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Your teenage daughter gets top marks in school, captains the debate team, and volunteers at a shelter for homeless people. But while driving the family car, she text-messages her best friend and rear-ends another vehicle. How can teens be so clever, accomplished, and responsible-and reckless atthesametime? Easily, according to two physicians at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School (HMS) who have been exploringthe uniquestructure and chemistry of the adolescentbrain. "The teenage brain is not just an adult brain with fewer miles on it," says Frances E. Jensen, a professor of neurology. "It's a paradoxical time of development. These are people with very sharpbrains, but they're not quite sure what to do with them.

Now that doesn't mean that plainness is the only good style, or that you should become a slaveto spare, unadorned writing. Formality and ornateness have their place, and in competenthands complexity can carry us on a dizzying, breathtaking journey. But most students, most of the time, should striveto be sensibly simple, and to develop a baselinestyle of short words, active verbs, and relatively simple sentences conveyingclear actions or identities. It's faster, it makes arguments easier to follow, it increases the chances a busy reader will bother to pay attention, and it lets you focusmore attention on your moments of rhetorical flourish, which I do not advise abandoning altogether.

University science is now in real crisis - particularly the non-telegenic, non-ology bits of it such as chemistry. Since 1996, 28 universities have stopped offering chemistry degrees, according to the Royal Society of Chemistry. The society predictsthat as few as six departments (those at Durham, Cambridge, Imperial, UCL, Bristol and Oxford) could remain openby 2014. Most recently，Exeter University closed down its chemistry department, blamingit on "market forces", and Bristol took in some of the refugees The closures have been blamed on a fallin student applications, but money is a factor: chemistry degrees are expensive to provide - compared with English, for example - and some scientists saythat the way the government concentrates research fundingon a small number of top departments, such as Bristol, exacerbates the problem. problem n.

Sportswomen's records are important and need to be preserved. And if the paper records don't exist, we need to get out and start interviewing people, not to put too fine a pointon it, while we still have a chance. After all, if the records aren't kept in some form or another, then the stories are losttoo.

Almost all public spaces nowadays have advertisements in sight, and all forms of media, from newspapers to the cinema to the Internet, are filledwith adverts. This all-pervasive presence reflectsthe value of advertising to us. Without it, businesses of all types and sizes would struggleto inform potential customers about the products or services they provide, and consumers would be unable to make informedassessments when looking for products to buy and services to use. Without advertising, the promotion of products and practicesthat contribute to our physical and psychological well-being-medicines to treat minor ailments, insurance schemes to protect us, clothes and cosmetics to make us look and feel better- would be infinitelymore problematicthan it is. And without advertisements and the aspirationsrepresented in them, the world would be a far dullerplace.

By 2025, government experts' say, America's skies will swarm with three timesas manyplanes, and not just the kind of traffic flying today. There will be thousandsof tiny jets, seating six or fewer, at airliner altitudes, competing for space with remotely operated drones that need help avoiding mid air collisions, and with commercially operated rockets carrying satellitesand tourists into space.

The inevitable consequences includerampant corruption, an absence of globally competitive companies, chronicwaste of resources, rampant environmental degradationand soaring inequality. Above all, the monopoly over the powers is inconsistentwith the pluralism of opinion on which a dynamic economy depends.

An ice storm is a type of weatherwhen icyrainfall comes down into the cold air and the water turned into ice. Once there was a serious ice storm when morethan 16,000 households had a blackout duringthe ice storm as the ice storm would smash the cables.

Kathryn Mewes does not meet bohemian, hippy parents in her line of work. Typically one, or both, of the parents she sees work in the City of London. "Professionals seek professionals," she says. Originally a nanny, Mewes is now a parenting consultant, advising couples privately on changing their child's behaviour, aswellasdoing corporate seminars for working parents. Her clients find they are unprepared for the chaos and unpredictability that having a child can entail. "Parents are getting older, they have been in control their wholelivesand been successful. Suddenly a baby turns up and life turns on its head." Nicknamed the "Three-Day Nanny" becauseofher pledge to fix behavioural problems in children under the age of 12 within three days, she is filming a new Channel 4 television series demonstrating her techniques. The roleof the parenting consultant - distinct from that of a nanny - has developed, she says, as people are used to buying in expertise, such as personal trainers or, in her case, parenting advice.

Genius, in the popular conception, is inextricably tied up with precocity-doing something truly creative, we're inclined to think, requires the freshness and exuberance and energy of youth. Orson Welles made his masterpiece, "Citizen Kane," at twenty-five. Herman Melville wrote a book a year throughhis late twenties, culminating, at age thirty-two, with "Moby-Dick." Mozart wrote his breakthrough Piano Concerto No. 9 in E- Flat-Major at the ageof twenty-one. In some creative forms, like lyric poetry, the importanceof precocity has hardened into an iron law. How old was T. S. Eliot when he wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" ("I grow old . . . I grow old")? Twenty-three. "Poets peak young," the creativityresearcher James Kaufman maintains. Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, the author of "Flow," agrees: "The most creative lyric verse is believed to be that written by the young." According to the Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner, a leading authority on creativity, "Lyric poetry is a domainwhere talentis discovered early, burns brightly, and then peters out at an early age." ，——，， 。25《》(Citizen Kane)。30， ，32《》，。21e9 。，（），。（T. S. Eliot）“（J.

It is difficult to tell precisely when the Breton language was born. As early as the VIth century the new country was establishedand known as “Lesser Britain”, but for many centuries its language remainedclose to the one of Great Britain’s – very close even to the dialect spoken in the South West. The VIIIth century is the milestone where Breton, Cornish and Welsh are consideredas different languages.

You can study anywhere. Obviously, some places are betterthan others. Libraries, study lounges or private rooms are best. Above all, the place you choose to study should not be distracting. Distractions can buildup, and the first thing you know, you're out of time and out of luck. Make choosing a good physical environment a partof your study habits.

Cuteness in offspring is a potentprotective mechanism that ensuressurvival for otherwise completely dependentinfants. Previous research has linked cuteness to early ethological ideas of a "kindchenschema" (infant schema) where infant facial features serve as "innate releasing mechanisms" for instinctualcaregiving behaviours. We propose extending the concept of cuteness beyond visual features to includepositive infant sounds and smells. Evidence from behavioural and neuroimaging studies links this extended concept of cuteness to simple "instinctual" behaviours and to caregiving, protection and complex emotions. We review how cuteness supportskey parental capacities by igniting fast privileged neural activity followed by slower processing in large brain networks also involved in play, empathy, and perhaps even higher-order moral emotions.

Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, voidof all characters, without any ideas: How comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundlessfancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience: in that, all our knowledge is founded, and from that, it ultimately derivesitself.

The allure of the book has always been negative and positive, for the texts and pictures between the covers have helped many young readers to discoverand grasp the world around them in a pleasurable and meaningful way. But the allure has also enabled authors and publishers to preyupon young readers' dispositions and desires and to sellthem a menu that turns out to be junk food.

Gentleor fierce, wind always starts in the same way. Wind is formed by the circulation of air. The sun heats up some parts of the sea and the land. The air among the hotspot warms up and rises. The cold air drops because it is heavy. Some wind circulates within a small area. Others blow in the entireglobe.

Australia and New Zealand have many common links. Both countries were recently settled by Europeans, are predominantly English speaking and in that sense, share a common cultural heritage. Although in close proximity to one another, both countries are geographically isolated and have small populations by world standards. They have similar histories and enjoy close relations on many fronts . In terms of population characteristics, Australia and New Zealand have much in common. Both countries have minority indigenous populations, and during the latter half of the 20th century have seen a steady stream of migrants from a variety of regions throughout the world. Both countries have experiencedsimilar declines in fertility since the high levels recorded during the baby boom, and alongside this have enjoyed the benefits of continually improving life expectancy.

Volcanoes blast more than 100 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year but the gas is usually harmless. When a volcano erupts, carbon dioxide spreads out into the atmosphere and isn't concentratedin one spot. But sometimes the gas gets trapped undergroundunder enormous pressure.

Although environmentalists have been warningabout this situation for decades, many other people are finally beginning to realise that if we don't act soon it will be too late. The good news is that more and more businesses and governments are beginning to understandthat without a healthy environment the global economy and everything that depends on it will be seriously endangered. And they are beginning to take positiveaction.

Higher education qualifications provide a substantial advantagein the labour market. Higher education graduates are less likely to be unemployedand tendto have higherincomes than those without such qualifications.

Colorful poison frogs in the Amazon owe their great diversityto ancestors that leapt into the region from the Andes Mountains several times during the last 10 million years, a new study from The University of Texas at Austin suggests. This is the first study to show that the Andes have been a majorsource of diversity for the Amazon basin, one of the largest reservoirsof biological diversity on Earth. The finding runs counterto the idea that Amazonian diversity is the result of evolution only within the tropicalforest itself. "Basically, the Amazon basin is a melting pot for South American frogs," says graduate student Juan Santos, lead author of the study. "Poison frogs there have come from multiple places of origin, notably the Andes Mountains, over many millions of years. We have shown that you cannot understand Amazonian biodiversity by looking only in the basin.

Lake Turkana is a large lake in Kenya, East Africa. This partof Africa was home to some of the first humans. Here, archaeologists have found piles of bones(both human and animal) and collections of stones that humans used as tools. By carefully uncovering and examiningthese remains, scientists have started to put together the story of our earliest ancestors. In 2001, a 4 million year-old skeleton was uncovered in the area. Although a link between it and modern-day humans has not been established, the skeleton shows the species was walking upright.

Early impressionist painters were considered radicalin their time because they broke many of the rules of the picture-making that had been set by earlier generations. They found many of their subjectsin life around them rather than in history, which was then the accepted sourceof subject matter for paintings.

Many people today think of culture in the way that it was thought of in Europe during the 18th and early 19th centuries. This conceptof culture reflected inequalities within European societies and their colonies around the world. This understanding of culture equates culture with civilization and contrasts both with nature or non- civilization. According to this understanding of culture, some countries are more civilized than others, and some people are more cultured than others. Anything that doesn’t fitinto this category is labeled as chaos or anarchy. From this perspective, culture is closely tied to cultivation, which is the progressive refinement of human behavior. In practice, culture referred to elite goods and activities such as haute cuisine, high fashion or haute couture, museum-caliber art and classical music. The word cultured referred to people who knew about and took part in these activities. For example, someone who used culture in this sense might arguethat classical music is more refined than music by working-class people, such as jazz or the indigenous music traditions of aboriginal peoples.

Research has suggested that major stresses in our lives are life changes, for example, moving house, marriage or relationship breakdown. Work-related factors, includingunemployment and boredom, are also common causesof stress. Differences in personality may also playa part.

How is plagiarism detected? It is usually easy for lecturers to identify plagiarism within students work. The University also actively investigates plagiarism in students’ assessed work throughelectronic detection software called Turnitin. This software comparesstudents work againsttext on the Internet, in journal articles and within previously submittedwork(from LSBU and other institutions)and highlights any matches it finds..

In geologic terms, a plate is a large, rigid slab of solid rock. The word tectonics comes from the Greek root“to build.” putting these two words together, we get the term plate tectonics, which refersto how the Earth’s surface is built of plates. The theory of plate tectonics statesthat the Earth’s outermost layer is fragmentedinto a dozen or larger and small plates that are moving relativeto one another.

We now know through the work of neuroscientists that the human brain is wired to mimic other people, and this mimicry involves actual involuntary physiological experiencein the observer. Human beings tend to imitateactions that they see. Physiologically, our brains include mirror neurons, which reactto actions that are seen as if we are doing the action ourselves. It is largely an unconscious and automatic experience. When we hear people speak, observe their vocal nuances, watch their posture, gestures, and facial expressions, etc, neural networks in our brains are stimulated by the”shared representations” generating feelings within us that reflectthe experience of those we are observing.

For many first-year students, the University may be their first experienceliving away from home for an extendedperiod of time. It is a definitebreak from home. The individual's usual sourcesof support are no longer present to facilitateadjustment to the unfamiliar environment.

Education and well-being have often been associated. The idea that education can promote individual well- being indirectly, by improvingearnings and promoting socialmobility, is an old one; so are notions of education helping to promote the good society by contributingto economic growth and equality of opportunity.

An important corollary of this focus on language as the window to legal epistemology is the central role of discourseto law and other sociocultural processes. In particular, the ideasthat people hold about how language works (linguistic ideologies) combine with linguistic structuring to create powerful, often unconscious effects. In recent years, linguistic anthropologists have made much progress in developing more precisely analytic toolsfor tracking those effects.

Affordable early years education and childcare potentially enables parents, particularly mothers, to be in paid employment. International studies havefoundthat countries with greater enrolment rates in publicly funded or provided childcare also have higher maternal employment rates, althoughuntangling causal relationships is complex. Fromthe point of view of the household, additional income, especially for the less well-off, is itself associated with better outcomes for children, as child poverty hasbeenshownto be a key independent determinant of children’s outcomes. Fromthe point of view of the public purse, as mothers enteremployment they are likely to claim fewer benefits and to generate extra revenues throughincome tax and national insurance. through prep.

Chaucer’s Tales quickly spreadthroughout England in the early fifteenth century. Scholars feel The Canterbury Tales reachedtheir instant and continued success because of their accurate and oftentimes vividportrayal of human nature, unchanged through 600 years since Chaucer’s time. George Macy, founder of The Limited Editions Club wrote on The Canterbury Tales.

Fingerprints, referred to as “fingermarks” in forensics, are formed when residue from the ridged skin of the fingers or palms is transferredonto a surface, leaving behind an impression. Fingermarks are often made of sweat and colorless contaminatingmaterials such as soap, moisturizer and grease. These fingermarks are described as “latent” as they are generally invisible to the naked eye, which means that locatingthem at a crime scene can be challenging.

On average, Iceland experiencesa major volcanic event once every 5 years. Since the Middle Ages, a third of all the lava that has coveredthe earth's surface has erupted in Iceland. However, according to a recent geological hypothesis, this estimate does not include submarineeruptions, which are much more extensive than those on the land surface.

The exponential growth of the internet was heralded, in the 1990s, as revolutionizing the production and disseminationof information. Some people saw the internet as a means of democratizingaccess to knowledge. For people concernedabout African development, it seemed to offer the possibility of leapfrogging over the technology gap separatingAfrica from advanced industrialized countries.

Participating regularly in physical activity has been shown to benefit an individual's health and wellbeing. Regular physical activity is important in reducing the risk of chronicdiseases, such as heart disease and stroke, obesity, diabetes and some forms of cancer. The National Physical Activity Guidelines for Adults recommendat least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity, preferablyevery day of the week, to obtainhealth benefits.

The wool market was extremely important to the English medieval economy and wool dominatedthe English export trade from the late thirteenth century to its declinein the late fifteenth century. Wool was at the forefront of the establishment of England as a European politicaland economic power and this volume is the first study of the medieval wool market in over 20 years. It investigates in detail the scale and scope of advance contractsfor the sale of wool; the majority of these agreements were formed between English monasteries and Italian merchants, and the book focuses on the data contained within them. The pricing structures and market efficiency of the agreements are examined, employing practices from modern finance.

London's National Portrait Gallery is currently celebrating the fifty-year careerof photographer Sandra Lousada. The twenty one portraits on displaydepict key figuresin literature, film and fashion from the early 1960s. Subsequentto the acquisition of forty portraits by Lousada, the display at the National Portrait Gallery highlights shots taken between 1960 and 1964, many of which featurein Lousada's book Public Faces Private Places(2008). Formal commissioned portraits are shown alongside behind-the-scenes photographs taken on film setsand unguarded portraits of sitters captured at home.

One of the most popular forms of theater is musical. Combining drama, dance and music, the musical has been around for over a century, and in that time has kept pace with changing tastes and social conditions, as well as advancesin theater technology. Many modern musicals are known for their spectacular sets, lighting and other effects.

All kinds of predictions may be about toget even more difficult thanksto climate change. Though no one is sure exactlywhat its effects will be, it seems that extreme weather conditions such asstorms and hurricanes are likelyto become more common. Such events have far-reaching effects on distant weather systems, making general forecasting much harder.

Modern developments in areas such as neuroscience, artificial intelligence and evolutionary psychology have resulted in new waysof thinking about human nature. Can we explain the mind and consciousness in termsof brain function? Can we understand modern human behavior as our evolutionary heritage? Is science even the right placeto start if we want to understand human nature? Come along to the Great Debate, hear the arguments and have your say.

In the preceding hundred years, Paris had been the centerstage for political and social movementsthat had deeply affected all of Europe. The many ways in which tradition had already been challenged and shakenduring those years helped make it easier for those to achieve a break with traditional art.

Dance has played an important role in many musicals. In some cases, dance numbers are included as an excuse to add to the color and spectacle of the show, but dance is more effective when it forms an integral part of the plot. An early example is Richard Rodgers On Your Toes (1936) in which the story about classical ballet meeting the world of jazz enabled dance to be introduced in a way that enhances, rather than interrupts the drama.

Green spaces contributesignificantly to a reductionof soil and aerial temperatures during spells of hot weather, so contributing to human wellbeing. In the garden context, there is, however, little information as to what extent various types of plants differin their cooling potential and how certain planting combinations may maximize cooling under a scenario of lowrainfall and minimal water inputs.

Our active learning classrooms contain an array of circulartables. Each table seats up to nine students with wireless laptop computers to encourage student engagement. The tables are equipped with microphones and a lamp to signalwhen someone needs help or wishes to speak to the entire room.

Chimpanzee posture, gestures, and facial expressions communicate many messages and emotionsbetween various individuals. When greetinga dominant individual following an absence or in response to an aggressive gesture, nervous subordinatesmay approach with submissive signals —— crouching, presenting the hindquarters, holding a hand out —— accompanied by pant —— grunts or squeaks. In response, the dominant individual may make gestures of reassurance, such as touching, kissing, or embracing.

Although Botswana is rich in diamonds, it has high unemployment and stratified socioeconomic classes. In 1999, the nation sufferedits first budget deficit in 16 years becauseof a slump in the international diamond market. Yet Botswana remainsone of the wealthiest and most stable countries on the African continent.

Progressive enhancement is a design practice based on the idea that instead of designingforthe least capable browser, or mangling our code to make a site look the same in every browser, we should provide a core set of functionality and information to all users, and then progressivelyenhance the appearance and behaviour of the site for users of more capable browsers. It's very productive development practice. Insteadofspendinghours working out how to add drop shadows to the borders of an element in every browser, we simply use the standards-based approach for browsers that support it and don't even attempt to implement it in browsers that don’t. After all, the users of older and less capable browsers wont know what they are missing. The biggest challengeto progressive enhancement is the belief among developers and clients that websites should look the same in every browser. As a developer, you can simplify your life and dedicate your time to more interesting challenges if you let go of this outdated notion and embrace progressive enhancement.

A spokesman for the project said: "A car mechanic for instancecould find at a glance where a part on a certain car model is so that it can be identified and repaired. For the motorist the system could highlightaccident black spots or dangers on the road." In other cases the glasses could be worn by people going on a guided tour, indicatingpoints of interest or by people looking at panoramas where all the sites could be identified.

Music is an important part of our lives. We connect and interact with it daily and use it as a way of projecting our self-identities to the people around us. The music we enjoy – whether it’s country or classical, rock n’ roll or rap – reflectswho we are. But where did music, at its core, first come from? It’s a puzzling question that may not have a definitive answer. One leadingresearcher, however, has proposed that the key to understanding the origin of music is nestled snugly in the loving bond between mother and child. In a lecture at the University of Melbourne, Richard Parncutt, an Australian-born professor of systematic musicology, endorsed the idea that music originally spawned from ‘motherese’ – the playful voices mothers adoptwhen speaking to infants and toddlers. As the theory goes, increased human brain sizes caused by evolutionary changes occurring between one and 2,000,000 years ago resulted in earlier births, more fragile infants and a criticalneed for stronger relationships between mothers and their newborn babies. According to Parncutt, who is based at the University of Graz in Austria, ‘motherese’ arose as a way to strengthen this maternal bond and to help ensurean infant’s survival.

Researchers suggest the following tips as you begin to network, seek common ground, engagewith your network regularly, and consistently applyyourself to making your network work or it will wither. It is a skill that you need to practice, not a talent.

Life in the UK 2012 provides a unique overview of well-being in the UK today. The report is the first snapshot of lifein the UK to be delivered by the Measuring National Well-being program and will be updatedand published annually. Well-being is discussed in terms of the economy, people and the environment. Information such as the unemployment rate or numberof crimes against the person is presented alongside dataon people's thoughts and feelings, for example, satisfaction with our jobs or leisuretime and fear of crime. Together, a richer picture on 'how society is doing' is provided.

If consciousness comes in degrees, then how far along on the spectrum is the octopus? Octopuses almost certainly feel pain. They nurse and protect injuredbody parts, and show a preference not to be touched near wounds. In addition to feeling pain, octopuses also have sophisticatedsensory capacities: excellent eyesight, and acute sensitivity to taste and smell. This, together with their large nervous systems and complexbehavior makes it all but certain. The question of what subjective experience might be like for an octopus is complicatedby the odd relationship between its brain and body.

Elements of both the psychoanalytic and behaviorist theories are arrangedin modern approaches to personality. Advances in neuroscience have begun to bridgethe gap between biochemistry and behavior, but there is still a great deal that needs to be explained. Without a consistent understanding of personality, how can we begin to categorizerisk takers? If we cannot, we will be unable to comparetheir genes with those of others.

Fancy locust for lunch? Probably not, if you live in the west, but elsewhere it’s a different story. Edible insects – termites, stick insects, dragonflies, grasshoppers and giant water bugs – are on the menu for an estimated80 percent of the world’s population.More than 1000 species of insects are servedup around the world. For example, “kungu cakes” – made from midges – are a delicacyin parts of Africa. Mexico is an insect-eating – or entomophagous – hotspot, where more than 200 insect species are consumed. Demandis so high that 40 species are now under threat, including white agave worms. These caterpillars of the tequila giant-skipper butterfly fetcharound $250 a kilogram.Eating insects makes nutritionalsense. Some contain more proteinthan meat or fish. The female gypsy moth, for instance, is about 80 percent protein. Insects can be a good sourceof vitamins and minerals too: a type of caterpillar (Usta Terpsichore) eaten in Angola is rich in iron, zinc and thiamine. What do they taste like? Ants have a lemon tang, apparently, whereas giant water bugs taste of mint and fire ant pupae of watermelon. You have probably, inadvertently, already tasted some of these things, as insects are often accidental tourists in other types of food. The US Food and Drug Administration even issues guidelines for the number of insect parts allowed in certain foods. For example, it is acceptablefor 225 grams of macaroni to contain up to 225 insect fragments.

Essays are used as an assessment tool to evaluateyour ability to research a topic and construct an argument, as well as your understanding of subject content. This does not mean that essays are a 'regurgitation' of everything your lecturer has said throughoutthe course. Essays are your opportunity to explore aspects of the course in greater depth- theories, issues, texts, etc. and in some cases relate these aspects to a particularcontext. It is your opportunity to articulate your ideas, but in a certainway: using formal academic style.

For lots of first-year students, the University may be their first experienceliving away from home for an extendedperiod. It is a definitebreak from home. In my point of view, this is the best thing that you can do. I know you have to fend for yourself, cook and clean after yourself, basically look after yourself without your parents but the truth is some time in your life you are going to have to part with lovely Mummy and Daddy. But they are only just a phone call away, and it is really good to have some QUALITY TIME without them. The first few weeks can be a lonelyperiod. There may be concerns about forming the friendship. When new students look around, it may seem that everyone else is self-confident and sociallysuccessful! The reality is that everyone has the same concerns. Increased personal freedom can feel both wonderful and frightening. Students can come and go as they choose with no one to hassle them. The strange environment with new kinds of procedures and new people can create the sense of being on an emotional roller coaster. This is normal and to be expected. You meet so many more people in the halls than if you stayed at home. The main points about living away from home are NO PARENTS! You don't have to tell them where you're going, who you're going with, what time you'll be coming, why you're going etc. You learn various social skills you have to get along with your roommates Living with them can present special, sometimes intense, problems. Negotiating respect of personal property, personal space, sleep, and relaxation needs, can be a complex task. The complexity increases when roommates are of different backgroundswith very different values. It is unrealistic to expect that roommates will be best friends. Meaningful, new relationships should not be expected to develop overnight. It took a great deal of time to develop intimacy in high school friendships the same will be true of intimacy in university friendships. You have a phone! So if you ever get homesick or miss you, Mummy, then she's always at the end of a phone-line for you and so are your friends.

Fingerprints can provethat a suspect was actually at the scene of a crime. As long as a human entered a crime scene, there will be traces of DNA. DNA can help the police to identifyan individual to crack a case. An institute in London can help maintainDNA and be used to match with the samplestaken from the crime scenes.

Complementary therapies - such as those practicedby naturopaths, chiropractors and acupuncturists - have become increasingly popular in Australia over the last few decades. Interest initially coincided with enthusiasmfor alternative lifestyles, while immigration and increased contact and trade with China have also had an influence. The status of complementary therapies is being re-visited in a number of areas: legal regulation; the stances of doctors' associations; their inclusion in medical education; and scientific research into their efficacy.

Paris is very old—there has been a settlement there for at least 6000 years and its shape has been determined in part by the River Seine, and in part by the edicts of France’s rulers. But the great boulevards we admire today are relatively new, and were constructed to prevent any more barricades beingcreatedby the rebellious population; that work was carried out in the middle 19th century. The earlier Paris had been inparta maze of narrow streets and alleyways. But You can imagine that the work was not only highly expensive, but caused great distress among the half a million or so residents whose houses were simplyrazed, and whose neighbourhoods disappeared. What is done cannot usually be undone, especially when buildings are torn down.

Trees, as ever, are or should be at the heart of all discussionson climate change. The changes in carbon dioxide, in temperature, and in patterns of rainfall will each affect them in many ways, and each parameter interactswith all the others, so between them, these three main variablespresent a bewildering range of possibilities.

The University of Maryland boasts 78 academic programs rankedin the top 25 nationally and 29 academic programs in the top 10 according to U.S. News and World report. By drawing top-notch faculty, attracting the brightest students and investingin the quality of our academic programs, we are a force to reckonwith on a national basis.

The Alpine Newt is native to much of central, continental Europe and occursup the coasts of northeast France through to Holland. But it does not appearto have been native to the British Isles. As its name suggestsit can be found in montane habitats up to 2,500 metres in altitude but it can also be abundant in lowlands, and it will use a varietyof waterbodies including both shallow and deep ponds and slow flowing streams.

It is important to keep the quantities here in perspective. The volumeof radioactive waste is very small - even smaller if the used materialis chemically re-processed - but it has to be managedcarefully. Most countries acceptthat they are responsible for their own and a number including France, Sweden, Finland, Korea and the USA are now constructing facilities, which will eventually be deep geological repositories.

Some students say that they need complete quiet to read and study. Others study best in a crowded, noisy room because the noise actually helpsthem concentrate. Some students like quiet music playing; othersdo not. The point is, you should know the level of noise that is optimal for your own studying. However, one general rule for all students is that the television seems to be more of a distraction than music or other background noise, so leavethe TV off when you are reading or studying. Also, don't let yourself become distracted by computer games, email, or Internet surfing.

Research is a process of investigation leading to new insightseffectively shared and is central to the purposeof any university. Students have the right to be taught by acknowledged expertsin their field, which requires that staff members operate at the most advanced level appropriate to their disciplineand level. Research is, therefore, crucial to a positivestudent experience from further education to doctoral development.

Is it a glimpse of a dystopian future or just a commonsense approach to technology? Either way, Gatwick airport's newest hotel offers something different, a vision of a post-employee economy where tasksare automated by a computer. At Bloc, a hotel of 245 rooms, there are just two members of staff on duty. Despite its unglamorous location in a renovated office block above the airport's South Terminal, Bloc has grand plansto shake up the hotel industry. Thanks to a partnershipwith Korean technology giant Samsung, almost everything here can be controlled by smartphone. Once guests have made a reservation online, they are given a code that can be used to log into an app, enabling them to check in without standing at a reception desk. In the room, the phone can operate the air-conditioning, switch on lights, turn on TVs and open blackout blinds. Even keys have been renderedobsolete — guests can unlock the door to their room using their phone (with something called 'near-field communication' technology). At the end of their stay, checkout is also done via the app, meaning that guests can complete their entire stay without speaking a single word to a member of staff. tasksn.｜plans n. ｜partnership n. ｜rendered v.

Giant exoplanets, like the so-called 'hot Jupiters' that are similar in characteristicsto the solar system's biggest planetand orbit very close to their host stars, are excellent targets for astronomersin their search for their extrasolar worlds. The size and proximity of these planets is easy to detectas they create a large decrease in brightness when passing in front of their parent stars.

To qualify as a conservancy, a committee must define the conservancy’s boundary elect a representativeconservancy committee, negotiate a legal constitution, prove the committee’s ability to managefunds, and produce an acceptable plan for equitabledistribution of wildlife-related benefits. Once approved, registeredconservancies acquire the rightsto a sustainable wildlife quota, set by the ministry.

Founded after World War II by 51 "peace-loving states" combined to oppose future aggression, the United Nations now counts 192 member nations, includingits newest members, Nauru, Kiribati, and Tonga in 1999, Tuvalu and Yugoslavia in 2000, Switzerland and East Timor in 2002, and Montenegro in 2006. United Nations Day has been observedon October 24 since 1948 and celebrates the objectives and accomplishments of the organization, which was established on October 24, 1945. The UN engagesin peacekeeping and humanitarian missions across the globe. Though some say its influencehas declined in recent decades, the United Nations still plays a tremendous role in world politics. In 2001 the United Nations and Kofi Annan, then Secretary- General of the UN, won the Nobel Peace Prize "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world." Since 1948 there have been 63 UN peacekeeping operations, 16 are currently underway. Thus far, close to 130 nations have contributed personnel at various times; 119 are currently providing peacekeepers. As of August 31, 2008, there were 16 peacekeeping operations underway with a total of 88,230 personnel. The small island nation of Fiji has taken part in virtually every UN peacekeeping operation, as has Canada.

Music was as important to the ancient Egyptians as it is in our modern society. Although it is thought that music played a rolethroughout the history of Egypt, those that studythe Egyptian writings have discovered that music seemedto become more important in what is called the 'pharaonic' periodof their history. This was the timewhen the Egyptian dynasties of the pharaohs were established(around 3100 BCE) and music was found in many parts of every day Egyptian life.

Many tests have shown that, in a very broad way, people in most parts of the world have similar color preferences. Blue is the most preferred and popular hue, followed in order by red, green, purple, yellow, and orange. Overlaying this basic order of color preference, however, are the responses of individuals, which of course vary widelyand may also be very powerful. Children are likely to have strong preferencesfor some colors and aversions to others, but sometimes will not admit to them, since outside factorsmay be influential in determining both color preferences and the way that they are expressed or suppressed. Current fashions in clothes and accessories, gender-stereotyping, and peer-group pressure may all play a significant part. Boys, in particular, may be reluctant to admit to any strong preferences for colors otherthanthose of favorite football teams, because color awareness may be regarded by their peer group as feminine.

The speed of sound (otherwise known as Mach 1) varies with temperature. At sea level on a “standard day,” the temperature is 59°F, and Mach 1 is approximately 761 mph. As the altitude increases, the temperature and speed of sound bothdecrease until about 36,000 feet, after which the temperature remainssteady until about 60,000 feet. Within that 36,000–60,000 foot range, Mach 1 is about 661 mph. Because of the variation, it is possible for an airplane flying supersonic at high altitude to be slower than a subsonic flight at sea level. The transonic band (the “sound barrier”) extends fromaround Mach .8—when the first supersonic shock waves formonthe wing—to Mach 1.2, when the entire wing has gone supersonic.

In the original test, which was administered at the Bing Nursery School, at Stanford, in the nineteen-sixties, Mischel’s team would present a child with a treat (marshmallows were just one option) and tell her that she could either eat the one treat immediatelyor wait alone in the room for several minutes until the researcher returned, at which point she could have two treats. The promised treats were always visible and the child knew that all she had to do to stop the agonizing waitwas ring a bell to call the experimenter back—although in that case, she wouldn’t get the second treat. The longer a child delayed gratification, Mischel found—that is, the longer she was able to wait—the better she would fare later in life at numerous measures of what we now call executive function. She would performbetter academically, earn more money, and be healthier and happier. She would also be more likely to avoid a number of negative outcomes, including jail time, obesity, and drug use.

The electrons that orbit closest to the nucleus are strongly attracted. They are called bound electrons. The electrons that are farther away from the pull of nucleus can be forcedout of their orbits. These are called free electrons. Free electrons can move from one atom to another. This movement is known as electron flow. Electricity is the movement or flow of electrons from one atom to another.

The Classic era of Mayan civilizationcame to an end around 900 AD. Why this happened is unclear; the cities were probably over-farming the land, so that a periodof drought led to famine. Recent geological researchsupports this, as there appears to have been a 200-year drought around this time.

With about one and a half billion non-native speakers, English has become the world's own language. Such dominancehas its downside, of course. There are now about 6,800 languages left in the world, compared with perhaps twicethat number back at the dawn of agriculture. Thanks in partto the rise of über-languages, most importantly English, the remaining languages are now dying at the rateof about one a fortnight. Want to learn Busuu, anyone? Then you'd better head to Cameroon fast, before one of the language's last eight speakers kicks the bucket (as the Busuu-nese presumably doesn't say).

Sports was firstly of survival skills ... (tightly) ... but now is ... （recreational) ... and enjoyment ... ... swimming, hunting and fishing were (originally) for food, but are now a competitive sport.

Overthe past two decades, around a third of the world's mangrove swamps have been convertedfor human use, with many turned into valuable shrimp farms. In 2007 an economic study of such shrimp farms in Thailand showed that the commercial profits per hectare were $9,632. If that were the only factor, conversion would seem an excellent idea. However, proper accountingshows that for each hectare government subsidies formed $8,412 of this figure and there were costs, too: $1,000 for pollution and $12,392 for losses to ecosystem services. These comprised damage to the supply of foods and medicines that people had taken from the forest, the loss of habitats for fish, and less buffering against storms. And because a given shrimp farm only stays productivefor three or four years, there was the additional cost of restoring them afterwards.

In studies of chimpanzee behavior, researchers seek to answerhow they learn to use tools, with finds appliedto understanding primate cognition. In an experiment, signals were sentto test communication skills, and responses occurred withoutprior training. answerv.｜applied v. ｜sent v. ｜without prep.

Over the last ten thousand years there seem to have been two separate and conflicting building sentiments throughout the history of towns and cities. Specifically, oneis the desire to start again, for a variety of reasons: an earthquake or a tidal wave may have demolished the settlement, or fire destroyed it, or the new city marksa new political beginning. The other can be likened to the effect of a magnet: established settlements attract people, who tendto come whether or not there is any planning for their arrival. The clash between these two sentiments is evident in every established city unlessits development has been almost completely accidental or is lost in history. Incidentally, many settlements have been planned from the beginning but, for a variety of reasons, no settlement followed the plan. A good example is Currowan, on the Clyde River in New South Wales, which was surveyed in the second half of the 19th century, in expectation that people would come to establish agriculture and a small port. But no one came. onepron.｜marks v. ｜tend v. ｜unless conj.

Universities have always been connected with political society, and in many countries the student union provides a forum for debateand for discussion. The accommodationin which students want to live in is one that reflects their ideals. There is so much opportunityin university for students to pursue their interests. societyn.｜debate n. ｜accommodation n. ｜ideals n. ｜opportunity n.

Upholding the motto of “Integrity, Vision and Academic Excellence”, Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) is an internationally recognized, prestigiousacademic institution distinctive for its multidisciplinary and multicultural nature, committed to preparing innovative professionals and future global leaders for a wide range of international expertise to address the critical challenges of our times. Drawing on our strengths in multi-language programs and multi-disciplinary resources, while responding to national and regional strategies, we operate more than 70 research institutes and centers serving as academic think tanks to provide advisory services on language policies, diplomatic strategies and global public opinionof China. These academic entities have contributed landmark research and are also dedicated to promoting the development of social sciences in China. We have now establishedpartnerships with more than 330 universities and institutions from 56 countries and regions, and have maintainedclose connection with international organizations, including the United Nations and the European Union.

The overall result of two or moreforces acting on an object is called the resultant force the resultant of two forces is a single force, which has the same effect as the two forces combined. If two forces pull an object in oppositedirections, the size of the resultant can be found by subtractingone force from the other. If the forces are equal, they balance each other.

Coffee is enjoyed by millions of people every day and the 'coffee experience' has become a staple of our modern life and culture. While the current body of research related to the effects of coffee consumptionon human health has been contradictory, a study in the June issue of Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, which is published by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), found that the potential benefitsof moderate coffee drinking outweigh the risks in adult consumers for the majority of major health outcomesconsidered.

Business etiquette in Australia is relatively straightforward for Americans and Europeans. But it differsgreatly to the approach taken in the country's Asian backyard, the sourceof an increasing proportion of its trade and investment. To many Asians, Australians' openness can appear blunt and unsubtle; their informality confusing and even disrespectful. Even if Australia is less egalitarian than it was, it is less hierarchicalthan many societies and first names are almost always used, irrespective of rank.

The casualobserver does not necessarily recognise the skillin how a teacher, for instance, responds to a thoughtful question from a normally quiet student and how that may be very different from the 'standard response' to a commonly inquisitive or talkativestudent. Expert teachers are aware of what they are doing; they monitor and adjust their teaching behaviors to bring out the bestin their students.

Private schools in the UK are redoubling their marketing efforts to foreigners. Almost a third of the 68,000 boarding pupils at such schools alreadycome from overseas. But now, with many UK residents unwillingor unable to afford the fees – top boarding schools are edgingtowards £30,000 ($49,759) a year – and a cultural shiftaway from boarding, many schools are looking abroad to survive. Overseas students now accountfor about £500m of fee income a year for boarding schools in the UK. They come from Hong Kong, China, Germany, Russia and Spain, as well as from Africa, South Korea and other parts of Europe.

To better understand selfies and how people form their identities online, the researchers combed through 2.5 million selfie posts on Instagram to determine what kinds of identity statements people make by taking and sharing the photos. Nearly 52 percent of all selfies fellintothe appearance category: pictures of people showing off their make-up, clothes, lips, etc. Pics about looks were two times more popular than the other 14 categories combined. After appearances, social selfies with friends, loved ones, and pets were the most common (14 percent). Then came ethnicity pics (13 percent), travel (7 percent), and health and fitness (5 percent). The researchers noted that the prevalence of ethnicity selfies (selfies about a person’s ethnicity, nationality or country of origin) is an indication that people are proud of their backgrounds. They also found that most selfies are solo pictures, ratherthan taken with a group. Overall, an overwhelming 57 percent of selfies on Instagram were posted by the 18-35-year-old crowd, something the researchers say isn’t too surprising consideringthe demographics of the social media platform. The under-18 age group posted about 30 percent of selfies. The older crowd (35+) shared them far less frequently (13 percent). Appearance was most popular among all age groups. Lead author Julia Deeb-Swihart says selfies are an identity performance— meaning that users carefully craft the way they appear online and that selfies are an extension of that. This evokes William Shakespeare’s famous line: “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

Low fertility is a concern for many OECD countries as they face the prospect of population aging. This article makes comparisonsbetween Australia and seven other OECD countries in fertility rates between 1970 and 2004. Changing age patternsof fertility are also compared and show that for most of the countries, women are postponingchildbirth and having fewer babies. The associationsof women's education levels and rates of employment with fertility are also explored.

The closingdecades of an artist's life do not generally make the biographer's heart beat faster, but Claude Monet is one of a handful of painters who bucks the pattern of an irrelevantold age. While it's true that by the time he was 73 he had accumulatedall the usual dragging baggage – outhouses full of fancy cars, a taste for expensive wine and a sprawl of dependents – it was also now that he produced career-defining work.

Currently, there is concern about the increasing amount of time children spend engagedin sedentary activities, the number of children who fail to achieve minimumdaily physical activity guidelines (i.e. 60 min of moderate- to-vigorous intensity activities every day), and the apparent increase in obesity prevalence as a result of such sedentary behavior. Screen-based activities, including television, viewing and playing computer games are among the most frequently observed sedentary activities that children partake3 with children spending 2.5-4 h per day participating in such activities. The introduction of “active video games” (AVGs) into the gaming market presents an opportunity to convert traditional, sedentary screen-time in to active screen-time and thus increase total daily energy expenditure (EE). Modern AVGs utilize cameras and motion sensors to allow the gamer to physically perform a variety of actions, dependenton the console, such as swinging a tennis racquet or running. The most demanding AVGs provided similar responses to walking and, based on international standards, should be classified as low-intensity activities. Whilst AVGs may provide children with a better alternative to sedentary gaming, they are not a sufficient replacementfor normal physical activity, e.g. sports and outdoor play.

Built in 1880 on 4,000 acres of landoutside of the Chicago city limits, Pullman, Illinois, was the first industrial planned communityin the United States. George Pullman, of the Pullman railroad Car Company, built the south residential portion of the company town first, which contained 531 houses, some of which stand today more or less as they did originally.

McLuhan's preeminent theory was his idea that human history could be dividedinto four eras: the acoustic age, the literary age, the print age and the electronic age. He outlinedthe concept in a 1962 book called The Gutenberg Galaxy, which was releasedjust as the television was starting to become popular. He predictedthe world was entering the fourth, electronic age, which would be characterized by a community of people brought together by technology. He called it the "global village", and said it would be an age when everyone had accessto the same information through technology. The "global village" could be understood to be the internet.

Daniel Harris, a scholar of consumption and style, has observed that until photography finally supplantedillustration as the “primary means of advertising clothing” in the 1950s, glamour inhered lessin the face of the drawing, which was by necessity schematic and generalized, than in the sketch’s attitude, posture, and gestures, especially in the strangely dainty positions of the hands. Glamour once resided so emphatically in the stance of the model that the facesin the illustrations cannot really be said to have expressionsat all, but angles or tilts. The chin raised upwards in a haughty look; the eyes lowered in an attitude of introspection; the head cocked at an inquisitive or coquettish angle: or the profile presented in sharp outline, emanating power the severity like an emperor’s bust embossedon a Roman coin.

Researchers already know that spending long periods of time in a zero-gravity environment-- such as that inside the International Space Station (ISS) -- result in loss of bone density and damageto the body’s muscles. That’s partly why stays aboard the ISS are restrictedat six months. And now, a number of NASA astronauts are reporting that their 20/20 visionfaded after spending time in space, with many needing glasses once they returned to Earth.

In the fast-changing world of modern healthcare, the job of a doctor is more and more like the job of a chief executive. The people who run hospitals and physicians' practices don't just need to know medicine. They must also be ableto balance budgets, motivate a large and diverse staffand make difficult marketing and legal decisions.

The increasing darkness in the Northern Hemisphere this time of year "indicates to the plant that autumnis coming on. So it starts recouping materials from the leavesbefore they drop off. Evergreens protect their needle-like foliage from freezing with waxycoatings and natural "antifreezes." But broadleaf plants, like sugar maples, birches, and sumacs, have no such protections. As a result, they shedtheir leaves. But before they do, the plants first try to salvageimportant nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus.

Americans approached a record level of generosity last year. Of the $260.28 billion given to charity in 2005, 76.5% of it came from individual donors. These people gave across the range of non-profit bodies, from museums to religious organizations, with a heavy emphasison disaster relief after the Asian tsunami and US hurricanes. In total, Americans gave away 2.2% of their household income in 2005, slightly above 40-year average.

At the end of the last ice age, the melting ice disrupted the ocean currents in the North Atlantic and causeda drop in temperature of almost 5 degrees. Even though the rest of the planet was warming up,the North Atlantic region remained in a cold period for 1300 years. The same thing happened around8000 years ago, when the cooling lasted about a hundred years, and it couldhappen again today. Even a short period of cooling in the North Atlantic could have a dramatic effect on the wildlife, and the human populations, living there.

In search of lessons to applyin our own careers, we often try to emulatewhat effective leaders do. Roger Martin says this focus is misplaced, because moves that work in one context may make little sense in another. A more productive, though more difficult, approach is to look at how such leaders think. After extensive interviews with more than 50 of them, the author discovered that most are integrativethinkers -that is, they can hold in their heads two opposing ideas at once and then come up with a new idea that contains elements of eachbut is superior to both.

Egg-eating snakes are a small group of snakes whose dietconsists only of eggs. Some eat only small eggs, which they have to swallow whole, as the snake has no teeth. Instead, some other snakes eat bigger eggs, but it requires special treatment. These snakes have spines that stick out from the backbone. The spines crackthe egg openas it passes through the throat.

Of the more than 1,000 bat species worldwide, 22 are nativeto North America. And while there are no pollinator bats in our area, gardeners should championthose that do live here, because they’re insectivorous. These bats consumemoths, beetles and mosquitoes, and can eat up to 500 mosquito-sized insects per hour. They also protect gardens and crops from such pestsas cucumber beetles, cutworms and leafhoppers.

A Graphic Introduction was put together by northern artists, who have interpreteddiscussions with scientists from the Supergen Bioenergy Hub in a seriesof striking images which imagine alternative futures and explain some of the technology involvedand how it might be put into practice.

Most important of all is the fact that for each new ballet-pantomime created at the Paris Opera during the July Monarchy, a new score was produced. The reason for this is simple: these ballet -pantomimes told stories - elaborate ones -and music was considered an indispensable tool in getting them across to the audience. Therefore, music had to be newly created to fit each story Music tailor-made for each new ballet-pantomime, however, was only one weapon in the Opera's explanatory arsenal. Anotherwas the ballet-pantomime libretto, a printed booklet of fifteen to forty pages in length, which was sold in the Operas lobby(like the opera libretto), and which laid out the plot in painstaking detail, scene by scene. Critics also took it upon themselves to recount the plots (of both ballet-pantomimes and operas) in their reviewsof premieres. So did the publishers of souvenir albums, which also featured pictures of famous performersand of scenes from favorite ballet- pantomimes and operas.

Houston is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in the United States and has an outsized impacton the U.S. economy. More than 90 percent of U.S. offshore oil and gas productiontakes place in the Texas Gulf Coast area, and the Houston region contains the largest concentrationof energy, petrochemical, and refining industries in the United States. Houston is home to 25 percent of the country's petroleum refining capability, 40 percent of the nation's capacity for downstream chemical production, and the fastest-growing liquefied natural gas industry in the nation.

Mercury is not found in many common products that we buy because it can be very dangerous. The most common products that containmercury are batteries, powerful outdoor lights, disinfectants and thermometers, which are used to measure our body's temperature. It can also be found in barometers, which are used to measure air pressure and showchanges in weather, and thermostats, which regulatethe temperature of buildings, Mercury can also be found in printer and photocopy toners.

The wrist watch works by trackinginformation such as a person's pulse or movement. When it detectsa change in a person's health, the watch sends information to a touchscreen hub locatedin the home. The hub then alertspre-determined contacts and calls for help immediately.

Since Austria sits at a high elevation and spends a quarter of the year under snow, it should come as no surprise that heating is a matter of considerable importance in the country. What may be surprising, however, is that Vienna—a grand imperial city of music, art, and history—actually boasts a museum dedicatedspecifically to heating systems.