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For many SERC scientists, field research comes to a halt in the winter. Some manage to head off to the tropics to investigate invasive species or mangroves, but not photobiologist Pat Neale. Neale and his assistants are spending a good part of their time these days in his lab with the Beast.
The Beast does not bite, bu... | <urn:uuid:16040016-d574-4c32-90ee-9e9e8554bc03> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://sercblog.si.edu/?tag=phytoplankton | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00176-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951973 | 164 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Summer nights are getting hotter faster than summer days. What does it mean for agriculture?
May 8, 2014
By Chad Kruger
Nick Bond, the Washington State Climatologist, pointed out an interesting observation at a meeting I attended last week. For summers from 2000-2010, nighttime temperatures (T-min) in many locations in... | <urn:uuid:229ec4c9-75cb-48cb-8033-e27692e5c29d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://csanr.wsu.edu/summer-nights-are-getting-hotter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393518.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00201-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908268 | 1,225 | 3.140625 | 3 |
A wireless router is a device in a wireless local area network (WLAN) that determines the next network point to which a packet should be forwarded toward its destination. A wireless router works in the same way as the router in a hard-wired home or business local area network (LAN), but allows greater mobility for note... | <urn:uuid:10ccbd57-19eb-476f-a053-ca3ed562dcf8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/definition/wireless-router | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00088-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935943 | 300 | 3.25 | 3 |
Tissue Type Test
A tissue type test is a blood test that identifies substances called antigens on the surface of body cells and tissues. Checking the antigens can tell if donor tissue is safe (compatible) for transplant to another person. This test may also be called HLA typing. Antigens can tell the difference between... | <urn:uuid:57f62962-a4d8-4a49-b67b-7569188933d7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/tissue-type-test | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00043-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948513 | 575 | 4.15625 | 4 |
A pediatric occupational therapist, Cris Rowan, hit the headlines last summer when she made a plea for a total ban of handheld devices for all children under the age of twelve! You can imagine the reactions. It really got parents worked up. Of course, Rowan made some very valid points but the real solution is to allow ... | <urn:uuid:84da677e-36d0-487e-bd7f-a58912c2ee78> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/8-reasons-why-children-should-not-use-handheld-devices-frequently.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00089-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967262 | 1,653 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Infographics have become a staple in our business and social media world. Page through a Forbes magazine and you’ll find a number of colorful poster-like images illustrating statistics and data to help represent the article’s message. Scroll through your Linkedin home feed and find posts of articles with titles declari... | <urn:uuid:de0f15df-ed8d-4d84-aace-d5e9865eb3b1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.examiner.com/article/how-to-teach-your-students-infographics-1?cid=rss | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00143-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916613 | 562 | 3.859375 | 4 |
A record number of people were infected with HIV around the world this year, a report says.
Around 14,000 people are infected with HIV every day
Figures from UNAids and the World Health Organization put the number of new infections at five million.
The report also estimates that three million people died from the disea... | <urn:uuid:bd969497-e21b-426c-91cf-3738827e9bb2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3236200.stm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00164-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961684 | 804 | 2.859375 | 3 |
It’s my pleasure to pass on a terrific piece, written for S21, by Daniel Levitin. In addition to teaching at McGill University and being a real mensch, Levitin is the best-selling author of “This is Your Brain on Music,” which I personally recommend to all. Below, he gives us a look at his new book “The World in Six So... | <urn:uuid:2c6dfc6b-3a58-4e6e-b46c-ba26901d2ef2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sequenza21.com/2008/09/special-daniel-levitin-for-s21/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00161-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968447 | 699 | 2.875 | 3 |
November 6, 2007
Plasma cutting has become a process of choice for many because of its cost-effectiveness. However, this wasn't the case when the technology was introduced because of short consumable life. Technological innovations over the years, however, helped to change that.
Metal cutting has existed as long as the... | <urn:uuid:cee117dd-1814-41dc-815c-325898220f71> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thefabricator.com/article/plasmacutting/the-life-and-times-of-plasma-cutting | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00197-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963913 | 1,847 | 3.90625 | 4 |
Tara Delaney's Book is now available for order online! Click on the book at the right to order.
The Sensory Processing Disorder Answer Book provides straightforward answers to the most pressing questions parents who are struggling though to make sense of an overwhelming amount confusing, and often times conflicting inf... | <urn:uuid:61af1e01-8ea1-4723-8a02-868c22806a4c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.stepstherapyinc.com/book | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00015-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914897 | 231 | 2.8125 | 3 |
The Americans with Disabilities Act
“Soul of a People: Voices from the Writers’ Project” Online Site Support Notebook
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) (PL 101-336), which went into effect in July 1992, guarantees that people with disabilities shall have equal access to employment, public services and accommoda... | <urn:uuid:398e6aa3-dce1-4d81-bafd-6ba8d4f5a87c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ala.org/programming/soulpeople/soulssn-ada | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00078-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946571 | 236 | 2.765625 | 3 |
After an investigation and further blood tests on an Illinois man who was thought to be infected with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed that the patient did not actually have the disease.
The announcement means that the virus has not spread betwe... | <urn:uuid:dd03426d-713a-444e-b4c8-323feee813fe> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.medicaldaily.com/illinois-mers-case-turns-out-be-negative-after-cdc-investigation-us-still-mers-free-285276 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00201-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973209 | 658 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Almost half of all Americans over the age of 60 develop diverticulosis: small, bulging pouches (diverticula) in the colon. In most cases, these diverticula do not cause any discomfort. However, in perhaps 15% of people with diverticulosis, diverticula may become inflamed or infected. The result is a condition called di... | <urn:uuid:e1df9f4a-4f85-4882-8475-d49cb0b4bdb9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mbhs.org/health-library?ArticleId=35545 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00027-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919356 | 459 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Teaching more than math
Debate over the utility of high school math courses often accompanies the beckoning school year. I revisit Andrew Hacker's New York Times column “Is Algebra Necessary?” from last summer and provide the obvious, unpopular, answer: Yes.
Will students ever need to graph a linear function or find po... | <urn:uuid:475551aa-14fa-4c56-84cc-aad79386e5cc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://triblive.com/opinion/letters/4557974-74/students-algebra-classroom | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00152-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940682 | 726 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Richard Ornstein, a Jewish refugee from Austria, contracted to purchase a home for his family in the Sand Point Country Club area of Seattle in late 1952. Unknown to both Ornstein and the seller, the property’s deed contained a neighborhood-wide restrictive covenant barring the sale or rental of the home to non-Whites ... | <urn:uuid:37cd0db5-0e58-49c2-9c1a-8b60dac795d3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/covenants_report.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00125-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950518 | 10,610 | 3.5 | 4 |
Freedom's call is a global challenge
The world falls well short of the ideal of universal human rights but its people increasingly insist upon it.
'We want peace and we want freedom." The speaker was one Lebanese among hundreds of thousands who turned out in Beirut in the Arab world's biggest demonstration of modern ti... | <urn:uuid:ae1ecf06-f364-4bc2-93dc-f86788ee987c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theage.com.au/news/Editorial/Freedoms-call-is-a-global-challenge/2005/03/16/1110913663573.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00143-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96839 | 495 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Needle-Free 'Breathalyzer' for Daily Diabetes Testing Shows Promise
But first, device must undergo clinical studies
By Serena Gordon
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) -- People with diabetes have to prick their fingers multiple times a day to monitor their blood sugar levels, but researchers report that someday patie... | <urn:uuid:5d898b55-8b77-447e-96fc-152f3525ec0e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20131113/needle-free-breathalyzer-for-daily-diabetes-testing-shows-promise | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00060-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936488 | 453 | 2.6875 | 3 |
- the act of inhabiting; occupancy
- a place in which to live; dwelling; home
- a colony or settlement
Origin of habitationMiddle English habitacioun ; from Old French habitacion ; from Classical Latin habitatio: see habitable
- The act of inhabiting or the state of being inhabited.
- a. A natural environment or locali... | <urn:uuid:a61ed6cd-0d29-4e8d-ac8a-4abbfa9668df> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.yourdictionary.com/habitation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00114-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.726826 | 146 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Is The Christmas Tree In Crisis? [Headlines]
Scientists in North Carolina are trying to blend characteristics to make the hardiest 'perfect' Christmas tree.
Christmas tree geneticist John Frampton rubs the sprigs of a two-inch seedling, planted two years ago from the seed of a fir cone from the Uludag Mountain region i... | <urn:uuid:8be74930-aecf-4e60-b244-b34ef2d930b7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.psfk.com/2011/12/is-the-christmas-tree-in-crisis-headlines.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00048-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.863133 | 124 | 2.515625 | 3 |
(d. ca. 1587)
Copperplate etching with watercolour on paper
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Sigmund Elsässer was a court painter of Archduke Ferdinand II. He recorded pageants, weddings, and other court festivities.
The so-called Kolowrat Wedding was carried out in copperplate etching, painted with watercolour, with e... | <urn:uuid:b325742b-41f7-4637-bf4f-241e00cbbba4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wga.hu/html/e/elsasser/wedding1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00080-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956464 | 258 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Have you ever fried vinegar?
I don't know why I tried it, but if you try it you'll notice at least three things.
1. the vinegar drops shrink as the water in them evaporates
2. they become darker as the percentage of vinegar increases to 100%
3. they skate across the pan due to the Leidenfrost effect
I wondered about ho... | <urn:uuid:f4631db7-06eb-4273-b03c-b7e8bdf1931a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://philipashmore.blogspot.ie/2012/08/the-condensing-universe.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395166.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00099-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962332 | 319 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Although settlements existed on the site of Warsaw in the 11th cent., the city probably grew around a castle built in the 13th cent. by a duke of Mazovia. In 1413, Warsaw became the capital of the duchy of Mazovia, which was incorporated with Great Poland in 1526. After Kraków burned, Warsaw replaced it (1596) as Polan... | <urn:uuid:df808df2-5c7f-4850-afb4-ed78333dacd9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/world/warsaw-history.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00007-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977303 | 591 | 3.859375 | 4 |
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Former prisoners of Japanese internment camps seeking [#permalink]
15 Oct 2003, 02:47
50% (02:34) correct
50% (02:05)... | <urn:uuid:2d928c07-776d-45e5-9349-57038480d829> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://gmatclub.com/forum/former-prisoners-of-japanese-internment-camps-seeking-3005.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00128-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950462 | 611 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Luba, A Traditional Ngada Village
Luba Village (pop: 200 people) was small, quiet and had just a few villagers sitting around. Ricardos referred to them as “Ladanese” ethnicity but even by surfing, spelling “Ladanese” differently, I couldn’t come up with any information. Ngada villages are composed of wooden pile house... | <urn:uuid:9eb96c19-ec75-4cad-9043-c381395aeacc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://travelswithsheila.com/luba-a-traditional-ngada-village.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394987.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00124-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973099 | 617 | 2.625 | 3 |
For release: Wednesday, March 26, 2003
Researchers have developed a genetic test that detects a common form of muscular dystrophy with 99 percent accuracy. The accurate diagnosis of myotonic muscular dystrophy type 2 (DM2) allows researchers to fully describe its clinical features for the first time.
"So many DM2 patie... | <urn:uuid:24b6ede9-e508-4bb1-9d59-bcdc7e01c2ad> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ninds.nih.gov/news_and_events/news_articles/news_article_myotonic_dystrophy.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00131-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950932 | 1,063 | 3.40625 | 3 |
After three years and $2.2 billion of construction, California has just flipped the switch for the planet's largest solar thermal plant—the 392 megawatt Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System.
Ivanpah's 300,000 heliostatic mirrors—they reflect and concentrate light around a central molten salt-filled tower, rather th... | <urn:uuid:7cec05ce-5b29-4e40-8e1a-0338dc37feec> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-largest-solar-thermal-power-plant-is-now-on-1402335331 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00092-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917204 | 218 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Category: Health & Hygiene
Author: Donna J. Shepherd www.donnajshepherd.com
Artist: Kevin Scott Collier www.kevinscottcollierhomepage.blogspot.com
Hardcover ISBN: 9781616336530
Print ISBN: 9781933090603
eBook ISBN: 9781933090818
Donna J. Shepherd’s snappy rhymes along with the 15 colorful and fun illustrations by Kevin... | <urn:uuid:e16201ca-5c20-4359-b363-1c74f0cbbf88> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.guardianangelpublishing.com/ouch!sunburn.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00089-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.897619 | 902 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Growing twice as fast as forced unionization states
There have been many studies debating the merits of right-to-work legislation. Because state economies are so large and complex, it is difficult to tease out exactly how much of an effect different policies can have.
For example, consider that Michigan gains and loses... | <urn:uuid:cefcc979-c1f1-4096-ae59-55df7cc9685d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mackinac.org/19545 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00174-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961207 | 317 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Did you ever wonder why some species have a lot of offspring and provide only short-term limited care for their young, while others have few offspring and provide long-term intensive care? These differences in reproductive strategies have been the object of scientific investigation and debate for years.
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IceBite Blog: Setting Up an IceBreaker
The Science Cargo yard: due to the large number of researchers in the field this year, some cargo had to be stored between buildings. We were happy to find all of the drill parts among the boxes. Credit: M. Marinova
Since the arrival to the McMurdo station in the Antarctic two day... | <urn:uuid:b405f5ed-e56e-4f14-b69d-b44aafaf625a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.astrobio.net/expedition/icebite-blog-setting-up-an-icebreaker/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00091-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959453 | 729 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Paying for College
If you’re a junior, you’re right on time. If you’re a senior, you’re pushing the limits. But it’s never too late—or too early—to begin reviewing your finances and looking for financial aid for college. You don’t have to have an overflowing checking account to pay for a degree. Loans, scholarships and... | <urn:uuid:171aeb4c-c3ba-49e2-9509-0ff067fd336e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nextstepu.com/federal-student-aid.art | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00009-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944869 | 848 | 2.53125 | 3 |
After Nuclear fission, India experiments with fusion
Image: Getty Images
n the 1940s, attempts by the UK and the US to build the hydrogen bomb had a few useful byproducts, such as technologies that were able to use the power of the atom to generate electricity. The process of nuclear fission, which produces dangerous w... | <urn:uuid:9e6b51b2-f670-4949-87aa-820fa8bbeb57> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://forbesindia.com/article/briefing/after-nuclear-fission-india-experiments-with-fusion/33941/1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00096-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967511 | 1,111 | 3.578125 | 4 |
It is the way of aiki in what ever language you choose to name. The target is aiki, and the techniques provide the method to find it.
How are things?
I think Japanese is commonly thought to be fairly flexible on how the elements of a compound word can be subdivided, especially for words like 合気, which are not in common... | <urn:uuid:41089a1b-7804-4c1a-8253-1cbb38591b0a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.aikiweb.com/forums/showpost.php?p=328093&postcount=11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00139-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963074 | 235 | 2.90625 | 3 |
2009 Spotlight on Science Festival
Kids of all ages are invited to participate in exciting science themed activities.
WHEN: Wednesday, April 1, 2009
4:00 to 8:00 p.m.
WHERE: Cal State San Marcos
WHAT: Free science festival for kids of all ages
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In a forgotten corner of The Washington D.C. Public Library, a photo archivist has discovered what may be a momentous piece of history.
It’s a list of signatures from public figures of the early 1800’s, including President Thomas Jefferson, offering their own money for a seemingly humble proposal: to build a simple pai... | <urn:uuid:6d8b52cb-19a4-4955-a6a7-fa1c154e2b17> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigation/jefferson-pledge/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00175-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921807 | 435 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, ... | <urn:uuid:6d36b3e4-0bdf-47cf-b2cd-dd6a8504b230> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.upi.com/topic/Oscar_Wilde | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00126-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988693 | 409 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Across Canada, habitat loss, pollution, invasive species, climate change, and unsustainable harvesting have pushed over 500 species dangerously close to extinction. Species of every description, from lichens to leatherback turtles, whooping cranes to wood bison are at risk.
Encouragingly, the peregrine falcon and the s... | <urn:uuid:69c1b79a-9d0a-4816-9bee-822d08a82f26> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wwf.ca/conservation/species/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00172-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903062 | 308 | 4.125 | 4 |
Where is the Navajo Nation?
Among some 500 Indian tribes and 318 reservations recorded in the country
by the 2000 Census, the Navajo Nation is the home of the largest Indian
tribe, and sprawls across northeast Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. It
has an area of over 27,000 square miles and is situated on the southwestern
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Testing how well preschoolers can recognize sounds such as “dah” predicts reading difficulties, according to a Northwestern study published in PLOS Biology.
Early intervention could help children develop their auditory processing skills, said senior author Nina Kraus, director of Northwestern’s Auditory Neuroscience La... | <urn:uuid:b50d714b-2ecc-4bf0-87c1-5ee03e9af366> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.joannejacobs.com/tag/hearing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00099-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951587 | 205 | 3.484375 | 3 |
This video steps you through eight types of animal behavior: instinct, fixed action pattern, imprinting, associative learning, trial and error learning, habituation, observational learning and insight. It also explains how behavior varies from innate to learned.
BasicStudents matched to this level have a partial master... | <urn:uuid:b7fea8c3-c57f-40ad-86d9-4e09ef021251> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ck12.org/life-science/Animal-Behaviors-in-Life-Science/?difficulty=at+grade&by=community | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00052-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918316 | 131 | 3.5 | 4 |
Four new studies of carbon isotopes in the fossilized tooth enamel of human ancestors and baboons in Africa shows how a dietary switch to tropical grasses and possibly animals led to the expansion and diversification of early hominins, or human-like species.
Before 3.5 million years ago, hominins ate a forest-based die... | <urn:uuid:87c8d7e9-8ac8-4563-b0d4-e0bd9d021fc5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/06/04/Human-ancestors-diet-switched-to-grass-35-million-years-ago/9021370349924/?rel=3571370365287 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00152-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953413 | 358 | 3.90625 | 4 |
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The lack of ability, knowledge, legal qualification, or fitness to discharge a required duty or professional obligation.
The term incompetency has several meanings in the law. When it is used to describe the mental conditi... | <urn:uuid:497e88ee-a36f-4a24-9e1b-36ddc1b47d6f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://lawbrain.com/wiki/Incompetency | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00130-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944118 | 1,681 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Much of the debate over the response to Hurricane Katrina has centered on the question of the division of responsibilities among the different levels of government--federal, state, and local. Concern has been expressed that for the federal government to have played a more aggressive role, for example by taking command ... | <urn:uuid:422e882f-a390-4fc7-a7a3-425ee2689ccc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2005/10/federalism-economics-and-katrina--posner.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00123-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960483 | 1,623 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Harvard biologists suggest using diatomaceous earth as a natural pesticide. Chensheng Lu, an associate professor at the T.H.Chan School of Public Health, has published a study on links between the use of chemical pesticides and childhood cancer (2).
Diatomaceous earth has been shown to be effective as well as safe.
Man... | <urn:uuid:65596dae-c13c-4507-9c8c-ba1043504911> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.beachbumreads.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408828.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00096-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914058 | 920 | 2.875 | 3 |
paper, 112 pp., $32.95
Soils rich in clay present some of the greatest challenges to gardeners in every season. Peter Jones, a British gardening expert and nursery owner, has long experience dealing with such problems in Europe and particularly Britain where he was trained. He provides details in this work on drainage,... | <urn:uuid:5e896c5b-5594-4789-8445-0b78d095256b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chicagobotanic.org/book/gardening_clay_0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00107-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942198 | 162 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Optical and Mechanical Resolution Optical resolution tells you how many pixels the scan element can see at once across the width of a page. Mechanical resolution tells you how many steps the scan element takes going down the page (or how many the page takes going past the scan element). A spec like "600-by1,200-dpi opt... | <urn:uuid:34507caf-1f87-4f9f-90ad-516251dfd142> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Printers/Playing-Fast-and-Loose-with-Scanner-Specs/1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00116-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917945 | 240 | 2.546875 | 3 |
A nifty new study says that you may be casting a spell on your kids by letting them read Harry Potter series—one that vamooses prejudice. Research just published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology finds that young people who J.K. Rowling’s book wildly popular book series are more likely to have improved attitu... | <urn:uuid:1a84f6df-7a6a-4a66-812b-d762cedd417a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.phillymag.com/ticket/2014/07/30/study-kids-read-harry-potter-books-tolerant-minorities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00088-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952314 | 242 | 3.03125 | 3 |
When Russia affirmed it ceased its military operations in the Caucasus on 12 August, it accepted the peace agreement put forward by French and current EU president Nicolas Sarkozy. Over to Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, where Giulietto Chiesa was just last spring. Giulietto Chiesa’s life is marked by the rec... | <urn:uuid:f395eebb-426a-4a7b-8a07-1e8542dac509> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cafebabel.co.uk/lifestyle/article/giulietto-chiesa-on-russia-georgia-war-europe-is-responsible-too.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00008-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980574 | 910 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Water-Supply Paper 2460
The lower Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin is underlain by Coastal Plain sediments of pre-Cretaceous to Quaternary age consisting of alternating units of sand, clay, sandstone, dolomite, and limestone that gradually thicken and dip gently to the southeast. The stream-aquifer system c... | <urn:uuid:8bfb0c73-68d9-43d7-be3d-8d411bbaae2a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://pubs.usgs.gov/wsp/wsp2460/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00138-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912606 | 422 | 3.171875 | 3 |
I might not write exactly the same standards if I ever wrote a book on art in bridge design, but good solid thinking from a century ago, still very readable and germane. I don't think I've ever seen anything similar in modern engineering curricula. Lots of nice illustrations.
This is a great find, Nathan!
Clark is righ... | <urn:uuid:50b3cddd-e533-4a0f-859d-7fc8aec3ce3f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bridgehunter.com/ms/adams/bh38384/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00084-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957917 | 1,743 | 2.59375 | 3 |
J Hered. 2006 Feb 17; [Epub ahead of print]
Iberian Origins of New World Horse Breeds.
Luis C, Bastos-Silveira C, Cothran EG, Oom MD.
Fossil records, archaeological proofs, and historical documents report that horses persisted continuously in the Iberian Peninsula since the Pleistocene and were taken to the American co... | <urn:uuid:503f91e2-7095-4230-8b70-20129e3a797e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2006/02/iberian-origins-of-new-world-horses.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00187-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917726 | 280 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Poodle-Dog Bush, Eriodictyon parryi, is common in parts of Southern California. Touching it can cause a significant allergic reaction.
This pretty purple flowered plant has been rearing its ugly head in the San Gabriel Mountains. Reports from the PCT are that the plant is widespread and sometimes unavoidable in the Sta... | <urn:uuid:a65d520a-ed30-48c5-bc6a-846e641b4651> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pcta.org/2013/poodle-dog-bush-warning-8891/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00008-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935775 | 398 | 2.5625 | 3 |
|KANSAS COLLECTION BOOKS|
Early in July, 1854, Mr. Charles H. Branscomb, of Holyoke, Mass, and Mr. Charles Robinson visited Kansas as agents of the New England Emigrant Aid Society, to make an exploration of the country and select a suitable location for a settlement, preliminary to the starting of the first party of e... | <urn:uuid:b3a08b1d-381c-44b5-95fc-eb62774b0e2b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/douglas/douglas-co-p4.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00090-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975885 | 5,058 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Featured on these pages are biographies of famous women throughout
history and from around the world. This list of famous women
serves to recognize them for their contributions to society,
culture and science. Famous and notable females and their
contributions will be factually presented. In addition, at
the end of som... | <urn:uuid:e0f82b3c-00f6-4de3-bcda-0040fb8150a3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.femstory.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00085-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954173 | 565 | 2.5625 | 3 |
RHODE ISLAND COASTAL ZONE PROGRAM
Coastal Resources Management Council
The Rhode Island Coastal Zone Buffer Program
Adopted April 1994, RI CRMP
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Section 140 Setbacks
Amend Section 140. C to read as follows:
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Traveler's DiarrheaPage address: http://www.mnsu.edu/shs/travelersdiarrhea.html
How Can I Avoid Traveler's Diarrhea?
- Do not drink tap water and do not use it to brush your teeth.
- Do not drink bottled water if the seal on the bottle has been broken.
- Do not use ice that has been made from tap water.
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The ties between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Martial Arts is strong and based on the similar concepts which support both – the basis of those concepts being an understanding of the human body.
In the study of medicine, be it Eastern or Western, there is the belief that understanding what hurts us improves our abil... | <urn:uuid:0f1afc70-b9c4-4b81-8f4d-467531cbc386> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bellaonline.com/ArticlesP/art56737.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00016-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95061 | 483 | 2.71875 | 3 |
One reason we insist that teachers "play" with the hardware and software in our computer classrooms during training sessions is that they discover they already know how to answer many of the questions students will have about our computer tools. ("How do I save on the network drive?" "I clicked on Open but I don't see ... | <urn:uuid:050af4f0-45ae-4c72-8e8a-19f1c50d4663> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/teaching/pcteacher/pop6g.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00044-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961338 | 162 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Asteroid near misses are disconcertingly common
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla
28-01-2008 16:43 CST
I've been investigating some of the recent excitement about dangers from the skies, and particularly asteroid 2007 TU24, which will pass harmlessly by Earth tonight, considerably farther from Earth than the Moon. Here's some... | <urn:uuid:fa6b3648-a396-4aff-8513-e9b32cd0144e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2008/1309.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00134-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968503 | 624 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Here is a brief sampling of African-American heritage and historical sites in Brunswick and on St. Simons Island and Jekyll Island.
After the Civil War, African Americans who had lived at Hofwyl and other rice plantations along the Altamaha River – Hopeton, Elizafield, Grantly, New Hope and others – settled into small ... | <urn:uuid:5e521bf7-d4d6-49af-ac28-e9197f36272c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://goldenislesnews.blogspot.com/2011/02/african-american-heritage-in-brunswick.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00006-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948052 | 2,066 | 2.671875 | 3 |
The latest news from academia, regulators
research labs and other things of interest
Posted: August 12, 2008
2028 vision for mechanical engineering - bio- and nanotechnology will dominate
(Nanowerk News) Mechanical engineers over the next two decades will be called upon to develop technologies that foster a cleaner, he... | <urn:uuid:cea21d32-972f-446c-be49-9e4dcadbeb39> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=6720.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00063-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923806 | 687 | 2.59375 | 3 |
May 3, 2010
Sleep Disturbances Linked To Behavior Problems In Children With Autism
Reports have suggested that sleep problems in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are associated with challenging daytime behaviors.
A new study on a large group of youths with ASD confirms these reports and wi... | <urn:uuid:9dcb4d11-e8c0-46a3-9d4d-61bf19ad22a9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1858607/sleep_disturbances_linked_to_behavior_problems_in_children_with_autism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00159-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936957 | 423 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Cancers associated with moles and warts
World wide over 3 million cases of skin cancer will be diagnosed this year! More than half of all the new cancers are skin cancers. About a million new cases of skin cancer will be diagnosed in the United States, alone, this year. 80 percent of these new cases will be basal cell ... | <urn:uuid:1e052552-7ad1-4752-a4cd-213382bcf728> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://no-moles.com/skin-cancer/ | 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 | 0.941655 | 1,509 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Acetone Breath: A Warning Sign for Diabetes
Try this quick test to see how you are handling your diabetes.
If your diabetes isn’t being managed effectively, there isn’t enough functioning insulin to help deliver glucose to your body’s cells that need it. Deprived of glucose—its main fuel source—your body will launch in... | <urn:uuid:db3e9efb-1ecd-436f-838c-7a951384b0d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mobile.eatingwell.com/diet_health/diabetes/acetone_breath_a_warning_sign_for_diabetes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00154-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907654 | 264 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Despite the known health benefits of doing so, most US children do not consume enough fruits and vegetables (FV). School-based interventions can be effective in increasing FV consumption, but the most effective of these require that schools allocate their time, effort, and financial resources to implementing the progra... | <urn:uuid:38ed83e4-20fd-4e67-9632-1582274d0e00> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0093872 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00182-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946691 | 10,956 | 3.734375 | 4 |
Cheeseman ESA Home
The Cheeseman ESA, located next to the Kirsch Center for Environmental Studies on the southeast corner of campus, is a lush natural garden containing some 400 species of plants representing 12 California natural communities. In addition to the native plant communities, there is a xeric native plant d... | <urn:uuid:b7484041-2e4f-488d-bc70-723839643d1d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.deanza.edu/es/esa/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00047-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900869 | 245 | 2.734375 | 3 |
The Prévost Reaction allows the synthesis of anti-diols from alkenes by the addition of iodine followed by nucleophilic displacement with benzoate in the absence of water. Hydrolysis of the intermediate diester gives the desired diol.
The Woodward Modification of the Prévost Reaction gives syn-diols.
Mechanism of the P... | <urn:uuid:037cc6c2-eb7a-4e2c-97cf-ff9cf8328439> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.organic-chemistry.org/namedreactions/prevost-reaction.shtm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00188-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.881107 | 386 | 2.75 | 3 |
(section: 3 / paragraph: e / line: 1)
No. A wheel and axle (as a simple machine) requires an input on the wheel or axle and an output on the other end (axle or wheel). A toy car rolling down a ramp does not satisfy the requirements of transferring from one simple machine to another (see rule 3.d).
Each simple machine m... | <urn:uuid:12a17cee-6bb0-4649-ad9b-1d7e08021a05> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.soinc.org/book/export/html/265 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00142-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913353 | 868 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Time to remember unsung heroes
Memorial Day awakens old memories of loved ones who gave their lives in service to their country. Almost every family can lay claim to an ancestor or a recent family member, relative, friend or acquaintance that was lost to the ravages of war. Most often we think of them as soldiers, sail... | <urn:uuid:7af3270a-a6ab-4057-93b7-c5402d78d13a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mlstargazette.com/story/2013/05/30/opinion/time-to-remember-unsung-heroes/595.html?m=false | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00187-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990214 | 588 | 2.515625 | 3 |
by Rajah Smart
Published: August 16, 2012.
Race and culture is commonly used to differentiate or celebrate people. On the flipside, race can be used to promote stereotypes and dissension. These superficial differences and common beliefs in people cause a disconnection; however, there sometimes takes an event to effect ... | <urn:uuid:dcb52c40-d3c0-46d7-965c-dfa73bf4088d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.smashwords.com/books/tags/interacial | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00014-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905469 | 70 | 2.921875 | 3 |
MONDAY, Dec. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Obese teenagers who have gastric bypass surgery not only lose weight but see their type 2 diabetes disappear, a new study finds.
Also called bariatric surgery, the procedure works by limiting the size of the stomach and thereby reducing the amount of food one can eat. In this study, ... | <urn:uuid:f89786a5-f8c1-48f1-b232-5890caf4520d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Healthday/story?id=6541667&page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00182-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956004 | 850 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Making Music with Early Years Children, Monday 18 November 2013
A course for people interested in helping babies and young children (0 to 5) to make music.
The course will look at:
- How the very young acquire and develop musical skills
- Good ways to lead singing
- Working with instruments
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Fall 2005, Vol. 11 No. 4
In this issue...
Are We Underestimating Corn Production Potential?
Chad E. Hart
As Figure 1 shows, the 2004 and 2005 corn crops in Iowa are the two highest yielding corn crops the state has ever seen. But producers had questions about both crops going into harvest. Precipitation was below avera... | <urn:uuid:28ad4144-3941-4286-826b-b6006eb31453> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.card.iastate.edu/iowa_ag_review/fall_05/article3.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00190-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917834 | 778 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Communities Uniting to Confront HIV/AIDS in Africa
Communities Uniting to Confront HIV/AIDS in Africa:
from the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies
Communities throughout Africa face the difficult realities of living with HIV/AIDS. This disease affects all aspects of life. Yet communities are coping with ... | <urn:uuid:181e9a85-c014-492f-a9b9-065bb514d2c4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://exhibits.library.northwestern.edu/africana/aidsexhibit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00099-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.89948 | 388 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Do you grind your teeth at night? Wake up with a sore jaw? Has your dentist talked to you about abnormal teeth wear? You might be suffering from a condition called Bruxism
Bruxism is the medical term for grinding, clenching or gnashing one’s teeth unconsciously and uncontrollably. It usually happens at night while we s... | <urn:uuid:31bcc93c-032f-4e26-ab2b-d39b0337c37f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://preventgrindingteeth.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00133-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949874 | 910 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Histories of Penn State
Fulfilling a need
Penn State Hazleton first opened its doors to help the unemployed during the Great Depression
By Susan Bartal
During the depths of the Great Depression, the Pennsylvania State College was seeking a way to continue its tradition of bringing education to the people. Since this wa... | <urn:uuid:5a3485a0-6b5e-412b-86f4-ffd802c093a8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.psu.edu/ur/archives/intercom_2002/Jan17/hazleton.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00060-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966554 | 1,194 | 2.625 | 3 |
Let's begin with an apology. Occasionally, we'll throw out terms like arrhythmia, or M-I, or stroke and expect that everyone will know exactly what they mean and how they apply to everyday life. Sorry about that.
So, here are some common definitions for heart terminology:
Myocardial infarction, or M-I: This is the fanc... | <urn:uuid:7d1e3eca-7e5b-4ae3-be65-dbd0b716d3cb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.al.com/heart-beat/2012/11/simple_definitions_for_not-so-.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00003-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943605 | 482 | 3.5625 | 4 |
A small boat carried on board a ship.
- The ultimate was a ‘flogging round the fleet’ with so many lashes given at the gangway of each ship with the victim and punishment party in a ship's boat.
- The wooden decking is still reasonably intact, though crowded with fittings to support the ship's boats, remains of davits,... | <urn:uuid:8c0a8fb8-befb-431d-8f84-d61db2860a21> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/ship's-boat | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00182-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955404 | 172 | 2.75 | 3 |
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |
Writing may refer to two activities:
Written language is the system of signs and symbols, the inscribing of characters on a medium, with the intention of forming words and other constructs that represent language or rec... | <urn:uuid:746f7d83-2bc0-49a5-a71d-028c32f8390b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Written_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00083-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923847 | 1,704 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Working Group on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction
At its ninth session, the Task Force appointed a new working
group on climate change and disaster risk reduction, to be co-chaired
by UNDP and WMO. Its timeliness and importance were noted, as
well as the work already underway among some stakeholders.
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We all know that Apple is pro-environment, boasting environmentally friendly materials used for the construction of their products, so despite the fact that there are now rumors that Apple and Samsung are looking into building solar powered devices, we can’t say that it’s not too big a stretch of the imagination.
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Modern designers of phone systems in Frederick MD are taking advantage of a new philosophy of communication known as Social Context Cues Theory. This theory develops a framework for measuring and understanding the effectiveness and reliability of different forms of communications, and it can be used ... | <urn:uuid:67d7dc4c-e025-4e2e-a183-20590c67335f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.toparticles.org/Using-Social-Context-Cues-Theory-To-Optimize-Phone-System-Performance.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00083-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961811 | 540 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Grand Canyon National Park Vegetation Mapping Project
Grand Canyon National Park--one of the Seven Wonders of the Natural World--is also one of the most spectacular and ecologically diverse parks in the United States. Together with the portions of the Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument, the area spans some 1.41 m... | <urn:uuid:16db1ff1-8a57-46bf-8fae-1a17de93b8de> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.kassgreen.com/grand_canyon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00115-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912615 | 861 | 2.75 | 3 |
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Stories of Snow and Fire: The Importance of Narrative to a Critically Pluralistic Environmental Aesthetic
AbstractWritten narratives enable humans to appreciate the natural world in aesthetic terms. Firstly, narratives can galvanize for the reader a sense for another person’s experience of nature thr... | <urn:uuid:51cd8637-e629-4c37-9a08-5c59bfff9ec4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/2/1/99 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408828.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00050-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.89576 | 527 | 2.65625 | 3 |
New Brunswick's francophone community wants its children to learn more than just the ABCs in school, an education summit in Fredericton was told over the weekend.
The message was that education must include the culture, history and language of Acadia.
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Money is a wonderful invention of man. In the primitive-society human needs were simple and limited. In course of time ‘Barter system’ prevailed and commodity to commodity exchange came into existence. So, direct exchange of goods for goods is known as barter system. With the passage of time and growth of civilisation,... | <urn:uuid:db2241ad-139e-4151-9061-8a28b051de30> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.shareyouressays.com/113816/short-essay-on-money-275-words | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00161-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955675 | 364 | 3.5625 | 4 |
Axel Rottmann, Oscar Martinez Mozos, Cyrill Stachniss, Wolfram Burgard
Indoor environments can typically be divided into places with different functionalities like kitchens, offices, or seminar rooms. We believe that such semantic information enables a mobile robot to more efficiently accomplish a variety of tasks such... | <urn:uuid:b2b4cdbb-d37d-4a6f-bfd0-82c57cb5db6c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://aaai.org/Library/AAAI/2005/aaai05-207.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00112-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.886265 | 195 | 2.578125 | 3 |
escript provides support for running short Erlang programs without having to compile them first and an easy way to retrieve the command line arguments.
escript runs a script written in Erlang.
Here follows an example.
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|View from the steps to the Cave of the Apocalypse|
This island is one of the original Dodecanese (meaning “12″) Greek islands. The earliest known temples on the island were the fourth century B.C. sanctuary of Diana. It’s believed that the name Patmos might come from Latmos, or Mt. Latmos of Turkey, where the goddess ... | <urn:uuid:b2361d29-d857-45b3-984d-0d5518d139ce> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.friendlyplanet.com/tag/cave-of-the-apocalypse | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00096-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974732 | 837 | 2.8125 | 3 |
The mandibular arch muscles (MAMs) are a major constitute of the branchiomeric craniofacial muscles which control feeding, breathing and facial expression. These muscles originate in the pharyngeal mesoderm and are characterized by a genetic program similar to that of the adjacent second heart field, progenitor cells w... | <urn:uuid:38242912-674c-4fa2-a99d-92fff3cf90aa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://discovery.lifemapsc.com/in-vivo-development/skeletal-muscle/mandibular-arch-muscles | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00085-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.838403 | 187 | 2.828125 | 3 |
By its very nature, the social science study of space is an interdisciplinary endeavor, drawing on technical material, traditional humanities disciplines, and the variety of social science disciplines that evolved during the 19th and 20th centuries. Consequently, a single course or activity incorporating many social sc... | <urn:uuid:911093eb-fd6c-4477-8c99-c1bacd0605a3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/discipline.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00040-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913943 | 2,419 | 2.984375 | 3 |
The interval between the holidays of Passover and Shavuot, between the commemoration of the Exodus from Egypt and the giving of the law at Mount Sinai, is marked by the ceremonially counting of omer. Special calendars are used to count off the seven weeks of the omer.
Painter and sculptor Tobi Kahn has created an evoca... | <urn:uuid:b3d997aa-85da-47bb-88a2-f8a5f621f2e5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.jewishartsalon.com/2012/04/omer-counter-by-tobi-kahn.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00094-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956351 | 202 | 3.234375 | 3 |
There is no doubt that the mind can affect the body.
You only need to think of something that you're afraid of and you release stress hormones from the pituitary gland in your brain that target the adrenal glands, resulting in adrenalin pumping through your body, and this increases blood volume to your major muscles. J... | <urn:uuid:800c3679-52db-4d74-9f97-7f7c4a4ca61b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-r-hamilton-phd/can-we-think-ourselves-sl_b_820611.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00138-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981207 | 1,013 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Ethanol And Older Engines
Over the past few years — since ethanol has become common for boat engines — Seaworthy has received hundreds of calls and e-mails complaining about problems that ethanol has created for their engines. The majority of these inquiries have one thing in common: They concern older engines, those m... | <urn:uuid:aa1e885b-2764-4a16-b6c0-f6c6c0ed8f44> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.boatus.com/seaworthy/magazine/2012/april/ethanolandolderengines.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393442.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00018-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964771 | 3,060 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Mice can be quite a nuisance in the garden and home. Find out how to identify them and get rid of them.
Mice live near humans. Though it's probably impossible to get rid of every single mouse, you need to keep them under control before they chew your garden and house apart.
These small rodents are especially active at ... | <urn:uuid:a9f212c0-a576-4185-bc61-45624d9f0616> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.almanac.com/content/mice?quicktabs_2=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949296 | 480 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Ramsar Evaluates Risk to Wetlands from Climate Change-Induced Sea-Level Rise
3 December 2012: The Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP) of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar Convention) has released a Briefing Note, titled "Evaluating the risk to... | <urn:uuid:91145ef0-a1e8-4690-940b-b2c18b2442a8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/ramsar-evaluates-risk-to-wetlands-from-climate-change-induced-sea-level-rise/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00182-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910837 | 375 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Kronsnest (also known as Cronsnest, Kransnest, and Crohnest; now known as Rachowo; coordinates: 54.028333, 19.3975 [54° 1′ 42″ N, 19° 23′ 51″ E]; population in 1905, 290; in 2013, 198) is located approximately 15 kilometers (9 miles) south of Elbląg (Elbing), 23 km. (17 miles) east of Malbork (Marienburg), and 28 km. (... | <urn:uuid:6a92e966-3bfe-47ed-869b-3fa96b4af505> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Kronsnest_(Warmian-Masurian_Voivodeship,_Poland) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00180-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921507 | 916 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Sohini Ramachandran was 15 years old when she first walked into mathematical geneticist Marcus Feldman’s laboratory at Stanford University. Feldman, had advised Ramachandran’s older sister, Raga, a few years earlier. “I thought Raga was exceptionally smart, but she told me that Sohini was even smarter,” he says. Feldma... | <urn:uuid:ff079eef-6a33-4eff-af43-af703659a0fc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/32161/title/Sohini-Ramachandran--Population-Tracker/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00057-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946001 | 893 | 2.921875 | 3 |
We once thought no-one could run a mile in less than four minutes – and yet the current world record stands at three minutes, 43 seconds. So will records keep tumbling as people get fitter and technology takes off? Or is there a limit to human performance?
For physiologists, human performance is limited by the processe... | <urn:uuid:d3ef9994-46f6-4183-80e1-bb150157616d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://theconversation.com/is-there-a-limit-to-athletic-performance-8073 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954194 | 914 | 3.828125 | 4 |
The circumstances leading to the formation of the Apopka Volunteer Fire Department are not known. The first records available date back to the year 1912. Records show that the department utilized a hand drawn hose cart which included two 40 gallon water tanks, 100 feet of 3/4" rubber hose, a hydrant wrench, an axe, and... | <urn:uuid:66aab0b7-bbd8-479c-9b8b-5fbb6f918780> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.apopka.net/departments/fire/administration/history.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00113-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981964 | 5,963 | 2.78125 | 3 |
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