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Q588	how latin america has changed us culture	Culture of the United States	Original elements also play a strong role, such as the invention of Jeffersonian democracy .	00
Q588	how latin america has changed us culture	Culture of the United States	Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia was perhaps the first influential domestic cultural critique by an American and a reactionary piece to the prevailing European consensus that America's domestic originality was degenerate .	00
Q588	how latin america has changed us culture	Culture of the United States	Prevalent ideas and ideals that evolved domestically, such as national holidays , uniquely American sports , military tradition, and innovations in the arts and entertainment give a strong sense of national pride among the population as a whole.	00
Q588	how latin america has changed us culture	Culture of the United States	American culture includes both conservative and liberal elements, scientific and religious competitiveness, political structures, risk taking and free expression, materialist and moral elements.	00
Q588	how latin america has changed us culture	Culture of the United States	Despite certain consistent ideological principles (e.g. individualism, egalitarianism, and faith in freedom and democracy), American culture has a variety of expressions due to its geographical scale and demographic diversity.	00
Q588	how latin america has changed us culture	Culture of the United States	The flexibility of U.S. culture and its highly symbolic nature lead some researchers to categorize American culture as a mythic identity; others see it as American exceptionalism .	00
Q588	how latin america has changed us culture	Culture of the United States	It also includes elements that evolved from Indigenous Americans , and other ethnic cultures—most prominently the culture of African Americans , cultures from Latin America , and Asian American cultures .	00
Q588	how latin america has changed us culture	Culture of the United States	Many American cultural elements, especially from popular culture , have spread across the globe through modern mass media.	00
Q588	how latin america has changed us culture	Culture of the United States	The United States has often been thought of as a melting pot , but beginning in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it trends towards cultural diversity , pluralism and the image of a salad bowl instead.	00
Q588	how latin america has changed us culture	Culture of the United States	Due to the extent of American culture, there are many integrated but unique social subcultures within the United States.	00
Q588	how latin america has changed us culture	Culture of the United States	The cultural affiliations an individual in the United States may have commonly depend on social class , political orientation and a multitude of demographic characteristics such as religious background, occupation and ethnic group membership.	00
Q589	what does point in samoan	Samoan language	Samoan (Gagana fa'a Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa — IPA: ) is the language of the Samoan Islands , comprising the independent country of Samoa and the United States territory of American Samoa .	00
Q589	what does point in samoan	Samoan language	It is an official language—alongside English —in both jurisdictions.	00
Q589	what does point in samoan	Samoan language	Samoan, a Polynesian language , is the first language for most of the Samoa Islands' population of about 246,000.	00
Q589	what does point in samoan	Samoan language	With many Samoan people living in other countries, the total number of speakers worldwide is estimated at 370,000.	00
Q589	what does point in samoan	Samoan language	The language is notable for the phonological differences between formal and informal speech as well as a ceremonial form used in Samoan oratory.	00
Q590	how is 5 hour glucose tolerance test performed	Glucose tolerance test	A glucose tolerance test is a medical test in which glucose is given and blood samples taken afterward to determine how quickly it is cleared from the blood.	00
Q590	how is 5 hour glucose tolerance test performed	Glucose tolerance test	The test is usually used to test for diabetes , insulin resistance , and sometimes reactive hypoglycemia and acromegaly , or rarer disorders of carbohydrate metabolism .	00
Q590	how is 5 hour glucose tolerance test performed	Glucose tolerance test	In the most commonly performed version of the test, an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), a standard dose of glucose is ingested by mouth and blood levels are checked two hours later.	00
Q590	how is 5 hour glucose tolerance test performed	Glucose tolerance test	Many variations of the GTT have been devised over the years for various purposes, with different standard doses of glucose, different routes of administration, different intervals and durations of sampling, and various substances measured in addition to blood glucose.	00
Q592	what about me moving pictures	What About Me (song)	"What About Me" is a song written by Garry Frost and Frances Swan, first recorded by Australian rock band Moving Pictures from their album Days of Innocence .	00
Q592	what about me moving pictures	What About Me (song)	It was the band's first number-one single in Australia spending six consecutive weeks on the top; there, it was the second-highest selling single of 1982.	00
Q592	what about me moving pictures	What About Me (song)	The success of the song led them to America where it became a hit, reaching #29 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.	00
Q592	what about me moving pictures	What About Me (song)	The song stayed in the U.S. charts for such a long time that it managed to make Billboards top 100 Pop Singles of 1983, at #88, a rare feat for a single with such a low peak position.	00
Q592	what about me moving pictures	What About Me (song)	The song made an unusual comeback in 1989, peaking at #46.	00
Q593	how many eggs per chicken is expected	Egg (food)	On the left a chicken egg, the egg most commonly eaten by humans , and on the right two quail eggs	00
Q593	how many eggs per chicken is expected	Egg (food)	Eggs are laid by females of many different species, including birds , reptiles , amphibians , and fish , and have been eaten by mankind for thousands of years.	00
Q593	how many eggs per chicken is expected	Egg (food)	Bird and reptile eggs consist of a protective eggshell , albumen ( egg white ), and vitellus ( egg yolk ), contained within various thin membranes.	00
Q593	how many eggs per chicken is expected	Egg (food)	Popular choices for egg consumption are chicken , duck , quail , roe , and caviar , but the egg most often consumed by humans is the chicken egg, by a wide margin.	00
Q593	how many eggs per chicken is expected	Egg (food)	Egg yolks and whole eggs store significant amounts of protein and choline , and are widely used in cookery.	00
Q593	how many eggs per chicken is expected	Egg (food)	Due to their protein content, the United States Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) categorizes eggs as Meats within the Food Guide Pyramid .	00
Q593	how many eggs per chicken is expected	Egg (food)	Despite the nutritional value of eggs, there are some potential health issues arising from egg quality, storage, and individual allergies.	00
Q593	how many eggs per chicken is expected	Egg (food)	Chickens and other egg-laying creatures are widely kept throughout the world, and mass production of chicken eggs is a global industry.	00
Q593	how many eggs per chicken is expected	Egg (food)	In 2009, an estimated 62.1 million metric tons of eggs were produced worldwide from a total laying flock of approximately 6.4 billion hens.	00
Q593	how many eggs per chicken is expected	Egg (food)	There are issues of regional variation in demand and expectation, as well as current debates concerning methods of mass production, with the European Union 's ban on battery farming of chickens.	00
Q594	how does the mls schedule work	Major League Soccer	Major League Soccer (MLS) is a professional soccer league representing the sport's highest level in the United States and Canada .	00
Q594	how does the mls schedule work	Major League Soccer	Sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation (U.S. Soccer) , the league is composed of 19 teams — 16 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada.	00
Q594	how does the mls schedule work	Major League Soccer	Seasons presently run from March to December, with each team playing 34 games in the regular season.	00
Q594	how does the mls schedule work	Major League Soccer	Ten teams compete in the postseason MLS Cup Playoffs culminating in the championship game, the MLS Cup .	00
Q594	how does the mls schedule work	Major League Soccer	Major League Soccer was founded in 1993 as part of the United States' bid to host the 1994 FIFA World Cup .	00
Q594	how does the mls schedule work	Major League Soccer	The first season took place in 1996 beginning with ten teams.	00
Q594	how does the mls schedule work	Major League Soccer	Instead of operating as an association of independently owned teams, MLS is a single entity where each team is owned and controlled by the league's investors.	00
Q594	how does the mls schedule work	Major League Soccer	The league's closed membership makes it one of the world's few soccer leagues not using promotion and relegation .	00
Q598	what countries legalize marijuana	Legality of cannabis	The legality of cannabis varies from country to country.	00
Q598	what countries legalize marijuana	Legality of cannabis	Possession of cannabis is illegal in most countries and has been since the beginning of widespread cannabis prohibition in the late 1930s.	00
Q598	what countries legalize marijuana	Legality of cannabis	However, many countries have decriminalized the possession of small quantities of cannabis, particularly in North America , South America and Europe .	00
Q598	what countries legalize marijuana	Legality of cannabis	Furthermore, possession is legal or effectively legal in the Netherlands , North Korea and would be in the U.S. states of Colorado and Washington if it were not for federal law, which governs persons in all states.	11
Q598	what countries legalize marijuana	Legality of cannabis	The medicinal use of cannabis is legal in a number of countries, including Canada , the Czech Republic and Israel .	00
Q598	what countries legalize marijuana	Legality of cannabis	While federal law in the United States bans all sale and possession of cannabis, enforcement varies widely at the state level and some states have established medicinal marijuana programs in that contradict federal law; two states ( Colorado and Washington ) have repealed their laws prohibiting the recreational use of cannabis and replaced them with a regulatory regime, also contrary to federal statute.	00
Q598	what countries legalize marijuana	Legality of cannabis	Some countries have laws that are not as vigorously prosecuted as others but, apart from the countries that offer access to medical marijuana, most countries have various penalties ranging from lenient to very severe.	00
Q598	what countries legalize marijuana	Legality of cannabis	Some infractions are taken more seriously in some countries than others in regard to the cultivation, use, possession or transfer of cannabis for recreational use.	00
Q598	what countries legalize marijuana	Legality of cannabis	A few jurisdictions have lessened penalties for possession of small quantities of cannabis, making it punishable by confiscation and a fine , rather than imprisonment .	00
Q598	what countries legalize marijuana	Legality of cannabis	Some jurisdictions/ drug courts use mandatory treatment programs for young or frequent users, with freedom from narcotic drugs as the goal and a few jurisdictions permit cannabis use for medicinal purposes.	00
Q598	what countries legalize marijuana	Legality of cannabis	There are also changes in a more restrictive direction as in Canada .	00
Q598	what countries legalize marijuana	Legality of cannabis	Drug tests to detect cannabis are increasingly common in many countries and have resulted in jail sentences and people losing their jobs.	00
Q598	what countries legalize marijuana	Legality of cannabis	However, simple possession can carry long jail sentences in some countries, particularly in parts of East Asia and Southeast Asia where the sale of cannabis may lead to a sentence of life in prison or even execution.	00
Q600	how is the ejection fraction measured	Ejection fraction	In cardiovascular physiology , ejection fraction (EF) represents the volumetric fraction of blood pumped out of the ventricle (heart) with each heart beat or cardiac cycle .	00
Q600	how is the ejection fraction measured	Ejection fraction	It can be applied to either the right ventricle which ejects via the pulmonary valve into the pulmonary circulation or the left ventricle which ejects via the aortic valve into the systemic circulation .	00
Q600	how is the ejection fraction measured	Ejection fraction	Imaging of the physiology of the mammalian heart is the art that allows meaningful mathematical expression defining EF.	00
Q600	how is the ejection fraction measured	Ejection fraction	Noninvasive cardiac imaging has become a worldwide utility enabling study of cardiac performance reproducibly and inexpensively.	00
Q600	how is the ejection fraction measured	Ejection fraction	Simplified, Ejection fraction is a mathematical product allowed by cardiac imaging.	00
Q600	how is the ejection fraction measured	Ejection fraction	As a mathematical term, Ejection Fraction is an extension of the work of Adolph Fick in cardiac output .	00
Q600	how is the ejection fraction measured	Ejection fraction	Dedicated technology such as Echocardiography , Computed Tomography , Magnetic Resonance Imaging and MUGA scanning have definitively allowed clinically relevant mathematics regarding Ischemia , Congenital Heart Disease and Heart Failure .	00
Q601	how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?	California State Route 14	State Route 14 (SR 14) is a north–south state highway in the U.S. state of California , largely in the Mojave Desert .	00
Q601	how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?	California State Route 14	The southern portion of the highway is signed as the Antelope Valley Freeway.	00
Q601	how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?	California State Route 14	The route connects Interstate 5 , or Golden State Freeway , near Santa Clarita and with U.S. Route 395 near Inyokern .	00
Q601	how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?	California State Route 14	Legislatively, the route extends south of I-5 to State Route 1 in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles , however the portion south of the junction with I-5 has not been constructed.	00
Q601	how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?	California State Route 14	The southern part of the constructed route is a busy commuter freeway serving and connecting the communities of Santa Clarita , Palmdale and Lancaster with the rest of the Greater Los Angeles area.	00
Q601	how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?	California State Route 14	The northern portion, from Vincent (south of Palmdale) to Route 395, is legislatively named the Aerospace Highway, as the highway serves Edwards Air Force Base , once one of the primary landing strips for NASA 's Space Shuttle .	00
Q601	how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?	California State Route 14	This section is rural, following the line between the hot Mojave desert and the forming Sierra Nevada mountain range.	00
Q601	how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?	California State Route 14	Most of Route 14 is loosely paralleled by a main line of the Southern Pacific Railroad , used for the Antelope Valley Line of the Metrolink commuter rail system as well as a connection between Los Angeles and the California Central Valley via Tehachapi Pass .	00
Q601	how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?	California State Route 14	Linked with US 395, this road connects Los Angeles with such places as Mammoth Mountain , Mono Lake , Yosemite National Park and Reno, Nevada .	00
Q601	how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?	California State Route 14	Route 14 was part of U.S. Route 6 prior to truncation in 1964, when U.S. 6 was a coast-to-coast route from Long Beach to Provincetown, Massachusetts .	00
Q601	how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?	California State Route 14	The non-freeway segment of SR 14 from Silver Queen Road north of Rosamond to Mojave is known as Sierra Highway , as is the old routing between Interstate 5 and Silver Queen Road where SR 14 has been moved to a newer freeway alignment.	00
Q601	how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?	California State Route 14	Portions of Route 14 remain signed with names associated with US 6, including Midland Trail , Theodore Roosevelt Highway and Grand Army of the Republic Highway .	00
Q601	how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?	California State Route 14	This route is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System .	00
Q602	how many blind people are there in the us	Blindness	Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.	00
Q602	how many blind people are there in the us	Blindness	Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness.	00
Q602	how many blind people are there in the us	Blindness	Total blindness is the complete lack of form and visual light perception and is clinically recorded as NLP, an abbreviation for "no light perception."	00
Q602	how many blind people are there in the us	Blindness	Blindness is frequently used to describe severe visual impairment with vision.	00
Q602	how many blind people are there in the us	Blindness	Those described as having only light perception have no more sight than the ability to tell light from dark and the general direction of a light source .	00
Q602	how many blind people are there in the us	Blindness	To determine which people may need special assistance because of their visual disabilities, various governmental jurisdictions have formulated more complex definitions referred to as legal blindness.	00
Q602	how many blind people are there in the us	Blindness	In North America and most of Europe , legal blindness is defined as visual acuity (vision) of 20/200 (6/60) or less in the better eye with best correction possible.	00
Q602	how many blind people are there in the us	Blindness	This means that a legally blind individual would have to stand from an object to see it—with corrective lenses —with the same degree of clarity as a normally sighted person could from .	00
Q602	how many blind people are there in the us	Blindness	In many areas, people with average acuity who nonetheless have a visual field of less than 20 degrees (the norm being 180 degrees) are also classified as being legally blind.	00
Q602	how many blind people are there in the us	Blindness	Approximately ten percent of those deemed legally blind, by any measure, have no vision.	00
Q602	how many blind people are there in the us	Blindness	The rest have some vision, from light perception alone to relatively good acuity.	00
Q602	how many blind people are there in the us	Blindness	Low vision is sometimes used to describe visual acuities from 20/70 to 20/200.	00
Q602	how many blind people are there in the us	Blindness	By the 10th Revision of the WHO International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death, low vision is defined as visual acuity of less than 20/60 (6/18), but equal to or better than 20/200 (6/60), or corresponding visual field loss to less than 20 degrees, in the better eye with best possible correction.	00
Q602	how many blind people are there in the us	Blindness	Blindness is defined as visual acuity of less than 20/400 (6/120), or corresponding visual field loss to less than 10 degrees, in the better eye with best possible correction.	00
Q602	how many blind people are there in the us	Blindness	Blind people with undamaged eyes may still register light non-visually for the purpose of circadian entrainment to the 24-hour light/dark cycle.	00
Q602	how many blind people are there in the us	Blindness	Light signals for this purpose travel through the retinohypothalamic tract and are not affected by optic nerve damage beyond where the retinohypothalamic tract exits.	00
Q603	how many albums has dmx sold to this date	DMX (rapper)	Earl Simmons (born December 18, 1970), better known by his stage names DMX and Dark Man X, is an American rapper and actor .	00
Q603	how many albums has dmx sold to this date	DMX (rapper)	In 1999, DMX released his best-selling album ...And Then There Was X , which featured the hit single " Party Up (Up in Here) ".	00
Q603	how many albums has dmx sold to this date	DMX (rapper)	He has acted in films such as Belly , Romeo Must Die , Exit Wounds , Cradle 2 The Grave , and Last Hour .	00
Q603	how many albums has dmx sold to this date	DMX (rapper)	In 2006, he starred in the reality television series , which was primarily aired on the BET cable television network.	00
Q603	how many albums has dmx sold to this date	DMX (rapper)	In 2003, DMX published a book of his memoirs entitled, E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX.	00
Q603	how many albums has dmx sold to this date	DMX (rapper)	DMX released a mixtape The Weigh In as a prelude/promotion towards his album Undisputed (2012).	00
Q603	how many albums has dmx sold to this date	DMX (rapper)	DMX has sold over 30 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling hip-hop artists of all time.	11
Q605	what does the professional designation master mean	Professional certification	Professional certification, trade certification, or professional designation, often called simply certification or qualification, is a designation earned by a person to assure qualification to perform a job or task.	00

Q588

how latin america has changed us culture

Culture of the United States

Original elements also play a strong role, such as the invention of Jeffersonian democracy .

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Q588

how latin america has changed us culture

Culture of the United States

Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia was perhaps the first influential domestic cultural critique by an American and a reactionary piece to the prevailing European consensus that America's domestic originality was degenerate .

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Q588

how latin america has changed us culture

Culture of the United States

Prevalent ideas and ideals that evolved domestically, such as national holidays , uniquely American sports , military tradition, and innovations in the arts and entertainment give a strong sense of national pride among the population as a whole.

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Q588

how latin america has changed us culture

Culture of the United States

American culture includes both conservative and liberal elements, scientific and religious competitiveness, political structures, risk taking and free expression, materialist and moral elements.

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Q588

how latin america has changed us culture

Culture of the United States

Despite certain consistent ideological principles (e.g. individualism, egalitarianism, and faith in freedom and democracy), American culture has a variety of expressions due to its geographical scale and demographic diversity.

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Q588

how latin america has changed us culture

Culture of the United States

The flexibility of U.S. culture and its highly symbolic nature lead some researchers to categorize American culture as a mythic identity; others see it as American exceptionalism .

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Q588

how latin america has changed us culture

Culture of the United States

It also includes elements that evolved from Indigenous Americans , and other ethnic cultures—most prominently the culture of African Americans , cultures from Latin America , and Asian American cultures .

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Q588

how latin america has changed us culture

Culture of the United States

Many American cultural elements, especially from popular culture , have spread across the globe through modern mass media.

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Q588

how latin america has changed us culture

Culture of the United States

The United States has often been thought of as a melting pot , but beginning in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it trends towards cultural diversity , pluralism and the image of a salad bowl instead.

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Q588

how latin america has changed us culture

Culture of the United States

Due to the extent of American culture, there are many integrated but unique social subcultures within the United States.

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Q588

how latin america has changed us culture

Culture of the United States

The cultural affiliations an individual in the United States may have commonly depend on social class , political orientation and a multitude of demographic characteristics such as religious background, occupation and ethnic group membership.

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Q589

what does point in samoan

Samoan language

Samoan (Gagana fa'a Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa — IPA: ) is the language of the Samoan Islands , comprising the independent country of Samoa and the United States territory of American Samoa .

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Q589

what does point in samoan

Samoan language

It is an official language—alongside English —in both jurisdictions.

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Q589

what does point in samoan

Samoan language

Samoan, a Polynesian language , is the first language for most of the Samoa Islands' population of about 246,000.

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Q589

what does point in samoan

Samoan language

With many Samoan people living in other countries, the total number of speakers worldwide is estimated at 370,000.

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Q589

what does point in samoan

Samoan language

The language is notable for the phonological differences between formal and informal speech as well as a ceremonial form used in Samoan oratory.

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Q590

how is 5 hour glucose tolerance test performed

Glucose tolerance test

A glucose tolerance test is a medical test in which glucose is given and blood samples taken afterward to determine how quickly it is cleared from the blood.

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Q590

how is 5 hour glucose tolerance test performed

Glucose tolerance test

The test is usually used to test for diabetes , insulin resistance , and sometimes reactive hypoglycemia and acromegaly , or rarer disorders of carbohydrate metabolism .

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Q590

how is 5 hour glucose tolerance test performed

Glucose tolerance test

In the most commonly performed version of the test, an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), a standard dose of glucose is ingested by mouth and blood levels are checked two hours later.

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Q590

how is 5 hour glucose tolerance test performed

Glucose tolerance test

Many variations of the GTT have been devised over the years for various purposes, with different standard doses of glucose, different routes of administration, different intervals and durations of sampling, and various substances measured in addition to blood glucose.

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Q592

what about me moving pictures

What About Me (song)

"What About Me" is a song written by Garry Frost and Frances Swan, first recorded by Australian rock band Moving Pictures from their album Days of Innocence .

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Q592

what about me moving pictures

What About Me (song)

It was the band's first number-one single in Australia spending six consecutive weeks on the top; there, it was the second-highest selling single of 1982.

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Q592

what about me moving pictures

What About Me (song)

The success of the song led them to America where it became a hit, reaching #29 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.

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Q592

what about me moving pictures

What About Me (song)

The song stayed in the U.S. charts for such a long time that it managed to make Billboards top 100 Pop Singles of 1983, at #88, a rare feat for a single with such a low peak position.

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Q592

what about me moving pictures

What About Me (song)

The song made an unusual comeback in 1989, peaking at #46.

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Q593

how many eggs per chicken is expected

Egg (food)

On the left a chicken egg, the egg most commonly eaten by humans , and on the right two quail eggs

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Q593

how many eggs per chicken is expected

Egg (food)

Eggs are laid by females of many different species, including birds , reptiles , amphibians , and fish , and have been eaten by mankind for thousands of years.

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Q593

how many eggs per chicken is expected

Egg (food)

Bird and reptile eggs consist of a protective eggshell , albumen ( egg white ), and vitellus ( egg yolk ), contained within various thin membranes.

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Q593

how many eggs per chicken is expected

Egg (food)

Popular choices for egg consumption are chicken , duck , quail , roe , and caviar , but the egg most often consumed by humans is the chicken egg, by a wide margin.

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Q593

how many eggs per chicken is expected

Egg (food)

Egg yolks and whole eggs store significant amounts of protein and choline , and are widely used in cookery.

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Q593

how many eggs per chicken is expected

Egg (food)

Due to their protein content, the United States Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) categorizes eggs as Meats within the Food Guide Pyramid .

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Q593

how many eggs per chicken is expected

Egg (food)

Despite the nutritional value of eggs, there are some potential health issues arising from egg quality, storage, and individual allergies.

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Q593

how many eggs per chicken is expected

Egg (food)

Chickens and other egg-laying creatures are widely kept throughout the world, and mass production of chicken eggs is a global industry.

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Q593

how many eggs per chicken is expected

Egg (food)

In 2009, an estimated 62.1 million metric tons of eggs were produced worldwide from a total laying flock of approximately 6.4 billion hens.

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Q593

how many eggs per chicken is expected

Egg (food)

There are issues of regional variation in demand and expectation, as well as current debates concerning methods of mass production, with the European Union 's ban on battery farming of chickens.

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Q594

how does the mls schedule work

Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer (MLS) is a professional soccer league representing the sport's highest level in the United States and Canada .

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Q594

how does the mls schedule work

Major League Soccer

Sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation (U.S. Soccer) , the league is composed of 19 teams — 16 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada.

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Q594

how does the mls schedule work

Major League Soccer

Seasons presently run from March to December, with each team playing 34 games in the regular season.

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Q594

how does the mls schedule work

Major League Soccer

Ten teams compete in the postseason MLS Cup Playoffs culminating in the championship game, the MLS Cup .

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Q594

how does the mls schedule work

Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer was founded in 1993 as part of the United States' bid to host the 1994 FIFA World Cup .

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Q594

how does the mls schedule work

Major League Soccer

The first season took place in 1996 beginning with ten teams.

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Q594

how does the mls schedule work

Major League Soccer

Instead of operating as an association of independently owned teams, MLS is a single entity where each team is owned and controlled by the league's investors.

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Q594

how does the mls schedule work

Major League Soccer

The league's closed membership makes it one of the world's few soccer leagues not using promotion and relegation .

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Q598

what countries legalize marijuana

Legality of cannabis

The legality of cannabis varies from country to country.

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Q598

what countries legalize marijuana

Legality of cannabis

Possession of cannabis is illegal in most countries and has been since the beginning of widespread cannabis prohibition in the late 1930s.

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Q598

what countries legalize marijuana

Legality of cannabis

However, many countries have decriminalized the possession of small quantities of cannabis, particularly in North America , South America and Europe .

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Q598

what countries legalize marijuana

Legality of cannabis

Furthermore, possession is legal or effectively legal in the Netherlands , North Korea and would be in the U.S. states of Colorado and Washington if it were not for federal law, which governs persons in all states.

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Q598

what countries legalize marijuana

Legality of cannabis

The medicinal use of cannabis is legal in a number of countries, including Canada , the Czech Republic and Israel .

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Q598

what countries legalize marijuana

Legality of cannabis

While federal law in the United States bans all sale and possession of cannabis, enforcement varies widely at the state level and some states have established medicinal marijuana programs in that contradict federal law; two states ( Colorado and Washington ) have repealed their laws prohibiting the recreational use of cannabis and replaced them with a regulatory regime, also contrary to federal statute.

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Q598

what countries legalize marijuana

Legality of cannabis

Some countries have laws that are not as vigorously prosecuted as others but, apart from the countries that offer access to medical marijuana, most countries have various penalties ranging from lenient to very severe.

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Q598

what countries legalize marijuana

Legality of cannabis

Some infractions are taken more seriously in some countries than others in regard to the cultivation, use, possession or transfer of cannabis for recreational use.

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Q598

what countries legalize marijuana

Legality of cannabis

A few jurisdictions have lessened penalties for possession of small quantities of cannabis, making it punishable by confiscation and a fine , rather than imprisonment .

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Q598

what countries legalize marijuana

Legality of cannabis

Some jurisdictions/ drug courts use mandatory treatment programs for young or frequent users, with freedom from narcotic drugs as the goal and a few jurisdictions permit cannabis use for medicinal purposes.

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what countries legalize marijuana

Legality of cannabis

There are also changes in a more restrictive direction as in Canada .

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Q598

what countries legalize marijuana

Legality of cannabis

Drug tests to detect cannabis are increasingly common in many countries and have resulted in jail sentences and people losing their jobs.

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what countries legalize marijuana

Legality of cannabis

However, simple possession can carry long jail sentences in some countries, particularly in parts of East Asia and Southeast Asia where the sale of cannabis may lead to a sentence of life in prison or even execution.

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how is the ejection fraction measured

Ejection fraction

In cardiovascular physiology , ejection fraction (EF) represents the volumetric fraction of blood pumped out of the ventricle (heart) with each heart beat or cardiac cycle .

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how is the ejection fraction measured

Ejection fraction

It can be applied to either the right ventricle which ejects via the pulmonary valve into the pulmonary circulation or the left ventricle which ejects via the aortic valve into the systemic circulation .

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how is the ejection fraction measured

Ejection fraction

Imaging of the physiology of the mammalian heart is the art that allows meaningful mathematical expression defining EF.

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how is the ejection fraction measured

Ejection fraction

Noninvasive cardiac imaging has become a worldwide utility enabling study of cardiac performance reproducibly and inexpensively.

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how is the ejection fraction measured

Ejection fraction

Simplified, Ejection fraction is a mathematical product allowed by cardiac imaging.

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how is the ejection fraction measured

Ejection fraction

As a mathematical term, Ejection Fraction is an extension of the work of Adolph Fick in cardiac output .

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how is the ejection fraction measured

Ejection fraction

Dedicated technology such as Echocardiography , Computed Tomography , Magnetic Resonance Imaging and MUGA scanning have definitively allowed clinically relevant mathematics regarding Ischemia , Congenital Heart Disease and Heart Failure .

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Q601

how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?

California State Route 14

State Route 14 (SR 14) is a north–south state highway in the U.S. state of California , largely in the Mojave Desert .

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Q601

how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?

California State Route 14

The southern portion of the highway is signed as the Antelope Valley Freeway.

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Q601

how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?

California State Route 14

The route connects Interstate 5 , or Golden State Freeway , near Santa Clarita and with U.S. Route 395 near Inyokern .

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how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?

California State Route 14

Legislatively, the route extends south of I-5 to State Route 1 in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles , however the portion south of the junction with I-5 has not been constructed.

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how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?

California State Route 14

The southern part of the constructed route is a busy commuter freeway serving and connecting the communities of Santa Clarita , Palmdale and Lancaster with the rest of the Greater Los Angeles area.

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how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?

California State Route 14

The northern portion, from Vincent (south of Palmdale) to Route 395, is legislatively named the Aerospace Highway, as the highway serves Edwards Air Force Base , once one of the primary landing strips for NASA 's Space Shuttle .

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Q601

how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?

California State Route 14

This section is rural, following the line between the hot Mojave desert and the forming Sierra Nevada mountain range.

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Q601

how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?

California State Route 14

Most of Route 14 is loosely paralleled by a main line of the Southern Pacific Railroad , used for the Antelope Valley Line of the Metrolink commuter rail system as well as a connection between Los Angeles and the California Central Valley via Tehachapi Pass .

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Q601

how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?

California State Route 14

Linked with US 395, this road connects Los Angeles with such places as Mammoth Mountain , Mono Lake , Yosemite National Park and Reno, Nevada .

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Q601

how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?

California State Route 14

Route 14 was part of U.S. Route 6 prior to truncation in 1964, when U.S. 6 was a coast-to-coast route from Long Beach to Provincetown, Massachusetts .

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Q601

how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?

California State Route 14

The non-freeway segment of SR 14 from Silver Queen Road north of Rosamond to Mojave is known as Sierra Highway , as is the old routing between Interstate 5 and Silver Queen Road where SR 14 has been moved to a newer freeway alignment.

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Q601

how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?

California State Route 14

Portions of Route 14 remain signed with names associated with US 6, including Midland Trail , Theodore Roosevelt Highway and Grand Army of the Republic Highway .

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Q601

how is traffic from palmdale to santa clarita?

California State Route 14

This route is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System .

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