This chapter discusses the common terms used by microbial ecologists to describe diversity, and attempts to explain their virtues and pitfalls. The first classification system was devised by Aristotle at least 2,400 years ago who generated the first hierarchy based on creationist and essential tenets...
Mor e an d mor e peopl e spee k th e thre e most common languages: English Spanish, an d Chinese, In many parts of the world,grandparents speak a languag e that the ir grandchildren do not understand.Becaus e t es e locallanguages aren't taught to chikdren c spoken, at home, ...
Due to climate change, episodes of heavy rainfall are becoming more common and more intense. That is because warmer air holds more moisture, so storm clouds are "heavier" before they eventually break. The floods in southern Brazil are just the latest of recent natural disasters in Lat...
The long legs of a giraffe make it a funny-looking animal. Then, there’s its neck, which can be up to 6 feet long. Many people assume that the giraffe’s neck helps them get leaves off tall trees, but there are a limited number of trees in EastAfrica, where the giraffe lives. F...
In the extreme—and extremely common—case of “the probability of at least one”, the direct approach would involve a calculation for almost case, but the complement calculation simply involves calculating the probability for the “none” case, and then subtracting from one. P(not A) = 1 –...
The thing that always made me swithc back to Firefox when trying out Chromium based web browsers was font rendering. You can even see that in the UI of Chromium-Edge, where the Segoe UI font is much ... tomscharbachThanks for telling us more about some real-world u...
The Least Common Multiple (LCM) is the smallest or least common multiple that two or more numbers have in common. Finding the LCM helps us determine a common...
A common theme running through all of these comments online is this fundamental belief that we are powerless to do anything other than go to meetings and suffer through these poorly run meetings and live to meet another day. But the truth is, we're not powerless at all. In fact, the cur...
Z is the least common letter in English. Qi is the most commonly played word in SCRABBLE tournaments. I don’t like to play SCRABBLE. I don’t know any words that contain the letters Z and Q. Martina says: No this is the first time to hear bout this game , but probably I will...
It’s common for people to multitask. Townsend worked in food service, as a bartender and as a craft room manager during his tenure. At its peak, the number of human Antarctic residents is approximately 10,000. In 1959, 12 countries – including Japan, South Africa, France, the United...