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What Is Health Law?
There are many ways to conceptualize health law. The Health Law & Justice Program views health law as encompassing not only the law of health care delivery and financing but all areas of study that focus on the intersection between law and health: from the ethics of embryonic stem cell research, to ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15043000 |
The Molymod® biochemistry set for students can be used to make any number of simple organic molecules but in particular the set is designed to allow the user to make many important biological molecules including amino acids, peptides, polysaccharides, purines, pyrimidines, glycerides, and phospholipids. The set include... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15053000 |
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are spread by
sexual contact involving the genitals, mouth, or rectum, and can also be spread
from a pregnant woman to her fetus before or during delivery. STDs, which
affect both men and women, are a worldwide public health concern.
By Laura Beil
Christen Childs woke up on Septembe... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15056000 |
What’s that jungle insect?!
December 31, 2009
I was walking through the jungles in Peru this summer when I noticed these insects on a small plant. Their long, white, fuzzy antennae-like protrusions could move independently of one another, and moved quite a bit when I moved quickly toward them or made a loud noise. Ther... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15067000 |
Global vaccine action plan 2011-2020
The Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) ― endorsed by the 194 Member States of the World Health Assembly in May 2012 ― is a framework to prevent millions of deaths by 2020 through more equitable access to existing vaccines for people in all communities. The Plan aims to strengthen rou... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15070000 |
Elemental analysis is a process where a sample of some material (e.g., soil, waste or drinking water, bodily fluids, minerals, chemical compounds) is analyzed for its elemental and sometimes isotopic composition. Elemental analysis can be qualitative (determining what elements are present), and it can be quantitative (... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15072000 |
The Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae) is a wholly owned federal corporation within the U.S. Department of [Housing and Urban Development (HUD) . It was created in 1968 through an amendment to Title III of the National Housing Act. The President of Ginnie Mae is appointed by the President of the Unit... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15074000 |
ExploraTour - How to Build a Star
"But wait a minute," you say. "We've tried this nuclear fusion stuff on Earth to produce energy and so far it hasn't worked very well. How does the sun succeed where we have failed?"
You are right. Operational nuclear power plants on Earth use fission reactions to produce power. They w... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15082000 |
Richard Branson is well on his way to space. Now he plans to
explore the deepest parts of the ocean as well.
announced his undersea exploration venture, Virgin Oceanic, on
Tuesday. Unlike his suborbital-space-flight company, Virgin
Galactic, the new venture is not accepting paying passengers.
Instead, it will comprise ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15085000 |
If you read this blog regularly, you know I have a fondness for the so-called “missing eruptions” — that is, volcanic events found in ice core or sediment records but not yet identified in the geologic/volcanic record. The most glaring right now is the eruption of 1258 A.D., supposedly 1.8 times as large as the 1815 er... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15087000 |
Wisconsin soldiers who served in the Black Hawk War (1832)
Wisconsin Muster Rolls from the Black Hawk War, 1832
During the Black Hawk War against the Sauk and Fox Indians, residents of Wisconsin were assembled into local militia, regular U.S. Army troops were deployed from St. Louis, and fighting units of Menominee and... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15088000 |
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A jog dial is a controller that can step through options or regulate the speed of media playback. It consists of a wheel or disc that spins freely or can move through a series of individual stops, known as detents or clicks, depending on the design. Electronics like c... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15091000 |
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See ambarella.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See apple, etc.
- n. A fruit native to Pacific islands such as Tahiti.
- n. The tree that bears this fruit, Spondias dulcis
GNU Webster's 1913
- The fruit of a Polynesian anacardiaceous tree ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15104000 |
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To draw off (a liquid) by a gradual process: drained water from the sink.
- v. To cause liquid to go out from; empty: drained the bathtub; drain the pond.
- v. To draw off the surface water of: The Mississippi River drains a vast area.
- v. To d... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15106000 |
Frequently asked questions about pancreatic cancer
By Pure Matters
These are some answers to frequently asked questions about pancreatic cancer.
Q: What is the pancreas?
A: The pancreas is a glandular organ, located deep in the abdomen. It is behind the stomach and in front of the spine. The pancreas is about 6 inches ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15116000 |
Since the inception of waste discharge regulations in California (both by the Regional Water Quality Control Boards and the U.S. EPA), the self monitoring of waste streams has been a standard practice. Compliance with effluent standards has been mainly, if not solely, determined by enforcement agencies through the revi... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15117000 |
Bribery, corruption, intrigue, rotten boroughs and riots …oh dear, that will be Wiltshire’s parliamentary elections in eighteenth and nineteenth century! Present events always give us an opportunity to take the long-view and here at the History Centre we have a range of resources on the political history of the county ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15125000 |
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia's state veterinarian says the riskiest time of year for horses contracting West Nile Virus is fast approaching.
Jewell Plumley says vaccination is advisable, and horses should receive a booster at the end of August or early September since most of West Virginia's cases are in the earl... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15128000 |
"Hate the Physics and Maths? Don't worry, I can help you"
...As such they learn the natural number system, integers, fractions, decimals, negative numbers, factorization of natural numbers, simple roots and powers, and the associative and distributive properties of addition / subtraction. Prealgebra could also contain ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15133000 |
One area that is particularly ripe for opportunity is in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). In August, U.S. News & World Report reported that there will be a need to fill over 1.2 million STEM jobs in the U.S. by 2018. STEM careers offer lucrative and stable opportunities; for example, ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15139000 |
The definition of betwixt is between.(adverb)
When you are in between two things, this is an example of a time when you are betwixt.
See betwixt in Webster's New World College Dictionary
Origin: ME bitwix < OE betwix < be, by + a form related to twegen, twain; -t is unhistoric
See betwixt in American Heritage Dictionar... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15140000 |
Children love to hear their grandparents and parents recount the details of whence their family came, the genealogy of who they are, how they came about and why they are. Indeed, our heritage depends on the continuous retelling of such important events.
This is why we take pleasure each year at this time recounting som... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15142000 |
IN THIS EPISODE (in order of appearance):
[upbeat electronic music]
(Jennifer): Hello, there. I'm Jennifer Pulley, and welcome to another edition of NASA 360.
Today we've got so many things lined up for you. We're going to talk about technology. We're going to talk about exploration. And we're going to talk about dinos... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15154000 |
Article in Liberal Education , Spring 2007
"Reclaiming the Distinctiveness of American Higher Education"
William G. Durden is president of Dickinson College.
In the face of rising global competition and the heightened call for accountability issued by the Spellings Commission on the Future of Higher Education, educator... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15158000 |
This program demonstrates the differences of facemasks and respirators that are to be used in public settings during an influenza pandemic. Created: 5/15/2007 by CDC, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
Date Released: 5/25/2007. Series Name: CDC Featured Podcasts.
[Announcer] This podcast is ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15163000 |
When asked about his overarching goal for writing his autobiography, A Struggle to Walk with Dignity – The True Story of a Jamaican-born Canadian, Gerald Archambeau responds, “To inspire youth to never give up on the goodness of human beings regardless of race.” With this aspiration in mind, Archambeau has donated a co... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15166000 |
Pipelining is a technique you can use to increase the throughput of the FPGA VI. In a pipelined design, you take advantage of the parallel processing capabilities of the FPGA to increase the efficiency of sequential code. To implement a pipeline, you must divide code into discrete steps and wire the inputs and outputs ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15171000 |
Americans who log long hours on the job find the time for leisure and other activities by cutting down on sleep, a study reports today.
"We only have 24 hours in a day," says Mathias Basner, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
His study of 47,731 Americans found that people who worked mor... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15178000 |
The Minister of Health Christine Ondoa recently downplayed the number of people affected by the nodding disease by “revealing” that the syndrome has so far left 3094 innocent lives victimized and 173 dead. Ondoa said that the syndrome which is now soaring in places like Lira district and Oyam County, can be handled by ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15182000 |
DescriptionAn in-depth report on the causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of ovarian cancer.
In general, the course of treatment is determined by the stage of the cancer. Stages range from I to IV based on the cancer's specific characteristics, such as whether it has spread beyond the ovaries.
In stage I, the c... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15184000 |
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Elizabeth Ballroom E (Hyatt)
Island (or Dokdo in Korean; Takeshima in Japanese; Liancourt Rocks in French/English) consists of a group of disputed islets in the sea between Korea and . Although Japan South Korea currently controls the islets has claimed the contested territory. While Korean cl... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15192000 |
'Because of the tender mercy of our God, the Dawn from on high will visit us, to shine on those who sit in the darkenss and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace' (Luke 1,78-79). In his famous Spirit-inspired hymn Zachary praises God, first, for sending a savior to His People. At first blush, thi... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15200000 |
The books of Chronicles have had a chequered past. Neglected for many years under the unfortunate name Paraleipomenon or "Things Omitted", meant that they occupied a subordinate position in the Scriptures until the 4th century AD when the title "A Chronicle of the whole of Sacred History" was suggested instead. This ha... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15208000 |
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
October 24, 1998
Explanation: Sunrise seen from low Earth orbit by the shuttle astronauts can be very dramatic indeed ( and the authors apologize to... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15211000 |
This is an excerpt from EERE Network News, a weekly electronic newsletter.
Shell and HR Biopetroleum to Grow Algae for Biofuels
Royal Dutch Shell plc announced on December 11th that it will work with HR Biopetroleum to build a pilot facility for growing algae as a source of biofuels. The facility will cultivate algae i... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15216000 |
Congressman Tanner's Fairness and Independence in Redistricting Act (H.R. 2642)The Fairness and Independence in Redistricting Act, introduced by Representative John Tanner, would make important improvements to our congressional elections. The Act would require state legislatures to appoint independent commissions that ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15220000 |
According to the Global Language Monitor, the English language this week crossed a threshold as the "one millionth word" entered the lexicon. That word? "Web 2.0."
Global Language Monitor has a methodology by which it measures "new" words entering into English. Though "Web 2.0" has been around for years, GLM's method o... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15228000 |
Most of the literature points out that Lyme is usually easily treated once identified. Fortunately, doctors now know that Lyme is fairly common locally and are better prepared to order blood tests to confirm if Lyme is the problem. Advanced stages of the disease are usually treated with intravenous drugs, which may inc... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15235000 |
Dear Dr. Donohue: Please discuss the relationship between bad breath and liver and kidney problems -- diagnosis, treatment and cure. -- D.H.
Dear D.H.: Nine times out of 10, people need not implicate the liver or kidney as the source of bad breath. Its source can usually be found in the mouth.
An overgrowth of mouth ba... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15241000 |
Information literacy is defined as the "ability to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information" (American Library Association, 1989). These skills contribute to the ability to think critically and they are vital life-skills for all individual... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15246000 |
The D-4 submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM) system, using the R-21 rocket, used storable liquid-propellants, which were toxic and corrosive - clearly not the best thing to be carried in the sealed environment of a submarine. The concept of the follow-on D-6 system, to be installed on series 629 and 658 nuclear-... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15247000 |
How does the law treat Mountaintop Removal? Laws at the state and federal level regulate mountaintop removal coal mining and its environmental impacts, require varying levels of public participation, and apply varying amounts of scrutiny in the permitting process. This section will explore the governmental institutions... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15250000 |
Henry Craik, ed. English Prose. 1916. Vol. II. Sixteenth Century to the Restoration
On the Exercise of the Will
By Ralph Cudworth (16171688)
From Treatise of Free Will
IT cannot be denied but that there are, and may be, many cases in which several objects propounded to our choice at the same time, are so equal, or exac... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15261000 |
Theodore Roosevelt (18581919). Hunting Trips of a Ranchman. 1885.
STILL-HUNTING ELK ON THE MOUNTAINS
FTER the buffalo the elk are the first animals to disappear from a country when it is settled. This arises from their size and consequent conspicuousness, and the eagerness with which they are followed by hunters; and a... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15262000 |
A key conclusion of this discussion is the fact that all sectors of the economy must achieve deep reductions, not just one or two. This certainly includes the transportation system, which in California is the largest single source of GHGs (38 percent of the total, according to the California Air Resources Board). Trans... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15271000 |
Hummingbirds are attracted to a good nectar recipe, but so are ants, bees and wasps. Fortunately, there are many easy ways to control insects on hummingbird feeders to eliminate these pests without harming the birds.
Hummingbird Feeder Pests
Several types of insects find hummingbird nectar irresistible. Bees, wasps and... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15277000 |
The question to answer is did dino-raptors live and hunt and feed in packs, like wolves?
I’m biased. I worked on the movie “Jurassic Park,” consulting with the special effects artists. And the book “Jurassic Park” has references to my research.
And…my first dig was excavating raptors near Bridger, Montana, in 1964. I w... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15290000 |
The oceans are being emptied of fish. A forthcoming United Nations report lays out the stark numbers: only around 25% of commercial stocks are in a healthy or even reasonably healthy state. Some 30% of fish stocks are considered collapsed, and 90% of large predatory fish — like the bluefin tuna so prized by sushi afici... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15293000 |
By: Clemente Rendón de la Garza
He was born in Villa de Cadereyta, Nuevo Leon in 1639. He was the son of Alonso de Leon y Josefa Gonzalez. His occupation was agriculture and livestock. He married Agustina Cantu and they had seven children, Alonso, Juan, Santiago, Ines, Mateo, Juana and Andres. In 1667 he was named Mayo... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15327000 |
Introduction to Sociology
The only textbook that helps students make micro-macro connections, Introduction to Sociology helps students uncover the surprising links between everyday life and global change.
The Seventh Edition does not simply compare the United States to other countries, but shows students how global pro... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15336000 |
Diversity-biological as well as social, linguistic and cultural diversity-is the lifeblood of sustainable development and human welfare. It is key to resilience-the ability of natural and social systems to adapt to change and is essential for nearly every aspect of our lives.
That’s why, in the run-up to the IUCN World... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15340000 |
Common name: Stomach worm
The adult worms measure 40 to 48 mm long.
Anterior end of worm
The egg, containing the infective first stage-larva, is passed in the feces and eaten by a beetle larva. The larva develops to the infective third stage larva. The dog eats the beetle and the worm develops to the adult stage in the... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15351000 |
Click the Study Aids tab at the bottom of the book to access your Study Aids (usually practice quizzes and flash cards).
Study Pass is our latest digital product that lets you take notes, highlight important sections of the text using different colors, create "tags" or labels to filter your notes and highlights, and pr... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15356000 |
Updated at 9:45 p.m. with figures provided by the Bachmann campaign
Ottumwa, Ia. – Michele Bachmann told a crowd here that growing tax burdens have undermined the American middle class and forced both parents into the workforce.
To support her argument, she said tax rates in 1950 were just 5 percent – a fraction of the... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15364000 |
I believe that, from the perspective of the C++ Standard, there is no difference between #include "xyz.h" and #include "xyz.cpp" if they both contain the same thing. In practice, an IDE might create the makefile (or other build script) such that "xyz.cpp" is compiled even when it should not be, possibly leading to rede... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15366000 |
Build Your Own Simple Random Numbers
Liam O’Connor got me thinking about the best way to explain the idea of a pseudo-random number generator to new programmers. This post is my answer. If you already understand them, there won’t be anything terribly new here. That said, I enjoy clean examples even for easy ideas, so i... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15367000 |
|Name, Symbol, Number|| krypton, Kr, 36
|Chemical series||noble gases|
|Group, Period, Block||18, 4, p|
|Appearance|| colorless |
|Atomic mass||83.798(2) g/mol|
|Electron configuration||[Ar] 3d10 4s2 4p6|
|Electrons per shell||2, 8, 18, 8|
|Density|| (0 °C, 101.325 kPa)|
|Melting point|| 115.79 K|
(-157.36 °C, -251.25 ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15373000 |
Low birthweight in newborns
Low birthweight is a term used to describe babies who are born weighing less than 3 pounds, 4 ounces.
- The average newborn weighs about 7.6 pounds
- About 7.6 percent of all newborns in the United States have low birthweight.
- The overall rate of these very small babies is increasing, prim... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15375000 |
Lent is a period of penance in preparation for Triduum (Maundy Thurs. through Easter Sun). The faithful are encouraged to increase their works of mercy and decrease their self-indulgence. It begins on Ash Wednesday, which is 40 days (minus Sundays) before the Triduum.
So called because it invokes the ancient practice o... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15379000 |
Recently, swine flu was the lead article on all major financial media across the globe as markets opened in sequence from Asia to Europe to North America. Invariably, the articles were dire with presumptions that the disease would at best delay economic recovery and at worst send economies worldwide into a tailspin.
Al... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15389000 |
The Donald E. Miller Wildlife Area is a 16.5 acre area located on the north bank of the White River, on the west side of Muncie. It is a site for nature study and environmental sciences field experiences for students from pre-K through college. The Miller area is a remnant of White River bottomland that was isolated wh... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15393000 |
Researchers have recently been trying to discover if pretending has implications for child development. When we see kids at play we are reminded that children live in a far more wondrous, whimsical world than the rest of us. A pile of wooden blocks is a vast city, and some sticks the inhabitants. Indeed, often about th... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15397000 |
You can lower your risk of heart attack by making modifications to your lifestyle. If you have already had a heart attack, or have several risk factors for heart disease that put you at high risk, your doctor may recommend certain medications to lower your risk of first or recurrent heart attack.
Smoking can increase t... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15398000 |
BIOL Subject Gateway
As an integrated part of SciVerse, SciVerse Scopus is the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze, and visualize research.
ScienceDirect covers many scientific disciplines including biology, chemistry, and... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15413000 |
When spraying pesticides, don't let others get your drift.
"It is bad enough when your drift damages your crops, your lawn or your garden. But when the damage is to your neighbor's field or flowerbeds, then you've got a real problem," says Erdal Ozkan, an Ohio State University Extension agricultural engineer.
Spray dri... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15414000 |
RMS TITANIC – Third Class or Steerage Passengers aboard the ill-fated liner.
Last photo taken of the RMS Titanic – Sailing away from Queenstown, Ireland.
The majority of the 700-plus steerage passengers on the RMS Titanic were emigrants. Only 25 percent of the Titanic’s third-class passengers survived, and of that 25 p... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15423000 |
Only 17 when the Nazis invaded his native Holland, Loet Velmans and his family escaped to London in 1940. From there they settled in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), where Velmans was drafted into the Dutch army just before the Japanese captured the archipelago. For three and a half years he toiled in slave-labor... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15432000 |
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Survival of the Fittest or Altruistic Suicide?
The answer is that suicide at the cellular level doesn’t kill the whole organism. Such self destruction serves a range of purposes, from guiding development to keeping cancer at bay. In short, cell death in a multicellular organism can be a good th... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15439000 |
“HELL,” wrote Jean-Paul Sartre in his play No Exit, “is other people”. But Satan, in Milton’s Paradise Lost, utters this anguished cry: “Which way I flie is Hell; my self am Hell.”
He goes on: “The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.”
Both quotes are drawn from the recent... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15443000 |
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except far a few office holders of dubious character w... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15445000 |
Remember how you felt after your last trip to the Mexican restaurant? If your first thought is of an upset stomach, consider taking digestive enzymes. Because your body's enzyme production drops off after you hit age 30, foods high in fat and carbohydrates become more difficult to digest — potentially leaving you with ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15450000 |
The United Nations General Assembly has voted on over 4500 resolutions or other matters since its founding through 2008. This Demonstration, based on data made available by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, creates pie charts showing the distribution of votes on almost all of those re... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15451000 |
You can use the FOIL method to multiply out binomials of the form
. FOIL stands for First-Outer-Inner-Last. First means multiply the first terms
; Outer means multiply
; Inner gives the term
; and finally Last gives the term
the Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Embed Interactive Demonstration
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You should always externalize resources such as images and strings from your application
code, so that you can maintain them independently. Externalizing your
resources also allows you to provide alternative resources that support specific device
configurations such as different languages or screen sizes, which becomes... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15457000 |
muddy the waters
Confuse the issue, as in Bringing up one irrelevant fact after another, he succeeded in muddying the waters. This metaphoric expression, alluding to making a pond or stream turbid by stirring up mud from the bottom, was first recorded in 1837.
|a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15463000 |
Date: March 31, 2011
Creator: Nelson, Rebecca M.
Description: This report discusses the background of the G-20 (an international forum for discussing and coordinating economic policies) and some of the issues that it has addressed. It includes historic background on the work of the G-20, information about how the group... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15471000 |
Date of Award:
Master of Science (MS)
Terry A. Messmer
Columbian sharp-tailed grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus columbianus: hereafter sharp-tailed grouse) populations have been declining. These declines have been attributed to a number of factors, including habitat loss due to agriculture, habitat fragmentation, overgr... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15474000 |
Coal in the Ferron Sandstone Member of the Mancos Shale of Cretaceous age has traditionally been mined by underground techniques in the Emery Coal Field in the southern end of Castle Valley in east-central Utah. However, approximately 99 million tons are recoverable by surface mining. Ground water in the Ferron is the ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15475000 |
The Dakota House, Jamestown, N.D.
|Title||The Dakota House, Jamestown, N.D. |
|Date of Original||1878? |
|Creator||Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921|
|Creator Role||Photographer |
|Description||A three story wooden building with two chimneys on the roof, and the sign "Dakota House, " on the front. There are a few p... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15477000 |
The prehistoric cave paintings of Chauvet in southeastern France show the work of deft hands: Hundreds of animals appear in lifelike posesstanding, stalking, running, or roaming in packson surfaces specially scraped to make the sketches stand out. Many archaeologists assumed that such sophistication required thousands ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15479000 |
In this essay, the individualist Anarchist writer Charles Johnson offers an analysis of the concrete mechanisms of capitalism, and of how the revolutionary potential of free economic relationships is diverted and deformed when markets are constrained to labor under bosses, monopoly and government. Johnson revisits, and... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15480000 |
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Re: The Permo-Triassic extinction killed the dinosaurs, according to Fox News
What an excellent example of sloppy journalism. The sad thing is that the paper
could have made a very interesting news story in the right... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15481000 |
Dragons are creatures with nearly unlimited life spans. They can survive for long periods of time, and no one has found a dragon that has died of old age. Adolescence is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling’s wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15493000 |
Dragons are creatures with nearly unlimited life spans. They can survive for long periods of time, and no one has found a dragon that has died of old age. Adolescence is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling’s wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15494000 |
- FDA approves Novartis drug for high blood pressure treatment
- Adherence among chronic disease patients can lead to big savings
- New cardiovascular risk calculator now available online
- Pfizer forms licensing agreement with Seattle Genetics
- Walgreens puts its money where its mouth is with World AIDS Day campaign
... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15496000 |
Economic growth in China has led to significant increases in fossil fuel consumption © stock.xchng (frédéric dupont, patator)
Per capita CO2 emissions in China reach EU levels
Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) – the main cause of global warming – increased by 3% last year. In China, the world’s most populous cou... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15504000 |
Downstream users are companies or individuals who use a chemical substance, either on its own or in a mixture, in the course of their industrial or professional activities.
Downstream users have a key role to play in advancing the safe use of chemicals by implementing safe use at their own site and communicating releva... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15507000 |
Although some may consider the practice old school, electrical taping is a valuable skill you shouldn't let slip away
With all of the new products and electrical insulation kits currently on the market, the use of conventional electrical tapes has gone down. As a result, electricians today may not possess the taping sk... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15508000 |
The Distribution of Wealth: A Theory of Wages, Interest and Profits
The Place of Distribution within the Traditional Divisions of Economics
We have undertaken to solve a test problem of distribution—to ascertain whether the division of the social income into wages, interest and profits is, in principle, honest. We have... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15511000 |
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To appreciate some of the extra-literary elements of a play, students pause at various intervals in their study of Thornton Wilder's Our Town to develop their own settings, characters, and conflicts.
EDSITEment has partnered with Thinkfinity to help you find, save, and share even more free les... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15516000 |
Today's starting point? Atlanta. Destination? Florida. Although the family in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" lives in Atlanta, their journey to Florida takes them along the relatively new highways of the 1950s, including rural country roads.
The following images of Georgia highways and rural roads can give you a better i... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15517000 |
An Afghan resistance fighter
On Christmas Eve, 1979, Soviet Antonov transport planes began landing at the airport in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, disgorging tanks and trucks and thousands of troops. Meanwhile, MI-6 and MI-8 helicopters ferried in several thousand elite commandos, some of whom, led by Colonel Boyarino... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15520000 |
The selection of works from the Suna and İnan Kıraç Orientalist Painting Collection included in the “İstanbul: The City of Dreams” exhibition thus emerge as outstanding visual documents that feature, largely though the perspective of Western artists, a view of the Ottoman world stretching from the 17th to the early 20t... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15524000 |
From Mekteb-i Sultani to Galatasaray Lycee Painters
The first Galatasaray Exhibition was opened in the spring of 1916 by the Association of Ottoman Painters at “Galatasaraylılar Yurdu” with the participation of 49 artists. It was the starting point of an organization that was meticulously upheld for many years to come ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15525000 |
The Surface Inspector and the Texture Browser are the tools you will be using when texuring your maps. To use the Texture Browser, simply press T. To bring up the Surface Inspector for a surface, select a brush or surface and press S.
With the controls above you can either Fit a texture to fit on a brush, or use Axial ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15527000 |
|Elections in California|
|Part of a series on|
|Lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender (LGBT)
California Proposition 6 was an initiative on the California State ballot on November 7, 1978, and was more commonly known as The Briggs Initiative. Sponsored by John Briggs, a conservative state legislator from Orange County... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15529000 |
|A statue of Maitreya Buddha in Budai form in Emei, Hsinchu, Taiwan|
|Alternative Chinese name|
|Literal meaning||Laughing Buddha|
|Vietnamese alphabet||Bố Đại|
Budai or Pu-Tai (Chinese: 布袋; pinyin: Bùdài), or Hotei in Japanese, Bố Đại in Vietnamese, is a Chinese folkloric deity. His name means "Cloth Sack," and comes ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15530000 |
|Elevation||758 ft (231 m)|
|Area||0.55 sq mi (1 km2)|
|- land||0.55 sq mi (1 km2)|
|- water||0.00 sq mi (0 km2)|
|Density||1,829.4 / sq mi (706 / km2)|
|- summer (DST)||CDT (UTC-5)|
|Wikimedia Commons: Colfax, Illinois|
Colfax is located at (40.566290, -88.615304).
According to the 2010 census, the village has a total... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15531000 |
François-André Danican Philidor
Portrait from L’analyze des échecs. London, second edition, 1777.
|Full name||François-André Danican Philidor|
|Born||September 7, 1726
|Died||August 31, 1795
François-André Danican Philidor (September 7, 1726 – August 31, 1795), often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lif... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15536000 |
|Count / Earl|
A prince regent, or prince-regent, is a prince who rules a monarchy as regent instead of a monarch, e.g., as a result of the Sovereign's incapacity (minority or illness) or absence (remoteness, such as exile or long voyage, or simply no incumbent). While the term itself can have the generic meaning and r... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-15537000 |
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