• Cheung, a theoretical physicist, and Martin Gruebele, her experimental collaborator at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, led a team that unlocked this mystery. (uh.edu)
  • Although high-temperature superconductors are widely used in technologies such as MRI machines, explaining the unusual properties of these materials remains an unsolved problem for theoretical physicists. (ucsc.edu)
  • Tipler is a professor of Mathematical Physics at Tulane University, a theoretical physicist, a quantum cosmologist. (shroudstory.com)
  • In popular culture, augmentative/alternative communication (AAC) is often depicted as a speech-generating device or computer, such as the model used by famous theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking. (indiana.edu)
  • This is why physicists calibrate color temperature based on a theoretical model object, a so-called black body. (nanowerk.com)
  • Mark, of WeAreChange Boston, recently met with world renowned theoretical physicist and author, Dr. Michio Kaku. (911blogger.com)
  • In December, two teams of physicists working at CERN's Large Hadron Collider reported that they might have seen traces of what could be a new fundamental constituent of nature, an elementary particle that is not part of the Standard Model that has ruled particle physics for the last half-century. (thehindu.com)
  • On August 5, physicists from the same two CERN teams reported that under the onslaught of more data, the possibility of a particle had melted away. (thehindu.com)
  • The Higgs, one of the heaviest elementary particles known, weighs about 125 billion electron volts, in the units of mass and energy favoured by particle physicists - about as much as an entire iodine atom. (thehindu.com)
  • Meanwhile it must have dawned on particle physicists that the non-discovery of fundamentally new particles besides the Higgs is a problem for their field, and especially for the prospects of financing that bigger collider which they want. (uncommondescent.com)
  • By the early 1920's, the experimental work of physicists such as Ernest Rutherford Rutherford, Ernest and George Gamow Gamow, George demanded that an artificial means be developed to generate streams of atomic and subatomic particles at energies much greater than those occurring naturally. (wikisummaries.org)
  • The second paper compares calculations based on this theory to experimental data from studies of high-temperature superconductors using a technique called angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). (ucsc.edu)
  • The experimental data come from ARPES studies using two different sources of light: high-energy light from synchrotron sources and lower-energy laser sources. (ucsc.edu)
  • The prospect of a high impact factor publication has even been shown to effect neuronal response and behavior in controlled experimental settings. (phys.org)
  • and ensuring that the event records produced by them can be manipulated to provide data which may be compared to that from existing experiments is a task ill-suited to experimental physicists under pressure to produce plots for one specific process. (lu.se)
  • The synchrocyclotron is a large electromagnetic apparatus designed to accelerate atomic and subatomic particles at high energies. (wikisummaries.org)
  • By the end of the war, increases in the public and private funding of scientific research and a demand for even higher energy particles created a situation in which this plan looked as if it would become reality, were it not for an inherent limit in the physics of cyclotron operation. (wikisummaries.org)
  • Interactions between electrons, which behave as almost free particles in normal metals, are a key factor in superconductivity, and these electron-electron interactions or correlations are directly encoded in photoemission spectra. (ucsc.edu)
  • Interactions with these short-lived particles affect the value of the g-factor, causing the muons' precession to speed up or slow down very slightly. (umass.edu)
  • But if the quantum foam contains additional forces or particles not accounted for by the Standard Model, that would tweak the muon g-factor further. (umass.edu)
  • But when the theorists calculate the same quantity, using all of the known forces and particles in the Standard Model, we don't get the same answer," said Renee Fatemi, a physicist at the University of Kentucky and the simulations manager for the Muon g-2 experiment. (umass.edu)
  • First, the thing that sort-of worked: in thinking about trying to use the code I wrote, I was struggling to come up with a way to quantify the apparent irreversibility of the evolution of my toy system for larger numbers of "particles" in a relatively non-technical way that might be comprehensible for non-physicists. (scienceblogs.com)
  • For a long time, the phenomenon physicists have thought would appear to save the day is a conjecture known as supersymmetry, which comes with the prediction of a whole new set of elementary particles, known as WIMPs, for weakly interacting massive particles, one of which could comprise the dark matter that is at the heart of cosmologists' dreams. (thehindu.com)
  • Haiyan Gao (Chinese: 高海燕) is a Chinese-American nuclear physicist whose research concerns the structure of nucleons, quantum chromodynamics, and low-energy fundamental symmetries and symmetry violations, and has included accurate measurements of the size of protons. (wikipedia.org)
  • That, however, is way too light by a factor of trillions according to standard quantum calculations, physicists say, unless there is some new phenomenon, some new physics, exerting its influence on the universe and keeping the Higgs mass from zooming to cataclysmic scales. (thehindu.com)
  • Physicists at MIT have designed a quantum "light squeezer" that reduces quantum noise in an incoming laser beam by 15 percent. (scienceblog.com)
  • It is the first system of its kind to work at room temperature, making it amenable to a compact, portable setup that may be added to high-precision experiments to improve laser measurements where quantum noise is a limiting factor. (scienceblog.com)
  • Undergraduate physicists are more often introduced to quarks as objects with flavour quantum numbers that build up mesons and baryons in bound states of twos and threes. (cerncourier.com)
  • Importantly, much of this work has required an intimate relationship between "bench" radiation biology scientists and their target audiences (such as physicists, medical practitioners and epidemiologists) in order to ensure that the requisite gaps in knowledge are adequately addressed. (bvsalud.org)
  • These programs provide resources and information about minimizing radiation exposure to radiologists, medical physicists, other imaging practitioners, and patients. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Shastry's theory provides a new technique to calculate from first principles the mathematical functions related to the behavior of electrons in a high-temperature superconductor. (ucsc.edu)
  • Using high-speed atomic force microscopy, the researchers can visualize the so-called adsorption, diffusion, and interaction dynamics - basically the movement behavior - of various biomolecules. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The shortage of tenure-track positions (only about 14%-23% of PhD level biologists, chemists, or physicists hold tenure-track positions after five years) leads to a fierce competition between scientists for those jobs. (phys.org)
  • Now atomic physicists at Goethe University in Professor Reinhard Dörner's team have for the first time studied a process that is shorter than femtoseconds by magnitudes. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Recent studies lead by Siddharth Dhomkar, a physicist at the City College of New York demonstrate the possibility of using diamond as a platform for the super dense optical data storage by creating imperfections in their atomic structure. (evolo.us)
  • Reference: "Adsorption of SARS‐CoV‐2 Spike Protein S1 at Oxide Surfaces Studied by High‐Speed Atomic Force Microscopy" by Yang Xin, Prof. Guido Grundmeier and Dr. Adrian Keller, 9 October 2020, Advanced Nano-Biomed Research . (scitechdaily.com)
  • We have multiple openings for Design Physicists who are exceptional physical scientists and engineers with backgrounds in fields such as plasma physics, radiation transport, atomic physics, nuclear physics, physical chemistry, condensed matter physics, computational physics, or hydrodynamics. (llnl.gov)
  • 3.: International regulation and standardized extern and multidisciplinary risk evaluation of this and similar subatomic high energy experiments on the level of the International Atomic Energy Agency of the UN or a comparable new agency. (lhc-concern.info)
  • Estimated risk of cancer due to radiation exposure in diagnostic imaging has been extrapolated from studies of people exposed to very high radiation doses (eg, survivors of the atomic bomb explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki). (msdmanuals.com)
  • The unusual 'fatness' of the line shapes observed in electron spectroscopy has been at the center of the mystery of high-temperature superconductors," Gweon said. (ucsc.edu)
  • The physicist Ladislaus Laszlo Marton had recently examined biologic specimens with an electron microscope and published the first electron micrographs of bacteria. (cdc.gov)
  • This is, unfortunately, where the "I'd never make it as a computational physicist" thing comes in. (scienceblogs.com)
  • How fine these structures can be is limited by the wavelength of the light, among other factors. (nanowerk.com)
  • Indeed, the highest resolution filled aperture radio telescope at the time was the Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL) 50 foot dish, which had a 3 arcmin beam at 8 mm wavelength. (springer.com)
  • The decrease in days of extreme cold and increase in days of extreme heat are due to both local and global factors, according to the scientists. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Gymnasts are tasked to perform more spectacular routines at every competition, while scientists are expected to publish several high impact papers a year. (phys.org)
  • A study published in PLOS Biology that investigates what factors scientists reputations are judged on gave a clue as to why this problem exists. (phys.org)
  • The strong correlation between a journal's impact factor and the number of papers it retracts, found in a study in 2011 , supports the notion that scientists are more likely to take risks and forget scientific vigor in order to publish in high impact journals. (phys.org)
  • Most scientists agree that impact factors are an imperfect measure of quality, but they are an easy metric. (phys.org)
  • Employing some of the world's most powerful supercomputers, scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have shown that mismatched alloys are a good match for the future development of high performance thermoelectric devices. (lbl.gov)
  • Using the high-performance computing resources of TLC 2 factored significantly in the success of their work. (uh.edu)
  • In studies of high-temperature superconductors, these two light sources yield significantly different photoemission spectra for the same samples, and researchers have been unable to resolve this inconsistency. (ucsc.edu)
  • So far, however, little is known about the physical-chemical mechanisms of the interactions and how these interactions influence the viability and infectivity of the viruses," explains physicist Dr. Adrian Keller, who heads the "Nanobiomaterials" working group at Paderborn University. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Although the 1961 Pierce Panel report (Keller 1961 ) emphasized high resolution radio imaging, the Panel also drew attention to the potential opportunities at millimeter wavelengths noting that "the exploitation of wavelengths from 3 cm down through the millimeter range should be encouraged and supported. (springer.com)
  • According to the Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2022), the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 11.500. (ntu.edu.sg)
  • At high enough scales the proton broke up, a phenomenon that can be quantified by x, a kinematic variable related to the inelasticity of the interaction. (cerncourier.com)
  • High-performance resources such as Expanse are crucial for us to develop solar corona and solar wind simulations and we utilized the large core count of compute nodes for post-processing and visualizations. (sdsc.edu)
  • In 1962, Frank Drake recruited Texas Instruments physicist Frank Low to come to Green Bank to develop bolometer receiver systems for use at millimeter wavelengths. (springer.com)
  • Since bolometer systems respond to all incoming radiation, including the warm radiation from the ground and atmosphere, the challenge was to develop effective filters that could isolate the desired waveband and attenuate everything outside the reception band by at least a factor of a million, while, at the same time, not introducing significant noise. (springer.com)
  • Gao grew up in Shanghai, and was encouraged to go into science by her father and by a female high school physics teacher. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although Lawrence was interested in the practical applications of his invention in medicine and biology, the cyclotron also was applied to a variety of experiments in a subfield of physics called "high-energy physics. (wikisummaries.org)
  • Today is an extraordinary day, long awaited not only by us but by the whole international physics community," said Graziano Venanzoni, co-spokesperson of the Muon g-2 experiment and physicist at the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics. (umass.edu)
  • The new results were presented in Chicago at the International Conference of High Energy Physics, ICHEP for short, by Bruno Lenzi of CERN for the ATLAS team, and Chiara Rovelli for their competitors named for their own detector called CMS, short for Compact Muon Solenoid. (thehindu.com)
  • However, physics can tell us more generally about why smaller animals such as cats are more likely to survive the same high fall as a human. (thenakedscientists.com)
  • We have an opening in the Environment, Safety and Health (ES&H) Directorate for a Health Physicist to provide comprehensive health physics (HP) support for various LLNL program activities at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). (llnl.gov)
  • In this new field of high energy physics and the dealing with extreme materia that is only existing under extreme circumstances, an independent and multidisciplinary risk assessment and an international, multidisciplinary supervision is urgently needed. (lhc-concern.info)
  • Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineering District (MED) , Manhattan Project refers specifically to the period of the project from 1941-1946 under the control of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie Groves, with its scientific research directed by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The strength of the internal magnet determines the rate that the muon precesses in an external magnetic field and is described by a number that physicists call the g-factor. (umass.edu)
  • Enlarge ] This high-resolution rendering of the December 14 solar eclipse's magnetic field visualization was created on the Expanse supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego. (sdsc.edu)
  • By tracing magnetic field lines at extremely high resolution, solar physicists calculated a 3D map of the so-called squashing factor - a scientific measure designed to indicate the presence of complex structuring in the magnetic field. (sdsc.edu)
  • Using 2019 data, we compared patient demographic and lifestyle risk factors using 2 test for biologic prescriptions and corticosteroids with or without biologics prescriptions. (cdc.gov)
  • For example, an adult with mild expressive aphasia (an acquired language disorder), may primarily use no-tech or low-tech strategies, such as gesturing, writing, or drawing, while a child with cerebral palsy (a congenital motor disorder), may opt for a high-tech, speech-generating device with a key guard, allowing for greater fine motor control when pressing on the screen (Figure 1). (indiana.edu)
  • But the Pierce Panel was primarily motivated by the drive for higher angular resolution, which they argued could be achieved with relatively small and therefore inexpensive dishes operating at millimeter wavelengths. (springer.com)
  • The theory of the bomb was worked out by physicists mobilized primarily under the authority of the US army. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • There are a great number of factors that influence sea level, e.g. tectonic processes, continental shifting, wind currents, passats, and volcanoes. (occupycorporatism.com)
  • But we didn't have high-level math or science in school, so I really had no idea. (jax.org)
  • Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if the candidate is hired at the higher level. (llnl.gov)
  • 3 Nowhere else in science do we see such a high level of measurable fine-tuning design. (reasons.org)
  • There is a high level of trust in Sweden among those we have interviewed. (lu.se)
  • Her dissertation, Measurement of the neutron magnetic form factor from inclusive quasielastic scattering of polarized electrons from polarized 3HE, was supervised by Robert D. McKeown. (wikipedia.org)
  • The success of Shastry's calculations indicates that the anomalous photoemission spectra of high-temperature superconductors are driven by extreme correlations of electrons. (ucsc.edu)
  • Elastic scattering by the point-like electrons revealed the spatial distribution of the proton's charge, and cross sections had to be modified by form-factors as a result. (cerncourier.com)
  • The equivalent dose is the absorbed dose multiplied by a radiation weighting factor that adjusts for tissue effects based on the type of radiation delivered (eg, x-rays, gamma rays, electrons). (msdmanuals.com)
  • In a recent study , Brooks and other researchers found that most women (85.9 per cent) would accept an increase in screening frequency if they were at higher risk, but fewer (49.3 per cent) would agree to a reduction in screening frequency if they were at lower risk. (healthydebate.ca)
  • In the global race to measure ever shorter time spans, physicists from Goethe University Frankfurt have now taken the lead: together with colleagues at the accelerator facility DESY in Hamburg and the Fritz-Haber-Institute in Berlin, they have measured a process that lies within the realm of zeptoseconds for the first time: the propagation of light within a molecule. (scitechdaily.com)
  • When I fixed this problem by throwing out the first 10000, rather than the first 1000 time steps, I got much lower values, by a factor of nearly 100 for the 120-site lattice. (scienceblogs.com)
  • University of Houston (UH) physicists are using complex computer simulations to illuminate the workings of a crucial protein that, when malfunctioning, may cause Alzheimer's and cancer. (uh.edu)
  • It is a puzzle," says Stanford University physicist and panel director Peter Sturrock. (ufoevidence.org)
  • Major progress in this important field has now been reported by physicists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in a pair of papers published back-to-back in the July 29 issue of Physical Review Letters . (ucsc.edu)
  • Nanowerk News ) Physicists from the University of Bonn have developed a completely new source of light, a so-called Bose-Einstein condensate consisting of photons. (nanowerk.com)
  • After high school, White completed a BSc (Hons 1) (1942-45) and an MSc (1946-47), both from the University of Sydney. (science.org.au)
  • this suggests that I really ought to re-do all of the simulations with a higher cut-off. (scienceblogs.com)
  • By return mail I was told I was at "high risk" for breast cancer. (healthydebate.ca)
  • Breast cancer risk is based on family history, genetic makeup, personal and medical history and lifestyle factors, says the PERSPECTIVE I&I material I received. (healthydebate.ca)
  • If the new risk-assessment tool can identify women at higher or lower risk for breast cancer, it might be possible for them to be screened more or less, based on their risk. (healthydebate.ca)
  • Someone who is high risk, like me, has a greater estimated lifetime risk of developing breast cancer (up to 85 per cent) than the general population (10 to 12 per cent). (healthydebate.ca)
  • High-risk candidates are referred for MRI, which addresses some of the screening limitations of mammography for women at high risk, Cancer Care Ontario tells health-care providers on its website. (healthydebate.ca)
  • To account for this increased susceptibility, ATSDR applies age-dependent adjustment factors (ADAFs) to its cancer risk equation for these contaminants. (cdc.gov)
  • Consequently, the Region has the highest burden of cervical cancer globally. (who.int)
  • Region, cervical cancer is the second most common cancer with 110 755 new cases, accounting for the highest number of cancer deaths -- 72 705 in 2020. (who.int)
  • More than half of cervical cancer cases occur among HIV-positive women in countries with high HIV prevalence. (who.int)
  • In particular, in the 2003 heatwave, which affected most of Europe, the average temperature was 3°C more than the normal value for the summers from 1961 to 1990 with the most significant increases being in central France, Switzerland, northern Italy and southern Germany", stressed Marco Cony, co-author of the study and physicist at the UCM. (sciencedaily.com)
  • ARPES studies, which produce a spectrum or "line shape" providing clues to the fundamental properties of the material, have yielded anomalous results for high-temperature superconductors. (ucsc.edu)
  • Human body contains 23% of carbon, which can be transformed to diamonds by applying pressure and high temperature. (evolo.us)
  • In 1821, the German-Estonian physicist Thomas Johann Seebeck observed that a temperature difference between two ends of a metal bar created an electrical current in between, with the voltage being directly proportional to the temperature difference. (lbl.gov)
  • Generated by solar physicists at San Diego-based Predictive Science Inc. (PSI), the prediction model was aimed at detailing the structure and appearance of the solar corona. (sdsc.edu)
  • Free essays, homework help, flashcards, research papers, book reports, term papers, history, science, politics Laser physicists typically choose to make θ the divergence of the beam: the far-field angle between the beam axis and the distance from the axis at which the irradiance drops to eâ 2 times the on-axis irradiance. (newideas.net)
  • The results were comparable to reward-based responses normally seen in the context of money, leading the authors to dub impact factors the "currency of science. (phys.org)
  • We are predicting a range of inexpensive, abundant, non-toxic materials in which the band structure can be widely tuned for maximal thermoelectric efficiency," says Junqiao Wu, a physicist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and a professor with UC Berkeley's Department of Materials Science and Engineering who led this research. (lbl.gov)
  • Some middle- and high-school science contests, such as Science Olympiad, also have events that use these kinds of problems. (maa.org)
  • Objective of larger focal length and large aperture gives higher magnification. (newideas.net)
  • The route of exposure, type, and form of a substance, among other factors, influence how much of a substance is absorbed into the bloodstream. (cdc.gov)
  • Radiation Exposure and Contamination Ionizing radiation injures tissues variably, depending on factors such as radiation dose, rate of exposure, type of radiation, and part of the body exposed. (msdmanuals.com)
  • However, several studies have now also identified transmission through contaminated surfaces as an important factor. (scitechdaily.com)
  • This is one important factor in explaining her longevity as chancellor. (surrey.ac.uk)
  • PURPOSE: Hypoxia is one of the most important factors influencing clinical outcome after radiotherapy. (lu.se)
  • Dark energy is the most significant factor governing the rate at which the universe expands. (reasons.org)
  • 4 No wonder some atheistic physicists have insisted that dark energy cannot be real. (reasons.org)
  • Physicists from Frankfurt, Hamburg and Berlin track the propagation of light in a molecule. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Physicists call this a Bose-Einstein condensate. (nanowerk.com)
  • There are so many different physical and biological factors that can affect what happens during a fall that it's no one number that gives us the answer. (thenakedscientists.com)
  • The team published a paper on these results in Physical Review Letters titled, "Enhancing the Thermoelectric Power Factor with Highly Mismatched Isoelectronic Doping. (lbl.gov)
  • Impact factors of journals are one popular measure in use. (phys.org)
  • The team will use the money to build the NexGen 7T, an innovative functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner designed to provide the highest resolution images of the brain ever obtained. (berkeley.edu)
  • The new scanner, which will boost resolution by a factor of 20, will give neuroscientists the ability to focus on cortical layers where most neuronal circuitry resides as well as to better identify large-scale circuitry connecting different regions of the brain. (berkeley.edu)
  • This is made possible via the development of high-luminance and high-resolution display monitors combined with high-performance computers coupled with the development of image plates that are coated with photostimulable phosphors that capture "reinterpreted" x-rays. (medscape.com)
  • Studies of scattering at ever higher and lower scales continue to bear fruit to this day. (cerncourier.com)
  • Radiation may be harmful if the total accumulated dose for a person is high, as when multiple CT scans are done, because CT scans require a higher doses than most other imaging studies. (msdmanuals.com)
  • This number can be calculated with ultra-high precision. (umass.edu)
  • As my colleague Adam O'Dell likes to paraphrase the great physicist Sir Isaac Newton, an object in motion tends to stay in motion. (moneyandmarkets.com)
  • Others regard philosophy as the pursuit of pure truth by pure mind, an activity of great, indeed, of the highest importance, but on a different and loftier plane than everyday life, which is concerned with material affairs. (autodidactproject.org)
  • That letter is credited as having been a major factor in Roosevelt's decision to go forward with the project. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Liu, an MR imaging specialist, is the project co-leader along with physicist David Feinberg of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. (berkeley.edu)
  • Good thermoelectric materials should have high thermopower, high electric conductivity, and low thermal conductivity," says Wu. (lbl.gov)
  • Guesstimation does a good job of checking the answers obtained with more accurate answers looked up elsewhere, and indeed accuracy to a factor of 10 is almost always achieved. (maa.org)
  • The retort is that applied physicists are good at predicting stuff we don't care about, like the orbits of Jupiter's moons. (themoneyillusion.com)
  • When interviewing PERSPECTIVE I&I co-investigator Jennifer Brooks for this article, I disclosed I'm in her study and that's how I found out I'm high risk. (healthydebate.ca)
  • it is an infection with oncogenic strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) that is exacerbated by risk factors such as early sexual activity, early childbearing and HIV coinfection, as well as smoking. (who.int)
  • The knowledge of these conditions ought to be well elucidated by the dental surgeon, allowing the identification and counseling to high-risk patients, and the management of the conditions in the proper way 1 . (bvsalud.org)
  • Junqiao Wu, a Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley physicist, used a NERSC supercomputer to show that the thermoelectric performance of highly mismatched alloys can be substantially enhanced by the introduction of oxygen impurities. (lbl.gov)
  • Oxygen atoms (dark blue) are surrounded by high electronic density regions. (lbl.gov)
  • Improved knowledge of factors affecting the levels and distribution of oxygen within a tumor is needed. (lu.se)
  • For x-rays, including CT, the radiation weighting factor is 1. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Panel member Tom Holzer, a physicist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said the study stopped well short of making any conclusions that Earth is being visited by extraterrestrial craft. (ufoevidence.org)
  • The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is a leader and pioneer in high-performance and data-intensive computing, providing cyberinfrastructure resources, services, and expertise to the national research community, academia, and industry. (sdsc.edu)
  • An early and frequent socialization process can overcome this factor. (dogryyol.com)
  • h = Q x (12+3s/8) where s is shoe size and Q is a sociological factor based partially on alcohol consumption, years of experience, and how fashionable the shoes are. (kottke.org)
  • The group, headed by a physicist (a classic "mad physicist" according to Munger) was developing and testing polymers for color, durability and other factors that could produce full-color displays. (jax.org)
  • Remember, the higher the volatility rating, the lower the actual volatility. (moneyandmarkets.com)
  • But as you get bigger and bigger, the mass increases at a much higher rate than the surface area, and so it's the ratio of surface area to mass that means that smaller animals have a lower terminal velocity (the fastest speed they can possibly fall at) than larger ones. (thenakedscientists.com)
  • Meet requirements for and maintain qualification to perform as an LLNL health physicist at NNSS. (llnl.gov)
  • Also, Eastern and Oriential Orthodox influence by medieval laws against high interest. (blogspot.com)
  • Because if you look at that second graph, you might notice a bit of a problem: it almost looks like it's flattening out at high site numbers. (scienceblogs.com)