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warc | 201704 | SEATTLE – It's clear Wall Street has a love affair going with cybersecurity companies. CyberTruth asked Bob Ackerman, founder and managing director of Allegis Capital, to quantify the scale of investment going into cutting-edge technologies to stop cybercriminals. The metrics he pulled together are staggering.
CT: Wher... | 5,407 | 2,554 | 11,347.501958 |
warc | 201704 | Please note: The Frank Talk articles listed below contain historical material. The data provided was current at the time of publication. For current information regarding any of the funds mentioned in these presentations, please visit the appropriate fund performance page.
Gold Is Crushing It So Far this Year March 2, ... | 3,411 | 1,793 | 6,312.157278 |
warc | 201704 | The rise of green jobs in construction has both created opportunities and intensified potential shortages. In order to gauge their impact, this report provides groundbreaking definitions or green jobs in design and construction that consider the numbers of green buildings, uniquely green systems and work that requires ... | 362 | 231 | 564.155844 |
warc | 201704 | A keynote address by an award-winning civic engagement author and an invitation to University of Wisconsin Oshkosh alumni to impact student learning will be among the highlights of the Provost’s 2012 Teaching and Learning Summit Oct. 22-26.
“The 2012 summit will provide opportunities for us to gather and focus upon our... | 3,378 | 1,603 | 6,842.399251 |
warc | 201704 | Last week Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the new Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Paperwhite; he compared the $499 Kindle Fire HD with the $729 Apple iPad 4G LTE (AAPL). Just before Bezos’ talk, Amazon had exhausted its stock of its existing Kindle Fire model. Though both Best Buy (BBY) and Office Depo... | 5,895 | 2,527 | 13,364.643846 |
warc | 201704 | Supreme Court: Yes, Pom Wonderful Can Sue Coca-Cola For False Advertising by Abigail Field, Benzinga
On Thursday the U.S. Supreme Court apparently ruled for common sense: yes,
POM Wonderful can sue The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) for advertising its Minute Maid drinks as “pomegranate blueberry,” when the juice blend ha... | 4,852 | 2,244 | 9,907.247772 |
warc | 201704 | The Virginia Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) is a force of dedicated volunteers who stand ready to support the community in the event of a public health emergency. Each of the 27 local MRC units is comprised of teams of medical and public health professionals who, along with interested community members, volunteer their sk... | 1,471 | 761 | 2,816.35611 |
warc | 201704 | The World Bank, in a report released Tuesday, says some African countries have made significant improvements in the way they govern themselves. But the survey, covering 200 rich and poor countries, says progress has been uneven. VOA's Barry Wood reports.
World Bank researchers say, over the past eight years, several Af... | 2,072 | 1,065 | 4,000.030047 |
warc | 201704 | Africans face a number of challenges in their efforts to attain legal status as immigrants in the United States. In this 4th of a five part series, VOA English to Africa’s Henok Fente reports on how the United States views immigration both now and in the past.
Historically, the United States has attracted immigrants fr... | 4,241 | 1,990 | 8,793.148744 |
warc | 201704 | The United Nations' World Food Program has announced Tuesday that 6,000 Guatemalan children are in danger of dying of starvation as famine continues to affect the region.
The World Food Program regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean,Francisco Roque, said many children could die in coming months unless th... | 1,266 | 673 | 2,366.460624 |
warc | 201704 | Tempers flared at Monday night’s Conservation Commission meeting in Mattapoisett, as the Commissioners expressed their dissatisfaction with the apparent completion of a septic system repair project that was not permitted.
Contractor Nathaniel Gomes began the work after receiving approval for the project from Dale Barro... | 7,447 | 3,276 | 16,323.842186 |
warc | 201704 | What you do during the last few minutes before a crash can make the difference between life and death. Here is the
best advice I could find... EVERY time you get on an airplane, make an emergency exit plan - Locate nearest exits--in front, behind and across--and plan how you would get to each." Count number of seat row... | 1,741 | 937 | 3,225.588047 |
warc | 201704 | Water is an essential in every homestead but it can also raise havoc in a home or an office. Just as they say too much is poison, when water is too much it can cause disasters rendering it destructive. Unwanted water whether from small leakages to floods can cause damages to properties. What do you do when there are wa... | 2,393 | 1,153 | 4,954.111882 |
warc | 201704 | EMSL Analytical, Inc. Announces Elemental Impurities Testing According to USP 232, 233 & USP 2232
The presence of elemental impurities in pharmaceuticals samples is a concern due to the health hazards caused by contaminants. These impurities may adversely affect the stability of the drug and its shelf-life, which can c... | 3,047 | 1,530 | 5,960.569281 |
warc | 201704 | Reliability Glossary Lifetime Distribution Terms Failure distribution A mathematical model that describes the probability of failures occurring over time. Also known as the probability density function ( Gaussian distribution see Normal distribution Generalized gamma distribution While not as frequently used for modeli... | 2,051 | 858 | 4,893.236597 |
warc | 201704 | Bariatric surgery is a tough sell to the often ill informed general public. Invariably when stories are run about the cost of paying for gastric bypasses, the comments tend towards the suggestion that tax dollars shouldn't be spent on this type of surgery and instead the folks who need it should simply eat less and exe... | 7,605 | 3,366 | 17,177.90107 |
warc | 201704 | Debating the scope of a health research and development convention Mary Moran a
a. Policy Cures, Level 10, 46 Market Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia.
Correspondence to Mary Moran (e-mail: mmoran@policycures.org).
(Submitted: 01 September 2012 – Revised version received: 28 January 2013 – Accepted: 13 February 2013 ... | 16,232 | 6,601 | 39,339.423724 |
warc | 201704 | Influenza A(H5N1) in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China – Update 2 27 February 2003 Disease Outbreak Reported
As of 27 February no further cases of human influenza A(H5N1) have been reported in Hong Kong SAR (see previous report). To date the current outbreak of influenza A(H5N1) in Hong Kong SAR has been... | 2,468 | 1,087 | 5,560.379025 |
warc | 201704 | How to Get Rid of Stray Dogs - The stray dog is an interesting problem. If you’ve discovered a dog outside of your home, raiding your garbage cans, you might think it’s a stray, but then again, it might just be the dog from down the street. A stray dog is classified as an unowned dog; however, most cities and towns hav... | 7,132 | 3,190 | 15,753.000627 |
warc | 201704 | Learn something new every day
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While there are a number of cotton fabric blends on the market today, dimity is a type of cotton material that has an interesting look and feel. Here are some of the characteristics of this fabric that make it such a hit with many different applications.
Traditionally... | 2,623 | 1,271 | 5,382.206137 |
warc | 201704 | Asian immigrants adding largest numbers to workforce
In 2000, 60% of new legal immigrants were Hispanic and 20% Asians. In 2010, 37% were Asians and 31% Hispanic. Asia has become the largest origin of new legal immigrants, says Pew Research in a report issued in 2012. And, they are proportionally to other origins more ... | 2,601 | 1,251 | 5,316.352518 |
warc | 201704 | If it Sounds too good to be True, it Probably Is!
In a report issued on January 4, 2012 by the Federal Trade Commission, work-at-home scam victims received an average of only $9.70 per person in a settlement with a Texas-based company. Not very much for the pain and agony each of the scammed people experienced. With mo... | 5,306 | 2,527 | 10,929.058172 |
warc | 201704 | As your career progresses, you develop skills which are respected and expected, professional etiquette. Professional etiquette builds leadership, quality, business, and careers. It refines skills needed for exceptional service. Whether you are an executive or just starting out, a seminar in Professional business etique... | 2,050 | 1,012 | 4,140.513834 |
warc | 201704 | Coke is carbonized coal, a product produced by baking coal in a heated oven. By using a process that allows the impurities in the coal to be burned off, while not allowing the carbon content of the coal to burn, the coal is turned into coke. The impurities burned off were actually the volatile matter contained in the c... | 1,868 | 950 | 3,663.246316 |
warc | 201704 | Concerns have been raised that Leeds Prison could be left out of a much vaunted payment-by-results scheme after the Government announced it was putting the initiative on hold.
The Armley jail was due to be the first public sector prison to pilot payment-by-results – under which financial rewards and penalties are based... | 2,225 | 1,118 | 4,221.131485 |
warc | 201704 | Operationism again: What Did Bridgman
Say? What Did Bridgman Need?
[Reply
to Grace, R. C. (2001). On the failure of operationism.
Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology, christo@yorku.ca Abstract
Grace's (2000) critical analysis of the use operationism in psychology is founded on two basic claims. First, he argu... | 17,761 | 7,450 | 41,503.523356 |
warc | 201704 | Injuries From Laser Hair Removal, Other Procedures Sparking Lawsuits Against Medical SpasSep 8, 2009 | Parker Waichman LLP Medical Spas Laser Hair Removal Injury Lawsuits.
Patients of medical spas are increasingly filing lawsuits over injuries sustained as a result of procedures aimed at removing facial hair, wrinkles ... | 2,359 | 1,117 | 4,958.757386 |
warc | 201704 | Europe may be a union, but when it comes to the distribution of unemployment rates across its 27 member nations (and as of July 1 with the addition of Croatia, 28), it is anything but. As the latest chart from Eurostat shows summarizing the just released July data, it is confusing if one should be more stunned by the c... | 2,282 | 1,124 | 4,610.69573 |
warc | 201704 | Analytics take the guesswork out of decision making. And Zoomdata delivers the fastest visual analytics for big data. From any source: modern, legacy, real-time, and historical.
It’s hard to overestimate the value of fast analysis for business decision makers. Zoomdata delivers fast, visual analytics for all business u... | 9,242 | 3,933 | 21,470.67226 |
warc | 201704 | KATP opener-induced delayed cardioprotection: involvement of sarcolemmal and mitochondrial KATP channels, free radicals and MEK1/2
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warc | 201704 | Additionally, administrators and staff members alike recognize that our middle school students require differentiated, individualized and/or personalized learning environments to meet the varying learning styles and strengths of our students. During the 2011-2012 school year, Eisenhower piloted a T.I.E.E (Team Interven... | 3,045 | 1,476 | 6,267.418699 |
warc | 201704 | By Brittany and Candace
One of the hardest things in life is realizing there are boundaries, or limitations, on what we can accomplish, how we can act, or what we can do. Sometimes these boundaries are arbitrary, or socially conceived based on the schema and expectations external forces have for us. Other times they ar... | 6,018 | 2,949 | 12,068.651068 |
warc | 201704 | The article analysis the idea of simultaneous elections for the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies. Though spoken about for quite a few years, simultaneous elections for the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies seem to be fast on their way to becoming a matter of national concern. The Central government is seeking inputs from or... | 6,143 | 2,623 | 14,304.78231 |
warc | 201704 | This fall’s election may determine more than New Haven’s next mayor — an escalating debate between mayoral candidates over party primaries and public financing could redefine the procedure at the very heart of city elections.
On the steps of City Hall Thursday, Connecticut State Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield laid out the t... | 6,224 | 2,766 | 13,246.814172 |
warc | 201704 | My breaker box connects to ground by a wire connected to nearby copper piping. Do I need to install a new grounding rod or would I get any additional protection if I did? My breaker box connects to ground by a wire connected to nearby copper piping. Do I need to install a new grounding rod or would I get any additional... | 3,477 | 1,610 | 7,500.385714 |
warc | 201704 | This book builds on a simple premise: good teaching cannot be reduced to technique but is rooted in the identity and integrity of the teacher. Good teaching takes myriad forms but good teachers share one trait: they are authentically present in the classroom, in community with their students and their subject. They pos... | 757 | 427 | 1,338.489461 |
warc | 201704 | Have you ever used NPS surveys in your marketing? If you dismissed NPS as something only customer service should worry about, think again. If you're not using these surveys, you're missing out on a big way to grow your business.
How? Well, I was reading the HubSpot Ecommerce section the other day, and stumbled on this ... | 9,216 | 4,003 | 21,088.823382 |
warc | 201704 | Join leading marine, natural and social scientists asking President Obama to “dramatically accelerate protections for U.S. waters” in no-take marine reserves. We are seeking scientists from around the world to show their support for this.
Why now? As you may be aware, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his State De... | 4,454 | 2,074 | 9,365.42623 |
warc | 201704 | PowerPoint is part of Office 365, which is available to students and teachers at no cost through their academic institution. Click here to check eligibility and to download onto multiple devices. The toughest crowd
Teachers face the unenviable task of having to maintain the interest and attention of dozens of students ... | 2,816 | 1,390 | 5,567.171223 |
warc | 201704 | Learn how to find spare parts at Boodmo.com using original catalogue!
How to Find Spare Parts Using Original Catalogue at Boodmo?
The Indian automotive industry has been experiencing a healthy growth in the past few years. The automotive component industry accounts for almost seven percent of the country’s GDP and empl... | 4,475 | 1,972 | 10,093.711968 |
warc | 201704 | Childfree men fly under the radar screen more often than their female counterparts. In our culture, the role of
father is not deemed essential in the life of a man. For women, on the other hand, many consider being a mother to be a chief purpose in life. Some people go so far as to propose that this is a woman’s main r... | 4,200 | 2,020 | 8,549.70297 |
warc | 201704 | The Internet is one of the greatest drivers of positive economic and social change the world has seen in centuries. Domain names are at the core of the Internet’s operation. Explore the history of the domain name industry with this interactive timeline.
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is the organiz... | 2,634 | 1,270 | 5,350.96063 |
warc | 201704 | The mayor of the Greek island of Angistri has agreed to a trial of the digital currency Nautiluscoin as a way to attract tourists.
Angistri is a 13.3 square kilometer island near the Greek port of Piraeus, and a population of 1,142 inhabitants.
To explain the difference between Nautiluscoin and other digital currencies... | 2,145 | 1,084 | 4,165.336716 |
warc | 201704 | Blog author, Constitutional Law expert and WMU-Cooley Professor Brendan Beery simplifies the complicated process for electing presidential nominees by the two major parties. Professor Beery, a summa cum laude graduate of the law school, teaches Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, and Criminal Procedure at WMU-Cooley Law ... | 6,046 | 2,448 | 14,724.776144 |
warc | 201704 | Published in the Southern Medical Journal, the review examined the use of music in the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative stages of the surgical process, and music was shown to have positive results in all three stages. Patients were less anxious before the procedure and recovered more quickly and satisfact... | 568 | 351 | 912.683761 |
warc | 201704 | Start the new year off right, get a cancer screening
As we ready ourselves to meet a new year, one of the greetings often heard or said is, “Have a healthy new year!”
Having a healthy new year can start with preventative measures for ourselves, which include employing the screening that is available for mammograms, bre... | 1,126 | 621 | 1,996.338164 |
warc | 201704 | Tags
When I recite these lines from Mother Goose, especially the last two, the pleasure centers of my brain light up. I relish the rhyme and rhythm and repetition. I feel them in my body. I delight in the silliness, the leaps of logic, and the rich imagery.
I sense something deep at play here. Something serious. Someth... | 4,936 | 2,305 | 10,334.549241 |
warc | 201704 | The Advancing MOOCs for Development Initiative: An examination of MOOC usage for professional workforce development outcomes in Colombia, the Philippines, & South Africa Date2016-04-08 Author
Garrido, Maria
Koepke, Lucas
Anderson, Scott
Felipe Mena, Andres
Macapagal, Mayette
Dalvit, Lorenzo
MetadataShow full item recor... | 1,534 | 840 | 2,770.330952 |
warc | 201704 | For the present smart young Indian entrepreneurs as well as rulers of India, China has become a benchmark. During the recent debate on trust vote, Chidambaram made a forceful reference to China: “I do not envy China, I wish to emulate China. About 80 per cent of China’s electricity is from fossil fuels, mainly coal and... | 8,088 | 3,733 | 16,994.983123 |
warc | 201704 | Configuration in software provides a method to build systems that can adapt to different configurations. For example, if a website’s language and date/currency formats are configurable, then it can be configured to support multiple languages and regional formats. Configuration makes it possible to deliver such features... | 2,358 | 1,099 | 4,906.957234 |
warc | 201704 | ERIC Number:ED449492 Record Type:RIE Publication Date:2000-Dec Pages:60 Abstractor:N/A Reference Count:N/A ISBN:N/A ISSN:N/A
An Investigation of Reading Comprehension at the Primary Level.
Johns, Wendi; Peterson, Gina; Spivey, Lisa
This report describes a program that will improve reading comprehension. The targeted po... | 2,100 | 1,097 | 4,008.568824 |
warc | 201704 | Colorado mountain hail may disappear in a warmer future January 8, 2012
Hail from a Boulder, Colorado hailstorm in the summer of 2011. (Credit: Kelly Mahoney, NOAA)
Summertime hail could all but disappear from the eastern flank of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains by 2070, according to a new modeling study by scientists from ... | 5,495 | 2,554 | 11,532.184808 |
warc | 201704 | Turn Hard Times Into Goat Stew
December 24, 2008 4 Comments
One day near Kandahar I came across a minefield, which was hardly extraordinary in itself, and next to it a man named Juma Khan Gulalai. The field was bright and green. Gulalai was a butcher and he’d set up his table there, his apron and knives at the ready. E... | 1,283 | 731 | 2,151.78933 |
warc | 201704 | IT security work may be on hold
IT security work may be on hold
By William Jackson Nov 01, 2001
Every branch of security 'is at a top level of alert,' said Paul Connely, Washington partner in the technology security group of PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. of New York.
Connely said he has sent a message to his government c... | 2,388 | 1,249 | 4,533.184948 |
warc | 201704 | Since launching in 2007, ZocDoc has been laser-focused on bringing its appointment booking engine to doctors and patients in cities across the country. But with the Thursday rollout of its new patient Check-in product, the New York-based company is not only moving into new territory for the first time, it’s starting to... | 3,449 | 1,626 | 7,139.811808 |
warc | 201704 | Like plenty of parents, Nathalie King, a mother in Annapolis, Md., was worried about her 13-year-old son playing football because of the risk of concussions. As if the statistics aren’t alarming enough — it’s estimated that high school football players sustain between 43,000 and 67,000 concussions a year — a stream of ... | 5,754 | 2,709 | 11,786.248062 |
warc | 201704 | Climate Change: Missing snowfall threatens Himachal’s Rs 3,500-crore apple sector
SHIMLA- Higher than normal temperatures across north India is bad news for farmers already hit by adverse weather for three consecutive seasons. If the warm winter conditions continue, a range of rabi (winter) crops as well as fruits such... | 1,629 | 865 | 3,033.894798 |
warc | 201704 | Commenting on today’s monetary policy announcements from the European Central Bank (ECB), Yael Selfin, head of macroeconomics at KPMG in the UK, said:
“The ECB’s latest forecasts suggest the UK’s decision to leave the EU is likely to have a relatively minor impact on the Eurozone economy over the next two years. The EC... | 2,118 | 1,178 | 3,680.429542 |
warc | 201704 | The following information (Health Effects, Handling/Disposal, and Ingredients) is taken from the product label and/or the (Material) Safety Data Sheet, (M)SDS, prepared by the manufacturer. The National Library of Medicine does not test products nor does it evaluate information from the product label or the (M)SDS. (Wh... | 1,170 | 630 | 2,148.714286 |
warc | 201704 | Shakira made headlines this week by playing top bill at the Israeli Presidential Conference, another of the kind of meaningless appearances in Israel by which celebrities can signal to the world that they harbor no deviant political opinions about Israel. They visit Israel, and while visiting Israel claim they want pea... | 9,049 | 4,135 | 19,179.065538 |
warc | 201704 | CROYDON COMMENTARY: High fares and poor service are the bane of every local commuters’ daily grind. DAVID CALLAM suggests it is time for change
Trains play a crucial role in the lives of many people in Croydon.
I haven’t been a commuter for donkeys’ years, but I still remember the uncertain wait, morning and evening, o... | 5,371 | 2,612 | 10,850.982772 |
warc | 201704 | Having launched the Saxo Payments Banking Circle in 2015, following two years of intensive development, we wanted to get a sense of the current challenges facing corporates in terms of cross-border payments. We wanted to understand what issues are particularly difficult for both the payment service providers (PSPs) and... | 7,313 | 3,166 | 16,672.53127 |
warc | 201704 | A lot has been written about process maturity. The different approaches proposed have as highest rating the ‘Optimized Stage’ of maturity, where continuous process improvement is enabled by feedback and by applying innovative ideas in an agile manner. Sounds good, so what is the point of process maturity assessments? I... | 9,685 | 4,309 | 21,415.335345 |
warc | 201704 | RABAT DECLARATION We, mayors and representatives of towns, cities, local and regional governments the world over, from small, medium-sized and large towns and cities, from metropolitan areas and regions, at the service of rural and urban communities, come together from the 1st to the 4th October 2013 in Rabat, the King... | 11,219 | 4,897 | 25,496.477639 |
warc | 201704 | This week Jutta Pauschenwein and I presented a paper Visualising Structure and Agency in a MOOC using the Footprints of Emergence Framework at the 10th Networked Learning Conference in Lancaster, UK. Here are the slides for our presentation.
On their own these slides do not make a lot of sense, so we have added notes, ... | 8,705 | 3,529 | 21,206.258147 |
warc | 201704 | After I was attacked on Robert Linday’s blog, Gay State Girl came to my defense. This is some of what she wrote:
If you delve deeper into JAY’s blog, you’ll find out that he is quite sympathetic to the Palestinians-and he reserves his biting rhetoric for Blacks and Latinos, (
which is contradictory in itself as he also... | 3,477 | 1,705 | 6,945.842815 |
warc | 201704 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Comment by Alex Littner, Managing Director of Boost Capital
SHOP small. Shop local. That’s the message to consumers this December 3, the UK’s fourth ever Small Business Saturday (https://smallbusinesssaturdayuk.com/ ), a celebration of the work that SMEs do in their communities. But while small co... | 6,732 | 3,233 | 13,799.24652 |
warc | 201704 | You can’t have it all: in a world where risk is avoided and process codifies common sense into rules, we run the risk of ironing out creativity and innovation. Which wouldn’t be such a problem if the world would stand still, but in the Social Age, it refuses: constantly changing and requiring both organisational and in... | 848 | 525 | 1,327.725714 |
warc | 201704 | April 20, 2011
In a number of other posts I have discussed mood boards, concept boards, storyboards, journey boards, etc. In most of those posts I mentioned PowerPoint and similar graphics programs as excellent tools for creating them. Last year I became aware on an extremely good online tool that addresses the needs o... | 27,853 | 10,362 | 74,196.714823 |
warc | 201704 | Hierarchical classes models are models for N-way N-mode data that represent the associationamong the N modes and simultaneously yield, for each mode, a hierarchical classification of its elements.In this paper we present a stochastic extension of the hierarchical classes model for two-way two-modebinary data. In line w... | 828 | 442 | 1,547.348416 |
warc | 201704 | Most of us know that we should reduce, reuse, and recycle. But in reality, we still have to buy new products from stores. Given that reality, the three R’s often begin with what products you choose. The full lifecycle of a product — how it’s manufactured, how it’s used, and how it’s disposed of — has big-picture enviro... | 4,482 | 2,122 | 8,957.663525 |
warc | 201704 | Each time we use an antibiotic, the weaker strains of infection are killed off while the stronger, more virulent strains are left behind to multiply. In the past, this has not caused much concern, as there has always been a new drug available to fight the infection. Now however, we are running out of options.
In fact, ... | 5,900 | 2,775 | 12,490.990991 |
warc | 201704 | Let’s talk about margins We’re making a book. The margins are important. Do you know how important?
I saw a film recently on an airplane that made me cry. The film was a love story but the love part of the story didn’t make me cry. No, the scene that made me cry was about paper.
The movie focuses on a Japanese publishi... | 8,669 | 3,962 | 18,434.206209 |
warc | 201704 | It is one thing for Fox News to battle out a political or social issue with liberal guests on one of its show. However, it is an
entirely different situation when you have Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, arguing with Fox News pundits Erick Erickson and Lou Dobbs, when all three lean towards the right. That is exactly what... | 3,091 | 1,574 | 5,881.540661 |
warc | 201704 | U.S. Geological Survey - Microbiology
Microbiology Nanotechnology Research Activities
USGS is involved in various aspects of nanotechnology research. Scientists are examining the unique nanoparticles of exotic elements formed by bacteria with an eye towards industrial and scientific applications. Toxicological studies ... | 1,283 | 677 | 2,418.180207 |
warc | 201704 | Posted: 20 Aug 2013 06:30 AM PDT
Today’s Gospel Text:“For the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2 After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 And going out about the third hour he saw others standing ... | 3,827 | 1,772 | 8,025.469526 |
warc | 201704 | by Tene Croom
Carol Ciancutti-Leyva remains relentless in raising this question to the masses: are silicone/saline breast implants absolutely safe? She dives deep into that very subject in a documentary aptly titled, “Absolutely Safe.”
Ciancutti-Leyva directed and produced the film. She spent a decade documenting the i... | 4,387 | 2,046 | 8,996.995112 |
warc | 201704 | Live from AMSA 2011…
The American Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) is one of the many professional (or in this case, pre-professional) organizations that represents various slices of the medical community. Of these, they are by far the biggest embarrassment to the medical community that I have encountered. Not just... | 4,374 | 2,273 | 8,124.517378 |
warc | 201704 | Which branch of the military saves the most? The Navy. And the least? The Army. The Washington Post reports on the “success” of the six-year old Thrift Savings Plan for soldiers. Although only about 36 percent of active-duty military personnel have enrolled in the tax-deferred contribution plan, which means there is pl... | 548 | 339 | 864.837758 |
warc | 201704 | Have you ever seen a book with so improbable a title that you thought it
must be good? (Not that such titles are any guarantee – some authors come up with great ideas but don’t manage to turn them into great books.) I was at the library with my 9-year-old son yesterday, browsing the rack marked “New Children’s Fiction”... | 4,471 | 2,171 | 8,923.465223 |
warc | 201704 | Light on your feet …and, farm gushers
Posted by Charles II on June 16, 2015
Anmar Frangoul, CNBC:
Pavegen is a London-based company that is looking to harvest the energy from our footsteps to do precisely this. They have designed and built flooring that converts the kinetic energy we produce when walking into clean, re... | 1,433 | 790 | 2,486.889873 |
warc | 201704 | Breaking the final barrier: Room-temperature electrically powered nanolasersMarch 12, 2013 by Joe Kullman in Physics / Optics & Photonics
(Phys.org) —A breakthrough in nanolaser technology has been made by Arizona State University researchers.
Electrically powered nano-scale lasers have been able to operate effectively... | 6,838 | 3,079 | 15,026.277363 |
warc | 201704 | Anybody else do this? Well, that’s my excuse anyway. But I’m only doing it for pain! Not to get loaded or anything like that.
Whiskey is supposed to be a good painkiller. A long time ago, before they had painkillers, they used to give patients whiskey before surgery.
Dr. Lindsay prescribed three whiskeys a night for pa... | 2,919 | 1,424 | 5,819.551264 |
warc | 201704 | I’ll likely regret writing this post at some point. But this is a really, really important issue and one that undermines a very large number of prominent research studies on the effectiveness of various school reforms, especially when evaluated in high poverty contexts.
I blogged about this a few weeks back – the probl... | 14,020 | 5,831 | 32,904.081633 |
warc | 201704 | BofA Also Selling Credit Card Debt to Collectors With No Quality Control
We learned a few weeks ago about the JPMorgan Chase debt collection scandal, which featured robo-signing, shredded documents, and loads of criminal activity. Now there’s evidence that this was more of an industry standard, as Bank of America suffe... | 4,494 | 2,229 | 8,860.982503 |
warc | 201704 | A Probabilistic Approach to Multivariate Constrained Robust Design Simulation Date1997-10 Author
Mavris, Dimitri N.
Bandte, Oliver
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Several approaches to robust design have been proposed in the past. Only few acknowledged the paradigm shift from performance based design to design f... | 2,039 | 1,027 | 4,036.306719 |
warc | 201704 | Conferences as performative utterances May 11, 2008 Two weeks ago, Daniel and I ran a workshop in Columbia business school about Social Studies of Finance. I really enjoyed the workshop and in many respects it exceeded my expectations. But, being one of the organisers, I thought I was too involved in the event to write... | 5,092 | 2,566 | 9,979.605612 |
warc | 201704 | October 1, 2008, 4:22 pm
“Civilization as we know it is inseparable from urban life,” wrote Friedrich Hayek in his classic study The Constitution of Liberty, and by civilization he meant the Western kind. The Austrian economist viewed the city as the source of the West’s dynamic, world-transforming science, culture, an... | 35,782 | 15,425 | 80,991.426126 |
warc | 201704 | New data suggests that obesity and jogging to be the cause of the rise of Osteoarthritis.
Growth of the degenerative joint disease among women was higher, with an increase from 1.6 per cent to 2.8 per cent, according to the Index, which surveys 1000 Australians each week.
Dr Vanessa Rice, an exercise physiologist and a... | 3,154 | 1,520 | 6,198.025 |
warc | 201704 | This paper explores the possibility of a merger or acquisition between two leading banking institutions in the United Arab Emirates. While the two terms may be used interchangeably, their meaning is different. Mergers are rare occurrences whereas acquisitions are common. The paper looks at each bank and the strength it... | 6,279 | 2,775 | 14,080.798919 |
warc | 201704 | My name is Alix Green and I’m currently Lecturer in Public History at the University of Central Lancashire (I’ll be moving to the University of Essex in September). I came into academe after a decade in policy and government relations work, finally as Head of Policy in the Vice-Chancellor’s office at the University of ... | 2,406 | 1,201 | 4,673.770192 |
warc | 201704 | Tennessee: Westside School Celebrates the Successful Infusion of Technology into State Curriculum
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Westside School has just finished having a successful "Technology Celebration" that indicated how we are infusing technology into the Tennessee state curriculum by showcasing student demonstrations and... | 6,546 | 2,800 | 15,256.855714 |
warc | 201704 | Brenda Lewis-Holmes
PhD Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Virginia Tech in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
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Dr. G .M. Belli, Chair Dr. H. w. Stubblefield Dr. B. J. Allen Dr. M. Boucouvalas Dr. R. McKeen
April 10, 1997
Blacksburg, Virginia
Th... | 2,711 | 1,377 | 5,307.811184 |
warc | 201704 | Frontal and parietal contributions to the modulation of somatosensory cortex by relevance and modality Date2011-01-21 Author
Dionne, Jennifer Kathleen
MetadataShow full item record Statistics
Abstract
Afferent somatosensory inputs ascend from the periphery to the cortex carrying information about touch that is critical... | 2,570 | 1,173 | 5,611.057118 |
warc | 201704 | Investment Ideas and Strategies Investing Ideas Investing Ideas
Opportunities that could take your portfolio in a new direction
All investments can fall in value. You may get back less than you invested.
Is it too late for investors to benefit from the FTSE’s record streak?
The FTSE 100 index of Britain’s biggest compa... | 11,063 | 4,711 | 25,199.968796 |
warc | 201704 | Gold kicked off the week at just over $1300 before declining to a low of $1278 yesterday. Most of the time prices just moved sideways, drifting lower from time to time to test support. And when support materialised, the price quickly reacted upwards, because no bullion bank really wants to sell; instead they are trying... | 4,209 | 2,198 | 8,006.291629 |
warc | 201704 | Lost amid the hubbub of hacked posts by “random useless bloggers,” acrimonious casino negotiations with the city, and the ongoing and totally unnecessary row over Alfredsson’s departure is the fact that ten years ago Saturday, Eugene Melnyk took over the Ottawa Senators.
It’s just as well that what might have been an o... | 7,357 | 3,529 | 14,711.915273 |
warc | 201704 | One of the easiest ways a non-cyclist can annoy a cyclist is to say, “Bicycling is so unsafe. I just hate those people who run stoplights or don’t wear a helmet.” While children are not responsible enough to decide whether or not to wear a helmet, implying that an adult is incapable of making a decision about his or he... | 7,399 | 3,387 | 15,593.168586 |
warc | 201704 | How to Measure your Social Success? April 9, 2015 in Social Media 158
Social media is a part of our everyday lives and we’re not usually looking to buy when we’re on these platforms. But this does not mean there isn’t a return on social media marketing. More often than not, consumers are influenced whilst on these plat... | 3,099 | 1,537 | 6,083.072869 |
warc | 201704 | People in the United States report allergy to penicillin more commonly than any other medication. However, not all of them are truly sensitive to that drug. The reports suggest that a tenth of the general population in that country cannot tolerate this well-known antibiotic, but clinical observation shows that hypersen... | 802 | 452 | 1,417.69469 |
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