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System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration Setting Up UFS Quotas Setting up quotas involves these general steps: 1. Ensuring that quotas are enforced each time the system is rebooted by adding a quota option to the /etc/vfstab file entries. Also, creating a quotas file in the top-level directory of the f...
The Security Manager Trail: Essential Classes Lesson: The Platform Environment Section: System Utilities The Security Manager A security manager is an object that defines a security policy for an application. This policy specifies actions that are unsafe or sensitive. Any actions not allowed by the security policy ca...
scipy.ndimage.filters.gaussian_filter(input, sigma, order=0, output=None, mode='reflect', cval=0.0) Multi-dimensional Gaussian filter. Parameters : input : array-like input array to filter sigma : scalar or sequence of scalars standard deviation for Gaussian kernel. The standard deviations of the Gaussian filter ...
Memory Alpha Revision as of 21:02, March 21, 2008 by HighwindBot (Talk | contribs) 38,685pages on this wiki Geometry is the mathematics of spatial relations. Several Vulcans, including Tuvok and Mestral, observed that the game of pool can be easily mastered by using simple geometry. Mestral stated that that the ga...
Take the 2-minute tour × People in America ask "how are you" a lot. Many people would reply with "I'm good." If I am feeling OK, I would say "I'm well." Which version is right? share|improve this question Why do you think either version is wrong? Is there any more context to your conversation? –  Matt E. Эллен Dec 6 ...
Take the 2-minute tour × What is the difference between sparsity and sparseness? Is it that the latter emphasises the extent to which something is sparse? I'm not sure I can see the thin line that separates them. share|improve this question 1 Answer 1 I think you will be hard-pressed to find any true, measureable, ...
Take the 2-minute tour × In Tim Ferriss' The Four Hour Body, the claim is made that lactose intake seems to inhibit fat loss. Note that it is not claimed that it causes fat gain. Like many claims in this book, it is (and the author is upfront about this) anecdotal and he does not provide an explanation for why it migh...
Go Down Topic: Thermoelectric Cooler with Arduino? (Read 2000 times) previous topic - next topic I know I need a thermoelectric cooler and a n-channel MOSFET but do I also need a heat sink? I'm going to use it to heat stuff up to its limits 180•C and to do this do I need a heat sink? It's going to be in an enclosure...
Researchers Discover Bacteria That Produces Pure Gold The gold you see in the photo above was not found in a river or a mine. It was produced by a bacteria that, according to researchers at Michigan State University, can survive in extreme toxic environments and create 24-karat gold nuggets. Pure gold. Maybe this cri...
Irish Sibling Symbols Looking for Irish sibling symbols? Want to know about all the different styles of sibling symbols available? Read our guide for more information on choosing the right symbol for you… Various Irish Sibling Symbols Ancient Irish sibling symbols focused on the male gender to the exclusion of the f...
Wind-powered POV weather station The more we think about this one the more we like it. [Michael] built himself a wind-powered persistence-of-vision weather station. Okay, that sounds interesting, but he ups the ante when you find out what’s included in the system. A stepper motor acts as the generator which powers th...
Hating America: An Old Tradition in Some Quarters “The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years.” Thus does Walter A. McDougall of the University of Pennsylvania begin the first volume of his acclaimed new American history, Freedom Just Around the Corner (HarperColl...
Lake Habitats: How Freshwater Fish Have Adapted Freshwater fish live in an amazing variety of habitats. Evolution has shaped both their appearance and their senses over countless generations and millions of years to produce the most effective adaptations to fit the conditions in which they live. What is it like livin...
Top Definition One who does not possess the enzymes necessary to digest gluten, a main ingredient in wheat products. One who is "glutarded" must only eat gluten-free foods, such as water, tofu, and air. "Hey, do you want some pasta for dinner?" "No, sorry, I'm a glutard." "...what does that mean?" "It means... I'm glut...
Beloved children's acid trip Sesame Street used to feature regular segments about breastfeeding. In the last few decades, though, those interstitials have been replaced by more chaste, less boob-intensive segments about bottle feeding. Now, a small but growing number of parents are calling for the return of the breast ...
Skip Navigation LinksHome > August 2011 - Volume 33 - Issue 8 > Emergentology: The Drug-Dosing Diatribe Emergency Medicine News: doi: 10.1097/01.EEM.0000403709.94789.00 Emergentology: The Drug-Dosing Diatribe Walker, Graham MD Free Access Ding, dong, Infant Tylenol's dead! Image Tools Which is that? The dropper-f...
Take the 2-minute tour × In "aizeho mekomon" (the 5th chapter of Maseches Z'vachim)we learn that the the porim hanisrofim were burned in the Beit HaDeshen. What please was the location of the Beit HaDeshen? I seem to remember a mention of "Batei Ungarin". Is there a map on the Web? share|improve this question 1 Answ...
Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum Monthly Update sign up Mailing List signup Teaching Math Home   Sitemap Session Home Page Reasoning and ProofSession 04 Overviewtab atab bTab ctab dtab eReference Part C ...
Polish activist speaks out about homophobia in Poland Publish Date: 18/07/2009 Polish gay activist Waldemar Zboralski speaks to LGF online about life in Poland for the LGBT community, and his hopes for Polish gay people, who are now resident in the UK and the political impact they could have in helping LGBTs still li...
Why You Need Boredom, Distraction, and Procrastination in Your Life Most of us—no matter how many time-saving techniques we employ—don’t have enough time to waste. But productivity comes at a cost: having that down time is extremely beneficial. We fight against boredom, distraction, and procrastination all the time, b...
Show Mobile Navigation 10 Tiny Things That Caused Huge Riots Alex Hanton It’s a sad truth of human existence that the bigger the crowd, the more likely it is to freak out and burn down Vancouver. Now, admittedly, sometimes people have perfectly good reasons for rioting—perhaps they toil under an oppressive governmen...
Use Your Words: Why What You Say Around a Child Matters Use Your Words: Why What You Say Around a Child Matters My seven-year-old came inside from a raucous night of playing with his sister and some of their friends who live on either side of us and announced that one of his friends, a six-year-old girl in kindergart...
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Take the 2-minute tour × While explaining how to invert matrices I once used this ill-fated example $A=\begin{pmatrix} 1&2&3\\4&5&6 \\7&8&9 \end{pmatrix}$ which can not be inverted ($\det(A)=0$). That got me thinking, given a matrix of size $N$, what are some good functions that map to the elements such that: 1. Th...
Take the 2-minute tour × How do you integrate $e^{e^x}$? I was able to get it down to du/(ln u) but I wasn't able to go further. Thanks! share|improve this question 2 Answers 2 up vote 2 down vote accepted No, not Calculus AB level. This antiderivative is "not elementary" in the technical meaning of that term. htt...
Take the 2-minute tour × Question. Given a Turing-machine program $e$, which is guaranteed to run in polynomial time, can we computably find such a polynomial? In other words, is there a computable function $e\mapsto p_e$, such that whenever $e$ is a Turing-machine program that runs in polynomial time, then $p_e$ is ...
Take the 2-minute tour × Hello everybody ! I wondered, without really knowing where to search, whether there was a "smart" way to enumerate/iterate over all the elements of a set which can be counted by inclusion-exclusion. For instance, list all the derangements on $n$ elements (I'm not especially interested in enum...
Take the 2-minute tour × I remember reading that a number theoretic analogue of Witten's path integral formula for the Jones polynomial: $$\text{Jones}_K(e^{2\pi i/(k+2)})=\int_{\text{$SU(2)$ connections on $\mathbb S^3$}/\text{gauge}}e^{ik\operatorname{CS}(A)}\cdot\operatorname{tr}\operatorname{hol}_KA\cdot\mathcal D...
News tagged with concussion Related topics: head injuries · traumatic brain injury · canadian medical association journal · sports medicine Does concussion impact men and women differently? New research suggests concussion may not significantly impair symptoms or cognitive skills for one gender over another, however...
Miller Center Theodore Roosevelt: Campaigns and Elections [cite this] ↑Theodore Roosevelt Home Page The Campaign and Election of 1904: After Roosevelt acceded to the presidency in 1901, he soon began to think about how to win election as President in his own right. He realized that although he did not always agree...
Hurricane threatens refineries - expect gas price spike Getty Gas prices New Jersey Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic storm ever recorded, is threatening U.S. oil refineries that are weaker than they used to be. Any serious damage or delays could cause gas prices to spike. The largest Atlantic storm ever recorde...
Take the 2-minute tour × I was wondering if there are some really clear sites, videos or texts explaining the best practices regarding the way to hold your guitar, both to be efficient and to avoid straining your fingers/arm. share|improve this question 4 Answers 4 You always want to have as little bend in your wri...
Smithsonian National Zoological Park l Friends of the National Zoo Komodo Dragon Komodo Dragon Order: Squamata Family: Varanidae Genus/species: Varanus komodoensis In 1992, Komodo dragons hatched for the first time outside of Indonesia at the National Zoo. Four clutches have hatched and the resulting 55 offsprin...
Next Contents Previous This lecture applies elementary mechanics to an expanding universe. Attention is given to puzzles such as the role of boundary conditions and conservation laws. 1.1. Newtonian dynamics in cosmology For a finite, self-gravitating set of mass points with positions ri(t) in an otherwise empty un...
[an error occurred while processing this directive] BBC News watch One-Minute World News Last Updated: Thursday, 20 September 2007, 07:13 GMT 08:13 UK Green issues colour dictionary This is the first new edition of the dictionary for five years Climate change has made its mark in the latest version of a major dictionar...
BBC Home Explore the BBC Last Updated: Monday May 12 2008 06:46 GMT Sats 'stressing kids out' A Sats monster Kids across England start their Sats exams on Monday, but some people are worried the tests are putting pupils under too much stress. Only pupils in England have to take Sats, and lots of people say the t...
Mongols, Vikings and Romans Connected to Climate Genghis Khan may have found the most brutal solution to global warming. The Mongols conquered one of the largest empires ever starting in the 13th century AD. In doing so they also slaughtered the populations of many entire cities, and even whole civilizations, like t...
April 22, 2009 Galaxies like Toilet Flushes Spin Left or Right Polar plot of net asymmetries A in 30° sectors in right ascension and slices in z. Segments with positive A are indicated in red and negative A in blue. [blue are left hand spinning and red are right hand spinning] The A for segments with <10 galaxies are...
Global Biogeochemical Cycles Net biological oxygen production in the ocean: Remote in situ measurements of O2 and N2 in surface waters [1] We describe a method for determining net annual biological oxygen production in the euphotic zone of the ocean using remote in situ measurements of oxygen and nitrogen gas. Temp...
Mark Zuckerberg I suppose it’s great news that Mark Zuckerberg is organizing a lobbying group to support immigration reform, as he announces here (see also our past coverage). But at the end of the day, I don’t think there’s actually a good economic rationale for the “high skill only” approach that the tech sector see...
Room-temperature spintronic computers? Silicon spin transistors heat up and spins last longer March 15, 2011 in Physics / General Physics Left, a dozen three-contact nickel-iron transistors sit on a silicon chip coated with an ultra-thin film of magnesium oxide. Right, a six-transistor chip attached to electrical cont...
When Uber was valued at tens of billions of dollars, there was significant criticism from valuation experts (Aswawth Damodaran, no less) and an equally compelling response from one of Uber’s earliest investors, Bill Gurley. One of the best things that emerged from these discussions (in conjunction with a back-of-the-na...
App Technology Enables Uploadable Sleep DataAlthough many understand the need to improve sleep quality and sleep duration, a user-friendly method to help tackle this task remains elusive. New research suggests technology may provide an answer as a new measuring system allows quantitative measuring of sleep characters....
Psychology Wiki 34,191pages on this wiki Socionics is a theory of information processing and personality type, distinguished by its information model of the psyche (called Model A) and a model of interpersonal relations. It incorporates Carl Jung's work on Psychological Types with Antoni Kępiński's theory of infor...
What is the “work” of the work of art? What can the products of human craft do that humanity cannot do for itself? This exhibition considers two familiar varieties of artifact, the building and the photograph, and the distinct ways in which they embody time and perpetuate memory. A building, as it ages, becomes a pub...
California, Nevada HA 730-B Preview and download Basin and Range aquifers figures--(16 thru 70) The part of Segment 1 east of the Southern Cascade Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, and the smaller mountain ranges east of the Los Angeles­San Diego area is called the Basin and Range Physiographic Province (fig. 16) and...
Monday, July 8, 2013 What is Murumuru? Information Brought to You By: RECHERCH'E ORGANICS Astrocaryum murumuru Astrocaryum murumuru, commonly known as the murumuru palm and pronounced as Moor-oo-Moor-oo, is native to the Amazon rain forest of South America. This palm differs from most due to it's huge numbers of pr...
 Tools to aid in teaching ecology - Microsoft Research Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share by email Tools to aid in teaching ecology Improving the communication of scientific principles and techniques is a widely desired goal in schools, universities and academic institutions. One of the key ch...
Dear EarthTalk Given the environmental and economic benefits, why doesn’t the U.S. have a federal law mandating recycling nationwide? N. Koslowsky Pompano Beach, FL The U.S. government has historically relied on state and local governments to handle waste management in all of its forms, including recycling. Althoug...
Be Spuzzled! Be Spuzzled! Some of the images in the Spuzzled game seem to be of some strange other world. Surely they are not pictures of our own Earth! The view of Earth from space is very different from the view at ground level. We can really see the big picture. We can see mountains and valleys, rivers, forests, l...
Loser: Grassoline's Dark Side DuPont-Danisco and other advocates are touting biofuels derived from switchgrass, but the environmental benefits are highly questionable Illustration: Mckibillo Of all the possible biofuel crops that can be grown in the United States, perhaps the most attractive is Panicum virgatum, ot...
10 Practices for Good Open Web Standards Development on (ttk.me b/4CN1) using BBEdit Last year I wrote a brief post on What is the Open Web? in which I listed open web standards as a key component, web standards that are: These are good high level requirements for evaluating a finished web standard, but provide only...
Caterpillar Becomes Butterfly YKTTW Discussion Caterpillar Becomes Butterfly Up For Grabs (permanent link) added: 2011-10-26 19:05:13 sponsor: PapercutChainsaw edited by: timharrod (last reply: 2013-01-18 10:10:08) Add Tag: Any story that involves a caterpillar will end with the caterpillar becoming a butterfly. The...
Data mining USA Made a Biometric Database of 3 Million Iraqis A few days ago, the USA announced the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. They did not leave empty-handed and took the biometric data of three million Iraqi civilians (it is approximately 10% of the population). For several years, U.S. Marines carried handhel...
Take the 2-minute tour × I was quite surprised to learn that the GNU project has an independent kernel of their own called Hurd. And there are mainstream distributions like Arch Hurd and Debian GNU/Hurd which uses it. Is there any significant advantage for Hurd over Linux? share|improve this question The distribution...
Garden of Eden: Pesto-stuffed Tofu I love food and I love to read. As a result, each month, I combine these two interests in a post about food from literature. I mostly stick with books from classic literature, so you're likely to know the storylines anyway, but just in case you don't: warning: there may be spoilers a...
Vestibular syndrome: What's causing the head tilt and other neurologic signs? Jul 01, 2012 Dr. Helena Rylander Vestibular syndrome is not a disease per se but a conglomerate of neurologic signs due to a dysfunction in the vestibular system, either peripheral or central. Based on neurologic examination findings, a v...
Thursday, January 8, 2009 Bird Feeder Week Part 4: Diet and Brood Parasitism So to cap off Bird Feeder Week I’m blogging about what I think is the most interesting thing about the House Finch, and that’s its relationship with another bird, the Brown-Headed Cowbird. Note to Birders: Of course, you already know all ab...
gods and goddesses from Greek and Latin Myths (mythology for all seasons) Greek and Roman gods Knowledge about Greek deities came primarily from Greek drama and the epic verse that was performed at public festivals. The most significant early epics about the Olympian gods were composed about the eighth century B.C. ...
Agriculture and Environment: Salmon Environmental Impacts of Production: Use of Chemical Inputs In addition to the antifoulants discussed earlier, chemical inputs in salmon farming include antibiotics and insecticides such as organophosphates and synthetic pyrethroids. Therapeutic chemicals may be applied as a bath t...
Make it happen HEADER » City Info » History After Grand-Bassam and Bingerville, Abidjan was the third city to be declared the capital of Côte d'Ivoire. Today Yamoussoukro is the official capital of Côte d'Ivoire and Bingerville now forms a part of its suburbs. Bingerville was created under the able hands of enginee...
Top banner Sorting by Sex Celia Moore Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. Anne Fausto-Sterling. 473 pp. Basic Books/ Perseus, 2000. $35. The dust jacket for Sexing the Body shows the lower part of a human torso with hands in the traditional fig-leaf position. There is no doubt that ...
Synonyms of "GIVING" What is another word for "GIVING" Synonyms of "GIVING" noun - the act of giving verb - cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense verb - be the cause or source of verb - transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody verb - convey or reveal information verb ...
Chi Square (χ²) (from Internet Glossary of Statistical Terms) Get Adobe Flash player Chi Square (χ²) See also: -- Main Index -- The statistic Chi Square () is what statisticians call an enumeration statistic. Rather than measuring the value of each of a set of items, a calculated value of Chi Square compares the fr...
Academic Success Top Survival Strategies 1. Establish a routine time and place to study for each course: For every hour you spend in class, you will probably need to study two hours outside of class. Studying includes more than just doing your homework. You should routinely review your class notes.  Make sure you a...
The time when the British army was really stretched • 23 July 2011 • From the section Magazine The British army is due to be reduced to 82,000 by 2020, prompting claims it will be the smallest it has been since the 19th Century. But if Britain had a small army then, how did it control an empire? Think of the Bri...
The history of the béarnaise sauce dates back to the 19th century and the sauce has appeared on millions of steaks since then. The word “béarnaise” means “from Béarn”, which is a French province located in the south-west of France, bordered by Spain. On these pages you will find all there is to know about the béarnais...
Can it be done? Mike Alf gmalf19 at Thu Jan 30 07:49:54 EST 1997 >>frequencies to help me understand conversation (I don't hear the >>way BUT the compression circuit took away the dynamics (change in >>could be incorporated so I could either use the compression to >>protect my ears from unwanted loud sounds (squeel o...
Ear damage by MP3,DVD and digital TV? (more explanations) CYBERYOGI =CO= Windler windle_c at informatik.fh-hamburg.de Mon Dec 9 17:29:42 EST 2002 The compensation circuits are a system of neurones, which filters the internal interference resonances and the after-roaring (resound) from the basilar membrane out of the ...
Join for Free! 121193 members Help with Biology Question Moderator: BioTeam Help with Biology Question Postby killian07 » Sun Dec 11, 2011 9:55 pm What if you were assisting me and my colleagues with the research in Vancouver Lake, and you found that the Lake has a large population of a particular copepod (a kind...
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A domainer is a person (or group) who participates in domain name speculation. Domainers purchase, sell, and publish of Internet domain names. Under domain name speculation, domainers identify and acquire domain names. They try to get them for the lowest price possible, and later sell them for profit. The most in-dem...
Mommy Minute A+ For Montessori Schools By Rachel Greene Dec 1, 2002 - 5:07:00 PM A Montessori preschool in the Los Angeles Area. Jenna Skarzenski / Canyon News LOS ANGELES — One of the biggest decisions parents have to make is where to send their children to school. Many parents just "accept" public schools as the log...
Cavanaugh Flight Museum Warbird Rides Hitler's armies and air force, the famous Luftwaffe, began their conquest of western Europe on April 9, 1940, following their victory over Poland in 1939. Conquering Norway, Belgium, Holland, Luxemburg and France in less than eighty-five days, the Nazi war machine rolled west to...
What Is the Root of Anti-Semitism? Anti-Semitism is a worldwide disease. Anti-Semitism is a worldwide disease. After the fall of Adam and Eve, God promised that a "seed" of the woman would be born to "crush the head of the serpent" (Gen. 3:15). That started a war between God and Satan. The seed was to be born throug...
Home>News Center>Life 'Lao wai' speak out on false image in China (Shanghai Star) Updated: 2004-02-06 16:36 Out of habit, Chinese often use the word "foreigner" when speaking of Americans. For example, one of my Chinese friends said to me once, "I didn't know foreigners liked spicy food." (He meant "Americans" when h...
Clay Mathematics Institute Dedicated to increasing and disseminating mathematical knowledge Book 11 Proposition 3 Ἐὰν δύο ἐπίπεδα τέμνῃ ἄλληλα, ἡ κοινὴ αὐτῶν τομὴ εὐθεῖά ἐστιν. Δύο γὰρ ἐπίπεδα τὰ ΑΒ, ΒΓ τεμνέτω ἄλληλα, κοινὴ δὲ αὐτῶν τομὴ ἔστω ἡ ΔΒ γραμμή: λέγω, ὅτι ἡ ΔΒ γραμμὴ εὐθεῖά ἐστιν. Εἰ γὰρ μή, ἐπεζεύχθω ἀ...
 Colorado.com - Fountain http://www.colorado.com/cities-and-towns/fountain Recently named America's Millennium City, Fountain is, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city most representative of America's overall composition based on race, income and other factors. Katharine Lee Bates wrote "America the Beautiful"...
Igneous rock From Conservapedia Jump to: navigation, search Igneous rocks are formed when molten rock is either ejected directly on to the earth's surface (extrusive rock) or pushed up near the surface and cools beneath it (intrusive rock). Molten rock beneath the earth's crust is called magma; when magma is ejected...
Print 94 comment(s) - last by mindless1.. on Sep 25 at 2:19 PM An artist rendering of the potential orbiting solar plant. It would beam power to a massive lake-sized collector for optimal efficiency.   (Source: Kris Holland/Mafic Studios) John C. Mankins, since leaving NASA, has spoken about his dream of space power ...
Read Reviews & Comments Skip navigation Digital Library for Earth System Education Digital Library for Earth System Education Search tips Annotation: Editor's Summary Title:  Virtual Courseware: Virtual Earthquake ID:   DLESE-000-000-000-050 The Virtual Earthquake allows students to simulate the process of developing...
Yield and defect rate aren’t completely independent of each other for Six Sigma. When you have an overall process with a relatively low defect rate — say, a process that produces units with a DPU less than 0.10 (or 10 percent) — you can mathematically link the process defect rate to the overall process yield with the f...
P0420 diagnostic trouble code is a “Catalyst Efficiency Below Normal” (Bank One) This applies to vehicles equipped with OBD2 only. It basically means that your computer has detected that the Catalytic converter has failed on bank one. (Bank one is the side that the number one cylinder is on. Bank two is the other side...
Space for Kids Kids (en) Our Universe Life in Space Comets and meteors Different views of a Leonid fireball in 1966 in 17 November 1966 Different views of a Leonid fireball in 1966 Shooting stars The sand-sized grains of dust are known as meteors. When they slam into the thin air above the Earth, they get hot very ...
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University of Minnesota Extension Menu Menu Extension > Agriculture > Livestock > Horse > Horse care and management > Breeding with cooled semen Breeding with cooled semen Scott Madill , DVM, University of Minnesota As a mare owner, cooled semen gives you access to stallions all over the country, and to some extent...
There’s a generation gap between the two sets of counselors that Rehoboam consults when the people ask for relief from taxes and conscripted labor (1 Chronicles 10). The first group is classified as “elders,” and the second as “young men.” The elders encourage kindness, the young men are, as young men are, harsh. Rehob...
Tall House Plants Dress up a two story foyer or great room with a tall house plant. Many will grow well in indirect light, and others will happily grow in the bright sun of a south-facing two story window. Choose varieties of tall houseplants that grow slowly, and they will not outgrow your home for many years. Palm...
Advertisement - Continue Reading Below February is National Pet Dental Health Month! I recently sat down with Greenies, which makes dental treats for dogs and cats and Dr. Brook Niemiec, a veterinary dentist and the President of the Academy of Veterinary Dentistry. While I consider myself a huge dog person (cats are o...
Is Chained CPI the Wrong Solution to the Right Problem? By Niraj Chokshi April 3, 2013 When President Obama releases his budget next week, it may include what some tout as an elegant solution to the nation's fiscal problems, a way of measuring price changes known as “chained CPI.” The thinking goes like this: The d...
Is algae doomed? That seemed to be the first question that popped up after the news that GreenFuel Technologies had closed its doors broke. (Employees learned last night. We wrote it this morning. Official press release still pending.) GreenFuel was one of the first companies to tout algae fuels, and one of the best f...
Alcohol Content from the guide to life, the universe and everything 18 Conversations Warning signs noting that, while ethanol may be good to drink, methanol is not. Humans have been discovering and enjoying the effects of alcohol for thousands of years. Drinks containing alcohol, or more specifically ethyl alcohol,...
Maximum Segment Sum, Agda Approved To practise using the Logic.ChainReasoning module in Agda, Josh proved the foldr-fusion theorem, which he learnt in the program derivation lecture in FLOLAC where we used the maximum segment sum (MSS) as the main example. Seeing his proof, I was curious to know how much program deriv...
Picture of Mr. E.Z. Tube Development Board Goal/purpose: Mr. E.Z. Tube is a cheap vacuum tube audio platform without the 'iron': no power transformer, no output transformer(s). A tube amplifier will typically have several heavy, expensive transformers: output transformers that protect speakers from high voltages in the...
Daylight Saving: Do You Really Save? RENO, NV - Daylight Saving is almost over, which means you get an extra hour of sleep this weekend. It was adopted in the United States in 1966 to help us save energy and take advantage of dwindling winter daylight. For many, resetting our clocks twice a year is just a hassle, and ...
You are here Interactive Mathematics on the Web: LiveMath Carl Spitznagel Have you ever wished you could post interactive mathematics on the web but gave up the idea because you had no time to learn to program in Java? Then LiveMath may be just what you have dreamed about! Carl R. Spitznagel is Professor of Math an...
John McKernon Software You can measure upstage/downstage dimensions using whatever base line you think is appropriate for the show. The reference line could be the front of the stage, the front of the deck, the plaster line, the show portal, or even a prominent line in the deck. What's important is that you include a ...
You are here This is Your Brain on Games Why brain games work — I think! I'm not taking any chances. There are things that I know. I know regular exercise strengthens my heart, my limbs—my entire body. I know a sound diet—balanced, with limited sugars and fats—aids my overall health and complements my exercise re...
ModulaTor logo, 7.8KB The ModulaTor Oberon-2 and Modula-2 Technical Publication Ubaye's First Independent Modula-2 & Oberon-2 Journal! Nr. 79, Jun-1999 A Digital Contrarian Retires by Beat Gerber, March 1999 translated by Pedro Gonnet revised by Günter Dotzel [email deleted due to spam] The probably most promine...
Published on Mommy Tracked (http://www.mommytracked.com) Cheating on Homework to Get Ahead in Life. by Abby Margolis Newman Has your teenager ever cheated on a test or copied someone else's homework? Chances are much higher than you might think, according to a new documentary, "Race to Nowhere [1]," which explores ...