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The Game Changer: Treating type 1 diabetes with glucose-responsive insulins
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Since its discovery in 1921, insulin has been called one of the few miracle drugs, having saved countless lives from an otherwise incurable disease. Yet 90 years later, treating and managing type 1 diabetes (T1D) is still a t... |
Keeping Secrets Can Make You Physically Weaker
You've likely heard that keeping secrets is a burden emotionally, but new research in the Journal of Experimental Psychology suggests it may also be a physical encumbrance. The research suggests that when you're holding onto a secret you can't judge spatial distance and y... |
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Researchers discover gender differences in heart disease
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DALLAS {AP} Men with some forms of advanced congestive heart failure were twice as likely as women to die within 18 months of being diagnosed with the disease in a study released Monday.
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Given a complete lattice is it possible to have orderideals which are not principal? Can one not always just join together every element of the ideal to get its maximal, generating element? What about for frames?
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I have the following question: "Let $V$ be a Hilbert space and let $T$ be a linear operator on $V$. If $S$ is any linear operator on $V$ that satisfies $\langle Tv,w \rangle = \langle Sv,w \rangle$ for all $v,w \in V$, then $S = T$."
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Is it possible for a reducible markov chain to have a unique stationary distribution. Consider e.g. the markov chain with transition matrix below
$$A= \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 & 0 \\\ 0.2 & 0.7 & 0.1 \\\ 0.3 & 0.3 & 0.4 \end{pmatrix}$$ I believe A is a reducible markov chain ({1} and {2,3} are t... |
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In Nagata's "Lectures on the 14th problem of Hilbert" I found a reference to Weyl's "Classical Groups". Nagata writes that Weyl gives a positive answer to the original problem
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$F:A^{\mbox{op}} \to \mbox{Set}$
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$G_a(b,c) = \mbox{hom}(a,b) \times F(c)$.
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The Mathematicians and Math in School
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Before I headed back to school to re-tool as a math teacher, I wouldn't have considered myself a mathematician. To earn two engineering degrees, though, I studied and master... |
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As major sites of oxidative energy metabolism, mitochondria are commonly known as the “powerhouses of the cell.” However, mitochondria are complex and dynamic organelles that do much more than just make ATP. For example, they are agents of regulated cell death (or apoptosis) and hubs of antiv... |
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In the classic scene in Star Wars a New Hope our heroes are trapped in a rubbish press with a creature...
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Did the Great Depression affect Educational Attainment in the US?
Kisswani, Khalid (2008): Did the Great Depression affect Educational Attainment in the US? Published in: Economics Bulletin , Vol. 9(30), (19. December 2008): pp. 1-26.
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Being Shy Is Just a Bad Habit, and You Can Break It With Regular Practice
Being Shy Is Just a Bad Habit, and You Can Break It With Regular PracticeMost shy people wish they were more confident, because shyness is ultimately a symptom of you being uncomfortable with who you are. You judge yourself based on other people... |
Like Sheep to the Slaughter?
Lessons from the Holocaust
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The main crematorium at Auschwitz. (Photo by Shmuley Boteach)
I spent the past few days visiting the most horrible places on earth. I have been running around in sub-zero temperatures to find the ori... |
IEA Oil Forecast Unrealistically High; Misses Diminishing Returns
The International Energy Agency (IEA) provides unrealistically high oil forecasts in its new 2012 World Energy Outlook (WEO). It claims, among other things, that the United States will become the world’s largest oil producer by around 2020, and North Am... |
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Both fairness and efficiency warrant privatizing the SUNY system. Nationwide taxpayers pay through the nose for higher education. In 2004, states spent $5,721 per student at public universities. In total they spent ... |
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Touch typists could help stop spammers in their tracks
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Touch typists could help stop spammers in their tracks
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Howard Carter King Tut Google Logo Pays Homage to Famous Archaeologist
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While reading another interesting post regarding for loop optimization, I noticed one of the commentors suggested using memoization technique.
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A Tax on Gore: Truth and Carbon Taxes,
Al Gore, in a recent speech at New York University about the appropriate response to global climate change said:
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As an Indian I have grown up in Delhi using water to wash after using the toilet instead of toilet paper. In Indian culture this is considered a cleaner practice because of the use of water in order to wash the privates instead of toilet paper which may leave a residue.
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Another new Atlantic Shearwater to worry about?
Once upon a time there were just 5 species of Shearwater we had to worry about in the North Atlantic (Great, Cory's, Sooty, Manx, Audubon's) and life was good. Then along came some splitters and pointed out that the situation was probably a tad... |
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Modified mozzies no longer prefer humans
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At the AIChE Spring Meeting in San Antonio, TX, the session "MBA the ChemE Way" gave a quick snapshot into planning and applying to business schools, a look into core classes every MBA takes, and some words from experienced MBAs. Brodie Reynolds, from the McCombs School of Business at University of T... |
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Making sense of robots: the hermeneutic challenge
One of the challenges of the artificial culture project that we knew we would face from the start is that of making sense of the free running experiments in the lab. One of the project investigators - philosopher Robin Durie - called this the h... |
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In the early hours of 11 April 1961—more than five decades ago—an enormous booster trundled humanity’s first manned spacecraft to its launch site in a barren region of steppe in Soviet Central Asia. Within its bulbous nose shroud was a ship called Vostok, and it was planned that the following morning the R-7 rocket... |
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Thermochemistry - Enthalpy, Entropy, and Gibbs Free Energy
The enthalpy of a reaction is a measure of how much heat is absorbed or given off when a chemical reaction takes place. It is represented by ΔHrxn and is found by subtracting the enthalpy of the reactants from the enthalpy of the products:
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Netflix support coming to ARM-based Chromebooks
One corner of the computing world can't use the streaming-video service: the $249 Samsung Chromebook. Netflix and Google are working to change that, though.
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Memory wars: RRAM vs. 3D NAND flash, and the winner
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How can mindfulness lead to happiness? The Dalai Lama, often giggling or smiling with others, says: ‘I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.’ That’s a huge statement. Imagine living as if your very purpose was to seek happiness.
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A documentary film to be broadcast this evening on Channel 8 describes the journey of various foods from field to plate. Though "The Food Autostrada" opens with shots of slaughtered pigs hanging in an abattoir cold room, it does not take a particularly critical stance toward our fast transportation of food.
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Stanley Greene/NOOR/Redux
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