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"Howard Rheingold offers a glimpse of the future of high-end online learning in which motivated self-learners collaborate via a variety of social media to create, deliver, and learn an agreed curriculum: a mutant variety of pedagogy that more closely resembles a peer-agogy. Rheingold proposes that our intention should be to teach ourselves how to teach ourselves online, and to share what we learn"

Some argue that these genes bring benefits - mental illness and genius have a long-standing link - but archaeologist Penny Spikins at the University of York, UK, goes further. She believes that mental illness and conditions such as autism persist at such high levels because in the past they were advantageous to humanity. "I think that part of the reason Homo sapiens were so successful is because they were willing to include people with different minds in their society - people with autism or schizophrenia, for example."

Access the Wolfram|Alpha platform at multiple levels-from individual results to complete Wolfram|Alpha output pages. The API operates as a high-performance REST-style webservice, with convenient bindings for popular languages and platforms.

Auch der X-chromosomal lokalisierte genetische Polymorphismus des Monoaminooxydase-A-Gens, eines Schlüsselenzyms im Katabolismus von Serotonin und anderen Monoaminen, zeigt eine Beziehung zu Aktivierungsmustern in Hirn arealen, die bedeutsam für die Affektregulation sind. So fand sich bei Trägern des Low(L)-Allels im Vergleich zu Trägern des High(H)-Allels eine höhere Aktivität der Amygdala und eine geringere Aktivität in cingulären und orbitofrontalen Arealen, die auch mit strukturellen Unterschieden, nämlich geringeren limbischen und paralimbischen Volumina bei den Individuen mit der L-Variante, einhergingen (Meyer-Lindenberg, Buckholtz et al. 2006). Diese Befunde könnten einen Beitrag zum Verständnis leisten, warum MAOA-L-Träger eine schlechtere Fähigkeit zur emotionalen Regulation zeigen

HOW do people acquire high levels of skill in science, business, music, the arts and sports? This has long been a topic of intense debate in psychology. Research has shown that intellectual ability matters for success in many fields - and not just up to a point.

culturomics: the application of high-throughput data collection and analysis to the study of human culture.

Tabula will be platform and content agnostic, working with as many brands and versions of tablet computers as possible. Of course, compatibility takes coding hours, so we'll start with one or two platforms and build from there. But let's just say we fully recognize the value of high-end and lower-cost hardware when it comes to solutions to help schools thrive.

"For this study, the investigators bred mice lacking TRPV4 or administered a drug to deactivate it. In the absence of TRPV4, white cells turned on a set of genes that consume energy to produce heat, rather than storing the energy as excess fat. This "thermogenic" process normally occurs in brown or beige fat (commonly called "good fat"), which is found mostly in small animals and human infants to protect against cold. When the TRPV4-deficient mice were put on a high-calorie diet for several weeks, they did not become obese, and their level of fat cell inflammation and insulin resistance was lowered. "We have identified a target that, when inhibited, can activate beige adipose tissue and suppress inflammation," said Spiegelman."

"computerbasedmath.org is the project to perform this reset. We're building a completely new math curriculum with computer-based computation at its heart, while campaigning at all levels to redefine math education away from historical hand-calculating techniques and toward real-life problem-solving situations that drive high-concept math understanding and experience."

"We build and investigate software systems for parallel and distributed environments. We have conducted research in operating systems, networking, mobile computing, language design, compiler design, and architecture, taking a pragmatic approach: we build high-performance, reliable, and working systems."

"The Open University is the world's leading provider of flexible, high quality online degrees and distance learning/e learning, serving students across the globe with highly respected degree qualifications, including the triple accredited MBA degree."

Pillbox enables rapid identification of unknown solid-dosage medications (tablets/capsules) based on physical characteristics and high-resolution images.

Providing free access to primary sources, building high-quality online teaching modules, and offering instruction on critical thinking skills.

"Evolution likes to keep what works best. The rest falls by the wayside. In theory, this means that the most "fit" variations, say, a color that looks poisonous or one particularly attractive to the ladies, would become the most common. By this logic, the many colors of the guppy should have conformed to a single common pattern long ago. But they haven't. Instead, the male guppies continue to show not only bright colors but also a high diversity of colors. What keeps the variety going? The rare-male effect. Female guppies prefer the males that are rare, no matter what their color pattern actually is. This effect has been documented in the laboratory in guppies and in other species like fruit flies."

Dr. Franz Glatz, Annette Keller "Die richtige Adresse für Startups aus den Bereichen Mechatronik, Software, Informations- und Kommunikations- technik sowie junge High-Tech-Unternehmen"

The goal of the IETF is to make the Internet work better. The mission of the IETF is to make the Internet work better by producing high quality, relevant technical documents that influence the way people design, use, and manage the Internet. Newcomers to the IETF should start here.

You can make use of the best sediment erosion control services, techniques & products offered by "Coastline Sediment Control" in Australia. The services include high quality, sediment fence with standard high grade materials.

ScienceDaily (June 2, 2010) - Using high-throughput sequencing to map the locations of a common type of jumping gene within a person's entire genome, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found extensive variation in these locations among the individuals they studied, further underscoring the role of these errant genes in maintaining genetic diversity.