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The information processing approach to motor behavior began after World War II. Norbert Weiner's influential book Cybernetics proposed a general theory of control systems and guided movement with clear relevance to motor control. In principle, the flight of a guided missile and the reaching move... | <urn:uuid:6e9d4133-3bfe-41ff-8de3-9d940b4bc9c4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.psywww.com/intropsych/ch07_cognition/motor_activity_as_a_cognitive_process.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00013-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943207 | 954 | 3.21875 | 3 |
How to Read a Trust Instrument and Create a Trust Plan
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A YouTube map that shows where people are when they view the videos. That the video might be of interest to a dry country like Niger – where herding of goats and other livestock is so important – is not so surprising.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
A Guide to the James N. Douglas Papers
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CHICAGO (AP) - New research shows more than half a million
children every year have bad reactions or side effects from
medicines that require medical treatment.
Children younger than age 5 are most commonly affected.
Penicillin and other prescription antibiotics are among drugs
causing the most problems.
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The Psychology of Quality and More
Activity Network: How to understand it
How to understand it
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Muhammad V or Mehmet V, 1844–1918, Ottoman sultan (1909–18). He succeeded to the throne of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) when the liberal Young Turk revolution of 1909 deposed his brother, Abd al-Hamid II. He exercised no actual power under the new constitution, and the administration was dominated by Enver Pasha. During... | <urn:uuid:730ca0ca-e33c-4f4c-84ee-e89a052e9450> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/people/muhammad-v-ottoman-sultan.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00092-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93576 | 178 | 2.984375 | 3 |
The total fertility rate in the United States -- the number of children born per woman -- has dropped by nearly half since the 1950s to 1.88. Historically, declines in total fertility rates have been seen during times of economic hardship, such as the Great Depression and the 1970s energy crisis. Accordingly, increases... | <urn:uuid:b28ce795-50c0-4b15-b227-9a589076fcbd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fool.com/financial-advice/2014/05/04/the-most-and-least-fertile-states-in-the-us.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00057-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945181 | 942 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Commonly call the Passover
holiday based on the following sequence of events:
Beginning of Oppression
and his brothers died, and the children of Israel multiplied in the land of Egypt
The Birth of Moses
Levi's grandson, Amram
, the son of Kehat, married Yocheved, and she bore him three children...
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1. Watt – A quantifiable measure of power consumed. If you have a 15 Watt lamp, it consumes 15 Watts per hour. The lower the watt, the less energy used and LEDs are providing the most light with the lowest wattage necessary.
2. Kelvin Kº (colors of light) – measured in degrees, is a quantifiable measure of color temper... | <urn:uuid:df834f2f-d278-49ff-bb8d-0149fe34c38a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sepco-solarlighting.com/blog/13-solar-and-lighting-terms-to-know | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00060-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907541 | 790 | 3.828125 | 4 |
2007 Schools Wikipedia Selection. Related subjects: Geography of Asia
| Population (2001)
|540,493 ( 28th)
| 7,096 km² ( 27th)
|Time zone||IST ( UTC+5:30)|
- Chief Minister
- Legislature (seats)
| 16 May 1975
- V. Rama Rao
- Pawan Kumar Chamling
- Unicameral (32)
Seal of Sikkim
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Excerpts from an Organic Center report:
High yields and jumbo produce deliver more water, starch, and sugar per serving, but less vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Thom Benson 423-785-3007
River Otter Falls Opens at the Tennessee Aquarium
Meet The Furry Faces of Conservation
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Smithsonian’s National Zoo Opens New Genetics Lab
The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s geneticists are ironing their lab coats and revving up their DNA sequencers for the celebration of the group’s new state-of-the-art genetics lab at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., where researchers will look at life... | <urn:uuid:9ba038c2-6b52-42e4-9fed-1d18c21d6c23> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/smithsonian-s-national-zoo-opens-new-genetics-lab | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00188-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919573 | 831 | 2.90625 | 3 |
About three generations ago farmers relied on folk wisdom to ensure the largest harvest of their crops, which they relied on for food and income. One method was planting by the phases of the moon. The moon's gravitation force is capable of controlling the tides on Earth; it also stimulates plant growth and even the qua... | <urn:uuid:76c08e56-62f9-4d1e-9b81-1d57bc01f50f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gardenguides.com/116831-plant-phases-moon.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394987.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00112-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948257 | 269 | 3.359375 | 3 |
How do you think the new GigE standards will influence the machine vision industry?
Respond or ask your question now!
Microbolometers detect thermal energy over the long-wave range (8-14 microns). When this happens, the detector heats up in response to the absorbed energy and changes its electrical resistance. The resi... | <urn:uuid:6df999ef-eb30-4642-906f-dba73836a39f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.advancedimagingpro.com/publication/article.jsp?pubId=1&id=5425&pageNum=7 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393518.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00165-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.813016 | 179 | 2.703125 | 3 |
|> FAQ > How to determine wheel / rim size|
How do I determine my wheel / rim size?
DO NOT MEASURE RIM OR HUBCAP SIZE - A tape measure will give you the WRONG size! It will measure a little over an inch larger than the actual wheel size.
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This web address takes you to the electronic version of the 2003 Red List of Threatened Species produced by the IUCN Species Survival Commission. Red List categories and criteria are used to provide information on conservation status and distribution. These categories and criteria are explained in detail and aid the un... | <urn:uuid:6881b0a3-f548-443e-b846-994aea9fc32b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bgci.org/education/2310/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00016-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914257 | 221 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Martini, Simone (sēmôˈnā märtēˈnē) [key], or Simone di Martino dē märtēˈnō, c.1283–1344, major Sienese painter. His art is admired for its Gothic spirituality combined with a vibrancy and a great elegance of line. A follower of Duccio di Buoninsegna, his earliest known work (1315) was a fresco depicting the Maestà ( Ma... | <urn:uuid:6eee048d-fae3-4ebb-9761-8854777f5bc0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/people/martini-simone.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00046-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92052 | 418 | 2.890625 | 3 |
MAPLE RAPIDS – Three people in eastern Gratiot County, including two young children, have been sickened in an E. coli outbreak.
The two children were hospitalized and developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a potentially fatal kidney disorder that stems from E. coli poisoning.
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Anthropology P380: Prehistoric Diet and Nutrition
Lectures 1-2: looking back at human diet
1. First, let's learn to cut through the hype and understand what foods are made of. We'll spend the first few weeks of the semester trying to do this.
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The sovereign state of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is situated some distance off the northwestern coast of the European continent. Commonly called as the United Kingdom, Britain, or the UK, the state is actually an island country that spans to an archipelago composed of Great Britain, North... | <urn:uuid:b1cd9e50-5c69-4c8b-9c5d-48ca9525cf57> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dimensionsinfo.com/how-big-is-united-kingdom/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00036-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950935 | 664 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Using a novel deep sequencing technology that can in one fell swoop decode 50 million sequences representing well over a billion bases of DNA, a research team led by University of Delaware scientists is working to unmask where, why and how certain genes are switched on or off in rice--a crop vital to the world's food s... | <urn:uuid:3725f4fb-f83d-4645-bfd9-9fb18f1f0db3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/UD-leads--245-3-million-research-project-on-rice-epigenetics-325-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00008-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951752 | 1,159 | 3 | 3 |
- 1 The Challenge of Speech Recognition
- 2 History of Speech Recognition
- 3 Speech Recognition Today
- 4 The Future of Speech Recognition
- 5 References
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article is part of a continuing series on the Mahavamsa, the recorded
chronicle of Sri Lankan history
1. King Vasabha was engaged in renovating all the temples
and dagobas that were in a dilapidated condition. At that time,
the monks of ‘Valli-Sera’ temple were very good preachers.
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Noah-MP was developed in order to facilitate climate predictions with physically based ensembles. Multi-physics options allows for isolation and analysis of specific parameter schemes ultimately allowing 4,584 combinations to be assessed. In addition, to better predict climate, Noah MP is capable of coupling NCEP Globa... | <urn:uuid:b7f18673-9005-4b32-8a72-b4f263fc11a2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.jsg.utexas.edu/noah-mp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00026-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.850642 | 435 | 2.578125 | 3 |
PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 24 (UPI) -- An asteroid believed about 500 feet to 2,000 feet in size is being closely monitored by the U.S. space agency as it approaches Earth for a Tuesday fly-by.
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Wetland Terms – A
A [abiotic factors–autumn-flowering clematis]
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|English: A collection of pictograms. Three of them used by the United States National Park Service. A package containing those three and all NPS symbols is available at the Open Icon Library (Photo credit: Wikipedia)|
5. Bullying and Students With Disabilities
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"At about a year and a half, the child discovers another fact, and that is that each thing has its own name. This shows that, from all the words he has heard, he has been able to single out the nouns, and esepecially the concrete nouns. What a wonderful new step to have taken! He was aware of being in a world of things... | <urn:uuid:1cf35443-4867-4f40-a8ec-610dfd017faf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.howwemontessori.com/how-we-montessori/2012/08/language-development-activities-.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00172-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97511 | 1,149 | 3.609375 | 4 |
People with prehypertension have a 55 percent higher risk of experiencing a future stroke than people without prehypertension, report researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in a new meta-analysis of scientific literature published in the September 28 online issue of the journal Neurol... | <urn:uuid:2c5e0eb3-5f6c-4396-b691-740b427e7fcd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-blood-pressure-slightly.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00194-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964378 | 965 | 2.96875 | 3 |
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. Similarly, you can throw a bunch of numbers, letters, facts, and figures at a 12-year-old, but you can’t make him like it. It’s a crude, but apt analogy.
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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
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The present invention relates to vision testing. More particularly, the present invention relates to devices used in vision testing and training.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
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Energy & Power
The Museum's collections on energy and power illuminate the role of fire, steam, wind, water, electricity, and the atom in the nation's history. The artifacts include wood-burning stoves, water turbines, and windmills, as well as steam, gas, and diesel engines. Oil-exploration and coal-mining equipment f... | <urn:uuid:c22861fc-5943-4926-a315-8df71b8b33e1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/subjects/energy-power?edan_start=0&edan_fq=place%3A%22United+States%22&edan_fq=date%3A%221880s%22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00200-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942403 | 561 | 3.53125 | 4 |
Diversity of Deep Sea Corals
Peter Etnoyer, Scientist
Sponsored by the Marine Conservation Biology Institute
One of the values we attach to marine and terrestrial ecosystems is biodiversity. In a bioprospecting sense, biodiversity recognizes the unique genetic composition of each and every species. In an ecological sen... | <urn:uuid:e84f329f-4b57-42ba-b526-c7adf3b9878b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/03mex/background/coral_diversity/coral_diversity.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00122-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934087 | 655 | 3.734375 | 4 |
September 11, 2001
On September 11, 2001 , terrorists hijacked 4 airplanes and crashed them into the two towers of the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. The fourth jet crashed in Pennsylvania. About 3,000 people were killed and part of the Pentagon was destroyed. It was soon found out that ... | <urn:uuid:959af216-752e-4b2a-b168-c25aa91cca7b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.english-online.at/history/9-11/9-11-terrorist-attacks.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00078-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977731 | 2,579 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Research by a Tel Aviv University team may point the way to protecting cells from the damage wrought by Alzheimer’s disease, and even reverse damage that the disease caused before treatment. The method involves a protein similar to one which protects the brain from damage, but which is lacking in Alzheimer’s patients.
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Cognitive Psychology Class Notes > Language Production
Language: a shared symbolic system for communication
Discourse: the general study of communicative interactions
- conversation between 2 people
- lyrics of a song
- story line of a film
- content of a book
Linguistics: the study of language per se
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Kyrgyzstan’s geographical location as well as its varied topography and altitude result in constantly-changing weather patterns and temperature variations over the seasons. The climate of most of the country is temperate, with only the southern region considered sub-tropical. The distance from the ocean and its closene... | <urn:uuid:b1b27a29-faed-4562-97dd-f0344161ac6a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.iexplore.com/travel-guides/middle-east/kyrgyzstan/weather | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00112-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954792 | 460 | 2.640625 | 3 |
This district in southern Kerala is named after the town. Kollam, formerly known as Quilon, is an old sea port/town on the Arabian sea coast. The district is bordered on the south by Thiruvananthapuram, on the north by Alappuzha and Pathanamthitta, on the east by Western Ghats and the Tamilnadu state border and on the ... | <urn:uuid:85e93f5a-2824-45b1-8d87-a01e5ee6c2d1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Asia/India/Kerala/Districts/Kollam/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391766.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00128-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956273 | 524 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Definition of Mauts
1. maut [n] - See also: maut
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Two Very Different Americas
Arizona’s anti-Hispanic attitude is nothing new
By Joseph Baca
For New Mexicans to understand the issues pertaining to Arizona’s controversial new law, SB 1070, it’s necessary to grasp the history of how Arizona has dealt with racial issues since its establishment as a territory.
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Researchers have helped identify over 100 locations in the human genome associated with the risk of developing schizophrenia, in what is the largest genomic study published on any psychiatric disorder to date. The findings point to biological mechanisms and pathways that may underlie schizophrenia, and could lead to ne... | <urn:uuid:2298fd2f-831f-4ff0-8ba1-6078997cd242> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.science20.com/news_articles/100_locations_in_human_genome_associated_with_schizophrenia-140998 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00114-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948163 | 819 | 3.65625 | 4 |
"Children have lost touch with the natural world and are unable to identify common animals and plants, according to a survey.
Half of youngsters aged nine to 11 were unable to identify a daddy-long-legs [what we call a crane fly], oak tree, blue t*t or bluebell, in the poll by BBC Wildlife Magazine. The study also foun... | <urn:uuid:c55aa6bc-3132-4973-9862-4b3c13492140> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://macbethsopinion.blogspot.com/2008/08/british-paper-notes-lack-of-nature.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00195-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978704 | 325 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Definition of Campion, Thomas
Campion, Thomas: (1567-1620) English physician, poet, and composer. Campion first studied law, but had little sympathy with, or respect for, legal studies. He then spent 3 years (1602-1605) on the Continent and received the M.D. degree from the University of Caen in 1605. After returning t... | <urn:uuid:a17f558c-e9da-4fd2-a316-72633c5b772e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=33396 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00097-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957704 | 163 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Also called a capstone experience, culminating project, or senior exhibition, among many other terms, a capstone project is a multifaceted assignment that serves as a culminating academic and intellectual experience for students, typically during their final year of high school or middle school, or at the end of an aca... | <urn:uuid:a11f3977-29b0-4051-bfa7-00d52a24909b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://edglossary.org/capstone-project/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00025-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95207 | 1,245 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Summarization for the Nation!
Reading to Learn
Rationale: Summarization is a great strategy for students to use when reading to learn. Now that third graders have mastered learning to read, they will use text to read and research to further their knowledge for the rest of their lives. A great way for students to compre... | <urn:uuid:54632ff5-8924-4e2d-b95b-11d0f8a05a29> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/doorways/lancasterarl.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00187-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95954 | 1,623 | 3.953125 | 4 |
DePauw Institute for Girls in Science Welcomes 30 to Campus
June 25, 2008
June 25, 2008, Greencastle, Ind. - A total of 30 ninth grade girls from across Indiana are on the DePauw University campus this week for the annual DePauw Institute for Girls in Science (DIGS). The summer camp, which was started by a group of fac... | <urn:uuid:722f6008-9841-4b24-a7e5-de62a2d2a2d4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.depauw.edu/news-media/latest-news/details/21771/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404826.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00058-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956279 | 482 | 2.5625 | 3 |
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Each year in B.C., more than two million hens lay 636 million eggs. That’s approximately 275 eggs a year per hen! Ninety-five per cent of these birds ... | <urn:uuid:77df05b4-8d48-4d79-b433-e7be89fa4b99> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://cfhs.ca/farm/laying_hens/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00141-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93422 | 205 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Wow! It's getting hotter each day bringing on the sweat for us humans but what about our pets?
The day is a hot humid day – it's the kind of day when you start sweating just walking to your car. After a few minutes of vigorous activity you find yourself swimming within your own shirt.
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Chapter 5. The Sensorimotor System
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By Eric Hand That many animals sense and respond to Earth’s magnetic field is no longer in doubt, and people, too, may have a magnetic sense. But how this sixth sense might work r... | <urn:uuid:d61a4b1b-3287-422d-b5e3-ea66332f8b22> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.biopsychology.com/news/index.php?descType=always&id=5&type=mmchapter&page=0&book=MM | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00054-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962312 | 7,269 | 3.53125 | 4 |
Codiaeum variegatum – or the croton plant – is a single species within the small codiaeum genus, and belongs to the euphorbiaceae family. This species, which is sometimes known as the garden croton, is sometimes confused with large croton genus that belongs to the same clan. Native to areas of Indonesia, India, Malaysi... | <urn:uuid:0bda82fa-08bf-4e67-8683-deed3ef594b4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://flowerinfo.org/Croton-Plant | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00152-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963143 | 573 | 3.109375 | 3 |
How much water have you used today? It may be more than you think.
On March 22, join the United Nations and individuals across the world in celebrating the 19th annual World Water Day.
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Astronomers may have, for the first time, directly imaged a planet still in the process of formation, gathering material from a debris disk surrounding its parent star.
First: Holy Haleakala!
Second: note the use of the word "may". It looks to me like it’s real, though.
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This month I am participating in a Ready for Kindergarten Blog Book Study. As part of the book study, I was sent a free copy of Ready for Kindergarten! by Deborah Stewart to read and share with you! All opinions expressed in this post are mine.
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What is Profit?
Profit is basically defined as revenue minus costs. It is
the difference between how much the business gets from selling its
product and the amount it spent.
We will look at the profit and loss account (formally called the trading
and profit and loss account) and see how businesses calculate profit.
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Hit the road.
Dear Word Detective: The phase “to wend one’s [merry] way” has a meaning which appears obvious — kinda. What does the verb “to wend” actually mean and can you “wend” anything other than your way? I hope you can help; I’ve not slept all day worrying about that one. — Andy.
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Root maggots burrow through plants, making them susceptible to disease and in some cases causing them to wilt and die. Root maggots overwinter in the soil as larvae and pupate near the surface of the soil in the spring, using root crops like turnips for sustenance. Preventing root maggots from invading your turnips tak... | <urn:uuid:846e7022-e0a3-4387-a081-8c91c931d84a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gardenguides.com/101676-prevent-root-maggots-turnips.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00021-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942095 | 292 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Impacts of Land Management on the Climate System
Nearly 27% of the earth’s land surface is covered by forest vegetation. Forests play a critical role in the earth’s climate system. Forest vegetation and soil affect the global carbon cycle by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthetic processes. ... | <urn:uuid:02a8cbaa-6494-4fab-a1d8-c49810f78991> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/disturbance/climate_change/land_cover_change/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00101-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.87919 | 535 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Zyklon B was used in Germany before and during the Second World War for disinfection and pest extermination in ships, buildings and machinery. In the Auschwitz concentration camp as well, it was used exclusively for sanitation and pest control until the summer of 1941. After the end of August 1941, Zyklon was used in t... | <urn:uuid:0861c308-c545-4bee-ac92-cf2a3972850a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Zyklon.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00064-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926198 | 366 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Turquoise Jewelry Made in America began with the Native American Indians located at Chaco Canyon in approximately 400 A.D., and possibly earlier. The Anasazi Indians had discovered and mined Turquoise at what we now know as the Conejos area of Colorado, at Cerrillos, in the Burro Mountains of New Mexico, and at Chaco C... | <urn:uuid:6e745757-ea08-4bd8-9c9c-fb3630aa981f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.durangosilver.com/turquoise-jewelry-made-in-america.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00087-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965136 | 1,887 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Democracy in Education— Who Needs It?
If you fly over the prairies that stretch across the middle of the
United States, you see below the farms and municipalities neatly laid
out in townships composed of 36 sections, each a mile square. More than
two centuries ago, the U.S. Congress set apart Section 16 in each
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Mixing sound is an excellent way to edit the sounds of a film, and accentuate the mood of a project. There are a variety of mixing tools available for both professionals and amateurs to create excellent mixes to enhance the quality of their film productions. Regardless of type of mixer, most contain modules that will a... | <urn:uuid:e08130cc-ba62-4da6-80bc-6e546feb52a8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/blog/audio-tutorials/how-to-produce-a-great-sound-mix-for-a-film-or-video/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00121-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966725 | 789 | 2.984375 | 3 |
California's power woes are worsening as power demands in the high-tech state continue to outpace supplies. Even with the help from out-of-state sources, millions are facing the possiblity of power outages. In the first few months of 2001, residents of California have already suffered through a series of stage 3 alerts... | <urn:uuid:24d5c00c-2846-43db-8e03-ca4676a9de0f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.howstuffworks.com/california-power.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00097-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960336 | 234 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Habitat Protection, Conservation and Restoration
Coastal and marine habitats provide a variety of functions, from supporting the fish species that utilize them to providing economic and social benefits to many coastal communities. The ability to understand the complexity of the interrelated factors affecting habitat he... | <urn:uuid:82367323-5a2a-492e-a9ef-3ef41a6f71e9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/gis/how/habitat.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00135-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911905 | 281 | 3.59375 | 4 |
We have reports from a couple of Foresight members who have toured the Allosphere, part of the California NanoSystems Institute at UC Santa Barbara, and it sounds truly impressive. From their website:
The AlloSphere, a 30-foot diameter sphere built inside a 3-story near-to-anechoic (echo free) cube, allows for synthesi... | <urn:uuid:f7f94f5d-db78-42ab-b3e5-bfac36509583> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=4194 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00092-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90738 | 377 | 2.59375 | 3 |
The Mind Behind the Design: Unraveling Life's Plans and Specifications
by Randy J. Guliuzza, P.E., M.D. *
Suppose someone walks through their neighborhood and spies a new construction site for a custom-built home. Concrete has just been placed for the foundation. About how long ago did the project start?
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It’s not just Piers Morgan’s obsession: Europeans simply do not understand Americans’ fixation with possessing our own firearms. But that’s really not new. Gun control was the flashpoint that launched the first shots in the Revolutionary War.
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Imagine a day when you can feel the fabric of a new coat -- through your phone. That day, and the day when computers commonly have other sense perceptions, is coming within five years, according to new predictions from IBM.
The touch-phone prediction is part of IBM's seventh annual "5 in 5" set of predictions -- five i... | <urn:uuid:7210560f-10a8-4298-85cb-a7cf1055a5cc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.newsfactor.com/news/IBM-Predicts-Computers-with-5-Senses/story.xhtml?story_id=11100005OT0R&full_skip=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00139-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956147 | 896 | 2.65625 | 3 |
(LifeWire) - Vulvar cancer is a relatively rare disease that usually begins as a precancerous skin condition and progresses slowly. Because of its slow growth and often prominent symptoms, vulvar cancer is frequently diagnosed in its early stages -- a time when it is highly curable.
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God remembers his promises
An EasyEnglish Bible Version and Commentary (2800 word vocabulary) on the Book of Zechariah
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for words in brackets (…).
A word list at the end explains words with a *star by them.
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The Time Traveler from The Other World
by Donald Webb
A note about the title: the novel has been historically referred to as Voyage dans la lune, ‘A Trip to the Moon’. Cyrano insisted on L’Autre Monde ou les états et empires de la lune. The distinction is crucial and is made repeatedly thoughout the novel: Cyrano takes... | <urn:uuid:46d2b688-8334-447f-8290-1e2bbdcd4c93> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bewilderingstories.com/special/cyrano0.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00144-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966457 | 905 | 2.53125 | 3 |
by Henry Makow Ph.D. — (from Nov. 4, 2009)
When a reader tipped me to a talk entitled “The Making of a Slave,” delivered by a slave owner in 1712, I decided to compare past and present.
Past methods of enslavement were highly sophisticated, and closely resemble modern feminist social engineering.
Willie Lynch, a Britis... | <urn:uuid:0cb7d5ed-9c2f-4dca-bbe8-215932b927a2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=70381 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00073-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949468 | 515 | 3.078125 | 3 |
As a rising figure of the modernist movement, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was selected to design the German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona.
Through masterful proportioning and planning, Mies created a rhythmic and entirely unprecedented space, which elevated industrial-age materials to a level... | <urn:uuid:81d37428-ae67-4df1-8d61-861f59f4def6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.knoll.com/product/barcelona-couch | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00091-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941104 | 263 | 2.625 | 3 |
noun[mass noun] archaic
Crystalline zinc sulphate.
- A viscous residue in the bottom of each and a foul smell that denoted combinations of alum with white vitriol, sulphate of iron, and of acetate of lead with opium and ipecac.
- Formerly it was ground finely in oil, either pure or with a mixture of white vitriol and a... | <urn:uuid:80ff927f-831c-4e54-a76c-daf179782dd8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/white-vitriol | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00020-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912815 | 180 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Debate and discussion of any biological questions not pertaining to a particular topic.
5 posts • Page 1 of 1
the human genome has between 26,000 and 38,000 genes, about which a little over 1% actually codes for protein. Generally speaking, one gene creates one polypeptide. So says one source, but I do have trouble bel... | <urn:uuid:1c683420-ac7a-48df-9843-5e9f5e0bae9c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.biology-online.org/biology-forum/about11155.html?p=82491&hilit=ATP+synthetase | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00000-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936203 | 1,110 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Homer, one of the most famous poets of all time, is firmly entrenched in the Western canon as a master of classical literature. His two most renowned works, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are core texts for students and scholars alike. Now, Prof. Margalit Finkelberg of Tel Aviv University's Department of Classics has creat... | <urn:uuid:25d4019b-8aa3-4bb2-89e3-775cc3eb039b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.speroforum.com/a/PXXWINAECN34/71282-First-Homer-encyclopedia-brings-epic-poetry-and-ancient-Greece-to-life | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00123-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962637 | 808 | 3.015625 | 3 |
An examination of the recent decision in the United States on net neutrality, and potential consequences, especially for the Caribbean.
On Tuesday, 14 January, the United States (US) Court of Appeals of the District of Colombia struck down the rules established by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to safeguar... | <urn:uuid:6a5f3519-883d-4b50-a124-e853537d2bc7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ict-pulse.com/2014/01/concerned-net-neutrality-ruling/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00030-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95377 | 1,409 | 2.640625 | 3 |
The oldest information about the Jewish settlement in
Bełchatów quotes seven persons living there in 1764.
This could be one family. But who were these people?
Unfortunately, the above-mentioned source gives no names,
only the number. Historians did not however check the
old record books from Bełchatów. The registers f... | <urn:uuid:f79da062-2325-4a42-92ae-98aead577274> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.belchatow.at/History.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963728 | 1,224 | 3.09375 | 3 |
CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, Walt Disney was not put in deep-freeze postmortem but planted in the soil like nearly everyone else. Disney died in 1966, years before the science of cryogenics became a fact of modern life. Cryogenics is simply the freezing of a human body for preservation. The idea is to stave off natural ... | <urn:uuid:e6b4968a-4a91-4b3f-88c2-a6236d1e3a92> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://multichannelmerchant.com/opsandfulfillment_warehouse/keep-a-cool-head-01092003/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00100-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948231 | 994 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Talk About Teaching And Learning
Problem Solving Learning
During the College Years
From within and outside of academia, professors are being exhorted to change how learning takes place in undergraduate courses. Learning should be more ... active, collaborative, interdisciplinary, problem-based, learner-centered, inquir... | <urn:uuid:1e3beb45-b884-4c70-b2ed-48f77beb69d8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v52/n31/tatl.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00188-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945665 | 1,933 | 2.59375 | 3 |
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- Enhance vocabulary development and comprehension. Research shows that repetition and multiple exposures to content-area words and concepts greatly improves understanding.
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|grade||pre-k; kindergarten; 1st grade; 2nd grade; 3rd grade|
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|Name: _________________________||Period: ___________________|
This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does the high pitched command signal should happen?
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Below follows an excerpt of a fine paper submitted by a student for the LIT 335 midterm museum assignment. The excerpt includes the first page and a half of the paper, with the corresponding footnotes and references.
The paper is used with the student's permission, and is intended as a model only. Its words or ideas ma... | <urn:uuid:192f95ad-d163-4973-b5b1-f668a6364b3f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://showme.physics.drexel.edu/thury/Myth/Museum_Paper_Sample.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00083-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961881 | 870 | 3.625 | 4 |
June 20, 2012
New Method For Manufacturing Graphene
Considered by many as the most promising material of the future, graphene still remains an expensive and hard-to-fabricate substance. Researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, and the Interdisciplinary Research I... | <urn:uuid:f74e2526-7804-4f5d-b048-eb1d1dfb80be> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112642447/new-method-for-manufacturing-graphene/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00186-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943348 | 1,220 | 3.6875 | 4 |
The first book by University of Alabama at Birmingham Associate Professor of Art History Cathleen Cummings, M.A., Ph.D., “Decoding a Hindu Temple: Royalty and Religion in the Iconographic Program of the Virupaksha Temple, Pattadakal,” has been published.
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gives the cotangent of z.
- Mathematical function, suitable for both symbolic and numerical manipulation.
- The argument of Cot is assumed to be in radians. (Multiply by Degree to convert from degrees.)
- Cos[z]/Sin[z] is automatically converted to Cot[z]. TrigFactorList[expr] does decomposition.
- For certain special ... | <urn:uuid:6b98e357-b600-4355-9c8b-ace1a9562b88> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Cot.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395613.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00014-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.818701 | 543 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii): Listed as a Threatened Species. This species is illegal to capture, possess or own without proper permits issued by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department..
IDENTIFICATION: 15-26 inches (38-66 cm). Not including the leatherback sea turtle, this is the largest species... | <urn:uuid:86f924a3-0c6c-4d4d-b705-b594bd5470a9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.texasturtles.org/Macrochelys_temminckii.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928096 | 780 | 3.515625 | 4 |
QT Pathologies (EN)
Boutonnière deformity is a deformation of the finger in which the distal interphalangeal joint (DIP joint) is hyperextended, or bent away from the palm, while the proximal interphalangeal joint (PIP joint) is hyperflexed, or bent towards the palm.
This results in a deformed finger.
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for National Geographic News
A giant new species of crested duck-billed dinosaur has been unearthed in Mexico, researchers say.
The discovery of the 72-million-year-old fossil adds to the rich gallery of dinosaurs that scientists now know lived in western North America during the latter part of the dinosaur era.
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Some Factors That Influence Course Evaluations—And Some That Don’t
Some course characteristics that are not under an instructor’s control can influence student ratings of instruction (commonly called course evaluations). While these effects do not always represent bias, they should be taken into account in interpreting... | <urn:uuid:1802cff5-7eb9-4061-9b46-190c18f07ba8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://citl.indiana.edu/resources_files/teaching-resources1/teaching-handbook-items/factors-affecting-evaluations.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00091-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901851 | 532 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Metastatic breast cancer (also called stage IV or advanced breast cancer) is breast cancer that has spread beyond the breast to other organs in the body (most often the bones, lungs, liver or brain).
Although metastatic breast cancer has spread to another part of the body, it is considered and treated as breast cancer.... | <urn:uuid:1fcffa0d-75bc-4274-b5b0-00580bec010e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ww5.komen.org/BreastCancer/MetastaticBreastCancerIntroduction.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00144-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941159 | 477 | 3.328125 | 3 |
The sport or practice of fighting with the fists, especially with padded gloves in a roped square ring according to prescribed rules (the Queensberry Rules).
- Great Harwood took a different angle and staged a boxing, wrestling and weight-lifting contest on the cricket field.
- As for what goes on in the ring, the actu... | <urn:uuid:6ecea33d-3027-4db9-9df7-921eff4997d5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/boxing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916803 | 142 | 2.765625 | 3 |
You inform Tapestry about your services and contributions by providing a module class.
The module class is a plain Java class that you create to inform Tapestry about your services and contributions.
A system of annotations and naming conventions allow Tapestry to determine what services are provided by the module.
A m... | <urn:uuid:24dba683-eab9-4f72-a7f6-87431eb39749> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://tapestry.apache.org/tapestry-ioc-modules.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00017-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.89029 | 1,641 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Postmodern Law – Introduction
Before exploring the topic of Postmodern law, it may be helpful to give the discussion an historical context. No one does this better than Harold J. Berman, former professor of law at Harvard Law School. Berman maintains that there is currently a major debate over our understanding of law.... | <urn:uuid:009ce17f-752d-4b7a-9b5b-26ee03838c6d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.allaboutworldview.org/postmodern-law.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393518.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00019-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931329 | 1,919 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Beatrice is a native Melbournian who moved to the Netherlands in 2009. With a background in independ...
Are Amsterdam’s canals clean enough to swim in?04 August 2014, by Beatrice Clarke
On those rare summer days when the temperature creeps into the high 20s and the sun shines warmly down, glittering canal water can loo... | <urn:uuid:fa055a48-b7b4-427f-9596-09f282185a39> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.iamexpat.nl/read-and-discuss/lifestyle/articles/amsterdam-canals-clean-enough-to-swim-in | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408828.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00061-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951841 | 1,117 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Summary of Stratigraphy
[Note: The geologic classification and nomenclature of this report follow the usage of the State Geological Survey of Kansas, which differs from that of the U. S. Geological Survey.]
The rocks that crop out in Harper County are of sedimentary origin and range in age from Paleozoic to Cenozoic (P... | <urn:uuid:d4e7a5f1-95b4-42d1-8228-a14e5b5a4bb6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.kgs.ku.edu/General/Geology/Harper/04_geol.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00182-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944403 | 3,718 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Click any word in a definition or example to find the entry for that word
|present participle||walking around|
|past tense||walked around|
|past participle||walked around|
This is the British English definition of walk around. View American English definition of walk around.
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[About this transcript: Items inside italicized square brackets have been added for clarity. Page and chapter numbers are hyper-linked to facsimiles of the original pages, with the kind permission of the 1st-Hand-History Foundation ( www.1st-hand-history.org ).
[Walling, A. G. History of Southern Oregon, comprising Jac... | <urn:uuid:3946c389-ccb4-42f8-a92b-603d6ab84faa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://talentfriends.org/walling/pacific_coast.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00037-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981246 | 55,057 | 2.875 | 3 |
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will apparently perform no follow-up studies of a Red Planet rock that resembles a rodent, dealing a blow to the nascent field of Martian mammalogy.
The so-called "Mars rat" has generated a lot of Internet interest lately, with some UFO buffs claiming that it may be an indigenous Red Planet ... | <urn:uuid:ba7e02ea-c98c-4f84-a198-1eb26721a6c8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.space.com/21455-mars-rat-curiosity-rover-drive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00044-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94028 | 507 | 3.65625 | 4 |
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