: a more or less definite amount or quantity cooks in a matter of minutes 5 : something written or printed matter suitable for photocomposition 6 : mail entry 1 first-class matter 7 Christian Science : the illusion that the objects perceived by the physical senses have the reality of substan...
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That science means both of these things will doubtless be reply, and rightly. But in the order both of time and of importance, science as method precedes science as subject-matter. Systematized knowledge is science only bec...
Science writer. Author ofNobel Prize Women in Science,Prometheans in the Lab,The Theory That Would Not Die, and others. Sharon Bertsch McGrayne•All Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowle...
between periventricular white matter lesions and deep white matter lesions in terms of etiology, histopathology, functional correlates, and imaging methodologies. We suggest a new subclassification of white matter lesions that might have better etiological and functional relevance than the current simple ...
The four fundamental states of matter are solid, liquid, gas and plasma, but there others, such as Bose-Einstein condensates and time crystals, that are man-made.
Without an account of the topic of the intensional counterfactual, a relatively simple truth 3 In an act of imagination in which ‘had Sam gone home, she would have eaten dinner and gone to bed’ is true, one also imagines that ‘had Sam gone home, she would have eaten dinner’. ...
F.C.Ugolini,R.L.Edmonds, inDevelopments in Soil Science, 1983 Decomposition processes The study of organic-matter decomposition in soil is of importance not only because a great deal of the energy captured byphotosynthesisis released by this process, but also because nutrients are mineralized or ...
In active matter systems, individual constituents convert energy into non-conservative forces or motion at the microscale, leading to morphological features and transport properties that do not occur in equilibrium and that are robust against certain perturbations. In recent years, a fruitful method for...
By definition, the proportionality coefficient between Fmax and the concentration of a component does not vary between the PARAFAC-analyzed and compared samples. Therefore, it should be clearly understood that, in this way, the PARAFAC analysis accounts for all the variability of spectrofluorometric ...