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Introduction Millions of rolls of microfilm contain valuable genealogical information, yet remain largely inaccessible. A titleboard (see Figure 1) contains semi-structured metadata about the genealogical records that follow the titleboard on the roll of microfilm. This metadata may include the geographical origin of the records (i.e. city and country), the record type (i.e. birth records, marr...

Theoretical modelling of the contraction of the primitive protosaturnian cloud, using ideas of supersonic turbulent convection, suggests that each of Saturn' e, inner moons, excepting Rhea, condensed above the icepoint of water and consists primarily of hydrous magnesium silicates. It is predicted that Voyager 1 may find that the satellite mean densities steadily increase towards the planet and...

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