5 What is crowdsourcing? How does the site Galaxy Zoo manage crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing is the process of obtaining needed services‚ ideas‚ or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people‚ and especially from an online community‚ rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. While this definition from Merriam Webster is valid‚ a more specific definition is heavily debated. The process of crowdsourcing is often used to subdivide tedious work and has occurred successfully
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The Nominee In this assignment‚ I am tasked with nominating a 20th-century figure whose work or artistic contributions can be classified in both the Age of Modernism and the Age of Pluralism for the 20th Century Genius Award. My nominated figure stands out in my mind as a genius of Western culture in many ways. I have nominated the one and only Albert Einstein. This nomination may seem cliché to some‚ but no one can deny the fact that his work in the world of science and theory is still very much
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Royal College of Chemistry and studied chemistry under a well educated man named‚ “August Wilhelm von Hofmann”. Later in 1851 William became the assistant of August. As time went by (Three years) William was allotted as an assistant in Radcliffe Observatory‚ Oxford (In the Meteorological Department). Later in 1855‚ William received a chemical post in Chester; as time progressed William became more and more ensconced into Science and was practically giving his life for Science. In 1861‚ William Hausen
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Greeks compared to the Maya Looking around too all the different ethnicities that can be found in this world‚ two of those most interesting cultures would have to be the Greeks and the Maya. The ancient Greek and Mayan civilizations have many similar characteristics but they also have many differences. The Mayan’s are an indigenous Mesoamerican culture found in present day South America. As where the Greeks are an ethnicity group native to Greece. The history of the Greece can be traced back
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Catherine Mayers Crisis and Controversy Paper #1 9/23/12 Global Warming Hoax or is it Our Fault? There has been talk about global warming for years. Global Warming is an increase in the earth’s average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect. Some of the “results” of global warming include‚ increase in temperatures‚ extreme weather patterns‚ rise in sea levels‚ massive crop failures‚ wide spread extinction of species
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DEFINITIONS OF RISK Brian A. Burt‚ BDS‚ MPH‚ PhD Correpondence: Dr. Brian A. Burt Department of Epidemiology School of Public Health University of Michigan 109 Observatory Street Ann Arbor‚ MI 48109-2029 Phone: 734-764-5478 Fax: 734-764-3192 E-mail: bburt@umich.edu Reprints will not be available. 2 Abstract: Risk-related terms such as risk factor‚ modifiable risk factor‚ demographic risk factor‚ risk indicator‚ determinant‚ and risk marker are often not well defined in the literature. This short
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Carbon dioxide is the gas largely blamed for global warming. It has reached record-high levels (1) _______ the atmosphere after growing (2) _______ an accelerated pace in the past year‚ say scientists monitoring the sky from the 3km-high Mauna Loa Observatory atop a Hawaiian volcano. The reason (3) _______ the faster build-up of the most important greenhouse gas will require further analysis‚ experts in the United States government say. Carbon dioxide‚ mostly from burning (4) _______ coal‚ petrol
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greenhouse gasses such as Carbon Dioxide (CO2)‚ Nitrous Oxide (N2O) and Methane (CH4) render the Earth’s atmosphere more transparent to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted and reflected from the planet’s surface (NASA Earth Observatory). With this extra heat trapped within the atmosphere‚ the temperature of the surface of the planet increases very slightly over hundreds of years. However these small incremental increases in the Earth’s surface temperature accumulates to an amount
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Have you ever heard of Mauna Loa? Rising gradually to more than 4 km above sea level‚ Mauna Loa is the largest volcano on our planet. Its long submarine flanks descend to the sea floor an additional 5 km‚ and the sea floor in turn is depressed by Mauna Loa’s great mass another 8 km. This makes the volcano’s summit about 17 km (56‚000 ft) above its base! The enormous volcano covers half of the Island of Hawaii and by itself amounts to about 85 percent of all the other Hawaiian Islands combined. Now
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NUREMBERG The Christmas Market at Hauptmarkt Square Nuremberg is one of the most historical‚ influential‚ and innovative cities of Germany and of Central Europe. With a population over one million citizens‚ Nuremberg has been culturally and historically significant in many events spanning its near 1000 years of existence. The city has seen the brunt of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Regime‚ as well as the famous Nuremberg Trails that followed. Nuremberg proved extremely innovative as it was a center for
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