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As if creaking joints and hardening of the arteries weren't bad enough, a research team from the University of Delaware and the Christiana Care Health System in Newark has now confirmed that even our veins stiffen as we age.
"When you are young, your veins are nice and elastic--like rubber bands," William Farquhar, a c... |
New tool developed to trace brown fat, fight obesity
London, July 19 (IANS) Scientists have enlisted a pioneering new tool which uses thermal imaging to spot brown fat - the body's good fat - to fight obesity.
Brown fat plays a vital role in quickly burning away the calories and produces 300 times more heat than any ot... |
In 1860–61 Robert O’Hara Burke and William John Wills led an expedition to cross Australia from Melbourne in the south to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north. After arriving at their base camp at Cooper’s Creek, Burke selected Wills, John King and Charles Gray to accompany him to the gulf and left four men at the base... |
France 1868 – 1941
Breton women with umbrellas
[Les bretonnes aux ombrelles] 1892
oil on canvas
canvas 81.0 (h) x 105.0 (w) cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris , Purchase 1955
© RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
In 1886, at the age of eighteen, Bernard set off on a walking trip through Normandy and Brittany. There he met Pau... |
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During the 1980s the number of babies born annually was around 12. The total twice fell sharply in the 1990s until just a single calf appeared in 2000. Since then, the average has risen to more than 20 calves a year. Yet this remains 30 percent below the whales' potential rate of reproduction. Why? If scientists are to... |
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1. Iron Deficiency Anemia: Prevention, Assessment and Control—Report of a Joint WHO/UNICEF/UNU Consultation. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 1998. World Health Organization/United Nations Children’s Fund/United Nations University.
2. Brotanek JM, Halterman J, Auinger P, Flores G, Weitzman M. Iron defici... |
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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/916979
- The 'humped' soil production function: eroding Arnhem Land, Australia
Heimsath, Arjun M.;
Hancock, Greg R.
- The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Science & Information Technology, School of Environmental and Life Sciences... |
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Draw a square. A second square of the same size slides around the
first always maintaining contact and keeping the same orientation.
How far does the dot travel?
Points A, B and C are the centres of three circles, each one of
which touches the other two. Prove that the perimeter of the
triangle ABC is equal to the diam... |
In contrast to animals and lower plants such as mosses and ferns, sperm cells of flowering plants (angiosperms) are immobile and require transportation to the female gametes via the vegetative pollen tube cell to achieve double fertilization. The path of the pollen tube towards the female gametophyte (embryo sac) has b... |
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- Blockages in the lungs and airways
- Problems digesting and absorbing nutrients
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- Parents who are known carriers of the CF gene
- Siblings with CF
- Parents with CF (mostly mother since men with CF are often sterile)
- Difficulty passing the first stool (meconium)
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By: Yusuf Kaba Imhotep, The MoundBuilder
The concept of what a man is continues to be greatly debated. These days the dominant idea of men are, Bread winners, Head of Household, dogs, enemies, or Mates, to name a few. The question oft-times remains, “What are the qualities that truly define a man?” Our ancient cultures... |
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Every year, tens of millions of sharks are killed for their fins alone. Shark fins are used to make shark fin soup, a popular and expensive dish that is a symbol of wealth and status primarily in Asian cultures.
The demand for fins can lead to cruel and wasteful practices, such as cutting off a shark’s fins at sea and ... |
In the southeast U.S., deep-sea corals create oases of special habitat along the coast and are extremely vulnerable to certain kinds of fishing such as bottom trawling and dredging.
Both corals and fisheries are managed by the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council. In 2004, the Council responded to the convincing d... |
Remotes via IP
Putting it all together
So let me summarize the problems with Internet transmission of audio and the techniques used to minimize them. First, there is network congestion, or plain lack of bandwidth. That issue is tackled by minimizing the necessary bandwidth, by using a lossy codec (or in the case of APT... |
You can type or hand write as well as sketch drawings in OneNote.
With OneNote, you can enter typed and handwritten notes and other information with a keyboard or an inking device such as a mouse, a Tablet PC, or a graphics tablet.
If you use a Tablet PC, handwritten notes can be converted into text (handwriting recogn... |
The Brood X bugs, red-eyed cousins of the larger annual black-eyed late-summer "Dog Day" green cicadas, will begin emerging from their underground holes in western North Carolina later this month. They don't devour vegetation the way locusts do, and they don't bite or sting. But they sure do sing.
Like many human adole... |
Front Page Titles (by Subject) Origin and Causes of the Sterility of first Crosses and of Hybrids. - The Origin of Species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life, vol. 2
Return to Title Page for The Origin of Species by means of natural selection or the preservation ... |
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Front Page Titles (by Subject) CHAP. VI.: The Reason why Interest was lowered one half after the Conquest of the Indies. - Complete Works, vol. 2 The Spirit of Laws
The Online Library of Liberty
A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
Search this Title:
CHAP. VI.: The Reason why Interest was lowered one half after the Conquest... |
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By driving your SUV, are you sentencing the planet to environmental devastation? Recently, the Clinton Administration released its National Assessment on Climate Change and America, a catalogue of potential disasters resulting from global warming. With admirable understatement, a headline in the news section of the Wal... |
Sugar might not be the infant pain reliever clinicians have long thought it to be, according to a study in the Lancet. At a hospital in London, researchers randomly assigned 44 newborns to receive a squirt of either sugared or plain water before pricking their heels. (The heel prick is a common method for drawing infan... |
Sin has a lot of moving parts. It features seven ancient figures, some of whom have instant name recognition (Jesus, Paul, Augustine) and some of whom do not (Valentinus, Marcion, Justin, Origen). Jesus and Paul were both Jews whose ideas about sin related in positive and creative ways to the sacrificial cult of Jerusa... |
S. Nurnberg, M. Aberhan. Habitat breadth and geographic range predict diversity dynamics in marine Mesozoic bivalves. Paleobiology. [#175]
M. E. Clapham, M. L. Fraiser, P. J. Marenco, S. Z. Shen. Taxonomic composition and environmental distribution of post-extinction rhynchonelliform brachiopod faunas: constraints on s... |
If you visit the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney, take a few minutes to look for a small bridge over a stream near the Wollemi Pine, ‘Australia’s homegrown Christmas tree’, close to the information booth.
This is Macquarie Culvert.
The two brick arches were built as part of the construction of Mrs Macquarie’s Road, whic... |
Archosaurs ([Greek for 'ruling lizards') are a group of diapsid reptiles that first evolved from Archosauriform ancestors during the Olenekian (Lower Triassic Period). They are represented today by birds and crocodiles. Archosaurs are set apart by having socketed teeth (a feature that inspired the traditional name, 'th... |
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The tumor ( Images A & B) shows lobules of cells similar to basal cells with masses of small keratinocytes surrounded by larger, palisading cells (Image C) on the periphery of the lobules. These uniform tumor cells possess large, oval, elongated nuclei and scant, poorly defined cytoplasm. There are no intercellular bri... |
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I am going to compare the two books because although there is overlapping information, each offers readers a different perspective. Both books describes the sensory systems and subtypes of Sensory Processing Disorders (SPD)- which are as follows:
· Sensory Modulation Disorder
o sensory over-responsivity
o sensory under... |
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If you take a prescription or an over-the-counter drug, and you can answer yes to any of these other questions, then you may be experiencing a drug interaction or conflict that is having an negative affect on your health:
- Do you take more than one drug - prescription or over-the-counter?
- Do you take vitamins or oth... |
May 04 2010
Today we talked about hydrogen and how it can be used to power vehicles. Of the forty-four free response questions on previous A.P. exams, none have addressed hydrogen power, so Mr. Willard said this would be “good knowledge to have in our pockets.”
First we reviewed what we already knew about hydrogen. Hyd... |
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Bittacus striatus Issiki, 1927
Diagnosis: This species has wings with dark shading along gradate series and at the origin of radial sector and branches of cubital vein. The male epiandrial lobes are about the same size as the basistyles and the base of the aedeagus is gradually widened until abruptly constricted to nar... |
“A remote Indian village is responding to global warming-induced water shortages by creating large masses of ice, or “artificial glaciers,” to get through the dry spring months. (See a map of the region.)
Located on the western edge of the Tibetan plateau, the village of Skara in the Ladakh region of India is not a com... |
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Researchers used satellite tracking to monitor the movements of the whales to discover that in 2010 they travelled between the Atlantic and Pacific seas via the famously ice-bound passage. Bones found on beaches in the region suggest that the last time the whales occ... |
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The third bi-annual Asia Sanitation and Hygiene Practitioners’ workshop, held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 31 January to 2 February 2012, reported notable progress in implementing menstrual hygiene into WASH programmes.
In 2008, menstrual hygiene management was signalled as a neglected area in WASH programmes. In 2010 th... |
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|CIS 235||Managing and Troubleshooting PCs||(3-0) 3 Cr. Hrs.|
Personal computer servicing and support will be covered within the following topics: physical and electrical concepts of motherboards, power supplies, BIOS and expansion buses; definitions and uses of microprocessors (CPU... |
Focus Areas for STEREO
Plasmas and their embedded magnetic fields affect the formation, evolution and destiny of planets and planetary systems. The heliosphere shields the solar system from galactic cosmic radiation. Our habitable planet is shielded by its magnetic fi eld, protecting it from solar and cosmic particle r... |
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In the case of residential lighting, new types of light bulbs, compact fluorescent lights or CFLs, are becoming popular. Wikipedia says the following about CFLs.
A compact fluorescent lamp (CFL), also called compact fluorescent light, energy-saving light, and compact fluorescent tube, is a fluorescent lamp designed to ... |
This is a coloring book that will introduce you to all the basic arithmetic facts using The Human Calculator Matrix.
- You will need 10 colored pencils for the exercises. Suggested colors are black, red, blue, pink, green, orange, violet, yellow, brown, and gray.
Discover all the patterns that will make you feel like a... |
The temple was built in the mid 9th century by Sri Kahulunnan or Pramodhawardhani, the daughter of Samaratungga. the complex is made up of 174 small buildings, 116 are stupas and 58 are shrines. Many of the buildings have inscriptions. the dates of the inscriptions are between 825-850 AD.
©2013 Gregorius Suhartoyo
My i... |
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The Bigger Picture: Visual Archives and the Smithsonian
OUCH: Scary Pictures of Broad Daylight
Last month, I wrote a post about the fact that when photographs of patients were attached to CT scans, the radiologists who “read” them did a better job because they had a stronger connection to the patient pictured. More rec... |
Rejected in concept by local voters in 2000, Measure A would divide the Pasadena Unified School District into seven so-called sub-districts. Its primary purpose is to promote greater minority representation on the Board of Education although its advocates allege that it will result in greater democracy, more “local con... |
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5 Questions: Time to fall back
The Time and Frequency Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which provides official time to the United States, answers questions about the twice-annual time change.
Q: What is daylight saving time?
A: Daylight saving time is the period of the year when clocks ar... |
Members of the United Nations
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All notes are based on Official list of member states
- Joined as Byelorussia. United Nations told of name change on 19 September 1991
- The Socialist Federal Republic of Yug... |
The list has been arranged, as possible, in reverse chronological order. I should note that the contents have been lightly edited to reduce entry length; almost all of these edits have removed references to recent sources in the outside literature which are not further identified. My apologies for this to the authors, ... |
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Underwater mountain of Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary is haven for sea life
Published: Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 3:05 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 3:29 p.m.
About 25 miles southwest of Bodega Bay, just beyond the horizon on a clear day, a huge rocky mountain rises from the muddy ocean f... |
Elephants We’ll Never Forget
In 1919 a Major Pretorius was given the task to shoot all the remaining elephants in the Addo area of the Eastern Cape in South Africa. By 1920 only 16 elephants remained and these were given sanctuary on the land of a farmer named J.T. Harvey. The elephants were viewed both as a nuisance a... |
From identifying Osama bin Laden to proving someone guilty of rape or murder, DNA analysis has become an essential scientific tool for police and criminal justice.
Unique genetic markers could play a crucial role in the trial of ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid in New Yor... |
A team of researchers led by the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered the first prehistoric bronze artifact made from a cast ever found in Alaska, a small, buckle-like object found in an ancient Eskimo dwelling and which likely originated in East Asia.
The artifact consists of two parts -- a rectangular bar, c... |
This study analyzes over 100 camps for Haiti’s internally displaced persons (IDPs), a random sample of one in eight of the 861 in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area. Despite the billions in aid pledged to Haiti, most of the estimated 1.5 million IDPs are living in substandard conditions. For example, seven months fol... |
For the past five years, Colombia's abysmal labor rights record has led congressional Democrats to freeze the proposed U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (TPA). And for good reason: The agreement would, in part, benefit large-scale monocropping plantations and other economic projects -- many of whose owners utiliz... |
Traditionally if scientists wanted to look at something small they would put a sample under a microscope but now researchers have managed to shrink the microscope itself to the size of a single human cell. An interdisciplinary research team, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council (BBSRC) an... |
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Sound Ethics: Book: The Good Doctors
Until the late 1960s, African American doctors were not permitted to belong to county medical associations.
And since it was those local associations that granted hospital privileges, African American physicians often were not permitted to admit patients to white-run hospitals in th... |
There is an unfortunate side effect when using gdb to debug multi-threaded programs. If one thread stops for a breakpoint, or for some other reason, and another thread is blocked in a system call, then the system call may return prematurely. This is a consequence of the interaction between multiple threads and the sign... |
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June is Cataract Awareness Month. Did you know that cataracts are the leading cause of vision loss among adults 55 and older? In fact, more than half the people over age 65 have some degree of cataract development. A cataract is a clouding of the lens in the eye, the part of the eye that focuses light and produces clea... |
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station enjoy holiday meals just as their families do here on Earth. Although the food is not mom's home cooking, it's also not the "tubes and cubes" of the first meals in orbit during the Apollo years.
Don't expect someone to break out the "good china," though. On the Station,... |
Avian flu, also known as “bird flu,” is caused by influenza viruses that occur naturally among wild birds. Normally, wild birds across the globe are carriers of a harmless form of these viruses, which don’t sicken them. But recently, a new strain of the virus, H5N1 (named for the proteins on the surface of the virus), ... |
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Sequences of numbers can have limits. For example, the sequence 1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, ... has the limit 0 and the sequence 0, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, ... has the limit 1.
But not all number sequences behave so nicely. For example, the sequence 1/2, 1/3, 2/3, 1/4, 3/4, 1/5, 4/5, ... keeps jumping up and down, rather than gettin... |
Benjamin Franklin: the Many Talents of an American Patriot
Birth to a humble life let him see how the world worked from the bottom,
Entering the world of high society let him see the view from above,
Nevertheless, he could always see the right path.
Joining the world of press at only fifteen,
Advising the world behind ... |
With the use of wind power continuing to grow, it’s no surprise that the tri-bladed turbines peppering an increasing swath of the American landscape have become the supermodels of green growth – the sky-swept arms and glistening towers appear tailor made for the camera’s lens.
But seldom is attention given to the green... |
Welcome Stephen Tremp with an awesome summary of what's at stake as we explore further into space ... enjoy:
|Dr Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)|
"The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.
From it we have learned most of what we know.
Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, ... |
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Thrust Chamber Assembly
When the fuel reaches the
thrust chamber, it is directed through 102 coolant channels in the
combustion chamber wall, providing regenerative cooling to the combustion
chamber walls, and then to the injector of the engine. The oxidizer
is routed directly to the injector. The platelet injector ass... |
PAS (Potato Aligning System)
The cutting of potato slices is very important for final product quality and to maximize product yield. It is important that potato slices are uniform in thickness to ensure the same treatment of each slice in further processes such as washing, blanching and frying.
The PPM Technologies PAS... |
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Oxygen makes Venus glow at night
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- Title Oxygen makes Venus glow at night
- Released 11/04/2007 2:35 pm
- Copyright ESA/VIRTIS/INAF-IASF/Obs. de Paris-LESIA
This grey-scale image was taken on 3 June 2006 by the Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (V... |
As if creaking joints and hardening of the arteries weren't bad enough, a research team from the University of Delaware and the Christiana Care Health System in Newark has now confirmed that even our veins stiffen as we age.
"When you are young, your veins are nice and elastic--like rubber bands," William Farquhar, a c... |
The motion of the planets around the Sun is like a never-ending race. Each planet follows its own lane around the Sun, and moves at its own speed. And as you might expect, a planet in an inside lane always beats one in an outside lane.
Consider Earth and Mars.
Earth is the third planet out from the Sun. Our “lane” -- o... |
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1. Iron Deficiency Anemia: Prevention, Assessment and Control—Report of a Joint WHO/UNICEF/UNU Consultation. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 1998. World Health Organization/United Nations Children’s Fund/United Nations University.
2. Brotanek JM, Halterman J, Auinger P, Flores G, Weitzman M. Iron defici... |
Author: Albert Ingalls
Hardcover: Volume 3 of 3
In the early 1920s a naturally curious fellow, Albert Ingalls, happened to read an article in an obscure magazine by an even more curious fellow, Russell Porter. The article was about the "Poor Man's" telescope and told the story of how a group of Vermont villagers built ... |
In contrast to animals and lower plants such as mosses and ferns, sperm cells of flowering plants (angiosperms) are immobile and require transportation to the female gametes via the vegetative pollen tube cell to achieve double fertilization. The path of the pollen tube towards the female gametophyte (embryo sac) has b... |
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Deer more active this time of year in roadways | News
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS)- Troopers are warning drivers to be on the lookout for deer crossing Missouri's roadways.
Colonel Ron Replogle, superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol says more deer are active this time of year especially during evening and ea... |
Nisbet, R.M. and Gurney, William (1982) Modelling fluctuating populations. John Wiley and Sons Limited, Chichester. ISBN 9781930665903Full text not available in this repository.
Modelling Fluctuating Populations, originally published in 1982, is a classic textbook because primarily, this book takes a distinctive approa... |
What is Sustainable Agriculture?
Agriculture has changed dramatically, especially since the end of World War II. Food and fiber productivity soared due to new technologies, mechanization, increased chemical use, specialization and government policies that favored maximizing production. These changes allowed fewer farme... |
You can use the Distance Measurement Tool to easily calculate the distance from one location to another in Google Maps.
To do this, follow these steps:
- Visit maps.google.com.
- Click the Maps Labs link at the bottom of the left-hand panel.
- Enable the Distance Measurement Tool.
- Click Save changes.
- Click the rule... |
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