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Cooperation not competition underpins evolution
A significant body of research into evolution now indicates that survival of the fittest is only a part of the story. Life did not take over the globe by combat but by networking!
That is according to Prof. Lynn Margulis, distinguished biologist and Presidential Medal of ... | <urn:uuid:26e2b4c3-4f4b-4c61-9a33-fea2d1bd5b68> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bioteams.com/2006/06/14/cooperation_not_competition.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396222.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00126-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927159 | 556 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Sometimes, particle animations work, such as with Perpetual Ocean [nasa.gov], developed by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio. This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through Decmeber 2007.
Interestingly, the visualization does not include any narration or a... | <urn:uuid:8ffdc133-623b-4762-a276-0a75068f5308> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://infosthetics.com/archives/2012/03/nasa_perpetual_ocean_the_ocean_surface_currents_around_the_world.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393533.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00085-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931335 | 153 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Furniture Styles - Some Governing Influences
Style was frequently controlled and directed by the affairs of State and by Court intrigues. The habits and customs of the people as they became more defined brought about the necessity for a new style. As an instance, the feeling of greater security produced by civilisation... | <urn:uuid:07768ab0-d464-4d52-8d7f-fa075c8bf4e9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.oldandsold.com/articles16/furniture-6.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00064-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980076 | 700 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Health Impact News Editor
In an opinion column by Moises Velasquez-Manoff of the New York Times, the cure for modern day allergies is presented, from the farm!
The column title is A Cure for the Allergy Epidemic? and begins with the question: WILL the cure for allergies come from the cowshed?
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Malicious Code Detection Technologies
Just like every other type of technology, malicious code has grown increasingly sophisticated and complex. The antivirus industry must try to stay one step ahead, especially since it is often easier to produce malicious code than it is to detect... | <urn:uuid:8a146643-d04f-46be-a2a9-d9ea3e6f0569> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1203617915_203.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00014-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911469 | 196 | 2.6875 | 3 |
The Single Most Convincing Fact
Evolutionists like to say that there are mountains of evidence for evolution, but what is the best evidence? What would make a creationist think twice? Twenty five seconds into this video evolutionist Richard Dawkins answers this question. His killer evidence is the congruence between th... | <urn:uuid:0cce960a-7713-4d3e-a7d1-b9278e3ad437> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://darwins-god.blogspot.com/2014/02/richard-dawkins-how-could-anyone.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00079-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952602 | 898 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Selection of High-Speed Tool Steels
High-speed tool steels are designed primarily for cutting tool applications. The term “high-speed” was used when these steels were first invented. The term refers to the fact that the steels could be used as cutting tools at high turning speeds on a lathe. In some cases, the turning ... | <urn:uuid:f9f7e9fb-26b9-4501-a714-3ab6131f534b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.hudsontoolsteel.com/site/CompareHighSpeedSteel | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393442.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00183-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960239 | 425 | 2.796875 | 3 |
This pig was no inert mechanism of production. He was a unique individual, with a sense of humor.
Photo from: Farm Sanctuary
An automated hum defines daybreak inside a sunless barn. Grunts and squeals gradually emerge from narrow stalls arranged in corridors. Each row contains over 100 pigs. All snouts and hooves are a... | <urn:uuid:a36248ad-b732-4646-9258-65119f1e12bc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.all-creatures.org/articles/ar-contained.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393442.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00025-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940008 | 1,225 | 3.015625 | 3 |
The study suggests that while people sleep, if certain odors are presented after hearing tones, people start sniffing even if there is no odor presented when they hear the same tones. This happens during sleep and even when people wake up.
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Washing for Prevention
Did you know that viruses and bacteria can live up to two hours (or more) on doorknobs, tables, desks and other surfaces that schoolchildren touch? One way to prevent the spread of germs among children is to encourage them to wash their hands with soap and warm water, says the Centers for Disease... | <urn:uuid:fde9da98-05c5-4939-96bd-8156334327f5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://healthcare.utah.edu/healthlibrary/related/doc.php?type=20&id=469 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00142-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948446 | 108 | 3.3125 | 3 |
A hospital-acquired infection, also called a nosocomial infection, is an infection that first appears between 48 hours and four days after a patient is admitted to a hospital or other health-care facility.
About 5–10% of patients admitted to acute care hospitals and long-term care facilities in the United States develo... | <urn:uuid:f395c1b3-9f47-437a-a34b-528ca72cc617> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.surgeryencyclopedia.com/Fi-La/Hospital-Acquired-Infections.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00074-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936948 | 2,156 | 3.5625 | 4 |
How often do people visit the world’s protected areas (PAs)? Despite PAs covering one-eighth of the land and being a major focus of nature-based recreation and tourism, we don’t know. To address this, we compiled a globally-representative database of visits to PAs and built region-specific models predicting visit rates... | <urn:uuid:13f08832-adb7-4ab8-a9f2-218902cb740d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002074 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00012-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.849929 | 4,347 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Managing your Diabetes: Talking with your Health Care Team
When you have diabetes, staying in regular contact with your healthcare providers is a key component of your care. Communicating well them and contributing valuable information is also extremely important. Your primary care doctor and the other members of the t... | <urn:uuid:c456fe65-4524-4f26-8941-b4c2747556cc> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mercyweb.org/mercy_health_articles_view.aspx?article_id=698 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00053-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960759 | 1,044 | 2.625 | 3 |
The best way to actually make sure that you learn a new skill is to go to sleep right after learning it, suggests a study published June 5 in Science.
While the study was done in mice, it might offer some insight about the long-observed connection between sleep and memory in humans.
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Selenium and the Great Salt Lake
Nicole Albano, Westminster College; Dr. Paul Hooker, Dept. of Physical Sciences, Westminster College; Dr. Ty Harrison, Dept. of Biology, Westminster College
Selenium is a trace element essential for life, but it is also toxic at relatively low concentrations. If present in water, seleni... | <urn:uuid:5a96860c-e608-4536-baf2-02335f61586a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://people.westminstercollege.edu/faculty/phooker/Selenium/Se1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00044-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905752 | 379 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Inflammation – The Key to Chronic Ill Health
Inflammation is at the root of many serious health conditions, affecting cardiovascular health, joint health, and even cognitive function. While a little inflammation is normal in response to invading organisms, stress, and after injury, persistent inflammation can trigger t... | <urn:uuid:8024d5fe-2000-4c55-9281-24a892b2effb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://healthfirstnetwork.ca/blog/natures-answer-to-inflammation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00049-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919201 | 1,031 | 2.859375 | 3 |
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Articles, documents and multimedia from ABC Science
Thursday, 7 May 2009
Canadian scientists have completed the full genetic sequencing of the H1N1 swine flu virus, which officials say will help in better understanding the outbreak and developing a vaccine.
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
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When the University of Arizona announced plans to build observatories on Mt. Graham, atop the Pinaleño Mountains, the construction was seen as a potential threat to an isolated species found only on
this sky island. The Mt. Graham red squirrel was declared "endangered" by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Legal action ... | <urn:uuid:98173fcc-668e-43db-b7f7-a83b178571d4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2085.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399385.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00164-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922642 | 345 | 3.546875 | 4 |
University of Houston (UH) professor Suncica "Sunny" Canic is a mathematician, not a medical doctor, but her research could save the lives of heart patients. Working with collaborators from Houston Methodist Hospital on a minimally invasive experimental procedure for heart valve replacement, Canic's work could lead to ... | <urn:uuid:a6974dc6-6513-42a3-8c7a-daa413d0d463> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/281007.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00030-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919981 | 686 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Help Save Wildlife
By 2025 as many as one fifth of all animal species may be lost, gone forever. In recent times, hundreds of species have become extinct as a result of human activities:
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I'm trying to create the music sheet of "Recuerdos de La Alhambra" with Sibelius music notation software.
How to create tremolos in Sibelius?
I Use Sibelius G7.
Tremolos are located on third pane of Keypad.
Press CTRL+ALT+K (or menu Windows->Keypad) to display Keypad window, and then "+" key on numeric keyboard (or jus... | <urn:uuid:dfe250b7-976f-4cd1-b03a-8bc1d85ef32b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://music.stackexchange.com/questions/4125/how-to-write-guitar-tremolo-with-sibelius-software/4145 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.824056 | 131 | 2.53125 | 3 |
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A dominant theme of A Streetcar Named Desire is the beginning of the end of the class structure, gender inferiority and superior status in America's "South" during industrialization.
The audience expects a demure, typical, Southern woman to reveal herself in the form of Blanche but it becomes obvio... | <urn:uuid:dc9bf12c-3592-496d-ae44-d04226966817> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/how-can-plot-that-includes-when-where-who-theme-439576 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00103-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96035 | 321 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Have you heard this before? There is an unspoken corollary to the statement, as well. What the skeptic is really saying is “Noah couldn’t fit millions of species into the Ark, so the Bible is obviously wrong!”
Let’s do something radical. Let’s look at what the Bible actually says.
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Robert W. Merry, A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent, Simon & Schuster, 2009, $18.00, 576 pp. (softcover)
In 2008, Al Gore told a national television audience that the Mexican-American War has been “condemned by history.” That war, which added more than a... | <urn:uuid:8ee72a5c-7a01-4daa-9362-4bba3d6da1b3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.amren.com/features/2012/06/how-we-got-texas-and-oregon-and-california/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394937.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00055-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987006 | 4,996 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Predictors of employment for youths with visual impairments: findings from the second national longitudinal transition study.
Visually disabled persons
Visually disabled persons (Employment)
Visually disabled persons (Research)
|Author:||McDonnall, Michele Capella|
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Food allergy has become one of the more common allergic disorders. Food allergy typically presents in early childhood, usually after the first exposure to the offending food. Cow’s milk, peanuts, tree nuts, eggs, wheat, soybean and shellfish are the most common foods implicated after an allergic reaction occurs.
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Update - April 18, 2014 - The LADEE spacecraft has crashed into the moon. Ground Controllers at NASA's Ames Research Center report that the craft made impact some time between 9:30 and 10:22 PM PDT on April 17. Engineers believe that during its descent the lunar explorer heated up to the point that some materials could... | <urn:uuid:4983d9ba-8ca7-4da5-b27a-cc31e3969180> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.longisland.com/news/04-08-14/nasa-ladee-impact-moon.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397695.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00070-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942146 | 885 | 4.0625 | 4 |
The Doll Study Club of Jamestown New York met at Alfie's Restaurant on July 19 for their monthly meeting, lunch, and doll-related program. Susan Mitchell gave the group a bit of history on the story of Alice in Wonderland, from its beginnings as a story told to a bored little girl named Alice Liddell, who was being row... | <urn:uuid:9c9a6c88-e09e-4367-bf45-8b872357f738> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.observertoday.com/page/content.detail/id/602318/Doll-Study-Club-of-Jamestown-meets.html?nav=5053 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395560.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00114-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984379 | 180 | 2.671875 | 3 |
New program to ‘focus on positive behavior’
This summer a group of educators from the middle school attended a conference in the Tennessee city. While there, the group was impressed by a program that had been put together by a Colorado middle school, and came back to Jamestown determined to do something similar here. “... | <urn:uuid:ca96754e-6aad-4729-a6f0-7e144855e822> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.jamestownpress.com/news/2011-10-20/News/New_program_to_focus_on_positive_behavior.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00045-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984252 | 1,197 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Congress mandates that researchers receiving federal funds must publish research results and distribute them to as wide an audience as possible. As one of the two founding research schools at UAF, the School of Natural Resources and Extension has generated plenty of research to report on over the last century. Topics c... | <urn:uuid:e4047e7b-54e1-4458-942e-d490977ef698> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://uaf.edu/snre/research/publications/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00153-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928962 | 936 | 2.734375 | 3 |
This interesting overview offers insights into the prevalence of beliefs in female spirits and ways in which throughout history these spirits were channeled or entreated by dance. The books focus is on Europe, primarily from Greece to northern Russia. Readers will learn of the multiple ways dances, images, and relics f... | <urn:uuid:01c3fde3-c2d8-4690-a893-c67af802f8bd> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://womeninworldhistory.com/review-56.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00093-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965407 | 189 | 2.53125 | 3 |
CONFLICT MANAGEMENTIntroductionWebster’s Dictionary defines conflict as “a battle, contest of opposing forces, discord, antagonismexisting between primitive desires, instincts and moral, religious, or ethical ideals.” Conflict occurswhen two or more people or organizations disagree because their needs, wants, goals, or... | <urn:uuid:6983b38c-ab41-4594-9857-82270b7b1344> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.slideshare.net/rizrazariz/2-7493472 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00196-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914561 | 2,801 | 3.96875 | 4 |
Library Home || Primary || Math Fundamentals || Pre-Algebra ||
Algebra || Geometry || Discrete Math || Trig/Calc
|Discrete Math, difficulty level 3. Students are given clues about intervals on the number line and must determine whether they intersect or not.|
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In January 1885, Elizabeth Cochran grew incensed after reading a sexist screed in the Pittsburgh Dispatch declaring that a woman’s domain “is defined and located by a single word—home.” The searing letter she sent to the newspaper in response so impressed the managing editor that he hired the 20-year-old as a reporter.... | <urn:uuid:d2e607af-5a0c-4842-8724-a1aca2347c0c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.history.com/news/nellie-blys-biggest-scoops | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00082-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963946 | 1,303 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Analysis of trends in global oil reserves, production, and consumption
This activity was selected for the On the Cutting Edge Reviewed Teaching Collection
This activity has received positive reviews in a peer review process involving five review categories. The five categories included in the process are
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If an incident occurs and the buildings or areas around you become unstable, or if the air outdoors becomes dangerous due to toxic or irritating substances, it is usually safer to stay indoors. Thus, to "shelter-in-place" means to make a shelter of the building you are in, and with a few adjustments, this location can ... | <urn:uuid:a358d2b3-61ea-4a5d-8136-f12a441ea0f8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.lvc.edu/emergency-plan/shelter-in-place.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396455.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00194-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933424 | 336 | 3.265625 | 3 |
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Samuel Johnson, one of the most eminent English writers of the eighteenth century, was the son of Michael Johnson, who was, at the beginning of that century, a magistrate of Lichfield, and a bookseller of great note in the Midland Counties. Micha... | <urn:uuid:10b4e2ea-675c-4469-8d29-73e37f5bf43c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://biography.edigg.com/Samuel_Johnson.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00057-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.991092 | 4,704 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Sod laying is like painting. The hard part is in the preparation and the finished product is only as good as the preparation. Start with good soil. There is no better time to enhance home lawn's ultimate beauty and success than by improving the soil before any planting takes place. Be sure to read this whole Sod Laying... | <urn:uuid:ae450108-cb5d-4cda-ab6d-8e80fa9c01fa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.modernturf.com/how-to-lay-sod | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403825.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00072-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938174 | 1,815 | 2.53125 | 3 |
This family of monocotyledons comprises about 115 genera and 2000 species, the majority of which are tropical. The flowers have no bracts and are usually massed in a cylindrical spadix, wrapped in an enclosing spathe. Often the flowers have an offensive smell to attract flies as pollination agents. Some species are cli... | <urn:uuid:2a4c15e6-7c1f-4725-b2a8-215b74b75102> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Biology/Flora_and_Fauna/Plantae/Magnoliophyta/Liliopsida/Araceae/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00056-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.89841 | 330 | 3.25 | 3 |
To reduce outdoor water consumption.
Reduce outdoor water use through one of the following options. Nonvegetated surfaces, such as permeable or impermeable pavement, should be excluded from landscape area calculations. Athletic fields and playgrounds (if vegetated) and food gardens may be included or excluded at the pr... | <urn:uuid:461b80e6-c21b-43b0-a062-cc2998761aa1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.usgbc.org/credits/new-construction-core-and-shell-schools-new-construction-retail-new-construction-hospitali-3?view=language | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397873.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00096-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895396 | 288 | 2.625 | 3 |
Coyotes are thriving in virtually every urban area in the country; biologists who study the predators say they pose no threat to people--as long as we let them stay wild
LAST MARCH, a full-grown coyote made headlines when it led a posse of heavy-breathing police officers, city officials and reporters on a zigzagging ch... | <urn:uuid:e32abb2c-2c7f-4545-a241-fdd46d1db92f> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/National-Wildlife/Animals/Archives/2006/City-Slickers.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396027.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00193-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969378 | 2,666 | 2.875 | 3 |
LIKE AND UNLIKE FRACTIONS
We have shown that like fractions are addedby simply adding the numerators and keeping the denominator. Thus,
Similarly we can subtract like fractions bysubtracting the numerators.
The following examples will show that likefractions may be divided by dividing the numerator of the dividend by t... | <urn:uuid:03b4156f-34d7-4c29-b072-431c74e117eb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.tpub.com/math1/5c.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00198-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927697 | 807 | 3.828125 | 4 |
A boot loader is a program that resides in the starting sectors of a disk, e.g., the MBR (Master Boot Record) of the hard disk. After testing the system during bootup, the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) tranfers control to the MBR if the system is set to be booted from there. Then the program residing in MBR gets exe... | <urn:uuid:a129361d-4f0a-4877-89f4-a605f48e06de> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LG/issue64/kohli.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395992.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00180-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.862082 | 2,951 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Golden-rumped lion tamarins (Leontopithecus chrysopygus) at one time inhabited the vast tropical forest in the Central and Western portions of the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Now L. chrysopygus is limited to only two areas. One is the 375 square kilometer Morro do Diabo State Forest Reserve in southwesten Sao Paulo. Th... | <urn:uuid:3c8282ce-095c-4d95-9303-e4517ff155aa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://eol.org/pages/323895/hierarchy_entries/24941405/details | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00123-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.871662 | 4,693 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Fisherman’s Terminal By Andrew Schneider/PI
The Environmental Protection Agency may be underestimating the hazard pesticides pose to salmon, especially in the Pacific Northwest, says Science Now.
Reporter Erik Stokstad writes that one of salmon’s main enemies is agricultural chemicals, such as chlorpyrifos, made by Dow... | <urn:uuid:d774bf91-65e9-4bf4-8e03-3781a02261ca> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://blog.seattlepi.com/secretingredients/2008/02/19/pesticide-brew-spells-trouble-for-salmon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00097-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913426 | 205 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Music brings memories back to the injured brain
December 19, 2013
New hope for severely brain-injured patients: researchers have found that playing popular music can help them recall personal memories.
The study by Amee Baird and Séverine Samson, published in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation (open access), is the firs... | <urn:uuid:470a7832-869c-4d16-807a-907e3af16135> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.kurzweilai.net/music-brings-memories-back-to-the-injured-brain | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399522.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00183-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952069 | 566 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Cum Hoc Fallacy
The cum hoc fallacy is committed when it is assumed that because two things occur together, they must be causally related. This, however, does not follow; correlation is possible without causation. This fallacy is closely related to the post hoc fallacy.
As the graph below (taken from the Church of the ... | <urn:uuid:4e195a9e-0c0a-456e-a574-bffa056685d0> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.logicalfallacies.info/presumption/cum-hoc/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396945.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00002-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963383 | 318 | 3.078125 | 3 |
The U.S. Congress : a very short introduction /
"Many scholars believe that the framers of the Constitution intended Congress to be the preeminent branch of government. Indeed, no other legislature in the world approaches its power. Yet most Americans have only a murky idea of how it works. In The U.S. Congress, Donald... | <urn:uuid:88af0adf-1b69-4098-a842-ed533b44ef21> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://library.villanova.edu/Find/Record/1253765/TOC | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395621.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00026-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.773414 | 351 | 3.25 | 3 |
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Using Quantum Computers for Quantum Simulation
AbstractNumerical simulation of quantum systems is crucial to further our understanding of natural phenomena. Many systems of key interest and importance, in areas such as superconducting materials and quantum chemistry, are thought to be described by mo... | <urn:uuid:4564cbe7-7c55-4c4e-bf58-2c1d3ffa1727> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/12/11/2268 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00017-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.863824 | 327 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Most of the world's faiths are cultural religions. Hinduism, with its caste system and social rituals, is inextricably tied to the culture of India. Islam seeks to apply the Koranic law to every detail of society and so creates a specific culture, as evident throughout the Middle East. Tribal religions mythologize trib... | <urn:uuid:f5d21242-9803-478b-84d8-6cf46e0693aa> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.modernreformation.org/default.php?page=articledisplay&var1=ArtRead&var2=646&var3=main | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00170-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959758 | 5,143 | 3.015625 | 3 |
CREDIT: Casa Presidencial
Costa Rica’s President Laura Chinchilla signed a decree earlier this week ushering in a carbon market for the Central American nation. The market will be overseen by the country’s Department of Climate Change, and according to the government it will be the first carbon market in the developing... | <urn:uuid:d2e8a700-6e44-4717-9a60-5db655c9ab03> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/12/2612101/costa-rica-carbon-market/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397744.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00136-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936214 | 696 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Are we missing critical inflation data with the CPI? How the government over time has altered the CPI to under report inflation.
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Most Americans realize that their standard of living has decreased. Many realize today that their dollars do not go as far as they once did. We try to reflect this data via the Co... | <urn:uuid:40a91593-5296-4322-94eb-031d8328970e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mybudget360.com/how-is-cpi-calculated-inflation-data-calculations-cpi-owners-equivalent-of-rent/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00160-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976767 | 933 | 2.59375 | 3 |
The variety of mammal species in the Galapagos Islands is rather limited, as is typical for most islands located far from mainland continents. In fact, there are only 6 mammal species (that can be found on land) that are considered native to the islands, plus a number of aquatic mammals that swim in and out of the Gala... | <urn:uuid:99d366ec-f55b-40b4-9e1d-377179767756> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.galapagos.org/about_galapagos/about-galapagos/biodiversity/mammals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00033-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960151 | 2,027 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Data Link Layer
The Data Link Layer (DLL) of the OSI Reference Model, also known as Layer 2, is responsible for providing error-free communication between adjacent devices on a network. To accomplish this, the DLL protocol must perform several functions:
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Poetry written in the English language has a long and fascinating history. Like other creative arts, poetry began in service to communities. Its function was to aid the memory and enshrine in its rhythmic diction the history of the tribe. Over the centuries it became a way in which people could communicate not only sto... | <urn:uuid:00b781cc-0819-4b5e-aa09-4988466cb2af> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ppu.org.uk/learn/poetry/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00066-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955611 | 421 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Origins of the Toast
Ironically, the cheerful clinking of a friend's glass before drinking evolved from one of the darker practices of the distant past. The custom dates back to the Middle Ages, when people were so distrustful of one another that they weren't above poisoning anyone they perceived as an enemy. As a safe... | <urn:uuid:7cf11206-31f9-4531-a7c8-aa2079764985> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.etiquettescholar.com/dining_etiquette/toasting_etiquette/origins_of_toasts.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398873.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00101-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967223 | 436 | 2.90625 | 3 |
See below our run down on Electric cars from the Past, Present and Future
Read more about the Nissan Leaf
Electric Cars like the Nissan Leaf are actually worse for the environment than efficient Diesel or Petrol Engines. This is because energy is lost in conversion to the different types of storage energy. In a Electri... | <urn:uuid:523dcb7c-84c8-453a-a22e-6f62e341820b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.hypermiler.co.uk/green-cars/electric-vehicles-ev | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00043-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931891 | 458 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Though many believe gender discrimination is a thing of the past, research shows women bear the brunt of harassment and discrimination online.
Prof. Caryl Rivers draws on the findings of her recent book, The New Soft War on Women to give context to recent instances of feminine voices silenced by the so-called “harmless... | <urn:uuid:8c005c13-8230-4c24-b9ee-cf389f7e3563> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bu.edu/com/2014/03/03/rivers-online-message-to-women-is-shut-up/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395346.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00133-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956852 | 296 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Pronunciation: (in"du-vij'OO-āt"), [key]
—v., -at•ed, -at•ing.
1. to form into an individual or distinct entity.
2. to give an individual or distinctive character to; individualize.
1. to make distinctions: to individuate among one's students.
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"Long-term smokers find the taste of plain-packaged cigarettes worse than that of branded cigarettes," The Guardian reports.
The news comes from Australian research into the impact of plain packaging and health risk warnings on packets of cigarettes and anti-smoking TV adverts.
The researchers found highly emotive warn... | <urn:uuid:fd25c72e-5bde-4f4b-b53b-4d1c24b066f4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/study-explores-effect-of-plain-cigarette-packs-1-6183245 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00145-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955189 | 437 | 2.578125 | 3 |
The heaviest nuclei have been investigated near the limits of stability in charge, spin and excitation energy. They have so many protons that their Coulomb repulsion should cause spontaneous fission. Yet elements with atomic weight up to 118 appear to exist, based on recent reports from Dubna. The heaviest nuclei survi... | <urn:uuid:2975d233-1631-450c-a16d-41b2d9a956b5> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.phy.anl.gov/events/Colloquium/classified/abstracts-2006/nov03.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397795.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00084-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927126 | 350 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Brahmachari, SK and Meera, G and Sarkar, PS and Balagurumoorthy, P and Tripathi, J and Raghavan, S and Shaligram, U and Pataskar, S (1995) Simple repetitive sequences in the genome: structure and functional significance. In: Electrophoresis, 16 (9). pp. 1705-1714.Full text not available from this repository. (Request a... | <urn:uuid:b60f0b62-5fb3-4320-8ebc-ff567daca748> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/25214/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398869.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00011-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.873323 | 471 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Limb shedding assists escape: starfish
The limbs of a starfish assist escape because they can be shed.
"Starfishes, which have hard spiny skeletons and five (or more) arms or limbs in a star-like arrangement, are also adept at autotomy when caught by predators. Their subsequent regeneration, however, can be particularl... | <urn:uuid:f82cff12-369f-4487-8454-6f48ec8ec114> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://eol.org/data_objects/1340614 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00189-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941803 | 125 | 2.9375 | 3 |
TUPPER LAKE - The Wild Center presented its new heating and hot water systems, fueled by renewable resources and part of the "New Path" exhibition, that will explore and test the technology that decreases the museum's dependence on fossil fuels.
First announced in July 2009, the efficient wood pellet boiler is integrat... | <urn:uuid:87143a5e-2be9-43d7-81f5-9af1c8751a1c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/513047.html?nav=5017 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00095-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93548 | 358 | 2.546875 | 3 |
In this article, we are discussing about the role of Java Applets in web application development. As we all know that an Applet is a simple Java program, which is written in Java programming language that extends the java.applet. Applet class provides the standard interface between an Applet application and Web Browser... | <urn:uuid:ff33412a-f275-4836-9fae-a27d29a59d30> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.roseindia.net/java/javatutorial/role-of-java-applets-in-web-application-development.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396887.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00157-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.890657 | 278 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Washington: Drinking more coffee could lower the risk of basal cell carcinoma, the commonest form of skin cancer, according to a new study.
“Our data indicate that the more caffeinated coffee you consume, the lower your risk of developing basal cell carcinoma (BCC),” said Jiali Han, associate professor at Brigham and W... | <urn:uuid:84e6ef26-bc6f-4717-af05-b466a367c7f3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.gdayindia.com.au/coffee-lowers-risk-of-common-skin-cancer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396538.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00015-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954473 | 285 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Stay Slim by Eating Mediterranean
Scoring dietary habits
The current study, which comes out of a larger study called the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition—Physical Activity, Nutrition, Alcohol Consumption, Cessation of Smoking, Eating Out of Home, and Obesity project (EPIC—PANACEA), included ... | <urn:uuid:2500b5ce-18fa-4e37-ab32-055d43a03c43> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.newleafmarket.coop/departments/wellness/healthnotes?resource=%2Fassets%2Ffeature%2Fstay-slim-by-eating-mediterranean%2F~default | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396100.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00075-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94768 | 860 | 3.09375 | 3 |
The tortured southern polar terrain of Enceladus appears strewn with great boulders of ice in this fantastic view, one of the highest resolution images obtained so far by Cassini of any world.
Some smearing of the image due to spacecraft motion is apparent in this scene, which was acquired as Enceladus raced past Cassi... | <urn:uuid:8fb26669-6a4c-4693-86e9-3ae7564f857d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06252 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396455.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00115-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945865 | 477 | 3.40625 | 3 |
When preschoolers are grouped in classrooms with a wide range of ages, their development suffers, says Gettysburg College Psychology Prof. Arlen Moller.
Moller is studying how preschool children are influenced by their peers. Together with colleagues at the Children's Institute and University of Rochester, Moller condu... | <urn:uuid:fb437c1c-c1a8-45c1-aae7-3751694e0320> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://www.gettysburg.edu/news_events/press_release_detail.dot?id=11a80414-bb36-458b-acec-51790be3d729 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396106.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00161-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960758 | 421 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Common household pets, such as dogs and cats, can carry ringworm, which causes scalp fungus. You can pick up the condition just by touching these animals -- ringworm can transfer to you from contact with an animal's fur or skin. If a dog or cat has a bald spot, it could be a sign of a ringworm infection [source: Center... | <urn:uuid:0badb7ed-563b-4600-ab7d-41dd78d40d3c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/scalp-care/problems/scalp-fungus1.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397111.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00066-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948059 | 311 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Image adapted with permission from 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
In the EFC, a slurry of activated carbon spheres in a non-toxic electrolyte (water with dissolved sodium sulfate) is pumped from reservoirs into the electrode-contact cell (inset), where the spheres acquire surface charge. The charged sp... | <urn:uuid:37868048-cc9c-48ad-ae44-c01aa421b3d1> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://science.energy.gov/bes/highlights/2012/bes-2012-05-c/?p=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396872.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00089-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.815357 | 802 | 3.25 | 3 |
Huntington, Samuel, 1731–96, political leader in the American Revolution, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. Windham, Conn. He was a delegate (1775–84) to and president (1779–81) of the Continental Congress before serving as governor of Connecticut (1786–96).
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Cement Deep-Soil Mixing
Professor K.K. “Muralee” Muraleetharan, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, University of Oklahoma, and his team, which includes engineers from Iowa State, San Jose State University, UCLA, UCDavis, Earth Mechanics, Inc. and Advanced GeoSolutions, are studying a technique calle... | <urn:uuid:5be540d9-2a12-467d-bcb1-bf3c4c7d8042> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | https://nees.org/announcements/researcherkkmuraleemuraleetharanandteamreceivingmuchpressonstudy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00113-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927477 | 367 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) provides a common messaging format for web services. SOAP enables objects not known to one another to exchange messages. SOAP uses an XML-based data encoding format and HTTP to transport messages. SOAP is independent of both the programming language and the operational platform, and... | <urn:uuid:5725bc6c-88fa-4da4-9f0b-48c9fc475d0d> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19879-01/820-4335/gbndm/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00081-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.85048 | 282 | 2.984375 | 3 |
The federal government, through the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), requires school districts to report Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) of schools.
The Utah State Office of Education and Superintendent Douglas E. Wright, have determined that ten of the twelve schools in the district have met the NCLB’s AYP standard.
Th... | <urn:uuid:844813b5-bc02-4111-8bd0-7b2819834e84> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://sjrnews.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Test+scores+up-+but+two+schools+%20&id=6746245&instance=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404405.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00113-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953617 | 359 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Learn about heat transfer and how to keep things warm by testing the characteristics of different materials with this fun activity for kids. Some materials are good thermal conductors, easily letting heat pass through them, while others are good thermal insulators, not easily letting heat pass through them. Conduct exp... | <urn:uuid:c6e684c8-8dec-4bf7-91c1-2629e6413ec7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities/keepingwarm.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396029.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00004-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908778 | 119 | 3.734375 | 4 |
Locate information on school districts and individual schools in Maricopa County.
Locating a School District
The easiest way to find the name of the school district(s) you reside in is to visit the Maricopa County Recorder's website. Once there, check the School Districts box under the Map Layers list on the far left s... | <urn:uuid:d2295fde-63a6-4b32-bfea-6bbacac0d503> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://education.maricopa.gov/site/Default.aspx?PageID=343 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00175-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907207 | 221 | 2.953125 | 3 |
By Catherine Malcolm
While core values has guided the educational curriculum and testing protocols in this country, world stats continue to show that it doesn’t work.
“U.S. students, who once led the world, currently rank 21st in the world in science and 25th in math,” Newsweek reported in 2011.
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A new study this week indicates that dogs poop in alignment with the Earth's magnetic field. When left to their own devices (as in not on a leash), they exhibit a strong tendency to align themselves along a north/south axis before the first turd hits the ground. This ground-breaking research is in agreement with previo... | <urn:uuid:73dbd7c1-3c0d-4947-8c19-133ce25b30c2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://maxredline.typepad.com/maxredline/2014/01/magnetic-alignment-fertile-new-ground-for-animal-rights.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396455.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00086-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943727 | 190 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Bamboo is a great product for making products for the home such as strand woven bamboo flooring, bamboo kitchen utensils and bamboo furniture. It is also great for the garden. This article will focus on how you can use bamboo for the garden.
Firstly, it is easy to grow bamboo in your garden. Bamboo grows naturally all ... | <urn:uuid:e3395553-c800-4a3c-b8be-6dee0f6225ad> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.everythingsimple.com/5034/bamboo-in-the-garden/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00087-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949663 | 442 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Moderate El Niños often bring big snows
* Windy and chilly, but gradually drying out: Full Forecast *
Our winter outlook, and several others that have been issued, are calling for better than average chances of a snowy winter because we're currently experience a weak to moderate El Niño event (an event characterized by... | <urn:uuid:824b7f16-c0a5-4c09-b3ad-223a737ef8ef> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2009/11/moderate_el_ninos_tend_to_brin.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00093-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929306 | 490 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 04, 2010
Adding to their unique information from previous tandem missions, ESA's ERS-2 and Envisat satellites have been paired up again - for the last time. Data from this final duet are generating 3D models of glaciers and low-lying coastal areas.
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Plant chemistry and aphid parasitoids (Hymenoptera : Braconidae): Imprinting and memory
van Emden, H. F., Storeck, A. P., Douloumpaka, S., Eleftherianos, I., Poppy, G. M. and Powell, W. (2008) Plant chemistry and aphid parasitoids (Hymenoptera : Braconidae): Imprinting and memory. European Journal of Entomology, 105 (3... | <urn:uuid:3a7251f8-0deb-4367-a257-73832d5a3fa7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/9911/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402479.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00189-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930349 | 559 | 2.75 | 3 |
The 2012 Republican primary race introduced super political action committees (super PACs) to the presidential campaign setting. A super PAC is a powerful entity that can accept unlimited donations from individuals, corporations, and unions. Super PACs can then spend this money on advertisements, automated calling syst... | <urn:uuid:d74802a6-1e9d-42e7-8fc4-9ec096109883> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.houstonlawreview.org/2013/04/09/503-packing-away-the-primaries-a-proposal-for-more-effective-super-pac-donor-disclosure/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392527.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00003-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940845 | 945 | 2.578125 | 3 |
My son has only recently been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and we are trying to ensure that we feed him the right balance of foods to avoid a hypo whilst he is asleep at night. We have been asked to check his glucose level at 3:00 am each day, and this is proving very draining to us. Are there comparison graphs avai... | <urn:uuid:203a90a5-30f2-4367-92bd-3f65cd4850de> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.childrenwithdiabetes.com/dteam/2003-09/d_0d_b6g.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400031.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00014-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950617 | 461 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Twitter Revolutions: How social media and young people can change the world
When throngs of young people took to the streets of Tunis, Tunisia, last month to protest the corrupt, repressive government and its inability to combat rising food prices and high unemployment, they communicated through social means that you a... | <urn:uuid:83cd743f-281b-44a8-aba9-9b1c92c2fe2e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/speakout/twitter-revolutions-how-social-media-and-young-people-can-change-the-world | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397565.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00033-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959255 | 650 | 2.890625 | 3 |
These vapour pressure analyses and associated maps use data contained in the Bureau of Meteorology climate database, the Australian Data Archive for Meteorology (ADAM). The analyses are initially produced automatically from real-time data with limited quality control. They are intended to provide a general overview of ... | <urn:uuid:70b057ed-ae55-45ac-9b67-70f643eb56de> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/austmaps/about-vprp-maps.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392159.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00196-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903022 | 1,662 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Friday, May 21, 2010
"A school needs to be a place for all children, not based on the idea that they are all the same, but that they are all different."
-Loris Malaguzzi (founder of the first Reggio Emilia School)
Reflective light has been the subject of discovery and object of fascination for the children for quite so... | <urn:uuid:1ef8b057-a609-4a62-98af-2994bb861026> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://casamarias.blogspot.com/2010/05/stripe-lights.html?showComment=1276229527475 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00131-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960221 | 464 | 2.53125 | 3 |
In our problem, the level of water remains the same, as we have and flowing in and flowing out.
If we call the salt level , then we have
To find , we subtract the rate of salt flowing out from the rate flowing in:
The rate flowing in is
Since the fluid is well-mixed, the rate flowing out will be in proportion to as the... | <urn:uuid:5f5ceb81-4ade-4101-aa94-651128a8deac> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://mathhelpforum.com/calculus/75555-differntial-caculus-salt-problem.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00149-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943107 | 114 | 2.890625 | 3 |
The bizarre and repressive nation of North Korea has taken yet another outlandish turn – the state-controlled media claims that archaeologists have found the remains of a lair where the mythical unicorn belonging to an ancient king resided.
In an article from the Korean Central News Agency entitled “Lair of King Tongmy... | <urn:uuid:02bbad42-a6e5-4294-a447-9bc6ffbc9cd3> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ibtimes.com/unicorns-are-real-north-korean-media-912156 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00167-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946759 | 349 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Colonel George Crook was on the stagecoach that approached Tucson from the west. The old walled city was a welcome sight for the colonel and the other passengers who looked forward to relief from the stifling heat, the bouncing and jolting, the enveloping dust and the constant tension of traveling through the hostile d... | <urn:uuid:e80ccfe2-ecc7-48eb-9cef-2adcc50de08a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.historynet.com/george-crook-indian-fighter.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397213.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00006-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988355 | 5,086 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Finch Eye Disease
We have been getting reports in the area of House Finches with “finch eye disease” or conjunctivitis. Infected birds have red, swollen, runny, or crusty eyes; in extreme cases the eyes become swollen shut or crusted over, and the birds become essentially blind. Birds in this condition obviously have t... | <urn:uuid:5b894d15-aa86-4f09-8ace-f374e70f75af> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.thebirdfoodstore.com/2013/08/08/finch-eye-disease/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00048-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949493 | 216 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Johanne Sebastian Bach was active in composition during the 18th century and during this time he specialised in two different genres of keyboard music. One was his organ music, the best known of which includes the six Schubler Chorales. The other was his music for keyboard.
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Monday, February 15, 2010
February: What Keeps Oppressed Peoples From Fighting Back?
Featured author Sharon Draper asks, "In the time of Copper Sun, Why didn't more slaves rise up and protest or fight back? What social and cultural pieces were in place to prevent it?"
More to think about: Are these or other social and ... | <urn:uuid:fd2439d3-9c52-4c56-af54-ef4b43996c5a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://readergirlz.blogspot.com/2010/02/february-what-keeps-oppressed-peoples.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393463.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00095-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971272 | 83 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Health Indicator Report of Obesity Among Adults
Adults who are obese are at increased risk of morbidity from hypertension, high LDL cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, and osteoarthritis. Obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Only smoking may exceed obe... | <urn:uuid:b841edb2-284b-444c-b52c-86f6c3d37db2> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://ibis.health.utah.gov/indicator/view/Obe.Eth.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396959.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00013-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919964 | 1,541 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Andros Blue Holes
Blue Holes are found in many places on Andros Island. Most of them lie along a massive fracture system which starts in the marine environment at the edge of the Tongue of the Ocean and runs through the land and across South Bight. Rare and highly specialized species, including cave fish and shrimp can... | <urn:uuid:95bbfd9b-932d-44d3-9787-08d098596f58> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.androsbeachclub.com/blue-hole-tours.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783402516.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155002-00162-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926657 | 481 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Liberty, February 1937
by Nikola Tesla
as told to
George Sylvester Viereck
Tesla. “It seems,” he says, “that I have always been ahead of my time.”
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Data edits test the logical effects of coding rules or natural relationships. For example, squamous cell carcinoma commonly develops in the lung but it is not expected to develop in the pleura. An automated edit could question or flag a case coded as squamous cell carcinoma of the pleura. Depending on how the edit is i... | <urn:uuid:6be26ab9-9497-4cb1-be1c-7eca07b9424e> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://training.seer.cancer.gov/operations/standards/scope/edits.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00106-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.883757 | 207 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Simple Definition of common law
: the laws that developed from English court decisions and customs and that form the basis of laws in the U.S.
Full Definition of common law
: the body of law developed in England primarily from judicial decisions based on custom and precedent, unwritten in statute or code, and constitut... | <urn:uuid:f9e293e3-c7f7-44b9-984e-d144a5e7154b> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/common%20law | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783394414.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154954-00125-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960858 | 273 | 3.375 | 3 |
Adam Savage – How Simple Ideas Lead To Scientific Discoveries
The Accurate Source To Find Quotes To Adam Savage – How Simple Ideas Lead To Scientific Discoveries.”
[Adam Savage – How Simple Ideas Lead To Scientific Discoveries]
[Adam Whitney Savage (July 15, 1967)] Source: LYBIO.net
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