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Principles of Design
Balance in design is similar to balance in physics. A large shape close to the center can be balanced by a small shape close to the edge. A large light toned shape will be balanced by a small dark toned shape (the darker the shape the heavier it appears to be)
Graduation of size and direction produ... |
What is Fluorescence?
Fluorescence is the ability of certain chemicals to give off visible light after absorbing radiation which is not normally visible, such as ultraviolet light. This property has led to a variety of uses. Let’s shed some further light on this topic; consider the omnipresent “fluorescent” lights. Jus... |
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Few things in my life have brought me as much joy as watching sea otters play in the waters near Monterey, Calif. So when I heard this week that the frisky yet endangered critters may be slightly expanding their habitat, I figured everyone would think that was good news.
Once hunted into near-extin... |
This is a video made by a group of students from the Department of Media & Communication, RUPP, Cambodia.
Using a Weak Password
Avoid simple names or words you can find in a dictionary, even with numbers tacked on the end. Instead, mix upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols. A password should have at least... |
Bass, Blue Nose
Bluenose Bass is a large fish, growing to over 50 kg, found in temperate waters of New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and South America. They are particularly vulnerable to fishing pressure because they are long lived, mature late, and exhibit schooling and spawning aggregation behaviors making them ... |
Scallop, Mexican Bay
Mexican Bay Scallops are distributed from Baja California, Mexico to Northern Peru, including both sides of the Baja California Peninsula. They grow quickly, reach sexual maturity around 6 months of age and produce many eggs.
After heavy fishing pressure that caused numbers to drop considerably, Me... |
JOHN THE PRESBYTER, author, also known as John the elder, said by some to have written some of the Johannine books of the Bible. To him also is attributed a Coptic version of the life of Saint PISENTIUS, bishop of Qift (Coptos), dating from the mid-seventh century. The text has reached us in only one codex (British Mus... |
[Editorial note: [...] indicates use of Coptic, Greek, Arabic, or Egyptian text. Original script is available for viewing in the PDF format of this article.]
SULLAM (or scala). The Arabic term for a Coptic-Arabic dictionary is sullam (ladder; plural salalim), because the words are arranged to the left (Coptic) and the ... |
Shoah exhibits educate, provoke sad memories
HAMILTON — It was difficult for Emmy Weisz to watch the documentary on Anne Frank.
As a child in Amsterdam, just one year younger than Frank, Weisz had walked the same streets, stepped inside the same buildings as the famed diarist.
But Weisz attended the opening of Anne Fra... |
One of my favorite science fiction ideas is in a short story called Light of Other Days about something called “slow glass.” Light took decades to pass through. In this story, the idea was that people could buy glass windows that took so long for the light to pass through, that they could nostalgically watch long gone ... |
Benefits of touch typing on task performance:
I assume that when comparing skilled individuals, two handed touch typing on a traditional keyboard is faster, more reliable, and more automatic, than the other methods of text input that you mention (e.g., phone or tablet keyboards). These advantages are discussed here.
- ... |
A trio of superstar health innovators have a message for the broken U.S health care system: broaden the definition of health to include basic life necessities, bring care to where people live and study how it’s done in poor countries where you can’t always rely on expensive tests and drugs to make people better.
The pe... |
Gwayasdums village is a small community located on Gilford Island. The village is the traditional home of the Kwikwasut'inuxw people, though throughout the historic era a number of groups have used the site as a winter village.
Other Kwakwaka'wakw groups that identify closely with Gilford Island are the Gwawa'enuxw, th... |
NASA / JPL-Caltech / STScI / ESA
This image of a pair of colliding galaxies called NGC 6240 shows them in a
rare, short-lived phase of their evolution just before they merge into a
single, larger galaxy. Click on the image for a larger version.
Nothing draws a crowd like a spectacular crash - whether it's a NASCAR auto... |
Since its origin, the Scouting program has been an educational experience concerned with values. In 1910, the first activities for Scouts were designed to build character, physical fitness, practical skills, and service. These elements were part of the original Cub Scout program and continue to be part of Cub Scouting ... |
|Domestic violence is spousal/partner relationship violence between adults. Family violence is not
ok, it creates a fearful environment for every member of the family. If there are children in the home
where domestic violence is occurring, even if the children are not being battered, they are being
exposed to violence ... |
For those seeking to understand and manage ecosystems, a key idea has resonated for more than two decades: spatial variation is essential for ecological sustainability over time. Now a new book examines the impact of that revelation.
The Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability at Michigan State University int... |
I’ve just watched the last instalment of Dan Snow’s latest series.
After Trafalgar the Royal Navy was riding the crest of a wave. Dominant in all of the world’s oceans, the ironclad era and the advent of engine propulsion spurred it on to new heights.
But away from the ships, a sea change too place in the culture of th... |
Determining death, when minutes matter
Death, so the maxim goes, is one of life's certainties. But in this era of high-tech medical interventions, determining the precise moment of death isn't always cut-and-dried. That determination is vitally important, however, when the deceased could be an organ donor.
Organs: Medi... |
Darkness is our natural state. During the 200,000 years of human existence our species has only known electric light for .06% of that time. Yes there were candles and torches, but the thought of just flipping a switch to turn on all the lights in a room was inconceivable. Today we recognize the shapes of cities based o... |
|Invasive red-eared sliders compete with native turtles for food, habitat and basking and nesting sites.
Oregon’s aquatic invasive species
Oregon terrestrial invasive species
Rick Boatner, ODFW Invasive Species coordinator
Martyne Reesman, ODFW Aquatic Invasive Species technician
Invasive species are animals and plants... |
Pronunciation: (sir'ingks), [key]
—pl. sy•rin•gesPronunciation: (su-rin'jēz), [key] syr•inx•es.
1. Ornith.the vocal organ of birds, situated at or near the bifurcation of the trachea into the bronchi.
2. (cap.) Class. Myth.a mountain nymph of Arcadia who was transformed, in order to protect her chastity from Pan, into ... |
|a fool or simpleton; ninny.|
|a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.|
The Greek and Roman god of poetry, prophecy, medicine, and light. Apollo represents all aspects of civilization and order. He was worshiped at the Delphic oracle, where a priestess gave forth his predictions. Zeus was his father, and Artemis ... |
|Main Entry:||happy as a clam|
|Part of Speech:||adj|
|Example:||Happy as a clam refers to its being dug from its bed of sand only at low tide; at high tide it is quite safe from molestation.|
|Etymology:||1830+; orig. happy-as-a-clam-at-full-tide|
|an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional ex... |
lose one's touch
No longer be able to do or handle something skillfully. For example, I used to make beautiful cakes but I seem to have lost my touch, or Dad had a real knack for letting someone down gently, but he's lost his touch. This expression alludes to the older sense of touch as a musician's skill on an instrum... |
Journal of Archaeological Science doi:10.1016/j.jas.2009.11.016
Radiocarbon evidence indicates that migrants introduced farming to Britain
Archaeologists disagree about how farming began in Britain. Some argue it was a result of indigenous groups adopting domesticates and cultigens via trade and exchange. Others conten... |
19. Report and Recommendations to the President of the United States. Presidential Commission on Indian Reservation Economics, November 1984.
20. Shannon, Ruby W. "Friends" for the Indians. Anadarko, OK: Riverside Indian School, 1971.
21. Wall, C. Leon, and Beulah Widney Wall. Tomahawks over Chilocco. Oklahoma City, OK... |
Date: March 1, 2012
Creator: Ilias, Shayerah
Description: The proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a new agreement for combating intellectual property rights (IPR) infringement. The ACTA negotiation concluded in October 2010, nearly three years after it began, and negotiating parties released a final ... |
Date: November 17, 2005
Creator: Hanrahan, Charles E.
Description: In May 2003, the United States, Canada, and Argentina initiated a formal challenge before the World Trade Organization (WTO) of the European Union’s (EU’s) de facto moratorium on approving new agricultural biotechnology products, in place since 1998. Al... |
Date: January 10, 2011
Creator: Ahearn, Raymond J.
Description: Seventeen of the European Union's 27 member states share an economic and monetary union (EMU) with the euro as a single currency. These countries are effectively referred to as the Eurozone. What has become known as the Eurozone crisis began in early 2010 ... |
I read a very interesting piece in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer about the history of violence in America: Violence Vanquished. Here’s just one part of it:
An even more intractable debate accompanied the rise and fall of lynching, one of the most gruesome forms of violence ever to take root in the United States. Today,... |
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Year of production - 2005
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New in version 2.4.
The cookielib module defines classes for automatic handling of HTTP cookies. It is useful for accessing web sites that require small pieces of data - cookies - to be set on the client machine by an HTTP response from a web server, and then returned to the server in later HTTP requests.
Both the regu... |
OLYMPIA, Wash., January 9, 2008—The Department of Revenue has released Tax Exemptions 2008, a compendium of state and local tax exemptions.
The legislatively mandated tax exemption study is updated every four years. It is available online.
The 567 exemptions enacted since territorial days in 1854 represent an estimated... |
Black cap; black throat and lower neck (like a bib); white cheek patches; white chest and belly; gray back, wings, and tail; buffy patches on the flanks. 12 cm (4.75 in) in length. The Carolina Chickadee's call is chick-a-dee-dee-dee or a shortened version of the same. The song of this species is usually four whistled ... |
In a victory for the gray wolves of the northern Rockies, a federal judge in Montana on Friday July 18 reinstated federal Endangered Species Act protections for wolves, thus preventing Idaho, Montana and Wyoming from implementing fall wolf hunts.
The court ruled that conservation groups are likely to succeed on the maj... |
What a busy two weeks! Happy to be back to the blogging world and so ready for Spring Break. I wanted to share with you all some of the fun things we did last week. I bought DeAnna's St. Patrick's Day unit and my kinders had a blast. Here's a glimpse at a few of our Math Workstations. These printables are made up of fr... |
Need help using School Facts Jax? Our quickstart video makes it
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You'll also find answers to our most frequently asked questions.
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Science Supplies and Services
Model for Mass Spectrometer
How many of high school or college students have seen the insides of a working mass spectrometer? How many know how and why it works? What is it used for? Is the print-out the only important feature of the instrument or should our students understand how the inf... |
Wiktionary:About Low German
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Low German/Saxon is a Germanic lect... |
Latin evaginare, to unsheath; ex-,from +vagina, sheath
evaginate (third-person singular simple present evaginates, present participle evaginating, simple past and past participle evaginated)
- (intransitive) To evert a body organ inside surface to outside.
- (transitive) To cause a body organ or part to become inside-o... |
Economic opportunities for women still lagging: World Bank and OECD
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
In a recent study released by the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), economic opportunities for women are still lagging behind opportunities for men in the developing world. Im... |
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A blackboard (UK English) or chalkboard (US English) is a reuseable writing surface on which text or drawings are made with sticks of calcium sulfate or calcium carbonate, known, when used for this purpose, as chalk. Blackboards were originally m... |
Food vs. fuel
Food vs. fuel is the dilemma regarding the risk of diverting farmland or crops for biofuels production in detriment of the food supply on a global scale. The "food vs. fuel" or "food or fuel" debate is international in scope, with valid arguments on all sides of the issue. There is disagreement about how ... |
In accounting, gross profit or sales profit is the difference between revenue and the cost of making a product or providing a service, before deducting overhead, payroll, taxation, and interest payments. Note that this is different from operating profit (earnings before interest and taxes).
The various deductions (and ... |
Hydrothermal circulation in its most general sense is the circulation of hot water; 'hydros' in the Greek meaning water and 'thermos' meaning heat. Hydrothermal circulation occurs most often in the vicinity of sources of heat within the Earth's crust. This generally occurs near volcanic activity, but can occur in the d... |
Naval aviation is the application of military air power by navies, including ships that embark fixed-wing aircraft or helicopters. In contrast, maritime aviation is the operation of aircraft in a maritime role under the command of non-naval forces such as the former RAF Coastal Command or a nation's coast guard. An exc... |
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Bread crumbs or breadcrumbs (regional variants: breading, crispies) are small particles of dry bread, used for breading or crumbing foods, topping casseroles, stuffing poultry, thickening stews, adding inexpensive bulk to meatloaves and simil... |
The Pueblo people are a Native American people in the Southwestern United States. Their traditional economy is based on agriculture and trade. When first encountered by the Spanish in the 16th century, they were living in villages that the Spanish called pueblos, meaning "towns". Of the 21 Pueblos that exist today, Tao... |
Rotten and pocket boroughs
A rotten, decayed, or pocket borough was a parliamentary borough or constituency in the United Kingdom that had a very small electorate and could be used by a patron to gain undue and unrepresentative influence within the Unreformed House of Commons.
A rotten borough was an election borough w... |
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A semi-acoustic guitar or hollow-body electric is a type of electric guitar that originates from the 1930s. It has both a sound box and one or more electric pickups. This is not the same as an acoustic-electric guitar, which is an acoustic gui... |
|Quantum field theory|
||It has been suggested that this article be merged with Zero-point energy. (Discuss) Proposed since June 2012.|
In quantum field theory, the vacuum state (also called the vacuum) is the quantum state with the lowest possible energy. Generally, it contains no physical particles. Zero-point field ... |
Etymology 1
- To predict the future using crystal balls.
- The fortune teller claimed she could scry [into] the future.
- (obsolete) To descry; to see.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Middle English ascrie
scry (plural scries)
Part or all of this entry has been... |
Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council
Department of Environment and Heritage, 2001
ISBN 0 642 254775 0
3. Desired Native Vegetation Outcomes
This section of the National Framework for the Management and Monitoring of Australia's Native Vegetation describes the native vegetation outcomes expected from the impl... |
Restoration Potential: Strong fidelity to nest and roost sites inhibits colonization of formerly occupied habitat (Meyer and Collopy 1996). Limited attempts to reintroduce this species to presently unoccupied former range have failed (Meyer 1990). Given the species' biology (e.g., strongly social, delayed breeding, mob... |
Hinsley, S.A., Hill, R.A., Bellamy, P. E., Broughton, R.K., Harrison, N.M., MacKenzie, J.A., Speakman, J.R. and Ferns, P.N., 2009. Do Highly Modified Landscapes Favour Generalists at the Expense of Specialists? The Example of Woodland Birds. Landscape Research, 34 (5), pp. 509-526.
This is the latest version of this ep... |
The Union War
By Gary W. Gallagher
Harvard University Press. $27.95
New York Times Book Review, May 1, 2011
Among the enduring mysteries of the American Civil War is why millions of Northerners were willing to fight to preserve the nation's unity. It is not difficult to understand why the Southern states seceded in 186... |
Pediatric pheochromocytoma. A 36-year review
Department of Anesthesiology
Medical Subject Headings
Adolescent; *Adrenal Gland Neoplasms; Anesthesia, General; Angiography; Blood Pressure; Catecholamines; Child; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Male; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; *Pheochromocytoma; Retrospective Studies;... |
Monday, April 2, 2012 - 15:31 in Earth & Climate
Corals may be better placed to cope with the gradual acidification of the world's oceans than previously thought – giving rise to hopes that coral reefs might escape climatic devastation.
- Corals 'could survive a more acidic ocean'Mon, 2 Apr 2012, 10:11:13 EDT
- Studies... |
A great Czech composer, Bedrich Smetana had a significant influence on the creation of artistic and musical nationalism in his native country. Smetana was one of the founders of the Czech national opera. In his operas and symphonic poems Smetana used the national legends, history and ideas. Smetana’s style was very ori... |
Written for Political Science 101 last term at the University of Waterloo. Node your homework they said...
Democracy is more than an election every few years, a familiar process removed from the daily grind until it comes time to tick a small box on a larger piece of paper. It is instead more about people than protocol... |
Successful Study Skills 4 Students is now offering two free and original eBooks, Successfully Transitioning to Middle School and Successfully Transitioning to High School, available as a download on the S4 website.
“It’s impossible to measure the potential impact a positive transition can have on a student’s future aca... |
Speaking to the National Academy of Sciences on Education and 21st Century American Agriculture, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns addressed the future of farming in the U.S.
One of the agriculture community's greatest challenges, he says, is to inspire young people to pursue agricultural careers. First, Johanns ... |
The Open Tree of Life: toward a global synthesis of phylogenetic knowledge
2013 REU Project:
In the field of systematic biology, scientists study species of all kinds to determine how one is related to another by evolutionary descent. In other words, they are trying to reconstruct the great Tree of Life -- the branchin... |
Synopsis of Philippine Mammals
To explore the Synopsis of Philippine Mammals, click here.
To explore the Supplement to the Synopsis of Philippine Mammals, click here.
The mammalian fauna of the Philippine Islands is remarkably diverse and species-rich, comprising what may be the greatest concentration of endemic mammal... |
Battles - The Siege of Kut-al-Amara, 1916
Following the signal (and, to the British at least, unexpected) failure of the Anglo-Indian attack upon Ctesiphon in November 1915 Sir Charles Townshend led his infantry force, the 6th (Poona) Division, on a wearisome retreat back to Kut-al-Amara, arriving in early December.
Aw... |
Original image credit: United States Coast Guard
What: Blacktip, bonnethead, and bull sharks
Where: Four miles south of the Texas coast
How: Last month, a US Coast Guard ship from South Padre Island came across an illegal, five-mile long gillnet full of dead sharks 17 miles north of the US-Mexico border. Among the casu... |
I. Freedom through Faith and Knowledge
The Black church and other faith assemblies have been at the core of the freedom movement since the mid 1800′s. Church provided opportunities to gather, and congregations throughout Orange County, black and white, have inspired and perpetuated the freedom movement. Schools for Afr... |
Getting the jazz. The “Degenerate Music” exhibition of the “Reich Music Festival”, Düsseldorf, 1938 © Ullstein Bild
“Strictly prohibited is the use of instruments alien to the German spirit – so-called cowbells, flexatone, brushes, etc – as well as all mutes which turn the noble sound of wind and brass instruments into... |
This beautiful young lady is Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana (1651-1695), or as she would later become known, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. And she was a badass.
The woman at whom you are daring to look was a kickass feminist (and possibly lesbian) writer, poet, and nun. That’s right, nun - drop your stereoty... |
The characteristic features of the climate of Malaysia are uniform
temperature, high humidity and copious rainfall and they arise
from the maritime exposure of the country.
Winds are generally
light. Situated at the equatorial doldrum area, it is extremely rare
to have a full day with completely clear sky even in perio... |
Happy Easter, Happy Passover, and Happy Cherry Blossom Time! I hope you are having a joyous spring!
Native to Japan, the Yoshino cherry (Prunus x yedoensis) is cultivated extensively and is also found growing wild on plains and mountains countrywide. For more than ten centuries, and continuing with no less enthusiasm t... |
A few months ago we wrote about Kristianstad, Sweden, an area that now uses biomass to generate all of its heat and some of its electricity. That city pioneered use of this renewable technology, and gradually biomass evolved from a niche component of its fuel mix to the backbone of its fuel supply.
A number of rural ar... |
If soil moisture is sufficient for germination and emergence, August alfalfa seedings offer several advantages over spring seedings, say Rory Lewandowski and Mark Sulc, Ohio State University Extension educator and forage specialist, respectively.
In late summer, alfalfa seedlings have less weed competition, and soil-bo... |
FRIDAY, Dec. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Increased use of electronic medical records and other digital technologies in health care might lead to a significant rise in the number of repetitive strain injuries suffered by doctors, nurses and other medical workers, researchers suggest.
These muscle and joint injuries are caused... |
By Alan Mozes
THURSDAY, Jan. 3 (HealthDay News) -- It's possible that a serious mosquito-borne virus -- with no known vaccine or treatment -- could migrate from Central Africa and Southeast Asia to the United States within a year, new research suggests.
The chances of a U.S. outbreak of the Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) va... |
Mental Health Practitioners: Who’s Who?
by Amy Scholten, MPH
If you or a loved one needs mental health services, it can be a challenge to choose which practitioner would be the best choice. While your doctor can provide a referral, it helps to know the difference between the types of professionals who specialize in men... |
Anorexia is an eating disorder where people starve themselves. Anorexia usually begins in young people around the onset of puberty. Individuals suffering from anorexia have extreme weight loss. Weight loss is usually 15% below the person's normal body weight. People suffering from anorexia are very skinny but are convi... |
Here are some possible methods of arriving at a body count:
- Everyone mentioned except Enoch and Elijah, as per Bob Jones's note
- Only those mentioned of meeting an untimely end
- Those mentioned as meeting an untimely end, plus reasonable assumptions about casualties on all sides in battles, famines or other events ... |
19th Century Subdivision Map of Planned Bartow Village
Located at http://www.historicpelham.com/.
Please Click Here for Index to All Blog Postings.
During the mid to late 19th century, there was an area in the Town of Pelham known as Bartow. The hamlet of Bartow was a quaint and small collection of residences located o... |
The State of Vermont does not have a uniform occupancy standard. An occupancy standard is a law, ordinance or guideline that outlines how much space is required per person in a living unit. Some rules express the requirements in terms of square footage per person for specific activities such as sleeping, eating and liv... |
Appeal to the Australian Government to Ratify the
United Nations Convention on the Protection of the Rights of
All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families
(The Migrant Workers Convention)
International Migrants Day – 18 December 2011
The Migrant Workers Convention is one of the nine core United Nations human righ... |
Supporting Your Student While Letting Go
The college years can be exciting and stressful for both you and your child. Exciting, because your child will be learning to live independently, and this allows both of you to explore other parts of your lives. Stressful, because this means that your relationship will change. S... |
Scene Recognition System
The passion of developers who transcend the barriers of the workplace and debate from every possible angle in pursuit of an even better technology
The Scene Recognition System is a completely new technology. We have heard that the development process was fraught with various difficulties.
“To a... |
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About the Image
Since 2003 I've been gathering texts from the web written in indigenous and minority languages. The image above is a "family tree" of the 1000 languages I've found to date, where proximity in the tree is measured by a straightforward statistical comparison of writing s... |
MURRAY, UT (2/7/2011) – One of the most prolific inventors at Intermountain Medical Center has come up with a new invention: a device that could potentially revolutionize diabetes care.
The new device is called a Smart Tray and was invented by Joel Ehrenkranz, MD, director of diabetes and endocrinology at Intermountain... |
Development of the Eye (2nd of 3) Beginning of 4th week (4 mm, lens placode appears)
Early in the 4th week optic vesicles extend from the 3rd ventricle and wall of the forebrain (diencephalon). As the vesicle reaches the surface ectoderm it flattens (a) and progressively invaginates (b) to form the optic cup, which rem... |
Jalam b. Shayban
Exact dates are not known for him
Texts for Jalam b. Shayban
About the end of the 3rd/9th century, even before the Fatimid Caliphate was established on the North African soil, the Fatimid mission was at work in many countries including India. On this point we have the evidence of the learned Qadi an-Nu... |
BOSTON, MA (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- New research aims to give doctors a unique view inside the human body using a remote-controlled capsule which could find a problem and treat it. A miniaturized doctor and his team swim through a human body to save a life in the sci-fi classic Fantastic Voyage. Decades later, a new swimm... |
This monograph, based on an enormous experience with 16,845 consecutive cases of syphilis in the Chinese, white and Negro races, deals with the fundamental problem of immunity in syphilis.
The senior author has had a unique opportunity to observe the varying course of syphilis among these three different races in two f... |
The epidemiology of hepatitis A infection in Palestine: a universal vaccination programme is not yet needed
In Palestine, there has been an increase in the reported incidence of acute hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection since 1995. Since overt clinical disease occurs only among adults, questions were raised whether or no... |
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Vast numbers of cells that can attack cancer and HIV have been grown in the lab, and could potentially be used to fight disease.
The cells naturally occur in small numbers, but it is hoped injecting huge quantities back into a patient could turbo-charge the immune system.
The Japanese research ... |
Even if you're a fan of TV hospital dramas, these shows might also make you nervous about what happens in an operating room. Millions of teens are wheeled into operating rooms (ORs) each year, so it can help to find out what to expect before you get to the hospital.
Depending on the type of surgery you need, you may ha... |
Toxic shock syndrome can happen to anyone — men, women, and children. Although it can be serious, it's a very rare illness. If you're concerned about toxic shock syndrome, the smartest thing you can do is to read and learn about it, then take some precautions.
What Is Toxic Shock Syndrome?
If you're a girl who's had he... |
Operating on a baby before birth may seem like science fiction, but prenatal surgery is becoming more and more common in special pediatric programs throughout the United States.
Since prenatal surgery was first pioneered in the 1980s, it's become an important way to correct certain birth defects that could be severe (a... |
How does a doctor test to see if you have STDs? - Perry*
There are different tests for different STDs. The kind of test someone gets depends on the type of STD, symptoms (like sores, discharge, or pain), and the person's medical and sexual history.
STD testing starts with a physical exam. A doctor or will ask questions... |
Pub. date: 2007 | Online Pub. Date: September 25, 2007 | DOI: 10.4135/9781412952637 | Print ISBN: 9780761923879 | Online ISBN: 9781412952637| Publisher:Sage Publications, Inc.About this encyclopedia
Saint-Simon, Henri (1760–1825)
Francis M. Williams
Claude-Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, was a French social the... |
Heart –"veg. " way
I am referring to study in ) The Journal of Clinical Pathology (USA–July 2001) wherein it has been published that veggies have helthy hearts.Many health – experts (including Dr. Michael Brown and Dr. Josef Goldstein, heart specialists of U.S.A. & winners of Noble Prize of many million dollars for Med... |
Helping you get the most out of our U.S. Census Collection has been a top priority. To date, we’ve painstakingly gone through hundreds of millions of records spanning hundreds of years to make these 14 censuses easier to search and sharper to see. And 1930 is in the works. Take a look — you might just discover someone ... |
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