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Traffic lights that act locally can improve traffic globally, new research suggests. By minimizing congestion, the approach could save money, reduce emissions and perhaps even quash the road rage of frustrated drivers.
The new approach makes traffic lights go with the flow, rather than enslaving drivers to the tyranny ... |
Term: bilge (maritime)
1. Part of the underwater body of a ship between the flat of the bottom and the straight vertical sides. 2. Internally, the lowest part of the hull, next to the keelson.
View pictures related to boating at Wisconsin Historical Images.
[Source: "Glossary." Wisconsin's Great Lakes Shipwrecks (http:... |
The Solid Waste Management Department is committed to helping maintain a healthy environment for Albuquerque's current and future generations.
Recycling helps keep disposal costs down while preserving natural resources and protecting the air, soil, and groundwater. Much of the more than 1,800 tons of trash generated by... |
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Pollinated by insects.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Literally, insect-loving: applied to flowers in which, on account of their structure, fertilization can ordinarily be effected only by the visits of insects.
- In phytogeography, paras... |
Musica et scolica enchiriadis
The ninth century Musica enchiriadis begins by comparing musical notes to letters.
Latin: Patrologia cursus completus, series latina, ed. J P MIgne, vol 132, p957
The same text also apparently enjoinders uniting the phrasing of words and music.
Item ut in unum terminentur particulae neumar... |
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Causing fermentation.
- adj. Capable of causing or undergoing fermentation.
- adj. Relating to or of the nature of fermentation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Causing or having power to cause fermentation.
- Of the nature of, consisting ... |
Whether you are a teacher, golf instructor or a volunteer for The First Tee, we trust that "The Science of Golf" will be a great addition to your program curriculum.
"The Science of Golf I" introduces physics to students who will see the principles demonstrated through experiments they can do in the classroom. This pro... |
The Philippines had suffered under the Japanese occupation. A highly effective guerilla campaign controlled sixty percent of the islands, mostly jungle and mountain areas. MacArthur had supplied them by submarine, and sent reinforcements and officers. Filipinos remained loyal to the United States, partly because of the... |
General Information About Small Cell Lung Cancer
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) accounts for approximately 15% of bronchogenic carcinomas.
At the time of diagnosis, approximately 30% of patients with SCLC will have tumors confined to the hemithorax of origin, the mediastinum, or the supraclavicular lymph nodes. These pa... |
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The German aircraft industry excelled in producing efficient aircraft for high altitude reconnaissance duties and pioneered the use of aircraft specifically designed for the ground attack role.
The Albatros C.XII was a German military reconnaissance aircraft which saw service during the late period of World War I. It d... |
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Architecture in Ancient China
For most visitors to China, sightseeing means a daily encounter
with Chinese architecture of one type or another ranging from
temples through gardens, mausoleum, pagodas, imperial palaces
to residential houses.
The Forbidden City in Beijing best exemplifies the elements of palace architect... |
Finding the cause of your fever
This page has information on finding the cause of fever. You can go straight to sections on
To treat a fever, you need to know what is causing it. If you develop a fever, your doctor will want to examine you and ask you a number of questions. This is so they can find out the exact cause ... |
The heaviest known insects are the Goliath beetles of equatorial Africa. One fully grown male was found to weigh 3.5 ounces. (almost as much as a handful of quarters)
The heaviest human in medical history was Jon Brower Minnoch, who weighted 392 lbs. in 1963, 700 lbs. In 1966, and 975 lbs. in 1976. After being admitted... |
Experiencing Mathematics and Technology Education
This course builds on understandings of Mathematics and Statistics and Technology developed in the 100 level course Mathematics and Technology Introductory Studies. Course content will include exploring components of The New Zealand Curriculum relevant to Mathematics an... |
Annual Report to Congress FY 2004
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OVERVIEW OF OCR COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the U.S. Department of Education (ED) is responsible for enforcing five federal civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, d... |
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Each year U.S. hospitals have 300,000 admissions for broken hips. Falling is often the cause of those fractures.
As we age, many physical factors put us at an increased risk of falling such as: hearing loss, vision loss, lack of mobility and loss of muscles mass. The average person will lose about one percent of their ... |
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Tue August 9, 2011
Test a Mother's Blood To Learn Her Baby's Sex Early On
Boy or girl? Expectant parents are often dying to know. Some mothers are even trying to influence it with their diet. But the tests used to determine a baby's sex before birth l... |
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Latest illnesses point to raw milk's popularity
WASHINGTON – An outbreak of bacterial infections on the East Coast illustrates the popularity of raw, unpasteurized milk despite strong warnings from public health officials about the potential danger.
Even presidential candidate Ron Paul has joined the cause of consumers... |
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From power plants to paper mills, quarries to crematoriums – every year companies across North Carolina pump millions of pounds of chemicals and particulates into the atmosphere.
And no matter where you are in North Carolina, one thing remains constant – you’ve got to pay to pollute.
Most air polluters in the state pay... |
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The IEP Team recommends services in the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) appropriate to your child's needs. This means that the IEP Team, of which you are a member, must consider how special education services can be provided to your child that will allow him or her to be educated with children who do not have disab... |
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Soap may hold a dirty little secret in the form of a chemical called triclosan. Used in antiseptic hand soaps, shaving gel, toothpaste, deodorant and other hygiene products, a new study has found the chemical can weaken muscle contraction.
When researchers at the University of California at Davis exposed the individual... |
Headphone impedanceAlso known as nominal impedance. The impedance is the AC resistance of the coils of loudspeakers and headphones in ohms. Since impedance depends on the frequency, it is always specified at a frequency of one kilohertz.
Polar patternThe polar pattern is the preferred pick-up direction of the microphon... |
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English Revolution of 1688
James II, having reached the climax of his power after the successful suppression of Monmouth's rebellion in 1685, then had the Tory reaction in his favour, complete control over Parliament and the town corporations, a regular army in England, a thoroughly Catholic army in process of formatio... |
What is Apprenticeship?
Apprenticeship is a training program that combines on-the-job training, work experience and technical training in a trade. From day one, apprentices earn a salary for their time on the job. An apprenticeship training program lasts one to four years depending on the trade.
Are You Interested in B... |
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A modern dictionary of Catholic terms, both common and obscure. Find accurate definitions of words and phrases.
INCREASE OF MERIT
Factors that increase a person's supernatural reward for good works performed in the state of grace. There are four such factors: 1. the degree of sanctifying grace in which a person does so... |
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Tragedy of Karbala
What is Ashura ?In the month of Muharram 61 AH (approx. 20 October 680 AD), an event took place in Iraq at a place known as Karbala on the bank of the river Euphrates. It seemed in those days insignificant from the historical point of view. A large army which had been mobilized by the Umayyad regime ... |
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Communities far from the southern border are taking extra steps to integrate new Hispanic residents.
The Hispanic population is growing more rapidly than other segments of the U.S. population, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released in May, so a growing number of local governments are working to integrate Latinos... |
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What is intestinal cancer?
Cancer of the small intestine is a rare form of cancer typically caused by four types of tumors or classifications. The most common type of small intestine cancer is adenocarcinoma. Other, less common types are: carcinoid tumors, gastrointestinal stromal tumors and lymphomas.
Celiac Disease a... |
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Government, Politics, and Reform - Overview
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln are all represented in the Museum's collections—by a surveying compass, a lap desk, and a top hat, among other artifacts. But the roughly 100,000 objects in this collection reach beyond the possessions of statesmen to t... |
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(S.D.)-Search For Radioactive Decay Continues In SD Lab
LEAD, S.D. (AP) - Physicists in South Dakota have started assembling "detector units" in the search for a rare form of radioactive decay that could help explain how the universe evolved.
The Majorana Demonstrator Experiment is under construction in the Davis Campu... |
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Getting To The Bottom Of Dyscalculia—And Of Our Number Sense
Mathematician Brian Butterworth is on a crusade to understand the number deficit called dyscalculia—and to help those who have it, reports Ewen Callaway in the journal Nature:
“Researchers estimate that as much as 7% of the population has dyscalculia, which i... |
Zombies are serious business.
Just ask the woman who was shot (non-fatally) by her boyfriend after they got in a fierce argument over the probability of a real-life zombie apocalypse, a conversation sparked by AMC's hit drama The Walking Dead. She thinks it's pure fantasy, but he thinks a "military mishap" could make t... |
Evidence from caves in Siberia indicates that a global temperature increase of 1.5° Celsius may cause substantial thawing of a large tract of permanently frozen soil in Siberia. The thawing of this soil, known as permafrost, could have serious consequences for further changes in the climate.
Permafrost regions cover 24... |
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18 Feb 2009 Corn starch/water on
an audio speaker. There is a very interesting video at this link
of oobleck dancing on an audio speaker:
Subject:University of Iowa Hydraulics
Center Films on Youtube (six films)
Introduction to the study of fluid
motion (1961, 25 minutes) http://youtu.be/EIuU9Q8CGDk
The first in a wide... |
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In 1957 the French government initiated the creation of a new dictionary of the French language, the Trésor de la Langue Française. In order to provide access to a large body of word samples, it was decided to transcribe an extensive selection of French texts for use with a computer. Twenty years later, a corpus totali... |
Latest Field News
Mkomazi: ‘Born Wild’ book
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Mkomazi National Park is a hugely important part of Tanzania's national Black rhino conservation strategy - the park holds 20% of Tanzania's Black Rhino population.
Chester Zoo has supported Mkomazi in various ways over the years, presently the focu... |
Pediatric Health Library :: Pediatric Health Library Topics
Water Safety - Injury Statistics and Incidence Rates
The following statistics are the latest available from the National SAFE KIDS Campaign and the National Safety Council:
Injury and death rates:
- Approximately 838 children ages 14 and under drowned in 2002;... |
What is an S corporation?
An S corporation is a regular corporation that lets you enjoy the limited liability of a corporate shareholder but pay income taxes on the same basis as a sole proprietor or a partner.
In a regular corporation (also known as a C corporation), the company itself is taxed on business profits. Th... |
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December 15, 2010
Contact: John Ascenzi, Department of Public Relations, 267-426-6092 or email@example.com
Researchers at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia contributed important pediatric data to the largest-ever genetic study of Crohn’s disease. In this study, the International IBD Genetic Consortium drew on sam... |
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By Dr. Mercola
One of the reasons why conventional cancer treatment is such a dismal failure in the United States is because it relies on chemotherapy.
Chemotherapy drugs are, by their very nature, extremely toxic and typically work against your body's natural ability to fight cancer, e.g. destroying host immunity inst... |
March 17, 2011
Contact: Joey McCool Ryan, Department of Public Relations, 267-426-6070, firstname.lastname@example.org
A pilot study in healthy children and adolescents shows that it is feasible to screen for undiagnosed heart conditions that increase the risk of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). Adding a 10-minute electroc... |
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The Search for God Is Never a Search in the Dark
Although it is a dangerous business to select a passage from a Shakespeare play and hold it up as a mouthpiece of the poet, there are nevertheless a few key passages that seem to express the bard's own thoughts on the creative process. In Act V, Scene I of A Midsummer Ni... |
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African pink jacaranda (Jesse Durko, courtesy )
This monthly feature spotlights a plant well-suited for South Florida gardens.
Stereospermum kunthianum, the African pink jacaranda, produces lots of pink trumpet-shaped blooms from February to April. The bright blooms cover the tree particularly heavily after extended dr... |
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Make a resolution for a sustainable 2013
Lindsey Cromwell Kalkbrenner | December 31, 2012
While world leaders work to hammer out global solutions to climate change, there are many ways individuals can make sustainability a personal New Year's resolution in 2013. Sustainability requires us to more cl... |
Smart Buildings for Sustainable Energy Consumption
VALERIE ST JOHN: Hello I'm Valerie St John. Our focus today on BizWiseTV smart buildings for sustainable energy consumption. It's where climate concerns and the nation's economic crisis intersect, this need to seize control of our nation's energy consumption. But where... |
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Padraic Colum (18811972). The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived before Achilles. 1921.
Part II. The Return to Greece
Chapter V. Medea Comes to Circe
THEY sailed up the River Ister until they came to the Eridanus, that river across which no bird can fly. Leaving the Eridanus they entered the Rhodanus, a river that ... |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 June 2012 09:33 Posted by Clash Wednesday, 13 June 2012 08:45
Professor Ian Juby explains science/origins better than anyone I have seen. He has produced a 12-hour exhaustive look at the Creation/Evolution debate that can be watched in 30-minute segments on his website, Creation Week.
The ... |
As the year comes to a close, once again solar has experienced record growth in the U.S. This comes as new reports show that solar and renewables continue to fall in price and renewables are seen more and more as a mainstream power source. It also comes as some of the largest PV arrays ever conceived of are nearing com... |
Storytelling in the Classroom
Storytelling is not the same as reading aloud because it requires greater interaction between the teller and the listener. Therefore, storytelling is a great tool for improving children's communication skills, as well as developing language skills, comprehension, and self-awareness. (Readi... |
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More than 75% of Americans experience gingivitis at some level!Gingivitis, simply speaking, is gum disease in its mild form. Gingivitis is when the gums become inflamed and change color from the normal pink to red. The change of color is accompanied by bleeding, swelling... |
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We at Codecademy think everyone should be exposed to programming and computer science—especially kids. This back-to-school season, Codecademy wants to help every school to start an after-school programming club—an easy way for kids to start learning the programming skills that formal education doesn't yet provide. Prog... |
As a sleep researcher for Select Comfort, I often witness poor sleep strategies that result in a diminished quality of life. Insufficient or in adequate sleep not only affects how we look and feel, it also has far more dire consequences. Research firmly links poor sleep with many cardiovascular and metabolic diseases s... |
What are AS Levels
AS level, or Advanced Subsidiary Level exams are the first half of an 'A Level'.
AS Levels are normally taken in Year 12, with most schools asking students to choose between 3 and 5 AS Levels. These were introduced to give students more choice in their subjects.
AS Levels comprise of 3 units.
After d... |
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