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Viticulture - n. : the cultivation or culture of grapes
Enology - n. :a science that deals with wine and wine making
The V&E Department combines the sciences of viticulture and enology in a single research and teaching unit that encompasses all of the scientific disciplines that impact grape growing and winemaking. For... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38632000 |
NOAA: Sixth Warmest February in Combined Global Surface Temperature, Fifth Warmest December-February
Last month’s combined global land and ocean surface temperature made it the sixth warmest February ever recorded. Additionally, the December 2009 – February 2010 period was the fifth warmest on record averaged for any s... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38644000 |
Art & Design
Unusual Diego Rivera Work Restored in Mexico City
The Mexican muralist Diego Rivera painted in New York City, San Francisco, Detroit, Europe and the Soviet Union. But some of Rivera's most famous murals and most unusual projects are found in Mexico City.
In Mexico City, Rivera did far more than just paint.... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38653000 |
According to some writers the origin of beatification and canonization in the Catholic Church is to be traced back to the ancient pagan apotheosis. In his classic work on the subject (De Servorum Dei Beatificatione et Beatorum Canonizatione) Benedict XIV examines and at the very outset refutes this view. He shows so we... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38654000 |
How is global warming responsible for the death of corals?
Submitted by: Ng Jing Yi
Global warming has increased the temperature of our tropical oceans by about a degree over the last hundred years. This has increased the chance that corals will undergo something called coral bleaching, which is where the plant-like sy... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38656000 |
- Wikipedia contributors. 28 Jun. 2007. "Colorado River". Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_river (15 Jun. 2007).
- Atkins, William. "Colorado River Basin". Water Encyclopedia http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Ce-Cr/Colorado-River-Basin.html (15 Jun. 2007).
Once great river struggles... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38657000 |
8 - 9 January 2007: OECD Round Table on Economic consequences of illegal logging
The 19th Round Table on Sustainable Development at the OECD will meet in Paris to discuss the economics of illegal logging and how to strengthen international efforts to stop illegal actions in the forestry sector.
The meeting will focus o... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38658000 |
Zurich, Switzerland - 13 Jan 2012: IBM scientists have developed a flexible, non-contact microfluidic probe made from silicon that can aid researchers and pathologists to investigate critical tissue samples accurately for drug discovery and disease diagnostics.
Tissue staining is widely used in pathology to detect dise... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38659000 |
Center of Science, Policy and Society Programs: AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion
AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion
Physics & the Cosmos
The field of physics attempts to make sense of the Universe at all scales, from the impossibly small particles from which we are comprised to the inconceivably... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38672000 |
When All Data Are Not Created Equally
T idewater areas can be difficult places to acquire consistent-quality seismic data, because different sources have to be used across exposed land surfaces than what are used across shallow-water areas.
Typically, explosives are used in shot holes in the onshore portion of a tidewa... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38674000 |
When a person with seasonal allergies comes in contact with pollen, his or her immune system releases chemicals called histamines to combat the allergens. Histamines are behind hay fever symptoms, including sneezing, headache, runny nose and watery eyes. Tree pollen in early spring and grass pollen in the summer can ma... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38678000 |
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Back pain usually gets better by itself, but chronic pain can be disabling. Regular exercise, losing weight and careful lifting and carrying can help prevent back injuries.
Homo erectus came down out of the trees and stared walking on two legs sometime betw... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38681000 |
Whether it's a drug prescribed by a doctor or just a bottle of
acetaminophen, medicines require some special care.
The United States Food and Drug Administration and the American Pharmaceutical Association provide some tips for safely using and storing medicines. And remember, these rules apply to nonprescription drugs... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38685000 |
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Liens rapides sur le Rwanda
Rwanda, land of a thousand hills, is a tiny landlocked country in Central Africa. Bordered by Tanzania, Uganda, DRC and Burundi,... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38689000 |
Save a Life! Adopt a Pet-Directory.Com
Helping to unite loving families with homeless animals...
Sharing Our Living Space with Wildlife
Growth and development in our metropolitan area have created problems for wildlife
by crowding them into less and less space. As they try to adapt to the ever-changing
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As the H1N1 swine flu continues to spread, the focus has turned to the prospects for quickly developing a vaccine that can protect Americans. So far, most infections in the United States have been mild, but even if this flu strain turns out to be no more potent than the ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38705000 |
Dairy cow culling, likely driven by tight feed supplies and high feed costs, jumped substantially in August, up 30,000 head over a year ago and 36,000 head over July. The percentage increases are even more dramatic—up 12% over a year ago and up 15% over July.
The United States Department of Agriculture released the fig... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38715000 |
Much of the increased mortality seen in
patients with HIV can be attributed to smoking, Danish investigators report in
the online edition of Clinical Infectious
Diseases. “The loss of life-years associated with smoking was larger than
that associated with HIV,” write the investigators. The authors believe their
finding... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38719000 |
It is the religious time of the year. Step into any city in America or Britain and you will see the night sky lit by religious symbols, Christmas decorations certainly and probably also a giant menorah. Religion in the West seems alive and well.
But is it really? Or have these symbols been emptied of content, no more t... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38724000 |
Before 2000BC the
Hittites, an Indo-European people,
established an empire in Anatolia. The Hittites ruled for
nearly 1000 years until Troy & other powerful Hellenic
city-states rose to power. In the 6th
century Turkey was incorporated into the Persian empire. The Persians lost
control of Turkey
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Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
Avro Lancaster, England, 2002
|Crew||7—pilot, flight engineer, navigator, bomb aimer, wireless operator, mid-, upper and rear gunners|
|First flight||January 9, 1941.|
|Length||69 ft 5 in||21.18 m|
|Wingspan||102 ft||31.09 m|
|Height||ft in||5.97 m|
|Wing area||ft²||120.8 m²|
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Very nice diagrams of refraction (with the red lines). Very good at explaining the phenomenon.
I think that a rainbow is visible only when the sun is at a low altitude- mornings and late afternoon/ evenings. Isn't there some specific angle for this? KRS 15:33, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- I adde... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38733000 |
Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
A typographical error or "typo" is a mistake made during the typing process. This excludes errors of ignorance, rather being the result of slips of the hand or finger, or in some cases, mechanical failure. Typographical errors typically manifest in the form of an additional or missing ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38734000 |
- 5.5–6.7 in
- 8.7–11.8 in
- 1.1 oz
- Slightly smaller than a Bohemian Waxwing
- Ampelis Americano, Picotera, Chinito (Spanish)
- Jaseur d' Amérique (French)
- The name "waxwing" comes from the waxy red secretions found on the tips of the secondaries of some birds. The exact function of these tips is not known, but the... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38735000 |
Part of Speech: Noun
Notes: Rudyard Kipling must have been the last English speaker to use today's word as anything other than a name. He did so in his poem, The Ballad of East and West, which begins: "Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38741000 |
Incontinence (wetting and soiling)
Medical and physical issues
My mother sometimes came back from the day centre having wet herself. But at home she’s fine. She couldn’t find the toilet at the centre and I think she didn’t want to ask because she felt she ought to know. I spoke to the staff and now every so often one o... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38744000 |
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First National Alzheimer’s Action Plan Becomes Law
Posted By alz01 On January 11, 2011 @ 11:59 am In Articles,Prevention and Wellness | 12 Comments
With President Obama’s signature, the first national action plan for Alzheimer’s disease beca... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38745000 |
September 1996 | Volume 47, Issue 5
A CENTURY AGO you’d eat steak and lobster when you couldn’t afford chicken. Today it can cost less than the potatoes you serve with. What happened in the years between was an extraordinary marriage of technology and the market.
King Henri IV of France was a great king. He was also, p... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38751000 |
Global Warming and the Future of Coal
Carbon Capture and Storage
Read the full report (PDF)
Watch Bob Sussman discuss the report (YouTube)
Watch Ken Berlin discuss the report (YouTube)
Ever-rising industrial and consumer demand for more power in tandem with cheap and abundant coal reserves across the globe are expected... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38754000 |
The Search for Certainty: A Philosophical Account of Foundations of Mathematics. Marcus Giaquinto. xii + 286 pp. Oxford University Press, 2002. $45.
David Hilbert (1862–1943) was arguably the leading mathematician of his time. In struggles over how mathematics was to accommodate new understandings of the infinite, the ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38755000 |
Cerebral Blood Flow (CBF)
The normal cerebral blood flow is approximately 50ml/100g/min or 700 ml/min, which is roughly 14 % of the cardiac output. This ranges from 20ml/100g/min in white matter to 70ml/100g/min in grey matter.
The Kety-Schmidt technique applies the Fick principal using N2O to calculate whole brain CBF... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38759000 |
Perhaps the most famous of all on-screen stars is Jumbo Jr., the little elephant cruelly nicknamed Dumbo by his mean peers because of his huge ears and naïvely friendly disposition. He has been separated from his mother by the circus keepers, and his only friend is Timothy, the mouse. Jumbo Jr. learns to use his “disab... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38762000 |
- Demand for hydrogen fuel is large and rapidly increasing
Cost effective with no gas emissions to pollute the air
- 50 million tons of H2 are produced for global consumption per year with a 4 to 10% growth per year.
- Applications include fertilizer, chemical industry, liquid fuels, transportation and oil refining.
- ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38768000 |
What makes some children more likely than others to dart across the street in traffic? According to a study in the December Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied (Vol. 9, No. 4), it's whether they are risk-takers. In the study, lead author Ulrich Hoffrage, PhD, a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38772000 |
This Month in Physics History
November 1887: Michelson and Morley report their failure to detect the luminiferous ether
Albert Abraham Michelson was born in Strelno, Germany in 1852. When he was two years old his family moved to the US, and he grew up in the rough mining towns of Murphy’s Camp, California and Virginia ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38776000 |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) new STEADI Tool Kit gives health care providers
information and tools to assess and address their older patients' falls risk.
The STEADI (Stopping Elderly
Accidents, Deaths and Injuries) Tool Kit is based on a simple algorithm adapted from the American and
British Geri... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38778000 |
September Everbearing Raspberry is one of the most popular home and commercial cultivars. It produces crops in two seasons, with a light crop in June followed by a heavy crop in September. Medium-size, tart, juicy, rose-red raspberries with small seeds. Excellent fresh, frozen, and in preserves and pies. Good for cold ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38781000 |
Lesson Plan Contest—Imagine Arizona
$25,000 in prizes
End Date: March 10, 2013
Winners Announced: May 10, 2013
Grand Prize (Individual) $3,000
Grand Prize (Team) $6,000
Teachers are the backbone of Arizona’s educational system; they create the curriculum and deploy lesson plans that excite and instruct Arizona’s school... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38783000 |
Stems move air: Phragmites australis
Dead stems of Phragmites australis move air to shoot and root meristems by use of differential air pressure.
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From Fig. 4.8: "A. Differential air pressure caused by wind blowing a... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38796000 |
Mechanical engineers can visualize themselves easily in a buzzing power plant or by an old boiler, but how about flying in a sailboat or powerboat, ripping through gorgeous strands of blue sea? Boat design offers adventurous opportunities for those with a natural affinity for the water, to go along with critical thinki... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38798000 |
German manufacturer of rockets. Nebel, Germany.
More... - Chronology...
Associated Launch Vehicles
Mirak Mirak - a 'Minimum Rocket' - was conceived by Rudolf Nebel to demonstrate the practicality of the liquid rocket, using the thrust chamber developed for the abandoned Oberth rocket. Mirak was realised not by Nebel, b... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38803000 |
Mountaineering in Turkey
A glance at a topographical map of Turkey reveals that
this is a country of mountains. Rising from all four directions, mountains encircle the
peninsula of Anatolia. A part of the Alpine-Himalayan Mountain range, Turkey has
mountainous regions with different geological formations.The North Anat... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38804000 |
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I set up some spreadsheets to solve Laplace’s equation, with more-or-less any boundary conditions you want.
The spreadsheet becomes, essentially, a 2D cellular automaton that directly emulates the physics.
This version handles objects in a D=2 universe in rectangular coordinates. In flatland, ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38813000 |
My pediatrician says I may not be producing enough breast milk. Is there anything I can do to help increase production? Or is there a way to balance breastfeeding with formula supplementation?
Don't panic! Meet with a lactation consultant to help you determine if your milk supply is adequately meeting the needs of your... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38821000 |
Our kids are in trouble. Maybe not your kids, but their friends, or perhaps a teenager down the street. Two whole generations-- starting with people entering their thirties now--have grown up with what authors like Richard Louv label "nature-deficit disorder." Despite being America's most environmentally aware segment,... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38822000 |
Rafael Reyes on Wednesday, 10 November 2010 01:19
Despite progress to advance clean energy including financial incentives, fossil fuels continue to receive far greater shares of subsidies.
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) global subsidies for fossil fuel production were almost six times that of renewa... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38824000 |
E. Cobham Brewer 18101897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
(b. Aslacton, Notts., July 2nd, 1489; d. at stake, Oxford, July 21st, 1556). Catechismus, that is to say, a Shorte Instruction into Christian Religion for the singular Commoditie and Profyte of Children and Yong People (1548); A Defence of the True and Ca... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38835000 |
Nearly all Americans consider themselves patriotic and voice pride in being American. Sizeable demographic and political differences do emerge, however, when it comes to intense expressions of patriotism. And many of those who voice strong patriotism and pride in the country also are highly critical of the federal gove... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38846000 |
World's largest renewable energy plant to be built in England
The Tees Renewable Energy Plant (Tees REP) will run on 2.65 million tons of wood chips per year shipped in from sustainable and certified forestry operations mostly in Europe and America, including the Southeast U.S., according to MGT, which recently receive... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38857000 |
Long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons are a widespread kind of transposable element present in eukaryotic genomes. They are a major factor in genome evolution due to their ability to create large scale mutations and genome rearrangements. Compared to other transposable elements, little attention has been paid to ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38859000 |
The hydraulic system in the 787 no-bleed architecture is similar to the one in the traditional architecture. There are three independent systems — left, center, and right — that collectively support primary flight control actuators, landing gear actuation, nose gear steering, thrust reversers, and leading/trailing edge... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38872000 |
Chapter abstracts are short descriptions of events that occur in each chapter. They highlight major plot events and detail the important relationships and characteristics of characters and objects. The Chapter Abstracts can be used to review what the students have read, or to prepare the students for what they will rea... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38878000 |
Multiple Choice Questions
This section contains 180 multiple choice questions about The Adventures of Ulysses. Multiple choice questions test a student's recall and understanding of the text. Use these questions for chapter quizzes, homework assignments or tests. Jump to the quiz/homework section for the multiple choic... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38879000 |
About-face at Harvard
A push is on to make the portraits on the walls — white men, almost all — reflect the diverse face of the university today
CAMBRIDGE — The faces peer out, unsmiling, from the gilded frames lining the sea-green walls of the faculty room in Harvard’s historic University Hall. Some are mustachioed, a... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38885000 |
Survival of the People
Logic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
There is an island with 10 inhabitants. One day a monster comes and says that he intends to eat every one of them but will give them a chance to survive in the following way:
In the morning, the monster will line u... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38891000 |
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building design use
...systems of industrial buildings are usually simple, involving only winter heating and possibly humidity control if the manu... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38894000 |
Saint ZachariasArticle Free Pass
Saint Zacharias, English Zachary (born , San Severino, duchy of Benevento [Italy]—died March 14/22, 752, Rome; feast day March 15), pope from 741 to 752.
The last of the Greek popes, Zacharias was supposedly a Roman deacon when he succeeded Pope St. Gregory III in November/December 741.... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38895000 |
As a gentle spring sun nudges away the bitterness of winter, only the wind moves over the once contested northern
slopes of Cemetery Hill. Some 140 years past however, the dark blanket of night slowly covered the field. On July 2, 1863, Confederate
soldiers of CSA Major General Richard Ewell's Second Corp advanced towa... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38901000 |
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Cell and Membrane Biology
Lipids are not only structural units of membranes. They also participate in important cellular functions, serving as second ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38907000 |
Background: August Eigruber was Gauleiter of Oberdonau (Upper Danube), a region of Austria, from 1939-1945. He was tried after World War II for crimes against humanity, convicted, and hanged on 28 May 1947. The article was printed by a Vienna newspaper that had asked him to discuss his political goals.
The source: “The... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38919000 |
Scientists uncover the genetic secrets that allow Tibetans to thrive in thin air
In the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international team has identified a gene that allows Tibetans to live and work more than two miles above sea level without getting altitude sickness.
A previous s... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38930000 |
Even as a young organization, our work was effective and got noticed.
CBF's earliest legal case, arguing for evaluating the environmental impacts of a nuclear power plant at Calvert Cliffs, was the first in the U.S. to be decided under the National Environment Policy Act (NEPA). The court ruling, now hailed as a landma... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38937000 |
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Mayfong Mayxay, Sasithon Pukrittayakamee, Paul N Newton and Nicholas J White
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1. Early in the novel, Dora's Aunt Fran quotes from The
Science of a New Life: "It is almost impossible for a
woman to read the current ''love and murder'' literature of the day
and have pure thoughts, and when the reading of such literature is
associated with idleness - as it almost invariably is - a woman's
thoughts ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38948000 |
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mammal extinct for 11 million years is...well.... not extinct
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It has the face of a rat and the tail of a skinny squirrel -- and scientists say this creature discovered living in central Laos is pretty special: It's a species believed to have been extinct for 11 million years.
The... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38950000 |
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Bouncing Ball - Physics
A 1 Kg ball falling at 5m/s strikes a solid surface and bounces. The contact time between the ball and the surface is 9 milliseconds with a force of 1000N. What is the speed of the ball immediately after leaving the surface it... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38953000 |
From Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA:
A friend of mine has had diabetes for almost 18 years. She wears an insulin pump and is in reasonably good control (A1c's around 8.0-8.5). This past summer, she was having problems with her stomach -- terrible stomach aches that would prevent her from eating or getting sick when she ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38957000 |
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Alabama-Coushattas seeking fair share of resources taken from their lands
By Kyle Williams | July 20, 2012 | Updated: July 20, 2012 8:50pm
As chairman of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, I am responsible for educating others about the history of our tribe and the issues we are facing. The tribe... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38964000 |
Table Of Contents
What is Session Initiation Protocol?
Components of SIP
What is the Cisco SIP IP Phone?
Cisco SIP IP Phone Connections
Connecting to the Network
Connecting to Power
Using a Headset
The Cisco SIP IP Phone with a Catalyst Switch
This chapter contains the following information about the Cisco SIP IP phone... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38968000 |
Skin Care Help for Teenagers
According to the American Academy of Dermatology, teenagers from ages 12 to 17 are affected, at least occasionally, by acne. It is by far the most common skin complaint in this age group.
Acne at any level should be taken very seriously, especially by teenagers. Moderate to severe scarring ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38973000 |
Ludwig van Beethoven (December 16, 1770 – March 26, 1827) was a German composer born in Bonn who spent his musical career in Vienna. A pivotal figure in the development of the Romantic style, he is one of the most respected and influential composers of all time. In a career that spanned the transition from the Classica... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38974000 |
London (CNN) -- World food prices rose to an all-time high in January, according to the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The FAO's Food Price Index measures the cost of a basket of basic food supplies -- sugar, cereals, dairy, oils and fats and meat -- across the globe.
The index rose by 3.4% in... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38989000 |
Its a very general and regular ways to use
clause with Column Name to Specifies the sort order used on columns returned in a SELECT statement.
order by columnname asc/desc
I am also using the same method but do you know we can use Column Index (Integer representing the position of column name) instead of specifying the... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-38997000 |
WASHINGTON - March 24 - Fifteen years after the Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, dumping 11 million gallons of crude oil, the Bush administration has failed to learn important lessons about protecting fragile coastlines, landscapes and wildlife from oil development. The disaster dealt... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39002000 |
Omphalism is a school of thought (titled after the Philip Henry Gosse work Omphalos) which holds that the entire universe was created with the appearance of age, and thus no date of creation for the Universe can be definitively proven.
Examples of Omphalism:
- The belief that our memories, experiences, and physical app... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39009000 |
- Breast cancer according to researchers, is the most common form of cancer among women.
- Studies show that more than 190,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year and almost everyone knows at least one person who has been treated for it.
- Most cases of breast cancer where usually targeted amongst women be... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39015000 |
Histogram of the raw rainfall (mm) amount for running 3-month periods in chronological
order from 1955 through 1996. The seasonal cycle of the quartile boundaries (25 %ile: lower light line; 50 %ile [i.e., median]: dark line; and 75 %ile:
upper light line) are plotted with the actual rainfall amounts for the given peri... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39022000 |
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is a United States government agency having primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws and regulating the securities industry/stock market. The SEC was created by section 4 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (now codified as 15 U.S.C. ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39024000 |
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The following iterative steps occur in typical blackboard solving activities:
- A knowledge source makes a change to a blackboard object.
- Each knowledge source indicates the contribution it can make to the new
solution state -- either dynami... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39034000 |
Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition
Several kinds of numbers are defined in Common Lisp. They are divided into integers; ratios; floating-point numbers, with names provided for up to four different floating-point representations; and complex numbers.
X3J13 voted in March 1989 (REAL-NUMBER-TYPE) to add the type real.
... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39035000 |
Anti de-Sitter space
Bubbles, filaments, voids and sheets
Condensed matter system
Cosmic Microwave Background
Deep field survey
Degrees of freedom
Grand unification theory
Heisenberg uncertainty principle
Hubble's law and constant
Intercommuting and loop production
Laws of thermodynamics
Nematic liquid crystal
Quantum ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39042000 |
The second of two recent studies of tomato flavor involves genetic engineering, and offers a scent of tomorrow's tomatoes.
A group of plant scientists in Israel and at Rutgers and the University of Michigan reported their success in transferring a gene from the basil plant into tomato plants. This particular gene diver... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39048000 |
Ultrasound uses sound waves, rather than radiation, to make images of an animal’s organs. Ultrasound can be used to non-invasively evaluate the internal structures of the abdomen, thorax (including the heart), eye, and musculoskeletal structures. Ultrasound images can also be obtained in real time, allowing us to see n... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39051000 |
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Aklavik Indian Band /
Ehdiitat Gwich'in Council
PO BOX 118
Ph: (867) 978-2340
Fax: (867) 978-2937
Aklavik –"Place of the barren-land grizzly"– was established in 1918 on the west shore of the Peel River, not far from where the Mackenzie River flows into the Beaufort Sea near the foot of the Ric... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39054000 |
Judy D.J. Ellich
Daily American reporter
The giant turn-of-the-century water meter displayed at the Quemahoning Reservoir’s family recreational area is “symbolic of the immense impact that the dam has had in the region,” said James Greco, Cambria Somerset Authority chairman.
The 40-foot-long pipe-like device measured t... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39055000 |
This week's sudden temperature dips served as a reminder that the summer garden party will be coming to an end soon enough.
As we move into a fall, an upcoming forecast will have vegetable gardeners scrambling to pick their last tomatoes and peppers and hunker down for fall.
Except that hunkering isn't really necessary... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39060000 |
This has proven to be a bad week for NASA rovers patrolling Mars. NASA has several rovers on the surface of Mars performing various missions including looking for water and existence of ice on the red planet.
Yesterday, NASA announced that it had lost communications with the Phoenix lander and had no expectations of th... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39064000 |
In the early '50s women prisoners still resided at Raiford. In 1956 the state completed a prison for women at Lowell. Big Pine Key, Copeland and Loxahatchee Road Prisons and the Gainesville Work Camp were among the other institutions established at that time.
Until 1957, responsibility for corrections in Florida had be... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39072000 |
From asparagus to zebra crossings, this is an indispensable commentary on modern life and behaviour.More information...
The day on which a young girl was formally presented to the sovereign was considered one of the most important in her life.
Application to present a girl to the sovereign could only be made by someone... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39074000 |
As the USA deployed major forces to Vietnam between 1965 and 1967, American politicians and military commanders were inspired by futuristic, space-age visions of how to fight the war. The problem, however, was that these visions often conflicted with each other and became rallying cries for opposing institutional lobbi... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39076000 |
Definitions for umbriaˈʌm bri ə
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Um•bri•aˈʌm bri ə(n.)
a region in central Italy. 819,000; 3270 sq. mi. (8470 sq. km).
Category: Ancient History, Geography (places)
a mountainous region in central Italy
A region of central Italy.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
a province of ancient It... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39077000 |
Induced Seismicity Potential in Energy Technologies (2012)Board on Earth Sciences and Resources
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, t... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39078000 |
“Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio (left) greeted crowds in Rome’s St Peter’s Square today after his election as the Catholic Church’s new Pope, Francis,” the BBC reports. “The 76-year-old from Buenos Aires is the first Latin American and the first Jesuit to be pontiff.”
The new pope should be “a charismatic, missiona... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39081000 |
Tragedy remembered: Artifacts tell stories of life aboard the Titanic
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On April 15, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage, leaving just over 700 survivors out of the more than 2,000 people on board. Now, 100 years after the sinking of the Titanic, museum artifacts and pictures... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39089000 |
2D games using Silverlight - Collision detection implementation
This article shows how to implement collision detection in a Microsoft Silverlight game application. This is the second article in a series which will show how to create a complete working game (a clone of the classic Arkanoid game).
The first article in t... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39093000 |
Diseases of Interest
The following diseases have currently been defined by the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for study at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF):
- Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD). Viral disease of domestic and wild cloven-hoofed animals; acute dis... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39097000 |
Quotients, Factors, Remainders have never been more fun!
by Mary Saltus, Diane Neison, Chet Delani
This Dice Activities for Division book, from the authors of the popular Dice Activities series, presents more than 20 different games for developing fluency with divisors, dividends, quotients, and remainders.
With a soli... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39098000 |
In the 1980s and 1990s, Congress began discussing Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs) where any consumer could (1) pay for all medical expenses with tax-deductible dollars and (2) spend or save unlimited tax-advantaged amounts for current or future medical expenses.
In 1996, Congress created the Archer Medical Savings Acco... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39102000 |
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Model T Ford, Assembly Line.
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Agent Orange is the code name for one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. Vietnam estimates 400,000 people were killed or maimed, and 500,000 children bor... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-39106000 |
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