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  2. Cultured pearl - Wikipedia

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    White pearl necklace. A pearl nucleus or a bead for cultured pearl is a sphere (usually) or other shape (occasionally) formed only by cutting and polishing a nacreous shell used to accommodate the nacre secreted from a graft of mantle tissue, that eventually forms the centre of a beaded cultured pearl. [2]

  3. Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory - Wikipedia

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    The Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) is an atmospheric research facility in the Canadian High Arctic, located on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. Considered one of the most important Arctic research labs in the world, it was the subject of international media attention when it almost closed due to funding cuts by the Canadian ...

  4. The Book of Why - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect is a 2018 nonfiction book by computer scientist Judea Pearl and writer Dana Mackenzie. The book explores the subject of causality and causal inference from statistical and philosophical points of view for a general audience.

  5. Pearl - Wikipedia

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    The enormous pearl is 30 cm wide (1 ft), 67 cm long (2.2 ft) and weighs 75 lb (34 kg). [29] The extinct conulariids, a group of cnidarians closely related to stalked jellyfish, also possessed the ability to produce pearls. However, these pearls are composed of calcium phosphate, and this combined with their age and crystal structure makes them ...

  6. The Pearl (novella) - Wikipedia

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    The Pearl is often used to teach students about literature and is also used to discuss important lessons about life. Many believe the book is the easiest of Steinbeck's books to teach because the lessons are simple, yet significant, [ 12 ] so, generally, students in middle school or early high school study this novel. [ 13 ]

  7. Hans W. Paerl - Wikipedia

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    [9] [10] Paerl has published over 350 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on these subjects [11] and his work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, [12] [13] EPA, NIH, [14] NOAA, The North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute, [15] and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. [16]

  8. Biology - Wikipedia

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    Biology is the scientific study of life. [1] [2] [3] It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. [1] [2] [3] For instance, all organisms are composed of at least one cell that processes hereditary information encoded in genes, which

  9. Causality (book) - Wikipedia

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    Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference (2000; [1] updated 2009 [2]) is a book by Judea Pearl. [3] It is an exposition and analysis of causality. [4] [5] It is considered to have been instrumental in laying the foundations of the modern debate on causal inference in several fields including statistics, computer science and epidemiology. [6]