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, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
Current astrocytoma models are limited in their ability to define the roles of oncoge... | 0.241474 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
migraine since SD activates trigeminal nociceptive pathways. However, whole animal studies alone cannot be used to decipher the cellular and neural circuit mechanisms of SD. Instead,
in vitro
preparations where environmental conditions can be controlled are necessary. Here, it is important to recognize limitations of ... | 0.371004 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
helper plasmids. We also present an inexpensive and validated alternative to commercially-available, dual luciferase reagents which employs PTC124, EDTA, and pyrophosphate to suppress firefly luciferase activity prior to measurement of
Renilla
luciferase. Using these methods, we screened 7,670 human genes and identifi... | 0.395937 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
the underlying kinetics have become increasingly important. Here, these powerful methodologies face major limitations due to intrinsic properties of the template samples they study,
i.e.
total cellular RNA. In many cases changes in total cellular RNA occur either too slowly or too quickly to represent the underlying m... | 0.432645 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
that uses three component algorithms in parallel to identify potential regulatory motifs by over-representation and motif position preference
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. Each component algorithm is optimized to find a different kind of motif. By taking the best of these three approaches, SCOPE performs better than any single algorithm, even ... | 0.488005 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
approach can be used to measure the effects of an introduced mutation on a CRE′s activity and to compare the activities of orthologous CREs. Although the examples given are for a CRE active during fruit fly metamorphosis, the approach can be applied to other developmental stages, fruit fly species, or model organisms.... | 0.304903 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
I'm not sure if anyone caught the Golden Globes recently, but I noted with interest a silent film called
The Artist was a winner.
That's certainly encouraging for me as I'm never the loudest one in the room.
It also struck a chord with me because in Los Angeles we hear so much about the problems we face yet there is so... | 1.829854 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
A CT scan allowed scientists to uncover what was inside the plaster jacket and print a model (right). Photo via
Radiology/RSNA
Researchers have created a 3D-printed reproduction of a dinosaur bone damaged during World War II, a development they say will help them study a dinosaur’s structure without further damaging th... | 1.504511 | 1,020 | 1,018 |
Before we review why maximising contributions and preferably using the full ISA allowance is so important let’s first review the basics of ISA’s:
An ISA is nothing more than a wrapper that surrounds purchased assets such as cash and shares. Its primary purchase is to shield you from taxation. There are two types of ISA... | 1.403466 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
tracker. The difference is that Joe is buying his investment within a Stocks and Shares ISA wrapper. They are both buying the HSBCs FTSE100 Index Fund which has an ongoing charges figure (OCF) of 0.27%. The calculation will be done in real (inflation adjusted) terms. This means the end results can be compared directly... | 1.526234 | 1,001 | 999 |
Blog: Drinking in the New Year? Not me
Olly Wehring | 3 January 2008
Now that the festive period is out of the way, and you’ve had the chain by the side of your desk reattached, I’m guessing many of you are doing as I do, and are celebrating the start of another year with a one-month alcohol abstinence ‘detox’.
Three d... | 1.915361 | 1,001 | 999 |
University of Oregon doctoral student says the proteins needed to survive ice may have an evolutionary downside
EUGENE, Ore. — Sept. 22, 2014 — Fish that adapted to survive and thrive in icy cold Antarctic waters by developing antifreeze proteins are swimming in an evolutionary paradox, says a University of Oregon rese... | 1.374402 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
You see, I find myself searching for a device capable of ridding my property of excess grass. In the past, I've had a riding mower courtesy of Dad G., since we lived next door to each other and all that. I've been cutting a 1 acre lot for 15 years, and in the past couple of years had been cutting my parents' yard, too ... | 1.580146 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
I use digital tools to tell the stories of people doing great work; and I help others to tell their own stories.
Apparently, I am the 20th most influential person in digital inclusion in the world, as well as no.2 on the “Top 50 Digital #PowerPlayers14 in #ukhousing” and also no.2 on The Guardian’s list of top Digital ... | 1.845444 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
I decided to actually look into the policy. Who it applies to, whom it is going to affect and to what degree, and what the cost controls, if any, are. I wanted to look into whether the claims of this being a cost control measure are true. I also wanted to look into whether the claims of this being a policy that balance... | 1.372245 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
grandfathered plans throughout the 2010–2019 period.So according to the CBO, most people would opt for a lower-premium plan to avoid the tax. Those plans would be ones that manage benefits more closely or offer fewer benefits than the previous plan. However, let's also note that the health insurance reform bill from t... | 1.845596 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
This appendix contains suggestions to help guide you in performing low-level program design and in writing code.
Naturally, these are guidelines and not rules. The idea is to use them as inspirations and to remember that there are occasional situations where they should be bent or broken.
Design
Elegance always pays of... | 1.57437 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
. This can eliminate the perceived need for multiple base types. Ifyou inherit, users will think they are supposed to upcast.
Use fields for variation in value, and method overriding for variation inbehavior. That is, if you find a class that uses state variables along withmethods that switch behavior based on those va... | 1.786858 | 982 | 980 |
Employee Benefits in Terms Business Owners can Appreciate
This guide allows business owners maximizing available health care products in the ever-changing world of employee benefits. The examples are in terms that everyone can relate to---- Ice Cream! If you are starting from scratch, be sure to implement these strateg... | 1.878576 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Alistair Darling wants local authorities to take on families who have been refused a loan by commercial lenders
House sales have begun falling through because of Alistair Darling's hints of a stamp duty "holiday", it was revealed today.
Furious estate agents reported that some buyers have pulled out at the last minute ... | 1.588971 | 1,021 | 1,019 |
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The Internet of Things (IoT) gets quite a lot of buzz these days, which is probably due to the fact that the market is expected to reach up to $7.1 trillion by 2020 and to connect 50 billion devices to the internet.
The IoT is already transforming agriculture, health, ... | 1.393148 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Nuiqsuit Subsistence Users Speak Out against Court Decision Press Release
REVISED from 5/26
For Immediate Release:
May 27, 2015
Contact:
Brian Litmans, Senior Staff Attorney, Trustees for Alaska, (907) 433-2007
Nuiqsuit Subsistence Users Speak Out against Court Decision Court Finds Corps’ After-the-Fact Analysis Adequa... | 1.395608 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
ST. LOUIS--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--While agriculture has become a hot sector for job growth (USDA Employment Opportunities Report, 2015), a just-released survey shows only 13 percent of high school and college students are interested in pursuing a career in the agriculture industry – and just 3 percent can identif... | 1.247243 | 995 | 993 |
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Purpose: Oncolytic viruses (OV) are attractive for use against multiple tumours given their ability to prime therapeutic immune responses in addition to their direct cytotoxic effects. We investigated the utility of reovirus, an OV currently in phase III clinical trials, as a novel immunotherapeutic against re... | 1.40425 | 997 | 995 |
Gambling licenses Premises licenses Permits Lotteries A summary of the Gambling Act 2005 Fees Statement of licensing policy Further information Contact us
The Gambling Act 2005 requires that each local authority issues permission for certain types of gambling to take place under the act.
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What follows is a fictional piece about sheep and statistics. I wrote it about two years ago, intending it to serve as a preface to an article on the dangers of inadvertent data fudging. But then I decided that no journal editor in his or her right mind would accept an article that started out … Continue reading the pa... | 1.622697 | 1,022 | 1,020 |
Recently I came across a creative technique called “
Text Reduction Strategy” (see the article here by Andrea Heick at TeachThought). I really liked the idea, but also felt it could be made even better with a Google Docs technology twist.
The original idea goes like this…
Students are given a magazine articleand a blac... | 1.190117 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
rights. Click the big blue Share buttonin the top right corner of the Google Doc. When the “ Share with others” window opens, click “ Get sharable link” in the top right corner. This will generate a link that will allow others to view the document. Provide this link to your students through email, or on your class web... | 1.493605 | 1,023 | 1,021 |
UK Construction news for Rank and File Construction workers.Dedicated to keeping the rank and file construction workers of the UK informed of the goings on throughout the industry.Want to contribute? Get in touchTo get hard copies for your site please email your address and amount of copies required to:siteworkers@virg... | 2.06752 | 1,012 | 1,010 |
A Moratorium on Multiple Choice?
I've begun to think that multiple-choice tests are increasingly irrelevant in my classroom. This year, the things I'm most excited about in my history class are document-based auestions, Socratic seminars, conducting oral histories, and National History Day. It's been exciting to embrac... | 1.666801 | 1,000 | 998 |
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The most popular small cap stocks among hedge funds tend to generate significant alpha- about 120 basis points per month, per our own analysis. In our August 2012 newsletter, we disclosed which small cap stocks had been the most popular at the end of June and those stocks proceeded to return 14% in the fourth quarter o... | 1.420531 | 1,005 | 1,002 |
3M announced today it is in the final stages of scale-up for its new 3M™ Quantum Dot Enhancement Film (QDEF). The new film allows up to 50 percent more color than current levels in liquid crystal display (LCD) devices. 3M has teamed with Nanosys, Inc., to produce the 3M QDEF solution specifically to deliver more color,... | 1.476937 | 1,021 | 1,019 |
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America's finest conservation moment and ongoing challenge is about to happen. Let's consider putting aside other conservation efforts and instead turn our focus on the Gulf.
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Helping Children Cope with Fear and Anxiety
By Dr. Anand Prabhu, Psychologist; Team Leader – Mood and Anxiety Team, CHEO
Dylan is afraid of the dark. Tricia hates to eat in front of other people. Eric becomes sick to his stomach and throws up if he has to speak aloud in class. Fears and worries are a very normal part o... | 1.498842 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
ian. It might be time for a check up and a good time to talk about what is causing these symptoms in your child. Your physician can help you to decide if your child should see someone, such as a child psychologist, to help her deal with her fears and/or anxiety.
References:
Chansky, Tamar. Freeing your Child from Anxie... | 1.846178 | 1,016 | 1,014 |
The CDC are investigating 14 new potential cases of sexual transmission of Zika virus from traveling men to non-traveling women in the US.
The news appears in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) statement about following guidance to prevent sexual transmission of Zika virus.
The federal agency emphasizes... | 1.433882 | 1,017 | 1,015 |
These days sure seem like a golden age of photography, don’t they? All these slim iPhones and stout digital SLRs sporting near-infinite memories and built-in photo processing, with first Flickr and Facebook and now Instagram and Snapchat giving more and more practised photographers a place to display more and more pict... | 1.921989 | 1,021 | 1,019 |
It’s no secret that I LOVE my dog. I mean, it’s even kind of a joke around our house that I treat him better than the rest of the family. I’m not too proud to admit that it’s kind of true. I didn’t even think I was a dog person, until we got Leonard (aka:
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and we’ve had an amazing experience with their food. Quick Disclaimer: Yes…we have tried a raw foods diet; we’re big time researchers so we know all about the great options and benefits it has to offer – its also not the choice we’ve made for this particular phase of our life and using high-quality dry food from compa... | 1.600361 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Laser rejuvenation of the face skin and correction of skin cosmetic imperfections “The best operation is a not performed operation”, — aesthetic surgeons say suggesting women that they should forget about plastics for a while. Laser rejuvenation of skin is the most advanced method of making the face young, and the skin... | 1.960272 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Presentation on theme: "How we teach Phonics and Reading at Thursday 20 th September 2012."— Presentation transcript:
1How we teach Phonics and Reading at Thursday 20 th September 2012
2Welcome and thank you for coming to our meeting. We aim to cover: Phonics Reading Parental involvement After the presentation parents ... | 1.323588 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
more often) We also run two reading intervention programmes FFT (Fisher Family Trust and BRF (Better Reading Partners) Please try and aim to read with your child every day to encourage enjoyment in reading. Please make a note in your child’s reading diary. This should be brought into school every day with your child’s... | 1.628642 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Pour-Over Wills Locate a Local Family Lawyer What Is a Pour-Over Will?
Pour-over wills are a particular type of will used in conjunction with a trust. This kind of will “pours” over any property that the descendant’s will did not give away through the will into an existing trust. Basically, the writer of the will creat... | 1.464192 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT STUDIES
RCDRC Home Page Menstrual Cycle Effects on TMD Pain and Other Symptoms: Studies 2 AND 3
PI: Linda LeResche, Ph.D., Research Professor, Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, University of Washington
Temporomandibular disorders are musculoskeletal pain conditions characterized by pain in the... | 0.919324 | 1,004 | 1,002 |
Saturn square Neptune is the strongest planetary aspect occurring in late 2015 and for all of 2016. There are three exact squares between November 2015 and September 2016 which I will show at the end of this article. Before that, I will talk about the natal aspect and transiting Saturn square Neptune. We have to wait u... | 1.78851 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
"Two simple observations explain both the high level of spending on medical care and the dissatisfaction with that spending. The first is that most payments to physicians or hospitals or other caregivers for medical care are made not by the patient but by a third party—an insurance company or employer or governmental b... | 1.575415 | 1,024 | 1,022 |
Countries in the Middle East have had strong political and economic relationships with India for centuries. This included people-to-people contacts, as well as barter of textiles and spices from India for dates and pearls in the region. Sharjah and Dubai were the main hubs for trade with the Western coast of India and,... | 1.419874 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
support,” says Dr. Mahate.
For instance, between 2009 and 2012 Dubai Chamber’s Indian membership rose 41 per cent, to 24,566 in 2012, after rising around 12 per cent each year.
“In terms of Dubai Chamber, our Indian membership is one of our largest nationalities. As of May 31, 2013, we have a total of 25,972 Indian pa... | 1.966462 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
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This essay assesses the need for deeper integration in the European Union, while questioning where the current European leadership has the vision to implement such reforms in the wake of the euro crisis.
Editor's Note: This essay is ... | 1.666609 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Pact symbolizes the lack of attention to the growth side of the equation). That consensus facilitated bargains between France and Germany at Maastricht in 1992, where plans for EMU were signed into treaty law. Countries worked hard to get within spitting distance of the austere convergence criteria for entry into EMU.... | 2.030655 | 973 | 972 |
I am writing this from Northern Scandinavia. It’s January and the situation outside is dark, cold, and generally without hope. It’s tough to live in a place like this, which is why I try to travel as much as possible during the wintertime, but sometimes you’re stuck, or you just want to spend one winter in snow country... | 1.35132 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Capitalism, as it is practiced in rich countries, has taken two brilliant ideas too far. The first is return on equity (ROE), one way of measuring value creation that has managed to eclipse many other, and broader, ones. The second is competition, which has come to be seen as an end in itself rather than as a tool for ... | 1.684881 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
corporation than “What’s the ROE on that?” Social media spending? Wellness checkups? Better working conditions? Elimination of bribes overseas? Return-on-equity hurdles threaten them all. Conversely, why market cigarettes? ROE justifies the means.
How did this criterion come to dominate not just investment decisions b... | 2.034677 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
recently become available, and no one’s bonus depends on them. In indices that track the performance of world economies, the U.S. routinely fails to make the top 10 on nonfinancial dimensions but continues to make choices on the basis of GDP impact.
To an even greater degree, financial measurement shapes thinking and ... | 1.795397 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
dealing at arm’s length, unlike GM and DuPont.
But that era ended when, as chronicled by Alfred Chandler in The Visible Hand, industrialization allowed organizations to reach unprecedented scale. Producers became price makers, raising profits and reducing output. When they grew so powerful that society rebelled, legal... | 1.988302 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
really the heart, much less the soul, of capitalism. Suppose capitalism really centered on the pursuit of value—the greatest good for the greatest number. That’s also a formulation that does not reject financial profitability but allows it to sit easily beside the pursuit of other kinds of gains.
It sounds simple, but... | 1.902232 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Linus Pauling (1901-1994) was one of the most brilliant scientists of the 20th century. He worked out the structure of proteins and was involved in the race to discover the structure of DNA. That this eminent and visionary chemist failed to spot it has baffled many who've studied his life's work.
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As a registered dietitian, I constantly find myself giving this advice to clients: Eat more fruits and vegetables. Why? Overall, they’re low in calories, high in fiber and water, and loaded with nutrients. Eating plenty of them daily can help you maintain or lose weight — and ward off various diseases.
They also add so... | 1.375936 | 1,023 | 1,021 |
Conferences, networking events, too-good-to-miss social media training opportunities…
Let’s face it, there are plenty of activities to distract us from everyday business life that promise to promote and improve our businesses, to make connections and hopefully secure sales along the way. If like me you live in a rural ... | 1.616104 | 1,023 | 1,021 |
THE Reserve Bank has signalled that interest rates are likely to remain unchanged for the coming months, as fears of another global credit crisis take a hefty toll on household confidence.
Minutes from this month's RBA board meeting, published yesterday, said the central bank had ''more time'' to consider the threat of... | 1.747552 | 989 | 987 |
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2 August 2005 A study carried out at Scotland's Aberdeen Maternity Hospital suggests that women whose first baby is delivered by Caesarean section are less likely to have another baby than those who give birth naturally.
The research, published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaec... | 1.636209 | 1,016 | 1,014 |
Theurgy, in opposition to thaumaturgy where a given person is the sole source of magickal change in the world, is a form of magick available only for theists, that is everyone who firmly believe in spiritual higher reality*, because theurgy magick is made with a help or solely by the force of higher spiritual entities ... | 2.245501 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
World-renowned relationship researcher and co-founder of The Gottman Institute, Dr. John Gottman, has conducted 40 years of research with thousands of people. From his research has emerged a practice that is important to the emotional connection between two people – the act of “turning toward” your loved one when a bid... | 1.489886 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
The sun may provide us with a lot of vitamin D, and being outdoors, in general, may provide a great feeling, but there can be a lot of harm that comes with an abundance of sun exposure without protection. To help slow down the aging process and reduce wrinkles, to help protect getting blotchiness and brown spots, and m... | 1.555687 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
By Roland Pease
BBC radio science unit
The vesicles pushed out a green fluorescent protein
Researchers at Rockefeller University in the US have made the first tentative steps towards creating a form of artificial life.
Their creations, small synthetic vesicles that can process (express) genes, resemble a crude kind of ... | 1.447282 | 962 | 960 |
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The UK has been a leader in telecom reforms. Thus OFCOM’s encouragement of BT to have a de facto separate unit called Openreach to permit non-discriminatory use of the infrastructure caught the attention of many. Now, OFCOM wants to take next logical step and is proposing real structural separation:... | 1.477644 | 1,023 | 1,021 |
“What’s wrong with my marketing?” That’s a question I often hear from clients, students, and readers. It’s a useful query, as there frequently are areas where you could do better at marketing and sales. But while the question “what’s wrong” can uncover your marketing problems, it doesn’t always suggest answers. You may... | 1.454665 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
On Election Day, Yale voters were everywhere: sticking on “I voted” stickers, spilling out of the Afro-American Cultural Center to phonebank for Sen. Barack Obama, watching election returns and rallying on Old Campus. But they were just a small part of the record-breaking mass of young people who turned out to send Oba... | 1.533297 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Personal statement by Alex Lotorto - For every project, there is a permit, or in Riverdale's case, there were two. For Riverdale, the loss of that community could have only occurred with the approval of the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, made up of three Democrats and one Republican, President Obama and governors ... | 1.432603 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Most people barely know what exactly the International Monetary Fund does. At least here in Europe, it is seen as an institution that does “stuff”, related to banks? Economy? Corporations? The perception most people have of the IMF is, at best vague if not completely ignorant of its workings. It just doesn’t register m... | 2.103517 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Government policymakers just don’t seem to get it!
The economic philosophy governments have been using as the foundation of their budget and monetary policy since World War II isn’t working. Governments need to change direction.
Most governments in the developed world need to do a “turnaround.” But, turnarounds are onl... | 1.90242 | 991 | 989 |
To re-gift, or not to re-gift? It can be really tempting shave a few bucks off your holiday shopping budget by recycling presents you’ve received — and a substantial majority of Americans now think it’s okay to re-gift. In a recent CreditDonkey.com survey, 83% of respondents said they wouldn’t mind receiving a gift ori... | 1.653334 | 940 | 938 |
Oil is one of the most precious resources that are known to man. Thousands of dollars are spent a year in oil exploration. Any country that has a good reserve of oil is considered to be the richest country. This is exactly why the oil is also called the black gold.
Under Sea Exploration
Most of the oil exploration in t... | 1.726247 | 961 | 960 |
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[NOTE: This article was written before a change in California law that now permits the so-called 'no flop, no drop' rule. See material in [RED] in text of article below. Therefore, the conclusion that playing online is t... | 1.579333 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
. Under the Las Vegas style of rake, which the online cardrooms follow, after the flop the rake is calculated as 10% of the pot, up a maximum stated amount, usually $3 or $4 per hand. This, too, violates the statute and technically makes the
Under the statute it is conceivable that different amounts of flat fees could ... | 1.641718 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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The USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) was deployed to Japan following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. The aircraft carrier, stationed near the Fukushima nuclear power plant, provided several months of aid to the area. The service members were unknowingly exposed to radiation from seawater that went throu... | 1.721128 | 1,020 | 1,018 |
NEW ORLEANS – Facing pressure to justify their discipline in an increasingly job-oriented higher education culture, history department chairs on Thursday discussed everyday challenges and how to stay relevant during an American Historical Association annual meeting session.
Despite differential tuition proposals that w... | 1.886403 | 1,017 | 1,015 |
Raw milk is 150 times more likely to give you potentially dangerous bacterial infections compared with pasteurized milk, according to a new study published online in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases on Wednesday.
Advocates of raw milk tout the unhomogenized and unpasteurized milk as a health food capable of pro... | 1.596146 | 1,008 | 1,006 |
Parental Attitudes on Sex, Costs Stymie HPV Vaccinations
Parental concern that getting vaccinated for the human papillomavirus may increase teenagers’ sexual activity is among the attitudes discouraging use of the inoculation to prevent cervical cancer, researchers found.
Seven years after the Merck & Co. (MRK)’s Garda... | 1.131482 | 947 | 946 |
Finally, here is the promised post on Belgium – delayed not only by personal circumstances, but even more by the time it took me to talk to a dozen of people more knowledge on the Belgian situation. Writing this post made it very clear that one should never trust one single source when he or she is talking about Belgiu... | 1.509169 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
-Halle-Vilvoorde, see below). As a consequence, the parties that are now negotiating about the formation of the federal government are having regional interests in the backs of their heads. In addition, this also leads to some remarkable dynamics in the case of the man who got the most votes, Yves Leterme, on which mor... | 1.645252 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
There are a range of different ways to solve the unconstitutional nature of the current situation in BHV, and the Flemish parties present it as if the split of BHV is the only possible solution, and doesn’t require any negotiations about compensations (I’ll spare you the dizzying details of the other legal solutions t... | 1.697043 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
The leader of the biggest party, the Flemish Christian Democratic party CD&V, Mr. Yves Leterme, was until recently the prime minister at the Flemish level. He ran in the last federal elections, and received 800.000 votes behind its name, which is (even historically) a lot for a small country like Belgium (however, he ... | 1.617373 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
similar report on the website of the Walloon region, but invite anyone who has found interesting (and preferably non-contested) statistics to add them in the comments section. In any case, what those figures (and others that are in scholarly books that are not on-line) do indicate is that in terms of where people live... | 1.739595 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
get a job in the federal public service or in politics if one was not able and willing to work in French. The message that Flemish pupils and students received until not so long ago, was that it was absolutely necessary for one’s future to be fluent in French. This situation has not been symmetrical: the French-speaki... | 1.740447 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
sides almost no understanding, let alone any sympathy, for the position of the other community. To me, this was perhaps the biggest surprise (and shock) when reading in preparation for this post: listening to Francophone and Flemish politicians, or to the French and Flemish media in general, or to the comments by thei... | 1.896048 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
LAST WEEK, when talking about his economic-stimulus plan, President George W. Bush said: "I understand the politics of economic stimulus ó that some like to turn this into class warfare. Thatís not how I think." The "class warfare" phrase was repeated this weekend on NBCís
Meet the Press by Republican senator Don Nickl... | 1.400652 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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NEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)– Washington Post Columnist George Will believes that college rape victims are more likely to come forward now that rape is a “coveted status that confers privileges,” Think Progress reported June 9.
In a column published by the newspaper on... | 1.420182 | 994 | 992 |
#writing a
successful article that will be read by many is a difficult process. Often writers come up with ideas that are simply not good enough to garner a lot of attention. The most successful and widely read articles that I have written have utilized the following steps in order. 1. The idea
This is the most critica... | 1.589111 | 1,021 | 1,019 |
It seems like there is a huge Montessori movement right now and honestly, it’s for a good reason. Plenty of Montessori materials and ideas are extremely helpful for young children. A very popular material is a set of sandpaper Montessori letters. Sandpaper letters are great because they give a tactile experience to lea... | 1.428366 | 949 | 947 |
Abstract
Introduction: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is common among commercial drivers and associated with health/safety risks, leading several trucking firms to mandate OSA screening.
Methods: A total of 19,371 commercial drivers were screened for OSA with an online questionnaire (Somni-Sage
[reg]) through employer m... | 1.37708 | 998 | 996 |
Adding exceptions or limitations in a report prevents other people from criticising research methods or results of conclusions. In a report, the researcher will acknowledge the limitations of their research method or other aspects of the report in relevant sections -- for example, limitations affecting the methods used... | 1.591191 | 1,006 | 1,004 |
heic0102 — Science Release Hubble Zooms In on Bar of Favourite Spring Spiral Galaxy
27 February 2001
Astronomers have long suspected that the bar systems that dominate the appearance of some spiral galaxies provide an efficient mechanism for fuelling star births at their centres. New results from the NASA/ESA Hubble Sp... | 1.118425 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Q: I am the mother of a 6-month-old baby. I constantly check the Internet for parenting tips and am overwhelmed by the thousands of links. There is so much I don’t know. How do I know which are the best resources that will help me be a better parent?
A: There is a lot of information out there in the cyberworld and not ... | 1.637473 | 973 | 971 |
This summer we’re sponsoring high school interns in stem cell labs throughout California. We asked those students to contribute to our Instagram photos and YouTube videos about life in the lab, and write about their experiences. Ted Zhu will be a junior at Walnut High School. He works in Dr. Ren-Jang Lin’s lab, where h... | 1.714738 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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