News tagged with ratio
Zooming in on data
Nov 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Companies of all sizes are struggling with the growing flood of data and information. Staff can quickly lose sight of impending risks or hidden opportunities. Now a new zoom software is helping users get ...
Toshiba Unveils the CELL REGZA 55X1, First LCD TV Integrating the Cell Broadband Engine
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Toshiba Corporation today unveiled the future of home entertainment, the CELL REGZA 55X1.
A boy for every girl? Not even close
Sep 10, 2009 |
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In a perfect world, for every boy there would of course be a girl, but a new study shows that actual sex ratios can sometimes sway very far from that ideal. In fact, the male-to-female ratio of one tropical butterfly has ...
Waist-hip ratio better than BMI for gauging obesity in elderly
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Body mass index (BMI) readings may not be the best gauge of obesity in older adults, according to new research from UCLA endocrinologists and geriatricians. Instead, they say, the ratio of waist size to hip size may be a ...
Computer model documents the history of the West Antarctic ice sheet
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One major threat of planetary warming is the melting of the great polar ice sheets, and the resulting rise in global sea level. Particularly worrisome to researchers is the fragility of the ...
Extraterrestrial platinum was 'stirred' into the Earth
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A research program aimed at using platinum as an exploration guide for nickel has for the first time been able to put a time scale on the planet’s large-scale convection processes.
Walking often and far reduces risks in heart patients
May 11, 2009 |
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An exercise program that burns a lot of calories reduced cardiac risk factors better than standard cardiac rehabilitation in overweight coronary patients, researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart As ...
LG & Sony: See Visions of OLED TVs On Christmas Morning 09
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Slow down or low down financial catastrophe is not going to spoil the high-end entertainment products industry next Christmas. LG confirmed its plans to deck the halls with an OLED display by Christmas 2009. ...
Selective sex abortion causes 32 million excess males in China
Apr 10, 2009 |
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Selective abortion in favour of males has left China with 32 million more boys than girls, creating an imbalance that will endure for decades, an investigation released on Friday warned.
Why an Hourglass Figure isn't Always Perfect for Women
Biology /
Dec 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Having an imperfect body may come with some substantial benefits, according to a new article in the December issue of Current Anthropology.
Nanowire technology could make LCDs brighter, thinner, and cheaper
Oct 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As nanoimprinting technology advances, scientists have shown that using nano-sized polarizers could significantly enhance the contrast ratio in liquid crystal displays (LCDs). For consumers, ...
Scientists uncover miscalculation in geological undersea record
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 10, 2008 |
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The precise timing of the origin of life on Earth and the changes in life during the past 4.5 billion years has been a subject of great controversy for the past century. The principal indicator of the amount of organic carbon ...
Fish with temperature-dependent sex determination face global warming
Biology /
Jul 30, 2008 |
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In vertebrates with separate sexes, sex determination can be genotypic (GSD) or temperature-dependent (TSD). TSD is very common in reptiles, where the ambient temperature during sensitive periods of early development irreversibly ...
