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Time and Frequency from A to Z: D to Do
A number or series of numbers used to identify a given day with the least possible ambiguity. The date is usually expressed as the month, day of month, and year. However, integer numbers such as the Julian Date are also used to express the date.
Daylight Saving Time
The part of t... |
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A new report published today (4 February) by WWF-UK and the Food Ethics Council examines whether reducing meat consumption, and instead placing greater value on the meat we consume, could potentially be beneficial for people’s health, the environment, and for producers and consumers.
High meat consumption is associate... |
NOAA: December Global Ocean Temperature Second Warmest on Record
For the year, 2009 Annual Temperature Tied for Fifth-Warmest
January 21, 2010
The global ocean surface temperature was the second warmest on record for December, according to scientists at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. Based on r... |
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Today in History - Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012
Today is Tuesday, Dec. 4, the 339th day of 2012. There are 27 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Dec. 4, 1619, a group of settlers from Bristol, England, arrived at Berkeley Hundred in present-day Charles City County, Va., where the... |
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Skeletal System 6 from the course General Human Anatomy
General Human Anatomy - Fall 2006. The functional anatomy of the human body as revealed by gross and microscopic examination.
Independence or Dependency 1 from the course World Regions, Peoples, and States
This course will provide a framework f... |
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Kidney problems can often sideswipe you, hitting when you don’t expect them, as a result of health problems that don’t seem related to the kidneys at all. One of the things that can strike in this unexpected way is Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, or HUS. It’s one of the conditions that is associated with kidney failure from... |
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Dr. Daniel Hillel and The Future of Farming
This 1971 photo provided by The World Food Prize Foundation shows Dr. Daniel Hillel introducing drip irrigation in Japan. Hillel, who is credited with developing drip irrigation methods that conserve water while allowing food to be grown in some of the world’s driest climates... |
ECE435 Music, Movement, Drama, Dance
Lead Faculty: Dr. Judy Mantle
Focus on enriching and enhancing young children’s learning through the creative arts. Emphasis on integrating creative experiences within core subjects to create developmentally appropriate experiences.
- Demonstrate, in writing and discussion, supporti... |
GCN LAB REVIEW
Device spots, stops advanced malware before it can cripple a network
FireEye's virtual machines profile an attack and then disrupt it before it strikes
A lot of protections are built into most federal and corporate networks these days. Between firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, port monitoring and ... |
Plants have evolved a number of cold-response genes encoding proteins that induce tolerance to freezing, alter water absorption and initiate many other low temperature induced processes. In the 1 April Genes and Development, Jian-Kang Zhu and colleagues of the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, shed l... |
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III. More Women Arrive
In August of 1609, about twenty women arrived on ships sent by the Virginia Company of London. One hundred more women arrived a few months later. Many of the female passengers on the first ships were traveling with their husbands and families. All were recruited by the Virginia Company, a land-de... |
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How better to counter Stalin's Socialist Realism (above: Boris Vladmiriski, "Roses for Stalin" 1949) than by deploying art by Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko?
The idea was initially tested in the open in 1947 by the State Department, which launched a program called "Advancing Ameri... |
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The Duel in European History: Honour and the Reign of Aristocracy
by V.G. Kiernan
Oxford University Press, 348 pp., $14.95 (paper)
Victor Kiernan is one of the most versatile of British historians. He has written learned monographs on British Diplomacy in China, 1880–1885, on Metcalfe’s Mission to Lahore, 1808–1809, on... |
- If the Earth rotated in the opposite sense (clockwise rather than counterclockwise), how long would the solar day be?
- Suppose that the Earth’s pole was perpendicular to its orbit. How would the azimuth of sunrise vary throughout the year? How would the length of day and night vary throughout the year at the equator... |
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Witnessing a hawk snatch a songbird off your birdfeeder can be quite a shock. Although most of us understand the food chain, backyard birders would prefer these sharks of the sky get their meals elsewhere.
Sharp-shinned and Cooper's Hawks are the two most common birds of prey that visit birdfeeders in urban Orange Coun... |
A first year is a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry who is new to Hogwarts and in their first year of magical education. On average, there are around 144 new first years attending Hogwarts each academic year.
Beginning the magical career
Travelling to Hogwarts
First years are typically eleven to twe... |
It is impossible for the information in DNA to have emerged through coincidences and natural processes.
The theory of evolution, which accounts for the origin of life in terms of chance, cannot provide a coherent explanation for even the existence of the most basic molecules in the cell. Advances in genetic science and... |
Blame the advertising man who misnamed it in the 1930s, but athlete's foot has nothing to do with athletes. It's a fungal infection of the feet. Also known as tinea pedis, or "ringworm of the feet," it has nothing to do with worms either. The Trichophyton fungus that causes the redness, itching, cracking, and scaling o... |
Classification of Nouns
Nouns are categorized by vowels and consonants they include. For the consonants they include nouns are categorized in two groups: 15 Nouns and 16 Nouns. For the vowels they include nouns are categorized in 5 groups: a, ä; å, ø; o, ö; u, y; i, e.
15 Nouns: the first consonant of these nouns are h... |
What to Expect During Radiation Therapy for Oral Cancer
External radiation therapy
External beam radiation therapy is the most common type of radiation given for oral cancer.
Radiation from a source outside the body is usually directed at the tumor site. You may also receive radiation to your neck. This type of radiati... |
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The time variability of X-ray emission can be studied with the HRI since each detected photon has its time of arrival recorded by the detector. The accuracy of this time is limited by the electronic resolution of the HRI processor which is 61 sec relative to the ROSAT spacecraft clock. The relat... |
The War of Independence
The violent confrontations between Jews and Arabs in the land of Israel started in the early 1920s. For the most part, the Jews defended themselves against attacks by the Arabs. The Hagana was responsible for defense of the Jewish community, and sometimes British armed forces intervened to end t... |
In a country of nearly 310,000,000, the burdens placed on hospitals are both enormous and complex as they attempt to provide first rate health care to an ever-increasing population while adhering to strict and sometimes contradictory regulations from several different sources. To understand the scope of issues a hospit... |
State Rank for US Production (1996):
19th in nation
Percent Total US Production (1996):
Dollar Value of Production (1,000s):
Cattle ranching came to Idaho early because range cattle were able to travel long distances to the mines and other markets. Cattle could roam over thousands of acres of grasslands and were relati... |
Most food items contain toxins like mercury, pesticides and acrylamide that can affect children in the long run
Even healthy food like fruit, vegetables, meat and fish might be putting children’s health at risk. These food items also contain toxins like mercury, pesticides and acrylamide that can, over a long time, mak... |
First, let's get one thing straight. The correct term is "absolute" pitch, not "perfect" pitch. If you are a music lover, what follows here could conceivably save you from being bilked - ironically, by another kind of perfect pitch .
First of all, what we will be talking about here is "absolute pitch," which is the cor... |
Symposium takes a look at the history, education, literature, art, and civil rights struggles of Latinos in the Midwest
By Kelli Andresen for Iowa Now
While food, culture, and music are the most visible manifestations of Latinos’ presence in the Midwest, their influence in the region is more widespread but less known.... |
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Transboundary UNESCO Biosphere Reserve "Mura-Drava-Danube"
Under the auspices of the RAMSAR COP11, representatives of the governments of Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia and Slovenia, IUCN, ICPDR, Ramsar Secretariat, Wetlands International, WWF, other NGOs and participants at the conference gathered to celebrate the n... |
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In January 2010, five months after the unmanned moon probe Chandrayaan was abruptly terminated—a year before its completion, since radio contact with the mooncraft was lost—the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) announced a manned mission to outer space. It would take off in 2016 and cost Rs 12,400 crore. Dr K R... |
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Key tools for tackling invasive species
31 May 2011 | News story
Prevention, eradication and early detection system are key tools for tackling invasive species. This was the conclusion of the conference “The Challenge of Invasive Species and Destructive Insects” organised on the 24 May 2011 in the European Parliament. ... |
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Report by Ashok Palit, Bhubaneswar: Annapurna Maharana ,The great woman freedom fighter of Odisha passed away on 31st dec.2012. at the age of96. She was another prominent leader in the BHUDANA movement with Vinoba Bhabe.
Ms Annapurna Maharana, the niece of Utkalmani Paundit Gopabandhu Das, was born as the second child ... |
May be of interest to some of my readers.
1. Data protection challenge of the future: what is Big Data?
The three V’s - Volume, Velocity, and Variety – are the essential characteristics of “Big Data”. While data protection and privacy laws are still busy catching up with technologies of yesterday, Big Data is growing a... |
Raising monarchs inside
Raising monarchs in aquariums
Why do this? For one thing, of course, it's fascinating!
For another, though, it's a way to maxmize the number of eggs that actually turn into butterflies.
I've read estimates that only 5-10% of the eggs laid survive to butterflyhood. Parasitism, predation, weather,... |
Department of Energy
- Land is essential for all types of economic activity - every business has a footprint.
- At the height of the 2006 real estate boom, land in the US is estimated to have been worth more than $17 trillion.
- Research presented by @AEI’s Stephen Oliner suggests that land is indeed a high-risk invest... |
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Three years of flooding
In 2010 Pakistan was hit by its worst natural disaster - floodwater inundated up to one fifth of the country and affected an estimated 20 million people. Oxfam launched an immediate response to provide aid to more than 2.4 million people.
In 2012 fresh flooding in Pakistan's southern Sindh provi... |
Thyroid cancer is cancer of the thyroid gland. This gland makes thyroid hormone, and it is found in the front of the neck. Thyroid gland tumors often appear as bumps in the neck, called nodules. In most cases, thyroid nodules are not cancerous. However, those that are cancerous have the potential to spread throughout t... |
The Trobriand Islands are a group of scattered and isolated islands found in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. The islands were made famous by Bronsilaw Malinowski, who was an anthropologist who published many studies about the Trobriand culture during the early 1900s. What makes the community unique is its d... |
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After kids or teens are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, the next step is to create a diabetes management plan to help them manage the condition and stay healthy and active.
Treatment plans for type 2 diabetes are based on each child's needs and the suggestions of the diabetes health care team.
Type 2 Diabetes Treatment... |
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Today's guest blogger, Kedrica Taylor, was a former member of the Unmask the Media Project, a student-run program, developed by the Tulsa, Oklahoma Youth Philanthropy Initiative, that addresses the issue of the media’s negative effects on teenager’s self-perceptions. Her blog is the second in a series of three "Young V... |
Have you ever eaten gluten? No, not glue — gluten! If you've ever eaten a piece of bread, a slice of pizza, or a bowl of cereal, chances are you have.
Gluten (say: gloo-tin) is a protein found in wheat, rye, and barley — grains that are in many everyday foods. Most of us eat food with gluten with no trouble. But for so... |
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The Benefits of Creative Arts Therapy for Kids
Written by Chera Prideaux
Step into Seattle art therapist Mineko Takada-Dill’s studio and you’ll find an array of paints, clay, pastels, charcoal and textured papers. She uses these materials to help her clients let their guard down and experience the therapeutic benefits ... |
Ah, summer camp. The mosquitoes, the swim races, the friendships, the bug juice, the postcards home. What child wouldn't benefit from the fun and structured freedom camps provide?
Kids with special needs are no exception. But the idea can seem challenging to parents and kids alike — how can you be sure that your child ... |
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Adenoids and tonsils are often talked about together. You can see your tonsils in the back of your throat, but where are your adenoids? For that matter, what are your adenoids? Let's find out.
What Are Adenoids?
The adenoids (say: add-eh-noids) are lumpy clusters of spongy tissue that help protect kids from getting sic... |
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A history of the Tonto Apache
In May 1926, the director of the State Museum on the campus of the University of Arizona, Tucson, answered a letter of inquiry from a Mrs. Matthews in San Francisco about the Tonto Apaches. In his reply was this comment, "Regarding the Tonto Apaches, I fear I can be of very little help to ... |
Do Allergies Cause Asthma?
Do allergies cause asthma? The answer to this question is: yes and no. People who have certain kinds of allergies are more likely to have asthma. Which kind of allergies? Usually, the type of allergies that affect your nose and eyes, causing problems like a runny nose or red, itchy eyes.
What... |
New Research Reveals That Obesity Can Actually Drive You Crazy
Most of us are fully aware that obesity causes all sorts of health problems including diabetes and high blood pressure, but now shocking new research shows that being overweight can actually lead to insanity.
A research team consisting of staff from INSERM,... |
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Japanese-style rooms are
covered with tatami mats.
Tatami is made of straw and rush.
The filling is made of hard-packed straw,
and the smooth facing is made of woven rushes.
The long sides of tatami have a cloth edging.
Tatami is a very good material for floors
because it's so humid in Japan.
Tatami is derived from a v... |
Discover the story of how Dale Larson saved 29 schoolchildren during a 1928 tornado in Thurston County, Nebraska. Imagine how the events of that tornado would have been different with the current advances in severe weather warning systems. Details »
Witness the growth of plants and the return of animals to Mt. St. Hele... |
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Forty years ago, killer whales were widely feared and largely misunderstood. Fisherman and mariners often shot at them on sight due to the misconception that these animals posed a threat to their livelihoods and were a danger to humans. With the introduction of killer whales into aquariums and oceanariums in the 1960’s... |
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This video details the dangers of rip currents and explains how to identify rip currents, as well as how to stay safe. Swimming in Prince Edward Island National Park of Canada is an ideal way to spend a summer day. But before heading into the water make sure that you and your family know how to break the grip of the ri... |
Superstorm Sandy: Before, During And Beyond
Tue November 20, 2012
Thousands Of Trees Gone, Ripped Out By Sandy
Originally published on Tue November 20, 2012 5:14 pm
New York City lost almost 10,000 trees from the winds of Superstorm Sandy and the nor'easter that followed. That's far more trees lost in the city than in ... |
Overview - TOUCH2 LEARN TEXTURE CARDS
Touch2 Learn Texture Cards are an excellent learning tool that contains five sets of cards (45 cards), each with its own texture and theme. Each set has cards for the numerals 1-9 and is designed to help you teach number recognition, numeral/quantity association, counting and vocab... |
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Midwest Energy News: “Can airports be green? With solar farm, Chicago argues they can.”
Aviation is a carbon intensive industry, with air travel and transport contributing two percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
But airports around the world are making... |
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Hematemesis (Vomiting Blood) in Dogs
By: Dr. Bari Spielman
Read By: Pet Lovers
Coagulopathies or bleeding disorders should be considered, especially if there is evidence of bleeding from other body sites as well. There are many different types of clotting disorders that can cause hematemesis.
Hematemesis is the presenc... |
Shots - Health News Blog
FDA Approves First Drug To Prevent Preterm Births
The biggest reason why the United States has higher infant mortality than other developed countries is that American women are more likely to deliver prematurely – before 37 weeks. And, for unknown reasons, the US rate of preterm delivery has be... |
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Separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac, the Upper Peninsula (or simply, the “U.P.”) is characterized by dense forests and rugged lakeshores. Bordered by Northern Wisconsin, Southern Ontario, and three of the Great Lakes, the Upper Peninsula makes up almost one-third of Michigan’s land mass. Steep... |
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Tue March 5, 2013
Study Finds Climate Change To Open Arctic Sea Routes By 2050
Originally published on Tue March 5, 2013 11:22 am
Climate change will make commercial shipping possible from North America to Russia or Asia over the North Pole by the middle of the century, a new study says.
Two researchers at the Universi... |
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Redistricting 2010: Reforming the Process of Distributing Political Power
Publication Date: February 2009
Publisher(s): Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana, inc.
Author(s): Ann Williamson-Heath
Keywords: Apportionment; Redistricting
The U.S. Constitution requires that a national population census be taken ever... |
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At a Glance
Why Get Tested?
To determine lithium levels in the blood in order to maintain a therapeutic level or to detect lithium toxicity
When to Get Tested?
When beginning treatment with lithium as the dose is adjusted to achieve therapeutic blood levels; at regular intervals to monitor lithium levels; as needed to ... |
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For millennia, teachers and students have loved and hated one another. The excitement of kindergartners eager to tell their teacher what happened at home last night and the teenager with head down on desk waiting to hear the buzzer end 54-minutes of listening to the teacher–all are part of the relationship between stud... |
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