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Determining Location
In this tutorial we take a look at how to detect a device's current geographical location and how to use location data in your application. We also describe some basic strategies for updating location data on a regular basis.
Ways of Determining Location
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The recent swine flu (H1N1 virus) outbreak has scared a lot of people and made us all start taking the idea of hygiene and disease control a bit more seriously. In a school setting band directors are probably second only to the school nurse in terms of direct, first hand exposure to bodily fluids and exhaled air. It ... |
If you peruse the CurlTalk discussions, you'll see honey mentioned on numerous threads.
This should come as no surprise, given honey's long history as a health and beauty ingredient.
The use of honey has been documented throughout human history, with mention found as far back as in various Sumerian tablets. The pract... |
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Parides agavus caterpillars feed on many species of the plant family Aristolochiaceae including Aristolochia brasiliensis, Aristolochia fimbriata, Aristolochia rumicifolia and especially Aristolochia triangularis (Tyler et al, 1994).
Many of the plants in this family contain aristolochic acids (Mebs and Schneider, 200... |
France and Great Britain intensify their decades-old rivalry
Though Americans viewed the War of 1812 as a struggle between their young nation and Great Britain, it appeared to many in Europe as an outgrowth of the long-standing rivalry between Europe’s great powers, France and England.
“The two greatest Commercial Na... |
Fire Ecology
The 2003 Griff Fire
The 2003 Griff Fire
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Given the Olympic Peninsula's reputation for rain, one might expect the forests to be impervious to fire. The evidence of tree rings, charcoal analysis, forest composition and structure, however, tells a different story.
Long periods of time with scatt... |
Ronald Jones Metro Pictures 150 Greene Street SoHo Through Jan. 4
Ronald Jones's new amalgams of object and text, art, history and science suggest what might happen if Frank Stella, Joseph Kosuth and Haim Steinbach made art together. Big, topsy-turvy combinations of fairly recognizable objects, these works are certain... |
“How do they get that BIG?”
By Lloyd Stegemann, MD
For a PDF version of this article, please click here.
I was recently returning home on a flight and I was reading one of my bariatric surgery journals. The passenger next to me noticed what I was reading and asked me what I did for a living. I told her I was a surgeo... |
What Your Gut Bacteria Say About You
The 100 trillion microbes that live in your gut know—and influence—you from the inside out. So what can they tell you about yourself? Here's a taste...
gut bacteria health
"You're Taking the Wrong Chill Pill"
Try this to preempt stress-triggered pig-outs: two 1/4-cup servings daily ... |
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Organic Gardening Tips
Looking for tips on vegetables or herbs? Read about 11 useful organic gardening products for your home garden.
1. Mulch your flower beds and trees with 3" of organic material - it conserves water, adds humus and nutrients, and d... |
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Nausicaä to Xenodike
The daughter of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians and his consort, Arete. When Odysseus shipwrecked on Alcinous' island, Scheria, he was found by Nausicaä. She received him with elegance and great hospitality and br... |
Femoral Nerve Tension Test
Original Editor - Sam Vaid, Nick Libotton, David De Meyer
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Sam Vaid, Nick Libotton, Tyler Shultz and David De Meyer
The Femoral Nerve Tension Test also known as the Femoral Nerve Stretch (Test) is a test used to screen for sensitivity to stretch soft tissue at the do... |
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Do You Have Leptokurtophobia?
The abnormal need for normal distributions
The symptoms of leptokurtophobia are (1) routinely asking if your data are normally distributed and (2) transforming your data to make them appear to ... |
Identifying Screw Threads
1. Thread Form
2. Thread Pitch
3. Major Diameter
4. Pitch Diameter
5. Minor Diameter
6. Hand of the Thread
7. Number of Starts
With the information provided in this section, users can readily identify most thread forms. To accomplish this, the features in the list above must be... |
Davy, Humphry Sir
Born: Dec 17, 1778 AD
Died: 1829 AD, at 50 years of age.
Nationality: English
Categories: Chemists
1778 - He was born in Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom on the 17th of December. Discovered elements barium, calcium, chlorine, magnesium, potassium, sodium, strontium. Mentor of Michael Faraday.
18... |
You can't coddle kids or their brains too much. Without a little bit of frustration and stress, they would never learn how to talk or read or do science. Without some physical stress, we would all be crawling from place to place.
Stress helps us learn, adapt and cope. But too much stress, such as from neglect or abuse... |
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Valentine's Day Hink Pink FREEBIE
Ever since I attended my 1st state conference for Gifted and Talented Education several decades ago, I have seen, heard and read about Hink Pinks. These vocabulary building, problem solving, critical thinking riddles are staples in GATE. Perhaps my decade... |
Dark matter: Experiment on the space station hints at WIMPy dark matter.
Space-borne Experiment Early Results Point Toward WIMPy Dark Matter
Bad Astronomy
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April 3 2013 12:30 PM
Tantalizing Hints of WIMPy Dark Matter
AMS on the ISS
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on board the space s... |
How wrong is your time zone: Map shows how far world clocks are from solar time.
Map: How Wrong Is Your Time Zone?
The World
How It Works
Feb. 21 2014 9:50 AM
Map: How Wrong Is Your Time Zone?
Behind the times.
Stefano Maggiolo
This week my colleague Laura Anderson made the case for why other countries should ado... |
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• Identify environmental conditions of the rocky coast of Maine and the coral reefs of the Caribbean.
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Jake B. Schrum, President, Southwestern University
The Ties That Bind
One hundred years ago, the Southwestern family gathered for the University’s first Homecoming. Even without the assistance of e-mails or instant messaging, the University contacted a significant number of alumni and friends so that attendance was n... |
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What are the underlying, universal fears present in humanity?
I believe that a lot or arguably all of our actions are dictated by fear in one sense or another. I want to better understand this and find a way to address and minimize those fears instilled in people. What do you think the un... |
Australia swelters under a sham climate change policy after hottest year on record
With 2013 confirmed as Australia's hottest year on record, prime minister Tony Abbott must explain how "direct action" is credible.
Crowds cool off at St Kilda beach during heatwave conditions in Melbourne
Crowds cool off at St Kilda be... |
10 tips for a successful orchestral audition
Chicago Symphony Orchestra cellist Brant Taylor offers advice to candidates hoping to succeed in that all-important orchestral audition
May 6, 2014
Every orchestra and audition committee is unique. However, certain audition concepts are so fundamental as to be likely to l... |
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Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) was the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. Before his presidency, he served as the eighth ... |
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It begins as a feeling of slight frustration. Maybe you'll growl or let out a few careless "fucks". Can be caused by slight things, like spilling your drink on your clothes. It's more of an annoyance scratching the inside of y... |
Corey Cook: The State of Our City
Corey CookPhoto by Andy Goodwin. Illustrations of Mayor Ed Lee and San Francisco City Hall by Daniel Chang.
As USF readies for its downtown return, so, too, is the city of San Francisco embarking on a new chapter with the election of its first Asian American mayor, the largest surge ... |
Foam Sclerotherapy for Varicose Veins
Foam sclerotherapy is a technique for eliminating varicose veins, particularly larger ones. The doctor injects the veins with a foam that causes the veins to scar inside, so that they eventually harden, close up, and disappear.
Traditionally, liquids were used for sclerotherapy. ... |
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F62: Failure of Success Criterion 1.3.1 and 4.1.1 due to insufficient information in DOM to determine specific relationships in XML
Applies to the Document Object Model (DOM) for XML.
This failure relates to:
The objective of this technique is to ensure that... |
“The Castrato and His Wife” by Helen Berry
In 1775, Dorothea Maunsell and her new husband, William Long Kingsman, went to court to show that they were indeed legally married. They had already had two wedding ceremonies (one in Italy, the other in England), but there was a problem: a long, public record of Dorothea alr... |
Wade-Giles to Pinyin Conversion:
Australian Experience and Local Issues
Prepared by
OCLC Users' Group Pinyin Conversion Task Force
June 21, 1999
This report attempts to address technical issues relating to the Wade-Giles to Pinyin conversion for the purpose of helping OCLC CJK member libraries understand the conversi... |
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Wildflower garden with Castilleja indivisa (Indian paintbrush)
Author: Nan Hampton
Date: Tuesday - January 08, 2013
From: Dallas, TX
QUESTION: I want to start a wildflower garden in my front/backyard. Specifically, I would like to include the indian paintbrush. What is the best way to go abo... |
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1. Recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm
"The rabbi chanted a prayer";
- intone, intonate, cantillate
2. Utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically
"The students chanted the same slogan over and over again";
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The Science of Earworms, Or Why You’re Singing Carly Rae Jepsen Right Now
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“Hey I just met you. And this is crazy. Here’s my number. So call me maybe?”
If you’ve turned on the radio, walked through a supermarket or surfed the Internet within the last few weeks, it’s fairly likely you’ll be able to hum... |
Deaf gerbils hear again with human stem cells
For the first time, researchers show that stem cells can reconnect the inner ear to the brain. They think their finding paves the way for reinstating hearing in deaf patients.
Researchers have restored responses to sounds in deaf gerbils. And they think this helps pave th... |
Basic Physics of Nuclear Medicine/Interaction of Radiation with Matter
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We have focussed in previous chapters on the source of radiation and the types of radiation. We are now in a position to consider what happens when this radiation interacts w... |
Clinker brick
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For other uses, see Clinker.
Reemtsma cigarette factory in Hamburg by Fritz Höger
A piece of vitrified brick. Attribution: Nigel Aspdin - 1801642
Clinker bricks are partially vitrified bricks used in the construction of buildings.
Clinke... |
Japanese beetle
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For the green beetles of southwestern United States and Mexico, see Figeater beetle.
Japanese Beetle
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The Semnones are located near the centre of the map. The orange area shows one view of the extent of the Suebian tribes in the first century AD.
The Semnones were a Germanic tribe which was settled between the Elbe and the Oder in the 1st century when t... |
Sheaf (mathematics)
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This article is about sheaves on topological spaces. For sheaves on a site, see Grothendieck topology and Topos.
In mathematics, a sheaf is a tool for systematically tracking locally defin... |
Taklamakan Desert
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For the novelette by Bruce Sterling, see Taklamakan (story).
Taklamakan Desert
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Simplified Chinese 塔克拉玛干沙漠
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Western Bloc
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Political situation in Europe during the Cold War
The Western Bloc or Capitalist Bloc[1] during the Cold War refers to the countries allied with the United States and NATO against the Soviet Union and its allies. The latter were referred t... |
On the Magnet/III-4
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Why Iron touched by a Loadstone acquires an opposite
verticity, and why iron touched by the true Northern side of a stone
turns to the North of the earth, by the true Southern side
to the South; and does not turn to the South when rubbed
by the Northern p... |
The Weather Man
Sometimes when Stick Child and his friends are out playing, they see an old man walking his dog. They call this man ‘The Weather Man’, because he always asks the stick children to help him predict the weather. He asks the children to pick a pebble from the nearby stream, then he looks at it carefully, ... |
Science and technology, we are frequently told, are transforming our lives at a faster pace than ever before. And certainly the level of public interest in science seems to be at an all-time high. The number of science books published and sold, the readership of popular science journals, the in-depth coverage of scienc... |
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Development of the tongue
begins at 4 1/2 weeks of embryonic life.
The tongue starts to develop as
a swelling that arises out of the back part of the pharyngeal arches.
Anterior 2/3rd of the tongue develops from the
Posterior 1/3rd of the tongue develops from the
Muscles of ... |
Mr. Roboto
Why Aren't You Scripting?
GUI-based administration might linger for a while, but working from the console prompt is the wave of the future. And that means scripting.
The days of GUI-based Windows administration are numbered. There, I said it. Now what? Are you ready for what comes next? To be fair, I imag... |
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A neutrophil with a segmented nucleus (center and surrounded by erythrocytes), the intra-cellular granules are visible in the cytoplasm (Giemsa stained high magnification)
Eosinophil granulocyte
A basophil with lobed nuclei surrounded by erythrocytes
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Tangent (geometry)
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The line L is tangent to curve C at point P.
In geometry, a tangent is a straight line that touches a curve at one point. At the place where they touch, the line and the curve both have the same slope (they are both "going in the sam... |
cetacean strip
One of the most endangered species of marine mammals lives within two hundred miles of our laboratory in San Diego, California. No, it is not the blue whale, the largest marine mammal, which now numbers in the thousands and appears to be recovering at a healthy rate ( Barlow 1995). Instead, it is the va... |
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Toxoplasmosis is an infection by a tiny parasite (Toxoplasma gondii) that can live inside the cells of humans and animals, especially cats and farm animals.
If you have been pregnant, you may already know it's important to avoid toxoplasmosis, which people can develop by cleaning the litt... |
Bible Book List
Easton's Bible Dictionary – Census
There are five instances of a census of the Jewish people having been taken. (1.) In the fourth month after the Exodus, when the people were encamped at Sinai. The number of men from twenty years old and upward was then 603,550 (Ex. 38:26). (2.) Another census was mad... |
MIT Invents A Shapeshifting Display You Can Reach Through And Touch
The Tangible Media Group at MIT's Media Lab has unveiled a futuristic display made of atoms, not pixels.
Created by Daniel Leithinger and Sean Follmer and overseen by Professor Hiroshi Ishii, the technology behind the inFORM isn't that hard to unde... |
We Will Not Bow
February 12, 2010 MSB06
This is the first of the 12 historical books, and it gained its name from the exploits of Joshua, the understudy whom Moses prayed for and commissioned as a leader in Israel (Num. 27:12–23). “Joshua” means “Jehovah saves,” or “the LORD is salvation,” and corresponds to the N... |
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Luanda is the largest city in Angola, Africa and it is also the capital. The city and country sit on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Founded by Portuguese settlers in 1575, the majority of the population is of Portuguese decent and thus speak the native tongue. Much of the ci... |
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The internet has brought the world to our children’s fingertips, providing access to vast resources of information and the opportunity to communicate with people from around the world.
Smart devices and social media have become part of our children’s lives and they have strongly influenced how our children create, s... |
Fireworks and hearty congratulations to HSPs
To the highly sensitive persons of the world and their friends: A hearty congratulations. In a sense, we made the cover of Time. No, we are not necessarily shy and not always introverted, but the book which prompted the article, Susan Cain's Quiet: The Power of Introverts i... |
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The craziest NASA mission ever proposed
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The truth may be a bit less lofty. As Rosen explains, this proposal comes from the human exploration arm of the space agency, which is struggling to find direction now that the space shuttles are sitting in museums and the... |
Rat moms’ behavior reflected in their babies’ brains
By Laura Sanders, 17:01 PM August 8, 2014
In their first year, babies grow and change in all sorts of obvious and astonishing ways. As their bodies become longer, heavier and stronger, so do their brains. Between birth and a child’s first birthday, her brain nearly... |
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Have you been wondering on how physical activities can benefit your life? Well, if you still want more convincing facts, this article may help you. It provides three benefits of regular exercise:
1. It fights chronic diseases - A regular exercise can help you fight many possible chronic diseases. It ac... |
Hubble sees cool, blue Comet ISON
Comet ISON shows off a small bright nucleus and a coma or comet head 3,100 miles (5,000 km) in diameter. The photo was taken April 10 by the Hubble Space Telescope. Click to enlarge. Credit: NASA, ESA, J.-Y. Li, and the Hubble Comet ISON Imaging Science Team
Astronomers used the Hubb... |
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Radical idea: Why not convert carbon dioxide into fuel?
A recent study in the journal Nano Letters (see abstract) discusses the possibility of using special honeycombs made of nanotubes to capture carbon dioxide and convert it into methane, the primary component in natural gas.
This ... |
40 years ago, holiday storm ravaged Northeast Ohio
on July 02, 2009 at 9:45 PM, updated July 03, 2009 at 1:25 AM
On July 4, 1969, more than 100 trees in Lakewood were blown over in less than 10 minutes when thunderstorms in central Lake Erie suddenly headed south toward Lakewood Park, where 20,000 people were celebrat... |
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For Super Agers, Bodies Age as Brains Stay Young
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Early research on the sharpest octogenarians reveals unusually youthful brain regions
A nasty affliction sets into humans as they advance in years. The hair either disappears or... |
In The Wicked and the Just, debut novelist J. Anderson Coats intimately introduces readers to an aspect of British history they may not know. American readers, in particular, are often used to thinking of the country we now know as the United Kingdom as exactly that: united. In fact, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland... |
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“Persons Suspected of Being Inimical”
According to Caleb Butler’s 1848 recounting of how Prudence Wright and the women of Pepperell arrested Leonard Whiting in April 1775, that New Hampshire man “was in reality the bearer of despatches from Canada to the British in Boston.”... |
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“To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper. The moving about that the city multiplies and concentrates makes the city itself an immense social experien... |
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The Border Patrol Seeks Spanish Speakers
The Border Patrol Seeks Spanish Speakers
The US Border Patrol offers a fast-paced, challenging law-enforcement career in which fluency in Spanish is a definite advantage. Now part of the Department of Homeland Security, the Border Patrol is responsible fo... |
LHC: A cool 1.8 K is achieved for the first time
An LHC cryogenic unit installed in its final underground location has for the first time achieved 1.8 Kelvin (-271°C), the temperature at which the accelerator is to operate in 2007.
Some of the team responsible for supervising the installation and commissioning of the... |
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I have heard that people with black skin had been denied certain things in the Mormon Church until the past 30 years or so and that this has something to do with the Curse of Cain. What has been the historical teaching of the LDS Church regarding the Curse of Cain and dark-skinned people? What... |
Mozart Piano Concerto 27, A. Madžar, piano - movement 3
• Classical music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Aleksandar Madžar (Bösendorfer piano) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by André Previn third movement, Allegro the second movement is here: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto In B-Flat Major, K.59... |
Do you know the five conditions required to grow mold? They are: mold spores, air, food, temperature range between 40F 120F, and relative humidity of more than 80% at the surface. Unfortunately, most of these items are either required for human life and comfort, or impossible to avoid.
Take mold spores, for example. T... |
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Australian Venomous Snake
Snake Identification
Did you know that 20 of the 25 most venomous snakes in the world are found in Australia?
Australia is the only continent where venomous snakes (70%) outnumber non-venomous ones. Australia’s deadliest snakes are the brown snakes (responsible for around... |
Gödel’s Incompleteness: The #1 Mathematical Breakthrough of the 20th Century
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In one salvo, he completely demolished an entire class of scientific theories.
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Gödel’s discovery was called “The Incompleteness Theorem... |
Teaching Tools: Making Greek More Interesting…
Let’s face it- language learning is both exhausting and, dare I say it, boring sometimes. I am currently teaching masters level basic Greek and in the curriculum here students take Greek as an elective (meaning I have to make it interesting and useful or they will drop th... |
The Indo-European family of cognate languages spoken for at least the last 3,000 years originally over most of Europe and extending into Asia as far south as northern India and as far east as Chinese Turkistan. The Indo-European languages are thought to have originated in a language which has been called Proto-Indo-Eur... |
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A flash of light prints a lingering image in your eye.
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What tools or software or devices are neccessary to create proffesional drawings for games for example? How to draw something and be able to use it on PC?
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Sorting and classifying 3D shapes
Children's understanding of the properties of shapes is developed from being able to recognise differences and similarities between shapes. Matching activities such as deciding whether a shape will fit in a space of a given shape or into a construction are an ini... |
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This week T-Platforms announced that Russia’s most powerful supercomputer at Moscow State University outperformed all competitors during the recent Graph500 benchmark tests. To learn more, I ca... |
Fungal Biofilms
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Fungal Biofilms
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It is a common practice for people to buy their Pesach eggs in advance of Pesach. I've seen different reasons for this, including:
• The popular notion that some chametz might somehow get into the egg, and therefore the egg must be owned by a Jew in advance of Pesach when the chametz in the... |
"If Meditation Is Too Easy, You're Doing Something Wrong"
We've talked about the benefits of meditation a number of times before and recommended how anyone can get started. The process is really simple, but perhaps deceptively so. Meditation is mental training that isn't necessarily easy or even pleasant sometimes.
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I have no doubt this is a basic question. However, I am working through Miranda's book on Riemann surfaces and algebraic curves, and it has yet to be addressed.
Why does Miranda (and from what little I've seen, algebraic geometers in general) place so much emphasis on projective space when st... |
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So the projective plane $\mathbb{RP}^2$ is not a vector space. Is it still isomorphic to its dual? If not, is there at least an invertible map that takes $\mathbb{RP}^2$ to its dual?
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My understanding of the term "dual" in projective geometry is that it only makes s... |
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I am interested in a polyhedral/combinatorics problem that arises in algebraic geometry in the context of geometric invariant theory (GIT).
Algebro-geometric background: Consider the natural diagonal action of $\text{SL}_{d+1}$ on $(\mathbb{P}^d)^n$. For each linearization $L$ one can conside... |
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That is, if $f: X \rightarrow Y$ and $g:Y \rightarrow Z$ are bundle projections, is $g \circ f: X \rightarrow Z$ a bundle projection? Assume $X$, $Y$ and $Z$ are manifolds.
Here is what I know. The answer is affirmative when (1) $f$ is a covering map and $g$ is bundle projection; (2) $f$ is a... |
tektite, any of a class of small, natural glassy objects that are found only in certain areas of the Earth’s surface. The term is derived from the Greek word tēktos, meaning “melted,” or “molten.” Tektites have been the subject of intense scientific scrutiny throughout much of the 20th century owing to their unknown an... |
Port Blaircity town and capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands union territory, India, in the Bay of Bengal. The city It was occupied by the Japanese during World War II and was later returned to the British during the time of Lord Mountbatten.
Port Blair is about 778 miles (1,255 km) from Kolkata (Calcutta) and some ... |
News tagged with biocompatibility
Biocompatibility is related to the behavior of biomaterials in various contexts. The term may refer to specific properties of a material without specifying where or how the material is used (for example, that it elicits little or no immune response in a given organism, or is able to ... |
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China's ethnic tinderbox
An ethnic Uigur man sits outside shuttered shops in Urumqi
Officially, China is made up of 56 nationalities
The recent Urumqi and Lhasa riots have shattered the myth of a monolithic China, writes China and Uighur expert Professor... |
National Register of Historic Places in San Francisco
National Register #66000233: San Francisco Cable Cars Powell & Mason Street Line
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31 January 2012
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Explaining All the Italian-Americans in New York
And the situation in Libya—at least in part; a new history of Italy shows that accidents happen even with the best of intentions
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Giuseppe Garibaldi, formerly of Staten Island. (... |
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A Rubik's Snake (also Rubik's Twist, Rubik's Transformable Snake, Rubik’s Snake Puzzle) is a toy with twenty-four wedges identically shaped liked prismsFiore, Albie (1981). Shaping Rubi... |
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Hollywood movies about aliens abound, but do they really exist? The real scientific search for evidence of life, and particularly intelligent life, elsewhere in the cosmos is just as exciting as the ... |
Galactic Center Found To Glow Unevenly
February 21, 2006
An international team of more than 100 astrophysicists said they have detected very-high-energy gamma rays emanating from the huge gas clouds known to pervade the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
The team, using the High Energy Stereoscopic System telescopes in... |
On the road to fusion energy, an accelerator to study warm dense matter
October 16, 2009
The Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment-II (NDCX-II) is an energy-efficient induction accelerator that will focus beams of ions using the technique of neutralized drift compression developed at Berkeley Lab. Transmission line... |
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