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    teeny, tiny, fine print at the bottom of a contract or advertisement that makes stomachs turn, as the search for a magnifying glass begins. Andy Rooney once said, “Nothing in fine print is ever good news.” What if certain Bible verses had a small asterisk, which would point to exclusions at the bottom of the page? Some fine print examples might be: “1) Some exclusions may apply, 2) must not have sinned within the last 24 hours, 3) children not included, 4) offer not good after…, 5) void where prohibited

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    Have you ever looked at some Python code that included *args and **kwargs and wondered what in the world are these? Python is supposed to be immediately readable to someone either new to programming or someone coming from another programming language. What gives? The *args and **kwargs variables you commonly see are arbitrary positional and optional parameters respectively. They allow for your functions to accept dynamic parameters. Before we go into what they are and how to use them, let's briefly

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    very different reasons. In, “Final Explosion” by Andrew Pike, a stylistic choice is made to break apart body paragraphs and to create an increased sense of separation between paragraphs, during large subject shifts, as the author uses a series of asterisks to separate paragraphs. The piecing together of a story, with very incohesive short stories and pieces of information, is a stylistic choice in itself, which is built upon in this instance as the author uses this technique to create a coherent

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    Urinary tract infection (UTI) is most common bacterial infection in female, occurs after adhesion of bacteria to the mucosal lining of the urinary bladder. There are numerus factors which can cause UTI including unhygienic practices, sexual activities, catheter use etc. and mainly bacteria called E. coli (Escherichia coli). Since inappropriate use of antibiotics can lead to bacterial resistance (Gomella, 2014). This research essay will formulate PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparison and Outcome)

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    Prevagen Case Study

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    that ?Prevagen can improve memory within 90 days.*? The package adds that Prevagen ?supports healthy brain function,* [a] sharper mind,* and clearer thinking.*? "How can they make these claims if they aren?t true? Simple: every claim has a little asterisk (*) next to it. If you scroll all the way to the bottom of the Prevagen webpage, you?ll find what that

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    Professional sports are a vital component to our society as we know it. Week in and week out, fans fill the stands to cheer on their favorite teams, just the same as they did 50 years ago. On the contrary, these professional sports have evolved with the introduction of new technologies that are erupting controversies, especially in the last decade. Experts suggest that these advantages that today’s players have over those in the past can ruin the integrity of the achievements and records they

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    Adler How To Mark A Book

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    Book”, that to be an active reader, the reader needs to actually write in their book; but also to fully claim ownership of their book. According to Adler, there are plenty of ways one can mark in a book; underlining, vertical lines at the margin, asterisk, numbers in the margin, circling or highlighting, writing in the margin at the bottom or top, etc. One does not initially understand what they are reading, until they feel like they are having a conversation with the author. Adler emphasizes marking

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    Authority control is a set of rules to manage the information into the database. This permits the Frisco Public Library to keep up a persistent and well-arranged book collection in a good manner. This is achieved by adding access point variants. Usual access points are Author, Title and Subject. Couple of the elements are there to make a change for these access points. Both precision and recall are tending to be higher with the authority control. Authority control is used as a reference for indexers

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    Currently, I am taking four upper division classes, which are not included in the table above. They are Anth 3610, Psy 3230, Psy 3220, and Soc 3830. With the exception of Psy 3230, the rest of those courses are apart of my directed electives in criminal justice. I intentionally chose those specific courses because I wanted to learn from other fields relevant and beneficial to my future in law enforcement. For example with Soc 3830, I’m learning about the different types of violence that exist in

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    only round numbers and in others it provides an exact count; we have not attempted to round off or normalize the available data in any way. ANOMALIES We found a couple of anomalies in our search, which we have both noted on the spreadsheet via an asterisk in the entry and a note on row 9. Below are our explanations. In the case of Gatorade, we have given the results from the company's own LinkedIn page, which has very few followers. However, Gatorade's parent company, Pepsico, has 1,595,000 followers

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