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Compare the most significant challenges of managing the supply chain for a manufacturing company to that of a service company, and determine which is the most challenging to manage effectively. Provide specific examples to support the response.
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Genius (mythology)
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This article describes Roman mythological usage of the term "genius". For other uses, see Genius (disambiguation).
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Leopold Godowsky
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Leopold Godowsky (13 February 1870 – 21 November 1938) was a Polish American pianist, composer, and teacher. One of the most highly regarded performers of his time, he became known for his theories concerning t... |
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The Roboreptile toy robot manufactured by WowWee Ltd. The Roboreptile has infrared and sound sensors, and is able to autonomously explore its environment while avoiding obstacles. It can also operate in dif... |
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Ancient Aboriginal Mining.—Writing on "Ancient Mining in North America," Prof. Newberry speaks, in the "American Antiquarian," of the great antiquity of the aboriginal works. The ancient copper mines on Lak... |
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Vitamin K Deficiency
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A deficiency of vitamin K is usually discovered when unexpected or excessive bleeding occurs. In such cases, a prothrombin time (PT) is the main laboratory test performed to investigate the bleeding. If the result is prolonged and is suspect... |
The Death of a Freedman: Violence and Race in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom
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During the Reconstruction Era of 1865-1872, the social fabric of Orange County, North Carolina, was shredded by violence. This region was one of many in the post-Civil War South in which the Ku Klux Klan terrorized Re... |
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Isomalt is a natural substitute for sugar. It is a kind of sugar alcohol. It is used mainly to replace sugar in some products, like bubble gum, candies,chocolate or ice cream. This makes it different from other artificial sweeteners. It is also known as... |
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After Lenin
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Kinematics with Calculus
1. I just started working through Halliday and Resnick, and I'm going through the kinematic equations for constant acceleration. I don't need help with the work, but I noticed that the book never addresses non-constant acceleration. I was expecting more Calculus in this book (the kinematic e... |
How to tactfully tell someone that his or her breath is less than fresh
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SUMMARY: Telling someone they have bad breath can be challenging, but it's important to let them know in a kind way.
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So i was watching su over with my little brother, and on lion 3 i noticed this in lion
that’s a bubbled gem- and it’s quite obviously the metal (but also counts as a crystal) Bismuth
What is it doing in lion- the place where several items important to Rose (things she wanted to be safely passed to St... |
The Nine Best Deals To Buy The Freshest Food
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Americans often say they eat unhealthy foods because the healthy alternatives are more expensive. For consumers willing to put in a little bit of effort, however, healthy, fresh foods are inexpensive and available.
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Preface to Shakespeare
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Edited by Jack Lynch,
Rutgers University — Newark
The text comes from The Plays of William Shakespeare, ed. Samuel Johnson (London, 1765); this abridged edition is roughly half the length of the whole. The notes and paragraph numbers are my own. My (conservative) textual poli... |
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Our Toxic Air
Chicago-area residents face some of the highest risks of getting sick from pollution, but the EPA isn't making it widely known
September 29, 2008|By Michael Hawthorne and Darnell Little, TRIBUNE REPORTERS
People living in Chicago and nearby suburbs face some of the highest risks in the nation for cance... |
Upakhut in Malaysia
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Long-term readers of New Mandala may know that I have a particular interest in Uphakhut (Shin Upagutta). As I wrote in 2007:
Upakhut is an important figure in local belief in many areas of Burma, northern Thailand and Laos. The stories of his origins are numerous. (For those interested... |
Many psychologists are envious of the prestige—and the achievements—of the physical sciences, which they try not to emulate, but to imitate. [B.F.] Skinner is archetypical in this respect: he is passionately intent on being accepted as a “scientist” and complains that only [the concept of] “Autonomous Man” stands in th... |
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The global economy will always have some deficit countries and some surplus countries
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So, what goes on up there?
I am frequently asked a lot of questions about life as a pilot. One of the most common is, “What do you actually do up there for most of the flight?” Most people understand that the autopilot is flying the airplane for most of the trip, and the crew is in more of a monitoring role, so the qu... |
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Image 1 Pericytes Microvess.JPGThe red areas are the pericytes, in this photo from under the microscope.
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Crystal Skulls
Many skeptics feel that the crystal skulls are probably of a much more recent vintage than their accompanying stories suggest. This, they believe, is the best way to explain their existence, since no one could have created them without technologies available only within the past century.
Skulls are huma... |
What is QE3?
September 13, 2012, 11:46 AM ET
It’s not a big British cruise ship.
You’ve probably seen countless discussion of will or won’t the Federal Reserve launch QE3 Thursday. But what does that acronym mean?
Quantitative easing is a monetary policy under which a central bank tries to stimulate growth by lower... |
“I Win!”
Anyone who has ever played a game with a five-year-old knows that there is only one rule. The five-year-old has to win. Any other rule is just a suggestion if it would result in the five-year-old losing the game.
In the case of the five-year-old, no one is surprised by the rule-breaking and no harm is done... |
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Let me first explain my understanding of these words (punishment & revenge):
Punishment is typically when you do something to one person to make things better for society, or for that person. It is either something unpleasant, so that the person will not want to do the bad thing, because they... |
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I would like to know, why a person may have a temptation to do something unrelated (or slightly related to his current task) when doing particularly important job?
Like, when preparing for an important math test under a time pressure, to spend time on consulting grammar book on why some sente... |
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Taking Care Of Collectible Coins
How to Take Care of Collectible Coins
There are collectors that specifically find classic editions of coins that existed during the period from 1892 to 1954. These coins have marked events or may signify the work of royalty during that period. There are those... |
Constitutional Database
This website compiles all the different provisions related to gender contained in constitutions in countries around the world, available in the original language, along with English translations. The database can be searched by keywords, provisions, regions or countries.
As diverse as the peopl... |
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When baking cakes, I often find that there are instructions for high altitude, which usually is just a matter of adding some extra flour.
I understand the concept of high altitudes having less atmospheric pressure, which then allows baked goods to rise more easily (too much), and thus the add... |
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Monthly mean pressure reconstruction for the Late Maunder Minimum period (AD 1675-1715)
The Late Maunder Minimum(LMM; 1675-1715) delineates a period with marked climate variability within the Little Ice Age in Europe. Gridded monthly mean surface pressure fields were reconstructed for ... |
Cosmologists Use Natural Selection to Explain Fine-Tuning of the Universe
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In a mathematical tour de farce, two Oxford evolutionists have applied Darwinian natural selection to the multiverse to try to explain why... |
Infographic: Is Your State's Highest-Paid Employee A Coach? (Probably)
You may have heard that the highest-paid employee in each state is usually the football coach at the largest state school. This is actually a gross mischaracterization: Sometimes it is the basketball coach.
Based on data drawn from media reports a... |
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Inverted Yield On Cost Curve *
A yield curve is the relationship between yield and maturity. In a “normal” yield curve yields rise as maturity lengthens. When yields drop as the term lengthens, it is referred to as an inverted yield curve. A Yield On Cost (current dividend/basis) curve, like a yield... |
2.2. Guides
Figure 11.30. Image with four guides
Image with four guides
In addition to the image grid, GIMP also gives you a more flexible type of positioning aid: guides. These are horizontal or vertical lines you can temporarily display on an image while you are working on it.
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Why Medical Errors are Good for You
“… the majority of medical errors can be prevented.”
- Agency for Health Care Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services
Well, I politely and respectfully disagree. Medical errors, most of them, are NOT prevented and they can't be prevented.
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Saturday, November 3, 2007
Kalya Vatanyachi Amti
Kala Vatana (or black peas) is used in Maharashtrian cooking, but many of my non-Maharashtrian friends have not heard of it. It resembles black peppercorn, but it's a bean. It is little bit tough, so takes little longer to sprout and it's advisable to pressure cook.
Ka... |
Learn How To Deal With Silverfish Infestation This Summer
Variously referred to as fish moth, urban silverfish, tassel tail, and fringe tail, silverfish are little bugs that can be quite invasive. And while harmless, these grayish-blue creatures are not pleasant to have around the house as they feed on dead skin cells... |
Webster 1913 does not mention it explicitly, but Platonism is one of the primary streams1 of mathematical thought. This is the notion that the geometric and algebraic forms that mathematicians like to play around with exist outside of human thought.
This would seem like common sense to most people: Physics obeys mathe... |
Monkeywrenching is the illegal sabotage of industrial development equipment. One method of doing so is tree spiking, hammering long nails into and around the trunks of trees to mangle saws and blades in the deforesting area or mill. While most monkeywrenchers do not possess deadly intent, tree spiking has caused logger... |
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
A Conversation with Teenagers
I was invited by a friend to talk with a group of teenagers about what it's like to be a computer programmer and why they might want to do the same. There were over 50 kids present, ranging in age from 12 to 18. They were great fun: enthusiastic, curious and eng... |
The real reason why you can always make room for dessert
Lianzi Fields
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Dessert stomach
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A new study may help explain why we always have room for ice-cream; and no, it's not because the “dessert stomach” is a completely different stomach altogether.
Even after our bodies have con... |
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I have a painful node/gland on the right side of my groin. It's tender to the touch. I also have a small bump on the right side of my vagina. the bump doesn't hurt. It's mainly the swollen gland/node in the groin area. Any idea what this c... |
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I am looking for a French verb which conveys the meaning of the German word 'pflegen'. In particular in the IT sense of maintaining data (Datenpflegen) by keeping data up-to-date and consistent. I'm also looking for related words such as 'Daten einpflegen' (Data entry).
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The blues and jazz have always been related. A lot of jazz grew out of the blues, and jazz musicians frequently use t... |
Multi-Color fog spreader
5 thoughts on “Multi-Color fog spreader
1. standard fog fluid or “fog juice” is usually just water and food-grade glycol. gross, but safe.
Generally, when you pump fog through a tube or hose, you want to have some area in front of the nozzle where the water-glycol mix can properly ae... |
Night Terrors: What are they and what can I do?
How to Cope with Night Terrors - Holistic Squid If you’ve ever tried to console a child having night terrors, you know that it is no laughing matter.
Though they can seem like very traumatic experiences for the child and can be a big source of concern for parents, under... |
Innovation, FTW: Americans are using less electricity
posted at 3:31 pm on January 4, 2013 by Erika Johnsen
Eco-radicals seem to take great pleasure in indiscriminately fighting tooth-and-nail against economic growth in all corners of the world, no matter if it means killing jobs or perpetuating poverty, because they... |
Enormous waterjet boat could be the next generation of warships
Waterjet boats are propelled by a fast jet of water that's forced through pumps and shot out of the back of the ship. And now the military is implanting this technology in huge boats to make them achieve super speeds.
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Real-Time Correlates of Phonological Quantity Reveal Unity of Tonal and Non-Tonal Languages
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**Looking for answers as to what happened in Jewish history on this date. It can include both positive and negative occurrences. It can also include birthdays or Yarzheits of well known personalities that happened on this date.
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Recounting bicentennial of Madison's inauguration
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Two hundred years ago, on March 4, James Madison was inaugurated as the fourth president of the United States.
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Aerial pesticide spraying permit may harm forests
Posted: Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Imagine picking blueberries on a sunny hillside in August. The trees have been cut nearly 30 years ago, but berry bushes, alder and spruce are growing back all over the place.
Now imagine that a timber company has sprayed toxic pesti... |
The Idea of Manipur: Time for deep introspection
April 16, 2012 16:05
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What matters most in sustaining a society? What makes a thriving society different from the one failing to evolve into a higher order? What should be the driving spirit of a society? What binds a society together in her forward movem... |
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The judicial branch of government in Kansas applies the laws passed by the state legislature. The state judiciary exists to protect the stipulations in the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution, specifically Amendments Four through Eight, which guarantee no unreasonable searches o... |
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Lawyers work in a variety of fields, from criminal law to divorce law to patent law, navigating the legal system on behalf of their clients. If you'd like to be a lawyer, you'll need formal education and the ability to work in a competitive environment. Schools offering Juris Doctor degrees can ... |
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10 Odd Discontinued Olympic Sports
With softball and baseball having their last showing at this year’s Olympics, it seems apt to look back at some of the events that have graced past Olympic Games. As you will see, some of them are extremely bizarre and one wonders how they ended up at the Oly... |
Thursday, 11 April 2013
4th dynasty papyrus found
Picked up on EEF and so important I had to share even though it is not Luxor
* Press release of the Ministry of State for Antiquities Affairs
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The traditions of the Christmas season gets passed down from generation to generation, sometimes without any thought at all. Each year, we deck the halls with lights, bake cookies for Santa, hang our ... |
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My pdf for $X$ is $$f_X ( x ; \theta ) = (1/\theta) x \exp (-x/\theta).$$
I am unsure as to how to show that the mean value of $X$ is $\theta$?
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In the following, all varieties will be algebraic over $\mathbb{C}$.
I have some general problems with concepts like the "space of lines in $\mathbb{P}^5$", "space of lines on a surface in some projective space" and dual projective spaces. Can anyone provide a good reference on this? (All i k... |
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Suppose $f:\Bbb{C}\rightarrow \Bbb{C}$ is holomorphic, $f(z+1)=f(z)$ for all $z \in \Bbb{C}$ and $$|f(z)|\leq \exp\left(\frac{2}{\pi}|z|\right).$$ Is $f(z)$ a constant in $\Bbb{C}$?
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"Given the matrix $A=\left[\begin{array}{cc}6 & 6\\-2 & -1\end{array}\right].$
"The roots of the characteristic polynomial of $A$ are: $$\begin{align}\det(A-tI)=0 &\Leftrightarrow \det\left[\begin{array}{cc}6-t & 6\\-2 & -1-t\end{array}\right]=0\\ &\Leftrightarrow 6-5t+t^2=0\\ &\Leftrightarro... |
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In many articles regarding computational models of some particular phenomenon, there seems to be a consensus: "the smaller the number of 'free parameters' in the model, the better". So, what is meant by "free parameter", and why is it less desirable to model something with such a parameter?
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Abstruse Goose is great for maths and physics jokes.
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The obvious ones are 0 and $e^{-x^2}$ (with annoying factors), and someone I know suggested hyperbolic secant. What other fixed points (or even eigenfunctions) of the Fourier transform are there?
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Let $G$ be algebraic group over $\mathbb(C)$(semisimple), $B$ be Borel subgroup. consider flag variety $G/B$. It is known that $G/B$ is projective variety. So one consider the homogeneous coordinate ring $ \mathbb{C}[G/B]$, it is known that it is a graded polynomial ring quotient by some homog... |
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This is related to Noah's recent question about solving quadratics in a number field, but about an even earlier and easier step.
Suppose I have a huge system of linear equations, say ~10^6 equations in ~10^4 variables, and I have some external knowledge that suggests there's a small solution ... |
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A problem is said to be complete for a complexity class $\mathcal{C}$ if a) it is in $\mathcal{C}$ and b) every problem in $\mathcal{C}$ is log-space reducible to it. There are natural examples of NP-complete problems (SAT), P-complete problems (circuit-value), NL-complete problems (reachabili... |
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Note: I've revised the question just a little bit in the hope of making it easier.
Given an algebraic number field $F$, which we may as well take to be Galois over $\mathbb{Q}$, we denote by $S_F$ the set of rational primes that split in $F$. Sets of the form $S_F$ are called Galoisian. At so... |
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Let's say that a subset $C$ of a Banach space $X$ is $\sigma$-convex if the following property holds:
For any sequence $(x_k)_{k\ge0}$ in $C$, and for any sequence of non-negative real numbers $(\lambda_k)_ {k\ge0}$ with $\sum_{k=0}^\infty \lambda_k=1$ the series $\sum_{k=0}^\infty \lambda_k ... |
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Let $X$ and $Y$ be regular integral Noetherian schemes. Assume that $X$ and $Y$ are smooth and proper over a base scheme $S=Spec R$, where $R$ is a discrete valuation ring.
If $X$ and $Y$ have isomorphic generic fibres, is it also the case that their special fibres are isomorphic?
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Let $A \to B$ be a homomorphism of commutative rings. I would like to find a criterion for the flatness of $A \to B$ which does not involve the notion of kernels; it should rather involve cokernels. This is partially motiviated by this question. I suggest the following: Consider for $A$-module... |
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Whelp, it's Thursday folks. And you know what that means! One more day until the weekend? Nahhh. Try time for another Thingamajig Thursday. Today I'm naming what my father calls "wires."
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Consumer and commercial electronic designs call for the smallest possible-components to save space and power. Balanced-unbalanced transformers or baluns have traditionally been based on transmission lines, such as coaxial wires, stripline, or microstrip, and often somewhat large as a result. By applying their multilaye... |
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A Breakdown in Breathing
The Complexities of Cystic Fibrosis
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Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited illness that ravages the lungs and many other organs in the body. Fifty years ago, children with CF generally died by about age 10. But wide-ranging research has led to dramatic im... |
October 11, 2008
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1. Large Enhancements in the Thermoelectric Power Factor of Bulk PbTe at High Temperature by Synergistic Nanostructuring
Power was increased by 71% and the figure of merit increased to 1.5
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Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Some idle speculation
I read about a psychology study where the researchers compared two groups of students. One group was praised for putting in a good effort. The other was praised for being smart. Basically, one group was focused on process and ... |
European identity: Taxation with Representation
National Identity arose from the rejection of taxation without representation: The Boston Tea Party
Regardless of ideology, we Europeans more or less agree that the current order of the European Union is suboptimal. We all identify numerous flaws and wish to see reforms ... |
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Bad blood
In 1972 news of a long-term medical experiment, conducted by the Public Health Service since the early 1930s on black sharecroppers from Alabama, became public. The Tuskegee Experiment, as it's called, gave medical "treatment" to African-American men with syphilis. The true meaning ... |
The Gopher technology was invented at the University of Minnesota, whose mascot is, not surprisingly, the Golden Gopher. The gopher system allows people to search for and retrieve information using a text interface. The technology is based on a client-server structure, where a gopher client program is used to search go... |
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In a book on Aristotle's metaphysics I read a passage on the differences between his and Kant's categories. It says that the concept of categories, in both Aristotle's and Kant's case, wasn't conceived by observation of the outside world but is a reflexive concept. Then follows this sentence (... |
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It's a bit humbling, standing at Machu Picchu where Hiram Bingham stood with his camera nearly a century ago.
Bingham, a Yale professor and adventurer, rediscov... |
Bilayer graphene gets a bandgap
June 10, 2009 in Nanotechnology / Nanophysics
On the left, a microscope image looking down through the bilayer-graphene field-effect transistor. The diagram on the right identifies the elements. Credit: Feng Wang and colleagues, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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The standard treatment of the one-dimensional quantum simple harmonic oscillator (SHO) using the raising and lowering operators arrives at the countable basis of eigenstates $\{\vert n \rangle\}_{n = 0}^{\infty}$ each with corresponding eigenvalue $E_n = \omega \left(n + \frac{1}{2}\right)$. R... |
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Since posting about the Pinyin subtitles for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Story of Stuff I have received several messages inquiring about how someone might make Pinyin subtitles themselves. So I might as well put the answer online.
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MrSeb writes "With a slightly weird world first, scientists have formed a feedback loop between common, baking and brewing yeast, and a computer. The computer can trigger the yeast to produce a protein, and the yeast then feeds back to the c... |
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The key to America’s economic future?
Over the last week or so Mark Thoma of Economist’s View has posted twice on the “Creative Economy” and its role in America’s economic future, first here and then here. The remainder of this post is devoted to an expansion on a question I asked Mark in the comments of the first pos... |
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la or (whenever stressed) is a negation adverb meaning "no, not".[1]
The word can get pronominal endings as if a negative verb when a verb is not expressed, apparently where the phrase "is not" is followed by a noun or an adjective as a predicate, or where some verb is understood , as in English "I... |
Friday, April 9, 2010
Trust networks
Chuck Tilly had a fascination with the mechanisms of social interaction at all levels. His 2005 book, Trust and Rule, picks up on one particular feature of social organization that is often instrumental in political and social episodes, including especially in the everyday workin... |
What are gender statistics
Modified on 2015/05/01 10:33 by Sean Zheng — Categorized as: Chapter 1 - An overview on Gender statistics
Gender statistics are defined as statistics that adequately reflect differences and inequalities in the situation of women and men in all areas of life (United Nations, 2006). This defi... |
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