Scots ministers said a new formula for allocating funding was based on population density, meaning areas like the Highlands would be particularly badly hit.

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Rack density should be based on actual data, not on manufacturer specifications.

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To compare alien planets, Dr. Mendez at the Planetary Habitability Laboratory and his colleagues are creating an Earth Similarity Index that ranks worlds by their resemblance to our own planet, on a scale from zero to one, based on their mass, radius, density and surface temperature.

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In North America, Laki has been blamed for the starvation of Inuit populations from severe cold in northwestern Alaska, based on Inuit oral history as well as tree-ring density data investigated by Gordon Jacoby and others, who estimated that conditions were about 4 degrees Celsius colder than the mean.

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Simplified, higher density and more reliable servers make the hyperscale all-flash datacenter more efficient than datacenters based on solid state disk and hard disk systems.

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