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This is the old United Nations University website. Visit the new site at http://unu.edu Contents - Previous - Next Two solar-hydro and pumped-storage projects are being considered, in Israel and Egypt. The Israeli plan involves constructing a long pipeline/tunnel between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea (400 m below ...
"Exploring Myths about Drug Abuse" by Alan I. Leshner, Ph.D., Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health Myth: Drug addiction is voluntary behavior. A person starts out as an occasional drug user, and that is a voluntary decision. But as times passes, something happens, and that person go...
More than 400 years before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, Greek playwright Euripides wrote in his play Bellerophon, “Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, led by the old false fable, thus deceive you.” Euripides was not an atheist and only used the word “fool” to pr...
As world moves towards cloud based storage (and computing), the task of storing our data on a PC hard disk is being replaced with cloud based storage providers. This includes our emails, social data, professional data and financial data. Accessing this data requires authentication, despite its various limitations, user...
Animal Species:Blacklip Abalone The Blacklip Abalone is an important species targeted by the commercial fishing industry. Sea Ear, Black-lip The Blacklip Abalone has a distinctive dark band along the edge of its shell but the shell is often covered in algae and plants making the abalone difficult to find. Blacklip Abal...
Animal Species:Longnose Trevally, Carangoides chrysophrys (Cuvier, 1833) The Longnose Trevally is silvery to blue-green above and silver below. In Australia it is recorded from tropical waters of the central coast of Western Australia, around the north of the country, and south to northern New South Wales. The Longnose...
I kind of borrowed this from usalug's site, jbsnake posted it there and it's a pretty good overview for someone that may not know what an alias IS. an alias is sort of like a one-line script. it can be used to group together like commands or shorten common ones. you can add some into your ~/.bashrc file or add them int...
Thiamine, or vitamin B1, was the first vitamin to be discovered. Traditionally, brown or whole grain rice was a staple food in many Oriental countries. The oils contained in the germ of whole grain rice or wheat can go rancid rather quickly, especially when exposed to air (as when ground into flour) and stored at room ...
Dear Member of Blavatsky Net, (Due to pressing personal tasks there was no November BN newsletter.) With the plethora of unfamiliar terms in the Secret Doctrine we may not realize that one of them has a special peculiarity and mystery of its own - the term Baphomet. This newsletter reports on how this centuries-long my...
Though the example of law students is a bit light and facetious, it does help us dive into the main topic of post with a bit of perspective and a baseline. That said, and if we are right that law students aren't truly poor, how then should poverty be defined in modern America? Should it be defined by income? Standard o...
James Shapiro, Professor of English, Columbia University When I think about how ubiquitous hats were in Shakespeare’s day it makes me think of going to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx and seeing everybody wearing a baseball cap or watching Mad Men and seeing so many working men wearing fedoras back in 1960. We no longer li...
Posted by jlwile on February 20, 2011 A commenter asked a question before I left on vacation. I gave him a brief answer as a reply, but now I want to go into the details of my answer. As the commenter mentioned, he was doing research for a sermon and came upon some information that indicated the sun is shrinking at a r...
Does divorce impact children? In one article I read, Journal of Marriage and Family, Demo and Acock say that "the pattern of empirical findings suggest that children's emotional adjustment, gender-role orientation, and anti-social behavior are affected by family structure." Two psychologists argued that one of the basi...
We invite your comments about the Immigration History Research Center's collection acquisition guidelines. We prioritize acquisitions in order to ensure that we have the resources to preserve and make accessible for future generations a remarkable and distinct group of documents for understanding immigrant experiences....
Tackling Indigenous smoking: can the promise be kept? The previous post highlights some of the challenges ahead for the new Health Minister Tanya Plibersek. Reducing Indigenous smoking rates is one of them, says Associate Professor David Thomas from the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin and the Lowitja Instit...
Cyberbullying: Out of the Playground and Onto the Internet - A celebrity sends a tweet to his hundreds of thousands of followers that seems to encourage vigilante justice. - An anonymous group creates a Facebook page that, under the guise of “freedom of speech,” encourages users to post unflattering comments about stud...
Learning to Write a Research Paper A practical writing exercise for science majors in advanced courses is to write up an experiment as though they were submitting it to a professional journal. Students do the lab work in the usual way, up to the data collection. However, instead of writing a standard lab report or summ...
What if we could digitally capture everything we do and see? What if we could save every bit of information we touch and record every event we experience? What would such a personal digital archive be like, and how might it affect the way we live? This vision of a complete "lifelog" is the holy grail for many technolog...
When Do Kids Form Their First Memories? Study Suggests Even Very Young Children Can Recall Past Events May 11, 2011 -- New research challenges the notion that very young children do not form memories, finding that they do but that the memories often fade over time. Most adults remember little before their third or four...
Higher standards needed for waste More than a billion gallons of waste have been generated by drillers and frackers over the course of Pennsyvlania's natural gas industry boom. Due to an exception created under federal law nearly a quarter century ago, that waste is exempt from some federal regulations requiring the sa...
The plight of mangrove forests in Pakistan - Film 14 September 2011 | Video Across the Indus delta in Pakistan, at Keti Bundur, Siddiq Roonjha narrates the once prosperous economic history of the area, his recent battles with cyclones and sea storms as his home was inundated in front of his eyes; his precious belonging...
Russian Knapweed · Acroptilon repens (L.) DC · is a perennial Forb that originated in Eurasia. It flowers from June through September, and reproduces through rhizomes and seeds. It was probably introduced to North America in the late 1890s as a contaminant in crop seed. It rapidly spread throughout much of the Great Pl...
Most people probably don't consider scientists to be creative types. Mad perhaps, but not creative. The thing is, the process of developing new products, new theories, new substances and new uses for items that no one has ever thought of or attempted before, is by its very nature, creative. In this hands-on gallery fea...
Although traditional insomnia treatments focus on helping people get to sleep, many insomniacs' worst problem is sleeping through the night. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) may soothe the snooze problem: The Journal of the American Medical Association (2001, vol. 258, no. 14) recently reported that CBT helps insomni...
Tooth loss has a profound impact on the lives of people, it can be disabling as it is usually associated with an elderly population. It's easy to understand why dental implants have become very popular these days. The technology has advanced rapidly in recent years to provide a solution to the aesthetic, functionality ...
MySQL Events are tasks that run according to a schedule. Therefore, we sometimes refer to them as scheduled events. When you create an event, you are creating a named database object containing one or more SQL statements to be executed at one or more regular intervals, beginning and ending at a specific date and time. ...
English definition of “pay” /peɪ/ verb (past tense and past participle paid) BUY [I, T] › to give money to someone because you are buying something from them, or because you owe them money: Helen paid for the tickets. Did you pay the telephone bill? You can pay by cash or credit card. WORK [I, T] › to give someone mone...
|1.||the power of perceiving through the senses| |2.||a physical condition or experience resulting from the stimulation of one of the sense organs: a sensation of warmth| |3.||a general feeling or awareness: a sensation of fear| |4.||a state of widespread public excitement: his announcement caused a sensation| |5.||any...
Senses and Sensibilities Yes, 5's are green! but p's are navy blue! My husband drew my attention to your article on synesthesia ["Do You See What They See?" December] by saying that Discover is talking about "one of you." I have always thought of letters and numbers in color, but I never heard of anyone else who knew w...
This chapter briefly explains how to create a Windows extension module for Python using Microsoft Visual C++, and follows with more detailed background information on how it works. The explanatory material is useful for both the Windows programmer learning to build Python extensions and the Unix programmer interested i...
Understanding Depression -- Symptoms What Are the Symptoms of Depression? For major depression, you may experience five or more of the following symptoms for at least a two-week period: - Persistent sadness, pessimism - Feelings of guilt, worthlessness, helplessness, or hopelessness - Loss of interest or pleasure in us...
Dragons are creatures with nearly unlimited life spans. They can survive for long periods of time, and no one has found a dragon that has died of old age. Adolescence is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling’s wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the...
Tumours are heterogeneous and contain both oxygenated and hypoxic regions. Cells in regions with low oxygen levels mainly use glucose for glycolytic energy production and release lactic acid in the process. It had been thought that tumour cells with an ample oxygen supply primarily used glucose for oxidative energy pro...
|Emperor of the Byzantine Empire| Basil, his son Constantine, and his second wife, Empress Eudokia Ingerina. |Full name||Basil I the Macedonian| |Died||August 29, 886 (aged 75)| |Successor||Leo VI the Wise| |Issue||by Maria: Constantine by Eudokia: Leo VI, Alexander, Stephen Basil I, called the Macedonian (Greek: Βασίλ...
The Borough Compter was a small compter or prison initially located in Southwark High Street but moved to nearby Tooley Street in the 17th century, where it stood until demolished until 1855. It took its name from 'The Borough', a historic name for the Southwark area of London on the south side of the River Thames from...
Romanization of Maldivian Major romanization methods The Standard Alphabet of Dhivehi Transliteration (SADT) is the standard alphabet for the romanization of Maldivian. The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) is the most popular academic standard for the romanization of Sanskrit. IAST is the de fa...
The Malay Peninsula (Malay: Semenanjung Tanah Melayu, Thai: คาบสมุทรมลายู) is a peninsula in Southeast Asia. The land mass runs approximately north-south and, at its terminus, is the southernmost point of the Asian mainland. The area contains the southernmost tip of Myanmar, Peninsular Malaysia, and Southern Thailand. ...
|This article needs additional citations for verification. (February 2013)| |Born||19 October 1688 |Died||10 April 1752 |Institutions||St George's Hospital| Cheselden was born at Somerby, Leicestershire. He studied anatomy in London under William Cowper (1666–1709), and began lecturing anatomy in 1710. That same year, ...
ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAM AT KSC National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), enacted in 1969, has changed our lives. NEPA is one of the most significant pieces of environmental legislation enacted in the United States. It has affected substantially how all Federal agencies conduct...
QuickTime Player, the default media player for Mac OS X, also has some powerful recording capabilities. With the recording features, you can create brief tutorials for your students that demonstrate common tasks they need to know how to complete on their computers (saving assignments, navigating the class website, etc....
On this day in 1492 two worlds collided. Mexican philosopher Jose Vasconcelos coined the term La Raza Cósmica, the Cosmic Race (for lack of a better word), to describe the people of Latin America, and what he considered the future of the human race. Vasconcelos theorized that: “the different races of the world tend to ...
A drug that is used primarily to relieve pain are of three basic types: (1) Simple, nonnarcotic analgesics that relieve pain by suppressing the local production of prostaglandins and related substances; examples are acetaminophen and the large group of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs known as aspirin substitutes (...
Beef up the grief! - 6th century B.C.: Greek legislator Solon institutes curbs against the use of professional mourners. - 4th century B.C.: Plato forbids hired mourners in his Laws. - 4th century: Saint John Chrysostom derides the use of "hired women… as mourners to make the mourning more intense, to fan the fires of ...
Animal activists often decry the conditions under which veal calves are raised, calling upon conscientious consumers to forgo the consumption of veal. What many people don't realize, is that simply not eating veal is inadequate as a means of protest. In order to have a real effect on the veal calf situation, consumers ...
The central vowels of Present-Day English are the vowels that are articulated near the center of the vocal cavity. 1. /'/ (the phoneme spelled u in but): mid central vowel. 2. /a/ (the phoneme spelled a in father): low central vowel. [Return to "Vowels"]
Foresight Nanotech Institute Weekly News Digest: June 14, 2006 In this issue: Nanotechnology That's Good For People Foresight note: Most of the water on Earth is saltwater. This research promises to reduce the cost of desalination. Headline: Cheap drinking water from the Ocean – Carbon nanotube-based membranes will dra...
Most children seemed to thrive. A small number of children, though, did not tolerate the addition, because their sucking and swallowing actions were not yet fully coordinated. They inhaled small amounts of the rice cereal into their lungs, which led to pulmonary problems. I’m much more concerned about a subtler issue. ...
A vehicle fire this week in Kent, WA involving a battery powered vehicle highlights the purpose of NFPA’s Electric/Hybrid Vehicle Safety Training and other resources we provide. Based on preliminary reports, on Wednesday (2/Oct/2013) a Tesla Model S caught fire after a portion of the battery, mounted under the passenge...
Take your laptop outside, and you’re likely to find yourself squinting at the screen. The glare is even more pronounced with mobile computing devices, which users usually view downward (like a piece of paper), catching more light than when the screen is vertical. But putting brighter lighting in those devices drains th...
Infants born at full term are able to feed themselves thanks to their instinctive sucking reflex and the fully developed muscles needed to extract milk from their mothers. But every year in the U.S., more 500,000 infants are born prematurely, few of them with the muscular strength needed to acquire nourishment from eit...
3D printers such as the RepRap and Makerbot turn spools of plastic filament into just about any object imaginable. There’s a problem though: this filament costs about $40 a kilogram, and raw plastic pellets cost about 1/10th of that. Obviously, there’s a lot of room for improvement. The folks at Inventables are throwin...
Phytoplankton are also responsible for the synthesis of dimethyl sulfur, which is a sulfur-based composite that plays an important role in the climate becoming moderate and the formation of clouds. Dimethyl sulfur is put into the atmosphere by the phytoplankton group called “coccolithophore” and it turns into solid par...
When red clover silage and corn silage are fed together, a 50-50 mixture is optimal, say researchers at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences in Great Britain. The two silages were fed to appetite, along with 9 lbs/day of dairy concentrates, in the following proportions: 90% corn silage, 10% red...
A hip dislocation occurs when the ball of the thighbone moves out of place within the socket of the pelvic bone. This ball and socket form the hip joint. The Hip Joint Copyright © Nucleus Medical Media, Inc. Hip dislocations are relatively rare and severe injuries. They are often associated with pelvic fractures. A nor...
Project 1: Dots that move around at random Project 2: Just changing some colors Project 3: Trying to have 1 dot moving around, with a chance of multiplying Project 4: Adding blobs of different colors Project 5: If blue and red blob meet, the make a purple one Project 7: Trying once more to get different colors Project ...
Campaign for Recognition of Polish Enigma Codebreakers Written by Martin Postranecky Saturday, 20 October 2012 16:00 Poland's parliament has launched a campaign to restore justice to the Polish men and women who first broke the Enigma codes, but who have tended to be overlooked with the limelight going to the Bletchley...
Mountain Imperial-pigeon (Ducula badia) - HBW 4, p. 239 French: Carpophage à manteau brun Spanish: Dúcula Dorsicastaña Other common names: Hodgson’s/Jerdon’s/Bronze-backed/Grey-headed(!)/Band-tailed Imperial-pigeon Taxonomy: Columba badia Raffles, 1822, Bengkulu, west Sumatra. Probably forms a superspecies with D. lace...
In the previous chapter, we looked at RPM's build process from a conceptual level. In this chapter, we will be performing an actual build using RPM. In order to keep things understandable for this first pass, the build will be very simple. Once we've covered the basics, we'll present more real-world examples in later c...
On December 2 in Orléans, France, a crew of four quadrocopters assembled a six-meter-tall tower using 1,500 foam blocks as part of the FRAC Centre's "Flight Assembled Architecture" exhibit. The project was a collaboration was helmed by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, whose researchers had previousl...
Biology 2404 A&P Basics Lab Exercise 5 Tissues & Membranes Dr. Weis |Objectives||Background||Medical Terms||Activities||Applications||Careers||WWW||Review Questions| Students should be able to * give the four major tissue groups and their function * give examples of each major tissue type, their location, and function ...
Precepts On religion 关于宗教 Dhammo mangalamukkittham, ahimsa samjamo tavo. Deva vi tam namamsanti, jassa dhamme saya mano. (82) Religion is supremely auspicious; non-violence, selfcontrol and p[enance are its essentials. Even the gods bow down before him whose mind is ever preoccupied with religion. (82) Dhammo vatthu sa...
Carbamazepine is an anticonvulsant agent used primarily to prevent seizures in conditions such as epilepsy. The herb ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) has been used to treat Alzheimer's disease and ordinary age-related memory loss, among many other conditions. This interaction involves potential contaminants in ginkgo, not ginkgo...
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, Washington, DC, Source: National Park Service The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is my hero. His leadership, intellect, courage, and ambassadorship to white America and the world at large make him deserving of all the recognitions and honors that he’s received. Yet, I am filled with ...
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) refers to chronic conditions that cause inflammation in the lining and, in some instances, the wall of the intestine. The two primary types of IBD are: Ulcerative Colitis —This type causes inflammation and ulcers in the top lining of the colon and rectum. Crohn’s Disease —This type caus...
Most eye injuries are minor. Getting soap, sand, or dirt in the eye or under the eyelid are common ways a child's eye can become irritated. Still, some eye injuries can be serious and require immediate medical attention. Possible signs of a mildeye irritation are: stinging or burning teary or watery eyes swelling of th...
Many young kids go through a stage between the ages of 2 and 5 when they stutter, repeating certain syllables, words or phrases, prolonging them, or stopping, making no sound for certain sounds and syllables. Stuttering is a form of dysfluency — an interruption in the flow of speech. In many cases, stuttering goes away...
Preschoolers sleep about 10 to 12 hours during each 24-hour period, but there's no need to be rigid about which 10 to 12 hours these are. The most important thing is to help kids develop good habits for getting to sleep. A bedtime routine is a great way to ensure that your preschooler gets enough sleep. Here are a few ...
What the sign doesn't say is that some Union dead were also originally interred in mass graves. And that the Battle of Shiloh was one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War – in two days the tally of those dead, wounded or missing was 13,000 on the Union side and 10,500 on the Confederate side! The site of the buryi...
KRWG.ORG-The Region's Home Page Wed January 4, 2012 How Fracking Wastewater Is Tied To Quakes Originally published on Thu January 5, 2012 1:00 pm Small earthquakes in Ohio and Arkansas associated with hydraulic fracturing for natural gas have taken many people by surprise. Gas industry executives say there's no hard ev...
Home automation used to be limited to turning on lights and appliances, and maybe controlling your thermostat and lawn sprinkler, from your computer. While you still might not be able to create all the Jetsons’ toys, today you can also * Build a wireless network * Create and set up a weather station * Automate your TV ...
Over the past several years, scientists have looked deeper into how brains age and confirmed that they continue to develop through and beyond middle age. Many longheld views, including the one that 40 percent of brain cells are lost, have been overturned. What is stuffed into your head may not have vanished but has sim...
How to tune your guitar 6th Feb 2009 | 15:28 Learn the most important lesson of all here! Before you start playing those first chords or bashing out your first riff, you need to get your axe in tune. Here's how! The diagram on the right shows the six strings as they're laid out on the neck of your guitar, with the thic...
How to be careful with your knees and keep the vulnerable joints healthy. Some important facts: Injury to Knee: One of the most commonly injured ligaments in the knee, the Anterior Cruciate Ligament is responsible for about 150,000 injuries in the U.S. every year. Body weight is always a problem for those with obesity....
1. make a sketch of the situation (see attachment) 2. A solid with a mass of 25 kg develops a vetrical force of 3. Cable and pole have to develop an uplifting force of the same value. In my sketch this uplifting force is labeled 4. The angle between pole and cable is 5. The cable is pulling upward. 6. The pole is pushi...
In another life, I would love to become a wildlife biologist; it combines things I loves such as working with animals, walking, observing deeply, and travel. This book does all of the above plus makes you more curious about the flora and fauna around us. Why are robins common and not Kirtland’s warblers? Why are deer a...
Fish Division Three Dimensional Scanner This surface scanner will not only allow researchers to make wonderful and novel discoveries about shape evolution and the functional and evolutionary morphology of fishes, but it will expand our options for making true specimen data available for Museum visitors (in house or vir...
A new study from SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, shows that MAL3-101, a recently developed inhibitor of the heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70), appears to have potent anti-tumor effects on multiple myeloma, a bone marrow cancer. Despite aggressive modes of treatments, myeloma ultimately remains incurabl...
(Medical Xpress)—Implementation of the Mental Health Parity Act could save tens, possibly hundreds of billions of dollars and prevent needless suffering. The federal government has promised further guidance about how the law applies, but to date, there is confusion and no publicly available compliance data. Judith Bent...
OTTAWA – A new report says cancer and heart disease were responsible for just over half of Canada’s 238,617 deaths in 2008. And Statistics Canada reports cancer was the leading cause of death in every province and territory for the first time. The agency says heart disease was the second-leading cause of death in every...
Mark Z. Jacobson's Proliferation of errors. we do not consider nuclear energy (conventional fission, breeder reactors, or fusion) as a long-term global energy source. First, the growth of nuclear energy has historically increased the ability of nations to obtain or enrich uranium for nuclear weapons . . . and a large-s...
Podcasts & RSS Feeds Most Active Stories - Former Detroit broadcaster was inspiration for 'Ron Burgundy' - Pressure builds on Michigan Football as Athletic Department's budget grows - Muskegon is home to America's tallest, singing Christmas tree - Tribal sovereignty at issue in US Supreme Court case out of Michigan - W...
The cover article of this month’s Atlantic magazine argues that our increasing reliance on internet technology means we’re becoming less able to focus and absorb ourselves in a task because we’re so used to mentally ‘jumping around’. It’s a common concern, but is almost entirely devoid of evidence. Similar arguments ha...
My dear readers, To begin, I’m going to give a very brief background about dark energy in general, and then I’ll talk about one of the tools we use to measure this enigmatic stuff. Most of my research has been investigating the nature of dark energy using Type 1a supernovae (pronounced like “Type One-A Super-no-vee,” S...
Once the grid and neighborhoods have been defined, a discrete planning problem is obtained. Figure 5.14 depicts the process for a problem in which there are nine Sukharev grid points in . Using -neighborhoods, the potential edges in the search graph, , appear in Figure 5.14a. Note that is a topological graph, as define...
by Cynthia Lord Winner of the Newbery Honor Medal Twelve year Catherine just wants a normal life, normal parents and normal friends. But life is not normal when you have a little brother with autism and your whole existence revolves around his disability. Catherine has spent years compiling a list of rules to keep Davi...
"The consequences for NASAs long-term health are dire; NASA must reverse course in President Obamas first term or key intellectual capabilities will be lost and not replaced." "Between 1993 and 2009, despite the fact that NASAs overall budget and responsibilities increased, NASA lost 6,787 civil-servant employees under...
|Screen shot of Greater Sage-Grouse from Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Youtube video| On November 28, scientists, conservationists, ranchers, provincial government and industry representatives gathered again in Manyberries, Alberta to discuss immediate actions that could be taken in a last ditch attempt to prevent the s...
About the Department Founded in 1883, the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the Johns Hopkins University was the first in the United States to offer a Ph.D in the field. The Department now offers programs of study leading to the Ph.D. in four areas: Assyriology, Egyptology, Hebrew Bible and Northwest Semitic Studie...
Recently, researchers from Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto attempted to determine whether healthy obesity really exists. This report recently splashed into the news after an editorial published in the Annals of Internal Medicine declared that “healthy obesity is a myth“. Consistent with this statement, the original rep...
ROCHESTER, MINN. -- A new Mayo Clinic study shows the incidence of migraine headaches in women increased 56 percent during the 1980s while the incidence of migraine headaches in men increased 34 percent during the same period. The study is based on the medical records of 1,342 patients in Olmsted County, Minn., who rec...
In an evolutionary novelty, a flightless prehistoric bird found only in Jamaica used its weighty wing bones to clobber rivals during territorial disputes. Researchers examined several partial skeletons of Xenicibis xympithecus, an extinct wading bird about the size of a large chicken that lived some 10,000 years ago. T...
Astius of Dyrrachium Our father among the saints Hieromartyr Asitus of Dyrrachium succeeded St. Caesarius, who was the first Bishop of Dyrrhachium. Asitus was martyred during the reign of the Roman Emperor Trajan (98 to 117). His feast day is July 7. Saint Astius [Shën Asti] was the bishop of Dyrrhachium, the modern da...
Elbow bursitis, also called olecranon bursitis, causes fluid to collect in a sac that lies behind the elbow, called the olecranon bursa. Elbow bursitis is the most common type of bursitis. A bursa is a slippery, sac-like tissue that normally allows smooth movement around bony prominences, such as the point behind the e...
What is Forex Forex market is an international money market. Forex formed its name from foreign currency exchange operation: FOReign EXchange, or FOREX, for short. Forex is one of the youngest financial markets and has had its present appearance since the 1970s. Due to the sheer volume of the money market, Forex is the...
Texas Oil Strike Steers Ford On Jan. 10, 1870, John D. Rockefeller incorporated what would soon become the most powerful corporation in America (and make him the wealthiest person in the country)—Standard Oil. Exactly 31 years later, on Jan. 10, 1901, the biggest oil discovery up until then took place near Beaumont, Te...
Costume and Textiles Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America Made by Elizabeth Hudson, American, 1721 - 1783. Probably under the direction of Elizabeth Marsh, English (Quaker), 1683 - 1741. Linen plain weave with silk embroidery in cross, satin, queen's, tent, stem, and encroaching ...
It is widely believed that being born is about the most stressful thing that can happen to anybody. But being weaned cannot be too far behind it in the list of traumatic experiences. Most humans come to terms with it eventually and the situation in animals is probably no different. How weaning takes place, however, can...
Biologists have shown how an advanced set of teeth give Antarctic leopard seals the biological tools to feast on prey of all sizes, from penguins to tiny krill. The seals are infamous for their 'grip and tear' feeding tactics where they shake penguins and larger prey while holding them between their long front teeth. N...
The local discovery of a species of fly not native to the Midwest could have significant implications on forensic investigations involving decomposing remains, according to a forensic biology researcher at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Christine Picard, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology...
Major Section: PROGRAMMING (zerop x) is 0 and is nil otherwise. Thus, it is logically equivalent to (equal x 0). (Zerop x) has a guard requiring x to be numeric and can be expected to execute more efficiently than (equal x 0) in properly guarded compiled code. In recursions down the natural numbers, (zp x) is preferred...