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Diabetes - Type 1
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Type 1 diabetes is a disorder characterized by high levels of sugar (glucose) in the blood. Diabetes consists of two forms: type 1, previously called "juvenile-onset" diabetes, and type 2, previously called "adult-onset" diabetes. Type 1 diabetes usually starts suddenly before age 30,... | web |
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Auto-old Your Ears
Download the free Play It Down app for iPhone and iPod, and put your hearing to the test with three fun features:
AUTO-OLD MY MUSIC - Play a song from your library, then dial up your age to hear how your music sounds to someone 5, 10, 20, even 30 years older than you!
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Diatonic collection
Diatonic scale
In music theory, a diatonic scale (from the Greek διατονικος, meaning "[progressing] through tones", also known as the heptatonia prima and set form 7-35) is a seven note musical scale comprising five whole steps and two half steps, in which the half steps are maximally separated. T... | web |
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Example sentences for foretaste
It is a foretaste of what human brain will accomplish when mankind is restored back to holiness.
As someone so cogently remarked: a foretaste of what's happening nationwide.
The breeze is a foretaste of the sea, which has a two-sided presence in the movie.
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Marion Hollins' Polo Barn is one of only two remaining historical buildings left standing in Scotts Valley, the other being the Scott House. For those unfamiliar with Scotts Valley, the Polo Barn is on the old Santa's Village site at the north end of town.
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The Rise of Medical Licensure
Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, state legislatures passed medical practice acts defining the practice of medicine, the criteria for medical licensure, and the criminal penalties for the unlicensed practice of medicine. The American Medical Association, founded in 1846, p... | web |
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Ethnomusicology Danielle Little & Quinn Bianchi-Lawson (Shadow)
Danielle Little
Quinn: What is Ethnomusicology?
Danielle: Ethnomusicology is the study of music. You can study the time and history of all types of music.
Quinn: What questions did you ask about Ethnomus... | web |
UV Ozone Destruction (Removal)
Ozone can come from a variety of sources, and often serves as an important component to a comprehensive water
purification system. However, residual ozone represents a potential health hazard and it can be damaging to finished
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Destination TruthCreatures
Deep inside of a volcanic mountain in Chile is a mine where Indians have toiled since the Spanish Conquest. In the deepest galleries remain strange sculptures of miniature cities and shrines where small, mummified beings sit around a table. Discovered only last year, these beings, less than ... | web |
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Tracking and Saving Energy
Today, there was only a morning session in MobiSys about location tracking and energy efficiency. The first presentation was Energy-Efficient Positioning for Smartphones using Cell-ID Sequence Matching by J. Paek (Univ. of Southern California), K. Kim ... | web |
A Question of Power
So real is growing inequality that even libertarian-minded Alan Greenspan has mused on its dangers to “democratic society†– though his fear is not the undemocratic character of oligarchy, but rather that too much inequality may promote economically disruptive political rebellion from below.... | web |
News, Talk and Sports are the formats saving AM radio in the 1990s. FM's superior fidelity not only makes it better for music, it makes it better for the human voice as well. However, because broadcasters use FM primarily for music, AM has been able to carve out a niche for itself with formats that are not dependent up... | web |
What are the Layers of the Earth
by Tega Jessa on September 19, 2010
What are the Layers of the Earth
Layers of the Earth
There is more to the Earth than meets the eye. While we have been busy discovering what lies beyond our world’s atmosphere there are still many mysteries down here that haven’t been fully explo... | web |
A POW remembers
The Legacy of WWII -- James Reily
James Reily Sr. was a bombadier in a B-24 during World War II, flying missions out of Italy to destroy German airplane factories. On his 10th mission, the plane was shot down.
The 10-person crew all bailed out and parachuted into Yugolsavia. When they landed they ran... | web |
Robert Remini
Professor Robert Remini
The Jacksonian Era
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Robert V. Remini is professor emeritus of history and the humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has been called the foremost Jacksonian scholar of our time. He has authored a definitive three volume biograp... | web |
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In the Eyes of the World
The assault on the World Trade Center was unpardonable, but it is important not to lose perspective, especially a historical one. For a response dictated by fury such as that now displayed by some American politicians, while understandable, is likely to simply serve as one more proof for San... | web |
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Brief History of the Xhosa People
an artists depiction of the Xhosa Wars in 1851 showing Khoikhoi and Xhosa History
An artist’s depiction of the Xhosa Wars in 1851, showing Khoikhoi and Xhosa
The Xhosa and white settlers first encountered one another around Somerset East in the early 18th century. In the late 18th ... | web |
Pentagon Funds Spider-Man Tech for Real-Life Wall Crawlers
A team of chemical engineers at Cornell have created a palm-sized device that could one day turn troops into human wall crawlers, using an adhesive bond inspired by beetles.
No surprise that Darpa, the Pentagon agency often inspired by sci-fi, is behind this ... | web |
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Expelling gas after meals is natural; however, sometimes it can be accompanied by gas pains, nausea and vomiting. Act quickly to avoid these severe symptoms. You can learn how to relieve gas naturally with the treatments... | web |
319 (CANCELLED) Thematic Movement Experiences: The Foundation for Learning Basic Dance Elements
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Teaching dance through movement themes potentially creates a foundation for learning the basic dance elements... | web |
Lungfish, a fish that breathes with a lung as well as by gills. The African and South American lungfishes use their lungs to breathe air while they estivate (are dormant) in mud in times of drought. The Australian lungfish uses its lung to breathe air when the water is stagnant.
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Bátora called one of the 20th century's most antisemitic Czech books "brilliant"
Ladislav Bátora, the controversial Czech Education Ministry appointee slated to become director of human resources at the ministry, published an evaluation of the work of Rudolf Vrba in a collection called "Czech Revi... | web |
Georgia Island Gives Sanctuary To Rare Animals
November 27, 1986|United Press International
ST. CATHERINE`S ISLAND, Ga. -- Rare Arabian oryx roam nonchalantly across a forest clearing with their magnificent spiral horns held high, while a herd of Grevy zebras kicks up some dust in the next meadow.
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Research Project: Genetic Differences, Conservation and Utilization of Tunis Sheep in Tunisia and the United States
Location: Plant And Animal Genetic Resources Preservation Research Unit
Project Number: 5402-31000-005-02
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Verse > John Donne > The Poems of John Donne
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Upon Mr. Thomas Coryat’s Crudities
OH, to what height will love of greatness drive
Thy learned spirit, sesqui-superlative?
Venice’ vast lake thou’st seen, and wouldst seek then
Some vaster thing, and found’st a courtesan.
That inland sea having discover’d... | web |
A fatter chance for diet
Don't fear all plant oils
some can be a boon for active people
November 11, 2001|By Bob Condor, Tribune staff reporter.
The concept is still a hard sell, said Robert Nicolosi, even in the human nutrition class he teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Most people just don't a... | web |
FACT: “The most enduring tradition of the ancient sports is the Olympic Games, founded by the Greeks in 776 BCE. The ancient Olympics involved 200-meter and 400-meter sprints, the pentathlon, long jump, discus and javelin throwing, forms of athletic competition that have more immediacy for us than any other ancient spo... | web |
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Qwghlm is a fictional archipelago, comprising the two large islands of Inner and Outer Qwghlm and a number of small uninhabited outcroppings. Qwghlm is said to somewhat resemble islands of the Outer Hebrides, probably combining aspects of Skye and Uist. It is from where El... | web |
In the standard toolbar, there’s the Navigate Backward and Navigate Forward buttons.
Navigate Forward and Navigate Backward standard toolbar buttons
In the editor, the Navigate Backward is bound to Ctrl+minus and Navigate Forward is bound to Ctrl+Shift+minus. I find these commands most helpful when navigating amount... | web |
Alice Walker Fights Anti-Palestinian Bias
By Dennis Bernstein
Author Alice Walker
And it’s unconscionable that any adults, especially in this part of the world, and lo and behold in Oakland would want to deprive these children of a venue in which they could expose some of their grief and some of their pain, and... | web |
How to Survive the End of the Universe
Humanity’s guide to the next billion trillion years. (Wormhole kit not included.)
By Andrew Grant|Tuesday, February 28, 2012
illustration by Chris Gall
This year will be a doozy for doomsayers. Depending on the prophecy, the world is predestined to expire by means of a solar s... | web |
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Demographics of Argentina
Demographics of Argentina
Population of Argentina, 1961–2010
Population: 41,769,730 (2011 census [INDEC])[1]
Growth rate: 1.036% (2010 est.)[2]
Birth rate: 17.75 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
Dea... | web |
How Information Became a Thing, and All Things Became Information
From alphabets to iPhones, humans have experimented with
data storage for millennia. In the modern age, though, information
is beginning to overwhelm the physical world.
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Host (network)
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In Russia, the term is applied to the inhabited localities which serve as a seat of government of entities of various levels. The only exception to this rule is the republics, for which the term "capital" is used to refer to the ... | web |
Persuasive speech on drinking more water?
Question:It's for a college class and needs to be 6 minutes. I'll explain it completely because a few people didn't understand. I want to know if this is a good topic, Persuading people to drink more water I mean. If you have any better ideas please share them.
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This article is about nitrogen oxides produced during combustion. For other definitions see Nox
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NOx is a generic term for mono-nitrogen oxides NO and NO2 (nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide). They are produced from the reaction o... | web |
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Mounted skeleton of Apatosaurus louisae, Carnegie Museum
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Phylum: Chordata
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Music of Solomon Islands
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Solomon Islands
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The music of Solomon Islands has received international attention since before the c... | web |
The TCP wrapper was designed and implemented by Wietse Venema during a massive assault on TU Eindhoven's Unix systems. A hacker was loose on various systems at the university, and the systems didn't really support access control or logging of his activities.
The wrapper, tcpd, can be used with any service that is star... | web |
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Six to eight hours per day is the average amount of sleep a person needs. That's about one-third of a lifetime! As a population, we sleep about 1 to 1.5 hours less than we did 100 years ago. Scientists say that sleeping 7 – 8 hours a day is normal. If you sleep less, your health can suffer. Sl... | web |
Neutronium is the stuff neutron stars are made from. Unlike normal matter, it does not consist of atoms. It is composed solely of neutrons sitting right next to each other, like in an atom's nucleus.
The Similarities and Differences to an Atomic Nucleus
A normal atomic nucleus consists of one to a few hundred nucleon... | web |
Catie Gill. Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community: A Literary Study of Political Identities, 1650-1700. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. xii+243pp. ISBN 0 754 6398 51.
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Searle, Alison. "Review of Catie Gill. Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community: A Litera... | web |
linear argument
<theory> A function argument which is used exactly once by the function.
If the argument is used at most once then it is safe to inline the function and replace the single occurrence of the formal parameter with the actual argument expression. If the argument was used more than once this transformatio... | web |
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How to create AI in games like suduko/snake and ladder/tic-tac-toe in general board games where computer is a another opponent.
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Basically this boils down to 'how can I implement an AI for a board game'. There is no AI in snakes and ladders. There is no ai in sudoko... | web |
Log Houses
1. Brown construction paper
2. Cardboard
3. Pencil
4. Tape
5. Glue
Cut the piece of cardboard the size you'd like the floor of your house to be. Cut the paper one inch longer and two inches wider than the house size. Wrap the paper around a pencil and tape it. Slide the log off the pencil and g... | web |
World War II wreck found in California lake
The wreckage of an airplane lost during World War II in northern California has been found.
The TBM Avenger went down in Clear Lake just south of the Oregon border Dec. 4, 1944, during a training mission. The crash killed both men on board. The body of radioman David Herget... | web |
As the story goes, when farmers were looking for a better way to deliver tomatos undamaged, they just engineered a more resilient vegetable. And that's basically the same approach being taken by crash-friendly flying robot researchers at the EPFL.
Instead of focusing their efforts on obstacle and collision avoidance s... | web |
Because digital clocks are way easier to tell time but analog clocks are way classier, design studio Humans Since 1982 decided to combine the best of both worlds and make a digital clock from 288 different analog clocks. It's brain meltingly delicious to see each analog clock turn its hands to form a digital clock.
Th... | web |
Olé! the 3rd weekend of February, Always!
Five Food Facts about Margaritas
1. The original recipe for the Margarita is a concoction of equal parts tequila, orange liquor and lime. Served over ice with a salt-rimmed glass.
2. Some say the Margarita is a version of a popular prohibition drink called the Daisy, a drink... | web |
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From Henry Shrapnel, British army officer who invented an anti-personnel shell that transported a large number of bullets to the target before releasing them, at a far greater distance than rifles could fire th... | web |
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Keeping Score: Questions about CBO’s ACES Scoring
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Last Friday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) release their financial “scoring” of the draft Waxman-Markey American Clean Energ... | web |
Water Purification
Water Purification Learning Objectives
After completing this section you should be able to:
• Explain why water purification is important
• Purify water by boiling
• Purify water by chemically treating
• Purify water by filtering
• Purify water by zapping with ultraviolet light
• Expla... | web |
Biology, Eighth Edition (Raven)
Chapter 15: Genes and How They Work
How is mRNA transcribed without disrupting a DNA molecule? Just like DNA synthesis, mRNA synthesis is done along small sections of DNA that are uncoiled and the two strands separated. Once the mRNA is created from one of the DNA strands, that portio... | web |
Okinawan Samurai
Okinawans were Okinawans, historically speaking. Even today they tend to remain Okinawans. So, when I read a story about one of the famous karate masters and I come to the line in the story that speaks of the master as a Samurai or of Samurai family I have to ask, "Samurai?" The greatest influences ... | web |
A Jewish shtetl from the mid 1500s through the mid 1940s.
The same street in Sniatyn in the early 1900s and today.
Postcard: courtesy of Nicholas Martin. Photo by Dr. B. Solomowitz, 1992.
The sections of this site-page are:
A. Location
Sniatyn is a border town nestled on the banks of the Prut River--close to the ... | web |
SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center
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How to Read a Recipe
Reading a recipe isn't like reading a book. It's a set of instructions for preparing a food or drink. Once you know how to follow a recipe, you can get cooking!
Recipe Name
The recipe name tells you what you'll be making. Some recipe... | web |
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>To understand this, one must look at a more obvious case: jelly or
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After thousands of years of occupation by aboriginal peoples, the region came to the attention of Europeans, perhaps during the Viking voyages of c. AD 1000 and certainly by the late 15th century. The rich fisheries of the coast provided the major impetus for European involvement in the area. In the early 17th century,... | web |
How to steal an election
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MIT's Tech Review has a curious article today about the efficacy of voting machines. According to the article, Princeton University researchers have shown 3 fairly alarming things in terms of the Diebold AccuVote-TS:
1. They've shown that you can hack into the system and it'... | web |
The Canadian Press RCMP work at the scene of a fatal python attack on Monday Aug. 5, 2013 at Reptile Ocean in Campbellton, N.B.
The deaths of two young boys in New Brunswick last summer, both killed by an escaped African rock python, alerted the country to the potential dangers of exotic pets.
But is there really suc... | web |
HTML Email References : Java Glossary
Email reference
It is a good idea to repeat the email address visibly for people whose browsers don’t support mailto or for people who want to copy/paste the email address into their separate email or database program. It is best to leave out the email: text link if you don’t want... | web |
klinokinesismedical dictionary
<cell biology> Kinesis in which the frequency or magnitude of turning behaviour is altered. Bacterial chemotaxis can be considered as an adaptive klinokinesis, the probability of turning is a function of the change in concentration of the substance eliciting the response.
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So India is witnessing a new trend in automobile segment. Ever-rising fuel prices along with strict emission norms are forcing car makers to use smaller capacity engines in bigger segment cars. One added reason is, accepting this process will help car makers to reduce the price of the cars which will be beneficial both... | web |
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Socket.EndSend Method (IAsyncResult)
Ends a pending asynchronous send.
Namespace: System.Net.Sockets
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The Ultimate Destination Spot
In Parashat Tetzaveh, Aaron is given instruction on how to properly visit the Tabernacle.
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If the neighbors invited us over to view slides of their recent vacation to India, we might cringe to see goofy photos of them in traditional Indian clothes, posing ... | web |
No Need for Tears for Cryosphere
No Need for Tears for Cryosphere
November 23, 2013
Isaac Orr
The first time I heard about the potential consequences of manmade global warming, my mind immediately raced to one terrible conclusion: This could make it much harder to build snow forts.
I was in fourth-grade science cl... | web |
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NCP Metabolic Acid-Base Imbalances
The body has the remarkable ability to maintain plasma pH within the narrow range of 7.35–7.45. It does so by means of chemical buffering mechanisms by the kidneys and the lungs. Although single acid-base (e.g., metabolic acidosis) imbalances do occur, mixed acid-base imbalances are ... | web |
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Portrait of Paul Laurence Dunbar, ca. 1890-1900. Josephine Watkins Lehman, known to Dunbar as "Aunt Bam," was the daughter of Dunbar's high school principal and mentor, William Watkins. She is credited with taking this photograph. Dunbar i... | web |
Olbrich Home Blooming Butterflies
Bolz Conservatory can be enjoyed year-round
Enjoy a tropical paradise year-round in Olbrich's Bolz Conservatory, a glass pyramid filled with exotic plants, bright flowers, a rushing waterfall, fragrant orchids and free-flying birds.
The tropical Bolz Conservatory houses more than 650... | web |
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In special relativity, magnetism can be re-interpreted as an aspect of how electric charges interact when viewed from different inertial frames.
Color charge is more complex than electric charge, but also has deep similarities to it. This leads to three questions:
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When I sit in a room I can hear voices coming from the adjacent room but the light in adjacent room does not enter my room i.e. sound waves travels through the wall but light waves can't. Why?
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A uniform rod is 2.0 m long. The rod is pivoted about a horizontal, frictionless pin through one end. The rod is released from rest at an angle of 30° above the horizontal. What is the angular acceleration of the rod at the instant it is released?
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I understand that the closer something travels to the speed of light, that time will stretch by a factor, and distance will compress by the same factor.
My question is, if something travels in a circle, close to the speed of light, what does the distance of the journey look like to them? They... | web |
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plasma membrane
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Intro to IO Profiling of Applications
One of the classic problems in designing storage solutions is that we don’t know what kind of IO performance applications need.
We may have some empirical knowledge, “switching to SSD’s improved by wall clock time by 25%,” or, “adding an extra drive i... | web |
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Who generates the session keys for a SSL symmetric encryption? Is it the client for both client and server where client generates part of it while the server generates the other part?
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What Is DRM?
DRM stands for "Digital Restrictions Management," though content providers will argue it stands for "Digital Rights Management." DRM refers to computer technology, hardware or software based, that restricts what a consumer is allowed to do with a copyrighted work. If you've ever been annoyed that you cann... | web |
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Mathematics and the Bilingual Brain
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Language is an inseparable part of mathematics. Some of the first lessons that parents teach their toddlers are the words to count the chubby little fingers on their hands. From there, children ... | web |
Bartonellosis basics
Veterinary team members, you're at risk for the disease simply because you work with animals. But how much do you really know about bartonellosis?
Nov 26, 2010
What is it?
Bartonellosis is a condition caused by infection with Bartonella bacteria. Various strains of the bacteria can cause ailments... | web |
Fungal diseases such as Stagonospora nodorum and Magnaporthe oryzae cause significant losses to wheat and rice crops throughout the world. Now, an Ohio State University scientist is trying to use these bad fungi for good -- taking some of their genes to breed bioenergy crops that could make ethanol production cheaper a... | web |
Focus On: Seizures - What Is the Mechanism Underlying Clinical Manifestations of Seizure Activity as Seen in the ED?
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From ancient scriptures to the latest science, gratitude is known to be good for us and those around us. Yet it isn't always our automatic response and we often take the good things in our lives for granted. So we have to consciously learn to get into the habi... | web |
One of a group of elements classified as the halogens. Chlorine, Cl2, the most common halogen, is a greenish yellow gas with an irritating odor. Chlorine is very reactive; it forms salts with metals, forms acids when dissolved in water, and combines readily with hydrocarbons. Various forms of chlorine are used to disin... | web |
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All subjects on materials for fusion reactors are appropriate for this conference. The organizers welcome the submission of abstracts in the following topics :
1. Multiscale modeling for designing and predicting the performance of fusion materials
2. Radiation Effects
2.1 Microst... | web |
Arctic World
Earth, the water planet
Latitude and longitude
Why are there seasons?
When will the sun rise?
What is an albedo?
What is Earth's albedo
What is density
What is snow?
What is sea ice?
Zoom in on sea ice
What is tundra?
Understanding data
The metric system
Is there life in the Arctic?
Northe... | web |
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Even Birdbrains Learn from Experience
Cockatoos open a complex series of locks to achieve a distant goal.
Jenny Jennings Foerst
2013-11SciObsJenningsF1.jpgClick to Enlarge ImageFigaro was only a birdbrain: a captive cockatoo (Cacatua goffini). But when Alice Auersperg, c... | web |
Buddha – Manifestation of Silence
When Buddha got enlightened on the full moon day in the month of May, he kept silent. For a whole week he did not say a word. Mythology says that all the angels in the heaven got frightened and said, "Once in a millennium someone blossoms so fully like Buddha. Now he is silent, is not... | web |
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Botanic gardens sell plants for many reasons - to raise funds for running costs, for a specific project, to satisfy visitor expectations, to introduce species to ornamental horticulture or to promote sustainable use.
botanic garden shopWhat kinds of plants are sold in plant sal... | web |
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