What is one of the deadliest science jobs?

No one can predict exactly when a volcanic eruption will take place. There are clues, but no one knows exactly when. Sometimes a volcano will erupt when scientists are studying it. Volcanologists have a high fatality rate among scientists because forecasting eruptions is so difficult. Predicting Volcanic Eruptions Volcanic eruptions …

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What is Social Media Mining

What is Social Media Mining

Social media shatters the boundaries between the real world and the virtual world. We can now integrate social theories with computational methods to study how individuals (also known as social atoms) interact and how communities (i.e., social molecules) form. The uniqueness of social media MOLECULE data calls for novel data …

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Information Diffusion in Social Media

Information Diffusion in Social Media

In February 2013, during the third quarter of Super Bowl XLVII, a power outage stopped the game for 34 minutes. Oreo, a sandwich cookie company, tweeted during the outage: “Power out? No Problem, You can still dunk it in the dark.” The tweet caught on almost immediately, reaching nearly 15,000 …

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How are Fossil Fuels Formed?

Fossil fuels are made from plants and animals that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. The plants used energy from the Sun to form energy-rich carbon compounds. As the plants and animals died, their remains settled onto the ground and at the bottom of the sea. Layer upon layer …

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Java Development Kit and Java Runtime Engine

Introduction The minimum environment required for a java program to run is called JRE (Java Runtime Engine). JDK is the minimum environment required for the development of Java Applications. Java Runtime Engine (JRE) It is an environment that is required for executing a Java application. Very popular usage of JRE …

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