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Mambila Tribe: Ethnological Report of C K
(p85) Ethnology - the Mambila tribe
As Mr Meek, on account of illness, spent only 10 days investigating
this tribe, I make bold to offer a few minor additions to his
- I was able to verify the account of the Moon Rites (vide MTS I
547-8) which is correct in every detail except ... |
Turning Of The Tide At Tonle Sap
Tonle Sap is an interesting body of fresh water. Certain times of the year, it is a lake and other times of the year it is a river. During the dry season (November-May) the water drains into the Mekong in Phnom Penh creating a river and when the monsoon season hits (June-October), the f... |
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- The Welsh Vigesimal Number System [02/17/2003]
What can you tell me about the... |
Gallup has conducted an expansive survey in an attempt to determine how many people openly identify as a member of the LGBT community across the United States. While the difference between specific states was not particularly significant, research Gary Gates points out that the findings do show that states with more pr... |
LONDON (Reuters) - Ten international drug companies are to team up with scientists from 11 European countries to create a bank of stem cells for a project aimed at speeding up the development of new medicines.
StemBANCC, coordinated by Swiss drugmaker Roche and managed by scientists at Oxford University, aims to use so... |
Factors affecting the development of food allergy
Allergy to food is a common problem affecting up to 1 in 20 children and 1 in 30 adults. It causes a great deal of anxiety, and interference in daily activities especially shopping and mealtimes.
This Chapter in the ‘Thought for Food’ book will address what food allergy... |
The Growing Child: 7 to 9 Months
While all babies may grow at a different rate, the following indicates the average for boys and girls 7 to 9 months of age:
- Weight: average gain of 1 pound each month; boys usually weigh about 1/2 pound more than girls; two-and-a-half times the birthweight by 8 months
- Height: averag... |
|12/7/1941 - World War II: Attack On Pearl Harbor - The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the US Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Pearl Harbor was one of those watershed events in history that would make an impression on everyone whether they were there or not.... |
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Osteoarthritis is usually diagnosed after your doctor has taken a careful history of your symptoms. A physical exam will be done. There are no definitive lab blood tests to make an absolute diagnosis of osteoarthritis. Certain tests, specifically x-rays of the joint, may confirm your doctor’s impression that you have d... |
An economist who put a premium on truth: Obituary of Leonid Hurwicz
Financial Times comment, 19 July 2008
Leonid Hurwicz, the economist who last year became the oldest person ever to win a Nobel prize, helped transform economic thinking in the second half of the 20th century.
For years economists had been passionately ... |
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"Mouchan" Mouchan by mke1963
Mouchan Travel Guide: 2 reviews and 4 photos
The small village of Mouchan is unusual in this part of the world for being down in the valley by a river - the Osse. Most villages are old and are therefore built up on the ridges and hilltops. Fourcès is another exception, but probably also, li... |
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Molybdenum is a trace element found in a wide variety of foods. Foods that grow above ground - such as peas, leafy vegetables (including broccoli and spinach) and cauliflower - tend to be higher in molybdenum than meat and foods that grow below the ground, such as potatoes.
Foods particularly high in molybdenum include... |
(ARA) - Traditionally, the term “war zone” elicits images of tanks, gunfire and military personnel. However, as technology evolves, so do the weapons associated with the art of warfare. Most recently, the battleground has moved online, with the introduction of a new computer malware threat known as “Flame.”
Flame steal... |
It's easy at first glance to envision the Caribbean islands as all being the same sunny, sandy vacation destinations, but they are different in as many ways as they are similar. Just as political and economic factors determine the personality of the islands, so do various landforms that may, or may not, be shared from ... |
What do we really know about creativity? Very little. We know that creative genius is not the same thing as intelligence. In fact, beyond a certain minimum IQ threshold – about one standard deviation above average, or an IQ of 115 – there is no correlation at all between intelligence and creativity. We know that creati... |
Teaching Strategies: Effective Discussion Leading
While lecturing is a fast and direct way to communicate a body of knowledge, discussion encourages students to discover solutions for themselves and to develop their critical thinking abilities. They learn how to generate ideas, consider relevant issues, evaluate soluti... |
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This function unlocks a region in an open file. Unlocking a region enables other processes to access the region.
BOOL UnlockFileEx( HANDLE hFile, DWORD dwReserved, DWORD nNumberOfBytesToLockLow, DWORD nNumberOfBytesToLockHigh, LPOVERLAPPED lpOverlapped );
[in] Handle to a file that contains a region locked by the LockF... |
February 11, 2011 > Low Fat Doesn't Have to Mean Low Flavor
Low Fat Doesn't Have to Mean Low Flavor
Lunch and Learn Cooking Demonstration Focuses on Heart Healthy Options
In an ideal world, steamed broccoli and that slice of cheesecake in the refrigerator would have the same amount of calories and fat. Sadly, in the re... |
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Specifies the axis type for the X and Y-axes of a Series.
Assembly: System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization (in System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.dll)
The enumeration represents the axis type used for the X and Y-axes of a Series.
A Series is plotted using two axes, with the exception of pie and doughnut charts. Th... |
Here are the basics about the Boy Scouts of America:
Boy Scouts of America or BSA
Founded on 8 February 1910, in Washington, DC, by Chicago publisher William Boyce
Chartered by the US Congress in 1916 (a few other youth programs have congressional charters, including the Civil Air Patrol , Girl Scouts of the USA , the ... |
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Tenaim: The Conditions of Marriage
Contemporary couples are reinterpreting an old ceremony that set the financial and logistical arrangements for an upcoming marriage
The author provides a historical context for the Jewish tradition of tenaim where the families of prospective bride and groom would meet to set primarily... |
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Dr.Gerstenfeld held this lecture on the 8th of November in Helsinki Finland. The summary of the lecture is republished here with the author’s consent.
THE ABUSE OF HOLOCAUST MEMORY 2011-2012
Summary of Lecture in Helsinki 8 November 2012
By Manfred Gerstenfeld
The Holocaust has become a symbol of absolute evil in Weste... |
Heaven and Hope
The Wilderness Society 2010-2011, “Heaven and Hope” written by Jeff Rennicke
The lands that belong to all Americans have long provided wilderness, recreation, and heavenly scenery. Now, scientists say, protecting them just might hold our best hope of saving the planet.
“As confusing as these numbers see... |
Gluten Free Facts
What is gluten?
Gluten is the protein found in wheat, barley, rye and related wheat species such as spelt and kamut. It helps baked goods keep their form and chewy texture and is also added to other food items more and more, both for consistency and taste purposes.
Helpful Hint: Buckwheat, contrary to... |
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Gold has been known since prehistory. The symbol is derived from Latin aurum (gold).
AuI 9.2 eV, AuII 20.5 eV, AuIII 30.0 eV.
Absorption lines of AuI
In the sun, the equivalent width of AuI 3122(1) is 0.005.
Behavior in non-normal stars
The probable detection of Au I was announced by Jaschek and Malaroda (1970) in one ... |
Breaking the cycle of poverty
More than one-third of the 242 counties in the Southeastern persistent poverty region are located in Georgia. Spanning from Athens-Clarke county to Miller to Troup, these counties are defined by statistics that boggle the mind, especially against the backdrop of Georgia's economic strength... |
Both devices rely on injectable solutions of radiopharmaceuticals, which are drugs that are labeled with radioactive isotopes. As the solution circulates throughout the body, it tends to accumulate in malignant cells. The congregated radiopharmaceuticals emit gamma-rays, which are sensed as light by the devices and the... |
This week marks the anniversary of the first time a human, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, went into space. It's also the anniversary of the inaugural launch of NASA's space shuttle program. We've assembled a slideshow representing some of the spacecraft used for manned space travel in the past, present, and future. See... |
Jean Ritchie, folk singer and UK graduate, being presented the school's first Founders Day award by President Donovan.
According to the April 4, 1944 Board of Trustees Minutes President Donovan recommend that the University celebrate the day of its founding. "Some time ago I requested Professor E. L. Gillis, who is pro... |
Using voting records, the researchers found out political party affiliation for 35 of the men and 47 of the women in that study. Political parties aren't a perfect match with ideology, but they come very close, the researchers wrote Feb. 13 in the journal PLOS ONE. Most Democrats hold liberal values, while most Republi... |
Elementary Matrices Generate the General Linear Group
Okay, so we can use elementary row operations to put any matrix into its (unique) reduced row echelon form. As we stated last time, this consists of building up a basis for the image of the transformation the matrix describes by walking through a basis for the domai... |
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Heliocentrism is a theory which has become an established dogma in 21st century privately-funded science, despite having been abandoned in the 20th century, according to Conservapedia. Heliocentrism is the concept that a giant magnet is located in the center of the Earth... |
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Coral reefs aren't just pretty, they're also vital to marine species and island communities. But they're also facing threats from warming seas. NBC's Anne Thompson reports.
More than half of 82 species of coral being evaluated for inclusion under the Endangered Species Act "more likely than not" would go extinct by 210... |
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Courtesy Iona Knapp
Iona Knapp, right, has been diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment, a potential precursor to Alzheimer's disease. Like 1 in 7 people with Alzheimer's or other dementias, the 65-year-old Lake Monticello, Va., woman lives alone. Her daughter, Sharon Mullen, lives 90 minutes away, in Manassas.
Iona K... |
It's a look that's been painted and photographed untold times: a mother gazing deep into her infant's eyes while the two smile and kiss. Psychologists believe this interplay helps a child's emotional and cognitive development. The behavior was thought to exist only in humans and to a lesser extent in our closest kin, c... |
With over 58% of the energy consumed in the home going to heating water and heating and cooling the rooms, you can make drastic changes in the amount of energy consumed and the money you pay for it just by making modifications to the way you control the temperature in your home.
Solar Water Heaters: Your water heater i... |
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Floaters are deposits of various size, shape, consistency, refractive index, and motility within the eye’s vitreous humour, which is normally transparent. At a young age the vitreous is perfectly transparent but, during life, imperfections gradually develop. The common type of floater, which is present in most people’s... |
Best Known For: Catalan painter Joan Miró combined abstract art with Surrealist fantasy to create his lithographs, murals, tapestries, and sculptures for public spaces.
Born to the families of a goldsmith and a cabinet-maker, he grew up in the Barri Gòtic neighborhood of Barcelona. His father was Miquel Miró Adzerias a... |
Adult survival rates of Shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis), Common Guillemot (Uria aalge), Razorbill (Alca torda), Puffin (Fratercula arctica) and Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) on the Isle of May 1986-96
Harris, M. P.; Wanless, S.; Rothery, P.. 2000 Adult survival rates of Shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis), Common Guillemo... |
Our Constitution offers us "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," but we can't pursue anything if we are unhealthy. Yet, health disparities in the United States are a fact of life. African Americans have shorter lives than Whites for three reasons. One has to do with income and poverty. Poor people [27 percent o... |
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These two group activities use mathematical reasoning - one is
numerical, one geometric.
EWWNP means Exploring Wild and Wonderful Number Patterns Created by Yourself! Investigate what happens if we create number patterns using some simple rules.
Place this "worm" on the 100 square and find the total of the four
squares... |
“Eau Canada” brings together 28 of Canada’s top water experts to debate Canada’s most critical water issues, and to map out solutions.The diverse range of contributors – geographers, environmental lawyers, former government officials, aquatic scientists, economists, and political scientists – reflects the broad range o... |
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As with other socially-responsible industries, the real estate industry must be a part of addressing issues relating to communities and the environment. Towns and cities, as well as recreational developments, have environmental impacts and, with growing awareness of land use issues and pollution, the public requires bo... |
Air MassAn extensive body of the atmosphere whose physical properties, particularly temperature and humidity, exhibit only small and continuous differences in the horizontal. It may extend over an area of several million square kilometres and over a depth of several kilometres.
Backing WindCounter-clockwise change of w... |
How Do Blind People Describe Different Colors?
Having been blind since birth, Tommy Edison is used to fielding questions about how he perceives the concept color. He finally sets the record straight in his recent YouTube video, “Describing Colors To Blind People,” that’s been making the rounds on the Internet.
“I’ve ne... |
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Mutualism is very common: the classic example is the relationship pollinators and their plants. Around 70% of land plants require other species to help them reproduce via pollination. Often, the pollinators, like bees and wasps, gain food from the plant while the plant benefits by getting to mix its genes with other pl... |
Gospel of Mark
The Gospel According to Mark, also known as The Gospel of Mark, is one of the four canonical Gospels. It was most likely the earliest of the four to be written. Scholars typically estimate it was written between 70CE and 90CE, by an unknown author.
In Mark 9:1 , Jesus says to his followers:
- "Verily I s... |
short-limbed toad with rough skin - covered with warts, prominent parallel parotid glands
and (usually) a bright yellow stripe centrally down the back (B159, B160, B161).
- Male: to about 2.5 inches; Female: slightly larger (B161).
- Normally 7-8cm, occasionally to 10cm, females larger than males (B159).
Head: Parallel... |
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MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 00:27:01
Maine is a place apart from the mainstream of American society. Beginning early in Maine’s history, settlers, merchants, visitors, artists, and writers brought images of Maine to the rest of the world that shaped the State's economy, identity, and heritage. T... |
Two fishing cats born at National Zoo9:02 am - 06/16/2012
Looks like the National Zoo has two new young additions! Twin fishing cats were born May 18, marking an important milestone for the endangered species.
The twin kittens were the first-ever fishing cats to be bred and produced in the D.C. area — making future bre... |
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the general notion of determinism in philosophy. For other uses, see Determinism (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Fatalism, Predeterminism, or Predictability.... |
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- Date: January 25, 2011
- In This Story:
Asian tiger reserves can support more than 10,000 wild tigers—three times the current estimate—if they are managed as large-scale landscapes that protect core breeding sites and benefit local communities, according to the world’s leading conservation scientists in a new study p... |
Are the cables in your living room creating a jungle? Don't worry – we'll help you untangle things so that Digital Television makes sense. Just pick the category that describes your problem, and we'll guide you through it – step-by-step.
Last Updated: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 > Related Articles
This article addresses FAQs abou... |
A consistent CSG model is one which is made up of solid objects with no dangling surfaces. In rayshade, it is quite easy to construct inconsistent models, which will usually appear incorrect in the final images. In rayshade, CSG is implemented by maintaining the tree structure of the CSG operations. This tree is traver... |
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To use kickstart mode, you must first create a kickstart file, and make it available to the Red Hat Linux installation program. Normally this is done by copying the kickstart file to the boot diskette, or making it available on the network. The network-based approach is most commonly used, as most kickstart installatio... |
Water creatures caught stealing DNA
Tiny freshwater organisms that have a sex-free lifestyle, may have survived so well because they steal genes from other creatures, US scientists report.
Researchers from the Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have found genes from bacteria, fungi and even plants incorpor... |
Public utilities provide electric, gas, water or telephone service to customers in a specified area. Utilities have a duty to provide safe and adequate service on reasonable terms to anyone who lives within the service area on without discriminating between customers. Because most utilities operate in near monopolistic... |
While any kind of dog can attack, some breeds are more prone to attacks than others. In fact, some dogs are more likely than others to kill humans.
The Centers of Disease Control estimates that more than 4.7 million people are bitten by dogs every year. Of those, 20 percent require medical attention.
In a 15-year study... |
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is the heroine of an eponymous series of books written by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, born Mary Gray Phelps, was an American author and an early advocate of clothing reform for... |
Italian Food & Cuisine History
Despite the common American misconception, there is no typical approach when it comes to Italian cuisine. Instead, styles have developed over the centuries on the regional levels resulting in a multitude of customs and techniques. If there were to be a unifying theme in Italian cooking, h... |
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You had surgery to treat your gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). GERD is a condition that causes food or liquid to come up from your stomach into your esophagus (the tube that carries food from your mouth to your stomach).
Your surgeon probably repaired a hiatal hernia with stitches. A hiatal hernia develops when ... |
First Homer Encyclopedia Brings Epic Poetry and Ancient Greece to Life Tuesday, April 17, 2012
TAU researcher sheds light on Homer's reception in the Western, Jewish and Arabic worlds
Homer, one of the most famous poets of all time, is firmly entrenched in the Western canon as a master of classical literature. His two ... |
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- East African Muslims After 9/11 (2005)
- Much has been said about 9/11, but little research has been done on the impact the events had on Africa. This paper explores how Muslims in East Africa view the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Particular attention will be given to the case of Kenya. Wha... |
Inspecting Heating Systems & Carbon Monoxide
Carbon monoxide poisoning has been on the rise in recent years, and it stems in large part from the home’s heating system. At first glance, modern heating systems may seem the same as those that have been used safely for years. However, there are some key differences that ma... |
noun (plural analyses /-siːz/)
- the process of separating something into its constituent elements: the procedure is often more accurately described as one of synthesis rather than analysisOften contrasted with synthesis.
- 2short for psychoanalysis.other schools of analysis have evolved out of the original disciplines... |
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A study released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may have the weary thinking about getting some rest before they get behind the wheel. The study found that one in 24 U.S. adults said they recently fell asleep while driving.
The National Highway Safety Administration estimates 2.5 percent of ... |
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Donald W. Pfaff
|Donald W. Pfaff, PhD|
Donald W. Pfaff, Ph.D., professor and head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller University, is a brain scientist who uses neuroanatomical, neurochemical and neurophysiological methods to study the cellular mechanisms by which the brain controls behavio... |
The Savannah River Site is likely a prime contender for storing spent nuclear fuel for decades to come, according to a report released Thursday.
The study by Robert Alvarez, a former senior adviser at the Department of Energy and professor at Johns Hopkins University, outlines the possible impact of making SRS an inter... |
Tiruvellore Thattai Krishnamachariar
(1899–1974) was the Indian
Finance Minister from 1956–1958 and from 1964-1966. Krishnamachariar, who was born into a Tamil Iyengar
Brahmin family graduated from Madras Christian College
(MCC) and was a visiting professor to the department of economics at MCC. He resigned from the po... |
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Battle of the Kentish Knock
The Battle of the Kentish Knock (also known as the Battle of the Zealand Approaches) was a naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War fought on 8 October 1652 near the shoal called the Kentish Knock in the North Sea about 30 km from the mouth of the river Tha... |
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The sampling frequency or sampling rate defines the number of samples per second taken from a continuous signal to make a discrete signal. The inverse of the sampling frequency is the sampling period or sampling time, which is the time between samples.
The sampling frequency can only b... |
The main objectives of the project are: to strengthen the indigenous organizations for the exercise of human rights and the promotion of the rights of the Declaration
The desired results are the strengthening of indigenous organizations in relation with the Declaration of United Nations and their mechanisms of implemen... |
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Invasion of Privacy
The right of privacy is a common-law (court-made) cause of action that is a fairly new legal development. The U.S. Constitution contains no direct references to the right of privacy. There are few statutes that affect privacy and most invasion of privacy lawsuits that publishers may face are of the ... |
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