General science

General science

A variety of science subjects concerning the fundamental knowledge about different aspects of our world and their underlying principles.

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Automated ink optimization software for the printing industry

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Colour images are commonly printed with cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (CMYK) inks rendered as halftone images and printed in register with each other. Although this process is known as four-color ...

Homo floresiensis

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In 2004 a team of Australian and Indonesian archaeologists and paleoanthropologists announced the remarkable discovery of a new species of fossil hominid, Homo floresiensis , from the island of ...

Information retrieval

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As networking and storage technologies become faster and cheaper, people will amass more kinds of digital information than ever before. Much of this will be multimedia information such as faxes ...

Forensic engineering

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Engineering applied toward the purposes of law. In forensic engineering, the majority of investigations are carried out in the context of civil litigation; for example, the cause of a plane crash is ...

Energy-efficient motors

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Electric motors are the major user of electricity, consuming 25% of all electricity in the United States. A survey by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) showed that electric motors consume as much ...

Satellite radio

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Direct audio broadcasting from satellites to mobile and stationary receivers. This concept originated in the late 1980s as an outgrowth of direct television broadcasting from satellites to home ...

Single crystal

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In crystalline solids the atoms or molecules are stacked in a regular manner, forming a three-dimensional pattern which may be obtained by a three-dimensional repetition of a certain pattern unit ...