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Animal minds: Parrot Alex In 1977 Irene Pepperberg, a recent graduate of Harvard University, did something very bold. At a time when animals still were considered automatons, she set out to find what was on another creatures mind by talking to it. She brought a one-year-old African gray parrot she named Alex into her l...
Firstly, Alex has grasped quite a lot of vocabulary.
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Animal minds: Parrot Alex In 1977 Irene Pepperberg, a recent graduate of Harvard University, did something very bold. At a time when animals still were considered automatons, she set out to find what was on another creatures mind by talking to it. She brought a one-year-old African gray parrot she named Alex into her l...
At the beginning of study, Alex felt frightened in the presence of human.
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Animal minds: Parrot Alex In 1977 Irene Pepperberg, a recent graduate of Harvard University, did something very bold. At a time when animals still were considered automatons, she set out to find what was on another creatures mind by talking to it. She brought a one-year-old African gray parrot she named Alex into her l...
As Alex could approximately imitate the sounds of English words, he was capable of roughly answering Irenes questions regarding the world.
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Animal minds: Parrot Alex In 1977 Irene Pepperberg, a recent graduate of Harvard University, did something very bold. At a time when animals still were considered automatons, she set out to find what was on another creatures mind by talking to it. She brought a one-year-old African gray parrot she named Alex into her l...
Previously, many scientists realized that animals possess the ability of thinking.
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Annually the average household spends on running electrical appliances: 82 on washing and drying, 49 on lighting, 38 on refrigeration of food, a rather wasteful 95 on the wide-screen TV, 17 powering computers, wireless networks and charging phones and, not surprising for the British, 23 on boiling the kettle for all th...
You can infer that the average households annual electricity bill (net of taxes etc) is a little over 300 (the sum of all the individual items listed).
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Annually the average household spends on running electrical appliances: 82 on washing and drying, 49 on lighting, 38 on refrigeration of food, a rather wasteful 95 on the wide-screen TV, 17 powering computers, wireless networks and charging phones and, not surprising for the British, 23 on boiling the kettle for all th...
Were we to learn to use electricity more frugally and become a little more attentive in order to reduce the waste, we would hardly notice the difference in terms of the impact on our daily lives.
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Annually the average household spends on running electrical appliances: 82 on washing and drying, 49 on lighting, 38 on refrigeration of food, a rather wasteful 95 on the wide-screen TV, 17 powering computers, wireless networks and charging phones and, not surprising for the British, 23 on boiling the kettle for all th...
The main point of the passage is an account of the saving that could be made if we were more frugal with our use of electrical appliances.
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Another group of people with a long history in Singapore are known as the Peranakans. The word peranakan in Malay means half-caste and the Peranakans are the descendants of Chinese immigrants who settled in the area and married Malay women. The groups of Chinese who travelled and settled in the region centuries ago wer...
Arab and Indian traders settled in Singapore in the 1400s.
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Another group of people with a long history in Singapore are known as the Peranakans. The word peranakan in Malay means half-caste and the Peranakans are the descendants of Chinese immigrants who settled in the area and married Malay women. The groups of Chinese who travelled and settled in the region centuries ago wer...
Indians were the most recent of the three to arrive in Singapore.
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Another group of people with a long history in Singapore are known as the Peranakans. The word peranakan in Malay means half-caste and the Peranakans are the descendants of Chinese immigrants who settled in the area and married Malay women. The groups of Chinese who travelled and settled in the region centuries ago wer...
Mandarin is the main language of Singapore.
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Another group of people with a long history in Singapore are known as the Peranakans. The word peranakan in Malay means half-caste and the Peranakans are the descendants of Chinese immigrants who settled in the area and married Malay women. The groups of Chinese who travelled and settled in the region centuries ago wer...
Originally, many Chinese communities in Singapore couldnt communicate easily with each other due to linguistic differences.
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Another group of people with a long history in Singapore are known as the Peranakans. The word peranakan in Malay means half-caste and the Peranakans are the descendants of Chinese immigrants who settled in the area and married Malay women. The groups of Chinese who travelled and settled in the region centuries ago wer...
The Peranakan language is being increasingly used in Singapore
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Ant Intelligence. When we think of intelligent members of the animal kingdom, the creatures that spring immediately to mind are apes and monkeys. But in fact the social lives of some members of the insect kingdom are sufficiently complex to suggest more than a hint of intelligence. Among these, the world of the ant has...
City life is one factor that encourages the development of intelligence.
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Ant Intelligence. When we think of intelligent members of the animal kingdom, the creatures that spring immediately to mind are apes and monkeys. But in fact the social lives of some members of the insect kingdom are sufficiently complex to suggest more than a hint of intelligence. Among these, the world of the ant has...
Ants can build large cities more quickly than humans do.
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Ant Intelligence. When we think of intelligent members of the animal kingdom, the creatures that spring immediately to mind are apes and monkeys. But in fact the social lives of some members of the insect kingdom are sufficiently complex to suggest more than a hint of intelligence. Among these, the world of the ant has...
The essay, In the company of ants, explores ant communication.
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Ant Intelligence. When we think of intelligent members of the animal kingdom, the creatures that spring immediately to mind are apes and monkeys. But in fact the social lives of some members of the insect kingdom are sufficiently complex to suggest more than a hint of intelligence. Among these, the world of the ant has...
In one experiment, foraging teams were able to use their sense of smell to find food.
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Ant Intelligence. When we think of intelligent members of the animal kingdom, the creatures that spring immediately to mind are apes and monkeys. But in fact the social lives of some members of the insect kingdom are sufficiently complex to suggest more than a hint of intelligence. Among these, the world of the ant has...
Some ants can find their way by making calculations based on distance and position.
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Ant Intelligence. When we think of intelligent members of the animal kingdom, the creatures that spring immediately to mind are apes and monkeys. But in fact the social lives of some members of the insect kingdom are sufficiently complex to suggest more than a hint of intelligence. Among these, the world of the ant has...
Ants use the same channels of communication as humans do.
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Antibac is a company that produces cleaning products, such as antibacterial kitchen cleaner. In 2012, Antibac launched a new product, which claimed to be more efficient than any other domestic cleaner. In an attempt to promote this product, Antibac gave away free samples, advertised on local radio stations and placed a...
Antibac is a household name in domestic cleaning products.
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Antibac is a company that produces cleaning products, such as antibacterial kitchen cleaner. In 2012, Antibac launched a new product, which claimed to be more efficient than any other domestic cleaner. In an attempt to promote this product, Antibac gave away free samples, advertised on local radio stations and placed a...
Antibacs product claims to be more efficient than other domestic cleaners.
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id_920
Antibac is a company that produces cleaning products, such as antibacterial kitchen cleaner. In 2012, Antibac launched a new product, which claimed to be more efficient than any other domestic cleaner. In an attempt to promote this product, Antibac gave away free samples, advertised on local radio stations and placed a...
Antibac gave away free samples of national newspapers.
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id_921
Antibac is a company that produces cleaning products, such as antibacterial kitchen cleaner. In 2012, Antibac launched a new product, which claimed to be more efficient than any other domestic cleaner. In an attempt to promote this product, Antibac gave away free samples, advertised on local radio stations and placed a...
Antibac gave away free sample of rival products.
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Ants Could Teach Ants The ants are tiny and usually nest between rocks in the south coast of England. Transformed into research subjects at the University of Bristol, they raced along a tabletop foraging for food and then, remarkably, returned to guide others. Time and again, followers trailed behind leaders, darting t...
Ants, tandem running involves only one-way communication.
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Ants Could Teach Ants The ants are tiny and usually nest between rocks in the south coast of England. Transformed into research subjects at the University of Bristol, they raced along a tabletop foraging for food and then, remarkably, returned to guide others. Time and again, followers trailed behind leaders, darting t...
Frankss theory got many supporters immediately after publicity.
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Ants Could Teach Ants The ants are tiny and usually nest between rocks in the south coast of England. Transformed into research subjects at the University of Bristol, they raced along a tabletop foraging for food and then, remarkably, returned to guide others. Time and again, followers trailed behind leaders, darting t...
Cheetah share hunting gains to younger ones
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Ants Could Teach Ants The ants are tiny and usually nest between rocks in the south coast of England. Transformed into research subjects at the University of Bristol, they raced along a tabletop foraging for food and then, remarkably, returned to guide others. Time and again, followers trailed behind leaders, darting t...
Ants teaching behaviour is the same as that of human.
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Anxieties about air and water pollution. Desertification and resource depletion are nothing new. It is increasingly accepted that the human impact on the environment is Intensifying compounded by population growth. The increasing pace of economic life and the spread of pollutants far beyond their places of origin. New ...
Restricting pollutants to their place of origin makes no difference to the impact of human activity on the environment.
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Anxieties about air and water pollution. Desertification and resource depletion are nothing new. It is increasingly accepted that the human impact on the environment is Intensifying compounded by population growth. The increasing pace of economic life and the spread of pollutants far beyond their places of origin. New ...
Businesses that do not address their adverse impact on the environment run the risk of recrimination.
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Anxieties about air and water pollution. Desertification and resource depletion are nothing new. It is increasingly accepted that the human impact on the environment is Intensifying compounded by population growth. The increasing pace of economic life and the spread of pollutants far beyond their places of origin. New ...
New scientific evidence has merely confirmed what was already known.
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Anyone who manages an engineering organisation like Tata Motors can only be successful if he has the knowledge of the professional work that is carried on in the organisation.
In order to manage an engineering organisation like Tata Motors, it is essential to have an engineering education background.
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Anyone who manages an engineering organisation like Tata Motors can only be successful if he has the knowledge of the professional work that is carried on in the organisation.
If you want to run any company, it is essential that you should know the professional work associated with it.
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Aphantasia: A life without mental images Most people can readily conjure images inside their head known as their minds eye. But this year scientists have described a condition, aphantasia, in which some people are unable to visualise mental images. Niel Kenmuir, from Lancaster, has always had a blind minds eye. He knew...
Niel Kenmuir was unable to count sheep in his head.
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Aphantasia: A life without mental images Most people can readily conjure images inside their head known as their minds eye. But this year scientists have described a condition, aphantasia, in which some people are unable to visualise mental images. Niel Kenmuir, from Lancaster, has always had a blind minds eye. He knew...
Aphantasia is a condition, which describes people, for whom it is hard to see images in their imagination.
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Aphantasia: A life without mental images Most people can readily conjure images inside their head known as their minds eye. But this year scientists have described a condition, aphantasia, in which some people are unable to visualise mental images. Niel Kenmuir, from Lancaster, has always had a blind minds eye. He knew...
The author met Lauren Beard when she was working on a scene in her next book.
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Aphantasia: A life without mental images Most people can readily conjure images inside their head known as their minds eye. But this year scientists have described a condition, aphantasia, in which some people are unable to visualise mental images. Niel Kenmuir, from Lancaster, has always had a blind minds eye. He knew...
Different people expressed their satisfaction that the problem of aphantasia and hyperphantasia has finally been recognized.
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Aphantasia: A life without mental images Most people can readily conjure images inside their head known as their minds eye. But this year scientists have described a condition, aphantasia, in which some people are unable to visualise mental images. Niel Kenmuir, from Lancaster, has always had a blind minds eye. He knew...
Many people with aphantasia struggle to remember personal traits of different people.
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Applications are now being accepted for the following courses; advanced and foundation Danish, intermediate Ukrainian, advanced, intermediate and foundation Bulgarian, and finally intermediate and foundation Russian. All of the courses will include an Introductory Workshop, with the exception of the non-European langua...
The languages which the institute advertises courses for are all European
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Applications are now being accepted for the following courses; advanced and foundation Danish, intermediate Ukrainian, advanced, intermediate and foundation Bulgarian, and finally intermediate and foundation Russian. All of the courses will include an Introductory Workshop, with the exception of the non-European langua...
The Institute of Foreign Arts has all the application forms
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Applications are now being accepted for the following courses; advanced and foundation Danish, intermediate Ukrainian, advanced, intermediate and foundation Bulgarian, and finally intermediate and foundation Russian. All of the courses will include an Introductory Workshop, with the exception of the non-European langua...
The course lasts for a whole year
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Applications are now being accepted for the following courses; advanced and foundation Danish, intermediate Ukrainian, advanced, intermediate and foundation Bulgarian, and finally intermediate and foundation Russian. All of the courses will include an Introductory Workshop, with the exception of the non-European langua...
The institution only teaches European languages
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Approximately 3 percent of the population say they have had a near-death experiencea sense of being dead or leaving one's body. Near-death experiences are reported across cultures, with written records of them dating back to ancient Greece. Not all of these experiences actually coincide with brushes with death one stud...
The sensation of floating above one's body occurs only when one is asleep.
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Approximately 3 percent of the population say they have had a near-death experiencea sense of being dead or leaving one's body. Near-death experiences are reported across cultures, with written records of them dating back to ancient Greece. Not all of these experiences actually coincide with brushes with death one stud...
Approximately 97% of the population have not experienced a near-death experience.
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Approximately 3 percent of the population say they have had a near-death experiencea sense of being dead or leaving one's body. Near-death experiences are reported across cultures, with written records of them dating back to ancient Greece. Not all of these experiences actually coincide with brushes with death one stud...
Near-death experience is only one type of out-of-body experience.
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Architects marry only fair girls. Bimla is very fair.
Bimla was not married to an Architect.
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Architects marry only fair girls. Bimla is very fair.
Bimla was married to an Architect.
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id_945
Are You Being Served? The worlds factory, it turns out, has a sizeable canteen attached, not to mention an office block and shopping mall. Last months official revision of Chinas gross domestic product revealed an economy worth 16 trillion yuan ($1.9 trillion) in 2004, 17% more than previously thought. Some $265 billio...
Some of the newly-discovered GDP comes from the education sector.
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Are You Being Served? The worlds factory, it turns out, has a sizeable canteen attached, not to mention an office block and shopping mall. Last months official revision of Chinas gross domestic product revealed an economy worth 16 trillion yuan ($1.9 trillion) in 2004, 17% more than previously thought. Some $265 billio...
Chinas services sector is about the same size as Japans and South Koreas.
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Are You Being Served? The worlds factory, it turns out, has a sizeable canteen attached, not to mention an office block and shopping mall. Last months official revision of Chinas gross domestic product revealed an economy worth 16 trillion yuan ($1.9 trillion) in 2004, 17% more than previously thought. Some $265 billio...
As visa restrictions are lowered, Chinese people are expected to spend more than$300 billion on tourism.
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Are You Being Served? The worlds factory, it turns out, has a sizeable canteen attached, not to mention an office block and shopping mall. Last months official revision of Chinas gross domestic product revealed an economy worth 16 trillion yuan ($1.9 trillion) in 2004, 17% more than previously thought. Some $265 billio...
Dalian is a successful outsourcing center for Japan and Korea.
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Are You Being Served? The worlds factory, it turns out, has a sizeable canteen attached, not to mention an office block and shopping mall. Last months official revision of Chinas gross domestic product revealed an economy worth 16 trillion yuan ($1.9 trillion) in 2004, 17% more than previously thought. Some $265 billio...
Officially, the largest sector in China is the service sector.
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Are You Experienced? How we spend our money is changing. In the new experience economy, we pay to do things, not have things. Trevor Beattie, the advertising supremo, has earned millions by devising original and controversial publicity campaigns. His agency assembled the arresting FCUK logo for French Connection. Howev...
Companies believe there is a clear limit to how much people will pay for experience.
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Are You Experienced? How we spend our money is changing. In the new experience economy, we pay to do things, not have things. Trevor Beattie, the advertising supremo, has earned millions by devising original and controversial publicity campaigns. His agency assembled the arresting FCUK logo for French Connection. Howev...
iPods are often criticised for being too expensive.
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Are You Experienced? How we spend our money is changing. In the new experience economy, we pay to do things, not have things. Trevor Beattie, the advertising supremo, has earned millions by devising original and controversial publicity campaigns. His agency assembled the arresting FCUK logo for French Connection. Howev...
Apple is considered to be a creative company.
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Are You Experienced? How we spend our money is changing. In the new experience economy, we pay to do things, not have things. Trevor Beattie, the advertising supremo, has earned millions by devising original and controversial publicity campaigns. His agency assembled the arresting FCUK logo for French Connection. Howev...
In Britain, the total amount of money spent on buying things has gone down in the last ten years.
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Are You Experienced? How we spend our money is changing. In the new experience economy, we pay to do things, not have things. Trevor Beattie, the advertising supremo, has earned millions by devising original and controversial publicity campaigns. His agency assembled the arresting FCUK logo for French Connection. Howev...
Some shopping malls have a cinema to enhance peoples shopping experience.
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id_955
Are supermarkets to blame for the increase in obesity in the UK? Critics suggest that the low cost of high-fatty foods, such as ready meals, has led to the alarming rates of obesity in the UK. However, an opposing school of thought suggests that other factors are in fact to blame. One possible reason for this is the he...
Ready-meals are a quick alternative for individuals with a busy life-style.
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id_956
Are supermarkets to blame for the increase in obesity in the UK? Critics suggest that the low cost of high-fatty foods, such as ready meals, has led to the alarming rates of obesity in the UK. However, an opposing school of thought suggests that other factors are in fact to blame. One possible reason for this is the he...
Fast food companies have led to an increased level of obesity in the UK.
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id_957
Are supermarkets to blame for the increase in obesity in the UK? Critics suggest that the low cost of high-fatty foods, such as ready meals, has led to the alarming rates of obesity in the UK. However, an opposing school of thought suggests that other factors are in fact to blame. One possible reason for this is the he...
Low cost of junk food may be to blame for the high levels of obesity.
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id_958
Are supermarkets to blame for the increase in obesity in the UK? Critics suggest that the low cost of high-fatty foods, such as ready meals, has led to the alarming rates of obesity in the UK. However, an opposing school of thought suggests that other factors are in fact to blame. One possible reason for this is the he...
Educating people on the benefits of exercise may reduce obesity.
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id_959
Arson occurs when someone starts a fire or causes an explosion with the intent to destroy or damage any building, vehicle, or habitation.
Leon turns the kitchen-stove burners on high to heat his soup. A potholder catches on fire and sets his girlfriend's kitchen ablaze. This situation is the best example of Arson.
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id_960
Arson occurs when someone starts a fire or causes an explosion with the intent to destroy or damage any building, vehicle, or habitation.
Ginger starts a fire in the fireplace and then leaves to run a quick errand. The curtains catch fire and the house begins to burn. This situation is the best example of Arson.
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id_961
Arson occurs when someone starts a fire or causes an explosion with the intent to destroy or damage any building, vehicle, or habitation.
Brent sprinkles lighter fluid over the leather seats in his landlord's Mercedes convertible and then throws a lighted matchinto the car. This situation is the best example of Arson.
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id_962
Arson occurs when someone starts a fire or causes an explosion with the intent to destroy or damage any building, vehicle, or habitation.
Samuel places his paper napkin on top of the candle at the table in a restaurant and jumps when it bursts into flames that spread up the window curtains. This situation is the best example of Arson.
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id_963
Artificial artists Can computers really create works of art? The Painting Fool is one of a growing number of computer programs which, so their makers claim, possess creative talents. Classical music by an artificial composer has had audiences enraptured, and even tricked them into believing a human was behind the score...
Moffat's research may help explain people's reactions to EMI.
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id_964
Artificial artists Can computers really create works of art? The Painting Fool is one of a growing number of computer programs which, so their makers claim, possess creative talents. Classical music by an artificial composer has had audiences enraptured, and even tricked them into believing a human was behind the score...
The non-experts in Moffat's study all responded in a predictable way.
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id_965
Artificial artists Can computers really create works of art? The Painting Fool is one of a growing number of computer programs which, so their makers claim, possess creative talents. Classical music by an artificial composer has had audiences enraptured, and even tricked them into believing a human was behind the score...
Justin Kruger's findings cast doubt on Paul Bloom's theory about people's prejudice towards computer art.
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As More Tech Start-Ups Stay Private, So Does the Money Not long ago, if you were a young, brash technologist with a world-conquering start-up idea, there was a good chance you spent much of your waking life working toward a single business milestone: taking your company public. Though luminaries of the tech industry ha...
The typical tech company hitting the markets in 1990s was 5 years old.
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id_967
As More Tech Start-Ups Stay Private, So Does the Money Not long ago, if you were a young, brash technologist with a world-conquering start-up idea, there was a good chance you spent much of your waking life working toward a single business milestone: taking your company public. Though luminaries of the tech industry ha...
Marc Andreessen, the firms co-founder, expressed amazement with divergency in how investors treat public.
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id_968
As More Tech Start-Ups Stay Private, So Does the Money Not long ago, if you were a young, brash technologist with a world-conquering start-up idea, there was a good chance you spent much of your waking life working toward a single business milestone: taking your company public. Though luminaries of the tech industry ha...
Not many investors were willing to speak on the record.
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id_969
As More Tech Start-Ups Stay Private, So Does the Money Not long ago, if you were a young, brash technologist with a world-conquering start-up idea, there was a good chance you spent much of your waking life working toward a single business milestone: taking your company public. Though luminaries of the tech industry ha...
Marc Andreessen, the firms co-founder, expressed amazement with divergency in how investors treat public.
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id_970
As More Tech Start-Ups Stay Private, So Does the Money Not long ago, if you were a young, brash technologist with a world-conquering start-up idea, there was a good chance you spent much of your waking life working toward a single business milestone: taking your company public. Though luminaries of the tech industry ha...
Private investors are bearing most of the risk.
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id_971
As an institution the British public house, usually called a pub, has a very long tradition of selling alcoholic drinks, in particular beer, which people consume on the premises. In recent years, however, profits of British pubs have fallen by 20 per cent and many have reported a further worsening of their financial st...
The smoking ban has encouraged traditional pub customers to drink and smokeless.
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id_972
As an institution the British public house, usually called a pub, has a very long tradition of selling alcoholic drinks, in particular beer, which people consume on the premises. In recent years, however, profits of British pubs have fallen by 20 per cent and many have reported a further worsening of their financial st...
The author is opposed to the new laws and the effects they are having on the pub trade and this is evidenced by the last sentence of the passage and the loss of jobs in the pub trade.
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id_973
As an institution the British public house, usually called a pub, has a very long tradition of selling alcoholic drinks, in particular beer, which people consume on the premises. In recent years, however, profits of British pubs have fallen by 20 per cent and many have reported a further worsening of their financial st...
It is reasonable to infer that some pubs are operating at a loss or at no profit.
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As the standard of living continues to improve in China, Chinese companies will eventually lose business to countries which pay their workers lower wages and can therefore offer lower production costs.
Chinese companies are paying higher wages than competitor countries.
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As the standard of living continues to improve in China, Chinese companies will eventually lose business to countries which pay their workers lower wages and can therefore offer lower production costs.
Low production costs will help to attract business.
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As the standard of living continues to improve in China, Chinese companies will eventually lose business to countries which pay their workers lower wages and can therefore offer lower production costs.
Production costs in China depend on the national standard of living.
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As their name suggests, Asian carp are not indigenous to the United States, yet these invasive fish have become the subject of a Supreme Court lawsuit. Introduced in the US in 1831, carp were originally intended for consumption although today they are not widely eaten. Populations have flourished in the Mississippi and...
Anticarp activists are motivated by environmental concerns rather than business interests.
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As their name suggests, Asian carp are not indigenous to the United States, yet these invasive fish have become the subject of a Supreme Court lawsuit. Introduced in the US in 1831, carp were originally intended for consumption although today they are not widely eaten. Populations have flourished in the Mississippi and...
Electric barriers are not a fully effective means of carp control.
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As their name suggests, Asian carp are not indigenous to the United States, yet these invasive fish have become the subject of a Supreme Court lawsuit. Introduced in the US in 1831, carp were originally intended for consumption although today they are not widely eaten. Populations have flourished in the Mississippi and...
If allowed into the Great Lakes, Asian carp would prey on native salmon.
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As their name suggests, Asian carp are not indigenous to the United States, yet these invasive fish have become the subject of a Supreme Court lawsuit. Introduced in the US in 1831, carp were originally intended for consumption although today they are not widely eaten. Populations have flourished in the Mississippi and...
Anticarp activists have demanded more drastic measures of carp control in the US Supreme Court.
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As their name suggests, Asian carp are not indigenous to the United States, yet these invasive fish have become the subject of a Supreme Court lawsuit. Introduced in the US in 1831, carp were originally intended for consumption although today they are not widely eaten. Populations have flourished in the Mississippi and...
Heavy flooding in the 1970s resulted in Asian carp proliferating in the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers.
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Asia is the worlds largest continent and stretches from the Baring Sea in the east to Turkey and Europe in the west. Its southern border comprises many islands, includ- ing those that make up Indonesia. Since independence of colonial powers, Asian economies have boomed. First were Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and South Kor...
More of the worlds population live in Asia than in any other continent.
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Asia is the worlds largest continent and stretches from the Baring Sea in the east to Turkey and Europe in the west. Its southern border comprises many islands, includ- ing those that make up Indonesia. Since independence of colonial powers, Asian economies have boomed. First were Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and South Kor...
Post-colonial growth first occurred in Singapore.
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Asia is the worlds largest continent and stretches from the Baring Sea in the east to Turkey and Europe in the west. Its southern border comprises many islands, includ- ing those that make up Indonesia. Since independence of colonial powers, Asian economies have boomed. First were Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and South Kor...
The continent of Antarctica is smaller than Asia.
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Asia is the worlds largest continent and stretches from the Baring Sea in the east to Turkey and Europe in the west. Its southern border comprises many islands, includ- ing those that make up Indonesia. Since independence of colonial powers, Asian economies have boomed. First were Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and South Kor...
Civilization began in the continent of Asia.
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Asia is the worlds largest continent and stretches from the Baring Sea in the east to Turkey and Europe in the west. Its southern border comprises many islands, includ- ing those that make up Indonesia. Since independence of colonial powers, Asian economies have boomed. First were Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and South Kor...
The colonial era was a disaster for Asia.
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Asian Space 2 Satellite Technology The space age began with the launch of the Russian artificial satellite Sputnik in 1957 and developed further with the race to the moon between the United States and Russia. This rivalry was characterized by advanced technology and huge budgets. In this process there were spectacular ...
Koalas are easily infected with human contagious disease via cuddling
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Asian Space 2 Satellite Technology The space age began with the launch of the Russian artificial satellite Sputnik in 1957 and developed further with the race to the moon between the United States and Russia. This rivalry was characterized by advanced technology and huge budgets. In this process there were spectacular ...
commercial competition constitutes a boosting factor to Asian technology development.
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Asian Space 2 Satellite Technology The space age began with the launch of the Russian artificial satellite Sputnik in 1957 and developed further with the race to the moon between the United States and Russia. This rivalry was characterized by advanced technology and huge budgets. In this process there were spectacular ...
Koalas will fight each other when food becomes scarce.
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Asian Space 2 Satellite Technology The space age began with the launch of the Russian artificial satellite Sputnik in 1957 and developed further with the race to the moon between the United States and Russia. This rivalry was characterized by advanced technology and huge budgets. In this process there were spectacular ...
it takes decade for the eucalyptus trees to recover after the fire.
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Asian Space 2 Satellite Technology The space age began with the launch of the Russian artificial satellite Sputnik in 1957 and developed further with the race to the moon between the United States and Russia. This rivalry was characterized by advanced technology and huge budgets. In this process there were spectacular ...
Koalas can still be seen in most of the places in Australia.
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Asian Space 2 Satellite Technology The space age began with the launch of the Russian artificial satellite Sputnik in 1957 and developed further with the race to the moon between the United States and Russia. This rivalry was characterized by advanced technology and huge budgets. In this process there were spectacular ...
new coming human settlers caused danger to koalas.
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Asian Space 2 Satellite Technology The space age began with the launch of the Russian artificial satellite Sputnik in 1957 and developed further with the race to the moon between the United States and Russia. This rivalry was characterized by advanced technology and huge budgets. In this process there were spectacular ...
photos taken by satellites with certain technology help predict some natural catastrophes prevention and surveillance.
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Asian Space 2 Satellite Technology The space age began with the launch of the Russian artificial satellite Sputnik in 1957 and developed further with the race to the moon between the United States and Russia. This rivalry was characterized by advanced technology and huge budgets. In this process there were spectacular ...
It is not easy to notice that koalas are ill.
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Asian Space 2 Satellite Technology The space age began with the launch of the Russian artificial satellite Sputnik in 1957 and developed further with the race to the moon between the United States and Russia. This rivalry was characterized by advanced technology and huge budgets. In this process there were spectacular ...
Space technology has enhanced literacy of Asia.
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Asian Space 2 Satellite Technology The space age began with the launch of the Russian artificial satellite Sputnik in 1957 and developed further with the race to the moon between the United States and Russia. This rivalry was characterized by advanced technology and huge budgets. In this process there were spectacular ...
Koalas like to hold a person's arm when they are embraced.
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Asian Space 2 Satellite Technology The space age began with the launch of the Russian artificial satellite Sputnik in 1957 and developed further with the race to the moon between the United States and Russia. This rivalry was characterized by advanced technology and huge budgets. In this process there were spectacular ...
Ancient China had already deployed rockets as a military purpose as early as 500 years ago.
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Asparagus is a perennial and wild asparagus is found growing in light, well-drained soil across Europe, northern Africa and central Asia. People from all over the world enjoy eating it. The most sought-after domesticated varieties are from Canada and they prefer a soil with a ph of around 6.5. The domesticated varietie...
All asparagus plants like a soil with a ph of 6.5.
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Asparagus is a perennial and wild asparagus is found growing in light, well-drained soil across Europe, northern Africa and central Asia. People from all over the world enjoy eating it. The most sought-after domesticated varieties are from Canada and they prefer a soil with a ph of around 6.5. The domesticated varietie...
It can be inferred from the passage that when the author describes the fruit as inedible he means that humans cant eat it.
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