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what are the academic social sciences | 1 Branch of science â systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Major category of academic disciplines â an academic discipline is focused study in one academic field or profession. | This article is about the science studying social groups. For the integrated field of study intended to promote civic competence, see Social studies. Social science is a major category of academic disciplines, concerned with society and the relationships among individuals within a society. It in turn has many branches, each of which is considered a social science. | eng_Latn | 104,346 |
what's the meaning of science? | Science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge. This system uses observation and experimentation to describe and explain natural phenomena. The term science also refers to the organized body of knowledge people have gained using that system. Less formally, the word science often describes any systematic field of study or the knowledge gained from it. The Science Store - Find fun and educational toys and gifts for kids, teens and adults. | science noun. ⺠[U] the careful âstudy of the âstructure and âbehaviour of the âworld, especially by doing experiments: pure/âapplied science Space âtravel is one of the wonders of modern science. Advances in science and âtechnology are âopening the way for new âtreatments. a science teacher/degree. | eng_Latn | 104,347 |
what are the scientific concepts in primary school | This study of first and second graders looked at teacher-led read-alouds as a way to introduce science concepts. Results suggest that multiple exposures to a related concept across different stories gave students more time to build a mental representation of important ideas. | In your own words, describe the difference between a primary scientific source and a secondary scientific source. Secondary scientific literature is generally contained in works such as books, chapters or review articles. Primary scientific papers may be difficult to read if the general subject is not well understood. Reading secondary resources first may help to place the research in context. | eng_Latn | 104,349 |
what is the basic concept behind critical geopolitics | The basic concept behind critical geopolitics is that intellectuals of statecraft construct ideas about places, these ideas have influence and reinforce their political behaviors and policy choices, and these ideas affect how we, the people, process our own notions of places and politics. | Critical pedagogy. Critical pedagogy is a philosophy of education and social movement that has developed and applied concepts from critical theory and related traditions to the field of education and the study of culture. Advocates of critical pedagogy view teaching as an inherently political act, reject the neutrality of knowledge, and insist that issues of social justice and democracy itself are not distinct from acts of teaching and learning. The goal of critical pedagogy is emancipation from oppression through | eng_Latn | 104,351 |
How can the politics be study? | How can politics be studied? | What is quantitative political science? | eng_Latn | 104,357 |
The Brazilian investment in science and technology. | Pursuing efficiency: international visibility of the scientific production of Brazilian graduate programs in child and adolescent health from 1998 through 2003 | A critique of knowledge-based economies: a case study of Singapore education stakeholders | eng_Latn | 104,409 |
The author notes that raising the school-leaving age and increasing the amount of spending per pupil have been extremely important public school reforms. However, he says, sizable improvements in school quality will only be evident when these two reforms are complemented by higher standards--and when students' abilities to meet these standards are tested. | Analyzes the distribution of worker earnings across workers and over the working age as consequences of differential investments in human capital. The study also develops the human capital earnings function, an econometric tool for assessing rates of return and other investment parameters. | The paper examines major non-policy and policy factors that account for the varying patterns of change of output and incomes in Russia's regions. It is found that initial conditions (resource advantages) and institutional capacity has had considerable impact on performance, but there is no evidence that economic reforms has led to better output and investment dynamics. In contrast, for interpreting regional differences in per capita income change, reform progress (controlling for federal-regional financial transfers) is an important explanatory variable. Thus, the major impact of reforms has not been to boost output and investment, but to redirect incomes into pro-reform regions. | eng_Latn | 104,414 |
The Fairy Tales in Building Children Values | Abstract: The present study aims to discuss the Construction of the Values of the Child from the fairy tales as didactic methodology in the classroom. Literature bridges knowledge and the human psyche. Fairy tales, in a psychoanalytic view, seek interpretation as a very important resource for the mental life of children. The results led to believe that one can consider the elements of myth, fantasy, and the unusual as developers of the human personality, for it is through the symbology that the person represents and expresses his thoughts and actions. It was concluded that, more and more, educators should use children's stories and fairy tales in their classes, enriching the possibilities of child associations with their daily reality. Keywords: Fairy tales; Construction of Human Values; Child education. | The first part of this article discusses the character of religious education before the military dictatorship (1967‐74). This is contrasted with developments since 1981 when the socialist government came into office. During the former period there was a strong emphasis on the differences between the spiritual and the material. There was little treatment of social and personal issues and scant regard was paid to other religions, Islam being particularly badly treated. In more recent syllabuses and textbooks the involvement of the Church in social and political issues is to be studied, and world religions are treated in a more detailed and objective manner. This trend towards greater realism and relevance is, however, not yet making much impact on the primary schools. | eng_Latn | 104,425 |
Privatization of Rights in the Nineties: The Role Of Political Municipal Education | The goal of this short essay is to study the reforms and political role of the Brazilian process of educational municipalization as well as to analyze some of the changes developed in the space of civil society. To do so, this study analyzes the main documents which oriented and were produced for the reform. | National teams of students who participated in 2012 Erasmus Intensive Program ’Library, Information and Cultural Management – Academic Summer School’ were asked to do researches on public libraries on Facebook in their countries. In the paper some of the results are presented and discussed. | eng_Latn | 104,433 |
Theoretical Reflections on Platforms of Colleges to Carry Forward the Popularization of Marxist Philosophy | The platforms of colleges have always been an important and basic way to carry forward the popularization of Marxist philosophy in China.This article analysis briefly on the precondition,the value contradiction,and the value support that is needed of the Popularization of Marxist philosophy at the viewpoint of educational value. | Abstract The results of the Tennessee study and the recent Brookings consensus statement present a moment for the field to reflect collectively on the preschool evidence base writ large and on what should come next. In this brief commentary, I review the broader preschool literature and offer seven specific takeaways regarding what we know about public preschool programs and about how to improve them. I argue that making progress requires a pivot in the field to specifically how to create new high-quality programs and improve existing ones. I offer specific directions for policy, practice, and research aimed at guiding this pivot. | eng_Latn | 104,435 |
The building of energy security of foreign countries’legal systems and its enlightenment to China | Many countries and districts such as USA,Japan and The European Union which have big energy consumption have built up their own perfect energy security legal systems at present.These energy security legal systems are embodied in energy basic laws and energy special laws.The contents are also plentiful,including energy reservation,energy saving and energy exploitation.All of these are constructive to China that is also big energy consumption country. | The educational service trade is a great concern for competition after WTO entry. Comparing with thepractice of educational service, however, the study and decision--making of it are lagging behind. In order to bring theChinese educational potential into full play, we are urged to further reform and development of higher education, and ex-ploitation of laws and features of it as well. | eng_Latn | 104,444 |
New Approaches to the Education and the Management of International Students in China | With the development of China's economy and the rise of China's international status,the number of the international students to China is on the rise annually.How to intensify and improve the education and the management of the international students and to construct an educational and managerial model has become the top priority.This paper makes a tentative study on the construction of such kind of model. | Sick-school syndrome has gone from an oddity to a recurring problem in U.S. schools. With many parts of the nation on the brink of a new-school and school-renovation building blitz, the author of this article describes how to prevent and respond to IAQ problems in schools by involving administrators, buildings and grounds personnel, engineers, and teachers. | eng_Latn | 104,446 |
On Building the Official Ethics in China——Starting from "The Watergate" | The building of the official ethics in China has acquired great achievement in the turning period of the development of the society.But,at the same time,there are some problems in the field.The experiences in the administrative ethics which have been acquired by the developed countries are beneficial to the work of building the official ethics in China.Because the official ethics is a system made up by the legislative,the education,and the(supervision),we should maintain the directive thought at first,and then,strengthen the work of legislative in moral,the education of moral,and perfect the supervision system which contains the Party's supervision,the legislative(supervision),the media supervision and the people's supervision. | The educational service trade is a great concern for competition after WTO entry. Comparing with thepractice of educational service, however, the study and decision--making of it are lagging behind. In order to bring theChinese educational potential into full play, we are urged to further reform and development of higher education, and ex-ploitation of laws and features of it as well. | yue_Hant | 104,449 |
The Lottery and Education: Robbing Peter to Pay Paul? | Despite the promises of some states to use lottery revenues to fund education, they may be guilty of robbing Peter to pay Paul. This study examines the question of revenue fungibility in the case of state lotteries. Using time-series analysis, the research suggests that education is not a big winner in state lotteries. Two different patterns of fungibility emerge from the analysis that are suggestive of underlying budgetary politics. | Reddin, from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, presented this article as a paper at the Sixth World Congress on Reading, Singapore, August 1976. ■ Based on research done during the sixties by the International Association for the Evaluation of Education Achievement, Benjamin S. Bloom (1974) has stated, "Learning in the schools is, now and for the foreseeable future, likely to be based on verbal instruction to groups using textbooks and other instructional | eng_Latn | 104,453 |
Educational Achievements as a Determinant of an Individual’s Formal Power | The scope of this study is to define how educational achievements of individuals in Slovenia define their “formal power” in the organizations where they work. The study is based on theoretical definitions of the concepts of formal power and education. A total of 509 people from Slovenia over 30 years of age participated in the study. We recognized a certain influence of educational achievement on the formal position in the organizational hierarchy. The main predictor of an individual’s formal power in an organization is the individual’s last achieved level of formal education. The average grade for the final achieved level of formal education and the initiative regarding the search for additional education has much less of an impact on power than the highest level of education obtained. One of the most important practical implications is that education is one of the basic predispositions to having formal power but not necessarily always and not in every case. | This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment - what are the long run effects of a student\'s ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third grade academic rank, conditional on ability and classroom effects, have higher subsequent test scores, are more likely to take AP classes, graduate high school, enroll in college, and ultimately have higher earnings 19 years later. Given these findings, the paper concludes by exploring the tradeoff between higher quality schools and higher rank. | eng_Latn | 104,458 |
[Representation of disease among postgraduates]. | This study analyses the concepts of disease in a different historical moment and taking LAPLANTINE's anthropological background, analyses, in a postgraduate team, their disease representation as own experience and as professional experience, in four ethnological pairs proposed by the author. | Human capital as one determinant of a long term economic growth is often identifi ed with school education. In this paper, the dependency of the total percentage of population in all types of education on the GDP, in all EU15 countries as well as EU25 is demonstrated. The paper also focuses on the spatial aspect of undergraduate education on the level of states as well as NUTS2 as a whole; and also on the university education in technical fi elds, mathematics, science and technologies that can eliminate overall economic lagging of Europe. | eng_Latn | 104,463 |
Neglected Potential in the Secondary School: implications for the National Curriculum | Summary This study is an account of a curriculum innovation in an inner city school, which resulted in a revival of motivation and a successful educational experience for a group of 4th and 5th year children who had been written off as failures. It's lunacy, but it works. (A teacher) | After the digitalization of TV broadcasting,the next technology barrier is the intellectualization.Taking the CAN application in TV broadcasting for example,after the careful analysis,a conclusion is got that FCS is the main bottleneck for the intellectualization of TV broadcasting system. | eng_Latn | 104,465 |
Local Governments and System Change. The Case of a Regional Centre | The present study describes the Hungarian local government system replacing a centralised public administrative structure maintained through the forty years of the socialist era, taking into account the problems of public administration and also local politics through an empirical research which was mainly held in a large town. The author’s approach takes public administrative and legal aspects into consideration, besides providing an analysis of the circumstances in a broader sense as well. The empirical survey about the large town was carried out within the framework of a research financed by the Hungarian Institute of Public Administration. | v List if Tables xi Chapter I: Introduction 1 Purpose 2 Context 4 Framework 6 Limitations 7 Research Questions 8 Definition of Terms 8 Program Evaluation 9 Significance 10 Summary 10 Chapter II: Literature Review 12 Small Schools 12 Large Urban High Schools 16 SLCs and Teachers 17 Change Theory Driving Small School Structural Reform 18 Personalization 20 Advisory Programs 21 History of Advisory Programs 23 Advisory Purpose 26 | eng_Latn | 104,476 |
Why do teachers study sociology of education? | What is the sociology of education? Why is its role in teacher education important? | Why do the justices of the Supreme Court serve a life term? | eng_Latn | 104,552 |
Public School Students Improve Scores | NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports that a study released today by the RAND Corporation concludes that public school students have greatly improved their academic test scores since 1990. The study shows that one major reason for the gains is smaller class sizes. | It's hard to know how schools of choice — charter or private — are performing. Researchers say that's precisely because they are schools of choice. But here's what we do know. | eng_Latn | 104,564 |
Have the policies been criticized | The K-12 and higher education reform programs of the Gates Foundation have been criticized by some education professionals, parents, and researchers because they have driven the conversation on education reform to such an extent that they may marginalize researchers who do not support Gates' predetermined policy preferences. Several Gates-backed policies such as small schools, charter schools, and increasing class sizes have been expensive and disruptive, but some studies indicate they have not improved educational outcomes and may have caused harm. Peer reviewed scientific studies at Stanford find that Charter Schools do not systematically improve student performance | Political science is a late arrival in terms of social sciences[citation needed]. However, the discipline has a clear set of antecedents such as moral philosophy, political philosophy, political economy, history, and other fields concerned with normative determinations of what ought to be and with deducing the characteristics and functions of the ideal form of government. The roots of politics are in prehistory. In each historic period and in almost every geographic area, we can find someone studying politics and increasing political understanding. | eng_Latn | 104,598 |
What does each article heading usually encompass? | After the preamble comes numbered articles, which contain the substance of the parties' actual agreement. Each article heading usually encompasses a paragraph. A long treaty may further group articles under chapter headings. | According to a study done by Helmut Fend (who had always been a fierce proponent of comprehensive schools) revealed that comprehensive schools do not help working class students. He compared alumni of the tripartite system to alumni of comprehensive schools. While working class alumni of comprehensive schools were awarded better school diplomas at age 35, they held similar occupational positions as working class alumni of the tripartite system and were as unlikely to graduate from college. | eng_Latn | 104,599 |
What are health and nutrition shown to have a link to in terms of education? | Some organizations have begun working with teachers, policymakers, and managed foodservice contractors to mandate improved nutritional content and increased nutritional resources in school cafeterias from primary to university level institutions. Health and nutrition have been proven to have close links with overall educational success. Currently, less than 10% of American college students report that they eat the recommended five servings of fruit and vegetables daily. Better nutrition has been shown to have an impact on both cognitive and spatial memory performance; a study showed those with higher blood sugar levels performed better on certain memory tests. In another study, those who consumed yogurt performed better on thinking tasks when compared to those that consumed caffeine-free diet soda or confections. Nutritional deficiencies have been shown to have a negative effect on learning behavior in mice as far back as 1951. | The introduction of the community school model in the 1970s controversially removed the denominational basis of the schools, but religious interests were invited to be represented on the Boards of Management. Community schools are divided into two models, the community school vested in the Minister for Education and the community college vested in the local Education and Training Board. Community colleges tended to be amalgamations of unviable local schools under the umbrella of a new community school model, but community schools have tended to be entirely new foundations. | eng_Latn | 104,601 |
at the school vs in the school Is there any difference in meaning between "study/teach at this school" and "study/teach in this school"? Is one of them more usual? Example: I have studied/taught at this school for ten years. I have studied/taught in this school for ten years. I know the difference between "at school" and "in school" (without a demonstrative adjective) and that is outside the scope of the question. | Preposition confusion - Do you learn somthing 'at' school OR 'in' school? I know that we use the preposition at to describe a place. I learned French at school is one of the examples I can think of. I came across two examples that use the preposition 'in' with 'schools' in the context of 'learning'. Example #1 from the website: Eleven things that you will never learn in school. Example #2 from Do you think the skills you learn in school will help you get the job you want? The use that I had in my mind is here on Should Parents Control What Kids Learn at School? | What is the difference between a telephoto lens and a zoom lens? Looking at the , I notice a distinction between telephoto lens and zoom lens. What is the difference between the two? Why would I want one over the other? I but remain confused about this distinction. Please talk to me like I'm stupid. :) I am hoping for a completely lay explanation. In particular, I'd like to understand in what situations I'd use a telephoto lens, and in what (other) situations I'd use a zoom lens. | eng_Latn | 104,607 |
what is the definition of education | : the action or process of teaching someone especially in a school, college, or university. : the knowledge, skill, and understanding that you get from attending a school, college, or university. : a field of study that deals with the methods and problems of teaching. | Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. Educational methods include storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, and directed research. Education frequently takes place under the guidance of educators, but learners may also educate themselves. Education can take place in formal or informal settings and any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts may be considered educational. Th | eng_Latn | 104,682 |
what is iron discipline | The discipline followed by the researchers in their inquiry is the set of rules of proof and the methods of evidence gathering which they must follow in order to present warranted knowledge claims about the educational process. At least three broad rules of proof are used.o there is little wonder in the fact that the discourse about education is confusing and that there are seemingly no differences among field, study, discipline and education. Confusion in discourse about the educational process can be dispelled if you sort out the four critical categories as follows. | The iron curtain method. The iron curtain method is a technique for determining whether a financial misstatement is material. Under this method, the cumulative effect of a misstatement in the balance sheet is considered, rather than just the impact of the misstatement in the current period. This tends to result in a larger proportion of misstatements being considered material, which calls for a financial statement correction. | eng_Latn | 104,694 |
sociology education market definition | The sociology of education is the study of how public institutions and individual experiences affect education and its outcomes.It is mostly concerned with the public schooling systems of modern industrial societies, including the expansion of higher, further, adult, and continuing education.t is also perceived as one of the best means of achieving greater social equality. Many would say that the purpose of education should be to develop every individual to their full potential, and give them a chance to achieve as much in life as their natural abilities allow (meritocracy). | uk â /ËsÉÊ.siËÉl.É.dÊi/ us â /ËsoÊ.siËÉË.lÉ.dÊi/. ⺠the study of the relationships between people living in groups, especially in industrial societies: She has a degree in sociology and politics. He specializes in the sociology of education/law/the family. | eng_Latn | 104,701 |
when did universal pre k start | The term universal pre-K means that pre-K programs are available to any child in a given state, regardless of family income, childrenâs abilities, or other factors.o, but close to 70% of state-funded pre-K programs are administered by public school systems (Gilliam 2005). The rest are delivered through community agencies including Head Start, grantees and private providers. | Supporters of universal pre-K also say the benefits to the low-income children increase when they are in classes with middle-class kids. Poor kids actually learn more if they're in programs with kids who aren't poor, Barnett said. Kids do learn from each other, not just from the teacher.. A study by Hirokazu Yoshikawa, a researcher at New York University, found that benefits to middle-class children outweighed the costs of providing the service. | eng_Latn | 104,703 |
what is sociology? | SOCIOLOGY is: 1 the study of society. 2 a social science involving the study of the social lives of people, groups, and societies. 3 the study of our behavior as social beings, covering everything from the analysis of short contacts between anonymous individuals on the street to the study of global social processes. | Sociology of Education (PDE 109) 54 ACTIVITY 1 1. Discuss the importance of sociology to education. 2. Explain what education is and show its relationship to sociology. 3. Explain what sociology of education is and distinguish it from educational sociology. | eng_Latn | 104,705 |
requirements for phd in education | PhD in Educational Studies. The PhD in Educational Studies is a research-oriented doctoral program for students interested in any of the study areas offered in the department. Students are required to take two first-year doctoral seminars and a second-year doctoral seminar. | Most UK universities require PhD students to start their studies by registering for the degree of MPhil. The student is usually required to produce a report at the end of the first year and may undertake a more informal internal examination of this material as part of their upgrade process. | eng_Latn | 104,777 |
define curriculum integration | In keeping with this thematic definition, Shoemaker defines an. integrated curriculum as. ...education that is organized in such a way that it cuts across subject-. matter lines, bringing together various aspects of the curriculum into. meaningful association to focus upon broad areas of study. | A curriculum vitae (English pronunciation: /kÉËrɪkjᵿlÉm ËviËtaɪ/, /ËwiËtaɪ/, or /ËvaɪtiË/) (CV or vita) is a written overview of a person's experience and other qualifications for a job opportunity. | eng_Latn | 104,781 |
Capitalization of school subjects | Capitalize fields of study? | There are no interfaces on which a capture can be done | eng_Latn | 104,785 |
Performance Goal Achievement in Fiscal Federalism: The Influence of State Partisan Environments and Regulatory Regimes | With tight budgets and hyper-partisan interactions within and between the states and federal government, attention is being paid to the implementation of federal programs. This is particularly important because, as the recently implemented American Recovery and Reinvestment Act suggests, state administrators are often the implementers of federal policy. This study integrates the fiscal federalism literature with that on implementation and bureaucratic response to examine the effect that within-state factors have on the degree of performance goal achievement in federally funded, state implemented programs. The findings suggest that, when implementing federal programs, state administrators face conflicting political incentive structures and policy-specific capacity and capability deficits that influence their motivation and ability to achieve performance goals. | This report is a reflection about the living process of migrating families established in the city periphery, their relation with their physical space as well as their health. Based on Foucault, the author searches to analyze what power and health concepts permeates the relationship of government agencies appeals to a charitable ethic, making use of disciplinary power. In order to construct a true citizenship it is necessary to think beyond a charitable or disciplinary ethic, opening space to the real dialogue between the parties... | eng_Latn | 104,810 |
Northern Illinois trustees again vote to freeze tuition - WREX.com - Rockford’s News Leader | Northern Illinois University trustees have again voted to freeze tuition and lower fees for the upcoming 2018-2019 school year.
The (DeKalb) Daily-Chronicle reports that the school's Board of Trustees voted last week. Tuition at the school has been the same since the 2015-2016 school year. Board Chairman Wheeler Coleman says the school is "committed to keeping NIU affordable."
Tuition will be about $350 a credit hour for a student's first 11 hours. Students who have more than 12 credit hours will have tuition capped at about $5,330 for the semester, or about the cost of 15 credit hours. The rate will apply to students enrolling in the 2018-2019 school year and remain consistent for nine consecutive semesters.
Trustees also approved a half-percent decrease in undergraduate fees. | Related Coverage GOP files new elections complaint against Mattiello
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island legislators are proposing to make the state House of Representatives more democratic by taking some power away from its leadership.
The House is expected to vote on rules legislation Wednesday.
Democratic Rep. Jared Nunes of Coventry says he wants to require a vote before removing a legislator from a committee. It’s a response to last year’s debate over truck tolling legislation, when Democratic House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello pulled people from committee seats after they voted against tolls.
Nunes also wants to limit how late at night lawmakers can debate, and stop bills from being indefinitely held for further study without allowing them to get a vote.
But Democrats who control the rules committee didn’t include his proposed reforms, which could lead to debate Wednesday on the House floor. | yue_Hant | 104,954 |
Bills sign offensive linemen Bodine, Newhouse | The Buffalo Bills bolstered their offensive line by signing center Russell Bodine to a two-year contract and offensive tackle Marshall Newhouse to a one-year deal, the NFL team announced Monday.
Bodine, 25, started all 64 games in his four seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals after being drafted in the fourth round in 2014 out of North Carolina. Only Travis Frederick (80 games) of the Cowboys has a longer active streak of starts at center.
Bodine will compete with Ryan Groy for the starting spot following the retirement of Eric Wood.
Newhouse, 29, was released by the Oakland Raiders last week after starting 14 games last fall. He has started 70 games for four teams, primarily at right tackle.
He broke into the league in 2010 with the Green Bay Packers as a fifth-round selection out of Texas Christian.
-- Field Level Media | Related Coverage GOP files new elections complaint against Mattiello
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island legislators are proposing to make the state House of Representatives more democratic by taking some power away from its leadership.
The House is expected to vote on rules legislation Wednesday.
Democratic Rep. Jared Nunes of Coventry says he wants to require a vote before removing a legislator from a committee. It’s a response to last year’s debate over truck tolling legislation, when Democratic House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello pulled people from committee seats after they voted against tolls.
Nunes also wants to limit how late at night lawmakers can debate, and stop bills from being indefinitely held for further study without allowing them to get a vote.
But Democrats who control the rules committee didn’t include his proposed reforms, which could lead to debate Wednesday on the House floor. | eng_Latn | 105,019 |
Sen. Kaine Among U.S. Senators to Visit Puerto Rico to Survey Da | WASHINGTON (AP) - A bipartisan group of five senators will travel to Puerto Rico Saturday to survey damage from Hurricane Maria and monitor relief efforts.
The hurricane has killed at least 34 people and most residents are still without electricity.
Democratic lawmakers participating in the trip are Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Tim Kaine of Virginia and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut.
Republican Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Cory Gardner of Colorado will also make the trip. The Department of Homeland Security is coordinating the visit.
The government is spending almost $200 million a day for emergency hurricane response. Lawmakers in the coming weeks will likely consider a $29 billion disaster aid package to pay for recovery efforts and federal flood insurance claims.
Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. | Related Coverage GOP files new elections complaint against Mattiello
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island legislators are proposing to make the state House of Representatives more democratic by taking some power away from its leadership.
The House is expected to vote on rules legislation Wednesday.
Democratic Rep. Jared Nunes of Coventry says he wants to require a vote before removing a legislator from a committee. It’s a response to last year’s debate over truck tolling legislation, when Democratic House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello pulled people from committee seats after they voted against tolls.
Nunes also wants to limit how late at night lawmakers can debate, and stop bills from being indefinitely held for further study without allowing them to get a vote.
But Democrats who control the rules committee didn’t include his proposed reforms, which could lead to debate Wednesday on the House floor. | eng_Latn | 105,026 |
Missouri House committee tries to find source of mysterious $100 - KCTV5 News | The committee has stopped working for the day, but it wasn’t a boring Thursday in Jefferson City and it all came down to where a mysterious $100,000 came from. | Related Coverage GOP files new elections complaint against Mattiello
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island legislators are proposing to make the state House of Representatives more democratic by taking some power away from its leadership.
The House is expected to vote on rules legislation Wednesday.
Democratic Rep. Jared Nunes of Coventry says he wants to require a vote before removing a legislator from a committee. It’s a response to last year’s debate over truck tolling legislation, when Democratic House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello pulled people from committee seats after they voted against tolls.
Nunes also wants to limit how late at night lawmakers can debate, and stop bills from being indefinitely held for further study without allowing them to get a vote.
But Democrats who control the rules committee didn’t include his proposed reforms, which could lead to debate Wednesday on the House floor. | eng_Latn | 105,032 |
Obama's Right-Hand Man Wins Chicago Mayoral Race | Former Congressman and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel is the next mayor of Chicago. Emmanuel beat five other mayoral candidates to win yesterday's election with just more than 55 percent of the vote. He succeeds longtime Mayor Richard M. Daley. The drama-filled race was the first in 22 years that did not include a member of the Daley family dynasty. Host Michel Martin speaks with Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell about the Emanuel's victory. | Thousands of mourners are gathered Friday to hear President Barack Obama pay tribute to the pastor and eight parishioners of the Emanuel AME Church today. The nine were slain at the church during a Bible study session last week in what authorities are investigating as a racially-motivated attack. Today’s service for the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, who was also a state senator, promised to be another wrenching but cathartic occasion for the community to say goodbye to the victims. Hansi Lo Wang of NPR joins Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson from Charleston with details. Guest
Hansi Lo Wang, reporter for NPR’s Code Switch team. He tweets @hansilowang. | kor_Hang | 105,425 |
A comparative study of scalable video coding schemes utilizing wavelet technology | Wavelet Coding of Volumetric Medical Datasets | Evidence against a role for platelet-derived molecules in liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy in humans | eng_Latn | 105,496 |
Research on the processing technology of low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle images | The UAV system acts as one of the infrastructure of earth observation, with its mobility, high speed, flexibility, economy and other remarkable technical advantages, has been widely used in various fields of the national economic construction, such as agricultural monitoring, resource development, disaster emergency treatment. Taking an actual engineering as a case study in this paper, the method and the skill of making digital orthophoto map was stated by using the UASMaster, the professional UAV data processing software, based on the eBee unmanned aerial vehicle. Finally, the precision of the DOM was analyzed in detail through two methods, overlapping the DOM with the existing DLG of the region and contrasting the points of the existing DLG of 1:1000 scale with the corresponding checkpoints of the stereomodel. | Now days there are tremendous amount of videos available on internet. Entertainment video, news video, sports video are accessed by users to fulfill their different needs. Our daily routine systems are also producing huge amount of videos for example surveillance system, shopping malls, home videos etc. These videos need to be accessed for different purposes. Current research topics on video includes video abstraction or summarization, video classification, video annotation, content based video retrieval. In nearly all these application one needs to identify shots in video which will correctly and briefly indicate the contents of video. This paper compares some of the popular shot boundary detection techniques. The merits and demerits of each of the techniques are also discussed. Some experiment done are also discussed. | eng_Latn | 105,537 |
Investigation to the Impact of “Business tax changed into VAT”on Tax-related Issues of Horizontal Scientific Research in Colleges and Universities | On May 24th,2013,the Ministry of Finance and State Administration of Taxation issued an official document—Taxation [2013] No. 37 " Notice of Conducting Pilot Tax Policies in Transportation and Some Modern Services Industries by Changing Business Tax into VAT Nationwide". It stated that pilot reform of "business tax changed into VAT"would be carried out nationwide in transportation and some modern services industries from August 1st,2013. As a result,reform of "business tax changed into VAT"finally spread throughout the country after pilot study. Since business tax is changed into VAT,tax matters of horizontal scientific research in colleges and universities have undergone considerable changes. Based on the analysis of the effects of two types of taxpayers( general taxpayers and small-scale taxpayers) on scientific research taxation in colleges and universities,this paper provides proposals for reasonable tax avoidance of horizontal scientific research. | Now days there are tremendous amount of videos available on internet. Entertainment video, news video, sports video are accessed by users to fulfill their different needs. Our daily routine systems are also producing huge amount of videos for example surveillance system, shopping malls, home videos etc. These videos need to be accessed for different purposes. Current research topics on video includes video abstraction or summarization, video classification, video annotation, content based video retrieval. In nearly all these application one needs to identify shots in video which will correctly and briefly indicate the contents of video. This paper compares some of the popular shot boundary detection techniques. The merits and demerits of each of the techniques are also discussed. Some experiment done are also discussed. | eng_Latn | 105,546 |
Temporal information assisted video quality metric for multimedia | This paper proposed a new objective video quality metric for multimedia videos based on a different perspective. We extended one existing image quality assessment metric to a video quality metric by considering temporal information and converted it into some compensation factor to correct the video quality score obtained in the spatial domain. After some experiments, we find out this proposed quality assessment metric does work well in the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE) Video Quality Database and is also competitive with the other existing state-of-the-art video quality assessment methods. | ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to investigate the origin of random image artifacts in stimulated echo acquisition mode diffusion tensor imaging (STEAM-DTI), assess the role of averaging, develop an automated artifact postprocessing correction method using weighted mean of signal intensities (WM | eng_Latn | 105,550 |
Sharpening the focus: methodological issues in analysing on-line conferences | Abstract As on-line discussion becomes an increasingly important and significant aspect of teachers' professional education, most particularly as part of distance learning environments, there is a need to understand and develop effective analytic techniques that provide insights into the processes at work within these systems. The computer conferencing environment at the centre of this study is a complex, unstructured discussion forum, of a type increasingly found as a component of continuing professional development courses. In these situations the evidence of knowledge building processes is a key concern. This study concentrates on a close examination of some existing analytic tools and considers their contribution to identifying the processes at work within these on-line environments, as teachers discuss aspects of education. | Now days there are tremendous amount of videos available on internet. Entertainment video, news video, sports video are accessed by users to fulfill their different needs. Our daily routine systems are also producing huge amount of videos for example surveillance system, shopping malls, home videos etc. These videos need to be accessed for different purposes. Current research topics on video includes video abstraction or summarization, video classification, video annotation, content based video retrieval. In nearly all these application one needs to identify shots in video which will correctly and briefly indicate the contents of video. This paper compares some of the popular shot boundary detection techniques. The merits and demerits of each of the techniques are also discussed. Some experiment done are also discussed. | eng_Latn | 105,568 |
Analysis of Marketing Channels and Price Effect to Rice Marketing Efficiency in Aceh, Indonesia | The objective of this study is to empirically explore the influence of marketing channels and price to rice marketing efficiency in Aceh Province, Indonesia. Six hundreds farmers' households from six districts of rice production base in Aceh were selected for the samples and analysed using the structural equation modelling (SEM). This study has been successfully documented how inefficient was the marketing of rice in Aceh because the farmers still tended to choose higher level of marketing channel with lower marketing performance. The price of rice was unstable, especially during the harvest and famine seasons, despite the government having set up a price policy. This study also found that marketing channels had positive and significant relationship with the rice marketing efficiency. | Documentary Video: "Kembara Warisan - Beca Berhias Melaka" is a ::: product to bring back the good memories of trishaw in Malaysia especially in ::: Malacca. Because today, trishaw is rise forgotten especially by the youth and this ::: product is produce on the right time to make youth know, understand, and remember ::: about the hire of the trishaw. The development process that is applied to develop this ::: project is Multimedia Development Process. This project carried out in research on ::: producing documentary video by combining the element of audio and video with the ::: 3D animation. This research will find how effective documentary video when ::: combining those three multimedia elements. 20 despondences were taken for alpha ::: and beta testing. Interviews are done to get the exact information. | eng_Latn | 105,572 |
NUMERICAL STUDY OF STREAM REFORMER AND PRECONVERTER FOR MCFC | In this paper, various operating parameters of stream reforming process from methane in stream reformer and preconverter for MCFC is studied by numerical method. Commercial code is used to simulated the porous catalyst with user subroutine to model three dominant chemical reactions which are Stream Reforming(SR), Water-Gas Shift(WGS), and Direct Stram Reforming(DSR). The hydrogen production is tested with different wall temperature and different reactor shapes. The calculated results of the concentration of hydrogen in stream reformer are very well consistent with experimental results. This numerical study gives the design reactor wall temperature condition and size of reactor to satisfy the required fuel conversion. | In this paper, we pose a new problem of video enhancement transcoding, which converts the compressed dark video into compressed normal-lighting one. Distinct statistics of dark and normal videos result in quite different coding modes, which thus enforces latent constraints on mode conversion during transcoding. Following this idea, we propose a fast mode decision algorithm to speed up computation while maintaining rate-distortion (RD) performance. Experimental results show that our method saves the computational complexity nearly 70%, without noticeable RD loss in comparison with the cascaded decoder-encoder approach. | yue_Hant | 105,609 |
ROBUST IMAGE TRANSMISSION USING SPIHT AND TURBOCODES | This work describes a method for providing robustness to errors from a binary symmetric channel for the SPIHT image compression. The source rate and channel rate are jointly optimized by a stream of fixed-size channel packets. Punctured turbo codes are used for the channel coding, providing stronger error protection than previously available codes. We use a subset of the puncturing patterns that are well chosen and that leads to the best source rate. The rate allocation scheme presented obtains all necessary information from the SPIHT encoder, and does not require image decompression. | The agent-oriented software engineering methodology Troposoffers a structured development process and supporting tools fordeveloping complex, distributed systems. ::: ::: The objective of this paper is twofold: first, to illustrate the use ofTropos to develop a Multi-Agent System, performing basic analysis anddesign activities, code generation and testing, with the support of a setof tools; second, to enable the comparison with other, tool-supported,agent-oriented software engineering methodologies through a descriptionof the main steps of these activities and of excerpts of the resultingartefacts, with reference to a common case study, namely, the ConferenceManagement System case study. | yue_Hant | 105,622 |
Method for preparing function verification chip of biomarker | A method for preparing a function verification chip of a biomarker comprises: a. selecting one or more candidate biomarker lists; b. predicting functions of the one or more candidate biomarker lists, and combining the predicted functions to generate a final function list that needs to be verified; and c. generating a biomarker function verification chip, comprising a biomarker for the final function list. The method can rapidly and systematically evaluate a biological function of a specific biomarker, and can rapidly sort and explain high-throughput study results preferentially. | This paper presents the design of a dedicated VLSI architecture for focused region extraction in a video sequence and its implementation on Virtex-5 (ML510) FPGA platform. Edge width based scheme is used for focused region extraction. The proposed architecture is designed to meet the real-time requirements of video surveillance applications. It is capable of robustly extracting the focused regions in a live video stream in real-time for standard PAL size color video. | eng_Latn | 105,635 |
Empirical study of the Bee Colony Optimization (BCO) algorithm | Bee Colony Optimization (BCO) | Towards temporally-coherent video matting | eng_Latn | 105,658 |
FTV (free-viewpoint television) | An experimental comparison of min-cut/max- flow algorithms for energy minimization in vision | How significant is human error as a cause of privacy breaches? An empirical study and a framework for error management | eng_Latn | 105,681 |
Talker-Contingent Simulation of Voice in Silent Reading | An experiment was conducted to assess whether voices of familiar talkers are simulated while silently reading utterances from those talkers. In addition it was tested, whether talker-contingent simulation of voices in silent reading can occur after familiarization by reading utterances in context. After being familiarized with two talkers by watching video sequences alternatively by reading dialogues featuring those talkers, participants were asked to rate ambiguous ironic/non-ironic written utterances ascribed to these talkers. Participants rated the ambiguous utterances talker-contingent, i.e. utterances made by talkers who were ironic in study were rated as ironic even in test. The present study is discussed in terms of situated simulation and corroborates the view that talkers’ voices are simulated while reading written utterances. In addition it is proposed that those simulations even can occur as simulations of earlier simulations. | This paper presents a divide-and-conquer approach to developing visualization software for scientific analysis of high resolution, volume datasets on, distributed memory parallel computers. A direct volume rendering method is discussed and the design of the parallel implementation of the original sequential algorithm is highlighted. For this algorithm, the data, once distributed, remains in place regardless of the viewer's location, and no interprocessor communication is required during scene generation. The software was developed using an early version of the Message Passing Interface (MPI), and the MPI features used in this application are discussed. Finally, test results indicating the performance of our parallel implementation on an nCUBE 2 are presented and analyzed. > | eng_Latn | 105,717 |
Guides: Business Case Studies: Case study research | Welcome to your guide to finding the best resources and exemplars for business case studies. | Now days there are tremendous amount of videos available on internet. Entertainment video, news video, sports video are accessed by users to fulfill their different needs. Our daily routine systems are also producing huge amount of videos for example surveillance system, shopping malls, home videos etc. These videos need to be accessed for different purposes. Current research topics on video includes video abstraction or summarization, video classification, video annotation, content based video retrieval. In nearly all these application one needs to identify shots in video which will correctly and briefly indicate the contents of video. This paper compares some of the popular shot boundary detection techniques. The merits and demerits of each of the techniques are also discussed. Some experiment done are also discussed. | kor_Hang | 105,727 |
Is the Brazilian HCI Community Researching Cultural Issues? An Analysis of 15 years of the Brazilian HCI Conference | This paper presents the results of a in-depth study to investigate if Brazilian HCI (Human Computer Interaction) community is addressing cultural issues. In this paper, the results emerge from a study of fifteen years paper production in Brazilian HCI conference. After this first analysis, this work explored each Brazilian’ researcher curriculum from the previous result, aiming to understand how research field is evolving. | Now days there are tremendous amount of videos available on internet. Entertainment video, news video, sports video are accessed by users to fulfill their different needs. Our daily routine systems are also producing huge amount of videos for example surveillance system, shopping malls, home videos etc. These videos need to be accessed for different purposes. Current research topics on video includes video abstraction or summarization, video classification, video annotation, content based video retrieval. In nearly all these application one needs to identify shots in video which will correctly and briefly indicate the contents of video. This paper compares some of the popular shot boundary detection techniques. The merits and demerits of each of the techniques are also discussed. Some experiment done are also discussed. | eng_Latn | 105,734 |
[Challenges of the grounded theory approach to a novice researcher]. | The grounded theory approach has been used in nursing research since 1970. The latest methodological books describe the research process in details. However, there are many problems involved in the grounded theory approach, which especially need to be considered by a novice researcher. One of these problems is the question of how deeply and widely the researcher should get familiar with the research topic before the empirical study. The problems also include the need to focus the research problem and to choose the sampling method. Data analysis is a multistage process, which demands from the researcher sensitivity and time to work out the findings which emerge from the data. In this paper, the grounded theory approach is described as a process undertaken by the researcher. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the challenges of the grounded theory approach and the problems encountered by a researcher using the method for the first time. | Now days there are tremendous amount of videos available on internet. Entertainment video, news video, sports video are accessed by users to fulfill their different needs. Our daily routine systems are also producing huge amount of videos for example surveillance system, shopping malls, home videos etc. These videos need to be accessed for different purposes. Current research topics on video includes video abstraction or summarization, video classification, video annotation, content based video retrieval. In nearly all these application one needs to identify shots in video which will correctly and briefly indicate the contents of video. This paper compares some of the popular shot boundary detection techniques. The merits and demerits of each of the techniques are also discussed. Some experiment done are also discussed. | eng_Latn | 105,736 |
CAME: cloud-assisted motion estimation for mobile video compression and transmission | Energy consumption in mobile phones: a measurement study and implications for network applications | Revealing Event Saliency in Unconstrained Video Collection | eng_Latn | 105,766 |
A survey on compressed domain video analysis techniques | Fast moving-object detection in H.264/AVC compressed domain for video surveillance | Mobile phone brief intervention applications for risky alcohol use among university students: a randomized controlled study | eng_Latn | 105,773 |
Given a birational projective morphism of quasi-projective varieties f : Z→X . We want to find the ideal sheaf I over X such that the blowing up of X along I corresponds to f . In this paper we approach the problem from two directions, solving two subcases. First we present a method that determines I when f is the composition of blowing ups along known centers, then by another method, we compute I directly from i(Z)⊂ P X n . | We study blowups of affine n-space with center an arbitrary monomial ideal and call monomial ideals that render smooth blowups tame ideals. We give a combinatorial criterion to decide whether the blowup is smooth and apply this criterion to discuss a smoothing procedure proposed by Rosenberg, monomial building sets and permutohedra. | Blunt trauma abdomen rarely leads to gastrointestinal injury in children and isolated gastric rupture is even rarer presentation. We are reporting a case of isolated gastric rupture after fall from height in a three year old male child. | eng_Latn | 105,856 |
The t#-property for intergral domains | We study a condition on intersections of localizations of a domain at maximal t-ideals. This extends and generalizes earlier work of Gilmer (1967), Gilmer-Heinzer (1968), Olberding (1998), and others for Prufer domains. | The purpose of this paper is to discuss the estimation for eigenvalues of TD matrices which was introduced in Section 2. We prove that all the eigenvalues of TD matrices are located in one disk. We shall conclude the paper with a numerical example which will show the effectiveness of our new results. | eng_Latn | 105,857 |
Afterwards , he went to study in the United Kingdom , and received an MA in international relations from the London School of Economics in 1955 . | In 1955 he received a Master of Arts in international relations from the London School of Economics . | In 2009 , he started his master degree program in the Sports Psychology Department at the National Taiwan Sport University , NTSU . | eng_Latn | 107,441 |
Offers for acting roles began to dry up around this time , and she devoted herself to other pursuits including political study ; she received a Bachelor 's degree in political science from City College of New York in 1975 . | Offers for acting roles began to decline around this time , and she devoted herself to other pursuits including political study ; she received a Bachelor 's degree in political science from City College of New York in 1975 . | Mary Creswell earned the first undergraduate degree in June 1919 , a B.S. in Home Economics . | eng_Latn | 107,442 |
MacFarlane went on to study film , video and animation at the Rhode Island School of Design ( RISD ) , where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree . | MacFarlane went to Rhode Island School of Design ( RISD ) , a school in Rhode Island where he studied animation . | Radcliffe gave Radcliffe College diplomas to undergraduates and graduate students for the first 70 or so years of its history . Beginning in 1963 Radcliffe gave joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas to undergraduates . | eng_Latn | 107,444 |
Thus , he attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to practice magic under the guidance of the kindly headmaster Albus Dumbledore and other school professors . | He goes to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to learn magic . | González went back home in 1985 and enrolled , studied at the Humacao campus of the University of Puerto Rico to study physics and electronics , earning his Bachelors of Science degree in 1988 . | eng_Latn | 107,446 |
González returned to the island in 1985 and enrolled at the Humacao campus of the University of Puerto Rico to study Applied Physics and Electronics , earning his Bachelor of Science degree in 1988 . | González went back home in 1985 and enrolled , studied at the Humacao campus of the University of Puerto Rico to study physics and electronics , earning his Bachelors of Science degree in 1988 . | Radcliffe gave Radcliffe College diplomas to undergraduates and graduate students for the first 70 or so years of its history . Beginning in 1963 Radcliffe gave joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas to undergraduates . | eng_Latn | 107,448 |
After Cambridge was described as a studium generale in a letter by Pope Nicholas IV in 1290 , and confirmed as such in a bull by Pope John XXII in 1318 , it became common for researchers from other European medieval universities to visit Cambridge to study or to give lecture courses . | In 1290 Pope Nicholas IV called Cambridge a studium generale ( name for a university in Medieval times ) . | Radcliffe gave Radcliffe College diplomas to undergraduates and graduate students for the first 70 or so years of its history . Beginning in 1963 Radcliffe gave joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas to undergraduates . | eng_Latn | 107,449 |
Affleck went to George Washington University for one year to study politics and later transferred to Columbia University in New York City , where he majored in physics , astronomy , and Western philosophy for two years , but never graduated . | Affleck went to George Washington University and later transferred to Columbia University in New York City , where he majored in physics , astronomy , and Western philosophy , but never graduated . | Radcliffe gave Radcliffe College diplomas to undergraduates and graduate students for the first 70 or so years of its history . Beginning in 1963 Radcliffe gave joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas to undergraduates . | eng_Latn | 107,453 |
What is it like to study at Harvard? What are the things only a Harvard student would know? | What's it like to study at Harvard? | Why do foreigners love Beijing's traditional hutong area? | eng_Latn | 107,496 |
Iam a nigerian living in nigeria.How can i get admission or scholarship to study in united states of america? | First step is always to take the TOEFL exam. It doesn't matter that you know some English; they will require you take the TOEFL for proving your skill there.\n\nYou need to spend a good bit of time online researching universities, and finding which ones would best fit your desired course of study. \n\nYou will also, after seeing your TOEFL score (at least 500 to 550), need to take the SAT exam before admission. This is also useful for scholarship -- if you do very well on it (1300 or higher out of the old scoring with highest at 1600) then you *may* find universities which will offer part of a scholarship. \n\nIn terms of cost, it is always best to remain in your own country. The schools in Nigeria are pretty good from what I've heard. | You may want to consider grants from private foundations.\n\nFor private grants, you may want to check the Foundation Center's Foundation Grants for Individuals Online http://gtionline.fdncenter.org . It's a subscription based website ($9.95 per month) and their opening blurb only says that the database is ideal for "students, artists, academic researchers, libraries and financial aid offices." | eng_Latn | 107,522 |
Is there any reason I shouldnt move to Europe? | There are no problems, as long as you make sure you have all of the correct visas etc. Sometimes the weather can be a bit cold but apart from that what a fantastic country. Good Luck | I recommend you to study in USA go to fastweb.com to search\nfor scholarships .. Good luck | eng_Latn | 107,524 |
I wanna go US to study at the University. How can I get scholars etc Please can someone give me a link ..?! | http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=scholarships+for+international+students+studying+int+he+usa&sp=1&fr2=sp-top&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501&ei=UTF-8&SpellState=n-183085_q-DhYbtDSHUvNcviHaat1F1AAAAA%40%40\n\n\nhttp://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=scholarships+for+international+students+studying+in+the+usa&spell=1\n\nall the best | Have a look at http://www.agriculture.com\nThat's basically a US farming website. \n\nIf that doesn't help try the US Department of Agriculture website: http://www.usda.gov\n\nThey should be able to provide you with stats and figures for grain production. I found this one example after about 1 minute of searching:\n\nhttp://www.fas.usda.gov/grain/highlights/1999/99-08/us_canada/canwht1.pdf | eng_Latn | 107,525 |
what can you study at harvard | Harvard University is one of the most famous Universities in the world. It imparts education in almost all faculties including Management education and even Ph.D. Their various courses offered could be found out if you go through the website. Please do that. | Most Popular Majors at Harvard for Bachelor's Degrees Social Sciences: 38%Biology: 12%History: 9%Psychology: 8%English: 6%Physical Sciences: 6%Mathematics: 5%. | eng_Latn | 107,543 |
How do i get schoolarship to study first degree at Universities abroad? | I recommend you to study in USA go to fastweb.com to search\nfor scholarships .. Good luck | Look on www.fastweb.com for those in the US. Just sign up and fill out the profile and it should help you find some in archaeology. | eng_Latn | 107,561 |
How could I grant myself a scholarship to study abroad? | How can I get a scholarship to study aboard? | Is Doing Diploma in Nautical science is necessary before joining IMU? | eng_Latn | 107,567 |
What is it like to study at Harvard? What are the things only a Harvard student would know? | What's it like to study at Harvard? | What is it like to attend Harvard Extension School? | eng_Latn | 107,568 |
How do I get into Harvard as an undergrad? | How do I get accepted to Harvard as an undergraduate? | What's it like to study at Harvard? | eng_Latn | 107,576 |
How do I get a scholarship to study in abroad? | How do I get a scholarship to study abroad? | Is it very useful for students go abroad for study? | eng_Latn | 107,577 |
What should be done to get admission in harvard? | How should an international student go about getting admission in Harvard? | What's it like to study at Harvard? | eng_Latn | 107,579 |
What US college/can I attend (as an international student)? | As an international student, which US college should I attend? | What would be your policy regarding foreign students desirous of/ studying in the US? | eng_Latn | 107,585 |
What is it like to study at McGill University? | What is it like to attend McGill University? | Is McGill University an Ivy League school? | eng_Latn | 107,588 |
Oversight agency to look at ousted chief's compensation | SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Troubled mortgage giant Fannie Mae said in a securities filing late Monday that the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight will review termination compensation for its outgoing executives, Chairman and Chief Executive | ROCKVILLE, Md. - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will ask the Institute of Medicine to study the agency's safety monitoring of medicines already on the market, Acting FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford said on Friday. | eng_Latn | 109,202 |
Start revamp of NY economic arm with its name: study | New York state's economic development agency needs a top-to-bottom overhaul starting with a name change, to refocus it on creating higher-paying jobs instead of fighting poverty, a role better handled by social service agencies, a new study said on Tuesday. | New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer on Monday threatened to sue the federal government on charges that new regulations on children's health insurance violate an existing program that covers children from lower-income families. | eng_Latn | 109,204 |
MIT Rejects Federal Contract, Questions Research Rules | The Massachusetts Insitute of Technology turns down a $400,000 contract for a federal research study. The government ordered limits on participation by foreign students. The case highlights new restrictions on research since the Sept. 11 attacks. NPR's Renee Montagne talks with MIT aeronautics professor Sheila Widnall. | Affordable housing across the country is facing an onslaught few saw coming — investors looking to cash in on real estate that was dedicated to people with low incomes. An investigation by WBUR finds financial firms seek outsized profits for themselves in a federal housing program paid for by taxpayers. Lawmakers say these investors are subverting Congress’s intent for the law and are looking for ways to stop them. WBUR’s Beth Healy reports. This article was originally published on WBUR.org. | eng_Latn | 109,421 |
Northern Pipelines and Southern Assumptions | Two commissions of inquiry were appointed by the Canadian government to investigate the likely consequences for the land and peoples of northern Canada affected by pipelines proposed for the delivery of Alaskan natural gas to American markets. The author compares these two commissions which were chaired by Mr. Justice Thomas Berger and Mr. Kenneth Lysyk respectively. He sees them as together illustrating that the problems of northern development do not begin in the north, but rather in the minds of white people from the south because of their assumptions. | A procedure based on the nonlinear finite element analysis was investigated for the prediction of subsidence caused by longwall mining. This paper presents a case study involving predictions of subsidence at a coal mine panel for which a considerable amount of data was available in the literature. Some aspects of the selection of material properties and the shape of the subsidence profile are discussed. | eng_Latn | 109,640 |
Research on Land-use in the Waterhead of Miyun County | Miyun county is located between the Huabei Plat and Menggu Altiplano in the region round the Bohai Sea. Its strategy of land-use is very important because the Miyun Reservoir in it is a waterhead of Beijing Metropolis. In this article, the natural and social conditions of land -use are analyzed. Then from all of these analysis and discussions, the one `core' and five `areas', which are the spatial strategy of land-use in Miyun, are put forward. To protect and prove the environment of waterhead is the first goal of this strategy. | The paper introducess the implemented conditions which colling recycle of flexible base on Ying-DaLine.It over all xpounds the investigation of road condlitions of original pavement,indoor trial study,determination of trial lot plan as well as completion of trial lot etc. | eng_Latn | 109,653 |
Paving the way or crowding out? The impact of the rise of climate change on environmental issue agendas | Climate change has emerged as a salient issue within the USA. In response, many environmental organizations have pushed climate change to the top of their agendas. As a consequence, critics have charged that environmentalists have decreased attention to—or abandoned altogether—traditional issues such as biodiversity. This research provides empirical data to evaluate such claims. I assess the degree to which climate change has come to dominate US environmental group agendas, using data from organizational websites, financial statements, and interviews. I find that climate change has moved to the top of group agendas, emerging as a key priority and commanding a significant percentage of organizational funding. However, rather than being associated with the neglect of other issues, analysis shows that groups tend to work on a greater number of issues after they prioritize climate change. Moreover, the nature of environmental campaigns has evolved as attention to climate change has increased. | The safety operation of a concrete face rockfill dam (CFRD) built on covering layers depend on the integrity of its water stop system. So analyzing the dam seepage field before and after joint sealing damaged is significant, which includes the study of the influence on the dam seepage behavior when the water stop of peripheral joint and slab joint were damaged. In this paper, taken a specific hydropower station project as an example, the numerical analysis models of a CFRD for simulating the different water stop damage and failure types were established. Then the influence mechanism how the damage of the peripheral joint and slab joint affects the seepage gradient, saturated surface and seepage discharge inside the dam was analyzed, and the influence values were obtained. Therefore, the water stop area that needs to focus on is ascertained when the dam anti-seepage system was arranged. | eng_Latn | 109,775 |
Men don't bother with testosterone pills: study | Testosterone supplements don't do older men much good, Dutch researchers said on Tuesday. | The fallout from Major League Baseball's steroids scandal reached Colorado on Monday with Gov. Bill Owens threatening to test visiting major-league players if stricter testing standards aren't adopted. | eng_Latn | 109,962 |
Time for Bonds To Go First Class | There's only one way Barry Bonds can match the class so often displayed by Hank Aaron, but there's no way Bonds will actually do it. | Johnson & Johnson will delay by five months the release of a study comparing its Cypher heart device with Boston Scientific Corp.'s Taxus, the first large-scale comparison of the only two drug-coated stents on the market. | kor_Hang | 110,001 |
Proton World and CEPS: the best of both worlds | The international smart card market is discussed from the case study perspective of the smart card application Proton World. Outlines the foundation, alliance of shareholders and development of Proton World and summarises the initial success with five national roll‐out Proton‐based smart card schemes with technology that has the ability to deliver end‐to‐end security and full auditability. Several of the schemes use multi‐application cards and are able to operate in both the euros or the national currency. Identifies the requirement for fast transaction speeds as the critical factor in ensuring a high level of user satisfaction. Argues that thus far no single “killer” application has emerged and that slow deployment of payment terminals has limited e‐purse use preventing development as rapidly as anticipated. Recommendations for future development are outlined and the implementation of CEPS, as the common international standard for e‐purses is identified as the choice for Proton World. | It is shown that the inclusion of pion, nucleon, and delta mass differences, and eta-..pi.. mixing, in a coupled-channels treatment of the deuteron leads to small components of the wave function with isospin -1 and even isospin -2. | eng_Latn | 110,290 |
highest benefit credit cards | The Chase Sapphire Reserveâ is a hybrid between a rewards card and a premium credit card. For a hefty annual fee of $450, cardholders get access to some of the best rewards rates of any credit card, the highest credit card welcome bonus, and a slew of ancinilary travel benefits. The Chase Sapphire Reserveâ gives a 4.5% rewards rate on travel and dining out, and 1.5% on everything else. | In fact, a study by FICO found that consumers with the highest credit scores (above 785) used, on average, only 7 percent of their available credit on credit cards. That means they charge only $350 on a credit card with a $5,000 credit limit. Or, just $1,400 on several credit cards with combined limits of $20,000. | eng_Latn | 110,581 |
who built the voyager spacecraft | The Voyager spacecraft were built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, and they were paid for by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which also paid for their launchings from Cape Canaveral, Florida, their tracking, and everything else concerning the space probes. | Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977. Part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System, Voyager 1 launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2. Having operated for 39 years, 1 month and 5 days, the spacecraft still communicates with the Deep Space Network to receive routine commands and return data. | eng_Latn | 110,781 |
what space probes have visited venus | The first successful flyby of Venus was performed by NASAâs Mariner 2 spacecraft on 14 December 1962, following failed attempts by both the Soviet Union and the USA. The first successful landing was the Soviet Venera 4 lander, which touched down on the surface on 18 October 1967. | A space probe is a spacecraft which travels into space with no people in it, usually in order to study the planets and send information about them back to earth. Its rings were discovered by telescope from Earth, but space probes later found that spectacular rings surround some other planets. The Pioneer probes have on board ultra-violet instruments which are measuring light that we can't measure on the earth. | eng_Latn | 110,782 |
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the Johnson Space Center in Houston) The first voyage in the shuttle program came 20 years to the day after he became the first man in space | First Shuttle Launch | NASA A new era in space flight began on April 12, 1981, when Space Shuttle Columbia, or STS-1, soared into orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ... Twenty years prior to the historic launch, on April 12, 1961, the era of human ... Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth in his Vostock I spacecraft. | HubbleSite - The Telescope - Hubble Essentials - Hubble Space ... The Hubble Space Telescope's launch in 1990 sped humanity to one of its ... It has beamed hundreds of thousands of images back to Earth, shedding light on ... the observations have given rise to a multitude of findings many in areas that ... Scientists can best examine an object like a star by studying it in all the types of... | eng_Latn | 110,808 |
when did mae c jemison join nasa | Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992. After medical school and a brief general practice, Jemison served in the Peace Corps from 1985 until 1987, when she was selected by NASA to join the astronaut corps. She resigned from NASA in 1993 to found a company researching the application of technology to daily life. | She also has training in African-American studies, dance and choreography. Jemison entered Stanford University in 1973 at the age of 16, graduated in 1977 and began Medical School at Cornell. While studying at Cornell, Jemison spent time providing medical care in Cuba, Kenya and Thailand. She earned her doctorate in medicine in 1981 and was accepted by NASA as an astronaut candidate in 1987. | eng_Latn | 110,924 |
who is grimm | A Grimm (Ger. wrath) is a special person who possesses incredible powers, such as being able to see the true form of Wesen even when the Wesen don't want them to. | The Brothers Grimm, otherwise known as Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, were German librarians who also specialized in philology, which is the study of language in historical texts. During the early 19th century, they became interested in cultural research and began to collect and publish local folklore. | eng_Latn | 111,048 |
Your dog will admire White Fang, a wolf-dog who bravely saves his master's family in a story by this author | White Fang Summary | GradeSaver White Fang study guide contains a biography of Jack London, a complete e-text, quiz ... Two men, Bill and Henry, with a team of six dogs pulling a sled on which is ... wolf and one-quarter husky, enters the story in the first month of his life, and ... But he does this only out of love for his master, and his wild instincts never leave... | The Witch of Endor, and a Familiar Spirit. - Bible Light So let's examine what happened regarding King Saul and the Witch of Endor. King Saul was given very explicit instructions by God through the prophet Samuel:: ... But Samuel knew better than that, after all, he had give Saul the instructions from .... Remember also, the witch at Endor was known for having a familiar spirit. | eng_Latn | 111,049 |
define remuneration or profit | remuneration. n. 1. the act of remunerating. 2. pay; recompense. (rɪËmyu nÉËreɪ ÊÉn). n. | Payments to Research Subjects. Research studies often involve human participants, known as subjects. Human research subjects may be remunerated for their study participation. Sometimes remuneration is merely reimbursement of expenses, such as mileage or parking. Other times it includes a reward. | eng_Latn | 111,143 |
Ukraine revote gains favor | Ukraineâs Supreme Court gave the prime ministerâs legal team until tomorrow to study evidence of fraud presented by the opposition in last weekâs presidential election, and outgoing President Leonid Kuchma endorsed the idea of a | CARACAS : An audit of last Sunday's recall vote in Venezuela, which favored keeping President Hugo Chavez in office, found no evidence of fraud, as the opposition had charged, electoral officials said. | eng_Latn | 111,440 |
So I just updated all windows and graphics drivers and I am still experiencing strange renders within the cycles engine. This noise only appears within the cycles engine either in viewport mode or within the final render (f12). When I first installed blender I was using the gpu render and made sure my card was enabled and I had no problems. Only within the last 3 weeks havve I seen constant problems. After I exported a render I tried moving the entire blender window by clicking and dragging, I noticed once this happened most of the screen went black. When saving the file it started dropping letters. Intel i5-8600k Radeon RX 580 (4Gb Vram) 16 GB RAM | I'm new to blender and have been studying and starting with low poly modeling. Recently I changed my GPU from a GTX 960 to an RX 580. I uninstalled the drivers and installed new ones using DDU. Problem: Rendering using OpenCL produces these unwanted lines. The attached image is a product of CPU + GPU render then the GPU only render, respectively. When I render using only the CPU the results are as expected, no unwanted black vertical lines, using only the GPU adds more lines on the image. Any help is appreciated, thank you! | The reason that I ask is because this is happening to LiDAR, and I am inclined to use lidar because it is easier to read. | eng_Latn | 111,984 |
Using transition management concepts for the evaluation of intersecting policy domains ('grand challenges'): the case of Swedish, Norwegian and UK biofuel policy | The notion of 'grand challenges' (GC) is increasingly used in international research and innovation discourse, but risks being used rhetorically to justify business as usual policy approaches. We draw on a study that maps the characteristics of policy problems and proposals referred to in association with 'GC', showing how transition management fits well as a response to these characteristics. We then use the transition management perspective to evaluate prevailing research and innovation policy for an exemplar policy sector (biofuels), in countries with differing policy histories for that sector (the UK, Norway and Sweden). We argue that transition management functions well as a means of highlighting not only policy shortcomings in a sector, but also policy directions appropriate to the scale of GC. | In order to receive public transportation subsidies, municipalities above a certain size in the European Union must develop sustainable urban mobility plans. This article discusses the development of mobility plans in the Madrid, Spain region. The Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid (CRTM) has been charged with managing the mobility plans in the Madrid region. Of the 20 largest municipalities in the Madrid region, 15 have already developed mobility plans. The city of Madrid is creating its own mobility plan by developing separate but coordinated plans for each of its 21 districts. In another initiative to improve sustainable mobility in the Madrid region, the CRTM is developing training programs for experts on sustainable mobility plans and corporate mobility coordinators. | eng_Latn | 112,436 |
The challenge of safe and active transportation: Macrolevel examination of pedestrian and bicycle crashes in the Austin District | AbstractEncouraging the use of nonmotorized modes of transportation is a goal at the intersection of public health, environment, and transportation, given active transportation’s numerous benefits ... | We study competition in the German interurban bus industry two years after its liberalization in January 2013. In addition to a brief characterization of the liberalization process and several general market developments, we provide a detailed analysis of selected market characteristics such as concentration and competitive interaction, fares as well as service quality. We use the gained insights to discuss two recent policy issues - industry consolidation and possible abuses of market power by incumbents - and derive several recommendations to secure effective competition in the industry. | eng_Latn | 112,445 |
CHOICE OF TRAVEL MODE FOR WORK TRIPS: SOME FINDINGS FOR METROPOLITAN TORONTO | This study analyses modal choice decisions in metropolitan Toronto, in order to establish whether rising petrol prices, traffic congestion and environmental pollution caused by cars, would imply fewer cars and an increased use of urban public transport. The analysis is based on an extension of existing modal choice models into a model which is fully consistent with the "new demand theory" as developed by Becker, Lancaster and others. The estimation procedure adopted is the McFadden random utility model. Findings of the study help to explain why the car is used for most urban trips in Toronto in spite of higher costs than for public transport. They also show that users are more responsive to improvements in public transport services than to reduction of fares. (TRRL) | This report describes the Transportation Research Thesaurus, which is included as a CD-ROM. It also describes how the thesaurus should be used when developing index terms for a publication. The report will be useful to indexers and other readers who are interested in a deeper understanding of the thesaurus. | yue_Hant | 112,446 |
The Use of Quadratic Programming and Its Application to Optimal Portfolio Selection | One of the most effective techniques, which along its unique advantages, constitutes the basis of modern investment strategies is index tracking. Given the undeniable importance of this approach to prosperity of capital market, the present study is an attempt to examine and implement the strategy. Selection of optimum portfolio capable of tracking total price and cash return was studied with employing a combination of genetic algorithm and quadratic programming. To simulate the data and meet the prerequisites for implementation of the proposed algorithm, an artificial neural network was used. The results of data analysis supported high accuracy and acceptable performance of the portfolio obtained from the combined method. Achieving equal and better performance comparing with the total index was one of the unique features of the proposed method. | Abstract For a holistic view on commercial mobility, traditional monomethod approaches are not sufficient. The purpose of this chapter is to give a better understanding of the benefits of triangulation in the mobility research context, more precisely in exploring the substitution potential for BEV in commercial fleets. It is shown that the combination of multiple methods can help to cope with the challenges of commercial mobility understanding. One major finding is that the mixture of quantitative and qualitative data can reveal the differences between subjective and objective behavior in a commercial mobility context. The understanding of these differences leads to drivers and barriers for establishing the new technology and a more profound estimation of the potential for BEV substitutions. | eng_Latn | 112,523 |
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