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warc | 201704 | UPDATED: May 7, 2014, at 12:09 a.m.
After four years of research and drafting by the Academic Integrity Committee, members of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences approved the College’s first-ever honor code at their final regular monthly meeting of the year on Tuesday, laying out formal expectations for academic int... | 4,530 | 2,083 | 9,608.036486 |
warc | 201704 | Gun Deal Is Done; Now It’s Time to Take On Videogames and Mental-Health Care “It wouldn’t have stopped the shootings in Newtown.”
That’s the argument some Second Amendment fanatics are adopting to criticize the proposed gun-control legislation coming forward. And my response is, so what?
Though the specific language ne... | 3,667 | 1,857 | 7,073.340872 |
warc | 201704 | Was It Worth It?: How These 10 Famous Diet and Fitness Gurus Died
As consumers of pop culture, it’s easy to follow celebrity fad diets and trends as opposed to dedicating ourselves to a regimented, personalized diet plan. Fad diets are called fad diets for a reason: They’re here, they fail, and they’re gone. Unlike tra... | 533 | 337 | 814.525223 |
warc | 201704 | The findings are reported in two papers in Ophthalmology online March 19, covering 12-month outcomes in the MONT BLANC trial conducted in Europe and the DENALI trial conducted in the US and Canada.
For the MONT BLANC trial, Dr. Michael Larsen, with the University of Copenhagen in Glostrup, Denmark, and colleagues rando... | 2,703 | 1,227 | 5,864.210269 |
warc | 201704 | In the midst of midterm season, the hardwood courts at Yates echo with the bouncing of basketballs and the chirping of fans. In the frozen tundra of post-winter break blues, Cooper Field at 9 p.m. on any given Wednesday night comes alive with the ripple of the soccer net.
It is not the prettiest of sights. It is not th... | 4,020 | 1,910 | 8,315.717277 |
warc | 201704 | Today, after yesterday’s trash day, Ryan is rummaging through everything that remains inside the boxes stacked throughout his second living room, deciding what he should sell and what he should donate.
Once he has decided which items to donate, we’ve found several local organizations—Goodwill, Habitat for Humanity, Fre... | 1,031 | 584 | 1,678.905822 |
warc | 201704 | What’s inside? Here are the questions answered in today’s reader mailbag, boiled down to five word summaries. Click on the number to jump straight down to the question. 1. GTD and privacy 2. Planning for a long trip 3. GTD and prioritizing 4. Overcoming jaded partner’s money attitudes 5. GTD and daily routines 6. Hoppi... | 21,880 | 9,208 | 50,099.687228 |
warc | 201704 | Ireland: Spend, spend... end
You can escape the relentless grind of the rat race, but theres a price. Margaret E Ward plots some financial escape routes
Every year we seem to work harder, put in more hours and get more stressed-out. Why? Because most of us work to finance the lifestyle we have created and, no matter ho... | 982 | 596 | 1,598.221477 |
warc | 201704 | Question
I have a question regarding standard protocols for IV glucocorticoid therapy for Graves ophthalmopathy w/ constant diplopia. Is there a “best practices” protocol now established? I’ve just completed pulse IV therapy of 3 days, every other day, 1000 mg Solumedrol each session. I’m wondering if this is typically... | 1,715 | 930 | 3,075.935484 |
warc | 201704 | Author Dr Ahmed Abdullah says it's time to go back to skincare basics
ByHolly Sands
If you’ve ever checked the small print on a tub of moisturising cream or a bottle of cleanser, you may have been surprised by the number of ingredients listed. You probably hadn’t a hope of even pronouncing most of them, let alone knowi... | 4,863 | 2,367 | 9,625.329531 |
warc | 201704 | Have you ever been so happy about something that you couldn't sit still?
Or, so joyous that you sang out loud before remembering there were other people around? I'm sure it's happened to each of us at one time or another.
I have a confession - it happens to me more than most.
Whenever I feel excited about the things I'... | 4,004 | 2,027 | 7,847.998027 |
warc | 201704 | Researchers Prove Desk Jobs Are Making Us Fat A recent study published in the online October 5th 2010 Journal of Preventative Medicine adds to the ever increasing evidence that sedentary professions and lifestyles are the major contributor to our nation's growing waistlines and obesity affiliated illnesses. Researcher ... | 1,810 | 964 | 3,374.03527 |
warc | 201704 | Industry Engagement
Are you at a Technology Crossroads in your business? Do you need assistance to develop your idea in order to take the right road? We can help you harness and develop that idea.
Companies that enter into strategic partnerships with the TSSG gain access to world-class knowledge, expertise, resources, ... | 4,130 | 2,010 | 8,362.736318 |
warc | 201704 | Selling Direct Levels:GCSE, AS Exam boards:AQA, Edexcel, OCR, IB, Other, Pre-U
A key decision a business has to make about distribution is whether to sell "direct".
Direct marketing means selling products by dealing directly with consumers rather than through intermediaries.
Traditional methods include mail order, dire... | 2,519 | 1,289 | 4,844.53142 |
warc | 201704 | This year the focus of the International Day for Disaster Reduction (13 October) is on older people, including their needs and what they contribute to better planning and understanding of disaster risk in their communities. IDDR 2014 intends to to switch on and amplify this critical issue now and for the post-2015 fram... | 2,636 | 1,250 | 5,514.512 |
warc | 201704 | Scleroderma-Associated Pulmonary Hypertension
Scleroderma is an umbrella term to describe thickening (sclero) of the skin (derma). This can cause pulmonary hypertension
Characteristics of this group of diseases include
swelling, breakdown, and scarring of the:
Skin
Blood vessels
Joints. tendons, and muscles
Certain int... | 2,217 | 1,068 | 4,517.033708 |
warc | 201704 | Prayer and Worship Beliefs and Teachings Issues and Action Media Bible Catholic Giving About USCCB
Talk radio is a powerful strategic tool in grassroots advocacy, one that is too easily discounted by diocesan/statewide Catholic school parent organizations. Talk radio grabs many legislators’ attention, while educating y... | 5,477 | 2,521 | 11,712.220151 |
warc | 201704 | A big part of the reason that the U.S. government has had to take Fannie and Freddie Mortgage companies under conservatorship and give them each $100 billion dollars of taxpayers money is because the government allowed them to get too big, they were allowed to buy so many home mortgages and sell so many bonds based on ... | 6,483 | 2,585 | 16,253.896712 |
warc | 201704 | Lauren Imparato, a graduate of Princeton who worked in investment banking for seven years, now teaches yoga to bankers, traders, brokers and others (all are welcome, not just the financially-inclined) out of her loft in Lower Manhattan, and she was recently hired by her former boss, Morgan Stanley, to "host a morale-bo... | 1,471 | 807 | 2,646.70632 |
warc | 201704 | Malaria
There are approximately 515 million reported cases of Malaria, killing between one and three million people, every year. In most cases unfortunately these victims are not educated about the disease and they also can’t afford the prophylactic drugs or the cure.
The good news is that it is preventable, so if you ... | 5,205 | 2,466 | 10,775.152068 |
warc | 201704 | The first textbook written by a Cambodian on the history of the Khmer Rouge has been published by the Documentation Center of Cambodia. Previous accounts of the Khmer Rouge era have all been written by foreign scholars and reporters. The book aims to educate Cambodians about the rise and fall of the genocidal regime th... | 2,873 | 1,380 | 5,929.205797 |
warc | 201704 | Born out of technology developed in the search for the world’s most powerful bomb, nuclear power has ever since cast a heavy shadow over its benefits.
The images of what was left of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 after the United States dropped the atomic bomb scarred the world -- 200,000 people died in an instant, and... | 2,211 | 1,178 | 4,095.417657 |
warc | 201704 | This new 70-bed treatment centre aims to help increase fistula care services for women, treating at least 100 patients per month. The ward will also be an international training centre on fistula management for surgeons from Ethiopia and around the world. Training will be based on the new training manual on fistula car... | 827 | 457 | 1,491.133479 |
warc | 201704 | Do you worry about expensive car repair bills? If your car goes wrong, it’s likely you’ll be met with one. You may see it as part and parcel of owning a car or van but you have to admit, when it really comes down to it, hassle free motoring is what we all want. When your vehicle is in the garage there’s a scenario most... | 1,596 | 887 | 2,733.172492 |
warc | 201704 | Martek Biosciences Corp., which makes nutritional oils for baby formula, significantly cut revenue projections yesterday evening after discovering that its largest customers had overstocked its product in response to previous supply shortages.
Trading of the Columbia biotech's shares on the Nasdaq Stock Market was brie... | 1,832 | 987 | 3,380.012158 |
warc | 201704 | Two years ago, Fon Powell was sitting in her Cornell University Business Fundamentals for Entrepreneurial Scientists class when she learned about a patent the university held on an equation to calculate 24-hour salt levels in humans. Powell, a doctoral student at the time, was immediately intrigued.
“I realized this pa... | 4,013 | 1,996 | 7,853.09519 |
warc | 201704 | causes
Asbestosis: Inhaling asbestos fibers may cause scar tissue to develop inside the lungs.
Asthma: Individuals who are sensitive to environmental factors (e.g. air pollutants, smoke, chemicals, etc.) and have a family history of asthma are more likely to develop the condition.
Common cold: A cold is caused by a vir... | 16,213 | 6,505 | 40,257.090853 |
warc | 201704 | Expert Reviewed
Some people have painful reactions to certain types of toothpaste. This can be caused by a number of factors, but allergic reactions are among the most common. If your symptoms get so bad that you cannot eat, drink, or swallow, see a doctor immediately. If your symptoms are more mild, you may have to ex... | 10,620 | 4,268 | 26,166.804124 |
warc | 201704 | To get the best deals on textbooks you need to begin shopping before your class begins. Follow these steps to learn ahead of time what books you need; also learn what you need to know about your books to make better decisions when you comparison shop.
Steps 1 Pre-register and have a firm schedule for the upcoming term.... | 4,745 | 2,048 | 10,972.8125 |
warc | 201704 | Parliamentary Committees and Public Enquiries
Printable version E-mail this to a friend Completion of Economic and Monetary Union 'unlikely' by 2025 The Report finds that the path towards economic, financial and fiscal integration raises questions about the eurozone’s ability to protect against financial and fiscal ins... | 6,553 | 2,825 | 14,915.323894 |
warc | 201704 | Wisconsin Consumer Act Trumps Choice-of-Law Contract Provision, Appeals
Court Rules
By org jforward wisbar Joe Forward, Legal Writer,
State Bar of Wisconsin
Aug. 22, 2012
– A Wisconsin couple who bought a car in Minnesota – and
signed the contract there – is still protected by the Wisconsin
Consumer Act, a state appeal... | 5,206 | 2,240 | 11,392.773214 |
warc | 201704 | Learn something new every day
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A canopy is essentially any structure that acts as a roof or cover to protect people or objects from the elements. Making DIY canopies starts with a careful analysis of what the canopy will do where it will be built, and how large it should be. The budget for the proj... | 3,170 | 1,491 | 6,709.939638 |
warc | 201704 | Like kids all around the world, Evalyn is excited to head back to school to learn new things and make new friends. Her new school supplies, given by World Vision, inspire her to excel in her studies. Read on for Evalyn’s first-person account of her first day back at school.
“I was extremely excited for my first day bac... | 3,057 | 1,561 | 5,722.327995 |
warc | 201704 | In the past six years, Hurricane’s Valley Park has received twice as much capital improvement spending as the three other parks operated by the Putnam County Parks Commission combined.
Some say the parks’ funding is an example of the county’s lack of investment on the more rural north side of the Kanawha River, where t... | 5,580 | 2,537 | 11,804.438313 |
warc | 201704 | Important Advice With Regards To Furniture
Have a look around at this which furnishes your house. Would you love your collection or do you want someone would set fire to your house? When it is now time to exchange your furniture, just one piece or even the entire room, you have to do it right. The below information wil... | 5,084 | 2,381 | 10,627.076018 |
warc | 201704 | The final rule for the Farm Service Agency’s micro-loan program (ML) is now available on the Federal Register. We’ve taken a look and are pleased with the outcome. NYFC has been advocating for credit opportunities for small and beginning farmers for some time. We got policy makers thinking about this in 2011 and then p... | 6,979 | 2,990 | 16,068.038796 |
warc | 201704 | Despite the significant growth in India’s exports in value terms from US$1.27 billion in 1950-51 to US$126.3 billion in 2006-07, India’s share in world exports declined from 2.2 per cent in 1948 to 0.5 per cent in 1973.
Although, it gradually increased to 1 per cent in 2006, the growth achieved by other Asian countries... | 4,228 | 1,984 | 8,822.540323 |
warc | 201704 | Amazon Inc. is fighting the U.S. Internal Revenue Service over an international tax bill in court, which may have a significant knock-on effect for other technology firms should the federal agency win.
The IRS told Amazon in November that the retailer had unpaid taxes for 2005 and 2006. According to a court filing seen... | 2,277 | 1,195 | 4,294.860251 |
warc | 201704 | In the event of a natural disaster, fixed-line and mobile phone customers may be cut off because the National Broadband Network won't build redundancy into its network under proposed points of interconnect, Internode's general manager of regulatory and corporate affairs John Lindsay has warned.
In Internode's submissio... | 3,792 | 1,776 | 8,028.108108 |
warc | 201704 | Okay, so you don't believe in the economics or technology behind hydrogen fuel cells for transportation. Well, the railroads known for conservatism and penny pinching do.
In late June, Vehicle Projects Inc. of Denver working with Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) rolled out an experimental hydrogen fuel cell ... | 2,214 | 1,203 | 4,050.718204 |
warc | 201704 | Product Detail: Dr. Reckeweg R2 Gold drops are beneficial for maintaining proper functioning of heart. It helps get rid off that unwanted pain. It is an excellent tonic for heart and blood circulation. It helps in reducing anxiety restlessness, general nervous irritation and sleeplessness, sensation of suffocation, str... | 2,717 | 1,274 | 5,781.622449 |
warc | 201704 | Film offers the best color and clarity, but in Hollywood's effects houses, computers rule. Moviemakers must expertly blend both media.
Features
They don't have fancy 3-D graphics, but video games for handheld devices stand poised to capture a huge U.S. market. Why? Because we all have to wait.
What do a 17th-century Sw... | 1,471 | 891 | 2,395.534231 |
warc | 201704 | One of the driving forces behind the current U.S. economic recovery has been consumer spending. Consumers have been dishing out money on any number of items, including merchandise sold on the Internet, automobiles and vacations. They have also been spending at the nation’s malls, which is inducing shopping center owner... | 1,268 | 657 | 2,400.901065 |
warc | 201704 | It’s election night 2012, and I’m fidgeting in my seat at the Yale Daily News building. I’m supposed to help communicate with our reporters in Chicago and Boston. Instead I refresh The New York Times interactive graphic showing how many paths President Obama has to victory. I’m soothed, briefly. Then I head to Twitter ... | 5,120 | 2,538 | 9,824.428684 |
warc | 201704 | Position title: Division Manager, Capital Markets and Financial Operations - FTRY1 Grade: PL-2 Position N°: 50000898 Reference: ADB/16/115 Publication date: 21/11/2016 Closing date: 11/12/2016 Country: Côte d’Ivoire Objectives THE BANK:
Established in 1964, the African Development Bank is the premier pan-African develo... | 8,620 | 3,586 | 20,372.141662 |
warc | 201704 | Book Review
PreFense® The 90% Advantage: Preventing bad things from happening to good people! PreFense® The 90% Advantage: Preventing bad things from happening to good people!
287 pages, paperback, illustrated
Tarani Press; 2nd edition (2014) ISBN 978-0615962368 Amazon.com price $19.95 Reviewed by Gila Hayes
Why do we ... | 9,881 | 4,564 | 20,537.065294 |
warc | 201704 | The female orgasm is known for being super elusive, but no more! Here's the best way to give your girl an orgasm in just seconds.That sounds like a pretty bold statement to make - but that is exactly what can happen when you learn and apply what is in this article. Many men want to improve their … [Read more...]
Sex ti... | 1,596 | 842 | 2,938.004751 |
warc | 201704 | My daughter Liv recently declined my invitation to miss school and hang out with me on my day off (I don’t normally advocate skipping school, but was desperate for some quality time before a ten day visit with her father). Once she explained that she wanted to be with me but didn’t want to mess up her perfect attendanc... | 3,542 | 1,772 | 6,790.165914 |
warc | 201704 | Case 2.1 (Doughtie's Foods, Inc.)
In the late 1970s, William Nashwinter accepted a position as a salesman with Doughtie's Foods, Inc., a publicly owned food products company headquartered in Portsmouth, Virginia.1 The ambitious young salesman impressed his superiors with his hard work and dedication and was soon promot... | 8,860 | 3,611 | 21,707.122681 |
warc | 201704 | Everyone uses A/B testing in their lives to make better decisions. Consider the route you take to office. You might have initially tried out different routes to get there considering factors of distance, time, traffic, road condition etc. By analysing different variables, you have inadvertently used A/B testing to impr... | 3,168 | 1,487 | 6,666.221923 |
warc | 201704 | Library Portals and What's Next
Is the library portal about to yield to the Next Big Thing?
A funny thing happened to the traditional library card catalog as it morphed into the online public access catalog (OPAC). The whole mission of the library changed along the way, and the purpose of the library catalog changed al... | 10,236 | 4,744 | 21,988.844013 |
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“Frequently, married women come to me for counseling because they feel depressed and anxious. They often don’t realize they are experiencing oppression from their husbands; they only recognize the hurt,” a marriage counselor within CBE’s community explained. “This is quite common in the work of both Christi... | 1,057 | 618 | 1,703.514563 |
warc | 201704 | Efficacy of AMALS in Treating Language Impairment in Children (AMALS)
The goal of this proposal is to examine the efficacy of a manualized treatment intervention, AMALS: Addressing Multiple Aspects of Language Simultaneously, which is designed to remediate semantic, morphological, and syntactic aspects of language in p... | 3,192 | 1,413 | 7,154.326964 |
warc | 201704 | Which is better? Having a long home page with lots of copy, or a short one?
The correct answer is of course ‘it depends’, but I’m going to show you 4 cases where short home page kicked long home page butt.
Case #1: Moto Message
We initially built a long home page for Moto Message, addressing all the key issues that cam... | 6,046 | 2,805 | 12,592.061319 |
warc | 201704 | Washington, Sep 20 (IANS) A leading US environmental action group has outlined three key areas for India US collaboration: energy efficiency, growing solar energy markets, and preparing communities to sustain the impacts of climate change.
In a letter to the White House Thursday Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC)... | 2,038 | 1,075 | 3,818.169302 |
warc | 201704 | OK, I will begin my reply post to Hugo Schwyzer’s response to me by picking a bone with him as to how he presents me. He indicates that at Cal State Long Beach I had built a name for myself “as a consistent (some would say relentless) advocate for legitimizing sexual relationships between teachers and students”. If the... | 30,551 | 12,233 | 75,010.159814 |
warc | 201704 | This video is called Bowhead Whale Song.
From Wildlife Extra:
Elusive Bowhead whales revealed by undersea microphones
Critically endangered whales sing like birds; new recordings hint at rebound
August 2012. When a University of Washington researcher listened to the audio picked up by a recording device that spent a ye... | 5,965 | 2,775 | 12,422.246847 |
warc | 201704 | Loughborough University
Leicestershire, UK LE11 3TU +44 (0)1509 263171
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/5050
Title: Values and value - two perspectives on understanding stakeholders Authors: Mills, Grant R. Austin, Simon A. Thomson, Derek S. Keywords: Culture Mana... | 2,480 | 1,328 | 4,560.361446 |
warc | 201704 | Utskrift från Malmö högskola - mah.se
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Publication Other Title ”But with the girls, I have to do test or else I don’t know” Author(s) Jobér, Anna Date 2012 English abstract This presentation takes it starting point in larger study (Jobér, 2012) with the aim to contribute to a more complex and multi-faceted descrip... | 3,252 | 1,612 | 6,380.940447 |
warc | 201704 | Utskrift från Malmö högskola - mah.se
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Publication Bachelor thesis Title En likvärdig skola för alla? Author(s) Andersson, Lina ; Croneman, Hanna H Date 2006-04-25 English abstract In this essay we discuss how the decentralisation of the Swedish school system affects the concept of “equal opportunity school”. We i... | 2,383 | 1,090 | 4,945.27156 |
warc | 201704 | from Singularity Hub:
AirStrip Technologies is setting your doctor free. The Texas based company is developing a suite of hardware/software solutions that allow physicians and nurses to monitor important vital signs from their smart phone.
Now, your doctor can use her iPhone to keep track of heartbeats, nurse’s notes, ... | 2,996 | 1,526 | 5,723.027523 |
warc | 201704 | Elizabeth B. Bolton, Muthusami Kumaran, and Lisa Guion
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Before you start a trip, you may need a road map to tell you how to get to your destination. A coalition also should have a plan for how they want to meet their goals. This fact sheet will help develop your plan as a coalition to be successful.
This fact sheet wi... | 6,501 | 2,835 | 14,501.701587 |
warc | 201704 | Guidance system
A
guidance system is a virtual or physical device, or a group of devices implementing a guidance process used for controlling the movement of a ship, aircraft, missile, rocket, satellite, or any other moving object. Guidance is the process of calculating the changes in position, velocity, attitude, and/... | 18,942 | 8,296 | 43,023.638621 |
warc | 201704 | ERIC Number:ED228937 Record Type:Non-Journal Publication Date:1982 Pages:30 Abstractor:N/A Reference Count:N/A ISBN:N/A ISSN:N/A
The Federal Role in Postsecondary Education.
Hodgkinson, Virginia A.
The federal role in postsecondary education since 1787 is traced. Attention is directed to the types of indirect federal s... | 1,672 | 825 | 3,376.426667 |
warc | 201704 | ERIC Number:ED330056 Record Type:RIE Publication Date:1989-Nov Pages:6 Abstractor:N/A Reference Count:N/A ISBN:N/A ISSN:N/A
Developing Useful Educational Indicator Systems. Insights on Educational Policy and Practice, Number 15.
Pollard, Joyce S.
Insights on Educational Policy and Practice, n15 Nov 1989
Growing demands... | 1,211 | 690 | 2,113.107246 |
warc | 201704 | ERIC Number:ED337538 Record Type:Non-Journal Publication Date:1991 Pages:48 Abstractor:N/A Reference Count:N/A ISBN:N/A ISSN:N/A
Education Confronts Changing Demographics. The Challenge to Edge Cities.
Tushnet, Naida C.
This monograph introduces a conference addressing the educational issues of the edge cities of the u... | 2,346 | 1,218 | 4,505.167488 |
warc | 201704 | ERIC Number:ED383111 Record Type:Non-Journal Publication Date:1995-May Pages:42 Abstractor:N/A Reference Count:N/A ISBN:N/A ISSN:N/A
A Profile of the School Superintendency: Issues and Perceptions.
Webber, Charles F.
This paper presents findings of a study that investigated the concerns of Canadian superintendents. In ... | 1,725 | 961 | 3,085.613944 |
warc | 201704 | ERIC Number:ED548671 Record Type:Non-Journal Publication Date:2012 Pages:184 Abstractor:As Provided Reference Count:N/A ISBN:978-1-2673-2243-2 ISSN:N/A
Language and Learning in Boys with Fragile X Syndrome: Syntactic Processing and the Role of Phonological Memory
Kover, Sara T.
ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Univers... | 3,005 | 1,471 | 6,120.312712 |
warc | 201704 | Peer reviewed
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ERIC Number:EJ1068114 Record Type:Journal Publication Date:2006-Oct Pages:26 Abstractor:As Provided Reference Count:81 ISBN:N/A ISSN:EISSN-1554-5210
Imagining the Impossible: Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy against the 21st Century American Imperium
Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, Valerie
... | 1,743 | 977 | 3,084.592631 |
warc | 201704 | Peer reviewed
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ERIC Number:EJ1079219 Record Type:Journal Publication Date:2015-Oct Pages:6 Abstractor:As Provided Reference Count:19 ISBN:N/A ISSN:ISSN-0021-9584
Hands-On Approach to Structure Activity Relationships: The Synthesis, Testing, and Hansch Analysis of a Series of Acetylcholineesterase... | 2,325 | 1,246 | 4,315.991172 |
warc | 201704 | Calculating Economic Capital – A Case Study Method One
Our alternate model for calculating Economic Capital comes in a multiple variation. We do a detailed presentation for method one, followed by smaller posts on each variation. Method one use changes in Shareholders equity as reported in publicly disclosed financial ... | 6,270 | 2,638 | 14,617.32373 |
warc | 201704 | Target: Alabama Governor Dr. Robert Bentley Goal: Don’t allow state sheriffs to keep money intended for state-wide prison system.
Almost 75 years after its inception, a controversial (and outdated) Alabama law may finally be terminated—that is, if Sheriff Mike Rainey gets his way. The law, which was passed in 1939, all... | 2,697 | 1,349 | 5,226.062268 |
warc | 201704 | Filed under: 'media justice', 'media reform', fcc, radio, the revolution, Uncategorized
A number of people have asked me to do a little bit of writing on a big moment for community media justice — the passage of the low power FM radio bill out of the House of Representatives last night.
The bill was brought to the hous... | 5,760 | 2,777 | 11,569.780338 |
warc | 201704 | White knights are front page news at the Chateau this week, so today we will examine the myriad ways women tool men and make fools of those duty-bound chowderheads with aspirations to white knighting.
1. Let’s You and Him Fight
This is a classic, and often successful, tooling tactic that women throughout history have e... | 8,624 | 4,151 | 17,283.318718 |
warc | 201704 | On the Foundations of Wage Bargaining
This paper provides strategic foundations for the insight that the bargaining power of employees depends on the firm’s labour turnover costs. The analysis shows how these costs determine the firm’s degree of substitutability between two sets of wage negotiations: (i) those the firm... | 2,599 | 1,308 | 5,082.753823 |
warc | 201704 | Stable Shareholdings, the Decision Horizon Problem, and Patterns of Earnings Management
Prior studies argue that stable shareholders do not encourage firm managers to manage their earnings to achieve short-term earnings goals. They also state that firm managers with stable shareholders have an incentive to report smoot... | 3,526 | 1,667 | 7,415.810438 |
warc | 201704 | Determinants of Interest Group Formation
It is widely recognized that interest groups affect both microeconomic and macroeconomic outcomes. However, few researchers have attempted to discern empirically the factors that contribute to interest group activity. This paper provides a test of several theories of group forma... | 2,766 | 1,472 | 5,143.03125 |
warc | 201704 | December 10 – The markets have quieted considerably as the flow of news slows this week, at least for the commodity sector. Wednesday’s USDA WASDE report was pretty much as expected, providing little fresh direction for the Ag sector. The bottom line is that supplies of Ag commodities are more than adequate to meet dem... | 4,684 | 2,285 | 9,439.746171 |
warc | 201704 | I missed out on posting links last week. So I am compensating for that this time.
Carl Zimmer reports on a debate about whether details of experiments that gave an already existing virus the ability to spread from ferrets to ferrets should be published in full.
Read this shocking piece about how organ harvesting is com... | 3,224 | 1,693 | 5,950.974601 |
warc | 201704 | In France, the emergence of modernism in art, from Impressionism to Cubism, spanned half a century. In Russia, the avant-garde emerged and disappeared in little more than a decade, from around 1910 to the early 1920s. French avant-garde movements, succeeded each other, in an orderly progress – Impressionism, Pointilism... | 7,497 | 3,479 | 15,698.661972 |
warc | 201704 | Harmer (1983) states that listening as a different skill to writing. In listening, the listener cannot see what he was listening, but could only listen.
Listening ability is one of skill in English language lessons to mater the skills of students with three others, namely reading, writing, and listening. From experienc... | 1,927 | 866 | 4,252.306005 |
warc | 201704 | The news: Is your state so toxic that residents are fleeing en masse? Over the course of six months in 2013, Gallup polled at least 600 adults 18 years of age or older in every single state. The question: "Regardless of whether you will move, if you had the opportunity, would you like to move to another state, or would... | 2,996 | 1,520 | 5,873.736842 |
warc | 201704 | Guerrazzi, Marco (2012):
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In this note, I derive the asymptotic relation verified by oligopolists' iso-profit curves within Cournot's game. Thereafter, I provide an economic rationale for such a mathematical relation. Th... | 2,354 | 1,273 | 4,317.824038 |
warc | 201704 | In August, Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, announced new rules that included contraceptives for women in the package of preventive health care services that all insurers must cover without a deductible or co-payment beginning next year.
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