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parenthesized braid operad
The parenthesized braid operad is an operad in Grpd modelled on the braid group.
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Don’t do what they do
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Lots of people model their technique, training and tactics on what their peers are doing. But if you want to g... | web |
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Long ago I learned that a plasma was a distinct state of matter after solid, liquid and gas, and also that it was achieved by imparting heat to a the matter. But most references describe a plasma as an ionized gas. So I'm having trouble understanding, what then, does it mean to be a distinct p... | web |
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I just saw this video which was kind of nifty. What principles govern this? Is it simply that 700 lbs of air pressure are exerted from that little 1 HP blower? What would you have to take into consideration to adopt the same principles to move something like a car on a turntable?
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2. Tigers have forward-facing eyes that produce binocular vision.
4. Tigers have a structure at the back of the eye behind the retina called the tapetum lucidum that enables them to have better night vision. This mirrorlike structure reflects light (that has not already been absorbed by the eye) back into the eye... | web |
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I have a SaaS system that was built (dev environment) on a single box. I've moved everything to a cloud environment running Ubuntu 10.10. One server runs the application, the other runs the database. The basic idea is that the server that runs the database should only be ... | web |
Nixon’s chosen cocktail and other things you didn’t know about rum
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Marie Curie
Marie Skłodowska–Curie
Born 7 November 1867(1867-11-07)
Warsaw, Vistula Country, Russian Empire
Died 4 July 1934 (aged 66)
Passy, France
Nationality Poland
Fields Physics, Chemistry
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Mapping a class several times
Mapping a class several times
Imagine that you have several tables with some columns in common. For example, you could have ITEM_AUCTION and ITEM_SALE tables. Usually you map each table to an entity persistent class, ItemAuction and ItemSale respectively. With the help of entity ... | web |
Clockwise from the top left are bread flour, all-purpose flour, unbleached cake flour, and bleached cake flour.[Photographs: Donna Currie]
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On linux, there is socket.h under many folders as shown below.
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After spending time with FastMM4 in weeding out any pieces of code that could possibly cause memory leak as indicated by FastMM4, we have been test running our software for about a month non-stop on Windows 7. This is what I am seeing so far in the Task Manager for my software process.
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I followed LFS doc.
I'm not quite understand why it needs 2 pass of compilation.
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Apple Nutrition Facts - infographic
They say “An apple a day, keeps the doctor away!”
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In Treating Ebola, Doctors Have Only Containment, Not Yet A Cure
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Vote. It's what keeps us free.
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People need to be reminded of the great privilege they have to live in a free, democratic society. What would our country be like if no one voted? What would be the consequences of living in a coun... | web |
Famous British graves FEATURE
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The loop in FigureEx33.12 is being pushed into the 0.20 T magnetic field at 50 m/s. The resistance of the loop is 0.11 , and its width d = 5.2 cm. What are the direction and the magnitude of the magnetic force on the loop?
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A massless spring with spring constant 23.70 N/m hangs vertically. A body of mass 2.04 kg is attached to its free end and then released. Assume that the spring was unstretched before the body was released. Calculate how far the body descends before stopping using conservation of energy.
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A Parable: The Anvil
Let's begin with a parable today. Once upon a time in land before there were any cars or modern machines - a time when horses and carriages and wagons were common on the dirt roads - there was a blacksmith shop with a large, heavy, well-worn a... | web |
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Where did the word cop come from?
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The noun "cop" (first attested meaning "policeman" in 1859) is short for "copper" (first attested meaning "policeman" in 1846). "Copper" in this sense is unlikely to derive from copper buttons or shields worn by early policemen. Rather, ... | web |
Dr. Romney Goes National
Romney’s law is known for (1) its requirement that all individuals purchase health insurance and (2) the “Commonwealth Connector,” a government bureaucracy much like that was championed by First Lady Hillary Clinton in 1993 and rejected by Congress in 1994.
Romney appears to have traded those... | web |
Design student concocts eco-friendly modular PC
Certainly, we've seen compartmentalized computing concepts before, but the machine you see above is far beyond a few lines on paper. This modular PC was designed with Mother Earth in mind, and from our view, design graduate Ben Chase should be receiving a copious amount ... | web |
Researchers teach a computer to predict teen binge drinkers
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Intervention during someone's teenage years is frequently the key to preventing alcohol abuse in adult life. It's good to know, then, that a group of scientists has found a way to predict that abuse at an early age using comput... | web |
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Joan (Carol) D(ennison) Vinge 1948–
American short story writer and novelist.
Vinge is the recipient of Hugo Awards for her novelette "Eyes of Amber" (1977) and her novel The Snow Queen (1980). She w... | web |
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The title text appears to reference a series of published sudoku puzzle books called the "Martial Arts Sudoku". The difficulty of each book is denoted by a martial arts belt color, with each color representin... | web |
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Scientists and golfers alike have long known that the dimples on the surface of a golf ball allow it to drastically reduce drag and travel much farther than would otherwise be possible. This happens because the small dents hold the airflow near the surface of ball for a longer time, and this reduces the size of the w... | web |
7.5.19 SRFI-27 - Sources of Random Bits
This subsection is based on the specification of SRFI-27 written by Sebastian Egner.
This SRFI provides access to a (pseudo) random number generator; for Guile’s built-in random number facilities, which SRFI-27 is implemented upon, See Random. With SRFI-27, random numbers are... | web |
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Acupuncture Is Theatrical Placebo
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Curiously, given that its alleged principles are as bizarre as those on any other sort of prescientific medicine, acupuncture seemed to gain somewhat more plausibility than other forms of alternative medicine. As a result, more research has been done ... | web |
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Mantle Convection Controls the Observed Lateral Variations in Lithospheric Thickness on Present-day Mars
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Geophys. Res. Lett. 36, L18203, doi:10.1029/2009GL039827, 2009
Abstract: Sounding radar observations of the north polar layered deposits on Mars su... | web |
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Bartering was first recorded in Egypt over 4,500 years ago.
In the past, people have used many different things as money. Among them: salt, cocoa beans, grain, cows, shark’s teeth, and precious stones.
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12 Weeks of Hot Summer Reads: Nothing by Janne Teller
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OMAHA, May 9— Zoo officials today announced the birth of tigers conceived by in-vitro fertilization and said the process could help preserve the endangered tiger population as well as other species.
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James Hector was a geologist, naturalist, and doctor who accompanied the Palliser Expedition. He graduated from medical school at Edinburgh University but also took many courses in natural science.
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If you quit smoking, no matter how old you are, your health can improve quickly. Twenty minutes after you quit smoking, your blood pressure improves, your pulse rate drops, and the temperature of you... | web |
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Project to analyze old Hebrew papers
Israeli scientists say they'll combine computer and humanities expertise in a project designed to analyze old Hebrew and Arabic historical papers.
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev said their effort to develop new computer algorithms combines scien... | web |
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Dante, Negative Existence, and the Messianic Self
Gian Balsamo
An examination of the relations between Joyce, Dante, Augustine, and biblical typology
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SAN FRANCISCO - RSA CONFERENCE 2012 – On Tuesday, Atlanta-based Damballa released the results of a study into the techniques used by six known malware families to avoid detection. These methods, commonly known as evasion technique... | web |
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As we moved into chapter 7 of Tractate Pesachim, in this week’s Daf Yomi reading, the rabbis continued their analysis of the laws governing the Pesach sacrifice, which in Temple times was the centerpiece of the Passover holiday. It felt a little strange... | web |
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Kids Who Believe in a “Just World” Engage in Less Bullying Behavior
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Recent research indicates that kids who believe in a “Just World” are less likely to engage in bullying behavior.
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Global inequality: tackling the elite 1% problem
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The large segment of the Haitian population that is unable to read or write inhabits an oral history culture, which produces, when looking into the past, a curious foreshortening. First comes the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, the only successful slave revolution in history and an event with whose fundamentals practi... | web |
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Medicinal baths at Thermopylae, some 90 miles (150 kilometers) north-west of Athens, Thermopylae _ meant the Hot Gates in ancient Greek. Photograph: Petros Gianna... | web |
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An insult aimed (sometimes pointlessly) towards your mother usually to make you feel embarrased and uncomfortable. It can also be used as a last gasp insult, where the speaker runs out of ideas and consequentally insults your mother.
Mother Insult eg.
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Exclusive Regulators are considering creating loopholes in the implementation of the Digital Economy Act to allow small, mobile and Wi-Fi ISPs to avoid its copyright enforcement regime.
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1. [Brit] A specific size and style of type within a type family
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2. A plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water
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Kaa (left), as illustrated in the 1895 edition of The Two Jungle Books
First appearance "Kaa's Hunting"
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A vector
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Adding values AND percentages to the same Chart in VS 2008
• Can you add values and percentages to the same Chart in Visual Studios 2008? I want to display a chart that has both the percentages of responses and the count of responses displayed. I found how to make it one or the other, but not both. Is there somethi... | web |
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Rectus muscles:
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Other muscle: 9 = levator palpebrae superioris
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2 Kgs 17:6
17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea. That is, 722/21 b.c. The figure given (“ninth year”) counts his reign from 730, perhaps because his having the Assyrians as sponsors delayed his official recognition. Another possibility is that it leaves out the three ye... | web |
Economic Democracy Reduces Poverty
Elizabeth WarrenWhen I hear Elizabeth Warren explain to an audience that no one makes a fortune in America all on their own, I can’t help but wonder why it has taken so long for this argument to surface. Warren praises those who build factories and employ workers, but she reminds ent... | web |
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In Los Angeles, photography stands out for more than just its glamourous settings and celebrity cameos. Natural light is a star in most of the photos, thanks to an average of 292 days of sunlight a year. But how does it affect the way Los Angeles photographers work, including Los Angeles wedding photographers? Read on ... | web |
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It is thought that Cloud computing has evolved from Grid computing. This is because in Grid computing instances play bigger role and are referred to as separate devices which form together a distributed network and resource integration. The biggest ... | web |
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The Mangani Clade
As I've mentioned earlier, the formal nomenclature for apes (including humans) is a huge mess. One person's "hominin" is another's "hominid" and my "hominine" might be your "homininan". And in this situation I honestly think the vernacular terms (adjusted in some cases to include hu... | web |
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Time to rethink presidential elections
Legislators are weighing changes to a system that gives too much influence to voters in battleground states at the expense of voters elsewhere
Published April 19th 2006 in The Denver Post
We hope never to live through another election like 2000, when it took 35 days and a U.S. Su... | web |
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A simple Heliodon setup
Let's assume you have a building site and now you want to do some outside rendering. To give it an optimistic, comfortable mood we want a lot of sunlight in our scene. To do so we set the time to July or August. The time of the day will adjust the angle of our light c... | web |
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I have a server running Ubuntu Server 12.xx. Today some services stopped and I found some messages about full disk, so I ran df -h:
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Having worked with executives who have little or no accounting experience, I have sensed their frustration with accounting and finance reports. They didn’t understand the flow of financial information, but they wanted to make informed decisions and run their businesses more efficiently. Lest we forget, the basic purpos... | web |
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Over the years, there occasionally arises talk of a different way to raise revenue for our friends in Washington, the federal government. There are usually two ways that are most popular, the value-added tax and the 10 percent tax, or the flat tax as it's known. I'm completely agai... | web |
Unwelcome ANTics
Yellow crazy ants Anoplolepis gracilipes, a serious threat to the biodiversity of the Wet Tropics, including cassowaries, have recently been identified inside the World Heritage Area for the first time in Little Mulgrave National Park near Edmonton.
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I'm trying to understand why people have sometimes have the ability to sever ties with valuable connections, e.g., people that have up until that time meant a lot to them. Colloquially, people use the term "throw it all away", and I'm wondering if there's any truth to that.
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From what I understand:
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The OCB mode of authenticated encryption (used for example with AES) is the fastest way to provide authenticity and confidentiality without having to strive into questions like: Encrypt then MAC, MAC then encrypt, Encrypt and MAC.
So why it is not widely used and didn't become a standard?
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Can someone simply describe why intuitionistic negation is
not constructive and why intuitionistic proof is constructive?
in intuitionistic logic the notion of falsity has a 'subordinate' status,
i.e. intuitionistic logic essentially rests upon a certain disparity between verification
and fal... | web |
Raw Types
Trail: Learning the Java Language
Lesson: Generics (Updated)
Section: Generic Types
Raw Types
A raw type is the name of a generic class or interface without any type arguments. For example, given the generic Box class:
public class Box<T> {
public void set(T t) { /* ... */ }
// ...
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Die betekenis van die bepalings van die 1996 Grondwet: Die aanhef en hoofstuk 1
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dc.contributor.author Venter, F
dc.date.accessioned 2009-06-08T13:26:24Z
dc.date.available 2009-06-08T13:26:24Z
dc.date.issued 1998
dc.identifier.citation Venter, F. 1998. Die betekenis v... | web |
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The maraschino cherry.
A sweet, florescent lump that bobs in a jar full of syrup in some forgotten corner of your fridge. You might think they're evil, or you might think they're wonderful. Certainly, when Paul Clarke wrote about them in this space in December, commenters were of decide... | web |
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