The purpose of the nervous system is to transfer information from the PNS to the CNS, process the information in the CNS, and send back information to the PNS. This transfer of information from the ...

In the summer of 2009 I participated in a program called the Summer Science Program (SSP) which really started my interest in computer science. Our main project in this program was to determine the ...

olumbia University was founded in 1754 as King’s College by royal charter of King George II of England. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in ...

Mamadou Diouf is the Leitner Family Professor of African Studies and the Director of Columbia University's Institute for African Studies. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Before ...

Passenger service: June 1916 - May 1975. Existing abandoned portions: 2 platforms, 3 trackways (one with track). Touring: W M trains to 9 Ave. The open station is outside in open cut. To glimpse the ...

Passenger service: August 1913 - September 2004. Existing abandoned portions: The east side platform. Touring: J M Z trains to Canal St, or transfer from N R Q W 6 trains at Canal St. The platform is ...

THAT A TREATMENT can be worse than the disease is more than a cliché. Healers in Hainan, China, and several southeast Asian nations have long known that poultices made from a frog's leg muscles ...

From the United States Government Manual, Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information, 1945: Naval Observatory.--The Naval Observatory at Washington, D.C ...

Existing abandoned portions: 1 platform and an unused trackway. Touring: 2 3 4 5 trains to Nevins St. The underpass between platforms is on the same level as the ...

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Edmund Phelps, the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics, is Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University. Born in 1933, he spent his childhood in Chicago and, from ...

Photo: IBM 1401 Data Processing System Reference Manual A24-1403-x. The IBM 1401 Data Processing System, a stored-program transistor-logic computer announced October 1959. At $2500 per month minimally ...