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Time, the Universe and the Whole Darn Thing! Part One: The Future of the Earth By Allan EastmanGo back to Page 1 The Beginning, or is it Really?
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The present day scientific community more or less accepts The Big Bang Theory as the conception of our Universe. All matter is compressed into ... | 1.860263 | 1,013 | 1,011 |
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As described in this news article, researchers have shown preclinical evidence of targeting the EZH2 pathway for eradication of these CML-LICs in the context of standard TKI therapy. The investigators found that EZH2 is upregulated in CML-LIC compared with normal stem cells. Im... | 1.355534 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Organizations must become more adaptive and creative. It's hard to argue with that statement as we look at the forces impacting organizations today. But becoming more adaptive and innovative requires fundamentally new ways of seeing and engaging the world, not merely applying the latest improvement model.
Perhaps the m... | 1.823344 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
stability at the same time she or he is introducing disorder. The leader must contain the anxiety and uncertainty that will arise from instituting a new system, from the setbacks, errors, disappointments, and screw-ups that will inevitably happen. This means the leader must have a much different understanding of his o... | 2.156274 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Well, it’s back-to-school time again. Across the nation, millions of college students are headed to the campus, perhaps for the first time. Many parents—trying to protect their children from non-biblical ideas, like evolution—have sacrificed thousands of dollars to send their young people to a Christian college. Sadly,... | 1.830676 | 1,004 | 1,002 |
Sunday, March 30, 2008
The book is huge, and I'm going to focus on only a tiny sliver of it, but one that has some relevance to current questions and some recent commentary on this here blog.
The history of the creation and evolution of the Cold War is complex, and many people have various "woulda, coulda, shouldas" in... | 1.723349 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, science fiction and several of the attendant pseudo-sciences. Again, too big a subject for the moment.
But Ben and I went to see him once, and that’s a tale to tell.
First off, let me note that I never do this: just show up on the doorstep of some author or celebrity. I mean, it’s rude, no matter how politely you do ... | 1.930695 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
akers became captive to the oil industry, but the evidence for it is pretty stark.
Still, photovoltaics are not yet competitive with oil/gas/coal generated electricity. Wind power essentially is competitive, but there is the old tradeoff between capital costs and operating costs (including fuel costs, which are basical... | 1.736699 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
of mining to land and water (at some cost to desert ecosystems, I'll stipulate that). It could, in short, create useful capital rather than mere "transfer payment" capital.
Which, again, may be one of the reasons why some people are against such things.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 "Being an old farm boy myself, chickens... | 2.115149 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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The only really good breakup song in the original article came from noting that Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" isn't a very good breakup song, but "Graceland" is. Moreover, that gives me an excuse to indulge my fancy for world music:
Elvis Costello has some truly fine venom in a lot of songs, but he's so... | 1.942493 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
creating IP in the first place, yes?), but a lot of people seem to view copyrights especially as some sort of “natural” property, and some of those argue for copyright in perpetuity. This is not the sort of mistake that Ayn Rand would make (and indeed, she did not).
There are some very good reasons for wanting to have... | 2.13614 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Make me some rain, make all my crops grow tall
--Rainmaker, Traffic (Winwood/Capaldi)
It does occur to me to wonder, though, what good is a rainmaker without farmers and a drought? In California, an unseasonable rain can ruin some crops. A rainmaker in the upper Amazon is just silly, worse than useless really.
There is... | 2.141169 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
After that, I tried earning some money via day labor, through Manpower Incorporated one of the first temp job agencies. Again, minimum wage, and sometimes the jobs lasted no more than a single day.
The best job I had during that time was driving the office mail run for Genesco. In the days before email and such, all in... | 1.758836 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
to earn his pay for the day, but I never saw him again so I cannot report.
I've met broken creatures in my life. I once saw an institutionalized woman who talked of nothing but the wires that had been installed inside of her. There was a guy in Berkeley in the 1970s, known as "Serge, the Microbe Man," who would stand ... | 1.906865 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
”; a loose-limbed toy that would be bounced upon a paddle shaped board. Or, more rightly, the board was bounced while the Limberjack was held still, allowing his arms and legs to do a crazy dance. Their lovely daughter, Martha, whom my brother was dating, would play guitar, or sometimes banjo. Sometimes Bob would play ... | 1.836027 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
long lost sort of way. It seemed as though I were swimming through another dream.
Prior to the journey, I had arranged to meet Guy at an old Schenectady eatery, Morrette’s King Steakhouse, on Erie Boulevard. After a satisfying lunch, we toured the area, stopping by the three houses I called home as a child. When we’d ... | 1.770983 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Guy does so naturally.” I just stood there, in shock. I had never seen these before. I stammered to Ed that Guy, one of the singers on this album, was right in the car. I hailed Guy and Ian out of the car and introduced them to Ed. Ed was beaming at the whole scene. Guy looked at the albums. He said, in a rather far a... | 1.88656 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
And I’ll even say that there was part of the plot, the “dead scientist deliberately leaving cryptic clues behind for the detective because that was the only option available” part, that gives a little bit of a conjuration of Asimov’s ghost.
Actually though, it reminded me more of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore. I’ll ge... | 1.987694 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
his own. He sighed one deep sigh and looked back. There was nothing on the stairs… It was as if sin had come anew into the world, and the first man felt again the first inward guilt. So the computers had not failed after all. He went slowly down the steps and out into the street, still hearing as he would always hear ... | 2.120101 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
right?
But the whole thing seemed to be moving so slowly. A guy I lived with for a year after I first moved to Berkeley, Steve Ellner, is now a professor of biomathematics at Cornell, and one of his ongoing projects is a system of connected pools with water flowing through the system. His research team uses the setup ... | 1.755375 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
any given action taken by an employee and the profitability of the enterprise. If I were a management consultant I'd call that "too many transitional states between intermediate state variables," which is the same as saying "many a slip between cup and lip," and almost as informative.
Attempting to focus on money alon... | 1.775251 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, Tohei Sensei (Chicago), Chiba Sensei (San Diego), Yamada Sensei (New York City), and Kanai Sensei (Boston). In late 1983, Aikido of Berkeley hosted a seminar at which all four of these notables were in attendance. It is my understanding that it was the first time that all four had been together to teach at a single e... | 1.895264 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
don't appear on Yahoo! Images and vice versa. Also, some sites make it difficult to hot link to them, and it appears that Flickr is one of them.
However, I try to do right by people, and if you click on the above photo, you will get to the Flickr page and photo. The title is, in fact, "Snakes on a Dame," which is how ... | 2.020711 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
COMMERCE CITY, Colo., May 27, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Xcel Energy residential electric customers now have an additional reason to take advantage of the popular Refrigerator Recycling Program and cash in on those old, inefficient working refrigerators and freezers
. The program, which provides a $50 rebate for each eligibl... | 1.267782 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Testing
For 30 years, the DBS&A Soil Testing & Research Laboratory has been the premier provider of consistent and reliable soil properties testing. It is also the go-to facility for research, development, and implementation of novel technologies and instruments to aid in successful pro... | 1.449725 | 1,024 | 1,022 |
Making Dentistry for Children Easy
Visiting the dentist can be an intimidating experience for a lot of children. Pediatric dentistry can be made easy for children, parents and pediatric dentists, who specialize in monitoring the growth, development and maintenance of teeth in children below 18. Children are recommended... | 1.594749 | 1,010 | 1,008 |
Proposed Budget Would Force Most School Districts to Cut Property Taxes
We already know that Governor Walker’s proposed budget would result in deep cuts to state aid to public schools. A new study by University of Wisconsin professor Andrew Reschovsky (link updated as of July 2011; see note at end of this post) gives a... | 1.357571 | 1,013 | 1,011 |
So, you're setting out and seeking ways for earning money on the road. You're taking the leap. You have the initial cash you need, but are wondering about future income possibility while on the road. This is the place to be.
I first read from a full-time nomad (somewhere in the online universe) that all it takes to mak... | 1.889878 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, this could be your main source of income in developing nations. 10 cents a question for sitting in your jammies listening to loud music and answering hilarious questions like 'is Santa real?' You know you want to. Childcare. Babysitting, nannying, being an au pair (though then you're stuck in one place) are great ide... | 1.871119 | 1,016 | 1,014 |
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by Beth Boswell Jacks
The best is yet to be.”
~ Robert Browning
I completely agree with wise Oliver Wendell Holmes who once said that “old age is always 15 years older than I am.” I hope when I’m tottering around at 105 I’ll be taking muffins to the really old 120-year-olds. Bran muffins, of course.
I ... | 1.919511 | 1,015 | 1,013 |
Rain Forest Myths Karl Davies karl at daviesand.com Fri Oct 6 06:39:34 EST 2000
Jim Campbell wrote in alt.forestry; KD responded in alt.forestry; JC responded
privately; this KD response cc'd to alt.forestry, bionet.agroforestry,
sci.environment, Philip Stott:
> > > The following article was written by Prof. Philip Sto... | 1.877121 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
The vista from the White House is very different from the “serenity” that is seen from the front lawn of the Lodge. This is evident in Andrew Smith’s post
DWP 2013—what will the Americans think?. Andrew provides an important take on the new White Paper and how it matches ‘US vital interests’. What it also highlights is... | 1.877129 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Prenatal vitamins offer critical nutrients to women who are pregnant, trying to conceive or breast-feeding. You might think all the extra nutrients would benefit you even if you don't have a bun in the oven; however, prenatal vitamins are specially formulated to meet the needs of new mothers and mothers-to-be, not the ... | 1.352733 | 973 | 971 |
By Gregory HaleStuxnet has brought about a stronger awareness in industrial control and SCADA systems. So much so, security specialists are now looking under the hood and seeing if they can find any problems.
They just did. Italian security specialist Luigi Auriemma, who mainly focuses on detecting holes in games and m... | 1.841507 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Tomorrow is Father’s Day – a day we remember, celebrate, and honor the Fathers in our lives in a special and dedicated way.
A friend asked if this would be a hard day for me [without my dad here for the first time]. At the time I hadn’t really thought about it too much – or at least I hadn’t been allowing myself to.
It... | 1.710448 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
the little things I loved – or even disliked – about him that I didn’t really appreciate or give much thought to before.These memories fill my soul to the brim and a wave of sorrow and gratitude spills over.
One of the hardest things I’m learning with loss, is wondering what it’s like for them after death. When my hus... | 1.586971 | 1,017 | 1,015 |
Look up during the next few nights and you might see a spacecraft gliding across the starry skies.
After days of glitches and tension, Bill Nye "The Science Guy" and his team at the Planetary Society confirmed on Sunday that their plucky LightSail satellite had
successfully unfurled its sails in Earth orbit. Now, sky-w... | 1.366425 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
MINNEAPOLIS, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BioDrain Medical, Inc., (OTCQB: BIOR) ("BioDrain"), producer of the FDA approved STREAMWAY® System for automated, direct-to-drain surgical fluid disposal that reduces the risk of exposure to hazardous waste, announced today that it has completed additional trial installations ... | 1.278069 | 1,012 | 1,010 |
Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Ballapuram, Vijayanand Sreenivasan Author's Email Address bsvijay@vt.edu URN etd-05202007-143854 Title Impact of Queuing Schemes and VPN on the Performance of a Land Mobile Radio VoIP System Degree Master of Science Department Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisory Committe... | 1.193495 | 1,023 | 1,021 |
The Obama administration appears to be the verge of a diplomatic breakthrough with Iran after three and a half decades of low-level warfare.
Now comes the hard part: convincing Congress.
Skeptical lawmakers are gearing up to thwart efforts to lift the pressure on Iran. Senate Foreign Relations ranking member Bob Corker... | 1.52156 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Are you deciding to remodel your current home? Whether you want to create a more attractive environment or change up the landscape, don’t let the remodeling turn into a huge, stressful undertaking. When you have good reasons to remodel, always go for smart, money-saving solutions.
Recreating the beauty of your home can... | 1.893481 | 1,024 | 1,022 |
There’s been a lot of talk these past couple of years about how good Apple is or isn’t getting with regards to developing web services. When referring to Apple’s services acumen, I think people generally mean the speed, consistency, and reliability of offerings like iMessage, iCloud, Apple Music, and the App Store(s).
... | 1.84554 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
By: sagecarter | Health & Fitness The liver is an all important part of your body. It is the body's decontamination plant. It removes excess of toxins, drug/alcohol residues and waste products from the system. Chances are that because of your irregular eating habits, an unhealthy diet or too much of intake of processed... | 1.759088 | 967 | 966 |
One of the things we’re interested in exploring here at TED is … what happens after a talk? Most often, a speaker is telling us a story without an ending — a tale that’s just beginning rather than coming to an end. That’s certainly the case with TED2013 speaker Alastair Parvin, whose project, Wikihouse, is really just ... | 1.601091 | 980 | 978 |
You might recall the scandalous behavior that led to the 18 million € ($25 million) in reparations ruled earlier this year by the European Union's highest court (The Court of Justice) to be paid by the government of France. No, it was not related to Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK). It was for the unconscionable treatment ... | 1.918105 | 1,021 | 1,019 |
Product quality and the theory of comparative advantage
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Letter Early Defervescence and SARS Recovery
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EID Wang J, Wang J, Fang C, Chang S. Early Defervescence and SARS Recovery. Emerg Infect Dis. 2004;10(3):544-545. https://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1003.030500 AMA Wang... | 0.784067 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
,138 U/L) were noted. Because she had been afebrile for 5 days, she was discharged on May 17. After discharge, she continued to take ribavirin and be quarantined at home. Unfortunately, fever and rapidly progressive dyspnea developed on May 20. On the same day, chest x-ray showed diffusely increased infiltration over a... | 1.041252 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Where we most often sin in our desire for marriage is not in worshiping marriage itself, but in doubting God's ability to bring it about.
Most single women want to get married. A good marriage is something they deeply desire. But for many, their desire is unarticulated, a silent longing. I kept quiet most of the time w... | 1.285832 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
leness — falling into true idolatry of heart. Paul told us what that looks like in Ephesians 5:3-5:
But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, w... | 0.978113 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Tara and Merlin (R)
This year I had to face two of my worst fears concerning my cats. You've read about one of them here but in March of this year another of my worst nightmares came true: Merlin was diagnosed with Diabetes. I have friends with diabetic cats and known for years that that's not a picnic.
My vet was maki... | 1.762337 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Four new finds of emerald ash borer (EAB), an invasive forest insect that kills ash trees, were recently detected in Delaware, Harrison, Jay, and Miami counties.
These detections resulted from theEAB survey and trapping program. The EAB survey, which includes the hanging of purple panel traps in trees and girdled trap ... | 1.320871 | 1,021 | 1,019 |
Hi everyone:
Deirdre has asked me to write about the topic of chastity, female control in a relationship, and real life. This is an interesting and complex topic. I started writing this post several months ago, and since then, my relationship with Deirdre has changed a lot, such that she is now in total control, and we... | 1.609038 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
over a long period, and then it could always come out again, above the device. Third, it was really uncomfortable to sleep in. Whenever I started to get an erection at night, I would be awakened by the straining against the device, because it was not possible to be erect inside it. And then I would get a lousy sleep a... | 1.775377 | 1,008 | 1,006 |
Posted on September 01, 2003 in Washington Watch
Two headlines, appearing next to each other on the front page of the August 28th edition of the
Washington Post prompted me to write this article. In just eleven words they spoke volumes about the contradictions that define the politics of my country and the challenges w... | 1.562758 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Translation of artemether–lumefantrine treatment policy into paediatric clinical practice: an early experience from Kenya * *
Re-use of this article is permitted in accordance with the Creative Commons Deed, Attribution 2.5, which does not permit commercial exploitation.
Summary Objective To describe the quality of out... | 0.806514 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
sont importants durant ce processus. Toutefois, ceci devrait être accompagné d’évaluations rigoureuses, de recherches, des actions correctives sur des interventions existantes et du test de la rentabilité de nouvelles interventions capables d’améliorer et de maintenir la performance des agents et des systèmes de santé... | 1.22936 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
of outpatient paediatric malaria case-management in Kenyan health facilities, approximately 4–6 months after artemether–lumefantrine (AL) was introduced to replace sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine (SP) as the nationally recommended first-line therapy for uncomplicated malaria.
Methods AL implementation activities in Kenya
Th... | 1.280034 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
underdosed prescriptions. The quality of AL dispensing and counselling for patients included performance of the following tasks: weighing of patients, administration of the first dose at the health facility, observation of swallowing of the first dose, explanation on how to take AL at home, advising on taking AL after... | 1.336908 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
. Only one facility had displayed AL case-management wall charts.
Table 1. Characteristics of the health facilities and health workers in four districts in Kenya
Health facility characteristics ( n = 193) Health facility type Hospital 14 (7.3) Health centre 35 (18.1) Dispensary 144 (74.6) Equipment and services at heal... | 0.88026 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
antimalarial treatments* 31 (3.3) 1.7–4.9 29 (3.4) 1.6–5.1 No antimalarial prescribed 217 (23.1) 18.9–27.3 209 (24.1) 19.7–28.6 Antimalarial treatments for children with uncomplicated malaria
Table 2 shows antimalarial treatments for children who needed AL prescribed at all facilities studied and separately at facilit... | 0.859157 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
3 (34.4) 21.0–47.9 13 (3.6) 1.1–6.2 Dosage explained 234 (97.1) 95.0–99.2 346 (96.9) 95.0–98.8 Advice provided to take drug after a meal 91 (37.8) 28.0–47.5 n.a. n.a. Advice provided what to do in case of vomiting 19 (7.9) 3.8–11.9 19 (5.3) 2.0–8.7 Predictors influencing AL prescriptions
We examined 13 factors that mig... | 0.982505 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
(88%) of health facilities stocked AL; however, this remains far from perfect as one in ten facilities did not have any AL. The short interval between rolling out the AL drug supply and timing of our survey does not allow for any meaningful evaluation of the stability of the AL supply chain and estimates of stock-out ... | 1.519708 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
and health workers without formal clinical training. The opposite was observed during the era of SP policy in Kenya (Zurovac
et al. 2004) and chloroquine policy in Benin (Rowe et al. 2003). One explanation is that there was some uncertainty among the Kenyan legislation revisions to allow prescribing of AL for lower ca... | 1.790155 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
The summer assault Emerging from a remarkably short and warm winter, Bangaloreans marching into April will feel the acute pinch of the summer heat this year. The peak season temperature will be advanced by almost a month, hitting the City by mid-April, warn weather experts.
Summer has arrived, refreshing the Bangalorea... | 1.911242 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
are too narrow to accommodate even footpaths. Today, residents of these outlying areas experience temperatures far higher than the inner city. The roads radiate heat day and night, trapping the people in virtual hot air balloons. On the ground !
Armed with research findings, Harini has proof. “Tree-lined roads have su... | 1.638667 | 989 | 987 |
During my first pregnancy, a friend gave me a baby book along with the advice, "You won't finish this, but every new mom needs a book like this." Her comment struck me as curious and pessimistic, especially during a time of huge optimism and expectation in my life. Flipping through the baby book, I saw that it progress... | 1.821493 | 995 | 993 |
On interviewing front-end engineers
There was a really nice article written by Philip Walton last week
1 regarding his experience interviewing for front-end engineering roles at various companies in San Francisco. To summarize, he was surprised by the types of questions he was asked (mostly having to do with computer s... | 1.713536 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
especially difficult task for any company that doesn’t have experience with that specialty. The reason is pretty obvious: specialists, by their nature, have expertise in something that is unique. Specialists care about things that other people don’t care about and willfully ignore things that most people do care about... | 1.679925 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
a good measuring stick that is applicable everywhere. Except, no such measuring stick exists. Asking Michael Jordan to hit a 100-mph fastball would not give you any good insights into his athletic prowess. There are some people who will be pretty good at everything, but specialists, in particular, tend to let go of kn... | 1.708085 | 992 | 990 |
I routinely greet adult patients with a handshake. If it’s a child, then a “high-five” usually suffices. In fact, there have been articles chiding physicians for not properly introducing themselves or greeting their patients. Now, it appears that handshakes may become a “no, no” in medical care settings, such as hospit... | 1.690002 | 972 | 970 |
Doctor Sticks It To Big Pharma, Shares $10 ‘Over The Counter’ Solution To Skyrocketing EpiPen Cost
For those outraged over Mylan’s rising cost of EpiPens, a Miami Valley, Ohio, doctor offers an
incredibly affordable option. Dr. Marcus Romanello is sharing publicly how to put together your own epinephrine injector kit f... | 1.663892 | 1,016 | 1,014 |
One of the neat tricks that the Republican Party has pulled off flawlessly since Reagan is to convince average Americans that their interests are the same as the wealthiest of all Americans.
Republican politicians are trained, whenever confronted with the inconvenient truth of growing income inequality, to utter the ma... | 1.307855 | 1,001 | 999 |
Today, the House of Lords will debate the Children and Social Work Bill. Tucked into it is a tiny amendment that will have a titanic impact on thousands of the UK's most vulnerable children - an amendment that ensures that every child, when going into care, is given a mental health assessment by a professional.
Yet des... | 1.697708 | 1,018 | 1,016 |
Scripture books promoting "dangerous" messages about sex and male power are being used in NSW public schools, leading to calls for a crack down on special religious education.
Parent-run lobby group Fairness in Religions in Schools (FIRIS) has raised concerns about a number of publications for students attending script... | 1.891246 | 1,021 | 1,019 |
Two thousand and nine: It's already being characterized as a year of historic failure. The
worst economic skid since the Great Depression. The biggest housing collapse in decades. The largest Ponzi scheme ever.
Is there room left in these calamitous 12 months for ... the
most inept franchise in professional sports?
Las... | 1.511983 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
year to year as much as teams in other sports.
There are reasons for that. In the 20
th century, there was a "gradual, long-term trend toward greater competitive balance in MLB," writes Andrew Zimbalist in his 2003 book, May the Best Team Win: Baseball Economics and Public Policy. The progress was partly fueled, he wr... | 1.486653 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
What is your position and what do you do on a day-to-day basis?
I am a chartered legal executive and a director/shareholder at the Family Law Company. I am also Team Leader for our divorce and finance team, which is a group of 10 lawyers and support staff. Each day is incredibly varied - a mixture of client and legal w... | 1.474968 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Commission tasks
The eurozone finance ministers have published a press release, which looks like a proposal to the Ecofin Council meeting today and where all the EU member states are represented. If approved, the European Commission would handle practical tasks concerning the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF... | 1.631713 | 981 | 978 |
For the past four months, members of EPI’s Global Policy Network (GPN) have asked themselves: What would a people-friendly trade model look like? In four regions, North America, Central America, the Andean region, and the Southern Cone, unions, non-profits, and legislators have come together to create an alternative mo... | 1.775502 | 1,007 | 1,005 |
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The rise of the Internet over the past decade has revolutionized the way that historians do their research, and arguably the greatest change has come with the digitization of library and archival catalogs. Scholars can... | 1.650141 | 1,024 | 1,022 |
Opinion – Web Accessibility. Life In the Post-Guideline Age.
Joe Clark, the Canadian web accessibility expert, has said that he believes we now live in a post-guideline era.
What might Joe mean by this?
To date, talk about making websites usable by disabled people has usually featured the W3C Web Accessibility Initiati... | 1.678248 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Data analysis and the future of journalism
Sunday’s column on numerical errors in Post stories also noted that proficiency with numbers will increasingly be important for journalists. It said that, “in the digital age, with a growing amount of raw data available online from the government and other sources, numerical l... | 1.581393 | 1,024 | 1,022 |
Tensions between South Korea and North Korea have kept the peninsula on the brink of war after the signing of an armistice 60 years ago last week that cooled the hot war but didn’t bring peace.
Some U.S. soldiers who fought in the Korean War see China, a supporter of North Korea, as the real enemy. And they all have a ... | 1.822691 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Competition Commissioner to examine Irish guarantee
The European Commission (EC) today confirmed that Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes is in contact with the Government and will examine under state aid laws the move to guarantee all deposits in Irish banks.
“It [the Commission] will look at any state aid involved ... | 1.546272 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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کد مقاله سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی ترجمه فارسی تعداد کلمات 23905 2012 23 صفحه PDF سفارش دهید محاسبه نشده Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت) Journal : Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 147, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 261–283 ... | 1.123765 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
the effect on optimal retirement age of a change in mortality at an arbitrary age. To do so, we use a method different from that of most existing studies, which usually address the effect of mortality decline by modeling the human mortality pattern using a parametric approach and considering the derivative of retireme... | 1.296648 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
I know I’m not the only one who has lived vicariously through characters in my favorite romantic comedies. Everything seems so simple: they’re recognized for their beauty and charisma, and they end up happy. Too often people are saying that these fairy tales don’t exist and that “there’s nothing special about me.” But ... | 1.57569 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Criminal Justice 412
CRJU 412: Security Administration and Crime Prevention
Prerequisites: CRJU 100 or CRJU 150
Credit Hours: (3)
An introduction to private security administration and crime prevention measures utilized by industrial, commercial and community agencies.
Detailed Description of Content of Course
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We describe a 60-year-old man with MELAS syndrome (mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and strokelike episodes) and discuss the mitochondrial DNA point mutation 3243. A diagnosis of MELAS should be considered in the appropriate clinical setting at any age.
Mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, la... | 1.036958 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
of Iowa, Iowa City. During that visit, he complained of headaches, exercise intolerance, general fatigue, and auditory hallucinations. His birth and developmental history were unremarkable. He had no significant prior medical problems. His son had died of a brain tumor. There was no history of any other neurologic dis... | 1.126497 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
quadriceps muscle biopsy specimen was obtained, and ragged red fibers were seen on Gomori trichrome staining. Genetic analysis of this tissue by polymerase chain reaction analysis identified an adenine to guanine mitochondrial DNA point mutation at nucleotide 3243 coding for the transfer ribonucleic acid gene (Leu). T... | 1.252538 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
I must at the outset express my deep sense of shock and anger at the terrorist attacks in London.
On behalf of the people of India and on my own behalf I convey my own sincere condolences to the families and friends of the deceased and those who have been injured. I also extend the sympathy and solidarity of the people... | 1.41206 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
our relationship with Britain.
Jawaharlal Nehru echoed this sentiment when he urged the Indian Constituent Assembly in 1949 to vote in favour of India's membership of the Commonwealth. Nehru set the tone for independent India's relations with its former master when he intervened in the Constituent Assembly's debate on... | 1.557432 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
No Indian has paid a more poetic and generous tribute to Britain for this inheritance than Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. In the opening lines of his
Gitanjali, Gurudev says:
"The West has today opened its door.
There are treasures for us to take.
We will take and we will also give,
From the open shores of India's immens... | 1.572266 | 1,020 | 1,018 |
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Auto repair insurance is often secured in addition to auto insurance and basic auto liability insurance. Many drivers obtain auto repair insurance to protect them in case of any damage, so they can be sure the costs of the repairs to their vehicle will be covered. However, before you sign up for auto repair insurance, ... | 1.581746 | 1,014 | 1,012 |
LOS ANGELES (CBS.MW) -- Homebuilders Toll Brothers and Hovnanian Enterprises both reported year-over-year profit growth Wednesday that beat Wall Street's consensus estimates, as more and more consumers -- and investors -- look to real estate as an alternative investment.
According to consumer confidence reports, consum... | 1.268422 | 1,014 | 1,012 |
They are essential life-giving elements of food stored by nature in the juices of fruits, in the stalks and leaves of green vegetables, in milk and in butter fats and in the outer covering (bran) and germs of the whole grain.
Here is how vitamins were discoveredvery recently.
As super-civilization advanced man began ju... | 1.810794 | 995 | 992 |
(Medical Xpress)—The p53 gene plays a key role in the prevention of cancer, by blocking cell growth and triggering programmed cell death or apoptosis. If, however, p53 has mutated and become defective, the cancer cells can acquire the ability to evade apoptosis and become more resistant to therapy. Researchers at Karol... | 1.282588 | 1,018 | 1,016 |
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