News tagged with displacement
Smallest atomic displacements ever observed
An international team of scientists has developed a novel X-ray technique for imaging atomic displacements in materials with unprecedented accuracy. They have applied their technique to determine ...
Sep 01, 2011 |
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Satellites show how Earth moved during Italy quake
(PhysOrg.com) -- Studying satellite radar data from ESA's Envisat and the Italian Space Agency's COSMO-SkyMed, scientists have begun analysing the movement of Earth during and after the 6.3 earthquake that ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Late Pleistocene structural evolution of the Camarillo fold belt
The Camarillo fold belt (CFB) in the Western Transverse Ranges poses a significant seismic hazard to nearly one million people living in Southern California, yet few published geologic or geochronological data from this fold ...
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Mar 28, 2012 |
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Targeted policing has knock-on benefits
With the police service undergoing budget reductions, and calls for more officers on the streets, a new study offers some reassuring conclusions. Researchers at UCL's Department of Security and Crime Science found no evidence ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 08, 2011 |
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Engineering professor creates mobile lab for testing bridges
(PhysOrg.com) -- Civil engineering students at the University of Rhode Island will soon take to the roadways to apply what they have learned in the classroom in real-world analyses of bridges, buildings and ...
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Nano Measurement in the 3rd Dimension
From the motion sensor to the computer chip - in many products of daily life components are used whose functioning is based on smallest structures of the size of thousandths - or even millionths - of millimetres. ...
Jul 06, 2009 |
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