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[en] Numerous works are related to the use of unconventional feed resources, and particularly to Mucuna Spp., in poultry diet. This review aims at describing the context of their use, their nutritional values and the constraints related to their upgrading, before considering the effects of the various methods of treatm... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00797000 |
Kristensen, Hanne L. and Thorup-Kristensen, Kristian (2006) Roots below one meters depth are important for nitrate uptake by annual crops. [Rødder under 1 meters dybde er vigtige for et-årige afgrøders optagelse af nitrat.] In: CD-rom "The American Society of Agronomy - Crop Science Society of America - Soil Science So... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00802000 |
We had a running joke in science ed that kids get so overexposed to discrepant events involving density and air pressure that they tend to try to explain anything and everything they don't understand with respect to science in terms of those two concepts. Why do we have seasons? Ummm... air pressure? Why did Dr. Smith ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00805000 |
By Justin Moyer
The Washington Post
— Defense Secretary Leon Panetta signed an order Thursday allowing women the same opportunities as men to serve in combat, including formerly off-limits assignments on attack submarines and in the Navy SEALs. Just two weeks before the announcement, researchers from San Diego's Naval ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00821000 |
An Introduction To 127.0.0.1
127.0.0.1 is an IP address utilized for a looplock network connection. What does this mean? If
a user tries to connect to this IP address, they will be sent back to their computer. The address
is also known as a localhost. The localhost is the computer.
How the Localhost Works
If the comman... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00824000 |
Municipal incorporation occurs when such municipalities become self-governing entities under the laws of the state or province in which they are located. Often, this event is marked by the award or declaration of a municipal charter.
With the notable exception of the City of London Corporation, the term has fallen out ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00825000 |
|Gallium metal is silver-white and melts at approximately body temperature (Wikipedia image).|
|Atomic Number:||31||Atomic Radius:||187 pm (Van der Waals)|
|Atomic Symbol:||Ga||Melting Point:||29.76 °C|
|Atomic Weight:||69.72||Boiling Point:||2204 °C|
|Electron Configuration:||[Ar]4s23d104p1||Oxidation States:||3|
From... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00827000 |
From Oxford University Press:
There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II. In this narrative, the nineteenth century's absence is cons... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00828000 |
Phantom Phone Calls
ospri.net- Alleged contact with the dead has occurred universally throughout history, taking various forms; as dreams, waking visions and auditory hallucinations, either spontaneous or induced through trance. In many cultures, the spirits of the dead have been sought for their wisdom, advice and kno... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00830000 |
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found that fluctuations in internal body temperature regulate the body's circadian rhythm, the 24-hour cycle that controls metabolism, sleep and other bodily functions.
A light-sensitive portion of the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) remains the body's "... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00832000 |
If superparticles were to exist the decay would happen far more often. This test is one of the "golden" tests for supersymmetry and it is one that on the face of it this hugely popular theory among physicists has failed.
Prof Val Gibson, leader of the Cambridge LHCb team, said that the new result was "putting our super... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00835000 |
When the world was still young, some 3 500 million years ago, molten rock forced its way through the earth's crust and solidified to form the spectacular granite outcrops where Pretoriuskop Rest Camp is now nestled. The impressive granite dome known as "Shabeni Hill" is not far from the camp, which is found in the sout... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00837000 |
Major Section: BREAK-REWRITE
Example: (brr@ :target) ; the term being rewritten (brr@ :unify-subst) ; the unifying substitutionwhere
General Form: (brr@ :symbol)
:symbolis one of the following keywords. Those marked with
*probably require an implementor's knowledge of the system to use effectively. They are supported b... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00839000 |
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis 'The Path'
Chinese Hibiscus, Tropical Hibiscus
Among the showiest flowering plants. Plants typically bear funnel-shaped blossoms, often with prominent stamens. The many species offer a wide range of flower colors.
Probably from tropical Asia; tropical hibiscus has been in cultivation for centurie... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00840000 |
Outside of the academic environment, a harsh and seemingly ever-growing debate has appeared, concerning how mass media distorts the political agenda. Few would argue with the notion that the institutions of the mass media are important to contemporary politics. In the transition to liberal democratic politics in the So... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00846000 |
For many years, UNESCO and China have collaborated closely in the field of world heritage. Among the 35 Chinese properties on the World Heritage List, there are 25 cultural, 6 natural and 4 mixed sites. China is working with the countries of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan)... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00848000 |
May 16, 2011
If you fuel your truck with biodiesel made from palm oil grown on a patch of cleared rainforest, you could be putting into the atmosphere 10 times more greenhouse gasses than if you’d used conventional fossil fuels. It’s a scenario so ugly that, in its worst case, it makes even diesel created from coal (th... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00852000 |
The Bible gives us a clear picture of foolish behavior and its consequences. It’s important for us to recognize these traits in others—and in ourselves. Dealing appropriately with people who behave foolishly requires prayer and wisdom. But remember, that foolish person is not in your life by accident, and you can by Go... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00858000 |
- PASSENGER-STRAND (1) (remove)
- A large-scale chemical modification screen identifies design rules to generate siRNAs with high activity, high stability and low toxicity (2009)
- The use of chemically synthesized short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) is currently the method of choice to manipulate gene expression in mammal... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00861000 |
Each year more than 4 million homeless pets are killed as a result of overpopulation, but families who adopt from animal shelters or rescue groups can help preserve these lives and support the growing trend of socially responsible holiday shopping. Best Friends Animal Society encourages families this holiday season to ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00871000 |
Taking Play Seriously
By ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG
Published: February 17, 2008
On a drizzly Tuesday night in late January, 200 people came out to hear a psychiatrist talk rhapsodically about play -- not just the intense, joyous play of children, but play for all people, at all ages, at all times. (All species too; the lectu... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00872000 |
Financial Accounting - CH 1 & 2
|Four Principal Activities of Business Firms:|| 1.Establishing goals and strategies|
|What are the 2 sources Financing comes from?|| 1. Owners|
|Investments are made in the following:|| 1. Land, buildings, equipment|
2. Patents, licenses, contractual rights
3. Stock and bonds of other or... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00874000 |
Intel demonstrated a wireless electric power system that could revolutionize modern life by eliminating chargers, wall outlets and eventually batteries all together by 2050. Intel chief technology officer Justin Rattner demonstrated a Wireless Energy Resonant Link at Intel’s 2008 developer’s forum.
During the demo elec... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00878000 |
What is an estimate?
“An 'Estimate' is a computer-generated approximation of a property's market value calculated by means of the Automated Value Model (AVM). As such, an Estimate is calculated on the basis of:
- Publicly available tax assessment records for the property
- Recent sale prices of comparable properties in... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00882000 |
By Roger Fox
I doubt the Keystone project is even a real long term goal by TransCanada,. Certainly in the big picture Keystone is only a single chapter in a much larger book. If you read this diary you will risk information overload, you will be offered numerous disparate data points that at first glance may seem uncon... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00886000 |
|Easton's Bible Dictionary|
Baalah of the well, (Joshua 19:8, probably the same as Baal, mentioned in 1 Chronicles 4:33, a city of Simeon.
Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia
ba'-a-lath-be'-er ba`alath be'er "lady (mistress) of the well"; (Joshua 19:8 (in 1 Chronicles 4:33, Baal)): In Jos this place is designated "Ramah o... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00890000 |
OBSOLETE UNITS PACKAGE SYMBOL
As of version 9.0, unit functionality is built into Mathematica
is the fundamental CGS unit of mass.
- To use , you first need to load the Units Package using Needs["Units`"].
- is equivalent to Kilogram/1000 (SI units).
- Convert[n Gram, newunits] converts n Gram to a form involving units... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00891000 |
6 Series with Tags:
Recession Indicators Series
These time series are an interpretation of US Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions data provided by The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) at http://www.nber.org/cycles/cyclesmain.html and Organisation of Economic Development (OECD) Composite Leading Indica... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00895000 |
A risk factor is something that increases your likelihood of getting a disease or condition.
It is possible to develop melanoma with or without the risk factors listed below. However, the more risk factors you have, the greater your likelihood of developing melanoma. If you have a number of risk factors, ask your docto... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00897000 |
Fully revised and updated for the 21st century, 365 Manners Kids Should Know tackles one manner a day. It suggests many games, exercises, and activities that parents, teachers, and grandparents can use to teach children and teens essential etiquette and at what age to present them. Some of the manners covered are when ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00898000 |
This work is licensed under the GPLv2 license. See License.txt for details
Autobuild imports, configures, builds and installs various kinds of software packages. It can be used in software development to make sure that nothing is broken in the build process of a set of packages, or can be used as an automated installat... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00912000 |
W hy is it important for scientists to contribute to science education?
Our nation has failed to meet important educational challenges, and our children are ill prepared to respond to the demands of today?s world. Results of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study ( TIMSS )--and its successor, TIMSS-R--sh... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00931000 |
File compression is to perform some algorithm on the file that reduces it in size but the reverse of the algorithm will return it to its original form. In data files, the compression and decompression must be lossless which means that the data must be returned to its exact form. There are various methods to do this: so... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00936000 |
Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, c2009.
xxi, 417 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
"Premier reference source"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 362-407) and index.
Now established as an effective tool in the instructional process, multimedia has penetrated educational systems at almost every level of study. ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00938000 |
May 20, 2009
The Cook Islands are closely associated to New Zealand. Air New Zealand is the only air carrier that flies directly from the U.S. to the Cook Islands. As you will see below, the Cook Islands use the NZD as their currency.
Despite some 90,000 visitors a year to the capital island, Rarotonga, the Cook Island... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00949000 |
Classroom Activities for Teaching Sedimentary GeologyThis collection of teaching materials allows for the sharing of ideas and activities within the community of geoscience teachers. Do you have a favorite teaching activity you'd like to share? Please help us expand this collection by contributing your own teaching mat... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00950000 |
- Exam wrappers. As David Thompson describes the process, "exam wrappers required students to reflect on their performance before and after seeing their graded tests." The first four questions, completed just prior to receiving their graded test, asked students to report the time they spent preparing for the test, thei... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00951000 |
Free the Cans! Working Together to Reduce Waste
In a blog about how people share, it’s worth the occasional reference to the bizarre ways that people DON’T SHARE. Is it safe to say we live in a society that places great value on independence, private property, personal space, and privacy? Even sometimes extreme value? ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00953000 |
Excerpts for Thames : The Biography
The River as Fact
It has a length of 215 miles, and is navigable for 191 miles. It is the longest river in England but not in Britain, where the Severn is longer by approximately 5 miles. Nevertheless it must be the shortest river in the world to acquire such a famous history. The Am... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00956000 |
Teach your child the importance of good sportsmanship.Not too long ago, my 10-year-old daughter's indoor soccer team finished their game and lined up to do the traditional end-of-game walk with the other team. If your own child has ever played in a team sport, you likely have seen this walk a hundred times before. Win ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00957000 |
View Sample Pages Provides a detailed curricular calendar that's tied to a developmental continuum and the standards so you'll know not only what you should be teaching, but what your students are ready to embrace and what you can reasonably expect of them as successful readers and writers. Additionally, you'll find mo... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00958000 |
Groundhogs, as a species, have a large range in size. There are the medium-sized rodents I grew up with, averaging around 4 kg, and groundhogs—like a certain Phil—that are probably more like 14 kg. This is the likely source of my earlier confusion, as that's a huge discrepancy in size. Evidently, it's all in the diet, ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00959000 |
In my next few blogs, I will provide an overview of Voltage Source Converter (VSC) HVDC technology and its suitability for Smart Grids operation and control discussed.
VSC HVDC is based upon transistor technology and was developed in the 1990′s. The switching element is the Insulated Gate Bipolar Thyristor (IGBT), whic... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00965000 |
The Operations Layer defines the operational processes and procedures necessary to deliver Information Technology (IT) as a Service. This layer leverages IT Service Management concepts that can be found in prevailing best practices such as ITIL and MOF. The main focus of the Operations Layer is to execute the business ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00968000 |
Let and be two differentiable functions. We will say that and are proportional if and only if there exists a constant C such that . Clearly any function is proportional to the zero-function. If the constant C is not important in nature and we are only interested into the proportionality of the two functions, then we wo... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00973000 |
Published May 2008
Properly located digital signage in high traffic areas on school campuses provides students and faculty with a convenient resource to stay up to date about the latest school news and activities.
Signage in Education
By Anthony D. Coppedge
Technology gets high marks.
Digital media and communications h... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00974000 |
How We Found the Missing Memristor
The memristor--the functional equivalent of a synapse--could revolutionize circuit design
Image: Bryan Christie Design
THINKING MACHINE This artist's conception of a memristor shows a stack of multiple crossbar arrays, the fundamental structure of R. Stanley Williams's device. Because... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00976000 |
Mercury in the Morning
The planet Mercury -- the planet closest to the Sun -- is just peeking into view in the east at dawn the next few days. It looks like a fairly bright star. It's so low in the sky, though, that you need a clear horizon to spot it, and binoculars wouldn't hurt.
Mercury is a bit of a puzzle. It has ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00986000 |
Teacher Tip: instead of addressing the class as...
Maps: Behold ORBIS, a Google Maps for the Roman... →
Have you ever wondered how much it would cost to travel from Londinium to Jerusalem in February during the heyday of the Roman Empire? Thanks to a project helmed by historian Walter Scheidel and developer Elijah Meek... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00990000 |
Requirements for proficiency in Norwegian
The Norwegian language is the primary language of instruction at Norwegian institutions of higher education. Some foreign students learn Norwegian before they continue with further studies in Norway. Below is an overview of the language requirements for foreign students applyin... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-00998000 |
Monitor drivers vs. video adapter drivers: How are they different and which do I need?
Monitor drivers are specific to the monitor. They are usually text files that tell the operating system what the monitor is and what it is capable of. They are not required for the monitor to function.
Video adapter drivers
Your vide... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01004000 |
In 1962 President John F. Kennedy’s administration narrowly averted possible nuclear war with the USSR, when CIA operatives spotted Soviet surface-to-surface missiles in Cuba, after a six-week gap in intelligence-gathering flights.
In their forthcoming book Blind over Cuba: The Photo Gap and the Missile Crisis, co-auth... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01015000 |
If you have ever used the Windows Copy (Ctrl+C) to copy objects to the clipboard and then the Windows Paste (Ctrl+V) to copy/paste AutoCAD object(s), then you know that those clipboard object(s) will have the lower left-hand corner of their extents as the base point (not very precise)... and this always reminds me of s... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01056000 |
On January 16, 1863, Walt Whitman wrote a pained letter to his brother, Thomas Jefferson Whitman, in which he bemoaned the Union’s recent defeat at Fredericksburg as the most “complete piece of mismanagement perhaps ever yet known in the earth's wars.”
While Whitman today is celebrated as one of America’s greatest poet... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01067000 |
The Neighbor Squirrel
These busy fluffballs have lost their fear of most predators - and they help plant pecan trees.
By Sheryl Smith-Rodgers
Have you ever watched an eastern fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) bury an acorn or pecan? A nuzzle here, another there, then he hurriedly pushes the leaves and grass over the site be... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01068000 |
Ragtime and blues fused ‘All That Jazz’
By Laura Szepesi
Published: Sunday, March 17, 2013, 7:09 p.m.
Updated: Monday, March 18, 2013
EDITOR'S NOTE: Thursday marks the 85th birthday of well-known Connellsville jazz trombonist Harold Betters. We salute him with this four-part series, starting today with a brief history ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01072000 |
Welcome to BSA Troop 51 based out of Waterford, MI. Please take a look around and have a great day.
How Scouting Started in the United States
One day in 1909 in London, England, an American visitor, William D. Boyce, lost his way in a dense fog. He stopped under a street lamp and tried to figure out where he was. A boy... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01074000 |
The diagnosis of Trichotillomania (TM) is synonymous with the act of recurrently pulling one’s own body hair resulting in noticeable thinning or baldness. (American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 2000, p. 674) Sites of hair pulling can include any area of the body in whi... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01078000 |
SCIENCE announced that it is taking viewers further inside NASA's latest mission to Mars with the exclusive world premiere of i.am.mars: REACH FOR THE STARS tonight, September 19, 2012, at 10 PM ET/PT. The special documents the artistic and technical process behind "Reach for the Stars," will.i.am's newest single that ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01084000 |
Forecast Texas Fire Danger (TFD)
The Texas Fire Danger(TFD) map is produced by the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS). Weather information is provided by remote, automated weather stations and then used as an input to the Weather Information Management System (WIMS). The NFDRS processor in WIMS produces a fire ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01086000 |
|UFDC Home||| Help ||
The Florida Geological Survey Digital Collection includes historic resources from the Florida Geological Survey (FGS). FGS is an Office which reports directly to the Deputy Secretary for Land & Recreation in the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. The mission of the FGS is to collect, ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01094000 |
Welcome to Jane Addams Hull-House museum
The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum serves as a dynamic memorial to social reformer Jane Addams, the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and her colleagues whose work changed the lives of their immigrant neighbors as well as national and international public pol... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01095000 |
Introduction to principles of chemistry and fundamentals of inorganic and biochemistry. Structure and chemistry of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, biochemistry of enzymes, metabolism, body fluids and radiation effects. On-line materials includes the course syllabus, copies of the lecture slides and animations, interac... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01100000 |
Now that we’ve said a lot about individual operators on vector spaces, I want to go back and consider some other sorts of structures we can put on the space itself. Foremost among these is the idea of a bilinear form. This is really nothing but a bilinear function to the base field: . Of course, this means that it’s eq... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01101000 |
The Gram-Schmidt Process
Now that we have a real or complex inner product, we have notions of length and angle. This lets us define what it means for a collection of vectors to be “orthonormal”: each pair of distinct vectors is perpendicular, and each vector has unit length. In formulas, we say that the collection is o... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01102000 |
Sarin was developed
in 1938 in Germany as a pesticide. Its name is derived from the names
of the chemists involved in its creation: Schrader, Ambros, Rudriger
and van der Linde. Sarin is a colorless non-persistent liquid. The
vapor is slightly heavier than air, so it hovers close to the ground.
Under wet and humid weat... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01109000 |
Interagency Coordinating Council
"The mission of the Utah Interagency Coordinating Council for Infants and Toddlers with Special Needs is to assure that each infant and young child with special needs will have the opportunity to achieve optimal health and development within the context of the family."
Introduction to I... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01110000 |
On August 9, 2011, the Canadian Ice Service (CIS) reported that the Petermann Ice Island-A (PII-A) appeared to be grounded off the east coast of Newfoundland, east of the city of St. Anthony.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image of the ice... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01113000 |
The press release doesn’t contain any pictures, and really doesn’t do this new web tool justice, so I’ve added some screencaps. In a nutshell, the new iSWA site lets you arrange graphical packages of solar images and plots oncsreen for simultaneous evaluation. Stuff that had been scattered over several solar related we... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01124000 |
By JOHN CARTER
When Abraham Lincoln died from an assassin’s bullet on April 15, 1865, Edwin Stanton remarked to those gathered around his bedside, “Now he belongs to the ages.”
One of the meanings implied in Stanton’s famous statement is that Lincoln would not only be remembered as an iconic figure of the past, but tha... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01126000 |
TAKING EVERY PRECAUTION
Japan Takes Measures to Prevent SARS (June 9, 2003)
As severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), a new type
of pneumonia, rages in wide areas of Asia and other places, the Japanese government
has been busy taking measures to prevent an outbreak from occurring in Japan.
The government has urged p... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01127000 |
Protecting your skin and checking it for changes are keys to preventing another melanoma or catching one in an early, treatable stage.
Exposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays produced by the sun increases your risk of melanoma. Here’s how to protect your skin from the sun’s UV rays:
- Cover your skin with clothing, including... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01133000 |
Archaeological Site of Rehman Dheri
Department of Archaeology and Museums
Property names are listed in the language in which they have been submitted by the State Party.
The archaeological site of Rehman Dheri consists of a rectangular shaped mound covering some twenty two hectares and standing 4.5 metres above the sur... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01136000 |
- weak drug regulatory control and enforcement;
- scarcity and/or erratic supply of basic medicines;
- unregulated markets and distribution chains;
- high drug prices and/or
- significant price differentials.
At national level, governments, law enforcement agencies, heath professionals, the pharmaceutical industry, imp... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01137000 |
Detailed Distribution Map Information This map reflects the specimen location information from the Wisconsin Botanical Information System database and attemps to line up the original Town-Range Survey map from 1833 to 1866 with a computer generated table grid over the map of Wisconsin. Because the original Town Range l... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01146000 |
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Lipman Bers, always known as Lipa, was born into a Jewish family. His parents Isaac Bers and Bertha Weinberg were teachers, his mother being head at an elementary s... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01162000 |
x2/3 + y2/3 = a2/3
x = a cos3(t), y = a sin3(t)
Click below to see one of the Associated curves.
|Definitions of the Associated curves||Evolute|
|Involute 1||Involute 2|
|Inverse curve wrt origin||Inverse wrt another circle|
|Pedal curve wrt origin||Pedal wrt another point|
|Negative pedal curve wrt origin||Negative pe... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01163000 |
The machete blades turned red with heat in the fire that the rubber workers built on a Liberia plantation, Thomas Unnasch remembers from a visit in the 1980s.
This was how the men tried to quell the intense itchiness that comes with river blindness, a rare tropical disease.
"You can imagine how bad the itching must be,... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01168000 |
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD is a common childhood illness. People who are affected can have trouble with paying attention, sitting still and controlling their impulses. There are three types of ADHD. The most common type of ADHD is when people have difficulties with both attention and hyperactivity... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01174000 |
Weights linked to lower diabetes risk
Weight gains Weight training, and not just cardio workouts, is linked to a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a US study.
"We all know that aerobic exercise is beneficial for diabetes - many studies have looked at that - but no studies have looked at weight trai... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01178000 |
Arctic meltdown not caused by nature
Rapid loss of Arctic sea ice - 80 per cent has disappeared since 1980 - is not caused by natural cycles such as changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun, says Dr Karl.
The situation is getting rather messy with regard to the ice melting in the Arctic. Now the volume of the ice va... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01179000 |
Black holes growing faster than expected
Black hole find Existing theories on the relationship between the size of a galaxy and its central black hole are wrong according to a new Australian study.
The discovery by Dr Nicholas Scott and Professor Alister Graham, from Melbourne's Swinburne University of Technology, foun... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01180000 |
Hoodoos may be seismic gurus
Hoodoo prediction Towering chimney-like sedimentary rock spires known as hoodoos may provide an indication of an area's past earthquake activity.
The research by scientists including Dr Rasool Anooshehpoor, from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, may provide scientists with a ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01181000 |
Now, it is common knowledge these days that Hitler's final great offensive in the last years of WWII was the Ardennes Offensive of 1944/45, also known as the battle of the Bulge. What was not appreciated at the time by the Allied high command was just how desperately short of vital supplies the Third Reich armies actua... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01182000 |
Books Yellow, Red, and Green and Blue,
All true, or just as good as true,
And here's the Blue Book just for YOU!
Hard is the path from A to Z,
And puzzling to a curly head,
Yet leads to Books—Green, Yellow and Red.
For every child should understand
That letters from the first were planned
To guide us into Fairy Land
So... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01183000 |
What exactly does "desecration" mean? Is it just flag burning — or does it also include smearing the flag with dirt? How about dropping it on the ground? And why should law enforcement get to decide who to arrest for such desecration? Free expression and the right to dissent are among the core principles which the Amer... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01189000 |
First, an object is placed on the platform of the printer upon – a petrie dish for example. Then the printer must check the height of the object to make sure everything is calibrated correctly. Mr. Carvalho placed a paper card on the platform of the 3D-Bioplotter to demonstrate how the machine works.
Mr. Carvalho then ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01194000 |
Re-inventing the Planned City Monday, March 12, 2012
TAU and MIT launch pilot project to re-think 50's era "New Towns"
A bird's-eye view of Kiryat Gat
In response to population growth, many "new towns" or planned cities were built around the world in the 1950s. But according to Dr. Tali Hatuka, head of Tel Aviv Univers... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01204000 |
Elderly people are at increased risk of food-borne illness because as they age, their immune systems become weaker. In fact, the website for the Centers for Disease Control estimates that each year about 48 million people get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die from food-borne diseases. The most severe cases t... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01206000 |
What is HIV? And what is AIDS? Find answers to some common questions in this section.
How is HIV transmitted - and how is it not transmitted? Find out the answers in this section.
Worried you might have HIV? Have an HIV test - it's the only way to know for sure.
HIV treatment is not a cure, but it is keeping millions o... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01208000 |
Select Preservation Resources
- Shocking Statistics: Reasons for Preservation Week: Facts that illustrate the need for national preservation awareness.
- PW Fact Sheet: More facts that discusses how items become damaged and simple steps to keep them safe.
- Preserving Your Memories: Organized by material type, these we... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01216000 |
In preparation for Christmas, I read Stephen Nissenbaum's 1998 "The Battle for Christmas," a thorough exploration of this season.
The book's title will be deceiving, because it has nothing to do with the recent sacred-vs.-secular Christmas quarrels. Nissenbaum explores the myriad ways that Christmas has evolved in our ... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01218000 |
Heal Our Planet Earth
Secondary and Universities
Educational Outreach: Secondary (High) Schools and Universities
Anthony Marr from the HOPE Foundation’s main point was the wild tigers. He believes that something must be done to keep these animals alive. "If we let this go, life will be less beautiful and worth less liv... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01222000 |
Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
The chloride ion is formed when the element chlorine picks up one electron to form the anion (negatively charged ion) Cl−. The salts of hydrochloric acid HCl contain chloride ions and are also called chlorides. An example is table salt, which is sodium chloride with the chemical formul... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01223000 |
Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
Industrial Design is an applied art whereby the aesthetics and usability of products may be improved. Design aspects specified by the industrial designer may include the overall shape of the object, the location of details with respect to one another, colors, texture, sounds, and aspec... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01224000 |
Help kids practice their counting skills with this printable counting to eight (8) worksheet that has a fun birds theme. This worksheet will be a great addition to any numbers or counting lesson plan as well as any birds themed lesson plan. On this worksheet, kids are asked to count the number of cardinals and circle t... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01230000 |
Dr. Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858-1929) had a rare double talent of understanding how to pursue fundamental science and, at the same time, of commercializing himself successfully as a inventor and discoverer.
He discovered 4 elements (Neodymium, Praseodymium, Ytterbium, and Lutetium).
He invented the incandescent mantle... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01236000 |
Ethics of dementia research
What are clinical trials and how are they controlled/governed?
A clinical trial is a biomedical/health-related study into the effects on humans of a new medical treatment (medicine/drug, medical device, vaccine or new therapy), sometimes called an investigational medicinal product (IMP). Bef... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01237000 |
United Kingdom - Scotland
Restrictions of freedom
Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003
The Act was designed to modernise and improve the use of compulsory measures in mental health care. It reflects the general move over the last two decades towards care and treatment in the community rather than in h... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01238000 |
Our opinion on ...
- Executive Summary
- Necessity for a response
- Genetic testing
- General principles
- Other considerations
The present paper constitutes the input of Alzheimer Europe and its member organisations to the ongoing discussions within Europe about genetic testing (in the context of Alzheimer's disease a... | fwe2-CC-MAIN-2013-20-01239000 |
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