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  2. McCollough effect - Wikipedia

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    The McCollough effect is a phenomenon of human visual perception in which colorless gratings appear colored contingent on the orientation of the gratings. It is an aftereffect requiring a period of induction to produce it.

  3. Science (journal) - Wikipedia

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    Science is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science [A 2] [1] (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals. [2] It was first published in 1880, is currently circulated weekly and has a subscriber base of around 130,000.

  4. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology

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    The Annual Review of Information Science and Technology was relaunched by the Association for Information Science and Technology's Board of Directors in 2021, following a 10-year publishing hiatus. Previously, this annual review journal was published from 1966 to 2011 during which it was established in 1965 by the American Documentation ...

  5. Red dot sight - Wikipedia

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    Also used on Aimpoint Acro C-2 and P-2, as well as Steiner MPS, Viridian RFX 45, CH Duty, Lucid Optics E7 [18] and Vector Frenzy Plus. Aimpoint Micro standard First introduced in 2007 [19] on the small tube sight variants of Aimpoint, but has also been used extensively by other manufacturers as well. Popular on rifles and shotguns, but not on ...

  6. Academic journal - Wikipedia

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    Content usually takes the form of articles presenting original research, review articles, or book reviews.The purpose of an academic journal, according to Henry Oldenburg (the first editor of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society), is to give researchers a venue to "impart their knowledge to one another, and contribute what they can to the Grand design of improving natural knowledge ...

  7. Simple view of reading - Wikipedia

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    The simple view of reading is that reading is the product of decoding and language comprehension. In this context, “reading” refers to “reading comprehension”, “decoding” is simply recognition of written words [1] and “language comprehension” means understanding language, whether spoken or written.

  8. Newton disc - Wikipedia

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    Colour distribution of a Newton disk. The Newton disk, also known as the disappearing color disk, is a well-known physics experiment with a rotating disk with segments in different colors (usually Newton's primary colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, commonly known by the abbreviation ROYGBIV) appearing as white (or off-white or grey) when it's spun rapidly about its axis.

  9. Scientific journal - Wikipedia

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    Reading an article in a scientific journal usually entails first reading the title, to see if it was related to the desired topic. If it was, the next step is to read the abstract (or summary or conclusion, if the abstract is missing), to see if the article is worth reading.