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Prevent diabetes problems: Keep your feet and skin healthy.(Pamphlet)
Pamphlet by: National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive& Kidney Diseases
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May 3, 2000
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COPYRIGHT 2000 National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.
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What are diabetes problems?
Too much sugar in the blood for a long time causes diabetes problems. This high blood sugar can damage many parts of the body, such as the heart, blood vessels, and kidneys. Diabetes problems can be scary, but there is a lot you can do to prevent them or slow them down.
This booklet is about feet and skin problems caused by diabetes. You will learn the things you can do each day and during each year to stay healthy and prevent diabetes problems.
What should I do each day to stay healthy with diabetes?
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Buffon: A Life in Natural History
Magazine article from: Northeastern Naturalist
; Buffon: A Life in Natural History. Jacques...pp. Hardcover, ISBN 0801429188. Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788), the most important...This reviewer was struck first by Buffon's attachment to reality and finally...
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Coin on a chessboard.
Magazine article from: Australian Mathematics Teacher
; ...a crack between the tiles. Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon analysed this game in 1733. [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Buffon saw that the coin would not...larger squares. In this way, Buffon made the leap from probabilities...
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[pi]Re-count and recall.
Magazine article from: Australian Mathematics Teacher
; ...expansion of [pi]. Re-count Count Buffon, or more strictly, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, lived from 1707 to 1788. He was a French...for an experiment in probability--the Buffon needle experiment. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...
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OVER THERE AMERICANS MAY LOVE TO HATE THE FRENCH. BUT A PARISIAN SCHOLAR SAYS THAT AMERICAN FRANCOPHOBIA IS NOTHING COMPARED TO THE 200-YEAR-OLD GALLIC TRADITION OF YANKEE-BASHING.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...saw (or imagined). Consider Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte du Buffon, a leading 18th-century naturalist...Degeneration of Animals" (1766), Buffon concocted a set of bizarre taxonomies...shriveled and stunted. Of course, Buffon never actually visited the land...
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Filling up the space between mankind and ape: racism, speciesism and the Androphilic ape.(Essay)
Magazine article from: ARIEL
; ...works of the period, including Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon's voluminous Natural History...Jamaica, and both Long and Buffon use spatial metaphors to describe...Farm, we might say that for Buffon and Long, all humans are human...
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Where heroic, human meet Louvre sculpture exhibit is a step back in time.(Home Front)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; ...great: Encyclopedie author Denis Diderot; scholar Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (whose elaborately curled hair here is a telling...of French notables: * Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, his skin showing the effects of smallpox...
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Messy pilgrims blamed for puzzling fossils.
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...scientists also have weighed in on the new theory. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, called Voltaire a buffoon. "The fossils present...varieties of fish and would make a poor lunch," says Buffon. Researchers remain divided over how patterns...
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Is the Jew white?: the racial place of the Southern Jew.(Special Issue: Directions in Southern Jewish History, Part One)
Magazine article from: American Jewish History
; ...society and granted political rights. Natural scientists and racial philosophers like Carolus Linnaeus and Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, promulgated taxonomies that placed the Caucasian on top and the African at the bottom. Race thinkers...
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Crazed nature: ecology in The Yellow Wall-Paper.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Explicator
; ...competition within and among species and leave viable offspring). But earlier natural philosophers like Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck had anticipated the science we now call evolutionary ecology by theorizing...
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A history of the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm.
Magazine article from: The American Statistician
; ...numbers (Hammersley and Handscomb 1964, p. 2), existed well before the twentieth century. In 1777, Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon established a method for approximating [pi] by repeatedly, randomly throwing a needle onto a grid of...
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