Military Time: How To Read And Convert A Military Time Chart
Military time is a system of timekeeping. While it is called military time in the United States, many organizations outside of the military use it….
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Monthly Archive: January 2019
How Many Steps Are In One Mile: Body Size And Walking Vs. Running
How many steps are there in one mile? In practice, the answer to this question is much more complex than it sounds, as it involves…
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Curbing “Addictive” Behavior In Soft Drink Consumption
Humans, unfortunately, seem to have a propensity for addictive behavior. Whether it be binge-eating, alcohol abuse or even more abstract behavioral patterns such as gambling,…
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How Pollen Geochemistry Can Be Used To Reconstruct UV-B Radiation In The Past
Ultraviolet radiation (UV-B; 280 to 315 nm) is electromagnetic radiation originating from the sun, which reaches the Earth’s surface. UV-B radiation can cause chemical reactions…
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Finding Frankenflora: Using Sanger Sequencing To Identify Protea Hybrids
“Frankenflora” are swarms of hybrid plants that are the result of species being translocated outside of their natural ranges. The name was first coined by…
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Witnessing The Rise Or Fall Of A Species: Introgressive Hybridization Of Dolphins In The Greek Seas (Stenella coeruleoalba And Delphinus delphis)
Under some circumstances, it is possible for members of two different species to mate and produce viable offspring. This phenomenon is called hybridization and is…
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Hybridization Rates Are Reduced On The World’s Oldest Landscapes
Natural hybridization between species has been known since the discovery of sex in plants in the late 1600s. Today, with the benefit of DNA technology,…
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Variation Of The Speed Of Light And A Minimum Speed In The Scenario Of An Inflationary Universe With Accelerated Expansion
Newtonian mechanics has established the limits of speeds, starting from the rest to an infinite speed. The Special Theory of Relativity (SR) has set these…
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SSTS: An Intuitive Way To Search In Time Series
The syntatic tool for pattern Search in Time Series (SSTS) presents a novel approach to query search and pattern matching in time series. The proposed…
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“Schrödinger’s Immigrant,” Or Why Immigrants Can Be Both Hardworking And Lazy At The Same Time
We all have heard the argument that immigrants take jobs away from people born in the country. But we also all have heard the argument…
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Stem Cells Of The Brain: Important Players In Alzheimer’s Disease
The development of Alzheimer’s disease has been attributed to the deposition of an abnormal protein called beta-amyloid in the brain, which ignites a series of…
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