and Canada from a currently impending disaster. Which of the following are you most likely to be working with? A nematode that targets fungi. A virus that targets beetles. Forest fires. An antibiotic that targets tree bacteria. A virus that targets beetles. Which of the following cities is ...
The team's research focused on storage materials for high-level nuclear waste—primarily defense waste, the legacy of past nuclear arms production. The waste is highly radioactive. While some types of the waste have half-lives of about 30 years, others—for example, plutonium—have a half-lif...
Way back in the middle of February, wedid a column on the phenomenon of electric cars and uncontrollable firesthat the lithium batteries used in modern electric cars cause and now we are hearing thatelectric bicycles suffer from the same malady. No surprise, as the batteries are the same, ju...
The ban on fires caused by deforestation, which affects approximately 66 million hectares of primary forest and peatland (terrestrial wetland ecosystems) was first put into effect in 2011 and has subsequently been periodically renewed. The coordinated implementation of the Action Plan for the Prevention...
However, these electrical appliances could be faulty in different ways or could suffer from inefficiencies, and hence leading to several issues, such as the events resulting in a massive energy waste and triggering electrical fires [184], [185]. To that end, detecting faulty appliances and ...
Fixed an issue where when you save a project from PWA to a local mpp file, the ProjectBeforeTaskChangeEvent fires for data that wasn't actually changed by the user. Fixed an issue where Project may terminate unexpectedly when opening files where resource contours were specified in a certain ...
Fault detection, such as by the GFCI and the AFCI, has seen increased use over the years as a means to improve upon personal safety and to reduce the incidence of damage to property through fires. The design and operation of fault detectors is subject to standards created by various bodies...
the soil and rock spectra in Fig.1have an absorption feature at 2.2 μm that is absent in dry leaves. Obviously, the retrieval of biochemical information and processes from spectral data, especially from space, is a complex but compelling task, which is still an active area of research....
It’s clear we need to find ways to address the decline in academic performance caused by ‘summer learning loss.’ We should be promoting year-round active ‘brain exercising’ (intellectual stimulation) during the summer months (and year-round) in order for students to ma...
Every Monday morning CBR fires five questions at a C-suite tech industry interviewee - Sonatype's CTO Brian Fox was in the hot seat answering questions about his past, and where he sees the future going. March 10, 2019 - What Makes a DevSecOps Program Elite? What's the difference between...