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There are also likely to be a number of deaths of patients who were never tested and therefore classified as ordinary pneumonia or flu deaths, rather than COVID-19. So it's not obvious that the long term mortality rate would be less th
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As of the morning, per Global Times, Hubei has 2.67% ratio of deaths to cases. For China outside of Hubei, the ratio is 0.55%. Of course, these are raw figures, and the lower ratio outside of Hubei may be simply due to the cases being newer
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Class must have been important, considering that many early colonists in the mid-Atlantic and southern colonies were shipments of prisoners and indentured servants. After the War of Independence, a large number of other Europeans left trace
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17 light hours away. I wonder whether they will be able to communicate with them when they get to one light day away.
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It is just a matter of the maturity of the industry. Beginning in the late 1890s there were about 3000 automobile companies in the US. After a few decades there were the big three and a few also rans. The IT industry is undergoing a similar
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The how can often be determined. The why is often conjecture after the fact. History is written by the victors.
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>Laboratory studies on the reconstructed 1918 virus began in August 2005. A report of this work, “Characterization of the Reconstructed 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic Virus”, was published in the October 7, 2005, issue of Science.14 To
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The adoption of a new technology can be an occasion to reorganize, reassign, and create new effective teams in the organization. It may allow the solution of people problems whether or not it actually addresses any technical problems.
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No, but as a child I lived in a house heated by wood in Minnesota, so I have an idea of how much wood it takes. Dead wood small enough to break by hand is unlikely to produce heat over night. You want fairly big chunks of hardwood for that.
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The notion that fire was used for warmth seems implausible. First, it would take a lot of fuel, and harvesting enough fuel with stone axes would seem to be a great deal of work. When the climate is really cold, as in tundra, fuel is not rea
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Journals and papers should be obsolete. New results should be entered into an AI system containing the existing body of knowledge on the subject and which can rapidly evaluate whether the new result is consistent with, contradicts or extend
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Both the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China claim to be the sole legitimate government of all of China. Only one color is needed. >The political and legal statuses of Taiwan are contentious issues. The People'
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There is no such thing as "ethical technology". A controlled fire can be used to cook food, repel predators, and torture enemies.
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It no doubt aided the movement to deinstitutionalize patients with mental illness. Between 1955 and 1994, most state hospitals for the mentally ill were closed. This was done with the best of intentions, but the implementation led to the cu
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Is the market also segmented by language community?
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Back in the day, growing up, the storekeepers may not have known my name, but they certainly knew my parents. I didn't realize until much later that a number of them were my parents second and third cousins. Cheers - where everybody kn
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The restrictions on travel in China will be an interesting experiment in how much interurban travel is essential. My take would be that with modern communications and IT infrastructure, there is actually very little need for interurban trav
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>What’s Lurking in Your Countertop? >But with increasing regularity in recent months, the Environmental Protection Agency has been receiving calls from radon inspectors as well as from concerned homeowners about granite countertops wi
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ESRI is a major US company in the Geographic Information Systems, mainly for government and business. >Coordinate systems, map projections, and geographic (datum) transformations >Every dataset has a coordinate system, which is used t
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Isn't this why product testing, security auditing, and the quality control function that processes customer feedback and complaints have to be in a separate organization that reports directly to the top? Just like you need a comptrolle
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Non-retirement investments are subject to seizure to pay creditors. Yes, retirement accounts are limited in terms of annual contributions. But bankruptcy protection is one factor to consider in whether to max your contributions and/or
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>GPS JAMMING EXPECTED IN SOUTHEAST DURING MILITARY EXERCISE >GPS reception may be unavailable or unreliable over a large portion of the southeastern states and the Caribbean during offshore military exercises scheduled between January
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It doesn't look like a robot in the sense that it cannot move or manipulate anything. It looks more like a conventional nursing terminal station fitted with a video camera for remotely viewing the patient. There doesn't even seem
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401Ks, IRAs and other retirement plans are usually protected unless the creditor is the Federal government, e.g. the IRS or the Department of Education.
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Schools and colleges should prepare students to earn a living. Once they can do that, they can educate themselves by reading and taking courses for the rest of their lives.
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Coronavirus weaker than Sars but may share link to bats, Chinese scientists say(scmp.com)
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>The Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) is an XML format used to describe scientific literature published online. It is a technical standard developed by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and approved by the American N
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>The WHO based its estimates on an analysis of the latest data from Canada, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Vietnam. "On the basis of more detailed and complete data, and more reliable methods, WHO now estimates that the case fatal
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>Of the 298 infected, nearly 230 are being treated in the hospital. Among them, around 60 cases are critically ill. Others who are sick have recovered or been sent home from the hospital. And six people have died. >It’s possible there
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For data, see Figures 3a and 3b of http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2019/10/ The long term trend is decrease of 12.9% per decade. The steepest decline over 13 years is 1999 to 2012. There has been little dec

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