December 23, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the Metric Conversion Act, designed to bring US weights and measures in line with the rest of the world. The United States is one of the last holdouts ...

SINCE the publication of the article on the Metric System, in NATURE, vol. viii. p. 386, my attention has been drawn to some recent information showing the important part taken by the celebrated ...

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An obsession with the numbers can sink your strategy. by Michael Harris and Bill Tayler Tying performance metrics to strategy has become an accepted best practice over the past few decades. Strategy ...

Only approximately 109 meters separate two similar, yet different, track and field events, the 1500 meters and the mile. That distance alone is just one difference between the mid-distance races. Here ...

Abstract: An image is worth a thousand words. Many researchers have conducted extensive studies to understand visual emotions since an increasing number of users express emotions via images and videos ...

Abstract: In this work, we further develop the conformer-based metric generative adversarial network (CMGAN) model 1 for speech enhancement (SE) in the time-frequency (TF) domain. This paper builds on ...

A single laundry load containing synthetic clothing can release thousands of plastic microfibers from nylon, acrylic and polyester materials. Lab testing of an SA-made washing machine filter at ...

Within each content area, there are one or more tutorials. Each tutorial consists of lessons. Each lesson should be a page detailing the concept being taught, along with sample code. Lesson and page ...

Disclaimer: I hope this tutorial will be useful to others wishing to run molecular dynamics simulations of membrane proteins with AMBER. However, it is as much for my own reference as a guide to ...