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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Population dynamics

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A metapopulation is a set of geographically distinct local populations occupying discrete habitat patches. In some patches, the local population can become extinct—for example, if there are not ...

A method of burning fuel in which the fuel is continually fed into a bed of reactive or inert particles supported by upflowing air, which causes the bed to behave like a turbulent fluid. Fluidized ...

Bonding

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A method of holding the parts of an object together with or without the aid of an adhesive such as an epoxy or a glue. Composite materials such as fiber-reinforced plastics require strong ...

Fission track dating

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A method of dating geological and archaeological specimens by counting the radiation-damage tracks produced by spontaneous fission of uranium impurities in minerals and glasses. During fission two ...

Acoustic emission

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A method of nondestructive testing and materials characterization that uses mechanical waves moving through materials. It is similar to seismology, except in being concerned with the scale of ...

Inkjet printing

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A method of forming a hardcopy image (text or graphics) by generating very small drops of ink and precisely depositing them on a substrate. This concept was introduced commercially in the mid-1980s ...

Capability maturity modelling

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A method of gathering best practises for various work processes into coherent groupings to facilitate quality and process improvement. Capability Maturity Models® (CMM®) represent a relatively recent ...