Coarctation of the aorta occurs in one-quarter of the patients with Turner's syndrome. This condition is normally more common in males than in females. This is true also for cases of red–green color blindness (see Bishop, 1962), but this abnormality is known to be genetically determined...
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… The great impediment was that geologists only studied that one quarter of the earth’s surface not covered by ice or water; at that time no one had any means for exploring the great interior or the ocean floors. — Tuzo Wilson In 'Early Days in University Geophysics', Annual Review of...
In Phil Plait’s excellent book, Bad Astronomy,5Mr. Plait points out that very simple math shows that our non-circular orbit counts for at most a 7°F (4°C) difference, summer or winter. That’s right: statistically, the elliptical shape of our orbit contributes nothing to weather or ...
A Baker’s Quarter Dozen So let’s make some cookies! Oddly enough, critics of the plain sugar cookies I bought for this project claimed the they were “GMO,” apparently because they didn’t have the silly little non-GMO butterfly. One of the dangers of GMO labelling is nobody understa...
The global ocean absorbs roughly a quarter of carbon emissions from human activities, which is extremely important in helping to slow climate change. On the flip side, however, this benefit does come at a cost: as oceans take in more carbon, their waters become more acidic, endangering the ...
a cause of racial inequality is both racist and seen aspseudoscientific. But even from a strictly pragmatic perspective, we can only influence environmental factors since we don’t have the tools to ethically influence genetics. Besides, given thataround a quarterof the population today were alive...
E-7 Fiscal Quarter... E-7 Fiscal Period ...
When from one quarter the wind builds up, lunges,Muscles the deep caves with its headstrong power,The earth leans hard where the force of wind has pressed it;Then above ground, the higher the house is built,The nearer it rises to the sky, the worseWill it lean that way and jut out ...
"I am wrought with sister and brother, it is very sore work; cannot say how many rakes or journeys I make from pit's bottom to wall face and back, thinks about 30 or 25 on the average; the distance varies from 100 to 250 fathom. I carry about 1 cwt. and a quarter on my back...