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What Is the Most Important Invention in the Past Two Thousand Years
Peter Tallack Brian Goodwin John Brockman WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT INVENTION IN THE PAST TWO THOUSAND YEARS? Introduction by John Brockman A year ago I emailed the participants of The Third Culture Mail List for help with a project which was published on...
A Feasibility Study of On-the-Fly Item Generation in Adaptive Testing
Isaac I. Bejar, René R. Lawless, Mary E. Morley, Michael E. Wagner, Randy E. Bennett, Javier Revuelta Abstract The goal of this study was to assess the feasibility of an approach to adaptive testing using item models based on the quantitative section ...
Teacher's Technology Glossary
Internet protocol that the DNS retrieves in order to allow you to remember addresses with names, not numbers. DNS entries are housed on numerous servers worldwide. Ethernet A common method of networking computers in a Local Area Network (LAN). Ethernet can...
An Introduction to Photosynthesis and its applicat
used for CO2 fixation in a process that is independent of light. CO2 fixation involves a number of reactions that is referred to as the Calvin-Benson cycle. The initial CO2 fixation reaction involves the enzyme ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuB...
Webopedia.com: Modem
standard interface for connecting external modems to computers called RS-232. Consequently, any external modem can be attached to any computer that has an RS-232 port, which almost all personal computers have. There are also modems that come as an expansion board that you can insert into a va...
Molecular Expressions: Images from the Microscope
Image Processing and Analysis - John Russ has taught hands-on courses and extended workshops in image processing and analysis to more than 3000 students, worldwide, over the course of his career. His one-day tutorials and lectures, sponsored by various professional socie...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Gassendi, Pierre
very much among the moderns. For one, he embraces the new empiricist's assessment of the old science: what is wrong with the Aristotelians' physics is its routine presentation, as well as grounding, in apriori theoretical claims. He is not the only, or the first author of such ...
Intel Education: Learning About Technology
pixel in the image corresponds with one or more bits; the number of bits per pixel determines how many shades of gray or colors can be displayed. BMP A Windows format for a bitmapped graphics file. Boolean In computer science and dig...
Telepathic II
resized and and relocated on screen according to user preference. User can define style and size of font, and number of words predicted. Word selection keys can be customized, and minimum word length can be defined. Screenshot of Telephathic being used w...
EDSITEment: Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's "Ethan Fro...
least, the one thing needed to change Ethan’s life from a hell to a heaven would have been the full and free expression of his love for Matt. Romantic love, as idealized for us by our forefathers, has long ago gone into bankruptcy. Had Zeena died and Matt married...
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