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Language and Development in Africa "discusses the resourcefulness of languages, both local and global, in view of the ongoing transformation of African societies as much as for economic development.. "
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Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1900
Title: Miniature rootclub, ca. 1850
Contributed by: Hudson Museum, Univ. of Maine
Date: circa 1850
Creation and other cultural tales are important to framing a culture's beliefs and values -- and passing those on. The ... | <urn:uuid:2d2c5b9e-f6e0-4472-a832-42a0a83f72d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.mainememory.net/search/?keywords=Penobscot | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398209.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00195-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927809 | 422 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Radiation in veterans can be acquired when they have served time doing active duty to protect the peace. The first thing to combating its harmful effects is to know what had caused it.
How does high levels of radiation cause harmful effects in health?
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5.1.1 General system layout
5.1.2 The gasifier
5.1.4 Impingement separator
5.1.5 Glass fibre cloth filter
5.1.7 Engine and alternator
5.1.8 Start-up fan and flare
5.1.9 Safety devices
A schematic flow diagram for the power plant is shown in Figure 5.1.
The rated power output is 32 kW.
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Like dmckee says, the potential energy of electrons in an atom doesn't really compare to the energy of the nucleus. Since the nucleus is so tightly packed, and (in the case of Uranium) contains so many protons, they have a lot of potential energy—it takes a lot of work to "push" them together. The strong force holds pr... | <urn:uuid:371d3f44-5400-410b-adaf-42762a0a6313> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/65276/electric-potential-energy-after-nuclear-fission | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00045-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970195 | 387 | 3.671875 | 4 |
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Mother Maria was born in Latvia in 1891. Like many of the pre-Revolutionary Russian intelligentsia, she was an atheist and a political radical in her youth, but gradually came to accept the truths of the Faith. After the Revolution, she became part of the large Russian émigré population of Paris... | <urn:uuid:f69b749c-933d-4147-981c-b68b6d3dbb39> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.antiochian.org/print/19096 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00150-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969962 | 562 | 3.15625 | 3 |
“Have a nice day” is a classic Americanism. Many of our day-to-day interactions end with, “Have a nice day.” Often the people saying it don’t really mean it, but they say it anyway. So what does it mean to have a nice day? I would guess it is to have a day that is, well, nice – a day that is void of any problems, a day... | <urn:uuid:7324f574-ce02-4f9d-b8f9-b57824b625c9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.wnd.com/2010/02/125613/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00065-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987448 | 1,352 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Design on the Half Scale
A few weeks ago, I heard about The Center for Pattern Design website and e-newsletter from Judith Neukam, Threads' senior technical editor. Judith told me about what a wonderful and FREE resource the e-mail newsletter is, and in particular, a recent article about working with half-scale dress f... | <urn:uuid:1494e4a0-fb1f-41c4-a97f-d295816ac58a> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.threadsmagazine.com/item/15441/design-on-the-half-scale | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396224.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00180-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943867 | 621 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Is obesity inevitable? [Updated]
The vast majority of overweight and obese Americans will not lose sufficient weight -- and obesity won't be prevented -- without major changes in society, say the authors of a thoughtful, although bleak, commentary published today in the Journal of the American Medical Assn.
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It costs a lot of money to build a road … even more if you want to add wires to power the streetlights from the grid. Urban Green Energy (UGE) has a solution: an off-the-grid streetlight.
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I have been studying quantum physics for a bit now and was hoping that Bob could give his explanation of The Uncertainty Principle and Wave/Particle duality.
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On View: Rembrandt Prints from The Morgan Library & Museum
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The demography of motherhood in the United States has shifted strikingly in the past two decades. Compared with mothers of newborns in 1990, today's mothers of newborns are older and better educated. They are less likely to be white and less likely to be married.
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Bipolar blogger Natasha Tracy offers exclusive insight into the world of bipolar disorder.See all posts »
Biological Evidence of Bipolar Disorder – Part 2: Genetics
Bipolar blogger Natasha Tracy explores the state of genetic research into bipolar disorder.
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Just last Thursday, we received calls in the newsroom about an earthquake out in Lake County. Each time an earthquake happens, it never ceases to amaze me how many people are shocked that they actually occur here in Northeastern Ohio. The prevailing thought is that earthquakes in the Cleveland area are a relatively new... | <urn:uuid:ee0df716-c36a-45d3-9ecb-160e25c70dba> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://sabolscience.blogspot.com/2010/06/cleveland-earthquake-history-faq.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395546.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00144-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963391 | 1,020 | 3.78125 | 4 |
By Marion K. Jacobs, Ph.D
We had to keep adding chairs to accommodate all the people who showed up at the Woman’s Club last Thursday night to hear UC Irvine Prof. Roger Walsh, MD, Ph.D, talk on “What The Research Tells Us About Optimizing Well Being.” The talk was jointly sponsored by AAUW-LB and the Woman’s Club.
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We commenced production of multicrystalline ingots in May 2006. To produce multicrystalline ingots, the molten polysilicon is changed into a block through a casting process in the multicrystalline furnaces. Crystallization starts by gradually cooling the crucibles in order to create multicrystalline ingot blocks. The r... | <urn:uuid:a8636c46-c720-4a8f-9dd3-82cf2098a749> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ldksolar.com/pro_ingot_mul.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404826.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00102-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.885485 | 150 | 2.515625 | 3 |
It might be one of the weirdest-looking moons in the solar system: Saturn’s moon Hyperion looks like a giant sponge. Additionally, its eccentric orbit makes it subject to gravitational forces from Saturn, so it is just tumbling along, almost out of control. Just yesterday, August 25, 2011, the Cassini spacecraft made a... | <urn:uuid:883fc47f-654e-4d8e-b0ba-9e2a4bab48d9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.universetoday.com/88474/a-close-look-at-saturns-sponge-moon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00005-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925492 | 342 | 3.71875 | 4 |
Our young people are worth more than a few low paid and insecure jobs in Christchurch. If they can find a job, that is.
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The Tudor architectural style is the final development of Medieval architecture in
England, .... Enormous ironwork for spit roasting located inside cooking fireplaces
. In the homes ... Smaller Tudor...
Tudor houses were built during the Tudor era in England between 1485 - 1603 ...
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Cosmochemistry and Human Exploration--- Cosmochemistry plays an important role in developing local resources on the Moon and Mars, essential to sustained human presence in space.
Written by G. Jeffrey Taylor
ISRU Essential for Sustained Human Presence in Space
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Most DefinitionsAccording to the Oxford English Dictionary:
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The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is a food staple around the world and can be effortlessly grown in the home garden. Also called white, or Irish, potatoes, they are grown from sections of mature potatoes that contain the beginnings of new sprouts. Once they are used to grow new plants, they are called seed potatoes, and ... | <urn:uuid:9cee7233-6a98-45dd-9614-6dc1bdc900d8> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://homeguides.sfgate.com/planting-whole-vs-cut-potatoes-75066.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783392069.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154952-00085-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949855 | 765 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Training Your Brain For Dummies (UK Edition)
Everyone wants their brain to work at its best – whether you want to stay sharp to keep up with your children or come up on top at work. This Cheat Sheet gives you the essential need-to-know information up front to get you started.
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Tips for the PRAXIS Exam
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Baseball helped lift spirits at Arizona WWII internment camp
From Weldon B. Johnson at the Arizona Republic on March 8, 2013, with mention of SABR member Bill Staples Jr.:
It is regarded among the darkest episodes in Arizona history, but people coped and got through it.
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Mary McLeod Bethune, the noted African-American educator and civil rights leader, founded an institution known as the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls on Oct. 3, 1904.
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Most faculty work hard to make each individual course they teach the best learning experience it can be. They learn with each semester, and make revisions based on what worked and where the course stumbled. If done correctly, it’s a continuous improvement process that runs like a well-oiled machine. But no matter how g... | <urn:uuid:64c82e22-01c3-4c1f-8eb2-5237c9df5031> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/curriculum-development/curriculum-development-alignment-and-coordination-a-data-driven-approach/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391519.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00185-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944785 | 524 | 2.703125 | 3 |
The Indian government has set a new interim target for solar of 9GW of grid connected solar energy by 2017 – the year that the solar industry is tipping that utility-scale solar farms will reach parity with the cost of coal-fired generation.
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Sheldon Glashow and the Electroweak Theory
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Ease your first grader into the art of story-writing with a silly short story fill-in.
Help your beginning reader boost her reading comprehension by figuring out what happened next in three different story lines.
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TORONTO, Nov. 13, 2013 /CNW/ - Postsecondary tax credits cost the federal and provincial governments billions of dollars each year, but are not distributed equitably and may have no proven effect in boosting enrolment, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In "What You Don't Know Can't Help Y... | <urn:uuid:c560040e-4fab-4fb2-8b7d-1030c76b5a40> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/who-benefits-most-from-billions-in-postsecondary-tax-credits-not-low-income-families----cd-howe-institute-231741091.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403502.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00067-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958491 | 553 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Green Tea: The Eyes Have It
Eyes Can Absorb Antioxidants From Green Tea, Which May Have a Protective Effect, Researchers Say
Feb. 18, 2010 -- Researchers say the compounds responsible for many of the health benefits of green tea are capable of penetrating the tissues of the eyes and have antioxidant activity there.
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There has been a lot of information surfacing lately about this amazing Asian fruit, which is said to have 10,000 times the cancer fighting properties than chemotherapy. Quite impressive! This fruit is called ‘Soursop.’
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Have you ever noticed that your toddler spends more time playing with the gift-wrapping than the present that was wrapped inside? Or that your older children lose interest in a new toy if that toy has just one way to play with it, and instead gravitate back to materials, like blocks, crayons, miniature animals or iPads... | <urn:uuid:5d750967-0404-476f-ab6c-c26c45b774b7> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-galinsky/give-the-gift-of-curiosit_1_b_1157991.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395679.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00081-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974644 | 1,386 | 2.59375 | 3 |
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A study suggesting that the "pause" in global warming is not real has managed to unify climate scientists and their arch-sceptics over the need for further research to clarify whether global average temperatures really have flat-lined over the past 15 years.
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A new satellite launched by NASA at the end of February called Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) will revolutionize the way meteorologists and other scientists view precipitation here on Earth. The satellite has the capability to take a high-resolution picture of all the precipitation occurring on earth — from rai... | <urn:uuid:09d7ac4f-4156-4ef0-88a1-0e437101fe55> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://thevane.gawker.com/nasas-new-satellite-will-use-radar-to-measure-global-r-1539261781 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395548.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00042-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942295 | 499 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Researchers Create ‘Neon Lights’ Using Fluorescent Bacteria
The "biopixels" in this living display can be made to glow in unison and have potential uses in medical research.
Researchers from the University of California San Diego have created an innovative display similar to a neon sign, that is composed of millions of... | <urn:uuid:eec1b596-4a61-41c0-aba4-ff449c3db21c> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/neon-bacteria-lights.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395620.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00197-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931972 | 294 | 3.640625 | 4 |
IGY station, field camp has supported West Antarctica science for more than 50 years
Posted June 12, 2009
“Snow melter shoveling is one of the exciting experiences you get at only small inland stations, so consider yourself one of a select group.”
— Your Stay at Byrd Station 1970-71
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1. The sixth month of the civil year.
5. A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system.
8. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
11. Produced by a manufacturing process.
12. (informal) Of the highest quality.
13. To make a mistake or be incorrect.
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The Nature Conservancy Releases Groundbreaking Report on Defending New York City from Climate Change Impacts
New analysis shows mixing natural and built solutions will protect vulnerable, urban communities.
Ariel view of Howard Beach, Queens
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(BPT) - Each year, millions of Americans seek hospital care to treat a wide range of medical problems – from accidental injuries to chronic or life-threatening illnesses. While the majority of patients have positive outcomes, it is imperative to remember patient safety should be a top priority for everyone.
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Without the greenhouse effect, Earth would be a cold, lifeless planet. Carbon dioxide and water vapor in the atmosphere absorb solar heat as it reradiates off Earth’s surface and keep the planet warm. The greenhouse effect, of course, also has a downside. Some researchers predict that in 60 years, global temperatures w... | <urn:uuid:d8ac1b22-7012-47e8-a8b5-c1a0193b26fb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://discovermagazine.com/1996/jul/plantsandglobalw832 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397562.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00178-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949435 | 523 | 4.125 | 4 |
Anthocyanins give many red, blue and purple fruits and vegetables their colour. These phytonutrients act as antioxidants to help prevent cell damage and are good for your heart, brain and eyes.
For instance, the anthocyanins in blueberries may help circulatory problems, improve vision and cognitive abilities. New resea... | <urn:uuid:afbf7eb0-ff73-46a1-8a2c-0b9f6383ab93> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Choose+foods+with+bold+colours/3337811/story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783404826.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155004-00098-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926503 | 726 | 2.734375 | 3 |
How polluted is New York City’s air? For the first time, soot and other easily inhaled particulates are being tracked at street level in the city’s five boroughs. The Center for the Biology of Natural Systems (CBNS) received a four-year grant in 2008 to do this monitoring as part of the New York City Community Air Surv... | <urn:uuid:547b7c52-d771-4747-80fb-a1a61f624083> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Academics/Centers/Biology/Pages/default.aspx?/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783395160.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154955-00100-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959334 | 285 | 3 | 3 |
To precede is to go before, to be in front of, or to preface. Proceed, by far the more common of the two words, means to go forward, to continue, or to carry on. The words aren’t homophones, but their similarity in sound (and sometimes in meaning) makes them easy to confuse with each other in some contexts.
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Suppose that you could magically snatch a million molecules of “air” from our atmosphere and see what they were. You’d find that virtually all of those molecules were Nitrogen and Oxygen. On average, only about 400 of them would be carbon dioxide molecules (or CO2), the greenhouse gas we hear so much about.
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This picture of Eros shows the view looking from one end of the asteroid across the gouge on its underside and toward the opposite end.
|Discovered by||Carl Gustav Witt|
|Discovery date||August 13, 1898|
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This temple is by no means the largest of the temples built by Ramses II, nor is it well preserved; in fact some of the blocks were removed from the monument and reused during the last century. Only the lower part of the walls and the bases of the columns remain. Nevertheless, it will be briefly described because it mu... | <urn:uuid:7918301b-592d-4b5e-9ded-202696e9b254> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.ancient-egypt.info/2013/07/temple-of-ramses-ii.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783400572.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155000-00163-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965162 | 674 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Like all collectibles, the rare coin market has its own terms and slang. The following is a brief definition and explanation
of the most frequently used coin collecting terms.
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The major, or ... | <urn:uuid:0bb8fc85-8b8d-40be-b881-915b0916ca55> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.pcgs.com/Lingo/K | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783399428.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154959-00158-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938175 | 372 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Asof, Marwan and Gofar, Nurly and Rahmatullah, Rahmatullah (2008) Response of clay shale to the variation of moisture content. Geotechnical & Highway Engineering .
Official URL: http://www.fka.utm.my/
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Hiking through the snow over the weekend I happened upon a frozen pond, when suddenly a small blunt brown head popped out of a break in the ice near some cattails at the pond’s outfall. The creature then pulled itself out onto the ice where it turned to reveal a cattail tuber (root) in its mouth. Then another creature ... | <urn:uuid:54c93e90-326e-4ede-9964-02e521778f91> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-democrat/index.ssf/2014/01/new_jersey_wildlife_the_muskra.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783398628.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154958-00111-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965333 | 1,043 | 3.046875 | 3 |
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The use of secondary sources constitutes an essential element of any research essay written for an upper-division class, particularly in cases where students are dealing with a subject matter in which they have little prior background. Secondary sources often play an importan... | <urn:uuid:2785192c-988b-454b-969b-581046efbf26> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/Exams/secondarysources.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397636.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00137-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942768 | 1,441 | 2.625 | 3 |
A complaint investigation about a daycare that offered webcam monitoring to parents caused us to consider the prevalence of high tech surveillance tools in the day-to-day lives of children. Specifically, we wondered how technical surveillance might affect kids’ feelings about privacy.
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One of the most vexing problems for U.S. education has been the achievement gap between white and non-white students. In 2011, “black and Hispanic students trailed their white peers by an average of more than 20 test-score points on the NAEP math and reading assessments at 4th and 8th grades, a difference of about two ... | <urn:uuid:42ef53aa-84b9-4db1-ae30-b87e88412acb> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://thinkprogress.org/education/2012/02/10/422671/education-gap-rich-poor/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393997.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00124-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981498 | 332 | 3.390625 | 3 |
"You can see quite easily how that mistaken identity might come about," Dr Nathan Hart explains. Photo: Taronga Zoo
Look at these images and it's easy to imagine how a shark might mistake a swimmer or surfer for a seal.
At least that's the premise behind the "mistaken identity" theory that tries to explain why sharks s... | <urn:uuid:fc6ffec9-739f-4a3f-87e7-d1e017b9b580> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/do-sharks-really-mistake-humans-for-seals-researchers-test-mistaken-identity-theory-20150405-1meqwf.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783397748.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154957-00193-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965139 | 604 | 3.484375 | 3 |
Chromosome 5, Trisomy 5p
National Organization for Rare Disorders, Inc.
It is possible that the main title of the report Chromosome 5, Trisomy 5p is not the name you expected. Please check the synonyms listing to find the alternate name(s) and disorder subdivision(s) covered by this report.
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People who have a traumatic brain injury (TBI) may be more likely to have a future stroke, according to research that appears in the June 26, 2013, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
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The final larval stage of certain molluscs, having two ciliated flaps for swimming and feeding.
- Torsion takes place during the veliger stage, usually very rapidly.
- Most marine bivalves go through a trochophore stage before turning into a free-swimming veliger larva.
- The veliger usually metamorphoses in 5-6 days.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) will create additional security risks for businesses and consumers, according to network security experts at the APNIC 38 conference in Brisbane.
Each new machine connected to the Internet opens another window for malicious attackers to enter, they said.
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“Global warming” is probably the most used phrase at present and has become a topic being discussed over dinner in every household. With an increasing concern about Global warming and its effect on the climate which is quite evident from numerous anomalies in the weather pattern all over the world, various organisation... | <urn:uuid:fff11b02-76a4-412b-a2ff-a0b19085aeb4> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://bestdesignews.com/trend-of-public-expenditure-in-2012-a-yardstick-for-responsible-consumerism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393093.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00032-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975302 | 710 | 3.078125 | 3 |
"A giant rhino with a ridiculously supersized head."
"Fifteen long, pointed sideways oriented eye horns: one over the nose, one atop each eye, one at the tip of each cheek bone, and ten across the rear margin of the bony frill."
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In Alaska, in the Nation and the World
1928, a windstorm in Cordova caused more than $30,000 in damage to the town.
1974, negotiators for the Alaska Public Employees Association accepted a 15 percent pay increase for striking supervisors, ending the state's first government employee strike.
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Graphene, multi-walled carbon nanotube, carbon nanoscroll. (Image reprinted with permission from American Chemical Society)
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by William R. Beardslee, MD and Susan Linn, EdD
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McHoul, A. (1990) Commonsense geography. Geographical Education, 6 (2). pp. 50-53.
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This is a condensed and edited version of an unpublished paper given in the invited Presidential Session “The Ethnographer’s Discipline: Alfred Métraux (1902-1963) in his Centenary” at the American Anthropological Association’s Centennial Meeting, New Orleans, 2002. It was further edited for and presented at a session ... | <urn:uuid:69f5148d-4346-4c72-9286-df42e8625192> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://www.eisp.org/1853/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783403826.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624155003-00064-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970336 | 4,792 | 2.796875 | 3 |
No. 98: Mar-Apr 1995
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Black Educators' Views on Middle School Students' Dress and Uniforms: Addressing Challenges from Commercialism
Sylvan I. Alleyne, Velma LaPoint, Jennifer Lee and Harold W. Mitchell
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Last name: Skinley
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WHAT IS MEDIATION?
MEDIATION: A voluntary settlement process to help you resolve disputes.
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The Glossary for Western Civilizations
, 5/e is for the complete text, Chapters 1 - 30.
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Black Sea is one of the major water bodies and a famous inland sea of the world. It has been famous for a long time, mainly because of the name that denotes rather inhospitable nature of this sea. For a long time, the lack of hospitability of this sea was attributed to difficulty in its navigation.
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Extreme Healthy Eating: The Dangers Of Orthorexia
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For Immediate Release, Aug. 4, 2010
Contact: Kierán Suckling, (520) 275-5960
Statement of Center for Biological Diversity's Executive Director Kierán Suckling on
Government Estimates of Remaining Oil in the Gulf of Mexico
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What is string theory?
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Purpose and scope.
Definitions, abbreviations, and acronyms.
Adoption by reference.
Water system ownership.
Variances, exemptions, and waivers.
PLANNING AND ENGINEERING DOCUMENTS
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ASME B 36.10
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A pipe is a tubular section or hollow cylinder, usually but not necessarily of circular cross-section, used mainly to convey substances which can flow — liquids and gases (fluids), slurries, powders, masses of small solids.
There are three processes for metallic pipe manufacture.
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Morse, Tolkowsky, Higuchi and Other Revolutionaries
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Functions and Models: Exponential Functions
base, exponent, exponential function, rational number, irrational number, transcendental number, successive approximation, rate of growth, half-life
Defining exponential functions
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Letter C > C is for Car
Crafts > Car
Holidays and Events >
May > Transportation Month
Online jigsaw puzzles >
Alphabet > Car
Activities > Safety >
Activity: What is a car and alphabet Letter C Car
Visit this lesson plan and incorporate this activity.
Alphabet Lower Case Letter C Car Activity
Worksheet and Craft
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MOSES BEN ENOCH:
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View Full Version : Help making a felted bag I am stuck
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Date of Statehood: July 10, 1890
Population: 563,626 (2010)
Size: 97,812 square miles
Nickname(s): Big Wyoming; Equality State; Cowboy State
Motto: Equal Rights
Tree: Plains Cottonwood
Flower: Indian Paintbrush
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1963 Twenty-five Years Ago
December 1988 | Volume 39, Issue 8
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