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The significance of Alabama Unionists during the Civil War and Reconstruction has long been a subject of study among scholars. Largely centered in northern Alabama and to a lesser degree in the southeast region and in Montgomery and Mobile, Unionists were important both militarily and politically. Until recently, howev... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00364000 |
The names chiseled onto city tenement building entrances are often pretty puzzling.
The typical tenement is more than 100 years old. With the original builders long-gone, who can explain where some of these names come from, and why they were chosen?
Like Novelty Court, on Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg. Actually, a litt... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00373000 |
The Chinook Arch
November 14, 2001
The above photo was taken at evening twilight in Calgary, Alberta by Jeff McIntosh. On the lee (eastern) side of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and the province of Alberta in Canada, chinook winds occasionally bring respite from cold weather. Chinook is an Indian n... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00375000 |
Menezes, Pradeep L and Kishore, * and Kailas, Satish V (2006) Studies on friction and transfer layer using inclined scratch. In: Tribology International, 39 (2). pp. 175-183.
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FAUZIAH, CATUR KHUROTUL (2007) HUBUNGAN ANTARA RELIGIUSITAS DENGAN KEPUASAN HIDUP PADA LANJUT USIA. Other thesis, University of Muhammadiyah Malang.
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Religiosity is an appreciation, confidence, experience or individual conscience against religious teachings are realized in practice worship and ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00384000 |
Rodrigues, A.S.L., Andelman, S.J., Bakarr, M.I., Boitani, L., Brooks, T.M., Cowling, R.M., Fishpool, L.D.C., da Fonseca, G.A.B., Gaston, K.J., Hoffmann, M., Long, J.S., Marquet, P.A., Pilgrim, J.D., Pressey, R.L., Schipper, J., Sechrest, W., Stuart, S.N., Underhill, L.G., Waller, R.W., Watts, M.E.J. and Yan, X. (2004) ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00385000 |
- Year Published: 1866
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: Russia
- Source: Dostoyevsky, F. (1866). Crime and Punishment. Moscow, Russia: The Russian Messenger.
- Flesch–Kincaid Level: 7.2
- Word Count: 7,803
Dostoyevsky, F. (1866). Part 3, Chapter 5. Crime and Punishment (Lit2Go Edition). Retrieved May 18, 2013, ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00392000 |
Johannes Brahms was the son of a double-bass player in the Hamburg orchestra. Brahms’s talent was recognized very early. The famous violinist, Joachim, soon introduced Brahms to Robert Schumann who, together with his wife Clara played a major role in establishing Brahms as a major composer. Brahms spent most of his lif... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00397000 |
Science -- Asher et al. 307 (5712): 1091:
We describe several fossils referable to Gomphos elkema from deposits close to the Paleocene-Eocene boundary at Tsagan Khushu, Mongolia. Gomphos shares a suite of cranioskeletal characters with extant rabbits, hares, and pikas but retains a primitive dentition and jaw compared ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00400000 |
Photo Courtesy of Steve Dewey, Utah State University, bugwood.org
Thermopsis montana Nutt.
Scientific Name Synonyms:
Life Span: Perennial
Growth Characteristics: Mountain goldenpea is an erect forb, growing up to 2 feet in height and spreading by rhizomes. It blooms between May and August, depending on the elevations.
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Uveitis is inflammation of the uvea, which is made up of the iris, ciliary body and choroid. Together, these form the middle layer of the eye between the retina and the sclera (white of the eye).
The eye is shaped like a tennis ball, with three different layers of tissue surrounding the central gel-filled cavity, which... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00404000 |
The National Cattlemen's Beef Association has criticized a review of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter. Conducted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the study was done as part of a required review of the coarse particulate matter standards. In effect, EPA is looking at the impa... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00409000 |
Grain farmers could make more money be switching to organic grain crops according to a new study released at last week's American Agricultural Economics Association's annual meeting.
Records showed that organic crops fetched much more than conventional crops: soybeans, up to $14 more per bushel; corn, up to $3 more; an... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00411000 |
Basic Use To make a new number, a simple initialization suffices:
var foo = 0; // or whatever number you want
foo = 1; //foo = 1 foo += 2; //foo = 3 (the two gets added on) foo -= 2; //foo = 1 (the two gets removed)
Number literals define the number value. In particular: They appear as a set of digits of varying length... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00413000 |
by +Richard Holbrooke – Schwann cells boost and amplify nerve growth in animal models, but their clinical use has been held back because they are difficult, time-consuming and costly to culture.
A University of Sheffield team, led by Professor John Haycock, has developed a new technique with adult rat tissue which over... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00422000 |
LANs to WANs(c) The Complete Management Guide
Authors: Muller N.J.
Published year: 2003
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Depending on the situation facing network managers, bridges can be used to either extend or segment LANs. At one level, bridges can be used for segmenting LANs into smaller subnets to improve performance, control ac... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00424000 |
Marion Levine teaches English, Literature and Film Production at Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, Los Angeles, CA
Measure for Measure, Act 4 or 5
What's On for Today and Why
Students will choose a character from Measure for Measure and create a "back story" for that character. This will encourage students to re... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00426000 |
Vanilla is a product of Lussumo:Documentation and Support.
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This year’s Nobel Prize in medicine went to a trio of scientists who discovered the enzyme telomerase, which allows cells to divide without any limits, making them effectively immortal.It may be nature’s greatest double-edged sword. Coax cells int... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00438000 |
Cancer Fighting Foods/Spices
The National Cancer Institute estimates that roughly one-third of all cancer deaths may be diet related. What you eat can hurt you, but it can also help you. Many of the common foods found in grocery stores or organic markets contain cancer-fighting properties, from the antioxidants that ne... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00444000 |
| Welcome to the lava tube
portion of the Virtual Cave. Lava tube caves are found throughout the
world in places where fluid lava has flown over the surface. The longest
and most vertically extensive lava tubes known are on the Big Island of
Hawai`i. Our idealized lava tube cross-section is based on
the tubes there, an... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00465000 |
Question from Amanda: Where and what acids are found in wine. Which wines have more acid (dry or sweet) and why due to the climate. Explain why and how titration can be used to determine the relative acid content of wine. If you could help answer my question i would be very grateful.
Answer: Hi, Amanda! Thanks for your... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00466000 |
Westminster Confession of Faith
The Westminster Confession of Faith is perhaps the most notable expression in creedal form of the truths of the Bible. It was the work of that assembly of divines which was called together by Parliament and met in London, at Westminster Abbey, during the years 1643-1648. It was this asse... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00467000 |
Most of us know someone with a food allergy. I certainly do-two of my children have been labeled with life threatening food allergies; one to peanuts and tree nuts and the other to soy. Every time I head to the grocery store I spend a tremendous amount of time reading each and every label-including labels that I am fam... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00471000 |
The basics of heat stress
When the thermometer rises, it can-and often does-create a multitude of problems. Anyone, given the right (or wrong) conditions, can get heat stress. Some are lucky enough to suffer only from heat cramps, while those who are less fortunate may be laid up by heat exhaustion or devastated by hea... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00472000 |
Data structures for manipulating (biological) sequences.
Generally supports both nucleotide and protein sequences, some functions,
like revcompl, only makes sense for nucleotides.
|A sequence is a header, sequence data itself, and optional quality data.
Sequences are type-tagged to identify them as nucleotide, amino ac... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00478000 |
Contemporary world politics make it necessary for nations to integrate into international unions in the interest of their own national security and economy. In these international unions, which are usually based upon geographic location, such factors as natural resources, trading blocs, and even cultural values play an... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00485000 |
Harold Urey was the teacher of the American researcher Stanley Miler at Chicago University. Because of Urey’s contribution to Miller’s 1953 experiment on the origin of life, this is also known as the Urey-Miller Experiment. This experiment is the only “proof” used to supposedly confirm the molecular evolution thesis, w... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00486000 |
There could be genetic reasons why some women succumb to pressure to be thin, while others maintain a positive body image, according to US researchers.
“We’re all bombarded daily with messages extoling the virtues of being thin, yet intriguingly only some women develop what we term thin ideal internalisation,” study au... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00492000 |
To learn more about cholesterol, browse any of the cholesterol topics below.
About Cholesterol Cholesterol itself isn't bad. We all have and need this wax-like substance in our bodies. Learn about the so-called "good" and "bad" cholesterol, where it comes from, and why it's important for your health.
Why Cholesterol Ma... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00496000 |
Trees or shrubs; petiole eglandular; lamina mostly bearing several–many glands on abaxial surface. Inflorescence terminal, unbranched or branched near base, each axis a raceme of short 1–7-flowered cincinni; lowest bracteole and alternate subsequent bracteoles bearing 1 large eccentric abaxial gland. Sepals all bigland... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00501000 |
Contemporary full brown calf. Small paper spine label. Boards triple ruled in blind. edges speckled red. Boards and joints rubbed and bumped. Head and tale of the spine chipped. Some toning and browning throughout, but mainly to preliminary and final leaves. Leaves A2 and A3 with some chipping along fore-edge, not affe... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00502000 |
Henry Robinson has created an excellent series of articles on consensus protocols. Henry starts with a very useful discussion of what all this talk about consensus really means: The consensus problem is the problem of getting a set of nodes in a distributed system to agree on something - it might be a value, a course o... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00504000 |
In the early 1900s, a dispute arose over who controlled Greenland—Norway or Denmark. The case was submitted to the Permanent Court of International Justice in 1933. The court ruled in Denmark’s favor.
After WWII, the United States developed a geopolitical interest in Greenland. In 1946, they offered to buy the country ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00507000 |
Business Language Learning
From APEC HRDWG Wiki
As part of International Education Week 2010, APEC has expanded on several themes of the seminar on "Language Education: An Essential for a Global Economy," to provide a guide for students and instructors interested in the critical importance of business language for stre... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00513000 |
Flipping the North Koreans off
Not many people visit North korea these days but if you are one of the lucky few, more likely than not you will be led through an official guided tour of USS Pueblo – an American Intelligence vessel captured in 1968 – which remains the only American vessel currently in captivity.
The seiz... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00521000 |
Education and health outcomes for social minorities in India: An analysis using SUR model
AbstractThe current study analyzes the health and education outcomes of fifteen year old children in India and investigates the question of inequality of such outcomes for socio-religious categories. To study the effect of health ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00524000 |
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Machine learning methods are known to be inefficient when faced with many features that are unnecessary for rule discovery. In coping with this issue, many methods have been proposed for selecting important features. Among them is feature selection that selects a subset of discriminative features o... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00525000 |
Washington, DC. Public libraries have become essential points of access to the Internet and computers in local communities, with nearly every library in the country offering public internet access. Yet, individual library practices can have significant affect on the quality and character of this public service. Opportu... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00528000 |
The Javan rhinoceros is one of the most rare animals in the world and it was just spotted on video tape.
Seamen have long reported miraculous sightings of luminous, glowing seawater.
You know how animals are supposed to be able sense disasters before they happen? Well some believe it’s a myth, though there are lots of ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00532000 |
In a countless number of movies and novels set in the British Regency and Victorian Era women are plagued by headaches; oftentimes as a way to show them as fragile, or as a joke. It is not a trope used with male characters, but if it were would they be taken seriously? Probably not. What if it was all viewed from a dif... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00535000 |
Hospitals across the country are diligently working to reduce infection rates. According to the World Health Organization, hospital-acquired infections affect as many as 1.7 million patients in the United States each year. These infections come at an annual cost of $6.5 billion and contribute to more than 90,000 deaths... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00536000 |
There are many aspects to learning the creation of interactive fiction. Here we mostly undertake to explain approaches to using Inform, and leave the larger questions of craft and design for elsewhere.
The two manuals
There are two interlinked manuals built into every copy of the Inform application: if you've downloade... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00537000 |
Flickr as a Paintbrush [cartogrammar.com] reveals the recorded colors of our surrounding landscape, both in a physical and cultural sense. In short, Andy Woodruff created a set of geographic heatmaps that represent the average colors of images taken on locations surrounding a specific landmark. In other words, the resu... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00538000 |
This is an old lecture by linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky (professor at MIT) given at UC Berkeley in 2003. For that evening in the Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lecture series, Chomsky examined biolinguistics - the study of relations between physiology and speech.
A second video of Chomsky is featured be... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00541000 |
Chinese researchers have turned to the light absorbing properties of butterfly wings to significantly increase the efficiency of solar hydrogen cells, using biomimetics to copy the nanostructure that allows for incredible light and heat absorption.
Butterflies are known to use heat from the sun to warm themselves beyon... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00544000 |
4 Dice Helps Students Learn to Add, Subtract, Multiply, and Divide Fractions
4 Dice is an iPad app designed to help students learn to add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions. The app was developed by the same people that built the popular 5 Dice app that helps students learn the order of operations.
In 4 Dice stu... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00545000 |
Early Childhood Education
- The American Academy of Pediatrics is dedicated to the health of all children and committed to
the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health
and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and
- The Center for Early Childhood
Leadership is dedicated to enhancing the ma... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00551000 |
World’s poorest on front line in climate change fight
24 July 2008 | News story
Climate change is already happening – and it hits poor people most. The effect of more frequent hurricanes, floods and droughts on developing countries is devastating, as this year’s cyclone Nagris proved again in southern Myanmar, leaving ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00556000 |
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The Death and Dying Process
Death and Dying
As caregivers, one either becomes a better person through compassion, patience, and humor, or they become embittered and angry. Wendy Lustbader is an author who has written a moving book entitled " Counting on Kindness: The Dilemmas of Dependency."1991... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00558000 |
Friday, 11 December 2009
mental ray_Adding glow to the window glass
The above image was produced whilst at GMJ Design Ltd
In our latest book, we have covered a number of ways of emulating light without the need of creating a physical light.
Production companies often adopt similar methods to reduce the rendering times ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00559000 |
The most illustrious Czars and mighty Princes, John and Peter Alexewitz, my most gracious Lords, having in their Wise Council of State resolved to send a splendid Embassy, on some important affairs, to the Great Bogdaichan, or Sovereign of the famous Kingdom of Kitai, by us Europeans commonly called China: This obliged... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00569000 |
There's this kid who gets bullied a lot by everyone. What should I do?
Hooray for the person who sent this question in to us! There are a lot more kids who witness bullying than there are victims of bullying. Often, people who see something happen are called bystanders. Wouldn't it be excellent if those bystanders woul... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00584000 |
You may associate pneumonia with the melodrama of a soap opera: prolonged hospital stays, oxygen tents, and family members whispering in bedside huddles. It's true that pneumonia can be serious. But more often pneumonia is an infection that can be easily treated at home without a hospital stay.
What Is Pneumonia?
Pneum... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00585000 |
It's normal for parents to disagree and argue from time to time. Parents might disagree about money, home chores, or how to spend time. They might disagree about big things — like important decisions they need to make for the family. They might even disagree about little things that don't seem important at all — like w... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00587000 |
You Baby's Development
After many weeks of anticipation and preparation, your baby is here! Or maybe not — only 5% of women deliver on their estimated due dates, and many first-time mothers find themselves waiting up to 2 weeks after their due date for their baby to arrive.
A baby born at 40 weeks weighs, on average, a... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00588000 |
What Is It?
Fertility awareness is a way to prevent pregnancy by not having sex around the time of ovulation (the release of an egg during a girl's monthly cycle). Couples who do want to have a baby can also use this method to have sex during the time that they are most likely to conceive. Fertility awareness can inclu... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00589000 |
By Irene Klotz
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Despite searing daytime temperatures, Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, has ice and frozen organic materials inside permanently shadowed craters in its north pole, NASA scientists said on Thursday.
Earth-based telescopes have been compiling evidence for ice on Me... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00596000 |
What level of LabVIEW user are you—a developer, engineer, or architect? Is it even important?
Absolutely. These categories make it easy for NI to tailor helpful resources to your individual needs. By visiting the LabVIEW Skills Guide, you can see what defines these levels and which trainings or guides we recommend each... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00603000 |
This “The Best…” list is a companion to The Best Sites To Learn About The U.S. Financial Crisis. Those sites tried to explain how we got into this mess. The resources on this list share what is happening to us as a result. These sites try to give a picture of the recession’s effects throughout the world.
These sites, a... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00607000 |
Even though the CNC machines require little human intervention in the development process of the end desired product, human intervention is still needed when it comes to the computer software programming for the CNC machines. A CNC machine programmer must understand the programming, so that they are capable of accurate... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00608000 |
A nuzzle of the neck, a stroke of the wrist, a brush of the knee—these caresses often signal a loving touch, but can also feel highly aversive, depending on who is delivering the touch, and to whom. Interested in how the brain makes connections between touch and emotion, neuroscientists at the California Institute of T... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00624000 |
WE have in this chapter to consider why the females of many birds have not acquired the same ornaments as the male; and why, on the other hand, both sexes of many other birds are equally, or almost equally, ornamented? In the following chapter we shall consider the few cases in which the female is more conspicuously co... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00625000 |
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Saturday, September 19, 1998 Last modified at 3:24 a.m. on Saturday, September 19, 1998
State gets more rain, except in plains
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Slightly higher averages of rain in New Mexico this summer masked big differences in precipitation levels statewide, the... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00630000 |
Use of Biomedical Engineering and Music for K-12 Math/Science Education
The study proposes the use of Biomedical Engineering (BME) Ph.D. track graduate students to assist middle and high school teachers to teach math/science skills, by providing additional tools and training to optimize their use. The emphasis is on th... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00638000 |
The list is the origin of culture. It's part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order — not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00649000 |
See also the
Dr. Math FAQ:
order of operations
Browse High School Basic Algebra
Stars indicate particularly interesting answers or
good places to begin browsing.
Selected answers to common questions:
Solving simple linear equations.
Positive/negative integer rules.
Completing the square.
Direct and indirect variation.
... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00653000 |
Hydrocele Operation: aka Hydroceles, Hydrocele Sac, Swollen Testicle, Hydrocelectomy
What is it?
Hydrocele operations or hydrocele surgery is to release fluid that forms in a sac within the scrotum. Typically hydroceles develop when the testicle passes into the scrotum but the passage through which this occur fails to ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00662000 |
The Centre is associated with several major research projects (especially the Dictionary of Old English), six publication series (Toronto Medieval Latin Texts, Toronto Medieval Bibliographies, Toronto Texts and Translations, Toronto Old English Series, Publications of the Dictionary of Old English—in addition to seven ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00664000 |
Welcome to MedLibrary.org. For best results, we recommend beginning with the navigation links at the top of the page, which can guide you through our collection of over 14,000 medication labels and package inserts. For additional information on other topics which are not covered by our database of medications, just ent... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00666000 |
Other Proposed Treatments
It is one of the cardinal principles of natural medicine that treatment should aim not only to treat illness but also to enhance wellness. According to this ideal, a proper course of treatment should improve your sense of general well-being, enhance your immunity to illness, raise your physica... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00669000 |
Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Edwin Martin seeks a resolution of support from the Organization of American States. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson lays the matter before the U.N. Security Council. The ships of the naval quarantine fleet move into place around Cuba. Soviet subm... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00673000 |
BINGE EATING DISORDER
"Signs and Symptoms"
To date, there has been some degree of confusion as to what exactly the term "binge eating" really means. Although the professional community still has yet to define [or quantify] what constitutes a binge-eating episode, it's reasonable to assume the signs and symptoms listed ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00677000 |
A Reference Resource
Life Before the Presidency
Herbert Clark Hoover was born on August 10, 1874. For the first nine years of his life, he lived in the small town of West Branch, Iowa, the place of his birth. His Quaker father, Jessie Clark Hoover, a blacksmith and farm equipment salesman, suffered a heart attack and d... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00678000 |
December 4 is a very special day for the mining industry. This is the feast day of Barbara, Patron Saint for Miners and Blasters, and globally for all the professions that relate to fire (firemen, fireworks specialists, etc.)
From her tragic story, which appeared later to be a legend, "the belief became widespread that... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00679000 |
If it wasn’t for earthquakes, humans wouldn’t have innovated architecture
They wouldn’t have looked into new ways of building homes, but the problem is that we got good at it – good to the points our homes won’t be destroyed frequently enough aka they won’t evolute frequently.
If you look around you, there is very few ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00682000 |
Deep-space communication improved with electromagnetic radiation antenna
- Robert C. Dye
- Technology Transfer
- (505) 667-3404
Electromagnetic radiation antenna has potential for deep-space communication
- Directed Energy
- Long-range communications
- Medicine (Oncology)
- RADAR imaging applications are countermeasure... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00688000 |
This insightful research by respected Israeli scholar Nurit Peled-Elhanan will confirm what Palestinian researchers have always known: Israel's prevailing culture of racism, fundamentalism, support for war crimes, and apartheid against Palestinians is mainly a product of an educational system that indoctrinates Jewish-... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00691000 |
|[This is a MPIWG MPDL language technology service]|
Become (p. p.) of Become
Become (v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional matter, or a new character.
Become (v. i.) To come; t... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00700000 |
Historical Aerial Photographs
Prior to the trial, Jan Schlichtmann, the plaintiffs attorney, hired a consulting firm to acquire and analyze historic aerial photographs of the Riley 15-acre property to estimate the times when the various drums, barrels, and debris piles first appeared. The consultants took this analysis... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00711000 |
Two teachers at Norview High School in Norfolk, VA were recently put on administrative leave by the school after a parent complained about a video that she saw in Government class. The video informed its audience on how to assert their constitutional rights during various encounters with police, such as during a car or... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00716000 |
Schools and Students
Private schools in 1999–2000 were located primarily in central cities (42 percent) and the urban fringe or large towns (40 percent) (table 2). About 18 percent of private schools were found in rural areas. In contrast, 24 percent of all public schools were in central city locations, 45 percent in t... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00717000 |
Jim Lake and Maria Rivera, at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), report their finding in the Sept. 9 issue of the journal Nature.
Scientists refer to both bacteria and Archaea as "prokaryotes"--a cell type that has no distinct nucleus to contain the genetic material, DNA, and few other specialized compone... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00727000 |
Sudden death syndrome--an umbrella term for a range of heart conditions that can lead to cardiac arrest--is notorious for striking those who seem most fit.
That is because the condition, thought to be largely hereditary, is often triggered by overexertion. Tragically for some, the first symptom can be cardiac arrest.
I... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00732000 |
The test team views the use of a pulley as an intermediate step only, and has planned to shift to a reliance on windlasses like those that apparently were used to hoist sails on Egyptian ships.
"The whole approach has been to downgrade the technology," Gharib said. "We first wanted to show that a kite could raise a hug... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00735000 |
Facilitator's Guide for
THE BELOVED COMMUNITY
A film by Pamela Calvert/Plain Speech
At the fenceline of Canada's "Chemical Valley," girls
are being born at twice the rate of boys. How do you stay in the home
you love when the price you pay may be your children's future?
PLANNING A SCREENING
Topics and Issues Relevant t... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00736000 |
Refraction and Acceleration
Name: Christopher S.
Why is it that when light travels from a more dense to a
less dense medium, its speed is higher? I've read answers to this
question in your archives but, sadly, still don't get it. One answer
(Jasjeet S Bagla) says that we must not ask the question because light is
massl... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00739000 |
Attempts to relay mail by issuing a predefined combination of SMTP commands. The goal of this script is to tell if a SMTP server is vulnerable to mail relaying.
An SMTP server that works as an open relay, is a email server that does not verify if the user is authorised to send email from the specified email address. Th... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00743000 |
How much fun is it to be a child in your home? Do you ever stop to think about how the house looks from their point of view? My task for this week is to conduct a Child’s Eye Audit of our living space, to try and make the rooms more child- and play-friendly. The audit need only take a few minutes and might suggest simp... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00755000 |
Memoirs, other writings, deposition, and correspondence, relating to King Michael,
Romanian participation in World War II, the transition of Romania from monarchy to
communist regime, and Romanian emigre affairs. Includes a dissertation on Swiss
Jacques M. Vergotti was born in 1915. A Major in the Romanian Army, he ser... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00762000 |
This collection consists of digital images of the correspondence of John Muir from 1856-1914. The vast majority of the letters
were sent and received by Muir, although the collection also includes some correspondence of selected family members and colleagues.
Muir’s correspondence offers a unique first-hand perspective... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00763000 |
Giant Manta Ray
Giant Manta Ray Manta birostris
Divers often describe the experience of swimming beneath a manta ray as like being overtaken by a huge flying saucer. This ray is the biggest in the world, but like the biggest shark, the whale shark, it is a harmless consumer of plankton.
When feeding, it swims along wit... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00772000 |
Topics covered: Ideal solutions
Instructor/speaker: Moungi Bawendi, Keith Nelson
The following content is provided under a Creative Commons license. Your support will help MIT OpenCourseWare continue to offer high quality educational resources for free. To make a donation or view additional materials from hundreds of M... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00773000 |
Topics covered: Encapsulation, inheritance, shadowing
Instructor: Prof. Eric Grimson, Prof. John Guttag
OPERATOR: The following content is provided under a Creative Commons license. Your support will help MIT OpenCourseWare continue to offer high quality educational resources for free. To make a donation or view additi... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00774000 |
Complete the following test so you can be sure you understand the material. Your answers are private, and test results are not scored.
When you create a new table in Datasheet view, you must define a primary key field.
You can't use the Lookup Wizard to alter an existing value list.
When you use a template to create a ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00775000 |
Municipal bonds, often called munis, are debt obligations of U.S. states, cities, counties, or other political subdivisions of states. The two primary types of municipal bonds are general obligation and revenue. • A general obligation bond is used for general expenditures and is backed by the issuer’s full faith and cr... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00777000 |
As I become more and more interested in American history and archeology, I found this latest news about the USS Monitor quite fascinating:
The Monitor finally sank around 1 a.m. on December 31. Twelve sailors and four officers would lose their lives. Periodicals like Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newsp... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00780000 |
On Monday the American Library Association will announce the winner of its highest award for a picture book, named for the great English illustrator Randolph Caldecott (1846–1886). Why was Caldecott so important? Here’s an answer from Maurice Sendak, who won the Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are:
“Caldecott... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00785000 |
A main character’s name often gives you the first clue to what a novel is “about,” especially when it’s also the title of the book. A good example turns up in Olive Kitteridge, the collection of linked short stories that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A just-picked olive is as bitter — and the color olive is ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00786000 |
Talk:20.109(F12) Pre-Proposal: Engineering Viral Magnetic Nanoparticles for Magnetic Hyperthermic Cancer Therapy
- This is a brainstorming page.
You are very welcome to write any crazy / non-crazy / inventive / conventional / knowledgeable ideas or information you may have about our project.
Some key words: Magnetic Na... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00791000 |
Sleep apnea is a condition in which breathing is repeatedly interrupted during sleep. The time period for which the breathing stops or decreases is usually between 10 and 30 seconds. When these episodes occur repeatedly, sleep apnea can seriously disrupt the quality of sleep.
There are three types of respiratory events... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00794000 |
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