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Canada's broken relationship with its Aboriginal Peoples
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Drawing Boils-Remove the Pus and Heal the Skin Infection
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Parkinson's Disease
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A chronic, slowly-progressing disease of the nervous system characterized clinically by the combination of tremor, rigidity, extreme slowness of movement, and stooped posture. It is characterized pathologically by loss of dopamine in the substantia nigra.
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Campaign Aims to Draw Women, Minorities to AP STEM Classes
Thanks to a $5 million grant from Google, the College Board is announcing a new program aimed at increasing the number of underrepresented minorities and women in Advanced Placement science, technology, engineering and mathematics courses. The Google grant, wh... |
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Edward Teller was a Jewish Hungarian theoretical physicist who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb."
Teller (born January 15, 1908; died Septeber 9, 2003) was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, in 1908. He g... |
LIFSHITS, SHIYE-MORDKHE (1829–1878), pioneering Yiddish lexicographer, author, and a theoretician of the Yiddishist movement in the 19th century. With a solid intellectual background (he was a student of mathematics, physics, chemistry, languages) Lifshits propounded the idea of a secular Jewish culture on the basis of... |
Vocabulary in Context
Context clues are words and phrases in a sentence which help you reason out the meaning of an unfamiliar word. Oftentimes you can figure out the meanings of new or unfamiliar vocabulary by paying attention to the surrounding language. The table below gives the types of clues, signals and exampl... |
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From performing surgery and flying planes to babysitting kids and driving cars, today's robots can do it all. With chatbots such as Eugene Goostman recently being hailed as "passing" the Turing test, it app... |
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February 26, 2013 - When the sun rose over Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday, Feb. 15th, many residents of nearby Chelyabinsk already knew that a space rock was coming. Later that day, a... |
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The Data Protection Act 1998 came into force in March 2000. Its purpose is to protect the right of the individual to privacy with respect to the processing of personal data. The Act laid down eight data protection principles:
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Traditional Worldview
What is the world and the cosmos? This is the basic question of Chinese philosophy.
Laozi, a thinker during the Spring and Autumn Period, was the first philosopher who tried to explain the basic question. According to Laozi, Dao, or "the Way", is the source and root of the Earth, heaven and ever... |
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Since the outbreak of the swine flu on the American continent, we have been wondering about typical flu mortality in Hawaii. Hawaii doesn't have a flu season; year round visitors from Asia, Europe, the Americas, and other Pacific Islands results in year-round influenza cases in Hawaii due to... |
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My current understanding of an entropy pool is that it gathers truly random bits of data at a slow rate. I'd like to know how Unix & Linux collect entropy, and how that entropy is used by /dev/random.
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Heel (shoe)
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A heel is the projection at the back of a shoe which rests below the heel bone (calcaneus). The shoe heel is used to improve the balance of the shoe or for decorative purposes. Sometimes raised, the high heel is common to a form of shoe often worn by women but some... |
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How Does Water Get In and Out of Glaciers and Snowfields?
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AZERBAIJAN ix. Iranian Elements in Azeri Turkish
ix. Iranian Elements in Azeri Turkish
Azeri is, perhaps after Uzbek, the Turkic language upon which Iranian has exerted the strongest impact—mainly in phonology, syntax and vocabulary, less in morphology. Much of the Iranian interference is also present, albeit less... |
Reasons to Believe
Star Light & the Age of the Universe
by Greg Koukl
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When you look up into the midnight sky do you see stars? Or are the lights in the heavens mere appearances, images created in transit? The answer settles the question of whether the creation of the universe was recent or... |
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In the event of a fire: In all cases of fire, activate the fire alarm, evacuate the building and then notify IUPD at ext. 363. IUPD will contact the Kokomo Fire Department.
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Talk Like a Man
The gift of gab sets humans apart from all other species. But what about Neandertals? A new genetic study offers tantalizing evidence that our closest extinct cousins may have been talkative, too.
Nailing down whether Neandertals spoke to each other has been tricky. Studies show that they had big brai... |
NCP Cirrhosis of the Liver
Cirrhosis is a chronic disease of the liver characterized by alteration in structure, degenerative changes and widespread destruction of hepatic cells, impairing cellular function and impeding blood flow through the liver. Causes include malnutrition, inflammation (bacterial or viral), and p... |
Technology Mashups That Make Your Life Easier
A telephone headset is a great example of a technology mashup.
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By definition, technology's job is to do a specific task in a way that's an improvement over previous techniques. Mechanical and electronic technologies work together i... |
Energy expenditure while playing video games
Deborah F. Tate, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Health Behavior and Health Education, and Nutrition, is interested in how our behavior affects our health. Sedentary behavior is one of the main contributors to decreased energy expenditure and is a contributor to be... |
Primary History
Victorian Britain: Children in coal mines
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Most of the energy we use today comes in the form of electricity or oil. In Victorian times, energy came from water-power (waterwheels), from horses and above all from burning coal. Coal was as important to Victorians as oil... |
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The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan
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The CSET or California Subject Examination for Teachers is a test that allows the potential teachers to obtain certificates by fulfilling the criteria that is specified for each certificate program. The contents of this examination have been deve... |
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I`ve written simple java application for working with FTP. It works fine on Windows and Linux, but hangs on Solaris. Here is the source code:
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Thrombocytopenia (Low Platelet Count) (cont.)
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Low platelet count is often discovered incidentally during routine blood work. Platelets are a component of the complete blood count (CBC) along with white blood cell and red blood cell counts. Pseudothrombocytopenia can be eliminated by repeati... |
Memory (RAM) Overclocking Guide - DDR3
Usually, when overclocking is brought up, the CPU gets most of the attention. But if you're overclocking, why should you stop there. You can also overclock the memory (RAM) and video card to achieve even better performance, so today, we're going to focus on overclocking the memor... |
Period Pain (Dysmenorrhoea)
What causes the pain of primary dysmenorrhoea?
What are the symptoms of primary dysmenorrhoea?
The main symptom is crampy pain in your lower abdomen. Often, the first few periods that you have are painless. Period pains may only begin 6-12 months after you have started your periods. ... |
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Alsace was the first region in the world to do varietal labeling, beginning in the early 20th century. Today, Alsace, like its neighbor Germany, requires that a wine must be 100% of the grape named on the label.
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Hey Dad, Why do You Say Roll Down The Windows?
Unless you stop and spend some time to look around and ponder the many changes in technology over the years, you may not realize just how different things are today from 10, 20, or 30 years ago. After hearing my wife and I say it for his entire life, my younger son asked... |
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The Cambrian Extinction is considered the worst that ever happened. Actually the Oxygen Extinction was more extensive, but no one wants to count that. When green plants evolved and oxygen permeated the atmosphere, all... |
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Karl Marx on the Treatment of the Jewish Majority in Jerusalem
This blog entry will consider
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The Musical Side of Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Later in his life, Huygens attempted to solve the problem in meantone temperament in the musical scale. So he developed his own 31-tone scale and published it in his books Lettre Touchant le Cycle Harmonique and Novus cyclus harmonicus. In these books he wo... |
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England's Culture : Morris Dancing
Video: Morris dancers, Rye, East Sussex - May Day 2010.
Records of Morris Dancing date back to 1477. Though usually considered a uniquely English activity it is mentioned in Renaissance documents in France, ... |
DEFORESTATION is one of the main causes of climate change. Carbon emissions from deforestation are far greater than damage caused by planes, automobiles and factories. In fact, in the next 24 hours, deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York. That's a w... |
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VC-118 presidential aircraft, 'The Independence'The Douglas DC-6 was one of the first airplanes to fly a regularly scheduled around-the-world route. With its higher performance, increased accommodation, greater payload and pressurized cabin, it was a natural evolution of the DC-4.
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Roman Forum - This is the center of all public life, and is a large open space surrounded by buildings devoted to politics, law, religion, and business.
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THE French expedition that left for South America in 1735, led by Voltaire's friend Charles-Marie de la Condamine, was supposed to resolve the old debate over whether the earth was shaped like an onion or like a fat man wearing a tightly-cinched belt. In the end, the onion triumphed. But the expedition also produced th... |
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Episode 4 :: Choosing an energy efficient hot water system
We open on Jared. He's sitting on a diving board over a swimming pool. He's emptying a hot water bottle into the pool. He says:
Did you know how much hot water a family of four uses each year? Around 70,000 litres. That's equal to...
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Survival in a Wild Habitat
Looking at Eaglets
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The government is considering its response to two recent consultations, one on school funding as a whole and another focusing specifically on academy funding for the academic year 2012-13. Education lawyers Hannah Bramhall and Katie Michelon consider the proposals and how they will impact on t... |
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IT'S ALMOST TIME TO CHOOSE A President again, so you can count on televised debates and analysis by political pundits.
No one knows for sure how the debates actually influence our voting decision. But the findings of a team of California researchers offers a disturbing sugges... |
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For 60 years the U.S. Navy has been organized around its force of large, heavily-protected aircraft carriers, each deploying more combat power than most whole nations can muster. “Carrier proponents … seem to accept on fait... |
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How to take a trip to Alpha Centauri
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An artist's conception shows the planet orbiting Alpha Centauri B, a member of the triple-star system that's closest to Earth. Alpha Centauri B is the most brilliant object in the sky, with Alpha Centauri A at lower left and our own sun ... |
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I want to ask somebody how late he was for school? How should I ask him?
1. How late were you for the school?
2. How much were you late for the school?
3. How much time were you late for school?
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The printing press constituted a true revolution in communication. But what really happened as a wider consequence of that revolution? Let’s try to reconstruct the circumstances that preceded printing. We know that there was a st... |
Thyroid Nodules | Treatment
How are thyroid nodules treated?
Some patients who have small benign nodules may choose watchful waiting. This is not a form of active treatment but rather an observation period. The nodule may go away on its own or stay the same size. Patients treated this way should be checked by their ... |
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Spawning refers to players and mobs being created and placed in the game world. Players will respawn at their spawn point, or at the bed they last slept in upon death. Mobs will despawn upon death.
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How Globalization & Technology Change Business
by Ken Burnside, Demand Media
Globalization is a series of cascading effects from reducing the cost of transportation and communication.
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If I declare a string with 10 elements like this:
char s[10];
then does the '\0'at the end occupy the 10th place or the 11th? Basically my question is that do we get 1 element less in the string?
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William Souder’s 2004 autobiography of John James Audobon, Under a Wild Sky, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His newest book, On a Farther Shore, chronicles the life and times of Rachel Carson, author of the controversial book Silent Spring — a tome that many consider to be the Bible of the env... |
How to deal with the difficult immune mediated diseases (Proceedings)
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Witchcraft Spells and ancient belief systems practiced in the British Isles are called Trad Witchcraft. This name is said to have been given to them by the Christian Church. It is said that Witches do not believe in God or the devil. Based on this belief, there should be no good witchcraft or bad wi... |
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Melanin, Dark Matter, Dark Energy Fundamentals of the Universe
Black matter is found universally, especially in the amorphous state. All the bla... |
The secret history of Brazilian resistance cinema
We chart the hidden underground of Brazil's innately political cinematic consciousness
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You make think that you are alone in your struggle to get out of debt. The fact of the matter is that you are not. People all over the world, including many in countries you may not expect, have major debt problems. Unfortunately, being in debt is a gl... |
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DamNation, The Most Important Film You Will Watch this Year
A salmon leaps out of the frothy waters, slamming its powerful body against the 100 foot high cement wall. Again and again it tries, but to no avail. Beyond the wall lies the breeding ground that this salmon’s ancestors have used for hundreds of years. But th... |
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Overview of noun bed
The noun bed has 8 senses? (first 3 from tagged texts)
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(a plot of ground in which plants are growing; "the gardener planted a bed of roses")
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Does the size of the brain matter?
Does the size of the brain matter?
The brain is the most incredibly mysterious organ in the human body. Researchers have linked its size to intelligence and cognitive skills. Others have also linked it to the ability to exude morality and sacred values. The que... |
10 Reasons Why Cheerleading Is a Sport
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This has been a constant debate, whether cheerleading is a sport or not. There is very valid evidence for both sides of the argument.
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Distance Running: How Many Miles Should You Run?
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Jason Karp, Ph.D. Dr. Jason Karp is a nationally-recognized coach, 2011 IDEA Personal Trainer of the Year, and owner of Run Coach He holds a Ph.D. in exercise physiology and is founder and coach of REVO2LT Running... |
The Importance of Choices
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The Importance of Choice Making
Everyone makes a choice almost every second of their life. Choices control what we do and what we don’t do. Some of the choices we make are easier than others. Many times o... |
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The Beginning of Wheeling
King Phillip II of Spain (1527-1598) was also King of Portugal, Naples, Sicily, Chile, England (as King-consort of Queen Mary I), Sovereign of the Netherlands, and was appointed by the Pope as King of Ireland. He led Spain to its height of power.
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Preventing Allergies and Asthma without Medicine
How Allergies Happen
Allergies and asthma are inflammatory conditions usually triggered by air- or food-borne pollens and chemicals called allergens. Allergens are absorbed into the blood (through the lungs, skin, or intestines), and cause the white blood cells of alle... |
Allowable Queen Maneuvers in Chess
The queen is the most powerful piece in chess and the second most important next to the king. It can go any direction and easily defeat any piece but it also has certain limitations. Here are some rules for queens.
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Film editing is an important phase when making films. This can be a highly technical subject. Raw digital recording will need to be edited and enhanced so they will look much better. The end product should be wonderful and in some cases, we also need to surprise people. Bad ed... |
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A Nutty, American Classic
It’s National Peanut Butter Cookie Day! Let’s celebrate and eat cookies!
But first, let’s learn things so we can reward our learning by eating all of those cookies. Let’s start at the very beginning. Peanut butter. God’s food. I’m sorry if you have a peanut alle... |
Ever wonder how much filament did you actually use for a project? Have an old mechanical ball mouse laying around waiting for recycling? Let's convert it into a filament counter with simple Arduino and 3D printed parts. The mechanical PS/2 mouse contains fairly high-resolution encoder wheels and a simple serial interfa... |
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Bipolar Disorder Medication
For most people with bipolar disorder, medication is an essential part of treatment, allowing them to keep their illness manageable and under control. Medication is often used in combination with psychosocial therapies to treat both acute episodes of bipolar disorder and over the long term... |
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Origin of Islamism in South Asia
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GIMP my protein
September 8, 2012
While playing around with the open-source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) I asked myself: Why not transform proteins into a construct that does not resemble the standard Protein Data Base structures? Well and this is the humble result: Another perspective on the famous green fl... |
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Implantation of the Egg
Once fertilization has occured the zygote must travel through the oviducts in order to reach the uterus and implant itself in the stratum functionalis of the endometrium. As the zygote is traveling down the oviducts it undergoes several mitotic divisions. At this stage, the ball of c... |
Small tools, and dingoes, and Oz
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A blood orange is smaller than a regular orange and features a sweeter flesh that ranges in color from maroon to blood red. Blood oranges come primarily from Mediterranean climates. California and southern Italy are major producers.
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To remove or not to remove a healthy breast
To remove or not to remove a healthy breast
balance2To remove or not to remove a healthy breast. That is a very difficult decision many women have to face when diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Scope of Mass Communication
Basically, Technological advancement has tremendously enhanced the scope of mass communication. Scope of mass communication is much extensive. Because of advancement of world civilization, the scope of economic activities is increasing day by day. Particularly after the industrial revolutio... |
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Kingdom: Animalia
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