The USA has emitted the most to date: more than a quarter of all historical CO2 — twice that of China, which is the second largest contributor. In contrast, most countries across Africa have been responsible for less than 0.01% of all emissions over the last 266 years. What becomes ...
The NES workshops were just one week long, but during the second year there would be follow-up workshops where each field center had a speciality workshop that previous NES teachers could choose to attend, along with another group of new schools. Altogether, over three years, I taught the t...
You start working at a quarter to nine and finish at a quarter past five, OK Now, students aren’t allowed to bring large bags into the library. But staff can bring their bags in and leave them in the office. You have an hour for lunch. But I don’t like staff eating in the ...
South Korea observed a week of mourning for those who died. In the same week, North Korea launched more than 80 missiles making for a somewhat tense atmosphere in the South. However, day to day life seemed to continue as normal and everything appeared to run like clockwork – at least to...
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Experiments suggest that if the transmitting and receiving antennas are spaced more than a quarter of a wavelength apart, then the channel gains between pairs of antennas become independent. Therefore the entries of H are typically modeled as iid random variables. It can be shown that if the ...
Some kids are fine. The impact of the pandemic was not universally adverse. At scale, the mental health crisis—and shortage ofprofessional help—is alarming. Still, depending on the measure used, statistically one quarter, one third, or half of kids may be alright. Some kids even benefitted...
Selecting calendar periods that are calculated by date functionssuch as quarter, week in year and day in year. Before the introduction of a date dimension concept in dimensional modeling, every BI application had to perform these date operations every time a query was performed. ...
England but grew up in the Jewish Quarter of Paris on Rue des Rosiers. His parents were actors in the Yiddish theatre but divorced. Eventually, the biological father took Morris to Montreal, Quebec before he made his way down to Hartford, Connecticut and met my grandmother, Rose. He was a...
I’d really rather be paying $11 each for cups of extremely bad beer and then standing in a quarter-inch of other people’s urine in packed men’s rooms. I long to get caught up in post-game brawls where people fight to defend the reputations of spoiled young athletes who pay armed ...