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Transport Layer Security (TLS), and
its predecessor Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are commonly used protocols for
encrypting internet traffic, so TLS vulnerabilities can potentially affect
a wide range of internet services. A recently disclosed flaw in the TLS
protocol—though there is some dispute whether TLS is at
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In video: The amazing impact of lightning in slow motion
July 23, 2012
A series of videos posted by photographer Tom A. Warner, show in detail what happens when lightning strikes the surface of Earth.
The images were recorded at 7,207 frames per second, which shows in detail what to the human eye is a simple flash.
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Churning Still Water - Briefing Paper on Urban Waterbodies
Urban waterbodies play an important role in flood control, groundwater recharge and water supply to help cities adapt to climate change effects.
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was that of Mr. Robert Stuart, in the employ of John Jacob Astor. He was detailed to carry despatches from the mouth of the Columbia to New York, informing Mr. Astor of the condition of his venture on the remote shores of the Pacific. The mission entrusted to Mr. Stuart was filled with perils, and he was selected for t... | <urn:uuid:7e52b3c9-727f-473c-8191-64f2bacd98a4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://manybooks.net/titles/inmancoletext048gslt10.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986446 | 222 | 2.546875 | 3 |
The animated points displayed on the map represent every roadside bomb and improvised explosive device (IED) attack between 2004 and 2009. Coalition forces continue to battle this unconventional warfare technique that has resulted in 66% of the casualties in Afghanistan since 2001. There has been increased effort to st... | <urn:uuid:7a430abc-e698-41d0-a005-9204b25c50ba> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mapstory.org/data/geonode:IED_WGS84 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944181 | 187 | 3.296875 | 3 |
The Mars Pathfinder spacecraft continues to perform nearly flawlessly on its 203 million kilometer (126 million mile) flight path to Mars. Currently the spacecraft is 1.8 million kilometers (1.1 million miles) from Earth, traveling at a speed of 3.2 kilometers per second (7,155 miles per hour). Temperatures and power u... | <urn:uuid:95338305-c3d7-4fb8-9b15-ceb202967852> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/mpf/status/mpfstatus_121096.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958298 | 525 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Automated Geometry Java Applet Generation
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how to get, two vectors of length 26 units and slope 5/12?
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One final approach to understanding the nature and function of the Sermon on the Mount has come recently through the channels of religious ritual studies. Taking this additional tack provides further insights into the ritual character of the Sermon. Having exhaustively plowed the fields of form, source, and historical ... | <urn:uuid:7a3c5755-2771-42c2-9dab-9df942cd2959> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=113&chapid=1306 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947815 | 4,134 | 3.359375 | 3 |
Patristic literature refers to the writings of the Fathers of the Christian church (the Greek word patristikos means "relating to the fathers") between the latter part of the 1st century AD and the middle of the 8th century. It can therefore be distinguished from New Testament theology at one end and from medieval scho... | <urn:uuid:d33510f9-44ab-4a7a-980d-16f4c23f0c07> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mb-soft.com/believe/txv/earlychu.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9323 | 1,072 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Atherosclerosis is a chronic, diffuse disease of large arteries of unknown direct cause but clearly associated with diet and tobacco. In “Westernized” societies the disease begins in childhood and progresses inexorably unless lifestyle is changed. One prevalent hypothesis is that it is caused by damage to the endotheli... | <urn:uuid:5e9e5437-97e8-4082-bdad-d7ca1065b585> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/atherosclerosis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929966 | 1,894 | 3.25 | 3 |
Preteen food choices may help predict eating disorders later
Researchers aim to identify best age to start preventive efforts.
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News tagged with vitamin c
Vitamin C or L-ascorbic acid is an essential nutrient for humans, a large number of higher primate species, a small number of other mammalian species (notably guinea pigs and bats), a few species of birds, and some fish.
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The passionflower vine is a native of the Western hemisphere, named for symbolic connections drawn between its appearance and the crucifixion of Jesus. Native North Americans used passionflower primarily as a mild sedative. It quickly caught on as a folk remedy in Europe and was thereafter adopted by professional herba... | <urn:uuid:aa74af8b-79a2-48aa-9d04-d801319a2897> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://memorialhospitaljax.com/your-health/?/2010815019/Passionflower | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912055 | 326 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Women at the mercy of climate change
Pockets of food insecurity are plaguing areas in Southern Africa where floods or prolonged mid-season dry spells have reduced harvests.
Communities are battling to access food and desperate families increasingly go hungry, according to a Famine Early Warning Systems Network assessme... | <urn:uuid:c349173a-19d7-4cd6-a951-f3242383ed18> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mg.co.za/article/2011-09-09-women-at-the-mercy-of-climate-change | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950744 | 1,295 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Brushing teeth is not a big deal to most of us. It is something we can do even with our eyes closed. However, what we don’t realize is that, for the longest time, we could be doing it wrong. Toothbrush trauma is not exactly a new term in dentistry. Common causes of this are long horizontal brushing strokes, use of hard... | <urn:uuid:3698a612-16c7-41e7-b21d-989ff74b2c01> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://midtowndentistry.com/2012/05/improper-brushing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956292 | 341 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Sarasota has the longest history of the major south Gulf coast cities, with European expeditions dating back to the early 1500s. Fishing camps were established in the mid-18th century, and by 1845 the U.S. Army had established Fort Armistead on Sarasota Bay. Like most of the rest of Florida the town was a rural commu... | <urn:uuid:48f9f77b-e19f-477a-b221-11b1b05412b0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://moon.com/print/87754 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985391 | 385 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Born: December 17, 1942 | Died: 1987 Primary Instrument: Harmonica
Many of my generation have told me how once they heard the Butterfield Blues Band; things were never the same inside their heads. At the height of his popularity Butterfield and his musicians ignited an interest in a musical genre that had been buried i... | <urn:uuid:edc620b0-3458-42c1-aa58-fb7a224639f9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/musician.php?id=3796 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974339 | 2,131 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Rabbinic Limitations on War
Deuteronomy 20 permits wars of aggression, but the talmudic rabbis made it difficult to declare one.
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Meaning ‘gift’ in Hebrew; it is borne by the father of King David (1 Samuel 16), from whose line (according to the New Testament) Jesus was ultimately descended. It was popular among the Puritans, and is still used frequently in the United States, less so in Britain. As a girl's name it is a respelling of Jessie. Notab... | <urn:uuid:8a418e4a-af16-4bf1-9a3e-e04b8e12681f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://names.whitepages.com/Jesse/Laird | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980562 | 113 | 2.546875 | 3 |
What rights does a copyright holder have?
Copyright gives you more than just the exclusive right to copy your work. It actually gives you up to six separate rights, which you alone are exclusively free to either use, give away, or sell in any way you’d like. All of these rights are subject to limitations.
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Story Musgrave and Jeff Hofman made the longest space walk of the 11-day mission, spending seven hours and 21 minutes on their final task to unravel the 40 ft (12 metre) solar panels which power Hubble.
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National Geographic Channel
As Spider-Man 2 swings into movie theaters, a new species of spider has been discovered, and it has a knack for creating well-ordered webs.
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Having agreed that global warming resulting from gas emissions is no longer something to be controlled in an effective manner, geoengineers have turned instead to coming up with ways to prevent sunlight from reaching the surface of the earth and thus over-heating it.
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By Raja S. Tanas, Ph.D.
Western media tell us that this is an exclusively Egyptian matter that is based on local economic hardships and political corruption. These factors may have indeed contributed to the current unrest. However, other factors that have been in the making for close to 100 years have relevance to the ... | <urn:uuid:56cd02d5-cdee-4e37-8441-4792f24bb14b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.whitworth.edu/2011/02/many-factors-underlie-turbulence-in.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965419 | 931 | 3.375 | 3 |
Alaskans were rocked by a huge volcanic eruption June 6, 1912. The Novarupta volcano blew its top at approximately 1 p.m. Although no modern sensing equipment existed, scientists have deemed the explosion as the largest such event of the 20th century. Residents are marking the anniversary with poster contests, field tr... | <urn:uuid:e18615e1-3d27-4c1e-8a9d-88973bab4fd7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.yahoo.com/alaska-notes-anniversary-largest-volcanic-eruption-20th-century-201900175.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96684 | 580 | 3.734375 | 4 |
There are at least two moons orbiting Earth at any given timeResearchers at Cornell University say that what we know as the Moon is in fact not the only one orbiting our planet at any given time. Smaller objects regularly inhabit the Earth's orbit, usually leaving after a few months to continue on their celestial journ... | <urn:uuid:e8b9e1f9-594e-4132-94f1-8bca2ef8a666> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/earth-more-one-moon-astronomers-confirm-200222677.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946617 | 307 | 3.859375 | 4 |
"We understand and respect the importance of this United Nations Declaration to Indigenous peoples in Canada and worldwide," said the Honourable John Duncan, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-status Indians. "Canada has endorsed the Declaration to further rec... | <urn:uuid:1309a68c-c06b-40a3-9900-a0abcef78514> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://newspaperrock.bluecorncomics.com/2010/11/canada-signs-un-declaration.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95772 | 652 | 3.0625 | 3 |
In 1798 Benjamin Rush wrote the first “scientific” analysis of phobias when he identified 18 specific phobias, some of which were satirical. He wrote: “The insect phobia. This disease is peculiar to the female sex. A spider, a flea, or a musqueto (sic) alighting upon a lady’s neck has often produced an hysterical fit…”... | <urn:uuid:59edc537-0e42-4c51-bf39-198b70080f47> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://nicolacornick.co.uk/blog/2011/05/peculiar-to-the-female-sex/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97916 | 1,056 | 3.234375 | 3 |
[Welcome readers: This is a post about the phenomenon of psychological reactance. If you're looking for information on "Romeo and Juliet" by Shakespeare, you can find Sparknotes at this link. If you're interested in my views on Christians and premarital sex, you can find them at this link.]
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'Sitting Round the Party Tables' printed from http://nrich.maths.org/
We had some really good ideas sent in, some
that were illustrated well using the computer. From Kent College we
had Primrose and Charlotte, Sophie and Nia, Stephanie, Nandini
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Raven Spirit: A Native American Canoe's Journey
The Tlingit Raven Spirit Canoe and Carver, Douglas Chilton
CREDIT: Don Hurlbert/Smithsonian Institution
The Master Carver
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There are approximately 2,000 species of sea star, all of which live in marine waters.
Sea stars live underwater, but that is where their resemblance to fish ends. They do not have gills, scales, or fins. Sea stars live only in saltwater. Sea water, instead of blood, is actually used to pump nutrients through their bod... | <urn:uuid:8def8279-56d7-4bc7-b309-fb94592c341c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/starfish.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956302 | 214 | 3.859375 | 4 |
For centuries, books have been written in an attempt to share knowledge, inspiration, and discoveries. Sometimes those books make such an impact that they change the way the world thinks about things. The following books have done just that by providing readers an education in politics and government, literature, socie... | <urn:uuid:bf806bc1-8967-4990-8ee8-2d00c098ab5d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://oedb.org/library/features/50_books_that_changed_the_world/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964912 | 3,061 | 3.3125 | 3 |
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The Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi, newly translated into English with an Introduction and Notes by Father Paschal Robinson (Philadelphia: The Dolphin Press, ... | <urn:uuid:55eb8643-ecb2-4dbc-b89d-bb3ad5060959> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://oll.libertyfund.org/simple.php?id=1172 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958861 | 55,260 | 2.5625 | 3 |
WASHINGTON -- For much of its history, the government's most-secretive intelligence agency sought to conceal its very existence.
So it was a surprise last year when university researchers persuaded the National Security Agency to hand over a top-secret, 1,000-page account of its Cold War spying.
George Washington Unive... | <urn:uuid:572ebd60-55fd-477f-b1fa-0fa26de7a40e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122660908325125509.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973659 | 1,741 | 2.578125 | 3 |
On the Lord’s Parable of the Publican and the Pharisee
The meaning of “Two men went to the temple”
St Gregory Palamas
The Lord did not say, “Two men went to the temple”, but “went up” into the temple.
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How do we accent the absence of something? a zero morpheme, if you will?
When we use contrastive focus, we do it by nuclear-accenting the contrasted item(s).
- It wasn’t blue, | it was green.
- They weren’t wicked, | they were just badly behaved.
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"Intrepid" crater on Mars carries the name of the lunar module of NASA's Apollo 12 mission, which landed on Earth's moon Nov. 19, 1969. NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded this stereo view of the crater during the 2,417th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (Nov. 11, 2010).
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Differentiated instruction is a practice that has many dimensions to it. My favorite at this point is what I like to call “grouping without groups.”
In this post, I will provide some examples of what grouping without groups looks like in my classroom so far this year. First, though, I’ll give a definition of it.
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Microscopic water droplets jumping from one surface to another may hold the key to a wide array of more energy efficient products, ranging from large solar panels to compact laptop computers.
Duke University engineers have developed a new way of producing thermal diodes to regulate heat by bleeding it away or keeping i... | <urn:uuid:c5b705b3-1f33-4435-9731-8804495fee6b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://phys.org/news/2011-12-droplets-lot.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939982 | 666 | 3.8125 | 4 |
Meteoroids slamming against the atmospheres of alien worlds could add organic gases that make them look inhabited by life even if they are not, researchers say.
In recent years, astronomers have detected hundreds of extrasolar planets. Many of these exoplanets lie within habitable zones, the zones around their stars wa... | <urn:uuid:b615e48b-bc11-495f-a669-fbb67585f8b8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://phys.org/news/2012-09-gases-meteors-slam-planets-false-positives.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953081 | 1,188 | 4.09375 | 4 |
Scientists battling malaria have earned a major victory. According to a Nature Genetics study, an international group of researchers has used genomics to decode the blueprint of Plasmodium falciparum - a strain of malaria most resistant to drugs that causes the most deaths around the world. The discovery may lead to ad... | <urn:uuid:fdf1a1d6-29d4-4d08-8467-0ff8b6762009> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://phys.org/news185545744.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90403 | 453 | 3.25 | 3 |
Just as atoms can link up to form molecules, clusters of protons and neutrons can form inside nuclei and connect with one another. Theories that predict such molecular states in nuclei have now received a boost from an experiment described in the 15 February PRL. A beryllium nucleus with eight neutrons and four protons... | <urn:uuid:ba524ecf-b7ae-4436-99ab-767a2e408bbb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://physics.aps.org/story/v3/st10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959555 | 671 | 4 | 4 |
April 29, 2008
WELL, YES: “An international group of food scientists says countries should not use food crops to produce biofuels during a world food crisis. . . . Instead of using grains, the international group is calling on the U.S. and other countries to shift biofuels production to nonfood crops such as switchgras... | <urn:uuid:78067ce0-8d66-45ff-925e-3a98abc887d0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/018578/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934789 | 182 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a general principle that constitutes the underlying concept of a vast number of physical phenomena ranging from ferromagnetism and superconductivity in condensed matter physics to the Higgs mechanism in the standard model of elementary particles. I focus on manifestations of spontaneous... | <urn:uuid:35c5d8cb-c8b1-4f16-96fa-2a2533f6083c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/25311 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928824 | 202 | 2.53125 | 3 |
National Water-Quality Assessment
Arsenic is a naturally occurring element in rocks, soils, and the waters in contact with them. Recognized as a toxic element for centuries, arsenic today also is a human health concern because it can contribute to skin, bladder, and other cancers (National Research Council, 1999). Rece... | <urn:uuid:63997923-71cc-464c-8261-501c3bf3293d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2000/fs063-00/fs063-00.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913628 | 1,377 | 3.8125 | 4 |
GANDAKI river flows southeast across the Gangetic plain of Bihar state, eventually merging with the Ganga near at Hajipur, or Patna.The entry point of the river at the Indo-Nepal border is also the confluence of Gandak, known as Triveni, with rivers Pachnad and Sonha also descending into India from Nepal.
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I was asked to if I could post a bit of Greek history, specifically about the Nine Muses – as the term ‘muse’ is still used today to represent a person, place or thing that inspires us. Not only are the Muses explicitly used in modern English to refer to an artistic inspiration, as when one cites one’s own artistic mus... | <urn:uuid:5918549c-6f42-45cc-9fa3-28fd916bb0fa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://rachelpaige.wordpress.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984738 | 182 | 3.171875 | 3 |
added a number of ambitious new exceptions to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act's prohibition of breaking copyright technologies today, most notably concerning iPhone jailbreaking and unlocking. The Library adds and renews exceptions every 3 years and as Sarah Perez argued this morning, these ones go well beyond the ... | <urn:uuid:73274ea2-4d7a-4230-a73f-ab691ca2f594> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://readwrite.com/2010/07/26/fair_use_not_just_acceptable_its_essential_for_the | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951963 | 1,040 | 2.75 | 3 |
Everyone seems to focus on unemployment, but there is more to consider than just whether one has a job or doesn't. There is another concern: what happens when the unemployed, particularly those who have been without work for some time, do get jobs?
Regaining employment is a good thing, of course, but one factor that se... | <urn:uuid:02ee551f-854d-45d4-aac8-153072b92543> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://realmoney.thestreet.com/articles/09/26/2011/damaging-cycle-depressed-wages?puc=quo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97454 | 1,003 | 2.640625 | 3 |
The cuisine from Benin is very appreciated in all Western Africa. Staple foods in Benin include yams, cassava, rice, corn, millet and rice. There are many fruits rising on the productive grounds of Benin, mostly in the south, like oranges, bananas, mandarin oranges, pineapples, kiwi, avocado and others. Many Beninese d... | <urn:uuid:4c8aca5f-23a2-41ba-98d5-6fe949e81ebc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://recipes.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Beninese_Recipes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950607 | 296 | 2.59375 | 3 |
A Chaotic Circuit
Analysis of a simple electric circuit that displays chaotic behavior
Here is a simple circuit containing a sinusoidal voltage source, a resistor, inductor and diode. The presence of the diode introduces nonlinearity and allows for the possibility of complex behavior.
We model the diode as having a pie... | <urn:uuid:79cad20f-75e8-42a3-b5ab-14dee053a5a3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://reference.wolfram.com/legacy/v5/Demos/Notebooks/ChaoticCircuit.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.830005 | 202 | 3.28125 | 3 |
is a global variable which, if set, is applied to any input string that is found to contain a syntax error.
- The arguments given to $SyntaxHandler are the complete input string and an integer specifying the character position at which the syntax error was detected.
- The first character in the string is taken to have ... | <urn:uuid:44a2c488-56ca-45fc-b289-556017fdb855> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/$SyntaxHandler.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.741845 | 183 | 2.6875 | 3 |
The Saxony-Anhalt Process
The modern pioneer’s tool box benefits from the ease with which one can connect and share ideas with people around the world. It turns out declining population problems are not unique to the Great Plains. For example, over the last 20 years many smaller communities in what used to be East Germ... | <urn:uuid:d0dc57a9-253e-4f8e-82f3-23a20c171257> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://repioneering.org/wp/?page_id=128 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960943 | 496 | 3.0625 | 3 |
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|Title: ||An investigation into the needs for learning practical Chinese writing|
|Authors: ||Lam, Martha Pik-Har|
|Keywords: ||Practical Chinese writing|
|Issue Date: ||2000 |
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There has been a rumor going around asserting that it is “impossible to multi-task.” I suppose a declaration of this kind allows those who aren’t skilled at multitasking to feel triumphant, but very common examples of real life multitasking prove this theory incorrect. If we couldn’t multi-task, then:
- When driving, w... | <urn:uuid:289cda64-b211-4081-9643-7f0d3e3c54ee> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://resourcemaximizer.com/blog/tag/research/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962566 | 2,218 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress and the first to campaign for the Presidency. She was an outspoken advocate for women and minorities during the seven terms she served in the House. Her legacy of political and social activism laid the foundation for the rise of women and Blacks in... | <urn:uuid:af986557-2453-4d46-a1f4-476ff9c3615b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://reviews.christianbook.com/2016/119366/tmw-media-group-shirley-chisholm-first-african-american-congresswoman-dvd-reviews/reviews.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96324 | 336 | 3 | 3 |
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels believed there were two classes of people: those who owned the means of production – the exploiters; and those who owned nothing and had to sell their labor to survive – the exploited. Today, the Occupy Movement describes those classes as the 1% and the 99%. Marx and Engels believed priva... | <urn:uuid:1d822710-9baa-4ab5-a5e5-466119d2cb15> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://righthook38.wordpress.com/tag/fair-shot/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959061 | 1,248 | 2.59375 | 3 |
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A review of the literature within the field of violence against women suggests that little has been done that has resulted in effective, consistent, measurable prevention.
However, an examination of the outcome/evaluation research does provide some clear indicators of pre... | <urn:uuid:a23ffdc8-74d9-4df1-b6ee-ce1f506f92eb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sayre@livethegreendot.com/gd_research_science.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938797 | 809 | 2.625 | 3 |
Since the 1970s, hydrogen has been touted as a promising alternative to fossil fuels due to its clean combustion - unlike hydrocarbon-based fuels, which spew greenhouse gases and harmful pollutants, hydrogen's only combustion by-product is water. Compared to gasoline, hydrogen is lightweight, can provide a higher energ... | <urn:uuid:8a4ab8e8-424d-466e-b7d3-7427c6cfe599> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sciencecentric.com/news/11031302-scientists-achieve-breakthrough-nanocomposite-high-capacity-hydrogen-storage.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924514 | 886 | 3.8125 | 4 |
What if you could take CO2, pump it down a deep hole in the sea floor and turn it into something harmless? New research suggests the idea is not so far-fetched. David Goldberg, Taro Takahashi and Angela Slagle of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory published a study on the subject
in the Proceedings of the National Academ... | <urn:uuid:a56d132a-3f51-41c4-9d34-9a8986c35dd1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sciencefriday.com/topics/home-planet/video/07/18/2008/turning-carbon-dioxide-into-stone.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.862335 | 95 | 2.75 | 3 |
Making fossils is easy and it takes considerably less time than waiting the necessary million years for the formation of real fossils. To make a fossil, the following items will be needed:
- One bag of plaster powder
- One empty plastic container
- One spoon
- 6 ounces of water
- One serving tray
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This collection contains activities submitted by workshop participants as well as activities from other Cutting Edge and Teach the Earth projects related to the Deep Earth.
Results 41 - 60 of 251 matches
Discovering Plate Boundaries part of Cutting Edge:Urban Geology:Activities
Discovering Plate Boundaries is a classro... | <urn:uuid:7c433165-a3ec-4fda-89f8-7043c97754f6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/deepearth/activities.html?results_start=41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.880818 | 1,224 | 3.96875 | 4 |
Effective Learning in Earth Science
Jason McGraw, Department of Earth Science, College of Lake County
I am a current adjunct earth science instructor, former high school teacher, and future professor of science education when I finish my EdD in a few years. My experience with metacognition started with teacher in-servi... | <urn:uuid:3e3b4db2-b7f4-4478-a5e8-1ee55ecc1f75> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/metacognition/workshop08/participants/mcgraw.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967015 | 780 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Crystal Structures as Geobarometers
Montana State UniversityAuthor Profile
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In this exercise, designed for undergraduate igneous petrology or advanced mineralogy courses, students download a series of crystal structures from the American Mineralogist Crystal S... | <urn:uuid:a5b326b6-d4e5-4038-a876-22c5e20da866> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/mineralogy/activities/10078.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.850955 | 881 | 3.203125 | 3 |
While John Cloud erred in several ways in his Time magazine article titled Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin, he's correct on the fat loss issue. Many people including the Surgeon General have lambasted Mr. Cloud for his candor and scientifically sound information on getting svelte.
Also from Jake’s Huff Post blog (he i... | <urn:uuid:b7cc98fd-3537-4f92-987c-ea5a4c53a7da> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://slowburn.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/08/lean-times.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955092 | 762 | 2.515625 | 3 |
FUNDAMENTALS OF MR SPECTROSCOPY
John R. Hesselink, MD, FACR
MR spectroscopy provides a measure of brain chemistry. The most common nuclei that are used are 1H (proton), 23Na (sodium), 31P (phosphorus). Proton spectroscopy is easier to perform and provides much higher signal-to-noise than either sodium or phosphorus. Pr... | <urn:uuid:964ba8b4-cfa8-4ebe-8bde-40ca1ab1ccfe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://spinwarp.ucsd.edu/NeuroWeb/Text/mrs-TXT.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915967 | 2,653 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Moon and Jupiter
The planet Jupiter rises below the Moon early tomorrow. It looks like a brilliant star. It's in the east about 45 minutes before sunrise, but it's so low that you need a clear horizon to see it.
Jupiter has more than 60 moons of its own. The largest is Ganymede, the biggest moon in the solar system -- ... | <urn:uuid:51e9f0f0-26aa-4283-8e34-4ab9b1f10841> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://stardate.org/radio/program/2010-04-10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957699 | 376 | 3.9375 | 4 |
Slavery in ancient Greece was a significant social and economical feature; this was – likewise anywhere else in the ancient world – undeniably a widespread custom that characterised Hellenic poleis, and further political institutions, during their entire development and history. There were a few actual forms of slavery... | <urn:uuid:651150a3-435b-4c04-bf50-118f6a8f2991> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://stoa.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/dignified-slaves-venerable-masters/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970357 | 1,804 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Professor B Mathematics
Unleash the awesome power of your children's "fearfully and wonderfully made" mental computersSo, You Want To...
• rescue your children from fear and failure in mathematics?
• provide explanations which actually make sense?
• eliminate excessive memorization and rote learning?
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Your participants have just returned from lunch and their eyes are glazing over. Don’t despair — energize them! The icebreakers and energizers in this collection can be used at any point during any type of training session, workshop, or conference. Each activity is accompanied by a brief description, standard procedure... | <urn:uuid:ba179197-89e1-4a69-a675-d828fde2e9a0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://store.teambuildinginc.com/items/shop-by-publisher/hrdq/training-resources/energizers-activity-book/energizers-activity-book-1508e1ab-detail.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932536 | 530 | 2.765625 | 3 |
There are many ways to analyze climate data. The most familiar is based on the calendar year, January through December. Hydrologists make use of what they refer to as the water year, which runs in most areas from October through September. If we want to admit it or not, we live in a cold dominated climate and therefore... | <urn:uuid:4a07a590-1b6f-4102-a70d-d8cf74e954a3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://stormtrack.areavoices.com/tag/cold-season/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980297 | 215 | 3.515625 | 4 |
The first session I attended was one guided toward developing 21st Century Curriculum. There was a heavy emphasis on preparing our students for living in the 21st century but also on creating globally aware and competent students.
Much of the early part of the session was referencing the work of Tony Wagner and Heidi J... | <urn:uuid:acc40633-cd96-483e-b5c7-ccaf100bd60c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://stumpteacher.blogspot.com/2012/03/ascd-part-one-global-competency.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949787 | 575 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Exploratorium Science Project
THE EXPLORATORIUM SCIENCE PROJECT
Results | Exploratorium Science Project
Cognitive language proficiency improved by
for 3rd graders.
|Exploratorium Science Goal:
Reduce the achievement gap by
Percentage of students learning Exploratorium Science this year:
Exploratorium Science is now
Exp... | <urn:uuid:c43d59ed-83cc-4877-aa1f-44894ff9a246> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://svgreatschools.org/exploratorium.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.882457 | 520 | 3.265625 | 3 |
Working with Dates and Times
Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Scripting Guide
Dates and times play important roles in system administration. For example, when working with event logs you will often want to extract a set of records based on a specific time period (all the events that occurred yesterday, all the events that occu... | <urn:uuid:a4ce2a6d-2b5e-49d8-a2c3-70c3a126f97d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee198912.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941967 | 278 | 3.453125 | 3 |
I’m a particular fan of looking at ways that society and nature intersect and a new study is a fantastic example. Analysis of 15 years of storm data revealed that twisters and hailstorms were significantly more likely to occur during the week as compared to weekends.
According to the authors, Daniel Rosenfeld and Thoma... | <urn:uuid:c6ebf042-4f93-475e-afbd-9468a2b56740> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/02/20/how-humans-cause-tornadoes-and-hailstorms/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948841 | 276 | 2.953125 | 3 |
A recent study made an attempt to know a lot more about exoplanets' atmospheres as it was revealed that two teams of astronomers have managed to apply a technique to track down extrasolar planets. It is believed that this new method would be able to reveal a planet's mass, which would further prove out to help find out... | <urn:uuid:c0c64d62-3abf-428c-8e64-43386bd7fffe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://topnews.net.nz/content/223250-justin-bieber-s-fans-get-treated-sing-along | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964582 | 255 | 3.71875 | 4 |
An Illustrated History of Distance Running
By Mike Rosenbaum, About.com Guide
3 of 9
Women go the distance
The 1928 women's Olympic 800-meter run
IOC Olympic Museum/Allsport/Getty Images
When women first competed in Olympic track and field in 1928, the 800-meter run was the longest women's race. But the event went back... | <urn:uuid:c07f0d1b-a687-4302-b16f-fa9028a5b826> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://trackandfield.about.com/od/distanceevents/ss/illusdistance_3.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925356 | 130 | 2.765625 | 3 |
With a relatively brief history of several millennia, mankind has very limited knowledge of the earth’s oceans. However, what we know for a fact is during the planet’s history that has spanned for billions of years, a variety of species of remarkable aquatic life forms did exist in these vast bodies of water. During th... | <urn:uuid:47379c09-b0ab-4feb-899b-35fd282323ca> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://trisynergy.com/shop/186/DigiFish.AncientOcean | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919091 | 561 | 2.546875 | 3 |
A computer user buys a low priced replacement monitor but finds that there is a lot of flicker. The flicker makes the monitor unusable. Which characteristic of a monitor needs to be considered to ensure flicker-free viewing?
When analyzing a protocol used on the network, it is discovered that multicast messages are bei... | <urn:uuid:a1cc7ad5-8ef6-4543-8f26-b3d87d10a360> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://tubanpunyatoak.blogspot.com/2011/01/final-exam-for-ch-1-10-it-essentials-pc.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930497 | 2,070 | 2.625 | 3 |
One, Two, Three, Four, Go!
In Japanese, "Go" means "five". But many Japanese are also aware that it means "move forward" or "take action" in English. So when the word is mixed into Gratuitous English
, or included as Gratuitous Japanese
, it becomes a pun, having both meanings at once.
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Today let's talk about skyscrapers. The University
of Houston's College of Engineering presents this
series about the machines that make our
civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity
Skyscraper is a nice word.
When I was a child, the 41-story 1st National Bank
building loomed larger than anything else in St.
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Now that we have a handle on hom functors, we can use them to define other functors.
Since is a functor from the product category to sets, it is functorial in each variable separately. This means that we can take any object of and build the covariant functor and the contravariant functor . We call the representing obje... | <urn:uuid:0bb2acfb-e764-45aa-8b55-7ba2d8884230> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://unapologetic.wordpress.com/2007/06/04/representable-functors/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=c327cf8c6a | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933891 | 607 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Symmetric, Antisymmetric, and Hermitian Forms
The simplest structure we can look for in our bilinear forms is that they be symmetric, antisymmetric, or (if we’re working over the complex numbers) Hermitian. A symmetric form gives the same answer, an antisymmetric form negates the answer, and a Hermitian form conjugates... | <urn:uuid:dd94cd01-1f44-44ac-842f-c926c230ff4c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://unapologetic.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/symmetric-antisymmetric-and-hermitian-forms/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=fe7f791e1e | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906625 | 475 | 3.46875 | 3 |
ICIMOD Conference Report Highlights Mountain Vulnerability
20 October 2011: The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) has issued a report, titled "Green Economy for Sustainable Mountain Development," resulting from the deliberations among stakeholders attending the recent International Confe... | <urn:uuid:d1a69551-3323-4389-8127-b50af8dfd1f1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://uncsd.iisd.org/news/icimod-conference-report-highlights-mountain-vulnerability/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928406 | 280 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Kentucky bluegrass, perennial ryegrass, and fine fescues are the primary lawn species for use in northern Illinois. Other turfgrass species may be used or promoted for use, however, for certain situations. Examples include tall fescue, creeping bentgrass, buffalograss, zoysiagrass, rough bluegrass, and annual ryegrass.... | <urn:uuid:42560e2b-c673-454b-85b5-db2d65013bd5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://urbanext.illinois.edu/lawntalk/selecting/grasses_for_special_sites.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958628 | 558 | 2.90625 | 3 |
A presidential executive order (EO) is a directive issued to federal agencies, department heads, or other federal employees by the President of the United States under his statutory or constitutional powers.
In many ways, presidential executive orders are similar to written orders, or instructions issued by the preside... | <urn:uuid:12c2f7e3-0177-4595-90d2-604f2d270736> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepresidentandcabinet/a/Presidential-Executive-Orders.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960917 | 1,246 | 3.796875 | 4 |
Semantics ... is the study of meaning. It focuses on the relation between signifiers, such as words, phrases, signs, and symbols, and what they stand for, their denotata.
Questions tagged semantics deal with the meaning of language and signs. Often these are concerned with differences from varing options or the implic... | <urn:uuid:c01dd502-c6f2-4de6-8c1d-c57f99958c58> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ux.stackexchange.com/tags/semantics/info | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932511 | 120 | 2.9375 | 3 |
About the Cabinet Office
The Cabinet Office sits at the very centre of government and,
together with the Treasury, provides the ‘
head office’ of
government. The Cabinet Office has an overarching purpose of Making
government work better.
The Department has three core functions that enable it to achieve this
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In an analysis of studies including more than 180,000 subjects, researchers have found that general health checkups — like annual physicals or other visits to the doctor by asymptomatic people — are ineffective and possibly harmful.
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On the shores of the Mediterranean, Tipasa was an ancient Punic trading-post conquered by Rome and turned into a strategic base for the conquest of the kingdoms of Mauritania. It comprises a unique group of Phoenician, Roman, palaeochristian and Byzantine ruins alongside indigenous monuments such as the Kbor er Roumia,... | <urn:uuid:623655fd-10dd-4c6b-aac4-6f889ecaed3b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://whc.unesco.org/pg_friendly_print.cfm?cid=31&id_site=193 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947397 | 1,444 | 2.578125 | 3 |
In Why Nations Fail we discuss how Colombia today has extractive institutions. Colombia is not North Korea or Zimbabwe, but the concept of extractive institutions is useful precisely because it clarifies that even though the details of institutional arrangements dominated by elites — and their severity — vary across co... | <urn:uuid:e3c97061-ae5d-4772-9448-c881c4e7729d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://whynationsfail.com/blog/2012/6/14/extractive-institutions-breed-inequality-a-colombian-example.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957693 | 397 | 3.171875 | 3 |
The Rama are an indigenous people of Nicaragua. The 900 ethnic Rama live within a thirty mile radius of the Rama Cay island on the Caribbean coastline.
The Rama are hunters, fishers and agriculturalists growing mainly bananas and white cacao beans.
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Highlights from John Graham’s Address on Today’s Heroes
Posted: March 21, 2002
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
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Testing Context Memory using a Variant of the Novelty Preference Test
This version assesses whether a rat remembers that a particular object was encountered in a particular context. Rats are familiarized with two different objects, each for 5 minutes, and each in a unique context (different open fields); exploratory pr... | <urn:uuid:fb60953f-b85c-4e53-9ee0-9dd01f700648> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www-psychology.concordia.ca/fac/mumby/research_topics_spatial.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968164 | 840 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Jump the shark
Every summer on the south coast there are several shark sightings - but just what determines the number of sharks in the area?
Apparently there are a number of things which influence numbers, including water temperature and the influx of certain other fish species.
Pilchard fisherman Vryn Westerberg told... | <urn:uuid:625a8c3d-fa42-4250-8f4b-2d649bec3f92> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2010/03/23/2854146.htm?site=southcoast | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979843 | 717 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Another report has raised doubts about the environmental impact of the Hunter's proposed Tillegra Dam.
The 477-million dollar Tillegra dam has been proposed for the Williams River System in the lower Hunter region.
The Australian Wetlands and Rivers Centre looked at State Government data collected upstream and found fr... | <urn:uuid:36bf02a8-279c-452e-9a09-1cc7b75db892> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/25/3046952.htm?site=newcastle | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961863 | 265 | 3.171875 | 3 |
The Linley Sisters
, daughters of Thomas Linley, a composer who organized concerts in the Assembly Rooms at Bath. Elizabeth (1754-92), standing on Gainsborough’s painting, was already renowned as a leading soprano - her voice was compared to that of a nightingale. Her admirers dubbed her the ‘saint’ because of her voic... | <urn:uuid:24966dd3-ca80-4fc8-81b5-5020b801263a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.abcgallery.com/G/gainsborough/gainsborough36.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978827 | 311 | 2.546875 | 3 |
The Orphan Medicines Industry Group (OMIG) is a group of pharmaceutical companies that are members of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) working together for the benefit of patients with rare diseases in the UK.
OMIG works with a range of stakeholders to ensure that people in the UK with rare... | <urn:uuid:9e7183b1-e60a-44d1-b199-f94fecb4637c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.abpi.org.uk/our-work/value-access/groups/Pages/omig.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936278 | 510 | 3.171875 | 3 |
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