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warc | 201704 | Photos by Jon Winet
For Iowans, December is a time of making personal connections on the ground, judging presidential candidates by their handshakes and eye contact, and watching debates in order to draw distinctions that will help them to cast their caucus votes. The 2012 Iowa Caucus rings in Iowa’s 40th year of hosti... | 12,851 | 5,716 | 0.000182 |
warc | 201704 | LOS ANGELES (CBS) — New U.S. Department of Transportation rules will require airlines to include the cost of all mandatory fees and taxes in the advertised price of an airfare, starting Thursday. Prior to these changes, airlines were allowed to disclose taxes, baggage fees and other charges separately from the fare the... | 2,713 | 1,265 | 0.000816 |
warc | 201704 | In a patient's battle with HIV or AIDS, the stress of daily medications, continual checkups, and body ailments can sometimes pale in comparison to the unfavorable treatment from people who don't want to be associated with the disease. Along with efforts to stop the barrage of new infections, health advocates are trying... | 3,241 | 1,728 | 0.000588 |
warc | 201704 | Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the U.S., the island of breathtaking beaches which attracts many a travelers in search of tranquility and peace, doesn’t seem to be peaceful lately.
On February 4, 2014, S&P downgraded Puerto Rico’s general-obligation bonds to junk levels, making it even more difficult for th... | 2,722 | 1,372 | 0.000738 |
warc | 201704 | Finally, I can't help but think these plans also feed off the perniciousness of the same anti-profit sentiments discussed by Roberts and Munger on this week's EconTalk. There's a common disposition in a large swaths of society that making a profit on something is greedy, conducting commerce is crass and that if you're ... | 3,537 | 1,779 | 0.000564 |
warc | 201704 | Visit Freedom's Zone Donate To Project Valour Friday, September 09, 2005 Please Think Hard Overall, I cannot do justice to all the good I saw today just by writing. I wanted to try though. Basically, the operation set up down there at the New Orleans Airport is one eerily similar to that of Baghdad Int'l airport when I... | 12,059 | 5,377 | 0.000187 |
warc | 201704 | Recently I was asked by someone what the advent season was – and to be honest, I didn’t quite know how to respond to her. I know that I love it and I know that it is in preparation for Christmas.
What is Advent? Advent is a season of expectation and preparation. The Lord is coming and we are yearning for his arrival th... | 3,458 | 1,579 | 0.000649 |
warc | 201704 | Senseless: A False Sense Of Perception Essay, Research Paper
Senseless: A False Sense of Perception
I feel as though I have no choice but to be a skeptic about our ability
to know the world on the sense experience given the information that is being
presented.
Our senses are touching, hearing, smelling and tasting, I b... | 3,572 | 1,615 | 0.000635 |
warc | 201704 | The twelve step program
The monkey on my shoulder is intended to help people recover from alcoholism. In it I dispel common misconceptions regarding Alcoholics Anonymous and clearly describe how to use their
twelve step program. Many of the expensive “celebrity” clinics use the AA program to achieve recovery from alcoh... | 1,987 | 1,014 | 0.001017 |
warc | 201704 | This Thursday, May 6, join Morbid Anatomy and Michael Johns at Observatory for a night of all things Terror Management Theory! Full details follow; This will be a very good night and I hope very much to see you there!
Experimenting with Death: An Introduction to Terror Management TheoryYou can find out more about this ... | 2,532 | 1,215 | 0.000838 |
warc | 201704 | Image via Wikimedia Commons.
Starting this winter, medical students at the University of California San Francisco will be able to obtain academic credit from an unlikely source: Wikipedia.
In an experimental class beginning in December, fourth-year students under the tutelage of associate clinical professor Amin Azzam ... | 1,974 | 1,041 | 0.000984 |
warc | 201704 | Abstract:
In the final years of his life, Thoreau consolidated the detailed observations of seasonal change recorded in the later years of his Journal in a variety of lists and charts sometimes referred to as his "Kalendar." Though these unpublished materials have received relatively little scholarly attention to date,... | 1,186 | 649 | 0.00155 |
warc | 201704 | The simple truth about losing weight is that it can only happen when you consume fewer calories than you burn.
Don’t worry. It’s easy to fix the problem.
By Bridget Creel, TheDailyMeal.com Editor Even when you spend hours in the gym, it will be difficult to get the results you want without incorporating a healthy diet ... | 1,485 | 854 | 0.001221 |
warc | 201704 | A central theme of Celebrate Safe Communities is to encourage local people to work together with local law enforcement to address local problems. An important step in that process is to learn more about the day to day work of your law enforcement agency. One way to gain a better understanding of your law enforcement ag... | 1,996 | 947 | 0.00107 |
warc | 201704 | Being a writer determined to tell the truth in Angola is no walk in the park as the authorities have ways of dealing with such voices. The imperative is that those of goodwill and strength of character do what the government fears the most as they endeavour to conquer the space for freedom of expression for all citizen... | 9,070 | 4,235 | 0.000242 |
warc | 201704 | Ford using plasma to refurbish dead engines
When an engine fails or becomes very worn, it is usually pulled from the vehicle and scrapped. Ford wants to change that by utilizing a high-tech plasma process to remanufacture broken engines. The process reduces carbon emissions by about half when compared to making a new e... | 2,766 | 1,380 | 0.000728 |
warc | 201704 | Clay M. Armstrong, MD, professor of physiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, will share the 1999 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. Armstrong was named with Bertil Hille, PhD, professor of physiology and biophysics at the University of Washingt... | 2,110 | 1,100 | 0.000913 |
warc | 201704 | Superstorm Sandy’s hurricane winds and torrential downpours killed at least 106 people, left millions without power, and caused billions of dollars in damage. It also got people — including the mayor of New York — talking again about climate change.
While many analysts focused on the storm’s intensity, Daniel P. Schrag... | 4,332 | 2,119 | 0.000494 |
warc | 201704 | It is a deadly virus, killing more than half the people it infects. It originates in bats, crossing into humans who come in contact with them. It first causes fever, as do many other ailments, leaving health care workers with few early hints that they’re dealing with something contagious and potentially deadly.
“It” sh... | 5,079 | 2,340 | 0.000438 |
warc | 201704 | CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., March 25, 2011 — Consistent with its mission to “prepare individuals to participate responsibly in a diverse and technologically advanced world,” Southeast Missouri State University President Kenneth W. Dobbins has announced a new initiative to look at university education in the future, entitled “... | 8,896 | 3,709 | 0.000274 |
warc | 201704 | A new study was released Monday to steer developers to historic buildings ready for re-purposing in downtown Buffalo. The ‘Preservation Ready Survey’ is expected to make it easier for developers to see which buildings are eligible for historic preservation tax credits and incentives.
There are 571 properties in downtow... | 2,133 | 1,073 | 0.000963 |
warc | 201704 | Israeli Researchers Build First ‘Atlas’ Of Brain Microstructure
The healthy brains of 120 living people – not members of the Knesset, but other Israelis and some Europeans – have been scanned with a magnetic resonance instrument (MRI) to build the world’s first “atlas” of the microstructure of white matter.
Led by Prof... | 1,864 | 1,022 | 0.00102 |
warc | 201704 | Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/3636
Title: Biological monitoring of lead and cadmium in human hair and nail and their correlations with biopsy materials, age and exposure Authors: Mehra, Rita
Juneja, Meenu
Keywords: Metal body burden;Trace/toxic elem... | 1,841 | 928 | 0.001094 |
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warc | 201704 | The opinion of the court was delivered by: THOMAS C. PLATT
By an order to show cause dated November 3, 1994, plaintiffs seek a preliminary injunction to stay a deadline imposed by defendants, (plaintiffs' present employers) by which plaintiffs must decide whether or not to retire from the company under the terms of a d... | 3,622 | 1,709 | 0.000588 |
warc | 201704 | Evaluating the President’s proposals to raid, ruin or-as he prefers to say-“reform” Social Security should begin by contrasting what his minions tell the public with what they tell each other in private. They are manipulating us with images while they mislead us about their purposes.
The most inspiring and venerable im... | 5,315 | 2,537 | 0.000408 |
warc | 201704 | The FT seems to think so, saying Barack Obama’s election win is the “best possible result” for the gold price, as it is a vote for the status quo that has delivered a doubling in gold prices during his first term.
Not that the rise has been a steady progression. The gold price rose to a record in 2011 and has since tra... | 2,738 | 1,444 | 0.000714 |
warc | 201704 | Community colleges provide a way for you to receive college credit, learn new skills or complete requirements for professional development programs required of your work. Many successful people attended community colleges including actor Tom Hanks, space shuttle commander Robert Gibson and poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Whethe... | 2,580 | 1,163 | 0.000864 |
warc | 201704 | The opinion of the court was delivered by: DUMBAULD
In the pending land condemnation case, the owners and the federal government are in disagreement as to whether certain sand and gravel processing machinery located on the tract taken at the time taken are or are not compensable as being part of the real estate under t... | 5,522 | 2,609 | 0.000387 |
warc | 201704 | The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service is now accepting applications for enrollment in the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), the nation’s largest conservation program, through February 3.
“This year, the Conservation Stewardship Program provides even more opportunities for con... | 2,949 | 1,330 | 0.000765 |
warc | 201704 | Well, if you live in the Mid-Atlantic region, no doubt you have been experiencing some of the most extreme cold/snowy weather we have ever had. With that said, as a severe anemic, the issues are compounded by the sustained cold weather.
Everyone gets cold hands and feet sometimes, especially during winter. The differen... | 774 | 464 | 0.002164 |
warc | 201704 | Exotic Rickettsiae in Ixodes ricinus: fact or artifact? 3:54 DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-3-54
© Klasen et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2010
Received: 18 June 2010 Accepted: 22 June 2010 Published: 22 June 2010 Abstract
Several pathogenic
Rickettsia species can be transmitted via Ixodes ricinus ticks to humans and animal... | 6,780 | 3,235 | 0.00031 |
warc | 201704 | INTJs and INTPs are both deeply skeptical, philosophical, and penetrating in their thinking. Whatever their similarities, INTJs and INTPs differ in significant ways, especially in their epistemology. For amateur typologists, the differences between these two types may be felt intuitively, while remaining difficult to e... | 4,702 | 2,090 | 0.000487 |
warc | 201704 | “Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder”. Indeed, a true beauty of a nation lies within its own culture, morals and ethical values. The world has created such marvelous wonders in the long run which has made this beauteous world an ecstatic place to dwell in. With such blissful places, one of the most serene place is A... | 6,664 | 3,173 | 0.000319 |
warc | 201704 | I Want to Commit Murder
Hello, my name is Jane and I’m from Germany, I have already been in therapy for depression because I used to want to kill myself. Well, now I just want to kill people around me. I get really excited when I think about getting a gun and just killing people. I’m not interested in killing one perso... | 2,749 | 1,396 | 0.000735 |
warc | 201704 | Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC31148
Title: La stima delle superfici forestali per l'Italia: le incertezze del Nuovo Inventario delle Foreste e del Carbonio Authors: MOLLICONE Danilo; FEDERICI Sandro Citation: Forest@ vol. 2 no. 2 p. 14... | 2,490 | 1,216 | 0.000826 |
warc | 201704 | A bad day? When you stall your model airplane close to the ground. Let me explain what a stall really is.
Definition
The most common technical definition of a stall is when an increase in angle of attack does not result in an increase in the amount of lift produced. For the typical airfoil, this is about 15 degrees. Ve... | 5,096 | 2,241 | 0.000454 |
warc | 201704 | With recent discussions about the federal health insurance mandate; it has become important to take a closer look at how states address the need for affordable health care. A recent example is the Healthy NY program, which provides uninsured New Yorkers and small business owners with affordable health care. LastRead Mo... | 704 | 443 | 0.00231 |
warc | 201704 | Szmiett, Jeanette Objective: Methods: This descriptive study consisted of a convenience sample of 36 registered dental hygienists in the state of Michigan. The instrument utilized was a questionnaire-based electronic survey consisting of ten questions. Results: 192 surveys were sent electronically with a response rate ... | 1,203 | 598 | 0.001675 |
warc | 201704 | Article Title
Noisy respiratory secretions at the end of life
Publication Details Clark, K., & Butler, M. (2009). Noisy respiratory secretions at the end of life. Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care, 3(2), 120-124. doi:10.1097/SPC.0b013e32832af251
Abstract
Purpose of review: Noisy respiratory secretions a... | 1,148 | 650 | 0.001552 |
warc | 201704 | You’ve decided not to cook tonight, and instead you’ve convinced your family it’s a great evening to go out to dinner.
So, what do you choose? A restaurant with terrific food and horrible service or a restaurant with just so-so food and the best customer service in town?
You might guess that the most successful restaur... | 6,309 | 2,819 | 0.000369 |
warc | 201704 | State Education Commissioner Deborah Gist is calling for the closure of the Academy for Career Exploration (ACE), formerly known as Textron/Chamber of Commerce Providence Public Charter School, citing poor academic results and leadership failures.
According to a recommendation from Gist’s office, the school has not per... | 3,584 | 1,658 | 0.000615 |
warc | 201704 | Over the years home economics has received a reputation as confining
women to the home, while the movement for women's suffrage has been
viewed as liberating women from the home. However, the Progressive
Era movements for home economics and women's suffrage both had shared
a common mission: to improve the condition of ... | 618 | 370 | 0.002756 |
warc | 201704 | Abstract
Active and recent faulting along the main north--south road in Tibet is dominated by normal faulting occurring on northerly-trending planes and by strike-slip faulting, both of which reflect an east--west extension of the plateau. Normal faulting is prevalent in the southern half of the plateau, but we saw no ... | 2,259 | 1,076 | 0.000931 |
warc | 201704 | Over the last few years it’s been hard to miss the ongoing debate about pros and cons of breast screening.
On the one hand, it saves lives by detecting the disease earlier.
On the other, there are downsides – most importantly, it can detect slow growing cancers that don’t need treating – so-called ‘overdiagnosed’ cance... | 8,354 | 3,821 | 0.000273 |
warc | 201704 | Most people don’t know that Sigmund Freud was a frustrated neurologist. Before he abandoned himself to abstraction, the father of psychoanalysis was a practicing physician, intent on developing “a neural model of behavior.” (Kandel Interview) But Freud found neuroscience too blunt a tool, in the early twentieth century... | 5,301 | 2,488 | 0.00042 |
warc | 201704 | A nail, when exposed to the elements for any extended length of time, undergos some familiar changes. The silvery sheen of a new nail gives way to reddish-brown spots, which then spread to cover the entire nail. The sharp outline softens, covered in rough scale and eaten away with tiny pits. Eventually, the rust reache... | 2,744 | 1,259 | 0.000797 |
warc | 201704 | The case is Williams v. Consolidated Edison of New York, decided on November 27. The Court of Appeals issued this decision as a summary order, an odd choice considering it reversed summary judgment and the case raises some interesting legal issues. The precedential value of summary orders is limited, but it's always wo... | 4,173 | 1,948 | 0.000527 |
warc | 201704 | March 28, 2012 A timely article urging prosecutors to be "color-conscious" rather than "color-blind"
With all the controversy and media attention surrounding the shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman and the response of the Florida criminal justice system, I think this article recently posted on SSRN is especi... | 6,482 | 3,100 | 0.000326 |
warc | 201704 | We turn to the Streetsblog Network for a little inspiration this morning, courtesy of Robin Chase — author of the blog Network Musings
and former CEO of Zipcar. Chase shares a story from a friend in India, Vinay Jayaswal, who believes that meaningful change on the most overwhelming issues can, and must, begin with the ... | 2,029 | 1,080 | 0.000956 |
warc | 201704 | The advantage to understanding your leadership style is that you understand your strengths and weaknesses. You can be proactive and more effective as a leader by strategically using your strengths and counteracting your weaker areas. Your style defines your values and perspective, and being aware of it will aid your co... | 2,266 | 1,036 | 0.000972 |
warc | 201704 | Retained earnings is reported on both the balance sheet and the statement of retained earnings. Retained earnings equals your company's net income or loss, minus any stockholder dividends. Because retained earnings is an equity account, it normally has a credit balance. Therefore, you increase the retained earnings bal... | 1,653 | 727 | 0.001384 |
warc | 201704 | “Give your stress wings and let it fly away.” — Terri Guillemets
Are you able to make the most of any situation? When things don’t go your way, do you get frustrated, or do you learn how to be more resourceful?
The one thing you bring to every situation is yourself.
While you don’t control a lot of things that happen i... | 5,518 | 2,409 | 0.000431 |
warc | 201704 | I just finished a week of interviewing candidates for an opening in my office. How exhausting!
The whole week was a great reminder of the do’s and don’ts of interviewing, as well as how the interview process showcases — and even impacts — your brand.
Everything, and I mean everything, you do when applying for a job is ... | 3,710 | 1,790 | 0.000581 |
warc | 201704 | For almost every problem, the current solution that America’s leaders employ tends to involve bombs and spies and force. Are resources or bank accounts running low? Then go bomb some country in Africa or the Middle East. Unhappy citizens at home? Then beef up Homeland Security.
On the other hand, China’s method of deal... | 7,599 | 3,541 | 0.000298 |
warc | 201704 | Tuvalu is demanding a new treaty to run alongside the Kyoto protocol that would set the maximum allowable temperature increase to be 1.5 degrees Celsius, instead of 2 degrees Celsius rise usually put forth by developed countries and big emerging economies like India and China. In addition, they requested that atmospher... | 1,812 | 1,018 | 0.000991 |
warc | 201704 | What is Income tax?
It is a tax levied by the Government of India on the income of every person. The provisions governing the Income tax Law are given in the Income tax Act, 1961.
What is the administrative framework of Income tax?The revenue functions of the Government of India are managed by the Ministry of Finance. ... | 15,057 | 5,889 | 0.000171 |
warc | 201704 | Click and Grow: The Perfect Solution for the Apartment Gardener?
Posted on December 3, 2013 7:30 AM by Rob Williams
As an apartment-dweller who appreciates being able to grow their own food, I get a little frustrated at times because I can’t. It was with great interest, then, that I discovered Click and Grow a little w... | 2,296 | 1,191 | 0.000892 |
warc | 201704 | Growing popularity of outsourced software development services leads to appearing of new business models. A dedicated team model was established by IT companies not long ago but immediately became popular in the world of outsourcing. In this article, we are going to analyze all aspects connected with this business mode... | 7,198 | 3,018 | 0.000342 |
warc | 201704 | IDA or the soon-to-be-formed Government Technology Agency (GovTech) is set to continue on its course towards encouraging innovation and partner the infocomm technology (ICT) industry and invest in technologies such as data analytics, ICT infrastructure and platform-as-a-service to develop citizen-centric services.
This... | 3,938 | 1,839 | 0.00055 |
warc | 201704 | The “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) concept has remained frustratingly vague since it appeared in late 2013. One of the few things that can be said about it with any confidence is that it outlines the possibilities of a common economic zone among the 65 or so diverse member states. The heart of OBOR is an invitation for al... | 5,211 | 2,399 | 0.000421 |
warc | 201704 | As you know, all physical activities are good. I thought you might like an overview of what exactly the difference is between structured and unstructured activities – so here is a brief summary for you :).
Structured activities are taught or directed by a knowledgeable adult. Activities that are structured, help enhanc... | 1,482 | 739 | 0.001404 |
warc | 201704 | Have you ever made a choice that didn’t seem to make sense to anyone else but just “felt right”? I chuckle as I look back at my life and see how the biggest, most important, and best decisions I’ve made were based on a feeling, not knowing much about the direction I took. There was no analyzing the pros and cons or len... | 9,320 | 4,305 | 0.00024 |
warc | 201704 | Amidst myriad new technologies to reduce the dependency on petrol and diesel; after the pure electric cars, the big car makers are working on ‘plug-in hybrids’ that will run on electricity but will have an internal combustion engine which will recharge the battery as well and also, working on making a car completely dr... | 3,562 | 1,801 | 0.000561 |
warc | 201704 | Our mobile lab space will broaden data collection, enabling cognitive scientists to extend studies beyond university walls.
we can ensure that theories of the mind reflect a more representative group of humans. In an era where policymakers are increasingly consulting cognitive scientists to make decisions, more represe... | 638 | 366 | 0.002749 |
warc | 201704 | A few months ago, I received an email from a reader. He wrote he was having considerable difficulty accepting himself as a gay person and was thinking of turning to his church for the support he needed. At the time, I felt deeply concerned for him and his potential course of action--what he wrote staying with me for we... | 3,443 | 1,679 | 0.000596 |
warc | 201704 | The Big Red Cloud has conducted a national survey which highlights that 40% of Irish SME's have been the victim of a cyber attack.
Data protection was "seen to be a major issue for many firms" however 33% of firms surveyed said that they were having difficulty dealing with it.
Data and its protection is something SME's... | 2,754 | 1,408 | 0.000714 |
warc | 201704 | The hype around innovation right now seems overwhelming. Does this mean that we’ve hit Peak Innovation? No – we’ve hit Peak Innovation Hype. To avoid the hype, we need to understand what is already known about the substance of innovation.
“The Googles, Amazons, Apples, Netflixes, and Capital Ones … don’t insist on perf... | 1,561 | 844 | 0.001242 |
warc | 201704 | Washington, August 1 –
Public support for Israel in the United States steadily deepened as the conflict between the Jewish state and Hamas escalated into a ground war, according to polling data collected by Paragon Insights and published by The Israel Project today.
A new national poll surveyed 1,010 likely voters betw... | 3,047 | 1,483 | 0.000696 |
warc | 201704 | Respect of parents is a universal concept. It is as universal as the concept of a day of rest. And this week in the portion of Kedoshim, both concepts are taught to us in one single verse. “Every man: You shall revere your mother and father and with reverence my Shabbos you shall observe, I am Hashem, your G-d” (Leviti... | 5,131 | 2,488 | 0.000418 |
warc | 201704 | 2013 has been a rough year for silver. Prices for the precious metal have fallen nearly 30 percent when they opened trading in January around $31 an ounce to today’s price of roughly $22 an ounce. It’s the definition of a bear market. We’re seeing a series of lower higher and lower lows that’s best illustrated by looki... | 3,848 | 1,878 | 0.000556 |
warc | 201704 | سال انتشار: ۱۳۸۷ محل انتشار: سومین کنفرانس بین المللی مدیریت بازاریابی تعداد صفحات: ۱۰ نویسنده(ها):
Hashem Aghazadeh – Faculty of Management, University of Tehran
Aryan Gholipour – Faculty of Management, University of Tehran Mina Mehrnoosh – Faculty of Economics, University of Tehran چکیده:
customer-oriented nature of ... | 1,211 | 561 | 0.002811 |
warc | 201704 | “Ti-ah pi-ah” which means in Kiowa, “Ready to go ready to die,” is the preamble of the Gourd Dance. The men form an inner circle and the women an outer circle. They shake painted gourds and the Pow-Wow begins.
The Kiowa Gourd Dance was outlawed by the federal government in 1899. By the 1930’s it was only a memory but l... | 1,864 | 1,006 | 0.001014 |
warc | 201704 | Tree Tops' Environmental Programme and Eco-Schools Tree Tops has at its core a respect and appreciation of the Natural world, and our teaching and learning has always had a strong environmental focus.
In 2011 Tree Tops joined the Eco Schools programme as a way to further grow and extend our commitment to Environmental ... | 4,819 | 2,168 | 0.000473 |
warc | 201704 | New therapeutic approach to Tourette Syndrome in children based on a randomized placebo-controlled double-blind phase IV study of the effectiveness and safety of magnesium and vitamin B6 10:16 DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-10-16
© Garcia-Lopez et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2009
Received: 15 September 2008 Accepted: 10 M... | 53,231 | 20,920 | 0.000048 |
warc | 201704 | War can be described as a breakdown of communication. When arguments fail, weapons speak their own language. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn’t. In Afghanistan obviously it didn’t. Thirty years of war without a victor and it seems that we have not reached an end yet.
The second Bonn Conference which took place on... | 4,206 | 2,031 | 0.000499 |
warc | 201704 | Hormones are the chemicals produced within the body by some specialized cells and have specific effects on the activity of target organs through specific receptors. There are 2 types of hormones:
After passing through the cell membrane, a) Lipid soluble: Can pass through cell membrane Act via intracellular and intranuc... | 2,045 | 904 | 0.001113 |
warc | 201704 | Mario Biagioli asks why, after spending so much time
in my earlier published writings deconstructing the reified notions of
“culture” and “traditional knowledge,” I am now offering a
cultural theory of intellectual property to stand beside and illuminate
the dominant economic account.
The continuing centrality of
cultu... | 5,128 | 2,419 | 0.000432 |
warc | 201704 | Originally published on 3 June 2015, on PSFK written by Leo Lutero.
The Wearables For Good Challenge hopes to open the floodgates for cost-effective, low-power, durable and scalable wearable tech
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is keen on starting a revolution in the wearable tech field to help children and... | 2,481 | 1,300 | 0.000783 |
warc | 201704 | New edition: The high cost of free parking by Donald Shoup
The American Planning Association has published a paperback edition of The High Cost of Free Parking, the "classic" tome on the subject by UCLA Professor Donald Shoup.
If you haven't read the book, the new edition, with an updated preface and afterward covering... | 4,696 | 2,243 | 0.000452 |
warc | 201704 | Robots are eating the world, and 3D Robotics wants to help them eat a lot more of it.
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) company, which former Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson runs, announced today that it’s raised $30 million in a Series B round led by True Ventures and joined by new investor Foundry Group. Existin... | 2,661 | 1,360 | 0.000769 |
warc | 201704 | The Boston terrier is a well-muscled and small breed. This is not really surprising since the Boston terrier was bred by individuals who wanted to use them in dog fights. Today a number of people may read a number of effects from such a violent past. Some individuals may possibly believe the Boston terrier dog would cr... | 3,721 | 1,780 | 0.000562 |
warc | 201704 | It’s been said that astronaut training means a lot of time and money spent preparing a very small number of people for something they’ll do only a few times in their career. In terms of actual space travel experience, this is generally true. Neil Armstrong, for instance, flew only two space missions. The second of thos... | 22,261 | 9,301 | 0.000111 |
warc | 201704 | Flu Not As Contagious As Fear
Swine flu is in the air, but the bug to watch out for is the germ of fear.
The school year was coming to a close, and federal health officials, having convinced the president that swine flu was likely to infect huge numbers of people in just a few months, were racing to make a good vaccine... | 5,782 | 2,864 | 0.000353 |
warc | 201704 | Mailing AddressWDFW - Licensing Division600 Capitol Way N.Olympia, WA 98501-1091
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Hydraulic Project Approval The major types of activities in freshwater requiring an HPA include, but are not limited to: stream bank protection; construction or repair of bridges, piers, and d... | 2,342 | 1,134 | 0.000885 |
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Astrocytoma is the most common type, accounting for more than 40 per cent of cases. Astrocytoma is diagnosed throughout childhood and has no strong pattern by either sex or age. The second most frequent sub-
Cause & Risk
We have not established clear risk factors for the majority ... | 1,947 | 1,009 | 0.001005 |
warc | 201704 | Tax collectors have the difficult but important job of collecting money that people and businesses owe the government. People can get hostile when their accounts reach collections, which means you must have the ability to ignore their unpleasantness and complete your job with professionalism. Taxes serve a vital functi... | 3,273 | 1,505 | 0.000667 |
warc | 201704 | The Obama Administration is flailing — and failing — in its eleventh-hour efforts to stop a U.N. vote on Palestinian statehood next week. It’s as if Washington has woken in a panic after sleeping through its diplomatic alarm clock, and discovering that it has missed history’s bus. The Administration has dispatched dele... | 10,947 | 4,696 | 0.00022 |
warc | 201704 | If an investment in a company’s compliance system is really successful, then a company will have nothing to show for it — at least in the form of fines, litigation or adverse publicity. The absence of such events suggests that the process is working as it should, routinely identifying risks associated with noncomplianc... | 5,792 | 2,653 | 0.000391 |
warc | 201704 | Page tools: Print PagePrint All RSS Search this Product SURVEY METHODOLOGY AND DESIGN 4 A sample of approximately 2,500 public sector employer units is selected from the ABS Business Register to ensure adequate state and industry representation. The survey is conducted by mail each quarter. Data for a number of Commonw... | 11,394 | 4,519 | 0.000222 |
warc | 201704 | In a surprise decision, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York ruled on Wednesday that a provision in the settlement agreement in the class-action case against WorldCom was illegal. Judge Cote indicated that the settlement was unfair to banks named in the lawsuit and stated that any jury a... | 2,477 | 1,162 | 0.000864 |
warc | 201704 | In these economic times, boomers will need to work longer, and many say they want a job that provides both money and meaning. The question is, are nonprofit employers interested in hiring employees who have finished their midlife careers? What makes nonprofits more eager - or less - to give encore workers a try?
A nati... | 4,799 | 2,268 | 0.000444 |
warc | 201704 | Targeting aspects of rigor in math instruction
Achieving rigor requires us to balance conceptual understanding, procedural skill and fluency, and real-world, problem-solving situations.
Math teachers, spurred by new standards, are striving to increase the rigor of their instruction. But…what exactly is rigor?
According... | 2,459 | 1,182 | 0.00088 |
warc | 201704 | Particular to our bike, we are piloting a program for ASC that collects data points on roadkill. The idea behind it being that humans build roads without regard to what natural spaces and animal paths those roads might be cutting through; the results of this division of land has meant millions of animal deaths and mill... | 2,027 | 1,068 | 0.000954 |
warc | 201704 | moreis "needed to be done to allow corporations to protect their intellectual property." What, do they want i4i to be able to get sextuple, instead of just triple, damages? To jail Microsoft board members?
Microsoft's lawyer repeats the tired old bunk about patents being necessary to promote innovation, yada yada -- "B... | 2,768 | 1,426 | 0.000704 |
warc | 201704 | History 1929 – Justin Ford Kimball, vice president at Baylor University’s School of Medicine, develops the first hospital care prepayment plan after learning that some Dallas teachers cannot pay their hospital bills 1933 – AHA helps to promote the development and growth of these plans, known as Blue Cross Plans, result... | 17,440 | 7,005 | 0.000145 |
warc | 201704 | A
rriving on the literary scene in the early '90s, Jay David Bolter's
Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing is one
of those pro-hypertext books whose earnest boosterism leaves you feeling a
little embarassed. Nonetheless, Bolter's book has recently been seen
changing hands around graphic de... | 13,686 | 6,336 | 0.000161 |
warc | 201704 | Making the Most of Mealtimes for People With Alzheimer’s Family Members Provide 100 Hours a Month of Unpaid Care for Alzheimer’s Alzheimer’s Caregivers Should Be Screened for Depression Alzheimer’s Care Costs Far More Than Heart Disease or Cancer Care Obesity at Midlife May Speed Alzheimer’s Onset Hello from my mom Eas... | 12,371 | 5,489 | 0.00019 |
warc | 201704 | Home GCC Industries Markets Opinion Interviews Photos Videos Lists Lifestyle StartUp CEO Company News Property Senior gov't official says 'great importance' attached to policies to meet doubling of demand by 2030
Energy, water and food challenges remain an "upmost priority" for the UAE as its demands could double by 20... | 2,038 | 1,056 | 0.000957 |
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