The primary effect of the Aral Sea desiccation has been the significant loss of water in the sea. The water level has dropped approximately 23 meters since the onset of its primary sources of water ...

The Aral Sea is situated in Central Asia, between the Southern part of Kazakhstan and Northern Uzbekistan. Up until the third quarter of the 20th century it was the world?s fourth largest saline lake, ...

My dad's job takes us to postwar West Germany for two and a half years. We lived in US Army housing and I went to the Army high school for 9th, 10th, and 11th grades.

Rajiv Sethi is a Professor of Economics at Barnard College, Columbia University and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He was a 2020-21 Joy Foundation Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe ...

Columbia’s Department of Classics is the center of an exceptionally strong array of faculty specializing in antiquity; to its core faculty in Greek and Latin languages and literature, it adds those in ...

The immense international success of Death of a Salesman comes from the intellectual force of the play’s central idea prevailing over the glaring defects of Arthur Miller’s execution. But the ...

In French, the subjunctive is used in a number of subordinate clauses. As it occurs rather frequently, it is important to learn the rules that govern its use. In the exercises that follow, fill in the ...

A derivative is a function which measures the slope. It depends upon x in some way, and is found by differentiating a function of the form y = f (x). When x is substituted into the derivative, the ...

Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic.

Effective public health programs, research, and policy relating to human sexuality, pregnancy, contraception, and the transmission of sexually transmitted infections (including HIV) depends upon ...

The Optimization set of options are used to speed up and reduce the amount of network flow between the CLI/ODBC Driver and the server. The DB2 CLI function (API) name ...

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 ...