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Petersen Sand & Gravel. Lake. (. 42°18′57″N 87°57′13″W / . 42.31583°N 87.9537°W. / 42.31583; -87.9537. ) The site of illegal dumping of paint waste and solvents. Cleanup was completed, and it was removed from the National Priorities List in 1991, and redeveloped as the Independence Grove Forest Preserve.
The Morris Operation in Grundy County, Illinois, United States, is the location of the only permanent (the rest are temporary) de facto high-level radioactive waste storage site in the United States and holds 772 tons of spent nuclear fuel. [1] It is owned by GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy and located near the city of Morris. [2]
The PP-Mi-Sr is a Czechoslovakian bounding mine, broadly similar to the German S-mine. It uses either a three pronged RO-8 fuze or a RO-1 pull fuze. It has an NEQ of 360g, and it activated by 3-6kg of pressure. [1] The mine was extensively exported and is found in Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Mozambique ...
Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative ( ADNI) is a multisite study that aims to improve clinical trials for the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). [1] This cooperative study combines expertise and funding from the private and public sector to study subjects with AD, as well ...
Monks Mound is the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the Americas and the largest pyramid north of Mesoamerica.The beginning of its construction dates from 900 to 955 CE. Located at the Cahokia Mounds UNESCO World Heritage Site near Collinsville, Illinois, the mound size was calculated in 1988 as about 100 feet (30 m) high, 955 feet (291 m) long including the access ramp at the southern end ...
The Mazon Creek fossil beds are a conservation lagerstätte found near Morris, in Grundy County, Illinois. The fossils are preserved in ironstone concretions, formed approximately 309 million years ago in the mid- Pennsylvanian epoch of the Carboniferous period. These concretions frequently preserve both hard and soft tissues of animal and ...
Pointwise mutual information. In statistics, probability theory and information theory, pointwise mutual information ( PMI ), [1] or point mutual information, is a measure of association. It compares the probability of two events occurring together to what this probability would be if the events were independent. [2]
Camp Ellis. Coordinates: Camp Ellis was a United States World War II Army Service Forces Unit Training Center [1] and prisoner-of-war camp between the towns of Bernadotte, Ipava, and Table Grove in Fulton County, Illinois. [2] Construction began on 17 September 1942, [2] and the camp opened on 16 April 1943, [1] with an official dedication 14 ...