent flyer tips? Ask an Arctic plant.
The hardy flora rack up the miles as climate change sends them adrift in search of fresh places to put down roots, a new study says.
The finding suggests northern pl... | <urn:uuid:06bf53da-df80-45bd-a806-b71f67e874aa> | 3.484375 | 1,029 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 52.148851 | 4,097 |
The Perseid meteor shower happens every year around mid-August.
This year's peak nights will be during the early morning hours of August 12th and 13th. During the shower you'll be able to see up to 60 meteors per hour.
What is a meteor shower?
A meteor is a tiny dust particle that a comet sheds. These dust particles re... | <urn:uuid:74aa5029-f443-498f-bf6c-1636d5f82678> | 3.53125 | 466 | Knowledge Article | Science & Tech. | 67.366353 | 4,098 |
(Phys.org) -- A voltage signal preceding failure of bridges and other structures made of powder has been documented by three researchers in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers University. Their findings, published on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, are an important step forwar... | <urn:uuid:f0d9d5c1-f017-4374-9d5c-4002f4152b0e> | 3.28125 | 767 | News Article | Science & Tech. | 25.875648 | 4,099 |