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What Causes A Body Temperature Rise (Fever)? It is commonly accepted that the normal core body temperature of healthy human being is 98.2ºF (37ºC). This is an empirical study arrived figure and holds good for most cases. The temperature of human body is also found to be dependent on age, time of the day; activity statu...
The temperature of the continental crust varies depending on location and depth; at the surface, the continental crust exists at the same temperature as the outside air, while its inner core reaches temperatures up to 1600 degrees Fahrenheit. The continental crust consists of many levels, and exists on land and underne...
“The Milky Way grew up by growing out,” Melissa Ness, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, said at a news conference. Ness and her colleagues developed a computer program that analysed the light emitted by red giants —bright stars that started out like the sun but exhausted th...
Tenth grade is a tough academic year for many students. While ninth grade acts as an introduction period to high school and 11th and 12th grade students receive the luxury of being upper classmen, 10th graders work to adjust to the rigors of advanced work -- especially language and literary work -- and busy schedules. ...
One way that writers can begin to brainstorm, outline and draft their work is by looking at mentor texts. By studying and looking closely at narratives written by expert authors, we can begin to identify what a good narrative should contain. Below are the mentor texts that we studied in class. - “Set the scene” in the ...
Penicillin is a group of antibiotics derived from Penicillium fungi. Penicillin antibiotics are historically significant because they are the first drugs that were effective against many previously serious diseases, such as syphilis, and infections caused by staphylococci and streptococci. Penicillins are still widely ...
Footprints uncovered in Kenya show that as early as 1.5 million years ago an ancestral species, almost certainly Homo erectus, had already evolved the feet and walking gait of modern humans. An international team of scientists, in a report on Friday in the journal Science, said the well-defined prints in an eroding blu...
OK, let's not beat about the bush, won't be reached. Danish scientists writing in Science magazine report that the extent of sea ice around Greenland was far less 5,000 years ago than it is today, and we didn't reach a tipping point whereby the absence of ice caused a loss of albedo and runaway climate conditions. So i...
Recent research has shown that all languages may be able to trace their roots back to a common tongue spoken thousands of years ago. But how does the process of language creation take place? It can be clearly illustrated by taking a look at Latin and its daughters: The Romance languages. Latin, spoken in what is now It...
Using different sized “mystery boxes” the students will attempt to guess the item inside each box. Grade Level: 6th Grade Length of Time: One to Two 45-Minute Class Periods Objectives & Outcomes The students will be able to sharpen observation skills to discover items in different sizes of unopened/wrapped boxes. The s...
Volume and Issue are terms used in journals for easy identification of its series. A volume can be defined as the total number of issues of a journal over a period of one year. In other words, volume refers to the various publications that make up a journal over a period of one year. Issue, on the other hand, is the va...
Line segments, Rays, Parallel & Skew lines, Parallel planes More Lessons for High School Regents Exam High School Math based on the topics required for the Regents Exam conducted by NYSED. A line segment is part of a line, has fixed endpoints, and contains all of the points between the two endpoints. One of the most co...
The idea of controlling a computer with your mind seems like something out of a sci-fi novel, something that couldn’t possible happen any time soon, but we might be closer to the technology than we think. Brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, are machines that read the electronic impulses that our brains release, thus kn...
The theory of Social Power rests on a simple foundation: humans have needs and are driven to fulfill those needs. The amount of control that a person (A) has over another person’s (B) needs divided by the amount of control that person (B) has over person (A)’s needs is how much Social Power person A has over person B. ...
Among all the physical characteristics, there is one in particular that distinguishes Tibetans from the rest of the humans on the surface of the planet. The Tibetans have an extraordinary ability to live without problems in the highest mountains, where most of us could not. Extreme altitudes do not pose an issue for th...
This chapter will look at the family system theory. People do not exist in a vacuum. They live, play, go to school, and work with other people. Most anthropologists agree that, next to their peculiar tendency to think and use tools, one of the distinguishing characteristics of human beings is that they are social creat...
The impact of the bubonic plague epidemics of the past still echo across the centuries, reminding us of the devastation that disease can inflict on communities. The Roman physician Galen coined the term ‘plague’ to describe any quickly spreading fatal disease. Epidemics of all kinds have been described as plagues, but ...
Common Sentence Problems Teacher Resources Find Common Sentence Problems educational lesson plans and worksheets Showing 1 - 24 of 30 resources Fraction Equivalence, Ordering, and Operations Need a unit to teach fractions to fourth graders? Look no further than this well-developed and thorough set of lessons that takes...
Millions of years before Vikings crossed the Atlantic, crocodiles swam thousands of kilometres from Africa to colonise the Americas. The finding comes from the most complete evolutionary tree of the genus Crocodylus, featuring all but one of the living crocodile species. Evon Hekkala of Fordham University in New York a...
What is a Pulley? A pulley is a simple machine that was designed in ancient times, but is still the basis of much modern machinery. It is essentially a wheel through which a rope or other cord is wound. One end of the rope is usually anchored to a weight or other load, and when the free end is pulled — usually by a per...
The need for labor in its American colony stimulated not only the indentured servitude detailed below, but also slave trading by England’s Royal African Company. This was formed in 1662 with the king’s brother, the Duke of York, as president. It would have an outright monopoly on bringing enslaved Africans to the New W...
Learning how to rhyme is an important pre-reading skill for your preschool student. The ability to identify similar sounds is also necessary for early spelling skills that your students will need later on down the road. With our free rhyming activities for preschoolers, your students will learn to recognize rhyming wor...
Venice was one of the wealthiest and most powerful maritime republics of Medieval and Renaissance periods. The republic’s merchant ships dominated the Black Sea and Mediterranean where they established numerous trading ports. The Venetians also established trading ports in Morea (Peloponnese) when they participated in ...
Researchers at the University of Toronto have found that cavities may be collateral damage from an overzealous immune system. New Atlas reports: Traditionally, bacteria have taken most of the blame for cavities and tooth decay. The bugs cling to your teeth as plaque and produce acid as waste, which dissolves tooth enam...
The definition of isosceles triangle can determine whether an equilateral triangle is a special case of an isosceles triangle. Using the Cabri Jr. application, students can get a feel for which definition makes the most sense. Along the way, they get experience with a perpendicular bisector, measuring lengths, and an i...
Enzyme : Properties, Classification and Functions The enzyme is a substance that performs as a biological organic catalyst to enhance the chemical reactions. Enzymes are produced by cells but the presence of cell is not essential for their activity. All enzymes are protein in nature. Many enzymes are simple proteins an...
Lincoln Lesson Idea: If Not For Lincoln.... Level - Middle School - High School Subjects - Social Studies, History, Geography, Government Students will organize a list of local locations that share a connection to Lincoln's legacy. Have students work in cooperative learning groups (or as a class) to list LOCAL places t...
A Short History of Escape ‘Escape’ is something that has been happening for centuries; from the mass break-out of gladiators at Capua (Ancient Rome) in 73 BC, to the fugitive King Charles II, disguised as a woodsman and lying hidden amongst the branches of a tree following the execution of his father King Charles I (16...
This lesson is an introduction to methods and difficulties of plant breeding. Comparisons are made between corn, proso millet, wheat, and sorghum. After completing this lesson you should be able to: 1.) Distinguish between plant breeding and seed production. 2.) List some different types of grain quality traits targete...
This is the time before written documentation. History is found, not in words but in Standing Stones, Geology, Archaeology. Our understanding of these early times is very basic, new revelations and theories are happening all the time so this is a history not set in stone, it’s one that is constantly changing. Geologist...
In every profession there are terms, phrases, and abbreviations that are common knowledge only to insiders. For the rest of us, the lingo can be very confusing. This glossary is intended to offer simple explanations of what are sometimes complex issues in education. It is far from complete but may help you better under...
People were bothered about law and order in Victorian Britain. The Victorian era was not free from crimes. The people believed that only punishment can serve as a solution to the problem of increasing the crime rate. The number of convicted criminals increased so sharply that they decided that prisons were the best for...
Conditional operators in python is same as any other programming language. They are the conditional expressions used to give the output according to the condition in the expression. # Program to demonstrate conditional operator a, b = 10, 20 # Copy value of a in min if a < b else copy b min = a if a < b else b
Circle vs. Sphere Difference between Circle and Sphere: – When we speak of geometric figures, common sense often leads us to make some mistakes and confuse one thing with the other; to the point of calling a thing by a name that does not correspond to it. Below we will see two figures that are often confused quite freq...
In August 1833, the Slave Emancipation Act was passed, giving all slaves in the British empire their freedom, albeit after a set period of years. Plantation owners received compensation for the 'loss of their slaves' in the form of a government grant set at £20,000,000. Freedom can be said to have arrived in two stages...
Adjectives are describing words. They are used with nouns to describe or point out, the person, animal, place or thing which the noun names or tell the number or quantity. For example: Black, honest, beautiful, clever. A single adjective made up of two or more words is called a compound adjective. A compound adjective ...
Short sight occurs when light is focused in front of the retina and causes distance vision to become blurred. Near vision, however, is usually clear. This commonly develops in childhood or adolescence and is often first noticed by blurring of writing on the school blackboard. Long sight occurs when the natural tendency...
Geoscientists want to peer ever deeper into the interior of planets. Most rocky planets have a tripartite configuration, with a dense, metallic core at center, overlain by a rocky, iron- and magnesium-rich mantle, and finally, a low-density crust rich in silicon and aluminum on the outside. A surprise from the explorat...
Check out our cheat sheet for more context on how to approach the sections below Use the learning tool to add your own suggestions, comments, ideas, and feedback! - The idea in Plain English: Empathy is being able to understand how someone is feeling and to show them compassion. In today’s society, we often live and wo...
Researchers were able to find 126 unique proteins from a frozen wooly mammoth in the first ever "shotgun sequence" of fossil protein content.1 The same team confirmed similar but fewer proteins in a Columbian mammoth fossil found in a temperate, not permafrost, climate. They said that the frozen wooly mammoth was 43,00...
Parents play a significant role in their children’s development and learning. They are a child’s first teacher, nurturer, guide, and role model. Cultural patterns have a tremendous impact on parents’ ideas and practices and how parents raise their children. With this in mind, please answer each of the following questio...
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a type of anxiety disorder that is brought on witnessing or experiencing a traumatic life threatening event. The disorder is not limited to a specific age group and does include childhood. Stressors involved in producing the disorder include natural, accidental or deliberately c...
Lilia D. Merino Morales 20 May 2019 Being American now comes with more diversity. A person can be African American, Asian American, or Mexican American, the list goes on and on. Because of the physical or cultural difference that these other Americans have that the Angelo American does not have they face discrimination...
Semantics is the study of the meaning of words and sentences. The discipline studies the interpretation of individual words, the construction of sentences and the literal interpretation of text the way it is written. Proper understanding of semantics relates to all academic disciplines in all languages, as a clear unde...
The First Battle of the Marne was a WW I battle fought from 5–12 September 1914. It is generally regarded as one of the most important battles of the war. The battle was fought between the allies and the Germans. It was the allies first major victory in the war and it possibly saved France and Britain from defeat in 19...
To hit international climate targets, the carbon emissions from shipping must be reduced by more than 50% by 2050 compared to 2008 levels. As much as 99% of global shipping is currently dependent on fossil fuels. Even though electricity may carry smaller ferries across shorter distances, the electrification of larger, ...
Clear Concepts Easily through Science Experiments for Class 7 with Explanation Science experiments for Class 7 are a systematic and organized way for students of Class 7 to test different important theories by following specific procedures. The primary objective of experiments is to provide evidence that supports or re...
This FAQ page deals with some questions that teachers, librarians and school administrators might have about the content of information in Wikipedia, and use of Wikipedia by students. If you are thinking about assigning Wikipedia as a class project see Wikipedia:School and University projects. For more general informat...
Decision making is one of the main tasks of our brain for allowing survival. Decision making is founded on the probability estimation, trying to predict the likelihood of the events occuring in the future. Who better predicts, he’ll have more chance to survive. We have three way to consider probability: - probability i...
In order for students to have a comprehensive understanding of nonfiction text features, they must not only be able to identify the different text features, but they also be able to understand the purpose behind the text features and how to best include a variety of text features in their own writing! Below you will fi...
Dyslexia seems to affect around 5-17% of students (Rollins, 2014). Dyslexia refers to having a difficulty in reading, spelling and writing. Having these difficulties does not mean it is a disability as a lot of people view it. Due to its high prevalence, a lot of research has been conducted to help us understand better...
Who Came Here and Why? History gives us multiple reasons why people migrate—to gain freedom from persecution of various kinds and freedom from hunger and want, but also freedom to achieve and flourish to a given potential. While the Native Americans, followed by the arrivals of Spanish and French explorers, predated th...
I think that teaching vectors to 14-16 year olds is a bit like teaching them to play the flute; that is to say, it’s a bit like teaching them to play the flute as presented by Monty Python (!) Monty Python (1972), ‘How to play the flute’ Part of the trouble is that the definition of a vector is so deceptively and seduc...
How to Encourage Your Child to Talk To help your child on a language learning journey, try these fun activities: - Motivate your child to talk about something they enjoy (a favorite food, close relative, special toy, etc.). - Label feelings – if your child is reaching for food, say “you are hungry” or if they’re throwi...
How Can I Make Patterns?In this section... During our topic 'What Can I Celebrate?' the children were very interested to learn about the traditions of Christmas and on returning to school, some of us were rather disappointed that it hadn't snowed on Christmas Day. We decided to read some snowy stories and built our own...
After Reconstruction ended in 1877, white southerners sought to reassert their power and reverse African Americans’ recent political and economic gains. Increasingly, Black men faced discrimination and threats of violence at the polls. At the same time, many African Americans were forced into exploitative sharecropping...
Pressure is defined as a way of describing force per unit area. It is often important to specify pressures for liquids or gases, and there are several different units that can describe pressure. Some pressures are instead a force per unit length, as is the case for pounds per linear inch (PLI). This quantity could also...
Copy of Lesson Plan Beginner Level level To read a text about families first for gist and then for detail. To listen and pronounce the letters of the alphabet. Procedure (45 minutes) * The teacher will introduce himself and write his name on the board. * Ss will write name tags for easy identification. * Pre-teach coun...
The way the body wall of the growing embryo folds inwards helps to explain how the reptiles achieve their unique body shape. The origin of the turtle’s body plan has been a mystery. Unlike most vertebrates, its ribs are short and wide, like paddles. They do not wrap around the body like humans, but rather fuse with ver...
Literature has changed many times over history, thus giving a vast variety of writing styles. One such style that took hold in the 18th and 19th centuries was romanticism. The use of imagination, freedom of thought, and expression often characterized this style of writing. Romanticism immerged first in France and Germa...
13 ways to help students overcome social anxiety It's estimated that between 6% and 15% of school-aged children suffer from social anxiety disorder (SAD), making it the third most common mental health disorder among young people. That means that in a classroom of 30 students, two to four of them are likely struggling w...
Heinrich Himmler Visiting Russian POW Camp. Even prior to the invasion of the Soviet Union, the German civilian and military leadership made provisions to separate and kill selected categories of Soviet POWs and to provide the remainder with grossly insufficient provisions and supplies. While this policy would undergo ...
Ecclesiastical authority was already a major issue of debate during the fourteenth century. These challenges, much like the rise of the Papacy itself, came in small movements that built to a climax during the Reformation itself. These challenges to the papacy set the stage for Luther. There were a number of factors tha...
Seeing the famed pyramids of Giza as they stand today – immovable, impenetrable fortresses surrounded by windswept sands and a sprawling metropolis – it’s hard to imagine the day they were built. These stone labyrinths, constructed to honor the dead and carry them into the afterlife, were erected around 4,500 years ago...
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have concluded from a systematic study of very young cores that most embryonic stars form in multiple systems, and later some of them separate. The origin of binary stars has long been one of the central problems of astronomy. One of the main questions is...
Adolescence is rife with changes and challenges in preparation for the demands of adulthood. Teens are busy learning how to drive, date, and navigate their first jobs, all while gaining independence from their parents. This combination of autonomy and new challenges makes self-efficacy, or belief in one’s ability to su...
Presentation Middleware, Assignment 4.5 1. What is Middleware? 2. How is a database connection between a client and a server established? 3. What is the advantage of ODBC? What is Middleware? Middleware is software that runs between client and server processes. It is the "glue" between the client and server, which make...
Tuning the Terrestrial Monochord Antennas and monochords have a lot in common. A monochord is an ancient musical and scientific lab instrument made of one long string, similar in that respect to a long single wire antenna, only the string is stretched over a sounding box of equal length. One or more movable bridges are...
When you study economics from a textbook such as this, you learn different economic theories. In this book, we have looked at the theory of the consumer, which helps explain how individuals make their choices about what goods to buy. We have looked at the theory of the firm, which explains how firms make decisions abou...
Learning the colors is an essential step in children’s development, and it proves to be influential in communication later in life. Colors influence mood and opinions, and they may even affect people’s perception. For example, blue is associated with trust and stability, yellow with happiness and energy, and green is a...
A recent study published in BMC Evolutionary Biology demonstrated that a transplanted soft coral from the Caribbean Sea (Antillogorgia bipinnata) changed its shape consistently as the corals living in the new environment. This type of manipulation known as “common garden experiments” allowed the authors to determine th...
How do birds hear? Having the ability which no other animal possesses makes birds a very different and unique creature. When they fly, they go into a dimension to which there is no reach for other animals. Similarly, as they have evolved by the time to fly, they have developed some other exciting factors, some of which...
Last Updated on Birds certainly can hear! After all, they are famous for the sounds and songs that they create, so they must be able to hear these songs themselves. But do birds have ears? Yes, birds have ears. They are essentially ear holes covered by special feathers, though, so we just can’t see them. We look at all...
Although sawfish look somewhat like sharks, their flattened bodies and wide pectoral fins reveal that they are actually rays. Their snouts (rostrum) are studded with denticles, specialized scales, which they use to thrash from side to side to stun crustaceans and invertebrates on the muddy floors of estuaries and shall...
How changing crops, moving to no till agriculture and lightening infrastructure can reduce extreme temperatures. Date:January 29, 2018 Source:University of New South Wales New research published today in Nature Geoscience has found that climate engineering that modifies the properties of the land surface in highly popu...
There is no reason to be stuck in a boring rut when trying to teach ABC’s to your young child. Whether you are a parent or other caretaker of a young child you can find fresh and creative ways to teach the alphabet. Best of all these techniques will have your youngster enthralled with learning more about the basic buil...
Young stars are surrounded by chaos: Clouds of gas, dust and ice swirl about in a so-called protoplanetary disk. And when gravity pulls this material together so that it binds, planets are born. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, researchers developed a new technique to measure and ...
Centipedes belong to class of myriapods. The name centipede, which means “100 legs,†can be somewhat misleading: centipedes may have anywhere from 15 to 191 pairs of legs. Centipedes always have an odd number of pairs of legs. Centipedes are elongated, with flat, segmented bodies that contain a pair of legs for all ...
The explorer Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but he never did. Instead, he accidentally stumbled upon the Americas. Though he did not really “discover” the New World—millions...
Converting Percents To Fractions in Detail Percent and Fractions are two different ways of writing parts of a whole. For example: if we say 50 percent of 1-litre milk, it is equivalent to ½(half) of 1-litre milk. Every percentage can be converted into its equivalent fraction. Before converting percents to fractions, we...
Welcome back to the Kinder Club blog! Each week we will focus on an early literacy concept and share fun stories, activities and tips to help reinforce a variety of kindergarten readiness skills. This week’s concept is shapes! Recognizing shapes is one of the first steps in building math skills. Knowing the different n...
But since this uses the total time of flight for the ball, it gives the total distance the ball traveled—to the wall and back. If you take that distance and divide by 2, you get the distance from my hand to the wall, which in this case would be 10 meters. I like this BallDAR method because you can easily imagine throwi...
In the modern world, technology plays an ever-increasing role in people’s lives. For people with disabilities, this is especially true. Technology has revolutionized how individuals with disabilities fit into society. Take a look at how technology helps them fit into the modern world. Advances in prosthetics have made ...
As the climate warms, researchers from groups such as the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) are able to detect trends visible in the way natural habitats are reacting to rising temperatures. Scientists say the methods give a revealing picture of the real-world effects of climate change. The latest statistics o...
To communicate effectively using language, Early Childhood learners must practise four essential skills. We call these language skills. They include: listening, speaking and presenting, reading, and writing. At One World International School (OWIS), we believe in the benefits of play-based and inquiry-led learning for ...
Vaccines usually consist of inactivated viruses that prompt the immune system to remember the invader and launch a strong defense if it later encounters the real thing. However, this approach can be too risky with certain viruses, including HIV. In recent years, many scientists have been exploring DNA as a potential al...
By July of 1945, the United States was focused on ending the war with Japan as soon as possible. Germany had surrendered two months earlier, and American troops had been making concerted, albeit contested, advances towards the Japanese mainland. The Allies believed that they would eventually prevail, and began strategi...
British engineers have successfully tested a key component of an engine that could power a spaceplane from London to Sydney in under four hours. The engineers have hailed it as the biggest breakthrough in aerospace propulsion “since the invention of the jet engine”. Oxfordshire-based Reaction Engines hope to build a ro...
The Battle of Buxar took place in the northeast region of the country on 22nd October 1764 and it was one of the decisive battles of Indian history. It was the Battle of Buxar which earned the British East India Company control over Bengal and Bihar. The seeds for this significant battle were sown soon after the Battle...
New Tools and Designs The Erie Canal was designed to avoid natural bodies of water, creating instead a series of ditches connected by stone locks and aqueducts to carry boats across rivers. These choices also allowed for a considerably longer navigation season most years. Maintaining appropriate water levels in the 363...
Sulfur oxides - Sulfur dioxide (SO2) and Sulfur trioxide (SO3) Sulfur dioxide (SO2) and sulfur trioxide (SO3) are two chemical compounds whose molecules are made up of one sulfur atom and multiple oxygen atoms. Know together as sulfur oxides, these substances are important atmospheric pollutants. Sulfur dioxide (SO2) i...
Archaeologists are often interested in the extent to which human populations are impacted by environmental perturbations, such as floods, famines, heat waves and disease. They propose that events such as the Plague of 1347-1351, the 1815 eruption of Tambora in Indonesia, and the climatic downturns of the Little Ice Age...
Granite is a metamorphic rock formed by the cooling of molten rock or lava. The melting point of granite is around 1215-1260 degrees Celsius. This means that a granite block can easily be melted using common methods such as a forge or a kiln. However, it is important to note that granite is a very hard rock, so it will...
The Vedas (sacred teachings) represent the oldest and most important texts of Hinduism. The Aryans who invaded Northwest India around 1500 BC compiled them. These Vedic texts are collection of sacred literature that combine the Aryan nature-fire-soma religion and the native religion of the Indian people whom they conqu...
Using measures of connectivity between airports, rather than actual distances, makes it possible to better predict where an emerging infectious disease will strike next, the researchers of a new study said. In the study, the researchers defined an "effective distance" between any pair of airports in the world based on ...
Prepared by Marjan Kluepfel and J. McLeod Scott, HGIC Information Specialists, James H. Blake, Extension Plant Pathologist, and Clyde S. Gorsuch, Extension Entomologist, Clemson University. Revised by Joey Williamson, HGIC Horticulture Information Specialist, Clemson University. (New 08/99. Revised 12/06.) Galls are ab...
The concept of Magna GraeciaEven in the ancient world the term Magna Grecia was used to refer to the regions of southern Italy that were colonised by Greek peoples as early as the mid-eighth century BC. However, the name is not just linked to the definition of a region, but refers to a phase of ancient civilisation tha...
The Articles of Confederation was the first United States Constitution. It was proposed by the Second Continental Congress in November 1777, more than two years after the start of the Revolutionary War, and was finally ratified by the states in March 1781, less than a year before the war essentially ended with the batt...
How Was the Geological Time Scale Developed? The geological time scale’s development dates back to 1815. The connection between the fossils and the rock was estimated by a builder, William Smith. He noticed that the fossils were not only some kind of material and minerals, but had some connection with the rocks. This t...
Authors: Vincent M. Woolf and Andrew A. West Institution: U. Nebraska at Omaha and Boston U. The basis for something called the “G dwarf problem” is the comparison between observations and a simple model for chemical evolution in a galaxy. To cut to the chase, there are fewer very metal poor G dwarfs than are predicted...