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“The media loves to sensationalize research” on same-sex sexual behavior among animals, according to an analysis published this week in the journal Nature.
A pair of biologists from Australia and the UK surveyed 48 newspaper, magazine, and online articles written about 11 scientific papers on the subject, and concluded... | <urn:uuid:b95d7e2c-220c-4a32-a618-e6d3d0067018> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/animal_sexual_behavior_homosex.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392099.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00069-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961861 | 1,122 | 2.734375 | 3 |
The Honolulu Aquarium is located in Kapiolani Park on the famous Waikiki Beach, about five miles from the centre of the city. From 600 to 1,000 fish, covering some 200 varieties of remarkable form and bewildering color, are on exhibition here, forming one of the finest collections in the world.
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In Christian theology, Heaven is what brings God's plan of humankind's redemption to completion. In the beginning, God created Adam and Eve in his image, and they were like him – perfect, without sin. But they ate from the forbidden tree, rebelling against God, and God cast them out of Eden and condemned mankind to the... | <urn:uuid:6c4a1ccc-f783-41d6-9f71-1ec245ccd121> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.theaunicornist.com/2010_11_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00020-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981748 | 450 | 2.671875 | 3 |
[en] Depression is one of the most common, costly and severe psychopathologies worldwide. Its incidence, however, differs significantly between the sexes, and depression rates in women are twice those of men. Interestingly, this sex difference emerges during adolescence. Although the adolescent period is characterised ... | <urn:uuid:ab861f9f-e286-4f87-8b02-f7a2bd7175f2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/handle/2268/93102 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00048-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932233 | 150 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Nearby historical marker reads -
Central Bank Building
Designed by Philadelphia architect Stephen Decatur Button for William Knox, president of Central Bank of Alabama, this Renaissance Revival building emulated the Venetian palaces of the 16th century. Completed in 1856, it was praised by state newspapers as the first... | <urn:uuid:d509ea13-6f8e-4d5c-b522-13a97f71d600> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.panoramio.com/photo/66422062 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00133-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96259 | 120 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Description of Historic Place
Located in the picturesque setting of the Ptarmigan Valley, in Banff National Park, the Halfway Hut is a simple, well-proportioned, rectangular log structure designed in the rustic style of architecture. The building features a gable roof supported on log rafters and purlins, a deep overha... | <urn:uuid:657c4969-887b-4d5f-b013-a78c774ecc48> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=2846 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00123-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928252 | 772 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion
“On this day the Church celebrates Christ’s entrance into Jerusalem to accomplish his paschal mystery” (Roman Missal). “Entrance” is the key to understanding the liturgy of Passion Sunday. We enter into Jerusalem with Christ. We enter into our holiest week. We enter into our final prep... | <urn:uuid:1b5f1d63-91ca-4755-99ab-46762934e60a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.saintmargaretmary.org/palmweaving.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391766.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00108-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936141 | 790 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Plump yellow or orange tubers line the grocery aisle during the holidays, bearing the label of sweet potatoes and yams. You may be surprised to discover that sweet potatoes and yams found in the United States are all sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas), unless you are shopping at an ethnic store that carries true yams (Di... | <urn:uuid:00cb02f9-0968-45ca-9a21-ef5b29078c9c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.examiner.com/article/is-it-a-yam-or-a-sweet-potato?cid=rss | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00179-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908429 | 474 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Everything you need to understand or teach Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare.
"The Twelfth Night" or "What you Will" is one of Shakespeare's most famous comedies. It deals with mistaken identity and true love. The play is indicative of plays of the time in which male and female characters often played or posed as th... | <urn:uuid:748722e5-5820-40d7-8807-5d85c1981e8a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bookrags.com/Twelfth_Night/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00178-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972062 | 104 | 3.71875 | 4 |
Join a NASA team to view the Venus Transit as seen from Fairbanks, AK.
Today, Tuesday June 5, is the last chance most of us will ever have to see the planet Venus pass in front of the Sun. A transit of Venus is among the rarest of astronomical events, even more rare than the return of Halley’s Comet every 76 years. The... | <urn:uuid:72e4493d-2f26-4b35-8152-03225e8467d0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.nasa.gov/eclips/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00027-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906759 | 1,275 | 3 | 3 |
Analysis: Narrator Point of View
First Person (Christopher Boone)
If you read our thoughts on "Why Should I Care?", you know how important the narrator is to this story. Actually, if you read the book, you know how important the narrator is to this story.
Christopher Boone is a fifteen-year-old boy with Asperger syndro... | <urn:uuid:c2668d55-1414-436e-930a-758ef0966aa7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.shmoop.com/curious-incident/narrator-point-of-view.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972131 | 201 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Feathery flight of fancy
Alleged ‘protofeathers’ fail under close scrutiny
Photo: Don Batten
Figure 1. Sinosauropteryx prima was a find hailed by evolutionists as evidence for feather evolution in dinosaurs.
Sinosauropteryx (figure 1) has been one of the stars of the evolutionary dino-to-bird story. First reported in S... | <urn:uuid:a9e51c0f-604b-49c1-be33-90fa3795f9ee> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://creation.com/feathery-flight-of-fancy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397797.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00147-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895013 | 1,261 | 2.53125 | 3 |
I have to share this amazing visual illusion with you.
Sean Murphy, an honours student in our lab, was playing around with some faces for an experiment. He aligned the faces at the eyes and then started flicking through them. He was shocked by the ugly faces staring back at him.
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ENG 1050 – DC12M
Online Education versus the Classroom
An education paves the road to success. From high-school, college, or on-the-job training, the classroom has been the traditional setting for teaching and learning. But nowadays that is rapidly changing. With technology at an advantage, more online schooling and tr... | <urn:uuid:1e4ed2fa-1e42-4763-b916-3bb20af9ba38> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.studymode.com/essays/Online-Education-Vs-Classroom-1223488.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00003-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971817 | 788 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Gemeinschaftsbewegung (movement for fellowship, community), the term used to designate the circles of earnest Christians arising in the Lutheran and Reformed state churches of Germany under the influence of Pietism (P. J. Spener, 1680 ff.) and more particularly the Moravians (from 1727) and T. A. Bengel (1687-1752) of ... | <urn:uuid:a908278f-b8f3-4162-b3c7-c8d052d5bc5f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Gemeinschaftsbewegung&stableid=101941 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00117-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911499 | 1,904 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Fig. 1. A large Lophelia coral bush with a squat lobster (Eumunida picta) and sea urchin (Echinus, below the crab).Click image for larger view and image credit.
Fig. 2. Two views of a eunicid polychaete worm ‘at home’ on Lophelia pertusa coral. Click image for larger view and image credit.
Community Genetics - All Abou... | <urn:uuid:e46e395b-fadc-49ec-96ff-11de554b151f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/05coralbanks/background/community_genetics/community_genetics.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396875.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00000-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93544 | 1,571 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Every mechanic loves to tinker with a machine to give it optimum operating efficiency. But this latest engineering feat involving the Voyager 2 spacecraft wins the prize for longest distance tune-up. Akin to servicing an old car to increase gas mileage, engineers at JPL sent commands across 14 billion kilometers (9 bil... | <urn:uuid:1efcd6e7-2fdb-4e99-adc0-54b97259bd04> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.universetoday.com/91044/venerable-voyager-2-spacecraft-gets-a-tune-up-14-billion-kilometers-from-earth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00053-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940916 | 520 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Marble Chessmen (Aug, 1951)
After two thousand years modern design is applied to the old game of chess.
CHESS, going back into ancient history, got its present name from the Persian word, Shah, meaning King.
Its origin has been ascribed to the Greeks, Romans, Babylonians, Scythians, Egyptians, Persians, Chinese, Hindus... | <urn:uuid:0171ec1d-d5f4-4b60-bb67-cf1b227966ce> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.modernmechanix.com/marble-chessmen/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00098-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927317 | 245 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Human Food for Cats
We all know the rules – don’t feed your feline friends your own human food. Yada yada yada…blah blah. We do it anyways though because it’s so cute to see a cat munching on chips or eating a french fry. Shame on us, we are so weak and FYI both french fries and chips are bad for cats. Let’s look at th... | <urn:uuid:c071e0c8-b29e-4293-9e7e-31a64d42894e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pets.ca/blog/posts/human-food-for-cats/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00035-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95143 | 368 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Fundamentals of Choosing and Using A/D and D/A Converters
It's one thing to understand the specifications and internal architectures of analog/digital (A/D) and digital/analog (D/A) converters, it's another to be able to navigate the maze of available converters and realize their full performance. In "Fundamentals of C... | <urn:uuid:43228d23-24c4-4ac1-9f8b-208da79fbb6f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.techonline.com/electrical-engineers/education-training/courses/4000299/Fundamentals-of-Choosing-and-Using-A-D-and-D-A-Converters | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00059-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.880732 | 197 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Have you ever looked a red and blue barber's pole and wondered why the stripes seem to be traveling up, rather than around the pole? Or have you looked at a still-life painting where the vase looked so real you could almost pick it up, even though it was just a painting? These two examples raise some interesting questi... | <urn:uuid:3f890eed-3428-4194-bf25-6af55a8fbc88> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.radiolab.org/story/91797-scientist-profiles-elias-cohen/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00194-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951724 | 243 | 2.875 | 3 |
Welcome to Designing and Building Parallel Programs ! My goal in this book is to provide a practitioner's guide for students, programmers, engineers, and scientists who wish to design and build efficient and cost-effective programs for parallel and distributed computer systems. I cover both the techniques used to desig... | <urn:uuid:b6d32295-5276-4cfb-9308-c3830e5ef7e1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~itf/dbpp/text/node2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00167-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937746 | 1,014 | 2.6875 | 3 |
A few weeks back we ran a piece about how UPS was using advanced logistics to reduce energy consumption and emissions while cutting costs at the same time. This is done by calculating optimum routes and traveling the minimum distances.
If this works well with 10-ton delivery trucks that are rolling around on wheels, im... | <urn:uuid:61b864db-9c87-46df-9d6c-33ee0c1f5adf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.triplepundit.com/2011/12/new-air-traffic-control-system-cut-millions-tons-co2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00112-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966534 | 826 | 3.171875 | 3 |
UNIVERSITY of the Sunshine Coast Sociology lecturer DR PHILLIP ABLETT answers some of the difficult questions regarding Islam, sharia law and how the religion closely relates to other faiths.
Are Muslims people who believe in Islam or are their there different types of faiths in the religion as there are in Christianit... | <urn:uuid:18686835-2a62-4950-aee7-9d465eb117a0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/answered-8-big-questions-about-islam2/2397504/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00166-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951854 | 627 | 2.578125 | 3 |
In 1857 colonial India, the British East India Company was an enormous publicly traded private corporation that literally controlled the country. They equipped and had under their control a large army, minted their own money, and oversaw all imports and exports to the subcontinent. The local millions of inhabitants of ... | <urn:uuid:1e4c23f7-596c-4505-8b1e-99fa5766bc74> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.guns.com/2013/01/19/how-gun-lube-brought-down-the-british-empire/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00134-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977652 | 1,174 | 3.703125 | 4 |
Personalization in the age of globalization
Coca Cola launched a new campaign at the beginning of May 2013, in which the most common personal names in Israel have been printed on Coca Cola bottles. A similar campaign was launched in Europe and Australia. The campaign was intended to renew the company’s affinity to youn... | <urn:uuid:9e9922b4-1a2b-4ec1-b0c3-7c3417c234b3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.shirleykantor.co.il/english-posts/item/1684-Diversity-Exclusion-Coca-Cola-leaves-the-Israeli-Arab-segment-off-the-communal-shelf | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00013-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954281 | 1,081 | 2.625 | 3 |
Reforming Their CommunitiesMarch 05, 2009
When I worked at the National Women’s History Museum, I had the opportunity to read and write about scores of amazing American women, including several whose community activism created important social reforms in the United States. Here is a glimpse at three of these women I ap... | <urn:uuid:19dc8dcd-34d5-4743-86e2-3daecd109dcf> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.aauw.org/2009/03/05/reforming-their-communities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00100-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970375 | 462 | 3.9375 | 4 |
LIGNOWSKI’s in the United States
Nobody really knows for sure how the Lignowski surname came about, but several theories have been put forth by members of the Lignowski families, and discovered through research. Mieczyslaw Lignowski, parish priest of Hermanowa parish in Rzeszow, Poland has suggested that the name is ba... | <urn:uuid:7619ec3a-1afb-40b1-b46e-4ee28f8dd4c7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lignowsk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00163-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985111 | 5,124 | 3.3125 | 3 |
HOW DYNAMIC FACILITATION WORKS
The primary role of the dynamic facilitator is to support the creative process of people by creating a reflective environment where each person and the group self-organize. The group enters the “creative flow” of choice-creating. Choice-creating is similar to dialogue in that people explo... | <urn:uuid:6b2d4bcf-c8a1-448a-9e8c-26da7d26b77b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.tobe.net/DF/DF/how-it-works.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00020-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941394 | 536 | 2.78125 | 3 |
The third period in the history of the public schools of Monmouth begins with the erection of' the Central School building, the abolition of the principals, the placing of tue schools under a central management, the revision of the course of study, the establishment of the High School, and a reorganization and consolid... | <urn:uuid:c18752e3-748c-4a11-978b-f86a12547616> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://illinoisancestors.org/warren/monmouthschoolsthirdperiod.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399106.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00058-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962798 | 1,469 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Agriculture consumes a lot of water.
Duh, right? We all know this. What's the point, then, in saying it?
The point of it is that while we all realize this on an intellectual level, we have a habit of not thinking about it.
So what's so bad about that?
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Sababurg - castle of the Sleeping Beauty
With its rose garden, Sababurg Castle – home of the Sleeping Beauty – appears to come right from a fairytale.
As early as 1334, the archbishop of Mainz ordered the then “Zapfenburg” (“tenon castle”) to be erected amidst the Reinhardswald Forest in order to protect the pilgrims o... | <urn:uuid:d572adb7-9e8f-4dcf-b292-6e0e6ebf3736> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nordhessen.de/en/dornroeschenschloss-and-tierpark-sababurg | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00105-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937322 | 387 | 2.5625 | 3 |
You read it right: leave them home on July 4. It should be a no-brainer that pets don't need crowds, noise, sulfur smells and flashing lights. And in fact, they could be hurt or get lost on the 4th – part of a three-day period when more pets become lost than any other time of year.
Tell that to the people who drag thei... | <urn:uuid:a7d39b62-88ae-4d81-a99c-7d93a37f309a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nj.com/pets/index.ssf/2012/07/post_31.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00114-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969092 | 614 | 2.5625 | 3 |
CIRCLE ART Here are some ideas using circles. Some of them create circles and some of them use precut paper circles.
Pour a small amount of paint on a paper plate.
Collect several different round objects such as an empty yogurt container, a plastic cup, and a cardboard tube.
Give your child a large construction paper c... | <urn:uuid:d0e78fc2-1763-46e2-94b8-3885c47df910> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.preschoolexpress.com/art_station07/circle_art_may07.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00146-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.874983 | 528 | 4.03125 | 4 |
Humanities through the Artsis intended for introductory-level, interdisciplinary courses offered across the curriculum in the Humanities, Philosophy, Art, English, Music, and Education departments. The book is arranged topically by art form from painting, sculpture, photography, and architecture to literature, music, t... | <urn:uuid:7be0162c-289e-4188-8a22-53337269bbeb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.chegg.com/textbooks/the-humanities-through-the-arts-7th-edition-9780073138633-0073138630 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00068-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914405 | 189 | 2.515625 | 3 |
A shibboleth is a kind of linguistic password: A way of speaking (a pronunciation, or the use of a particular expression) that is used by one set of people to identify another person as a member, or a non-member, of a particular group. The group making the identfication has some kind of social power to set the standard... | <urn:uuid:654c53c3-db89-48d7-8ccd-05655208d252> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Words/shibboleth.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00028-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966919 | 685 | 3.8125 | 4 |
Evaporating Protoplanetary Disk
"The further on the edge, the hotter the intensity," sings Kenny Loggins in "Danger Zone," a song made famous by the movie "Top Gun." The same words ring true for young, cooler stars like our sun that live in the danger zones around scorching hot stars, called O-stars. The closer a young... | <urn:uuid:541cc5b2-1b2b-4fde-ad5c-6e999194c0cc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/%0A1791-ssc2007-08c-Evaporating-Protoplanetary-Disk | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00012-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948464 | 395 | 4 | 4 |
The Academic Excellence Quality Indicators were developed by Cabinet to define areas in which the Rutgers University Libraries will build targets for self-evaluation, assessment, and improvement. Four terms are being used to develop Quality Indicators: Perspective, Criteria, Measures, and Methods. A fifth category, Tar... | <urn:uuid:275aa543-5046-4eaa-9b14-e3f4f5369774> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/staff/groups/assessment_com/reports/quality_indicators_definitions.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00030-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937613 | 208 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Robots, prosthetic limbs and touchscreen displays could all end up utilizing technology recently developed at California's Stanford University. A team led by Zhenan Bao, an associate professor of chemical engineering, has created a very stretchy skin-like pressure-sensitive material that can detect everything from a fi... | <urn:uuid:4cf5317e-3652-4b60-95c0-ce8982423c57> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gizmag.com/stretchy-pressure-sensitive-nano-spring-material/20289/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00088-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947673 | 510 | 3.96875 | 4 |
What is in this article?:
• Depending on average yield, the potential change in the estimate of harvested acreage of corn is not likely to be large enough to alter prospects of surplus supplies, but could be large enough to stabilize corn prices.
• Any change in the estimate of harvested acreage of soybeans is not expe... | <urn:uuid:dadd33d3-35d7-45a6-88bd-dc5ad47bf91b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://southeastfarmpress.com/markets/will-corn-soybean-acreage-estimates-change?page=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00112-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959574 | 533 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Company records it’s financial transactions based on the accounting principles or methods they follow. Such specific methods are to be disclosed in company’s annual report. There are two type of methods used in this accounting world to record financial transaction. Those are cash basis of accounting and accrual concept... | <urn:uuid:d53ddb13-aed7-410f-8f7f-32f5ed731b6a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://yourfinancebook.com/methods-of-accounting-cash-basis-accounting-and-accrual-concept-of-accounting/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00078-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969528 | 535 | 3.09375 | 3 |
The the first team of researchers identified the genetic signature in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana
that governs the plant’s fitness in different climates -- cold or warm; wet or dry -- throughout its natural habitat, and found that climate is a major factor influencing the expression of this group of genes as it is p... | <urn:uuid:2945f4f5-4918-452e-ab8f-3dea0a6b8e7f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/312484 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00114-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94544 | 811 | 3.5 | 4 |
( Latin interim , meanwhile.)
Interims are temporary settlements in matters of religion, entered into by Emperor Charles V (1519-56) with the Protestants.
The Interim of Ratisbon, published at the conclusion of the imperial diet, 29 July, 1541. It was based on the result of the previous conference between Catholics and... | <urn:uuid:03336050-4dd6-4a84-aa49-e2ba0ad8d4c9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=6151 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00142-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957241 | 1,147 | 3.640625 | 4 |
NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) on Tuesday, Aug. 14, to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater.
President Barack Obama called to congratulate members of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover team at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.... | <urn:uuid:91d222f2-171d-4b22-b303-57e0698db7f0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nasa.gov/centers/jpl/news/jpl-news_archive_8.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00065-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.876067 | 663 | 2.625 | 3 |
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I. Leaving the Nineteenth Century
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G. Legal Education
The first three justices were born and educated in the law elsewhere, like their successors for over thirty years.(78) Not until 1923, when Justice William Nuessle (1923-1950) took office, did any justice complete a legal education in this state. While Justice ... | <urn:uuid:55cdbe8f-1cde-44d2-a086-426f7000d5c1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ndcourts.gov/court/history/century/I.G.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00046-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969095 | 1,727 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Auroras are a visible reminder of our planet’s connection to space. The “northern lights” and “southern lights,” as they are more commonly known, are like a rain of highly energized particles from the space around Earth. Provoked by storms and winds from the Sun, electrons trapped inside Earth’s magnetic field (magneto... | <urn:uuid:04210b3a-40b9-40be-b4eb-1fb3eab264ad> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=80383 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00175-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932159 | 682 | 4.21875 | 4 |
At a glimpse :
Location : Kangla city, Manipur, India.
Established in : Earlier period of 1611 A.D.
Constructed by : King Khagemba.
The Kangla Palace is one of the oldest palaces which are nestled at the city of Kangla in the state of Manipur, India. The palace of kangla was located on both the western side and eastern... | <urn:uuid:205d9662-ec38-441f-9035-2e699d8594f4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.traveladda.com/east_india/manipur/forts_and_palaces/kangla_palace.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00100-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976502 | 902 | 3.703125 | 4 |
Irena Sendler - Holocaust Heroine
Irena Sendler (aka Irena Sendlerowa) was a member of Zegota, the clandestine Polish Rescue Organization, who, at great risk, rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto and placed them with Christian families.
She buried jars containing their real and assumed names in the gard... | <urn:uuid:3c2efee4-48a2-4400-873d-e122ecd9dcb9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.holocaustforgotten.com/sendler.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408828.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00130-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983457 | 2,503 | 2.796875 | 3 |
humans have attempted to explain the Sun in terms of their own worldviews.
The Sun can be a god, a demon, a mischievous spirit, an omnipotent
creator or a ruthless taker of life. Whatever role it plays, most
cultures have recognized the significance of the Sun as prime controller
of all life on Earth.
As you read
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Since light carries energy with it, a cloth that absorbs light also absorbs energy. In most cases, this absorbed energy becomes thermal energy in the cloth. Because of this extra thermal energy, the cloth's temperature rises and it begins to transfer the thermal energy to its surroundings as heat. Its temperature stops... | <urn:uuid:6203a743-4ece-4940-bb2e-03e428ba4a59> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.howeverythingworks.org/clothing_and_insulation.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00192-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962355 | 2,296 | 3.734375 | 4 |
A small parasite is taking a big bite out of northern New England’s moose population.
Across the region, moose are falling prey to the winter tick – in some areas at an alarming rate. As Maine prepares for its annual moose-hunt lottery Saturday, the state has taken significant measures to protect its herd.
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Efforts to understand the foundational issues of theoretical physics have been made by scientists over millennia. Human beings are naturally curious: we want to deeply understand nature. With pioneering insights by Aristarchus and Archimedes, Copernicus and Kepler and, more recently, Dirac and Feynman, humans have made... | <urn:uuid:b5ce614b-30be-4735-9738-12d5399675ff> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.math.toronto.edu/colliand/2012/01/21/the-lucky-few-of-waterloo-part-2-perimeter-institute-buys-culture/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00026-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.898904 | 1,522 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Four specific interactions can occur when laser energy is delivered to the tissues;
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Instruct each student to take a sock from the materials station and
carry it outside. Once all the students are outside, instruct them to
place the sock over their shoes. Tell students to scuff their feet on
the ground for the next five minutes.
Note to Teacher
The goal is to take students to wooded areas where there a... | <urn:uuid:d7aea960-c1c3-43ab-b404-bdb7a3c08124> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/ntti/resources/lessons/s_seedier/b.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00002-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932236 | 3,180 | 3.75 | 4 |
POLAND'S BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Location: Absolute; 52°13′48″N 21°00′39″E
Location: Relative; To the east of Germany and the Czech Republic. To the north of Slovakia. To the Northwest of Ukraine.
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[en] yeast mitochonrion ; uncoupling protein ; candida parapsilosis
[en] An uncoupling protein (UCP) was identified in mitochondria from Candida parapsilosis (CpUCP), a non-fermentative parasitic yeast. CpUCP was immunodetected using polyclonal antibodies raised against plant UCP. Activity of CpUCP, investigated in mit... | <urn:uuid:63c331d7-f81d-4954-ba1a-a98803e15cbc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/handle/2268/33005 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00036-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933362 | 205 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Erysipelas is a bacterial infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue, usually involving the face, ears and lower legs. It is characterized by well demarcated areas of redness, heat, pain, and swelling and may be associated with constitution symptoms including fever, chills, headache, joint pain, and back pain.
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Elizabeth Jones Earns $1 Million HHMI Chair
Will Lead Development of a Cognitive Tutor for Genetics
A new teaching assistant will help Elizabeth Jones, the Dr. Frederick A. Schwertz Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences and head of the Department of Biological Sciences, guide her genetics students through the proble... | <urn:uuid:c4c7028d-3779-41fb-b5bc-09d6f1eeced9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/021009/021009_ejones.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00149-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941124 | 697 | 2.609375 | 3 |
The Shape of Things to Come: Sunday Afternoon Special Session Focuses on the Biology of Cancer
Kristine M. Conner
University of Pennsylvania Cancer
Last Modified: May 13, 2001
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The common sunflower (Helianthus annuus) with its familiar blooms has been cultivated by Native Americans as far back as 3,000 B.C. They utilized these lofty giants in medicine and as a vital food source for the nutrient-packed seeds or for making into sunflower oil, meal and flour. But as it turns out, the once wild a... | <urn:uuid:3a260a2c-65e2-455f-afdf-3729dfa40854> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oregonlive.com/hg/index.ssf/2014/08/sensational_sunflowers.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00201-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.887309 | 1,414 | 3.078125 | 3 |
A mathematical model uses mathematical language to describe a system. Mathematical models are used not only in the natural sciences and engineering disciplines (such as physics, biology, earth science, meteorology, and engineering) but also in the social sciences (such as economics, psychology, sociology and political ... | <urn:uuid:9ba64079-24ae-49f0-91b3-c495b6a4f4fc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://medicalxpress.com/tags/mathematical+model/sort/liverank/1d/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00122-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92207 | 191 | 3.28125 | 3 |
Four of the 107 students who were recently graduated from EOP boot camp.
Most students attend college to improve their lives. But many students in the Educational Opportunity Program attend college to improve the lives of their parents.
Consider, for instance, Elizabeth Oviedo, who spent the past six weeks in what is d... | <urn:uuid:cb249f7a-2be6-4e43-a8b0-c693354f6512> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.njit.edu/features/student/bootcamp-2014.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00097-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985276 | 2,535 | 2.546875 | 3 |
The Barddas of Iolo Morganwg, Vol. II., ed. by J. Williams Ab Ithel, , at sacred-texts.com
Here are the Triads of the Bards of the Isle of Britain, with the memorial 2 and account which exist in 3 the voice of Gorsedd respecting them, their origin and nature.
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Iris Murdoch, the Oxford moral philosopher and novelist, thought suffering was not necessarily redemptive; it did not always improve us either morally or spiritually.
Taking her cue from Plato, she argued that while suffering might well be a constituent of the moral life, it must never be an end in itself. Moreover, ev... | <urn:uuid:19a011fb-fff4-44f9-bc6d-912b78e82ea2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/03/29/israelis/print | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00059-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966969 | 2,447 | 2.890625 | 3 |
By Jim Newman
Last month marked the 30th anniversary of "A Nation at Risk," a study commissioned by the Department of Education. At once a strong indictment of the academic performance of American students, it also set forth numerous recommendations intended to improve the curriculum, learning standards and instruction... | <urn:uuid:f524b81e-1fa7-4b35-a8e9-0424c34ed858> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/05/kids_arent_cogs_personalize_learning_for_best_results_as_i_see_it.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00045-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961123 | 1,045 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Model aims to reduce disaster toll on city's social, economic fabric
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was hit by a devastating flood in the summer of 2008, and Purdue University researchers used the disaster in demonstrating a computer model that predicts how damage from such events would affect a city's social and economic fabric.... | <urn:uuid:3f9740a4-5258-465f-b913-0b943561cbe0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/research/2010/100928HastakDisaster.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00127-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949044 | 852 | 2.765625 | 3 |
How did the location of industry across interwar Poland react to the Polish reunification?
After more than 120 years of political and economic separation, Poland was reunified at the end of 1918. In consequence, the removal of internal tariff barriers and improved
infrastructure strengthened the domestic market, while ... | <urn:uuid:0afcbe7e-eb86-4b4c-b838-b76acb56ade3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://edocs.fu-berlin.de/docs/receive/FUDOCS_document_000000000388 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00161-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.896787 | 213 | 2.96875 | 3 |
This tool consists of two complementary parts – a chisel at one end and a mortise chisel at the other. In its long form, it is French in origin, and probably is the descendant of a much more hazardous tool, which had a longer handle and shorter head. It was known as a twybill, a piochon in French, and a Kreuzaxt in Ger... | <urn:uuid:89576d97-2482-4d14-ac74-daf987108a73> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.en.charpentiers.culture.fr/tools/shapingtools/bisaigue | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00103-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967332 | 431 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Today is November 6, 2012–Election Day in the United States. Four years ago American citizens over the age of eighteen elected President Barack Obama. But what did the first election look like over 200 hundred years ago? How have voting rights changed over the years? How are the lines of voting district lines drawn? Ho... | <urn:uuid:52870c5b-1bde-4cd7-b07c-45a9a012e9b4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.ed.ted.com/2012/11/05/357/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00038-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945505 | 289 | 3.5625 | 4 |
The complete birth of a star has never been observed. The principles of physics demand some special conditions for star formation and also a long time period. A cloud of hydrogen gas must be compressed to a sufficiently small size so that gravity dominates. (As an example, the sun is a stable sphere of gas.) In space, ... | <urn:uuid:6a967d73-6437-4c3e-80e7-a271df61eeb5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/star-formation.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00184-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948917 | 570 | 4.375 | 4 |
More than 83,000 chemicals go into solvents, cosmetics, and other American products, but no one knows how the vast majority of them affect our health. For the Environmental Protection Agency, screening a single chemical can take years and cost millions. The agency has ordered testing on just 200 compounds and restricte... | <urn:uuid:0be69295-b57c-4edf-bf52-3416a8e1cceb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://discovermagazine.com/2011/jul-aug/06-the-toxinator-epa-robot-tests-chemicals-poisons | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397865.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00072-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941989 | 338 | 3.25 | 3 |
Short stature is a general term for people whose height is
considerably below average compared to the height of their peers. While it can
apply to adults, the term is more commonly used to refer to children.
A child can be significantly shorter than their friends and
still be perfectly healthy. This is particularly tru... | <urn:uuid:cfb18cbc-cbc4-4592-940c-0612f312fd67> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.aarpmedicareplans.com/health/short-stature | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404826.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00097-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925587 | 1,158 | 4 | 4 |
A large country in Scandinavia which has Stockholm as its capital. It shares land borders with Norway and Finland.
Sweden is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. Sweden borders Norway and Finland, and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Øresund. At 450295 square kilometres, Sweden is the third l... | <urn:uuid:68e4af11-a2cb-4f34-baba-8927a0738a29> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://travel.stackexchange.com/tags/sweden/info | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00105-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955604 | 138 | 2.65625 | 3 |
For the first time, genome sequencing has been carried out on Chlamydia trachomatis (C. trachomatis), a bacteria responsible for the disease Trachoma - the world's leading infectious cause of blindness, according to a study in Nature Communications.
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The fovea occurs in primates including humans, and in diurnal birds and lizards. Primates have a single fovea. Certain species of bird, such as hawks, are bifoviate, whereas dogs and cats, for example, have no fovea but a central band known as the visual streak. An area of relatively acute vision, called the macula, wi... | <urn:uuid:b63df325-7e9d-4630-8117-6cac4f1b9f54> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/F/fovea.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00176-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917062 | 268 | 4.21875 | 4 |
Definition of red–cockaded woodpecker
: an endangered chiefly black-and-white woodpecker (Picoides borealis) of the southeastern United States having a barred back, white cheek patches, and in the male a small tuft of red feathers on each side of the head
First Known Use of red–cockaded woodpecker
Seen and Heard
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ETOPO1 Data Sources
ETOPO1 was built in two versions: an "Ice Surface" version that depicts the surface of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, and a "Bedrock" version that depicts the bedrock underneath the two ice sheets. Most data sources were used in developing both versions, the exception being the RAMP topogra... | <urn:uuid:e79ef786-587b-4826-ad8b-cd50f8ae1e5c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/etopo1sources.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00012-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.887665 | 1,454 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Civil War gravestones, Vicksburg, Miss.
2011 kicked off the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. At the beginning of 2011, I began seeing articles and news clippings to commemorate the anniversary. While not a professional historian, I took classes on the conflict at Ole Miss and visited memorials and battlefie... | <urn:uuid:22bf522d-dcac-431d-8305-d632ee02b8c2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.acton.org/archives/tag/american-civil-war | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00091-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971182 | 704 | 2.578125 | 3 |
39 More Toxic Coal Ash Sites Found to Contaminate US Water Supply With Arsenic & Heavy Metals
Aerial photo of one of the sites discovered, in Uncasville, Connecticut.
A new report by the Environmental Integrity Project, Earthjustice, and the Sierra Club has identified an additional 39 sites in 21 states where toxic coa... | <urn:uuid:d731bda8-6395-4a6f-b0a8-acba6f900120> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/39-more-toxic-coal-ash-sites-found-to-contaminate-us-water-supply-with-arsenic-heavy-metals.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00044-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.846864 | 619 | 2.828125 | 3 |
"You can't coach a game you don't play"
Coaching for Implementation of Evidence-based Practice (EBP)
In the START Project, coaching is the primary infrastructure for implementation of evidence-based practices such as differentiated output to access general education curriculum or specific practices such as self-managem... | <urn:uuid:5e943994-342c-4200-a665-a4cdc89eaf7b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.gvsu.edu/autismcenter/coaching-21.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398516.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00135-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953275 | 173 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Voyages into the Future
In the steamy year 2100, we’ll not be the only sights long gone
by Lynn Teo Simarski
“A lot of ecology is like watching the paint dry, but this thing moves fast,” says Court Stevenson, Horn Point Laboratory botanist, of Blackwater Wildlife Refuge, where flooded roads and yards testify to rising ... | <urn:uuid:d109f524-ceb9-45b7-a04a-46ed1548ee9b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://bayweekly.com/old-site/year07/issuexv34/leadxv34_1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402746.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00062-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939159 | 5,008 | 2.6875 | 3 |
EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENTS Educational experiments in England and Wales are usually suggested by the needs of the moment. (For America see "Edu cational Experiments in the U.S.") Those who conduct them do so to overcome a recognized difficulty or to achieve a better way of teaching. In one department, that of intelligence... | <urn:uuid:e15e3cdf-4117-4a82-aea7-c0b81735dad2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://gluedideas.com/Encyclopedia-Britannica-Volume-7-Part-2-Damascus-Education-Animals/Educational-Experiments.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397696.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00147-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973396 | 24,002 | 3.125 | 3 |
Today’s home audio systems can range from a simple unit with several different functions or several different components that make up a larger stereo system. These components can include receivers, CD players, cassette decks, equalizers, speakers, amplifiers, clock radios, MP3 players and more.
CD Players are available... | <urn:uuid:fbf1172b-039f-4812-a65e-95b4932f07e1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.green3dhome.com/YourHouse/FamilyRoom/HomeAudio.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00136-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944782 | 539 | 2.65625 | 3 |
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This activity will help students see the logic o... | <urn:uuid:476e50b7-8369-4007-92dc-0c3bc8f78626> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/math/k2patterns.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00170-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930954 | 509 | 5.03125 | 5 |
Top 10 Must Have Features in O/R Mapping Tools
Feature 4: Relationships and Life Cycle Management
The foundation of a relational database is that tables have relationships with other tables. Similarly, when you map objects to these tables, your objects also need to establish the same relationships with other mapped obj... | <urn:uuid:9e835082-141e-4db7-9d23-c6bb4f9bdccd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sql-server-performance.com/2005/or-mapping-tools/3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00176-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935941 | 1,497 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Water characteristics - check the river level report.
Stream flow usually peaks in late April and falls throughout the summer. The river's flow is affected by the regulation of reservoirs on tributaries, particularly the Whiteface and Cloquet rivers. From U.S. Highway 53 to Cloquet the river falls 136 feet, an average ... | <urn:uuid:2fa984e7-a1a9-4933-a495-08857b822586> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/watertrails/stlouisriver/more.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00040-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940994 | 541 | 3.203125 | 3 |
THRESHOLDS & MENTORING
Many states do not offer guidance on fire ant thresholds, and it is up to each IPM team, school or district to decide the thresholds they are comfortable with, while also adhering to integrated pest mangement (IPM) principles. An example of a threshold strategy is below.
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This is a NEGenWeb Project web page
and is presented as part of the
MARDOS Memorial Library Collection.
Joseph Sudik of Schuyler furnished data for Schuyler and vicinity, Jos. M. Mundil and Anton Odvarka Sr. for Clarkson and vicinity.
Colfax County was created out of a portion of Platte County on March 15, 1869 and nam... | <urn:uuid:edacaf77-6a80-442f-9374-51937b949db7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/ethnic/czechs/cz-pg137.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00038-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982892 | 4,813 | 2.625 | 3 |
In what way is object-orientated methodology better than structured methodology?
This gets down to the programing equivalent of "religious issues" to give you a complete answer. Different people (even different experts) will see the question in a different light.
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Protrusions on Stepped Spillways to Improve Energy Dissipation
Thesis (MScEng (Civil Engineering))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.
Stepped spillways constructed of roller compacted concrete (RCC) is a hydraulic and cost effective measure to dissipate energy of large water flows over the spillway of a dam. Stepped sp... | <urn:uuid:3cca3094-d887-4aef-863c-6f929c2c0ab6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/2408 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00011-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940511 | 364 | 2.609375 | 3 |
FOREST CITY, N.C. – How do you improve a system that can keep servers cool using only fresh air on a 102-degree day? If you’re the data center team at Facebook, you continue to refine your design, seeking every opportunity to further optimize your systems.
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Birding is the number one recreational activity in the United States, and it’s growing more popular every day. The hobby has seen a growth of 150 percent in the last ten years alone.
Why is it so popular? Dave Titterington, owner of Lincoln’s two Wild Bird Habitat Stores, enjoys birdwatching because it’s entertaining, ... | <urn:uuid:2dbf2b53-f631-4045-bcd6-a77e854fdfdb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.examiner.com/article/birdwatching-a-fun-family-activity-for-spring | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00061-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953181 | 796 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Digital Collections & Services: Access to print, pictorial and audio-visual collections and other digital services
Ask a Librarian
The Library of Congress initiated an “Ask A Librarian” service, in June 2002. This service brings the Library’s reference specialists and resources into direct contact with researchers and ... | <urn:uuid:ad84877d-014e-46b3-8933-21671dc877b6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://loc.gov/library/digitalreference.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00074-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903163 | 387 | 2.875 | 3 |
Bulletin #12 - Federal Statutes that contain the word
Did You Know: The words "
The words "home school" appears about 11 times in current federal law.
The statutes are
10 USC sect. 520; Dealing with Military Law, Personnel and Enlistment
20 USC Chapter 25A sect. 926; Dealing with Overseas Defense Dependent Education
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Grow to Learn: Citywide School Gardens Initiative
Across the City, we are working hard to help gardens bloom at each of the 1,700 public schools, so all of our youngest neighbors have the chance to dig in, learn in a hands-on and exciting way, and build positive attitudes towards healthy food. Together with the Mayor’s... | <urn:uuid:15cbef58-9012-49d1-acec-275cdb249656> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.grownyc.org/annual-2012/open-space-greening/grow-to-learn-nyc/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00144-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945983 | 649 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Improve gaze direction
Four children with visual impairments (blindness) and one hundred sixty people with normal site
The study was conducted in two phases. In the first phase, the four blind children were videotaped before and after they received training in gaze direction. Gaze direction training involved physical p... | <urn:uuid:5f1af91f-fc44-407c-bfd6-52fc117671fc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://special.edschool.virginia.edu/information/ints/gaze.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399425.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00025-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973315 | 350 | 3.90625 | 4 |
In 1988, the Hawley family unearthed a steamboat that had sunk before the Civil War. NEH Chairman Bruce Cole talked with the brothers recently about their change from treasure hunters into preservationists and museum owners.
Bruce Cole: You found a steamship full of treasure, the Arabia, in a cornfield?
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Beta blockers may reduce dementia risk
By Saundra Young
(CNN) — If you take drugs to lower your blood pressure, your medication may also lower your risk of dementia, according to a new study released Monday by the American Academy of Neurology.
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