News tagged with homogeneity

Species reemergence after collapse: Possible but different

Species pairs that disappear through hybridization after human-induced changes to the environment can reemerge if the disturbance is removed, according to a new mathematical model that shows the conditions under which reemergence ...

Biology / Evolution

created May 20, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A personality change for a catalyst

For more than 40 years, an ambition of catalysis science has been to persuade homogeneous catalysts to behave more like heterogeneous catalysts, while still maintaining their activity and exquisite selectivity. Professor ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An ideal candidate for sustainable catalysis

(PhysOrg.com) -- The development of environmentally friendly and efficient catalysts is a major challenge in the field of chemical research, with the focus now being placed on the search for inexpensive metal ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The life and death of online communities

The more heterogeneous the community of an online chat channel, the more chances the channel has to survive over time. This has been concluded in a new joint study carried out by researchers of the University of Haifa and ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds no relationship between PCR rate and race in women with breast cancer

Locally advanced breast cancer patients who received the same class of neoadjuvant chemotherapy were found to have no evidence of disease at the time of their surgery, or achieved pathological complete response, at the same ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'McDonalization' of frogs: Frog fungus hammering biodiversity of communities

Sometimes to see something properly, you have to stand farther back. This is true of Chuck Close portraits where a patchwork of many small faces changes into one giant face as you back away.

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0