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Introduction: Diabetic ketoacidosis is a frequent reason for hospital admission of children with newly diagnosed diabetes and the most frequent cause for hospitalization of children with poorly controlled diabetes.
Aim: To evaluate the frequency of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) hospitalization for pediatric patients and resources for its decrease.
Methods: Subjects included children <19 years who hospitalized with DKA in the pediatric diabetes care units during one year. The study entry criteria were venous pH <7.30 and/or bicarbonate <15 mmol/l and ketonuria. Patients were treated with fluid replacement and insulin infusion. The patients were analyzed according to demographic data, clinical and laboratory findings.
Results: One hundred and twenty four DKA patients (72 boys and 52 girls) were hospitalized during the study period. Pediatric DKA accounted for 1739 hospital days (median length of stay 14 days). 38 children (30.6%) were with new-onset diabetes. The frequency of DKA at onset of diabetes was equal 92%. The risk of presenting with DKA was the highest among patients <5 years old. 86 patients were with early diagnosed diabetes and duration of disease from 2 months to 12 years. Compared with single episode DKA, recurrent DKA (46.2%) was highest among children with poorly controlled diabetes, prepubertal and adolescent boys, children with difficult family circumstances.
Conclusion: The carried out research was shown high frequency of DKA at onset of diabetes, recurrent DKA among adolescent boys and children with difficult family circumstances. Opportunities exist to reduce DKA hospitalizations for children with diabetes with clinical and policy interventions targeted to this population.
27 - 29 Sep 2018
European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology
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Glance at almost any portable electronic device and you see a liquid crystal display (LCD)-but these ubiquitous screens are far from perfect. Displays using light-emitting organic materials rather than liquid crystals are lighter weight, can be viewed from wider angles and consume less energy.
While several crude devices have been commercialized, real competition with LCDs will require that organic electroluminescent (OEL) materials be combined with active-matrix technology, in which the electronics are built into the display.
Eastman Kodak and Sanyo Electric claim to have jointly developed an active-matrix OEL display that will be ready for market in 2001. A dime-thin, 6-centimeter prototype incorporates a thin layer of Kodak’s OEL material on a substrate of polysilicon and glass. The companies plan to commercialize the display first for cameras, camcorders and personal digital assistants; future generations could find their way into pagers and cell phones, and eventually into laptop computers.
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(CNN) - Dry conditions and the Santa Ana winds are being blamed for at least five fast-moving wildfires that have burned more than 65,000 acres in Southern California.
The term "Santa Ana winds" gets thrown around a lot by Southern California meteorologists and even shows up in "I Love L.A.," Randy Newman's classic ode to Los Angeles.
But what are they, exactly?
The National Weather Service defines the Santa Ana wind as "a weather condition in which strong, hot, dust-bearing winds descend to the Pacific Coast around Los Angeles from inland desert regions."
The winds often pass through Santa Ana Canyon, east of Los Angeles; thus the name.
The weather condition is most common in the period of October through March when the desert is relatively cold, and the winds develop as high pressure builds over the Great Basin in Nevada, according to the UCLA Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.
As the cold air there begins to descend, it's forced downslope toward the Pacific Ocean, causing it to compress and warm as it falls. The air starts out dry, but the relative humidity decreases as the temperature increases, causing the air to end up even drier once it reaches sea level.
The air gains speed as it goes through passes and canyons. The result is the strong, hot Santa Ana winds, which increase the potential for wildfires by drying out vegetation. The winds also accelerate the speed of wildfires once they start.
According to a report from the Southern California Geographic Coordination Center, multi-day Santa Ana wind events aren't uncommon during the winter months. The highest number of wind days occur in December and January. Both months also see the highest number of days with moderate to strong wind events.
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COVID-19 did not slow the relentless advance of climate change. There is no sign that we are growing back greener, as carbon dioxide emissions are rapidly recovering after a temporary blip due to the economic slowdown and are nowhere close to reduction targets. Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere continue at record levels, committing the planet to dangerous future warming, according to a new multi-agency United in Science 2021report. “We are still significantly off-schedule to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. This year has seen fossil fuel emissions bounce back, greenhouse gas concentrations continuing to rise and severe human-enhanced weather events that have affected health, lives and livelihoods on every continent. Unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to 1.5°C will be impossible, with catastrophic consequences for people and the planet on which we depend,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in the foreword.
By United Nations Environment Programme. September 16, 2021.
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ERIC Number: ED238814
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1983
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Disputes in the Workplace: Management vs. Labor. Instructor's Guide [and] Student Materials. Business Issues in the Classroom. Revised.
Maxey, Phyllis F.; Kraemer, Karen D.
One of a series of units designed to help secondary students understand business issues, this packet focuses on the role of organized labor in the business world. Teacher and student materials are provided in two separate sections. The teacher's guide contains five detailed lesson plans, suggestions for follow-up activities, definitions of important terms, background readings and handouts for a student simulation. Following an introductory reading on disputes in the workplace, the student materials include a preassessment survey of economic knowledge, a simulation based on the J. P. Stevens labor dispute, and readings on labor history, collective bargaining, business techniques for dealing with the unions, and innovative labor relations in American, Swedish, and Japanese automobile industries. A vocabulary worksheet reviews major terms introduced in the unit. (LP)
Descriptors: Business, Business Communication, Business Responsibility, Collective Bargaining, Conflict Resolution, Employment Problems, Government Role, Grievance Procedures, History, Instructional Materials, Labor, Labor Demands, Labor Problems, Labor Relations, Labor Standards, Learning Activities, Public Agencies, Secondary Education, Simulation, Unions, Units of Study
Constitutional Rights Foundation, 1510 Cotner Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90025 ($4.95).
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Learner; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Students; Practitioners
Authoring Institution: Constitutional Rights Foundation, Los Angeles, CA.
Note: For related documents, see SO 015 366-381.
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Build the American Culture
Week 13 – Build a Western Street:
Includes individual pieces — walls, building tops and sign, boardwalks, porches, windows and doors, porches and more — to help build a fine western street.
Week 14 – Build a Tenement Diorama
Provides walls and furnishings to allow students to create a model of a big city tenement in the 1800’s.Week 16 – Build an Industrialist Monopoly Pieces of a gameboard help students create a fun version of the game Monopoly that utilizes facts and background from the time of industrialist monopolies.
Week 18 – American Inventors Game
A set of playing cards to help students discover more about inventors and their inventions.
Week 25 – Life in the Great Depression Game
An oversized game board similar to the gameLife, which allows students to discover the ups and downs of the Great Depression.
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Amulet of Pataikos
Roman Imperial Period
30 B.C.–364 A.D.
Findspot: Egypt, Giza, Menkaura Pyramid Temple, room J1
Height x width: 3 x 0.8 cm (1 3/16 x 5/16 in.)
Medium or Technique
Not On View
Pataikos was a popular protective deity, amulets of whom were believed to ward off threats to the wearer. He is usually depicted as a nude dwarf with a bald head, often wielding a pair of knives. This amulet is made of faience with a light blue glaze. The surface is worn and uneven.
From Giza, Menkaura Pyramid Temple, room J1 (pillared hall 27), between pillars 3 and 4. 1907: excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt.
(Accession date: March 2, 1911)
Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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—n. 1. the distinguishing name of a book, poem, picture, piece of music, or the like.
2. a descriptive heading or caption, as of a chapter, section, or other part of a book.
3. See title page. 4. a descriptive or distinctive appellation, esp. one belonging to a person by right of rank, office, attainment, etc.: the title of Lord Mayor. 5. Sports.the championship: He won the title three years in a row. 6. an established or recognized right to something.
7. a ground or basis for a claim.
8. anything that provides a ground or basis for a claim.
9. Law. a. legal right to the possession of property, esp. real property.
b. the ground or evidence of such right.
c. the instrument constituting evidence of such right.
d. a unity combining all of the requisites to complete legal ownership.
e. a division of a statute, lawbook, etc., esp. one larger than an article or section.
f. (in pleading) the designation of one's basis for judicial relief; the cause of action sued upon, as a contract or tort.
10. Eccles. a. a fixed sphere of work and source of income, required as a condition of ordination.
b. any of certain Roman Catholic churches in Rome, the nominal incumbents of which are cardinals.
11. Usually, titles.Motion Pictures,Television. a. a subtitle in the viewer's own language: an Italian movie with English titles. b. any written matter inserted into the film or program, esp. the list of actors, technicians, writers, etc., contributing to it; credits.
—adj. 1. of or pertaining to a title: the title story in a collection. 2. that decides a title: a title bout.
—v.t. to furnish with a title; designate by an appellation; entitle.
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A numeral system originating using the letters of the ancient Hebrews. There was no notation for zero, and the numeric values for individual letters was added together. Due to difficulty in transcribing hebrew letters, the names are used in this table. The page at http://www.inner.org/gematria/gemchart.htm has a picture of the letters and a alternate way of writing the letter names, or see the entry for the Hebrew alphabet. The last five letters are actually 'sofeet' forms of the hebrew letters. (there are only 22 hebrew letters, but 27 entries in the table) The sofeet form of a hebrew letter is the alternate form used when that letter is the last letter in a word.
This conversion rule for words into numbers is used in a form of hebrew mysticism called Gematria.
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This global digital map of Saturn's moon Tethys was created using data taken by the Cassini spacecraft, with gaps in coverage filled in by NASA's Voyager spacecraft data. The map is an equidistant projection and has a scale of 300 meters (980 feet) per pixel. Equidistant projections preserve distances on a body, with some distortion of area and direction.
The mean radius of Tethys used for projection of this map is 533 kilometers (331 miles). This map is an update to the version released in December 2005. See Map of Tethys - December 2005.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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The Storage Shed/Window of the Traditional Herring Fishing in Hokkaido
24 Mar 2021
A flat wooden fishing boat shed in the Historical Village of Hokkaido. The storage shed is a facility used to temporarily store the obtained herring. After the fishing season, it was used as a warehouse for storing large fishing gear and processing tools such as boats and oars. The building was restored with reference to the existing storage sheds in Shakotan Town and Otaru City and to those built in the Meiji and Taisho areas, where herring fishing thrived, around the Shakotan Peninsula. It was designed with a drop-board structure, wherein a board is inserted within the groove of a pillar. By grasping the drop-boardʼs handle and removing it from the groove built into the top of the pillar, part of the pillar can be removed. By removing the drop-board and the pillar, boats and fishing equipment can be moved in and out. Herring can be handled similarly during the “herring crushing” process.
Historical Village of Hokkaido – Storage Shed
(Warehouse/Sapporo City, Hokkaido)
This article is an excerpt from “Window Workology,” a joint research project concerning windows and the behaviors around them done in collaboration with Tokyo Institute of Technologyʼs Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory.
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Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, has expressed concern about the water situation in his country. The southern African country is one of those adversely affected by drought.
Mugabe was addressing a cross section of world leaders who had gathered in the Moroccan port city of Marrakech for the plenary of the COP22 summit. The High Level Segment of the summit was reserved for Heads of State.
‘‘Climate change is a reality taking a toll on our people. The water situation in my country is dire,” he is quoted to have said.
Climate change is a reality taking a toll on our people. The water situation in my country is dire.
China and India have in the recent past donated tonnes of rice to drought-hit Zimbabwe. The donation is to help the southern African country alleviate hunger after a drought that has left up to 4 million Zimbabweans in need of food aid.
The Conference of the Parties (COP22) conference started from 7 November and is expected to end on 18 of November, 2016.
The COP which is the supreme decision making body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is expected to lay emphasis on new ways of placing development and the civil society at the centre of the climate agenda.
African leaders at the summit have been talking about their commitments to ensuring a sustainable climate. They are also touting their domestic efforts aimed at achieving tangible results in the fight against climate change.
Below are a series of tweets telling what African leaders have been saying.
What is the COP?
The COP stands for the “Conference of the Parties.”
It is the supreme decision-making body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), opened for signature in 1992 during the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and later entered into force in 1994.
Through this instrument, the United Nations has equipped itself with an action framework to fight global warming.
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The Human Rights Tribunal was created in 1990 when major amendments to the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms came into effect.
The Human Rights Tribunal consists of at least seven members appointed by the government, namely a president chosen from among the judges of the Court of Québec and six assessors, all selected for their experience, expertise, sensitivity and interest in matters of human rights and freedoms.
As a specialized tribunal, the Human Rights Tribunal has jurisdiction to hear and rule on complaints concerning discrimination and harassment grounded on one of the motives prohibited under the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. It can also hear cases concerning the exploitation of elderly people and people with disabilities as well as matters concerning affirmative action programs.
People wishing in taking a case to the Tribunal because they believe they have been the victim of discrimination, harassment or exploitation, which is prohibited by the Charter, must first submit a complaint to the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse .
After determining whether the case is admissible, the Commission will investigate and decide whether to submit an application to the Tribunal or any other court having jurisdiction. If it does so, the Commission will represent the complainant before the chosen court. When it decides not to submit an application to the Human Rights Tribunal, the complainant may, under certain conditions, submit an application, at his or her own expense, asking the Tribunal to render a decision.
For more information
Website for the Human Rights Tribunal
Website of the Canadian Legal Information Institute
Website of the Société québécoise d'information juridique (In French)
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This video depicts the launch and deployment of an Entomopter-based Mars surveyor mission. The Entomopter began as a Georgia Tech Research Institute internal research program that was later funded by DARPA to show its feasibility for indoor flight. The patented flight control system gives the Entomopter the ability fly slowly in Mars' rarefied atmosphere where other flight vehicles can not. The circulation-controlled flapping wings create up to seven times more lift than theoretically possible for the wing shape. This unique flight capability was recognized by the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts and was funded through a two-phase study to show feasibility as a platform for Mars survey missions.
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In the first complete history of the War of 1812 written from a British perspective, Jon Latimer offers an authoritative and compelling account that places the conflict in its strategic context within the Napoleonic wars. The British viewed the War of 1812 as an ill-fated attempt by the young American republic to annex Canada. For British Canada, populated by many loyalists who had fled the American Revolution, this was a war for survival. The Americans aimed both to assert their nationhood on the global stage and to expand their territory northward and westward.
Americans would later find in this war many iconic moments in their national story—the bombardment of Fort McHenry (the inspiration for Francis Scott Key’s “Star Spangled Banner”); the Battle of Lake Erie; the burning of Washington; the death of Tecumseh; Andrew Jackson’s victory at New Orleans—but their war of conquest was ultimately a failure. Even the issues of neutrality and impressment that had triggered the war were not resolved in the peace treaty. For Britain, the war was subsumed under a long conflict to stop Napoleon and to preserve the empire. The one lasting result of the war was in Canada, where the British victory eliminated the threat of American conquest, and set Canadians on the road toward confederation.
Latimer describes events not merely through the eyes of generals, admirals, and politicians but through those of the soldiers, sailors, and ordinary people who were directly affected. Drawing on personal letters, diaries, and memoirs, he crafts an intimate narrative that marches the reader into the heat of battle.
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By Sean Graham
Between 1960 and 1996, the Guatemalan Civil War pitted the government against leftist rebel groups. Both during and after the war, there were accusations that government forces committed human rights violations against civilians. The government denied these allegations and claimed that there was no documentation to substantiate any of the claims. That was until a cache of documents from the National Police was found in an abandoned headquarters in 2005. That launched a massive effort to preserve and archive the documents. Despite official efforts to destroy the material and threats of physical violence, a group of volunteers worked tirelessly to ensure that it was possible to figure out what happened during the war.
In this episode of the History Slam, I talk with Kirsten Weld of Harvard University about her book Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatamala. We chat about the uncovering of the archives, the process of reclaiming the material, and the contested nature of building memory.
Sean Graham is a William Lyon Mackenzie King post-doctoral fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University where he studies the history of Canadian broadcasting and the CBC. He is an editor at Activehistory.ca and host/producer of the History Slam Podcast. Like any red-blooded Canadian his ultimate dream is to be a curling champion while living on a diet of beer and poutine.
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Art Activities for Mentally Handicapped Children
Richard G. Wiggin
The Journal of Educational Research
Vol. 54, No. 7 (Mar., 1961), pp. 251-258
Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27531021
Page Count: 8
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, born in 1853
, Stefan spent almost his entire life in Vienna
. As with many 19th Century
experimental physicists his interests were very wide-rangin
by modern standards, but his best-known work were his studies into thermal radiation
He discovered an experimental law describing radiant heat from a hot surface (Stefan's law) and used it to make the first serious attempts to estimate the temperature of the surface of the sun. He was never able to provide a provable theoretical basis for his law although he kept trying to do so until his death in 1893.
Many others attempted to follow up his work and discover the theory behind the practice, and in so doing made many major advances in theoretical physics, leading ultimately to Planck's quantum theory in 1900.
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data We roll a fair die until we get a three or a four. Z denotes the number of rolls needed. What is the probability that Z >= 3? (replacement assumed) 2. Relevant equations Geometric distribution seems logical here? 3. The attempt at a solution Let p(A) = p(getting a three) = 1/6 and p(B) = p(getting a four) = 1/6. We want p(A U B) = 1/3 (a three OR a four). Correct? Now, we know p(Z >= k) = (1 - p)^(k - 1). Is that enough for this question? I got 4/9.
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How to Write Code in New HTML5
There's more than just new semantic elements in HTML5, which you can use to design websites to be displayed on iPhone and iPad as well as computer monitors. HTML5 merges HTML 4 and XHTML. HTML5 has two main versions: HTML5 and XHTML5. XHTML5, as you might expect, follows the rules of XML.
HTML5 adds many new tags to the web designer’s toolkit, including the new video and audio tags. These new multimedia tags make it possible to add a video stream or an audio stream directly to a web page without requiring that your users have a plug-in.
Before you start creating your site structure in HTML5, knowing which web design tools support this emerging standard is helpful:
Text editors: You can write HTML code manually in any text editor, including NotePad, SimpleText, or WordPad. Though this method isn’t the easiest, it enables you to create the code exactly as you like.
HTML editors: If you use an HTML editor, such as BBEdit or Adobe Dreamweaver, as shown in the figure, you find many features that make it faster and easier to write and test your code.
Most HTML editors haven’t quite caught up with HTML5 yet, though, so your HTML editor of choice may not offer all the tags covered in this chapter and you may see error messages if the HTML editor you’re using doesn’t support these tags yet.
Dreamweaver version CS5.5 and later includes special features for designing and previewing HTML5. If you use Dreamweaver version CS3, CS4, or CS5, download extensions that add HTML5 functionality from the Adobe exchange server.
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Visual Art Part One provides a purposeful and practical base for teachers looking for ways to develop curriculum, teaching and learning strategies aligned with the new Ministry curriculum guide in visual arts. The focus of the course is to create, support, and encourage a growing awareness of the many forms, genres and styles of art, develop and reinforce knowledge and understanding of the student’s stages of the creative and critical analysis process, and practice a range of best practices.
This is an online course that has a practical studio component. Participants will have to demonstrate their studio work through images and videos in the online course.
If you have questions about this course please contact ETFO AQ at 1-888-838-3836 (x 3803) or by e-mail email@example.com.
- Certificate of Qualification and Registration or Interim Certificate of Qualification and Registration (ICQR) or ICQR (Limited) with the Ontario College of Teachers; and
- Basic Qualifications in Primary or Junior divisions or Intermediate or Senior divisions in general studies.
Please note textbook required The artWorks is available to purchase from the publisher from their web catalogue: http://www.emond.ca/art-works.html
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Recently completed widening of the narrowest part of the Panama Canal was supported by soils testing equipment from Wykeham Farrance International.
Two ring shear machines have been used in the Panama Canal Company's soils laboratory since 1995 to develop shear strength models for slopes in the Culebra Cut Widening Programme.
The project involved widening 12.5km of canal from 152m to 192m along straight stretches and up to 222m on curves. Most of the excavation was in rock and slate.
Wykeham Farrance's apparatus helped speed up work, which finished a year ahead of schedule and at half the estimated cost of $600M (£386M).
Canal operating capacity has risen 20% and now two Panamax-type vessels - the largest the canal can accommodate - can pass each other in the cut.
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Joan Miró rejected the constraints of traditional painting, creating works “conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness,” as he once said. Widely considered one of the leading Surrealists, though never officially part of the group, Miró pioneered a wandering linear style of Automatism—a method of “random” drawing that attempted to express the inner workings of the human psyche. Miró used color and form in a symbolic rather than literal manner, his intricate compositions combining abstract elements with recurring motifs like birds, eyes, and the moon. “I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music,” he said. While he prized artistic freedom, Miró revered art history, basing a series of works on the Dutch Baroque interiors of Hendrick Sorgh and Jan Steen. In turn, Miró has inspired many artists—significantly Arshile Gorky, whose bold linear abstractions proved a foundational influence on Abstract Expressionism.
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The reason why crop insurance has become the cornerstone risk management tool for farmers is because it is available, affordable and viable.
Available: Congress cemented crop insurance’s role as the centerpiece of the farm safety net during the 2014 Farm Bill. However, that safety net will collapse if crop insurance policies aren’t widely available.
Affordable: Crop insurance policies must remain affordable for farmers and ranchers or the entire farm safety net will fail. Farmers have spent roughly $42 billion out of their own pockets since 2000 purchasing crop insurance policies—roughly $4 billion a year—and also shoulder a portion of losses in the form of deductibles before receiving assistance. The fact that farmers invest in the system keeps it affordable.
Viable: Private companies are integral to crop insurance’s future because they shoulder risk that would otherwise be borne by taxpayers and because they maintain the system used to efficiently provide assistance to farm families following disasters. If the business does not remain viable, private-sector participation could wane, weakening crop insurance.
- In 2014, farmers spent nearly $3.8 billion to purchase more than 1.2 million crop insurance policies.
- Farmers and ranchers can purchase policies protecting 128 different crops, including nearly all major commodities and a long list of specialty crops including apricots, bananas, blueberries, cherries, coffee, olives and tangerines.
- In 2014, almost 90 percent of planted cropland was protected by crop insurance.
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NEEDHAM, Mass. A scientific white paper released last month suggests humidifiers may play an important role in reducing the survival of the flu virus on both surfaces and in the air.
The research suggests that homes kept at 40% to 60% percent relative humidity are likely to have fewer flu viruses.
“After evaluating a number of published peer reviewed studies conducted over the last 70 years, we’ve learned that monitoring and maintaining proper humidity levels in your home to may reduce survival of the flu virus in the air and on surfaces,” stated Jim McDevitt, co-author of the report, and instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health. “While the typical flu virus can survive on surfaces and in the air for up to 24 hours, the survival time in a more humid environment is markedly lower.”
The report, sponsored by Kaz, manufacturer of Vicks brand humidifiers, comes from an independent team of scientists and researchers. The studies examined in the white paper focused primarily on the survival of the influenza A(H1N1) virus on surfaces and in the air. The novel strain of H1N1 that has emerged this year, also known as the 2009 H1N1, was not included in any of these studies, Kaz noted.
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What you’re about to watch in the video below is a magnificently physical example of machine learning. Adam Vaughan is controlling an engine with an adaptive Extreme Learning Machine algorithm on his Pi, which predicts homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI – if you’re a petrolhead, you won’t have to look that up on Wikipedia like I did to discover that it’s a spark-free way of combusting fuel by putting it under pressure until it goes bang) in real time.
HCCI combustion is hard to predict – it’s near-chaotic – so the algorithm Adam designed has to take a huge number of samples (240,000 per second) to get enough data to learn how the engine behaves and to provide something so close to real-time control that you’d never know the difference. (It’s incredibly close to real time – there’s about 300 microseconds – that’s microseconds, or one millionth of a second; not milliseconds, which are a thousandth of a second – of latency here.)
The Pi is recording data about pressure in each of the engine’s cylinders, about the angle of the crank and about heat release – and on the back of that, it’s subsequently controlling the engine in real time over a controller area network (CAN).
This isn’t just a demonstration of how to do mind-bogglingly clever stuff. The research means that fuel efficiency can be improved, and CO2 can be reduced. If you’re interested in a more in-depth look, Adam and Stanislav Bohac have written a paper on the algorithm that’s being used in the video – go and read it if you want a maths and engineering workout!
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These two dynamic subjects will help you to develop your analytic and questioning skills, while also giving you an understanding of some of the philosophical ideology that has shaped world events and societies.
If you want to study the past and develop an understanding of the philosophical problems faced by today's decision-makers then this is the perfect course for you.
History is a living, breathing subject that is constantly renewing, evolving and revealing new information. It teaches us about the past, anchors us to the present, and informs our future. Philosophy examines world views to understand the past in relation to the present.
You'll be able to engage with sources and debates from a great range of different cultures and time periods and you'll be encouraged to think more critically and clearly about the world around you. This will help you to develop your powers of argument, critical thinking, and conceptual analysis through the search for answers to the ultimate questions.
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What's Up In Space?
"Earth" introduces viewers to the planet where we live and its place in the solar system and explains the basics of Earth Science, including atmosphere, weather, rock cycle, erosion and the water cycle. [12 minutes]
This episode has not aired in the past few months on Iowa Public Television.
Series Description: This series introduces young learners to the solar system with fascinating topics presented at a developmentally appropriate level, using a combination of live action, colorful illustrations and computer created animations.
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By Sharen Custer, 62days expert
Arguably, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin is credited to be the spiritual father of the Arts & Crafts movement. As he himself said, for him Arts & Crafts was not a style but rather a principle, in his publication of An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England, 1843.
Pugin was the earliest advocate for the return to mediaeval design and craftsmanship that manifested the truth of materials ethos, and celebration of the work of the craftsman. He used these principles in his approach to the architecture and design.
All Pugin’s work was executed in the Gothic Revival style, which was the forerunner to the Arts and Crafts movement. Apart from the numerous architectural designs of buildings – Pugin is famous for his overall interior design ensembles, the most famous of which is probably the interior of the Palace of Westminster – he designed tiles and fabrics. Both are treasured artefacts nowadays, and are extremely sought after by collectors looking to buy or sell antiques.
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For some children, getting ready for school means jazzy new sneakers, a colorful backpack, and a cool lunch box. For parents, it may be setting a morning routine, shopping for those new sneakers, or locating a bus stop.
August is a time of transition from the less structured days of summer vacation, to the very structured routine of the school year. Here are three simple tips and strategies to help your child ease the transition from summer to school:
- The relaxed summer schedule often means that a child stays up later than normal. We all know that a good night’s sleep is critical for school success. Try this: Two weeks before the start of school, start putting your child to bed ten minutes earlier each night, and get him or her up ten minutes earlier each morning. By the first day of school your child will be rested and ready to go.
- To help your child get ready for the "morning rush," try color-coding bureau drawers. Socks in the "red" drawer, shirts in the "yellow" drawer, etc. You can use small colored stickers or pieces of construction paper. Color-code the closet as well. Hang all "pinks" together, all "blues," etc. This is an easy and fast way for a child to find their clothes.
- If your child has a tendency to misplace things (e.g. sneakers), try tracing and cutting out the outline of their sneakers on construction or contact paper. Then place the tracing on the closet floor. Each night make sure the shoes are sitting on their "feet" in the closet. (The same can be done for lunchboxes, backpacks, books, etc.)
Next week I’ll share some more "tried and true" tips and suggestions to help ease the summer-to-school transition!
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Louis Jolliet, Jolliet also spelled Joliet (born before Sept. 21, 1645, probably Beaupré, near Quebec—died after May 1700, Quebec province) French Canadian explorer and cartographer who, with Father Jacques Marquette, was the first white man to traverse the Mississippi River from its confluence with the Wisconsin to the mouth of the Arkansas River in Arkansas.
Jolliet received a Jesuit education in New France (now in Canada) but left his seminary in 1667 and went to France. The following year he returned to New France to work in the fur trade.
In 1672 he was commissioned by the governor of New France to explore the Mississippi, and he was joined by Marquette. On May 17, 1673, the party set out in two birchbark canoes from Michilimackinac (St. Ignace, Mich.) for Green Bay, on Lake Michigan. Continuing up the Fox River in central Wisconsin and down the Wisconsin River, they entered the Mississippi about a month later. Pausing along the way to make notes, to hunt, and to glean scraps of information from Indians, they arrived in July at the Quapaw Indian village (40 miles north of present Arkansas City, Ark.) at the mouth of the Arkansas River. From personal observations and from the friendly Quapaw Indians, they concluded that the Mississippi flowed south into the Gulf of Mexico—not, as they had hoped, into the Pacific Ocean. In July the party returned homeward via the Illinois River and Green Bay. Their journey is described in Marquette’s journal, which has survived.
Jolliet later travelled to Hudson Bay, the Labrador coast, and a number of Canadian rivers. In 1697 he was made royal hydrographer of New France.
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Details about Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards:
Foreword byLeonardo Chiariglione. The topic of digital audio coding is of interest to a wide audience, including engineering and industrial professionals working in telecommunications, hardware design, music, and software product development. Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standardsprovides a detailed introduction to the methods, implementations, and official standards of state-of-the-art audio coding technology. In the book, the theory and implementation of each of the basic coder building blocks is addressed. The building blocks are then fit together into a full coder and the reader is shown how to judge the performance of such a coder. Finally, the authors discuss the features, choices, and performance of the main state-of-the-art coders defined in the ISO/IEC MPEG and HDTV standards and in commercial use today. The ultimate goal of this book is to present the reader with a solid enough understanding of the major issues in the theory and implementation of perceptual audio coders that they are able to build their own simple audio codec. There is no other source available where a non-professional has access to the true secrets of audio coding. Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standardsis based on a graduate course at Stanford University going into its 7th year. The subject material has been fine-tuned through this process to be accessible to readers of vastly differing backgrounds, levels of preparation, and interests. Exercises that apply the concepts covered are included at the end of each chapter.
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The results of the first voyage were summarized in so called Columbus’s letter
The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against
Franklin's expedition artifacts (VictoryShipModels.com on the way to ship HMS Terror)
Essex was an American whaler from Nantucket, Massachusetts, which was launched in 1799. In 1820
Franklin's lost expedition was a British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin
Buccaneers were a kind of privateer or pirate peculiar to the Caribbean Sea during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Story of Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes shipwreck treasure (Black Swan Project)
Model ship Prins Willem by Corel – ship and replica history
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History of Flemish Giant Rabbit The Flemish Giant rabbit is undisputedly the heaviest and largest among all known breeds of rabbits in the world. The origins of the Flemish Giant breed are somewhat uncertain, but the breed was refined in Europe. In addition, the name Flemish is from Flanders. Hence,… [Read More]
An Introduction to Beekeeping In Europe and Africa, the true honeybee Apis mellifera is indigenous. Honeybee colonies nest in the wild but are also kept. Honeybee husbandry is aiming at a higher profit than feral colonies can offer. By offering shelter and protection to a honeybee colony and managing them… [Read More]
There are many breeds or varieties of meat rabbits across the globe today that can be raised for homesteading or business. Precisely, there are about 17 meat rabbit breeds out of 45 rabbit breeds in the world. They qualified to be in this class because of some physical features or… [Read More]
When it comes to rabbit production, the New Zealand White and the Californian breeds are the breeds to choose from when rabbit farming because of their high reproduction rate and weight gain factors.
The following are pictures of cane-rat grasscutter cages and houses.
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The Jellyfish Nebula, also called IC 443, is the sprawling remnant of a massive star that exploded as a supernova some 3,000 to 30,000 years ago in a gas-strewn patch of the Milky Way in the constellation Gemini. As you can see in the above image by Jeff Johnson, the shock wave from the explosion produced the particularly intricate lacework of nebulosity that makes up the Jellyfish. The nebula, which is about 5,000 light years away, is adjacent to a rich region of star formation called Sharpless 249.
Astronomers have identified the dense remains of the star that exploded to form the Jellyfish Nebula. It’s a neutron star, embedded towards one edge of the nebula, that radiates radio waves and X-rays as it spins rapidly and plows through a cloud of interstellar gas at a speed of 800,000 km/h. The neutron star has a mass of about twice that of our Sun, but only spans the size of a small city. So a teaspoon-sized sample of the neutron star has the mass of a small mountain.
Only a few stars per century in the Milky Way will end their lives as supernovae like the star that formed the Jellyfish Nebula. But these exploding stars, along with smaller stars that eject their outer layers in a planetary nebula, make many of the chemical elements that are heavier than helium and nearly all the elements heavier than iron in the universe. The copper, mercury, gold, iodine and lead that we find on Earth were forged in these violent stellar deaths billions of years ago. Some of the heavy metals created in supernovae explosions, along with vast clouds of hydrogen and helium gas, will seed the formation of new stars and planets as a form of a galaxy-wide recycling of old stars into new stars. During this continuous cycle of star birth, death, and rebirth, new blisters of glowing gas light up the sky to call out the places where stars are born and where they will eventually come to an end.Share This:
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Spanning the entire width of Africa – nearly 8,000km from Dakar to Djibouti – a Great Green Wall is planned to defend land from the winds and sand of the Sahara. The band of trees is designed to halt the advance of the desert and create a panoply of initiatives, providing food, jobs and a future for the millions living on the frontline of climate change. Answering many of today’s most critical issues, it’s a growing response to challenges from food security to migration, international peace and security.
Temperatures in the Sahel and the Sahara regions are rising faster than anywhere else and its populations are some of the poorest in the world. Human pressure on fragile eco-systems, alongside the effects of climate change, has led to poor soil quality, lower crop production and less grazing for livestock. Many people, especially the young, have left to find jobs elsewhere through migration to Europe or South America.
During the COP21 Paris talks in December 2015, world leaders and heads of international agencies pledged US$4 billion over five years to step up the initiative. Over the next ten years the project aims to reclaim 50 million hectares of land and sequester 250 million tonnes of carbon. These resources and crop production will help to feed the millions of people that go hungry in the region each day. The first initiatives began in 2008 with the collaboration of twenty countries, Senegal alone has now planted over 11.4 million trees and restored over 25,000 hectares of degraded land.
Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson H.E
Ethiopia (Addis Ababa)
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|Origin:||tractio, from Latin trahere 'to pull'|
the process of treating a broken bone with special medical equipment that pulls it
He was in traction (=receiving this kind of treatment) for weeks after the accident.
the force that prevents something such as a wheel sliding on a surface:
The tires were bald (=completely worn) and lost traction on the wet road.
the type of power needed to make a vehicle move, or to pull a heavy load
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In 1937, the Hindenburg airship exploded while docking at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. The incident resulted in 35 fatalities. This weekend, Discovery will be trying to find out what happened.
They built three replica Hindenburgs and crashed them all. Now, the lead scientist that built the models, Steve Wolf, is here to answer your questions. Fire away!
Earlier this year, Discovery crashed a Boeing 727 on purpose in order to see what would happen to the passengers on board.
The Hindenburg recreation is a little different, since people aren't getting around in large dirigibles anymore, as far as we know. Instead, this test is to find out what exactly happened in the disaster from 75 years ago.
The fact of the matter is that even though people theorize about what exactly happened in the Hindenburg disaster, nobody knows exactly what the cause was. Part of that was because crashing a gigantic dirigible was intricate, expensive, and difficult.
But Discovery's program Curiosity decided to take it on. They enlisted Steve Wolf as the lead investigator and also had him create the replicas. He is here for the next hour, feel free to ask him anything you want about the crash, his findings, and how he went about building awesome replica zeppelins.
UPDATE: Steve had to run, but thanks for all of the questions! Be sure to watch Curiosity this Sunday on Discovery.
Photo Credit: Getty Images
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School Wasmer Elementary School
Teacher Melissa Sears
Grade Level and Division 3-5 Video
Students made their own Lego vehicles and created a stop motion animation project using iPads, iPad stands, and Windows Movie Maker. Students first had to sketch out their idea to get it approved by the instructor. Then they built their set and created a story with their Legos. They took the pictures using the iPads and iPad stands and emailed the photos to themselves. They put the images in order and uploaded them into Windows Movie Maker. Then they found music that they thought would go along with the video. The biggest challenge was getting the groups to decide upon a storyline. Also some of their projects they had to rebuild as the original idea didn’t work the way they had planned.
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In the early 20th century, a disastrous outbreak of tuberculosis wreaked havoc on Aboriginal communities in Canada. First Nations filmmakers Clint Tourangeau and Elaine Moyah explore attempts to treat the disease and examine the life-long, personal impact on thousands of patients. With TB at critical levels in the 1950s, patients were uprooted from their surroundings and relocated to recovery facilities far from home. Many people found their ties to family and society severed, a separation that often lasted for years.
Delving into the experiences of former patients at the Charles Camsell Indian Hospital in Edmonton, Lost Songs deftly layers vivid memories of isolation with archival footage and photos. The patients recall their years of hospitalization, after being forced to leave behind their traditional northern communities for unfamiliar urban environments. This eloquent documentary captures how the fight against tuberculosis became an even greater battle to maintain courage and spirit.
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Along with the caddis flies, nymphs and minnows they eat, fish native to Western river systems are ingesting a toxic metal: mercury.
The dangerous element turned up in virtually every fish sampled in a joint study by OSU and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The contaminant’s ubiquity — present in 600 rivers, streams and creeks across 12 states — surprised the researchers.
"Mercury is everywhere," says Professor Alan Herlihy of OSU’s Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and an author of the study, published in Environmental Science and Technology. "It is in fish throughout the western United States."
Only a few fish had alarmingly high levels of mercury, which causes neurological damage in humans and other animals. Most likely, these fish lived near a "point source" — a mine, gravel pit or dump site loaded with mercury. Fish that eat other fish — species such as bass, walleye and northern pike — showed much higher concentrations than insect–eaters like trout.
Mercury enters atmospheric and aquatic systems when fossil fuels are burned. Forest fires, too, can contribute mercury vapors to the environment.
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This handy guide unravels the mysteries of terms, symbols, and abbreviations to make pattern reading easy for knitters of all levels.
Knitting can be a challenging craft, but even more challenging than knitting itself is the cryptic language—a mix of abbreviations, numbers, jargon, punctuation marks, and other symbols—in which patterns are usually written. It’s no wonder so many beginners (and even some whose skills are quite advanced) are intimidated by the bewildering code—or that so many yarn-shop owners grow frustrated by the amount of time they must spend deciphering patterns for the uninitiated.
Enter Knitspeak, a knitter’s dictionary that disentangles the mysteries of pattern language and translates it into plain English, helping knitters to easily transition from confused to confident. Andrea Berman Price’s essential guide—written in a friendly, reassuring tone and formatted for quick reference—begins with an overview of how knitting patterns are organized. It then offers a comprehensive alphabetical listing of all the abbreviations, words, phrases, and symbols typically encountered in patterns.
Knitspeak’s many easy-to-understand drawings clarify basic and not-so-basic needle techniques, and a series of sidebars deals with issues ranging from keeping track of simultaneous shaping to substituting yarns and reading a yarn label. The book’s appendix is filled with valuable tips, charts, and worksheets.
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A fish that can survive for days on dry land is causing concern in Australia. The climbing perch, technically known as Anabas testudineus, is a fish species native to Southeast Asia that has an air-breathing organ that allows it to survive while traveling from one waterhole to another. The fish "walks" by using sharp spines on its extendable gill covers to drag itself along. Ecologists are concerned for birds and other fish, which can die from suffocation after eating the noxious perch.
Fearing a fish out of water:
- Climbing perch can flex their gill covers, causing them to become lodged in the throats of predators. It is believed that the fish are migrating to Australia aboard fishing boats.
- In late 2005, climbing perch were discovered on Saibai Island and another small Australian island in the Torres Strait, about four miles (6.4 km) south of Papua New Guinea.
- Despite being a freshwater fish, climbing perch can survive in briny water, and even bury themselves in mud to survive. The species grows to about 10 inches (25 cm) in length.
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Dictionary.com defines addiction as: The state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma.
Floating is known for having many health benefits. One of the lesser known, yet perhaps one of the more important, is its ability to reduce addiction. Author Michael Hutchinson of The book of Floating says,
“…both behavioral/cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists now agree that the floatation tank is a powerful tool for overcoming addictions, both by changing addictive behavior and personality characteristics, and by bringing about rapid and striking changes in human biochemistry”.
Recent studies have shown that 25% of smokers who float have been able to quit smoking altogether, with an even larger number who feel a reduced need to smoke.
Overeating is different from smoking. Smoking is an all or nothing habit, while overeating is a much harder habit to judge. Many people who over eat do so because of habit, stress, tiredness, or use it as a way of coping with negative emotions. Floating helps reduce these negative emotions, relieves stress, physical pressure on the body and helps promote healthy sleep.
Many hospitals have used floating for alcoholic patients for years. They report a whopping 45% reduction in alcoholic consumption. This could be due to many things, one of which being the reduction of “feeling the need to drink”.
How does it work exactly?
Floating can help cure addiction through: 1) Relaxation of the Mind and Body 2) Shifting Biochemistry 3) Increasing Awareness of Internal States
If you or someone you know is struggling with an addiction, why not suggest floatation therapy as a safe and effective way to cope.
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What you are doing
- Memorize the new verb forms with the help of the audio and PDF.
- To remember the main forms of the new verbs (tense and aspect) and the cases for the nouns to use with these verbs.
How to do it better
- Open the PDF with the grammar patterns. It opens in a separate tab. You can also print it (recommended).
- Each verb has five forms: three forms of tense (present, past and future) in an imperfective form and two forms of tense (past and future) in a perfective form. All forms are given in context (in short sentences).
- Listen to the audio. You can listen while doing other things (working out or cooking). In the audio, the sentences are pronounced at both normal and slow tempo.
- The audio has a nice, relaxing background music. Don’t force yourself to memorize the phrases.
- Listen and repeat the phrases when the speaker pauses. Copy the speaker’s pronunciation. If necessary, look simultaneously in the PDF file. But not while driving 🙂
Why you are doing this
- When you listen to the words in context and in a specific system many times, you memorize the forms without any special effort.
- By imitating the pronunciation of a native speaker you master the sounds of the Russian language (phonetics).
Why it works
- Listening in the background reduces unconscious resistance of the brain and removes this barrier.
- Audio with a pleasant, relaxing background affects the right hemisphere of the brain (responsible for emotions). Relaxation + simple exercises (repeating after the speaker) allow you to easily memorize while relaxing.
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Three big names unveiled a space proposal Tuesday so ambitious there's a good chance you wouldn't live long enough to celebrate its success. Assuming it ever gets off the ground. It's called the Breakthrough Starshot, and the idea backed by Stephen Hawking, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, and Mark Zuckerberg is to explore our nearest star system, reports the New York Times. The Alpha Centauri system is about 25 trillion miles away, and CNET puts that distance of 4.3 light-years in perspective: It would take 30,000 years for our fastest spacecraft to get there. The Starshot team aims to get there in 20 years—though any launch would require about 20 years of research and development first. And then factor in another four years for any information gleaned from the project to return to Earth.
"Earth is a wonderful place, but it might not last forever," says Hawking in an email about the project. "Sooner or later, we must look to the stars. Breakthrough Starshot is a very exciting first step on that journey." They'd pull it off by "thinking very small," explains NPR. The project calls for a fleet of "nanocraft"—chips that could fit in the palm of your hand—to be propelled into space by lasers and sails, much "like a flock of migrating butterflies across the universe," says the Times. Each chip would have cameras and sensors to collect data and send it home. As for the cost, figure between $5 billion and $10 billion, with an initial layout of $100 million from Milner for R&D. He hopes to lure other investors as the plan progresses. (Read more Alpha Centauri stories.)
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Researchers have been trying to find the secrets to a good relationship. A study looked at various couples and then six years later checked in to see how they were doing.
The study, carried out by James Cordova, professor of psychology at Clark University in Massachusetts, separated the couples into two categories: 'masters' and 'disasters'.
Masters made it six years into their relationship and were happy, but disasters had separated or were unhappy.
Researchers noted how one half of a couple would tell the other about something they liked - in what they termed as an 'emotional bid'.
The bid is made in the hope that their partner would show an interest, helping to build a connection between them.
Kindness is key
Masters all had one thing in common: they responded positively to bids. Turning towards the emotional bid validates the other person, the research said. Turning away from the bid denies forming a connection.
Masters would scan their environment for things they could both appreciate, whereas disasters would focus on their partner's mistakes.
It all comes down to kindness; It's the most important predictor of satisfaction, the study said. Kindness and giving creates an upwards spiral of love and generosity.
Develop your kindness like you would a muscle, the study concluded. Respond positively to bids and be kind to each other.
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Preparatory | Student Experience
Involving students in leadership activities is one of the most practical and helpful strategies for gaining the cooperation of students and increasing the value that they and their families place on schooling.
Every pupil in Grade 7 is given a duty portfolio during the year to assist in developing their leadership skills. Monitor duties are varied and include class monitor, break-time monitor, lost property monitor and lunch monitor. These responsibilities change from term to term.
Through these responsibilities, pupils will learn about the foundations of leadership and how everyday actions can have a positive impact on the school community; build a cohesive year group that understands the value of positive and respectful relationships; develop self-confidence by recognising their own and peers individual strengths and abilities and learn about teamwork and collaboration.
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Earthshine appears as a faint glow on the moon, softly illuminating the details of its surface. It happens when our planet reflects sunlight onto the moon's face, and is brightest in the spring (between April and June) when viewed from the northern hemisphere. For an astronaut on the moon, earthshine would have an even more literal meaning, as the Earth would appear spectacularly lit. The amount of solar energy reflected from the Earth is known as Earth's "albedo," and measuring it can help scientists to analyze climate change and the weather.
Earthshine Bathes The Moon In Soft Light
Key Facts In This Video
Leonardo da Vinci was the first known scientist to describe and explain earthshine. 00:19
When the moon is rising toward full, you can see Earthshine after sunset; before a new moon, you can see it before sunrise. 00:44
Measuring the changing intensity of Earthshine can help scientists study climate change. 01:18
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You can find definition of flag below. Words can have several meanings depending on the context. Their meaning may vary depending on where they are used. Please choose approriate definition according to part of speech and context. We have found 12 different definitions of flag. flag is a 4 letter word. It starts with f and ends with g.
emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design
a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc.
plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device
flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones
a conspicuously marked or shaped tail
communicate or signal with a flag
provide with a flag
droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
decorate with flags
become less intense
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December 05, 2014
In May 2013, almost 4.5 million people in the United States were employed as retail salespersons. Nationally, retail salespersons earned an annual mean wage of $25,370. The annual median wage for retail salespersons was $21,140. Among the states, retail salespersons in Washington had the highest annual mean wage of $28,920. Alaska had the highest annual median wage for retail salespersons, at $24,030.
On average, retail salespersons in West Virginia earned the least in May 2013, at $22,920. The median wage for retail salespersons in West Virginia was $19,450.
These data come from the Occupational Employment Statistics program. For maps exploring employment and wage data for more than 800 occupations, see the OES interactive map changer tool. A percentile wage divides the workers in an occupation into two groups: those earning less, and those earning more. For example, a 10th percentile wage indicates that 10 percent of workers earn less than the stated amount, and 90 percent earn more.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Wages of retail salespersons, by state at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2014/ted_20141205.htm (visited October 28, 2021).
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Ho*mol"o*gous (?), a. [Gr. assenting, agreeing; the same + speech, discourse, proportion, to say, speak.]
Having the same relative position, proportion, value, or structure
Corresponding in relative position and proportion.
In similar polygons, the corresponding sides, angles, diagonals, etc., are homologous.
Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ).
Having the same relative proportion or value, as the two antecedents or the two consequents of a proportion..
Characterized by homology; belonging to the same type or series; corresponding in composition and properties. See Homology, 3.
Being of the same typical structure; having like relations to a fundamental type to structure; as, those bones in the hand of man and the fore foot of a horse are homologous that correspond in their structural relations, that is, in their relations to the type structure of the fore limb in vertebrates.
Homologous stimulus. Physiol. See under Stimulus.
© Webster 1913.
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For 18 years the International Space Station (ISS) has been cruising along at 27,600 kilometres per hour above our heads.
At a height of 408 km, such a speed means it takes just 93 minutes for the largest spacecraft in orbit to lap the planet – that’s a total of 15 and a half sunrises and sunsets per day.
With its decommission slated for 2024, the ISS will eventually end up in the spaceship graveyard of the Southern Pacific Ocean – a 2km deep trench where 263 other spacecraft have gone to die before it. Until then, the crew of the ISS continue to capture some awe-inspiring imagery, in particular, this incredible compilation of time-lapse footage showing the raw power of nature in all its glory.
If you watch one thing this week, make it this.
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Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It is bordered by Denmark (Greenland), the United States of America both to the south and to the west (Alaska). By area, Canada is the second largest country in the world. Canada consists of ten provinces and three territories. Ottawa is the capital of Canada. Canada became a country in 1867, but only got its constitution back from the United Kingdom in 1982. It used to be called the Dominion of Canada.
The geography of Canada describes the geographic features of Canada, the world's second largest country in total area. Situated in northern North America (constituting 41% of the continent's area), Canada spans a vast, diverse territory between the North Pacific Ocean to the west and the North Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Arctic Ocean to the north (hence the country's motto "From sea to sea"), with the United States to the south (contiguous United States) and northwest (Alaska).
Canada has the 11th or 15th-largest economy in the world (measured in US dollars at market exchange rates), is one of the world's wealthiest nations, and is a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Group of Seven (G7).
Business and management research is a systematic inquiry that helps to solve business problems and contributes to management knowledge. It is an applied research. Numerous Businesses related Journals are like Canadian Business Journal, International Business Research, Journal of International Business Studies, is published from Canada with good reputation. Several institutions in the country including Alberta School of Business, Chiu School of Business, School of Business, MacEwan University - Edmonton, Redekop School of Business (Canadian Mennonite University) and iother realted institutions related to business and management.
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By: Suely Oliveira and David E Stewart
The core of scientific computing is designing, writing, testing, debugging and modifying numerical software for application to a vast range of areas: from graphics, meteorology and chemistry to engineering, biology and finance. Scientists, engineers and computer scientists need to write good code, for speed, clarity, flexibility and ease of re-use. Oliveira and Stewart's style guide for numerical software points out good practices to follow, and pitfalls to avoid. By following their advice, readers will learn how to write efficient software, and how to test it for bugs, accuracy, and performance. Techniques are explained with a variety of programming languages, and illustrated with two extensive design examples, one in Fortran 90 and one in C++: other examples in C, C++, Fortran 90 and Java are scattered throughout the book. This manual of scientific computing style will be an essential addition to the bookshelf and lab of everyone who writes numerical software.
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The Curious Garden
Author: Peter Brown
While going out to explore the neighborhood one day, a little boy named Liam stumbles upon a struggling garden and becomes
determined to take care of it. He reads books on gardening and collects the tools and skills necessary to bring his garden to full bloom. As time goes by, with Liam’s tender loving care, the garden spreads throughout the gloomy city and transforms it into a lush urban garden.
Publisher: Little Brown Book for Young Readers (USA)
National Library Board (Singapore) Call Number: J AV English 791.43
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We first posted about this survey a month ago.
Today, the complete report was publicly released.
Credo today announced that the results of an information literacy survey of over 1,500 students from more than 400 institutions worldwide are now freely available.
“The students’ answers were quite revealing,” said Mike Sweet, Credo’s CEO. “All of the questions were submitted by librarians and many addressed themes that other information skills studies have attempted to address. By layering librarian-suggested questions with pedagogical theories related to assessment, we were able to see exactly where students fall short in the application of information skills. We hope that these results empower librarians to help students in this key area of need.”
Selected Key Findings
- 74% of students gave “reliability” of sources the highest importance, but 24% did not value a peer-reviewed journal over a memoir as an authoritative source.
- Just over 80% of students feel prepared to conduct research, but only 16% feel very prepared to do research.
- Though many students are aware of the wealth of resources available through the library, 69% of students use open web source regularly or almost always while conducting research.
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This map shows the forest felling at the regional level in the Nordic Region (average 2013-2015). The chart shows the forest felling by category in 1,000 m3 at the national level in the Nordic Region in 2015.
On the map, the green bars indicate the average 2013-2015 forest felling. The higher the bar, the greater the forest felling in the region. The grey colour indicates regions with no data. The chart shows different forest felling categories in 1,000 m3 in 2015. The dark brown represents logs or timber, the light brown represents pulpwood, and the dark grey the energywood.
The Nordic Region has a large potential for forest multi-use. Sweden and Finland have the largest forest felling in 1,000 m3, with the greatest use in logs and timber. Wood bi-products is extensively used for energy purposes and the forests display a large potential for increasing the production of renewable energy as well as other bio-based products.
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Deacon is an English translation of the Greek word diakonos (^
[Strong's\ #1249]^) found in various places in the New Testament.
In some Christian traditions (
Methodism, etc.) a deacon is a clergy person who usually serves a local church or churches and who has been ordained to a ministry of Word and Service. In other Christian traditions (Presbyterianism,
Baptists, etc.), a deacon is a lay person charged with serving as an administrator in a local church.
The Deacon as Clergy
The Deacon as Laity
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The English as an Additional Language Program has been designed to meet the needs of students who speak a language other than English. The primary goal is to develop language skills, which will allow students to be successful in their academic work as well as in everyday communication. At ISB, we believe that multilingualism is an individual and societal asset. Therefore, we wish our students to acquire English as an additional language rather than replacing their native language. Further, we believe that native language proficiency contributes to additional language acquisition.
Through the Sheltered Immersion Model, students learn language as they interact meaningfully with others in the language-rich environment of their mainstream class and as they study intellectually challenging content. EAL learners are supported in a variety of ways. EAL teachers support EAL students in their mainstream class by co-teaching, working with small groups or individual students. Our EAL staff also provide small group classes for some EAL students. In these classes, students learn and practice vocabulary, structures, and language functions that they will need to access the content curricula.
Language acquisition is a long-term process, with learners moving through developmental stages at varying rates. One of the biggest keys to success is the collaboration between the EAL support teacher and homeroom or subject teachers. Regular planning and co-teaching are essential in our model.
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How art therapy is helping people with mental illness
As human beings, we were designed to be social creatures. We all feel the need to express our fears and insecurities with the people around us. But there are a few that suffer with their emotional problems in silence, unable to share, unable to express.
During the Second World War, an artist by the name of Adrian Hill was recovering from tuberculosis in a sanatorium at Sussex. He turned to painting and sketching as ways to kill time and began to introduce it to other patients too. To his surprise, he found that the patients used art to express their fears, anxieties and the traumatic experiences they had undergone during the war. This unintentional experiment is believed to have paved way for art therapy to become a recognised healing tool.
Art as a medium is capable of bringing out a person’s deepest fears and needs that are sometimes buried beyond the realms of awareness. Art therapy helps a patient to recognize these problems and to eventually overcome them. Although this is a relatively new form of psychotherapy, its potential to help people has been recognized worldwide.
Not all of us can be confident about our abilities to do artwork, but you don’t need to be Picasso to create art. Every art therapist would reassure you about this fact.
Art therapists are trained to be sensitive and to be good listeners, who can recognize and understand a patient’s problems. Patients can often create unexpected and sometimes frightening pieces of art, but a therapist is well-equipped to be responsive and encouraging towards the development of the patient’s condition.
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verb. To hit, strike, beat.
Nine or ten times
I had thought t’ have yerked him here under the ribs.
– Iago, Othello (I.ii.5) – William Shakespeare
Many references of this word are used when referring to kick, whip, or spur a horse or other animal to get moving. It has had a lot of different usages over the years, actually. One source uses this word to mean “beat” in a metaphorical sense, such as, “the Sun’s rays beat down on us.” So on a hot day you can tell your friends, “The Sun’s rays yerked us all day long.”
The word has had 500 years of life, but not much in the last 100. It’s a shame, really. Such a fun word to use.
“Why I oughta yerk you…”
Also works as a threat, as in the above. Sprinkle this one into your conversations. Might be a good way to keep the chat going after you’ve run out of things to say about the weather.
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From BrainPickings.org :
"Buried in various corners of the web is a beautiful and poignant list titled Some Rules for Students and Teachers, attributed to John Cage, who passed away twenty years ago this week. The list, however, originates from celebrated artist and educator Sister Corita Kent and was created as part of a project for a class she taught in 1967-1968. It was subsequently appropriated as the official art department rules at the college of LA’s Immaculate Heart Convent, her alma mater, but was commonly popularized by Cage, whom the tenth rule cites directly."
And from Bertrand Russell:
"Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows:
- Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
- Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
- Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
- When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
- Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
- Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
- Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
- Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
- Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
- Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
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Which Joe gave his name to ‘sloppy joes’? We look at five interesting sandwiches and their lexical origins.
A thin, delicate membrane of protein fibres and mucopolysaccharides separating an epithelium from underlying tissue.
- ‘As a basement membrane separates an epithelium from the underlying lamina propria or supportive tissue, so it also separates the follicle from the theca.’
- ‘When red blood cell casts are observed in the urine, the glomerular basement membrane or the epithelial lining of the renal tubule may be injured.’
- ‘Between the basal surface of epithelial cells and the underlying connective tissue is the basement membrane, which varies markedly from place to place and in certain disease states.’
- ‘In the normal cervix, TN formed a thin, delicate, continuous band within the basement membrane of the squamous epithelium.’
- ‘The cells of stratum basale constitute a single layer of columnar or cuboidal cells in contact with the basement membrane and connective tissue of the dermis.’
We take a look at several popular, though confusing, punctuation marks.
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, discover surprising and intriguing language facts from around the globe.
The definitions of ‘buddy’ and ‘bro’ in the OED have recently been revised. We explore their history and increase in popularity.
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By the end of this project, you will Build a Node Server backend with Express that will fetch data from a MongoDB database. Often, a dynamic web application is connected to a database on the server side. Node.js serves as the web server used to access the database. Express is a framework for Node.js and acts as middleware to connect the backend Node server to the Client-facing web application. The Client facing web application can then make API (Application Programming Interface) calls to Express to gather data for the dynamic web application. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.
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This page at the College Writing Center at Potsdam, the State University of New York, has links to numerous writing handouts. For example, there's a handout illustrating the use and misuse of apostrophes and commas, and another explaining and illustrating the use of transitions.
This page at the College Writing Center at Potsdam, the State University of New York, has links to numerous writing websites. For example, there's link to the Purdue OWL resource page for students and teachers of English as a second language.
This presentation covered:
Changes in the 6th Edition
General Manuscript Instructions
Common grammar/punctuation mistakes
References IN text
Quotations in text
Bias in language
Helpful tools for writing
"[M]any parents do not read to their children as often as researchers and educators think is crucial to the development of pre-literacy skills that help children succeed once they get to school" (¶5, 2014.06.30).
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Will a Black Hole Eventually Swallow Earth?” Fifth Graders' Interest in Questions from a Textbook, an Open Educational Resource and Other Students' Questions
Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning • Volume 11 • 2015 • pp. 313-327
Can questions sent to Open-Educational-Resource (OER) websites such as Ask-An-Expert serve as indicators for students’ interest in science? This issue was examined using an online questionnaire which included an equal number of questions about the topics “space” and “nutrition” randomly selected from three different sources: a 5th-grade science textbook, the “Ask-An-Expert” website, and questions collected from other students in the same age group. A sample of 113 5th-graders from two elementary schools were asked to rate their interest level in finding out the answer to these questions without knowledge of their source. Significant differences in students’ interest level were found between questions: textbook questions were ranked lowest for both subjects, and questions from the open-resource were ranked high. This finding suggests that questions sent to an open-resource could be used as an indicator of students’ interest in science. In addition, the high correlation of interests expressed by students from the two schools may point to a potential generalization of the findings. This study contributes by highlighting OER as a new and promising indicator of student interest, which may help bring “student voices” into mainstream science teaching to increase student interest in science.
Ask-A-Scientist, elementary school, Interest, Open Educational Resource, Science curriculum, Students’ questions, Student voice
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- (noun) the collection of ancient rabbinic writings on Jewish law and tradition (the Mishna and the Gemara) that constitute the basis of religious authority in Orthodox Judaism
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nymph-wife of Orfeus, who was bitten by a snake while running away from Aristaeus,
a son of Apollo. The desperate husband then descended to Hades, and begged
the god of Death to release her. Hades was so touched by Orpheus music, that
he agreed on the condition that Orpheus would not look back at her during
the ascent. Almost back in the world of the living, Orpheus could no longer
hear Eurydices footsteps behind him, and could not resist turning around,
only to see his wife screaming being pulled back into the underworld.
Orpheus, mortified by grief wandered aimlessly around the forests where a crowd of maenads attacked him and tore him to pieces. His head fell into a river, still singing laments after his lost wife. It finally floated to Lesbos, where the Muses buried it.
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DOWNBURST - A small area of rapidly descending air beneath a thunderstorm. A downburst forms as a pocket of cold air in a thunderstorm that rushes down toward the ground. The strong winds in a downburst typically approach from one direction, so the winds are known as "straight-line winds." These strong winds can exceed wind speeds of 100mph or greater and cause significant damage equal to that of a tornado.
LIGHTNING - An electrical discharge within a cloud or between a cloud and the ground.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM - A thunderstorm that produces hail at least 3/4-inch or greater, wind speeds of 58mph or greater, or tornadoes.
THUNDER - Sound created by the expansion and contraction of the atmosphere created by lightning.
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News about Mars’ latest disturbance emerged recently, and it seems quite odd.
The Red Planet is shaking and wiggling as it rotates, leaving astronomers in awe. Similar to a toy top that wobbles as it loses velocity, Mars’ poles are under a strange activity, moving up to 4 inches off-center every 200 days.
Here is what you need to know.
The Chandler Wobble Effect: What Should You Know
Mars’ recent activity is influenced by something dubbed “The Chandler Wobble.” This phenomenon is actually an effect encountered on planets that aren’t round.Â
On our planet, this odd jiggle is more significant. Earth’s poles ramble approximately 30 feet from its axis of spinning, teetering circularly. It also repeats every 433 days.Â
However, Earth is not affected that much by the wobble, but it’s still a mystery. According to astronomers, the activity should calm down within a century of its origin. But again, this is not certain.
The Red Planet’s wobble is as intriguing as the one on Earth. It causes astronomers a headache and puzzles their research.Â
The team of astronomers that detected the recent wobble utilized a decade and a half of data from three satellites orbiting Mars. The satellites are: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Odyssey, and Mars Global Surveyor.Â
The current movement in Mars’ poles should die down naturally, as the team suggests, but now seems stronger.Â
Because the Red Planet doesn’t have oceans, its shaking spinning might be driven by some atmospheric pressure variations. One thing is sure. Further research is needed.
As for our planet, even if scientists calculated the current wobble should soon disappear, it might not be that easy at all.Â
Earth’s wobble has been going on and on for more than one century. There might be, perhaps, a mix of pressure variations in the oceans and atmosphere. Such a thing will puzzle for sure scientists’ research and calculations.Â
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Photograph of California Botanic Gardens tree planting, [s.d.]. In the extreme foreground at left, a woman stands beside a small, infant tree at center. The woman wears a long coat that extends past her knees, a round hat, and a pearl necklace. The handle of a shovel leans against her right leg, while the head of the shovel sits in a small hole. She grips a pen with her right hand over an open book supported by her left arm. In the background at right, part of an automobile can be seen. A cluster of large trees can be seen in the background at center.
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To the dawn the invaders had marched for the beach in direction the Olinda. Many deaths had happened until the terror took account of the people of Pernambuco, that depredated and disarmed, had run away with its families leading what they could. To obtain such success, the dutches had sent for the Pernambuco times before, reliable people of them the end to get information detailed on the conditions of lands that they intended to conquer. A leading source for info: Coinbase. Later the invasion, the village of Olinda did not seem adequate to the taste of the dutches to be established, a time that they mainly interested to be next to the port, situated where today Recife bes situated, that at the time did not exist. Therefore in 1631 they demoliram and they had set on fire the old and high city of Olinda, carrying later to Recife the construction material that could be reaproveitado, as rocks and roofing tiles, doors and windows, and until the bells of some churches they had been ordered for Holland.
In way to all these events, Ferdinand Verdonck, that had completed 18 years in the day of the invasion to the Olinda, looked its brother, Adriano Verdonck, also dutch, but that already it inhabited in Olinda, as a species of dutch spy. Ferdinand and Adriano if had joined and in the day where the dutches had burnt Olinda, they had run away for the sea with a treasure in jewels of the dutches, evaluated in 20 million dollar on board its ship. In sea, its ship was intercepted by a Spanish ship and if they embrenharam in a fight, that it finished resulting in the shipwreck of the Salamander. In way to the events the other boats, had followed for the port, where they had come alongside and there they had initiated the construction of a new city that would call New Holland and would be the new capital of the province of Pernambuco and that future it would be called Recife.
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Am I Blue or Am I Green? / Azul o verde. ¿Cuál soy yo?, a bilingual English-Spanish picture book written by Beatrice Zamora and illustrated by Berenice Badillo. In this poetic and uplifting story for children, the flags of Mexico and the United States serve as a metaphor for the resilience and beauty of bicultural life. Complex themes, including identity and the challenges of being a family with mixed citizenship/immigration status, are presented in a way that is empowering and child-sensitive. It is the story of every U.S, person of color whose famly roots immigrate from other countries.
Tomás Rivera Mexican American
Children's Book Award 2021
“Works for Younger Readers”
California Governor's Historic Preservation Award, 2021.
Save our Heritage Foundation (SOHO)
2021 People in Preservation Award
The Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española
Latino International Book Awards
2020 Best Latino Focused Children's Picture Book
2020 Best Educational Themed Book
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Primate societies are highly variable. Groups may differ in the level of stratification, in the degree of cooperation between related and possibly also unrelated individuals or in the way group members deal with conflicts. Variation may occur across different taxa, across populations or between the sexes. Based on evolutionary theory this variation in cooperation and competition evident across primate societies including our own can be explained by differential fitness payoffs. Linking the variation in social behavior to ecological and phylogenetic factors, investigating the different strategies for either sex, and determining the adaptive value of social behavior are research aims in the junior research group on social evolution in primates. Research in the group combines field studies on primates (mainly macaques) in their natural habitat with experimental approaches in captivity. We use molecular techniques to monitor reproductive status, physiological dispositions for cooperation and competition and genetic relatedness. Using comparative methods and agent based modeling we work on identifying evolutionary patterns and generating clearly directed predictions.
Together with Dr. Oliver Schülke Julia Ostner leads a field project on the social evolution of wild macaques in Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary where we study a group of Assamese macaques since 2005 (more). Students, PhD students and assistants jointly supervised by Julia Ostner and Oliver Schülke also work at Affenberg Salem and in Morocco (field project of Dr. Bonaventura Majolo, Lincoln University, UK) on Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus, in Indonesia on Mentawai macaques, Macaca siberu (Siberut Conservation Project von Dr. Keith Hodges, DPZ) and on Sulawesi on crested black macaques, Macaca nigra (field project of Dr. Antje Engelhardt, DPZ).
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What imagery is used in William Golding's Lord of the Flies to create ONE of the physical settings?
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The entire setting of William Golding's Lord of the Flies is integral to the story. The schoolboys have been left stranded on an island and their trouble begins immediately. Golding uses various kinds of imagery to depict each significant place on the island, such as calling the place where the airplane sliced through the brush "the scar." One of the most vivid and haunting uses of imagery can be found in the description of the patch of island which the boys burn what they intended to be a "small fire."
The most notable imagery in the description of the burning foliage is personification, as Golding gives life (a human characteristic) to the fire the boys start in chapter two. The flames "stirred" and "crawled away."
One patch touched a tree trunk and scrambled up like a bright squirrel.... Beneath the dark canopy of leaves and smoke the fire laid hold on the forest and began to gnaw.... The flames, as though they were a kind of wild life, crept as a jaguar creeps on its belly toward a line of birch-like saplings that fledged an outcrop of the pink rock.
Finally, the flame "leapt nimbly" until the "noises of the fire merged into a drum-roll that seemed to shake the mountain."
The use of personification gives actual life to the flames which so quickly consume the island greenery. Note also Golding's use of simile (in the quote above) as he compares the flames first to a scampering squirrel and then to a wild jaguar on the hunt. It is an apt comparison, as the fire consumes both the greenery and the little boy with the birthmark on his face.
Golding's use of imagery to create this particular setting allows the reader to imagine the terrifying terrain in which the first of many terrible things happen.
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MicroRNA Methods Methods in Enzymology Series, Vol. 427
Coordonnateur : Rossi John J.
This "expression" of genes that code for essential proteins is essentially what controls whether a cell turns into a liver, lung, or brain cell, for example. Understanding what activates this process – or stops it – is a key to understanding the biological process and builds a foundation for advances in medicine and other fields. This volume in Methods in Enzymology presents valuable methods for studying MicroRNA, with three sections covering identification of MicroRNAs and their targets; MicroRNA expression, maturation and functional analysis; and MicroRNAs and disease.
Chapter 1: Identification of viral miRNAs
Chapter 2: Robust machine learning algorithms predict microRNA genes and targets
Chapter 3: Idenfication of virally encoded microRNAs
Chapter 4: Computational Methods for microRNA Target Prediction
SECTION II. Micro RNA expression, maturation and functional analysis
Chapter 5: In vitro and in vivo assays for the activity of the Drosha-DGCR8 complex
Chapter 6: Microarray analysis of microRNA gene expression.
Chapter 7: Cloning and detecting signature microRNAs from mammalian cells
Chapter 8: Approaches for studying microRNA and small interfering RNA methylation in vitro and in vivo
Chapter 9: Analysis of small RNA profiles during development.
Chapter 10: Dissecting MicroRNA-mediated Gene Regulation and Function in T Cell Development
SECTION III. MiRNAs and Disease
Chapter 11: Investigation of microRNAs alterations in leukemias and lymphomas
Chapter 12: Discovery of pathogen-regulated small RNAs in plants
Chapter 13: Protocols for expression and functional analysis of viral microRNAs
Date de parution : 10-2007
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The highly invasive Callery pear (one cultivar of which is the Bradford pear), is blooming now across Missouri, or will be soon. Non-native Callery pear cultivars cross pollinate, creating hybrid offspring that spread aggressively with the help of foraging birds carrying fertile seeds. As part of its 2019 Callery pear awareness program—to call attention to the economic and environmental harm these trees pose—the Missouri Invasive Plant Task Force (MoIP) is teaming up with Grow Native! professional member Forest ReLeaf for a Callery pear “Buy-back” program on April 26. Participants will receive a free native tree from Forest ReLeaf if they provide photos of themselves with a cut-down, in-bloom Callery pear in their yards. One native tree per cut-down Callery pear can be picked up at Forest Releaf CommuniTree Gardens Nursery in Creve Coeur Park (2194 Creve Coeur Mill Rd) on April 26 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., while supplies last. For more information about Callery pear and suggested native Missouri trees to replace it, visit the “Plant This, Not That” resource on the MoIP website.
Information from Missouri Prairie Foundation
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Kosher foods refer to foods regulated under the Jewish dietary law - kashrut. Kosher designation regulates both food and the ingredients used to production of foods with 3 different classifications: Parve, Dairy and Passover.
Parve is a classification of Kosher foods including: all items that grow from the ground (fruits, vegetables, grains, etc.), fish, eggs, and non-biological edible items.
Dairy traditional refers to milk or milk product from Kosher animals. However, milk from large dairy operation containing minority of non-kosher milk is also permissible to consume.
Passover is an important biblically derived Jewish festival. There is an extremely strict regulation on foods during Passover. Except common non-Kosher food, corns, beans and various Parve foods are inhibited. Leavened foods and yeasts are also inhibited.
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A team of Japanese scientists invented a device that can visualize human thoughts and dreams on a computer screen. Currently researchers are equipped with technology that can reproduce simple pictures of the brain. The discovery is a step towards unlocking the mystery of human dreams and brain processes. By implementing this new technology it will become possible to record and play back footage subjective to what people call their dreams.
Scientists led by Yakiyaso Kamitani, focus their efforts on the identification processes that accompanied the retina. When viewed from an external object, the retina detects and turns it into an electrical signal that is sent in the visual cortex of the brain. The study actually examined exactly the same electrical impulse, and how one then reconstructed it into an image.
Since the publication of Interpretation of Dreams of the Sigmund Freud from more than a century ago, scientists working on the brain of sleeping people has become more active. Extensive analysis of researchers around the world are seeking ways to unlock the mystery human sleep.
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Also indexed as: Garcinia cambogia, HCA
(-)-Hydroxycitric acid (HCA) is a compound found in Garcinia cambogia, a type of
fruit. HCA has a chemical structure similar to that of citric acid (the primary acid in citrus
Where is it found?
HCA is found in only a few plants, with one rich source being the rind of a little
pumpkin-shaped fruit called Garcinia cambogia, which is native to Southeast Asia.
This fruit (also called Malabar tamarind) is used as a condiment in dishes such as curry.
HCA has been used in
connection with the following conditions (refer to it for complete
Who is likely to be deficient?
Since it is not an essential nutrient, HCA is not associated with a deficiency state.
How much is usually taken?
Optimal amounts of HCA remain unknown. Although dieters sometimes take 500 mg of HCA three
times per day (before each meal), this amount is far below the levels used in animal research
(figured on a per-pound body weight basis). The effect of HCA is enhanced when used in
conjunction with a low-fat diet, because HCA
does nothing to reduce the caloric effects of dietary fat. Since HCA’s mechanism of
action seems to be at least partially a blockade of conversion of simple sugars into fats,1 it is likely to work best in
conjunction with a high simple sugar diet. HCA may therefore be less useful if it only offsets
the negative effects of an otherwise unhealthy diet. High-fiber diets may impair absorption of HCA as noted
above. HCA supplements are available in many forms, including tablets, capsules, powders,
snack bars, and chewing gum.
Are there any side effects or interactions?
HCA has not been linked to any adverse effects.
At the time of writing, there were no well-known drug interactions
1. Lowenstein JM. Experiments with (-)hydroxycitrate. In: Burtley W,
Kornberg HL, Quayle JR, eds. Essays in Cell Metabolism. New York: Wiley Interscience,
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Informational (nonfiction), 486 words, Level K (Grade 2), Lexile 520L
Where We Get Energy gives readers an informative lesson in where our energy comes from. The book reviews how we use energy, which types of energy we use, and where each energy type is found. Clear, easy-to-understand photographs enhance the text.
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This interactive tool allows you to see what the plastic particles are in the air you breathe, what they are made of – chemicals and toxins, and where they came from.
At any given time, 1,100 tons of microplastic are floating over the western US. New modeling shows the surprising sources of the nefarious pollutant.
A new interactive visualization shows we’re breathing in plastic all the time.
Plastic Clouds are now known to drop a thousand tons of plastic each year on the National Parks of The Western United States alone.
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The progressive and phrasal verbs: Evidence of colloquialization in nineteenth-century English?
The present study, which is based on the CONCE corpus, considers two linguistic features that are characteristic of spoken rather than written production: the progressive and phrasal verbs. The frequency development of these features in nineteenth-century English is examined in relation to contemporaneous changes in British society. The results show that the most informal genres in the corpus, comedies and private letters, exhibit increasing frequencies, while the formal genre of scientific writing displays stability. These results are shown to be partly similar to those reached in studies of late twentieth-century English, where the progressive and phrasal verbs increase in frequency in some written genres but not others. In previous research, this development has been taken to be part of an ongoing colloquialization of genre norms, which has in turn been linked to the democratization of discourse in post-1945 Western society. The present study demonstrates that related developments can be identified in nineteenth-century Britain, which implies that the concept of colloquialization may explain some of the stability and change attested in the data.
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Two women in Ukraine are both more than 20 weeks pregnant using a three-parent technique for the first time to overcome infertility, New Scientist.
It is the first time the method is used to treat infertility rather than hereditary disease.
The controversial technique used is the same as that approved last year by the UK parliament – the only country in the world to legalise the procedure – although there it is allowed only to prevent parents passing hereditary diseases to their children.
Director of the Clinic of Reproductive Medicine in Kyiv Valery Zukin said that method was used to overcome embryo arrest, which happens when IVF embryos suddenly stop growing at around the two-cell stage.
“One, a girl, has now reached 26 weeks, and a boy has reached 20 weeks,” Zukin told New Scientist.
He says his team is due to present their preliminary results at the American Reproductive Technology Congress in New York later this week.
Zukin said the procedure was first approved by an ethical committee and a review board at the Ukrainian Association of Reproductive Medicine.
Early DNA tests – including some conducted by an independent laboratory in Germany – have shown that the two babies are genetically healthy, he said.
Zukin is also waiting before repeating the procedure. “Some patients are awaiting similar embryo transfers, but we would like to be sure first that the babies are born healthy,” he said.
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An easement by prescription is one that is gained under principles of a legal concept known as "adverse possession", under which someone other than the original property owner gains use or ownership rights to certain property. Prescriptive easements often arise on rural land when landowners fail to realize part of their land is being used, perhaps by an adjoining neighbor. Fences built in incorrect locations often result in the creation of prescriptive easements. If a person uses another's land for more than the statute of limitations period prescribed by state laws on adverse possession, that person may be able to derive an easement by prescription. Under adverse possession laws, the use of the land must be open, notorious, hostile, and continuous for a specified number of years as required by law in each state.
Prescriptive Easement Requirements
The time period for obtaining an easement by adverse possession does not begin to run until the one seeking adverse possession actually trespasses on the land. Thus, a negative easement cannot be acquired by prescription because no trespass takes place. The use of the easement must truly be adverse to the rights of the landowner of the property through which the easement is sought and must be without the landowner's permission. If the use is with permission, it is not adverse. There must be a demonstration of continuous and uninterrupted use throughout the statute of limitations period prescribed by state law. If the use is too infrequent for a reasonable landowner to bother protesting, the continuity requirement will probably not be satisfied.
"Tacking" the Time Requirement
Subsequent parties in the same position to the land using the right of way adversely can add up the time to meet the required statute of limitations. This situation is known as "tacking". Thus, a prescriptive easement need not be exclusive; it can be shared among several users.
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Most important innovations that Sophocles the Author brought to "Oedipus the King", were religious paradox, and dramatic Irony!
The most important innovations Sophocles brings to Oedipus the King, is the way he brings religious paradox and dramatic irony together making fate a new concept and relating that to a monotheistic theology as apposed to a polytheistic one.
Sophocles uses dramatic irony in the play by showing irony and profoundness of fate, as it plays out in this story. Before the play began, an oracle was brought to king Laios, and queen Jocasta, telling them that their unborn son will kill his father and marry his mother. When the baby is born, Laios gave the child to a shepard to die in the hills, but…
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Recycling is a part of our everyday life. We wash out our plastic and glass containers and throw those countless paper advertisements in the recycling bin. Water bottles, juice bottles, and pizza boxes sometimes bring the heap to the top of my bin! (My housemates contribute a lot to this recycling bonanza.) But before we started practicing what we know as recycling, we were already reusing and repurposing in a major way. So many of us remember the milk bottles that were rinsed out and sent back with the milkman to be sanitized and reused indefinitely. Our soft drink bottles were also reused. Clothes were handed down to younger brothers and sisters, furniture was passed on to relatives or friends just starting out. Everything possible that could still be used was passed on.
In still earlier times, a common form of recycling was the re-use of material in the stitching of quilts. Scraps left over from making dresses were set aside to be sewn together in blocks approximately eight square inches in size. These blocks were then stitched together to form colorful quilts which in turn were used as attractive bed covers.
Can you imagine even pages of print being reused? In medieval times, writing was done on sheets of vellum which were made from the hides of sheep, cattle, or goats. It was a laborious process to prepare the animal skins to be clean, flat, and suitable for being written on. One shortcut was to reuse old pieces of vellum whose writing was no longer valued. The sheet of vellum would be scrapped and smoothed so that it could be written on again. This reused vellum is now called a palimpsest.
So when we recycle our used items, we are following an honored tradition. Come participate in our own exchange of gently used goods at our next IN Day, themed “Toys, Books, and Small Household Items Exchange”, Thursday, April 19, 1:30-3:00 at Zion Lutheran Church.
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So, it turns out that hermit crabs might have been responsible for the disappearance of Amelia Earhart:
Nikumaroro is home to a colony of coconut hermit crabs: the world’s largest land crab, so called because of its ability to crack open a coconut, manoeuvring a claw into one of the nut’s three eyeholes and prying it open. The oldest live to more than a hundred, and grow to be wider than three feet across: too large to fit in a bathtub, exactly the right size for a nightmare. In 2007, researchers decided to test the Earhart theory. The carcass of a small pig was offered to the crabs on the island, to see what they might have done to Earhart’s dead or dying body. Following their remarkable sense of smell, they found the pig and tore it apart, making off with its bones to their burrows under the roots of the trees. Their strength is monumental: their claw grip can produce up to 3300 newtons of force (the bite force of a tiger is 1500 newtons). Darwin called them ‘monstrous’: he meant it as a compliment.
I'm not sure that Amelia Earhart would have had kind thoughts about hermit crabs, but then hopefully she was past caring about such things when the moment came. From most angles they're simply amazing, and surprisingly sociable creatures. A housing chain consisting of hermit crabs, each of them looking to move up the housing ladder as a vacancy arises, is quite a sight to see.
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minimum core is a way of the tutor imbedding functional skills such as English and Maths in to learner cohorts. there is many examples of ways this can be achieved. use of electronic white board activities promotes English and ICT skills allowing students to a more present approach in learning. handouts are a more common resource that have to be correctly produced to ensure learners have quantity and direction in learning.
In my particular specialism learners have to develop all functional skills this is achieved in a dispensing process. learners have to understand basic English to produce clear labels with directional points to patients, maths is imbedded with routine counting of medicines and decanting medicines into boxes working out supplies for either days, weeks or months. ICT is a common ailment of dispensing in the present day as the majority of labels are electronically produced. pharmacy is a fast moving specialised area that has to ensure the tutor is familiar with up to date approaches to learning. regular CPD session promotes minimum core skills in tutors which can be provided to a more effective learning environment.
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Not Impossible Lab's Mick Ebeling is up to his neck right now in Project Daniel — an innovative, award-winning initiative that's using 3D printers to provide prosthetic limbs to amputees in war-torn Sudan.
Ebeling was moved to start Project Daniel after reading a news story about Daniel, a young man who lost both of his hands to the conflict in Sudan when he was just 14. He was worried he was now just a burden to his parents. Ebeling, who has young sons of his own, said the teen's words hit him "right in the gut".
"When we bought the plane tickets to go over, we didn't know how to make an arm, we didn't know how to 3D print and make this thing, didn't know where Daniel was, but we'd committed and we'd figure it out," Ebeling says.
After travelling to Sudan with the 3D printer and materials, and showing the resident doctor at the refugee camp and several refugees how to print prosthetic limbs, Ebeling is proud to say the project is now run by locals. He now plans to start chapters in other countries, like Vietnam, Cambodia and Colombia.
"Our philosophy on what we do is help one, help many — and that has been the best guide post to everything we do," Ebeling says. "Do something for that one person, and then make it free. Then you have the ability for it to scale and go big."
Watch Daniel use his prosthetic arm in the video embedded below.
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Radical consonants are those consonants articulated with the root (base) of the tongue in the throat. This includes the pharyngeal, epiglottal, and epiglotto-pharyngeal places of articulation, though technically epiglottal consonants take place in the larynx.
The term radical was coined to help disambiguate pharyngeal, which had come to mean any consonant articulated in the throat, whether the articulator was the back of the tongue ("high" pharyngeals) or the epiglottis ("low" pharyngeals). However, the term pharyngeal is still commonly used in the broader sense, and authors such as Miller (2005) prefer guttural, which may include glottal consonants as well.
- Ladefoged, Peter (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages, Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-19814-8.
- Miller, Amanda (2005), "Guttural vowels and guttural co-articulation in Ju|’hoansi". Journal of Phonetics, vol. 35, Issue 1, January 2007, pp 56-84.
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Systemic Risk Law and Legal Definition
Risk of collapse of entire financial system is systemic risk. Systemic risk affects entire class of assets or liabilities. The result is the decline of value of investment in a given period of time.When systemic risk occurs in banking, it will affect depositors, also result in breach of obligation to other financial institutions. Payment problems at one financial institution will be transmitted to other institutions. The disaster works as a chain and other institutions come under financial pressure. The risk can even bring down an economy. It is a financial system instability caused by events or conditions in financial intermediaries. Measures adopted to protect against systemic risk are asset allocation and diversification. Diversification is a strategy to reduce risk by combining a variety of investments. Investments like stocks bonds and real estate are combined together to avoid risk.
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Further readings on the folk tale genre and the actantial model
Below we have listed some resources that you can study if you would like to know more about the folk tale genre and the actantial model.
The actantial model
If you want to know more about the actantial model, please take a look at this text:
Hébert, L (undated). The Actantial Model. Signo. Theoretical Semiotics on the Web.
Morphology of the folk tale.
Follow the link below to read excerpts from Vladimir Propp’s Morphology of the Folk Tale, which is the most basic study of the structure of folk tales and a precondition for the actantial model. You will find the two first chapters of Propp’s book and a useful introduction (p.1-4):
Exerpts from: Vladímir Propp. Morphology of the Folk Tale. 1928. Translation 1968, The American Folklore Society and Indiana University.
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Based upon 18th-century records from two civil courts in Turin, the essay intends to define mainstream small credit in an urban setting: besides pawnshops and Jew moneylenders, town stores contributed to the small-credit market by lending small amounts of money and offering payment deferment on loans mostly granted on verbal agreement. The frequent occurrence of agreements based on trust and personal acquaintance gives rise to the problem of different loan opportunities for town members and foreigners. The mechanism governing inclusion into or exclusion from the credit market was also affected by institutions, especially town courts whose function was to validate and strengthen the weakest trading agreements. Starting from this assumption and expounding a few sample cases, the essay finally aims at identifying the critical circumstances that made it necessary to resort to court and formalize agreements that had only been verbal until then.
Keywords: Consumer; credit; early modern history; civil courts; urban marketplace; trust; Turin.
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Dr. James Heckman, Nobel Laureate and a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, is an expert on human development. His work in economics, sociology, and psychology has given scientific weight to what many of us know to be anecdotally true – helping kids develop skills at an early age leads to great economic and social gains.
His work has similarities to research done at the UW Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, which has shown early learning works wonders for children’s academic performance – and pays dividends for life.
In the video below, Dr. Heckman discusses the economic gains to be realized by investing in early childhood education, and advocates for policy to strengthen early learning programs.
Read more about Dr. Heckman’s work here.
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A system that can turn any stretch of fiber-optic cable into a microphone or other remote sensor has been developed by U.K. scientists. It has been dubbed by the makers the “world’s nervous system.”
Fiber-optic cable is ubiquitous, installed along roads and railway lines, in buildings and streets.
U.K.-based OptaSense — a subsidiary of Qinetiq — which makes the technology, calls it Distributed Acoustic Sensing. DAS allows companies to monitor extremely long assets (such as pipelines, rail tracks and roads) with a level of protection previously unmatched. In effect, it puts a microphone every 10 meters. In one deployment it is protecting a pipeline nearly 700 kilometers long.
According to Managing Director Magnus McEwen-King, the system had detected signs of an impending theft from an oil pipeline more than three weeks before the theft took place. Typically, thieves expose buried pipelines and then use cutters to break into the pipeline, draining off the gushing oil. There is a video on YouTube that purports to show it happening in Iraq.
Tech Europe covers Europe’s technology leaders, their companies, and the people and industries that support them — and their ideas. The blog is edited by Ben Rooney, with contributions from The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires.
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Allergies Home > Flonase Side Effects
Headaches, bloody nose, and sore throat are some of the most commonly reported side effects of Flonase. Less common problems (occurring in 1 to 3 percent of people) may include diarrhea, bronchitis, and dizziness. Certain side effects that are potentially serious and should be reported to a healthcare provider immediately include asthma symptoms, frequent infections, and signs of steroid toxicity.
As with any medicine, side effects are possible with Flonase® (fluticasone propionate nasal spray). However, not everyone who takes the medication will have problems. In fact, most people tolerate it quite well. If side effects do occur, in most cases, they are minor and either require no treatment or can easily be treated by you or your healthcare provider.
(This article covers many, but not all, of the possible side effects with Flonase. Your healthcare provider can discuss a more complete list of Flonase side effects with you.)
Flonase has been studied thoroughly in clinical trials, in which the side effects of a group of people taking the drug are documented and compared to another group not taking the medicine. As a result, it is possible to see what side effects occur, how often they appear, and how they compare to the group not taking the medicine.
In these studies, the most common Flonase side effects included:
- Headaches -- in up to 16.1 percent of people
- Sore throat -- up to 7.8 percent
- Nosebleeds -- up to 6.9 percent
- Nausea or vomiting -- up to 4.8 percent
- Cough -- up to 3.8 percent
- Nasal burning or irritation -- up to 3.2 percent.
Other common side effects, occurring in 1 to 3 percent of people, included:
- Blood in the nasal discharge
- Runny nose
- Abdominal pain (stomach pain)
- Flu-like symptoms (such as chills and muscle aches)
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Alopecia areata is a condition in which individuals experience round patches of hair loss. Its exact cause is unknown, although research suggests it is hereditary, as roughly 20% of people with alopecia have a family history of the condition. The main symptom of alopecia areata is round patches of hair loss on head or body.
To diagnose alopecia areata, bloods tests and/or a scalp biopsy are performed, as this condition is sometimes associated with autoimmune disorders. Treatment for alopecia areata may include steroid injections, UV light therapy, or topical corticosteroids. There is no direct treatment available for alopecia areata; however, many people successfully regrow their hair with the assistance of the aforementioned treatment methods.
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