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Dry, flaky skin, also referred to as xerosis, not only looks unattractive, it can be uncomfortably tight and itchy. In severe cases, the skin is so dry that fissures and cracks develop which can become inflamed or infected. The symptoms worsen in the winter months when skin is exposed to dry air and heat, but some peop... |
Lesson 1: Why Pray?
This first lesson of a series of three will introduce children to the importance of prayer in their daily lives.
Christian Living, Knowing God, Listening, Prayer, Relationships
AS KIDS ARRIVE (10 minutes)
Display the following items on a table:
Telephone Newspaper Letters & Envelopes Road Map Radio
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Elementary School • Holidays
Encyclopedia of American Holidays and National Days: Volume 1 http://0-ebooks.abc-clio.com.ilsweb.lvccld.org/main.aspx?l=E&t=title
Encyclopedia of American Holidays and National Days: Volume 2 http://0-ebooks.abc-clio.com.ilsweb.lvccld.org/reader.aspx?isbn=9780313014918
Holidays - Kids Info... |
It is interesting to see how much we learn in our life time. Our learning process starts with very first day of our life; and ends with our life only. Even when we are not consciously learning anything; our subconscious mind keep grasping things. Scientists have proved that humans, as well as animals, learn many things... |
Depending on a building’s size, location, amount of thermal insulation, and energy costs, a reflective coating can provide energy savings by reducing a building’s cooling loads. While each building obviously is different, a typical building located in a southern climate with large enough roof area and minimal amounts o... |
Aloha from Maui!
The landfill on Maui is a great example of kuleana (responsibility). Though we can proclaim that it is a digusting eyesore, all of us have contributed to its ever growing destruction. Taking responsibility for the trash you create by consuming a product, should be made of the utmost priority. Everyone ... |
Lake Science (Home)
lesson plans at Westminster's
GSL Project site.
Paul Hooker: As a chemist,
I am interested in the chemical composition
of the lake and how it changes. At present
my research is focused on the element selenium
(Se). Though selenium is a nutritionally
essential element, it has also proven to
be toxic ... |
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Nonograms, also known as Hanjie, Paint by Numbers, or Griddlers, are picture logic puzzles in which cells in a grid have to be colored or left blank according to numbers given at the side of the grid to reveal a hidden picture. In this puzzle type, the numbers measure h... |
Endodontic therapy in dental setup should be simple, predictable and of course the most wanted by patients that's painless and time saving. In recent dental advances RCT is the preferred management modality, for root canal infections.RCT for molars are more challenging and demanding, due to the multicanal system. Since... |
Prostate cancer Hedgehod Signal
Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered a possible way to distinguish lethal metastatic prostate cancers from those restricted to the walnut-size organ.
If future studies show their test -- measuring the level of activity of a signaling pathway called Hedgehog -- can predict which pros... |
Erin Marie Blasco, Public Programs Coordinator, Smithsonian National Postal Museum
This month, the U.S. Postal Service announced that living figures would be considered for commemoration on postage stamps. Its invitation to suggest names of living individuals in sports, entertainment, and other professions to the Citiz... |
Let Me Feel Your Pulse
( Originally Published 1936 )
"The familiar figure of the doctor, watch in hand," as S. Weir Mitchell's phrase is, itself indicates the value of the hints given to the diagnostician by the pulse. It is almost impossible to dissociate our idea of the doctor from his watch and thermometer. And, ind... |
Māori, and increasing numbers of non-Māori, hold strong and positive views about te reo Māori, the Māori language. Since the 1970s there has been a groundswell of support for the revival and protection of te reo Māori. This has been the result of collaborative efforts by Te Reo Māori Society and Ngā Kaiwhakapümau i te ... |
First-born children may have a higher risk of developing high blood pressure or diabetes than their siblings, according to a new study by the University of Auckland’s Liggins Institute in New Zealand.
The study documents that first-born children have higher daytime blood pressure and are less able to absorb sugars into... |
These findings come from a little-noticed report the FDA released back in December. The report, which was dumped onto the FDA's web site without so much as a mention or a press release, compiles data from 5,236 samples of chicken breasts, ground turkey, ground beef and pork chops that were taken in 2008. It's unclear w... |
The economic debacle of 2008 brought the modern economic system to the brink of total collapse. In fact, there was a brief period of weeks in September and October of 2008 when the most powerful people in the world were unsure what was going to happen. The incredible shock and general mayhen that swept through the mark... |
Polar bear skin is black and the fur is not white at all. Each individual hair is a clear hollow tube called guard hair and looks white because of reflected light. The bear’s thin undercoat is not hollow. Like the guard hair it is colorless. This optical illusion provides good hunting camouflage in the snow and pack ic... |
* Realistic applications integrated throughout the text, including (but not limited to):
- Symmetries of artistic patterns
- Computer vision
- Computer graphics
- Stability of architectural structures
- Molecular biology
- Pattern recognition
* Historical notes included in many chapters
* Instructor's Manual with solut... |
6 x 9
The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization (nine volumes) makes available to students and teachers a unique selection of primary documents, many in new translations. These readings, prepared for the highly praised Western civilization sequence at the University of Chicago, were chosen by an outsta... |
There's nothing worse than the sound of someone snoring if you're trying to fall asleep. Or maybe it's you who snores, and people tease you about the noise you make in your sleep.
Snoring isn't just noisy. Sometimes it's a sign of a serious medical problem that should be treated by a doctor. Read on to find out more ab... |
Sequence of Tenses
The rules governing verb tenses are dictated by logic; an action in the future obviously cannot happen before an action in the past. In writing, it’s a matter of looking at your clauses and sentences, and determining when each action is happening. The past must come before the present, and the presen... |
(Phys.org) —University of Manchester historians have identified the first modern dog: a Pointer called 'Major'. A description of the animal, found by the team in a now obscure 1865 edition of a Victorian journal called "The Field", was the first attempt to define a dog breed standard based on physical form.
John Henry ... |
Kawasaki DiseaseWhat is Kawasaki disease?
Kawasaki disease is the most common form of vasculitis that primarily affects children. The disease produces irritation and inflammation of many tissues of the body, including the hands, feet, whites of the eyes, mouth, lips, and throat. High fever and swelling of the lymph nod... |
sSherwani, the oriental long coat has a very
long history in South Asia, since it has been originated here. It
has long been treated as the dress of nobility, and even the great
many political leaders have used it throughout their lives, like;
M.A.Jinnah, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Nawab Mosin ul Mulk, Nawab Waqar
ul Mulk, S... |
Assistive Technology Assessment: Are Our Assessment Strategies Providing the Needed Information?By Korsten, Jane; Closing the Gap, Vol. 26, No. 4
Closing the Gap, Inc.
Publication Date: October/November 2007
Article offers a historical perspective on assistive-technology assessment, from being an expert-conducted, prod... |
This blog did not yet exist when the Skin exhibition was held in London as an invitation to reflect on our most overlooked organ. Our skin protects us from external aggressions, enables us to feel and transmits cultural characteristics.
Skin is a philosophical journey to the skin through images, the earliest anatomical... |
Massive Lockheed Martin Solar Arrays To Be Launched To International Space Station
SUNNYVALE, Calif., 21-AUG-06 -- The second of four pairs of massive solar arrays and a Solar Alpha Rotary Joint (SARJ), built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] at its Space Systems facility in Sunnyvale, will be launched aboard the space sh... |
The favorite meal of the starfish is a juicy oyster. But the starfish’s mouth, which is located under its body, present a problem, it is smaller than an oyster.
And the oyster presents another problem, it is protected by a hard shell. So when a starfish finds an oyster, it climbs on top of it and locks its many arms ar... |
Around 400 new cases of oral cancer are diagnosed each year in Ireland, and two people die each week from the disease, yet awareness is very low. Oral cancer is the sixth most common cancer among men and it kills more people than cervical cancer and malignant melanomas.
Patients on the Medical card and PRSI schemes are... |
The 50 State Quarters Program has run its course with the release of five different quarters each year from 1999 to 2008. Each quarter featured a different design highlighting the uniqueness and history of each state.
The program has been credited with reinvigorating the hobby of coin collecting. It provided individual... |
Gaius Trebonius was a Roman politician and general. As a patrician, he showed conservative tendencies during his term as quaestor beginning in 60 B.C., but he later became a strong supporter of Julius Caesar and the populares.
As tribune, in 55 B.C. he sponsored the Lex Trebonia, by which Pompey and Crassus, that year'... |
Yellow fever is an acute viral infectious disease that is transmitted to humans through the bite of infected mosquitoes. Though many cases of yellow fever are mild and self-limiting, yellow fever can also be a life-threatening disease causing hemorrhagic fever and hepatitis (hence the term "yellow" from the jaundice it... |
Park, large area of ground set aside for recreation. The earliest parks were those of the Persian kings, who dedicated many square miles to the sport of hunting; by natural progression such reserves became artificially shaped by the creation of riding paths and shelters until the decorative possibilities became an inhe... |
When stripes of different colour are woven width-ways and length-ways, they cross over each other at right angles and create an interweaving of colour, giving rise to balanced checks or the mystical pattern known as plaid.
The word plaid originally referred to the woven woolen cloth worn over the shoulder or around the... |
Each year thousands of cotton bales are shipped from the San Joaquin Valley to textile mills worldwide with an orange tag on them containing an ominous warning.
These bales hold cotton from varieties trudging through three years of mandatory testing by the San Joaquin Valley Cotton Board in hopes of becoming “approved”... |
The US spent $2.7 trillion on healthcare in 2013, more than 17 percent of GDP. According to a Commonwealth Fund study, despite the high spending on health care, Americans have poor population health compared to other high-income countries (indicated by low life expectancy at birth, chronic conditions, obesity rates, in... |
Chinese media frequently report harrowing tales of babies being abandoned, a problem attributed to young mothers unaware they are pregnant, the birth of an unwanted girl in a society which puts greater value on boys or China's strict family planning rules.
In one such case, a baby was found in a dumpster on the outskir... |
It is proper Netiquette to make consumer investment low. Do make transactions easy.
Reaching consumers online mostly involves getting them to follow a user path. The path is the product. Investment must be low. This means it must be easily identified and fast. Slow user paths are often abandoned.
There are two ways of ... |
Maybe, like me, you read everything you could get your eyes on last week about the gene patenting case, and spent several days pondering the implications of the ruling by the Supreme Court that companies like Myriad Genetics can’t patent isolated human genes. Or, maybe you’re a busy person with not much time to dive de... |
Newswise — NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Mosquitos are involuntary bioterrorists. For many years scientists thought that mosquitoes provided the disease organisms which they spread with a relatively free ride because the insects didn’t have much in the way of natural defenses to fight off these microscopic stowaways.
Recent resea... |
Find out which are the harmful enemies of healthy skin and how to fight them. Fight against pollution, smoking and other factors like over-exfoliating that are harmful to your skin.
The enemies of healthy skin and how to fight
Our skin can suffer a lot due to weather conditions, bad nutrition and other harmful factors.... |
The German Army decided that, as they thought the 7.92 mm cartridge was too powerful, they needed to develop a new cartridge. The cartridge they developed was the 7.92x33mm round. In 1942, Haenel and Walther were both tasked with creating rifles that utilized this new ammunition. This led to the development of two new ... |
Omega 3 Fatty Acids
Essential Fatty Acids
"The Good Fats - EPA & DHA"
The "good fats" or "healing fats" are the fats that we must obtain in order to be healthy. The key components of healing fats are the essential fatty acids - EPA & DHA. There are several different families of fatty acids but only two of these familie... |
Unformatted text preview: EXAM 3
Andrew M Kolchin
1. Definition of Momentum (For an object or for a group of
objects): Momentum = mass * velocity; p = mv
2. Definition of an Impulse
Impulse = Force * Time interval; I = F ∆t
3. Impulse-Momentum Theorem:
Impulse applied to an object = The change in momentum
of the object; ... |
2LLI is a supplemental, five day a week 30 minute literacy intervention for K, 1, and 2 students who struggle with literacy in the classroom. The intervention is for no more than 3 students and meant to be short-term to accelerate student’s progress. The system includes appropriate leveled text reading, intensive syste... |
Sunday, November 14, 2010
This Article was published in
Pakistan Observer (November 10, 2010)
By Sahibzada Hussain Mohi-ud-Din Qadri
Happiness has remained an elusive concept over the centuries. Philosophers, religious scholars, sociologists, and academicians have held out their opinions and tried to define what happin... |
NEW RESOURCES: Bureau of Justice Statistics Releases "Capital Punishment, 2010"
On December 20, the Bureau of Justice Statistics released its annual set of statistical tables on the death penalty in the United States, covering information for 2010. Hightlights from the report include:
-The average time spent on death r... |
|Zone of Confidence Table|
When a Hydrographer issues a chart, a table showing the Zone of Confidence, or margin of error expected, is placed in the explanatory notes alongside a plan showing the zone boundaries. The most accurate depths will be within the maintained depth channels bounded by buoys or beacons and which... |
Michio Kaku argues brain-to-brain communication would involve not just the exchange of information, but also the transmission of emotions and feelings, “because these are also part of the fabric of our thoughts.”
One thing I have been thinking about is when this occurs, what happens to the conscious mind, the individua... |
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LSKV / DDIM custom lm-eval tasks
Mirror of ppl/evals/custom_tasks/ from the ls_kv repo, hosted so eval can
run on other servers without copying local jsonl files.
Tasks
| task | data location | notes |
|---|---|---|
fineweb_edu_valid |
fineweb_edu_valid/fineweb_edu_valid.jsonl |
held-out fineweb-edu validation slice |
wikitext103 |
external: EleutherAI/wikitext_document_level |
only the yaml + detokenizer live here |
Usage on another server
hf auth login # account with read access
hf download mississippiu/lskv-custom-eval-tasks \
--repo-type dataset --local-dir ./custom_tasks
lm_eval --model hf --model_args pretrained=... \
--tasks fineweb_edu_valid,wikitext103 \
--include_path ./custom_tasks
The YAMLs reference the data via dataset_path: mississippiu/lskv-custom-eval-tasks,
so the jsonls are pulled from this Hub repo automatically.
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