After Morgentaler, Jean Vanier kept his Order of Canada. Why? Globe and Mail, Canada - Nov 28, 2008 The Globe's Ian Brown, left, with Jean Vanier earlier this year in France. (Ian Brown) The baby always made me think of Walker, my own 12-year-old disabled ...
Nonfiction Reviews Publishers Weekly, NY - Walker, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1701-6 All that the author, a California transplant, wanted was to find the perfect pub in his Dublin neighborhood, ...
Double dutch as an Olympic sport? Globe and Mail, Canada - Nov 22, 2008 7 competition ? the 17th Annual Double Dutch Holiday Classic at the Apollo ? is dedicated to Mr. Walker, who died in July. He had retired from the NYPD as a ...
With Obama's victory, Europe's minorities sense new possibilities Christian Science Monitor, MA - Nov 6, 2008 In the majority-African Paris neighborhood of Chateau Rouge, Rigg Walker, a young Ghanaian, offers a view repeated often: "Whites think blacks can't do more ...
Europe factories in slump, hope for big rate cuts guardian.co.uk, UK - Ross Walker, UK economist at RBS called it "an atrocious survey," adding that it increased the pressure on the Monetary Policy Committee to deliver more ...
English football at risk from French revolution Times Online, UK - Nov 18, 2008 When Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of France, addressed the European Parliament on July 10, before assuming control of the presidency of the Council of the ...
Walker's World: Business as usual at EU Middle East Times, Egypt - Nov 12, 2008 ... from $600 billion in July to around $450 billion now. In January, the Czech Republic succeeds France in the rotating chairmanship of the EU's Council, ...
Jacob's Creek Salutes Australia's Best MarketWatch - Nov 17, 2008 Pernod Ricard USA is the premium spirits and wine company in the US, and the largest subsidiary of Paris, France-based Pernod Ricard SA. In July, 2008 ...
Come On Down to Motown Tyler Morning Telegraph, TX - Nov 21, 2008 ...July 4th celebrations at the Cotton Bowl, Texas Rose Festival Coronation, Texas Breakfast Club in Washington, DC, Carnaval in Nice, France, ...
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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: web + 0.41 Related to the article below (Last Update: 8/5/2008)
Online Resources Posts Second Quarter 2008 Results WELT ONLINE, Germany - Jul 29, 2008 Online Resources Corporation (Nasdaq:ORCC), a leading provider of web-based financial services, today reported financial and operating results for the three ...ORCC
Quarterly Activities Report Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - Jul 27, 2008 BH08003 Blue Hills 143.3m portion of hole only , 100.6m @ 0.41% Cueq, including 30.5m @ 0.51% Cueq BH08004 Blue Hills RC pre-collar DD tail to be NSR in RC ...
EMCOR Group, Inc. Reports Record Second Quarter Results MarketWatch - Jul 29, 2008 This press release and other press releases may be viewed at the Company's Web site at www.emcorgroup.com. EMCOR Group's second quarter conference call will ...EME
Littelfuse Reports Second Quarter Results MarketWatch - Jul 30, 2008 The call will be broadcast live over the Internet and can be accessed through the company's Web site: www.littelfuse.com. Listeners should go to the Web...LFUS
[PDF]Focused crawling: A new approach to topic-specific Web resource discovery - S Chakrabarti, M van den Berg, B Dom - COMPUT. NETWORKS, 1999 - cse.iitb.ac.in ... 1b, each red dot is a Web page, which may be viewed in a browser window ... operators (
+-L" ); an average Alta Vista query has only 2.35 terms and 0.41 operators ...
A Meta-Analysis of Response Rates in Web-or Internet-Based Surveys - C Cook, F Heath, RL Thompson - Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2000 - epm.sagepub.com ... For these populations, e-mail and Web surveys may have only minor coverage problems ...
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Real life information retrieval: a study of user queries on the Web - BJ Jansen, A Spink, J Bateman, T Saracevic - ACM SIGIR Forum, 1998 - portal.acm.org ... But in any case, this, of course, has interesting implications for recall and may
illustrate a need for high precision in Web IR algorithms ... 11 75 0.41 33 1 0.01 ...
Analysis of a very large web search engine query log - C Silverstein, H Marais, M Henzinger, M Moricz - ACM SIGIR Forum, 1999 - portal.acm.org ... of all queries are asked only once in a 6 week period indi- cates that information
needs on the web are quite ... 1 operator in query: 9.7% avg operators: 0.41...
Untangling the Web: Using Price-Response Measures in Enrollment Projections - EPS John - The Journal of Higher Education, 1993 - JSTOR ... In this article I attempt to untangle the web of controversy surrounding the use ...
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The effect of the orally active platelet-activating factor antagonist WEB 2086 in the treatment of … - DP Spence, SL Johnston, PM Calverley, P Dhillon, C … - American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 1994 - Am Thoracic Soc ... during the treatment phase but this was almost identical in the WEB 2086 and ... by an
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Classification of Web documents using a naive Bayes method - Y Wang, J Hodges, B Tang - Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 2003. Proceedings. 15th …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org ... example, in [13], the total number of categories used by Quek?s web document
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HealthWrap: Pot, the 'gateway drug'
By KATE WALKER
UPI Correspondent
LE BUGUE, France, July 6 (UPI) -- A study published by the journal Neuropsychopharmacology has shown that the common assumption of cannabis as a "gateway drug" has its basis in science.
Researchers who gave rats small amounts of cannabis and then allowed them to later self-administer opium found that those rats who had been exposed to cannabis later took larger doses of opium than those who had never been exposed to cannabis.
According to Dr. Yasmin Hurd of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, cannabis' effect on brain chemistry creates an upsurge in positive emotions, to which users can then become accustomed, eventually seeking a greater and greater effect.
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An English woman has suffered great distress after coming through a stroke only to lose her accent.
The woman from the north of England, who had a very distinctive "Geordie" accent, now speaks with what some hear as an Eastern European accent and others hear as Jamaican. She is one of only 50 people to have suffered from foreign-accent syndrome, which was first recorded in Norway during the Second World War.
Linda Walker said: "I was devastated. I don't sound like me. It is so strange because you don't feel the same person. Not only did I have a stroke but I got lumbered with this foreign accent syndrome as well.
"I want my own voice back. It's like losing a big part of your identity. You don't feel like the same person any more."
Foreign-accent syndrome occurs after substantial brain injury and is not always correctable through speech therapy.
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Canada's Manitoba province has confirmed the presence of a cow infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease.
The cow, which was euthanized and inspected once it began to display symptoms of BSE, was more than 15 years old and was born prior to the introduction of legislation governing animal feed designed to prevent the spread of BSE in 1997.
According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which is currently trying to establish the cow's "birth farm" so as to be able to trace other cattle that may have been exposed to the same feed, any investigation will be constrained by the cow's age, which means that detailed records are less likely to be available.
CIFA added that the rate of BSE in Canadian flocks was still low -- there have been six confirmed cases since 2003 -- and that
there was no danger to Canada's food supply as a result of this latest confirmation.
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Some old wives' tales should be taken with a pinch of salt. Others seem so obvious that they can almost be taken for granted. Firmly in the latter category has long been that grandmotherly assertion to cure a stomach ache with heat.
Grandmothers around the world can now be smug in the knowledge they were right all along, as a team of scientists from University College, London's physiology department have proven that when heat over 104 Fahrenheit is applied to the skin, the heat receptors at the pain site temporarily block the signals that send pain messages to the brain.
"The heat deactivates the pain at a molecular level in much the same way as pharmaceutical painkillers work," said study leader Dr. Brian King.
Mass. group won't push for more reforms
BOSTON, July 7 (UPI) -- A group that had sought to push health reforms in Massachusetts beyond the state's new universal coverage law has backed down.
According to a Boston Globe report published this week, the Massachusetts Affordable Care Today coalition said it would abandon its plan to spotlight the issue of more radical reforms on the state's November ballot, and would instead back the recently-passed Massachusetts law mandating health insurance.
The coalition had argued that the state's new law making health insurance a requirement didn't go far enough and allowed too many businesses to avoid a $295-per-employee annual fee for companies that do not provide adequate health insurance coverage.
The coalition -- made up of local labor, religious and community groups -- had originally pushed for inclusion on November ballots a question asking voters if they supported "broader and more radical" reforms than those included in Massachusetts' new law, the Globe said.
