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Student resources are interactive activities collected from around the Web. They can be used to support related lesson plans or as standalone activities in the classroom. Browse our library of student resources by grade level or subject area below.
Roll over the image to explore the areas of the painting, clicking to b... | <urn:uuid:ea1f8af8-7cf5-4477-ad29-e4f21d6738e2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://edsitement.neh.gov/student-resources?page=17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00103-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914063 | 309 | 3.859375 | 4 |
Beginning in 1923, Hopper spent four summers in Gloucester, Massachusetts, a hardscrabble fishing town that also hosted a lively artist colony. Painters as diverse as the Impressionist Childe Hassam and the Modernist Stuart Davis portrayed the town’s picturesque sea views. Hopper, ever the individualist, sought other t... | <urn:uuid:352e94ee-8404-4864-99fa-132c3afa7cbd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/exhibitions/hopper/gloucester | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399117.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00077-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980777 | 510 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Diabetes Mortality Data Trends for 2000-2008 DS 10-10001
Diabetes was California’s seventh leading cause of death for the years 2000 through 2008 and the seventh leading cause of death nationally in 20071, the most recent year for which national data is available.
Diabetes disproportionately affects minority population... | <urn:uuid:f61c24c5-b556-4fd8-b0e3-854360111f35> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/ohir/Pages/Diabetes2008Background.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00171-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935092 | 807 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Blended winglets are wingtip devices that improve airplane performance by reducing drag. Boeing and Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) began making them available on the Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) and Next-Generation 737-800 in 2001. Flight test data demonstrate that blended winglets lower block fuel and carbon dioxide (CO2... | <urn:uuid:1366bf15-f091-4b96-8e8e-29788fc15527> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/qtr_03_09/article_03_1.html?level=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00083-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916317 | 1,809 | 3.171875 | 3 |
1867The Treaty of the Medicine Lodge Signed
1870Red Cloud's Visit to Washington
1871The Trial of Santanta and Big Tree Begins in Jacksboro, Texas
1876The Battle of Rosebud begins on June 16
1877 Crazy Horse lead the Ogala Sioux to surrender at Fort Robinson
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For those not in the know, let us first discuss what Linux is. It is not an application program; it is an operating system, in the same class as Windows or Apple’s Mac OS. An operating system is the piece of software that makes it possible to run any other application or user software on a computer. The operating syste... | <urn:uuid:b08fa401-a3bb-4f42-9717-54cdb3a2b4df> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.tuxmachines.org/print/65287 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00018-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948233 | 277 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Pavlov was investigating the gastric function of dogs, by externalising a salivary gland so he could collect, measure, and analyse the saliva produced in response to food under different conditions. He noticed that the dogs tended to salivate before food was actually delivered to their mouths, and set out to investigat... | <urn:uuid:d782d106-5dad-4644-9c8d-62cbc066d4cd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://fixedreference.org/en/20040424/wikipedia/Ivan_Pavlov | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00193-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985699 | 496 | 3.625 | 4 |
The latest in robotic technology could help thousands of children with movement disorders.
By Gill Higgins
Health correspondent, BBC News
A team of scientists in Aberdeen is putting a robotic arm to the test in the hope of giving children more control and better co-ordination.
Robotic technology is evolving fast.
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In Flood's Flotsam, Farmers Must Dig Sand
Federal aid helps restore fertility to farms in floodplain of Missouri River
HARTSBURG, MO. — IN the bottom lands along the Missouri River, 450,000 acres of the state's most productive farmland have turned into desert. Farmers are fighting to reclaim their land nearly a year af... | <urn:uuid:f9bb442e-476e-435c-af13-d5d60f786d47> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.csmonitor.com/1994/0623/23031.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00004-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952112 | 1,238 | 2.75 | 3 |
In the U.S., the pap smear has become a routine part of women's health care, and it's dramatically reduced cervical cancer deaths. But in Africa and other impoverished regions, few women get pap smears because the countries lack the laboratories and other resources necessary to offer them.
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Are PCR-based methods appropriate for the detection of Listeria spp. in environmental surface samples?
Advances in PCR kits have lead to improvements in testing for Salmonella.
Rapid Salmonella testing is advanced using thermocycling in conjunction with AOAC-approved methods.
Fast, accurate results are critical for del... | <urn:uuid:21ef285d-b6ec-4087-81b9-87c31535eea8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/categories/testing-and-analysis-category/sampling-sample-prep/?startRow=21&nextNID=D6860BD3-1372-4E6F-79CCF863CDD438DA | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391766.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00051-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934202 | 454 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Plants of a spiky or sword-like nature can very quickly add a new dimension to otherwise staid planting.
Cordyline: Mature cordylines, which are tougher than their younger counterparts, can be grown in milder areas - try them as stand-alone spiky specimens or at the back of a border.
Phormium: At 2m or 3m high, phormiu... | <urn:uuid:e1887048-49d0-4ec0-892d-7a9c0ba734f0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2004/oct/30/weekend7.weekend10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395166.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00101-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934456 | 1,261 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is a gas more commonly associated with the smell of 'rotten eggs' and blocked drains. However, it has now been shown to be present naturally in our bodies and reside in knee joint synovial fluid, the protective fluid found in the cavities of joints that reduces friction between the cartilage of j... | <urn:uuid:1bfc3ed5-09f4-4e50-9e60-f4854ab8ebd1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-08/tpco-reg082010.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00079-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961064 | 937 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Chinese researchers get green-glowing sows to give birth to viable verdant offspring
by Craig Weatherby
You’ve probably heard the expression “when pigs fly.” And until 2006, it would have been just as appropriate to refer to a highly improbable event as occurring “when pigs glow green.”
Two years ago, scientists in Tai... | <urn:uuid:eddbfe78-0c81-4138-9667-2e6f0d2239b6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.vitalchoice.com/shop/pc/articlesView.asp?id=577 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00186-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959557 | 438 | 2.875 | 3 |
Thoughts and ideas to get you started on your own reflective journal.
This page is aimed at helping you start your own reflective journal. I purposely don't use the more common phrase of 'teaching journal' as I strongly believe that this restricts the scope of the journal, which should go way beyond our teaching.
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"The principal defect of all materialism up to now … is that the external object, reality, the sensible world, is grasped in the form of an object of an intuition; but not as a concrete human activity, as practice, in a subjective way. This is why the active aspect was developed by idealism, in opposition to materialis... | <urn:uuid:835d975a-f647-457d-ab3b-368a647be793> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://csmt.uchicago.edu/glossary2004/practice.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00043-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959855 | 2,001 | 2.890625 | 3 |
by Matthias Rarey and Thomas Lengauer
The rapid progress in sequencing the human genome opens the possibility for the near future to understand many diseases better on molecular level and to obtain so-called target proteins for pharmaceutical research. If such a target protein is identified, the search for those molecu... | <urn:uuid:fc3f1f62-51e0-4eb0-9626-d059dd73b496> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ercim.eu/publication/Ercim_News/enw43/rarey.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00021-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937486 | 1,689 | 3.1875 | 3 |
MARC is challenging an initial federal conclusion that the only serious pollution issue from the freight hub would be dust kicked up from vehicles using the site. MARC officials say diesel emissions from the rail yard would increase the level of fine particles of pollution. Smaller pollution particles are considered mo... | <urn:uuid:ba5e9b6f-197a-48ba-b902-5c7ce3fc5806> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rtands.com/index.php/news/environmentalists-dispute-report-on-johnson-county-im-terminal.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00000-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9759 | 723 | 2.828125 | 3 |
President Clinton established the Commission on the Celebration of Women in American History to consider how best to acknowledge and celebrate the roles and accomplishments of women in American history. It will hold meetings to consider ideas for such celebration, including a focal point for women's history in Washingt... | <urn:uuid:5031719e-a7d4-4c76-ac54-f2397859c47a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/whc/whc.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00052-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965829 | 165 | 2.859375 | 3 |
I have a question about class variables and scope in Python.
Here is the code:
a = "this is b, the b of Super without self"
self.b="this is b, the self.b of Super"
c = "this is c, of sub, without self"
self.d = "this is d, self.d of Sub"
abcd = Sub()
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Sites included in this category are designed specifically for the classroom teacher. They offer practical helps for integrating the New Year theme into the core curriculum, including learning objectives, suggested activities, project descriptions, printable worksheets, lesson plans, or complete unit studies.
Happy New ... | <urn:uuid:c802b530-3a89-437e-a562-65bfd45ad9d4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Holidays/New_Year/Classroom/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00133-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.889427 | 181 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Help support New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99...
Founded in 1432 by Henry VI of England, who was then master of Paris and of a large part of France. In the beginning it included only... | <urn:uuid:82470ea5-e0e4-4498-adf8-d6e15a61ff87> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03132a.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00086-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928088 | 823 | 2.625 | 3 |
It was exactly 67 years ago Tuesday that Jack Roosevelt Robinson made his major-league debut — becoming the first black player in the modern era — with the Brooklyn Dodgers and helped change professional sports forever. Robinson’s debut, coming April 15, 1947, came before the U.S. military was integrated and was the fi... | <urn:uuid:1d71b970-4ee8-4b55-b529-747035ec1663> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2014/04/15/happy-jackie-robinson-day/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00102-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974617 | 187 | 3.28125 | 3 |
MIAMI (AP) -- Florida won't be repeating a public hunt for Burmese pythons in the Everglades.
The state-sponsored Python Challenge attracted roughly 1,600 hunters in January and February and made headlines worldwide. It netted 68 of the invasive snakes, the longest measuring more than 14 feet.
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How do you visualize music? Can you turn an auditory experience into a visual one? Scores are one way of doing just that.
While a score requires training to read fully, you can follow along when it’s paired with the music. That was part of the allure of early computer music programs like the Music Construction Set.
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Conjunction Activities for Children
This game is great for teaching proper usage of conjunctions. Simply click on the above highlighted link and it will take you to an online crossword puzzle that your students can use. Or, if you would like to make this an in-the-class activity, simply print it off and make copies for... | <urn:uuid:1555c6fd-1603-4b79-9a1e-30cd5f67b042> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://department.monm.edu/english/kroberts/english201-old/project2002/group7/activities.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00088-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926443 | 249 | 4.75 | 5 |
There are a few things that can cause one eye to appear bigger than the other.
First, the eyes can actually be different sizes. Usually the eyes are not exactly the same size, but the differences are small enough that this could not be distinguished by the naked eye. There can rarely be very large differences in the si... | <urn:uuid:910a8470-6fde-4dbc-8514-ef7e369b22b3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.justanswer.com/eye-health/44m0b-does-mean-when-one-eyes-bigger.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00181-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971653 | 403 | 2.640625 | 3 |
In Matthew 2:1, we read the following: “Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of King Herod, behold, Magi came from the East to Jerusalem, saying, ‘Where is he that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the East and have come to worship him’.”
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The pollution standards index peaked at 371 on Thursday, breaking previous records and well above hazardous levels, before falling to about 300. The haze is the result of forest fires started by farmers clearing land on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
The issue has sparked accusations between the two neighbours. Dr V... | <urn:uuid:937f7aa1-37dd-4c0a-9748-2bd7e0901921> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://kozmedia.com/tag/air-pollution/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00022-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955423 | 331 | 2.515625 | 3 |
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British Parliament Votes To End War With America!
February 1782 House of Commons Vote Effectively Concedes American Independence!
Votes Causes Collapse of Anti-American Government of Lord North Supported by King George III and Start of Peace Negotiations
Historic Newspaper In Great Shape With Red Tax Stamp
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Chicks are Cute, but Risky!
Chicks and other live poultry can be cute, but they can also carry germs that can make you seriously sick. In 2012 alone, eight multi-state outbreaks caused nearly 500 people to get sick from touching or handling these birds, more than 90 people went to the hospital, and there were four deat... | <urn:uuid:8f6c3b93-2831-4c7c-9965-69830b7b0d6a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.foodsafety.gov/blog/livepoultry.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00115-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966091 | 412 | 3.5 | 4 |
Aztecs and Spaniards (Atheneum, 1986)
Aztecs and Spaniards: Cortes and the Conquest of Mexico
Cortes had left his home in Spain’s poorest region to seek his fortune in the New World, where rumors of golden cities lured Spaniards of all classes. From the tale of Cortes’ march to Tenochtitlan, through the last Aztec upri... | <urn:uuid:657b4991-3178-4a93-94b8-9d335cb33168> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.albertmarrin.com/62 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00107-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937423 | 266 | 3.671875 | 4 |
This is your dog’s brain. This is your dog’s brain on an fMRI scan.
When we peer into those big brown eyes, we think we know what thoughts lie behind them. Sure, we can tell when our dogs are happy, when our dogs are sad, and when our dogs are scared, but how can we ever know what they are really thinking?
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THE STEM CELL DEBATE
THE STEM CELL DEBATE; In Production of Stem Cells, Many Featured Actors but Few Stars
By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: December 18, 2001
Stem cell biology is a growing field with many players. To the public, the best known is probably Dr. James A. Thomson of the University of Wisconsin who, as the first... | <urn:uuid:2cb72380-20ef-4e34-9afd-8bd46effa3f6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/18/science/stem-cell-debate-production-stem-cells-many-featured-actors-but-few-stars.html?src=pm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00001-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953382 | 1,490 | 2.953125 | 3 |
PILPUL:(Redirected from ḤILLUḲIM.)
A method of Talmudic study. The word is derived from the verb "pilpel" (lit. "to spice," "to season," and in a metaphorical sense, "to dispute violently" [Tosef., B. B. vii. 5] or "cleverly" [Shab. 31a; B. M. 85b]). Since by such disputation the subject is in a way spiced and seasoned... | <urn:uuid:4485643e-90fd-496e-bd01-9b74dfd037de> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7712-hillukim | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00194-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974316 | 6,249 | 2.65625 | 3 |
On Day 4 (Wednesday, 17 October), we examined older rocks of the Iberian Massif: a thick Paleozoic sequence that had been deposited on the passive margin of Gondwana, and the angular unconformity separating Proterzoic from Cambrian rocks.
Paleozoic Rocks Near the Luna Dam
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A bug in the code is worth two in the documentation.
Any publically released software should be documented. At the bare
minimum, this may be a comment block at the top of a script or an
accompanying README file.
A common convention is:
- A README file for the software project
- An INSTALL file, detailing installation i... | <urn:uuid:e2a03690-444f-4039-a2bf-a9ec567a0aaa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://luv.asn.au/overheads/prog/docs.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395166.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00047-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.779897 | 372 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Classical Conditioning (also Pavlovian or Respondent Conditioning) is a form of associative learning that was first demonstrated by Ivan Pavlov. The typical procedure for inducing classical conditioning involves presentations of a neutral stimulus along with a stimulus of some significance. The neutral stimulus could b... | <urn:uuid:2951b305-659c-4fbb-98fb-c39868ff9cea> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Classical_Conditioning | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00141-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934525 | 3,353 | 3.703125 | 4 |
Over the past century, powerful food and beverage companies have enjoyed unprecedented commercial success. But these companies have grown prosperous while the millions who supply the land, labor and water needed for their products face increased hardship.
Now, a rapidly changing environment, affected communities and an... | <urn:uuid:5ec84971-8da1-432a-a036-4abc96f88835> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.oxfam.org/en/cultivons/policy/behind-brands | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00039-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949423 | 327 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Spearmint (Mentha spicata) is a hardy, herbaceous perennial from the Lamiaceae family. Reaching heights of 1 to 3 feet, with a 1-to-2 foot spread, spearmint has multiple uses. With crinkled, ligh-green foliage and blooms in shades of lilac, white and pink, this flavorful herb adds color, character and flavor to herb ga... | <urn:uuid:1971f91c-0506-44b0-ad7c-75c94da02b54> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gardenguides.com/108718-care-spearmint-plant.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00184-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91661 | 360 | 2.890625 | 3 |
About NIH Obesity Research
The health problem of obesity
Obesity has risen to epidemic levels in the U.S. Individuals with obesity may suffer devastating and costly health problems, face reduced life expectancy, and experience stigma and discrimination. The high prevalence of obesity likely results from a multitude of ... | <urn:uuid:ab81182c-fe30-4649-9c1b-ffd145778486> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.obesityresearch.nih.gov/about/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00100-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.893878 | 771 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Queen Elizabeth II became New Zealand’s monarch on 6 February 1952, following the death of her father, King George VI. In 2012 she celebrated her Diamond (60th) Jubilee, which was marked by various events around the Commonwealth.
The Queen is New Zealand’s head of state. Under the concept of the ‘divisible Crown’, she ... | <urn:uuid:bf892685-ffc4-49eb-906c-c43ad3982b70> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/queen-elizabeths-diamond-jubilee | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00100-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961877 | 304 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Foreshock - Main shock - Aftershock Sequence
The three earthquakes shown below occurred at virtually the same location (8 km ENE of Watsonville) and within 7 minutes of each other on May 9, 2000, as detailed in the table below.
The record from station HFP (Fremont Peak; 9 miles SW of Hollister, 18 miles SSE of Gilroy; ... | <urn:uuid:9b6637c1-8bfb-4a79-ba9f-d734774a69be> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/helicorders/examples/Fore_main_after.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00174-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.881159 | 200 | 3.28125 | 3 |
The Milky Way galaxy, home of Earth's solar system, may actually be only half as massive as currently thought, scientists say.
Stars in the far outer reaches of the Milky Way, between 260,000 and 490,000 light-years from the galactic center, are cruising around surprisingly slowly, researchers found. Galactic mass and ... | <urn:uuid:5848d34e-67ce-43b8-9b45-84fefeac0481> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50458106/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00032-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936044 | 766 | 3.671875 | 4 |
Midwest in the Far East - Math Ed 5
The locals of Hangzhou, located more than 100 miles southwest of Shanghai, have a saying: “Above us is paradise, and below us is Hangzhou.” A city of roughly 6 million residents, considered small by Chinese standards, Hangzhou is most famous for its beauty and cleanliness. With plent... | <urn:uuid:562b2512-8f2c-471c-8a4f-d92c8a6cd530> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.uwosh.edu/beyond/stories/midwest-in-the-far-east/mathed/midwest-in-the-far-east-math-ed-5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00197-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980469 | 1,010 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Once you see the hard work that goes into shelling pine nuts, you might be better able to appreciate the price tag that often comes with them. True to their name, pine nuts are the edible seeds of various species of pine that come in the pine cone, surrounded by a hard shell.To shell pine nuts, you have to remove the o... | <urn:uuid:8815658f-ebc6-4e0c-8473-dd704f107da3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wikihow.com/Shell-Pine-Nuts | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00200-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938004 | 1,980 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Local health officials have a plan to deal with bird flu - and that's about all they have.
What they and every other health authority in the country lack is an effective vaccine to protect against the bird flu.
Scientists are racing to develop a vaccine that might protect the public against bird flu, which though quite... | <urn:uuid:0601d238-112c-44e6-a22c-3d5738de48d7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.toledoblade.com/Medical/2005/10/25/Local-plan-developed-for-bird-flu-response.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00100-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960402 | 483 | 2.890625 | 3 |
This project started as part of the Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre and has now migrated to the ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems.
An intelligent environment is a location (e.g. home, office, hospital, etc) that is equipped with sensors, actuators and computers that are networked wit... | <urn:uuid:2cd710e5-8272-4b0a-a96f-ab7426ca7989> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~claude/thesis_topics/IntelligentEnvironment.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00201-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94829 | 244 | 2.625 | 3 |
Occupational therapy is a service that helps people achieve independence in their daily life activities or “occupations”. In the pediatric setting, therapists use their expertise to help children prepare for and perform important learning and developmental activities. This typically includes muscle strengthening and ra... | <urn:uuid:2f0f60df-2a22-4535-9135-238b656af71c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.kidscando.org/occupational.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00032-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940919 | 430 | 3.234375 | 3 |
A History of Mold Illness: The Kelsey Best Story
March, 2013, Kelsey Best, was diagnosed with Sick Building Syndrome, also referred to as Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome. In Kelsey’s case, because of her prolonged exposure to mold, from the age of five until her diagnosis, she suffered from Mycotoxicosis which i... | <urn:uuid:cf299321-e1c4-4460-9159-d47d901f3f83> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gotmold.ca/2014/04/a-history-of-mold-illness-the-kelsey-best-story/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00110-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948163 | 1,722 | 3.234375 | 3 |
I'm pretty new to C++, and have only been programming for about 10 weeks now. I have this homework assignment that I have been struggling greatly on, and after trying for hours to get it started, I just can't seem to grasp exactly what the question is asking me to do. Below I put what I have started. I know it's not mu... | <urn:uuid:0a93d3ef-ab70-46a9-be94-b199bb9c981b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/beginner/130768/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00016-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.887614 | 510 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Swiftmud may lower banks of two rivers
By JAMES THORNER
© St. Petersburg Times, published March 9, 2001
The Anclote and Pithlachascotee rivers have been dredged, bridged, siphoned and shaped by the hands of humans.
Now comes one of the most ambitious undertakings of all: lowering the banks of the Pasco County rivers to... | <urn:uuid:86763f30-cdaa-4a27-a199-b7b04e167029> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sptimes.com/News/030901/Pasco/Swiftmud_may_lower_ba.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00065-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94304 | 886 | 2.515625 | 3 |
This category lists sites which present the history of an era or region through collections in museums composed of historic artifacts located in South Carolina.
Related categories 2
Calhoun County Museum
Features special arts, history and educational programs. Located in St. Matthews.
The Edisto Island Museum
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I need to prove the following:
1) Let f ∈ F(A,B). Prove that if f is bijective, so is f-¹
2) Let f ∈ F(A,B) and g ∈ F(B,C). prove that if f and g are invertible so is gf and that (gf)-¹ = f-¹g-¹
3) Let A,B, and C be nonempty sets, and let f ∈ F(A,B) and g, h ∈ F(B,C)
a) prove that if f is surjective and gf=hf, then g=h... | <urn:uuid:fe549d49-b877-422c-b055-4cd526c51978> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mathisfunforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=29708 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00023-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927528 | 722 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Windows Keyboard Shortcuts You Want To Know
Keyboard is great tool for making many everyday tasks on a computer easier. Faster browsing, data modification and so much more. Once you learn a shortcut, you can't go on without it. I'll give you some shortcuts examples:
Most of these shortcuts w... | <urn:uuid:6b1fc235-bf9b-4a56-a3ae-9d646bc91114> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://compiledk.blogspot.com/2012/11/windows-keyboard-shortcuts-you-want-to.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00043-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.888655 | 728 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Teenagers who smoke menthols smoke more cigarettes per day than their peers, a new Canadian study finds.
As past research suggests, menthols are more addictive than other types of cigarettes, a higher frequency of smoking was seen among nearly 5,000 adolescents in grades 9 to 12 in a nationally representative sampling.... | <urn:uuid:af48fa34-669e-4b20-9e1e-eff83079c60e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.medicaldaily.com/teenagers-easily-hooked-smoking-menthols-are-they-reason-rising-youth-smoking-rates-289362 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00165-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949986 | 542 | 3 | 3 |
1. A Greek poet, whose name was formerly written Augias, through a mistake of the first editor of the Excerpta of Proclus.
It has been corrected by Thiersch in the Acta Philol. Monac.
ii. p. 584, from the Codex Monacensis, which in one passage has Agias, and in another Hagias.
The name itself does not occur in early Gr... | <urn:uuid:42dee180-e7ff-4781-909d-c0a7d42dbf25> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0104:alphabetic%20letter=A:entry%20group=10:entry=agias-bio-2&toc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DO | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00135-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926814 | 639 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Six Essential Money Skills
Once I was asked if I thought the idea of teaching kids about money in school was controversial. "It's kind of like sex education," one father told me. "It's a loaded gun."
After I got over my surprise, I had to admit he had a point. Money is a loaded issue. In fact, I just saw a survey in wh... | <urn:uuid:aa338902-4d71-42a4-88be-0740dcf2643c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.kiplinger.com/article/saving/T007-C002-S001-six-essential-money-skills.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00024-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971071 | 576 | 3.171875 | 3 |
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Outer space (also called just space) as a name for a region, refers to the relatively empty parts of the Universe, outside the atmospheres of celestial bodies. The term outer space is used to distinguish it from airspace and terrestrial locations. Although outer space is certainly... | <urn:uuid:00c7c46a-b014-4980-9298-451bca43ca6a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://epicroadtrips.us/2003/summer/nola/nola_offsite/FQ_en.wikipedia.org/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_space.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00132-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.892991 | 904 | 3.75 | 4 |
Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor
NBER Working Paper No. 15345
How important are subsistence concerns in a family's decision to send a child to work? We consider this question in Ecuador, where poor families are selected at random to receive a cash transfer that is equivalent to 7 percent of monthly expenditures. Win... | <urn:uuid:2e3acd47-7070-4ce7-9922-98f29ef054c3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nber.org/papers/w15345 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00199-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941857 | 265 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Taiwan, located less than 115 miles (185 km) off the southeast coast of China, has been known to the Chinese since the 7th century A.D. Although the island was claimed and occupied by European colonist in the 17th century, they were expelled as a result of the Manchu invasion and subsequently the fall of the Ming dynas... | <urn:uuid:06f36b05-36a8-44f8-860c-db430e610b37> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://loc.gov/today/placesinthenews/archive/1999arch/19990921_taiwan.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00108-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955055 | 206 | 3.578125 | 4 |
(NAPSI)—Fun in the sun is a lot less likely to give way to an emergency at sea if you follow a few tips on how to reduce your risk of electric shock drowning and common boating and marina electrical hazards.
Boating and Marina Safety
• Be sure you're familiar with your craft's electrical system so you can identify and ... | <urn:uuid:b4594b20-c0ba-4fcc-899e-12daab8c04d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.nj.com/north_american_precis_syndicate/2013/06/how_to_make_staying_safe_smooth_sailing_this_summer.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00190-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922223 | 400 | 2.765625 | 3 |
How did planet Neptune get its name?
Asked by: Nicky Platt
In Roman mythology Neptune (Greek: Poseidon) was the god of the Sea.
After the discovery of Uranus, it was noticed that its orbit was not as it should be in accordance with Newton's laws. It was therefore predicted that another more distant planet must be pertu... | <urn:uuid:f9745454-229e-4f3e-93eb-c611f94441de> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae347.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395166.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00010-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977008 | 219 | 3.203125 | 3 |
When Japanese incorporates a Western word, especially English, often the spelling rather than the pronunciation is respected in the transcription, thus, ending up with a transcription that is not the closest possible within the limitation of Japanese phonology. And then, later on, on some occasions, (often young) peopl... | <urn:uuid:b321ab12-6a14-4973-a140-c94d88517d0b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/4956/less-approximate-and-more-approximate-forms-of-loan-words/4972 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00049-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.870454 | 191 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Josette Sheeran, the director of the UN World Food Programme, hails women around the world as the secret weapon in the fight against hunger. Sheeran is in France today marking International Women’s Day.
It was in France back in 1948 when a woman arrived from the United States on a special mission. Children from Public ... | <urn:uuid:cd7fb3a5-1197-4db3-9fdf-c3bcb5a2b55c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogcritics.org/international-womens-day-and-the-secret/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00074-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948992 | 471 | 2.734375 | 3 |
The Library of Congress announced Tuesday it has acquired 9,000 hours of video interviews with 2,600 black Americans who define the black experience in America.
A project called The History Makers has been collecting the interviews for years, quizzing people from the oldest living black cowboy to late poet Maya Angelou... | <urn:uuid:24a6ccca-4a60-4423-ae8c-3bd877a431e0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/24/library-of-congress-history-makers/11339613/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00094-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974075 | 712 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Supporting English Language Learners With Technology
- Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8
This year, seven out of the 20 students in Jennifer Monroe´s first-grade class in Harlem, New York, are English Language Learners (ELL). Although Monroe speaks Spanish, she has never received training to support these students. "They a... | <urn:uuid:ff1226bd-5cd1-49e8-b323-a0abef9d87d7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www2.scholastic.com/teachers/article/supporting-english-language-learners-technology | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00099-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947594 | 533 | 3.734375 | 4 |
1. Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened.
2. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable. Albemarle Street... | <urn:uuid:d929b397-aa12-4f8c-88e7-90e8e183bfe2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.biology-online.org/bodict/index.php?title=Lock&redirect=no | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00189-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925764 | 371 | 2.65625 | 3 |
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When you speak about where and when, you are speaking about the setting of a piece of literature. We can talk about this as the "Setting of Time" and the "Setting of Place." Let's explore both here.
Setting of Time
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The latest target of the unconventional oil craze is California hydraulic fracturing (fracking) the Monterey Shale in the central and southern parts of the state. With wildly optimistic predictions of an economic bonanza, the oil is carbon-intensive, requires massive amounts of fresh water, creates industrial pollution... | <urn:uuid:7b801d19-02b3-46dc-a59f-68f4d4853e1a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wilderutopia.com/environment/energy/fracking-california-oil-boom-bonanza-a-dirty-desert-mirage/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00153-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915385 | 1,276 | 2.65625 | 3 |
The Poplar Island point is medium-to-large in size, often symmetrical, with a slender triangular blade and rounded shoulders. The long, constricted stem tapers to a base that is narrow and rounded or pointed. The Poplar Island can be thin and finely-flaked, or thick and crude.
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Bringing Montessori principles into your home can be a valuable bridge to what your child learns at school. Here are some tips from the American Montessori Society on ways to build that connection:
Create an ordered environment.
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A newly discovered magnetic phenomenon could accelerate data storage by several orders of magnitude. The researchers have not only proven that magnetic reversal can take place in femtosecond timeframes, they have also derived a concrete technical application from it: “Translated to magnetic data storage, this would sig... | <urn:uuid:6867d107-98bc-4a56-872e-3c029925a135> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/04/new-magnetic-phenomena-could-eventually.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00097-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913424 | 1,021 | 3.375 | 3 |
The Problem with Food Aid
The food crisis in East Africa has been reported with the utmost sense of urgency, literally as a matter of life and death. In contrast, food aid delivery is still marred with delays and inefficiency, trapped in the sluggish grind of bureaucracies and regulations.
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The relationship between culture and technology is complex and multilayered. Technological innovations that had profound effects on culture are easy to find: Think of the printing press and the automobile.
Seeing how things work in the opposite direction is more difficult, if only because culture is such an all-encompa... | <urn:uuid:faa80575-bbf6-4f4f-acac-d0eb66fa390b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2000/06/14/books/japans-path-from-imitator-to-world-beating-innovator/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00127-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963801 | 927 | 3.21875 | 3 |
In announcing on June 26, 2000, that the first draft of the human genome had been achieved, President Clinton said it would “revolutionize the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of most, if not all, human diseases.”But it has been a decade since the first complete genomes were sequences, and so far the usable medicine... | <urn:uuid:1fd8ee15-4995-4751-8ebe-e6e389b5f06f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://benedante.blogspot.com/2010/06/disappointments-of-genetic-medicine.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00142-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97109 | 329 | 3.21875 | 3 |
The annual interest rate and the effective interest rate can be two very different numbers because of the effects of interest compounding. Knowing the effective interest rate is important for small business when determining which bank is offering the best loan or which investment is offering the highest rate of return.... | <urn:uuid:2460bc3b-279c-4117-9755-9b3ffe8c4079> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://smallbusiness.chron.com/define-effective-interest-rate-3633.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00178-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958179 | 394 | 3.59375 | 4 |
UCSF researchers have identified collections of tiny molecules known as microRNAs that affect distinct processes critical for the progression of cancer. The findings, they say, expand researchers' understanding of the important regulatory function of microRNAs in tumor biology and point to new directions for future stu... | <urn:uuid:11b7a778-25d9-4b6f-a138-e740985676fb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://cancer.ucsf.edu/news/2009/09/16/ucsf-scientists-illuminate-how-micrornas-drive-tumor-progression.625 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00109-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952771 | 433 | 2.890625 | 3 |
1A copy of a drawing, map, or design made by tracing it.
- Leonardo's mural, with its tracings and smaller copies, is a locus of essential religious and aesthetic meanings, a virtual communion between art and life.
- It might be that Lady Seated at the Virginals is a composite of tracings of parts of images onto planes... | <urn:uuid:f1dc4ba3-4317-4d90-a70a-a324857355af> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/tracing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00107-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938873 | 375 | 3.40625 | 3 |
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Terms Associated with Children’s Homes
As the term orphanage has fallen out of favor, it has been replaced by the more positive title of children’s home. However, the services they provide are much the same – taking care of kids who are orphans, or who... | <urn:uuid:41ce3cb4-1271-4f7d-8db4-947c206db197> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.magicyellow.com/category/homes_children/-state_mi.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00041-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973263 | 639 | 3.0625 | 3 |
The emergence of nanotechnology has created new challenges for the 21st century. Future development of Engineered Nano Materials (ENMs) will soon impact society in ways never imagined before. Most importantly, those who develop and work with ENMs must understand the importance of worker safety. Educators must use creat... | <urn:uuid:3ccef51c-f2db-4aa7-ae11-ab67748f39fb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JSTE/v48n2/fazarro.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00053-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.879571 | 7,327 | 3.59375 | 4 |
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4. The expanding scope of the law: global reach and international cooperation
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Therefore, a fisherman who spares a fish for the next catch reduces his present consumption in the hope of increasing it in the future.
Most of the people probably have savings accounts with ATMs to access their hard-earned cash and be able to store away any extra cash in a place a little safer than a mattress. A few o... | <urn:uuid:6aa679ec-41f3-4ed2-b14c-b49e1a3d268b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.fortunewatch.com/whats-the-difference-between-saving-and-investing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00142-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974032 | 465 | 2.9375 | 3 |
For example, marmots, which scientists hypothesize are cued by temperature to emerge from hibernation, are now more likely to find plants to eat when they wake from winter's slumber.
Through most of the 1990s and in two of the last nine years, the burrowing rodents emerged early but found the ground covered in snow.
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About the Book
Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with these three mesmerising stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin: ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’, ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’ and ‘The Purloined Letter’. Years later Dorothy Sayers would describe these tales as ‘almost a com... | <urn:uuid:c1cc6db9-7e46-41cf-9064-38cd857811da> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.uread.com/book/murders-in-rue-morgue-edgar/9780099529583 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00129-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.857046 | 166 | 3.46875 | 3 |
Efforts by rich countries to give $100bn (£66bn) a year of ‘climate aid’ direct to companies, bypassing poorer countries’ governments, have suffered a setback.
The UN’s fledgling Green Climate Fund (GCF) is designed to transfer money in the future from the developed to developing world, to tackle the impacts of climate... | <urn:uuid:8e256508-9e51-4d79-998c-7c2795cb2802> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://marketspace.thinktosustain.com/2013/07/rich-countries-proposal-to-bypass-governments-on-climate-aid-rejected/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00017-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968799 | 789 | 2.625 | 3 |
After the victory over Nuwakot, Prithvi Narayan Shah began to occupy the places that are located east of the Kantipur ( now Kathmandu). They were Naladum, Mahadevpokhari, Dahachok, Sankhu, Changu, Dolakha, Shindhupalchowk, Lamidanda, Pharping, Chitlang etc. According to the friendship treaty with Bhadgaon ( now Bhaktap... | <urn:uuid:ffeaed04-d0e7-4158-84cb-d5726d21f96d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://namaste-amazingnepal.blogspot.com/2011/12/first-attack-on-kirtipur-1757-ad.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00157-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97169 | 467 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Time and time again research has proven the need for the existence of strong youth development programs within communities. The entire community, including families, schools, local government, business and youth themselves has responsibilities in helping to provide for and create an environment where youth have opportu... | <urn:uuid:babc0511-b07b-4268-b2a1-195444adc6ef> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://extension.oregonstate.edu/lake/node/63/print | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00034-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9539 | 720 | 3.5 | 4 |
There are five types of kites living in North America.
All five species are found in the southern states and also in Mexico. These smaller sized raptors acquire their names because
of their ability to use the wind currents to their advantage as they soar in hunt of prey.
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Nucleic Acid Analyzer (HANAA)
█ AGNIESZKA LICHANSKA
HANAA is an acronym for the hand-held advanced nucleic acid analyzer. It was developed by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1999 based on a previous model of the nucleic acid analyzer ANAA produced in 1997. HANAA is a real time polymerase chain reaction (P... | <urn:uuid:0f8c580a-c228-47b6-94bc-85f84d8bd2c7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.faqs.org/espionage/Nt-Pa/Nucleic-Acid-Analyzer-HANAA.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396224.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00040-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942042 | 933 | 3.140625 | 3 |
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Rising tension between Russia and the U.S., North Korea’s recent nuclear test and a lack of aggressive steps to address climate change are putting the world under grave threat, scientists behind a “Doomsday Clock” that measures the likelihood of a global cataclysm said Tuesday.
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Surface temperature reconstructions of the past 1500 years suggest that recent warming is unprecedented in that time. Here we provide a broader perspective by reconstructing regional and global temperature anomalies for the past 11,300 years from 73 globally distributed records. Early Holocene (10,000 to 5000 years ago... | <urn:uuid:9698354d-88b6-41d2-a94f-b3dd315dea61> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://paceeenvironmentalnotes.blogspot.com/2013/03/in-news-long-term-global-climate-change.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00058-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.82929 | 247 | 3.328125 | 3 |
1. A restangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet.
2. A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
3. An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
4. [Perhaps a different word] A kind of h... | <urn:uuid:666cc010-2095-4b94-af94-a2b0ee57c7ea> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Rebate | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00056-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.829972 | 94 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Lab E3: The Wheatstone Bridge
The Wheatstone bridge is a circuit used to compare an unknown resistance with a known resistance. A schematic is shown below:
The unknown resistor is Rx, the resistor Rk is known, and the two resistors R1 and R2 have a known ratio , although their individual values may not be known. A galv... | <urn:uuid:141d72f4-32b7-48f3-8914-c238c25a03a2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phys1140/phys1140_sm98/Experiments/E3/E3bridge.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00096-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940544 | 2,660 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Researchers to study exploded stars
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Issue: November 5/12, 2012, Posted Date: 11/13/2012
Energy, indoor air quality drive efforts
Tip: Get your leaky sink and shower fixed. A leak of just one drop per second will waste 2,400 gallons of water a year. (NYU Sustainability)
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Regarding letters from persons uncomfortable with the topic of creation vs. evolution, such as that of Mark Gelbart, Dec. 18:
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The Acid Rain WebQuest was featured in
the March, 2001 episode of NetFiles.
View the episode by clicking HERE.
Why are the trees dying? How come there are no fish in the
lake? Why does the paint on my Dad's car look so bad? Where does that
terrible rotten egg smell come from in our school yard every Spring?
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By Kristy Weber, MD
Chief, Division of Orthopaedic Oncology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Release Date: February 28, 2006
Expiration Date: February 28, 2008
Dr. Weber has no significant financial interest or relationships to disclose.
It’s very nice to be here. My first rheumatology experience was here a... | <urn:uuid:d60d21a2-7f2a-4ab6-bf5a-7995c1736296> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.hopkinsarthritis.org/physician-corner/rheumatology-rounds/round-2-treatment-of-metastatic-bone-disease/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00068-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955421 | 5,229 | 2.671875 | 3 |
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