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Flexible mortgages allow you to vary the amount of your payment each month. You might even be able to skip your payments completely for a limited period of time. Interest is calculated on a daily basis to reflect your payments immediately. Lenders offer different types of flexible mortgages with varying features, so sh... | 1.469299 | 1,007 | 1,004 |
California has a preschool access problem: 40 percent of all 4-year-olds in the state are not enrolled in early learning.
The state's level of preschool enrollment mirror those across the United States, which has some of the lowest rates of preschool enrollment in the world. Market rates for private preschool are compa... | 1.462547 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
time to plan might make for a better solution.
Why advocates are worried:
The bill doesn't set a budget prescription for the new plan. Instead, it asks the CDE to come up with the price tag to fund the plan it will develop. The bill also lets CDE decide how to define income-eligible children and how many seats it thin... | 1.87334 | 1,018 | 1,015 |
BSkyB is doubling its investment in virtual reality. Is this a sign that this much-hyped technology is finally poised for a breakthrough? Simon Wilson reports. What’s going on in virtual reality?
BSkyB announced this week that it has more than doubled its punt on the future of virtual reality, investing a further $400,... | 1.537963 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Businesses and risks go hand in hand:
There is a common phrase that says, “Fortune favors the brave.”Businesses, the world over can thrive only if they live up to the risk associated with it. Who is going to let the other person earn in peace unless the other person is ready to risk his most in order to be a successful... | 1.904809 | 1,011 | 1,009 |
Possessing a lake or a pond in your premises is a very good way to make the place look beautiful. But it is evident to get a huge growth of algae and weeds in the pond. The most common way people adopt to get rid of the unwanted plants is to put chemicals and herbicides in the water. However, people fail to realize tha... | 1.900062 | 1,021 | 1,019 |
According to a study presented today by a University of Pittsburgh researcher at the 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) in Atlanta, a new imaging technology may more precisely track tumor movement for patients under treatment for lung cancer than conventional 3D i... | 0.838399 | 1,008 | 1,006 |
To me breech is a variation of normal. Well not only to me, 4% of babies are breech so it must be pretty normal to them too. There is fear and unknown surrounding this which all circles around the “term breech trial” which was extremely flawed and commented on at the time by people like Maggie Banks. Practitioners with... | 2.325244 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
During late New York trading on Tuesday, the US dollar advanced against major rivals. The greenback is currently trading near 1.3314 against the euro, 0.9056 versus the Swiss franc, 1.5948 against the British pound, 1.0455 versus the Australian dollar and 0.8202 against the NZ dollar from previous session's lows of 1.3... | 1.885961 | 969 | 968 |
CARSON CITY — Actor Nicolas Cage, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and a host of film producers asked legislators Tuesday to offer tax incentives for companies wanting to make movies in Nevada.
“Movies can introduce more people around the globe to Nevada,” Cage told members of the Senate Finance Committee. “We are close... | 1.365026 | 1,016 | 1,014 |
Just like meeting Mr. or Mrs. “Right,” or having your first child, the most opportune time to launch a new product or service can arise when you least expect it. And to fully take advantage of all that comes along with the opportunity, you must hold your breath and take the plunge!
Assuming you’re like most people in t... | 1.88603 | 998 | 996 |
Management of Open Pneumothorax Caused by Penetrating Trauma Using Water Sealed Drainage (WSD)
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1,3Penetrating trauma, potentially those that creates big open wound on chest wall, will cause open pneumothorax. When the wound size exceeds two-thirds of tracheal diameter, air will fill the intrapleural space causing the loss of pressure gradient. 4The ongoing air collection in the pleural space may shift the medias... | 1.49079 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Obesity epidemic began to take shape in recent years.For many reasons, people have extra weight to which they are not able to fight on their own at home.Therefore, they have to seek more radical ways of correction, one of which is cryolipolysis.
Modern methods of combating obesity reached a new level.It turns out to bu... | 1.602929 | 1,007 | 1,005 |
You’ve probably seen countless tips for placing your hands on the grip of a golf club, but they typically leave out one VERY important step. We're going to share it with you.
Gripping the club properly is crucial, and is well covered by articles explaining the various styles (neutral, strong, overlapping, interlocking,... | 1.556936 | 993 | 991 |
It would be nice and deadly if the crispy pata will be cook deep-fried, but considering the economics of it, being cooking oil is expensive these days, not to mention that it’s really not good for your health, we always cook our crispy pata in our turbo broiler.
We have two kinds of turbo broiler, the really ancient st... | 1.694595 | 1,024 | 1,022 |
April 28, 2003
I know a lot of people have similar stories, but I had been in the Information Technology field for about three years when I was first exposed to the password cracking tool L0phtCrack. I was an inexperienced network administrator and the small perspective that I had on information systems was turned upsi... | 1.948034 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
The cure for any disease seems to be quite mythical. We assume that medical research is sincerely searching for a cure for many diseases such as cancer. Yet, to this day, there has never been a drug that has cured anything. In fact, the use of the word cure has drastically declined over the last hundred years. Not only... | 1.573851 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Imbalanced and elevated Inflammation creates and worsens injuries. It damages the cells of the coronary arteries. Cholesterol serves to heal this damage caused by inflammation. However, the constant aggravation of the inflammatory response prevents this from happening. As a result, the cholesterol becomes oxidized and... | 1.968654 | 995 | 993 |
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The one piece takeaway is important for golfers because it keeps the various body parts moving as one unit and in harmony.
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Photo: Welfare Square in Salt Lake City
In the Fall 2012 issue of
Philanthropy Magazine, Naomi Schaefer Riley (a former Wall Street Journal religion reporter) accurately describes the inspiration for the Church’s welfare and humanitarian aid programs, what the programs do, whom they serve and how Mormons fund these vas... | 1.861558 | 1,020 | 1,018 |
Quebec’s legislature passed a bill that will pave the way for more oil and gas exploration, providing a boost to drillers such as Junex Inc. while drawing criticism from environmental, aboriginal and citizen groups.
Bill 106 passed Quebec’s National Assembly in a 62-38 vote early Saturday after an overnight debate ahea... | 1.556406 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Title: A Hybrid Human and Machine Resource Curation Pipeline for the Neuroscience Information Framework Author: Bandrowski, A. E.; Cachat, J.; Müller, H. M.; Sternberg, P. W.; Marenco, L.; Astakhov, V.; Grethe, J. S.; Martone, M. E.; Li, Y.; Ciccarese, Paolo Nunzio; Clark, Timothy William; Wang, R.
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These factors include..... eating the right foods consuming the right amount of calories for your body type get the right amount of protein & carbs for your body type performing the right exercises lift the right amount of weight while performing the exercises get the right amount of rest do the right amount of sets an... | 1.304694 | 1,012 | 1,010 |
Louisiana Flavored Natural History from the Edge of the D’Arbonne Swamp (with Books as Lagniappe)__________________________________
Bayou-Diversity (15 January 2017)PADDLEFISH POLITICS Seemingly unrelated political decisions often impact wildlife resources and lead to a cascade of unanticipated events in the most unlik... | 1.978551 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, time-marred box turtle in my hand today could be the same one held by my great grandfather on the edge of this swamp a hundred years ago infers a connection mystical if not spiritual. Though unlikely, it is possible.
The most common land turtle found throughout Louisiana is the three-toed box turtle, a subspecies of ... | 1.518221 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
of Antietam Creek is a living witness to America’s bloodiest day when on September 17, 1862 Confederate and Union armies fought a battle that yielded more than 23,000 casualties. On the first day of the tide-changing battle of Gettysburg, Union General Daniel Sickles established his headquarters under a surviving swam... | 1.742565 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
its.Later in 1904, Teddy Roosevelt in an executive order declared it the second National Wildlife Refuge in America.On this day the place is spectacular.Thousands of shorebirds, gulls, and terns whirl and swirl in clouds of wings, some in rigid formation, others beating across the grain intent on life’s chore of the mo... | 1.675718 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
nest sites. Common nighthawks are long distance migrants nesting throughout much of the United States and wintering in South America. In Louisiana they arrive in April and depart in September. Their life on the wintering grounds is still mostly unknown to science.
Bayou-Diversity (9 September 2016) COW KILLERS Boys ar... | 1.497438 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
large logs, specialty mills abounded. Shingle mills made roofing shingles, usually from cypress heartwood. Stave mills sawed thin boards that were used in barrel-making before steel barrels became common. The best and most valuable barrel staves were made from white oak. Hoop mills cut elm logs into thin strips that w... | 1.646112 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
and lead for subsistence hunting; fishing line and hooks for the backwater bounties; palmetto hats to turn the sun; molds to produce hog and bear fat candles; broad axes, grubbing hoes; bone and mussel shell buttons; sugar and molasses; castor oil and patent medicines; playing cards, fiddle strings and Muscat wine. On... | 2.203987 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
think it was the ancestor of these men, Gaspard Derbanne, a Canadian hunter who traveled with Louis Jucherneau St. Denis to the Red River country in 1714. In any event, it is now labeled on maps as Bayou D’Arbonne, not to be confused with a lesser stream in St. Landry Parish called Bayou Darbonne but lacking the apost... | 1.736105 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
for about two weeks and the young fledge a month later.
My brother and I decided to take a road trip to Shreveport to check out the electronic gossip. We arrived at the riverside Barnwell Center complex about 7:00 P.M. with nary a martin in sight. It was, however, quite obvious that something strange was going on. The... | 1.898143 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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Bayou-Diversity (7 February 2016) ROOSEVELT, THE BEAR & A SILVER SPOON President Theodore Roosevelt was frustrated when he arrived in East Carroll Parish, Louisiana in October 1907. An avid hunter, he had long desired to kill a black bear on a traditional southern hunt with baying hounds... | 1.610731 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
to be unmitigated disasters. Tremendous efforts went into fire prevention and suppression across the country. Smoky Bear taught generations of children that fire is bad. This ill-informed position, by failing to recognize that fire is a natural part of many ecosystems, has led to very unnatural conditions in many regi... | 1.71215 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
who has never seen it can have no conception of the effect, the scene was tropical indeed, from the forest we emerged into an open space covered thick with glossy dark green fans of palmetto.”
Another woman in Morehouse Parish described the local situation: “The seclusion and inaccessibility of the place made it diffi... | 1.741762 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
fact not lost on my hungry kinfolks when they spotted two glowing orbs in the heart of D’Arbonne Swamp.
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Bayou-Diversity (30 September 2015) DROUGHT From our place on the edge of a Louisiana swamp I can smell the drought. The usual organic brew of odors is absent; now it smells like n... | 2.001328 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
reach the young tree. It grew rapidly for the next seventeen years. Then, beginning in 1914, a severe drought slowed growth for three years until favorable precipitation returned to the area. For the following forty-two years growth was normal. In the fall of 1959 a fire raged through the forest severely injuring the ... | 1.684943 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
as Rivers into manmade plumbing systems. Bayou D’Arbonne was dammed. Some good came of these projects but rarely at the levels predicted. Prophesied benefits to commerce seldom materialized, and one hundred year floods ignore the calendar with increasing frequency. Aquatic wildlife populations took a beating. Several t... | 1.724638 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, skunks, armadillos, reptiles, other birds, and even young foxes and coyotes. In many places they were once considered outlaw birds because of their habit of occasionally killing poultry. The fact that they also consumed untold numbers of destructive rodents was not considered. Old Louisiana hunting regulations stated... | 1.729447 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
I am encouraged and will try again. Lest you think this is some esoteric scientific study funded by taxpayers, be assured that nothing is farther from the truth. It depends on volunteer citizen scientists. Oh, as for the German motorcycle – it was my conveyance of the day only because it gets 65 miles per gallon.
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ates areas characterized by bottomland hardwood vegetation. Backwater generally occurs in winter or spring in response to heavy, seasonal precipitation on local watersheds or as far away as the upper tributaries of the Mississippi River. The key word in this definition is “natural” because backwater has created much of... | 1.884151 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
eastern United States, may-apple has declined in the South under the advance of diversity-squelching pine plantations. The remaining plants are found in clumps and grow to about 18 inches tall. A single white flower blooms locally in April and later forms a crab apple size fruit. By late summer all above-ground eviden... | 1.578384 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
cked in vivid greens, blues, reds, and oranges, their spectacular colors never fail to amaze first time viewers. That such gaudy creatures could exist in our midst almost unknown is always surprising. Even their names reflect the diversity: rainbow darter, harlequin darter, cypress darter, bluntnose darter, goldstripe ... | 1.55531 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
and suckleth her young.”
The reproductive habits of possums are unique but not as creative as the old wives’ tale. Pregnancy lasts only 13 days, and when born the embryonic young weighing 1/200th of an ounce migrate to the pouch where they remain for about two months. After about a hundred days they leave their mother... | 1.754913 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
used to brew an alcoholic drink during the Civil War. If you are interested, here’s a period recipe: “Take eight bottles of [sassafras] water, one quart of molasses, one pint of yeast, one tablespoonful of ginger, one and a half tablespoonful of cream of tartar, these ingredients being well stirred and mixed in an ope... | 1.56799 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
into the Gulf of Mexico have in common? It seems that both were named by French explorers for a semi-aquatic mammal that was abundant in each of the areas. Bayou de l’Outre in Union Parish and Pass a Loutre in Plaquemines Parish were named for river otters.
River otters, members of the weasel family along with mink an... | 1.671426 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
than a few inches. In natural conditions that rarely exist today, oak forests reproduce sporadically in tree-fall gaps. When an old, large tree falls its offspring grows up in the sunlit gap. The aesthetics of a giant fallen tree in the front yard is of no mind to Mother Nature. (adapted from Bayou-Diversity, LSU Pres... | 1.757012 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
863, Major General J.G. Walker of the Confederate Army attacked a Union force at Milliken’s Bend in Madison Parish in hopes of relieving pressure on the besieged fortress of Vicksburg. His attack was thwarted, in part, because of a dense hedge around part of the village. Yankees massed behind the hedge and fired throug... | 1.480305 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
our area was truly wild, coyotes were nowhere to be found in this region. Their voices were instead replaced by the haunting howls of red wolves. As the dominant canid of virgin forests of the Southeast, red wolves restricted the range of coyotes to western prairies for the most part.
Weighing 45 to 80 pounds, red wol... | 1.474438 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
skin and hair, sometimes called velvet, until they mature in the early fall. Mature antlers are about 60 percent mineral and 40 percent organic matter. Velvet is shed and antlers are polished in most bucks by mid-October. Antlers are shed or cast as early as January, but most are retained through mid-March.
The entire... | 2.016619 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
thrush song, “Whenever a man hears it he is young, and Nature is in her spring; wherever he hears it, it is a new world and a free country, and the gates of Heaven are not shut against him.” This cousin of the bluebird is now tracking the declining hours of daylight with a mysterious sundial embedded deep within his b... | 1.808991 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Beijing connections. (Adapted from American Alligator: Ancient Predator in the Modern World; photo by Burg Ransom)
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Bayou-Diversity (24 June 2014) Please don’t “rescue” her! Every year in late spring and early summer Louisiana wildlife officials begin receiving reports of abandoned deer faw... | 1.533232 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
resses can still be found in every parish.
Cypress trees once grew to 17 feet in diameter and 140 feet in height. They were the largest trees in the South and lived to be 400 to 600 years old. A few were estimated to be more than 1,000 years old. Even though cypresses commonly grow in wetlands, their seeds cannot germi... | 1.901747 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
ago a cousin passed along to me a chair that once belonged to my great-great grandmother. She is said to have brought the chair with her when she came to Union Parish from the Atchafalaya Swamp or south Mississippi. No one is sure which. She died in 1925 at the age of 77. The chair is laden with hints and mysteries of... | 1.712235 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
ten years before the orchid appears above ground to flower.
Native orchids in Louisiana include the crane-fly orchid, common in the hill parishes. For most of the year it lives as a single purple-bottomed leaf on dry upland pine/hardwood sites. The water-spider orchid that grows more than two feet tall lives at the ot... | 1.991355 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
houses of Choctaw along the Ouachita. Small gardens and bounty of the forest sustained them both. Evidence of small-scale illegal logging by poor natives in the form of riverside piles of rough-sawn timbers mar the image of a pristine rain forest. Such activities can be compared to similar practices by Native American... | 1.82984 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
at the graveyard in a hodgepodge of vehicles and immediately gather around the leader for a blessing of sorts. With plastic bags in tow they would then disperse across the cemetery to begin the really weird goings-on. As soon as each individual reached a mysteriously chosen spot he or she immediately fell to his or he... | 2.277084 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
. Their ability to slow down bodily functions allows them to survive cold weather only up to a point. Infrequently, extended periods of unusually cold weather, when water remains frozen for several consecutive days, occur in northern Louisiana and southern Arkansas. In the last 30 years I have observed alligator mortal... | 1.646406 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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There is much yet to be learned about the life cycle of this species, but what is known is remarkable. Behaving exactly opposite of salmon, eels live out their adult lives in freshwater and return to the ocean to spawn. In fact, all eels return to a specific area known as the Sargasso Sea just north of the Bahamas. H... | 1.744388 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
grew to over one hundred feet tall and were cherished for their important wood and edible nuts. Still common in parts of the Midwest, walnut trees are so valuable, with individual trees worth thousands of dollars, that timber poaching is often a problem.
Walnut lumber is used to make high quality furniture, flooring, ... | 1.62508 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
your yard, I challenge you to look closely at the base of your woody plants. There is a very good chance they have been partially or completely girdled. Once the bark of a plant has been seriously damaged, the plant will never thrive to reach its potential and will often die. Besides destroying the nutrient transporti... | 1.89091 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Louisiana for the Big Thicket of east Texas. There he was successful in killing a number of bears and his reputation spread. He drifted into Mexico and spent many years in Arizona and New Mexico conducting predator control for ranchers and the gvernment.
Lilly’s legendary status was due in part to his peculiar looks a... | 1.770468 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
zooids. New colonies are established from free-swimming larvae produced by the zooids. There are many species of bryozoans, but most live in salt-water environments. Of the approximately 20 freshwater species found in North America, most live in warmer regions.
Studies have shown that humans are much more susceptible ... | 1.73828 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
’s infamous triumphs in Mexico in 1521 tomatoes turned up in Europe. Cultivation quickly became widespread after overcoming a few superstitious speed bumps. Often associated with other poisonous and hallucinogenic members in its nightshade family, tomatoes got a bad rap early on. In German folklore they were tied to we... | 1.729971 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
fresh feathering of needle-like leaves in centuries to come.
Bayou-Diversity (5 April 2013) This from my field diary 40 years ago: “17 Feb. 1973 –observed 2 golden eagles and 3 bald eagles on McClemore Plantation [now part of Tensas River NWR] 13 miles south of Tallulah, La. All eagles were mature. 1 golden and 1 bald... | 1.797308 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
of the small boy will soon ware a wire edge, but he will cut the mayhaws all the same.”
Currently, during years of abundant crops, hundreds of thousands of pounds of mayhaws are gathered from Louisiana swamps by individual connoisseurs. A commercial market has also been developed, and it’s now possible to enjoy a fine... | 1.918654 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
locks of parrots squawk overhead, and howler monkeys scream from somewhere inside the adjacent walls of chlorophyll. Finally, pull ashore at the small native village of Tortuguero. Located on the edge of a national park with the same name, the hamlet of Tortuguero sits astraddle a narrow spit of land bound on the east ... | 1.86109 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
. Thanks for the textures of sweet gum balls, feathers, gumbo clay, and beech bark. Thank you for the heat of an open fire and the warmth of an open heart.
Thank you for the sight of falling leaves, fattening squirrels, and rising waters that foretell the change of seasons. As the sun approaches the solstice, thank you... | 2.024238 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
ou-Diversity(17 January 2012)They’re up! The first wildflowers of 2012, white violets display their goods as enticement for sunny day insects interested in an early sip of nectar in return for a bit of inadvertent pollination.
Bayou-Diversity(9 January 2012) Highly refractive crystals behind the retinas ofthis gray fox... | 1.956312 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
In their study, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital in Houston found that blocking the Notch pathway in mice decreased metastases in the lungs 15-fold. The results of a series of pre-clinical studies were reported Sunday in an oral presentation at the 42nd Congress of the Inter... | 0.948195 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
This is an article about
the 1929 stock market crash - it was that one major, cataclysmic event that ushered in the Great Depression (1929 - 1940). It all came to a close on October 24, 1929 - the stocks offered at the New York Stock Exchange had lost 80% of the value; the day was immediately dubbed "Black Thursday" by... | 2.135717 | 1,016 | 1,014 |
Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius could dramatically curb water scarcity in the Mediterranean region, help save tropical reefs, allow more wheat to grow in West Africa, and significantly shorten heat waves, according to a new study by European researchers.
As global leaders have wrangled over how to preven... | 1.390667 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Bob Crow, General Secretary of the RMT, has called for "general and co-ordinated strike action across the public and private sectors to stop their savage assault on jobs, living standards and public services." He says he is "up for a fight" against the "fiscal fascism being unleashed by this ConDem government."
This ha... | 1.720405 | 1,024 | 1,022 |
Teaching and Learning Subcommittee
Broadly defined, teaching is the formal and informal professional activity by faculty that fosters and enhances student learning or academic achievement. It includes, but is not limited to, faculty commitment to:
remaining current and knowledgeable in one's discipline being knowledgea... | 1.229857 | 1,013 | 1,011 |
Business process model and notation 2.0 (BPMN 2.0) has been hailed for many features placing the standard above and beyond earlier versions. It seems that just about everyone from C-level executives to enterprise architects have an interest in how the standard can reshape modeling and the usefulness of leading industry... | 1.738513 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Unions have accused the State Government of robbing Peter to pay Paul with its new education funding model.
The new system comes into effect next year, along with the incorporation of year 7 into high schools.
Currently, more money is spent on secondary school students than primary school students and Education Ministe... | 1.588479 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
Random risk aversion and the cost of eliminating the foreign exchange risk of the Euro
This paper answers the following questions. If the Euro foreign exchange risk is given, what is the cost of eliminating such a risk? How does risk aversion affect this cost? What is the relation between the insurance premium on the E... | 1.090834 | 1,023 | 1,021 |
Physicists work out why wet skin wrinkles
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If you have ever sat in the bath and wondered why your fingers go wrinkly when wet, it is because the dead outer layer of your skin is made up of matrix-like structures called corneocytes. They let the skin absorb water easily when wet, yet quickly become ... | 1.375429 | 1,021 | 1,019 |
Stuart Staniford, after reading Paul Krugman's
NYT Magazine piece about climate economics, is skeptical that we can reduce carbon emissions 83% by 2050. After all, the economy is going to grow a lot during the next forty years:
If the economy is going to be a bit more than three times larger, but we are only going to e... | 1.55159 | 1,024 | 1,021 |
Servier is offering OSE Immunotherapeutics up to €272M to get hold of an antibody therapy for autoimmune diseases, an area where it will encounter major competitors. OSE Immunotherapeutics, created last May through the merger of OSE Pharma and Effimune, is a French biotech company developing immunotherapies for oncolog... | 1.590001 | 1,003 | 1,001 |
Keith Ferrazzi, author of Never Eat Alone and Who’s Got Your Back, gave a fascinating talk yesterday at The New York Forum (event livestream is here – the Forum is from June 20-21
st, my panel is this afternoon). It was a broad brush conversation about how human beings build connections with one another, and Keith gave... | 1.771212 | 1,017 | 1,015 |
Fragments of crushed rock released into the ocean during oil and gas exploration can physically bury organisms that live on the seafloor, accounting for 55% of offshore drilling´s environmental impact, according to a recent study. To allow more informed marine policy decisions, this physical impact must be recognised a... | 1.354687 | 1,003 | 1,001 |
Monitoring and analysis of internet traffic targeting unused address spaces
Ahmed, Ejaz (2010)
Monitoring and analysis of internet traffic targeting unused address spaces. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology.
Abstract
Today’s evolving networks are experiencing a large number of different attacks ranging fro... | 1.343769 | 996 | 994 |
Public companies saw a 5 percent increase in the fees they pay to external auditors last year, while private companies reported a 7 percent rise, according to a new survey from Financial Executives International.
The average audit fees of companies with centralized operations were significantly less than those with dec... | 1.43432 | 1,014 | 1,011 |
Las Vegas, NV—Many industry members are currently enjoying some time in Vegas as they meet for the SupplySide West tradeshow. A new component of the tradeshow debuted on the first day of the show (November 7) with insights and observations from the show floor theater.
Speakers covered diverse topics and offered valuabl... | 1.999712 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Once upon a time, before the acronym revolution that brought us VCRs and DVDs and CD-roms, before the Internet made so much information and creativity so easily accessible, Hollywood was the oracle. People would commune in darkened theaters or living rooms and revel in a fictional future flickering on the screen. For t... | 2.047666 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
It is four years since rioting broke out across the UK. In every city, in those places GK Chesterton called “the faraway towns”, England’s grey unpleasant land erupted as the furious energy of the downtrodden urban poor was unleashed on our streets.
You saw it happen on the news and read about it in the papers. Maybe y... | 1.802053 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
4 Strategies for Handling Tough Decisions
Ever had to make a really tough decision? Maybe you were deciding between schools or jobs, or whether or not to quit either one in favor of another venture. Or perhaps it had to do with a relationship – hours were spent mulling over the desire to try and work it out one more ti... | 1.566172 | 1,020 | 1,018 |
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computing are finally starting to appear. Howeve... | 2.010815 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
To get a copy of this graphic suitable for a poster, click here. Understanding the Teen Brain
Some 36 million people in the US are between 12 and 24 years of age—a vital period of development many neuroscientists call the age of the adolescent brain, or the teenage brain. We’ve recently seen a profusion of books (see b... | 1.785716 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Science experts say that on Mars – nicknamed “the Red Planet” – “all is extreme: Witness the 12-mile-high dust devil,” explained an April 7 science report in the Los Angeles Times that has the world’s top extraterrestrial minds scratching their heads and asking “what’s that thing?” In turn, famed Danish extraterrestria... | 1.768252 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
also featured in the hit film "Melancholia."
It was back in May 2011 when scientists announced the discovery of a planet – in this Goldilocks Zone, where life can exist because it’s not too cold or hot – that was dubbed “Gliese 581,” for the "Melancholia" planet; which scientists say is about 20 light years from Earth... | 1.901939 | 1,018 | 1,016 |
Knowing the limitations of string inverters may tell you just why the Module Level Power Electronics segment - microinverters - is on the rise.
PowerCell initiates pilot study on storage of hydrogen gas from excess electricity from wind and solar energy
- In cooperation with Wallenstam AB, Midroc Automation AB and Hydr... | 1.829087 | 1,023 | 1,021 |
The opinion of the court was delivered by: TENNEY
This is a pro se application for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241(d). Petitioner, Frederick Johnson, is confined in Green Haven Prison, Stormville, New York, pursuant to a judgment of conviction entered in May 1969 in the Bronx County Supreme Court, ... | 0.910038 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, 388 U.S. at 223-224, 87 S. Ct. at 1930. Wade further held that in the event a defendant's attorney were not present at a lineup, the trial court was to prohibit any incourt identification of the defendant by a witness who identified him at the lineup, unless the government were able to prove by clear and convincing e... | 0.981834 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
| HIRONO, Japan
HIRONO, Japan Tokyo Electric Power Co, the operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, said it would invite foreign decommissioning experts to advise it on how to deal with highly radioactive water leaking from the site, and Japan signalled it may dip into a $3.6 billion emergency reserve fund to ... | 1.465485 | 1,021 | 1,019 |
Here in London we have had the driest two winters on record, and after the snow we had in the first week of February it hardly rained a drop. Finally the government decided that we were to have water restrictions and a hosepipe ban introduced on the 5th April as our water storages are at the lowest on record. I am on a... | 1.645742 | 996 | 994 |
It’s a cult, that’s the only possible explanation. Over the past couple of days I have taken in the American Bouvier des Flandres club national specialty, conveniently just down the road, and it is a frightening, surreal experience. You walk around and can’t quite put your finger on it and then it snaps into focus. Sil... | 2.356769 | 1,023 | 1,021 |
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