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  2. Rarefaction (ecology) - Wikipedia

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    In ecology, rarefaction is a technique to assess species richness from the results of sampling. Rarefaction allows the calculation of species richness for a given number of individual samples, based on the construction of so-called rarefaction curves. This curve is a plot of the number of species as a function of the number of samples.

  3. Rarefaction - Wikipedia

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    Rarefaction is the reduction of an item's density, the opposite of compression. [1] Like compression, which can travel in waves ( sound waves , for instance), rarefaction waves also exist in nature. A common rarefaction wave is the area of low relative pressure following a shock wave (see picture).

  4. Method of characteristics - Wikipedia

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    Characteristics may fail to cover part of the domain of the PDE. This is called a rarefaction, and indicates the solution typically exists only in a weak, i.e. integral equation, sense. The direction of the characteristic lines indicates the flow of values through the solution, as the example above demonstrates.

  5. Qualitative variation - Wikipedia

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    Please add a reason or a talk parameter to this template to explain the issue with the article. ... The rarefaction curve, is defined as: = ⁡ [] = = Note ...

  6. Dispersion relation - Wikipedia

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    For electromagnetic waves in vacuum, the angular frequency is proportional to the wavenumber: =. This is a linear dispersion relation, in which case the waves are said to be non-dispersive. [1]

  7. Pull of the recent - Wikipedia

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    The Pull of the Recent (POR) describes a phenomenon in which a combination of factors causes palaeontologists to overestimate diversity towards the present day. Biased preservation and sampling in the fossil record results in past biodiversity estimates to be lower with modern taxa being considered more diverse because present biodiversity is the best sampled. [1]

  8. Burgers' equation - Wikipedia

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    where is the point (or parameter) on the x-axis (t = 0) of the x-t plane from which the characteristic curve is drawn. Since u {\displaystyle u} at x {\displaystyle x} -axis is known from the initial condition and the fact that u {\displaystyle u} is unchanged as we move along the characteristic emanating from each point x = ξ {\displaystyle x ...

  9. Receiver operating characteristic - Wikipedia

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    These figures are the TOC and ROC curves using the same data and thresholds. Consider the point that corresponds to a threshold of 74. The TOC curve shows the number of hits, which is 3, and hence the number of misses, which is 7. Additionally, the TOC curve shows that the number of false alarms is 4 and the number of correct rejections is 16.