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The transistor ushered the modern world of gadgets that we all love, and now optical transistors could help to bring us to the proper next generation of the internet. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have demonstrated successful electromagnetically induced transparency, or EIT, which is effecti... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-21996000 |
What does this program measure?
Sulfur Dioxide is measured at 4,10,23,and 40 meters above the ground, in units of parts per trillion by volume.
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Why is this research important?
This is part of an effort to monitor long-term of emissions from Kilauea and Mauna Loa volcanoes. It may provide a p... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22004000 |
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Caption: In this audio file, a University of Oregon archaeologist provides an overview of his research at Oregon's Paisley Caves since he began excavating there in 2002. He refers to much earlier work at the site by archaeologist Luther ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22005000 |
Fort Dearborn, U.S. army post on the Chicago River, NE Ill.; est. 1803 and named for Secretary of War Henry Dearborn. Threatened by the indigenous population at the start of the War of 1812, the frontier post was ordered by Gen. William Hull to evacuate. On Aug. 15, 1812, as Capt. Nathan Heald led the small contingent ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22008000 |
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The ABCs of Heat-Straightening Repair for Steel Bridges
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Dengue Fever in India
04 March 2013
Dengue fever is a growing concern in India. In 2012, 247 deaths were recorded as a result of dengue fever nationwide.
Latest data on disease prevalence released by the Health Ministry shows a significant rise in the incidence of dengue fever from 18 860 cases in 2011, to 49 606 in ye... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22018000 |
Athens (/ˈæθɨnz/; Modern Greek: Αθήνα, Athína; IPA: [aˈθina]; Katharevousa: Ἀθῆναι, Athinai; Ancient Greek: Ἀθῆναι, Athēnai) is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22026000 |
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For your car's engine to be able to start, several things have to happen. The flywheel needs to turn the crankshaft, which moves the pistons up and down, which in turn makes the valves draw air into the combustion chamber to mix with fuel to ignite. The proce... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22027000 |
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April 8, 2011 -- What does a government shutdown mean for our health? Here's WebMD's FAQ, with answers to questions from WebMD readers and staff.
Most government health services are administered by the Department of Health and Human Services. During the government... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22028000 |
High Speed Research Car T-16
In November, 2000, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) began operating high speed research car T-16 to investigate methods for providing a safer and smoother ride for passenger and freight trains traveling at higher speeds. FRA's Office of Research and Development uses T-16 to study t... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22031000 |
“The short-pant is a terrible fashion choice. Unless it is from Bermuda.”
When the British officers arrive in 1816 to the Bermuda Islands on the Atlantic Ocean, because this was a strategic spot for the Navy Inteligence, they soon realized that their permanence in there would be less than pleasant thanks to a factor wh... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22033000 |
The Intellectual Property Rights Reform initiative of the Information Program uses grant making to support work which will strengthen a vibrant knowledge ecology based on a balance between private property rights and the commons. Such knowledge ecology is significant to a thriving public sphere, an effective education ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22036000 |
What causes Tsunamis?
Tsunami are waves caused by sudden movement of the ocean due to earthquakes, landslides on the sea floor, land slumping into the ocean, large volcanic eruptions or meteorite impact in the ocean.
Most tsunami are caused by large earthquakes on the seafloor when slabs of rock move past each other su... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22038000 |
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Southern Coasts and Tropical South.
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Urban agriculture as a tool for economic recovery.
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Use the Grow section to explore innovative methods for planting, growing, farming, harvesting, reforesting, and building productive landscapes. This Category covers subject areas like urban agriculture, community gardening, and urba... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22049000 |
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Early in the development of Christianity and Islam, Gnosticism and Sufism1 became marginalised and persecuted as heretical beliefs. Gnosticism and Sufism themselves inspired two of the more interesting 'heresies' of the Middle Ages.
Mani was born in Persian-controlled Iraq in 3AD and saw himself as... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22072000 |
Story and photos by Nikki Carlson
On THE MILK RIVER - Water sloshing against the river banks and bending around rocks gives the Milk River a fine-tuned heartbeat. This rhythmic dance whispers the river's past and future.
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service watershed specialist Warren Kellogg says the Milk River... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22076000 |
Breathing-related sleep disorder
Breathing-related sleep disorder is marked by sleep disruption caused by abnormal breathing during sleep. The most common complaint of individuals with breathing-related sleep disorder is excessive daytime sleepiness, brought on by frequent interruptions of nocturnal, or nighttime, slee... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22081000 |
Its victory in the Spanish American War catapulted the United States into the international limelight. This program investigates the history of the war, as well as the journalistic accounts of the conflict. The two are at variance. Archival film footage, photographs, and commentary by historians contrast actual events ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22091000 |
A $25 investment in 1963 for extra-fat insulation batts was the smartest decision Harold Orr has ever made.
Almost five decades ago, the man behind Canada's respected R-2000 program hired a Saskatoon contractor to build a modest 1,100-square-foot bungalow for him, his wife, Mary, and a young family that would eventuall... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22095000 |
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Soy supplements do not stave off breast cancer, study shows
Feb 6, 2012
A new study conducted by researchers at Northwestern University found that soy supplements do not protect women against breast cancer.
The researchers studied 98 women, and randomly assigned them soy supplements and a placebo. After six months, the... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22099000 |
the story of the 112th Infantry Regiment of the 28th Infantry Division in the battle for Schmidt, Germany.
by CHARLES B. MACDONALD
Attack on Vossenack
The Aachen Front
1 November 1944
By October 1944, the First United States Army in Western Europe had ripped two big holes in the Siegfried Line, at Aachen and east of Ro... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22102000 |
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Saudi Arabia's growing oil demand is rapidly becoming a matter of concern for the country's planners. A new report forecasts that the Kingdom could fail to meet domestic demand in 2030 if current consumption trends are maintained.
Saudi Arabia, the world's largest crude oil exporter, is already cons... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22106000 |
19:4 cruel lord. See Isaiah 20:4. The Egyptians at the time were dominated by Assyria, but then participated in a rebellion instigated by the rulers of Ashdod, in Philistia. As a result, many Egyptians were led in shame into captivity into Assyria. The “cruel lord” and “fierce king” was evidently Sargon. This prophecy ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22107000 |
To finish Aladdin's Window—i.e. to attempt to complete something begun by a great genius, but left imperfect. The genius of the lamp built a palace with twenty-four windows, all but one being set in frames of precious stones; the last was left for the sultan to finish; but after exhausting his treasures, the sultan was... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22117000 |
| ||What Your Doctor Is Saying || |
Last reviewed by Faculty of Harvard Medical School on January 13, 2011
By Robert H. Shmerling, M.D.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
It is likely that your doctor routinely uses words or phrases when speaking with other doctors that would sound foreign to you unless you have a me... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22123000 |
Islamic slavery has been the most horrible, yet the least known slavery in history. So, author M. A. Khan decided to publish the chapter "Islamic Slavery" from his book "Islamic Jihad: A Legacy of Forced Conversion, Imperialism and Slavery". This part contains: 1) INTRODUCTION, 2) THE QURANIC SANCTION OF SLAVERY, 3) TH... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22129000 |
Six natural wonders declared World Heritage Sites
02 July 2012 | News story
St. Petersburg, Russia, 2 July, 2012 (IUCN) – Sangha Trinational - shared between Cameroon, the Central African Republic and the Republic of Congo; Lakes of Ounianga in Chad and Chengjiang fossil site in China have been inscribed on the World H... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22134000 |
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BROWNSVILLE — Is it a kid being a kid? Or is it something more? A child may be easily distracted, has trouble staying on task, and even talks out of turn, things that just about every kid experiences at one time or another, but these ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22166000 |
- Formation of H2 and CH4 by weathering of olivine at temperatures between 30 and 70°CAnna Neubeck
Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden
Geochem Trans 12:6. 2011..This may expand the range of environments plausible for abiotic CH4 formation both on Earth and on other terrestrial bodies...
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According to the Environmental Working Group: "We found that consumers using sunscreens without zinc and titanium would be exposed to an average of 20% more UVA radiation — with increased risks for UVA-induced skin damage, premature aging, wrinkling, and UV-induced immune system damage — than consumers using zinc- and ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22171000 |
As part of its holdings of legal art and visual materials, the Harvard Law School Library owns a collection of over 4000 portrait images of lawyers, jurists, political figures, and legal thinkers dating from the Middle Ages to the late twentieth century. Although most of these prints, drawings, and photographs depict l... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22179000 |
The name Sir Jack Brabham is very well known among Formula 1 fans, but lately Sir Jack has been fading into the background and we thought we would refresh everyones memories with his mind-boggling accomplishments.
One of the first drivers to be knighted for his service to motorsports, Brabham won the Formula 1 drivers ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22183000 |
Build any Major Scale
Building A Major Scale
Just like with building triads, building a major scale is about understanding the intervals between each note of the scale. If you understand this, you can build any major scale.
All major scales follow this pattern:
(W = Whole Step, H = Half Step)
W - W - H - W - W - W - H
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What is cardiology?
Cardiology is the science and study of the cardiac (heart) system. It pertains to heart disorders, including diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, electrophysiology, heart failure and valvular heart disease. It is a subspecialty of internal medicine.Who are ca... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22189000 |
What is general surgery?
Despite its name, general surgery typically refers to surgery on abdominal organs rather than other areas of the body. This specialty focuses on the intestines, including esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder and bile duct, thyroid glands, hernias and sometimes di... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22190000 |
Finance is the system of governing and managing assets, money, currency, banking and investing affairs. Fiscal bankroll possessed or owned by a corporation, firm, or enterprise is also called Finance. There are certain businesses and establishments in which the goods and services that are provided are strictly monetary... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22191000 |
Ancient Ichthyosaur Mother Did Not Explode, Scientists Say
An ichthyosaur female with embryos scattered outside her body.
It is unlikely that the body of a mother ichthyosaur exploded, say researchers who offer another explanation for the scattered remains of embryos found around her in rock that was once deep underwat... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22196000 |
New Smell Discovered
A newly discovered smell is the olfactory equivalent of white noise, scientists report in the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Science
CREDIT: MrGarry, Shutterstock
Scientists have discovered a new smell, but you may have to go to a laboratory to experience it yourself.
The smell is... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22197000 |
Join Grant Skinner at work and at play, designing cutting-edge interactive experiences, games, applications, and frameworks with technologies like HTML5 and Flash.
Challenge yourself with this series of real-world data visualization scenarios in Processing, an open-source drawing and development environment.
Shows how ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22203000 |
Other Types of Cancer
Cancer is a devastating reality for far too many Americans. However, statistics indicate that there is good news: according to the National Cancer Institute, death rates for the four most commonly diagnosed cancers – prostate, breast, colon and lung – continue to decrease. This can be contributed ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22204000 |
Clothes have been used to define the sexes since the earliest times. On the whole, men's clothes have been more practical with separate legs in lower garments to facilitate activity, whilst the fashionable male silhouette has often emphasised a broad chest and narrow hips. Women's dress has been more restrictive and de... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22207000 |
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Having diabetes means that your body doesn't do a good job of using the food you eat. Most of it needs to be broken down into a simple sugar called glucose, the body's main fuel source.
But for that glucose to get into your cells, it needs insulin, which is a hormone that the beta cells in your pancreas produce. The pa... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22217000 |
Frederick Starr: Anthropologist Lost from the History Books
You probably haven’t heard of Frederick Starr. Like his contemporary Franz Boas, Starr was an anthropologist coming to fame while the discipline of anthropology was still being formed. Throughout his career, Starr studied people and cultures on three different... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22218000 |
Couched in the Northern Song idioms of Yan Wengui (active ca. 970–1030) and Fan Kuan (active ca. 990–1030), this small landscape by Zhao Yuan exemplifies late Yuan and early Ming scholar painting in which ancient models were transformed by calligraphic brushwork. Late Yuan scholar-artists saw painting as a vehicle for ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22221000 |
Historical Commentary on the Gospel of Mark
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as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22222000 |
We astronomers like to toy with the ideas of life and of death. We name distant objects after gods of the dead and underworld, like Orcus or Pluto, we eagerly discuss cannibalistic galaxies and gamma ray bursts that would wipe out civilizations for light years in radius. We talk about catastrophic impacts and the possi... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22224000 |
It was a border town between the Saxon and the Vikings (c.900AD), and again during the Civil War between the Royalists and Parliamentarians (c.1643AD). The Normans (c.1185) built a motte and bailey castle, nowadays called "Bury Mount", which has undergone re-shaping. Towcester was a busy coaching town, until the railwa... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22226000 |
October, over the last several years has been observed as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month throughout not only the United States but worldwide. The purpose of this observance is to increase awareness of the disease and to raise funds for research into its cause, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and a cure. Inform... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22227000 |
Because of their white ancestry, members of the Hemings family have been negotiating the color line ever since they left Monticello. Many of Sally Hemings’s descendants, in particular, have had to continually assert or defend or adjust their racial identity in a society that insisted on a simple division into black or ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22230000 |
On hearing recently how one institution uses personality tests in training and teambuilding activities, my first reaction was to think such tests would be a terrible idea for teaching. But then, I thought, maybe an awareness of personality types could be very helpful in communicating with students.
Let’s look at the pr... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22239000 |
|Spreading the word on skimboarding - responsibly|
A group of local Grade 4 students are taking it to the beach! Arrowview Elementary’s Garbage Busters Club has turned its focus towards keeping local beaches healthy. Expanding their focus from clean communities, students have designed and created posters to help educat... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22241000 |
Until recently, most archaeologists viewed human-animal relationships primarily in terms of their dietary role. But the social and symbolic functions of animals and meat may often be of equal or even greater importance, writes Nerissa Russell in her newly released book "Social Zooarchaeology: Humans and Animals in Preh... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22246000 |
Why not see what your family crest could look like based on your own family characteristics?
- First enter your family name.
- Then enter your family motto. Don't have one? Be creative!
- Choose two crest colours based on the family characteristics offered. Remember if you choose the same qualities for both colours it ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22247000 |
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Defending Planet Earth: Near-Earth-Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies
or regional effects near the time and... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22249000 |
Herbivory induces massive metabolic reconfigurations in plants. Such changes mediate tissue repair, resource allocation and defence. Induced plant-defences constitute an array of changes decreasing the plant's palatability i.e. directly via toxins and accumulation of proteins that interfere with herbivore digestion but... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22252000 |
Destroying a dangerous asteroid with a nuclear bomb is a well-worn trope of science fiction, but it could become reality soon enough.
Scientists are developing a mission concept that would blow apart an Earth-threatening asteroid with a nuclear explosion, just like Bruce Willis and his oilmen-turned-astronaut crew did ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22258000 |
But, First, a Little Background.
Remember when people talked about the "3-Rs," reading, writing, and 'rithmetic, as the basic ingredients of a sound education? Well, there's every reason to add a fourth "R" to this list an 8-letter word that is frequently the focus of controversy, confusion, and even anxiety, for educa... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22263000 |
Soon after the Fukushima accident last month, I stated publicly that a nuclear event of this size and catastrophic potential could present a medical problem of very large dimensions. Events have proven this observation to be true despite the nuclear industry's campaign about the "minimal" health effects of so-called lo... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22275000 |
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For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus
By Frederick Brown
(Knopf, 304 pp., $28.95)
The phrase “culture wars” has a peculiarly contemporary and American sound. Its very hyperbole captures something about our over-excited political culture. It summons up images of Sarah Palin denouncin... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22280000 |
By analyzing tissues harvested from organ donors, Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have created the first ever "atlas" of immune cells in the human body. Their results provide a unique view of the distribution and function of T lymphocytes in healthy individuals. In addition, the findings represent... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22282000 |
61.1. Statement of the Principle of Typification. Each nominal taxon in the family, genus or species groups has actually or potentially a name-bearing type. The fixation of the name-bearing type of a nominal taxon provides the objective standard of reference for the application of the name it bears.
61.1.1. No matter h... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22289000 |
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Major Changes Ahead Due to Global Warming, Says New Federal Report
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Gulf Oil Spill: NSF Awards Grant to Study Effects of Oil and Dispersants on Louisiana Salt Marsh Ecosystem
Researchers measuring impacts of short- and long-term exposure in extensive Gulf Coast marshes
August 16, 2010
As oil and dispersants wash ashore in coastal Louisiana salt marshes, what will t... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22300000 |
Socrates Tryon (1816-1855)
Socrates Hotchkiss Tryon lived in Vermont, Iowa, and Hawaii before coming to Oregon in 1849. He settled on land located between Portland and Oregon City, and in 1975, his claim became the Tryon Creek State Natural Area.
Tryon was born in Pawlet, Vermont, on January 24, 1816, to Jesse Tryon an... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22317000 |
Every year, dogs bite about 4.7 million people, most of them children between ages five and nine.
Postal workers are also common victims. Last year, 5,577 postal employees were attacked in more than 1,400 cities, according to the United States Postal Service. With 27 dog attacks last year, Portland ranked 13th (tying w... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22318000 |
On the holiest day of the year, the Day of Atonement, the holiest of people, the High Priest, entered the holiest of places, the Holy of Holies, and made atonement for all Israel. It was a moment on which the fate of Israel depended. For their destiny depended on G-d; and G-d in turn sought their obedience. Yet a sinle... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22322000 |
Saint Catherine Area (Hide)
The Orthodox Monastery of St Catherine stands at the foot of Mount Horeb where, the Old Testament records, Moses received the Tablets of the Law. The mountain is known and revered by Muslims as Jebel Musa. The entire area is sacred to three world religions: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22323000 |
Even if the Palmarin Tree Project planted a million trees next year, it wouldn't mean much if we couldn't protect them. To make real gains in reforestation has to be well thought out from what species to are to be planted, where and then most importantly how are we going to make sure they will survive. Today that is a ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22326000 |
Medical History and Physical Exam for a Slow Heart Rate
A doctor will ask you questions about your medical history and do a physical exam to evaluate your symptoms. The information gained from your medical background and physical exam may provide important clues about your symptoms. It also can help a doctor recommend ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22328000 |
Modeled after the Amber Alert System, this network helps locate wanderers.
Relatives of people with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease often have the nagging fear that their loved one might wander away and get lost. It’s estimated that more than 9 of 10 people with dementia who leave the house alone are likely to be unabl... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22329000 |
My baby is 3-1/2 months old and has a cold. We think it was due to exposure to cold weather because we had to go out in the snow just two or three days before she got it. The doctor told us that it's a virus and we can bathe her, take her out, or do whatever we want. Will bathing her when she's having cold aggravate th... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22330000 |
Cultural Differences in Marriage
Begin by seeking knowledge and understanding of each other's culture. Then you can move into acceptance and appreciation. Your cultures are different, and one is not right and the other wrong.
Cultural exploration is especially important before a couple marries and has children. Your cu... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22331000 |
Disney Turns Your Body Into a Touch Screen
Touching and swiping on your smartphone or tablet is so 2011. What if you could select a new song, craft a text message, or launch an app without ever touching your gadget?
Disney Research has stepped away from creating animatronic creatures to investigate more complex uses fo... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22336000 |
The revolutionary AquaC protein skimmers do not use venturis, downdraft tubes, or air pumps; they employ the patented "Spray Injection System." This innovation allows the protein skimmer to efficiently draw in much more air than any other of the top protein skimmers. This coupled with the superiorly designed compact re... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22342000 |
náma: (lit. 'name'): 'mind',
mentality. This term is generally used as a collective name for the 4 mental groups (arúpino
khandha), viz. feeling (vedaná), perception (saññá), mental
formations (sankhára) and consciousness (viññána). Within the 4th link
(náma-rúpa) in the formula of the paticcasamuppáda (q.v.), however,... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22345000 |
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Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940
The Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940
(SSCRA, or the Act) (50 USC 501) is a reenactment of a statute originally
passed in 1918. The intent of the Act is to provid... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22346000 |
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Friction conditions on contact point of disc
I have some doubts regarding the friction force on a certain situation. Imagine a disc over a fixed flat surface. Like this:
The disc has two motions, rotational and translational but these are independent of each other. I mean the translational motio... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22350000 |
Design Thinking is a creative process of thinking backwards from people, that leads to design a service, a product or else, based on the conclusions of the knowledge gathered in the process.
Design Thinking starts and ends with people, their needs and problems.
Thinking backwards from people leads to major rethinking o... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22351000 |
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The Power of the Stop Shot (Part 2)
The Power of the Stop Shot (part 2 of 2)
In Part 1 of this 2-part series, we defined the stop shot and all its wonderful benefits. You learned to use the stop shot to calibrate your stroke, stop the cue ball, and control the slide in the early stages of position play. I... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22359000 |
PostgreSQL has a large object facility, which provides stream-style access to user data that is stored in a special large-object structure. Streaming access is useful when working with data values that are too large to manipulate conveniently as a whole.
This chapter describes the implementation and the programming and... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22361000 |
Review of Peat Surface Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Oil Palm Plantations in Southeast Asia05 March 2012
This white paper, published by the International Council on Clean Transportation, aims to assess likely rates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from tropical peatlands converted to oil palm plantations.
The paper sa... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22362000 |
March 11, 2013
A ubiquitous chemical found in plastics, soup can linings, and receipts, bisphenol-a is just one health-compromising substance that has been under fire for many years. While the scientific community has gathered ample evidence regarding BPAs toxic effects, the chemical is still widely used today. Adding ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22371000 |
HealthEd Academy Report Reveals Many Patient Languages Not Supported by Healthcare System
One respondent in 3 cites communication and language barriers as key challenges to reaching diverse patient groups
CLARK, N.J., Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite ongoing efforts, healthcare providers looking to meet the needs o... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22372000 |
Article From: 3/9/2007 Modern Machine Shop, Derek Korn, Senior Editor
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A picosecond laser was used to machine this micro-mold that measures 2 mm long by 500 microns wide by 600 microns deep.
Here are four common laser drilling techniques. Single-pulse and percussion offer fast material removal rat... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22373000 |
A regular expression (regexp) is a text string that describes some set of strings.
Functions that handle regular expressions, based on GNU regexp-0.12, have been implemented (for more details, see the GNU documentation about regexp rules).
The functions available from Search menu provide search forward or backward and ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22378000 |
The ground in your
garden has been holding moisture all winter. Let's see if the soil is ready.
Preparing your garden plot
We will want to perform
a 'ball test' to see if it's ready to be worked.
Pick up a handful of
soil and squeeze it firmly into a ball.
If it sticks together,
it's still too wet or it may be the clay... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22389000 |
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St. Jago-Cape de Verd Islands
Porto Praya-Ribeira Grande-Atmospheric Dust with Infusoria-Habits of a Sea-slug and Cuttle-fish-St. Paul's Rocks, non-volcanic-Singular Incru... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22390000 |
A Short History of the Permanent Diaconate
THE EARLY CHURCH
Traditionally, the beginning of the order of deacons is traced back to the story in Acts of the Apostles, Acts 6: 1-6. Whether this pertains to the history of the ordained order of deacons as they developed in the early centuries of the church is in dispute, b... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22394000 |
2008 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor - Honduras
|Publisher||United States Department of Labor|
|Author||Bureau of International Labor Affairs|
|Publication Date||10 September 2009|
|Cite as||United States Department of Labor, 2008 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor - Honduras, 10 September 2009, avai... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22402000 |
Anatomy of Future Gold & Silver Bubble
In recent commentaries we’ve written about the three phases of a bull market and how and why the final phase evolves as it does. Valuations, sentiment and market structure all explain why markets take a dramatic upward turn in the final phase after relatively stagnant performance ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22409000 |
June 2004 Sky from the Keeble Observatory
We will be unable to view the June 8th "transit of Venus" from the Keeble Observatory - the event will be over before the rising Sun clears our obscured eastern horizon. You will, however, be able to view it from several global web sites: The Exploratorium, in San Francisco wil... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22416000 |
Let the Tempo Come to You
The science of starting slowly. . . to finish ahead
The wisdom of starting a race relatively slowly and finishing fast is unquestioned, with the strategy of "negative splitting"—running the second half of the race faster than the first—yielding world marathon bests for Khalid Khannouchi and Ca... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22422000 |
Fascinating creatures indeed bentley!
Cuttlefish belong to the Cephalopoda class and includes squid, octopuses, and nautiluses). Although they are known as fish, they are mollusks and not fish! Recent studies indicate that cuttlefish are among the most intelligent invertebrates. Internationally there are 120 species of... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22437000 |
This kit offers suggestions for activities, demonstrations and experiments that can be performed with our laser pointers. Typical experiments such as measuring the wavelength of laser light and determining the effects of polarization are also explained. The manual even includes the basic theory on laser pointer operati... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22446000 |
Loosens and Aerates Soil for Better Plant Growth
People are often surprised to hear that plants need air near their roots for healthy growth. After all, roots are in the ground. How does air get through all that soil? The fact is, good gardening soil is full of tiny air pockets. They allow moisture and nutrients to rea... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22449000 |
LAURENCE CADBURY COLLECTION
Assembled at the beginning of the 20th century, the Laurence Cadbury Collection helps show what life was like in a 16th and 17th century house.
Dating from about 1500 to the early 1900s it comprises furniture and domestic objects, agricultural artefacts, armour, archives and decorative works... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22452000 |
An end-stop occurs when a line of poetry ends with a period or definite punctuation mark, such as a colon. When lines are end-stopped, each line is its own phrase or unit of syntax. So when you read an end-stopped line, you'll naturally pause. In that sense, it's the opposite of enjambment, which will encourage you to ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-22460000 |
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