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Golgi cell n.
A neuron with short dendrites and with either a long axon or an axon that breaks into processes a short distance from the cell body.
|a neuron in the cerebral cortex with short dendrites and with either a long axon or a short axon that ramifies in the grey matter [syn: Golgi's cell]|
|a screen or mat cove... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40767000 |
fudge factor definition
A value or parameter that is varied in an ad hoc way to produce the desired result. The terms "tolerance" and slop
are also used, though these usually indicate a one-sided leeway, such as a buffer that is made larger than necessary because one isn't sure exactly how large it needs to be, and it ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40768000 |
Date: November 16, 2001
Creator: Jurenas, Remy
Description: Agriculture (as measured by share of gross domestic product and employment) is a significant economic sector in seven Central and South Asian countries: Afghanistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. All of these countries a... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40772000 |
Creator: Exner, Martin
Description: Global health has in recent years drawn increasing scientific, political and popular attention not only due to global epidemics themselves,but also because of the social activities and environmental conditions that shape health threats and influence those who are affected. The study ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40773000 |
Stray dogs have learned to use the subway in their search travel for food. They board the trains daily and travel back and forth without paying any fares; quite a feat for supposedly “dumb animals.”
According to Russian biology professor Andrew Poyarkov, dogs in Moscow have learned to use the city's underground rail sy... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40776000 |
Concept 39 A genome is an entire set of genes.
Cross pure-bred pea plants to identify dominant flower color.
HI! One of the first steps in locating a disease gene is screening families with the disease for markers that are linked to the gene. Scientists use short tandem repeats (STR) as markers. These repeats can vary ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40785000 |
The fourth volume covers the period of Governor Johnston's administration, the longest known in the annals of North Carolina.
Governor Gabriel Johnston, the successor of Burrington, was a Scotchman by birth, and received his education in the University of St. Andrews. He also spent a few years in studying medicine, aft... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40789000 |
Astrocytoma is type of brain tumor. It is a malignant (cancerous) tumor. This type of tumor begins from small, star-shaped cells in the brain. They are called astrocytes. Astrocytes are one of several types of supporting cells in the brain. These types of cells are called glial cells. An astrocytoma is a type of the la... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40791000 |
More women are obtaining Ph.D.’s in science than ever before, but those women — largely because of pressures from having a family — are far more likely than their male counterparts to “leak” out of the research science pipeline before obtaining tenure at a college or university.
That’s the conclusion of a study by rese... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40805000 |
Ed Home (text) - TRC Home - sciencelines Index
Fermilab Prairie Project organizers teach volunteers to recognize particular plants and then clip the ripe flower heads for seeds. Fermilab uses the seeds to enrich newer prairie tracts at Fermilab and to share with other prairie restoration projects. Although a mechanical... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40807000 |
Filed under: Digestive Health
Pancreatic cysts are sac-like pockets of fluid on or within your pancreas. The pancreas is a large organ located behind the stomach. It produces hormones and enzymes that help digest food.
Most pancreatic cysts aren't cancerous, and many don't cause symptoms. In fact, many pancreatic cysts... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40811000 |
In November the Arabs Said 'No'
There are no uneventful months in the tortured history of the Arab-Israel conflict. November is no exception. It was on November 2, 1917 that Chaim Weizmann won the backing of the British government for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" famously co... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40818000 |
Primitives are objects that you can render. There isn’t really much else in a fluxus scene, except lights, a camera and lots of primitives.
The normal way to create a primitive is to set up some state which the primitive will use, then call it’s build function and keep it’s returned ID (using with-primitive) to modify ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40820000 |
Kütahya Tiles and Ceramics
Forms and Motifs
Stylised floral motifs, religious motifs and human and animal figures decorate most of the 18th century tiles and ceramics in the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation's Kütahya Tiles and Ceramics Collection. The pieces dating from this period have a white or cream coloured paste, w... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40825000 |
A-level Geography/AS OCR Geography/Investigation Paper
Spearman's Rank
This is a concept to find the statistical significance of the correlation between the two variables. First, a null hypothesis needs to be made.
Mann-Whitney U Test
Mann-Whitney U test is a test for difference between 2 data sets. Using a critical ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40830000 |
Daguerreotype of Washington Irving
(modern copy by Mathew Brady,
original by John Plumbe)
April 3, 1783|
New York City, New York
|Died||November 28, 1859
Sunnyside, Tarrytown, New York
|Occupation||Short story writer, essayist, biographer, magazine editor, diplomat|
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859)... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40832000 |
|Nickname(s): City of Jasmin|
|Governorates||Damascus Governorate, Capital City|
|• Governor||Bishr Al Sabban|
|• City||105 km2 (41 sq mi)|
|• Urban||77 km2 (30 sq mi)|
|Elevation||680 m (2,230 ft)|
|Population (2009 est.)|
|Time zone||EET (UTC+2)|
|• Summer (DST)||EEST (UTC+3)|
|Area code(s)||Country code: 963, City c... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40834000 |
A helium–neon laser or HeNe laser, is a type of gas laser whose gain medium consists of a mixture of helium and neon inside of a small bore capillary tube, usually excited by a DC electrical discharge.
History of HeNe laser development
The first HeNe laser emitted at 1.15 μm in the infrared and was the first gas laser... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40835000 |
John C. Stennis Space Center
|John C. Stennis Space Center|
|The B-1/B-2 Test Stand holding space shuttle components (1987)|
|Preceding agencies||Mississippi Test Operations
National Space Technology Laboratories
|Jurisdiction||U.S. federal government|
|Headquarters||Hancock County, Mississippi|
|Agency executive||Dr. ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40837000 |
Leonard Harrison State Park
|Leonard Harrison State Park|
|Pennsylvania State Park
Part of Pine Creek Gorge, a National Natural Landmark
View north of Pine Creek Gorge, Pine Creek, and the Pine Creek Rail Trail from the main lookout area in Leonard Harrison State Park
|Named for: Leonard Harrison|
|Location||Pine Creek... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40840000 |
Line-of-sight propagation refers to electro-magnetic radiation or acoustic wave propagation. Electromagnetic transmission includes light emissions traveling in a straight line. The rays or waves may be diffracted, refracted, reflected, or absorbed by atmosphere and obstructions with material and generally cannot travel... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40841000 |
Mercury (pron.: //; Latin: Mercurius listen (help·info)) is a major Roman god, being one of the Dii Consentes within the ancient Roman pantheon. He is the patron god of financial gain, commerce, eloquence (and thus poetry), messages/communication (including divination), travelers, boundaries, luck, trickery and thieves... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40842000 |
||This article needs additional citations for verification. (August 2011)|
|Ancient Region of Anatolia|
Traditional rural Pontic house
|Ethnic Groups||Pontic Greeks, Laz, Hemşin, Chepni, Turks|
|Historical capitals||Amasya, Neocaesarea, Sinope, Trabzon|
|Notable rulers||Mithradates Eupator|
The modern definition of the... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40845000 |
Radio music ripping
||This article needs additional citations for verification. (November 2008)|
The term ripping (slang term for digital media extraction) can also apply to radio. New software, techniques and cloud services now makes it possible to extract the songs played on the radio and digitally save them on separ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40846000 |
|16th Chief Justice of the United States|
September 26, 1986 – September 3, 2005
|Appointed by||Ronald Reagan|
|Preceded by||Warren Burger|
|Succeeded by||John Roberts|
|Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States|
January 7, 1972 – September 26, 1986
|Appointed by||Richard Nixon|
|Preceded by||John Mar... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40847000 |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago
|Archdiocese of Chicago
|Territory||Counties of Cook and Lake|
|Ecclesiastical province||Archdiocese of Chicago|
|Area||1,411 sq mi (3,650 km2)|
|Established||November 28, 1843|
|Cathedral||Holy Name Cathedral|
|Patron saint||Holy Name of Lord Jesus Christ|
|Archbishop||Archbishop ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40848000 |
A three-CCD camera is a camera whose imaging system uses three separate charge-coupled devices (CCDs), each one taking a separate measurement of the primary colors, red, green, or blue light. Light coming into the lens is split by a trichroic prism assembly, which directs the appropriate wavelength ranges of light to t... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40850000 |
Page:Popular Science Monthly Volume 23.djvu/236
By GORDON A. STEWART.
THE worst of our social evils, personal wrongs, and political sins arise from the ununiform operation of our marriage and divorce laws. The loose manner in which a contract of marriage may he entered into and the reckless facility with which a marria... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40853000 |
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
double-dip (plural double-dips)
- (informal) An ice cream cone with two scoops of ice cream.
- We each got double-dips with chocolate on top and strawberry on the bottom.
- (roller coasters) A hill that levels off for a while about halfway down.
- (informal) To dip a piec... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40854000 |
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Middle English solein, from Anglo-Norman solein (“alone”), from sole (“single, sole, alone”), from Latin sōlus (“by oneself alone”). The change in meaning from "single" to morose occurred in Middle English.
having a brooding ill temper
sullen (plural sullens) | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40855000 |
Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
The Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR) was an English railway company jointly owned by the Midland Railway and the London and South Western Railway. The railway linked Bath in north east Somerset to Bournemouth in south east Dorset. The railway had branch lines to Burnham-on-Sea... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40856000 |
A recent headline in the New York Times blared, "India Asks, Should Food Be a Right for the Poor?" [Jim Yardley, 9 August 2010]. Before examining Yardley's article, I'm going to answer the question about feeding the poor using information from Children's HealthWatch ["Why food matters," Washington Post, 12 December 200... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40865000 |
Highlighting the history of French radio astronomy. 3: the Wurzburg antennas at Marcoussis, Meudon and Nancay
Orchiston, Wayne, Lequeux, James, Steinberg, Jean-Louis, and Delannoy, Jean (2007) Highlighting the history of French radio astronomy. 3: the Wurzburg antennas at Marcoussis, Meudon and Nancay. Journal of Astro... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40866000 |
ESRL Science Making a Difference in Real-time GPS Positioning
Scientists at ESRL's Global Systems Division (GSD) are known for transferring their advances in science and technology to operations and have made exciting progress with a product called NOAATrop. NOAATrop was developed to improve GPS positioning, navigation... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40878000 |
This page is part of the EmailServer article.
Switch to Postfix
We need to switch from the
To switch, do the following:
# yum -t install postfix
# yum -t install system-switch-mail
The first 2
You will be presented with a choice on screen, go for
Let's first make a backup copy of these config files, just in case:
# cp ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40879000 |
Editor's note: African Voices is a weekly show that highlights Africa's most engaging personalities, exploring the lives and passions of people who rarely open themselves up to the camera.
(CNN) -- Inside the Gahaya Links workshop on the outskirts of Kigali, Rwanda's capital, a group of women sit side by side against a... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40885000 |
Pashtunwal - the Code of the Pashtuns
In the Pashto language, "-wal" is a suffix that most strongly resembles "-ness" in English. Pashtunwal, sometimes jokingly translated as "Pashtunity", is the traditional code of ethics and behavior for ethnic Pashtuns.
The Pashtuns have a dubious and likely impenetrable ancient his... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40887000 |
XIX. THE BITE OF THE ADDER
by Friedrich Nietzsche
One day had Zarathustra fallen asleep under a fig-tree, owing to the heat,
with his arms over his face. And there came an adder and bit him in the
neck, so that Zarathustra screamed with pain. When he had taken his arm
from his face he looked at the serpent; and then di... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40888000 |
Can mono be cured?
No, there isn't a cure for mono. But the virus will go away on its own. Symptoms usually last about 4 weeks.
How is mono treated?
The main goal of treatment is to relieve your symptoms. The following list includes tips on treatment:
- Rest. Sleep helps your body fight infection.
- Drink plenty of flu... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40892000 |
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When children were born illegitimately and the father... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40895000 |
Biofuel crops are not the only sources of renewable energy that farmers can cultivate. A National Geographic Magazine article discusses the emerging practice of constructing wind turbines on Mid-western farmland and the implications for crop productivity. According to research cited in the article, wind turbines could ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40896000 |
Heaney, et al. 2011. Fieldiana Life and Earth Sciences, 2: 34. Type Locality: 3.5 km SW Mt. Cetaceo peak, Cagayan Province, Luzon Island, Philippines, elevation 1400 m (17.69561d N, 122.01683d E)
© The Field Museum. Photograph by L Heaney and A Niedzielski.
English common names: Sierra Madre apomys, Sierra Madre forest... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40898000 |
Alphabet > Letter
K > Kite
K is for Kite
Letter K > Activity >
Color & Decorate a Kite
Holidays & Events
*April > Kite Month
*May 12th > Kite Day
*June 15 > Fly a Kite Day
*June 30th > Sky Day
Toys and Games > Kite
Online Story time > Fly
Weather > Windy
2 to 6 years old
Activity #1: Literacy: Read
Fly a Kite an online... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40903000 |
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Types of Builds
Millard Fuller used to say that a home is the foundation on which human development occurs. It is also an important, positive step in working on a safer, healthier and more responsible future. Many people struggling to put food on the table, pay bills, purch... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40925000 |
Can you identify the first computer virus?
a. Elk Cloner
Scroll down for the answer.
Answer: Creeper, named for a character on the “Scooby Doo” cartoon show, is generally recognized at the first computer virus. It was written in 1971 by Bob Thomas of BBN Technologies and spread through DEC PDP-10 computers on ARPAnet, ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40932000 |
Welcome to the Safe Routes to School Online Guide.
This guide is a comprehensive online reference manual designed to support the development of Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs. It provides links to other SRTS publications and training resources. Readers of the online guide can pick and choose specific topics base... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40949000 |
Posted Aug 24, 2003 by Joe Otten
The thing that has always puzzled me about black holes is what happens to the entropy of objects that fall into them?
By its description, a single infinitely dense point seems to have a very low entropy. But if we then let a high entropy object fall into a black hole, we appear to have ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40950000 |
|Subject: Naked eye galaxies.|
Posted May 17, 2001 by Civilian
In the article you claim that the milky way is the only galaxy that can be seen with the naked eye. This is not entirely true. Our milky way is surrounded by a group of small galaxies known as the local group. Although most of these simply resemble bright s... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40951000 |
[Privatier] wrote in to let us know about lxardoscope, his project that lets you use an Arduino as hardware input for a Linux-based oscilloscope display. This implementation offers two channels with about 3000 samples per second from each. He touts some of the GUI options like vertical resolution between 2mV and 10V pe... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40954000 |
What is campylobacteriosis?
Campylobacteriosis is an infection of the gut caused by Campylobacter bacteria. These bacteria are a frequent cause of food poisoning.
How do you get it?
You get campylobacteriosis by eating foods or by drinking water contaminated with the bacteria. You can also get it from infected people o... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40959000 |
MONDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Children who regularly attend daycare are more likely to be overweight than those who stay at home with a parent, but the reasons for this difference are unknown, according to a new study.
Canadian researchers looked at more than 1,600 families in Quebec with children born in 1997 or... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40963000 |
The Threat of Metabolic Syndrome
Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of risk factors that greatly raises your risk for heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes.
If you have three or more of these factors, you are said to have metabolic syndrome:
A high level of triglycerides, or more than 150 mg/dL
A low level of HDL ("g... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40965000 |
WEDNESDAY, July 18 (HealthDay News) -- While many people don't know it, there's more than one kind of AIDS virus. Besides the HIV-1 strain that's common throughout the world, a type known as HIV-2 is found in some parts of Africa. Now, a new study finds that people infected with HIV-2 and later with HIV-1 appear to be ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40966000 |
It may seem like sleep and diabetes have nothing to do with each other but studies are now showing that a lack of sleep can prevent you from maintaining a healthy weight and can lead to diabetes. Here’s what Dr. Michael J. Breus reported over at The Huffington Post:
While sleep may not seem like it belongs in the same ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40971000 |
The Sampling check generates a set of features from one or more layers that you can step through to visually inspect. The sample is generated from the feature classes you choose to include based on what is loaded in the map. You can also assign weights to the feature classes, which increases or decreases the number of ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40972000 |
The school says my child needs Ritalin; where do I get it?
Can't find what you're looking for? Our health information specialists are here to help. Contact us at 800-233-4050 or online.
School personnel do not have the medical training necessary to tell parents to place their children on medication. CHADD and the Natio... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40973000 |
Catalan common name : Celebérrima quència. Quèntia.
Spanish common name : Kentia.
General distribution : Australiana
Life-forms : Macrophanerophyte.
Habitat : Gardens.
Observations : It prefers to live in semi shade, but also prospers in the sun.
Origen : Illa de Lord Howe (Oceania)
Location on-campus UIB : Poc freqüen... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40978000 |
Handwaved answer to your first question is that the national identity as a Big Thing likely emerged as a result of a 30-year-war (more specifically, Peace of Westphalia), with nation-state being an efficient unit for maintaining balance of power that the Westphalian system demanded.
To quote from Wiki:
The edicts agree... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40985000 |
Five days after the “victory” at Antietam, Lincoln changed the purpose of the Civil War with his issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. With these few words, Lincoln changed the reason for fighting from the legalistic “preservation of the Union” to the moral and ethical imperative of “freedom and emancipation.” Fra... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40986000 |
Medical scientists have developed a controversial IVF technique that could cure deadly genetic diseases.
This is incredible and scary at the same time! Doctors in the reproductive medicine department at Newcastle University in the UK have asked an expert panel from the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority to re... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40988000 |
A bit of gyan (knowledge)
The internet is maturing at an extremely fast rate day-by-day, and the world-wide-web (www) has become a central hub for information available worldwide. Nowadays, communication between the far ends of the world has become trivial. The dot-com boom happened in the mid-1990′s and companies have... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-40996000 |
New Page Books | 2005-02-15 | ISBN: 1564147959 | 312 pages | PDF | 3,2 MBA handbook of Atlantean information for general readers and specialists alike!
This is an invaluable, one-of-a-kind reference. Unlike most other books on the subject, The Atlantis Encyclopedia offers fewer theories and more facts. Although it does... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41001000 |
The theme of 4AoS is Big Stuff - Astronomy - and Small Stuff - Macro and Microscopy - and anything else that takes my fancy in between.
The title, The Four Ages Of Sand, is taken from a speech by the great Douglas Adams in 1998:
"There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we l... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41005000 |
As shown in the previous section, the table expression in the SELECT command constructs an intermediate virtual table by possibly combining tables, views, eliminating rows, grouping, etc. This table is finally passed on to processing by the select list. The select list determines which columns of the intermediate table... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41008000 |
David Lynn, Instructor/Partner | Georgia Institute of Technology | Laughing Dog Design Studio, LLC
From the very beginnings of automotive design in the late 1800s, automotive design education has relied heavily on oral tradition, or correspondence, as in the case of Andrew Johnson, and personal relationships not unlike... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41009000 |
The 1950s: Doing it right.
Eastern Russia, where the temperatures can drop so far that even polar bears are in danger of freezing or starving
The few inhabitants of the area at the time, even though they couldn't afford to give much, would feed the mother bears so that they could produce enough milk for their cubs.
A c... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41014000 |
As soon as they lay their eggs, the female cichlids scoop them up into their mouths and incubate them until they hatch.
R. Buckminster Fuller was a twentieth century scientist, philosopher, inventor, and was also named a great architect.
Frogs also aren’t fussy eaters: any live prey will do. Some large species of frogs... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41018000 |
The subjects of evisceration and enucleation of the eyeball are just now commanding more attention than in the past, especially in view of the fact that they are to be made the subjects of special inquiry at the next meeting of the International Medical Congress at Paris. Barring special conditions and indications, bot... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41038000 |
Is Copy and Paste Programming Really a Problem?
But it’s also a natural way to get stuff done – find something that already works, something that looks close to what you want to do, take a copy and use it as a starting point. Almost everybody has done in at some point. This is because there are times when copy and past... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41041000 |
Average annual precipitation for the basin ranges from 31 inches in the northern part of the basin to 35 inches in the southern portion of the basin (USDA-SCS 1982). The greatest amount of precipitation usually occurs during June, while the least amount of precipitation generally occurs during the months of January and... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41042000 |
One of the most nagging problems in
manufacturing is the deburring of cross-drilled holes. Burrs are always created
where the crossholes exist. Getting at the burrs, let alone removing them, can be
a real challenge.
A handful of methods are commonly employed for dealing with these burrs:
sandblasting, extrude hone, and... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41055000 |
Podcasts & RSS Feeds
Fri November 18, 2011
Climate Panel: More Extreme Weather On The Way
Brace yourself for more extreme weather. A group of more than 200 scientists convened by the United Nations says in a new report that climate change will bring more heat waves, more intense rainfall and more expensive natural disa... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41057000 |
Sledding has been a winter ritual for generations. Anywhere there's snow and a hillside, you can find people sledding. Your grandparents probably did it, as did your parents, and someday your kids will do it, too. Why? It's tons of fun, and it doesn't require any special skills or equipment other than a sled and a helm... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41061000 |
(En español: Exhalar)
Put one hand on your chest and take a deep breath . . . hold it! Now let the air out. Do you know why your chest seems to get smaller? It's called exhaling. This means you're pushing the air you breathed in out of your body. Your lungs are kind of like balloons, and when you breathe in (inhale), t... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41062000 |
My 6-year-old daughter is undergoing tests at our local hospital to see if she's in puberty. How can this be happening so early? - Joy
Puberty, the time when kids develop physically and emotionally into young adults, usually begins around 8 to 15 years of age. But for some kids it can happen much earlier. The medical t... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41063000 |
Can a Girl Get Pregnant if She Has Sex During Her Period?
Can a girl get pregnant if she has sex during her period? - Jamie*
Yes. A lot of people think that if a girl has sex during her period, she can't get pregnant. But it is possible for a girl to get pregnant while she is bleeding. This can happen for a couple of r... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41066000 |
Blood Test: Basic Metabolic Panel
What Is a Basic Metabolic Panel and Why Is it Done?
A basic metabolic panel (BMP) is a group of blood tests that provide doctors with clues about how the body is working. Doctors usually order this as part of a routine physical or as a way to help diagnose a medical problem.
Although t... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41067000 |
Pub. date: 2008 | Online Pub. Date: May 28, 2008 | DOI: 10.4135/9781412963930 | Print ISBN: 9781412941655 | Online ISBN: 9781412963930| Publisher:SAGE Publications, Inc.About this encyclopedia
Immigration, United States
Often described as a nation of immigrants, the United States had a foreign-born population of 12.4 p... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41070000 |
About this Base Converter
Base-2 to base-62 are accepted. "A" stands for 10, "Z" for 35, "a" (lower-case) for 36 and "z" (lower-case) for 61. Decimals are supported. This is a custom function because PHP's base_convert() doesn't accept decimals and only goes up to base-36. It's only as precise as PHP is, so don't blind... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41072000 |
From time to time in the workplace, it is up to us to provide feedback to others. Perhaps to your mentee, a colleague or teammate, or even your boss.
How can you make sure your words are well received, while also honest and effective? Follow the simple guidelines below, and you’ll do fine.
Don’t be vague or speak in ge... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41090000 |
The definite article the is the most frequent word in English.
We use the definite article in front of a noun when we believe the hearer/reader knows exactly what we are referring to.
• because there is only one:
The Pope is visiting Russia.
The moon is very bright tonight.
The Shah of Iran was deposed in 1979.
This is... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41094000 |
Simple Example (click to enlarge the two pictures)
Here is a great, simple example of
Pedagogical Elements. Take two, almost identical pictures of Earth. The first is made up just of accurate simulation elements (if you ignore the corners). Click on it and see if you can make out the details. The second picture adds ju... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41095000 |
Genealogy: Cracking the Soundex Code
There are some nuances to Soundex coding that affect names that may be on your lists. Men and women in religious orders were usually coded as if Sister, Brother, or Mother were their surnames. Indian and Hawaiian names may be coded as if they had a surname. Running Bear may be coded... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41102000 |
Arabian Spiny Mouse (English), Eastern Spiny Mouse (English), فأر سيناء الشوكى (Arabic)
Eastern spiny mouse has coarse, dark tan and spine-like fur on the upperparts of the body extended from behind the shoulder onto rump. Body color varies from pale-brown to brown in color on the upperparts especially mid-dorsum while... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41105000 |
by Gina Trapani
Everyone's got files they'd like to keep out the the hands of intruders or casual passerby. Ever concerned you'll lose the thumb drive where you backed up four years of post-graduate research? Every worried your 5-year-old will accidentally open the um, grownup files just meant for Mommy and Daddy? Worr... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41106000 |
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Three Billion Years B.C.
As we turn back the cosmic clock the rate of accumulation of material increases. The pockmarked lunar surface has served as a proxy for reconstructing the history of asteroidal and cometary impact on the Earth. Without an atmosphere or significant geophysical activity th... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41108000 |
"Anthology of Menominee Sayings" is the result of seven years of field work (conducted during the 1980's) with about half a dozen speakers of one of Wisconsin's indigenous Algonquian languages. The anthology, consisting of some 450 short pieces of Menominee oral tradition, contains weather rules, conventions and taboos... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41111000 |
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a trio of women's rights activists: President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee of Liberia, and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize to three women for promoting women’s rights through peacebuilding work in Liberia ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41135000 |
I have no excuse for not remembering my daughter’s birthday, which is Sept. 18. While waiting in the hospital room for her delivery a couple of decades ago, there was a near constant stream of the orange and black monarch butterflies that would approach the building, climb the additional floors to clear the roof and co... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41138000 |
Cholera infections are ten times higher than the number of cases reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO), according to new estimates of the global disease burden.
Cholera is caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated with the Vibrio cholera bacterium. The disease causes watery diarrhoea and severe deh... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41139000 |
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Figure 2. Light brown quartzite beds and dark gray phyllite beds of the Kittery Formation at Two Lights. This nearly vertical exposure shows beds that are about 10 centimeters thick and ge... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41147000 |
Decimals: Terminating or Repeating?
Date: 01/26/2001 at 15:10:31 From: Seegee Subject: How to tell if decimals are terminating or repeating? How can you tell just by looking at a fraction whether, in decimal form, it will terminate or repeat? My math teacher said there was a way, but I don't see how. Please help.
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This is my first time posting. I'm working on a statistics problem that I'm having difficulty understanding. Here is the problem:
The Praxis II test was given to a sample of 1573 prospective teachers. The mean of these scores was 1053 and the standard deviation was 92.
a.) Give a 95% confidence interval (μ ± 2ơ) for th... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41160000 |
The first televised presidential debate in 1960 gave rise to an enduring media myth — the notion that television viewers and radio listeners interpreted the encounter quite differently.
Vancil and Pendell noted that reports of viewer-listener disagreement in the first of four debates between John F. Kennedy and Richard... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41168000 |
The Franciskan cloister in Hamburg was demolished in 1806-07 and nobody really know what it looked like. Recent archaeological excavations have however resulted in remarkable findings. As the history behind the cloister is rather fascinating, the archaeologist are exited. The story goes:
In 1231 Count Adolph IV von Sch... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41172000 |
- Discuss with your merit badge counselor the history of the game of chess. Explain why it is considered a game of planning and strategy.
- Discuss with your merit badge counselor the following:
- a. The benefits of playing chess, including developing critical thinking skills, concentration skills, and decision-making ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41175000 |
Samuel Colt (1814–1862) was one of the most famous and successful American inventors and entrepreneurs of the early industrial age. By patenting the first mass-produced multishot revolving firearms, Colt achieved worldwide fame and a vast personal fortune. His introduction of precise machine-made weapons and his promot... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41176000 |
Turning from coal means more demand for nuclear and alternative energy sourcesby Stephanie Hemphill, Minnesota Public Radio
Minnesota utilities are planning to invest in wind and and other renewable sources, but they're also taking another look at nuclear power. And that could mean expanded or even new nuclear plants i... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41179000 |
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Drug education or Drug-proofing, as I call it, is required by California state law on a yearly basis, at the minimum. If we don't give them the information, their friends will... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41180000 |
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Norwegian Emigration to SA
Immigrants from countries other than Britain also chose South Africa as their destination.
In 1879, the year of the Anglo-Zulu War, a group of 47 Norwegians left Bergen to establish a colony on an atoll in the Indian Ocean, Aldabra. The Debora Expedition, as the vent... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-41185000 |
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