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Examining the Sustainability Journey of Walmart
Business researchers from the University of Arkansas and the University of South Carolina will be examining Walmart’s 7-year sustainability effort as a way to create a teaching tool for other businesses that hope to become more environmentally friendly.
As researchers fro... |
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Q My father has just been diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment. Will this eventually turn into Alzheimer's disease?
DR. RONALD PETERSEN ADVISES:
A Your father has been diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) - a condition that indicates he is more forgetful than we would expect ... |
One of Appleton’s early founders, Eleazar Williams, claimed he was the “lost Dauphin”—the rightful heir to the French throne. Maybe it was royal blood that inspired him to devise a lofty plan to lead an empire based in Wisconsin. In the 1820s he led a host of Native Americans from New York to settle in the Fox River Va... |
Participants in the Getting Word project recalled varied experiences with racial prejudice. For some, experiences with discrimination only motivated them to work harder to achieve their goals. For others, the Jim Crow system thwarted their efforts to receive a quality education and pursue their chosen career. Types of ... |
Below are the first 10 and last 10 pages of uncorrected machine-read text (when available) of this chapter, followed by the top 30 algorithmically extracted key phrases from the chapter as a whole.
Intended to provide our own search engines and external engines with highly rich, chapter-representative searchable text o... |
Water is driven to find the shortest and quickest course from source to mouth and the Mississippi River is no exception. The river is fighting against modern engineering as it continues to crest. If it were allowed to flow freely, New Orlean's Atchafalaya River would capture the main flow of the Mississippi. However, t... |
Florida, in the United States of America. It includes a widely diverse area from quiet, unpopulated central areas with "Old Florida" feel to vibrant resort cities.
The climate of South Florida, due to its situation just above the Tropic of Cancer, is subtropical. During most of the year, there is substantial warmth and... |
A tip or gratuity is an amount of money that is given to a worker such as a waiter or
waitress who performs a service for you. A common tip amount is 15% of the cost of
the meal or other service. Generally a tip is determined based on the total bill
which includes the cost of the meal and sales tax.
If a meal costs $10... |
Nathan Lewis, Contributor
I write about monetary and tax policy for the 21st century.
For a number of years now, people have asked me whether I prefer a “flat tax” or a “fair tax.” Both are problematic.
The “flat tax” is typically conceived as a replacement for the existing personal income tax. This is fine, but it ign... |
This volume is an invaluable reference for all those engaged in the areas of genetics, dysmorphology, pediatrics, and internal medicine.
Dr Jones should be congratulated for perpetuating this great book initiated by one of the outstanding clinical geneticists, David Smith, MD, who may be considered the father of dysmor... |
Updates and changes to codes and standards that affect the way you design and install telecommunications systems
Because bonding and grounding systems within a building are intended to have one electrical potential, coordination between electrical and telecommunications bonding and grounding systems is essential during... |
Oct. 10, 2008 Toxins in food often have a bad, bitter taste that makes people want to spit them out. New UC Irvine research finds that bitterness also slows the digestive process, keeping bad food in the stomach longer and increasing the chances that it will be expelled.
This second line of defense in the gut against d... |
By Bill Gregware
President Obama's long-touted plan to put 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015 is hitting some bumps in road. The "bumps" are American consumers who are not convinced it's a good idea to plunk down an exorbitant amount of money on cars with multiple problems, including short driving ranges. More... |
Professor Keith Sagar gives Blake seminar
Professor Keith Sagar, a legendary figure from the world of literary criticism, gave a seminar to A2 literature students on William Blake recently.
His provocative and thought-provoking readings of Songs of Innocence and Experience gave students an idea of how literary criticis... |
Each May, the alpacas that graze the hills of Springside Farm in the town of Pompey are sheared of fleece that is spun into baby blankets, mittens and hats.
Breeder Paulie Drexler has gathered 50 pounds of fiber remnants she didn’t use last year to send to volunteers who have been working to protect the Gulf Coast and ... |
A unique study at the U of A.
"Back, about 1993, we started studying methanogens as possible life forms on Mars," Kral says.
Microorganisms, living in a test tube.
But can they live on another planet?
Professor Kral is trying to answer that question.
"Well, this is our Pegasus chamber, it's a vaccuum chamber and we're ... |
Why is it that farmers competing in state and national soybean yield contests routinely grow 60 or even 85 bu. per acre yields when the national average is closer to 44?
That’s the question that motivated some ground-breaking research by Fred Below, a crop physiologist at the University of Illinois. The wise-cracking, ... |
Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) | Situation
Avian influenza is
a viral disease transmitted by birds usually through feces or saliva. It is
not usually passed on to humans, although it has been contracted by people who
have handled infected birds or touched surfaces contaminated by the birds. In
fact, avian (or H5N1) flu nor... |
Mexico is one of the Latin America's richest sources for minerals and its mining industry has experienced a period of sustained growth. In 2010, Mexico exported $15.47 billion in minerals and growth is forecast to continue at least until 2015. Though the benefits have been enormous for Mexico's economy, the rise has in... |
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PC-style floppy disks work mostly like other disk devices like hard disks, except that you need to low-level format them first. To use an common 1440 KB floppy in the first floppy drive, first (as root) format it:
#fdformat -f /dev/rfd0a
Then create a single partition on the disk using disklabel(8):
#... |
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Gestalt psychology or gestaltism (German: G... |
Do our students think that their liberal education proves valuable in regard to their careers and finances in later life? A purely economic indicator seems to show that their answer to that question is Yes.
Parents, in difficult economic times it is tempting to steer sons and daughters to focus, narrow their interests,... |
Editor’s Note: David Wise is the author of numerous books on national security, intelligence and espionage. His latest book, Tiger Trap: America’s Secret Spy War with China, was published June 14 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
By David Wise – Special to CNN
For almost half a century during the Cold War, the world focuse... |
ANWR: Producing American Energy and Creating American Jobs
Map of northern Alaska showing locations of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,
the 1002 area, and the National Petroleum Reserve—Alaska (NPRA).
Source: U.S. Geological Survey
Chairman Doc Hastings recently announced plans to recommend increased offshore and o... |
(HealthDay News) - Lifting objects -- sometimes even light ones -- is a common cause of back strain and injury.
To help prevent injury when lifting things, follow these techniques suggested by the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons:
By Dr. Eric L. Seiler - Chiropractor
Back problems seem to occur in epidemic ... |
Dr. Gabriel Barkay points to the tomb where he discovered the tiny biblical artifacts that date from well before the Dead Sea Scrolls.
SOLVING A RIDDLE WRITTEN IN SILVER
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
New York Times
....An archaeological discovery in 1979 revealed that the Priestly Benediction, as the verse from Numbers 6:24-26... |
"Who Save One Life."
The Email message read, "Can you help me by locating in your records the name of a monastery in France where I was hidden?" It explained that Quakers in the South of France had helped the writer during World War II.
Archives staff wanted to help but wondered if there were any ways to do so. Would i... |
Wed April 11, 2012
What Would The Buffett Rule Mean For The U.S. Economy
A tax-the-rich proposal named after Warren Buffett has little chance of passing this year, but that hasn't stopped the debate over what impact it would have.
Some economists are skeptical that a 30 percent minimum tax on people with million-dollar... |
The bending of water waves as they encounter different depths and bottom conditions, or of other waves as they pass from one medium to another of different properties.
The bending of waves as they approach a shore so that their crests make no more than a 5° angle with the shoreline.
The re-orientation of a wave so that... |
Students represent water issues through artThe 7th annual Water is Life art contest invites Minnesota’s 9-12 grade students to create art and videos that represent issues facing our freshwater resources.
The 7th annual Water is Life art contest invites Minnesota’s 9-12 grade students to create art and videos that repre... |
Medicines are the treatment
that works best for schizophrenia, and you may be taking more than one at a time. They may be used for
negative symptoms, but they don't work as well for
negative symptoms as they do for positive symptoms.
It may take time to find
which medicines are best for you. This may be frustrating. Ge... |
Chapter 14. Evolutionists' Confessions Regarding the Invalidity of the "Horse Series"
Until recently, the imaginary sequence showing the supposed evolution of the horse headed the list of fossil chronologies portrayed as evidence for the theory of evolution. However, many evolutionists now openly admit that the horse-e... |
George Washington Carver
Shampoo from peanuts? Ink from sweet potatoes? With imagination and scientific skill, George Washington Carver developed hundreds of unexpected products from everyday plants.
Although he is best known for his work on a common legume (the peanut), this exhibition reveals he was an exceptionally ... |
Individual differences |
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |
In tort law, the standard of care is the degree of prudence and caution required of an individual who is under a duty of care. A breach of the standard is necessary for a successful action in ne... |
Pre- and Post-Visit: Winter (Grades 1-2)
Students that have spent time preparing for their visit to Glacier National Park get more out of a field trip to the park. Activities post-visit also help to reinforce information learned during the trip.
The following are some of our suggested pre-visit activities, as well as s... |
Natural disasters hurt incumbents
As Hurricane Sandy leaves millions without power across the East Coast, many commentators have argued that at least one person may benefit from the storm: President Barack Obama. But seeing Sandy as only an electoral benefit for the president ignores accumulating evidence on how “acts ... |
ixated as the Victorians were on death, it is not at all surprising that a number of talented British poets in the nineteenth century would have explored mourning. From the elaborate, regal funerals of British royalty down to the simpler funerals of members of the working class — paid for by dutifully purchased death i... |
This is the third and final installment of this three part series. Please see earlier entries for part 1 and part 2.
What does the atheist do with Jesus of Nazareth?
Some atheists, right from the start, try to inject doubt into this topic by either overtly claiming or subtly hinting that there actually was no historica... |
Flight pioneer Bertrand Piccard, an aeronaut who made the first nonstop round the world balloon flight, recently unveiled a prototype of an incredible solar-powered airplane that will one day circle the globe. Dubbed the Solar Impulse, the plane first caught our attention when it was being developed, and we’re thrilled... |
Czech Family History
Czech Surname History
This Czech origins and history page contains the accumulated history of the Czech family name made up of user-uploaded content from users like you. Czech family history has a rich and complex origin whose details have been accumulated over the years by Czech family members. Th... |
Secular biology textbooks have finally begun to remove a long-time favorite of evolutionary teaching—the fraudulent drawings of embryos produced by Ernst Haeckel in 1868. But another one of Haeckel’s errors is still alive and well. Haeckel claimed that “gill slits” (now called “throat pouches”), a backbone, and a tail ... |
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
What is pulmonary hypertension?
Pulmonary hypertension is a lung disorder in which blood pressure in the pul... |
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Thu January 26, 2012
Working Long Hours Can Be Depressing, Truly
Putting in a lot of of overtime can make a person more vulnerable to depression.
You might have guessed that. But now there are some hard numbers, thanks to a study that tracked the health of civil serv... |
This article explains the advantages of using the h-index method of ranking over the impact factor, and the virtues of the new Google Scholar Metrics:
The main flaw with the impact factor is that it is basically an arithmetic mean and, consequently, sensitive to outliers. Like a megastar that pulls all the lesser celes... |
DESOTO COUNTY, MS (abc24.com) - "Shake out so you don't freak out" was the motto of hundreds of students and teachers in DeSoto County Thursday during an earthquake drill.
Mississippi is one of nine states taking part in the "Great Central U.S. Shakeout." It's designed to make sure everyone knows exactly what to do if ... |
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and the Settlement of Mobile
1702 French, led by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, found Mobile, capital of French Louisiana, on a bluff 27 miles north of mouth of Mobile River; town clustered around Fort Louis.
1711 After u... |
The Juvenile Court system is modeled after the adult court system, but the way that it is implemented and the purpose behind it are quite different. The Juvenile Court system is much more child oriented. It is understood that children entering the Juvenile court system are at varying developmental stages and are capabl... |
Now four new studies presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Vancouver add to the growing evidence that the elderly should get off the couch, showing that regular exercise — both aerobic training, like walking, and strength training involving weights — helps improve memory and reduces the f... |
|Banner Photograph for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada|
The book touches upon the problems caused by the education of generations of Canadian Indians in residential schools. Thousands of Indian children, as young as 6 years of age, were taken from their families on their home reserves to attend these ... |
- Historic Sites
The Day Before Hollywood
It was a suburb of orange blossoms and gardens, of gracious homes and quiet, dignified lives—until a regrettable class of people moved in.
December 1983 | Volume 35, Issue 1
And yet the movies brought the benefit the Chamber of Commerce had always striven for: tourism. To cope ... |
HealthyLife® Students' Self-Care Guide
Section V – Common Mental Health Problems
People with passive-aggressive behaviors show hostility and aggression in passive ways. Their aim is to resist job and social demands. Examples of passive-aggressive behaviors are:
The goal of passive-aggressive behavior is to frustrate th... |
a trip to Middle Earth no, not Tolkien's land of hobbits and elves, although
the sites may not look too different from that fantasy world. Middle Earth is
one area of the California Cavern in Calaveras County, Calif. And yes, that
is the Calaveras County made famous by Mark Twain's jumping frogs. The cavern
has also ho... |
In the Great Recession, it has not been hard to picture the following situation:
The leadership team of the company is deciding on cost reduction changes to the company. Some of the options may be viewed as inconsistent with stated company values. The leadership team is split on the course of action, yet convinced that... |
POLITICAL THOUGHT IN MODERN EGYPT. The bases of Egyptian thought had remained fundamentally Arab-Islamic until its roots extended themselves into the modern soil of European culture throughout the nineteenth century. Eventually Egyptian political thought crystallized into modern concepts and terms. However, other influ... |
Interaction of TCP/IP and Other Protocols
It is possible to classify applications as being network-aware or network-unaware. The distinction can be made because some applications, such as Web browsers and client/server applications, need to make explicit use of an underlying network protocol. Other applications, such a... |
June 19, 2003: Two of NASA's Great Observatories, bolstered by the largest ground-based telescopes around the world, are beginning to harvest new clues to the origin and evolution of the universe's largest building blocks, the galaxies. It's a bit like finding a family scrapbook containing snapshots that capture the li... |
|1.||The Granite Counter Fallacy|
The granite counter fallacy argues that the monetary value of an object is directly proportional to the amount of money that is spent on it. The fallacy lies in the essence that previous monies spent are subject to highly subjective rationale which may not add any practical value to th... |
Live maths - tangled DNA, the Big Bang and musical superstrings
Twisting, Coiling, Knotting: Maths and DNA Replication
The proportions of a DNA molecule in a human cell are equivalent to a 2000-mile-long rope packed inside the Millennium Dome. When DNA replicates, it spins at an astonishing 10 turns per second. Therefo... |
Benefits » Enabling People With Disabilities
High speed Internet empowers people with disabilities to become more independent. An Internet connection with enough speed to allow two-way voice, data, and video transfer can remove barriers that keep people with disabilities from participating in everyday activities such a... |
Hemingway fought in Italy in WWI, that is well know, what we didn’t know is that his first ever work was written while sojourning in Taormina.
Gaetano Saglimbeni, Italian journalist and writer from Taormina embarked on a long research in London and stumbled upon the discovery of a lifetime.
Ernest Hemingway took part i... |
1946-01 Introduction to What Means This Strike? [Petersen]
More than four decades have passed since Daniel De Leon delivered his great speech before the striking textile workers of New Bedford, Massachusetts. When it appeared in print it was instantly recognized as one of the great speeches of our times. It contains al... |
Working within healthcare appeals to our society in a way virtually no other professional sector does. The mystique of making medical diagnoses, the desire to help those in need, the adrenalin surge that comes with working at a fast pace and in stressful situations, and the allure of earning a handsome salary. If you n... |
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Biodiversity is a difficult concept. It can be introduced to young children successfully, laying the foundations for further study in later years. This article describes one practical activity for 5- and 6-year-old children.
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Last time, I introduced you to SELinux: what it is, what it can do, and really why you need it (or a system like it). It is especially important with reported (and fixed) security vulnerabilities on the rise, and each year brings more reports, and more updates for end-users to install. This data tells us that we are in... |
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In a recent study, researchers sought to determine whether the U.S. Surgeon General Office's recommendation of moderate intensity exercise four or more times per week for at least 30 minutes per occasion was sufficient to facilitate body fat loss.
Ninety men and women were instructed to voluntarily exercise for 30 minu... |
Basic economics state that a change in the supply of a product or service can drive the cost up or down. The more of availability of a product or service generally means there is greater competition to sell these products. However, if the demand increases even as the supply increases, the net costs of the product may i... |
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what is the difference between Hep C and Hep B. Is one more serious than the other?
| Response from Dr. McGovern
Both can cause liver disease and liver cancer. Hepatitis B is spread through sex and injection drug use; hepatitis C is spread most commonly through injection drug use and much less commonly thr... |
From The New York Times (Felicity Barringer):
The federal government has come up with dozens of ways to enhance the diminishing flow of the Colorado River, which has long struggled to keep seven states and roughly 25 million people hydrated…
…also in the mix, and expected to remain in the final draft of the report [ed.... |
|135–185 million Communities majorly in Iran,Afghanistan and also in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia, Oman, China (Xinjiang), India, Pakistan, United Kingdom, Germany and United States.|
|Regions with significant populations|
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If we consider only the relative strength of the adversaries, the power of their weapons, the virulence of their poisons and their different modes of action, the scale would very often be weighted in favour of the Spider. Since the Pompilus always emerges victorious from this contest, which appears to be full of peril ... |
In the book, Eight Great Ideas, I talk about using music for management. TV theme songs can be used quite effectively to either initiate a procedure or time a transition. However, music is much more than just a management tool. Playing music for your students can really improve the climate of your classroom.
I've been ... |
You know how when someone compares dealing with their dog to dealing with a baby and all the parents in the room give them the stink eye?
Well, the comparison might hold water.
According to a study by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, published in the journal Current Biology, when people talk to their dogs, the reacti... |
Viewed laterally the vertebral column
presents several curves, which correspond to the different
regions of the column, and are called cervical, thoracic,
lumbar, and pelvic.
The cervical curve,
convex forward, begins at the apex of the odontoid
(tooth-like) process, and ends at the middle of
the second thoracic verteb... |
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There are two Christmases. One is the Christian holy day, the other a Western cultural celebration full of snowmen, chestnuts, bright lights, eggnog, warm fires, giftwrap, pop songs and cheer.
There's no denying the cultural event has its origins in the Christian holiday. S... |
New Method to Manage Stress Responses for More Successful Tumor Removal Monday, January 30, 2012
TAU-developed drug treatment in clinical trials may improve the outcome for cancer surgery patients
The week before and two weeks after surgery are a critical period for the long-term survival rate of cancer patients. Physi... |
Tyzzer's disease is an illness that can cause cell death in the liver and intestinal tract of many small mammals including rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, and gerbils. It has also been reported less commonly in rats, mice, cats, dogs, and horses.
What causes Tyzzer's disease?
Tyzzer's disease is caused by the bacteria,... |
The April issue of Scientific American includes an exclusive excerpt from Bill McKibben's new book, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, plus an interview that challenges his assumptions. Expanded answers to key interview questions, and additional queries and replies, appear here.
McKibben is a scholar in resid... |
Though not an anti-aging potion, it could improve the lives of older people.
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
DALLAS -- Scientists have identified an anti-aging hormone in mice that could one day help explain what governs the human life span.
Scientists in the United States and Japan described the hormone and the mice -- which can ... |
(Also known as CARDINAL JULIAN)
Born at Rome, 1398; died at Varna, in Bulgaria 10 November, 1444. He was one of the group of brilliant cardinals created by Martin V on the conclusion of the Western Schism, and is described by Bossuet as the strongest bulwark that the Catholics could oppose to the Greeks in the council ... |
Tucked inside Carl Zimmer's wonderful and thorough feature on de-extinction, a topic that got a TEDx coming out party last week, we find a tantalizing, heartbreaking anecdote about the time scientists briefly, briefly brought an extinct species back to life.
The story begins in 1999, when scientists determined that the... |
Ometepe is the name of two small islands in the middle of Lake Nicaragua (Nicaragua), the largest lake in Central America. These islands were formed by the peaks of two volcanoes and connected by a short isthmus. This area is part of the Greater Nicoya subregion, one of the richest archaeological zones in Central Ameri... |
Choosing a Kitten
If you're getting a kitten, try to choose one you can see with her mother and siblings. If you can, meet the father, too, although this is often not possible. Every kitten differs somewhat from his parents and siblings, but many personality and behavioral traits are inherited, and kittens learn a lot ... |
As with any responsible reintroduction of captive or semi-captive animals back into the wild there are certain criteria that need to be followed which reflect the best interests of the individual animals released, as well as the wild indigenous populations. This process must remain dynamic in order to adjust to the dol... |
Most importantly - If you, or anyone/thing else, believes they have been in contact with any poisonous materials, contact your local Poison Control Center.
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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
by Susana Nuñez
September 15 marks the beginning of National Hispanic Heritage Month, a month dedicated to raising public awareness and appreciation of Hispanic/ Latino culture. The observation was initiated in 1968 when Congre... |
MAKE A WORD SEARCH JR
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The first issue of the English florins, so called because the
letters D.G. (“by God's grace”) were omitted for want of room. It
happened that Richard Lalor Sheil, the master of the Mint, was a
Catholic, and a scandal was raised that the omission was made on
religious grounds. The florins were called in and re-cast. (Se... |
Russian family of architects and urban planners. The brothers Leonid Aleksandrovich Vesnin (b Nizhny Novgorod, 10 Dec 1880; d Moscow, 8 Oct 1933), Viktor Aleksandrovich Vesnin (b Yur’evets, 9 April 1882; d Moscow, 17 Sept 1950) and Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Vesnin (b Yur’evets, 16 May 1883; d Moscow, 7 Nov 1959) worked ... |
Limehouse was the site of a short-lived porcelain factory founded by George Wilson in 1746. It was one of many attempts to make a British version of the beautiful, white ceramic that was flooding into London from the Far East. Limehouse porcelain looked Chinese but was made in East London. You can see examples of this ... |
Noryl is a blend of polyphenylene oxide (PPO) and polystyrene (PS) which was developed in 1966 by General Electric Plastics (now owned by SABIC). It is a rare example of a homogeneous mixture of two polymers. Most polymers are incompatible with one another, so tend to produce separate phases when mixed. The compatibili... |
(En español: Conjuntivitis)
Is your eye looking pink and not so pretty? Sounds like conjunctivitis, sometimes called pinkeye. This can happen when the conjunctiva, the covering of your eye and inside your eyelids, gets infected. Your eye may feel itchy and like you have a grain of sand caught in it. Your eye may be tea... |
Alabama 4th District
The Appalachian Mountains’ corduroy ridges, dividing the Atlantic coast from the interior, are America’s coal-and-steel industrial spine, from the black coal country of western Pennsylvania to the red hill country of northern Alabama. Here rose America’s two premier steel cities, Pittsburgh and Bir... |
CRUISER DUELS: The Konigsberg vs. the Pegasus at Zanzibar
The German ships
The Konigsberg was a small light cruiser with ten 105mm guns.
These German light cruisers were reliable, beautiful, durable ships, but were often pitted against newer or much larger British adversaries resulting in a high rate of loss. This batt... |
From her earliest days in school, Professor Jana Gevertz was beguiled by the elegance and precision of mathematics. But as her experience widened, she also felt the pull of biology, a powerful, hands-on force in such critical arenas as health care.
“I love how beautifully logical math is. You can’t fight me on a proof—... |
If you are what you eat, you might be having an identity crisis.
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The name ἀντίχριστος signifies an opposer of Christ. It is used only by John in his first and second epistles, though those opposed to Christ are referred to by others under different names. It is important to distinguish between an antichrist and the antichrist. John says, "as ye have heard that antichrist shall come,... |
CureVac and the German Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute (FLI), Germany, reported that mRNA vaccines could induce balanced, long-lived, and protective immunity to influenza A virus infections in various animal models.
In the paper (published in Nature Biotechnology on November 2... |
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