Friday, September 4, 2009

Truth, untruth, and probability

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Truth and untruth are opposites. Where does probability fit in? As we talk about the probability that a proposition is true, we often sugges...
Thursday, September 3, 2009

The conjunction “but” often means “and”

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The words and and but are coordinating conjunctions. Whereas and is typically symmetric (the phrases before and after and can be interch...
Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Acronym: REACH for Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals

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REACH is the European Community approach to prospective risk management of new chemicals. The REACH regulation is effective since June 1, ...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

Acronyms for tuna and bonito species: ALB, BET BFT, SBT, SKJ, and YFT

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Tunas belong, along with mackerels and bonitos, to the Scombridae family. Members of this family make a lot of headlines as food fishes and...
Saturday, August 8, 2009

Europe versus Europa

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Europe is the name of a continent or, depending on your definition of the term continent, the name of a subcontinent of Eurasia. Europa is...

Jupiter moon Europa named after Jupiter's mythological “irregular loves”

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Europa is, along with Ganymede, Io, and Callisto, one of the four Galilean satellites of the planet Jupiter in “our” solar system [1-3]. Eu...
Thursday, August 6, 2009

Short notation: S4 for Solid-State Superionic Stamping

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S olid- S tate S uperionic S tamping is a single-step process for creating high-resolution metallic nanopatterns. Its composed “quadruple ...