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Hyenas cooperate, problem-solve better than primates
(NC&T/DU) Captive pairs of spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) that needed to tug two ropes in unison to earn a food reward cooperated successfully and learned the maneuvers quickly with no training. Experienced hyenas even helped inexperienced partners do the trick.
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With the news that Benedict the 16th is stepping down, thoughts are now turning to who his replacement might be.
A new Pope is expected to be elected by the end of March, ahead of the feast of Easter.
Some of the most likely successors come from Africa and Latin America.
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Whether you are taking the Holiday Challenge for the first time or you are a veteran nutritarian, rich holiday foods packed with oils, animal products, white flour, and sugar may look tempting to you. Maybe tempting enough for you to say to yourself “It’s just for today, just this one meal. I’ll go back to my healthy n... |
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"Having HIV appears to be associated with a greater risk of death, even when the immune system is relatively robust and patients have not started treatment," according to a study published Friday in the Lancet, MedPage Today reports (Smith, 7/15).
Though the WHO recommends patients begin receiving antiret... |
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On 14 February 1916, on the occasion of a banquet held by the Bell Telephone Company of Canada in Montréal, a call was placed to Vancouver - the first trans-Canadian telephone call, albeit routed through large parts of the United States. It would be another 16 years before such a call using all-Canadian lines would be ... |
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A huge study of millions of kids revealed for the first time the true measure of type 2 diabetes in children in the United States. The results appeared in the June 27, 2007 Journal of the American Medical Association. In the recent past, type 2 diabetes was called adult-onset diabetes because this obesity-related condi... |
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The Cardinal is probably one of the most recognizable and popular backyard birds because of its brilliant red color and crested head. It is a great bird to admire year-round. The color contrast of the brilliant red against fresh white snow really is a high point during the winter months.
Early settlers were said to hav... |
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This year, THE CONCRETE PRODUCER, with our sister publication, CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION, introduced the GreenSite Project of the Year con contest honoring the concrete community's efforts to promote concrete's role in creating eco-friendly structures that will stand the test of time.
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Create a Continuous Binding Strip for Your Quilt
When making bias strips for your quilt, you can either create one long strip or cut individual strips and then sew them together to get the length you need. You can use either of these methods to produce different types of bias binding.
To end up with a continuous bindin... |
An ancient Christian writer wrote that, "of all divine things, the most divine is to share with God in the saving of souls."
Interestingly, God and Souls was the motto of St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, whose revelations in the 1930s led to the modern Divine Mercy movement.
Our Lord asked St. Faustina to pray and offer th... |
Famous Women in Astronomy
Part of the Astronomy For Dummies Cheat Sheet
When you’re studying astronomy don’t forget the women that made an impact in the field. Check out this list of amazing achievements by women astronomers and astrophysicists:
Caroline Herschel (1750–1848) Discovered eight comets.
Annie Jump Cannon (... |
A common claim is that were we to experience miracles on the scale of the Exodus, then belief in God would be an altogether easier proposition. The problem is that the biblical text simply does not bear this out.
Parashat Beshallach neatly divides into two. Before the crossing of the Red Sea, the Children of Israel dis... |
How to Enter Basic Formulas in Excel 2007
As entries go in Excel 2007, formulas are the real workhorses of the worksheet. If you set up a formula properly, it computes the right answer when you first enter it into a cell. From then on, it keeps itself up to date, recalculating the results whenever you change any of the... |
The Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900
The Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900 (Paperback)
The Memory Factory introduces an English-speaking public to the significant women artists of Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, each chosen for her aesthetic innovations an... |
In 1990, the U.S. set the example for protection of the rights of people with disabilities in its Americans with Disabilities Act. The ADA became the template for many nationsí laws on disability rights and was recently the model used to design the United Nationsí Treaty on Disabilities Rights. Knowing this, it is diff... |
Fighting between government troops and guerrillas had broken out around the 4-year-old girl's family home in the countryside of this Central American country. The soldiers took advantage of the confusion and seized Contreras and her two siblings, who were under the age of 2.
"We all fled the house and suddenly it all e... |
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The alarm went off at 7 a.m. the morning my wife and I were leaving for Hawaii some years ago – but I was already awake. I had been hit early in the evening with severe nausea and stomach cramps.
The ride to the airport was pretty rough, but the eight-hour flight to the island paradise was near misery. I spent most of ... |
ROME, Ga. — Martin Cipollini, professor of biology at Berry College, has been working in partnership with the Georgia Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation to restore the American chestnut tree, which nearly was wiped out in the 1950s by blight in Southeastern forests.
By cross-pollinating some remaining American... |
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Why Teach Engineering In High School?
This PDF document and this PowerPoint file from the American Society for Engineering Education provide an overview of why teaching engineering in high school makes sense. Some of the benefits include:
- Engineering topics are everywhere
- Engineering combines math and science topic... |
The report shows that the majority of Iowa public school students in grades 3-8 and 11 met the state's annual objectives. In addition, 92.5 percent of Iowa's public school districts and 75 percent of Iowa schools were not identified as needing assistance for the 2009-2010 academic year.
The report card has some new inf... |
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Ten Steps to Better Student Engagement
Project-learning teaching strategies can also improve your everyday classroom experience.
Tristan de Frondeville
Credit: Courtesy of PBL Associates
As a teacher, my goal was to go home at the end of each day with more energy than I had at the beginning of the day. Seriously.
Now, ... |
Jenny Williams flips through her Grade 11 American history book and laughs when she sees Bill Clinton identified as the country's most recent president.
"It ends around 1996 ... there's nothing here about Afghanistan or Obama," says the 16-year-old student at Etobicoke's Martingrove Collegiate.
Her History of a Free Na... |
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Risk factors are habits and conditions that make heart disease more likely. The more you have, the higher your chances of heart attack, also known as acute myocardial infarction, or AMI, and other problems. Most ri... |
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Fungal Nail Infections
What is a fungal nail infection?
A fungal nail infection occurs when a fungus attacks a fingernail, a toenail, or the skin under the nail, called the nail bed. Fungi (plural of fungus) can attack your nails through small cuts in the skin around your nail or through the opening between your nail a... |
The Buddha points to two mental qualities as the underlying safeguards of morality, thus as the protectors of both the individual and society as a whole. These two qualities are called in Pali hiri and ottappa. Hiri is an innate sense of shame over moral transgression; ottappa is moral dread, fear of the results of wro... |
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Asthma: Using an Asthma Action Plan
What is an Actionset?
If you or your child has asthma that requires daily treatment, it is important to have an asthma action plan. An asthma action plan is a written plan that tells you what asthma medicine to take every day and how to treat an asthma attack. It can help you make qu... |
The following multimedia essay is a guest blog post from writer M. Sophia Newman.
One day, long after he became a teacher, the Buddha went to give his daily sermon to the monastic community. He climbed on the dais but didn’t speak. Instead, he held aloft a single flower. He waited in silence. The monks and nuns looked ... |
An abscessed tooth is a tooth that has a pocket of pus in the tissue next to it. This often occurs because the inside (pulp) of a tooth is infected and the bacteria spread to the tissue underneath the tooth. An abscess usually causes throbbing pain in the tooth and red, swollen gums.
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2. Migraine Is the Result of a Hypersensitive Brain
Most physicians—including experts in headache medicine—used to believe that migraine was caused by cranial blood vessels expanding and contracting, Rothrock says. “It was thought that migraine-associated constriction of blood vessels reduced blood flow to the eye or b... |
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Definition of Cowper's gland
Cowper's gland: A tiny gland in the male, also known as the bulbourethral gland. Named after the English anatomist William Cowper (1666-1709). See: Bulbourethral gland.Source: MedTerms™ Medical Dictionary
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Researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have used unmanned aircraft in three trials to count the number of sandhill cranes that visit the Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge and found them to be a safe alternative for both birds and scientists.
“What these systems do is they ... |
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Kevin Vosper wrote:
(Yes I know it's not strictly true but it is a good example).
Kevin Vosper wrote:So a better example would be "Tony Blair has been Prime Minister since 1987." The example is "good" in that it illustrates the fact that the present perfect deals with past time from the point "now." It looks back in ti... |
Oceana Petitions the Government to Protect Loggerhead Sea Turtles
The majestic loggerhead sea turtle, an animal that has inhabited Earth longer than man, faces extinction because of human activities, such as threats from fishing gear. In fact, loggerhead sea turtle populations in the Atlantic are plummeting and a recen... |
American Scientists Make Great Leap in Battery Technology
One of the primary concerns with owning an electric vehicle is cost of the battery, the range it offers, and the time it takes to recharge. Those concerns will be significantly lessoned with the development of a new lithium-ion battery. Designed by scientists at... |
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Written by Sandra Sorensen
Demonstrators converge on the U.S. Capitol during the April 9 Jubilee 2000 mobilization for debt relief.
© Sandra Sorensen
Following the biblical call for Jubilee—when slaves are set free and debts canceled (Leviticus 25)—on Sunday, April 9, several thousand people joined hands and encircled ... |
Trilobite Olenoides erratus. Source: Mark A.Wilson A fossil is the preserved remain of a lifeform that lived in prehistoric times. Most commonly fossils are mineralized parts or a whole organism which is no longer alive. In other cases the fossil may contain actual remains of the dead organism; in particular, DNA may b... |
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Study shows that blocking an inflammation pathway prevents cardiac fibrosis
Outcome could lead to a new therapeutic strategy for heart failure
New research from UC Davis published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that blocking an enzyme that promotes inflammation can prevent the tissue damag... |
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What Are the Six Common Air Pollutants?
The Clean Air Act requires EPA to set National Ambient Air Quality Standards for six common air pollutants. These commonly found air pollutants (also known as "criteria pollutants") are found all over the United States. They are particle pollution (often referred to as particulat... |
Forecasters predict as many as four to eight hurricanes this year. University of Houston resources have expertise in a variety of topics related to storms – before, during and after.
New Asthma Research Opposes Current Drug TreatmentMulti-institutional Study Supports Controversial Theory, Reveals Genetic Key
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Ozone - Good Up High Bad Nearby
What Causes "Bad" Ozone?
Ground-level or "bad" ozone is not emitted directly into the air, but is created by chemical reactions between oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOC) in the presence of sunlight. Emissions from industrial facilities and electric utilities, ... |
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Toxoplasmosis is an infection due to the parasite Toxoplasma gondii.
Toxoplasmosis is found in humans worldwide, and in many species of animals and birds. Cats are the definitive host of the parasite.
Human infection may result from:
Toxoplasmosis also affects people who have weakened immune systems.
The infection may ... |
Your gelding scrapes the front of his hind cannon. Should it be bandaged? Use these criteria to help you decide how to handle any leg wound:
- Depth. Wounds that penetrate all the way through the skin—enabling you to see the underlying tissues—provide deep access for infection-causing bacteria and are best covered unti... |
Coordination and integration
Early childhood care and education is often the concern of several government sectors and usually these are education, social affairs and health. The multi-faceted nature of early childhood care and education gives rise to the challenge of effectively coordinating provision of policy develo... |
SMART-1: the lunar adventure begins
ESA INFO 14-2003. This is clearly Europe's time for interplanetary exploration. Having sent the first European mission to Mars, ESA is about to launch its first probe to the Moon. It is called SMART-1 and its goals are both technological and scientific. It is the first of a series of... |
UNESCO Global Forum: Uses and misuses of university rankings
Are university rankings a good measure for comparing institutions of higher education? Are the criteria used in ranking systems relevant to students everywhere? Do they wield too much influence on policies of universities? These questions will be at the heart... |
Economic growth in India has no automatic connection to reducing undernutrition in Indian children and so further reductions in the prevalence of childhood undernutrition are likely to depend on direct investments in health and health-related programs. These are the conclusions of a large study by researchers at the Sc... |
|The panel at the Fourth Ministerial Follow-Up Forum to the Paris Commitments and Paris Principles, at which it was announced that five new nations have signed the Paris Commitments, designed to end the use of children in armed conflict and bringing the total number of signatories to 100.|
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What Your Blood Pressure Says About You
Here's how to get the most from your blood pressure readings.
Medically reviewed by Lindsey Marcellin, MD, MPH
Doctors have been measuring patients’ blood pressure, the force that blood exerts on the inside walls of your vessels — since the first sphygmomanometers (yes, that's wh... |
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United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Concludes 55th Session in Vienna
VIENNA, 18 June (UN Information Service) - The United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) has concluded its deliberations over ways and me... |
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A Lost Human Race: Neanderthal
Today, it has been definitively verified that
Neanderthal man, who is presented as the "primitive ancestor
of man" by evolutionists, is simply a lost human race.
Trinkets made of bone, which belonged to the Neanderthals.
Neanderthals are human beings who suddenly appeared
100,000 years ag... |
Dictionary Results for works|
1. works - noun
· buildings for carrying on industrial labor; "they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles"
Synonym(s): plant, industrial_plant
Hypernym(s): building_complex, complex
2. works - noun
· everything available; usually preceded by `the'; "we saw the whole shebang"; "a h... |
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|THE ROSARY DISSECTED|
|T. L. Frazier
the most emblematic sacramental in Catholicism is the rosary, that string of
beads with a crucifix attached. Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart pictured one on the
dust jacket of his anti-Catholic book, <Catholicism and Christianity>.1
Swaggart wrote, "The rosary (or prayer beads) was in... |
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FlowersAmong the many and more beautiful of our common wild flowers that grow beside the Tweed are the marsh marigold, or kingcup, loosestrife, purple and yellow, ragged robin and devil's-bit scabious.
The beautiful and rare include seven orchids: the purple dactylorrhiza - illutrated here, northern marsh and twayblade... |
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If you have trouble writing or coming up with ideas a story project plan may be just the thing to help you on your way. The very first thing you must decide on is the type of genre you want to write. If you are unsure of what the genres are, here is a good explanation you can study as well as here. Once you have your s... |
Being referred for radiation treatment is an unfamiliar experience to most cancer patients. On these pages, we will explain radiation oncology to you and answer questions that most often exist for our patients. And we will also explain why you should feel remarkably confident in coming to URMC, the region’s leader in r... |
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Collier, John, 1884–1968, American social worker, anthropologist, and author, educated at Columbia and the Collège de France. After holding several positions in community organization and social work training, he became active in Native American affairs in 1922. Collier was editor of the magazine American Indian Life f... |
Antianxiety drugs, including the propanediol meprobamate (Miltown or Equanil), and the more recent benzodiazephines—such as diazepam (Valium)—have found wide use in reducing tension and anxiety among individuals with less serious mental disorders, but may lead to addiction if abused. Although they form a chemically div... |
Constitutional FAQ Answer #5
Q5. "What do you believe are the reasons why the Constitution would not have been passed without the Bill of Rights."
A. Actually, the Constitution did pass without the Bill of Rights, as the first ten amendments are commonly known. The Constitution was ratified in 1788. Amendments 1-10 wer... |
Compiled Records for Mid-South ResearchEdit This Page
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This is a bibliographic essay of compiled records for doing Mid-South Research, which includes Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Most of the compiled records come from published sources... |
Just Inside the Door
Circulation / Reserves and the Reference Room
TIM'S TOUR: Tim walks down the hallway and sees a desk marked "Circulation/Reserves." Right! He remembers that his sociology professor told the class to go to the reserves desk and read an article she had put there for them.
Faculty members put material... |
Your skin in the largest organ of your body, one of your first lines of defense from illness and can be a window into undiagnosed medical problems in your body. Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the U. S. affecting almost one in eight Americans.
Regular examination of the skin by both you and your doctor... |
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Earlier chapters have presented all the key elements of an observer programme. This final chapter gives a brief overview on how to put all the elements together. Three aspects are considered: design, implementation and maintenance.
There are two main sets of influences that condition the framework of a programme.
Polic... |
Answer to the Front Page "Picture of the Week" Question for June 13th - June 20th, 2003
This is catalpa, Catalpa speciosa.
The catalpa is a native tree that bears multitudes of white flowers in late spring.
It is noted for its large leaves and its interesting long, cylindrical fruits. It is sometimes known
as the cigar... |
|No.4 October 2008|
|Crop Prospects and Food Situation|
North African countries have been seriously affected by high international cereal prices due to their high dependence on imports. Governments have implemented a series of measures aimed at offsetting the sharp increase in world prices, including the waiving of tar... |
Tendons are tough fibers that connect muscles to bones. The kneecap
is connected to the thigh (quadriceps) muscle with the quadriceps tendon, and
the patellar tendon connects the kneecap to the lower leg bone.
William H. Blahd, Jr., MD, FACEP - Emergency Medicine & David Messenger, MD
How this information was developed... |
Go ahead and punch me in the face for being such a dweeb, but seeing Terrence Mallick’s Tree of Life really did have a fairly profound effect on my relationship with Mother Nature. It was apparent pretty much from the moment I walked out of the theater; something about the director’s vision just put me a bit more in tu... |
Sick-Day Guidelines for People With Diabetes
What happens when you are sick
When you are sick, your body reacts by releasing hormones to fight infection. But these hormones raise blood sugar levels and at the same time make it more difficult for insulin to lower blood sugar. When you have diabetes, even a minor illness... |
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If you have
chronic pain, such as with fibromyalgia or complex regional pain syndrome, you may have a hard time sleeping or you may wake up feeling tired and
unrefreshed. Some experts believe poor sleep can make pain worse.
Getting a good night's sleep may help.
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