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Skagarans appear nearly identical to Humans with the exception of distinguishing red protrusions above each eyebrow, on their throat, and in front of each ear. They also have red blood, like many humanoid species, and their body has a higher tolerance to alcohol than a Human body. They are similar enough to Humans to p...
Anatolian Weights and Measures Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Collection of Anatolian Weights and Measures The Anatolian weights and measures collection is comprised of over ten thousand pieces and is now one of the most remarkable collections of its kind in Turkey. The collection consists of objects dating from prehis...
American Guide Series The American Guide Series was a group of books and pamphlets published under the auspices of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), a Depression-era works program in the United States. The American Guide Series books were compiled by the FWP, but printed by individual states, and contained detailed h...
|Part of a series on| Cossacks (Ukrainian: козаки́, kozaky; Russian: казаки, kazaki), are a group of predominantly East Slavic people who originally were members of democratic, semi-military and semi-naval communities in Ukraine and Southern Russia. They inhabited sparsely populated areas and islands in the lower Dniep...
Blanking and piercing Blanking and piercing are shearing processes in which a punch and die are used to modify webs. The tooling and processes are the same between the two, only the terminology is different: in blanking the punched out piece is used and called a blank; in piercing the punched out piece is scrap. The pr...
Geography of Vatican City The geography of Vatican City is unique due to the country's position as an urban, landlocked enclave of Rome, Italy. With an area of 0.17 sq mi (0.44 km2), it is the world's smallest independent state. Outside the Vatican City, thirteen buildings in Rome and Castel Gandolfo (the pope's summer...
Government of Argentina The government of Argentina, functioning within the framework of a federal system, is a presidential representative democratic republic. The President of Argentina is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised by the President. Legislative power is vested in both the...
The Skagerrak is a strait running between the southeast coast of Norway, the southwest coast of Sweden, and the Jutland peninsula of Denmark, connecting the North Sea and the Kattegat sea area, which leads to the Baltic Sea. Both names Skagerrak and Kattegat are commonly held to be of Dutch origin. Skagerrak means in D...
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary - First attested probably in 1472. - From Middle English absurdite, then from either Middle French absurdité, or from Late Latin absurditas (“dissonance, incongruity”), from Latin absurdus + + -itas. - Surface analysis: absurd + -ity - (obsolete, rare) Dissonance. [Attest...
From Middle English sesoun, seson (“time of the year”), from Old French seson, seison (“time of sowing, seeding”), from Latin satiōnem, accusative of satiō (“act of sowing, planting”) from satum, past participle of serere (“to sow, plant”) from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, plant”). Akin to Old English sāwan (“t...
This is mainly a philosophical problem: what are opposites? You can only have opposites if you have a frame of reference. In one context, the opposite of man can be woman; in another, it can be beast or nature or child, and so on. Metaphorically speaking, you need a mirror to reflect against, or a hinge to pivot around...
Galls on Oak There are a variety of gall-forming species of small wasps that commonly infest oak, Quercus spp ., trees in Pennsylvania. Most leaf galls on oak cause little or no harm to the health of a tree. However, twig or branch galls may cause injury or even death to a heavily infested tree. Two common species of t...
Photograph by Donna Eaton A hippo peers from a plant-covered pool in Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Reserve. These massive mammals keep cool by submerging their massive bodies in African ponds, rivers, and lakes for up to 16 hours a day. Though they can hold their breath for perhaps half an hour if necessary, hippos typically...
Soaring Himalayan Griffon Vulture August 27, 2009 The Himalayan Griffon Vulture (Gyps himalayensis) flies over large swaths of central Asia including the Himalaya, Pamir and Tien Shan mountain ranges. Weighing in at 20-some pounds (12.5 kg) and with a wingspan of about 10 feet (3 meters) they are the second largest Old...
Strategy on climate change for 2020 and beyond The Commission assesses the costs and benefits of combating climate change and recommends a package of measures to limit global warming to 2° Celsius. Some of the measures apply to the EU, such as the binding target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and measures on energy...
The idea of the hypernova was first proposed by Dr. Bohdan Paczynski of Princeton University . He wanted to explain the gamma ray burst s that typically last a few second s at a time, come from seemingly random directions in space, and have the potential to produce more energy than anything else in the rest of the univ...
CHAPTER VI. ARRIVAL AT THE LAKE. "It sleeps among a hundred hills Where no man ever trod, And only Nature's music fills The silences of God." After going about two thousand three hundred miles up this serpentine river, we discovered the entrance to the lake. Many had been the conjectures and counsels of would-be advise...
Aplomado Falcons are rare birds. So rare, in fact, that no one really knows how many exist. Their historic range extended from casual visits to Tierra del Fuego north to northern Mexico and southern Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Fossils of their Pleistocene predecessors have been found in what is now called Ecuador an...
Tree ownership brings with it the responsibility to manage each tree to minimize risks associated with environmental hazards and aging. Following these three simple rules will make for safer trees; (1) systematic inspection, (2) treating problems quickly, (3) removing a tree when it's risk outweighs its value. The Tree...
Simple writing skills for students, part two: researching your subject Wright, Kerri and Ferns, Terry (2010) Simple writing skills for students, part two: researching your subject. British Journal of Nursing, 19 (17). pp. 1118-1020. ISSN 0966-0461Full text not available from this repository. This is the second part of ...
This study aims to investigate the factors regulating population size and colony distribution of Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) at Cape Hallett. Data was collected on Adelie penguin reproductive effort and chick condition including total number of adults, number of breeding pairs, number of active nests, number o...
Academic Performance and College Aspirations Suffer When Harassment Goes Unchecked The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, or GLSEN, released its most recent National School Climate Survey in 2003. For the first time, the bi-annual study reported a direct relationship between in-school victimization, grade-poi...
How the Heart Opens: Sacred Geometry and the New Science of Compassion - The Heart's Labyrinthine Electrification: 1.Dimple, 2. 'Turn Inside Out" from Dan Winter 12/3/2000 The essential thing we have learned about PHI / Golden Ratio harmonics from years of harmonic analysis of EKG during bliss, is that indeed the compl...
Perspective doesn’t apply just to architecture. Everything follows its laws, including people and animals. Some perspective teachers suggest drawing a box around an animal, and that’s a good idea. An even simpler idea is to draw a set of lines across the form of any animal or person. It’s a quick way check the placemen...
The acrimony directed at sugar, in all its forms, has taken a particularly bitter turn of late, with the suggestion that sugar is a poison and should be regulated as such through some combination of taxes, product bans, and dose restrictions. Is this rational, or maybe just a bit crazy? Let's chew on it. Excess dietary...
Jailed for Freedom Pin Grade Range: K-12 Resource Type(s): Artifacts, Primary Source Date Posted: 9/3/2008 In January 1917, members of the National Woman's Party (NWP) became the first people to picket the White House. Protesting the government's failure to pass a constitutional amendment enfranchising women, NWP membe...
Heather Cox Richardson In 1938 Superman sped into this galaxy from the planet Krypton to save humanity. He and his superhero friends oversaw the chaos of the late 1940s, as America first fought World War II and then struggled to adjust to demobilization. Superman and his friends then swept through the skies as the U.S....
|Homelessness is traumatic. People experiencing homelessness are living with a multitude of losses. People who are homeless have lost the protection of home and community, and are marginalized, isolated, and stigmatized within the larger society. Additionally, people who are experiencing homelessness are highly vulnera...
Remember that these lists are only suggestions. We strongly recommend that you review the entire list of workshops to find the ones that suit you best. F-3 Exhibitor: Components of a Complete Language Arts Program Aspects of a comprehensive language arts program including: phonics and phonemic awareness; spelling; voca...
With etymological history tracing the roots of the word "language" back to the Middle English, Old French and Latin words for "tongue," the very nature of language is tied to ideas of communication and expression. The common thread in all of the varying definitions of language is the concept of rifts between individua...
Correlation-based learning is, as a whole, often called Hebbian learning. The Hebb rule (10.2) is a special case of a local learning rule because it only depends on pre- and postsynaptic firing rates and the present state wij of the synapse, i.e., information that is easily `available' at the location of the synapse. R...
Williams v. California A lawsuit that established safety and materials requirements for California schools. On August 13, 2004, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the settlement of Williams v. California, a lawsuit filed on behalf of thousands of California's public school students who were denied equal education...
Skip to Main Content One of the major drawbacks of photovoltaic systems is the high generation cost. To address this problem, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency initiated a study to create a thousand 10 cm2 solar cells with over 50% efficiency, providing 500 mW in full sunlight, with reasonable manufactur...
Skip to Main Content In this article, we propose a new approach to generate tools (assistive technology) for supporting education of children with disabilities in the first three levels of school. In the model proposed, we included the students of the last years of engineering careers, the experts of special education,...
Tarangnan is politically subdivided into 41 barangays. On the earlier part of the 18th century, Tarangnan was the first settlement of the Jesuits missionaries in the island of Samar. Even before the explusion of the Jesuits, Moro raids have already begun as early as 1750. Samar though was not their major target because...
- A special-purpose camera that takes a meteorological picture of clouds, etc. in the sky with the field of view of 180 degrees from the horizon. - Can take a picture of the entire sky of 50 mm dia. circular image in a 6 x 6 cm format 120 roll film. - Fish-eye-NIKKOR 16.3 mm f/8 lens is a modified version of 16 mm f/8 ...
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there. Robert M. Pirsig Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has received more media attention lately with the return of soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq. PTSD is an anxiety disorder resulting from an experience...
MIT Summer Research Program Seeks Diverse Candidates The Summer Research Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) started in 1986 to address the underrepresentation of minority students, including Native Americans, in engineering and science fields in the United States. According to, Dr. Sophia Inzunz...
As Americans we are all connected to each other about the way we do one thing: how we govern ourselves. The three dominant religions in the world are also about one thing: how we govern ourselves. In other words, there is a connection between religion and government—therefore national and international politics; theref...
Born Sep 6 1919 - Died Sep 27 2011 Medical Cardiac Pacemaker Patent Number(s) 3,057,356 Wilson Greatbatch invented the cardiac pacemaker, an innovation selected in 1983 by the National Society of Professional Engineers as one of the two major engineering contributions to society during the previous 50 years. Greatbatch...
At 8.4 x 12.4 micrometers, the world's smallest advent calendar was created in a lab late one night in Germany. The motivation for the work was that the researchers wanted to have "a nice picture of Christmas to put on our homepage." "We waited until normal business was done for the day in the clean room," said PhD stu...
- Posted January 22, 2013 by This iReport is part of an assignment: Fight, Bleed, Die - Equality? No - hhanks, CNN iReport producer We are in a new era or so we are told. It was evident during Monday's inaugural speech by President Barack Obama accepting the trust of the US of A for a second term. The President made hi...
John Nott, the chef for the Duke of Bolton, who resided in St. Jamess’s Street, wrote this charming introduction to his cookbook, which was published in 1723 and is now in the public domain. A learned man, Nott’s French inspired recipes show that vegetables, such as carrots and new varieties of asparagus and spinach, w...
Zechariah 12-14 is the second oracle of the second half of the book of Zechariah. The first half of Zechariah contained eight visions (Zechariah 1-6) and four messages (Zechariah 7-8). The second half of Zechariah comes in the form of two oracles (the Hebrew term only occurs in Zechariah 9:1, 12:1 and Malachi 1:1). The...
America's digital divide is narrowing in some respects, mainly due to the rise of mobile computing, but other metrics indicate that it is solidifying along income, age, and educational lines, according to a new report from the Pew Internet Project . Some 63 percent of U.S. adults now access the Internet through a mobil...
Rotavirus causes severe vomiting and diarrhea. It can be a serious condition in young children. Fortunately, there is a rotavirus vaccine that has been proven effective at preventing this infection. One of the first rotavirus vaccines was associated with an increased risk of intussusception in first few weeks after vac...
Pityriasis rosea is a common skin rash. It occurs most often in children and young adults. The rash is scaly and reddish-pink. It may first appear on the back, stomach, or chest. The rash can then spread to the neck, arms, and legs. The rash may last for several months. It will usually go away on its own. Talk to your ...
Seeing red, or green - chemistry of color vision Dr. Ali Zand is researching the chemistry underlying our ability to perceive colors and its implications on color blindness. At first glance, Dr. Ali Zand's research on the chemistry of color vision defies the very foundation of the art world, where red, blue and yellow ...
What if one of my breasts is bigger than the other? When breasts are growing, they change shape and size until they're fully developed. Along the way, one breast may be bigger than the other. Of course, a girl would rather them both be the same size. If this happens to you, stay calm: - No. 1: You are probably the only...
You're in the middle of a meeting at work, but your mind keeps drifting to the parent-teacher conference you have tonight ... and the car you have to pick up at the shop on the way home ... and how you wish you hadn't skipped lunch because the rumbling in your stomach is driving you nuts. Then, suddenly, you're back in...
Strength training is a vital part of a balanced exercise routine that includes aerobic activity and flexibility exercises. Regular aerobic exercise, such as running or using a stationary bike, makes your muscles use oxygen more efficiently and strengthens your heart and lungs. When you strength train with weights, you'...
A home filled with reading material is a good way to help kids become enthusiastic readers. What kind of books should you have? Ask your kids about their interests. If they're too young to have a preference, your local librarian can offer suggestions about age-appropriate books. Here are some other tips: Keep a varied ...
Shots - Health News Fri February 1, 2013 Quick TB Test Builds Up Arsenal Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria Originally published on Sat February 2, 2013 4:56 pm The people on the front lines of tuberculosis control have their hands full, but their biggest challenge for the moment may be containing strains of the disease t...
There are many contemporary strategies for naming children. You can echo family traditions or heritage. You can try to balance given names with too-unusual or too-common family names. You can refer to people, places and qualities you admire. Our you can name children purely for the poetry of the sound, or in nod to the...
Drought was nothing new to the farmers of western Kansas. Since their fathers and grandfathers had settled there in the 1870s, there had been dry periods interspersed with times of sufficient rainfall. But the drought that descended on the Central Plains in 1931 was more severe than most could remember. Many factors le...
Most Active Stories Thu March 22, 2012 From Abe Lincoln To Donald Duck: History Of The Income Tax The story of how the U.S. wound up with the income tax is the story of two wars, a Supreme Court justice on his death bed, and Donald Duck. It's also the story of how the government overcame three obstacles. Obstacle No. 1...
———– family keeps voting for the same political party for more than 10 years. Both of his parents read the newspapers and watch the news on TV, in order to inform themselves. ——– rather uses the TV like a radio and listens to the news, as he eats his meal in the kitchen. Later on, he usually discusses with his mother a...
Research conducted by the BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Researh Council) Centre for Integrated Systems Biology of Ageing and Nutrition (CISBAN) is being presented at the conference of the British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA) in Newcastle, U.K. This research sheds new light on why restricted diet...
Internet's Impact on Museums and Libraries Open Lib/Info Sci Education Forum [JESSE@listserv.utk.edu]; on behalf of; Kevin OConnell [KOConnell@IMLS.GOV] JESSE@listserv.utk.edu Fri 7/03/2008 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 6, 2008 IMLS Press Contacts Jeannine Mjoseth, email@example.com Mamie Bittner, firstname.lastname@exam...
The script command is part of the util-linux-ng package and so should be available already installed in any distribution, or you should be able to easily add it. What’s script ? From his man page: Script makes a typescript of everything printed on your terminal. It is useful for students who need a hardcopy record of a...
10 Truly Eccentric Organisms Most species of organisms are unrecognized for their unique, versatile abilities, appearance and existence. When we think of organisms we often think of the typical dog, cat and other household pets. When we think of wild organisms, we think of zebras, lions, monkeys and other animals seen ...
A Child's Right to Safe, Clean Drinking Water Every Monday we profile a Dow Live Earth Run for Water partner organization that works toward providing solutions to the nearly 1 billion people who lack access to clean, safe water. To donate to one of these projects, visit liveearth.org/give. A Child's Right (ACR) is uniq...
A thermally insulated piston cylinder device initially contains 0.2m^3, 0.8kg of air at 20 degrees Celcius, and the piston is free to move. Now air at 600kPa and 80 degrees Celcius is slowly applied to the device through a supply line until the volume increases by 50 percent. Using constant specific heats and assume ai...
Ruby Cornwell (1902 – 2003) recalls her early life in South Carolina, and her experiences with segregation. She talks about her grandmother, Isabella Reeder Chavis, who graduated from Avery Institute in 1873, and her roots in Charleston. She discusses issues of class and colorism and her experience growing up as a ligh...
[Numpy-discussion] "Nyquist frequency" in numpy.fft docstring Sun Jul 11 18:13:44 CDT 2010 Hi! I'm a little confused: in the docstring for numpy.fft we find the "For an even number of input points, A[n/2] represents both positive and negative Nyquist frequency..." but according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_f...
Biodiversity loss is one of the world's most pressing crises, and there is a growing global concern about the status of the biological resources on which so much of human life depends. It has been estimated that the current species extinction rate is between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than it would be naturally. The...
A key issue in dealing with marine pollution incidents is preparedness. Given the volumes of oil and other pollutants shipped around the UK and the turbulent, often unpredictable nature of our waters, marine pollution incidents are an unfortunate inevitability. The UK has extremely well developed contingency planning a...
As it is improper to mention a lesser known incident of the war and not provide sufficient details, allow me to follow up yesterday’s post with more information about the Childs-Ripley incident at Charleston Arsenal in late November 1862. So a bit of background on the principles to start. The son Thomas Childs, a disti...
WHILE THE EASIEST LANGUAGES for English speakers to learn have some syntactic common ground with English, the toughest ones are quite alien. Learners tackle writing systems, tonality, and grammatical systems so different, they can make an English-speaking head spin. If you’re studying or have mastered one of these nine...
Date: 9/2/96 at 22:52:58 From: Mohd Nasir Mahmud Subject: Radians Dear Sir, Could you tell me why pi radians = 180 degrees? Date: 10/24/96 at 16:5:50 From: Doctor Jaime Subject: Radians This is an immediate consequence of the definition of radians and degrees. In fact 1 radian is defined as the central angle subtended ...
Let f(x) be a function such that f(0)=2 and 1 is less then or equal to f '(x) is less then or equal to 3 for all values of x. Find the largest and smallest possible values of f(3). we can estimate f(3) by linear means. the minimum rate of change is 1, so the minimum value for f(3) is obtained if the rate of increase is...
A Villager David has a plot of land of the shape of a quadrilateral. The Village head decided to take over some portion of his plot from one of the corners toconstruct a health center. Suzie Agrees to the above proposal with the condition that he should be given equal amount of land in lieu of his land adjoining his pl...
AB and AC are equal chords of a circle. AM and BN are parallel chords through A and B respectively. Prove that AN is parallel to CM. I've tried to prove angles NAM and AMC are equal but failed miserably. Could someone please help me with this question?
Art Education Program Courses Alternative Settings for Art Education In this course students will use the museum, contemporary art collections and alternative settings as a resource for informing classroom practice and will explore, develop, and participate in engaging intergenerational and multicultural community fiel...
Study shows bariatric surgery restores pancreatic function by targeting belly fat In a substudy of the STAMPEDE trial (Surgical Therapy And Medications Potentially Eradicate Diabetes Efficiently), Cleveland Clinic researchers have found that gastric bypass surgery reverses diabetes by uniquely restoring pancreatic func...
In order to maximize learning and transfer of this information into practice we have provided a variety of tools. This section includes suggested formats for educational programs as well as vital components. This includes: a basic slide set for a 45 minute didactic lecture; a video depicting actual ED scenarios and did...
Roman Art: A Resource for Educators Nancy L. Thompson This fully illustrated resource is designed for teachers of grades K–12 and includes a discussion of the relevance of Rome to the modern world, a short historical overview, and descriptions of forty-five works of art from the Museum's collection of Roman art. Lesson...
|[This is a MPIWG MPDL language technology service]| Wood (a.) Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic. Wood (v. i.) To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad. Wood (n.) A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; -- frequently used in the plural. Wood (n.) The substance of trees and the like; the...
Application Configuration Files Application configuration files contain settings specific to an application. This file contains configuration settings that the common language runtime reads (such as assembly binding policy, remoting objects, and so on), and settings that the application can read. The name and location ...
Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife Publication Year: 2010 Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press Download PDF (56.7 KB) Most of the research for this book was completed while I was a student in MIT’s Doctoral Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society. Durin...
Search the collections Australian Red Cross Society Image: Badge - Australian Red Cross Appeal, 1918 (Incomplete) Source: Museum Victoria The International Committee of the Red Cross was formed in 1863 and is the founding body of the Red Cross movement. Today the Australian Red Cross is one of 178 members of the Intern...
For those who commute into New York City on a regular basis, thoughts of September 11, 2001 are never far away. The increased ever-present police presence at mass-transit facilities together with signs and announcements about "staying alert" serve as a constant reminder. Lest we forget, new plots are sometimes unearthe...
Surgical technologists, sometimes called “scrub techs” are Allied Health Professionals who assist in surgical procedures under the supervision of surgeons and registered nurses. A surgical technologist provides surgical care to patients in a variety of settings. They possess expertise in theory and application of steri...
Originally a Middle English Anglicized form of French Marie, from Latin Maria. This is a New Testament form of Miriam, which St Jerome derives from elements meaning ‘drop of the sea’ (Latin stilla maris, later altered by folk etymology to stella maris ‘star of the sea’). Mary was the name of the Virgin Mary, mother of ...
The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board recently approved a set of rules designed to address phosphorous and other nutrient pollution, as well as help control erosion and sedimentation in the state. Wisconsin farmers will be able to obtain up to 70% of the costs of implementing non-point pollution controls to meet the st...
4.2. Protoplanetary disks Contrary perhaps to the expectation that protoplanetary disks would be deeply embedded within the clouds from which they form, and they would therefore be inaccessible to optical observations, HST revealed many dozens of protoplanetary disks ("proplyds"; e.g., Bally, O'Dell and McCaughrean 200...
On July 4, 1776, delegates of the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence; a document that announced the fledgling 13 colonies would gain freedom from rule under Great Britain -- a landmark decision during the early years of the Revolutionary War. Today, we typically celebrate the birth of American...
Exhibit that Proves the Exception to the Rule I attended the excellent presentation at the Holocaust Museum on Jan. 29 and was impressed by the photos and film portraying the courageous acts of heroism among Muslims in occupied Albania during World War II. No other Muslim community displayed such a commitment to humani...
Editors' note: Updated June 1, 2011. We do a lot of top products lists here at CNET, and manufacturers are usually pretty excited to see their products on those lists. But this is one "top" list that manufacturers probably aren't too thrilled to find their products on. As we note in our intro to the list, for a phone t...
Since computer scientists and biochemists at the University of Washington launched a project in 2008 that taps into the brainpower of computer gamers to fold proteins, almost 60,000 people around the world have taken on the challenge. In the process, Foldit players have been able to best computers on problems that requ...
Australian scientists conduct trials for Hepatitis C vaccine In a bid to save people from deadly Hepatitis C, Australian scientists have developed a vaccine that is undergoing trials. Around 200 million people worldwide are suffering from this disease. Hepatitis C is an infectious disease that affects liver. The diseas...
From my research in Hungary, one of the key things that has struck me is the way in which multiple representations and images are used to support the development of very abstract and complex mathematical ideas. This month's website will seek to illustrate this and offer some problems and resources that help students to...
Many consumers assume that if their water looks, tastes, and smells okay that it's safe to drink. Unfortunately, few contaminants can actually be detected by our senses, so water testing may be needed. The four main contaminant categories are as follows: Most health departments require a total coliform test to determin...
Photographs taken in China before about 1950 are relatively rare. During the Cultural Revolution many Chinese destroyed their collections of photographs, as any evidence of a ‘bourgeois’ past could get you into serious trouble. Some collections of photographs of China have been preserved elsewhere, but until recently m...
The 179,755-acre Kalmiopsis Wilderness, located in southwestern Oregon in the rugged Klamath/Siskiyou Mountains, is the third largest wilderness in the state. A portion of the current Kalmiopsis was originally protected by the U.S. Forest Service in the 1940s and subsequently was included in areas protected by the Wild...
Copyright © 2004 Emma Smith Editor(s): Emma Smith Published Online: 21 APR 2008 Print ISBN: 9780631220077 Online ISBN: 9780470775769 About this Book About The Product This Guide steers students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare's history plays, enhancing their enjoyment and broadening their crit...
Most toxic tort cases have arisen either from exposure to pharmaceutical drugs or occupational exposures. Most pharmaceutical toxic injury cases are mass tort cases, because drugs are consumed by thousands of people, many of whom become ill from a toxic drug. There have also been many occupational toxic tort cases, bec...
- Resurvey of a GLORIA Target Region in the Swiss National Park (2011) - There is no doubt that recent global climate change is in process and affects life on earth. Especially mountain ecosystems are supposed to be highly sensitive to climate change due to the vertical compression of life zones, rough abiotic environm...
WASHINGTON (AP) - This probably comes as no surprise: Federal scientists say July was the hottest month ever recorded in the contiguous United States. The average temperature for the Lower 48 last month was 77.6 degrees. That breaks the old record from July 1936, during the Dust Bowl, by two-tenths of a degree. Records...
Schwenzer, S. P.; Abramov, O.; Allan, C. C.; Clifford, S. M.; Cockell, C. S.; Filiberto, J. ; Kring, D. A.; Lasue, J.; McGovern, P. J.; Newsom, H. E.; Treiman, A. H.; Vaniman, D. T. and Wiens, R. C. Puncturing Mars: How impact craters interact with the Martian cryosphere. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 335 (Click...