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Patent Models: Textile and Sewing Machines - Introduction For much of the nineteenth century, inventors submitted a model with their patent application to the United States Patent Office. The National Museum of American History’s patent model collection began with the acquisition of 284 models from the Patent Office in...
Recent acts of violence alongside pending legislation and international pressure have brought to light the pressing need for lawmaking in support of LGBT rights in Chile. Together with protests for reforms in the education system, the public seems to be increasingly impatient about what the government is doing to prote...
Individualism is a key tenant of classical liberalism and libertarianism. But there is a fine line between true individualism, what some call personalism, and false individualism. As Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn noted in several of his works, the word ‘person’ is derived from the Etruscan phersú, the mask actors wore whic...
This is a story about two brothers, born into the Society of Friends at Sugar Loaf, Upper Canada, who turned their backs on their religion and country in McKenzie's Rebellion 0f 1837. They had come full circle from the previous generations of Doanes , who were branded Tories in Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary war...
(Click to enlarge) This image is of the solar eclipse earlier this week. Solar eclipses occur when the moon comes between the Earth and Sun. However, there's more to it than just that, otherwise we'd have a solar eclipse every ~28 days (one full lunar cycle). When viewed edge on, the plane in which the moon orbits is s...
The western chorus frog is found in the middle to eastern portions of the North American continent. Its range extends from southern Quebec and northern New York west to South Dakota, then south to Kansas and Oklahoma (Harding 1997). Western chorus frogs can be found in a variety of habitats, including marshes, meadows,...
Carlson, John K. and Brusher, John H. (1999) An Index of Abundance for Coastal Species of Juvenile Sharks from the Northeast Gulf of Mexico. Marine Fisheries Review, 61(3), pp. 37-45. |PDF - Requires a PDF viewer such as GSview, Xpdf or Adobe Acrobat Reader | Download (625Kb) | Preview A fishery-independent assessment ...
" Set that bear free at once,"Shouted the President, outraged that they had offered him such an unsportsmanlike shot in killing a tethered animal. The next day's newspaper immortalised Teddy's Bear in a satirical cartoon by Clifford k. Berryman. Here he empasized the childlike helplessness of the cub and the moral rect...
It has been nearly 200 years since we became aware of the Neanderthals, an extinct form of humans that once shared Europe and Asia with the modern humans. But it has been less than two years since we discovered that the Neanderthals were not the only archaic modern human around at the time. In short order, researchers ...
You may remember 2004’s disaster movie and CGI delivery vehicle, The Day After Tomorrow. The premise of the film (which like any self-respecting disaster film, is excessively absurd) is that global warming suddenly plunges the world into the depths of an ice age. New York City drowns under the largest storm surge in hi...
Matisse: In Search of True Painting explores Henri Matisse's painting process by showcasing 49 vibrantly colored canvases that demonstrate the artist's tendency to use his completed canvases as tools, repeating compositions in order to compare effects, gauge his progress, and, as he put it, "push further and deeper int...
"Of Silence and Speech, Silence is better," says the inscription in Salvator Rosa’s 1640 Self-Portrait (above). Born June 20, 1615, Rosa let his paintings and etchings do the talking, and bragging. Only the ego of Salvator Rosa could title an etching The Genius of Salvator Rosa. In many ways, Rosa follows in the “wild ...
A rise in the number of new houses under construction, as occurred in November, surely means the economy is about to boom. A fall in retail sales, which occurred at the same time, surely means the economy is cooling off. Orders for goods that people keep for several years, such as cars and refrigerators, rose in Septem...
May 31, 1990 Students in the Builders Club at Rio Hondo School in El Monte have raised $100 for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation through an aluminum can drive. The club is a service group for seventh- and eighth-grade students, who selected the foundation as recipient because several of their classmates have cystic fibro...
Book Chapter, The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa, pages 166-203 Author: Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa Other Chapters in The New Harvest: Agricultu...
(German: Die Büchse der Pandora) The title is a reference to Pandora of Greek mythology, who upon opening a box given to her by the gods released all evils into the world, leaving only hope behind. The lead role is played by Lousie Brooks as Lulu. She is a young and impulsive vaudeville performer whose raw sexuality an...
What's the Latest Development? Stephen Emmott, head of computational science at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, and professor of computational science at Oxford, UK, has built a 75-minute presentation called Ten Billion, in which he forecasts what the world might be like if current environmental degradation and po...
This is one of those easy options for vocabulary. I thought of it when I saw the 2011 Mediocrity commercial embedded below. Essentially, they pick one of the vocabulary words and use it as a car name. The students would draw up a one page ad1 (with relevant copy) for the car that plays off the word they choose. It woul...
As the series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. begins its 10-week run on PBS, The Spittoon will feature posts from 23andMe’s Ancestry Ambassadors featuring their own stories about using DNA to dig into ancestry. By Tim Janzen, M.D. My father, Robert Janzen, comes from a long line of hardworking Low German...
Curator’s Note: Jennica Rzepka added three hundred images of Double Eagles (20 dollar gold coins) into the National Numismatic Collection database. To do this she had to research the objects using specific numismatic references, create or complete database records, and learn proper coin handling methods. Jennica became...
Why Did Jesus Have to Die? Roman, Jewish, and Christian Perspectives by Rev. Dr. Mark D. Roberts Copyright © 2010 by Mark D. Roberts and Beliefnet Note: You may download this resource at no cost, for personal use, for use in a Christian ministry, or for use in an educational venture, as long as you are not publishing i...
Thomas Hockenhull, curator, British Museum The 2008 banking crisis plunged the UK into a recession from which it has been struggling to recover ever since. However, this crisis is not the first to have affected Britain and it is unlikely to be the last. Here in the Department of Coins and Medals we decided to look at t...
Henri Emile Benoît Matisse was born in the textile town of Le Cateau-Cambrésis (France) on the last night of the year, 31 December 1869. Henri Matisse wasn’t born to a rich family. His father was a grain merchant whose family were weavers. Henri Matisse began to paint in 1889, when his mother had brought him art suppli...
Most people are striving for good physical and mental health, and with the new year upon us, many are taking this time to reevaluate their routine to look and feel better. Committing to good oral health care is the perfect New Year’s resolution for young and old because it is an essential part of becoming a healthy per...
Researchers at Penn Medicine announced this week some promising results from a small clinical trial for a new cancer treatment using a modified cold virus to fight mesothelioma, a deadly cancer of the lungs. The treatment, called immuno-gene therapy, entails injecting patients with a small amount of adenovirus, a cold ...
Views on commodities and energy More than a billion people go hungry each day — about the same number as did in the late 1950s. That’s both a “tragedy on a grand scale” and an “astounding success,” according to a new report called “Millions Fed,” produced by the International Food Policy Research Institute and the Bill...
Vietnam has been one of the world’s fastest-growing economies over the past three decades. Along with that growth has come the expansion of energy-intensive sectors such as manufacturing, transport and power generation. Given the country’s dependence on fossil fuels, Vietnam’s total greenhouse gas emissions have more t...
Some cruise ships are dirty from bow to stern while others are more ocean friendly. The ships that are dirty can be dirty in myriad ways. They emit pollution through the stacks as they burn fossil fuels to run their engines and generate power. These large vessels, sometimes called floating cities, create a variety of w...
New Energy Future Since first becoming human, we have been burning things to harness energy. To become fully human we’ll have to come out of the cave, quench the fires, and harness non-burning energy. The opportunities abound for us to continue to accomplish things as tremendous and evolved as space flight, the Interne...
Cod, Atlantic – US Gillnet Atlantic Cod are a species of groundfish that can live more than 20 years. They are found throughout the North Atlantic, and have been heavily fished for centuries driving some populations to historic low levels. In the U.S. Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank, the abundance of Atlantic Cod is low...
Dr. Berthold Laufer (left) with two men and one boy. All in Chinese costume or dress. Hankow, ca. 1904. Tea cups and pipe on table. © The Field Museum, A98299 Berthold Laufer (1874-1934), curator of Asian Anthropology from 1908 to 1934, was a pioneer in the study of Asian cultures. With a doctorate in oriental language...
What is urine therapy? The basic definition of “urine therapy” is using (your own) urine internally or externally as a way to aid or sustain your heath. Urine therapy, which includes drinking, injecting, massaging with-, and/or bathing in- urine, is an ancient practice that is used today, not only in times of sickness,...
There are several reasons why Bud & Roo makes a great book to get your little one reading. The illustrations are colourful and bright. Children can related to the characters of Bud & Roo as one is a boy and one is a girl. The illustration of the ladybird intrigues little ones to explore and while they’re exploring they...
3D Printing and the Ethics of Value Creation A technology that adds value to our lives is an ethically good thing. A technology that enables a whole range of services that add value to our lives is even better. Smartphones are the obvious example: Apple’s iPhone has spawned an entire industry of app-makers. Even more i...
What is thyroid cancer? Thyroid cancer is a disease that you get when abnormal cells begin to grow in your thyroid gland. The thyroid gland is shaped like a butterfly and is located in the front of your neck. It makes hormones that regulate the way your body uses energy and that help your body work normally. Thyroid ca...
Click the Study Aids tab at the bottom of the book to access your Study Aids (usually practice quizzes and flash cards). Study Pass is our latest digital product that lets you take notes, highlight important sections of the text using different colors, create "tags" or labels to filter your notes and highlights, and pr...
Click the Study Aids tab at the bottom of the book to access your Study Aids (usually practice quizzes and flash cards). Study Pass is our latest digital product that lets you take notes, highlight important sections of the text using different colors, create "tags" or labels to filter your notes and highlights, and pr...
Views of U.S. Army General Miles' campaign against the Native American Sioux, show long covered wagon trains, buffalo herds, and soldiers in uniforms drinking and washing in a river next to their horses. Dakota Indians--War--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--War--1870-1880.; Bathing--1870-1880.; Bison--1870-1880.; ...
|(QMI Agency files) | Extreme temperatures during heat waves and cold spells may increase the risk of dying prematurely of heart disease, according to new Australian research published in an American Heart Association journal. "The findings are important because of how the body responds to temperate extremes, the growi...
Macroscopic Properties and Microscopic Models As a simple example of how the macroscopic properties of a substanceA material that is either an element or that has a fixed ratio of elements in its chemical formula. can be explained on a microscopic level, consider the liquidA state of matter in which the atomic-scale pa...
Last week, we looked at the peculiarities of the first born and middle child. Today, we’ll examine the last born, only child and twins. The way they behave can help you in crafting your story’s characters. Last Born Children Last born children fight hard to get noticed. They are often the class clown, the maverick, the...
Backyard and Playground Safety Keep your children’s fun safe by following these safety guidelines for backyard, pool, and playground If you have a pool in your backyard, follow these guidelines: - Surround the pool with a fence that is at least 48 inches high. Check with your city or county for additional requirements ...
The concept of volunteers serving abroad on grass-roots foreign aid projects originated in Congress in the 1950s. In 1961 President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps by executive order. President Kennedy then sent this letter to Senate President (Vice President of the U.S.) Lyndon B. Johnson describing the su...
Learn how to utilize library resources. Last Updated: Jan 12, 2012 IRIS 4-2 is a collection of tutorials to help you learn about information and research created by Clark College. Choose a topic of interest, work your way through all the modules or take the quiz to see what areas you excel in. The video demonstrates th...
|Persian Gulf States Table of Contents Omani economic development may be divided into three phases: a period of rapid expansion between 1970 and 1986; economic retrenchment and rationalization between 1986 and 1989 as a result of the 1985-86 oil price collapse; and a period of stabilized growth since 1990. Economic gro...
3/16/2012 3:47 PM William Shakespeare is the most famous and most written about literary figure of all time, but interestingly, little is actually know about him. What we do know about him is that he was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564, married at 18, moved to London sometime between 1585-1592, published 3 books of...
The highly complex steps in the mountain carving process at Crazy Horse can be summed up in relatively simple terms. We are making a very large duplicate of Korczak’s sculpture to tell the story of North American Indian cultures. That artwork depicts the Lakota warrior, Crazy Horse, seated on his horse and pointing ove...
Until recently, I never paid much attention to the possibility that abnormalities of the parathyroid glands could be relevant to patients in my practice. But I decided to learn more about this issue when one of my patients with bipolar disorder who had been treated with lithium(Drug information on lithium) told me that...
A green, rechargeable battery that is suitable for powering electric vehicles and stationary power storage applications, and that would survive tens of thousands of charge cycles in a useful life of 100 years without loss of capacity. What could be a better innovation for our times? Such a battery has been developed, a...
device for measuring the velocity and absorption of sound waves in a gas or liquid. A vibrating crystal creates the waves that are radiated continuously into the fluid medium, striking a movable reflector placed accurately parallel to the crystal source. The waves are then reflected back to the source. The strength of ...
Word Origin & History O.E. forcippian "to pare away by cutting," v. form of cipp "small piece of wood," perhaps from PIE base *keipo- "sharp post" (cf. Du. kip "small strip of wood," L. cippus "post, stake, beam"). Sense of "break off fragments" is 18c. Noun is attested by early 14c.; meaning "counter used in a game of...
Once known as the Kansa (or Konza) tribe, the Kaw are a people of Dhegiha-Siouan linguistic descent who migrated from the lower Ohio Valley to present northeastern Kansas prior to 1750. In nineteenth-century Kansas they fell victim to white land speculators, traders, missionaries, and the federal government's policy of...
Developing countries face challenges of massive poverty, slow GDP growth, high mortality rates from illnesses, and low levels of education. The governments in these countries do not have sufficient financial resources to fight these challenges effectively. Foreign aid has played an instrumental role in the implementati...
Date of this Version Surveys in the Elkhorn River Basin between 1972 and 1994 documented a unionid fauna of 28 taxa. Two additional taxa were documented by museum records, bringing the total to 30 confirmed for the region. In recent collections only eleven species were found as live specimens or fresh shells, suggestin...
Researchers in Spain and Norway reported in the periodical Nature they had found tree-like growth rings on the bones of mammals, a characteristic that until now was thought to be limited to cold-blooded creatures and dinosaurs. They also found proof that dinosaurs probably had a high metabolic rate to allow fast growth...
Via Monster Brains, a glimpse at the breathtaking illustrations inside scientist/author/artist Dougal Dixon’s rare and much sought-after Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future, a book exploring the many possible disturbing changes which humanity may undergo in the far future: The book begins with the impact of ge...
I open my wallet, finger a $20 bill, pull it out and hand it to the farmer. In return I load my bag with fresh apples and pears, or beets and squash. The paper note is lightweight, compact, easily folded and stored. It is accepted anywhere in the country, for any purchase, any time. This reliable currency did not alway...
The power operator binds more tightly than unary operators on its left; it binds less tightly than unary operators on its right. The syntax is: Thus, in an unparenthesized sequence of power and unary operators, the operators are evaluated from right to left (this does not constrain the evaluation order for the operands...
TRectangle = class(TShape) class PASCALIMPLEMENTATION TRectangle : public TShape TRectangle defines 2D rectangles with customized corners. It inherits TControl and can be used in styles to construct controls. The rectangle size and position are defined by the following properties of the TRectangle object: - The shape r...
Encouraging innovation and the use of technology Innovation is a key part of raising workplace productivity. Productive workplaces are innovative in the way they use technology, and plan and organise themselves. They generally employ more highly-skilled and highly-paid workers and through innovation they increase their...
* Overweight and obesity are very common in Australian adults (56%) and children (27%). * Rates of overweight and obesity are snowballing and will place greater burdens on health services for the treatment and care of chronic diseases. * Prevention is urgently required from health, social and economic perspectives, but...
The Digital Music Archiving Project is a combination of two separate projects in which technical and human resources can be best shared. The two parts retain their individual focus and distinct character, but the staff and equipment are common to both. 1. Digital Archive of North Indian Classical Music: Phase II with e...
Scientists estimate that critically endangered North Atlantic right whales have lost 63 to 67 percent of their communication space in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary due to noise created by passing ships. The paper was published on August 14, 2012 in an early online edition of the journal Conservation Bio...
One of my favorite constellations, little squarish Corvus the Crow, can be found in the south after sunset at this time of year. It’s not far from the bright star Spica – and, in 2013, the golden planet Saturn. Learn more about how to find Spica and Saturn here. Once you find Spica and Saturn in sring 2013, you’ll reco...
A new Code article covering lighting systems operating at 30V or less will modify some and help standardize other low-voltage lighting designs. Additional requirements, however, apply if wet contact is a factor. Low-voltage lighting has been in use for about 30 years, with widely differing acceptance by local inspectio...
The aerosphere supports a range of animal life both at the Earth’s surface and in the air. While monitoring the movements and activities of terrestrial animals can be demanding, observation of volant organisms are even more challenging because they require novel technologies. Here we focus on the analysis of animal mov...
(CNN) -- Australia's northeastern state of Queensland begins 2011 facing historic river flooding along many coastal rivers, namely the Fitzroy River near the city of Rockhampton. In Rockhampton, the river is expected to reach its crest on Wednesday at a height exceeded only once in recorded history, back in January 191...
IB Environmental Studies/Ecosystem Topic 2: The Ecosystem Ecosystems are the biotic and abiotic factors in a specified area that interact with one another. biotic factor - A living, biological factor that may influence an organism or ecosystem, such as producers-plants,consumers-animals etc abiotic factors – A non-livi...
Frank Lloyd Wright - If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city. There beneath you is the monster, stretch...
27.01.2010Portrait of the Philosopher Mohammed Abed al-JabriCritique of Arab ReasonMohammed Abed al-Jabri is without a doubt one of the most important contemporary Arab intellectuals. His work focuses on the failure of the Enlightenment in the Islamic world and the search for an Arab identity in modernity. Sonja Hegasy...
Microprocessor Design/Wire Wrap Historically, most of the early CPUs were built by attaching integrated circuits (ICs) to circuit boards and wiring them up. Nowadays, it's much faster to design and implement a new CPU in a FPGA -- the result will probably run faster and use less power than anything spread out over mult...
French colonization of the Americas The French colonization of the Americas began in the 16th century, and continued on into the following centuries as France established a colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere. France founded colonies in much of eastern North America, on a number of Caribbean islands, and in South...
|2004: 150,000 to 270,000 (estimated) 1959: 25,000 (estimated) |Regions with significant populations| |Azerbaijan, Dagestan, Israel, United States, Russia |Related ethnic groups| |Part of a series on| |Jews and Judaism| The Mountain Jews community originated from Ancient Persia, from 5th century AD onwards, and their l...
Everyday Mathematics and the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics For more UCSMP Newsletters, visit the UCSMP website Since the release of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) in June 2010, the authors of Everyday Mathematics (EM) have been working to understand these new standards. In this ar...
Mosquitoes and Ticks Did you know………. - Pennsylvania is home to 60 different species of mosquitoes? Species most commonly responsible for transmitting West Nile and other diseases are species that seek out human made containers or areas of environmental disturbances. - The simplest way to reduce biting mosquito concern...
Is It Time to Change Our Training Yet? Part 4: Magnesium Fires A small piece of magnesium in the stearing column reacts to water in Delray Beach, Florida. (Photo: Lee Junkins) Lee Junkins, Midsouth Rescue Technologies As we saw in Part 3, manufacturers have been forced to cut every ounce of weight possible, in order to...
GD Star Rating GD Star Rating This article explores the immediate and long-term effects of the Federal ReserveThe central bank in control of regulating the U.S. financial and monetary system.’s (the Fed’s) purchase of $1.25 trillion in mortgage-backed bondsAn assetA valuable item which can be converted to cash by its o...
According to De Telegraaf, asteroid 14282 has been renamed Johan Cruyff after an initiative led by Dutch science journalist Carl Koppeschaar. Cruyff is 9km in diameter and makes its way around the sun every 5 years, 3 months, and 18 days. It can currently be found over 400 million km from the sun in between Mars and Ju...
One of the most controversial and influential public intellectuals in American life is weighing in with a new theory on the roots of Jewish intelligence. Charles Murray, famous for “The Bell Curve,” his book on the racial basis of intelligence, has published an article in this month’s Commentary, titled “Jewish Genius....
Alphabetic Index : A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Gasoline /ˈɡæsəliːn/, or petrol /ˈpɛtrəl/ is a transparent, petroleum-derived liquid that is used primarily as a fuel in internal combustion engines. It consists mostly of organic compounds obtained by the fractional distillation of petroleum, enhan...
America's most important assets are its people -- decent, hard-working, creative and concerned. When that talent is focused through our economic and political system to solve a problem, it can accomplish great things. We have put people on the moon, we have won the cold war, and we have provided unparalleled prosperity...
The Spice Mix Super Computer was a part of the Abandon Normal Devices in Manchester, England this weekend. The AND festival commissioned the Center for Genomic Gastronomy to create a new work inside a traveling caravan and this is what we made: The Centre for Genomic Gastronomy had deigned a exciting new culinary commi...
Fisheries Management in Public Waters The Aquatic Education Program consists of three key components: Youth Education; Adult Education; and Kids Fishing. Youth Education involves training educators to use Aquatic Project WILD (APW), an award winning environmental and conservation program of instructional workshops and ...
||June 14, 2001 GSA Release No. 01-18 Scientists Share Multidisciplinary Discoveries at "Earth System Processes" (II) Session Highlights - SESSION 23: Tuesday, June 26. ARCHEAN EARTH AND CONTEMPORARY LIFE: THE TRANSITION FROM AN ANAEROBIC TO AN AEROBIC MARINE ECOSYSTEM Session 30 Abstracts ] - Can you imagine our world...
Many banks offer drive-through automatic teller machines (ATMs), which are located on the driver’s side of a lane accessible only to automobiles; pedestrians and cyclists are not allowed to enter the lanes. Clearly, blind people do not drive automobiles; nevertheless, like the universally accessible ATMs inside the ban...
Dog walking pays $10 to $15 a day in my neighborhood. Have you ever found yourself wanting something like a cellphone or a laptop but you just didn't have enough money to get it? It's true that jobs like babysitting, dog walking, and lawn mowing would earn you money, but not that much. Have you ever thought of an inter...
Diet may hold secret to limiting E. coli Beef recall prompts new research By focusing on how nutrition of ruminants affects colonization and growth of E. coli O157:H7, University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers hope to find a diet that limits the potentially deadly bacteria in feedlot cattle. “The next step is to posit...
Can I use house plants to improve my home's indoor air quality? There is data and research on the value of outdoor plantings and the positive effect on air quality through natural transpiration. It would seem that the same would be true of indoor plants, if well maintained, both in terms of overall humidity levels, and...
Beginning in the 1980s, when McDonald's stopped putting its burgers in polystyrene clamshells, and accelerating dramatically in the 2000s when An Inconvenient Truth highlighted the dangers of greenhouse gases, businesses large and small have made it a point to be sensitive to the environment. While there may be an almo...
Whenever you see a face in a cloud or the man in the moon you’re experiencing a phenomenon called “pareidoliac apophenia.” One example is the apparent face that emerged from the shadows of a mesa on Mars. The term apophenia was coined by Klaus Conrad in 1958. It refers to our tendency to find meaningful patterns or to ...
Various cybernetic limb and organ replacements were recently featured in IEEE’s flash demo called The Bionic Body Shop, but we were most interested by the bionic eye and the cochlear implant (we already discussed the featured powered exoskeleton). These are notable for the fact that they are not merely high-tech prosth...
Letting beef cows graze on bales and snow in winter pastures with a restricted system is working well for some Canadian ranchers. It's simple and economical, and can last until spring grazing. “You put the bales out and the cows go to the feed. You just control access with an electric fence,” says Bart Lardner, Western...
How to interpret scripture using the rules of Sensus Plenior Jer 17:9 The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it? Our assumptions about scripture and the rules we use to guide our interpretation effect the ultimate meaning that we get from scripture. It is important to evaluate...
The IEEE 802.15.4 standard specifies that a radio's PHY layer must provide an 8-bit integer value as an estimate of the received signal power. This value is commonly known as the Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) in the wireless sensor networks (WSN) community. While many protocols directly use the measurement...
Bigger Than a Bread Box Reading Level: Grades 4 - 6 Rebecca's life is turned upside down when her mother, without warning, takes Rebecca and her little brother away from their father and home and moves them in with their grandmother. Upset when she learns that this is not a short trip, but a permanent relocation Rebecc...
Copyright Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo. All rights reserved. Return to contents JAPANESE politicians, it seems, will do anything but face their war crimes, and will even try to justify them. The Japanese Foreign Ministry has persuaded the American government not to invite Prime Minister Murayama to ...
IAEA and ICTP Open Nuclear Energy Management School Training a New Generation of Nuclear Energy Leaders The number of countries which are considering introducing nuclear energy is growing steadily. The Agency projects that within the next twenty years, as many as 25 countries will be operating their first nuclear power...
Teresa Blake, Lisa Collier, Kim Stone, Noel Muselin, and Teri Peters “Seizing a Teachable Moment: Use of the Kalamazoo River Oil Spill to Improve Science Education” is Blake and her colleagues’ winning project. The Kalamazoo River runs through the village of Augusta and city of Galesburg, farmland, and two natural area...
In the News April 7, 2006 Collective effort produces Asian longhorned beetle information Government organizations combined resources to develop a PowerPoint slide show, a Web page, and informational flyers on how to detect and report suspected infestations of the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB). In 2005, the ALB was foun...
We [cannot] persist in seeing Leonardo [da Vinci] as an artist on the one hand and a scientist and technologist on the other. The common response is to suggest that he recognised no divisions between the two…. This doesn’t quite hit the mark, however, because it tacitly accepts that ‘art’ and ‘science’ had the same con...