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Get the top master data management (MDM) terms, definitions and concepts and learn how MDM can improve your enterprise data. Also get links to useful MDM tutorials, training, video, podcasts and articles.
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Pedagogy in Action > Library > PhET Interactive Science Simulations > What is PhET?
What is PhET?
The name "PhET" was originally an acronym for "Physics Education Technology." However, the PhET site now includes simulations about many other subjects besides physics, so the acronym is too limited. The PhET team decid... |
Salton Sea: A Century Old and Dying Young
The Salton Sea is a hundred years old today. Young by oceanic standards, prematurely old in actuality, the Salton Sea was spawned in the summer of 1905, gestated for two years, and emerged fully grown and probably destined for an early death.
Atop my list of North American l... |
Giant dust storms stir up health risks in Arizona
Giant monsoon dust storms that roll across Arizona and coat everything in a fine film of dirt are becoming more frequent, according to experts.
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1. The Rule of Three
There are four points on your body that come in contact with the tree's branches: two hands and two feet. At least three of these points should be supported by branches at all times. [Reason: If one of the three branches breaks, then at least two branches will still be supporting you.]
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04 January 2006
The Historical Evidence For Jesus Christ
The historical evidence of a religious figure by the name of Jesus Christ or some close variant of that name is summed up nicely in a rather oddball case under Italian consumer fraud laws. Bottom line: It is thin, but not non-existent. Three historians in the R... |
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Rabbis in Russia Face a Battle Over Burial
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Moscow, Russia - When Rabbi Shmuel Kuperman knocks on the door, some people don't answer. Kuperman has the tough job of dealing with bereaved families. He tries to persu... |
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Men, women, and Children Fought with Knives, Scythes, and Stones
Women Who Had Plunged Knives Into Turks Afterward Killed Themselves---Bryce Gets Report
LONDON, Nov. 26.--Viscount Bryce tonight made public the details of further Arm... |
ToxFAQs™ for 1,2-Dibromoethane
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CAS#: 106-93-4
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Where do the wealthiest 1% live?
• 25 January 2015
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Map showing where the wealthiest 1% live
As the business and political elite met at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, there was much talk of rising inequality, and many references to the "wealthiest 1%". The phrase conjures ... |
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An electron in a vacuum is ¯rst accelerated
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region in which there is a uniform magnetic
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Why your brain just can't handle video games
Video games are fun, but they can also be extremely frustrating. You can fall to your death at the stupidest times if you don't hit the jump button just right or if you accidentally hit the wrong button altogether. You can also die from a bullet you really should have seen... |
Jessica Shepherd, CS 433, Spring 1997
L-systems, introduced by A. Lindenmayer in 1968, produce character strings that are graphically interpreted. They are been especially useful in modelling plants and basic fractal curves. This page explains the basics behind L-systems through simple Java applets.
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Seeking Medical Attention
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Birth of The Lockheed Warning Star
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The first constellation was flown on January 9, 1943. It was the model 49 and was called the Constellation. It was painted in Army camouflage with a star but did not have an Army tail number. It had civil registration NX25600 paint in whit... |
Learning to Count the Number 1
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How many animals are here? To complete this worksheet your child will need to count how many there are of each type of animal, and then circle the groups that have 1 in them. This worksheet will help your child's counting skills.
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GXM in C. neoformans
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In addition to electricity and fuels, biomass can be used to create valuable chemicals and materials, known as bioproducts. These bio-based chemicals and materials can serve as renewable alternatives to many of the products derived from petroleum or natural gas, such as plastic... |
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Public Release: Scientists offer new view of photosynthesis
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Stinging nettle or common nettle, Urtica dioica, is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant, native to Europe, Asia, northern Africa, and North America, and is the best-known member of the nettle genus Urtica. Stinging nettle is a dioecious herbaceous perennial, 1 to 2 m (3 to 7 ft) ... |
This is a puzzle box. To open it you need to perform a certain gesture and press a button. The gesture is defined by the shape of an internal ball bearing maze. You can easily create your own maze and plans using the website www.mazepuzzlebox.co.uk. The design is parametric, making it easy to make with materials of dif... |
Insubordinate? Or Just Sick?
Co-workers with difficult personalities may be suffering from mental illness
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In nearly every workspace, there's often one person who can make your day much harder. Maybe they talk too much, or perhaps they're a chronic complainer.
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The loss of nerve fiber density or function, neuropathy, can result from disease or injury such as diabetes or burns. Assessment of the response of small nerve fibers found in the skin can indicate the degree of damage and the effects of treatment.
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Depending on what Spokane neighborhood you live in your life expectancy could be shorter.
That's one of the realities of The Spokane Regional Health District's Health Inequities study that you can be a part of.
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Want to learn the art of clitoris arousal? The clitoris has more than 8,000 nerve fibers and is the only human organ that exists solely for pleasure. To find the clitoris, look for a round mound of pink flesh that is directly above the vaginal opening. The tip of the clitoris is the area you will want... |
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Streaming Soot
Fuels burning in space behave very differently than they do on Earth because of the absence of gravity. The Flame Extinguishing Experiment (FLEX) examines the combustion of liquid fuel droplets on the International Space Station.
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Carl Orff (1895–1982)
Carmina Burana
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US, China, India and World GDP growth forecasts from CITI to 2018
The Citi "Global Economic Outlook and Strategy" report is out with forecasts out to 2018
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Warmer weather means it's time for the swings, slides, and sandboxes. But before you let them loose on the jungle gym, check for these easy-to-avoid playground hazards:
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People love suspension bridges for many reasons: their beauty, their utility, their mathematical elegance, their long spans, or even for the regional bragging rights they confer.
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Black Box Warning Omissions
Fluoroquinolones are “… actually capable of unleashing an entire SYNDROME of systemic toxicity upon the patient which is often referred to by victims as “floxing” or being “floxed.” Others refer to the condition as “fluoroquinolone toxicity syndrome.” Regardless of what you want to... |
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Researchers Say Sweet Tooth May Be in Brain
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Researchers at the University of Michigan have found a "pleasure spot" in the brains of rats that may shed light on how food translates into pleasure for humans.
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Reinventing Business
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A Single Point of Failure
If one person has a vision and the desire and power to make that vision happen, it might work ... as long as that person can either inspire or compel everyone else to work towards that goal. If it's pre... |
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What infections cause pinkeye, what are infectious pinkeye symptoms, and how are they treated? (Part 3)
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If you watched "Wall-E" you likely laughed at the depiction of hugely obese people riding around in hover cars drinking Big Gulps - surely a science that could create the technology to generate an entire artificial world could solve how to drink Big Gulps without turning ban happy like California or New York.
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Mark Herrema's road to making renewable plastics without oil wasn't easy.
The 31-year-old Princeton graduate set aside his studies in politics and medical school plans to pursue his passion to make a plastic from methane, a colorless gas and a common byproduct on farms. He and his business partner, Kenton Kimmel, slow... |
If you're wearing a sleep monitor that is awkward and gets in the way, you might choose not to use it, and even if you do, the act of wearing it might change the way you sleep. It's a bit like the Heisenberg uncertainty principle: the observer changes the outcome of the experiment. If a sleep monitor has electrodes and... |
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Yet Do I Marvel
Yet Do I Marvel
by Countee Cullen
Analysis: Setting
Where It All Goes Down
The funny thing about this sonnet is that there's no real location. In fact, there's no real action in the poem. It's more of an intellectual argument than an evening or a... |
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The STIS NUV MAMA, while otherwise performing well, appears to at least temporarily have a value for the dark current several times higher than that which had been predicted and which was adopted for use in the STIS Cycle 17 exposure-... |
>This is the fifth in a series of posts about appreciating classical music. Catch up on the first four parts of the series here, here, here, and here.
If you squint your eyes a bit, you could mistake the furthest fringes of classical music for electronica. Partly, this is historical: the wires crossed in the second ha... |
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High Speed 2: an engineering project?
4 September 2012
High speed train
High Speed 2 is a national project with national ramifications - if we get the details right then we can ensure the best railway is built reports principal policy advisor, Chris Richards.
High speed rail, undertaken correctly, is an ... |
Plachta: This ‘n’ that on a Tuesday morning
When did children become goats? Why are children spoken of as “kids?” What happened to calling them “youngsters,” “little ones,“ or even, “tykes?” The term “kids” (which I still consider disrespectful of children) has become a commonplace on radio, television, and among the ... |
Distant galaxy spotted, from the earliest era of the universe
Feb. 10, 2014 at 3:27 PM
PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 10 (UPI) -- NASA says the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes have spotted what may be one of the most distant galaxies known, from the earliest era of the universe.
The galaxy, known as Abell2744 Y1, is abo... |
Developing a Data Warehouse Architecture
By Laura Hadley
A data warehouse architecture is a description of the elements and services of the warehouse, with details showing how the components will fit together and how the system will grow over time. There is always an architecture, either ad hoc or planned, but exper... |
Not Just Decoration: quality graphics for the Web
Portable colour graphics
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This is more of a white paper than a technical note. It addresses that oft-asked question, "So how is the semantic web going to affect me?"
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How to Trap a Squirrel With Everyday Materials
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If you live in a neighborhood with plenty of trees, chances are you've had a squirrel or two in your attic before. Squirrels can be tricky to remove from your home once they're inside, e... |
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Some Lebanese women having escaped the civil war, internal ethnic strife and gender inequalities back home, share personal experiences of cultural integration, racism, and professional opportunities in France. Paris: Lebanon has ... |
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The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference
The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: One Hundred Years Ago. Answers here.
1. Name the capital of Jamaica, which was damaged by an earthquake in 1907.
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Ignition timing, in a spark ignition internal combustion engine, is the process of setting the time that a spark will occur in the combustion chamber (during the compression stroke) relative to piston position and crankshaft angular velocity.
Setting the correct ignition timing is crucial in the performance of an engi... |
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We review the characteristics of nucleosynthesis in 'Hypernovae', i.e., supernovae with very large explosion energies ( \gtrsim 1052 ergs). The hypernova yields compared... |
Extracting methods for readability (or not)
The benefit of breaking a large method up just for readability is that those extracted methods may actually be reused in the future. Another benefit is that when you look at any given method it is short and simple. If I remember correctly the human brain can hold around sev... |
How To Build a Pinewood Derby Car/Glossary
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The process of aligning the wheel vertically (camber angle) and parallel to the direction of travel (toe and steer angles).
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For other uses, see Abovyan (disambiguation).
Coordinates: 40°16′26″N 44°37′32″E / 40.27389°N 44.62556°E / 40.27389; 44.62556
From top left:Surp Hovhannes Church • Abovyan and Mount AraStatue of Khachatur Abovian • Russian-Armenian brotherhood memo... |
Angular gyrus
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Latin gyrus angularis
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TA A14.1.09.124
FMA 61898
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy
In this image, the angular gyrus is denoted by the double asterisk **
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Geography of Guinea
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Location of Guinea
Guinea is a country on the coast of West Africa and is bordered by Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
Guinea is in western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between ... |
Iberian War
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For the conflict between Napoleon's empire and Portugal, Spain and Britain, see Peninsular War.
Iberian War
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The Roman-Persian frontier in the 4th to 7th centuries
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Mytilenean revolt
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Mytilenean Revolt
Part of the Peloponnesian War
Date 428-7 BC
Location Lesbos
Result Athenian victory
Mytilene and other cities on Lesbos, weakly supported by Sparta and the Peloponnesian League
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familial lipoprotein lipase deficiency
Familial lipoprotein lipase deficiency is an inherited condition that disrupts the normal breakdown of fats in the body, resulting in an increase of certain kinds of fats.
People with familial lipoprotein lipase deficiency typically develop signs and symptoms before age 10, with... |
Map of Fargo in 1884
1884 map of Fargo.
The map above was produced in 1884 by Rossi in Italy. It was produced to encourage Italian immigration to America.
The Northern Pacific railroad bridge across the Red River is in the lower left corner. Parallel to the train tracks we can see Front Street (Main Avenue) on the l... |
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Passengers getting onto a bus.
A passenger is a term that is used for a person who travels in a vehicle, but not the driver or a person working in the vehicle.
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Electric field in the overlap of two solid, uniformly charged spheres
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Two spheres, each of radius R and carrying uniform charge densities +[tex]\rho[/tex]
and [tex]-\rho[/tex], respectively, are placed so that they partially overlap.
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Skin grafting
Skin grafting is done in a surgical procedure that consists of:
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Justifiable Herbicide?
In “No-Till: The Quiet Revolution,” David R. Huggins and John P. Reganold argue for no-till farming as a more sustainable alternative to plow-based agriculture and describe how herbicide use has enabled growers to effectively practice no-till on a commercial scale. I cannot believe that anyone ot... |
The Kylie effect that does little to help ordinary people
Now that Jenni Murray, presenter of Radio 4's Woman's Hour, has breast cancer, all listeners will know someone with the disease. She revealed the news at the end of the programme and wrote movingly of her diagnosis in yesterday's Daily Mail. She admitted having... |
Empiricism Towards Acquisition Of Knowledge Philosophy Essay
Epistemology is the study that focuses our means to acquire knowledge, cultivates the way we think and the way we differentiate between true and false. Epistemology can be defined as - 'the investigation into the grounds and nature of knowledge itself' [1].... |
The Right to Seek Asylum: A Dwindling Right?
by Fatimah Mateen and Brian Tittemore
Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides that "everyone has the right to seek and enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution." The aspirational nature of the Declaration and the pervasive principle of stat... |
Parents keep child’s gender under wraps
Zachary Roth
May 24, 2011
There's nothing ambiguous about the baby's genitals. But as Stocker puts it: "If you really want to get to know someone, you don't ask what's between their legs." So only the parents, their two other children (both boys), a close friend, and the two... |
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If clean-burning, abundant natural gas is the efficient energy of the future, why is it so darn cheap, hitting 10-year lows this week near $2.20 per million British thermal units (MMBtu)?
That's probably a rhetorical chicken-egg question because a big part of the reason nat gas might be the en... |
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Vermont landscape as opposed to information landscape (photo by Barb and Dean on Flickr)
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When you talk about feeding ruminant animals, what you’re really doing is feeding the microbes in the rumen. And when you think about nutrient requirements for cattle, you first need to ensure that the nutrient requirements of the microbes are met so that they can do their job.
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Using sex to sell conservation
Is it ok to use sexy images to promote conservation? Wildcoast has an ad campaign designed to save turtles by going where most groups are afraid to go.
Check out the sexy pitch person in this ad, noting that her man doesn't need turtle eggs. Turtle eggs are eate... |
Cratering on Mars
By Phil Plait | December 7, 2006 12:08 pm
I mentioned yesterday that besides water, the other interesting news from Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) is that they spotted lots of new craters, too (a crater in a new image was not in an older one). This allowed the scientists to determine the rate at which n... |
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In El Aroussa, a small village in Tunisia’s north-western region of Siliana, a group of women of all ages have gathered in a small pebble house for training. They are all weavers, some more experienced than others... |
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Can a 150-year-old house approach zero energy use? Three case studies point the was from the 19th to the 21st century. Reprinted with permission from Fine Homebuilding, April/May 2008, pages 51-57.
In America, there are around 58 million houses that were built before the last energy crisis. Because the... |
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Acid/Base Basics
There are three major classifications of substances known as acids or bases. The Arrhenius definition states that an acid produces H+ in solution and a base produces OH-. This theory was developed by Svante Arrhenius in 1883. Later, two more sophisticated and... |
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Cultural Diffusion vs. Cultural Appropriation: What’s the Difference and Why Should We Care?
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Do you like Chinese food? How about Mexican or Italian or Thai? Me too. The spread of ethnic cuisine is a tasty example of the phenomenon known as cultural diffusion.... |
El Niño Is Changing for the Stormier
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The eye of Category 4 Hurricane Dean, in the Caribbean, as seen from the space shuttle Endeavour, Aug. 18, 2007
El Niño, that meteorological trickster with the deceptively innocent name, wreaks havoc on the world's weather. Caused by an unus... |
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Foods that reduce excess stomach acid
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How to reduce excess stomach acid. How to use home remedies for decreasing stomach acid. High stomach acid is triggered by several things, especially since eating foods that are too acidic, spicy or too salty. As it is o... |
ndarray.partition(kth, axis=-1, kind='introselect', order=None)
Rearranges the elements in the array in such a way that value of the element in kth position is in the position it would be in a sorted array. All elements smaller than the kth element are moved before this element and all equal or greater are moved behin... |
Rare as a Unicorn
Rare is an actual Unicorn Sighting
Rare is a Unicorn Sighting
“Once long ago all animals lived in harmony. There was no strife among them, and they were able to speak together in a common language. At that time mysterious and wonderful events took place, and the noble unicorn dwelt with the other a... |
Bryan Caplan
The Gender Gap of Economics: Knowledge vs. Interest
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I just submitted my latest paper, "The Gender Gap of Economics: Why Do Men Think More Like Economists?" to Social Science Quarterly. Unfortunately, in order to get under SSQ's 30-page limit,... |
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