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In his landmark 1776 book, Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith called money one of the three great inventions, including the written word and mathematics. Money has helped businesses grow more efficiently, markets expand more dynamically and nations trade more effectively.But there is something still in use in the marketplace today that humans used for millennia before money: barter. Indeed, barter ...
2011-08-15 03:32:07
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Student test scores: California students posted moderate gains on test scores released Tuesday, continuing a trend of recent years.
2011-08-15 03:48:47
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TORRANCE - A Rancho Palos Verdes man pleaded guilty today to a vehicular manslaughter charge stemming from a December 2009 crash that killed a Marymount College mathematics professor. Ho Jai Lee, 18, is facing a maximum two-year state prison term.
1969-12-31 06:00:00
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"She looked down her nose at me and sneered, ‘What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?’ That was the sort of reception that I got most of the way.” Shaking off stereotypes But Roman was determined to become an astronomer and learn ...
1969-12-31 06:00:00
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Remember? They bid things like the distance from the earth to the sun, the number pi, and some other wacky numbers from mathematics. Which led ultra Apple fanboy MG Siegler to crow that Google had got “pi in the face” and was “living in a dream world ...
1969-12-31 06:00:00
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Dr. Andrew Swift, past chairman of the American Statistical Association's Section on Statistics in Sports and an assistant mathematics professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, said the analysis and its methodology were sound. "Any way you want to ...
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These programs create innovative education experiences in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. For more information please visit www.northropgrumman.com/foundation.
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WASHINGTON TWP. (Aug. 10, 2011) — Members of Warren County Community College’s mathematics honor society recently earned national recognition at the 2011 Mu Alpha Theta National Convention in Dallas, Texas. The group placed 12th and was awarded ...
1969-12-31 06:00:00
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Statewide, 54 percent of students scored either at or above proficient in English language arts, and 50 percent scored at or above proficient in mathematics. YOUR SCHOOL: Find out how your school did on the STAR test While the STAR results showed an ...
1969-12-31 06:00:00
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( Louisiana Tech University ) Dr. Randall Barron, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at Louisiana Tech University, and Dr. Brian Barron, lecturer in mathematics and statistics at Louisiana Tech, have completed "Design for Thermal Stresses" -- a college-level engineering textbook that provides design tools that allow engineers to understand and alleviate potential problems involving ...
2011-08-15 01:28:36
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California's students continue to steadily improve their performance across the board, with a larger proportion than ever scoring proficient or higher on the 2011 Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program exams in English-language arts, mathematics, science, and history-social science, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced today.
2011-08-15 02:50:41
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and Mathematics: A White Paper.” Available at http://www.pearsonassessments.com/automated_scoring_paper, the paper gives educators, policymakers, and test developers explanations of how automated scoring works, how well it works, and its potential for ...
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The top five with the highest median earnings: petroleum engineer ($120,000); pharmacy ($105,000); mathematics and computer sciences ($98,000); aerospace engineering ($87,000) and chemical engineering ($86,000).
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The upcoming General Assembly session will be a battle of wills -- not only between Democrats and Republicans but involving a group of GOP freshmen legislators challenging their leadership's policy of "revenue neutrality." The concept was explained -- no ...
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But any relief felt by Gov. Scott Walker and Republican leadership was tempered Wednesday as the mathematics of passing new legislation settled in. If Democrats win their two recall elections this week, Republicans will have a narrow 17-to-16 Senate majority.
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