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BBC reports fatigue among seafarers as a reason for accidents and near misses at sea. DNV study says 51% of marine accidents are caused by only 25% of all the ships worldwide. One of the reasons for these accidents is fatigue experienced by seafarers.
What is fatigue ?
Fatigue is experienced by us as physical fatigue a... | __label__pos | 0.999054 |
TEXT OF STORY TESS VIGELAND:One option he may have is to visit a job fair. They're popping up all over the country for people who need help with resume-writing and figuring out what job might fit their skills. But even with all those fairs, the jobs are sparse and they don't generally promise riches.
In fact, as Lisa N... | __label__pos | 0.971603 |
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I had just landed in Portland, OR, and found myself waiting in yet another line. This one snaked around the corner in front of Voodoo Doughnut, a business bu... | __label__pos | 0.998551 |
On the fishing-boat piers of New England, nearly everyone knows a fisherman who was lost at sea.
Boat captain Joe Neves remembers when a crew member got knocked overboard. "We heard him screaming 'Help me!' " Neves says, grimacing. "But you know, on the water at night, your head is like a little coconut." They didn't f... | __label__pos | 0.846106 |
I’m writing this from the airport on my way to Seattle, where my father, sister and I will rent a car and drive a few hours to the small town where my father’s mother has been living for the past 20 years. Yesterday morning my grandmother died during surgery, and we spent most of the day trying to plan her funeral and ... | __label__pos | 0.774018 |
Among the laws governing the reading of the scroll of Esther discussed in tractate Megillah is the stipulation that the megillah may not be read backwards: “One who reads the megillah backwards has not fulfilled one’s obligation” (17a). The story of the Jews in Shushan unfolds in linear progression, moving from “sorrow... | __label__pos | 0.938923 |
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APCO/NENA Service Capability Criteria Rating Scale
Document Type: Informational Number: APCO/NENA ANS 1.102.2-2010
APCO and NENA have jointly developed this document to assist PSAP Managers and their Governing Authorities to identify their current level of service capability. A self-evaluation assessment too... | __label__pos | 0.957418 |
The article “Philly’s Hottest Rental Neighborhoods in May” was originally posted on the Kwelia.com blog. Kwelia uses proprietary market data to build sophisticated statistical models to determine theoretical market values for specific units in specific areas based on their detailed characteristics; more details can be ... | __label__pos | 0.737764 |
ONCE, the world couldn't get enough of Aussie wine. But now it's faced with cut-price South American producers.
AUSTRALIA makes a lot of wine.
A lot of it's cheap. A bit of it probably might be called nasty by fancy expert tasters, but overall Australia has established an international reputation as a reliable producer... | __label__pos | 0.978622 |
The same state that led the charge in the controversial anti-vaccine movement is now passing one of the strictest mandatory vaccine laws in the country.
On Thursday, the California assembly approved SB 277, a bill that would eliminate the state's "personal belief" exemption and require children to be vaccinated before ... | __label__pos | 0.983525 |
I grew up in a family of keen fishermen and it was fun not only fishing in Scotland, and Ireland, but we got taken all over the world in search of a big one.
We didn’t have a choice, you fished, or kept quiet and read a book.
This article is on my favorite country, New Zealand, and its fishing is out of this world. Eve... | __label__pos | 0.972449 |
International travel is beset by many uncertainties, and added to the mix, for many travelers, is the question of whether to purchase trip cancellation insurance. Especially this year, the outbreak of the H1N1 virus has thrown many travel plans out of gear, and trip cancellation and international health insurance are m... | __label__pos | 0.953797 |
While restaurateurs are widely recognized for their ability to feed and care for guests who come to them for a pleasant dining experience, they are quite not as well known for reaching out to provide aid for those individuals who are less fortunate.
Yet, the foodservice industry has long provided support for those in n... | __label__pos | 0.999541 |
Larva
Caterpillars have chewing mouthparts. Adults have
siphoning mouths. Caterpillars will feed on the
tender part of the leaves.
Larva
Pest Status, Damage: Caterpillars produce
loose webbing around leaves and branches in which
they feed on leaves; produce unsightly "nests" and
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A Message from the President Announcement of The Ohio Northern PromiseOhio Northern UniversityDaniel A. DiBiasioOct. 10, 2013
As all of you know, the current economic downturn has created unprecedented financial challenges for all sectors of higher education, including the private, nonprofit sector, leading many to bel... | __label__pos | 0.682529 |
The positive focus was a welcome contrast from the doom and gloom in most US reporting. The article is also refreshingly free of partisan bickering and is properly focused on our efforts to secure the country. Far too many articles written about Iran, Iraq or Afghanistan actually focus on local US politics. We are all ... | __label__pos | 0.999205 |
Renewable Energy and Global Stability
An Agence France-Presse article, reprinted at Terradaily.com, got me thinking about some of the unanticipated results of a radical shift to renewable energy systems.
In "OPEC Casts A Dark Eye On The Greening Of Energy," writer Peter Capella quotes sources from within OPEC and Saudi... | __label__pos | 0.990353 |
Archive - Jan 2, 2010 Some people look at what is and ask why? I prefer to dream of what is not and write blog posts about it.
At a New Year’s party, I was asked if 2010 will be the year that someone finally figures out where the online revenues for local newspapers are going to come from. I certainly hope so. Already ... | __label__pos | 0.981801 |
North Korea is rattling its sabers again. Or perhaps that metallic clinking is actually the sound of two piggy banks, shaking in stereo.
North Korean officials have made noises for over a month about the looming possibility of a missile test, in defiance of the U.N. Security Council. Foreign diplomats in Pyongyang and ... | __label__pos | 0.955087 |
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Heywood 19 (1:26) Topic(s): Biofuels / Environment User Comments
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The
European Week for Waste Reduction promotes awareness-raising actions about sustainable resource and waste management, and encourages a wide range of audiences (public authorities, private companies, civil society as well as citizens themselves) to get involved.
EWWR encourages citizens to adapt the 3Rs: Reduce wast... | __label__pos | 0.999663 |
11 Apr Long-Distance Child Custody Parenting
The emotional devastation of your child moving away from one of their parents is only made worse by the potential financial impact of travel costs on the family. Your divorce attorney must ensure that every child relocation is in the best interest of the children and not bas... | __label__pos | 0.940645 |
The scourge of unlicensed holiday homes E DII TO RII A L
The recent unfortunate case of a young boy drowning in the pool of a holiday complex raises the valid question, “does anyone regulate the holiday industry”? In this case, the blame has bounced from one public service to another, with each one saying that it had d... | __label__pos | 0.993778 |
“Supermarket buyers pay extremely close attention to margins and are catering to America’s very price-sensitive consumers,” said Alaina Paradise, owner of One World Flowers in Denver, stating why she thinks Fair Trade flowers have not caught on in supermarkets here. Since 2007, One World has imported Fair Trade flowers... | __label__pos | 0.989177 |
These systems are generating high voltage. Would you want them installed by someone who only had two week’s training?
Riverside, CA (PRWEB) November 04, 2013
Since 1939, his organization has helped to build and maintain Riverside County. Frost says their mission is to be the collective voice for the many men and women ... | __label__pos | 0.848992 |
Even prolific writers talk about those moments, after the completion of a book or screenplay, when they wonder whether they’ll ever write again, ever have anything more to say. If the writer is lucky, the thought is fleeting and the next new project is already bubbling up in the writer’s mind, begging to be written.
Bu... | __label__pos | 0.999931 |
PUCL Bulletin, April 2003
Panchayat Raj: Ten years of local self-government -- By George Mathew
Also see, Women leadership in panchayats
When ten years ago on December 22 and 23, 1992, the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha passed the two amendments to the Constitution (73rd and 74th) making panchayats and municipalities "I... | __label__pos | 0.913657 |
Published on April 18th, 2013 |
by RLn Staff San Pedro Still On the Verge Discovering the secret assets By James Preston Allen, Publisher I have lived in this seaport community for 40 years now and I’m still discovering secrets in this close-knit town. Secrets that even some of the long-time residents don’t know or und... | __label__pos | 0.995407 |
Personal Branding Across Cultures By Marcela Jenney-Reyes How does personal branding “translate” around the globe in other cultures? Your New Year’s Culture Each January, at the start of a fresh new year, we are reminded that change, growth, and development are within our reach if we make “new year’s resolutions” and s... | __label__pos | 0.787268 |
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Small Tech Firm Seeks Fees From Pharma
Avante claims drugmakers will need to license its new patent if they want to use RFID to authenticate their products.
Jun 22, 2005—Prompted by state mandates to create secure electr... | __label__pos | 0.901678 |
There has been a great deal of criticism of Pakistani military's role in the industry and the economy of Pakistan since the release of Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa Agha's book "The Military Inc: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy" last year. The book describes in some detail the size and the activities of what Dr. Agha calls "MI... | __label__pos | 0.747111 |
As the national airspace system evolves, older navigation systems give way to safer, more reliable, and increasingly efficient technology. As students, we all studied the evolution of non-directional beacons and radio-ranges giving way to VORTAC’s and ILS’s. Today, these are now "legacy" navigation aids when you consid... | __label__pos | 0.890342 |
Colleagues in Caring: Regional Collaboratives for Nursing Work Force Development was a national program to streamline the nursing education system and increase the capacity and attractiveness of the nursing profession that started in October 1994 when the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Board of Trustees authoriz... | __label__pos | 0.997994 |
Sales people work hard to get in front of new customers. And put extensive time and resource into understanding their issues and perfecting relevant solutions. Given this incredible investment I have to ask, “Why do so many talented sales people stumble when it comes to moving the customer forward or asking for the bus... | __label__pos | 0.984389 |
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/03/2014 -- For personal trainers, there can be no ground as ripe as the sports industry for business endeavors. Nearly every sport, be it basketball or soccer, requires the sportsman to remain fit and on top of their game. For this purpose, all athletes tend to appoint perso... | __label__pos | 0.980988 |
The World Coal Association (WCA) published a flagship report “The Case for Coal: India’s Energy Trilemma”. The report focuses on the challenges of meeting India’s growing energy needs, future energy demand, CO2 abatement costs and the role that can be played by high efficiency, low emission (HELE) coal technologies.Sig... | __label__pos | 0.998214 |
Obama shortens sentence of inmate from Cape (1/19/17)9 Business notebook: Jackson salon owner also opens a clothing store (1/16/17) Area hospitals hope a box helps prevent infant deaths (1/19/17)6 Jackson police describe night of anger, car crashes, drug possession by 18-year-old (1/22/17)5 Two subjects of interest in ... | __label__pos | 0.966373 |
IBM, in it for the long haul, is betting big on Watson Published 12:41 pm, Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Watson, can you grow into a multibillion-dollar business and become the engine of IBM’s resurgence?
IBM is betting its future that the answer is yes. Its campaign to commercialize Watson, the company’s version of arti... | __label__pos | 0.847908 |
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When bodies like the Australia Council are criticised, or when large sums are disbursed for grand opera or similar minority interests, there is always a fallback to incontestable sentiments regarding the value of high culture and performance, the importance of maintaining standards of a kind which are necessarily eliti... | __label__pos | 0.999483 |
Two vintage jars of chutney which have been gathering dust in the back of an English kitchen cupboard for 34 years are set to test the boundaries of food science.
Joy Tomkins, 73, made a batch of curried rhubarb and apple pickle in 1969 - and after rediscovering the last two jars recently, she wants to know if it's sti... | __label__pos | 0.953237 |
Initially of interest to physicians from the time of the Enlightenment onwards, the history of medicine has gradually gained the attention of historians, sociologists, philosophers, anthropologists, and other social science students.
The study of diseases, their treatment, the maintenance of health and pharmacology are... | __label__pos | 0.982394 |
The Washington Post offered up one of the most intriguing analyses of Republican Scott Brown’s Senate victory in Massachusetts Tuesday. Rather than a repudiation of health reform, the article by Post staff writer Alec MacGillis suggested that voters instead rejected the idea of subsidizing health insurance expansion ou... | __label__pos | 0.880763 |
Our efforts to promote awareness on this topic began in 2005 with grant funds awarded to the Division by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-New Jersey Health Initiative. In continuation of those efforts, the Division has recently received a multi-year grant from the STOP Violence Against Women Act and is working collab... | __label__pos | 0.944176 |
Last week the latest digital assistant,Viv, was demonstrated to the public. Viv was created by the same team that developed Siri and can be solely controlled by voice. During it’s unveiling, a pizza was ordered, toppings added, paid for and delivered all through Viv. This was done without the user ever needing to use s... | __label__pos | 0.902952 |
Most firms find it difficult to implement transnational strategy. In the long run, almost all firms want to include some elements of localized decision-making because each country has its own eccentric characteristics. For example, very few people in Japan prefer a computer that includes English-language keyboard. Anot... | __label__pos | 0.998471 |
FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT AND TOURISM
Principles of Marketing
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Lecturer: Tran Tuan Anh Tutor: Le Minh Hang
Tut: 4AC10
Students:
Pham Thi Hoang Yen 1004010104
Nguyen Thi Kim Hanh 1004010018
Nguyen Thu Thuy 1004010092
Trinh Thi Huong Le 1004010047
Executive summary
For millions... | __label__pos | 0.799696 |
Early or late, everyone has to start his vocational life. Its an important event of life because then after an entirely new world starts – THE WORLD OF WORK. Many courses are available for simple and common vocations which do not require any special skill. Anyone can do them. But …………. TO BE DIFFERENT IS TO BE RENOWNED... | __label__pos | 0.996651 |
XEL Communications, Inc.located in the outskirts of Denver, Colorado designed and manufactured various telecommunications products for a number of companiesprimarily large U.S. telephone operating companies. Originally, it was a division within GTE headed by Bill Sanko, it was about to be closed when Sanko and a few ot... | __label__pos | 0.910432 |
Significance & Meaning Of Angel Number 895 895 has been showing up on you lately. You saw it buried in your papers. You have also spotted it on your bills. The angels are trying to talk to you.
Rational behavior is requested by
angel number 895. This is the ability to act in a calculated manner. It is making the right ... | __label__pos | 0.943901 |
As I was setting up FTP access for our clients, I got upset, once again, at how we handle our policy regarding customer access. One of our customers does this right: each person in our company who needs to access their network has an individual username and password. My boss, and most of our customers, just want a sing... | __label__pos | 0.921174 |
This book provides a concise, accessible, and up-to-date introduction to psychological research for musicians - performers, music educators, and studio teachers. Designed to address the needs and priorities of the performing musician rather than the research community, it reviews the relevant psychological research fin... | __label__pos | 0.997906 |
Providing a solid foundation in cardiovascular and pulmonary physiology and rehabilitation, Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Physical Therapy: Evidence and Practice, 5th Edition uses the latest scientific literature and research in covering anatomy and physiology, assessment, and interventions. A holistic approach addresse... | __label__pos | 0.953324 |
In this exciting activity, participants face a simulated "jungle survival." They must reach agreement in this imaginary setting in order to succeed, and they learn why consensus produces the best decisions. When their plane makes an emergency landing in the jungle, participants need to decide which of 15 items on the p... | __label__pos | 0.976638 |
This fully-updated fifth edition includes real-life examples of current events such as the Japanese tsunami, the Gulf oil disaster, and Hurricane Irene, along with lessons learned from these events. The coverage also includes new chapters on public health campaigns, and on the use and effectiveness of social media such... | __label__pos | 0.999949 |
The Human Condition is a work by Hannah published in 1958. Arendt
Hannah
studies the vita activa for itself, regardless of the vita contemplativa: this leads to re-establish the hierarchy among the various activities of the vita activa, and more specifically to reaffirm the priority of the action on the work. This stat... | __label__pos | 0.968527 |
As the sun set on Friday night, church leaders and Glen Oaks West neighbors steadily marched down the middle of Sumrall Drive beneath the glow of new street lights that lined the roadway.
But the march, co-organized by the Rev. Donald Hunter of New Beginning Baptist Church, was also a show of solidarity as crime contin... | __label__pos | 0.876556 |
East Baton Rouge Parish residents could eventually have another option when choosing cable, internet and phone service providers besides Cox Communications and AT&T.
Wednesday afternoon the Metro Council’s finance and executive committee considered an agreement with Eatel Video to expand its services into the parish.
E... | __label__pos | 0.909351 |
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The Guardian's Mike Davis says Mexican swine flu is "a genetic chimera probably conceived in the faecal mire of an industrial pigsty." No wonder the pork industry is so upset about the bad publicity caused by swine flu. Their solution to this problem? Call it something else. This worked a... | __label__pos | 0.984857 |
U.S. News
Florida: Project Studies AIDS Impact
September 5, 2003
The Manatee County, Fla., health department has received a $15,000 US Department of Health and Human Services grant to conduct a four-month project designed to address the disproportionate HIV infection rate among minority populations. Prevention efforts ... | __label__pos | 0.940214 |
In most cases, woody plants that are allowed to respond naturally to their own genetic growth requirements look much different from most of those we see everyday.
Why? It’s usually a matter of what happens to them while under our care. We spend a great deal of time and effort forcing plants into the wrong shaped holes ... | __label__pos | 0.820531 |
The Story Behind The WonderfulWizard of Oz [a parable about populism, moneyreform, and the 1890s Midwestern political movement led by WilliamJennings Bryan ] www.moneyreformparty.org.uk/ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was first publishedin Chicago in 1900. Its author, L. Frank Baum, was the edito... | __label__pos | 0.883756 |
Does anyone have any opinion about buying minced garlic vs. fresh? It appears at first that the minced jar at Walmart might end up saving a little money.
Bethany from SC Add your voice! Click below to answer. ThriftyFun is powered by your wisdom!
Bethany, you bring up a good topic. I've wondered about that myself. I've... | __label__pos | 0.991595 |
Hurricane Sandy was a huge disaster, and there has been an outpouring of sympathy for its victims, and calls for tax money to be spent on reconstruction and cleanup.
Unfortunately, the U.S. Senate is considering a $60 billion Hurricane Sandy relief bill packed with unrelated spending. That includes $3.3 million for Plu... | __label__pos | 0.924246 |
Who We Are Where We Stand Our Rights Our Benefits Our Chapters Administrative Education Analysts and Officers Audiologists Education Officers & Education Analysts Guidance Counselors Hearing Education Services Hearing Officers (Per Session) Lab Specialists Occupational / Physical Therapists Paraprofessionals Retired Te... | __label__pos | 0.937339 |
The Role Of Your Physical Appearance When Dating Women
There are so many opinions and theories about the importance of the physical appearance when dating a man or a woman. And so many misconceptions. Many people see their lack of success as a direct result of how they look, i.e. as a result of not being born as a phot... | __label__pos | 0.808989 |
By Monica Hesse
Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, March 8, 2009
It's an older episode of "The Office," the one where Stanley goes berserk and Pam wears her ugly glasses and Darryl tells Michael he belongs to a gang called "the Newsies." You watched it when it first aired, and it was so good you're now watching it ag... | __label__pos | 0.986182 |
With the 2014 Academy Awards presentations taking place next week, this seems like a good time to look at science as depicted in movies, both present and past.
I enjoy intelligent movies with astronomical or space themes, such as
Gravity, which is up for 10 Oscars this year including best direction and best picture. At... | __label__pos | 0.956323 |
Rental storage units, also known as self-storage and also mini-storage devices, are a flourishing service right now, as storage facilities appear to be surfacing all over. People collect an increasing number of things, and their belongings outgrow their attics and cellars, requiring them to rent out regular monthly sto... | __label__pos | 0.994515 |
Another old goat cheese story. Winter is the high time for old goat cheese : as you may know, if natural cycles are respected, you don't get goat cheese in winter, the lactation time of the goats being from march to october (industrial-minded cheese factories use hormones to "de-season" the goats...). Thus this old-tim... | __label__pos | 0.990435 |
Have you ever wondered how your canine companion would react if you suddenly slumped onto the sidewalk? You'd like to believe they would immediately rush to your side, and then run off to get help. But when one dog owner tested this theory in a video that has now gone viral, he found that the dog just didn't care.
To s... | __label__pos | 0.998387 |
Introduction
Interviewing is an art form of intricate discipline that combines preparation and spontaneity in a potent mix. Like any art form, it is practiced so many different levels, depending on the innate talent, hard work, and creativity of its performers. At its best, what really takes place is an "inter-view"- a... | __label__pos | 0.972388 |
ALMOST NO ONE who makes resolutions will stick to them. Such are the sad findings of a study published late last month by the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, which reported that only 8% of the people who make resolutions are actually successful in keeping their pledge. But I've figured out how to beat the odds: I've ma... | __label__pos | 1.000007 |
Not all strategies work in every market. How do you know which to adopt to maximise your profit now?
There is too much information about how to make money through property. A lot of it is complicated and confusing. Some of it is contradictory. It’s difficult to keep track of so many things while managing other aspects ... | __label__pos | 0.744574 |
Moments ago we saw the following amusing headline crossing the BBG:
ILLINOIS TEACHERS' PENSION FUND CUTS RATE OF RETURN TO 8% FROM 8.5%
It's amusing because these are the same teachers who were demanding, and received,
higher pay - 17% higher over four years in fact - following a several day strike. It is even more amu... | __label__pos | 0.994691 |
Leverages cloud computing methodology to enable anywhere, anytime learning for students
Patna, 9 August, 2011: NIIT Limited, leading Global Talent Development Corporation and Asia’s largest IT trainer, today launched the new age GNIIT- India’s first Cloud Campus, in Patna. This unique GNIIT programme can be pursued any... | __label__pos | 0.981344 |
My son was watching Romeo and Juliet the other night while texting with his friends. He stays up until 4 a.m. — when I noticed this the other night I went downstairs to see why his light was still on — on the way past I noticed that the computer in the kitchen was open to facebook, downstairs the TV had a video game pa... | __label__pos | 0.995081 |
July 24, 2009
My psychiatrist Dr. A tore out for me a new article from this month’s Archives of General Psychiatry entitled “Effect of Concomitant Pharmacotherapy on Electroconvulsive Therapy Outcomes.” Written by Harold Sackeim, et al., their research found that “treatment with nortriptyline (a second-generation tricy... | __label__pos | 0.882425 |
Times have changed.
The typical old sales tactics we’re all familiar with no longer work. Cold calling gets you nowhere, door-to-door selling is a non-starter, and today’s consumers are too savvy for most traditional scripts and closing techniques. With those tactics, it takes more time and effort to reach fewer and fe... | __label__pos | 0.999838 |
In one of his New Yorker pieces, Malcolm Gladwell talks about Howard Moskowitz, the psychophysicist who gave Americans three things that changed the way we looked at supermarket shelves forever: variety in spaghetti sauce, horizontal segmentation, and a little thing we call “happiness”.
Interestingly, all those things ... | __label__pos | 0.993865 |
Kudos, a start-up that provides tools and services to help researchers maximize the usage and impact of published articles, has today announced the launch of a pilot programme in which it will partner with Taylor & Francis and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
“The growing range of article metrics is driving authors to t... | __label__pos | 0.971446 |
Separating from "The Borderline" often involves three stages: The Detachment, Ending the Relationship, and the Follow-up Protection.
The Detachment During this part of separating from "The Borderline", you recognize what you must do and create an Exit Plan. Many individuals fail in attempts to detach from "The Borderli... | __label__pos | 0.741102 |
This stem of
Hibiscus mutabilis, a.k.a. Confederate rose, flourishes in a Mason jar on my kitchen counter, ready for repotting. Its mother plant, originally a cutting from my parents’ yard in Alabama, is resprouting too. Last summer I planted a cutting like this in my yard to see whether, as the plant encyclopedia prom... | __label__pos | 0.96111 |
How many billions of tons of black carbon and chemtrails would it take to cause a global ice melt?
Chemtrails and the global deployment of atmospheric aerosols for any reason has a significant effect on changing the climate. In fact, new studies have implicated
black carbon aerosols as responsible for much of the arcti... | __label__pos | 0.576366 |
Research
We generate and synthesize research on key civil rights and equal opportunity policies that have been neglected or overlooked.
The Civil Rights Project uses research as the foundation for a wide variety of written products. These are designed to define and accentuate the racial justice implications of key poli... | __label__pos | 0.964024 |
I have been thinking we need a weekly radio call in radio show for farmers and shoppers and organizers to discuss food and farming just as we often do at farmers markets locally.
Maybe it should be on AM radio?
“… AM, which is simpler and cheaper, is of special value to minority broadcasters. No less important, it real... | __label__pos | 0.996882 |
Definitions Information Services Products
Verbal abuse is the use of words to cause harm to the person being spoken to. It is difficult to define and may take many forms. Similarly, the harm caused is often difficult to measure. The most commonly understood form is name-calling. Verbal abuse may consist of shouting, in... | __label__pos | 0.99557 |
Design Shack, published in England, has a global audience, so let me be as blunt and removed as possible from my own country and culture. I too have a large global clientele, and to be truthful, I prefer dealing with other countries. Once an understanding of business dealings is established by all parties, barriers are... | __label__pos | 0.983478 |
Einstein, Higgs and Feynman provide the scientific basis for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013 shows Andrea Brunello, Jan van den Berg and John Hinto adapt their physics heroes for the stage
This article is from 2013.
For Rob Drummond, award-winning playwright of Quiz Show and the chair of Big Bang Theatre – a panel discu... | __label__pos | 0.93054 |
Núria Silleras-Fernández, “Money Isn’t Everything: Concubinage, Class, and the Rise and Fall of Sibil.la de Fortià, Queen of Aragon (1377-87),” uses Sibil.la as a case study to examine the opportunities and pitfalls of being a royal concubine.
Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues and Manuela Santos Silva, “Private Properties, Sei... | __label__pos | 0.965678 |
Keep your promises!
As I mentioned before, I have been working on a paper about the role of
technical standards for Technology Enhanced Learning. You sent me some really relevant comments: Thanks!
In the continued spirit of open research, you can read the version we submitted for review:
Your comments, feedback, etc. a... | __label__pos | 0.999879 |
Between Two Fires: The Unheard Voices of Vietnam was published the year I was born. It’s a collection of stories written by “ordinary Vietnamese” for a contest. Of the the seventy-five that won and were published in the newspaper, Tieng Noi Dan Tock (Voice of the People), nine were chosen to be published in the book. T... | __label__pos | 0.999261 |
EU keen to see budget cheats in jail
The European Commission on Wednesday (11 July) proposed a directive to criminalise the fraudulent use of EU funds, with a minimum sentence of six months' jail for serious offenders.
"EU money must not be pocketed by criminals. It is crucial to put in place criminal law rules of the ... | __label__pos | 0.916389 |
In Africa, many of the World’s poorest countries (ie. “Third World Countries”) are found. In those areas where food is scarce and malnutrition is rampant, there is a very visible sign or symptom that shows itself in the bodies of the population: most of them have stomachs that are extended as a direct result of malnutr... | __label__pos | 0.986078 |
Here’s a very quick guide to the evolution and diversity of bible translations that I’m aware of. Hopefully I’ll get to expand and correct this post, because I’m aware I’m not an expert on history of translations, so I’d appreciate corrections.
Formal Versions
In the beginning was the King James Version (also called th... | __label__pos | 0.750724 |
This seems like a popular article so I will summarize my thoughts in point form. Personally I am intrigued at how technology has aided political activism in such a profound way. I studied political economy in a networked society in my last program as well as the cultural and political policies in Iran (and its effect o... | __label__pos | 0.998605 |
I had pancreatic cancer. I have written about it here, and here, and here, and I have gotten some nice responses from those articles. I recently was asked to share my methodology for beating cancer since I did not use radiation or chemotherapy, and now I present that article to you. I am extremely anti-chemo and radiat... | __label__pos | 0.668988 |
Six years after being arrested in his exile in Nigeria former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been convicted on 11 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) today. The court is a hybrid institution set up jointly by the Government of Sierra Leone and the United... | __label__pos | 0.629842 |
Nintendo fans got lots of exciting news this month: a new system that has a lot of good third party support, new Fire Emblem games, a new Mario game, and, perhaps most anticipated, more news on the newest Legend of Zelda game, Breath of the Wild. While I still have many reservations about the game, especially concernin... | __label__pos | 0.976466 |
Roles in digital reference
Information Technology and Libraries
[September 2001]
McClennen, Michael~ Memmott, Patricia
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Copyright (c) 2001 American Library Association
Abstract: Over the course of the past five years, researchers and practitioners have demonstrated that digital reference services can indeed work well ... | __label__pos | 0.978487 |
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