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Along Beaver Creek in central Iowa, ARS soil scientist Mark D. Tomer and technician Sarah Porter review a map showing results from a new toolset that analyzes conservation data from this watershed. Photo by Jim Ascough.
A free computer-based toolset developed by USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists was l... | <urn:uuid:52648cc0-4654-4dea-875c-93b50860cd6f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.usda.gov/tag/iowa/page/3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00128-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952246 | 1,198 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Scientists know that exercise can foster the growth of new brain cells, but the factors responsible for this phenomenon have not been well understood.
In a recent study, researchers have discovered the chemical process that makes this happen. What’s more is that they may be able to “bottle” the chemical that produces t... | <urn:uuid:1c626838-9107-4ae8-9081-5ed2d771cdf1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://themindunleashed.org/2014/03/study-finds-exercise-literally-makes-brain-grow.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404382.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00014-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952651 | 655 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Ghana The Akan Group
Sources: The Library of Congress Country Studies; CIA World Factbook
Fishermen offer their daily catch for sale on a beach near Accra
On the basis of language and culture, historical geographers and cultural anthropologists classify the indigenous people of Ghana into five major groups. These are t... | <urn:uuid:58cdb625-120a-4140-a6bb-e4216fe804e3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.photius.com/countries/ghana/society/ghana_society_the_akan_group.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00043-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964759 | 1,296 | 3.453125 | 3 |
"Conservation NGOs benefit from the tiger’s charismatic high profile as a means to raise funds, and conservation scientists like to study tigers, so one could argue that they have an incentive to prevent them from becoming extinct. By contrast, rural people living near tigers have to deal with threats to their livestoc... | <urn:uuid:a64a1a43-42c3-4825-95ec-bd31210931e3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2011/06/tiger-economics.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403823.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00111-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966344 | 355 | 2.796875 | 3 |
The Arctic is often referred to as the bellwether of global climate change. According to the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment and the most recent assessment from IPCC, the warming rate is twice that of the global average, with predictions of further increases leading to substantial loss of Arctic sea ice and large-scal... | <urn:uuid:8e71cdfc-d44f-4451-8dfa-cfe6be880afd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.arctic-footprint.eu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00143-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.883354 | 638 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Wheat allergy is an allergic reaction to foods containing wheat, one of the top eight food allergens in the United States. Allergic reactions can result from eating wheat, but also, in some cases, by inhaling wheat flour. Wheat can be found in many foods, including some you might not suspect, such as beer, soy sauce an... | <urn:uuid:97cc5991-a0ee-4593-8229-594e6c1595a7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/wheat-allergy/basics/treatment/con-20031834?p=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00069-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936638 | 2,410 | 3.484375 | 3 |
In the modern world, we use electricity for so many things. We require electrical power to pump water into people's houses and to pump the sewage away. [You can imagine] what could happen if the sewage systems aren't pumping stuff away.
If you don't have power, you can't pump fuel into vehicles. If you don't have any f... | <urn:uuid:355dd710-3496-4955-bd12-ab235c5191b9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/04/science/la-sci-solar-storms-20120505/2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396459.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00060-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969842 | 237 | 2.78125 | 3 |
The UDP- and OSC protocols allow the use of normal ethernet network connection to send information between computers and other interactive media systems. Because of its speed and availability in almost every new computer it's a good replacement for the MIDI interface in many cases.
The UDP protocol is based on IP netwo... | <urn:uuid:2bc5088e-d4f0-4cca-8bcd-64d09b10a90d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.frieder-weiss.de/eyecon/Manual/udp-osc.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397864.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00052-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.902362 | 608 | 3.484375 | 3 |
Electrical wire is wire used to carry electricity. When people touch wire that is carrying electricity, they get shocked, which is bad, so the outside coating of electrical wires is colored. Most electric wires are black, but some wires have a differently colored coating. Different colors indicate different purposes, f... | <urn:uuid:fa775547-c4fb-40a0-89b4-5b1bd188ca09> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00154-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956543 | 146 | 3.453125 | 3 |
The pricing of services in the United States is a mess. Consider these examples:
- In 1992, Congress enacted the Cable Act to rein in prices in the cable television industry. This legislation, prompted by widespread consumer dissatisfaction with price increases and poor service, gave broad regulatory powers to the Fede... | <urn:uuid:45af2e91-60db-40b8-b60c-9be8ff145367> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/capture-and-communicate-value-in-the-pricing-of-services/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00143-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947732 | 470 | 2.578125 | 3 |
5-A-Day For Better Health
New Jersey 5-A-Day Coalition, composed of representatives of both
NJDA and DHSS, as well as the state's health and retail food industries,
works year round to remind consumers of the important health benefits
of eating five or more servings of fruits and vegetables every day.
national 5-a-Day ... | <urn:uuid:a59e4ca2-7f0a-468b-8522-4ada15de09f7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.state.nj.us/agriculture/fiveaday/coalition.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00025-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92622 | 304 | 2.546875 | 3 |
When Carl Bergman decided to install contour buffer strips on a highly erosive field, he needed a big-rooted grass that would persist for many years without maintenance.
He found those characteristics and more in eastern gamagrass, a native warm-season species.
Bergman, a Hillsboro, IL, corn and soybean grower, plants ... | <urn:uuid:a29fd44d-322f-4b23-881e-bc67d8eb422b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://cornandsoybeandigest.com/print/native-grass-holds-soil | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00040-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972544 | 557 | 2.625 | 3 |
Themes > Climate > International Collaborations and Partnerships on Climate Change
International Collaborations and Partnerships on Climate Change
In 1979 the first “World Climate Conference” organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) expressed concern that “continued expansion of man’s activities on Eart... | <urn:uuid:9c6afd73-e5ad-460f-b6af-68acc716f1a9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wmo.int/pages/themes/climate/international_background.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396147.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00124-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926221 | 447 | 3.8125 | 4 |
Bushkill sits along the western banks of the Delaware River in northeastern Pennsylvania. The town, which is within the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, is part of the Pocono Mountains region, a popular vacation destination year-round. Mostly rural in character, Bushkill is only a few hours away from severa... | <urn:uuid:216a7cee-03ee-42a2-a736-816e924faad2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://traveltips.usatoday.com/attractions-near-bushkill-pennsylvania-102640.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00081-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947385 | 673 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Every day, machine vision providers receive such inquiries. Often, prospective customers are surprised at the answer: “Sorry, but cameras can’t do that.”
A machine vision system consists of illumination, optics, camera, computer and software.
At first glance, the camera is the source of the image. But actually, the ima... | <urn:uuid:2c6f4a0f-4200-4478-9ef5-4ea874355f66> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.qualitymag.com/articles/89448-application-answers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783408840.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155008-00146-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928469 | 1,624 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Roberts, Richard N. PhD; Behl, Diane D. MEd; Akers, Adrienne L. MS
RECENT studies (eg, Newacheck, Hung, Hochstein, & Halfon, 2002; Newacheck et al., 1998; van Dyck et al., 2002) have suggested that as many as 15% of children within the birth-to-5 age range (increasing to about 18% of children birth through 18) meet the... | <urn:uuid:7f4522ff-0e13-4ba8-acd8-1b87d2d47b18> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://journals.lww.com/iycjournal/Fulltext/2004/07000/Building_a_System_of_Care_for_Children_With.3.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00050-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949221 | 6,643 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Copyright Notice: This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Walrus".
The walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) is a large flippered marine mammal with a discontinuous circumpolar distribution in the Arctic Ocean and sub-Arctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. T... | <urn:uuid:3b534370-7f86-47f6-aebd-09ddb3b1f7d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://earthsendangered.com/article.asp?ID=20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403508.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00152-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954337 | 2,969 | 4 | 4 |
California Districts Build Performance Assessments for Common Core
In the politically fraught world of the common core, it's interesting to see how some schools and districts tune out the arguments and chug right along with—shock of all shocks—work focused on curriculum and instruction. One recent example is a set of p... | <urn:uuid:6f524a21-0fb2-4368-925d-6a7e650abdd0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2014/01/california_districts_build_per.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00092-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972559 | 372 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Born too soon pg. 5
Now at Vanderbilt, Muglia’s team is one of many searching for genes that will predict whether a woman has an increased risk of having a preterm infant.
For the past several years, investigators including Scott Williams, Ph.D., an investigator in the Vanderbilt Center for Human Genetics Research, hav... | <urn:uuid:3a5b861f-333d-4f08-a8ca-25a9cda6052a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/lens/article/?id=227&pg=4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00182-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936293 | 381 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Translation of rounders in Spanish:
- (in UK) (+ singular verb)(juego parecido al béisbol)Example sentences
- The children will play a variety of sports including hockey, basketball, rounders, Olympic handball, Gaelic football and table tennis.
- Several baseball players and writers pointed to the British games of cric... | <urn:uuid:78d9756a-5ed9-42a0-947f-46055a88aa69> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/translate/english-spanish/rounders | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00077-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915416 | 144 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Lexical scope in general is the idea that:
- an identifier at a particular place in a program always refers to the same variable location — where “always” means “every time that the containing expression is executed”, and that
- the variable location to which it refers can be determined by static examination of the sou... | <urn:uuid:7b3320d3-a588-49d1-b0ce-5ccd60d56f91> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://wikemacs.org/index.php?title=Lexical_scope&oldid=2797 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00181-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95605 | 144 | 2.71875 | 3 |
In response, some 100 local teens banded together into an anti-fascist underground — the Molodaya Gvardiya, or Young Guard. (English Wikipedia entry) | Russian) Most of their number would give their lives in resistance.
During the few months of occupation, the Young Guards managed an impressive record of sabotage opera... | <urn:uuid:28a1d572-dce3-4514-94bd-352d6250c590> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.executedtoday.com/tag/propaganda/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00135-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974278 | 11,203 | 2.625 | 3 |
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Dred Scott v. Sanford (Denial of Basic Rights to Blacks)
A major precursor to the Civil War, this controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision denied citizenship and basic rights to all blacks -- whether slave or free.
|1863 || |
President Abraham Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation," takes effect, proclaiming... | <urn:uuid:f8a507cc-b569-46d7-90fe-357e95607830> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://civilrights.findlaw.com/civil-rights-overview/civil-rights-timeline-of-events.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395039.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00176-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929741 | 1,438 | 3.90625 | 4 |
Did you know the San Diego Zoo has a bakery for animals? Do the animals like to eat bread with milk or hot chocolate? Well, not exactly, but there is one animal who is eating a special bread—a giant panda!
At the San Diego Zoo, our senior panda Gao Gao has some problems with his teeth, making it hard for him to eat his... | <urn:uuid:cb9f0bc1-bb82-4eba-9494-238a86ff52be> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blogs.sandiegozoo.org/author/edith-galindo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00081-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96959 | 549 | 2.65625 | 3 |
During Kim Jong-un’s rule, North Korea’s unrelenting deprivation of fundamental human rights has, if possible, gotten even worse. North Koreans seek to flee the regime ruled by political prisons, torture, hunger, and public execution, completely void of fundamental rights or an adequate standard of living.
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Art, drawing, and visual perception books are a great way to encourage your child's imagination, creativity, and love of learning. These books are perfect for school or home use and cover multiple topics. A variety of titles suitable for each age group are available, from preschool to adult.
Book Titles for Every Age G... | <urn:uuid:cf311463-ac4f-4b1c-a681-65f4cb67be1f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.staples.com/Art-Drawing-Visual-Perception-Books/brandedcat_CL207495_Carson%2BDellosa_24801 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00062-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940247 | 325 | 3.1875 | 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...
(In Hebrew Yâdên, from the root Yârâd, to descend).
The difference of elevation between the highest point of this river (1847 feet ab... | <urn:uuid:ea57ef9b-69e7-47a9-9156-dbb6317f7e94> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://newadvent.org/cathen/08501a.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00146-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920416 | 1,736 | 2.84375 | 3 |
versão On-line ISSN 2413-3051
J. energy South. Afr. vol.24 no.2 Cape Town Mai. 2013
Bernard TemboI; Bruno MervenII
IEnergy Institute, University College London
IIEnergy Research Centre, University of Cape Town
This paper aims at understanding how Zambia's electricity system would be affected by droughts (due to a dry y... | <urn:uuid:89f49312-0296-497a-8bd0-8489aeba2fb6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1021-447X2013000200002&lng=pt&nrm=iso | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00177-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92843 | 7,575 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Constructing word similarities in Meroitic as an aid to decipherment
Meroitic is the still undeciphered phonetic script of the ancient civilisation of Kush. Various techniques for decipherment have been tried with limited success, including seeking bilingual texts, or attempting to identify cognates from modern or othe... | <urn:uuid:94521b7a-5f52-46b9-ab8a-11d6b5c6de9f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/online_journals/bmsaes/issue_12/smith.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00166-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.893224 | 149 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Energy Efficient Water Heater and Furnace
Water heating can be the second largest residential energy user according to the Department of Energy - and the largest in some temperate climates. If you heat with gas, water heating can soak up 40% of your energy bill.
In most homes, showers use-and waste-the most hot water. ... | <urn:uuid:d7e67f11-10e5-4fbb-a53d-765f46a909c5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pge.com/myhome/edusafety/workshopstraining/pec/tour/furnace.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00002-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941523 | 384 | 2.859375 | 3 |
32nd Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association
March 3-6, 2011 at Arizona State University, Tempe & Phoenix, Arizona
How was money understood in the nineteenth century? in its global context? by laborers? How did the ideation of money evolve around and through art, music, race, nation, and empire?... | <urn:uuid:ff9ccc53-f809-4c80-bb56-c80a4471ed3b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.rc.umd.edu/blog_rc?page=6&m=201009 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00089-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918969 | 622 | 2.671875 | 3 |
London Olympics Drops Carbon-Offset Plan
Organizers of the London 2012 Olympic Games dropped a plan to cut carbon emissions during the sporting showcase, abandoning a pledge made when it defeated eight other cities to host the event.
Games administrators will “no longer pursue formal offsetting procedures” to mitigate ... | <urn:uuid:c5b9c218-b91c-4e0d-a303-d41a0b435053> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2011-08-31/olympics-drops-carbon-offset-plan-to-focus-on-u-k-benefits.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00040-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939774 | 1,108 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Is it any wonder that years of undernourishment have stunted the growth and reduced the role of British science? A study commissioned by the Advisory Board for the Research Councils (ABRC), released last October, painstakingly evaluated U.K. performance, measured in terms of papers published and citations received, aga... | <urn:uuid:47b6c468-1f44-42f3-ab24-b964bbed84b1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/8495/title/Shame-On-You--Mrs-Thatcher/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00025-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960473 | 1,157 | 2.53125 | 3 |
In the wake of a major push for immigration reform from both political parties in the United States, politicians and major figures on the right are re-examining their relationship with the anti-immigrant movement. A close examination of the history of the movement reveals another reason for politicians to distance them... | <urn:uuid:3d5a88cd-a5fc-4360-8180-756444ae7788> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.adl.org/civil-rights/immigration/c/ties-between-anti-immigrant-eugenics.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00082-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967717 | 759 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Even though the flu is less dangerous than many think and the flu vaccine less dangerous than many think, factory farming of animals may continue to promote the creation of serious viruses and bacteria that threaten human populations. Swine flu comes from pigs shoved together where the virus spreads and mutates, then e... | <urn:uuid:9a23c28d-e407-4d82-8179-7d1e342ba95f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.drgreene.com/changing-buying-habits-reduce-risk-pandemic-flu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398075.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00146-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945021 | 254 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible, by Matthew Henry, at sacred-texts.com
Matthew, surnamed Levi, before his conversion was a publican, or tax-gatherer under the Romans at Capernaum. He is generally allowed to have written his Gospel before any other of the evangelists. The contents of this Gospel, and the evidence... | <urn:uuid:2c97fdb9-a327-4410-9bb7-6c476c70bd21> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/mhcc/mat000.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397749.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00176-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974107 | 196 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Spoonhead Sculpin Fact Sheet
New York Status: Endangered
The spoonhead sculpin has a flat, triangle-shaped head, slender tubular-shaped body, and a well developed semicircular preopercular (cheekbone) spine. Its body has no scales but is covered with prickles (small, fine, curved spines). The gill covers are attached t... | <urn:uuid:89b4b5d4-2aa6-4603-aaeb-1f4060c87f0c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/26009.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402699.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00134-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933637 | 406 | 3.546875 | 4 |
27 June 2016
Int J Med Sci 2010; 7(6):342-353. doi:10.7150/ijms.7.342
Refractive Status and Prevalence of Refractive Errors in Suburban School-age Children
1. Department of Ophthalmology, Children's Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China
How to cite this article:
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The success of the Allied D-Day Invasion caught the Nazis off guard and threw their war strategy to the dogs. Suddenly, Nazi Germany found itself fighting a two front war against foes that were making increasingly fast strides towards Berlin.
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In 2012 EUFIC launched www.coolfoodplanet.org, a new and exciting educational website for children, to help them learn about health, nutrition and food safety in a way that is engaging and fun.
What is Cool Food Planet?
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Topic Suggestion Description
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Date submitted: July 27, 2012
- Briefly describe a specific question, or set of related questions, about a health care test or treatment that this program should consider.
- "Fear of Swallowing" by a 7 1/2 year old girl who choked on a tortilla chip. How ca... | <urn:uuid:2eb704f6-207b-4d6d-8a94-4a81b93cd233> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/submit-a-suggestion-for-research/read-suggested-topics-for-research/?pageAction=view&topicID=573&source=current | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00069-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954921 | 1,163 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Baby sea turtle season is about to begin!
May is here, and baby sea turtle season will take place all along the coasts of Mexico. Throughout Cancun, the Riviera Maya and Los Cabos, everyone is getting ready to welcome mother turtles to the beach over the next few months as they lay their eggs. Starting in July, we´ll w... | <urn:uuid:aba6331b-631c-4a9b-86bf-acce961b65a2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.sandos.com/en/baby-sea-turtle-invasion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00031-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955204 | 674 | 2.75 | 3 |
If you're like a lot of people with type 2 diabetes, you may not be sure exactly why it's so important to test your blood sugar daily.
- Tell you what to eat next time: Checking blood sugar before and after a meal can determine if the food you're eating is a problem. Rice or corn, for instance, can send blood sugar way... | <urn:uuid:f771c3a3-a4e9-4b20-b5e1-fa99c79a83be> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.health.com/health/condition-article/0,,20188386,00.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 | 0.951999 | 556 | 3.171875 | 3 |
||The English used in this article or section may not be easy for everybody to understand. (November 2011)|
God is the maker of the earth and of everything, according to certain religions and mythologies. Hinduism says there is more than one god. Theists believe that God created everything that exists. In most religion... | <urn:uuid:b38897e3-240d-4ea5-a96a-19fc800f7e40> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/God | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00063-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944836 | 1,542 | 3.03125 | 3 |
No parent will balk at their child wanting a glass of milk to drink, but some wonder if all milks are created equal.
Cow’s milk is not digested well by babies under 12-months, so it should not be introduced until age 1. After age 1, until your child is 2, whole milk is recommended.
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Arterial Spin Labeling
- A Little History
- How does ASL work?
- ASL Summary (Generalized)
- ASL techniques
- ASL versus BOLD fMRI
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¡Viva la Revolución!
— Dan La Botz
THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION, which began in 1910 and ended in 1940, transformed Mexico. During the course of those 30 years, tens of thousands of men and women fought in battles in many regions of the country to end the Porfirian dictatorship and to determine the course and goals of the re... | <urn:uuid:26edde3e-5b7e-4ae1-9018-aaaef89ea590> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/2938 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00161-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965656 | 6,553 | 3.875 | 4 |
Multiplication tables are a great way to kids to learn their math facts. Please help yourself to these free tables. Just click on the picture to download a pdf of the table.
If you are looking for ideas on how to help your child with math, there is a lot of good information on this site and we are constantly adding mor... | <urn:uuid:3ec0d3fb-6d1a-46f3-8263-6bd9cf0fda79> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.study-skills-for-all-ages.com/printable-multiplication-tables.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00118-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931288 | 229 | 3.078125 | 3 |
In 1981, the newly elected French president, Francois Mitterrand, launched a campaign to renovate cultural institutions throughout France. One of the most advantageous of those projects was the renovation and reorganization of the Louvre.
In 1983 after touring Europe and the United States, President Mitterrand commissi... | <urn:uuid:4e3b3ffb-3fde-4fd4-851f-f52427ba69c8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.archdaily.com/88705/ad-classics-le-grande-louvre-i-m-pei/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00193-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954958 | 796 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Spain comes before us in brilliant guise as the greatest power in Europe during most of the Sixteenth Century. She had become a compact State under Ferdinand and Isabella at the end of the Fifteenth Century. Soon after the discovery of America Spain became the possessor of a new Empire beyond the Atlantic. Between 1519... | <urn:uuid:875c4f2f-39a6-4a1f-ba39-8e22df4f5c5d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://travel.yodelout.com/spain-and-the-reformation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00101-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98399 | 8,885 | 3.640625 | 4 |
Peas are legumes--plants which produce seed pods--and are very easy to grow. They are a staple for many home gardeners. Peas are a versatile vegetable, and can be eaten raw in salads or as a snack, cooked in many dishes, and they freeze well. To achieve the best crop, growers should be aware of the choices available wh... | <urn:uuid:b02b25d2-79a9-4351-87b9-6be28717fc16> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gardenguides.com/129671-pea-plant-species.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00059-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938544 | 655 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Pick a Region:. . South Asia
South Asia has always provided highly contrasting economic images. It is a land of fabulous wealth and of extreme poverty. The subcontinent has a small elite of very wealthy people and a large and growing middle class. South Asia has almost one half of the worlds poor even though it has onl... | <urn:uuid:ea2f2c63-23ba-44f4-b7d2-5196e4338982> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.cotf.edu/earthinfo/sasia/SAeco.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00134-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964333 | 908 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Safely landed on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover dwarfs its robot predecessors by a factor of 2:1, though we'll need to wait for it to take off its lenscap before we get a proper look at the Martian surface. Measuring 3m long, the six-wheeled Curiosity is double the size of the previous Exploration rovers and uses its hef... | <urn:uuid:dd8d5dd8-65e0-4c66-bc54-d8967ed66349> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.slashgear.com/nasas-curiosity-is-biggest-mars-mission-yet-in-more-ways-than-one-06241771/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00101-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954486 | 477 | 3.125 | 3 |
Question #1: Are those who pass on infection reckless? Question #2: Do responsible people take steps to protect themselves?
Sep 10, 1997
What evidence is there of behavior change among those who find out they have HIV?
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Sex and the Seamount Sponge
Many of the invertebrates that live on seamounts spend the majority of their lives firmly attached to the bottom or crawling slowly across it. But for most there is a planktonic larval stage at the beginning of their lives, a time to swim or to be swept along in the currents that flow around... | <urn:uuid:8b5f8b77-32f2-4713-a3bf-2749fc45bf68> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/learning/15_seamounts/activities/sponge.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397842.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00072-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962165 | 1,013 | 4.125 | 4 |
The United Nations' specialized agendas are autonomous organizations that are funded by both voluntary and assessed contributions (United Nations, 2012). There are currently seventeen existing specialized agencies established under the UN, including the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agricultural Organiz... | <urn:uuid:91ab3593-7294-4d19-b00d-6807e4ec3f1f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/m2016/finalwebsite/solutions/protocol.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00103-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903669 | 1,860 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Dada or Dadaism
A European artistic and literary movement (1916-1923) that flouted conventional aesthetic and cultural values by producing works marked by nonsense, travesty, and incongruity.
The term anti-art, a precursor to Dada, was coined by Marcel Duchamp around 1913 when he created his first readymades.
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NARCISSUS AND ECHO
Let's take what I think you will find to be a very interesting look at Greek Mythology as we consider the story of Narcissus and Echo.
The story gives us a very good insight about mythology, and how the strange stories were written in deep symbolic terms to relat... | <urn:uuid:919e2706-8c68-4c46-ae5b-4dc1ff6e20c2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.hiddenmeanings.com/Supernova1987a4.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00120-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964531 | 4,922 | 2.8125 | 3 |
My Freshmen students have been working in Lit Circles this year with students from Van Meter, Iowa. This past unit, students have been reading Richard Wright's Black Boy. This a great book to use with students as they learn more about theme. We discuss the different themes in the story and discuss the events in the sto... | <urn:uuid:4528e90c-c0d1-40db-8acf-50b26c0ab591> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thenerdyteacher.com/2010/12/visualizing-themes-in-literature.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00142-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944804 | 599 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Now is the time to plant onions indoors. If you want onions that are going to keep through the winter, you need to plant a good “keeper” variety. Catalogues will generally have this information available. I always plant them either in late February or March. This year, there are four different days which are particular... | <urn:uuid:36628db9-0d0e-4ab4-96ed-b0e823e11202> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.almanac.com/blog/celestes-garden/planting-onions | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393146.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00175-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966701 | 685 | 2.78125 | 3 |
By the Middle and Late Jurassic, dinosaurs had taken over the world. There were herds of Apatosaurus; each adult was as large as five or six elephants. Allosaurus, a two-ton meat-eater, waited in the bushes for its next meal; it needed to eat often to fill its appetite. Bony plates protected slow, steady Stegosaurus, w... | <urn:uuid:d2572cbb-7449-4350-b90b-5fa50f97df6e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://animals.howstuffworks.com/dinosaurs/middle-and-late-jurassic-periods.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398216.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00034-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981061 | 542 | 4.0625 | 4 |
The National Institute of Mental Health will tap into the vast neurobehavioral data amassed by the Oswego Children’s Study to learn more about the adolescent brain and how it develops.
Under the direction of Paul Stewart, researchers at SUNY Oswego’s Center for Neurobehavioral Effects of Environmental Toxics, home of t... | <urn:uuid:1860af09-e5c3-42e1-ae5e-ff63fc222a22> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oswego.edu/news/index.php/site/news_archive/brain_study | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00105-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944958 | 693 | 2.671875 | 3 |
The summary of an otherwise lost volume of Dio Cassius' Roman History records that the Emperor Domitian (reigned 81-96 CE) hated the memory of his brother, the previous emperor Titus, so much that: "although he was in love with a eunuch named Earinus, he decreed that, from now on, no-one in the territory ruled by Rome ... | <urn:uuid:392cee46-5147-402a-bafe-4ae21097da28> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/earinus.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00141-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960693 | 3,672 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Hardness: 7.0 Specific Gravity: 2.65
Characteristics: Variety of quartz, purple colored due to iron impurities and radioactive decay; vitreous luster; conchoidal fracture; only soluble in HF.
A common mineral found in igneous rocks, many metamorphic rocks, and most sedimentary rocks.
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What to Know About Antiretroviral Therapy for Kaposi Sarcoma
Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is for people who have HIV or AIDS. It has these 3 roles:
Controls HIV-infected cells
Slows virus replication
Improves immune function
By treating AIDS, HAART may prevent infections.
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Friends of Nevada Wilderness
The United States Congress designated the Quinn Canyon Wilderness (map
) in 1989 and it now has a total of 26,256 acres
All of this wilderness is located in Nevada
and is managed by the Forest Service.
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As part of your ENGL102 / 110 course, you will be spending one class session in the library to explore the resources available to you. When your class comes to the library, you have been asked to bring in an article on your chosen topic for an in-class exercise. In order to properly complete this task, you will need to... | <urn:uuid:cfd4687c-e3d0-47f8-a391-16bc846188c9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://lib.westfield.ma.edu/ENGL102Quicksearch | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397428.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00080-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92379 | 932 | 3.25 | 3 |
On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks, then a 42-year-old seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated Montgomery, Ala., bus setting off a 385-day municipal bus boycott that fueled the fledging civil rights movement led by a young 26-year-old Baptist preacher named Martin Luther King Jr.
The U.S. Supre... | <urn:uuid:90739fe6-3c93-47d3-be1e-40eec57cd0d2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/02/27/Obama-dedicates-Rosa-Parks-statue/UPI-19101361994878/ph3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00119-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974694 | 356 | 3.5 | 4 |
The Garden Club of America
100 Years of a Growing Legacy
By: William Seale
The Garden Club of America turns 100 years old in 2013 and over the last century it has been a leader in horticulture, education, conservation and civic beautification. These strong women with a vision set about changing the American landscape a... | <urn:uuid:6f71118d-7828-4117-9e22-e3d59a858d8f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/4076/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00097-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976406 | 834 | 3.328125 | 3 |
The Effects of Parental Alcoholism On Children
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The Maasai are an indigenous African ethnic group of semi-nomadic people located in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. Due to their distinctive customs and dress and residence near the many game parks of East Africa, they are among the most well-known African ethnic groups internationally. They speak Maa, a member o... | <urn:uuid:fc64968a-b425-4fc7-a91d-76c1c9445695> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pbase.com/light_works/z_maasai | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00150-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968941 | 356 | 2.859375 | 3 |
SKY & TELESCOPE'S NEWS BULLETIN -- APRIL 21, 1995
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Islam and Science
Let me start by uttering the traditional formula “In the Name of God the Compassionate the All-Merciful”. With this sentence, Muslims begin all the ritual actions of their lives, as well as the actions of their everyday lives that get the value of ritual actions. This formula opens every chapter, or s... | <urn:uuid:daa0907b-ca51-4791-a051-b37630150472> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://freeislamicurduarabicbooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/islam-and-science.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395166.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00139-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962395 | 8,908 | 2.515625 | 3 |
State’s ‘Body Walk’ display visits Starside
Indifferent to the threat of being swallowed, about 10 students from Starside Elementary School sat on teeth Friday, using a rope as dental floss.
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The next step to learning Latin is understanding Latin numbers. Latin numbers are essentially adjectives as they are in English, and so we will treat them as such. However, there are some nuances that must be addressed. Topics in this article include:
- Role of Numbers
- Numbers and Numerals
- Types of Numbers
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In a classic act of opportunism, the Japanese government used the distraction of the World War I in Europe to press China secretly for a series of concessions. It was made clear that if China were to refuse these demands, war with Japan would be the result.
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Portraits of Children on Roman Funerary Monuments
Portraits of Children on Roman Funerary Monuments
By Jason Mander. Pp. xvi + 397, figs. 131, tables 17. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013. $130. ISBN 978-1-107-00102-2 (cloth).
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Nasal cavity and paranasal sinus cancers are rare types of head and neck cancers. Nasal cavity cancer forms from the mucous-producing cells lining the inside of the nose. Paranasal sinus cancer can form in any of the sinuses, including the frontal sinuses (above the nose in the forehead), ethmoid sinuses (in the area b... | <urn:uuid:7ad4c473-1fc6-4adc-bfaf-340be7f61ae6> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.everydayhealth.com/cancer/head-and-neck/symptoms-head-and-neck-cancer.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00087-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925288 | 802 | 2.953125 | 3 |
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This case was a case (ruled on in 1998) about gay rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In this case, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that homosexuals had the right to be protected from discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation.
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Make use of compact development patterns to conserve land and promote community livability, transportation efficiency, and walkability.
Note: Buildable land area is calculated as follows:
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Salmonellosis is a bacterial disease caused by members of the genus Salmonella. This genus consists of over 1,100 species of antigenically related bacterial organisms which are gram negative, rod-shaped, 0.4 to 0.6 microns wide and 1 to 3 microns long. They do not form spores and are usually motile. Salmonellae have a ... | <urn:uuid:fd944024-fcf9-448e-a2ba-8cae2a8bb9df> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10370_12150_12220-27268--,00.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00048-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927308 | 1,440 | 3.96875 | 4 |
CH. XLIV.] AMENDMENTS--BILL OF RIGHTS. 713
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION.
§ 1851. We have already had occasion to take notice of some of the
amendments made to the constitution, subsequent to its adoption, in the
progress of our review of the provisions of the original instrument. The
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Pauli exclusion principle
A fundamental rule in subatomic physics which states that no two electrons, or other types of fermion (governed by Fermi-Dirac statistics), can occupy the same quantum state at the same place and time; it was formulated by the Austrian-born physicist Wolfgang Pauli in 1925. In a system of ferm... | <urn:uuid:fe77f267-70a0-429f-bfca-acbc108c455a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/P/Pauliep.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00085-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.877679 | 189 | 3.828125 | 4 |
Betty, a New Caledonian crow, astounded scientists with her tool-crafting abilities, which were first reported in the journal Science in 2002.
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This is a survey course designed to further stimulate your curiosity by providing glimpses of some of the pivotal events in the spread Christianity and sketches of great Christian figures who have significantly affected Christian history thereby shaping the history of the world. PART II: The Church in the Middle Ages -... | <urn:uuid:6c19f0e7-5b09-4ef5-9d32-5a0b4d2bb5df> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.tv.com/shows/history-of-christianity/part-ii-the-church-in-the-middle-ages-2329294/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396224.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00062-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962091 | 210 | 3.359375 | 3 |
Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA)
What is PSA?
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...1. U.S. parcel regulations state that packages must have length plus girth (girth equals the circumference of ends) of no more than 84 inches. Find the dimension of the cylindrical package of greatest volume that is mailable by post.
distribute, simplify, find dV/dr and maximize
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Special & General Relativity Questions and Answers
Would our system of time change if we went to another solar system?
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It's easy to look back at the history of exploration and aviation and feel like there's no mountains left to climb, that the age of the great pioneers is behind us and we're doomed to a future of LCD tanning and monitor hypnosis. But don't try telling that to Pascal Chretien. On August 12, this electrical/aerospace eng... | <urn:uuid:5bfb24f8-4abe-4b0f-a107-cc72ab8bc6dd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gizmag.com/first-successful-manned-electric-helicopter-flight/19716/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00043-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959688 | 1,794 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Indian Spice Ingredients For Cooking - The Art Of Using Indian Spices In An Indian Kitchen
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|Elijah Brookes after his inventing successes|
Tom Langley, from the UK, is one of MyHeritage.com's youngest users. At 17, he's already done extensive research into his family's past. Here Tom shares some of his genealogical findings with us, and in particular the story of his ancestor Elijah Brookes- s prominent inven... | <urn:uuid:745aadcf-47eb-4599-95ea-d7c8f2673d28> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.myheritage.com/2009/11/user-story-the-inventor-elijah-brookes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00083-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.993843 | 895 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Two kinds of body imaging -- positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) -- have been combined for the first time in a single scanner.
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For ninety years Oregon State University has provided the people of Central Oregon with a variety of learning opportunities. Oregon State's Extension Service was created in 1911 "with the task of extending to the people of the State the advantages of this institution." Initially, extension provided itinerant short cour... | <urn:uuid:e6f4bbba-a0a5-4d75-83ce-079857e1dad4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/coll/rg069/90-years/page1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00088-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955881 | 260 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Wallace was a spiritualist and began to infuse his scientific writings with spiritualism, a development which dismayed Darwin, who had gone to great lengths to show that natural selection could be thought of in scientific terms, alone.
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Some cultures value old age while others value young age. Discuss both attitudes and express your opinion.
This question is taken from www.ieltsielts.com
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Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Zion United Church of Christ in Allentown, Pa., was a refuge for the Liberty Bell after the British forces occupied Philadelphia in September 1777. The Bell was sent out of the city to prevent the occupying forces from destroying it. Hidden in the wagon of a farme... | <urn:uuid:f7c568b2-8db4-4140-8102-a19bf80f8a77> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/liberty/01_history_03_lrg02.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00059-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952157 | 173 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Hawaii Poised to Become the First State to Adopt a State Microbe, Possibly Elevating Awareness of Clinical and Microbiology Laboratories
Distinction of “official state microbe” could raise awareness of microbiology among students
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Sir Charles Monro (15 June 1860 – 7 December 1929) was a British Army general officer during the First World War and Commander-in-Chief, India for the latter part of the conflict. From 1923 to 1929 he served as Governor of Gibraltar.
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NASA announces planetary 'bonanza' with 715 new worldsWednesday 26 February 2014 20.01
NASA has announced a torrent of new planet discoveries, hailing a "bonanza" of 715 worlds now known outside the solar system thanks to the Kepler space telescope's planet-hunting mission.
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[Avionics Today April 10, 2014] Would you believe that just 30 lines of computer code might have saved Air France flight 447 from crashing into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009? Carlos Varela, an experienced pilot and associate professor of computer science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, believes so. Through funding fr... | <urn:uuid:6117863d-3ae0-45b9-9bca-bb093bfff0bd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/web-exclusives/Making-Autopilot-Systems-Safer_81860.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00120-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960606 | 598 | 3.078125 | 3 |
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