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Croton, Codiaeum variegatum, is a common houseplant grown for its striking foliage. It is one of six species of broadleaf evergreen perennials, shrubs, and small trees in this genus in the euphorbia family (Euphorbiaceae) which are native to tropical Asia and the western Pacific region (not to be confused with Croton, ... |
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If you’ve ever had a squash or pumpkin plant with one or more runners that suddenly wilt and then die, it was mostly likely infested by squash vine borer. This is an insect that spends it immature, or larval stage, tunneling inside the stems of squash plants. Gardeners often don’t realize anything is wrong until the wh... |
How to Read Literature Like a Professor (2003, rev. 2014)
Literature lives by a set of codes that convey meaning: when characters take journeys or eat together or walk out in rain or snow, those things suggest meanings beyond their literal message on the page. These codes developed over many centuries of storytelling, ... |
How to Use EXISTS, UNIQUE, DISTINCT, and OVERLAPS in SQL Statements
Within the WHERE clause lies many possibilities for modifying your SQL statement. Among these possibilities are the EXISTS, UNIQUE, DISTINCT, and OVERLAPS predicates. Here are some examples of how to use these in your SQL statements.
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The following is a statement from the Association for Public Transportation (APT) on funding for high speed passenger transportation:
To secure a stable future for high speed passenger rail, it will be necessary to develop a predictable funding source for this travel. APT is in favor of creating a High Speed Passenger ... |
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Flights across the North Atlantic could get a lot bumpier in the future if the climate changes as scientists expect.
Planes are already encountering stronger winds, and could now face more turbulence, according to research led from Reading University, UK.
The study, published in Nature Climate Change, suggests that by ... |
The Federal Reserve. or The Federal Reserve System, is the central bank of the United States that was founded in 1913 by the U.S. Congress in order to establish central financial control. The Federal Reserve is responsible for a lot of functions, so some may become confused about its role and ask the question “what doe... |
What Determines (Or Changes) Exchange Rates
You may know today’s dollar–euro exchange rate. But it will be something else next year. How do you predict what the exchange rate will be? Which factors are helpful in predicting the change in exchange rates?
Which exchange rate model to use?
You have two alternative ways of... |
When we are using RGB color space,we can differentiate between the red,blue and green color. But when comes to detecting yellow color, this code will detect yellow color in RGB color space.
I hopw this would help.
Usha this code doesnt get u the yellow color.
I used basic color theory...
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Feeding and energetics of
Pacific macrourid fishes
Jeff Drazen, Ph.D.
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
September 20, 2002
12:00 Noon - Pacific Forum
Macrourids (also known as rattails or grenadiers) are very common and
abundant deep-sea fishes. Over 300 species are entirely deep living,
inhabiting depths from 2... |
Native Species, Invaders, and Parasites: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Environment Canada scientists have discovered that populations of Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus) recently introduced in the St. Lawrence River were considerably less parasitized than two indigenous fish species, whereas the Round Goby is high... |
Taking your children to India gives them the opportunity to explore a far off land with a culture and lifestyle that is very different than what most American children are used to. Although a vacation in India is an adventure that your children won't soon forget, it is important that you prepare your family for your tr... |
The Biology of CRISPR-Cas Immunity
Sequence-directed genetic interference pathways control gene expression and preserve genome integrity in all kingdoms of life. In many bacteria and most archaea, clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs) specify a recently discovered genetic interference pa... |
In a previous article, MasteringElectronicsDesign.com:How to Derive the RMS Value of A Trapezoidal Waveform – Part 1, I showed how to derive the RMS value of a trapezoidal signal with a flat plateau and different rise/fall time values. In some applications, the trapezoidal signal plateau is not flat, but rather a ramp,... |
As we head into 2021, the matric class of 2020 will be eagerly awaiting their final exam results. While many teens will celebrate this new phase in their life, some could feel alone and isolated if they failed or didn’t do as well as they hoped.
According to the South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG), almos... |
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There are two species of gorillas, mountain and lowland, and they seem to have diverged around 80,000 years ago. The lowlanders split into fairly well defined subspecies, eastern and western. However, these authors report there is a "zone of introgression between eastern gorillas and migrants f... |
A new standard is being developed that addresses growing backhaul bandwidth concerns. Let's hope it gets done quickly.
A lot of excitement is brewing in the electronics industry about the so-called Internet of Things and the huge market opportunity it represents: 50 billion devices connected by 2020, according to some ... |
Maya were an American Indian People who developed a magnificent civilization in Central America and south Mexico. The Maya civilization reached its period of development about A. D. 250 and continued to flourish for over 600 years. The Maya produced remarkable architecture, painting, pottery, and sculpture. They made g... |
Alternate name: Lawndaisy
Family: Asteraceae, Aster view all from this family
Description Exotic herbaceous perennial; sometimes evergreen; spreads by rhizome, may form large colonies.
Habit: low, mat-forming to prostrate; upright leafless stems.
Height: 1-4 in (2-10 cm) tall, rarely to 8 in (20 cm).
Leaf: small, oval,... |
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If a function is concave upwards then it's second derivative is positive.
We'll determine the 1st derivative:
f'(x) = arctanx + 1/(1+x^2) - 2x/(1+x^2)
f'(x) = arctanx – x/(1+x^2)
We'll determine the 2nd derivative
f"(x)= 1/(1+x^2) – (1+x^2-2x^2)/(1+x^2)^2
f"(x) = (1+x^2+x^2-1)/(1+x^2)^2
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To assess whether or not families and children were supported in their neighborhoods, parents were asked whether they agreed with the following statements:
- People in the neighborhood help each other out.
- We watch out for each other’s children.
- There are people I can count on in the neighborhood.
- If my child wer... |
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Tesla has published a patent for the global headlamp as part of the further development of its products. This will allow the production of headlamps that will meet the requirements of different countries and will reduce the cost of producing different types of headlamps.
Headlamps, such as headli... |
Investigating the microbes that help tackle pollution
Published: 24 Aug 2015
During a ten-week study trip through Mongolia, China and India, Dr. Brenda Parker took a closer look into bioremediation: the use of microorganisms or plants for the removal of contaminants in the environment.
Supported by a Fellowship from th... |
The notion of soft power is associated with the work of Harvard political scientist, Joseph Nye and was defined by him simply as ‘the ability to attract people to our side without coercion’. The phrase was first used by Nye in an article published in 1990 in the US journal, Foreign Policy and expanded in his 2004 book ... |
VIENNA — The tsunami that followed Japan's strongest recorded earthquake exposed nuclear-safety flaws even as an emergency response worker was killed and at least 17 were injured trying to contain radiation from damaged reactors.
Electrical generators intended to run cooling systems in case of an emergency failed at th... |
Any time you report estimates of parameters in a statistical analysis, it’s important to include their confidence intervals.
How confident are you that you can explain what they mean? Even those of us who have a solid understand of confidence intervals get tripped up by the wording.
The Wording for Describing Confidenc... |
Definition of Breast bone
Breast bone: Familiar name for the sternum, the long flat bone in the middle of the front of the chest.
The sternum consists of three portions: the manubrium (the upper segment of the sternum, a flattened, roughly triangular bone), the corpus or body of the sternum, and the xiphoid process (th... |
Encounter With Tiber is a work of Speculative Fiction that revolves around the discovery of Humanoid Aliens in the system of Alpha Centauri. While it was Speculatative Science when it was made, and indeed has a bibliography and is co-authored by Buzz Aldrin, it has run afoul of Zeerust. The dates are all off, but it st... |
U.S. President William Henry Harrison made history on this day in 170 years ago. How? He became the first president to die while in office.
William Henry Harrison was known for his battles against the Shawnee chief Tecumseh, especially for 1811’s Battle of Tippecanoe. Harrison was elected to be the ninth U.S. president... |
The Rise of the Heretical Papacy
As the power of the “Holy Roman Emperors” of the West declined in the ninth century, so the power of the Popes increased. Beginning with Nicholas I, they began to claim a quasi-imperial rule over the whole Church, East and West. And this combination of the roles of emperor and priest be... |
An History of Redlining
I was cleaning out the directories on my hard drive and I came across a draft of a paper that I had jointly worked on with Phil Mann at the University of Miami back in the late 80's. I thought that the part of it that dealt with the history of red-lining in Miami might be of interest to the rest... |
After Nuclear Disaster, Japanese Scientists Try to Engineer Radiation-Resistant Rice
Vast tracts of rice crops in northeast Japan would be destroyed in the upcoming harvest season after being contaminated with radioactivity from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which was crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsun... |
Our take: Scientists are unable to make precise guesses of how long it will take for Voyager 1 to move out of the solar system as they found that the magnetic field has increased. Eryn Brown, journalist of the Los Angeles Times reports on the scientists' findings:
"Voyager 1, the spacecraft famous for beaming back stri... |
PDFs are just unavoidable and they come from everywhere.
Processing these PDF documents in a document-intensive workflow to extract relevant data is always time-consuming, repetitive, expensive, and tedious for workers.
While copy-pasting may be sufficient for a small number of documents, however, processing a large vo... |
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Hansberry challenges the stereotype that is associated with her subject matter in a couple of ways. The first way is that she shows the Younger family as challenged by the issues of class and gender, as much as race. Normally, the stereotype would suggest that race is the only dominant issue. Hansb... |
The reproductive data along with some ecological observations of Gerbillus dasyurus are reported based on field studies and investigations in captivity. The findings indicate that the favorable habitat of G. dasyurus is rocky areas with sparse vegetated soil and that the reproduction period extends from January to Sept... |
Methotrexate is used in cancer chemotherapy as well as for treating inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis.
Potassium citrate and other forms of citrate (e.g., calcium citrate, magnesium citrate) may be used to prevent kidney stones. These agents work by making the urine less acidic.
It may be... |
NORDHOEK, South Africa – Sitting at his laptop computer, Louis Liebenberg compares two maps of the same area: While the first is plotted thickly with yellow dots, the yellow areas on the second map are far sparser.
These dots represent sightings of lowland gorillas recorded by trackers both before and after an outbreak... |
“There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven—”Ecclesiastes 3:1 NASB
Timing is of the utmost importance in our lives. Solomon, the son of King David, outlines examples in Ecclesiastes using parallelism and juxtaposing two contrasting ideas in each line.
What does that look... |
Multi-University Project to Study 'Dark Energy' Receives $8 Million from National Science Foundation
20 October 2010
A project to discover the nature of dark energy, a mysterious force causing the expansion of the universe to speed up, has received an $8 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The fun... |
Pluto and its satellite Charon regularly occulted or transited each other's disks from 1985 through 1990. The light curves resulting from these events (collectively called ``mutual events'') have been used to determine albedo maps of Pluto's sub-Charon hemisphere. We now use a data set of four light curves that were ob... |
Sharon Draper's Tears of a Tiger was first published in 1994 and remains a popular work because of its focus on relevant teen issues—drinking and driving, parent-child conflict, depression, and academic struggles. Listed as one of the top 100 books for young adults for the millennium, the novel also won the prestigious... |
Any of 10–12 species (genus Squatina, family Squatinidae) of sharks having a flattened head and body, with winglike pectoral and pelvic fins that make them resemble rays. The tail bears two dorsal fins, and behind each eye is a prominent spiracle. Monkfish grow up to 6.25 ft (2.5 m) long. They inhabit tropical and warm... |
Aussie Cubesats launched towards International Space Station
19 April 2017
Three satellites developed by Australian universities were launched today to the International Space Station as part of a global atmospheric research project.
Teams from the universities of Adelaide, Sydney, and New South Wales are participating... |
Potassium argon dating is useful for determining the age of
Potassium-Argon Dating Potassium-Argon dating is the only viable technique for dating very old archaeological potassium argon dating is useful for determining the age of. Geologists have used this method to date rocks as much as 4 billion years old. It is base... |
Seven plants of the field and vine, with which the Land of Israel
is blessed, are elaborated upon in the Book of Deuteronomy (8:8):
“A land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees, and pomegranates;
a land of olive oil and honey.” Ripened yields of the seven species were
brought to the Temple in Jerusalem. These c... |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- How many? How strong? And how long?
That's what three National Weather Service teams are trying to find out today about Monday's tornadoes in Alabama as they study damage they left behind.
The teams are out in the field today trying to determine how many tornadoes touched down, how strong they were ... |
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BiologyBongos typically live in small family groups of up to eight females, their young, and a dominant male (5), although larger 'nursery' groups often aggregate after the calving period and mixed-sex groups of up to 50 have been observed (8). Surplus males are usually solitary, although t... |
For eco-conscious individuals, the bathroom is normally the place where we can unintentionally waste the most water. From leaky faucets to outdated toilets that use gallons of water per flush, there are plenty of fixtures in the space that drain H2O. However, there are also plenty of ways to conserve the important reso... |
A student went on a rampage at a community college in Texas earlier this week, stabbing 14 people, many in the face and neck, authorities said. The attack was followed by immediate calls by elected officials across the nation for tougher knife control.
In your dreams. There were no calls for knife control, of course. T... |
We all want our data to be stored safely and to be available at all times without any delay and loss. At the same time the data should not be controlled by a person or by a group of people and most importantly should be safe from geo-political disasters, natural disasters, cyber attacks and many more. Hence Uniris Geol... |
República Federativa do Brasil
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|Years Hosted Olympics||2016 Summer|
|Years Attended Olympics|| Summer: 1920-24, 1932-2016|
|Medals 2012 Summer||3 gold, 5 silver, 9 bronze|
|Medals 2014 Winter||none|
|Total Olympic Medals|
|National Olympic Committee|
|Comitê Olímpico Brasileiro|
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The City of Richmond and UC Berkeley are working on a Climate Action Plan. But before anything is finalized, they want feedback from members of the community.
The plans examine greenhouse gas emissions in the city, and proposes ways to reduce them.
Last year Richmond resolved to confront climate change and pollution, a... |
What is orthodontics?
Who is an orthodontist?
An orthodontist is a dental specialist who has received two to three years of additional training and experience. Your orthodontist specializes in straightening teeth, correcting misaligned jaw structure and can improve the quality of your smile.
What’s the best age to visi... |
USAGov’s Guide to Displaying the American Flag
Every Fourth of July all across the country, people show their love for America by displaying flags along streets, hanging them from porches, and proudly carrying them in the town parade. Old Glory is everywhere. But did you know there are official rules on properly displa... |
Meet the Seine River: it’s 776km long, the second largest river in France, it starts at Source-Seine just North of Dijon, and ends at the English Channel. It runs through Paris and is crossed by 30+ bridges within the city.
Throughout history, it also happened to be common place for ash scattering (e.g. Joan of Arc), a... |
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Juan Gris was an artist who took everyday objects and produced modern, uplifting still life paintings from them. He was a unique voice within the Cubist movement, offering a more grounded influence on some of the more... |
The study of English offers the student development of writing skills as well as an appreciation of literature. The discipline of reading and writing about the human experience is a vital foundation for all learning.
Since English composition courses are designed to help the student write the kind of
papers commonly re... |
Patrick Fresne reviews God’s Executioner, by Michael O Siochru – an account of the devastating English Parliamentarian Conquest of Ireland in 1649-1653.
God’s Executioner, Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland, 1649-1653, Faber & Faber, 2008.
Reviewer: Patrick Fresne
The poet Sean O Conaill left no doubts as to t... |
SCOTUS’ decision to overturn Roe v. Wade means that a woman’s right to an abortion is no longer protected as a constitutional right. It could also mean less access to necessary reproductive treatments to grow her family.
Sounds counterintuitive. But the Roe ruling gives states the green light to implement trigger laws ... |
- 03/17/09 - Inactivation of Eschericia coli O157:H7 and Natural Microbiota on Spinach Leaves Using Gaseous Ozone During Vacuum Cooling and Simulated Transportation
- 07/11 - European E. coli Outbreak from Eating Bean Sprouts
- 12/15/10 - Current Safety Issues For Fresh Produce
- 06/15/07 - Safety with Fresh Produce an... |
Did you know that our children are, by definition, fraternal triplets? It’s true, even though there’s a 4-year age difference between Bee and Cakes, and a 7-year age difference between Bee and DJ. How is this possible?
First, a little genetics lesson…
Identical triplets are formed when one egg is fertilized by one sper... |
X-Ray Exam: Ankle
What's an X-Ray?
An X-ray is a safe and painless test that uses a small amount of radiation to make an image of bones, organs, and other parts of the body.
The X-ray image is black and white. Dense body parts, such as bones, block the passage of the X-ray beam through the body. These look white on the... |
Year 2 Victorian Day - November 2018
On Monday 26th November, the Year 2 children finished their History Detectives Topic by having a Victorian Day. Everyone came to school dressed as a Victorian child and we even had a Queen Victoria! We visited each classroom and experienced a Victorian school, wash day and made Vict... |
The blood that flows into our heads is obviously important for it provides nutrients and oxygen to that most energetically demanding of organs – the brain. But for neuroscientists, blood flow in the brain has a special significance; many have used it to measure brain activity using a technique called functional magneti... |
NCERT Solutions for Class 10 Sanskrit – Shemushi Part 2, question, and answers, Sanskrit Hindi translation of lessons for CBSE 2023-24. As per the new rationalised textbooks published by NCERT, there are only 10 chapters in class 10 syllabus for academic session 2023-24.
Chapter 1. Shuchiparyavaranam
Chapter 2. Buddhib... |
Curiosity about the world around us often leads to a fascination with the wonders of the animal kingdom. While we know that animals exhibit various behaviors and thought processes, have you ever wondered whether they dream like humans do? Venturing into the realm of animal consciousness, science has uncovered intriguin... |
Rice is a grass seed that grows in moist areas. It is the most important crop for human nutrition in the world, rice being the staple food for much of the world, Africa, India, and Asia.
Rice was probably first cultivated in Burma over 7,000 years ago. There are now more than 40,000 varieties of rice and it is grown on... |
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Mongomery Botanical Centre, Florida. Photo by Dr. John Dransfield, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew/Palmweb.
Habitat and DistributionCopernicia baileyana is native to dry savannahs and woodland areas, of
A solitary palm, 10 to 20 metres tall, with stems 40 (to 60) centimetres in diameter,... |
A horse's hocks are put under
a lot of strain
Definition: Bone spavin is the development of arthritic or degenerative changes - creating bony growth - within the three relatively immobile lower joints of a horse's hock.
It is a common cause of lameness in the hind leg of a horse - although usually worse in one hind leg... |
- The nature of the two countries' relationships with China. Nicaragua has a long history of close ties with China, dating back to the Cold War era. India, on the other hand, has had a more complex relationship with China, marked by both cooperation and competition.
- The economic and strategic importance of the two co... |
Organochlorine pesticides are a diverse group of synthetic chemicals that persist in the
environment and tend to bioaccumulate. Most of these chemicals have been banned
from use in the U.S. Assessment of exposure to persistent organochlorine
pesticides in a representative sample of the U.S. population is needed to
dete... |
HCG, human chronic gonadotropin, is a hormone found in the early stages of pregnancy. The hormone appears in large doses in the first three months of pregnancy. HCG helps the production of estrogen, progesterone, and other important hormones. Another use for HCG is to help increase fertility.
A British doctor named Alb... |
Broug Ateliers: Islamic Geometric Design [ Learn : Lesson 1 ]
Learn how to design one of the most common geometric designs in Islamic art and architecture. All you need is a pencil, a piece of paper and a compass and a ruler.
Geometric Designs by kids (art project) – New Hope Academy
Geometric designs, drawn by the Fir... |
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SWOT analysis is a guideline to understanding the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats relevant to your school. It helps you see:
- Which areas n... |
Normally plasma from the Sun either shoots off into space or loops back on the Sun’s surface. But the Solar Dynamics Observatory captured some plasma that couldn’t make up its mind. Here, darker, cooler plasma slid and shifted back and forth above the Sun’s surface for 30 hours on February 7-8, 2012. The view is shown ... |
The circulatory system is critical to good health because it allows blood and lymph to transport oxygen and nutrients to and from cells in your body. This both nourishes and helps to fight disease. Your circulation also stabilises your body's temperature and pH.
Many vitamins and minerals in vegetables are critical for... |
40% OF ALL THE FOOD THAT IS GROWN, HARVESTED AND PROCESSED IS WASTED.
It's a scary thought, but it's about more than the huge waste. When food scraps go to landfill they break down without oxygen, causing them to release methane into the atmosphere - a greenhouse gas 30x more potent than carbon dioxide. But don't fret!... |
The concept of the kinetic chain regarding anatomy has been around since 1955 when Dr. Arthur Steindler adapted the theory of Franz Reuleaux, a mechanical engineer. Reuleaux proposed that a series of overlapping segments are connected via a pin joint, and these interlocking joints would create a system that allows move... |
The similarity in name between the herb marshmallow and the sweet treat is more than a coincidence, although the modern sugar puff ball no longer bears much relationship to the old-fashioned candy flavored with marshmallow herb.
Besides inspiring makers of campfire food, the marshmallow has also been used medicinally s... |
These territories were bequethed to the 'Augusta Badia of S. Silvestro of Nonantola' by the Longobardic kings around the year 750 a.d. In the year 776 a.d Carlo Magno, king of the Franks, upheld their rights to this property and it thus remained in their hands for about 1200 years until 1936. The Augustus Abbey, as it ... |
Folate (Folic Acid) Serum Test
The Folate Serum Test measures folate levels in the blood to screen for a deficiency.
What is the purpose of this test?
Order this Folate Serum Test, which measures folate levels in the blood to screen for a deficiency. Folate, which is also referred to as folic acid or vitamin B9, has ma... |
Alan Seeger on World War I (1914; 1916)
The poet Alan Seeger, born in New York and educated at Harvard University, lived among artists and poets in Greenwich Village, New York and Paris, France. When the Great War engulfed Europe, and before the United State entered the fighting, Seeger joined the French Foreign Legion... |
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LENS additive manufacturing systems deposit layer upon layer of material until a metal version of the CAD model is produced.
Waiting is the longest part of many molding operations. After material enters the mold, production comes to a virtual halt as the part cools to the point where it can be ej... |
Hector St. Jean de Crèvecœur Describes the American people, 1782
Hector St. John de Crèvecœur was born in France, but relocated to the colony of New York and married a local woman named Mehitable Tippet. For a period of several years, de Crèvecœur wrote about the people he encountered in North America. The resulting wo... |
Kids Dental Emergency
• How to save a broken tooth or a knocked out tooth
Kids Dental Emergencies
Tooth injuries are very common in babies and young children.
Parents must be prepared for these dental emergencies. In many cases a broken or even a knocked out tooth can be saved with proper handling and immediate dental ... |
Congestive heart failure (CHF) as a result of systemic ventricular dysfunction represents the evolution of many heart disorders in childhood. Among these, dilated cardiomyopathy and some congenital cardiopathies are refractory to the known drug therapy, based on digitalic glycosides, diuretics and converting enzyme inh... |
A team of researchers at the University of Alberta has unearthed a well-preserved Styracosaurus skull—and its facial imperfections have implications for how paleontologists identify new species of dinosaurs.
The skull was discovered by Scott Persons in 2015, then a graduate student in the Department of Biological Scien... |
Anyone who lives in a locale where nettle grows wild will eventually discover the powers of this dark green plant. Depending on the species, the fine hairs on its leaves and stem cause burning pain that lasts from hours to weeks. But this well-protected herb has also been used as medicine. Nettle juice was used in Hipp... |
New Guide Aims to Help States, Schools Classify English-Language Learners
As part of a wide-reaching effort to bring more consistency to services for English-language learners, a group of state education officials and ELL experts has unveiled a new set of recommendations on how states and school districts might improve... |
Mediant, submediant, and minor keys?
I am familiar with the degree names: tonic, supertonic, mediant, etc but not sure of their use in minor keys. Let's consider C major and minor. Some are clear, the dominant and subdominant will be G and F in both. The mediant is E in C major, is it E♭ in C minor? The submediant is e... |
Stephen Wolfram has had the sort of career that The Big Bang Theory's Sheldon Cooper might identify with: PhD in particle physics at 20, youngest-ever MacArthur Fellow at 21. At 26, Wikipedia tells us, Richard Feynman advised him to find a way to do his research with as little contact with non-technical people as possi... |
Leveraging the Research of Nobel Laureates
The winner of last year’s Nobel Prize in Economics was behavioral economist Richard Thaler, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Professor Thaler is co-author of the best-selling book Nudge, which describes research about how to help people make b... |
Recent natural disasters in Japan led to a partial meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. A new Current Concepts article reviews the history of such accidents, along with the short-term and long-term health risks associated with environmental exposure to nuclear fission products.
The health threat from each rad... |
Unit 10: Interacting with Instructors and Classes
This unit focuses on how to engage in the learning process through interactions with your instructors and other students.Interacting with the instructor and other students leads to a full educational experience. Whether you are attending a class online, sitting in a lec... |
Administrator: A person appointed by the court to manage the assets and liabilities of an intestate decedent.
Beneficiary: A person to whom another is in a fiduciary relation, whether the relation is one of agency, guardianship, or trust; especially, a person for whose benefit property is held in trust
Decedent: A dead... |
They are soft, cozy, colourful, warm, and comfortable; they dress our interior decors marvellously well, but they can reveal themselves to be very noxious to our health. Carpeting is a choice receptacle for all sorts of pollutants, and even cleaning them can be noxious. Here are some of the reasons.
The 20% of Canadian... |
Typically, most cases of congestive heart failure in children are caused by afterload increases in the pressure dynamics of one or both chambers of the heart. In these conditions, pressure builds in one chamber of the heart due to an obstructive lesion in the outflow tract of the affected chamber. Several of the more c... |