They continued their study in 2003 using newly developed bismuth ( III ) fluoride ( BiF < sub > 3 </ sub >) targets, used to provide further data on the decay data for < sup > 262 </ sup > Bh and the daughter < sup > 258 </ sup > Db.

In 1971, the Dubna team repeated their reaction using an improved set-up and were able to confirm the decay data for < sup > 260 </ sup > Db using the reaction:

Some < sup > 238 </ sup > U atoms, however, could absorb another two neutrons ( for a total of 17 ), resulting in < sup > 255 </ sup > Es, as well as in the < sup > 255 </ sup > Fm isotope of another new element, fermium .< ref >< sup > 254 </ sup > Es, < sup > 254 </ sup > Fm and < sup > 253 </ sup > Fm would not be produced because of lack of beta decay in < sup > 254 </ sup > Cf and < sup > 253 </ sup > Es </ ref > The discovery of the new elements and the associated new data on multiple neutron capture were initially kept secret on the orders of the U. S. military until 1955 due to Cold War tensions and competition with Soviet Union in nuclear technologies.

The data confirms the decay properties of < sup > 270 </ sup > Hs and < sup > 266 </ sup > Sg.

The measured decay data confirmed the assignment of the discovery isotope as < sup > 293 </ sup > Lv.

The RIKEN team produced a further atom on April 2, 2005, although the decay data were slightly different from the first chain, perhaps due to either the formation of a meta-stable isomer or one alpha particle escaping from the detector before depositing its full energy.

Theoretical estimates of alpha decay half-lives of alpha-decay chains from element 113 are in good agreement with the experimental data.

Analysts are allowed to work with all of the energy and decay data, but are forbidden from seeing the sign of the charge, and thus are unable to see the correlation ( if any ).

Bit rot, also known as bit decay, data rot, or data decay, is a colloquial computing term used most commonly to describe a gradual decay of storage media.

Bit rot can also be used to describe the phenomenon of data stored in EPROMs and flash memory gradually decaying over the duration of many years, or in the decay of data stored on CD or DVD discs or other types of consumer storage.

Part of the discrepancy between the surface and atmospheric trends was resolved over a period of several years as Christy, Spencer and others identified several factors, including orbital drift and decay, that caused a net cooling bias in the data collected by the satellite instruments.

A solution to this problem is the Coopmans approximation, which allows old data to be forgotten more gracefully ( though still with exponential decay, rather than with the power law decay of a purely analog device ).

Decay correct is a method of adjusting the measurements of radioactive decay obtained at two different time points so that they may be used as a single data set.

In order to compare ALL the groups together, the data from the " 24 hour " must be decay corrected: the radioactivity measured on the second day must be " adjusted " in order to allow a comparison to measurements from an earlier time, but of the same original material.

Arguing that the study had errors, the data was reanalyzed by fluoridation opponent John A. Yiamouyiannis, whose results indicated no statistically significant difference in tooth decay rates among children in fluoridated and nonfluoridated communities.

The experimental data on cluster decay in three groups of even-even, even-odd, and odd-even parent nuclei are reproduced with comparable accuracy by both types of universal curves, fission-like UNIV and UDL

Khrushchev, for all his bombastic prophecies about the inevitable decay of capitalism, is genuinely favorable to `` peaceful coexistence '' and would like, above all, the Berlin and German problems to be settled peacefully ; ;

Soon they will fight their way into the lower middle-class suburbs, and the churches will experience the same decay and rebuilding cycle which has characterized their history for a century.

Gamow solved a model potential for the nucleus and derived, from first principles, a relationship between the half-life of the decay, and the energy of the emission, which had been previously discovered empirically, and was known as the Geiger – Nuttall law.

Alpha decay can provide a safe power source for radioisotope thermoelectric generators used for space probes and artificial heart pacemakers.

Despite the legend of his divorce and remarriage, Amram was also held to have been entirely sinless throughout his life, and was rewarded for this by his corpse remaining without any signs of decay.

8th century BC ), which included, besides Aegina, Athens, the Minyan ( Boeotian ) Orchomenus, Troezen, Hermione, Nauplia and Prasiae, and was probably an organization of city-states that were still Mycenaean, for the purpose of suppressing piracy in the Aegean that arose as a result of the decay of the naval supremacy of the Mycenaean princes.

She was forced into patriotism in spite of herself, and the glory won by Salamis was paid for by the loss of her trade and the decay of her marine.

Once images have been acquired, the effects of decay and taphonomy must be accounted for before a correct anatomical reconstruction can be made.

The team were able to detect the alpha decay from a descendant of the 1n evaporation channel, providing some evidence for the formation of element 107 nuclei.

This reaction was studied for the first time in 2008 by the team at RIKEN, Japan, in order to study the decay properties of < sup > 266 </ sup > Bh, which is a decay product in their claimed decay chains of ununtrium .< ref > The decay of < sup > 266 </ sup > Bh by the emission of 9. 05-9. 23 MeV alpha particles was further confirmed in 2010.

The graphs of Bessel functions look roughly like oscillating sine or cosine functions that decay proportionally to 1 /√ x ( see also their asymptotic forms below ), although their roots are not generally periodic, except asymptotically for large x.

The number of atoms on the left and the right in the equation for a chemical transformation is equal ( when unequal, the transformation by definition is not chemical, but rather a nuclear reaction or radioactive decay ).

It can linger in soil for thousands of years and inhibits decay of other substances.

Competition from the railway network from the 1830s, and in the 20th century the roads, made the smaller canals obsolete for most commercial transportation, and many of the British canals fell into decay.

Cranberries for fresh market are stored in shallow bins or boxes with perforated or slatted bottoms, which deter decay by allowing air to circulate.

This concept of asha versus the druj should not be confused with the good-versus-evil battle evident in western religions, for although both forms of opposition express moral conflict, the asha versus druj concept is more systemic and less personal, representing, for instance, chaos ( that opposes order ); or " uncreation ", evident as natural decay ( that opposes creation ); or more simply " the lie " ( that opposes truth, righteousness ).

Since this affected the rendition of cymbals at playback, sound engineers of the time remedied the situation by asking drummers to play the content of the cymbals onto woodblocks, temple blocks and cowbells for their loudness and short decay.

The primary decay mode for isotopes lighter than < sup > 153 </ sup > Eu is electron capture, and the primary mode for heavier isotopes is beta minus decay.

While < sup > 153 </ sup > Eu is stable, < sup > 151 </ sup > Eu was recently found to be unstable to alpha decay with half-life of, giving about 1 alpha decay per two minutes in every kilogram of natural europium.

Consequently, “ the decay of population is the greatest evil that a state can suffer ; and the improvement of it the object which ought, in all countries, to be aimed at in preference to every other political purpose whatsoever .” More recently a similar view has been expressed by Smart who argued that all other things being equal a universe with two million happy people is better than a universe with only one million happy people.

Generally, a jiangshi's appearance can range from unremarkable ( as in the case of a recently deceased person ) to horrifying ( rotting flesh, rigor mortis, as with corpses that have been in a state of decay over a period of time ).

In an unidentified city of near-constant rain and urban decay, the soon-to-be retiring Detective William R. Somerset ( Freeman ) is partnered with short-tempered Detective David Mills ( Pitt ) who recently transferred to the department.

After several years of decay, the complex has recently been extensively renovated, and these renovations are still ongoing.

Bowdoin and Samuel Adams went after the Hancock-Cushing faction, seizing on the recently established and locally controversial social club ( known either as " Sans Souci " or the " Tea Assembly "), at which card play and dancing took place ( these activities had previously been banned in socially conservative Boston ), as a sign of moral decay that took place under Hancock's term.

The decay of freshly produced chips from recently living woody plants, consumes nitrate ; this is often off set with a light application of a high-nitrate fertilizer.

The re-made, Europeanised landscape now took on an air of mellow decay, and started to look ' natural ', unusual in a recently colonised country like New Zealand.

Until recently the house suffered from decay and neglect, in need of restoration.

The major source of heat production in a newly shut down reactor is due to the beta decay of new radioactive elements recently produced from fission fragments in the fission process.

Fort Wilderness recently closed and was removed after years of decay made its natural wood construction unstable.

While < sup > 153 </ sup > Eu is stable, < sup > 151 </ sup > Eu was recently found to be unstable and to undergo alpha decay with half-life of.