News tagged with displacement
Nano Measurement in the 3rd Dimension
Jul 06, 2009 |
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From the motion sensor to the computer chip - in many products of daily life components are used whose functioning is based on smallest structures of the size of thousandths - or even millionths - of millimetres. ...
Satellites show how Earth moved during Italy quake
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Studying satellite radar data from ESA's Envisat and the Italian Space Agency's COSMO-SkyMed, scientists have begun analysing the movement of Earth during and after the 6.3 earthquake that ...
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Cause of tsunami wave heights is studied
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 20, 2007 |
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Irish-led scientists have found tsunami wave height is independent of earthquake magnitude and is instead linked to a rupture's vertical displacement.
Job loss can make you sick, new study finds
May 08, 2009 |
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In the face of rising unemployment and businesses declaring bankruptcy, a new study has found that losing your job can make you sick. Even when people find a new job quickly, there is an increased risk of developing a new ...
Goooal! New study shows goalie may influence direction of penalty kick in soccer
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 01, 2007 |
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A penalty kick places a goalkeeper at such a disadvantage that only approximately 18% of penalty kicks are saved. However, some soccer fans think goalkeepers might save penalty kicks more easily by standing ...
Baby canine teeth: No evidence to support extraction
Apr 15, 2009 |
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The practice of extracting baby canine teeth to make way for adult canines that are erupting in the wrong place has no evidential basis, according to a new study by Cochrane Researchers. In a systematic review, the researchers ...
Aquatic creatures mix ocean water
Nov 22, 2009 |
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Understanding mixing in the ocean is of fundamental importance to modeling climate change or predicting the effects of an El Niño on our weather. Modern ocean models primarily incorporate the effects of winds and tides. However, ...
Nanogen Issued Patent for Ligation-Based Strand Displacement Amplification Technologies for DNA Analysis
Mar 16, 2005 |
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Nanogen, Inc., developer of advanced diagnostic products, announced today that it was issued U.S. Patent No. 6,864,071, "Multiplex amplification and separation of nucleic acid sequences using ligation-dependent strand displacement ...
Scientific community called upon to resolve debate on 'net energy' once and for all
Nov 07, 2008 |
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"Net energy is a (mostly) irrelevant, misleading and dangerous metric," says Professor Bruce Dale, editor-in-chief of Biofuels, Bioresources and Biorefining (Biofpr) in the latest issue of the journal published today.
Bowling alone because the team got downsized
Sep 01, 2008 |
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The pain of downsizing extends far beyond laid off workers and the people who depend on their paychecks, according to a new UCLA-University of Michigan, Ann Arbor study. Even a single involuntary displacement has a lasting ...
A 'private bandwidth' for communication in bats: Evidence from insular horseshoe bats
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Aug 13, 2007 |
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Do bats use their ultrasonic echolocation calls to recognise their own species? A new study in the Journal of Biogeography by Danilo Russo and colleagues suggests that this is certainly the case for horseshoe bats (Rhino ...
How to share a bat
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Aug 22, 2007 |
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New research shows how different species of plants evolve unique floral adaptations in order to transfer pollen on different regions of bats’ bodies, thus allowing multiple plant species to share bats as pollinators.
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