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No. 24; Updated March 2011
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Parents are usually the first to recognize that their child has a problem with emotions or behavior. Still, the decision to seek professional help can be difficult and painful for a parent. The first step is to gently try to tal... | http://aacap.org/page.ww?name=When+to+Seek+Help+for+Your+Child§ion=Facts+for+Families | [
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Session 40 - The Interstellar Medium.
Display session, Tuesday, June 09
Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) explosions can make kpc-size shells and holes in the interstellar media (ISM) of spiral galaxies if much of the energy heats the local gas to above 10^7 K. Disk blowout is probably the major cau... | http://aas.org/archives/BAAS/v30n2/aas192/abs/S040015.html | [
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A land whose rich cultural heritage is discovered not only from within the walls of numerous museums, galleries and churches, many of which today, as zero category monuments are included in a part of the UNESCO World Heritage List, but also in that magical place on the Mediterranean, where even the shortest stroll beco... | http://adriatictraveller.com/ru/croatia-essential/heritage.html | [
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Nuclear Energy in France
Nuclear energy is the cornerstone of french energy policy. In the ‘70s France chose to develop nuclear as its base load electricity source as a response to the oil crisis and assure its energy independence.
Nuclear Electricity Production: France currently counts 58 commercial nuclear reactors i... | http://ambafrance-us.org/spip.php?article949&xtor=AL-13 | [
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Mexican America - Introduction
"Mexican America" is a sampling of objects from the collections of the National Museum of American History. The stories behind these objects reflect the history of the Mexican presence in the United States. They illustrate a fundamentally American story about the centuries-old encounter b... | http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/mexican-america?edan_start=0&edan_fq=date%3A%221840s%22 | [
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Octodon degus is generally considered endemic to west central Chile, where it inhabits the lower slopes of the Andes. Although some have argued that its range may extend north into Peru, this is not well supported. It is common in the international pet trade, however, and is often used in laboratory studies outside of ... | http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Octodon_degus.html | [
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Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
2010 August 12
Explanation: Each August, as planet Earth swings through dust trailing along the orbit of periodic comet Swift-Tuttle, skygazers can ... | http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100812.html | [
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1. Why is extremism an issue in prisons?
Extremist groups often pose special security risks in prisons. They may encourage the overthrow of the government, and prison officials can be targeted as agents of "illegal" government authority. Further, their literature often encourages ethnic hatred, promoting a violent and ... | http://archive.adl.org/civil_rights/prison_ex.asp | [
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Wikipedia sobre física de partículas
Rapidinho. Me falaram que a definição de física de partículas da Wikipedia era muito ruim. E de fato, era assim:
Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary particle|elementary subatomic constituents of matter and radiation, and their interactions. The field ... | http://arsphysica.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/wikipedia-sobre-fisica-de-particulas/ | [
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- published: 19 Mar 2013
- views: 42
- author: T.A. B
possibly testing on weans, that worries me http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21849808.
A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism,... | http://article.wn.com/view/2013/01/16/Vaccine_timetable_for_children_is_safe_US_experts_say_t/ | [
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Wars have given us the Jeep, the computer and even the microwave.
Will the war in Iraq give us the Tiger?
Military scientists at Edgewood Chemical Biological Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground hope so. The machine - its full name is the Tactical Garbage to Energy Refinery - combines a chute, an engine, chemical tanks an... | http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2008-07-21/news/0807200131_1_garbage-aberdeen-proving-ground-war-in-iraq | [
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Then and now, there is ample proof that Americans do take Supreme Court nominations seriously. With good reason.
Sooner or later, the nation's most vexing disagreements over our most vital issues wind up before the Supreme Court. None quite penetrates to the core of our democratic being more than those involving First ... | http://articles.centralkynews.com/2005-10-13/news/24908337_1_decisive-fifth-vote-chief-justice-john-roberts-first-amendment | [
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The vaunted protection that intellectually active adults get from Alzheimer’s disease has a dark downside, a study released Wednesday has found. Once dementia symptoms become evident and Alzheimer’s disease is diagnosed in such patients, their mental decline can come with frightening speed.
That finding, published in t... | http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/01/news/la-heb-alzheimers-20100901 | [
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Belgian physicist Francois Englert, left, speaks with British physicist… (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP/Getty…)
For physicists, it was a moment like landing on the moon or the discovery of DNA.
The focus was the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that exists for a mere fraction of a second. Long theorized but never glimpsed, t... | http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/05/science/la-sci-higgs-boson-new-particle-20120705 | [
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"Helplessness" and "confusion" are words that easily come to mind when the issue of sick building syndrome is mentioned. It is a problem that does not have a regulatory solution, and is bound with engineering, medicine and emotions that will challenge the best of school administrators.
A careful management style and kn... | http://asumag.com/mag/university_prescribing_cure | [
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"GOT NOTHING BUT BLUE SKIES"
It is September 19,1783. The place, Lyons, France. Preparations are being made for a journey. A journey that will eventually take man from his secure environment of terra firma, and place him in a hostile environment called the atmosphere. The vehicle to be used is a hot air balloon. The br... | http://avstop.com/stories/blueskies.htm | [
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Here to There: A History of Mapping
From the 16th to 18th centuries, many European mapmakers were convinced that California was an island — an Edenic paradise populated by black Amazons. The error persisted for over a hundred years after expeditions had proven that California was, in fact, firmly attached to the mainla... | http://backstoryradio.org/here-to-there-a-history-of-mapping/quote-comment-21383/ | [
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Nursing a critically ill state back to health
|Indranill Basu Ray highlights the core problems that afflict Bengal's health sector and suggests a few ways to improve the situation|
Despite many technological and other achievements that have propelled India from being a developing nation to one of the top economies of t... | http://basantipurtimes.blogspot.com/2011/11/nursing-critically-ill-state-back-to.html | [
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How To Win At Science Fairs (Dec, 1960)
How To Win At Science Fairs
by Ronald Benrey
YOU CAN WIN at a Science Fair as long as one thing interests you more than winning does. This is your project itself. It is going to be judged on scientific thought, creative ability, and presentation. You will really have to know the ... | http://blog.modernmechanix.com/how-to-win-at-science-fairs/1/ | [
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By Jason Kohn, Contributing Columnist
Like many of us, scientific researchers tend to be creatures of habit. This includes research teams working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. government agency charged with measuring the behavior of oceans, atmosphere, and weather.
Many of the... | http://blogs.cisco.com/cle/noaa-how-networks-are-used-in-climate-research/ | [
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The bacterium Micavibrio aeruginosavorus (yellow), leeching
on a Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterium (purple).
What’s the news: If bacteria had blood, the predatory microbe Micavibrio aeruginosavorus would essentially be a vampire: it subsists by hunting down other bugs, attaching to them, and sucking their life out. For ... | http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=33049 | [
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Efforts to incorporate Bowmanstown as a borough occurred as early as 1892. The village contained about 300 inhabitants in 1896 but the nearby New Jersey Zinc Company soon added to its growth. Bowmanstown was incorporated as a Borough on November 29, 1913 for the purpose of providing general local government services to... | http://bowmanstownborough.tripod.com/ | [
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Common Core Catholic Identity Initiative
A national working group has begun the Common Core Catholic Identity Initiative (CCCII) to develop and disseminate resources and guidelines to assist Catholic elementary and secondary schools in integrating elements of Catholic identity (Catholic values, Scripture, Church social... | http://catholicschoolstandards.org/common-core-catholic-identity-initiative | [
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Young Kids May Be Able to Unbuckle Car Seats
Survey of Parents Finds Some Kids May Be Unbuckling While Car Is in Motion
May 2, 2011 -- Children as young as 1 year old can unbuckle themselves from car safety seats, a new survey of parents finds.
"We found that children can unbuckle from their child car safety seats by t... | http://children.webmd.com/news/20110429/young-kids-may-be-able-to-unbuckle-car-seats | [
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GEF and UNEP Launch Global Platform for Efficient Lighting
25 September 2009: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have launched the “Global Market Transformation for Efficient Lighting Platform,” a public-private partnership directed at reducing global energy demand... | http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/gef-and-unep-launch-global-platform-for-efficient-lighting/ | [
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Tornadoes are the most intense storms on the planet, and they’re never discussed without at least some mention of the term wind shear. Many of us sitting at home, though, have no idea what wind shear is, or if we do, how it affects tornado production.
What is Wind Shear
Wind shear, although it might sound complex, is a... | http://cloudyandcool.com/2009/05/05/wind-shear-and-tornadoes/ | [
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Reversal of fortune
To unlock the vast, untapped potential of the world’s drylands, we must learn from the people who live in them, says Dr Jonathan Davies.
Drylands are a major global biome, home to a great diversity of species and some of our most treasured natural heritage. They are also home to over 2 billion peopl... | http://cms.iucn.org/knowledge/focus/previous_focus_topics/saving_our_drylands/opinion/?8350/Reversal-of-fortune&add_comment | [
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|Retinal Pigment Epithelium (RPE) Detachment
Signs and Symptoms
In most instances, serous detachment of the RPE occurs asymptomatically.
Only in those cases in which the macula is affected will patients report blurred vision,
metamorphopsia, micropsia, or positive scotomas. Other associated clinical findings may
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Is this bone a Neanderthal flute?
Cave Bear femur fragment from Slovenia, 43+kya
DOUBTS AIRED OVER NEANDERTHAL BONE 'FLUTE'
(AND REPLY BY MUSICOLOGIST BOB FINK)
Science News 153 (April 4, 1998): 215.
By B. Bower
Amid much media fanfare, a research team in 1996 trumpeted an ancient, hollowed out bear bone pierced on one... | http://cogweb.ucla.edu/ep/FluteDebate.html | [
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The plant collections of the Smithsonian Institution began with the acquisition of specimens collected by the United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). These formed the foundation of a national herbarium which today numbers 4.8 million historical plant records, placing it among the world's largest and most import... | http://collections.mnh.si.edu/search/botany/?irn=10469099 | [
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|reference frame (rěf'ər-əns) Pronunciation Key
A basis of a four-dimensional coordinate system in which the first coordinate is understood as a time coordinate, while the other three coordinates represent spatial dimensions. Inertial frames and non-inertial frames are both examples of reference frames. Also called fra... | http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/reference+frame | [
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Dictionary and translator for handheld
New : sensagent is now available on your handheld
A windows (pop-into) of information (full-content of Sensagent) triggered by double-clicking any word on your webpage. Give contextual explanation and translation from your sites !
With a SensagentBox, visitors to your site can acc... | http://dictionary.sensagent.com/Classical_Latin/en-en/ | [
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I will only point out two caveats:
- We cannot assume that click speakers of the African Southwest are necessarily indigenous to that region, and
- It is possible that, the greater phonemic diversity is due to ancient admixture between quite divergent peoples who possessed two different types of phonemic inventories, w... | http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2011/04/origin-of-language-in-southwest-africa.html?showComment=1303035119599 | [
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Xantusiidae is a clade of viviparous (live bearing) lizards that ranges from southwestern North America and Baja California (Xantusia) into Central America (Lepidophyma) and Cuba (Cricosaura). Xantusia magdalena occurs in Baja California. Xantusiidae is a relatively small clade, with 3 genera and approximately 30 livin... | http://digimorph.org/specimens/Xantusia_magdalena/ | [
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This database of images for the study and teaching of art, design, and visual culture at Illinois State University, is produced as a collaboration between the School of Art and Milner Library. The images come from many sources, including publications, original photography, and the Visual Resources Collection of the Sch... | http://digital.library.illinoisstate.edu/cdm?r=isuhistory/8582 | [
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Date: August 2010
Creator: Allen, Evette L.
Description: Family communication has the potential to affect a variety of youth behavioral outcomes including adolescent sexual risk behavior. Within chapter 1, I present past literature on adolescent sexual risk behaviors, family communication patterns, and the gaps associa... | http://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/partners/UNT/browse/?fq=untl_decade%3A2010-2019&fq=str_degree_department%3ADepartment+of+Communication+Studies | [
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Born in 1940, Wangari Maathai is a Kenyan ecologist and environmental activist who founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, causing the media to depict her as a latter-day Johnny Appleseed who has planted millions of trees in Africa. (The Green Belt Movement has been responsible for the planting of more than 10 million... | http://discoverthenetworks.com/printindividualProfile.asp?indid=2007 | [
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There are many ways to effectively teach a dog.
Not so long ago, most of the accepted methods for training were forceful or aversive. Unfortunately, some of these methods still are in use among the abusive and uneducated.
One of the pioneers of gentle training techniques was Barbara Woodhouse. This English dog trainer ... | http://durangoherald.com/article/20130314/COLUMNISTS52/130319783/1001/'We-can't-afford-four-more-years'-- | [
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A 2012 survey conducted by the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention found 52.5 percent of dogs and 58.3 percent of cats to be overweight or obese by their veterinarian. This translates to nearly 80 million dogs and cats in America with a weight problem. Dr. George Banta, chair of the Veterinary Technology department ... | http://dvalnews.com/matchbin_businesses?state=ME&cat=Pet%20Care&ara=Pets | [
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Fewer rare sea turtles will die on the swordfish industry's longlines in Hawaii under an agreement between environmental groups and the government. The agreement settles a lawsuit challenging the federal government's plans that would have dramatically increase the number of turtles that could be killed. The Turtle Isla... | http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2011/endangered-sea-turtles-saved-from-capture-in-hawaii-swordfish-fishery | [
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Volume 4 Number 2
©The Author(s) 2002
The Continuity Framework: A Tool for Building Home, School, and Community Partnerships
AbstractWe will need to become savvy about how to build relationships, how to nurture growing, evolving things. All of us will need better skills in listening, communicating, and facilitating gro... | http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v4n2/brown.html | [
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Using the Moon as a High-Fidelity Analogue Environment to Study Biological and Behavioural Effects of Long-Duration Space Exploration
Goswami, Nandu and Roma, Peter G. and De Boever, Patrick and Clément, Gilles and Hargens, Alan R. and Loeppky, Jack A. and Evans, Joyce M. and Stein, T. Peter and Blaber, Andrew P. and V... | http://elib.dlr.de/77077/ | [
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German destroyer Z11 Bernd von Arnim
|Career (Nazi Germany)|
|Name:||Z11 Bernd von Arnim|
|Namesake:||Bernd von Arnim|
|Ordered:||9 January 1935|
|Laid down:||26 April 1935|
|Launched:||8 July 1936|
|Completed:||6 December 1938|
|Fate:||Scuttled, 13 April 1940|
|General characteristics as built|
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A jack-o'-lantern, one of the symbols of Halloween
|Also called||All Hallows' Eve
All Saints' Eve
|Observed by||Western Christians & many non-Christians around the world|
|Celebrations||Trick-or-treating/guising, costume parties, making jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, divination, apple bobbing, visiting haunted at... | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween | [
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|Birth name||Norman Percevel Rockwell|
February 3, 1894|
New York City
|Died||November 8, 1978
|Training||National Academy of Design
Art Students League
Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the Unite... | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Rockwell | [
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Sabermetrics is the specialized analysis of baseball through objective evidence, especially baseball statistics that measure in-game activity. The term is derived from the acronym SABR, which stands for the Society for American Baseball Research. It was coined by Bill James, who is one of its pioneers and is often cons... | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabermetric | [
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|Regions with significant populations|
|New York, Massachusetts, Michigan, Louisiana, Ohio, Iowa, Texas|
|Related ethnic groups|
Syrian Americans are residents of the United States of Syrian ancestry or nationality. This group includes Americans of Syrian ancestry, Syrian first generation immigrants, or descendants of ... | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_American | [
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United Nations Special Commission
United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) was an inspection regime created by the United Nations to ensure Iraq's compliance with policies concerning Iraqi production and use of weapons of mass destruction after the Gulf War. Between 1991 and 1997 its director was Rolf Ekéus; from 199... | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNSCOM | [
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The names chiseled onto city tenement building entrances are often pretty puzzling.
The typical tenement is more than 100 years old. With the original builders long-gone, who can explain where some of these names come from, and why they were chosen?
Like Novelty Court, on Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg. Actually, a litt... | http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/the-mysteries-surrounding-some-tenement-names/ | [
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Rodrigues, A.S.L., Andelman, S.J., Bakarr, M.I., Boitani, L., Brooks, T.M., Cowling, R.M., Fishpool, L.D.C., da Fonseca, G.A.B., Gaston, K.J., Hoffmann, M., Long, J.S., Marquet, P.A., Pilgrim, J.D., Pressey, R.L., Schipper, J., Sechrest, W., Stuart, S.N., Underhill, L.G., Waller, R.W., Watts, M.E.J. and Yan, X. (2004) ... | http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/233/ | [
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- Year Published: 1866
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: Russia
- Source: Dostoyevsky, F. (1866). Crime and Punishment. Moscow, Russia: The Russian Messenger.
- Flesch–Kincaid Level: 7.2
- Word Count: 7,803
Dostoyevsky, F. (1866). Part 3, Chapter 5. Crime and Punishment (Lit2Go Edition). Retrieved May 18, 2013, ... | http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/182/crime-and-punishment/3410/part-3-chapter-5/ | [
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Photo Courtesy of Steve Dewey, Utah State University, bugwood.org
Thermopsis montana Nutt.
Scientific Name Synonyms:
Life Span: Perennial
Growth Characteristics: Mountain goldenpea is an erect forb, growing up to 2 feet in height and spreading by rhizomes. It blooms between May and August, depending on the elevations.
... | http://extension.usu.edu/rangeplants/htm/mountain-goldenpea/ | [
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Uveitis is inflammation of the uvea, which is made up of the iris, ciliary body and choroid. Together, these form the middle layer of the eye between the retina and the sclera (white of the eye).
The eye is shaped like a tennis ball, with three different layers of tissue surrounding the central gel-filled cavity, which... | http://eyecareamerica.org/eyesmart/diseases/uveitis.cfm | [
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Grain farmers could make more money be switching to organic grain crops according to a new study released at last week's American Agricultural Economics Association's annual meeting.
Records showed that organic crops fetched much more than conventional crops: soybeans, up to $14 more per bushel; corn, up to $3 more; an... | http://farmprogress.com/story-organic-grain-farmers-more-profitable-0-6870 | [
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Basic Use To make a new number, a simple initialization suffices:
var foo = 0; // or whatever number you want
foo = 1; //foo = 1 foo += 2; //foo = 3 (the two gets added on) foo -= 2; //foo = 1 (the two gets removed)
Number literals define the number value. In particular: They appear as a set of digits of varying length... | http://fatalweb.com/tutorials/12/48/javascript-numbers | [
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by +Richard Holbrooke – Schwann cells boost and amplify nerve growth in animal models, but their clinical use has been held back because they are difficult, time-consuming and costly to culture.
A University of Sheffield team, led by Professor John Haycock, has developed a new technique with adult rat tissue which over... | http://floridabiotechnews.com/biotech/new-technique-could-bring-cell-therapy-for-nerve-damage-a-step-closer/10917/ | [
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LANs to WANs(c) The Complete Management Guide
Authors: Muller N.J.
Published year: 2003
|< Day Day Up >|
Depending on the situation facing network managers, bridges can be used to either extend or segment LANs. At one level, bridges can be used for segmenting LANs into smaller subnets to improve performance, control ac... | http://flylib.com/books/en/4.62.1.44/1/ | [
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Cancer Fighting Foods/Spices
The National Cancer Institute estimates that roughly one-third of all cancer deaths may be diet related. What you eat can hurt you, but it can also help you. Many of the common foods found in grocery stores or organic markets contain cancer-fighting properties, from the antioxidants that ne... | http://funinlife.wordpress.com/tag/health/ | [
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Data structures for manipulating (biological) sequences.
Generally supports both nucleotide and protein sequences, some functions,
like revcompl, only makes sense for nucleotides.
|A sequence is a header, sequence data itself, and optional quality data.
Sequences are type-tagged to identify them as nucleotide, amino ac... | http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/bio/0.4.5/doc/html/Bio-Sequence-SeqData.html | [
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Contemporary world politics make it necessary for nations to integrate into international unions in the interest of their own national security and economy. In these international unions, which are usually based upon geographic location, such factors as natural resources, trading blocs, and even cultural values play an... | http://harunyahya.com/en/Makaleler/4324/How-Islamic-Union-will-affect-the-economic-development | [
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There could be genetic reasons why some women succumb to pressure to be thin, while others maintain a positive body image, according to US researchers.
“We’re all bombarded daily with messages extoling the virtues of being thin, yet intriguingly only some women develop what we term thin ideal internalisation,” study au... | http://health.ninemsn.com.au/healthnews/8542759/genetics-to-blame-for-body-image-issues-study | [
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Business Language Learning
From APEC HRDWG Wiki
As part of International Education Week 2010, APEC has expanded on several themes of the seminar on "Language Education: An Essential for a Global Economy," to provide a guide for students and instructors interested in the critical importance of business language for stre... | http://hrd.apec.org/index.php/Business_Language_Learning | [
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Education and health outcomes for social minorities in India: An analysis using SUR model
AbstractThe current study analyzes the health and education outcomes of fifteen year old children in India and investigates the question of inequality of such outcomes for socio-religious categories. To study the effect of health ... | http://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/aaea12/124840.html | [
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Skip to Main Content
Machine learning methods are known to be inefficient when faced with many features that are unnecessary for rule discovery. In coping with this issue, many methods have been proposed for selecting important features. Among them is feature selection that selects a subset of discriminative features o... | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=5254822&contentType=Conference+Publications | [
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In a countless number of movies and novels set in the British Regency and Victorian Era women are plagued by headaches; oftentimes as a way to show them as fragile, or as a joke. It is not a trope used with male characters, but if it were would they be taken seriously? Probably not. What if it was all viewed from a dif... | http://info.mdconsult.com/blog/2012/08/23/but-its-just-a-headache/ | [
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Hospitals across the country are diligently working to reduce infection rates. According to the World Health Organization, hospital-acquired infections affect as many as 1.7 million patients in the United States each year. These infections come at an annual cost of $6.5 billion and contribute to more than 90,000 deaths... | http://info.navilystmedical.com/Blog/?Tag=infection | [
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There are many aspects to learning the creation of interactive fiction. Here we mostly undertake to explain approaches to using Inform, and leave the larger questions of craft and design for elsewhere.
The two manuals
There are two interlinked manuals built into every copy of the Inform application: if you've downloade... | http://inform7.com/learn/manuals/ | [
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This is an old lecture by linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky (professor at MIT) given at UC Berkeley in 2003. For that evening in the Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lecture series, Chomsky examined biolinguistics - the study of relations between physiology and speech.
A second video of Chomsky is featured be... | http://integral-options.blogspot.com/2012/04/noam-chomsky-language-and-mind.html | [
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Chinese researchers have turned to the light absorbing properties of butterfly wings to significantly increase the efficiency of solar hydrogen cells, using biomimetics to copy the nanostructure that allows for incredible light and heat absorption.
Butterflies are known to use heat from the sun to warm themselves beyon... | http://io9.com/5897144/mimicking-butterfly-wings-could-boost-hydrogen-fuel-production | [
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Early Childhood Education
- The American Academy of Pediatrics is dedicated to the health of all children and committed to
the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health
and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and
- The Center for Early Childhood
Leadership is dedicated to enhancing the ma... | http://isbe.net/earlychi/html/resources.htm | [
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World’s poorest on front line in climate change fight
24 July 2008 | News story
Climate change is already happening – and it hits poor people most. The effect of more frequent hurricanes, floods and droughts on developing countries is devastating, as this year’s cyclone Nagris proved again in southern Myanmar, leaving ... | http://iucn.org/fr/nouvelles_homepage/nouvelles_par_date/2008/juillet_news_2008/?1370/Worlds-poorest-on-front-line-in-climate-change-fight | [
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Friday, 11 December 2009
mental ray_Adding glow to the window glass
The above image was produced whilst at GMJ Design Ltd
In our latest book, we have covered a number of ways of emulating light without the need of creating a physical light.
Production companies often adopt similar methods to reduce the rendering times ... | http://jamiecardoso-mentalray.blogspot.com/2009/12/mental-rayadding-glow-to-window-glass.html | [
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You Baby's Development
After many weeks of anticipation and preparation, your baby is here! Or maybe not — only 5% of women deliver on their estimated due dates, and many first-time mothers find themselves waiting up to 2 weeks after their due date for their baby to arrive.
A baby born at 40 weeks weighs, on average, a... | http://kidshealth.org/parent/pregnancy_center/pregnancy_calendar/week40.html | [
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By Irene Klotz
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Despite searing daytime temperatures, Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, has ice and frozen organic materials inside permanently shadowed craters in its north pole, NASA scientists said on Thursday.
Earth-based telescopes have been compiling evidence for ice on Me... | http://krro.com/news/articles/2012/nov/29/nasa-probe-reveals-organics-ice-on-mercury/ | [
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What level of LabVIEW user are you—a developer, engineer, or architect? Is it even important?
Absolutely. These categories make it easy for NI to tailor helpful resources to your individual needs. By visiting the LabVIEW Skills Guide, you can see what defines these levels and which trainings or guides we recommend each... | http://labviewni.com/category/cla/ | [
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This “The Best…” list is a companion to The Best Sites To Learn About The U.S. Financial Crisis. Those sites tried to explain how we got into this mess. The resources on this list share what is happening to us as a result. These sites try to give a picture of the recession’s effects throughout the world.
These sites, a... | http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/02/12/the-best-sites-to-learn-about-the-recession/ | [
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A nuzzle of the neck, a stroke of the wrist, a brush of the knee—these caresses often signal a loving touch, but can also feel highly aversive, depending on who is delivering the touch, and to whom. Interested in how the brain makes connections between touch and emotion, neuroscientists at the California Institute of T... | http://literallybread.tumblr.com/post/24577231064/oneofthepaths-a-nuzzle-of-the-neck-a-stroke-of | [
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WE have in this chapter to consider why the females of many birds have not acquired the same ornaments as the male; and why, on the other hand, both sexes of many other birds are equally, or almost equally, ornamented? In the following chapter we shall consider the few cases in which the female is more conspicuously co... | http://literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-descent-of-man/chapter-15.html | [
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See also the
Dr. Math FAQ:
order of operations
Browse High School Basic Algebra
Stars indicate particularly interesting answers or
good places to begin browsing.
Selected answers to common questions:
Solving simple linear equations.
Positive/negative integer rules.
Completing the square.
Direct and indirect variation.
... | http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/sets/high_algebra.html?start_at=441&num_to_see=40&s_keyid=38309224&f_keyid=38309225 | [
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Hydrocele Operation: aka Hydroceles, Hydrocele Sac, Swollen Testicle, Hydrocelectomy
What is it?
Hydrocele operations or hydrocele surgery is to release fluid that forms in a sac within the scrotum. Typically hydroceles develop when the testicle passes into the scrotum but the passage through which this occur fails to ... | http://medicaltourismguide.com/procedures/medical/hydrocele-operation/ | [
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Welcome to MedLibrary.org. For best results, we recommend beginning with the navigation links at the top of the page, which can guide you through our collection of over 14,000 medication labels and package inserts. For additional information on other topics which are not covered by our database of medications, just ent... | http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/Chromatography | [
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BINGE EATING DISORDER
"Signs and Symptoms"
To date, there has been some degree of confusion as to what exactly the term "binge eating" really means. Although the professional community still has yet to define [or quantify] what constitutes a binge-eating episode, it's reasonable to assume the signs and symptoms listed ... | http://milestonesprogram.org/binge-eating-treatment.php | [
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A Reference Resource
Life Before the Presidency
Herbert Clark Hoover was born on August 10, 1874. For the first nine years of his life, he lived in the small town of West Branch, Iowa, the place of his birth. His Quaker father, Jessie Clark Hoover, a blacksmith and farm equipment salesman, suffered a heart attack and d... | http://millercenter.org/president/hoover/essays/biography/2 | [
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Deep-space communication improved with electromagnetic radiation antenna
- Robert C. Dye
- Technology Transfer
- (505) 667-3404
Electromagnetic radiation antenna has potential for deep-space communication
- Directed Energy
- Long-range communications
- Medicine (Oncology)
- RADAR imaging applications are countermeasure... | http://moe@lanl.gov/collaboration/tech-transfer/tech-transfer-summaries/electromagnetic-radiation-antenna-has-potential-for-deep-space-communication.php | [
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This insightful research by respected Israeli scholar Nurit Peled-Elhanan will confirm what Palestinian researchers have always known: Israel's prevailing culture of racism, fundamentalism, support for war crimes, and apartheid against Palestinians is mainly a product of an educational system that indoctrinates Jewish-... | http://mondoweiss.net/2011/08/israeli-textbooks-portray-palestinians-as-terrorists-refugees-and-primitive-farmers.html | [
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The test team views the use of a pulley as an intermediate step only, and has planned to shift to a reliance on windlasses like those that apparently were used to hoist sails on Egyptian ships.
"The whole approach has been to downgrade the technology," Gharib said. "We first wanted to show that a kite could raise a hug... | http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/06/0628_caltechobelisk_2.html | [
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Refraction and Acceleration
Name: Christopher S.
Why is it that when light travels from a more dense to a
less dense medium, its speed is higher? I've read answers to this
question in your archives but, sadly, still don't get it. One answer
(Jasjeet S Bagla) says that we must not ask the question because light is
massl... | http://newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy00/phy00434.htm | [
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How much fun is it to be a child in your home? Do you ever stop to think about how the house looks from their point of view? My task for this week is to conduct a Child’s Eye Audit of our living space, to try and make the rooms more child- and play-friendly. The audit need only take a few minutes and might suggest simp... | http://nurturestore.co.uk/category/mind/2010-the-year-of-play | [
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Topics covered: Encapsulation, inheritance, shadowing
Instructor: Prof. Eric Grimson, Prof. John Guttag
OPERATOR: The following content is provided under a Creative Commons license. Your support will help MIT OpenCourseWare continue to offer high quality educational resources for free. To make a donation or view additi... | http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-fall-2008/video-lectures/lecture-16/ | [
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On Monday the American Library Association will announce the winner of its highest award for a picture book, named for the great English illustrator Randolph Caldecott (1846–1886). Why was Caldecott so important? Here’s an answer from Maurice Sendak, who won the Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are:
“Caldecott... | http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/why-was-randolph-caldecott-so-great-quotes-of-the-daymaurice-sendak/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=019c5482d9 | [
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Talk:20.109(F12) Pre-Proposal: Engineering Viral Magnetic Nanoparticles for Magnetic Hyperthermic Cancer Therapy
- This is a brainstorming page.
You are very welcome to write any crazy / non-crazy / inventive / conventional / knowledgeable ideas or information you may have about our project.
Some key words: Magnetic Na... | http://openwetware.org/index.php?title=Talk:20.109(F12)_Pre-Proposal:_Engineering_Viral_Magnetic_Nanoparticles_for_Magnetic_Hyperthermic_Cancer_Therapy&curid=127859&oldid=661375 | [
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We had a running joke in science ed that kids get so overexposed to discrepant events involving density and air pressure that they tend to try to explain anything and everything they don't understand with respect to science in terms of those two concepts. Why do we have seasons? Ummm... air pressure? Why did Dr. Smith ... | http://outsidetheinterzone.blogspot.com/2009/12/index-of-refraction.html | [
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By Justin Moyer
The Washington Post
— Defense Secretary Leon Panetta signed an order Thursday allowing women the same opportunities as men to serve in combat, including formerly off-limits assignments on attack submarines and in the Navy SEALs. Just two weeks before the announcement, researchers from San Diego's Naval ... | http://paulsvalleydailydemocrat.com/community-news-network/x1633465595/Are-mothers-in-combat-more-prone-to-depression/print | [
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|Gallium metal is silver-white and melts at approximately body temperature (Wikipedia image).|
|Atomic Number:||31||Atomic Radius:||187 pm (Van der Waals)|
|Atomic Symbol:||Ga||Melting Point:||29.76 °C|
|Atomic Weight:||69.72||Boiling Point:||2204 °C|
|Electron Configuration:||[Ar]4s23d104p1||Oxidation States:||3|
From... | http://periodic.lanl.gov/31.shtml | [
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From Oxford University Press:
There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II. In this narrative, the nineteenth century's absence is cons... | http://pesd.stanford.edu/publications/slavetrade_humanrightslaw/ | [
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Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found that fluctuations in internal body temperature regulate the body's circadian rhythm, the 24-hour cycle that controls metabolism, sleep and other bodily functions.
A light-sensitive portion of the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) remains the body's "... | http://phys.org/news/2010-10-temperature-rhythms-body-clocks-sync.html | [
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If superparticles were to exist the decay would happen far more often. This test is one of the "golden" tests for supersymmetry and it is one that on the face of it this hugely popular theory among physicists has failed.
Prof Val Gibson, leader of the Cambridge LHCb team, said that the new result was "putting our super... | http://physicsandphysicists.blogspot.com/2012/11/more-results-not-in-favor-of-susy.html | [
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When the world was still young, some 3 500 million years ago, molten rock forced its way through the earth's crust and solidified to form the spectacular granite outcrops where Pretoriuskop Rest Camp is now nestled. The impressive granite dome known as "Shabeni Hill" is not far from the camp, which is found in the sout... | http://plak.co.za/moreinfo/25232/wesfleur-hospital | [
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Major Section: BREAK-REWRITE
Example: (brr@ :target) ; the term being rewritten (brr@ :unify-subst) ; the unifying substitutionwhere
General Form: (brr@ :symbol)
:symbolis one of the following keywords. Those marked with
*probably require an implementor's knowledge of the system to use effectively. They are supported b... | http://planet.plt-scheme.org/package-source/cce/dracula.plt/4/0/docs/BRR_at_.html | [
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Hibiscus rosa-sinensis 'The Path'
Chinese Hibiscus, Tropical Hibiscus
Among the showiest flowering plants. Plants typically bear funnel-shaped blossoms, often with prominent stamens. The many species offer a wide range of flower colors.
Probably from tropical Asia; tropical hibiscus has been in cultivation for centurie... | http://plantfinder.sunset.com/plant-details.jsp?id=1463 | [
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