Google's collection of digitized books includes a large number of books related to Old English literature and language. Users can search for books by authors.
Google has reached a groundbreaking agreement with authors and publishers. {View More}
Thursday, November 19, 2009
About Google Wave
Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversationand a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. {View More}
Google Scholar
What is Google Scholar? Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
Features of Google Scholar
· Search diverse sources from one convenient place
· Find articles, theses, books, abstracts or court opinions
· Locate the complete document through your library or on the web
· Learn about key scholarly literature in any area of research
How are documents ranked?Google Scholar aims to rank documents the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each document, where it was published, who it was written by, as well as how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature. {View More}
Features of Google Scholar
· Search diverse sources from one convenient place
· Find articles, theses, books, abstracts or court opinions
· Locate the complete document through your library or on the web
· Learn about key scholarly literature in any area of research
How are documents ranked?Google Scholar aims to rank documents the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each document, where it was published, who it was written by, as well as how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature. {View More}
Google Privacy
At Google, we are keenly aware of the trust you place in us and our responsibility to protect your privacy. As part of this responsibility, we let you know what information we collect when you use our products and services, why we collect it and how we use it to improve your experience.
The Privacy Center was created to provide you with easy-to-understand information about our products and policies to help you make more informed choices about which products you use, how to use them, and what information you provide to us. {View More}
The Privacy Center was created to provide you with easy-to-understand information about our products and policies to help you make more informed choices about which products you use, how to use them, and what information you provide to us. {View More}
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Influenza
Influenza, also known as flu, contagious infection primarily of the respiratory tract. Influenza is sometimes referred to as grippe. Influenza is caused by a virus transmitted from one person to another in droplets coughed or sneezed into the air. It is characterized by coldlike symptoms plus chills, fever, headaches, muscle aches, and fatigue. Most people recover completely in about a week. But some people are vulnerable to complications such as bronchitis and pneumonia. This group includes children with asthma, people with heart or lung disease, and the elderly. In the United States, people age 65 and older account for about 90 percent of influenza-associated deaths.
Because influenza is highly contagious and spreads easily, it usually appears as epidemics—that is, outbreaks involving many people. If an outbreak spreads around the world—not uncommon in this age of rapid international travel—it is called a pandemic.
Many millions of people develop the flu each year. In most years less than 1 percent of those infected die. Nonetheless, this translates into large numbers. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that influenza causes more than 20,000 deaths in the United States each year; combined, influenza and pneumonia are among the nation’s ten leading causes of death. During epidemics and pandemics, death rates soar. The influenza pandemic that occurred between 1918 and 1919—the worst on record—killed about 500,000 people in the United States and more than 20 million people worldwide.
Because influenza is highly contagious and spreads easily, it usually appears as epidemics—that is, outbreaks involving many people. If an outbreak spreads around the world—not uncommon in this age of rapid international travel—it is called a pandemic.
Many millions of people develop the flu each year. In most years less than 1 percent of those infected die. Nonetheless, this translates into large numbers. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that influenza causes more than 20,000 deaths in the United States each year; combined, influenza and pneumonia are among the nation’s ten leading causes of death. During epidemics and pandemics, death rates soar. The influenza pandemic that occurred between 1918 and 1919—the worst on record—killed about 500,000 people in the United States and more than 20 million people worldwide.
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