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As part of the Boys into Books 11-14 project, funded by the DfES, Schools Minister Jim Knight has launched a booklist prepared by the School Library Association (SLA) intended to “attract and enthuse” teenage boys to read for pleasure.
New Zealand Ministry of Education - Teacher Status Project: Stage 1 Research
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Diversity and compounding for enhanced discrimination of breast masses in ultrasonic B-scan images
Ultrasonic tissue characterization aims at improving the ability of ultrasound to classify benign and malignant masses. The akagami distribution was recently proposed to model the statistics of the envelope of the backscattered echo from tissue. Its parameters demonstrated an ability to discriminate benign and malignant masses in breast tissue. However, there is a need to improve the performance of the parameters to reach clinically acceptable standards and also to eliminate any influence of var
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Galileo Galilei: The man who looked and changed the world
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Staying Power: Six Enduring Principles for Managing Strategy & Innovation in an Uncertain World
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Leake's survey of the city after the Great Fire of 1666 - Engraved by W. Hollar, 1667
A map of the City of London prepared by John Leake, William Leybourne and four others, to show the extent of the area devastated by the Great Fire of 1666.
Financing the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Expert commentary by William McGreevey
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Science Studio vol 036 – Topic: Flu: epidemic or pandemic - Guest: Peter Palese
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