text stringlengths 241 486k | __index_level_0__ int64 0 63k |
|---|---|
Background Drug shortages are currently on the rise. In-depth investigation of the problem of drug shortages is necessary; however, a variety of definitions for ‘drug shortages’ are adopted by different organisations, e.g. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the American Society of Hospital Pharmacies (ASHP). For in... | 52,219 |
Napoleonic Wars: Prussian 1813Iron Cross 1st Class
Iron Cross 1st Class. The Eiserne Kreuz (Iron Cross – often abbreviated EK or IC) was instituted on 10 March 1813 by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. It was awarded for bravery in the field – without regard to rank – during the Befreiungskrieg (War of Liberatio... | 4,148 |
Are you know the how does an infrared thermometer work. When you believe a thermometer, you almost certainly picture a tool with some quiet probe that’s placed into the thing being measured.
Whether it is a thermometer that you place under your tongue to take your own temperature, a food thermometer that you push into ... | 44,694 |
These interesting risetime calculators were in use at Tektronix in the early days (note the 51X-style knobs and the Portland address). They consist of a small battery-powered analog computer specifically for calculating cascaded risetime calculations. Risetime is defined as the time taken by a signal to transition from... | 41,847 |
WHEN CONGRESS passed a national school-violence policy in 1994, many states followed with even stricter measures. But those laws, it now seems, are based on a faulty premise: that courts are the best place for disciplining children.
The failure of this idea is clear in New York, where zero-tolerance policies have lead ... | 25,026 |
Young Climate Change Mappers continue work through the end of this week, uploading geolocations and images as key contributions to UNICEF’s global digital chart highlighting climate change and disaster risk reduction throughout the world.
They will come together at the March 13 World Conference on Disaster Risk Reducti... | 23,878 |
Hiroshima: The Day the World Changed Forever
The United States dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, 74 years ago. In addition to killing tens of thousands of people, that moment changed the world forever.
A bell tolls every year on Aug. 6 in Hiroshima, Japan. Nearly everything in the city (inc... | 32,137 |
More information about this Work
These three panels may have been the top of a polyptych similar to the one by Mariotto di Nardo in the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, whose central panel depicts a Virgin and Child. These panels, which were formerly in the Somerwell collection in Scotland, were auctioned at Sotheb... | 54,736 |
Digital technologies have spread rapidly in much of the world. Digital dividends — that is, the broader development benefits from using these technologies — have lagged behind. In many instances, digital technologies have boosted growth, expanded opportunities, and improved service delivery. Yet their aggregate impact ... | 59,279 |
Kath Alcock paintings: 9
Acianthus reniformis, partly
Cyrtostylis from the Greek 'kyrtos' meaning curved or swollen and 'stylis' meaning column, referring to the fluted enlargement of the column below the stigma. Robusta from Latin meaning well developed, robust, alluding to this species being more robust than C. renif... | 11,861 |
Significance and Use
4.1 This test method evaluates the ability of coated fabrics to withstand a prescribed bend at an established low temperature. Fabrics coated with polymeric materials are used in many applications requiring low temperature flexing. Data obtained using this test method may be used to predict in-use ... | 53,083 |
Connecting More Than Just Straws
I’m not sure if you’re a 80s or 90s kid, but if you were, then you should remember how back in school, our teachers would either be using straws to challenge us to build something with it using scotch-tape, or to teach us certain concepts and ideas. And yes, back then, the kind of straw... | 33,862 |
This Date in Native History: On June 19, 1868, Father Pierre-Jean De Smet, a Jesuit missionary, met with the great Sioux Chief Sitting Bull in an attempt to convince “hostile” Indians to make peace with the United States.
A native of Belgium, De Smet was in his early 20s when, in 1827, he was ordained as a priest in St... | 8,248 |
There are lots of expressions in many languages that involve dogs in a metaphorical way. “A barking dog seldom bites,” for example, really means the same thing as “all talk and no action.” “Let a sleeping dog lie,” which is probably a good idea when taken literally, figuratively means to not bring up an old argument.
T... | 24,851 |
This year St. Patrick's Day is celebrated/ observed on Saturday March 17th, 2018. St. Patrick's Day or the Feast of St. Patrick is observed on March 17 as a religious and cultural celebration. It honors Ireland's patron St. Patrick. The date marks the traditional death of the saint. In the early 17th century, it was ma... | 9,822 |
The UNFCCC secretariat's preliminary assessment of nations' pledges and voluntary commitments, 15 December 2009, to reduce carbon emissions finds that a significant gap remains that will lead to temperature increases of 3 degrees Celsius.
Executive summary: This preliminary assessment of the United Nations Framework Co... | 2,625 |
It’s the most famous disaster story ever – and it’s all completely true. The Titanic sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912. More than 1,500 people lost their lives, including crew and passengers. The tragedy sent shockwaves right across the world. The giant ship – the biggest ever to take to the sea... | 25,610 |
This article offers an interpretation of the problems addressed by and the eventual purpose of the United States government. Simultaneously, it seeks to analyze and explain the continued three-part structure of the United States federal government as outlined in the Constitution. Subsequently I define the three parts o... | 24,314 |
Arthroscopy is a method of viewing a joint, and, if needed, to perform surgery on a joint. An arthroscope consists of a tiny tube, a lens, and a light source.
This procedure is typically performed on the knee, shoulder, elbow, or wrist. The type of anesthesia depends on the particular joint and other factors. A regiona... | 3,184 |
Dear Mrs. _______,
I know as a teacher you are an extremely busy woman. You have many daily demands placed on you and I do not mean to add yet another. This letter is simply to introduce my son, Garrett, to you and hopefully help you to understand him better. You see, Garrett was diagnosed with ADHD in July 2003. Since... | 6,204 |
Some days stories just happen. They pop into your mind, nibble at your thoughts and then BAM! your pen is dancing all over the page. And then there are the other days. The days of nothingness – the days of blank paper and furious blinking. Here are three top tips from Children’s Laureate, Malorie Blackman, to avoid tho... | 53,342 |
What is it
Compromise is the condition of peace and progress. But there are times when we should not compromise – when compromise would undermine integrity and amount to cooperating with evil. How do we distinguish between when are we 'bargaining with the devil' and when are we simply trying to be tolerant of alternati... | 2,527 |
Western Reserve Heritage Feasibility Study
The purpose of the Western Reserve Heritage Feasibility Study is to determine the feasibility of designating the historic Western Reserve of Ohio as a National Heritage Area(NHA).
A National Heritage Area is a locally managed place designated by Congress where natural, cultura... | 23,517 |
Library Media Specialist
Appropriate Illinois State Board of Education
Makes resources available to students and
teachers through a systematically developed collection within
the school and through access to resources outside the
Assists students in identifying, locating,
interpreting and evaluating information housed ... | 17,592 |
war of the oscines
The War of the Oscines uses songbirds and other fauna as metaphors for Nature in conflict with human industrial residue, and political language to explore the cost of mass production on the natural world. 'Oscines' is Latin for the suborder of songbirds and originally means, ’to give omens by its cry... | 55,676 |
One of the problems with starting plants off under glass is that eventually they need to be hardened off.
Even hardy plants get used to a life of luxury – regular watering, still air and stable temperatures.
Putting them outside to survive in widely fluctuating spring temperatures, much stronger sunlight and winds will... | 19,730 |
Guide to Using This Book
is divided into four parts that cover the various phases of a wiring
job—from understanding basic vocabulary and principles, to planning,
installation, and finishing. Each part provides the necessary foundation
for the parts that follow.
CIRCUITS, AND GROUNDING
SERVICE EQUIPMENT AND WIRING
spec... | 42,167 |
Task Total Terms: 1051 Term: Zi Lin ( Emilie ) Pupil Number: 706479 Teacher's Term: Jonathan Bowlby Group: some Case1 Concern…...Read
Civilization that we know of started 3000 BCE and from there until the present day, history contains large amount off wars. Between 1740 and 1897, there were 230 wars and revolutions in ... | 30,091 |
Invasive species have been cited as the second largest threat to endangered native species. Most noxious species in New Mexico are found on rangelands and wild lands. Invasions of noxious species in the range and wild landscape result in decreases in available forage for livestock and wildlife. The Noxious Weeds Manage... | 47,066 |
You can help prevent getting and spreading the flu by following three easy steps.
1. Get your flu vaccine. The vaccine for the H1N1 virus is included in the seasonal flu vaccine this year! If your doctor doesn’t have the vaccine, adults can go to a local CVS or Walgreens. Bring your insurance card.
2. Keep your hands c... | 33,118 |
Assalamu alaikum Wa Rahamatullahi Wabarakatuh,
Dear Grades 7&8 Parents/Guardians,
Abraar Secondary School will administer the CTBS over three days, October 1-3 for grades 7-8. This test does NOT require prior preparation by the students.
The Canadian Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS) are trusted assessment tools that will e... | 31,546 |
ESTCube-1 is the first Estonian satellite and it is being built in Estonia by students from Tartu University, Estonian Aviation Academy, Tallinn University of Technology and University of Life Sciences. The project started in 2008 and is currently being assembled and tested. The satellite will be launched in April 2013... | 41,158 |
In ‘Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?’, Jean-François Lyotard uses the ideas of Emmanuel Kant as a framework for explaining how postmodernism evolved out of modernism as a more powerful means of challenging the conformist forces of capitalism and government. Postmodernism is paradoxically more logical and ... | 29,154 |
Invasive Plants tells the history of invasives, defines their impact on natural areas and the economy, describes their role in natural systems, and provides a field guide to over 175 of the most common species in North America.
The authors have created this web site as a portal to the world of invasive plants and as a ... | 31,741 |
EVALUATION OF SOLAR ENERGY, ITS PRESENT STATUS, POTENTIALS, POLICIES AND THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN TURKEYJournal: International journal of ecosystems and ecology science (IJEES) (Vol.6, No. 3)
Publication Date: 2016-06-30
Authors : Fatma Canka Kilic;
Page : 415-424
Keywords : Renewable energy; solar energy; incentives... | 43,824 |
Batteries are portable devices that are used to power other electronic devices. Batteries can be rechargeable or non-rechargeable, but the most common of the former would be Lithium-Ion batteries or Li-Ion.
Seeing as the title of the article revolves around Li-Ion tech, we will be focusing more in-depth about them.
His... | 849 |
10975 Introduction to Programming - Informator Utbildning
COING - In reality, all modern programmers are polyglot... Facebook
For a white-space-only difference the summary is chequered. into countless different types of codes by countless programmers using different programming av G Gopali · 2018 — This thesis will hel... | 46,203 |
View Full Version : Good tutorials for BASIC Stamp Editor
Drew n Matt
02-17-2010, 11:56 PM
I'm in a computer engineering course at my school and our teacher purchased some Boe-Boards (as well as boe-bots). We wanted to use the boe-boards to make a digital alarm clock and were looking for some good tutorials for the BAS... | 42,353 |
Modern automobiles are more technologically advanced than ever before. That tech isn’t just making driving more comfortable and convenient, but also more safe.
In a recent analysis of motor vehicle accidents, researchers at the International Institute for Highway Safety found that vehicles with blind spot and lane depa... | 26,412 |
The Room of the Satyrs
This tiny and extremely richly decorated room is formed from the dome of the octagonal cupola.
Its name comes from the series of miniature stucco satyrs which sit around the edge of the eye opening up into the lantern above.
There are also three circular windows opening out from the sides of the ... | 14,533 |
The M4 Macro Processor PS1:17-1 The M4 Macro Processor Brian W. Kernighan Dennis M. Ritchie AT&T Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974 ABSTRACT M4 is a macro processor available on UNIX- and GCOS. Its primary use has been as a front end for Rat- for for those cases where parameterless macros are not adequatel... | 60,708 |
Arts & Crafts
Submitted by: masamom
Demonstrating knowledge of address. Recognizing numbers within an address.
36 - 60 months
1 - 8 tots
- Address (For each child)
- Paper (Assorted colors)
- Markers (Assorted colors)
- Crayons (Assorted Colors)
- Talk to children about what an address is and the different parts of an ... | 46,351 |
Why Use Herbicide?
Invasive species are a big problem for natural areas. An invasive plant is generally defined as any plant that is more aggressive than the high-quality native species and pushes those plants out over time. TLC tries to use any method other than herbiciding whenever possible.
For biennial weeds (those... | 34,705 |
“Old school” diet lore taught us that fibre “fills you up”, but recent research shows that there is much more to it than that. Dietary fibre has the power to alter the composition of the intestinal microflora, triggering the release of satiety hormones that communicate to the brain that we are full. The message, howeve... | 11,860 |
This house is a 255 m2 single family home and it is considered a small dwelling, or actually ‘just the right amount of space’ what was the demand. Its neighboring houses are almost twice as big, just like any “regular” house in Australia. So it seems the neighbors can have a full right to call it THAT house, for breaki... | 20,318 |
A Brief the History of the Tea Party
As the Tea Party made its boisterous debut on the national stage in 2009, it energized conservatives, rattled liberals, and confounded reporters in ways rivaled by very few other contemporary movements. In 2009 and 2010, Republican candidates rode a Tea Party wave of anti-Obama sent... | 46,771 |
Great whales face new threat as Japan moves to scrap sanctuary
At next month's International Whaling Commission meeting in Grenada in the West Indies, the Japanese will formally propose scrapping the sanctuary, eight million square miles of ocean around Antarctica that is home to some 90 per cent of the world's remaini... | 26,006 |
2016 Sugarbeet Leaf Disease Observation
As one of the leading providers of seed treatments for sugarbeets in the United States, Germains’ Sales Team spends a substantial amount of time in the field so that they may keep a pulse on the crop conditions and performance of new varieties. The following 2016 Sugarbeet Leaf D... | 17,825 |
Both ophthalmologists and optometrists are trained to diagnose and treat vision problems, but ophthalmologists are also fully trained physicians. Therefore they have a broader scope of practice, according to the Digital Journal of Ophthalmology.Continue Reading
Optometrists, or ODs, must complete an undergraduate degre... | 39,524 |
|The Survivor Tree, Summer 2016|
The March 2010 nor'easter impacted the Northeastern part of United States resulting in at least nine deaths. Winds of up to 70 miles per hour snapped power lines and trees . Among these trees was the Callery pear tree form 9-11 site. The tree was uprooted in powerful storm. Again, the t... | 8,972 |
Join Date: Dec 2002
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Rep Power: 15
The construction of wire rope is described as X by Y, where X is the number of wires in each strand, and Y is the number of strands in the rope. Three are commonly used in stainless steel standing rigging:
1 x 19 - size for size the strongest simple wire you ... | 23,166 |
The Comprehension Worksheets for Grade 5 in the United States is meant to stimulate children’s reading skills and to help them grasp concepts. However, they do not teach children to read well. Children learn in their own ways, and if you’re going to encourage them to read, the Comprehension Worksheets for Grade 5 are n... | 51,829 |
There is a renewed public appreciation for the role of tribal allegiances and tribal governance in the Afghanistan and Pakistan insurgencies. This is indicated by the U.S. government’s announcement of an inter-agency effort to study the insurgencies’ tribes, including a search for “reconcilable” elements . The behavior... | 18,736 |
Below is a list of the key texts available on the subject of the Congo Free State, the movement for Congo reform and the key figures involved:
Ascherson, N. The King Incorporated: Leopold the Second and the Congo. London: Granta, 1999.
Barnett, M. Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism. New York: Cornell Univ... | 14,524 |
Chapter 9. Economic Transformation and Continuity, 1818-1860s
Manufacturing — the process of adding value to raw materials by turning them into something else — was limited in British North America by continued mercantilist attitudes in Britain and by American restrictions. Nonetheless, there were examples of manufactu... | 34,696 |
White House Unveils Digital Promise
The White House recently unveiled plans for a research center that aims to integrate more digital learning into our nation’s classrooms. The idea for the center…
The White House recently unveiled plans for a research center that aims to integrate more digital learning into our nation... | 53,438 |
|Scientific Name||Hylobates moloch|
|Length||1.4 to 2 feet (45-64 cm)|
|Weight||11-20 pounds (5-9 kg)|
|Life span||35 years in wild; up to 50 years in captivity|
|Number of young||1 at a time|
|Age of maturity||6 to 7 years|
Swingin in the rain
Javan gibbons live in the rain forest regions of Java, which is an island i... | 32,258 |
This article is excerpted from an essay originally published by the Center for Public Justice in the Public Justice Report in December 1996. This was the last of a series of articles articulating the fundamental principles of the Center for Public Justice.
The Center for Public Justice affirms: "No citizen should be co... | 15,724 |
Many railways have no need fo rthis. But sometimes a track section is laid which "goes back on itself". This leads to a train being able to run around a loop and back onto the original track, reversing its direction as it goes. The power into such a track section needs to be provided carefully: here's why.
Look at the ... | 60,210 |
Breeder Reactor vs. Nuclear Fission Reactor
Which is more efficient: a breeder reactor or a nuclear fission one?
A breeder reactor IS a fission reactor. It is a much more
efficient version of a fission reactor because it "breeds"
new fuel while consuming the old fuel. This is possible because
the fission reactions rele... | 59,430 |
University of Exeter
Sharks, penguins, turtles and other seagoing species could help humans monitor the oceans by transmitting oceanographic information from electronic tags.
Thousands of marine animals are tagged for a variety of research and conservation purposes, but at present the information gathered isn?t widely ... | 58,967 |
Speed reading is an awesome way to save time by learning and understanding things quickly. In the long run, this will free up a lot of time to allow you to concentrate on other things.
Below, you will find a few helpful tips to speed read effectively. It is not a comprehensive list, but a start to allow you to get to g... | 5,966 |
Keyword that indicates that a method should invoke an overridden method in a superclass.
a class construct that provides a type that contains a list of possible types
Reserved word which behaves like an object reference when used in an INVOKE statement. Like SELF, it enables an object to send a message to itself, but t... | 3,136 |
Note: In October/November 2012 Professor of Forest Ecology Glenn Juday participated in a private trip (pilgrimage) following the route of St. Paul, through Turkey, mainland Greece, the Aegean islands and Rome. As time permits he will post some sketches of the history, geography, and natural history and contemporary obs... | 55,072 |
One of the interesting phenomena of American Jewish life a century ago was the Jewish educational literature which reflected the relatively simple education available at the time - sometimes on the part of the author, sometimes on the part of the projected audience. There as a genre of "Reverend's hand-books," the best... | 28,603 |
On switching the filters, an abrupt decrease occurs in the discharge valve opening. On the time frame of the trend in Figure 5, the response of the flow controller is instantaneous. However, there's no effect on discharge flow. (The decreased valve opening merely compensates for the lower pressure drop across the filte... | 46,183 |
Nickel (pronounced /ˈnɪkəl/) is a chemical element, with the chemical symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. It is one of the four ferromagnetic elements at about room temperature, other three being iron, cobalt and gadolinium. Its use has been traced as far bac... | 14,804 |
How do banks calculate the amount of interest paid on a loan? In this lesson, students will view a Livescribe Pencast to learn how to find the dollar amount in interest that is due at maturity. This lesson uses different time periods such as days, months, and years in the calculation as well as varying interest rates.
... | 41,315 |
Global indices are a way to assess and compare national progress against international goals, such as the Sustainable Development Goals, by distilling complex information into a single number. Such composite indices can capture and synthesize an array of data in a way that can be readily understood and that is especial... | 45,523 |
The normal heart is composed of two ventricles that circulate blood through the pulmonary and systemic capillary beds in series, providing a means of delivering oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and removing carbon dioxide and metabolic waste. Deoxygenated blood is received in the right atrium and pumped from the rig... | 1,592 |
The McCarthy-Kennicott area is a mostly private island surrounded by the vast Wrangell–St. Elias National Park . This was once an incredibly important copper mining area, but today it contains Alaska ’s most famous almost-ghost towns. Access to the area is via the McCarthy Road , which leads from the town of Chitina t... | 42,960 |
We’re going to show you how to calculate a quartile in R. This is particularly useful when you’re doing exploratory analysis and reporting, especially if you’re analyzing data which may not be normally distributed.
We’re going to use the r quantile function; this utility is part of base R (so you don’t need to import a... | 45,636 |
- Alternative Agriculture – The debate over genetically engineered crops rages on, but other technologies offer new hope for sustainable farming.
- The Genes of Parkinsons Disease – Parkinson’s cases with genetic origins are shedding light on the cellular mechanisms of the disease, bringing researchers closer to a caus... | 15,157 |
Thinking Cap is about work in progress in the world of ideas.
“Behavioral and neural correlates of delay of gratification 40 years later” by B. J. Casey, Walter Mischel and 12 other collaborators in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Casey is director of the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psyc... | 28,836 |
Welcome to Second Grade!
Now is the time to help your child learn the basics. As your child moves through second grade, expect him/her to show an interest in books, to begin reading independently and to rely less on adults for help.
As a parent or guardian, you are your child's first teacher. You play an important role... | 62,095 |
functions of myth, as defined by Joseph Campbell. Specifically, it will explain Campbell's four functions of myth, and show how they are demonstrated in Native American Hopi culture. The Hopis of Northern Arizona epitomize the four functions of myth in their culture and society. Their society is based on myth, religion... | 34,999 |
Childhood is a time of incredible growth and intellectual development, but it is also a times of curiosity and fanciful dreams and passions. For many people, the dreams that are cultivated in childhood go on to become lifelong passions and professions. For other people, early passions, like a love of animals and horses... | 48,795 |
4 May 2011 Senior United Nations officials today stressed the need to promote the participation of women in decision-making, noting that democracy and gender equality are interlinked and mutually reinforcing.
“While women’s political participation improves democracy, the reverse is also true: democracy is an incubator ... | 18,154 |
plans and participating in drills are essential emergency preparedness
activities. Taking steps to be financially prepared for an emergency
is a critical activity in any planning effort.
Emergency Financial First Aid Kit (EFFAK), a joint publication
Hope, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency,
contains informatio... | 23,451 |
Our Notes & References
Pushkin on one sheet: an excellent copy preserved as a single folded broadsheet, unstitched and unopened, including the printed wrappers. This is the second edition, published the same year as the first.
This unfinished narrative poem, written in 1822, had appeared in ‘Polarania zvezda’ [Pole Sta... | 36,697 |
An eastern Iowa state park that’s more than nine decades old could become the state’s first-ever park to be designated as a National Historic District.
Dennis Murphy, park manager of Wapsipinicon State Park in Anamosa, says the park contains a host of unique features, plus, it was created entirely by inmate labor.
“Bac... | 60,183 |
In Software Engineering, we chant the term of validation and verification a lot between the software team members. Actually, it is used across the software project phases and I think there is a misconception in understanding the two terminologies and when to use them.
Ruby on Rails framework has great automated testing... | 25,087 |
For the cattle drivers who followed the thousands of hungry miners, adventurers and entrepreneurs pouring into the Klondike at the turn of the 20th century, cattle drives were a means to an end, and the end was profit.
Yukon historian (and News columnist) Michael Gates’ book “Dalton’s Gold Rush Trail” is a wonderful so... | 32,971 |
In the not too distant future, a water treatment module carried in the bed of a pickup truck could be the best and cheapest water purification system on the planet. For just $30, it would purify a million gallons of polluted water. Luke Daly, founder of Ferrate Treatment Technologies in Orlando, FL, has taken a chemica... | 19,469 |
A term, which comes up very often when one reads about the Higgs, are radiative corrections. The thing hiding behind this name is also very essential in both my own work, and in particle physics in general. So what is it?
Again, the name is historic. There are two parts in it, referring to radiation and to correction. ... | 38,442 |
« PreviousContinue »
didates for the convention. The Southern Marsellaise was sung, as the banner of the Southern Confederacy was raised, amid reiterated and prolonged cheers for South Carolina and Louisiana.
December 26. A resolution offered in the South Carolina convention, that the Governor be requested to communica... | 47,973 |
No doubt, researchers are always reminding us how climate change is playing a heavy hand in the drastic changes occurred in the northern hemisphere forests, where cold-loving pines and firs are being oppressed out by more adaptable species.
The state of Minnesota is experiencing a significant overhaul of its forest pop... | 29,623 |
The DOUBLE data type is used to store double-precision floating-point numbers.
DOUBLE [ PRECISION ]
The DOUBLE data type holds a double-precision floating point number. An approximate numeric data type, it is subject to rounding errors after arithmetic operations. The approximate nature of DOUBLE values means that quer... | 44,713 |
WHO declares new outbreak of Ebola in Congo
Friday, May 12, 2017
Between December 2013 and January 2015, the largest outbreak of Ebola hit West Africa and killed more than 11,000 people. Thankfully, in May of 2015, Liberia was declared Ebola-free. Sierra Leone and Guinea followed later that year, and the epidemic was f... | 7,416 |
a state park in Monroe County, Michigan. It is located on the southern shore of Lake Erie and includes Sterling State Park Marina. In 1996 it was designated as a National Natural Landmark. The park’s wetlands provide habitat for many species of flora and fauna, including six endangered plants and animals.
William C. St... | 57,457 |
In popular belief, the Amethyst offers protection against drunkenness - for the Greek word 'amethystos' means 'not intoxicated' in translation.
The amethyst has its hardness (7), its moderate refraction and its weight in common with the other quartzes, but the crystal structure is different, and it is most unconvention... | 26,239 |
Human flight has become a tired fact of modern life. At any given moment, roughly 5,000 airplanes crisscross the skies above the United States alone, amounting to an estimated 64 million commercial and private takeoffs every year [source: NATCA]. Consider the rest of the world's flight activity, and the grand total is ... | 18,068 |
There is likely no bigger accomplishment in medicine and public health that has saved so many lives and prevented so much misery over the decades as the introduction of vaccines.
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines vaccine as follows: a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A va... | 25,771 |
Dietary Supplement Basics
What is a Dietary Supplement ?
A dietary supplement is a product intended for ingestion that contains a “dietary ingredient” intended to add further nutritional value to (supplement) the diet. A “dietary ingredient” may be one, or any combination, of the following substances:
an herb or other ... | 11,477 |
In this lesson we will see how to create an email account using an online service.
E-mail is a standard way of sending messages to a person or business over the internet. In order to send and receive email we need an email account.
Use the buttons below to navigate through the lesson
Many online services exist that pro... | 54,019 |
Is customer-based water conservation a drop in the bucket in Southern Nevada?
Reduced precipitation from climate change and disputes over Colorado River water rights loom over Nevada’s water supply, but the agency that oversees it says officials can manage the uncertainty with a boost from new conservation programs and... | 49,299 |
At its inception, Jazz was met with quite the resistance from much older audiences who didn’t understand the sound and feared it would negatively influence the younger generation. Much of this fear was founded on deeply held racist views. Jazz originated from the African American community and was inspired by the afro ... | 44,124 |
Just in case you haven’t noticed, an ongoing trend in American society is conservation. This means using less, recycling more, and being mindful of what you choose to purchase. The trend can be seen in everything to the resurgence of cloth diapers for babies to windmills supplying electrical power.
Conservation has als... | 57,955 |
Gamma ray bursts pose one of the greatest mysteries of modern astronomy. About once per day, the sky above our heads lights up with a flash practically invisible to the naked eye but yet very spectacular: a burst of gamma rays. These are perhaps the most violent events in the universe but at present, we don't even know... | 902 |
Consider the mythic imagination – what is it, who has it, why should we care about it?
Campbell believed that we, as humans in the modern world, re-create the myths and legends of antiquity in our daily lives. He saw this as a way of unlocking or releasing our human potential, whether for personal or public reasons. Hu... | 9,105 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.